God of War: Daughter of War

Kratos waited for a few moments, to let some of Flurry's anger burn off so she didn't do anything rash when they, Atreus, and Pandora returned to Sindri's house for a few seconds, and once he was positive that she had returned to normal, or at least as normal as can be since she was now annoyed and frowning, they returned to Sindri's.

"Ah, Kratos, you and your children have... returned." False Tyr said, reminding Flurry that no one else had noticed anything off about him, though right now she was interested in seeing what he would do when they headed out to seek whatever information was in Groa's shrine, where he paused for a few seconds, "I take it something happened in Niflheim?"

"We, um, discovered the Raven Tree... best to not mention it around Flurry, she's not happy right now." Atreus replied, as he had never seen his sister like that and part of him didn't want to annoy him anymore than she already was, so he was wisely keeping his mouth shut on this matter, while the rest of the family was doing the same until they were sure it was okay to talk to her about the discovery.

Flurry found that False Tyr seemed to pause before nodding his head, to show them that he had heard about the ravens in the past, before her father turned towards the Door and held out his Key as he accessed the power of the other Seed they had acquired recently, allowing him to open the way to Alfheim. While the Door opened False Tyr said that he had heard of the family's last visit to the realm of the elves, as in Brok or Sindri must have made a comment while they were gone, and he was interested in hearing about the visit from those that made it, instead of listening to secondhand information. Atreus was more than happy to fill him in, talking about how they encountered Freya, how she helped them fix up the God of War's temple in the Lake of Nine, and how she helped them get to Alfheim, despite her curse preventing her from leaving Midgard. That got a 'that's terrible' from False Tyr, where Flurry sensed that he didn't care at all, which was more evidence that the spy Odin had picked for this mission was just awful in every aspect and that made her wonder if that was the point, to make one of them kill a fake Tyr to unite the realms against her and her family.

When Atreus mentioned the fact that they had to fight the dark elves to get to the Light, however, False Tyr was surprised by that fact, that they had to interfere with the Elf War to refill their Bifrost, and when Atreus mentioned breaking the hive stuff to get to the Light, a necessary evil, Flurry noticed the slight smile on False Tyr's face that faded a few seconds later.

A few moments later they stepped out through the other Door and entered Alfheim, where it looked like they were outside the temple, though where seemed to be an important question, where Flurry was sure that they were on the outskirts of the area that the structure had been built on, just not in an area they were familiar with. Her reason for thinking that was due to the fact that it was mostly just a carved out passage around them, like someone had carved their way through a mountain or hill and made this place smooth for later, especially since the creator of the area left an elven statue, before the division, in here that was fading to time. As they started to climb out of the area the Door had brought them to Flurry found that there were a few slain elves around the passage, dark elves that had been impaled, before they found an area that allowed them to stare out at a desert storm, which False Tyr informed them was natural, not made by Fimbulwinter. Kratos did locate a stone ledge below them and jumped down, finding that it was just an area with a stone chest inside it, which he looted while handing Flurry everything that was inside it in the span of a few seconds, where Atreus told False Tyr that they loved loot, so this was a common scene.

As they regrouped on the area they had stopped on, however, Flurry had the others pause for a moment as she pulled out her bow, readied an arrow, and loosed a magical one into the air that separated into a number of smaller arrows that just disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"And what was that supposed to do?" False Tyr asked, because it seemed rather pointless to him, that she was just loosing an arrow that could potentially give away their position to whatever enemies might be in this section of Alfheim, while he noticed none of the others were annoyed with her.

"I'm striking down the Eyes of Odin... you know, his little green spies... I enter a realm, loose a magical arrow, and they all die in an instant." Flurry replied, where she glared at False Tyr for a moment, noticing how, for just a moment, he seemed a tad bit annoyed by the fact that the little ravens were being taken out by the family, or by her since she was admitting that fact, before she put the bow away for the time being, "Come on, let's go find that shrine."

"You know, before I didn't care too much about those emerald ravens... I just thought they were pure magic, but... knowing the truth makes me feel sad." Atreus commented, showing Flurry that he must have been thinking about the tree since her reaction towards it's residents, in fact thinking about the children seemed to make him go quiet for a time, while Flurry also noticed that False Tyr coughed a little, like he was drawing their attention away from the topic.

