Ancient Greece( A Couple Seconds After Zeus Stabs Kratos In GOW 2)
City Of Rhodes
Emilio activates his divine senses to determine his location and time, as he had set the portal to random for the thrill of exploration.
Emilio observes Zeus stabbing Kratos with the blade of Olympus in the city of Rhodes. Zeus betrayed Kratos for attempting to conquer Greece out of hatred for what the gods have done to him.
" I should probably help him because I do not want him to get in contact with Gaia. That's scheming. A mound of dirty and angry issues seems to run in the family".
After analyzing the situation, and as Kratos's life begins to slip from his body, Emilio teleports him with Zeus, thinking the body has simply returned to Hades, and he leaves, not sensing the God above him.
"Honestly, I'm lucky that the corruption of Pandora's box has spread so much amongst the Gods because Zeus would have most likely found me if he had simply let out his senses. Still, his fear and paranoia are overwhelming his logic and reason".
Emilio then teleported to the location he sent Kratos and his body, and Emilio then proceeded to use the teachings of his wife to heal Kratos. But Emilio leaves the scar as a reminder of that, and it looks badass.
To avoid any potential communication with Gaia, Emilio blocks all mental and spiritual transmissions within the current zone.
Soon enough, within an hour of Emilio's healing, the man begins to stir from his unconscious state, and with Kratos, being the logical and reasonable being that he is, he immediately attempts to punch Emilio in the face.
"I guess we're doing this", Emilio says with a dry tone as he places some armored gloves on his hand; with Kratos eyeing the gloves with suspicion as he proceeds to scream and throw a barrage of punches.
Kratos throws a right hook, and Emilio tries to dodge it. However, Kratos uses his left arm to grab Emilio and throw him off balance. Emilio manages to avoid the attack and redirects the punch from Kratos to disrupt his balance.
As they battled with punch meeting punch and kick meeting kick, the planet suffered from their destruction. Emilio realized that Kratos' power was similar to that of the Hulk - the angrier he became, the stronger he grew.
Additionally, Kratos seemed to have absorbed the divinity of the beings he had killed, inheriting not only their domains but also their physical strength.
Soon enough, Kratos decides to get serious if he isn't serious already, and he pulls out his blades of chaos, which weren't taken from him, as the chained blades then begin to fly at hypersonic speeds.
Emilio then thinks to himself, "Kratos just tried to square, square, triangle me", as he remembers that combo of triangle strikes, but in addition to the more recognizable forms of Kratos's blade combat.
Kratos then attempts to wrap Emilio in the chains, but not before throwing him into the air, but Emilio catches the blaze with his hands, and he then uses the blade to throw Kratos into the air.
To be honest, Emilio is loving this. There were very few in the primal chaos that could contend with him, and they did not genuinely focus on the art of weaponry as they were mostly just trying to overwhelm each other with different techniques and pure physical power. But fighting Kratos is an entirely different beast.
Although the New War God attempted to do the things Emilio mentioned, Kratos's technique and skill almost surpassed his strength.
Each strike was precise but filled with rage and a thirst for blood, making Emilio feel every emotion behind Kratos's attack.
Soon enough, Kratos then tries to wrap his chains around Emilio yet again but around his arms with Emilio; using this opportunity as he screams out,
"Get over here!" and pull Kratos towards him as the burns from the blades and their chains do very little but feed his evolution.
As the battle wages on, Emilio's domains of evolution and adaptation kick into high gear, aided by the nanomachines within him.
He swiftly analyzes Kratos's fighting patterns in a manner reminiscent of Jarvis and Friday from the Marvel Universe, and quickly devises countermeasures to outmaneuver his opponent.
But Then Kratos does something strange. He slams his fists into the ground with a mighty yell and tosses multiple rocks into the air.
And as Kratos screams, he slams his blades to the ground, and the meteors he throws up into the air catch fire, an attempt to drown Emilio in rock and fire.
But Emilio was simply able to dodge out of them, but that was what Kratos seemingly expected as a wide strike meets Emilio as he dodges out of the meteor strikes, with the strike connecting and cutting a gash in Emilio's stomach, which immediately heals as Emilio grimaces.
During the fight, Kratos realizes that Emilio is adapting quickly as his strikes start to have less impact. Despite Emilio's fast healing, Kratos remains determined and continues to do his best against his opponent.
