So this is the second chapter and it came out pretty fast. I started writing a bit today and it simply kept coming out. I don't even understand how I wrote so many words. Don't expect all my chapters to be this long or this in-depth.
Oh and disclaimer that I forgot in the first Chapter but will be editing in: I do not own Starcraft or Naruto.
Naruto Uzumaki, the Prince of the Swarm walked among the ruined Protoss buildings. The Protoss city was called Talidas. It was once a glorious representation of the Protoss archietecture, displaying great curves and great glorious gold. Now it had been torn down into an angular and curved display inherent to the swarm. The streets were now covered in purple creep. It was a glorious conquest to him. The planet did not have a strong military. Most of the Protoss residents were civilians, artisans and researchers. The assault and domination of the world was in a way a test for Naruto, given to him by his Queen.
Two weeks earlier he had awoken into his new glorious form. A week had passed for testing of his abilities. His agility and strength had vastly improved from his Terran form. His claws and wings were razor-sharp and can easily cutting through tough ultralisk hide. Unlike Kerrigan, his wings weren't meant as for stabbing, though they could still do that job admirably. On their inner edges, the wings had a serrated cutting edge. Very powerful and incredibly deadly. They also served to channel psionic energy, enabling him to make a psionic 'wing' and give him the ability to fly. His psionic abilities didn't end there. Under the Templar, he had trained his combat abilities but not his psionics beyond the ability to blink and reach out with his mind. But under guidance from Kerrigan his abilities skyrocketed. He could call up giant storms, infuse objects with kinetic energy, create great swaths of psionic fire and crush and dominate other minds. The only problem was that his psionic abilities were so large that he had difficulties with finer control. While he could call a nova of flame to burn all around him, he had trouble focusing it into smaller forms, such as a whip. But he was working on that, he hoped to eventually be able to recreate his warp scythe in psionic form. Despite the ingrained loyalty he held for the Zerg and his Queen, he still held a connection to his favored weapon. For now, the psionic scythes he could extend from the sides of his arms were enough. While he preferred melee combat, his body had a few ranged options, such as shooting spines from the points of his wings.
Following the week of testing Kerrigan went into a meditative trance and gave him one order.
"I will be looking to the future, but for the time being, we must not let the sector become complacent. The Terrans and Protoss are rebuilding and believe we are driven back. But we are not, I want you to go and wreak havoc upon them. Do not let them forget us."
He then spent the next three days talking about her commands with Izha and the Brood Mothers. Because he was newly introduced, there was some negative thoughts on his abilities to lead. It was decided that he was not to lead the whole of the swarm. It would be impossible, some parts of the swarm already had assigned projects. Instead, he was to develop his own force of the swarm, an elite force. A group bred for combat and conquering. The Brood Mother Karzhan let him take command of her brood and become his second in command. From there his campaign of conquering began. He decided to start small. Which is why his first target was this the planet of Talidas.
The brood arrived and conquered in three days. There was little trouble as the people weren't expecting a Zerg attack. The defenders had of course attempted to contact the Protoss Fleets, but it was to no avail. They did not have enough psionic ability to reach the Fleets and what transports they tried to send out of their warp gates were successfully stopped. A last attempt to escape by the ship that had brought the Protoss to the planet was stopped by Naruto himself.
Naruto stood in the Nydus Worm upon the Leviathan, ready to assault the Protoss ship. The great Zerg space creature let out a psionic confirmation that they were in place. He closed his eyes to focus and then slowly opened them, letting loose his command to send the worm forward. And rocket forth it did, slamming first through the shields and then through the metal hull. Light greeted him when the worm opened its mouth. He stepped out to see the carnage.
The Worm had wrecked the room. Metal shards and bars scattered about and the Protoss that were in the room when the worm hit were laying on the floor, dazed. One was already getting up however. His form of dress and the large gauntlets on his arms designated him as a zealot. The zealot stumbled to his feet and took one look at Naruto and growled out, "Zerg." He didn't leave room for an answer and charged towards Naruto, psi blades thrumming with power.
