{ Part 2.2 }

3rd person pov:

After the attack at the ruins of the castle, they retreated back to the walls. But they all don't realized that there was no hole in the walls, yet. Only the (h/l) (h/c) hair girl knew about it.

Hange take all of the 104th trainees with her to the top of the walls. The survey corps later found out about Ymir's true identity, she was a titan shifter just like Eren. Ymir is currently unconscious now due to her missing body parts from the previous fight.

Christa try to convince Hange that Ymir used her powers to protect them at the tower, but Hange shows no expression. They both walk together and talk about how Ymir will be when she got back to the walls.

Eren went to the edge of the wall, seeing that his friends need his hand to climb up. Reiner got up and then Eren help Armin giving him a hand.

On the other side, Mikasa is helping Connie to climb up. (y/n) look after Eren from afar as she knows what's going to happen. Hange walk to us and said, 'We can't focus on Ymir now. Connie, I'll send a group to take a look at your village later. But right now, fixing the wall is more important.' She sighed, 'I thought that there would be more titans around here.'

Hange looked down and saw Hannes and his team coming to the walls. They all gather around where Hannes is climbing, waiting for the news. Hannes got up, 'There is no hole, we have searched for it all night. There is no destruction between the wall of Trost and Krolva. We didn't believe it at first and check the wall all over again, and there was no titan seen during the search.'

The others got shocked by what Hannes said. Eren and Armin start to question him but Hannes was right.

(y/n)'s pov:

Hange then ordered to retreat back to Trost. I try to maintain a distance from Eren but not too far, since I know what's going to happen. Reiner and Bertholdt are going to show their true colors soon.

Eren got called by Reiner making Mikasa and I stop walking. Mikasa is cautious as well. She don't want to let Eren get hurt. I can't hear what they say due to the windy air up here. But I know they are trying to make Eren come along with then to their real home.

But seems like Eren denied him making Reiner got angry and he remove his bandage from his right hand. Mikasa drag out her swords and run to them.

I followed her actions and try to help her out. She slash at Reiner and make Bertholdt fall down and she start to drag her sword down to Bertholdt's throat. Reiner went to Mikasa's to push her but I got there and slash his neck.

But Bertholdt managed to escape from Mikasa grip and went behind Reiner. There were smoke surrounding them and the atmosphere around them starts to change in orange or orange-green?, but it means that they are about to change.

I grab Eren and move away from them. They both changed and there I saw Colossal titan in it's half form and Armored titan. The armored titan saw that I grab Eren with me, so he reached out his hand to take Eren.

I try to escape from his hands but unluckily, the armored titan got my foot making me let go of Eren. Reiner then throw me away, making me fall from the wall. I rush and hook myself to the wall but because of my fast movement I got impacted with the wall making me knocked out. I don't know what happen after that.

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I woke up in a jolt making me get dizzy and feel pain in a sudden. I touch my head and felt there was a bandage around me. What happen?

'(y/n), oh thank God that you're alright. You got hit pretty bad and I have to catch you before you hit the ground. You've been unconscious for about 5 hours.' Marco said as he grab me in an embrace.

'Where's Eren? Did he get caught?' I asked. I look at Marco and saw he looked down with a sad face. 'We try our best but they got Eren. They also got Ymir, too.' I look around and saw many others are still not awake.

I try to stand up with the help of Marco and walk to Armin and Mikasa. I saw Mikasa shocked face, maybe she just got the news now, about Eren. I bet she fight her best to protect him.

'Has anyone been send to get back Eren?' Mikasa asked.

Armin sighed, 'Not yet. We don't have the machines to get the horses to the other side. We need to have the horses to get to Eren. We can't do anything now. Hange and her team got wounded, we need more people to go after him.'

Mikasa hold her head as she looked down. She might be feeling desperate right now, she want to protect Eren but she fail to do that. No one would want their loved ones to get taken by others.

