~Marco POV~
"See that? It's the village!", Sasha pointed out to me and the veteran scout accompanying us.
"Is that the last one?", he asked her.
"No! My village is deep in the forest!", Sasha informed him intensely. I could see she was starting to get more and more worried the closer we got.
"Me and Sasha can go to her village", I suggested, thinking we better be two people there since we didn't have any gear.
"Alright, leave this village to me then", the scout said, parting ways with us.
"Got it!", Sasha said, her gaze not leaving the forest edge closing in in front of us.
As we rode further and further into the dense forest, Sasha didn't say a word, deep in thought.
"Sasha, what's wrong?!", I exclaimed as I noticed a look of panic flash across her face.
"There, on the ground! Titan footprints! They made it all the way out here!", she exclaimed stressed, and I felt my face go pale.
'Seems like we really have to fight titans without gear... Is that even possible?'
"Shit...", I muttered.
We got out of the forest and Sasha slightly gasped as she looked over at a village to our left.
"I've never seen that village before!", Sasha said with a voice full of wonder. "Could they really have built all this during the past three years I've been away?", she then said, thinking out loud.
"Let's check it out, and make sure there are no civilians there", I decided, Sasha following my lead.
"Seems empty enough... I can't even really hear anything-", Sasha said quietly as we rode through the village.
"There!", I exclaimed as quiet as possible while pointing towards an entrance to one of the buildings. Quiet munching sounds could be heard, and what being munched on was a sound we both had heard many times now since that day in Trost. I cringed as my mind automatically pictured what was going on in there. We needed to be stealthy and think everything through before acting here.
"We can try and hit it with that axe over there", Sasha suggested as we got off our horses, quietly but swiftly making our way towards the house.
"Its better than nothing", I said sincere, grabbing a hold of the axe. I charged towards its nape with every ounce of force i could muster, hacking at it like it was no tomorrow, but the axe wasn't near sharp enough.
"Damn it! Its already healing between every hit", I exclaimed, continuing hitting it to at least buy us some time.
"A child?", Sasha whispered shocked, and I looked over to my right. A little girl was sitting with her back turned away from us.
'She's been sitting here watching her mom get eaten?'
"I'm sorry", Sasha said, looking at the woman in the titans grasp as she carefully made her way over to the girl. I continued hacking until the girls had left the building, before dropping it and running after them. It was to no use anyway.
I looked back as I ran, noticing the titan looked more interested in us than the poor lady it was currently devouring.
"Sasha! Untie the horses!", I called out. "It's about to go after us!".
"Oh! Okay!", she replied, fumbling with the reins. The girl said something, throwing Sasha off, and the horses made a run for it.
"Huh!! You're kidding me! Hey!!", Sasha screamed after them as she jumped up and down in frustration. She started calling for them using the special whistling pattern we were taught.
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A Second Chance (Marco x Fem Reader)
Fanfiction'You look over to the spot your parents were standing not even a half a minute ago. Your ears were ringing, the big boulder in front of you earning your full attention. You barely even noticed someone grabbing your hand, pulling you along with them...
