Hanji was pretty hyped about all of this, she wouldn't stop questioning me at all and Levi wouldn't stop scolding me for nearly finishing myself off. But...it was all worth it in the end. I was able to achieve what Eren couldn't, if even for a second. If only a little bit of my titan body...I now knew what helped me to harden.

The warm shower water ran down my locks, making them stick to my face like plaster, and I moved my hands around my scalp to remove any remaining shampoo that clung to my head. Watching my feet in silence, I focused my gaze on the shampoo foam and bubbles that formed around them, falling down the drain along with the water. Levi had to leave to run an errand, much to my dismay. I was hoping to spend time with him, but the man was always busy.

"Well...what else could you expect from a corporal." I muttered to myself with a small smile. He was only doing his job. I had to remember not to get too clingy.

Turning the shower lever off, I grabbed the lone fluffy blue towel by the sink and wrapped myself in it, relishing the warmth it gave my body. Wiping the mirror quickly, I bent over to twist my hair into the sink, letting any remaining water drip down.

"It's getting pretty long." I murmured to myself, running my fingers through my pink locks as I stared at the mirror. It was strarting to grow up to my shoulders. I was going to need a haircut soon. Not that I minded long hair. It was just easier to have it short, it wouldn't get in my face during a fight.

A knock sounded and I turned slightly towards the door. Someone was in my room...Levi? With growing excitement, I hurried to turn the knob and fling the door open. But it wasn't Levi. Sky blue eyes stared up at me, wide and doe-shaped. Christa was standing before me with a basket of fruit.

"Oh...Whats up?" I muttered, a bit confused. What was Christa doing in my room? It was around six o'clock, so it was late. The dimness of my room from lack of light kind of made the petites face look shadowy and mysterious. Her face was so blank.

"Sorry to interrupt your bath, Mikasa sent me to inform you that dinner is ready." The blonde uttered under her breath. Her voice was so soft. It was hard to believe someone like her was in the survey corps.

"Thanks." I said with a curious gaze. "Um, do you know where Erwin is? I kind of wanted to talk to him."

"He went to the inner city to speak with the king, nobody knows for what, Levi wouldn't say..." The blonde blinked, eyes glued to the friut in the basket. "Ah...Hanji left too, so it's just us that are staying for the night."

I nodded. I somewhat envied Erwin and Levi for having free reign, but it couldn't really be helped could it? I was stuck here with the rest of these people until Hanji was sure we were safe from the military police. I didn't quite understand why still, but I was putting my trust on my captains.

"Hanji told us you did it...so we are celebrating with a bonfire outside, you can join us now if you like." The blonde suggested before turning to leave my room.

I stared at her back as she slipped past my door and closed it behind her. A...bonfire? Well that was interesting. It actually did sound nice. And it was just us younger folk too.

"Thanks!" I called out, not sure if she heard me. It didn't matter. I hurried to slip on my red vest and the same black skirt that I wore during the titan chaos, along with my usual black boots from Konoha. I didn't bother to brush my hair, not that I needed to anyway. If I was going to be outside in the wind it would only get messy again.

Once I was set to leave I closed the door behind me quietly. The hallway was just as dim as my room. It really was getting late. But it was perfect for a bonfire. Turning away from the windows of the building, I hurried down the stairs in a rapid pace, eager to eat. When Levi cut me out of my titan body I was too tired eat at the time, and took to taking a long nap in my room too. I had lost a lot of time but it was worth it. Right now I felt really energized.

Once I was downstairs, I walked into the kitchen and saw Sasha taking out some fresh potatoes from the lone oven that sat in the corner of the room. Armin was carrying bags of some white stuff outside.

"Hey, where's Eren?" I asked outloud, stepping forward to show myself. Sasha's head turned in my direction and she blinked. The girl was still wearing that long skirt similar to Mikasa's.

"Eh? Ah he's sleeping." Sasha murmured, putting the baked potatoes in a large bowl and heading outside. "I don't think Mikasa want's him to be awake just yet!"

"Right..." I mumbled. Eren would wan't to know how I was able to harden didn't he? So I was on my guard coming here.

