Hello dear reader! I hope you enjoy this chapter, and I apologize for it not being that great. I do not own Attack on Titan, or any of the characters. Again, I hope you enjoy this chapter!
After the Colossal Titan made his appearance, kicked a hole into the wall, and then vanished, every soldier was ordered to report to headquarters to receive orders and to prepare for battle. I wasn't ready for this, I wasn't ready to face the titans, but what choice did I have? I couldn't back out now! I had to fight, and I had to make sure Leo and his mother got out of here alive. While I was strapping on my 3d maneuvering gear, Jean ran up to me and grabbed my shoulders.
"I'm telling you right now, you better not die!" he said and I sighed.
"Don't worry, Jean, I'll be fine!" I replied as I checked my gear, making sure it was on correctly.
"Ok, but if the battle gets to chaotic for you, come find me! What squad are you on anyways?" he asked.
"I'm on squad 19, and so is Marco, Reiner, and Bertolt! I'll be with our friends, so you don't have to worry," I said, and Jean sighed softly.
"I guess I feel a bit better knowing you'll be with those three, just promise me you'll be careful," Jean said and I nodded.
"I promise I'll be careful. Anyways, I need to get going, I'll see you later," I said and walked away, leaving Jean behind.
Once I had walked out of the gigantic building and into the sunlight, I used my 3d maneuvering gear to get onto the roof tops to join my squad. There, we waited for a Garrison soldier to give us orders.
"So, are you guys peeing yourselves like the others cadets?" Reiner asked, and I rolled my eyes.
"In your dreams, Braun, how about you? Have you soiled your britches yet?" I asked, and he chuckled.
"No, not yet! How about you Marco?" he asked, and Marco gave us a small smile.
"No, I haven't, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared!" he replied, and Bertolt only smiled.
The three of us joked around, trying to calm our nerves a bit, but the fun didn't last. No, a mysterious girl who was also a part of squad 19 just had to ruin the fun!
"You three should stop joking round and get serious! This is no laughing matter, and I highly doubt you'll be laughing when you get eaten by a titan!" the raven haired girl said coldly, and we looked at her.
"Lighten up, chick, we're just trying to put our nerves at ease. I mean, a lot of us are terrified," Reiner replied, and the girl rolled her eyes.
"What good will a few jokes do? A lot of cadets are probably going to die anyways," she said and placed her hands on her hips, and we glared at her.
"How can you say something like that? Stop thinking negatively, and think positively!" Marco said, and the girl shook her head.
"Whatever," she replied and turned away from us.
Deciding to ignore her, we went back to making jokes and we talked about how we could defeat the titans. Sadly, we didn't get to make any more jokes or talk since the Garrison soldier who would be giving us orders arrived.
"Alright, squad 19, it's time for you to move out! You will be going to the eastern part of Trost. Good luck and try not to die," the soldier said, and the five of us drew our swords.
"You heard the man, c'mon guy's let's go kick some titan butt!" I shouted, and at that, the five of us began racing towards the titans.
In seconds, there were three titans in front of us. One was a ten meter, and the other two were probably in the fourteen meter class. Hoping my friends would be ok, I charged towards the ten meter titan, doing my best to avoid its hands as it tried to grab me. Once I had managed to get around the titan, I aimed my wire at the nape of its neck, reeled myself in, and struck quickly. After I killed the titan, I quickly retreated to the roof of one of the houses and looked for my friends. At first, I couldn't see them, which worried me, but as I looked around, I had noticed that they were ahead of me.
Sighing, I jumped off the roof and began making my way towards my friends who were already fighting again. This time, there were five titans, which meant we had to be more careful. One false move and one of us could end up dying a horrible death! Repeating what I did earlier, I attacked the nearest titan I could get to, and sliced the nape of its neck clean off. Landing on the roof once again, I looked down at my hands and stared at the blood. I hated it, I wanted to clean it off right away, but I didn't have enough time because more titans were coming, and there was still one titan remaining. Since the girl from earlier was fighting it, I decided that she would be ok, but before I left the roof, I heard a scream.
Looking back, I saw that the raven haired girl was getting squeezed to death, and I began trembling in fear. Even though she was rude to me and my friends, I couldn't let her die! Clutching the handles of my swords, I aimed for the nape of the neck once more and went for the kill, but while I was inching closer and closer to the titan's neck, a humungous hand grabbed me and yanked me away. I began wiggling around, trying to loosen the titan's grip, but its grip only seemed to become tighter around me. Soon, my ribs felt like they were going to be turned into a pile dust, and I began screaming out in pain. It hurt so much, but this couldn't compare to the day when I lost my family and my leg.
I continued screaming and trashing around, but it didn't solve anything. The titan was bringing me closer and closer to its mouth, but then it stopped. Soon, I felt the titans grip loosen as it began falling to the ground. Before I could fall a boy, who I couldn't make out at the moment, pulled me out of the titans hand and carried me toward the roof. Not caring who it was, I wrapped my arms around them tightly and buried my face into their chest.
