The flames from the central square began to spread faster to the north when a strong wind current blew from the outside, passing through the wide open hole made by the giant Titan. The city was slowly being covered by the ashes from the center, while the temperature was rising because of the dense dust cloud.
The chaos is out of control at the entrance gate. Most of the Garrison Soldiers had fled using the maintenance corridors within the Walls. Any other soldiers that remained did not know what to do with the entire population trying to come in all at once. As the Titans approached the crowd, the screams of the Titan wounded by Carla attracted their attention. They all stopped what they were doing and walked to the place of the confront.
Back with our group, the Rosemary scent that originated from Carla's gun is all around them, slightly covering the smell of ash from the central square. After the Titan had run away, Tiberius and Armin rush into the bus carcass to find Carla, Eren, and Mikasa. Once inside, they found the kids paralyzed with shock as they stared at the gun in Carla's hands. As for the women, she was laughing almost pathetically as she could not believe how perfect her shot had been.
Armin tries to ask, "Are you all-?"
"Oh my God, Carla!" Tiberius yells scared.
Hearing the man, Carla stopped laughing. She began again to laugh, only now nervously. Carla says awkwardly, "Yeah... I probably just lost my leg...but it was worth it!"
"Mommy! How can you say that?!" Eren yells confused.
The boy had just witnessed his mother have a sudden change of behavior in such a short time to something like he never seen before. Almost like she was acting like a soldier. He never imagined she would be as brave enough to face such threat as a Titan so fearlessly. No ordinary person would have the courage to do that so.
Lowering her tone for not scare her son again, she says slowly, "Sorry, sweetie, you wouldn't understand being so young like this..."
Eren begins to shed tears out of control; the fear was consuming him like a parasite. He is feeling cold, despite the heat around. He wanted to scream and cry, but his panic closed his throat like someone suffocating him.
Mikasa slowly moves her head to look around. The area is wholly desolated and looks like a war zone. She had seen scenes of these in the movies that she and Eren had watched, but now it's real, and they were living those moments in reality. Crying now out of fright, she goes to Eren seeking some comfort. She extends her arms to him, and he responds hugging her tightly, sheltering her in his arms. They both begin to cry desperately, their moans and sniffs are the only sound around.
Carla lays down her forehead on the ground, ashamed because of the situation she got stuck. 'Where's that asshole?' she thinks angrily, afraid that the children's 'savior' would not come.
Tiberius is quiet, thinking about the last minutes of despair. Just like Carla, he was unnerved by the fact Titans are inside the Walls. What was more important now was the safety of their children.
Armin is holding tight his grandfather's arm. Fear, confusion, panic; a considerable mix of negative feelings are starting to make him crazy. Adrenaline was flowing through his body that made him unable to calm down.
Their peaceful life inside the Walls had turned into a hell in a snap of fingers. Their world had been ripped apart without mercy.
Then, breaking their moment of reflection came a familiar scratching metal sound, but this time accompanied with the shaking of heavy stomps. Carla, even while stuck down in the ground, knew what was coming. She is already had her gun in hand and ready to shoot any Titan coming.
The stomps and the sound are getting closer and closer until a fifteen meters high Titan appears in front of them. It was skinless like the giant one but this time with short white hair and the physique of a strongman. He was dragging a large truck behind him that was scratching the ground as he moved. The Titan was slowly getting closer to them. His stomps shaking the ground like an earthquake as the sound of the scratching metal was hurting everyone's ears.
The Titan stops very near to them and begins sniffing for something. Then, he slowly empties his lungs. The air passing through his throat sounded like someone blowing air through a metal pipe.
"Rosemary..." he whispers with a thunderous voice, though the group could hear it.
Everyone is shocked with that. A Titan, a creature known as irrational and deathly by the ordinary folk, just spoke a word.
