Ayyy lads and ladies, welcome to Chapter 7. We left off in the forest with Eren and Annie in a shit state. Thank you all for taking the time to read my story, really means a lot to me to know people are taking the time to read my stuff (hopefully). It's currently 12:34am and I'm still working to make up for the lack of uploading. Feedback is greatly appreciated as I want to spin this story with some of my viewers influence on it. Thanks heaps guys 3
Chapter 7: Back to Back
Gotta get her to safety, Eren and Annie couldn't afford to be stuck out in the open for much longer. Hoping he wouldn't get punched in the face, Eren ran over and picked Annie up and carried her bridal style towards the overhang he was praying would be there. He was coming around the side of the mountain and relief! There was a small pocket they could crawl into, big enough for 4 people so it was easy for Eren to get Annie safely inside before crawling in himself. Annie was not in a good condition, she was shivering and her skin had turned deathly pale. Eren felt ashamed, if he had remembered to pack some sort of thermal material they wouldn't be in this mess. Eren prayed to whatever god should smile on him that what he was about to do would not get him killed. He took off his jacket and put it on Annie, now the hard part. He got close and put his arm around her, fuck her skin was ice cold but he held her, trying to transfer his own heat. She tensed and kneed him in the gut making him wince but he still held on, gotta keep her body temp neutral. She grunted.
"Fine Yeager but only because my life is on the line, just this once. Don't get any ideas."
"Yeah, I understand." And with that, Annie closed her eyes from exhaustion and let sleep envelop her. Eren was having the time of his life, a potentially extremely dangerous nuke was laying next to him that could go off with one wrong move but he didn't care. Her warm breaths against the fabric of his shirt sent shivers down his spine. Annie was a whole other story when she was asleep, it was like all the strain of being an emotionless loner had disappeared and she could relax. He liked to see her sleep, wait… That sounded wrong, not in a creepy way if you understand. It wasn't long before Eren too, let sleep take him over and plunge him into darkness.
"Shit!" Bert yelled, the ground began rumbling, throwing Bert off balance and onto the ground.
"The fuck was that!? Did a fucking titan fall from the sky?" Bert and Ymir were taking the mountain path which they'd chosen as the quickest path as it was rather short and devoid of predators.
"I don't know but it didn't sound good." Wait, was the mountain shaking? "Ymir, something's off, why is the mountain shaking?"
"Probably just aftershock from whatever that impact was."
"No, this feels different." Bert walked to the edge of the mountain path and looked towards the summit. His eyes widened.
"AVALANCHE! YMIR, RUN!" Bert was panicked, gritting his teeth with eyes wide (Like the scene where he and Reiner reveal themselves). They sprinted towards the edge, the advantage of long legs was the ability of long strides allowing them to cover more distance quicker, especially since they were both pretty fit. God we're not gonna make it. They ran as fast as they bloody could. Bert risked a glance towards the massive wave of snow. It didn't cover a particularly large area of the mountain. Only a section had broken off which had caused the avalanche. They only needed to run a bit further.
"We're gonna make it!" Bert huffed. Nearly there, only 20 feet but it was too late. The massive rampage of snow appeared above them, hurtling towards them. Bert closed his eyes, ready to die before he was shoved forwards. Bert looked back to see Ymir with her hands outstretched.
"Ymir!" he reached to grab her hand but the avalanche rushed past his eyes, taking Ymir with it. Bert scrambled back, tears streaming down his face. Ymir had shoved him to safety, yet he'd failed to rescue her. He felt ashamed, clutching his head. I failed to save her.
Pretty pathetic warrior aren't you. Saved by an island devil
She saved me, does that make her a devil?
Do you think she deserved to die?
She's not dead
You reckon anyone could have survived that? Look around you.
Bert looked down the mountain. The avalanche still rumbling past and collecting at the bottom in a massive pile. Ymir was somewhere among it.
No, I refuse to let her die, Bert summoned the courage and stood on the edge.
Fool! What do you think you're doing? You die then I die.
Well that's a positive, and he stepped off the edge.
NOOoo!The voice slowly faded as Bert plummeted. He soon realised his mistake… The cliff wasn't flat all the way down. Oh shit. He smacked into the edge and started rolling down, hitting jagged edges along the way down. "Gah!" His head smashed into a rock that was jutting out and he fell unconscious. He fell, rolling, to the ground in a steaming heap while still unconscious.
What the? Where am I?
We're in your head Bert. Bert checked his surroundings, darkness stretched out everywhere, he didn't know a single detail about where he was except that the ground was sticky and mushy.
Look over here. Bert looked to where the voice was coming from to be met with a pair of glowing red eyes about 25 metres in the air. But there was a dark outline that was just visible, the figure was crouching, so really it was much taller than 25 metres.
What are you? Bert staggered back.
Why I'm the source of your power, the power of the titans does come with drawbacks.