"How are you feeling?" Armin asked, eyeing me with wide blue eyes. Now that I got closer to him I could see that the large bags he was holding were marshmellows.

"Just fine thanks, I heard you guys are making a bonfire." I exclaimed.

The blonde nodded. "It was Connie's idea, everyone is outside trying to start the fire, the food is on the stove too, so you can eat it outside with us, we already finished eating."

"Thanks, I will." I said with a smile, and watched as he made him way after Sasha outside. The group was deep by the woods. I could see the outline of their bodies as they huddled in one spot. Sighing, I turned my attention to the large pots on the stove and moved to open the lid. Tomato soup with veggies and some buttered bread. It was still warm too. Without hesitation, I grabbed a plate from the wooden cabinets and poured myself a serving while stuffing a bread loaf into my mouth to hold.

Turning back, I walked outside. The blast of cold wind hit me and I shuddered in the dark, hands clenched around my plate tightly as I examined the group not too far away. It seemed like they were struggling. There was no fire and two of them were hunched on the ground arguing. By the time I got closer I could see it was Connie and jean. Mikasa was arranging large logs around a big bundle of sticks and carbon on a pile of rocks. Jean was squeezing some sort of fluid into them and went a bit overboard with it.

"What the hell are you doing you idiot! You put too much!" Connie shouted.

Jean growled. "Shut the hell up! Your stupid stick rubbing didn't work, so someone has to take over!"

"You trying to burn us?!" Connie growled back. I smiled. Those two were at it...it was usually Eren and Jean that argued.

"Hey guys, whats up?" I moved to sit down on a log, balancing my plate on my lap in the process.

Jean's head snapped up at the sound of my voice. I could see his face clearly despite the dark.

"Look's like you're awake, congrats on hardening, Hanji was pretty hyped, can't say the same for Eren though." The man mumbled, moving to sit on a log across from me and digging through the bags of marshmellows. He opened one, and reached for a bag of those pointy wooden sticks people use for this particular occasion.

"So he knows." I stated simply.

"Everybody knows." Connie said casually. "I need matches!"

"Ah, here!" Armin reached into his pockets to hand him a box of the stuff.

"Thanks." Connie opened it and fumbled around with the box to light one up. In one swift movement, he threw the lit match into the fire and stood back as flames engulfed the wood and carbon pieces, sending sparks flying in every direction.

"Jeez, see it was too much fluid you dunce." Connie retorted, leering at Jean, who was glaring back defensively.

"Well now we can enjoy the night, never mind about the fluid." Armin said meekly. He turned to me. "May I sit next to you?"

I nodded and scooted over to make room for the blonde. Mikasa and Sasha sat to my right while Christa and Connie sat to my left. Jean stayed alone across from me, focusing on stabbing a couble of cotton white marshmellows into a stick.

"I assume you guys want to know how I did it." I mumbled. This must have been the sole reason for the bonfire, to get every detail out of me. Not that I minded.

"Hanji told us you took some pretty drastic measures, but she didn't go into detail." Connie stated.

I was about to respond to that but the sudden voice behind me cut me off.

"How did you do it?"

I turned sharply to meet Eren's gaze. His eyes reflected the fire in front of me, making his gaze seem a bit ominous. He was still wearing his sleeping attire, and judging from his messy hair, I assumed he had just woken up.

"Oh, you're up." I mumbled, blinking at the seriousness of his gaze.

"You should be in bed." Mikasa, who was sitting, had gotten up to approach Eren but he swept past her and grabbed the collar of my vest to pull me closer to him.

"How? How did you do it?" He asked again, a bit more loudly this time.

I cringed, slapping his hands away in one swift motion. "Knock it off!" I hissed. "You don't have to make such a big deal about it."

"It is a big deal, I wasn't able to do it and I let everyone down, but you did it on the first try?!" Eren seemed really distressed about this whole thing, and I blamed Levi for it. If the asshole wasn't so hard on him for failing, he wouldn't have felt as bad.

"I think Eren has a right to know, besides, he's been resting for two days now." Christa spoke up from her place. I watched her curiously over the fire. She seemed to be really calm and sincere.

