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My first story so don't expect much
Hopefully I improved since chapter 1
Mindscape
Kratos was at the door of the temple of Athena. The small village was burning all around him but he didn't care, the only thing he saw were the faces of his family, faces frozen in fear and sadness at the last visions of life. His body covered in blood. The loyal soldiers of Sparta were slaughtering the villagers at the whim of Ares the god of war. He demanded every life of those who worshipped his sister Athena and Kratos was going to deliver them to him until he saw the sight that would change his life. The Oracle of the village stood in his path
"hear these words foolish mortal!" the old crone spoke, in a voice that kratos knew all too well "the titan saved you from death it death and with our help you changed your fate and this is how you repaid us" the sky erupted like fire, and the sky was ripped open as molten rock rained down scorching everything it touched
"For the glory of the titans" was the last thing kratos heard before he closed his eyes due to the intense pain he felt.
The temple was gone. It along with the entire village, it disappeared into blackness, leaving only the corpses of all those who stood in kratos way. The dead piled in front of him, an endless mountain that rivaled Mt. Olympus itself. Their skin, muscles, and organs melting from their bones creating a pool of melted flesh around the mountain of deformed human remains. The voices of those who died are clamoring for vengeance at first in several individual voices but soon their voices combined into one thunderous demonic yell. In a deafening roar and with each and every one of the skulls staring at kratos they spoke
"In the end chaos shall rule"
Kratos watched as the pile of bones themselves melted and combined with the blood and thick liquid meat. The liquid blood, skin, muscle, organs and bone rose like the oceans after he killed Poseidon and threatening to drown him. Kratos tried as he might to fight the un-wielding current but to n avail, the smell of the burnt and blended flesh wanted to make him gag but he k new if he opened his mouth he would drown in the horrid concoction. From the depths of the disgusting horrid ocean rose the once mighty Hydra. The beast before kratos was the very same monster he vanquished all those years ago, the flesh of the monster was peeling off showing parts of its skull along with the muscles and veins that were once hidden beneath its scales, the sharpen ship mast he used to impale the creature was still through the monsters jaw line sticking out at the beasts head with mold and barnacles growing on it, it's black eyes showed no emotion like a soulless puppet making moves and actions that aren't its own.
In a flash the undead sea serpent opened its mighty jaws and plunged its head down at the floating form of kratos, swallowing him whole, he did not go through the monsters throat like he thought he would, instead he found himself
Kratos stared at the body of Hermes unmoving. He took a few steps to inspect the corpse when the body sprang into the air. The world around them was a black void leaving kratos alone with his own kin as the legless god floated in mid air completely still as blood from his bloody stubs that he once called legs dripped and poured the crimson liquid.
"Stupid kratos. Poor little kratos. Poor stupid little brother"
Kratos didn't falter this time. In a scream of rage he sent his blades towards Hermes and cut off the messenger's god's head. The body dropped into the dark abyss but the head stayed in place unmoving from its original position with the same lifeless look staring at him
"You were the end of everything, Kratos, and the start of something greater"
The head faded into mist and disappeared from kratos sight, and what faded in with the same mist effect was his own farther, Zeus, several feet away from him sitting on his golden thrown at the top of Olympus
"Look at all of what you've done"
Zeus waves his hand and images of the people that were lost their lives during kratos; final assault upon the gods each image of how they met their end as well as the after shot of each corpse boor into kratos very soul.
So much chaos you have brought to this world, what do you think those you love would think of you if they saw you now
"The age of the gods are over, now is the age of…."
The floor crumbled under kratos feet, and he falls into nothingness, he feel for what seemed like hours until he heard a voice
"Why did you let her die?"
Kratos looked and saw Hephaestus, the smith god, his body covered in his own blood from the life ending wound he gave him in his own forge .As he fell he noticed the form of the dead god didn't seem to move and yet fallowed him as he continued down the void.
