Everyone fell to the ground as the earth beneath them shook. Armin got up, rubbing his head "What was that?"
"I don't know" Eren said dazedly.
Even Mikasa looked surprised.
A crowd of people were moving towards the wall, confusion on everyones face.
Armin ran after them.
"Armin! What are you doing?" Eren yelled.
One of the cadets grimaced, thinking, I wouldn't do that if I were you Armin.
Eren ran after Armin, Mikasa behind him.
"Talk to me" Eren said shakily "Some sort of explosion or-huh!"
Erens fearful face showed on screen, full of shock.
The music started as the giant skinless hand appeared over the wall, appearing to grow in size.
The shot of the towns people from the titans hight was played...how small they looked, like mere ants.
Maybe we were just ants to that Titan Armin thought grimly, watching the scene and that terrible day unfold again before his eyes.
Armin, Eren and Mikasa stared in pure terror.
"Thats impossible, t-that wall is 50 metres high" Armin gasped.
"I don't care thats its impossible, run! Why aren't they running" Krista cried.
"You do know they can't hear you right? On the fact this is counted as the past?" Ymir said sarcastically.
Krista suddenly laughed looking embarrassed "Oh yeah, forgot that for a second"
Erens eyes widened as he whispered "Oh god"
The titans face came into view.
The buzz cut head cadet's mouth fell open in fear and shock.
The girl who had been eating a potato but stopped due to Jean's death like glare, hid behind the boy with a buzz cut.
Jean felt himself start to sweat, he stopped a whimper from coming from his mouth, he was practically shaking in his boots, who in there right mind would fight that thing! Jean thought in terror.
Eren and Mikasa huddled up closer together.
Hannes stood protectively closer to Armin, Eren and Mikasa.
Petra stepped a couple of steps closer to Levi, knowing he was the best bet at protection.
Levi however came her a look that said seriously?
And she stopped, looking sheepish.
Marco looked like he was ready to faint.
Everyones reaction was stopped by...Laughing...?
Everyone turned to Hange...
Who was cackling with almost evil glee.
"This is such a big beauty! If I could only get my hands on it! Amazing! Just amazing! Imagine what kind of things we could find out, look it doesn't even have any skin! Wow! Those eyes to! If only I could some how experiment on it!"
Everyone stared at her.
Three cadets who oddly hadn't reacted much to the huge Titan, the tall one out of them quickly stepped away from her, looking more creeped out that the rest... The two others followed suit.
Levi grumbled "Can we get on with the show and ignore the crazy lady?"
He told everyone sounding bored but also resigned "Don't worry, she's always like this"
A shot of the tall Titan, slowly kicking a part of the wall down, causing massive winds and houses braking from the force, rumble flying from the wall.
Huge parts of rubble knocked of buildings falling in on people, crushing them to death.
The ring of church bells in the background and the music started again.
Showing how large the titan was compared to the other titans, which where everywhere behind the wall.
"There are so many" The cadet with the potato gasped in horror.
Armin was on the floor as he said, trembling "It blasted the hole, l-like it was kicking a rock"
A shot of a terrifying Titans face up close.
It had finally started, the Titans where in.
All the towns people could do was run.
"They breached the wall!" Someone cried.
"Run for your lives!" Another cried.
"We have to go!" Armin whimpered then cried out "Eren no!"
Whats this suicidal maniac doing now? Jean thought, deeply irritated.
"My house is in that direction, mums all by herself" Eren said weakly.
Armin cried "Mikasa!"
He held out his hand as if to reach for her as Erin and Mikasa run of.
Armin held his hand toward his body in defeat, trembling in pure terror.
He cried out "This is the end...T-there inside, everyone of us is going to be eaten!"
Eren ran with Mikasa after him. Everyone could hear his thoughts. Our house is fine, our house is fine!
Scenes of distress played out as Eren ran, a boulder crushing a man, his family crying over him, more people running away.
Man kind had never known such fear.
The girl with a potato whimpered "T-this is horrible"
All the cadets agreed shakily.
And I thought I had a bad childhood Krista thought, trembling in shock and fear at what she was seeing.
