God of War: Daughter of War

After a few moments of rest, since Kratos didn't want to wear out Flurry too much since she was still only four years old, he found that Megaera still had no ideas where they had ended up and that was good for them, since it meant that they could track her down, kill her, and get the stolen amulet back. With that in mind he started to move again and Flurry followed, her sickles at the ready in case more monsters showed up to attack them, though while there was a blocked path and another that had a lever at the very end, which just so happened to unlock the blocked one. Flurry found it weird that they were so close to each other, because if she had designed this part the lever would have been at the end of a gauntlet of sorts, to which Kratos thanked Zeus that the Furies were stupid in constructing the prison, since it meant they could get out of here a lot sooner. Such a thing allowed him and Flurry to find that Megaera was standing on what appeared to be a lift, one that would allow them to escape this area, meaning she must have figured they were down here and came to investigate, only now she started to retreat after realizing that Kratos was still alive, and that Flurry was unharmed.

In addition to that the pair found that her beetles were able to infect dogs as well, turning them into monsters who were forced to do whatever Megaera wanted, though Kratos barely looked at them before punting all of the infected dogs into a grinder that was apparently a gear to move the lift the Fury had been standing on.

Once the first group of enemies were dealt with Kratos moved the grinder into position and the lift started to move, which was followed by more infected, dogs and people, jumping down into the area to attack them, where the pair shared a look for a moment before simply hurling them into the grinder, him focusing on the people while she dealt with the dogs that came at her. Eventually the lift became stuck thanks to some metallic pieces that were in the way, though Flurry knew such a thing wasn't a problem for Kratos, who lifted them up and forced them off the lift, allowing it to continue towards the top of the shaft the Furies had forcefully added to Aegaeon's twisted body. As Kratos did that, however, both he and Flurry found that Megaera had returned and was destroying the path that the lift was connected to, likely in the hopes of trapping them in this area, though he beckoned to Flurry for a moment and together they climbed up the ruined path she had created, unintentionally leaving a way for him to climb up to the peak. She even had the audacity to try and destroy the lift, freeing the grinder in an attempt to deal with Kratos, but he ignored it as they reached the highest point in no time at all and left that chamber behind, all while the injured Fury continued to flee, instead of finishing what she started back on the shattered gauntlet.

The path lead to a ladder that just so happened to bring them out of the arm and ended at the edge of a bridge, one they hadn't been on before and seemed to end in what appeared to be a small hut, though when they entered it the pair found that it was full of mostly nude ladies, though as Kratos took it in Flurry slashed Tisiphone in the leg, causing her guardian to growl as he grabbed the Fury's head and slammed her into the ground.

"Damned pony. Why can you SEE ME?!" Tisiphone remarked, showing that she was still hung up on that fact, that out of all the people she had used her illusions on, and had tormented with all sorts of images, there was someone like her, who had the power to tell reality from her illusions, opening the way for Kratos to hit her.

"Don't know, don't care. Killing you now." Flurry stated, though as she stepped forward Megaera rushed out of the left side of the chamber and slammed into Kratos, something that caused her to latch onto the wounded Fury as they shattered a wall and fell out of the building, landing on a platform in front of Aegaeon's head.

Of course Megaera, despite telling her sister that she would deal with the pair, retreated as soon as they landed and called for more infected to deal with them, all while Megaera did her best to climb up the side of Aegaeon's head, like she might be going for his eyes, before Flurry realized what she was going to do and let an arrow fly, hitting the Fury in the leg while not knocking her off the massive creature.

"I really need to improve my aim... that was just terrible." Flurry remarked, because she had been aiming at her target's heart, or something vital that would knock her off her perch before she did the terrible deed she was about to commit, to which she turned towards Kratos as Megaera started to produce more of her sick parasites, "You might want to hang onto something."

