It's been a really long time since I've uploaded anything here. I've finished a story on AO3, and I'll probably move it here soon. Anyway, I'm uploading this here and on AO3, and my username is the same for both sites, so check it out if you want. I don't own TWEWY, so there's that. Not sure if this is a crossover or not, so I'm not going to categorize it as one. I hope you like it!
"Outta my face! You're blocking my view. Shut up! Stop talking. Just go the hell away!"
"All the world needs is me. I've got my values...so you can keep yours, alright?"
"I don't get people. Never have, never will."
Levi looked around in distaste. He really never liked people. They were so noisy, always crowding the streets and not wearing deodorant so they smelled like shit all the time. They were annoying and unnecessary. Shibuya was full of people like that.
Suddenly, Levi tripped, falling onto the ground and banging up his knee. He slowly raised himself onto his elbows, surprised that no one was stopping to help him, or even to stare or laugh. Were people in this city really so cruel? Levi stayed on the ground a moment longer, trying to ignore the sudden pain in his hand. Would someone help him up? Anyone? Not that he couldn't do it himself. This was an experiment, to see if the world was really worth anything.
...Apparently not. Levi sighed as he stood up, brushing his hands against his jeans in disappointment. It might have been interesting to see who would've helped him up. It didn't matter now.
Levi started walking aimlessly again, but he noticed something odd. No one was looking at him. This in itself wasn't odd, because Levi didn't consider himself to be that attractive. What with the bags under his eyes and his overall grumpy demeanor, most people avoided eye contact with him. But something about the way they weren't looking at him bothered him. He would normally get a few weird looks, maybe one from a high school girl or something like that. They weren't looking at him, not noticing him at all, but still somehow avoiding touching him.
In a sudden burst of courage, he walked up to a stranger and waved his hand in their face, trying to get their attention. The stranger didn't even look at him, walking right by without a second thought. Levi began to panic, running around and trying to get people's attention by waving his hands in their faces and shouting.
"Hey!" Levi yelled in one man's ear, "I'm talking to you! Hey!"
Levi huffed. Why wasn't anyone looking at him? He sighed and put his hands in his pockets. He felt something there, something cold and round he knew wasn't there before. He didn't know why he hadn't noticed it earlier. He pulled it out of his pocket and examined it. What he saw was a black pin with a white skull on the face of it. It didn't look very special. Levi didn't even collect pins, like those children that played that Tin Pin game.
"...A pin?" he asked himself. "What the fuck-"
Levi pressed on the pin with one finger. Suddenly, a flood of words rushed through his head. These thoughts weren't his own. What was going on? Was he... reading minds? Was that even possible.
"I want a boyfriend."
"777 is playing soon!"
"Ugh, that girl who works at D & B is so hot! I should have asked for her number..."
Levi flinched back from the pin, dropping it in the process. It clattered to the ground, and all of the voices stopped. Tentatively, he picked it back up and put it in is pocket. He got the feeling it was important, but no way in hell he was touching that thing again until he needed to.
All of a sudden, Levi's phone beeped. A text? Who would text him? He didn't have friends. Well, maybe a few, but that was beside the point. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and checked the message.
"Fail and face erasure."
What.
"Reach 104. You have 60 minutes."
Where the fuck was a 104. Was that even a place? Levi didn't know, even though he had been a Shibuya resident since the day he was born.
Levi backed away, scowling, and ran toward some dog statue. He didn't know what the fuck it was. The only thing he knew was that he was fucking invisible and he had no idea why. What was going on? What happened to him?
A sudden scream pulled Levi out of his frantic thoughts. Levi turned his head to see what was happening. Two people were cowering in the face of... colorful frogs? What the actual fuck.
Levi backed up when the colorful frog things noticed him. He didn't know what the fuck they were, but they were not about to come near him. He hated frogs. They were so slimy and bumpy.
The frogs approached him, jumping up at him and trying to hit him. He turned and began to run, not sure what the fuck was going on. He sure as hell wasn't about to be killed by some weird frog things now.
"Hey!" someone shouted near him. He turned to see a boy in the distance. His features were blurry as he was far away, but that didn't matter to Levi. The boy was running toward him. Toward him.
"You can see me?" Levi asked once the boy got close enough. Now that he could see his face, he was actually fairly attractive, with a mop of brown hair and stunning turquoise eyes.
"Yeah," the boy waved his hand dismissively, as if it were obvious, "You've gotta make a pact with me."
"A what," Levi deadpanned. As he said that, one of the frogs jumped up and kicked him right in the cheek. Pain blossomed throughout the entire right side of his face.
