"Wait, so Eren said that he couldn't even transform?" Connie questioned.

"Yeah," Armin confirmed, "Though, I'm not sure how bad the circumstances were... he went into a coughing fit after he told us this," Armin's eyes began to water as the scene replayed in his head, "H-his wound, bleed out... w-we thought he was going to-"

"Armin, Calm down," Sasha said in a concerned voice, "You don't have to tell us if you don't want to." Armin quietly responded with a nod.

He began to think about that promise they'd made the day he had found his grandfathers book. He thought about how happy Eren was whenever they talked about the outside world... He thought about how badly Eren was injured when he'd left him and Mikasa.

'Is he going to be alright?'Armin though. The blond reached into his pocket and pulled out a small gold key, the key that one day will open Erens' basement in Shiganshina. He twirled it in front of his face.

'Everything is going to be fine,' he told himself, 'Mikasa is with him... If anything happens, She'll be able to take care of it...

Right?'

(Short time skip)

"Hey Armin, does anything look familiar?" Jean asked. Armin snapped back from his thoughts and looked at his surroundings. A stray 3DMG caught his attention.

"Um, Yeah," Armin answered, "Th-they shouldn't be too far from-"

"WOAH! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED HERE?" Connie suddenly exclaimed, "Hey guys, Come check this out!" Sasha, Jean and Armin walked to where Connie had been talking about. A giant tree had been completely destroyed, Its remnants lying where its stump would have been. Armin's eyes were wide with horror, Jean quickly noticed this.

"Hey, Armin... Something wrong?" He asked the blonde. Armin just continued to stare at the pile of rubble. His body was trembling.

"Th-this is where they had been hiding," Armin told them, "there was an animal burrow under this tree..." Everyone just stared at the wreckage, wide-eyed and concerned...

"So, then...they're..." Sasha began, but she couldn't bring herself to finish that sentence. Armin fell to his knees, each eye full on sobbing. His teammates. began comforting him.

Suddenly, Some of the debris began to shift. Armin walked over to the moving rubble and began to dig through it. Eventually, an arm appeared moving branches from the pile. The blonde knew who it was right away.

"Mikasa! Are you alright?" He asked the raven-haired girl.

"I'm alright, Armin," She answered, "Eren's a bit shaken up, though he'll be fine. We were lucky that the burrow didn't cave in..."

"Is that... Armin?" a Raspy voice called out. Mikasa dissapeared back into the burrow, Armin following behind her. The blonde knelt down next to the source of the voice.

"Hey Eren, H-how do you feel?"

"Kind of c-cold... And a little tired," the brunette answered, "but... better th-than earlier." Armin brushed some of Erens' hair away from his face. He noticed that he was wearing a fimiliar red fabric 'She must have given that to him,' the blonde thought to himself.

"Hey! Is everything alright dow there" Jean shouted from above ground.

"Yeah! We're fine!" Armin shouted back. A few minutes later, the others came down with medical supplies and began to bandage Erens' wounds.

"Soo... Looks like you've seen some action, eh Eren?" Connie asked as he splinted Erens' arm.

"Yeah, What exactly happened to you?" Jean questioned.

"Some of it is fuzzy...but this is what it remember..."

"Heichou? Mikasa... Armin!" The titan-shifter yelled as he zipped through the forest, "Is anyone there? HELLO?" Eren landed on a nearby branch, 'shit, I'm going to run out of gas at this rate...' he thought to himself. His thoughts shifted towards his options. If he stayed here, then he would most likely be found, but...

His squadmates... they could be in danger. His thoughts were interrupted by a series of loud Thudding sounds. He looked over to his side.

There was a small group of titans.

'Heh, might as well kill some of these bastards while I'm here.' Eren thought. He launched his gear and managed to kill two of the titans in one blow.

'Beat that, Mikasa!' he thought silently as he went for the third titan that was there. Though something seemed off about this titan...

It was just standing there, not moving. Staring directly at Eren and not doing anything... 'Is it stupid?' the brunnette though to himself...'Or...maybe its'...'

WHAK!

The titan had swung at him. Eren managed to swing out of the way in time. Unforunatly, his gas ran out from doing so. He hit the ground, landing on his arm hard enough to brake it. He grunted from the pain, trying his best not to cry out.

'Okay, guess it's time to transform...' Eren thought as he extended his hand up to his mouth. He bit down, hard enough to penitrate the skin...

Nothing.

He brought his other hand up to his mouth, ignoring the pain from the frature. He bit down once more...

Still nothing.

The titan came closer. Without thinking, Eren detached his gear and wrapped the string that held the key to his basement around one of his blades.

Then he ran, fast...

"Th-thats all I can remember..." Eren finished, everyone staring at him in awe. "I-if Armin and Mikasa hadn't found me... I probably would be dead..."

"There's still one thing I don't get," Jean said, "Why can't Eren use his powers?" everyone pondered for a bit...

"The Injection..." Eren stated, "I got my powers from an injection...Maybe it wasn't Permenant...Like, when you get a Flu shot, Eventually you'll have to go back and get another..."

"You do?" Connie stated in disbelief.

"Yeah, my father would talk to me about medical stuff all the time...But, whatever he gave me on that day, it's starting to wear-off..."

Aaaaannnnd Done with the second chapter...sorry for the long wait you guys!

Also: Please leave reviews, I'm still a new writer and feedback for my stories helps a lot!

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