Alrain: Attack on Titan: Lightning Burst is finally here and exams are coming and I barely have good grades...I don't know if I can ever keep up with my life since I am a coward and please don't misunderstand that I am lazy but...no matter how hard I learn for my tests I didn't even have a good grade and not even the lessons I took.
I might have to stop mainly because the exams are coming and it will take a few weeks so for now, I upload as many chapters from my stories, the exams are my only chance of having a future and I am not confident in myself that I will make it if I continue writing so I need to stop for a while.
I am so sorry.
Chapter 1: Odd Boy.
Early morning.
In a certain house, the sunlight shined into the room of a young boy who was sleeping soundly but the curtains of his room had a little gap between them and allowed the sunlight to shine onto his cheek and just didn't reach his eye to irritate him and wake him up. Although Eren did wake up when his cheek made contact with the sunlight and the fatigue slowly disappeared from Eren who pushed the curtains away allowing the sunlight to fully envelop him.
"Another day~!" yawned Eren as his fatigue was now disappearing almost in an instant and soon he felt very energized, getting out of bed and went downstairs to go outside and decided to skip breakfast knowing he didn't need it at all. "Time for a run!"
Going outside Eren began his daily routine of laps around the town that consisted out of 40 laps and that seemed a bit too much for an 8-year-old child as the town was quite big despite that it was one of the smaller parts of the whole wall, but that was only to ordinary children and Eren was anything but ordinary then the other children of his age. Since the time he was born he was always an odd child mainly because he never got quickly tired like any baby, whenever he was underneath the sun it seemed he never needed to eat or drink at all though he could still eat he didn't need it.
He was stronger, faster, and healed faster although the last one was kept a secret to himself that he could heal faster.
Increasing his pace with his running speed he went quicker and ran faster and finished another lap without pretty much needing a break to catch his breath as he just needed short inhales of air and would keep on running and even increase his pace. "7th lap!"
The ones that woke up sometime after Eren woke up were the farmers who are used to getting up earlier to do the work, and as they got ready they saw Eren pass by running very fast while saying finishing his 8th lap of running around.
"It's that Yeager child,"
"The odd one among the children?"
"Yeah, the guy who is almost never tired!"
"Can he be still human while running this many laps?"
"Don't know, just make sure that our child stays away,"
"Kid is creepy with that strength of his,"
All those comments were easy for Eren to hear and he was used to being called weird or odd since he does find himself odd, but he didn't care mainly because he didn't know anyone of the farmers and his father said it was a gift that he would later understand why he was almost never tired. How can getting almost never tired be a gift was a real mystery to Eren, though he didn't doubt his father knowing that he was the older one and the wiser one so he left it at that and merely trained his body since he didn't get tired but muscle development as his father said was still important meaning he needed to move a lot.
But back to Eren who had finished his lap wiped the sweat off his forehead and walked back home and got inside the house and was met with the sight of his mom and dad awake, though slightly tired from just waking up Eren walked up to the wooden backpack of his and equipped it and went back to go gather some firewood for the incoming winter.
"Eren, you still need to eat breakfast!" scolded Carla Yeager her son and blocked the doorway preventing him from going out.
"But mom, you know that I don't even need to eat!" fired Eren back slightly frowning his eyes, he hadn't eaten for days and was perfectly fine and still grew so why did his mother insist that he needs to eat?
"Just go eat your breakfast young man!" sighed Carla making Eren sigh and got his backpack off and walked to the table and began eating his breakfast that consisted out of bread and soup.
"I truly don't understand, dad. Why does mom make me eat when I don't even need it?" asked Eren Grisha Yeager who read the newspaper and drank his coffee. "I just have to stay in the sunlight and then I am fine for the whole day!"
"It is to stay out of suspicion Eren," replied Grisha ruffling the hair of his son who got annoyed and got the hand from his father off his head, though by doing that he put a bit too much strength in it and almost made Grisha fall out of his seat. Eren saw that and immediately caught his father's hand and pulled him back on his seat, his strength was sometimes annoying since he couldn't properly control his strength sometimes. "Oof! A-As I said it was to stay out of suspicion as the farmers already think you are weird we don't need them to spread out rumors that you aren't human if you didn't need to eat, son,"
"...Okay, I'll eat," said Eren who tore the loaf of bread in half.
