I DO NOT OWN THE ORIGINAL AO ONI CONCEPT OR SHINGEKI NO KYOJIN.

Everybody walked down the stairs and checked the second floor. Each room they all stayed together, fearing that they'll see the monster again. There were titans outside though...Why did they fear this particular 'thing'?

They walked into a bedroom. It seemed normal...casual. They checked it out and looked everywhere. Armin searched under a table. Who knows? Something could be under there.

"Oh! Guys! I found...another key.." Armin held it up. This time it was the color of platinum. He quickly showed it to the others and put it in his pocket. In the meanwhile, Marco found a First-Aid Kit, which was rather fortunate.

Bertholdt was getting a feeling he forgot something. He didn't know what though. He had his gear and everything else, but that feeling would just not go away.

Reiner put his hand on Bertholdt's back. "Hey Bertl, you okay? You seem to be quite tense. Don't worry, I promise we'll get out of this mansion. I know we can do it." He grinned.

"Y-yeah...But it feels like I'm forgetting something. Like...Well, I don't know." Bertholdt replied in a worried voice. He then spoke up. "Guys, I'm going to the top floor. I think I might have forgotten something..."

"Do you want one of us to come with you..?" Annie walked toward him and looked up into his eyes. He broke eye contact quickly.

"N-no thank you...I'll be back quickly. I promise." He gave a warm smile to everybody that disappeared once he turned around and walked out of the room.

The mansion was more eerie than he thought. It was better for at least someone to be with you, but he didn't go back. He didn't want to be a bother.

Bertholdt had been gone for a while now; almost an hour. What could be keeping him off like that? The others were on the first floor. While searching in a large room to the north, they had found a chest. They used many attempts to open it, but they didn't work. There was a four letter code on the chest. Mikasa had wandered not far off the the right and looked through some cupboards. She found a piece of paper that was torn in half.

"Well, we've been finding more and more items huh..." She walked slowly back. There was a strange painting that shook. She looked at it in the corner of her eye. Carefully, she took her blades out and slowly started walking towards it.

Then it happened. A strange figure, not the thing, jumped out and pinned Mikasa against the wall. It was tall, had a crippled body, and was bald. It's eyes were a dark red color and it's sclera's were black. The monster's hands were wrapped around her neck. She tried to pry off they monster's hands from her neck, but it was stronger than she imagined. She had dropped her blades, and somehow, she didn't have the strength to grab them. The others turned around and saw her.

"Mikasa!" Armin yelled as he ran after her, having the others follow shortly.

Levi was the fastest, and quickly took out a blade. He threw across the room, hitting the monster straight in the back of the head, making sure to hit the brain. The monster's grip around Mikasa's neck loosened and soon it fell to the ground. It slowly steamed off and vanished, just like a titan.

Mikasa coughed hard, which led to Armin and Eren patting her back to make sure she was okay.

"W-what was that...?" She sat there, processing everything that just happened.

"M-Mikasa! A-are you alright?" Eren moved her hair out of her face. Her face was red, as she couldn't breathe.

"Eren...I-I thought I was going to die.." Mikasa hugged Eren hard as she shed a few tears. He held her firmly and helped her to her feet.

Everybody stood and stayed silent. Just what the hell was that thing? How come there were more? Were there others trying to hunt them down?

"Let's get going." Levi said in a stern voice as he walked over to the other side of the room and reached for the door.

"Wait. Mikasa..What were you holding earlier?" Sasha pointed to the piece of paper she had dropped while being strangled.

"Oh...It was just a paper that I found..It's ripped in half, though." She picked it up and showed it to the others.

"...That paper looks familiar.." Annie searched in her pocket. "Is it something similar to this..?" She held it out.

"Looks like it." They put the pieces together and read the entry.

"If anybody is reading this now, you made the wrong choice to come here. My friends and I came here for fun. You guys are probably trainees, like us. We made such a wrong decision. I don't even know what happened. It just...so...

Anyways, if you are reading this, I will help you get out. I am a lone survivor. I am the last of my friends to be alive, but I will make sure you all get back alive. You don't want to face the pain I did, watching all my friends die.

There should be a chest in a large room. Do not go near that painting. Something will strangle you. The code for the chest is 5839. I have put all my items to help you out in there. Good luck/. DO NOT LET ANYBODY GO ANYWHERE ON THEIR OWN."

"Well, we got the code for the chest." Connie ran over to it and opened it. There were a few keys and weapons...That was it?

Reiner couldn't stop thinking about the last sentence. Was there somebody missing from the group? He couldn't exactly remember...

There was a loud scream coming from the top floor, and that was when he remembered.

"...BERTHOLDT...!"

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