Alrain: Chapter 2 is ready to go!
Attack on Titan Manga: I did some heavy research on this and I don't want to spoil anything so I won't put it in, and I kind of going to hate Attack on Titan a lot if too many changes and that some things will change, Eren's powers are more then you think and I will fully explain what all of it is.
Chapter 2: Answers, the second Girl, and Lightning.
Shiganshina.
Eren was early up again when the sun shined its rays on him allowing him to power up again since yesterday made him extremely tired when he released the lightning out of his body, it didn't happen right away but it happened after a few hours after he got into the cart on the way home and it surprised him that he was for the 1st time so tired and he instantly disliked it...but liked it as he now felt what it was to sleep so well and that Mikasa was sleeping in his bed clinging to him like a teddy bear was totally worth it.
She was so adorable even when she was sleeping so soundly and the drool that escaped her mouth, Mikasa pretty much refused to let him go and since they didn't have one of their guest rooms prepared and the girl had quite a tight grip for her age.
'Now the problem is...how do I get out of here?' wondered Eren when he woke up and tried to get up only to have Mikasa pull him back on the bed.
He honestly didn't mind to stay in bed all day long staring at Mikasa as creepy as it sounded but it was the truth as she was so adorable that Eren wanted to laze around despite being so energetic, he was like a bit as his father who is a workaholic and works very often when the chance was given and Eren pretty much wanted to train and get stronger for some reason and that wasn't because he wanted to see the outside.
The dream of going outside the wall hasn't died down yet and he was sure that he would not give up on it very soon as the trees he saw yesterday made him gape how tall they are, almost to the level of the walls and he wanted to climb it as soon as the chance was given but that would be just only in a few years and he had no chance of going back after what his mother heard about the bandits...luckily he didn't tell about the lightning hitting him.
Still, there was something that bothered Eren and that was that the men who were outside the house of the Ackerman Family didn't get shocked like the man who pointed his gun at him, he didn't know much about lightning except that it was dangerous and could kill anyone and when hitting something and it would burn. A terrible death and there was no exception that his father said...well, there is now an exception since the lightning hit him when he pointed his sword into the air (Which got now useless after the battle with the bandits.) and proved to him that he was immune against lightning but he didn't know why as he knew he could stay for long periods active when the sun was up.
Now Lightning could perhaps power him up and the rain yesterday also made him realize that the cold of the water didn't make him have a cold, he had never received one at all, the door then suddenly opened revealing his mom who came to check up on him as he would normally come down by now.
"Uhm, mom can you help me?" asked Eren.
"...Do you really want to get out of your situation?" asked Carla skeptically while smiling devilishly at Eren.
"...Not really, but you know me and my stamina," said Eren who wished he had shut his mouth as to how he said it imprinted the wrong situation and that he was in his bed didn't make it any better. "...Forget what I said and help me out of here!"
Breakfast was eaten and Mikasa held onto him again after breakfast was done and all that Eren could do is merely allow her to do it...should he introduce her to Armin and some other girls he knew from around? They would be delighted to play with her but then again not. She looked very exotic compared to the other girls in town and would probably be jealous of her looks since her hair was so smooth looking.
He needed to know more about his powers but with Mikasa constantly hanging on him he couldn't so he needed to find the opportunity to test them, dad would also go away for a while again as he had another patient outside the walls as a sudden increase of bandits were there. The day flew by and the guest room was ready so Mikasa slept with her mother in the room allowing Eren to sleep alone.
"Eren? Would you like to go with me outside the walls again?" asked his father making Eren shocked.
"B-But I thought mom didn't want me to go outside anymore until I am older," said Eren since his father also knew that Carla told Eren not to go outside anymore, and dad rarely goes against her words.
"I don't think she will notice since she has Mira here as companionship...and she also told me what happened in the Ackerman household," revealed his father that he knew about the lightning incident as Eren called it, simple names were sometimes the best so don't judge him. "And I wanted to tell you some time but not this soon...but I don't want to leave you in the darkness again so I am going to tell you about it,"
"...Can you do something similar to me absorbing lightning? I am afraid dad, afraid that if I get struck again that I might hurt Mikasa," said Eren who was afraid that he was the only person to have this ability and that he was not human...no human should be able to actually pull away the fingers of a Titan grabbing the person and neither should they survive with no wounds by being struck by lightning.
His strength was proved that he was no human...but the lightning was luck as he had a feeling bad things would happen if the bandit didn't die by the contact of him.
Grisha nodded to him and motioned over to him to come with him and Eren followed him and got outside and entered the cart, he wanted to get answers but he wasn't going to demand them now since they were still in the house.
Outside the walls.
