Heroes of Albion
By The Obsidian Blade
Chapter three-the guild and the eye of the wolf
Naruto groaned as he awoke, never opening his eye. Last night he had visions of a great warrior. The warrior seemed older than him yet the soldier seemed the same as him. The red and white foxy appendages seemed to be like his and the man had whiskers. Naruto was fascinated by what the man could do. He heard of will being able to have some similar effects but it never did anything like that. Will cannot make the water rise and form dragons. Flashes of what happened in.
Flashes of what happened in Oakvale clouded his mind. The images of burning woods and people screaming bloody murder engraved their way into his skull, haunting him like an apparition hell bent on torturing his very existence. The fact that he and Vincent were orphaned panged his heart. Tears started to come out of his eye.
His mind started to wonder as he looked around. He was in an odd room with large stone and wooden walls. Book cases lined the walls with knowledge, begging to be read. His fox like orb widened slightly as he looked at the crests on the walls and shields that lined the walls along with the bookcases. He knew that symbol well. It was the crest of the Heroes Guild. But why would he be in the Heroes Guild if it was on the other side of Albion. That was a long way to travel.
The boy clutched his head as he yelped in pain, memories of the fight flooding his very mind. He could feel that strange violet energy still coursing through his veins, even if it was not visible. Chakra was what it was called if he could remember from the memories that haunted his dreams when he was sleeping. But he could not believe that he could do the same tricks of that soldier at the moment he was fighting the bandit. Sure, it was not as refined but he could do them. One thing was made up in his mind at that moment, that he needed to refine his skills.
"So you are awake child," he heard an aged voice say from the door way. Naruto's blue fox like orb traveled to the man before looking at him. He was an aged man that seemed like he had his fare share of battles, he was bald and his skin was slightly pale and had strange marking all over his body. A large white mustache made its home on his upper lip, making Naruto try to stifle back a laugh. "That is good. I will like to explain a few things though. First off is your eye."
Naruto sighed as he touched his left eye. There was a clothe over it so he did not care at that moment. "There was extensive damage to it and it could not be repaired." Naruto cringed at that. "But it could be replaced." The blonde fox boy's head sapped up so fast that the aged man thought he heard it crack. "We replaced it with the eye of a White Balverine. The effects of the transfer is unknown to you as you are a different species than human. You will be our test subject for right now. We have tried this one humans but it has had… unwanted effects on the person and they had to b e brought down."
Naruto sighed as he hung his head down slightly. On one hand he had an eye back. Even though it was a White Balverine's eye, he got an eye. On the other he had no idea what the eye could do nor did he know the adversities it could cause his body. He was not human so the effects were unknown to the rest of Albion. He would be their test subjects, something that he did not mind at all. Naruto brought his head upright, staring the man in the face. "Anything else you want to tell me old man?" he asked.
The Guild Master sighed, shaking his head slightly at the blonde's disrespectfulness. "Yes there is. It seems that you are incapable of using will." Naruto sighed, muttering something that sounded like seen that one coming. "But you are capable of using another energy that is like will but more earthly. Do you plan on telling me what it is?"
Naruto opened his mouth, his mind trying to run though the information that was given to him by the visions that haunted his dreams. Should he tell him or should he make something up to set the man at ease. "I… don't know what it is," Naruto lied. "I can't really explain it. I had visions of a person doing it so I decided to give it a try and I could do it. It really did not give any explanations on it." Naruto guessed that it was not considered lying. He was telling the truth. Sure it was not complete but he was giving the truth. The dreams never did give any directions on how to use the energy or what it was really made of. So he could say that he had no idea what it was.
The Guild Master looked disapproving of it at first. His old eyes scanned the blonde, trying to decipher something about the blonde. Then his mouth curled up into a slight, warm smile. "Okay child," he said before starting to walk outside. His head turned over his shoulder before speaking one again. "When you are dressed, meet me in the courtyard. We will discuss things there. Your brother, Vincent, is already out there Naruto." With that, the aged man left, leaving Naruto to his own devises.
Naruto looked at the clothes that were left out on the bedside with solemn eyes. His home was gone. It was really gone and he had no idea where the survivors were if the were any besides him and Vincent. He just had no idea. He let out a heavy breath of air as he put on the garbs that were accustomed to young apprentices of the guild or so what he had gathered from his mother.
Naruto looked himself over before closing his eye and clenching his fist. "From this moment on," he started out, tears starting to form from his eye. "From this moment on I shall fight not for myself but for those who have fallen. The fallen shall b avenged not by blood but by a survivor who is willing to fight for there souls. I shall not seek vengeance on those who have wronged me but if the time comes I shall take it. For Oakvale, I fight for you." With that vow he started his way to the courtyard, where ever that was.
Vincent sighed as he the dummy over and over with his bare fists. The old man, the Guild Master, was having him hit a dummy over and over again till he could actually destroy it. To the dark haired youth, this was getting nowhere really quick. He just could not land a powerful enough blow on the thing for it to break open. The bad thing was that the Guild Master was right there so he could not cheat his way out of it.
