Atreus closed his eyes as he whispered to himself
Atreus: home...
After Atreus opened his eyes he turned around to look at Angraboda
Atreus: like that?
He turned around only to see he wasnt in ironwood anymore, he saw that he was in thyre old cabin that they grew up in, Atreus got up as he freaked out
Atreus: oh no...
Atreus ran towards the door and opened it only to see hel walkers walking around the yard, Atreus closes it slowly as he drops the marble he was holding and quickly grabs it from the floor and closes his eyes and tries again
Atreus: other home, other home, other home
Atreus opened his eyes only to see he was still in the cabin as a sword perices through the door as he shouts in surprise
Atreus: shit!
Atreus runs over to a window as he opens it only to see a hel walkers out there as it grabs Atreus and throws him on the ground, the hel walkers tried to grab Atreus as he kicks it in the face, Atreus gets up as he stabs the hel walkers in the heart, atreus then hops over the fence as he pulls out his bow and prepares for a fight
Three hel walkers tried to jump Atreus but his bow glows up as he aims at the three helwalkers
Atreus: orva yta!
Atreus shouted as three arrows periced through the hel walkers skulls, two of them fell to the ground as Atreus attacked the last one as he jumps in the air and kicks it across the head as it falls to the ground and dies
Atreus: gotta get back to sindri's so I can figure out how to save Leo, and I gotta keep Ironwood and Angraboda a secret somehow, whatd I get myself into
Atreus says to himself as he aproaches the ygdrasill that was in the yard, he pulls out his key as he activates the door, Atreus looks at the yard for a bit as he was about to enter the door but backed up when Leonidas and kratos walked through
Leonidas: what were you thinking?
Atreus: i-...i wanted to visit fenrir
Leonidas: for two days?
Atreus: i-...
Kratos: do not lie again!
Kratos shouted as Atreus listened
Kratos: why did you come here?...alone, do you seek death?
Atreus: no more than you guys
Kratos: then why?!....why?....what is you will not tell us?.....we have tried to walk this path with you, we follow your every whim
Atreus: but you guys don't believe in any of it
Atreus said as Leonidas grabbed his brother by the shoulders
Leonidas: and we're still here!, Because all that matters is your safety Atreus, yours, Eri's, the classe's, everyone!
Atreus: but that's not all that matters, whose keeping you safe Leo?
Leonidas: what does that mean....?
Atreus: something I can't exactly tell you guys about
Atreus said as he walked past them but Leonidas stopped him
Leonidas: Atreus talk to us
Atreus: I can't talk about it, but I just need you guys to trust me, you guys kept secrets and I trust you
Kratos: that is not the same
Atreus: why not?, You hid things, Leo hid things, mother hid things you guys had good reasons and so do I, why can't you guys jus-?!
Atreus was cut off when kratos grabbed him and moved him out of the way from a hel walkers projectile
Leonidas: later
Leonidas as he pulls out his blades and kratos pulled out his axe, Atreus pulled out his bow as the three get ready for a fight, the three were taking out the remaining hel walkers that was in thyre yard, after a few minutes of fighting the three had finished them off
Leonidas: all right, let's get back h-
Leonidas was cut off when a valkaryie landed on Leonidas and started to stomp on him
Atreus: no!
Leonidas grabbed her foot as kratos tackles her off of Leonidas and punched her into a tree, Atreus helped Leonidas up as they looked at the Valkyrie
Atreus: stop, rember us?
Mimir: not sure this is a valkaryie we've met lad
Atreus: how do you know?
Mimir: she's corporeal but different, looks like the bastards finally done it
Mimir said as the Valkyrie dashes towards Leonidas with her sword but he blocks the attack as he slashes her with his blades a couple times
Atreus: we don't wanna fight you!, we freed your sisters!
