2. Fall of Shinganshina

The following story is fanfiction. Attack on titan is owned by Isayama, Mappa and Wit Studios.

No One POV.

"Dad? Did you just come out of that titan?" Monika asked.

"I know you have a lot questions right now, but we can't stay here for long." Julian replied, kneeling down to Monika who was still hugging her mother.

"But what about mom, I don't want to leave her like this" She told her dad.

Julian looked at Isabella's body. He caressed her face and closed her eyes as his eyes started to water.

"Give her to me Monika, I know a place where we can hide and bury your mother" Julian said as he carried Isabella in his arms.

They began walking deeper into the forest, along the way Julian started to explain about the attackers and the history about the world that only he knows.

Julian explained to her about the ten titans and how their people used their power to conquer their enemy, the Marlayens.They used to enslaved the Marlayens for over a millennium. Eventually, when the Eldian empire couldn't conquer anymore lands, the noble Eldian families who bare one of the titans began to have a fued with each other. Thus the great titan war began

However, this was all a part of King Fritz and one of the noble Eldian families, the Tybur family's plan to free the Marleyens. King Fritz and the Tybur's have fabricated a hero named Helos. So when King Fritz abandons his duty as the founder titan, rhe great titan war started. This was an open window for the Tybur family and the Marlayen hero Helos, to defeat the Eldian King.

When King Fritz managed to free the Marleyens, he along with many of the Eldians will go to live on the island of Paradis, where he guided the millions of colossal titans in the construction of the three concentric Walls, wall Maria, Rose, and Sheena with the power of the founding titan. He also changed his family name from Fritz to Reiss.

He vowed to never use the founders power to create another war. If Marley has enough power to destroy the Eldians and started to attack the walls, his successors will use the founders power to unleash the millions of colossal titans and flatten the world.

"But... why did those men attack us dad?" Monika asked.

Julian didnt reply to her question as he kept on walking without an expression on his face.

"We're here"

Julian announced as they both looked at a tiny shed that was covered with veins and bushes.

Julian unlocked the door and placed Isabella in the middle of the shed. The shed had your average tools for cutting down trees and etc. But what stood out was this trapdoor that was near were Isabella was placed.

Julian kneeled down and opened it and proceeded to enter.

Monika POV.

I waited outside the shed for my dad and a few minutes later he came out with a knife and a case for something.

"Dad what's going" I asked nervously as I stepped back a bit.

He kneeled down to my level and looked at me with sorrowful eyes.

"Monika I need you to inherit my titan" he said

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"W-what, why," I asked with the mixture of fear and sadness in my voice.

"You don't know this but, we are descendants of a noble family who bares the Drachen titan " he replied as he places a hand on my shoulder.

"T-the what?" I replied back

"Look, I don't have time to explain, but we need to do this now." Dad replied as he started to open the case which had a syringe and a jar of tiny of liquid.

"No! Tell me why did those men attacked us dad!!," I demanded as I stepped back away from him, losing his reach on me.

He closed his eyes and sighed heavily.

"A few years ago Rod Reiss found me in a local village and he offered a deal to me. I would offer the Drachen to one of his children and in exchange he'll take you and your mother into his family estate," he said before looking back at me.

"I declined the offer, after I found out that he'll sell you and your mother as slaves. He didn't took that well and tried to kidnap me, but I've managed to escape," he finished as the syringe was filled up with that strange.

He closed the gap between us, as he looked at the ground with the shadow of his bangs covering his face.

"Monika...before I've met your mother and had you, I was nothing more than a cowardly man, and I'm still am to this day," he showed his face, as there was tears coming out of his eye.

"I want you to hide within the walls, and survive long enough till you have your own family that'll pass down that power". he said as he choked a bit as he reached out to give me a hug.

My vision started to get blurry as tears where bursting out of my eyes.

"Im sorry that your going to live a short life, but just remember this, me and your mother always loved you," he whispered as he inserted the syringe in my neck and pushed the liquid in.

"What do you mean I'm going to have a short lif-" I jumped a bit from the sudden pain of the needle, then I started to lose my balance and fell down. Then last thing I see was dad with tears in his eyes as he was stepping back a bit, as he mouthed the words 'I love you' to me before I blacking out.

No One POV.

"Hey, hey kid, wake up," a voice said to her. She opened her eyes and she saw two men wearing military uniform with a green cloak.

"Let's get you up kid. Commander Shadis, The girl just woke up!," he shouted as he helped Monika up to her feet. She looked over to the direction where the man shouted at. The commander was walking towards her with a stoic face. He stopped two feet away from her as his presence intimidated Monika a bit.

"So.. do you know what happened here kid," he said as he kept his intense stare on Monika.

She was about to answer until she begins to panic, as she didn't feel her necklace wasn't around her neck.

