God of War: Daughter of War

After reaching the area that the pegasus was resting in Kratos climbed onto it's back and it took off without delay, while at the same time Flurry quickly took to the air and followed after her father, where he informed her that they were making their way towards the Isle of Creation, where the Fates were said to rest. The pegasus was supposed to get him there, or at least that was what Gaia had told him before he revived himself, though from there he had no idea where they were supposed to go next, meaning they would have to figure it out along the way, like they had done in the past. Flurry knew that it would be no simple matter, since she and her father would be facing Lahkesis, Atropos, and Clotho, better known as the Sisters of Fate or even just the Fates, but she was ready for whatever they might send at them. It was also due to the fact that they should be able to gain a few new powers along the way, to allow them to tackle some of the tougher foes, just like what happened during their last couple of adventures, which only made her eager to learn a few new things to throw at their foes.

While they flew through the air, however, a number of griffins, creatures that were half lion and half eagle, flew towards them with undead riders on their backs, armed to the teeth to stop them from reaching the Fates, almost as if Zeus knew that they would seek them out to get Kratos' power back. Kratos drew one of the Blades of Chaos as their enemies came at them, slashing at either the sides of the griffins or at the riders that dared to get close without defending themselves, as his mount seemed to be their target so he'd fall into the water far below them. Flurry, on the other hand, tore through some of them with the Blade of Artemis, stabbing the riders through the back before pulling out and slicing them in half while taking off the heads of their mounts, or used her sickles to cut down a few of them, or even used some of her magical power. By that Kratos found that his daughter used bolts of lightning to shock some of the further ones into submission, called forth an orb of death that zeroed in on certain riders and took them down, or used Medusa's head, which she had stored inside her pouch in case they needed it, to turn her foes into breakable statues.

Kratos also jumped onto the backs of some of the griffins that were riderless, as some came on their own, and sliced off their wings before stabbing them in the back of their necks, in a vein that would cause them to bleed out and die, only to hurl them towards the ground as he jumped back to his mount. Flurry wasn't too worried about those ones, as she knew they would be dead long before they hit the sea below them, which meant that she could focus on her opponents as she smashed through the statues or loosed a volley of arrows into some of the enemies that were further away. Both of them found out something interesting, there didn't seem to be a leader for the griffin riders, or if there was he or she seemed to be of the mindset that it was fine to just observe from a distance, only to find a large raven coming at them with a rider on it's back, the leader they had been looking for. This undead had a special looking spear, one that had two heads that were made out of some purple crystal, a weapon that looked like Flurry's sickle staff, where she got in the way of the spheres of energy that came at them and swung her combined weapon at them, blocking them before they could hit her father.

Such a thing allowed his pegasus to find an opening to dive into an icy mountain that was along the way to the island that was their destination and the Dark Rider, as he was more unique than the others, departed, causing Flurry to dive into the passage as well, only to find that her father had stopped under a titan's hand, which had pinned the pegasus down.

"Are you okay?" Flurry asked, landing near her father as she glanced up at the ledge that the winged horse had landed on before being trapped by the titan that was, as it seemed like they were going to have to deal with the titan they had flown by to reach this point, or at least deal with a part of him.

"Yes, I am fine. So is the pegasus, despite the titan's hand keeping it down." Kratos replied, though at the same time both he and Flurry found harpies coming at them, where he grabbed onto them and tore their wings off after knocking them to the ground, while his daughter turned and knocked her foes out of the air with her arrows, "We should get going, as there is no telling when the Dark Rider will return."

Flurry nodded as they got moving, heading down a few worn steps that happened to bring them to some gashes that the titan's fingers had made in the cavernous area Kratos had landed in, which required slashing at one of the thick fingers to get it to move out of the way. She then found that her father was going to grind down a rock wall and she took to the air to provide support, targeting enemies that dared to get in his way and took them down with a well placed arrow, opening the way for her father to reach the end in no time at all. Both warriors noticed that the enemies right now were more undead legionnaires, a favorite of the gods and other powerful forces that ruled over parts of Greece, though neither minded that fact all too much as they slashed through the enemies who dared to get in the way. This allowed Flurry to confirm a very important fact, that while Zeus might have stolen her father's godhood from him, and the benefits that such a thing had given him, he still had his immense power from the time before he became the new God of War, meaning he was still a force to be reckoned with.

