Yet another crossover story I made in this site. it's a crossover between God of War and The Bible. Note that i don't own God of War. enjoy the story!
"By the gods...what is happening?"
Kratos walked into the temple, looking at the angry mob shouting for a man to be executed. Kratos goes through the crowds, and sees Jesus right there, being condemned by the High Priest. "S- Son of God?!" Kratos shouted, but as it seems, Jesus did not heard his callings."I ask You, Jesus of Nazareth, are You truly the Messiah, Son of The Most High?" The High Priest asked, to which Jesus replied through His bloody and beaten face, "I am, ... and you shall see the Son of Man sitting in the right hand of God."
Hearing this, the crowds were enraged than before, and demanded for Jesus's death.
The High Priest and the other priests tore their robes off in distress, "What do you need a witness for? He said it Himself! He speaks blasphemous things against our God!"
Kratos, who sees all the events unfold before him, was even more enraged, "YOU WILL STAY AWAY FROM HIM, FOOLS!" as he said that, he leaped towards the Pharisees, preparing to slaughter them...
Kratos woke up into the silence of the room, breathing heavily due to the nightmare he had just experienced. He checked the room to see anything suspicious, even to the corners of the room, but to no avail.
But he realized just one thing...Jesus was not there, and His trace could not be found anywhere. He opened the door aggresively, and exited the room, running to the exit door of the inn.
But suddenly, "Ayyy, what the fuck is goin' on with ya?" a voice called out, and Kratos stopped, only to see Simon and his two partners, John and James.
"The Son of God has been captured! I must save Him!" Kratos replied, exhaustion can be heard in his voice. "Wait...what? Master was just there a few minutes ago, said that He's going to pray to His Father or something." John replied.
"But I saw it...the dreams...The Pharisees..." Kratos was interrupted by Simon, "Calm your tits, man. Tis' nothing but only a nightmare. Now c'mon, I think I'm going to need your help."
"Help with what?" Kratos asked, and Simon answered, "With food of course. We need something to eat. Let us go to the shores, you..well, if ya wanna, help us, y'know, since you have the strength of a monster."
Kratos raised his eyebrow, and said, "You want us to catch fish this late?"
"Are ya daft or somethin'? The time is dawn already, night has passed like...a few hours ago." Simon corrected. But Kratos didn't respond, he only stood there.
Simon approached the Ghost of Sparta and said, "Come on, our Master can defend Himself, I'm sure of it. The dreams you experienced earlier is nothing but a nightmare."
Kratos nodded, maybe he was being too paranoid, "Fine, I will believe the words you say, fishmen." Simon lifted a thumbs up at Kratos, "Splendid! Now, do you want to help us?"
Kratos took a moment to respond, and said, "Fine." And he followed Simon to the shores of Galilee...
Several minutes later, in the middle of the lake...
"Our 'journey' ain't as disappointing as the last one. Apparently, we managed to catch some fish." Simon proudly announced, but John rolled his eyes, "Yeah, because Kratos did most of the work. You did almost nothing, Simon."
"Be quiet! I am the cap'n of this ship-"
"Boat." John corrected, interrupting the supposed 'captain. "Boat, yeah, that! And all of the work, all credits goes to me!" Simon said, earning a sigh from James, "Bullshit." He scoffed.
Kratos growled, "Hold your tongues, I cannot seem to focus with all of your bickering." Kratos was almost tempted to destroy the whole boat and leave them floating on the Lake of Galilee, but he remembered how Jesus would react if He finds out about it.
As minutes passes by, suddenly, a sound of thunder was heard from a mile, wind started blowing against the boat, making it unstable for a bit.
"Uhh...guys...code red?" Simon said jokingly. "What the hell do you mean by that?" John asked back, but instead of responding, the sky gave out a loud thunder sound again, making the Lake moves wildly.
