Twilight panicked. She didn't know what to do. The Ghost of Sparta was in there with her mentor. The mare curled up on the floor, her friends accompanying her as she hyperventilated nervously. Twilight let out many whimpers, holding her head in her hooves.
"Twi', don't worry. Ah'll figure somethin' out!" Applejack promised, the hat-wearing mare looking around. She turned to Pinkie Pie and the rest of her friends. "Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy? Y'all're gonna help me, y'hear?" The farm-pony ordered.
Fluttershy gave a rather disapproving glance at Applejack. "O-oh, b-but I don't-"
AJ groaned. "T'ain't no time fer' arguin', Fluttershy! Princess Celestia's life is on the line! D'ya understand!" She sternly demanded. "Rarity, y'all go see if'n 'ya can find anything large. Somethin' that can bust through this here door. Somethin' real, real heavy that'd need help to lift. Just gimme ah call when 'ya find somethin'! Now!" Rarity nodded with vigor, and hurriedly rushed off to inspect room by room. "Pinkie Pie, Ah need y'all 'ta go get Princess Luna! She can surely help! Go, go, go!"
"Okie dokie lokie!" Pinkie Pie replied, saluting Applejack as she hopped down one of the halls.
"Fluttershy, as fer' you, Ah need ya' ta' go gather-up any guards who're either Earth Ponies or Unicorns, and bring 'em back 'ere. We need as much stallionpower as we can get, y'hear!?" AJ ordered the timid pegasus.
With a meek nod, Fluttershy began to walk down the halls as well.
"Now Twiligh'," Applejack began, laying next to the sniffling unicorn. "Ah understand that yer' worried. Nervous. All'a that hooey, but we need ya'. Princess Celestia needs ya', Twilight." She placed a comforting hoof on her friend's shaky shoulder, before embracing her with both as she began to softly sob. "There there, now, 'Twi. Let it all out. Let it all out, Ah'm here. It's okay..." The farmpony repeated these words as she cradled Twilight.
- - - -
Celestia and Kratos stood silently, many meters away from each other. Kratos held his blades in his hands, ready and in a purely-offensive stance.
But Kratos did not expect Celestia to have a weapon of her own.
As her horn lit up, a light shone up in the form of a small pillar from the ground, and out from it came a greatsword. Its hilt and handle were fashioned with fine materials like gold and silver, made with impeccable craftsmanship. Its blade seemed to be of tampered, sharpened steel, ending in a point. "Very well then, warrior," She stepped forth, and grasped the blade in her divine magical grasp. "if you truly wish my death... then it will not come as easy as you think." The beautiful deity said, going into what looked to be a defensive stance as she watched Kratos studiously. Watching his every movement.
"We'll see about that..." Kratos spat, before he let out a battle cry. He charged at Celestia, and jumped into the air. He swung his blades over and behind his head, and attempted to slam the two of them down to strike Celestia from overhead.
But this went wrong, as Kratos was smacked off balance before he pulled his blades back- the alicorn had batted him in the side of his left knee with the flat side of her blade. Quite hard, too. Kratos's blades trailed down as he collapsed onto his side. He rolled to his feet, seeing Celestia back in her stance. Completely unfaltering, she was focused.
The demigod roared ferociously as he charged once again, letting his blades fly backward to his right, before he pivoted, shifting his weight onto his left leg. He then twisted to the left, to send his blades flying towards Celestia's right side in a sweep attack!
But the Spartan's attack was parried when Celestia used her blade to lift up into the chains as the blades flew, making the blades flop downward. She wrapped the chains around her blade like spaghetti onto a fork, and took advantage of Kratos's imprisonment by lifting him off of his feet. The quadrupedal battlemaiden then swung Kratos around effortlessly above her head as he yelled. Celestia timed it, and pulled her straight sword free of the chains, sending Kratos flying into the wall at the opposite end of the throne room. Cracking it generously from the sheer amount of the impact's momentum-boosted force.
Peeling off of the wall like a sticker, Kratos fell to the ground. Still experiencing the shock from his spine being brutally cracked against the solid-stone wall. But he did not give up there, oh hell no he did not! The brutal gladiator returned to his feet, and studied Celestia's stance from afar. 'Her defensive techniques are impenetrable... how would I get around this? Come now... you've faced gods. This princess is a grain of sand to them all! The Olympians are petty and weak, and this four-legged annoyance is even weaker!' He thought with determination. Before he, with said determination behind him, ran towards Celestia, who waited gracefully.
