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(Levi's Pov:)

With a single swift of my blades, two small titans fall to their end while I land upon the rooftop. Breathing heavily after trying to maintain the level of casualties, my eyes narrow with irritation towards the rookies. Glancing down a few soldiers were finally able to resume protecting the horses, picking up their pace.

Smearing the blood away from my cheek, I grimace with disgust.

Clicking my tongue I swipe my blades, "Finish killing the small ones already!!!" I snap angrily, feeling myself getting frustrated by the second. "Get it done, before the Beast titan moves, and no casualties!!!!!! Don't you dare get eaten!"

"Sir!!!"

Once they resume back to focusing on my order, my eyes follow back to the beast from afar. My breath was unsteady, wondering what's keeping Akira's time. Besides, we're still surrounded, and it's not looking like we're gonna be leaving anytime soon.

"Shit, who the hell am I kidding?" muttering to myself, glancing over my shoulder with defeat up to where Erwin stood. "These kids are gonna drop like flies. Shoulda left 'em up there."

Wait, where is Akira? She isn't beside the Commander, and I thought she was supposed to be aiding the frontlines?

With how stupid these recruits were, I needed her now!

"Dammit, she must've accompanied Hanji or something," my jaw clenches, as my eyes trail back to the beast. Though I wished for her to stay back in Trost, her skills and life was important to Erwin's mission. His goal.

"Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!"

Whipping my head around sharply, a heavy laboured sigh drifts past my lips before pushing off. Flying within a few seconds, blades sunk deeply into the nape before I finish the damn thing off. Blood sprays, as the body heavily falls against the earth beneath me.

"Tch.....shit, these new recruits are not gonna last at this rate,"

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WITHIN SHIGANSHINA DISTRICT - (Akira's Pov)

Heavily panting my blade shatters into pieces, while I jump further away from where he stood. Cursing under my breath, I disengage my blunt blades before grabbing my dagger on my thigh holster on my side. Blood drips down from my brow, as my other hand smears it away.

"You just don't know when to give up!" he pants, grin widening more menacingly. He flips his blade horizontally, that was stained with my own blood, before licking a clean swipe with his tongue. A deep psychotic grin rumbles in his voice, while I tried my best to stand my ground.

"Not until you answer my questions!!!!!" I push off with proficiency, twirling my blade in hand before gripping it upside down.

Using one hand to activate my ODM, I guide my body along the rooftop. The tiles clattering beneath my weight, while my eyes focused on him. Before he could react, I manage to slash across his face. Blood sprays from my attack, my adrenaline boiling through my veins with premonition.

"Gah, you bitch!!!!!"

Taking my chance again, I bend down sharply swiping his feet from beneath him, sending his ass to the tilted side of the roof. Kicking him forcefully down the unstable roof, he clambered down before falling from a steep height. Hearing a thump against the ground from below, left me to stand for a moment, allowing my wound to subside as my breath grew unsteady.

Gasping for air, my lungs grew dry from lack of water.

"Shit," my chest heaves, hair messily clinging to my sweaty temple mixed with my sticky blood. Glancing over my shoulder, I could see Eren's titan form almost defeating Reiner slowly. Their bellowing, and thunderous stomps sent the earth quaking beneath their fight.

Walking down the tiled roof with ease I glance over the edge, before he flies up with immense speed, making my hair fly.

His large body slams shoulders first into my chest and torso, causing the wind in my lungs to give out. Hunching slightly, he sends his knee into my ribs, but I use both my forearms blocking his attack. Anticipating his next move, I took his fist before directing it away from me.

While trying to conserve my gas tanks and blades, my options were becoming far more risky as our fight was interminable.

Peering through my messy strands of hair, the pain began throbbing against my skull while trying to focus on him. With my worries for Levi on the other side of the wall overwhelmed my head, my concern drifts over to Hanji's group. Though I knew they all were capable in taking care of their own battles, my own was difficult to even let him give up.

"You're getting really difficult!!!!!" He snarls, before spitting his blood at my feet.

"Or you're just becoming too stubborn!!!!" I retort, my eyes matching his.

He then charges head on again, but this time I run up jumping upon his broad shoulders, wrapping my legs around his neck. Twisting my upper-half, I use all the weight in my hips as I slam him brutally against the roof. He grunts beneath my strength, as he went to slice at my ankles.

