God of War: Daughter of War

Kratos found that Hecate was true in what she told them, they weren't slaves and they weren't bound to stay in her realm, he and his daughter were allowed to leave and come back whenever they wanted, meaning that Athena could contact them and they could leave at a moment's notice. He discovered that the Goddess of Magic usually opened the way for the ship to be spat out of the fog near their destination, allowing for a day or two of travel so the crew didn't forget how to sail, thus allowing them to deal with whatever the Olympians wanted in a timely manner. For the most part it seemed to be more of the same, monsters were harassing settlements and the people that called them home, often killing a few to spur the gods into calling them in to deal with the threat, where he and Flurry faced the monsters like they had done in the past. Such a thing caused all of the people to do as they did before, rewarding them with supplies that were transferred to their ship while the ladies spent a night with their savior, the latter usually followed by Flurry spending the night in her room or just hanging out with Albis.

Flurry did notice that the gorgon was somewhat concerned about something, what she had no idea since the creature had said nothing about it or her past to them, which she figured was to keep them from hating the gods or something, but she was sure they'd learn more about Albis in due time.

During their battles Kratos discovered that Flurry started to utilize her new talents in battle, no doubt like Hecate wanted, though before using her newfound magic his daughter often studied their foes for a time before using an element on the monsters, utilizing what she assumed was their weakness against them. It took some getting used to, he had to admit that fact to himself as she froze a group of skeletal legionnaires in a chunk of ice, launching fireballs that homed in on harpies and blasted them out of the air, or shocking groups of enemies into submission. Flurry, for the most part, only used her magic when she deemed it necessary to do so, meaning she was used to using her sickles and fighting beside him while they were on the battlefield, but Kratos wasn't about to lecture her on how she should use her powers, as she was capable of doing so on her own. They also found that Hecate was perfectly fine with this turn of events, as she was teaching Flurry to control the power that slumbered inside her, because if she wanted an apprentice she would have said so at the start of her lessons, so she was perfectly fine with Flurry utilizing her power however she wanted.

In addition to all of the combat spells and abilities Hecate also taught her some other spells, like the power to essentially melt into and out of shadows, even thin air depending on the situation, or creating barriers with her magic, and Flurry just soaked in everything that was offered to her. Not only did she learn more about magic, and how to use it in whatever part of life it might be needed in, Artemis showed up a few times to help point out where Flurry was going wrong in flying, as it was something that took practice and effort to master. When Flurry turned ten, however, things changed as she figured all of the motions she needed to use in order to use her wings to fly, where the pair of gods, joined by Apollo, and Kratos just watched her for a time as she lifted herself into the air and flew around Hecate's private island. Kratos was happy for her, as it was a natural part of her body and it was good to see that she was now able to utilize them more effectively, instead of being forced to glide around while they were traveling, and when they traveled with the ship she found time to fly and just feel the wind against her.

That wasn't all that happened when her tenth birthday happened, which they counted as the day he found her since it had been the start of something great, Kratos found that Flurry was starting to mature, because her body was starting to look more like an adult woman's did, something she confirmed when she found that her breasts were starting to develop. He did, however, find that he didn't have to tread in a part of life that he was unfamiliar with, as Artemis, Hecate, and Albis did their best to help her adapt to her changing body, since they were more knowledgeable than he was and he left them to teach her about the new stage of life she was entering. Of course this meant that they had to redesign her attire to match her growing body, she was no longer a child and would soon be an adult, but he discovered that the gods were willing to help Flurry out in that regard, showing that they liked having her around. Kratos also realized something else, that had he not allowed himself to be used by Ares so much he would have seen Calliope grow up and that Lysandra would have done everything in her power to prepare her for adulthood, with him watching over her with a smile on his face, but while it did pain him to think about them he smiled as he thought about Flurry for a moment.

She was growing into a skilled warrior and an amazing young woman, and he was overjoyed to be her father, despite the differences between them, something that only caused him to look forward to what the future held for them since Athena and the Olympians continued to give them quests to make use of his servitude to them.

That fact, like always, was one of the few things that left a sour taste in his mouth and quickly fouled his mood, because he expected the Olympians to do something, anything, after they saved the world from Persephone's sheer madness, but, as his past experience had told him, nothing happened save for meeting Hecate. He was left with his nightmares, despite the fact that Helios told him that he'd do everything in his power to convince Zeus to offer him some reprieve from that which still tormented him, and after a year of nothing he realized that the King of the Gods didn't care about rewarding them for saving the world. Kratos found it to be insulting, that Zeus didn't think their actions were worth anything save letting the rest of Greece know that they had stopped Atlas, because he hadn't asked for his legend to grow, rather he simply asked for his nightmares to be dealt with in some manner and that had been denied. At the very least he found that the nightmares that plagued him weren't as frequent as they had been in the past, no doubt since Flurry was with him and seemed to be the light of his life, just like the Oracle had told him when she first arrived in his life, a comfort he appreciated.

