So, whoa. I'm back on . Its probably been three years since my last story, on a different account in which its password I forgot xD
I'll be honest, I kinda feel hesitant to write this story out. Scared even.
Firstly because I'm pretty new to SnK. I just finished the anime and haven't yet read the manga so I'm still not sure if I had precisely seen through all the character's personalities. This story will much be based off on other fanfictions and some doujinshi that I've read, and since this story is in an AU with a fantasy genre, that'll probably make the characters go even more OOC. They really probably will.
Second, its because I've been thinking that this AU/fantasy genre might not suit and just click in with SnK and its OC characters.
But I just had to write. This story had been in my mind for quite a few months. When I first got the idea of it, I had the image of my own OCs in my mind. Originally the plan was to write out my own little story. Suddenly, I was introduced to SnK, and really badly wanted to write a fanfic for this favourite pairing of mine x) So I figured, why not? I should at least try..
Okay, I've wasted enough words here. Now, on with the story!
I do not own Shingeki no Kyojin, as badly as I'd love to.
Sina Island, South Golden Sand Beach.
"Highness, you musn't-" A hand was outstretched towards the brunette but was immediately slapped aside.
"Cut it out, Armin!" Yelled the said brunette. "Its just us, so please, no formalities shit," With that said, he continued climbing the rocks by the shore, ignoring the frantic shouts by the blonde who still had only the upper half of his body above surface level of the water.
"Eren, please, if you have so much as a scratch on your tail, I'll be dead!" Armin went on as he got more panicky. As a server of the next-in-line to inherit the throne as King of the Seas, it was his duty to keep Eren out of harm's way, aside from managing his Highness' daily life. What a stressful job, indeed, with having the person you're supposed to serve be so stubborn, adventurous, what's more totally irresponsible.
A slender, milky white pale skinned hand was placed on Armin's shoulder, and he turned around. Ah, yes, he almost forgot about this other person he seems to be in charge of taking care of, but instead was the one taking care of both him and his Highness. Seeing Mikasa, Armin sighs in relief. "Mikasa, please do something about E-"
Before he could finish his sentence, Mikasa had already tugged on Eren's tail and pulled him back into the water with a big splash. Having been forcefully slid down against rough and sharp rocks, several scratch marks appear on Eren's emerald green tail.
"E-E-Eren, th-those-" Armin's hand was shaking terribly as he pointed out towards the scratches on Eren's tail.
"Relax, will you?!" Eren yells again, this time hitting the back of Armin's shoulder. "Have you forgotten how fast I heal?" He gave a roll of eyes, and began to climb up the rocks again.
"Eren, don't-" Once again not being able to finish his sentence, Mikasa had already took action. She grabbed onto the golden ring that was placed on the line between Eren's tail and fins, preventing him from going any further.
"Mikasa, let me go." He yells, sounding more irritated now.
Mikasa had the ever so calm expression she always has glued to her face, simply staring at Eren as she spoke softly, "It's dangerous."
"Well if you're so scared then stay down there!" Using some strength, Eren whipped his tail hard forcing Mikasa to let go of it. He took this chance to climb faster, out of Mikasa's reach, until finally he got himself fully out of the water. Using both his hands to crawl while pulling his lower half forward, Eren finally finds a comfy spot to lie down on his back, and, in terms of the mer people and their view of the sun, get burnt.
He stretches his arms above his head and yawned. "You two should come up here, it's really nice. Honestly, what's so bad about this place?" He says, loud enough for the two below to hear.
"What's bad is that it's in titan territory!" Armin's still panicky voice could be heard shouting in desperation. That guy needs to relax more, Eren thoughts to himself.
"Its not like there are any titans around, those huge rocks there won't allow them to get through to this beach here!" As soon as he said those words, a loud annoyed sigh was heard followed by a splash.
"Wait, M-Mikasa, where are you going!" Only Mikasa's head resurfaced as she said, "Armin, you wait here for him. I'll go call for uncle." and with that she dived back in, leaving rings of tiny waves on the surface of the water. Eren could hear another sigh, but a very, very desperate one this time.
"Eren, if you don't want to get in trouble (and neither do I in this matter, Armin added in a whisper) then please just come down now! Mikasa's calling for His Majesty! We can still catch up to her before she reaches-" everything past those words were lost in a blur as Eren's eyelids slowly closed and he drifted off in a light sleep. He wasn't sure how much time had passed, and he would've stayed in his blissful dreamland if not for the sudden pressuring pain on his fin.
The upperhalf of Eren's body shot straight up, his eyes wide as he screamed in pain, "Ow!"
