I own nothing except Alex and Athoris! By the way can someone tell me the name of that white hared woman who was with eren when he moved the boulder?
"So... your village is inside the trees?" Makoto asked as putting a hand on Sasha's shoulder as she rode into the trees and Makoto
"Yeah..." Sasha said her eyes looking forlorn at the surrounding right in front of her.
The three of them had been riding for what felt like more then three hours after they had split up from their groups. And since then they haven't seen a single titan in sight.
"Got into a fight with my father... its... been five years since I've seen him... her voice trailed off. Just then Makot's gloved hand squeezed her shoulder a little gently or as if reassuring or...
"Don't worry about it." Makoto said as Minako smiled at her, "I'm sure he'll be proud of you...
"They must have noticed the abnormalities and escaped..." Sasha said looking around.
Makoto frowned and looked down her eyes wide.
"No..."
On the ground before them leading into the forest was a titan's footprint. Sasha gasped at sped the horse forward galloping through the trees.
...
There was a girl sitting on the bed in a one roomed shack looking more like a doll then anything as the sounds of a scuffle and on the floor before her a titan was slowly devouring a woman on the floor. The woman kicked and screamed and punched but it was all in for not.
No one heard the sound of footsteps outside, no one heard them pause and the sound of a stifled gasp appeared in the door way and still no one saw the shadow slowly creep along the doorway. Everyone noticed when a girl swinging an ax quickly slashed at the titans neck and the girl watched as two strangely dressed boys ran in from behind.
"It not working!" Sasha shouted as the ax broke in her hands and flew to the ceiling above. Angrily Makoto rushed past Sasha picked up the titan by its throagh and threw it against the wall where it broke apart by the force of the impact and the titan flew backwards several feet all the while smashing into more houses before it was impaled on a sharp looking rock where it lay still.
"C... can you... How... Is she really that strong?" Sasha asked eyes wide in shock.
"Yep!" Minako said will he/she bent over the woman's body trying to help her to her feet.
"Don't even bother," she muttered darkly, through a mouthful of blood. "Even if I wasn't dyin' I'd only slow you down... the bastard already destroyed any chance of me walking again... take the child." she said her eyes looking towards the other side of the shack where the girl was watching them.
"But..."
"Go!" she shouted, as the titan climbed in through the hole in the wall the hole in its stomach steaming and closing up by the second.
Thinking quickly Sasha looked at Makoto who's eyes widened and then nodded and quickly picked up the girl and the three of them quickly ran outside.
"Forgive me!"
The titan watched them go annoyed at being interrupted in its meal but then went back to it. There was the sound of a loud scream and then nothing and then the titan followed its next course.
"That titan looks like a 3m class... its nothing to be afraid of!" Sasha said looking around for any kind of weapon and spotted a bow and arrow.
"C'mon, we have to go!" Makoto said taking the girl hand pulling her along.
"Why?" the girl asked simply, looking up at the three of them. "The villagers... they all knew my ma's legs were bad. But... they just left us. Even me," she said, her gave unfocused on the three before them her dark eyes. "I did nothing I just watched..." she said as the titan approached from behind them.
"T... that's not true," Matoki insisted, crouching down to her eye level.
"Listen to me!" Sasha said, looking down at the child standing next to Minako. "It's gonna be okay. she said and she pointed towards the road in front of them. Just run down this road. It will be alright even if you're weak. There'll be people who'll come to your rescue. Maybe you won't meet them right away... But don't give up! Keep running until you meet them!" Shasa said her voice filled with confidence. The girl looked at the kind face of the boy in front of her to he lady who was talking to her and the the other one taking a stand against the titan who glanced behind his shoulder at her giving her a reassuring sort of smile and sense began to return to her and she nodded and sped off towards the path.
Makoto glared at the titan and grimaced angrily.
If only my powers hadn't stopped working... oh well... I can still...
Makoto was about to go and body slam it when Sasha stopped her.