Following that they found a passage that had a minotaur at the opening of it, where Flurry jumped onto it's back and just launched herself at a group of harpies she spotted above the monster, where Kratos pulled the Blade of Artemis out as he hacked the minotaur apart.

With the creature taken down the pair found a pulley system that allowed one to move crates from another section of the cave to this one, something that allowed them to quickly traverse the gap that was in front of them, or at least Kratos had to since Flurry could just glide over. The passage brought them outside, letting the pair pass through a doorway made in the likeness of a soldier's helmet for some reason, and discovered some undead legionnaires standing on a few pieces of scaffolding while snow fell on them. With this in mind Kratos smashed the scaffolding to pieces before hacking his foes to pieces, leaving Flurry to loose a few arrows into the air as she struck down several of the other soldiers that were in the area, opening the way for her to lash out with her sickles, removing their heads before they could touch her. While she did that Flurry heard what sounded like a large bird and someone screaming in pain, meaning there was someone else on this mountain, though given that they had entered a titan's prison she had to assume there was another prisoner somewhere and that they were going to find them.

There was also a minotaur outside with the pair, though Kratos stabbed into it's side and slashed the monster in half as it tried to split him in half, allowing him to climb a wall as Flurry flapped her wings to get up there once he was sure that the coast was clear for the time being, only to find their way to an area that had the large bird and the tormented man, where the former was tearing into the latter's organs and spilling blood everywhere.

"God of War, you live... and so does the Goddess of Death." the man said, as the bird took off the moment the pair walked up to where he was resting, chained to what appeared to be one of the titan's fingers, as they were standing in the palm that was nearly frozen by the looks of things, all while Flurry noted that the bird landed nearby, as if to resume it's meal as soon as they were gone.

"We no longer walk with Zeus... those days are behind us now." Kratos stated, where he and Flurry stared at the figure for a moment as he noticed that the man's entire abdomen had been gouged out by the white bird, save for the spine and what was around it, "Is Zeus the one who imprisoned you here?"

"Yes... my only crime was helping mankind, by taking the fire from Olympus and giving it to the mortals... Zeus made me mortal, and condemned me to be savagely consumed by this wretched bird!" the man, who Kratos and Flurry knew to be Prometheus, the former God of Knowledge and Creator of Mankind, according to the tales anyway, stated, though as he said that they watched as he growled in pain as his abdomen and organs regenerated before their very eyes, completely undoing the bird's work in a few seconds, "By day I am consumed by that cursed beast, and with the fall of night I am healed... I honestly do not know how long I have been here, suffering from this curse... please, I beg of you, please end my suffering."

"Hm, with the fire below us, I guess the best way to ensure the curse is dealt with is to burn you... cremation." Flurry said, quickly putting the pieces together with all of the information that was given to them, or around the area that they were in, though as she glanced back to Prometheus she found that he quickly nodded his head, showing both warriors that she had hit the nail right on the head.

After hearing that Flurry shifted her stance and slashed through the chains without delay, though before Prometheus fell she caught the chains that were still around his hands and opened her wings, where Kratos watched as she lifted him into the air, moved him out of the way, and then dropped the former god onto the flames, as per his wishes, allowing them to consume him.

"One can only imagine how many Zeus has condemned to fates like this." Kratos commented, where he thought about his mother for a moment, how she was cursed to transform into a nearly mindless monster that they had to slay, all because she started to speak his father's name, before finding that Flurry loosed a few arrows into the air and the white bird fell into the flames as well, "Was that necessary?"

"Maybe not, but at least Zeus won't know about our progress." Flurry replied, because there was a chance that the white bird might have been ordered to return to Olympus should someone free Prometheus from his curse, to tell Zeus about the deed, so she was making sure to eliminate anything that might tell Zeus what they were doing.

Kratos nodded his head as he dropped down onto the path that was near the fire and continued walking, as he suspected that there might be something they could gain from another part of the mountain, something Flurry confirmed after flying around the area for a few seconds, as she spotted another soldier tunnel. They found that Kratos had to climb a couple of walls, plus they had to deal with a few more undead legionnaires, but for the most part the exterior of the mountain just seemed to be vacant of enemies, since there were far less than the pair expected to find near a titan's prison. With that in mind it didn't take them long to reach the passage Flurry had found and they used it to reach another pulley system, one that ended in a circular area that gorgons appeared in, the ones with the missing stomachs and flesh that allowed them to see their spines. Oddly enough there were only three of them in the area, so instead of wasting time Kratos grabbed one and tore it in half, surprising the serpent lady in the process, before tearing her head clean off, while Flurry faded into the shadows before appearing behind the other two and severed their heads.

