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Chapter Cover: Mikasa dressed in her Scout outfit with her pairing blades in hand, red scarf flying behind her...

Chapter Thirty Four

Memories of Yesterday

Eren woke up yet again, by someone kicking his shoulder. The young man groaned in pain at what had happened to him before he realized that he was tied up completely, his hands joined together and as he glanced around himself he found Reiner standing in front of him, the young man staring down toward him his face impassive.

"On your feet, Eren," he said, taking hold of the young man and pulling him up upon his feet.

Annie was awake as well, placing her clothes upon her form as her blond hair was still lose from what he could see. Glancing around himself, he took notice of two other people standing by the entrance of the cave they were in. Reiner pushed him forward and then the two turned to face him. One of them was a man, with brown hair falling upon his shoulder as he was wearing glasses but for some reason, the man looked remarkably like his father, so much that it caused his eyes to widen lightly at the sight of him.

However, it was the girl standing beside him that caused him to be completely taken aback. Sarah's hair was now completely white leaning toward silver something that was similar to how her Titan form was. The girl's dark eyes stared toward him for a few seconds, and he could see there was a light recognition within their depths but the girl made no move to help him at all.

"Sarah…," he said, "You…you were…you're one of them?"

The girl, stared at him for a few moments.

"I am not one of them," she said, "Beside my name was never Sarah to begin with. Because I shifted with someone from the Walls, my memory was a little hazy about my true origin."

Eren stared at her. He had never really spend a lot of time with Sarah before, but he knew that the girl was someone that Mikasa trusted and if Mikasa had trusted her then, she must have been good and on their side considering Mikasa didn't trust people easily.

"Mikasa trusted you," he said, "And that's how you decided to repay her? For everything she had done?"

Something happened right there and there when he mentioned Mikasa. Her face seems to crack for lack of better word and it was strange like watching two expressions upon her features. One was blank of anything while the other, showed something else that was guilt…Then it was gone, blinked away from her features like it had never been there in the first place.

She then raised her hand toward him and touched his chest.

"Well, is he?" the man who looked like his father asked her.

Something like a smile appeared upon Sarah's lips at that.

"He is," she said, "The Coordinate…but it's curious that he carries that power and isn't part of the Royal bloodline."

"I'm wondering about that myself but we can't do this here," the man said, "The sun has been up for about an hour. We need to make our way toward where Reiner's partner is waiting for us…then, we will make our way back home and off Paradis."

Eren blinked as the silver haired girl turned away from him.

"I presume you have something planned?"

"The territory between Maria and Rose is big," Annie spoke out, "Even in our Titan form that might take a day or two to traverse fully and from Maria to the coast is even larger."

Eren glanced at her, listening to them speak about the world beyond the walls. While he was still angry at them for what they have done, thought he was more confused with Sarah and how differently she was acting compared to the girl he had come to associate with. More ever, the things they were talking about were something that he simply couldn't understand.

Paradis?

Coordinate?

Royal Bloodline?

All of that just went way over his head…thought some part of him realized that Paradis must be the name of someplace that is from beyond the wall and Sarah had called him a Coordinate whatever that means and they said that he wasn't part of the Royal Bloodlines. Could this mean that the King was somehow aware of his Titan abilities and did nothing? He find that hard to believe considering that the military police had wanted to kill him and all this time he was part of the Survey Corps…if the King was part of this…why didn't he do anything all this time?

Just what do they know about the city? What do they know?

Eren stared at them frowning lightly.

"What is this Coordinate you keep talking about?" he asked.

The older man glanced at him at that, a light frown upon his features as he was staring at him. There was something in the eyes behind the glasses as he was staring at him. Staring back at that man in front of him, Eren found himself being reminded of his father yet again.

Just who is this guy?

"So…Grisha didn't tell you anything when he gave you that power did he?" the man murmured, "That's not like him at all."

Eren's shock could be seen upon his features as his eyes stared up at the man in front of him.

"Y…You knew my father?" he said shocked.

The man chuckled.

"Knew him?" he repeated, almost like it was a private joke, "We grew up together after all, I'm his older brother, you can call me Kyle Yeager."

Mikasa was already dressed in her uniform by the time the sun was up. She had wrapped her beloved scarf around her neck as she made her way out of the room, finding both Krista and Ymir there. The two girls that had been sharing a room with Sarah before everything happened. Krista was a sweet girl giving her a small smile to greet her but Mikasa didn't feel like returning it.

She knew that they were going to get called out today so that they could go on and launch out their operation to find Eren. The young woman had made her way out toward the courtyard so that she could get her horse ready and found that there was already someone there. The tall girl Narissa.

She had her green cloak on herself as the symbol of the Scouts was placed there fluttering behind her. the girl didn't seem to be aware of her yet as she was saddling the horse in front of her and then as Mikasa approached her, the girl turned around to face her.

"Mikasa," she greeted.

"Narissa," the dark haired girl answered, "Getting ready for the operation?"

