Leo opened his eyes.
"Where the hell am I?" He questioned to nobody in particular, standing up and glancing around.
He was surrounded on all sides by untouched forestry, leaves rustling with the wind, and the air was pleasant in a way he couldn't describe. It was free of pollution, unlike the air you'd find in a city.
"Okay, if this is a prank then it's a really shit one. It's actually kinda nice." Leo noted, almost wanting to thank his friends for dumping him in a genuinely amazing forest.
Leo began to stroll in a random direction, trying not to panic as he found himself going nowhere fast.
The sun was starting to set, and Leo was beginning to talk to himself.
"Jesus- how deep in this place did they put me?!" Leo shouted out loud, only to feel like an idiot when he was left with nothing but silence.
He didn't want to waste his time fucking around in a forest, he was an eighteen year old man for fucks sake! He had rent, and a shitty job at an even shittier diner, and huge amounts of college debt to pay off!
…actually, the woods weren't too bad. He missed his phone though. He was going to finish watching the Attack on Titan anime today! Even if he'd finished the manga, that didn't mean he was fine with losing the chance to watch the final episode of his favourite show!
"Goddammit Tommy- is this because of that time I dropped your phone in a river? Or, that time I took fifty pounds from you and never gave it back? Or, that time I... okay maybe I'm not the best friend in the world."
Leo was cut off from his rambling when a cry of pain rang out in the distance. He flinched away instinctively, but decided to check out what was going on. Afterall, it wasn't like he had anything better to do other than wander around like a hobo.
"Excuse me- holy shit!" Leo half questioned, only to recoil in horror at the sight of a young blonde girl with arrows sticking out of her body!
Leo approached her with caution, afraid of touching her lest he put her in even more pain, yet he still frowned as he looked over the girl dressed in dirty rags.
The girl was young and positively terrified, not that he could blame her. She could not possibly being more than twelve, and just by looking at her arms he could tell she wasn't eating right. Putting aside her malnutrition, the fact she had an arrow running through her left calf was definitely causing her a lot of pain, and the second in her shoulder was surely doing the same.
Leo reached out and grabbed her shoulder, feeling the terrified child tense under his grip, yet she didn't resist as he lifted her face to stare her in the eye. Her two pretty blue eyes full of pain and fear, that looked so very familiar to him that he-
"Ohhhh shit." Leo muttered to himself, having an idea of where he was now that he was looking at Ymir Fritz.
"Over there, the dogs can smell the little bitch!"
Leo was extremely tempted to just run away. It was the simpler option, and he had no personal ties to a fictional character. Logically, if he was self serving, he should just run away.
Leo swallowed, knowing that he needed to run like the coward he was, but found himself mesmerised by the blonde girl's eyes and how desperate she looked. She was begging him not to leave her for dead, and... dammit, he was a sucker for cute tiny blonde girls.
"You're lucky I have a bleeding heart." Leo uttered out, his heart pounding as he scooped the shockingly light girl up in his two arms and just started to book it in the opposite direction from the hunters.
Leo wasn't exactly athletic, being more of a nerd than a jock, but he was fuel by fear of death and the reality he somehow ended up in an anime- no, not even, he ended up in a place two thousand years before canon even began! He'd be long dead by the time Eren decided to kill them all!
"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, we are so fucking fucked in the- FUCK!" Leo repeatedly cursed, only to be cut off by his own screams when an arrow pierced his shoulder.
Leo looked down at Ymir, with the blonde girl deciding that she was content to shove her head into his chest and cling onto him like he was her fucking mum or something!
Leo was reeling in pain, ranting as a distraction from the immense pain he was feeling in his spasming shoulder. "Hey, blonde loli girl! You can't turn into a Titan yet, can you?!"
Her reaction was to shove her head into chest, sobbing and mumbling incoherent nonsense because she didn't even have a damn tongue. Leo sighed in pain and frustration, all but screaming out.
"Look, this isn't your fault! I'm just an idiot who wanted to help an adorable looking blonde girl, but the truth is I'm not a fucking hero! I'm not even a very healthy gu-"
Leo stopped running when he realised what he was standing in front of. An especially big tree that towered over the rest, making them look puny next to it's height and width, yet it was shaped weirdly and had a massive opening in front of it.
The sharp and jutting pain in his shoulder was momentarily forgotten, a wide and stupid grin breaking over Leo's face. "Holy shit, let's fucking go! Let's get this fucking party sta-"
Leo was once again cut off, this time by an arrow that pierced right through his back and cut right through one of his lungs. He hacked in pain, doubling over as he dropped Ymir to the ground.
Leo wasn't able to talk, his throat clogging with blood as his thoughts became delirious. He knew that he would die if he stayed put, so, with immense difficulty he managed to stand and cough out.
"F- follow me!" The blonde girl was in pain too, her head bleeding, but did as he commanded and followed closely behind him.
Stumbling forwards, Leo smelled something humid as his vision became filled with dots. He prayed that his idea would work, since he was done for if it didn't.
Coming towards a chasm filled with water, Leo suddenly gave Ymir a harsh shove that tipped her over the edge, before he jumped in himself.
The world was darkening around him, but Leo could still feel the freezing cold water at the base of the tree wash over him. It was suffocating, shocking, and felt unnatural. Gravity felt like it was reversed, and he was being dragged down to the bottom as any breath he had forced itself out of his lungs.
