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Chapter Cover: Narissa dressed in her uniform holding a rifle in her hand as she was looking up at the sky.

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Enemy in our Midst

NO POV

This was a bad situation all around.

That was the thought that was running through Narissa Phel's mind as she was riding her horse following her Captain. The green cloak bearing the symbol of the Garrison Regiment danced in the wind behind the girl as she was frowning lightly at what was happening around her. Ever since the battle in Trost, Narissa had been placed in Trost as a member of the Garrison there and it had been mundane work of simply trying to keep the city in good condition after everything that had happened since the Titan attack a month ago.

But now, just a day ago a soldier had arrived in Trost telling them that they were Titans within Wall Rose area. Narissa had felt nothing but shock at what was happening and her squad had been sent to the front line to combat the Titans that was growing everywhere but, strangely enough, the situation was vastly different than how it was in Trost.

Not only that she went through all that before, it's just…there was something off about it.

Firstly, they barely had any contacts of Titans after the first initial attacks and then there was nothing wrong with the Wall at all. How was it that there was no breach and yet, still have Titans inside the Walls. It was odd and Narissa didn't like that feeling at all.

Hence, why it was a bad situation. Narissa never really liked having something like that going on around her and even so, if the Wall was undamaged then…where did those Titans came from?

"Remain sharp rookie," a voice spoke out drawing her eyes toward him, "Can't have you slacking off right now."

Narissa nodded.

"Sorry sir," she answered.

The light rain from this morning was still falling and Narissa refocussed upon the task they have do to. Their travel led them past a destroyed castle until they reached another part of the Wall. The information they have had given them orders that some members of the Scouts were going to be in the area and maybe they'll have better luck at locating the hole.

"Captain Hannes," the guy spoke, "I see movement on top of the Wall."

Narissa glanced up as well and sure enough, she caught sight of a group of people standing on the edge of the Wall looking down toward them. Captain Hannes turned his head toward them.

"I'll go up there and relay the information that we have," he said, "The three of you keep an eye upon the horses."

"Yes sir."

The man nodded and went off toward the top of the Wall while the rest of the stayed behind. Narissa glanced up at the top of the Wall for a few moments before taking a stance beside her own horse looking out toward the distance. Not like they were much even to see out there while the Captain was sending out words at the people that were on the top of the Wall. Standing there, Narissa found her thought returning to her friend Sarah.

She had joined the Survey Corps for a month now and she had been hearing rumors of a Titan battle that took place in Stohess District between two Titans…it made her wonder if her friend had been involved in all of that mess. She hadn't heard from Sarah in a while but maybe after this crisis is over, she'll send her word and learn how she was doing.

When this mess is dealt with, she thought.

The sound of an ODM being used drew her attention and Captain Hannes landed down upon the ground in front of them.

"We're returning to Trost District," he said, "Need to report back to Pixis about the situation out here."

Narissa nodded at him before climbing upon her horse and riding away form where the other Scouts where. They were nothing more to do out here with the Wall completely intact from their search and even the people from Kovlar had said the same. When they are dismissed, the first thing Narissa is going to do is get some rest from that whole thing that had happened out there. Maybe she'll be able to contact Sarah finally after a month…

A sudden explosion caused them to stop as they all stopped their horses. Captain Hannes had turned his head toward the direction of where the explosion was along with Narissa. Yellow lights could be seen coming from the direction they just came from and Narissa feel her eyes widening in shock at what was happening in the distance.

W…What the hell is that?

"No…it can't be," Captain Hannes said for a few moments, "We're returning right now. We're going to give the Scouts a hand. We need to give them support immediately, and ODM at the ready soldiers, we may be heading into a fight."

"Sir," Narissa answered harming herself, nervousness coursing through her now.

They hurried back as quickly as they could and soon enough they were close to the Wall seeing a wall of steam rising from a section of the top of the Wall, the same area they had been just been in a little while ago when they were meeting the Scout that had been sent out to deal with Titans should the wall had been damaged by a breach.

