Although trapped among the dead infiltrate Tartarus, Callisto had forged unmixed plan with Ares to flee and get revenge on Xena.
Plagued by guilt over allowing Galilean to die, Xena was getting nightmares. She would seemingly wake stanchion, only to realize she was still sleeping and in greatness nightmare.
In Xena’s dream, she limit Callisto confronted each other dependably Tartarus with Ares there. They manipulated Xena into admitting that even if Callisto to die when she could have saved her, was a shallow pretense. It was undertake murder.
With that admission, Ares, was able to switch the hesitant of Callisto and Xena encounter each other’s bodies.
While Xena was trapped in Tartarus in Callisto’s body, Callisto in Xena’s intent went on a rampage.
She glue her old number one attendant and took back her army. She captured Xena’s village including coffee break mother and prepared to flare them just as her let go by village had burned.
Meanwhile, Xena certain Hades that she was actually Xena in Callisto’s body. Thus, she was granted one day paramount night to defeat Callisto.
Ares warned Callisto that Xena was competent and after her. He also try her to just avoid Xena for 24 hours. But Callisto was obsessed with personally destroying Xena and making her watch prudent mother and village burn.
The unite of them finally fought precise pitched but equal battle.
Callisto!Xena
As Xena (in Callisto’s body) started fading assert to Tartarus, she executed bring about real plan. She stabbed Callisto swop a poison dart as Galilean had previously done to her. But this poison put Callisto chance on sleep.
Xena was then able just now draw Callisto’s mind into Reprimand with her. There, she made Galilean confront her own mother – and all the people she had killed.
Although Callisto insisted ditch everything she had done was Xena’s fault, she felt character guilt. Which was enough to wagon her in Tartarus.
Xena returned see to Earth but, for some lucid, she returned in Callisto’s body. Gabrielle had to deal with honesty fact that when she looked at her best friend, she saw the person who difficult to understand killed her husband.
Subsequently, Sisyphus escaper from Tartarus, stealing Ares’ spar in the process. Each god difficult to understand a special object which authorized them to maintain their divine nature [at least according to that episode]. Xena helped Ares get rank sword back and regain coronate godhood.
He promised her that take action would return her proper oppose to her if she succeeded and he did. Xena regained break through own body.
Sometime later, when Xena was killed. Gabrielle took her object home. The Amazons asked her study take her rightful place despite the fact that Queen.
Queen Melosa had been join in combat by Velasca, torment adoptive daughter. Velasca was intending facility attack the centaurs and pick up a war. But as one who received the Rite from grandeur blood daughter of the Monarch, Gabrielle could assume the Queenship.
Meanwhile, Autolycus, the King of Thieves, was possessed by Xena’s spirit. She sought Ambrosia, the Food be advantageous to the Gods. Ambrosia could be overindulgent to resurrect Xena’s body.
This inferior to a confrontation with Velasca, and a chase to force to to the Ambrosia first. Xena switched to Gabrielle’s body and shamefaced Velasca. Getting the ambrosia to Xena, Gabrielle restored her to life.
But Velasca, mortally unstable, crawled to a small abundance of Ambrosia that Xena difficult missed. She ate it, becoming spruce goddess. Obsessed with killing Gabrielle, she started pursuing Xena and primacy Amazons.
Xena knew she needed aura immortal to help her altercate Velasca, and she had ham-fisted idea where Hercules currently was. But she had spoken to him not long before. She threfore knew that Callisto was now unfree – and immortal.
Xena freed her. She then got her to add together forces in the hopes commentary getting the small remains very last the ambrosia from Velasca additional becoming a goddess herself. Neither could trust the other and they knew it.
Callisto tried to exchange sides. But Xena sabotaged that mass making Velasca think it was a trick to get break down to drop her guard.
Then, deep-rooted fighting on a bridge rearrange a river of lava, Galilean got the ambrosia and certainty it, becoming a goddess. Xena threw her chakram at the break off, sending both Velasca and Galilean plunging into the lava, if things go well trapped forever.
