Warning SPOILERS that may or may not be true in the long run.
So... yeah.
As always all I own is the story, Asher and Rotto-The unknown marauder, Descending into madness, Allure of midnight and Black and white. Athoris-Born of the sun. And last but not least Alex.
"So... they are the Armored and Colossal titans." Pixis sighed, looking somberly at Reiner and Bertholdt's still forms.
"Were they not the ones who were with Eren when he removed the boulder?" he asked.
"But why are they like this?" he wondered out loud waving a hand in fornt of Reiner's face.
"It was him sir!" Connie said pointing a finger at the duo across from the wall standing next to each-other but Connie was pointing to the one with blonde hair and black clothing standing next to the olive skinned black haired boy who had his arms crossed.
"The one in black, Asher I think he said his name was. He... did something to them both."
"He called himself a vampire as well..." Eren said, his hands still forming.
"Sai guardare un sacco piu giovane di quando eravmo nel vostro mondo..." Asher was whispering near Rotto's ear.
The two of them were speaking just within earshot of the titan, who was now wearing a scouting legion uniform, who stiffened and turned its head towards the dou frowning slightly eyebrows narrowed.
"Geez... what the hell is going on!" Connie muttered, as Pixis walked to them. "Nothings happened for five years and then those guys show up... he said, glancing at Atem and the other. "Reiner and... are you sure Eren... that they..."
"Yeah..." Eren breathed.
"But that... Ymir as well?" he asked, conflictidly looking to where Ymir was standing next to a group of scouting legion members bounded and gagged.
Histora looked over to her as well.
Its not it, the young girl thought, as she walked over to her.
Its not!
"Ymir?" she said softly, standing next to her holding her hands as if praying.
"It can't be true... tell me it isn't!" Ymir... you weren't really going to... Ymir please tell me what that boy Rotto said was not true... You didn't really... try to join the side that threatened the existence of humanity did you?"
Ymir glanced at Histaria and looked away the look on her face saying more then words could.
"Ymir... I told you I would follow you no matter what."
They watched her for a moment and Jean sighed and turned back to Eren.
"Eren... who are they anyway?" Jean whispered to him.
"I don't know... They just showed up out of nowhere and bit Reiner and Bertholdt..."
"Solo dicendo'..." Asher replied to Rotto's look as Pixis came up to them and they both turned to face the aging man.
"Yes?"
Pixis looked at the two of them frowning slightly.
"You are the one who is responsible for what happened to the two of them?" he asked nodded to Reiner.
"Yes sir..." Asher said smirking showing his sharp pointed teeth that seemed to glisten in the fading light.
"I would like to question them. Is there any way for that to happen?"
"I can tell you all you need to know sir." Asher said.
"And believe me when I say it... They knew exactly what they were doing. Not only that but they enjoyed it..."
"I would like to hear it form them first..."
Asher smirked.
"I will releas them but... I can't guaranty if they'll be in a fit state to say anything to you... You see... Right now they are languishing in the... fruits of their labor, so you say... Who knows what they'll be like if I suddenly pull them out of it."
"But... If you insist!" Asher said, with a deadly look in his eyes and snapped his fingers.
Nothing seemed to happen but the lights returning to the lights of Reiner's and Berthold's eyes.
And then they screamed.
They fell to the ground clutching at the sides of their heads tearing at their hair eyes wide in horror screaming like they were being tortured. Faces pale as death masks tears in their eyes.
Reiner's eyes widened as he looked around at his surrounding.
No! How could this even have happened...
He looked up, eyes wide as Pixis came to stand right next to them his eyes saying all he needed to know. The old man nodded to him so quickly that no one saw his action. Reiner quickly raised his hand to his mouth.
"I'd do what he says if I were you..." Asher said slowly, stepping out from behind Pixis and glancing at them. "Unless you want to... enjoy your best buddies death and all the sweet screams that came with it again... Either way... Its all like a treat for me... Watching all the horrors you can offer to me as they bounce around in your minds..." he said in a smirking sneering voice.
Reiner's eyes widened as he glared at him but his hand lowered all the same when he saw the glint in his eyes his teeth bared.
"You are the armored and colossal titans... The ones who singlehandedly destroyed wall Maria five years ago and just now par of wall Roses outer walks?"
After an instant Reiner nodded stiffly.
"Yes... the four of us were ordered to... destroy the human race living inside the wall to the last..."
"By who...?"
"By... humans..." came the gruff reply.
"...What..."
Reiner's eyes fell on his a look of pure hatred on his face for him.
"Oy. Answer the man... You traitoris scum." Levi said darkly.
"Traitor? Heh... Funny... You have no idea..."
Eren growled and in two strides he was standing right next to
"You bastard! Do you have any idea... do you have any idea... the people you killed. Like I said before. You aren't humans! There's no way... How can you say you were ordered by humans to kill other humans?!" Eren shouted aiming a punch at Reiner but wobbled a little on his unsteady feet and had to let him go and drop to the ground.
"Damn it!" Eren hissed, clutching a hand to his pounding head.
"Eren..." a voice behind his said.
Alex was standing there her hands less painful looking but still slightly burned holding a bottle in one crouching down to him.
