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Author's Note:

The person you love turns out to be the actual spy, hiding and concealing information that is crucial to humanity's survival. Watch as Nate's Camo Titan fights Swift's Female Warrior Titan. See who's Titan will triumph and see who else is a spy in the Survey Corps Elite Forces.

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Also I have started another fanfiction based off of Nate's poems. It's called Hell, Through Their Eyes: Nate Orne's Poetry.

Ch 12: The Truth - Outside Wall Rose Part V

(Nate Orne)

We were running for about 15 minutes east towards another smaller forest of giant trees, meaning we were southeast of Wall Rose. Swift, she was fast and it didn't seem like she was going to slow down anytime soon, but no matter how far she went or how fast she was going, I was determined to capture her. Who would've guessed that Swift was the actual traitor, most likely not even Vivian, and she had been manipulating and spying on us the whole time. But now I was wondering if there was anyone else that was a spy? Could any one else in my squad be a spy? Were there even more spies in the Survey Corps? Were there more spies inside the walls? Was Vivian actually a spy? I needed to ask Swift when I caught up to her and she will give me the answers I needed. Whether she wanted to do it the easy way or the hard way.

I was sprinting about 30 meters behind her as she was beginning to slow down, this was my opportunity. I could catch up to her and apprehend her. I began catching up to her screaming, "Swift! I want to know why? I'm not trying to hurt you, I just need to know why you did all of this!?" She glanced back at me, covering her nape as I continued roaring, "Swift! If you don't stop I'll be forced to fight you!" She suddenly stopped, jumping back and swinging her fist back at me, going right through my abdomen as I screamed in pain. She then pulled her hand out and kicked under my legs, causing them to be amputated and sending them flying. I was legless, making me immobile, steam rising from my legs as she was on me, growling with saliva drooling from her. If she was able to shift into a Titan, I was pretty sure she still couldn't control it, but then again, I couldn't either, but I knew some tricks myself. I needed to cloak myself like Norbert had said I had done, but I needed time to heal, so I grabbed Swift, or what I thought was still Swift, whispering in her ear, "This is how you really are, huh? To think I had feelings for you, I used to love you, Swift. You were like the greatest friend I ever had and now you do this. I hope you can live with yourself after this. I wouldn't want to you to suffer the rest of your life with this." She began crying, the tears dripping on my skin, evaporating on contact. She tried pushing me off, but it was no use, I had a deadly lock on her as I continued speaking with a louder tone, "What's the matter? Did you just realize the consequences of your choice? You can't hide any longer! I'll expose you for the monster you really are!" With one final roar, she started to gnaw at my shoulder, tearing off flesh as she began releasing some odor, with a scent more putrid then the scent of any normal Titan. Now that my legs were fully healed, I kicked her off me, rolling away. I looked at her as she seemed to undergo a new transformation, her eyes were no longer the moonlight blue of the Swift I once knew, they were pitch black, resembling the monster I saw standing before me. Her body now growing in muscle depth, resembling Cua as a Titan. She was the perfect Titan, a Female Warrior, but I was camouflaged into the environment, unseen as she kept searching for me, howling the cry of a crazed animal in search of its hidden prey.

I heard a loud shout from behind me, "Nate! It's Jade, where are you?! I saw 2 lightning strikes, but Gino is with the group, so who was the other person that transformed?! Was it Swift?!" I turned back to see Jade on horseback with what looked like my horse riding towards me, seeming not to know I was in front of her. She screamed as she saw Swift, "What kind of Titan is that?!" Swift roared and ran towards Jade, unknowingly towards me, "Is that Swift?!"

