Chapter 49: Fight

Pain fills his mind. He just needed another second and Eren would be free where does all the pain come from?

Oh.

Right, Levi could hit himself with his own blade. The female titan caught him. Eren tried to warn him and now is this big ugly titan crushing his body in her hands. It takes him a second to understand that the pressure isn't rising anymore. Levi feels one or two of his rips crack and he is pretty sure he cut his leg with his own blade as her and closes around him.

Someone screams.

And Levi notice that it was him and he stops, gritting his teeth and he tries to slow down his breathing. Breathing through the pain and opens his eyes. There he is catches in another titan´s hand. He should stop doing that. He is not a fan of getting handled like this. It´s an exception when Eren carries him, but Eren is always an exception. For everything. Speaking of his titan, where is he?

Levi searches for the second hand and finds Eren staring at him in fear. Oh, that is not only fear, but there is also anger. Too much anger to be good. He tries his best to smile. Another fight like the one with Reiner, ending with Eren killing his friend is nothing he wants on his conscious.

"I´m fine." Levi tries to sound resuming. Even when the pain in his rips isn't helping. At least she had stopped squeezing him.

"Let him go." Eren demands and his voice is hoarse as if he had been screaming at her for some time. It could be the reason she stopped the squeezing. He hoped that they will survive that without further physical or mental damage.

She shakes his head and as she looked at him Levi feels as if he is some speck of dirt on someone´s clothe, not worth to exist and in the way. Yes, she will kill him and it hit Levi that he really mind this time.

Suddenly the light of Eren´s transformation hit them and the energy of it throws them back. It seems as if Eren had seen it too and made his choice. To his surprise it´s not the neck Eren attacks this time, not like the fight with Reiner. Eren jumps her and pins her down, his hands holding her down but his mouth quickly attacks the arm that is holding on to Levi. The sickening sound of breaking bones and torn flesh reaches his ears and Levi feels himself fall. Still inside the hand. Hitting the ground could have been worse but with the female titan on the ground it were only a few meter.

Levi starts to pull himself out of the bit off hand, Armin is at his side to help him. The blond had recovered quickly enough to close the distance between the fight and where he had been thrown to the ground. Me must have landed softly, in some muddy puddle because all his clothes are dirty. Hanji follows close behind and as Levi got out of the hand she tend to his leg, he really had cut himself.

Meanwhile Eren is wrestling with Annie, using all his techniques he had learned during training and a few, more dirty ones that Levi had taught him. Levi sees the power behind the punches Eren gives and knows who will win. That doesn't make it right. Why has Eren to kill his friends. Why did his friends betray him like this. Or was it that Eren is the wrong one. He is a shifter, he is different for some reason grew up without them. What makes them different, was is right?

Question over question fill Levi´s mind as he holds on to his body trying to still his movement to less the pain. There is nothing he could do. Nothing the others could do with the nape of her pressed against the ground and the two titans fighting. Why has it to be Eren. If he could he would do it.

Annie tries to get up and gets pushed down again, her bit off hand healed and with now two working hands she tries to pull Eren off of her. The fight seems to take ages but couldn't be more than a few minutes. The titan´s run out of steam and Levi sees her giving in. Involuntary.

Her body seem to fall in on itself, broken parts don't heal, they start to steam and her whole skeleton seem to dissolve.

"Eren, her titan body is dying. Get her out of there." Hanji shouts beside him. Eren looks at her for a second before he turns her around, nape exposed. Mikasa jumps up to them offered Eren her help by cutting her out, more careful as his titan fingers would manage. The blade breaks and Levi is reminded of the last time two titan-shifter fought. Mikasa does her best to get the crystal out and Eren carries it over to them.

There she was, Annie, Eren´s friend, his pupil, a prisoner inside the stone. Who knows how long it will take her to wake up again. She looks worse then Eren as he was inside that thing and he was bad. Before anyone could more another figure appears out of nowhere. With the fighting and the noises no one notice that the other shifter was also there, in his human form.

With hands lift over his head Berthold walked over to them. "I´m not here to fight. I never wanted to fight."