Have you ever wondered what it was like thousands of years ago? So many years there are no preserved records? So many years, no one knows if there was once a predator of humans. You may go to a museum and find bones of ancient reptiles known as dinosaurs, but is there any records or documents dating to the years 800? After the dinosaurs, was there ever a large predator at the very top of they food chain? And if there was, why are there no records?
Have you ever thought of actually going back in time? Back to see if there ever were records that just ended up lost? Back to see if there was a predator of humans? Back to the years of 800 through? To see if there was a large predator, a predator who preyed on humans alone?
But this tale is focused on a young boy to thought contrary that time travel was possible. His mind was completely changed one day.
Aeron Jaeger. Young, green eyed, brown haired, determined, criticizes the idea of time travel, are the only ways to describe him. Despite his mixed origin name, he is actually half Eastern European and half German. He had questioned his parents naming skills, being they gave him a Welsh name meaning carnage. Yes pretty nice name isn't it? Because of this he usually signed his name 'Eren.' Now this isn't necessarily wrong, the pronunciation is about the same, the only difference is origin and meaning.
Well you see Aeron didn't have good people skills, he mostly ended up fist fighting. Not having many friends is a bit hard, you know. Not having someone to talk to, not having someone to hang out with, the most Aeron could manage for a friend was a slim street cat. He wasn't the smartest either, about average intelligence, but he was one of the biggest criticizers of time travel. He always claimed 'what happened in the past should stay in the past, and what happens in the future stays in the future.'
Well being a high school student, he participated in things like, trips to museums, lectures, invited guests, things like that. It was one particular day that the class went on a trip to what was left of a 'great kingdoms' walls that were estimated to date back 2,000 years ago. This crumbling structure was knocked down in some areas to make room for cities and such. The ruins stretched as far from the bordering areas of East Europe to a small section of Germany. There were three walls, an outer one, a middle one, and the inner one. The names of the walls, if they ever had names, were lost in time long ago.
When the class filed off the bus, they were told to go explore some of the places, and be back before sundown. Once the rules were stated and safety checks were confirmed, everyone went a different way. Some were in groups and others lone wolves. Aeron was a lone wolf. He wondered away, to about the middle area of the first wall. He had seen a great forest, the trees were taller than he had ever seen. He went into the forest.
Aeron had honestly thought that such a supply of wood would have been cut down long ago. He wondered aimlessly, his boots crunching on fallen twigs and leaves. Ever so often he heard a cicada chirping or a bird flying. Nothing but insects and birds? That was a strange thing, he'd have expected a deer or raccoon. He would have suggested they were hibernating, if only it had been winter. Aaron started feeling strange, why were there no animals around? Why didn't he leave some sort of reminder of how to get back? Why had he even come to the forest? Why did his legs start shaking? Why was the earth trembling? So many 'why?' questions.
So lost in thought Aeron didn't notice a bright light sweep across his vision. Nor did he notice the wind that wound around him. He didn't notice in the next second that he was surrounded by a forest. It was the same forest really, but this one was, younger? Aeron lost his train of thought and he noticed the fresher scent of trees and underbrush. What had happened? He recalled the light and the wind, now he noticed there was suddenly more animals. He turned behind him, just the deep forest, he whirled back to face his front, still just forest. Aaron then decided he'd go back the way he came. Or at least the way he thought he came.
After a few hours walk, Aeron made it out of the forest. He was proud, but he noticed that the forest wasn't the only thing that looked younger, He saw a large wall on the horizon, but instead of it being crippled and broken, it was tall and menacing. He was to busy in thought that he didn't noticed something was approaching him from the grassy field. At first glance it may have just looked like an awkward chubby man with a strange way of running, but it got closer and Aeron saw that was no human. It was giant humanoid creature about 30 feet tall. It had a bone chilling smile and dead eyes, the only emotion shown was hunger. Aeron froze, fear keeping him anchored to the spot. The creature approached further at a frightening speed. Still locked in place, eyes only on the predator before him, Aeron didn't notice the dust flying up from behind the beast and slightly to its right. Even if he had seen it, he'd expect it to be another monster. Though as the beast got the closer, so did the dust cloud. The dust cloud was a bunch of horses with people riding on them. The people had strange gear on. The gear looked to be metal, with large boxes hanging at their sides.
Finally the beast was upon him. Terrifyingly huge, mouth still in a smile, the tips of blood-stained teeth were visible. Aeron felt sick. Just then one of the humans on horse back, literally flew off her horse and up the nape of the giant's neck, cutting clean off. The body fell to the ground, and started evaporating? The group of humans had surrounded him. They looked as though he was not a stranger at all. But why? He had no idea where he was or who these people were. The black haired girl who killed the giant ran up to him. "Eren are you alright?" the girl asked. Eren? It sounded right but there was still the slight difference. Aeron looked at the girl. He wanted to venture a question but they might think it strange, he did it anyway.
"Uh," Aeron started, "where am I? And who are you people?" He noticed everyone looked dumbstruck. Had he been mistaken for someone who looked like him?
