"Akio! We got a variant!" I screamed, running and dodging the trees.

Today was expedition day, when we try to find new areas and maybe some titans with intelligence like Akio's.

It had gone wrong when I assumed a titan had intelligence because it stared at me and didn't move. I moved to engage it, trying to communicate. It had gone wrong. The variant had reached for me when I used the blades to cut its fingers off.

"I'm coming, Kels!" Akio yelled. He ran by and stomped on the five meter variant, ripping its head off from the nape.

"Thanks" I said, out of breath.

"No problem. But you need to realize, I may just be the only titan with intelligence. Sure, there are titan shifters, but those are actually people in titan form. I'm an actual titan. Titan mind, empty nape, there is no human part of me. I just happened to think differently than the other titans. Kelsey, I have told you before, I'm the only one you can trust out here" he paused then said "I mean, if you really do trust me"

"Really?" I huffed "if I didn't trust you, would I sleep beside you? Go willingly inside your mouth? Leave the protection of the wall with you? I trust you. With everything. I love you, Akio. You know that" I said.

"I love you too, Kels. Just...please, be careful"

"I will I wi-" suddenly, a 3D maneuvering device's wire barn shot into my leg. I screamed in pain.

"Kelsey!" Akio screamed. He reached for the barn, but I was then dragged across the rocks and stones of the earth, shredding my clothes and some parts of my skin.

"Fifteen meter variant! Ready to attack!" I heard voices.

"Akio! Cover your nape! Getting of here!" I screamed as he chased after me. He covered his nape, but continued to run.

"I'm not leaving you!" He yelled.

"These are humans, they won't hurt me. They want to kill you! Run!" I screamed. A green cape flew by, and all of a sudden, Akio's stomach bled and squirted the crimson liquid everywhere.

"AKIO RUN! NOW!" I screamed. He frowned, nodded, and with a few tears running down his cheeks, he ran out of the woods and probably back to the cave.

I was harshly pulled up into a tree and a woman with short reddish...purple... I'm gonna go with purple hair, yelled in my face.

"Are you out of your mind?!" She screamed. "He was the perfect specimen, and he could speak! Why would you send him away?!" She yelled. She yanked her barn out of my leg.

"Aaaaaugh! Be-cause..." I muttered through the pain "you would ki-ill him... and he's mine..."

"How does he speak?" A male voice said from behind me. I knew that voice. I turned and saw the man from the town.

"Its you" I said, amazed.

"I saw you run out here on that titan. Me, and Hange" he motioned to the purple head "decided to come out to find you. Now, answer the question"

"Not till I get a name"

"Hmph. Tch, brat. My name is Levi but you will address me as Corporal or Captain"

"How about dipshit?"

I got slapped.

"Answer the goddamn question, brat!"

"I taught him! But he's the only one so don't go killing yourselves trying to teach other titans to speak. They have the ability. I'm in the process of teaching two more fifteen meters. But I'm surprising Akio with it so don't say anything. They have the intelligence not to eat me. I feed them and give them shelter and lamp light. They know how to put together words. They speak fluent English. But, tendons know how to ask for things. They can say the words but they don't know to say them when they want something. If you'd like... ill show you. But, leave all weapons here. Understood?" I asked. They nodded, took off their blades, and jumped down the tree.

On the way, i told them about my past and how I came to know Akio. I had taught him to speak, start fire, and climb trees in the first year. Then came obeying orders. Then interacting with the scouting regiment when they looked into our territory. Hange was into it the entire time. Levi was interested, but remained calm and composed.

"Alright, this is my home" I said, monitoring to a cave with a tall entrance. It had green moss over it so it appeared to not be open. But when I pushed through it, the scouting regiment soldiers were amazed. We walked in to see Akio sitting in a ball in a corner. See, the cave was over fifteen meters tall and the inside was so spacious, over fifty fifteen meters could fit in it. It had carpet, chairs, lamps, food, water, a small pool for bathing for me, and a lake outside for Akio.

"Honey, I'm home!" I said, laughing. Akio looked up, smiling. But the smile faded when he saw the two soldiers.

"Kelsey, why?!" He screamed.

"So they can rest easy about an intelligent titan being controlled and not scaling the wall" I said.

"Makes sense. Hi, I'm Akio. Names?" He said in rather the teenager voice.

"Hange"

"Levi but you can call me Corporal or Captain"

"How about dipshit?" Akio said.

"I said that too!" I laughed. "Up high" I held my hand out and he tapped it with his finger.

"So, anything y'all want to know?" He asked.

"He speaks perfect English! Please! I need a sample! Of skin or hair or a tooth!" Hange screamed.

"Uhm, sure" Akio pulled out a few strands of hair, bit off some skin, and yanked out a tooth. All of which grew back immediately.

He handed them to Hange who, in return, screamed a thank you to Akio.

"Woah! Kels, it's feeding time for the titans" Akio said to me

"Oh, okay, move the stone" I said. He got up and moved a huge boulder in front of the entrance.

"What the hell?!" Levi screamed.

"You don't want to go out there alone at this time. All the titans go into a feeding frenzy. Even Akio barely made it out alive. You two would die in a second. Please, stay the night." I said.

"Yeah. It's feeding time for me. Kelsey, can I have some fish?" Akio asked, quite cutely.

"Sure" I smiled. I got up, went to the pantry part of the cave where we store the food, and pulled out seventeen big fish patties. Raw, so Akio could satisfy his blood lust.

I fed them to him, placing my hands in his mouth. After he had eaten, Hange screamed again.

"That was incredible! Can I feed him something?!" She asked.

"Sure" he smiled. She grabbed half a deer from the pantry and went up to Akio's face. She placed it in his mouth and moved her hands. He then closed his mouth and chewed.

"Thats incredible! You really are an amazing pair!" Hange yelled.

"Eh, we are like an old married couple" I laughed.

"Yeah, only shed be the mother and father cause i got no junk" Akio laughed.

Suddenly, roars could be heard from outside. Painfilled roars. Titans were eating each other.

"Thats our cue for lights out. Night everyone. Dipshit, Hange, you two can take the couches. I sleep with Akio" I cuddled up into Akio and quickly fell asleep. Not before sharing an "I love you" with Akio and hearing it back, smiling at the gasp from Hange.

I spell it Hange because that's how it is spelled, too many people spell it Hangi. That's how it is pronounced not spelled. Anyway, comment!