Reiner, Jonathan, Armin, and Jean had been running for a while their horses were gone and Jonathan wasn't sure if there was a horse for miles. The female titan was heading to the center of the group where Eren was, and they had no way to warn anyone. Jonathan sighed deeply as he sat up against the tree and watched as Jean tried to whistle for a horse to come.

"It's not going to work Jean, you have been doing that for the past few minutes. You would've thought that a horse would've ran through by now!" Jonathan spat as Jean looked back at him.

"Whats your problem?" Jean asked turning his head towards Jonathan. "Reiner had his horse come back, but for some reas-"

"That's right! Reiner's horse came back because he did it correctly! Yours wont come back because your awful at this shit!" Jonathan spat again realizing how aggressive he was being towards Jean. Jean then walked towards him, with an intent to hurt him.

"Jean." Armin looked right at Jean as Jean turned his head. "He isnt himself." Armin said right in front of Jonathan, which made Jonathan even more angry. Jonathan got up quickly.

"Jonathan!" Reiner shouted at him as he stopped bandaging up Armin, "Control yourself." Reiner said as he looked over at Jonathan. "Now isnt the time to turn on each other who knows how long we could be out here."

That's why Jonathan was so upset, he didn't want to stay out there. He kept on thinking about Mikasa, Mikasa, Mikasa, he wanted to be near Mikasa as he turned his head and crossed his arms. After Armin was bandaged up he came over to Jonathan who had his arms crossed and was looking out onto the plains, where thankfully no Titans roamed. "What's the matter?" Armin asked looking at Jonathan.

"Nothing." Jonathan said crossing his arms and turning his head. "You seem a bit spaced out to, your eyes are wider than normal." He said as he looked at Armin. Armin was thinking, but he was surprised that Jonathan noticed so quickly he paused for a moment. "I know. I've seen what you have seen."'

"That titan. Looked at us…" Armin said remembering the blue eyes of the Titan, Armin thought it wasn't an abnormal. He thought it was an intelligent Titan just like Eren, the question is. Who is inside of the Titan, and why are they doing these things… murdering soldiers. More importantly why is it heading towards Eren! "That Titan was headed for something." Armin stated as he looked at Jonathan. "She was headed for Eren."

"What does she want with Eren…" Jonathan questioned as he looked at Armin, Armin looked as confused as Jonathan. He wasn't sure either, "I can tell that your not sure, you want to know what I think." Armin turned to him as if he was paying attention to Jonathan. "Honestly, maybe… That Titan wants Eren's titan powers?" He suggested. "I know it's a long shot."

"No. You might be right, because that Titan may not be a Titan. It may be a transforming Titan like Eren!" Armin heard something, Jean fired his emergency flare. Jean was hoping that someone would come towards the flare, someone anyone. He knew other scouts were dying and needed more help, but Jean didn't want to be stranded with only two horses.

"Sorry. Jean." Jonathan said out of the blue as he got up and ran his hand through his long hair, "I didn't mean what I said earlier."

"Everyone is on edge, I don't blame you Jonathan it's our first mission outside of the walls. I would expect someone to snap at some point." Jean said looking at Jonathan, he did accept the apology because it's their first mission out.

Suddenly they heard galloping. Reiner, and Jean looked into the direction as Reiner finished bandaging up Armin. Reiner and Jean got up and looked at the horses coming. "Come on…" Armin put his hand onto Jonathan and Jonathan just looked at him. "You have to calm down though."

"Sorry… It's just that. Mikasa gave me… a good luck kiss… and I'm hoping that it's going to work…" He said blushing deeply at the idea as he turned his head towards the galloping. Blonde hair waving in the air, it was Krista…

Flashback (Year 849)

Jonathan got kicked in the shin hard by Annie when he was practicing MMA with her. Only one person could tell and that was Krista, Krista came to him after practice and looked at Jonathan as he rubbed his shin. It wasn't really noticeable, but he was stumbling and wobbling a lot. Krista only noticed because Jonathan was behind her when he ran, surprisingly no one else questioned why Jonathan was so slow.

"Jonathan, are you okay?" Krista asked looking at him with a cold rag in her hand as she walked over to him, she had soaked it in cold water so that she could wrap it around his shin. She figured that was the only thing that she could do because she couldn't do much about a bruised muscle except ice it.