The girl let out a small sigh.

"If you can call it getting ready," she said, "Still trying to wrap my head around what had just happened yesterday. I never thought I'll be fighting against human in this war too. Our entire training is based on fighting against Titans…it's what we're the best at but now, it's not Titans we'll be fighting."

Mikasa turned her gaze toward them.

"But they have the ability to turn into Titans," she said, "That alone means we'll be more than enough for them."

"Will we?" Narissa asked, giving her a glance, "I've read the reports of what happened with the Female Titan and how many people died just to try to capture her in Sina, and the Armored Titan is impervious to our blades attack…we'll be fighting an uphill battle against these two."

Mikasa fixed her horse as well.

"Three," she said drawing Narissa's eyes toward her, "We'll be fighting three of them now."

Narissa looked at her, surprise upon her features for a few moments before, the look of anguish crossed her features at what the dark haired girl was implying.

"Yeah," she murmured, softly, "Like I said, still trying to wrap my head around what happened yesterday."

Mikasa walked outside with her horse, leaving Narissa behind.

"Then don't forget that she is an enemy now," the dark haired said in parting.

A few minutes later, they were all assembled into the courtyard of the Survey Corps building as Commander Erwin stood as the man stared down toward all of them standing in front of him.

"Now here is the plan for the Corps," the man called out, as two members rolled out a map behind him, "This is the Lanto region of Wall Rose. It is surrounded by many forests and for the past few weeks before the Trost siege yesterday have had a lot of disappearances from both the Garrison Regiment and civilians alike. We believe that our enemies have taken refuge there the previous night."

The man stared at them with a light frown.

"I have already alerted the Garrison in Napal District to be on high alert of any of the enemies," he continued, "How they deal with that information however. It is possible that something like what happened yesterday could repeat itself. Our mission main objective is to recover Eren Yeager from their grasp by any means necessary. Our enemies are Annie Leonheart, a former member of the MPs, Reiner Braun, along with Sarah, the ones who betrayed us. There is another member, a man who came from beyond the walls. These four individuals are our enemies and they are to be killed on sight."

Mikasa frowned lightly as she saluted as well as the rest of the team.

"Yes sir," their voices echoed around them.

"Scout Regiment, MOVE OUT,"

In unison, horses thundered out of the Scout regiment headquarters making their way back toward the direction of the Lanto region of Wall Rose.

Lanto Region

Kilometers away from Napal District

Horses were thundering through the path in front of them as two platoons of the Garrison Regiment were moving on about. The group was lead by Anthony Fier, a moderately normal young man with dark hair as he was lead forward. Just this morning they have been sent out into this part of the region to investigate after the intelligence from the Scouts revealed to them that enemies who were responsible for the Trost incident were taken refuge there.

They were to form a perimeter around the area to find anything about the appearance of these traitors. Ever since the news of the appearance of the Armored Titan had formed, it had released some sort of boiling rage within the man. He had lost a lot of friends when Shingashina when wall Maria had been breached and learning that the Armored bastard was a human in Titan form. He now wanted his own payback.

"Sir, we are coming up upon the river," one of the female soldier told him.

Turning his attention toward her for a brief second, he took notice of the girl that recently joined them. She was just a recruit too, fresh off training and had hardly seen any actions in her life. Marie, her name was if he remembered correctly.

"Alright, all squads get ready to engage," he yelled out, "Our enemies are the Armored Titan along with it's allies….we must be ready to…"

BOOM

The explosion came so suddenly that it knocked Anthony off of his horse and into the ground. The man rolled upon the ground, groaning in pain as made contact with the grass and dirt that was below him. With a groan, Anthony turned his attention back toward the direction of where the explosion came form and his eyes widened in shock.

A Titan was lying down on the ground not too far away from where he had fallen.

W…What the…, he thought frozen in shock and fear, Where did…this Titan…came from?

The large form rose from the ground as the other soldiers around him where either knocked out or killed by the explosion as it swooped down taking some of them to eat. Anthony stared at the Titan in front of him and he was completely frozen in shock and terror. Just the sight of the Titan right here in front of him had caused him to freeze like a rookie.

Suddenly he was stabbed from behind, as a blade pierced through his body. the man let out a small sound before he turned his gaze toward his back, trying to see who did this to him but all he saw was the top of a blond hair and a pair of blue eyes before life left his body.

"That took care of that," Kyle spoke out staring at the numerous forms on the ground that was taken down by the explosion of the Titan creation.

The Titan however was fixed upon the numerous form around him and he was gorging himself upon them as the crunching of bones could be heard as well as the jet of blood that was seeping in between the large fingers. Around him, Ashler, Annie and Reiner who had a bound Eren with him were following after him.

"Now stop eating," he said staring at the Titan who froze at his order.

Annie who had killed the Garrison soldier pulled out her small knife, letting the man fall down upon the ground as she stared around herself, before looking at the Titan that was completely frozen under Kyle's order. The young woman frowned lightly at the sight before glancing around herself again.

