A/N Hey everyone! This 1st chapter any good for you guys~? Yes I know some may be confused to why this is a Levi x reader when I'm focusing on you as a reader first. But I wanted to rule out your life first as the main character then a few chapters later you will be prepared for the survey corps to be mentioned and seen in action. I hope you all like your new companions for the future chapters 3
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1st person
(Y/N) POV
The sounds of soft twitters and hums of the birds filled my ears as I awake from my long slumber, bucking my sheets off and adjusting my eyes to the burst of light the sun gave to disappoint my morning even more. Quick yawns exchanged here and there as I wondered myself out of my room to the kitchen where my dad was serving a small plate of bacon and bread towards the doorway to the stairs as if already noting my presence. "You already expected me, huh?" Was all I could mumble out at the time as my thoughts were still asleep.
"Do you even know how late in the morning it is, (y/n)?" In this day and age you could hardly tell specific times even by watching the sky. With a huff I accepted the meal and leaned against the near by dining table and blindly stared at him. True to himself he hated late mornings, practise, practise, practise, not to get a head of myself but I'm the strongest warrior and I knew it, I didn't need my extras, tsk, silly dad.
"I'm too sleepy to bother knowing but let me guess, my practise hours have already started?" With annoyance his sigh she already knew he wasn't happy with the question and nodded as a response. My training hours were strict with my father, he practically made me the soldier I am, despite the harsh scars I had left in my mind, could you imagine being either chained, beaten and forced to run miles on end without a break just to make you stronger? Tsk, please you ain't seen anything yet.
"You know how important it is to ke-" "keep your role as the strongest leader in case something happens to you or there's too many people useless to get the job, right?" Quite a mouthful in my opinion but I just made it past the skin of my. Great... He's frowning, ain't a good thing in the mornings. All father could really do was practically facepalm himself towards me. Jeez I get it. "Look dad, you're a strong man too, you aint dying anytime soon!" I somewhat growled back like the angry teen I am, just pissed me off with the amount of possibly on my damn shoulders.
"But in case it does... You need to be ready to lead these people..." I hate it when he gets serious but he's right, anything could really happen in the course of attacking giant humanoid killers and the age your at, natural death I suppose. As the air grew silent with us I swiftly grasped one of the cups of tea he had laying at the kitchen side and devoted my attention more to the luxury.
"Look dad, I am trying to take this seriously, honest, I just need a day of the week where I can be myself for awhile..." With a huff of embarrassment, because showing my emotions isn't as easy as 1, 2, 3, I dragged myself over to the pile of uniform clothing, getting ready for the day ahead. Although I was stopped by my father's hand at my shoulder.
"Before you go off... I got something for you" The glint in his eyes made me somewhat scared, hoping it wasn't special training like it usually was as a 'special present'. With the wide smirk plastered on his face I watched him sneak over to the back of his wolf fur textured chair and rattle a couple of... bars...? Well that's what it sounded like anyway, a cage? An animal? Oh god don't get ahead of yourself girl...
"I just thought... You could use a companion other than just your friends to help at your expeditions" What's an animal going to do in order to make my life easier... Tsk. To my surprise the object actually was a cage... Wait... A bird cage?! The bars were pure silver in a large structure of an oval, covered by a thin layer of cloth.
"W-What's in the... cage...?" Excitement somewhat ravelled within me, it was obviously a bird cage, so it was a bird of course, no tricks I hope... To be fair, a scouting partner able to accept commands is a leader dream if it were an animal. "I can already tell it's a bird..."
"Well of course, my dear girl, but what breed is what your looking for in this equation" My father somewhat winked at me, what's going to be so special about it anyway...? As soon as the cloth was flatly thrown off my eyes couldn't help but gaze at the gorgeous buzzard in front of me. It somewhat reminded me of a budgie and a falcon breed. It's beautiful top half of feathers were in a flourishing clover green that tinted into an array of blue, purple and slight red, then a mixture of rainbow to it's fluffily hanging tail feathers. It's chest was more tinted by it's colours close to the sun, it's cheeks an adorable shade of pink and eyes more blue than any oceans and sky combined. It's up rested crest twisted itself to the sight of me and stared quite loyally. "It's quite an unknown specimen, this is why I trained her away from your sight to make sure you had the more mysterious and skilled companions any leader could have" My father slowly rested the creatures claws at his thick over sized hood sleeve to avoid damage from the giant claws it displayed.
