WARNING! MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THE MANGA AND ANIME! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Hello everyone! My name is Jack or Aniimeziing back with another story, an Attack on Titan story this time. Now for the backstory of this story, Attack on Titan is my favourite anime and manga series and I love to read Fan-Fiction on it. I love the world, the characters, the plot, the death, the gore, everything! But one thing that I noticed is that Eren is a little underpowered.
But when I was talking to my friend about where I wanted the series to go, I said that it would be cool if Eren got super OP, just as an idea. However, I started to think about it and BOOM! You know how the Titans eat humans to try and find a Titan Shifter to eat so that they can become Titan Shifters themselves? If not, then you learned why Titans eat people, proof? It happened with Ymir. But I'm getting side tracked. Anyway, I began to think, what would happen if a Titan Shifter ate another Titan Shifter? And that is where the idea for this story comes from.
Basically: it's Eren, eating all the other Titan Shifters in order to gain their abilities (E.G Annie's healing to one direct spot, Reiner's body armour and Bertolt's steam ability) to become stronger in order to fight the Beast Titan and all the Titans in the world.
Is it a good idea? I don't know but I have had this idea in my head for over 6 months now and I wanted to write it. Now, I know that I am also writing my Pokémon Fanfiction but I will swap between the two, so one week long AoT chapter and several short Pokémon chapters or one long Pokémon chapter and several shorter AoT chapters.
Just to mention, I am a big EreMika Shipper so there will be a lot of that.
Okay then, now that that very long starting segment is done, let's get on with Chapter 1! Hope you enjoy!
Webs of flesh fell shut over a pair of hypnotic emerald eyes as their owner struggled against a piece of debris. The piece of heavy concrete had fallen flush against his body, a piece of sharp wood piercing his skin and entering his organs, veins, and arteries before exiting the other side. It was the worst physical pain he had felt before in his life, and sent his mind into a frenzy. His wound was constantly trying to close itself, causing more pain and self-harm to his nerves.
Eventually, Eren Jaeger just gave up and let the pain over take him. He was too weak. He wouldn't be able to save anyone, he would fail just like when he was in the Forest of Giant Trees with the Levi Squad… and like the time with his mother.
Images of unforgettable torture spread throughout his body, scenes of blood stained allies, friends twisted and bent in ways that would cause your skin to crawl, his mother cut in two, her top half screaming that he was weak. These scenes were recurring nightmares for the young teen and along with the pressure of being a Titan Shifter, the 'Last Hope of Humanity', caused him constant stress and terror. These thoughts, these ideals infected his mind, made him hostile towards his friends, rotted away his personality.
But he wouldn't let them.
Gazing down at the key that hung around his neck, he saw hope. That key, the metal rusted and eroded from its time inside of Eren's Titan skin, was a key that would unlock the secrets to the Titans, the secrets that would save the walls and everybody in them. He would reach Shiganshina, he would save everybody, and he would eradicate the Titans!
Pushing himself up without the use of his broken arms, he felt every splinter of wood shift and break as it hit his skin, his flesh glistened with fresh crimson and sweat. The Shifters face was contorted into a snarl, teeth bared and sharp, eyes curved and fierce.
If you win, you live. If you lose, you die. If you fight, you survive.
Letting out an ear burst shout, Eren felt his skin rip and his bones shatter as the familiar sound of lightning filled the air. Eyes of emerald locked onto the bolt as it broke from the ceiling above him, an unforgettable feeling of joy and freedom filled every fibre of his being, setting his nerves alright. It's a heavy dose of irony, really: when he becomes the thing he wants to kill, he becomes free. Hm, good way of thinking.
Like a puppet, hard layers of muscle poured themselves on top of his human form, draping it in flesh before tightening around the boy to form the skin of a Titan. A smile spread across his disjointed face, teeth miss-matched and eyes shining bright. Using his hands to break the concrete that once held him, he raised himself from the rubble with a single goal in his mind.
Capture Annie Leonheart.
Bursting off at the speeds of a 3DMG, Eren's Titan form barraled down the street, shattereing windows and breaking layers of cememnt and concrete as he sprinted past. Nails as sharp as steel embedded themselves into thick skin, drawing blood and leaving a trail of steam behind him as they healed. He just ran and ran and ran until his eyes met the back of her head.
The Female Titan, Annie Leonheart: the 4th best graduate of the 104TH Division, a master in hand-to hand combat and deception, able to sneak her way into the ranks of the military even after killing so many. And she had a date with Eren Jaeger. A date that would end in blood and gore.
Picking up the pace, he raised his fist as he approahced, cocking it back for the impact. He roared once more, gaining the attention of a certain blond Titan. Making a connection, his smile widened as his knuckles made contact with her scarred and marked face, pieces of mischappen muscle and flesh breaking thorugh her skin.
