"You say that I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But you say that Dreams have no power here? Tell me... what power would hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?"

It was dark.

But then again it always was. It was always damp... dark... musty... full of disease... Welcome to the Underground, one way trip to hell. I've lived here my whole life. I've never once seen sunlight or titans or soldiers or... my own reflection. All I know is my hair is silver and long and I have the eyes of my brother. I probably won't be defined as beautiful, maybe normal? dirty? smelly? disgusting? plain... Like I said before, I've never been topside so I wouldn't know if I was or not. I heard they had huge walls around entire towns to protect from this new threat, titans. Ruth had told me about them once. They had huge bellies and thin legs and arms, they sometimes had the features of people, but they were nothing like people, they had huge mouths that opened really wide and if they got the chance to grab you... they ate you. They'd split you in half, swallow you whole, bite your head off, anything and everything. They scared me. I'm not going to lie about that, everyone is afraid of something so what's the point in pretending you aren't-

"Ai." Nori's melodic voice snapped me out my trance. "You're day dreaming again." He sighed. Nori was beautiful. He had a smooth pale face, eyes clear and blue, a fine mouth, dark soft hair... Yeah, Nori was beautiful. I have known him for two years now, he came down here in hiding from his own family, he came from a rich family that expected greatness from him, but he didn't want what they would give to him. They had tried to force it upon him but he just refused and ran...

Ai was sitting on the roof of someone's house, her grey eyes searched the people who manned the gateway to the upside. She hoped Ruth would get a attack team together soon... Out of her grief the older woman had sworn revenge on those who had forsaken her, and Ai was worried about who she meant by that. But if it meant she could see the sun, feel the rain, have a family again, then she didn't really care.

"HEY! HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!" Snapped out of her trance, Ai looked over at the commotion at the gateway. A boy, perhaps her age, was wrestling past the gateway keepers. He was coming inside? Ai stared in disbelief.

"LET GO OF ME!" The boy yelled, utter rage swelled in his tone of voice. Ai quickly jumped down from the roof and twirled a knife between her fingers. She could help... But she wasn't sure she should. She was always been taught to consider what was going on. "STOP TRYING TO STOP ME!" He cried. Ai gasped and it felt like a knife had gone through her heart and pierced her soul. Those words had more meaning than anyone else could understand. Ai surged forward with a cry and stabbed one of the guys in the back, the rest of them froze in surprise, before they could come back into action, Ai kicked one of them in the face despite the fact she was only 5' they ran off up the stairs as fast as the could. They boy stared at Ai.

"Thank you." He said. "I'm Nori Nieva." Ai sighed.

"Ai." She said.

And ever since that moment Nori had never left my side. He told me it was because he saw something in my eyes when I came running and saved him. He never told me what he saw but... I hope it was good.

"AI!" Nori shouted and grabbed my wrist. I shook my head, I was daydreaming again. My heart jumped and the feeling of his warm hand around my thin wrist made my throat go dry. "We need to go back to Ruth." He said quietly. His face was close to mine. We were almost touching foreheads. My heart slammed against my rib cage. My stomach felt like it did when I first used 3DMG. Then Nori stood up and pulled me with him. "Don't daydream while flying alright?" he winked and cracked a smirk. My heart fluttered. Flying. That reminded me of something important. No not something, someone. My heart went from fluttering to gripped by pain. Nori had shoot off, twisting through the air like it was second nature to him, like he had been born with 3DMG straps on his body. I followed after him, eventually going faster than him, twirling through the air like they once did. The feeling of wind blowing my hair behind me and taking my breath from my lips was the most amazing thing ever.

"NORI NIEVA! AI! GET DOWN HERE!" I looked down and the pale white hair of Ruth caught my eye. I landed my gear and grinned at her. She was also beautiful, she had dark blue eyes and cropped white hair, she had cut it years ago as a sign of how much she had lost through out her entire life. She had high cheekbones and a pale face, the rest of her was covered in clothing and gear straps.

"How's the kid doing?" Nori asked. Ruth sighed and shrugged.

"He is still rejecting food, we try. That poor child had been through hell and he's seen the devil. There isn't much we can do to save his sanity. All we can do, is try and cushion him." few years ago we rescued this child from starvation, his name was Rich Hugh. We don't know what happened to him before hand, he won't tell us, and I doubt he ever will.

"The girl has been found." Ruth said quietly. "They've found Aisa."

"Who has found her?" I asked, hoping I didn't hear what I really didn't want to hear, what no one really wanted to hear come out of Ruth's mouth.

"Your brother, Levi." My legs shook, my eyes watered, my happiness turned to dread, Nori's hand gripped my shoulder, and I fell.

Kids weren't Levi's thing. Aisa ran around the entire building causing havoc. How the hell did eyebrows expect him to care for a hyper little brat like Aisa? It was impossible, it had been mere months since he had agreed to be her technical Guardian and he was already exhausted and done. To hell with paperwork and training! It's time to give Aisa her lunch... breakfast... dinner... bedtime... take her to school... get her dressed... help her with homework... chores... and then it's time to do more work... cleaning up... paperwork... put toys away... put books back on shelves... it was a never ending cycle of boredom and lack of sleep. And Levi hated it so much already.

"Sit." Levi snapped and pointed to a space in front of his desk. "Don't leave this room and don't move from that spot." Aisa complied, possibly hearing the annoyance in Levi's voice. She watched him working, doing paperwork, writing reports. Gradually she got bored. Wanted to mess around a bit. Without Levi noticing she crawled under his desk and looked at his shoes. Big dark boots. No laces. Dammit. What could she do now? She looked at his straps and thought for a minute. Would he notice if she undid them and put them all together? Probably. She sighed.

"What did I tell you?" Levi hissed and the tip of his boot pressed into Aisa's stomach lightly.

"I'm bored." Aisa groaned. Levi pursed his lips and sighed at her. "Play with me." Levi almost pierced the skin of his lip. He didn't like seeing kids let alone playing kid games with kids. Aisa grabbed some of his paperwork and started crumpling it up in her small hands.

"HEY!" Levi shouted and reached for the paper, but Aisa launched it at his face. Levi blinked in shock. Aisa stared at him, the tense atmosphere lighting mischief in her eyes. "Child you just started a war." Levi growled and grabbed a piece of paperwork, crumbling it in his hand.