The year was 845, when the news of Shinganshina's fall and Wall Maria's breach reached the ears of the Survey Corps. The reaction was one that would be remembered for years after; some people began to panic, others started screaming and some simply stood in horror as Erwin repeated the report to them. Even Levi felt nerves and worry at this news; how had they never noticed a 60 metre class titan before, and how many men and women would it take to kill it?

"How are we going to tell her, Erwin?"

Levi asked once they were alone in his office, they had decided to inform Imelda of the situation together. At this moment she was in her room tinkering with a miniature catapult she'd created,

"We'll tell her simply, no point in sugar coating it"

Erwin sighed getting up from his desk. Together they headed to her room, it was still early in the evening but nobody was around; why would there be? Half of the corps was from Shinganshina. They reached Imelda's door and knocked,

"Yes"

Imelda's voice was uncharacteristically flat; Levi noted as he open the door. Imelda was sat on the ground, the little catapult she had been making was smashed and bent, as if she'd crushed it herself. Her eyes were blotchy and red and her face was turned down into a sad angry frown.

"Imelda-"

Erwin started but she interrupted him snapping,

"I know, I know the wall was broken."

Her flat voice cracked at the broken as fresh tears fell from her eyes and she ran to both of the and hugged the two men around the middle,

"Please don't go, please *sob* it's more dangerous now with the massive titan please don't go"

She cried; Erwin and Levi looked at each other before bending down and hugging their little girl. Levi honestly felt awkward as he felt Erwin's strong arm wrap around him as well as the child. A light blush came to his cheeks as his mind reminded him that he hadn't felt awkward the night before with Erwin.

"I'm sorry Imelda, but we have too if we don't humanity will most definitely fall, please understand"

Levi gladly stepped out of his memory of the previous night and nodded, but he saw Erwin's lips twitch up as his cheeks slowly went back to their natural colour; prick, he thought.

"Then I want to fight too"

Imelda stated, pushing away from the two men and standing up. Oh dear, Erwin thought, he had been wondering when this was going to come up, and how Levi would react. Levi had become very protective over the child from the moment she called him papa; Erwin wasn't sure whether he was just doing his duty as her papa or if he really cared for Imelda as if she was his daughter, either way he knew his answer before the shorter man opened his mouth.

"No"

His answer was firm and final but of course, Imelda had to be one of those headstrong children who wouldn't take no for an answer.

"But I'm strong, I could help rebuild the wall, I could protect you like you've protected me for four years. I want to kill the titans; I WANT TO FIGHT FOR HUMANITY"

She shouted and she performed a perfect salute looking at Levi right in the eye. Levi stared back at her with amazement; she was that determined? He closed his eyes allowing this situation to sink in.

"I can see how you could help us Imelda, but you're still too young and you have no training as of yet, and you can't join the army until your 12."

Erwin explained and Levi glared at him,

"Don't encourage her Erwin, what about her power huh? If she cuts herself they'll have no clue on what to do with her."

Erwin nodded but said nothing; to be honest they had larger problems to worry about than Imelda enrolling into the army. He voiced this and Levi nodded getting up from the floor; they would deal with the problem at hand first before anything else. They hugged Imelda good night and left her in her room alone.
As soon as the door was shut she ran to her bed and pulled out a box from underneath it. Inside were two books; one was about titans and the present day. But the other, the other was an old book, from the old world about weaponry, battles and war. She pulled both out and sat on her bed flicking through their pages with care.

"Titans weak points where is it? Aha"

She whispered to herself tapping the page with her finger; a drawing of the said beast was on the page, its back to her showing the nape of the neck. A slice to the neck, that's how you killed it, she thought and then looked through the index of the forbidden book. She had been given this book by Dot Pixis, head of the Garrison regiment, when he had come round one evening. He had definitely been a weird man and he smelt strongly of alcohol; but she liked him. Running her finger down the index she found what she was looking for; Bombs. Flipping to the page number she began to read through the chapter; her child like mind missing out the hard words but still making sense of it.

"Could a bomb to the neck kill a titan just as easily as swords would?"

She mumbled scratching her head in deep thought; she'd have to ask Hanji about it next time she saw her. Slipping the books back under the bed she crawled under the blankets; she would fight with them, she would kill the titans, then everyone would be safe, no one would live in fear again.

The next morning the whole of the corps left for their first mission, this mission was to find any possible survivors who hadn't heard news of the destruction of the wall, and to see the damage of it. Imelda didn't go down, she knew she'd start to cry and that would show weakness; or at least that what she thought. Looking from her window she saw them getting on their horses and they trooped off in silence; how many would die this time? How many would not come home? How many more had to die before humanity was free?

AUTHOR: Hey guys thanks for reading XD just to say I won't update until next tuesday as I'll be away for a while with no WiFi (I don't know if I'll live) Once again thank you for reading,TTFN