The talking Titan turns his head to them and, even from far, they could see his bright yellow iris on his black sclera eyes. Scared, the kids begin to cry in a silenced panic. Tiberius gets in front of them as an attempt to shield them. Carla is still not demonstrating any fear, even in the position she was in, she stares at the Titan bravely with slight apprehension in her eyes.
Glaring, the tall creature looks right down at Carla. "You..." he said slowly. "You know about Rosemary..."
Carla gulped.
"So, do you know him..."
An actual Titan was speaking human language. It was showing unbelievable human intelligence and talking to her.
"Where are them?" The Titan asks with a more aggravated tone.
"It's none of your business," Carla replies angrily as well.
The Titan snorts angrily at her and releases the truck. He then kneels to get his head closer to them.
"Where are the fragments and Grisha Jaegar?!" He asks angrily.
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His breath passed over them like a wind blow; a stinky wind blow that scents like gastric acid and rotten meat mixed, leaving everyone nauseous. The kids' face turns pale as snow because of the unease. Armin even had to hold himself from throw up.
Confused and nauseous, Eren innocently asks his mother, "How does he know Daddy?"
Carla grumbled apprehensively. The situation was now getting out of her control. There were secrets that she was not ready to let come to light.
When the Titan gets up, the dense air displacement unbalanced the kids, making them fall to the ground.
"Oh... 'Daddy'?" The Titan says surprised. "Ha, ha, then let me be more direct with you..." He extends his hand towards the kids, to pinch one of them.
"RUN!" Tiberius and Carla scream in panic.
The kids try to run away from the giant hand, but they aren't agile enough to pass over the wreckage. Unfortunately, Eren could not make it through in time and got caught by the Titan.
Everyone screams desperately. Mikasa wanted to stop the Titan's hand, but the wind that the rising hand created upon lift blows her to the ground.
Eren screams in panic. He begins punching the Titan's finger in a useless attempt to get away. In the Titans light grip, the boy starts to feel the heat emanating from the creature. It starts to make him breathless and sweaty.
Desperate, Carla aimed her gun at the Titan's eye. But he looks at her and threats, "If you shoot, I squeeze him!"
As a demonstration, the talking Titan begins to squish Eren slowly. Although he's not using much strength, the child felt an immense pressure accompanied by heat. Eren was unable to scream because the force constricted his breathing. He tries to struggle to get out, but the searing thermal energy was consuming his strength quickly. After only a few seconds, he vomits on the Titan's finger. In witnessing all of this, Carla immediately releases her gun. The Titan stops at the same instant upon seeing this.
Now, Eren was able to regain enough breath to scream, and he bursts into tears desperately like a newborn baby. If it were possible, Carla would have already killed the Titan with her gaze alone, her face was the perfect definition of rage. She wanted to discharge all the bullets from her gun into his face, but for the sake of her child, she remained immobile.
Becoming impatient with Carla's resistance, he yells enraged, "Now... Where are the fragments of the SHIGEKI NO KYOJIN?!"
His raging scream echoed out far. Even the giant Titan nearby the destroyed Wall could hear it, and the other Titans stopped their walking. The sound reached the entrance gate like a clap of thunder, making the citizens silent for a few seconds as they tried to comprehend what is going on. The kids can't stop crying as they became worried about Eren while at the same time they're petrified with the menacing creature.
Carla stutters apprehensive divided by her priorities. She can't tell the Titan what he wants, but her child's life is at risk. In the end, her love for her son spoke louder. "T-They... They are..."
Suddenly, from far in the sky, lightning struck the Titan. The light and sound of the natural force had temporarily deafening and blinding everyone. When finished, the Titan had become paralyzed as his muscles became immobilized by the energy. Fast as lightning, Levi appears jumping from a building and shoots a pair of hooks from his wings at the Titan's left shoulder. He then let gravity do its job, sending him to behind the Titan and as he neared the ground Levi uses a vast amount of gas as he releases the hooks, launching him to higher than the Titan.