"S-She... S-She's...! Beautiful father..." This creature truly was nothing of a bird I had ever seen even in the deepest of the forest before... The feeling of respect and gratitude fluttered in my heart for my father. "She's really mine...? What's her name?" Luckily my father didn't name her just yet... Her array of colours really wanted me to name her Crystal for how neon and dark they seemed to emit in the light.
"I chose to leave that to you, (y/n)" Oh thank god! Well that settles my temptation. I slowly strolled over to the buzzard as it playfully spread its span to show off it's colours, accepting it as a sign of submission, curling my fingers gracefully along the feathers, careful not to damage or pull any in success. It's texture surly felt like fur in my opinion or fluffy if you didn't prefer to pronounce it as that.
"Thanks... I choose... Crystal" Even 'Crystal' seemed to enjoy the name as much as me towards the meaning behind it, nodding it's head and squawking softly not to be too noisy. Intelligent bird...
"Crystal~! Cheep~" Well that was unexpected... Crystal somewhat copied me back and latched off of my fathers arm and onto my shoulder, gently not to dig it's claws into me. "(y/n)~ Squawk~" Yep now it reminds me of a parrot...
"Hahaha! Such a beautiful name for a beautiful bird. Now go get changed dear, only then before your training will I show you what she can do" With a teasing wink and a whistle both my father and crystal shifted themselves away to the doorway as he greeted some of the villagers with a cheerful greeting as Crystal hid herself away to be undetected.
I swiftly grabbed my clothing and travelled fast to properly wash my (s/c) thoroughly, I wasn't one for being dirty, driving myself to a state of perfection... okay not perfection not everyone can... Anyway, after my daily business I grasped at my symbolled hoodie, the Unilluminated Anchors' symbol was more of a lone anchor with a shield pattern, plastered on the background, it was simple yet effective to the name. Ugh off track, gotta get ready, fast! Shaking my head out of thought I layered myself in my military uniform only to be embarrassingly see I had forgotten my ribbon belt that held the blouse and leggings. "Well crap... forgot my ribbon!" As if right on cue, Crystal whistled from downstairs, appearing at my doorway with the ribbon in her claws, gracefully swooping at my cloth bed and dropped it. "Smart ass bird..." I mumbled, a little terrified by it's intelligence but the bird whistled happily in service and propped herself at my shoulder.
With a swift run to the outdoors I shut and locked the large hut behind me and my father, already watching him wander off without me. "Great... The day something good happens and he's STILL Mr. Proud Sargent..." To which Crystal gives a small nod in agreement and whistled a small giggle as we both followed him into the forest.
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A messenger pigeon was an understatement to call Crystal, she could practically carry a sword even with her size! We did a few tests to test Crystal at most if she could keep up with my speed and agility among the trees; I've never known a bird like her to keep up with a human as fast as any of us that's for sure... I pushed myself for an hour to try and out run her and she didn't even sweat or have to relax her wings... What a specimen she was.
We also tested her durability to carry items like my sword from earlier, easiest thing it could do, only carry a satchel with some medical supplies was somewhat her limit, a great scour and battle partner it seems. Later on after that we both trained together with my father to do some exercises to boost durability, speed and stamina for us both and call and response which is a classic call out to your partner to which they signal that partner to follow, stay, or help with assistance, throughout that bird knew ever damn thing, made me jealous that it had a human like brain...
Anyway after the exhaustion we both hit the path to the mountain side usually where me, Lachlan, Joshua, Guryon and Jessica hang out for discussions on their day, but this time with Crystal, it will be the talk of all time!
