Volume 5

Ch. 56 Mother and Father

5 years after the Battle of Shiganshina and the birth of Colt Reiss-

(7 years in the 360 day Eldian/Paradise calendar)

.Pov

-Colt-

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"Again" dad repeats

"Agh" I grunt

"That's enough!" Mom steps in between us

"What are you doing Historia? we're training" Dad says

"You've been going at it for a while now it's time to take a break" she says

"I-I'm fine mom" I force myself back onto my feet though my legs were so wobbly I think I was at my limit

"No baby you're bleeding, look you can't even stay up right" she pats me down

"Out of the way Historia" dad says

"No! You've been putting him through hell since he was five, you can't be so hard on him!" Mom shouts

"I want him to be strong, it's better then having him sit around doing nothing" dad says

"Doing nothing?" Mom asks "take him out to eat or play with him, value this time you have with him, there's no need to train him just yet he's only a child" she says

"A child?" dad asks as he walked over to us

"Yes he's too young for you to be so rough on him" mom looks up at him as he gave her a nasty glare

"Too rough huh?" He grabs her by the throat "you want to know what I was doing when I was only 'a child'?" He asks

Mom doesn't dare answer, not when he got like this "look as a father it's my job to make sure my son is at the top of the food chain" he says

My heart was pounding I couldn't stand to watch him treating her so badly

He began tightening his grip

His eyes dilate almost as if he enjoyed watching her struggle for air

It was terrifying, the look in his eye paralyzed me, even though I wasn't in his line of sight

Mother began looking pale as she tried wording something out, it was when we heard the someone open the hallway door

Dad finally lets go

"Let me do my job and you go do yours" he says as she drops on her knees

I head towards dads side not wanting him to hurt mother any further

But mom yanks my arm back "were going to see Carla" she pulls me away from him

Dad doesn't respond he only watches as she made me follow closely behind her

"Th-that idiot" mother sniffs as she lead the way

I watch as she wipes the tears off her face

"Why did he have to turn out like this?" Her voice trembles

Mom says the reason dad was so mean was cause he has horrible dreams at night, they're so bad he wakes up with nasty rashes and even cuts all over his body

"C'mon Colt" mom says as I watch dad sit down on a bench

I watch as he sets his hands on his head as if he had another one of those headaches before everything faded away

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"Slpslpslp" I feel something on my face

"Hehe" I giggle "heya there Thor" I wrap my arms around my doggy

Half his body was white and the other half was black but on the side that his fur was black his eye was white and the side where his fur was white his eye was black

He looked super cool he wasn't much younger than me Odin and Friia had him about three months after I was born

"Oh you're so cute huh boy" I squish his cheeks together

After stretching I get up out of bed before heading outside

Normally I saw dad out in the indoor garden practicing his martial arts but today he wasn't there

"Hey where's dad?" I ask the guard standing watch of the hallway

"Oh he's in the courtroom down stairs" he says

"Hey wait, it's today!" I remember

There was supposed to be a super important meeting

"W-wait prince, careful you mustn't run" he shouts as I hurry down stairs

After I finally made it to the room that was right beside the courtroom with Thor's help I crawled into the vents

"I can't reach you" I whisper trying to pull Thor up with me

"Odin!" I whisper shout as I see him walk by

He stops for a second before walking backwards

"Hmm?" He tilts his head wondering why I was inside the roof

"Help me get Thor, yeah?" I say

Odin walks on over lowering his head

"Woof" Thor barks as he hops on his dad's snout

"Thanks buddy" I giggle as I help Thor inside with me "alright lead the way boy"

He begins sniffing around till we finally stopped at an opening

I peek inside seeing father on one side of the room and mother on the opposite side

"I said what I said!" Father slams his fist onto the table "we will take the battle to them before they decide to set a single foot on our land!" He shouts

"You already accepted the Azumabito clan's peace treaty, why don't you pass these other nations as allies?!" Zachly shouts