From up above, he aims for the Titan's right arm. He then spins very fast and cuts off the tendons of the elbow, forcing the Titan's hand to open. Eren immediately falls, but Levi reacted quickly. In mid-air, he spins towards the building on his side and grabs the hooks on it. Swiftly rewinding the cables, Levi releases a significant amount of gas and flies towards Eren. He precisely catches the boy in the air. Though there was some difficulty in holding Eren, Levi managed it and landed on a nearby building.
The paralysis on the Titan ends, and he roars loud in pain because of the cut made by Levi. He steps back dizzily as the electrical discharge begins to fade away.
Carla feels some relief now that the promising help finally came. The others are stunned, surprised with the sudden appearance of their soldier friend. Levi, hanging in a horizontal position, is holding Eren close.
The kid was now crying in relief and happiness, hugging Levi tightly. His hero just saved his life.
To calm down the boy, Levi strokes his back and hug him back. "It's okay now. It's okay..." he whispers softly.
"Hey!" He then calls the attention of the Titan.
When the Titan spot him hanging on the building, the teenager shows him the middle finger with the left hand. The Titan makes a confused expression, like if he didn't understand what that signal meant.
Suddenly, a feline-like roar comes from behind the building Levi jumped off. A fluffy white domestic cat with the same size of the Titan, possessing horns, sharp tusks, black sclera eyes with blue iris, and surrounded by electricity appears and jumps over the Titan.
The cat destroys the ground using the Titan, smashing his chest against the hard asphalt.
In a snap of fingers, the cat transforms into a wolf while maintaining the previous uncommon characteristics. It grabs the Titan through his throat. He furiously drags him, scratching his back against the ground, down the street. After taking a reasonable distance from the group, it throws him into a building.
Everything happened so fast that the Titan didn't have time to think about how to defend itself. Under the wreckage he tries to self-heal his wounds, steam starts to come up from them, except the one made by Levi.
"Kick the shit out of him!" Carla screams pumped, thirst for revenge.
"With pleasure!" Levi says with an angrily sassy smile.
When the Titan gets up, slightly dizzy, the wolf already transformed into a bear of his size, still maintaining his unusual characteristics. The once confident and brave monster just become immobile of fright, like if he just saw his worst nightmare.
The bear roars loud like an extended thunderclap accompanied by lightning in the sky.
The Titan snap out of his frightened state right after and responds roaring back. He clenches his fist, but the injury on his right arm saps his strength, thus panicking him.
In the next second, he receives an ascended punch charged with high voltage electricity from the bear, right on his chin. The bear claws destroy his muscles and skull as it passes through. The instant the sharp nails finished their pass-through, the charged electricity explodes with many bolts of lightning falling over the Titan at the same time.
The sizeable electric blast combination launches the Titan more than a kilometer away, dragging everything with him; buildings, asphalt, vehicles. Every building he smashes through falls apart.
Following the flying Titan on his way, many lightning bolts go falling over him. He ends his flight near the feet of the giant Titan. The last, and most significant, discharge then drops over the giant Titan's head, dizzying him.
The sixteen-meter creature growls in pain as it tries to stand up. Not being able to regain equilibrium, he begins to release a lot of steam. He then begins to shrink, getting smaller and smaller until reach fifteen meters high.
Those seconds of destruction made all the other ordinary Titans retreat from the place where the other two, apparently superior, Titans had fallen.
Levi and Carla laughs and screams victorious from the perfect move the bear just made, totally ignoring the destruction. Eren, having a privileged view, is hypnotized by what he just witnessed. 'Does mankind always had that kind of thing on their side? What is that?' Eren's mind was filled with questions trying to understand what is that white and fluffy creature that came with his hero.
"That's..?" Tiberius can barely speak, stunned by what just happened.
Still laughing, Carla answers Tiberius unfinished question, "Yeeeah... hehehe!"
Armin and Mikasa are more confused after what they heard. They begin to exchange confused looks, questioning with the eyes: 'Do they know about that?!'
