The Unknown

"Tch. I'm guarding another shitty brat again." Levi was once again in the dungeon. Through narrowed eyes, he watched as the culprit for his irritation slept on obliviously. Levi had been ordered to watch her. Damn you, Erwin. He had foolishly broken his leg saving that stupid friend of Eren's from the Female Titan. And now here he was, useless, watching a shitty brat sleep the day away as his comrades were fighting for their lives to retake Wall Rose. "I trust you can keep a Titan-shifter in check even in your condition, Levi." Levi wasn't quite certain that the brat in front of him was a normal Titan-shifter. For one, the Titan she had been had that stupid ridiculous face in contrast to Eren's form. For another, the brat had been clothed in weird clothing that Levi had only seen from a distant memory.

He glanced down at the sleeping figure. Dark hair framed the brat's face, reaching to only above her ears, and had skin as pale as his own. Levi studied the dark pattern on the uniform, the dark greens and browns echoing in his mind. She was shorter than him. Barely three fucking centimeters shorter. Levi snorted at the thought. Still…this is better than doing fucking paperwork. After every expedition, Levi was always given the shitty assignment of updating the status of the Survey Corps. Which meant, checking in those tiny damn boxes if a soldier from the Survey Corps was missing in action, wounded, or deceased.

Levi had finished that hell already, of course. He had already checked the shitty little boxes that told him that his squad was dead. They were never coming back. How fucking stupid. Levi closed his eyes, still remembering when the bodies of the fallen had been dumped onto the fallen ground on his orders. He saw the bodies collide onto the ground, one by one, as they would become extra snacks for the Titans. Levi remembered one body in particular. His heart clenched, the agony remaining. The cloth fell, revealing a face with a streak of blood and copper hair, making one last goodbye… Many people, including his subordinates, thought that Humanity's Strongest did not any human emotions inside him. That he had no heart at all. They did not know him. None of them knew how his fragile heart shattered into little tiny pieces as he saw the bodies of his squad.

A memory had tried to resurface, but Levi had pushed it away then. He had felt the horror mounting inside him as Petra's father kept talking. Stop talking, Levi had wanted to tell him. Just fucking stop. Now Levi reminisced about the memory he had pushed away. Dark blood pooled around him despite the heavy cold rain. He could still hear her screams. He could still the smile of his farewell as the blood dripped onto his face as the rain in vain tried to wash it away. He could still feel the scream clawing at his throat… Levi had felt the scream clawing at his throat again, although this time, it was much worse. Because of…

"She could very well be the key to the past we need, Levi." Everyone else thinks she's the key to destruction. Levi frowned, looking deeply at the sleeping brat. He remembered the faces of the former cadets when Erwin told them that they now possessed a new weapon to save humanity. Confusion etched their stupid faces until Arlert had explained what had happened.

After eating one of their comrades, the Titan had suddenly become a human. A human that came from another time, and could be as dangerous and destructive as the Female Titan. Many had been grieving for the comrade that had been eaten by the said former Titan, and expressions ranging from rage to grief to fear etched their faces. Levi had watched silently as Erwin told them that the main focus would be to capture the Female Titan. It is fucking creepy that after eating one of their comrades that the Titan turned into a human. Or rather, turned back into a human, according to Arlert. There must be a requirement of some sort for a Titan turn become…a human again. Otherwise, all the stupid Titans with their stupid ridiculous faces would become humans, and what a shitty mess that would be.

At the sound of movement, Levi sharply turned his attention to the prisoner. Bleary blue eyes opened, squinting from the faint light from the dungeon. The human almost seemed drunk, her movements almost nonexistent and her eyes drifting around her. Her blue eyes suddenly drifted to him, and the human didn't shrink back from the coldness in his eyes. Suddenly, the human attempted to sit up. Her body struggled, every limb shaking, and finally she managed to sit up. It was only now that she seemed to realize she was imprisoned and chained. She blinked at the chains around her. Then she looked at Levi. It as if looking at a child, Levi decided. Her eyes were unfocused and oozed of innocence. She continued looking at him curiously.

"Who are you?" Levi barked. The human blinked. She looked down at her chains and back at him again. Goodman it. Even Eren with the miniscule brain he has was able to answer these questions. "What is your name?" he muttered impatiently. The brat continued to look at him without answering, taking him in as if he was "an interesting specimen" shitty four-eyes always looked at. "Great, a fucking mute," Levi muttered irritably. The human continued to look at him. Those blue eyes definitely matched the description of the Titan that ate Reiner Braun. Levi was about to make a snarky comment when he heard someone call his name.

"What?" he asked darkly.

"Levi-heichō, Eren Yeager has been rescued! Erwin-danchō has sustained a critical injury, and instructs that you meet him in the hospital, sir!" He better not die on me, Levi thought irritably. I've already lost too many fucking people. The Survey Corps member saluted Levi as he walked passed as Levi remained in his morose thoughts. I always tell them to not salute me, but they still fucking do it.

"You are instructed to watch over the prisoner," Levi ordered. At the corner of his eye, he saw the human looking at him, her gaze never wavering.