Eren shifted in his place next to Annie as Mikasa's eyes continued to silently plead with him. "No, Miaksa... I won't come back to the walls. I'm done being used and then thrown aside by "humanity." I know the truth now. You should come with me as well... You to, Arimin... Together we can make thing right..." he said, raising his left hand for all to see. "I know that the you two have the rest of it." A.U. and what if Oc's Annie, Eren, Armin, Bertholdt. Reiner and Mikasa.
*Scream little children, always make a sound...
Or else he's gonna put you all on the Brazen bull...
And if that bull doesn't black your skin...
He's gonna give you a Heritic's fork...
How long he had been down in this small, dark, and foul smelling dungeon steeped in the moonless darkness he had no real idea. Days, weeks, months... Perhaps even years. Eren had lost count of it all. If not for the Military Police standing guard outside of his cell he would think that he had been forgotten by everyone.
Of course that was how he wised it would be considering what they did to him on a regular basis... Coldness and intense pain were second nature to him by now. But they did more to them then that. When someone is called a monster it only takes so long for that person's mind to start believing it in its entirety embrace it fully. Especially if they were still growing. Here he would not be able to hurt anybody anymore.
Why was he even here again? He tried to think back to to the events that had led him here something that truly felt like a lifetime ago... yes that's right. He had been put here because he could transform into a Titan... he was seen as a danger and there had to be processions set for him... for the good of the people still within the walls.
Then again there had been two who said that he would get a hearing to prove he wasn't a danger. Where were they? They had said they would help him, or had he just imagined that? Had the Captain of the Scouting Legion lost his footing. Either way the faith he had in them had dried up long ago.
He wondered what Mikasa and Armin were doing now? He wondered if they were eating, if they were bathed in the light. He wondered how they were doing. Why was he even thinking of them.
A sudden loud shout caused him to snap out of his thoughts and listen to what had made the sound. It seemed to be coming form just beyond the door. For an instant he wondered if it was Mikasa.
The door was suddenly thrown off its hinges and crushed the ones who had tried to come to open it. Eren saw Reiner standing there in the door way in a position that made it clear that he had been the one to destroy the door. His hand was misshapen, skinless, smoking and huge... like a Titans...
Titan...?
And if that Heritic's fork doesn't poke...
He's gonna poke you with a broken glass...
If that pocking glass doesn't tear, he's gonna put you on the breaking well...
Reiner stood there for what seemed like ages before he stepped into Eren's grey line of sight and the candles suddenly went out, making it so he could not see but a few inches out of his cell. There were more shouting and then the sound of a sword slicing through flesh and then the sound of bodies falling in unison to the floor. Eren felt something wet and hot splash against his cheek as he looked at the bodies of the Military Police cut to ribbons. It was too dark to see and they were too far away but he saw a glint of gold and the sound of a sword being put away in its sheath. What were people doing still using swords like that again? Out of the darkness stepped a young looking woman that Eren knew all too well. Someone he could not help but feel a certain amount of happiness despite how cold this person was.
"Annie," Eren managed to crock horsily in a voice that sounded far too used from screaming. What was she doing here?
As the small girl stepped closer to him she seemed to stiffen at the sight of him in the flickering candle light. And she thought that through the hundreds of years she had seen every atrocity these fallen could do to each-other. How wrong she was. How wrong she had always been.
"Oh Eren..." she breathed mutedly, her voice shacking despite herself, as a strange looking boy stood next to her. He was followed by Reiner and Berthodlt each with looks of utter shock and utter disbelief on their faces. It was good to see them again. In the shadows he saw another a boy come into the flickering light and stop next to Annie.
"Carlos..." Annie said to the dark skinned boy next to her, "I told you that this might be the case..." she spoke to him in a voice that Eren had never heard her speak to anybody before. Like she really cared for him. Eren never knew her to sound like that... she sounded nice.
"And I know you were right... partner," the boy said in a strange voice Eren had never heard before, he stepped in front of the bars looking in on Eren the light throwing his face into full view to Eren's eyes. Eren saw a splash of blood on his cheek that was not his own and jewel interested sword tied at his hip. He had dark skin. He had long black hair that reached to below his ears and deep green eyes. He was a little taller then he was.
In a flash of cold silver the bars on Eren's cell were sliced apart as if they had been made of butter under the swords sharp blade. The shackles on Eren's pale arms broke easily revealing the bruised skin underneath. Eren could not help but feel... a slight nostalgia from the shackles breaking. As if it had happened before.
Eren felt his body being carefully lifted up from the "bed" by Bertholdt and as he carefully and quickly carried him out of the room and into the moonlit hall Eren took this chance and looked down upon his pale as light skeletal hands and ragged body the moonlight reflecting off of his hollow cheeks.
He looked around the deserted halls that were not full of nothing but the dead and blood stained bodies of the Military police he could not help himself but utter a small found of denial for their deaths.
"Ignore the pigs who have deserted you..." Eren heard the boy Annie had called Carlos say to him before he felt his eye lids droop and then the darkness consumed him once again.
Tonight... you will let your screams ring throughout the night... up to the uncaring moon above...
The lyrics were just used to emphasize the state of mind that Eren was in and it will not be a recurring theme in this story. So you guys can breath in a sigh of relief now. It will however be in the next chapter of Descending into Madness and it will be in a full verse... just so ya'll know...