The Fight for Mankind

The False Prophet

LEVI

The ride to Hermina had so far been silent after our initial conversation regarding Pastor Nick and his attempt to murder my woman and her brother and to say I was quietly seething would be a massive understatement. This whole night had been a massive shit show and to top it all off I was wracked with worry on the whereabouts of my heart as she remained in the lands of Rose doing God knows what. 

Had I known Wall Rose was going to fall I would never have let Aurora leave, I would have insisted she stay by my side and told Erwin to find another lackey, instead what I had done was fuck her before she left and then went on with my duties like the cat that got the cream while she rode out to Survey HQ to be stranded out there as Titans poured in from the breach and to make matters worse, what was I doing about it now? I was sat in a carriage, unable to do fuck all because of my busted leg, next to the man who had tried to kill the woman I love, and I can't even make him pay because Hange said we needed him intact.

Fuck Hange, Fuck Erwin, Fuck the wall priest, fuck the lot of them...I just want her home with me, no, I need her home with me.

Growling under my breath, I turned back towards Pastor Nick looking to take some of my frustrations out on him when I clocked Hange holding a chunk of rock, the same chunk of rock she had been so fascinated by in Stohess, close to her face as her eyebrows scrunched together in thought.

What the hell is she doing now?

"Hey four eyes, since when are you a geologist. Or are rocks just that fascinating, looks like your about to drool." I drawled, startling Hange from her thoughts as she looked to me perplexed.

"What this?" Hange asked as she held up the rock in her hand, "It's not a rock, not an ordinary one anyway. It's a hardened piece of skin left behind by the female titan."

"It didn't vanish!?" Armin exclaimed as he sat forward in his seat with his eyes riveted to the rock in Hange's hand.

"NO!" Hange babbled excitedly to Armin, but my attention was on Pastor Nick who was beginning to sweat profusely as he eyed the two brain boxes, "This fragment broke off when Annie reverted back to her human form, it didn't evaporate, it didn't simply go poof. So that got me thinking, and I compared it to a fragment from the wall, their texture and composition were for all intents and purposes virtually identical. In layman's terms, were hemmed in by a barricade of enormous titans. If my hypothesis is correct, then the walls were constructed using consolidated titan skin."

Well, fuck me.

"You're kidding me, that's what Armin was trying to say." Mikasa gasped as she looked to Armin who jumped up with wide-eyed horror.

"So then! -"

"Easy!" Hange warned as she jammed her hand against Armin's face effectively gagging the boy, "Its rude to steal someone else's thunder!"

"Hange, let him go." Rian sighed as he turned around in his seat to give four eyes a pointed look, but of course she didn't listen to him and continued on with her mad ravings as she held Armin's mouth hostage.

"As it stands, we would be hard-pressed to find a rock big enough to plug wall rose, it would have to be just the right shape and size, and we don't have specifics yet. But on the other hand, where there is a will, there's a way!" Hange promoted as she released Armin and turned her hopeful eyes to Eren, "Picture Eren utilising his hardening ability while in titan form."

The little shit could potentially plug the breach...could being the choice word here.

"I could...patch the hole..." Eren muttered in awe as he ate up Hange's words.