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There are screams of agony, bodies of soldiers being devoured and their blood seeping through the jaws of humanoid giants. The sparking of wires and the sound of flesh being cut surrounded and engulfed my senses. The people around me were all quickly being slaughtered right in front of my eyes.
I couldn’t move. No matter how much I wanted to save them or at least help. I was frozen to that one spot, not even able to get my fingers to move from their clenched form at my sides.
I saw soldiers that I swore I have never seen before, but felt like I spent eternity fighting alongside, die before me. I screamed at my own mind, telling myself to move. Move, you idiot and fight!
A flash of green invades my vision. A mantle seeming to fit a small but agile figure shoots past me. A pair of wings are displayed clearly on the back of it.
The figure suddenly stops. When the figure turns my way he stares at me with a harsh gaze. I am immediately hit with an overwhelming sense of familiarity. It leaves me short of breath and my heart beating erratically. Short stature, raven black hair styled into an undercut, and a very familiar pair of steel gray eyes.
“ What are you doing just standing there, soldier!? ”
I didn’t know. I didn’t even know how I got here. I opened my mouth to try to tell him this but nothing came out. No matter how hard I pushed for something to come out, it was useless.
"What the hell are you doing boy? You’re gonna get us all kil-”
The small man’s words are cut off.
H-He was gone. Not even his eyes were left. Eyes that surely would have shown no sign of life. Only lifeless empty orbs.
Blood. Blood was all I could see as half of the man’s body fell to the floor in front of me. Buckled knees and then, thump. The other half being carried and swallowed by one of those hideous monsters.
“No! NO NO NO!” I had no idea why I screamed or why a stream of angry tears and pain flooded my very being. I didn’t know him, so why was I in complete agony over a stranger?
I fell to the floor and stared at the dismembered corpse in front of me in horror, a force no longer keeping me in place.
The next thing I knew, a searing hot pain erupted throughout my back. Both of my shoulder blades on fire and the feeling of my skin ripping apart.
I screamed for the pain to stop. I tore at my back with as far as my hands could reach. Blood coated both of my hands.
The pain wouldn’t go away. It was as if someone was painting my body with the worst pain imaginable. Traces of heat traveled over my back as if forming something.
I screamed for it to end! To stop its constant over bearing pain. My body shook and sweat dripped off of me like I had just come out of a rainstorm. The door to my room was slammed open and three figures were rushing to my side.
My sister, father and mother gathered around my bed asking questions right and left. I was still panting and shivering. Some of the pain still remained from the nightmare. It felt so real; the pain felt so real.
“Eren! What happened? Are you okay? You’re not hurt anywhere are you!?” My sister Mikasa was the first one to coddle me like I was still a child. She pulled back a piece of stray black hair behind her ear, and examined me closely, her face not showing a hint of worry but her grey eyes giving her away. She put a hand on my forehead to check my temperature.
“I’m fine Mikasa. It was just a nightmare, no need to coddle me. I’m not a little kid.” I huffed with a bit of irritation, but I didn’t mind too much really. Not like I would tell anyone that, but still.
“ No Eren, this is serious.” My father Grisha stated, his eyebrows furrowed in great concern.
“Your father is right Eren.” My mother Carla agreed with my father. Her golden brown eyes were filled with worry and her hair that she usually tied to the side was messily put together. She must have forgotten to untie it before she had gone to bed.
“Grisha, isn’t this what happened to Mikasa as well?” Grisha ponders it for a moment and suddenly motions for Eren to come over to him.
I steadily get up from the sweat soaked spot on my bed and head over to them. My father checks all visible skin such as my hands, arms, my chest and then finally my back. Apparently there’s something on my back, because I can hear both of my parents gasping in surprise or horror. I can’t really tell.
“Oh Grisha this is amazing! It’s so beautiful!”My mother comments excitedly. “It’s about time son!” He claps a hand on to my bare skin and causes me to almost fall.
What the hell? I wake up screaming, and shivering like a leaf and all my parents do is smile and laugh it off? Am I missing something, or am I as dense as everyone says I am? Which I’m not! At least I don’t think so…
“What the hell!? Am I missing something? Or are you both just really, really bad parents?” At this both of my parents laugh while Mikasa just looks between me and my parents. She seems as excited as both of them, and that says something.
“Honey, you’ve finally found your Soul Mark!”