The climb up the mountain was actually easier than they thought, all they had to fight we're a couple wolves, two frostbite spiders, and a frost troll.
When they got to the monastery both Naruto and Lydia sighed in relief at how easy it was before walking inside.
When they opened the door they immediately felt the presence of all four of the greybeards and they were suffocatingly strong.
It seemed that they noticed there presence as well because they suppressed their power heavily allowing the two of them to breathe once more. Lydia looked to Naruto almost accusingly. "How did we get in a situation where we almost die from the auras of four old monks?"
Naruto shrugged and forced down his fear of these guys. "No clue, I'm just going through my quest. I never expected something like this to happen."
This is when one of the old monks came forward. "I apologise, we have not had others in our sanctuary in a while so we had not thought to suppress our auras."
The old man bowed slightly in respect to Naruto. "I am master Arngeir and the other three are masters Borri, Einarth, and Wulfgar and we will be teaching you about the power behind each word of power or shout."
Naruto smiled sheepishly. "Uh, please don't take this the wrong way but I've already learned to read, speak, and write in the Dovah tinvaak or dragon language so I'd say I've got that part covered."
Arngeir 'hmm'd' as he nodded. "While that maybe true you obviously have not fully comprehended the power behind the language which means you can't tap into the full strength of each shout. Let's take the unrelenting force shout for example, you're able to send a boulder flying after absorbing one dragon soul but if you had full mastery of the true power behind that shout just the first word would do that without absorbing a single dragon soul."
Naruto's eyes widened in shock. 'Is he serious?! If he's telling the truth then Akatosh would have known about it which means that he either suggested I absorb the souls of dragons because I'll need the power even with the knowledge I'll gain here or he didn't expect the greybeards to call for me.'
The blonde shook his head of his thoughts and asked Arngeir a question. "If I can do all that then how strong is Alduin?"
A dark look crossed the monks face. "There is a reason he's called the world eater young dragonborn, prey that you don't face him before you have grown strong enough to kill him."
With that the training began. Due to the young Namikaze being this famed dragonborn he'd flown through his training in a matter of hours and even came up with a few shouts of his own.
Now the blonde half elf and Nordic housecarl stood just outside of the sanctuary with Arngeir who handed Naruto a black hooded robe. "As a gift for passing through this training so quickly I give you my best work yet. This robe has a small one time enchantment that will protect you from any physical damage for the duration of six minutes, good luck my boy and safe travels."
Soon they left as the young Namikaze put on the robes and threw the hood over his head. When they reached the bottom they were met by Hinata and without a word the three hopped on the horses and rode off.
Hinata was the first to speak. "What's the plan now?"
Naruto kept his eyes forward as he spoke. "The woman I told you about that was studying the stone with Farengar, she obviously knew more than she let on so I plan to find her and ask a few questions."
The first part of the plan went like this, return to Whiterun, find traces of her magical aura residue, and follow it straight to her. Lucky for them this woman seemed to be in a hurry so they didn't have to follow any dead end paths but the residue led them to the sleeping Giants inn and to the barmaid.
Naruto tapped her on the shoulder which got her attention. "Excuse me ma'am but would you mind taking a moment to answer a few questions, mostly concerning a certain stone tablet that I received for a mutual friend of ours."
The woman nodded and led the three too her room then down a hidden staircase. When they reached the hidden room she spun around to look at the three. "So… which of you is the dragonborn?"
Naruto stepped forward. "That would be me, also I'd appreciate it if you put away that dagger you're attempting to hide behind your back."
She threw the small weapon to the side where it embedded dead center of a target dummy. "Sorry, force of habit of when large men get too close to me."
The young Namikaze backed up. "I apologise as well, I didn't mean to seem intimidating. I'm just here for answers so I can get on with my quest. What exactly was on the stone, I didn't have the time to sit down and look it over before."
The woman (who introduced herself as Delphine) nodded before grabbing a large rolled up piece of parchment paper and flattened it out showing the map of Skyrim but with extra dots all over it. "This is my map, when Farengar and I discovered that the tablet was showing us the burial sites of the dragons we marked them on here and on his own personal map to check out when we had the time."
Naruto pulled out his own map and quickly marked the locations as well. When he finished he rolled his map up and stored it in his pouch. "Is there anything else you can tell us?"
She nodded. "Yes, I've cross referenced all of the information we have on the dragons and came to the conclusion that Alduin will raise the dragon here." She pointed to the burial site close to Kynesgrove.
Naruto and the other two get cautious as he slowly reaches into his pouch so the woman wouldn't notice. "How do you know that name Delphine?"
She shrugs. "That information will only be available if you prove that you are who you say you are dragonborn."
Grabbing ahold of his ebony war axe of fire he smiles disarmingly. "And how can I prove that? All of my shouts are lethal."
Delphine nods. "True but I was thinking more on the side that we go to Kynesgrove and kill the beast, that's how you'll prove it to me."
This is when she moved over to a chest in the room. "Also I'd like for you to let go of whatever weapon your holding within that pouch of yours, you'll have to trust me for now and know I have no intentions of killing you three unless you act first."
Not seeing many options Naruto let go of the axe and brought his hand out of his pouch.
When Delphine began to strip out of her dress Naruto turned and left, leaving the inn altogether.
Delphine smirked to the other two girls. "He's a shy one huh?"
Hinata growled at the woman. "No, he's loyal to me and knows how much it would hurt me if he watched you get undressed."
This had Delphine go wide eyed. "Woah, easy there. I'm just joking, if he's your boyfriend I'm not going after him."
