Royalty Love

”We don’t expect you to join our side. No, we are simply asking you to bring this information to Eren. Let him think about it, and tell him that we are waiting for him here in the Dark Forest.”

”That’s it, huh? Fine whatever, I’ll do it. Just let me hunt in the woods alone now.”

~

Ymir thought living in Kingdom Sina wasn’t that bad, even though people here were posh assholes that thought they were better than everyone else, it was still good. People here pretended to be something they weren’t, they hid their sad faces with smiles and expensive stuff. But if you ignored all of that you could actually live a pretty peaceful life as an outsider.

Ymir escaped from Kingdom Maria to Sina when she was 11, everything went so quickly that she barely even remember how it actually happened.
She lived in the forest alone the first couple of months, then she got help and got a job as a servant in the royal castle and started working for the royal family, that was even more posh was harder, but she got a job and somewhere to live and food to eat, and that was enough for her to continue working there.

~

Ymir woke up to the sound of some birds outside her window. She shared a room with 5 other servants at the castle, and none of them had taken the time to wake her up. Not that it would make any difference. They all knew by now that it was no use to even try to wake her up. Ymir would just growl at them and giving them a look that she could kill them in that right moment if she wanted to.

She went out of her bed and closed the window, she gave the birds a look of despise and then looked back to her bed. She started to debate if she would go back to sleep or go to work. Going back to sleep sounded so much better to her ears, and that was her final decision.
Just as she was about to throw her blanket over herself, the door knocked.
Ymir snorted, the person that disturbed her at this time was about to have a really bad time.
The door opened it with a snatch which made the door hit the wall with a bang.
And at the door opening stood a brown hair boy with an angry expression on his face.

”Ymir, where the fuck were you yesterday?” He yelled.

Ymir raised one eyebrow while giving him a smirk.

”I had to run some errands, Eren. You didn’t miss me that much, did you?” She answered sarcastically, now raising up from her bed.

He wrinkled his forehead, giving Ymir his best death stare.

”Fuck no. What the fuck did you do?”

”Oh, nothing important. But you sure are involved.” Ymir replied with a laugh.

”Well, that shit can wait. We fucking needed you yesterday, the Princess arrived and we needed your help to prepare for the dinner party. That takes place this evening. So you better come now and help prepare for the dinner, or I’ll kick you out.”

The Princess... What Princess? Was it? No, it couldn’t be. Why would it? Everything started spinning inside Ymir’s head. Was it really her?

”What Princess..?” Ymir began, but Eren was already gone.

Ymir dressed, putting on her long sleeved grey shirt and a pair of dark brown pants. She didn’t like wearing the proper servant clothes. She didn’t feel comfortable with them, and she didn’t want to identify with the other servants because she thought they all were a pain in the ass.
She had the servant clothes somewhere, but she didn’t really know where she had put them. Not that it really mattered.

She couldn’t care less about the fact that people talked behind her back about how she always wore the same clothes and that they never saw her wash them.
But Ymir used magic. She used magic to most of the things she had to do.
She was born with magic powers. It wasn’t something that she had asked for. She didn’t want them, but it sure made her living a little more easy.
When no one were around she just said a little spell and that was it.
And that life sure seemed easy, but for Ymir it wasn’t. All her life she had struggled with hiding her powers, struggling to live. Some people would say that magic was a gift, but Ymir rather preferred it as a curse. But she used her magic anyways. Even though she hated the fact that the magic made her struggle in life, she still used it. She still wanted to learn more and get better at it.
She did this because she didn’t want to hide who she really was. She didn’t want to ignore the person that she was. She thought that if she would reject the person she was born as, it’s would be as good as losing.

~

Walking in the long halls looking for Eren was harder than she expected. She had to talk to him. She had told him before that it wasn’t anything important, but in matter of fact it was really important. Something so big it would effect the whole Kingdom.
She didn’t really want to tell Eren this information. This was something even Ymir would’ve hated if she had been in his shoes. Eren didn’t deserve this. But she had to tell him, she owed him that much. Eren was an enchanter too, he wasn't a skilled one, but he got a lot of help so he could at least control his powers. He got the powers from his mother, that was long gone and nowhere to be found, and if the King, his father would find out about this it would be bad. The King had forbidden magic ever since he became King, and if he would find someone practicing magic he would execute them immediately. But it was also the magic that was the only thing that Ymir and Eren had in common and was the reason that they had become good friends. Neither of them had chose these powers, and both of them thought of it as a curse.