As the disaster happen, the wind blows even harder, and everything was moving and shaking wildly. "Oh shit...oh shit, oh shit, this is bad." Simon panicked, so too did his partners.
"Starting to think that we should've waited for Master...Simon, you're one impatient fool, you know that right?" James insulted, but Simon protested back, "Hey! What do we need Master for? We can do this by ourselves!"
James replied back, "Well, if the Master is here, maybe this lighting show won't be happening to us!!" As everything moves wildly, each of the fishermen hold onto the edge of the boat to keep themselves from getting thrown out of the boat, while Kratos...he just stood there, waiting for this to end.
"Guys..." John called out, but both of them yelled, "Quiet!"
"Guys!" John called out for the second time, and both of them yelled in unison, "What?!"
John pointed with his index fingers into the direction of a person wearing a white robe walking amidst the Lake. "It's..." John was interrupted when Simon and James yelled in fear, "A GHOST!!!!!!!"
Kratos too moves his gaze into the mysterious person walking amidst the lake, "A ghost?" John slapped his own face at the idiocy of his partners.
Both Simon and James began cursing the supposed 'ghost', "Stay away from us! Do you really want to make our day a rough one?! We're facing off a fucking thunder show and now ya wanna show yer scary face in front of us!? GO AWAY!" Simon finished. James too cursed the Ghost,
"STAY AWAY, YOU NASTY-LOOKING-" but John yelled back, interrupting James, "IT'S MASTER, YOU IDIOT, NOT A GHOST!"
Both Simon and James looked back to the mysterious person, now, are closer than before to the boat. The Mysterious Person was laughing lightly, finding the current situation very amusing.
But Simon was still in disbelief, so he shouted to the Mysterious Person, "Hey! If you're really our Master, then tell me to cross the lake, like you do, so I can walk and gaze upon You closer!"
"Simon, are you out of your goddamn mind? Look around you, you'll be dead in a second if you decide to act so foolish." James shouted back, but the Mysterious Person seems to have a different answer, "If your faith tells you to do so, then so be it. Walk, Simon, walk with faith." The figure said as He smiled. Kratos noticed the voice in an instant, and immediately knew that this was indeed Jesus.
James widened his eyes in shock, worried that his friend will die...maybe this Mysterious Person isn't their Master, after all.
Simon took a step in the lake and...his feet didn't sink, and as he stepped another one of his feet, it didn't sink too, and so too did his whole body. Simon smiled joyfully, and was awed at the miracle.
James shouted, "That son of a bitch really did it!"
While John only gave a thumbs up to Simon. Simon continued to walk towards Jesus, as the winds blows over him harder than before. As he gets closer to his Master, suddenly, his heart were filled with fear. He looked down to the Lake and started to fall down, sinking into the Lake.
"W- WHAT THE FU- MASTER!!!!" Simon called out for help, and Jesus caught his hand just in time, preventing him from falling. "You lack faith, Simon. How long until you stop doubting the power of God?" Jesus lifted Simon up, and goes back to the boat with him.
As Simon entered the boat, Jesus spoke to the winds and the storms, "Quiet! Be still!" and the storms and the winds were calmed down, only by the words of Jesus. Simon began whispering to his fellow partners, "This Man is really a God! We should offer Him sacrifices and-"
"Simon, stop it. You're acting weird." John sighed, as the day went back to normal, the sun was seen rising from the horizon.
"Son of God...I thought You were...captured." Kratos called out, approaching Jesus. Jesus looked back to Kratos, but instead of answering his doubts, Jesus changed the topic, "My teachings has affected you very well, Kratos. You took your time out to help Simon and his partners." He smiled, but Kratos asked again, "Son of God...the dreams-"
"It will happen soon, Kratos, and you must not intervene." Jesus warned, and Kratos protested, "Those crowds, those Pharisees...they are humiliating You, and You stand there and let them do it?"
But Jesus did not answer, and stayed silent throughout the journey back to the shores of Galilee...