"Alright..." Mikasa mumbled hesitantly. She moved to sit down again, and Eren proceeded to sit next to Jean across me.

"Sorry...I got carried away." Eren stated with a sigh.

"It's fine." I smiled, popping a spoonful of soup into my mouth.

"So what exactly did you do to harden?" Armin was the first to drop the question. The others waited patiently, save for Sasha who was stuffing herself of fruit.

"Well...I went through pretty much the same training that Eren did, I couldn't harden right away and fill the cave, I had no idea how." I took another spoonful of soup. "But somewhere in my training I thought about Annie."

"Annie?" Eren's determined expression turned into one of surprise.

"Hey, what about Annie?" Jean asked, equally confused. He held his stick of marshmellows over the fire.

I nodded, rubbing my knees slowly with warm fingers. The fire was making them a little too warm.

"I remembered that Annie hardened because her life was in danger right? She hardened completely because she was taken down and her real body was exposed to us." I said lowly.

"Yeah you're right, it did happen when she was unconscious too." Armin exclaimed in realization.

"Right, that led me to believe that maybe the titan body itself acts on its own in self-defence if the real body is exposed." I continued.

There was a long pause. Nothing but the crackling of the fire filled the air.

Jean was the one to break the silence. "So...you put your real body in danger."

I nodded. "It was only a bit, part of the back of my neck hardened to protect my real body, its as if the titan body knows when to do it."

"So thats it huh." Eren said blankly. He looked into the fire, deep in thought. "I never even thought of that possibility, but it makes sense, Annie wasn't conscious when her body covered itself in crystal, that ability must have acted on its own."

"I think...just like we need a cause to turn, we also need a cause to harden." I stated. "That was my final conclusion."

"You think those walled in titans had a cause to turn?" Armin asked over the fire.

"Could be, seems like they were intedning to keep us walled in, if its a good thing or a bad thing, beats me." Jean muttered.

"What do you mean? Of course its a good thing considering there are titans outside the walls right?" Connie snorted. "And pass the damn bag of marshmellows, stop hogging them!"

"I'm not hogging them you retard!" Jean growled, throwing the bag into Connies face and landing against the boy with a 'thump'.

I sighed. Here we go again...

"Sometimes I'm not so sure." Eren whispered.

There was a silence that stretched between us again.

"Eren..." Mikasa whispered.

"Think about it, none of this makes any sense, why did Reiner and Bertholdt choose to destroy the wall...you know Bertholdts words from the fight have stuck to my head like a song, he said somebody had to do it, why? Why did they do it?" Eren breathed out, eyebrows frowning in confusion.

"We don't know the answer to that, we don't even know why we're hiding, we just gotta trust in our captains." Jean muttered, blowing on his half baked marshmellows.

"Right." I stated.

"I want to try it out again, if Hanji will let me, Sakura, I need you to be there to help me." Eren held my gaze across from me. He was really determined.

"I'll see what I can do." I murmured with a small smile. I wasn't sure if Eren could achieve it, but he was really willing to take drastic measures as well.

"Well, all this talk about titans and whatnot is stressing me out, how about we change the subject and enjoy this night, who knows when we will get to do this again."

"I agree." Armin exclaimed.

"So...how about we tell scary stories?" Jean smirked evily, hands rubbing against each other in anticipation.

"Ehh?!" Sasha's eyes widened, for once stopping her chowing down on the fruit.

"As if scary stories are gonna scare me." Connie scoffed.

"I don't know much of scary stories." Armin muttered.

"Please lets not, I wont sleep tonight." Sasha whines, grabbing on to Mikasa in fear.

"Heh, of course we all know what a wimp you are potato girl." Connie teased with a laugh.

"Scary stories huh...I think I know a few." I muttered. I didn't remember much of them, but I did spend a lot of time reading such books back in Konoha.

"Oh? Do tell." Jean grinned.

"Um, hold on let me think." I mumbled, setting my half finished plate aside. The fire in the middle was growing warmer each second, and everyone's faces were illuminated a bright orange by it. The glow made their eyes look firey.

"Okay, how about this one, I started, taking a short pause to watch everyone tense up to pay close attention.

...

