Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson or Naruto
Yo this is the fourth chapter.
Chapter 4
The group tore through the night along dark country roads. Wind slammed against the Camaro. Rain lashed the windshield. The two honestly didn't know how Andy's mom could see anything, but she kept her foot on the gas.
Naruto looked at Grover oddly and when the lightning flashed, he saw those goat legs. He sighed, already knowing what he was and knew that Grover was on their side hopefully, and if not well one didn't need a huge I.Q. to know what would happen if Grover wasn't.
"So, you and my mom... know each other?" Andy asked, not able to stay silent
Grover's eyes flitted to the rearview mirror, though there were no cars behind them. "Not exactly," he said. "I mean, we've never met in person. But she knew I was watching you."
"Watching me?"
"Keeping tabs on you. Making sure you were okay. But I wasn't faking being your friend," he added hastily. "I am your friend."
"Um ... what are you, exactly?" Andy asked.
"That doesn't matter right now."
"It doesn't matter? From the waist down, my best friend is a donkey—"
Grover let out a sharp, throaty "Blaa-ha-ha!" Naruto could tell that Grover a bit ticked but he gaffed, that was really funny to him.
"Goat!" Grover cried.
"What?"
Once getting himself under control, Naruto helped the poor guy out. "Andy, he is a Satyr….a being that is Half human and Half goat."
"Huh? But….you would mean Mr. Brunner's myths?"
"You paid attention to that?" Naruto smirked. "Let's throw a party!" Andyy just glared at him (Though the effect was ruined by her blush). "Ok ok. Anyway, with the way Grover reacted, I am assuming that other Satyr would trample you for that donkey remark."
"I thought it didn't matter." Andy shot back while Grover bleated again.
"Obviously it does." Naruto replied with a smirk.
"Wait, so all that Mr. Brunner taught us was actually preparing us for this stuff?"
"Pretty much." Grover said.
"Great…" Naruto replied sarcastically. "Just what we need. Freaky monsters coming after us."
"Not only that, but those three old ladies were the Fates and not myths and neither was Mrs. Dodds." Grover told them.
"So you admit there was a Mrs. Dodds!" Andy exclaimed.
"Of course."
"Ok, so what was the point of hiding the fact that she was real?" Naruto asked.
"The less you knew, the fewer monsters you'd attract," Grover said, like that should be perfectly obvious. "We put Mist over the humans' eyes. We hoped you'd think the Kindly One was a hallucination. But it was no good. You both started to realize who you are."
"Who I—wait a minute, what do you mean?" Andy asked.
"You really need to learn to explain things clearly Grover." Naruto deadpanned.
The weird bellowing noise rose up again somewhere behind us, closer than before. Whatever was chasing us was still on our trail and it seemed to have friends… A lot of friends.
"Andy," his mom said, "there's too much to explain and not enough time. We have to get you two to safety."
"Safety from what? Who's after us?" Andy asked while Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, nobody much," Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. "Just the Lord of the Dead and a it seems a lot of his blood-thirstiest minions."
"Grover!"
"Sorry, Mrs. Jackson. Could you drive faster, please?" Grover replied.
"What, you mean Hades?" Naruto replied and the ground shook a bit and Grover nodded a little panicked.
While the two were trying to wrap their heads around all this madness, Andy's mom made a hard left. They swerved onto a narrower road, racing past darkened farmhouses and wooded hills and 'Pick your own Strawberries' signs on white picket fences.
"Where are we going?" Andy asked.
"The summer camp I told you about." His mother's voice was tight; she was trying for Andy's sake not to be scared. "The place your father wanted to send you."
"The place you didn't want me to go."
"Please, dear," his mother begged. "This is hard enough. Try to understand. You're in danger."
"Because some old ladies cut yarn?" Andy asked and Naruto sighed.
"If you paid attention in class you would know why that is bad." Naruto said. "When they cut the yarn…that means someone is going to die!"
"Exactly." Grover said, "the fact they appeared in front of you two, they only do that when you're about to ... when someone's about to die."
"Whoa-you said 'you'!" Andyy freaked.
"No I didn't. I said 'someone.'" Grover replied.
"Grover that is still not very helpful." Naruto said.
"Yeah, you meant me!" Andy said.
"I meant you, like 'someone.' Not you, you."
