Attack on Titan

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Chapter 2

When Shiori opened her eyes again, she noticed she was on a hard-wooden floor, with her leg completely bandaged. She remembered the blond-haired boy named Armin had healed it. But when she looked around to get a better look at her surroundings, she didn't see Armin. As a matter of fact, she didn't see anyone. Only a very dark area. Three voices could be heard from outside the door.

"What were you thinking?" this one was male. "Our orders were to kill every human in sight! Why spare that one? What's so special about her?"

"There was something different about her. I can tell." Another voice answered, however, this one was female. "We're not killing her. End of story."

The next voice that asked the question was male, but decidedly timid. "What would he think? He's going to kill us! You've made a grave mistake, Annie."

"I saved her because I wanted to. End of story." Annie responded, resolute. "So let's get back in there and talk to her, because I'm sure she's woken up by now."

Then Shiori heard the door open, and in stepped three people. The one in the middle was female. She had blond hair and blue eyes. The one to her right had light blond hair with brown eyes. And the one on her left had black hair and olive-green eyes. And they all looked serious. Shiori started backing up scared.

"What's wrong?" Annie asked. "We're not here to hurt you. Only to talk to you."

"Sure." Shiori responded skeptically. "Because you killed enough of people already, and left me out of a job. Don't you guys even care about the lives you've taken?"

"Look, we were given orders." The blond male responded. "Massacre all human beings in this world. You humans are nothing but spawns of the devil, anyway. You've done nothing but oppress us."

"Excuse me, Mr. High-and-Mighty." Shiori responded, fuming. "But I have no idea what you're talking about. Don't take us humans lightly. You were oppressed a long time ago. But everyone's moved on from that. You should too. This is a different time frame."

"You don't understand!" the blond male shouted. "You humans were the cause of our pain and grief! All you guys ever care about is yourselves and how you can make yourselves feel better!"

"Well excuse me, Mr. Hot-head! I didn't realize it was a sin to care about your own needs as well as the needs of others! And look at you! You're human! You should understand what we go through too! How do you think we feel when you guys retaliate and cause our lives to be a living hell?! Do you guys think you're the only ones with trouble?! We have it too! So don't start talking about us not giving a damn!"

The blond male was about to go at it again, but the black-haired male stopped him. "Enough, Reiner. She has a point. We rant and rave about how humans cause destruction when we're doing the exact same thing to them, we think they're doing to us. Stop it for now." He then moved from Reiner to Shiori and sat in front of her.

"Sorry, we really didn't want to kill your comrades. We had reservations, but our leader gave us orders to kill every human we found here as a retaliation for what happened to us many years ago. It was either we follow his orders and live, or we risk disobedience and end up killed."

Shiori began to ponder these thoughts in her head. Should she really trust these people? She already deduced they were the ones who killed her fellow co-workers and boss by the sound of their conversation outside. She shouldn't be doing what she's thinking about doing, but if she wanted to save any more humans from being destroyed, then this was the only way to do it. Shiori stood up on the ground, surprising everyone.

"Alright, I have a plan, so I need all three of you to be quiet and listen." When she looked around and saw no one was moving their mouth, she continued. "I'm going to hide you three in my house as fugitives of the law. This is to stop you from killing any more humans and to get to know you a little better. But I need your word that all of you will behave and not try to cause any trouble. Under no condition will you go out in your regular uniforms where they will recognize you. You need disguises. So, do we have a deal? Would you allow me to show you mercy? Or are you just going to be caught up in your own selfish mission for some man I hardly know?"

All of them pondered the solution for a moment, but it didn't take Annie long to nod. She wanted to be known as someone other than a mass murderer who's killed many human lives for really no reason. Bertolt nodded, because he wanted a second chance at a different life too, and for some strange reason, he felt himself staring at Shiori slightly longer than usual. He shook his head to clear himself out of the fog. Reiner, on the other hand, was a stubborn one. He wanted to fulfill his mission, but this offer was tempting. Sure, the brat wanted all the killings to stop. But she was also giving them a second chance when she could have just let Eren kill him. After a few more minutes, he decided he was going with the first option and nodded.

"Well, then, congratulations! Consider yourselves fugitives and on-the-run! Come on, I'll take you to my house."

The trio followed Shiori out of the captive area and to her car.

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