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Chapter 14: Blood for gold…
The next day Naruto slowly made his way out of the tent so he wouldn't wake up the two sleeping girls. He was very happy, he couldn't remember the last time he had ever felt like this, to be accepted for who you are, and better yet to find people that love you. This made the blond really happy.
Still he remembered the matter at hand, first he had to acquire new spells, then he had to make a connection to be able to summon the toads and finally he had to find a way to make some money now. He still had two more gold pieces from what the druid had given him but that wasn't enough, he didn't know what will happen later on, so he had to be prepared.
Naruto got dressed and tied his headband around his forehead and slowly walked out the tent. Once outside he looked around trying to find either Silveneah or Oslight. He saw the man, Oslight, talking to a woman. The blond boy walked towards him, the man hearing footsteps turned around and smiled when he saw Naruto.
The blond boy nodded at the marshal who nodded back, he then turned and looked at the woman, and she was dressed differently. She had white shoulder pads with red lines on the edges, she had a vest under her body armor, and her gloves were also red, same for the boots and leggings. She wore a red tabard with a white design of a falcon on it (1). She had a short sword in her right hand and a triangular shield in her left hand with a red design of a falcon. She had dark orange hair and brown eyes.
"Good morning Naruto." said Oslight smiling
The blond nodded. "Morning…" he said yawning
"Sleep well?" asked the man with a grin on his face
Naruto rubbed the back of his head and laughed nervously. "Well…yeah…hehe…" he said
"What is that tied to your forehead?" asked the woman pointing to the headband
Naruto looked at her and then tapped his headband. "Oh this?" he asked "This is the symbol of my home village."
"I didn't know Alliance villages have symbols…" said the woman studying the headband
"My village is…special…" said Naruto and the woman nodded dropping the subject
"Oh where are my manners?" asked Oslight. "Naruto this is Captain Nials, she leads the Stromgarde forces, or in other words she is the leader of the Refugees."
Naruto shook the woman's hand. "A pleasure to meet you." he said
"Same here…" she said "Tell me are you Byakko?" she asked
"Why do you ask?" the blond asked
"She didn't believe me when I told her that the Byakko is here." deadpanned Oslight
"Oh…" responded Naruto rubbing the back of his head. "Well yes, that would be me…"
The woman raised an eyebrow. "I expected you to be taller and older."
"What was that suppose to mean?" asked Naruto
Nials shrugged. "Don't know, I just thought that…"
"Anyway…" said Oslight "We where wondering if you could show us how you scared of and killed the patrol back in Elwynn Forest."
"I guess I could." said Naruto rubbing his chin "But in return I want something." he said with a grin
"What would that be?" Oslight asked raising an eyebrow
"I need a mage to train me, I will show you if you give me a mage." responded Naruto crossing his arms
"That won't be too hard." responded the woman "Show us and I will personally take you to a mage…"
"But what do you need a mage for?" asked the marshal curious
"I need training…" the blond responded looking up at the sky
"But aren't you a rogue?" asked the woman
"Yes I am…" responded Naruto nodding "But at the same time I can use spells…how do you think I killed those guys?" the blond asked
The two adults looked at each other and then back at the blond and nodded. Naruto looked around and saw a rather big puddle not too far and started walking towards it. The two adults were walking behind him not making any sound.
As they reached the puddle Naruto turned to look at them. He gave them a goofy grin and started doing the hand signs. The captain and the marshal raised an eyebrow wondering what he was doing with his hands, when he created the last hand sign the blond called out the name of the spell, or at least spell for the two observers.
"Suiton: Suiryudan no Jutsu" said Naruto as a dragon made out of water shot from the puddle. The dragon looked down at the two gaping humans and lowered its head near the blond. Naruto canceled the jutsu and started his hand signs once again.
When Naruto finished the hand signs he called out the name of the jutsu. "Doton: Doryuudan" he said as the head of a dragon rose from the ground, it was about to spit something when Naruto canceled the jutsu.
The two adults stood gaping at what they saw, they had never seen anyone create dragons made out of water or dragon heads made out of the solid ground. The first to recover from his shock was Oslight that was curious what the earth dragon was about to do.
"Naruto…what was the last dragon about to spit?" he asked
"Mud." came the simple response
"Mud?" asked Nials not understanding
The blond nodded. "Yes, but don't take it lightly, it can be very powerful." Naruto then looked at a nearby rock and grinned under his mask. He turned to look at the two adults. "If I destroy that rock, what will you give me?" he asked pointing to a rather big rock
The woman looked at the rock and raised an eyebrow, could he really do that? She looked back at the blond and saw his confident and determined eyes.
"If you break that rock I will give you the best mage we have to offer." she said
Naruto nodded and turned towards the rock. He extended his left arm and opened his palm; a sphere started forming in his palm. Oslight and Nials eyes widen as they saw the blond charging towards the rock with a strange blue sphere in his left palm. The blond moved his hand in front of him towards the rock.
"Oodama Rasengan!" he shouted as he slammed the sphere in the rock. There was a powerful explosion and dust covered the area were the rock stood. When the dust faded their eyes widen when they saw that the rock completely disappeared and instead of the rock there was a strange path that cut through the ground.
Naruto stood in front of the two grinning at their expressions, they where in complete awe of what he did. They looked down at him, he smiled innocently at them.
"W-what w-was that?" stuttered Oslight
"That?" asked the blond "It was my signature move, it's called Rasengan, it creates a powerful sphere in my hand, excellent for close range combat." he said grinning
"That…was…incredible." said Nials with her eyes wide.
"Sure was…" said Naruto "Now…about that mage…" he said serious
The woman shook herself out of it and looked at the blond. "Yes, yes, if you would follow me." she said
Naruto nodded and followed the captain as she was walking back at the camp. Oslight was trailing behind them in deep thought.
