AN: Alright, here we are at Chapter XV! I watched Episode 22 today…and I cried. Like a 4 year old. And my reaction was like "Levi, you bastard! How could you do that to Petra's body?" Anyways, this is the part where Celeste will gain access to a Red Anomaly. Let's see how well she fares against it. If you guys have read the previous chapters, you'd see the effects of a Red Anomaly, which I explained in an AN. Thanks to those who reviewed and will review. I hope you people enjoy this!

CHAPTER XV:

RED ANOMALY

After crying in the stables, Celeste snuck back in her room via the window and lied down in her bed. Just as she was about to fall asleep someone entered.

"Celeste?" She heard Petra call for her. When she didn't answer, Petra gently draped a towel on the girl and dried her hair. It had been raining earlier and now it was snowing.

"Please stop." Celeste requested as she watched the snow fall gently. She sounded so drained of energy. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that she'd been crying.

"You'll get sick and we have an Expedition tomorrow." Petra replied in a gentle and motherly tone. Celeste sighed in reply before burying her face in the pillow. The older woman gently hugged the 18 year old.

"So, do you still doubt the Captain?"

"I don't know. I'm so confused." She answered. Petra rubbed her back gently to comfort her. Suddenly, Hanji busted in.

"Petra, Celeste, you have to see this!"

They immediately stood up and Celeste grabbed her coat before running out of the place. When they got outside, they were surprised at the Red Anomaly in front of them.

"The Anomaly. It's Red." Armin said in amazement. Celeste walked closer to examine it. It wasn't that powerful because it wasn't sucking them in.

"I saw a blue one earlier but never a red one. The blue one took me to the time when I was just a month old but no one can see me." Celeste explained to them.

"Well, what do we do about it?" Mikasa asked them. She knew that the responsibility to investigate the anomaly would fall on her shoulders.

"I'll go in." She volunteered. Before anyone can stop her, Celeste ran in. She ended up in a branch at the Forest of Giant Trees. She almost fell when a 3DMG hook latched on to the tree inches away from her face.

"What the fuck was that?" She asked herself.

"You're not Captain Levi! Who are you?" She heard someone yell. Then, she saw them; the Former Spec Ops members were chasing down a hooded figure. Celeste realized that the Red Anomaly took her back to the 57th Expedition. The man she just saw was Gunter. She knew how this was going to end. Celeste used the watch and gave chase.

"Watch out!" She tried to warn them but they couldn't see or hear her. To their horror, Gunter was killed before their eyes. She saw her mother and Eren's horrified faces. All of a sudden, they heard something explode as they kept on going. Celeste turned around just in time just to see the Female Titan, Annie Leonhardt, emerge from the trees.

"Jesus Christ." She muttered as she went with them. She watched them bicker with Eren to prevent him from transforming.

"Transform now, Eren, please! Save the others!" Celeste yelled at him but he didn't hear her. Celeste watched as Erd and the others made him go ahead of them. She watched, unable to do anything, as they attacked the titan. It amazed Celeste.

'They're not even talking to one another. Yet they know what they're supposed to do. How did they die? They were so powerful.' She thought to herself. She watched as they blinded the Titan. Just as Erd was about to go for the killing blow, to the horror of Celeste and Eren, he was eaten and snapped in half. Celeste realized what just happened; she focused her regeneration to one eye and one eye only. Celeste snapped out of the shock in time to see her mother and Auruo panic.

"PETRA, LOOK OUT! RETREAT!" Auruo yelled at Petra. Celeste could've sworn she lost a large part of her sanity when she saw Petra get crushed to a tree.

"MOM!" She yelled in horror. When she saw Auruo, Celeste realized that her father wasn't the only one who loved her mother in a romantic way. Auruo did as well. She wasn't surprised. Her mother was a beautiful woman. When she saw Auruo's face, she saw the face of a man who lost everything he held dear in less than 20 minutes. She watched Auruo try to kill the titan but she crystallized the nape of her neck and kicked Auruo, which resulted in his death. She approached his body cautiously and saw the tears in his eyes. She crouched and rubbed her face in frustration.