"It was a bright monday morning, a boy walked alongside of the mountain sloped, climbing the rocks with worn out sneakers and a backpack filled with hiking material. As he walked, he noticed a girl not too far away walking the mountain as well. Curious, he approached her.

'Hello, are you here for the news too?' He asked the girl.

She turned to him, eyeing him curiously before responding. "Yes, I heard about the holes discovered after the earthquake and had to come see it for myself."

'I see, Care to come see them with me? My name is Ikuto.' The boy told her.

'Nice to meet you, I am Yumi.' The girl replied. And so they ventured up the mountain until they came across the deep trench of the mountains they were looking for. It was filled with lots of hikers taking pictures of the holes that had formed there. You see, there was a huge earthquake not too long ago, and with the earthquake, a long trench formed in the mountains because it split. In the wall of one of the cracks, human shaped holes appeared, about a dozen of them. Nobody knew how they got there or who made them, they were so perfectly formed that it seemed impossible to be made by human hands. Well the girl and the boy, along with many other people, were there to look at them up close.

'It's amazing, they look so strange, they are shaped just like human bodies.' Yumi said as she approached the holes. They were pitch black and it was impossible to see the end of them.

'I know, scientists have tried putting in cameras to see how deep they were but there is no end to them." The boy said. "It truly is such a strange thing to see.'

'Yes...now that I'm here I can look for my hole.' The girl suddenly said.

'Huh? What do you mean?' The boy asked curiously.

'One of the holes are mine, When i saw the news I saw it, a hole that was shaped exactly like me, I know it, that hole was meant for me."'The girl insisted. The boy just stared at her. The girl was weird. Her expression was completely blank.

'So you know you have a hole too huh?" A sudden stranger said. The girl and boy turned to see one of the hikers. A skinny man with a huge grin on his face. "I found my hole, I know it's mine, it fits exactly with my body!'

'How can you be so sure?' The boy asked, very skepticle.

'Just come, I will show you.' The man said.

So they followed him further across the wall next to some of the gawking hikers. The man pointed to a hole further up in the wall. 'You see, that one is mine.'

They saw the hole he was reffering to. It was skinny and long, just like the man.

'I guess it does look like you a little bit.' The boy said.

'Of course it does! Watch I'll show you!.' The man then stripped down to his underwear and climbed up to the hole. Many of the hikers watched in shock, and the boy and girl yelled at him to get down. But the man didn't listen, he kept climbing and wiggled into the hole. Soon enough, he was inside, and kept wiggling deeper into it until his body could no longer be seen.

'Hey stop!'

'Get out of there thats dangerous!'

'Oh my god that man went inside the hole!'

Many of the hikers were panicking, trying to climb up to pull the man out. The boy himself climbed up to look into it. It was pitch black, the man could no longer be seen. It was like he just vanished.

'Hey! Get out of there! This isn't funny!' The boy shouted. But the man wouldn't come back out. No matter how much the boy screamed, it was futile. The girl just stared into the hole with a worried face.

Soon enough it got dark. Scientists and police had came to try to rescue the man by sending someone after him, but they didn't fit inside the hole. It was like it really was meant for the man himself. They tried sending in cameras to see how deep the man was but they never found him. The hole kept getting smaller and smaller the deeper it went, and twisted in odd angles. The man was never found again.

Later that night, Yumi and Ikuto had set up a tent with the rest of the hikers to sleep the night. Ikuto couldn't stop thinking about the man.

'What do you think happened to him? It's so weird that he would get sucked in like that.' Ikuto asked Yumi. They were sharing the tent and Yumi was still acting odd.

'My hole...I need to find my hole, but I am scared of it.' Yumi whimpered. This made the boy curious.

'Why? What's so scary about the hole?' He asked her.

'I don't know but...it scares me so bad I think I might die, my hole frightens me, but I am also drawn to it.' She muttered, shaking and sweating in fear.

'Don't worry Yumi, I won't let anything happen to you.' The boy promised.

'T-thank you.' Yumi then lay on her futon and went to sleep. The boy went to sleep as well, thinking nothing more of it. Later than night, he woke up to find Yumi's futon empty. Worried, the boy went out looking for her, only to find her standing outside of their tent, completely still.