'I just want to stay by his side.' Mikasa spoke softly as she wrapped the red scarf around her neck. 'That's all I want.' I sit down by her side and bring her head down to my shoulders.

She started to tear up a little to my comfort. I rub her back and hug her by her waist. 'Don't worry, Mikasa. We will get him back from them.'

Hannes walk towards us and give the four of us the left field rations. He knows how we are feeling right now. We all just stay quiet, just listening to Hannes as he talks to Armin and Mikasa. Hannes and I don't know each other that well but he still take care of me.

I got up and walk to somewhere, where I can read my book without letting other know. I open my book to check what's going to happen during the upcoming mission. There's going to be some loss and it's going to include Hannes.

I can't lose him too. He's important to Armin, Mikasa and Eren. Marco walked up to me and said that we should gear up now.

I grab my uniform and check my gears. Gas, Checked. Swords, Checked. Any errors? Nope. I think that's all. Then we all wait for the others cadets.

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The others arrived here after about an hour. It took long and it was my time to change the bandage from my head. 'Armin, do you still have any bandage left? I think I might need some new for me.'

Armin shook his head, 'No, but I think the coming team will have some, maybe you should go and ask them.' I nodded and said thanks.

I searched around and got myself some bandages but here's come the hard part, I can't see myself to do it and there's no mirror here. I saw the others were busy with killing the titans and transporting the horses to the other side of the wall.

'(y/n)!' It's Levi's voice. I look back and I was right. It is Levi. He has a worry expression as he look at the bandage on my head.

'What happened? I told you to be careful.'

'Well, I did try be careful but if I didn't think fast you will just saw my lifeless body right now. It's a miracle I survived from the impact I get against the wall. But I'm alive now.'

He sighed, 'Next time, try to be more careful. Need help with that?' He said as he noticed the bandages in my hand.

I nodded and give it to him. I sit down on the near box to get comfortable. Levi then unwrapped the bandage on my head carefully, not wanting to hurt me. He then start to put medicine on my head and unpack the new bandage.

While Levi is doing that, Levi didn't noticed the stares he getting. From his commander to cadets, and also me. Why am I included? Well, I can't help but admire his beauty up close. But I got flutter knowing he's too close to me. I can even feel his breathe around my head.

He finished up and look into my eyes. 'You can just come up to me if you need help with anything.' I nodded and blushed. He didn't break the eye contact while he say that. Then we heard a cough beside us.

We quickly make space between us and look to where the sound was. Oh, it's Erwin with a smirk and he look amused. 'Hange is awake now and she's going to tell us which way we should go, so I've come to get both of you. Hope I'm not interrupting anything.'

I shook my head nervously. 'No, sir. You don't interrupt anything. I.. I'll going now, sir.' I bow down and quickly left that place. What was Levi thinking? He was just taking care of me, BUT HE DID THAT IN PUBLIC.

I feel stares as I walk through. They all must have saw it. I hope they won't tease. I would die of embarrassment. I got to Hange and some are already gathering around her.

Hange still can't stand up yet due to her wounds, so she decided to just lie down on her front and point out the map on where we should go. After a while, we got all the horses to the ground and I start to take off with my gear and went to my baby, Jack.

'We're going to have a long ride, Jack. You better be going fast so I can get to Eren faster.' As usual he just neigh back, what do you think he would do? Bark? Meow?

I get up on Jack and start to prepare to go at any moment. I saw Marco and the others smirking at me. Great, they're going to tease me. 'Hold up, if you want to tease me, try that when we get Eren back and you guys can tease me all you want, ok?'

They all laughed as I said that catching the other's attention. I shushed them and give them a glare making them holding their laughs.

We got into positions as we're about to go soon. Erwin yelled, 'CHARGE!!!!!!' We all charge forward and went to where Hange ordered us to go.

Let's just hope I won't fail again this time. Not again, you'll do fine this time right, (y/n)? Let's just try our best.

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Word count: 1796

Published: 23, November, 2020