Trees, trees everywhere. Xia has never been to a place like this. She's seen a few trees planted around the city, but nothing like this. You could guild an entire city on these trees. Certainly make it easier to get the drop of titans that way. Soon enough she was going to have to put that theory to the test. The experienced Survey Corps Members took to the trees and gave them a quick run down on what's about to happen; they needed to kill all of the titans. Working together or running solo, either way, they just want to see how the Trainees do. Some would even die. Xia would make sure she wasn't one of them.

Xia spotted her target a couple hundred yards away. It was about 8m, not the largest titan, but still dwarfing the trainees. More threateningly, there were three other titans with it, so they had some numbers combined with their size. But Xia didn't fret. While still on her horse, Xia deftly maneuvered through the forest and towards the titans. They haven't yet engaged against any of the other trainees, so Xia had the honor of getting the first crack at them. She whistled loudly at them, attracting their attention. [b]"Come at me, Titan! Hiya!"[/b] Kicking her horse into gear, Xia began to run away from the titans, with two of them giving chase, the other two who were caught by some other trainees. Xia kept a situational awareness to ensure that she didn't run into another trainee or titan, as well as getting a feel for the surroundings. Too many relied on their 3DMG to take down titans, but sometimes you need to know how to improvise and when to strike.

By the time Xia finally left her horse behind only one titan was following her, the 8m she had targeted. They both separated from the group and went a fair ways away. If Xia screamed, no one would hear her but the titan and her horse. The titan meanwhile kept chasing the horse, not knowing that Xia had already shot her hooks into a tree and jumped out of there. Soon the titan himself realized that he had been duped, and turned to walk back to the action. His mistake. Xia had lauched herself well above the treeline, through the branches and canopy to the skies above. It was... Pleasant. The skies looked different here. Inside the walls, the sky was just a backdrop, a large clock to remind you what time it was. But here, it had different meaning. "The Sky's the limit" they say. Out here, outside the walls, reaching for the skies seems like something that could actually be achieved. Not a dream.

But this was not the time for dreaming. Xia snapped out of her philosophical bent and looked down. She couldn't see anything but the tree tops, but through the cracks she could see the titan walking away. This was her opening. Falling faster and faster towards the ground, what she was about to do required an intense amount of timing and reaction speed. Both she had. She fell towards the titan with her blades outstretched to her side and she began to spin. She was spinning not only to increase her speed, but to control her direction while falling. Soon it looked like she was about to fall right on top of the Titan's skull. But instead she barely missed it's scalp. What she didn't miss however, was it's neck: Seven seven slashes tore through nape of the titan's neck. It roared in pain and fell with a loud thud. Throwing the blood and gore off her blades Xia shot her hooks out to the trees around her, loosing no momentum as she headed towards the next titan.