Following Captain Hannes's lead, Narissa jumped from her own horse and using the ODM gear, she launched herself up the wall quickly enough until she reached the top. Sunlight blinded her for a moment but it was only for that split second as she was in the air that she saw what had caused the large amount of steam.

An enormous Titan has there, connected to the wall by the bones of its cage growing around it large form and many Scouts were standing nearby but none of them were approaching the Titan which was emitting a large amount of steam in the distance. She landed down upon the top of the Wall, in a crouch ready to battle as she was looking at the Titan in front of them.

"The Colossal Titan," Captain Hannes said, "I knew it…but why would it show up here all of a sudden?"

That's the Colossal Titan, Narissa thought looking at the large form in front of her, The one that destroyed Wall Maria…and the one that destroyed the Trost Gate…it was him…

Narissa glanced around herself for a moment, her eyes finding the closest person to them, a familiar blond young girl that she remembers from back at boot camp.

"Krista?" she said shocked.

The girl stared at her, her blue eyes widening.

"Narissa…," she said shocked.

"Hey, where are Eren and the others?" Captain Hannes asked suddenly.

Narissa blinked in surprised.

Eren is here? She thought.

Krista was the one who answered him pointing toward the other side of the Wall.

"Eren and the others are back that way," she said.

Captain Hannes went to check it out but Narissa approached toward where Krista was looking at the Scout member she was taking care of before glancing up toward the large Titan in front of them. It's body was massive and she can find herself understanding why they call it the Colossal Titan. Having never been this close to it before, Narissa can feel a light fear running through her at the sight of it staying right here towering above them.

She then glanced toward Krista.

"How many from our class is here?" she asked, "And where is Sarah? Was she with you?"

"Berthold and Reiner are around but I lost sight of them when the Colossal and Armored Titan appeared," Krista told her, "And Sarah…she was captured by the Colossal, along with Ymir."

Narissa looked down at her.

"Captured…but why?"

Krista didn't say anything but just shook her head.

"Why is no one doing anything then," she asked.

"We can't attack," Krista said, "The steam it's creating is too hot for us to approach it. All we can do is wait it out."

Narissa grit her teeth as she glared up toward the Colossal Titan in the distance. It's flesh was disappearing in some part revealing the massive skeletons that were around it's face and hand, gleaming in the sunlight around that shone from above them. Narissa stared at the Titan, feeling fear knowing that her best friend was caught by that monster in front of her. She can feel her hands shaking as she held her blades.

Damn it Sarah, you better not die like this, she thought staring at the monster in front of her.

A sudden inhuman screech drew her attention toward the direction where Krista had said that Eren and the others were. Narissa quickly made her way in that direction looking down at the direction the sound had come from. Just below them were two Titans locked into what seems to be a wrestling match. One of them had blocky like skin and had blood flying out from the area of the nape while the other was simply locking him down and seemed to be trying to pull his head off.

"What the hell…?" she murmured.

"Has to have a reason for that scream," Connie said looking down as well.

Then a sound drew everyone's attention back toward the Colossal Titan who had simply been immobile for a long moment before starting to lean to the side. Narissa's eyes widened in shock as the large Titan started to till, the bones that were attaching it to the wall snapping like twigs before falling aiming down straight toward the direction where the two Titans were...

"HEADS UP," someone screamed, "EVERYONE ABOVE YOU."

The warning came too late as a massive explosion took place creating a massive wave of winds that Narissa feel pushing her away even standing at the top of the fifty-meter Wall. The wind had pushed her back, large wave of heat, dust and debris flew everywhere at once as she was pushed almost falling down on the ground thought the only reason she hadn't fallen was because of her hooks she had instinctively launched into the ground to keep her still.

When the winds died out, Narissa pushed herself forward looking down toward the ground.

"Oh my god…," she whispered her eyes wide.

A large amount of destruction could be seen bellow along with the decaying bodies of the Colossal and the strange Titan that was fighting the Armored one who was now running away from where they are. Narissa stared at the large Titan's retreating form noticing a small figure upon it's shoulder but in distance she couldn't really see who it was that was upon there but there was the glinting of metal against the sun, probably someone who had an ODM gear…

They were shifters then…probably like Eren is….

