"Where are they going?" as soldier asked climbing up a building using his gear.

Titans stopped paying them attention, and started to go away, all of them heading to the same direction.

"Isn't that the way to the Shiganshina District?" another one asked earning a nod from his teammates.

"We should inform the main party. Shoot a yellow flare."

In a few seconds one of the soldiers loaded the yellow flare on his gun and covering his ears he pulled the trigger, a thin line of yellow smoke started to rise until it exploded visibly on the sky. A few moments later they started to see more yellow flares exploding on the sky, the message was received.

They jumped down of the structure they were in and jumped into their horses, riding to meet with the rest of the expedition.


"Yellow flare?" Rivaille though, looking at the sky, while yellow flares exploded.

"What do you make of that, Rivaille?" Irwin asked, getting the corporal's attention.

"They are still within the wall, the most obvious guess is that they will try to escape through the Shiganshina District, we never seal that gate."

"Let's go, we are less than day behind them, we have to hurry up." Irwin said speeding up his horse, and changing the course to the district.


Smoke rose, with the all too familiar smell of hot flesh and blood, a figure started to take form as the smoke cleared, a titan, skinless, with long blond hair. The thing that shocked Annie the most, were the wing like things on her back. The new titan, straighten up, glaring at the titans in front of her. The ground rumbled with every step she took.

Reiner and the others arrived just in time to the how the Winged Titan sent a titan's head flying with a loud roar.

"Annie!" Reiner yelled. Maneuvering to where she was.

"What the hell happened?" she said looking at the titans being torn to pieces. "And what is that?"

"That's Christa." She responded replacing her dull blades and getting a shocked look from the group.

"Looks like she's a shifter too."

Reiner stood thinking about what they could do, letting out a heavy sigh.

"There's nothing to do now, let's just let her energy to run out."

Annie looked skeptically at him. "That never works with a first shift, you know that."

He shrugged "I'm hoping we don't have to cut her out, like Eren."

"That's one in a million." She spat out, angry at Reiner's ingenuity.

"All we can do now is wait, until she finishes with the titans, it should be easier to get her out then." Vera said sheathing her blades, sitting on the rooftop, ready to enjoy the show.

That seemed a good plan, but was discarded when Christa spread out her wings with an even louder roar, all the titans swarming her suddenly stopped, even they felt it, a sudden shiver ran though their bodies. All the titans started to devour each other even the ones at the distance by the gate.

The city filled with the sound of titans roaring and flesh being torn apart.

"Well that changes things." Vera said leaning forwards with a grin. "You know what to do."

Annie and Reiner looked at each other, and without a single word both of them jumped down, shifting and charging at her.


After several minutes of struggling Reiner managed to position himself over the Winged Titan, pressing with all his weight to keep her down, she certainly was stronger than she looked. And those damned wings, kept hitting him on the face, not that they did much damage to him, but damn it was annoying.

Annie opened her mouth, and dug her teeth on the tender flesh from Christa's neck, pulling her out, careful of not severing any limbs, and placed her slowly on the floor.

The three titans started to steam, while the two shifters pulled themselves out of their titan bodies.

"That wasn't so hard." Reiner laughed, jumping down to the floor.

"You're one to talk, I did all the work." Annie said pulling a strand of hair out of her face.

Reiner laughed it off, before suddenly getting serious.

"She killed them all."

"Looks like it. At any rate, we won't get anywhere while she's unconscious; this girl seriously likes to sleep. Let's find somewhere to rest, and we'll move out in the morning." Annie said, more like an order than suggestion.

Reiner nodded, picking up Christa and following Annie.


The fire illuminated the small room they were in; they entered an old bakery, and started up the ovens of the basement to keep them warm. Not they were all sitting in front of the oven, the shadows dancing behind them as the flames twirled.

"So…I turned into a titan?" Christa said.

"You did." Vera said "Good luck Annie and Reiner stopped you before you ran off, or ate any of us." She chuckled.

Christa chuckled nervously, still unsure of how to feel about it, she had hoped to be able to turn so she could help, but now that she knew that she was able to do it, she wasn't feeling to sure about it.

"At any rate, you ability was really impressive. I dare say every titan in the district is dead. That makes our work easier." Annie said lying down on the floor, placing her arm above her eyes to cover the light of the fire. "Now, you need to train." She started with a tired tone. "Train to fight, and to keep yourself in control when you shift." She let out a long yawn. "We can worry about that in the morning. I'm tired." She rolled on her side and closed her eyes.