"Where is my brother?" Athena asked, and Simon the Zealot answered, "How th' fuck was I suppos'd to know?" as he went to the kitchen to eat something.
"Why did the Carpenter invited these unholy assholes as His disciples again?" Athena asked in disbelief. As she mumbled against herself, Kratos returned along with Jesus and His companions. "Kratos!" Athena ran to her brother, "Where were you? I thought you ran away to cause some trouble!"
"No. I'm only helping these fools to catch their fishes, nothing more." Kratos answered. Jesus then goes to the owner of the Inn, and gave him a few shiekels, "This is for letting us stay for the night." Jesus said, and the Innkeeper gave Him his thanks.
Jesus and His disciples went out, along with Kratos and Athena.
"Where were you, Mary?" Martha asked her sister, whom responded, "I was...doing...prostitute thingy...for our financial issues, y'know."
Martha slapped her sister across the cheeks, "I told you to leave the financial issues to us instead of doing these reckless things!"
Lazarus approached them both and said to Martha, "Don't be too harsh on her."
"Of course I have to be harsh! Prostituting is against the Law of God! You're lucky the Priests and the crowds didn't caught you red-handed!"
"Actually...they did." Mary responded, which shocks both of her siblings. Martha was enraged than before, "Did you run away from them?! If so, then face your responsibility. The wages of sin are death!"
"Martha!" Lazarus called out for her harshness, but Martha paid it no attention. "Sis...I didn't actually run away from them...Someone saved me." Mary replied, and Martha asked, "Oh yeah? and Who is this 'Someone'?"
"Oh, He's the best, I tell ya...He's handsome, good-mannered, and He calls Himself 'Jesus'." Mary replied, and Martha, in disbelief, said, "Jesus? You mean the Teacher that were rumoured to be the long-awaited Messiah? Please tell me you're bullshitting right now..."
"N- no! I'm not lying! He even tells me that one day, He will visit our residence, here in Tiberias!" Mary excitedly said. Martha sighed, "Whatever, but still...prostituting is wrong."
"I know, I learned it from Him. He told me that my sins are forgiven, and that I should sin no more." Mary said, and Martha replied, "Forgiving your sins? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
"Sisters, I think we should drop the conversation. Mary, you have work to do." Lazarus said, and Mary nodded. She has to clean the whole house as a punishment.
As Jesus walked, many people gathered around Him to ask Him questions, which annoys His disciples, including Kratos, especially Kratos. "Son of God...can you tell these people to stay away?"
"If I prohibited these people from questioning Me, the stones will do the talking." Jesus answered, and Kratos nodded, even if he finds this a bit annoying. Jesus was now popular amongst the Jews, and this kind of power scares the Pharisees and the Scribes.
Simon and his partners carried their food supplies, the bread and the fish they just caught earlier in the morning. But Jesus insisted that they should find more food, but Simon protested, "Master...we got enough food, why should we find more?!"
Jesus then gave him a parable from the scriptures, "Learn from the ants, Simon. They store their food for the upcoming season. The lazy and the unfaithful will not get their reward."
Jesus and His followers then reached the grainfields, which Jesus has planted for Him and His followers from a faraway day, whereupon they would pick each of the wheat and store it in their bags.
As they were picking the grains, a Pharisee with his scribe passed by, and saw Jesus and His followers doing a work that no man should do in the day of Sabbath. The Pharisee saw this as a chance to accuse Jesus, and approached them.
"Well, well, well, look at Who we have here..." The Pharisee said mockingly, angering Kratos a bit. Jesus turned His gaze on the Pharisee, who folded his arms, and said, "Why are You and Your disciples do what God has forbidden since the beginning of this world?"
Jesus responded, "Have you ever heard of the story where David hungered, and he went into the house of God and ate from a bread that is lawful only for the priests?"
The Pharisee nodded, and Jesus continued, "Then I tell you this, the Son of Man is the Lord of also the Sabbath day."
