So my first set of stories is almost done and idk where I'm going after that. I have 4 ideas in my head, so I thought I would just write the first chapter of each and throw it out there. This is idea #3

Eren POV

I had always been a little different. I wasn't the usual nymph who hid away in fear of the hunters, I had always been curious about them and the way they lived. It might be naïve, or idealistic, but I sometimes thought we could achieve peace between the forest creatures and the humans. I wanted to meet one of them, maybe talk to them. I flew much closer to the human's lands than Mikasa or Armin dared to go, and I had been chewed out many, many times because of it.

"Eren, you're going to get hurt." Mikasa said to me as she saw me land on the tree branch that lead to our home in the tree. I tucked my fluffy wings behind me and walked over to her, my feet tingling with the feel of being in a tree after my long flight over the humans' lands. I was the only one out of the group of us that lived here that could fly for so long without any back pain.

This was because I was a healing nymph, so my injuries during sustained flight healed themselves easily. There were limits to my healing abilities, of course. If I took too much damage, I would die. My powers were also less effective on others. The stronger my bond with the one I was healing, the better. When my mother was alive, she would heal Mikasa and me almost instantly. She loved us that much. My father was one of the strongest healing nymphs there was, and he travelled all over healing total strangers. He was the nymphs' doctor, and I sometimes felt inadequate trying to live up to him.

Mikasa, on the other hand, was an earth nymph. She communicated with the earth in ways neither Armin nor I could understand. She and the other earth nymphs had built this settlement for us band of nymphs, bending the trees to form tree houses high in the forest. Branches and vines weaved together to form walls and a floor and ceiling. It was incredible to watch, and I never understood.

That was okay, though, neither Mikasa nor Armin would ever totally understand healing. When I touched another being, I instantly knew what was wrong with them. I could detect the slightest pain, even the being was pretending to be okay. The detecting was easy; the healing was hard. It took an incredible amount of energy to heal. I had to connect with the being, synch my own body with theirs, and then focus all my spirit into healing them. It was an indescribable feeling… our bodies humming together as one… even our heart beats would align. The rest of the earth fell away.

I wondered if that's how Mikasa felt when she made trees grow to make houses, or when she brought up fresh food from seeds planted in the garden. I wondered if that's how Armin, our friend the water nymph, felt when he swam with the fish he communicated with, or when he called the water out of the stream and brought it wherever the band needed it.

I sometimes felt jealous of the other nymph with abilities like that. They were useful every single day. We ate food the earth nymphs grew every single day; we drank the fresh spring water the water nymphs called for us every single day; we warmed ourselves by the fire the fire nymphs made every single night; we relied on the air nymph's superior speed and agility in the air to protect us every single day. Those nymphs made up the bulk of the population, and for good reason. The rest of us – the healing nymphs that healed the sick and wounded, the beast nymphs who communicated with animals, and the metal and rock nymphs who could form various little things – were not useful every single day, and it made us feel bad sometimes. The band always tried to make us feel better, talking about how without the beast nymphs we wouldn't have peace with animals, or how without the metal and rock nymphs we couldn't form weapons for the others to use, or how without my kind, we couldn't heal as quickly. I always rolled my eyes at that.

When had I been useful? Some of the elder healing nymphs certainly were useful when it came to healing people, and my mother and father had been fantastic healers when the band needed them, but I was useless. I wasn't necessary. I healed cuts and scrapes and the common cold just fine, but any more than that and I was as helpless as an air nymph with clipped wings.

Mikasa must have picked up on my change in mood, because the vine closest to me reached over and stroked my face.

"God, Mikasa! I'm fine! Stop it!" I moved away from the vine and sat down on my bed. It was a one room house, like all the other nymph houses where there weren't children. Mated nymphs who had children had a two room house so the parents could have some privacy when mating. My half of the room was the left half, and Mikasa's was the right half. She was sitting on her bed, her silky raven wings tucked behind her gracefully, with a little tree in a pot in front of her. Both her hands were submerged in the soil.

"I would hug you but I'm with this plant right now. The vine is all I can manage. Eren, accept your sisters love." She was teasing me. The vine closest to my bed stroked my face. It was soft and almost felt like a human finger. I leaned away after a moment.

"There." I huffed, laying down on my stomach. Mikasa hummed.

"What's that?" I asked about the pot.