As they arrived back in the camp the woman walked towards a caravan where a human with red robes and a hat over his head was leaning in a chair sleeping from what it seemed. His feet were on a table in front of him.
The group stopped in front of him, Nials tapped his shoulder, the man didn't respond. She tapped his shoulder again and the response was a snore. Naruto sweat dropped, was this the best they had to offer as a teacher? He was almost as lazy as Kakashi or maybe even more.
Nials grit her teeth; she didn't like it when he did that. She grabbed his legs and raised them up making the man fall on his back. She let his legs go and they dropped on the ground. The man groaned and opened his eyes; he rubbed the back of his head and glared at the woman.
"What was that for?" he asked annoyed
"If we were attacked right now you would have been dead!" she shouted at him
The man pouted and looked away. "You don't know that for sure." he said
Naruto could have sworn that he saw a vein appear on the woman's head. "I could have killed you!" she roared
The man stood up and shrugged. "Meh…lucky hit captain." he said sticking out his tongue
"Ugh!" the captain said as she turned around and looked at Oslight. "You deal with this, my nerves are not good enough to listen to him." he said as she walked away fuming
Naruto was puzzled why the woman just didn't give him an order or something like that, or punish him for his disrespect.
"You know you should have been nicer." said Oslight
"Meh, you know I like to tease my sis." he said with a grin on his face
Naruto raised an eyebrow, the man was Nials brother? He looked back at the retreating form of the captain and then at the man. The man like Nials had dark orange hair and brown eyes.
"And who is this?" he asked looking at Naruto
"This is Naruto Uzumaki, the Byakko." responded Oslight patting Naruto on the shoulder "He is here to receive training from you."
The man raised an eyebrow. "Training?" he asked "What for, he's a rogue, last time I checked rogues couldn't use mana."
"Naruto is special." responded the marshal "He is the only rogue that can use mana and spells."
The man raised an eyebrow. "Well this is new…" he said then he put his hand under his chin and started thinking. "If he can use mana then he is one hell of a rogue." he said with a grin
"So will you train me?" the blond asked
"Sure why not…" the man responded "Lets give it a shot, my name is Gerret." he said shaking Naruto's hand
The man then turned around and picked up a normal staff. He patted Naruto on the shoulder and started walking away. The blond boy followed curious what he could learn, they left the field marshal alone. Oslight shook his head, people always forgot to say good bye to him. He shrugged and walked back to his post.
A few minutes later Naruto and Gerret arrived at what seemed a training area. The grass was all scorched, debris present everywhere and arrows lay in all places. The blond turned to look at his new sensei waiting to see what to do next.
Gerret was inspecting Naruto trying to figure out how much mana he has, he was quite surprised to see he has quite a lot and that it was flowing normally. He opened a scroll and looked through the spells he had trying to figure out which one would be best suited for the blond boy.
The man grinned as he found a good offensive spell, in fact two. The basic spells for a mage, if the boy will learn these then he would teach a defensive spell as well for a more advanced mage. Hopefully he will learn that one as well.
Gerret looked at the blond boy and motioned to come closer. Naruto complied and walked over to the mage and listened carefully.
"Alright…how about I teach you how to use the Fireball?" he asked grinning
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Fireball? Does he mean something like a Katon jutsu?" he asked himself and nodded to the man wanting to learn this new spell. The man grinned and turned towards a dummy.
"Alright, pay attention." he said "This spell creates fire in your hands, if you concentrate the fire in one palm and then concentrate for it to create a ball of fire that shoots towards a target you have your spell." he explained…somehow.
"Umm…could you show me?" asked Naruto
The man nodded grinning. "Watch carefully." he said. Gerret looked at the dummy, he moved his left foot in front of him and his left hand towards the dummy, his right hand was behind him. For a second nothing happened, then all of sudden his hands were on fire. The fire disappeared from his right hand and it started blazing in his left hand. Then the fire shot out in a rather big fireball that hit the dummy in a matter of seconds completely destroying it.
The blond boy grinned, it was something like the Katon jutsu Sasuke always used, maybe a bit smaller than what the Uchiha always produced but it was something and he liked it. The man turned to Naruto and grinned.
"So you got it?" he asked hopefully
The blond nodded. "I think I can do it."
"Then show me." demanded Gerret
Naruto nodded and looked at a dummy near the one that was destroyed. He positioned himself in the same way Gerret did and started concentrating sending chakra in his hands. He concentrated on forming fire in his hands. A few seconds later his hands were on fire, Naruto was amazed that the fire wasn't burning his skin, however he didn't ponder on that too much. He concentrated on the fire and on his left hand, the fire in his right hand disappeared and the one in his left hand became more powerful.
"Don't keep the fire too long or it will explode in your face." said Gerret.
The blond boy nodded, he concentrated on creating the fireball. He could feel something happening to the fire in his hand, before he even realized it the fire in his hand shot out and formed into a fireball that hit the dummy full on setting it ablaze and making a hole in the middle.
Gerret looked at the damaged and raised an eyebrow; the fireball went right through the dummy making a rather big hole and leaving it on fire. He walked over to the dummy and looked through the hole. Yep, it was a big one; his head could fit in that hole. He turned back to look at Naruto, the blond boy just shrugged.
The mage smiled and walked back to Naruto. "Well this was interesting, I like your fireball." He laughed
"Heh…I guess mine are different?" he asked
"Sure are, but what about we try a new spell?" Gerret asked opening a scroll.
Naruto nodded, the mage handed Naruto the scroll and the blond started reading. Frostbolt:creates ice in the casters palms, the ice is then sent to either the left palm or the right palm and concentrated at the maximum there. When the cast is done a large ice shard will shoot from the casters palm towards the enemy. Upon impact the shard will shatter and freeze the target for a few seconds, if its cast with great precision the shard will penetrate the body of the target, it will explode inside the body and kill the target instantly. But for this the caster needs to be of a high level or else it will not have this effect. Warning: do not keep the ice too long in your cast palm or else it will explode and encase you in a block of ice.
