Chapter 1

Nobody had ever heard of someone from the inner wall joining the army. Life was so quiet and peaceful there, why would they ever want to leave. It was an even bigger surprise to to find out that it was a girl who had signed up. A young one, too. Only 14.

It was rumored that she wouldn't last long judging by her appearance. Small in stature, light in weight, a face that didn't look ready for violence. With elbow length black hair and deep blue eyes.

Her name was Élise LeVain.

She graduated the academy early at the age of 16, top of her class. She excelled at everything. She was intelligent, a natural at using the 3D maneuver gear, extraordinarily brilliant at hand to hand combat, and always kept up a good composure. She didn't show fear or let emotions control her reactions.

Her final stats are as followed:

Intelligence 10/10

Social Skills 6/10

Weight 1/10

Height 2/10

Vitality 10/10

Battle Skills 10/10

She was 159 cm tall (5'2 ft) and 55 kg (121 lbs). She was quiet and liked to keep to herself. She was silent when it came to teamwork, she usually wouldn't say much but still cooperate.

After graduating she decided to join the Scouting Legion. When the time came she got hand picked to join Corporal Rivaille's Special Operations Squad to assist with Eren Jaeger.

Her and her horse, Sebastian, that she had had for years now were immediately departed to the scouting legion headquarters. She was formally welcomed by the members upon arrival. Commander Erwin had ordered Hanji to be her personal tour guild for that day.

"This will be your room," Hanji opened the door to reveal a sad excuse of a bedroom. With only a bed, a nightstand, a mirror and an ugly dresser to occupy the space. Hanji noticed Elise was unamused, "It's not much because it's more than likely that you will only be spending about 10% of your day in here."

Elise nodded in understanding. She walked in and placed her suitcase by the dresser. "You're not much of a talker, huh?" Hanji asked still standing in the doorway.

Elise smiled bashfully, "It's not that I'm shy... I'm just not one for talking a lot."

"Then I guess I choose the wrong person to show you around," a mans voice echoed into the room. Elise turned around in surprise.

"Commander? When did you get here?" Hanji asked the man standing next to her.

Elise had never met the commander before, he meet her expectations almost perfectly. Large, tall, fairly handsome...

"I came to personally welcome our new comrade to the squad." Commander Erwin walked towards her, which was when she notice the neatly folded lump of green in his hands. "I've brought your new uniform, you'll be wearing it from this day on" He extended it out towards her.

Elise reached out slowly and grabbed it from him, "Thank you, sir."

Before being recruited onto the corporals team she had down time to spend with captain Erwin Smith. She had to wait until they found a place to permanently put her, but for the time being she was the personal assistant for the captain, only because he was in need of one at the time. They quickly became good friends. Only a week after she joined she was participating in practicing for group missions.

11 days in, she meet her first Titan. The scouting legion was running a small drill to practice for a larger one that was taking place in the near future. This mission was like a test run.

"Stay close to me, Elise. This is your first run outside the wall. Make sure you keep your eyes peeled, titans will be everywhere." Commander smith told her as they both waited on their horses for the gates to open.

"Right."

The gates opened shortly after and they commenced. It didn't take long for a Titan to appear. Elise store in freight as it got closer. Instead of trusting her natural instinct to run away, she faced forward and continued to run in a group. It's loud footsteps got closer and closer. She tried her best to ignore them and kept facing forward. Eventually two soldiers who rode towards the back of the formation took it out.

"I'm surprised you're keeping such a good composure, your first time seeing a Titan and you're not even phased." Erwin complimented.

She didn't dare tell him she almost panicked and broke formation. They didn't ride long until running into another. This time Elise wasn't as affected by it. As soon as that one was killed off, another appeared. Then another. Two, now, were chasing them down. Ahead was a clearing that brought promise of more space to spread out.

Fear filled everyone as the giant field revealed over a dozen titans wandering aimlessly. Everyone pulled their horse to a stop in unisons.

"W-what is this!?" The commander exclaimed in confusion. Every Titan in the clearing turned toward them. The two that had already been pursuing them drew closer.

"Everybody fall back! Get back into the woods!" The commanders voice pierced everyone's ears.

Everybody turned around and sought refuge in the cluttered trees. Most of them managing to get separated from the group. Including Elise. She could still barley see the commander 20 meters away. She heard him call her name twice. To come closer to the group. She could hear screaming and sounds of agony as soldiers fell victim to a Titan.

Before she even had time to collect her thoughts a 9M class Titan stepped out in front of her. Causing Sebastian to rear up and send Elise flying off. He scurried away leaving her to face the Titan alone. She quickly stood and drew forth her two blades. It stared at her for a moment, looking almost amused, then slowly reached down for her. Elise took immediate action and fired her 3D maneuver gear straight into it's face. Flying towards it, she lifted up her blades and pierced them directly into both it's eyes. She wasted no time getting out of the way for the incoming hands. Jumping behind it's head and immediately turning to face it and fire a rope into the back of it's neck and finishing him off.

She landed on the ground to be immediately visited by another Titan. This time she was unprepared and got caught by her leg. The giant lifted her up high before bringing her to it's mouth. Elise used her abs to pull her upper body up and cut trough the fingers that held her. She heard her name being called as she fell to the ground. She gracefully landed and looked about to locate where the voice had come from.

The Commander rode up to her swift-fully, hand extended to pick her up. Elise took the hint and raised her hand just in time for him to grabbed it and pull her aboard on his horse.

"Looks like I came just in time," he sounded a little relieved.

"If you consider after almost being eaten twice to be perfect timing."

He smirked. "I saw you fight both of them. You handle yourself well."

So far no other titans had appeared. Soon the trees began to dissipate and it became more open.

"Ah!" Elise gasped in shock.

"What?! What is it?"

"It's Sebastian! He came back!" Elise watched as the black beauty came closer and closer to them. He eventually ran right beside them just on their left. Elise leaned over and grabbed the reins, then ever so slowly leaned her way towards him. Swinging her legs over in the process.

"Be careful!" The commander hissed as Elise jumped over onto Sebastian.

"Such a good boy coming back," Elise praised him rubbing his neck.

"Look! To your left!" the commanders voice was urgent.

She gasped in horror as a Titan ran full speed toward them, "It's so fast!"

"No doubt an abnormal."

"What are we going to do?" Elise's voice sounded panicked.

"Just keep running, I can see some of our squad ahead," The commander continued to face forward.

"Ehh," the noise escaped Elise's mouth. "Commander!"

The abnormal cut them off despite being 100 meters away only 10 seconds ago. It's giant foot stomped in front of them sending both them and their horses flying in separate directions. Elise hit the ground hard and tumbled a long ways before coming to a stop. Her whole body ached and she couldn't decide which way was up. Her senses slowly came to and she began to feel a tug on her uniform.

Still disoriented, she hung limply. Her eyes shot open in fear as she finally realized her situation. She was being held up in the air by her green cloak.