The Colossal Titan began to pick up surroundings houses and throw them up in the sky. We watched as they landed back down on top of other buildings – demolishing homes and businesses alike.
"H-Hey, those houses…they're falling from the sky. All those homes…some of them…could be ours…our fates…our homes…they are all up in the air!" Connie started hysterically yelling, but Sasha quickly used a rod and slammed it on the top of hit head – making him regain his sanity.
"He doesn't know our position." I told Armin.
"Yeah…he's trying to spread flaming wreckage everywhere." Armin said. "He wants to turn Shiganshina into a sea of fire."
"What now, Armin?! Are we just going to wait here until some burning houses fall on us?!" Jean yelled over to his blonde friend.
"Hey, wait…but what about Hanji?" Connie asked.
"Did they really all die in that blast?" Sasha asked.
"We don't know and we don't have time to go and save them, even if they are alive. Right now, we have orders to take – from Armin." I told them. I looked over at the blonde haired boy. I couldn't believe that I was about to put my life in the hands of a boy who was probably half my age, but I knew that he was capable of assessing the situation like Erwin.
"B-Begin retreating. We'll meet with the commander's group and seek his orders. We'll continue our original plan of fighting a war of attrition against the Colossus titan. We'll keep trying to make him use his titan's strength until our main target appears. His gigantic body won't be able to make it over the wall. So we just have to trap him inside this cage until he exhausts himself."
"Wait, Armin." I spoke up. The blonde looked at me with wide eyes. "We can't go near the wall because Erwin and the others are there. If he's torching everything in sight then they can get hurt as well. If he gets too close to the wall then dead horses won't be the only thing we'll be worrying about." I explained to the blue eyed boy.
"yes, a war of attrition is the best way to defeat the Colossus titan, but we have limited supplies too. The gas in our vertical maneuvering gear…it looks like time isn't on either of our sides." Jean piped in.
"Well…then…does that mean we have to defeat the Colossus titan right now? With only the strength of those here at this very moment?" Armin asked with fear in his eyes. I looked around to the younger members of the squad and saw that fear was written all over their faces. How could we possibly kill a titan that was taller than the walls right now?
"Armin! The fire's getting close!" Connie yelled at his teammate.
"We need orders!" Sasha reinforced the notion of time.
"Ryder…could you take over for me?" Armin looked at me with pleading eyes.
"Huh?" I was confused as to why Armin was now asking me to make decisions.
"I-I don't know! What are we supposed to do?! We're in this mess to begin with because I misread Bertolt earlier! Ryder, you're more cut out for this than I am!" Armin yelled in my face. I felt like my heart has stopped in my chest as I stared into his blue orbs. I looked around to the other members of the squad and saw them all look at me with fear and worry written across their faces, but I caught the glimpse of some water in the distance and that's when I remembered the city's surroundings from the last time I was here.
"The river! We're going to move to the river! Everyone get on Eren, so we don't use our gas!" Everyone listened to me and jumped onto Eren's shoulders. "We're going to have to get the Colossus titan to chase after us at some point, but until then, Eren, try not to get found." I instructed him as he crouched down and tried to hide behind the buildings, so we could get to the river. I looked over at Armin and said, "Armin, I may have more experience and know how to work around this situation, but I can't think of any plan to actually get us out of this situation." Armin didn't make eye contact with me. "Armin." With a stern voice, Armin finally made eye contact with me. "I'm counting on your to have something, okay?" Armin didn't say or do anything. He just turned his head, so he could look forward – his eyes wide and his face pale. Armin didn't know what to do and neither did I. We continued to make our way to the river, but we tried to keep the Colossus titan in our sight as well, so we knew his whereabouts.
"Ryder…" I looked over to Jean. "I think he's making his way to the wall now." I looked where Jean was looking and realized that the Colossus titan was slowly approaching the wall.
"Shit…okay…we need to distract him. He can't get any closer to that wall." I looked around and tried to analyze our surroundings. We were pretty far from the Colossus titan and we were standing in a street. I cursed under my breath before I yelled, "Yell, Eren! Don't let him get any closer to that wall!" Eren stood up and opened his mouth in order to let out a massive roar. I covered my ears as he yelled towards the Colossus titan. The Colossus titan stopped in his tracks and looked at us, but we were disappointed when he turned back around and continued to walk towards the wall. "Is that bastard ignoring us?! He knows we don't want him going to the wall!"
"Now what do we do, Ryder?" Connie asked me.
"Eren! We have to stop that piece of shit from getting any closer to that wall!" I yelled as I pointed towards the Colossus titan. Eren began to run forward as we all began to brace ourselves.
"But how?" Connie asked. "What could we do to stop him?"
"The hot steam he produces prevents us from using our Maneurvering Gear!" Sasha yelled over.
"I now, but we have to try whatever we can! We'll figure out his weakness! Connie!"
"Yes?"
"Give me the thunder spear!"
"Alright!" Connie took off the spear and handed it to me. I attached it to my arm and looked over at Armin.
"Armin, you observe from farther back and stop wallowing! You have to believe that we'll figure something out!"
"Okay…"
"Now…scatter!" I yelled. We all jumped off Eren and headed towards the Colossus titan. We all jumped on the roofs and buildings and Eren went for the titans calf. "Is he…pushing him back?" I watched as the Colossus titan's leg moved backwards, but wasn't surprised when the Colossus titan was the one controlling the situation and kicked his leg forward – sending Eren into the top of the wall. "Eren!" I looked back at the Colossus titan and realized that we might not actually make it out alive.
I'M BACK! Sorry, I needed to finish up my Take-home Exams before I went home for the summer, but now I'm officially home! WOOHOO! I also want to throw something out at you guys? What would you say to me posting up a new chapter every other week? Just because I'm already really close to the manga and I don't have much to work with, so there's only so many filler chapters I can write, you know? Leave me a review and tell me what you think!