Suddenly, her stance changed from a defensive stance, to one of offense. Her blade was held high. Kratos had her now! What a fool!
Kratos sent out his blades, and they were soaring for Celestia's head!
- - - -
Applejack had been forced to move her still-crying friend out of the way. Rarity had found something large enough to bust-through the door. An enormous boulder, removed from the ground of the castle gardens with help from the Royal Guard, and Princess Luna.
The rock was being lined up with the door. "Good job everypony!" Applejack congratulated. "Twilight, 'ya need ta' stop cryin' right now! Suck it up. We got ah princess ta' save, y'hear?!" She yelled.
"O-*hic*... o... k-kay..." Twilight muttered under her breath, before the Element of Honesty helped her to her hooves. "Wh... what can I do?" She asked weakly.
"You're gonna have ta' help the unicorns, and our princess, Luna, breach the door with this here boulder." Applejack gestured to the rock.
Suddenly, the wall cracked with a thundering bang to the left of the door. "What in the name'a Celestia!? Come on, there's no time ta' waste!"
The sound of many horns igniting filled the air, the energies of magic filling it as well as the rock was lifted up.
"3..."
"2..."
"1..."
"HEAVE!!!"
- - - -
Just as Kratos's blades came within mere inches of Celestia's head, she disappeared out of thin air. Kratos's blades flew far, and he retracted them. The demigod growled angrily as he looked around, only to be tapped on the shoulder. Instinctively, Kratos sent out an elbow to hit whatever tapped him, but it only met thin air as he looked over again. "Show yourself, coward! A true warrior does not hide, Celestia! Leave the shadows, and face me!" He yelled.
Before he was struck in the back by a powerful bolt of energy. "AGGGH!!!" Kratos dropped his blades as he fell to his knees, electricity crackling around the entirety of his form. He bent over as the light blinded him, hands to the ground. The Spartan staggered to his feet, only to be shocked again, this time with much more power. "AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGHHH!!!!!!" He began to spasm uncontrollably, and looked back to Celestia. Face filling with untamed wrath, the former God of War stepped forward, picking up his blades as he went.
Celestia raised a brow in curiosity, and slight surprise. 'Such a brute creature... he's worn, battered... yet he still fights with a seemingly undying flame in his heart...'
'... I'll take pleasure in snuffing it out!' Celestia thought, before she narrowed her eyes, focusing her magical energy even more. Kratos significantly slowed down, but he kept progressing. Suddenly, she released the spell, and Kratos fell forward. 'It is time to finish this.' The deity thought.
Kratos was worn indeed. How long had it been, since he had eaten? How long had it been, since he had drank? How long had it been since he had rested last? He didn't know. He just didn't know. He was exhausted. Every ounce of his strength poured into getting here, fighting through guards just to get to an even bigger challenge. His body screamed for hydration, his gut beseeching him to get some form of sustenance. Now on his knees, Kratos's vision became blurry. He keeled over, and coughed up blood on the floor as Celestia approached him.
"You seem sapped, warrior. Does something ail you?" Celestia asked solemnly. "Or has your flame burnt out?"
Kratos got to one knee, panting as he picked his blades up. "You will never... defeat me... I am the God... of War!..." He shakily stood to his feet.
The alicorn smirked, and grabbed Kratos with her magical grasp. Her face filled with rage. "You will never lay your hands on any of my subjects... as of this day FORTH!!!"
With the sheer, unbridled might of her normally impeccably-contained anger, Celestia hurled the already injured demigod through the door with unspeakable power. The amount of strength put into the throw was so immense, that it shattered the wood and metal into oblivion, splintering and cutting large gashes into Kratos's skin. As though he were an airplane through air, a hot knife through butter.
When he landed, Kratos was near the entrance to the castle, bleeding out heavy amounts. His coughs only added to his blood loss.
Many gasps filled the air as their princess walked out of the throne room.
"P... P-P-Princess..." The ponies who were about to breach the door stood in utter awe, some shaking in fear.
Celestia ignored them all, even her student. "Get out of my way." She barked. Whimpering, the group hurriedly moved out of her way as the still-angered Celestia approached Kratos. Her blade had disappeared when the door broke.
"K-Kratos! Celestia, what did you do to him!?!?" Twilight yelled.
"Silence, Twilight Sparkle. This tyrant doesn't deserve your pity." Celestia ordered. Her unicorn student promptly shut her mouth as she continued forward.
The fallen Spartan began to crawl away. This wasn't him.
Once she neared, Celestia didn't hesitate to stomp on Kratos's leg as hard as she could.
The injured one.
"AUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! AGGGGGGHHHHH!..."
"Get up, 'God of War'! If you are so mighty, if you are a deity of violence and cruelty, if you truly are the God of War, GET TO YOUR FEET, AND FIGHT LIKE ONE, COWARD!!!" This voice Celestia used was unlike anything Twilight had heard her use. She couldn't bear to watch. This was cruel. Too cruel.
Even to Kratos.
But the God of War was not yet through.
He panted angrily as he began to shakily drag himself to his feet. Celestia kicked him down. "Get up."
Kratos coughed up more blood, and tried again. He was kicked down. "I said get UP, God of War!" She paused for a moment. "Or shall I say... self-proclaimed God of War..." The brutal Celestia asked rhetorically.
"You're nothing..." Kratos choked out. "... nothing but a worthless... leader... the Gods of Olympus would kill you... you are petty... and weak!... L-like... them..." The Spartan said, before his vision faded to black. All he could hear now was the slowly declining beat of his heart.
"Princess Celestia, please! Don't let him die!" Twilight begged.
Celestia looked her student dead in the eyes.
"... But why would he deserve to live?"
It would be epic seeing zeus at this point.
Kratos has beaten the Furies after being tortured on the Hekatonkytonk for Days, maybe even weeks, I know this is your fic and I respect your decision to make Kratos lose, but a far worse injured Kratos has survived worse. Just saying, no need to delete comments disagreeing with a POV if they stay civil but its your choice.
Moar! And awesome chapter
The decisions Kratos made seemed to match perfectly with the character which is presented in the games. Due to his rage and anger he made a couple of major mistakes, which cost him dearly. Very well done, Five moustaches for you
I wondered what happened to the fleece but I think I missed it
2503894 When Kratos escaped the hospital, he forgot to pick up his things in his haste.
...Damn
2503934 Cruel, wasn't it? Seeing such a powerful warrior brutalized effortlessly?
Well... maybe? I love Kratos, but he did injure Dash and kill a guard... 2503960
I know what the authors note said, but I can't help but think Kratos would have done a LITTLE bit better than that.... we all know Kratos is rage-filled, but he isn't an idiot...
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I mean he was a Spartan Commander and managed to solve Pandora's Temple, etc... He's a Genius Bruiser (Filled will Rage but knows how to use it)
2504056 The ability to teleport is also not in Kratos's grasp. Nor is spider-sense, my friend.
Now, in my opinion, it was that channeled, electrical magic bolt that did him in for the most part. Celestia, admittedly, was a cheap shot. You can agree with me- and what she did to him afterwards... just cruel. Just damn cruel, right?
that was painful to read but good over all
Honestly, Kratos has done much crueler things to his enemies, not too shocked or mad he lost... maybe a bit mad Celestia yelled at the main sixx, they never really hurt or killed their villains
Thought she'd lose considering she actually is weak compared to the gods, but he was still recovering so, meh I concur. Lots of people will rage but I see where yer coming from and agree with the outcome.
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Er... pardon?
Shit happens.
2504819 Indeed it does.
You dare make me wait, now that my eyes have witnessed this chapter?!
On another note, yes I am a tad bit dissapointed that Kratos got merked. He had owned shit lots more powerful than Celestia, when he was even more injured than this. Well I guess I have to give promts to Cely for the fact that our beloved Spartan(with out the proper defence that is) sucks moose dick against ranged(espesially magical) and teleporting attacks. It was a good chapter, and this is your fic, so you can do, whatever you like with it. But I personally, after what I read today, would enjoy seing an alicorn head on a spike(not the mustached one) in the next chapter.
2504897 Yes, because Kratos is TOTALLY going to get up and brutally murder Celestia after technically being shredded to pieces (seriously, 1/3rd of the gashes from flying through the door are down to the muscle), likely having a few broken bones in his spinal cord, oh, maybe even a few broken ribs and a cracked skull, along with his leg being re-broken.
