HOTREDD

Attack on titan spoiler warning! The lucid dream was originally of a road trip that recently arrived at an entire city built by a single person. Despite its size it was more of a piece of art as the city was made without a demand for one, resulting in all buildings being vacant. It was at this stop where I chose to return to Paradis. Inspired by the entire setting being created by one person, I morphed and moved around the ground and city I was in to recreate the world of attack on titan. I found myself at a random spot in the city once everything settled into place, not exactly where I left off. I remembered the fight from last time, but forgot we ended in one of the titan team’s homes. I could tell this was set days after the fight, but I had to look around to find out more information on how the world has developed. Taking the easiest route, I went straight to the first person I saw on the street and noticed they immediately backed away.

Knowing my identity has been seen before, I grabbed the person before they ran off. They were scared but quickly answered all of my questions. The survey corps and the police within the walls were looking for the three titan members caught in the cafe last dream, with more information and pictures of our faces drawn on the newspapers. I thanked them and went off to get a newspaper to learn more since I was starting to attract attention this way. Seeing a newspaper stand I spawned some coins on my open hand and paid for one. As told, there were professional sketches and descriptions of me and the others. To appear less like the description I got rid of my hardening imitation of hair and used some under my skin to change my facial structure and height. Realizing the man at the newspaper stand saw me changing, I used one of the discarded hardened strands of hair as a blade to kill him.

Before I left the scene someone else walked up to me, I was ready to attack but saw they were just another member of the titans. They did not have their identity revealed, so they were safe to walk around the city with me. As we were walking they explained where the titans were hiding now along with plans to take out more of the survey corps. They have taken care of some squads by reporting sightings and taking them down as a group, along with simply taking some squads outside of the walls by surprise. They were emboldened by my success with their lookout in the past dream and now most of the survey scouts were killed or unable to fight anymore. Most of the ones left were captains, extremely skilled soldiers, and trainees. The mission we wanted to complete soon was destroying the barracks along with anyone inside. The survey corps would lose trainees, equipment, and effective instructors. My teammate also asked for more strands of hardening so they could all use those as swords.

We were walking as we talked, and arrived at the office building I was familiar with. I was worried that some people there would recognise me and wanted to keep my distance, but my teammate reminded me of my change in appearance. I was also worried about harming people I got to know in the area since over the dreams I met people throughout the town and although I did not write about each of those interactions I became familiar with the area. As the building was essential to the survey corps, taking it down would dramatically lower their capabilities. While thinking and talking about it, my teammate pointed out two other teammates who arrived. Once again Oneirin was there, and the plan was to have him destroy the building while the rest of us spread out defending him. We split walking away from the building in different directions while Oneirin walked up to the front doors. The guards immediately went for him and he charged through the doors.

In a single moment, light shot out the windows and lightning crashed at the surrounding buildings reaching out from the exploding building. He was the colossal titan. Right as the deafening shockwave from the explosion reached me, I wondered what defense he would even need. Almost as an answer, soldiers came out of several surrounding buildings with some still putting on gear and others already jumping from rooftops to counterattack against the titan. Among the waves of soldiers I saw Meiseki, Iluzjusz, and Harlequin again. Seeing all of the soldiers, I transformed along with the other titans in the distance. Titans being in all directions led the soldiers facing away from me to quickly notice I was behind them as well, But now having the sword use of my titan power in mind I sliced some down with a created blade. I grew other blades out of the ground for the other titans to pick up along with collars they could put on to protect the obvious weak spot of their necks.

Putting them on, the rest of the titans were able to easily take down multiple soldiers at once. It got considerably harder after the first couple kills as the only soldiers left were truly the most skilled. I saw some soldiers running on one titan and another titan with their arms sliced off. On my end, I was cutting down those I could and regenerating whatever parts were cut by the more difficult ones. I was able to trap one in a hollow orb made from the hardening, but once that happened to one the rest became more cautious. Considering the other titans were already given the collars for protection, I did not pay much mind to them as I looked around for the buildings soldiers came out from. Crushing those likely destroyed equipment stored there as the survey squad were clearly prepared for an attack on their office.

The colossal titan was already on it, destroying all buildings near the office. Once we caused enough destruction and killed all the survey corps we reasonably could, We ran at each other to prepare our escape. I started with shooting my hand through the three smaller titans to grab the people out of their forms. I had to reach my arm up and jump to grab the body in the colossal titan. Once everyone was collected, I was surrounded by every surviving survey corps like a swarm of flies. I once again pulled off a similar escape by balling everyone into a hollow orb and throwing both the orb and my encased body. One of the soldiers was able to grab onto the orb in flight and I simply stabbed into them with a spike since the wind pressure left them stiff in the air. On landing I granted the other titans invulnerability for a moment since there was no reasonable way for them to survive the landing even in the orb. I released them and got myself out of my crystal casing, and I ended the dream after completing the mission. I was not too concerned with ending at a consistent place this time.