Chapter 10
Reiner's POV:
When we hear the news of Liberio under attack, we have been on the train and we're quickly heading back to the Liberio.
"Damn it... and just when we managed to finish our war with the Mid-East Nations..." Galliard curses.
"But it is too strange... it seems like they have waited for this moment to attack?" Pieck asks. "What is going on here?"
"I just hope that Mom and Dad, even Aunt Karina will be safe..." Gabi frowns. "Damn it... just why do they have to attack right now?"
As everyone is panicking, I also notice that Zeke is thinking about something. I ask, "Zeke, what are you thinking right now?"
"When we finally finish the war with the Mid-East Nations... and the Paradis started their attack... don't you think it is such a coincidence?" Zeke asks.
"What are you implying, Zeke?" Colt asks.
"I see that not all of the people here are idiots." Just then, I turn around to see a soldier standing at the doorway. I remember that he is Kruger, a new soldier that came to help us a month ago.
"Kruger, what the fuck are you going at?" Galliard asks while trying to grab his arm, but much to our surprise, he just swiftly dodges it and knocks him to the ground with just an elbow.
"What are you doing, Kruger?" I stand up and the others are preparing to fight, but then he says something that shocks my mind. "It has been four years, isn't it, Reiner...Surely you wouldn't forget an old friend, right?"
I freeze as I manage to get a close look at the face that was covered by the long hair, and I realize what's going on.
"It can't be... Eren!" I gasp.
"Oh, it can be." Eren says as he starts to grab Galliard and run. "Hey wait, Eren!" I yell as I chase after him until I find him on top of the train.
"I once saw everyone on the other side of the sea as my enemy. But then, I crossed the sea, slept under the same roof as them, ate the same food... Reiner, I'm the same as you." Eren says to me. "Sure, there are jerks here, but good people, too. Across the sea, within the walls... It's the same. But you guys were taught everyone in the walls was a devil. You were children who knew nothing, but it was drilled into you. You were just kids. What could you even do? Right, Reiner? Hasn't that been eating away at you?"
The words that he says are haunting me, I yell, "No, you're wrong, Eren! What are you doing here?"
Eren's POV:
"I'm moving forward until I destroy my enemy. That's what I'm doing." I throw the Jaw Titan shifter back to Reiner since I already take his power, and then I jump off the train and bite my hand, turning into the Attack Titan.
With swift speed, I manage to rush to the front of the train and use my strength to crush the engine and the railroad, the sudden movement causes a lot of people on the train to fall off the cart onto the snowy fields.
"Damn it! That damned devil!" I heard one soldier say, I recognize him as Commandant Magath, and he yells, "Do not let him escape!"
And this is just what I want, now that they won't have any means to go back, it is time for me to play with them. To me, they are the prey and we are the hunter. Oh, how the tides have turned.
Reiner's POV:
I wake up to find Galliard lying on the ground beside me, and it is not just him, a lot of the soldiers are either dead or severely injured because of the crash.
"What is going on here?" Colt asks as he notices Eren in front of them. "A Titan?"
I say, "It is not just any other titan... it is the Attack and the Founding Titan... Eren Yeager!"
"The Founding Titan? So he shows himself in front of us..." Magath says. "It saves us a lot of time if he just shows up here. Marley will take the Founding Titan with us."
With his command, I quickly change into a Titan and I try to fight against him, as I am about to reach Eren, he somehow manages to get out of my grasp with a speed that I can't even catch with.
"What? What's going on?" I ask in shock. When did Eren move that fast? And I see that both Pieck and Zeke are also transforming into Titans and they are also going to fight him, but even with the gear on, the Panzer unit can't even hit Eren, and Zeke's rock-throwing also doesn't seem to work as well.
"Don't you think it is unfair to fight three-on-one?" I can also hear Eren's voice, and he manages to come out of the nape. "Now or never, Mikasa."
Don't tell me that she's here as well, and much to my horror, the raven-haired girl suddenly appears behind the cart and she swiftly takes out the same weapon that blasted me out of the titan. Hell no, I'm not going to suffer the same thing again.
Eren's POV:
When Mikasa stands on my shoulder, she says, "Eren... now what?"
I take out a crystal and say, "The Jaw Titan's power is here, and now I'm going to take the power of the other 3."
"What? I can't transform!" Now the enemy Titans are turning to Porco Galliard, who has bitten his hand and is unable to transform.
I turn to Zeke and say, "Big brother Zeke, isn't it? Too bad that I'm not brainwashed by my father, in fact, I have the same goal as my father."
As I touch him, Zeke suddenly widens his eyes as he mutters, "Eren...why..." And then he suddenly turns back into a human and lies on the ground.
"Zeke!" Pieck yells, and I jump out of the Titan and take out my ODM gear. "So should we dance, my queen?" I ask.
Mikasa smiles at me before we start to fly at the same speed, the Panzer Unit and the rest of the soldiers are trying to shoot us, but we manage to dodge every attack until I manage to connect to the Cart Titan, take her powers until the whole Panzer Unit was sent flying.
Zeke slowly gets up and says, "It's impossible... Eren... did you have the full power of the Founding Titan..."
"I not only have the full power of Founding Titan, but I also have the full power of the Attack Titan." I smirk. "Now there's only Reiner left."
"Reiner! Watch out! They're after you!" I notice the Warrior Candidates, and whose idea is it to let children like them join in the battlefield anyways?
Reiner realizes what's going on and he says, "If you're going to take my powers, then you're wrong."