Atreus said as the Valkyrie kicked Leonidas back and dashes towards him as she grabs him by the neck and flys towards the back yard, Leonidas strikes her in the face a couple times as the Valkyrie throws Leonidas away, he lands on the ground as the Valkyrie shoots at him with an arrow, Leonidas dodges and throws his blades at her as they latch onto her and slams her into the ground, Atreus and kratos regrouped with him
Atreus: Leo, are you okay?!
Leonidas: don't worry about me, focus on the enemy
Atreus agreed as kratos threw his axe at the valkryie stunning her, Leonidas takes the chance as he leaps into the air and throws a thunder bolt at her which shocks her, Atreus was shooting multiple arrows as he summons a flock of runic ravens towards the Valkyrie, kratos was about to attack but the Valkyrie grabbed him and threw him away into a wall
Leonidas/Atreus: father!
The Valkyrie was about to attack Leonidas with her sword but Leonidas blocked it with her blade as they stayed like that for a bit, Leonidas noticed her sword as he recognized that blade anywhere, that was until realization hit him
Leonidas: Freya....?
Freya pushes Leonidas back as she slashes his leg causing him to fall on his knee as Freya removed her helmet and grabbed Leonidas from behind as she had her blade at his throat and talked in his ear
Freya: every agony..... everyone violation imaginable....
Freya said as Leonidas had a look of fear on his face until Atreus shouted
Atreus: NO!!
Atreus shouted as he turned into a bear, Freya was distracted as she let go of Leonidas and looked on in shock, Atreus was about to attack freya but kratos and Leonidas stopped him and tried to calm him down
Leonidas: Atreus this isn't what you want!
Kratos: calm your mind, control it!
Leonidas and kratos pinned him to the ground as Atreus struggled
Leonidas: she was our friend buddy...
Leonidas said as Atreus slowly started to turn back into his normal form
Freya was shocked at what she saw, Freya turned around as she started to get flashbacks of her friendship with the two boys before thyre fight with baldur, she starts to breath heavily as she screams in agony
Freya: AAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!
Freya shouted as he bindings wrapped around a rock near Leonidas as she crushes it with her bindings, Leonidas looked on in shock as Freya spoke
Freya: maybe.....for the moment....you are of more use to me.....alive...
Freya said as she sheathed her sword, Leonidas and kratos help Atreus up
Kratos: Atreus, home
Atreus: home?, Really?
Leonidas: you're gonna tell us where you've been once we get back, I gotta set things right
Leonidas said as brok and sindri walk out from behind a rock
Sindri: ahem, we'll take him...oh, you're majesty, a pleasure to see you again
Sindri said as he bows and nervously laughs
Brok: braudnefr
Kratos: do not let him out of your sight
Kratos said as Atreus walked towards the dwarfs
Brok: you heard him sunshine, come on, get a move on
Brok said as sindri and Atreus walked away, Leonidas and kratos aoroached Freya as Leonidas spoke
Leonidas: what do you need...?
Freya: I refuse to remain bound to this realm...we travel to vanaheim
Freya said as brok aproaches them
Brok: well, guess it's just us then
Brok said as Freya sighed
Brok: one gateway to Vaneheim coming right up
Brok said as the four headed towards the ygdrasill door
Leonidas: if your still stuck in Midgard how are you gonna travel
Freya: I crafted a protection ward that will keep me from being pulled out of the realm, it should hold until I find what I need
Leonidas: what's that?
Freya: the source of the magic that binds me to Midgard, were going to find it and destroy it
Leonidas: we'll help you Freya, but it won't change what I did
Freya: I know....that's why I still might kill you when this is over
Kratos: I will not allow that
Freya: then I'll just kill you both
Freya said as they made it to the ygdrasill door and brok pulled out a vanaheim seed as it unlocks Vaneheim
Brok: where would you muckspuots be without me?
