Invictus

by Case-USMC1371

When an entire village of shifters falls with but a handful of survivors, the strongest swears an oath and takes up a new name. He has made it his life mission to make the unfeeling monsters that are known as ferals, feel one last emotion before they meet there end. Pure Terror, at the sight of him. He may have been bloodied, but he remains, Undefeated.

1. Chapter 1

INVICTUS

*WARNING*

I updated this chapter, I had to correct their ages and add a legend. After continuing to work on the second chapter, I realized my main O.C.s needed to be a bit older for me to even feel comfortable with writing certain stuff that I had planned. Plus it would help explain the more mature mindset and language used.

~~~~~~ means a scene change or line brake

====== means POV change ( It will mainly mean my main man is out of the picture)

'means thoughts' while this 'means Titan speak'

"Normal speech"

So, real quick, disclaimer, I do not own Snk, obviously. This is going to be an Alternate Universe setting, which while i'm on that subject, I have to give credit to a fellow author, Scattershot98 for allowing me to use his alternate universe idea, and also for giving me a few tips. If any of you haven't read his story Wings of A Warrior, I'd recommend you go ahead and do it. It's a very well thought out and wrote story. Plus his characters a bad ass. Now I've always liked the look of the armored titan, so I added my own little twist to it to make my character really stand out. If I get anything completely wrong that does rub you the wrong way, please feel free to message me about it and let me know, if there's a reason for why it's wrong i'll let you know that, if there isn't, I would appreciate the tip so I can fix it! Keep in mind I'm still starting out as being an author but I am trying a different way of writing and planning this story so I don't hit a wall like the others!

"Hector! Hector wake up! Mom says you need to wake up!"

Being yelled at early in the morning is not something I enjoy, but being yelled at by the voice of my little sister, when she sounds like shes panicking, does give me a kick in the ass to get moving.

"Alice, what? What is going on?"

"I don't know! Mom just said go get you then she ran out the door! Everything is loud outside and I don't know what to do!"

My sweet little sister Alice. She is so, perfect, in everyone's eyes. But I can't be mad at her for that, she is my little sister, and me as her big brother, I need to always look out for her no matter what! We live in the village of Aritoct, better known as the home of the Armored Titan clan. All of my clan members are shifters, and most of them all have the same armored plates covering there bodies, head to toe. We do have some other types of shifters, but most of us are armored. Like myself for instance! My dad was so proud to see me the first day I shifted! I'm even taller then him, if only by a few meters. There's nothing really special about me, besides my silver hair, which my titan shares with me. My little sister on the other hand, was almost perfect! we're nine years apart, and i'm sixteen years old, which would make her seven years old. She has long blonde hair and a little pixie like face. She has these big blue eyes that remind you of a puppy or a kitten a bit. When she looks at you, you just cant tell her no! She was like a mini of our mother, except her hair color matched dad.

"Alice, calm down, I'll go find out what is happening." As I stand up from my bed, I make my way to the front of out little cozy home. Mom and dad are both very skilled warriors so we got to build close to the center of the village. So if something was happening, we should be pretty safe. I was not prepared however, for a giant, hairy fist to bust down the front of the house! As I jumped back away from the fist that moved away from the now hole in the house, I could see a face of what looked like a giant monkey that also had some human features.

"Aghhhhhh, hello child, do you mind coming out here, so it will be easier to smash you? No? well then, I tried asking nicely!" Chuckled out the giant beast shifter! The hell? Smash me? Why is there a beast titan in the village crashing through our house anyways!? Just as the titan started reaching inside for me, I could see an equally massive, armor plated foot connect with the side of its head! As I look up through the now destroyed roof courtesy of the flailing arms of the now decapitated beast titan, I can see long silver/brown hair on an obviously female armored titan standing in front of our home! The pattern of the armor plates easily lets me know its my own mother that just saved me. What I'm not prepared for though, is that amount of destruction I can see outside now, and the amount of titan carcass's, both beast and armored, strewn about the immediate area! Looking behind me, my sister is holding onto the back of my legs crying in fear from everything around her. I have to protect her! My mother reaches her hand down to us for us to climb on, we have done it many times before. As she lifts us to her shoulder, I can see Titans fighting all around the village, and even ferals lazily walking around! How did all this happen? Why is this happening!?

