positions | jean kirstein

chapter seven: assault

!! Spoiler Warning: Attack On Titan season 1 (Female Titan Arc)

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Me and the other Scouts wait on the roof, overlooking the scene that unfolded in front of us.

Armin successfully managed to convince Annie to help them escape, and we watch as they head towards the underground tunnel.

Armin, Mikasa, and Eren begin heading down, but Annie doesn't follow.

They begin talking, but we couldn't make out their words from the rooftops.

Something is wrong.

I look over to Jean who was next to me, and I could tell by the look on his face that he thought the same thing.

A few minutes pass before Annie lets out a laugh, echoing through the empty street.

Then there it was. The green signal flare.

The Scouts disguised as civilians begin charging towards Annie, coming at her from all directions. She is cornered. The Scouts grab her and restrict her arms, preventing her from transforming into a Titan.

Suddenly, the yellow light blinds us and we hear the sound of lighting striking the ground where Annie stood. The Scouts who had grabbed her are blown away on impact, many of them killed and unconscious.

Annie somehow managed to transform. Her Titan stood tall, towering over all the buildings in Stohess. We stare in shock as we watch her stomp holes in the tunnel where a squad of Scouts and Armin's group are.

We jump off the building and charge for the Female Titan, initiating Plan B.

She swings her arms at us, grabbing the wires and killing our soldiers left and right.

I manage to swing past her, grappling and using gas to wrap around her arm. Letting out a yell, I pierce my blades into her right arm, dragging it through and around her arm. Before her left arm could come up and grab my wire, I grapple back and try to make space between us. I watch as her ice blue eyes stare at me, her blood on my blades.

In one quick motion, she manages to grab my wire from behind, pulling me and throwing me onto the roof of a building. My body rolls a couple feet and I begin to feel a sharp pain in my head as I try my best to not lose conscious. I turn on my hands and knees as I tried to recover, coughing. I could feel my blood dripping from the side of my forehead.

"Iris!" I hear from behind.

Jean grapples over to me and kneels down, trying to stand me up. He wraps his arm around me and my waist so I wouldn't fall over. He begins leading me away from the Titan. Realizing what he was doing, I shrug his arms off of me.

"Iris! What are you doing?"

"We have to fight," I reply as I turn back towards the battle.

"You're injured!" I hear him call out, running up to me.

I bring my arm up to my forehead, wiping the blood with the back of my hand.

"I'm fine." I meet his eyes, giving him a glare. I know he thinks I was too hurt to keep fighting by the look he had on his face.

But I know I wasn't. I could handle more than he thinks.

"We have to find Eren."

I scan the area where the staircase to the underground tunnel once stood. Debris is what's left behind.

I spot Armin and begin to make my way towards him with Jean directly behind me.

"Armin!"

We run up to him and notice Eren under a pile of debris. A wooden stake is pierced though his body as he lies there, bleeding out.

"Jean! Iris! Help me get Eren out!" Armin yells.

We begin to lift the debris but some parts were too heavy for us to lift on our own.

"Enough of your bullshit, Eren!" I hear Jean yell as he looks down at Eren, who's eyes were only half way open.

"Did I or did I not tell you this day would eventually come? Our fate is in your hands. We are out there putting our lives on the line, and this is all we can expect from our last best hope?" Jean says angrily. Eren only gives him a blank stare.

"Is this what Marco--"

"What he--," he pauses.

"Damn it! Leave him! We can't do anything until we take care of the Female Titan!"

Jean storms out as I follow close behind him. We fly though the streets to catch up to the Female Titan before Jean tells me his plan.

"Iris! We need to distract her and lead her to the trap up ahead!"

"On it!"

I retract both my grapples back and land on the floor next to the Titan. I yell out to her, trying to grab her attention. She turns and her blue eyes lock onto mine as Jean jumps up from behind. Letting out a yell, he aims for her nape, but her hardening ability causes his blades to break in half. He quickly manages to turn and starts flying in the other direction.

"Iris, this way!" Jean calls out to me.

Now with her attention on Jean, I sprint while sending my grapples up, and I maneuver myself back around her to get to Jean. Jean and I begin to make our way towards the trap with her chasing behind us as we manage to barely dodge all her attempts to grab us.

We soar past the trap with the Female Titan behind us as Hange and their squad fired the retraining weapons. The Female Titan falls to the floor with her hand covering her nape and the squad sets a net over her, restricting her movement.

Jean and I land on a building further ahead as we stop to catch our breaths. My head is pounding and I could barely stand straight, but I simply ignore the pain.

Within only five minutes, the Female Titan manages to escape the trap. We stare in disbelief as she swings her legs, killing a couple of the soldiers and destroying the restraining weapons.

Suddenly, the same yellow light and lighting struck from behind her.

Eren.

He must've finally transformed.

We watch as Eren's Titan runs up behind the Female Titan and punch her, sending her flying onto a building. Eren charges at her again but she dodges him and begins leading him to the center of Stohess District where there are no buildings.

Annie knew what she was doing. By moving to flat land, ODM gear is useless. It would only be a fight against her and Eren.

After catching our breath, Jean and I begin to follow the fight. We land next to Mikasa, Hange, Moblit, and Armin as we watch the battle unfold.

Eren had gone completely feral.

Annie, severally beat up, begins to make a run for the wall, hardening her fingertips to climb up.

"She's going to escape!" Hange says as Mikasa jumps off the roof, grappling towards the Female Titan.

Mikasa, skillfully using her ODM gear, moves above Annie and slices her fingers off. Annie falls back to the floor where Eren begins to beat her again. He sends her head flying across Stohess and reaches down to bite her nape. Eren suddenly freezes as Annie's body emerges from her Titan.

All of a sudden, there is a flash of blue light from Annie. By the time we turned back, she had enclosed herself in an impenetrable crystal. Levi comes down from above, slicing the nape of Eren's Titan, and he pulls him free before he could eat Annie.

The battle was finally over. The town of Stohess was absolutely destroyed. Many soldiers had died, and some civilians were caught in the crossfire. But despite it all, this victory returned that sense of hope that we had previously lost.

We are finally one step closer to finding out the truth.