The Unnoticed Hero {Attack on Titan}

Prologue

"Haha! You'll never catch me!" A little girl said. The children around Julie Sanders were playing a game of tag before going home for lunch. But Julie just sat on the ground reading an interesting book that seemed to have no name.

Julie read an illegal book she had found in an alleyway two days previous as she was heading home. It was a book about far away places that used to exist; such as a body of water that cover over seventy-five percent of the world that was filled with valuable salt. There were large fields and rivers as well. But the place Julie wanted to see with her own eyes the most was large forests with dark trees; forests larger than the ones in Shiniganshina.

Though Julie knew she would never be able to visit these places in person, but in her dreams it seemed that she was able to walk along miles of sand and feel the fresh soil of freedom under her feet.

Julie was rereading the part about the large forests when she saw that the other children had ended their game and were leaving for home. While Julie was only ten, she had no friends and no body seemed to want to hang out with the girl who read books all day.

She decided that it was time to go home, so she stood up and closed her book while she pushed up her glasses and pushed her dark black hair put of her face while her bangs hung just above her right eye.

Julie raced home to eat her lunch, but then saw people gathered in the street. She realized that the Scouting Legion were back from their trip to collect more information about the humanoid beings on the other side of the walls.

There were three walls protecting the last of humanity were created long ago, the walls Maria, Rose, and Sina. There were also outer cities on the walls living peaceful lives. The walls were created to protect the last of humanity from the titans. The beings that ate humans for their pleasure, but had no intelligence whatsoever. Although the titans hadn't been spotted for a long time, the Scouting Legion were to protect humanity and learn about the titans.

Julie watched as the scouting legion came back from their mission with dreadful faces and injured people in wagons. She watched with a hopeful face as she was a lookout for a certain person in the lone of people.

When Julie didn't see them, she pushed her way through the crowd of people to the front. She looked for the leader of the mission and walked up to him.

"Excuse me." She said politely with a worried look on her face. "Is a man person named John Sanders here? He's my big brother and I've been waiting for him to come back."

The commander looked down at the small girl that had a hopeful look on her face. He had just told an old woman that her son had died, and now he had to tell this small girl the answer she didn't want. He looked back towards the second in command and nodded.

The man brought the commander a small item wrapped in cloth. "Miss Sanders. I am sorry to inform you that your older brother was killed by a titan, we have his body, but we think you should have his patch."

Julie stared at the patch, she didn't cry, she didn't scream or make a scene like the older woman had done. This surprised the commander as he watched Julie's reaction.

"Was he helpful?" The commander widened his eyes once more. "I know you said the mission was completely pointless, but did he help? Did he save someone?"

 "He saved me."  a man had walked forward and kneeled in front of Julie, he was missing a finger and his should was bleeding, but Julie knew he would be okay. "John saved me right before I was eaten. He was kind soldier."