God of War: Daughter of War

Kratos and Flurry spent a short period of time resting, as Kratos didn't want to dwell on his mother's death for too long, due to the fact that it only made him angry when he thought about it, causing Flurry to wish Pandora well before stashing the small statue away, allowing them to head up some stairs to reach a new chamber, which had an interesting golden device resting in one of the walls.

"I guess this is where we can obtain a new type of magic." Flurry remarked, where her father pulled on the item and found that it detached from the wall rather easily, allowing them to see that it was some sort of shield, in design since they knew it wouldn't fit that purpose, that had an eye design on it's front, "Hopefully Poseidon's okay with us borrowing this for a time... I'd hate to get on his bad side, especially with the news we gave him before entering his temple."

"Still, this will come in handy." Kratos stated, as he was sure that whatever power was stored in the device would only be a benefit to them, since there was no telling what the future might have in store for them, though in that moment he heard the sound of enemies approaching and found that Flurry had heard it as well.

Flurry found that a large number of tritons were coming towards them, all looking like they wanted to kill her and her father, so her father turned the Eye of Atlantis, her name for it until they figured out what it was actually called, on their enemies and they discovered that it released an impressive amount of electricity or lightning to shock his enemies. That wasn't all it did, because after a few moments of charging her father was able to release a quick burst of power from the Eye that just decimated everyone that was in front of him, causing them to stare at the relic for a moment as they realized it might be far stronger than they originally assumed. Flurry found that she could mimic the power of the Eye by altering her own magic a little, the base form allowing her to loose branching electricity at her foes, shocking those that were coming from one of the other directions, while the full powered burst took down whoever got close to her. It was interesting to have a new relic in their possession, granting them another power to use against the rest of the enemies that would stand in their way, and the moment all the tritons were taken care of a few gates lowered, allowing them to continue on their way.

The end of the path happened to bring them to a stone balcony with a familiar stone tome waiting for them, while off in the distance Flurry found a volcano that looked like it was constantly releasing magma at a safe rate, though before either of them could access the tome Scylla smashed the balcony apart. Neither warrior had any idea where she had come from, as she had disappeared after the last time they laid eyes on her, but thanks to her destruction the pair fell into the water that was below them, causing Kratos and Flurry to latch onto the sea beast's face with their weapons and hung on. Sure enough Scylla dragged both of them through the water, smashing through some ancient ruins that happened to be in the water, all while bringing them closer to the volcano for some odd reason, before piercing the surface and quickly tossed them into a cavern. Such a thing made the pair turn around in the air and land without taking any damage, where they lashed out at the beast when it tried to fight them again, mostly slamming her head into the side of the cavern a few times before she let out a howl of pain, retreating like she had done in the past.

"So much for the 'Guardian of Atlantis'... she is such a coward." Flurry remarked, though at the same time she found that there were a few workers off in the distance, with a man that appeared to be an overseer, who happened to be standing on some sort of platform and were working on one of the odd screws they had seen back in Atlantis, "I wonder... could all of this be powering Atlantis in some way?"

"I do not know. Nor do I know why Scylla brought us here." Kratos said, which worried him a little, because with the beast having done nothing that she was supposed to, and seemed to be attacking Atlantis itself for some odd reason, he had to wonder which of the Olympians was behind this odd series of events, since they were the only ones that would be able to do something like this.

Flurry sighed as they started to move once more, as she had no idea what was going on either, because this wasn't like the last couple of adventures where she could piece everything together in a short period of time and surprise her father with her comments, though she did notice that the overseer turned a crank and the screw resumed moving. With that done she and her father found that the workers, who hadn't noticed their arrival, went into a passage and disappeared as they headed into the depths of the volcano, which seemed like the smartest move right now, to make sure they weren't here when Scylla returned. As it turned out the path they needed to take involved climbing up the wall near where the screw was resting, only to swing down and attach themselves to the ceiling, where Kratos made the first move as he and Flurry found that there was a river of lava below them, which told them that they had to be careful, all while her father smashed the small stalactites that happened to be in the way. Such a thing also allowed the pair to discover that there were mites on the ceiling, a fiery version of the ones that Scylla used against them during their first battle, though this time around there was nowhere for Flurry to use her bow from, so her father used one of his blades to hack them apart from afar, as it was the safest thing right now.

