Hay guy's I hope you enjoy this.
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Bijuu/Demon/Dragon/powerful Magical Figure"
"Light Language"
"Dark Language"
I do not own Naruto or Fablehaven
Naruto was tensed up, ready to fight or run, depending on the way things went, though at the moment with an unconscious Gaara at his feet, the option was pointing to run.
The reason he was tense was simple, after beating Shukaku, and forcing him back into Gaara, then sending the group he had come to help away, Naruto had prepared to take Gaara back to Fablehaven, before two figures appeared, both of whom he really didn't want to see while he was tiered from fighting Shukaku.
"Itachi, but how?" Naruto asked as he stared wide eyed at the man that had killed his entire clan in one night.
"We came here through the portal you made Naruto," he said as though it were obvious. "Now I must ask you to come with us quietly."
"Hurry up Itachi, I hate the cold," said the man next to Itachi, who was also wearing a black cloak, though it wasn't Kisame.
"Patience Sasori, you forget, this world acts on different rules then ours, and Naruto is no protected by many of them, as are the other Jinchurikki, we don't want to do anything rash and break one of these rules," Itachi said causing Naruto's eyes to widen, as he wondered how Itachi knew all of this stuff.
'Damn, if Itachi knows that this world has bigger and deadlier rules then back home, that means that they probably have some kind of ally in this world already, and if that's the case, I need to get back to Fablehaven and fast,' without waiting another second, Naruto morphed into his hybrid dragon form, his skin was covered in white scales and his wings were as long as his body.
Before either Itachi or the now named Sasori could react, Naruto grabbed Gaara before shooting into the air, heading to the closest reserve around.
Fu felt a shiver run down her spine as she sat with Kendra inside Warren's cabin, Yugito was checking over Warren, who had come out of his albino state.
After Naruto had left to save the hikers from the sand spirit, Fu and Yugito had gone to investigate a disturbance in a different preserve, which ended up being another Jinchurikki, an old man by the name of Roshi who held the Yonbi.
After talking with him and explaining everything to him, the two had taken him to one of the many Dragon Sanctuaries in the Rocky Mountains, where they got the caretaker to look after him and get him training from some of the creatures there.
Once that was done, the two headed back to Fablehaven, only to find that it had been taken over by Vanesa, who had captured Ruth, Stan, and an albino Coulter.
"So what should we do now?" Kendra asked the cabin at large, getting curious looks from the three.
"Well, since Warren isn't albino anymore, that means Seth beat the revenant that was guarding the grove, meaning that we can now get into the tower, since you two managed to steel the key from Vanesa, though I would feel better if Naruto were here," Fu said glancing out the window.
"For now we should just wait for our clones to get back with Seth and the key, then we can devise a plan," Yugito said finishing her exam of Warren; after returning to Fablehaven and finding Kendra in the cabin with Warren, both Yugito and Fu sent out shadow clones to find Seth and the key and return them to the cabin.
"So while we're waiting, mind explaining who you guys are?" the three girls looked at Warren who was sitting at the kitchen table eating some Oreo's.
Sharing a glance with the other two girls, Fu let out a small sigh before she began explaining everything to Warren, who seemed rather impressed by everything she was telling him.
"Wow, now that's one impressive story," Warren said trying to lighten the mood. "And if I weren't use to strange things like this happening to me I'd have said you were crazy."
"Yeah well, it is hard to take it all in, but that doesn't make it any less true," Yugito said, she wouldn't have believed it herself if Naruto and Fu hadn't shown her.
Before anything else could be said the front door opened to reveal Naruto, Seth slung over his shoulder unconscious and the artifact key in his hand.
"Kendra, Ruth has shown you the quite box right?" Kendra, stunned by Naruto's sudden arrival, nodded her head slowly. "Good then remind me to put Seth in there for about a week when this is all over."
"Welcome back Naruto, how was the mission?" Fu asked not even the least it fazed by his entrance.
