Atreus awoke from the sound of a beautiful song, it takes him a few seconds for his blurry eyesight to get better as he sits up from his bed. He now sees Calliope sitting on the edge of her own bed with a flute in hand as her eyes were closed, the music was amazing that it was like his own soul left his body. He doesn't say anything as he just takes it all into his heart. Calliope finishes the last note as the melody echoed through her room. Atreus had never listened to amy more beautiful in his entire life. This song was calming, soothing, and very peaceful to the mind itself.
"Wow." Atreus says with amazement. The boy got up from his bed. Calliope does the same as she held her flute in her hands.
"My father carved it for me. I want to be a musician when I grow up or possibly a spartan warrior. But my mother doesn't like the idea but she was fine with it. Daddy has trained me on how to use weapons."
"That's amazing. Perhaps we could train together."
"You and me?"
"Yes, I've never had the opportunity to train in combat with my mother. But us practicing together might be a good experience other than what happened to me the other day."
"...I see your meaning. It would not cause distraction and I've never actually trained with anyone close to my age before, so this will be a first for me. But I must warn you I won't go down easy."
"And I you."
Atreus and Calliope both walk outside to the field. They had a supply of practice weapons that were craved wood. Calliope held a sword and shield while Atreus had dual wield swords.
They began to strike and block each other's attacks, Atreus deflected Calliope's sword while his other sword hits Calliope's side.
"You lower your shield after each attack." Atreus explained what she did wrong.
"Then I shall see it raised." Calliope replied back to her opponent.
Atreus shouts as he charges Calliope with speed, Calliope backed up as she began to go on the defensive position. Atreus attacks Calliope again, but the spartan girl was doing a lot better than expected from Atreus's advice. Atreus tried to strike Calliope again with his sword but Calliope deflected his attack with her shield making his sword fly off his hand, Calliope quickly spins and bashes her shield with Atreus's head making him fall to the ground.
"You charge like a crazed goat." Calliope playfully insults.
Atreus got up to his feet and rubbed his injured head, "Looks like your father has taught you well."
"He has... You were the very first one to have the advantage on me in combat."
"I have a sharp eye. Believe me, I have many abilities that I never even imagined."
"How so?"
"Well... I have the ability to create illusions and make them come into reality. Here I'll show you."
Atreus gets on his knees as Calliope does the same, he closes his eyes and concentrates on the image in his head. His own home land. Scandinavia. The environment around the children changes they look in awe though Calliope was more impressed on how beautiful the land was, they were staring at Atreus's old home but she starting to get cold so Atreus stopped the illusion and they were now still in the same spot.
"That was beautiful. What was that cold substance called?" Calliope questions Atreus's power.
"Snow." Atreus replies to the spartan girl.
"I have always wanted to see snow." Calliope says.
"And now you have. To survive a cold environment like that you'll need to wear clothes like mine. Give me a moment." Atreus says as he began to create an illusion again except this time the illusion surrounded Calliope's body, from head to toe a yellow light formed as her clothes began to change. Her thin tunic spartan dress was changed into a fur tunic uniform similar to Atreus's. She sees the clothing, feeling how it protects her body from the cold whether. She admires it and yet they did not realize that they were being watch by two Spartans parents with smiles on theirs faces. See their own daughter with pure joy and happiness brings warmth to there hearts.
The illusion fades as Calliope's outfit turns back into her light green tunic drees and sandals. Calliope then started to feel something inside of her, she couldn't tell what this feeling was but it was sign of happiness or perhaps love while she closed her eyes and held a smile as her cheeks began to flush. Atreus was looking concern for what was going on in Calliope's mind but he didn't want to interrupt the moment she was having. Atreus looked at his left and sees a wooden sword near his body, he going to test Calliope to see how she reacts if she knows not to let her guard down. Atreus grabs the swords as quietly as he could to not make too much noise. He gets up from the grass and raises his weapon, he swung the sword to Calliope but she twirls to her right making Atreus miss and loss his balance for a moment that makes him fall to the ground
"Ha! Thought you had the upper hand?" Calliope says
Atreus regained his footing as he looks at Calliope, "I did but I always have a contingency plan."
Calliope got confused until someone from behind brought a wooden sword to her throat which caused her to gasp. She looks over her shoulder and saw Atreus.
"How are you-? but you're..." Calliope was lost in thought after seeing two Atreus'.
