Maxwell couldn't believe his eyes, as he stared at the large beasts that had entered through the wall. He couldn't believe it, titans had always been just a nightmare legend that you'd tell your children about to get them to behave, but this this was real. The stories were real.

They were real.

Maxwell felt frozen, fear bubbled inside him at the sight, he couldn't remember the last time he had been so scared, his body shook and his feet didn't want to move.

'Humanity is doomed' He thought watching the titans grab at people, even though they weren't that close he could see people being crushed and eaten.
"Max, Max, Max!" Brea yelled grabbing her husbands arm and trying to drag him with her. "We have to go come on!"
"How can we survive them!" Maxwell questioned the sight of the titans making him lose all hope.
"You want Kassie to die this way?" Brea questioned, bringing Maxwell's eyes to his tiny daughter, her lower lip was wobbling and tears were streaming down her face. "Are you going to let her die?"
"No"
"Then move it, do what ever you have to to get our baby to safety" Brea nodded handing her husband their terrified daughter. "Please"
With one last glance at the titans Maxwell had made up his mind, his wife was right he had to get his baby somewhere safe.
"Get to the wall" He nodded gripping his wife's hand in his own and pulling her in to the streets. The streets were crowded with people running or frozen to their spots, most were trying to get away. Garrison guards were supposed to evacuate them but they too looked terrified, he could see them standing on the roof tops unmoving watching the titans approach. People around them were screaming and crying, it was the only sound they could hear. The earth was shaking as the titans moved close, but Maxwell didn't dare look back to see just how close, he didn't want to get frozen in fear again, he wanted to get his baby and his wife on the other side of the wall.

But fate doesn't always work out the way you want it to.

A sudden concrete like force pulled his arm from his socket, stopping him in his tracks. Maxwell yelled out in pain stumbling forward, his arm dangling lose from it's socket, his baby girl was screaming in his arms. He turned to see what had happened and he felt his whole world shatter.

There where his wife had been was a titans foot, her arm was the only thing Maxwell could see. The huge titan had stood on her as it reached for someone to eat. She was dead.
"Mummy mummy!" Kassandra screamed, reaching for her mother's arm. Maxwell changed his grip on her and gritted his teeth, as he forced himself to turn and keep running. He needed to get his princess to safety. He wouldn't let her die as well.

'Forgive me Brea my love'

It felt like forever before Maxwell had crossed through the gate, Garrison guards were ushering people on boats, taking them in to City Rose, he didn't fell much safer. He could see them through the open gates, walking around and snacking on people.

His heart felt numb.

His wife was out there, being a titans snack, he felt like he failed her. He didn't even care that his arm was still dislocated. All his thoughts were on his wife, how he could have saved her, how he should have saved her.

"Max thank god!" Kia yelled embracing her brother as he climb on the boat. "You made it"
"Not all of us" Max whispered, his eyes barely meeting his sisters.
"Oh Max I'm sorry…dad didn't make it either"
"What about mum and sam?"
"Alive and kicking" Their mother cut in walking over to her older children, her youngest at toe. He was relieved his mother and sisters were okay, but his heart still felt numb.
"Come here son" His mother motioned when she saw his shoulder, he handed his daughter to Kia doing as his mother ordered, his eyes just focusing on the ground.
"There's a time to mourn my son after we take care of our family" His mother muttered pushing his shoulder back in to place. Maxwell cringed, managing to bite back a scream, his eyes on his baby girl as she waited for him to cuddle her again.. She was right Kassandra needed him now more then ever.

"Run Go go go!" Edward yelled pulling his oldest son with him. His wife Bellina was just behind clutching her youngest to her. Their home had been close to wall Maria, they had seen the titans break in. It was the most horrific sight. The large red titan appearing over the wall and kicking a whole in wall Maria, the wall that was supposed to keep them safe from the nightmare beasts, the titan broke as if it were wood, a simple kick had the stone shattering.

And hell flooded in.

