"Y/N!!" Eren screamed from the inside of his form. 

There you laid, almost burnt to a crisp. A minute felt like forever before your body twitched and moved. 

Eren let out a sigh of relief, you were alive. 

Your titan form slowly arose, parts of your body were burnt but you couldn't move. You've used up all of your energy and strength into that one move. 

"Shit..."

You were basically a sitting duck.  

Lucky for you, a few scouts were coming to your aid. 

"Y/n! Are you--!?"

Before Hange could say anything, Reiner sprang into action. Taking everyone by shock. 

"Dammit!" Eren cursed. He wasn't watching Reiner, not knowing he slipped away over to you. 

Taking advantage of your weak state, Reiner attacked. 

You used whatever strength you had to fight back, or at least dodge. Yet your body ached and you could still feel the burns from Bertholdt's form. 

Reiner pinned you down, opening his mouth and biting into your nape. 

Everything went dark as you were taken out. 

Reiner's POV

I bit into Y/n's nape, ripping her out before she had the time to get her strength back. 

The last thing I want is for Y/n's titan to cause problems for the both of us. Even with Bertholdt's ability to exert heat, she managed to still be on her feet. 

Probably morphed her body to have a protective heat armor. 

I winced as I felt a burning sensation, I felt it even under my armor. 

Shit...we got to get out of here fast. 

I faced Eren as he glared daggers at me. Well, not on me. I noticed his eyes were focusing on Y/n. Who laid unconscious in my hand. 

A deep growling noise came from him. He's not happy with the fact I partially crushed his friend. 

Pathetic...

I looked back at the young girl who was struggling to breathe in her unconscious state. 

Although we were seen as traitors in everyone's eyes, our feelings were never fake.

I liked Y/n. A lot actually. I see her as a cute girl with amazing strength for a small person like her.

As least that what I thought when I first met her, but now; she's changed. What made her forget? Everything we've been through, everything we were trained for fight for.

All the time she's never given up on me. She forgot all of it. 

And decided to live a fake life here, enjoying herself. I couldn't accept it. 

When Bertholdt told me he saw Y/n, I didn't believe it. We all thought she died. Lost somewhere in the bottom of the sea. 

I saw for myself, it was true. She was alive. But she forgot everything about it. I couldn't accept it, even now. 

It was better to think she was dead. Seeing her all the time, just makes it harder...

But I had to keep reminding myself is that she's not human. But...neither am I apparently. 

He's not going down without a fight. I noticed the scouts swarming unto the scene. 

Shit...this might take awhile. 

*Time Skip* 

Your whole head throbbed as you faded in and out of conscious. You could hear fighting, screaming, and the roars of titans. 

You need to get up...you need to help...

But your body refused to do so. Your energy is so low you could barely move any part of your body.

Why...why of all times your body decides to be useless now?

You woke up again to find yourself laying on something. It felt hard and from the looks of it, you it was the leaves of a tree. 

Wait...a tree!?

Your body jolted upright. 

"Ack--!" You hissed as you felt a burning, painful sensation.

"Haa..." You let out a shaky breath as you examined your arms, they were covered with slight burns. 

"..." They looked bad. A foolish mistake to take on the colossal titan.  

Where...where were you?

"Trees?" You thought. 

Titan trees, so nearby the titan forest. 

Wait...

Eren! 

Where is he!? Is he alright!? Was he able to make it back to the walls?

"I see you're up and going now." a familiar voice spoke. 

You looked up to find Reiner and Bertholdt sitting upon a large tree branch right above you.

You glared daggers at them. 

Here they are sitting up there so casually like they did nothing wrong!

You went to act now, but realized you couldn't. 

They took your ODM gear...

Not like you couldn't transform either. 

"Don't even try to do anything. It's no use." 

Dammit!

You looked behind you to see Ymir giving you a stoic look with Eren still sleeping not too far from her. 

Ymir...she got captured too? You didn't see her get captured. 

Did Bertholdt take her?

"Now that you're awake Y/n. I just wanted to say sorry for biting you out of your nape. The last thing I wanted was to deal with your titan."

Biting you out? Is that all he's apologizing for?

Not for all the people that they have killed the past years. 

It was then you realized your body was hot and going up into smoke, you winced as you realized some parts of your body was covered in bad burns. 

