I woke up and Eren was still asleep. I'm just glad he was able to get some. It was too early to wake him, but there wasn't enough time for me to try and go back to sleep. I started quietly getting ready before sneaking out to wake up the rest of the team. I was letting Eren sleep for as long as possible before finally waking him up. I ran my fingers across his cheek and placed a kiss on his forehead before lightly shaking his arm.

He sat up and blinked a few times as he tried to wake up. "Time to get ready?" he asked, letting out a yawn.

"Yeah, I already woke everyone else so you don't have to worry about rushing."

There was a long pause as he processed what I had said. "Thank you," he said when his brain finally woke up enough to piece together the words I had spoken.

I finished grabbing the last of my stuff as he got ready. We were just leaving our room to start heading to the common area when Jean walked out of his room. "Is it time?" He asked. It looked like he hadn't slept.

"Yes," I mumbled and Jean followed us to the common area.

He wasn't dressed in his costume, but he definitely was dressed in clothes that could easily cover his identity and his mask was in his pocket. His thoughts were clear as day and I realized they were directed to me. I'm not going to go with you however if shit hits the fan tell Erwin to open a portal and I'll back you guys up if needed. I just gave him a slight nod.

We looked around the common area, everyone was there and Pixis was waiting for us. Jean walked over and stood next to Pixis telling him why he was here while Eren and I made sure our team was ready.

I looked at Ymir's costume and couldn't help but smile. Her black jacket had an ouija board alphabet and number layout on the back in white. Her sleeves had the words yes on one and no on the other. There was one giant yes and no in red font surrounded by little ones in white font. On the front of the jacket read goodbye in red. Her mask had a planchette sewed onto it. It was a nice touch. Her codename was Ouija so it was very fitting.

I looked at Berthold's costume and man, there was a big difference between his and Ymir's. Ymir went all out on her's whereas Berthold had a plain black jacket with nothing on it aside from a little red spiral pattern meant to represent coils. Then again Berthold got stuck with the name resilient recoil. He didn't choose a name and the media started calling him recoil so Reiner added resilient in front of it. I complain about my name, but I think his is way worse.

He slipped his mask on and it was just a plain black mask. I can't really pick on that since mine and Erwin's are just plain black too. Armin and I slid on our masks and I gave everyone a nod. I looked at Eren and waited for him to give the call. He looked at Jean and gave him a nod. His thoughts promising him that he will bring everyone back safe. I hope he's right.

"Escapist, open the portal," he said. Erwin nodded before doing so. Eren took a deep breath before walking through. He waved us through and I followed.

Eren and I looked around the area as the others came through the portal. Erwin was the last one through and he had the portal close behind him. It was nearly pitch-black around us. Even after my eyes adjusted I was only able to make out shadows around us eventually the shadows started to look familiar and I didn't know if I was hallucinating or not.

I got an uneasy feeling of deja vu looking around, everything started to fill in around us with light despite there being none. This shadow was a tree, this one was a bush, this bush looks like it's been trampled on. I realized why I could remember everything in the area. To make sure I put my hand to one of the trees and felt around for it. Yup, bullet holes.

I pieced it together and then turned to Eren. "This is where the last group of exiles was captured."

"It was the only place I could visualize enough to place the portal," Erwin said apologetically.

"Everyone be on guard," Eren whispered. Eren made sure everyone's eyes adjusted to the low lights, it was still extremely hard to see, but some of the nearby trees were someone visible. By visible I mean just a slightly darker shadow than the air around it. "Ghost," Eren turned to Armin. "I'm going to have you go invisible for a second but grab on to my hand okay?"

Armin vanished and Eren looked at his hand where Armin was holding. "I'm going to make you float above the tree line. Do you think you can phase through the leaves to stop from making any noise?"

"I can," he whispered.

"Good, when you want down just think it and Malice Mind will let me know. Look for anything that could give us confirmation of a camp or at least a direction to head in."

Eren sent him up and after a minute I told him to bring him down.

Armin reappeared in front of us and gave us a nod, "I didn't see a camp, but I saw a faint light due north."

"Okay, we will head that way," Eren said before turning to me. "Listen for any thoughts that aren't from our team."

"Okay," I whispered and waited for further instruction.

"Everyone stay close together. I know the low light is hard to see in, but be careful and try not to bump into anything. I want you guys to walk in a line and hold onto the person in front of you."

We got in a line Eren took the front I grabbed onto his jacket. Armin grabbed onto mine, behind him Berthold grabbed on to his, Ymir grabbed on to Berthold's and Erwin grabbed onto hers. I notified Eren that they were ready and we started slowly walking. Eren used his arms to feel around trying to avoid walking into any trees, branches, or bushes.

