Flying over the Rose Region
"Ok, it seems the worst is over, so let's touch down," Agent O-7 noted after they had finally found an area free of Wall Titans. "I need to put that down below," he added, pointing at the geranium petals on top of Onyankopon's lap.
"Yes, please," young Onyan agreed. He had been extremely nervous while carrying those dangerous stones during that messy flight. "Where will you put them?" he curiously asked after the plane landed on an open field.
Danso gently took the flower-shaped disk from Onyan's hands. "I'll secure it down in the engine, with the plane's own iceburst stone," he explained, and turned to the passengers. "You can stretch your legs if you want, but this won't take long," the pilot informed.
The group stood up and hung around next to the open cargo door, a little apprehensive but also talkative. Eren stayed further away, watching them chat about the end of the world. He wasn't in the mood for talking, he just wanted to finally get to that farm.
The agent opened the hatch underneath the pilots' seats and went crawling down below, to the small engine room.
The space was a little claustrophobic, full of machinery and with just enough space for engineers to check and do repairs in the airplane's complicated system. Danso crawled closer to the heart of the engine, ready to secure the disk with a couple of spare seat belts so the stones wouldn't fly around once the plane took off again.
He immediately felt a presence next to him. But before he could react, he felt the cold metal of a gun barrel next to his head.
"Please, finish it," Floch ordered. As the pilot had suddenly stopped securing the stones once he had noticed that he wasn't alone in that small room.
The Yeagerist pressed the gun closer to his head. "We wouldn't want for this air machine to blow up before time, now would we?" he added in mockery.
"How the fuck did you get on my plane?" Danso asked him gravely.
The agent immediately reached down for his own gun, but found nothing. He was defenceless since Leonhart had confiscated his futuristic pistol. He also considered fighting, but that space was too small for him to be able to immobilise the stowaway. And he knew moving erratically so near the plane's engine wouldn't be very wise.
"Don't try anything funny, it won't end well for you, or for the others outside," Floch warned, pressing the gun on his head again. "Come on, move," he ordered.
Danso finished securing the stones and slowly crawled back out, with the Yeagerist following right behind him, still threatening him with the gun.
"I knew there was someone in there!" Hitch exclaimed. They were all startled. She turned to Gabi, "I told you we weren't alone," Hitch added nervously.
"How are you still alive?" Onyankopon exclaimed in pure confusion, as Floch had been one of the rebels who had been counted as dead after the struggle down in the Harbour.
"Salt water is good for grazing wounds, quite painful though," Floch replied while holding the pilot by the collar, bringing Danso back closer to him. He had the gun aimed straight at the back of the pilot's head.
Annie abruptly moved to walk forward, wanting to take Floch down, but Onyankopon held her back by the arm and shook his head at her. He knew this wouldn't be wise, their pilot's life was in serious danger.
"Come on, Floch, you clearly haven't thought this through," Eren gravely noted, walking a couple of steps closer and hoping to negotiate with him.
"Get out," Floch simply ordered, walking forward with Danso.
"Are you gonna kill our pilot, you dumbass? If you do that we'll all be stranded here waiting for Titans to eat us!" Hitch argued strongly.
"You'll be stranded here, I'm flying away," Floch replied with an angry smile.
"Fine. I don't mind taking you with me, just let them go unharmed," Danso told him, still feeling the cold metal pressing against his head.
Floch only brought him closer. "Shut up," he whispered threateningly.
The group began to walk outside as Floch approached closer to the cargo door with his hostage.
"I'm not letting you or any other Marlean kill our goddess," Floch told the pilot as they walked forward. "I'm not letting you ruin everything. Get out!" He firmly ordered to the pilot and to the others.
"Are you going to fly the plane yourself?" Onyankopon asked, confused.
"You said it," Floch reminded him while tilting his head, "'it's pretty easy.'"
"To take off, not to land," young Onyan clarified nervously.
"I'm not planning on landing," Floch replied.
"Where are you going?" Annie questioned.
"Where do you think? I'm bringing these petals as a gift to the continent. I heard they can level a whole city," Floch told her and turned to the pilot. "How about storming the capital?" he suggested.
"Are you out of your mind?" Hitch questioned, baffled, as Gabi hid behind her.
"Do you think I would help you make this more of a mess than it already is?" Danso questioned. "You must be stupid." He affirmed.
"Don't make me kill you," Floch threatened him, pushing the gun into his head again.
"Oh, you better kill me, otherwise I'm gonna rip your intestines and choke you to death with them," the agent stoically threatened while staring straight ahead.
"Come on, you gotta think this through," Onyan tried to argue. "So you blow up a Marlean city, what then? You're just going to make things worse for the island."
"It would make things even. I'm not just standing here while they invade us," Floch told them decisively. "I'm leaving them a statement, a mark. Going out with a bang. Taking them all to hell with me."
"And kill yourself? You clearly are stupid," Annie told him coldly.
"You don't get an opinion here, Leonhart," Floch told her firmly. "Do you even have any idea of how many people you killed?! Your own people. You disgust me."
Floch then turned to Eren, who had been looking down this entire time, Yeager was clearly reflective and conflicted. "And you," Flock said. "You are weak," he told Yeager with a look of deep disdain and disgust on his face.
And Eren walked forward threateningly, extremely vexed with his own creature; while Danso also slightly reacted, hoping to turn and immobilise the rebel. But Floch abruptly shot the pilot on the back of the head before he could properly turn.
They were all startled, some were stunned and others screamed with that sudden shot. Danso was dead.
The pilot fell down into the grass as a pool of blood immediately formed around him, and the Yeagerist swiftly pushed the button to close that automatic door, running inside. Floch was now alone in the airplane and he prepared himself to take off.
They rushed towards Danso, all very frightened and confused.
"This is all your fault!" Hitch angrily told Eren and pushed him backwards.
"How is it my fault?!" Eren contested, equality angry.
"You created him!" Hitch told him, even more angry. She pointed at the airplane, now completely closed off and clearly turning on.
Onyankopon looked upwards towards the air machine, worriedly. "Stand back!" he warned the others. "The engine-" he added, explaining, while bringing Danso's body back with him.
That futuristic motor was lighting up its cold fire and Eren thought fast, he quickly touched down into the earth and created a crystal arc to protect them. Eren was still debilitated, he also wanted to use that crystal to hold the airplane in place but he knew he wasn't strong enough. And his crystal arc almost melted down completely once the cold fires of the iceburst stone reached it. Still, it was able to protect the group.
