*I don't any characters except for OCs. Original characters belong to rightful owners.*

Summary:

Year after year of living a peaceful life outside the wall, 18 year old Aden will soon get to experience the fears and terrors that others have felt. Two years after getting catpured and enlisted into the Survey Corps, he is now fighting along side Levi, humanity's strongest, as second strongest. But he still isn't so easily trusted by Levi. Soon Aden's mysterious past will all be revealed to him. Before long Aden would have to trust the people he knows or betray them. Find out which choice he will make when the time comes. *Warning* There will be yaoi parts to this story later so if you don't like, don't read!

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Prologue

On a bright summer day where the birds were chirping happily about, the deer were happily grazing the land all around, I was sitting up on a tree enjoying the peace and quiet of this beautiful day. After a while of sitting around I got off the tree and started walking around. Later the ground started to shake and rumble followed by loud footsteps from behind me. When I turned around three large titans were running towards my direction looking confused yet angry. From past experiences I learned to just stay out of their way. So quickly I climbed a nearby tree that wasn't in their path.

Then once I climbed to the top of the tree, I heard shouts of men followed by the screeching sound of dying horses. So I looked into the direction that the titans were running towards and I saw men and women fighting to kill the titans. I mockingly laughed as I reclined myself against the tree as I watched men and women give their lives away just for the fact of killing titans. But what I didn't realize was that moments after, they had taken down all three titans. Later a few of them noticed me up in the tree and hurried after me.

Quickly I jumped off the tree and started running towards the Giants' Forest where I knew I should be able to lose them. Then even before I got towards the entrance, some of them were really close to catching me. But once I was in the Giants' Forest I quickly started climbing and started to jump from branch to branch. Just when I thought I lost them, they somehow ended up right back at my tail. Soon I would run out of trees to run on or out of energy to keep this going.

Finally after running away for a while one of them ended up in front of me and held onto my arm very tightly. Later they tied me up, placed me on a wagon, and started riding off to somewhere. For the moment I remained silent and obedient while thinking of a way to escape imprisonment. Soon we reached an enormous wall that seemed like it stretched out forever. Now I had to act fast or I'll never be able to live freely ever again. Quickly I stood and knocked a nearby man off his horse and took off away from the wall. While I was struggling a bit to get the ropes off I heard some men and women chasing after me. But just before I could get the ropes off, a woman grabbed hold of the horse's reins and stopped my one time chance of escaping.

I sighed as I went through the wall and onto the other side. On the other side were more men and women who looked like my captors started to crowd all around me as there were a lot of loud angry voices behind them. After that they had me enter a very sophisticated building with more people who looked just like my captors. Now I questioned what they are going to do with me. Later they placed me in a room with three very important looking men.

"What's your name son?" the first man who looked very tall and had blonde hair questioned.

"Aden." I replied tersely.

"Tell me, Aden, how is it that you were able to survive outside the wall?" questioned the second man. But personally I didn't know the answer to that. For the moment my mind was fixed on the last man. But he seemed more like a boy like me rather than a man.

"Aden, how did you survive outside the wall?" the second man questioned again this time with more of a scarier tone to his words.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"There are titans roaming outside the walls, so how were you able to hide from them?"

"They weren't much of a bother."

"How?"

"I don't really know."

"How were you able to move so quickly without a 3dgm?"

"A what?" Then before the second men could answer, the first man stood and looked straight into my eyes.

"Aden, I am willing to have you trained and joined into my section. With that, you would be fighting for the hope of humanity. What do you say? You fight with us for your freedom?" he stated. Then the second man stood to protest.

"Erwin you can't just say you're going to put him in your section. I want him in my section." He declared. So the first man's name is Erwin.

"Nile we already had this conversation. Now if you would excuse us, Levi and I have important business with our new member." Erwin announced. Just like that, Nile surrendered the fight. Finally I knew the last man's name. But also from that day on my peaceful life would now be turned completely upside down. Now I would have to fight to bet back to the peaceful life I once knew.