Place in Nature
"Speech"/ "Thoughts"
"Large Monster and Tailed-Beast Speech"/ "Thoughts"
Chapter 1: Dreams or Visions?
Cerulean eyes snapped open in alarm as their owner shot upwards off the mat he laid on. Breathing heavily, a hand clutched over his heart, buckets worth of sweat flowed from his pores. A few seconds passed before the individual's mind caught up to his body, only then realizing the nightmare was over.
Laying back down, the bare-chested male sighed as he turned his gaze towards the window. The moon shined from the center of the sky, illuminating the hotel room he currently stayed in. Despite the warmth of the blanket and the softness of the futon he laid on, sleep was no longer possible. Not as long as the roar and song still echoed in his mind.
"That same damn dream…" Naruto cursed internally, a hand running through his blond hair, soaked wet by the perspiration. This dream had followed him since childhood, at first only happening once a month, but now occurring at least once a week. Despite the eight years he's had to suffer this night terror, he still feared what he could, and would, recall, maybe even more than when it first started.
Everything he saw and felt inside the dream team felt too real. Around four years ago, he began seriously considering that, perhaps, he was viewing memories of a past life.
"Hey, kid, you alright?"
Naruto turned towards the sudden voice as its owner sat up on his own futon on the other side of the room. He was a tall man in his fifties featuring a spiky mane of unruly white hair and coal black eyes, red lines underneath.
"That looked like some nightmare," Jiraiya, the Toad Sage and Naruto's new teacher for the duration of the month-long training period before the finals of the Chūnin Exams, stated. Naruto had met him after the older man had thrashed Ebisū, the Jōnin Naruto was given after his assigned teacher Kakashi Hatake went off to train Naruto's teammate for his match in the finals. "You want to talk about it?"
The idea of speaking about that dream made Naruto's teeth clench, as he didn't want to dwell on it. Unfortunately, he knew this conversation was inevitable, given how the two were going to share a room for at least the next month as Jiraiya prepared Naruto for the last round of the Chūnin Exams.
Taking a few slow breaths to settle his nerves, Naruto began to explain his reoccurring nightmare.
"It starts with me standing alone on a flat-topped pillar of stone which dwarfs mountains with its height," the blonde teenager slowly began, eyes trained towards the Toad Sage who paid close attention.
"Fog covers everything – I can only see about a foot in any direction," Naruto continued to describe the environment in the dreamscape. "After a few minutes, I hear an odd whistling sound; it's faint at first, but gets louder and louder real quick."
The teenager paused for a short moment before resuming. "As the whistle gets closer, a bright red point, like a shooting star, flew past me. The first time I had this dream, I thought it was exactly that: just a meteor, until I heard the whistle from behind, followed by something big hitting the ground."
Jiraiya noticed a slightly irritated glint in the younger male's eyes.
"I've been having this dream for eight years straight, and the only features I've seen of whatever landed are bright blue eyes and odd red-white horizontal… openings, glowing on what I assume is its chest." Naruto struggled to think of a word to describe the features of the creature which he could make out.
Jiraiya's jaw dropped a few fractions of an inch when he learned the amount of time his new student had been dealing with this dream. And it still scared him! 'He was a whimpering mess before he woke up.' Jiraiya had been roused from slumber when Naruto's cries reached his ears. They were so feeble, almost infantile.
Naruto resumed speaking.
"I can't even see the outline of the creature, but when I take a step forward to investigate, I hear heavy footfalls from the other side." Naruto paused to take a breath. "When I turn back around, two small red eyes are visible from roughly the same distance as the first creature, and the fog hides everything else. Then the shaking starts."
A noticeable amount of awe and fear entered Naruto's voice, prickling Jiraiya's interest.
"As I try to keep myself from falling over, a massive shadow comes over me." Naruto swallowed. "I turn around, and all I can see is this massive wall of white scales, which I soon realize is a snake-like head slithering up the edge."
Naruto paused to look his teacher straight in the eye.
"When I say this thing is big, it really is big. I'm almost insulting it by describing it only like that, and to say I feel like an ant next to it is another insult to ants." Naruto shook his head in a self-chastising manner. "I felt like a speck of dust with just its head in front of me! I can't even see its eyes from my position!"
Jiraiya grew a bit uneasy when Naruto started talking about a massive snake, but what Naruto said next made the sage use every bit of his restraint to prevent anything more than a raise of his brow to show his reaction. If he didn't, then the blonde would have an incredibly horrible revelation about the dream, delivered straight from Jiraiya's own mouth.