I carefully explained to Crystal about the situation that she was a surprise to my friends and decided to find behind a small rock that was currently behind the group. Making a lame entrance to the conversation made it seem off honestly. "H-Hey guys~!" With a clumsy childish attitude that's already pushed their suspicions, I'm really not one to be happy or show emotion, ever... Joshua flashed me a toothy grin as I battered myself mentally.
"Well look who it is, 5 minutes late... And in a seemingly good mood!" The roll of my agitated eyes was enough to make him back off and scratch at his nape at the out burst, watching as Jessica and Guryon enclosed their hands over their mouths to hide any source of noise and of course Lachlan, sat, as always, watching the view intensely not paying attention.
"Yea, Yea, asshole, take a photo it will last longer..." Imitating the stance of a painter, Joshua giggled to himself as his hands ran through the air as if her were a painter and shot me a look that somewhat pissed me off, he was too smart for his own good...
"Anyway what's the news, your happy after all" Indeed I was, I was getting Goosebumps thinking of their reactions to the bird, the one thing I was afraid of as if she were to be stolen from me, I knew they wouldn't thought... Joshua might...
"Well, I have someone to show you" With the enthlasis on 'someone' that made Joshua's eyes glow and snigger from the corner of his mouth, next thing I knew Guryon and Jessica were up in my face asking if they were a boyfriend! "No! You idiots, not like that, Jesus!" I playfully shot hem a smirk as I roughly pushed them back at Joshua or stumbled into a rock, embarrassingly rubbing at the pain in his back where he fell, hiding his face away from the laughter that soon came from Jessica and Guryon.
Jessica was the one to give me her attention next and waved for me to listen. "Well... Come on! Who or... What is it?!" You could seen the excitement emitting off her eyes and her speech. Alright, time to give in.
"Fine, fine... Crystal~!" I sent a signal with her 'follow' order in form of a whistle from me, feeling her wings flat elegantly from behind the rock Joshua had stumbled at, watching his mouth gape as much as the other two as she perched herself at my shoulder, pecking at her emerald feathers.
"(y/n)~!" Crystal whistled back in a soft melody that made Lachlan turn and gaze a the creature, not much awe was coming off from his expression as much as the other three though you could tell he was interested and intrigued.
"How the hell did you get that!?" Jessica rushed herself over to pet the buzzards crest to which Crystal purred, strange... Joshua too grazed his hand over the fluffy tail and had a large grin just like Jessica.
"Father had her in reserve for me, she's well trained to attend in my combat and expeditions" The buzzard shyly leaned against my head to hide her crest into my hair while she purred at my presence, flailing he wings at the warmth of the sun that made her feathers shine neon quite brightly. How adorable... I gently rested my hand upon her crest and softly massaged, increasing the purr.
"We should totally try that out in next practise!" Guryon squeaked out like a girl as he stared at Crystal in awe, she wasn't yet sure about their touches though, she seemed scared at the sudden attention. Just like me then... Attention is the worst.
"Oi! Stop scaring the creature!" Lachlan exclaimed as his presence entirely made them back off away as he stood and watched the bird instantly nodded a 'thank you', squawking joyfully. Next thing we knew we were all laughing at Crystal's reaction and having a laugh at how connection Lachlan seemed to be with her. "You do know that Crystal is a mythical bird, right? And the first I've ever seen since the books in our class" He was right, I remember reading the same book about the titans and mythical animals that still lived, well, rare encounters. Crystal was a phoenix bird, kind of stupid, right? I mean she's not a bird on fire...
"A phoenix bird..." I whispered under my breath as I gazed up at Crystal's loyal stance. "But why call them that if they aren't on fire..." I somewhat frowned at Lachlan, you can't give a breed an exciting name like that and expect some sort of disappointment, Crystal was one of a kind to me though, fire or not, I wouldn't swap for the world.
"Actually... That's where your wrong, (y/n)" What...? Lachlan stared at Crystal the entire time observing her wings and vibrant colours, even forcing her wings apart to reveal her wing span as if looking for something in her feathers. "Strange... I'm only going to be honest though" His expression seemed serious enough for me to turn stiff as we all payed attention. "Phoenix birds actually CAN go on fire, I'm just surprised that Crystal is not..." I guess you can't expect a huge amount for mythical creatures, who knows what other breeds have mixed within them.
