The Guardian's Tale (AOT fanfiction)

-Heaven and Earth-

Silence...it's so beautiful but...it scares me more than anything in this world, it scares me that all the horror I've seen through his eyes will come true all because of me...it scares me that I'll never be able to tell him just how sorry I am, how I wish that the death I had been longing for would come by his hands...it's scary, isn't it ? The Silence that wrapped those cold chains around me. Thinking about it now...it makes me wonder, was any of this real ? Was I ever human or was I simply a puppet to serve under their bloodied hands ? No...Wait...I know...I was nothing but a Monster all this time, yeah...that sounds about right. I was always the Villain in this story.

Voices echoed through the cell but nothing made sense to me as I slipped back into the painful cycle of unconsciousness that had been torturing me for hours, yet felt like nothing compared to the constant crack of the whip against my skin, each a split second after one another and even though I kept begging for them to stop, nothing but warm blood slipped past my lips. Blindness had taken over my left eye and with my weakening attempts at mending my flesh back together, all of my strength had been drained through this insufferable nightmare which some seemed to be taking a sickening pleasure to regardless of how many times they had complained about my lack of screams and begs, my lack of a voice.

Just as I bit down on the metal they had placed in between my teeth in order to prevent me from slicing my tongue open, I felt the chains slipping from my skin and before my body could hit the cold ground which would drain all consciousness from my body, unfamiliar hands grabbed the chain around my neck and dragged me through the hallway, towards my friends' voices. I tried to open both of my eyes yet despite my best efforts, darkness and an almost numbing pain filled the left side of my face as whoever had been carrying my body shut the metal door and almost instantly, I felt something warm trickle down onto my cheek.

"Y-Yuki..." Jean whispered, his voiced mixing in with those of my comrades. "What did they do to you ? P-Pay...They're gonna pay."

However, before I could make out the nonsense spilling out of my friends' mouths, a voice that I recognized as Yelena's faintly filled my ears as a familiar warm jacket found itself draped onto my body, drawing a silent cry of pain from my lips which only accentuated the ongoing torture that Jean's arms desperately tried to stop by cradling me against his chest. From the small bits of conversation I caught coming from outside of the cell, I was able to piece together something that had never made sense in my mind until the last crucial piece came into play, until one of his followers finally got the chance to brag about her pathetic master's plan.

Zeke was planning on eradicating all suffering brought about by Titans with a method he called euthanasia, which would prevent children from being born subjects of Ymir thus peacefully and gradually putting a stop to the race of so called Devils. The Rumbling that would use my own life was to serve as a deterrent as long as the Founding Titan along with one of the two royal blood lines were preserved, meaning that Historia was to be kept alive while my Titan was to be used as the final piece to tie everything together. I don't...want to die like this, I won't let you...

"Their history of tears and bloodshed will be put to an end...by Zeke and Eren." Yelena gushed. "I don't know how long humanity will last but it's hard to think that a greater feat will ever come to pass. People will speak of the brothers as legends for millenia to come, like gods of the past."

As a warm tear rolled down my cheek and mixed in with the blood staining my face, I closed my eye and let myself drift off into the darkness that was unconsciousness, knowing that the time was almost here, the time for me to fight my last war against the man that once taught me how to love. So this is it...the War that only the lucky few will survive ?

..........

Despite the chains weighing on my body and the agonizing pain that was making its way into my muscles faster than ever before, I pushed Eren out of the way just before the roof split open to reveal something too swift for my failing eyesight to catch, something that felt all too familiar to my memory. For what seemed to be a split second, I could feel Eren's fingers brush over my now blind eye before lightning enveloped us both to make way for the Titan I was supposed to fear, the one that used my brother's eyes to see the world, the ones that finally made me realized that this action, as simple as it may have seemed, would be one of my biggest mistakes.

"How did you-" Eren's thoughts resonated through my own. "Nevermind that...hang on."

As his large hand cradled me into the crook of his neck, the sound of the airships we had used to attack Marley filled the sky that was now tainted with black dust, the unspoken signal that our Last War had finally begun and would soon tear our souls one by one may you be a survivor or a ghost from a distant past. Without giving the enemy so much as a single glance, I could feel his eyes burning into my back, the very same eyes that had been haunting me ever since the day we left the god forsaken hell that was the territory outside of the wall, and the blood running down my skin slowly tainted the ground below, reflecting my own eyes filled with regret and terror. 

"My Love."

Reiner...

TO BE CONTINUED !