Disclaimer: I do not own Attack on Titan or any of its characters.
Author's Notes:
This is my first Shingeki no Kyojin "Attack On Titan" Fanfic and also my second fanfic that I've ever done. So be a little kind to me alright :)
This fanfic is also based on a SNK roleplay that is still ongoing and since it is pretty long, I thought that it would be fun to take it and write a fan fiction. It is based on the manga but only to chapter 49. And after that we started this and it will not go after the manga after chapter 49. Also respect that it will include my own theories around what could possibly be happening. Also there might be some wrong spellings in this fanfic and I am sorry for that. English isn't my native language. But I hope you can understand it still. It would be really grateful if I got some reviews to let me know if I should continue on this fanfic barbecue It's quite long so far. And now I didn't want to make the chapter so long but maybe later they will become longer, It depends on the feedback if I get any. So your thoughts really does matter! And with that I hope you will enjoy this chapter ^^
This fanfic will also include adventure and a lot of other things. It's mostly about friendship, mystery, supernatural and maybe some romance.
I Am Human!
Chapter one.
It was in the late evening. And the soldiers were heading back to the headquarters of the survey corps, after a long day of work. But it had at least been very calm for once. A rumor had started to spread among the soldiers, that now when everything went so smooth about everything that they soon would try to retake wall Maria.
After all they had finally managed to get Eren back from the kidnapping of the colossal titan and the armored titan. Or as their names was, Bertholdt and Reiner. The both of them had managed to escape on their own after the survey corps managed to free Eren at the cost of many lives.
Eren was still lying on his bed. It sure had been a pretty good day if he had to say it. Sure he had been cleaning a lot from Corporal Levis orders. It was very exhausting to make him satisfied. Every time he thought it looked nice. The Corporal would tell him to redo the whole thing since it wasn't clean enough. But finally he told Eren that it was fine for now but that he would have to make sure it was better the next day.
Another good thing had also happened since he returned back with the others. He had gotten a new room on the second floor, not needing to sleep down in the basement anymore.
He was lying on his back staring up to the roof while trying to think of something to help him sleep. He tried to image himself together with Armin and Mikasa finally going outside the walls to explore the world. When all of this was over, when the titans were finally gone, would they really be able to go and live outside the walls?
That was when his thoughts were interrupted by a sharp pain. "Ugh! What the?"
Yeah a sharp pain that came from his left arm. It was the same arm that his father 5 years ago put an injection in. Which they believed was the cause of his power to turn into a titan.
He decided to take a little walk to see if the pain would disappear. As he walked the pain even started to get worse… until he wasn't even able to stand up. "W-what is this pain!?" he thought to himself as he went down on his knees holding his arm closer to himself.
The time was around 9:00 Pm in the evening and the corridors were silent. It seemed that no one was going to show up and maybe that was for the better thing since Eren didn't want anyone to see him like this.
He sat himself close to the wall with his back trying to not scream cause of the pain that only got worse. He felt like he was about to faint cause of the pain that went through his arm like venom. His vision was beginning to get blurry and just when he thought he was going to black out he could hear a voice.
"Oi… Eren! What are you doing on the floor?" Jean said standing some meters away from Eren. He started to walk closer to check him up. He noticed that something was not right. First he thought Eren had perhaps dropped something and was looking for it but now he could see that Eren was shivering.
"Hey? Eren, what's wrong?"
Eren could hear Jeans voice and he turned up to look him in the face. Jean recoiled when he saw how pale and bad Eren looked. Eren was groaning in pain as he was clutching his arm tightly. Something serious was going on and Jean knew he couldn't just leave him there.
Despite that the both of them have had their battles as rivals and even hating each other. The both of them knew that during times of crisis, would they have to rely on each other and work together. That was something they both would have to do right now.
"Are you hurt somewhere? Is it your arm?" Jean asked, inspecting Eren. There was nothing wrong with him physically that Jean could spot. He sighed and reached out his hand. "Here, let me give you a hand."
