NOTES

This is the new chapter 2 It takes place about a month into training

Sorry about chapter 1 if you read it yesterday sometime after 8 pm then you will have noticed it duplicated itself, but it should be fine now.

Enjoy

Reiner watched as Annie and Eren fought in hand-to-hand combat for the third time that hour.

What surprised him the first time was that Eren was able to keep up with Annie and even seemed to know Annie's fighting style which was strange considering no one used it withinside the walls.

Originally Eren had fought Reiner but when Eren had used Annie's fighting style against him he had been so surprised he had lost the fight.

Eren fought with experience, though he most likely had some experience from what he learned from Armin Eren always lost his fights.

Until now it seems.

He continued to watch them fight until he saw Shadis eying him.

He quickly moved on, but something was bugging him about Eren he just didn't know what.

TIME SKIP

He, Annie, and Bertholdt have sat at a table alone far enough away from the rest of the cadets that no one would hear them.

Three Titan shifters amongst oblivious Eldian's. He felt sorry for them, being trapped within these walls ignorant to the outside world.

They sat silently for several minutes before Annie broke the silence.

"When?" she asked him.

"Whenever we finish our training," He replied. "We break another wall and then we move forward, one wall at a time."

"Why to wait that long training last year's we could do it two if we wanted or even one if we tried."

"Because If we want to find the coordinate then we need to get into the MP brigade, the only way to do that and keep cover is to work for it. And they still haven't calmed down at what happened at Shiganshina and Maria, it would be too risky, especially with the scouts here." Lying to Annie and himself.

They could take the walls within several years but the guilt of doing that would break him further than he was already, after being the cause of the deaths of 20 percent of the Eldian race… it had changed him, in what way he didn't know or care he just wanted to prolong this as long as he could

Annie nodded accepting it, but he had no doubt she knew why he wanted to wait this long but if she did, she kept it to herself.

"Did you notice Eren during training," he asked them.

"What do you mean," Bertholdt asked, of course, he thought why would he notice.

He was fighting with a similar style to Annie even though they don't have that here," He looked at Annie, "you noticed it didn't you."

"Yeh I did but it wasn't exactly perfect either, they could have something similar to in here," she replied.

"You know they don't," he told her.

Annie did not reply, instead continuing to eat in silence.

His head snapped up to the sound of shouting from someone across the room, Jean's at it again he thought to himself. Jean was standing up face to face with Eren, though Eren was several inches smaller.

He didn't know what the argument was about, but he could tell from Jean's expression that a fight was likely to break out.

"You are an ass hole," Jean said smirking.

"Yeh, I know," Eren replied calmly.

To his surprise Eren did not throw the first punch, instead Jean charged into Eren knocking him backward into the table behind him. Eren slightly stunned from the attack elbowed Jean's back causing him to pull back. Jean then through a right hook which was blocked by Eren with ease before he then hit Jean in the liver with a body shot causing him to collapse.

Jean got back up slowly due to the pain though Eren then punched Jean in the face once again sending him to the floor

"I think we're done here," Eren said coldly, before turning and beginning to walk away.

"No… were not done," Jean said getting up from the floor

Eren turned slightly.

"Yes, we are," before turning around and leaving.

"Well, he certainly knows how to fight," said Annie before standing up and leaving like many of the others in the hall.

That's an understatement he thought to himself also standing, Eren was holding back.

TIME SKIP+ CHANGE POV/ARMIN

Night fell as he looked down at the map, a candle sitting next to it lighting it up with a flickering yellow glow, they had been traveling for hours and had hadn't even made it halfway. Glancing up from the map he looked at the landscape stretched out before him,

They were doing a 40-mile run, in full gear though to make sure they did not cheat their ODM gear had no gas. Traveling the entire day had been quite exhausting for him, he had no doubt he was not the only one who thought that.

Looking at Eren, who seemed to be no more tired than they had at the start, was staring out into the vast forest.

Something has changed in him at first, he had not believed it believing that Mikasa was just being overprotective of Eren, but as the days went by, he started to realize that she was right. Eren would no longer throw the first punch as used to, instead of letting his opponent attack first then he would quickly take them out.

"Armin," voice brought him out of his thoughts as Reiner kneeled next to him.

"How many more days do you think we'll be traveling for," he asked him.

"Two to three days," in truth he didn't know but it was a rough guess.

Reiner nodded then left going towards the fire the others had been building.

They had been split into two different groups in theirs there was meant to pass at about the halfway mark on an old stone bridge, they were still on track to reach there in time, but he had no idea about the other group

His thoughts kept going back to Annie who was in the other group. Focus he told himself. He folded the map and snuffed out the candle as he felt the heat from the campfire reach him.

Several of their group went hunting since Sasha had been in their group and she had gone through her food and more within the first five hours. Sasha also claimed that she had seen a boar's footprint in the mud near the camp so once they had set up camp Jean, Reiner, Thomas and Sasha had gone looking for it.