"My poor sweet Pandora, why did you kill her, weren't you a father once"
Kratos continued to fall, the last thing he heard was the whimpering of Hephaestus" my sweet little Pandora"
Kratos landed on his knees and palms when he hit the ground, he noticed he was in a court yard of some sort and he was not alone. There were
He was back at the temple. There was no haze clouding his sight. No hunger for blood clawing at his insides. Only his wife and daughter kneeling in prayer in front of the alter.
The sight of them, safe from the slaughter he could still hear outside the walls of the temple was enough to bring a tear to his eye. Finally after so many years he can be with them; he will get them away from this horrid place and finally put his past life behind him. With tears threatening to leave his watered eyes he took a step forward. That one step made them drop dead in front of him the same injuries that he caused all those years ago.
He collapsed then and there in front of the bodies, on his knees he screamed at the top of his lungs to the heavens, to anyone who could hear as tears flowed from his rage filled eyes. The screams of a man broken both mentally and physically
This truly was hell.
And he knew he deserved every minute of it
Bridge of newly transformed pirate ship
Captain Magno Vivian was over 100 years old, 108 to be precise but she'll say she was in her 80s if anyone asked; hey she looked good for someone her age, why not. She had seen a lot of things in her day and with her luck she'll see a lot more things before it's her time. But this ship along with the might just take the cake.
The marvel of a power source not only save them all from death by teleporting them across the universe but also combined her pirate vessel with the Ikazuchi, the colony ship she herself traveled on as a little girl over 100 years ago
She would be more impressed if they weren't transported to a planet with no technology nor any intelligent life or any means of escaping into space, combined the fact that they have no idea where in space they are and that no one even knows how to turn the engine on let alone polite the ship.
She had a lot on her mind from how to get home to how should she deal with the men who were onboard the ship, so far three have been found but she has a feeling there might be more, woman's intuition if you want to call it that
Two are already in the ships brig, the short load mouth brat dita was chasing around, and the taller and more mature one who according to several members of her crew was some sort of doctor as well as a great deal many other things she heard about him from some of her girls.
The one that was most troubling her though was one in the infirmary under heavy watch, his entire presence sent weird chills down her spine, like her mind was processes him as a predator and her and her crew its prey.
The more she thought about her problems the more they were shifted to the man. Looking by the state of his clothing there was no way he was supposed to be on that ship, she had doubts that he even is from Turok ( again woman's intuition), but so, then where did he come from and how did he get not only in the ship but the engine room without anyone noticing. His injuries are a concern to Magno as well, she had seen wounds less lethal looking kill people, how was it possible that this man was still breathing, not only that by the looks of his body there seemed to be a scar from a similar type of wound that was perfectly healed, so he survived this type of thing before? What kind of weapon could do that type of damage to a person?
The fact that it would be a miracle if he survives the night is not lost on her. She should make getting off this god forsaken planet her first priority, then after she'll worry about what may or may not happen with a man whose name she doesn't even know, she'll push her curious thoughts to the back of her mind for now, at least until they get off this planet first.
Holding cells
Hibiki was not in a very good mood, as he had awakened from a very strange and confusing dream and now found himself in another new cell. He was even made angrier as he was being interrogated by his cell mate a man by the name Duero McFile. Apparently the young man had to be with the rest of the Megele crew when it was discovered that the last life pods had already been launched into space.
"Hello Mr. third class citizen, I see you're awake. Pleasant dreams I hope"
Hibiki huffs and turns his back towards the young medic
"I know you, you're the one who made quite the mess at the ceremony, and just how did you manage to get on the ship and past security?"
"There's so many darn questions today…"
The conversation was stopped when the Tarak youth saw the robot he had carried with him begin to shake and move, and then the robot suddenly sprouted both a pair of small arms and legs, the static that once filled it's screen was replaced by two cartoonish large eyes, the robot then began to look around the cell and at its two inhabitants and scratched it's head with its fingers in confusion.
"Where am I? Who am I?"
Hibiki looked at the robot and was dumbfounded by the transformation.
"You've changed a bit since I saw you last, haven't you?"
"Huh?"
As the two ships continued to reformat themselves, the pirate crew continued to work hard to stop the changes to their vessel, but had no luck in going so. Before long, every circuit, cable relay, and mechanism of their cruiser and the old colony ship were flooded with crystals. As such was the predicament, the engines were offline along with most of the systems.
