Annie sidestepped a punch from Hanman. He extended his arm and she dodged that. The pattern repeated 3 more times until he lifted both of his arms together planning on swinging them down on her. She crouched down and dodged moving to the side, she punched him in the gut. She tried to kick him but he dodged, she went for his face but he deflected that. Using the fact that his guard was towards his face she took the opportunity to kick his gut sending him back a bit. She ran towards him, going down trying to sweep his feet under him. He jumped up, avoiding it. Annie took fast action and moved her other leg to kick him in mid-air. It worked, only partly. He ended up blocking mid-air.

She tried to punch him only for the punch to be caught. He tried to swing at her but she ducked down enough to dodge it. She extended her hand to hit his gut, but the same trick wouldn't work on Hanma again. He tried to grab her other arm to restrict movement, but she moved to the side, twice he tried to punch her only for them to be evaded.

Finally, Annie, seeing a chance, aimed a kick to his head. He ended up blocking it with his forearm. He grabbed her foot and swung her away. Flipping mid-air to catch herself. Annie scanned the ground for anything she could use against him. He was incredibly resistant. Pretty much on par with Reiner if not even more. Annie saw one of the fake swords Mikasa had been using. Was it playing dirty? Yeah. But she wasn't here to play nice. She was here and for one reason only. To take down their leader so the rest of Moebius's fighting spirit would weaken.

"That's a little unfair, don't you think?" Hanma teased her. "You're coming at me with everything you've got. Let's remember I'm the girl, I'm weaker, I have to defend my frail little body from the big bad man."

Hanma laughed a little. "Well, aren't you a riot?"

…

Mikasa was searching frantically for Takemitchi. Mikasa heard a familiar 'Draken-kun'. She quickly rushed over to see what was happening. Mikasa was greeted by a large pool of blood. She froze, it had been a while since she'd seen this much blood.

Mikasa remembers screaming her best friend's name. "Sasha, Sasha please wake up!" Tears fell freely from her eyes as she and Armin pleaded with her to come back. Shaking her body, but her body became increasingly cold, and the blood would not stop flowing out. Her eyes were lifeless. The shine they once had was gone. The trail of blood came out of her mouth as her eyes closed completely.

Mikasa's hand shook. "Sasha…" She spoke lightly. Takemitchi was on the verge of tears. "What's wrong Takemitchi!?" Mikey yelled.

"Draken-kun….Draken-kun…he's been stabbed." 2 pairs of eyes widened. Annie ran away from Hanma. She needed to get to Draken. Hanma chased after her. He tackled her to the ground. She grunted as the parts of her that were exposed got scratched up. He was right on top of her. "You're not going anywhere." She pushed herself up, getting him off of her. He grabbed her neck, choking her, keeping her in place. Her eyes quickly searched where Takemitchi was. She found Mikasa staring at his body. Blood, there was so much blood. She screamed as best as she could to get Hanma off of her.

Mikey took down as many as he could in order to get to his friend when he heard a familiar scream. 'Emma!' He looked over to see Hanma on top of his sister holding her while she thrashed around her eyes frantically searching for something until they locked onto where Draken, Takemitchi, and Hinata were.

He apologized to Draken in his head. His sister would always come first. He tried to get through but too many members were in his way. He screamed at them to move as he watched his sister elbow Hanma in his face, giving her a chance to get away. He cheered for his sister mentally but it didn't last long when he shoved her to the ground, him now pinning her.

"Hanma! Get off her!" Hanma didn't pay attention to him but was focused on Annie. Annie lifted her knee trying to hit his groin, but he held her foot down with his. She spread her arms, making him fall completely on top of her. She quickly tried to get off under him. He tried to pin her down again but she pushed him away with her foot.

She got up once again and ran. This time towards Mikey. There were too many for him to take alone for them to get to each other. Mikey watched as his little sister dislocated one shoulder, then took another one's fist pulled him down, and shoved his face right on her knee. He watched as Hanma got up and she turned around and tried to kick him, only to be blocked. He saw his little sister fight him, he saw that she wasn't completely helpless at all and could stand her ground against Hanma, the scene he saw before was her trying to get away to get to Draken. But now he sees her trying to knock him out. She took his fist, grabbed his head, and brought it down enough that she could knee his neck in an attempt to knock him out.