The bear turns away from his destruction and runs towards our group. While he runs, his body was transforming again. He begins to assume a human shape, his paws turned into hands and feet, the long snout turned into a nose and mouth, and his face lost the fur. He still kept the same base characteristics of before; white coat over the body, horns, long tusks and black sclera.
When he gets close to them, he finishes his transformation and now stands like a human. The kids were confused, but Carla and Tiberius were amazed; the shape-shifting monster turned out to be a Titan.
But this wasn't an ordinary Titan, that was Fluffy Ass. The Titan that only existed inside Levi's mind was real now, with flesh, bones and everything else; except a complete digestive system and reproduction system, since Titans doesn't have it.
He gently extends his hand to Eren and Levi, for they hop on. But Eren, still scared with what happened to him a minute ago, holds on Levi very tight.
"It's okay, he's with me," Levi says calmy as he tries to calm down Eren stroking his back. "This is Fluffy Ass, Eren. MY Titan."
Fluffy Ass moves his other hand like if he was raising a hat, like a gentleman presentation.
Trusting in his hero, Eren slowly slides down from Levi's torso and falls in one of the Titan's soft paw pads he has on his hands. Levi jumps afterward.
That Titan, different from the one that nearly killed him, wasn't burning hot. The creature's body had a much warmer temperature that was far easier to experience. The soft-peach like skin and the mild heat from Fluffy Ass was strangely comfortable to Eren.
Looking better at the Titan's face, Eren notices that his eyes were too like Levi's; the frowned shape, as the well the bored, yet, annoyed look, very similar to Mikasa's too. And precisely the same iris color.
The docility of the Titan was making Eren both comfortable and uncomfortable at the same time. But he's able to calm down a little.
Fluffy Ass carefully descends his hand towards the group on the wreckage. Levi jumps off before he gets near the ground.
Realizing what he did, he quickly turned to Eren and pointed at the boy with a stern expression. "You stay there!" he demands, having realized how impressionable his jump had been.
"LEVI!" Mikasa and Armin scream together.
They run towards him in a rush, and he receives them with open arms. They hug tightly in relief; the kids because now they are safe as their hero was there to protect them and Levi because they were okay. Their moment took some seconds before Levi quickly notices a new but strange sent. He begins to sniff the air as he began searching for the source. It happens that the scent was coming from Armin, the poor little one had peed on his pants because of the horrible tension some minutes ago.
"It was when that Titan screamed out loud..." Mikasa says awkwardly.
Tears of shame begin to drop from Armin's eyes. He doesn't know where to hide his embarrassment. The fact it was his hero seeing that it was only making him more worried.
Levi let out a "sigh" a moment before start speaking, he looks at the blonde boy feeling bad for him. "Don't worry, you're just super scared, these things happen even with grown-ups. When I was your age, I did that occasionally when I was in the same scary situation."
Levi's words were comforting him a little, but Armin still was feeling ashamed.
Noticing this, Levi had an idea. "Here..." he says as he unplugs the Wings' battery from the attachment on his back.
"Hold a little, please." He asks Mikasa and gives her the battery.
He takes off his jacket, revealing his arms full of scars. Those were the same scars also seen on his internal self, the only difference is that they are closed. The kids weren't expecting that, Mikasa slightly jaw dropped.
He ties his jacket using its arms on Armin's waist. It helped to hide the wet spot on his pants, and it had a strong yet consequently uneasy smell of fabric softener. He then gets the battery back and attaches to his back.
"Th-Thank... y-you..." Armin says very embarrassedly.
"You have some really scented clothes, don'tcha?" Mikasa questions Levi.
"It's fabric softener, he uses more than it should." Fluffy Ass says annoyed, while he extends his hand with Eren at them.
"Can he speak too?!" Armin asks scaredly surprised.
"Unfortunately... *sigh* yes..." Levi says crankily.
Levi and Tiberius help the two kids get in the Titan's hand. Mikasa was quick to get up.