As Kratos turned his head, after having finished off the rest of the infected, only to spot what Flurry had noticed as some of the critters burrowed into Aegaeon's eyelid, where they watched as the changes washed over his face, only to find that his eye was still moving, and it wasn't long before part of his face broke off as large insect legs emerged from his upper and lower jaw, allowing the head to move again. It was a terrible and sickening sight, that Megaera was able to use those foul creatures on such a massive creature and force it under her control, making Flurry wonder why she didn't just use the beetles on her and Kratos, given their roles in Ares' dark plans. They could only watch as the possessed head chomped down on the platform and started to move in a way that suggested it was coming for them, only for the pair to discover an interesting sight, two of the fangs that appeared behind them had sections missing, wounds for them to exploit, and the pair only had to look at each other for a moment before moving. Of course there were more infected to deal with, since Megaera loved to use them against her foes, so they had to deal with them before targeting the fangs, though upon the shattering of one Aegaeon turned his head and hurled the platform off into the distance.

Such a thing caused them to jump off and land on the underside of a bridge, the very one they had used not too long ago, only for them to discover something else, Megaera was twisting more of the limb arms into the abominations that she had created earlier, as one came at them while the head did the same. As that happened Kratos found that Flurry wasn't too happy with this turn of events and readied her sickles, though as she threw the right one, just like he did with his blades, he found that a ghostly white substance, energy of some kind, linked her to the weapon and she was able to pull herself up to the creature's shoulder. He had no idea how she had figured out how to do such a thing, since he was sure that the Furies had taken her weapons from her, but he did know that Flurry was a gifted warrior, given how much she had learned since their initial meeting, and she was of a race he had never heard of before, so he guessed that fight might lead to her unlocking new abilities on her own. Either way he wasn't going to argue with the results, as the corrupted arm tried to get rid of her without killing her, since the Furies seemed to have plans for her, and it was in vain as she brought a sickle down into it's flesh, forcing it to move around while he focused on Aegaeon's corrupted head.

That caused an idea to pop into Kratos' head as he beckoned for Flurry to bring the creature close, as close as she could with her limited control, where he waited for her to do so before leaping out onto it and stabbed his blades into it, which allowed him to seize control of the insect creature as Flurry stood beside him. With how his weapons were positioned he could use them to direct the creature's body and limbs, allowing him to swing the arm blades at the head while doing his best to dodge attacks, since taking too many would break it, like they had proven earlier. As he did that Flurry noticed that Megaera was shocked by this turn of events, as if she couldn't believe that Kratos would do such a thing, despite the fact that he used it on the cyclops not that long ago, but she wasn't about to question the Furies at this point. Kratos was able to remove one or two of the head's fangs thanks to the creature's power, though Megaera was able to retain some control as she forced the arm they were on close to the head's mouth, though Kratos had planned for that possibility and, when it bit into their ride, he and Flurry jump onto Aegaeon's face.

The Fury barely had time to react as both warriors threw a weapon at them, both digging into her flesh as they pulled her off her ride and caused her to fall for a time, hitting a platform that was below the head, though as her back hit the floor Kratos landed on top of Megaera and stabbed her chest with his blades, going for the heart, and when she tried to push herself up Flurry wrapped the insides of her sickles around her neck and severed her head.

"There... one... down..." Flurry said, where she huffed for a moment as Megaera's head rolled to the side as her body hit the floor as Kratos let go of it, as fighting like that had taken a bit more out of her than she had thought it would, though as she returned one sickle to it's resting place she retrieved the amulet and held it out to Kratos, who took the artifact as he studied her, "What? I'm fine, just... catching my breath. Are all godly creatures hard to kill?"

"They are gods, Flurry, not mortal creatures like myself... I... I do not know if all gods are difficult to kill, as none have died in a long time." Kratos replied, though he could only stare down at the slain Fury, a being that was supposedly stronger or older than the gods and titans of the land, who had the power to move a slumbering creature like Aegaeon with a bit of her own power, and had to wonder if that was true, if he truly was mortal, before realizing it was likely whatever Flurry was that had allowed them to bring Megaera down, "I will admit that this is good news for us, as there was a time, before we met, that I had wondered if this was a fool's errand, fated to end in failure... but with Megaera's death we have hope that it can be repeated, that we can break her sisters and break my bond with Ares."

