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NU: Legend Reborn…
Chapter 5: Dark Angel…
By: 26 Lord Pain--
Human Speech…
Human Thoughts…Radio In Use…Jutsu In Use…Demon Speech…Demon Thoughts…Inner Spirit Talking…--
(Catacombs under the Temple of Sparda…)
Naruto stood before the numerous paths and halls of this subterranean world, looking for something that seemed like a clue or something. Unfortunately, the former blond had yet to revert from his "Demonic" appearance as of yet and was becoming increasingly worried he might be stuck looking as he did forever at this rate. Looking around he noticed that in front of the paths was a platform, on the platform were four large square holes of some form, with bright lights flying upwards out of them. Looking upwards, Naruto saw several bridges with square blocks on them. The former blond pursed his lips at this…
"I supposed I'm supposed to move those blocks, into these holes as a way to prevent the light from escaping…" Naruto mused then looked to the sides of the walls, he then noticed several more holes; only these didn't have lights coming out of them. "Or am I supposed to fill those…" Naruto wondered while clicking his tongue. "To fight in Darkness, or travel through light… Frankly… I'd rather be able to see…" Naruto said mostly to himself, not to fond of the idea of nearly blinding himself if he sealed those holes in the ground.
Walking down to the platform, Naruto looked up at the bridges and noticed that they had several holes in the bottom of them, small enough for a person to jump over, but large enough to drop those blocks. Looking to his side, Naruto walked over to a doorway and walked up it, heading upwards on a narrow stairway with eerie torches lighting his way towards the top. Frowning slightly, the boy reached the top, before slapping his face upon remembering he now had wings.
"What kind of fool am I?" He questioned then shook his head, those would at least make getting down easier, and he'd have to see if he could actually fly or if it was just gliding when he got back to the ground. Rushing forward, Naruto jumped over the hole in this first bridge and ran over to the first of the stone blocks. These blocks weren't simple however, on this stone was a battle depicted, showing Sparda deflecting a beam of energy from what looked like an Angel and making it point right back at him. However, on the top was a series of circles, and written on the blank side was a note.
"Illuminate the old path, to see your journey born anew…" Raising a brow, Naruto decided he'd figure that out later and got behind the heavy stone block. The silver haired child grunted while pushing the heavy stone block towards the hole in the bridge, before then growling and placing one foot on it, then kicked it forward and into the hole, making it fall down. Turning to look down, Naruto cursed upon seeing the block land in one of the holes, only to raise a brow at what happened next.
The circles on the top of the stone seemed to fold out, forming a pole, while a strange device sat on the top; a mirror was place at an angle on the top of the pole, shining the light from below it into a single beam. At that moment, a pole extended from the side of the pole, making it look like a turnstile of some form… "Alright… So you don't put them in the dark holes… I've been wrong before…" Naruto said to himself with a shrug before turning and looking up towards the next bridge, then down to a different, lower bridge and made up his mind.
"I'll see if I can fly with these thing's now, can't have myself being destroyed because of them later after all." He said to himself once more while stretching his wings, then jumped from the first bridge and glided through the air. He flapped his wings once and got a little higher up, but decided they were better for gliding for the time being, especially seeing as he couldn't seem to get his insectoid wings to do anything. Landing the teen looked to his side to the next Stone block and then began pushing it as he did the last one, before then kicking it off to the side, making it fall through the next hole and down below.
Looking down, Naruto then jumped and used his new wings to slow his decent, soon landing and chuckling to himself. "I can think of a dozen or more situations these wings would have been handy in the past…" He said to himself then looked at the turnstiles around him, the new one still unfolding he walked over to the first and tried to push it, only to grunt, as it wouldn't budge. "Hmm… Must need to get all four down before I can move them…" The teen said to himself before then turning and heading up the next staircase, soon reaching the bridge once more he did as he had before and pushed the large stone block down through the hole and into place, then growled seeing as the last bridge was also the highest one up.