"Keep running go go go!" Edward continued to yell, Bellina wasn't even sure who he was yelling to any more, but she followed, wall rose seemed so far away, and their was titans everywhere they looked, people were screaming, bodies and blood patches were every direction, it was like a nightmare and Bellina desperately wanted to awake from it.
A loud crash echoed around them, the force causing Bellina to stumble over, her husband and eldest son disappearing out of sight around the corner.
"Edward!" Bellina called scared to be alone. She scrambled to her feet and raced to catch up to them, but when she turned the corner her whole world shattered. A scream erupted from her lungs and her hand went out in to the air as if to reach for her oldest son and husband, as they laid limply in a titans mouth. At her scream the titan turned it's head towards her, a large grin covering it's face as it swallowed her baby and her husband. Bellina screamed again but the wiggling toddler in her arms, kicked in her survival instincts. She turned on her heel and ran. She didn't need to look behind her to see the titan was following, she could hear it as it crawled behind her like a spider, she could feel its breath and teeth as it snapped at her. The earth rattling with every slam of it's hand. Bellina was terrified but she knew she had to keep moving.
"You are not getting us too!" She whimpered through a broken house and breaking out in to an alley, making it hard for the titan to reach in to the small gapes, the titan just crushed the buildings even more. Bellina had no idea where she was, but she kept her eyes on wall Rose, that's where she needed to head, even though it felt so far away.

She ducked under broken beams and sprinted through more broken houses to burst out in to the streets, skidding on a patch of blood and somebodies arm. The titan still chased her it's teeth chomping millimetres from her, only missing her as it was caught on one of the broken houses. It's huge hands slammed down freeing it's self from the buildings, squishing animals and people as it went, people were scattering out of the titans way, some close to it's mouth as it tried to reach her, but the titan still chased her. Why! Bellina cried turning another corner barely missing another titan's foot. Thankfully the titan chasing in to her didn't miss it, and it was tangled long enough for her to slip through another broken building and in to a different street, hoping now she was out of it's sight it she would lose it. But titans were everywhere around her, walking through buildings and eating anyone they could grab, people next to her, behind, in front, all just grabbed in to the air to be snacks for the beasts. It was scary, she wanted to curl up and hide, as her lungs squeezed for air, but she knew they wouldn't be safe until they were on the other side of the wall. Bellina forced her self to stumble on, trying desperately not to slow down, but her legs were beginning to burn.
'please body don't give up on me yet' She begged herself, wall rose was still some distance away.
The sound of a horse had her looking back seeing a wagon flying towards her, she moved to the side so that she didn't get trampled seeing a man in the back of the wagon holding his arm out for her to grab as it passed by, she grabbed his arm, skidding across the floor slightly before he yanked her up in to the wagon, a few refugees were huddled together in the wagon.
"T-t-thank you" Bellina breathed to the man who had helped her.
"Don't thank us yet till we cross that wall" The man grumbled back as they passed by more titans.

