Link's Point of View

Can't sleep.

After three long hours of lying on the couch in silence, unable to get any shuteye, I decide to go out and buy some coffee. Yeah, coffee probably doesn't help in this situation, but that's the only thing I want right now.

So I find one of the many room keys and sneak outside, immediately greeted by the cold air and the silence of the night. Stores are open 24/7 in Hyrule, so there's gotta be at least one coffee shop open at 1 AM in this place.

A few minutes after desperately searching I stumble upon an outdoor cafe, serving drinks to quite a few people. I'm not in "the marketplace," so this comes at a surprise. There's about ten circular, wooden tables in a tightly-packed area, all but one taken up.

I walk up to the person who look's like they're serving the drinks, and ask, "Do you guys have, um… any coffee?"

It's a short girl with short, blonde hair, and a menacing expression.

"Jim, get me one Rüdesheimer Kaffee for this kid, will you? Okay, that'll be 3 coins, sir."

Forgot about paying. I usually pay in rupees. Pretty sure they don't accept that here.

...actually, I have an idea.

"Miss, I don't have any gold coins, but I have a few ultra-valuable gems called 'rupees'."

She perks her head up from whatever she's writing and looks at me with interest.

"I'm listening."

I reach in my right pocket, shuffle around a little, and find two spare green rupees I had before I left Termina. She gazes at them like I'm holding a thousand gold coins, and I realize I'll be able to go pretty far with this.

"Each of these rupees are worth 500 gold coins, but I'm willing to make a deal - if I give you both of these, I want free drinks forever. Got it?"

"Deal!" she happily shouts back at me, with everybody else turning their heads towards us.

"Here's your alcohol-coffee, sir! Have a lovely evening!" she says as she hands me my coffee.

Alcohol coffee? What the hell is that?

I just asked for coffee.

What'd they call it earlier? "Rudeshimer Caffee?" I don't know. Probably doesn't matter.

Just as I'm about to sip it while I walk to an open table someone slaps the coffee out of my hand, breaking the cup and spilling it all over the ground. Confused, I turn to the side to see Sasha, along with Armin a little ways behind her.

What's their problem?

. . .

"Sasha, I just wanted some coffee, and that's all I asked for. I assumed the 'alcohol' part didn't mean anything. Why is alcohol so bad?"

"It's a depressant," Armin explains. "It makes you think slower, makes your vision blurrier, and impairs your reasoning. Basically, it's not good stuff."

"Why would they put it in coffee?" I ask.

"I don't know, they put it in everything. Just please, don't drink it. You will regret it for weeks after, especially if you consume too much. I…I learned the hard way," Sasha explains.

"Does a story come along with this statement?" Armin hopefully asks Sasha. Sasha just kinda looks at Armin for a second, sighs, and says, "All that happened was I thought I had found cola, and it was actually beer, and I got drunk, and woke up in the forest with a bad headache and noise sensitivity. That's it."

Armin chuckles a little, followed by me laughing, as well. "It's not funny, you two," she says.

After a few more minutes of chatting about alcohol, I eventually say, "I think I know how we can solve our Scout HQ or Mitras dilemma."

"I have the ability to travel somewhere extremely fast, given the right environment, using one of my masks. Remember how I beat Annie in Zingi, and I looked totally different? Kind of like that, except it transforms me into a big, brown, muscular humanoid. I can go there, check and see if anybody or anything useful's there, come back and it's a done deal."

"Interesting," Armin comments. "The masks, I mean. How you can just transform into different beings… Heh, this world just keeps getting crazier and crazier."

"What do you mean?" I curiously ask.

"Uh… Well, I don't know if you know this, but we found out not too long ago about the whole humans-transforming-into-titans thing, and then once we got past that, Annie showed up out of nowhere to mix things up, and she nearly killed Eren at one point. She could harden her skin and killed a lot of people, including everybody on Eren's squad except for Eren and Levi. Once we thought we had beat her, she… she came back with new powers, and then you showed up out of nowhere to even things out, with those masks and all… Ah, I don't know. Sorry, rambling."

"Heh, it's fine."

"He's glad to have you on our team, Link, I guess that's what he's trying to say," Sasha elaborates. "Or at least I'm glad." Armin quickly nods in agreement.

After that last sentence, I can't help but smile, and that continues for the rest of the night.

. . .

"Why are we gathered here?" Mikasa asks, sitting on the other side of the same couch I slept on.

