A/N- This is technically a rewrite of the whole Fall of Humanity I didn't like where it was going and I couldn't really do anything to get it on track. Maybe I'll continue it for now if you guys want to but I plan to be more attentive with this series.

Chapter One

Year 845

Jonathan Rhodes, his name was Jonathan Rhodes and he was a regular child inside the walls. Pretty anti social but other than that Jonathan wasn't a terrible kid. Jonathan walked through the streets in Shiganshina alone, his mother Jane Rhodes was very caring of Jonathan always making sure he had everything. He didn't know his father, Jane gave birth to Jonathan inside the walls when his father was on a mission with a man called Shadis. His fathers name was Alan Rhodes, and sadly Jane received the news a week after giving birth to Jonathan and Jonathan remembered her tears, but he doesn't remember who killed him… or who he was with.

Jonathan saw a kid getting bullied, he had blonde hair and was being pushed up against a wall. Jonathan was pretty tall for his age but those men were very big. Jonathan walked up towards the guys, he hated bullies and he wanted to stop them. Suddenly the bullies turned in Jonathan's direction and then Jonathan shielded himself and prayed the bullies weren't after him. They breezed right past him and he looked at the blonde boy, who was looking at a girl. Jonathan barely knew who the girl was, but she was rather cute Jonathan saw her walking around with a red scarf he always wanted to say something but he was to nervous maybe now was his chance.

Jonathan grabbed the blonde's boy books on the floor and then looked down to see the boy there. Jonathan didn't tower over the boy but he was pretty taller, Jonathan looked at the blonde nervously and the blonde looked equally as nervous. "H-Hey…. May I have those…" The boy asked nervously. The girl walked up to Jonathan, she had a blank look in her eye and there was another kid who didn't look nearly as intimidating but they all looked at him.

"S-Sorry!" Jonathan gave them the books back. "Here you go… are you okay?" Jonathan asked, the blonde boy seemed surprised by his caring nature.

"Yes! Thank you!" The boy smiled brightly feeling much more confident that his friends were around. "What's your name? My name is Armin." The boy said smiling, Armin Jonathan thought that was a nice name it rolled right off the tongue.

"Armin? That's a nice name, my name is Jonathan." Jonathan said smiling back at them, Jonathan then looked at the other friends. The brown haired boy seemed very eager to introduce himself.

"My name is Eren! This is Mikasa!" Eren said smiling and then offering Jonathan a high five, Jonathan's reaction was rather slow but he high fived him.

"H-Hi Mikasa…" Jonathan said nervously stumbling over his words and looking at her. "I se you guys around together, I assume you guys are friends."

"Yeah of course! We have been friends for so long!" Eren said, "Armin here keeps on talking about how he wants to see the ocean!"

"E-Eren!" Armin said looking at him shocked, "We were just going to the canal! Would you like to join us… Jonathan."

"Oh! Really? Thanks guys!" Jonathan said smiling at all of them and then started walking with them.

"So Jonathan how do you feel about hiding in the wall against all of these titans?" Eren asked narrowing his eyes at him slightly.

"Uhm, I mean I'm just happy that my mother is okay… these walls protect us and I'm thankful for that." Jonathan said, in the corner of his eye he saw Mikasa staring at Eren like he has brought up this subject before.

"Don't you feel like we are trapped though inside the walls?" He asked slightly raising his voice, Jonathan's eyes widened at this sudden voice raise.

"Well… kind of now that you mention it it's kind of restricting but after what… nevermind." Jonathan said as they turned a corner and Jonathan was slightly blinded by the sunlight.

"What?" Eren asked.

"It's nothing." Jonathan said slightly lowering his head.

"Come on you can tell me we are friends now Jonathan!" Eren said smiling at him. Jonathan's eyes lit up and he smiled when he heard the word friends, he didn't have a lot of friends considering he was very anti social and didn't like talking much but something about these people made him feel right at home.

"Jonathan!" Jonathan recognized that voice he swiftly turned around as that happened and then saw his mother running up. to him. "Jonathan you are going out without your jacket!"

"Mom! It's hot outside!" Jonathan said as Jane started putting on his coat and Jonathan tried to take it back off.

"No the sun is out but that doesn't mean that it's going to be hot! The wind is blowing a lot!" She was right the wind was blowing a lot and Jonathan as rather chilly but he didn't want to lose his new friends because of this one incident. "Oh, Jonathan do you have new friends?" Jane asked looking at his friends.