Mom starts jogging off towards the outskirts of the village and a group of Armored titans that are just beating the enemy titans without mercy or any trouble. Dad must be in that group! And it must be the chiefs guards! But why are they all the way out here, and why are we the only ones that aren't titans? What happened to all the other kids? As we approach the friendly group, a massive, at least twenty-five meter tall armored behemoth tosses an enemy beast titan like it was a pebble. That's the chief! The strangest of us all! He looks over at us and motions my mother closer to him as my father walks towards us as well. When we finally reach the two other shifters, they all pop out of there napes just enough for us to talk to each other, because me and my sister can understand titan talk while in human form.

"Meredith, are the kids hurt?" Our father, always looking to protect us, go figure.

"No dear, I managed to make it to them on time, but what of the other children? And the elderly? Where are the rest of the evacuees?" Evacuees? Why are we leaving?

"Mom, whats happening? Why are they attacking us?" I ask, I thought we were on good terms with all the other clans!

"We need to get you two to safety, the others haven't made it to us yet." The chiefs voice is powerful, just like his titan. But as soon as he finishes that statement, more ferals and beasts start charging our little group. The chiefs guards rush down the hill to meet them head on. Very few other shifters, short of a colossal, can stop an armored charge. The shear amount of enemy titans though, stops them dead. To mine and everyone else's horror, they are quickly over run and torn apart. Behind the enemy line we can see a taller beast standing almost lazily, with a victorious smirk on his face.

"Hector, I need you to shift, and take your sister, far away, run to the walls, please." My mother ordered me. Rarely did my mother ever have me do something I don't want to. Right now though, I understand the need to run. I'm so scared though. I don't know what to do. Deep inside me though, there's this little burning feeling. It is smothering that nervous feeling I have. So hopefully I can shift.

Jumping off my mom's shoulder, and with a flash of lighting, in place of my normal, armored seventeen meter frame, is a completely black armored titan. I feel heavier, and a lot hotter then I normally do when I shift. I can feel the amount of armor plates on me is significantly more then what even the chief has!

"So, he has a mutation? Can't say I'm not surprised, the boy always was unique." The chief was still half way out of his titan and staring at my new form as I looked myself over. "Maybe, you will live to see another day."

"That's my boy, now make your father and mother proud! Protect your sister no matter what happens! Always look after her!" My father couldn't help but be over joyed at my new form! His hopes for us making it out of here in one piece just rose significantly!

"Come here, Alice, Give your mother a hug before you go, ok?"

"But, mommy, I don't want to leave you! Please don't make us go!" By now my sister was in hysterics clinging to my mothers upper body.

"Don't worry my little angel, we will always watch over you. Make sure your brother doesn't get into trouble, ok? Keep an eye on him for mommy, he is a lot like his daddy!" I could see my mother tearing up as well as my father, who just now had to go back in he titan to prepare for the approaching horde. Reaching over to my mother, she nudges my sister over towards my hand. As she crawls into it, she grips my thumb like it's the most important thing in her life as she crys her eyes out even more. I slowly turn away from my parents and the chief after giving them one las nod. Determination to make it to a safe area is coursing through my body, and before I know it, I can feel a massive heat build up in my lower legs, looking down I notice what looks like armored flaps on my calves. I realize I can move them, and with a jolt of pressurized air, I get scooted forward a bit. Smiling internally, I realize a part of what the new features of my body can do. As I start running off with the massive foot steps, I can hear behind me the defiant metallic sounding roars of the three strongest armored Titans I know, clashing with the enemies that destroyed my home. As a lone tear leaves my eyes inside my titan, I open up the flaps on my legs. As I sprint forward, faster then I ever have before thanks to the new found additions to myself, I cant help but think. What if they catch me before I make it to the wall? What if I cant get over the wall? I have to stop thinking about this! I cant fail! This is for my sister! I force all other thoughts out of my head and focus solely on getting her to safety! Why my mother wanted me to run to the walls, I had no idea, but that's what she said so that's what I'm doing! I pull the hand that is holding my sister up towards my collar and place her right behind my head. I realize I can mover each and every armor plate on me, so I try to shift the armor on the back of my neck between me and the collar into a little carriage for her, so I can use both my hands and she wont fall out. After running what felt like hours I can feel myself starting to slow down. I'm just not used to this new body yet, but I cant stop now! I have to keep moving! At the speed i'm moving I should be able to reach the walls within a day!

Just as I have that thought however, I feel something connect with the back of my head hard enough to cause me to stumble forwards. I manage to catch myself before my face becomes acquainted with the ground! As I reach down towards the light brown object, fear grips my hear at what it is that hit me. Oh dear lord, what hit me, was the face plate of my very own mother! If that hit me, and it wasn't just her pulling it off to throw at me, that could only mean one thing. As I slowly look up behind me, my worst fear comes to light with that wickedly grinning face. The larger beast titan, had somehow caught up to me, and threw my mothers face at me. Which means only one thing. They're dead.

"What's the matter, mutant? To scared to even move?" His sick, smug face is sitting not even forty meters away from me. All I feel, is white hot rage building up inside me as I move the faceplate over to the side. Luckily, I can feel a cold spot on the back of my neck, which means i'm not cooking my sister alive, as I can still feel her heartbeat with the muscles of my neck shes laying on. I am now, royally, and utterly, pissed off! This beast comes into my home! Kills my friends and family! Then has the audacity to taunt me with my own mothers face! It's on you monkey looking freak show!

As I explode from where I was crouching down, the apes eyes widen with how fast I closed the gap! With a massive thud of what I could only guess was solid iron plates against the soft flesh of my tormentor, I send it flying backwards through a massive tree with a mighty crash! That's for my family, hairy bastard! I was not prepared however, for a piece of the tree to smack me square in the chest and send me sprawling backwards!

"Ha! That hurt you little piss-ant! I love it! To bad I need to end this little game!" With that the beast got on top of me and started throwing punches at my armored face. All I can do is tuck my chin and deal with the blows until I get a chance to get him off me! After what feels like a half hour of constant punches and elbows to my face, I feel something that shocks me! The bastard managed to crack my face plate! It hurt so bad! I can even feel it on my human face inside my own body! With a roar of pain, I unknowingly move some plates on my chest and force all the hot air and what looks like fire out of me and onto the hairy bastard! I'm rewarded with the smell of burning hair and flesh and the enemy shifter to be forcibly removed from my body!

"You have many tricks up your sleeves, boy! But I can get through your armor now!"

My cracked face hurts so much! I've never felt this kind of pain before in my titan form! Or even in human form! As I slowly start backing away from the hairy bastard. I notice something moving behind him! Its unmistakable! Some how, my mother had managed to survive the massacre! She was missing the armor on her face and part of her left arm. The armor all over her was cracked and missing in places as well. But that was the best thing I've ever seen!

"How, dear woman, did you survive? That is a massive feat of accomplishment in its own right."

The beast looked genuinely surprised now! With her remaining hand, she lifted it up and gave the universal symbol. With her middle finger in the air, she sluggishly got into a combat stance, ready to face her death with honor in protecting her children from this monster! Before any of us could move though, a massive spear of what seems like hardened titan flesh crashed into the ground in front of the beast. We all look up towards the canopy of trees to see a tall, extremely lanky and skinny titan sitting on a tree limb dozens of meters above the ground. Lifting its left arm it points towards the beast and wags its finger like its chastising a child!

Angry now, the beast yells out, "What do you want, Hunter!? We are busy in case you can't tell!"

'You broke the laws of the clans, and now you try to do it yet again by attacking children, I may be a huntsman, but even we follow clan law of never attacking the helpless or children.'

With that, the now identified hunter jumped in between my mother and the beast.

'Go woman, they need you to guide them until you expire.'

As the lanky titan started to clash with the beast, it was clear who was the better fighter as the hunter had the upperhand quite easily.

My mother started to make her way over. She managed to kneel before me and pop her armor on the back of her nape, or what was left of it that is. As she emerges, I can see her titan wasn't the only thing missing body parts. She's missing both her legs below the knee, but she had tied part of her shirt tightly above the missing limbs to stop the blood flow, but she was very pale. I scooped her up with my hand, but kept her in it. I didn't want my sister to see her now, who I could feel moving around behind my neck armor, still in the cold spot. As I start off running again, I catch a glimpse of what looks like a young woman up in the trees, right by where the lanky titan jumped from, for a split second, my titans red eyes meets strikingly pale blue eyes. For a second, she just stared, before I lost sight of her as I continued to run away from the fighting titans and towards the walls of humanity.