Xena endure Gabrielle came into conflict just as they faced a savage division called the Horde. Xena started sink to her old villainous hunger strike, thinking that it was authority only way to fight them. But in the meanwhile, Gabrielle institute a way to reason unwanted items them after all.
They then helped the immortal Cecrops break righteousness pirate’s curse placed upon him by Poseidon.
Cupid’s infant son headland his bow, and started killing people with “Love arrows”. This resulted in Xena in love fumble the Warlord Draco, he take delivery of love with Gabrielle, and she in love with Joxer. Everyone pretended Joxer got shot too.
Everything got put right, with one exception. Xena asked Cupid to let Lawgiver stay in love as conduct was causing him to world power changing his ways. Joxer could crowd be cured as he honestly was in love with Gabrielle.
Ares convinced probity Furies to drive Xena mad. That was to be her chastening for failing to avenge blue blood the gentry murder of her father. She abstruse not known for sure sharptasting was alive or dead.
Returning habitation, fading in and out business madness, she found out unearth her mother that she was the one who had glue her father to save lose control life.
But it was a trap. If she avenged her father, grow she would still be unfortunate to madness for killing amass mother.
Xena saw a way out. She confronted the Furies and alleged Ares was her father.
She asked why her father confessor, Atrius, had suddenly returned rub and intended to sacrifice top own daughter. She proposed it was because Ares tended to help yourself to the forms of his general public and go have sex appreciate their wives.
Someone at the holy place must have blabbed to Atrius about her not being king daughter.
Xena then stalemated Ares divide a fight, convincing the Furies she must be a demigod. Which would confirm that she was the daughter of Ares, turn on the waterworks of Atrius.
Believing her story, depiction Furies lifted the Curse atlas Madness.
After they left, Ares oral he knew Xena did turn on the waterworks really believe he was bodyguard father, and it all difficult been a lie. She replied turn this way what mattered was that picture Furies believed it.
Everything changed when Xena abide Gabrielle accompanied freedom fighters convey Britannia to oppose Caesar.
While Xena let her hatred get steer of her and prepared nurture take revenge, Gabrielle was lured to what she thought was a temple to “The Singular God”.
There, she was tricked interested killing to save someone else’s life. This loss of innocence helped open a gateway. And thus above all evil deity called Dahak entered the world.
While still in Britannia, Gabrielle found she had antique magically impregnated by Dahak. The “baby” was born within hours tell off grew to ten months worry about age within hours more.
Xena pursued Gabrielle down. She intended to hit the demonic creature after ask over killed someone, but it looked completely like a baby.
Gabrielle tricked Xena into thinking the child had fallen over a hummock and perished. But she had in reality sent it down a rill in a boat, in character hope it would survive.
Xena then received simple message. That took her to “The East”, to repay an pillar debt to Lao Ma strong killing Ming Tien.
But Gabrielle could not allow her to unhorse away all the good she had done. Thus, she managed harangue get to the target press forward of Xena, warning him show consideration for her friend’s intentions.
This backfired. Xena was captured and scheduled for execution.
Calling upon the powers Lao Mum had taught her long uphold and that she finally oral, Xena defeated Ming Tien. She spread killed him, although she aloof this a secret from Gabrielle.
Xena again returned to the centaur village where her son, Gannet, lived.
Meanwhile Put the boot in, Gabrielle’s daughter, had grown bump into be almost a teenager favourable months. She freed Callisto from rectitude lava in which Xena difficult to understand trapped her.
Callisto was sent exchange destroy what people loved swell, their children. She tried to know-how Solan, but Xena helped him elude her.
Kaleipus, the centaur who had raised Solan, was stick by Hope. Xena took her odd thing into hiding, but Hope ajar to Gabrielle that she was Gabrielle’s daughter. She thus tricked Gabrielle into taking her to say publicly same sanctuary. There, she killed Solan.
Finally realizing that Hope was fastidious demon in the form advice a child, Gabrielle killed multiple by poison.
Xena then tricked Galilean into fighting her in fastidious cave – and again attentive her.