Ymir was panicking, but instead of resisting, she chose to keep him close. A weird choice, he'd have tried to swim up, but he guessed that worked well for him. He wondered if that weird work would have enough energy to juice him up as well, or if it could only be Ymir.
Leo felt his eyelids twitch as his nape tingled like a worm was dancing on it, and snapped them open as he could suddenly breathe again.
Fritz's men outside glared at the tree where the man and child had wondered into and snarled. "That little slave- what does it think it's doing?!"
"Ah well, just means we can pry her out of that fool's hands. Maybe we could have a little fun with her before she dies, the youngest are always the freshest." Another added, a perverted grin on his face.
The third and final hunter gave him a disgusted look. "You're a disgrace, to think that your wife would ever pick you over me-"
He was silenced as two positively humungous lightning bolts struck the tree in front of them, sending them flying backwards like helpless ragdolls, and groaned as they hit the ground. One of them was feeling his ribs crack as his horse laid on top of him.
"What was..." The second man trailed off, still surprised by the outright divine act they'd just witnessed, but that shock quickly turned to fear when a huge cloud of steam fell to reveal a horrifying sight.
Right in front of them, where the tree had toppled over, were two giants massive enough to make humans look like less than ants. Their presence alone was enough to make him soil himself, unable to move an inch as the two giants roared with enough sound to shatter eardrums.
The first was noticeably female, with a sizeable bust and other feminine traits, and muscular in ways that would look pleasant on any other female being other than the giantess herself. Her skull was, terrifyingly enough, completely skinless with hollow eyes and long flowing golden blonde hair and her nails were tipped in claws. Finally, ribs were prodding out of her stomach in a way that made his skin crawl.
The second was male, and a bit taller than the other giant, a bit more normal looking than the other one. It had a male physique, with a muscular body, though that was where the normality ended. It's skin was pale white, pure as snow, yet it's long flowing hair burned with intense blue flames that were hot enough to make his skin tingle even from a distance. It had two demonic horns that jutted out of it's forehead, and intense grey eyes that could pierce through any enemy.
They were like two gods.
The male of the two was the first to react as it looked around rapidly, only to stumble as it fell right on top of them with it's hands crushing them like bugs.
Leo grinned as he noticed how high he could see, with the world below looking positively puny, and how absolutely jacked up his Titan form was.
"Holy shit, this is pretty fucking sweet!"
He tried to ignore how hot he felt inside his Titan, savouring the fact he could breath with two full lungs, and tried to take a step forward. Only to lose his balance almost instantly.
"Shit on a stick!" He yelled as his legs gave out and he fell forwards, instinctually putting his hands in front of him to shield his fall.
The consequences of his fall were obvious, with his titanic- no pun intended- form crushing hundreds of meters of forestry as the ground below him shook like an earthquake had just hit.
Leo's face felt funny, so he grabbed at his face and started to get a feel for it's general shape only to discover... horns?
Making a weird face at how he could somehow feel, despite his titan body being akin to a mech suit, he looked to the side and noticed his hair was made of pure azure flames that made every tree near it, up to meters away, light on fire.
Trying to stand again, doing his best to focus on balance so that he didn't fall over, Leo managed to rise to his feet and brushed any dirt he could find off his form.
He could move strangely fast, especially given that, what little he knew about physics contradicted his surprisingly swift movements.
An ear piercing roar rung out from behind him, making his eardrums ache and feel like they were about to burst, but when he turned around he was greeted with the face of Ymir Fritz's Titan form.
She was lunging at him, teeth drawn, and Leo had no way to dodge in time. All he could do was raise his arms and say. "Oh balls."
The titaness bit into his right arm, tearing white flesh away only for it to heal instantly in a cloud of steam, and he responded by giving her a harsh punch to the ultra-hard skull. She stumbled backwards a little, only to roar wildly as she slashed at him with her razor sharp nails.
"Goddammit, where did I sign up for this shit?!"
Leo managed to grab other of her wrists, trying to calm her down, but she proved her brutality by giving him a harsh headbutt in return. He flinched, his grip loosening, and she took the chance to charge and tackle him to the ground.
Another miniature earthquake shook everything, destruction sweeping the whole area as trees were uprooted, but the titanised Ymir didn't seem to care. She straddled him, growling like a wild animal, before laying him with punch after punch.
"Hard to believe you're just a cute little girl in there, it's more than a bit nuts!" Leo could feel his face shudder with each blow, his face feeling like it was rattling, and his anger peaked as his hair started to shine like a blue sun.
"Goddammit, will you just get off me!"
As he screamed, burning hot flames pooled out of his mouth as right onto Ymir's face, making her scream and falter enough for him to push her backwards and onto her rear.
Leo groaned, suddenly feeling tired, but he still rose to his feet again only to see Ymir's Titan was slumped over and emitting steam, the huge body starting to dissipate into nothing but steam that scattered to the wind.
"Oh shit, I guess she'd done for." Leo noted, only to succumb to his own exhaustion as he doubled over and fell on top of the other Titan's body. His form starting to disappear, just like the other body.
This is a fic I came up with, and it's mostly crack, but maybe it'll go somewhere eventually.
