Meeting the Scouts

Erza didn't know where she was, she looked around to see if she could find something, maybe a landmark that would lead her back to Magnolia, but there was nothing, nothing but a bunch of big ass trees surrounding her.

Where am I? What happened? Last thing I remember was that Jellal and I were headed back home to Magnolia from completing a rather dangerous quest. It has a rather hefty price tag of 500,000 jewels per wizard who participated. Now I remember, on the way home, this 50 foot tall creature of some sort came out of nowhere and forced Jellal and I to split up, though I think we both got lost. I have to find Jellal.

Erza made her way through the thick forest, moving swiftly and quietly, as not to draw too much attention to herself. Suddenly, and seemingly out of nowhere, a huge human-like creature emerged from the trees and charged straight for her. Erza had had many encounters like this before, and she immediately knew what to do.

"Requip, Blumenblatt!" Erza requipped roughly 50 to 100 swords and charged at the creature, slicing off one of its arms. As the scarlet haired woman swiftly passed back by the creature slicing at the back of its neck, the requipped swords followed her lead and slammed into the hideous creature with full force. The thing fell with a thud that shook the earth around her.

Roughly a few miles away from where Erza had just slain the hideous beast, the Scout Regiment had managed to trap the Female Titan. Captain Levi was standing atop her head, trying to get her to let her guard down.

"Knock knock, we know your in there. Why don't you make this easy and come on out and stop wasting our time." Levi spoke with his normally calm and collected voice. "Seriously, what can you hope to gain by stalling? If your thinking we'll let you go, we won't, if your thinking about trying to escape, don't."

Erwin listened carefully as Captain Levi spoke to the Female Titan, when he suddenly saw brief flash of yellow light in the distance. The hell was that, could there be another abnormal out there?

"You enjoy killing, which means we have something in common. I enjoy killing Titans, but it's a start. I'm sure we can still find some middle ground." Captain Levi continued on. Could another abnormal really show up this fast? If that's the case, we're walking on thin ice here.

A horrifyingly ear splitting roar shook the Commander from his thoughts, startling him and practically terrifying the rest of the scouts, excluding Captain Levi and Mikasa.

"Nicely done, I almost lost my composure." Levi commented. Up in the trees, Mike arrived to warn Erwin of the oncoming Titans.

"They're coming, I can smell them."

"What direction?"

"From every direction, fast, dozens, " as soon as those words left his mouth, Erwin immediately realized what was about to happen.

"Faster on the artillery, gentlemen!" Erwin ordered.

"Here they are," Mike warned, "First wave is closing from the east."

"WAGON DEFFENCE SQUAD, INTERCEPT NOW!"

The soldiers obeyed the order and flew in to intercept the Titans, but the things just seemed to ignore them and ran straight past.

"What's going on? Damn things ran right by us."

"Three Titans have broken through!"

"Captain Levi!"

"Hey, what did you do?! You called in some friends, didn't you?!" He said, stomping his foot on the Titan's head. Levi deployed his ODM Gear and easily slashed through the three Titans. But just as he'd killed those three, more and more Titans flooded towards the female Titan.

"The enemy is closing from all directions!" The Titans went straight for her? The commander finally realized it now. The female Titan was about to be eaten alive.

Commander Erwin was to give the order to defend the female Titan, when out of nowhere, two people were flanking both sides of the female Titan. It was a beautiful woman with long scarlet red hair and a man with shaggy light blue hair. The woman dodged and weaved with supernaturally fast speed as she sliced through the Titans one by one. The blue haired man matched that same speed, if not more so, in fact, he was moving so fast, the TitansTitans didn't have any time to react. Hell Erwin could barely keep up with the man himself. What the hell? Are these a new breed of Titan shifters? No, they would've transformed by now.

Your right commander.

"Huh?" Erwin looked behind him to see the same man he'd seen fighting down below. His hands were raised in surrender.

"We're not going to hurt you, we just figured that you guys needed some help," the man said calmly as a young woman with scarlet hair stepped up next to him and assumed the same position.

Erwin turned to Hange and Levi, "You two are in charge of the female Titan! I'll handle these two intruders!"

The commander looked the man in the eye with a cold dead stare, to which the man stared back at him with the same expression.

"What are your names and where did you come from?" the commander asked with a demanding voice.

The man spoke, "I'm Jellal Fernandes and she's Erza Scarlet. We live on the other side of the ocean and are here for what's known as a '100 year quest'."

Mike couldn't help but butt in, "Excuse me, but how the hell can you be from across the ocean? How the hell did you get past all the Titans? How did you not get eaten? How-"

"Enough Mike," commander Erwin replied, returning his attention to the two newcomers kneeling in front of him.

"Continue..."

"We ran into that so called 'Female Titan' down there and we're simply trying to get home."

"You mean you had an encounter with that b*tch too?"

Both wizards looked up to see Captain Levi standing a few feet away. Erza finally spoke, "Yes we did, she was very fast and aggressive."

The commander looked to Levi, "Have you managed to get her to come out?"

"No, she hasn't budged a damn inch, the b*tch is persistent."

Erwin sighed looking out to see the light of day growing dimmer then down to the Titan still struggling in the trap they had set.

"A look out team will stay overnight and keep watch over the Titan to make sure she doesn't escape! The rest of you, retreat to Colonath District!" Commander Erwin instructed.

Jellal and Erza slowly stood up and began to walk away but stopped at the sound of the commander's voice, "You two are coming with us, it's not safe out here."

"We'll be fine, commander" Jellal said.

"That's an order, and you will follow it, understood?" Erwin shot back, growing aggravated.

Jellal sighed and looked at Erza who gently took his hand and nodded.

"Yes sir," said the blue haired mage, as they both complied and went with the Scouts.

Next Chapter: A Scarlet Warrior (Preview)

"Excuse me sir, we're going to need to call in our guildmaster back home and let him know where we're at." Erza said to the commander as she and Jellal rode alongside him and Captain Levi on two spare horses.

"And just how the hell do you expect us to do that, redhead?" Levi asked, earning him a dangerous glare from Jellal.

"Levi, shut it, " Erwin said, "Ma'am, we haven't had any contact with the outside world for roughly 100 years. But if you guys have a way then I'm all ears."