THE TRUTH IS REVEALED
on mount olympus the next day after the battle with Ares, kratos was waking up next to Lysandra in his new bed inside his new chambers that once belonged to the god of war
"Good morning my god of war" - Lysandra says with yawn and a smile, kratos smiled back and kiss her on the cheek
"good morning my love" - Kratos says getting up to put his god of war armor on
"we will be going to the pantheon soon for You, Calliope, and Atreus's ascensions to become gods" - Kratos says, and Lysandra gets ready as well
The next scene changes with Atreus and Calliope training together in the same battle arena where they fought the god of war
"Atreus, I can't thank you enough for what you did for me, I mean unleashing your power to save my own life, I never thought someone as amazing as you could defeat Ares like that" - Calliope says with a smile while taking a break for a little bit and Atreus does the same, they both sit down and looked at eachother to continue their quick conversation
"thank you Calliope, and I can't believe you sacrificed yourself to save me, that was really brave of you, I'm honored" - Atreus says putting a hand on Calliopes, and they hold hands embracing the moment they are having as half brother and sister
"forgive me to interrupt this moment but lord lord Zeus demands your presence" - Hermes the messenger god says with his usual smirk
"of course Hermes, we will be there right now" - Calliope says to Hermes with a smile, then the messenger god goes back to the pantheon
the next scene changes with the gods at the pantheon where they are waiting for Atreus and Calliope, Lysandra is already there and Kratos is on his seat next to Athena and Zeus
"does anyone know where the mortal children are? I thought I told you to deliver the message to them" - Zeus the god of thunder says to Hermes then Atreus immediately enters the room carrying Calliope bridal style with a flash of red lightning and next to Lysandra
"are we too late or right on time" - Atreus says with a bit humor and puts Calliope down
"show off" - Hermes says feeling a bit jealous that Atreus was way more faster then him
"you're all on time, now on this day we are here to grant the three mortals the powers of a deity, Athena bestow them the powers of a god" - Zeus says
"of course father" - Athena says, then walks to the mortals
"you three are ready to become immortals" - Athena says with a smile and puts both of her hands on Lysandra's head, Calliopes, then Atreus, after that they were now gods but they don't have titles yet and that's when Zeus announces "what titles should we give them, any suggestions?"
"I think we should make Atreus the god of speed, Calliope the goddess of light, and Lysandra the goddess of triumph" - Hera suggested to Zeus and the three new gods nodded their heads in agreement
"now that's out the way I think it would be time that i told you all the truth, does this place have a reflection pool?" - Atreus says to finally tell everyone what they need to know about the boy
"yes we do and it can also show memories of a mortal or god" - Athena says then she brings the reflection pool to the pantheon
"concentrate on your memories and then the reflection pool will show us everything" - Athena says to her nephew
"right, now once I begin this will be hard to believe for what your all about to witness" - Atreus says with a little bit of nervousness
"don't worry Atreus we will all be with you no matter what we see"- Calliope says with a smile and puts a hand on Atreus's
"thank you Calliope"- Atreus says and now it begins, the reflection pool is activated, all the gods remain silent
"roar , that dull hammer doesn't scare me, boom, oh no" - Atreus says playing with his toys
"boy" - the man says
"boy" - the man says again but a little more louder
Atreus walks in his house
"your mother's knife, it belongs to you now" - the man says, Atreus walks to the knife and grabs it
"what for?" - Atreus says
"a test she taught you to hunt yes
"yes sir"
"then show me what you know"- the tall man says then walks out of the shadows to reveal his identity and says "I am hungry" and it is the mighty norse Kratos
"feed us" - norse Kratos says softly throwing Atreus's bow to the boy
"what are we hunting?" - Atreus says walk outside with Norse Kratos next to him and says "you are hunting dear" then they begin their journey
"which way"
"your hunt, you tell me"
"south?"