"Maybe she gets her fire later on in age...?" Guryon suddenly spoke up, addressing a smart idea about her, father didn't tell me her age to be fair... Maybe it's hard to tell. I'll get her to my special vet who I take Midnight to later on in the evening, catching my thoughts off, discussing about Crystal.
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"Maybe she's a late bloomer" It's all I could think of at the time but they all seemed to agree with me. A few moments later out of no where, the sound of an emergency horn was signalled through out the forest, these horns are given to all squads of the regiments, so yes I have one too, in case extra people is needed. "That's the Revelation Fleet!" I quickly rushed myself back down to the path leading down from the mountain side to the village again noticing the rush of the Revelation Fleet on their horses in the middle of the village, watching them rear in fear. What the hell would of spooked them. "Hey! What the hell is going on!?" My voice screeched in disappointment, watching one of the female squad leaders trot over and huff for air.
"I'm sorry, miss (y/n)! But there's these... Wolves outside at the northern hunting site! But they have a massive one with them, looks like a dire wolf miss! We can't fight something as ancient as tha-" Just before she would continue her rant, her eyes scanned over the magnificent legendary bird on my shoulder. "S-Scratch that last part, looks like you found an ancient creature...! but miss, I'm not lying to you when I say this creature is huge!" Well of course, a dire wolf is pretty much a more ancient and larger wolf than the original grey wolf.
"Alright, alright, we'll come with you, no one is majorly hurt!?" I hope there weren't or father won't be happy and would announce such a failure, we haven't had a casualty or injury in weeks, before scanning my eyes at a man on a horse close to hers, clutching at his leg, blood dripping onto his boots, not as dangerously than I thought, for a bit.
"No miss, well, only one of my men's legs was bitten by a wolf but nothing bad!" With a sharp nod I whistled Midnight over from his stables, the other four doing the same with theirs, Midnight of course being the fastest, he came over first, slinging my body onto the saddle and hooking my heels into the stirrups. "I'll go with you, miss, at least I can help you locate them" With a smile, she routed her horse to be in a row with us.
With the swift rearing of my horse I ordered them forward. "Alright, lets do this! Ya!" With the rough tap of my heels into Midnight's stomach he jerked into motion and sped his way out of the village, following the path that lead into different hunting grounds. Midnight's hooves trampled along the stone path until we rushed to make a swift left turn to reach closer to the north region. The air flowing past and into my (h/l )(h/c) hair giving me the relaxation to enjoy the ride for now.
"We're getting close, miss (y/n)!" As if right on cue, the sound of stern howls filled the silent morning, swiftly racing towards the sound, Crystal whistling against my shoulder as she held on with her claws softly digging into the bone of my shoulder.
"There!" The leader had scouted out a deer corpse that had been gauged upon by the wolves by the teeth marks. When we reached the corpse, however, the wolves had already been alerted by our presence and charged ahead to our horses that reared, being startled, although Midnight stood tall and stomped his front hooves to back them up, gaining Crystal's attention to release an audible and dangerous imitated growl that sounded very much like a strangled pig, all the more to be scared...
At that instance one of the wolves who were closest launched themselves at Midnight's side to try and bit at my leg, kicking it back against it's snout forced it to back into a tree as Midnight strikes it's hooves at it leg, causing it to limp away with a killer screech to signal the others of the danger, some fled, some stayed who tormented the black dire wolf that the leader had announced to the village, it seemed harmless and bloody from fang marks at its sides and limps, nor did it seem to be the alpha or fit in for that matter.
"The dire wolf...? It's being attacked by them?!" Don't get the creature wrong, it was seriously massive, four times bigger than the original grey wolves, sadly to say it was probably bigger than my height. It was outnumbered, that's the most danger for any great creature, that only gained me a new idea... "New mission, protect the dire wolf!" Everyone stared and either yelled 'the hell?!' or 'what?!'.