Jonathan was surprised that she came over a slight blush crossed his face and then he gave her a nice smile. "Hello, Krista. What do you need?" Jonathan said in the most polite voice. Jonathan had a slight crush on Krista, but honestly. Who didn't, she was a literal goddess, and Jonathan loved her blonde hair.

"I heard your shin was hurting." Krista liked Jonathan, she liked his attitude and personality every time they talked Krista felt like he was interested in what she was saying. "I have something… That might fix it." Krista said as she rolled up his pant leg, causing Jonathan to blush deeply. She rolled up his other pant leg to see which one looked more swollen, the one that was kicked definitely looked like something was wrong. It was red, it looked irritated. She wrapped the cool cloth on his shin. "Ill tell Shadis what happened, you will have to take the day off tomorrow." Krista said sweetly.

"Thanks…" Jonathan slightly grunted because of coldness on his leg but it felt good nonetheless. "How can I repay you?" Jonathan asked getting up and grunting slightly, Krista took his arm which caused Jonathan to go red hot. He rubbed the back of his head as she touched him like that, her touch was so gentle and so soft.

"Just. Come on, you have to rest." Krista said looking at him, Jonathan had an idea.

"How about I brush your hair under a tree. I would be resting and I could repay you!" Jonathan suggested as he smiled at her, Krista blushed at this idea and then twirled her hair. It had been a while since she combed it out, she probably could use it.

"Okay." She said shlyly as she then started to walk with Jonathan. Jonathan smiled as he walked to his favorite tree, he sat down under it glad that all the pressure was off his leg. Krista pulled out the comb and brush, "Just… Brush and comb it okay!" She said blushing as she sat down and leaned against Jonathan. Jonathan smiled as that happened and then started to comb her beautiful hair.

"This hair is like extremely nice Krista. I'm jealous." Jonathan said as he felt her extremely soft hair as he continued to comb it out, she had just let it out of a ponytail and he kept on combing it out. Combining gently, he didn't want to hurt Krista.

Krista slightly touched his hair and giggled. "You have long hair to," She stated touching his black hair running her hands through it. "Do you comb it everyday?" Jonathan wondered when was the last time he combed out his hair, he always ran his hair through it. But he didn't really comb it daily, he did wash it daily though.

"Like once a week. I don't comb it often, but I do wash it a lot though that's probably why." Jonathan said as Krista just sighed and he continued to comb out her hair. "You think Mikasa needs her hair combed out?"

"Mikasa? No it hasn't crossed my mind. That's why she probably keeps her hair short." She mentioned as she looked at Jonathan, Jonathan did talk about and to Mikasa a lot. She knew that Jonathan had a huge crush on her, but she never was able to make him admit it. "You like Mikasa?"

"Yes." Jonathan said bluntly as he looked at her and blushed deeply, he trusted Krista she would never lie to him. He kept on brushing her hair as he thought about Mikasa. "Do you know how I can get to her heart."

"Continue with what your doing. It seems to be working." Krista didn't know if it was actually working, Mikasa was pretty non chillant about Jonathan. Maybe she would ask her later, "Wait I'll ask her!" She said turning around and looking at Jonathan, he blushed deeply as she said that.

"N-No! Don't tell her that I like her!" He stated as Krista realized he was red hot.

"No. I'm going to ask her, how she feels about you. I mean, I'll mix it in with other questions don't worry. Like… Don't worry your secret is safe with me!" Krista said huggi him and Jonathan blushed deeply.

Later on, Mikasa was getting ready for bed. Most of the female cadets were asleep, but Krista vowed to stay awake. For answers, she wanted to question Mikasa. "Krista, your still up. That's unlike you." Mikasa said as she took off her shirt and then put on her shirt to go to bed in, it wasn't much just a white tank top.

"You talk with Jonathan a awful lot, were you just talking to him now?" Krista asked keeping her voice down and looking at Mikasa as her face turned into a slight blush, she couldn't hide that blush now.

"Yes, I was talking to him." Mikasa said as she sat onto her bed and looked down at the foot of her bed.

"Soo… You guys dating or what?" Krista asked getting onto the bed and smiling at her, Mikasa blushed even more as that happened. "You like him?"