Gliding back to the ground, and then taking the last of the paths up to the last bridge, Naruto pushed the last of the stone blocks through the last hole. Nodding to himself the silver haired teen then jumped over the side of the bridge, using his wings to land on another of the bridges and repeating this until he was soon back to the ground. However, as soon as his feet made contact with the floor, all the doors in the area were suddenly surrounded by red energy fields while a strange creature formed before him.
"Great… Another damn monster…" The teen grumbled while pulling Gilver from its sheath, the ghostly shimmer flowing over his form like before while his blade split open as well to reveal the glowing violet energy from before. Standing confidently, Naruto watched as the creature finally took shape, however this monster didn't look as… Weak… As the other's he'd had to deal with thus far.
This one was bigger than he was, yet crouched down, which still made it tall than him, it was lizard like with obsidian colored skin, red eyes which were thin slits, it's muzzle was slightly more pointed however it's lips barely covering it's fanged teeth, with it's horns curved from the sides of it's head along it's jaw. It's feet had three talons in place of toes, while it's scales seemed thick, almost like armor, and it's long ridged tail reached at the least four feet long with a sharp blade at the end. It's right arm was a large blade of some form, curving upward with red and black flesh forming into it, over it's left arm was a silver shield of some form which was circular in shape, the only normal hand it had however was a claw with three talons, giving it an even more deformed look.
It wore armor however; a strange silver helmet was over its head, with a sharp blade pointing backwards on the top of it, a visor covering its eyes even though the glow from them escaped the slits in it. Over it's shoulders were thick plates of scales, forming into what were obviously shoulder guards, a red scarf was wrapped around it's neck and hanging down between the numerous spikes on it's back, while an obsidian breast plate was strapped over it's chest with thick leather straps and a silver collar of some kind around it's neck, a red design like a demonic skull on the front of the breast plate, a pair of silver skulls adorned each of it's knees, having a single horn on each pointing outwards on them.
"Oh shit…" Naruto muttered to himself upon seeing the creature, only for his eye's to widen as two more then flipped up, seemingly out of nothing… "Why do you hate me Kami-Sama?" Naruto questioned more to himself than anyone else before then watching as the lizards in armor began to circle him, inwardly deciding to call these "Hell-Blades" for some strange reason. Shaking that off the young man quickly took a stance as the Hell-Blades lunged forward with growls and snarls, swinging the sword arms towards the young man.
Naruto managed to flip backwards out of the way of the Hell-Blades slash; only for a one of the other Hell-Blades to ram it's head into him and push him back into a wall. Naruto stumbled forward from that and was then knocked to the side by one of the Hell-Blades Shields. 'Alright… These things seem to be smarter than the other monsters…and stronger… Faster… Oh shit… this might be a problem…' The teen thought to himself as he stood up and then rolled out of the way of one of the Hell-Blades, then cursed as he had to use his wings to push himself above another Hell-Blade trying to lunge at him.
Floating up above, Naruto quickly vanished, using the Afterimage ability Gilver granted him just as one of the other Hell-Blades tried to slice him into pieces and appeared behind a Hell-Blade. The teen then quickly spun, slashing with Gilver towards the Hell-Blade, only for the devil to block with it's shield. It then spun on it's heel, and slashed Naruto at the stomach, before then punching the silver haired teen, sending him skidding back only to gasp in pain. Quickly getting back to his feet Naruto cursed and lunged forwards, jumping over the Hell-Blades as they all tried a stab. However, this has a fortunate Side effect of making the Hell-Blades swords get stuck in the wall, leaving them open for attack.
Smirking, Naruto crouched then lunged forwards and jumped up into the air, then brought Gilver down, digging it through the middle Hell-Blades helmet and skull, killing the demon as a shower of blood sprayed out, matting the teen's hair down to his head, while it then began to melt away. Flipping off the body, Naruto was just in time to see the other two Hell-Blades get their sword arms out of the wall and turn to snarl at him angrily. "C'mon…" Naruto said with a smirking and a slight gesture of his hand, angering the Hell-Blades further as they lunged at the smirking teen.