Naruto blocked the downward slash from the zealot's left arm with a psionically covered wing and caught the zealot's right wrist before he could finish a thrust. He stared directly into the zealot's eyes, with a grin on his face. The zealot in turn stared back with fierce determination. Faster than the zealot could react, Naruto's left wingtips, all three, plunged into the zealot, one in the gauntlet, causing the psi blade to disappear, another through his shoulder and the last one through his thigh. His right wingtips followed, mirroring the other, lifting the zealot aloft in the air.
Holding his stare, Naruto dived into the zealots mind, tearing from him the knowledge of the ship. The zealot's mental screams did nothing to discourage him and he soon had a complete mental map of the ship and its quarters.
In a bloody finale, he tore his wings out, tearing the Protoss's body to shreds and letting its pieces drop to the ground. The Zerg prince looked about, basking in the bloody glory, with a grin on his face and his eyes burning with an orange flame. He looked at the remaining Protoss scattered about, they were all civilians and their reactions to him differed. Some were defiant whiles other clearly showed fear. He disposed of them quickly and bloodily. Mentally he commanded the Zerg forces he had left on the Leviathan to join him through the Nydus Worm and then proceeded to clear out the rest of the ship.
The remaining Protoss forces on the planet continued to fight valiantly but in the end they fell as well, consumed by the never-ending swarm. Talidas would be the first planet to be conquered by Naruto, the Prince of the Swarm. For the next two years, Naruto would continue his conquering assaulting spaceships, planets and above all else, placing the fear of the swarm into everybody. It was not as if he didn't have his own setbacks however. While on a moon outside on the outer edge of the Koprulu sector, Naruto met his estranged father.
Naruto pondered the various Xel'naga imagery in the temple before him. The temple was rather random, being located on a snowy moon on the outskirts of the Koprulu sector. It didn't hold much significance and he could scarcely imagine why the Tal'darim would come to protect such a place but for their fanaticism.
Momentarily he felt a presence though. It was within the range he could usually feel someone, and he could tell that the person was hiding. But the unusual part was that the unknown person was hiding in the void, meaning it was a Dark Templar. Imagine his surprise when he recognized the psionic signature. It was his father. A cruel smirk found its way upon his face.
The signature was closer nearly behind him, when he called out to it. "Zeratul. What a surprise to find you here…"
While Zeratul could hide his feelings well, Naruto knew his adoptive father enough to tell that he was confused and surprised. "Who are you? You bare form similar to the Queen of Blades yet you are not her. Has she began to kidnap Terran's to make more like her?"
His back still facing the Protoss Naruto replied, "While I wouldn't put it past her, I can assure you I am a unique person."
Zeratul's displeasure could be felt, "So you are the one then. There are whispers of you, of a man-made Zerg, like Kerrigan herself. The Prince of the Swarm. You are either powerful enough or too arrogant to face away from me like you are. " While subtle, Naruto could feel Zeratul's shift, in preparation for a strike. His smirk became wider, he was enjoying this.
"Ah, but it's been so long. Since I've seen you. I wanted to savor this moment. Father." Slowly, and with dramatic nature, Naruto turned around to face his father. There he was, dressed in all his finery. The dull gold gauntlet and shoulder plates set with a green gem, and that old ragged purple cloak. He nearly burst out laughing at the horrified and surprised look on the Dark Templar's face.
The Templar's voice spoke volumes with its trembles. "Naruto… So she did take you and turned you to her side."
"Well father, what will you do? Now that I have truly become a monster. A demon. Can you do it? Will you kill your own son?" Naruto's voice had that echoing layer to it that mocked Zeratul.
"Why do you kill? You can turn away from the path. You're strong enough to do so Naruto. A murder of worlds is not what you are."
"You would take me back? As I am? You know this cannot be reversed. I am Zerg. I am a part of the swarm. I am Her Majesty's Prince. What a foolish Protoss you are."
