Pinkie and Kratos made their way into the Temple of Helios carefully, unsure what would await them. Kratos was relatively unsurprised to discover various monsters appearing to challenge them, although he felt Pinkie may have been a little too eager in engaging in battle. The first few groups of enemies used one of two types of attacks; they either threw explosives at them that created circles of flame when they landed, or they struck with two swords in a dance like maneuver. Neither tactic proved effective against Pinkie, as her strangely configured axe proved as effective with small projectiles as large ones. As for when they swung at her, she danced backwards between the strikes, forcing them to overextend, then lunging under the last strike, severing the extended arm at the elbow, and then using the attached blade to impale the humanoid beast.
Between that and her tendency to shoot javelins from a blowpipe to pin monsters to walls by their eyes, neither Kratos nor Pinkie had any trouble slaughtering their way through to the inside of the Temple. Kratos did blink the first time he saw the javelin-blowpipe maneuver, mostly because he couldn't figure out how it could work when the narrowest point of the javelin - barring the point - was wider than the widest point of the blowpipe.
Continuing their journey in silence - Kratos was not garrulous by nature, and Pinkie was keeping her ears open for that music they heard before - they eventually came to a locked elevator. Getting on the central platform, each of them broke one of the locks, riding the platform down deeper into the Temple, Pinkie happily bucking the monsters off the sides into deep pits with both hind hooves when she got the chance.
As the platform came to a halt, a massive armor appeared before them, possessed by a fiery spirit. As Kratos prepared to fight, however, Pinkie gasped. "Oh! That could come in handy!" She promptly yanked each piece of armor off the spirit, stuffing them into her mane. Seizing the sword, she dragged the spirit over to Kratos, pulled the Efreet out of him, and fed the fire spirit to the fire Djinn before letting him reeneter Kratos. She then stuffed the sword into her mane as well.
Kratos could only blink, staring at what just happened. While he couldn't deny that he felt the power of the Efreet stronger inside him now, that had been strange even for Pinkie's antics. He started to open his mouth to question, then shook his head, deciding - as he had many times before - that it wasn't important how Pinkie managed these things, only that they worked to aid their progress.
Eventually, they reached an area that seemed to be towards the center of the Temple, or at least was designed with a theme that resembled a hub. After pushing over a pillar to reach the central platform, Kratos and Pinkie were both startled as a statue began to speak.
"I am glad that you have come, Ghost of Sparta," the statue addressed them. "The Titan Atlas has been freed from the Pits of Tartarus, and has taken my brother, Helios, from his rightful place in the sky."
"What does Atlas want with the Sun God?" Kratos inquired, somewhat forcefully.
"Helios holds within him the power of the sun," the statue - the goddess, apparently - replied, "a power so great it can destroy the world. It cannot be trusted in the hands of a Titan."
"How come Atlas isn't effected by Morpheus?" Pinkie inquired curiously.
"Please take the sun shield from his throne," the statue continued, ignoring Pinkie's inquiry as a door opened, "walk through the gates of Olympus, and you will find me."
"Stupid recorded messages," Pinkie groused.
"Hurry Kratos," the message continued. "Even now, my brother suffers at the hand of Atlas." With that, the energy animating the statue faded.
Kratos ruffled Pinkie's mane to shake off her grumps, then pulled down another pillar with the Blades of Chaos to let them cross to the door that had opened.
The door closed behind them as they entered Helios' throne room. There, braced in the top of the throne, was the shield in question. Climbing up on the throne, Pinkie struggled to pull it free. "It's stuck!"
"The throne is only stone," Kratos informed Pinkie, drawing his blades.
Nodding, Pinkie jumped back, letting Kratos smash the throne to retrieve the shield. After acquiring it - and defeating those monsters that appeared, apparently as either a security system or what Pinkie called a 'tutorial segment' - Kratos used the Sun Shield to open up the first of what would surely be many doors.