However, Naruto then crouched and channeled Chakra to his blade, then lunged forwards, the Afterimages following him towards the Hell-Blades. The two beasts slashed at the Afterimages just as Naruto appeared behind them, sheathing Gilver as he then focused his Chakra into Kyuubi. "Rising Sun!" He suddenly exclaimed as he lunged forwards, kicking the Hell-Blade one then twice, bringing then both up into the air. "Starfall!" The Teen then exclaimed as he used a downward angled aerial kick to knock the Hell-Blade skidding back along the ground.
Upon landing, Naruto then looked to his side as the other Hell-Blade came lunging at him, only for purple flames to gather around the body of the now grinning silver haired half devil… "C'mon… Make my day!" He suddenly exclaimed as he used a sideways roundhouse kick to knock the Hell-Blade off balance, then ran towards it and smirked. "Lunar Phase!" He shouted as he then spun up into the air several times, kicking the Hell-Blade as he went, before ending it with a powerful Ax-Kick, which knocked the demon into the ground with a massive explosion. Landing on all fours, Naruto looked to see the Hell-Blade hadn't survived that last attack and was now melting away like the last one had.
However, before he could even think to celebrate, the blond haired boy shouted in pain as the last Hell-Blade managed to cut him along the back. 'Note to self, make sure not to lose track of the enemies in the future or I'm going to lose my head…' The teen thought to himself then flipped backwards, away from the demon and grinned, unsheathing Yamato and holding the blade just under his eyes. Grinning once more, the silver haired young man lunged forward, swinging Yamato and knocking the Demon off balance. The teen then, spun on one heel and landed a back handed punch to the creature, sending it tumbling to the side as Naruto then crouched back, holding Yamato at his side while channeling Chakra to it.
"Judgment Cut…" Naruto said darkly as the Hell-Blade got up and he swung the sword, a distortion in the air was the only warning before a sphere of energy appeared around the Hell-Blade, just before Naruto spun his sword in hand then sheathed it, making a click at the end as the Hell-Blade fell into pieces with a spray of blood and gore. "Well… I suppose that wasn't as bad as I originally thought…" Naruto then said as he reached up and swept his hair back, blood flying from it as he then walked over to one of the turnstiles before him.
Looking around, the teen frowned while wondering where he was supposed to turn it, so sighing, he decided to see how far he could turn it and leave it at that. Stretching his limbs, Naruto quickly walked over to the first Turnstile and then began to push it, grunting as he did so and the beam of light traveled, soon ending on one of the darkened doors. "What the hell?" The boy questioned then walked over to the newly revealed door, on it was some kind of face, its mouth was wide open and it looked like something needed to be placed inside of it, however the part on it was broken into three depressions, meaning it needed three objects to work.
Frowning, Naruto went to the next Turnstile and pushed it, soon revealing another door. Upon revealing this one, Naruto walked over to it and walked into this door. He found himself in a strange place, before him was a version of himself, minus the wings and demonic appearance, dressed in all white with Gilver on his back but without any of his other weapons. "Let me guess, I have to fight you or something?" Naruto questioned and the other him shook his head no.
"Too cliché, I am just here to show you your true destiny…" The white version of the silver haired young man said with a slight boy then walked to a window and turned back to Naruto. "Take a look inside, if you dare…" He said and Naruto walked forward, then looked at the mirror before then seeing something appear in it. It was a figure in a purple coat, one that the boy recognized as his older self from before. The man was standing before a burning village; his eyes were focused however, focused on a creature floating over the city, its eyes glaring down on the city. However, his older self soon turned from this scene and walked over to a hill, where numerous tents and sleeping bags rested, the older silver haired man soon entered a specific tent and got out a small book…
"Konoha? What the hell?" Naruto wondered as the scene vanished, and the silver haired boy looked over towards the other him, only to see a red stone now lying on the ground. Walking over to the stone, Naruto picked it up and looked into its depths, seeing the scene in the mirror being replayed. Shaking his head, Naruto walked out of the room, and pushed the next Turnstile, revealing the next room, which he walked over to and entered like the last one.
