Now we continue on with the next chapter in Quest for Magik

Chapter 13: Quest for Magik Part 2

-The Institute; Earth-

"AAAARRRGHH!" Surge tried to gather as much electricity and charge through the flaming barrier into the school, but it failed, and she was knocked back by the amount of force she put into getting through. "UHNN!"

Hellion was gathering as much TK he could muster to try and take the barrier down. "I can do this...rip the building in half..." He was about to do just that, but the Naruto clone put his hand on his shoulder. "Wait, hold on. I'm sensing someone trying to get through." Just as he said that, they saw a bright light flash out coming towards them and they saw that it was in the form of a human, but they also heard it scream. "AAAAAHH!" As soon as it landed on the ground next to them, it finally stopped glowing and they recognized who it was. "Hope!"

She got up quickly and looked around her. "Am I back?! Am I back?!" She saw Nori, Julian, and Naruto next to her and he asked her what was going on inside. "Hope! What's happening? Is everyone ok inside? Where are they?" Hope felt her astral form return back to her body, so she passed on what info she had to them. "He took us to Hell! He's killing them! He's going to kill them! He's gonna kill kill them all! His name was Belasco..." Her form was fading fast, and left words that would motivate them like Hell. "...Belasco killed David..." And then, she was gone, back down into the Hell below. The Naruto clone gritted his teeth at what she said. Belasco was gonna pay for this...

-Belasco's Castle; Limbo-

"I was abandoned by my masters, usurped by a mortal woman...I waded through an ocean of blood to take back Limbo...and I will not be denied. You will tell me what I want to know!" Belasco spoke over the kids suffering, while S'ym got other kids back under control who tried to fight back. He grabbed the chain wrapped around Indra's neck and dragged him along to the spot with the others, and grunted in pain as the chain was putting pressure around his throat and almost choking him. "Settle down, kid. The boss is busy."

Mercury and Dust started to get free from the rocks that X-23 had loosened for them before she was disintegrated. They finally got out and caught their breath after the struggle out of their restraints. Cessily had turned her entire body, including her hair into a liquid form while Sooraya had turned the lower half of her body I to sand. "Sooraya...I can't...I can't do this..."

"The devil comes, Cessily...please...pleas do not let me fight alone."

"Oh, God, Sooraya..." The sight of Laura's bones made her sick to her stomach, but she found that she couldn't right now. They had a devil to fight off.

"He is here..."

Rather than wait for him to start torturing them, the girls decided to strike first at the demonic lord. Dust started to create a sandstorm to try and sear his skin off while Mercury sharpened of her body, getting ready to tear and stab into his flesh when the moment revealed itself. Belasco shouted out to them in anger. "You know where she is! You were with her! Answer me!" Mercury got out of arm's reach from him and shot back at him. "We weren't with her! We don't know what you're talking about! We don't even know who you are!"

Belasco just smiled back her in a very disturbing way. He saw what they both feared so well..."More lies. You know well enough to fear me. Both of you, so afraid. I can taste it on your souls." He turned to Dust. "You. Afraid of the Devil. Afraid that you are not so worthy of your God's love." Then to Mercury. "And you...so afraid of being hurt." Then he looked deeper into her soul. "Ahh, hurt again. The pain is so terrible, isn't it?"

Dust moved in on his back and preceded to tear his skin off, but he was to fast for them. "HAHAHAHAHA!" He shot at Mercury first with his magics and she began to bubble up, almost looking like she was about to blow up or even melt, it made him laugh at her condition. "CESSILY!" Dust cried out to her friend for reassurance that she was alright, then Belasco turned his attention to Dust and shot at her as well, lucky for her, her current form wasn't quite as susceptible to his magics, but it still hurt her greatly. "I am the devil. And your time in hell is just beginning." He would enjoy this for quite sometime...or at least until the air left their lungs...yes that would be nice, then he'd string the organs out across the walls of his castle, he heard from S'ym that human blood worked quite well as a fertilizer in Limbo.

-The Institute; Earth-

The O*N*E responded in the only way the could right now without the X-Men on hand. They had positioned the Sentinels in a tight perimeter facing the now erected magical barrier, that appeared shortly after the Sentinels had set up a perimeter. The heads of O*N*E and the kids had been inside the tent going back and forth that this was demonic magic at work, much to the Colonel's disbelief. He was man that believed in flesh, blood, and science; mysticism and religion didn't really get him. Val decided to be the mediator for the talk. "The energy field is unlike anything we've seen before, but again...we're not dealing with science anymore."

"You're not seriously suggesting magic?"

"If he weren't on SHIELD's blacklist right now, you'd be asking a guy named Dr Strange that question, Colonel. And he'd probably turn you into a llama for asking it. The X-Men and this 'Belasco' go way back, and it's not a pretty history. Our goal now is to find a way into Limbo, and pull the students and X-Men out." They returned back to the holographic image of the mansion, while a O*N*E technician perked up after doing some more research on the subject at hand. "I've got a hit, cross-referencing O*N*E and the X-Men's files related to keywords 'Belasco' and 'Limbo'. A woman checked into a German hospital two days ago, ID'd as Amanda Sefton. She's in a coma." The teens shared a look at one another and agreed already without having to say anything, while the technician continued on with the file after punching up more details and Sefton. "Amanda Sefton. Kurt Wagner's ex-girlfriend, sorceress, and as far as the X-Men know, current ruler of Limbo."

Naruto turned to the Colonel and told him straight up what they needed to do. "I can get her out of the coma and get her back her strength to get us into Limbo."

The Colonel already had an answer for the kids. "You three aren't going anywhere. The O*N*E will handle this." Valerie just shook her head at his foolishness, they needed a way into Limbo, and they needed someone to get them in and they needed an expert, and odds are, they wouldn't be able to get her out of her coma, not in time at least to save the mutants. Though she saw that the kids charged up their powers in cementing their determination. "You might wanna rethink that." Naruto said in his Tailed Six Paths mode.

-Belasco's Castle-

David was trying to get Josh to wake up so he could explain the plan he came up with in the last few minutes after observing the fight with Belasco. Though he tool particular notice to Cuckoos, Martha, and Ms Frost. That's when he knew what to do. "Josh...Josh, you have to wake up...I think Laura's dead."

Josh began to stir, but his body wouldn't let him move, he could only speak hoarsely like his throat had gone dry due to the lack of water. "So tired...I can't...I can't move...David...what are we gonna do?"

