A/N: Here it is. I hope it doesn't have anymore issues.
-Chapter 9: Nightmares-
It was early morning when troubling dreams came to Mikasa. She was standing on a roof top on one of Trost's houses. The Colossal Titan had just broken through the wall and titans were streaming into the city. People were dying all around her. She started to run, her arms pumping, her legs moving rhythmically. She jumped off of the roof, arching her back, she pulled the 3DMG trigger. She braced herself for the force that would pull her forward. But the pull of her gear didn't come. She fell through the air. She pulled the trigger again and again but no metal wires shot out. She crashed against the ground. She unsheathed her blades but they fell off, broken and dull. The titans were closing in.
One by one her comrades fell. She ran into a plaza, there was a bearded titan standing there. It was watching her. He reached down to grab her. Armin saw her and shot at the titan. He aimed for the name of the neck but at the last minute the titan rotated and grabbed him. She screamed but it was too late. The titan had Armin in his hands. The titan closed his fist. Armin was gone.
Eren flew across the roof tops. Tears were streaming down his cheeks. He struck at the titan but no matter how many times he hit the nape of the neck, the titan would not die. Abnormal titans started to swarm around him. They tore him apart. This time, Eren did not turn into a titan. His body, or at least parts of it, fell to the ground. His face was still intact, but blood covered his cheeks, his eyes still open.
Mikasa ran forward, cradling his body. She wept over him. All she had done and accomplished was for nothing. When it came down to it, she could do nothing to save him. There was a titan that was moving toward her. Mikasa looked at its face. It was the same titan that had eaten Eren's mother. She reached down and grabbed her. Mikasa went limp. She froze and let the titan close its massive fingers around her. The fingers closed tighter and tighter.
She could feel the pressure on her arms. It was shaking her back and forth. She suddenly awoke. It was Levi. He was shaking her by the shoulders.
"You were screaming." Said Levi in a matter of fact way.
"I'm sorry." She said. It was dawn and the golden beams of sunlight was flooding in through the window. She had had this dream several times in the past few days. It started and ended the same way every time. When everyone else was dead, she would die too.
"It was a while before I stopped having nightmares," said Levi
"How did you overcome them?" she asked
"I accepted the fact that I had done everything I could possibly do to save them. I'm human. I can't save everyone. I couldn't have known what would happen….I forget that sometimes so I just need to remind myself…."
That night, Mikasa had the same dream. Eren was lying dead in her arms. But this time, when the titan reached down to get her, she ran. She unstrapped her maneuver gear and ran for her life. She saw a soldier's body. She inspected his equipment. His maneuver gears was still intact. She strapped herself in and shot the mettle cables. She swung around in a big arc her blades were drawn. They bit down into the titan's neck. The titan fell.
Mikasa was all alone. She felt the great pain of loss but she knew she would survive.
She woke up. She chose to live.
She never had that dream again.
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