𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍; 𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍

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Eren swiftly drew his dagger when the burly man charged toward him. With a swift and precise motion, the blade found its mark in the man's neck, prompting screams and frantic struggles. As he forcefully pushed the man to the ground, Eren clenched his teeth, scanning the room's shocked onlookers. The working women and various patrons stood in silence as the burly man, now gurgling and bleeding profusely, attempted a response.

"Damn it..."

"Is this your way, Prince? Executing those who defy you?! I hope you suffer for this!"

"FOOL WAS WARNED, DAMN YOU... DIDN'T I?! But the fool chose not to heed it!" Eren stood amidst the tense silence, his chest heaving with anger and frustration. The room felt heavy with accusation, the accusing eyes boring into him. His fingers tightened around the hilt of the dagger, his mind battling regret and justification.

The burly man's breaths became shallower, his once-intimidating frame now slumping against the floor. Eren's gaze shifted from the fallen figure to the gathered crowd, his jaw clenched.

A man suddenly screamed bloody murder and the fight was on. Women were screaming and crying. Patrons were fighting amongst themselves as Eren and Zeke fought it out with the hoodlums that started such an altercation. Levi was occupied by the drunks pouring in through the door, Eren and Zeke pointed their attention toward the women.

"ZEKE AID THE WOMEN TO SAFETY!" Eren yelled in brute anger as Zeke kicked men down trying to usher women out by the back door as quickly as he could all the while keeping the drunken men at bay.

"Dammit! This wasn't supposed to happen tonight." Eren clenched his sword and looked straight towards a man who was rushing his way. With a single slash of his sword, he watched his head tumble to the floor. The vessels in his eyes popped causing an eye to bleed.

Chaos is what ensued.

"It's funny really..." Eren looked over at you with a smile, for a moment he was confused. Sitting in a meadow with you by his side, he couldn't understand it, but the feeling was calm... was it even real?

"What's funny my dear? Our classes? well, things like that can surely be fixed-"

"Oh no... not that... although what you really should do is..." You giggled and looked over at him, you held his face and smiled, brushing your lips against his. "Kill them all." Eren eyes blinked wildly as he was brought back to his senses and looked around the brothel. Time felt like it slowed as Zeke began helping the women the best he could. Eren smirked, his bloodied eye twitching as he raised his sword in the air wavering it around the drunken men's gazes, and began to slash one by one.

Women screamed.

Men dropped like flies.

Eren rushed toward a man who wielded a butcher knife and stabbed his sword cleanly through his chest and watched as blood trickled down the blade, yet all Eren could was smile as he watched the man who spoke first against him slowly but surely lose the precious life he ever so kept.

Crimson gushed from between his lips. Eren watched the man fall to the floor amid the chaos and looked over to men rushing him with blades. Readying his sword he charged. Slicing his sword down he watched as each of their necks gashed by their hands as blood poured from their open wounds sending them scattering for the floor where they met their deaths.

Like many of the other women apart of the brothel the old woman, overseer of the brothel met an untimely end as a ruffian amongst the unruly patrons took it upon himself to rip that poor old woman apart... and no one amidst all the chaos could even dare stop him. Why would they? As her blood spilled onto the wooden creaking floorboards, her throat slashed open as if she were a wild animal.

Eren jumped onto the counter and began to kick down mugs of ale onto the floor and watched as it mixed in with the bloody wooden floorboards and dodged blades that came brandishing at him. He kicked and punched his way over to a woman who was kneeling in the corner horrified and scared.

"FLEE NOW." He yelled in anger as the woman rushed away, slamming his sword cleanly through another man's skull he watched as the man's eyes rolled to the back of his and his knees buckled almost simultaneously. Dodging through the crowds of blood-soaked men, the smell of liquor pungent in the air. His breath was stifled as he stood amidst all this and glanced toward his fingernails, stained with blood and riddled with muck. "Tsk... peasant blood..."

Zeke shoved his thumbs into the eyes of a random patron and slammed him onto the floor. He was pressing further and further. The blonde man gritted his teeth with rage and watched as blood dribbled from the man's sockets as he cried out for mercy.

"Even in a bloodbath you damn bastards will always try to take advantage of a scared woman," he stated and placed his foot down onto the man's neck. Sweat dribbled down his pecs as he breathed heavily. "I find it pathetic," and snapped his neck hearing the loud crunch it made under his foot. He was met with silence and did not overthink his actions all that much. Not a single second thought. He looked over at his brother who stared at his bloodied hands as the two made eye contact with one another, with a single nod Eren went back to finding his blade colliding with every other blade that dared defy his brutish wrath. Zeke on the other hand knelt to the scared woman with a smile and stood her up.

"My dear... are you alright?!" He clutched her shoulders as she watched her stammer out words until he watched her body go limp and splatters of crimson hit him across his face and chest. The woman's grip on his shoulder loosened watching her slim fingers ungrasp ever so softly and slump to her sides. An axe was slammed into her head. He watched in horror as chunks of skull and brain dropped to the floor as he moved his gaze toward the frantic man who backed away from the mess he created. "You fool..."

"Oh christ... oh god... lord forgive me... forgive me god oh god." Zeke gritted his teeth and ripped the axe out of her head and without a second thought his rage overtook him.

Zeke could only chuckle toward the foolish man, "Tell the devil I said hello." He grasped the handle of the axe and slammed the blade into the man's neck causing a bloody gash. He was by far already dead, but Zeke continued to swing and swing and swing. His anger boiled up inside him until he finally watched the man's head tumble to the floor and make contact with the woman's blood that riddled the floor.

Heads being pummeled, throats being slashed. Men screaming. Women crying. It was a horrid sight... until finally, the buzz had died down as Eren heavily breathed in another mess he created. Zeke and Levi panted at the doorway as some men fled while others lay bleeding out on the floor. Zeke made his way over to Eren and grabbed him by his collar still holding the axe that killed far too many. His breath was hot and heavy as he eyed Eren's demeanor.

"Eren... Eren. We must leave. There is nothing else we can do..."

"I wonder how many of these men had wives..." Zeke gritted his teeth and pulled his brother along. Their feet stepped and tripped on the lifeless bodies. "I wonder how many children will grow up without fathers tonight."

"Eren. IF that were the case these foolish men had NO RIGHT AT A BROTHEL, AND YOU KNOW IT."

"Neither did we..." Eren spoke in a whisper. "What have we done..." Zeke breathed heavily as he saw a few brothel women flee he sighed in relief.

"Father will hear about this im sure of it."

"We were sent to... create a message not to go against the crown." Eren eyes twitched as he dug his fingers into the flesh of his face. "Is this what father wanted? Bloodshed?"

"Deserved bloodshed." Levi spoke up as he pinched the bridge of his nose and began cleaning his sword with his sleeves. "Filthy, disease ridden men the lot of em. If this isn't a warning then I do not know what will be."

"What will Venus think of me when word hits the castle..." Zeke quickly looked over to Eren as he watched his brother stare at his bloodied hands. "How will I face her... and tell her the awful deeds I have done tonight."

"It was an act of self defense."

"Self defense?" Eren chuckled as he knelt on the wooden floor and ran his fingers along the bloody puddles. "I suppose thats one way of putting it."

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