At the end of the path Kratos dropped down and then used some longer stalactites as grapple points to move forward, all while Flurry just opened her wings and glided after him, which was far easier for her since the end of the path had been on a higher level than where her father had landed. From there the pair quickly made their way up to another stone path and avoided the lava that was around them, where Flurry noted that it was definitely getting hotter as they delved deeper into the volcano, meaning they had to be getting closer to where the core was located. It only took them a minute to find something brand new, a large cavern that could either be the core or a chamber close to the core, which was where they discovered a few more long metallic screws in the walls, moving lava and doing whatever else they were supposed to do for Poseidon's great city. As they jumped down into the center of the area, however, the pair found another new foe that came out to attack them, harpies that had fire on their wings and in their hair, or rather their wings and hair were made of fire, as if they were imbued with the power of the volcano itself.

Flurry found that her thoughts were wrong about them, the flames were just for show as her father grabbed one right out of the air, slammed it into the ground, and then quickly tore off the harpy's wings like they were nothing, all while she just loosed a few arrows at her foes and dropped them like flies. She was hoping that there was something imposing inside the volcano, because if all of their enemies were mites and harpies, like they had fought so far, their visit to this place would be shorter than her or her father were expecting, especially depending on whenever they located the exit. After taking out all of the fire harpies the pair made their way up to another passage and found that this one was more engulfed in lava, as it was in the walls and even had small pillars falling out of the ceiling, hazards Kratos and Flurry avoided, the latter making sure to pull her wings in to avoid hurting them. As they encountered a magma door, due to the fractured nature that just withstood their attacks, Flurry felt something deeper in the volcano that reminded her of Atlas, which was impossible since all of the titans were imprisoned in the underworld, though she had no idea what had happened to Kronos after she and her father recovered Pandora's Box.

After that they found their way into a new chamber that had two metallic statues, unlike any they had seen so far, had a door that looked like a gear was needed to open the way, a balcony for others to stand on, and a larger door that was the direction she felt the familiar energy in.

"You there! What are you two doing here?" a voice asked, where they found that the overseer from earlier had entered the chamber, from the balcony to be exact, and he was surprised to see them in what seemed to be the chamber leading to the heart of the volcano.

"Poseidon gave us permission to visit his temple in Atlantis, but Scylla, for reasons unknown, attacked us and dragged us to this volcano. We have been looking for the way out." Kratos stated, though at the same time he and Flurry just jumped down into the lower area and walked over to where the overseer was standing, allowing him to look down at them while they talked, which would no doubt annoy the other gods if they learned of this fact, "I am Kratos, the new God of War, and this is Flurry Heart, my daughter."

"Well met. I am Lanaeus, and you stand in Methana Volcano, the prison of the titan Thera." the overseer, Lanaeus, replied, something that surprised the pair, while confirming that there was another being like Kronos that had avoided being taken to the prison almost all of the other titans had been chained in, where the man tapped his chin for a moment, "We have been getting tales of Scylla acting weird, but this is the first time we have heard of her bringing someone to the volvano, no doubt using the ocean opening."

"Should we check on the titan?" Flurry inquired, because she had a terrible feeling that she knew what might be going on, now that they knew that there was something incredibly strong near Atlantis, something that could set off a chain reaction that she would rather avoid, even though she really wanted to be wrong and was just overthinking things again.

Lanaeus thought about it for a few seconds before nodding his head, where Kratos nodded in return and pushed the door open, revealing a long path leading to a molten looking titan that had to be near Atlas' size, and based on the chains they were able to confirm that this was a prison, with Thera chained to the heart of the volcano.

"It has been a long wait, but well worth it: the Destined One comes to free us from our prisons." Thera stated, her voice causing the air that was in the chamber to shudder a little, no doubt thanks to the heat that was in the area or due to her power, all while both Kratos and Flurry raised their eyebrows as they stared at the chained titan, "Gaia foretold the one who would bring about our salvation... a warrior called the Ghost of Sparta."

"I'm afraid you are mistaken, Thera. You will remain here, just as the gods intended." Kratos replied, though as he said that he discovered that Flurry was looking around the cavern they were in, finding that there were a few lava pillars heading into the water below them, likely a way to help generate some of the power Atlantis relied on.

