I followed him into the forest, then he suddenly stopped. "Father, why are we doing this now?" He asked, "I need to know if you can survive the journey."
"Then we leave for the mountain?"
"Depends on you. Hunt." I replied.
We went further into the woods, he stopped and knelt down examining something. "What did you find?" I curiously asked, "Tracks. Not deer though, I'll keep looking."
They looked like wolf tracks or boar tracks. Could've been neither.
"Boy! You missed these." I point at some tracks on the ground different from the first tracks.
"Huh. Close, but also not deer."
"See? Tips are too wide. Mountain goat?" He suggested.
"Your mother taught you well." I replied.
"Yeah..." He said, sadly.
He went on ahead while I was searching a chest I found under a bridge, "I'll go on up ahead."
"More tracks?" I said.
"There, but they're too round. Could be a wild boar."
"Good." I replied.
We reached the middle of the bridge but it was broken, "Oop, now what?" Atreus didn't notice the gap and almost fell, good thing I caught him. "Be careful next time, boy." I jumped the gap, "This way, boy." Atreus followed and went along.
Atreus found deer tracks on the ground, "Oh wait, deer tracks! They're fresh! This way." He followed the tracks and a white deer with blue antlers came out from behind the rock.
"Aaah!" Atreus was surprised, frightening the deer which went deeper into the forest. Atreus realizes that it was the deer and ran after it, "I found it!" I follow him trying to slow him down, "Slow down, boy. You are hunting deer— Not chasing it."
"Sorry." He replied.
We got to another bridge, wooden this time. Something caught my eye on a cliff with a chain hanging down from it.
What's that? Eh, maybe it's just nothing.
We tried to cross the bridge but the deer destroyed half of it and blocked our way. "It destroyed our bridge. What are we going to do now?" Atreus asked.
"Step aside." I said whilst equipping my Leviathan axe and aiming it at the wood blockage. I throw it and it broke the blockage successfully. "Wow, good thinking." My boy complimented me.
"Go." I told him.
We jump the bridge. As I recall my axe it comes whirling from a distance into my hand and I put it on my back, once again.
"There it is!" Atreus saw the deer and began aiming at it. "Hold!" I quickly told him. He didn't listen and shot it anyway, it got away deflecting the arrow.
Now its guard is up.
I got angry and took his bow, "What are you doing?! Now its guard is up! Only fire..." I breathe in, controlling my anger.
"Only fire when I tell you to fire." I sigh.
"I'm sorry." He sadly replied.
"Do not be sorry, Be better." I reply with words of wisdom.
"Find it." I grunt.
He tries to get his bow back but I didn't let him. "Find. It." He runs into the forest trying to find it while I hang the bow on my back and follow him.
He needs to control himself.
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God of War: Norse Mythology
AdventureKratos embarks on an adventure once again, this time he is accompanied by his boy, Atreus, taking place in Norse Mythology. They made a promise to Faye, his mother, to scatter her ashes at the highest peak in all of the nine realms. However, they ar...