"My necklace!! Did you see it!!" she looked to Shadis with worry in her eyes.

"Oh, you mean this?" Monika looked back to see a man with blonde hair and bushy eyebrows walking towards her, as he was carrying her necklace in his palm.

The man squatted down and showed her the necklace. The necklace itself looked unscaved as there wasn't any cracks on the diamonds.

Monika ran over to him and took the necklace off his hand and placed it back on her neck.

"Thank you for finding it mister" she said as she sighed in relief, holding the pendant tightly.

"Sorry to interrupt but do you have any recollection of what happened to you and to that woman in the shed," Shadis piped in, as he was getting impatient.

She turned around and looked back up to the man. She told him that she remembers about the men attacking her house, her mother's death, and when her father was carrying her mother and was leading her to this shed.

"That's what I remember right now but everything else seems to be a blur," she said as she was massaging her forehead to ease the headache.

"But how we're you able to find me," Monika asked the group of adults who were looking at her.

" We saw a flash of lightning go down in the forest, while we were heading back to the outer wall, which was strange since it wasn't raining at all," Shadis replied to her.

Monika just remembered a voice telling her to go into the walls but can't remember the purpose of it.

"Is it okay if you could take me with you back to the walls because I just remembered someone telling me to go over there," she asked the Commander

"Do have any relatives or friends that live in the outer wall." Shadis questioned.

Monika shook her heard and Shadis looked at the rest of his men and they all nodded at him.

"We'll only take you to Shinganshina, but the rest is up to you, you got it kid," he said as Monika nodded her head with delight.

"Get on one of the wagons over there and get comfortable because we're two days away from the outer wall," Shadis pointed to three wagons that carried a one or two wounded soldiers.

She walked over to the one in middle were, saw a man lying down with a missing leg and a bandage face. She made sure not to sit too close to him so that he could rest. She also saw the man who found her necklace was on his horse to next her.

"What's your name mister?" Monika asked

"it's Erwin Smith, and yours," he looked back at her with a smile.

"Monika Becker, and why do you guys go outside the walls for?" she asked again.

"We venture outside the walls, so that we could reclaim our lost territory from the titans." Erwin said as he looked forward.

"But doesn't that sound quite dangerous though, you guys look like you get hurt all the time," Monika replied.

"That's true, but a lot of us here have devoted our hearts for the cause, for a titan free world." Erwin looked back at Monika with a determined look.

"Now I suggest you get some rest, it's going to be a long journey after all" Erwin said as he increase the pace on his horse.

It has been two days, since Monika took a ride with the Scouts, and there were times when they came across few titans. Fortunately for them, they won't have to go through that hellish nightmare anymore, as they saw that gigantic wall.

Monika's jaw dropped as she bared witness at the mountain size wall. She begin to hear bells ringing and the gate started to rise up from the ground. Through the gate, she saw loads of people lining up to the sidewalk. Once they passed through the gate, the crowd had a mixture of disappointed, terrified and unfazed looks as they saw the injured scouts.

Monika felt bad for the Scouts really. Searching for ways for humanity to fight back against the titans, but to come back with more wounded soldiers and body bags.

"U-um mister Smith" Monika said as Erwin looked back at her.

"I'll get off here, tell mister Shadis I said thank yo-" she was interrupted when all of them stop to see a woman talking to Shadis trying to find her son.

Monika couldn't hear them, but she knew what was going on, when one of them gave the woman an arm that was originally from her son.

She went on her knees sobbing as she hugged the dismembered limb. Shadis knelt down to try to comfort her but she started asking if her son's sacrifice help humanity fight back.

"of course! Um... no. Our recon this time didn't... No, we never...Tsk!! NEVER LEARN A THING!... It's my fault...My own incompetence killed our men! And we still don't even know what they are!"Shadis shouted as he started to cry in front of everyone.

Monika along with everyone else was just speechless. After Shadis got himself together, he stood up, leaving the woman on the ground who didn't break her stare off Shadis. The rest of the scouts started to move again.

Monika started to wonder around Shinganshina trying to find anyone who might know her father. She continued doing this until it was dawn, she was sitting on a step that led up to a door of a house. She was tired after looking everywhere around the city.

She started to question, why did that person told her to go in the walls. Her train of thought was broken when she heard a loud noise that made her jump.

She got up and ran towards the street where loads of people were looking at the wall. She looked towards it and saw smoke and a hand of a titan grabbing the top of the wall.

Then it's head appeared over the top of the wall, as it ominously loomed over the city and it's people. The people are watching were shocked and curious, and just at that moment, the Titan begins to lift its leg, plunging it through the Wall.

The onlookers are thrown back, and the remnants of the crushed Wall plummet into the city, crushing houses and squashing the townsfolk. As a horde of Titans forcibly enters the breach, the city turns into a panic-stricken area.

This will be the start of everything.