Chapter 3

During these years, Eren and his group are training their Titan powers in secret. To make sure that nobody sees them, they usually train outside of Wall Maria. Eren is also trying to use the powers of the Founding Titan, and after several tries, they finally manage to control the pure Titans of his free will.

Katrina's Weather Titan can create different weathers for their advantage, Peter's Ocean Titan is capable of controlling the waters, and Odom, with the Sky Titan, can fly into the sky and attack the enemies. All of them manage to control their Titans on their first try except for Eren, probably because Eren has the two strongest Titans in him.

They not only learn how to train their titans, but they also train their physical abilities. Both Aya and Mikasa are stronger than the four of them when it comes to their physical abilities, except for Eren, the other three are having a hard time catching up to them. Armin has noticed the change in behaviors of the six of them, but he understands that because they lose all of their parents and need to be alone, so all this time he has been staying with his grandfather while the six of them wander around out of Wall Maria.

For the Pure Titans, Eren manages to change some of them back to normal using the Founding Titan's power. After explaining to the Eldians about his own powers, they decide to build a small fortress in the woods and use the Titan Hardening so that they will be safe from the Titans. And since it is really far into the woods, so not even the Survey Corps will be able to find them.

Then they head to the Reiss Farm, and Aya asks, "Why are we here?"

"Our Dad might have killed off the Reiss Children, but there is one left and she's an illegitimate daughter." Eren says. "She will be playing a key role in the future."

"I see." Mikasa says.

Then they knock on the door and the blonde-haired girl opens the door. Eren asks, "Are you Historia Reiss?"

The girl tenses up and she tries to cover it up, "What are you talking about? My name is Christa Lenz."

"Sorry, but you can't fool me, and don't worry, we're not here to harm you." Eren says. "My name is Eren Yeager, and these are my friends."

After the others introduce themselves, Eren decides to say, "You see. My grandfather is the grandfather of your grandfather, so that means we are distant cousins."

This causes Historia Reiss to gasp in surprise, she wasn't aware that she has a family. Katrina decides to tell her their mother's story while in return, Historia decides to reveal how her mother was killed by her father's men. They pity the girl and they also learned that her father wants her to join the military.

"So are you going to join the Military as well?" Historia asks them.

Aya says, "Well, at first we decide not to join the Military because of how corrupt they are, but after discussing, we also decide to join the Survey Corps."

"Survey Corps? Why the Survey Corps?" Historia asks.

"First, Aya doesn't know who her father is since birth and the only thing we know is that he's in the Survey Corps. The second reason is that our mother used to be the 10th Survey Corps Leader. And finally, we need the Survey Corps' help to overthrow the Government."

This causes Historia to gasp in shock, overthrowing the government is not easy, but Eren also reveals that the Founding Titan might be a key to it and right now they are trying to master their Titan powers. Since that day, Eren and his group might sometimes visit the farm and play with Historia, also telling her stories like her sister used to do with her.

The royal government tries to rectify the food shortage by having refugees cultivate the land, but it is not enough. In the following year 846, they use the refugees to launch a military campaign and retake Wall Maria, but it ends in disaster with about a hundred survivors from a total of 250 thousand soldiers. The food shortage has improved, but Armin's grandfather dies in the conflict.

Now the seven of them are sitting together, Eren says, "We're going to apply for the military next year. We need the strength to fight the Titans."

"I'm joining as well." Armin says to them, and they all nod.

"So that's the seven of us, then." Aya says. They also know that Historia is also joining the same Training Corps, which makes things better.

Then it is the day of the training corps, everyone is standing in front of the instructor.

"We now begin the enlistment ceremony for the 104th Trainee Corps!" The instructor says, "My name is Keith Shadis, and I had the misfortune to be assigned to train you bastards! And I'm not here to welcome you at all! Right now, you're mere cattle, fit for nothing but Titan food! No, less than cattle...In three years, we'll take you worthless pieces of crap and train you! Give you the means to fight the Titans. In three years, when you stand before a Titan, will you still be food? Or will you be a noble wall, shielding the King? Or perhaps, one of humanity's glorious soldiers that slay Titans? You will decide!"

Eren and his group are staring at the instructor, and Eren thinks, "Yeah...That's what I'll be. And I will kill every last enemy in existence!"

"Hey, you!" Now Keith Shadis is now walking towards the new cadets as a rite of passage to break them down so they can rebuild themselves as soldiers.

"Sir!" Armin salutes Keith.

"Who the hell are you?!" Keith asks.

"Armin Arlert, from Shiganshina District!" Armin replies.

"Yeah? That's a stupid name! Did your parents give you that?!"

"My grandfather did, sir!"

"Arlert! Why are you here?!"

Armin closes his eyes and replied loudly. "Trying to aid humanity's victory!"

"That is indeed wonderful! Then you will feed the Titans!" Then Shadis walks towards Odom.

"Who are you?"

"Odom Wolff, sir!" Odom says.

"Wolff? What are you doing here?"

"I want to eliminate the Titans and become strong like my parents!" Odom yells.

"Then you'll be prepared to be fed to the wolves!" Shadis turns to another person. "And who are you?"

"Thomas Wagner, from Trost!" Thomas says.

"I can't hear you! Louder!" Shadis yells.

Thomas flinches and repeats. "Thomas Wagner!"

"Can't hear you!"

After a few more members, Shadis ends with a girl named Sasha, who is eating a potato during the yelling.

Later, everyone is watching Sasha running laps, and Eren says, "He's still making that potato girl run."

