After I died

25

Anastasia

"Will you promise to always be by my side, 31?" "Of course, we will always be together." The little girl laughed, watching herself in the mirror as I finished braiding her hair. "Hey 31?" "Yes, 48?" She turned to me, holding out a chocholate bar from the kitchen. "I stole it for us.", she said proudly "Are you crazy, what if they find out about it?" "I just didn't have something sweet in so long.", 48 whined. "I never get scores as good as you so they don't reward me." And that evening they were looking for theone who had stolen the chocolate. "We found the wrapping paper in room C.", the head mistress explained. That was 48 and my room. They were already dragging her out of the row of children by the wrist when I stepped foreward. "It was me.", I lied. The two guards let go of 48 and came over to me. "Is that so, 31008? Why?" "I was hungry after training." "And why was the wrapping paper under 48615's bed?", the head mistress asked. "Her bed is by the door.", I replied. "I accidentally dropped the paper when going to dinner." I was brought outside into the cold snow, my punishment was sleeping there tonight. By the time morning came and my limbs were sore, the door opened and the head mistress looked at me. "Your and 48615's punishment is over." "Wh- why did she get punished?", I asked confused, voice shaking from the cold. "She stole the bar, not you. Your punishment wasn't for stealing, it was for lying."
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After that day, 48 grew apart from me, she became more and more jealous of me. Of the fact that I never got punished because I was always top of the class and the generally better treatment that came with it. We became more and more distant until she died on a mission one day when we were 19.

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"48?!" How was she here, that couldn't be. She's dead...  and so am I. Did she end up here after her death too. I thought for a second she would stop her attacks after recognising me, but I was wrong. She flew towards towards me for the next attack. "Mikasa now!", I yelled, flying towards 48, curling up to kick her in the stomach with both feet, throwing her towards Mikasa. "Commaner, watch out! The small blonde woman is a trained assassin." It were her last words before falling to the floor.

I followed her gaze over to Levi and Kenny. Levi had just been able to hit Kenny's side but was now staring back at us and I could hear him saying my name in a response to 48 outing me. But this small reaction was enough for Kenny to start grinning. "Now that's one interesting reaction. Should I poke?" , he asked. "Don't you dare." The two men were flying towardsus, I was still in the counter reaction from when I'd kicked 48, my situation too unstable to hook my 3dmg somewhere.

Hanji came out of nowhere, pulling me out of the way and back down into the smoke, but from the sudden shook she got thrown of into one of the pilars. Kenny used the moment of shock, calling his people to get back behind the next baricade to rebuild the formation. I landed next to Hanji, checking how she was doing. She was alive but injured obviously.

The others landed next to us. "She's alive, maybe she'll be back to strenght in a bit.", I said, bandaging her injury with my ripped off sleeves. Armin and Moblit carried Hanji as we walked towards the gateway that the enemies hadfled behind. Inside that huge hole, we noticed all exits were blocked, we wouldn't get through. Suddenly there was a huge light coming from deeper in the cave and then a blast wave, causing one ofthe exits to crack open.

"Armin, Moblit, bring Hanji's out of here.", Levi ordered. Due to the blast wave, we were able to get past the barricades that Kenny's team had put up and reached Eren and Historia, but it hadn't been either of them, who had transformed into a titan so who was this huge thing threatening to make the cave collapse? Whoever it was, they were breaking through the roof so we had to get out of here as soon as possible.

Eren suddenly grabbed a tiny little bottle and started sprinting towards thetitan, he broke the bottle on the way and drank whatever was in there. Not so sure if he even knew what it was. When he transformed into a titan, he created some kind of ore to stabilise the ceiling. "We have to get into Eren's shadow.", Levi called out. "Hold on tight.", I told Historia when picking her up and flew over to Eren's titan along the others, hoping we'd somehow make it out like this. Hopefully, Hanji, Armin and Moblit were far enough away to be out of the danger zone.

Sasha and Connie found an exit after sometime, confirming that Hanji and the two men were alright up there. I took Historia on my back as we climbed out of the cave and met the others there. I first hugged Hanji tightly. "Thank god you're okay." "Are you fine too?", she asked. "Yes, we're all good." e got all of our stuff to the cart and made our way towards the huge titan who was crawling towards something, we met Erwin andmany teams from the survey corps on the way.

Erwin's plan was to go to Orvud since the titan, who was Rodd Reiss as Historia said, was on his way there. The others were having a discuassion on what to do now, which ended with the plan, that we had to kill Rodd Reiss, because he was way too big to keep him in one place. Historia was supposed to become queen after this, it was Erwin's idea. She would be the one to give the final strike to kill Rodd Reiss, it would get her the trust from the people so they'd follow her as the new queen.