The breeze of the night flowed across Clarissa's face. The sun was just starting to set. They are taking a break in five minutes. They will rest for an hour until the sun is set then they will ride for the whole night. Clarissa sighed and went to grab her necklace. But she refrained from it and put her hand back onto the reins.
Suddenly to the left of them there is a bright flash red flares. That means there is a titan spotting. Clarissa is in charge of the flares so she pulled it out and fired another red flare. Not even a moment later there was a purple flare, indicated an emergency. Clarissa looked back at her two team members. The both nodded probably thinking the same thing she was thinking.
Without another thought she change the direction of the horse towards the abundance of red flares, and the single purple flare. As they got closer they all could see the large amount of titans. A sinking feeling found home in Clarissa's stomach as she regretted her decision. She wondered if heading back would be the best idea. She was the, not official, team leader. She knew that Jean and Armin would follow her word.
Clarissa looked back and could tell the panicked expression on both of them. Clarissa grabbed onto her flares and fired another purple. There was a large chance they were not going to make it out. There were nearly fifteen titans. Too much for Clarissa to count. The whole of the left spotting members were taken out.
Except for one person. She was sitting on the ground waving her blade around aimlessly trying to stop a titan from getting close to her. There was another titan behind her that she didn't notice. Her hair was a light blonde matted down to her head. There was blood staining her uniform.
"You guys take care of as much titans as you can! I will help the girl!" Clarissa yelled. Both of the men behind her nodded and turned off towards the titans. Clarissa could tell they were hesitant. But they trusted her. Clarissa changed the direction of the horse to the girl and the three titans around her.
Once she was close enough she stood on the horses back and used her ODM gear to stick into the back of the titan behind the girl. The titan barely noticed as Clarissa cut out the nape of its neck. Clarissa wizzed to the next one in front of the girl. This one was going to be harder. Clarissa didn't have a clear line of sight to its nape.
Clarissa sticked her ODM gear into its head. She flew towards it and avoided the large titan hand swishing around in the air trying to swat her like a fly. She flies past its head then the ODM gear stuck into the back of the titans neck. The jolt of the ODM gear almost made Clarissa lose focus. Now that she was behind the titan she cut out the nape of the neck easily.
Before she could move on to the third one it was already falling. Clarissa landed on the ground beside the girl. Her brown eyes were open wide. Her body was laying limp. Clarissa looked up past her. Jean was walking towards her with blood steaming off of him. Not a second later Armin landed beside him.
"Is she okay?" Armin asked. Clarissa looked back down at the girl. The blood covering her was not steaming indicating that it was her blood. Clarissa knelt down beside her.
"What is your name?" Clarissa asked calmly grabbing onto the girls wrist. The girls mouth opens but before she can speak she coughs up some blood. Clarissa put her hand on the girls shoulder and rubbed up and down.
"Sierra, Sierra Amori." The girl said. Clarissa nodded. Her pulse was weak. Hardly there at all. She was definitely going to bleed out before Clarissa could get her to a medic. Clarissa had extra medical training so she would be able to patch her up if she had the items. But by the look of it the girl was ready for death.
Her eyes were closing. Her face showed anything but fear. In fact she was smiling. Clarissa grabbed onto her hand and squeezed it. "It's okay." Clarissa said with a small smile. Clarissa wanted the girl to see her smiling before she died.
"Please…. tell… my mom…. I love her." The girl managed to say. Clarissa could tell she was in extreme pain.
"I will, don't worry. You can relax, it will be okay." Clarissa said. She looked up for a moment to see where the titans were. Armin and Jean managed to kill a good five to six titans. The other titans were distracted by eating the dead bodies spread across the field. Clarissa looked down to the girl trying to ignore the disaster around her.
The light was leaving her eyes. They were turning from sparkling rounded brown to a dull brown. Clarissa took a deep breath then started singing softly to her.
I remember tears streaming down your face when I said I'd never let you go,
When all those shadows almost killed your light,
I remember you said, Don't leave me here alone,
But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight...
Just close your eyes,
The sun is going down,
You'll be alright,
No one can hurt you now,
Come morning light,
You and I'll be safe and sound…
A tear began to run down Clarissa's face. She could still feel Sierra's pulse. Her fingers never left her wrist. Sierra's eyes were now closed, but she was not gone. She was still awake because she was holding Clarissa's hand.
Don't you dare look out your window darling everything's on fire,
The war outside our door keeps raging on,
Hold on to this lullaby,
Even when the music's gone,
Gone….
Clarissa stopped singing. She was gone. Her arm had gone completely limp and Clarissa could no longer feel her pulse. Another tear from Clarissa's eyes. The tear rolled down her cheek and landed on the girl.
"We have to get going. If we stay any longer we may get eaten." Clarissa said, her voice was slightly shaky. Clarissa bent down to pick up Sierra but Jean stepped forward.
"I can carry her. You did the hard part." Jean said slipping his arms under Sierra's legs and neck. Then he lifted her up. Clarissa looked down at her hands. They were covered in blood, as well as her legs. Armin put a hand on her back. Clarissa looked up at him. He smiled at her.