The Pharisee gritted his teeth, "What blasphemies are You trying to preach to us today, charla- I mean...Teacher." He corrected himself..Kratos felt like it was enough, "Enough of this foolish charade, Priest. If He wants to break the Sabbath day, then so be it."
"If He is breaking the Laws of Moses and God, then He is not fit to be a Teacher!" The Scribe answered back instead of the Pharisee.
"A charlatan is the fitting title for Him!" The Pharisee added, which angered Kratos, then he grabs the Pharisee by his neck, "Say. Those. Words. Again. Priest." The Scribe were trying to help his friend, but was afraid enough, seeing Kratos's incredible strength by the sight of him lifting a grown man like a ragdoll.
"Kratos! Enough!" Jesus called out, but Kratos ignored it, "I dare you to say those words again, Priest, out loud, so I can choke you with them."
"Brother..." Athena approached Kratos, "You want to change, right? Why are you doing this? Listen to the Carpenter."
"His death I cannot allow, Athena." Kratos said in almost a whispery voice. Jesus then replied, "Kratos, no one truly takes My life from Me unless I allow it so. I have the power to take My own life, and to also restore it, so please, put him down. He has done nothing wrong."
Kratos was silent for a few seconds, before looking back to the Pharisee, "If it wasn't for the Son of God, priest, you would have died this day. Not just any death, a painful, slow death is the way I can describe it." Kratos threw the priest away like a defenseless ragdoll.
The Pharisee and his scribe ran away in panic, hoping to reach their priest friends to report about something that happened this day. "Kratos...I told you-" Jesus was cut off when Kratos said, "The nightmares still haunts me, Son of God." and he turned away, walking a few feet from them.
Kratos looked down to the dry land of the grainfield, thinking on what he should do. By the gods...
Death, Betrayal.
A voice echoed through his mind. What treachery is this?! Kratos asked in his mind, but received no answer.
Death. Betrayal.
"WHOEVER YOU ARE, COME OUT AND FACE ME, COWARD!" Kratos shouted to seemingly no one.
Death, Betrayal.
A voice called out from behind Kratos, "Kratos, enough...please."
"Son of God... there's a voice...I do not know what it is." Kratos replied. "We have no time to worry about that. Come back and let's store some food for us." Jesus said.
Filicide.
Kratos heard the voice again. "Snap out of it!" Jesus yelled, and Kratos returned to his senses. "I am...sorry. I was..haunted by the...nightmares."
"Of?" Jesus asked. "Of Your very own death." Kratos replied, which shocked the disciples who were hearing their conversation.
Simon were the first one to react, and reached to his Master, "By the Lord, You are going to die?!"
"Simon, please, not the time." Jesus said, His expression changed into sadness. "Master, I just-"
"No." Jesus replied darkly. This is His destiny, and His destiny are not yet to be revealed to His disciples.
The other disciples looked worried...except for Judas. "Kratos, you will not lose Me, I promise...even if I die, I will always be with you." Jesus assured in a whisper, but Kratos didn't look too assured, and nodded blindly anyways.
"Don't tell them of My fate, Kratos. If you know, let them in a state of ignorance for some time. I will reveal it to them when the time is ready." Jesus asked Kratos a favour, and he nodded.
Kratos was paranoid that he'll lose Jesus, that he'll lose another person he cared about. He already lost his family, his mother, and his brother. He can't afford to lose another, not anymore...not even the Sisters of Fate can stop him, he swore.
Kratos and Jesus returned to the disciples, returning to collecting the grains which were unfortunately stopped by a Pharisee. As they collect the grains, Kratos continued to have a trail of nightmares of Jesus's unfortunate fate. It's the same dream again...with those foolish priests.
Will Kratos get peace? He'll never know. For the first time in his day in this supposed 'universe', nightmares continued to haunt him, a nightmare that not even Jesus knows what is the cause of it, or who.
TO BE CONTINUED.