"Then we had best get going... I can rest when Tisiphone and Alecto are dead." Flurry stated, though she shared Kratos' thoughts on the matter, she had assumed that the gods, titans, and other powerful beings of the land would be far above their level of power, so even with the Eyes they would have had to go on a quest to power up before returning to kill the sisters, only now they knew that death could claim even them.

Kratos said nothing to that as he spotted what appeared to be a small ghostly white orb that merged with one of Flurry's sickles, causing him to remember that the Furies had said 'Death' whenever talking about her, meaning her weapons had to be from Thanatos' realm, taking the souls of the dead for some odd reason. His thoughts were interrupted as more enemies showed up to deal with them, what appeared to be a cerberus and several infected, the latter no doubt being the last ones Megaera had made, even though he was sure they should be dead with the death of their master. Flurry sighed as they got to work, as she had been hoping for a short break, and maybe an uninterrupted walk to someplace where they could use the amulet's power, before this happened, but she decided not to worry about it as she ducked under the legs of the various infected and slashed at them, weakening them for Kratos. Such a thing allowed him to focus on breaking the cerberus, as he climbed onto it's back at one point and used his heated chains to sever two of it's heads before using both blades to pierce the last one, killing the creature as he turned and helped Flurry deal with the rest of the infected.

Once he was sure that the enemies were temporarily disposed of, since he knew more would be coming, he used the amulet on the area in front of them, allowing Flurry to see that they had landed where they had done so when she freed Kratos, so they made one massive circle around the prison, and the walkway reformed in no time. This time around they found that a door that wasn't open before was accessible to them now, where he braced himself as Flurry looked around for Tisiphone, as seemingly ordinary areas like this seemed to be her favorite for using her illusions against Kratos. Sure enough a brand new scene unfolded before her eyes, where Flurry found that they were in what appeared to be a throne room of some kind and that a man was standing at the top of some stairs, who seemed like someone Kratos knew, at least before coming to the lands to find the key to stopping the Furies. In the following moment the illusion shimmered and she found that her guess had been correct, Tisiphone was trying to trick Kratos again, so when they got close to the ruler's position she pulled out her sickles and slashed at the Fury's leg, causing her to hiss in pain as Kratos grabbed her head and slammed her down into the pillar below them, shattering the illusion while showing them that they were close to an edge.

"Accursed creature, we should have locked you up in the main sanctum." Tisiphone stated, though instead of fighting them she just floated up into the air and quickly flew over to where the large door Flurry had spotted earlier was located, the halls of the Furies no doubt, allowing the pair to continue on their journey.

As they started to move, however, Flurry found an odd cloak that Kratos was sure belonged to Orkos, though he was sure their ally wouldn't mind her taking it as well, causing her to carefully place it inside her pouch with the other items she had found so far, still not stretching the container in question. Such a thing caused Kratos to wonder if Flurry had some sort of power that was causing this change, since he was under the assumption that stuffing so much into a small pouch would have ripped it apart by this point in time, but decided not to worry about it, at least not until the remaining Furies were also dead and his bond was shattered. As he moved into the next area he found one of the empusa appeared to fight them, on her own this time since he and Flurry found that no one else was in the surrounding area, though Flurry wasn't even a tad bit surprised by how Kratos dealt with her when the battle was over, using her bladed feet to pierce her back and heart from behind. Once the empusa was dead, and they were sure no more enemies were showing up, the pair found that the only way out was to climb the outside of an area they might have walked through earlier, to which Flurry climbed onto Kratos' back and let him complete this portion of the path, something she needed to correct in the future.

Sure enough there were even more infected on the path they were following, where Kratos and Flurry hacked through all of them like they did before, until they reached a ledge that allowed Kratos to use the amulet once more, restoring the arm that lead to the sanctum of the Furies, while leaving Flurry in awe of what the artifact could do.

