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Love is weird, it comes in different shape and forms, love for your parents, love for your friends; love for your significant others…. Love is cruel but beautiful, there are always people ready to love and people ready to give back, but you won’t always get lucky, love is a twisted tale
AHAHAHAHAHAHAH What a cliché beginning, let’s start from the very start of this story… Carla Jaeger heaved as she pushed out a healthy baby boy… SHIT THAT’S TOO EARLY
Let’s fast-forward through the years of tedious childhood, being stalked, I mean Eren being protected by his overprotective adoptive sister Mikasa or Mankasa that girl has some crazy strength Pippi Longstocking eat your heart! His best friend Armin telling him about the ocean sparking his interest in the sciences especially Marine Biology, it had taken a long time but he managed to get into one of the top Marine Research teams in the UK.
That’s where our story begins, Eren Jaeger sat up rubbing the sleep from his eyes, he could hear the sound of the waves lapping up against his beach house, the sea breeze wandering in through the open window, and a passing thought ran through his mind
‘I don’t remember opening the window last night?’ He shrugged ignoring the feeling and the Goosebumps rising on his skin from the chilly morning air.
He walked into the kitchen on a quest for coffee, damn was he craving a cup of delicious, bittersweet and creamy perfection: coffee!!! Cue golden glow and angelic choirs of angels blessing god’s gift to mankind. He drank his cup thinking about how shitty the day was going to be, fucking horseface being his usual self and never quit neighing, I mean talking crap, damn Jean stop horsing around, pun very much intended.
He finished his cup and placed it into the sink gently, no chipping his limited edition Free! Eternal Summer mug! That thing was the holy freaking grail, once he almost dropped it and thanks to a stroke of luck Haru had a miniscule scratch near the hair he was flamboyantly flipping instead of a huge crack that Eren would procrastinate fixing (and when he would have fixed the mug it would probably resemble Frankenstein, if Frankenstein ever became a mug!)
He walked into his bedroom to grab some clothes for the day, there were some really interesting jellyfish that had been spotted a mile from the coast and he wanted to observe and study them. He opened the door only for his jaw to drop in surprise; no Kanye West did not do his Kanye Best and go to Eren’s Kanye Nest. All his drawers where open, his clothes (including that Victoria’s Secret bra Horseface had given him for Christmas last year) were scattered all over the floor which was wet and slippery, covered in some strange substance that he could not recognise.
Then it dawned on him, he had watched enough movies to know what the substance was….
ECTOPLASM!
Eren Jaeger being the strong independent boy he is ran the fuck out of that house screaming his ass off at a pitch that made dogs in a 500 Mile Radius cower in fear as their ears bled.
He forgot to grab his phone…and car keys… and he was in his Spiderman boxers and Pikachu fluffy socks.
‘No comment on the outfit Eren, now strut your stuff into that bloody house it’s not haunted and get some fucking clothes and go look at those Jellyfish before they die out’ ahhhh trust Eren’s mind pep talk Mr Positivity coach to say something reassuring.
He tiptoed his way into his room… poor Pikachu socks they were like slime sponges in that moment. As he inspected his room further he found an outfit that wasn’t covered in slime, when suddenly something caught his eye, something shiny it was lying daintily on his bedroom pillow. He padded over to it softly only to have his breath catch in his throat, it was a beautiful scale, hues of green, blue and grey decorated it. He ran his fingers over it, why did he like it so much? The smooth and soft texture of the scale made him feel safe for some reason “so beautiful….” Eren whispered in a mesmerized tone.
The more he held the scale the more he could hear it, a hypnotic voice, rich and deep carrying a sad and melancholy tale of men lost at sea and storms brewing, he could feel the love being poured into that song, himself humming along swaying as if he was one of the waves, he wanted to join that voice in the ocean, the melody that reached deep into his soul and dragged him towards it.
Suddenly his vision blurred revealing a fuzzy picture of a seemingly calm sea, gentle waves crashing against a rocky cliff, as his vision cleared he caught a glimpse of another flash of light, eerily similar to the way the light reflected off his scale, without thinking he gripped the scale tighter, he felt the urge to move and walked in a trance like motion towards the bottom of the cliff where he saw the flash of that strange scale he became entranced with, suddenly he heard a mocking chuckle behind him he whipped around only to see it again. This time Eren Motherfucking Swaggy Swag Jaeger saw a freaking tail, was he going crazy? Did Jean sneak magic mushrooms into his beloved coffee? He did not see a 5ft tail splash about in the rocky area that surrounded him? What. The. Fuck. “Eren, Ereeeeen, come with me.” The deep voice playful this time called out to him, every nerve in his body said yes but every ounce of common sense (which by the way wasn’t very much!) screamed no. Jaeger the smart intuitive lad we know and love did what the most stupid person would have done, he followed the voice, and he followed it until the sea water reached his waist, then his chest, then his neck. Then his head. He saw more of that beautiful tail, heard more of that enchanting voice as he walked, the salty water stinging his wide eyes, invading his lungs, his grip loosened on the scale, everything hurt, his lungs burned, his body engulfed in invisible flames.
He felt his consciousness slip…
“HOLY SHIT HOLYSHITHOLYFUCKINGCHEESESHITONTOAST!” Eren Jaeger shouted; drenched in cold sweat from the terrifying nightmare he was just victim of.
He panted, it felt so real…. He slumped back into the mattress his breathing eventually evening out and turning into soft snores, what he didn’t notice was the shiny, smooth scale lying next to him on the pillow.