David looked back at where the girls were at. "He...he took down the psychics. They're a threat to him. We have to free the Cuckoos." Meanwhile Belasco was still toying around with Dust and Mercury and trying to force the answers out of them. "WHERE IS SHE?!" He threw Dust into a pillar so hard that it broke from the force...even though she was still partially in her more corporeal form. He turned to Mercury who was reforming after his last attack that made her melt down. "Your transient forms may be more resistant to my magics, but it will just make the pain last longer. TELL ME WHERE SHE IS!"

"No." She had to try and stop him, or at least stall him out long enough for Naruto and anyone else to come for help. He had to have gotten dragged down here too like the others, but he might've gotten thrown somewhere else. This was all she and Dust could do now. So she thought. 'What would he say and do right now?' This is what he would do. "I don't know what you're talking about, and I don't care. Not anymore. But I'll die a thousand times before I let you hurt or kill anyone else you bastard!"

Belasco narrowed his eyes at the girls words. It seemed that the girls fear suddenly diminished all of a sudden. This was...odd to say the least, never had a child he had seen, save for Illyana put their fear down to defy and go against him. Then he turned at the other girl that he threw against the wall not but a minute ago as she spoke against him as well. "And I stand beside her."

"HSSSS..." Faith was a dangerous thing.

"If today is the day I die, them let it be a death that makes Allah proud!"

Belasco's eyes glowed at their words and decided that it wasn't worth the trouble anymore to get them to talk. If they wanted to die before speaking, well then..."So be it."

-The Wastelands-

Darkchylde began walking towards the teens after giving her ultimatum to them. Naruto was on edge at what she might try to do and reabsorbed the clone, he let Vic know that his arm would regrow in a bit after he healed him, getting a confused look from him, but only for a bit as the demonic looking girl was currently their problem. "I can feel him. Belasco. He's hurting your friends right now. I know what he's thinking what he's feeling...but he's stronger than me. He made sure of that." Naruto wasn't sure what she was getting at, why did she need a soul? "What does that have to do with Pixie? Why her? You're not making any sense." So she clarified it for him. "The only thing that can kill him...is a Soulsword. And I've lost mine."

"I'm not letting you get anyone's soul. There's gotta be another way to kill him." Naruto said. He wasn't going to let one of his friends turn into...this...Darkchylde narrowed her eyes at the whiskered boy's words. "There is no other way. I need a soul to forge a Soulsword, to kill Belasco. That is the only way boy. You're a fool to believe otherwise." She turned her gaze towards Pixie and asked her a question. "Now tell me...do you want to save your friends? Would you give your soul to save them?"

"You want...my soul?"

Naruto turned back to Pixie and told her to not take her deal. There would be no good coming from it. "Megan, don't! Don't listen to her! We'll find another way! There's always another way!" He told her what he believed, but sometimes that there is no other way with some people, as he learned. Darkchylde smiled...it wasn't one of those smiles as if they were laughing at a joke...but rather like she had something up her sleeve. She snapped her fingers and the grounds of Limbo suddenly encased them all, including the Susanoo that Naruto still had up and they could barely move. Pixie and the demon girl were now surrounded by the rocks and had no distractions at all to stop from what would happen next. "No more saviors little Pixie. You're all alone now." Megan began to whimper in fear and shed tears of terror, she didn't want her friends to suffer anymore, but she didn't want to live life without a soul. 'It looks like she needs more motivation...' Darkchylde brought out an amulet with a five pronged star and had 5 hollow holes at the tips of each, she was already prepared for the ritual. "I can feel them dying. I can hear their cries."

Pixie made her choice. She'd take the pain and free her friends from this hell. "Please...stop. I don't want any more of my friends to die. I'll do whatever it takes."

'Kit! You've got to get loose! She'll die!'

'Dammit! No!'

Darkchylde smiled devilishly at her words. Now she could begin. "Try not to scream." She held her hands out to the mortal girl's chest and began, then all they could hear were the high pitched screams of pain coming from Megan. "AAAAIIIIIEEEE!"

-Earth; German Hospital-

"This her?"

"Yeah, it's her. Can you get her out of it?"

"You're kidding me, right? Yeah, no sweat just gimme a minute."

Amanda Sefton had heard voices from her bedside but she didn't recognize any of them, then all of a sudden, she felt a massive burst of energy that brought back to, and somehow...rejuvenated her when she felt a poke on her forehead. She jumped up out of her bed and screamed a bit. "AAAAHH!" The doctors jumped at what the boy had done, he simply touched the woman that was in a coma and had woken her up. "Mein Gott."

Valarie Cooper walked up to the bedside to help Amanda get her bearings on the situation. "Amanda...it's me, Val Cooper. You're in a hospital in Germany...witnesses say you fell from the sky."

"What...where...?"

"You were in a coma. Can you remember...?

Amanda felt like she had all of her power again before when she brought Limbo together..."I don't...just give me a..." She paused as she remembered the last thing. "Belasco. Oh God...he's...I can't...the X-Men...he's coming for their children!"

Hellion rolled his eyes at what she said. "No shit, lady." Naruto slapped on the back of the head and have him a look telling him to watch his language around the women.

The pilot captain told her about the situation back in Westchester. "Ms Sefton...the Xavier Institute was attacked six hours ago. We have reason to believe this Belasco is behind the attack."

Amanda put a hand to her forehead. She was a fool to think that she could get to the X-Men in time to warn them. Surge told her what they needed her to do to help save them. "He's got our friends, and he's got the X-Men. We need you to take us into Limbo so we can rescue them."

Amanda knew that there was only one thing that had a chance against the demon lord. "Then we need the Soulsword."

Hellion was a little confused on the matter. "The what now?"

"Illyana Rasputin's Soulsword. Kurt has it...we have to find Nightcrawler." She had hid it inside him as she believed he was the one would be the most responsible with it and if a time came up, use it.

Everyone's looks in the hospital room went from desperation to depression...fantastic. "You have got to be kidding me." Hellion slumped down while Surge face palmed a bit in depression. Val knew that he and a few other X-Men had dropped off the grid and they had no idea where they were at. "Amanda, Kurt isn't...he, Xavier and a few other X-Men have been out of contact with us for the last few days and we have no idea where they are, and we can't get in contact with them."

The sorceress closed her eyes in believing that their fate was sealed. "They're dead, then. The X-Men, the students...they're dead."