Raising my foot I slam it on his hand harshly, hearing a few sickenly crack.

"Fucking hell!!!!!!!!" He roars, while I try to bind him somehow. However, while doing so, a creak groans beneath us, before the roof gives in without warning. The sudden rush left my vision a blur for a moment, not having time to grasp for anything to hold on to.

Slamming heavily against the timber, a weak groan of discomfort rumbles through my body painfully while having the wind knocked from inside me.

My eyes went hazy for a moment, as the room grew darker while the dust accumulates inside. Wood bursting into splinters and pieces, my hands shakingly push myself back up to my feet coughing harshly. Suddenly a wave of nausea left my head spinning, grasping my mouth feeling my stomach churn.

Heavy boots stomped towards me, slowly and confidently.

"Looks like you're out of options," a blade meets near my throat, while I swallow away my pain. My eyes steadily trail along the cool steel, before meeting his cold burning gaze that was devouring me like a predator with it's prey. A bellowing roar made the walls within the room shook, as my breath grew shaky beneath the tip of the blade. "Time to end your very existence--!"

A smile curls upon my lips with a light chuckle, my eyes steadily not breaking from his.

"So, erasing me....will only solve your problems?" I presume calmly, while trying to gain more air in my lungs. My body was burning with pain and exhaustion, but I felt something caging me with intensity to fight. "To cut me off on a whim, and hope for a success......instead of telling me what I need to know?!"

He smirks, teeth showing disgustingly.

"Exactly, you practically summed it all up," A deep guttural chuckle leaves him, while a drip of sweat and blood glides down my temple to beneath my chin. Clenching my teeth tightly, a swallow thickly feeling the steel prick my throat. "Seeing your face brings me disdain..."

Arching an eyebrow, "How so?"

His lips tugs with a snarl, "Because you look so much like your damn mother," venom dripping from his voice, as my anger slowly begins to show.

Finally gaining little strength, I grasp the blade before tilting myself sideways. With a sharp pull, him falls forward without warning. Avoiding the tip of the steel blade, I pushing myself to my own two feet and kicked him into the wooden floor. The old timber cracks beneath him, as the blade ran through the floor.

"Shit!"

With him finally distracted with his own blade stuck, I charge towards a window and bursted through. Glass shattering all around me, as my arms shield my face, before activating my ODM gear, flying towards another rooftop as my boots skid across swiftly. Gaining some little time to recover, I turn my hand seeing the cut was deep from holding the blade, blood seeping through the now open wound. Grimacing, I quickly tore the bottom of my shirt, and began binding my hand to comfortably grip my blades next he strikes.

Turning to the main goal, a short gasp leaves my lips, before a smile curls upon my lips.

"Reiner's down,"

Thunder Spears were thrown at him, at precise points of his armoured plates. His bellowing roar for help was pointless, as he had no clue that we created this magnificent weapons. A piercing cry echoes as two soldiers from a distance thrown two thunder spears, into the armoured eyes.

Thick black surrounds his face, causing him to be stunned from the destructive force.

Multiple thunder spears dug into the neck of Reiner's titan form, breaking through the nape of it's thick neck. Surprised by the outcome, I soon became more impressed with Hanji's recent experiment with the thunder spears. Finally all of them sent their second thunder spears against the armoured again, dangerously close to the nape.

Within seconds, the armoured's bellowing scream brings relief knowing we've got him down.

"Well I be damned," I breath out, when suddenly my head perks up sensing my Uncle's presence from behind. Glancing back towards the building I was inside, his large form pushes himself out the shattered window I came from. Blood seeps down his temple, from when I shoved him into the splinters of wood.

Before he could attack, a deep rumbling roar evaded my ears loudly.

The roar began to bounce around the walls, as my head snaps in the direction only to see the Armoured bellowing as if it's wounded. My heart sank at the sound, my eyes widening in horror before everything stops. Distracted for only a moment, concerned for my soldiers, my body was slammed into the roof.

He straddles me waist down, feeling the back of my head hit the tiles.

