"Eren!" I screamed. He didn't notice.

He walked on, looking for more titans, presumably.

"I can hear him..." I said to myself, shocked.

Maybe I could contact him?

"Eren?" I thought. The titan stopped and looked around, before continuing.

"Eren!"

"What!" He asked. I gasped and reeled back.

"Who are you?" He sniffed, "where are you?"

"Eren! It's me, Kira!"

"I do not know Kira. Are you a titan?"

"Uh... Yes... Ish."

"Then I will kill you!"

"Uh..." I didn't know how to respond to that.

"I am a friend?"

"I'll kill you all!"

"Eren!" I snapped, "are you seriously going to just... Go around killing every titan you see? The humans will notice!"

"Humans?"

"Oh god." He wasn't in control. That wasn't Eren. This had to be the first time he's transformed. He had no idea he could do this... That he was like me...

I had to tell the others!

"Oh my god!" "Mikasa, Mikasa will be worried sick!"

"What is Mikasa?"

I paled. "If she could hear this right now..."

"Eren! Will you kill me if I help you fight the Titans?"

"...I... Will not Kill you..."

"Great!" I beamed. The others thought I was dead anyway. This would be fun! Payback time!

Wait... This wasn't... But... Eren was like me! I'd help him! I'd finally be able to... Tell him... About his mother...

This suddenly wasn't so fun anymore.

"Show me who you are, I will not kill you." Eren said... Thought? I think it was kinda like talking - the things we thought stayed in our heads, unless we wanted them to. Eren, of course, seemed to be acting on instinct: He knew exactly how to thought-speak, to kill the Titans. His instinct right now was to kill them, and so he would. His rage... It was... So violent. Like a monster continually clawing at his insides every hour of every day... This was the only way to vent it: By killing the Titans. The one way to feed the monster.

I took out my knife, the one I'd taken out so many times, but never used. I slit my wrist, but I didn't change. Because, as soon as I did it, I thought... What if Eren was influencing my thoughts? With his rage and his determination, was he inadvertently making me the same way?

I then thought of the reason he was like this... Because of his mother... Because of me...

I remembered the promise if made to him when we joined the cadets. I'll be right behind...

And with that, I jumped from a roof for the second time that day, and transformed before I hit the ground.

This feeling... I hadn't had it in so long... It was... Amazing. The energy, the power...

Eren turned, roared, and ran at me. Throwing a punch.

I blocked it with my arm, and the bony pad that protected it cracked from the force. Pain blossomed but healed almost instantly. Eren didn't fare quite so well, his fist split and broke, leaving a stump that slowly began to regenerate.

"You said you wouldn't try to kill me." I said.

Eren's new face wasn't built for smiling, but by opening his mouth slightly, he almost managed it, "just checking."

I liked this Eren. Maybe I was influencing him too.

Three fifteen meters turned the corner, and we glanced at each other, "two for me one for you?" I asked, my now loose brown hair, which had grown to my waist in the change, was blowing in the light breeze, it had rained previously, but now patches of sun was shining through, sending ribbons of light streaming though it.

"The two there are mine!" Eren snarled and ran at them.

I grinned and followed.

I punched the titan in the face, doing what many Cadets would dream of doing, and then swiped my legs, dropping the titan. One stomp, and it was done.

Eren was tackling two titans at once, trying not to get eaten. I kicked one and it slammed into a building. Eren turned to me, "that was mine!"

"You needed help." I insisted.

There was a crash, and I turned my head. There was a figure flying through the streets, wherever it passed, titans fell. It was Mikasa, no doubt. The person was the size of a Cadet, and no other person had that much skill.

"She's gotten the news." I said, staring.

"What?"

"She thinks your dead."

"Humph." Eren snorted through his nose, "I'm not dead."

"Yea, but she doesn't know that!" I said, "she's using too much gas, we need to protect her!"

"Why?"

"Because a titan will try and kill her."

"And I will kill the titan."

"Bingo."

Suddenly people were flying everywhere. Eren snarled and tried to grab them.

"No! Eren! Don't hurt them!" I exclaimed.

I crouched down and covered my neck. Eren didn't swat at them, and they carried on going, they were going to headquarters.

