There once lived a young maiden in a small town by the river that was surrounded by massive forests. People hated her because they hated her father who would always sooth away her worries and heal her injuries that she had received from merely walking in the town all the while telling his beloved child that they were stupid and mindless. Only listening to someone else's voice and not to their own... But then one day the father's warmth vanished all together from her physical touch... Leaving the girl in a nearly suicidal state. If she wasn't already dead...
The girl's name had been...
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Having to go all the way back to Sina just to deliver that brats gun to the sissy police all the while having to listen to Hanji ranting and practically getting off on Atlas, or whatever, was not at the top of his agenda. No. What he really wanted was to beat the living hell out of the three traitors. The ones who had wormed their way into the walls uneducated and unseen responsible for mutilating Petra and all of his comrades, andmaybebreakateethortwo. To hell with questioning! he just wanted to rip them up wait until they re-grew whatever he had cut up and repeat it all over AGAIN. It wasn't like he was the only one who was thinking it either. Plenty of the stationary guard, scouting members, remaining military police and even civilians had lined the streets as they went by thrown abuse at the three as they went by. The ape basderd was still unconscious unfortunately. Obversely they no longer was Eren as the threat since they weren't bothered him, which was something he felt a little better about. Then when they had finally gotten there this girl had just appeared out of nowhere holding some strange glowing sword he now had to deal with demanding to see Atem. He didn't have time for this! But then Irvin had the gall to send him and Hanji all the way back to Rose with the girl all the while holding onto that sword like it was her kid or something saying something that sounded like prayers, but in a strange language, under her breath as they went.
"To think it would lead to this..." Levi muttered, as he watched that black haired boy run after the man. Levi frowned and ran to the break in the wall watching as a dark substance surrounded one of them blocking the scene from view. But to be honest that was the very least of his worries.
The corporal's swords are already in his hands. Eren thought as he approached him. "That "must mean things are very bad..." Eren figured and his pace slowed to a halt as he came to stand next to his corporal eyes wide.
"What the...?" he heard that boy Connie say beside him. Below them the titans swarmed throughout the city mouth gaping and painted smiles eternally on their faces, arms outreaching. But... there seemed to be something else about their movement something different their eyes, if that were even possible, something that made them look even more menacing yet hopelessly stupid in their movement.
However, Levi didn't have time to take all of this in as...
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"Rotto ... I can do it by myself, really... my wounds aren't so bad. Just a few scratches and ripped clothing." Asher said to the black haired boy before her. Rotto eyes him carefully but figured he was right.
"Asher... is he here? "Rotto asked him as he got up. As expected Asher looked weary.
"I don't know... I can feel his presence... but that's about it. Why? Asher asked, looking up at Rotto's solemn eyes.
"Because I saw his shadow..." Rotto said solemnly, his eyes following the titans as they went. And then he heard the horrible, blood curling screams of the people around them as they fled from the titans. He just walked on. There the same screams from when the bombs dropped. he thought frowning slightly and then something in front of him caught his attention.
"Asher!" he shouted directing his attention towards the titan bending down to the ground and picking up a body.
"I'll take care of it and you get the person away from it!" Rotto shouted at him as the two of them ran forwards pass the swarms of escaping civilians past the rubble and bloodstains littering the ground.
The girl lay in rubble, half stunned on the ground concise yet at the sane time not concise. She was soon tasting blood as it ran down her jaw line as she felt something grab her roughly off of the ground and lift her like a rag doll several feet in the air limp and immobile arms hanging in the cruel grasp of the smiling creature before her. Vaguely could she hear the voices. And then it all came in full and she thrashed around in the titans harsh grip that never seemed to loosing that cruel smirk as she did. Holding her in a bruising agonizing grip fingers locked around her middle as it opened its mouth wide. She saw it all, the saber like teeth ready to chop down on her flesh or maybe not at all. She could just feel the heat of its mouth feel the scrape of teeth against her thin shoe the slick tongue against her exposed skin saliva dripping on her clothing. She bit and scratched and yelled abuse. She wasn't going to end up like this!
Simultaneously she was aware of two thing: A sound like a gun shot. And the other someone pulling her from the titans grasp someone with cold red eyes she looked down to see the titan stumble backwards and fall on a building not too far from where the person was falling. The after shock of its fall however nocked him off balance his grip on her failing him and she felt herself tumble to the hard ground a second later someone landing on top of her. She opened her eyes looking up at red eyes a thin face long blonde hair of a teenaged boy dressed in a strange black outfit.
"Umm..." Asher said not moving his hand away from her as he lay on top of her on the ground. What he was going to say next was stopped when he felt someone kick him off of her.
"I am very sorry for my partners rudeness, young lady," Rotto said, smiling gently down at the young girl with a soft look in his eyes. The girl looked up at him. It was another boy with stalk black hair that fell around his eyes and fell to below his shoulder blades. Tall and lean and dressed just as strangely as the other boy. He was looking at her so softly and he sounded very kind that she nearly forgot about the titans. "I must say that you took quite a hard fall but there's isn't a mark on your body... you also have a lot of strength for one so young. I hope you do not take this in an unseeable but... you would make a fine solder one day. Strength like that would be wasted." He finished watching as she got up. The girl looking into the boy's somehow gently but unearthly red eyes as they smiled at her with a genteelness unknown to the child making her feel warm inside. But then the smile vanished and the boys eyes turned sharply towards the fallen titan. She blinked and looked over at Asher lying on the ground and frowned slight. Were they related? they had the same face and hair. Their voices also had this strange sound to it as well, like that pretty lady who had first saved her from the titan a few months ago.
"However..." Rotto said sending her attention back to him the titan getting up from the ground. "Right now you do not have the weapons for that... leave now, I am sorry for taking up your time. Get going." the black haired boy said gesturing towards a side ally. The girl nodded to him and ran hearing explosion as she went.