"A new species I'm making." She smiled at me, the top of her mouth just barely visible over the red scarf. "It's going to be a sweet fruit that will hopefully survive in the winter on its own." Wow. This was the kind of shit I was talking about. She was making food for us to last the whole winter by making a whole new fucking species. I snuggled my face down in my crossed arm, feeling awful for a second.

"Healing nymphs are important" She said gently. She knew how I felt about my nymph type.

"They are only important once someone is hurt, which rarely happens cause we are so careful and know the forest so well, Mikasa."

"Eren-"

"And even then, it's the elders that are useful, not me. I can barely heal and god damn papercut."

"Eren! That's not true and you know it!" She reached a vine out and smacked me. Ugh, vine smacks hurt. The mark it left healed before the vine was back in it's place.

"Is that why you keep taking so many risks? You feel like you're not important, so it doesn't matter if hunters kill you for your wings?"

I sat up. "No, Mikasa, I 'take so many risks' because I want to meet a human!" She gasp, taking her hands out of the pot.

"Eren!"

"I mean it Mikasa! I want to know. All I do is sleep and eat. I'm not useful like you and Armin. I want to meet a human and see if I can make peace! I want to help!" I started crying. I stood up and started to head to the door.

"Eren!" She scrambled to her feet. I ran away from her, taking off into the air. I wasn't as fast as her, but I could fly higher than her. She couldn't go as high because the air was thinner up higher and her muscles would quickly reach their limit. I could heal as I flew, so I had more freedom. It was a risky thing to do, since if I reached my healing limit while so high up, I could drop right out of the sky. She didn't pursue though, allowing me to run away like I always did.

I headed straight for the humans' lands. I would show them all how useful I could be! I would make friends with a human and in doing so, unlock the doorway to peace!

As I flew, the landscape gradually changed. The forest faded into fields, then the fields faded into castles. The humans lived in these big rocky structures on the ground. They were so intimidating and cold looking. I always wondered if they kept the tree parts inside the rocks or what?

I thought a lot about humans. I knew only about the hunters, and that was stories of warning from the elders. The hunters traveled on horses and shot down any nymph they saw. They would track us down to where we fell and drag us back to their castle. There they would cut our wings off and sell them and keep us. The elders said we would be caged up in those dark stone houses and that once the hunters cut our wings off, they used us as servants and made us do awful things. I thought that wasn't true though.

I saw the humans as little dots on the ground. They looked harmless enough. There hadn't been a nymph taken by hunters in over a decade now. Maybe they wanted peace. I was determined to find out. The sun set very soon, so I knew I had to move fast.

I flew lower to the human's lands, knowing they could see me now. I saw the dots grow in size as I got closer, and now could make them out as people. They stopped and pointed at me. A few screamed. One climbed up and rang a bell. I wondered if that was a welcoming bell or if it meant something else. I flew past the castles and turned back, circling lower. Now I saw a group of humans in green capes with wings on the back riding toward me on horseback. Those wings on the back of their cape! They must be here to welcome me.

I flew toward them, smiling. I got closer and closer to the leader. I was so excited! I was preparing to land when I felt pain shock through my body. My right wing was on fire, and my instincts kicked in. I flew up higher, trying to head up. Blood trickled from the wound in my wing. I had been shot! Why would the shoot me? Could it be these were the hunters? They were on horseback!

I heard them shouting, and felt the bullets whizzing around me. I tucked my wings as far back as they would go awhile still being able to fly. My whole right side throbbed and my left side was numb. I was going down soon! I looked for a safe place and decided the forest on the outskirts of the human land would have to do. I made a mad dash for it, getting shot twice more in the process. I tumbled into the treetops, crying out in pain as my wings were twisted and snapped on the branches.

If only Mikasa had been around…I thought as I laid on the ground with my crumpled wings twitching and leaking blood in a pool around me… she could have made a vine net to catch me.

My eyes fluttered close.

Levi POV

"Find him!" Erwin yelled at us.

"Yes, Commander!" We shouted back. We had all been shocked when we heard the alarm bell ring. We were even more shocked when we saw him. Stupid brat flew right toward us. I wondered what the hell he was thinking…

We spread out to comb the forest where he went down. I could hear us crashing through the dark forest rolled my eyes. He would be able to hear us if we kept crashing through the forest like this! Erwin probably didn't care. He was worried about speed, not stealth. He wanted a pair of wings on his mantle. He had gone a little nymph crazy lately, probably because he would soon be too old for the hunt and he wanted a pair of wings to match the pair his father had gotten, and his father before him, and his father before him.. blah blah blah. I wondered why I had even dated him sometimes.