Naruto rolled the scroll and gave it back to Gerret. The blond assumed the position he had when casting the fireball and concentrated, the only difference this time was that he was concentrating on his chakra to transform in ice. To his amazement in both his hands a light blue circle was forming, then what looked like snowflakes started to drop from the circle. Naruto concentrated on his left palm, the circled from his right palm disappeared and the one in his left palm became more accentuated. Like with the fireball he concentrated on created a large ice shard. The circle started glowing more and more powerful and then all of a sudden it moved towards the middle of his palm and a large ice shard as big as a fist and long as a kunai shot from his palm and moved towards the dummy he was concentrating on. When the Frostbolt hit the dummy it exploded and the dummy looked like it was incased in ice.
Gerret walked over to the dummy and tapped it; he started running his fingers from the dummies head down to its stomach. The blond boy could see lines appear there; indeed the dummy had been frozen a little. Gerret backed away and water started dripping from the dummy. Naruto raised an eyebrow; the mage saw his confusion and explained.
"The spell wore off…"he said "You see, when the Frostbolt hits the target it encases it in a thin line of ice making the target move slower and even shiver to death if the spell is powerful enough." Gerret said laughing "When the spell ends that thin line of ice melts…resulting water…" he finished.
"Ah I understand…" said Naruto "I wonder why I can do this spells without hand signs but I can't do the moonfire without hand signs." he wondered
"Well you amaze me Naruto." Gerret said sitting down on a rock
"Why is that?" asked Naruto raising an eyebrow
"Other mages wouldn't have been able to do this spells out of the first try." He answered "It would have been more like the fifth or tenth time; they are the lower levels of the spell after all."
"What do you mean by lower levels?" asked Naruto
"Its like this, the spells are categorized in ranks, the first ranks are for novices, beginners in the art of mages. As they rise in this art the ranks of the spells raise and they become more and more strong. That fireball can become quite massive for example." answered the mage.
"And how do you raise the ranks of a spell?" asked Naruto
"First of all you need to become stronger." explained Gerret
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean by that?" he asked
"The stronger you become the stronger your spell will be, or in other words the stronger you become the spell will gain a new level." the mage said "But for that to happen you need to train with that spell till you feel that you cannot go higher anymore."
"Hmm…interesting…" was all that the blond say
"Sure is…" grinned Gerret "Now how about I teach you something for a much higher level?" he asked
The blond boy raised an eyebrow. "And what would that be?" he asked curious
"Its called Mana Shield." he responded "Basically it creates a shield out of mana around you that absorbs any attack while it drains your mana, the spell lasts for a minute, good for quick getaways or quick killing." he explained
"This is interesting." thought Naruto "But then again it could be dangerous for me…I work on chakra and I don't know for sure if the same thing from my world applies here." he pondered.
It was quite simple really; if a ninja would run out of chakra, completely deplete himself of it he would normally die. But here people would drain their chakra, or how they call it mana, and survive. This was interesting but it was at the same time risky for Naruto. Though he had to admit he liked the idea of a shield that absorbs damage even if it doesn't last for too long.
"Lets give it a try." said Naruto grinning
Gerret gave his own grin and started explaining. "All you need to do is concentrate; you imagine that you are inside a sphere, a light green sphere."
"Just that?" asked Naruto
"Basically." answered the mage
"Then how come only mages can use this?" asked Naruto "I mean it's so simple that another person such as a warlock could use it."
"It's not that easy Naruto." Said the man "You see, everything here is based on something."
"Umm…"
"What I mean is that a warlock is a summoner of the dark, a bringer of excruciating pain and a master of curses. He cannot master arcane or fire or even frost for that matter. You see fire and frost belong to nature, we mages work with nature in a way, arcane spells are the mental power of a mage, it takes a mage to be able to use arcane…" Gerret explained
"But still…why can't a warlock learn mage spells?" asked Naruto still puzzled
"(sigh) Well to put it more simple you cannot cut a apple with a fork." answered the mage "Understand what I'm trying to say?" he asked
The blond boy nodded. "I think I do now…" he answered
"Good…now why don't you try and use that spell?" asked Gerret taking a seat under the nearby tree
"What will you do?" questioned Naruto
Gerret shrugged. "Take a nap maybe, it will take you a long time to learn this one, even though it sounds easily."
"Right…how hard can it be?" asked Naruto not believing
"Suit yourself." replied the mage "I said the same thing when I first tried this and it took me one full day to learn it."
Naruto tried and tried for the next one or two hours but with no prevail. It seemed to be just like the other spells, like the druids moonfire, he couldn't get it to work. He started wondering why some spells needed for him to make hand signs while other didn't give a damn about hand signs.
The mage stood and watched with fascination at the numerous tries it took Naruto to make the spell work. He was glad that he didn't stop trying like other would have done. Still he was curious as to why the boy didn't manage to make the spell work. Sure it took him a lot of time to make it work but he didn't have as much mana as Naruto has and he wasn't as concentrated as the blond was right now.
Gerret studied the boy's armor. The typical rogue armor, not too strong and not too weak, but still it was good for him. A more powerful armor would crush him because he wouldn't be able to control the power. What was curious was the fact that the blond boy didn't seem to understand what his armor stood for.
The mage wondered what kind of rogue Naruto was if he could use mage powers. He heard of the dreadfully byakko that killed two Stormwind guards and kidnapped the princess, but from what he learned last night he didn't actually kidnap her…it was more of a rescuing her from going to the Monastery.
He wondered, was the blond something like the legends used to say. Arthas was unique that's for sure, but he was corrupted by the power of the sword and betrayed everyone. This boy, he already seemed to hold something powerful and destructive inside of him but it didn't seem like the kind of powerful being that would desire death to everyone and everything.