Eren looked ahead, extremely upset as the plane successfully took off. His one chance to finally reach Historia was now gone. Yeager felt defeated.
The man was already down on his knees, and as he reached to clean the blood dripping from his nose he lost balance. And Gabi swiftly held him back in place, worriedly.
"Are-Are you alright?" the small girl asked him anxiously.
Eren looked up at her with pure anger. "Get off," he told her firmly.
Gabi understood and let go of him as Eren struggled to get up on his own. He cleaned even more blood dripping down from his nose and Annie came closer to him. "You've got to stop using all this crystal," she admonished him sternly.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you wanted to die today, burnt by a plane engine," he complained ironically and angrily.
Onyankopon looked up to the sky as the airplane finally disappeared. "Where are you going?" he thought, conflicted.
Annie and Hitch walked closer to the pilot's body, both visibly disturbed. Annie kneeled down by his side, upset. His bright blue eyes were now completely empty, lifeless, and she felt eerie while staring at them so she closed his eyelids. Annie stayed there, very close to the stranger's body as her mourning cut deeper than she could ever expect. The Warrior was clearly profoundly moved by that death, and she felt guilty.
"We never even knew his name," Onyankopon commented, also extremely upset.
"I killed him," Annie revealed with watery eyes, which took Hitch by surprise as she'd never seen her friend getting emotional before.
"That's not true," Onyankopon softly replied, trying to console her. But Annie took out the gun she had confiscated from the pilot out of her belt, reminding him. "He couldn't defend himself," she said, her bright blue eyes full of grief and guilt.
Young Onyan remembered the pilot's own words, of how he was willing to die so they could have a better future. And that also cut him deeply.
The entire team was very lost. They felt confused and hopeless.
Annie held up that gun, staring at it for a moment, contemplating it all. Hitch took out her green cape and placed it over the dead man's face as a sign of respect. And they all stayed in silence for a moment.
The greeny region was peaceful, but they could all hear the Wall Titans walking in the distance. Those loud stomps were an eerie reminder that they weren't safe. That entire island was infested with Titans, all ready to feast. Many Eldians had already died that day. Perhaps not in a similar but in an equally violent way as Danso's terrible fate. Either eaten, burnt or shot, many had perished. Death was thriving in Paradise.
"Are we all going to die today?" Gabi asked, naively and anxiously.
Although the small twelve-year-old had been joyous in military missions prior to this, all this chaos was feeling much different. She had seen tragedy after tragedy in those past twenty-four hours alone. First Colt, then Niccolo, now this brutal murder right in front of her eyes. The young girl thought this exceptional agent was invincible. Now he was just nothing, motionless, dead.
The intensity and the danger of those past two days had been too much, the girl was desolated, and she wasn't the only one: the whole team had been deeply shocked with the events of the past few minutes. They not only had lost their pilot, but their way of transport and the dangerous geranium petals.
Annie stood up with determination after seeing how lost they all were. She gave the futuristic pistol to Onyankopon and turned to Gabi. "I'm not dying today," she firmly informed the girl, and the others.
The Warrior took out her small silver ring and began to walk forward. She turned to Eren for a moment. "You are next," she firmly noted, so Yeager could prepare himself as well and they could take turns. The Warrior looked around, thinking of the direction in which the airplane was going prior to all this, and planning her steps.
She put her ring on, after she had taken some distance from the others and slid out the small spike, gently cutting her finger. And the Female Titan exploded in transformation.
The beautiful creature rose up from the ground, still looking around and considering where to go.
Eren walked forward, towards the fellow Shifter as he still wiped some blood from his nose. "Come on," he called the others.
Onyankopon was clearly stunned, very impressed but also a little confused after witnessing that tiny woman transform into a Titan.
"You have never seen a Titan Shifter transforming before, have you?" Hitch asked, a little amused by his facial expression. And Onyan only shook his head slowly.
The Female Titan dropped down her hand next to them, and the team hopped onto it, securing themselves. She stood up and looked ahead again and young Onyan could tell what she was thinking about.
"Yes, we should just keep going southwest," Onyan confirmed to her and the Female Titan nodded. She then set off, taking them all in the direction of the farm.
-.-
Somewhere above the Forest of the Giant Trees
[ beyond the Maria Region ]
Old Onyankopon was following the conflict with the goddess from the distance. Flying his airship stealthily through the thick clouds, glad that Tremblay had completely forgotten about him. He could see that this monster was invincible and that perhaps Azymondeus had been right. Perhaps the only way was to kill her in her infancy. The old man was conflicted. 'No,' he thought. 'There must be another way.'
He could hear Tremblay and the others over the radio, discussing about sending more airships to the Queen's location, as it seemed that chaos had erupted there and they hadn't been able to kill her, or the baby, yet.
Apparently a rogue dirigible had arrived and had brought reinforcements to the Eldian army down below. And had somehow managed to take down two of their airships simultaneously. 'Hange,' old Onyankopon thought with a small smile. He hadn't thought of his old friend in many years.
Tremblay decided to send seven more airships to that location, frustrated with their incompetence. "It's only one woman in an orphanage! In a rural area. Get it done," he ordered. The other soldiers abided and old Onyankopon decided to also follow back to that region.
-.-
The Colossal Titan and his companions were absolutely surrounded. They had been running west, in the general direction in which they expected the giant goddess to have gone. But they hadn't spotted her again, which was making Armin even more frustrated. That was the least of their problems however, as they were now overwhelmed by Wall Titans all around them.
The Phoenix Titan had followed the goddess straight away, and she hadn't returned, which made them more worried. The Colossal Titan, the Armoured Titan and all the four Jaw Titans were fighting the incredibly large amount of Wall Titans that had surrounded them, together with the two small soldiers who flew around on Falco's back. The current Jaw Titan had finally regenerated its wings, which was now somewhat helpful.
Jean and Mikasa both had crystal swords, which made slicing those large Titans' napes a little easier, and the fact that this crystal didn't wear out like regular ODM swords was also helpful. But although they had unlimited blades, they didn't have unlimited gas. They couldn't fight forever. The two soldiers did their best to save up gas by riding on Falco and hopping around between the other Jaw Titans as well.
The Jaw Titans would hop around from Colossal Titan to Colossal Titan, expertly gnawing on their napes and taking them down. The Armoured Titan was using its crystallised fingers, climbing on top of the giant Titans and ripping their necks away from behind. And the actual Colossal Titan was ripping their heads off completely, one by one.
