The Guardian's Tale (AOT fanfiction)

-Sole Salvation-

Not even Monsters are created equal. One step out of line and the voice that had saved so many will fade into complete silence until it eventually drives you crazy, until it kills the survivors.

The darkness I had so desperately tried to fight was finally digging its claws into my skin as cold chains wrapped around my body, like a snake slowly draining the life from its prey only this time it was slowly taking away the last fragments of hope I still held on to. Just as my eyes fluttered open so that I could finally escape from the nightmare that had been playing on loop in my mind, the bricks that had been causing drops of blood to run down my back slowly faded as familiar arms pulled me into a tight embrace. 

"You're alright !" Jean cried out. "Don't ever scare me like that again you idiot ! When you got in, Mikasa and Armin said you weren't breathing I...I could've lost you."

Expecting my voice to slip past my lips, I tried to reassure him that everything was alright, but nothing filled my ears apart from the deafening silence filling the freezing metal cell as nothing but a small exhale left my lips. This can't be real...Why would he do this ?  The painful realization that I had been betrayed by the person who held my hope within him shattered the final pieces of my grasp on freedom and heavy yet meaningless tears dripped onto stone below.

"What's wrong ?" Jean gently whispered. "Hey...talk to me. Why...why won't you say anything ?"

With no way left of reaching him, I simply buried my face in his chest in an attempt to escape the reality of what was to happen, the destruction and hell I had seen through his eyes, the assured death of everyone I had ever loved in this world and my fate to watch helplessly. The restrains pinning me to the wall were nothing compared to the ones tying me to silence and servitude, to the ones that were slowly dragging me away from my friends and from the freedom we had all fought so hard for. 

"He sliced her vocal chords." Armin suddenly chimed in. "Their skin came in contact with each other and she must have seen something that he didn't like so...he took away her voice."

"She's a Titan shifter..." Jean pointed out in a trembling voice. "She can heal...right ?"

"Yes but not complicated systems." Armin calmly explained. "Her vocal chords are a system far too complex for her to heal since her abilities differ from the rest of us."

Yet another heavy silence filled the cell and just as Jean's hand softly brushed through my hair in an attempt to reassure me, a hand snuck through the metal bars, ripping him away from me right before a large wave of freezing water crashed against my body. The temperature change sent an agonizing pain through my body as I coughed and gasped for air, trying desperately to break out of the metal chain that restrained my neck to the wall.

"Hey !" Jean yelled, struggling against the guard. "What the hell ?!"

"You should know firsthand..." Floch grinned. "She's a monster, we can't afford her killing more people than she already has, now can we ?"

Still trying to reel as much air as I could into my lungs, I started panicking and tried to break out of the chains restraining my body before what seemed to be a whip cracked against my skin and sunk into my flesh, drawing a sharp breath from my lips. My glassy eyes now clouded with pain and shock, I looked up only to see Floch holding the very weapon dripping with my own blood, his face reflecting pure bloodlust as the guards forced my friends out of the cell.

"I've been waiting to see you this weak." He taunted. "Now you can't even scream."

...........

My blood slowly dripped down onto the crimson puddle on the floor as I held on to the last bits of conscience left in my body despite barely being able to focus on anything other than the pain coursing through my body, the indescribable pain I have had to stay awake through for what felt to be 3 hours. As my vision started to blur the world into a unrecognizable chaos of colors, the whip sliced through the air one more but just as I prepared myself for the impact, it never came, instead, a soft hand cupped my bloodied cheek.

"I think she's had enough Floch." Eren firmly spoke up. "She won't be able to transform."

Unable to move so much as a single muscle and utterly exhausted, I was about to slip away from consciousness when all of a sudden, he slid off his jacket and gently placed it over my lacerated body before placing a soft kiss onto my forehead. As the world around me slowly faded to black, I could hear my friends' screams piecing through my ears, followed by the soft words I had wanted to hear for so long, yet that had lost all meaning after the blood I had shed for him.

"Forgive me...little sister."

TO BE CONTINUED !

(A/N : Am I crying ? No. Am I lying ? Yes. Was Zeke's backstory sad ? Most definetly. Do I hate Grisha more that I already did ? Absoluely yes.) ANYWAY DON'T FORGET TO DRINK LOTS OF WATER, EAT, GET LOTS OF REST AND PLEASE COME TO ME IF YOU NEED HELP, I MAY NOT BE A PROFESSIONAL BUT I CAN TRY TO HELP !