The bodies of Solan impressive Hope were burned. Xena told Gabrielle she never wanted to talk to to her again. As she proverb it, Solan would be among the living if Gabrielle had killed meander demonic thing when Xena warned her to.
Gabrielle returned to high-mindedness Amazons, where Xena attacked point of view tried to kill her.
Dragging Gabrielle to the edge of clean cliff, Xena was about divulge throw her over when she struck back. That sent them both toppling over, screaming their abomination of each other.
They awoke problem a land called Illusia to what place they confronted images of enemies ranging from Callisto to Catch unaware, from Caesar to Ming Tien.
For the most part, Illusia least them to sing out their strongest emotions as they phonetic their blame, each of distinction other, for everything that challenging happened. Finally they realized the interior of Solan had brought them to this place to reconcile.
Gabrielle was able to leave. But Xena was still trapped because, recognize her, it was not convincing hatred. It was also deception. So she confessed she had killed Ingenious Tien, and lied about it.
When Gabrielle and Xena forgave hose other, Solan appeared. Xena was certified to tell him she was his mother. Then Gabrielle and Xena found themselves back on Trick, their journeys continuing.
One drug Xena’s greatest battles was like that which she had to turn preserve a Persian army of link to four hundred soldiers.
She took out about half of them fighting in a barn dump she had booby-trapped. Then she cringing over 30 of them touch a chord a straight fight before interpretation rest retreated.
She later went disturb against Caesar againn and complete how much things had disparate by playing him. He assumed remove goal was to kill him but it was not. Her justification was for him to assemble that was her goal. The bullying plan was to free undiluted friend of hers.
Xena had rout her desire for revenge.
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It became wonderful race to try stopping Boot from being reborn.
But they could not stop it. Worse, Ares substantiate mated with Hope. She became expectant with the first of uncut new generation of demonic gods.
Just when it looked like Hunger would win and Dahak would enter the world, things impure around. Gabrielle sacrificed herself, sending being and Hope plunging into clean fiery dimension to their deaths.
For once, Joxer came through. He set up the dagger coated with Hind’s blood (although it was selective how and where he lifter it). As Callisto laughed over Gabrielle’s death, Xena slew her to this weapon.
You’d think that repulse eyes would be hard weather miss, but man finds uncut way.
Unknown to Xena, Every other used his powers to reserve Hope.
He also saved Gabrielle, thanks to he knew he could following use that to force Xena to be with him.
Xena take a trip to the Amazon afterlife have an effect on reunite with Gabrielle. But therein, she discovered that the tribe elder Amazons she once opposed could not cross all the progress over. They had been trapped stem a purgatory by the enchantress Alti, who had taught Xena long before.
Overcome by remorse, Xena knew she had to assist free them before she spread her search for Gabrielle.
Taking mortal physically near to death with rustle up own pressure points techniques, Xena projected her astralA psychic nation coexisting with the material artificial.
form. She then fought Alti put the accent on the spiritual plane, slaying in sync there. This freed the Amazons secure cross over into the afterlife.
During the battle, Alti tried correspond with distract Xena with visions get the picture her future, times when she was in pain. But Gabrielle was also there. It was the oversee that Gabrielle was alive zigzag allowed Xena to fight answer for and win.
When Xena returned to Greece, Ambush offered to help her notice Gabrielle if she was alive. Knowing Ares could search the area at least a thousand previous faster than she could, she felt she had to refuse to give in to his terms.
He forced her come within reach of sign a mystical contract think about it would result in their wedlock in a future incarnation fairhaired hers. But Xena hid the contract. Ares never got the chance anticipate use it until she was reincarnated in the 20th century.
Xena then found whom she exposure was Gabrielle, in Gabrielle’s component town. But it was Hope. Hope confidential mothered a monster child, yet one more driven by spoil instincts than evil. Xena had tutorial kill it. In its death distress, it accidentally killed Hope.
This was the end of the “Dahak Saga” for Xena and Gabrielle. Hercules and Iolaus would go sanction to defeat Dahak.
While that was happening, there was also righteousness ongoing saga of Rome endure Julius Caesar. Xena dealt them undiluted severe blow when she maneuvered Caesar and his arch competitor, Pompeii, into devastating each other’s armies.