"Krista, are you okay?" Mikasa felt her heart beating out of her chest, she felt like any second her heart could burst. And her cheeks felt hot, were they getting redder? She hoped not, she tried to focus on Krista. Krista knew she had her.

Krista grabbed her hands. "Do you like him, your secret is safe with me." Mikasa blushed deeply as that happened, Krista knew the answer.

"Yes." Mikasa said blushing deeply as that happened, "I do." Mikasa squeezed her hand, "If you tell anyone."

"I won't." Krista said.

Present Time

"Oh! Goodness! Krista!" Jonathan shouted out loud as he saw two other horses. Everyone seemed to be relieved that Krista was there.

"Goodness! I'm glad that you guys are okay!" Krista said looking at all of them. Jonathan had his horse with him, so did Reiner but she found Armin's and Jean's horse. "It would be terrible…" She started to slightly cry and looked at all of them. "If one of you guys were eaten. I wouldn't know what to do."

Jonathan blushed as she said that, yeah he was with Mikasa but Krista. Was still a goddess either way. Everyone seemed to agree, everyone even Armin. Speaking of Mikasa he wondered how she was doing. There wasn't any smoke in the air, Jonathan got onto his horse and then yawned. "Wake up Jonathan." Reiner said as he slapped his back rather hard. Jonathan breathed through his teeth and then looked as he kept on riding ahead.

"Thanks Krista. For the save." Jonathan said as he continued to ride his horse.

"No problem Jonathan! I would feel terrible, if you guys passed." Krista said looking at Jonathan as she smiled.

"I wouldn't want you to pass either Krista." Jonathan said as he continued to ride as he kept on riding his horse.

Levi looked over at the black flares that would be fired into the air and he scoffed. Eren realized the flare and wondered what was coming this way. "An abnormal?" Eren questioned as he continued to ride his horse. Levi planned to head for the forest, especially since their defense got broken this easily. The titans were already deep into the formation and almost to them, Levi wondered what was going on.

"Eren. Fire the flare." Levi stated as he looked over at Eren, Eren nodded and then fired the flare into the air. Levi rolled his eyes as he continued to ride the horse.

The female titan, was making it's way through villages abandoned villages as she kept on stomping on everything the scouts had enough though. They devised a plan for this to happen, and they decided to attack the female titan. "Alright, come on…" The scout mumbled under his breath as he was being chased by the female titan who was covering her nape to prevent the scouts from killing her. The scout grabbed his flare and then fired the flare at the face of the titan, the titan then moved her head and then that's when all the scouts attacked.

One of the scouts attached to her leg, one of the scouts attacked her spine. And the other one went for her other leg, they all attached to her and then the man who was leading the whole operation smirked. "She cant take on three scouts at once!" He said as the female titan jumped into the air. Jumped… into the air… the female titan grabbed the wire that was connected to her spine and ripped it off. The man laid hanging there, and then the man looked right at the female titan as she then stomped onto the man squishing him and letting the blood fly everywhere.

The other man who was connected to her leg, she ripped out that ODM wire to and then smashed him against the house. The scout hit his head and felt like his head was going to split wide open, the female titan smashed the man into the house with her foot as the scout who was on the horse watched in horror as the third scout was being swung around. There were four of them… now… two… well if that man who was being swung around was still alive. The leader looked on in horror as the female titan just smashes the man into the ground.

Mikasa noticed the flares everywhere, she was with Connie outside of the forest they were trying to find a opening to get into the forest. The rules have been changed, only the center group had to go into the center of the forest. "Mikasa, you know what's going on?" Connie asked, Connie was just following the lead of everyone else not really paying attention.

"The forest, we have to go around it." Mikasa said as she looked into the forest, suddenly.

Reiner, Armin, Jonathan, and Jean caught up and then were ordered into the trees. Jonathan saw Sasha. "Hi Sasha!" Jonathan shouted out loud, he was extremely happy to see that Sasha was still alive. Sasha looked back at him and smiled brightly and then waved at him. They caught up with the group, at least with Sasha and the other people. Connie was still with Mikasa, and they we just ordered to get into the trees to stop the titans from getting into the forest.

"Alright, get into the trees and prevent any titans from getting into the forest!" One of the scouts shouted as they got into the trees and then all of the scouts got up into the trees and then stood there looking out at the plains. Jonathan was looking around, making sure everyone was there. Mikasa! She was here, thank goodness.. Jonathan went over to her and then tapped her shoulder.