Tobias dropped to his knees, tears falling from his eyes, as he stared at the body of his daughter, crushed to death outside her home, she could see the legs of her husband crushed inside their broken home.
"No no no" He whispered stroking his daughters lifeless face. "My poor baby" He cried bringing her limp body in to his arms. "My precious angel" Isabella was so pale so lifeless it broke his heart. He was too late to save them. Suddenly the titans' meant nothing to him as he stared at his beautiful daughter. They had taken his precious family from him and he wanted nothing but to join them. He was just holding his daughter waiting for death, when sniffling caught his attention. He glanced up in to his broken daughters home and saw a tiny foot underneath a blanket. A small bit of hope filled his heart as he lowered his daughters body and stood to investigate.
"Melia?" He called, the tiny foot vanished under the blanket and his granddaughters tiny face appeared in it's place.
"Gampa? Gampa!" Melia cried reaching her arms out for him. Tobias strung to life, crawling over the debris to lift his granddaughter in to his arms. "I scared gampa I scared" Melia cried hugging Tobias as tightly as she could. Tobias returned the favour a small bit of relief filling his heart. At least his granddaughter was alive.
'She won't be if you don't get her out of there' He told himself as he caught sight of titans roaming close by. He nodded to himself gulping back his sadness he climbed back over the debris.
"Goodbye my baby" He whispered to his daughter as he turned and ran, leaving her like road kill. It broke his heart to do it, but he needed to get Melia to wall rose, before they closed the entrance, he knew they would soon, titans were everywhere, they had taken over wall Maria, so wall rose needed to be closed off and protected. And he needed to get there before it was.
"Old man!" A voice called bringing Tobias's attention to a wagon, a muscular gentleman held his arm out to Tobias as the wagon raced towards him, Tobias wasted no time in accepting the man's help to climb aboard. The rider at the front on the horse didn't slow down, and Tobias was slightly grateful. Because titans were everywhere.
"Are you injured?" The muscular man questioned eyeing Tobias's blood stained clothes.
"No…it's my daughters"
The muscularly man nodded, turning back to the side of the wagon as if looking for more people. Tobias glanced around him at all the people huddled together, a young woman holding a toddler in her arms offered him a sad smile as she rocked her baby. Tobias tried to small back but instead he just sat and clung to his granddaughter, letting his silent tears just fall from his eyes.

Sara screamed dropping her son as the titan appeared before her, she ran leaving her son for the titan. Her son cried from the fall and the scary thing in front of him, sitting up he cried reaching for his mother as she ran further away. The titan reached for him, it's mouth opening ready to eat him, but Ryder was faster fuelled by adrenaline, he slammed a large sharp piece of metal in to the titans hand, slicing the fingers off in one swing. The titan recoiled and Ryder dropped the weapon grabbing his son off of the floor and racing away. Thanking his lucky stars he had arrived on time. He had been in the fields working when the titans attacked, he didn't think he'd make it home in time. But he had, and he had witness something he never thought the woman he loved would have done.

She tried to sacrifice their baby for her own life.

Ryder was angry, beyond angry, he wanted to find her and kill her for what she tried to do but firstly he needed to get his son to safety.

"I got you son" He whispered to his son, as his eyes scanned around him, wall rose was some distance away and titans were everywhere. He dodged around debris and shoved people out of his way when they knocked in to him, he cared about no one's safety about from his sons, he didn't care what it took, he was getting his boy to safety.

The sound of a horse caught his attention and he skidded to a stop, seeing a horse and cart, the horse's reins tied to a pole as it desperately tried to get away. Ryder raced over, and untied the horse from the pole, he went to untie the wagon but the sight of a woman limping through the streets carrying two young girls made him reconsider. He whistled instead catching the woman's attention she stumbled over to him, placing the young girls in the wagon,when she climbed in after them and Ryder saw the huge gash in her leg. Without much care he jumped on the horse still holding his son to him. The horse took off flying down the streets. Straight for wall rose.

Crista stared around her in fear seeing the titans everywhere she looked, she held her daughters closer to her, limping as fast as she could, wall rose was still some distance and she needed to get there. She couldn't run thanks to the titan crushing her house, her leg had caught on something as she fell from two stories, it hurt like hell but her babies were more important. She even had to leave her husband as the titan tore in to him. She couldn't have saved him, but still still felt like she abandoned him.
"Ooph" Crista winced as someone knocked in to her. People were panicking and running everywhere no one cared about anyone else, she wished someone would care, or help at least to take her children for her. She knew she was slow and she was terrified it would be the death of her girls.
"Mummy" Her girls whined cowering as a titan swiped at someone behind them.
"Mummy's got you don't worry" Crista breathed limping through the streets, everything looked so different now, all destroyed and broken. The streets she had called home since she was a child were no way recognisable. Crista held back a scream as she watched a titan dive out in the street in front of her, scooping a young boy in it's mouth and crunching him in one bite. Crista quickly moved down an alley her heart going out to the crying mother as she beat the titan in an effort to free her child. It was heart breaking. When she broke in to the next street a whistle caught her attention, she glanced around her till her eyes landed on a muscular man, standing by horse and cart. Help!? She jumped skipping over with her injured leg, quickly she lifted her girls in to the cart and climb in after them, before she had even seated herself the man set off. Flying through the streets, as they passed the titan who had eaten the little boy, Crista saw the boys mother hanging out of the titans mouth, before she took was swallowed.
"How horrible" She cringed hiding her girls faces from the horrors they passed.
"Hey" The man called out Crista jumped thinking he was speaking to her, but seconds later and old couple were clambering in followed by a man and two tiny girls.
"Thank you" The man called but no one responded, the ride was almost silent if it wasn't for the titans crashing around them and the blood curling screams.