To which they were healing up slowly. 

Must have been when you stupidly tried to attack Bertholdt.  

You heard a groan from nearby and saw Eren beginning to move. Your eye widened as you quickly, but carefully made your way towards him. 

He managed to sit up and noticed your presence. 

"Y/n...?" He asked weakly. He slowly got up, his eyes in shock. 

He then leaned in and rested his head on your shoulder. 

"You're alright. You're not hurt, are you?"

"Ah--!" You hissed, remembering the burns you inflicted. 

Eren immediately backed away, checking your form. 

"What happened!?"

You hissed and tried blowing on your arm, easing the burns. Eren put two and two together. 

"Bertholdt..." he spoke. You nodded in reply. 

It was then you noticed smoke coming out of his arms. 

His hands were gone. 

Your eye widened. Reiner didn't...

"Damn, Y/n. You were the last person to I've suspected to be a titan shifter." You heard Ymir's voice. 

You looked towards Ymir and noticed her hands were gone and slowly regenerating. 

Well, that answers your question to how you all got here. 

"Sorry about your arms Eren. Didn't mean to bite you out that hard."

Again with the apologies for something not as big as destroying the lives of people!

"Why..." Eren began to say. 

"Why!? Why would you do this!? To us! To humanity!?" Eren asked. 

"..." Reiner stayed silent. 

"Where are you taking us?"

"Like I said. Back to our hometown. But this was as far as we could go. There are too many titans lurking around. The best we can do is wait here until dark when the titans aren't moving. Let's just hope the scouts are not here by then." Reiner explained. 

Eren and Ymir are in no condition to transform, as well as you. So, you were basically sitting ducks. 

"Hey, Y/n." You heard Reiner say. 

"What do you want?" You faced him. 

"Maybe if you drop the whole act you're playing, you could be up here with us."

"Reiner, stop it. It's no use." Bertholdt interfered. 

"What made you change your mind? Join their side? Were we not enough? You pitied them?"

You furrowed your eyebrows. 

What the hell is he talking about?

Your silence seemed to either hurt or tick him off even more. 

"Maybe we should feed you to the titans below. Fair punishment for traitors like you."

Your eyes widened as you gasped. Traitor!? 

Now you were getting mad. Why does he keep talking to you like your old friends! You don't remember him, don't know anything about him!?

Why was he made at you? Calling you a liar and a traitor?! Who were you in your past life!?

"Don't you threaten her like that," Eren said. 

"And what are you going to do? You can't even transform. If you want your precious little (Y/n) to be kept safe, it's best if you don't try anything."

Precious little...!? Is he referring to you as---!? Your eyes narrowed. 

No! You two are not--

Your whipped towards Eren in disbelief. 

Why isn't Eren denying it!?

Eren stayed quiet for a moment. 

"Reiner...back then...I told you about what happened in Wall Maria. How my house was destroyed and I witnessed my mother die right in front of me. For so long, I wanted revenge on the titans that killed my mom, yet the titans that caused all of this was right in front of me all this time. What were you thinking when I told you my story? Did you find the whole thing amusing!?"

"...We felt bad for you..." Reiner replied. 

Bullcrap. 

"Bullshit! Bullshit!" Eren yelled. 

"You're not warriors, nor soldiers! You're murderers. Mass murderers!"

"You don't think I know that! You don't need to tell me!" Reiner shouted. 

"Then stop acting like you didn't cause anything! You aren't human at all! You're the ones that turned our world into a living hell! Don't you see that!?" Eren yelled. 

"Well, what do you want us to do!? Feel guilty!?"

Yes. Feel extremely guilty. 

"Apologized!? Will that satisfy you!? Preaching to so-called murderers that killing is wrong isn't going to get you anywhere!? The Reiner and Bertholdt you know are gone! Go ahead and cry about it, see if I care!?"

"...You're right. The only thing I need to do now is working hard to make sure the two of you die. A slow, yet painful death."

You felt your body shiver. The death of his mother really messed him up. 

But that didn't make you any better, you too were having violent thoughts as well.  But you hid your true feelings with a fearful expression.

"You better watch what you say, titan boy. You're making your little girlfriend upset."

Please stop saying things like that...

"Hey Reiner, do you know anything about that ape looking titan?" Ymir suddenly asked. 

"Ape? What are you talking about?"