The kingdom was more hysterical than ever. Everyone was running back and forth. They were all preparing for that dinner party Eren talked about, the dinner that was for the Princess.
The Princess, Ymir couldn’t stop thinking about her. Who was she? What if it was her? What if it was the Princess that she saw all those years ago, when she was about to give up on everything?
Was it the Princess that gave her hope again, hope that people actually could be nice, and that life was something valuable?

~

She found Eren talking to his two friends in the royal garden, full with flowers and plants of every kind.
One of his friends was a short boy with blonde mid long hair and blue eyes clear as the ocean. The other one was a little taller asian girl with black long hair. Armin and Mikasa. Eren’s two best friends.
Ymir knew them a little, mostly because they pretty much always was around Eren.
The blonde guy, Armin, wasn’t some royal person. He was just an ordinary citizen in Kingdom Sina. But he and Eren had always been friends, at least as long as Ymir had been there.
Armin had an excellent talent in strategy and knowledge. He knew many things, almost to the point that Ymir thought he knew too much.

Mikasa on the other hand was taken in by the royal family when she was ten. The King had good contact with her parents. And when her parents was unexpectedly murdered, the King decided to take her in and let her live with them. Since then she was always around Eren.
Mikasa was very talented in combat. Ymir had seen her fighting a couple times. And Mikasa could easily replace a hundred men.

Ymir approached to Eren and his friends, giving him a smirky face.

”See who decided to show up?” Eren said, now more calmer than before.

”Oh Eren, you really missed me that much?” Ymir answered sarcastically.

”You wish you lazy ass.”

Armin and Mikasa both gave Ymir a smile of welcoming. And Ymir gave them a quick half smile in return. She understood that her half smile didn’t come out especially good and more bitter than expected when Armin took a step back when she got closer. Not that she really cared about it, it rather amused her.

”Eren, I really need to talk to you. Regarding yesterdays errand.”

”Really? I thought you said it wasn’t anything important.” Eren looked confused.

”Well guess what, it’s really fucking important.”

Mikasa stepped forward, grabbed Ymir’s sleeve and looked straight into her eyes.

”Say it then. There’s no reason to keep it a secret.” Mikasa was calm, but Ymir heard the irritation in her voice.

Eren grabbed Mikasa’s arm in protest.

”There is no need for any fighting guys.” Armin suddenly said. He looked distressed.

”No there’s not. Let me just talk to Eren in privacy and then he could tell you all about it afterwards.” Ymir said with a pleasant voice while ripping away from Mikasa’s hold.

”It’s okay guys, I’ll talk to you later.”

Mikasa frowned at Ymir. But listened to Eren’s words and walked away with Armin by her side.

”She really cares about you, huh? They both do really, but she’s different isn’t she? Imagine having someone like that...” Ymir tried hard to not say that with a sadness in her voice and it was enough that Eren didn’t hear it. She really wished that someone cared about her just as much as they cared about him, she really did.

”Yeah...I guess she is..” Eren cleared his throat. ”They are both really good friends, my best friends. And I don’t know what I would do without them..”

Ymir started to think that there was too much emotions. She didn’t come all the way to Eren to talk about emotions and love and friends. No, she had to tell him about it now, the sooner the better.

”I was in the Dark Forest yesterday..” Ymir started.

”Why the fuck did you do there?”

”Let me finish Eren, damn.” Ymir took a deep breath. ”I was going hunting...”

”Slacking off to go hunting huh?”

”Can you let me finish or what you son of a bitch?”

Eren scoffed, but nodded in response.

”I got caught by Annie and her clan...”

Eren gasped.

”They didn’t do any harm, but they wanted me to get this message to you.” Ymir stopped for a while. She didn’t want to tell him all this. It was too much. But once again she owed him that much.

”They have a plan, and you are involved in it.” Ymir could see the terror in Eren’s eyes. ”Their plan is to get Jean killed, one way or another. They want to make you the next king of Sina.”

”Why would they want that?”

”Because a King with magic powers can legalize magic in Kingdom Sina again. They don’t want to hide anymore Eren, and they are going to do whatever it takes.” Ymir examined Eren. He was almost shaking now.

”But I’m the King’s bastard son, how is it possible for me to be the next King, even if Jean dies?”

”They have it all planned out. You see, if there is anyone except you that could possibly become the next ruler of Sina, they can and will kill them. Everything is planned out Eren.”

”And if I die too? Or if I refuse to legalize magic as King?”