They were slowly making their way, freeing themselves from that enormous herd that had found them. And hoping they would finally move on from that area before even more Wall Titans took notice of them. The scenery was dry and dusty, as the midday sun arrived and more and more Wall Titans fell disintegrating on the grassy ground - catching the vegetation on fire, turning the once beautiful fields of that island into a living hell.
"Is that a child?" Porco's Jaw Titan asked, baffled and confused as they gnawed and killed the Wall Titans.
A small boy had suddenly appeared in that field, out of nowhere. And he was carrying something small in his arms.
"It's a child with a baby," Maria's Jaw Titan noted.
"How did they get here?" Marcel's Jaw Titan questioned, confused. As that entire area had been stomped and flattened, if the boy had been there initially, he would have already been crushed long before they all arrived.
Maria's Titan just ignored Marcel's questioning and moved on to continue gnawing the Titans. They all had their hands full.
Azzy walked around confused and frightened in that field of Titans, the boy was looking for his mother. He held the sleeping baby closer to him, looking very scared. Ymir however, slept soundly through all that noise and chaos, the newborn felt very safe in her cousin's arms.
The boy's father had noticed him right away, Armin could sense his son's otherworldly jumps and track him down everywhere with his own otherworldly powers. The Colossal Titan was doing his best so that the boy wouldn't suffer any harm in that Titan battlefield. The boy kept wandering aimlessly as Wall Titans fell all around him, he began to cry. All the noise and dust, all the fire and the immense destruction were terrifying him.
ϟ "Mikasa!" ϟ the Colossal Titan warned as he held yet another Titan from falling over where the little boy was standing. Azzy looked up at his father and at the other Colossal Titans, very frightened. He clutched the baby even closer into his arms.
Mikasa looked towards the direction the Colossal Titan's eyes were showing her and she startled. The mother then immediately used her ODM gear and flew down in the direction of the small boy.
"How did you get here?!" she anxiously asked the boy as she came down.
"Mummy!" the boy cried for his mother, running closer to her.
Mikasa kneeled in front of him and saw the newborn baby in his arms, which startled her even more. The mother began to think very fast, trying to suppose how things ended up this way and how her boy had arrived there with this newborn baby.
She knew the orphanage was under attack by the Marlean forces, and she had been fearing for Azzy's safety ever since she had learned of it. She began to wonder if Hange's team hadn't arrived there in time, and if that sudden attack and all the stress had made Historia give birth prematurely. She then feared for her dear friend's life, trying to understand how this newborn had ended up with Azzy in the first place. Mikasa suddenly feared that not only Historia but the whole orphanage had perished and that somehow Azzy had gotten away. She began to feel very anxious and nervous.
All of that supposition troubled the mother deeply, but she couldn't mull that over for too long. Titans were all around them and she needed to act. All she wanted in that moment was to protect her child and that fragile baby in his arms.
"Mummy, help!" the small toddler pleaded.
Mikasa put her swords away and held the boy's shoulders, softly but sternly. She leaned down and looked deep into his eyes. "Listen to me: everything is going to be just fine," the mother promised in a soft tone as giants were falling all around them. "Just hide. I need you to hide," she told the boy.
Azzy lunged closer to her. "But I want to be with you," the toddler pleaded, extremely scared. But Mikasa held him firmly back.
"I know, I know," the mother replied, soothingly. "Just hide. Go to the safest place that you can think of," she told him. "The safest you can reach! And I'll be there for you when this is over. I promise you, baby boy," Mikasa held her tears. "Everything will be okay, sweetheart," the mother told him softly.
She kissed her son's forehead and fixed the baby's blanket, checking to make sure the newborn was fine. Baby Ymir was sound asleep in the toddler's arms.
"I'll see you soon," Mikasa said, holding up his chin and the boy nodded.
The toddler then started to slowly build up his energy. Mikasa was still looking deep into his eyes as she saw that otherworldly energy coming from within his dark pupils - making them completely white. He disappeared in front of her eyes in a multitude of blue light. Taking the small newborn with him, holding Ymir in his arms.
-.-
The Queen's farm
Levi stood up again, trying to stop the bleeding from his arm. He looked up to see that airship flying down closer to the building and ran inside.
There were more airships coming as well, they could already be seen in the distance. The Ackermann walked fast into the building, trying to shoot any Marleans that he found. The children had been locked down in the basement, for their safety which gave the veteran relief as he walked around the ground floor to see many of the servants, some nuns and all the medical staff now executed on the ground.
Levi kept going to the upper floors, looking for targets, feeling increasingly more angry and upset as he saw the state of that orphanage.
Queen Historia was being chased around on the third floor, still relatively close to her Royal quarters. She could hear all the shooting and screams down below as she ran through the corridors, which was also making the pregnant woman extremely angry. She reached for a rifle on the ground - that had been left next to the body of one of the guards, and held it up firmly. The Queen began to walk around attentively, looking for targets.
She shot three Marlean soldiers that were following and shooting at her and kept going. Historia walked down the stairs to the second floor with difficulty and then looked up through the window to see what was casting that shadow. The Queen could see that airship now right on top of the building, with not only more soldiers jumping down from it, but also clearly preparing to drop down bombs as well.
Historia quickly thought about it as she ran down the stairs and the next stairs again. She shot a couple more soldiers with that rifle and ran outside. The Queen knew that they were after her and she hoped that her presence in that field would divert their attention to her and they would stop attacking the building.
She felt deep sorrow as she ran out, Historia had refurbished and expanded her own childhood home to make it into a home for the orphan children from all over the Walls. It had been one of the first actions into her reign and was followed by many other orphanages that she then inaugurated all over the island. But this one held a special place in her heart, and was now being absolutely destroyed because of her. She just hoped the children were safe.
The Queen ran across the field and eventually stopped beneath her mother's favourite tree. She held up the rifle and waited for the enemies to follow her, quite fiercely. She sat down on the grass, trying to contain her contractions while still holding up the rifle. Ready to attack, or better yet: to defend herself, and her baby.
Shadis and the cadets were successfully making their way up that building while Hange was following them closely behind. Although they had killed, injured and disarmed most of the Marleans inside, there were now even more coming down from that airship. The team arrived on the roof and began to fire at the new intruders, hoping they would have enough ammunition to handle all of them.
Firing at them wasn't very difficult, as many were being shot dead before they could jump down from the airship, as they were easier targets that way.