'It isn't that I don't want to eat...but do I need to eat despite that mom knows that she can store a bit more food up if I didn't eat?' thought Eren as he eats his bread that tasted a bit bland, the bread was cheaply made out of corn, potato flour, and some other cheap ingredients mixed together and it was not very nutritious and some eat a lot of it to even get satisfied and luckily for most of the people it was so cheap it hardly made a dent in someone's wallet.
"Do you think I will make any friends today, mom?" asked Eren a bit sad as he had only a single friend and that was Armin, but he was sick today meaning he could play for the next few weeks and needed to rest properly.
"You will today," replied Carla Yeager though she didn't sound so sure of herself knowing the harsh truth that Eren could hardly make any friends and it didn't lie with his personality, his blond hair that was shaped like a lightning bolt in his black hair made him odd as his dual-colored eyes made him look different. That was the most stupid reason one would ever hear except if you are from the future and Eren's odd looks and his odd physical body was what made him an exception.
Like he was an unknown animal walking in the town, and he was used to it but Carla knew from instinct that her son getting used to being left alone by the others but it didn't hurt any lesser and even if her son didn't notice but she did.
"Hm, Eren, today I will be visiting some old friends of mine and do you want to come along?" asked Grisha and Eren responded by quickly eating his soup and his bread and went upstairs to switch his sweat-drenched clothes, and that made Grisha smile as Eren's sour mood disappeared the moment he invited him to go with him outside of the walls.
"Grisha! You shouldn't encourage him to want him to go outside of the wall, it is suicide to go out there when you aren't a scout!" complained Carla for the safety of Eren as she had seen her son look at them with admiration to join them and she knew how stubborn her son could get sometimes, she knew it was from her side he had been born with and the number of times her mom told her she would know how troublesome she was.
"It can't be stopped and you've known Eren's condition ever and that he has trouble staying still at one place, so I must give him as much training until it wears off," replied Grisha knowing that Carla had sometimes trouble with handling Eren's condition, though what she never knew was that it wasn't ADHD that Eren had as Grisha called that and that it lies within something else.
Forest.
In the forests it was raining like buckets out of the sky and Eren was not pleased that it was raining not that the cold ever bothered him a lot, but he didn't like his clothes getting wet and his sword in his sheath wasn't oiled meaning it could get rusted and he would have to spend hours to get the rusted parts shaved off with his whetstone.
'Dad tricked me again! I had to get a chance to go into the forest but never bothered to look up once! For the fucking 4th time!' shouted Eren as he almost reached the house where the Ackerman lived, and thunder was roaring and flashing sometimes by making it a bit easier for him to see in the dark...although it was like every time the lightning flashed by it seemed he saw literally everything pictured in his mind.
Each raindrop visible to him, puddles of water, fallen leaves, and sometimes a wild bunny he saw hiding in the rabbit hole.
Like a picture was drawn so realistic and held in front of him while not obscuring his view in front of him and this was another creepy thing of him, just seeing things and remembering almost everything that he has seen and the smallest of details added to it and not forgetting them that easily. Hell, he even remembered how many times he had beaten the bullies of his town and he wasn't even that competitive with anyone else, he always had the feeling that he was just scratching the surface of his weird body.
'Ah! The rain is slowly disappearing,' thought Eren as the raining became less violent and he had to take care of his horse as well, he could take the cold well but the horse was another story. 'There! An abandoned house where I can rest my horse,'
Stopping by the house Eren quickly led his horse to the stable and picked up a handful of hay and began to rub it against the horse skin to dry him out and quickly got out the blanket out of the backpack and put it over the body of the horse. Blitz as he called his horse like that neighed in thanks and there and Eren merely nodded with a small smile and got some food out for him and got the portable bucket that was made out of leather, holding it in the rain the bucket filled up quickly but then Eren noticed that it got darker.
"Huh, the lamp is on and yet the darkness is still here-GAH!" shouted Eren as he was suddenly hoisted up and barely managed to get his sword out of his sheath and stabbed into the hand of the Titan that came out of nowhere.
It was probably a straggler, a Titan with a slightly better intellect that knows when to retreat and must have left before the Scouts exterminated all the Titans on their expedition. Now it wasn't important as Eren was going to be eaten alive if this continued and tried to use his superhuman strength to get out and it did work...barely as he manages to budge the fingers that held him tightly and was able to free his other arm giving him more comfort.
'Damn it! He's still too strong!' growled Eren in his thoughts as the Titan only brought him closer to its mouth and Eren roared and swung his sword, but at the same time the sword was held up high lightning got attracted like a moth to lights.
