A new world

Yelena to the military present in the throne room:

Children of Eldia! The regent is dead! Per his final decree, upon his death, the Kingdom of Eldia will be transformed into the Sacred Eldian Estate, headed by the Divine Child, the daughter of the Redentor, the Founder reborn,

OUR HOLY SUPREME PONTIFF OF THE ELDIANS, SASHA YEAGER – ACKERMAN

All the members of the military kneeled and saluted Sasha, who was oblivious of what was happening, she could only see her mother drenched in blood, her mind was blank with rage, rage to her mother, to the world, to being born, to have such a life, to such injustice, such impotence.

Yelena: Your holiness, I understand your shock… but the world waits for you. Let the guards take care of Lord Kaspar and your moth…

Sasha: No.

Yelena is surprised.

Sasha: Nobody touches my mother… I'll… go to her.

Mikasa is still in shock. She understood immediately what just happened. She had once again fallen to Kaspar's trap. She has permanently ruined Sasha, even if unwillingly. Her anger and impulsiveness have destroyed her daughter. She doesn't move.

If I should die… it better be by her hand…

At that moment a window blew. Ymir with several members of the survey corps burst through the window and a shootout ensued.

Ymir lands next to Mikasa. She notices Kaspar's corpse.

Ymir: Lady Mikasa! Come with me, we are taking the castle back. I don't know what happened and I don't care, that man deserved what happened to him, but I need to get you out now, if I don't my mother won't ever forgive me.

Ymir grabs Mikasa and as she is leaving through the window, she catches a glimpse of Sasha approaching with military soldiers and a bizarre woman. She thinks she must have seen wrong.


The Palace Courtyard

The castle has been mostly taken back by the Royal Guards. The survey corps had settled an encampment on the courtyard.

Ymir lands with Mikasa and has her wounds tended.

Captain: Your highness, Commander Jean has secured the city of Trost from the terrorists. Captain Pieck is moving towards Shiganshina to secure Captain Marco.

Ymir: That's good. Establish a direct line with Jean. We are taking the castle back and weed out the rest of these people. Please excuse me, I'll tend Lady Mikasa.

Mikasa was sitting while she was been treated without saying a word.

Ymir: Lady Mikasa what has happened? Where is my mother?

Mikasa: It's too late.

Ymir: Huh? What you mean? Don't you see this? We have won…

Ymir feels uneasy… although their victory is clear… something feels very wrong.

Ymir: Lady Mikasa… I… thought I saw Sasha just now… was she there?

Mikasa: She is gone…

Ymir: HUH? What?! What you mean?!

Mikasa: Sasha… I… He… we killed her.

Ymir grabs Mikasa in distress: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!

At that moment a rain of bullets covered the courtyard. Sasha, Yelena and over a hundred military soldiers appear.

Ymir: What the?! Sasha?!

Yelena: PRINCESS! You must think you won right? Just by killing a few dozen of my soldiers… saints from our holy enterprise… their martyrdom will always be remembered… BUT their sacrifice was needed.

Our victory… is right here. Our holy pontiff. She is the only thing we need to succeed.

Ymir laughs loudly: WHAT THE FUCK CRAZY BITCH?! What are you talking about? As if Sasha would ever side with you! SASHA! GET THE FUCK IN HERE! YOUR MOM IS ACTING WEIRD!

Sasha has a grim expression in her face. Ymir notices it and gets scared. She had never seen Sasha like that, it's like she is a different person.

Sasha: Ymir… what right… do you have… to deny me… this moment?

Ymir is shocked: HUH?!

Sasha: You have always said it… I'm a monster… right? Maybe it's true… maybe… truly… I am a monster… a divine one… the daughter of the devil… a sacred being… all my life… I've run away from that… kept apart from the world… from assuming my true role… what… RIGHT DO YOU HAVE TO DENY ME MY LIFE?!

Ymir: Sasha… WHAT THE FUCK!?