Of course, with how large the arm was and all the components that were resting on it, the reforming process took a bit of time to complete, though when it was complete both he and Flurry found that there was no path connecting their location to the main arm they were interested in, save for a chain hanging below it. Flurry sighed as she returned to her usual spot on Kratos' back, allowing him to make sure she was okay before leaping off the ledge they were on, where he used both of his blades on several points that looked like grapple locations, allowing him to latch onto the end of the chain and launch themselves up the smaller arms that were nearby. Such a thing actually lead them back up to an area that was close to where Megaera showed them the true power of her beetles, though the only way forward was to head inside the arm and see what sort of dangers might be waiting for them this time around, hence why Flurry climbed off her guardian's back as she followed after him. A nearby ladder brought her and Kratos to a torture chamber, where Megaera brought those she wanted to break in the most cruel of ways, not counting Aegaeon's foul treatment, but it seemed empty of enemies, but, to be on the safe side, both warriors kept their guard up as Kratos explored the area.

Flurry had more confirmation that Kratos was good at puzzles, as he moved corpses around, triggering things and raising sections of the chamber, before forming a way for them to get to the upper level, which they did so without delay since there was no telling when the other two Furies would show up. The door that was up on the upper level happened to have a door that didn't take them outside, rather it brought them to the holding area of a man Kratos called the 'Scribe', as he was the first mortal oathbreaker, who had lost his mind at this point, though it did seem like he had kept a record of what the Furies had done. Flurry didn't bother to ask him how he knew that title, rather she figured that either Orkos had told briefly mentioned him or Megaera had done so during their moments, but the man seemed happy to see them and said many things, mostly detailing how the Furies were harsh but fair keepers, that they treated their son poorly, and several other topics that weren't important for them. With the brief discussion done the pair continued up the path and found that it brought them back to the chamber Megaera had dropped them in earlier, though this time there were a couple of infected with a sibyl siren guarding the area, enemies to take down so they could progress.

Kratos found that Flurry, despite her lack of experience, did everything in her power to weaken the infected that were in the chamber, though when a gorgon showed up to attack them the girl jumped on it's tail and hacked into it's back, which caused the beast to hiss in pain while he finished his enemies, before he beheaded the creature.

From there the pair traversed a familiar path as they headed outside, quickly returning to the area that Megaera had used the true power of her beetles in, where Tisiphone was floating before the door, her arms crossed as she stared at them, a fact that told Flurry that the Fury was planning on using more illusions, but couldn't with her present. She was a counter to Tisiphone's powers, something not even she could work around, and that meant that any illusion she cast could be seen through, meaning as long as she was with Kratos there was no way for her to trick him and that, clearly, pissed her off to no end. To that end she sent out the blue winged creature to try and grab her, to separate her from Kratos for a time, but Kratos grabbed onto it's beak, smashed it into the ground, and quickly tore the oath stone out of it's chest, the artifact it had stolen from him back in the Lantern, and while he was still holding it Flurry slashed into the side of it's head, mostly to do some damage to it before they had to fight it for real. After that the bird was let go, where it returned to Tisiphone as she retreated into the sanctum, meaning she wanted to get her sister involved in the fight that was coming up, though as that happened Kratos used the oath stone after pulling a chain back, revealing a grapple point for them to use to get over the wall in front of them, and by releasing it he moved them over the last hurdle.

Of course there were two empusa waiting for them in the area in question, meaning Flurry had to use her arrows on them while Kratos fought them like he did before, something that interested him since he realized that most of the monsters, at least since Flurry started fighting, chose to fight him, likely because she was a child and the Furies had likely ordered them to keep her intact.

In the end he slew the two creatures like he had done in the past, though since there were two he had to stun one for just a few moments so he could impale the other, allowing him to repeat it on the first while she was recovering, though once that was done Kratos used the amulet again to restore the last pieces of the path so they could enter the sanctum of the Furies and end this. Sure enough they walked into what appeared to be another illusion, or at least Flurry could see that, but this time both Furies made sure to stay away, at least until they were sure that she was distracted, though Kratos did see a beautiful lady who caught his breath and a little girl sleeping on a cot in another room. This time around Flurry held her sickles back as she observed Alecto, as that was who the lady truly was, who seemed to be solely focused on Kratos as he waited for her to make the first move again, trusting her more than he trusted his own eyes, and Flurry walked as if she was curious. It was all just a diversion, really, for her to slash at Alecto's legs as she accomplished her true goal, stealing the Eyes of Truth that were, rather foolishly in her eyes, resting on the Fury's belt, so as she returned to Kratos' side, so he could take the last artifact that had been stolen from them, the enraged figure pulled back as the illusion broke, revealing a large chamber with many support pillars with amber trapped inside them.