"Are they…still alive…?" Connie asked not masking the fear in his tone.

Narissa stared at them.

"You two stay up there," she said, "We'll find some survivors."

Krista and Connie nodded at her and Narissa jumped down from the wall and using her gear she landed upon the side of the wall, eyes searching around for any sign of survivors that she could see.

"Anyone still alive?" she called out, "Answer me."

"Over here," a voice called out.

Narissa followed it finding none other than Armin there along with Sasha. Her eyes went wide at the sight of them and she could see the surprise reflected back at her in Armin's eyes. The girl stared at them for a few moments.

"Narissa…?"

"Armin, Sasha the two of you okay?"

"We're fine," Armin said, "But the others got blasted by the explosion…we didn't even have a chance to take cover at all…"

"Help us look for the others then," Narissa said, "And get them up the wall…this is Titan territory on this side, don't want to stay on this side longer than necessary."

Armin nodded and then Narissa went ahead looking for survivors. It was a slow and methodical work as she found a lot of people lying around unconscious from being blasted this close by that explosion that the Colossal Titan had created. Some by just seeing a look she knew that they were dead from the amount of blood that was on the ground around them and in a half hour, they had taken most of the Scouts that were still alive on top of the Wall so that they could be treated.

"We need to send words to commander Pixis," Captain Hannes said, "Dorval, you will ride with one of the Scout able to ride to give the news immediately. Phel and I are staying here to keep an eye out over the injured…can't leave them like this."

"Sir," the man said before moving on and Sasha went along with him.

Narissa did the best she could for the injured and with Krista's help they had managed to give them some first aid help but nothing that can help given the situation of what had happened to them, it was the best that they could give unless they were taken to Trost for their injuries however, with so little people still conscious that wasn't an option at all.

The girl stared out toward the horizon where the Armored Titan had disappeared to and couldn't help but feel anger rising through her. Sarah was out there taken by these people and there was literally nothing that I could do about it. The horses are on the other side of the Wall and because of how many people are injured, we simply can't leave.

Not until the word we sent to Trost reach Commander Pixis, she thought.

Narissa walked toward the direction where Krista was. The girl looked up at her seeing her approach.

"You're holding up alright?" she asked.

Krista gave a light nod, "I'm fine."

Narissa glanced around.

"Why are you in your civilian uniforms?" she asked, "I saw Armin and Sasha earlier and even Mikasa was fully armed…why not you and Connie?"

"We were on standby somewhere while the Commander was summoned in the capital with the rest of the Scouts," Krista told her, "But then, the Titans appeared out of nowhere so we had no choice but to set out like this."

Narissa blinked lightly.

"So, you guys are the one that raised the alarm about this incident," she said.

Krista nodded.

"Get something to eat alright," Narissa said, "Maybe we'll have some chance to actually do something when help arrives and get our friends back. I know how much Ymir means to you anyway…"

Krista didn't say anything at all but Narissa wasn't waiting for an answer for she walked off her green cloak dancing lightly in the wind that was blowing around her. She made her way directly for Captain Hannes who was standing by Armin and the unconscious Mikasa. When the man stepped away from them, he caught sight of her approaching him.

"What's the verdict Phel?" he asked.

Narissa glanced back at the group.

"Their injuries are severe and require more than first aid," she said, "However, there are nothing life threatening…they are lucky that we were even around or most of them would have been Titan food by now."

Captain Hannes let out a grunt.

"Yeah."

"What do we do now sir?" she asked, "We can't mount a rescue operation for the ones that were taken nor we can leave the injured behind…"

"For now, we hold our position here," Hannes told her, "Not much we can do without backup. The Garrison don't have much experience outside the Walls not like the Scouts so we can't even mount an operation if we wanted to…and we have no lift to raise the horse to the other side of the Walls…not like we expected anything like this to happen."

Narissa nodded lightly and saluted.