A deep sigh emanated from Zeratul, "Very well, I can see she has you ensnared just as she did the Matriarch. It is sad and I will commit this deed with a heavy heart, but I will have to kill you. For what it's worth, I'm sorry Naruto, son."
Naruto's orange eyes lit up in rage, you believe you can kill me old man? I am strong. I have power. You can't even touch me!" A psionic flame twisted and shaped itself in his hands until it formed the same shape as the Warp Scythes of the Dark Templar. He charged, scythe over his shoulder ready to strike. The blade collided with Zeratul's own in a downward strike, the radiant force from it pushing Zeratul down and cracking the ground. A complex maneuver forced the scythe out and Zeratul moved in with a straight thrust toward Naruto's torso. With great speed and agility Naruto managed to maneuver the scythe back and deflect the warp blade to the side.
They continued to duel. Naruto, for whatever pride he held as a Templar or some unknown reason, still only continued to fight with his flame scythe. But, Naruto had not refined the flame scythe technique, leaving the flame scythe brittle and easy to break. It was a mix this and Zeratul's own experience and skill that trumped Naruto. A powerful horizontal slash had Naruto attempting to block with the shaft of the scythe. But the force of the blow caused the flame to lose its form and blast both combatants backward.
They stood about ten feet apart with flames nipping at their sides. Naruto flexed his wings and let loose a volley of spines from their tips. Zeratul dodged a few and then disappeared in the black mist that signified his blink. The six sense contained by warriors alerted Naruto to dive to the side as Zeratul descended, warp blade ready to thrust.
While Naruto was still far from perfect in his control of psionics, he could do a 'two-shot' as he called it. A simultaneous mental and kinetic blast accompanied and outthrust hand toward Zeratul. The mind thrust traveled faster than the wave of kinetic energy, causing Zeratul to focus on ridding himself of that. By the time he had done so, the kinetic wave was upon him and it threw him back so he collided with one of the many columns dotting the temple.
Unbidden, a psionic connection formed in Naruto's mind. The only one who could do such a thing was his Queen, and so he listened. "Hold my Prince, I have plans for that one. Leave him be."
While confused at the reason, Naruto did not hesitate in replying, "Yes my Queen."
Naruto focused his gaze upon the Zeratul that was picking himself up off the ground with his warp blade still ready. "I must leave father. Have fun with you investigations. I look forward to seeing you again."
Naruto then pulled himself into the void and disappeared in a black cloud, demonstrating the same technique Zeratul had performed earlier.
Zeratul's sad voice went unheard in the silent sanctum of the Xel'naga temple. "My son. I'm sorry."
Beyond his encounter with Zeratul, he found himself at odds with Raynor's Raiders a few times on some Terran planets. They didn't seem much of a problem to him at first, but they quickly became an annoyance and he made preparations to end them but the Queen sent a command to let them go.
Besides his conquests he began to communicate more with the fox that inhabited him. At first the fox had refused to cooperate with him, with the fox's only demand being to release it from the damned seal. The fox's defiance was fine with Naruto. He didn't need the fox's power, he was already powerful. However, eventually the fox tried to entice Naruto with various methods. Mad whisperings, seduction (the fox defined itself as female), and then outright bribery with power. They all fell on deaf ears until the fox decided to be reasonable and attempt a deal.
Naruto found himself wandering through his mindscape as he meditated whilst en route to another planet for conquering. Creep covered its walls and floor and various Zerg protrusions stretched from the walls to the floor or the ceiling. Except from one area. The creep ended into an ankle-deep pool of water and from this pool arose a great gate, made of metal bars that had at their interlocking point a paper with various symbols and signs on it.
"Naruto." The sultry feminine voice sounded from the shadows.