Unlike the last room, the person within wasn't Naruto, no, he was taken aback upon seeing someone wearing a purple coat with gold trim, purple pants, black dress shoes, and white gloves, Yamato in his left hand sheathed. However, when the man turned, Naruto took a step back, his eye's going wide. He wore a white turtleneck shirt, with a red vest, a strange necklace around his neck with a skull pendent and a familiar gold amulet above it. His face however was that of Gilver, with blood red eyes, gray skin, and dark marks covering his features, his hair swept back like Naruto's own was…
"No…" Naruto whispered upon seeing his grandfather once more, this time more clearly possessed than he had been before. However, this man merely took a step to the side, revealing an obsidian mirror, with silver trim, which he then motioned to with his right hand. Naruto looked to the man for a few moments, before nodding his head and walking over to this mirror, inwardly dreading what lay within it…
What he saw was frightening, he saw a silver haired man he had never seen before fighting against someone in armor like Inferno, only different. The two fought, as fierce as the most bitter of enemies, blades singing through the air and sparking as they came together. Soon however the silver haired man managed to break the helmet/mask off of the armored being, making Naruto's eyes widen. It was him, or rather, his older self, Like the Vergil beside him his skin was a pale gray, his eye's were a burning red, while strange purple marks rose over his revealed skin, his face in a blank expression…
Quickly turning to the person who looked like his grandpa, he was sad to see a violet gem, in it was the same scene from before, playing over and over again. Naruto shook his head, and placed this gem into one of his pockets before walking out of the room and heading over to the last Turnstile, quickly moving it to reveal the last of the doors and rushed over to it, only to get a surprise upon seeing his older self waiting for him, only now dressed in blue instead of purple…
"Do I even want to know?" Naruto questioned and his older self opened a single eye, looked at him, and then nudged to the mirror beside him, this one having a silver mirror with a gold frame. Grunting once, Naruto walked over to what he hoped was the final mirror, he really couldn't take seeing another scene from his future, and the last two weren't all that good after all.
Within he saw himself older yet again, only this time he was fighting against someone dressed in black with long flowing silver hair… And a katana with the longest blade that Naruto had ever seen in his life! The two of them were moving like lightning, the man in black and Naruto matching one another slash for slash and injury for injury. However the older Naruto then was surrounded by a purple field, which then lowered to reveal him in a more demonic form! However as he did this so did the other, becoming something akin to a Dark or fallen Angel with a single wing. Both of them then lunged into the air, flying and fighting in the skies over what looked like a crater of some kind, in what looked like a demonic world…
Naruto soon found the scene had ended, and like before when he looked to the person who had been in the room, he found a jewel waiting for him, this one being blue. Sighing the silver haired young man picked up the gem then walked out of this room and too the one with the three depressions. Placing each gem into it, the door gave off a bright glow before then sliding up into the wall and revealing a small room with three statues. The first was to his immediate left and was a strange demon holding Yamato, a place before it to rest the real thing. The one to his immediate right was a horned demon with a skull in place of its head with a broadsword of some kind, a depression before it was obviously for the real broadsword.
However, directly in front of him was another statue, this one had a strange looking demon, covered head to toe in old age armor, his arms covered in chains while two swords were attached to these chains and crossed in front of him into an X. Looking down, Naruto saw that these two blades were still present so walked forward and touched the hilts of the swords, only for chains to wrap around his forearms while a pair of sheaths appeared at his lower back, magically adhering to his form. Blinking the surprise from his face, Naruto looked over his two new weapons with a critical eye.