"What do we have here?" A voice said, causing Eren's eyes to look upwards meeting light grey ones. The expression on this stranger's face seemed to be angry, but at the same time cool and calm. How is that even possible, he didn't know, but that was definitely what he was seeing. As if been put in a trance, Eren snapped back to his senses when the same voice continued on with a boring tone, "A fish?"
Finally realizing the situation, Eren wriggled his tail trying to free himself as both his arms started to crawl back to the edge of the rock. He couldn't go very far though, as his fin was still under the foot of this.. titan? He stopped moving a minute only to take a good look at this creature. He doesn't seem like a titan. Titans usually have big asses, and.. well there are those smaller titans, but this is.. Isn't this too small? He looks smaller than me, Eren thought, his mind hard at work.
"Hanji! I found dinner, catch it before it- god damn, Hanji, where are you." The unidentified land creature looked around, and when Eren had a glimpse of the back of this creature, he saw two extended muscles. What the heck, ar- Are those wings?! Fuck, have these fucking titans evolved or something?! Please don't tell me they can fucking fly!
He continued wriggling as hard as he could, well aware of the fact that if he didn't he'd be titan food anytime soon. "Stop moving damn it!" Suddenly Eren felt a scorching pain on his fin, where it was sore from being stepped on before. He turned around only to find that a blade had gone through his fin, pinning him to the ground. He flinched from the sight of his own blood that started to pool under his fin. Nevertheless, losing his fin was better than losing his life. Eren clawed at the rocks beneath him, trying to pull himself forward. Fuck this hurts..
"Will you stop fucking moving?!" The unusually small titan pulled Eren's hair by the back of his head and roughly forces his face to meet closely with that of the titan's. His green eyes, now narrowed, met once again with the light greys. Eren's brows furrowed as his teeth clenched, holding back a scream of frustration and pain.
It was then that he remembered these stupid titan's weaknesses. He moved fast -he had only one chance. Eren grabbed the titan's shoulder and used it as support to lurch forward. Once he saw the weak spot, he dived right in and bit onto the nape of the titan, and he bit hard.
"The fuck are you doing?!" the titan tried pulling Eren's hair once again by the back of his head, but Eren only bit in harder. The titan tugged even harder at Eren's hair, and when he felt pain only then did he let go of the titan's nape. Eren was roughly shoved back to the ground with blood visibly smeared at the side of his mouth. "Do you idiotic titans really think every fucking creature in this fucking world has the same weakness as you?! God damn!" The titan yells out of pain and anger, both his hands now wiping the blood from his nape. Eren heard him mumble another what the fuck, as the titan crouch down and pressed both his hands on his nape, trying to stop the blood flow.
"Who the fuck are you calling a titan?!" Eren finally spoke, making sure to throw in a hint of bravery in his voice. He would not let himself be cowardly before this puny titan.
"Of course, they're so stupid they won't even know what they're called-" the titan paused suddenly, now looking very curiously at Eren. "Since when do titans speak?" he wondered aloud. This got Eren thinking, too. This creature he assumed to be a titan had been speaking words.
"Well, for your information you blindfuck, I am not a titan." Eren tried whipping his tail once more, forgetting the blade that held it down by his fin. He winced silently in pain as his fin was torn, "Ouch," and sighed. The.. titan(?) -Eren wasn't so sure anymore -slowly lifted the blade, freeing Eren's fin. He then slid it into a metal rectangular box that hung by his thigh.
"What are you?" Eren heard him ask.
"What am I? What are you? I thought you were a titan.." his voice trailed off, and then he added in a mumble, "..but I was pretty confused too, I mean you looked too small," there was an almost immediate reaction to this from the titan(?).
"I am Levi," he said, "and I am the Demon Lord," This creature who had identified himself as Levi emphasized the word 'the', as if Eren should know who he is if he weren't a titan. Well heck does he know.
"Well, Levi, I am Eren," he gave a mimicking pause to this statement, "and I am next in line for the Trident throne. Soon to be ruler, King of the seas." Eren had used his highness-voice, making sure he sounded just as important.
"I'm sorry, but are you saying you are some kind of titan-fish hybrid?"
"Fuck no!"
"Then you're not edible?"
Silence.
"..What?"
Levi sighs, then runs a hand through his raven hair. "So you live under the waters?"
"Ye- .. Why do I have to answer all your questions?!" Eren's face was flushed now, angry. Levi sighs yet again as he steps closer to Eren. Eren felt the need to be cautions, but what happened next was too sudden he didn't have time to react. Levi had picked Eren up and threw him over his shoulder, and now Levi was standing by the edge of the rocks. "What are you doing?!" Eren struggled, hitting Levi's back.