Gerret looked up at the sky and tried to remember how the bigger demons look like. He had seen a lot of lesser demons such as succubus's, voidwalkers and even hellhounds. He remembered the dreadlords…now those where nasty demons. The blond boy gave a demonic energy out from inside of him but it wasn't the same as the one the demons gave. No this energy despite being demonic was calm and collected and it didn't seem to be full of malice and suffering. Happy you might say.
He glanced over at Naruto, he didn't look like a demon, and even though he might give away traces of demon energy it seemed controlled and carrying. He decided to drop the idea of Naruto being a demon; if he was they would have been dead a long time ago. The demonic energy seemed to match the same power as Ragnaros holds, maybe even more. He shook his head; the demonic energy must be from one of the blond's encounters, for sure. Gerret smiled and acknowledged the blond as just any other person.
The mage looked towards the camp and saw a messenger approaching. He rose and eyebrow and stood up. Naruto sensed his teacher standing up and looked towards him. He saw the man walking away, he was about to ask where he was going when he saw that he was approaching another person.
Just like captain Nials this man had the same armor and tabard, the only difference was that on his head was a white helmet with red lines at the edges and there was what seemed like a red pony tail that started from the top of his helmet. (2)
Gerret approached the messenger, the man stopped in his tracks and raised his hand at his head and saluted the mage. "I bring orders from captain Nials, sir." he said
Gerret nodded. "And what does my sister what?" he asked
The new comer looked at Naruto. "She desires to speak with Mr. Uzumaki."
The mage nodded. "Alright, I will bring him to her, you may go."
"Yes sir." said the new comer and saluted. He turned around and started leaving.
Gerret approached the blond boy. "Well Naruto it seems like Nials wants to see you."
"What for?" asked Naruto
The mage shrugged. "Beats me, lets go and see."
Naruto nodded and started walking away after the mage.
As the two entered the camp they where greeted by a rather interesting sight. There were about fifty or so men armed and ready for battle. Whatever battle that might be. Gerret however recognized them as the fighters of Stromgarde, the fallen city. He shook his head; many soldiers died there and still do. No mercy is shown there.
Naruto walked over to Nials who was reading some reports or something like that. The captain raised her head and looked at Naruto. She motioned for him to come closer and the blond complied.
"I have a request if I may." said the captain
"Of course, what would you want?" the blond asked
"We have a few problems with a man named Falconcrest." She responded "He is the leader of the Syndicate that holds the keep and the keep's courtyard in Stromgarde."
"And what do you want me to do?" asked Naruto
"You are the best suited for this job, if you kill Falconcrest and his bodyguard Otto and bring me their heads I will reward you…" she replied serious "We want our city back, the Syndicate and the Ogres are the only thing that keep us back from obtaining what we want."
"And if I will those two you are sure that you can defeat the Syndicate?" asked the blond boy curious.
"Positive…" she said "Are you up for this?" she asked
"What will I get from this?" he asked
"Gold, I will pay you in gold." She responded. "You already have our gratitude for saving the princess from the Scarlet and you have our protection, this is the only thing we ask from you."
Naruto pondered for a second, he needed money and this task wasn't that hard, or at least it didn't sound to be that hard.
"Alright, I'll do it." he said with a grin
"Great!" exclaimed Nials "Now…Falconcrest has red hair, white skin and light blue eyes and dresses in flowing, light garments. He has a orange bandana on his face and usually used a sword and a dagger like you." she said and Naruto nodded. "Otto, his bodyguard, is a bald man with green eyes, he has a orange bandana on his face just like Falconcrest and carries a morning star. He is always near Falconcrest so it should be easy to spot him."
"Umm…what's a morning star?" asked Naruto puzzled
"The morning star is a form of a spiked club resembling a mace, usually with a long spike extending straight from the top in addition to a number of smaller spikes around the particle of the head." she explained "His morning star is deadly, made out of the hardest metal, so be sure to be careful."
Naruto nodded. "Sounds easy, I will bring their heads fast." he told the captain and turned to leave.
"I will send two riders to show you the way to Stromgarde." Nials said as Naruto was walking away.
The blond boy nodded and continued walking through the camp. He walked to his tent to see if the girls woke up. As he reached the tent he walked inside and found it empty. He shrugged and walked outside. They must have waked up and left to do who knows what.
Naruto continued walking through the camp waiting for the riders to come and guide him to his objective. As he was walking through the camp he suddenly saw Finia looking over a scroll. He walked over to her.
The girl raised her head and smiled when she saw Naruto walking up to her. The blond boy waved at her and she waved back at him. Naruto stopped in front of her and pulled her in a hug. Finia took his mask of and placed a kiss on his cheek.
"Where did you go this morning?" she asked as they broke the hug
"I went to train." answered Naruto "I found a mage to teach me a few spells."
"That's great!" exclaimed Finia. "So what did you learn?" she asked
"The Fireball and the Frostbolt, I still have some problems with the Mana Shield." he answered.
Finia smiled and kissed him again on the cheek. "Maybe I should teach you a priest spell." She giggled
Naruto grinned. "Maybe…" he answered. "Oh and where is Seyah?" he asked curious
"She left with Silveneah." Finia answered
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Where did she go?" he asked
"She is still fighting for the Alliance, she went to Stromgarde to help in the fight." answered Finia
"Oh…oh yeah…I also have to go to Stromgarde." Naruto told Finia
"What for?" she asked curious
"The captain of the camp wants me to kill the leader of the Syndicate and his bodyguard." he answered
"Do you think you can do it?" asked Finia worried
Naruto waved his hand. "Of course, I can take care of those guys, how hard can it be?" he asked happily
"Don't joke with this." said Finia "You should know that Falconcrest killed a lot of people and so did his bodyguard." she warned him
Naruto shrugged. "I can take him down, have you forgotten where I come from?" he asked
Finia shook her head. "No I didn't but keep in mind, don't take him lightly…"
"I won't… I never underestimate my opponent." he said smiling
The girl hugged him again. "Be careful alright?" she asked
Naruto nodded. He was about to say something when someone called for him. "Uzumaki?" he heard
Naruto and Finia turned to see who was calling him. They saw two Stromgarde soldiers with polearms riding on horses. The horses had a red armor on them and they looked strong.
"That would be me." answered Naruto
"We are here to guide you to Stromgarde." said one of the riders
"Oh you are the riders Nials said she would send." the blond boy said pointing to the two riders
They nodded. "Yes…" answered one of the riders.
Naruto nodded and broke the hug. "Just a second." he said as he took out a container from his pocket. He moved his hand above it and a large cat appeared in front of him. The cat looked at Naruto and growled.
"Yes, yes, I know I kept you inside for a day or more, sorry." he said to the cat scratching the back of his head.
The cat growled again. "Umm…if I give you a treat later will you take me to Stromgarde?" he asked the massive cat
The cat yipped and leaned down on its stomach. Naruto positioned himself on the cats back and the cat stood up.
"Alright I'm ready." said Naruto as he put his mask back on his face, he winked to Finia and left following the two riders.
Naruto was in awe, the gates of Stromgarde were huge. The city even though in ruins was huge. He could see a massive keep at the end of the city and he could see people there, but unlike the riders or those from the camp these guys all had orange bandanas on their faces and black armor, robes or plate armor in fact.
The two riders looked at Naruto. "Well this is it." said the first one
"Up there is Stromgarde Keep, inside you will find Falconcrest and Otto." the second rider said
Naruto nodded. "Alright, I will take it from here." he told the two riders who nodded and turned away and left.
Naruto got of Nightwalker and placed him back inside the container. He looked over at the keep again. He would have to use his ninja abilities to get past all those guards. He could take them all out but it would take a long time to finish all of them.
Naruto ran up towards the outer wall of the keeps courtyard. He used his chakra to climb up on the wall and when he was up he looked around. There were a lot of Syndicate patrols, they seemed to be either rogues, or mages, or warriors, or even warlocks.
The blond boy looked around trying to find an easy way into the keep. The entrance was guarded by more than ten Syndicate members. He looked up at the keep and saw a passageway between two towers and a door that was open. He looked left and right and saw tall grass and enough debris to hide him on the right side.
The blond boy crouched down and started walking through the grass carefully so as not to be seen or heard. He stopped in front of a catapult, two rogues were there. He looked around and saw that he could climb the wall on the right side without being seen.
"Hey did you hear something?" asked one of the rogues to his companion
The second rogue shook his head. "You must be imagining stuff." he answered
The first one shrugged. "Whatever."
Naruto walked behind the catapult carefully, he didn't want to be seen. He wasn't very good at stealth that was a fact. Because of him wearing orange in the past he couldn't learn stealth easily so he had to improvise on many occasions. But now he had a different set of cloths, or more like armor. If he would stick to the shadows he would be hard to spot.
As Naruto passed the catapult he looked around one last time to be sure that no one will see him. He could vaguely see in the distance massive creatures with massive clubs and staffs fighting what seemed to be the Stromgarde army.
The blond turned to look at the keeps wall; he placed his left foot on the wall and started climbing. As he reached the top he saw a Syndicate member sleeping near the door. He carefully walked towards the man and when he was close enough he took his dagger out and cut the man's throat. The man's eyes shot open and he started choking on his blood, after a few seconds of excruciating pain the man dropped dead.
Naruto walked in the tower and started descending down the stairs. As the stairs stopped he came face to face with a mage. The mage was about to shout who he was and what he was doing here when Naruto disappeared and reappeared behind the mage cutting his throat.
The mage fell down with a loud 'thud'. The blond cursed thinking that he might alert someone.
"Hey you hear anything?" the blond heard someone ask
Naruto looked to his left and saw a room, the door was broken. He closed his eyes and concentrated, he felt about six people inside, two of them where very strong. He opened his eyes and henged into the mage he had just killed.
"Hey Yuja, you there?" asked someone from inside the room.
Naruto not waiting anymore walked inside casually. "You called?" he asked
A man with a massive sword nodded. "Of course I called, didn't you hear me?" he asked annoyed
"Sorry, I thought I heard something." 'Yuja' excused himself
"That's strange I thought I heard something as well." the man said scratching his head
'Yuja' shrugged. "Maybe it was the wind, I didn't find anything."
"Then what was with that thud?" asked the man again
'Yuja' stayed silent for a second. "Oh that…a barrel fell down." he answered
The man seemed to bite in the lie. "Oh, alright." he then turned around and started writing something.
'Yuja' looked in the room. There was a rogue, two mages, and warrior, the man he had just talk to. He looked at the end of the room and saw two men there. One was bald and had what looked to be a mace in his hand and the other had a sword and a dagger.
"The bald on must be Otto." thought Naruto
"What are you looking at?" asked the man holding the dagger and the sword.
'Yuja' shook his head. "I have a report." he lied
"Report?" the man asked again "About what?" he asked
"The Stromgarde forces." replied 'Yuja'
The man seemed interested. "Very well…come here." he told 'Yuja'
'Yuja' nodded and slowly approached the man. He stopped in front of the man. The man sheathed his dagger and extended his arm. 'Yuja' didn't do anything, he just stood there waiting.
"Well?" asked the man getting impatient.
Before he could do anything 'Yuja' disappeared in a puff of smoke, he was replaced with a strange boy. The boy unsheathed his sword and cut the man's hand of; the man started screaming in pain.
"Falconcrest is under attack!" shouted one of the people in the room.
Naruto jumped to the side avoiding a mace, the bald man was Otto the bodyguard, and he knew that for sure now.