Eren agreed to let Jean help him and with his help they managed to get him back to his room. "M-my arm hurts" Eren tried to say but another groaning in pain interrupted. Jean would have to almost take the whole weight of Eren since he was really about to fall over.
"Hey! Don't you dare faint!?" Jean shook Eren in anger as they went through the door to Eren's room.
"Maybe we should get a doctor to check your arm?" Jean grumbled after a long silence. He helped Eren to his bed so Eren was able to sit.
"I-I'll wait until tomorrow. To see if it will go over." His voice was miserable, "I think I might just have stretched it or something like that."
Jean shrugged at Eren's words and snorted back "Alright then! I'm going back to sleep… I was only going to use the toilet anyway. See ya tomorrow at training…" Jean turned his back and went out of the door closing it on his way.
Jean went to use the toilet since it was really the reason why he left his room. After that was done and he was going to go back to his own room he stopped. He was wondering if might shouldn't had left Eren on his own. He did really look sick, but it would be too damn weird if he stayed there.
He headed towards the end of the hall, where his room was. There he noticed that Armin's room had its light turned on. Assuming that Armin was still up he went over to Armins door.
Armin was probably reading a book or something before going to bed, he had done that a lot of times during their trainee years. Jean knocked at the door. "Armin? Uh, I need to talk to you."
He waited. No answer. Armin was probably sleeping when he was reading. He headed to Mikasa's room. She was always up, at least the latest one to sleep usually. "Mikasa? You in there? I need to...talk to you. It's about Eren." He waited. Then the door opened slightly.
He couldn't help but to blush a little when he saw her face looking at him. Her black hair that was chin length was very beautiful. Before she had long hair and he also gave her a compliment about it but it seemed that she didn't really care about his compliment.
Mikasa looked out of her room to see Jeans face. She raised an eyebrow as she spotted him "What is it Jean?" she asked still with the same cold voice she would mostly always use against the people who tried to talk with her.
Everyone knew that the only people she really did talk with were with Eren and Armin. But it also seemed like she was a friend of Sasha too.
"Uh… Hi Mikasa! Eh... I need to talk to you about Eren. You think he's been acting...weird? Like if he was in pain? Sick or pale?" Jean asked, forcing a crooked worried smile at her.
Mikasa stared at him still with an annoying face... "Jean. What are you talking about? I talked with Eren before and he was fine. He said that he would go to rest earlier."
"Oh... Um Okay then. Sorry for bothering you this late. heh.." The door closed hard in front of him. He sighed.
With that Jean just went back to his room to bed. He couldn't sleep though. He tossed and turned but the only thing shrieking in his mind was Eren. He sighed and closed his eyes.
It took him a while before he would fall to sleep again.
The pain he felt had gotten so bad that he even grabbed the sheets with the both of his hands. He was going nuts over the pain. "D-damn it!"
The day had been so good, nothing had been wrong or suspicious so why now was everything going down hills? Eren cursed that it was too unfair about this happening now.
He knew that he had to try to get some sleep.
They were going out the next day to practice on their skills with the others of the survey crops. And he didn't want to miss that...
So he sat up trying to get a better position in his bed. But it was too damn hard to find a comfortable position with his arm hurting like it was going to turn inside out.
It was a burning feeling that went through the inside of his body. He still could feel himself cold sweat while also feeling that he would burn up from the inside.
Still this feeling felt similar like he had felt it before.
After turning from side to side he found one position where he felt a little bit of comfort.
He squeezed his eyes trying to remember where had felt this pain before. But nothing came to his mind that would make him remember.
He put his right hand on the side of his head. Not for any special reason. For a while he was just lying like that as he began to feel that the pain started to fade away.
With relief he sighed.
But that's when he felt it...something really had changed! He could feel his mouth starting to tremble.
"W-what is t-this!?"
The sun rose high over survey corps headquarters. It was morning and soon they new members of the survey corps would have their training. This time it was training to improve their titan killing skills that would be needed to take down many titans.
