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Bley got disturbed very often. It was only a few seconds ago that Artemis and Apollo had come to Bley. This time he wasn't woken up to be mocked or annoyed.

His familiar eagle landed next to him and gave Bley a sudden cold feeling.

"Here already? What happened to Kratos? And where are those two you saw on your way back?"

A moment of silence consumed the nature around them, but Bley had images popping inside his head. Images of Artemis and Apollo passing the eagle and stopping at somewhere. Probably where the lights and Kratos were right now.

"Why would they stop first? I thought… Of course, she has a feisty nature and he calmed her down. Good, you are free to go, for now."

The eagle vanished before him to its unknown whereabouts.

Bley sighed and was swallowed into his thoughts. Suddenly he startled and turned towards the forest.

Quick bursts of light flashed above the trees.

So that's how Apollo fights. Blinding the enemy and letting Artemis kill the helpless foe.

"Hmph", Bley sneered and rolled on his back, again. I'm going to have to wait longer than I expected.

Kratos took cover behind the nearest tree. Curse that bitch, why won't she try and kill me when I can see.

While Kratos cursed and waited for his vision to return, an arrow flew towards him. It went right through the tree, just an inch above Kratos's head.

"You missed, sister."

"I know. But what's the thrill of hunting without playing a little with the prey? We don't want this to be over too soon, now do we?"

Prey? So now I'm a stupid, mindless animal. I'll show that bitch who's hunting who. After I have figured out a way to get past her and get one shot at Apollo.

Only a couple of minutes ago Kratos was carrying the Ceryneian Hind back to where he came from. Then those two had landed in front of Kratos and started shooting arrows and doing strange blinding spells. He had thrown the Hind somewhere behind him and hoped that they wouldn't search for it and let it free.

Now Kratos would have to try to counter their attack somehow. If he would try to climb higher and attack from air, He would just come to them on a silver plate.

Right then, Kratos heard a quiet scratching noise further behind him. Two golden horns scarred the ground when the hind tried to get free.

That's it! Kratos peeked from behind the tree to see where the gods were. Quickly he jumped up and ran towards a tree closer to the Ceryneian Hind. He avoided Artemis's arrow that kept going far away until Kratos couldn't see it anymore.

"Where are you going, traitor? Is this the best the mightiest warrior in all of Greece has to offer?"

Kratos ignored Artemis and started running straight towards the hind.

This time he wasn't fast enough. Kratos was just one step away from the tree and the hind, when an arrow plunged towards him and left him no time to dodge. The arrow hit Kratos's shoulder deeply, and caused a loud noise as Kratos's shoulder dislocated.

An obnoxious pain hit Kratos, and he looked at his twisted arm. You could say it looked like it was almost backwards. But Kratos refused to give any satisfaction to Artemis. He remained silent and didn't even grimace.

The deer stared at Kratos with its appealing existence. Kratos pulled the arrow from his shoulder and looked at the deer. He then gave a demonic smile as an answer to it.

"Stop this now sister. Kill him so that we can get out of here"

Artemis sighed and said: "Don't you enjoy this? Isn't it fun to miss a few times and just wound your opponent?"

"No. This time it isn't fun. Finish him with the next shot."

"All right", Artemis said a little disappointed.

They heard a noise from the leaves and Artemis bended her bow. Three arrows appeared from thin air and ready to be shot.

A dark blurry character jumped from the trees. Apollo immediately blinded it and waited for Artemis to shoot.

Artemis, immune to the light ready to shoot the three arrows into the air, didn't do a thing.

Golden horns shined in Apollo's light and the hind fell hard on the ground.

Shocked Artemis stumbled to the creature's aid, and unconsciously dropped her bow on the ground.

"Oh you poor thing. What horrible deeds has he done to you?"

"What are you doing?! Pick up your bow quickly before he…"

Apollo's sentence was left unfinished.

Kratos charged from the woods with the same arrow from his shoulder now in his hands. Before Apollo could cast his spell, Kratos had sunk the arrow inside Apollo's forehead.

The speechless Artemis just stood there watching his brother die.

Kratos looked at Artemis and then Apollo. An evil deed was born inside his mind. Kratos grabbed Apollo from his head and pushed the arrow with his palm. It went deeper inside Apollo's head until it finally came out of the back of his head.

Apollo fell to the ground, dead. His body gathered energy. White bright balls hovered to him and caused a small explosion. Apollo's body disappeared.

Artemis seemed to be able to move again. She wondered where her bow was, but she had dropped it at the second she realized that it was the hind that flew out of the tree.

Kratos picked up the bow and walked in front of Artemis.

The god of hunting was beaten. She stood up and flew over the trees, back to her silver chariots. Artemis ran away towards the island, back where the gods were gathered.

Kratos looked at the bow and bended it for a moment. An arrow appeared and Kratos shot it towards a tree and through it.

The Bow of Artemis. Arrows appear out of thin air every time you bend it, and as many arrows as its wielder thinks. Of course as many as can fit.

Kratos attached the bow to his back and turned to the hind. With his broken elbow, Kratos started carrying the Ceryneian Hind out of the forest, again.

Artemis arrived at the island where she and Apollo had left to kill Kratos.

Apollo, Artemis reminisced while walking towards the large cave. She didn't even notice when she had walked straight inside it.

Artemis felt like darkness had swallowed her at the moment she entered the cave. She looked ahead and saw many eyes watching her, cold and bloodthirsty eyes. They had gathered around the stone pool where they saw everything that was going on in the outside world.

The moment of silence was broken by the coldest pair of eyes, and a familiar hollow voice.

"Well. How do you explain this", Hades said and pointed the pool, which showed the wounded Kratos carrying the Ceryneian Hind out of the forest.

Artemis hesitated for a moment, but gathered herself to speak to the angry god.

"He surprised us. I promise, if you just get me a new bow then I will finish him for good, and you will never hear from him again."

"Surprised? He KNEW that you couldn't just keep watching for him if there was some worthless animal lying around all tied up. You failed Artemis, and you had the guts to come back and ask for another chance."

Hades took one chain from the cave's wall. It started glowing red hot when he walked towards Artemis.

"No, wait. I'm still useful. I can take on Kratos if you'll just…"

Hades swung the chain at Artemis, and it attached to Artemis's visible tongue.

Artemis felt that she was pulled out from her body. One major pull, and Artemis's soul was trapped inside Hades for an eternity of suffering and torture.

Bley was woken up by something heave dropped on his middle body. He looked up to see who woke him up so vulgarly.

Kratos stood behind Bley holding his bloody shoulder and waiting for the other one to say something.

"What did you run into? It shouldn't have been that hard to catch that thing."

"Two gods. And it is hard when you carry that thing with a dislocated shoulder."

Bley acted surprised and asked: "Who where they?"

"Artemis and Apollo."

Kratos looked at Bley suspiciously, who said: "Should I put your shoulder back in place?"

Kratos sighed and took a good stance.

The solitary clearing echoed by the loud noise from Kratos's shoulder. He had now completed four of the twelve labours.