Sending her flying into a nearby building, a chapel where many people were now dead, Eren stood back to admire his work. He looked like a savage, a beast about to kill his prey, a monster chasing after an innocent. But no: she wasn't innocent. No body in the whole world was innocent anymore, you had to learn how to kill to survive in this world. Kill. Kill. Kill.
Breaking out of his trance for a moment, Eren cast his eyes down from his 15m form onto a girl laying down on a nearby street. From where he stood, he could see worry and compasion in her grey eyes, beautiful and different as they may be. Her orriental heritage gave her beautiful black hair that ended just before her shoulders and pale skin. Eren had always seen her as pretty, but now he could see her as a woman, a beautiful one at that.
And that is when the rage took hold once more.
Mikasa Ackermann was not a soldier who would have fallen down or failed a jump while performing 3DMG manoeuvres: she was perfect, top of the class. And that lead to one conclusion: Annie had done something to her. He had had so many dreams about the ones he cared about dying: Sasha, Connie, Krista, Reiner, Bertolt, Ymir, Armin, even Jean, but the ones with Mikasa in were the worst. He would wake up crying, tears unable to contain themselves in his eyes and he would always stay away from her on those day, fearful that a single touch would break her form.
Breaking Mikasa's gaze, Eren shifted his back to the fallen Female Titan, who was ready to regain her ground. Quick as a bullet, she sprinted off throughout the streets, trying to shake off her pursuer, but Eren was on her just as fast.
They ran for what felt like hours, running around building, running around people and soldiers but when Annie finally stopped, she threw up her hands into her famous fighting stance. Eren's smile grew even more, threatening to rip the skin from his face as he realised what was about to happen.
In his mind, Eren began to speak towards the skinless creature in-front of him.
"Annie, you always had this look on your face, like you thought that everybody around you was stupid and hopeless." His Titan let out a small noise, as much as chuckle as it could muster, "You always seemed bored."
Taking a step back, he readied his own stance, wild and crazed as it was before he spoke again.
"But there were times when you came alive… Like when you were showing off your fighting skills! You said that they were pointless crap that your Father forced on you, but," He gazed into her icy eyes, the light blue still and lifeless, "It never looked like that to me."
Looking down at his hand, he noticed a trail of steam leaving the bony knuckles, signalling that they were healing from his previous hit.
"I remember thinking that you were a bad liar."
"Fighting's your whole world, but what exactly are you fighting for?! What could be worth, all this death and destruction?!"
Roaring again, louder and more ferocious then before, Eren ran at Annie without any thought or reason. She threw her leg at him, hardened and coated in crystal, slicing through his own leg like a knife, but that didn't stop his assault. He sent a punch straight towards her face and even through blocked hands, Annie could feel the bone breaking force.
Screaming in joy, Eren crouched down low, only to be hit in the head by a lump of crystal, sending him into a near-by building. He felt his face break and shift, the muscle tearing and ripping as Annie's foot made contact with body. She was screaming, his bent, pointy ears could hear that: he pushing her over the line and he was enjoying every second of it. As she was pounding her fist onto his skull, he thought about something that Armin had told him once:
'To fight monsters, we have to lose our humanity.'
His eyes met hers, his teeth wrapped around her calf muscle. He saw how sporadic and out of place her fighting style was, trying to cope with his attacks: she kept pounding with her solidified muscle. When she finished her barrage of hits onto his body, she ran off towards the wall while Eren sat there, his Titan slowly regenerating. Inside of his fleshy cocoon, Eren's face broke out into another grin. His eyes were covered and disjointed, his face was mangled and disjointed but he felt free. His mission was to capture her alive, but now he had a change of heart.
He was going to kill Annie Leonheart. And devour her.
Eren felt his form catch alight, marks and segments of his body lit up in a frenzy of heat and fire. He felt his teeth break and change, sharp incisors and bone left in their wake. A new sense of pride and anger took hold of his body as he leapt up like an animal, before casing after the skin-less Titan.
He ran like a beast. He looked like a beast. He felt like a beast.
Catching up to the Titan, he took enjoyment in her scared expression before he jumped onto her, capturing her neck with his arm. He felt her ribs pierce her back and into his stomach but he couldn't care less. He knew what she was going to do, and he wasn't going to let her do it.
Bony fingers of fire grabbed hold of delicate and skinless face, squeezing it like a trigger to a gun, waiting for the shot to be fired. And that bullet came in the form of a scream. Blood sprang out of her face before he pinned her down, constantly hitting and abusing her body. Threads of flesh and bone broke under his figure as he collapsed onto her, punching his hand directly through her until he reached her spine.