Naruto growled slightly, he had become annoyed lately at the beast's attempts to sway him. "Yes Kyuubi, what do you want?" She emerged from the shadows. Instead of taking on her natural form of a great orange fox with nine tails, she emerged as a beautiful woman. She had orange hair that was held up in a bun then fell down nearly halfway down her back. Out of its sides poked two orange fox ears. Her eyes were crimson red with black slits. The bright red of her lipstick contrasted with her pale skin and on her cheeks were six small whiskers, much like Naruto had, only sharper and sleeker. Just as her lipstick contrasted with her skin, so did her tantalizing red dress that rested on the sides of her arms and accentuated her cleavage. Nothing overtly large, but nothing too small, just the perfect size. And from her back sprouted nine orange tails, tipped with black fur that swayed about her, intensifying the atmosphere.
Naruto was immune to all this, not simply because of his Zerg physiology and mental ability but also because for the last few visits she had insisted on appearing in this form before him.
She waved her hand in a dismissive motion, all the while making it as attractive as possible. "Don't call me such titles, why don't you call me by my name. Kurama."
Naruto rolled his glowing orange eyes and crossed his arms, "Fine, Kurama. What do you want this time?"
She smiled that oh so attractive smile, a smile that lesser men would fight and die over, "Well I was thinking, how about… we make a deal."
Naruto narrowed his eyes, suspicious of this fox and her 'deals'. "Just what kind of deal?"
"Oh, I get so lonely in this cage. I can't do anything, all I have is this darkness, the cage and that purple thing to look at." Her visage crinkled derisively at the mentioning of the creep. "I just want some freedom, you know?"
"And you know well enough that I'm not releasing you from your cage."
Her eyes glinted knowingly, "Oh yes, I know. You tell me that all the time I drag you here for a talk. No, what I want is to have access to your senses. I want to feel the world around you, the tearing of muscles when you slash something open, the shattering of bones under your blows and hear the screams of the doomed." Her tongue licked her lips, cheeks reddened with lust and eyes stared wantonly.
Naruto just ignored her performance and responded, "And just what is it that I would get in return."
Kurama smiled that seductive smile again, "Why, power of course. Isn't it obvious?"
It was true, in all her dealings with him, the only thing that could really attract him in any way was some more strength. "I don't need you power however. My mind can reach across the galaxy and I can halve buildings with my claws, what need have I for you power?"
"Oh, no need at all. None at all. But still, it is power and more power means you'll be stronger. All the more strength to serve your precious Queen with."
He rested his chin on one of his hands, deep in thought. While he was strong, more power never hurt. And on a side note, her power was different from any other power in the sector, but for on his homeworld. The Chakra she had, or more specifically in her case, Youkai, was different and new, which would give him another trick in his bag of tricks. Besides, what is the worst that could happen? If push came to shove, he could fight back and in the unlikely event that she overwhelmed his mental abilities, his Queen would defeat her easily. In the end, it would make him a better servant for the swarm, for his Queen. For the Swarm and for the Queen.
But he wouldn't let her know the slight bit of joy at this and begrudgingly answered. "Fine, what is it that I need to do?"
Her smile grew as if she knew just what he really felt. "The seal. You'll only have to remove a tiny part of it. That will allow you to get access to deeper reserves of my power and allow me to connect with you."
Naruto walked to the gate and gripped one of the corners of the paper seal and began to tear it, carefully.
A hand gripped his arm and pulled him from the seal. Instincts ingrained in combat across several worlds called for him to twist his way out of the hands grip and hold a wingtip up to the throat of his attacker. His orange eyes stared into the bright blue of the man he towered over. He wore clothes much in the way of those from his home. A white cloak had emblazoned on the back in kanji, 'Fourth Hokage'. His blond hair was held up partly by a blue headband. On the blue headband a metal plate had a spiral leaf emblazoned upon it.
The two spoke no words between eachother, one staring in interest and the other staring in confusion. The splashing of water and a screech from behind broke their silence.
Kurama had leaped forward, gripping the bars of her cage. The fury on her face ruined the perfect look she had been trying to create. "Fourth Hokage! You! Come here so I can tear you to bits!"
Naruto looked at her as if she was a speck of dirt. "Be quiet you." He psionically conjured an invisible wall that prevented her sounds of anger from reaching the two of them. He turned back to the man in white. "Now, who are you?"