It worked for a bit, and Hanma looked dizzy. Annie kicked his thigh. He went down. Again she kicked, and again and again until it hurt to stand. A Moebius member came from behind her, she spun around to deliver a kick to his side as well knocking him down. She took her brother by the hand and ran towards Takemitchi and the rest.

…

Mikasa clenched her jaw and flipped Draken over. She took off her sash and tied it around his wound. Next, she checked his pulse. He was still warm and there was a light pulse. Soon Annie arrived with Mikey. "Mikasa what happened?" "I don't know." Everyone was too high on adrenaline for them to even register what name Annie just called Hinata.

"Can you carry him? Are you strong enough?" Annie asked Mikasa. There was no way Mikey, Takemitchi nor she could carry him. "Yeah I'm still strong enough, but I'm not as in shape as I used to be so I won't be as fast as before." They watched as Hinata put her arm under his head and legs and tried lifting him. "You're not strong enough Hina, let me do it!" Takemitchi urged. "Help me get him on my back after that I'll do the rest on my own." Annie tried lifting him and so did Mikey. After a couple of tries, they got him on Mikasa's back.

She was off balance, but Annie came to her side to stabilize her. Mikey didn't try to argue at all. She was probably the best chance they had at carrying him. Finally, Mikasa stood up. "Hina!? You have no shoes!?" Mikasa ignored him and started to walk at a normal pace then sped up to a jog.

…

Draken woke up to heavy panting. He looked to see pink hair. He looked forward to seeing Mikey and Emma running ahead and then he looked to the side to see Takemitchi looking worriedly at the person carrying him.

From what he could tell, this person had a small frame. He felt like he was going to fall off so he wrapped his hands around the person's neck. With so much blood loss it was hard to do that. While sliding them up he felt mounds on their chest. His eyes widened not only in realization but as the person holstered them up even more.

This was a girl carrying him. But what girl?

Takemitchi was in awe. More than in awe. To think Hinata: His own girlfriend, could carry someone this big at a constant pace. It was amazing. And this wasn't even at her peak. Then what was her peak?

He was too busy fawning over his girlfriend but then shook himself out of it when Emma and Mikey slowed down and asked if she was okay. She nodded. "We called an ambulance a while ago but with so much traffic we're going to have to meet them there. Mikasa nodded and tried to go a little faster.

Kiyomasa and his little group soon appeared. Kiyomasa gulped as he saw Mikey. He thought he would be busy with Hanma. "Mikey!" "Kiyomasa….what the hell do you think you're doing…wearing that uniform…" Taking the chance Mikasa stopped to take a breather and locked eyes with Annie.

Annie didn't falter and ran towards Kiyomasa. He quickly took out a knife. "Emma!" Mikey shouted in fear that his little sister didn't see the knife pulled out. He ran her, and Annie quickly got into position. Pulling her arm back she kicked his shin. He fell to the ground. She took her foot and stomped his face to the ground, knocking him out. More came at her. Mikey took action as well and ran at them. The Sano siblings took all of them down easily.

Something sounded in the woods. Annie faced over there in position once more Mikey was also ready. Four figures came out. Both Sanos went in for kicks but immediately stopped when they saw familiar faces. Akkun screamed as he felt the wind next to his face. He opened his eyes to see Emma with her foot right next to his face. She lowered it down as the rest of Takemitchi's friends came out.

They sighed in relief. Mikasa inhaled deeply and started jogging again until they finally met the ambulance halfway. They immediately took Draken to the hospital.

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The lead drew fine lines until it was eventually revealed as a face. The picture depicted a young woman of short height with a small yet very muscular build and physique. She had moderately short blonde hair that was tied at the back with her right fringe mainly draping over the right side of her face. She had an oval-shaped face, blue eyes, a Roman nose, and a pale complexion. Her eyes, although they were considerable in size and proportion, they were drawn to have a sullen vibe to their appearance. The woman wore a hooded sweatshirt underneath a jacket accompanied by dark gray pants.

On top of the paper, Mikasa wrote the name: Annie Leonhart.