"God, I hope it is not me or you." Naruto replied
"Children!" Andy's mom said. She pulled the wheel hard to the right, and they got a glimpse of a figure she'd swerved to avoid—a dark fluttering shape now lost behind us in the storm.
"The hell was that!" Naruto muttered.
"We're almost there," Mrs. Jackson said, ignoring Naruto's question. "Another mile. Please. Please. Please."
They didn't know what 'there' was but it had to be safe from whatever the hell was chasing them.
Suddenly there was a blinding flash, a jaw-rattling boom, and the car exploded. It was an odd feeling being blown up, like you were, weightless, crushed, burned, and being hosed down all at the sometime.
Andy pried her forehand off the driver's seat in front her as her mom called out to her. "Ugh…I am fine" She heard Naruto mutter out a "Super" as they noticed the car was still intact because it was in a ditch. They sighed in relief that they were not dead….not yet anyway. While Naruto was trying to regain his bearings, Andy noticed that Grover looked unconscious. "Grover!"
"Food…" He groaned.
Naruto sweatdropped at that, yeah, he was going to be fine.
"Andy," his mother said, "we have to ..." Her voice faltered, because when the lightning flashed, they saw several huge figures through the mud splashed window.
"Hello." Naruto said surprised.
"Boys," Andy's mother said, deadly serious. "Get out of the car." She tried the driver's said but all the mud was blocking their way out. "Passenger's side. Get out now and run to the big tree!" She yelled pointing to a large tree in the distance as they got out.
"What?" Andy replied, confused until the lightning flashed and a large pine tree in the distance appeared and that thing was huge!
"That's the property line," his mom said. "Get over that hill and you'll see a big farmhouse down in the valley. Run and don't look back. Yell for help. Don't stop until you reach the door."
"Mom, you're coming too."
Her face was pale, her eyes as sad as when she looked at the ocean.
"No!" Andy shouted. "You are coming with us. Help me carry Grover."
"Food!" Grover moaned, a little louder.
Then suddenly there were several loud roars and the three turned to see and beheld quite a sight.
Monsters were everywhere, numbering in the hundreds.
Naruto felt really furious at the sight for he knew that they were here. They smelled him and Andy and they wanted to kill him and his future mate. He would not let this happen and thus he knew what to do.
"Andy," Naruto yelled to get her attention. "Take your mother and Grover and high tail it to the camp, I'll take care of these pieces of garbage and join you later."
"No"
Naruto turned to see Grover had reawakened.
"Naruto you can't do that, Thalia a daughter of Zeus tried to take on an army not even this big and lost. You will die if you try this."
"Grover listen to me, unlike Thalia I am used to overwhelming odds and I have turned out fine. This army heh, I have beaten larger and stronger forces so don't worry and just go and get those two out of here."
Grover didn't have a chance to talk back because at that moment the monsters started to roar and prepare for the attack.
Naruto channeled chakra to his wrist warmers and the weapon that appeared in Naruto's hands wasn't the weapon that Naruto received from Brunner but a different weapon more legendary than the Kusanagi.
It was a naginata or to be more accurate the weapon was called the Ame no nuhoko or the heavenly jewelled spear.
According to Japanese mythology, the gods Izanagi and Izanami were responsible for creating the first land. To help them do this, they were given a naginata decorated with jewels. The two deities then went to the bridge between heaven and earth, and churned the sea below with the naginata. When drops of salty water fell from the tip, they formed into the first island. Izanagi and Izanami then descended from the bridge of heaven and made their home on the island.
Naruto then shouted "Sword mode" and the naginata then changed to a jeweled katana with a blood red blade.
This was the weapon he had found in the scroll that was given to him when he had first come to this world. Apparently this weapon had helped his mother gain the title of red death that combined with her red hair and this blade made her a very fearsome opponent that few dared cross.
At the sight of the blade the monsters charged to battle their prey. Naruto responded in kind and unleashed the first attack and sent a blade of wind at the monsters cutting in half at least ten monsters.
That just caused them to go faster in their charge which naruto responded in kind.
He jumped into the middle of the monsters and started slashing quickly destroying several monsters and then closed his eyes. The army started to close in on Naruto from all sides.
He just smirked and opened his eyes to show that they had changed as he shouted "Shinra Tensei."
This caused the monsters to blow backwards.
As they were in the air and falling Naruto disappeared in a flash of yellow.