"Do not be so naive, Kratos, for your path led you and your daughter to me... you need my help to escape the prison you have trapped yourselves in." Thera countered, almost as if she was forgetting the fact that there was someone they could talk to, right outside this very portion of the volcano, who likely had a way for both of them to get out of here, without the need to draw on a titan's power, "If you do not... well, both of you will share my fate. My power will allow you to free us from our personal torments, and help you bring about your revenge."

"Yeah, we already did that. Ares is dead, so no need for 'revenge' anymore." Flurry said, though she was annoyed that the titan assumed that she knew her father enough to even suggest something like that, while her father shared her thoughts, if the frown on his face was any indication, but before they could do anything Thera howled in pain.

What caused such a thing to happen was a large tentacle that tore through her molten chest, one of Scylla's tendrils based on what Flurry was seeing, while at the same time several more burst out of the water, wrapped around the chains, and started to pull on the titan's bindings. Kratos and Flurry, upon seeing that happen, lashed out at the tendrils before they did anything that might trigger a terrible event, though in the following moments Flurry was able to figure out how Scylla was able to pierce the titan without seriously damaging the tip of it's tendril, there was a large seashell wrapped around it, due to the fragments in front of them. Thera used the assault to break one of her chains and grabbed at the tendrils, as if it was more important than the pair that was in front of her, though in the following moment a fragment of her chest landed right in front of the pair, causing them to glance at it for a couple of seconds. Flurry confirmed that it contained a small portion of the titan's power, something that caused her to grab it as she and her father retreated from where the titan and the beast were fighting, as the ground was breaking and it seemed like the volcano was starting to erupt on it's own.

"Lord Kratos, what's going on?" Lanaeus asked, though he had to steady himself on his balcony as he felt the ground shake all of a sudden, even though the last thing the pair found was that Scylla tossed Thera into the walls before retreating, likely to lick her wounds before showing herself again.

"Scylla attacked Thera and broke some of her chains. We must get out of here, before the volcano blows." Kratos stated, all while he really had no idea how Poseidon and the other gods would take this information, especially since a titan had just been freed from her prison, something he was sure one or more of them would blame on him and Flurry since they went against Zeus' wishes and visited Atlantis with Poseidon's permission.

"There is no lever for the door you need to use, as it can only be opened by the automaton's gear key." Lanaeus said, which seemed like a design flaw in their eyes, not having another way to force the door open, though at the same time Flurry took the fragment containing Thera's power and imbued the Blades of Chaos with it, allowing her father to truly channel the fire that rested within it, before using her sickles to bring down the mechanic golem that held the gear.

With Lanaeus staring at them in shock, as he wasn't expecting Flurry to do something like that, while Kratos wasn't even a little bit surprised, because she had done something similar during their first quest, which allowed the pair to slip the gear into the door and turn it, opening the way forward. The passage on the other side brought them back to the main cavern of the volcano, the area they had first found the fire harpies in, where both warriors paused for a few seconds as the volcano shook, dislodging one of the large screws and forming a path that lead back to the fractured door. They had no idea where Lanaeus' path would take him, since it wasn't the same as the one they were following, but right now there wasn't anything they could do to help him survive the disaster that was unfolding around them, causing Kratos to stab the fractured door as he activated the flames inside his blades. Sure enough he and Flurry found that the wall fractured even more before being blown wide open, revealing another path that seemed to head to another portion of the volcano, which they took since the one that brought them to Thera's resting place had collapsed during the last quake.

The passage brought them to a slope in a larger cavern and Kratos jumped over to an area that two minotaur were in, while at the same time Flurry flew down and struck one in the head with her sickles, allowing her father to focus on the other one as he dodged attacks, knocked his to the floor, and then stabbed it's head through it's mouth. In addition to that there were a few more fire harpies trying to dive bomb them, causing Flurry to jump onto the head of her main target and leap into the air, where she spun and loosed a few arrows at her targets, taking all of the harpies down before they could annoy her or her father. Once the enemies were taken care of Kratos found a push lever that seemed to activate a nearby water source, one that poured some water onto the river of lava that was in front of them, forming a large floating rock platform for them to stand on as they sought out an exit, which is what the pair did since there was no telling when the volcano would blow and take everything with it.

A couple of mites did appear on the rock as it took them into another chamber, which the pair were able to take down with ease since they weren't very tough, though it wasn't long before the volcano shook and they found that the chamber behind them had erupted, new lava pillars filling the area.

