Parallels

Hoseia, General under Empire of Marley looks up from the street where he'd been escorting his wife and daughter during a shopping trip as a bright white light flies high into the sky above them. He pulls his family closer to him as at first he'd thought it was an enemy artillery strike, only to release it was something else entirely.

The light gets closer, and closer, until he's able to distinguish a silhouette from within it, a winged humanoid form with what seemed like a child held in its arms...

"Is that an angel daddy?" his daughter asks, reaching a hand up toward the figure as if she was trying to grasp it.

"N-no... I don't think so, Annabeth..."

"'Seia, what is it?" his wife questions, spotting his cautiousness.

Before he's able to answer, the child silhouette in the angel's arms looks up and begins screaming, unleashing an ungodly sound that shatters all nearby windows and almost bursts the eardrums of anyone who was within many miles distance of it.

"AAAAYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"

"W-WHAT IS THAT SOUND!?"

"MOMMY, DADDY! IT HURTS!"

Hoseia claps his hands over his daughter's ears, atop her own to try and alleviate the pain she was experiencing, leaving himself defenceless against the infernal racket... Then, he notices something odd... A faint glow coming from a nearby alleyway, one that he knew held some homeless Eldian devils-... Eldians...

His eyes widen, realising that the glow matched exactly the process that they'd use to turn devils into pure titans. "KAREL TAKE ANNA AND RU-"

*CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSHHHHHHH!!!*

Around them all at once tens of thousands of lightning bolts announce themselves from all over the large capital city, blowing apart buildings, people, and anything else that was nearby the Eldians as they transform.

Those who survive the initial event are almost all too discombobulated, confused, and disorientated to act when huge humanoids begin stomping around and eating everything nearby.

Everyone was terrified, the citizens of Marley all knew the stories of the Eldian devils, along with the myth of the 'Rumbling', so to have this occur in the midst of their most powerful and capital city? To them, this was the Rumbling.

Hoseia stares wide-eyed at the previously peaceful market street, which was now covered in blood, half-eaten bodies, and pure titan wandering around devouring anyone they could grab. He sends his wife and daughter towards the bank and commands them to lock themselves inside a vault while he draws his pistol and fires some shots at a nearby titan's nape... Only to find his weapon doing absolutely nothing.

The titan feels the bullets however and slowly turns its head, eyes focussing on the General... He runs, and it follows, a few nearby titans reaching out to grab him as he flees but he barely jumps and ducks through them.

He needed to reach the nearby military base, but as he reached the street corner, he spotted a horrific sight... His wife corpse on the ground missing everything below her belly button, and his daughter screaming as two titans struggle to be the one to eat her.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" she shrieks as both titans pull, tearing her completely in half as her father watches with dead eyes...

"H-how could this be..." he mutters, looking down at his pistol and wondering if he should just kill himself now. He shakes his head however, "D-DEVILS, DAMN DEVILS! I WILL KILL YOU ALL! NONE OF YOU WILL SURVIVE, NOT EVEN THE ONES ON YOUR BLASTED ISLAND!"

All of the nearby titans hear him however, all looking towards him with bloodied mouths... But before they march over and devour him, they strangely lose interest and start walking away in search of other prey.

Hoseia rapidly turns around as he hears someone chuckling, spotting a man with clipped horns, crimson eyes, and white fiery wings behind him. "Youknow, I think I've heard something like that before, it was a kid who lived in Shiganshina and had to watch his mother be devoured."

The blonde-haired child in the demon's arms looks up at him, eyes shining with familiarity as if she knew exactly who he was talking about. Hoseia is momentarily taken out of his rage when he spots the collar of strange black metal around her neck.

"Of course you'd know him..." he smiles at the girl before scratching his head, "I don't know Eren's time-travel will function with my interference though... Do you know, Ymir?"

Ymir...? That-... Hoseia stares at the girl's face, not finding any similarity to buxom statues that usually depicted the Eldian founder.

The girl, in response to the demon's words points at her eyes and makes a plucking gesture.

"Hm? Eren's sight is removed? I guess that makes sense...?"

"Y-you...! Who are you!" Hoseia interrupts them with a hoarse shout.

"Me? I'm Michael, God of Death and whatever-whatever," he gestures down at the girl, "This Ymir, the one to bring about Marley's destruction.

The girl turns to Michael and points between them before holding up two fingers.

"Yeah, I know it was a joint effort, but you're the one who pulled the trigger. If this were a game I'd be getting only assists." he states before turning back to Hoseia, "If you want someone to blame, blame yourselves. If Marley weren't all giant pieces of shit none of this would have happened."

"We-, did what we had to! The devils! They would have brought destruction even without our involvement!"

Michael shrugs, "Yeah, yeah, go plead your case in hell, douchebag." he says before pointing at the General and summoning Amaterasu, covering him in black flames and quickly incinerating him from existence.

He feels Ymir patting him on the leg afterwards and grins, "Cool right? It's only fair though, you get to create titans at will, and I get to turn anyone I want to ash... Bu-ut, I guess since you helped me out." he hands her a staff of flames, prompting the small girl to start skipping around and burning everything flammable and not in sight.