Grabbing hold of the precious bone, Eren violently yanked it out of its fleshy home, string and wires of muscle connecting it to the Titan. She let out another scream as she struggled to break free but Eren just assaulted her body even more. A loud snapping sound filled the air. Pulling the spine out of the body, Eren ripped it off of the Titan, chest up still connected. Standing on his hind legs, he swung it around like a mace, hitting building and walls as the body degraded with each hit.
Landing a final hit to the pavement, Eren stared down at his work. A broken face with bone present looked back at him, the teenager inside viewable and clearly visible. Grinning like a mad-man, he reached down, clawed talon-like nails ripping Annie out of her cage before he held her in his massive hand.
From all directions, he heard cries of distress.
"Oh no, he's going to eat her! Put her down!" Hange.
"What's he doing?! Son of a-!" Jean.
"Oh god no, Eren!" Armin.
"Eren, don't do it!" Mikasa.
That last one almost got him, but he still continued with his plan. Bringing his hand up in an upward motion, he threw the young girl, searing hot and steaming. His eyes focused on her fragile form, before he opened his mouth and clasped down on her figure.
Sharp teeth cut through bone and muscle, biting into her spine as her blood mixed with his saliva. Eren tasted her salty tears, her crimson, her regret, but what he enjoyed the most was the fluid that erupted from her bony back. Annie's spine erupted into glorious liquid that was the most beautiful thing that he had tasted in all of his life: it was sour and bitter, but sweet and tangy, it tasted like Heaven.
However, he lost all self-control when it entered his throat. Letting out a blood-curdling scream, he dropped to his knees, his puppet collapsing from a sudden pain that spread throughout his body. Digging his finger nails into his skull, the teen rolled around on the ground, trying to extinguish the burning that was spreading like wild fire.
As he raved, his skin began to feel strange. Collecting any self-control that he had left, Eren demanded his eyes to meet his skin. What he saw astonished him: his legs were beginning to crystallise. It stung like the fire, burning from the cold. Lifting his leg up, it shattered like glass, leaving blood red shard scattered across the floor.
Terrified at his new ability, Eren attempted to crawl away from his problems but the fight with Annie had worn away his arms and they gave way as they made contact with the concrete floor. He was panicking, the horror beginning to set in. Oh how he wanted it to be over, the pain was too much.
Once more, his skin felt alien, so he gazed down to see his leg forming back already, as if it had never happened. This was all too much.
Luckily for him, Captain Levi was 'Humanities Strongest Soldier'.
Eren felt his arms grow weary, as if they didn't exist. Then his legs before he felt his back impact the concrete, finally succumbing to the darkness that ebbed away at his vision.
Eren Jeager, had eaten Annie Leonheart.
Mikasa couldn't stop her legs if she tried.
She was running at a sprint, desperate to see Eren. He had lost control, he had failed the mission for them, but she didn't care. The oriental girl had seen him in pain, excruciating pain from his screaming. As she ran past so many soldiers, she heard about what they thought about her adoptive-brother.
"He is a monster."
"Why did we even trust him with such a job?"
"He needs to be killed, put down."
Tears brimmed at her eyes, the beautiful grey in them replaced by a desperate faded ash. Coming closer to her destination, Mikasa saw her commander, Captain Levi, throw Eren by the corpse of his Titan. His arms and leg had become like glass, a light-shade of white covering his figure like the now dead Annie Leonheart. Steam erupted from his face and torso, scarred by the searing heat as it tried to heal.
"Eren!" She shouted as she reached the boy. Enveloping his form in an embrace that threatened to crack the crystals surrounding him, she hurried to put her head to his chest. After searching around for a second, that sound filled her ears.
Dum, dum. Dum, dum. Dum, dum.
Eren was alive.
Mikasa pushed her face into his ripped and tattered shirt, stained with blood and burnt from the fire. Tears soaked into the cloth, cooling Eren's hot flesh a small amount. She had almost lost him again, no, she had lost him again for a few minutes.
He was a savage beast, a creature that only bought death and chaos… like a mindless Titan.
Snuggling closer to him, Mikasa didn't care about the onlookers judging her for looking after the 'Titan-boy' who ruined their mission. Although she couldn't see him, Mikasa knew that Levi was burning holes into the back of her head with his cold, piercing eyes.
By now, Eren's limp and unconscious form was propped up against the burning corpse of his hollow shell, with Mikasa crying into his shirt. Only he could make her like this: she had seen him in danger before, like in the Forest of Giant Trees but when he started screaming, she thought back to all those times when he would have a nightmare about his mother.
When they were refugees, he would have them constantly and Mikasa always watched on, trying to comfort him as he thrashed about. She didn't know if he still had dreams like that anymore, but she didn't really care.
