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Chapter Two: Before Hell Unfreezes

We floated in the darkness for a little while longer before he came to a stop.

"Well, this is our stop. You won't see me for a little while since I need to take care of a few things before I join you." he stated.

"Join me? What do you mean?" I questioned.

"You didn't think I'd watch it all from a distance did you!? I'll be invisible to everyone but you. Won't that be fun?" he asked me with a smile.

"I-I guess..." I said unsure.

"Great! I'll see ya later Red!" he said letting go of my hand and pushing my away. As soon as he pushed me away, I suddenly felt the sensation of falling and soon found myself hurtling towards a small white light in the distance. I let out a shrill scream as I continued to fall.

If I die I'm gonna haunt him to the ends of the cosmos!

I lost conciseness half way into my dissent into the light.

Year 844

I woke up in a grassy field with the sun in my face. I let out a groan. How long have I been asleep?

"Hey, are you dead or not?" a young voice asks me.

"Huh?..." I ask him sleepily as I open my eyes.

When the blurriness faded from my vision, I see a young boy with dark brown hair and emerald green eyes wearing an oversized red scarf standing over me. He sure is cute. He'll probably grow up to be a handsome young man.

"I asked if you were dead or not."

"... maybe." I say with a smirk.

"What kind of answer is that?" he asked while his very bright green eyes scrutinized me.

I let out a giggle as I sat up, "I funny one."

"Your weird... what's your name?" he asked me. As I looked into his, I could tell that my answer intrigued him.

"Mai Yume." I said holding my hand out towards him, "And you are..."

He takes my hand and gives it a confident shake as say, "Eren Jaeger."

So this is Eren Jaeger in real life. He really is adorable.

"Nice to meet you Eren, Now if you don't mind me asking, where are we?"

His eyes widened at this, "You mean you don't know where you are at all?"

Didn't I just say that?

"Yeah..."

"If you don't know where you are, how are you supposed to get home?" he inquired.

Uh oh, got think of a cover story and fast. Oh, I know! Amnesia! It worked fifty percent of the time in fan fictions, so why not try it here?!

"Home... where is home?" I said feigning ignorance.

"Eh? You don't know where your home is?" Eren asked.

"It would seem so. Now that I think about it, I've pretty forgotten everything except my name, age, and-oddly enough- the last time I went to the bathroom. Crazy, right?" as soon as the sentence left my lips, he gave me a, 'You've got to be fracking me look.'

"Okay, let me get this straight," Eren began, "You have amnesia and the only thing you remember is your: name, age, and the last time you took a dump?"

"Pretty much." I said scratching the back of my head.

You didn't have to say it so crudely though...

He let out a sigh before muttering under his breath, "I think I've officially met someone crazier than me..."

"Aw!~ You I'm crazy! How sweet. Just so you know, I'm more than crazy." I checked out our surroundings as though I were checking to see if anybody was near by before motioning for him to come closer. When he leaned in closer I brought my hand up to my mouth and whispered, "I'm awesome."

At first, he stared at me with wide eyes, before bursting into a fit of laughter with me joining in with my spill of giggles. Our bells of laughter filled the grassy fields.

Eren wiped a tear away and turned to me holding his sides, "Alright, why don't you come back home with me until you get your situation sorted out."

"Sure, why not, but only on one condition... you must help me up." I said with my best straight face.

Eren let out a chuckle, "Okay." Eren then grabbed my hands and pulled me to my feet.

"Yosh! Off to your house!" I said marching off in a random direction.

"Mai." I heard him call out to me, "My home is that way." he said pointing in the opposite direction I was walking.

I felt my cheeks heat up slightly at this. I did an about-face and marched in the opposite direction I was walking, "Pft, I knew that." he shook his head at me before leading the way to his house.

By the time we had reached his home, the sky was showing signs of a setting sun and in that time, I have discerned two things.

One, Eren was 9 years old.

Two, it is a year prier to the fall of Shiganshina.

That means I have a year before Hell unfreezes... I better enjoy it while it lasts.

Your probably wondering how I know some of this info when the only episode I have seen is the first one. Well, before I watched the show, I had done some research on a few things that didn't have anything to do with the plot directly. I mostly looked up stuff like: how old someone was, what they looked like, personalities, and what they specialized in.

Nothing too important though... now I wished I read I little more on the plot.

I looked up at the cottage. It was the same as the cottage in the anime minus the ink. Eren opened the door and walked in greeting his mother, "Mom, I'm home and we have a guest."

I walked in behind well Eren as his mother turned around to see us come in, but mostly me. She gave me a smile as she took in my appearance.

She took in my long red hair that was tied up with a purple ribbon in a low pony tail and took in my attire which had changed since I had arrived in this world. Instead of blue jeans and a t-shirt, I wore form fitting black capris, a white skirt over them that came to my thighs, a white three-quarter length dress shirt, a plain blue button up vest, a cloak that looked a whole like the one the Scouts wear except it was white and didn't have the Wings of Freedom on the back, and black loose fitting ankle boots. The outfit was actually quit comfortable.

"Hello." I said shyly. Tapping the toe of my boot on the wooden floor of the cottage.

"Hello, I'm Carla Jaeger. Who might you be?" she asked.

"I'm Mai Yume." I said a little less shy.

"Mom," Eren said grabbing his mother's attention, "Is it okay is Mai stays with us. She has amnesia and doesn't remember who she is other than what her name and how old she is." I took note of the fact that he didn't say the part about how I also remember the last time I went to the bathroom.

I watched as the smile on her face fell, "Amnesia?" she looked to me, "You poor dear." I rub the back of my head sheepishly as she continues to look at me, "Of course she can stay. You can stay for as long as you want." her smile returning to her face.

And that's how I ended up living with the Jaeger family.

Thank you for reading this chapter.

I know this is still prologue, but it is still necessary so that Mai will have a stronger connection to the death of Eren's mom and the tragedy that occurred. It will also build a stronger relationship between Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and Mai so bare with it for the time being. I'm not sure how long I'll make the prologue. I just now that I want certain things to happen at certain times.

I actually had to rewrite this chapter. I have recently just gotten myself up to date with the entire AOT manga and went to cheek out the time line and noticed that this was the exact year Eren met Mikasa so I decided to make Mai's meeting with Eren was different.

Her outfit:

Her outfit and character are based off of the character Shirayuki from Snow White with the Red Hair. The only thing that I made different are her shoes and her vest. I left off the yellow trim on the vest and put some buttons on it and I gave her boots instead of ballet slippers.

Thanks again. See you next chapter!~

Edited: August 27, 2016