"Oh it was good, fought Gaara who was being controlled by Shukaku, still don't know how that happened, then I dropped him off at one of the dragon sanctuaries," Naruto shrugged as if it were no big deal. "But we have bigger problems to deal with," Fu and Yugito tensed at the serious tone in his voice.
"Was it the Akatsuki?" Naruto nodded with a serious look.
"Yeah, and not just that, I think they've already joined up with our enemy's, meaning we need to step up our game plan," the two female Jinchurikki nodded in agreement before they started moving around the cabin, placing seals everywhere.
"Wow, what's going on?" Warren asked bewildered as Yugito and Fu placed seals all over the house, while Naruto placed Seth on the couch.
"Warren, there's not a lot of time to explain, I need you to stay here and keep an eye on Kendra and Seth, the three of us are going after the artifact," Warren blinked in surprise, not expecting that, but nodded in agreement, he had meet Naruto before he became albino and knew when he was serious.
"Alright, I understand, just be careful out there Naruto, you know the vaults were designed to be deadly," Naruto nodded his head before turning to Kendra.
"Kendra, I want you to stay here and keep an eye on your idiot brother alright," at Kendra's nod Naruto headed towards the door, where the other two were waiting on him, before they shot into the tree's, headed for the artifact vault.
"I hate these damned vaults," Naruto said as he dodged a swing of the axe of a minotaur that he was currently fighting; after getting into the vault Naruto, Yugito, and Fu had descended into the chamber before they arrived in a room which had a number of monsters drawn on the walls.
After a while of talking and examining the room, the discovered that in order to advance they had to win a key from one of the drawing, which led to Naruto's current position.
"Just hurry up, we don't have a lot of time," Fu said as she dodged another swing of the axe.
Growling in frustration, Naruto jumped back and transformed into his dragon hybrid form, Yugito doing the same on the other side of the room, before both shot a jet of white hot flames, burning the minotaur alive.
As the flames died down, Fu, in her own hybrid form, grabbed the key hanging around the stakes neck and opened the door; with a nod the three of them moved on.
Kendra had a worried look as she peered out the window of the cabin, Warren was standing on the porch talking to Newel and Doren, a pair of satyrs, trying to get a bit of information on what was going on.
'I hope those three are alright in there,' Kendra thought as she took another Oreo out of the bag she was holding and shoved it into her mouth.
After Naruto and the others had left, Kendra had inquired about the vaults that held the five items, the answer was did not help to ease her worry.
According to Warren, the vaults that held the five key's to Zzyzx were designed to be nearly impossible to enter, very few have ever entered them and even fewer had returned.
According to Warren, the vaults were all designed in a similar way, something powerful guarding the vault, in this case the revenant, then there would be a number of traps that corresponded with the design of the vault, as well as other things inside the vaults themselves, then there were the guardians of the artifacts that you had to defeat in order to get the key's, or so it was said.
"I hope you three come back soon," Kendra glanced over at Seth who was still out of it, though he was breathing calmly which was a good thing, though Warren said there may have been some effect from Seth's stupid stunt. "We really need you three."
"I hate this damned tower," Naruto roared as he hovered high above a large chasm which was currently housing a large cat with roughly the size of a hours with four black writhing serpents growing out of its shoulders.
"You seem to have been able to hold your own up until now," Vanesa said as she used an anti-gravity stick to hover above the chasm.
"Don't even start with me, we'll be talking about this after we kill that damned cat three more times," Naruto snarled red eyes narrowing in annoyance, causing Vanesa to swallow the lump in her throat.
"Naruto, we need to finish this now," Fu said as Yugito, in her Jinchurikki cloak, fought with the guardian of the artifact, which was keeping up with her.
Nodding and grabbing the key, which had turned into a sword by this point, Naruto folded the wings of his hybrid form and dived at the cat, plunging through its back and killing it for the seventh time.
"Alright, just two more lives left," Yugito smirked as guardian reformed, growing a little bigger. "Eat this you stupid bastered," a small ball of energy began gathering at her mouth, before she fired it at the cat, hitting it with a mini Bijudama, killing it for the eighth time.
