Awakened

Chapter 5

Annie didnt know what was happening when she felt the ground beneath her shake. She most certainly didnt know when she heard something akin to a shrill scream echo in her room. She recognized that sound.

The Colossal Titan, She thought. They're here.

Annie knew very well why the Titan was here, and she also knew that where he went, so did the Armored Titan. She put the puzzle pieces together of the tremors going through the ground and the roars. No one was coming for her, and that spurred her mind into action. She had to get to Mikasa.

She struggled against her chains, pulling at them to hear if there are any lose chinks. Nothing. That entire action made her lose her breath. As much as she wanted to get out of the room she couldn't. She was physically exhausted. Extremely.

Her body wasn't as it used to be. Her muscles felt looser and tense all at the same time. Her reflexes and stamina took a dozen step backwards. She wondered if she ever made it out of the room if she would be able to even walk down the hall. The simple thought made her even more tired. 

At some point in her fruitless struggling she stopped, and then slumped down. She was breathing heavily, and her entire body was sweating even more. The crystal breaking wasn't exactly the most gentle thing she had endured, and she was sure her body would ache from it later on. 

If she happened to be alive later on. Her cotton hoodie was sticking to her body, and every other apparel was as well. Her hair was drenched, darkened by the sweat and sticking to her face. 

Her heart was beating fast, and her head was swimming in sludge, making her heartbeats sounds like echoes in her mind. Her eyes were threatening to fall, but all her years of her training didn't allow that. No, she had to be alert. Her father taught her that.

To be unaware is to be weak, and if you were weak you die.

She fought the onslaught of exhaustion and sickness, now struggling to simply sit upright. She didn't know how long time passed, or if it was even passing at all, but just when she was at the brink of collapsing on the floor she door abruptly opened.

Normal Annie would've snapped her attention to the door the moment she heard a hand touch the handle. Normal Annie would look at the intruder with calculating eyes and determine ways to subdue them and escape. Normal Annie would glare at the person with defiance and coldness.

But Annie was anything but alright. Her body was quite literally about to collapse, and the only thing her reflexes allowed her to do at the sound of someone coming in was widen her eyes a bit.

Just a bit.

She couldn't even raise her head up, too tired to even do so.

"Get up," A deep voice said. It echoed once again in her head, and she blinked groggily to get her thoughts out of the slow fudge she was in right now.

There was footsteps before a shadow loomed over her. "I said get up."

The voice was masculine, that much she could tell, and the smoothness of if it led her to deduce it wasn't Erwin's. The shadow got darker as the person in front of her crouched. She could see their shoes, not boots, and there were impeccably clean. "Are you even listening to me?"

Levi, Annie finally recognized. The person before her was the other Elite Squad Captain. He must know where Mikasa was. If she was safe. Annie, with great effort, slowly tilted her head up, meeting the captains eyes. "Mikasa..."

That was all she could get out, and that bothered her.

A year ago she could climb over a wall. Now she can barely finish a sentence.