Heishi's Terrifying Family

The sun shined brightly upon the serene ocean that separated the land of Marley and Paradis Island. The water reflected the sunlight giving the illusion to the naked eye that it sparkled. Similarly, in the middle of this ocean lies an island covered in a mysterious barrier that reflected light. The light-reflecting barrier instead of sparkling and illuminating what lied underneath it like the ocean did, gave the naked eye the illusion that there was nothing that lied in it but sharped jagged rocks protruding from the sea accompanied by strong deadly waves forming a natural shipwreck graveyard thus making those who pass by it to naturally fear and avoid the place.

What truly lied underneath though was what was usually supposed to be a peaceful but lively island covered in bright green forests a distance from the area surrounding human settlements within it. Currently, it was still lively indeed but it was more of a scene like a hell on earth with giant deformed humanoids of various heights roaming the place but some if not most gathered at the biggest human settlement on the island. The titans tried to enter the city but due to the 2 layer protection consisting of a high thick wall with giant entangled trees in front of it, they simply could not proceed. The fact that the trees would occasionally untangle and swat them down like a fly-swatter and a fly made it even harder for them to proceed.

"Miyuki, hold on for a little while longer. Hoenn is on his way," said Colline as she maneuvered in the air, killing small titans that got through the barricade and those that somehow managed to climb the trees and held on. Together with her were a thousand ODM gear-equipped soldiers that did the same.

Of the three of them, Aria was the fiercest and most aggressive of them specializing in close quarters combat, Miyuki excelled in controlling the plants affected by her titan's power, making her a great support, and finally, though Colline had not inherited a titan, her excellent body coordination and reflexes paired with her terrifying swordsmanship and mastery of the ODM gear made her an assassin that one could only hope to ignore them in the battlefield.

On top of the wall stood a female titan with long green wavy hair that nodded in agreement to focus her concentration on the titans below. The fingers of her hands were placed on the ground and her legs in a one knee kneeling position. Should one look closely in between her fingers, one would find underneath her palm lime green luminescent smoke was being released that seeped into the ground. The smoke seeped into the ground and into the seeds that they deliberately dropped from on top of walls, accelerating their growth and providing a connection between the trees and her.

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"Hurry up! Quickly! Load them up now! The city defenses will fall if we take too long here!" Said a very burly man as he and three more heavily built men carried a large cylindrical tube the length of two grown men with a pointed top that would remind a person from Earth of a retractable pen. They along with dozens of similarly muscular men carried these giant things towards a 17-meter tall titan with a thick black bob haircut. The titan's most noticeable characteristics were its iris that seemed like lava was flowing inside them and the holes that circled around its chest, shoulders, and back. These served as release ducts for steam and flames that are produced by the special organ unique to the titan.

The Combustion titan otherwise known as the fire-breather was considered a support titan for its previous users could only use the flames it released from its mouth to burn people and its surroundings while the flames that are released from its ducts were only used to keep others away from its nape.

For generations, the combustion was only used for smithing weapons and armors, Guarding their territory by burning human invaders, or scorching the soldiers in a war and leaving the pure and abnormals to the other shifters. Against a fellow titan, it could only fight with its bare fist. What could its flames possibly do? Burn other titans' hair till it goes bald?

It was Heishi's father Hoenn who after inheriting this titan brought the titan's power to the next level, releasing the titan's potential, and turning it from a weak support to a walking nightmare for all in the war zone. He designed a shoulder mount for it that would hold these ammunitions in place, ready to be shot out at a moment's notice. The weapon had yet to be tested in an actual war but the trial that resulted in a crater of 20 meters in diameter proved just how terrifying one of those was.

"Loading complete sir!" Said the burly man who issued the instructions to his fellow workers previously.

*Grunt* Replied the Combustion as it stood up and left the hangar.

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"Graaaah! Get out of my way!!" Shouted Nasuko as he punched out at the closest titan in front of him, sending that 10-meter titan flying and colliding with other titans.

Terrence and his team maneuvered in the air cutting nape after nape of titans.

"Ha! This is easy! Come and get me ya giant shell-less turtles!!" Said a maroon-haired teenager when suddenly an abnormal jumped out of the crowd and tried to bite him from behind.

"Ha! Close one! That all you got?" Continued the adolescent as he quickly avoided the sneak attack. Out of nowhere a hairy 7-meter tall titan jumped out from behind another titan and used it as leverage. The titan was too fast and before the smug teen could react, he was shredded in half by the titan's sharp claws.

"Herepiss! No!!" Screamed one of his comrades. Distracted by the death of his friend, he failed to notice a titan with a bloated fist punch at him from his other side. Once the fist and body collided, the pressurized air exploded out tearing his body into mincemeat before being sent out flying dying the ground and surrounding trees in blood and gore.

"Oaken! Herepiss!" Another trainee shouted out.

"Mikey! Don't get distracted! Watch your surroundings!" The trainee's friend warned but he himself was unable to dodge as a titan stomped on him from above.

"AAAAAHHHHHH!! MOOMMMMYY!!!" The friend he tried to warn broke down as the last thread of sanity in his mind snapped upon witnessing his death as well. The poor trainee with a broken mental state cried out as he crash-landed on the ground forgetting to use the cables and started running like a headless duck on the ground. He had offered little to no resistance as a titan grabbed and ate him.

"Commander! Shifters!" Terrence said witnessing the sight of four of his men being killed.

Nasuko turned towards the direction Terrence was pointing at before nodding at him.

"Hmmm...Found you."