Blinking for my vision to clear, "Don't worry, all your soldiers will die very shortly!!!!!" He raises his fist, eyes inflicted with rage. Lowering his fist with speed and force, I managed to block it quickly, when his other hand tries to land another attack. Directing his fist, I try to lift my knee but his heavy weight wouldn't let me move at all.

"Everyone, fall back!!!!" I hear Hanji shout, warningly. Her voice was not even far from where we were, which meant something was up. However my mind was distracted with my Uncle, I didn't understand what was happening just now.

Grunting and breathing heavily, his eye bore's into my own soul with a crazed grin.

"Just die already, your own existence is pointless!!!!!!" He lands a punch to my face, but I managed to tilt my head away only getting most of the force to my cheek. Pain began throbbing in my skull, while trying to hold his arms back.

Light tears of frustration rest at the corners of my eyes, with small grunts of discomfort strains in my throat.

Parting my legs from beneath him, I use everything strength from my waist and down, latching them around his waist. With every bit of my being I change the course, before I turn him over pinning him down. Slamming his head against the tiles, sweat beads against my temple with exhaustion.

His large hands grip my arms tightly, struggling beneath my strength.

"Tell..me...what happened to our clan?" I seethe through my teeth, eyes dangerously boring into his own.

He growls through his teeth, "Or what?"

I couldn't bluff my way in threatening him, because my anger wasn't just a phase or it will pass by. I'm further from furious, finding the truth from where I originally came from, only for myself to die at the hands of the last remaining survivor of my clan. He's damn bastard who is trying to clean up, nothing but dust.

"I'll tear you from limb to limb,"

Blood rolled down his nose coating his lips red, with a grin tugging at his lips.

Without warning he kicks me off with a heavy force, that causing me to fly and tumble into a thick chimney from behind. Grunting with discomfort, my shoulder slams into the cemented wall. His feet clattered against the roof, before lunging towards me within seconds. Pushing myself up to dodge his attack, a gasp soon follows with my body pinned against the chimney.

My fingertips grew numb, with my breath shaky feeling something pierce into my torso.

"You're still weak as ever," he bitterly comments, twisting the blade.

"Gahhhh!" clenching my teeth my hands grip his forearms, trying my best for him not to push any further. The blade dug deeper a few inches, while light tears prick the corner of my eyes. My heart pounding so fast, I could feel it breaking through my chest out of frustration.

With force the blade pierces further, causing me to grimace in agony. Thick blood drips down my knuckles, staining my fingers and clothes.

"No one to save you!" He laughs proudly, eyes wildly expressive with insanity. Metallic taste lingers at the back of throat, before I cough up blood while coating my lips while doing so. "They're all too focused on Bertholdt's transformation,  to even save your life--"

"I don't expect them too,"

He raises his chin, with confusion furrowing in his thick brows, "What?"

Lifting my eyes I slowly drawing his blade out, "I more pissed off, how you underestimate me," my rage finally surfacing. My body grew intensely hot, as my muscles strain against pulling the weak steel. Once it leaves my body, I raise my other arm and snapped the blade in two.

My shoulders shook, chest heaving for air staggering in my lungs.

Peering through my messy strands of hair, his eyes were wide with shock. Standing back he swings his other blade, but I raise my leg and shattered the steel. He steps back, shock written across his face. Stepping towards him, I could feel my blood soaking my shirt. Yet, it was beyond pain, growing numb by the second.

Drawing one blade from my ODM, I await for him to do the same.

"A fight should be fair, right?" I arch an eyebrow, while his hands shook trying to freshen his blades. Not giving him the time of day, I acted on impulse and steadily while trying my best to endure my wound. Striking towards him, I only managed to scar along his cheekbone to his nose.

He grimaces before finally snapping back to reality, before lunging at me with purpose.

We continued for a few minutes while expecting Bertholdt to transform, but it's been too long. Worried for my soldiers and Hanji, soon my concern drifts to Levi. Despite three battles going on at once, I must annihilate this one. Finding an opening I ran through embedding my grappling hook into the bricks, before flying past him with immense speed.

The sound of flesh and bone tearing slowly, as my blade runs through unhesitantly with blood showering over.

A scream of agony follows after, allowing me to halt in my steps to hear a thump next to my feet. Crimson red pools beneath the amputated arm, my eyes slice back to meet his horrified ones. He collapsed to his knees, pain writhing behind his eyes while holding what was left of his left arm.

