Warnings: This fic contains content such as abuse and self harm.
Mikasa silently trekked her way through the path in the forest that led to the cemetery. It was nearing midnight and if an adult saw her, they'd surely turn her in for being out way past curfew, but she didn't care, she just had to get out of that house. Her parents were fighting again, their fights being more frequent and brutal since she had came out a little over a year ago. She approached the fence that surrounded the graveyard, checked for any bystanders, and climbed it. Using the gate would risk her getting caught.
Although it was the dead of night, the full moon shined bright enough for Mikasa to make out the placements of tombstones and the names that had been carved into them. She simply wandered the cemetery, enjoying the crisp air and quite sounds as she went further and further into the cemetary's seemingly endless abyss of stone, until she spotted a grave unlike the others. As she approached it, the moon light illuminated the grave, showcasing an old looking statue that stood proudly atop a plinth. As she stood before the antagonizing figure, she took in the details and atomony of it.
The statue was of a tall woman with sharp, curved horns, in the midst of bending down. Her head turned down as if she were looking down at Mikasa herself. Her eyes were narrowed and peircing, and her mouth was pulled into a sinister grin with pointy teeth that could rival a sharks. Mikasa gazed downwards and gasped. She hadn't noticed how one of her arms was outstretched towards her, with a hand scuplted to look as if she was going to grab her. Taking it all in, though, that seemed to be how the whole figure was made to look it. Like the woman with horns was about to grab the person who stood before her.
Mikasa bent down to read the named engraved in the stone. Ymir. Looking back upon the statue, she thought it suited her. Although she didn't want to go back home, she knew if she didn't leave now they'd probably find out she left, and that wouldn't end well. As she turned around, she took one last glance at Ymir's grave, and something caught her eye. She inspected the monument again and noticed something prodding out from behind one of it's feet. Mikasa reached over, grabbed it, and pulled it out of the stone.
The second she pulled it out, her vision blurred and it felt as if electricity was shooting through her body. With her breath heavy, Mikasa looked at the object. It was a book with the words "Demonic Creatures and How To Summon Them" etched on the cover. Intrigued by the name and placement of the book, Mikasa tucked it under her arm to study later, and walked back home.
Thankfully, when she got home, her parents had not only failed to notice her disappearence, but they had also stopped fighting and had gone to bed. Heaving out a sigh of relief, she set the book down and began to look through it. The pages were filled with images of what Mikasa could only describe as distorted monsters and most of the words that littered the pages seemed like unreadable gibberish. She simply scanned the pages until her eyes fell upon one page in particular. It appeared untouched, with the ink unfaded and the lack of various stains and creases the other pages had donned. That's not what caught Mikasa's eye, though. What caught her eye was that the words were legible, even spaced, and written in an entirely different ink than the rest. On the top, written with big, red letters, said "How to Summon Ymir".