"You nearly gave me a heart attack, Sadie!" the boy said, and I looked up.
Looking down at me with his golden eyes, was Reiner Braun. Trying to blink back tears, I held onto him and trembled in his arms.
"It's ok, calm down, your safe! Are you ok though? Can you stand?" he asked, and I nodded.
"I-I think so," I said as I stood up on my legs that shook like pudding.
"Is that girl ok?" I asked and Reiner nodded.
"Yea, Bertolt saved her," he replied and I nodded, wiping my eyes on my jacket sleeve.
"Where's Marco, is he ok?" I asked, and he nodded.
"He's fine, don't worry! C'mon, we need to get moving, it's not safe here," Reiner said and I nodded.
Once Reiner took off, I followed his lead as we made our way towards the rest of squad 19. Once we caught up with the others, I looked over at Marco and Bertolt who looked back at me.
"We are discussing a strategy to use against the titans. Since we almost lost you and Anna, we need to come up with a plan so we can avoid that again," Marco said, and I looked over at the raven haired girl whose name was Anna.
"Well, what do you have so far?" I asked, and Marco sighed.
"Honestly, I don't know what we should do! If we had Armin, maybe we could come up with a great strategy, but he is in another squad," he said, and I began thinking.
"What if we worked in pairs?" I asked, and Reiner nodded.
"It's a start! What do you guys think?" he asked.
"Sounds like a plan. Ok, so we spotted two more titans ahead. We'll take the one on the left, and you two take the one on the right," Marco said, and Reiner and I both nodded.
"I guess that's fine, either way it doesn't matter," I replied, and Marco nodded.
"Ok, for now we'll work in pairs. Alright squad 19 let's go!" he said, and once again, we began making our way towards the titans.
Reiner and I split from the other three as we inched closer to the twelve meter titan on the right. While I distracted it, Reiner maneuvered his way towards the titan's neck and killed it. Looking over to the left, I smiled as I saw that my friends were successful at killing the second titan. Everything was going great, but would our luck last? As we were setting out for the next group of titans, there was a four meter titan that neither of us had noticed. As we sailed over it, the titan jumped up and bit into my artificial leg. This caused me to lose control and I slammed onto the roof of one of the houses. Since that four meter titan took a chuck out of my artificial leg, I couldn't stand up or walk, so how was I supposed to fight?
"Sadie, are you ok?" Reiner yelled as he began rushing to my side, and I nodded.
"I'm fine, don't worry, but I don't know how I'm going to be able to move on without my artificial leg," I said, and Reiner cursed under his breath.
"Don't worry, Sadie, you're going to be fine!" he said, but I could see that he was worried.
"How? There's nothing you guys can do," I replied, and Reiner bit his lip.
"I'll carry you back to headquarters then," he said as he scooped me up in is arms.
I held onto his shirt, looked over his shoulder and gasped.
"Reiner, get out of the way!" I yelled as I pushed him away from my body as a titan's hand came crashing down onto the roof.
I watched as Reiner's body rolled away from me, and I began scrambling towards him, but then the titan grabbed my and lifted me towards his mouth.
"Sadie, hold on, I'm coming!" Reiner shouted as he ran towards me, his hand out in front of him.
I extended my hand, trying to grab his, but only our finger tips brushed. Then the titan's mouth closed around my arm, and I couldn't see anything except darkness.
-Time Skip and Jean's POV-
"Shut up, Connie, it doesn't matter! We don't have enough gas to make it back up the wall, so we're dead anyways!" Jean snapped, and Connie sighed.
"But we have to try! C'mon, Jean, let's face those titans!" Connie said and Jean sighed.
"If we go and fight the titans now, we'll just end up dead, but we're dead just sitting here anyways. Only if the Quartermasters had done their job, we could have stocked up on gas," Jean said and then cursed.
"Fine, if you won't help, then I'll go ask someone else," Connie replied, and ran off to ask another cadet to help him fight against the titans.
Jean didn't want to fight the titans, not now. He was waiting for squad 19 to return, he was waiting for Sadie to come back. Letting out a sigh of frustration, the two toned haired boy looked around, trying to spot his fellow cadets. It wasn't long before his friends tumbled onto the roof, looking exhausted and frightened. Jean stood up and ran over to his friends, but froze when he didn't see Sadie.
"Reiner, where is Sadie?" Jean asked, and Reiner looked at him.
"Jean, I'm sorry, but she's gone," he said, and Jean frowned.
"N-no, she can't be! You're lying!" Jean said, and Marco and Bertolt shook their heads.
"She sacrificed herself in order to save me…I tried saving here, I truly did, but I was too late!" Reiner said, and Jean sank to his knees.
He should have requested her to be in his squad, or forced her to join him. He had failed to protect his best friends sister…what and how was he going to tell them about Sadie's death?