She was about to put her own signature at the bottom of the paper when the doorbell rang. Mikasa stood up and walked to the door.

A small blush rose to Mikasa's cheeks. It was the person she was just drawing. It would be embarrassing if she got caught drawing her. "On Annie." "Mikasa." Annie looked at her expectantly. "Oh right, come in." "Sorry for the intrusion." Mikasa shook her head. "It's not a problem." Naoto came into the living room where he saw Emma. "Oh Naoto, meet An-Emma." She caught herself. "Emma, this is my little brother Naoto." Annie nodded and extended her hand. He took it and shook it.

"Hinata, I'm going out to go play with some friends," Naoto told his older sister. She nodded but warned him to be careful.

Mikasa and Annie talked about their lives here the night they found out who each other was. They weren't exactly able to talk to each other.

Annie scanned her room until she saw a piece of paper but could see drawing lines on the other side through the paper. She went over to pick it up. "Can I?" Mikasa's face was beat red but nodded. Annie flipped it over and a blush went up to her face. "That's…me." She looked over at Mikasa who nodded.

"Mikasa! You're really good!" for now Annie would brush aside that she drew her.

"So, how's Draken?" Mikasa asked. Annie perked up. "Ahh, I forgot. Ken's fine, but he did want to see you. I'm assuming he wanted to thank you. That's the reason I came over. Guess I got a little distracted." Mikasa tilted her head and laughed a bit. "Ken?" Annie looked away. "Well that's his name isn't it?" Mikasa shook her head and put her things away and they both walked to the door headed to the hospital.

…

Inside the hospital, Annie was very fidgety. After seeing that drawing, it looked identical to her. So Annie wanted to ask the whole way if she perhaps had a picture of…Armin. But Annie being Annie was too embarrassed to ask.

Luckily Mikasa took a picture of him from her desk since she knew Annie would at least be curious. In fact Mikasa has made a total of four pictures she could always carry on hand. The four are her son, Armin, Jean, and Eren. She could always draw another one of Armin so she figured she would just give this one to Annie.

They walked inside Draken's room only to find him sleeping. Annie sighed while Mikasa just stood there. She sat in the space designed for visitors and so did Annie. Once again they both got lost in their talking.

"Hey Annie…I've been thinking. I don't know if this happens to you, but I'm losing my memory."

"No. It's happening to me too. I can barely remember the faces of Bertholdt, Porco, Marcel, Ymir, Historia and so many more."

"I…I want to write a story. Our story. I was thinking of drawing it…but I don't remember all the details. What do you think?" Annie smiled at her and nodded. "I could help you paint it all out, from both sides." Mikasa's eyes widened. She had never thought of doing it from both sides.

The girls talked about what it would be like and what they should name it and everything. In the midst of their talking, Draken was awoken but not fully until he heard: "Hey…do you have a… drawing of…" "Armin?" Hinata finished for her. Draken closed his eyes pretending to be asleep so he heard everything.

"I do. I figured you'd want one of him. A while ago I decided to draw the most important people to me, so I could always keep them in reach just in case I ever went through one of my episodes of randomly forgetting things. However I don't always carry all of them, but I do always carry 4. I carry my son, Jean, Eren, and Armin. I could always draw another one of Armin."

Draken almost furrowed his brows. 'Hinata has a son! And episodes? Is she mental?' he heard the rustling of paper. He barely opened his eyes just to see her reaction. The look on Emma's face hurt. He won't lie. Her face looked soft instead of emotionless. A small smile, a small blush on her cheeks, and with seeming respect and lovingness and admiration in her eyes. When Emma looked at Mikey it was with love, and a wanting to protect but nonetheless seeing as he was lower than her. Like in a way he was helpless. As for him, he was held with the same regard. As if he was just someone to protect, even so, it was a change from before when she remained aloof with him. But never in his life had he ever seen her so…happy yet sad at the same time.

He decided to break that up by opening his eyes fully. Annie turned around and quickly pocketed the picture.

Mikasa stood and went over to him. "Emma said you wanted to talk to me?" He nodded and looked over at Emma who was looking at him with indifferent eyes. What exactly did this Armin do to make her like that? And where was he now?