"The snake tilts its head down to look at me; it's eyes are pretty odd – they're purple with these metallic rings placed in a ripple pattern." Naruto saw Jiraiya's brow rise up. The younger male shrugged. He's had this dream so many times he quite honestly would only be mildly surprised if some type of creature actually had eyes like that.
"For a few moments… I'm just staring into the white snake's eyes. Every few seconds it's blue tongue – which is longer then you by a sizable amount – would flick out close enough that I could touch it." Naruto made a face of slight disgust at the idea of touching the snake's tongue – especially when not even seven days ago he had been eaten by a snake. Granted, that one was ridiculously smaller than the one in his repetitive dream.
Speaking of the dream, now was the time it transformed into a nightmare. Naruto began to breath slowly as he mentally prepared himself, as he's already regretting his decision to tell Jiraiya about when he heard the singing in his head.
He could deal with the blood-freezing screams, but it was that song which terrified him more than anything.
"Children shouldn't sing a song like that."
Jiraiya noticed the change in his new pupil's demeanor as his arms crossed over his chest, hugging himself in an attempt to comfort himself. He became more reserved, slightly shrinking back.
"The snake lifts it's head up, and I hear a roar from the direction of the second creature. I turn to see yellow patches glowing on a blunt horn and its forelimbs, as all three stared ahead where the fog has cleared enough to let the sun shine through."
Naruto swallowed nervously. Jiraiya saw a few drops of sweat form on him.
"In a few seconds, the sky is dark, and when I look up, there's an eclipse in the sky. The fog and the creatures are gone – I'm alone, as I see a massive storm crackling with red lighting randomly striking everywhere – I don't know why, but…"
Naruto got off his futon quietly as he silently went to the open window. The soft iridescent glow of the moon and stars dotted the night sky.
"The storm felt like it held the moon in place."
The genin's eyes went to the real moon, staying in position as he resumed speaking. "A black portal opens, and I see a white mass flying out – can't make out any features, but it really doesn't matter." Naruto turned his head towards Jiraiya.
"As I'm trying to make out any details, the mass disappears. Within that same second… I'm pinned onto the ground. After that moment, everything blacks out, and I hear a crowd screaming, mixed in with roars, squawks, and screeches of various creatures I can't identify. Explosions accompany the chaos, the ground is shaking, I can hear blades slicing through flesh… but it's the children singing which makes my eyes open."
"Singing?"
Naruto shifted his gaze downwards.
"Yeah…" the younger shinobi quietly confirmed. "As everything's falling apart, I'm struggling to stand up, but even with all the noise, I hear children singing this song."
Naruto took a breath, closing his eyes as he began to sing with a slow, sorrowful voice. It was as if he was giving a desperate warning to a tragedy already unfolding, the song itself structured like a poem.
When the world is filled with wyverns,
The legend is revived,
Meat is eaten, bone is crunched,
And blood is sucked dry.
He burns the earth,
And melts through iron,
He boils the rivers
And mows down trees.
He awakens the winds
And lights an inferno.
He is called Fatalis
The wyvern of destiny
He is called Fatalis
The wyvern of destruction
Call for help
Run for your lives
And don't forget to
Pray to the skies.
He is called Fatalis
The wyvern of destiny
He is called Fatalis
The wyvern of destruction.
For a moment, Naruto stopped the mournful song, his eyes open, head pointing at the starry skies.
Fatalis, Fatalis,
Heaven and Earth are yours.
Naruto's head dipped low, his blonde hair obscuring his eyes as the song ended, voice lowered to an almost dying croak as he finished.
Fatalis, Fatalis,
Heaven and Earth… are yours.
Jiraiya stayed silent, unsure of what to say. The sage rubbed his arms, feeling the goosebumps forming under his fingers, caused by Naruto's surprisingly beautiful, yet equally haunting, singing. Personally, he was more concerned about why the Rinnegan appeared in the boy's dreams. Was this a sign he could unlock those eyes? For now, the Toad Sage would keep those thoughts to himself, because Naruto began to speak again.
"As the children sing, I turn to see men and women running past me, while people in armor with various weapons rushed towards a black creature bigger than a house. Their armaments harmlessly bounced off its hide, while it decimated them with its own."
Naruto chuckled hollowly.
"I felt like I was watching sheep trying to kill a bear. The creature utterly dominated them… Each hit from its large, scaly limbs shattered their armor like wet tissue paper, its long tail sending them flying with a mere tap."
Naruto's next sentence made Jiraiya very uncomfortable. Having survived a war, this was a truth he knew all too well.
"Those who survived but were unable to flee – those were the ones I feel sorry for, while I envy the dead. The nightmare is over for them."