"Five hours...that's really long." Connie Springer says.

"But she seems more distraught when told she wouldn't get dinner than when told she must run until she dropped." Marco Bodt says.

"If I remember correctly, Daupeer Village is a tiny hunting village, deep in the mountains." Katrina replies.

They also notice the dropouts who request the transfer to the frontier, which they are surprised since this is the first day."

"Can't blame them. If you're not strong enough, you have to leave." Aya says.

This causes everyone to look at them. Peter says, "Hard to believe they'd rather go back to weeding and picking up rocks."

"Hey, he didn't ask where you guys were from, did he?" Marco asks Peter, Aya, Katrina, and Eren.

"We're the same as both Odom and Armin. Shiganshina District." Eren says.

"I see...that's..." Macro gasps.

"Then weren't you there that day?" Connie asks. "Did you see the Colossal Titan?"

"Y-yeah..." Aya frowns.

After dinner time, everyone gathers around the group as they want to know more about the Colossal Titan. Samuel asks, "How tall is that?"

"Big enough to look over the walls." Eren says.

"What? I heard it stepped right over them!" "Me too!" "That's what they said in my village."

"No, it wasn't that tall." Odom replies.

"What did it look like?" Mina asks.

"It barely had any skin, but it had a huge mouth." Peter says. "It appears in a weird flash of lightning that caused a little earthquake."

Unknown to them, a boy Bertolt hears what Peter says and freezes up a little. Eren and his friends already know who the current shifters are, but they know that they are probably victims so they decide not to reveal until the time has come.

"What about the Armored Titan that broke Wall Maria?" Connie asks.

"They called it that because they have some stones on the Titan's body. But other than that, it looked like a normal Titan to me." Katrina says. And Reiner also tenses up.

"Th-Then, what are ordinary Titans like?!" Samuel looks eager and a little scared.

This causes them to keep silent, they remember how they devour their parents as a normal titan. Tears are slightly forming in their eyes, and Marco speaks up, "Let's spare them the questions, everyone. I'm sure there are things they don't want to remember."

"I'm sorry for asking-" Before Connie can finish, Eren says, "No. It's fine. The pure Titans are different in size and movements, some of them crawl while some of them walk. Some of them are only 4 meters tall while some of them are 15. There are probably more. Oh and whilst some Titans ate the person they got fast others... played with their food."

Now everyone tenses up after hearing what Eren says. Eren sighs, "But despite all that, the Titans aren't all that tough...If we can master the 3D Maneuver Gear, they won't stand a chance!"

"Eren's right." Aya says. "That's why we are here since we have finally become soldiers..."

"All of us are going to join the Survey Corps, so we can wipe the Titans off the face of this earth." Katrina says.

"Hey, are you nuts?" A boy named Jean Kirschtein interrupts them. "Did you just say you want to join the Survey Corps?"

Peter asks, "And what if we did?"

"I remember you are Jean Kirschtein, right? The one who wanted to join the Military Police to take it easy?" Odom asks.

"I'm no liar...I'm a straight talker, unlike someone who pretends to have balls of steel, even when he's about to piss himself." Jean replies.

Eren sighs and says, "Are you perhaps implying something? Because we are not pretending at all."

"Hey, I didn't..." Jean says as they are standing in front of each other while glaring. The bell signaling the end of dinner rings, breaking the tension and the two drop their disagreement with each other. "Well, I'm sorry. I didn't want to say you were doing the wrong thing. Peace?"

"Yeah." Eren says. "I'm sorry too."

After shaking hands a little, Eren's group leaves, including Mikasa, and Jean notices her and says, "Hey, you..."

Mikasa turns around and Jean says, "W-Well, uh...it's just that you look different than the rest of us. I'm sorry...your hair is very pretty."

"Thank you." Mikasa says while turning away.

Back outside, the others are in for a walk and Aya asks, "Should we continue to do some midnight training?"

"Maybe, but where are we going to train in private?" Odom asks.

Eren says, "By the way, Mikasa, isn't your hair a little longer? It could cause an accident when you're practicing with the Maneuver Gear."

"Very well." Mikasa says. "I'll cut it. But how short should it be?"

Katrina says, "How about I help you?"

Mikasa nods, but everything is noticed by Jean, who wipes his hand on his back. "H-Hey! Don't mess with other people's clothes! What did you wipe on me?!"

"My faith in humanity."

"Finally…done…" Sasha collapses to the ground. A figure came from the shadows. Her nose twitched. This is... Wild-eyed, she attacked the newcomer, knocking her to the ground. "Bread!"

"This is all I could get, but I saved it for you." A girl named Christa Lenz says. "But you should drink some water first."

Sasha gasps as she feels like a holy glow is behind Christa, she asks, "Are you a goddess?!"

At the same time, another girl named Ymir comes and asks, "Hey, what are you two doing?"

"Um...she spent the whole day running..." Christa says while Sasha continues to munch on the bread.

"So you're trying to do a good deed?" Ymir asks. Sasha passes out in Christa's lap. "Did you do that for the potato girl? Was the effort worth what you got out of it?"

Christa keeps silent as she doesn't know how to reply. "Well, it doesn't matter...Anyway, I'm carrying her to bed."

"Are you doing a good deed, too?" Christa asks.

"I'm doing her a favor so she'll owe me." Ymir replies. "I'm looking forward to a lot of fun from this idiot."

Then she carries the sleeping Sasha as they go to bed.

Here is a new chapter, and in this chapter, we're finally beginning the training corps. I hope you like this chapter.