Attack On Titan 2: New Era

2000 years ago, an incident took place in where humanity fall into the depths of darkness. At that time, humanity was on the verge of extinction. This incident is also titled as 'The Battle of Heaven and Earth'.

Eren Jaeger, who sought revenge on humanity outside the walls, fell into deep darkness. Before Eren could realise of his own mistakes or failures, it was already too late and 'The Rumbling' became inevitable which resulted in annihilation of 80% of the humanity in the world.

However, his plan to annihilate the outside world was shattered into pieces. Eren already knew from the beginning that he couldn't completely exterminate the whole humanity and protect his fellow Eldians. His Attack Titan was capable to foresee the future which made it clear he would fail in the end.

Eren was defeated by his own friends and comrades along with some of his enemies who joined the forces. The conflict was over when Eren died.

However, Eren already knew that Eldians will face the similar terrible fate one day since the humanity was saved. The cycle of revenge would continue between Eldians and the world or even other nations included. In the end, all Eren was able to do was to put an end to the existence of Titans.

Although humanity won against the biggest threat, they never learned their lessons and so once again the cycle of revenge and war began.

Either without Titans or with Titans, the world will remain same and their desires to 'Kill each other'.

However, humanity doesn't know that, a new threat awaits them. The new era of darkness shall soon begin. Once this new threat will emerge, humanity shall face the another terror they may have forgotten.

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———After 2000 years since 'The Battle of Heaven and Earth' incident———

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—Somewhere at Paradis Island—

"Hm?"

A boy, who is venturing around the abandoned island, witnesses a huge tree.

"Woof! Woof!"

The dog named as Archie, besides the boy, began to bark as soon as it saw the huge tree. The boy didn't mind the dog and walked near the tree. The dog also followed behind the boy.

As the boy stared at the tree, a strange sensation ran through the boy.

"..."

But he ignored this sensation as he stared at the cave like path, which seems to be leading somewhere deep inside of this tree.

Not caring about the possibilities of dangers ahead, the boy began walking to enter inside the tree. Archie followed along with boy as well to make sure to protect this boy in case of emergency. Archie seems to be the loyal pet or a friend of this boy.

The boy went inside the tree and walked for about an hour but didn't seemed to reach the dead end or any new path along the way. All he could see was a long straight path which leads to somewhere deep inside this tree.

After few minute more, the boy reached the heart of the tree- the deepest part. This part looked like a huge open area with cave like designs.

"This is..."

The boy's eye locked onto the dark red glowing light, resembling the shape of an insect with small tentacles.

"Woof! Woof!!"

The dog barked at the strange looking creature. Suddenly, the strange looking creature spoke something to the boy.

"Do you wish for power?"

"..."

The boy just stared at the creature and respond with nothing. The strange looking creature spoke once again.

"Those who seek this power, may able to become invincible and do whatever they wish to do with freedom... Power means freedom, you are the choosen one... Hold these powers and no one shall dare to stand in your way. The ultimate freedom will be yours."

The boy began to understand what this creature wanted him to do. However, he couldn't tell whether this creature is speaking the truth or have some hidden intentions. After pondering for a while, the boy nodded as a response.

This boy knew that it might be risky to accept this offer and he may even be end up dead in the worse case scenario but the dark blue eyes of this kid never seemed to show any fear within.

The strange creature immediately rushed through the path, closing distance near the boy as it attempted to devour the boy. But just after 5 seconds, the strange creature vanished suddenly with a small explosion.

The dog barked again and again until it saw that kid again instead of the strange creature who devoured the kid few seconds ago.

The boy got a little confused on what exactly happened here just now. The dog reached the boy as it started to lick his face.

Not understanding what really happened just now, the boy began to move way back outside the tree since there was nothing much to explore anymore inside the tree.

The boy thought that it must be a dream or something. After some time, the boy came out of the tree's hole safely.

Suddenly, a surge of electricity struck inside his brain and the boy could hear some strange voice. But he wasn't able to understand it very well as if the words weren't that audible. The sudden surge of energy stopped.

The kid found himself in a little bit of confusion.

"..."

The boy ignored it and began to walk around for a while with his loyal dog Archie.

After some time later, when the boy came back to where he saw the strange tree, he was a little bit confused on what is happening. He witnessed that the tree he saw earlier was not there anymore.

"....Am I still dreaming?" The boy spoke with a low voice.

The tree he saw, was it just a hallucination or did the tree really vanished? These thoughts emerged within the boy's mind as well.

"..."

The boy ignored it yet again and considered this all a dream. But despite what happened, this boy may not able to ignore this at all.

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To be continued...