He starts to run away, but I just glow and suddenly, he feels electricity zapping him and he's unable to move. I use the chance to quickly reach Reiner and also take the final Titan that we need.
"Now our mission is done." I say with a smirk. "My intention here is to take back what belongs to Paradis."
Just then, we hear the sound and we look up, an airship is arriving and I also notice Mikasa grabbing Zeke. Both of us use our ODM gear to get attached to the ship until we manage to get inside and escape.
"We're counting on you, Sergent Masumi. Take us to Liberio." I order.
"Of course, your highness." After the plane leaves, Zeke asks, "What is going on here, Eren?"
I say, "Oh brother, because of the war with the Mid-East Nations, you really don't have any idea what happened to Paradis and Hizuru, don't you? As you can see, I'm the King of both Paradis and Hizuru."
Seeing the shocked faces of my brother seems funny, "So you're the king, huh? Never thought I see the day. But does that mean you already break the vow of the Founding Titan?"
"I can start the Rumbling anytime I want. Just so you know." I say. "And as you can see, you're not the Beast Titan anymore, meaning that you will be safe from the curse."
Zeke seems to have mixed feelings, and Mikasa turns to me, "Eren... the time."
"Oh, sorry." I say, "I guess it is time for some sweet revenge."
Reiner's POV:
"They have captured War Chief Zeke!" Falco yells in panic.
"And it is not just him... our Titans are also taken. We can't transform into Titans anymore..." Pieck says.
"Damn it... so the Founding Titan really has the power to take away the other Titan powers..." Magath yells in anger.
I was just sitting there with horror and shock, I'm glad that I'm not going to suffer from both of them, but something is not right with Eren... since when did he become as strong as Mikasa Ackermann? And how was he able to use the Founding Titan's power without the Titan inside...
"HERE ME, SUBJECTS OF YMIR!" That was Eren's voice... and suddenly, I see that all of us are in some sort of desert with a night sky... what is even going on here?
"MY NAME IS EREN YEAGER, AND I'M THE CURRENT KING OF ELDIA." Wait, what? Eren is the King of Eldia? This has to be some sort of joke, right?
"A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, A MARLEYAN HERO CALLED HELIOS JOINED WITH THE TYBUR FAMILY AND CHASED THE KING INTO PARADIS ISLAND, WHICH CAUSES A TRAGEDY TO BEFALL OF OUR PEOPLE. THAT IS A LIE. AFTER INHERITING FROM THE MEMORIES PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATIONS. I HAVE COME TO TELL YOU THE TRUE VERSION OF THE STORY.
HELIO IS NO HERO, HE IS JUST A PUPPET MADE BY THE COWARD KING KARL FRITZ AND THE TYBUR FAMILY, A TRAITOR TO OUR ELDIAN EMPIRE! THEY SET THE STAGE FOR THE GREAT TITAN WAR AND BREAK THE ELDIA DOWN, AND THE COWARD KING HAS LEFT, TAKING TENS OF THOUSANDS, AND LEAVING UNTOLD MILLIONS OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS BEHIND TO SUFFER FOR HIS SINS.
WE WATCHED AS ALL OF YOU SENTENCED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ELDIANS TO WANDER IN THE SANDS OF PARADIS IN ETERNAL TORTURE, AND WE ALSO WATCH ALL THE OTHER NATIONS IN THE WORLD TREAT OUR PEOPLE AS LITTLE MORE THAN CATTLE, LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER, BUT NOW, OUR WATCH HAS ENDED, WE'VE PREPARED, WE WAITED, AND WE GREW STRONGER! WE ALSO HAVE THE RUMBLING READY TO ACTIVATE ANYTIME WE WANT. HERE! ELDIA STANDS, THE STRONGEST WE'VE BEEN IN A CENTURY!
I APOLOGIZE FOR ABANDONING ALL OF YOU, I HATE TO HAVE THE MEMORIES AND BLOOD OF THE COWARD KING INSIDE ME. BUT HERE, WE'VE COME TO MAKE AMENDS, AND WE'VE COME TO SET YOU FREE. ALL WE WANT IS PEACE, AND YET THE WORLD WISHES FOR THE ANNIHILATION OF THE PEOPLE OF US PARADIS. THE HATRED THAT HAS BEEN SWELLING UP FOR SO LONG WILL CERTAINLY NOT END UNTIL NOT JUST THE PARADISIANS, BUT ALL OF YMIR'S SUBJECTS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED. I REJECT THIS WISH!
NOW THIS MESSAGE IS FOR YOU, THE TYBURS. YOU HAVE BEEN SITTING WITHIN YOUR FANCY ESTATES AND LOFTY MANSIONS WITH THE COMFORTS THAT WERE BUILT OFF THE BLOOD OF ELDIA. OUR FORCES HAVE BEGUN THE RECONQUEST OF THE PENINSULA, AND WE'VE ALSO TAKEN BACK ALL THE TITANS THAT ARE STOLEN BY MARLEY EXCEPT YOUR WAR HAMMER TITAN. AND I SWEAR TO ALL OF YOU THAT I WILL NOT STOP UNTIL THE PEOPLE OF ELDIA ARE UNITED ONCE MORE! SO LONG AS THERE ARE THOSE WHO WISH TO DENY THIS WISH, THEN WE SHALL FIGHT! I WILL FIGHT! AND I WILL KEEP MOVING FORWARD UNTIL ALL MY ENEMIES ARE DESTROYED!"
And here is a new chapter, and both Eren and Mikasa manage to get back all of the Titans, I hope you like this chapter and the next chapter will be the battle with the War Hammer Titan.