Naruto returned to his original place, legs tucked underneath the blanket, his account nearly finished.
"Until now; I couldn't see the creature clearly because of how fast it moved. Now, I stare into eyes burning with an intensity greater than the sun. Those eyes… they were all I could see, every other detail went unnoticed."
Even now, Jiraiya could see his charge shrink back a small amount, as if the creature still glowered at him.
"Its ear-splitting roar physically shook me out of my daze, but I still couldn't will myself to move. It didn't come after me despite how easy of a target I was… I wish it did. If it just did so, I wouldn't witness what happened next."
Naruto took a shaky breath, trying to calm himself down as the account played in his mind over and over again. He could smell the melting flesh, and how hard he had to fight the urge to gag.
"The cracked ground near the beast was littered with the armor-covered bodies of those who tried to slay it; the creature didn't spare me a second glance. Instead, it gave more attention to the dead or dying, opening its maw to let loose the most unnatural roar – no," Naruto quickly cut himself off. "The screams of the dead came out from those jaws, and if you," Naruto directed a finger at Jiraiya. "could hear it, you'd agree."
"I'd rather not," the Toad Sage stated, opting to take Naruto's word for it.
The teenager got back to his story. "After the screeching stopped, the black beast inhaled deeply, before a tornado of pure heat was forced out from its jaws. It swept its massive head in a half-circle motion, and the bodies – armor and all – melted into a white-hot paste."
Naruto's voice cracked with indignation at the monster's action, but his face reflected an anger pointing inwards, towards his inability to do anything except watch.
"The beast then began to rub the molten liquid on it's scales, uncaring of the heat. Its yellow eyes locked with mine as it did this, intelligence flashing at me… the creature fully knew what it was doing."
Jiraiya saw Naruto's entire body trembling from anger, both at himself and the creature.
"The molten liquid dripped off it's bulk, the black beast strode towards me, eyes mocking me. I was pinned to the ground once more, and I was back on the flat pillar-like mountain. Above me, the same creature held me, but its appearance had changed."
Jiraiya recalled that Naruto had spoken of a white form flying in from the portal.
"The once-black scales now shone an ethereal white, with fur lining its forelimbs and formed a beard below its lower jaw. Both eyes possessed bladed ridges which extended outwards about a meter or so, both a cool shade in between blue and green. On top of its upper jaw was another one of these ridges, this one looking more like a horn with all three being flat with triangular tips."
Despite a noticeable effort, Naruto couldn't keep the awe from his voice as he described the creature's new visage, and based on the details he was hearing, Jiraiya believed the beast would be beautiful, or even regal in appearance.
"Its eyes now glowed red with power as it looked down on me, "We meet again", they seemed to say. Its jaws opened to yawn, and I could see red sparks shooting out from its throat – the electricity in the air descended in huge, thick bolts, gathering in front of its teeth in a sphere the size of a watermelon."
Naruto still was in shock over the control of lightning the beast possessed. He could still feel the massive amount of static electricity in the air, still see the pebbles raising into the air.
"Seemingly bored or tired of my presence, the white beast tilted its head down at me, not bothering to move its foot off my torso." Naruto swallowed, as sweat began to pour off him again.
"With a red flash, I, and probably the entire mountain, am obliterated, yet as I'm waking up…" Naruto paused, a perplexed expression showing. "Everything is consumed by a beautiful translucent flame, I can feel so much energy moving through me and an otherworldly voice is calling, "Find me!" and, "You need to awaken me!""
Naruto shook his head pitifully.
"I've been having this dream for so long that I honestly believe I'm remembering a past life."
Jiraiya was unsure of what to say. The second he heard Naruto unknowingly describe the Rinnegan, there was no doubt in Jiraiya's mind that this was just a persistently reoccurring dream. However, the Sage didn't want to jump the gun, but he would accelerate Naruto's training and take a drastic measure.
Right now, though, Jiraiya simply wanted to ask a few questions.
"Have you told anyone else about this dream?"
Naruto nodded an affirmative.
"I told the Old Man after the second year, and he asked if I would mind being examined by a Yamanaka," Naruto revealed.
Jiraiya told him to explain further.
"A man named Inoichi – my classmate Ino's dad – went into my mind, and after viewing the dream, offered to block it from my mind."
Naruto gave a bitter chuckle as he shook his head.
"It didn't do a damn thing, that very same night I had the dream twice in a row – once when I went to bed, the second when I tried to fall back asleep. For next few months, Inoichi tried his hardest to block the dream from returning, but eventually I told him to stop." Naruto sighed irritably. "Whenever I see him around, Inoichi asks how I'm coping, sometimes I'll let him try a new method, but whatever he tries fails." Naruto admitted, his voice somewhat melancholic.