"My mommy!" Eren screams while helping Armin to hop on.
"She will be fine! Don't worry!" Levi replies loudly while Fluffy Ass raises his hand.
The fluffy Titan does not stand straight up; instead, he stays leaned like a monkey.
Mikasa and Armin hug Eren tightly, they all begin to shed tears of relief.
"Stop getting in trouble... *sniff* you moron." Mikasa whimpers.
Eren giggles awkwardly. "I don't look for trouble. Trouble looks for me."
The hug seemed to take minutes. Afterward, they are all now relieved that they aren't left defenseless anymore as now there was a stronger force there to protect them.
"Your guitar, Eren." Armin finally can lend the guitar back to Eren.
"Thanks man!" Eren shouts happily.
Levi and Tiberius rush to aid Carla. Now that the help finally came, Carla began to relax a little, even though they were still in danger.
"Holy shit!" Levi yells when he sees her leg stuck.
"I know..." she says sadly. "But the sacrifice was worthy. The children are fine..."
"Mommy! Mommy!" Eren screams worried, running to the edge of the Titan's hand.
"Calm down 'bigger chibi,' or you will fell off," Fluffy Ass says.
He gently grabs Eren by the guitar bag with the point of his claws and drags him to the middle of his palm. With his free hand, he lifts the metal wreckage that is over Carla, Levi, and Tiberius are able to pull her off.
"Ooh... Fuck! That's rosemary?!" Levi yells after scent the herb's perfume from Carla's gun. "Lucky I didn't take off my goggles... urgh."
"Are you affected while human?" Carla asks in a tired tone because of the fatigue.
"Yes, only the scent is already making my eyes itchy..." He pauses for a few seconds as he realizes that she knows about his powers. "Hold on! How do you know that?!"
"We don't have time for this!" Tiberius yells nervously.
For Carla's dismay, her right leg was damaged from the knee down. It was starting to bleed a dangerous amount as well, making Levi and Tiberius very nervous. The kids can't see precisely what's going on from up above in the Titan's hand since he doesn't let them get close to the edge.
"She won't make it," Levi muttered, scaring Tiberius consequently. The situation wasn't much different from the ones during confrontations against Titans. But something, currently unknown to himself, was making him deathly worried.
"Hey 'Bigger Chibi'! Are you feeling better?" Fluffy Ass asks Eren, getting the kids attention.
His thunderous voice was dreadful, stronger than the previous noise from a talking Titan. But his familiar look to Levi's diminishes the voice impact, and he didn't look too intimidating with all that soft white fur. Unfortunately, his size was frightful for such little humans.
Nervously, and barely making eye contact, Eren replies, "A little... but... I still feel uneasy in the stomach..."
Fluffy Ass stares at them for a few seconds, and then, his iris suddenly begins to glow like a neon light. "Hey! You don't need to look at me like that brat! It's me! Levi!"
Now the things are way more confusing, the Titan changed his behavior almost instantaneously. 'How could that monster be Levi, if himself is down there?' They all thought.
"B-but... how...?" Armin stutters.
"It's something like a 'remote control,'" he smirks. "He's like in 'auto-mode' hehe! He's another being that lives inside my mind, and it's my human body that can 'sum-'"
"AAAAAAHH!" A painful scream, from the ground, interrupts them.
Recognizing the voice, Eren rushes to the edge of the hand, but Fluffy Ass quickly pulls him back. "IT'S MY MOMMY SCREAMING! LET ME SEE!" He shouts pissed with the Titan.
Carla continues to moan in pain loudly making the kids, but mainly Eren, very nervous. Eren is anxious to see what is going on, but the Titan is holding him back by his shirt.
Carla's voice begins to fade away slowly, worrying her son even more. The fear was slowly consuming him as the seconds pass by. He was in a cold sweat and breathing heavily like if he had just ran a marathon.
Fluffy Ass then begins to gently descend his hand with them. Finally, when he touched the ground, they can see what's happening.