I roared to Swift, "Swift, stop! This is between you and me!" Swift reacted to my voice and began swinging randomly hoping to hit me somehow. I ducked and rolled behind her as she continued to scream. I looked around as about 30 Titans began emerging from every direction, running past my hidden self and past Jade, towards Swift. She continued to scream, fighting the Titans around her, but she was overwhelmed, they ate away at her. I revealed myself and turned to Jade, roaring as I pointed at the forest of giant trees, "Jade go to that forest! Climb up the trees! I got the Titans!" Then I turned back to the Titans that were devouring Swift as I yelled, "I'll kill you all!" As I began smashing the Titans surrounding her and they continued to ignore me, making it easier for me to kill them. I killed about 20 Titans until I saw one of them holding Swift. She was now unconscious and missing her left arm and right leg. I grabbed the Titan, ripping off its arm and head, holding the evaporating arm that held Swift as it released her, causing her to begin falling. I caught her and began running towards the forest that I told Jade to retreat to, seeing her safely on a branch high up on a tree on the exterior of the forest. Her horse and also my horse were safely tied up underneath. I needed to get out of the Titan and get onto the branch. I began to remember how to get out of the Titan. All I had to do was pull myself out of the nape, but if I did then I wouldn't have my Maneuver Gear or the energy to get up in the trees. I looked up at Jade and shouted weakly, "Get us." I began to feel drowsy and fell to the ground as I released Swift from my grasp. My vision began to change from the green-red scenery to a dark blood-red clump of surrounding flesh.

I opened my eyes and I was surrounded by flesh and I was attached to various tendons. I pulled my face off, leaving a huge sense of pain and heat, then pulled off my arms, then the rest of my body. The nape of the Titan began to open and I looked up seeing Jade holding Swift as she yelled, "Nate, come on, the Titans are done eating the the Titan carcass! We have to go now!"

I climbed out of the Titan, extremely dazed, surprisingly confused and exponentially weak as I tried to walk forward, but I fell onto the ground. Jade swung down picking me up to my feet as I was trying to hold myself up. I looked at her and spoke faintly, "Let's go then." She grabbed me and swung up to the branch as I looked at Swift who was over Jade's shoulder. I hated her with all of my heart and I was going to make her pay for the harm she had caused and would have caused while she was in the walls. We landed on the branch above us and I immediately fell to my knees as Jade let me go, looking up to her I spoke in a sort of harsh tone, "Cut off Swift's arms and legs. We don't want her to get away or transform." Jade looked at me with her scared and weirdly innocent eyes, "Don't worry about her. She's a Titan-Shifter so they should grow back, but if they don't, well that's what she gets for being a traitor and a liar." I laid down on the branch, looking back up at Jade, "I don't feel so good, in fact, I feel weaker than I ever have. So I trust that you will follow through with my orders. Wake me up when she is conscious. We have a lot of information we need to get out of her."

(Jade Calle)

I stared at Swift, now without either of her arms or legs, just nubs. I just sat there wondering about the secret she had told me earlier that day when we were stuck in the forest, 'I don't know how to say this, but my name isn't Swift Fire. It's Amity Campbell. I'm from Shigashina District. I lied about myself to hide the pain I feel for my family, I was eaten by a Titan, as were my parents, right in front of my sister, Verity. I hate remembering it, I hate thinking that she might have been eaten, too.' Was what she told me even true? Or was it just part of her cover? I looked down as she started to move, it seemed she was having a nightmare, then she suddenly woke screaming, "Verity don't! Run away!" Swift looked around crazily, then looking down at her stubs then to me, saying, "So you've got me, and you've-" She examined her nubs again to see they were tied up, "Cut off my arms and legs. And you even tied them shut. That's a smart move."

I walked towards her, petting her hair, hurtfully saying, "Nate wanted me to wake him when you were conscious, but I need to know something first. What you told me, about your identity and what happened to you in Shigashina and your family. Was that all true? Or were you trying to throw me off and put me on your side?"

She smiled, then dropped to a frown. She spoke in a clear firm voice, "It was both, but I really wanted us to be friends and everything I've told you is true, but you still can't tell anyone about this. Oscar's going to be pissed at me for saying this, but I'll give you everything I know about the Titans and why I was sent to infiltrate the walls as a soldier, along with anything else you have to ask."