"You know if you keep up hitting it in the wrong points you are never going to actually destroy it right Vince?" he heard a familiar voice call out.
"Yeah but where are those points smart ass?" the dark haired boy retorted. Vincent shook his head as he watched the blonde shrug his shoulders before turning his head to the Guild Master.
"Can I give it a shot?" Naruto asked, gaining a nod from the elder. Naruto nodded in return before walking in, passing up a dark skinned girl that was beside the gate. Her oiled hair rested against her head tightly. She seemed to look at Naruto with somewhat of a glare through her dark eyes.
The blonde shook his head before slipping into a taijutsu stance. For some reason, that name just came to him and the form just felt right. He stared down the straw dummy in front of him. His blue fox like eye narrowed before his hands moved into a flurry of movements, hitting many pressure points as he did so.
With in seconds, the dummy exploded into a head of straw at the floor. Naruto looked at the scene with amazed eyes. He only hit points that he felt were right to him. He did not expect for that to happen.
Vincent looked at the dummy with shocked eyes. His brother was able to do something on his first try and yet he was working an hour and he could not do it. He shook his head. He knew that Naruto was always better at fighting so it was a minor shock. He would just have to live with that fact. But that did not mean that Vincent was not going to strive to be the best that he could be.
Whisper looked at the scene with rage filled eyes. A complete nobody showed her up. He did not even look like he could do much and yet he destroyed the dummy on his first try. It had taken her several days to get that exercise down. How dare he show her up? He was just a simple farm fox after all.
The Guild Master liked what he saw. It was just as Avo told him the fox would be. He knew how to fight. The problem was that he had no will. He had a strange energy called chakra. That energy could control the very elements themselves. 'So the blonde fox is Avo's champion,' he thought with a smile. 'May Avo grant you luck young one. Lord knows that you are going to need.'
"Guild Master," Naruto spoke out. "Can I go somewhere alone? I need to check out something." The Guild Master nodded, pointing off into the direction of a forested area. Naruto nodded slightly. "Thank you sir." The blonde fox boy started to run off into the direction of the forest, hoping to try out his new eye.
"I don't like him," Whisper spoke out. "I don't like him one bit. That stupid farm fox is nothing but trouble."
The Guild Master shook his head. "Now, now Whisper," he said. "He barely got here. Let's try to make peace, shall we?" The old man frowned slightly as he watched Whisper snort before walking away. Something needed to be done about that girl. She was starting to act like Thunder and he was not liking it one bit. Too many bad things could happen if that was the case.
He turned his gaze to the area that Naruto had walked off into. He was worried about that eye. He knew that Naruto would be able to use it like a weapon. But what h was not sure about were the adverse effects that the eye could have on him. The blonde was not human so there was no telling what could happen or if he could stay alive a long time for that matter. He could only pray to Avo that he would survive the eye of the White Balverine.
Naruto walked into the forest before closing his eyes. He needed to try this out and it needed to be quick. The anxiety of not knowing what the eye could do was killing him. No one knew what seeing through a Balverine's eye was like and he would be the first to try it. His clawed hand reached up before grabbing the clothe that covered his eye to protect it before ripping it off.
As if for dramatic purposes, his eyes opened slowly. The right eye was normal or normal for him. But it was his left eye that was different. It was shining silver with a wolf like appearance. There was no iris to it, just pure silver with a vertical slit running down it.
Naruto was amazed at what he could see. At first it started off on the left side but it slowly infested his vision, making sure that everything was like it. Instead of natural colours, everything was dark blue with a white outline. And everything moved so slowly to. It was as if everything was in slow mo. It was awesome to see like this. If this was how the Balverines saw then he would not mind it. And the weird part was this. Everything that was alive, showed off this strange unique red glow, as if that was how they targeted life. And it was through things too. It was completely awesome.
Then it happened. An immense amount of pain wracked his body. His mouth opened out in a cry of pain as he shut his eyes closed tightly. The pain seemed to originate from there. His hands gripped the clothe that closed his left eye before quickly tying it around his head, making sure to cover his eye.
The vision was gone. As soon as he covered his left eye, the vision left in a matter of seconds. But the pain seemed to stop. Sure, there were the slight after effects of it but it stopped. The eye was the source of the pain. "Rule one, don't use that thing to long or it hurts. It is a last resort only." With that being said, the blonde haired kit went off back to the guild for training. Man, he somehow knew this was going to hurt.
A/N Alright, do not give me shit about Naruto being to strong. It is not like he is a god alright. In fact, he needs to retrain in a lot of stuff. The reason is because all of the in activity that has happened over the course of his new life, he had not trained. He simply lived. Other than that, how did you people like what I did with Naruto's eye. Don't confuse it with the Hyuga eye though. There are some differences. The main one is that the Balverine eye sees life, not chakra and it can't see through things per say, just life. There is no real solid body to spy on so it gains no real initiative as a spy utensil, more like an assassin utensil. So, other than those two, review away my fellow readers, review!