At the engineering section of the ship, Parfet the head of the ship maintenance engineers and her crew of engineers were trying everything in their power to determine the extent of the damage, but had no idea where to even start looking.
The fact that the entire ship is stuck on a deserted planet, and they don't even know how to even start the new engine let alone get it up and functional enough to get the ship off the planet's surface didn't help improve moral on the subject
In the depths of the former Ikazuchi, a panel opened up at the base of a statue also covered in crystal. Out crept the cowardly Bart, who had been in the base hiding since the explosion had occurred. As he looked around the crystal encased room he began to wonder what had happened to the ship, a shiver went down his spine as he realized that he was in BIG trouble. It was then that a piece of crystallized bulkhead broke free and fell down, nearly crushing the young cadet, he let out a scream and landed hard on his rear.
"Damn it! This always happens to me!"
It was then when he looked up and saw that he had been discovered. A certain blue-haired Dread Squadron leader was aiming her laser-ring at him and her thumb was only a millimeter away from the ring's firing stud.
"Ummm…Hi there"
Hours later…
Magno decided to question the prisoners and had ordered them to be taken to the interrogation chamber, which was now in the old section of the Ikazuchi. Hibiki and Duero were escorted under heavy guard. The restraints were better than the type the men used and from what Duelo noticed they appeared to be remote controlled. Due to his military training Duelo also could tell that by the way their captors moved that their combat skills were mediocre at best, they seemed to be too relaxed to be considered basic military, and Duelo began to think if these really were part of the majerian military force. Their weapons worried him though he had never seen plasma and laser weapons so compact before, they would be hard to dis-arm even with his training, it would be best to follow them while staying on his best behavior for now at least until he can more information and create a plan of escape. It was then that he noticed Hibiki moving his hands toward one of the women's butt. Before he could stop him, Hibiki had a perfect render of a hand print on the right side of his face, which left his cheek both swollen and red. As they were being led to the interrogation room they noticed that the whole ship had starting to change, the layout they were both used to had gone through a massive overhaul, everything from the lighting to the color scheme, to the overall layout of the halls and corridors have gone through a massive change it was nothing like he had ever seen before. What had happened since the women had taken over?
As soon as Hibiki and Duero entered the interrogation chamber, they both saw that another man was already in the proverbial hot seat'. Duelo recognized him instantly as Bart Garsus the heir of the Garsus food production corp, one of the largest corporations on turok and the main suppliers of dried food pills to the military as well as most civilians. From what Duelo could remember of him he was load, cowardly, and just loved to talk. Hibiki instantly recognized him as the guy who knocked him out when he was trying to escape during the initial ceremony. As the three of them sat down, another door opened and in walked their inquisitor, none other than the captain of the pirates.
Magno moved to a nearby chair which was in front of the three male prisoners as she gave each man a long studying look, she made her look longer and colder when she reached Hibiki, and this time she wasn't showing a cordial look, no doubt not forgetting that grandma remark when they first met.
"So these are the other men that were left on this ship, eh? They're nothing more than a bunch of kids, and wet behind the ears."
"Other men? You mean there are more here?"
"One more yes, he's currently in the infirmary being treated for a wound to the chest"
"Hey! Its interrogation time! I'll tell you everything!" The little robot began hopping to the place where Magno was sitting and began hopping around in circles around the old woman. It was very apparent who's side little machine was on.
The pirate captain looked down and gave a smirk.
"Well now, how nostalgic! A Navi robot and this one are still in good working order."
"I'm afraid that I don't follow." Duero asked in his inborn curiosity.
"This ship's been on our home planet for centuries." Bart remarked as he was afraid, but wanted to try and not show it.
"I was under that same impression myself." Hibiki merely said.
Magno snorted as she addressed them.
"I'll have you know that this ship actually was once part of a colonial fleet of ships from the planet Earth to colonize other worlds. This happened long before your fathers were even born. However, your cowardly grandfathers stole this segment of the ship and fled into the dead of the night."
The robot nodded as it continued with the explanations.