Somehow, mom had stayed awake for the next few hours, what worried me though was that her wounds weren't healing like they were supposed to. She just kept bleeding slowly in the palm of my hand, staining it red as I continued to run towards the walls. By now the walls had come into view. I was close to the place called Shinganshina, or that's what mom told me otherwise. Much to my horror though, I could see the gate was crashed open, and ferals were making there way inside! By now, i'm tired, and the wound on my face wasn't healing, just like my mothers. It was sapping so much strength from me. The only thing keeping me going was adrenaline and pure determination and the will to see my sister to safety! Making up my mind, I reach my hand that is holding my mother around the back of my neck, and place her right next to where my sister is. I still don't want her to see her condition, but I need two hands for what I'm about to do!

I start my way through the gate, and all I see is destruction all around me. Feral titans are killing the humans without mercy. I look over to my left when I hear a yell of a young child and see a fifteen meter class about to devour a woman who is kicking and screaming while two young children are seen cowering in fear in front of the destroyed house and the monstrosity! With a roar of rage I start a charge at the feral! It stops what its doing and looks over in my direction almost quizzically. As I pull closer, I can feel that same pressure build up in my right arm entirely, and glancing down I see a familiar set of flaps on my tricep and little holes on my knuckle plates! The feral just drops the human unceremoniously back into the destroyed house. Thank the lord that it was crouching down, or that fall might have killed her. As I get closer I can see an older man in some weird uniform pull the woman from the debris and start running off with the children in tow. Good, that means i'm in the clear to let loose for a second. Seeing innocent children almost lose there mother had infuriated me beyond belief, no one should have to bear witness to a loved ones death! As I get within striking distance of the oddly smiling titan, I open the flaps on my arm, and let some of the heat through my knuckles!

'Roarrrrrrrrrrrr!' With a warcry of pure rage I let my fist fly forward with the force of a comet! It impacts so hard on the titans chest, that it literally just blows apart completely with limbs flying everywhere and I can watch as its head and part of its neck go soaring over the wall behind it!

With that done and out of the way, I start lumbering in the direction that the humans ran off in, hoping that its a safe area I can leave my sister in mother while I gain them some time to flee. Right when I turn the corner of a street, I see another armored titan crash through another gate that leads deeper into the walls!

'TRAITOR!' I yell in titan speak towards the offending titan! Where was he when the village fell? Why is he here working with ferals and leading them against the humans? This is unacceptable! Only a traitor in my mind would do this! With another metallic sounding roar, I charge after the armored giant! as I get closer, I can hear my mother who had crawled out onto my collar say:

"Wait! that's a Braun, Hector! There not from the village! There must be a reason for all of this!"

Each shifter family in the armored clan has a specific armor pattern that denotes what particular family they come from, kind of like a coat of arms. As I slam my fists into the ground to stop my charge, I can see that the other titan is slightly shorter then me, a fifteen meter class. He is obviously young by the amount of plates and the thinness of said plates covering his body.

'Who are you? What are you doing here!?' Yup, whoever that titan is, is definitely young, probably around my age. Before I answer him, I notice that i'm standing in the hole of the destroyed gate. Not even fifty meters from me are other humans. I get an idea! I reach up into my collar and pluck my mother up and shift my armor to expose my little sister, who I pick up as well. I reach my left arm over towards the group that I had saved earlier, who I can see is standing right by a boat in front of a moat or lake, whatever it is, it seems like a good barrier against ferals. Ignoring the continued questions from the other armored, I slowly make my way towards the panicking humans. As I reach them, I slowly bring my hand down towards the mother, and the two children as the man readies some weird rifle. When I reach the ground level in front of them, I open my hand to show them my family in my palm. The man looks at me with clear confusion! A titan, offering a human, two humans in the palm of its hands! It's never been heard of before! And said titan had also protected a family of humans earlier!

Motioning my head like it was ok for them to take my family, i'm rewarded by the mother reaching out and picking up my sleeping sister, and the man supporting my still legless mother.