Suddenly the monsters were yelling in pain as they disappeared into dust.
There were now only roughly 40 monsters left when Naruto reappeared.
The rest of the monsters were really nervous and just decided to run for it.
Naruto smirked and turned to go to the camp when he saw a sight that chilled his blood.
He saw Grover knocked out, Sally nowhere in sight with Andy holding for dear life on the back of the Minotaur. Apparently Naruto's jutsu had sent the beast out far and had decided to attack the other demigod.
He rushed to help when he saw Andy pull on a horn and break it off while tumbling off the top of the Minotaur.
Just as Andy was getting up after her tumble the beast had turned around and was about to grab the girl when Naruto jumped in, sliced off the other horn and kicked the monster away.
Naruto then did a few hand signs and shouted "Earth Style: Earth Swamp" and the Minotaur had sunk into the ground up to its waist and its arms had become stuck in the mud.
Andy saw Naruto give her a look and she knew what to do. She got up and ran over to the monster and rammed the horn into the monster who yelled in pain as it disappeared.
She then collapsed.
Naruto walked over to her and picked up Andy to get her walking while they supported each other until they got to Grover. "Come on, we gotta get to that house, we won't be out of the woods until we do." Naruto said as he threw Grover over his shoulder while the two demi gods supported each other as the rained has suddenly stopped.
When they got to the pouch, Naruto fell to his knees and it seemed that Andy was barely conscious. The weight of the two and the battle was just now getting to him. "Ugh….I am weak. I have not fought in a long time to be this tired from a little fight." Looking up, he saw the familiar face of Mr. Brunner, who was giving them a serious look. He also a very pretty blond haired girl, whose hair looked, curled like a princesses. "One of them has to be it….they just have to." The girl said.
"Silence, Annabeth," Mr. Brunner said. "They're still conscious. Bring them inside."
"Yes…they would be very helpful if you don't mind." Naruto replied weakly, catching them off guard. Going inside, Naruto helped the girl named Annabeth put Andy and Grover on different cots in the room.
"Um…my name is Annabeth Chase by the way." The girl said with a small smile and blush.
"Naruto cracked his back and said with a weak smile, "Naruto Uzumaki, and if you don't mind, I am about to lose consciousness." Annabeth had wide eyes as she watched him put his back to the cot and say, "Goodnight." Before falling down, out like a light.
"Still never ceases to amaze me." Mr. Brunner suddenly said, making the girl jump.
"Which one?"
"All three. They protected each other in that school I went to. Naruto seems to be a natural fighter though." He replied. "But considering where he from, I am not surprised."
"Where?"
"Oh, I am sure he will tell you and the rest of the camp later. Come and get me when one of them wakes." Mr. Brunner said as he left. Now Annabeth was even more curious.
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Naruto woke up with a start as he bolted up in the bed he was in. That scared the crap out of Annabeth, who had just walked in. "Ah! Don't do that!"
"Heh, sorry." Naruto said while scratching the back of his head. He looked at the horn he was still holding and then to Andy, who was still out of it. He brought a hand up to his chin and said, "So all of that crap did happen."
"Yep," sighed Annabeth. "I still can't believe you two were able to kill all of those monsters."
Naruto smirked and said, "Believe it! Anyway, knowing that names have power around here, I will just call the last one the Bull Freak on Steroids."
Annabeth stared at Naruto for a long time, making him a bit uncomfortable, until she let out a laugh, which was followed by another laugh from Mr. Brunner.
"Good to see you again old man." Naruto commented.
Before Annebeth could correct him, Mr. Brunner chuckled and said, "Naruto, here I am called Chiron."
The look on Naruto was priceless. He was still smiling but he had the 'oh shit' smile, but then smirked. "Oh, so where is your horse half? I always thought you were a real horses ass a few times which turns out quite literally to be the truth."
Annabeth had to cover her mouth so she could coverher snort.
"This is a magical wheelchair to when I want to go out; I use this to hide my true self." The now dubbed Chiron replied.
"Oh, that makes sense. So, how long was I out?"
"You just got here last night! That is why I said you shouldn't even be up!" Annabeth said.
"Oh…well, I have always been a really fast healer. I thought it was because of the fox, but…" He trailed off as he saw Annabeth gave him a look of confusion while Chiron had a serious look on his face.