Each sword was attached to a pair of chains which had wrapped around his forearms, the hilts were rather simple, having black or white leather bound around them depending on which blade he had, each was a short sword with a single edged blade, one obsidian the other a pale ivory, the guard was in the shape of a silver skull, it's fangs pointing towards the edge while it's eyes were looking upwards, violet gems making the eyes for either blade. Each of the sheaths were like his blades, one was white, the other black, with a silver tip at each end.
"At last, I can be of service to you once more, Lord Sparda!" Naruto heard a voice and looked around, only to stop and look to his two now swords with a raised brow. "Were you just talking to me?" He questioned only to hear the slightly metallic yet very deep and dangerous voice speak once more. "Yes. These are my blade's Lord Sparda, Luce and Umbra, may they wreak wicked chaos, and torment your enemies!" The voice said before it was silent and Naruto looked over "Luce and Umbra" with a raised brow before shrugging and spinning each sword in hand then sheathed them.
The young Sparda then walked out of that room, and watched as all the doors around him suddenly closed, then all of the Turnstiles moved, pointing to a hidden door and unveiling it from the shadows while the silver haired young man heard a click like from a lock. Clicking his tongue, the teen walked up and pushed the door open, revealing a large room, a pair of massive double doors at the end, which seemed to be blocked by a red field, while a life-size statue of a demonic Sparda sat in the center of the room. Walking into the room, Naruto heard the doors behind him seal shut, just as he heard the sound of another of those fields coming up…
"Ugh… Why me?" The teen wondered to himself then saw something move, whatever it was then moved and latched onto the statue of Sparda. After it did, numerous vines burst from the chest of the statue, curving and twining all over it, soon it had vines going in and out of the stone, until finally the statue moved, picking up it's sword and then pulling it's legs free of it's pedestal… Looking at the creature, "Hell-Infectant" he thought to himself, Naruto quickly pulled Luce and Umbra from their sheaths and then cracked his neck.
"Now this aught a be entertaining…" The teen thought to himself while holding he two newest weapons and lunging forward, swinging Luce and Umbra with their chains, sending them both flying towards the Infectant. The stone demon rolled to the side however and Naruto had to pull on the chains and catch them as the Infectant came at him, using the swords to block as it swung it's heavy stone sword. Naruto grunted under the strain, then pushed the Infectant back and swung his blades in hand, slashing and nipping the stone beast.
The Infectant then flipped backwards, away from Naruto as a part of the fleshy demon attached to it moved, an eye coming over its shoulder and firing a beam of energy towards Naruto. The silver haired teen cursed at this, rolling out of the way of the blast at the last second then crouched and lunged for the Infectant. The Infectant used its sword to block as Naruto swung his blade, however, Naruto then threw his other blade, flipping up as it wrapped around the Infectant. Naruto then tossed his other chain blade, letting both wrap around and trap the Infectant as a smirk came over his lips.
Taking hold of both the weapons Chains, Naruto then started to spin the demon, moving in a circle while staying in place. The demon was soon off the ground and Naruto called his chains back, the weapons unraveled from the Demon in time for it to go spinning into a wall with a crash of dust and dirt. Taking hold of his two swords Naruto watched as the Infectant got back up, it's head and left arm having been destroyed and revealing a mass of tentacles and demonic flesh, an eye situated where it's head would have been before.
The Infectant used its single arm to hold it's sword up before then leaning back and hurling it towards Naruto. The teen cursed to himself and ducked out of the way of the heavy stone sword, only for it to shatter on the ground next to him, the Infectant screeching as it did. Naruto quickly turned his attention back to the Infectant, just in time for it to ram into him and send him flying back. Cursing under his breath the teen flipped up onto his feet and then held his two swords narrowing his blue eyes on the demon he lunged forward, swinging his blades forward with the chains. The Infectant seemed faster however, dodging and rolling out of the way, even as pieces of it began to chip away.