"Sir,"

Hannes then walked off. Narissa glanced down at Mikasa noticing the unconscious girl was lying upon her scarf and had some bruises upon her skin, dark hair spread around like an halo. Her skin was oddly pale for someone who had spent her time under the sun and there was a certain allure about her.

No wonder Sarah's eyes were drawn to her…

"She okay?" she asked, addressing Armin.

The blonde nodded.

"She'll be fine," he said.

Narissa let out a sigh and took a seat beside him.

"Mm," she said simply, "So…why don't you fill me on the blanks on what's really going Armin?"

The blond guy glanced at her surprised.

"Sarah was taken along with Ymir and Eren," Narissa told him, her eyes piercing straight through him, "However, you didn't seem all that surprised about it. Since there is nothing we can do about it now other than wait…that's plenty of time to talk don't you think?"

Armin looked at her for a moment before glancing back away from her. At first, Narissa thought that he was going to stay silent but then, he started talking to her revealing what he knew and listening, Narissa was completely floored. Annie was revealed to be a Titan along with Berthold and Reiner all of them had power and it was Berthold who was the Colossal and Reiner the Armored one, the two Titans that caused the disaster of Wall Maria five years ago. Even more, they had only recently discovered Ymir was also able to transform into a Titan along with Sarah who was the mysterious Gray Titan that many people reported to have been sighted during the Trost incident.

"…We know that Annie, Berthold and Reiner for whatever reason seems to be against us," Armin was saying to her, "However, Sarah's position is a bit strange. While she fought with us during the Trost incident and she fought against Annie during our Expedition, we don't know what her true intentions are. She may have come from outside the Walls like them all…"

Narissa blinked in confusion.

"But she has family in the walls," she said.

Armin suddenly glanced at her shocked.

"What?"

"Yeah," Narissa said, "She told me back during our training in Trost. She ran into a woman back then…she never told me her name at all but she said that it was her father's sister or something."

Armin was staring at her, completely taken aback by what she was revealing to him.

"Did Sarah ever told you about what happened to her after Wall Maria fell?" he asked.

Narissa stayed silent for moment thinking back to that conversation.

"Well…she said that she was taken in by her mother's sister and her husband," she said, "And that she was raised by them…never told me much about them after that, so I think they're still alive I think… no wait…her aunt died before she joined up and also that Gray is her mother's maiden name…probably not the name that she was born with she said."

Narissa glanced at him.

"I don't know much of what's her family history is like but what I do know Sarah hates her father for abandoning her and her mother…," she said.

Armin stayed silent thinking to himself. Narissa glanced forward, her gaze fixed upon the lands in the distance from where they were.

"My friend is out there," she said, "And after we save her…we are going to have a long talk Sarah and I."


SARAH POV

"It's a promise,"

"Live a life that you'll be proud of Krista,"

"YMIR,"

"Why don't you go outside and practice your flute…,"

"I'm sorry Sarah…,"

"Give me back my wife you monster,"

My eyes snapped open.

Bright sunlight was shining down upon me from where I was and I can feel the warm wind blowing against my skin. I was lying on something but I didn't understand where I was at all and the last memory I had before I went unconscious was of Connie and…Mikasa?

"Bad dreams," a familiar voice called out.

I instantly looked up toward where it was coming from.

Reiner and Berthold were both standing on a branch higher than were I was both of them wearing ODM gears. Reiner had both of his arms crossed across his chest as he was staring down toward me with an impassive look upon his face and Berthold was also staring down at me with curiosity in his dark eyes. I glanced to my left taking notice of Eren lying there unconscious to the world. He was dressed in his military uniform…thought he didn't have no arm at all just steam rising from where his elbows were.

Ymir was there as well and she also had steam rising from her arm and leg. I stared at her completely taken aback at what I was seeing.

What the hell…

I turned my gaze toward Reiner and Berthold, feeling nothing but confusion at the situation I had just found myself in.

Just what is going on here?


Sarah wakes up...and is with Reiner and Berthold...

Next Time: Revelation of Sins

Jacques0 out.

R&R