Warming, there are hints of a same sex couple in this chapter. If this offends you, you have been warned.

A commander let out a sigh from the hastily erected tent in the middle of what was only an hour ago a massive battle. The war band had managed to find the location of Beast Titan, who was on the move with a large number of Titan's. The ambush was planned, and the operation was mostly successful, wiping out most of the group while only losing a small number of their own. However, they failed to take out their prime objective, as the Beast Titan escaped during the battle, appearing to head in same direction that the walls laided. While the group that was sent had certainly reached the walls at this point, the Beast Titan would be far more than they could handle, especially with an Armored-Class Titan Shifter and a Giant-Class Titan Shifter already there. He would sent Mary herself, but her strength was needed for the final assault, and the same would be said for many of their strongest. But this was something that needed to be done. He had gathered their only three Titan-Shifter's for the mission. The first was a girl, the youngest out of the three. However, her age wasn't an issue, and the Sub-Armored-Class Titan Shifter certainly had earned her stripes. Her combat style was strange, a mix of many different things, earning her the nickname of the Brawling Titan. The second, to her left, was a man in his mid to late twenties. While he wasn't familiar personally with the man, he was aware of his reputation, and it was clearly earned. The Berserker-Class Titan Shifter, known by many as the Hellscream Titan, was a powerful fighter. The third and final member of the newly assembled group was the only Titan Shifter to ever join the Hunters of Overland. The man was in his forties, despite the fact he didn't look the part. The Beastial-Class Titan Shifter was one of the largest of his class, and was simply referred to as the Primal Titan. The three stood straight, waiting for the commander to start talking.

"I have gathered you all here for a special assignment," he began, "As you already know, this battle was to engage and kill the Beast Titan. However, he managed to escape, and is now believed to be heading towards the area known as the walls. An away team was sent before hand to aid the humans that call these lands their home, who were under attack from an Armored-Class and a Giant-Class. It was our hope that these events were not connected, but that no longer appears to be the case. We are sending you as reinforcements, and will contact the away team about your arrival." The three nodded.

"You leave immediately," he stated, "the walls remain due north of our present location."

"Yes'sir!" the three shouted, saluting the commander.

"Dismissed!" The three went straight as a nail, before exiting the tent. The area was noisy with the sound of work. It had been decided that the area would make a good camp after the battle. However, progress was delayed by the few remaining skeletons that the Evolved couldn't finish devouring. The bones were fading fast now, as the remains of Titan's never stayed, even if they were Titan Shifters.

"Great," the one called the Hellscream Titan huffed, "I'm stuck on a rescue mission with the brat." The girl shoot him a dirty look, but gave no response otherwise. However, he got a swift elbow from the man on his right.

"Stop antagonising the fresh meat," he said gruffly, before biting down on his wrist. A massive bolt of lightning slammed into the ground, steam unleashing from his body. The steam blew away to reveal his massive form. Standing at twenty meters in height, the Titan Shifter was almost completely covered in short white hair, the only parts of it's body exposed where it's powerful legs, and massive fists. The Titan body had no visible mouth, but had glowing green eyes and strange, animal like ears. It lowered its hand to the ground to pick up it's fellows, ultimately finding them a resting place on his shoulder. The Titan Shifter thundered off, heading straight north towards the walls.

Commander Dot Pixis let out a sigh as he walked alongside a small group of soldiers near the gate that connected Trost to interior of Wall Rose. He had received a letter just a few hours ago from Mitras, sent by the leader of the Military Police, Nile Dok. Like with Eren, the Evolved and their human ally where to be brought to capital to stand trial. Pixis did see where the man was coming from. The Evolved alone were clearly powerful, and one, Luke, had managed to stand his ground against the Armored Titan. Even if the others were weaker, even he knew that he wouldn't be able to take them by force, and he felt that a few of the group were nearing the ends of their temper. He signalled his soldiers to stand guard at the door of a two story building. After the civilians heard about their new allies, more than a few offered the group a place to stay, surprisingly. Pixis knocked at the door, loud enough to hopefully gain the attention of whoever was inside.

"Come in!" a voice shouted from within. Pixis opened the door revealing the human of the group, Ian, slouched over at the table, with a strange device sitting in front of him. The boy looked up and grinned slightly, despite the look of tiredness on his face.

"Commander Pixis," he said, "to whom do I owe the pleasure of your visit?" Pixis's face didn't change, even as Ian gestured to pull up a set. They stayed quiet for a second or so, before Ian piped up again.

