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Chapter II.
With Naruto.
Dark alleys. Left, nearly destroyed buildings. Crossroads. Those were parts of his kingdom. Here in shadows he was invincible. Here he felt himself safe. The only problematical thing was the fact that while he was summoned everybody wanted their father/brother/son, chose anyone, back.
Resurrections weren't his business anymore. If he was a normal demon… then maybe. But he is Hellspawn a warrior demon, born to fight and kill. And looking at the buildings of Gotham, where shadows ruled supreme, he felt like an emperor, who returned to his capital.
He looked, how super villainesses robbed the banks and battled Supergirl and Batgirl. However he needed to face another one, he was perfectly sure that those two will manage to deal with Poison Ivy, Livewire and Miss Quinzel.
He needed to deal with one of the villains, who managed to survive the purge. He slowly walked down the dark streets in search of the one, who claimed to be the Master of Fear. He was interested a bit in Scarecrow, mostly, how he managed to not die like others.
He passed different hideouts, tracking the villain through the scent of his sins. Whatever Scarecrow was expecting he never thought that he will be found by dark intimidating figure… just like before.
"Bats? Wait you are not…" clawed dark hands grabbed his throat, green glowing eyes pierced his soul seeing every small fear, every sin, every secret.
And then there was nothing but… fear. Scarecrow screamed.
Naruto stood up. He took all that he needed from Scarecrow's mind, faster than lightning his sword appeared in his hand and he placed it near the throat of the one was spying over him all this time.
"Hide and seek never was your strong side, Covenant." said Naruto dissolving his sword, when he saw the one, who was before him.
"Your faithful knight has his flows, My Lord." replied ancient crusader. Back in Dark Ages, Lord Covenant had a deal with Malboelgia, to return to real world, to meet his wife. He was the first, who denied Malboelgia, if you didn't count Cagliostro. This however didn't end well.
Unlike many others, Covenant swore his allegiance to Naruto. He was a knight with specific code. He needed a king to serve.
"We have a problem with Raenius." Naro scoffed. Raenius was one of the eldest Hellspawns and certainly the ugliest. Son of Cronus, half-brother to Zeus, Raenius hated his so-called family with passion and thirsted for revenge.
When his brother Zeus killed his father, he decided to deal with unwanted successor for the throne, and show other half-bloods, what will happen to them if they will dare to even dream about his throne.
First was his mother, the centaurs who protected him according to the will of his other half-brother, Chiron.
And finally he was ripped to shreds and thrown into the depths. He awoke in the place filled with fire and brimstone, deeper than Tartarus itself.
"Call me your daddy!" said the giant… thing that he saw first, when he opened his eyes. Malboelgia laughed.
High devil found many such as him. He wanted to use them to wipe out old gods in the Endwar. Without him in Hell and Malboelgia dead. Raenius decided to take all power for himself, but unlike Malboelgia and Naruto, he didn't had enough power to held the connection to the several dimensions like Malboelgia did. He couldn't find worthiest of the worthy to keep them in his army, like Malboelgia did.
But he had a talent in diplomacy.
Through God of War, his treacherous nephew, he managed to find a wizard, who will became his tool and conduit of his will.
His plans weren't so secret, so nearly all Hellspawns knew that war is coming. Raenius looked for allies, while his armies prepared for war, you don't need to be a genius to understand where it is going and if you heard about ugliest Hellspawn even a bit, it was easy to predict his first strike.
All this told Naruto his trusty knight Covenant. And mostly greatest Hellspawn didn't care. If not for one thing: Olympians had magically hidden enclaves, without a doubt there were high chances that his wife is in one of them, he couldn't ally himself with Olympians, they will use his wife to turn him into their weapon.
But he couldn't negotiate with Raenius either, because he was a candidate with more powers, than current lord and soldiers followed him more willingly, than Raenius. It will be foolish act, to let him back into the ranks of Spawn Army.
Naruto placed the Scarecrow on his shoulder and carried him to the point of destination. Naruto smiled showing his fanged smile. He will use the Master of Terror to spread the terror of his own.
Watchtower. With Diana and others.
Amazon looked over the hall, with different heroines all around her. She looked to her right, there stood heroines that were relatives and apprentices to the deceased members of the Justice League, such as Kara, Barbara and Karen, then she looked to the left, there stood new heroines she never met, Angela the Huntress, celestial being, angel of vengeance also a sword for hire, Sara Pezzini carrier of the ancient artifact, Witchblade, which chose its wielder only from women and finally Danielle, the host to the ancient power, called Angelus, resurrection Light itself.
Diana stood in front of her fellow heroines alongside the Hawkgirl and prepared to give a speech.
"I'm glad that in these dire times all of you, alongside the others, who still didn't manage to come, but promised to, answered our call. I'm glad that despite the fact that one of my sisters caused all that havoc and suffering you still decided to listen me out." she breathed out and continued.
"Forces that protected the Earth were cut more than in half. Yet those, who wanted to cause nothing but chaos and misery, spread them still. It doesn't matter to them, that their action thin our defenses further. Darksied haven't forgotten about his defeat and ancient enemies spread their powers here on Earth. I can see only one way to stop this madness. We must unite! We must face them all as one!"
Her words had drowned in sea of applause, however one lasted longer than others. Everybody turned to see the red-haired woman with a cigarette in her mouth, on her black uniform was a symbol of the hand gripping a sword.