The new members had already been into real action with titans at many points but still they had much to learn. Many still lived thanks to their luck, but luck would sooner or later run out.
Jean was already outside, warming up. Connie was standing next to him, looking dazed.
He looked around for Eren, but he wasn't there.
"Hey Connie, have you seen Eren?" He asked.
Connie looked at him blankly and shook his head.
"Hey tell the others that I'm going to the bathroom for awhile. I'll be back." Jean shouted as he went straight for the survey corps castle.
Connie nodded and looked as Jean started to run away.
Jean sprinted back to the rooms and looked for Eren's. It was still dark in the corridor. Jean was wondering why the lights weren't on so he turned them on so he could see till the end of the corridor. Eren hadn't been at the training so maybe he was still sick or just sleeping.
He went up to Eren's door and placed his ear next to it. First he thought he heard snoring, so Eren was probably only sleeping, like he thought.
But when he listened carefully he heard that it wasn't snoring sounds at all!
What he thought was snoring sounds were actually groaning and growls.
He was about to barge in, but stayed in front of the door and listened carefully.
"Shit Eren..." He whispered to himself. What was the hell was he doing in there?
Eren was still sitting on his bed but more like at the corner of it. He wasn't even looking up when Jean opened the door. That's how shocked he was.
"Hey Eren, what was the sound I heard? How are your doi…." Jean stopped in the middle of the sentence. He still had his mouth open but he just couldn't get any words out of it. For what could he possibly say?
Eren had changed, that was clear.
His ears were longer and more pointed and his hair was also much longer almost down to his shoulders. He had long bangs that hung down almost covered his eyes.
While he was looking at the ground, that image would even make Jean think about Eren's titan form. The ears and the hair it sure looked like it.
But why now? Eren was in human form?! Not titan!? So why did he look almost like his titan form!? What the hell was going on!?
Horrified by the fact Eren looked like a titan in his human form made him almost shout for help. But that wouldn't solve the problem.
He went in closer, but keeping his distance from Eren. "E-Eren?" His voice trembled, not because he was scared, but he was genuinely worried for Eren. He had his gears on and blade in hand. He didn't want to hurt Eren. He wanted to help.
Jean crouched down, trying to get eye leveled with Eren. "Eren...Can you hear me?" He looked back at the door, making sure to close it. He didn't want to drag attention.
"Eren... Look at me." He tried to sound as calm as possible. He hadn't seen his face. For all he knew it could be his titan face waiting to greet him.
Eren was still in shock... after feeling that his ears had even gotten longer he knew that he was about to transform or something. But it didn't make any sense! What he needed to do to transform was to bite his hand and have a clear goal. But he had none of that, and it scared him so much that he even didn't want to leave the room.
What if anyone saw him? Would that mean that he would be put under the military police and that would mean the death of him. Then suddenly he could feel his hair starting to grow longer and that just made it even worse for him!
But At least nothing more had changed with him. He didn't grow or anything like that.
But he knew his hair had gotten longer but hair could be cut... what was he going to do about the ears? He also had felt his face with his hands but it seemed to be unchanged.
But after all he didn't exactly know how he looked when he was in his titan form.
Jean was still standing and backed away from Eren.
Who knows, Eren might attack at any moment now. Jean had no idea if Eren had control over himself or not. "Shit! What the hell should I do!?"
Outside the castle was training about to end and with guaranteed, Mikasa and Armin would visit Eren like they did after training, especially now that Eren didn't join the morning training.
People would soon start to pour in, getting ready for lunch. Jean could even hear some of them passing by Eren's door. He could hear Connie and Sasha passing by and the both of them seemed cheerful, mostly Sasha since it was time for Lunch.
Jean opened the door a little to just be able to peek out. Then he saw Mikasa and Armin headed towards Eren's room. He panicked. If they saw Eren like this, surely they'd call in Hanji! That'll make the problem worse.