Her ears perked up at the sound of footfall. Taking her gaze away from Eren's chest, the oriental girl turned her head to face her companions. There stood Jean and Armin, both looking distressed and shocked at the scene that they had just witnessed. Hange was off inspecting the Titan, looking at the shattered crystal with excitement. She heard movement behind her, signifying that Levi had moved to join her.
"Mikasa… he didn't, did he?" Armin asked, his voice shaky and his head low, tears falling from his eyes.
"He did Armin… he really did." She asked her own tone just as shaky.
"Dumb bastard ruined the fucking mission, after we had wasted all this time preparing." Jean spoke with a harsh tone to his words, causing a glare to escape Mikasa's eyes.
"What's going to happen to him now?" Mikasa asked, uncertain about what the future held.
"He will be isolated from everybody in the Survey Corps. Then we will check to see what happened with his Titan form, before we plan our next move to Shiganshina." Captain Levi strolled up behind them, devoid of emotion.
Mikasa was about to protest but a quick glance from the Captain's eyes shut her up. Staring back at Eren's unmoving face, she traced the cooled marks on his face with her hands, realsiingt hat they would be separated again for a while.
Just as she was about to lose herself again, Hange came strolling over, a sharp shard of crystal in her hand. Her face showed joy even in their current situation.
"Guess what?!" She shouted at the Captain, even though he already knew, causing him to roll his eyes.
Wiping the tears from his eyes, Armin responded.
"What is it?"
"Well, this crystal is the same type that Annie was able to use before…" They all looked back at the corpse, hoping the see the top half of her body in the stomach area but there was nothing. "Before the heat fried her body and her fluids were jetted through his Titan into Eren's won bloodstream."
Although Mikasa was fascinated by the discovery, she grew disgusted at those words: Eren had just eaten someone and had their spinal fluids in his bloodstream. Letting a shudder rock her body, Mikasa resumed her attention to the conversation.
"So, Eren had the same kind of crystallisation that Annie had but it was unstable with trying to adapt to a new host so fast so It broke off easier." Armin pondered.
"Yeah, and did you see how fast his leg grew back? I heard that something similar happened in the Forest of Giant Trees: when she focused her healing on one part of her body." Jean spoke, looking at the Captain when he mentioned the dreaded forest.
"How do you know of that, brat?" Levi shot back with venom.
"I-I heard the report of the event from Eren's view, sir!" Jean answered back quite quickly.
"Fine."
"And I want to test a few things, so," she waltzed over to Levi, "Can I please have him for his isolation? Pretty please?
"Okay, just get him to control himself."
He turned towards the remaining 3 soldiers. "You three did a very good job here today: you will resume you routine when Eren is back at the Survey Corp so you can take a break until then." He said before his gaze turned to Mikasa, who was beaming.
"Thank you, sir." She said before returning to Eren. She wasn't going to let him die, not now. She wasn't going to let him become some mindless Titan. She wasn't going to let anything happen to him from now on.
Inside his body, Eren felt pain surge through him even worse than when he was awake. He felt the strands of DNA and his genes change and adapt to the new liquid that was running through his bloodstream, trying to change his Titan form and his natural human form as well.
He felt his bones breaking and bending, hardening like the crystal that covered his Titan but this felt way worse: the crystals felt like daggers under his skin, jagged and un-cut and not smooth like natural bone.
He could feel his iris' shifting and changing, diluting and darkening, changing in rapid succession behind lids of skin. Sharp incisors broke through his gums and into his mouth, sending pain shooting throughout his mouth.
He couldn't do anything to stop it: he had let his anger take over and this where it got him.
However: he wondered about what he could do now. It was certain that there was some kind of change, some kind of reaction. The crystal that covered his skin before was almost exactly like Annie's but unstable, allowing it to break. He had also managed to heal his leg faster when he tried to will away the pain.
Soon, the pain vanished, exaporating itno nothingness. With his body in control and stable again, Eren was final aloud some peace and rets.
He had committed a sin and he was being punished, but when he was committing sin he felt free.
Huh, a real heavy dose of irony there.
So then, how was it? I really like this concept and I hope you guys do too: I haven't seen anybody else really tackle it so I wanted to share it with the world.
Now, as for important plot points such as the Wall Titans and the Colossal and Armoured Titan reveals as well as the break in Wall Rose when the Beast Titan shows up will be show, but depicted in different ways to fit around the story. This gives me some foundation to work on but also allows me to mix it up a bit for you guys.
Also, if you wanted to know about Eren's speech: I took most of it from the manga, but the ending was from the anime. It's just so powerful!
Anyway, next chapter is when we get to see Eren's new Titan form: if you want to send in anyhign that you want to see for it, leave it in the reviews or PM me, and I will see what I can do, Iant to create the best piece of fiction that I can for you guys.
Thank you for taking you time to read and goodbye!
-Jack
