The Dead Lives
She felt herself sinking deeper and deeper down the water. Her whole body was sore, eyes tired and mouth hoarse. She couldn't move, speak nor blink too...but she can only stare up at the light on the dark blue surface.
It's luminous light casted down her as if she's in the spotlight of a drama. It provided her warmth in this cold void.
Staring at it felt like forever and curiosity ran through her mind like.
What's up there?
Will that place be warmth like this light?
Is it possible to go there?
Lost in her thoughts, she suddenly noticed her body stopped slowly. Her head pondered what's wrong when suddenly a voice called out for.
"Hey Petra are you slacking there! Snap out of it now and don't be distracted. We have humanity to save..."
She registered the voice in her head, sounding so familiar yet far. Out of no where, a forced quickly tugged her up. She only braced herself as she came closer to the light. When her nose was a mere inch from it, she heard the voice once again before being sucked out.
"Go."
Beep…Beep…Beep. The sound filled her thoughts.
Where was she? Importantly how? She was sure she was at peace back there.
She opened her eyes and white light filled her vision. She looked around and found a woman with black hair and green eyes, staring right at her.
The woman gasped, rushing out of the room first before coming back with some pills and glass of water. Her hands brought the objects down at the desk besides her before staring at her.
"Can you sit up on your own?" she asked, pointing at her. Her question baffled her; although, she stilled followed her order. She steadied herself first and readied her arms to push her up. When her body moved, she felt a kind of jolt run down her body as she hissed in pain.
The woman sighed and helped her up. "As expected you really are injured." she muttered while still holding her in her arms. "Your spine didn't aligned with your neck so I have to fixed it and your legs are broken though it's fine now."
Now fully sitted up, the woman beside the bed smiled before grabbing the pills and the glass of water. "Here this will help you heal much faster." she offered, handing the objects to her and she nodded. She swallowed the pill and gulp down the water. While she was busy, she heard the woman asked her a question.
"So darling, what's your name?" She smiled and took the glass back when she was done. Her mind puzzled from that question and she tried to know but her mind ache from over thinking.
"Uhhmm...I don't know." she whimpered, feeling herself scared and confused. What was happening to her, she ponders and her brows furrowed in the middle of her forehead for thinking hard. She was about to give up when she remembered, what the voice said to her. Petra, she muttered in her head.
The woman raised a brow as she asked, "What was it again sweety?"
She must have voiced her thoughts loudly. She thought for a moment before focusing. "I'm not really sure but my mind is a bit blank." she answered, "However I heard a voice...calling me Petra."
The woman look at her skeptically before grinning widely and a deja vu feeling crossed her mind. Have I seen something like this before.
"Okay Petra...besides your name, can you remember everything else?" says the woman, looking at her if she was sure. Petra shooked her head 'no'; then, put a hand on her throbbing head. The woman eyed her once more and nodded, understanding her predicament now.
"Must be amnesia." she trails off before snapping herself to grin at her. "By the way my name is Mystica, yeah I know it's a bad name, I blamed my mother for this."
Mystica pushed her imaginary glasses up and took out a notepad that magically appeared infront of Petra eyes (she swears). Her hands begun writing; then, stop to glance up at her. "Does your body feel strange or out of the ordinary." she questioned and Petra responded 'no'.
Petra watched her fiddled with the equipments around her before she finally stops. "That's weird the data didn't show sign to any titan transformation...I did inject the serum in her but the pain of her injuries didn't triggered anything." Mystica muttered and Petra had the urge to asked what a titan is. It felt familiar and the mere word of it bringed chills down her spine.
"What's a titan." she finally voiced out her thoughts and the woman finally stopped working to look at her. Mystica was frozen at first; then, answered her question, "Well they are humans who were turned to giant beast that feast on humans."
Petra's body rigid at the information and seeing her discomfort, Mystica took pity on her. "You should rest and when you wake up tomorrow. I will explain everything." she told her as she help her tucked in. "Now sleep."
She nodded as a yawn came out from her mouth. Petra felt herself drip to sleep and the world darken around her when she closed her eyes.
Petra opened her eyes and gasped when she saw herself in a middle of the field. Where was she she asked herself, shocked to find herself not on bed and bandaged up. How did I get here?
She scanned the area, eyes widening at the beauty of this place. There was a sunset at the distance, and the color of its ray brings out the yellow and orange that had mixed with the dark blue (almost indigo) sky. She also realized she was standing on a green field and there was a forest behind her.
All of it was breath taking. She felt the cold breeze in her skin, digging trough her clothes as it wraps around her before going away. Petra's eyes dazzled, it was fun; it was beautiful; and it felt familiar. However, it's weird the sun didn't move and everything was still (except for the breeze) as if it was frozen.
Before she could assest everything, she heard a voice behind her. "Petra! What are you doing here?" it yelled, though it was a man's voice. She turns around to find nothing there. Suspicious, Petra took a step but three hands appeared out of nowhere and covered her eyes. Then she heard a different voice.