Its going to be standing there in one piece, just like always, Erens desperate pleads internally reached Petra, Hannes and the cadets hearts.
He rushed behind the corner.
Erens eyes widening in horror.
He screeched with such agonising pain "MUUUUUUM! MUUUUM!"
His house collapsed on in itself.
No one noticed one of the cadets had moved completely to the back, grinding his teeth together, looking extremely distressed.
No one apart from Krista noticed.
"You okay?" She asked the tall cadet softly.
One big bulky cadet with blonde hair snapped at her instead "His fine! Give him some space right!"
Krista recoiled quickly, hurriedly walking away.
"Bertolt, man, hold it together" The cadet, good friends of Bertolt said sternly.
"I'm fine, I'm fine" Bertolt said shakily, looking away from his friend.
The burly blonde haired cadet gave the tall but thin boy a look that said he didn't believe it but decided not to push it.
Eren's mother was trapped underneath the rubble of the house.
Mikasa and Eren ran to her.
Eren cried "Grab that end and hoist with everything you got!"
They both desperately tried to lift the rubble of from his mother but they weren't strong enough.
Petra looked horrified.
Levi looked like nothing faced him but the slight tilt down on his mouth inclined to the fact of what he was thinking and it was nothing good.
"T-there mothers going to die isn't she?" Petra asked Levi sadly.
Levi replied coldly but not unfeeling "Look at him and make a deduction"
Petra looked at Eren who was now crying into Mikasa's sleeve, grieving...Mourning.
Petra looked even more sad.
Eren whimpered "Oh no"
As he looked up, Titans everywhere...One coming towards them.
A sickening smile on its face.
The music picked up more pace as the ground shook with the Titans footsteps.
"Hurry up Dam it!" Eren screamed.
"I'm trying!" Mikasa cried back.
Their mother said suddenly "Its them"
Her mouth pulled up into a almost snarl as she screamed at Eren "Eren! Take Mikasa and run!"
"Brave women" Petra said sadly.
Levi replied "She's just doing exactly what any other mother would do in that situation"
Petra frowned at him "What-" Furious with him.
Levi sighed "I just mean they shouldn't be in that situation in the first place"
He wondered, narrowing his eyes, Where did that Colossal Titan come from anyway? And where did it disappear to?
She calmed down quickly after that.
Eren yelled "I want to more than anything But first I need you on your feet!"
Erens mother said, staring straight ahead, looking a little bit in a daze and said hurriedly over Erens pants of fear "Sweetie listen to me, my legs have been crushed, even if you could get me out of here I can't run"
"Whatever! I can carry you" Eren practically snarled.
"WILL YOU JUST LISTERN TO ME, ONCE IN YOUR LIFE! ONE THING I'M ASKING YOU, ONE THING!" Erens mother screamed loudly, in pure desperation to protect her child.
"S-She sounds like a dying animal, the ones that dye protecting their young" The cadet who had the potato observed, while trying not to cry.
"H-how do you know that" The boy with the buzz cut asked randomly, trying to take his mind from the gruesome scene.
She replied shakily "I-I come from a-a hunting village"
"You want all three of us to die?" Erens mother demanded to the two children.
A sound of a sudden zip wire.
"Hannes!" She cried.
Everyone looked at Hannes, who was staring down at the ground, not meeting anyones gaze.
"Something tells me this doesn't go that well" Levi said critically.
Erens mother said in distress "Take the children and take them out of here!"
Hannes put on a brave front as he said "Come on Carla, you know thats not our only option, I'm a trained solder, my skill set is killing Titans and saving lives!"
He stood up bravely.
Most people looked at Hannes with hope, could he save this family?
Carla cried "Hannes! Please! No!"
Hannes thought as he ran, nothing fancy, just take it down, get all three of them out of harms way, make good on the dept you owe!
Hannes watched the screen, cursing himself, why was he such a coward, why couldn't he have done it? Eren didn't have a mother and it was his fault!
Hannes stopped suddenly, his face a picture of pure fear.
It looked defiantly creepy.
It towered over him.
Hannes let out a gasp of pure fear then ran backwards, collecting, Eren and Mikasa up.