Both warriors then approached a fractured rock wall and Kratos smashed it down, allowing them to discover a path that would bring them right to the titan's face, where Flurry found an etching on a wall and discovered that this was actually Typhon, giving them a name to use as they stepped out into the open area.

"Typhon! Gaia has sent us to you in the hopes of us gaining more tools to use against the Fates and, eventually, Zeus. Was she correct?" Kratos loudly asked, speaking to the figure that was in front of them, who seemed to be ignoring them until he spoke up, though he suspected that they didn't need to be talking to the figure since they were skilled enough to deal with whatever was waiting for them on the Island of Creation.

"Go away, Ghost of Sparta. Your presence angers me." Typhon stated, showing that it didn't matter what they thought about the matter, he wasn't going to willingly give them whatever it was Gaia wanted them to claim, where Flurry found that there was an odd glint in his left eye, no doubt what they were here for.

With that in mind she opened her wings again and flew around the chamber, allowing Kratos to find that Typhon viewed her as the greater threat as he tired to use his windy breath to knock her out of the air, though it also opened the way for him to make his way across a few icy stone walkways that brought him to the highest point of the chamber. From there he punched out part of the wall and then dropped it down after Flurry flew by, forming a path for him to get at the titan's face for a few seconds, which is why he rushed at the massive figure before he put together what was going on. Flurry watched as her father jumped onto the titan's face and plunged his blades into Typhon's left eye, allowing him to free the item they had seen previously, before he jumped back for a moment and landed on the walkway he had used, only to find that the item was a bow. It wasn't like the other bows they had seen before, as it was mostly a silver handle piece that looked like it was supposed to resemble Typhon, while the upper, lower, and bowstring pieces were made out of wind, meaning it could use the power of wind against their foes, causing Kratos to add it to their collection before departing.

Sure enough more undead legionnaires appeared in the way, where Kratos and Flurry raised their bows and released a volley of arrows that downed their enemies before they even realized what was coming at them, allowing the pair to keep going without actually stopping for the undead.

With Typhon's Bane in hand, and Kratos knew how to wield it in battle, the pair used the new grapple points to get back to the area that the gorgons had been in previously, allowing them to retrace their steps as they headed outside, only to use a few more grapple points to reach a long chain that linked two areas together. Flurry took to the air once more as she used her arrows to strike down several undead legionnaires that were making their way to her father's position, to stop him from returning to the pegasus' location, though she did notice a lingering fire on his arms and legs for a moment, as if something had empowered his Rage of Sparta form. It wasn't something that they used all that much, especially since the two of them were skilled enough to not need it in battle all the time, though this might be what Gaia wanted all along, to grant her father a bit more power to make sure he was ready for the Fates. Following that they dropped down into the area that held the tunnel leading back to their destination, where Kratos smashed his way through the door that blocked the way, which must have dropped after they walked through it earlier, allowing them to enter the cavern the pegasus had landed in before Typhon trapped it.

As they walked through the cave Flurry made another discovery, the undead legionnaires were actually satyrs, instead of the undead men they were used to fighting, meaning they were actually a new type of enemy, undead satyr legionnaires, but they went down as easily as the other type of undead, allowing them to reach the area the pegasus was in and forced the hand away so it could free itself.

"This was a good stop: new power and a brand new weapon." Kratos said, even though he knew this stop was mostly for him and not for Flurry, since her Rage of Sparta didn't need a boost in power at all, given that it had to be the strongest one he had seen, and she had no need for a new bow, as the one Artemis had gifted her was still serving her well, which told him that all of this was for him to gain the power to face whatever the future held for them.

"Indeed, which means both of us should be ready for whatever is waiting on the Island of Creation." Flurry remarked, where she was pleased to see that her father was in a good mood, getting new powers and weapons to use against their foes and enemies, despite what had happened previously, though after she said that she focused on the task at hand as her father climbed onto the pegasus' back.

Neither of them had any idea what might be waiting for them on the island Gaia was sending them to, since there was next to nothing written about the dangers of the area in question, but that didn't stop Kratos or Flurry from taking off, as both of them were ready to brave whatever challenges and monsters were waiting for them in the near future.