It was nighttime and Eren had helped his father with his appointment with the people he made and in the cart, Grisha would tell Eren about his abilities and the secrets of how he was able to survive the lightning strike and it may have taken a bit too long for Eren's taste but the presence of the other people forced him to calm down and the sight of the sick child made his head empty.
He had never been sick so he never knew what it looks like to be sick and since others kept their distance he had never seen anyone sick at all except for the elders but they looked like they were always sick, making it hard for him to know what it looked like and it was very scary for him when he saw how weak the child was and how pale he looked like he was thrown into a sack of flour.
The boy hardly reacted to anything around him and slept soundly and didn't even react to the needle stuck in him as his father began to take blood and the medicine he gave him, the medicine worked as the boy got a bit of color back and it was how pale the kid was to notice the difference of how much of the skin got healthy again.
'The luxury of never getting sick may seem weak and not that good...but what dad told the parents what caused the kid to get sick...' the child simply got sick because he had been bitten by a small bug that was hard to find and see and said that some kind of bacteria infested the boy, the boy was an unfortunate one as he did already have a weak immune system making the bacteria work more effective on him.
It was just that simple to get sick and that again surprised him how the boy got sick by a small bug.
"Let him rest a few days and give him something light to eat, nothing heavy as that takes too much energy to do that as he is already weak even with the medicine taken," concluded Grisha who wrote it down just in case and gave it to the parents who thanked him a lot Grisha motioned Eren to come with him and they left the house as the payment was given and it wasn't much, not that it mattered since it was a farmer family. "We're going now Eren,"
"Okay, dad," said Eren and followed his father and entered the cart as the horses began to walk back to their home.
Once they got into the forest Grisha was nervous about telling his son and Eren could see it as he now discovered he could see a bit more clear in the dark after he got struck by lightning as he focused it on his eyes instead of his muscles and it worked!
"Eren, it is true that I also have weird abilities but...they didn't work when I am in this form but ever since your birth it changed and allowed me to harness the power of mine freely," began Grish already confusing Eren who got an answer but then another question when he got it, his father had powers but...he couldn't control it or use it...this form?
"What do you mean by...this form?" asked Eren.
"Sigh! Eren, you and I have the ability to shift into Titans," said Grisha revealing the truth to his son who widened his eyes that threatened to spill out.
"W-Wha? I-I don't even...continue," said Eren who couldn't form an answer or question as the shock was too great for him to handle.
"Do know that I also don't know anymore since your birth had freed me of a terrible fate, but in exchange, it took valuable information about the truth of the world," Grisha tried his hardest to remember as his son's birth, it appeared in a dream where he was chained by a chain slowly dragged down to a dark pit with a number on it that said 2 and furthermore than that he didn't know much anymore other that he was scared.
Then Lightning struck through the darkness like it was made out of glass and destroyed the chain freeing his father who felt liberated, but in exchange, he didn't know completely what the chain, pit, and the number was about other than that he knew that it would be his death and the number was signaling something about time.
"Eren, you are something that is called a Shifter that is known as a person that has the ability to transform him or herself into a Titan, and I do not know much about it anymore since your birth except that you saved me from something," continued Grisha with his son listening to every word his father said. "You don't have to think a lot about it since you are a natural born one, and I don't know about it but it should be impossible to be naturally born with that ability,"
"But you remember certain parts of your memories that have been taken away...you talk like in riddles meaning you truly don't remember anything," there was a thing about Grisha and that was his great memory of being able to remember everything he had done, the reason why there were many books in the house and only read once by Grisha once he had bought a new one.
"Eren, do you trust me?" asked Grisha.
"Of course!" answered Eren without hesitation.
"Then you need to make sure that you will be able to do everything in your power to help anyone in need, and not like a hero since you don't like the idea of being a hero or something like that," said Grisha smiling as he remembers the 1st time Eren read a story of one of the books he bought about a Hero...Eren grimaced at the ending as the Hero decided to let the bad guy live, and the bad guy stayed the same even after being spared and that straight made Eren burn the book.
The hero in the story said that you would become no different from the killer him or herself if you killed them in return which was total bullshit to Eren, in his opinion you are never bad if you kill the bad guy to stop making the bad guy kill innocents and even if you did it for revenge it was better then to leave him or her alive. Besides, you aren't a bad guy at all since you have not the same intentions as the bad guy who only searches to make the lives miserable of innocents, you killed the person to stop causing havoc and not let anyone else suffer the same fate as the Protagonist.
You can't save everyone and Eren knew this as Scouts that have died despite the experience still died, people died of age, unknown sicknesses, dead in the womb, and many more and Eren accepted this and if there did exist a God like this believer of the Church claim then why did the God not make all the Titans vanish instead of building a wall.
