Author's Note: So this is something brand new, with an entirely different formula I've gotten inspired to write. It completely abandons my ongoing cliches, and is going to be an extremely new idea. Also, while this does take place in the world of Attack On Titan, it is a bit of an alternate universe. Enjoy and please review!

It was summer morning in the kingdom of Eldia, as usual for Paradis island the weather was warm and sunny, with only the brief breeze every few hours. Typical for the season. It was certainly the perfect day for heading to the beach, and the absolute worst say to be stuck inside a stuffy house.

A lone cabin hidden in the center of a deep forest, just outside Wall Sina, appeared empty and dormant from a distance at first glance. However, upon closer inspection, there was indeed residents.

A small stable near the cabin holding two black horses indicated this, along with a wagon big enough to carry four-five people alongside it.

The window in the front of the cabin near its door suddenly was pushed opened, dust visibly flying outwards from the inside.

A shorter man with black hair, looking around 25, wearing a cloth over his mouth and nose and carrying a broom had opened the window to air the small building out.

A smaller window in the kitchen had also been opened, along with the windows in the two bedrooms. The kitchen was small, with all needed appliances, and the main living area simply had a sofa, an armchair and a fireplace.

There was a small wooden table and chairs in between the two rooms, along with a small bathroom and two separate bedrooms down the short hallway.

A young woman, also having black hair and pale skin was using a mop and a pail of water to wipe the wooden floors up.

Her hair was short, but not pixie length, her long bangs made her look rather feminine, despite her muscular build under her clothes. She appeared around 19-20. She had her sleeves rolled up as she continued to mop.

They had been working for a while already, since 6 AM and it was already almost 10 AM. Exhaling due to the heat, Mikasa lifted her arm up to her sweaty forehead.

"Let's take a break", the man spoke then, his tone distant and cold. The woman simply nodded quietly, setting the mop back into the pail of water.

She then went over to the sink to get a drink of cold water, while the man sat down at the table, pulling the cloth from his mouth.

He glanced over, watching her drink quite a bit, she was practically inhaling the water, downing the tall glass.

"You could have just said you were thirsty hours ago", he commented. "I'm okay, its best we got done as quickly as possible", she answered after exhaling.

She wiped some cold water up her arms, when suddenly there was an alarming sound knock at the door. The knock caused the woman to flinch ever so slightly, her heart rate increased and she even frozen for a brief moment.

"Relax-it's most likely one of the Queen's guards", the man assured her, getting up and answering the door. Sure enough, a man looking like a messenger was standing at their doorstep.

He had traveled here via horse. "Levi Ackerman, and Mikasa Ackerman. Urgent message from Queen Historia-she requires your presence at once", the messenger told them, handing Levi the scroll.

Levi silently unrolled the parchment, reading it over as Mikasa approached, looking not as alarmed now. "We need to leave-now", Levi said then after reading it over. Mikasa nodded, and the two quickly got dressed into their gear.

They wore clothes easy to move around in-a simple pair of dark pants, white long sleeved shirts that buttoned in the front, belts that held some dangerous weapons, and most noticeable were the dark gray, almost black hooded cloaks.

Mikasa's weapons included a large double bladed sword, a small dagger and a pistol. She also carried a special Poison mist in the form of small grenade like weapons.

Levi had a large sword, a pistol, a dagger and a long chain with a hook at the end. The two were a sibling pair of assigned soldiers, assassins hand picked by Queen Historia to serve and protect Paradis from human criminals.

Traffickers, murderers, rapists, pedophiles, con artists, thieves, and even sometimes domestic issues. If something illegal was going on, and if it was hidden well enough from the Military Police, the Queen entrusted the brother and sister pair to deal with it quietly.

They were required to always follow her orders, no matter if they were capture or kill. They proved to be much more effective than the MP on many occasions, making them well trusted.

"Was Queen Historia specific in her message?", asked Mikasa as they began to saddle their horses.

"No, she just said we needed to see her in Wall Sina right away", Levi answered, as he mounted onto his stallion.

"The Queen isn't normally that discreet...", Mikasa commented, as she got onto her mare, which was just as black in color as her brother's stallion.

"Which means she was worried if that message ended up in the wrong hands-", Levi began. "Whoever our next target is will flee as fast as possible", Mikasa finished, as their horses began to gallop away from the cabin and towards the city inside Wall Sina.