Brok said as the four entered the gate as they traveled to vanaheim
Mimir: what is it you expect to need Leonidas for highness, clearly you've been quite capable of breaking Odin's curses of your own
Freya: the other courses grew weak from fimbulwinter but I still needed help to break them, this one is held strong
Brok: so all that trying to kill him, that's just your goddessy way of asking for help?
Freya: I don't recall asking you to come along
Brok: cus you didn't, I got an old drinking buddy I've been meaning to look up once this joint were back on the map, got a hunch lending you mokes a hand's gonna end me up where I'm going
Freya: and what makes you think that?
Brok: cus last I heard she was running with that beefwit brother of yours
Freya: freyr.....is not apart of this
Brok: well my hunch says otherwise, scrote too
Brok said as the four made it to Vaneheim
Freya: I can feel the pull of the bindings curse....it sources further in, follow me
Freya said as she lead the three foward
Brok: muddier than a musphelheim shit pit out here
Mimir: and nearly as fragrant, suppose fimbulwinter's to blame, but if it helps these two find peace-
Freya: this is a temporary alliance Mimir, anything beyond that would require trust
Mimir: oh please, you know damn well Leonidas isn't the true cause of your suffering
Freya: your both as much apart of my "suffering" as anyone
Freya said as the four squeezed through a stone gap but Freya felt so e wrong with her
Freya: oh no.... something's wrong, my spell I can feel it slipping
Brok: well that fimbulwinter for you
Freya: you don't understand I'll be torn from the realm
Kratos: what can be done?
Freya: something I was hoping to avoid
Freya said as the four exit the gap and Freya transforms into her falcon form
Freya: come on then
Mimir: you had a way around Odin's curse this whole time?!
Freya: no, I discovered it once you unlocked realm travel, and it solves very little, this form is extremely limiting
The group continues foward as brok speaks
Brok: hey uh, how's about a riddle to take your mind off things?
Freya: I'm in no-
Brok: what runs with no legs?
Mimir: easy a nose, you'll have to try harder than that brok
Leonidas: yeah that was kinda basic
Brok: just you wait
The group continues forward as they come across an abandoned market
Freya: I recognize this market, villagers would meet and trade here....why'd they never rebuild?
Leonidas walked through on of the old carts as he looks around the market
Mimir: brother, do you really think she'll let us off the hook if we help her?
Leonidas: I don't know Mimir, I wanna help her, after we're done here we'll see
Mimir: aye...
Leonidas regrouped with the others as they continue forward
Mimir: where has everyone gone I wonder?
Freya: they must've withdrawn, hidden themselves out in the wilds and covered thyre tracks with magic, no way if knowing how many are left or how to reach them
Brok: Aesir ran cockshod all over this place, huh?
Freya: you can thank Mimir for that
Mimir: war with the vanier was never my idea, my idea was brokering the marriage to end it
Freya: a great success that was, obviously the peace was no less a disaster then the marriage, did he invade again as soon as I was exiled?
Freya said as the group continued foward to exit the market as they kept walking through the jungles
Brok: being here agains bringing back memories of that wedding of yours, fancy folks and quality meats, though I rember your brother stirring up an awful scene
Freya: why do you keep bringing him up?, My brother is if no concern of yours, do you understand?
Brok: oh I understand plenty, I know how bad it can get with one's own kin, sindri and I were on the out so long it was like not having a brother at all, now I take some of the fall for that on account of me walking out, but it never stopped me blaming him the most, any of this sound familiar so far?
Freya: and what is your point?
Brok: my point is that weren't the end of all things after all, once we got our heads right it was like no time had passed, he went straight back to being as big a pain in my ass as he ever was, that's family...you gotta keep em close, or it'll make you good and crazy
Freya: why do you think I need to hear any of this right now?, My focus is on regaining my freedom and I have no intention of being distracted
Brok: look, all I'm saying is if you happen to find yourself talking to your brother, maybe the worse words said between you don't have to be the last ones said
Freya: enough!, When the day comes to face freyr again it will be when I am standing on my feet and free do you understand me?, It will not be when I am stuck in this preposterous situation
Brok: got a case of pride I get it, hope yours clears up quicker than mine did
Mimir: a touching story that was
Brok: bite me
Mimir: you wish
Leonidas: stop, let's just keep moving
Leonidas says as the group continues forward, they walked through the jungle for a bit until brok felt something wrap around his ankle, he looks around to see it was a rope
Brok: uh oh...