Eren's reaction was disgust at first but then nodded, but there was still one more question that he had to ask his dad. "Dad...what are yo-we going to do when we get home...it is Friday after all,"
And at that Grisha immediately became white and blue lines appeared on the whole upper body of him as he also realized it was Friday today, to make things short it was simply that Carla Yeager stayed up a bit longer up and that meant she noticed that both of them were gone. "...Shit,"
That was all he could say and Eren could only whimper as he knew punishment wouldn't be spared on him either.
Years Later.
Somewhere in the forest, Eren was hunting for deer and there was a whole pack of deer and it was Spring already meaning there was a lot of wild out there to be hunted on. Riding on the back of his horse Blitz and was chasing after deers running away from them and Eren was waiting until they got close enough for him to shoot his arrows, another animal was running beside him and it was way faster and reminded you of a dog but looked way bigger and stronger than one.
"Fenrir! Get the one on the left and then the one next to the one you catch!" shouted Eren and Fenrir obligated and fastened up his speed and ran forward and reached the deer and with 2 quick bites he immobilized the legs of the deer and went for the next one leaving Eren and Ymir to handle the one that had fallen, fastening his speed again he jumped forward and bit the deer in the neck and let go until it died.
"Nice! He's always quick to work!" said Ymir as she got off her horse and walked over to the other deer corpse to cut it apart.
"Reason why we were allowed to keep him," said Eren as he was busy cutting the deer apart and getting the roasting plate out for the liver. "You know the drill of dissecting the meat, skin it, put it in the leaves, give some of the organs and the tongue to Fenrir, and the rest we can sell when we have too much or either smoke it,"
"I know, but if Mikasa were here then we definitely even have more meat to eat," said Ymir licking her lips of the thought of eating a whole roasted rabbit by herself, and since they had more than enough meat for the whole family to eat and enough food stored for the next winter the possibility was good enough.
"Yeah, we know how great her skill is with a knife," said Eren knowing Mikasa would jump off her horse and kill the deer and hop to the other one quickly, and the same would count for Mira who was a scary woman who you didn't want to argue with and it was like they had fought their whole life.
Oh, by the way, the ones with him were Ymir and Fenrir and Ymir was a girl he had found when he was going out for a night stroll and she was scared and...naked which he did enjoy to see and quickly took her in the Yeager Household, she was welcomed inside and it was hard for her to trust them but eventually she warmed up to them and hunted together with Eren for meat and often teased Mikasa a lot.
Fenrir was a pup wolf that was bigger than the average size and he had been found in the snow area when Eren visited the place with his dad to check on a few patients and needed his strength, cold never bothered him so he was fine with his regular clothing even if they got drenched in sweat and the cold wind would cool it making it even colder he was never bothered. Fenrir was just too big for his mom to feed so he was left alone and crying and to die of hunger so Eren decided to take the pup in and he was big when he got 1 and a half years old.
"Now time to eat," said Eren as he went to prepare the Liver which needed to be eaten right away since it spoils very quickly.
"Alright! I start the campfire!" said Ymir excited and hungry knowing she could eat a bigger portion...and secretly knew Eren's special ability to not need to eat a lot, she had seen him eat smaller portions and the muscles he possessed needed a lot of nutrients to keep it like that and regular training. The guy never ate a lot and even ate less than a newborn and moved more than anyone she had ever seen, he sweats, a lot, but never seemed tired at all and merely complained that his clothes get easily went so he settled down to do his work without wearing a shirt.
"Alright, you can have some of my portions if you want to," who was he kidding since Ymir never refuse the opportunity to eat a bit more meat, he doubted that anyone would refuse that opportunity to eat more meat since it was very scarce within the walls to have high-quality meat even if it was the liver. Ymir went to skin the deer while Fenrir ate his share and Eren merely got to work on the liver and got a fire up ready to roast the liver.
Cutting them into small bits he placed them one by one on the roasting plate until it had no room for the rest of the liver, sprinkling lightly some salt and pepper which he got and added a few herbs to it and some oil made the liver taste really well. 'Downside is that we need to wait a bit long for that since Liver contains parasites so I must thoroughly roast it,'
"The liver is done, it is time to eat,"
"Yay!" said Ymir filling her plate in and began eating while Eren scolds her for eating way too fast but smiles as she enjoys herself because he has seen the look she gave him when he encountered her.
There were times when Eren experimented with his body to know what else it could do besides him being stronger, not needing to eat, and not getting tired when the sun was up. He was, of course, stronger than an adult even if he didn't even try to be and he needed to be careful how much strength he uses otherwise he might break someone's hand if he gave them a slightly firm handshake, the lightning thing was something he experimented first on and he found out he could make himself stronger once he focused on a certain body part in his mind, and when he ran once the lightning crackled all over his body as he ran almost fast as a horse.