"Yes mom!" Jonathan said putting on the jacket and blushing deeply mostly out of embarrassment. Jonathan looked at Mikasa who was looking at him with the scarf on, Jonathan quickly blushed even deeper and then Jane put her hands on both sides of the face of Jonathan and then kissed him on the forehead. "Mom!" He whined from the kiss.

"I'm sorry sweetie! You have fun with your friends." Jane said smiling at Jonathan and then walking away. Jonathan turned at his new friends and blushed extremely deeply at this.

"Your mom is the greatest Jonathan!" Eren said smiling at Jonathan.

"Yeah Jonathan. You should really cherish her." Armin said smiling. Mikasa then put a hand on Jonathan's shoulder, Jonathan jumped.

"Cherish your mother Jonathan." Mikasa said looking at him blankly, it looked like she was going to cry but she was controlling it.

"Okay guys! I understand." Jonathan said smiling.

"No problem." Armin said as he noticed everyone was looking at something, Armin looked up and froze.

Jonathan, Eren and Mikasa looked up at the sky and there was a titan, no it couldn't be a titan. 'What the hell is that… it's not a titan it's more than a titan it towers over the wall. I thought the wall was over 40 meters tall, this titan was colossal it was so damn huge why? Why was it so huge and why was it here?' Jonathan's mind was racing as he looked at the huge and red monster that towered over the whole wall.

"What the hell is that?" Jonathan heard multiple voices shouting at the titan, like that would do anything. Jonathan kept on looking at the titan but the titan seemed to move, like not his arms but his body slightly shifted. Suddenly a hand grabbed his wrist, Jonathan looked behind him it was Jane thank god his mother was there.

"Mom!" Jonathan said as he grabbed his mom's hand, "What is that?" Jane looked back down at him.

"I don't know Jonathan, but get your friends-" A huge sound was heard throughout the whole city as they looked over and saw multiple rocks flying in the air. "Oh god." Jane grabbed the hand of Jonathan and started running.

"Eren! Guys come on!" Jonathan shouted.

"My mother!" Eren shouted as he started running towards his mother and so did Mikasa. Armin followed but then Armin spotted Hannes out of the corner of his eyes.

"Hannes! You have to help Eren and Mikasa they went after their mom!" Armin shouted.

Jonathan and his mother were running through the streets rather easily, especially considering they were the first ones to run. Jonathan looked up at his mother who had tears in her eyes, Jonathan was just so thankful that his mother sprang into action and was right there for him. Luckily since she was a women and normally women and children go first. Jonathan got on a ship to exit out of Shiganshina. Jonathan saw something though, it was a titan of armor. Jonathan looked at it and saw the titan charge at the walls, the titan wasn't harmed by any cannon blast by god was it powerful. He saw the titan burst through the wall of Maria, and Jonathan gasped Jane covered the eyes of Jonathan. "I can't let you see this." Jane said as she started to cry.

"Mom… don't cry…" Jonathan said turning around and hugging Jane tightly, Jane hugged him back tightly. Jane heard the soft sobs of Jonathan and then she kneeled down and kissed him on the forehead.

"We made it out together sweetheart…" Jane said smiling through her tears and hugging him tightly still.., Jonathan just hummed lightly as he kept on squeezing his mom. Thankful and happy that she was there for him.

Year 847

Jonathan got up from his bed and then walked on downstairs, Jane his mother was standing there looking at him. Jonathan was twelve and he was going to join the cadet corps. Jane was wondering why he would do it, she was trying to prevent him from joining all month long but Jonathan was presistant. Jonathan was met with Jane's tears, "Come on Jonathan… you don't have to do this." Jane said putting her hands together and crying, at this point Jonathan was a pretty tall boy for twelve standing at 5'10 and he was the same height as his mother if not taller.

"Mom, I'm doing this." Jonathan said looking at her and then hugging her as she continued to cry out loud. "Don't cry…" Jonathan said hugging her tightly and then Jane kissed him on his forehead.

"I'm just so proud of you." Jane said smiling at him still tears running down her cheeks, "I will miss you…" Jane said kissing him on his forehead again. Jonathan nodded and hugged her tightly.

