Ymir was worried, there was really only one reason that Historia and Eren would be captured, especially since her and the other Shifters were not. Whoever orchestrated this wanted Historia to eat Eren and inherit the Coordinate ability.
Killing Eren would be bad obviously, but Ymir had also heard stories about the Coordinate ability when she was a Goddess; how the ability changed the mind of the one possessing it, they inherited with the ability, the memories of all the previous Coordinates, not like how she had a few spotty memories of Marcel, no they got every memory like it was their own, people were lost to the memories.
She did not want Historia to suffer that, she didn't want Historia to suffer the curse of the Titan at all, and now she was gone, and perhaps even would be forced to become the Coordinate.
Ymir cringed at the thought, her own memories of her turn brought to the forefront of her mind, and the years she spent as a Titan.
"I'm so old." She didn't mean to say it out loud, was her mind so off that she couldn't even control what she said?
"What do you mean by that?" Annie asked looking at her in confusion.
"Before I ate Mar- your friend, I had been a Titan for around sixty years, just, wandering around." Ymir sighed waving her hand around randomly.
"Wow, and you are still with Historia?" Annie asked after a moment of silence.
"Would you rather me be with some old grandma?" Ymir asked defensively.
"No, it's just…" Annie trailed off, Hari really had opened her up, the Annie of training camp would have never allowed her emotions to move as they did now.
"You wonder how long Hari may have been in that Titan." Ymir said looking at the shorter girl.
The thought had crossed Ymir's mind a few times as well, Hari had obviously not been a part of whatever Annie used to be in, so it really only left her being in Ymir's circumstance, trapped in the body of a Pure Titan for who knows how long, before unforeseen circumstances allowed her freedom.
"She's definitely had hardships, and sometime when she was a Titan those scars had to have happened, so it's safe to say that her body and her birthdate don't align." Ymir said, looking up as Hari came out of the woods, firewood in hand.
"Yeah." Annie said absently, the return of Hari from her venture into the woods to get more wood for their fire, seemed to turn Annie's focus away from their conversation.
Hari tossed the wood into the flames, embers soared into the air when she did, seeming to fill the night sky with stars till they all slowly faded away. H
She then brushed the dirt and bark from her clothes before she sat down next to them around the fire. Ymir watched Hari as she relaxed, making her eye twitch in annoyance.
"We can't just keep hiding, we need to do something." Ymir growled glaring at Levi as she did so.
"Moblit and Hanji are currently working on figuring out about the Reeves incident, we will move soon, but we need time to gather our resources and for our plans to fall into place before we can." Levi said calmly as he looked across them all.
"We don't have time; Eren will be eaten any day now." Ymir said glaring at Levi who glared back.
"We also can't rush in, we don't even know where they have been taken, and right now everything is moving into its place. We will save Eren soon but right now we cannot." Levi said, before turning back to look at the fire.
"So we just wait around in the woods, waiting for something to happen!" Ymir yelled.
"Yes." Was all Levi said.
/Hari/
Hari was annoyed; it felt exactly like she had felt in Hogwarts during her later years. The adults had all the information, but none of it was being shared. They were just being told to wait around while the 'grown-ups' take care of everything.
But like last time, everything still stood on the shoulders of the people not being told.
A sharp pain went to Hari's eye and she pressed her hand over the eye patch in surprise and pain. The stress must have gotten to her, and a damaged vain must have burst because of it.
Hari tore off the eye patch and held her hand over her eye, blood streaming down her face, evaporating as it did so.
"Hari, Hari! What happened?" Annie yelled grabbed her arm that was holding the eye.
"Stress, it must have, burst. Dammit it hurts!" Hari exclaimed gritting her teeth.
"Hari!" Annie yelled again.
"I just, need, to rest. I'll be alright, tomorrow." Hari grit out before she shuffled over to the edge of the camp they had set and laid down.
Hari breathed slowly as she lay there, steadying her heartbeat and mind. The blood had slowed, and it didn't hurt as much. She was surprised, it had been a long time since her eye had acted up, she had learned how not to move it, and that had stopped it from continuing to do this. The recent stress must have gotten to her more than she had realized.
She sighed, the sound coming out almost like a whimper, as she closed her good eye and let darkness take her.
/Time skip/
Government is overtaken, King is a fraud!
Through cunning and wit, the three factions of the military exposed the Government lying to us from the beginning! They have prevented advancements in technology to keep themselves in power, even though it prevented a better lifestyle for the people of the Walls.
And now they wish to further stop humanity's progression by killing the Titans who have gained human form; their deaths will prevent us from ever taking back Wall Maria, and further beyond.
/
Hari held the newspaper her face displaying shock; they had taken over the government. She was not sure if everything in the paper was to be believed, but she knew that that part was sure.
"We need to head to Sina, regroup, and find Eren and Historia. Erwin probably already knows where they are, they have probably been interrogating the governors since they took over." Levi said, from the side of everyone who stood behind Hari reading the newspaper she held.
"Finally, I was getting tired of running around in these woods." Ymir said hopping to her feet; Levi raised a brow at her antics.
"You're antsy." Annie said dryly.
"She wishes to save the love of her life, to be the dashing prince coming to save the princess... literally actually." Hari said dramatically mocking Ymir.
"Oi brats, we're leaving." Levi said as he walked away with only Mikasa following him.
Everyone stared at his retreating form for a moment, and then like a switch was flipped everyone scrambled to catch up with him, Hari at the back since she had to get up from sitting; which while not taking much time at all, did bring her to the back of the group.
They walked through the forest quickly, not stopping for any rest at all, something they had luckily gotten used to.
Hari felt a sharp pain go throughout her whole body, making her hiss through her teeth, all the wounds that refused to properly heal on her body flared with pain; warmth slowly poured down her body before rising up again; she was bleeding.