"Let's get going. We can talk about the cafe thing later." Armin said. Clarissa nodded and smiled lightly. Clarissa turned around and all of the horses had gathered back to their riders. Clarissa climbed onto her horse covering it in her blood. Armin and Jean got on their horses as well. Jean held the limp girl with one hand as he held the reins with free hand.
They road for five minutes to make up the time they spent helping the girl die. As they arrived at the small camp a group of two soldiers ran up to them. One of them were carrying a first aid kit. The other was empty handed. Clarissa jumped off of her horse and instantly went to Jean's horse to get the girl. Jean handed Sierra to Clarissa.
"Here, let me help her!" The person holding the first aid kit said. Clarissa shook her head and kept walking further into the camp.
"She is dead, you can't help. Sh… Sierra bled to death. There was no way to save her in time." Clarissa said. She walked up to a cart. The one person that had empty hand laid down a white sheet. Clarissa laid Sierra's limp body down on the sheet.
"Are you injured…"
"Clarissa, and no. This is her blood." Clarissa said looking down at all the blood covering her. The pants that were once white were now completely red. The stench of blood finally made its way up to her nose and she turned away from the cart and puked. A hand was placed on Clarissa's back. She was too busy puking to look at who it was, but she knew it was armin. When Clarissa straightened out Armin was holding out a clean white cloth and a canteen that was probably full of water.
"Thank you." She said Clarissa said grabbing the cloth. She used it to wipe off her face. Then she grabbed the water and poured it on her hands to wash away the dried blood. Then she drank some of it.
"Are you okay?" Armin asked guiding Clarissa to a crate to sit down on. They both sat down.
"I am better than that dead girl." Clarissa said staring down at her blood covered pants.
"No, she died happy. You saw the look on her face. She was relaxed. You made her feel okay to die." Armin said calmly, soothing her. Clarissa nodded slowly.
"And now I have to tell her mother her last words." Clarissa said quietly.
"No you don't." Armin said. Clarissa sighed.
"Yes I do. I can't just… it was her last words Armin!" Clarissa raised her voice. Armin's eyes widened slightly.
"Sorry… I just…" Armin stuttered.
"I know, you have never seen me like this. It's okay, this is just a really bad day for all of this to happen." Clarissa muttered.
"What do you mean? What happen?" Armin asked. Clarissa kept looking down at the ground but found out that looking at blood made it worse. Clarissa looked up at all the people walking around. Everyone was doing something different. Some people were handing out food and others handing out water.
Before Clarissa could speak there was a loud scream. Clarissa stood up and looked for the origin of the horrid sound. Clarissa saw it, a tall man was leaning over Sierra's body. He was crying and his body was shaking. Clarissa walked over to him and once she was there the man looked over at her confused.
"How do you know her?" Clarissa asked. The man took a deep breath and wiped his tears away.
"She is-was my friend." The man said. Clarissa smiled a little.
"I was there when she died." Clarissa said. The man's eyes widened and he turned to look at her. "She died happy. She wasn't scared, or alone. I was with her, I held her hand before she died." Clarissa said. The man smiles slightly and pulls Clarissa into a hug.
"Thank you." He whispers in her ear. Clarissa smiles a little then he releases her. Clarissa smiled and nodded. A tear brimmed in her eyes. She walked away before he could see her cry. She looked out at the empty field. There were no titans in sight. Only a couple of clusters of trees. Clarissa's hand moves to her necklace. She holds onto it as a tear runs down her cheek.
Behind her she could hear Eren and Armin talking to each other. "Remember that girl that was always playing the piano on market street back in Shiganshina?" Armin asked.
"Yeah, what about her?" Eren asked back. The view of the field was fading away as all of her focus was changing to Eren and Armins conversation.
"I think Clarissa is that girl." Armin said.
"Why would you think that?" Mikasa asked this time.
"When the girl was dying Clarissa sung to her. It was the same song that the girl in the cafe sung." Armin said.
"Even though if she is her, how could you know?" Mikasa asked again. Apparently when she just around Armin and Eren she talked more.
"I can't." Armin said.
"Clarissa!" Eren called. Clarissa turned around knowing what he was going to ask. "Are you the girl that sung and played the piano in Shiganshina?" Eren asked. Clarissa raised one of her eyebrows.
"Really? That straight forward?" Eren shrugged. All three of them were waiting for an answer. There was no way to get out of it. "Yes." Clarissa said. All three of them smiled, even Mikasa.
"How much did you get paid? There was alway ten to twenty people in there!" Eren asked. Clarissa shrugged.
"Nothing, I worked off of tips." Clarissa said with a shrug. Eren's eyebrows scrunched together.
"Wait, you remember?" Eren asked. Clarissa's mouth opened to say something but she was saved.
"Time to head out!" Commander Erwin called. Clarissa sighed of relief.
"You heard him." Clarissa said then she walked away to her horse.