Maybe if it was some other titan, the trap would've worked. However, the jaw titan easily evaded most of the harpoons. The ones which embedded itself into the monster's skin, were pulled out with one swing of its hand.

The enemy continued with its chase.

Eren looked behind in shock. The titan was approaching really fast. Now that it was sure no more traps were laying ahead, it could pick up speed on the ground.

Eren looked back at his teammates. They certainly didn't expect this to happen. Gunther looked at the captain with fear in his eyes.

"CAPTAIN, WHAT DO WE DO NOW!" He yelled.

"On my signal" he started with his eyes still on the road "everyone except Eren off their horses!"

"Eren" the captain continued "you are the backup plan. Since the trap didn't work, you'll have to defeat the enemy in your titan form. Everyone, be careful of it hardening its skin."

Eren gathered every single bit of conviction he had in himself.

"YES, SIR!" He yelled and brought his hand to his mouth.

"NOW!" Levi yelled as every member of the squad launched their gear and swished to the trees.

Eren was now riding alone. He turned himself to face the titan. As he jumped off the horse, he bit on his hand.

A blast of energy engulfed him as he transformed. Familiar feeling of being within his titan form overwhelmed Eren. The jaw titan stopped in its tracks. It was looking at Eren. Suddenly it took a huge leap towards him. Eren raised his hands to block the attack, but with one quick slash of its huge claws, his left forearm got severed.

"EREN'S IN TROUBLE! WE NEED REINFORCEMENTS!" Levi yelled as he swished towards the titan along his squad.

As the titan saw them approaching it jumped away from Eren. A swirl of claws and swords filled the air. Two people from the squad were slashed at, but Levi managed to get through the giant hands and got close to its head. As he tried to blind the enemy, enormous jaws bit at him.

"Damn it!" Yelled Levi as he barely swished out of its way.

Only now did Eren take time to look at the enemy. It was relatively small, up to ten-metre class, however it possessed really long limbs. That allowed the titan to be extremely agile in these surroundings. Its giant claws were made from bone-looking material and the titan also had a giant skull-looking mask with big, sharp teeth.

"DO NOT LET IT GET AWAY!" Eren heard the commander Erwin yell. He looked towards the source of the voice and saw the reinforcements coming.

"WE HAVE THE FOREST SURROUNDED! IT HAS NO WAY OUT! WE'RE TAKING IT ALIVE!" The commander shouted out.

Scouts swarmed around the titan, trying to incapacitate it. With its neck hardened, they couldn't really target the weak point, so they were trying to cut through the titan's joints.

The jaw titan easily intercepted each incoming attack. It was as if it knew the exact maneuvers the scouts were performing. As more and more of the soldiers fell, Eren could feel that his hand was almost healed.

"ROAAAAR!" Eren roared signifying for the scouts to make way.

'Round two' thought the boy as he approached the jaw titan. This time, he knew what he was doing. He took a battle stance and measured the distance between them. He swung his fist right at its head…

…and suddenly he was thrown to the ground.

"Ouch!" the boy cried out.

"Got any interesting ideas this time too?" Marcel asked, as he helped him up.

"Only one" Eren deadpanned at him "you're not interested in actually teaching me anything. You just want to throw me around!"

The brown-haired boy laughed at that.

"Yeah, it may be the case" he admitted with a smile.

Eren looked at the sky.

"At this rate, I'll never learn anything useful. I'll be just as weak as before" he said.

Marcel waved his hand at that.

"You're using way too much force" he explained "if you ever plan on beating me, you need to watch the way I coordinate my lower body with my arms."

"You're making it sound too easy" Eren said.

"Nothing in life is easy" Marcel started "one day you'll encounter an obstacle you won't be able to overcome."

"Yeah!" Eren said as he launched himself forward "and what then?!"

Once again, he had been sidestepped and thrown to the ground.

"You comply with someone stronger" Marcel said as he looked down at him.

"I'm not the kind of person who does that…" Eren said as he rose from the ground.

Marcel looked at him with pity.

"Yeah" he said "one day it may even kill you…"

'I'm not going down yet!' Eren thought as he desperately tried to keep the titan's hands off him.

He wasn't in a good position to fight. The jaw titan was desperately trying to finish him off and laying on the ground wasn't exactly making it easy for Eren.

'I need to throw him off me!'

He managed to bend one of his knees and grabbed the titan's arms harder. With one quick motion, he threw his opponent off him. He stood up and looked at his opponent. The titan quickly stood up as well and launched itself at Eren. The boy avoided the initial slash, however the smaller titan latched itself onto his arm.

When Eren desperately tried to throw the titan off, it quickly opened its massive jaws and bit on his neck. As the boy felt the control over his titan slip away, he couldn't think of a plan to get away.

'My comrades are my last hope' that was his last thought before he blacked out.

"THE ENEMY HAS CAPTURED EREN!" Erwin yelled as the titan started to run away "FOLLOW THE TITAN! DO NOT LET HIM ESCAPE!"