"Don't play dumb, we were all there. That ape, or should I say 'Beast Titan' caused all those titans to attack our area." Ymir explained. 

Beast Titan? Another titan shifter possibly?

"Ape like titan? Now I know you're being dumb." Eren grumbled. 

"Who knows. Maybe the real enemy is-" Ymir was cut off. 

"Ymir. Do you think this world has a future? How about you consider trusting us and joining us?"

Your eyes narrowed. Why did they change the subject? 

They do know something about the ape titan...

"Trust you? Why would I do that?"

"Isn't your goal to protect Krista?"

Ymir's eyes widened. 

"We can take Krista with us and you could start a life with her." Reiner continued. 

"You think Eren's strength is reliable? You can't use Eren to help you escape. Might as well travel with us."

Oh no...Ymir has no choice to accept. 

Eren saw the horror on your face and immediately objected. 

"Wait! She has nothing to do with us! She may be a titan shifter, but she of all people doesn't deserve this! To be brought into a mess that she's not even responsible for!" Eren argued. 

Reiner began to chuckle. 

"Actually, we have a big enough proof to bring her along. She did come from our hometown after all."

You raised an eyebrow. What was he talking about?

Reiner turned to you. 

"I've liked you, Y/n. I really did. You were one of the few people who never gave up on me. I respected you, and I still do. But even with your memories gone, you still can't escape your past. What you've done. You truly are a monster on the inside." 

It is now revealed that Bertholdt, Reiner, and Annie have some kind of past with you. But they've been very vague of explaining it. 

Fear began to build up inside of you. You don't get it.  A monster on the inside?

"Now you're just saying shit!" Eren shouted from the back. 

"Still denying the truth Eren? Might as well show you what I mean."

Suddenly, Reiner jumped down and landed next to you. You flinched and tried to move back, but he grabbed you quickly and took out a blade. 

Eren immediately retaliated but was pushed back. 

Without warning, Reiner used the blade to slice off your fingers. You let out a scream in pain. 

"NOOO!" Eren yelled. 

"Reiner! What are you doing!?" Bertholdt yelled. 

 Ymir shuddered back and stared up in shock. 

Reiner continued his actions, not feeling one ounce of remorse. 

"You're just going to let this happen. Not bother to fight back. You've fought back all the time back then, what's stopping you now!?" Reiner said, slowly continuing to slice off your fingers. 

You cried, watching your fingers get cut off. Reiner continuing to push you to fight back. 

After what felt like forever, your left hand now had no fingers. Reiner stopped his actions. 

"Funny, this wasn't what I expected."

Funny!? He found this amusing!? 

What kind of sick twisted joke was this!?

"You've grown weak."

For some reason, that sentence made you snap. You let out a shout as you brought your body off, knocking Reiner off of you.

You then used your right arm to punch him hard in the face, causing him to fall back.

You fell to your knees, gripping into your furiously bleeding hand. You were breathing heavily as you tried to find something to stop the bleeding. 

Smoke began to erupt from your skin, the pain now going numb. You retched, wanting to puke. You couldn't scream or cry anymore, your mind going into shock. 

Reiner chuckled, wiping his bloody lip. 

"That's the Y/n I remember..." He said, satisfied he proved his point. 

"What the hell is wrong with you!? Get away from her!" Eren tried to attack Reiner, but he ended up getting kicked away. 

You continued to stare forward, still in a state of shock. Your mind unable to comprehend the loss of your fingers. 

They'll grow back sure, you're a titan shifter. But it was still hard to comprehend. 

A familiar sound of some kind of gunshot distracted you from the pain. Could it be...?

"It's the scouts! They're here already!?" Bertholdt said. 

"We don't have time for this. We got to go!"

"You're just going to leave like that, look what you just did to her!" Eren yelled. 

"She'll be fine," Reiner said calmly. 

That ticked Eren off even more. 

"You bastard!" Eren yelled and threw a punch at Reiner. 

Noises of fighting and grunting seemed farther away as you heard faint footsteps walking over to you. All you could hear was your loud, yet slow heartbeat. 

You looked up to find a blurry Ymir standing above you. 

"Hey guys, she ain't looking so good."

You could feel yourself passing out again, but you mustered all the strength you had not to. You breathed deeply in and out, hoping to at least slow down the loss of blood.