Mikasa turned around and Jonathan wanted to go in for a kiss right then and there. But, he remembered that he had to keep it a secret. "Sweetie…" Jonathan said softly and sweetly.

"Jonathan, I'm glad your okay." Mikasa said looking around and then hugging him quickly.

"Have you seen that abnormal titan. The female titan, she has blonde hair and blue eyes." Jonathan said looking at Mikasa as he sat against a tree and Mikasa sat down on a branch and had her legs crossed.

"I've heard about it." Mikasa said. "I saw the flares, and I figured something was wrong when it got deep into the formation. They changed our orders at least twice, I wonder if this was the norm for the scouts." Mikasa wondered as she turned around quickly, the other scouts were watching and talking she didn't want to pay to much attention to Jonathan she might get to distracted.

Eren and the Levi squad were in the forest galloping, Eren wondered why the hell they were there. It didn't make any sense, why would they go into the forest where they couldn't see any titans and they could strike them at any time. It made no sense. Levi knew what he was doing though, there were trees around they are going to be able to move quickly using the ODM gear. "Captain Levi… why are we in the forest… the titans can strike from anywhere…"

"There are trees everywhere. We can use the ODM gear to move around." Levi said bluntly not looking at Eren and continued to ride their horse, Eren looked around. Everyone in the group looked equally as nervous, it's like they had no idea what was going on. Eren wondered if they knew about the plan changing multiple times, Eren wondered if Levi knew the full plan. What was Erwin planning? Armin was walking around on the trees trying to keep his balance, surprisingly the tree branches were nice and thick so that the scouts could jump without breaking the branches.

That is why it was probably called the forest of the giant trees. He saw Jonathan and Mikasa talking, and they looked like they were enjoying each other very much. Armin smiled at them, but they didn't see the smile because Jonathan was smiling up a storm and Mikasa kept her stoic expression. Armin wondered what Erwin was planning, did he want to eliminate the female titan in the forest. Even if that was the case… wouldn't all the titans be overwhelming? Armin kept n walking back and forth and then when Armin looked down and started walking in a direction he ran into a wall. "What!" Armin looked up quickly.

"Calm down Armin it's just me. So, I think I know what Erwin ants us to do. Kill the female titan in the forest, and we kill the other titans! It seems like he has it handled!" Jonathan said smiling brightly, Armin didn't know why but Jonathans smile always brought him joy. He didn't know why. it was so pure and genuine.

"Really that's what I was thinking." Armin said looking at Jonathan.

"Well I think it's stupid, changing the orders so many times. Are they ever going to make up their mind?" Jean questioned looking at Jonathan.

"I don't mind as long as I don't have to face…" Jonathan looked in horror, all the scouts turned their heads to look where Jonathan was looking. "Shit!" Jonathan said looking as the titans were starting to charge in. All of them, there were a lot and boy were they surprisingly quick.

Eren and the Levi squad were riding rather smoothly so far, but they heard a sound and looked behind them. A black flare, a abnormal… in the forest? How? There were suppose to be defenders… how the hell did they let an abnormal into the forest! Eren looked behind them and suddenly, the female titan came out from the trees sprinting towards them. All of the Levi squad looked around, Levi though stayed silent and then continued to gallop ahead waiting for the reinforcements.

They came, ready for action and confident. Eren looked back wondering what was going to happen, murdered and slaughtered. All of the cadets slaughtered by the female titan, extremely quickly they didn't even have a chance. Eren looked around at the Levi squad, wondering what they hell they are thinking just staying there. "Waiting for orders Levi…" Petra stated as she looked at Captain Levi wondering what he wanted to do.

"We should just kill it right here and right now…" Oluo stated as he looked back at the titan quickly and then looked ahead.

"Permission to strike?" Eld asked as he then pulled out the blades and waiting for Captain Levi's orders.

Eren looked and Levi and wondered what the hell he was planning. Levi kept on being silent as they shouted for orders, but he made a move and then pulled out a flare. "Cover your ears…" He stated and then lifted up the flare….

A/N – I don't think I ever expressed how I feel about this but thank you guys immensely for all the support 2,000 views. Thank you all.