As I made my word very clear, I leap off Midnight and instantly rushed my way to the remaining wolves and stabbed one right at it's back, earning me a wail of pain from it, automatically kicking it to the ground to seem highly dominant to the pack, exchanging a glare to the rest of them that had already tried to run away, leaving me with the dying creature under my blade. "All you can do... Is stop I's suffering, (y/n)…" Lachlan came over from the clearing his black stallion and sighed at the pain the wolf was it, of course it didn't deserve it but it was the only way to scare them off...
"Right..." Retrieving the pocket knife I had in my ribbon belt I slowly crouched down to the pained wolf and pierced its skull with it with a clean hit, watching as it became motionless and stopped its squealing instantly. "I'm sorry..." Now's not the time to get emotional (y/n)… With the thought outta my head I turned to look over the terrifyingly massive dire wolf, observing it's injuries, they weren't fatal but they weren't good either...
"Were taking him back..." Exchanges of death glares and disappointed frowns were more than enough for them to give in and get back onto their horses, Joshua and Guryon were somewhat excited thought Jessica looked scared shitless, Lachlan wasn't the least happy with the idea but something wasn't right about this wolf... As if proving me right Crystal had launched herself off my shoulder and landed right at it's paws singing a melody to it, seeming to make it either sleepy or hypnotised.
Surprisingly they seemed to be having a conversation as the soft whimpers of the wolf filled the silence with Crystal whistling and cheeping back. "I also heard they can communicate with animals..." Lachlan mumbled under his breath only audible for me to hear, referring to Crystal's breed. Next thing I knew Crystal perched herself back on my shoulder, carefully watching the dire, same goes for us six. It was weakly standing onto it's columns, approaching me as it panted sorta playfully. With the height it was at its eyes were level with mine, which you could imagine is terrifying.
"Follow~ Join~ Cheep~!" Crystal had encouraged it to be friendly to us, reaching my hand out experimentally to stroke at its head, not even flinching away but instead slowly approaching to rest your head upon its forehead. How many fucking intelligent animals am I owning... "Ride~! Squawk~!" R-Ride...? Would it even let me do that? Midnight won't be happy... The dire reversed itself into a laying position, awaiting for me to approach, this was way too exciting... With a spring in my step I ran over with a smirk and leaped onto the wolf's back as it raised and gave us a highly audible howl that could be heard through out the forest.
"This can't be damn real!" Jessica screamed at us all as they gawked at the sight before them, obviously me, Lachlan also seemed in shock. The black wolf had exchanged a couple whines to the rest of the group as it stood beside Midnight eye level with each other, this thing was massive.
"No shit, its real!" Joshua yelled back, playfully slapping the back of her head with an 'ow!' Smirking back at my friends I gently petted the wolf's flowing mane of black spikes down its nape, I couldn't believe this creature was s big as a horse...
"Well... Lets head home!" With a surprising smile at my face, even giving everyone else a moment of silence before shouting a response of 'Hell yea!', racing past us with their horses, Lachlan before partially slower while holding on Midnight's reins. "You ready to show me what you got, boy~?" With a soft kick of my heels the colossal beast howled up at the break of the sun through the leaves, lunging itself into a run, terrifyingly it was headed straight into a tree "W-Wait, the TREE!".
I swear at that point I caught the wolf grinning back at me as it magically clawed its way up to the top branch of the tree, swift fully racing just as gracefully on foot as he was on the branches, hopping from branch to branch, catching up to the others easily. "I can't fucking believe this ha-ha! Woohoo!" The annoyance in Crystal's squawks made me laugh ever more as she struggled to cling on, hiding her crest in the crook of my neck to hold on. The others were just as surprised as me to see the beast leap from tree to tree so easily, he will definitely be a good battle partner just as Crystal... I should give my new beast a name soon, a powerful name... Maximus, the meaning, greatest.
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"No were not having him here (y/n)!" Right after we got back, you can imagine the stares and harsh looks, they were obviously disappointed with me... This is where I got into an argument with my father in front of the entirety of the villages, their leader riding a massive killer. Right now all eyes were on me, Lachlan, Joshua, Guryon and Jessica behind me on their mounts, while on my new mount, the villagers standing back dangerously distant.