"Oh, that's not good." Flurry remarked, because that meant the destruction caused by Thera being freed was getting even closer as time went by, plus it also told her a lot of pressure must have been building in the volcano and was only now being released in some manner, which only made her wonder what was happening outside right now.

Kratos could only nod his head as he jumped to a cliff wall and started to climb to a safer area, which his daughter did as soon as she was sure the area was cleared of enemies, of which there were none, though both of them found that there were far more tremors happening to the volcano. Such a thing had an unfortunate side effect as another metallic screw tore itself apart up ahead of them, which explained why things were going downhill so fast, the very items that the crew of Atlanteans used to maintain the pressure in the volcano were breaking and were being rendered useless. With how they were breaking, however, it seemed like someone wanted this entire volcano to erupt in a manner that destroyed Atlantis, a fact that would drastically hurt Poseidon, both in terms of his followers and his own mental health, while also pushing all of the blame on them. As Kratos made his way towards another fractured door, so he could burst it open like the last one, Flurry kept her eyes open for anything that might get in their way, or help explain to the gods that this wasn't their fault, but there was nothing for her to collect and forced her to follow her father so she didn't get left behind.

As they climbed along the outside of a stone structure, which was on the other side of the fractured door, the pair found that Scylla burst out of a body of water to their left and tried to attack them again, causing both Kratos and Flurry to jump and latch onto the side of her face with one of their weapons. After that they started to stab the sides of her face, namely the eyes since that was the most vulnerable thing for them to target right now, causing the creature to roar as she went down into the water once more, though this time the pair were pulled along and focused solely on stabbing her. Instead of letting her flee again, to come back and do more damage to the surrounding area, the pair focused on ending Scylla's life, hacking and slashing into her head while she was underwater, and when she burst out of the water the pair leapt onto the walls that were around them before latching onto her again. Flurry noticed a look in her father's eyes when he noticed a loose screw that was hanging off part of the ceiling, he wanted to stab it into the creature's brain, so the second time they burst out of the water her father landed near his target, latched onto Scylla's head, and, with a mighty pull, yanked the sea beast right into the screw.

Flurry followed it up by getting on top of the creature's head and drove the Blade of Artemis right into the top of Scylla's head, going right into her brain, where together they brought about Scylla's death as her body went limp, causing her to pull it out before jumping over to her father's position.

"I'm glad she's dead, but I think it's too little too late." Flurry remarked, because she knew that if they had been able to do more harm to Scylla in the past, when she first showed up, they would have been able to avoid whatever was happening outside the volcano, and likely not incur the wrath of one or more gods in the process, accidentally since this hadn't been part of their plans.

"Agreed. I fear there will be repercussions for us coming to Atlantis." Kratos stated, though he was hoping that Zeus, at the very least, would be willing to listen to them before outright judging them for anything else that happened, which might be a vain hope considering that the King of the Gods didn't even want him and Flurry to come here in the first place.

Flurry sighed as they started moving once more, as the volcano rocked once more, which involved climbing up more of the rocky walls that were made for climbing, though this time they moved faster than before, as the violently rocking meant it was only a matter of time until the lava started to rise behind them. Kratos found some stalactites he could use to grapple over to another portion of the cavern, with Flurry following behind him as she made sure the lava didn't surprise them, all while they had to avoid a number of rocks that were falling from the ceiling, showing them that the volcano was starting to break apart as well. There was even a section where balls of fire fell down towards where they were moving through, but this time Flurry jumped into the air, found a footing, and loosed some of her magic at the hazards, cancelling them out so her father could reach the summit they were currently shooting for. In the following moments, however, Flurry realized that the lava was rising far too quickly and did something desperate, she rushed over to her father, grabbed onto his back like she was going to carry him off, and then weaved her magic around them as the volcano erupted, blasting them right out the side of the volcano and propelled them through the air.

Where they landed, after a few moments in the air, was in Crete, though as Flurry dismissed the barrier they discovered a terrible sight, that being the fact that the volcano was erupting like it was the end of the world, Crete was on fire, and the city of Atlantis was sinking off in the distance, leading both of them to realize that Zeus, at least, would blame all of this on them and caused them to brace themselves for whatever the ruined city had in store for them.