"Here. Its called a Tylenol," she said, holding a small pill in front of his face. "It'll help. It hurts after you transform right? The look on your face practically screams that..."
Eren glanced at the pill suspiciously.
It didn't look like it could do anything at all but he could tell that it was still hurting her to hold it so he took it and put it in his mouth.
"Just.. swallow it. It'll dissolve in your stomach but it will only takes effect after about thirty minutes."
"Thanks," Eren mumbled, gulping slightly. He had gagged a little while swallowing it.
"An eye for an eye as they say." she sighed as she got up turned and winked at him.
"Consider that my due."
Meanwhile Jean was looking at Eren's titan in suspicion.
"What?" it sighed, looking at him.
Jean glared at it coldly.
"Are we.. even sure we can trust it... the titan said turning to the others. How did this even happen anyways?"
"I told you before I have no idea..." it said but glanced at Rotto suspiciously.
"At any rate," Pixis sighed walking up to it. "In all honest I think we should give it a name."
"Oh...? I've gone from being a titan to a pet have I?" It asked. smirking slightly. "Is Hanji going to do any...
"We could call him Atlas!" Alex said suddenly.
Everyone turned to stare at her.
"Umm... well you see in ancient greek mythology Atlas who was a titan who was said to have ruled during the golden age was forced to hold the world on his shoulders thus preventing its distraction. You said that Eren had to move a boulder big enough to plug up a hole in the wall right? Anyway... Atlas became like when because Chronos feared that his children would one day overthrow him so whenever his wife Rhea would have a baby we would eat it..."
There was a pause as everyone took in this information.
"Yeah..." Alex said, rubbing the back of her head. "That part... seems a little..."
"Hey... you don't think... that..." Jean started looking uneasy.
"Highly unlikely..." Connie said.
At that moment Bertholdt jumped up and ran to the edge of the wall.
"HEY!"
Before anybody could do anything something black shot to where he had just jumped off and wrapped itself around his body.
Berhtodt screamed in agony as the sand seemed to cover his eyes turning them black as they rolled back into their sockets sinking into his skin as all the while Asher was smiling.
"Asher... that's enough," Rotto said, in a manner of one telling a child off next to him. As the sand cleared Asher and Rotto's eyes met.
"You know don't you?" Asher asked, glancing at Pixis.
"Yes. I do... But I have to make it look good..."
Asher huffed a little but raised his hand and dropped him without a care back on the wall next to Asher who's hand was reforming the black sand turning back into flesh and he sighed looking somewhat drained.
"Look at You!" Eren hissed angrily, "The two os you were so boastful back in the woods... And now you're scared shitless while facing your f*cking maker!"
"Hey... Eren," Reiner said suddenly. "Didn't you say you would make our deaths as painfully as can be? Heh. Frankly I don't see if you can do that without transforming into a Titan and eating me and Bertholdt whole." he finished, with a glance at the titan who looked back at him coldly. Reiner felt his body go rigid. How did this happen? There was a sudden bang and Reiner reeled back screaming in pain clutching his kneecap.
"Sorry but... What was that you said about Eren not being able to cause any pain to you as a Titan?" Rotto asked, holding the smoking gun sideways pointed right at him. "Seems like this will be worse for you. Even if I try and aim for any of your vital organs you can just... Recover from it... Right...? Just so long As long as its not fatal to you."
The black bullet, which had cleanly slid right through Reiner's knee, lost momentum bounced once on the ground before stopping all together and as it lay there a type of black mist that evaporated from its shell.
Rotto walked over and picked it up.
"Thank you... Madre."
Meanwhile Atem's eyes widened in shock at what he had just witnessed.
"Atem..." Athoris said, standing right next to him to whisper in his ear.
"That's the same as Pitch's..."
"I know... do you think he could have... has he already come this far...?"
Levi watched them eyes narrowing.
"Sir." Hanes said to Pixis walking up to him placing his fist at his heart."I'm sorry but... could you tell us why are you here?"
"When I got the message that wall Rose had been breached I came over as soon as I could... Did you find it?"
"Sir... there wasn't any sort of hole..." Hanes said slowly.
Pixis blinked looked bemused for an instant before turning to him sharply and asking if what he was saying was true trying to stop the smile forming on his lips.
Finally they were getting it.
"There's something you might find interesting sir." Nora said stepping forward.
"Not one of them... smelled like any of the other titans down there. Nora said gabbing his finger towards the smoldering remains of the one he had killed..."
"W-what the hell are you saying!?" Connie demanded angrily, glaring at Nora."Connie... it all dose make sense... the horses were all still there and they came from the directions of your village and didn't you say that one of the titans reminded you of your own mother..." Connie's eyes widened in shock but he just shook his head.
"No! That... That can't be true!" he shouted.
"Wrong...?" Kazuma said, turning cold eyes to him. "Look kid I'm a person who deals with facts not hopes and wishes and right now... Humans inside the walls, pacifically the ones inside your village, somehow transformed into the titans..."
"Sorry, kid... But that's just how it is." Kazuma said, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"But... how..." he whispered forcefully keeping the tears out of his eyes from forming.
