positions | jean kirstein

chapter eleven: cycle

!! Spoiler Warning: Attack on Titan season 2 (Clash of the Titans Arc)

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The past seven days was eventful for the Scout Regiment. Titans somehow managed to make their way into Wall Rose, but a breach in the wall was not found. Three of our own Scouts proved themselves to be Titans, two of them being the same Titans that breached Wall Maria and into Trost District.

Their names were Reiner Braun, Bertholdt Hoover, and Ymir.

They managed to kidnap Eren, and a combined military force was formed to rescue him. We were all on the verge of death when Eren somehow managed control the Titans, sending them away from us and towards the Armored Titan. We barely managed to escape.

More than half of the soldiers who went on the rescue mission died, and many of those who lived were severely injured. Luckily, I didn't get hurt.

Jean and I managed to avoid each other that entire week. I left for the mission early, along with a smaller group of scouts, while he stayed back in Trost with the main forces. However, when Erwin called for a rescue mission, Jean went and we saw each other for the first time, although he was blacked out the majority of the time.

I curse under my breath as I move to stand on top of my horse. I ready my blades before sending my grapples into the nape of a Titan who's back is facing me. Letting out a yell, I jump off and pull myself towards the Titan with my gas. I send my blades to the side, and I slice its nape in one fluid motion. The Titan falls to the floor, and Armin looks up at me with wide eyes while holding an unconscious Jean in his arms, Jean's face stained with his blood.

"Iris! Jean got hit by a Titan!" Armin yells out and I run closer towards them.

The Armored Titan had begun throwing Titans at us, and many of us were left without our horses. The lack of trees and high ground made ODM gear almost useless. Titans swarmed us everywhere, leaving us with no where to run.

There was no way for all of us to make it out alive.

"Titan!" Armin screams, pointing and waving his sword behind me. I turn my head and watch as a Titan begins to approach us. There is nothing we could do.

" We have to move back more!" I yell.

I help Armin drag Jean closer towards the trunk of the tree, further away from the Titan who is only an arm's length away from grabbing one of us.

Just when I thought we were done for, the Titan suddenly stands up straight. Our eyes widen as we watch the Titan, along with the others, begin to run in the other direction.

"What..." I say, bewildered.

Our eyes follow the masses of Titans as they begin to charge at and eat another Titan. They begin to devour a tall Titan with short blonde hair and an unsettling wide grin, human blood dripping from its mouth.

"Now's our chance!"

We both raise to our feet, using our bodies to support Jean, and call for our horses. We manage to herd three horses: Me and Jean on mine, Armin on his, and an extra horse. We begin to run to Eren and Mikasa who we spot in the distance. The Titans now turned their attention away from that grinning Titan, and they were now surrounding the Armored Titan and Bertholdt.

"Eren!" Armin calls out, tears forming in his eyes. "Get on! Hurry!"

Eren and Mikasa get on the third horse when Erwin yells out a command.