"Y-You......fucking bitch!!!!"

Stepping towards him I raise the tip of my blade at his throat, hearing his breath hitch with fear.

"Be grateful I took your left, because your right is your only best," I sneer, backing him into a corner. However, before I could resume my questioning, a blinding light began to brighten the entire district. A deep discomforted chuckle, rumbles in my Uncle's throat.

"No way out," he smirks while panting heavily, giving me a bloody red grin. "You're dead."

Given how close we were to where Bertholdt was transforming, I only had a few seconds to escape the perimetre. Not thinking through enough, I grab my Uncle and forcefully pulled him with me. I still had questions, and he can't die just now without finding out about my family.

Activating my ODM I began to weave my way through the buildings, my heart pounding heavily while holding onto my Uncle tightly. Awkwardly I held him, but his heavy weight lowered me further to the ground.

"Give up!!!!!" He tries thrashing around, causing me to slam my elbow into the back of his head. He falls limp easily, which left me to concentrate further.

Thinking I had enough time, the light began to burst all around like an explosion. Seeing Eren's titan form with the rest of the soldiers, I tried to reach them as fast as I could. "Corporal!!!!!" I hear someone calling out, but the explosion deafens my surroundings.

"AKIRA, GET OUT OF THERE!!!!" Jean's cries out.

My eyes land upon my soldiers ushering me forward, when they all suddenly disappeared behind the house.

My heart sank feeling my body grow numb, when a heavy wave of the explosion reaches me with pure force. Suddenly everything was a blur, as my body began flying out of control. Finally gaining some momentum, I turned the corner of a building, and shielded myself behind the house, tightly hanging onto my Uncle's knocked out body.

It was indeed strong, never experiencing such power coming from Bertholdt. No wonder he barely uses it, but only to destroy the gates or through force.

"Shit,"

Finally after what seemed forever, everything falls quiet as the wind died down instantly. Taking a few moments to breath, my heart wouldn't stop beating fast. I grasp my chest swallowing thickly, trying to calm myself down. Easing my breathing slowly, I stood up using the wall to support myself.

"Are you guys alive?!"

"Hell if I know! Are you?!"

A familiar voice? The kids! They're okay!

Glancing down at my Uncle completely blacked out, no sign of waking up, I decided to check on my soldiers. Before heading off I ripped off his belt, kneeling down, I began to tie his right arm behind his back and around his ankles tightly. Knowing he's captured and unable to make a move, I was more relieved.

Pushing myself to my feet, I felt heavy while I try rushing out from the alley, and flew to the voices nearby. Connie, Jean, Sasha, Mikasa, Armin and Eren were still standing, alive and well.

"Soldiers!" I breath out, with relief washing over me.

Landing upon the roof next to Mikasa and Armin, I gasp sharply before gripping my wound. Blood seeps through my fingers, but I tuck my pain away focusing on my children first.

"Corporal, are you alright?!" Sasha exclaims, with worry lacing in her shaky voice.

"I'm fine, where is Lena and Hanji's squad?" I question, realising her squad wasn't present with them. Armin and Mikasa share a grim expression, exchanging looks whether to tell me something or not. No matter, they must tell me. "Armin?"

He sweats nervously with fear, "T-They were right underneath the blast zone," he stumbles over his words. My eyes slowly widen with those few words, as my chest tightens refusing to allow me to breath.

"No........no," i stumble back, before racing to the top of the roof. Knees almost giving out from beneath me, light tears stung at the corners of my eyes. Reaching the top I finally saw the colossal at full size, as flames burned beneath the blast zone. Smoke thickens, clouding around making the titan look far more threatening from a distance.

Hanji.......

Lena.......

Moblit........

My hand grip my blades tightly, with my body screaming at me in pain. Chills ran down my spine, not even sure what our next move is. What to do, or if I should search for Lena and Hanji's squad now?

Fuck, I'm at a loose end....!

"So what you're saying......." Jean's voice shook, with disbelief. ".....the only ones who survived......are the seven of us?"

The colossal began destroying the houses all over, throwing them in the air as they all began falling around us. Flames began to scattered across, feeling the rising temperature burning the crisp morning air.

"Corporal! What do we do