Falconcrest grit his teeth. "Kill that bastard." he said holding his arm
Naruto looked at the mages; he narrowed his eyes as he saw one of the mages creating a fireball and the other a frostbolt. The first mage fired his fireball, Naruto used kawarimi to switch himself with the warrior in the room. The fireball hit the unfortunate Syndicate member making a hole in his chest and setting him ablaze. The man screamed in pain and agony.
The second mage turned to look at Naruto, he fired his frostbolt. The blond boy jumped to the side avoiding the spell that hit the nearby book shelf full on destroying it. The rogue then charged Naruto. He raised his dagger to strike; it was blocked by Naruto's own dagger. The blond boy side stepped and unsheathed his sword. He did a vertical slash and cut the rogue in half.
"What are you doing, he is just a puny rogue, kill him already!" roared Falconcrest
Naruto sneered. "That's what you think." he said as he sheathed his weapons and concentrated. Fire formed in his hands, he jumped into the casting stance and fired a fireball at one of the mages. It hit the mage full on sending him flying away.
The second mage grit his teeth and formed another frostbolt. He fired it and unfortunately for Naruto it hit him full on sending him flying away and hitting the wall. The blond boy felt cold, he started shivering. He saw Otto running straight for him with his mace raised.
Naruto rolled to the side avoiding the morning star. Otto glared at Naruto and charged again, the mage started creating another frostbolt. Naruto jumped on his feet and started dodging the attacks. He looked with the corner of his eyes at the mage and saw him firing the third frostbolt. The blond grabbed Otto by the chest and forced him to move in front of him. The boy used the bodyguard as a human shield, just before the frostbolt hit, Naruto jumped away. When the spell his Otto it not only froze him but it sent him flying away and hitting the wall with his face.
Naruto turned around and saw the mage he had hit with the fireball standing up; it seemed like his fireball wasn't strong enough to kill him or sent him ablaze. The now recovered mage raised his left hand up and a light blue aura formed around it, Naruto felt the temperature of the room drop, he suddenly saw a snowflake dropping in front of him. He looked up and his eyes widened when he saw a cloud above his head. Before he realized what was happening ice shards started dropping from the cloud.
Naruto jumped left and right avoiding the ice shards, if one of them would hit him in the head he would die, the shards where pointy and thick. What was strange was that he was moving slower and that his feet where cold, he started shivering again. When an ice shard would hit the ground it would shatter in numerous pieces.
The blond boy looked at the first mage and saw him creating a fireball. When the mage finished it he fired the spell at Naruto. The blond boy tried to dodge but it seemed like he was moving slower and slower. The fireball hit full on and sent him flying away again. He hit a book shelf and his right sleeve was on fire.
Naruto narrowed his eyes and started hitting his left sleeve to stop the fire. He took a bottle of water out of his pouch and poured it on his sleeve extinguishing the fire. He stood up and glared at the mage. He unsheathed his dagger and raised his free hand in front of his face. He started moving his fingers forming who knows what and then all of a sudden he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Everyone in the room started looking around wondering where he disappeared, the blond seemed to have vanished just like any other mage but they didn't see him use gun powder. They suddenly heard a gurgling scream, they turned in the direction the sound was and saw the blond boy holding one of the mages by the head, or more like holding the mages head, the body was on the ground in a pool of blood and the boy's dagger was bloody.
The remaining mage narrowed his eyes and ran towards Naruto. The blond boy smirked thinking the mage was insane and charged as well throwing the head aside. The mage raised his left hand ad purple aura appeared in his hand. Naruto wondered what it was but ignored it, it was a bad thing. A strange transparent dome formed around the mage that shot around in a semicircle. Naruto was caught in the explosion and thrown away hitting the wall for the third time. Naruto started rubbing his head, he felt like Tsunade had punched him again.
Naruto looked up at the mage that was smirking, he started wondering what spell was that. He got back on his feet and picked up his dagger. Naruto charged forward again, when he was close to the mage he stopped. The mage had his hand up again and the purple aura appeared again. Naruto jumped away avoiding the explosion. He looked through him pouch and found a shuriken, he threw it at the unsuspecting mage and hit him in the left eye. The mage fell on his knees screaming in pain.
Naruto took this chance to attack. When he reached the mage the cut his throat and removed the shuriken from the mages eye. He looked towards his remaining targets, Falconcrest and Otto. By now Otto was standing up again and was near the leader. Otto charged again and raised his mace, he lowered it and it was blocked by Naruto's dagger. The blond boy spun around and tried to cut Otto on his back but he was punched in the face and sent flying away lading on a table and breaking it.
"Finish him of." commanded Falconcrest who was still holding his bleeding arm.
Otto nodded and charged again, he raised his mace and lowered it. The blond narrowed his eyes and rolled of the table. The mace hit the table, or what was left of it, turning it into dust. Naruto sheathed his dagger and extended his left palm. He formed the rasengan in his arm; he then charged Otto and started pumping more chakra in the attack.
As he got near Otto he jumped to the left avoiding the mace, he then moved his rasengan up to strike; it was intercepted by the mace. Naruto pumped more chakra and the mace exploded in the pressure, the sphere then hit Otto in the chest and sent him flying away hitting his leader and knocking them both down. Naruto calmly walked towards them and unsheathed his sword.
"Time to cut some heads." said Naruto deadly and sadistically.
Falconcrest pushed the unconscious body of Otto of him and stood up; he grabbed his sword with his undamaged hand and charged Naruto. "You die today brat!" he shouted in rage.
The man lowered his head above the blonds head. Naruto raised his own sword and blocked the attack; he moved his hand to his dagger and unsheathed it. Falconcrest saw what the blond was planning and kicked the blond's hand that held the dagger making him drop it.
"Fight fair." demanded the Syndicate leader
"Very well…" said a grinned Naruto. He spun around and tried a vertical slash but it was blocked by Falconcrest who delivered a side kick towards Naruto. The blond boy caught the kick with his free hand. He then grabbed the man's leg and started spinning around. He then let go of his leg and Falconcrest hit the wall.