"You know," Asher said, getting up groggily rubbing the back of his head. "Isn't it the English who are the ones who are supports to have the manners?"
"Yes, but you make that stereotype fly out the window whenever you open your mouth," Rotto replied, watching the titan come forward. Rotto smirked and, reaching the inside of his coat taking out a grandee held tightly in his nimble hands watching as it opened it mouth wide. he pulled the pin off and as fast as lightening threw it into the titans mouth who just swallowed it pausing for a moment as it went down its stomach.
"There's more," Asher muttered, glancing left and right at the titans stumbling forwards.
Rotto just smirked clicking his gun.
"Well... it seems the human in animals clothing will die."
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"You're the one with all the weight!" Atlas shot back at Jean who was holding onto Armin's foot whos arms were wrapped around Atlas's middle, who was thinking this whole situation was a little ridicules. as they dangled from the flag pole a good few feet from the ground below from the nearly vertical building towering above the other houses. There no no place they could hold on to either and find footing.
"I'm not the one with more muscles then brains! Can't we just let go of the damned thing?" Jean shouted remembering when they had gone to plug the wall. Atlas looked down at him with a "are you really that stupid?" look.
"Yeah... Jean take this moment to look down at the ground miles below you. You can't use your 3d maneuver gear in your current position and we couldn't survive a fall from this height... I mean I could but definitely not you or Armin or Nora. You get my drift?" Atlas asked looking down at him who just scowled but knew it was saying the truth. "Good. Now shut up or help me and Armin think of a plan to get down. It's not like Nora will be of any help." Atlas said looking down at the dog beneath Jean.
"Hey!" Nora shouted testily shaking the flag a little in his rage.
"Stop that," Atlas muttered as it felt the very fabric keeping the flag together rip under the weight and they four of them fell. Jean grabbed the nearest person closest to him and aimed the grappling hook at the nearest wall but as he was secured he saw Armin falling head first to the ground below. As he was about to cry out for Armin to wake up he saw Atlas grab him around the middle and grab onto the side of the building sending the thin bricks flying under its grip the trio loosing speed as they did. Jean watched as the two fell on the ground below. As he came closer he was relieved to see Armin unharmed.
"Well... I guess this basically says that I can't transform..." it held his right arms in front of him bone and under-flesh clearly visible and slowly disappearing behind smoke clenching it. "But... It looks like we've got something else to worry about now," Atlas said, glancing behind them as titans appeared from all directions.
Jean grimaced. This was bad. And after what he had just heard not even a day ago... could he really...
"Jean... Armin," Atlas said, stepping between the two of them. "There's a good chance that they'll just come after me... they might be interested only in me because of what I am." the titan said, watching the titans carefully as their eyes met its. They paused for an instant as if making up their tiny minds of the humans or this one. The latter won and they started to clamber forwards towards the small group.
"Yeah? And why?"
"Remember when that bitch Annie cried out in the forest in her Titan form back then...?" the titan said, as it walked calmly forward towards the oncoming hands.
"Yeah? What about it?" Jean asked, not understanding what it was getting at but Armin's eyes widened in sudden realization.
"She was calling for them to eat her skin... A seemingly desperate move to escape from Erwin before that brat and the rest of the legion found out who she was. But... maybe there was something else to it. Something that Hanji would just love to find out..."
"Do you mean... does it have something to do with the titan shifting?" Armin asked, eyes wide.
"Precisely..." Atlas smirked dodging the fingers of an titan.
"C'mon Armin!" Jean shouted, and the two sprang into action leaving Nora far below them.
Damn it... where the hell are ya when I need you!? The dog demon hissed.
"Get to it!" Jean shouted back at Nora.
"Shut it! I'm useless without Kazuma!" the dog demon could literally kick himself at that moment for uttering those words. Or the hag.
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Historia looked carefully around the corner of the hallway and, seeing that nobody was there ran forward. There was no time. She had to save Ymir what else that happened after, she didn't care. After all... they were in Shina now... there was no hope anymore... Not for Them or the humans. As she ran into where she and the other two were being kept her eyes widened in shock.
"Ymir!" the blonde haired young girl whispered to herself falling to her knees eyes filled with horror.
No...
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Jean smirked as he easily and swiftly cut through the titans flesh its blood splattering him. This was easy. What with Eren's titan distracting them like this. Not only that but... they weren't reacting at all to him. In no time at all the titans around them were nothing more then corpses on the ground. His hook safely secured on the building he looked around for Armin seeing him a safe distance below on the ground standing next to the titan and... Nora?
"You helped us," the blonde haired boy said slowly looking at the titan form of his friend. "But... technically aren't you one of them as well?"
Atlas glanced at the young blonde hanging from the wall before him and frowned slightly. "I hold... nothing towards the titans nor you, good of bad. But... all the same... I still feel this undying hatred for them!" it said clenching its fists teeth bared.
"Yeah, that's Eren," Armin figured, raising his shoulders slightly when suddenly from behind him there was a huge explosion they sent the four of them off their feet and straight into a wall The bodies of several titans everywhere around them.
"What the hell!" Nora spat face first under the rubble spitting out chunks of rock as he lifted himself up.
"That didn't sound like any cannons being fired." Atlas figured watching as two figures appeared out of the smoke.
Rotto looked at the scene before his eyes.
"Sorry about that," he said, approaching them his eyes falling on Armin leaning against a low wall. "The titan was coming and I had to act... Armin can you stand on your own?"
"Umm... yes..." Armin said looking confused at the sudden question.
Asher frowned watching Rotto closely.
"At any rate." Rotto sighed getting up from the ground. "We should find the others..."