"You shouldn't be here."
Then another, "It's not your time yet."
She's never met them before, but their voice feels so familiar, she aches with the loss of memory. Petra felt tears pool in her eyes before dripping down. Why does it hurt so much. She fisted the shirt on her chest as her heart ached, as if it was longing for something
She felt them flinched and she felt someone lean down on her right ear. "Hey don't cry, wouldn't you want the captain to call you a cry baby." the first man before chuckles. "Sorry we couldn't be there but you have to go. The longer you stay, the more you'll be here."
"Yeah our home needs you, no our captain needs you." the third one said, followed by a laugh from the second one. "Even though I want you to stay, someone still needs you down there so..." he trailed of and Petra felt them pushed her genty. "Spread your wings of freedom for us, humanity and the captain." they said and she couldn't help but look back.
There were three men standing there. One was blonde, brown and an undercut. Those three smiled at her as they finally said their last words before she disappeaerd. "Now go."
She falls, suddenly finding herself not in that peaceful place anymore; she's back to her injured self. The ground comes up fast and she lands hard on her back, gasping as her breath is crushed from her chest and she woke up. Her eyes widening as she gulped down the air greedily.
Petra was now back in her bed, her eyes was still filled with tears, now dripping down on her eyelids.
What was that?
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"Okay Petra, what do you want to know first?" Mystica asked, as she checked up on her. She nodded, smiling, feeling satisfied at her almost fully recovery. "Looks like the serum work though it's weird that there's no sign of you being a titan shifter." She eyed her papers; then, at her. "Any way do you feel something hurting in your cardio, muscular, skeletal and etc systems?"
Petra doesn't know what those are so she just replied 'no' to her. She though it had to do with something on her body, well she's not quite sure. Gathering her strength, she finally asked what's on her mind. "What serum are you talking about?" and as Mystica heard her question, she stopped.
She watched as she mumbles random word before telling her. "Well the serum is a formula that I injected on you, for you to become a titan shifter." she explained, and Petra listened. "And if you want to know what a titan shifter is..."
"It's someone who can transform into titan. Well as I said, titans are human giants that feast on humans. A titan shifter is like that; however, a shifter is not fully a titan. They are humans who turned to titans and controlled their titan body like their puppet. A titan shifter has other abilities like accelerating healing. That's why I injected it on you, for better recovery...however it seems like you have no signs of being a titan shifter based on my tests and datas." she reads her paper once again, flipping every page. "Although it seems like you still gained the ability to heal faster. And it showed your body has adapted at the organs that I replaced with your non functional ones."
"And whose organ you replaced with mine?" Petra asked, almost feeling sick. She felt like a rat, as if she was a test experiment. Though, she saved her life. Mystica grinned widely much before and it send shivered down her spine.
"It's Ymir Fritz's." she says and her eyes seems to widened much more. "The fist person who obtained the power of the titan."
Her body felt numb. She recalled all the info Mystica gave her on how she found her, how she lived and etc. Mystica also told her that her body now consist of ten percent of Ymir and the other was unknown. She told her that she need a sample of her blood, to test the reason why she didn't turn into a shifter.
The older woman also gave her a brief history about Ymir who lives 500 yrs ago. Petra asked out of curiosity, on how Mystica get her hands on something like her organs. She explained that her ancestors were good friends with Ymir's children and those children agreed to give them their mothers organs, for them to conserve. After she finished explaining, Petra felt guilty because this well known woman's organ should have been conserved for a very long time but now it was inside her.
She sighs her head falling back down to the pillow. She was exhausted and tired of all this. She just relaxed, gathered her thoughts before going back to sleep.
That's a wrap. Thankyou for reading, hoping for you to read the next chapters. Anyways I'll explain some details in the story first.
1) Petra has amnesia, she couldn't remember anything except some fragments of her memory.
2) The three men she saw where Erd, Gunther and Oulo if some of you are confused.
3) The place she dreamt of was neither heaven nor earth. It's in beetween since it hadn't been 40 day since their deaths.
4) Ymir Fritz organs replacing Petra's lost or unfunctional one is a reference in "Tokyo Ghoul" when the doctors replaced his organs with a ghoul
5) Petra has an uknown blood that stops her for being able to be a titan shifter. Even if she possessed the accelerating healing of the titans.
6) Since Petra isn't a titan shifter it means her life span isn't thirteen years but a normal human being.
7) The name Mystica comes from the word mystico in greek that means secrets.
8) I know what you're thinking. How would Petra survive, from being smashed by a foot from a tree. Now, now this is my fanfic so it's my world. I don't own the characters and anime but I owned this fanfic so I can twist and create new story line. And how Petra survive will be revealed in later chapters.
I love Attack on Titan especially Rivetra. Sorry other shippers, I truly ship them. I felt unsatisfied at Petra's death so I decided to make a world of my own (This fanfic) for her to be alive cause she's my favourite and I wanted to make a fanfic of this for a very long time now.
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