"I take it you have no clue what I am talking about."
"No." the blond girl said.
"I have an idea. Fox is known as the Kyuubi, correct?" Chiron asked.
"Y-yeah, How do you know about that in this world?" Naruto asked with narrowed eyes while Annabeth looked even more confused.
"I hear things when I got to the annual meets of the Gods. Some speak about going to a world that the humans wielded great power and of a great beast called the Jyuubi that was split into several entities. They were known as the Tailed Beasts and the Kyuubi was the strongest of them all." Chiron explained. "They even spoke of people who were forced at birth to hold these beasts in their bodies via a seal and you were one of them."
"Yeah. So what of it" Naruto asked.
"Only a demi god can handle the power of the Kyuubi within their body but not any old demi god, no a child of the Big Three….or ones descendents. You are in the same boat as Andy. If you are indeed a child of the Big Three, then one of you has to decide the fate of the world at a later time as said in a Prophecy of the Oracle."
Naruto held up a hand for him to stop. "I am not interest nor do I want to decide the fate of the world. If what you say is true then, I will leave it to Percy, she is a good kid, I am sure she will do the right thing. As for me deciding that, well, as an old friend says, it is way too troublesome."
"I see, just know that the Prophecy says the time will come when the demi god is sixteen, so we have time." Chiron replied.
Naruto's eyes widened and he inwardly groaned before saying, "Well, nothing is set in stone." He then tried to get up but felt kind of weak. "Great….one major fight and I am out. I need to get back in shape." He then thought back to what Chiron said. "Hey, if I am a kid of the Big Three, whose am I?"
"We have no idea, but we must keep watch until they claim you. Besides, being one of the Big Three's kids is kind of bad." Chiron stated.
"Why?"
"Because, they swore an oath after World War II that they would not have kids anymore." Annabeth answered for him.
Naruto snorted. "Well, we can see how that worked out."
"Yes" Chiron smirked. "Annabeth, will you please get some ambrosia and nectar. It should help him recover faster." As she left, he noticed Naruto looking at him oddly. "It is the food of the gods. Normal human can't eat it or they will die. Demi gods eat it because if helps the recover and it is good for them."
"Ah." Naruto smart reply was.
Then Annabeth came in with the bowl of some golden liquid. Shrugging as it was better than nothing he took and bite and tasted an all too familiar taste. Could it be, was he right about it after all? "I-it….IT TASTES JUST LIKE ICHIRAKU'S RAMEN!" He yelled out with anime tears, making Annabeth take a step back at his suddenly loud voice that didn't even wake up Percy.
(He only did this because he hasn't had their ramen in a long time.)
Chiron just chuckled nervously.
"So how do you feel?" Chiron asked.
"Hmm…like I could fight another monster army and come out on top but not get so tired!" Naruto said as he got up. He noticed he still had his kunai pouch on and put the horn in it and seal it all back up, making Annabeth's eyes go wide.
"What the!" She let out.
Naruto looked at her oddly before saying, "Seals….very useful."
"Indeed." Chiron commented with a smirk. "Now I will have a camper show you the cabin for later. Then you come back here. When Andy wakes up I will tell more about this as I don't want to say this twice."
"Fair enough." Naruto as he follow him out the door.
"Annabeth, please continue to watch Andy please." Chiron ordered while the girl nodded, still wondering about those seals.
Once outside, Naruto raised an eyebrow. This place was pretty big. He looked around to see that the hill with the pine tree was not far from them. He felt odd looking at it, like he was being pulled towards it. He shook the feeling off for the moment and looked ahead to see a bunch of cabins in a U shaped arc.
Chiron, not noticing Naruto small distraction, called out to a he saw a girl walking by, "Clarisse! Come here please!"
The girl turned her head and saw Chiron and one of the new guys everyone was talking about. She smirked and walked over. Naruto noticed that she was pretty tall, strong looking, and probably a year or 2 older than him. She was not ugly but more of a tough beauty, she looked gruff and had the look of a fighter.
"What?" came her response when she arrived.
"I would like for you to show Naruto here around the cabins for the moment. I will probably have Annabeth show Naruto and Percy around camp later when the latter wakes up." Chiron stated.
"Fine, gotta welcome the newbie anyway." She said with an evil smirk.
