"Or does your philosophy say its wrong to fight back to?" A teenager sneered as he slammed Armin against the wall.

Armin winced, so this was how he was going to be introduced to the story? Great...

"As a matter of a fact it does, I'd rather take a few lumps than brawl like a beast!" Armin retorted bravely back.

The older taller teenager who had Armin up against the wall sneered "So now I'm a beast am I?"

Armin snapped "Take a good hard look at yourself and tell me your not acting like one! You resort to violence because your brains the size of a walnut! So pummel me all you want, I've already won!"

Levi watched unimpressed.

Jean rolled his eyes, this kid wanted to be a solider? Seriously?

However Hannes watched shocked, Armin had always been the quite one, the shy one. He never knew he had the guts to talk at people who were beating him up like that!

The bullies looked surprised then angry as the supposed leader of the group sneered, an ugly expression on his face "Well you know what? I'm a sour loser!"

Some cadets looked at Armin in sympathy while others wondered critically how Armin would ever make a good solder with his frail frame.

"Hey back of!" A voice yelled.

Eren ran towards the group of bullies a snarl on his expression.

Petra beamed at Eren, so nice of the boy to stick up for someone.

"Look its Eren" The bully laughed.

Another laughed "You think he would have learned his lesson"

The other one sniggered "Leave him to me"

Hannes grimaced knowing what that meant.

Jean thought coldly, can't even defend himself right, he wasn't a soldier. He talked big but he couldn't back it up with anything, Jean glared at Eren, he hated arrogent guys like that.

Then the one who just spoke gasped.

Mikasa was running behind Eren, her scarf wrapped around her as always, the look in her eyes was scary.

"Oh crap! She's with him!" One of the bullies yelled.

"Run, just run!" They cried and ran away with shrieks of fear.

"Cowards" Jean scoffed.

Armin however looked down ashamed, why was it always up to Eren and Mikasa to rescue him? Why could he never do it by himself?

Why could he never be strong enough.

"Ha!" Eren said as he got to Armin "Thats all it takes, one look at me and there running scared"

Arrogent idiot Jean thought, satisfied that his judgement on Eren seemed to be right.

Hannes looked at Eren amused.

Ymir said nastily to Eren "Ugh would you stop thinking your so tough, its getting on my nerves"

Armin defended Eren, who hadn't seemed to hear what Ymir had said, Armins voice shook a little "Its the past, he can't change anything he says or does"

Krista pleaded "Please don't fight" Before Ymir could retort.

To everyone surprise Ymir actually shut up when Krista asked her to.

"Well" Armin said "One of you is" He looked at Mikasa.

Armin suddenly cringed in pain.

A couple of cadets sneered at Armins weakness.

"Where'd they get you Armin?" Eren asked kindly, holding out his hand for Armin to take, who was still on the ground.

Armin looked at the hand.

Then looked even more upset, looking away from Mikasa and Eren he got of from the ground.

"Its alright, thank you" Armin said, hiding in himself more, the Armin that had told the bullies of to their face completely gone, what was left a small, shy weak boy.

"Okay" Eren said softly, still worried for his friend.

The scene changed to a scanning shot of the houses, Armins voice over the top "They just heard me rattling on at how man kinds future laid behind the walls, I doubt they understood half of it but still..."

Petra looked surprised at Armin, she hadn't thought he would be the type of person to want to go outside. She felt a little guilty for judging him wrong.

One of the girl cadets that had just started eating the potato noisily in the background, getting on everyones nerves, wondered randomly what outside the walls would be like, odd she thought, I've never really thought about it till now.

"Idiots" Eren sneered.

Scrunch, crunch, crunch.

"Why can't people just" Crunch "Let us dream?" Eren asked angrily.

Crunch, Crunch, CRUNCH

Armin replied softly "The walls are a powerful idea" Crunch "We've survived a hundred years because of them" Crunch Crunch "No ones keen on tempting fate" Crunch "I may not agree with that statement but I can see where there coming from"

CRUNCH!

"Would you freaking stop eating that dam potato seriously its irritating the hell out of me!" Jean suddenly snarled at the girl cadet.

"Hey, leave her alone" The boy with the buzz cut snapped, seeing how she had shrunk back from Jean in slight fear though it was more shock than anything.

The girl cadet with the potato said defending herself in third person "Well she doesn't want to"

Jean responded mockingly in third person "Well Jean does, and he'd gladly shove it up your-"

"And Levi doesn't care, how about you all stop arguing before I shut all of you brats up permanently, yeah?" Levi said icily, wanting to get back to watching the show and the brats were starting to give him a headache.

Armin said slowly "Its human nature Eren, when all said and done the governments policy is a reflection of our fear"

Eren growled "Yeah the rest of the heard maybe, I say to hell with them!"

Mikasa said coldly "Someones going to hear you, keep it down"

Eren snarled like a wolf "Why do I care? You'd rat me out anyway!"

Armin looked surprised "What?"

Mikasa said stiffly, tensing up "I never promised you anything"

"Yeah but as his friend and sister you were kind of meant to promise him" Petra said to Mikasa, not liking how she sold Eren out so easily.

Armin whispered to Mikasa sadly "You do realise you may be the reason why Erens last day with his mum was them both shouting at each other right?"

Mikasa didn't meet his eyes, guilt weighing down on her then she shook it of, No! She was just trying to save him from getting killed it wasn't her fault.

"Your family know about the Scouts?" Armin asked.

Eren replied grimly "Yeah and there not to pleased"

Armin sighed, sounding resigned "Yeah, big shock"

Leaves rustling in the wind and a shot of the clouds passing by. Eren, Mikasa and Armin sat on the steps.

Armin spoke again, his voice soft but you could hear it clearly "Its sad what people are willing to settle for, for some fleeting sense of security"

A shot of families playing together and children running around, the wall however in the background giving the scene a strange threatening edge. Like it was looming over the humans, keeping them trapped inside.

It made some of the cadets shiver slightly.

Armin said seriously "And make no mistake it is defiantly fleeting, the walls can't hold forever. Only a matter of time"

A sudden uneasy silence gripped the scene.

The cadet with the buzz cut said shakily "Why do I get the feeling that something really really terrifying is going to happen?"

He glanced at Eren, his eyes widening, finally noticing how pale Eren was...Was-Was he trembling? Were those tears in his eyes.

Suddenly a huge burst of what looked like yellow lightning came down from the sky in an odd yellow burst, causing a huge explosion.

Everyone thought the same thing...

Oh Shit...