"I am the Fourth Hokage. And you are… no. You can't be." The man was greatly confused. He had hoped to see his son. But instead he sees this… thing. Yet, it looked familiar. In its face he could see features of Kushina, but that ended there with the tendril hair, wings, carapace and skin color.
Naruto did not remove his wing from the man's throat. The Fourth Hokage. That was something from his homeworld wasn't it? It had been a long time, he wasn't sure if he remembered. "My name is Naruto, and now you will tell me what you're doing in my mind before I rip you to shreds. From her anger, I believe that Kurama would be glad to devour your bits."
The Hokage look struck, "Naruto… but wait… what is your surname? Namikaze?"
Naruto found himself being annoyed more by the man in front of him. Who was this Hokage to ignore his demands, he decided against lashing out in rage, it would do him no good. "My surname? Hm… It was… Uzumaki, but now it would be said that I have discarded it or taken upon the name Kerrigan."
A lost look appeared on the Hokage's face, "Uzumaki… but that means. No… Naruto. What are you? What have you done to yourself?"
His eyes widened in anger and he shot forward, wings impaling the man through his shoulders to dangle him above the ground. "What have I done to myself!? Who are you to ask me such a question? You insult me with your questions. You insult my queen by asking questions of my body. This was her gift to me, so that I may serve her and fight in her name!"
The man sputtered, "I-I'm you father, Naruto. Stop. Please."
In his mind Naruto saw his human self, running through the streets of Konoha and looking up at a mountain with stone faces carved upon it. He dropped the Hokage and removed his wings to turn around and look about the room. "My father huh… My biological father. Isn't this a development? Before I would have jumped for joy. But now? I don't feel anything. I guess I should feel anger or resentment at you for putting Kurama in me. But I don't. Because if you didn't I wouldn't find myself where I am today. So I will settle on being indifferent over that." Absently he noted that Kurama was staring at the scene interested and had given up on her anger. He removed the barrier with a mental command.
The Hokage was on his knees, arms hanging loosely at his side. "So you are Naruto then. My son. What happened to you?"
Naruto turned to him with a savage smile on his face. "Oh? You want to know? How about… I show you." His voice took on a sinister tone at the last words. Immediately he latched onto the Hokage's mind and forcibly downloaded snapshots of his life in his brain. The Hokage stayed there, kneeling as he watched the information in his mind. His facial expression changed from anger, to confusion, to joy and then ending on horror. As the last of the snapshots broadcasted in his mind his face fell. Tears could be seen dripping from his face.
"Naruto. Son. I'm sorry. I'm so very sorry."
The same smile still adorning his face, Naruto stalked over to his face down father and gripped his chin between his claws to raise his father's face. "What, do you pity me? Don't." Naruto let go and turned his back to his father. He began walking. "This is glory. The Zerg have made me anew. This form is power. I have strength and purpose. What more could I ask for? I can kill with a flick of my mind. I conquer worlds and wreak terror upon my enemies. Don't pity me."
He turned back around, arms and wings out wide. "Don't be sad for me. Be happy. For through your actions, you have loosed upon this galaxy one of its greatest beings. Now, where were we?"
He snapped a claw in the air, "Ah yes. It's time to finish this seal work." He walked past his father to the gate preparing to once again remove the seal. "
"No." His father said in a low voice from the ground.
Naruto still heard him and turned. "Oh? And what will you do about it, father?"
His father struggled to get up and move his arm, but managed to reach into a pocket and pull out a tri-pronged kunai. "No matter what you have faced. You still can't release the Kyuubi. No matter if you can control it or not. I will not let you release such as dangerous creature." The Hokage unsteadily got into a combat stance.
Naruto simply raised an eyebrow in response. "So you want to fight. Well, I don't feel like it now. So." A mental flexing of psionics gripped the Hokage so he wasn't able to move. He struggled against the invisible force. "Now, since I'm feeling generous, I'm going to give you to Kurama. She looks like she's absolutely hankering for some meat à la Hokage." The Hokage's eyes widened when he noticed that Kurama had foregone her female form for that of the giant fox she was commonly seen as. And she looked positively feral. Unable to speak, the Hokage could only struggle against his invisible bonds as Naruto pulled him closer.