"Sasha and Armin have figured out what we're doing next."

It's the next morning, and after talking with Sasha and Armin a little longer we decided to help that girl Lyssa who arrived last night, even if it means fighting off Fraternity Rose. Also, I'm gonna go to the Scout HQ and see how things are going. Don't know when.

"Alright, guys! I have an announcement for this group we have going on here," she starts, grabbing everyone's attention.

"You all know Lyssa, who came in last night? Yeah, we're gonna be helping her escape from the bad guys. Y'know, those people in blue uniforms with the FR symbol."

"Sasha, we know who Fraternity Rose is, just tell us the rest," Ymir speaks up.

Ignoring Ymir's remark, she continues. "And Link here is going to travel to the Scout HQ and get back in here all in just a few hours. Then, you know what? We'll go straight into Mitras, go north into District Orvud, go further north until we reach Utopia, rescue everybody there, beat Annie, and everybody's happy. Yay? Yay."

She made that sound wayyy easier than it actually is.

"Link, what did she mean you'll go to HQ and back here in a few hours? You're going alone?" Mikasa asks, clearly bewildered by Sasha's joyful-toned 'announcement'.

"Yes, I'm doing that, and yes, I'm going alone. Annie isn't the only one with powers," I tell her.

Surprised, she replies, "...what kind of powers?"

"Things… and, well, y'know… stuff," I awkwardly reply.

. . .

Sitting at the dinner table, Sasha, Armin, Mikasa, and I are chatting with the new girl, Lyssa. The one hiding from those '"bad guys".

"Those damn titan lovers…. they've been hunting me for God knows how long… I've been on the run for quite a while," says Lyssa, who I'm pretty sure is only here temporarily. Or is she? I forgot.

"Why are they hunting you?" questions Sasha.

"I hate them and everything that they stand for, and I've definitely shown it, and they don't like that. Trying to keep their image 'clean'."

"Have you heard of Z-Guild?" Mikasa inquires randomly. Lyssa flinches, like Mikasa just told the most dark secret she's ever kept.

"How do you know that name?" she asks.

"I was dealing with Fraternity Rose and ran into a guy named Walden Abert. Said I could stop by at their place in Zingi. But that isn't really an option anymore, is it?"

"Walden… holy crap, you met him? I've only heard random things about him from his son, who's also my friend, Lukas Abert. And, yeah, I know what Z-Guild is. I'm kinda in it, but kinda not."

"Kinda in it, but kinda not?" I sarcastically ask.

"I know all of the schemes they're gonna carry out, help out a lot, know a prominent member personally, blah blah blah, only reason I'm kinda not a member is because I've never been officially introduced. Are you guys done with the questions? Not to be rude, but I'm really tired."

Mikasa pauses for a moment, like she's lost in thought, and then looks up at the girl and says, "Yeah. We're done."

"You guys realize this pretty much means war if they find out we're helping her, right?" Armin asks in a half-scared, half-worried tone. "We had a helluva hard time getting Connie back, and the only thing he did wrong was overhear something. And this girl is in trouble with FR big time."

"Even though our main focus is saving Eren and the others, if these guys want a war, we'll give them one," Sasha claims.

Sigh.

I then ask, "I'm guessing we're going to wait and see what happens before I head on to the HQ place I'm supposed to go?"

"It'd probably be much easier if you stayed here, Link," says Mikasa. "Either that, or we all leave this place at once."

"Let's ready ourselves," suggests Armin. "We don't know much about these people except for that they're dangerous and they mean business. Sasha, remember when they said they had to have the answer by today?"

"Yes," replies Sasha. "And I don't plan on giving them an answer."

"Good idea. Alright, while we're in Yarckel, I need certain people to carry out certain tasks - Link and Mikasa, you guys try to figure out whether or not they deem us a large threat and basically gather intel without getting caught; Alex and I will stay here and plan our getaway and such; Sasha, Ymir, and Jean will stay here and guard the hotel; Lyssa, as far as I'm concerned, just needs to stay hidden. Fraternity Rose doesn't know she's staying here yet; it needs to stay that way. We can avoid a huge fight if we play this out correctly, but if one thing goes wrong, everything can go wrong."

"Are you saying I'm supposed to infiltrate whatever hideout they got here, figure out if they're targeting us, and make it back without being spotted at all?" I ask.

Armin looks over to me.

"Pretty much, yeah."