Eren is paralyzed by his vision, the panic and fright stitched down on his spine, turning him cold as ice and white like snow. His mother was being supported by Tiberius and Levi, but she had her right leg amputated. The wound was wrapped in the leather coat the old man was using.
"Sorry, I had to distract you." Fluffy Ass said simply, back to "auto-mode." He is still holding Eren for he doesn't do something impulsive.
The tension from being immobilized by the Titan makes Eren panic. He begins to screams uncontrollably, calling for his mother. Mikasa and Armin don't know who to aid.
Levi quickly holds her hand and helps Carla to walk over. Even after everything that happened, she still had the strength enough to endure the pain and position herself upon the Titan's hand. Levi helps Tiberius right after. Unfortunately, it proved difficult for the old man to get up, he's too tired already. Luckily, with Levi's help, the man was able to get on.
Fluffy Ass didn't release Eren yet, especially since the boy was crying and screaming so much. Levi quickly turns to him and slaps him in the face which immediately made the boy stop. He grabs him by the shirt and gives a rough shake.
"STOP IT! CONTROL YOURSELF!" Levi shouted angrily.
Eren immediately stopped. He was now huffing nervously with his face wet with a mixture of tears and sweat, but not he's entirely focused on Levi's face.
"Listen up, brat! It's that or yo' mama would die from blood loss! That's a common procedure on the Titan's battlefield! The high-frequency blades cauterize the wound. In other words, it partially closes by burning it. This gives us time to come back and correctly aid the person."
Noticing that the kid is calming down, Levi's Titan finally releases him. Once so, Levi gently holds Eren's head with both hands. He brings his face a little closer for an eye-to-eye facing. He then says very confidently and low, "Today it's not the day for 'ya become orphan. I won't let that happen, but you gotta trust me... Just calm down, 'kay?"
The confident gleam in Levi's eyes reignited his heart the bravery he had left after the reality shock they all had witnessed; they discovered in the worst way as possible how weak a human is near a Titan.
Levi's words, as well his fierce confidence, begin to encourage the kids to stay strong. Their frightened faces changed now to a more confident look, though still apprehensive.
Eren nods to him, no longer crying anymore. After seeing that, Levi gives a proud smile and releases him for he can see his mother. He rushes towards Carla and gives her a big hug. She hugs him tight, both relieved that each other are okay now. She can't hold herself back and shed many tears of happiness, making Eren cry consequently, but now in quiet happiness crying.
Levi hears from the distance many angry Titan roarings. He turns to Carla as asks quickly, "Okay, now... Where were you going, Carla? Clearly is not to the central gate."
She replies simply with a weak voice, "Northwest corner, Grisha will be there."
Levi takes a second to remember what it was there since the only known exit by the ordinary folk is the main gates. That's when he realized and laughed out loudly. "Ha! The Garrison's maintenance tunnels?! Genius!" He shouts happily.
He then turns to his Titan, looking somewhat annoyed. "What are you waiting, Fleabag?!" he commanded out.
Fluffy Ass legs quickly transforms into rabit's ones and he creates a cat's tail. "It's better everyone knee." He says and shelter them with the other hand, making a kind of protection cocoon. He then rushes jumping, going to the northeast corner.
"We'll be there in some minutes, I hope no one have motion sickness." Levi says.
The hand shakes as Fluffy Ass jumps, but everyone can stand still, the other hand also protects them from the wind.
After some seconds of silence of peace, Levi asks looking at Carla, "What that giant asshole wanted?"
"Grisha didn't tell you?" She says weakly.
"About the apocalypse?"
"Not that... about the fragments of the Shigeki no Kyojin: Midgard."
"Aaaaaah... no... I guess that's what he wanted to tell me at the last time we met." He says a bit confused, scratching his head.
"WAIT!" Eren interrupts them. He then points to Levi and asks confused, "Do you know my daddy?!"
