Flashing Eyes

Dusk

Eren's POV*

I stood on a hillcrest, looking at Levi for the second time this week. I saw so many titans rushing over the hill, their faces contorted with greed. I felt my breath hitch, there was no way we could kill all of them.

But that doesn't mean we can't try.

I heard a loud snap echo through the air, and Levi was already zipping towards the titans. I shot my anchor into the back of one, slicing its neck and rolling unto the ground. Levi, with his even more enhanced skill had somehow killed three.

Maybe, just maybe, we can do this.

With renewed strength, I shouted and turned into a titan.

Lightning struck down, and suddenly my vision was much higher and somehow blurry and stunningly sharp at the same time.

I felt my throat grow raw with the roar ululating from my throat, ripping off the heads of titans, or punching the heads off of them.

My always persistent rage grew, and suddenly the field was empty. The squads has decimated them, and looked like we had killed all the titans.

But it only looked.

I felt a dull ache in my neck, and suddenly everything went red and black, my vision reverting back to how it was when I was human.

Then, what felt like a dull ache turned into an earth-shattering rage.

My entire world went black, the red splotches growing and then fading.

The last thing I saw was a titan standing over me, a smile present on its gruesome face.

Levi's POV*

I had just sliced off the nape of the titan who went after Eren.

As it feel to the ground and the remaining corpses started to evaporate, I saw Eren, lying on the ground, his once bright eyes open yet not seeing anything. He was nearly soaked in what may have been his own blood.

My entire body went cold and I fell to my knees.

A scream ripped its way up my throat and I didn't care, I had no Eren, no reason to be strong.

I screamed and screamed, my horrified shriek echoing over the hills. I couldn't see anything, my eyes so filled with tears.

I felt numb, like this wasn't even the beginning of the shock.

I doubled over on the grass in physical pain, like someone had ripped my heart out of my chest. Hanji stood over my small form, trying to help me. My screams eventually abated into shaking sobs.

I passed out, and for once, I had no reason to wake up.

The light that guided me had gone out along with Eren.

I hadn't protected him, I hadn't saved him. I was the reason he was dead, the fault was mine.

A pained noise arose my mouth, the sound the pure personification of my guilt and sorrow.
I'm sorry, Eren.