Naruto narrowed his eyes at her words. He didn't believe in fate and it sounded like she just said that's what it was, he saw what he assumed was her outfit. He grabbed it and threw it to her, and spoke up. "You can get us into Limbo, that's all we need you to help us do. I can take Belasco down, for good. Now if you don't believe me..." He shifted into his Tailed Six Paths mode to prove that he could take the bastard down. He exerted just a but of his power and the room soon cracked at the release in power shocking Amanda at the display. "...I can make the devil bleed. And don't mistake that one damn bit."

-The Wastelands-

"I was six years old. Belasco took my soul apart piece by piece to form bloodstones. He took my innocent soul and twisted it, to use it as a sacrifice to the Elder Gods." Darkchylde continued with the ritual of ripping out Pixie's soul to create a Soulsword, while the young girl continued to scream in agony at the process. "When he had all five pieces of my soul, he would have the power to bring them to Earth. You and I, little Pixie...we will use your innocence against Belasco."

Everyone surrounding them soon began to struggle against their rock restraints and eventually the Susanoo disappeared shortly afterwards. He needed to conserve some of his chakra in the fight later one against Belasco to kill him. Granted he told them that there would be another way out of this, but since it was a demon that had done the deed rather than someone who could be reasoned with, unlike the Purifiers, his life was now forfeit, and if it came to it...Magik's as well...he just hoped that she could be reasoned with since she used to have a soul. Blindfold talked over to Naruto, "Excuse me, she cannot be trusted now. It is almost time. You must save her please."

Victor shouted out to Magik pleading with her to stop. "Megan! LET HER GO!"

Magik ignored the voices and continued with the monologing. "Innocence is power. And power is the Soulsword."

Pixie regretted the decision to give her soul up to save her friends. She should have listened to Naruto. "Please stop...it hurts!"

Magik closed her eyes at the young girls words. She could sympathize with the young girl, she truly did, as she too had felt the pain. "I know. I remember. The Soulsword is tour life, Megan. It is your soul forged into a weapon."

Blindfold spoke up again at what she was doing...what she desired..."She lies, yes. She wants the bloodstones. She wants their power. She is taking it all."

"With the Soulsword, your innocence can destroy. It can cut magic and make spells bleed. It can kill Belasco. With your soul, Pixie...I can kill Belasco." Soon the silhouette of sword started to materialize in between the two girls...the Soulsword was taking shape and would soon be finished.

Anole continued to shout and struggle against the rocks, managing to get loose a bit to maneuver out slowly, not only that he felt that his arm, the one he had thought that had been cut off, had suddenly emerged from his body like a lizard that lost its tail, though it appeared to be deformed and enlarged from its original form. Maybe Naruto had boosted its resilience when he was stopping the bleeding? Either way that wasn't the concern now; Megan was. He saw that some of the rocks nearby were starting to gather nearby and Naruto was beginning to charge up something to let loose, so he had to act first and punched Magik in the back, effectively stopping the ritual dead in its tracks. "NO!"

Darkchylde soon feel to the ground face first, hehehe...but she also dropped the amulet used in the ritual and there was only one bloodstone embedded in the amulet. The missing piece of Pixie's soul. Anole was panting after having to do that, he came close to doing some serious damage to her spine had he not have held back that last punch in her. "Please...just stop. Don't do this. Because I'll hurt you if I have to."

Pixie started to stir a bit after that ordeal, but slowly started to get her strength back, though she was holding onto an object for whatever reason. Naruto had just about had gathered enough chakra for what he needed to do. And just as he was about to do so...he felt the ground start to quake a bit, and the rocks began to form a bit behind them, while everyone else was oblivious to what was going on. Darkchylde got back up on her...hooves, feet, et...whatever you wanna call them, and started to get a very painful, and agonizing spell to shoot at the reptilian teenager. "You will suffer for..." But a voice started to breakout over everyone else's. "...get...get away..." Darkchylde turned behind her to see that the rocks were forming into that of a very familiar golem figure..."What...?!"

Rockslide had apparently been alive the whole time, but he needed time to reform himself, luckily there was plenty of material for him to use, and it gave him one hell of a makeover. He now had lava spouting from the cracks in the rocks and he looked pissed the hell off, not judging from just his appearance, but also his words. "YOU GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY FRIENDS!" The Darkchylde was actually a little surprised that he was able to do this as well as other people too. "Santo?!" Anole was really surprised.

Santo saw the whole thing, and he was gonna kill this chick, even though she was a little hot to say the least. 'Finally! I am gonna kick this bitch's ass so hard, and then I'm definitely gonna get one hell of a rep and a story to tell. Maybe I can get a book deal too?' But then suddenly his dream was crushed as a massive shadow covered them all and what they saw, or rather what the Darkchylde saw scared her to death, going off of her facial expression. Never before had she felt such fear and belittlement in her life. A massive orange furry nine-tailed fox let loose a roar so loud that it threatened to break their ear drums. "GRRRAAAAUUR!" She liked it to almost being an Elder God...one of the things she feared.

It was one thing to see a memory of the Tailed Beast, but to see it with their own eyes, and feel the raw power coming off of it, Anole felt like an ocean had just been dropped on them, and they were slowly sinking to the bottom, he used the distraction as an opportunity to check on Megan and ran over to her downed form. "MEGAN! MEGAN!" He picked her up off her back and helped her wake up due to the after effects of the ritual. "Megan, pleas tell me you're ok!"

"I'm...I'm..." Then she saw what his arm looked like and got creeper the hell out by it. "Oh, gross! Victor, what happened to your arm? Did Naruto make it like that?" He ignored the question and was more concerned for his friend and her soul. "Megan! What about your..." That's when she pulled up the object that she was still firmly holding on to...a weapon of sorts that had an ethereal glow to it...a dagger. "My soul?"

Darkchylde...well, when a giant nine-tailed fox that could kill you just by stepping on you. You don't have a lot of options, so she reacts in fear and shot some of her magic towards its body...and it didn't do shit, except make it laugh from the attempt. "Hahahaha! What was that? A bug bite? I must say, after all that talk and the threats of death, I expected more from one like you...buy you're just a weak little brat. Now why don't you get us into this castle and we can get to killing your former master." Kurama had a lot more of his power at his disposal if he were to be summoned directly outside, rather than have Naruto go into Tailed Beast Mode, plus he rarely got out like this and he wanted to enjoy some fresh air...although he would rather be breathing Earth air, rather than the crap down in hell. He then put his paw down on Darkchylde and watched her struggle to get out, while Naruto slid down off of Kurama's head to get an answer out of the girl. "Alright since you don't really have a lot of options, why don't you take us to the castle were our friends at being tortured. You should be lucky that Vic stopped what you were doing, other wise...well, let's just say we wouldn't be having this conversation right now. So, what's your answer?"