"That sounds… like a lot of fun." This response takes everyone by surprise, especially Mikasa, who is the one coming along with me.

"We must leave, at once! Come, Mikasa, it is time for a grand adventure!" I happily say, hopping up from my seat, and rushing to grab some supplies.

Infiltrating bases and hideouts has always been my favorite thing to do, and now that I'm doing it again, I find myself in the best mood I've been in since I arrived here.

"Link, you do realize that we know absolutely nothing about the whereabouts of these people, whether or not they'll kill you if caught, if they even have a base here, and a whole lot of other stuff?" Armin questions as I wrap my bow around my torso and place my last remaining arrows in my quiver.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. Worry not, my friend, as my level of expertise in this sort of operation is unmatched!"

"Mikasa," Armin says as Mikasa enters the room, "Watch after him. He seems… over-confident."

"'Over-confident?' Blasphemy! If anything, I am under-confident! These fiends will never know what hit them!"

. . .

"Why, exactly, are you so excited?" Mikasa, half-confused, asks me as we traverse Yarckel.

"I have no idea. I just love doing sneaky things like this. That, combined with the amount of coffee I drank this morning."

"Is that also why you were talking like one of those ancient kingdom people Armin's talked about?"

"Probably. Question: why do people put alcohol in coffee?" I question, changing the subject.

"Where is this coming from?"

"I almost drank some yesterday, and I want to know why it's a thing. Why does alcohol even exist at all?"

"For the effect. It makes you feel like everything's going to be okay, and some people use alcohol to solve their problems. Others, well… I don't know. I've never had it."

"Why put it in coffee?"

"Link, I don't know. Can we focus on the task at hand?"

The more I learn about this universe, the more I get confused. You got giant, naked humanoid monsters that eat people, people that transform into said naked humanoids, a poison-like substance that people drink because they can, and then there's a shadow version of myself that resides here for some reason.

Or did he follow me here?

Don't know.

Anyways, Mikasa and I, after a few minutes, come across one of those Fraternity Rose goons in the marketplace, and he's not with any of the other FR goons. Without telling me anything, Mikasa steps ahead of me, towards the FR person, and whispers in his ear, threatening him, by the looks of it. The guy reluctantly raises his hands in the air, and Mikasa searches him, and also pulls some pieces of paper out of his pocket.

She walks back to me, smiling, saying, "If they're unarmed, that basically means you've already won."

"Why didn't you say anything before you did… whatever that was?"

"Well, I'm already a target, and if they see you doing something like that with me you'll be a target as well."

She unfolds the three notes she stole from the person, and my oh my, one of them is basically all we need to find out where these guys are. A map of District Yarckel, complete with all of the secret routes to the "local FR base," as it says. The other two we found are orders for FR's members, one of them reading something along the lines of finding Lyssa and killing her, and the other being finding some kind of chemical.

"Think we should bring this back to Armin?" Mikasa asks me, amazed by the gold mine we've just struck.

"Well, his orders were to figure out whether or not they're targeting us, and, by the looks of it, all they care about is Lyssa and a type of chemical for their lab in 'MH'. Wait… does this mean we're not going into their base?"

"Well, Link, now that we know they have one here, we might as well, because they now know we're here and will deem us a major threat if they find out we're helping that Z-Guild girl. I don't see why they wouldn't come after us, considering all of the trouble Sasha and I have caused for them."

"...so, that's a yes?"

"Yes, Link, that's a yes. Back to the original question: should we bring these papers back to Armin?"

"You're not going anywhere with those papers," a threatening voice says from behind. Mikasa and I jerk around to see another one of those damned titan lovers, as Lyssa called them. He's wearing a different uniform, along with some hookshot gear, and two fully-loaded handguns pointed at Mikasa and I.

"I'm going to tell you this bluntly: hand me the papers and I shan't kill you slower than I normally would."

This guy reminds me of Levi, that narrow-eyed fellow, except taller and scarier…

The situation we're in starts grabbing the attention of the people in the marketplace, and before long everybody in sight has their heads turned this way. Still in shock, Mikasa slowly backs away, and I, on the other hand, am just staring him down with the most menacing expression I can make. It's probably not working, but it's worth a try.

"Mikasa," I say. "Move a little to the left."

"Shut up!" The FR person yells at me.

Mikasa complies, not knowing what I'm doing, but trusting me anyways.