"is that a question"
"south" - Atreus says sternly
they walk for a while until Atreus spotted tracks
"look tracks, their fresh this way" - Atreus says guiding Norse Kratos to the right direction, until a dear pops out in front of Atreus scaring him a bit, the dear run away
"found it"
"slow down boy"
"sorry"
"you must think, do not simply react, be calm and plan"
"it's just, I'm not use to hunting"
"oh what happened here" - Atreus also says then he spot the dear
"their it is" - Atreus says ready to fire his arrow at the dear
"hold" - norse Kratos says but the boy already fired the arrow and missed, norse Kratos walks to the boy and takes his bow away from him
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, NOW ITS GUARD IS UP, ONLY FIRE" - norse Kratos stop and takes a breath and continues his sentence "only fire, when I tell you to fire" - norse Kratos says scolding the boy
"I'm sorry"
"do not be sorry, be better, find it" - norse Kratos says and the boy continues walking until he stumbled across a drauger
"my bow" - Atreus says walking to the other side
"no you are not ready, stay back" - norse Kratos says pulling out the laviathan axe and it transforms into an ice axe, hits the drauger three times and kills it
"father above you"
Norse Kratos looks around and sees two more draugers, one right and left, he throws his axe to the drauger on the left and hits the drauger to the death with his bare fists
"father I knew something felt off about the forest"
"keep moving" - norse Kratos says and he puts his hand out, somehow the laviathan axe came back to him at his hand and puts it away
"you know if you give me my bow back, I can help you fight I'm ready"
"you have yet to prove that"
"I need a chance"
"you had a chance"
"I need another"
"then find that dear"
they were walking onto a bridge until two draugers appear, ready to attack Atreus
"back away boy" - Kratos says until the bridge was destroyed by a fire troll grabbing norse Kratos, the troll slammed the demigod to the ground
"(troll language), Valhalla" - the fire troll says until he was punched in the face by Kratos's fists and he gets back up, throwing Atreus's bow the the boy
"here's your chance show me you are ready"
"yes sir"
the troll roared with fury and norse Kratos was attack him with his axe
"back off boy, I've special shocks, I will torture thee"
"yes sir"
"he's charging"
the troll charges norse Kratos but the demigod dodges his attack, then Kratos began to strike him with his axe,
"what do we do now"
"shoot it"
"on it" - Atreus says shooting the troll with his electrokinesis and says "yes"the fire troll slammed his big weapon to the ground making a small shock wave
"it is time, I will bring it down, you will kill it"
"yes sir"
norse Kratos does a loud roar, he charges the troll with fury, and took him to the ground
"now boy"
"wait" - the troll says
"wait, what"
"do it"
the troll slammed his fist into the ground making Atreus loose his balance and hit norse Kratos in the right side of his shoulder, the ice begins to break
"off the ice, now" - norse Kratos kills the troll with a final blow with his axe, then out the arrow off his shoulder
they both made it to safety
"I am so sorry, I "
" your dear is getting away"
"yes sir"
" I can't believe we fought a real troll"
" and you froze when i told you to kill it
"I know but he was staring right at me, how could it look him in the eyes and kill "
"him? i thought your mother taught you to hunt"
"she did, but i never had to kill anything, she always did that part"
"then it is time for you to learn"
they still walk until Atreus sees the dear again
"father look"
"wait for my mark, relax do not think of it as an animal, it is simply a target clear your mind, exhale and release" - norse Kratos says and Atreus fires the arrow hitting the dear
"i got it"
"good"
they walk to the dears body
"your knife"
Atreus pulls out his knife and gives it to his father
"no, finish what you started"
the boy hesitated, he simply couldn't do it
"I can't"
norse Kratos puts his hands on Atreus's still holding the knife, they stab the dear in the neck slowly until Kratos lets go so Atreus can do the rest on his own, and in seconds later the dear was dead
"I -" Atreus tried to says something but he wouldn't and kratos still looks over the horizon and Atreus does the same, norse Kratos looks at his son, almost puts a hand on his shoulder but he grabs the knife out of the dears neck
"now you are ready"
"for what?"
"a new beginning"
the fog clears and all you can see is the lands of midgard, thunder striking,seeing half of the worlds serpents body moving slowly and in the sky you can see a dragon fly across the sky, it heads for Atreus and Kratos, and it passes them,
then it also shows the conversation that Atreus had with his Norse Kratos in chapter 3, then the memory ends.
The next scene changes with Atreus opening his eyes and sees the Olympian gods even Kratos, Calliope, and Lysandra have wide eyes and speechless expressions on their faces
"was it too much for you?" - Atreus says
"so you're my son, and I'm your father?" - Kratos says, walking to the boy
"yes I'm actually from the future, well from a different timeline where you brought the destruction of mount olympus and the Olympian gods which is also my family, me and you took my mother ashes to the highest peak in all nine realms after she died, it was her last wish and we encountered of few others gods, I also wanted to know about your past" - Atreus says
"that explains everything" - Athena says
"yes it does, your my grandson" - Zeus says
"and I'm your stepmother" - Lysandra says
"I'm your half-sister am I "- Calliope says
"yes your all right and now that I have peace with all of you, my family and my fellow gods, i think I want to stay here with all of you" - Atreus says
"but what about the old me from the future boy" - Kratos says
"he wouldn't mind if I stayed here in this timeline, plus nothing can kill my father or you if I should say" - Atreus says with a chuckle and Calliope does the same because she thought it was funny as well
"I will allow it, we should all celebrate this fine day, a new family member is here with us today, he has made this far because he did the impossible, I welcome Atreus and Calliope my grandchildren to the table of worthiness and honor" - Zeus says
the celebration continued thus far, until
something was off in the depths of thanatos, where a demigod was being held and somehow he escaped from his shackles, and yells with fury "KRATOS I WILL COME FOR YOU, I WILL DESTROY OLYMPUS AND YOUR BELOVED GREAT CITY SPARTA" - the demigod deimos, the brother of Kratos says