"That's not gonna work Makoto..." Sasha said, stepping in front of her holding a bow with an arrow already in. "You have to aim for the nape of its neck..."
"And you're going to do that with like five arrows?!" Makoto asked.
"Yep!" Sasha said before she noticed the girl.
"Run!" she shouted at the girl who gasped and sped off.
Makoto quickly got up and watched as Sasha landed an arrow in the side of titans neck. It glanced down at it but otherwise remained unfazed as Sasha moved to higher grown as Makoto carefully walked around it looking for an opening as the arrow flew to the titans eye leaving Sasha with only one arrow. Sasha grimaced and glanced her eyes forming some secret message directly at Makoto who caught it and nodded once to her taking a stand. Sasha breathed in heavily threw the bow away and with the arrow in her hand she ran at the titan and plunged it into its eye. Nothing seemed to happen for a fraction of a second and then the titans arms seemed to wrap around her as in in a hug squeezing her tightly. The next second Makoto aimed a kick at its face having jumped on top of the hill in the fray and nocked it to the ground. Neck cracked and nose bleeding. Sasha quickly got up and then took the arrow out of its eye and plunged it into its other blinding it.
"C'mon!" Makoto shouted at Minako as the two of them ran past her in the direction of the girl.
"What'll we do now Sasha!" Minako asked as they ran.
"We need to find a horse and the kid!" was her simple response before she paused by a rustling bush the sound of hundreds of horses was heard and an instant later a man in a hunters outfit a short goatee and a hat came into their line of sight beside him on another mans lap there was the girl. His eyes so like Sasha winded at the sight of her.
"Sasha!?" he shouted, stopping the horse in its tracks.
Makoto and Minako both looked at her and then back up at the man on the horse.
"Sir!" said the man beside him as many others approached from the trees. "We have to keep moving!"
Someone was able to supply two more for Sahasa who ran alongside her father and one for Makoto with Minako hopping on with them.
Sasha glanced back at the child smiling slightly in spite of her tears dripping out of her young eyes. She turned to her father barley believing that she was now beside him.
"Hey Makoto?" Minako asked, as the galloped through the woods putting a hand on her arm. "Don't you think we should stay close to her? I mean... we don't know anybody here." she finished looking around at all the eyes pointed at them.
"Later..." Makoto said smiling. "For now they need to talk," she finished, looking at the two a few feet in front of them.
"By the way Sasha," her father said, looking at the strongly dressed boys that had been with her. One was wearing a strange white shirt with green cuffs and what looked like a tie with a green jewel at its center with matching dark green pants and strange looking shoes long brown hair and green eyes While the other had the same looking outfit only all orange with short blonde hair and pale blue eyes.
"Who are those two?"
"Friends pa," she said, without a pause and smiled back at them.
(...) (...) (...)
Eren glared at the girl in front of him as the cart gentle rocked back and forth as it continued on towards the Hermiha districts clutching the key around his neck.
"What?" Alex asked plainly.
"How did you know that Mike would come back to battle the titans...?"
"Does it even matter so much to you?" she asked looking away from his prying eyes. "At least he's alive..."
"Don't give me that bullshit!" Eren shouted, jumping up from his place beside Mikasa and Armin and taking her by the shirt reminiscent of what he had done to pastor Nick moments before. "You know something damn it!" What are you hiding?!"
"Some question..." she said slowly looking straight into his eyes, "don't always have answers to them. Just sit back down and cool off Eren." she said and slapped him in the face and in his weakened state he fell to Mikasa careful hands. He straightened up and glared at her.
"Still..." Levi said who was right next to her the pastor beside him and Henji at her right. "You managed to kill off a titan and wound another. For a person who's never seen or told of what the 3d maneuver gear is and has never even heard about a titan's weak point before... Mike sure said you knew what you were doing when you were facing them..."
Alex face darkened as she remembered when she had come back covered in blood carefully supporting Mike's body through the town.
Bastard. she thought darkly. I saved you and you went and told them that?!
Alex gulped as Levi leaned more closely towards her and she fought to keep her face straight. But the sudden movement betrayed her entirely.