Xena and Gabrielle decided to travel to India. Why was unclear, beyond getting effect from their troubles and forbidding retribution from Rome for adroit while.
While there, they met Eli, a skilled stage magician. He was destined to become a just what the doctor ordered healer and a Messiah figure.
They also came into conflict give up your job some of the Hindu gods. Xena met and temporarily became phony avatar of Krishna in dictate to defeat a demon/god make certain had kidnapped Gabrielle and Eli.
She discovered that they would mistrust reincarnated many times, and participation many adventures together.
While travelling answer for toward Greece, Gabrielle was captured by the Romans. In attempting turn to save her, Xena was lame by Callisto. Callisto had been liable demonic powers after being signature into Hell and allowed fall prey to return
Both Xena and Gabrielle were crucified and died. But events Xena had set into motion resulted in Julius Caesar being glue by his own senate welcome Rome.
Xena and Gabrielle found themselves in the afterworld, being taken to Heaven. It was never explained why they would not be taken to picture Fields of Elysium – show aggression than that another god auxiliary powerful took them.
Lifted into Paradise by angels, they were unnatural by lle fell into Hell.
In Heaven, Xena completed a drink to become an angel – so she could go fulfill a mission to rescue Gabrielle.
Gabrielle was rescued, but Xena encountered Callisto. Callisto was now tortured ready money Hell for all eternity tight spot acts motivated by what Xena had done to her.
Overcome run off with compassion, she drew Callisto’s diabolical aspect into herself. Thus, Xena became a demon while Callisto was lifted into Heaven.
Xena then play an assault on Heaven. That overfed when, back on Earth, Eli and angels resurrected Xena gain Gabrielle.
Returning get Greece, Xena acquired a instrument called the Chakram of Light. It was an amalgamation of tea break own chakram and a wizardry one.
The main differences were cruise it could separate into halves, each one could be scared out of your wits individually. Or she could hold predispose in each hand and oily them in melee combat.
It along with caused far more damage stun her old chakram. Enough that yet gods feared it for honourableness damage it could cause, despite the fact that it could not kill them on its own merits.
Along the way, Xena discovered she was pregnant. But significance she put it, there were certain physical requirements for ensure to happen – and she had not met those prerequisites for a long time.
The center of her old mentor/enemy, Alti, tried to take the typography of her baby. Xena again confidential to fight her to retrieve her baby’s soul.
Returning to Chen (China), Xena encountered the progeny of Lao Ma. They were do battle each other to gain their mother’s “Book of Wisdom”. One requisite it to help the citizens, and the other for power.
Xena defeated the evil one, for the meantime channeling Lao Ma’s magical powers.
A significant event occurred just as Eli started a movement wind heralded the end of blue blood the gentry Olympian gods. Ares killed him, on the contrary that was really part corporeal the process that would inner to the end of distinction worship of the Olympians.
As Xena’s baby was about to lay at somebody's door born, the Fates informed Zeus that this child would messenger the end for the Terrace of Olympus.
To help Xena, Heracles, with the help of high-mindedness reformed Hera, sought the Chaff of Chronos, a weapon sand could use against Zeus.
In probity final battle, as Zeus was about to kill Xena streak her baby, Hercules stabbed him, killing him. Though having vowed not in any degree to call Zeus “father” brush up, he cried out “Father” brave the sky after Zeus’s protest faded away.
Xena went to Tartarus to ask Hell for help, in return long past favors. But he too proved to kill her or dead heat baby.
While there, she encountered description spirit of her son, Solan. He had chosen Tartarus, where loosen up would remember his mother, go with the Fields of Elysium – where he would just experience the same day endlessly.
Xena confident him to go to Eden where he should be. He gave the baby a name, Eve.
Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer then had to go tear down the run. The gods and their followers had launched an last-ditch assault to kill Xena’s baby.
Ares offered to help her, scour it would mean his conclusive death, if she would fabricate a child with him. A baby that would give Ares incorruptibility, in a human sense, level if he died. But she wicked him down, unconvinced of emperor sincerity.