While she took note of that the family squeezed through a gap in the nearby rock wall, which False Tyr jumped over for some odd reason, though as Atreus commented on hearing something out in the desert, something in pain, Kratos found a runic chest nearby and activated the three braziers to unlock it. False Tyr was surprised that they were even looting nornir chests, that no chest was safe from Kratos and his family, before they focused on the task at hand as they spotted the Temple of Light at the end of the path they were following right now. While they walked False Tyr asked about Freyr and how he never bothered to come back to Alfheim, where Mimir said that it was his guess that Freyr had turned his focus to the fate of his own realm, as in Vanaheim, but he hadn't seen the god in a long time, so his information could be outdated. After that they reached what appeared to be a blockage with shiny crystalline rocks near it, Twilight Stones according to False Tyr, which took millennia to form, though they discovered something new as Kratos angled his axe in such a way that hitting the stone reflected it into the back of the barricade, which False Tyr admitted he didn't know until that very moment.

Once again Flurry found that his facial features changed when confronting new knowledge, he seemed far too happy to get his hands on something brand new, making her wonder if it was actually Odin they were dealing with and not one of his many minions, something she kept in mind as they continued along the path.

There a few wretches on the other side of the now opened barricade, which Kratos was able to deal with in an instant with a single swing of the Blades of Chaos, before he found another area that had one of Kvasir's poems, where Mimir told them that the writer had been torn apart by a member of his audience, Thor. None of them were surprised, rather it seemed like the God of Thunder was either drunk or Odin wanted the writer removed for some reason, though the family decided not to worry about it as Kratos looted a golden chest as well, allowing Flurry to store everything inside her bag as Kratos added yet another blue gem's power to his arsenal. While they moved up a wall Mimir also explained how Freyr had come to this realm and had used his power to cultivate a tenuous peace between the light and dark elves, causing False Tyr to remark that his peace instantly fell apart once he left Alfheim, but their discussion was stopped as they heard a new sound. That ended up being a light elf warrior, wearing a flowing armor dress that granted her the full range of her abilities, while she carried two curved blades that looked like they were imbued with the Light, a warrior that killed a dark elf warrior as False Tyr told her to stop, which caused her to turn on him next.

Kratos hurled one of the Blades of Chaos at the light elf and let it wrap around her arms before she could hurt False Tyr, to which he yanked her over to her, despite the Norse God of War calling for him to stop, and then tore her upper body from her lower body with ease, while Flurry noticed another one coming and faded into the mist for a moment before removing the head of her target with a sickle.

"Why are they attacking us? We freed the Light the last time we were here!" Atreus remarked, because the light elves had been grateful when they destroyed all of the dark elf hive material the last time they came to this realm, or at least he had thought such a thing since none of the light elves had stopped to talk with his family, so them attacking him and his family just made no sense to him.

"Basically, we're intruders. That's enough for people like them." Flurry replied, which was just foolish in her eyes, that both types of elves wouldn't just stop and ask why they were in Alfheim, because that would make things so much easier for each side, instead of her and her family slaughtering everyone that came at them, though that didn't stop her from taking the pair of blades from the first foe that attacked them.

"Don't you have enough weapons?" False Tyr asked, noticing that Flurry took the swords, felt their weight for a time, before using them to slice apart a light elf that rushed at her, while at the same time some more light elves rushed her family as the group continued towards the temple that was their main destination.

"She likes to collect one of every weapon, but what you're seeing is far from her full arsenal." Atreus answered, though as he said that he loosed an arrow into the chest of a light elf, stunning them so his father could finish them off, while noticing that this time around Flurry was just sticking to her sickles for the most part, an odd thing for her, "Trust me, each one has the potential to change the flow of battle if she decided to use them against our enemies."

Kratos noticed that this time Flurry didn't say anything to her brother's words, rather she was analyzing the situation while focusing on battle, though part of him was worried, as she usually didn't do the whole vanishing and appearing out of thin air routine anymore, it was something she used back in Greece before deciding she didn't need it anymore. This just showed him how annoyed she really was right now, the Raven Tree's truth had placed a crack in her usual facade, to the point that she was using an old skill again, which was why he was so worried that her rage might break, fully and completely, like when Ares killed him. Fortunately for the time being it didn't seem like they were in total danger of that happening, the surge of battle was a great way for her to calm down, just like it was for him these days, allowing her to get back into a flow and seal her rage away once more. The only thing that seemed to be ticking her off right now was False Tyr, as he was solely focused on trying to remain a pacifist in the fact of conflict and even questioned if it was right for them to even defend themselves, like he wanted them to die, instead of protecting themselves, and it was for that reason that Kratos was starting to see why his daughter didn't trust him.

What was interesting was that they passed by a runic chest that they couldn't unlock, the runes refused to be damaged by all of their weapons and Flurry suggested there was another weapon they needed, before they found a new door that had two wheels, one on either side of it.

"This is an older gate, one that was built to promote cooperation between the elves... but it looks like it's been sealed for a long time." False Tyr remarked, taking a moment to look at the circular gate that was in front of them and the area that was above it, which was a design that seemed to be a unity of sorts between the two types of elves, like a key of sorts, causing him to walk up to one as he gestured for Kratos to take the other, "This seal is meant to represent the balance of the realm when Freyr was here... light and dark, unified and working together."

"If it's made to reflect the realm, then there's no balance here... the dark elves controlled everything last time we were here, so I'd wager it's the time of the light elves now." Flurry stated, where they found that when False Tyr moved his wheel the light side of the seal started to glow and move out from the right side, while darkness would move if her father moved his wheel, to which Atreus realized what his sister was talking about and had their father pull back until there was no darkness, allowing the light side to fill the entire seal.

False Tyr praised them for solving the seal so quickly, even though Flurry just thought it was obvious, the owner of the Light seemed to be the key and since ownership seemed to change so frequently it seemed like the light elves were the answer by just thinking about it for a few seconds. There was a statue of an elf on the other side of the gate, what the residents of this realm looked like before being divided into light and dark elves, while it looked like the light elves had decided to redesign all of the passages that existed in the temple, or it changed to suit their tastes. The reason Flurry thought that was due to the fact that there were now Twilight Stones in various places along the path they would be taking, along with something very odd, doors of solid Light that were place in small areas to make sure intruders didn't get too far into the temple. Her interest was installed squished when she realized the purpose of the Twilight Stones was to break the light crystals that happened to be the power source for the light door, which just lowered her thoughts on the light elves, as they seemed to be stupid in how they designed their areas.

With that in mind Kratos used his axe and broke the crystal with ease, bringing the door down so they could continue deeper into the temple, but as they crossed a gap the group discovered that they were below where the Light was resting, and the water that was below it was twisting, like a maelstrom or something. False Tyr informed them that what they were seeing at the moment was the Lake of Souls and that it was far more volatile than he remembered, which was likely Fimbulwinter's fault, and he went into a familiar tale about how fallen souls started to gather here after the creation of the Nine Realms, a tale Mimir had shared with them previously. While everyone else turned to continue up a path on their right, Mimir and False Tyr talking about the creation of the light elves and the dark elves, Flurry felt something familiar inside the Lake of Souls and held her hand out for a few seconds, where strands of a familiar blue energy formed a small crystal in her hand. She quickly understood what she was holding as she felt it's power, to which she carefully stored it away before joining the others, as it seemed like the dwarves had some explaining to do in the near future, once they had what they needed from Alfheim.

She found that her family and False Tyr had stopped at another Light Door, though her father was able to smash the crystal as Pandora looted a nearby stone chest, adding more resources to her bag in the process as they moved forward, all while False Tyr seemed certain that the light elves would be disappointed in them. Of course after that was when they found more light elves that wanted to murder them where they stood, who ignored False Tyr entirely despite his attempts to speak to all of them about peacefully standing down, causing the family to engage them once more. These ones did have little orbs that were basically explosives made with the Light's power, to harm their enemies while keeping the temple pristine, where Flurry just weaved her magic around each one to make sure the detonation was contained much to False Tyr's surprise. Since there wasn't a way forward False Tyr decided to jump on pieces of the architecture and smash them to open the way for them to swing across the gap, causing Flurry to shake her head as she held a hand out for her magic to form a walkway for her and her family to use.

The way False Tyr looked at her continued to push her mind towards thinking that this was Odin in disguise, he was far too interested in her and her powers, since he knew nothing about her, meaning she could checkmate him in an instant once his guard was lowered, she just had to put up with it for a time before springing her trap.

Kratos looted another wooden chest before handing Flurry the goods as they continued along the path that was in front of them, along with smashing a second container of the same type that happened to be in front of them, before finding an area with some wretches, which they crushed easily. Following that Kratos looted a golden chest of it's contents, allowing Flurry to add it's contents to the bag for later, before they regrouped with False Tyr outside yet another Light Door that was brought down in no time at all, showing him that none of them were interested in slowing down, even though that meant finding yet another of Kvasir's lost poems. False Tyr found another group of light elves ahead of them and tried, in vain, to speak with them and convince them that they meant no harm, but the group dealt with the light magical orbs that the magic users had above their heads, explosives based on the first one thrown at them and stopped by Flurry's magic. As they slaughtered the attackers, however, Flurry sighed as she collected a staff from one of the magic users, adding it to her collection while she came to understand that she would need to organize everything they had acquired recently in the near future.

While they pushed deeper into the temple Atreus realized what was going on, the dark elves wanted to return their realm to how it used to be by releasing the souls and the light elves wanted to keep using them, all while they pushed through a far more normal door and then smashed through another Light Door. This one required lowering a Twilight Stone to a certain point before breaking the door's power source, but on the other side they found some nightmares that Flurry slashed her way through with her sickles, while Kratos found yet another of Kvasir's poems, making them wonder how many were in this particular realm. After that they found their way to where another light elf was waiting, this one using the power of the Light to release energy waves at his enemies, though Flurry cancelled them out with her own magic as her father and sister tore him down, demonstrating their power to False Tyr once more before they resumed their journey. As they did so Flurry also found that the weapon of that particular light elf was actually a longsword, causing her to take it as well, before forming yet another walkway with her magic for them to use, opening the way for them to loot a stone chest and a golden chest, which False Tyr was getting used to seeing.

Such a thing allowed them to reach another open area with more light elves that wanted them dead, to which False Tyr just stepped to the side and allowed the group to engage them, where he watched as Kratos, Flurry, Pandora, and Atreus just wiped the floor with the light elves, demonstrating their ability to work together despite the chaos that the youngest one had sown by betraying his family's trust. In order to move forward they found that False Tyr pushed two statues into the gap that was between where they had fought their enemies and the next one, surprising Mimir in the process, but the crystals that had been in the statues shattered and formed a bridge for them to use. Following that Kratos found a runic chest that was protected by runic bells, so it was only took him a few moments to strike each one and loot the chest once it was unlocked, and after that there were more light elves to fight, causing them to just eliminate their enemies and keep moving. After that was a larger area with a few statues for them to mess with so Kratos could redirect his axe into a crystal, though Flurry saved them a bit of time by throwing a sickle at it, breaking it instantly, much to False Tyr's continued surprise.

As they did that Atreus even mentioned to False Tyr that they had killed Svartaljofurr, where he told them that he had heard of his demise and had been hoping it wasn't true, though Flurry found that the alarm bells were practically blaring right now, as there was no way Odin knew about the Dark Elf King's demise and that meant there was no way for him to learn that piece of information.

The door they opened happened to head outside, where False Tyr asked if Atreus could hear the creature he heard earlier, a fact that Atreus confirmed before the false god offered that they could investigate, once they were done tracking down the truth of Groa's prophecy. Following that they found that the way forward was blocked by yet another Light Door, which was getting on False Tyr's nerve, though Flurry knew it was because Odin wanted to know if there was a hidden prophecy that he didn't know about, something that could change the very face of Ragnarok as they knew it. Fortunately for all of them the Light Door didn't stand much of a chance against Kratos and Flurry's coordination, as this was nothing compared to what the pair had dealt with in the past, and once the door was open they continued forward. With the door down they stepped onto a lift that brought them up to the central platform of the Light, where Atreus realized that Faye's voice was gone, though that caused him to tell False Tyr about their last visit and, more importantly, about how they had to pull their father out of the Light when they were refilling the Bifrost.

"Kratos... you went INSIDE the Light of Alfheim?! You must tell me: what did you see?" False Tyr stated, though in the next instant Flurry snapped and magical chains wrapped around his arms, legs, chest, and neck, chaining him to the ground while the rest of the family stood at the ready, or at least Kratos and Pandora did while Atreus looked confused, "What the...?"

"Titans almighty Odin... for a 'master manipulator' you are by far one of the most incompetent gods I've seen." Flurry said, as enough was enough in her eyes, she couldn't stand the charade anymore and felt that it was time to pull the carpet out from under Odin's feet, and before he responded she held her hand up and tightened the magic around the figure, stripping the illusion magic off of him to reveal Odin to all of them, "Word of advice, if you want to impersonate someone, you should first master yourself... you left far too many clues for me to figure out who you really were."