I reach into my left pocket as the guy stares down the slowly-moving Mikasa, ready to shoot at any second, when I pull out my hookshot and shoot it directly behind me, and it latches onto a building, sending me flying in that direction, along with Mikasa after I grab her arm. We tumble into a different block, crashing down into the many food stands of the Yarckel Marketplace, and when we stumble to our feet I begin sprinting, telling Mikasa, "Come on!"

We haven't even gotten to their base yet and we've already been caught.

That's gotta be a record or something.

After running down multiple blocks amidst the fast-moving crowd, I hand my golden hookshot to Mikasa, and tell her to grab my wrist and shoot it at the top of a building. She does so, and after landing on top of a one story building, we're finally able to rest.

"Did he… did he see us?" I ask, panting.

"I don't think so. That was quite the thing you did there," she replies.

"What?"

"Nevermind. Let's just get out of here."

. . .

"We have good news, and we have bad news," I tell the group at the hotel. They're all sitting down, anxiously waiting for what we've found.

"Good news first!" Alex shouts.

"Good news is," Mikasa explains, "uh… well, targeting us isn't their main objective, and we also found where their base is in Yarckel."

"Bad news is that they're probably targeting us now because one of them nearly killed us earlier."

"WHAT?!" Lyssa exclaims. "You mean to say they're probably coming to kill us all at this very moment?"

"Chill! No! I don't know! It was only me and Mikasa, and they don't know me and probably don't know Mikasa's in Sasha's group," I say, trying to calm the girl down.

"Ohhh my God, I'm screwed, I'm screwed, I'm so screwed…" Lyssa solemnly says as she plops down on the couch.

"You're not screwed, girl, you're fine. They don't know you're here and as long as it stays that way, there's no problem. So I'd advise you calm the hell down and help us try to make sense of everything we've found or else we'll all be screwed," Mikasa firmly tells her.

"Sorry, I just - doing this is getting really old, and it's really frustrating."

"Yeah, well, life's frustrating. Moping about it gets you nowhere."

After everybody gathers around the dinner table, or should I say the planning table, Mikasa gives her the three papers and she opens them up and skims over them.

She sighs, saying, "Nothing I don't already know."

"What the hell? Are you meaning to tell me we nearly got ourselves killed for nothing?" Mikasa angrily questions.

"Can you stop yelling at me? Geez, if you wanted information, you should've asked!"

"Alright. Tell us everything you know about them. Everything."

"Okay, um… Fraternity Rose is an organization that almost religiously believes titans are actually humans, including the ones that aren't 'titan shifters,' and doesn't want anybody to do anything to them. They killed the Survey Core/Recon Core, whatever it's called's titans they had for experimentation, or at least they got someone to do it. I really don't know that much about them except that they're basically the bad guys."

"Annie…" Armin whispers to himself.

"Hm?" Lyssa asks him.

"Oh, uh… a girl named Annie was the one who killed those two titans. Does this mean these FR people have a titan shifter on their side?"

"What about the Colossal and Armored?" Mikasa interrupts. "Are they with these guys too?"

"You talking about the big red one, and his friend? No idea," Lyssa replies. "But I'm guessing the Annie girl you're talking about is on their side."

"Reiner and Bertholdt," that girl Ymir, who hasn't spoken a word, says out of the blue.

"What?" Mikasa asks.

"Ber… Bertholdt and Reiner are the Colossal and Armored Titans, respectively."

"WHAT?!" Mikasa yells, along with everybody else reacting in a similar fashion. I don't really know who they're talking about, but I'm guessing they're gonna become a problem.

Armin, who didn't freak out when told who the Colossal and Armored Titans were, says, "If you think about it, it makes sense."

He continues after everybody calms down. "When Mikasa first said they were with Annie, that was the first thing that came to mind - but like with the Female Titan, when we were still trying to figure out who that was, I held it in and hoped it wasn't true, but I guess it doesn't matter because they'll kill us either way."

He sighs, and says, "They're probably waiting in Utopia at this very moment."

Mikasa, still stunned, asks Ymir, "How do you know this and why the hell haven't you told anyone?"

"Chill, Mikasa, I was thinking of the right time to tell it. I've been here for like, a day. Anyways, I overheard Reiner in MH talking about using 'his titan's armor' to destroy Wall Rose, and also Bertholdt destroying Utopia's wall once 'the problem district has no more problems'."

"Is there anything else you'd like to tell us?" Mikasa rebukes.

