(:!!!NOTICE!!!: IF YOU HAVE NOT READ UP TO VOLUME 21 OF THE MANGA, CHANCES ARE NONE OF THIS WILL MAKE SENSE. PLEASE, GO READ THE MANGA UP UNTIL BEFORE EREN ENTERS THE BASEMENT, BECAUSE THIS FANFICTION TRULY BEGINS WHEN THE MAIN CAST DISCOVERS WHAT IS HIDDEN DOWN THERE. ALL EVENTS IN THE MANGA UP UNTIL EREN ENTERS THE BASEMENT HAVE ALREADY OCCURED, THIS FANFICTION PICKS UP AS EREN IS ENTERING THE BASEMENT/READING THE FIRST BOOK, SO PLEASE! GO READ THE MANGA UP UNTIL THAT POINT YOU MIGHT AS WELL LEARN WHAT'S IN THE BASEMENT, BECAUSE IT PLAYS A HUGE PART IN THE LORE AND BACKSTORY OF THIS STORY. Or you could just wait for it to be animated, but that's not going to happen for a long time. However, this begining passage of the fanfiction takes place before the expidition to the basement begins:)

Eren sleepily made his way down the corridors of the barracks toward the mess hall. It was a bright sunny day, and the cool mist of the morning was just beginning to evaporate into the skies. Eren shivered as he made contact with the mist, but he continued through the courtyard and into the main building. The building had a wooden floor, the walls had wooden support beams, but the wall itself was made of sod. This building had three floors, topped off with a tile roof. The smell of musk, polish, and food drifted along the corridors as he made his way down the path he had walked many times. The floors were unusually clean, not a single speck of dust or dirt dared to touch the floor. Chances were that Levi had scrubbed the floors, Eren felt bad then, because it meant Connie would have to redo the fresh coat of paint he just finished yesterday. Eren thought about how Connie would react when he saw the floor that took him two weeks to paint, all ruined again. His train of thought was cut short however, as he almost walked into the wall instead of through the mess hall doors. Eren was still half asleep, so he decided to go eat something to help him wake up. The mess hall was packed with all the other cadets, everyone was chattering away and eating whatever was being served for breakfast. Eren scouted lazily around the room, hoping to find his friends, surely enough, Mikasa and Armin were eating in silence at a table near the far back of the room. Eren made his way over, and pulled out a chair to sit on. 

"You guys sleep okay?" Eren asked

"ehh I slept uneasy. Didn't Erwin say that he had an announcement today? Guess I had trouble sleeping over my curiosity for what it was." Armin replied, letting out a loud yawn

"I slept fine." Mikasa said simply as she continued to eat her food in silence.

"I feel so tired" Eren Admitted "I felt like I got plenty of sleep but...."

"Eren?" Mikasa asked, slightly concerned

"...I woke up screaming in cold sweat... I never felt so on edge in my life...It felt like I died"

"Did you dream about dying?" Armin inquired

"Actually...I can't remember what I was dreaming about." Eren began "It felt like that dream went on forever...but...I don't remember any of it..." Eren struggled to remember and ponder for a few seconds, scratching his head.

"I wouldn't worry about it" Mikasa stated then, "Dreams are just dreams after all" She said with a little smile.

"Yeah I guess so" Eren Agreed

The three of them ate in silence and continued to discuss dreams, just as Armin was in the middle of talking about his ocean dream, Commander Erwin Rang a bell up by the front door and shouted for everyone's attention.

"Attention all Soldiers! We have an important announcement to make! After you finish eating, you are required to go to the main hall, there we will state our current situation! We will not begin until every single one of you is present!" Erwin finished speaking, then walked back outside.

"I wonder what Erwin has to say.." Armin began

"Well, we'll never know until we get there so lets hurry up and eat!" Eren said urgently

The three of them headed over to the main hall, where Erwin was already standing at a podium, ready to give the announcement. They sat down, and waited as the rest of the cadets and soldiers filed in and took their seats.

"As a few of you are aware of..." Erwin began "The recent endeavors of the Scout Regiment have put us in a very good position to make our final push to Singanshina and reach Eren's basement. We will begin this battle in a few months from now, I am notifying you all now so you may all prepare yourselves. I thank all of you for listening, you are all dismissed." Erwin ended his announcement and began to head for the door...this was really happening? This day was finally here? Eren tingled with both excitement and fear, he wanted to know what the hell was going on in this world, and finally get some answers, but at the same time..He had a bad feeling about this, he had no clue why...but something about that dream he had...in the back of his mind, an idea began to take root, his eyes widened, and he felt his blood freeze in his veins. What if....? That wasn't a dream at all? No, it was impossible, he'd be dead....unless....he wasn't seeing that dream through his own eyes, Eren had no clue why his train of thought suddenly focused on the dream...Was his subcouncious trying to warn him? He brushed the thought of as paranoia, and continued to follow his friends out of the hall.

(:!!!NOTICE!!!: From this point onward, the fanfiction picks up from after Eren discovers what is in the basement (basically the flashback to Grisha's childhood with the Marely and the Elidians and the curse of Ymir and whatnot, also the origin of the titans and whatever the frick else you can learn about the Other humans living beyond the walls.:)

Eren placed the book down on the table, he could feel himself shaking, trebling...Mikasa gently shook his shoulder, asking if he was okay, Eren had just learned...that he would die in 8 years, not only that, but people just like him were being turned into titans and sent as weapons to keep the Eldians of Paradis island at bay. This information was too much, he felt like his head was going to explode. H-he was a monster? These people... were the decendants of monsters? He didn't know what to do, what to think. He just stood there....He still had so many questions, and he felt terrified the Marely? Whoever they were, he knew they were the enemy, he just didn't know if he was on the good side or the bad. Did the Eldians almost wipe out humanity? Or did they bring prosperity to all mankind? Eren was very confused, and he felt like tipping over. Eren Flipped through the rest of the books, skimming over the words, He noticed something, A piece of paper, Eren stopped on it, and took it out, It read simply: 

Red, white, blue, green, black, black,red

On the back of the piece of paper, another message was written:

Where the pages of ages are stowed, together in binding forever sown, ink meets paper in stories unknown, the door you seek is open in these ink drenched tomes.

