Fury

The Beast Titan watched the landscape in front of him.

Total devastation.

Blood, rocks, smoke, dirt, and death.

But, something was wrong.

It was all way too silent. He couldn't hear the grunts of the Titans on his right.

He looked in that direction and, with difficulty, because of the dust and smoke, noticed something strange.

All of his Titans on that side were dead. Lying on the ground, with their napes cut.

"What's that?" he asked himself. "My Titans have fallen..."

Then, something happened.

He felt a hook attach to his neck. He looked in the direction that long wire was coming from, and out of the green smoke, a man appeared.

This man had the eyes of deadly fury. His face was covered in evaporating Titan blood.

Quickly, the Beast Titan gave a great shout, raising his hand to strike the man.

However, when he least noticed, his arm had already been cut to pieces. He no longer felt that part of his body.

"Huh?!" he thought, extremely confused.

A memory came to his mind. In his human form, just a few hours ago, he was talking to Reiner and Bertholdt:

"I need to watch out for a single soldier?" he asked.

"Yes," replied Reiner, seriously. "Captain Levi. He's very dangerous."

"So..." thought the Beast Titan. "Is this Levi?!"

In that instant, he felt something hook in his back. Quickly, he covered his nape with the only hand he had left.

However, he barely had time to look back, and immediately his vision dimmed.

"What was that?!" he asked himself, startled. "I cannot see a thing!"

Levi had cut both of his eyes in one blow.

His reasoning was barely finished, and he fell to the ground with a thud.

"My legs!" he exclaimed in his thought.

He just lay there, sprawled on the ground, not understanding anything.

Standing in the air for just a few seconds, Levi watched him angrily.

"What happened to all that fun you were having just now?!" he exclaimed.

Levi dove into the air, heading for the Titan's nape.

"I need to harden!" thought the Beast Titan, as he brought his single hand to the back of his head. "Shoot! I won't make it!"

"LET ME JOIN YOUR FUN!" shouted Levi.

The Beast Titan could no longer feel his hand.

Levi landed on the creature's furry nape, his swords ready in his hands for the blow.

Just as he had done with the Titan that had killed his best friends Furlan and Isabel, and also with the one that would devour his daughter, Levi sliced that nape into pieces.

Both Levi and the Beast Titan were screaming.

With a last scream of fury, Levi cut through the region that housed the man who controlled the Beast Titan, who flew away, missing a piece of his arms, and bleeding profusely.

Barely did that man have time to scream once more, Levi plunged one of the blades literally down his throat, cutting the roof of his mouth.

Levi now was glaring at a blond man, who was in a deplorable state.

"Every time one's transformed into Titan," said Levi, slowly, "it takes lots of energy, and it's necessary to wait a while, before transforming again. Am I right?"

He pressed the blade, ripping a little more of the man's throat, who was looking at him in a completely desperate way.

"Hey!" exclaimed Levi. "Answer me. Where are your good manners?"

He stared into that blond man's wide eyes.

"Because of you and your gang, I may have lost my wife and daughter, as well as my best friend."

The blond man watched him, stunned. He wasn't able to breathe.

"I can't kill this guy yet..." thought Levi. "Is there anyone out there alive? Even if it's just one... As long as they're still alive, I can use this injection that's in my pocket to turn them into a Titan. Then, they can devour this man and take the Beast Titan's power."

Levi carried that syringe his uncle Kenny Ackerman had given him before he died. Just before leaving for Shiganshina, Erwin had held a meeting with all soldiers, showing them the syringe and what it was for: whoever received its serum, would have the power to transform into a Titan, thus being able to devour the Armored or the Colossal Titan, so as to be able to acquire their powers and whatever information they might bring.

However, it could only be used on someone who was on the verge of death. Erwin had instructed them that if anyone captured one of the enemies who possessed the Titan's powers (like Reiner or Bertholdt, or even the Beast Titan), they should cut off that person's limbs - so they could not move - and then call Captain Levi, who would then decide who would receive the serum and devour the enemy.

They only had one dose of the serum. And Levi felt the weight of that little box with the syringe in the pocket of his uniform.

"If I can save even a single life by doing this…" he thought.

The image of his best friend came to his mind. If Levi was quick, he could run and look for Erwin among the piles of bodies that lay on the open field around him, and who knows, he might be able to save him.

Before he could even begin to look around, Levi felt something.

Someone was approaching, and it was quite large.

If Levi hadn't given a big jump back, he would have been eaten by the Cart Titan, who unexpectedly emerged from the smoke surrounding them.

He just had time to see that quadrupedal being grab the blond man with its wide-opened mouth and run away, making the ground shake under its feet.

Levi landed on the ground and watched, completely perplexed, as his enemy walked away.

He had failed in his mission.

All those soldiers… Died for nothing…

Levi felt anguish rise in his heart.

"Hey..." he whispered, getting up. "Where are you going? Stop..."

It was all his fault. It was Levi who decided to send those soldiers and his best friend to their deaths, with the promise that he would kill the Beast Titan. And he had failed.

It was all in vain.

"This is not happening..." he thought.

Levi felt a chill run through his entire body and his heart raced wild.

The weight of those people's deaths began to fall on him.

"No..." he thought, feeling his stomach churn. "It cannot be…"

In the distance, he could hear the blond man yelling at the remaining Titans, in despair:

"ALL OF YOU! GO KILL HIM!"

Levi watched four big Titans rushing towards him, while the Cart Titan and the blond man who controlled the Beast Titan ran away, disappearing from his sight.

"Wait..." whispered Levi, feeling his eyes water, crestfallen. "I promised him... That I would kill you..."

Levi detached the blades from his swords and in a quick movement, feeling a fury rise in his heart, drew two new blades out, while looking at the four Titans in front of him, who were getting close.

"I PROMISED!" he exclaimed, his voice choked up.

Levi then attached his ODM gear hooks to the first Titan and killed it.

He went on doing this until they were all dead, lying on the ground.

In the distance, far beyond Levi's sight, a red-haired young man rose from the sea of blood he was in.

Slowly, he felt his body.

"Am I… Alive?" he thought. "Why…?"

Floch survived.

With difficulty, he got up and began to walk among the corpses around him.

"Is anyone..." whispered Floch, then increased the tone of his voice. "Hey! Is anyone else alive?"

Nothing.

Only silence was his companion at that moment.