"Eren," it was the girl again, "you know where we are, and who we are, stop playing games," she pause, "what were you doing in the forest? And what are you wearing?"
"I-I came from there, and I truly have no idea who you are or where I am." Aeron concluded. A few people snickered.
The girl sighed, "it's dangerous to talk down here," she turned to the others and nodded to the trees, "come on." Next thing Aeron knew, he was on a thick, high branch on a tree with the girl. "Ok, Eren incase you really do have amnesia or you're just playing games I'll answer all your questions. First off, we are inside Wall Maria, and we are the Survey Corp or Scouting Legion. I am Mikasa Ackerman, your foster sister," the girl was calm and patient and spoke slowly. Foster sister? He was sure he didn't have a foster sister. So he ventured a third question.
"Who is this Eren person you mistook me for?" At this Mikasa simply looked at him, he guessed she was confused. "You see my name Aeron, A-E-R-O-N, you see you have the wrong person."
"Eren," Mikasa said, "are you alright? The last time I checked your name was spelled E-R-E-N."
Well to be fair that was how he spelled his name when signing things like work sheets at school. But no matter how he signed papers his name would always be Aeron. Aeron Jaeger, his name would always have it's meaning. "Uh, Mikasa, my name has been Aeron Jaeger since birth and Aeron Jaeger is who I am. Sorry but I'm not the person you're looking for." Mikasa sighed and said, "at least you didn't forget your surname."
Just then Aeron heard more horses on the ground. Mikasa got up and jumped from the branch, ropes shooting from the metal boxes at her side. He was then caught off guard when another person grabbed him and jumped down as well. When he was on his feet he saw Mikasa had her eyes on him. Behind her he saw a short man with black hair and a mirror image of himself. He took a step back in surprise. Who was that? Is that the 'Eren' Mikasa had been calling him?
The short man drew a sword and placed it at Aerons throat. "Who the hell are you?" There was no sound coming out of his mouth. He tried to calm down and find his voice, "A-Aeron Jaeger," he stammered. The man was not pleased with his answer. He pointed to Aerons doppelganger, "That is Eren Jaeger, so who are you, brat?"
Aeron had to continue, "I am Aeron Jaeger, I am not 'Eren' I am 'Aeron." He sounded ridiculous. But he felt he should specify. "My name is Welsh, not Turkish." This comment got him a lot of confused looks. "Welsh? Turkish? What does that mean?" some people asked.
Aeron was confused as well. Did these people not go to school or something? He was so confused he had so many questions to ask, but he got worried. He was scared, he had a blade at his throat and a twin, what the hell was going on? He needed to ask, "what the hell is going on? Where am I?!" Every one continued looking at him. He made eye contact with his twin. Why did he look exactly like him? The other looked just as confused.
Time flew by, decisions where made, and the next thing Aeron knew he was being hauled away in a wagon towards the middle wall. All Aaron could do was think. Okay, so he is in a place with three walls, a large forest in the outermost one, the outer one is inhabited by large humanoid beings, he heard them be called 'titans,' the people he was with are called the Survey Corp, and he has a doppelganger. Any more surprises?
To his annoyance there was, he found himself inside a cell in the basement of an old castle fortress. He was shackled and given warnings about things he didn't understand like, "don't think about turning down here," or, "Captain Levi would have to kill you," he didn't understand any bit of what was happening to him. He didn't like being the only one confused, so he decided to confuse them too. He decided he'd speak in a different language or tell them everything that had happened to him to get him where he was. He decided to go with the language one first. He knew a bit of Japanese and Spanish, he chose to use Japanese first.
The woman with brown oily hair came down a few hours later, along with Aeron's twin. Good he'll start to confuse her first. "Hello, there. How are you today?" The woman was attempting a smile but it was a twisted, demented version. Aeron responded; "Acchi ni ike!" At this the woman looked stunned, she didn't understand what he said. "Um, ah," the woman stumbled, "my name is Hange Zoe, call me Hange." Though she didn't understand what Aeron had she continued on. "I hear you and Eren are exactly alike," The woman didn't give in to confusion, "are your names the same?" Aeron felt he could at least answer this one, "I'm Aeron Jaeger, A-E-R-O-N, and I have no idea why I look like him or he looks like me, so there!" Aeron talked so fast he surprised even himself. Hange and Eren looked dumbfound, the mysterious Eren-look-alike was indeed strange. Hange got excited, "Oh! He responded in a known language!" Hange looked at him like an exotic animal in cage, which, technically, he was, "where were you born? What year? What's your hobbies? What was that language you spoke?" she spoke so fast and eagerly she was practically hyperventilating. Eren looked a bit annoyed.
Aeron was beginning to think was better to cooperate with this strange woman. She might decide to do strange experiments on him. He started by answering her questions. "I was born in Rochefort, Belgium on March 30th, 2835. I get into fist fights a lot, you could call it a hobby, but it's more of a habit, and the language I just spoke was Japanese," Aaron had given in fairly easily, this woman made him just a bit uncomfortable, that's why.