"They overhauled the section and added residential areas to the ship."
Magno nodded.
"That's correct. We're just taking repossession of it again. So technically speaking, this ship now is ours. Now the big question in my mind is what are we going to do with the three of you as well as your comrade?"
She began licking her lips as she said.
"Perhaps we should just roast you all over a slow fire. I always liked my men's innards medium rare."
That statement made Bart and Hibiki nearly piss their pants, but Duero remained calm. Duero had been trained to keep his focus as a medic
The tension was broken however when the same woman who captured Bart meia entered the room "captain the probes we sent have returned, we have visual"
Excellent, please put the information on the screen meia"
The table that separated the three young men and the pirate leader glowed for a split second then a hologram appeared above the table, the hologram looked to be of a planet of some sort, it looked to have a harsh and hostile environment. Mountains littered the surface, and the ground had an almost bronze color to it, obviously from a large amount of copper in the soil. The planet had three main land masses, which all of the rooms inhabitants noticed showed no signs of a civilization or any signs of intelligent life what so ever, separated between one large ocean filled with almost greenish water.
After a few seconds the hologram transformed showing a close up of one land mass in particular, this stretch of land seemed to be flat especially compared to the other two continents, though it did in fact have a large mountain range running though and around it, a large desert engulfed the entire southern part of the continent. The hologram changed again to show an enlarged view of one part of the mountain range down south and then another and another until finally the combined ships were in view, the ship seemed to be stuck on its side with the originally pirate section still engrossed in crystal lying in what looked to be a part of the large desert.
"Is this live?"
"Yes, this is direct video link from the probes we sent into space four hours ago"
"Well I guess were in more of a pickle then I originally thought, I supposed were going to be on this ship for an extended period of time, meia I wonder if it's safe to venture out of the ship"
"B.C has already gone through the calibrations, the air outside is safe for us to breath however she says she'll we will need to do further testing depending on the soil in case we might run out of food while on this planet"
"I see" Magno then looks to the group of three men "know you see what can of predicament we are in, so I ask you why I should even allow you to stay on this ship any longer then you already have"
"If you wanted us dead you would have done it already". Duelo spoke without the indication of any emotion in his voice, the teens to each of his sides were shocked and awed by his complete lack of concern their lives were in.
Magno smiled
"Oh really, what makes you think that?"
"I'm a doctor for one, and from what I've seen that young nurse is the only one on this ship with any medical training what so ever, that and between me and my fellow cadet your hoping one of us knows how to work this ship"
"You're a lot more observant then I first gave you credit for"
"I like to think I'm as smart as my captures would allow me to be"
"What ever do you mean by that?"
"If you were as vicious and evil as we grew up to believe you were, I find it hard to believe you wouldn't have killed us when you took are ship but instead you sent the other men away in escape pods while we still breath, especially since we're no use as bargaining chips a galaxy away from Turok, besides you don't seem like the type to kill without reason"
"I see we've come to an agreement then, without even discussing the matter"
"Wait agreement what agreement?" Bart said, no longer following the conversation between the elder woman and his graduating class's top cadet
"We're joining forces with the women to get off this planet and getting home duelo said as if it were the easiest thing in the world"
"WHAT! You can't be serious, they'll kill us the first chance they get" hibiki screamed out suddenly, no doubt not trusting the females motives and still showing prejudice towards his captives.
"Again if they wanted us dead why bother bringing us here, they could have killed you and I in the holding cells" Duelo said, his reasoning somewhat calm Bart down, if only a little bit, but Hibiki was stubborn always has been and always will be. He was still iffy on whether he could trust the two men in the room, no way would he willingly alien himself with women.
"Well since that's settled I would like to ask you something captain"
"What is it?"
"The other man you mentioned that was in the infirmary, I would like to see him"
Ship infirmary
"Paiway! Let us out! It's freezing in here!" Barnette continued to shout as she pounded on the glass as she and several other girls were being doused in freezing cold water in the decontamination chambers. The only reason for this treatment is that these particular women including Barnette were the ones Duelo had treated for injuries only a few hours ago. They were in their undergarments and were facing the soon to become possibility that they would be in danger of catching pneumonia.