"I'm guessing you're on orders to arrest us?" Ian said. Pixis blinked in surprise. He already knew? How was it possible?

"It's something I would do if I were in your shoes," Ian suddenly yawned, interrupting himself. "And it's something we've already discussed. Luke said 'no, we were not going to be captives'". Pixis frowned even more.

"If you don't comply, I will have to arrest you all by force," Pixis bluffed. Ian was clearly playing some type of angle with him. Ian smirked slightly.

"If you thought you could take us by force, you would have already done so," Ian stated, clearly seeing through his bluff. The boy's eyes were like fire as he looked at Pixis. "But, we also need your government to trust us. So I suggest a compromise." Pixis raised an eyebrow.

"So what exactly are you compromising over?" He asked. This kid was clearly smart. He was going to offer something that the Military Police or the kind couldn't refuse.

"For starters, Alexander will go with you for the trail," Pixis blinked. Where they really just handing him over? Ian sensed the man's confusion. "He is one of your soldier's. We have no claim over him in the first place, and he agreed anyway." Pixis nodded.

"The rest of us will come to capital under guard, and can be observed as per the Military Police's wishes, but Luke will not tolerate keeping us in cages. No jail cells or anything like that." Pixis gave off another nod. So far, things were sounding very good. The Evolved would come willingly, and so far, he hadn't named his price yet.

"After the trail we will decide which of your military branches we will work alongside, even though at this point I think it's a unanimous vote for the Scouting Legion," Ian said. Pixis raising an eyebrow.

"And where will you be during the trial itself?" Pixis asked. Something sounded strange and off about what Ian had just said. It was this that caused Ian's eyebrow to raise.

"We are a foreign military power. Why would we need to stand trial?" Ian's confusion was clear in his voice.

"So you will come to capital, but you will not stand trial?" Pixis sounded exasperated, "that hardly sounds like a compromise."

"I'm not done," Ian said, "and you should try to keep your voice down please. Three people are still sleeping upstairs."

"So what is the rest of this 'compromise'?" Pixis said, clearly annoyed.

"I'll share old world military information. How to make your cannons better, stronger, and more accurate. How to make shell's that can pierce Titan flesh with ease." Ian grinned, making no attempt to hide his smirk. "And, I share with the higher ups how we found this place, and a few secrets we have found about the Titan's." Pixis blinked once. Blinked twice. He was expecting a massive incentive, but this was over the top. If any of what Ian was saying was true, not only would they have better defenses, due to the upgraded cannons, but they would have more information about Titan's, something that many members of the Scouting Legion would jump off a cliff to obtain.

"Do you think you can get your higher ups to agree to that?" Ian asked with a grin.

"I think I can," Pixis grinned. Suddenly, the device on the table hummed to life, projecting a picture of a man.

"Sir!" Ian nearly shouted, shooting out of his seat like a bullet, saluting as he looked at the strange procetion.

"I'm calling to inform you of a recent development. As of four hours ago, we engaged the Ape Titan in an attempt to remove him from the equation. He escaped alive, as is believed to be heading towards the walls." Pixis was confused, but the look of fear that crossed Ian's face as the name Ape Titan was mentioned spoke sentences.

"We have sent three more soldiers as reinforcements. I have sent you their files, go over them as soon as you can and inform the other's. If the two other Titan Shifters are in league with the Ape Titan, then you will have serious trouble."

"Yes Sir!" Ian said again, and the projection switched off. Ian slumped down, with the look of 'fuck my life' written all over his face.

"What was that about?" Pixis asked, now clearly on edge.

"I guess we'll go over how we found this place now, then," Ian sighed.

Luke almost snarled as he lifted another half-eaten corpse into a horse drawn carriage. The district needed to cleaned before any of the civilians could be let back in, due to fear of disease. He had enough trouble convincing the guards to let him in to help clean up, and resisting the urge to intimidate them was even more It was personally something he hated. However, it was needed. Many of the survivors were the ones that had been assigned cleanup as well. They had likely seen some of these people die. Did they really need to be picking up their corpses? The answer for him, anyway, was no. Most of the survivors had enough trauma from the battle. Luke doubted that this would give them any sense of closure. Luke's nose crinkled as he accidentally inhaled through his nostrils. The smell of rotting corpses permeated through his nasal passages. However, that helped lead him to a massive sphere. He blinked. The sight before him was disgusting. Well, that was something new he learned today. The fact that Titan's could vomit. Or at least to some variation on the already gross hairball. The massive ball of slime had the faces of partially digested humans inside. The faces stared outward, eyes showing the fear and terror they had felt at the time of their demise. A few of the other humans around it just looked at it with shocked looks on their faces. Luke stepped forward, fingernails turning into razor sharp claws. He gripped the underside of the of the disgusting, slimy sphere, before lifting it over his shoulders, earning a few looks of shock if nothing else.