His father told him everything about Titans from what he could remember and Eren cut himself and he did indeed heal as his father told him and even halt the process, and that was probably the best part because while he was running he chose the wrong moment to focus on his mind and everything got slower and when he was running his mind processed everything, it then got worse as the feeling made his whole body rigid and crashed into a tree, ouch!
He hasn't shifted as his father called it yet, he didn't know how to even to do that since his father didn't want to tell him for his own safety, he understood that and respected that but he did want to know how to activate his Lightning Ability when he accidentally fried the bandit without a warning. Though he didn't regret it he wanted to know how to activate it and he did touch metal...but it did nothing to him at all meaning that he had no clue how to even begin except that it was maybe metal that triggered it.
'If I only knew how to use it...then maybe I can shoot lightning out of my hands and kill Titans with it and see the sea!' thought Eren, as he continues grilling the meat and the thoughts of him shooting lightning out of his arms, was quite exciting for him and when they were done with eating they decided to go home and store the meat they had hunted.
Armin knew about his powers of being way stronger than any adult he had met and he kept it safe for him since he wasn't the type to brag and solve problems with words instead of fists like Eren does, but that part was mainly because boys of his age challenge him and try to beat him up and end up losing.
'Can I use my speeding up ability on others? I really don't have an idea since the risk of doing that,' he did want to try it out, in fact, he really almost did but relented doing it, he had to be constant touch to make it work and he wasn't so sure how they would react to the electricity streamed into them and what would end up, his fear of frying someone was a definite since Eren was immune against Lightning.
But others aren't immune so he didn't know how it would end up with creatures of beings that aren't immune, and he wasn't in to find it out any time soon and neither did he want to kill a horse or hurt Blitz and Fenrir so he stuck it with himself and would only use it as a last resort should it ever come to it.
"Eren! Don't space out, because you will burn the meat!" scolded Ymir bopping his head snapping Eren out of his thoughts.
"S-Sorry!" said Eren and focused back on the liver and Ymir wasn't eating meaning she was stuffed so Eren began eating the leftovers and occasionally gave Fenrir some of it.
"Spacing out makes you really look mad and that doesn't suit you Serenity~!" teased Ymir making Eren groan in embarrassment at his nickname, Serenity was his nickname and sometimes was called Seren as it had a nice tone to it for his calm demeanor. He blamed his father for the calm demeanor but it was also nice to use for revealing plot twists in books he read from his father.
"Don't call me that! It sounds so girly and I already have a lot of enemies to fight every single fucking day!" groaned Eren who began cleaning the grilling plate and began to dry it and store it back into his bag. "Let's go, the meat will go spoil if we stay here for too long,"
"Gotcha!" said Ymir going to the deer meat that had been cut apart and began putting them into the saddles, Fenrir got up and sniffed the air if there was any enemy around and there wasn't since the air was pretty much not moving to allow him to get a clean smell of the air. "I'm done with my part so I am going on ahead,"
"Sure, I know the drill," replied Eren as Ymir rode back to the walls and get the meat ready to sell or smoke it.
Leaving the boy alone he looked at his hand and wondered if he could summon lightning again but he thought of it and didn't think that it would happen today, it wasn't the first time he tried it out so he needed to be patient until he was older or something like that.
Back Home.
"I'm home, and I got the rest of the meat here," said Eren as he entered the house and placed the meat wrapped in special cloth that doesn't absorb the blood or the fat, putting the meat on the table and let his mother handle it and he decided to go back to his bedroom for today as he was not in the mood to do anything so he wanted to laze for today knowing it was only temporarily.
"Good work Eren, go rest for today even if you don't need it," replied Carla.
"Mikasa is already sleeping in your bed seemingly because she had been trying to catch up to you," teased Mira Ackerman as she cut the pieces of meat without even looking at it, the knife going very fast and making perfect cuts while Carla quickly took them and began dividing them and Eren didn't question it since it was a thing for cooks and those who aren't could never truly understand it.
"Yay, I already look forward to it," commented Eren dryly who knew that Mikasa had been recently training just to keep up with him, and why did the girl do it in the first place?
Alrain: I know that this is a boring ass chapter but I didn't like how Ymir was traveling around, she will be still a bit of a jerk since those 60 years haven't been very kind to her and she still devotes to help others in her way to be not thinking too much about the small things. The next chapter will be soon given but now I need to do other things in my life, and I know the timeline a bit well so please ignore the small details and settle it down that the 3 who destroyed Shiganshina are recovering from shock.