'Yumi?' The boy asked.

She turned around slowly, face ghost white. 'Ikuto, I found my hole.' She muttered blankly.

'Huh? You did?' The boy asked.

'Yes, come.' She whimpered. And so he followed her all the way to the end of the mountain wall full of holes. 'I couldn't find it before because it was all the way over here, but I found it now.'

They each stopped in front of a small hole, shaped exactly like Yumi. 'Wow it does look like your body shape.' The boy whispered.

'Yes...I cann feel something in there, something evil, I'm afraid I might go in.' The girl suddenly stated fast.

'Huh? Why on earth would you go in? Yumi you're not making any sense!' Ikuto exclaimed, confused out of his mind.

'It's going to take me! Oh my god I'm so scared!' The girl screamed, crouching on the ground with a wild look in her eyes and sweating like crazy.

'Okay look, how about we cover up the hole with rocks, then there is no way you can go inside it, will that make you feel better?' Ikuto offered, moving to gather rocks and piling them into the hole.

The girl said nothing, she just watched until he was done.

'There, see? Now you can't go inside, there is nothing to worry about, now lets go back to sleep it's late.' Ikuto stated.

'Okay...' The girl said as he followed Ikuto back to their tent after one last look at the covered up hole.

Later as he slept, the boy had a dream. It was during the ice-age era. There were cavemen gathered in a line across a wall. The same wall with the holes. The boy was one of the cavemen and was being punished for committing a crime. As punishment, he had to walk inside one of the holes. The one that was specifically for him. He couldn't resist because the other cavemen were forcing him in with spears and other weapons. Once inside, he was surrounded by nothing but stone. He couldn't go back because the holes were designed for him to only keep moving forward. With every wiggle forward, the hole kept getting smaller and smaller, the shape of the hole itself was getting longer, forcing his limbs and body to twist into odd angles. The boy screamed for help but nothing could be heard. He was stuck in a blind dark hole forever.

Before anything else could happen, the boy woke up in a cold sweat, fear evident in his eyes and panting heavily. Turning towards the futon next to him, he saw that Yumi was missing again.

'Again? Where is that girl now?' The boy muttered in worry. So he set out to find her again. When she was no where to be seen, he ran over to her hole, seeing that the rocks were taken out and her clothes lay in a pile on the floor next to them. Realization hit him like a ton of bricks and he knew that the girl had gone inside the hole.

'Nooo! Yumi! Why would you go inside the hole?' The boy fell to his knees and cried. Not long before that he looked up to see a hole similar to his own body. He knew that hole was his. And like a zombie, he stripped and climbed into it.

The next morning, there was another earthquake while hikers examined the holes to look for the missing teenagers. Another wall had surfaced across the holes. It was the end of the mountain, but instead of there being holes exactly like the front, there were small strange squiggly lines all over the walls. They almost looked like dark hole vines.

While scientists were examining them, someone insisted they kept hearing a scratching noise in one of them. So one of the scientists went over there to shine a flashlight inside to peek inside.

'Well? Do you see anything?' A scientist asked.

'I don't know I can hardly see anything, but I can hear that weird noise.' The guy said. Then his eyes widened in horror. 'Wait I see something!" The man yelled. It was a malformed skinny body with stretched out flesh, moaning in pain as he wiggled forward.'

...

"And thats the end." I stated. Everyone sat in silence, faces as stiff as stone.

"What the fuck." Jean muttered.

"Huh? I don't get it." Sasha whined. That made me almost want to groan. I was not going to tell the whole thing again.

"That was creepy." Eren mumbled. "Actually more weird than outright scary."

"So were the holes like, haunted or something, that is probably the creepiest shit I have ever heard." Connie asked.

"I agree." Christa whispered, eyes wide.

I shrugged. "I read that story long ago in a book somewhere in my home, I think the walls were like, some form of execution method back in the days, and the people were drawn to them cos they had died from them before, I guess the holes were supposed to crush you or something, oh I don't know, it was a long time ago." I explained while grabbing a stick to insert my own marshmellows into them.

