If Eren would've had the word in his vocabulary, he would have said he was 'different'.
His family was a very large one. He met new ones almost daily, but only few of them spoke to him. Some of them took him on their palms and made cooing sounds, but that was all. Luckily his closest family member spoke, though not so fluidly like Eren did, even though it was the one who had taught him to speak.
"Hungry?" it questioned. Eren shook his head visibly and resumed to stare at the glistering water which disappeared into the horizon. 'Ocean' as it was called.
"I want swim", he declared suddenly, rising from the crouch he was in and skidding along the gigantic arm to get to the ground. The hand pressed to the ground to let him down easily, and Eren ran to the water without much thought, diving instantly after getting deep enough. For some reason his family hated water, but he rather liked it. Very much. If there only was a better word for the feeling he got when he was underwater, because he felt like 'like' wasn't strong enough.
In the ocean were creatures that his mama called 'fish' after a while of thinking. Eren liked watching them swim and he wondered how it felt to be covered by such skin as they were. He was never fast enough to catch them, but he never tried. He just swam after them until he had to return to the surface.
When he swam up to the surface to gasp some air, he noticed that his mama wasn't leaning to the giant tree like it was earlier. He didn't actually see any of his family at the moment, which wasn't unheard-of, but rare nonetheless. After a moment of contemplating he decided to head to the land. He was curious to know what was happening and it was easier to see if he climbed to the tree.
He was just about to reach the point where his feet were able to touch the sandy bottom when he heard loud crackling sound and a loud thump from the forest. Steam and dust rose from somewhere underneath the treetops and Eren let out a terrified gasp.
Few snapping sounds and a roar of one of his family member's later something flew towards the water. Some kind of strings tried to grasp at anything before it would fall to the ocean, but they detached from the creature and left it to fall into the water. It flailed at the surface few seconds before sinking underwater, leaving Eren confused about what he should do. In the end he swam to the place where he saw the creature land and dove after it.
After diving many years without closing his eyes, the water didn't bother his eyes when he headed to the bottom, seeing something darker there but not being able to what it was because of the blurriness. The pressure rose and he was finally able to grasp at the thing to get it back to the surface. It looked like a miniature version of his family, but that was the only thing he could notice before something slashed him across his ribs. He yelled in pain and accidentally let the air from his lungs, getting his mouth full of salt water. He was able to close his mouth before it reached his lungs, but he felt already dizzy. Blindly he tried to get a grip from the thing before him, grabbing onto it and starting to pull it to the surface. It was heavy, and when he was finally able to break the surface he gasped and brought the creature's head from underwater just to meet wide and dark eyes staring at him. The creature was still conscious to Eren's surprise, but when it coughed water he didn't waste time and started to head for the land with strong kicks while trying to keep them both from sinking and drowning.
In the end Eren was able to get the creature from the water, and instantly understood why it had been so heavy. Large objects were attached to its sides and it was covered in weird material which seemed to press heavily into it on some points. Different colors separated the fabrics and Eren could only wonder what their meaning was.
The thing spluttered something and he was starting to get nervous because he didn't know what to do with it. It beat its own chest and sounded like it was trying to cough its lungs out, and after awhile it just kind of slumped. Uh oh.
Eren was thinking hard to come up with some way to help the other, and after taking a deep breath he did come up with something. Carefully he placed his own mouth on the other's and tried to blow some air into its lungs. When it was harder than he thought he cocked its head so the mouth opened and its neck was straight, and this time he was able to get the air needed to rise its chest. It gasped and resumed to breathe on its own and Eren felt like he had just made some kind of miracle.
After making sure the creature seemed to be fine he sighed and backed away. Sharp pain cut through his side and he whimpered when he saw the gash that oozed blood. The adrenaline had made him forget the pain, but now he wondered what to do about it. And where did it come from? He didn't need to wonder it too long when the creature next to him made a lurching move to the side and vomited seawater on the sand. Eren decided to ignore the wound for now because it didn't even bleed that much anymore, and instead started to take the heavy things off the creature's sides. After awhile of huffing and trying he just ripped the leather around its hips with a sharp stone. It did nothing.
In the end he cut every single strap which he saw and was finally able to detach the brown things surrounding its body with the heavy things. He dumped them next to a rock and started to drag the creature to the forest where it would be warmed and drier. The fabric on it was wet and probably uncomfortable, but Eren wasn't going to start taking them off. The brown things were hard enough.
"Fricking water..."
Eren turned surprised from the fire to the creature lying on the ground. Did it just say 'water'? So it could speak?
The black haired creature tried to sit up but seemed to think again and just resumed lying on the leaves Eren had piled for it. After a moment of silence it however seemed to snap out of it and almost jumped to its feet, luckily being next to a tree so it could get support from it to avoid falling right after it. The same dark eyes stared at Eren making him uncomfortable, but he didn't avoid them. After awhile the creature blinked and whispered: "What the...?"
A sound of heavy footsteps made it hiss something and dart its eyes upwards. Eren was confused why it seemed so distressed by the sound of normal footsteps, and when it dashed to the side and out of the light to avoid a familiar hand he was even more confused.
"Mama wait", Eren said loudly causing the hand to stop, hovering over the creature. It was hunched over and was obviously having trouble with standing up while coughing. Eren felt bad for it and stood up to help it back near the fire.
"It human", his mama growled and moved its finger in grabby motions. He just pushed the hand away and kneeled next to the creature, linking its hand over his shoulder to drag it back. It didn't seem to want the help though, and jabbed him straight to the ribs where the wound was. This caused Eren to cry out and fall to his knees in pain, withdrawing his arm from the human to wrap it around his middle. He crawled a bit farther away from it when his mama grasped the human from the ground and shook it angrily.
"Wait! You titans can talk?" it suddenly yelled when the shaking paused. Eren's mama gripped it more tightly making its breathing wheeze but it didn't say anything that showed it was in pain.
"We not speak for humans", it answered steadily.
"He's a human." A cock of its head towards Eren.
"Me?" Eren asked incredulously. He, a human? Well that was stupid.
"Why you think he human?"
"He has genitals."
Now Eren was confused. Geni-whats?
"Does he eat humans too?"
"He eat plants. No meat."
"I'm here!" Eren whined.
His mama squeezed at the human causing it to make a "gah!"-sound before dropping it to the ground.
"Eren not human. Not from walls, not human."
"You can be human even if you aren't from the walls. Where did you find him?" the human asked while sitting up.
"My baby Eren", mama said before walking further away. Eren looked at the human cautiously and stood up to follow after his family member, but the pain made him hiss lowly. He stalked slowly next to the fire and took some leaves to put on his re-opened wound. He didn't feel like helping the human anymore.
"Is your name Eren?"
He stiffened but didn't answer, a bit put out because of the conversation that had taken place just moments ago. He just put a few roots in his mouth and chewed on them, trying to ignore the human.
After awhile it returned to its place on the leaves and Eren pretended he didn't notice.
What is this weirdness? :O I got an inspiration for a RiRen fic and decided to start posting it. So, what do you think? :) Please tell me about typos because I suck at betaing D: