The Weirdest One Yet

Chapter 1

Where the hell am I...?

Levi felt rough and textured surface under his hands. He looked around and saw that he was surrounded by tall trees. Down below, the floor. He stood up on the branch and analyzed the situation. He knew that he couldn't jump down from the branch, he would most certainly die. But he also couldn't wait to be found and devoured by titans. He hated being powerless. He hated being so prideful. He hated truly hated the feeling. And he regretted going after that 15 meter-class titan. He berated himself for being so stupid. He thought he could kill it alone. His squad told him not to go and this is where his pride got him. Stuck in a forest teeming with titans.

He didn't know how long he would last. I'm mostly likely going to starve to death if I am not eaten by those filthy creatures. That titan lured me out. It's probably intelligent. It knew that I would attract titans, it knew, and it wanted me to suffer a painful death. Damn you...!

Levi knew that his teammates wouldn't go looking for him, it was no use hoping for it. They knew that there was no chance of survival in the Titan Forest. The Scouting Legion also couldn't allow anymore soldiers to die. The amount of new recruits this year was dangerously low, not that Levi had expected anything different. It was common knowledge that you would die young if you joined the Scouts and lives are precious. Levi scowled before sighing heavily; he was alone with his thoughts.

He fell down as the tree shook. A titan is climbing...?! He scrambled to the body of the tree and clutched it as tightly as possible. Levi saw a hand reach out to him and felt it wrap around him. It was crushing him. He let out an agonizing scream as he was crushed. His vision was clouding and spots appeared. He felt the hand slacken after a while and ultimately release him. Levi fell to the floor, coughing and retching and clawing at his throat. He was hyperventilating, thinking of the days ahead of him. They were going to be torture. He knew he would die at the end, there was no need to sugarcoat it. But he was human and a human's instinct is to survive. Levi wanted to survive, he didn't want to die. He tried to calm himself down, running his hands through his hair.

He was awoken by a violent shaking.

Levi accepted his fate. If the gods wanted him to die like this, then so be it. He began to remember his old friends, Isabel and Farlan, and how they had died similarly, leaving Levi alone in this cruel world. He thought of their reunion in the afterlife, how glad he would be to see their faces once again, to feel their embrace. The tree stopped shaking and the titan who saved him knelt in front of him. Levi looked at it and stood. The titan's face was almost touching his own, its breath warm and nasty. He punched it, startling himself as he did. Rage overcame him as he questioned it.

"Why me?" Levi's voice continued to become louder as he screamed. "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SHOW UP? WHY DIDN'T YOU EAT ME?" Levi continued to shout violently and accusingly. He whispered in a small voice while glaring at his feet. "Why didn't you let me die?" He stood silently waiting for a response he knew would never arrive.

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Levi didn't know how long he had been stuck in that tree; it could have days, even weeks, but it didn't matter. Knowing wouldn't change the fact that he was ravenous and thirsty. He had grown used to the titan who lay not far from him, its chest rising and falling as in basked in the moonlight. Levi took this opportunity to study it. The titan had a muscular but lean build, less than shoulder-length brown hair and, when it was awake and peering at Levi inquisitively, emerald blue eyes.

Levi was very confused when the titan did not eat him, he thought it was just studying him before digging in. Maybe it thought he had weapons and was playing dumb. Or maybe it was stupid. Probably that last one.... Levi thought of Hange and how she would fangirl if she was here. They had never heard of a titan who did not eat humans. She would capture it and run many experiments on it. First, she would look at its muscles. Then, his face. There was no skin covering its mouth so they would be able to see all of its teeth. A wave of sadness washed over Levi. As much as he insulted her, it was strange to not hear her annoyingly loud voice, talking about titans and her oh-so-precious Sonny and Bean.

Levi shook his head and look at the sky. It was littered with stars, both big and small, and the moon was illuminating the forest, making it appear otherworldly. And in a sense, it was. The distant sounds of a stream nearby and the soft chirping of crickets proved it. But even more, the giants that resided here. They were awake when the sun shone and resting as it set. Levi was relieved when the moon came out. The titan next to him also fell into a deep slumber, it could cause no harm to him like that. He felt it shift in its sleep and took note. If he ever say Hange again, he would be sure to tell her all about it.

Levi soon succumbed to the abyss known as sleep, a smile on his face as he thought of his squad and their gleeful faces.