"What are you doing? Put me back down you Bxxxxxd!" Eren shouted angrily, banging on Hannes back.
"T-Thank you Hannes" Carla whispered.
Eren screeched "Wait! No! We can't just leave her!"
"I love you! You hear me! Stay alive!" Carla called after them, reaching out to them as if she wanted to touch them one last time.
A flashback of the morning lit the screen as sad music overtook the scene. Erens mother started to cry as she covered her mouth.
"Don't leave me" She whispered.
Everyone apart from a only two people, gaped, their jaws dropped, pure heart brake lit everyones heart.
Bertolt whimpered "Dam it Reiner, did we-!"
Reiner, his burly blonde friend snarled at him "Shut up! You hear me!"
To Bertolt's surprise and shock did he actually see...water in his friends eyes? But he'd never seen him cry before or was it just guilt?
"God" Jean whispered in pure horror.
The titan picked up the mother from the rubble of the house.
Eren still watching.
Stop watching you idiot Jean thought rattled.
Eren screamed all his worth out "Stop it! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
One of the cadets turned away suddenly and blanched, almost vomiting though having nothing from his stomach, so he just heaved on the ground.
No one comforted him, all to overwhelmed at what they were witnessing.
The titan split the mothers spine while she was struggling.
Erens face was traumatised.
The titan held the limp mother up to his face and opened its mouth...
Mikasa turned away.
Eren was still watching...
Everyone was so tense, no noise apart from the cadet throwing up in the background.
The titans mouth clamped down on Carla.
Blood spurted everywhere. It looked like the blood droplets where flying...
As Hannes, Eren and Mikasa ran further away the narrater voice started again.
(And Just Like That, Every Thing Changed)
The Titan smiled as it gulped Carla down, blood on its lips.
(At That Terrible Moment, In Our Hearts We Knew...Home Was A Pen. Humanity, Cattle)
To Be Continued.
"M-mum" Eren whimpered.
"Sxxx" The boy with the buzz cut whispered.
"My thoughts exactly" The girl with the potato said, her voice trembling.
No one noticed apart from a cadet with a cold expression that hadn't reacted much to the episode, that Reiner had pulled Bertolt to the side and was now talking to him in harsh whispers.
Marco frowned at the boy cadet being sick, he bent down towards him "You alright?" He asked kindly.
"Not really" He replied shakily.
"I'm Marco" Marco said, helping him up.
"Thomas" The boy said taking the boys hand, still trembling a little.
Jean huffed "Oh toughen up would you? It didn't happen to you"
"Jean!" Marco warned.
Thomas dismissed Marco's defence "I-its alright, in a way his right...I-I'm not the one everyone should be focused on..."
His eyes traveled to the front of the room.
To a shaking Eren.
"Poor kid" Marco said gently.
"Yeah" Thomas agreed, though still looking ill.
Jean grumbled, crossing his arms but didn't agree or disagree with them.
Suddenly Hange was in front of the boys.
They all gaped, how did she just move so quickly?
She told Thomas sweetly "Oh vomit boy, just warning you, if you throw up again and its anywhere near Levi he'll probably murder you, I just don't want to do the paper work for your death so..." She winked at him and bounded away.
Thomas paled even more, looking more like a ghost.
"So...Is that the loony titan experimental lady I heard was in the Scouts?" Jean asked slowly.
"Shut up, she'll hear you" Marco hissed.
Despite his best efforts Thomas went green, putting his hand over his mouth.
Jean quickly stepped away "Throw up on me and Levi won't be the only one trying to kill you, got it?" He growled.
Thomas nodded, panicking a little.
After some long talks with Mikasa and Armin, Eren slowly started to look a bit better.
"Okay brats, we all ready for the next episode?" Levi asked after a while of most people getting over there pity and sympathy for Eren and Mikasa.
Though his tone sounded more like, if you're not ready I'll play the episode anyway and then I'll beat the shxx out of you.
So all the cadets nodded frantically.
"Okay...Lets begin" Levi said.
And the next episode started.
With everyone wondering, what part of Erens life that had in store for all of them this time.