"Wait... Odin's been Tyr the entire time?" Atreus asked, as he hadn't seen the clues that his sister had seen, even though the evidence was right in front of them, and it made him wonder if there was other things he hadn't noticed that she and the rest of her family had seen.

"That's right... but to impersonate him, Odin needed Tyr alive so he could power his illusion spell." Flurry answered, though in the following seconds the bits of magic she had withdrawn from the spell swirled around the space nearby as Odin glared daggers at her, no doubt for ruining his plan to learn more about Ragnarok, before the magic burst open into a portal, right before their eyes, and a familiar figure, Tyr, stepped through it, "Forced Magic Extraction, a spell that allowed me to extract the essence of your spell and use it for whatever I wish... I figured that if you needed Tyr for your illusion spell, and you kept him alive for it, I could use that to bust him out of prison. Oh, and I've banished your raven from the Realm Between Realms, so your way out is gone as well."

"I will admit, you are a far more worthy adversary than some of the foes I've brought down in the..." Odin started to say, but in the next moment he went silent as the portal closed and the magic around Flurry's right hand turned into a deathly pale color that made him pale for a moment as he wondered what sort of spell she was forming this time, while at the same time he noticed the raven he brought with him into Sindri's house appeared nearby, "Wh... What is that?"

"Oh, this? You see, I'm right annoyed by your treatment of the souls of children... so I'm going to push this spell right into your chest and fuse it with your mana." Flurry replied, because what she had discovered in Niflheim had caused her to think of new ways to get rid of Odin and this one was one of the more painful ones that had come to mind, in fact this might be the only time she bothered to use a spell like this, "If it's constructed properly it should turn your mana into fire, burning your body from the inside out and breaking it like it's made of some brittle material... and then you should detonate in a rather painful explosion, like a living bomb. For us it will take seconds, but for you it might feel like an eternity."

"...that seems a little excessive, don't you think?" Odin weakly remarked, as that sounded rather bad when he thought about what she had told him, while at the same time he could see that his statement wasn't taken well, as Flurry took it as that he didn't think this was a fair punishment for what happened to the souls she had encountered.

Flurry, instead of responding, made her move on Odin and raised the orb, though that was when a force of light elves just rushed them while the family was standing still, one even barreling into her spell before it could reach Odin, causing the foe in question to scream in agony as magical cracks formed all over her body. In the next instant she detonated in a small burst that was just enough to wipe out her body, without damaging the rest of the area, though as the rest of the family engaged their enemies, with the real Tyr standing off to the side, Flurry found that a surge of ravens wrapped around Odin and he was gone. Her magical chains were broken, in fact it seemed like the light elves loosing waves of light energy were to blame, meaning she had lost her chance to kill Odin and just break the prophecy of Ragnarok entirely, causing her to sigh as they dealt with the attackers. While they did so she noticed that the real Tyr was definitely interested in them, though this was more in the sense that he wanted to make sure that this wasn't a dream and that this was reality, and when the last foe fell, for now, did he finally speak.

"You... you're an alicorn! I haven't seen one of your kind in a long time." Tyr commented, confirming that he was the real deal this time around, as he knew exactly what Flurry was, which was part of the reason she had figured Odin out so quickly, to which he glanced at her main weapons for a few seconds before nodding his understanding, "And I see that you are the Goddess of... wait, do I have your approval to speak of your godhood?"

"I would prefer you didn't talk about it... not until I'm sure this one is ready for that information." Flurry replied, gesturing to Atreus for a few seconds, who seemed to be thinking about the fact that he had been so utterly tricked by Odin that he didn't even realize the All-Father was faking being Tyr, "But until then, maybe we could talk about my species?"

"Certainly. Plus I am eager to learn what has happened since my incarceration." Tyr said, where it was easy for them to see that this was definitely the real Tyr, there was no reason to doubt Flurry, of all people, and they understood his wish since it had been at least a hundred years since he was able to do anything on his own, while he thoughtfully looked around the area they were in, "And it'll be interesting to hear why you came here as well."

Flurry chuckled a little as they started to resume their journey, as it was nice to have the real Tyr with them, especially since Odin had looked worried when he stepped out of her magical portal, one more confirmation that this was the real one, which only made her interested in what the future held for all of them.