Chapter 23 - Annie 2

" A...curse??.....haha....are you being serious right now Asriel....a curse?" laughed Annie wearily. She was tired, she felt like her whole world was crumbling, everything she knew was being told it was wrong and she was starting to believe it and now, a curse.

" I get that it's quite unbelievable but it's the truth, Annie. If you want to see it for yourself, I can show you the previous titan shifters' memories and experiences." said Asriel while hugging Annie, she looked listless. She held onto him tightly when she realized she was being hugged. She was afraid, afraid that she was going to die soon but his warmth made her feel that everything was going to be alright.

" Ohh....what do we have here~ So you were eloping with Annie secretly eh?~ And here I thought you were helping other people but nooo~ our playboy here is secretly making out with his mistress~" said Ymir with a mischevious tone. Asriel and Annie didn't give a shit and still hugged each other without even looking at her or acknowledging her. Annie was surprised at first and wanted to separate but seeing Asriel's playful smile and ignoring Ymir, she decided to ignore her as well and enjoyed the warmth of the hug.

Seeing that they didn't even budge or even acknowledge her, Ymir was pissed off and yelled,

" Oi! I'm talking to you, assholes!" they still didn't give a shit about her. Ymir at this time was extremely pissed but then she calmed down a bit after thinking about something, she then said with a vicious smile,

" Hey, Asriel! You don't want Mikasa to hear about this right? I wonder what she would do to you if she knew you were cheating on her, hahaha. Or better yet, I wonder what would Christa think when she knew that you were not only cheating on Mikasa but was trying to get her too. hehehe. " (Ymir)

" You're not going to say anything?" asked Annie softly with a bit of worry in her voice.

" When a dog barks at you, do you bark back?" replied Asriel with a smile not giving Ymir any face.

" Besides, I'd rather hug a cute girl like you than arguing with a mongrel. Haha" (Asriel) hearing that Annie blushed a bit but she didn't know why Asriel was acting rude towards Ymir. Ymir hearing this instantly raged.

" What did you say, you shit head?" asked Ymir with a vein threatening to pop on her forehead.

" Seems like it's a deaf mongrel, tsk tsk, poor mutt." replied Asriel while shaking his head. He already let go of Annie as she seemed a bit uncomfortable with the current situation. She stood behind him and waited to see what would happen, she had a feeling that Asriel was angering Ymir purposely.

" So this is your true self huh Asriel, I knew it! Christa, she is too naive to think that you are some goody two shoes. I was right...I warned her...but she didn't care.....now she hates me. I'm gonna prove to her that I was right. I WILL get her back! I must! SHE IS MINE! MINE!! MINE!! and your head will be the proof hehehehe...." laughed Ymir maniacally and slowly took out a knife. Annie furrowed her brows seeing this and looked at Asriel to see how he will respond. She saw him looking at Ymir with a carefree smile and was not making any move. She inched closer to him and asked what was wrong with Ymir. Asriel quickly explained to her how Ymir was overloaded with jealousy towards him and obsessiveness towards Christa that when Christa told her to 'f.u.c.k off', she went crazy.

" Hehehe Ahhh~ I wonder what your face would look like when I bit off your body hehehe~ Christa wait for me a bit~" said Ymir and slashed her hands with the knife. Suddenly she was engulfed in a yellow lightning and transformed into a titan.

"RAWWW" (Titan Ymir)

When Annie saw the yellow lightning, she was surprised that Ymir was also a titan shifter like her, but after seeing the form of the titan she was livid. It was the same titan that killed Marcel after all, although she wasn't quite close with Marcel, he still kinda saved her. She wanted to transform into the titan form and fight with Yimr but was stopped by Asriel.

" Don't worry, I'll take care of her, you stay back and watch." said Asriel with a wink and stepped forward. Annie blushed a bit and did what he told her to, she was excited to see how strong he was. Asriel transformed his hands into blades of crystal which glowed blue. Annie was instantly mesmerized with the blades, she had never seen such beautiful blades before. Ymir was quickly closing in on him but he was calm and walked steadily forward, straight towards the charging Ymir. When Ymir was close enough she tried to grab Asriel but with a blur of his hands, her hands were cut off and flew to the side. Asriel sidestepped to dodge Ymir who lost her balance and came crashing down forward. Steam started to come out of the wounds and Ymir screamed in pain, she rolled around on the ground and tried to stand back up.

But before she could, she felt a sharp pain in her legs. She screamed again and when she looked down towards her legs she saw that her legs were cleanly cut off and now was steaming. Annie was shocked when she saw how strong Asriel was, she felt that even in her titan mode she wouldn't be able to defeat him who didn't even fully transformed. Ymir was now scared out of her wits, she didn't realize that he was a titan shifter and a very strong one. Before she could get out of her titan form her head was cut off along with her titan head by Asriel with one stroke of his hands. Her titan body started to evaporate and her body was revealed, her eyes were wide open with fear, she didn't die a peaceful death. Asriel conjured a bluish flame and burnt her corpse, after a while not even ashes remain.

" Come on, let's go....I don't want you freezing in this storm." said Asriel with a smile as if nothing happened. Annie was speechless and was quite afraid, but she remembered how gentle he was towards her and so her fear towards him slowly diminished.

" Yeah.....let's go." said Annie with a smile.