"You know, I wish we had thought of that earlier," Fu grumbled as the cat reformed for the final time, Vanesa watching with wide eyes at the power Yugito displayed.
"Yeah, yeah, we can argue decisions later, this damn tower is pissing me of right now and I can't think straight," Naruto powered up his own mini Bijudama, along with Fu and Yugito, before they fired, shaking the large chamber they were in with the power of the blast, which destroyed the guardian.
"I can't believe it, we went all that way and for what, a stupide tea pot," Fu chuckled as the three Jinchurikki sat in Stan's study, around them sat Stan, Ruth, Kendra, Seth, Warren, Dale, Tanu and Coulter.
"I still can't believe I missed seeing a giant panther," Seth moaned, Naruto having recounted the trip into the vault in detail.
""Hey, you defeated a revenant, something that very few people can say they've done, you should be proud," Fu said trying to cheer him up.
"Yeah, I now he's a shadow charmer, so that's another headache we have," Naruto said messaging his temple.
"Well, at least now we can train both Seth and Kendra more then you had planned," Yugito said getting a sigh and nod of agreement from Naruto.
"What exactly is a Shadow Charmer?" the three Jinchurikki blinked and turned to Coulter, they had forgotten that no one in the house knew about most of the things they were talking about.
"*Sigh* I guess we should explain some things before the Sphinx arrives," Naruto scratched the back of his neck, he really didn't want to do this now but they didn't have a lot of time. "A Shadow Charmer is someone who allies themselves with the night," everyone gave him a blank look.
"It's like this, when Kendra was kissed by the fairy's last year she became Fairykind, she has certain powers and abilities that coincide with light based creatures," everyone nodded showing they were following along so far. "Well a Shadow Charmer is basically the opposite, instead of light they have certain powers and abilities that coincide with dark based creatures, though that doesn't make them dark, how they decide to use their abilities is what decides that."
"Does this have something to do with him pulling the nail from the revenant?" the three Jinchurikki nodded at Ruth's question.
"We can discus that topic more later," everyone turned to Stan, who was holding the key. "What are we going to do about the artifact and more importantly, Vanesa?"
"*Sigh* the artifact is hidden already, what you have there is a duplicate, with a little bit of healing magic in it," everyone blinked and looked at the artifact in surprise. "As you know I don't trust the Sphinx, hell if it weren't for the fact that I think he's got an artifact, hidden somewhere, I would kill him and be done with it, but since you all trust him I made this fake artifact for you to give him, as a sign of trust."
"But what about Vanesa, I doubt we can let her go after what she's done?" Coulter said getting nods of agreement from everyone.
"We've already dealt with that," everyone turned to Fu. "After cutting her connection with everyone here, we moved her to a dungeon in the old mansion for now."
"Wait, you know about that old house in the woods to?" the three Jinchurikki glanced at Seth with raised eyebrows. "After Olloch ate me and turned to stone, I didn't know where I was so I walked around before stumbling across this old mansion, I climbed to the top of the roof and found my way from there to Warren's cabin, but as I was leaving a strange dust cloud appeared and chased me out of the house."
"Sounds like Ephira was guarding the house like I asked," Naruto muttered, glade she didn't attack Seth. "Seth, from now on, I want you to stay away from that house unless you're with me, Fu, or Yugito, the being in that house is our teacher in dark magic, she won't hurt you as long as one of us is around, otherwise stay away from there, do you understand," Seth nodded a little nervous, since he had been planning to go back once he had the chance, if he could find his way back.
"Alright then, I you don't mind I think we'll be turning in now," Yugito said as she stood up and stretched, along with Fu and Naruto. "It's been a long day and we still have more to do tomorrow, so we'll see you all in the morning," with that the three Jinchurikki all left the study, each wondering what was to come.
thanks for reading and please review.
The main pairing is Naruto and Kendra, and I plan to bring a few Naruto characters in latter.
from the Naruto world: Naruto, Fu, Deidara, Kisame, Yugito, Gaara, Roshi, Itachi, Sasori