"Jesus Christ." Celeste muttered. The scene terrified her. Then she saw Eren transform into a titan. His roar was loud that it would attract the attention of the other legionnaires. Celeste left Auruo's body. She heard of their families; Gunter had his parents, Erd had his mother and his girlfriend (1), Auruo had his siblings and her mom, well, the only one waiting for her was her grandfather. Celeste approached her mother and kneeled, not minding the two titans fighting. Celeste checked her pulse. There wasn't any. Yet, another part of her sanity was lost.

'This ain't real, Celeste. You went through an anomaly. This ain't real. This ain't real.' She chanted again and again and again. In her time, her mother almost snapped her neck and gained a broken arm and leg but she didn't hit a tree so she survived. In this time, her mom was kicked to a tree like a fucking soccer ball to a goal. She looked at the bodies of the former Spec Ops Members.

"This shouldn't have happened. This never would've happened if Dad was just here! He left them to die!" She yelled to no one in particular. Just then, Levi arrived. Celeste saw that he didn't show any emotions as he looked at Petra's body. All he did was close his eyes for two fucking seconds and that made her angry.

'You heartless bastard.' She thought as her father left her mother's body. All of a sudden, the scene changed. Everyone who survived was at the fields. People were getting treated for their wounds, feeding their horses, letting everything sink in. Celeste saw the rows of bodies being laid on the ground. The thing that told her that the bodies in front of her were the Spec Ops Squad Members, including Petra, were the bite marks in their hands. Her mother told her that they bit their hands once for Eren. To show him that they trusted him. She watched Levi kneel down before her mother's body and tear open the cloth that covered her.

"What are you doing?" Celeste asked him but he didn't hear her. Levi tore the badge of the Scouting Legion symbol from her coat and put it in his pocket before walking away. Their bodies were loaded into a wagon and they were moving out. She sat in the wagon until shit hit the fan. Titans were coming after them and they were too slow. Celeste couldn't hear anything for some unknown reason but she knew what they had to do to lose the titans. She watched Levi give the order to dump the bodies. Even though she couldn't hear him, she knew that was what he said.

"No! You can't do this!" She argued but she couldn't do anything. Finally, the soldier dumped all the bodies. The only one she saw, however, was Petra's body.

"NO! MOM!" Celeste yelled as tears came out of her eyes. She looked at Levi in anger but she saw the pained look in his face as he watched Petra's body hit the ground and tumble away. She jumped off the wagon and tried to run after the body but instead a jagged black anomaly appeared in front of her. Celeste unintentionally went in it straight on.

When Celeste got out of the anomaly, she tumbled on the ground. Immediately, she sat up just as Petra approached her.

"Celeste, come on. Get up." She told her but Celeste kept her gaze on the ground.

"He left them for dead." Celeste mumbled. Before anyone could ask what she meant, she got up and started walking.

"Are you okay?" Eren asked her as he grabbed her wrist, which she threw off.

"I'm fine." She answered. What she saw terrified her. While she was there, she put the pieces together and realized that the Red Anomaly takes you to an alternate timeline in your life. The most terrifying alternate to be exact. For her, the alternate timeline of her life is that she was never born because her mother died in the 57th Expedition.

"You don't look like it, Celeste." Hanji said as she grabbed her shoulder. Celeste, however, grabbed her arm and pulled it back, forcing her to the ground.

"I said I'm fine." She repeated before letting Hanji go and walking back to her room. When she entered her room, she sat down on her bed, leaning against the wall and thought about what she saw. Her sanity was starting to snap. She became paranoid of Hanji for God's sake.

"What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me?" Celeste asked herself again and again and again as she cried.

That night, Celeste cried herself to sleep with only one question in her mind…

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What's wrong with her?

AN: And that is Chapter XV! I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and that it's not too crappy for you guys. To those who haven't caught on, that bit with Petra's body being dumped in the fields was obviously taken from Episode 22. Anyways, here is what the number means.

1 – In Episode 22, I saw 2 women related to Erd. The older one seems to be his mother while the wiki said that the younger one might be his girlfriend. Correct me if I'm wrong or something.

Again, I hope you guys enjoyed! Thanks to those who'll review.