A scream tore through the air as a building collapsed on a young woman, she panted and she was crushed to the ground, blood seeping out around her. She silently prayed hazel eyes closed, prayers in a forgotten language to a forgotten God. A rumble echoed around her as the very ground beneath the woman split open, and a shadowy figure walked towards her, its face flickering between human faces before settling on one similar to her own but with viridian eyes.

"Mortal, what is it you wish, you have awoken me, prayed to me, no one has done in so long that I was sure I was hearing things." The figure knelt down in front of her, scrap the shadow, it's body looked like the very night sky she had been looking up only hours ago.

"H-how? I though..no I must focus, please, I took in a young girl, she is not safe here, protect her!"

The figure's face smiled sadly, it's body shifted into a boy's, probably no older than fifteen. It bit it's finger and wiped the blood across her forehead and down her nose.

"Your wish is my command, but first I must protect my humans..there is nothing I can do for you, do you know this?"

"Y-yes I do, please, just save her!" Her voice cracked and the thundering footsteps of a titan walked towards them. The god looked up and stared at the titan.

"It looks so similar to you mortals but it betrays you, it feeds off of you...for me to protect this girl I will need a sacrifice...can you offer me something?"

"My life."

"What? You do not want to try and live?"

"You said there is nothing you can do for me, take my life, save her please, save all of humanity." She begged, tears falling down her cheeks as the titan leant down towards.

"Your wish has been granted, I, Cernunnos God of the Hunt, will save humanity." The god stepped back. His clothes changed from a tunic and wolf skin to a plain brown shirt and green trousers, his hair fell around his shoulder blades, golden beads flashed in the sun as he watched the titan pick up a quiet Karla, it's big meaty hands grabbed her and broke her, biting down on her head. The blood splattered on his face and a grin broke across his tanned skin.

The god plunged his hand into the earth, pulling out a glaive. He leant forward before sprinting towards the titan, the earth cracked in his wake, he jumped up towards the titan, the creature looked up at him as Cernunnos held the glaive in hand, the god fell towards the titan, green eyes glinted, a deep red circled his slit pupils, brown hair flew out behind him as he sliced the titan's nape. He fell to the ground, laughing as he did so, he missed this, the thrill of the kill.

Cernunnos smelt the air, picking up a live scent of the woman he had helped over the smell of blood. He ran towards it, his body felt new, alive, thumping, flowing with energy, he wanted to kill all of these titans, wanted to be surrounded with their rotting corpses as he had been many times before, he wanted to hunt them, to kill them, to make sure they would never see the light of day again. He stopped when he heard crying, the scent was stronger now.

"Hello, are you hurt?" He whispered out and span around, searching for the girl.

"H-help me please." Geat, he thought bitterly, another language. The god knelt down and gently looked over towards the voice's direction, spotting a mop of black hair and a flash of red fabric.

"C'mere young' un, we must hurry. This is no place for a child." He spoke softly, even if she couldn't understand him, he hoped she could understand his intentions. It did the trick as the young girl looked over at the brunette, she quickly ran towards him, tears falling down her cheeks.

"Please, help me, Karla, I can't find her please help me!" She begged and clung onto his arm. The brunette picked her up, holding her tightly before running in the direction of the scent of humans, it was a strong smell, that meant there was probably a way to escape. It didn't take him long to reach the evacuation point. The brunette shoved his way towards the front of the crowd, people tugged at his clothes, yanked on his hair, wailed in his ears as he pushed past. The god stopped at the edge of the river to only see the boat departing. He was determined to honour Karla's dying wish. Cernunnos stepped back before running towards the bank and jumping over the wall. The shocked gasps and shouts of people behind him flooded his ears as he leapt towards the boat, he landed and the boat rocked. He re-adjusted the girl, tearing down at her as she was now pressed against his chest.

"Y-your n...a-" His sad attempt at the foreign language was cut off

"Mikasa, my name is Mikasa." The girl looked up at him, Cernunnos smiled, he would try harder in this language, it held many pretty words.

