Hello interweb!
I'm back from my 2 week holiday in Devon and am feeling refreshed and revitalised. This chapter was written before the holiday that's why I was able to publish it so fast. You know the drill, read, review and pass onto a friend or indeed an enemy; although the last bit seems fairly unlikely unless you give it to them as a form of punishment, if so ouch. Anyways enjoy AoT fans!
This is the day wall Maria fell to the Titans. I'm sure you're a custom to the story told through the eyes of the great Eren Jaeger, but today I shall tell you through my eyes. After the city of Mirai had fallen to the Titans me and my friends were rescued by "other" civilisation, the civilisation I once believed never existed and likewise to them. However our welcoming was not a warm one, many saw us as vultures, scrounging off of them for no charge.
"How, how could this have happened?" the King was completely shook, "100 years of peace, and then you came, you broke a century of peace," he pointed in our direction accusingly,
"Troops claimed that a skinless titan dismembered the gate," Everyone was stood in complete disarray,"it was over 50 metre tall!"
We all gasped in random, in disbelief. A titan with the ability to peer straight over the wall just seemed unrealistic, it was impossible, or so humankind thought until that day. A mixture of emotions flooded through my mind, fear, shock and anger; anger as I was led to believe we were safe, the attacks were over, but no, Mirai was only start.
"Fall back," barked the King to the commander,
I couldn't contain myself any longer, "You're going to pull back? You're going to submit to those monsters out there?" I began, "Now's humankind's chance to reclaim OUR land, the land they took, this attack is the chance to show those shits out there what mankind can do," with the flick of his wrist the King ordered Levi to remove us from the premises. As I was dragged away I continued to yell some sense into the King.
After we'd taken a similar journey to the one we had taken to reach the King we reached the courtyard once again. I looked at each person, each showing far different emotions to one and other; Chihiru was scared shitless, Eiri appeared calm but I could tell he was nervous. Levi however showed no emotion once again, I often wondered if there was a person behind that hard exterior.
"You three stay here, I shall do my best to hold off the Titans," Levi spoke with conviction,
"What about the survivors of Mirai," Chihiru's question took me by surprise, as she hasn't spoken in a while. If I'm honest I kind of forget she and Eiri were there.
"There is nothing I can do about them," and before I could open my mouth to argue, he was already away.
All three of us were shaking with anxiety and suddenly Chihiru snapped, "Why are we so useless? Is this I game to them?" She screamed, collapsing to her knees. Then, my friend began to burst into tears. Her questions were valid, why are we so pathetic?
850; 5 years since the fall of Wall Maria:
"I'm doing it, I'm going to join the survey corps," my eagerness to join the survey corps would finally pay off. No matter how weak, useless or stupid you are, every person was entitled take the four years of training,
"Well I'm joining too," Chihiru added. I knew the only reason she wanted to join was because of me; ever since we were little Chihiru followed me wherever I went. I feel sort of like a brother too her and vice versa. Some would say I was slightly over protective to her, but since the death of my uncle she and Eriri are the closest thing I have to family.
"You two will get yourselves killed," Eriri's thoughts did not make me doubt my decision, " and because of that, I will join too," for the first time in years Eiri smiled, to me the time was inappropriate but I liked the gesture.
A feel of excitement and possibility filled the air. Until the day we complete our training there is no guarantee of succession or failure; we could either be victorious or be defeated, this both excited and scared the shit out of me but right now we humans have nothing to lose. That's what separates us from the Titan, we know that if we fail we die, that's all we have to lose, but if we finally succeed in our mission the bounty waiting at the other side will be massive. I knew this and for that reason alone I was destined to sign up,
It had been a week since I'd signed on and the first day of training was immanent. We stood there in huge lines, backs straight and in complete silence. I looked around at my peers, smiling. I couldn't help but feel hopeful, we the 104th training squad would be the ones to rid the earth of the Titan pandemic, I just knew it.