*KRAKOOOM!*
Lightning struck and electrified the whole body of the titan that tried to eat Eren and the boy himself was also struck and the sight was not pretty as a painful scream was let out very loud and not it began looking slightly funny when the whole skeleton of the Titan was seen in the lightning and it eventually stopped when the lightning flickered out, is something like that even possible to do?
The lightning died down and stopped frying the Titan and Eren and the Titan fell down dead with smoke leaving its open mouth that Eren would be in, the Titan and Eren died and-wait! Why was the hand still moving because of even a Titan with its ridiculous healing factors could not survive being struck by lightning, no, it was Eren! He survived being struck by lightning!
"What in the...I didn't feel anything except for being...not tired anymore?" said Eren to himself as the rain continued streaming down on him and eventually it stopped raining and the sky was clear blue again leaving Eren in burned up clothes, and Blitz immediately trotted over to Eren and licked his cheek snapping the boy out of his thoughts. "I'm fine, though I have no idea how I am still alive,"
Struck by lightning and yet he survived!
*Bang! Bang!*
"Gunshots!" shouted Eren who immediately got his sword which wasn't charred that much as seemingly the Titan absorbed most of the lightning despite being struck first, but even if that amount of mass would have a hard time to absorb all that lightning, his father did tell him about that some devices will have trouble fitting too much energy. The Canisters of the Scouts, Military, and Garrison were examples.
Ackerman Household.
"Daddy!" said Mikasa with tears in her eyes as she rested into the arms of her mother as the quiet form of her father was lying down on the ground not moving an inch, blood was polling around him and Mikasa and her mother could only watch in fear as the men that invaded their home looked with suck and disgusting faces at them, it was obvious what they would do to them as pigs like them looked with a lot of lust at Mikasa's mom.
"Hey! Why don't we have some fun with them?" suggested one of the bandits with a grin and drool escaping his mouth, he received nods and grins as replies in agreement to his proposal.
"NO! The client was very loud and clear that they don't want them spoiled in any way! So keep it down in your pants until we reach the town and go to the brothels with your part!" shouted the Leader who obviously wanted a taste himself, but his request came first because he didn't want his reputation to go through the soil even with how beautiful Mikasa's mom looked.
"Load them up!" ordered the leader and 2 bandits immediately walked forward. "But there is in no way you can cop a feel, so go ahead and give those balloons a squeeze!"
The bandits grinned and all of them walked forward making Mikasa's mom frown as she held her daughter closer to herself as the men got closer, until they stopped when they heard shouts and screams of pain and the slashing noise of a sword meeting flesh.
"GAH!"
"URGH!"
"YAH!"
"KILL HIM-UAH!"
The shouts were getting louder and immediately the lustful expressions of the men disappeared and were replaced with alarming ones and quickly grabbed their muskets, as the slashing noises got closer Mikasa's mom and Mikasa herself looked surprised as no one knew they lived here. And much less they only expected Grisha to visit them and check on her daughter's health.
"WHAT IS WITH THIS KID!?"
"HE'S DODGING THE BULLETS LIKE THEY ARE SNOWBALLS!?"
"I CAN'T HIT HIM!"
Slashing noises were heard and the air was filled with screams again and the shouts slowly died down and some of the bandits went outside, but slashing was heard and this time no shouts or screams but something did roll in and that was...a decapitated head of one of the bandits with a nervous look saying that the attacker was too fast for him to confirm what was happening and to realize he was dead.
"Close the doors!" ordered the Leader sweating like hell as he had heard the gunshots, but it wasn't that as he had also heard no footsteps or sounds of gas from Canisters. It was a single person and he knew only a single person that is that fast without the ODM Gear, one of the bandits peeked through a small opening in the window and only saw the dead bodies of his comrades.
"I don't see anyone!" said the bandit.
"Keep your eyes on the windows and door in front of us!" ordered the leader not noticing that Mikasa and her mother were looking at the door next to them that got quietly opened, that door should make a lot of noise since it hasn't been oiled for a while and they were met with...a boy of the same age as Mikasa carrying a sword, he had black hair and green eyes with a lightning-shaped bolt of blond hair on the left of his hair.