"A simple trinket won't stop us, Spartan." Alecto remarked, because while the Eyes were powerful, and would deal with the majority of Tisiphone's illusions on their own, she knew that two Furies would be more than enough to deal with Kratos, since there was nothing the little one could do once they set their plan in motion.

"Maybe so, but I have what you fear most: Death." Kratos stated, as he could tell that the Furies didn't want to do anything to Flurry, she had become far more important to them than he had been, in fact he was sure that they were planning on taking her to turn her into Ares' new weapon to destroy Olympus, and that caused him to realize that they wouldn't dear harm a hair on her head, so if Flurry could get to them this battle would be over sooner, rather than later.

In that moment Alecto shouted that she was the 'Queen of the Furies' before transforming into a tendril of some kind that was growing larger by the second, to which Kratos and Flurry latched onto one of the tendrils as they passed into what had to be a black watery version of her goo, before reality returned as they discovered that they were on a ship, outside a massive whirlpool, a maelstrom as Kratos said, with a massive beast in the center.

"Wait... Alecto's Charybdis?!" Flurry remarked, as she wasn't expecting that, that the massive creature was one of the foul Furies they were trying to kill, and even Kratos was surprised by that fact as Tisiphone flew overhead with her bird, making illusions of other Spartan soldiers for them to fight, "Right, focus on the enemies and then the Furies... we can worry about this information later."

Kratos had to admit that he was impressed, as Flurry had come a long way since he first met her, and he suspected that the death of Megaera had boosted her confidence in some manner, though for the time being he focused on the illusions as they came at him, focusing solely on him and not Flurry. It just confirmed that neither Fury wanted to bring her harm, she was a tool they wanted to gain control of so she could be handed to Ares, something that only made him want to do everything in his power to stop them, hence why he struck down the illusory soldiers as they came at him. Tisiphone then did something incredibly stupid in Flurry's eyes, she flew down to where Kratos was fighting and tried to strike him down with her bird, though such a thing left her open to attacks as she spun her right sickle and hurled it through the air, where it hooked into her back, narrowly missing the Fury's spine. Kratos and the illusory soldiers paused for a moment as Flurry pulled herself onto the Fury's back and started to slash into her backside, though her opening allowed him to silence all of the illusory soldiers and focus on the bird, as Tisiphone sent it at him while she tried to get Flurry off her back.

This did make him wonder what sort of material had gone into the creation of the sickles, as they seemed like nothing else he had seen before, save for the Blades of Chaos, and made him consider that they might have been made in primordial death, like the blades and primordial fire, before focusing his full attention on the bird again.

Alecto called forth her tendrils and attacked them, one lifting the ship into the air while the others tried to hit Tisiphone, as Flurry realized that she really couldn't hurt her sister and this was the best way for her to try and get her off her back, but she did her best to make sure she kept her footing to keep the fight as fair as possible. Kratos seemed to appreciate that, or at least she assumed so since reading his emotions could be hard at times, though his focus was on hacking apart the tendril that was lifting the ship into the air and using the Eyes of Truth to undo the barrier illusions that Flurry's foe cast in the spare moments she was able to do so. From what Flurry could tell Alecto was actively trying to kill Kratos, especially after hearing a 'life for a life', meaning they were done with the warrior and wanted her far more than they wanted him, a fact that proved to be difficult since Kratos was far stronger and more resourceful than they expected him to be, since he was tearing through the tendril with ease. It was actually quite impressive how deadly and destructive he could be with the main targets of his quest, as he tore chunks out of the one tendril until Alecto forced him to move, swinging from one of her tendrils to another while running across a third, surprising even Tisiphone with how agile he really was, until he found an area to impale his blades in and blast the tip of a tendril clean off.

