AN: Rewrote the whole chapter

Chapter 1: the Last Path

Sound of the earth's rumbling echoed around the island of paradis as hundred thousands or millions of approximately sixty metered giants laid waste on the planet. Progressing forward nothing escaped from the giants' path but the ground. All structural establishments and humans alike were heavily pounded to the ground all kissing the dirt.

Eren Yeager along with his half-brother from his father's side Zeke Yeager stood at the middle of all the destruction and death existing around them. Both men stood as they spectates the shadows of the giants' one sided onslaught.

"Eren is this what you've been planning all along?" Zeke asked towards his brother who stood in front of him, his dark long hair swaying from the impacts made by the giants' steps despite with the long distance.

He waited for an answer from his brother yet none came out from his mouth, infuriated he rushes through his brother grabbing his shoulder forcing him to look at his direction and tightly grabbed his brother's collar "Answer me!" He yelled right to his brother's face.

Despite his older brother's outburst and grabbing his collar tightly Eren's expression remained unchanged. Despite the deaths of his loved ones, comrades and friends alike that could possibly bade by his hand Eren remained stoic still possessing the unreadable expression he wore since he regained all of the memories of his powers from past to future.

"Brother… please… answer me…" Zeke pleaded his voice wavering as tears started to fall from his eyes along with his precious glasses he always wore.

"…Xavier-san…" he sobbed continuously his hand slowly letting go of Eren's collar.

"I thought we were the same Eren, I thought that you and I shared the same dream… to save eldia" his eyebrows furrowed glaring at his brother's lone figure.

"… and yet you killed everyone… along with your so called comrades…" he continued.

"Is this the freedom you've sought Eren?"

"I do feel free right now" Eren answered with a monotone voice, Zeke surely knew he saw a glimpse of his brother's shift in expression a rather a pleasant emotion that he hasn't saw until now.

"Is this freedom really worth it?" Zeke asked regaining his composure.

"I do feel something is lacking as if it left a gaping hole in my heart" His brother answered his voice still carrying the same tone as earlier as he touches his chest and holding the fabric before letting it go as he looks up at the blue sky.

Picking up his fallen glasses Zeke cleaned it up before wearing it again despite the irritating cracks that is a nuisance to his eyes. He maintained his composure knowing that violence won't bring back his dream and Xavier's looking at Eren straight and observing him "So what now?" He asked causing his brother to look back at him.

"hmmmmm… maybe I could do it" Eren mumbled as cupped his chin his voice still enough for Zeke to hear.

"Do what?" he asked with curiosity and despite the hopelessness and grief Zeke felt a slight of hope from Eren's words no matter how unrecoverable their situation is.

"I won't tell you though" Eren bluntly answered which struck Zeke upsetting him at the process.

"I do have an Idea to avoid all of this" Now this caught Zeke's curiosity, still he's not an idiot who'll dance around from his brother's palm.

"Tell me how and I'll believe you" he asked with seriousness on his tone. Eren doesn't want to share his information still if he really did manage to do it even if Zeke knew what his powers are it won't give him any merits.

"You don't know the abilities of the Attack Titan am I correct?" Eren asked seeing his older brother nod as a response.

"The holder of this titan has the ability of foresight" the statement of his brother caused Zeke's eyebrow to rise up.

"Meaning the ability to see the future?" Eren clarified he can tell his brother's stilling curiosity base on his eyes despite him covering it with his damaged glasses.

"If the past me saw all of this he might try the other ways, take the other decisions I didn't chose"

Not content on his brother's answer he asked "How does that help us change our current situation, the past was already embedded and look at us now!"

"My memories right now can affect my past self and also the previous holders of the attack titan's decisions and with that maybe we can change this outcome" Knowing that his answer is not enough to convince his older brother he added "but maybe if not just influencing my past what if I brought my past self my whole current memories"

"Are you speaking of time travel?" Zeke fully caught on.

"Ah, yes theoretically maybe…" Another vague answer he received.

"Then why didn't you do it more earlier and maybe avoid all of this" Zeke questioned something is telling him that his brother has another motive in mind just like what he did earlier before the rumbling happened. The fact that his brother in a sense stabbed him in the back by not going along with his eldia euthanasia plan is also the reason of his distrust to his brother's new plan.

"Well I can't tell you" Eren answered as he scratches his cheeks causin Zeke to doubt him even more.

"And how do you propose?" Zeke asked knowing that the conversation is heading nowhere.

"I could also send you back in the past if I make contact with you giving you your current memories to your past self only if I managed to successfully travel to the past" The answer might sound ridiculous but now that he has seen some miracles the paths can do Zeke found Eren's answer as plausible. Now that he knows that Zeke felt the temptation to go along with his brother's near to impossible plan.

'It's too good to be true' he thought.

"I'll give you the benefit of the doubt" Eren added along with his unreadable expression making it for Zeke difficult to read his hidden motives.

Although the time he hasn't spent much time with his brother all this time with him made him grasp a little of his brother's real character he could only describe him as a monster even more than he himself and his country.

Still inside of him he hoped that maybe this time he'll do it and save eldia, avoid more bloodshed and minimize it, there is a chance now and after all it is better than what he have right now who has nothing left but a brother he couldn't trust completely.

Reluctantly he threw all his inner conflict aside and accepted his brother's absurd of a plan.

"Where do we start?" Zeke asked now walking nearer towards Eren shifting his glasses as he walks.

"By this" Eren glanced at his right hand whom he raised slowly "with a shake hand" he continued.