Hange had asked questions for hours without end. Accationally Aeron would be stubborn and not answer them. Gradually a crowd gathered in the narrow aisle to hear the mysterious twin answer question, and curse in unknown languages. It wasn't long before even Erwin and Levi were listening. Hange asked the most important questions when Erwin and Levi made their way next to Hange. "What is the population of the place you come from? Do you have titans? You said you were born year 2835 when here it is year 851, so how did you get here?" Everyone was in silence, Aeron himself had to think about the last question. He spoke a few minutes later, "the population of my time is around eleven billion," people murmured and gasped at this information, "and there is no such thing as titans, the only predator we have to watch out for is nature and disease." Aeron had to think for a bit about this last answer, once again. "I have absolutely no idea how I got here," Aeron concluded flatly. Minus the let-down of the last question Hange was ecstatic, jumping up and down, getting in the faces of everyone. But as she got into the face of Eren she said quite clearly, "EREN YOU A FUCKING TWIN FROM THE FUTURE! WITH THE INFORMATION HE JUST GAVE US WE KNOW HUMANITY WILL WIN!" But Hange stopped, looked back at Aeron and said much calmer, "what is outside the walls?" Around the room people whispered excitedly.
Aeron was now sure of it, these people had never been more than five miles, probably, past those walls. He began, but with a little word of advice about the whole 'humanity will win' thing. "It's not set in stone humanity will win so don't slack off on what ever you're doing, you can change the future," Aeron was surprised of what was coming from his very own mouth, he guessed he was quoting something off Doctor Who. "Well then, about outside," he paused, maybe he could get out of this cell, "would you mind letting out of here it's uncomfortable, I'm human too." Desperate for information Hange quickly let him out. He was then taken to a room with a neat desk, neat walls, neat everything. He decided it was good enough. The only ones in the room with him were Hange, Levi, Erwin, Eren, Mikasa, and an excited Armin.
"So about outside," Aeron started. Armin was trembling with excitement and Eren and the others were looking on with interest. "About two-thirds of the Earth is covered in water, so there's not much to see around most edges of land," just that little bit of knowledge made Armin and Hange even more excited, "if this is still where I was when I came, I guess we are currently on the border of Germany and Europe near the North," Aeron saw he was confusing them so he gave them simple knowledge, "all the land on Earth is cut into seven continents, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America." Aeron remembered he had a small travel map in his back pocket, he got it out and unfolded it, "I guess it would be easier to show you," He pointed to places on the map, "this Europe, and this is Germany," he traced imaginary lines on the map, "if I remember correctly, these walls are here," he traced a circle around the area, "now that's all I'll tell you about the land for now. This, "he started pointing at the blue parts of the map, "represents water, or the oceans. There are five oceans, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern. The three main oceans," he continued pointing as he named them, "are the Pacific, which covers most of the world, Atlantic, and Indian."
Aeron had been so caught up in naming things, that he didn't notice that a small blond girl had been added to the collection near the beginning of his schooling. When he was finished he had looked up noticed her, he looked on in surprise. When she saw his face she also looked surprised, she looked back and forth at Eren then Aeron. He watched as Erwin and Hange informed her of the situation. He noted a particular word that was said 'queen,' so this small girl was the queen? She only looked about his age, though technically was not true, everyone here was about two thousand years older than him.
Aeron had grown tired after an entire day of being questioned, and resorting back to stubbornness, he started cursing people out in Spanish and Japanese. "Estas pero si bien pendejo!" Hange had been annoying him for a while, when he spoke this Spanish phrase, she just grew in curiosity. "You have been speaking a different language a lot, but some of it sounds different than other parts, do you switch language periodically?" Aeron really wanted to shake this weird, hyper-active, nosy scientist but he thought wiser because, all these people had swords. He only had verbal abuse to use, maybe they'd give up. "Acchi ni ike." Unfortunately Hange was intrigued by his languages, even if they were cussing her out. "See! Right there! I heard a distinct change in accent! So you speak multiple languages?" Aeron had given up speaking and simply adverted his eyes elsewhere.
It wasn't long before Hange started being dragged away, thankfully. But then Erwin sat down with him and he had Eren, Aeron's look-alike with him. Becoming excessively aggravated, Aeron litteraly bared his teeth, just a bit. Why won't they all just leave me alone? He guessed Erwin had seen his animal-like display, but decided to disregard the gesture. Instead Erwin smiled slightly and chuckled a bit, "I guess you got sick of talking, thanks to Hange." You have no idea. After this comment, Eren was given a gesture, motioning for him to speak to Aeron. He started out awkwardly, as though he had no idea what to say to his clone that may or may not actually be an incarnation from the future. "Uh… don't worry about Captain Hange, I've been in her clutches plenty of times too," most definitely, he felt quite awkward. Aeron was really freaked out by his predicament. Most would be troubled by not getting into a good college or not getting good pay at work, but Aeron's dilemma was on a much higher level, he was taken back in time, maybe 2,000 years in the pas.