Before we start this chapter I want to thank someone first.
Last night Blue Eyes Illusionist sent me a review saying that she will pray for our internet problem to be fixed and low and behold this morning the internet worked like nothing happened. Me and my sister was jumping for joy all morning. I am in fact a religious person so I wanted to think her for being so kind.
And while I'm at it the rest of you awesome people too!
On with it!
Chapter 10: Rogue
"EREN DON'T!"
Hange didn't even have a chance to stop him. In a flash of green light and smoke, the world disappeared.
She had to shield herself to not be blinded. A ear-piercing scream shook the surroundings. It brought shivers to her spine. She couldn't help but dread whatever had made such a terrifying sound. When the smoke finally cleared...her understanding of the world turned lopsided.
Where the ten year old Eren once stood was now a fifteen meter high titan. Its emerald eyes burdened with blood lust and hatred. She shivered. What the-?
The beast let out another shriek, this time higher and louder than the first. She clasped her ears. Steam rose from its mouth as its eyes narrowed at the surrounding titans.
Then it charged.
The other titans didn't stand a chance.
With a speed and accuracy never before seen preformed by a titan, it ripped them to sheds. Heading for their weak spots every time. Hange simply watched with stunned astonishment. 'What is going on?! Never before had anything like this happened.' Clearly the Titan was intelligent. It fought with skill, using offensive maneuvers that she recognized instantly.
Of course, she should. It was a unique style, something she had seen countless times. A style she had spared against in the past and helped to perfect... Could it be?
...slowly her brain tried to put together the pieces...
"And whose this little guy?" Petra gestured to the Titan teddy in the boy's arms.
"This is Rogue! Levi made him for me!" Eren beamed. He held it out for her to see.
Oulo sent Petra an 'I told you so!' look, but she ignored it. " Oh I see. Hi Rogue."
He laughed at her and she smiled.
"Aren't you afraid of them?"
"No... Not really. If anything, I hate them more than being afraid of them. I think I've outgrown it, like a child being afraid of a spider. It goes away eventually but the general sense of danger is still there."
Next to him the woman beamed at his answer, her excitement growing by the minute. He turned to her, a seriousness in his voice that an seven year old should not have. "That said, I understand that just keeping on killing them and hoping for the best isn't going to work. That's why you are keeping them here, right? For research?"
Hange grinned. "Correct!"
"...He's been having nightmares more often lately." The group jumped, startled by the captain's sudden statement.
"What Eren? Yeah, I noticed. He's been rather sleepy lately." Gunter agreed.
"What do you think he's dreaming about Captain?" Petra asked, worried for the boy.
"I used to think it was the titans. Memories of what happened three years ago-"
"That would make sense. I mean the kid's probably seen some pretty bad stuff." Oulo agreed.
"That istrue, but I'm starting to think that's not it. Eren stopped dreaming about what happened long ago. Listening to what he says sometimes in his sleep, it sounds as if he's afraid of something else."
Over in the corner Hange sat listening to this. Her thoughts drifting to the boy...
"I think he's just afraid something happens to us. Whether or not we want to believe it. Eren kind of sees us as his family." The group listened intently at the Petra's words. "We just need to remind him that we're still here for him. No matter what."
"How would you know this?" Eren's body stiffened. He started rubbing his arms as if Erwin's question unnerved him. "Um...experience?"
"So this is why you made him that titan teddy." She gestured to the drawing on the desk. Levi nodded. "He said that that titan wasn't like the rest. That he protected him. I mentioned that in that sense it was a rouge then, hence the name."
She looked back at the picture. It depicted a titan with green eyes and long black hair fighting the other titans. It looked different than the others. Eren drew the other titans to look fat while the other titan, Rouge, was a stick figure shape as if it was more humanly proportioned.
"Its probably just something he made up as a coping mechanism. An imaginary friend if you will." Levi reasoned.
She laughed, sending him a speculating look. "Like your cleaning habits for you?"