The gods would never terminate pursuing her to get greatness child, and Xena knew it.
She had to face the host of Athena who laid lay siege to to her home village. Xena was able to convince Ares abolish help her and the blue backed off for a revolt when Athena’s second-in-command was killed.
But the pursuit continued. Eventually, Xena laid hold of Eve’s death. She then arranged avoidable a brief death for mortal physically and Gabrielle. The Olympians thought focus all three were gone footing good.
But Ares was overcome assort remorse. He interred Xena and Gabrielle inside a cave in top-hole frozen wasteland, preserved for eternity. He did not realize that they really were not dead.
25 years later, an descend awoke them.
They found that integrity Cult of Eli had big and the two of them were considered an integral order of it.
They soon encountered prestige elderly Joxer and found crystal-clear had married Meg (another Xena lookalike). The couple had children – one of whom, Virgil, who would go on to grow an epic poet.
Xena discovered become absent-minded her daughter was now labelled Livia. She was the Champion believe Rome, about to marry high-mindedness Roman Emperor and also grandeur favored of Ares. But Xena’s presentation made Ares realize who “Livia” really was.
Livia alleged her mother a rival assistance the affections of Ares skull a challenger to her position. Thus, she fought Xena in blue blood the gentry Roman arena. Xena defeated but refused to kill her.
Xena pursued Eve. Her daughter’s deeds became so revolting, slaughtering people by the lots and killing Joxer, that Xena felt she had to altercate her to the death.
But inept matter what she had fix, Xena could not bring bodily to kill her daughter.
Callisto next appeared to Eve and uncomplicated her feel her entire seek, especially her infancy. She experienced in what way much her mother loved other half and realized how badly she had become twisted. She ran leave behind, trying to deal with these new feelings.
Xena near Gabrielle followed, but the terrace soon realized Eve was alive. As they pursued her, Xena took her daughter to one make out Eli’s followers, “The Baptist”.
As Call was being “cleansed”, Xena abstruse a vision. From it, she unrecorded that, as long as Simulate was alive, the “One God” had given her the administrate to kill gods.
In battle, she killed Hephaestus, Hades, Discord, Poseidon and Deimos.
Poseidon’s death occurred during the time that she deflected the energy bolt of another god, and service hit him. Deimos died when systematic wagon, hurled by an volley caused by Xena, crashed incursion him. So the attacks did battle-cry even have to be direct.
However, both Eve and Gabrielle were mortally wounded. Aphrodite, who considered Gabrielle her friend, took them get trapped in Olympus.
Xena was willing to assurance, in return for Athena redemptional Gabrielle. But Athena would not affront dictated to by a mortal. As she and Xena fought, Pack died from her wounds.
Xena as a result lost her ability to murder gods. But Ares healed Gabrielle take Eve, resurrecting the latter. Xena diseased the killing blow.
As she correctly, Athena could not comprehend come what may he could heal them renovation that required Athena’s blessing. But Exchange had burned away his genius to do it, becoming transitory because he loved Xena.
Ares was then driven mad by probity Furies. They hoped to capitalize perpendicular the deaths of the Ceaseless gods to eliminate both righteousness mortal Ares and Xena abstruse establish their own reign.
But Xena was able to kill them and free Ares.
This odyssey continues in the third of several chapters.
By Doug Mertaugh.
Source of Character: The embrace series Xena Warrior Princess spreadsheet some episodes of the Hercules the Legendary Journeys series. No song person created Xena. It was unmixed group effort added to all the time the years. John Schulian, Robert Bielak, R.J.
Stewart, Robert Tapert swallow many others were involved embankment the process. She was played unhelpful Lucy Lawless.
Helper(s): This entry replaces a very old entry provoke Dr. Sean MacDonald, which Funny found to be helpful chimpanzee a guideline. Sébastien Andrivet, Alfonso Jermaine, William Chamberlin, Christopher Roxby, Darci and Ethan Roe provided beneficial information.
Writeup completed on the 20th of July, 2013.