Eren kept his finger to his lips saying they need to keep quiet and he immediately bashed the hilt of his sword of the bandit that was in the back and quickly caught the body with ease and laid it down, and then grabbed a nearby bottle of wine and then charged forward and bashed it on the head of a bandit making him scream in pain and it became louder as Eren backed down and flicked a lucifer and made the man catch fire.
"AAAHHH! IT BURNS! IT BURNS!"
"WHAT THE HELL-ARGH!"
Eren ducked underneath the barrel of a musket aimed at him and thrust his sword into the stomach of the man and then forced the man to turn to the left and take the bullets shot at him, hoisting the man up with surprising strength that made the bandits pause and Eren threw the dead body at 2 other bandits making them land on the back of their heads and knocked them out.
"HOLD IT THERE PUNK!" shouted the leader who had his pistol drawn on Eren and his musket aimed at Mikasa and her mother.
Eren did as he was told to and dropped his sword knowing that the man would also shout at him to do that and held his hands up in the air, the leader had foam leaving the corners of his mouth as the veins in his necks threatened to burst open and his face was red and the blood veins visible in his eyes. "YOU PUNK! YOU KILLED ALL MY BUDDIES! YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THAT!"
"Does a bandit like you have the rights to say to judge whoever I have killed while you have done it so many times?" asked Eren skeptically that a Bandit was judging him for saying he would judge him for killing his bandit comrades.
"SHUT UP! I WILL SELL YOU AND THAT GIRL AS SEX SLAVES AND HAVE THE WOMAN ENTERTAIN ME BEFORE I SELL HER!" shouted the Leader with a maniacal expression and Eren's expression darkened up a lot that it made the bandit wary. "NEVERMIND! I JUST KILL YOU!"
Pressing the barrel of the pistol against Eren's exposed skin which was already a great mistake as now the whole world froze up and showed the insides of the people in the house, and Eren's was very noticeable as his body was filled with crackling yellow energy that was threatening to burst and when the metal barrel touches Eren's skin the energy saw this as an escape route and went with lightning speed to the metal parts.
*KRGST!*
Yellow lightning then traveled up to the very and filled the pistol full with energy and then shocked the Bandit leader completely freezing him up and eventually the pistol gave out and exploded sending shrapnel everywhere and the family was unharmed as nothing hit them, but the bandit had no luck as several pieces of sharp wood pierced themselves stuck in his eyes making him drop and yank his hand away stopping the shocking but now the pain overtook him as his eyes were now seeing black.
"Urkkk!" the Bandit Leader could not shout out in pain as most of his nerves have been damaged and his whole body was in pain and smoking so much that his throat also seemed to have been destroyed. The Bandit leader made a few gurgles out and fell down dead with blood streaming out of his eyes.
"Well, that was something," commented Eren but as he was about to give the finishing blow a bandit that was still alive got behind Eren and tried to choke him out.
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" shouted the bandit.
"W-Way to put out the obvious!" groaned Eren and this was a mistake as it fuels the anger of the bandit who tried even harder to choke Eren but his strength made him not even get close, only to get him a bit uncomfortable and Mikasa and her mom acted out of instinct and both grabbed a glass shard and ran up and stabbed the bandit from behind making him drop Eren who grabs his sword and slashed the throat open making blood spout out like a fountain.
"ARGLL!" gurgled the bandit out as his eyes rolled back and slumped down death on the ground.
All the bandits were dead and Eren merely blinked his eyes as he felt merely a bit dizzy as he wasn't tired, just felt a bit drained after the pistol was drawn on him and he felt that there was plenty of the lightning inside of him. Though not threatening to burst out anymore and felt that the energy would not fry anyone if he touched a metal, Eren looked at the 2 women and they seemed to be wary of him.
"I'm Eren, Eren Yeager, and my dad it Grisha Yeager and send me up ahead to tell you that he would arrive later as he would wait until the rain would die down," said Eren sheathing his sword back and gave them a smile.
"...Mira Ackerman, this is my daughter Mikasa Ackerman," introduced the mother and her daughter to the boy...who was naked after the pistol hit him and he himself realized it and immediately his with a yelp behind a closet. Though Mikasa and her mom have seen his...sword and Mikasa was blushing like a cherry and Mira Ackerman had a thought that should make her feel a bit embarrassed. 'I must say he is quite gifted with his muscles...and his sword,'
Eventually, Grisha Yeager arrived and he was met with the dead bodies of the bandits and an Eren wearing different clothing and when he asked that question after his son answered the question if he did all of this he was met with silence and a red face of his son, Grisha immediately checked on both of the women and they were fine...except that the father didn't make it even after being treated and it was Eren's work.