Naruto turned to look at Kurama. "We'll finish this some other time, but for now, I think you and him have a lot to talk about." With his psionics he reached into the Hokage's mind and severed his mental synapses that allowed for him to move. He could still feel however. He then psionically tossed the body and arms through the cage and left his mind, leaving Kurama to have her fun.
A few days later Naruto returned to the mind scape, absently noted that there was nothing left of the body and proceeded to tear off part of the seal. The results were interesting to say the least. While Naruto still retained his chakra system he had before, his Zerg changes had rendered it unable to be used but for enhancement of muscles, so having simply more chakra in his system would be near useless. Instead Kurama channeled the Youkai so that it grew Naruto another addition. Above his butt grew nine tails of bonelike material similar to his wings. They had no real remarkable abilities but for being able to shoot spines out of their tips and being able to increase and decrease in length independently.
Kurama had assured him more abilities would come out over time as he grew accustomed to Youkai flowing through his system. Currently, if he was to attempt to use a Youkai based ability it would burn him and leave him feeling sick. Youkai was corrosive that way.
This chapter stretches across Naruto's activities in the Koprulu Sector and we get a look at what abilities he's working with. I'm planning on in the next chapter will be a loss in connection to Kerrigan and the setting up of his base of operations. The plan I've got in my head so far is that Naruto, his Brood Mother Lieutenant Karzhan and some drones will be crash landing on the borders of Iwa and the minor villages.
Yes I made fem!Kyuubi. That does not mean that there is going to be a Naruto/Fem!Kyuubi pairing. I just honestly feel better with a sadistic female Kyuubi in use. Actually... hm... I might do a one-sided Naruto/Fem!Kyuubi with it being not so much as a romance but as and more of Kyuubi getting off on Naruto's sadistic tendencies and bloodthirsty fighting. Tell me how you feel about that. And the art I'm using as a basis for the fem!Kyuubi look is at this link. korppi666 . buzznet photos / naruto / ? id = 12612051. Just get rid of the spaces.
Oh and if you didn't notice by now, its not a goody two shoes Naruto. Nothing wrong with those stories, but that just isn't this story. You can call it dark!Naruto but I don't really consider it to be so. But he isn't really evil in this. He just likes blood and killing, as a side effect of mixing Kyuubi Chakra and becoming Zerg. He does his work for the Zerg and his Queen, which in the end, they aren't really evil. Its just the way the Zerg are.
On another note about Naruto. Yes he'll curb stomp pretty much all Narutoverse enemies as he is. I want him to turn out to be a good leader, but appreciates a good fight. He'll end up lowering himself for some fights, like if for instance he faced Kakashi or Zabuza. But against trash genin and chuunin he won't bother, he'll simply kill them. Simply put, he'll prolong fights with A-rank and above ninja and will dispose of all other ninja. There will also be problems that he can't just blow through with brute force. I don't know how I'm going to do that yet, but I'm going to try. Honestly, I can't have him do political crap because he's Zerg. Zerg don't do politics. Uh tone of the story. Its going to be pretty easy going. I'm not one for high emotions and dramatic plot twists. I'm just not good at it. So don't come in expecting that. If I end up finding a good thing to do some high tension then I guess I will. But it will be few and far between. Like I said in the first chapter, its going to be mostly a sequencing of events, not in depth.
Beyond that and into future plans for this story, he won't be so curbstompy as the fight in the Elemental Nations begins to involve the Starcraft Universe. Say like a Protoss Fleet comes in to burn out the Zerg Infestation.
I'm thinking of doing a chapter describing what has happened in Naruto's absence, probably will be either the next or the one after.
Damn I write a long note. I think I'll have to move some of this stuff to the first note because a lot of it is introductory stuff.
Alright, so thanks for reading and please review or send me a pm on what you think. I realized that I can't have all the ideas so outside ideas are welcome on what to do.