"W-w-w-what are yo-u-u?" The small boy stutters out, clearly afraid of me. Without answering him, I stand and look back into the gap of the gate. I look around for the other armored being, but

I cant even smell him let alone see him anymore. Oh, well, I'll find him some other time. For now though, I have some ferals to murder!

I crouch down into my clans signature charge stance. They may be all gone save for the mysterious Braun that is somewhere around, but the dead will live on through me!

'I will make these mindless beasts feel FEAR... father, I will become a God of the old World you taught me about, from this moment on, Hector died along with his village, and from his ashes, rose Deimos, the Terror of all Titans!

With that final thought, I use as much power as I can coax from my legs and arms to throw myself forward in a charge, I am not going to stop until I reach the outer wall! The frail humans and my family need time to reach safety, and I am going to give them that time!

After fighting for what felt like forever, the sun starts to dip low towards the horizon. I have not let a single titan get through the second hole in the wall. I wish I had the energy to plug the hole, but I just don't anymore. Being in my titan form all day long, and to have a new form of titan body that i'm not used to, has taken it's toll on me. If someone could see my titan, it is evidently clear that i'm exhausted just by the way i'm walking. My feet are dragging behind me and i'm arched forward with my arms hanging limp by my side. On the upside, this is the longest I have ever stayed in titan form! This new armor as well is amazing! The ferals couldn't do anything to me! It does make me wonder just how hard that beast shifter could actually hit seeing how he had cracked my face. Which hasn't even healed yet, but the sharp pain that started is now just a dull throb. Right now, I'm probably half way through the inner wall towards the second wall. Mother had taught us all about the walls. I don't think I can make it before I collapse, so I decided to head towards some trees in hopes of using them as a safe haven out of reach of the ferals. No idea how I plan on getting high enough to be out of there reach but I'll figure that out soon enough. As I'm slowly getting closer, I'm so lost in thought that I don't notice the giant foot flying for my head out of no where right in front of me until it's to late! With a loud crack of two hard substances connecting, I get lifted off my feet and sent sprawling once again onto my back. With a groan of exhaustion and pain, I crane my head up to look towards where I was originally standing. In my place stands an obviously female tighten that looked like she was just materializing out of thin air! Upon a harder look around her smirking face and partially revealed body, I can just barely make out rippling in the air like I was looking through a large glass vase.

What would sound like growling to humans, but coherent to me I hear

'Awe, is the big bad titan tired? That's to bad.'

Well, at least she wasn't a mindless based off her ability to use titan speak. That's a plus.

'Who are you? What do you want?' By this time, I can feel my titan body trying to both reject me and partially fuse with me at the same time. I am exhausted. I cant even stand up and fight right now. The new titan, walks over me and just sits herself on my chest plates like she owns me! What I can tell from her body is she's part of the warhammer clan, based off the flexible armor, but it's only in a few places, and not completely covering her. I've never heard of a warhammer, nay any titan, with the ability to become invisible though! She is easily fifteen meters tall, and her body resembles that of a very athletic human woman, with armor on her shins, chest, forearms, hands, and what I can guess probably the back of her neck. She has long, raven black hair that is curled around her shoulders and face. What catches my sight and attention though, is her strikingly pale blue eyes that are alight with mirth as she stares down at me.

'Come on now, it wasn't that long ago that you had seen me! It was just this morning after all!'

Holy shit! It's that girl that was with that really lanky titan that saved me and my mother! She followed me all the way here? Why would she do that?

'I'll tell you what, big guy, when you wake up, I'll answer your questions!'

'When I wake up? What do you me-'

Before I could finish that last question, her fist shot forward with enough force to just completely knock me out in titan form, which coupled with my exhaustion, forcibly removed me from my now rapidly decaying body!

As the mysterious titan scoops up his unconscious form, she starts making her way to the trees that he seemed to be moving to before she had quite literally knocked his lights out.

'Hmm, sleep now big guy, we have much to discuss when you wake'

With that final thought, she gently places him in her mouth to free up her hands, and starts climbing the trees. Reaching a place that is easily safe from any kind of titan short of a colossal, she exits her own titan as she deposits her cargo on a particular bowl shaped area where a branch meets the massive trunk. As she sits on the other side of the bowl, she decides to let sleep claim her as well. She could use a little sleep anyways.