”If you refuse, then they will make you. Annie is way more skilled with magic than you, and both Reiner and Bertholdt are strong enchanters too. You have no chance against them. And if you die they will use your body with shapeshifting. They can do pretty much anything with magic, Eren. You can’t win.” Those words was hard for Ymir to say. Saying to someone that they have no chance was horrible.

Eren looked like he was about to cry. And it was hard for Ymir to look at. Normally when she saw him cry she would joke about it. But this time it was different. This was serious, and Ymir knew that making a joke out of it would be a jerk move.

Eren kicked some blue flowers in anger.
”Did they say anything else?” Eren said with a sob in his voice, now only looking down at the flowers that he just destroyed with his feet.

”Annie told me that you could think about this for a while, and when you have your final decision they are waiting for you in the Dark Forest.”

”Yeah, well. I’m sure gonna think about it. Not that there is anything to choose between really. Whatever I do it’s a win-win situation for them.” Eren still had the sob in his voice, and a single tear fell down from his cheek.

”Y’know I feel really shitty telling you all this..” Ymir started but she really couldn’t think of anything to say. She was used to tell jokes and mess with Eren, making him angry and giving him sarcastic answers. But this was so serious it didn’t seem right to do that.

”It’s fine. Thanks for telling me.” Eren paused for a while. It looked like he was thinking about something, but wasn’t really sure if he should say it or not. ”Will you help me defeat them Ymir? I know we can do it if we try...”

Ymir froze for a second. Standing up against Annie and her clan? No way. But she couldn’t say no now. She had to brighten up Eren’s mood, she had too.

”Sure. I’ll try my best.” Ymir lied.
She was used to lying, telling people that she had really important things to slack off from work to sleep, and most importantly, telling lies about her past life, lying about her magic.

Eren finally smiled a little. And that made the situation worst.

Ymir suddenly remembered, the Princess. She had to ask about her.

”You haven’t told me about the Princess yet?” Ymir said while they began to walk towards the castle.

”Yeah, you’re right.” Eren wiped away his tears from his face with one of his shirt sleeves. ”She’s here to marry Jean. She’s the future Queen of Sina. It’s been planned for many years, and now that she’s finally here everyone is hysterical and excited.” He smiled a little. ”She’s really pretty though, and very kind. I actually used to play with her one summer.”

Ymir listened to every word Eren said, and that was very unusual.

”Poor girl, marrying Jean won’t be easy..” Ymir said laughing a little about it. She and Jean didn’t get along well, they never had.

”As I said she’s really pretty. She has long blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes. She’s really short though, but that makes her cuter to be honest.”

A blonde, blue eyed, short Princess? Was it really? Was it the Princess that gave her some gold coins and smiled to her that time, that time when she was about to give up? Her appearance sounded so familiar, but was it really? There wasn’t that many blonde, blue eyes Princesses, so what if it was her?

Ymir had stopped walking, she stood still now, waiting for Eren to notice that she wasn’t walking next to him anymore.

Eren turned around when he finally noticed.

”Eren, what’s her name?”

Eren looked confused about Ymir’s sudden stop. But then a smirk placed on his face.

”Her name is Historia.” And that name sounded way too familiar to Ymir. ”Do you really think it’s her?” Eren asked while his smirk only grew bigger.

”Pfft, cut it out man. I don’t know. Maybe it is. But what do I care?” Ymir said, yet again lying. She did care. Hell, this was the reason she actually escaped from Maria to Sina. In hope that this girl was there.

”Of course you fucking care. Remember when I first found you in the Dark Forest? And the only thing you kept going on about was this Princess that you said gave you new hope.” Eren was amused about this moment, Ymir could tell. ”And then I brought you in to the castle, making you a servant..”

”You don’t need to tell your whole life story you ass.” Ymir snatched. She didn’t want to hear about Eren’s so called ”proud moment” when he saved Ymir from starving to death.

”Damn, sorry. But you got to admit, you want to know if this really is her right?”

”Yeah, I guess I do..”

”Well then. Because you are going to help me I guess I’m going to help you. I’ll invite you to the dinner party for Princess Historia, as servant of course.”

”Sounds great.” Ymir replied. She did feel guilty, because she wasn’t planning on helping him with that shit. It was way to dangerous for Ymir. But letting him think that seemed like the best option for now. And besides, she was now invited to serve the Princess this evening, and the thought of that felt a lot better than that fake promise to Eren that she just made.