What does that mean?
It means I'm stuck inside your body, the colossal titan. Whenever you bite your hand or self-inflict an injury with a specific goal, then you're allowing me to enhance you to put it short.
Y-You're the colossal titan?
I'm it's conscious, yes. Didn't I just tell you that? Seems as if you're intimidated, would you perhaps prefer this form. The goliath shrunk down to Bert's height and stepped out of the darkness. It was a perfect duplicate of what Bert looked like now, minus the red eyes. Bert #2 smiled, Perhaps you would prefer this.Its form began changing once more, moulding into a perfect version of Ymir.
Bert gulped. W-Why am I here? What do you want!?
You're here because you're fucking unconscious, idiot. As for what I want. Well, ultimately, my only goal is to fully take control over your body and do whatever the fuck I want but by that time it's normally too late as your body gets weak as you reach your deadline of 13 years. This time, however, that Doctor Grisha was able to extend the influence the Curse of Ymir had on the body, meaning we can live about 4 times as long before dying. Oh, it seems like you're about to regain consciousness, I'll end this now. See ya round Bert, have fun trying to save Ymir, if she's alive. And with that, the red-eyed Ymir gave a smile and flicked her hand. The ground fell underneath Bert and with a yell he began falling. It felt like he'd been falling for at least 30 seconds before he everything turned bright and he crashed to the ground. Bert awoke with a gasp and after a while, groggily sat up. He would be dead if it weren't for the regenerative ability. He was still steaming, he didn't know how long he'd been out for but at least he was where he needed to be. He got up and stumbled towards the huge pile of snow.
Ymir woke under a large sheet of white snow. Fuck can't move. She hoped Bert was safe and wasn't already dead without her. Well if she was going to die here, she wouldn't mind but if someone was going to save her, Bert was the only one who saw what happened. Hurry Bert, before it's too late and she fell unconscious once more. Meanwhile, Bert screamed in frustration, he wasn't getting anywhere. His fingers were getting red and raw from digging, numbed till he didn't feel them but he never stopped digging. He was determined to find her. He continued digging for the rest of the day before plunging his fists into the snow out of rage. Wait… Was that something solid he felt. He furiously dug even more, hoping it wasn't a solid clump of snow. He reached in and fished around some more until he felt something like… Uh oh, he blushed. He made sure to grab for where he thought shoulders should be, then moved to arms and hands and tugged. Godammit, she was still stuck hard under the snow. He dug out some more snow to try and lessen the weight on her. He tugged once more and slowly began to pull a cold blue Ymir out of the snow. It was a miracle that he'd even found her, now he couldn't let her die. Cmon Ymir, please be alive.
Eren woke up, feeling sore fucking everywhere, apparently messing around with a bear does some crazy shit to ya. He glanced at Annie who was still laying next to him, still asleep. Eren frowned, there were tears streaming from her closed eyes, was she whimpering? "Dad, I don't wanna leave, please, don't let them take me." She thrashed and kneed him in the groin, Eren grunted and curled into a fetal position, groaning. He shakily reached for her shoulder and gently shook her. "AHHH!" She yelled as her eyes snapped opened and uppercutted Eren.
"Eren?! The fuck are you doing?" She realised his pale expression and fetal position and seemed to realise exactly what area she hit.
"You were having a nightmare… Thought I'd get you out of it."
"Not. A. Single. Fucking. Word."
"Deal, so long as you stop beating me up, even when you're asleep." She grunted and shoved him away. He rolled out of the cave and down the hill. He looked at her with a betrayed expression. She couldn't help but grin at him.
"You look better without a completely emotionless look."
"Shut up, Yeager. You won't get another opportunity to be this close to me again."
"Is that so?"
"Mhm," Eren shrugged.
"We should probably get moving," he suggested.
"Well, shouldn't a strong male like you be escorting a feeble maiden like me safely?"
"A woman who can take on 3 wolves at the same time is not feeble…" Annie huffed.
"Hey Annie?"
"What?"
"I think I can see mountain we need to reach." She followed where he was pointing. It was indeed the mountain with the flags that they marked. Of course, it was on the largest mountain, fucking instructors making it all dramatic.
"All right, let's move," and so they set out towards the mountain.
Sup guys, that's Chapter 7 down and many more to come. If you find this to be going a bit slow, well it is but there's some moments that just take time to get the full experience out of it. I can't rush this otherwise it won't be as good as I want it to be. I'm going to be updating more frequently while I can but school may take up more time than I'm expecting but this is a fun thing to do in my free time. Also, I know, Every. Fucking. EREN X ANNIE story has demons. I didn't think so many others would have them so I'm trying to mix them up so it's not like human emotions taking a conscious but more over the actual unique titan powers themselves and every shifter has one. It's more of a side effect rather than a mental disorder. Have a good time, I'm out and thank you for still reading my story.