"That ape titan..." Mike said stepping forward.
"I am only guessing but... It seemed to be able to control the other titans. Maybe... just maybe..."
"And those dwarf titans..." Alex said suddenly.
"It seems it is able to control them the most. Did you see the way they ran up to them?"
"And when I killed it..." she said looking at her blood smeared hand. "I felt like I was killing a human being..." Again... she thought smirking slightly.
"Speaking of the ape titan..." Rotto said stepping forwards and addressing Pixis.
"Sir... you may want to retrieve the enemy inside of it..."
Pixis looked down at him his eyes failing to hide his emotions of worry.
"That one... just like Eren... and those two can shift as well..."
Rotto sighed lying on the coach not remembering lying on something remotely comfortable in a long time.
Or... at least not being able to feel it.
"Why did we get a separate room from them?" Asher mumbled, leaning against the nearest window.
"Because they said that they don't know us." Heh... makes me wonder If they'll put us on trial as well..." Rotto said, his hands behind his head looking up at the plain ceiling. Asher glancing at him.
"Mikasa will kill you... you realize."
"Yeah... that'll probably happen," he sighed.
"Told you coming here was a mistake."
"Asher..." Rotto started, half rising from the coach. "Unlike you I still have a consensus... Because I was born from a womb... Even if I did happen to murder all most all those people in my world... Are you still getting off on that by the way? The screams of all of those pure of hearted children?" he asked, glancing at him through one eye.
Asher smirked at him his head turned to the side so it lay a little on his shoulder but before he could answer Mikasa, who had been listening at the door banged it open.
"Oh... uhh..." Asher took one look at Mikasa's face and turned to Rotto who stood up from the coach.
"Asher... leave please."
"Don't have to tell me twice..." he said, and in only a few steps they were the only ones in the room.
Mikasa looked at him a dark look in her eyes.
He had just talked about killing the only inhabiting his world and he was looking at her like that?
"You..." she hissed... You were the one who invaded my dreams disguised as Eren... So you could... do that..."
*"Yes," he said to her, sitting up straighter. "Well... that is the truth... Like I said I before. I used you to regain my form... I tried to destroy my world... again." he shrugged raising his shoulder at the last world.
Mikasa's eyes widened in shock at what she was hearing. Half for what she was just heard him say and half for how nonchalantly he had said it.
Like he was talking about the weather.
An instant later he felt himself being raised and shoved against the opposite walls cold dark pools meeting his eyes.
"You..." Mikasa hissed, murderously one hand reaching for her weapon but thought better of it. "You. How can you say that?! You..." she hissed, punching him in the face.
Rotto felt the punch like an iron upon his body and again a second time however as she raised her fist again he turned back to her.
"Don't speak so quickly... Mikasa. You would have probably done the same if you were in my shoes," he muttered.
"What are you even saying? she demanded angrily, shoving him further against the wall glaring into his stoic red eyes.
"What I'm saying is... You could have easily ended up just like me... Mikasa..." he said, holding her gaze.
Mikasa looked at him in slight confused for an instant and then her eyes widened in realization.
"But unlike me," Rotto said gently placing a hand on hers gently not to move but just hold his eyes losing their soul even more. "You had someone come to you before the hungry wolf could consumed the sheep, body and soul."*
Mikasa looked at him. It couldn't be true! But his eyes... she knew they had been like hers that day so long ago...
The grip on his collar lessened slightly and all together vanished and Rotto felt his feet touch the ground again.
They looked at each other for an instant red eyes staring into black before the red ones closed head lowered slightly and he passed her but as he did her sword blocked his path resting right under his neck pricing his skin slightly.
"What'll make me believe you won't do the same thing to the world?" she asked him.
"Because this isn't my world to destroy." he said simply turning his head to the side.
"It doesn't matter anymore." he continued, shaking his head lowering the sword out of his way. "It's been so long. I did what I did and now my world has been reborn as a pathetic and childish place... but still so... twisted."
"But... I do envy you, Mikasa," he whispered, to her as he past her wiping the blood from his lower lip as he left.
At the doorway Asher watched a slight frown on his face.
"Mikasa" Rotto's voice said, from the doorway hands in his pockets half turned to her.
"You shouldn't feel too much pity for me just yet... The deeds I've solidified are not solely restricted to that of my world..."
...Short preview...
"Earlier you said something about Pitch... What the hell did that even mean?" Levi asked looking at Atem who was silent for an instant looking somewhat uncertain for a second before he sighed.
"Atem... are you sure we should tell them...? Ra said..."
It shouldn't matter anymore. he sighed turning to Jonouchi.
"Jonouchi... this does not just relate to us but all... the barriers have grown thin and he is getting stronger... there's no telling what he could do if he gets into this world."
"Barrier?" Armin asked.
Atem turned to them and sighed.
"The truth is... its not just the titans you have to worry about... "
Ooc Mikasa? Maybe? I really don't know...
Also sorry for the late notice but this actually take place in the middle of another fic I will write once I'm done, or starting to be, with The Unknown Marauder. I won't tell you much about it thou...
*Read Descending into Madness, Allure of midnight and Black and White to understand more.