A/N: I know I released a chapter today, but I just can't help but give you people new content to read! Thanks to Atroxify again for some of the great ideas that went into this chapter!


Everyone woke up to the smell of fresh pine from the rain fall, the storm last night had vanished.

Eren woke up to see Mikasa in the tent with him, she was wrapped around him.

Eren tried to remember what had happened last night and then it all came to him at once, he had confessed to Mikasa.

"Go back to sleep Eren." she said lazily, his movements waking her up.

"Oi, you two love birds in there get up, we are heading home." Connie said as he patted the top of the tent.

Eren looked back to Mikasa who had started to blush.

"Come on Mikasa, let's go home." Eren said as he unwrapped her from his body.

Slowly, Mikasa came to her senses and got out of the tent with Eren which Connie and Sasha quickly packed up behind them.

Eren saw Jean standing with Christa wrapped around his arm, his face still pretty beat up.

Eren made eye contact with Jean for a second and looked away in shame that he had done that. No matter how much he could hate Jean, he would never do that to another person.

Jean started walking over to Eren and he knew he was about to hear a world of shit from Jean.

"Jean, I-" Eren was cut off by Jean.

"Shut it Yaeger. As much as I want to kill you for that... I pushed you to do it." Jean said.

Eren looked at him surprised, was Jean taking responsibility for the beating Eren gave him?

"No, I over reacted. Jean... I'm sorry." Eren said.

Jean just sighed and looked down.

"Apology accepted." Jean said as he looked back up at Eren and stuck his hand forward.

Eren grabbed his hand and shook it.

"Alright, we had best get a move on!" Elsa yelled.

"Squad Leader Yaeger, lead the way!" Armin said.

Erens face showed a hint of joy that everyone trusted him to lead them home and without question, he took point and started walking.

"Hey Connie, when do you think we will get back to the wall?" Sasha asked him.

"Well... we aren't that far out, probably around 50 kilometers so in maybe four or five hours?" he said.

"Great... do you think we will miss dinner?" she asked.

"Is food all you ever have on your mind?" Connie said jokingly.

Elsa and Mikasa were walking right beside each other.

"Elsa... thank you." Mikasa said breaking their silence.

"For what?" she said.

"For turning me in the right direction." Mikasa replied.

Elsa let out a sigh.

"Mikasa, you turned your self in the right direction, I was just there to keep you on track."

"Well for what it's worth, thank you." Mikasa said again ending their short conversation.

Armin and Christa were in the middle of the group helping Jean.

"Armin, how many times have you helped me out these last few months?" Jean said jokingly

Armin just smiled and let out a small chuckle.

"More times than I should have had to." he replied.

Christa was the only one who didn't get it and she looked up at Jean with concern.

The group continued to follow Eren until he stopped dead in his tracks.

Elsa signalled everyone to stop and get down as she and Mikasa walked up to Eren.

"Eren what is-" Elsa stopped talking when she realised where they were.

In front on them was a large and open field, the same field Eren had lost more than half of his squad in.

Eren just stood there, his mind put the images back into the field and he re watched his men get slaughtered by the titans.

Mikasa put her hand on his shoulder, but he showed little signs of comfort.

"Where is Jessy?" he asked.

"Right here sir!" Jessy said just getting back from scouting the left flank.

"Inform the others we are going around, I don't need another slaughter." Eren said coldly still looking into the field.

Jessy knew what was going on in his mind and didn't question the order.

Eren slowly walked along the edge of the field as he heard Jessy tell everyone they were going to follow the forest left and continue from there.

Everyone was confused until they all saw the field and knew right away this is what Elsa and Jessy were talking about that one night. This was the field Eren lost his men in.

Everyone got back into formation.

Connie and Sasha in the rear, Armin, Christa and Jean in the middle, Mikasa and Elsa in the front while Eren took point and Jessy scouted the flanks.

They continued to walk for a couple of hours before Eren decided to take a short break.

"We can't be farther than 20 kilometers." Connie said.

Everyone sat in a circle except for Eren and Mikasa, they were standing over by some trees.

"Mikasa, do you think we should have crossed the field? We could have been home by now." Eren said.

"I think you made the right call, it is better to play it safe." she said.

Eren reached out and hugged her.

Mikasa started to blush, but she hugged him back.

"As long as we are together, we can overcome any obstacle Eren." she whispered to him.

Eren let out a small sigh and separated from her.

"All right everyone, lets head out!" he yelled as everyone got up.

They kept walking until they felt the ground shake beneath them.

"Fuck, everyone down." Eren said quietly as the small group hid under anything they could.

Eren counted four abnormals running straight at them and hoped that they would just go right past, but the titans stopped right infront of them.

Suddenly, one of the four abnormals dropped dead right there, a large gash in the nape of its neck.

Eren looked on surprised, but knew if he didn't act then everyone was dead.

"Armin! Christa! Stay with Jean!" he yelled as he watched the two of them help Jean hobble away quickly.

"The rest of you, lead the titans away from them!"

Everyone got up and moved quickly getting the titans attention.

Eren watched as one of the titans took off after Armin and Christa and was about to go after it when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Your soldiers need you, I will deal with the stray." it was the hooded man.

