Caira let out a sigh of frustration as a small group of people converged around Sasha and her stolen meat. Her partener in cleaning the canon, Alexander, didn't even bother with a response.
"She's going to get in trouble if she keeps doing that," the brown eyed girl. Alexander stopped wiping the cannon in annoyance.
"Maybe she would stop if two certain someones stopped helping her whenever she got in trouble," he responded. Caira gave him an angry look, before continuing with her work. Alexander however, didn't return to his work. He squinted, looking off into the distance.
"Hey," he said, "do you see that?" Pointing off into the distance. Caira wanted to roll her eyes, but decided to indulge him.
"You're talking about that giant black dot, right?" she questioned. Alexander nodded.
"I think it's moving. It has to be very large if we can see it from here," he stated blandly.
"What do you think it is?" Caira asked. The larger male shrugged, before a twinkle of mischief glinted in his eyes. Caira let out an audible gulp.
"Maybe it's a flying Titan," Alexander teased. She shuddered slightly. A flying titan would be horrifying. Like the Colossal Titan, a Titan with the ability to fly would make the wall's once again an obsolete defensive measure. However, almost like a the thought itself would make something appear, a bolt of crimson lightning crashed above the gate. As the steam cleared, the face of the massive titan hanged over the gate. Caira let out a gasp of fear, frozen in place, while Alexander shouted "Shit!" In one swift move, the titan kicked the gate, the blast of air knocking everyone of the wall and creating a new gaping wound in the wall. The Titan's were free to enter Trost.
Meanwhile on the giant "dot", three onlookers watched in shock as the crimson bolt flashed through the sky. However, unlike their counterparts on the wall, their reaction was immediate.
"GO!" Luke shouted at the top of his lungs. Ian lept off Jane before firing off the thrusters on the suit, shooting forward like a rocket towards the massive titan. Jane herself picked up the pace as well, closing the distance as rapidly as she could.
"Lilith, when we get into range, I want you the through me over the wall," Luke ordered, "Jane, drop my sister off on top of the wall, then go get Ren".
"And what do you want me to do?" Lilith asked. Luke's grin was something akin to jealousy, causing her to grow curious
"Rain your Magma Bombs down from the wall sister," he said. "Afterwards find Ian and I down below when Jane returns. We will retreat behind the wall and have her formulate a better plan." Jane let out a low pitched rumble in response.
Ian gritted his teeth, quickly redirecting the energy for the force-field into the thrusters to close the distance with even greater speed.
"C'mon you son of a bitch," he said to himself as he leveled his left arm with his target, "stay right there". His fingers squeezed the trigger as the gun roared to life, launching it's shells toward the Colossal Titan. The volley found it's mark at the base of the Titan's back, each one exploding with tremendous force. His grin of confidence turned to that of shock.
"Blast," Ian snarled to himself. The Titan's skin was so durable the shell's didn't even damage it. However, the creature turned his sights on him. This time he leveled the anti-aircraft battery at the creature's left eye.
"Let's see your eyes can take the same punishment as your ass!" Ian roared, squeezing the trigger. The gun let out several loud 'thunk' as it fired its payload. However, the creature roared in pain as the shells slam into it's eye, destroying it entirely. Ian touched down on the wall, leveling his left arm with the Colossal Titan's face. So focused was he on his target he barely noticed the movement of its shoulder and right arm. Thankfully, his suit didn't. Warning signals flashed as the suit picked up the movement, snapping Ian out of his focus, before noticing himself and firing the thrusters, getting him above the Colossal Titan's sweeping arm. There was another human, most likely one of the soldiers who had been on the wall when the creature appeared that had joined him in the fight. The kid as likely a year or two younger than him, with brown hair and piercing green eyes. He had gotten up and around the beast, before it stared straight at him with his one good eye.
"Hey ugly!" Ian shouted, voice distorted through the armored suit, "over here!" The Colossal Titan ignored the taunting, making a grab at the boy. The male grinned within the suit, as the suit began discharging electricity. The thrusters fired, launching the armored suit in an arc, impacting into the Titan's arm. Like with gun's on his left arm, the damage was minimal, nearly non existent. Ian shoot forward along the creature's arm, teeth gritted in frustration. His grandmother had build this suit to bring down Titan's, and against this thing, it was doing next to nothing. Out of the corner of his eye he watched as Luke's mist enshrouded body flew over the wall. He quickly refocused, closing in the Titan's weak spot, the nape. Ian hovered above it for a split second, before rocketing forward along with the human. A split second before their blows struck, the titan let out a powerful blast of steam, knocking the mech suit backwards.