Pulling the eye patch from her face she let the steam escape before putting the patch back in place. Hari had no idea what was going on, her wounds from Azkaban had been acting up more in the recent days, almost feeling like they were being pulled off.
But the worst pain was not any of her wounds, but her mind, every time it had happened she got a massive headache like her head had been clobbered by a brick. It made her good eye blurry and made her thoughts foggy.
Hari pushed the pain away and continued to follow the rest of her squad.
/Reiner/
Reiner was hesitant to speak with the Sorcerer, they had not been happy when Bertolt had spoken to them about Hari, but he did not intend to insult or insinuate anything so he hoped that he was good, and wouldn't be choked.
"What do you wish to speak about?" The Sorcerer said facing the abandoned fields of Wall Maria.
"You know Hari, what was she like? I know her now, but she seems very jaded, and lacks empathy most of the time." Reiner said, noticing the Sorcerer stiffen when he said what he did.
"She lacks empathy?" The Sorcerer asked, their genderless voice even more blank than usual.
"Most of the time she seems to, but she does go out of her way to help people, so her lack of empathy almost seems fake." Reiner said thinking of Hari.
"So she still has her signature 'Saving people thing'." The Sorcerer said, sounding fond of memories from long ago.
"You knew her well?" Reiner asked.
"Not as well as some people, but before all this, I think I knew her well." The Sorcerer said.
"Do you know why she is a Shifter? Neither of you are Eldians." Reiner asked wanting to know more.
"The spell that was used to send her here was botched; I wouldn't be surprised if the effects also caused that as well as her age nearly being cut in half." The Sorcerer said, still also seeming to process the fact that the woman they used to know was really only a girl again.
"Do sorcerers and normal people just live around each other? Because people hear do not like Titan Shifters, which I say is the closest equivalent." Reiner asked curiously.
"Why do you ask? My world is of no concern to you. Our worlds were never meant to meet; it was an accident that all this happened." The Sorcerer said.
"I wanted to know how you and Hari met." Reiner said.
"What do you mean?" They asked confusion hinting through their genderless voice.
"You're a sorcerer and she is a normal person… well a Titan Shifter now, but you know what I mean." Reiner said.
"Hari is a 'Sorcerer' the Potter line is a very powerful magical line, the Peverell's were powerful as well." The Sorcerer said still sounding slightly confused.
"Hari never showed her magic, I assumed that she didn't have it since you have been using it. Before revealing herself as a Shifter I can see why she didn't but she could have passed it off as a Titan ability after it was revealed." Reiner said.
The Sorcerer did not comment further.
/Erwin/
Erwin watched as Levi and his squad entered the base and sighed with relief. He had sent scouting parties to try and find them, but Levi was too good to be caught by those, so Erwin just had to wait and hope that Levi would figure out what happened and that he would turn up sooner rather than later.
"Commander." Hanji's voice said from behind him.
"Levi just arrived; brief him quickly, we don't have much time." Erwin stated turning around to look at Hanji as he did.
Hanji nodded once before turning around again and exiting the room Erwin was standing in. Erwin watched her exit before turning around to look out the window again, he watched as Levi's squad broke off from Levi as he entered the building.
Oluo, Mike, and Petra moved away from the younger ones to talk with each other while almost all the others sat down to converse with each other.
He smiled, they were good soldiers and had proven themselves in battle many times. There were also three Shifters, Ymir, Annie, and Hari, all unique and incredibly powerful; when they got Eren back it would be a two to one battle to retake the Wall.
Then he could learn about that basement, and with it, all the secrets that had been hidden from the world, all the secrets that his father had tried to find. He pushed the thought to the back on his mind; he needed to discuss his plan to recapture Eren with Levi.
Turning from the window he walked away.
/Mikasa/
Something was wrong with Hari; Mikasa did not know what was wrong with her, but she knew that something was definitely wrong. The last few days Hari had been wincing and flinching, followed by steam rolling off her body.
Normally Mikasa would not be bothered to check and see what was wrong, but this upcoming fight was to save Eren from being eaten, and she would not have anyone mess it up.
"Hari, what is wrong." Mikasa asked coldly.
"There is a long list, so it might take a while." Hari said before inhaling, signaling that she was about to say a very long list.
"I meant what is wrong with you." Mikasa said her eyes narrowing.
"Again a long list." Hari said.
Mikasa just glared at her, but Hari did not budge, she was the only one who didn't budge when Mikasa stared people down; it was annoying.
"Hari I am not in the mood to play games. We are going directly into a fight soon, and I need to know if you are actually ready for it. You have been limping around constantly hurting, you have to be in fighting shape; not whatever shape this is." Mikasa said, done with beating around the bush.
Hari remained quiet, before turning around and walking over to a crate and sitting down beside it. She pulled one of her legs up to herself and stuck the other one out. Mikasa watched her do all this before walking over to her after she had sat down.
"Well?" Mikasa asked standing over Hari.
"I will be fine for the upcoming fight." Hari said, glaring up at Mikasa as she did.
Mikasa did not budge; she only glared down at the scarred girl, like she did to her. Neither of them moved from where they were, they waited for the other to break, but they did not.
"You better be." Mikasa said after a moment before turning around and walking away, Hari watched her leave annoyed with the younger girl.
Hari knew that Mikasa only wanted to save Eren, but she seemed to become very single-minded whenever Eren actually was in danger, which tended to get others in trouble.
She reminded Hari of herself, though where she had always tried to save everyone Mikasa brought all that energy to protect one person.
It terrified Hari just how dedicated Mikasa was to protect Eren, and she knew that Mikasa would not hesitate to harm, or even kill any of them if it meant saving Eren…
We're getting to the endgame now.
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