Naruto raise an eyebrow as that. He knew that smirk, he used it when he did a prank. He guessed the she was 'welcoming committee.'
"Well come on brat!" She called out, already walking away. He followed her all the way to the middle of the arc of cabins. "Ok, listen closely cause I am only going to say this once! There are 12 cabins in all. Each one represents the Greek Good it was made for. Their kids are the one who live in there. Since you and the runt are new and have not been claim yet, you two will go to Cabin 11, the Hermes Cabin."
Naruto nodded, Hermes did shelter a lot of people, so it made sense. "And the one you are in?" he asked nonchalantly.
"The God of War's cabin!" She proclaimed while point to a red cabin.
"Cool." Naruto replied.
"Right, now we have the other cabins. We got Demeter, Dionysus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hera, Zeus, Artemis and Poseidon." She said pointing to each. He looked at Zeus and Hera's and quirked an eyebrow. They got some pretty fancy cabins for nobody to use. He noticed that a Hades cabin was not there…odd since he was part of the Big Three. He also noticed a big space between Poseiden and Zeus's cabins. Maybe they planned on making one and forgot since they never got any kids from Hades.
"Now….it is not to 'officially' welcome you!" Clarisse called out, making a lot of people look toward them and they grimaced. Clarisse was breaking in another newbie. Even though Naruto helped in killing that army, they felt sorry for him. She quickly reacted out and tried to grab him by the collar. Key word here is tried. She along with everyone else gasped as she grabbed a log of wood, stumbled, fell to one knee.
What the hell? She screamed in her head. Before she could get up, she felt cold metal against her neck. She glanced to the right to see Naruto was facing the other way she was and looked at her from his side and with a smirk on his face, similar to her evil one earlier.
"For someone born from War….you have slow reflexes." Naruto said releasing a small bit of killer intent while still smirking. They heard a lot of people asking others how he did that and to Clarisse of all people. Some noticed that he had his kunai pouch on and that he didn't have that before. Deciding to scare them, he withdrew his kunai from her neck, put it in his pouch, sealed it away, earning a few gasps of shock as it just disappeared. He shocked them even more as he stepped back and offered a hand to help Clarisse up.
Awhile that was happening Clarisse was in deep shock. The hell, I have never been bested like that!" She then noticed the hand a quickly took it. She nodded her head and they walked back to the big house where Naruto came out of. Along the way, she was thinking deeply. He could be an Ares kid…if he is not I am not sure what else he could be! He beat me and could have killed me with me knowing it! What is this odd ass feeling?
Arriving at the Big House, Chiron saw that Naruto looked bored and Classire looked a little lost. He had a feeling something went wrong with her 'welcome' plan and wait, could see that she was developing a crush for the blond? Gods…I feel so sorry for him. At any rate, he was probably going to be hearing what happened from the other campers. "Back already I see." He started, "Since Percy won't be fully awake until tomorrow, I would like for you to stay near here."
"Alright then. I am going to take a nap next to the big pine tree. Seya later Chiron, Clarisse." And before Chiron could say anything, Naruto had ninja jumped up to the tree. Neither noticed that Clarisse had quickly walked away with a small pink tint to her cheeks.
Naruto arrived at the tree and sat down with his back to it. This tree had been pulling at him the whole time. He idly wondered if it was cursed or something like that. Slowly falling asleep, he laid his head against the tree and was out.
Whenever he slept, he had dreams but this was the most vivid dream he had ever had. He was in a large white room and he was not alone. A girl stood across from him, staring at him with shocked eyes. She has shoulder length spiky black hair, and blue eyes, with freckles under her eyes, mostly on the left, and she is wearing some punk style clothes. To him she looked beautiful. "Um….hey. My name is Naruto Uzuamki. Who are you and where are we as I know this can't be a dream."
The girl gulped and said, "Thalia and we are in Limbo."
Yo so here is the current harem:
Harem: hinata, hanabi, shion, satsuki (sasuke's sister), temari, yugito, samui, fu, kushina, mikoto, Hibana (Hinata's mother), koyuki, anko, amaru, haku, konan, kyuubi, nibi, fem-Percy, annabeth, Thalia, Clarice, Silina, Zoe, Bianca, Rachel, Calypso, Hestia, Artemis, Piper, Reyna, Hazel, Hecate, Tyche, Enyo, Nyx, Athena, and Rhea.