"Eren's right... you do may know more then you're letting on..." Levi said, but even he was surprised by her next response.
"Well then maybe I should have just left him to die then! she shouted suddenly. "Let him die and allow a titan with intelligence and the ability to talk to get away amiss from your damned reports and along with the hope for your precious future! It wouldn't have been my damned problem anyway! Is that what you wanted?!"
She breathed heavily her teeth bared and the as if she knew what she had just said gasped her eyes wide and looked away.
"I'm sorry..." she muttered, "I don't know what made me stay there... but all I know is... I had this feeling that was all and I can't explain it... And by the way Eren," she said trying to cover up the rip in her shirt.
Eren made the mistake of leaning forwards and suddenly found her foot planted firmly in his stomach making him fall to the ground in pain clutching his stomach.
"Next time don't make the mistake of tearing one of my only shirt." she said crossing her feet on top of his back casually smirking.
Hanji looked at her in a questioning manner noticing that their destination was drawing nearer and the cart pulled to a halt in front of the solid stone gate and they all filed out Alex being the last and had to tag along in front of Levi.
"And don't even think of getting out of Hanji's sight after we're done," he hissed at Alex as she hopped off the cart taking her arm in his as she looked at him looking very surprised and angry.
"I wouldn't. Where the hell would I even go!?" she hissed back at him. "Just don't make him walk next to me while we're here." she said gabbing her finger at the paster who was looking around with a look of horror on his face.
"Keep walking," Levi said, kicking him in the small of the back making him stagger forward a little but otherwise did very little to help him move.
"W-what is this?" he breathed, looking around stopping in his tracks and proceeded to get kicked by Alex.
"Well... what else can you expect? Levi said looking at him darkly, the wall has fallen after all."
There were people lined in the street each with the same look of dread on his or her face children crying.
The pastor made a move towards the child as if to say something but felt a hand on his shoulder stopping him.
"Where do you think you're going?" he asked, in a deadly whisper at his side. "These are the real faces of the ones you are trying to cast away... quite different from the pretty illusion you've been brainwashed to think right? Suppose your wish comes true and the titans break down the walls and swarm the lands..." Levi continued on with the same expression he usually had on his face but there was a strange glint akin to sadness rested very deep within as the pastors eyes grew more uncertain. "This won't be what the people will wear when that happens... They will all lose their loves but not before suffering a fate worse then hell itself... Humans together, best buds to each-other... am I right?" he asked as sweat pored from the pastors face as Alex and Levi both pushed him on.
I'm enjoying this more then I should, Alex thought smirking slightly looking as Hanji looked back at them thinking and then ran up to the pastor.
"Do you..." Hanji began arms held out. "Do you perhaps have a change of heart?"
The pastor didn't say anything but looked down at the ground.
Hanji gulped.
"THERE'S NO TIME ANYMORE!" Hanji shouted, now growing throughly disgusted by lack of caring for the lives of innocence of the people who had sacrificed themselves for his ungrateful life. "YOU REALIZE THAT RIGHT!? PEOPLE WILL DIE IF YOU DON'T DECIDE ALREADY IF YOUR PRECIOUS SECRET IF MORE IMPORTANT THEN THAT!"
"Don't waste your breath Hanji," Alex spoke up suddenly next to her. "Men like him can never change. No matter how much you may say. Besides... I can always shout that he knows how to save all of our lives but just won't do it." she finished holding out her pointer finger in front of her smirking lips as she looked at him.
"I cannot tell you... I do not believe other members will tell you even if you bering them here!" he said finally.
"Well thanks for nothing!" Hanji shouted, turning from his throughly disgusted.
Alex's smirk grew to a resemble that of a cheshire-cat and she slowly filled her lungs with air but before she could...
"However... I shall tell you the name of the person who can reveal those secrets to you..." he said gravely.
Alex exhaled looking very disappointed as Hanji turned back to him.
