After I died

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Anastasia

The war hammer titans were fascinating, not a question. But also particularly hard to fight. Giving that they had all kinds of weapons... well, everything they could think of. They kept up their same strategy for whatever reason.

Only attacking one by one. But that was enough. I couldn't stop the arowas since they were too big for that, but the huge size was also why they couldn't hit me. And I kept the titans off Reiner's back, at least for as long as my gas would last.

Pieck was fighting a bunch of cart and jaw titans and seemed to be holding up a bit better than us so far. I hadn't expected for Reiner's armour to crack so much from the war hammers' attacks. Pulling myself around one of Eren's ribs, towards a group of three war hammer titans, I was able to take two of them out but the third one seemed to have realised that their big weapons didn't wokr on me, so he threw a bunch of tiny stones, maybe the size of a finger tip.

Too many to evade, too fast to stop, too close to one another for me to fly in between. If I wanted to her to his neck, which was crucial for both my and Reiners survival, I had to endure this. The bullet sized stones ripped into my skin, one hit right into my ear a few others my stomach and thigh, the others all passed me or just stroke my arms and sides.

I still had enough speed, the odm gear hadn't been damaged so I killed the third war hammer too. Because of the stones. I hadn't noticed another titan who had gone up to Reiner, lifting a sythe to kill him, laying on the ground. I wouldn't make it to him in time.

"Ymir?" But isn't she dead? And wasn't she being controlled by Eren. But she had ripped the war hammer titans neck open. Two of the jaw titans seemed to be on our side too. Pieck recognised them as Marcel and Galliard.

So, the titans who used to be our friends had woken up. But how? They are dead. They were being controlled, why- no. It doesn't matter. They're helping us, this is important. Stop thinking too hard. All of a sudden, the rumbling stopped. Eren was still moving but all of the wall titans were standing still. Had they found Zeke?

They had to have found Zeke, there was no other explanation. "Jean. Blow him up!", I yelled as Pieck came to us. I could feel those little stones in my stoach every time I moved as I sat down on Piecks back. "A shit... I have to go help Jean." But Pieck told me otherwise.

"Stay, if you keep moving, the wound will rip even further.", she said. The two jaw titans that were on our side, kept fighting as Pieck brought us two away from Eren's neck. We got just far enough so the explosion didn't throw us off completely.

The head fell. Tho this weird worm thing shot right out, wanting to connect the head back with the body. Reiner had to jump in and hold it back. Gladly, Falco appeared soon with the others on his back. Armin landed on the spine near us. "Pieck, Ana, get over to Falco. I will blow Eren up.", he said, looking down.

"They're way too far off. I can't reach them with a jump and the odm gear isn't long enough either." "Then we combine them.", I said, lookign over at where Falco was flying. "You jump as far as you can adn when we start going down, you come out and I pull us the remaining way." "That's crazy.", Pieck replied.

"This is our only other option than dying. It's now or never." Pieck didn't agree but walked back a bit to prepare for a jump. "Ready?", she asked. "Go." Pieck stated running. We had this one try, if we failed, either Armin's explosion would kill us , or we'd fall to our death. I didn't look foreward to hitting Falco in the side but it was this or dying.

Pieck jumped, for some time I thought we'd make it, if it wasn't for the one war hammer titan still standing that threw something at us. We went down ealrier than planned. I cut Pieck out and shot the hook from my odm gear but there was no way we were close enough.

If it wasn't for Levi. He'd seen us, the jump, the hit with the stone. And he'd reacted. Flying towards us, meeting me half way. One of his hooks securely in Falco's jaw where it dind't hurt him. He was holding onto me tight, while I had tangled up Pieck in my second wire so she wouldn't fall even if slipping from my grip.

"This is exactly what I mean by 'not being careful'.... idiot." Levi pulled us back up with his odm gear before I could respond, getting the three of us safely on Falco's back. The adrenaline was wearing off now and I started feeling the blood loss. Not only my stomach tho, I think the thigh artery was damaged as well. Not completely cut, if that was the case I would aleady be dead but who's to say how much longer it would take.

I barely noticed how everyone else was there, they all made it. Hanji hugged me tight before starting to panic about the bleeding on my stomach that wouldn't stop. "Bandages! I need bandages!", she yelled and her voice sounded so far away it scared me a bit. Wasn't she sitting right next to me.

"Ana, come on stay awake! Ana damn it, wake up!" I could tell she was yelling but it sounded so quiet. I wanted to say something but my lips felt numb. someone took my hand, Levi no question. I knew exactly what his hands felt like. Even if he hadn't been the only one with bandaged hands. He said smething too, but I alreay couln't make out anymore where one word ended and another started. Am I dying... again?