"Great speech." said the red head. Every super heroine instantly prepared for battle. Red head raised her hands. "Easy there girls. If I wanted your deaths you would be already dead. My name is Liz Sherman, thanks to certain someone's crazy battle sister, I'm director of B.P.R.D."
"Bureau of Paranormal Research and Development?" asked Batgirl. "What are you doing here?"
"You know her?" asked Kara, who stood to her right.
"I know of them, Batman had several consultations from Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, before his unfortunate death. He was also a friend of Jason Blood. I didn't know how they became friends though."
"I can answer this question." everybody turned to Liz.
She get several files with mark of the Bureau and sign "Top Secret", on them. "You better come closer, there is no other version of this file."
"In 1944th Nazi tried to turn the tides of war through summoning powerful demons. That's how This little creature was summoned." super heroines looked at the photos of humanoid child. It definitely wasn't human, humans doesn't have one arm bigger than other and horns on their heads and tails behind them. "Professor, befriended the creature and raised him as his own son. He even called him Hellboy."
"I fail to see how that is anything of importance." said Hawkgirl.
"Even if he was our ally and trustful agent for long decades, Hellboy was son of Azzael and his true name was Anung Un Rama." said Liz, menacingly looking at the winged woman for interfering in her tale.
"That means 'and upon his brow set a crown of fire' in one of abyssal languages." said Zattanna.
"Yes, Hellboy was destined to bring the doom upon humanity. His right hand, a stone gauntlet, is a key to release Old Ones and wipe out Humanity. So he was captured and placed in prison."
I still fail to see where we came in." said Hawkgirl.
Liz growled. "From the time Hell boy was summoned, only two, from those, who met him in that old church remain alive. Because of whole ordeal, we lost the contact with secured prison, where he was placed. As we found later he managed to run away, with a help of one of those two individuals."
Liz gave the old photo to Wonder Woman. There circling Hellboy were different people, but on the right and left ends of the photo, were two, who were so different from others that they instantly got full attention for themselves.
On the right end was a figure covered by cloak head to toe. "We believe that the one in the cloak is the one, who managed to get Hellboy and a bunch of captives away from the prison." Diana didn't answer all her attention was gained by beautiful woman, clad in armor, with blonde hair. Her face was too well-known to Diana.
"Mother…" whispered she.
Meanwhile Sara Pezzini decided to interfere into their discussion, while Diana was too shocked that her mother was fighting during the Second World War, she actually thought that the Amazon was more shocked over the fact that her mother left the island, while ordering her to not do so.
"You said that there were others?" asked she.
"Yes. There are. Deathstroke got there, after he had slain the Titan. Abe Sapien, one of our agents too got there after higher ups in Bureau became too paranoid. And…"
"And?"
"And Jackie Estacado."
She didn't need to tell Sara anything, she understood in what kind of shit they now were. Against them were Beasts of Armageddon, bunch of people, who had the powers and, because of their actions, reasons to destroy the world.
Unknown location.
Naruto looked how red blood stained the floor. He sat in front of well beaten form a woman, who was strapped to the chair.
"Well? Are you finally ready for a talk with me?" spit was her only response.
Naruto sighed. "As you wish. I didn't want for this to come so far." he turned to the figure, who stood in the shadows of his bar. "I need a bit of help here Dracul."
Gabriel stepped from the shadows and turned into stream of red energy, which instantly got inside the woman, through her ears, nostrils, eyes and mouth. Ropes were turned aprt by sudden burst of strength, red light pierced through different spots on her body. And in loud explosion, spraying blood and gore everywhere, woman exploded.
"You found what we needed?" asked Naruto. Vampire nodded. "Good. It's time to prepare for the meeting with our soon-to-come guests."
Ra's Al Ghul's palace. Nearly the same time.
Enraged Ra's Al Ghul is very rare sight. So when he was informed that good chunk of his forces, alongside the half of humanity, is dead He wasn't angry he was furious. So while Ra's was giving his rage an exit. Naruto was checking young Damian's progress.
He was already healthy, but his mother still didn't let him rise, she was too worried. Ra's had also another reason to be furious. Bruce may have not been the promising student he wanted. But he was great, one of the best, maybe even the best… As somebody, who taught him Ra's had a special bond with his apprentice, moreover he was his grandson's father.
He hated it. He enjoyed the clash with worthy enemy, however dying from something like this? Like illness? Ra's felt himself greatly offended. And all his rage was focused on those, who created that little blonde monster. On Amazons.
Not many knew that long ago Amazons were using sailors from lost ships to procreate, after sex they usually killed the sailors, however once, a priest escaped their grasp he used a boat to flee, shock was to much for him, till his last days he was viewed as madman and nobody listened to his tales about beautiful sea devils and sirens.
No one except his tormentor, who got all details about sea devils, the strange land and brutally murdered the priest, so his tale shall never be told again. From the moment the heart of the priest stopped beating, nobody except his killer knew, how to get to Themyscira.
Nobody except Ra's Al Ghul.
And he was about to take his revenge on Amazons.
By showing the way to their home to enraged women, who lost their dear sons, brothers and fathers.
Demon's Head smiled. So much Chaos. So much suffering all because of one Amazon.
His smile grew wider. This century just started and he already saw something like this. Without a doubt, there was much more to see and learn for him in this world, than he believed before. Ra's felt himself like fire ran through his veins .
First time in many years Ra's Al Gul felt himself young again.