However, the young apprentice nurse didn't listen to her comrades, as she sat on her desk and shook her head. "Not until all the male germs are gone." She then directed her attention at her trusty diary. "Even in times of crisis, super cute and talented teen idol Paiway does not lose her cool…"
Paiway what exactly are you doing here?"
"Oh captain it's you… CAPTAIN BEHIND YOU!"
"Do not worry child there is no danger with these three" the captain said as she lead the men to one bed in particular, the armed guards saluted to their captain as they stepped back their weapons still aimed at the downed man.
The captains words had not entirely calmed the young nurse down but it was enough to get her to stop fidgeting and yelling. She slowly walked towards the bed the four of them were standing at
"He hasn't shown any signs of waking up, the only thing I could so was sterilize and wrap the wound and it took four of us to just lift him long enough to wrap his lower chest once"piaway said uneasiness somewhat coming off her voice, but she seemed to be doing her best to look professional in front of the captain, so she would bring out her puppet later when the matter isn't as serious.
"So do know this man" magno asked the young men in front of her
"No, I've never seen this man before in my life, he doesn't look like any citizen I've ever seen what about you Bart"
"Nop and I knew the names of everyone on that ship" Bart said shrugging his shoulders, who ever this guy is he's giving off a whole lot of bad mojo and it's making him feel like he was going to collapse.
Hibiki stood there unable to move, his heart seemed to beat faster than it's ever had before, he's seen this an before he just doesn't know where, he can't recall what kind of person this man is, all he knows is that the man's presence is making Hibiki nervous, scared , and ….anxious?.
"His vitals seem a bit low; exactly what was the extent of his injuries?"
"When we first saw him in the engine room, he was lying in a pool of his own blood, he has several lacerations on his body but the most troubling was a gaping whole near the center of his chest" magno answered the medics question, still curious on his theory for the man longevity
Duelo kept quit but his mind was racing a 100 miles a minute,"Hmm such a wound combined with a loss of so much blood would surely would have killed this man, but how is he still alive?"
Suddenly the alarm blasted on as red lights nearly blinded those who weren't prepare, a voice on the load speaker the tone of her voice told everyone listening how serious the situation was "this is an emergency, this is not a drill, I repeat this is not a drill , will all available dread pilots please report to your stations"
The captain slightly taped the ear piece on her left ear and spoke in a calm tone of voice "B.C what's going on"
Captain the scanners sense a life form heading for us fast"
"I'm in the infirmary, Get me visual"
On what was once a blank wall, a large screen appeared out of nowhere, the video screen gave off an appearance of a large window screen, what the captain didn't know was that this live visual was being shown all throughout the ship as every crew members from the dread pilots to the maintenance crew to the members of the register. What occupants of the room as well as all the members of the ship could see was what seemed to be a colossal sand storm but the captain saw something in the middle of the storm and made her thoughts clear" get me a colder shot!"The camera increased its scope as its view landed on the creature detected by the ships thermal scanners.
The only word that could correctly describe the creature would be massive, it looked to be about 350 feet tall and nearly four times that in length not counting the long tri-fork tail long and thick enough to fully wrap around the two ships. It walked on all four of its long double jointed limbs. The creature's posture looked to be similar to a gorilla, its back being slightly hunched down while its head looked straight ahead. Its arms were much longer than the other two bottom limbs, ending in a six fingered hand which could bend backwards to allow the creature to balance and walk on its fingers on the hot desert sand. The pair of double-jointed, squat legs looked to be equally as powerful, as they are enough to support the creatures mass easily, and yet still allow it to move relatively quickly and have a degree of explosive agility for an organism of its size. Each of its feet and hands looked to be about 40 feet in length and 35 feet in width, enough to completely close its hands around one of the pirates dread ships.
Its head has sharp, bony features and two eyes with black pupils large enough to almost obscure their white of its eyes from view. Its face resembles that of a piranha or an angler fish. There are a set of sack like organs on both sides of its head behind its eyes, which inflate and recede back into the head these seem to be its "ears" much like those of a frog.
Its skin looks thick almost like a thick piece of lether, with a brownish huh to it, due to the terrain it lived in. there were boney spikes and plates all over its body creating makeshift body armor, the largest being on its back acting almost like a tortoise shell and on its arms and legs giving the beast an armored tank like appearance.
To the pirate crew as well as their prisoners, it was the most fritening thing any of them had ever seen in their lives, and it looked hungry.
"The dreads are all designed for space combat, and we don't even know how to operate the ships defenses" the captain thought to herself, she truly was at a loss for words, it seemed after all the close calls she and the crew she always saw as the daughters she never had were going to meet their makers because of some monster looking for its next meal
"There is no hope"
Mind scape
Kratos laid there on his hands and knees for what felt like a life time, too tired to do move even a single muscle, contempt to stay there until he lost what was left of his sanity through the fires and screams
"Kratos"
A voice echoed so softly It could be said it was never said, but kratos knew that voice, he knew it all too well, it was a voice that he had longed to here spoken live for years, the same voice that had haunted his darkest nightmares, and the same voice that allowed that gave him the strength to push forward during his toughest battles
Kratos" the voice spoke again this time loader then before giving kratos enough reason to lift his head towards where the voice was coming from, what he saw mad e tears freely leave his eyes.
It was a beautiful woman who looked to be in her early 30's, she was tall and regal , like most women from her home land she was muscular yet still held soft and delicate curves that would launch 1000 ships as Helen once did. she had long flowing brown hair that was held by a piece of blue cloth, the same color and fabric that the cloth she wore around her body, around her neck shown a magnificent blue sapphire necklace, he once gave her many years ago, but not even that shown more beautifully to kratos then her deep blue eyes that always seemed to look through kratos hard persona and saw what was underneath.
The first person to have ever loved him, his soul mate, his wife "Lysandra" he uttered, suddenly his body was filled with energy and he exploded into a mad sprint to get to her. Never before, either during his time as Spartan general to his war against the gods had kratos moved so fast, he bolted in front of her and slid to his knees and wrapped his arms around the women's stomach as if he were afraid she was just an illusion and would fade away
She stroked his shoulders in a caring and soothing way, how he missed the feel of her flesh, and how he longed for the days when they used to stay up all night and look at the scats together, they were just a bunch kids back then and she was the first he ever felt connected with since his brother was taken from him.
Tears flowed freely out of the former god of war eyes, as his wife lightly stroked his massive shoulders and arms slightly humming a soft tune of a song she once sung to their daughter.
As kratos shed the last of the tears he had saved up his entire life, he began to stand to his feet, still holding on to dear life to his wife still worrying she would leave him again.
"I'm sorry,oh I'm so sorry"
"Shh I know kratos; you don't have to say it"
"I am so sorry, my love, can you ever forgive me for all I've done?"
"I can never stay mad at you" she stands on her toes to plant a kiss on her slouched husbands forehead, this action sooths kratos more then she could ever imagine
"Kratos, you must wake up"
"But I'm dead, I don…"
"No" she takes his hand and places it against her face " you are only a sleep, and now is the time to wake up"
"I don't want to, I want to stay here I.."
"You must do this kratos, one last trial and we can be together "
"But why, haven't I done enough"
"I do not fully understand myself but, this is your destiny, what you were born to do. Do this one thing and you, me, and Calliope can be together " she kisses his hand showing him that she longs for him just as much as he longs to be with her, and the fact that she is sending him away no matter if temporary is tearing her up in-side
"I'll do it"
She stepped away from him, he stops himself from grabbing her and stopping her from leaving him, but he knows she may be right, one more trial and finally they can be together but what trial must be done
"Know this my love, you may not fully understand what is happening when you awake, just know you must make sure all is returned safely to their home"
From behind her, his daughter stood carrying a pair of blades, he ran to his daughter and scooped her into a large hug, one in which she joyfully excepted and returned, when he put her down is when he really noticed the weapons, they were twin swords that attached to chains that would be placed around his arms, similar to those he wielded threw out his entire journey given to him by his two half siblings Ares and Athena. The pair his child help were not as angler or demonic looking as the blades he was given previously, the handles seemed to have words inscribed into them, but he couldn't read them, they seemed to be some sort of dead language. The handle tips seemed to be that of an eagles head. The blades themselves seemed to have an image of a phoenix engrossed in a flame of some sort as the alpha and omega symbols seem to be on the top and bottom of the blades respectively.
