Nine in the evening, Frieda Reiss was tucking a young Mikasa into bed after spending an entire day together. Mikasa's body lied under the sheets and her head lied on one of the softest pillows in the Capital.
"Is there anything else you need before I need before I go?" Frieda asked as she looked at Mikasa.
"Mmm-mnh." Mikasa shook her head no. "Thank you for spending time with me, today." she gave Frieda a mild smile.
"You don't have to thank me, yet again. I am just happy to help. Just lie down and get some rest." Frieda smiled and winked at Mikasa.
"Okay." Mikasa nodded
"Good night." she said before turning off the lights and exiting Mikasa's bedroom.
After the door closes, Mikasa's mild smile fades and she looked directly at the ceiling above her. As she stares at the ceiling, she started thinking of her family. 'Eren. Wherever you are... Please, be okay...' Mikasa slowly closed her eyes.
Meanwhile, a ten year-old Eren Yeager gasped as he awakened from his slumber. He moved his head from left to right and saw nothing but brick walls all around him. He saw metal bars in front of him, then realized he was inside of a cell. He wanted to yell, but quickly discovered that he was somewhat restrained. A white handkerchief was tied around his mouth so he wouldn't yell or bite his tongue. He tried to move his arms, but couldn't move far as his wrists were covered in six-feet long chains, shackled to a brick wall. So were his ankles.
"Hello, Eren Yeager."
Eren gasped as he heard a masculine voice, then looked forward and spotted an overweight man named Rod Reiss, who sat in a wooden chair and stared at him from across the cell bars. 'Who is that? What's going on? And why am I here?' Eren thought, then shook his head no while muffling.
"Oh, how rude of me." Rod Reiss opened the cell door, approached Eren, who's restrained by chains and removed the white handkerchief from around his mouth.
Eren started coughing two seconds after Rod Reiss removed the white handkerchief.
"Can you breathe, Eren?" Rod Reiss asked.
Eren ignored Rod Reiss' question. "W-where am I?"
"You are currently within cellar. I am not going to tell you, where, though. But you can believe that you are no longer in Shiganshina." Rod Reiss answered.
"Why am I here? Did I do something wrong?" Eren asked in a worried concern.
"No, you didn't. But, someone you may know... did." Rod Reiss then pulled out a paper. On the paper is a sketch of a masculine man with a dark brown hair bun and emerald green eyes and flashed it in front of the adolescent Eren Yeager.
Eren's eyes widened as he gasped. 'Wait a second! I... think I saw that person, before.' Within his mind, Eren gained a brief flashback of when the Survey Corps were leaving the walls. He did spot a man with a dark brown man bun for a brief moment. He saw his older counterpart take place a green hood over his head.
"Given by your reaction, you must have seen this man, before." Rod Reiss said as he stared at Eren's face. "Tell me, Eren. Do you know who this man is?"
Eren stared at the sketch and slowly shook his head no towards Rod Reiss. "No. I don't know him."
Rod Reiss blinked. He could tell that the Eren before him has no clue of his future counterpart. "I see. Let me tell you. This man, right here... kidnapped my daughter and destroyed my family." Rod Reiss pointed directly at Adult Eren's face on the sketch. "This man on this sketch... kidnapped my daughter. Tainted her with lies and deception. And lead her astray from my family. He is a devil. And his name... is also named Eren Yeager. " Rod Reiss saw Eren pause in place and his green eyes froze in place.
"What?" Eren mumbled.
"That's right. This man is you. He is what you will become in the future." Rod Reiss pointed at Eren.
Eren suddenly went into a state of shock. 'What? You're telling me... that strange guy I saw back in Shiganshina... is me? And that man-no, wait... I kidnapped this guy's daughter? What's happening? And why would I do that?' Eren questioned.
Rod Reiss can see the confusion in his green eyes. "At this moment, you're probably thinking, "How could I ever kidnap this man's daughter? Simple. It's just like when you tracked down and killed those human traffickers a year ago."
Eren gasped, then thought of those three human traffickers and how he killed two of them with a knife. 'Is he talking about those three guys who tried to kidnap Mikasa?' "How did you know about that?"
"I have sources." Rod Reiss simply answered.
Flashback
In the year Eight Forty-Four, Rod Reiss was sitting on his porch reading an article from the newspaper. He read a print, talking about the Ackerman Family being attacked by human traffickers and only the daughter survived. He read a paragraph that a young boy named Eren Yeager found, intervened and kill two of the three human traffickers and saved the girl.
"Intriguing." Rod Reiss said as he was unfazed by the fine newspaper print.
End Flashback
Rod Reiss stood up from his chair and frowned towards Eren. "My daughter, whom was kidnapped by a supposed, older you-has fair skin, long beautiful black hair and bright colored eyes that matches the sky. If anyone saw her complexion, they call her a Goddess. Most men would try to claim her." Rod Reiss said, then
"Your daughter is an adult?" Eren asked.
