The Legend of the Ghost of Sparta
Kratos was a legend of Sparta; he led his soldiers to victory after victory and was also known as the Ghost of Sparta. He didn’t know it but he was Zeus’s son in mortal form. He was a mortal that the gods soon learned to fear with his powers expanding every day and his wisdom growing to excessive amounts of knowledge.
Kratos was striving for god hood, trying to be the best and gain the title of God of War on Mt. Olympus. He engaged in combat with the crazed barbarian king and as he was knocked to the ground by the giant war hammer he prayed to Ares (the current god of war). Ares came down, realizing his needs he gave Kratos the blades of chaos that welded to Kratos’ hands and all this power for servitude to the God of War. With Kratos’ newfound powers he tears the land apart with his blood lust.
In his blood lust he came to a temple; the oracle at the front of the temple warned him away and told him he would regret it forever. Kratos only smacked the oracle aside and charged through slaughtering the innocent souls inside the temple only to find out that he had just killed his wife and daughter. He received the name “Ghost of Sparta” because he was stained with the ashes of his wife and daughter.
Kratos forsake his servitude to Ares and went on a journey to slay the God of War. Kratos traveled around Greece giving his loyal services to the gods (except Ares). While traversing the Aegean sea Kratos meets the water god Poseidon. The water god commands him to kill the hydra that lurked in the waters. In helping Poseidon he was granted the power called “Poseidon’s Rage (which allowed him to cast giant shock waves of lightning and thunder).”
Kratos then traversed to the capitol of Greece as well as his sister’s town, Athens. As he came to the outskirts of Athens he saw the legions of undead with Ares in the lead. He fought fiercely through the undead legions and got inside the walls of Athens. He was sent to go to the oracle but the harpies (a bird female mixed creature) came and kidnapped her. After a series of events he gained “Zeus’s Rage” which gave him the power to throw the legendary lightning bolts. He chased the harpies and caught the oracle and saved her as they tried to drop her into a black abyss. In return for saving her the oracle revealed the secret of how to destroy the God of War, Pandora’s Box.
Kratos had to traverse through the Desert of Lost Souls and summon the mighty Titan Kronos. After summoning the mighty Titan, condemned to carry Pandora’s temple on his back, he had to find Pandora’s Box which no mortal had ever done. It took him three days to climb the Titan and get inside the temple. The inside of the temple was designed with many traps that pushed the body to its mental and physical limits. While in the temple he was granted two new powers. Artemis, the goddess of hunting, gave the first. The Blade of Artemis, a giant blade only the huntress can wield, was soley her power but she gave him the powers to wield it. The second power was given to him by Hades, which allowed him to summon Hades undead soldiers, who were condemned to eternal servitude to Hades, to fight along side the Ghost of Sparta.
The Ghost of Sparta faced many challenges but his lust for revenge drove him forward hacking and slashing through the temple to get his ultimate goal, Pandora’s Box. As Kratos reached the legendary box Ares grabbed a column and hurled it at the temple, Kratos was impaled to the wall by the gods colossal strength and he had to watch helplessly as mere harpies stole the box and flew from his cursed soul.
Trapped in the underworld with Hades he clawed and slashed savagely through Hades minions and climbed up the wall of the underworld. He ended up in Athens, which Ares had taken from Athena. Kratos sees Ares talking to Zeus with Pandora’s Box in his hand. Kratos reached for his lightning bolt and struck the box out of his hand. He grasped the box. He opened up the box and the power of the gods was unleashed upon his forgiven soul as he grew to the massive height of Ares. Kratos fought the God of War and won the first round but Ares, not one to fight with fairness, conjured Kratos into his own sub consciousness and threw blow after blow of him brutally killing his family. Ares ripped the blades of chaos out of his hands and got ready to deal the final blow with the two blades Kratos had used to kill his family. Kratos grabbed the Blade of the Gods and stabbed the legendary blade through the blood lustful God of War.
Kratos was the savior of Athens and Athena offered him his most coveted position on Mt. Olympus, the God of War. The Ghost of Sparta accepted the position and he started off in his campaign to take the world and later try to take Mt. Olympus. He became so powerful that the gods started to fear him, even King Zeus.
Kratos was fighting the Colossus of Rhodes. Zeus saw the manner in which he was taking over Rhodes like Ares did in Athens. He came down in the form of an eagle and drained Kratos’s power. Kratos was in desperate need of power as he had fought the colossus several times. Zeus sent down the Blade of Olympus and Kratos slayed the mighty beast. The Colossus’s hand fell down and flattened Kratos and sent him down to the under world.
In the underworld Kratos met Gaia, the Titan of the Earth. Some of the gods were still on his side though and for the second time he escaped the underworld, but this time on a Pegasus. He travels to the Titan lair where the Pegasus is trapped under the grasp of Typhon. He found the six-armed Titan Prometheus who was chained to a pillar to be tortured every night and healed every morning. Kratos released him to the underworld to free him from his eternal damnation. Typhon then releases the Pegasus and gave him Titans Bane this gave him the power of the Titans incredible strength.
Kratos arrives onto the island of creation where he encounters the gatekeeper Theseus. Theseus challenges him to a duel, if Kratos wins Theseus will give him the key but if Kratos loses then Theseus will rid him to the underworld. Kratos of course wins the duel and takes the key and unlocks the door to find the image of Cronus floating in front of him. Cronus gives him a new skill, which allows him to devastate mobs of enemies.
On the island of creation Kratos puts together the three puzzle pieces and finds the sisters of fate. He finds another soul looking for the same thing as him the power of the Titans. Perseus, a hero long ago but now sent to fight Kratos as a test from the Sisters of Fate. As Kratos reaches the first sister he is warned not to seek out revenge so thoroughly and that he should stop his quest. In search for the other sister Kratos runs into a mortal and drives his blade through his back only to find out that this was the only survivor of the battle of Rhodes. The wounded soldier explains to him that Zeus has struck out and killed all of the Spartans. Kratos goes into a blind rage and his lust for revenge grows tenfold.
He finds the second sister who tells him again that his quest will fail and that he will lose the battle against Zeus. He lashes out at the sister, the sister grabs him and the first sister and jumps through a mirror to show him the battle where he killed Ares. Kratos grabs both of them and shoves them further in as he jumped out and shattered the mirror leaving them trapped in the past. The third sister then appears, the sister known to spin the web of fate. Shortly after engaging in battle with her he impales a large blade strapped to the side of the wall, into her chest. With the ability to go back in time Kratos jumps back in time and stops his own death. Athena intervenes and tries to stop but fails. Zeus takes off after having most of his powers drained by the sirens who assisted Kratos, who is immune to their song.
Zeus held a war council with many of the other gods regarding the treachery of Kratos and outside they hear trembling and the start of the second Titan war begins with Gaia in the lead. read more