Part 35
The Hidden Secret
(The finale to Season 1, beyond this Part will be leading into Season 2 and onwards.)
Destruction was all that any pair of eyes could see within the city. Eren and Annie continued to rampage throughout; Eren also evidently using whatever rage he had stored as a way of counter attacking any of Annie's assaults.
All anyone could do was simply stand by and watch. Fury along with them.
Her eyes narrowed as they all began to watch as Annie flurried her attacks against Eren's Titan, pounding her fist atop of his head as her Titan screeched in her own rage-filled torment.
For Fury, she gains her own answers about who she is only to be involved with more questions when it comes to other people. Was this her war to fight? Was it truly anybody's? She couldn't help but shake the feeling that she was once as angry as this Eren shows himself to be. And yet she knows from experience that anger never leads to anything good. This kid, she thought, needs to be shown a way to control himself before others around him continue losing their lives. And Fury refused to give her life for anybody, Titan Shifter or not. To lay down and die wasn't within her morality, no matter who she's protecting. Even if it was Levi or Erwin; Fury has always accepted that you only get one life and that time can sometimes move forward quicker than it feels.
It was proof enough for her, who once sought out Levi to ask for Kenny only to find herself among the passing of time and that years had passed. Still she has yet to speak of Kenny; a man she now knew who killed her parents and should've killed her and yet…He did not.
Why?
"No!" Called Armin, pulling Fury from her thoughts. "We can't let her reach the Wall!"
Seeing Eren lay somewhat defeated from Annie's flurry of attacks against him, the Scouts and other regiments alike began to watch as she fled for the wall in order to most likely escape.
A reckoning scream bellowed from Eren's Titan as he began to rise; his rage seemingly at its peak as he began to charge frantically towards Annie, who was now attempting to climb the wall, using her hardened fingertips that Fury remembered seeing her use in order to protect her nape.
The male Titan, in his fit of rage, clung to Annie's leg, sinking his teeth into her flesh in order to halt her climb. Yet Annie could only use her free leg in order to push Eren away from her; causing her leg to tear from her body as both it and Eren then crashed onto the ground, allowing her to continue her climb.
"We can't let her escape!" Armin insisted, spurring Fury to go after her and soon noticing Mikasa had joined her.
Both females manoeuvring themselves up towards the climbing Annie, who had seemed to pause in her climb in order for her to realise there was no escaping this incoming attack.
For Fury, she allowed the gas to burst from her ODM tanks in order to thrust her forward with much speed, allowing her to take her cutters through the hardened fingertips of Annie, separating them from the joints and leaving her with only one active hand. In which Mikasa then took to also ripping through Annie's muscles.
Annie, now without anything to grasp too, then hurdled with speed back towards the ground below her, landing heavily as both Fury and Mikasa remained hooked to the Wall. Eyes widened as Eren suddenly launched himself atop of Annie; screeching loudly as his teeth tore through her skin once again, revealing the actual Annie within the flesh of the Titan that surrounded her.
"He's way too angry!" Fury hissed to herself. Out of worry, Mikasa lowered herself down to him. "He can't be allowed to eat her!" Fury called out in a commanding tone as Eren began to pull Annie's Titan apart limb from limb. "What's he trying to do? Eat her?!.. What does this Shithead think he's doing?!"
As she was about to take herself down to Eren himself in order to do something to stop his onslaught, her eyes caught the familiar spin of Levi who rained down from above; taking his own cutters through Eren's own nape, removing the flesh that surrounded him in which he could then be removed.
"It's not a good idea to eat our key evidence. Idiot!" Levi barked as he pulled Eren out of his restraints of muscle and mass as Annie began to form some sort of hardened shell around her body in order to protect her secrets.
All watched on in awe and confusion, even Erwin himself who stood with narrowed eyes. Annie had somehow fused herself within a crystal tomb, using both her own Titan as well as Eren's.
"Eren!" Came the cry of Mikasa as Levi threw the boy to the ground, leaving Mikasa to fuss over him as Fury looked on, blinking slowly at the event of things. The world suddenly fell silent. No fighting, no cries of pain and death. For Fury, the silence was more deafening than the cries of regret and sorrow of the soldiers who had fallen to any of Annie's attacks this day.
"Don't you do this to us, Annie!" Hissed Jean, as he attempted to crack the shell around the trapped girl. It was no use. Whatever the material was, it caused cutters to simply shatter upon impact. There was no way in. "Get out here and tell us all why you did this!"
Levi placed his hand atop Jean's shoulder, squeezing it slightly in order to have him calm down. Though in Jean's defence, he was simply speaking what everybody else wanted to say.
"We're going to have to keep her underground." Levi muttered, letting go of Jean as he brought out a clean piece of cloth as he began to clean the blades of his cutter's. "Perhaps Hange can find a way to bring her out."
Fury sighed. Her gaze took to looking at the sky. The sky was still something she enjoyed to look at instead of the dark ceiling in which was all she was familiar with from within the Underground. Leaving her with a true sense of feeling trapped. Even though here, on the surface, was more of a struggle; the sky was always something that reminded her that perhaps freedom might one day be possible.
She holstered her cutter's, which had been dulled badly from her initial attack against Annie. Fury lowered her anchors slightly, preparing to take herself down to ground level as something from the corner of her eyes caught her attention, causing Fury to look at it. Instantly her pupils shrank as her eyes became fixed upon what they were now seeing.
A scream came from down below as one female soldier pointed to Fury's direction, causing others to look up as gasps began to emit among the crowd. A hole high up on the wall had been created from where Annie had punctured it with her hardened fingertips. But that wasn't what had people shook, it was what was within the wall.
A face.
Of nothing but muscle and flesh.
And eyes that slowly began to open.
A Colossal Titan embedded within, slumbering silently.
"Fury!" Came the call of Levi, beckoning her to move away from it. But she could not find the will to take her gaze away from the Titan who simply stared down at the people below as it still remained unmoved.
"Don't let the Sun touch it!" Came the feared command of one of the Church members, Pastor Nick. "God forbid, do not let the Sun reach its skin!"
Fury listened to the Pastor. Did he know? Did he know of what was within these walls? If so, who else knew? And were there more than just this one Titan that had been revealed to many?
For humanity that lived behind walls, the world suddenly seemed a lot bigger from this revelation.