"Anyway, that ending was so lame and rushed, the dude just went into his hole without an explanation or a second thought, I can think of a better story than that." Connie scoffed.

"I think thats the point, the story is supposed to be mysterious." Mikasa mumbled.

"Whatever." Connie muttered. "My time to tell a story, this outta creep you guys out." He laughed, grinning maliciously.

"Yeah right." Jean murmured, but didn't say anything more.

"Alright." Connie started, coughing and looming over the fire for added effect, making his face shadowy.

...

"It was during the nineteenth century in the chinese era. Young Chi just got married to a successful business man. Therefore they had decided to get a home together. While her husband was at work one day, Chi was in a local furniture store one sunday evening, looking to buy a special chair for her to sit on and write. She was an author you see, and she needed a comfortable chair to write in. Well one particular chair caught her eye. A red one with a golten design on the wooden handles. Intruiged by it, she decided to check it out.

'Excuse me mam, are you interested in buying this chair?' the clerk asked, walking over to the young woman.

'Yes, I am looking for a comfortable chair to sit in and write.' Chi replied.

'You are in luck, this chair is on special, we can have it delivered to your home by tomorrow.' The clerk offered.

'Truly? Thank you so much.' Chi smiled happily. So she payed the clerk and went home to wait for that chair to be delivered.

The next day Chi woke up to help her husbang ger ready for work. Before he left, she told him about the chair.

'I am expecting a chair to come in today, I think I may have finally found a suitable one.' Chi said happily.

'That's great, Now you can start writing, good luck Chi.' The husband said after a kiss good-bye.

Just as she was promised, the wife heard a knock on the door not long after her husband had left. She went to open it and was greeted by two men holding a large box.

'Oh good, the chair is here, you can put in into my office, its right this way.' The wife led them into her office room, and the men set to work on opening the box. Sure enough, the red chair was the same as it was before. The red cushions were soft and plump as the wife sat in it to test it out. 'Thank you, it is very lovely.' Chi said, satisfied with the quality of it.

'No problem, remember to give us a call if you find the chair to be unsatisfying.' One of the men said before leaving. The wife walked them out the door and thanked them again. The wife didn't think she would have to call the men at all from how much she loved the chair.

Later that night, Chi decided to sit on the chair and begin writing. Her husband worked late hours and wouldn't come home until much later on, so she was alone. As she began writing, Chi couldn't shake off the feeling that she wasn't alone in the room. She couldn't concentrate on her work and her eyes kept on sweeping across the room.

'This is absurd.' The wife mumbled to herself. 'Of course there is no one here but me.'

Days passed by and the wife kept on getting more and more paranoid. At night times, she kept on hearing strange noises in the kitchen, certains foods went missing, and sometimes things were out of place. It was as if someone was breaking in during the night. Chi decided to tell her husband of her worries.

'Something is wrong with the house! This place is haunted." The wife insisted one night before they went to bed.

'Don't be paranoid Chi, it's only your imagination.' The husband insisted.

Chi only sighed. There was no way she was going to convince her husband of her problems. It wasn't until the next morning that Chi discovered an odd paper on her desk. Just before she sat down to write, she picked it up and examined it. It was a letter written in scratchy writing.

'Dear Chi,

I have enjoyed spending every day with you in the chair, I have admired you from afar in the past, but now that I live in this chair I can hug your body as you write, feel you as you sit, love you like I have wanted to love you all these years. Please do not be frightened, we were meant to be, if it weren't for your husband, I would have married you by now.'

The wife screamed, throwing the letter as far away from her as possible and staring at the red chair in horror. Not wanting to touch it, she spent the rest of the day in her room, dreading the chair for all her soul was worth. When her husband came home that night, Chi ran to him, hugging him and shaking like a frightened child.

"Dear! There is someone living inside that chair! I even got a letter! Please inspect the chair for I don't have the courage to do it!" The wife cried.

"Calm yourself woman, theres no way someone could live inside there without air right?' Her husband insisted, staring at his wife like she was insane.

'Please just inspect it.' She begged.

'Alright.' Her husband sighed. His wife followed him inside the room and he approached the chair while Chi watched from far away. The husband felt around the cushions and the soft back of the seat.

