It was then that I saw it, the horrifying truth that my brain refused to accept, the titan had Thomas in his jaws. Its disgusting fangish jaws. His eyes were wide open and unmoving, I couldn't tell if he was dead of not, for he lay completely still. No. Not again. No! NOOOOO! Fury burst out like air in a balloon where there was no room left to go but out. I clenched my teeth hard enough to break, I hardly noticed the crushing pain I was inflicting on myself. All I could think was kill.

KILL. KILL. KILL. ALL OF THEM. THEY WILL PAY!

A surging heat exploded within me. All I could see was red. Thomas's blood, the red of the sky, the fiery decay of Titan, and it's taunting smile. It will pay. It will pay. I will avenge Thomas. I quickly released my gas and went forward in great speed ignoring the yells and shouts of my comrads from behind me. The ringing in my ears bounded louder and louder and louder.

"DIE!" I screamed. "I Will Avenge Thomas! DIE YOU FILTHY TITA-"

CHOMP!

Suddenly everything froze as the Titan that killed Thomas disappeared from my vision and I began to fall. No. Scorching pain radiated from my leg. I couldn't look as I felt something bite hard into my flesh. Everything went by so fast that I couldn't react. My cord cut loose and the gas in my tank gave out. I rolled down the roofs of the houses below me until all my equipment was utterly destroyed and I lay on the auburn roof, still. . .

The pain was excruciating, I couldn't even turn around to see my wounds. I could hear Armin and the others calling my name. I'm here. Agh no don't come, no please! I wanted to scream to them to stay back, but my body couldn't respond. A piercing fire coursed its way through my nerves, inflicting the most horrible pain I had ever felt. I struggled to stay councious, refusing to close my eyes. This turned to be hard, as blood started to come down my face, coming into my eyes. Stay back, please!

"Eren are you alr- AHHHHHHH!"

"NO PLEASE DON'T EAT ME, AHHHHH SOMEONE HELP ME AHHHH SOMEONE!"

"I DON'T WANT TO DIE!"

"Guys! No!"

From the screams all I could keep a grip on was Armin's voice. Armin where are you? Armin?

…..

Suddenly the image of Armin came flashing before my eyes. He was tiny and clean cut.

"Eren guess what I found," little Armin whispered excitedly, tugging on my sleeve in a desperate attempt to get my attention. I looked at Armin, wondering what on earth could have made him jump up and down.

"What is it Armin?"

"Eren look what I found! It is a book from the ancient times, you know from before the wall was built." He held up a rusty looking book, that looked as he claimed. It was brown and had rips all over the covers. I grimaced, not wanting to touch the thing. I had never been into reading as Armin and Mikasa were.

"Armin, calm down if it is what you say it is shouldn't the police have it? You know such texts from the old times are forbidden." Armin bent down, opening the book in front of him, trailing through the pages in a rush, his eyes dancing through the pages like I had never seen before in my life.

"Just look in here, its filled with things about the world, without that wall in the way, before the Titans came around. Look at this, there are lands that are hotter than the summers and filled with valleys of something called sand. Imagine, a whole valley filled with brown stuff like that. Oh and look at these, there are exploding holes in the north and these lights that stream pink, red, green and blue in the night sky. Their called Auroras, and they are in these lands where there is frozen ice everywhere called snow. Amazing right!"

I just stared at Armin, baffled by all this. Pink skies? Valleys of sand? I stared at the book in awe, running my hand through the pictures that illuminated in the setting sun's light. After what seemed like hours, we finally looked at one another, eyes wide in wonder. Armin's sparkled, smiling at me in hopeful delight. I smiled back.

"Armin this is amazing. . . I never knew that the world was this big. I wonder what is out there, beyond that wall." I turned to stare at the Wall Maria, watching as the birds started to fly towards the horizon into the valley that we all could only wish to reach. The gold glimmered, welcoming the new guests into the unknown. I sighed, staring at the horizon in awe.

"Eren, sometimes I think about this, sometimes I wonder what we could see, what we could accomplish of we could see the outside world. It would be great to go out and explore the outside world someday," he whispered excitedly, staring out in wonder."

…

NO! NOT ARMIN! NEVER, YOU WON'T HAVE HIM, NEVER! NOT AS LONG AS I AM ALIVE! NOT AS LONG AS MY HEART IS BEATING! THE OUTSIDE WORLD! I WILL GET TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD!

"ARMIN!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, jumping up. I ignored the blood rushing down my leg, as the adrenaline seared into my veins. Right there I could see Armin being put into the Titan mouth. Immediately I pressed the gas on my machine and slammed my fist into the Titan's huge yellowing teeth. I gripped the thing in my hand, riaing it above my head and grabbing Armin's hand in a death like grip.

NOT YOU ARMIN! IF IT WILL BE ANYONE, IT WILL NOT BE YOU!

"Grrrrrr, " I growled as the pressure of the Titan's teeth weighed down on me. Armin looked up in awe, completely shocked at the aspect of being rescued. I could telling from the fuzzy form of his face that he had mouthed my name, but I couldn't hear anything. Silence.

The blood began to rush to my head as an image of my mothers dangling, lifeless body flashed before my eyes. NOT AGAIN! "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH," I screamed out pulling Armin out with all of my strength making him land on the buidling's roof. Blood ran down my face in an accelerating rate, blocking my vision. "Dammit," I muttered as I quickly grasped the Titan's teeth, and pulled them up with all of my strength. I will not be eaten here, no I will not die.

"Hehe you think I am going to die here?" I said looking at Armin's terrified face. The Titan's saliva started to soak my hair and face, making the air musty and foal. 'Hey Armin. . . you told me about it. About the outside world. I'm going to the outside world," I said shakly. Tears began to run down Armin'd eyes, making his eyes glisten. Why is he crying?

"EREN GET OUT NOW!"

SNAP