"These blades will help you on your journey, when ever these are near know that Calliope and I will be with you always" with that he slowly walk toward his family, confident he would not fail and he would see them once again. His young child held on to his leg sad knowing he must leave her again as he stroked and played with her hair, as Lysandra wrapped her arms around his neck and captured his lips in a kiss, it was long and full of passion and unknown to kratos fully healed his wound without even leaving a scar.
Kratos kept his eyes closed, savoring the feeling of being around the two most important women in his life, he was drowning in this feeling until he could no longer feel the silkiness of his daughter's hair nor the softness of his wife's lips
He opened his eyes to see only light, and was going to make someone pay dearly for waking him.
Ship Infirmary
His eyes were opened for the first time in kratos didn't even know how long, but he knew only a few things, he was laying down on some type of bed, the hole in his torso is gone, his new blades were on his back, and that both his eyes and ears were being bombarded with loud beeping and flashing lights.
He threw the sheet off of his body and stood up, noticing first the strange surroundings he was currently in, the walls weren't made of any lumber or type of stone he'd ever seen before, they seemed to cold and smooth…metal purhapse? The light throughout the room seemed to be unnatural, what magic could allow this sort of thing and those sounds, could drive men mad, he heard something that sounded human come from his right so he turned and noticed a young girl in one of the strangest outfits he had ever seen in his long life, her black hair parted into two directions and she had the sheet he just threw off himself on her, covering most of her body except her head and the front of her body
Kratos then noticed that the other inhabitants of the room were looking at him with a mixture of awe, terror, and suspicion looks he has gotten used since his years as the ghost of Sparta. He knew automatically that magno was in-fact the leader of the group despite her old age he felt something from her he didn't feel from the others so he put his attention onto her.
"What place is this, woman" kratos spoke down to the aged pirate both literally and figural
Well then, ignoring the attitude" she paused and looked up to give the Spartan a looked filled with equal amount of annoyance and regret "this was my ship once a while ago, but now it seems to be all of our coffin"
"What do you mean?"
"Look for yourself"
She moved her body to let the large man get a view of the architect of their destruction; she looked at his face to see a hint of any emotion. There was no fear in his eyes, nor was there any regret he felt in his life, he looked as if he was almost contemplating his next move
"Tell me what's the fastest way to get off this monstrosity you call a ship" Kratos asked after a few seconds of wordlessness
"Why do you want to know, that thing will devour you if you try and escape"
"Who says I'm escaping"
"You're going to fight that thing"
"No, I'm going to kill it"
What1? You wouldn't stand a chance, you'll die quicker…
Kratos unsheathed the blade from his back and held it to the captain's head, Meia along with the security raised their laser rings and aimed it at his head to kill him quickly before their captain could be harmed
"I wasn't asking you, now tell me"
Magno had met many people in her life, never before had she felt so much fear for one single human being, just by looking in his eyes she know he has killed before, more times than even he would like to admit, these were the eyes of a person you wouldn't want to fuck with
"Meia take him to the dread launching shuttle"
"But captain, dreads are inaffective here what will.."
"Relax I have a feeling that our guest will think of something once he gets there"
Both meia and kratos lowered their respective weapons, and walked out of the room, first a very cautious Meia followed by kratos. As the door closed Mango let out a hard breath one she didn't even knew she was holding in.
For some odd reason she felt as if they could in fact get out of this situation alive after all, she saw something else in the man's eyes, something that made her knew she could trust this man, she saw almost the reasons he wanted to save them for, she saw hope.