She stopped struggling against the weight of the paw keeping her pinned down. "I...I can't. He sealed his castle from me...my powers my magic...I can't." But then all of a sudden, her entire demeanor changed into that of a lonely little girl. "Who...who are you? Where's Kitty? Where are Dani and Sam? Please...where is my brother?"

Everyone practically stared at her in disbelief in the change in personality of Darkchylde, it seemed the old Magik was still in her, but very deep and weak. Kurama summed up what everyone was thinking. "...What the fuck...?"

-Belasco's Castle-

He was nearing his limit. Belasco was getting impatient, let it not be known that Belasco was not without mercy...though these brats were really pushing it. "RRRRRAAAA! ENOUGH!" He tossed Dust aside like a rag doll and grabbed Mercury by her throat and demanded that she tell the truth. "I sensed her. I saw her. Alive. On Earth. And I can smell her on you! You were with her. And I will not hear your lies!" He tightened his grip on the metallic girl's throat and she was able to catch her breath to speak. "What do...you even want with her?"

"Her soul belongs to me, and you will tell me where to find her! Say it!"

Mercury was about to tell him go fuck off, but then she caught the sight behind him, and stalled the bastard out. She knew if she said the form then things wouldn't go very smoothly. "No, I...yes, I was with her...with...Illyana. She's alive. We're...we're hiding her."

"Where? Where is...AAAARARRGHHH!" But then all of a sudden, his throat began to swell and his breath hitched in the back of his throat as he realized that the healer had given him massive infections and he apologized to the demon for a stupid reason. "I'm sorry." If anything, he should be glad that the bastard was choking for dear life...for the moment. He collapsed to the ground for the time being with a couple of teens standing over him. Mercury was in astonishment, while Dust was in disbelief if what Josh did. "Josh...Josh, you did it..."

"Are you guys ok? Do you need me to..."

"No...this is not right. You cannot kill the devil." She knew it to be true, as he would exist as long as Allah would. Suddenly the area that they were standing in had suddenly burst into a bright light...the demon lord was not amused by their attempt to kill him.

-Germany-

Naruto was able to talk Amanda into getting them into Limbo and she was able to create a diagram with her now fully replenished magics and the O*N*E called in the heavy duty Sentinel Megaton to help out with the rescue. As Amanda was chanting the words and channeling her power into the diagram, Surge pulled the NaruClone aside to talk with 'him' about what he did previously. "Hey, I need to talk to you about what you did with Laura."

Naruto probably should have talked with her about this, but several tho gs got in his way...well, might as well get things out of the way...though he knew odds were he'd get punched in the face at the end of the conversation. "Alright...go ahead..." He closed his eyes in acceptance of his cruel and ill fate of being a human punching bag. Surge looked at him like he was an absolute idiot and she was confused at what he meant..."Wha..er, what the hell dude? Did you think I was gonna punch you?"

Naruto looked at her wide eyed and honestly expected her to slug him one with a right hook, but she didn't...weird. He drops his hands and made motions with them as he talked out the reason. "Well...yeah...kinda, that's kinda how it ends up with me and conversations with women."

"You know, you could've told us that you and Laura went off looking for Cessily by yourselves, or at least left a note on one of your knives. I mean, yeah you easily could've done it yourself, but we also could've lost some friends that whole time!" She hated that they went off on their own with no one knowing where they were. It was the responsibility that she shared with him as leader, he should've had more backup and work as a team with the rest of them to rescue Cessily. Naruto did agree a bit with what she said but..."Sorry about that, but we didn't have a whole lot of time. If we did get other people in on it, then odds were we would've lost Cessily, and Laura knew these guys the best, so we could track her down faster in a small team."

"Yeah...I guess so, but just don't go off like that again without telling anyone, I should at least k know what you guys do also since you and me are the squad leaders." Surge took in what he said and it made sense as it started to click in her head with his logic, but it still worried her nonetheless, but now they just needed to focus on getting into Limbo. Buuuut...she had to do one last thing. "Hey, Naruto."

"Wha..." She punched the NaruClone right in the face...hehehe.

He was sent down right on his back and rubbing his face in pain, had it had been a year ago it would've dispelled immediately, but now they could take one hell of a beating and they dispelled on their own will or at the originals will. "WHAT THE HELL!? WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" He finally got up with his eyes bugged out, his face red and steam coming out of his ears while waving his hands up and down in pissed off manner. He was gritting his teeth at what his co-leader had just done. She, on the other hand had a smirk on her face while her arms were crossed and gave a smart ass response with an innocent tone. "What do you mean? You said that you normally get a punch in the face after a conversation with a girl, so I decided to keep it going. That's all."

"Grrrrr...razzin' frazzin'..." He hated that...really...some things change, while some things remain the same.

-The Wastelands-

"I remember. I remember my life with Piotr, then coming to the school. Belasco, the X-Men, the New Mutants...I remember the dark times...the Inferno. Then nothing." Illyana, or rather her dark self had begun to calm down and she told them the life she lived. Kurama had taken his massive paw off of her so that she was able to breath properly. I mean having a giant ass fox that weighed tons put pressure on you, was killer on the lungs. "When Belasco took back Limbo, he used his magics to summon me...pulling to him every bit of my essence, every memory he could find. I appeared before him...but my soul was missing. Instead of Illyana, Belasco got Darkchylde instead."

"That's fucked up. If you went to church would you catch on fire?"

Kurama 'flicked' Rockslide on the back of the head that just sent him face first into the ground. "Idiot...he wanted her soul, not her body or mind. That's what demons like him get off of, the soul." He had a few encounters back in the Elemental Nations with a few demons before the villages starts to go after him, and saw that the souls of the living is what gave them power and sustained them. One actually tried to get his soul...he wasn't in a living condition afterwards if you catch his drift. Magik nodded a what the fox said. "Yes, he wants everything that I once was...and I'm going to kill him before he gets it."