Jonathan walked out and looked into the sky, they were in the Trost district some parents were sent on a mission to try and recapture the wall. His mother was barely able to escape the consequences, mostly because Jane was the only thing that Jonathan had. Jonathan walked over to the camp and then saw some of his friends there, well friends for a day. Eren, Mikasa, and Armin disappeared after they were separated he wondered what they did and how they managed to stay alive. People were breaking down and trying to rob other people.

Jonathan kept walking through the camp not noticing anyone different, there was a rather tall girl there who looked extremely grumpy. She wasn't taller than him but she had freckles, Jonathan figured he stared at her to long because she sneered at him and Jonathan slightly jumped. Jonathan then ran into another man, he was actually bigger than him and presumably older. "Excuse me…" Jonathan muttered as the big blonde man turned around.

"No problem." The big blonde man said as he turned back around. He quickly turned around again, "Reiner. What about you." Reiner asked extending his hand. Jonathan shook it and then looked at Reiner.

"Jonathan, Jonathan Rhodes." Jonathan stated as he looked at Reiner. "I hope that you have my back out there."

"Thanks, I will and make sure you have my back out there. Do you have an idea of what you are joining?" Reiner asked.

"My mother wants me to join the military police… but I'm looking for the scouts what about you?" Jonathan asked.

"Oh, you have a mother inside of the walls?" Reiner asked slightly opening his eyes more.

"Yeah." Jonathan said.

"That's great, actually…" Reiner was about to say something else but they heard someone shout out loud and they turned to see a man. A man called commander Shadis, he was tall, bald, and extremely intimidating Jonathan would rather see another titan than seeing Shadis.

"Cadets! Line the hell up!" Shadis shouted as Jonathan and everyone else came into the lines in a orderly fashion. Shadis was shouting at people down the line and he was going down the line looking at some people weirdly, he passed them like he passed Reiner a small blonde girl and a tall brunette who was almost as tall as Shadis he was really tall… "Soldier who the hell are you!"

"Connie Springer sir!" Connie a small shaven man said as Shadis looked down at him crossing his arms.

"Oh you are going to be a great appetizer for the titans!" Shadis shouted loudly grabbing Connie by the head. "The titans will eat you first because you are just a starting meal!"

He heard a munch, and out of the corner of his eye he spotted a woman eating a potato. Shadis dropped Connie on the floor as Connie grunted out loud and then Shadis turned his head eerily at the girl, and then seemingly teleported over to her he went over there so fast everyone thought that he teleported. Shadis looked down at the little girl and the girl kept on eating, was she crazy.

'Oh this girl is going to get it now…' Jonathan thought as Shadis started shouting out the girl loudly and Jonathan just closed his eyes he felt like he was getting yelled at because of how loud he was. But soon after all the yelling was done he heard footsteps go over to him. Jonathan opened his eyes nervously and saw the extremely tall Shadis looking down at him. Shadis then looked at Jonathan laughing at him, why the hell was he doing that?

"Cadet what is your name!" Shadis shouted out loud.

"Jonathan Rhodes! Sir!" Jonathan shouted, Shadis froze he didn't say anything for a moment which was extremely strange. The word Rhodes rang in his head as Shadis remembered most of the soldiers who died under his command, Alan Rhodes was a friend of his and he remembers him.

Shadis eyes continued to glare at Jonathan as he thought, it wasn't awkward it was a terrifying few seconds. Shadis then walked away without breaking the glare, was Shadis really looking at the son of Alan Rhodes? Shadis remembers Alan Rhodes, but he didn't think that Jonathan even knew him because of the incident. "Who are you cadet!" Shadis continued his intimidation, and Jonathan wondered what was going on Jonathan looked around and everyone was staring at him. Jonathan was extremely embarrassed.

"Armin Arlelt… sir…" Jonathan looked over to see Armin and Armin out of the corner of his eye saw Jonathan and remembered him but Armin didn't smile because of the fact that Shadis was right there and still yelling at him.

"Oh the titans are going to have fun having you as dessert!" Shadis shouted as he slightly laughed at Armin.

After all that yelling which felt like forever Jonathan ran over to Armin. "Armin!" Armin turned his head to look at Jonathan. "It's me! Remember Jonathan!"

"Of course! How could I forget that day…" Armin said slightly looking down and sounding grim. "I didn't know you would join the military!"

"I want to protect everyone inside the walls. Hopefully I could help… all I want to do is help…" Jonathan said looking down, "Is Eren here?"