Because he's TOTALLY going to do that after being utterly decimated (it wasn't a fair fight, either. He didn't have the golden fleece, and Celestia is a cheap bitch ).
No, no, don't even worry. He'll pull the Blade of Olympus out of his ass, Celestia'll be like "Where did you get that?!" And Kratos'll be all like "It came from the realm of shadows." Before using the dumbass flick-technique on her, breaking every bone in her body with a single flick of the finger, turning her into a pile of dust.
/clap ... /clap ... /clap ... /clap.
2504927 Oh don't act like yot haven't seen, played and read the moovies, games, fics, comics and books I have. In almost 70% of them happens exactly what you described.
i hate you...
Epicness has been given a new name: this chapter
god damnit i thought he'd win
Zeus is gonna send Kratos the blade, I just know it, then Celestia is gonna have her ass handed to her
2504617 Sorry bout dat, fixed it, always edit my comments and fuck it up.
What some of you seem to fail to realize is that Kratos is a DEMI god, meaning he is still subject to great injury as we have seen so far. The way the author has set it up was well done in my opinion. you sir are a great writer, as for the next chapter, I WANT IT NOOOOOOOW!!!!!!
2504927 Okay, first of all, nearly died when you made that realm of shadows joke. Secondly, why doesn't he have the golden fleece?
OMFG HOW CUD U MAKS KRATS LOS? U IS BAD AUTOR. U SUK U SUK U SUK.
Just joking. Anyway, nice chapter, although the fight scene could have lasted longer. And great cliffhanger use there. Can you toss me a rope? Before I fall?
2506805 Didn't have the time to look for it while escaping the hospital. In other words, he forgot to grab / look for it in his haste. Honestly, not sure if it'd make too much of a difference.
2505105 I've only played the games. Never played Ascension, Chains of Olympus or Ghost of Sparta though. Ascension looks interesting, but probably won't get it.
2508147 By "played the games" I mean other games, not the other GoW games. In almost everyone on them the hero owns shit right after being merked almost to death.
How, in the name of Morgan Freeman's nipples doing the motherhumping Can Can, do you write princess Celestia this out of character?! Every time she's shown in the show, she is a wise, benevolent, kind ruler, maybe a little evil, depending on your interpretation. She would never however, wish death on anything, much less inflict mortal wounds herself. Not even on Discord, who toyed with her subjects and made their lives miserable, wasn't given death, but an arguably more humane punishment. Now, I don't ask for Celestia to be a passive hippie here, but
is crossing the line. But even if I let that slide, Kratos had killed a good number of her subjects right before her eyes after all, she yells at Twilight over it. We may not know that much about Celestia's character, but I'm fairly certain that she'd have a little more compassion towards her student, especially considering the fresh marks Twilight must have on her face after crying as much as she did.
2512656 When somebody kills two of your subjects in front of your very eyes, and also attempted to murder one in the past (but was luckily stopped), and you're a leader of a monarch-governed country, and even further, the murderer attempts to end your life, you're not just going to close your eyes and take it (unless you're a very cowardly ruler, which Celestia is not).
Celestia stood up to Chrysalis (albeit that hasn't happened in the story, when going by MLP's timeline, yet), who deceived many by posing as Shining Armor's wife, Cadence. Easy to remember, right? And if Chrysalis's beam of magic wasn't so powerful due to S.Armor's love for Cadence, Celestia would've surely overpowered her, and done a considerable amount of damage. And anger is a consuming emotion. Celestia may be a god of poker faces, but that doesn't mean she's immune to emotion.
Lemme clear this up a bit with a scenario.
You get robbed, and nobody helps you because they believe you're screwing with them. Then, the same guy, witnessed by your own eyes, kills your mother and your father, who are on their deathbed. You're pissed. You'd likely want nothing more than to beat the living shit out of the guy, and maybe even kill him, while you're at it. If you don't, good for you, but still. I'm talking a normal person 'ere, not you in general.
And Celestia, having witnessed Kratos brutally murder two of her loyal, but idiotic guards (who were merely doing their job to defend the princess, but still, she called them off), felt the same way. And as I said- anger is a consuming emotion. It has a switch, almost. Some are harder to turn on than others, but it doesn't mean they can never get pissed.
