Fallen Angel | Shingeki no Kyojin

Prologue

"Fallen Angel"

High walls and giant man-eater Titans. When I was at the age of ten, those things were just something trivial for me. Those high walls for me are just a great place to look at the night sky and stare at the stars.

Titans? I don't know. I haven't seen one before. But, from what my Father had told me, they we're really tall with funny faces, some of them we're even walking in a funny way.

My Father was a member of the Survey Corps. I have always looked up to the group and more so to my Father. Knowing that they are always risking their lives for all the people inside the wall. I wanted to be like them. I wanted to walk outside the walls and see the outside world, outside of those walls.

I want to see a Titan.

Whenever they're at their HQ, I would always tag along with my Father. Though some of them are against it, Erwin Smith welcomed me with a warm smile, He treated me nicely just like my Father. Hanji Zoe, became close to me ever since I opened up on how I wanted to see a Titan.

I also met the new recruits, Isabel Magnolia, Farlan Church, and Levi Ackerman. It was the first time that I saw them, and it was also... the last.

I wondered why they are not back yet, while the others are. I saw Levi and asked him, and that was when reality hits me.

"They will never come back. They're dead."

I cried and cried as I ran back to our house looking for my Father. And I asked him, if what Levi said was true. It was the first time that I saw that kind of look in my Father's face. He was smiling, but I can tell that he was crying from the inside.

"Death is a part of a human's life. It may come to us at any time, even on the times when you're least expecting it."

I hate Titans.

It was my birthday. I just turned twelve, when I lost my Father.

I run as fast as I could as I heard the bells ringing, signaling that the Survey Corps have come back. I had the widest smile when I reached them and quickly looked for my Father with my Mother beside me. They looked terrified, yes, they all have that same look when Father told me about death. And the next thing I knew was, my Mother was crying and a corpse was in front of her.

"Why did you let him die? Why didn't you save him? Why did you let my Father die?!"

I yelled at them, I cursed them, I started hating them.

I locked myself inside my room for days, not wanting to go out to the cruel and unfair world outside. Until, my Mother made me remember the promise that I made with Father. And that is to become a Soldier. And so, the next year, I enlisted to become a soldier and went under training.

I want them to disappear, those Titans.

While I was on my last year at training, Titans have breached the walls. I was scared. I run. I run as fast as I could. Back to our house, back to my Mother.

When I got back, our house was destroyed and only my Mother's arm was left of her when I came back... there we're so many Titans. I wasn't scared. No, I wasn't.

I was angry. My heart was full of hatred.

"Why must they take everything from me? What do they want?"

After that day, when I went back to training. It was not the ten year old me who looked up to her Father. It was not the twelve year old me who kept her promise to her Father.

It was a girl who lost her friends, her father, her mother... It was a girl who lost everything...

It was a girl who wanted revenge.

I want to kill Titans.

This is the story of the Fallen Angel.