I looked at her, wide-eyed and shocked from her statement as I drew one of my blades saying, "What do you mean by Oscar? Who's Oscar?" I pointed my blade at her, walking up to her and placing it under her chin, "I want the truth, none of that bullshit you've been pulling with everyone else. Or else I'll reveal your secret with Nate, the only person you actually care about. The only person, other than me, that ever cared about you."

She laughed a bit, "I would tell you if you lowered your blade," I stood still, blade moved even closer, piercing her skin as blood started to drip from her neck as she said in a panic, "Alright, alright. I'll tell you, but I'd wake up Nate for this. Wouldn't want him to miss out on this useful information, would we?"

I nodded, "I guess you're right." I lowered my blade and pulled my cloth out to remove the stream of blood. Turning around I called to Nate, "Hey Nate, wake up! The traitor bitch is awake! I guess we have to talk to her now!"

Swift nearly bursted out laughing, "Oh so that's what I am now, not the demonic monster you are going to depict me as. At least have some respect for the person that could've killed either of you in an instant, though I wouldn't have the heart to do so to such dear friends as yourselves, but I was able to kill so many before. Like Alexis Blood when she overheard a conversation I was having with one of my 'acquaintances'. She never even saw it coming." Swift began laughing even louder as she nearly screamed, "You should've seen the look on her face, the pain in her voice, it was almost pleasing."

I turned smacking her with my full strength, grabbing her left arm that was nearly done regenerating, as I drew my blade I dropped it down, cutting it off as I was relieved hearing her squeal in pain, but I just kicked her, laying my foot on her head screaming, "Say one more thing like that or without being questioned and you will wish you weren't a Titan-Shifter," I turned towards Nate, who was still laying down, staring at me, "I'll ask the questions, if you don't mind, Squad Leader Nate," Nate simply yawned and began standing up, nodding, "Alright, we want to know who put you up to this? Specifically, who or what are you working for and why are you doing this for?"

She sat silent for a while, thinking quite carefully as she spoke, "Well how do I put this, oh I know. After Nate's father rescued me in Shigashina. He took me back to Dr. Jaegar and, as you could guess, gave me the serum to shift into a Titan like you guys. However, their hiding place was overran by a secret tribe of Titan-Shifters outside the walls, led by someone you know quite well, Oscar Calle." She paused as she stared us down, letting us take in the shocking news of Oscar, but she continued "He took me in as one of his own, telling me of the many things that's wrong with the walls. The atrocities of the nobility and the royal family, even before the appearance of the Titans, but I soon found out Oscar wasn't the leader. He was just in command of following out the plans, such as the breach and fall of Wall Maria. The leaders are part of a council of representatives, consisting of powerful Titans, The Beast Titan and The Ballistic Titan are the strongest of the council, but I don't know their identities, even Oscar doesn't know their true identities. They always remain in their Titan forms or in robes, going by there Titan's names. This is all I know."

I nodded, "Good, that's more information than we needed, but did Oscar put you up to this? And are there any more spies? Please cooperate, don't try to protect any of the scum you called friends."

She simply shook her head, speaking in a protective tone, "Oscar didn't put me up to nothing. In fact, he didn't want me in any part of the operation. He said I was like a little sister to him, but there was nothing he could do to stop me. I had made my choice by then." She laughed, "And you think I would call those delusional monsters my friends? You're so misguided Jade, you and Nate were the only friends I have ever had, even before the breach of Wall Maria. I know of 4 spies, excluding myself, The only one you might want to know is actually in the squad, the other 3 I don't even know if they are dead or not, so giving their names wouldn't help."

I slapped her, yelling, "Get on with it! We don't want an explanation of why you can't give us useless information that is irrelevant! We want to know the spy in the squad!"

She turned back to me laughing, "Why don't you ask him for yourself? Anthony reveal yourself." Me and Nate stood shocked, "The gig is up, we've been figured out. If you come out now they won't do nothing to you. I could hear you the minute you stepped in. Don't do nothing stupid. Tell me you didn't kill the squad."