"Nah."

. . .

"What is it with you and coffee? I mean, it's like you've never had it before this week," Alex confusingly questions me.

"I haven't."

"Ah. But why are you drinking so much right now? It's almost midnight!"

"Operation Arrowheart, baby! Did you forget?"

"Of course I didn't forget. Thought you were going tomorrow."

"Nah. Better at night time, according to Mikasa."

Speaking of Mikasa, where is Mikasa?

"Hey, where's Mikasa?" I ask Alex.

"Right here," she replies, walking past me. I catch a glimpse of her hand, which I'm pretty sure was wrapped with some white material earlier. It looks extremely bruised and either sprained or broken, but she's not holding it in pain or anything. She sits in the rocking chair across from Alex and I and places a bowl of soup down on the table, and begins eating it.

"What happened to your hand?" I ask.

"Female Titan," she hastily replies. "What happened to your forehead?"

Huh? My forehead?

Oh, wait.

I have a small scar on my forehead from when I fought Ganon that one time when I was an adult.

"People used to pick fights with me."

And they ended up either being disintegrated out of thin air or being exiled to the Sacred Realm.

After a few minutes, done with her soup, Mikasa asks, "Ready to go?"

"Always."

So we inform our group we're leaving, pack our bags with weapons and equipment, including hookshot gear Mikasa "found," and we're off, heading straight towards Fraternity Rose's local Yarckel base. In the dead of night, even the marketplace is silent, with the exception of that one bar. We follow the path Armin has drawn out for us, constantly checking on our position to make sure we're going in the right direction. After around thirty minutes of travelling, we're greeted by a regular-sized wooden house, with no sign of any FR shenanigans.

"Is this the place?" I ask quietly.

"According to the map, yeah."

"We gonna go in?"

"Well… yes, of course."

"Ok. Go hide behind something, okay? I'm gonna try something. Here, hold my stuff," I tell Mikasa, handing her my gilded sword and other items. She complies, and jogs over to a small hut in the distance and peeks her head out at what I'm doing.

I knock on the worn-out wooden door, followed by a few people shuffling around inside.

"Who the hell is that?" I hear someone whisper. After a few seconds, someone cracks the door open, staring me down like I'm thief.

"Who are you?" A feminine voice asks.

"May I speak with, uh, 'Jessica Arrowheart?'"

Silence for a few seconds.

"This is her. What do you want?"

"I'm with Sasha, and we're willing to work something out. Come out here so we can talk about it."

"You being legit?"

"Yeah."

"Alright, hold on."

She slams the door and walks back inside.

After waiting a few seconds I shout, "Mikasa! I need my bow back!"

No response.

"Mikasa!"

Where the hell did she go?

I dart over towards she was hiding just a few minutes ago to see nobody there. Assuming she switched positions or is doing something else, I dash back to the FR house and patiently wait for a response.

Five minutes later, I'm still standing there, in the dark of the night, with only a small torch some ways back and the full moon shining from above acting as light.

"Mikasa? Where the hell did you go?" I ask once again, getting no response.

Crap. Something's gone wrong.

"Hello? Anybody there?" I ask, half-scared, as I rapidly knock on the door. Nobody answers, and after a few more seconds of considering my options, I strike the door with my fist where the lock is, causing it to slam open. That Arrowheart girl is standing there with a bow, aiming it at me. She abruptly releases the string, and the arrow goes halfway through my leg; I fall over to the ground as the girl walks towards me, her saying, "This is what you get, you asshole!" Before bashing some kind of brick against my head.

Mikasa's Point of View

I nervously clutch my scarf, peering at Link from a great distance in the dead of night. I don't know what he has planned, but at least I know I can run over there and save him if anything goes wrong.

He seems confident, though. Ever since I've met him he's seemed confident about pretty much everything. Like when we were both fighting Annie in Ehrmich, and no matter how many times I told him not to fight he just kept going, and he ended up doing better than me.

Still, can't let him get too carried away.

Right now, he's talking to someone, someone that I can barely see. A female, it sounds like. I convince myself he's fine, and begin to observe all of his stuff he gave me.

A patterned yellow and white sword, a big one at that. A regular bow, with quite a few arrows, the arrows varying in size, along with the quiver. I almost pick up his yellow and white sword before a hand reaches over my mouth, with the words "Do not move or I will murder you and your friend."