"I'm thinking traffickers, they tend to be the most slippery in terms of escape", Levi deduced, urging his horse on faster as Mkasa rode alongside him. They rode in silence for the rest of the time, before finally arriving at the Queen's palace in the heart of Wall Sina.

After being escorted inside, they walked up to the throne where Queen Historia stood. She had appeared to be pacing while awaiting their arrival.

Respectfully, Levi and Mikasa got down on their knees, bowing down to the Queen. "Thank you both for coming so quickly", Historia walked over to them, gesturing for the Ackermans to raise their heads.

"We're going to assume traffickers?", Levi asked, standing up with his sister. "I'm afraid you're correct. The worst kind at that", Historia answered, as the two listened.

"Its only due to sheer miracle we were able to find these specific traffickers. They were hidden well. A young boy managed to escape, only about 10 years old. He alerted us that his mother and sisters were still being held, along with several other women and children", she began to explain.

"Where's the boy now?", asked Mikasa. "He's safe at the orphanage just until we can reunite him. That leads me to your mission. We have a location, its an underground trafficking business in the East of Wall Rose. According to the boy, there's about 11 women and 7 children", Historia answered.

"Small number", Levi commented, raising an eyebrow. "Which tells me they just started trafficking", Mikasa stated. "Exactly, it seems to be a new ring, so I want it nipped in the bud as soon as possible", Historia nodded.

"Your mission Ackermans-you have a location. Deal with these traffickers quietly and quickly, and bring those women and children back here safely", Historia said then, handing Mikasa a scrolled up map.

"We'll take care of this quickly your majesty", Levi nodded, as he and his sister turned and left the palace.

Burrowing a large cart being carried by four royal horses, they made their way to the East side of Wall Rose. After going through the gate, Mikasa scanned over the map once more.

"Looks like this group had quite a lot of tunneling work to pull this off", she commented, as Levi drove the cart, holding onto the horse's reins.

"How so?", he asked. "This location is in some underground tunnels. It was originally going to be built into a shelter from titans, but since most titans have been driven to extinction, the project was ultimately abandoned", Mikasa explained.

Titans while were still a species on Paradis, they had been hunted finally to near extinction thanks to the Survey Corps. However, with the downfall of the titans, human crimes began to arise within the walls of Wall Maria and Wall Rose.

"So there were no constructed tunnels?", Levi figured. "None, so whoever these traffickers are-they must have been spending months on this hideout before actually trafficking...", Mikasa replied.

Levi went quiet for a moment...this seemed like an awful lot of effort for human trafficking. It was unusual for them to go to such lengths. Almost as if they were trying to hide more than kidnapped civilians...

As if his younger sister could read his mind, Mikasa spoke up. "Do you think its some form of cult activity? Left over worshipers of the walls?", she asked.

"It's possible-we'll know more once we get there", Levi answered. He urged the horses on faster, and soon they arrived at the location.

It was indeed stairs to an underground tunnel, large enough to fit hundreds, if not thousands of people for a time of crisis. It looked abandoned as ever, with no signs of life.

That is...to the naked eyes. Mikasa approached the top of the stairs, she knelt down. "There's a boot print here", she said, seeing an obvious boot print on a small pile of saw dust that was on the first step. She glanced up, the entrance's ceiling had a crack in it, explaining where the saw dust was coming from.

"Yeah, and someone recently took a piss here", Levi added, glancing over at the stone wall. "Charming", Mikasa commented sarcastically.

"My point is, its still wet-someone's here", Levi explained simply. "Then we move slowly and carefully", Mikasa nodded.

The two made their way down the long wide staircase. Once they made it inside, they began walking down the long tunnel. It took a good twenty to thirty minutes of walking, before finally spotting something off.

Levi glanced over, seeing a large wooden door on the right side. "That's new", Mikasa commented, also seeing it. Levi and her hurried over to the door. They each got on either side of it, their backs pressed against the wall.

Levi nodded to his sister, and she pulled out her small dagger. Moving swiftly but carefully, she began to pick the lock.

It took a few seconds, but finally they heard a sharp click. Mikasa slowly turned the knob, and pushed the door opened just enough to peek inside.

"Well?", asked Levi quietly. "Another corridor-but I can faintly hear voices", Mikasa answered, also speaking softly. Levi nodded. "Keep your guard up", he warned her, as they slowly and quietly entered.

This corridor was only about a 3-5 minute walk, before they finally were faced with an opened doorway. Once more, both siblings crouched down, backs to the wall as they heard the talking much clearer now.

