The Turquoise Cure (Eren X Reader)

Chapter 31: Scream (pt. 2)

    As the clearing expanded up ahead, you could see Ymir's titan making a plunge. She had sprang out of the trees and onto the very broad back of Reiner's titan, which had engulfed the sky in neon green lightning only moments before. He turned to take a look at Ymir, who nodded to him in what seemed to be pride, and removed a stirring and soaked Krista from her mouth. "GET THEM!" you screamed, diving through the air, your hooks barely grazing the fleshy muscle of Reiner's back. 

    "(Y/N)!" Armin's shrill voice shouted as you pushed your body flat against Reiner's back. His legs were kicking up so fast and hard that if you'd moved a second later, you'd have been crushed. You shot up to his shoulders, where a very agitated Ymir was swatting at you. "NO!" Krista shouted as you sliced Ymir's hand off as she reached for you. "DON"T HURT HER!" she shouted, flinging herself towards you and standing in front of your blades. "Krista," you breathed, the anger bubbling up inside you like a vicious serpent, "step away from her right now, or I swear to god, I will kill you." Ymir screeched, brandishing her claws at you. Holding Krista back with one hand, you sliced off her other hand, and holding the blade to her throat, slicing a menacing strip of skin from it. "(Y/N)!" you heard Mikasa shout. Blade still pressed into Ymir's titan's throat, you turned. Krista was whimpering silently, her shirt still clutched in your fist. It seemed that the rest of your squad had managed to reach Reiner's back from the forest, which now seemed so far away. "Where's Eren?" Armin shouted, his wide blue eyes quivering as he stared at Krista, slumped under your hold. You dropped her shirt and left her to scramble, unbalanced on Reiner's curved back, moving all the time. "An excellent question..." you hissed, turning back to Ymir and using your now-free hand to withdrawal your other blade, slicing off the nubs of Ymir's hands that had begun to regrow. "Where?" you snarled. Ymir did not answer, but her eyes said all that you needed to know

    Her dull, stupid looking eyes had gazed over to a lump in Reiner's armor, a lump that you were sure had not been there by any natural transformation. With a jolt, Jean had leapt to the bulge, pounding his blades into it. "Save them," Mikasa breathed, her eyes looking mildly frantic; "it won't do any good." You watched as she leaned toward the bulge, then whispered, "You'll have to come out eventually." Her eyes did not blink as she waited, the silence overbearing. As you began to cross from Ymir to the bundle of armor, Ymir made a lunge for you, barely managing to hold on to Reiner with her grubby feet as she dove for you, mouth wide. Reiner growled as her claws dug into his skin, but before she could answer to his verbalizing, you removed your hooks from his back, sprang into the air, and cut her head clean off. The ugly, demented thing began to fall, as if in slow motion, to the ground as Krista screamed, hurtling yourself toward you, but being intercepted by Armin. "YOU, HOW COULD YOU!" she screamed, tears streaming down her pale, porcelain cheeks. "She's fine," you muttered, crossing over to the lump. Krista's relieved breath told you that your aim had been true; you hadn't killed Ymir- in fact, her head was already reforming, her real head poking out the back of her spine, which still clung to Reiner like a wet cloth. "Keep an eye on her for me," you instructed Connie, who stared at Ymir in horror and disgust. "Is she on our-" "I don't know," you rushed, "and I don't care- we have more important- what the hell is that?"

    You leaned over Reiner's bouncing shoulders to see what looked like nothing short of a stampede approaching. You could just make out the leading figure of the troops on his snowy white horse, Erwin, one arm in the air as he shouted "CHARGE," to his troops, who appeared to be leading a horde of titans right towards Reiner. "We've gotta get Eren, and fast, or we're gonna run right into that!" Jean stammered. Your temper Wass waning. "OPEN UP!" you screamed, pounding on the armor with your fist, "or maybe I'll have to kill Reiner to get to you..." 

    Your bait hit exactly where you wanted it to. "YOU'LL NEVER GET THROUGH HIM, SO JUST LEAVE, OR BETTER YET, JUST DIE ALREADY!" Bertolt's voice was shaky, and a groaning noise that emitted from his throat let you know that he was not alone; Eren was there. "-ELP!" Erin screamed; his voice was muffled as though he were bound by something. "AGH!" he shouted and groaned as he appeared to be being beaten by Bertolt. "You- you guys couldn't..." Connie shook, "after everything..." "It's them," Mikasa hissed, the bite in her voice venomous, "hand over Eren, or Reiner's gonna die." The tumbling of the two boys within the enclosed space was the only response. "Fine then," you breathed, realization dawning on you, "have it your way." "On my mark, we all-" you began, but the titan that latched onto Reiner's lefarm right beside you knocked you clean off, your sentence and command unfinished.