'You have to open it.' The wife insisted.

'But it will ruin the chair, besides how can someone be inside of there if there is no opening to get in?' The husband reasoned.

'Then hit it with something, if someone is inside they will shout right?' The wife pleaded.

'Alright alright.' The husband had no choice but to reach for a bat and began slamming it against the back of the chair. After a while, they stood to listen. Nothing.

'You see, it was all in your head, maybe someone was trying to mess with you with that letter, now lets go to bed, I am tired.' The husband put the bat away and began walking away to their bedroom. The wife only sighed. Maybe someone WAS trying to mess with her. It was silly to believe that someone lived in that chair. Thinking nothing more of it, they went to sleep.

Life was beginning to be better for the wife. Things no longer went missing, and she was better able to write on the chair. She no longer got any letters either. But all that changed one night. Before going to bed, the wife noticed there was another piece of paper on her desk. She approached it, fearful of what it said but not being able to hold back her curiosity. When she read it, she was petrified.

'Dear Chi,

Ow! Please tell your husband not to hit me again, it really hurt!'

The wife screamed, and ran to wake her husband.

'Dear! There is someone living in the chair!' She screamed hysterically.

Angry and fed up, the husband could no longer maintain his patience.

'Thats enough! You sound like a lunatic! There is no one living in the chair! You're going insane woman! Do you want me to send you to the loony bin!' He barked.

'No! There really is someone living in the chair!' The wife insisted again.

'Fine! I'll go and sit in it for myself! If there is someone there I should feel their lap wouldn't I?!' With that, the husband got out of bed and entered the wife's office to sit in the chair.

'You see? I feel nothing but soft cushion! You crazy woman, Don't make me divorce you!' The husband screamed, making the wife cry. Then the husbands eyes widened, he gasped, going completely still.

'Dear? What's wrong?' The wife walked over to him to shake him, but stepped back when the husband fell flat on his face. There was a wound on his back. And when the wife looked at the chair, she saw a knife sticking through the front, it had stabbed her husband. Screaming hysterically, the wife called the police and told them what happened. Of course, they didn't believe her, and ruled her husbands death an accident. With nothing else to do, the wife sealed the chair in a plastic cover with multiple layers and had it stored in the basement. She lived the rest if the month mourning her husbands death and never opening the basement door.

A month later, Chi was visited by police. It seemed her neighbors had called for complaints of a terrible smell coming from the bottom of her house. Confused, Chi denied any smells experienced by her.

'My husband just died and I haven't been down to the basement in a long time after that.' She told the officers.

'Mind if we look down there?' One of them asked.

'Not at all.' Chi replied, and led them down to the basement. She grew scared with every step she took down the stairs. The chair sat in the middle of the basement, still wrapped in the plastic lining.

'There is a smell but its very faint.' One of the officers muttered as they circled the chair.

'Whats with that? Don't want it in the house anymore?' The other questioned about the red chair.

Chi nodded. 'I...I used to think there was someone living inside there, my husband died while sitting on it, I'm not sure if it was my imagination but I think there was a knife protruding from the front.'

'Strange, well lets take a look at it.' The officers started unwrapping the chair, it was so tightly wrapped, that it was almost impossible to take it off. But they managed to do it while Chi watched in fear.

'What the...there is a small opening in the front.' The officer noticed.

'Hey look! There's a small zipper on the back too, you can't see it unless you really look.' The officer grabbed it.

'What?! I haven't noticed it before!' Chi yelled, growing more scared by the second.

'Well lets see whats inside, maybe someone IS living inside of it.' The officer said jokingly. He proceeded to open up the chair, and stepped back, holding his nose in horror.

'What the...' He stood there, speechless.

'What? What is it?' Unable to turn away, Chi walked around the chair and looked inside. She screamed. There, right inside the chair, sat the corpse of a man."

...

Connie laughed as Sasha squealed.

"Good luck falling asleep tonight!" The boy cackled.

"You asshole!" Sasha whined.

"That was actually pretty damn good." I mumbled. My plate was empty by now, I had finished it throughout Connies story. "Really creepy too."