"Stop moving, fish."
"I am not a- WHOA!" Levi had spread his large wings and took off into the skies. This left our poor mer-prince speechless. His stomach felt a little funny, and the pressure of Levi's shoulders pressing into them didn't help.
"Where do I let you down?" Levi asked. Eren finally understood that this creature -this demon, was trying to help him.
"Anywhere," his voice sounded faint now, his head starting to spin. Levi noticed the change in the sound of his voice, and thought this fish probably needed to hurry and come in contact with water so he folded in his wings and dived right down into the ocean with a loud splash as the waters swallowed him up. Once they were both underwater, he slowly let go of Eren. Instantly Eren's hands flew to his mouth, his stomach now feeling really sick. His body floated upwards a little as Levi's sunk a little bit more before maintaining level.
Their eyes met again, Eren's body horizontally floating above Levi's who was vertical. They stood motionless just staring at each other as their hair swayed with the soft current of the water. It was Levi's eyes who broke the contact first, as they moved lower to find Eren's fin. He wasn't a cold heart bastard, he wouldn't leave this creature to suffer. Initially planned he would've eaten this fish, and that would've put an end to its life altogether but now that he wasn't going to, he had left it with an injury at a vital part of its body. Then again, he wasn't that nice either. Levi decided to just help it get back to wherever it came from and leave it at that.
"Where to now?" he asked. At first, Eren did not understand. But when he saw where Levi's eyes kept going to, he finally did. Eren swam downwards so that they were both now parallel to eachother, and the level of their eyes were the same. He then said, "It's fine. It's already healing, see?" He swam back a little and lifted his fin. True, the tear was already coming together, the blood washed away as they came under the water, and all that's left was a scar. Weird though, there shouldn't even be a scar.. He thought, but then shrugged it off; Ah it'll go away soon enough. Suddenly Eren remembered the bite at Levi's nape.
He then swam forward closer to Levi. One of Eren's hand rested by Levi's back, below where his wings grew and pulled the demon's body closer in to him until their chests were touching. Levi stood motionless, knowing what Eren was doing. Eren then peeked at Levi's nape, checking the wound. It was deep and still open, still bleeding. "I'm sorry, but that was really purely out of self defense," He waited for a response from the demon, but when he got none Eren went on with his actions.
Levi felt a sudden tickle on his nape and realized that the fish was licking him where it had earlier bit him. He sighed, causing air bubbles to escape his lips and float upwards to surface. Levi's hands that were by his side before now came up to hold onto Eren's hips where his upper human half met the lower fish half, as Levi still liked to call it.
He closed his eyes, enjoying the tingling feeling. All too soon it went away, and Eren leaned backwards to get a good look at Levi's face. Disappointed as he felt, Levi would never really show nor admit to it.
Their eyes met once more. "It should heal faster now," Eren said as his other hand slowly caressed the demon's nape.
Suddenly Levi pushed the fish further away, spread his wings then flapped them slowly in his own way of swimming. His body begin to slowly rise towards the surface. The mer prince only watched, partly still waiting for a reply, partly staring in curiosity and awe at the demon's wings now that he had a better look at it.
For one last time their eyes met, then once again Levi's broke the contact by facing his head upwards. His wings started flapping faster now, his arms and legs started moving as well. The fish was earlier injured, and that was the only reason he'd help it this far. Now that it seems to be doing just fine he should be getting back to his servants. Levi didn't want them alerting anyone from the Demon Realm of a missing Demon Lord and then causing a ruckus upon his return.
Ignoring the urge to face down and stare into those emerald shimmering eyes again, and the guilt he felt for the scar he'd left at its fin, he shot out of the water and into the skies.
And that was their first ever encounter.
Just some explanations here- in this AU, titans do exist, but humanity does not. So instead of feasting on people, the titan's prey are the mermaids. In return, the demon's food are the titans.
Also, I might be doing an art for this story. I'll just be drawing Eren and Levi, and focus on what they're wearing. I know mostly throughout this first chapter people would be picturing them in their uniforms with the Scouting Legion jacket and everything, but no. Eren would be half naked, except for the side accessories he'll be wearing as mark of mer Royalty. Levi is also gonna be half naked(heheheh *nosebleeds*) but will be wearing the 3D maneuver gear, without the actual 3D maneuver gears. They'll only be the casing for his swords/blades, or as I'll probably be calling it in later chapters, a 'Katara'.
And, no, don't worry because I did not forget about Armin who should still be in the water by the rocks xD
I hope you'll let me know what you think of this. Thank you for reading the first chapter ~