"Father! I'm telling you the truth, this beast is harmless to us, even they saw it with their eyes!" I quickly pointed at my friends in fury towards my father, I knew he wouldn't like the idea but seeing it's abilities and the way Crystal connected with Maximus, there was no mistaking, he's a perfectly strong and perfect match battle companion for me. "They are your most trusted soldiers and you don't believe what their own eyes have seen for themselves, Maximus can help m-!"
"Maximus?! What the fuck, (y/n)?! Were giving your creatures pet names now are we?!" Ok now I was very close to punching my own father in the jaw... Even Maximus looked equally as angry and upset as me. "This isn't a fucking game of tag were playing, dear, this is life! With titans outside the borders, we don't have time to fuck around and get ourselves extra hands with animals who don't know any better than the titans themselves!" How fucking dare he compare Maximus to those fucking disgusting creatures! Maximus would make a promising good contribution to our army...
"Maximus would be a great contribution to my squad just like Crystal! You gave me Crystal don't forget! So what?! Crystal has to go too huh?! You don't allow her in my life anymore either?!" My voice became increasingly frustrated and disappointed towards my father, even Joshua was starting to clench his fists in the corner of my eye.
"Sir, I wouldn't lie to you..." Only then did Lachlan speak up to cover for me. "That creature truly is a skilled and gentle monster, he practically climbs those trees and flew past us just as fast as us on foot and our horses!" My father's expression became a bit more disgruntled, grinding his teeth together probably getting ready to throw his rath at us. "(y/n) showed us Crystal this morning, she as just a mere bird can do great things... And if you even paid attention to the historian books, she is a phoenix bird!" The audience around us became quite vocal wondering what that meant for Crystal or them, were they in danger with these creatures? "That means, sir, like any mythical phoenix she could burst up in flames at any given time as she at this time in moment cannot light a flame on her body" .That's when the crowd started backing away from us, kind of makes me feel like I'm being a danger to them too... I would never harm them...
"So please father... I can even show you what he can do so you can believe me!" With that my father actually tapped at his chin as his eyes were screwed tight as if he had a headache from listening to us, of course you would... Not my problem he doesn't listen. Anyway when he finally opened his eyes he gave me a gentle sigh and stare then to Maximus, whose expression became softer and more hopeful. That's when I could see my father knew he was just as intelligence and loyal as Crystal, no matter how dangerous either of them were. "Please..." I made my words become more of an echo for him in his head, right now, the only thing I could do was beg.
"Alright... I have decided... You can keep 'Maximus' BUT, we first need to train him even stronger to withstand, I understand his loyalty is quite great, especially with Crystal to talk to him in his tongue, yet still, we need to make sure call and response is in order too and that he can react to your words and understand you perfectly well, basically bonded for life." Everyone seemed to look at my father as if he were mad, on the other hand, there was me with the most surprising grin of my life so far, which only caused my father to smile at me.
"F-Father... Thank you! You won't regret this decision!" After his announcement of me keeping Maximus, father told everyone to leave and hurry back to their villages and huts and reassured them that the beast would be killed on sight if it did anything. He also shooed the others anyway with them, exchanging goodbyes and goodnights as they trotted off, sending their horses to the stables.
"(y/n), lets get one things straight... He isn't going in the stables." Silly thing to say but of course he wouldn't be allowed to go in the stables no matter how well mannered he was an shit, he would scare the horses shitless... Wouldn't blame them. I flung myself off of Maximus and crept closing to my father, giving him the biggest hug I ever gave and the biggest he had ever gained in life. "D-Don't get all mushy with me..." A gentle pet on the head send a warmth to my heart, lighting a fire that never wanted to be extinguished.
"Really... Thank you dad" With a stern nod he shuffled himself over to Maximus, who flashed a toothy grin with a soft pant like a cute dog, catching his eye straight away, placing a hand suspiciously onto his snout, who only rubbed his furred snout into his palm as a thanks.