Naruto felt sorry for what had happened to this girl. She had every bit of happiness in the world...and then so suddenly in her early age, it was all taken away. She had lost her soul, died, and then reborn without any shred of her old self that she yearns for. He caught a small tear that had dropped from her left eye and soon evaporated from the heat of the landscape. 'So she does still have some humanity left in her after all...', he thought to himself. "Do you know how where the castle is? 'Cuase the two of us can probably get us there pretty quickly." He pointed to himself and Kurama. The plan was basically point and run like hell whilst carrying everyone on Kurama's back. Magik however knew what he was getting at and shot the plan down. "We'd be too late to save them. And I can't get into Belasco's castle since he banished me. But the girl...Pixie can. The creation of the Bloodstone has made a hole in her soul, which was filled with black magic. And she has a Soulsword now...of sorts." She never expected an interruption during the ritual and she never believed that doing so would cancel out the Soulsword, though now it seems she was proven wrong with what she saw now.

Pixie couldn't believe it. She was evil now! What the fuck?! "A hole in my soul...OhMiGod! I'm evil now! You turned me evil! You bi..." She covered her mouth in shock. She had never used a cuss word in her entire life! Even Anole was a little shocked at what happened. "Whoa! Megan!"

Naruto shook his head at the girls antics to release her anger without swearing. "Ok, since hauling ass won't work. How is she..." He pointed to Megan. "...gonna be able to get us in the castle in time?" He had a feeling it had something to do with teleporting..."I can teach her a spell...a teleportation spell." Yep. He knew it.

-Belasco's Castle-

"I don't care about you children. I don't care if you live or die. But I will kill each and every one of you until you tell me where Illyana Rasputin is." He was tired and pissed...seriously he hadn't even been able to sleep in like 58 hours...and let me tell ya, that can make a guy go really insane...though Belasco is rather already insane, so sleep wouldn't do him any good anyway. The teens were trying to recover from Belasco's outburst at basically getting cancer from a kid, it felt like crap, but he dispersed it with his magic and killed it off. The demons were were drooling at their suffering and agony, they wanted in on it, but they couldn't or they would be reduced to ash by their master.

Belasco began to channel his magic outwards towards X-23's bones. Dust was confused at what the demon lord was doing, "What...what is he..." and she soon had an answer.

"This is what awaits you. Come back to me abomination." He needed an example, and what best example to use, was the one that had already been killed. He soon brought X-23 back from the dead and had herself reform back into her body right before he had disintegrated her flesh and clothes...thank everything that was good and pure, otherwise the teenage guys would've had some serious nosebleeds. She was unconscious after the ordeal and Belasco grabbed her by the hair and pulled he rout to the side and sported a sadistic smile. "This can last as long as you wish. Time has no meaning here. But pain and suffering do." He threw her out into the open courtyard and used his magics to summon massive spikes that impaled her through the gut, leaving the teens wide eyed and shocked at her now bloodied body. "LAURA!

This was it for them, they felt. "I will kill each and every one of you then bring you back to life and kill you again until you tell me what I want to know. And if you don't..." Pause for effect..."I will pull all of Earth into Limbo to find her." BUM! BUM! BUUUUUMMM!

-Just outside the castle-

Amanda had managed to get them just outside of Belasco's castle and as close as possible. She would have gotten them right outside, but I seemed that the old/new Limbo lord had thrown up a barrier to keep any unwanted guests out and not disturb him. Lex had just done a sit-rep for them. "We just lost contact with O*N*E command Ms Sefton. Is this..."

"We've crossed over into Limbo. Your Sentinel only works here because of my magics. And Lex? There's a good chance we're gong to die here. My name's Amanda." Though what that boy had done to her, made her strong as she once was, it peeked her curiosity on how he was able to do so. Lex tested out the comm systems on the Sentinel to see if the three teens where still with them. "Ronin, Surge, Hellion...do you copy?"

"We're here, still."

"Yup."

"I can't see for crap. This is Limbo? Weird." Hellion was keeping himself and Surge levitated with his TK, while NaruClone was in his Tailed Six Paths form that was giving him the ability to fly. The air was clouded with a lotta dust and kept their vision obscured. The NaruClone could see pretty clearly thanks to his own visual prowess. "I can see stuff just fine actually."

"Lucky bastard..." Hellion murmured to himself.

Lex turned on the Sentinel's flood lights to give them some better vision so nothing could sneak up on them. Amanda clarified that matters of the legitimacy of this place being Limbo. "My spell should have synced up time...they've only been here for a fee hours now, not years."

"Years?! Are you serious?" NaruClone found it to be a rather surprising that time could go by so quickly in another dimension. He just assumed that every dimension ran on the same time or something like that. "We should be right outside the castle. I couldn't get us in though. Belasco must've placed a spell to keep certain intruders from getting in."

Surge turned to the NaruClone hoping he could see it. "Hey, Naruto do you see it?"

"Yeah, it's a bit a ways from us and it's on top of some giant ass rock." But then his eyes widened at what was coming out of the castle. "Uhhh, guys...we got a problem."

Lex then saw the multiple hostiles popping on his radar. "Nori...I'm picking something up. Oh, God. Are you seeing this?" They were completely surrounded.

"Yeah, we see it." A lot of bat like demons came pouring out of the castle and other manner of demons came spurting out of the ground. The NaruClone could feel the massive killing intent from each and every one of them. 'Man, these guys must really be some fucked up dudes. There's some crazy crap going on in their heads.' Naruto got ready to thrown down with the demons, but then he heard Shukaku speaking up in his head. "Hey! Lemme outta here! I wanna kill them! I finally got big again!" Weeeeellll, the Tanuki did happen to still be psychotic and loved to slaughter, and given their current circumstances, there was no guarantee the Sentinel was gonna make it on its own. 'Alright, go wild. But just kill these things, nothing else.'

"Yes!"

The NaruClone formed the hand signs: Boar → Dog → Bird → Monkey → Ram. "Summoning Jutsu." Then the massive sandy Tanuki was bought out by a puff of smoke startling the demons and the humanoid beings except Naruto. Amanda had her jaw hanging down as low as it could go and her eyes threatened to bulge out, and Lex couldn't even move from the shock of what he was seeing. He had to stop drinking...

Shukaku let out a massive breath and was filled with exhilaration. It felt good to be outside again, but he'd rather be on Earth instead of being down in Hell. He looked around to all the demons now staring at him with wide eyes and weren't sure what to feel now that this massive being appeared out of nowhere, but then their bodies suddenly started to shake and sweat as Shukaku eyed them all like a predator to prey, curving his mouth into a sadistic smile and chuckled rather darkly. "WOOHOOO! It feels great to be outside again, now who to kill...? Eeny, meeny, miney, moe!" Shukaku then slammed his tail down on the horde in front of him and started to gather chakra in his throat, to let out several massive Air Bullets. "Wind Style: Air Bullets!" He let loose the jutsu from his massive maw and the demons were soon torn to shreds with many of them retreating back to the castle and others into the Wastelands, thinking he wouldn't follow them...but when its Shukaku, you sir...are quite wrong... "WEEEEEE! HEY WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU GUYS ARE GOIN' HUH? THE FUN'S JUST GETTING STARTED!" Shukaku started to just pummel the crap out of them and the demons were flattened as he charged towards the castle. Overkill is clearly something not in Shukaku's dictionary...