"Why would they do that...? Unless... Oh god..." I whispered, "they're out of gas."

The words came as a titan growl. Eren looked back at me, "what?"

"Nothing."

Eren snorted and ran at a ten metre, kicking and punching it into oblivion.

I looked back at Mikasa. The trauma this would cause... I wonder if she knew about my 'death?'

She fell, she was out of gas.

"We need to go!" I exclaimed.

"Where there are Titans?" Eren asked.

"Yes, there are titans." I sighed. This was like talking to a much slower, stupider person. I hoped Eren would learn to control himself soon.

Soon? I thought to myself, there is no 'soon'. If we don't die here, humans will kill us themselves! And even if we do, where do we go? Full blown titan country? I looked at Eren beating the crap out of another titan, if I have to live with that version of Eren. I'll give myself up to a titan myself.

I began running down the street, Eren began following me. A hideously mutated ten metre tried to chomp my arm, But Eren threw a right hook and kicked it into a building. And ripped right through it's neck. I shuddered. He was way too violent... In any form, actually.

I thought of my friend, wrapped up in the neck of that creature. He obviously wasn't aware. I thought of how he would react to the sight of his titan carcass, of how he'd react to me... Assuming he was still conscious when he woke. I gulped.

I skidded around a corner, and froze.

Mikasa was right there, in the next street. She was just... Sitting there. A titan was almost in front of her, a smile on its face, lunging...

At the last moment, Mikasa jumped and ran. The titan fell against a wall and crumbled it. She was standing there. "Run!" I screamed. I had to get there.

A second titan was now entering the street. It was Eren.

"Eren! Watch out for Mikasa!" I screamed.

"Don't worry." Eren snarled, "I'll just kill the titan."

"NO!" I yelled. Mikasa gave a war cry, and Eren launched himself at the titan.

With a punch he knocked the Titan back. I could feel the force wracking his entire body. It reverberated through my own.

The titan skidded down the cobblestone street, and in frantically looked for Mikasa. There! There she was! I almost buckled in relief.

"How do you like that?" Eren smirked at the titan. He winked at me, and lifted his head to roar. Mikasa and I covered our ears. I smirked at Eren, "two can play at that game."

I ran along my street and vaulted over the buildings, landing on the poor, defenceless, innocent titan, and stomped on it's head.

"This if for your crimes against humanity." I said, and tore off an arm, "this, is for your crimes against Mikasa," I pulled off a leg. I waited until the head grew back, "and this," I lifted a leg, "is for your crimes against clothing, put some pants on, Dammit!"

I kicked the head like a soccer ball, and watched it go flying off into a building somewhere.

"My turn." Eren snarled. He kicked the titan against a wall, and stomped on it, again and again like before. Until it was a hissing, steaming, bloody mess on the ground.

"That was fun." Eren commented, "another?"

"Why not?" I looked back at Mikasa. She was staring at us in shock, I noticed something in the corner of my eye and looked up, Armin was there, flying towards her with fierce determination on his face, he dropped to the ground, grabbed Mikasa and Lifted onto a rooftop.

"She's safe." I sighed with relief.

"Here's another! They just keep coming!" Eren laughed, walking towards a fifteen meter.

"Double team it again?" I asked.

"...sure..." Eren tried another lopsided grin at me. It was terrifying.

We stood together, and I roared a challenge at the titan. It answered with a roar of its own.

Eren lifted his arms in the classic combat stance. I turned to see Mikasa, Armin and Connie watching. My chest burned. I remembered the stab. Would I ever forgive Connie for doing that to me?

I better.

The titan roared again and ran at Eren, he swung a fist, and hit the side of the Titans head. Bones broke and tendons snapped like the strings of a lute. The Titans head came flying off, hitting the church tower.

"Nice." I watched the Titan fall forwards, and with a hard stomp, I slammed my foot down on the weak spot.

"Moving on." I flicked my hair back and followed Eren as he walked on. The back of my neck prickled and I turned to see who was staring at me. Mikasa, Eren and Connie.

Should I wave? I wanted to see their faces. I did.

It was hilarious.