But once they had returned with night falling and no Boar to be found Reiner had gone with Eren and Ymir to find some food. They returned with a dear.

Armin, Krista, Bertholdt, and Mina had stayed behind both times choosing the safer option to set up camp and get a fire started.

Sitting down next to the others and taking a piece of deer meat he couldn't help but wonder what had caused the change in Eren, was it Mikasa finally getting through to him, or was it becoming a soldier he felt a responsibility to not be so impulsive.

He doubted these were the case though, it was something more. He had no idea what changed him he could only guess. Mikasa had asked him about it but from what she had told him he had said he just grew up.

Actually, where was Eren, he was not around eating like everyone else, and looking behind him he saw he was not at the cliff edge either.

The realization came to him too late.

"DON'T MOVE!" Armin turned around to see six men each of them armed with guns except one who held one of the blades from Eren's ODM gear.

"All of you hand over your ODM gear now or this kid gets his throat slit," said the man holding Eren.

Even being held like this Eren looked calm, almost too calm like he knew he was safe.

They could try to use their blades against them but only Reiner had his equipment on. It would only take the press of the trigger then they would be dead.

All around the group removed their gear before placing it in a pile near the men, who he guessed were going to sell their gear in the underground.

"Alright, we're taking this guy here to make sure none of you try anything we'll drop him off after we feel we're far enough from you," He told them.

Still through all this Eren seemed relaxed as they went towards their carriage bringing the ODM with them Reiner spoke up.

"How do we know you'll leave him."

"You don't. you're just gonna have to pray," he replied before getting into the wagon blade digging into Eren's neck.

"I'll be fine," Eren told them.

"I sure tell them that," the man grumbled.

They watched as the cart disappeared into the darkness in silence with only one thought on his mind.

Fuck.

CHANGE POV/EREN

He was still sat in the cart at least half an hour after they had left camp.

"So," He asked. "When are you gonna let me go."

The men looked at each other for a moment but said and did nothing remaining in silence.

"What are you going to do with the gear." He asked them, wanting to see if the answer was different from last time.

This time one of them did reply.

"We're going to sell obviously, you dumb or something."

Eren chose not to reply this time instead of looking back across the road from which they had been traveling from. A faint light could be seen in the distance which he guessed were torches.

They're coming to save him already well he won't need saving.

He looked forward to seeing a small mountain which the road curved round.

Perfect

"You're going to kill me," he stated.

The man looked at him before he looked to his partners, they seemed to agree without speaking. As the cart turned the corner one of them picked up one of the swords putting it to his throat.

"I'm sorry," He told them.

With a look of confusion one replied. "for what."

"Doesn't matter, cause I'm not," before the man pushed the blade into his throat then removing it.

He sat still feeling himself choking on the blood filling up his throat. So, this is how Bertholdt felt

"For this," He choked out, then biting his hand then feeling his Titan begin to form.

CHANGE POV/NO ONE

A bolt of golden lightning struck the cart destroying it and all the ODM gear within seconds.

Three of them died instantly, the fourth died seconds after the explosion. But the last two were alive to see a Titan form before their very eyes 15 meters tall.

The explosion caused an avalanche from the cliffside. To the men's horror again the Titan quickly put its hands around the back of its head then its fingers turned to what looked like diamond protecting it from the rocks falling on them.

One of the men had a rockfall on top of his leg crippling him and allowing more rocks to fall and crush him to death.

The other had run, trying to escape the avalanche but he could not run fast enough. A rock small enough to fit in his hand hit him in the face sending him tumbling to the ground and off the cliff edge.

Time seemed to slow as he fell, his life flashing before his eyes

As he fell, he looked up at the edge of the cliff, to see the Titan looking down at him, with no remorse in its eyes.

What is he? Was his only thought as he fell to his death, but he answered this question as the ground neared him. He was

A MONSTER

CHANGE POV/HISTORIA

She and the others came upon the cliff where the explosion had come from. Several minutes after the men had left with Eren, they had gone after him.

They followed the tracks made by the wagon for some time, then suddenly a blast was heard coming from a cliffside.

They had gone after what suspiciously sounded like an explosion, which lead them to the cliff.

And as they turned the corner of the road, they saw Eren sitting there as if nothing had happened."

"Hey," he called to them standing up and walking over to them.

"What was that explosion," Jean asked.

"Oh, yeh there was an avalanche," he replied calmly. He was not injured which she found odd but decided not to press him.

"Eren what about the" Armin tried asking but was interrupted by Eren.

"Dead… all six of them."

The statement was followed by an eerie silence.

"Are you hurt?" she asked him.

He looked at her and replied quickly

"I'm fine. But we should probably head back to camp."

As they walked back to camp, she saw Reiner looked slightly shocked and even slightly scared. But didn't bother asking him about it.

She couldn't help but think about Eren. She had so many questions about him, why was he not hurt by the avalanche? what was the explosion? What was Eren hiding?

New chapter 1 I enjoyed writing this so tell me what you think in the comments.