He locked the door and placed a table in front of it. Although he knew that Mikasa would kick the door open with ease.
"Eren. You need to get out of here!" He said, glancing back at Eren.
But Eren just sat there, probably in shock of what had happened. Jean was growing frustrated. "Eren get your ass up. You need to get out of here and I'm serious." He said, now standing in front of Eren.
When Jean hissed against Eren it was like he woke up from a dream.
Eren turned his face up to see Jean standing in front of him. Jean could see that Eren's face still was like his human form except his eyes were greener...
"J-Jean...what are you doing here?" He said still with a pretty clear voice.
Eren even thought it all had been some kind of weird nightmare that he was having. He watched as Jean placed a table over his door... "Eh..? Why are you doing that?" He asked still thinking that everything happened last night was only a dream.
"Mikasa and Armin are coming. Do you want them to see you like this?!" He whispered.
Their footsteps were getting louder by the minute. "Eren, get up and let's get out of here!" He tugged on Eren's arm harshly.
Eren looked at Jean as he got up from his bed... "Why would I hide from Armin and Mikasa? Jean you are behaving weird?" He wrapped his arms around as if he was mad or something. "What do you mean see me like this?" He asked almost thinking where Jean wanted him to go since he placed a damn table to bock the door. He looked at the window... "Is this some kind of joke?"
"Do I look like I'm joking?" Jean tapped the floor with his foot frustrated."Well if you're going to let them see what I see, then let them." There was a knock on the door.
"Eren! Why weren't you at training today? You missed a lot of things you know!" It was Armin.
Jean stood there, narrowing his eyes. "Eren, open the door." commanded Mikasa.
"Choose a choice Eren." He whispered.
Eren stared at Jean... not completely knowing why he should hide from Armin and Mikasa. But one thing was clear enough for him... and that was that Jean wasn't joking around.
"I um..." He didn't know exactly why, but he chose to do as Jean told him.
"S-sorry Armin I didn't feel so good yesterday and I..." Then he remembered... "I didn't feel good so I wanted to rest today and not to be disturbed."
"Uh... Okay Eren! Do you want me to send you some lunch? Have you eaten?" Then Amrin went silent for a while because he looked over at Mikasa.
"Are you sure you're alright Eren?" Mikasa asked.
"No it's fine Mikasa... I'll just rest up a bit and I might see you two later...okay?" Eren replied thinking up something to say. But why did he need to lie to them? He didn't like it, but wait a second why were his bangs covering his face?
Once Jean was sure the two had left he turned back to Eren.
"In case you haven't noticed, you need to get a haircut." He opened the window. "Damn it why is it so bright outside? So, want to go or stay?" Jean asked, sitting on the frame of the window.
"I don't understand... Why is this happening...? Why the hell are my hair longer and my damn ears!?"
He had finally understood that the dream that he had wasn't really a dream... It was reality. With his greener eyes he stared at Jean who was sitting on the frame.
"You want me to leave... but I have no gear. And this the second floor..."
Jean tapped his gear. "You can use mine. I can easily get down through the stairs or something. Don't think that I'm going to carry you because that's gross so let's go with the first choice huh?" He snorted.
Eren took Jeans gear and started to suit up... "I hope nobody sees me...not like this." He suited up very quickly; after all they were trained to being able to do that in case of emergency.
Jean placed his hood back on and headed for the door. "I'll see you downstairs, okay?" He smiled and dragged the table from the door and slipped through it.
Eren looked after him as Jean went through the door.
Then he turned to the window and opened it.
"Alright Jaeger! Just don't let anyone see you." Then he jumped out and shoot himself using the wires to move perfectly through the air
At this moment is was a pretty good thing that the castle that they used as their headquarters was surrounded by tall trees, in case of an titan attack would come.
As he flew himself he gazed back thinking if what he did was really the right thing. What if he should have talked with the others, maybe this was just temporarily.
"I have to fix this…I have to get back to normal and to find out why this is happening."