The pair also discovered that it wasn't just monsters that they had to take down, as from time to time more Persians sailed into Greece with the intent of conquering another area, no doubt to set the stage for an invasion of the land that Zeus and the Olympians ruled over, and they were their best defenders. Several gods would keep an eye out for invaders and tell the King of the Gods what they saw, prompting him to tell Athena their new orders and causing her to pass on the information when it was time to do so, causing them to sail to another part of Greece to take them down. Such a thing saddened Flurry, not just in the sense that they were too stupid to see that their invasions were massive failures, but also due to the fact that they were throwing their lives away, similar to what she discovered when they caught up to Persephone earlier. All Kratos had to say on the matter was that it might be a cultural difference, since neither of them knew how the Persians were raised or trained, something that caused her to let out a sad sigh as they continued with their lives and dealt with any invasions when the gods ordered them to deal with them.

When Flurry's fourteenth birthday finally arrived, giving them a full ten years together, Kratos discovered that the gods had new orders for them, though this time another massive Persian fleet was heading towards Attica, and they were the only force capable of standing between them and the city's eventual fall.

"They must have elected a new leader, after their King fell during the last invasion." Kratos commented, though this time he, his forces, Albis, and even a few gods, in the form of Artemis, Apollo, and Hecate, stood on the city's walls and stared out at the bay, finding more Persian ships coming towards them, though there was no basilisk among their forces, causing him to turn towards Flurry for a moment, "So, what's your plan?"

He had decided to use this as an opportunity to test her leadership abilities, as he assumed that they would do what they had done the last time the Persians attacked Attica, wait for them to get close and then kill anyone who dared to invade the domain of the Olympians, and that the gods were eager to observe them.

"Simple: anyone gets close, hit them with the ballistae." Flurry replied, though at the same time she pulled out her sickles as she focused on the Persians that were coming towards the city, only turning her head for a moment as she found that her father and the soldiers were surprised that she didn't have anything else to tell them, "That's if I let anything through... or if anyone gets around me."

As Kratos and the others opened their mouths, to question her plan since it wasn't much of a plan for someone like her, she just faded into nothingness as she took a step forward, where Kratos realized that his daughter meant it, she was going to take on the entirety of the Persian fleet in an attempt to drive them off without too many casualties.

"Sir, with all due respect, you daughter is hot... but by the gods is she scary at times." a random soldier remarked, where he found that several of the other soldiers nodded their heads in agreement, as they had heard the tales about Flurry and now one of them had been confirmed, something that seemed to frighten them somewhat.

All Kratos did was note down which soldier said that, so he could speak with him after this was over, though it wasn't long before they heard the familiar whistle that he had grown used to hearing, Flurry's eerie whistle, where he found that the Persians were surprised and confused by what they were hearing as she appeared out of thin air.

"Listen well, Persians, as the Olympians have an ultimatum: leave Greece and your lives will be spared... refuse and death will be your fate." Flurry stated, where she noticed that the moment she pulled out her sickles some of the soldiers did look like they were thinking about retreating, especially after being slightly terrified of the whistle and her appearing out of thin air, though no one moved as she spotted who had to be the commander of the ship, an armored Persian that stood taller than the others.

"Your gods are weak, girl, if you are the only thing that they'll send to fight us." the tall Persian stated, where he drew his blade for a moment and caused all of his men to do the same thing, all while Flurry could tell that the soldiers on the ships that were nearby were doing the same, indicating that they knew it was time for battle, "Blame them for sending you to your death."

In the following moment Flurry let the Persian approach her and swung her sickle the moment that he tried to strike her, sending the sword flying out of his hand and let it hit a barrel, to which she beckoned to it and told the warrior to 'pick it up', causing him to growl as he collected his weapon and came at her again. She found that his attacks were actually slow, sloppy at times, and outright sad, as there were Spartans and other warriors in Greece who could do far more than this in their training, in fact she had done so when she was learning how to fight, and she voiced her thoughts on his movements before raising her sickles to block his last attack. Flurry had mastered the art of using her sickles in battle and using the curved exterior of her weapons like this allowed her to block attacks, while also granting her a chance to redirect her foe's blade into the ground, opening the way for her to remove his left hand with a quick slash. The Persian, backing away from her in surprise as he lost his hand, beckoned for the soldiers to charge at her and Flurry sighed as they came at her, as she had been hopeful that they would have realized their error, but decided that if they wanted to be stupid she could do her job and save the city.

The wounded Persian watched in disbelief as his men failed to strike down a young lady that was far younger than them, which was disappointing since he expected their experience in battle to give them the edge against their lone foe, and yet she remained unharmed as she dispatched her enemies with lethal precision. She was killing them left and right with far too much ease for his liking, her sickles cutting through them like they were wearing nothing, an odd weapon since they had no knowledge of Spartans using them in battle, and he started to realize why she had told them to leave. The gods of this land clearly knew what they were doing by sending her to fight them, because the figure in question was killing all of his elite guards like they were nothing, taking off their arms or legs, or just cutting into them to weaken her targets, and a few of them lost their heads in the process. While she was distracted by his soldiers, and wasn't paying attention to him, he grabbed his blade with his right hand and rushed at her, only to find that she dodged his attack, slashed open his chest with her sickles, and then, as he fell to his knees, she ended his life before he could say anything else.

Flurry wasted no time in dispatching the rest of the soldiers that were on the ship, though once they were taken care of she glanced out at the other ships and found that they were still moving towards Attica, ignoring the fact that she had just wiped out a single vessel, before walking over to the ship's weapon. In the next moment she turned it to face one of the other ships, pulled the bar back, and then let it go to provide the necessary force the sent the bolt flying, where it tore into the vessel that was her target, tearing a hole into the side that water surged into. As that happened Flurry returned both of her sickles to her belt as she switched to her bow, though she paused for a few seconds as several Persian ships quickly turned their weapons on the ship she was on, which she was expecting, and when they loosed their bolts she opened her wings and took to the air, allowing the bolts to tear into the ship. While she was in the air, something that surprised many of the Persians as they realized that their foe was different from what she suspected, Flurry gathered a bit of her magic into her arrows and loosed a few down on the ships below her, where the Persians found that they exploded upon impact, tearing holes into their ships with ease.

While that was happening, however, Flurry spotted a lean figure standing on one of the ships, dressed in what appeared to be leather armor and not the attire of a Persian soldier, even though he was clearly aligned with the forces in question, who carried two curved blades and had an odd dagger on his belt, but since the soldiers were listening to him she decided to pay him a visit to end this madness, hence why she landed on the deck.

"Stand down men. Let's not be too hasty." the figure, who had brown hair and seemed to be either a commander or even a prince, stated, as he could see that the soldiers around him were raising their weapons and he decided not to annoy the figure that was in front of them, where his men glanced at each other for a few seconds before pulling back, allowing him to focus on Flurry as she sheathed her weapons, "Warrior of the Olympians, I am Prince Dustan of Persia. What message do your gods have for us?"

"Prince of Persia, the Olympians have issued this ultimatum: return to your lands and your lives will be spared... continue to declare war on us and your people will die during each invasion." Flurry replied, though she made sure to clarify that Zeus and the other gods weren't declaring war on the Persian empire, rather they wanted the invaders to know that they would die if they continued down this path, that invasions would only result in more unnecessary deaths, and she hoped that Dustan, if he was truly a prince of his land, would be wise and back off.

"Very well. Order the other ships to retreat... we just lost half the fleet to a young lady. Just know that things will change once we get home." Dustan ordered, something that caused his men to start moving without delay, showing Flurry that he, at the very least, was reasonable and didn't want to die to someone who was vastly superior to him in the art of battle, though in the next moment he detached the dagger and it's sheath from his belt and held it out to her, "Here, let this be an offering to your gods, a promise that we will not invade your lands again."

Flurry nodded her head for a moment as she took the dagger, finding that there was definitely some magic inside it, what type she was unsure of right now, before opening her wings and taking to the air once more, where she remained in the air for a time to watch as the remainder of the fleet started to turn, causing her to return to her father without delay.

"I am impressed. You not only repelled the invaders, but you were terrifying enough to make them realize that invading our lands is wrong." a voice said, where Flurry, her father, and everyone else found that Athena was present, meaning she must have arrived to see what sort of battle unfolded with the Persians, though she did accept the dagger that Flurry held out for her to take, since the deal needed to be presented to Zeus, "I wish you could relax, but Poseidon has reported that the Hydra has become a problem lately and has asked for assistance in killing it... Zeus has decided that you two will kill it before it can do anything else."

Kratos resisted the urge to groan, growl, or even sigh, as it was one thing after the other with the Olympians, though with new orders received there was little they could do but wait for Athena to tell them where the Hydra was located and then head out to kill it, all while he wondered what else the future held for him and Flurry.