The captain aboard that airship was getting increasingly concerned. He was losing his men fast and he could see the reinforcements arriving in the distance. He didn't want the shame of losing to those filthy Eldians, the captain knew he was going to be berated by his comrades once they arrived at that farm. So, he sent the order for his soldiers to retreat and the few still left in the airship did not jump down.
The airship began to go upwards again. And Shadis and the rest of his team looked up at it confused. The old Commandant became puzzled as to what they would do next.
Louise looked towards the Commandant in pure resentment, she had found her moment. Most of the other cadets were distracted, at least the ones who were not on her side. She swiftly pointed the gun at Shadis and he turned to her slightly confused, but not entirely surprised.
"What do you think you're doing, soldier?" he gravely questioned her, in pure military fashion.
"You killed our leader. You don't deserve being on this Earth anymore," she hissed back at him in pure anger. And shot him.
Louise had been waiting for that moment of revenge since they had left the harbour. The young soldier was vexed since in her perspective, the Commandant had killed Floch unfairly and had humiliated him and their whole faction.
It all happened very fast. Commander Hange finally arrived on that roof to see the young girl shooting at her fellow veteran. She didn't think twice before pulling out her own gun and shooting at the girl. Louise immediately fell on that roof with a bullet in her chest. The wound bled out and confused itself with the red of the scarf the young girl had stolen from her hero. The last thing she saw were those bright lights and fire all around her and the airship flying upwards and away. Louise was dead, and soon they would all be too.
Hange ran towards Shadis as the old man fell on his knees, also with a bullet lodged into his chest. But before she could reach him, the airship released three bombs that set off all around them, completely destroying that roof.
The captain of that airship knew very well how unethical all this was. He knew there were young children in that building, but he didn't want to lose and he didn't care anymore. Besides, in his mind, those were only Eldian children and they don't really count as humans. He lifted up that airship into the air after dropping a fourth bomb and took some distance from all the explosions so as not to damage the heavy vehicle.
Levi had finally arrived at the roof as well, as the bombs were reaching down. That first blast had knocked Hange out and she was falling fast through that roof. So he swiftly flew towards her with his ODM gear, quickly passing through the flames to catch her. Some of the younger and more agile cadets were able to fly down from the building in time, but many also perished. Shadis' heart could not take those blasts, his cardiac arrest only added to the pain and destruction that bullet had caused to his insides. The veteran died even before his body hit the ground.
Some cadets died mutilated by the blast, others died burnt by the flames. Regardless, all their bodies fell down through that destroyed roof, together with the bodies of the Marleans they had just killed. Louise's body hit the ground of the fourth floor and so did Shadis' and all the others. Many lost under the flaming rubble. And Levi fell through all the rumble as well, holding Hange in his arms and desperately looking for any sturdy pillar where he could latch his ODM hooks into, but all that they grabbed immediately broke down as well. The building was made of wood, and it was burning down fast. Levi and an unconscious Hange fell through it again, as the fourth floor collapsed into the third.
The fourth bomb was not directed to that roof, but to the lower one on the side. The orphanage had a side - ground level only - building, which housed their large kitchen. That particular structure also housed the orphanage's basement. The children were all terrified with the extremely loud noise. It shook the earth like the earthquakes of the night before and also pulled apart some of the dirt from the stone walls. They all held each other very close together as one of the young nuns rushed up to the entrance, she couldn't force the door open. The building on top of them had been completely destroyed, and they were now trapped underneath all that flaming rubble.
The Queen looked at all that destruction with extreme desperation as she sat underneath that tree. The whole building was in flames. Historia couldn't help but cry.
- Year 874 - Mitras, the Royal Palace
[ the night before the coronation ]
Ezra took the crown on his hands for a moment, very reflective. He put it down again and turned to look at himself in that mirror, quite contemplative about his life. He suddenly felt a presence close to him, he saw the reflection of a woman further behind him in the mirror. Which startled him and made him turn rapidly and look behind him.
The prince was not used to seeing ghosts and he didn't get a good glimpse of the apparition, but deep down he knew exactly who had just paid him a visit. The man looked down in grief. "It was never supposed to be me, it was always supposed to be you. I'm sorry that I took your crown," he told his dear sister.
His mother walked in, hearing the very last part. "Oh, darling, but it looks so good on you," Historia joked. She walked closer and put her hands over the crown, also contemplative. She turned to him with a smile. "Are you training for tomorrow? Have you tried it on?" the mother asked.
"Are you sure you're ready to let it go?" Ezra joked, a little embarrassed.
"Deary, I'm tired. I've been doing this for more than twenty years. Even before you were born," the mother explained, clearly exhausted. "I've had my share, now it's your turn," she suggested with a smile. Historia held up the heavy crown.
"I'm sorry they had to enlarge it for my big head," he joked as they both examined the old thing.
"They were only fixing it, they had to adjust it to fit my small head all those years ago," his mother joked back, quite amused.
Historia thought about it. "Did you know, the last time it was worn - before me - it was over a hundred years ago?" she told her son curiously. The Queen continued, looking into the metal object. "There were no coronations after that. You and Karl have similar circumferences," she noted while inspecting the rims and the readjustments. Historia let out a small chuckle.
"Do you ever feel bad for being related to so many awful people?" the young prince asked his mother.
Historia tilted her head, sweetly. She gently put the crown over his head. "What they were doesn't make me. I am my own person and that's what matters. And so are you," she held his shoulders firmly and affectionately after putting the mantle over him.
"You are going to do greatly, my dear," Historia told him as they both looked at their reflections in that mirror. "I can already see it," she added and Ezra finally smiled, still quite timidly. He looked down while holding her small hand near his shoulder. Historia looked at him quite affectionately, her son's timid smile was identical to his father's. "You look so much like your father," the Queen noted and Ezra looked up into the mirror again.
"And eerily like my father," she also added. "But that doesn't stop you from being your own person," the Queen firmly told him and her son nodded in deep agreement. Ezra had no doubts as to who he was. But he had doubts of his true right to be standing there, with that metal object on his head.
"Don't you think she would do better than me?" he genuinely asked his mother, while taking the crown from his head and putting it to the side. "I was never born for this," he reminded his mother.
"Oh, my darling, there's no way of knowing," Historia replied, upset. She fixed up his mantle very motherly and looked down.
There was not a day gone by that she didn't think about her firstborn. Ymir was frequently in both of their minds. Their family had lived in grief for many years. "Don't be worrying about that," she gently advised. Historia turned Ezra to the mirror again. "Just think, wherever she is now, she's watching over us. And I'm sure she's proud of you," the mother declared with a sweet smile.