Dread Hanger
This is where we store our dreads, unfortunately I don't know how you can be of much use against that thing since you don't look like you even know what a dread is let alone us it
She turns her head and notices that the man in front of her hasn't heard a thing she said, he was either no busy staring up towards the ceiling
It that the door to the outside up there
Yes, it's usually open when our dreads are catapulted out into battle
Catapult
Meia loudly sighs "I don't have time for this, here I am playing 20 questions with a barbaric man while we're all waiting here to di…"
"Open the door and launch me out"
"Wh-Wha..Are you out of your mind"
"JUST DO IT"
The force of his growl like demand was enough to take Meia back, the men she and her fellow pirates had battled were just cadets fresh from the academy, were the real Turok army just like him, she shudders at the thought.
She did however do as she was told, she put in the emergency code to open the bay doors manually, usually the doors would be opened through the bridge as the dread would always be launched into space the doors are never allowed to open when there are life forms detected out of a dread, but as the squad leader she was given such codes for emergencies only.
The alarms blasted as a final warning, telling all those who valued their lives to vacate the premises. As the doors slid open the hot sun's rays shone brightly down the dimly lighted hanger, the dry heat reminded kratos of his journey to gain Pandora's Box from the temple on top of his grand farther, kronos, back.
He positioned himself in the middle of the launch base as the catapult the dreads uses as a jumping off point was in position and ready to fire.
Kratos was shot out of the hanger like a bat out of hell; his body pushed forward there the momentum of the catapult towards the beast as it was moving closer and closer towards the ship. He grabbed a blade with each hand and prepared his attack, the force of the dread catapult arched his body as he was pushed forward, this allowed the Spartan to be at eye level with the beast, with his blades ready to attack he moved the blade in his left hand forward with its point directly in the path of the creatures eye. With a scream his body and his blade collided with the eye socket of the great beast. The animal stopped dead in its track and howled in pain as the entire length of the sword has well as his fist was imbedded deep inside the creatures black. The beast rocked its head back in forth in an incontrollable manic manner, overcome by the massive pain his body was racked with.
With his free hand and blade he drove his weapon repeatedly into the eye of the beast as he used the other hand to keep himself in place. The violent shacks of the creature paid off as kratos was violently thrown off of the creatures face and onto the desert sands below. Kratos rolls into the fall and stops safely on the ground in a crouch position both blades out and ready for round 2.
Blinded in one eye, the beast stepped closer to what it assumed would be it next meal, with the Spartan in its sights the monster chose to attack. The monster took a step forward and raised his massive hand and threw what could only be described as the most awkward punch kratos had ever seen, however the size and apparent power of the beast could be lethal to the reawaken Spartan, as the arm straightened to its full length and as the fist traveled closer to the ground towards him, the ancient warrior decided his next move, as the colossal fist descended upon him, he noticed that the beasts whole body moved towards him as the force from the punch seemed to be dragging the beast along for the ride.
He rolled away from his position as the fist collided with nothing bust sand, kratos swung one of his chain blade towards the scaly fist, the blade struck and was embedded into the knuckle of the enclosed hand.
As the beast raised his hand to see its supposed handy work, the Spartan was picking his spots and waiting for the moment to strike. With both blades still in the flesh of the beast, the Spartan started to run the length of the monsters arm, the twin blades slicing skin and muscle while scraping across the monsters skeleton, blood exploding onto kratos whenever he struck a vein. When he got to the creatures neck, he swung one blade into the ear sack on the side of the animals head, thick blackish brown ooze dripped out of the open would he then jumped up swing in other blade into the opposite sack. He then plummeted down dragging the beast head with him. With one of its arms out of commission as well as being half blinded and deaf the creature didn't have either the sense to brace for impact or the ability to hold its body up to stop the Spartan.
The beast, now laying on its stomach and having its face presented to him, kratos sensed the end was near for his would be killer. Deciding to end it somewhat merciful he choose to simply jump atop the creature head, when he was in perfect position he raised both of his blades above his head, and drove them into the brain of the beast killing him instantly.
Standing above the corpse of the fallen monstrosity looking straight ahead towards the strange ship as well as his apparent audience, kratos thought about what his final journey will bring him and just how long it will take him to reach his ultimate goal.
That's it.
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