Chapter 1

The Boomerang

And It's Master

"Hey, Mikasa. There's a titan down there." Armin pointed down from off the wall. "It's a big one," Mikasa replied, "Eren, come over here. " Eren walked over to where the two of them were standing. "What is it you guys?"

"Look over there, about two miles away from the base of the wall." Mikasa pointed toward a massive titan. "I wonder what it's chasing." Eren stated. "Well, whatever it is we'd better check it out." Armin told the other two.

The three of them jumped off the wall and activated their 3D maneuver gear on the way down.

They reached the titan rather quickly, only to find a teenage girl, having seemingly just taken it's left arm off, in the process of killing it. When the girl landed, the titan caught her off guard and swung it's huge arm and made her go flying into the nearby woods with tremendous force.

"We have to help her!" Armin yelled. As they were flying through the air at the titan Mikasa told them, "Eren, you come with me to take that titan down. Armin, you go and help the girl that was fighting it. Assuming she's still alive." Eren and Armin both agreed in unison. Eren latched his gear onto a tree and flew around it to distract it while Mikasa went for the nape of its neck.

Meanwhile, Armin had found a clearing in the trees and a small ravine in the ground. At the very end of it he found the girl that had been in combat with the titan, unconscious and bleeding very badly. She seemed to be on the verge of waking up. He shook her gently so as to not do anything to cause her pain. Her eyes opened slightly and she looked at him. "Oh good! You're still alive. Tell me, what is your name?" He said to her. "My name is Sango of the village of yokai exterminators." She flinched from the pain of many shattered bones moving in and out of place. "Can you move?" Armin asked Sango.

"Not on my own." She flinched again. "Please, can you carry me back to where you came from. I can help along the way. But what of the monster that attacked me?" "Don't worry about that. My two friends are taking care of it as we speak." Sango got herself as Sat up as she could. "Don't strain yourself, otherwise you'll be in far more pain than you already are." He got Sango's arm around his shoulder and hoisted her up as smoothly as he could. They started walking out of that part of the forest.

"Mikasa, take it out!" Eren yelled. Mikasa sliced both of her swords across the base of the titan's neck and it fell to the ground. Eren saw Armin walking towards them with the girl from earlier hanging off of his left shoulder. He set her down gently so she could rest for a bit before they went off again. "Is that the girl who was fighting this titan earlier?" Mikasa asked. "Yes, and she says her name is Sango." Armin confirmed. "Well, she needs medical attention and lots of it," Eren told them. "We need to get her back to the wall so we can get in."

"No. First we need to retrieve my hiraikotsu." Sango told them. Armin started to search through the ashes of the fallen titan. He found a gigantic hunk of bone, and he decided to ask if this was it or not. Armin asked if it was and Sango confirmed it. Mikasa took Sango's right arm and Eren her left, and they lifted her to her feet as gently as they could so they wouldn't cause any more internal damage. Armin started to drag the hiraikotsu behind him with immense difficulty. After that, they were ready to move and they walked back to the outermost wall.

When they got to the base of the wall, they asked for entry and it was granted. The gate was opened and they walked into the town only to be greeted by their commanding officer and a group of other soldiers. Armin didn't waste any time in explaining, "Look sir, we know we shouldn't have gone down the wall without permission, but look at who we found. " The officer looked at the girl Mikasa and Eren had between them, and a surprised look came over his face. "How did this girl survive out there!?" "That doesn't matter right now. She needs medical attention, now."Armin told them in a hurried tone. "Well then. We'd better get her to the hospital." He looked to his subordinates. "Take her. You three, come along."

Armin, Mikasa and Eren looked at Sango laying on the hospital bed with great concern. Sango had thick bandages wrapped around her chest, arms, head and legs. Thankfully though, she was breathing normally. The doctor came in to see how she was doing. Mikasa asked the doctor, "is she going to be alright?" The doctor replied, "Yes, she'll be fine. This girl that you found is extremely tough. Her left leg has been shattered, her right broken, crushed ribs, splintered arms and a massive head injury. To be honest, I am very surprised that she survived the attack that you described to me earlier. She'll live, but I don't think she will be able to walk ever again." Sango exhaled and she opened her eyes slowly. "It will take a lot more than this to keep me from moving. Don't worry about me." The doctor looked at her in amazement. "I wasn't expecting you to wake up for another day or two. You are far stronger than you look."

"Where did you put my hiraikotsu?" Sango asked. Eren replied, "we don't know where it is. What is that thing anyway?" "The hiraikotsu is a gigantic boomerang made from the bones of many yokai." Sango answered. "I got it from my father, and he got it from his father before him. It is a weapon made to destroy huge monsters quickly, but I'm not sure how that giant was able to out-maneuver the hiraikotsu." She tried to move but flinched from the pain. "I'm not expecting to be like this for very long. I have had worse injuries." "How could you have had injuries worse than this?" The doctor asked her. "The wounds that you have now should be very fatal for anybody, and yet you are recovering rather quickly. Your arms and legs that should still be shattered are already coming back together."

"Well, that's good." Sango replied, and then she dozed off.