'Yes,' Ymir agreed, watching over them through that tree of light. The lonely soul was filled with somber sadness, she only wished she could be there with them. Ymir longed deeply for her family.
The Queen's farm
[ Year 854]
Historia cried in desperation as the orphanage burned down. She let go of the rifle and looked up to the skies, crying in pure anguish and despair, underneath that tree. She could feel the pain increasing again, the mother was about to give birth once more. The Queen held her stomach as the contractions became stronger and stronger, but before he could come into the world, her boy gave her a present. Historia rested her back on that tree trunk, breathing heavily, trying to endure the pain. When suddenly, her eyes became completely black.
The Queen was able to reach the Founder powers within her, unknowingly and instinctively. She screamed very loud with the pains of labour. Unearthly loud. And as she screamed, every Eldian in a two kilometres radius was transformed into a Pure Titan. The Last Founding Titan was creating an army of protection for his mother and for himself before coming out into the world.
The surviving young cadets and Royal Guards were running out of the building and looking for ways to stop the flames so they could possibly rescue others inside. When they all suddenly exploded in transformation all over that field. And not only them but also many soldiers inside that airship, to the surprise of that captain and the other Marleans on board. Not that they didn't know that there were soldiers among them with Eldian blood, they just didn't expect that they could transform like that.
The airship was completely destroyed as the now Pure Titans fell down through the air. And the same happened to the seven airships coming in the distance. They all exploded with those intense titan transformations as all of them also had Eldian soldiers inside. The Pure Titans began to walk around the fields, leisurely picking up and eating any Marleans that had survived the crashes of the eight airships.
Historia's eyes were completely dark, blackened. The Queen's screams also affected a few villages nearby, as the radius of her power only increased as her own pain and screams became stronger. Those transformations were actually a good thing for those villagers, as becoming Titans themselves stopped them from being eaten or trampled by the Wall Titans all around them.
Levi held Hange closer to him in the flaming rubbles of that third floor. He could see a deep gash over her temple and he became very worried. They were both with a few burns as well, and he could tell she was deeply unconscious. The fifth and the fourth floors of that building had been destroyed by those bombs, but so far, where they were was still holding steady as some of the structure was made of stone.
The Ackermann could see all the dead bodies all around him, so he held Hange even closer to make sure she was still breathing. Levi then looked to the fields once he heard Historia's screams, to see all those guards then turning into Pure Titans, and all the airships in the sky exploding apart with many more Titans falling from them. And even more and more explosions in the far distance. It was a true nightmare.
Apart from the children and the nuns underneath the earth, who were trapped in that basement and couldn't hear anything. And Commander Hange and any other Eldian who was unconscious at that moment, all of the humans with Eldian blood who could hear Queen Historia's screams transformed into pure, mindless Titans.
Levi looked around, completely perplexed at that living nightmare. The Ackermann had been left alone to fight in a field of Titans.
-.-
The Crystal Dimension
The toddler appeared in that odd, but beautiful dimension, coming from within his own otherworldly blue light. He carried a small newborn girl in his arms, the boy walked around that green grass and pinkish crystals holding the small girl even closer into his arms. Azzy felt a little lost, and also a little scared. There was something eerie about that place and even at that tender age, he knew he wasn't supposed to be there. He felt unwelcome and he had no idea of how he had arrived in that strange dimension.
Ymir had been sleeping on his arms for some time now. The newborn had been alive for a few hours at this point, three to be exact. She was now slowly waking up, for she was a little hungry and the hard palpitations of her cousin's heart were bothering her a little bit. Azzy's heart was beating fast, for he didn't know where he had ended up and also wasn't sure of how to get out of it. The toddler was nervous, he brought the newborn closer to his chest again and she became more bothered by his nervous heart. Ymir woke up, and began to cry, she cried extremely loudly.
The place was very eerie and Azzy immediately feared calling the attention of wild creatures, but he soon realised that they were alone in there. Although he couldn't shake the feeling that he was being watched, he could tell there was nothing really alive in that place. The dimension was made of soft clouds, green and blue vegetation and many, many crystals that reflected many colours all around them. But nothing in there was alive, at least not in the perspective of that two- almost three-year-old.
The newborn continued to cry as he walked with her aimlessly through that dimension, Azzy felt very lost, he didn't know what to do. He eventually spotted that small tree in the distance and began to walk towards it. The thing was little and looked quite cosy. It stood at not even one metre tall and its roots formed quite a nice design, it looked like a bassinet with a small pool of crystal clear water between them. The waters reflected all those beautiful colours from all that dimension and also reflected the boy and the small crying newborn as they approached it. Azzy looked into it very attentively and tilted his head, thoughtfully. He then put the crying baby into the pool and she immediately stopped crying, her expression became more soothing.
He could see Ymir was going back to sleep again, much more calm now, so he sat next to the pool, watching over her from between the roots. He held his knees with his arms and put his head down, cold and silent, just watching over as the newborn slept.
Those waters accepted that offering quite nicely, and those two souls' destinies were changed forever.
-.-
Somewhere in Paradise
The airships' troops were hovering over the Paradisian sky, looking for the monster, and for the Warriors somewhere east of Shiganshina. They were having no luck, for their battalion was quite large, but their airships were very slow and they hadn't spotted anyone in the distance yet. Tremblay then received some more problematic news.
"Sir, they are eating us! Please, help!" one of the soldiers informed through the radio in pure agony. After all the eight airships were destroyed by the titan transformations near the Queen's farm, one of the soldiers had reached a functioning radio that had survived its airship's crash.
"This is unbelievable!" Tremblay shouted back through the radio in pure complaint, as he realised this was yet again a report from the farm mission. "How haven't you been able to kill this woman?! It's just one tiny, insignificant queen we are talking about," he complained to the soldier over the radio, absolutely vexed.
"Sir, one thing we all have forgotten," the man replied, crying. "This is the Queen of the Eldians we are talking about. She sent her Titans to kill us! Everyone one, all the Eldians, even the ones in the ships. They're eating us, they're eating us," he repeated desperately. "We are all dead, everyone is dead, please help."
The broken man's plea was heard all over that airship, and in many others and the signal then cut off suddenly. Those had been his last words, the soldier was eaten as well.
"Damn Eldians," Tremblay let out, frustrated.
There was sudden silence among the crew.
"Sir, what do we do?" First Officer Carlyle then turned to ask his superior, disturbed and concerned.
Old Onyankopon had also heard all that, so he immediately entered in contact with the lead ship. "Tremblay, this is Quail," the old man informed through the radio.