-The Wastelands-

"You have got to be kidding me. This is your big plan? Evil Illyana turns Pixie into Dark Pixie, teaches her a magic freaking spell, and then we go fight the Devil. I thought you were some kick ass ninja dude? What happened when you made that big ass plan when we took down Nimrod?" Santo was itching to kick some ass right now in his new lava form.

He felt the wind kick up a bit and saw that Kurama was getting ready to flick him back to the ground, and he flinched and stood on one leg while trying miserably to cover his whole body from the giant finger getting ready to strike. "Stop being impatient idiot, and shut the hell up. Running there would take to long to save anyone, and the Flying Raijin requires an actual destination seal on one of the kids, which none of them have. So this is the only thing we've got right now."

Blindfold was getting a little irked by Santo's impatience. "Kurama is right, excuse me. She will not fall. So, yes, please...shut up."

Pixie failed again...for the 12th time, and landed upside down in the air. "...sihal novarum chun..."

"No." This girl was trying her patience...it wasn't that hard, seriously...what a pain in the hooves. "You are not trying hard enough! You should be able to do this without speaking!"

Now Pixie was getting annoyed be Magik. "This isn't even English! And there's a lot of words!" Oh, aaaannndd..."And you're mean!" Oh, yeah...it felt good, hehe.

"Again!"

"...sihal novarum chinoth..."

-Outside Belasco's Castle-

"I don't even know what the hell to do now..." Lex just sat in his chair trying to figure out what to do now that a giant animal had basically taken out 90%, if not 100% of the opposition. "Uhmm...go on ahead guys and get in the castle. I guess I'll just sit right here and watch the door or something." Lex some over the exterior speakers of the Sentinel.

Naruto grabbed the two of them and the catapulted straight to the castle, while Shukaku was climbing up into it...wow, talk about dedication between a hunter and his prey.

-Inside the Castle-

The kids were barely clinging to life as it was right now. Belasco had had it, if one didn't give him an answer, then they were dead and useless to him. "You dare lie to me?! You dare lay your hands on me?! I will find my apprentice, and you children will not deny me!" Mercury pleaded with the demon lord in a vain attempt to try and spare her friends. "Just...just stop...we don't know where she is...please..." Trying to reform yourself while talking proved to be difficult. "...leave her alone..."

Belasco grabbed Dust out of the air and brought her up to his face and she felt the spit, and smelt the bad breath coming from his mouth...it ranked of rotting meat..."The devout little girl. Don't you know that lying is a sin? And sins must be punished." As he was about to deliver the final blow to the girl, a white streak just zoomed past him and snatched her right out of his hands. That tans it! "No! NO! I will kill each and every..." But his bitching got interrupted by a certain electric mutant.

"Belasco. Fry and burn you son of a bitch..." Surge let loose her electricity on Belasco's back and had him writhing in the newly found pain. "AAAAARRRRGHHH!"

"You killed David! You're going down asshole! Do you hear me?!"

"I...think...not..."

But then a green blast came down in him and slammed him down with such force it knocked the wind out of him and leaving the hell lord flabbergasted at what just happened. Hellion had let loose a massive TK blast down on Belasco rendering him paralyzed for a bit. He landed next to Surge and tried to hold her back from trying to kill the douchebag. "Surge stop! It's over!"

"Don't get in my way. He killed David."

The NaruClone waved over to them and shouted out to the two teens. "Yo! You mean this David?" He pointed over to the boy who was helping him get the Cuckoos out of their iron helmets.

"David?" He saw that Belasco was now trying something when they took their eyes off of him and Naruto shouted out to them. "Nori! Watch out!" Belasco started to raise his hand in an attempt to blast the kids away so he could get his bearings. He stood up on his feet and now had Surge in his grip trying to get it of the choking grasp, while Hellion had a foot planeted on his face and was struggling to get out from under it. Now...he smelt some children he missed..."You were with her! You were close to her, I can smell it!" He looked at the girl in his grasp and demanded an answer. "Where is Magik?! Where is..." He was cut off as he soon felt a massive force blow him away and planted him right in the wall from the boy clad in white. "Wind Style: Rasengan!" He didn't feel anything in his gut area, but he felt that his organs were now bleeding inside him, he didn't know what to make of what just happened a moment ago. He tried to heal his injuries, but he couldn't for some strange reason. Now he got a good look at the boy and saw his appearance...the raw power that was coming off of him and it felt as if he was looking at a fellow Hell Lord. Odd..."You...how..dare you...brat..."

"No. How dare you try to kill my friends." The NaruClone said darkly. Then he grabbed him by the throat, pulled him out of the wall and then threw him against a pillar near the Astonishing X-Men's containment spell, he coughed up some blood.

He was about to start casting a very deadly spell to kill the boy with...if he could, but then he saw three things. One: The boy disappeared in a puff of smoke that baffeld him as he felt no magic emanating from him. Two: A giant sand colored tanuki had just climbed over the castle walls and had every one of the demons he had sent out to deal with the intruders, scared shitless and fleeing in terror, even S'ym was a little shaky at the sight. He looked at the boss-man to see what they would do next. He was hoping that he'd get to kill the kids and then try to go all out on the psychotic animal, but then finally Belasco had managed to get up on his feet, and saw one last thing. The Darkchylde that he had brought out into existence had appeared with several others including the white clad boy, and massive nine-tailed fox creature in tow.

Now the demons were really scared, but they had no choice to obey whatever their master ordered. Rockslide's new appearance shocked the still conscious Mercury and Dust, and they shouted out to him in surprise. "Santo?!"

Belasco regained his footing and now was pissed off at the sight of her... "You! How dare you come here?" Then he turned to the original Naruto with hate in his eyes after what he did to him. "And you! I will rip out your beating heart and tear you limb from limb brat, for what you did to me!" Then he along with the fox and the tanuki started laughing at him. "Hahahahahahhah!" Naruto then wiped a tear from his eye...that was funny. "Yeah, right. Now then, let's get started." A predatory smiled crept up on his face as he said those words.