Eren nodded and ran to catch up to his comrades and the hooded man ran to get the stray.

Armin and Christa were moving rapidly to try to find somewhere to hide when they found a bush to hide Jean in and some large rocks for them to hide behind.

They could feel the foot steps getting closer and closer.

Armin looked at Christa, she had never looked so panicked before in her life.

The titan came to a stop and one thing and one thing only came into Armins mind.

'It knows.'


Jessy had returned when he heard all the noise from the titans running.

"Eren, what the fuck happened?" Jessy yelled.

"They came from the right! We need to stop them!"

Jessy looked up at the trees.

"you bring them back around, I will get to one of the high branches!" Jessy yelled as Eren nodded and took off.

Elsa broke ff from the group and a titan went with her, she was running out of breath when someone pushed her to the side and the titan followed its new target.

"Eren!" she shouted as he stopped and let the titan run past him.

Eren started running back towards Jessy, the titan right behind him.

What seemed like an eternity of running ended very quickly as he heard a massive release of steam and the sound of a titans body crashing down to the forest floor.

"We did it Eren!" Jessy yelled as he raised his hands, his face covered in joy.

Eren was about to celebrate with him, but soon his face dropped to a horrified expression.

Everything went slow-mo, Eren pointed behind Jessy as he saw a massive hand sweep down.

Everything started to speed up again as the hand struck Jessy sending him flying into a tree getting impaled by a branch.

Eren just stood there and screamed in terror as he watched his friend crash to the ground, a large branch through his chest.

Moments later, the titan who had struck Jessy came crashing down to the ground, Mikasa standing on its neck.

Eren screamed again as he ran over to Jessy.

"Stop your damn screaming... its... it's not that bad." Jessy said coughing up blood as more blood leaked from his chest.

Eren had tears in his eyes as Mikasa ran over to see what had happened.

"Listen, you need to go, you need to get home." Jessy said, the ability to speak getting harder and harder.

"JESSY!" everyone heard Elsa scream as she ran over to him as well.

Elsa just stood there horrified.

"Elsa... you guys need... to leave." Jessy demanded, his words becoming strained as more blood came from his mouth and wound.

"Jessy, you are coming with us, you are going home!" Eren yelled to him.

"Eren... I am... I... I am ho-" he never finished his sentence as he let out his last breath and went slump, his head hanging low.

"No, no, no, no, no. JESSY!" Eren screamed as Elsa just grabbed Jessys body and held it tight.

Mikasa stood there like a statue, she had seen many people die in front of her, but not like this.

Elsa just sat there on her knees crying and holding his lifeless body hoping for the fire in his soul to ignite again, but it never did. Jessy died sitting there against the tree.


The titan reached behind the rock and grabbed Christa.

Jean crawled out from the bush to see her being brought up to its mouth as she kicked and screamed.

"Christa!" Jean screamed as he struggled to get to his feet.

Christa just kept screaming in fear, she didn't want to die.

Armin just stood there and watched as everything slowed down.

'Why can't I move? Why can't I stop this? I can't stop this because I am weak, I have always been weak. I tried to stand tall, shoulder to shoulder with my friends but all I ever did was drag them down with me. I am a burden, just extra baggage for others to carry.' Armin thought as the titan slowly brought Christa closer to its mouth.

He looked at Jean still struggling to get to his feet and then it hit him.

'No, no one is going to die today because of me, I am no longer going to be that burden.' he thought to himself as he brought out his blades.

Armin clicked the trigger for his 3DMG and to his joy, he heard the sound of reserve gas come out.

Armin sprinted as fast as he could and shot his 3DMG at the titan and as he clicked the trigger again, the little gas he had left over propelled him up to its mouth.

The titan dropped Christa into its mouth and she started slipping down its tongue, but then she stopped moving, stopped screaming.

Christa looked up and saw Armin holding her by the wrist, he was in the titans mouth.

With all of Armins might, he manged to throw Christa out of the titans mouth and she fell to the ground beside Jean.

'Alright, now I just need to-" Armin stopped thinking as clicked the trigger to launch himself from the titans mouth, but nothing but a hissing noise came from his 3DMG.

Armin stabbed his blade into the roof of the titans mouth causing it to shake violently, he hoped it would cause him to fall out, but it didn't work.

Soon, the titan started to shut its mouth and Armin let out one last scream.

"ARMIN!" Jean screamed as he forced himself to his feet, but just as he was about to try and run for the titan, it fell flat on its back.

A strange wearing a black overcoat stood above it and sliced away at the stomach of the titan until in split open.

The bodies of half digested Scout Regiment members poured out onto the ground, the smell was unbearable.

eventually, Armin spilled out of the titans stomach, the little time he spent in the stomach had taken a massive toll on him.

"It burns." Armin said quietly looking up at the man who had saved him.

"I know son, but we'll get you out of here. I promise." the man said as he knelt and grabbed Armins hand.

Jean and Christa walked over to Armin as the man threw him over his shoulder, there faces had nothing but terror on them.


A/N: I gotta stop listening to sad music when I am writing these chapters! If you enjoyed then leave some feedback, every bit helps for future projects and if you have any ideas that you would like to see in the story then feel free to send them to me and I will go over them with my co-writer! Your content could very well be in a future chapter!