The Fight for Mankind

What the Future Holds

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REINER

I couldn't believe what I saw with my own two eyes. Ymir, a woman I had spent the last three years training besides, who I had fought beside at Trost had the power of the Titans, and not just any Titan but the Titan that Marcel, my friend and fellow Warrior, had bared.

"Talk to me... somebody tell me it's all dream." Connie stuttered as that horrific day flashed behind my eyes. Marcel had been the best of us, our leader, and he had been devoured by a Titan to save me in my stupidity, though it seems it wasn't just any Titan that had taken our heart that day, it had been Ymir.

I had watched as she crushed him between her teeth, I had watched as his blood splattered the grass, I had watched as he had screamed for-

"Ymir?" Krista sniffled, pulling me from the dark memory as she peered down over the Tower with Aurora by her side watching as Ymir hacked and slashed her way through the mass of Titans below and I felt a dark, twisted rage rising through my blood.

"It was her that day," I said through gritted teeth as Bertolt visibly shivered beside me and I caught the slight shift of Aurora's head that let me know she was listening to everything we were saying, her momentary lapse of sanity beginning to fall away as she got a grip of herself in the face of this new threat. 

"She's the one," Bertolt whispered, and Aurora turned her head towards us, eyes narrowed in suspicion and accusation simultaneously, and I felt my stomach drop as Marco's face sprung into my mind, he too had looked at us exactly like that before we had-

The tower shook violently, causing us all to stumble and crying out in fear, Krista fell forward, threatening to topple off the side with her legs kicking up in the air.

"PULL HER BACK!" Aurora ordered as she grasped Krista's shirt and my free hand instantly snaked out and grasped Krista's ankle involuntarily at the order as I stared into the back of Aurora's redhead, my face twisting in anticipation of the coming fight.

Aurora knows.

"Thank you, Reiner, I-" Krista broke off in a scream as my hand clamped down hard on her ankle, twisting my frustrations out on her skin because between her, Ymir and Aurora I was surrounded by enemies on all fronts, "AAAAAHH! STOP YOU'RE HURTING ME!"

"Hey take it easy, man!" Connie shouted while rushing forward to support Krista's weight as I continued to squeeze her ankle, not entirely of my own free will as Ymir's titan scream echoed through the air when suddenly I was choking on the impact of a well-placed strike to my windpipe before being forced back by a knee to my gut, making me double over and release my hold on Krista.

"That's enough!" Aurora snarled as her leg returned to the floor and she took up a defensive position in front of a wide-eyed Connie and Krista, her burning mismatched eyes darting between Bertolt and me, ready for the conflict and despite the pain I was in, I felt relief wash over me.

She knows, but she doesn't know everything.

Aurora knew we were her enemy, that much was evident in the way she was glaring at us now. It was impressive really, how she had worked it out without us ever giving ourselves away, I mean I knew she was smart, but I never would have guessed Aurora would figure it out on her own, that being said, I was confident she didn't know everything, because if she did, then she would have cut our heads off, not punch in my windpipe. She thinks we are normal humans, but given how quickly she figured out we were against her, it wouldn't take long before she figured out the rest, and after what I have seen her do in the tower I'm more confident than ever that we need to take her with us when we capture Eren, so, for now, I'm going to need to play along and not force her hand.