Kind of ironic to Zeke to him it looked like shaking hands with his brother signifies as a truce accepting all good and bad on both sides. With a beat he raised his left and shook his brother's right hand.

At the time they made direct contact a jolt of electricity formed between their hands and swallowing them whole sending them to the realm of what Zeke called paths.

Arriving at the area both Eren and Zeke met the ragged girl whom Zeke called to be Ymir Fritz the progenitor of the titans. Eren was the one to walk up first followed by Zeke who kept glancing at his brothers back.

"It's your decision…" Eren stated with his usual monotone voice.

"… brother" Zeke heard lastly from Eren before closing his eyes diving to his thoughts more deeply than ever also thinking of his brother's hidden agenda before casting it aside completely, opening his eyes now filled with resolution…

He roared.

A roar full of entrusted wish and hope.

After roaring out his order the girl Ymir set off walking towards the blinding tree of light and upon being engulfed fully by the light Eren slowly dispersed to a light green dusts floating towards the realm's aurora. Zeke's eyes tracked Eren's glowing dust in the aurora following it until it was swept out to his sight completely.

"You better not lie this time… brother"

-x-

What Eren first felt upon returning from the paths was huge amount of dizziness as if his brain is a jumbled mess right now from memory overload accompanied by the loud ringing on his ears making him screech from pain despite of all he'd came through. Recovering himself he saw his dad's glasses which he was holding earlier before he arrived from the paths.

Looking around the place was a very dark forest and from his nose he noticed a scent of a titan corpse lying around near him. Scoping the area images of him being injected with the titan serum from his father flashes in his mind.

"Ah" Eren finally realized as he felt up his head still recovering from the memory overload.

It was the day of the fall of Wall Maria and the very same day his mother Carla Yeager was devoured by Dina's pure titan form.

As slowly as he recovers from the memory overload, Eren recollected on what he needed to do first and slowly walks out from the forest only to accidentally tripping himself from a hand the only thing that remains on his father's corpse.

As clumsily as he gets up still unused at his new body and memory overload Eren took off knowing of the approaching figure of Keith Shadis his father's friend and also the head instructor back when he was still on his trainee day or he's about to…

When Keith arrived at the place where Eren first woke up from his time travel, Keith only saw the corpse of a titan and a person's left hand which he assumed to be the remains of the whole body. He later discovered the identity of the left hand from the wedding ring the hand wore much to his distress was Grisha Yeager.

Knowing that Grisha Yeager was devoured by a titan inside the walls he decided to search for his son Eren Yeager which was accompanied earlier by Grisha based on what he remembered lastly from his late friend.

He called out some soldiers that were still active on the day to search for Eren but found nothing even the child's belongings. If Grisha was eaten by a titan then… as painful as it was like learning the death of Carla Yeager he deduced that the boy was also devoured by the same titan that ate Grisha.

About the titan corpse Keith wondered on how it was killed clearly there was a titan corpse when he found Grisha's remains.

In the next morning words that a titan was able to reach through Wall Rose and devoured both father and son who first saw it swam through every survivors of the titan invasion in Wall Maria. Despair creep through their minds from the thought of having a single titan sneaking through the walls and thanking gods that the titan that managed to sneak through Wall Rose were killed before even more people die from it's grasp.

Mikasa Ackerman is the adopted sister of Eren's, the Yeager family adopted her after Eren killed Mikasa's abductors and also the one responsible for her parents' death, since then she were often seen beside Eren wherever he goes.

When she first woke up the first one that struck to her mind was Eren and because he's the only one family left she got up immediately from the solid ground she slept on earlier and started searching for Eren's whereabouts. She first searched in the line of crowd only to be met up with the depressed form of Armin.

Armin Arlert is the sole childhood friend and a very close one to Eren and Mikasa he too grew up with them in the Shiganshina district one of the outer districts of the fallen Wall Maria. He survived alongside with his grandfather. When he first woke up before Mikasa he first noticed the disappearance of his close friend Eren and tried to search for him without bothering waking Mikasa up as he wanted to let her rest, Armin searched for Eren knowing of his habits to venture out before meeting his grandfather and giving him a dread news regarding about his friend and his father, reminding him how harsh reality always was.

"Where's Eren?" Mikasa asked with a clear worried tone on her voice.

Much to his despair Armin managed to grab a hold of himself telling Mikasa about the death of his closest friend alongside with his father and like he expected from her Mikasa didn't believe him first and continued her search for Eren only for her to be swallowed by the harsh reality later that day.

-Hours earlier -

With his Titan form and experience on how to use it Eren managed to reach the docks in a matter of hours. He found it difficult at first near the walls because of the flooding amount of titans inside Wall Maria but managed to pass them otherwise.

Thinking about his future movements Eren decided to venture towards Marley and fulfill his promise he made with Zeke. He knew that alone he can't take on the warhammer titan alone which was the first to came out from his mind and that it would be best to amass his powers first before returning inland.

The idea on staying in the island and approaching Historia as he waits for Zeke almost stopped him on his tracks but disregarded it anyway as he prefer to start connections with the other people outside paradis. To create and set up a way to destroy Marley's propaganda against the eldians.

Arriving at the docks he prepares a hideout knowing that ships from marley often visits the island to send eldians to turn them into a mindless titan, he found it as a way for him to sneak his way in to Marley. Surveying the whole area he found a good spot as a hideout to wait and prepares himself from a sturdy path ahead.

Chapter End

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