You've gotta be freaking kidding me

I can't get a break

I put my hands in the air and stand up as someone else quietly collects all of Link's items and stuffs it into a backpack. "I knew these brats were coming," one of them says. He clutches my arm and turns me around & ties my hands behind my back while someone else points a pistol at my head. Instead of protesting, I decide to stay calm and let them bring me in so I can possibly tell them we're legitimately trying to make a deal.

. . .

The wooden house, of course, has more than meets the eye.

Underneath it, there's a full-blown dungeon, like Sasha described there was in Zingi, along with infinite hallways and staircases.

All for the purpose of preventing us from killing titans.

So the men lead me down many, many halls until I'm thrown into one of those dungeons, a small one at that. There's an old, worn-out bed, steel walls blocking my escape from all sides except for the barred door, and chains hanging from the ceiling, probably for the purpose of hanging people.

The men leave without saying a word, like I was just a small problem that was easy to take care of. They slam the door at the end of the hall behind them, followed by absolute blackness with the exception of a small torch in my room, and also absolute silence. I nervously take a seat on the bed, my heart racing, waiting for something to happen…

and then something happens.

"Knock knock, knock knock" on the wall of the cell across from me. The sound echoes throughout the wall, able to be heard throughout the dungeon.

"Knock, knock knock, knock," I hear a second or two later.

Is this person trying to communicate with me?

"Knock knock knock"

"Knock knock knock"

"Knock knock," the sounds continues.

Then, it hits me: morse code.

Something that we were taught in training in case of emergencies.

I barely remember any of it, though.

"I don't know that much morse code, sorry," I say to the mystery person out my cell door. I peek my head out and see a barely visible shadow lurking around in the other cell, before it kicks the wall in frustration. "Can't you just talk regularly?"

"Knock, knock"

"Knock, knock, knock," he knocks trying to respond.

Long, short, pause, long, long, long.

"No"?

SOS is three shorts, three longs, then three shorts, so "O" is three long knocks…

Pretty sure he just said no.

After thinking about this way too hard, the door at the end of the hall opens, and I stumble to my feet and jump onto my bed, acting like I'm asleep. I hear the sound of pacing footsteps, rapidly approaching my cell, when they stop. I turn my head to see a person standing in front of my cell, but their back is facing my cell…

"Alright, Lukas, you know the drill," he says, as the person in the cell shuffles around a bit until the FR person enters the cell. I rise from my bed and observe what they're doing in the cell across from me to see what looks like some sort of interrogation taking place.

"I don't have the key that unlocks your mask, so we're gonna have to do this a different way.

"Nod your head for yes, shake it for no.

"First off, that girl in the cell across from you, do you know her?"

He nods. Huh?

"Second off, are you ever going to tell me the whereabouts of a 'Lyssa Oechsle'?"

He shakes his head.

The man sighs, and then says, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought, so I'm going to go tell the people that I tortured you and you wouldn't say anything, so, yeah. You owe me one, kay?"

"Alright, Mikasa Ackerman, it's your turn.

"Mind telling me just what the hell you're doing here?" he asks, entering my cell. I place my hands behind my back and try to take a nervous and timid appearance in the hopes of the man letting his guard down so I can possibly escape this damn dungeon.

Eren's Point of View

I'm sitting on a bench, gazing into the crowd of people walking past me, next to Krista, who's asleep, and is leaning against my shoulder.

"I'm taking this into my own hands," Levi had told me before he walked away with nothing but a small knife. It's just me and her, trapped in this district under the threat of our lives and our friends' lives.

Levi had also claimed he would kill Annie, along with everybody else involved. I told him he could do whatever he wanted, under one condition.

"Don't kill Annie. Leave her to me."

I don't know how, but I'm going to make it out of this place, and kill her just like she killed my fellow comrades.

I hate her. A lot.

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Review Response for Chapter 12: Welcome to District Yarckel

Gussy Phantom: Sasha's group met up with Mikasa's group! Yay! This is going to be awesome! Annie is in for a tough fight if she attacks. So Levi is with Eren and Krista. This should be good, especially if there's a rescue mission and Link meets Levi again! :D I'm also really excited to hear that you'll be writing a SAO fanfiction! I will DEFINITELY be reading that! Can't wait to see what happens next!

Yep, a large team is beginning to form, which is the exact opposite of what Annie wants. And yes, I can confirm Levi is with Eren and Krista in Utopia. Thanks for the review!