Belasco turned to S'ym, who looked a little unsure of himself and of his boss. "Enough. S'ym...kill them all."

"Greeaatt..." He thought to himself as he and the rest of the horde charged on to the teens.

Then all hell broke loose...in hell..."Now it ends demon." Magik was the first to attack Belasco as she then coated her entire body in the metal sphere she had with her, and lunged straight at him. Shukaku and Kurama were demolishing the castle and the teens were going right at the demons, while Naruto was getting the telepaths out of their helmets and had swatted away a few demons coming right at them.

"Hey! Watch who you're killing you damn Tanuki!"

"I know who I gotta kill you stupid Fox!"

Ah, brotherly love...hehe. Anyway, Magik was flung back by Belasco as he shot right at her point blank, luckily the armor that coated her protected her, but she was still too weak to do anything. Pixie rushed over to see if she was alright. "Darkchylde! Are you ok?"

Her metallic armor began to peel off and then she looked to Pixie for more..."Pixie...I need more. I need more power...I need the rest of..." But she was cut off as Belasco unleashed a shockwave that sent a few of the kids flying back. He grabbed Magik by the face and was prepared to kill her on the spot for this insult. "You are not fit to be in my presence! How dare you! I showed you mercy, I let you live, and this is how you repay me? Now I correct my mistake. Die." Then all of a sudden he couldn't feel his left arm anymore, in fact...it had been cut clean off by Naruto. And he was holding the now lifeless arm in his hand, and he had the Executioner's Blade out, and dripping with blood dripping off the sharp edge. As soon as he was about to start ranting again, he found that X-23 had finally healed after being impaled in the gut severely, and had slashed his eyes out. Making him shout in excruciating pain. "GGYYYEEEARRGGHH!"

Naruto held up the severed arm and told him straight up. "This arm doesn't belong to you anymore." He tossed it up into the air and decided to destroy it for good, effectively crippling the demon lord. He looked straight at it, and decided to use a Jutsu he really wanted to use for a while now, but couldn't find a good occasion for it. "Ameterasu!" The arm was then consumed by black flame and was soon nothing but a pile of ashes.

"She was not your only mistake, you bastard." She was wiping some blood off of her face and had her claws out, ready to turn him into a pincushion, but they already had a better idea. "Alright, take him down." She spoke to the Cuckoos who now had their helmets off and then went all out with a psychic attack.

"Your helmets...we didn't like them." Seriously, let me tell ya, helmets like those on heads like theirs, it was a hair disaster if they stayed in them for too long. They dove into his mind and started to see what exactly he wanted from Illyana, despite him putting up a fight, they were the hivemind, nothing could could keep them out of any mind unless they were another telepath of high caliber or Naruto. "What do you want, devil man?"

"AAARRGHH! HNNN! NO! GET OUT OF MY MIND!"

"You kidnap the innocent...we can see them. Beatrce. Shanna. Illyana."

"But Illyana was special. You claimed her as a sacrifice, but you came to feel for her. You wanted her to be yours, body and soul."

"You lost her, just like the others."

"But with her, the loss cut deeper."

"The thought that she had returned...it was too much. You didn't even realize that what you saw wasn't real."

Belasco hung his head in shame, his most inner thoughts had now betrayed his hellish image.

"You couldn't find her. So you tried to recreate her."

"Her body...her mind...but it wasn't enough. You wanted more."

"You're not looking for her for revenge, or power..." Naruto realized what he was actually trying to do he did all of this..."You did all of this...tortured and killed us...because you love?" He honestly surprised by Belasco. He didn't think demons were even capable of having an ounce of love. But it seemed that Belasco's anger had reached it's boiling point, he started to try and channel his magics through his head as both of his arms were now indisposed and he was left in a very vulnerable state, and after having his so called 'love' revealed to his underlings, he had to save whatever dark reputation he had left. The girls were now clutching their heads in pain. "Celeste...Phoebe..."

"He's...too..."

"...strong."

"RRRAAAA!"

Soon he started lashing out with his power to try and kill someone after the light emanating from him began to arc and channel outwards in a shockwave. Naruto kept in and started to beat the crap out of him and saw that Belasco was healing rapidly from his blows, but he kept at it regardless. Kurama looked down at Pixie and spoke to her. "Hey! Pixie brat! You're the only one that can kill him! Stab him or Earth will get sucked down in here!" Pixie looked up to the giant fox and was trembling at what he just said and was scared to do it. She remembered what she was taught when she first came here. X-Men don't kill. There is always another way, but from what she learned from Naruto, is that sometimes there is no other way but that way. "I-I don't know if I can!"

"You have to! That dagger of your will end it all!" Shukaku talked down to the girl. Honestly, if he could hold that dagger, then he'd have done it a long time ago, and end this shit.

Naruto then turned to shout at Pixie as he tried to use Gakido to absorb some of the dark magic to keep it from killing anyone. "Pixie! I know that killing someone isn't your way, but we don't have a choice! If you don't want to do it, then throw your dagger at me! I'll do it for you! You don't have to do it!"

Pixie looked down at the dagger in her hand and thought for a moment...she couldn't do it. She may have a hole in her soul, she may have the means to kill now, and she may be able to use black magic, but ultimately she couldn't do it. She couldn't kill. "Here Naruto! Catch!" She threw the Soul Dagger at Naruto who caught and drove the blade deep into Belasco's heart and ending the nightmare of Limbo for good...or so he thought.

Soon Belasco's magic spell that kept the X-Men in stasis had finally dropped them out into the palace courtyard and fatigued.

"Guess our work is done here Tanuki."

"Ahhhh, it felt good to kill some things again. What a release..." Both Tailed Beasts disappeared in a puff of smoke and had went back to Naruto who dropped his Tailed Six Paths Mode after stabbing Belasco. He took the Soul Dagger and walked back to Pixie to give it back to her. He soon found herself hugging him in thanks for him doing what she couldn't do. "Thank you..." A tear dropped from her eye at the thought of being forced to take a life. That wasn't her. "It's alright. You guys shouldn't have to kill to solve problems. But there wasn't any other way. I'm sorry that I couldn't stop Magik from ripping that part of your soul out." He could've done something to stop it, but he was too late when he tried to think of a way to both save his friends from hell torture, and stop Belasco without killing him.