Naruto then reared both his swords back and above himself, the swords began to shimmer, energy coursing through them as Naruto slammed them into the ground, sending an arch of energy across the ground and into the Demon, knocking it back once more and destroying one of it's legs. Lunging towards the demon quickly Naruto jumped up and brought his swords down towards the eye on it's back, the Infectants stone arm came up to try and hold back this, only for Naruto to knock it away and stab the eye, hearing a loud shriek of pain as blood gushed from the creature.
Backing away from it he watched as the Statue exploded into pieces, allowing the boy to give a sigh of relief. Turning, Naruto was surprised to see a new statue of Sparda appear, however it was in his human form, and it seemed to be smiling, just at the corners of it's mouth and barely there, yet he could somehow tell… With a flash of light Naruto suddenly found himself back to normal no less, his wings and the rest of his demonic appearance having vanished, allowing Naruto a quick sigh of relief.
"Hate for anyone to think I was a demon here…" He said mostly to himself as he then walked passed the statue of Sparda, up the last door. The red field before this door then shattered, and Naruto pushed the heavy double doors open, revealing the other side of the mountains, and below he saw a tiny looking town… "That seems as good a place as any to start my search…" Naruto muttered to himself while then heading off towards the town, Luce and Umbra sheathed at the small of his back, Gilver resting over his shoulder, Yamato at his side, and Kyuubi on his hands and feet…
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(Nibelhiem…)
A familiar man with spiky black hair runs into a mansion, he and his SOLDIER associate both look around inside of the mansion. "I'm sure I saw him come here…" Zack said mostly to himself while the masked SOLDIER nodded his head. "C'mon Cloud, I know where he is." With that both Zack and "Cloud" head up the stairs, into a room only for Zack to scratch his head. "There's no sign of Sephiroth, but I'm sure I saw him come in here…" Zack said mostly to himself then walks to a door, beyond the door is an old bedroom and both Zack and Cloud enter, before then noticing a secret door to the side and both nodded to one another.
Zack was worried, after they had found the people who had been experimented only a few hours ago, he had decided to send word to Central and the Akumagakure Ninja. If not for backup then because he had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach about what was going to happen. However, it was going to be a couple days before they, or the backup from SOLDIER would be arriving, and Sephiroth was starting to worry him…
The two go to the door and then travel down a long winding staircase, the two then travel down an old dark cave and find themselves into a strange old library, Sephiroth pacing back and forth with a book in his hand. "… an organism that was apparently dead, was found in a 2000 year old geological stratum." Sephiroth said to himself, not noticing the two watching him. "Professor Gast named that organism… Jenova…"
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TBC…
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AN: Another chapter bites the dust! Oh well… Sorry about the long wait for all of my updates, but its been crazy at home lately. Oh well… I have a question for all my readers/reviewers; it's not a Vote but an inquiry if you will. Who should Naruto be pared with in this story? The characters I picked are: Tenten, Yuffie, or my OC Shadow from my original DMC Naruto crossover (She's got Shego's Personality if you don't know). If you have an idea for a different character you can make a suggestion. Like I said, this isn't a vote, I would like to hear an argument for or against sertain characters, that's what helped me decide on the pairings in my other stories thus far, so I'd like to see what the people think.
And as a side note, Kyuubi uses the skill's from Beowulf and Iffrit for the most part at the moment, new ones will appear later in the fic. Luce and Umbra are actually based after the Blades of Chaos from God of War, only with straight edged blades rather than the flame shaped ones. Oh well, hope you liked this chap, until next time, Ja Ne!
Naruto's current Devil Arms:
Devil Arm: Weapon Type: Demons Original Name: Element(s)…
Yamato: O-Katana: Yama of the Mountains: Steel/Wind…
Kyuubi: Gauntlets and Greaves: Kyuubi no Youko: Earth/Fire…
Gilver: Katana: Vergil Sparda: Steel/Spectral (Ghost)…
Luce & Umbra: Chain Blades: Aubrey: Light / Dark…