Jiraiya frowned. Inoichi was the head of the Yamanaka and an expert in the usage of the Shintenshin no Jutsu, the signature technique of his clan. While originally designed for information gathering, the technique had multiple applications in other areas regarding the mind, including removing traumatic memories from an individual's memory.
'This only adds to Naruto's dream being more than what it seems.'
Jiraiya's face showed his worry. The second this month was over and they were back in the Hidden Leaf, the Toad Sage would voice his concerns to the Third Hokage. Jiraiya began to ask more questions.
"Have you told anyone else? Have you explored any other treatment options?"
"Other than Inoichi and the Third, only Ino knows," Naruto answered.
"She's the clan heiress right?"
Naruto nodded.
"From time to time, when no else was around, she would ask how I was doing for her dad. I think she was also interested in how her father couldn't block the dream from returning," Naruto explained, remembering the inquiring questions his fellow blond would ask occasionally. Ino had also kept silent about Naruto's issue, something he was thankful for.
"Never thought a secret would be safe with a gossiper," Naruto mused cheekily with a yawn. He supposed it was time to go back to sleep.
Noticing this, Jiraiya told the Genin they'd talk more tomorrow. The two males laid down in their separate futons, Naruto quickly returning into slumber, whereas Jiraiya lay wide awake, finalizing his plan for tomorrow. He already knew of a deep enough crack in the Earth that suited his needs perfectly.
It was risky… but if it worked, then he would take Naruto on as a proper apprentice.
"I need to know if he has the eyes of God, and this might just be what's needed to activate them… at the very least, what I have in store for him might enable him to summon a proper toad."
If Naruto failed to do the even the latter, then his life would be the price for his failure. Deciding to leave tomorrow's test for exactly that: tomorrow, Jiraiya let himself drift off, hoping for the best, yet preparing for the worst.
As the two slept, deep in the nearby forest at the bottom of a ravine – the very one Jiraiya planned to use the following day – activity stirred. Four small bodies popped out from the dirt, shaking off whatever loose particles were on them.
"Nya~! This is where Big Boss said we should set up!" One of the small bodied-individuals excitedly whispered.
All four wore cloaks hiding their features. The same voice whispered again to his comrades, the other three quietly going, "Nya!" in agreement.
"We need to get ready fur tomorrow! The new Meowster will be here!"
CUT! CHAPTER OVER!
Ok, so before y'all demand other stories to be updated, I will say this:
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2. Shibito Ashikabi is going to be rewritten with a major overhaul.
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Now on to this story.
This is indeed a Naruto/Monster Hunter story so I'm going to have to buff the monsters(Who will be referred to Wyverns as is proper in MH) a bit in terms of speed and durability because if we take out Tailed-Beasts, Kage-level shinobi, Sages, and endgame Naruto and Sasuke…
I think the worlds are actually somewhat even.
The average shinobi can't spam high-powered Jutsu the way the upper end can and while they definitely have a speed advantage, their defense is crap compared to most Wyverns because kunai and the like are only viable against something like a Great Jaggi. The second something like a Barroth or a Rathalos shows up, start forming hand signs and bust out as many Jutsu as you can because kunai and shuriken aren't helping unless you've got wind or lightning as your Chakra nature.
There's also the durability of the Wyverns to take into account because some of these things have shells that tank multiple explosions(The Elder Dragon Kushala Daora has metal scales) and claws that just shred even the toughest metal, or just can take a ton of punishment (Deviljho). Again, factor in the upper end of the Naruto verse and it's a hilarious curb stomp, but only use average shinobi and you've got a pretty fun combination if you ask me.
However, it wouldn't be fun if we didn't include them so I have to buff the Wyverns in terms of speed, and durability to make things interesting. Maybe give certain Wyverns a better control over their elements but that's about it since I don't want the Wyverns getting too ridiculous.
For those of you who don't know Monster Hunter that well or at all, I recommend doing a bit of research if you want to know more. I've only played 3U, 4U and Generations so I am by no means a veteran of Monster Hunter but I love the game series and am saving for a switch so I can play Generations Ultimate.
If you have any questions regarding the story, suggestions for balance, requests for a Wyvern you want to see( No guarantees if it's from Monster Hunter Frontier since I don't know enough about it), or if you want to play online sometime then either PM me or say so in the review section.
Unsure of pairing at the moment, thinking about Shizuka or Ino, maybe even a Wyverian (Third Fleet Master lookalike? A Guildmarm clone? Ace Gunner-like character?) Mind helping out, NO HINATA, OR SAKURA.
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