"I won't stand to ally myself with Marley, the country that tried to extinguish us!" Father growls "I'm telling you they'll only use that as an excuse to finish what they started!" He adds

"We know that but we won't stand a chance with the technology we possess now, allying ourselves with the enemy to ensure peace for the time being is the best strategic play" he says

"We have the power of seven Titans! We can easily infiltrate Marley, the largest superpower to date and take back the remaining two after that, we'll reign supreme!" Dad shouts

"It's the best play General Zachly" Armin agrees "studies have shown that in fifteen years from now nations will have bombs capable of destroying entire cities they'll surely use that power to extinguish us for good" he says

"It's why we allied with the Azumabitos they have sworn to assist in our military strength and the advance of our technology" Zachly says

"Even so we'll still need 50 years to have our technology up to date" Armin adds

"I'm telling you we have to fight now before we get too comfortable with peace!" Dad growls

"Enough, it's already over Kara, we have Queen Historias vote she is of the royal blood you have no power against that" Pixis says

"Royal what?! If you want to talk about bloodlines I'm the closest to Ymir, she's my half sibling if anything" Dad argues

"That hasn't been confirmed, there is no way of ever knowing if you really are the child of the Founding Titan Akuma Kara" Pixis says

"What?!" Dad digs his fingers into the wooden table

Before dad did anything stupid Hange stands up

"All his life he was discriminated even the people were never fully on his side as king all because people believed he shared the same blood as our Founder Kara, I find it ridiculous that now when you see convenient you dare suggest he isn't," Hange says

"Either way as I said this meeting has reached its peak since Lord Amaterasu" he refers to dad with his middle name "and Queen Historia have different views on the matter we decided to take a different approach and created a voting system as agreed, you now have been outvoted three to one" he says

"Ghk" dad clenches his fists so hard his hands began bleeding

"Fine" dad growls "Dismissed" He finally ends the session

"Aww man I missed it all" I frown

I crawl back out and with Odin's help he takes me back up stairs where I saw mom go inside her and dads bedroom

"Stay here" I whisper at Odin and Thor before heading inside

"Hey mom" I smile though she didn't look so happy

"Oh hey Colt" she finally smiles

"Look at this" I pull out a knife dad bought for me the last time he took me out of town

"He bought you a knife?" She asks

"Yeah it's super sharp" I giggle excitedly

"Give it" she holds her hand out

"What?" I step back

She snaps her fingers

"Fine" I frown placing it on her hand

"Look I just don't want you getting hurt okay?" She pulls me into her arms

"Yeah yeah I know" I pout "is dad angry again?" I ask

"Yeah" she sighs as the bathroom doors open

"Go play outside I need to have a word with your dad" she says

"Aw man" I frown "fine I'm going to tell Sasha to teach me to use the bow again" I giggle before going off

I close the door leaving it cracked open just enough for me to be able to peak inside

"What do you want?" dad asks

"I wanted to ask you a few things" mom says

"Like what ? Why didn't you say a thing during the meeting huh? You kept your mouth shut the entire time" He says

"Because I told you I'm not going to change my stand," mom stands up "what this country needs is peace not war, Kara"

"This country needs freedom, and we can't get that if we just sit around" Dad gets in her face

"Hmph" mom turns around "look I just wanted to ask you how you how this Titan power of yours works" she says

"Power?" Dad asks

Mom nods

"I either have to consume the vessels heart or the Titans heart in my Titan form" He says

"So in that case we only have five Titans in our possession the founding, female, armor, attack, the colossal in you and the colossal inside Armin" she says

"beside the founder you inherited you consumed Reiner, Bertolt, and Annie's powers, even so we managed to pass Bertolts power to Armin before he died" she says "Hange said that was cause the power resides inside the heart and spine so it was still possible to transfer the power to Armin" she says

"Right, what are you trying to ask me?" He asks

"Who's the seventh ?" She asks

"Seventh?" Dad asks

"You said we have the power of seven Titans in our possession did you not? You couldn't capture the beast nor the cart during the battle of Shiganshina so who else did you consume ?"