"Yes. Not that it is any of your concern, though." Rod Reiss then flashed a squared newspaper in front of Eren's face.
Eren looked at some pictures and read the main print. He saw a picture of a feminine woman crowned as Queen of the Walls. He continued reading an article a bit, until he suddenly gasped as a brief memory had entered his mind. A small flashback appeared when Eren and his friends watched a the Survey Corp. leave the walls to go on their expedition. As Eren had gazed upon the Survey Corp. he remembered seeing a woman with pale skin, light blue eyes and long black hair for an instant. Now he sees the same woman in the article of the newspaper. 'Wait, I've seen her, before! She was with...' Eren thought back when the Survey Corp. were leaving the Walls. He remembered seeing a woman that Rod Reiss had described her to be. 'She was part of the Survey Corp. Now suddenly, she's the Queen of the Walls? It says that her name is Frieda... Reiss?' Eren thought as he read Frieda's nae in bold print.
Rod Reiss saw that Eren was staring at Frieda's picture on the article, longer than is supposed to be. That let him him know that Eren had seen Rod's daughter, before. "So, you know my daughter, then?"
"I only saw her, twice. Once was when the Survey Corp. left the walls, then came back. I had no idea that she had became Queen." Eren answered, honestly.
Rod Reiss paused. 'This kid seems like he doesn't know anything...' Rod Reiss removed the article from Eren's face and turned away from him. "My daughter, Frieda was special... She was my first child and the wisest of all my living children."
"L-Living children?" Eren questioned.
"Yes. All of my children are alive, right now." Rod Reiss said as he thought of his children, including his love child, Historia. "My daughter, Frieda possesses a great gift. Unlike many people living within the walls. She also possess a great deal of power and knowledge of the walls and how it came to be."
"Really?" Eren questioned
Rod Reiss paused and temporarily looked to Eren. "Yes. Frieda also knew what was outside of the walls, before the Titans..."
"Wait... you're telling me there people living outside the walls?
"Not that it is any of your concern, but yes."
Eren happily gasped. "That's great!"
"You sound happy."
"I am! I've always wanted to see what outside of the walls were like!" Eren said in a happy tone. "So, there really are places outside the walls?"
Rod temporarily glanced at Eren before turning his head away from him. "My daughter, Frieda also knew of the hatred from beyond the walls."
"Huh?"
"She wanted to protect everyone within the walls from the world and its hatred. She chose to keep the outside world a secret, because she knew how much the world hated us. But now, that, that devil had taken her away," Rod Reiss refers the Adult Eren as the devil. "My precious daughter, Frieda will end up driving this land into chaos and hell."
"What?"
Rod Reiss then walked back towards Eren, keeping a six foot distance. He then took a knee. "How would you like to get out of here?"
Eren gasped as he stared into Rod Reiss' blue eyes. "Yes. I do want to get out of here!"
"Then how about this? If you help me catch this devil and bring my daughter back into the light, I assure you that you will be free to go." Rod Reiss made a bargain.
Eren gasped again. "Really?" he paused for a moment, then thought about someone important. "Wh... where's my mom? And my dad? And Mikasa?" Eren asked, feeling worried.
After hearing Eren's question, Rod Reiss depressingly sighed and looked down towards the ground. "I will be honest with you. I don't know of your father-or this Mikasa, but for your mother..." He remembered what Kenny Ackerman told him. "I'm afraid that she's no longer of this world."
Eren's eyes widened in shock. "I-it can't be... you're lying!"
"I'm afraid not. She tragically died, at the wrong place and at the wrong time." Rod Reiss said, honestly.
'M-mom!' As Eren continued to look horrified, memories of Carla Yeager played in his mind, up until the moment of her death. He remembered Carla denying him of joining the Survey Corp. because she was afraid of losing him. And he also remembered the last moments of her life was Kenny Ackerman attacked. He remembered Carla yelling at them, telling them to run and find help. 'Mom's gone...' His eyes watered a bit in grief and sadness.
Suddenly, another person had walked within inside of a dungeon. And that person was Kenny Ackerman, whom had dressed in his casual attire. He wore black pants, black shoes, a white collared long sleeved shirt, a black vest over his shirt and a black western hat.
"Ay, ay! What's the hold up? Is he awake, yet?" Kenny Ackerman said as he felt annoyed.
"Kenny Ackerman. You're here." Rod Reiss said as he looked at Kenny.
Eren silently gasped as his eyes laid on Kenny Ackerman.
"What's taking so long? Is the kid gonna be working with us or not?" Kenny questioned as he rubbed the back of his head.
"I am working on it, now." Rod Reiss answered.
As Rod Reiss and Kenny Ackerman continued to speak to one another, Eren continued to stare at Kenny Ackerman. As he did, he couldn't help but think of his mother, Carla. He remembered seeing Carla's throat slit, which put him in shock. Now he was angry. Anger was making his blood boil, like a rising temperature on an analog thermometer. He grumbled as his emerald green eyes burned with fire and his teeth clenched really hard.