After a few minutes of walking, I grabbed Eren's arm with my other hand and stopped him. I whispered out the lightest shush I could before tapping the side of his head to let him know I heard something. Normally I'd tap the side of my head, but I don't think he'd be able to see if I did that. There were a few thoughts coming from 3 different people around here. There were no lights and I couldn't figure out where they were coming from. Some thoughts sounded closer than others, but I couldn't get a good read on their position.

I put my hand against Eren's and held up 3 fingers and Eren turned to Ymir. "Ouija can you have a spirit check around?" he whispered and she nodded. "Resilient Recoil, can you lend and eye?" He asked and Berthold nodded. I turned away and just looked towards Eren because watching him stretch random body parts kinda freaks me out.

Berthold found one hiding in a bush just a little ways in front of us but more to the left facing the opposite way. "He has night vision goggles," Berthold whispered to us. His sight must be amazing... Actually I take that back night vision goggles give off light.

Ymir turned around and started whispering to a spirit. "There's two more up towards the right; they also have night vision goggles. Up ahead there are a few more, but Gabriel says he can lead us past them safely." Ymir whispered, turning to us.

Gabriel was her guardian angel spirit that stayed with her all the time. He's the one who's been the most helpful on missions however, a few other spirits have been known to help out.

"Alright, you take lead," Eren said, falling behind Ymir as we change the formation a little. We grabbed each other's jackets again and stayed close as Gabriel led us through the forest. Stopping every little bit as he went ahead and made sure the path was still clear.

She stopped us a little ways away from where Armin supposedly saw the light. "He says that there's a lot of guards up ahead that are patrolling and it's hard for him to find a clear way through. I might have to call in more help for this, should I?" Ymir asked Eren if that's what he wanted her to do.

"Do it," he whispered.

She tapped my shoulder. "Mind asking for help?"

I felt a weight on my shoulders as if someone was leaning their arm on it, it had to be Farlan, and I felt someone poke my cheek, must be Isabel. I took a deep breath. They always show up when I need them the most. "Hey guys," I whispered. "Mind giving us a hand?"

I felt a pat on my shoulder, "they said they're happy too," Ymir nodded before whispering to them telling them what she needed them to do.

After she informed us that the three of them left to find a better way we all stayed low to the ground and kept our guards up until they returned. They all came back and had found a narrow way through that if we made no noise whatsoever then we just might be able to slip past, but we had to be quick about it, but not too quick that we get sloppy and make noise.

I looked to Eren to see if he would call this off since it was extremely risky. "We can do it," he whispered. I have the power to overrule his decisions. I had to figure out if he was doing this on a reckless whim just to get closer to finding the camp, or if he actually believed in his team this much.

I stayed quiet and let him talk to Ymir to figure out the best way through. I watched his thoughts and his emotions. He was determined to find the camp, however, he genuinely thought we could pull this off, and he had a few ideas of how to make it a little easier.

He turned to Erwin first, "Escapist do you think you can portal us to the other side?"

"Not with great accuracy. I don't know this forest and I don't know the area ahead trying to make a portal or even teleporting us without a clear destination in mind can lead to some difficulties."

"What kind of difficulties?" Eren asked.

"Well, there is no guarantee that we will end up where we want."

"How far do you think we will be off target?"

"We could end up in a forest in a completely different country," Erwin said and I watched Eren start to think of another idea.

"I can try to lift us all above the trees and we could try that way if you think it will be easier than trying to sneak all the way through," Eren said turning back to Ymir

Ymir thought about it for a second. "Actually, if we are all above the trees then we could move a lot quicker and not have to worry about as many guards. Also, I could have them yell the instructions at me and no one will hear a thing," she was thinking out loud for a moment before looking back to Eren. "Are you sure your power can hold all of us? Won't it hurt you?"

"Not if I only take two of you and myself, Malice Mind can take the other two."

"I'll take Erwin and Berthold," I volunteered. I can hold people for longer than Eren can without backlash affecting me almost instantly, and they seemed to be the two heaviest.

"Alright," Eren nodded before looking to Ymir and Armin, "you two are with me."

Armin got on Eren's back and held on tight before Eren picked up Ymir bridal style so it would be easier for him to carry them. "If you tell anyone about this I will cause all the poltergeists I know to haunt you," she mumbled.

"My lips are sealed," Eren said with a smug smile.

Erwin and Berthold stood next to me since I didn't need to physically carry them to make it easier on my power, unlike Eren.

I used my powers to carefully move the leaves above us so we wouldn't make a noise going up above the trees. When we got above the tree's I gently let the leaves fall back into place. These trees are taller than I thought. I can barely hold myself up this high. My feet are nearly touching the leaves below me. Damn these big ass trees. I can do it, I won't let the rest of the team down.