"He's a fine animal... What are you going to do with Midnight?" Crap I forgot... Originally I wanted to keep Midnight as well but... Maximus wasn't just a battle companion, he was my new 'horse' slash into mount. I don't have the time to take care of two...
"I was thinking you should have him dad... Your the one who leads this village and the people... You deserve an animal and friend as worthy to you as much as me" Instantly he became less tense and smiled PROPERLY for once in his life, placing his hand at my shoulder as I stroked at Maximus's mane of midnight fur, rough and spiked in texture. "Plus we would both have badass mounts, but I have one that can fight alone side me, Midnight throws in a few extra kicks for credit" The first moments of riding Midnight caught in my head at that moment as he tried bucking me off and making me submit, yes I was the one who broke him when we found out how fast he was. Just the thought made me snicker too much for my own good.
"Indeed... I would never leave that horse to anyone else other than you and myself." With a quick nod he pushed me off closer to Maximus to shooed me away, giving him a confused expression. "Before you come home, you better get him checked out with Maria, in case his wounds became infected" Crap I forgot... As he brought up the subject I checked over Maximus' fur, which he was now licking at, over his wounds, small yelps separating the silence, watching Crystal latch onto his mountain of fur, observing the wounds, singing at him as if asking how he was.
"Will do father, see you in a moment" As we separated off to Maria, the specialist vet, Crystal was squawking at Maximus as they both made a lot of noise, laughing at each other it looked like? "Hey guys, that's not fair, I don't understand..." With a quick pout I nudged Maximus with my shoulder, into his chin, leaving him with his tongue dangling from his jaws, panting away. We soon arrived at a hut with a rather small paddock behind it filled with only two adult horses at the time in moment, she mustn't of been busy tonight.
"Ah! Miss (l/n)! I heard you were back in the village with a surprise for me~" With a swift turn from all three of us, there was Maria at the side of the hut with a bucket of water, probably for the horses, strolling straight over as she examined the beast from afar. "O-Oh my... A dire wolf... and a phoenix bird!? What have you been up to these fine days!" In awe she quickly skipped over and petted Maximus' ears and cheeks as if trying out his reflexes in his face, then, next, fiddling with Crystal's wings and expanding them for her span. "I-In perfect health too... As expected from a daughter of the great (f/n) (l/n)" Rolling my eyes at the title status I slowly backed her away from them both telling her it was best to discuss inside the clinic as they attracted terrible attention ever since they came back.
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As soon as Maria got us inside she swarmed me with questions about Crystal and Maximus, how I found them, how I was about to have legendary creatures under command, how they could fight, their abilities and their communications. Filling her in with the info I let it all pass and waited for her to look them both over. First she observed Crystal as she was the smallest as Maximus sat back with me.
"Well... Her wings are in perfect shape... Her feathers, of course very beautiful may I add" Maria had a slight frown at her expression as if disappointed or concerned. "As confirmed... She is a phoenix bird, but... She's not matured to get her flames" Well as Guryon suspected it, I would say he's a smart ass after all... "Other than that, miss (l/n), she is perfectly well and ready for service~" After a small pluck at one of her feathers to try and discover further why she has not yet ignited, it was Maximus' turn, after a small stumble onto one of her platforms on the ground, obviously he was far too big for the operating table.
She gently ruffled through his fur and applied an ointment to stop any infections building into the wound and stitched some up, the other half being mere scratches or scars. "And... That should do it!~ He can get back into action by the morning miss~" I still found it terrifying how Maximus was even bigger than Maria, although she is 5'2, you can tell by the comparison. Maximus trotted his way back to me, the sound of scurrying claws along stone flooring awakened me from my thoughts of tomorrow's expeditions of my own and with the Revelation Fleet, yes, another stupid duty to help them hunt for a day and collect a couple horses, though, I was somewhat happy to go, maybe I could find Crystal and Maximus, breeding partners to help Lachlan get companions too, he seemed to know well about that and hardly objected Crystal and Maximus.