"Fuck!"
"The noise won't attack you if you make a pact with me," said the boy impatiently, grabbing Levi's hand. Levi almost swatted his hand away, but the look in his eyes made him stop. A strange blue light surrounded them (as if what was happening wasn't already strange) and Levi felt stronger, more agile. The boy immediately turned around and started attacking the frogs. Levi watched in awe as one vanished before his eyes, turning into dust.
"Here!" the boy shouted, throwing something at Levi. Levi caught it in surprise, nearly dropping it. It was a red pin, like the one he found in his hand earlier. This one was decorated with three small flames forming a circle.
"What do I do?" asked Levi, deciding to go with the flow and ask questions later.
"Tap it! Use your thoughts to control it's power!" the boy shouted, narrowly avoiding another attack from one of those... What did he call them? Noise?
Levi tapped the pin, not even bothering to ask what the hell he meant by controlling it with his mind. When he decided to target one of the noise, it caught on fire. Levi stared in shock as it disintegrated, much like the one that kid had taken out. The kid turned around and grinned at him. When Levi scanned the ground for the noise, he saw none. The kid must have gotten rid of most of them.
"Hi there!" the boy grinned and held his hand out to Levi, "I'm Eren, and I'll be your partner this week!"
"Levi," Levi took the outstretched hand, "I have no idea what the fuck is going on. Explain."
Eren looked taken aback. After a moment of just staring at Levi, he rushed to explain things Levi would never understand unless he said them more slowly.
"Slow," Levi said. Eren stopped talking and stared once again. Levi had to admit that his dumbfounded face was kind of cute.
"We don't have time for slow!" Eren exclaimed, looking at his new partner incredulously. "Look at your hand. You see the timer?"
Levi looked down and saw that there was indeed a timer on his hand. It read 20:05, whatever the hell that meant.
"Why?" Levi asked, presenting his palm to Eren, prompting him to explain.
"We have twenty minutes to reach ten four. Once we get there, I'll explain what's going on. Sound like a plan?" Levi nodded in response, and Eren grabbed his hand. He began to run to 104, dragging Levi behind him. Levi could barely keep up. They still had twenty minutes, right? What was this kid's rush?
When Eren finally stopped at what Levi assumed was 104, they were both out of breath. Levi checked his palm and, sure enough, the timer was gone.
"Now, explain," Levi huffed, resting his hands on his knees. Eren was fucking fast. He supposed that was to his advantage, though.
"Fine," Eren stood upright, trying to hide the fact that he was breathing heavily. "This is the reaper's game. You know how we just had to go to 104? That was a mission. We'll get one mission a day, and if you fail you're erased. Once one team finishes the mission, every other team is safe, too. The frog things are noise. They won't attack you if you have a partner. But, they will fight with you if you attack them. You also can't fight the noise without a partner. Also, the frogs aren't the only kinds of noise. Did I leave anything out?"
"How long with the game go on?" asked Levi, wondering how the hell he got himself into this.
"A week." Eren replied.
"How-" Levi began to ask how the hell he got into this game, but he was interrupted.
"Hey!" an obnoxious looking kid shouted, running directly at them, "You guys players?"
"Yeah," Eren replied. The kid was tall, with an undercut and an abnormally long face. Beside him was a man who was much shorter, with darker hair and a spray of freckles.
"I'm Jean," the tall one said, "You guys the ones that completed the mission?"
Levi nodded.
"You guys saved us," the shorter, freckled one said in obvious relief, "We weren't going to make it in time. We were surrounded by noise. I'm Marco, by the way."
"I'm Eren. This is Levi," Eren gestured to Levi, who in turn swatted Eren's hand away.
"Like, ten players were erased today," Jean said in amazement, trying to make conversation, "It's the first day!"
"This is going to be rough," Marco agreed. The three talked for a bit, until Levi just walked away. He didn't want anything to do with these brats.
"Levi!" Eren shouted, following him.
"What." Levi deadpanned.
"What are you doing? We're partners! We have to stick together or we'll be erased." Eren moved to stand in front of Levi, preventing him from moving. They were now in an intersection, right outside of 104.
"Listen, kid," Levi started to say, but he was cut off yet again, this time by a female voice.
"This is so boring," she huffed. Both Eren and Levi turned to see a tall, tanned woman with a spray of freckles much like Marco's and dark hair tied back in a ponytail, "The mission was completed so quickly." She then noticed Eren and Levi staring at her, and her pout turned into a grin.
"Hey, you, players," she called, walking up to them with a sly grin, "Wanna play a game?"