"Like hell," Ian snarled through gritted teeth, "you aren't getting away from me!" The thrusters fired off, pushing against the gale force winds that Colossal Titan was producing. The human to his right had the same idea, forcing his gear to the limit. Ian's right arm shot forward, plasma lance armed as Eren's twin blades were aimed slice through the Titan's. However, the two struck nothing but empty air.
"That piece of shit," Ian growled under his breath. The thing vanished into thin air. How was it able to do that? Ian suddenly felt himself falling, firing off the thrusters again, reaching the wall at the same time as Jane and Lilith. Jane quickly turned around, intent on getting Ren.
"New marching orders?" Ian asked, unloading the string of empty shells from his gun, pulling the fresh shells into place.
"Get down to the ground and help my brother," Lilith snapped, "I'll be on artillery duty". The five soldiers on the wall looked at them in confusion, having no idea what they were saying. Ian let out a grin.
"Good luck and give them hell," Ian said, with Lilith giving a nod. Mist had already begun surround her as Ian jumped off the wall. Her body began to grow, increasing in size and in mass. Despite the misty shroud, the body was clearly massive. As the wind blew, the mist dissipated, revealing a massive eight meter creature covered in a rocky hide. Hunched over on all fours, the five drew their weapons in panic. However the creature seemed to pay them no mind. The creature brought itself up slightly, almost like it was about to spit, and spit it did. A massive red orb launched itself out of the Behemoth's mouth, sailing off towards the horizon. Ten seconds later, a the sound of massive explosion reached the soldier's ears, followed by roars of pain from what could only have been a Titan.
Timeskip
"We're within range," Lilith said with a grin, "you ready?" Luke nodded, watching the fight between Ian and the Colossal Titan. He grinned slightly as it's roars of pain from losing it's eyes reached his ears. Ian was trying to play at crippling it, and appeared to have everything under control. Lilith grabbed her brother's arm before flinging him with all of her strength. Sailing through the air was nothing new to him, and thanks to his sister's strength, he made it over the wall. Calling mist around his body, he felt himself beginning to drop as more mass was added to his body. It was gone quickly, but he found himself with another smokescreen as he hit the streets of Trost. The street, along with the rock and earth underneath it, were sent violently upward and outward. He had partially built a small crater all by himself, and while he couldn't see his foes, he could certainly smell them. He pulled up a massive stone, then inhaled, finding a thirteen meter Titan.
The human's on the wall's where almost quaking in fear. The Colossal Titan returning? Deep down many knew that it would be back. But the this new thing that slammed into the ground out of the middle of nowhere? The cloud of dust and earth shifted, before parting as a massive boulder was thrown upwards, then arcing down towards a thirteen meter titan that had just stepped through the gate. It's head and nape were crushed as the boulder fell into it's body. A ten meter titan was close behind, ignoring it's fallen comrade. Caira herself expected another rock, but this time the creature itself lept out the dusty cloud, it's meaty fist crushing the titan's skull as fourteen meter creature slammed into it from above.
The creature opened its mouth to the sky, letting out a massive roar. Even Alexander flinched at the noise. It wasn't just to make noise. It was letting everything know that is was here. Here to fight, here to protect, here to kill any that threaten it. It was a challenge. The creature lowered its head as another primal roar echoed from it's maw. Each earth shaking roar was louder than the last. Alexander blinked.
"Is it getting warmer?" Caira asked, now confused about what was going on. Alexander let out a nod. It wasn't just him. The fourteen meter Goliath stepped twice towards the gate, before opening it's mouth once again. Caira covered her ears so she wouldn't hear its roar again, but this time there was no roar. Instead, a torrent of bright blue flame exited the creature's maw, followed by the sound of burning flesh. The creature then moved back to the corpse of the decaying ten meter, before opening its maw. The cadets gasped as they watched the creature do the unthinkable.
"What is that thing doing?" Cakra said in shock. "Is it really eating a Titan?" The sound of the creatures feast spoke for itself. The rending of flesh and snapping of bones where the only thing that was heard. The beast only stopped the the arrival of more Titan's. The creature advanced slowly on them, unleashing another gout of flame. The man eating monstrosities roared in pain as blue flame seared their flesh, the healing abilities that would normally soften most blows now working against them, their rapidly healing flesh adding more fuel to the blaze. The three slumped over as flames consumed their napes, regeneration unable to keep up with the strain. Connie and Thomas had gone up to check on, or at least support Eren. Two garrison soldiers also went up the wall, but remainder of the cadets watched the fourteen meter creature below. Killing, and eating.