A little embarrassed, Levi answers, "Erm.. Yeah... it's been a time. He that gave to me Fluffy Ass."
All the kids jaw dropped, they kept staring at Levi incredulously in an awkward silence.
"And before you ask, I met your mother that day last week." He says with an annoyed face.
"Levi..." Carla calls his attention. "Don't lose this fight, no matter what... Kill that two bastards." She says weakly but fiercely.
"I will do my best." He says with a confident smile.
As the night was starting, Fluffy Ass' fur coat begins to slowly darkening together with the two moons rising in the sky. Once they finally reach the northeast corner of the Wall, the sun was gone and the white fur of the Titan turned into a deep black color, just like Levi's hair.
"We're here." Fluffy Ass says as he breaks.
The entrance of the tunels is at a rustic small stone gate within one of the Wall's column, with the Garrison's emblem carved on the top. It stands at the front of a small yard, with many official vehicles of the Garrison stationed around. From the small and wide opened iron gate, Grisha and, surprislying, Hanes comes rushing.
Hanes is stunned by FluffyAss' presence, he sundelly can't move a muscle. Paralyzed by his vision, he's willing to run away.
"He's tamed, Hanes! Come on!" Grisha shouts to encourage him.
"T-Tamed...? But.. how...?" Hanes muttered scared. Even if that don't making any sense for him, he follows Grisha apprehensively.
Fluffy Ass carefully descends his hand towards Grisha and Hanes. When the hand touches the ground, Eren quickly jumps off running after his father calling him.
Grisha hugs tight his son in a relief, they both shed tears of happiness now that they're together.
But that moment is cutted off when Hanes spotted Carla at the Titan's hand. "Oh my God! Carla!" He shouts.
"I'm going to hear that for the rest of the month..." she muttered annoyed while she puts her gun back to her purse.
Along with Grisha and Hanes, Levi helps Carla to get off the Titan's hand. It is difficult since her energy is starting to fade away for real now.
"Come on! The vehicle is out there!" Hanes shouts as he and Grisha support Carla by her arms on their shoulders. Tiberius and the kids follow them right after.
The kids stop for a moment to look behind. Levi isn't following them.
"Come kids!" Tiberius shouts to them.
Levi moves his head, saying that he won't go with them. They nod back in understanding and continue to follow the adults.
"Grisha!" Levi suddenly shouts.
Grisha stops before enters through the gate and looks over his shoulder to Levi.
"We have some shit to resolve after this!" Levi shouts with a bold look in the eyes.
Grisha smirks and thumbs up for him. They all enter the gate after that.
The anger roarings come back again from a farther distance, but more vicious than before.
Levi laughs lowly and gives a mad smile, then takes a deep breath before speak. "Well... shit..." he says annoyed, but smiling.
The group was slowly passing through the passage because of Carla. Once inside, the kids were expecting a tunnel system; but instead, they are surprised by the internal part of the collum being empty and supported by a giant pillar made of black metal. It had smaller limbs made of a material that resembles raw blue diamond connecting the column to the walls. Even from far away, they could see the rest of the Wall that was composed of the same material as the pillar creating a complex structure. Something looking like many spider webs traced together. That structure was so strange; it seemed alien.
Back to Levi, his Titan grabs him and puts on his neck. Fluffy Ass skin and flesh opens at the nape releasing a lot of steam, and at the same time, himself changes his expression to a lifeless one. Levi then raises his arms towards the opening and muscle fibers stings on his face and arms. The threads pull him to inside, right after the flesh closed many others fibers attach on Levi, putting his body into a deep slumber.
The Titan wake up straightening his body, but now with his iris glowing and with a sassy smile on the face. Levi transferred his mind to the Titan's body, now he's the Titan for real.
He cracks the joints of the neck, preparing himself for a fight. "Okay... let's do this." He muttered confidently.
