The End Begins
Blood littered Kratos held Helios' Head and looked at the battlefield. He was one step closer to his goal. Memories of what happened overcame him.
"Zeus, your son has returned! I bring the destruction of Olympus!" Kratos shouted from Gaia's back, while holding the Blade of Olympus. He was driven by only one single desire: Kill Zeus. Nothing could change it. Not even Athena's death.
"What? Impossible!" Zeus said as the gods watched down from Olympus." He brought forth the titans from the Great War. We must act! Hades! Send your minions to retrieve the Blade of Olympus! It is necessary for us to prevail!"
"I'll do as you say, King of the Gods" Hades replied. "I will get the Blades of Olympus for you."
"Good. Now all come to the Great Hall. We must prepare ourselves."
As Kratos thought about Athena suddenly minions of Hades appeared all around him. He barely had time to raise the Blade of Olympus as they lunged at him. Kratos slashed around himself vicariously, but there were too many enemies. They overwhelmed him and he felt Blade of Olympus slip out from his hand. Anger rose in him. He wielded the Blades of Athena and broke free. As he slashed the enemies, he tried to find the one that took the Blade, but he was nowhere to be found. Kratos finished the remnants of minions and started off to Gaia's head to tell her of his loss. Throughout the way, he was forced to fend off more enemies. Then he saw him. The minion who wielded the Blade of Olympus was on the back of a cyclops. Kratos tried to get to him, but he found a huge chain, blocking his path. As he tried to find a way through, he saw Hades appearing before the minion.
Hades took the Blade. He started off with it, but suddenly, something happened. The Blade of Olympus started glowing, pulsing with power. That power, the power of God of War hit Hades. He made a vile howl in pain as more and more of the power was sucked into him. And then, with one huge shriek of agony, Hades was gone as was the Blade of Olympus.
Kratos saw Hades get the Blade. He thought everything was lost. But then, something happened. Kratos didn't know what happened or why has it happened but he was certain that it had been harmful to Hades. He thought about it, when the chain blocking his way exploded. Kratos was looking right into a face of a cyclops. He was caught by surprise but managed to roll out of the way. He slashed at the cyclops, but without much success. Something was wrong. Why wasn't this cyclops affected by the Blades? Kratos let go of his focus and that was a mistake. The club of cyclops hit him straight. Kratos crashed through several trees and landed on the place, where Hades was. As he wiped blood from his mouth, he saw something lying on the ground. It was something that looked like iron gloves. He picked it up and wielded it. It was heavy and didn't look like any weapon, but somehow, Kratos knew that it is very powerful. Just as he accustomed to having weigh on his arms, he had to dodge another blow from the cyclops. The gloves were too heavy for him to roll, so he just dodged. It was so heavy that he couldn't raise his arms to hit the cyclops. He tossed his hands in despair. Kratos saw metal rigns on the gloves slide down and the gloves suddenly got lighter. He effortlessly raised his hands and hit the cyclops. Kratos felt huge power channel through the gloves and the cyclops was flung away.