As Kenny Ackerman continued to argue, one of his eyes spotted Eren glaring at him with his emerald green eyes.
"Oh?" Kenny paused and looked towards Eren.
Rod Reiss turned a round to see Eren giving Kenny Ackerman a death glare. As he stared, he couldn't help remembering Adult Eren Yeager giving him the same exact glare.
'I've seen that glare many times, back in my day.' Kenny Ackerman thought as he stared at an angered Eren. He then looked at the chains on his wrists and ankles, then smiled. "You want a piece of me?"
"You killed my mom, you bastard! I'll make sure that you die where you stand!" Eren roared towards Kenny Ackerman. Orbs of water remained in his burning emerald green eyes.
"Well, go ahead and try it! I'm unarmed! Heh!" Kenny joked as he raised his hands in the air. Then he walked within ten feet of Eren's range.
Eren screamed and tried tried to charge towards Kenny Ackerman. Before he can try and through a right fist towards Kenny, but he is stopped as he felt one of the metal shackles pull on his arm. He grunted as he noticed he couldn't reach Kenny. He then tried to pull the shackle, connected to the wall off. He tried his best to rip one of the shackles connected to his right wrist out of the wall.
"Heh! Look at this kid!" Kenny chuckled as he see Eren trying to free himself by trying to break one of his wrist shackles. "He's trying to free himself by ripping the chains out the walls." He then walked close enough to Eren, grabbed him by the shirt and kneed him in the stomach.
"Oofn!" Eren could feel the sturdy and hard knee in his lower chest. Eren coughed up saliva for a brief moment. Kenny then delivered a punch to Eren's right jaw, causing him to fall face first on the floor. Eren groaned in pain as he then felt a hard kick to his right ribs, like he was a kickball. "Aack!"
Meanwhile, in the capital of Mitras, Mikasa suddenly shot her upper body out of bed and panted. Small orbs of sweat appeared on her face. She looked around the room and placed a hand on her head, developing another headache. 'Eren...'
Meanwhile, Kenny happily stood over a ten year-old Eren, whom was beaten by him, moments ago. Eren was bent on his knees and blood dripped from his nose. He had a few dark bruises upon his face, two pieces of teeth on the ground and some broken ribs.
"You still wanna go, kid?" Kenny asked as he smiled at a beaten Eren.
"Tch!" Eren grunted as he could barely stand. He slowly stood on his feet, despite being in tons of pain. The glare of death that he gave Kenny did not waver as he slowly looked at Kenny.
Kenny saw the same death glare and was unfazed by it. He then kicked Eren hard in the stomach, causing him to collapse on the ground and cough up blood from internal bleeding.
"C'mon, kid. Get up! I'm just getting warmed up." Kenny smirked in front of the beaten boy.
'Come on... work, body, work...! I need... to kill this guy- and... Avenge... ma...' Eren thought of his mom as he tried to get up from the cold ground, but he did not possess enough strength to do so. He struggled to get up off his knees, but end up passing out, due to severe injuries. "Ugh..."
"You giving up, already?" Kenny questioned after watching Eren collapse on the ground.
"That's enough, Kenny." Rod Reiss said, as he started taking pity on Eren. He walked
"What?" Kenny Ackerman glanced at Rod Reiss who was behind him.
"If you continue to torture this boy, you will end up killing him within the next ten minutes." Rod Reiss stated as he walked over towards Eren's bruised and unconscious body.
"Eh, I guess you are right." Kenny shrugged. "That kid was pretty tough, by the way. No kid would ever last this long, the way he did." Kenny had complimented Eren's durability.
Rod Reiss had taken a key from his pocket.
Kenny saw Rod Reiss hold a key. "Hm? What are you doin', now?"
"I am taking him to the infirmary, where he can be treated. My wife has medical knowledge." Rod Reiss stated as he unlocked the shackles of his wrists, then did the same thing to his ankles. "Would you mind helping me?" Rod Reiss asked Kenny with a plain look.
Kenny stared at Rod Reiss for a few seconds. "Fine." He then picked him up and carried Eren's bruised unconscious body over his shoulders. "He better not get blood on my clothes-or else he's losing some fingers."
Kenny Ackerman and Rod Reiss then left the cellar, which was miles away from the underground chapel.
Meanwhile, in Shiganshina, Grisha Yeager was dressed in a black tuxedo, a hat and his fancy glasses. He was currently going throughout his drawers and grabbed whatever useful tool he could find and put it inside of his briefcase. He then walked outside of his house where a red horse carriage was waiting for him. A single horse was pulling the carriage. Grisha remembered to lock the front door, before climbing on top of the carriage.
In the next ten minutes, Grisha was riding towards Wall Sheena. 'Don't worry, Eren. Father's coming to rescue you. Even if I die trying...' Grisha grunted as he pressured the horse to run at high speeds.