"We're almost there." Eren said, leading the way through the alleys. They had to walk a lot, many of the streets and alley were blocked by large chunks of rocks and splintered wood, some building blocked several streets, forcing them to circle around them. They hadn't encountered a single titan yet, and there were no noises coming from anywhere.

The whole city was quiet, except for the occasional animal that found it's way inside after the titans took it. The sky was grey, with the sun hidden behind the clouds.

"There it is." Eren said after a few turns, signaling a destroyed house.

They entered looking at the place, there was not much left, everything that wasn't destroyed by the collapsing of the roof was scorched, the stairs that led down to the basements were blocked by a large wooden pillar; probably form the roof supports, and even though the wood was old, and somewhat rotten it was still hard to move it.

"Alright, we're almost there. Let's move this thing as see if the effort was worth." Reiner said moving below the pillar, trying to move it.

Christa and Berthold helped him, while Vera kept watch walking around the house inspecting the place.

Eren continued, walking around his former home, as his childhood memories returned to him. He didn't noticed Annie standing beside one of the buildings that were a few meters ahead.

He felt a surge of anger take over as he saw her, just standing there, with her usual expressionless face, like there was nothing wrong.

He walked up to where she was. "Do you feel something?" he said between his teeth.

There was no answer, which made him feel even angrier. He grabbed her from the shoulders, pinning her against a wall, out of sight from everyone else.

"Do you look at all this and feel nothing at all? You don't think about all the lives that were lost?" he said in an angry tone.

"Everyday." She said softly, looking away.

Annie wrapped her arms around herself and started crying in silence.

She closed her eyes, trying to stop the tears from coming out. It was the first time Eren saw her express any kind of emotion, and now there she was, crying and sobbing. It was strange, and even though he was angry, he couldn't help but feel sorry about her.

"I want to stop feeling." She said between sobs. "I can see them, all the people that I've killed. I see them… every time I close my eyes." She gritted her teeth, holding the sobs, as her body trembled trying to stay on her feet, her knees gave in, being caught by Eren before she fell.

"It hurts too much. I'm too weak." she cried.

Annie clenched her fists grabbing his jacket and she cried on his chest, he wrapped his arms around her, trying to comfort her.

"You're not weak." Eren said placing one hand on her head. That situation felt strange. When did he change from accusing her to comforting her? Still he felt that he had to do something, watching Annie on that state, was sad, and pitiable, borderline pathetic.

"I'm sorry. I just…want to go home, and forget about all this."

After a few minutes the sobbing stopped, as well as the shaking; she took a deep breath, letting go of his jacket and separating slowly from him, wiping the tears from her face with her arms.

"Are you, uh, okay?" Eren asked, getting only a nod in response.

"I'm sorry about that." She said softly, still not looking at him. "I don't' know what happened. I- uh, would appreciate that you don't mention this."

"I won't."

She gave him on of those smiles she occasionally showed, in her eyes he saw genuine appreciation, before her expression turned back to the usual stoic expression, and started to walk back to the others.

"Eren." She said. Making him turn around. "It may not seem like it, but I do trust you."

Eren blushed at the comment; luckily Annie didn't seemed to notice.

"Guys we've got company!" Vera shouted. Taking out her blades.

Out in the distance, soldiers of the scouting legions made their way towards them using the gear to move through the alleys and rooftops, a green black flare was shoot to the sky followed by several others in the distance. Signaling the rest of the expedition they had been found.

"Eren, help Reiner and Berthold with the beam blocking the entrance to the basement. Vera, keep Christa close to you, and protect the guys if any of them get past me."

She steadied herself; cutting her thumb with her ring with a loud explosion of vapor and heat she rose, ready to fight.


It was a bit harder than I though. Meh, it was good. I liked writing this part.

I will do a drawing of Christa's Titan Form, so you can see better how it is. I'll probably upload it to my DeviantArt account, but I'll give you a link to it with the next chapter, if I do the drawing of course. (By drawing I mean a sketch-like drawing. Nothing too fancy.)

Annie has feelings, oh wow. :O

Does Reiner and Berthold feel the same way she does? Maybe they do.

And...I don't know. This story is very fun to write :D

Hope you liked the chapter and if you have any comments you're welcome to leave a review or send me a message.

Take care people.

-XY