"Ah, Quail," Tremblay replied. He only knew that old man by his codename. "I was wondering where you were. Are you there?" he questioned, "in the location," the army man added.
"No, but I'll soon approach it," Old Onyan replied. "How many Eldians do you have in these ships?" he gravely questioned.
"About a third of the crew in each ship is probably Eldian, cheap labour is hard to come by these days," the army man informed and complained. "But don't worry, I won't let any vermin destroy my ships," Tremblay firmly told Quail and everyone else listening.
"Attention, anyone who is an Eldian must leave these airships immediately, and don't hide your marked badges," Tremblay warned firmly to all airships over the radio.
"Are you saying we should evacuate, Sir?" First Officer Carlyle nervously asked his superior and Tremblay nodded. The young man then held his star badge upsettingly. "Are we allowed to take parachutes?" he quietly asked.
"Sure," Tremblay replied coldly. "You're lucky there's enough for the lot of you," he added, with two small slaps to the young man's face.
Carlyle looked down, clearly nervous and upset. The prospect of ever becoming a Titan had never even crossed the young soldier's mind, much less being eaten by one. He was terrified.
"Hey, you might get lucky and not even turn into one. And if you hide well enough, they might not kill you," Tremblay tried to ease his First Officer's mind. "If you survive this, you Eldians can stay and live on this cursed island you all love so much," he told Carlyle and the other soldiers who were already preparing to jump.
"I'm Marlean, Sir," the First Officer replied, proudly reminding Tremblay where he had been born.
"No, you're not," Tremblay retorted condescendingly. "None of you will ever be," he told Carlyle and the others. "Bunch of cursed monsters," he added under his breath in pure disgust as he firmly walked through the deck.
"Open the gates!" he firmly shouted, ordering the soldiers so the cursed Eldians could be evacuated. All the marked soldiers then began to jump out of those hundreds of airships, dropping in droves into Paradisian soil.
"It's time to end this," Tremblay firmly said, with arms crossed as he watched a third of his able-bodied battalion being whisked away from his hands. The army veteran was beyond vexed.
Old Onyankopon was soon approached about it on his own ship. "Sir, shouldn't we follow the order to evacuate?" one of the crew members quietly asked. "No," the old man replied, "and don't call me sir, there's no need. Just Quail is fine," Old Onyan told the young soldier. "We both know I have no ranking in your military," he added.
"But, sir. What if the Eldians transform? Won't we all be doomed then?" another crew member questioned nervously.
Old Onyankopon stood up with the help of his cane. "I won't send anyone mindlessly to their deaths. This island is infested with Titans," the old man said while calmly walking through the deck. "Just cover your ears to avoid your queen's scream," he told the Eldians onboard.
"Something tells me she won't be able to use that for long," he added, under his breath. Old Onyan was considering that the Queen had been using the prince's Founding powers somehow, which made him conclude that she hadn't given birth yet. And he was right.
Floch had heard all that over the radio as well, Tremblay's quick decision to send the Eldians to their doom deeply angered the Yeagerist. He considered looking for the battalion and decimating their whole lot with the powerful iceburst rays of that airplane. And he also considered going to aid the Queen.
The young soldier was not particularly sure of what path he should take. Regardless, there was one thing he knew well, and it was that he could never land that plane. He didn't know how and he wasn't completely sure of what to do next. He wasn't even sure if he was flying it correctly, but he kept going.
That was when he suddenly spotted the giant monster in the distance. It was truly enormous and it was flying low; with the airplane's speed, the creature soon became bigger and bigger into Floch's perspective as he was approaching it at such a high velocity. The creature took a swift and gracious dive into what appeared to be a giant hole in the ground, and that made the young soldier extremely confused.
The airplane finally reached the area to see the absolutely enormous crater tearing apart the earth. Floch looked down at it attentively, he had also spotted a smallish flying Titan following close behind the goddess. The Phoenix Titan was persistent in her pursuit.
The Queen's farm
It was finally over. After enduring the terrifyingly extreme pains of labour, Queen Historia finally gave birth again, underneath her mother's favourite tree. She finally smiled with deep relief as her eyes became purplish blue again. The Queen mustered the little strength she still had and reached down beyond her soaked and blooded nightgown and held up the incredibly small baby. Taking him away from among the blood filled green grass and its tiny golden flowers.
The tiny baby was crying very softly and she held him up with much joy, bringing his small face closer to hers. Historia closed her eyes and shed a small tear in pure happiness. Ezra stopped crying. She then chuckled sweetly once she felt the tiny child sniffing her intently. Historia opened her eyes and reached carefully to the musket, to take out the bayonet's sharp blade. She calmly put Ezra in between her knees and held up his afterbirth, holding the cord in two places she swiftly cut her son away from it and threw those blooded contents to the side.
"Alright, we need to get you cleaned," she softly and childishly told her small son while booping his nose. A deep feeling of eeriness and sadness suddenly came to the young mother. As she saw her son laying there safe in her lap, peacefully and gracefully moving his little arms and legs, trying to reach her, Historia suddenly realised Ymir wasn't there with her. The feeling of regret cut deep into her soul.
She looked around into the burning field and at the Titans walking all over it, and to the burning building in the distance. "I just hope your sister and your cousin are safe," she softly whispered, looking quite lost. Historia looked down to the baby and saw that sudden transparent drop fall into his small cheek and downwards to his chin. That liquid certainly wasn't blood, or any fluids left from the birth. And it wasn't a tear either. Historia looked up to see a thin rain falling over the farm. It indeed cleaned up her small baby son, and it also gently began to put out all the fires in that field and in that building. That rain had truly been Heaven sent.
The rain was thin, but cold. That had been a dry and cold Autumn morning that was now turning into an even colder afternoon. Historia held up her baby again, bringing him very close to her chest, deep inside her arms, to protect him from the rain and the cold. The mother was at her limit, she had no energy left. She had dealt with a sleepless night of pure labour pain, and two difficult premature births in those past three hours alone, in the middle of all that chaos. It was truly incredible that she had held herself together for so long, but she just couldn't anymore.
Historia softly laid her head on that tree trunk while embracing her baby son strongly, desperately yearning to hold Ymir too. She closed her eyes and inevitably fell asleep.
The odd crater - Maria Region
The Phoenix Titan was following the giant monster closely, but trying her best not to be detected. Ymir either didn't care for her, or was too busy inside her own thoughts to even notice that the small Titan was flying behind her.