At what lay behind the door, however, Pinkie groaned. "We just came down an elevator, and now we have to climb stairs?" She threw up her forehooves in frustration. "What next?"
"The stairs won't climb themselves, Pinkie," Kratos pointed out, heading for the stairwell.
Pinkie nodded, following him. Part way up, however, Kratos was surprised as Pinkie zipped by him on the underside of the stairwell, all four hooves braced as she skidded upward shouting, "WEEEEEE!" Shaking his head helplessly, Kratos increased his pace to catch up with her as she flipped right side up at the top level of the stairwell. "Again!" she shouted happily.
Kratos rolled his eyes as the stairwell sealed itself off. Glancing around, he saw the black fog of Morpheus had begun to encroach on the temple, and the creatures of the fog had begun to take shape, blocking their path.
"So...can that Sun Shield make sunlight?" Pinkie asked. "Cause that might help drive these guys back."
"It might," Kratos admitted, "though I have no idea how."
"So...hacky slashy?" Pinkie offered.
Kratos nodded. "Hacky-slashy," he replied, having grown used to Pinkie's childish terminology, given she was a child.
After clearing out a group of shadow beasts, Kratos used the Sun Shield to open up another stairwell downward.
"Down, up, down, up...why can't we just go straight?" Pinkie demanded. "Who designed this Temple into such a convoluted mess?"
"It was probably designed this way to hold back invaders," Kratos pointed out.
Pinkie stared at him flat eyed. "Daddy...this Temple is normally suspended in the sky, flying around the world as the sun. What sort of invaders did they expect to have?"
Unable to answer this question, Kratos merely shrugged before descending the stairwell, the grumbling equine following behind.
Pinkie being logical scares me more than her withheld bloodlust. I like dis! Another!
Their, braced in the top of the throne, was the shield in question
1. There.
Maybe Helios wanted more stairs so he could exercise? After all, he would just be in reality standing in one spot most of the time. So best way to exercise, stairs.
5604982 nah he just wanted bragging rights about having one of the most difficult to invade temples on the world. on another topic yes pinkie being the one having logical thoughts and making sense overall is hella terrific, i wonder if at the end of the fic she will go to the same equestria where fortresshy is?
That logic near the end of the chapter
Funny how Kratos is having trouble coping with Pinkie's randomness at times
5332534 and here i was thinking that pinkie knack for killing sprees and her guilt when kratos found her was because she was the pinkie from cupcakes
Hmmm... It occurs to me that, if the other five Elements are having their Interdimensional Extra-Childhood Experience after Fluttershy's second upbringing by the nine Reliable Excavation & Demolitions mercenaries from the Team Fortress 2 world, then Celestia and Luna will be much better prepared to deal with the prospect of recovering them without setting their new guardians off. For one thing, they both now know that any suggestion of erasing the memories of their revised lives will likely be met by strenuous, and potentially extremely violent, objections. They will instead offer the same gradual memory restoration technique they used on Fluttershy, so that their new and old memories merge safely, with minimal conflict and trauma.
I even see them offering the same "While we need the Element Bearers to return to their lives in Equestria, that does not mean that their new friends and families are not welcome to come along as well if they wish" deal that RED team got.
As I really don't see Pinkie Pie not telling the two diarchs all about her new daddy, I expect that they will take care to mention that, while they are responsible for the sun and the moon in their world, they are not goddesses and do not expect to be treated as such. Heck, Kratos, for as violent as his life has been, might actually be the easiest fit in Equestria, as the two worlds share many of the same monsters. He certainly wouldn't mind following Pinkie Home if he could - a world where the arrogant Gods of Olympus are absent? Where the various duties of those gods are carried out by the local populace, and where even the rulers admit to not being perfect?
Sure, Equestria isn't perfect, and there are threats, both in the form of powerful villains and (for Kratos) familiar monsters, but it is still loads better than the craptastic world that Kratos grew up in.