Cernunnos quietly sat huddled up against the corner of a small room, two blankets lay on the floor, Mikasa lay on one and boy named Armin on the other. After getting off the boat Mikasa had run into her friend, his grandfather had been forgotten in his bed due to his old age, so the boy had stayed with them. It had been three years since the fall of Maria. Cernunnos had grown physically, only to pass as a human, now standing taller and more muscular, he had cut his hair after Maria, it had grown down to the nape of his neck now, the brown locks hung around his face. Mikasa and Armin had grown as well, Mikasa had turned into a very beautiful young girl, she was taller now, her hair had grown and she looked more womanly while the same for Armin, the god chuckled as he remembered the poor buys reaction to being catcalled..that was funny.

Today was the day that they would enter the army, Cernunnos was determined to kill all the titans, he planned on saving humanity and to do that he would have to join a group called the Survey Corps. He sighed as he remembered his first meeting with them. A young red-headed figure has run into him, he had steadied her before being punched in the face by a short angry man who was spewing words at a pace too fast for the poor god to understand, this left him annoyed, so annoyed that he caused a massive crack to appear under his feet. He had stood up, picked up the man, told him he was a bad child and had placed him on a pile of crates before walking off, in the God's eyes it was fair but according to the court what he had done was wrong and he had to publicly apologise to the angry short man.

Mikasa awoke, she sat up and smiled at the brunette.

"Cern, good morning."

"Maidin mhaith 'kasa, are you ready for the day." The green-eyed man handed her a pear, being the god of the hunt, animals and earth meant that fruit was easy, this area of Trost's agriculture had exploded once he had arrived, the town became very wealthy.

"Yes, although I can't help but worry, I hope all three of us get in, you are strong Cern...I fear they may pick you out of the rest and send you straight to battle."

"Kasa, you know I cannot be killed by any of your silly human ways, a god can only kill a god remember."

"Yes, I know that I just worry." The girl rolled up her blanket and tied it in place with some ribbon, they ate in silence as Armin awoke, quickly putting away his blanket and getting dressed.

"Good morning Mikasa, Cernunnos, how are you both doing, excited for today?" The blonde spoke softly, blinking slowly.

"I'm doing well Armin." The girl giggled "and yes I am excited."

"I'm doing good, always excited to hold a weapon." The god grinned and gave him a thumbs up.

"For a god of fertility, you sure do like weapons." The blonde sat down beside the other two, gently picking up an apple and munching on it.

"That's because I'm also the god of wealth, the seasons, the hunt, animals, agriculture and growth, I've been known for my violence young' un." The brunette spoke proudly, after being one of the first to ever walk across the Earth, he had been blessed by the king with these jobs, he had once walked around with long hair, gold beads, a bow and arrow at his side, skins had once hung from his body, robes of greens, browns a black had adorned him, big antlers sat proudly on his head but now he sat in the body of a teenager with shorter locks and a gold band sat on each bicep, smaller versions of his torcs. The only thing that hadn't changed was the big tattoo which spread over his back, it was of stag with a snake wrapped around its antlers, standing on the top of a tattoo of the wheel of the year, he had been given it when he had first come to be, a representation of his powers you could say.

They stood in front of a man, the man had grumpily asked them for their ages, when Cernunnos had said he was fifteen the man and the gal to not believe him, claiming that he was too old looking to be anywhere near fifteen, this had lead to Cernunnos arguing with the man, only getting more angry, unaware of a short man and a red-headed humans watching him.

"I am fifteen, there is nothing you can do to prove otherwise!"

"I'll be sending you away for harassment if you don't shut your mouth!"

"Well, maybe you should before I rip your god awful head off, you filthy human." He snarled, lips drawn back to show sharp fangs, his eyes glowing a dull green colour, luckily the man was drunk enough not to realise. A hand placed itself on Cernunnos's shoulder, he looked around to only stare straight at the red-headed human, they grinned.

"Hey now, I was there when this little guy." they yanked on his ear "was born, last time I checked it's only been fifteen years from that day!"

The drunken soldier blinked before grumbling.

"Alright, go stand with them." The man gestured towards a line of young people. Cernunnos turned to smile at the human, placing a gold coin with antlers on one side and a snake on the other in her hand.

"Thank you very much human, I am grateful for your help." He smiled at them, gently, his eyes glowed, causing them to breathe in harshly, eyes widening, mouth hung open. Cernunnos chuckled before running over to join Mikasa and Armin, slinging an arm around each of them.