The goddess could feel her brother had arrived, she could sense him clearly. So she was trying to concoct a plan to get close enough to him, or better yet: she was rushing to ask the devilish creature what she should do next. In the cursed dimension, her soul looked intently into her precious light tree, getting her next orders as the cursed light roots firmed themselves even further into her spine and her muscles. Ymir was under a deeply controlled spell, and she enjoyed it. All that death, the gruesome sacrifices, it all gave intense pleasure to her grieving mind. She wanted her revenge and she wanted much more. Ymir didn't care for the price she'd have to pay for it.
Pieck was deeply disturbed as she flew deeper and deeper inside that odd crater. The mutation of the land was gruesome and otherworldly. The strange bright colours radiating everywhere, the bizarre overgrown vegetation among the crystals; and the giant vermin mutated animals running around made an extremely unsettling sight for the Warrior.
She could hear that loud motor so she turned to see that one of the airplanes had appeared, following closely behind her. 'Good. Help me fight this thing,' Pieck thought, hoping this was one of the highly trained Special Ops fighters. The machine surpassed her quickly, but Pieck could tell it was stalling strangely, almost stopping. 'Perhaps it's damaged,' she also thought, and continued flying after it, and after the goddess.
The airplane and the Phoenix Titan eventually spotted an absolutely gigantic tree somewhere deep inside that crater and watched from the distance as the goddess approached it. The tree was over eight hundred metres tall and had a deep clear pool among its giant intricate roots. The three-hundred-metre Titan goddess looked a little smallish in comparison. She hovered over it strangely, slowly and graciously moving her wings until she stopped, letting her Titan's feet touch that otherworldly grass. Ymir landed in front of the pool, letting her wings rest for a moment.
'Is that where you came from?' Pieck correctly theorised as she flew quite a few hundred metres behind, cleverly shielding herself from view behind all that overgrown vegetation, hoping that demon goddess wouldn't spot her. The Warrior also observed the high velocity airplane just doing laps around that immense tree, also taking a distance. And flying extremely slowly when comparing to how fast she remembered those air machines were flying during their brief training a couple of weeks before.
'Is your motor really damaged? Why are you not attacking? The creature is vulnerable and it's right there! Are you afraid? Are your cannons busted? What are you planning?' All those thoughts came rushing through Pieck's mind as she observed the airplane mindlessly doing long laps, just watching the beast.
What she didn't know however, was that the pilot of that airplane was not one of the highly trained officers she had made friends with a couple of weeks prior. It was Floch, the Yeagerist and he had no intentions to kill the Eldians' goddess.
Pieck could see the giant beast reaching down into the giant clear pool. That's why she thought the creature was in a vulnerable moment and that it was the perfect opportunity to attack it. Ymir placed both her Titan's hands on the bottom of the two main roots to balance herself and took a dive; with only her Titan's face and some of her body under the clear water, and her long hairs floating above it.
The Warrior tilted her head. 'Are you drinking the water? Is that how you feed yourself?' Pieck questioned, beginning to theorise. And in her distraction, she failed to notice the tree behind her coming alive, and its own roots and branches quickly wrapping themselves around her Titan, making her completely immobilised. The strength of that otherworldly vegetation broke down the Phoenix Titan's crystal wings and it was beginning to break down her bones as well. Pieck couldn't move.
The roots and branches covered up her entire face, apart from a narrow spot across her Titan's eyes. The clever woman was paralysed, rapidly thinking of how to get out of that situation. She suddenly stopped struggling and the tree also stopped pressing her in, she was just then kept there, almost as if being kept as a snack for later. The reason why she stopped struggling was because Pieck was a little shocked and weirded out by what she was witnessing.
Ymir was not drinking that clear water, although it was indeed inevitably entering her facial cavities and streaming down into her Titan's oesophagus as she floated inside that pool. The goddess was instead concentrating deep inside her own mind, letting the otherworldly waters take her through space and time as she searched for her own self.
The Crystal Dimension
The toddler was almost falling asleep too, laying next to those intricate tree roots as he watched over his newborn cousin. Azzy eventually closed his eyes, only for a small moment, quite a regretful moment indeed. He turned over and rapidly tried to whisk the baby out of the pool as he saw those strange, tiny, bright blue light roots reaching all over the child. Ymir cried very loudly as those vermin roots attached themselves all over her spine and muscles, it was quite painful.
The newborn's eyes were infested by that bright blue light and she stopped crying, entering a full trance. Azzy reached desperately, trying to grab her and take her out of there. But as soon as the light roots were fully attached, a force field was created around the pool and the boy was thrown away quite a distance by that otherworldly energy. The newborn was trapped.
Azzy was thrown hard against the crystals and the vegetation, the boy hit his head. Deep inside his mind, he could see six strange men coming after him in the darkness of the night. Their faces only illuminated by the low flickers of a bonfire. They all had all kinds of sharp weapons and the toddler's body began to be strangely cut all over. In all the exact places he one day would be diced up to his death.
"Why did you kill her?" he could hear Ludvík's voice clear inside his mind, deep inside his nightmare as he laid in a pool of his own blood in a completely empty void. "You let me drown," he also heard, heartbreakingly.
The toddler was deeply unconscious, trapped inside an endless nightmare and he couldn't rescue his cousin from that terrible entrapment of her own. If only Azymondeus would wake up.
The odd crater - Maria Region
Pieck and Floch both witnessed the strange sight as the giant Titan jerked itself upward for a moment. Still holding firmly to the bottom of those large roots, it appeared to be in pain. Ymir held her giant face up again, coming out of the water. The Titan was breathing heavily, almost as if it had indeed drowned for a moment; she held both hands intensely into those large roots, even breaking the otherworldly wood in some places as she pressed down, trying to sustain her own pain.
The Titan's back muscles were jerking intensely and her spine began to light up while her wings were down, spreading themselves away. Suddenly they could see two very small hands coming through her spine, and then also two feet. Soon a whole body began to emerge from the goddess' lit up spine: a true, but smallish clone. The small Titan was only fifteen metres tall, and it looked like a strange tumour coming to life from the goddess' back.
They were still linked - spine to spine, as the smallish version of Ymir began to create a coat of crystal all around its body, to protect itself - just as the gigantic version of her had one. And soon her two wings were formed around her, also made of crystal feathers. Ymir had taken advantage of her own newborn presence into that pool. The smallish Titan opened its eyes as it fully detached itself from the giant spine. The small Ymir began to hover, a little confused, slowly moving its wings as if it was still learning how to fly.