"I can also create illusions of myself, other people, change my voice, and shapeshift into animals or people. It's very useful." Atreus cancels the illusion of himself as it disappears into yellow dust.
Calliope clears his throat, "I see. When did you find out these abilities, Atreus?"
"A few weeks ago actually. I've been occupied with the training, being beaten... and explaining my past."
"Oh. Would you mind showing me more about your abilities?"
"I wouldn't mind."
Atreus closes his eyes and exhaled, a yellow lights surrounds him as he shapeshifts into a wolf with black fur, golden glowing eyes, razor sharp claws as black as night. He howled at the sky and looked at Calliope, who had smile on her face and was astounded by the sight of Atreus's powers. Atreus shapeshifts back into himself.
"Your abilities are amazing Atreus."
Atreus smiles, "Thank you."
"Do you think you can imitate my father?"
"I can try." Atreus replies as he shapeshifts into Kratos with his dominus armor. The Marked warrior clears his throat, and says, "The path of the righteous man is to beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men, bless it is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak throught the valley of darkness for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of the lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brother's! AND YOU WILL KNOW MY NAME AS THE LORD! When I lay my vengeance upon thee!"
Atreus shapeshifts back to normal, "Was that too much?"
Calliope chuckles, "No, it was perfect."
"Thank you and it will take time to get use to it."
"I believe it will and try not to use it too much otherwise it will confuse other's even me."
"You have my word... So want to try again and see who is the better warrior?" Atreus says with pride.
"It would be an honor."
Atreus and Calliope both battle one another for quite some time which what felt like hours of blocking, striking. So enough Atreus uses illusions to create deadly creature's from his home land such as Dragur, Hel-Walkers, Revenants, Nightmares, Trolls, and Ogres to tell them more about the homeland where he grew up in.
Soon enough Atreus casted an illusion of chained weapons like Kratos's blades of choas except they had a golden design along with nordic symbols. They were called the blades of Valhalla.
(Link to the blades of Valhalla: https/jcchibani./projects/nQBYmX)
After Atreus summoned the impressive chained blades Kratos had decided to teach him on how to use them to take down his opponents under the way he was trained.
Upon Olympus, there was one god that was up to question and that god was Ares. The flame haired deity was very astounded about Atreus and his abilities when he continues to watch him with Kratos's family.
'This mortal child could be proven useful in the field of combat and provide service to the gods. But if I need to make him a better warrior alongside Kratos is to take away their humanity. And nothing will hold them back. They will become stronger and become death itself.' Ares thinks himself as he chuckled in an evil manner that would make mortal men fall dead at the sight of the god of war.
Later on at night, Lysandra and Kratos were having a discussion at the dinner table while Calliope and Atreus were put to bed.
"Kratos, do you think that Atreus had been sent to us for a reason?" Lysandra asked her husband.
"I do not know, my love. Things have been difficult this past month, I pledged an oath to Ares and bestowed these powerful weapons onto me and now a young boy whose family had been slaughtered arrives here in Sparta only wanting love and a home if I am to assume. Calliope is starting to grow fond of him." Kratos says as he gently stroked his wife cheek.
"She is. The way I see it is that Atreus wants to be here with us. Even if he is not of this land, he wants our support: His own home, and family were taken away from him. Even the people who reside in his homeland shuns him for being placed on a curse that was never his fault, his gods punish him."
"They do. The gods that he spoke of are cowards, foolish, and evil. He avenged his family and this the reward his receives? But Atreus wants to be a better man than his own father. Atreus wants to seek redemption. I can see it in his eyes."
"What are you talking about, Kratos?"
"I am implying that we bring Atreus into our family. We give him the home that he deserves. We do this for him. Even after everything that we had witnessed of his beast form and past, but in his own heart he is young, wise, and pure."
Lysandra was speechless after hearing the words that formed out of her husband's mouth, "I... I do not have words, Kratos."
Her words formed to joy, having to bring another child into the family yet this was very different. She had had never felt such happiness when Kratos had saved Calliope from the skin disease that she had and was supposed to cast out at of Sparta as a babe, That very dad when Kratos changed Calliope's fate was the most glorious memory she remembered in her entire life and having to raise Calliope with her husband by her side that she cried with tears of happiness and now she was having that feeling again. Lysandra cried softly on Kratos's neck as he brought her into a hug with his muscular arms. Kratos also had a slight smirk form at his lips. Kratos will inform the king tomorrow to have words of tending to Atreus and his future.