"But that's stupid, how the hell did the police rule it an accident when clearly he got stabbed?" Jean scoffed.

Connie stopped laughing and glared daggers at Jean. "Shut up you moron, because they just did."

"I have heard of that story before, The woman had fallen in love with the man in the chair and died in there with him." Mikasa muttered nonchalantly.

"Huh? No way, well I put my own twist to the story, besides who's telling it? That's right me." Connie stated flatly.

"I still think it was creepy." Christa muttered.

"Yeah." Armin agreed.

"What are you brats doing?"

Sasha and I nearly screamed at the sound of Levi's voice. I whirled around to see him staring down at us from behind me, clad in his uniform.

"O-oh you're back." Jean mumbled.

"Naturally." Levy murmured. He tossed Eren a piece of paper and the boy caught it in mid-air, reading it. Everyone else huddled around the brunette to see, but I chose to wait to be told what it was about.

"T-this is!" Eren gasped.

"Did you read it?" Levi muttered.

"Yes, but Levi is this..." Armin didn't get to finish his sentence. I frowned, now I was starting to get curious. What was the paper about?

"It's Erwin's orders, do you believe in him? Come on." Levi snatched the paper away from Eren and threw it into the fire. We watched as it vanished into the flames. What was going on? Everyone was so serious all of a sudden.

"Levi?" I asked, eyeing him for an explanation.

"Not now, we need to move quickly,put the fire out now." Levi said hurridly. He was in a rush, and I didn't understand why, but I obeyed anyway, and helped the others snuff out the fire by throwing piles of dirt into it. I could feel the cold earth slip through my fingers as I threw it in. This was so sudden...and we were having such a good time too.

It didn't take long before coats were passed around and rifles as well.

"Eh? What do we need these for? Are we fighting?" I asked, alarmed as I took a gun from Jeans hands. If it came down to that I would do the fighting to let them escape. It wasn't like ordinary people could catch up to me without the gear anyway.

"Beats me, Levi's orders." Jean hushed me as Levi herded us like sheep deeper into the forest and up the mountain. With the fire's absence, I felt cold again, and was thankful for the coat. Dry winter leaves crunched under our shoes as we climbed up the mountain, the singing of crickets and cicadas could be heard all around us.

"Where are we going?" Eren was the first to ask after a good five minutes of walking.

"Up the mountain, we could be able to see up there." Levi answered. It was too dark to see him clearly, but I could catch the outline of his body.

"See what?" I whispered to Sasha, who walked behind me.

"That paper was a search warrant for the headquarters, seems like we got found out." Sasha muttered.

"You're kidding..." I gasped. They found us out that fast? But how? We were being so careful.

"We're here, don't flash any lights you might have to avoid being seen." Levi instructed. We carefully climbed on top of a grassy hill and scattered, guns at our side and staring downwards beyond us. From this high, we had clear view of the building down below in full moonlight. And since it was dark, I was sure we couldn't be seen on the hill. Below us, there were several men scattered about, breaking in to the building. They were armed too.

"Holy shit, that was a close one." Connie stated, not tearing his eyes away from the scene.

"What do you think would have happened to us if we were there?" Sasha muttered meekly.

"Who knows, just thank your lucky stars I came in time." Levi said, a cloud of fog escaping his lips in the cold.

"So is that the military police?" I asked curiously.

"Who know's...to think they would come here directly..." Levi sighed. "Anyway, lets hurry to the Trost district, we can probably find Erwin there."

"Right." We followed behind him down the other end of the slope, feet slamming against the soft earth.

"This is such a hassle, man, I will never take a horse for granted again." Connie whined.

"And we are by the mountains too, this is going to be a long trip." Levi stated. "We don't have any time to rest too, we will have to keep going until we get there."

"Alright, alright...whatever you say." Connie breathed out. I had to smile at that. These guys didn't have as much stamina as me, and if only I had a speedy jutsu like Temari's fan, it wouldn't be so bad for them. But I was painfully immobile. That was one of the things Tsunade warned me about. Nevertheless, it never failed to hinder me in my fights against strong enemies like Sasori. With that in mind, I continued walking with the group throughout the forest.