Guest: So Mikasa is taking quite an interest in Link and seemingly cares about what he is doing. Not sure where you are going with this, but I hope that those two get along and bond.

My guess is that when Link tells them about his past, Mikasa will see that she and him are alike in many ways, mainly that they began to fight at such young ages, they lost both of their parents, and that they had to become strong to protect those that are precious to them. I hope that those makes those connect on a deeper level (being kindred spirits and all) and become partners perhaps.

Also, I've been wondering, when in a previous chapter Link was fighting normal titans, he said fighting them was easy. Is Link better at fighting them than say Levi or Mikasa? Also can't wait to see Link meeting Eren and how that goes.

P.S. You got this chapter out sooner than maybe anyone thought, you getting faster at making chapters now or what?

I've noted your request, and I can tell you that you won't be disappointed as to how their relationship is developed.

I'd say Link is about on par with Levi and Mikasa. He's used a hookshot for a long time, and is naturally a quick learner, so it comes as no surprise titans wouldn't be a problem for him.

I guess I got lucky with this one. Sometimes I just go on a writing spree and get a lot of work done in a short amount of time.

Guest: Can't wait for the new members of there group to see Link in action, and find out what shadow link is doing here. BTW will Link be using the giant mask eventually?

Let's just say his group seeing him in action isn't too far off, as the dangers ahead will definitely require his help. Also, yes.

Radenshire: So far, this story has been great; I've been reading since about chapter 4, but these last few chapters have been the best few so far. So I'm going to write about each of them.

Odyssey surprised me when I first read it; of course, it was a good surprise. The title definitely fit the chapter, and many bad things happened to Mikasa, but the way you wrote how she handled it was great. I know Reiner and Bertholdt were villains in the manga, and I was wondering if it would be the same here, and now that's confirmed. My only complaint is that it was sometimes a little too fast-paced; other than that, I loved this chapter.

The next one, Saviour of the City, which did take a while, was also good. We got the Fierce Deity vs. Female Titan battle we were hoping for, along with Link meeting up with Sasha and Armin, along with that other dude (Alec? Alex? I forget.) The first part of the chapter was interesting as well - the OC you made up came up with a strange plan to rescue Connie back from the original villain group you made up, the FR people. I like how many new characters and other things such as Z-Guild mentioned in the chapter before and FR are being introduced alongside the regular plot. Adds to it. Also, the ending to Sasha's POV didn't really make sense, even after reading it a multitude of times. Care to elaborate?

Now we have Welcome to District Yarckel, where the two groups met up and decided to team up. Another review I read on this story made me notice how much interest Mikasa has in Link - not *that* type of interest, but just genuine curiosity. I'm gonna ask the same question the other review did: Where are you going with this interest? Are they gonna become friends, is Link gonna shut her out? I know you don't like answering too many questions about the future chapters, but if you can answer it, please do. Alright, back to the review - the part where Link got stabbed by Shadow Link I thought was executed strangely and confused me for a second - I'm guessing its purpose was to show how Mikasa was concerned for Link, and also that he has these magical things including healing potions. But I still think you could've done better. And please, PLEASE give us more info about what's going on in District Utopia. You're barely giving us anything - a chapter ago we didn't know anything about it except Eren was placed there, and possibly Krista, now Levi's there and Hanji's about to get killed there. Please don't kill Hanji. I don't want this story to be like Game of Thrones.

Well, that concludes my extremely long review. To be short: good story, with minor complaints.

Thanks for the review!

First off, I meant for Odyssey to be fast-paced, and if it had been any slower it would have beena long chapter. It's already the longest.

The end of Sasha's POV in Saviour of the City was supposed to be weird; Annie was using her powers to do that stuff. Of course, I won't reveal exactly what Annie was doing, but she was basically trying to make her an easy kill, as her goal was to kill Mikasa's friends in Zingi.

For the Mikasa & Link question, I can tell you that will be developed in the coming chapters, along with the rest of the story. Want a hint? The two main characters I've listed for this story are Link and Mikasa.

Sorry about the Shadow Link and Utopia thing. I may or may not give you a lot more about what's happening up north in Utopia, but for now, I'm focusing on the main group. Also, characters will be killed off in this story, and I know which ones will die. It won't be likes Game of Thrones but it will be on par with Attack on Titan.

Guest: Ooh awesome story

Cant wait for the next update

Thanks for the praise, glad to see you're excited.