Heck, any surviving Olympian Gods by that point ought to be happy to see him off with a smile, a wave, and a "Good Job, Hero, now go receive your reward - in fact, we insist!" (Never mind the fact that said reward is neither really a reward nor theirs to give). And then sealing the barrier between Equestria and their worlds so that Kratos can't come back and kill the rest of them...
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While much of what you say I won't comment on in regard to this story for the sake of spoilers, your reasoning there is the reason why I once, long ago, speculated a fic where Kratos - post the events of God of War 3 - woke up in an Anthro Equestria and thought he was in Elysium (bucolic life for the most part, no gods up on high, and the occasional monster to fight so that a retired Spartan can get some combat exercise in? Doesn't that sound like Kratos' idea of a paradise?).
Hoho, I forgot how deliciously gory this game series is... And how over-the-top most of the bosses are. I'm willing to bet that a 40k greater demon of korne would say "nope, f*k that sh*t!!!"
unless their fearless this edition, they change the way demons work every edition it seems
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Yes. Yes it does.
And he will become like a second father to anthro-Pinkamena Diane Pie, whom he will see as a more innocent (unblooded) counterpart to his own "Daughter" Pinkie Pie.
And when that world's version of Tirek escapes Tarterus and begins to steal pony magic...
Well, let's just say that Discord had better not betray the Elements of Harmony if he doesn't want to share Tirek's fate at the hands of the Ghost of Sparta...
Hint: To quote a certain drunk black Scottish cyclops "Oh they're going to have to glue you back together... IN HELL!"
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Oh no, the Kratos in anthro Equestria is a completely different Kratos from this one. As we get further, you'll see exactly why.
'had'
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Then I guess Tirek's rampage would be just another Tuesday for the Kratos in anthro-Equestria. A very bloody Tuesday full of gory bits of what used to be a giant horned centaur whose only crime was to steal all the magic from the Ghost of Sparta's new neighbors (and everypony else in Equestria). One of said neighbors being the sweet little sister of the town's seamstress...
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Hmm...
I'd never thought of Sweetie Belle's singing connecting in Kratos' mind to Calliope, leading him to becoming paternally protective of her.
...Thanks.
So, is your Equestria gonna be anthro or full-pony?
If Pinkie can make fingers for herself...that means that she can, and will, give the middle finger to gravity. That is the only reason that I can think of of how she can do a maneuver like that.
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Well, I want to read that!
5881219 Gobeman please.
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Awesome chapter!
LOGIC!
6017769 What, in the ever living fuck... happened to this and the other guy;s comments?
QUOTE OVERLOAD! Dx
5605329 Any idea what happened to Tatsurou's comment? The redirect simply brings me back to this chapter...as if a bunch of comments suddenly disappeared.
5608041 Eh, what Pinkie said to Athena last chapter may actually keep Kratos and the gods on better terms. Slightly better terms.
To be fair, that is a valid question, I think.
I can't be the only one who thought of this:
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When she said that, right?
SLASHY SLASHY!!!
Nighty night Athena. ...btw who counts as the hero in God of War? Kratos is on a rampage, Athena becomes twisted, Zeus becomes corrupt with fear, and the Titans were never to bo trusted in the first place.
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Basically no one, really. And that's true for the original mythos as well, not just the butchered version they used for the GoW games.
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"Stars, maybe?" "Who would attack from the stars, Dad?" "Well, there is the Aurum." "Who?"
7738453 sorry to keep YOU waiting
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HADES, OLD FRIEND! How goes the fight... against.... Oh, you need another body, do you?
Yeah, also maybe Kratos will not be a dick due to this.
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Why and how
They got Sombra to help with architecture
That many stairs has got to suck. Hooves aren't made for walking on stone, and I imagine doing it on stairs would be harder
Is anyone else scared when Pinkie Pie of all ponies decides to try and make sense of randomness?
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stairs sombra must be involved
straight out of RWBY