Sasha looks at Ymir enraged: No more. Nobody… will take anything more from me. You will never understand… as you… your family… has taken everything from mine…

Ymir draws her blades: Sasha… I don't know if that witch has drugged you or something… but I'll free you from that bitch's spell.

Ymir speeds towards Yelena ready to kill her. She swings her blades and slashes through a body. But it's not Yelena.

She falls in shock… she had cut through Sasha… splitting her in half. Ymir is covered in her blood. She starts to uncontrollably tremble.

Yelena: Weak child… now you'll see… the divine power… of our goddess.

Ymir hears a grunt from behind her. She turns and watches in terror. Sasha's upper body is fuming and moving.

Sasha enraged: Nobody… will take… anything… from my family AGAIN. She puts the heraldic ring of the Ackermans in her finger… and a shriek like thunder strikes her.

Sasha transforms into an 18 meter class titan. It's perfectly and beautifully formed yet it's size and presence are terrifying and awe inspiring at the same time. The entire capital could see Sasha's titan and paralyzes. Time seemed to froze.

A monstruous female like scream is heard on the capital, marking the return of the titans to the world.

Ymir is petrified and horrified at the sight. She never thought she would encounter the horrors that her mother had told her.

Yelena: Children of Eldia! Here is the proof! Your promised time has come! You'll BE THE OWNERS OF THE WORLD AGAIN!

Sasha's founding titan is staring directly at Ymir. Both look at each other. Ymir is paralyzed… she then looks at Mikasa… who has not moved at all… they look at each other.

Ymir sees such pain and sorrow in Mikasa's eyes. She looks at Sasha again… at notices that the titan… has a similar look.

It's her… it's Sasha… she won't… she won't hurt me… I… GOT TO SAVE HER.

Ymir stands up and draws her blades again.

Ymir: Sasha… I don't know what's going on with you… but I'll get you out of that thing… AND BURST YOUR HEAD OPEN.

Ymir had trained for years by then. She was trained by Mikasa to fight titans even if they didn't exist anymore… almost like she somehow knew something like this would happen.

Ymir can maneuver expertly around the titan, meanwhile Sasha's movements are slow and clumsy… she is not accustomed to her titan form, least of all for fighting.

Ymir manages to sever the tendons of Sasha's right foot, causing it to kneel down.

Ymir close in to Sasha's nape but with her arm she manages to send Ymir crashing to the ground. Some of her ribs are broken and she spits blood.

Mikasa looks the scene and feels like she is sinking. At that moment a member of the survey corps approaches her.

Captain: My lady Yeager! Please! You need to help the princess! Here! He gives Mikasa a vertical maneuvering equipment and modern thunder spears.

Mikasa feels like she is losing her mind. Is she really going to attack her daughter? She has flashes of the battle in Fort Salta against Eren.

Ymir stands up and continues her assault.

Ymir: FUCKING BITCH! She lounges towards Sasha's nape again and reaches, but her blades shatter as it had rapidly hardened.

Ymir lands on a nearby building: Fuck… this bitch… wait… what am I doing… stupid idiot… I need to kill that mummy and this will be over.

Ymir lounges towards Yelena but a crystal spike emerges from the floor protecting her. Sasha's hand is in the floor, connected to the spike.

Ymir: Seriously Sasha!? You are protecting this bitch! What an idiot you are!

Yelena: You'll never understand her little princess.

At that moment an explosion occurs nears Yelena which expels her. She is bleeding from the head and the military tends to her.

Yelena yells: EXPECTED… FROM THE EMPRESS DOWAGER!

Mikasa in full gear appears next to Ymir: Are you ok?

Ymir: No. But I'm better now… that you are here.

Sasha looks at Ymir and her mother… and her titan starts to expel boiling fumes that burn the courtyard.

Sasha's titan in a terrifying deep voice: ARE YOU GOING TO KILL ME TOO MOTHER?!

Mikasa looks at Sasha in pain and softly responds: No… I never will.

Mikasa grabs Ymir and fires the thunder spears creating a safe perimeter for her to escape.