Naruto got into his stance and waited for the man to attack. The leader of the Syndicate stood up and glared at Naruto. He raised his sword, let out a battle cry, and charged again. His sword collided with the blond's sword. They started moving the swords left and right, a serie of 'cling' and 'clang' could be heard in the room as the two swords met each other with each strike. Naruto had to admit that even though Falconcrest didn't have a hand he was still putting up a good fight. He wondered how hard it would have been if he didn't cut one of his hands and he now used his dagger as well.
Falconcrest suddenly jumped up and tried to cut Naruto in half. The blond boy moved in front and raised his sword above his head and plunged it into the man's chest. The man coughed out blood.
"I-it…ca-can't … b-be…" he said as his eyes closed and dropped his sword.
Naruto kicked the body of his sword and walked over to his dagger. He picked it up and walked over to Otto's body, the man was still unconscious, Naruto shook his head. It wasn't fair to kill someone like this but he couldn't stand here and wait, he could hear foot steps in the distance. With one shift motion he cut Otto's head off and sealed it into one of his scrolls. He walked over to Falconcrest's body and cut his head of sealing it into the same scroll in which Otto's head was.
"Falconcrest sir, what's happening here?" yelled someone
Naruto turned to the door and saw about ten or twenty Syndicate members. The members saw their dead leader and Naruto standing just a few steps away from the body.
"What have you done?" demanded one of the new comers
"Who are you?" demanded another one
Naruto started calculating his odds. It didn't look too nice; there were too many mage and rogues. Heck there was one or two warlocks and he didn't face any warlock so far. He tried to find a way out but the only option was to break the wall and jump out…it didn't seem too bad.
Naruto sheathed his weapons and put the scroll in his pouch; he extended his arm and formed the Oodama Rasengan. He looked at the new comers whose eyes were big as saucers.
"My name is Byakko." responded Naruto as he charged forward.
One of the new comers shook himself out of his stupor. "Attack!" he yelled "Kill him for what he did to the leader!" there were a serie of cheers and everyone charged. The casters stood back and started concentrating on their spells.
Naruto jumped to the sides avoiding the attacks, he reached the wall and thrusted the attack in the wall. There was a huge explosion and the entire room was covered in smoke. Everyone covered their eyes and the casters stopped their attacks to cover their eyes. Naruto used this opportunity to jump down.
"Later suckers!" he shouted as he jumped through the hole in the wall. He was falling down, he fell pass the courtyard and from what it seemed he was about to land in the ogre part of the city. He pumped chakra in his body to have a safe fall and not hurt himself. He landed on something huge.
Naruto looked around and saw in front of him the Stromgarde forces looking at him with wide eyes. "What?" he asked, he then heard a loud roar and he felt the ground moving. He looked down and saw that he landed on the head of an ogre that was not trying to shake him of. The blond held tight so as not to fall, the ogre having enough of him ran towards and wall with the intent to crush Naruto in it. The blond jumped away in time and the ogre hit the wall with force, he fell on the ground unconscious.
"Not so bright." said Naruto with a sweat drop forming on his head as he looked at the unconscious form.
"Naruto!" he heard someone shout for him.
The blond turned around and saw Seyah waving at him. He grinned and walked towards the girl ignoring the amazed stares everyone was giving him. He stopped in front of the night elf and lowered his mask. He pulled her close to him and placed his lips on hers. Seyah closed her eyes and enjoyed the kiss. When they finally broke he pulled his mask on his face again and turned to look at the Stromgarde forces. He raised an eyebrow.
"What?" he asked
"What…where….how?" stuttered one of the soldiers
Seyah giggled. "I think he wants to know how you got here…" she told the blond
"Oh…" replied Naruto scratching the back of his head. "I had a mission from captain Nials to kill Otto and Falconcrest." he told everyone
"You killed the leader of the Syndicate in Stromgarde keep!?" shouted one of the soldiers
Naruto nodded. "Yeah…"
"There he is!" shouted someone, everyone turned around and saw about thirty Syndicate members pointing to Naruto
"He killed Falconcrest, kill him!" one of the members shouted as they all yelled and charged forward.
Naruto narrowed his eyes, this wasn't good. He was about to make kage bushins to fight them of when someone put a hand on his shoulder. He looked up and saw a soldier with a sash around his head, probably the leader of the group.
"You killed the one that was leading the forces of the Syndicate and keeping us from taking back the upper part of Stromgarde…we will help you now." he said as he unsheathed his sword. "Attack!" he yelled pointing his sword towards the attacking Syndicate forces. "Leave no survivors!"
Everyone cheered and unsheathed their swords, daggers. Some took out their bows, or mainly only Seyah, while other took out their guns, mostly some dwarfs. Naruto unsheathed his sword and dagger and position himself near Seyah's left side, Silveneah was standing on her right side.
The two forces collided in full force. Numerous Syndicate forces were sent flying away. Stromgarde mages started firing fireballs and frostbolt's towards the Syndicate members, mostly the mages and the warlocks while the healers would cure the curses set upon the soldiers and heal them.
It was a slaughter; Naruto didn't have to do anything. The Stromgarde forces decimated the Syndicate forces in a matter of seconds; it seemed like without a leader they couldn't fight coordinated. They fell like flies…there had been a few rogues that gave some problems, or some mages or warlocks. What intrigued Naruto about the warlocks was the fact that they summoned strange creatures with red eyes. These creatures where made out of a dark blue color, they seemed to be made out of smoke. During the fight he heard Stromgarde forces call out the name Voidwalkers and attack this strange creatures…these where the voidwalkers?
Seyah on the other hand used quite a lot of arrows, even though she used a lot she had to be sure not to hit a friendly soldier. All her arrows hit precisely, they either hit in the enemies heads or in their chest. Sometimes the arrows hit in their legs making them fall down and easy to kill. Naruto was impressed of the skill Seyah showed, heck she even fire three arrows at the same time. She even created poison arrows using her mana. Yep, she was interesting and it would be a bad idea to mess with her.
