Eren was shock of the information but did not continue being shock, when he regain his strength, he stood up and held the child by his neck. " Bastard. "

But the child only laugh, he didn't seem affected. "Yeah, a bastard am I?"

The blood tree glowed.

" Eren!!" He heard his name being called so he looks at the door and there she was, Mikasa was panting. She looks bathered, exhausted and in pain.
" 'Ren!"

"Mikasa!" He calls, he look horrified. " Get away from here!"

" Oh, I didn't know you were alive!" The child in the mirror suddenly spoke, he look innocent but she knew better than to be enchanted by him. His voice is cheerful but it sounds annoying. " How have you been?"

" Who are you?" Mikasa ask the child.

" Me? I'm Zeke," Then he look at her from head to toe. " You look so funny, are you in pain?"

There is something in his eyes that made her feel so sick.

" You!! –" she thinks, " You are the bastard who trick him into forming a contract with you."

"Why," He narrowed his eyes,
" You're so smart." He giggles, a wave of heavy air plunges straight to her, like tiny ice spikes prickling her skin.
"Unlike this man."  He sounded impressed but his expression resembled anger more.

Eren had sensed it, after all, they were connected, so even if he was struggling as his knees feel too weak, he managed to stand up, his eyes bleeding in pain.
" Mikasa," He calls. " Please… run away."

"Eren," she looks at him, scarred, her knees were shaking and he could tell. "I can't leave you alone."

"Do me a favour Mikasa, leave. Leave with my mother!"

"E–"

".. if you truky loves me then do it. " He see her bit her lower lip, hesitant but she still does what he tells her and after she was gone, he glares at the child infront of him. " You bastard! "

" I see, you're a gentleman. " Annoyed, he kills once again, this time wiping out the Ackerman family, laughing as he felt their energy evaporate.

" I swear I'll kill you! " Eren shouts angrily, after feeling their life forms fade away.

"You can't –" before Zeke finished his sentence, his head flew though unable to kill him and he laughs as Eren runs.

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Run Run. Run, all he did was to run until he was exhausted. He was mentally and physically exhausted but he was still thinking of what he shall do to save his dying land. He was the reason for it's downfall and therefore must also be the one to solve it but he couldn't think of anything and infront of him, his people calls for him, hoping to be saved but he could not do anything. He is powerless. The usually britght red moon that usually resemble fervor and love now resembles pain and death for the vampires, as the only known blood tree in existence begin to wither and die. He found Mikasa near the tree, exhausted.

" Mikasa." He calls, pitying his wife, who in this life is still a human being. Their supposed to be happy day turns to a nightmare. Their reunion an ugly memory. Mikasa looks up to him, tears sliding from her eyes and it hurts him. If hurts him so badly, if only there is a way to transfer all her pain to hi, he would.

"Eren." She called, she is obviously weakened. " I can't do anything." She desperately tells him. She wounded her arm, trying to feed the tree with her blood, she figured it could also work but it just withers more and more. She is becoming furious. Watching her, he could feel the essence of the old Mikasa in her, the same courageous Queen who will do anything for her people. She was broken and he blamed himself for bringing him here.

" The mother Queen, where is she?"

" She's dead, I don't know. She suddenly died, even Sasha… Eren all of them are dying, I don't know what to do. " Her eyes are wide, they were shaking as he look at them, and dulled, gone was the light he usually see on those pretty eyes of hers. His heart tightens, as if being squeezed.

" Mikasa. " He quietly calls. He needs to be strong, for her, for himself, from all of them. There are still vampires remaining in the area, coughing their bloods and panting, desperately trying to get a fruit from the dying tree to save themselves.

She saw it before her eyes as she was running to find them, she was guiding the Queen out as the Queen felt too weak to stand up on her own. She is full of wounds and her breath is slowing, while Mikasa tried to get her to a safe place, the Queen was speaking to her. The Queen told her to be strong, for her to fight but before she could even finished, her head flew off and her body soon evaporate. A scream was forced out of her tightly sealed lips.

"Eren.." she calls again, calming down a little, watching his frozen body. Tears floods her eyes once again, her pain was nothing compared what to Eren was feeling. He has been suffering for so long, for how many years with nobody to confide with, no comfort and until the end there was nothing, no one to help him. Her heart tightens as she looks at him, he doesn't have an expression on and she wished he had because he can't take it, he wanted him to cry or something else rather than be completely numb, she would prefer it.
".. Ren!"

The child appear before them, looking at his surrounding as a pleased smile stretched on his face. The usually red place that the people grown to love, full of happy memories and love before was the last thing they will see but this time, it was full of pain and agony. The child slowly approaches Eren, stilled in his position like a statue, the child grabs Eren's throat.

" Look at what have you done. The deal you made with me, you finallyade it happen."

"Shut up."

" Huh!" The child snapped his head towards her direction.
" Why should I? This is something that he made five hundred years ago, this deal could not be broken. We mix our bloods for this. " He grinned, his head snapped back at Eren. " Am I correct, Eren? You were the reason for this. I even ask if you were sure, then you agreed to the contract. He was the villain all along. "

Eren's expression darkened at that. He laughs without humor as he looks at the child infront of him. " You cruel bastard. "

Mikasa watches from a far, still thinking, she tries to remember what she had read, the theories present in the books, she and the scholars read. She search through her memories for that particular page in that book. Although, she does not remember everything that she read, she still remember the important details that she highlighted while reading. A smile rose to her lips once she find it, her eyes brimming in determination. Although, it would probably be futile , she would still try it. She grits her teeth, the theory present in the book reads like this:

      Theory of the Blood tree
                by unknown 

‘The blood tree gives life thus when removed from roots cannot be revive again, however if an object that gives life could be given nutrients of it's own kind: It gives blood to vampires thus vampires shall return the favour and give it life.’

Would it work with her? Mikasa ask herself, Eren was the only alive vampire left so Mikasa looks around the dying people. She ran and ran again. She figured out already, she won't be able to do it alone, she's not a vampire. Mikasa looks around, there was still vampires slowly evaporating but it's fine. Mikasa took a scoop of blood from them and runs to the dying tree. As she runs, she accidentally scraped her arms, a gush of blood coming out of it but she ignored the pain and focus on running.

Not knowing that her own blood mixes with the vampires blood, making it even darker than before.

When she finally arrived at the tree, she immediately pours the blood on the tree and there, she noticed that her arms were bleeding a lot. She smiled at Ere as the blood tree glowed a bright green color.

It seems it was taking affect so she cheered  inside, but the child soon laughs and Eren's face contorted with worry and pain, she look back at the tree.
Infront of her, the tree slowly decays.



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Hi, it's been super duper long since I created this book and I'm not yet finished but don't worry, this book will end soon. Lol, to be honest I've already wrote the epilogue before I even wrote this part. Hahahahaha, and since the plot is fixed, I didn't really change anything although I kind of feel bad for them.. you will know why. Bye.

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