Belasco felt the life leave him and he struggled to get up seeing as both if his arms were now gone and was practically a worm trying to work his way out of the ditch that he dug for himself. "Hh...huk...nnoo..." Magik soon began to make her way towards him and was prepared to deliver the final blow. Belasco looked up to her and pleaded with her, "...you...I gave you...life...my child...comeback to me..." She felt nothing but hatred for him, she brought up the amulet that she used to create Pixie's bloodstone. "You did...you gave me a life with no soul. A life of hellish torture. I've found the power to thank you for that. Look, father. I've made a bloodstone, just like you taught me."

This was not the Illyana Rasputin that he had abducted all those years ago. "I will find her." He spat out one last threat to his enemies, then Magik had just shut him the hell up, as she used her magics to completely obliterate her former master. "No. You won't." Belasco was no more...

Naruto approached her with a little bit of caution seeing as how she was still in a way, Darkchylde. "Hey, Magik. You alright?"

"Can we go home now?" Pixie really wanted to be back in her room watching boy bands on MTV. She also wanted her soul back too, she wanted to feel whole again.

Naruto saw that the demons were all now bowing to her and he feared that the just traded one Hell Lord for another. "Illyana..." Naruto was about to ask her what she would do next, but apparently he chose to use the wrong name, she turned to Naruto with anger and spat out at him. "Do not call me by that name! My name is..." But then she cut herself off completly in shock at the voice she just heard all of a sudden behind her. "Snowflake?" Her face contorted to one of surprise and shame.

Colossus had come out of the rubble and heard a voice he thought he would never hear again in his life. He knew it was her...his sister...Illyana had come back, he knew it! It had to be her! "Snowflake, can that be you?" But her appearance was different from what he remembered, he need to know...

Magik looked down with her face just as set as before. "Piotr..."

"Have you returned to me?" Colossus reached out to try and take a look at her face to see the truth. Shadowcat had come up behind him warning caution to her boyfriend. "Peter...be careful..."

"Please, tell me the truth...Illyana, is this you?" She was about to stare into her brothers face to his own familiar face...but she couldn't do it, she was ashamed to look at him in her current form. "NO!" She violently jerked her head away to keep him from seeing her. "DO NOT LOOK AT ME!" She channels her magics to teleport everything and everyone back to the mortal plane and out of Limbo. "All of you, just go away!"

Everyone started to panic at what was happening, Pixie tried to talk about her soul that Magik had ripped the piece out of her. "Hey! Hey! What about my soul! What about wh..." Peter tried to talk to his sister to come back and for them to help her. "Don't do this! Let me help you! Let me..." Naruto tried to to do the same thing. "Wait! You don't have to do this alone! We can hel..."

"Good-bye, brother. And you Naruto where kind to me."

-Flashback; the Wastelands before Belasco's Castle was sieged-

Naruto approached Magik from behind and placed a hand on her shoulder to get her attention while Pixie was still trying to get the spell down."Hey, I wanted to talk to you for a bit before we get to the castle."

She turned to him and was a little irritated at him interrupting her teaching. "So talk."

Naruto took his hand off her shoulder and spoke up to her, trying to see if she wanted what he thought she wanted. "Your soul. It was ripped from you when you were still way to young to be involved with stuff like this. You were tortured and forced to do things you didn't want to do, and you're still suffering and you want revenge on Belasco." Magik turned away and her lips started to tremble a bit and a few tears threatened to break loose as she listened to his words. She wondered if he himself had suffered as she did.

"But on the inside, deep down, you still want to be with your brother, and you want your soul back." Naruto paused for a bit as he saw that the students were talking to themselves and Kurama was catching a quick nap before he started to the slaughtering of demons. "And when the time comes...I'll help you get your soul back." That made her turn to him wide eyed, as she was caught off guard completely by what he just said.

"Wh-why?"

"Because, you suffered through a lot, and I want to help you end it. You can be with your brother again. Don't you want that?"

Magik turned back to Pixie as she was still having trouble with the spell and thought to herself, she would regain her soul one day, and with his help, it would be much easier than she originally expected. "Thank you." She wiped the tears that had started to break and returned to her angry and dark self and berated Pixie for her pitiful talent at Black Magic. "No. You are not trying hard enough!"

-Now; the Institute-

"like it never happened. The entire building is fine" Vic and Megan were trying to relax in the common room, despite this being the last place that had shit go down...literally, after getting back from Limbo. "Trance woke up once her body got back to Earth. I guess Colossus wanted to go back for Darkchylde, but Amanda Sefton said Limbo had been sealed off. Rockslide's still made of Limbo-Rock. And my new arm itches."

Pixie felt worse though. "My soul itches."

"...touché."

Naruto walked in to see how Pixie the two were doing seeing as how they both tool major wounds, physical and spiritual. "Hey, you guys alright?"

"Yeah, we're alright aside from well, you know." Vic held his arm up while Pixie shifted around in the sofa. Having a piece of one's soul ripped out was something that scars you for life. Naruto felt responsible for what happened to them, and he wanted to try and to help out so..."Well, me and Santo talked it over with Slim, and now you guys are on the team! Ya'll deserve it 'tebayo."

The two newly minted New X-Men smiled at his words, and Pixie decided to hug him to death. "Thanks for saving us all down there." Now he was getting the life squeezed out of him and was struggling to speak. "Well...we all...did it..it was a...team effort...can you stop squishing me now please?"

"Nope!"

'You do know that you made a deal with the devil in a sense now, right?'

'Yeah, I know but...I'm not gonna stand by and let someone suffer for when they had something forced on them.' Though now, he had a feeling he was going to regret saying that to Illyana.

-Limbo-

"Achoo!" Magik sneezed out randomly and was now the Lord, Lordess, or Lady of Limbo now that Belasco was dead. S'ym now served her and was loyal to the ruler of Limbo, and N'astirh was alongside him.

"Well, Boss...what now?" He had a feeling that she had an agenda after killing Belasco.

Magik made ethereal faces of Shadowcat, Colossus and Naruto, and put them out, after a moments thought. "Now, S'ym? Now I get my soul back." She had a devilish grin on her face and now she knew that she would be owed by that boy when the time came.

And done! Wow, ok I really had some trouble with this chapter as I wanted to give Kurama some of the action as well and I recently started college back up again, so I won't have as much time to update as I used to. But hey, that's life for ya. Next: Children of the X-Men and then World War Hulk, before Messiah CompleX. Continue to read, favorite, follow and review (no flames please as they will be deleted). And be sure to swing by my profile to vote on the poll, until next time see ya :) !