The giant goddess stood up from that pool completely and flew away from the crater, with her tiny version following close behind. Ymir's attention was now divided into two Titans, but she didn't care, for this was what she needed to fulfil her plan - according to the Devil.
Floch was doing yet another lap, he looked down to that giant tree and all that otherworldly matter growing all around it. Deep down, he knew this was breaking his island apart and he felt deeply conflicted about it.
But if this was what was needed to destroy the world outside and finally bring victory to the Eldians, well, then in that case he believed the sacrifice to be worth it. The Yeagerist finished turning the plane and proceeded to follow the goddess, Floch wanted to make sure she wouldn't be harmed by the Marleans before the Rumbling could be fulfilled. The small plane continued to follow the giant monster, like a bodyguard.
Pieck was starting to lose her senses, that whole strange place was making her feel mad, confused. She could feel the roots and branches of that odd tree pressing her down, trying to crush her even more. The Phoenix Titan had had enough. She had been momentarily distracted by that horrid sight of the beast cloning itself; that duplication had been disturbing to witness, but now the monster and its minion were fleeing the cave and Pieck knew she had to follow.
The Phoenix Titan ignited its incredibly hot fire, setting its whole body ablaze and burning down her wooden confinement. The Titan fell forward, still in flames, burning away all the otherworldly vegetation around her. Pieck needed a moment so her crushed wings could regenerate themselves, but as soon as they did, she flew rapidly out of the crater as well.
It took some time but she eventually reached the mouth of the crater again, and flew out of that nightmarish wonderland. The Phoenix's eyes slowly adjusted to the midday sunlight once she flew out of the hole, she hovered above it for a moment. Pieck could see the giant Titan and the airplane flying on its tail, but she didn't see the tiny clone. The Warrior looked around the area for a moment, looking for it, but then decided to follow the giant beast instead.
The Queen's farm
Levi looked up through the thin rain to see those Abnormal Titans staring down below. The roof of the orphanage building was completely gone. The rain was slowly putting out the fires around them, and even though there was debris everywhere, he knew they couldn't exactly hide. He was holding an unconscious Hange in his arms and they were the only two people left alive in that partially destroyed third floor.
The fallen debris of burnt wood and tiles, and dislodged bricks was a good obstacle, it made it more complicated for the Abnormal Titans to reach down below. Some of them were quite small too, which made it more difficult for them to reach up to the third floor, so the cleverer ones began to look for other entrances. But a couple of taller ones could see and reach that destroyed floor clearly. And they began to pick up the corpses that were laying around on the third floor and then toss them into the fields, discarding the bodies once they could tell they were no longer alive.
Levi was clearly disturbed by that horrid side, as the Abnormal Titans flickered away those bodies as if they were spoiled food. And granted, that was exactly what they were in their lost, cursed minds. The Ackermann reached out for one of the small bricks that was still on fire, before the rain could put out those flames from it. He then pressed the flaming hot brick against his deep, gashing wound, cauterising it.
Burning his own flesh severely to stop the bleeding, just so he could properly move his arm and fight again. He then carefully dragged the unconscious Hange to a safer corner and jumped right into the closest Titan's nape. Swiftly killing it, even though the pain on his left arm was extremely strong as he moved his arms around to slash that flesh with his ODM swords. The Ackermann moved to the next tall one, and then down to the smaller ones who were looking over the lower windows of the second and first floors, or trying to get through the doors on the ground floor.
The ruins of the adjacent building were a more complicated story. Levi knew the children were trapped under all that, because he knew that basement was also considered as a potential bunker when the blueprints were made. To protect the orphan children, exactly in the case of a potential attack against the Eldian Queen, or another similar disaster.
Now, the Abnormal Titans were all over it, sniffing down the potential food hidden down below and moving away the rubble. Levi didn't have many advantage points, apart from the side wall of the taller, still standing, building. So moving with his ODM gear was complicated, the experienced fighter then resorted to cutting down the Titans' legs so he could reach their napes. And also using the Titans themselves as support to fly around closer to their napes.
It took a few minutes but the Ackermann eventually obliterated the Abnormal Titans around the orphanage building. Levi then looked towards the countless others just standing around or walking slowly through the fields. Those were all Pure Titans. The ones who went naturally looking for human flesh had all been Abnormals, the Survey Corps veteran could clearly tell that. These Pure Titans were a different story, they seemed more compliant. They genuinely looked like guards, a whole army safeguarding the Queen as she slept under that tree.
Levi waited, still breathing heavily, ready to keep fighting. But they showed no interest in him. So the Ackermann turned to the partially destroyed building again. He flew towards Hange once more and brought her down with him, and placed her over a badly scorched table in the rubble of that destroyed kitchen. He checked her wounds as the rain seemed to stop, hoping she would wake up. As the sun shone again, he looked towards the building, for it was shielding them from the light, casting a shadow over the destroyed kitchen.
The orphanage building was now completely empty - of Titans or people. And Levi just hoped the structure wouldn't collapse over that basement, trapping the children even more. The structure seemed to be holding together strong, so far, but the Ackermann knew he had to get Hange and the others out of there. He tried to think of how to do all that with all those Pure Titans infesting those fields. Levi sighed, extremely tired and feeling defeated.
The man felt lost and lonely, he was unable to find a solution. Levi just wanted to save all those people. He looked to those corpses spread around the field, that tossing had been cruel. One of the Pure Titans nonchalantly stepped over Shadis' body as it walked, and that made Levi feel completely defeated, once and for all. He turned to Hange over that table, looking broken. 'We are all going to die here,' the Ackermann thought.
Historia was sleeping quite deeply under that tree. She held Ezra firmly inside her arms, dreaming she was also holding Ymir too. Her small baby daughter smiled at her in her dream and that made Historia elated. She finally woke up, smiling as well. The Queen was still coming back to her senses, slowly processing her latest thoughts, and she could hear swooshing sounds. Historia soon realised that odd noise was what had woken her up. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around the grass to see a shadow casting all over that tree and then looked up to see that strange Titan graciously hovering above her.
The beautiful Titan creature was slowly moving her crystal wings up and down, hovering above that tree. She had long bright blonde hair that fell graciously over her crystal coated body, and a quite simple female figure. The fifteen metres tall Titan was staring intently into the Queen's arms with her bright green eyes. She was staring lovingly at that sleeping baby boy, happy to have found him. Ymir then turned and met Historia's eyes. The Titan smiled sweetly at her mother, and Historia became absolutely terrified.
[ to be continued... ]