Congrats to Crescent Cut 101 for figuring out one of the unknowns. She will be revealed at the end of this chapter.
Connie sat up and breathed hard, he was having a weird night.
He was sharing a room with Sasha and Jean, thankfully with separate beds. After they all had their fill of food, the Commanders, Leaders and Warriors had finished their meeting. With the exceptions of Reiner, Bertholdt and Annie, they all looked perturbed and concerned. After confirming Eren was still with his parents, alongside Mikasa and Armin, Erwin had ordered everyone who was not in the meeting to bed. Connie, Jean and several others ended up having to drag Sasha to her room. A few of the Scouts looked ready to argue but upon seeing Erwin's face, immediately followed his command.
Connie quickly fell asleep in his kingsize bed. His head lay on a pillow softer than anything he could imagine, and was wrapped in warm blankets that felt like a mothers hug. He was expecting a relaxing sleep.
He wasn't expecting to dream about riding through his destroyed village, to slicing the back of a man's neck in a crystallised cavern, to standing in some kind of metal room and hearing a gunshot. While debating if he should go back to sleep or not, he heard a scream outside and quickly jumped to his feet, grabbing the nearest thing he could find.
Connie wasn't the only one having a difficult night.
Gunther had woken up in a cold sweat. He dream was quick but felt so real. One moment he was talking to Captain Levi. The next moment, Levi had changed appearance and before Gunther realised it, the figure had sliced at his neck.
Gunther had shot up, clutching at his neck. He looked around to see if he had woke up his roommates Eld or Oluo. He made his way out of the room and headed to the kitchen, intending to grab a glass of water to cool himself off. Hearing Erwin and Levi's muffled voices, he stopped. Gunther strained to hear what was being said, 'Why would he hide his identity from us?' and, 'Do you think he would do it again?', was all he heard before a scream came from the hallway.
Hange shot up and clutched at their left eye. They hissed in pain as the dream faded away. Hange was happily screaming inside, they were pretty sure they just experienced a future vision. Although, watching Moblit getting torn apart by debris wasn't exactly enjoyable, nor was the feeling of being roasted alive. Hange looked down, was that the rumbling they saw? Was that what Eren would do... or has done? Even by their standards, when Annie explained who the host was, they were confused.
Hange was about to fall back to sleep when a thump hit their door and a scream quickly followed. Hange's and their roommates, Lynne and Nanaba quickly woke up and ran to the door.
Krista breathed heavily as she stared wide eyed, down the darkened corridor, where that thing was. Her breath hitched when footsteps started stomping towards her. A light turned on and she visibly relaxed when Gunther appeared around the corner, Levi and Erwin right behind him, both of them holding kitchen knifes. Doors began opening around her as Scouts poured out, holding pillows threateningly. Ymir had shoved Jean and Connie out of the way to get to her wife. She kneeled down in front of Krista, "What happened?"
Krista pointed shakily, "I-I was going to the bathroom and there was something crawling around at the end of the hall, where Gunther, Captain Levi and Commander Erwin came from."
The three named men looked at each other and back at Krista, "There was nothing there, Krista. That corridor leads straight to the stairs, at least one of us would've saw something." Erwin answered.
Everyone else but Ymir missed the look exchanged between the three warriors.
Hange had kneeled next to Krista. "It was dark and you were half asleep, you probably thought you saw a titan or something." Hange paused before adding softly, "There isn't a single Scout here who hasn't been plagued by dreams of Titans." Krista looked around to see everyone nodding. Krista was sure Erwin and Levi tilted their heads a little too.
"Anyway, we should probably get back to bed. Although I have no clue what the time is or how long we've been sleeping for."
"Feels like it's almost been 6 weeks for me." Mike replied.
Pyxis shook his head next to him, "Nah, more like 5 weeks, 6 days, 3 hours and 15 minutes."
Everyone looked strangely at the eccentric man. "I think you're reaching a little bit there, Sir."
Erwin held his hands up, "Either way, I'm sure we'll be informed somehow. For now, everyone get back to bed."
Somewhere above them, a metal bat connected with a titan shifter's head. "OW. STOP DOING THAT!"
The man with the metal bat continued to chase 'Future' Eren around. "I told you what would happen when you mess around with lives. That's my fucking job!"
The woman watched her two friends with a look of exasperation and a small smirk on her face. At this rate, Eren would end up knocked out by tomorrow and either she or Edmund/Kader/Takeo would have to take over the reactions. The woman's smirk grew larger, they would never believe who they were.
She walked away from Felix and Eren for a moment. Eren had just given them the basic necessities so far. Beds, food and sofas could only do so much. Perhaps a training ground to keep them in shape would be a good thing to add. Turning the conference room into a bigger planning room will help the commanders and others make their plan for when they leave.
It was also about time Zeke's room and Colt's room showed themselves. She could already see Falco, Zofia and Colt were slowly disbelieving the lies Marley fed them. Udo was slowly coming around too. Gabi... she'll get there.
Zeke would have to curb his Eldian genocide for a while. Porco would hopefully be better with Reiner. And then there's Pieck... not much to say about her to be honest.
But first, it was time to make a model of a training ground. It would have trees and houses for them to practice ODM. It'd need to be big enough for Bert's titan to transform. Good thing she had unlimited space to work with. She should be awesome at this, after all, all that time spent modelling titan shifters in the sand would've made her into a professional now.
Yes the woman is our great founder. Ymir Fritz.
But who is the unknown man?
What did Krista see?
Why did Connie, Gunther and Hange see the future?
Hopefully should have the next chapter out within two weeks. What was discussed in the meeting should be in the next chapter along with another reaction.
Until then.
Eren gasped and opened his eyes. What was he doing? How could he do those things to his people? His friends? His family?
Eren clutched at his head as he remembered the last part of his dream.
'Ever since I was little...Mikasa, I've hated you.'