He entirely transforms into a domestic cat surrounded by electricity, and runs towards the south the fast as he can, jumping over buildings to move unimpaired. As he sees his targets, his expression becomes fierce and goes on the attack. Many lightning strikes crackled above where he passes.
Meanwhile, the group reaches a Garrison's service van already turned on at the other side of the Wall. Tiberius opens the door for Hanes and Grisha can help Carla sit, the kids come right after.
"I drive it!" Grisha yells and sits on the driver's seat.
"Hanes-san! You won't come?" Armin asks the soldier.
"Sorry, buddy. But I have a job to do." He says apprehensively.
Tiberius then closes the van and Grisha quickly accelerate the vehicle, leaving the place through the open field, outside the road, the fast as the machine can.
The kids go to the back window, and they see the Wall getting farther and farther. They are able to witness for a short time the chaos at the entrance gate; countless people, entire families, running desperately with no destiny at the open territory. The kids' faces could not tell if they were sad, scared or confused. All they could do was merely observe the hell in a mesmerized silence.
Grisha sees them on the mirror and says calmly, "Don't worry kids. Levi will kick all that Titans' asses."
"Daddy... Did you give to Levi that Titan?" Eren asks confused yet apprehensive.
Grisha takes a deep breath before speak. "Yes, son. But..." He pauses for a few seconds. "Everything will be explained... so... no questions until all this end, okay? Now you three stay sit down, please."
The kids obey him and sit down quietly in the third row of the van's seats. At the second one is Carla laying down, discreetly panting in pain and trying not to worry the kids more than she already had.
Grisha coughs out of suddenly, quickly covering his mouth with his hand. The coughing sounded unusual to everyone, it seemed like a dry cough but also with a bit of pain together. When he stops and looks at his hand, there are droplets of vivid blood.
"Daddy?" Eren calls for him worried.
He quickly cleans the blood on his own pants. "I'm okay, son, don't worry. I hope I didn't get a cold. Hehe..." He lied, trying to peace the already tense situation.
Sitting on his side, Tiberius looks at him by the corner of his eye feeling very uneasy by the man's words. At the same time, Carla puts her arm over her eyes, to hide some tears that she couldn't hold.
After the chaos was left behind, Grisha finally was able to put the van on the asphalt road. He thus drives as fast as possible towards the south perimeter city of Wall Rose, knows as "The Green City of Trost."
Back to the destroyed Wall, the two skinless Titans are recovered, and all the other ordinary Titans are around them waiting for orders.
Many lightning bolts randomly strike their place, hitting one or two Titans at a time. Some even dying upon being struck.
"It's him" the muscular Titan muttered angrily.
Levi jumps from a high building in bear form. He lands with so much strength that the asphalt is completely destroyed, and at the same time, the nearby Titans are launched with an electric explosion.
He transforms back to his standard form and then rises his body with a very intimidating look in the face, with an expression that clearly said: "I will kill you all."
Very pissed of he yells at them, "Who do you think you are?! To go destroying the other ones' home just like that?!"
"You have something that we want." The bald Titan said.
Incredulous with the answer, Levi's eyes widen, and his fur rises entire of anger. "WHAT?! And you just simply think that you'll get whatever it is by destroying everything and killing everyone?!"
"We aren't here to listen to scolds!" screamed the muscled Titan out of patience. "Where are the other fragments?!"
'Other fragments?' Levi thinks.
'Don't lose this fight no matter what' Carla's phrase echoes in his mind. He takes some seconds thinking about that.
"I don't know! But even if I knew I wouldn't tell you! You'll have to kill me for keep looking for them!" he dares the Titans.
"Unfortunately, we need you alive," said the bald one.
The muscled Titan then snaps his fingers; all the other Titans became vicious and runs towards Levi in a furious rage to attack him.
Levi clenches his fists, charge them with high voltage energy, and when the Titans are very close, he punches the ground with everything he had. The energy explodes and launches all of them very far away, the nearest ones are profoundly stunned by the static.
He then only smirks and says, "Good... Because I need you dead."