"Careful", Levi whispered, as Mikasa peered over to look inside. Inside the room was a large prison cell against the stone wall. It held around eleven women and seven children, all looking like normal civilians.

There were four men, traffickers, discussing prices at a wooden table right near the cell. Levi also glanced in subtly and carefully.

"I don't know-you really think any of them will fetch us enough? None of them have special blood or anything", one of the men commented.

"Nonsense, you realize what some buyers will pay for young, beautiful and fertile women? Not to mention, children are hard workers", the other shot back firmly.

"So which ones are ready to go?", the third asked, impatiently. "Three, I'll grab them now", the last one decided, getting up. Levi frowned, this one had a rather large rifle while the other three had smaller weapons.

He let three women out, and one of the woman in his tight grasp was visibly and heavily pregnant. She appeared frightened, just like the others. Mikasa froze up, her heart sinking down to her gut. This woman...reminded her of someone...from her past.

"Mikasa, I'll take him out. I'm faster, so you deal with the other three-", Levi began to instruct, but before he even finished, Mikasa grabbed her double bladed sword and charged in.

With a yell of rage, she ran straight for the man who had the women in his grasp. He glared and aimed his rifle at her. He shot, but Mikasa blocked it with one of her blades, which were quite wide, almost axe like instead of sword like.

The man froze, and Mikasa grabbed him by the shirt collar, lifting him up despite how much bigger he was, and slammed him to the ground hard. The three woman were stunned at first, but then quickly moved against the wall out of the way as Mikasa held her blade against his throat.

"Tch...! Damn it!", Levi followed quickly behind her, shooting his pistol off at the three other men, catching them off guard.

"Shit!", one of them yelled, but before he could grab his own weapon, Levi shot him point blank in the face. Blood splashed out, soaking the table and floor. The women naturally froze in horror, one of them unable to hold back a scream.

Mikasa glanced over at them. "You three, hurry out! You don't need to see anymore of this!", she commanded urgently, but as she was distracted, the man she had pinned glared, reaching for his gun and pointing it up at her.

"MIKASA! MOVE!", Levi glared, and moved fast, shoving his sister out of the way. The rifle went off, grazing Levi in the shoulder. He gritted his teeth, before grabbing his own sword and slashing the trafficker's throat.

The last two remaining men attempted to escape, but Mikasa threw her blade, it spun forward and impaled one of them to the wall, while Levi grabbed the now dead man's rifle and shot it at the last trafficker.

As all four traffickers lay motionless and breathless on the floor (except for the one Mikasa impaled to the wall, who now hung motionless, blood dripping out), Mikasa exhaled, catching her breath as Levi wiped the blood from his forehead.

He then knelt down, grabbing the cell keys from one of the now dead traffickers, and let the other prisoners out.

"You're all safe-Queen Historia sent us, we'll take you all back to her", Mikasa said softly, as the women and children looked beyond relieved to be rescued. A bit shaken up by the murders they witnessed, but relieved nonetheless.

"You saved us...oh thank you so much!", the pregnant lady hugged Mikasa, shaking and sobbing in relief. "It's alright, you and your baby are safe", Mikasa assured her kindly, rubbing her back.

Levi watched his sister, as a little boy ran over to him, pulling at his cloak. "Thank you mister!", he said grateful. Levi glanced down at the child, and patted his head silently. Despite being distant and cold, the boy still looked mesmerized by Levi.

"Let's get out of here", Levi said, and soon the siblings led the people out, and they got into the cart the horses were pulling.

"Easy, I got you", Mikasa carefully helped the pregnant lady into the cart, sitting with her. "Thank you so much dear...", the lady said, grateful. She groaned slightly from the weight and strain, exhaling once they were sat down.

Levi glanced back at his sister a bit coldly, and once everyone was in, he urged the horses on. "Do any of you know who those traffickers were, and why they wanted you?", Levi asked after a few minutes of silence.

"Like normal traffickers, selling us off for money...", one of the women answered. "No mention of anything unusual?", Levi pressed.

"If you're thinking of wall worshipers, we don't think so...", the pregnant woman spoke up a bit breathlessly, Mikasa kindly rubbing her back.

"...And if they were, they made sure none of us knew either...Oooh", she groaned softly, grimacing a bit in pain, a hand going to her swollen belly. Mikasa frowned worried.

"I think its about her time-Levi, you better hurry", Mikasa spoke calmly but also urgently. "Got it, there's doctors at the palace", Levi assured, urging the horses on faster.