When every Syndicate member died the leader of the group turned to Naruto. He walked up to him and shook his hand. "You did the people of Stromgarde a great favor, I thank you." he said
"Ah it's nothing." responded Naruto grinning behind his mask
The man shook his head. "Let me give you escorts back to the camp." he said
Naruto smiled. "Thank you but if you are giving me escorts I know who I want."
"Oh?" asked the man raising an eyebrow.
Naruto chuckled and put his hand around Seyah and grinned. "I'm sure that you can let Seyah and Silveneah be my escorts." he said cheerfully
The man smiled and nodded. "Sure…and Seyah, Silveneah, you two are free for the day." he said as he turned around and left
"Well that was interesting." said Silveneah giggling
"Sure was." added Seyah
Naruto put his hand in his pocket and took out the container. He moved his hand over it and Nightwalker came out. Silveneah raised an eyebrow.
"Since when do you have Nightwalker, I thought he was with Zagark." she said
Naruto nodded. "Yes, but he gave him to me for the quick getaway from Stormwind." he said
"Oh…" said Silveneah "Alright then…but you do know that Seyah doesn't have a mount."
"No I didn't but I have a better idea." replied Naruto
Silveneah raised an eyebrow. Naruto got up on Nightwalkers back and moved near Seyah, he extended his hand towards her and she gladly took it. He gently lifted her on the cat's back. Seyah smiled and leaned on the blond's chest.
Silveneah smiled, she also took out a container and moved her hand above it. Her white cat appeared and she climbed on it. Naruto told Nightwalker to take them back to the camp and the cat complied. Silveneah walked behind Naruto.
Sevin was walking next to Nightwalker, being a panther he didn't have the privilege of riding on a mount. Seyah looked at the blond's arm and saw that his sleeve was burned
"What happened to you?" she asked as she took his hand in hers
"Ah don't worry, a fireball hit me." he said
She gasped. "You should be more careful, a fireball can kill you." she said as she looked up at him.
Naruto smiled at her and hugged her. "Don't worry about me…" he reassured her "Things like this always happen to me."
"Well they shouldn't anymore…you have gone through enough in your life." she said
Naruto shrugged. "I can't avoid things here, besides, I am here to help."
Seyah smiled at him. "You know, you would make a great leader…and a hero." she told him. Naruto smiled at her.
Five people entered a cave, they looked around and then suddenly one of them yelled out.
"Naruto!!!" he screamed
A dwarf leaned to the rest of the people. "Wow, this is the second time I hear him scream." he told them as they nodded.
"So he's not here." said Felma looking around "Though he could have been nicer to our hideout." she said as she shook her head. The entire place was destroyed, the flags where ripped and burned, the firewood was destroyed and the weapons were missing.
"I wonder why he took our weapons." said Triniar looking around
"I wonder why he ripped the book." said Von
Zagark raised an eyebrow. He shifted in his panther form and started smelling the air. He then started growling dangerously.
"What now?" asked Felma raising an eyebrow.
Zagark looked at her. "Scarlet Crusade…their scent is everywhere."
Von dropped the book from his hand. "No way…"
"Does that mean?" asked Triniar
Zagark shook his head. "No, it seems like Naruto's and the princess's scent disappeared a long time ago." he told them "It seems though like the Crusade took all our weapons…"
"They took the bow of Phoenix." stated Triniar looking at the rack where the bow should have been.
"It's luckily Maleron didn't leave the sword here…" said Zagark
"Or Jaka…he has the legendary sword…" said Von looking around
"Those bastards…we have to find them and retrieve our weapons!" roared Felma
"Forget that…they took our money!" shouted Triniar showing them a destroyed chest.
"How the hell did they find the hiding place for the chest?" asked Felma enraged.
"I have no idea…" said Zagark "But what are we going to do now?" he asked "Look for Naruto…"
"Or retrieve our stuff?" asked Von
Felma shook her head. "You said the boy is powerful we can leave the search for him for now. We need to find that bow, and a lot of our weapons, they are too dangerous to be left in their hands." she said sternly
Zagark walked towards the exit of the cave and smelled the ground. "I have their scent…weak but I have it…lets go then." everyone nodded and followed the druid.
A/N: Sozy, sozy…I'm late hehe…yeah it took a long time to update I know, thank you for your patience thought. To make it up I made this chapter longer…just a little thought (sweat drop) but it's good enough I guess…and I even added a nice battle scene…
(1) I think it was a falcon, the tabard for Stromgarde
(2) Remember those medieval helmets? Or the Roman ones? Some of them seemed to have like a pony tail on their top.
A/N: Let me explain why Naruto learned the spells so fast, in World of Warcraft each spell has a rank for a level. The fireball and the frostbolt Naruto learned are Rank 1 for level 1, meaning that he would learn them faster since he is level 35-36. And as he trains more with the spell the rank will go up until he reaches the limit. For example lets say the Fireball Rank 4 is for level 36, he can learn up to there, Fireball Rank 5 which would be for level 40 he cannot learn, he first needs to gain more level…or here become stronger. Hope this is good for explanation…
Also…I was asked why Naruto had to make hand signs for one spell…Moonfire is instant cast, meaning to casting time or stuff like that, but Naruto needs to mold the chakra to make the jutsu/spell work…and even Entangling Roots which is a cast time spell he integrated it in hand signs giving him a much bigger example. For example he is running and makes the hand signs for Entangling Roots, he doesn't have to stop running to get in casting position and cast the spell…nope…this give him an advantage over other people…therefore he will integrate other spells for hand signs later in the chapters…
Btw…my updates will come…fast or slow…depends on my free time, right now I have a lot to study as exams are getting closer…but I will have an update every month, one or more at least.