The rope pulls brok into the woods
Brok: SHIIIIIIIIT!!
Leonidas leaped towards him as he tried to grab him
Leonidas: brok!
Mimir: we should probably go get him
Freya: keep your guards up
Freya said as they followed the spot of where brok was taken, they walked for a bit until they end up in what looked to be a campsite but It was empty, they see brok hanging upside down by his leg as he tried to get out, Leonidas pulled out one of his blades as he was about to cut brok down but kratos heard something
Kratos: quite...
Kratos said as they looked around for a bit, that was until they heard a voice behind them
???: Now what do we have here?
The two turn around to see a man standing in the darkness
???: Ol'one eye send a couple gods to do his dirty work?
The stranger said as he lights a torch to reveal himself
???: Thor too busy?
Kratos: we do not serve Odin
???: No?, Picked a dangerous place for sight seeing then, am I right?
The man said as three more strangers show up behind them with thyre weapons in hand, kratos pulled out his axe in case of a fight as Leonidas gripped on his blade
Mimir: now now, no need for threats brother
Freyr: oh I know that voice...
Freyr said as Leonidas grabbed Mimir and faced him towards freyr
Freyr: you know?, I'd cut off your head....but it seems someone beat me to it
Mimir: aye, oh quite observant brother
Freyr: oh ho ho, no, your no brother of mine.....you sold my sister to that, prick!
Mimir: we brokered a peace
Freyr: oh, did you now?....where is it?, Hmm?....and where's my sister?...some dungeon in Asgard?, She even alive?!.....answer me!
Freyr said as he got closer but kratos backed him up as he pointed his axe at freyr, freyr back up as he looks at the two
Freyr: I guess we'll settle for blood
Freyr said as he pulled out his weapon until Freya flew in
Freya: stop!
Freya stopped them as she landed on a post as freyr slowly aproached
Freyr: what is that?...why do you....speak in her voice?
Freya: its me yngvi....there's no time to explain, just listen...these men are in my service, im here to reclaim what's been taken from me
Freyr: it's too late, you can't undo what's been done
Freya: I can, and I will...now let them pass
Freya said as she flew away as freyr watched, he then turns around as he looks at the two
Freyr: so, you serve my sister?
Leonidas: well,temporarily
Freyr: well, don't we all....cut him down
Freyr said as a dwarven lady named Lunda cuts brok down from the rope as he falls to the ground
Brok: what's with leaving me hanging like that?, ya crusty hag
Lunda: oh can it blubber, come here
Lunda said as the two embraced in a hug, brok then look at the father and son as he speaks
Brok: welp, found who I was looking for, think Im gonna stay and catch up
Leonidas: alright then
Kratos and Leonidas then aproaches freyr as Leonidas sets Mimir on the table he was standing by
Freyr: sorry we got off on the wrong foot there strangers, were pretty used to only seeing Aesier in these parts, don't typically get friendly faces....those are freindky faces right?
Mimir: the big ones name is kratos and that's his son Leonidas, Leo's a friendly face but kratos....eh, the Asier are in vanaheim?
Freyr: yeah we've been occupied since....well I've lost count
Leonidas: what's your plan
Freyr: still kinda working on it
Mimir: brother, I think I could be if use here, if my council is welcome?
Freyr: I'll take what I can get
Mimir: your mission will go considerably smoother without me in the mix brothers, come backed for me when your done
Leonidas: all right then
Leonidas nodded as he and kratos headed towards the exit of freyrs camp