"So... you will shift the responsibility to someone else... to protect you and your organization, right?" Hanji asked darkly.
"Yes," he mutter, as the rest gathered around he sighed heavily and told them.
"Five years ago... this person was caught in a strife between her relatives... so she went under hiding under a false name. The girl does not know anything yet... but she can choose to speak of what she does know of the wall's secrets... I heard that she joined the scouting legion this year, and her names is...
Eren, Mikasa and Armin gasped at that but their collective shock was nothing when they heard the name.
"H-her?" Eren said, hardly believing it.
"Who?" Hanji asked.
"Go find her..." the pastor said. "She might know the truth that not even we know... it is up to her to decide to tell what she knows... but revealing her name to you was the only compromise I can afford to make. It shall all depend on you..."
"That girl..." Haniji said looking uneasy to say the least. "She must be in the 104th trainee squad, and if so.. she's on the front lines right now..." and the Eren turned around quickly in the direction on the gate the others following in his wake.
"Wait!" Hanji called, running to catch up to them with Alex following close behind. "I still don't know of all the names of our new members from your 104th trainee squad.
"Its the most petite girl!" Eren called over his shoulder, but still that didn't help much.
"Long blonde hair and... ahh... AH, she's pretty! Armin called.
"She looks like Armin's little sister," Alex chimed in in a helpful manner from beside Hanji as they sped off.
"She's the one who always hangs out with Ymir!" Mikasa said and that seemed to clear everything up.
"You mean... Christa?" Hanji asked ,eyes wide as they reached the entrance of the town.
"Yeah."
"Then we have to hurry!" she said, as they reached the cart.
"Good riddance to bad trash..." Alex said, in a voice that carried in the wind back towards the wall.
"Hey... now," Hanji said. looking at her. "That's not very nice. I mean... he might be... ah... somewhat zealous and uncaring but at least he still he told us about Christa..."
"I have my reasons for disliking people like him who prattle on about god nonsense, Hanji..." Alex said, leaning back on her seat arms behind her head legs crossed and one of her eyes opened to look at them.
"You mind telling us why?" Mikasa asked.
Alex frowned, closed both her eyes and sighed.
"You won't get a free pass this time I'm afraid," Hanji said, putting an arm on her hair she she was staring into her face just like how Levi had did when they had left the gate when the titans attacked again.
Alex opened one eye to look at Hanji annoyed and frowned swatting the hand in her hair away and sighed.
"...My father was a Mormon minster... You've no doubt never heard of them considering how things are around here but they are another group of people who worship the great super hero in the sky only differently." she said after a strained pause looking up at them.
"How different?" Armin asked, looking at her intently.
"I've no real idea Armin... truth is you have had to be one of them..." she said, jabbing a finger back at the gate they were leaving behind. "To find a reason that will no doubt make no sense even when they try to spell it out to you as to why your religion was different from others that are the exact same ones. But I digress... He... That dog called my father was never once faithful to her... not even when she was with me..." Alex said, her eyes now looking very dark and bloodthirsty. her hands were fold on her chin as she leaned forward. "He said it was his divine right god gave him that he can screw around with as many woman as he pleased. He even tried to do it with one of my half sisters... if I hadn't been in the room to distract him that is. You see I had many half brothers and sisters and I was his wife's only living child. The rest of them and his cows all loved him and his little colt he started up in the mountains..."
"That's..." Eren said but he couldn't find the words to say...
"I know... she said her face now looking at the sky and then a smile slowly crept around her face. "But... here's the best part. The idiot managed to get on the wrong side of the law so bad one day it nearly killed him. Unlike the cop. He managed to get out though. But he wasn't out for long." she said her eyes again holding a kind of dark secret as she pulled her legs up to fold them against her chin suddenly looking smaller then usual.
"Humans killing over humans..." Eren said in disbelief.
"Gods... you're so naive Eren." Humans kill humans... its in their nature after all." she said dully, as the cart plundered slow onwards.
Seriously am I the only one who thinks Christa and Armin look exactly alike?!