Hinata nodded but kept glaring every now and then. When Delphine was done she was in a full set of leather armor with a sword sheathed on her left side.
The girls all left the inn and found Naruto at the local blacksmiths forge with a bottle of Mead in hand as he spoke with the man.
When the girls walked over he immediately smiled. "And there she is!"
Naruto wrapped an arm around Hinata as he led her over to the man. "We have just finished your armor Hinata." From under a nearby table they pulled out a full set of elven armor (minus the helmet) and smiled even bigger.
Naruto then pulled out his two war axes. "And I would like you to wield both Rai and Katon in my place."
Hinata was struck speechless and nodded in acceptance with a smile. The blunette took the armor to a secluded spot and put it on before coming back and strapping the sheathed axes to her sides.
Naruto nodded. "Perfect, a great physical show of the powerful warrior I know you are."
The blonde half high elf turned to the blacksmith with a nod. "Thanks again Alvor, here's the money I owe." The young Namikaze handed over a medium sized pouch of gold.
Alvor nodded. "Any time, and if you're ever in the area again how about you teach me a few things about working the forge so maybe I'll get more business in weapons and armor instead of nails and hinges."
Naruto chuckled. "You've got yourself a deal my friend."
With that they were off. It took a total of a week and two days to get to Kynesgrove on horseback. When they got there they left the horses at the bottom of the mountain and ran up to the top with their weapons in hand except for Naruto who had a lightning spell prepared in each hand.
When they got up to the top they hid behind a boulder due to the presence of Alduin flying near the burial site. Delphine turned to Naruto. "Now's the chance to kill Alduin once and for all! Kill him now!"
Naruto looked at her incredulously. "Are you fucking stupid?! He's the eldest son of Akatosh and the world eater! You don't gain a title like that without being on the same level of a deity! My shouts are nowhere near strong enough just yet!"
"Sahloknir, your soul is bound to its dragon form for eternity! slen tiid vo!" (Flesh time undoing)
Alduin repeated this multiple times (which only Naruto understood the words) until an entire dragon skeleton crawled out of the ground. As a dragon soul (presumably this specific dragons soul) flew around the skeleton muscle, skin, and scales grew before the soul was absorbed into the body.
This dragon looked up to Alduin at last and spoke. "Alduin my lord, has the time arrived to restore your ancient dominion?"
Alduin nodded his head ever so slightly. "Yes, I shall enslave mortal kind once more but first…" With this he changes his language to that of the mortals. "Come out dragonborn, I know you're here, I can feel the souls of my fallen brethren within you."
Naruto made the other three stay down as he walked out without hesitation. "How about we speak as we are meant to Alduin."
Both dragons chuckled. "So you speak our language dragonborn, this is good. Now, state your business."
Standing tall Naruto spoke again. "I am from another world, your father called in a favor that one of the deities of my world owed which came in the form of me being made a dragonborn to kill you! I hereby declare war against you and all of your fellow dragons! Dovah slen qua!" (Dragon flesh scales)
Naruto's body began to change until he was a large golden scaled dragon with burning red eyes. Alduin was taken aback by this transformation. "F-father? How did you transform into my father's dragon form?!"
Naruto unfurled his new wings. "As I've told you before, Akatosh was the one to send me."
Alduin turned to Sahloknir. "Take care of this pest and you'll become my second in command." With that the black scaled dragon flew away.
The recently resurrected dragon turned to Naruto with what passed as a smirk to a dragon. "Let's take this to the air like true dovah."
Both of them took flight and flung shouts at each other left and right. After six minutes of this Naruto hit the other dragon with a full power fire breath to the face and while it was blinded he flew in an clamped his powerful jaws around the other dragons neck.
He brought it down to the ground and ripped its throat out before changing back.
Even in his human form (still fully dressed) his mouth area was covered in dragon blood. The soul was absorbed quickly and Naruto immediately felt the increase in power.
Delphine was about to speak when she noticed how the blonde was focusing on the dragon.
Little did she know he was talking to Akatosh. "Hey Akatosh, if absorbing a dragons soul gives my shouts more power what would happen if I ate the body?"
Akatosh thought about it. "No dragonborn has ever tried it but the consuming of the flesh would actually start to change you in a way. You'll gain a dragon form stronger than the form that you just took with the use of your shout. The form you'd take would grow stronger with each dragon you consume. It would be your true dragonborn dragon form."
Naruto thinks on it for a little longer. Then spoke again. "If I cooked the meat would it take anything away from the power I'd gain?"
Akatosh while disturbed that Naruto was asking these things was even more disturbed with how he willingly answered them. "Not in the least, it would change nothing but the taste."
Naruto thanked the dragon good and started gathering firewood. Delphine was curious so she asked her question. "What are you planning dragonborn?"
The blonde grinned. "Well, while my shouts grow stronger from me absorbing the souls of the dragons I can make my dragon form stronger by eating the flesh of dragons. Since I'm gonna be killing dragons anyway I decided that I won't let the body go to waste."
All three girls cringed a little but ultimately said nothing. Even though they hadn't said anything Naruto did notice their reactions and sighed. "If you three aren't able to stand this then please go to the local inn and wait for me there."
All three girls left in a hurry but Hinata at least gave him a small smile before she left.
Without another word Naruto began cooking one part of his meal at a time.
_(XXX)_AN: hello and welcome back to another chapter of a new world.Tell me what you think of this new way Naruto can grow stronger and about his new form.