Well… he was good in bed.

I kept searching, making sure to stay silent and touch all the trees I could reach. Odds are he bleed on a tree on the way down. Find his blood, find him. I wondered if the others were doing this. Probably not… They were from here, they didn't ever have to do this in life and death situations. I wasn't from here, I was from a place dubbed the underground, even though it was on the surface. It was called that because it was like hell. I needed all the stealth skills I could develop there, and I had developed many.

I patted down all the trees until I found a wet one. I brought my wet hand to my mouth and licked it. Blood. Bingo. I listened for movement, but all I could here was those idiots crashing around far away. They were even moving in the wrong direction. I rolled my eyes, crouching down to the ground. I took out my dagger, keeping my grip on it tight. With my other hand I felt along the forest floor until I found the edge of a pool of something wet. I licked my hand again. Blood.

I smiled in the dark. Here he was. I kneeled in the pool of blood and reached out in the darkness. It didn't take long before I felt feathers. I froze, one hand on the twisted bone of his wing. Nothing. He was unconscious then. I felt along his crumpled wings, feeling the bones in the, twisted out in sick angles. I finally found his skin. It was so cold and clammy. It was doubtful he'd live with him in this state.

I put away my dagger and rolled my arms underneath him, I flipped him onto my back and carried him out of the forest. I guess I had to bring him to Erwin now. He would chain him up and wait until his wings had healed before slicing them off.

I laid him down in the moonlight at the edge of the forest. I looked over him. He was just a kid, for fuck's sakes. I wondered if he even knew what he was doing when he flew into our space. He had smooth, dark skin, with his hair just a few shades darker brown. He looked so peaceful, especially compared to the look of terror that had come over his face when Erwin had first shot him. I stroked his wings, feeling the dampness from the blood. They were the same dark brown as his hair, and fluffy looking. I figured they felt fluffy, too, when they weren't twisted like a pretzel and matted with blood.

I hummed to myself.

"Anything down there, Levi?" I heard Erwin call out from far away. He was standing at the edge of the forest far down to the left. I doubted he could see me. I opened my mouth to call out that yes, I had found something.

"Erwin!" I called. I stopped. Would he be awake when Erwin slid the knife through his wings? Would he struggle, screaming in pain?

"Levi!" I heard movement his way and knew he was coming over here.

"There's nothing down here!" I screamed. I turned away from the nymph and ran toward Erwin. I had to stop him before he hurt the kid. Erwin met me with a lantern in the middle.

"I found signs that he moved left and fast, too." I lied to him. His eyes lit up.

"Where the men are now?"

"Yes. The tracks where deep, so he's moving fast that way." Erwin's eyes flicked down to my hands and knees and I cursed that they were stained with blood.

"Is that his blood?" Erwin's eye narrowed.

"No. I found a dead animal. I thought it was him when I found the blood, but it was just a carcass." He hummed. I needed to lie better.

"I think it was some sort of cattle." He peered behind me into the darkness. I needed to lie even better.

"I strongly suggest that you go ask Mike if any of his cattle had gone missing. We can't afford to lose any more cattle." Erwin nodded.

"You're absolutely right, Levi. I will ask Mike as soon as we catch it." I shuddered inwardly. Erwin called that beautiful boy it. He smiled at me.

"Want to help us look over here?"

"I'm going to track his path from inside the forest. I'll follow his footsteps exactly."

"You're our best tracker Levi, we're depending on you." With that, he left me in the dark. I ran back over to him. I stroked his face gently in the moonlight.

"Liar." I froze. That wasn't any who I knew.

I looked at his lips, seeing them parted with a little blood trickling out of the corner.

"You lied for me." His lips moved again. I jerked my hands back. He was alive!

"There's no way you could have survived those shots and the crash landing!" I said.

"I'm a healing nymph." He coughed up more blood. I stared at him. His eyes fluttered open and I gasped.

Big, beautiful emeralds were sparkling at me… there had to be at least a thousand shades of green in him large eyes. It took my breath. He smiled at me with blood all over his teeth.

I thought about Erwin. I thought about this nymph here in front of me. He was still too hurt to fly. I could still bring him to Erwin. I looked at his eye again… such innocent, trusting eyes… He had smiled at me even though I was part of the group that shot him…

What was I to do?

If i pick this one, I'm still not sure if I'm gonna have levi turn eren in or not...