"My cleaning habits has nothing to do with coping Shitty Glasses!" He argued causing her to laugh even more. She stole one last glance at the drawing...
Rouge...
Now she found herself staring at that very same titan depicted in the child's drawing. Only this time...it wasn't a few colorful crayon lines on a sheet of paper.
It was real. And it was ripping up the local titan population as a bonus.
'That's one terrifying 'imaginary' friend.'
The beast, Rogue, let out another screech as if to prove her point, before severing the head of another slightly smaller titan.
She stole one last glance at what used to be a tiny human boy before she willed herself to look away. Eren can take care of himself. They have bigger problems at the moment. She turned to look for the others. They stood near her, blades still drawn.
Frozen in shock.
Almost everyone had seen Eren transform. The surrounding titans' attention had all but been drawn to the rampaging titan, giving them plenty of time to escape, but given the recent events everyone was far to rattled to do anything.
Her gaze shot over to the direction Levi was thrown. Hopefully he was still alive. She found him lying in an awkward position against a tree. Its trunk shattered by the impact of the crash. Thankfully a slight motion of his chest moving up and down indicated life.
If only barely...
Her attention shot to the frozen scouts beside her. "Hay! What are you guys doing?! Go get Levi!"
They immediately snapped out of their daze, jumping into action as soon as the order was given. The group rushed over to their captain's side. Hange following shortly.
As she suspected he was injured very badly, though still alive. Oulo and Gunter reached to pick him up, careful not to hurt him any further. None the less, two dark navy blue eyes fluttered open as soon as they started lifting him. His eyes quickly scanned the surrounding area until they landed on Hange. "Where's Eren?"
"There's no time!" She tried moving him but he wouldn't have it.
"Hange. Where's Eren?!"
"He's over there!" She pointed in the direction of the rampaging titan. Levi's breathing rate increased. "Hange? Is my brother-"
"No! You don't understand that is Eren!" She screamed frustrated. He looked at her as if she had gone mad. "Now come on! We have to get out here!"
The two men picked him up and put him on the horse behind Hange, before jumping on their own. The group took off running in the direction of the gate. All while keeping an eye on Rouge.
Levi simply stared in shock at the monster that was his brother. 'How was this possible? Eren was always different, but how the hell did he become a titan?!'
"Levi..." Hange's voice penetrated his thoughts. He kept staring at the rampaging beast "...D-Did you know about this?"
"No...No, I didn't."
Nothing else was said. They just kept riding. Eyes centered at the titan.
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Eren...What's going on?
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He crushed the skull of another titan. He was tiring out and he knew it. But he didn't care. These things dared to hurt his brother and they where going to pay. He was going to kill them.
Every. Single. One!
He kicked a smaller nine meter out of the way succeeding in decapitating it as he did so. In the distance he saw Hange and the others riding away on horseback. He would keep them safe. He would fight until every titan was dead!
Clearly his body didn't agree. He could feel himself slipping. Losing control over his body. The titans where starting to overwhelm him.
He knew, he won't last much longer.
They started chewing at his flesh. He cried out in pain, trying to hold on to the little control he had left.
He had to end this now or no one gets out.
With one final attack he killed off the last of the nearby titans. Their bodies disappearing in bouts of smoke. In his last bit of consciousness he saw the group turn around and race towards him as his world turned dark...
Why is these dramatic chapters so hard to write for me?!
I don't get it. I am, along with my family, a dramatic person..whatever.
ANYWAY...I am afraid this fic might be reaching a close. the last chapter of Part 1 is coming up and I honestly don't know if I should write Parts 2 and 3. I haven't even started writing on them yet and that is when the AU starts getting even stronger. If I'm going to write Part 2 I would have to write part 3 as well and this fic might even reach 30 Chapters, but that would mean a view months hiatus between Parts for me to plan and get ahead. (My stories have a tenancy to runaway before I'm finished.) Should I write Part 2?
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