Sasha gets out of the titan's body and looks at her mother escaping.

Yelena: CAPTURE THEM!

Sasha yells: NO. LET THEM GO.

Yelena surprised: But… your holiness! The…

Sasha: Yelena… did you mean for me to become… the ruler of this place?

Yelena anxious: Yes of course!

Sasha: Then everyone will do as I say. And I say, to let them go and leave them alone.

Yelena is shocked.

Sasha: The queen… Jean… Pieck… Marco… Munir… Hitch… Leo… and whomever else I say… won't be bothered at all. The rest… I leave to you.

Yelena's eyes regain their light: Yes, your holiness. Children of Eldia! Spread the word! The pontiff has begun her holy rule… spread the joy… I don't anyone… after seeing such sights… will question our domain…


The Palace – Half an hour later

Sasha and Yelena were resting in the Royal Chambers preparing for the first meeting of the new government. Historia was locked in her room, unharmed, yet stripped of all power.

Rico, who coordinated the assault on the castle, was praying on the castle's chapel in gratitude for their victory.

The doors of the chapel closed.

Hitch: You always were a weird one huh? Only you would come here in such a time.

Rico: Ah the dumb bimbo… I thought you would be dead by now.

Hitch: Hah! Don't you know who you made the all mighty of this place? You are such an idiot, I don't expect nothing less from a fanatic.

Rico: Say whatever you like… your time is done… you and your queen have ruled this empire to the ground when we could have been the emperors of the world… now we will…

Hitch: Sigh… poor crazy woman… maybe I should let you live… so you can see what will happen.

Rico: Kill me… and see what happens to you and you loved ones…

Hitch: You are deaf, aren't you? Deary… Hitch points her gun to Rico's head. You don't know Sasha at all. Bye bye.

Hitch shoots and kills Rico.

Leo was guarding the door and watched the whole scene in distress.

Hitch: Sorry about that… that bitch was dangerous… she was crazy… you heard her.

Leo: I… can't accept this… Sasha… I can't.

Hitch strongly grabs him by the shoulders: Listen boy. This whole thing… seems to have been in store for Sasha… since before she was born. This is a hell that was thrown at her since her birth and now it has burned her entire body. She and the fate of our world… are now one. Do you really want to leave her now… us… the only people who care about her… and most importantly… that she cares too and are not in bad terms right now?

Leo is deep in thought.

Hitch: For the sake of your family, and Sasha. We need to stay here by her side. And try to save her soul… as fast as we can.


A month later – The Throne Room

An ominous and sinister ceremony had started. Instead of nobles, the room was filled with clerics of the Church of the Redentor, former Wallist priests now introduced to the new religion, and behind them ordinary people from all over Paradis. Next to the throne, there was the new Viceroy of Marley, Iro Aganyu, and on the other side, the High Priestess of Eldia, Yelena, accompanied by the new Prime Minister of Eldia.

Behind them stood Leo, the personal aide to Sasha, and Hitch, the personal attendant of the pontiff. Mikasa was not there.

Sasha entered the room wearing a long cape made out of bloodied rags of the fallen soldiers, wearing a personalized military uniform, her dagger, and the ring of the Ackermans.

Fellow eldians, a new world has been born. You have followed my father, you called by birth a miracle and seen my life as divine. For too long I have been forced to look away from you… to turn a blind eye to the centuries of a corrupted lineage… but no more.

I don't ask for retribution, but for union, not persecution… but justice… only what's fair. Order and peace… at all costs, like Eren Yeager promised to you, no more discrimination, no more killing, but a new world for eldians all around the world.

I will serve as the symbol of this new age…

Sasha picks up the old crown of the Fritz Kings, last used by Historia. Her hands start to expel burning fumes that melted the crown.

And I will make sure the world changes… either by love…

Sasha stands still and three long crystal horns protrude from her head and grow ramifications that cross between each other, creating a crystal triple crown.

Or by fear.

END OF PART 4