"Char, you alright?" Worried for her safety, I ran to the edge of the house I was standing atop, peering down. She had a big smile on her face as she waved her swords up at me, her blue eyes sparkling.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Let's go." Char scaled her way up the building, as I turned to go back to that strange device Char had grabbed her new swords from. What in the world was this thing? I saw the man use it to seemingly fly through the air, but how was that possible?

My fingers found what seemed to be a small lever, of which I pressed, shooting out a cable which anchored to the building across from me.

"Aah! So that's what it does!" I said, excited by this new technology. In all my years back home, I'd never seen anything like this, and we had some pretty interesting things back there.

"What is that thing?" Char asked, leaning over my shoulder as I continued to survey the device. I lifted it above me, checking for any damages, before turning back to my friend.

"Char, put this thing on."

"What? Why me? You wear that thing." She pushed her hands in front of herself, as if to block me, but I just shoved the device into her arms.

"It'll make you able to keep up with me." Teasing her was one of my favorite things to do, and it usually got her to do what I wanted.

"...Fine." She said almost inaudibly, as she began strapping the device around her legs, wearing it just as the boy had earlier. Too bad it hadn't helped him, but hopefully it would work for us. We didn't need it, but the extra help it would provide would be nice.

"Here, all you do, is pull this...trigger thing." She wrapped her pale hands around the device, shooting me a look.

"Well that's reassurin-Whoa!" Char had launched the cable to a higher up farm house across from where we were both standing, before pulling the second lever, shooting another cable.

"Now, I think you hit...this?" I put my hand over hers, showing her where the last partially hidden button was. In seconds she was off, zooming across the distance.

"It worked!" I jumped, excited as I called out to her. It had actually worked. I'm glad the device hadn't been broken by the titan from earlier.

"Worked? I'm upside down!" She yelled back, beginning to sound angry. "Help me get out of this thing!"

"No! Just practice, you'll get it." Char was great with stuff like this, she would get the hang of it. I knew she could do it.

After several tries, she was still not getting anywhere. She always landed upside down, no matter what she did.

"Char, I think it's because your...top heavy..." She got offended at this, a slight look of anger crossing her features, where as she was usually all smiles. She crossed her arms over her chest, shooting me a glare.

"Hey! I know what you're getting at. Don't even start!" I giggled, which seemed to only anger her further.

"If you won't use it, Forget it then, this thing is no help. It'll only hold us down. Let's go." I said sighing, wishing the device could help, but oh well. We had more important things to worry about. It was only a matter of time before more titans found us.

"We should go check on the Jaegers..." Oh damn. I had totally forgot about them in all the chaos that had happened since earlier.

"Let's go!" I said, genuinely worried for their safety. It wasn't everyday that I cared about people other than Char, but they had taken care of us since we were finally let inside the walls. The Jaegers were the reason we had been let in in the first place, so we owed them. The large walls surrounding the city were made to keep out the titans, and to keep people safe, but they weren't keen on letting in outsiders either. Getting in was no easy feat, and I was very thankful to them for helping us out.

We crossed the rooftops as fast as our feet would take us, reaching the area near the Jaeger house in a matter of minutes.

"Oh...god." Char whispered, gasping. The house was in shambles ahead of us, not a single piece of it left standing.

"Hello?! Anyone?" I shouted, hoping for a response as Char dived headfirst into the wreckage. It had only been about an hour since the titans had made their way inside, but it appeared they had gotten pretty far in that time. Her hands began digging, shoving large pieces of stone and wood out of her way with ease, until I ran to her, stopping her. There were no signs of anyone alive, and the only things we found were scraps of clothing covered in blood.

"Char...No ones here." I said softly, unsure of what else to say. I wasn't going to lie to her, saying they were safe. We both knew better than that. "Let's go, we need to find somewhere to hide out. " This was supposed to be our safe place. They had walls, a military force made for fighting, and so many other precautions. It was to be our escape from outside, where there was only fighting and death. I guess it was all wishful thinking

"Alright, let's go." She stood, returning to her usual self, and darting off towards the gate to the inner walls. There were three large walls here, an outer one, a middle and a final innermost wall. We were currently in the town of Shiganshina, a little town built around the outermost wall, with large walls of its own. The town was supposed to be a decoy of sorts, I believe, but a huge titan, even by titan standards, had opened a hole. There were titans flooding in at a rapid pace, and there was no one stopping them. No one but us, it seemed.

The gate that had usually been shut tight had been smashed apart, and cannons lay scattered about our feet, as well as what was left of the military personnel. It had been a massacre.

Char had stopped suddenly, making me almost crash into her back. I was not expecting her to stop anytime soon.

There was what appeared to be docks ahead of us, which must be the way to get inside the wall. There were scattered crowds of people around only a few very small boats. They were screaming and fighting amongst themselves, each one pushing to get atop the boats. I could even see people jumping into the water, trying their luck at swimming. It was disaster, chaos, a sight I knew all too well.

"Wow. That's not what I expected at all..." I had thought there would have been some better anti-titan measures in place, but apparently not. So much for 'humanity's last safe place'.

There were 6 titans I could see, running rampant, picking up people left and right. Char and I could take them out in seconds if it came down to it, but we had made a promise the minute we got inside the walls. I was not going to be the one to break it. Even if it was more fun to kill titans my way.

"Let's do what we can." Char shouted, running towards the nearest one, an average sized one to our left. She scaled its back, it being too distracted by the humans ahead of it, as she sliced open the spot atop its neck in seconds, riding its back to the floor.

"This should be fun!" The titans had begun to piss me off, and there was no better anger management than ripping the bastards to pieces. As much as I hated the titans, I did thoroughly enjoy killing them.

I ran to the next one, claws extended, as I jumped from a nearby light post, allowing me to tear off its weak spot.

Well, that was satisfying, but how much longer could we keep this up? It was a lot harder to fight the titans with witnesses than it had ever been in the wild. We didn't have to hide there. Here, we had to be careful. I wasn't very good at being careful.

We took out the remaining titans, though there weren't very many people left here. Where were we supposed to go? Where those boats had gone? Where was the so called military when the people needed them? Sighing, I grabbed onto Char, leaning against her.

"We need to get inside that wall."