"I'll get this moving," he said softly, something that wasn't normally like, "it's not like we are going to be able to find out who they are like this."

Lilith lifted up a massive boulder out the side of a house, before crushing it with her fists. Much of the district was heavily damaged. While the 'damage' left behind behind by the soldier's gear was nothing more than small holes that didn't even go through brick, the Titan's that chased them did more damage than she thought was possible. It didn't help matters that several small fires had broken out during the fighting. The flames had already been extinguished by this point, and the dead had already been removed, allowing the civilians see their now ruined distract. A handful had already put on brave faces, and had already started to try rebuilding. Which resulted in her helping. While construction wasn't her thing, Lilith's strength allowed her to move heavy objects much easier than the humans she was helping. This allowed for a simple system, of her clearing away rubble and the humans beginning their repair work. The little of it they could, anyway. There was no excess timber, and very little of the rubble was recyclable. However, stone's where something she could work with. She reached down, closing her eyes and focused on the large pile of stones in front of her.

Pixis decided to stay for a while after Alexander was taken away, without struggle, might he add. Ian had passed out not long after the remainder of the house, which had forced a clearly pissed off Jane to carry him to bed. That had left him with nothing to do but watch their youngest member, Ren. The girl looked fairly human, and behaved much like his own children, barring the fact that her feet never touched the ground. Even with the reports, he had a hard time believing that she was able to transform into a monster like the rest of her peers. He also questioned the logic of bringing a child on such a mission. Jane returned to the table, clearly annoyed, before turning to him.

"Sorry about that," she grinned slightly. Pixis waved her off.

"It's fine," he said, "but it would be nice to know why he was up all night, and why you brought along a child?" Ren's head turned to sound of his voice. However, her eye's seemed to be unable to meet his. The black orbs seemed to be stare straight at his chin much rather than meet his eyes. Ren made a weird noise before whipping her head around, clearly pouting.

"Oh, Ian?" Jane questioned, turning Pixis's attention to the newfleging conversation, "I don't know how, but part of his adrenal gland is messed up. It produces adrenaline longer than it needs to, and it takes a while to get his out of his system. That's why his passed out."

"I see," Pixis said, despite the fact he really didn't. It was pretty clear that the people outside the walls had reclaimed many pieces of knowledge from the time before the Titan's, resulting in the useage to words and even base concepts that he couldn't even comprehend. He didn't to sit through nearly an hour of explanation about how something worked or should work. It was clear that Jane had bought it to, because she continued on.

"Ren wasn't sent on the mission. We found her outside the walls," Jane stated, causing him to raise an eyebrow.

"Found outside the walls?" Pixis reiterated, confused. Ren had not surprisingly, left the room, likely bored and wanting to find something to do.

"Yes," Jane said, "we thought she was a human with really dumb luck, so we picked her up and brought her with us. We hoped we could bring her back to her family, but that is in hindsight, clearly not the case."

"What do you mean?" Pixis asked, clearly confused.

"Her parents would be Ferals," Jane stated, pausing as she sensed Pixis's confusion. "Ok, so back when humans ruled the world, the Evolved were heavily prosecuted to the point where being one was a crime. Some ran away from civilization, losing themselves to their animalistic instincts. Those became today's Feral's. It's likely that her parent or parents died and she observed people that may leave the walls for some reason or another. She taught herself how to activate the genetic that allows Evolved to create a human body."

"So, your human body isn't your real form?" Pixis questioned cautiously. Jane passed for a second.

"Well, both of our forms are real, but our Evolved form is our natural state," she said, deep in thought, "the human body is created from the leftover mass when we disperse our natural state. That why when we return to it, mist seems to appear around our bodies. Our human state allows us to conserve energy and lets us interact with humans." Pixis bit back the urge to groan. He was definitely letting the Scouting Legion handle the crazy things these people talked about.