The three cadets saluted at the arrival of the two members of the Garrison that had arrived. While the arrival of the seven meter tall flying, well, thing was the only word they could to describe it, was unnerving, it left quickly enough. Leaving behind a tall, muscular girl wearing nothing but a mixture of black and red. Her chattering in a language that none of them had never heard of to an armored suit almost made Eren question if she was sane. However, it was the one that started the conversation. The suit lept off the wall almost at the same time as a Garrison soldier arrived.
"What are you waiting for?" he asked in a rhetorical manor. "The strategy for handling a Colossal Titan's appearance is already in motion".
"Return to HQ immediately!" The second shouted, "Anyone who had contact with it, report every detail!"
"Yessir!" Eren shouted.
"I pray for your success!" Connie said afterwards. The two soldiers of the Garrison turned their attention to the woman.
"Ma'am, I am going to have to ask," The man was cut off be increasing mist surrounding the girl. The shroud kept growing, the faint outline of a creature was visible but just that. The mist finally settled around a form that would have to at least eight meters tall, but much wider. Eren himself blinked in shock as the mist was blown away. The creature was unlike anything had ever seen before, even in Armin's books. The creatures had tusks the size of the person it had come from, covered in a massive, rocky hide. He and everyone around him drew their swords.
"What the hell is that thing?" Connie asked, fear audible in his voice. The Behemoth either didn't notice the weapons, or even more likely, didn't care. The massive body pulled itself upwards, bringing it's chest and head parallel to the wall.
"It looks like it's about to spit," Thomas said, slightly edgy about the creature. One the Garrison soldier looked at the blond like he had lost his mind, before the creature made a retching noise. The creature's stony face peeled back, revealing pale flesh and a least three eyes, before spitting a giant red orb from it's mouth. The orb sailed into the distance, seeming to accomplish nothing, until a massive explosion reached the group's ears, followed by bellowings of pain. The thing had stuck a Titan down, from a range? It was acting like a cannon. The Garrison soldier grit his teeth. This thing was acting as a cannon, and from the looks of it, a very accurate one at that. Well if wanted to help, he would be a fool to complain about it. They very well might hold the district with this things assistance, and alongside the massive killing machine on the ground, they should be able to hold the breach until nightfall at least.
"Go!" he shouted, "Get to HQ now! That's an order!"
"Yessir!" the three cadets echoed, activating their 3D Maneuvering Gear. The Garrison soldier looked up at the massive creature.
"If we live through this I'll buy you a beer," he said, not expecting the beast to understand him. It gave a snort in response, before rearing back to fire of another one if it's spitballs. There was work to be done.
I have two things I want to say to two reviews I got from my OC character Bio's for this story. The first is from a guest, who asked "As a side question, could Eren become an evolved, specifically a Goliath?" First off, thank you for asking a question that could affect the story, especially one that I never thought up of myself. I thank you for asking this question, and I will give you the response of sadly, no. Eren will be a normal titan shifter in this series, but it is a very good idea. And Goliath would be very benefiting of Eren's "fiery" personality. I thank you for submitting this review and hope you continue to read the story. Another review I want to address was from another guest is "How about you get on with the fucking story already!". I don't know whether this is more of a "the OCs are getting updated but the main story isn't" deal or this is something else. However, I will explain why this chapter may seem late. After I first heard about Gorgon, I wanted to have it in the story. However, I didn't have a name for the monster, or what it's abilities were. When I heard the monster was to be released on the 3rd of November, I decided to wait a little. Alexander's character profile was written on the second due to Gorgon downloading slightly early for me, and I had played the character a bit. Most of my characters have a trait from the monster they transform into, such as Luke being hot-headed and Jane being calculating, so on and so forth. I'm also in college, currently in a COP 1 class and in Public speaking, so I have to do a lot of typing anyway, so updates may be few and far between because of burnout or shear workload. Plus, I like it when people review makes me feel more motivated (part of the reason this thing got out so fast (plus my hometown baseball team won the world series, so school got canceled)). Well anyone, thank you for whoever read through this massive block of text. Have a nice day and happy hunting.