Flurry found that he fell into the water after that, allowing them to see Alecto's true monstrous face, but even then it was clear that she couldn't do too much to him, even in an area that gave her the advantage, until she dropped him into the center of the maelstrom, where a platform, similar to the one in the sanctum, rested. Such a thing gave Kratos a platform to fight on as Alecto used two tendrils to hold herself in front of where he was standing, while the rest attacked him to the best of her ability, all while Tisiphone tried to aid her sister and Flurry stabbed her again, slamming her into a rock pillar as she continued to distract her foe. Alecto did try to use her black goo on Kratos, to root him in a single spot so she could skewer him with one of the other tendrils, but he used the oath stone to escape her bindings, just like before, and struck at her when she came within range again. It was clear that whatever plans Alecto had created were impossible to achieve while Tisiphone was being contained by Flurry, and Kratos was proving to be far more than she first thought when she had been told about his skills, to which the warrior tore open a wound above the Queen of the Furies' left eye and then drove a blade into the eye itself.

In fact he even drove something from the front of a ship, a plow or something, into the left side of her bestial mouth and used the amulet to freeze the tendrils that were coming at him, and when he drove both blades into the open wound he actually shattered the entire illusion they were in, returning them to the sanctum's platform, and Alecto to her humanoid form as well.

"You bring shame on Sparta, Oathbreaker!" Tisiphone shouted, where she sent the blue creature at Kratos, choosing to try and stop him before he could kill Alecto while she was down, but this time Flurry didn't stop it, as she noticed that he had the Eyes of Truth at the ready and blasted the creature to the ground, and repeatedly until he dissolved it, shocking the Illusion Fury to the ground.

"Your words mean nothing, Fury... not when your death is assured." Kratos stated, to which he slashed at her legs and the Fury fell to her knees, all while finding that Flurry was still hanging on, keeping Tisiphone contained until the end, where he sheathed his blades for a moment and nodded to her, causing the Fury's eyes to go wide as she realized what was going to happen to her.

Flurry ripped the sickle that was in Tisiphone's back out, which lead to the Fury crying out in pain, swung it like she had seen Kratos do to get rid of the blood that was on it, before positioning both weapons around her foe's neck and severed her head, allowing it to roll as she huffed and walked over to Kratos, who nodded as he noticed another small orb merge with the material of the sickles.

"You think... you want... truth... but you will only know pain." Alecto coughed, showing them that the damage Kratos had done to her, while not manifesting on her actual body, was still affecting her as she tried to push herself onto her feet, all while both Kratos and Flurry approached her with their weapons at the ready, "Killing me will not free you, Spartan... nor will it give the little one the future she deserves!"

The pair glanced at each other for a moment, as if silently communicating, before springing into action as Kratos brought his blades down into her chest, right into the tops of her breasts, pushing her down to her knees as the last Fury realized what was coming next. She was a few seconds too late as Flurry wrapped the insides of her blades around her neck and separated Alecto's head from her shoulders, killing the last of the sisters as Kratos spotted a third orb that joined the rest of the set, but before either of them could celebrate Alecto's body reacted to her demise. Black water and goo gathered in the space above the platform before bursting outward, like an explosion had gone off, where they watched as the various oath stones that lined the pillars went dark before detonating, blowing holes in the pillars. Kratos, upon realizing that this was a measure to destroy anyone capable of killing the Furies, sheathed his blades, picked Flurry up as she did the same, and charged out of the sanctum as the pillars started to shatter and the ceiling started to fall on everything.

Fortunately the door wasn't too far and he was able to get them to safety without too much delay, though as they landed on the ground in front of the sanctum they got a front row seat to the collapse of the central part of the mountain, where he made sure they walked to a safe area before sitting on the ground with a worn smile on their faces, as it was time for a rest before worrying about what the future held for them.