Feelings

Chapter 6: How things should be

(AFTER THE FOREST EXPEDITION)

"Damn it!" Eren said out loud. The female titan was following him again, through the forest. Her echoing footsteps shook the ground. She tore through Levi's squad and Levi was no where to be seen.

Every time the titan got close, one of the squad would pursue it to slow, or to kill it. It knew what they were doing and every time it executed the squad member like it was nothing.

"The one time that I need to short tempered little shi-" Eren's words were cut short as caught sight of a flying figure in front of him. He didn't want to believe what he was seeing but he knew the graceful maneuvering from anywhere. 

Oh. No!  Eren thought. Mikasa was riding her 3DMG, escorting Eren to the trap they set for the Female titan. He watched in horror as Mikasa flew around a tree and went to intercept the Female titan's hand from reaching Eren.

"Mikasa! NO DON'T!" But Eren's pleas were too late. He watched hopelessly as a fist closed around Mikasa. 

AAAAAAGGGGGHHH! A scream came from the fist, and then the silence followed the sound of blood splatter.

Eren felt pain. And then he didn't feel anything. His vision turned blood red, he was so angry that he felt like he was going to burst into fire.

"F*CK IT!" He screamed. He turned around and charged directly at the Titan. 

"I'm tired of running! I could have saved them!" Eren yelled. "But I was too busy listening to everyone else to think for myself!"

He was so angry now he was literally steaming. Then, The Female titan didn't seem that scary as she got smaller, and smaller. 

Eren yelled this time, but his voice was not his own. His voice boomed into a roar and shook the entire forest. 

The female titan looked like it was having second thoughts, but Eren didn't give it time to think. He attacked it with the fire in his stomach and the fury of his mind. And of course, his barrage of fists.

Blow after blow was sent into the Female Titan's body. He was attacking so relentlessly that he didn't even notice when the Titan wasn't there anymore. She simply vanished. 

But as he stood there, he heard something else. Rumbles of another titan, no several. Several turned into tens, twenty. He turned around.

Titans flooded out of the forest, but... were they titans?

One had Armin's face, another had Connie's. A couple had Reiner and even one had Jean's. 

And then the female titan was with them running full speed. But she looked like...

Mikasa, no... Not you too. Eren despaired. But there she was. Steaming, screaming and shrieking for blood. Before he knew it, the Titans closed on Eren. As they devoured him they chanted 

SAVE US, SAVE US, YOU COULD HAVE SAVED US

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"Agh!" Eren woke up in a cold sweat. His heart was racing, and his eyes were puffy and sore. "Again?"

The third time this night. He counted the times in his head. He sighed. Maybe I need to take a hint.

Erin slid off of his bunk. He started doing his exercises that were his daily and sometimes hourly routine. One handed push ups. Crunches. Shadow boxing. After completing his routine, he gazed out of his window. It must have been one or two in the morning. He sighed again, painful and long.