Lilith wiped the sweat that covered her brow. Her natural touch with earth and stone allowed her to convert most of the rubble into brick sized stones. It took a lot of time, with the sun being far lower in the sky than it was when she began. A large group of people had also gathered around her during the time, eyes wide with awe, and maybe a bit of fear. If that little was enough to get people on edge, it was time to leave. She dusted off her pants as she turned, meeting the stern face of a man. A man who was wearing a dress? No, on a guy, it was called a robe. He also had strange stone carvings on is robe, each one looking like The strange man simply stared at her, causing her to stare back for a few seconds. What was with him?

"You are abomination," he said, causing her to blink, before letting out a frustrated sigh.

"Do you actually have something to say that is worth listening to, or are you simply wasting everyone's time," Lilith snapped, shooting that man a death glare. Just who did he think he was? The man visibly flinched, clearly not used to someone telling him to back off. That or using an aggressive tone with him.

"Only humans can dwell within the Walls!" He suddenly shouted, "You are not human, and defile the will of our Lord!" Lilith blinked, before letting out a low pitched rumble in her throat, far beyond what humans could hear. She suddenly slammed her foot into the ground, breaking apart the stone that made up the street, creating a small shockwave.

"Blah, blah, blah. Shut your mouth and listen," Lilith snarled, the shockwave knocking the 'priest' out of his rant, and nearly on his ass, at the same time mending the damage she did to the road below her. "Unlike you, I helped fight to save this place. Unlike you, I try to help fix what the Titan's broke. And you want to make me the bad guy?" She clenched her fist in anger.

"First thing. You're. Not. Worth. It," Lilith practically spat, "I think we are done here." She practically stormed off after that, ignoring the priests attempts at getting her attention. Despite her clothing making her stick out, she was able to lose him in the crowd. Unfortunately, her luck didn't get much better, as she quite literally ran into a depressed Caira. The resulting tumble didn't hurt either one, but it was definitely embarrassing. For both of them. A slight blush appeared on Lilith's checks as she pulled Caira back onto her feet.

"Sorry about that," Lilith said, rubbing the back of her head.

Caira's day was one of the worst in her life. One of the first things she heard was the fact that the 104th trainees squad would be the ones to clean Trost of all the dead, and it went downhill from there. Eren and Alexander were both placed under military arrest as 'traitors', and rumors flew around that the Evolved would suffer the same fate. Cleaning up half eaten corpse for the first part of the day didn't help. Some of these people she had spent the past three years with, getting to know them, only to have them ripped away in a flash. She also saw Luke several times, also helping with the clean up, proving one rumor false for the time being. After a day to doing nothing but cleaning up her fellow soldiers remains, she went with some of the other survivors to watch the bodies of their dead comrades burn. Why she went, she didn't know. A sense of closure? It didn't matter. She felt empty inside, and seeing the pyre made it even worse. She left not long after Luke arrival. It was beyond her why he would be there. He didn't even know anybody here. Why would he do something like that? Why would he help clean up the dead? These thoughts kept her distracted until she ran into the one person she would never expect to run into. Lilith. The two crashed together, knocking each other to the ground. Lilith was the first to recover, scrambling to her feet. Once she was up, she offered Caira her hand. The slight blush on her face was clearly obvious, and the only thing more so was the heat she herself felt on her face. She accepted Lilith's hand as she pulled herself up.

"Sorry about that," the girl said, her hand rubbing the back of her head.

"It's ok. I should have watched where I was going," Caira said, staring down at her own feet in embarrassment.

"You shouldn't. You've been through a lot and have a lot on your mind," Lilith stated, causing Caira to blink.

"Am I really that transparent?" Caira asked, even more embarrassed than before. Why was she feeling like this?

"No. I think everyone that lived through that battle has a lot on their minds," Lilith looked at her softly, something she didn't associate with the girl. "And rightfully so. If you need to talk, just let me know."

"What if I want to talk now?" Caira practically begged the moment she had finished talking, causing her to blush once she realized how quickly she responded.

Lilith smiled softly.

"Sure."

I've added an authors note to the end of this chapter for several reasons. The first being the hate I have been getting sense I posted this chapter in the form of private messages about Caira and Lilith's attraction towards each other. In summary, I will not change these two characters. I made them, not you, and if you don't like it, then don't read. The second is the fact that one of these came from a follower of the story. Once again, my answer is the same as above. If you don't like it, don't read. I stated each characters sexuality in each one's bio's, and there shouldn't be an excuse for this.

That is all.