Eren gazed at the poem, thinking it was pure jibberish, but knowing his father, it likely had much more meaning to it. Once Armin recovered from transforming into a titan, he would ask him about it. Mikasa took the piece of paper from Eren's hand, studying it. 

"It sounds like....This piece of paper is talking about a bookshelf." Mikasa said, studying the piece of paper intensely.

"w-what?" Eren stammered, "The bookshelf?" He turned around to face the old bookshelf on the wall, It had books of varying colors all of them various medical and clinical guides, nothing special about them. Levi then snatched the piece of paper from Eren and walked over to the bookshelf, He noticed that while every other book had five or more books of the same color, there were only two red books and two black books while only one book that was either green blue or white. Levi read the back of the paper again, then tried to pull out one of the red books, but it stopped halfway, making a clicking noise, Levi's eyes widened, then he continued to do the same to all the other books mentioned on the paper, in their coresponding order. When he was finished, the bookshelf slid forward a bit, then continued moving to the left, revealing a tunnel. 

"Would you look at that..." Hanji stared in amazement at the hidden tunnel

The four of them glanced at each other, and proceeded down the dark tunnel. The tunnel was only a feet hundred feel long, but was steep enough to almost be a straight drop down. The tunnel lead into another room of the house, a desk was on the left was a desk piled high with notes and books, on the left there was various pottery filled with herbs. The room was small, only about 6 feet high, 5 feet wide, and 10 feet long from the entrance to the back wall..well if the back wall was still there, for instead of the room ending, there was a terrifying sight. A man, his body was turned into some weird blue crystal, surrounded by a pentagram or ritualistic circle of some sort, that seemed to dance and glow all colors of the rainbow, the crystal from the man grew from the bottom of his position, and completely covered what looked like a door of some type on the other side, he looked like he was in agony, he was kneeling on the ground clutching his hands to his chest and looked like he was screaming in pain, but he was completely frozen, his body was no longer made of flesh, but instead, whatever weird blue crystal surrounded him. He looked too realistic to be a statue, it was pretty obvious that whoever this was, he had been turned into pure crystal, whitch killed him instantly. Eren would of been able to tell if he was still alive, something about the frozen person in front of him...just felt....dead. Eren approached the crystalized man, noticing he wore glasses, and some strange sort of tailcoat. Eren Kept his distance, Mikasa tried to touch the body, but as she reached out, trying to avoid stepping on the pentagram, her hand stopped as she reached the barrier of the circle, a sphere that flashed transparently like a bubble briefly showed around the pentagram, revealing a barrier. A barrier made of pure energy. Mikasa stepped back, as the rest of the group stared in awe. It was clear that they couldn't get past the barrier. \

"What now?" Asked Mikasa

"I don't know" Levi said giving a nonechelant shrug, "well, we've got a desk piled high with books and papers, let's see if they have any useful information The four of them rumaged around on the desk, judging by the sheer amount of information on the table, it would take a few months to read all of it. Eren caught sight of a small black square on the back of the desk, Levi, Hanji and Mikasa were still hauling box after box of notes and books, while Eren picked up the black square. It was less than 1 centimeter thick, and roughly three inches long, it had two holes on the side and weird black paper that spun between two wheels.

It felt smooth to the touch, whatever it was made of was very lightweight. Eren saw Mikasa picking up a heavy, strangely shaped box that had a piece of paper taped to it with a picture of the black box on it. 

"Wait!" Eren called after her

"ehh?" Mikasa sounded confused

"I need to use that black box." Eren replies

"What for?" Mikasa asked, very confused

before Eren answered he took the box from her hands and set it back down on the table

He noticed that there was a container where the smaller black box fit perfectly, he opened the compartment, and placed in the smaller black box. Nothing happened. Eren saw the various buttons on the box, and pushed one that was shaped like a sideways triangle. Suddenly the box blazed to life, and from the metal mesh on the sides of the box, a voice began to play. It was a man's voice, it sounded frantic, and very static:

"OH GODS, OH GODS NO, UGH! I-I UH....SOMETHING WENT WRONG! IT ALL WENT WRONG, SOMEONE BROKE THE CIRCUT BREAKER, AND THE POWER WENT OUT, NOW IT'S FREE! WE NEED TO EVACUATE, WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!!....DEAR GODS......THERE'S NO WAY WE CAN CONTAIN THAT-THAT THING! OUR ONLY OPTION IS TO PUT UP A SOUL WARD, OH GODS.....IT'S HERE...IT'S LOOKING AT ME... IF ANYONE FINDS THIS PLEASE! EVACUATE THE ISLAND, AND NO MATTER WHAT NO MATTER ABSOLUTELY WHAT, KEEP THAT WARD UP! please...if someone finds this, anyone... Never EVER EVER break the ward...otherwise IT will get free, oh dear gods.... It found me... PROMISE ME WHOEVER YOU ARE THAT YOU'LL NEVER OPEN IT, NEVER OPEN THIS DOOR, NEVER OPEN THI-"

The audio was cut out by a terrifying scream, followed by a disgusting, squishing noise. The Triangle button popped back up, and Eren just stood in silence. He jsut stared at the black box, as the electric buzzing of the Casset tape came to a halt.