"Thank you Maria, may you rest well!" Quickly thanking her and waving my goodbyes I escorted Crystal and Maximus back home, looks like they will have to sleep with me... In my room... Only until we had made proper 'beds' for them anyway. As we reached the door, I noticed how father didn't wait for me seeing how late the night had gone.. I pushed my thoughts to one side and pushed open the door and slightly had to help Maximus get his large body into the house, Crystal though flew in with ease and perched on my father's fur chair for a moment. I couldn't believe how crazy today could have gotten, all I could think about were both of them as weird as it sounded.
"Alright you two, for now you'll have to be in my room, I'm sorry, it may get crowded..." Softly scratching at the back of my nape, as they nodded, I lead them carefully up the stairs, especially careful of Maximus in case he fell, but we successfully sneaked into my room, hearing my father's snores through the cracks of his door, tsk, figures. With no time to waste I placed down one of my blankets down onto the ground next to the front of my bed for Maximus to lay upon, funnily he fitted the entire blanket, at least he could snuggle in with ease, Crystal decided to sleep into a small den I made for her in her cage, full of hay and twigs to make it seem like a bird nest, I made just before seeing Lachlan and the others, to which she settled in.
One hell of a day... Let's just hope that nothing major has to come up tomorrow...
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1st Person
Maximus POV
I watched as (y/n)'s eyes slowly closed to which she entered her dreams. I felt horrible the entire day due to the fact that I couldn't tell her or any of these people for that matter that I actually could talk... Same goes for Crystal, that's how it was so easy to communicate. With the flex of my paws I soon rise to nudge at Crystal's cage, glad to see that (y/n) didn't lock it.
"Psst... Crystal...?" Please excuse the hard tone in my voice, I can't help maturity, though my size brings it on slightly, at this moment I'm trying to get Crystal's attention, I just feel so bad that we can't tell her and I wanted to ask her if it may be okay tomorrow, though we both were just brought into this place... "Come on sleepy buzzard-brain..." A grin pierced it's way onto my jaw as I heard the ruffle of feathers and a soft girlie squeak emanate from the cage, moments later she appeared from the entrance of the cage to greet me with a frown, swallowing my pride... I'm ready for the uproar...
"Jesus, Maximus, I ain't allowed any sleep am I today...!" She carefully raised her voice to only go above a loud whisper causing a 'shh' to provoke her to be quiet.
"Listen... I was thinking... We can't hide this from her forever..." Stupid buzzard... Rolling her eyes at me... Though she was probably right to keep it a further secret. One of my paws raised themselves to catch the edge of the cage and slowly bring her closer to my snout to whisper, not to wake (y/n). "Look... Your right, we shouldn't reveal it but, were going on our first day of an expedition tomorrow, probably facing against titans-"
Yes of course we knew of those dreadful creatures, who couldn't if they threatened to make you adapt to a new home and kill most of your kind... "-you know how important these are to her... If she needs help, mere call and response works, yeah I get it, but animals who talk? That's more than a bonus for this kind of job, we wouldn't be treated just like animals, more like warriors too!" Maximus' rambles caused his head to fill with thoughts of proud praises from (y/n) and her friends and being treated like one of them, they already did but, connecting through human speech is the next step.
By the time Maximus was done, Crystal had her wings over her head pretending to have a headache. "Alright, I get it! We'll try to tell her and (f/n) about it in the morning but... Try to be casual about it and don't freak out in excitement, it may scare them" She reached over one of her wings to tickle at Maximus' nose to tease him as a joke and clawed back into the cage.
"Thanks, Crystal! Let's just hope it goes well..." With a nod of hope, he turned himself back over to the blanket (y/n) had offered him and curled up most of his body like a cat to be filled with warmth. "Goodnight (y/n)… Please don't hate us... Or (f/n)…"
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A/N Finally got it done. Don't be shy to comment and say how you feel about these chapters and your thought son your battle companions 3 I know this is going slow but it's a build up on your life first then you will go out to kill titans then meet the survey corps and Levi. That sneakiness of Maximus' POV though 3
P.S. Also if you see a mistake in my writing that has not shown up to me as an error to me, please let me known, I will still be editing as I make them too.
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