Attack on Titan Fan-Made Ending: The Price of Freedom

Chapter - 1

"Ever Since I was born into this world in front of my eyes. There's always been a depressing wall."

"Burning water, Lands made of ice, Snowy planes of sand"

"The outside world is so much wider than what's inside these walls,"

"Those who seen it in all the world the most free."

"This is Freedom!"

Eren Jaeger smiles spreading his arms witnessing the beauty of his childhood fantasy of the outside world. But that didn't last as he slowly begins to fall, something dragging him down. Eren looks down at the mountain of dead bodies. His comrades trying to pull his body down beckoning him to join. Eren's parents were there too teary-eyed, gazing at him.

At that moment, he was about to let go and closed his eyes. He wanted to end his suffering until he remembered those words. The words that made him keep moving forward.

"Save Mikasa and Armin," Those were his words repeated by his father and eren Kruger.

"Not Yet," He said and suddenly he fell into the endless sand of paths.

"I need to keep moving forward until I-."

He collapsed on the sand and regressed back into his child form. He remembered the memories of Armin talking about the ocean and the plains of sand. He looked around and everywhere there was sand. He wanted to show it to Armin.

"Hey, Armin!" Eren said turning his head back staring at the adult form of Armin.

"Eren," Armin looked at the childlike state of eren. He approached him and child eren offered him his hand. He took it and eren walked through the memories and reached to the moment they met.

"They used to call you a heretic," Eren said now clearly his mind back to his adult state although his body is still in the child form. Armin turned his head to look at eren.

"I always found people boring as if they were nothing more than cattle content with their lives,"

"Among them there was you. You were weak and yet stronger than any one of them. I was curious about you,"

They both peered at the moment where they met for the first time. Armin was sitting on the muddy ground with tears in his eyes.

"You fine with losing forever?" Eren says and Armin sniffs

"You are wrong," He replies and continues

"I didn't lose as I didn't run,"

"Frankly when I met you that moment. I thought of you as my equal, I finally found someone who wanted to see what is beyond the wall,"

"No not just equal, I thought of you as better than me, but you didn't believe it. You always questioned your capability. But in the end, you were always the hero while I filled my heart with vengeance."

"Ere-"

"There is more to tell to do that we need to go all the way back."

The location shifts to a village back in 2000 years ago. Armin looked around with curiosity. A small slave girl clumsily lifted a bucket full of water.

"That little girl is founder Ymir, I bet Zeke already told you quite a bit about her. But I'll just show you instead. The moment all it began."

Young Ymir gazed at the bird flying in the sky spreading its beautiful wings. They watched her freeing the pigs.

" Looking at bird made Ymir gave birth to forbidden desire. A desire the attack titan shifters share. A desire that made her free the pigs. All the nine titan shifters share some qualities of Ymir." He turned his head to Armin and looked at him with a serious look.