𝐓𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 | 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭

Chapter Fifty

Jean gave us the plan to ride out on Eren and help us save our gas and energy. But other than that, we have no real plan.

Eren has been trying to get the Colossal Titan's attention, but all he is doing is ignoring us.

"Hey, Eren! Tackle that lanky jerk's leg!" Jean yells, trying to think of anything that will stop Bertholdt before he reaches the wall.

"Hold on, do we actually have a plan for this?" Connie asks his voice filled with worry, "with that steam he puts out our ODM is useless!" Sasha yells as we only grow closer to the large Titan.

"You think I don't know that? I'm well aware, but we have to give it a try anyway. We can figure out his weakness as we fight!"

"I can kill him. You just keep him distracted. Connie give me your thunder spear." Mikasa commands Connie he quickly does so.

Honestly, I do think Mikasa can kill Bertholdt she has the drive for it.

"Listen, Armin. Odds are, we're still going to need a plan from you. So, stop moping and observe him from afar."

As Eren turns the corner Bertholdt stands right in front of us, even though we just entered his range it's already hot.

"Now, scatter!"

We all leave Eren's body, some of us going left while the others go right. We all watch from a building above. My eye widens as Eren does push Bertholdt back.

But it ends as quickly as it came when the right leg of the Colossal Titan begins to lift, he's going to kick Eren off of him.

And he does, he flings Eren all the way to the wall a huge cloud of smoke appears.

Seeing as Eren can't do anything Jean once again takes the lead, commanding us to fight him.

"Jean, that won't go well. With the amount of heat, he can produce even our spears will be useless." I say grabbing at his shirt and trying to get him to stand down, but he only pulls himself away from me.

"You don't know anything." He speaks, I back off crossing my arms over my chest as I let him try his plan.

What do I care if he won't listen, I won't help.

I stand there watching as they try to execute their plan, but quickly my hand goes across my face as the hot wind hits me.

I watch from behind my hand as the thunder spears break, and it didn't do anything to Bertholdt other than agitating him into burning more steam.

Causing the gear to go loose, making them have to retreat from Bertholdt. As of right now, there is nothing, we can do to hurt him, he is too big and too hot.

My attention goes to Mikasa as she drops down in front of me, holding onto her arm her face is flushed. I step up to her trying to help her, the feeling of worry growing on me.

I don't even have time to ask if she is okay because then I hear it, we all hear it. The noise of something breaking, but Bertholdt isn't throwing any houses there is nothing that should be making that noise.

My eye scans around the area, and then it lands on it.

Reiner.

He is back up and seems even better than before. I start to grow more worried turning to look at Armin as I hold Mikasa.

"Armin! Seriously, what do we do?! We can't wait any longer!"

He doesn't turn his head to me only watching Bertholdt.

"He's thinner. The Colossal Titan. He's gotten a little thinner." He mumbles as he suddenly turns to all of us.

"Guys! It's exactly like Hange said! Our best bet against the Colossal is a battle of attrition!"

No one says anything as Armin continues.

"You remember their experiments with Eren? He could transform up to three times. If that's the case for a 15-meter Titan, a 60-meter might be even less efficient. And then there's his steam. I think he must be burning through flesh and muscle tissue to produce it. Everything except for his skeleton."

"What do you mean?" I ask looking at him, there's no questioning Armin is right, I mean I know nothing about the Colossal Titan but just from watching Armin already has an idea.

He's too smart, he is truly something special.

"I have a plan. The rest of you need to draw Reiner away. Eren and I will defeat the Colossal Titan ourselves."

I let go of Mikasa hearing him say that I don't like the plan.

"Armin no-." I try to say something only for him to stop me. "The two of us can do it. Trust me on this."

I look at Mikasa, but she doesn't look worried she looks fine and calm. "All right then. You leave Reiner to us and get going." Armin smiles seeing as Mikasa trusts him, he then looks at me.

"I can do it; I can beat the Colossal Titan."

It's not fair, I don't want to leave Armin. I don't want Armin to leave me, what if something happens to either one of us?

My thoughts stop when a hand is placed on my shoulder, I look up seeing Jean.

"He has it, don't be so smothering." I scoff at him and push him away from me, as I walk to Armin.

"I trust you... Just be safe." I tell him staring directly into his eyes, I feel myself getting lost in them like always.

I'll never get over the feeling Armin gives me, the effect he has on me just from one look.

I place my hand on his shoulder as I stand on my tippy toes, leaning in to kiss Armin.

As our lips meet it isn't as pleasant as it was before, our lips are chapped. Causing the kiss to feel dry, but it doesn't matter how the kiss feels all that matters is that I'm kissing Armin.

It's not long before the kiss becomes wet, my tongue slipping out wetting both of our lips.

Letting our lips move more smoothly.

Slowly I pull myself away from him because if I don't stop now, I may not be able to later.

I can feel that my face is hot, I know that I am turning red but even when I'm not kissing Armin, I get like this around him.

I can't help it.

"Yuck. I didn't want to see that." Connie says making fake vomiting noises as Sasha does the same, Jean nods in agreement as Mikasa makes a comment.

"I think it's cute."

When she says that I place my hands over my face feeling a little embarrassed, "enough. We have something to complete."

"You weren't worried about it when you were making out with Armin." I grow even more embarrassed at Connie's comment.

"Stop, she's right we have a mission to follow. So, let's go." Mikasa commands taking the attention off of me.

"Armin, good luck." She speaks with the sound of worry in her voice.

Armin nods and takes off in the direction of the Colossal Titan.

Jean watches as he leaves, once Armin is out of view, he looks at us. "Let's go."

I nod, but the only thing on my mind is Armin.

I value his safety more than mine.

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A/N

I added another kiss scene ;) they don't kiss a lot I realized but I mean they aren't even a couple. Tell me if I missed any errors.

-lei <3