"Oh…I made a mistake, I meant six Titans okay?" Dad shrugs it off

"You wouldn't make a mistake like that, Kara" she says "tell me, what did you do to Ymir?" Mom turns to face him

"Ymir?" Dad sighs "look she was our enemy, she tried taking Eren and wanted to strip me from the founding Titan"

"You killed her?" Mom asks

"She was our enemy" dad repeats

"Did you kill her ?" She asks again

"Yes" He sighs

"Why?" She asks "why did you lie to me? … all these years…" mom tears up

"Cause look at you! I knew how'd you get" dad shouts

"How'd you think I would react!" Mom shouts back "I loved her more than anything, she was like a sister to me, how could you?!" She cries

"If I didn't take her power then someone else would've" Dad says "she was dead from the very moment she took that power from their comrade"

"But you didn't even try saving her"

"She stabbed me, why would I want to do that?!" Dad growls

"Because you knew how much she meant to me! First Frieda th-then Ymir and now it's our marriage, you can't stop can you?"

"Our marriage?" Dad asks "don't you dare go there you know how hard I'm trying to raise our son!" Dad grabs her blouse

"Shut up it's not that and you know exactly what I'm talking about!" She slaps his hand aside "you're always disappearing every four to five days and no one ever knows where you are!" She shouts

"I'm only going to the mountains unlike you I'm caged up inside this kingdom because I'm the Founding Titans vessel" Dad says

"Stop lying!" Mom shouts "you think I'm an idiot?" She asks "who do you take me for? I know you a-and Sasha have something going on" she says "so what is it?" She asks

"S-Sasha? I don't know what your talking about" he looks away

"Don't you bulshit me! I've seen how you.. how you touch her like she was your… your woman" she sniffs "j-just tell me what she does that I can't!" Mom shouts

"It's… none of your business" Dad turns his head away

"None of my what?!" Mom clenches the knife with her hand "I'm your wife, of course it's my business!" She puts her foot down

"Then just don't worry about it alright ?!" Dad growls

"Uaghhh! IM SO SICK OF YOUR SHIT!" Mom lunges at dad

Blinded by rage she digs the knife she took from me into dads abdomen

N-no mom

What did she just do?

She just stabbed him

What is she thinking?

"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you" mom pounds her head on dad's chest "why are you like this? tell me, tell me, tell me" she stops for a second "I-I know your not a bad person, but it's so hard to believe that" she cries

Dad grabs her wrist

Her eyes widen after seeing what she had done

"I-I'm sorry, please lemme" she looks around

"No, I'm leaving" Dad finally says

"What?" She asks

"I'm sick of being caged up in this kingdom, I'll free this nation my way, alone if I have to" He pulls the knife out of his abdomen tossing it onto the bed before heading my way

I stumble back

Mom just stabbed dad

No, no, no, that didn't just happen

The door creaks open

"D-dad?!" I gasp "wh-why did mom do that?" I ask

"Come with me Colt" he finally says

My eyes widen "y-yessir"

"I'm sorry Kara… please I-I-I don't know what I was thinking" she sobs wrapping her arms around dads arm

"Off me woman" he shakes his arm with enough strength she slammed her onto the wall

"Agh!" Mom gasps "p-please don't leave me" she begs on her knees

"Thirteen years, no more, no less" were dad's final words to her

"Please sir you need medical attention" the maid says as he left a trail of blood behind

"Follow me and I'll kill you" He tells them as the gates opened for us

"Colt!" Mother shouts "don't worry mommy will find you okay!"

"B-bye mom" I tear up

Where is dad taking me ? I don't want to go

"Don't cry boy" Dad growls "your a man act like one"

"S-sorry sir" I apologize

~to be continued~

Volume 5 Ch. 57 Return to Marley