"I'm not due for another week though...", the woman whimpered, she gripped Mikasa's hand.

"The stress of what you went through-its no surprise. How long were you all in there?", asked Mikasa, squeezing her hand back softly.

"About four days", answered one of the other women. "You must all be exhausted-rest easy, we'll be at the Queen's palace soon", Levi said. Mikasa let the laboring woman lean into her.

"Just breathe honey-we'll be there soon, that''s it", she assured, as the woman nodded anxiously. Levi glanced back, listening to his sister talk to the woman.

Not too long later, they arrived at the Queen's palace. The civilians were taken in to rest for the night while their families were contacted, the pregnant lady was seen right away by a doctor, she'd end up laboring for the rest of the night.

After confirming the successful mission to Historia, the Queen ordered for the MP to go burn the bodies of the traffickers, and relieved the Ackermans for the night.

On the horseback ride back to their cabin, it was rather silent. They had lanterns lit since it was after dark by now. Mikasa's mind was wandering a bit, before her brother finally spoke.

"Did you two braid hair and exchange friendship bracelets?", he asked, in a snarky tone. Mikasa frowned. "What are you talking about?", she asked.

"You and that pregnant woman, calling her 'honey' and everything", Levi pressed. Mikasa glared. "She was in labor for gods sake, I wanted her to feel assured, as it was she was under enough stress in her condition...", she defended.

"Cut the shit. You can lie to anyone, even the Queen, but you can't lie to me. You got personally involved, and it almost got your brains blown out back there", Levi snapped firmly.

Mikasa frowned, not saying anything. There was a moment of silence once more, just the sound of their horses hooves trotting against the ground.

"She...looked like mother...", Mikasa finally spoke, in a quiet voice. Levi frowned. "She resembled nothing like our mother Mikasa, the only reason you made a connection is because our mother was pregnant when she died...", he reminded her coldly.

"Are you saying I can help that?", asked Mikasa with a bitter tone of voice. "You had a stronger bond with mother than I did, I understand that. But the Queen trusts us with these missions for a reason. One more reckless move like that, and you're going to get yourself killed...and mother's sacrifice for us would mean absolutely nothing. Is that what you want?", Levi stated.

Mikasa once again went quiet. She looked down, gripping the reins on her horse. "No, I don't...", she answered. "Then focus. When I say you do something a certain way on those missions, you do it", Levi said.

Mikasa gave a silent nod, her thoughts racing. In the moment, she had been reckless. She was normally quite stealthy and smart in her movements and choice making during missions. But seeing that woman-it did bring back memories.

"How's your arm...?", she asked then. "I'll live-we should get to sleep early tonight", Levi replied simply.

Once they arrived back at the cabin, after settling the horses down in their stable and feeding them, the siblings had something to eat for dinner and soon retired to their separate bedrooms. Mikasa walked up to her bed, giving a soft deep sigh and falling forward onto it.

She rested her head against the pillow and glanced at her nightstand of an old photo. It was of her parents, and her and Levi when they were just children. In the photo, a 8 year old Levi stood by his father, while a 3 year old Mikasa sat in her mother's lap.

It would only be two years after this photo was taken, would their parents be killed right when their mother was seven months pregnant.

Closing her eyes, Mikasa exhaled trying to drift to sleep without thinking too much about it. For the most part she had been able to put the past behind her, but today's mission unfortunately reminded her of something she hadn't thought about in years.

She knew deep inside, it bothered Levi as well, and he still thought about their parents. He was simply stronger emotionally than she was.

Unknown to the assassins, two hooded figures stood at the edge of Paradis island, having just arrived at the docks. They had just sailed from Marley, the moonlight was enough for them to see.

After the fall of most titans, a human war had started. A war between Marley and Paradis-the war had been going on for about a year now, and seemed far from over. It was also part of why Historia assigned Levi and Mikasa to deal with Paradis's human crimes.

The government and the MP were too busy with the war, and dealing with possible spies and attacks from Marley.

Wall Maria had been hit by a violent attack just last month, many civilians and soldiers killed during it. Leading the soldiers of Paradis were Commander Erwin Smith and Hanji.

It was only a matter of time before another attack happened. The shorter hooded figure took a step forward off the docks and onto the land.

"I think we're clear...", he said in a quiet voice. The figure behind him lifted his own hood off, revealing a man with long brown hair and green eyes.

"We only have three days, so let's work fast Armin", he stated.