Yet soon enough, Emilio begins to get nothing from this fight, as, after nearly five hours of fighting, Kratos, Emilio has adapted completely as Kratos strikes now, seems to be flying in slow motion, as Emilio ends the fight by making a rather Beerus move as he places his index finger on Kratos's forehead and knocks the man out.
" Wow, that was a heck of a brawl! To be honest, I can understand why battle junkies like this so much, but I can live without it, especially the pain" as Emilio remembers all the slashes that he was hit with, as those blades of chaos are no joke.
Emilio admires Kratos's blades before carefully placing them in his inventory, but he returns Kratos's copy to him. Afterward, he enhances the blades within his inventory and takes them out once again.
But as Emilio removes them, the chains wrap around Emilio's arms and attempt to graft to his skin, which is unsuccessful due to the hardness. The blades, seemingly acknowledging Emilio as a worthy wielder, stop burning him and allow Emilio to wrap them around his arms.
Yet as Emilio admires his new weapon, he realizes the subtle difference, as, while Kratos's blades look like godly metal. His own blades look the same, yet they seem to be crafted out of molten magma that is somehow kept within a sharp shape.
" I now possess weapons fit for a god, in addition to my ultimate ancestral punishing sword. These versatile weapons can be utilized in various forms of combat that do not require universe-ending slashes every time they are used".
Emilio requests the nanomachine in his head, Cortana, to analyze Kratos' fighting patterns and prepare fight sequencing, as he wishes to learn how to use his new weapon.
[Aye, Aye, Chief, Loading Simulations Now, Have Fun]
Soon enough, a holographic form of Kratos appears before him and immediately strikes out with his blades of chaos as Emilio meets his blades in the center.
Yet, that was seemingly what the hologram anticipated. As the blades wrapped around each other, Kratos pulled Emilio towards him.
And the hologram proceeds to unwrap the change around one of his blades and attempts to gut Emilio as he gets close enough. Emilio then kicks his leg against the ground as he jumps over Kratos.
The hologram, then noticing Emilio's actions, attempted to use one of his blades to slash upwards, attempting to cut Emilio down midair.
Emilio swiftly dodged and thought to himself; "I am not getting all my limbs cut off because I jumped over somebody".
As Emilio pulls both of his blades out of the hologram's grip. They proceed to begin again, meeting with slashes and thrusts being parried one after another in rapid succession.
Emilio's skills with the new blades of chaos quickly improved as he gained mastery over them. His teacher's guidance and Emilio's understanding of sword combat also played a role in his rapid progress.
Emilio's intense involvement in the fight caused him to develop a sword domain, which resulted from his innate ability to wield a sword and extend each strike with his sword qi.
And as the fight winds down, the hologram attempts to go for a rapid flurry of strikes, essentially spinning his blades in a vertical motion.
Emilio uses his blades to counter by placing both of them within one of the flurries, which causes the hologram to become off-balanced as Emilio takes advantage of this and rapidly uses his blades and cuts off the hologram's head.
As the training session ends, the real Kratos begins to stir from his unconscious state again and simply stares at Emilio with his inbuilt rage from Zeus's betrayal gone as he asks, "Who Are you? You are not a God of these lands yet you saved me. Why is this another trick of the gods?".
Emilio assisted the man in getting back on his feet. Kratos then assumed a battle stance while Emilio put his weapons away in his soul space. He also summoned a chair and a table along with some refreshments to offer basic hospitality.
"It's rather simple, God of War", Emilio says with a smile and continues, "I have come with a bargain, one I believe you will willingly accept".
Kratos then sneers at the man or God in this situation as he remains in his battle stance and says, "I have heard this before those offering a deal yet, being unable or unwilling to fulfill their end. How are you any different?".
Emilio then responds, good-naturedly; "You said it yourself, I am not a God of these lands, nor am I accountable to its laws. I can do anything I want. I can return the dead to life. I could eliminate your gods without disrupting this world's balance with a finger snap. Yet, I am here trying to make a deal with you that you will find very beneficial".
Kratos then sheathes his blades, although he remains suspicious of God's motivations, and when Emilio creates another chair for him to sit on, he remains standing and simply says, "Say your deal, foreign God. I shall choose whether or not to accept it, as I have gods to kill".
Emilio then smiles in a devious way, which does slightly unnerve the God of War as he says "Great! So let's get down to business".