Forin clutched his daughter to him, dodging down streets and passed destruction. He had promised his wife he'd stop at nothing to get Fiona to safety and that was what he was going to do. He raced passed titans barely missing their hands and teeth, he ran passed people who needed help. He just ran. His only focus was to get to wall rose.
"Daddy look" Fiona whispered in his ear pointing at something to the left of them, he followed the direction he was pointing in and saw destroyed homes, blood covered bodies, and a tiny little white haired girl. She was just sat beside the bodies, her lower lip quivering as she cried. And people were just running passed her, leading this frightened baby there. Forin skidded to a halt and changed the direction he was running in, nearly slipping in a pool of blood. The tiny girl looked up at him as he appeared, her eyes were so sad and terrified it tugged at his heart strings. He had no doubt the bodies beside her where her parents, she looked just like the woman.
"Come on sweet heart" He soothed gently lifting her up. Her little arms joined Fiona's around his neck and he took off, holding both girls too him only changing direction again when Titans cut off his path. He was determined to get to wall Rose and nothing was going to stop him.

Something stopped him, seeing and elderly woman trying to lift a table off of a elderly man. He stopped beside the couple and with one shoved threw the table off, nearly scaring the woman.
"Thank you" The couple bowed as he helped the elderly man up. Forin didn't get chance to reply, when a third voice called out.
"Hey!"
Forin turned seeing a wagon hurling towards him, the rider slowly slightly, Forin wasted no time helping the couple inside before he climbed aboard too, the rider picking up speed again, causing him to slid slightly.
"Thank you" He and the elderly couple called, though the man didn't reply to them. Forin sat Fiona and the other girl between his legs, protecting them from the sight of the titans and the bumpy ride, till they saw another person in need. The man on the horse had a tiny boy with him and didn't want to slow down again, the titans were getting too close to wall Rose he wanted to beat them, so they didn't get shut outside with the titans. So Forin stood handing the elderly couple his daughter and the tiny white haired girl, much to his reluctance, so that he could help a elderly woman in to the wagon with out having to slow down too much.

Forin couldn't stop his sigh of relief that passed his lips as they crossed in to wall rose, being ushered on to the boat was a welcomed sight, they had picked up quite a few people including a injured garrison Guard, a few minutes after they had entered the gates were closed, by the screams seeing echoing Forin knew there was people still outside the wall, it was hard trying to block out their screams, to block out the images of the monsters, but they were safe now. They arrived in a poor city in wall rose, gathered in the church, so survivors could regroup and be sorted. A few pieces of bread where shared around not very happily by the Garrison guards, something about a limited food supply. Forin didn't really care he wasn't hungry, but he made sure Fiona and the young girl were fed, then just sat there waiting for morning so he could head towards his farm, he had brought it a few weeks before ,it was small but he and his wife had wanted to raise Fiona in Wall rose. They were supposed to move tomorrow.
"I guess at least we won't be homeless" He sighed thinking of all the refugees who had no where to go.
"mm" The little white haired girl blinked bringing Forin's attention to her, he wasn't sure what he was supposed to do with her, did he take care of her? Did he hand her to an orphanage?. As her little innocent eyes stared up at him he made up his mind.
"What's your name sweetie?"
"Willwow"
"Willow?"
"Mhm willwow"
"Well Willow you are going to live with me now okay?"