Look at Kratos, for instance. He gets pissed, you know something's going down. But when Celestia gets pissed... your pants are gonna go down, then you're gonna change them. Anger can cause even the greatest to bend and twist, think things they normally wouldn't, and do things that they normally would not, if driven that far. And don't even say that's not true. Then you'd be implying that Celestia never felt the emotion, and was immune to it entirely. When you get to the point that you see red, all you see is red- nothing more.
But, that was merely to explain why her anger made her so OOC, because Celestia normally isn't that angry from what we've seen on MLP. But you're right on the end that we don't know much about her character. That is why it is so fun to actually make them feel like they have some emotion. So you accuse me of writing her wrong, when I merely gave her the emotion known as anger? So you're implying that if you slaughtered two of her guards in front of her, Celestia wouldn't be pissed? So you're saying that she's a coward, and can't defend herself? So you're also saying that she can't punish someone who killed her subjects? Is that so?
But why she thought 'snuffing it out'. You'll find that out soon, well, at least I hope you will get a hint at what her motive behind thinking that (aside from being pissed off beyond comprehension), because Turning Point is coming to a close, if you've read my recent blogs. Which nobody does.
CELESTIA YOU STUPID BITCH BURN IN FUCKING HELL/TARTARUS!
2510292 In my eyes, that's not realistic. At all.
You see, Kratos may be a slaughterer of gods and goddesses, rulers and powerful warriors, but after GoW 2, he's been prone to death, not immune to it.
And I could've made Celestia take the cheap(er) way out, you know.
How? Well, since Celestia is a supposed master of unicorn magic, she could've easily grabbed Kratos, and squeezed tightly until all of his bones were broken. Or, until he exploded from the pressure.
Celestia isn't weak. At all. You know how Neo from The Matrix stops those bullets? Celestia could easily do that with her magic, out of assumption. So basically, Celestia = omnipotent (infinitely powerful, although in this case, in the sense of magic), and Kratos = not omnipotent.
2526799 Still, I give Celestia's win only to that that Kratos was injured, forgot to shop lift his gear, and sucks vs range and teleportation. If he was aokay, and didn't forget his gear, Celestia would have got owned.
2528032 Even with the Golden Fleece, if Kratos tried his hardest, he wouldn't be able to block a grab with her magic, since the Golden Fleece must be in the way of the magic in order to deflect it. And even if he was fine, Celestia could've manipulated her magical prowess to teleport out of the way every time an attack was thrown at her. Kratos cannot win against everybody (or everypony). Not against Superman, that's for damn sure (nobody can beat Superman without Kryptonite ).
But when you look at a wise ruler who has likely had thousands of years of her life to study, master and perfect the arts of potent unicorn magic, which we don't know too much about, you don't know how endless the possibilities are, so you have to create a limit if you're writing about magic. And since Celestia knows, out of assumption, everything there is to know about magic, she has no limit to her prowess. She'd easily figure out a way around the Golden Fleece, since she's more than likely dealt with magic-deflecting barriers before, and can put one up herself. She's not stupid.
I'd say it'd either be a tie if Kratos was 100% perfectly fine, refreshed, hydrated, and well-fed, had a full-body massage (ftw), along with having each and every one of his weapons, relics, and what have you.
Or, Celestia would win in the end.
But that's my opinion. And this is my story. The latter is influenced by the former.
2532474 Okay, about your first statement, two words - The Hulk. Nuff said. About the rest, I can agree with a tie.
2532570 At least you can see that Kratos isn't unable to be defeated. But, unfortunately, the first part to this crossover, Turning Point, is coming to an end. The next part will be a different story, and I've not even begun to plan it out yet!
Ah, I love being on the brink of insanity, even though I'm not. It feels like my imagination is guiding me throughout a wondrous sea of adventure... and carelessness!
I BELIEVE I CAN FLY!!!
2532570 Superman AND / OR the Hulk.
2537230 Insanity isn't a bad thing...for you, those around you(especially the ones you don't like) are a different story.
wheres his golden fleece armor ??
kratos needs a time out so he can have a water break
4338610 he just needs to hit the pause button, save and quit, grab a mountain dew, and continue. right?
5321016 exactly. Everyone knows that you should drink a mountain dew before fighting an immortal horse/unicorn/pegasus/ princess/ god
I call bullshit
I HATE Celestia!