He positioned his legs before leaping out. The force he exerted on his feet broke the ground and his body was thrust up. "Graaah!!" With a roar, electricity began circulating around his body before a thick pillar of lightning crashed down on him from the sky. His body was then covered in a blinding spherical yellow light. Within the light, humongous bones began emerging quickly followed by flesh and organs that wrapped around them and finally skin that held it all together. His body submerged inside the titan's nape before light shined in a grim ominous violet color in his eyes.

The humongous titan standing at 20 meters in height had long white hair smoothly swaying on its back. Its lower body was covered in hardened skin that looked like large loose pants. Its foot landed on the ground with a thud but its mouth remained silent, unlike Eren who would roar like a beast every time he transformed. His grim eyes stared daggers at the three.

The titan that could store air and pressurize it inside its arms together with the titan that had great leaping abilities positioned themselves on both sides of Nasuko's titan form before releasing a shrill sonic sound akin to a banshee's screech from their mouths while the sneaky predator rushed at him from the front.

Nasuko remained calm despite the situation he was in, flanked on 3 sides with deafening screeches trying to interrupt his focus. His unperturbed concentration was honed in years of battles with life and death situations, leaving their actions pointless and futile.

He squatted down and placed both hands into the ground before 2 massive walls made of crystals with spikes on the side facing his opponents rose up from the ground in between them. He then stood up and pushed the air in between him and the crystal walls as they followed his commands and moved towards them quickly. The leaping titan hurriedly sucked in large quantities of air inside the small air ducts found slightly above its ankles and pushed it out with his muscles like a piston. The explosive wind thrust his body further up as he had jumped at the exact same time. He was able to avoid the wall but Nasuko immediately stomped on the ground causing a large crystal spearhead to fly out from underground right before he punched it, sending it flying to the airborne titan. The predator that was dashing at Nasuko had its head clutched in his arm and used as a club as he was slammed at the pressure titan that was unable to dodge the wall bash.

"Nasuko!!!" The aforementioned turned towards the origin of the voice. A man with graying sideburns dashed at him from the forest. He leaped up before roaring causing a pillar of lightning to crash on him as well, enveloping him in a yellow sphere of electricity. A burly 20-meter tall titan with 6 arms emerged.

Heishi dashed out of the cave in time to witness the emergence of the titan from within the light. "The Abomination titan?! The Pressure and Leaping are here as well, wait...the Predator? Doesn't that belong to the Marley branch?"

Guri didn't stop to stare at the scene, unlike Heishi. He spun the cable on one of his arms and threw it at a titan's shoulder, firmly latching on it before he gave a strong pull at the cable, sending his body airborne. He held the other cable's end with a blade on it as he spun in the air like a top, slashing at the backside of the titan's neck. The titan turned its head but did not fall for the blade missed the connection point. Guri didn't seem to be bothered as he jumped down from the titan's back while stabbing the blade at the other side of the neck. He held the cable with both hands as he went for a free-fall. His weight pulled at the blade, dragging it down and leaving a large gash at the nape. The light of life immediately dimmed from within its eyes as it finally fell down and began rapidly evaporating.

The ape did not stand idly by but went for another one. Heishi did not want to be left out and hurried to catch up to his friend, "Hey, Wait for me!"

He pulled the triggers and hooked cables were immediately shot out by the piston mechanism. The familiar feeling of using an ODM gear brought back his memories of the tests he did before dying and being reborn here. His joyful reminiscing was cut off as he began falling down and remembered the horrifying part of the tests. "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Without a mouthpiece, his loud scream was heard by all in the battlefield and nearly the whole island. The scream was so loud one would begin wondering if he actually had something like the leaping and pressure inside him.

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"Out of my way!!!" Aria the tigress rammed at the titans that stood in her way, knocking them all off their feet as she charged for the direction of the passage where she knew her son would be emerging from.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Recognizing the owner of the scream, she hurried her pace as more energy was released from her body. 'Don't worry honey, Mommy's coming!' she thought as she zoomed past the crowd of giants, leaving a path of fallen titans that slowly stood up and began wandering around again.

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*Panting*

"I can't...hold on...for much longer." The green-haired titan above the city walls began showing signs of fatigue as she said those words. Miyuki may have trained in using the Nature titan for years but without the support of the Life titan, controlling hundreds of giant trees to surround the walls around the city while frequently untangling and smashing at the hordes of titans below would drain her of her energy and leave her exhausted within half an hour.

"Just a little longer Miyuki, I'm sure he'll be here any minute now," said Colline as words of comfort though one could tell that she herself was already nearing her limits. Her clothes were soaked in sweat and stuck to her skin, accentuating her great figure that could leave most men with a nosebleed.

*Shuh!* *Shuh!* *Shuh!* *Shuh!* *Shuh!*

Everyone turned towards the source of the sound and found 5 giant pointed metal cylinders with heads that resembled retractable pens and a bottom made of crystal flying towards the titan horde from the nearby forested mountain.

Upon contact with a hard surface, the point at the head of the first cylinder sunk in before exploding, sending bodies of titans and shrapnel flying. What remained of the spot was a bloody scene filled with gore and metal fragments scattered around.

The second, third, fourth, and fifth cylinders followed. Some crashed on the ground leaving craters on the spot they landed while some landed on titan bodies, resulting in a scene similar to the first. The hoard of titans was significantly reduced in number after the consecutive explosions.

The wall defenders, including Miyuki and Colline, gaped at the horror of the cylinders in an actual war before turning towards the bottom of the mountain where a titan with a shoulder mount that resembled scaffolding that supported those giant cylinders emerged from within the thicket of trees. "He's finally here."