The Fight for Mankind

The Curious Case of Ragako Village

AURORA

The southern evacuation had gone according to plan in the sense that the Villagers had already lost their minds and had begun to flee in the correct direction without much prompting giving us the desperately needed extra time to make haste towards Connie's village and look for the breach which I was becoming more and more dubious about.

When Shiganshina fell, the town was overrun within twenty minutes, and within the hour Titans were pouring into the land of Maria, the same should be happening here, but it wasn't. The Titans we had seen were a relatively modest few considering there was supposed to be a gaping hole in Wall Rose. However, that could just mean that the outlier districts could be doing their job and still drawing the majority of Titans towards them but still, there were hundreds if not thousands of Titans beyond wall Rose meaning more than a modest few should have gotten in. Of course, I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth, the fewer Titans, the better the chances of survival the people of Rose had, though approaching the eerily quiet area around the village of Ragako, I didn't hold out too much hope for the residents of this particular villages' survival.

There is no signs of life anywhere...

My body heaved suddenly, and I felt the uncomfortable telltale sign of a lone Titan within the vicinity, and I drew my blades ready when suddenly Connie kicked into his horse and broke formation to hurtle towards his village with speed.

Shit! He hasn't even got his gear on, that Titan could bare down on him and wouldn't be able to do a thing but scream!

"Connie get a hold of yourself!" Reiner scolded as he rode after Connie, "Wait for us!""

"Connie listen to him, there is a Titan nearby!" I warned as I squeezed Kano's sides and began to push away from the group with protest from the beast between my legs as his fatigue began to catch up to us.

"I know boy, just a little while longer," I said into Kano's ears as I leaned forward and pushed on into Ragako ahead of the main group after Connie, all the while keeping tabs on the lone Titan as it remained unmoving.

Unmoving?

"Hello! Can anybody hear me? Somebody please its Connie I came home!" Connie screamed, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!"

Panic shot through me as I heard the boy's screams coming from the area I could feel the Titan and rounding into the ruined village, I cantered my way towards the sound of his voice only to recoil in horror at the sight of a massive Titan's head upside down, its eyes wide as it peered at a stunned Connie sat astride his horse unharmed.

"What did I fucking say!" I snarled as I rode over to him and forced his horse away from the Titan with mine, never once taking my eyes off the Titan, "Back up now!"

The Titan's giant golden eyes remained fixed on Connie and followed his every move, and yet it made no move to correct itself from its back and attack, in fact looking at it now, I could see its ribs sticking out from its flesh and its small unnatural legs poking out from the house it lay on in strange angles. Resheathing my blades, I shook my head in disbelief as I continued to stare at it because for all intents and purposes this Titan was stuck and with legs like that there was no way it was moving let alone presenting a threat which begged the question, how the fuck did it get here?

"What are you guys doing?" Reiner's voice echoed through the ruined street as he rode up beside us, eyes wide as he spotted what had us transfixed, "Get back!"

"It's my house.." Connie muttered crestfallen, but as much as my heart ached for him, we were by no means safe, and we had a job to do.

We need to find out what the hell happened here.