"The ODM gears would be useful," she said, "And it got full tanks too."

"For so many soldiers to be in one place is not coincidence," Kyle said, "That Erwin guy is quite smart to be able to pinpoint our location so quickly."

Eren was staying quiet at this moment as he was looking at the many bodies around them but his attention then refocused upon Sarah who was looking up toward the Titan with a curious expression upon her face. She didn't have any emotions visible there but the young woman was looking up at the Titan and Eren found his attention going there as well.

They were people inside the Titan's mouth and he could see a young woman hanging from it's jaws as blood was dripping around her features from the upside down position her body was.

"What is it Ashler?" Kyle asked, noticing how she was staring at the hanging body from the Titan's jaws.

The dark eyes narrowed lightly as she was staring at the familiar face inside the Titan's jaws. She could recall the face in her seas of memories that she has inside her mind. She could remember seeing the girl smiling at her as they were seating side by side together inside a mess hall during their training and somehow, it caused something to stir within her heart…

Something she recalled as sadness…

Marie.

That was the name that came up as she was staring at the face of the dead girl hanging from the Titan's jaws. When she was Sarah that girl was a close friend to her, and it was her suggestion that caused the girl to join the Garrison in the first place.

I've told her to play her strength, she thought, and yet…

"What is it Ashler?" Kyle asked her.

She turned her head away from the Titan.

"It's nothing," she murmured.

I'm not Sarah any longer…I was never Sarah…my name is Ashler and I don't care in the least for the people that live in this false Utopia, she thought to herself.

"Here," Annie said extending an ODM gear toward her.

She took it and quickly added the object to her form. It felt familiar against her skin now, at least from the memories she had as Sarah. It was a curious thing they have created during the centuries since they have lived in Paradis Island. In her time as Sarah, however, came a perspective that she hadn't expected to have. The people within these walls have no idea of the world that lays beyond the walls…they believed that they were all that remains of Humanity in the world, but even so a group of them, were trying to change that…

The Survey Corps fight to free humanity from the walls…not knowing that it was their own doing in the first place, she thought, Eren somehow is in possession of the Progenitor Titan…how did this happen when only the Royal Family is bequeath of that power?

Her eyes had turned toward the direction of the young man. From Sarah memories this young man had been a Titan for a while now and the public knew of it…so why hadn't the Royal family do anything to kill him yet? What was the King waiting for to take his power back?

Something about this situation was…highly unusual.

"Let's get out of this clearing," she said addressing the group, "Staying here will make us an open target. Those trees will make some good cover, and Kyle there is something that I need to talk to you about."

Kyle gave her an inquiring look but he nodded as the group moved away from the wave of destruction that were in front of them. Arriving by the trees, Ashler shoot out a hook toward one of the branches and rose up toward it, carrying Kyle along with her. While they were standing upon the thick branch the young woman turned her gaze toward the distance in front of them.

"What is it that you wanted to talk about?" Kyle asked crossing his arms, "As you know we don't have a lot of time on our hands here before the Scouts find us."

She turned her gaze toward him.

"Eren possessed the power of the Progenitor Titan," she started, "something that only the Royal bloodline was in possession of. Don't you find it odd, that the King didn't come to claim his power back?"

Kyle glanced down toward where Reiner, Annie and Eren were. The boy was under guard from the other two so there is not a chance he will transform back into his Titan form. A light frown appeared upon his face.

"What are you thinking?" he asked her.

"With the memories I have as Sarah," she continued, "I was thinking that maybe we can reveal to them the state of the world beyond the walls. It's why they are fighting for from what I can remember."

Kyle frowned.

"Have you forgotten that they are now our enemies?" he told her, "They will stop at nothing to come and kill us. Even if you tell them anything, the King could still take it away from them. Our only choice is to head off this Island and return to Everest so that we could restore the rest of your memories."

Ashler gave him a stare.

"I have not forgotten," she said, somehow the memory of a dark haired half asian girl appearing in her mind, "But if that power is no longer in the hand of the King, we could strike a bargain with the people inside the Walls. As far as the rest of the world knows, Paradis is a forbidden territory but you and I know that it won't stay that way for long. If the North continues to advance upon the other territories, it will be a war on two fronts, and if they discover the truth about this place, it will be razed to the ground."

She turned her gaze toward him.

"These people are not prepared for that kind of battle," she told him.

Kyle stayed silent for a few moments.

"Why are you asking me now?" he asked.

"Living in these walls have given me a new perspective that I didn't have when I lived on the outside," she said, "You would think after so many years, I would be satisfied with what I know…but I know that I realized that there are too many things that I don't know."

"Ashler…," he said.

She glanced at him.

"These people have no idea what horror awaits them if they gain the freedom that they think they seek," Ashler told him, "They have a hundred of years to catch up to the rest of the world."

A new perspective...could this pave a new path for the future?

Next Time: World Beyond the Walls part 2

Jacques0 out.

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