"Yeah!" Eren said coming behind Jonathan and slapping him on the back. "Wow you have grown." Eren said noticing that Jonathan was much taller than Armin, Armin didn't grow a lot but Eren did.

"Mikasa?" Jonathan asked.

"Right here." Mikasa said standing right behind Jonathan which spooked Jonathan out a lot, he jumped at this and Mikasa saw the jump. "Nice to see you again Jonathan." Mikasa said still not smiling. Jonathan always wondered why she wasn't smiling at him or at anyone as a matter of fact.

"Nice to see you again to Mikasa." Jonathan said rubbing the back of his hair and blushing, Jonathan had rather long hair because of his genes. Alan his father allegedly had long black hair and Jonathan's mother would always talk about how he got his hair from Alan. Mikasa had that same cute look and Jonathan blushed, thankfully no one would notice. "Why did you join the military Eren?"

"Well… Jonathan… as soon as you left… we went to find our mother. And… the house had collapsed…" Eren slowed down.

"Eren, you don't have to relive that moment. I'm sorry for bring it up…" Jonathan said looking at Eren and then putting a hand on him. "I'm sorry for leaving you guys…"

"Did your mother make it?" Mikasa asked.

"Yes! Thanks for asking… we live in Trost and she just barely avoided the draft to try and retake Maria…. But why did they use random parents?" Jonathan looked at Armin for a answer.

"Well I believe that they sent him on a suicide mission… less mouths to feed…" Armin said. "They sent my parents…"

"That… is god awful…. And terrible…" Jonathan said. 'Why is everything going to shit? So much panic, and so many crooked people for no reason. There is enough food to go around… me and my mom had enough food to have and I ate a lot of food…' Jonathan thought as he looked at Armin. "I'm sorry… I'm not going to ask anymore questions." Jonathan said looking down.

"No, it's the world we live in now…" Mikasa said. "It's a sad… but beautiful world."

"Understood." Jonathan said looking at the potato girl, her name wasn't potato girl. It was Sasha, but Jonathan liked the name potato girl.

Jane heard a knock at the door and then stopped the water pump, after Jonathan left. She didn't eat so much, especially considering that Jonathan was gone he was a growing boy and he was going to continue to grow. Alan was at least 6'1 at minimum and Jane knew Jonathan was going to be taller than him, such a shame that Jonathan never saw his father though it was saddening and sometimes she would cry about it thinking that it was her fault. Jane came over to the door putting her hands in her short blonde hair and wiggling her fingers around in her hair. Jane opened the door.

"Jane." Jane looked up to see Shadis. She backed up slightly extremely shocked to see Shadis away from the troops, Shadis left someone else to take care of the troops while he was gone they weren't doing anything important.

"Shadis! Come in…" Jane said looking at him and Shadis had to slightly duck to get into the room. "What brings you here? I made some tea. Sit down… please…" Jane said turning around to get tea, Shadis walked on the wooden floor and then sat down at the table.

"I never knew your boy would become a soldier one day like his father…" Shadis said, "When I heard Rhodes the first thing I thought about was Alan."

"It wasn't your fault, you sacrificed one life for others. You had to go back…" Jane said turning around and giving Shadis the tea, he didn't mean to make Jane upset and she was visibly upset.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to offend you Jane…" Shadis said frowning as he took a sip out of the tea watching Jane sit down.

"It's okay… it's okay… I'm fine it happened year ago. I just get sad sometimes when I remember his death, and it was a week after his birth. I heard you gave Erwin the commander spot after a few months." Jane said.

"I couldn't live with myself knowing I let my friend die. It took a lot of convincing but finally… he took the bait…" Shadis said, he couldn't look Jane in the eye when talking about his past or talking about Alan. "I will do everything in my power at the camp to make sure he is prepared for the outside world, and make sure that he is prepared for the titans."

"Thank you Shadis." Jane said smiling at him. "But please try and make sure that my boy doesn't join the scouts."

"I'll try ma'am he seems hell bent on joining the scouts. There aren't a lot of people joining this year it seems like everyone wants to go to garrison or police. So maybe he will change his mind, I wouldn't blame him." Shadis got up. "Thank you for the chat, and thanks for the tea Jane. I will make sure Jonathan grows up to be a fine young man."

"Thank you Shadis, I really appreciate you…" Jane said smiling.