Anthony swung down from the branch as he laughed., "I didn't. They went down without a fight, especially with a little help from Oscar, but he isn't here no more. They never stood a chance with the master on my side." Anthony shook his head, "He's so disappointed in you Swift. He heard everything you said. He wants me to capture you and take you back to the camp," Anthony sighed, "But I know he will only want you to be killed, so I'm just going to save you and we'll be on our way."

Swift was turning red, as she screamed "You idiot, all you had to do was come get me when you heard my transformation and when you smelt the release of my adrenaline! Not knock off the whole squad. And you were supposed to bring Gino with you."

Anthony began walking towards us, "I needed to and they are injured pretty badly, but none are intensively injured. And I didn't need to bring Gino because all I need is you."

Nate drew his knife, the only weapon he had because his gear had vanished when he was a Titan. He screamed, "If you want to take her, you need to get through us first!'

Anthony laughed, "Let's make a trade then, shall we? You give me Swift and I'll tell you the location of your squad. Or you can keep Swift and I will kill everybody that isn't a Titan-Shifter."

I stepped forward drawing my blades, yelling, "I got a better one, how about you surrender and we don't kill or report you. Deal?"

He laughed, taking his gear off, talking in a cocky manner, "You know I always wanted to kick both of your asses during training, but I could never show my true potential, it was part of my cover, but I guess it's better to show off a bit than never." He began to walk forward, "I've been waiting for this for a long time."

I launched myself, slicing his arm off at contact, "Well the waiting's over!" He suddenly pushed me off the branch, running to Nate as I shot my hooks into the nearest tree, shouting, "Nate! Kill him!"

Nate launched himself at Anthony, pulling out his knife and tackling Anthony off the branch, while he was screaming, "Anthony! Die!" Nate stabbed his knife into Anthony's shoulder as I watched helplessly as they were falling to their deaths. Nate screamed "Anthony, we are going to die together!" There was a sudden flash of lightning blinding me as I shielded my eyes followed by the obvious boom. I looked back down to see Nate on top of a 15 meter Titan, muscles ripped, hair golden-blonde, and eyes pure black. It was Anthony in his horrific Titan form. Surprisingly he looked scary as hell. He grabbed Nate and threw him with vicious force.

I looked towards Nate as he hit a tree at full force, breaking right through it. I screamed "Nate!" As I turned back to Anthony who was laying on the floor, "I'll kill you!" I jumped towards him as he was getting up, slicing randomly at him, screaming, "I'll kill you!" He grabbed me with his hand, crushing my internal organs and bones as I began puking out blood, as he put me near his mouth and roared.

This was it, I was about to die, without ever seeing Oscar ever again. I couldn't die like this, 'If you two don't learn to control this, everything will wither away in your hands. Everything around you, everything you will fight for, everything you have ever cared for, will be nothing more than ash and dust in your hands.' Mr. Orne's voice echoed through my head, which made me realize I could use the power that he gave me and Nate to save ourselves, even if I didn't know how to use it to destroy Anthony. I pulled my arm up as it was broken from Anthony's grasp and it completely tore my arm off at my elbow. I gritted my teeth, holding the pain behind my teeth, viciously biting down on the leftover nub of my arm. Following my self-mutilation a strike of lightning struck me, causing the air around me to turn into flesh as I now stood on top of Anthony with my leg on the center of his chest. I was going to rip him out from his Titan and make him suffer. I was going to be the monster I needed to so I could save Nate, so I could save myself, so I could rid the world of this monster. I know only a monster could destroy monsters and that is what I intended to do.

Swift is apprehended, spilling all the information of the Titan-Shifter tribe outside the walls, but Anthony intervines before Nate can get anymore information from his as Anthony transforms into his Titan, The Idiotic Brute which will be shown in the next chapter, and now Jade must fight him as she transforms into her Titan, The Strategic Titan which will also be shown in the next chapter. Come back to see the victor, and surprise appearances from two Titan-Shifters, the first is a member of the Titan-Shifter's tribe and the other is a praised soldier of humanity.
Thank you for reading.