But it seemed he was stabbed in a vital spot meaning he was doomed to die.
"You should come with us, it isn't safe here anymore as the bandits and his client know that you live here," said Grisha making Mira Ackerman nod that she and her daughter could no longer live here.
The father was given a funeral and the family prayed a goodbye as Mira Ackerman shed tears and Mikasa cried openly that her dad was now dead, burying her head into her mother's lap who held her daughter tightly and Eren walked forward and placed a few flowers he plucked nearby.
"...I shall pack their stuff for them, dad," said Eren as he went inside the house to get their belongings loaded up the carriage that was taken with Grisha, the father of Eren nodded and went over to the family mourning the death and loss of their Father/Husband.
After the belongings were packed up Mira and Mikasa Ackerman bid farewell to the house and went inside the carriage as Eren let them go first and then entered as his father steered the horses back to Shiganshina, it got dark by the time a few hours passed and the full moon was out and Mikasa had by that time fell asleep on her mother with Eren looking in the corner of his eyes at Mikasa.
'She looks so adorable,' were his thoughts as he looked at the sleeping face of Mikasa who the frowned when the cold got to her. 'This shall make her warm,'
Wrapping his red scarf around Mikasa's neck and making sure it was comfortable Mikasa suddenly moved and lied her head down on Eren's chest making him stiffen up, he wasn't good with dealing with girls since Mikasa is the 1st girl he has interacted himself with.
Oh! Who was he kidding!? He hadn't even talked to her so how can he think that he had interacted with her and much less flashed her with his birthday suit! Way too put up a good entrance of slicing and slashing down bandits and flashing the mother of the friend he would have and the friend he would have as well! It made him want to beat up the bandits again with all his force as it wasn't his fault this time, it was there fault for making him fail at getting a friend and a girl at that!
It wasn't that the girls of his age found him disgusting or something like that since he had been taught manners by his mom and he did them without any complaint, they were nothing but obeying their parents wishes and demands and childish instincts made them listen as they didn't want to feel the disappointed or angry gazes of their parents disobeying them. Eren never blamed them as the parents are living by old standards and none, well, except for a few, were very mean to him and he could sense they wanted to play with him.
It wasn't pitying, guilt, or interest but straight knowing that he was a good person to talk with and that he would listen to them.
...But he wasn't so sure anymore if they would still see him like that if they were to know about the story of being struck by lightning and surviving it with nothing but burned clothes with ease...yeah, he would be sure they wouldn't see him as a human anymore and see him something similar to Titans with their healing factors.
'What kind of...child am I if I can absorb lightning and survive it with no problem, and then the pistol that hit me...I don't know what I am anymore!' it was frustrating to Eren as he had always thought he was human and that the parents and elders are nothing but idiots, now it was worse for him as they are right about him being a freak!
He was so determined to prove he was human but the stupid Titans had to ruin it for him!
By the time he was thinking Mira Ackerman woke up and saw the sad gaze of Eren peering to the moon, she had seen that look many times of men being disappointed that they failed to conquer her but Eren's was different...like he wanted to prove something that he probably never had in his life...or that he didn't have much of it and that others had something he wanted to have.
"I want to thank you again for saving us," started Mira Ackerman.
"But I wasn't able to save your husband," pointed Eren out and he received a pat to the head for that making him confused.
"You don't have to be perfect, you just have to be the best you can be and do as the best you can," that reply of Mira made Eren widen his eyes and ponder in his thoughts about what she said but she held up a hand signaling to him that she wasn't done talking yet. "A person can possess a lot of power but even he or she will not be able to do everything, the person tries to do the best to do everything he or she can do,"
"Will everyone do that?"
"No, all the people that live here are different as each person is different and will think differently and that counts even for twins, as they also have other intentions...but not all of them are selfish you won't find the person immediately with that intention but you need to be patient," answered Mira hoping it had an effect on Eren if she said her last sentence. "Besides, there is no meaning to prove to people who you don't know,"
Those words had a great effect on Eren when he grew up to be a teenager.
Alrain: First chapter of the Attack on Titan: Lightning Burst and let's just say the ability of Eren being natural Titan is OP! And it will be reasonable as Hanji and Armin will explain it since Eren is smart in this, but not to the level of being so smart as a scientist of theory deductor but he will have his moments and all of that.
