ALright guys, i typed this out in a hurry, so im sory for the grammer, but i had to write this down before i lost the insight. Now, i will be taking a few days, so i dont know if i will be able to write anything, much less post, but i hope you can bear with it.
SO, without further ado, please enjoy! its on the short side, but it was a blast to blitz.
Naruto was not a happy person.
Not right now.
His first meeting with the gods, and he sends them flying off their throne with a flying kick.
Great first impression.
Well, at least he got what he wanted…or not, if you want to be a dick about it.
Zoë was still screaming, which was annoying, but she probably hadn't free-fallen this far without a parachute before.
Well, first time for everything.
Naruto held her close, and just as he was coming up on the ground, he reinforced his legs with chakra, and guided the sand around them for extra fortification. He could have asked Isobu and Chōmei for an extra boost, but the Bijuu were unusually silent, so he let them be.
He slammed into the ground, a sand pit from a little kid's playground a small ways from the Empire State building.
Luckily, there weren't any kids around…that would have been awkward.
Naruto's legs crouched as he absorbed the impact, and dust and smoke blew everywhere as Shukaku whipped up the sand to help deal with the shock.
After a few moments, the sand fell back to the earth, Zoë finally stopped screaming. Naruto looked at the girl in his arms curiously, and he almost laughed at what he saw.
She passed out.
Naruto giggled like a little kid in a playground, and started walking off. Back to Camp half-blood we go!
He started marching, before an ominous feeling started to grow in his stomach. It was warm, and it was starting to grow. He frowned, he couldn't get sick, so he wasn't Nauseas…was it Matatabi? Her fire was pretty warm; maybe it was Kukuo, or Son Goku?
He frowned as he continued to walk…but it just kept increasing.
Naruto started to stagger after a few minutes' walk, he was burning up. He stumbled over a crack in a sidewalk, and fell to his knees, dropping Zoë on the ground with him. She grunted and arose from her unconscious state. It took her a second to catch her bearings, and when she did she wasn't happy.
She whirled around to face him, a look of rage on her face…and then it all disappeared.
Naruto was pale, incredibly so, he had sweat beading down his brow and he cradled his stomach in pain as he panted, trying to catch his breath. His hair was standing on end, and is eyes were closed in concentration. Zoë was surprised at his appearance. Not even when walking through the Nevada desert did he sweat, or even after running up a flat surface or activity intensive battles…what was happening.
"Hey, Naruto, what-"
ZAP!
She flinched at the electricity that arched through her system, causing her to immediately move away. Naruto glanced at her, his eyes in incredible discomfort.
"H-Hey, Zoë? Mind heading back to camp? Here, take this…if you're in trouble, t-tear it in half, a clone will appear and get y-you out, ok?" he said with choppy breaths, handing her a small square of paper with strange runes on it. She immediately pocketed it, and she frowned at his person. he wasn't looking good.
'Dammit, why is this hurting so much!' Naruto screamed mentally. He knew it was the electrical burns from that bolt of lightning, but Sasuke's didn't last this long, how was this possible?'
"Chakra." Said a voice.
'What?'
"This lightning, it has no chakra. It was pure electricity. Sasuke's attacks were eventually nullified by your own corrosive chakra…but this, we can only heal the burns as they appear, and they aren't stopping." Kukuo said with mild annoyance.
Naruto frowned at the implications, 'So, my lack of resistance to Lightning is coming to bite me in the ass?'
"Hah! Yes, Gyuki is currently our only defense, and even with his somewhat weak resistance, these attacks have no chakra." Son Goku replied.
'What are you saying?'
"You'll need to ground yourself, get that electricity out of your body. It's generally focused around one point where he struck you, below your left lung." Saiken said gently.
Naruto frowned, before turning to Zoë, "Hey, could I borrow an arrow?"
She looked perplexed by his request, and nodded, handing him one.
She had no idea what he was going to do with it.
With superhuman speed, he stabbed himself straight threw the chest, the arrow exiting his flesh out the back. He growled in pain, and Zoë only stared at him in horror. He fell backwards, aiming for the small patch of dirt where a few bushes grew by the sidewalk.
She watched him fall, and immediately ran over. Naruto's whole form seemed to spark, little bolts of electricity zipping between the creases in his clothing. She watched as it travelled to her arrow, before the ground below her started to heat up.
'He's grounding himself.' She realized, before stepping back a few feet. The Ozone she could smell was pretty potent and it wasn't safe to breathe in high concentrations.
"Hmm, I was wondering when he would notice." A deep voice said behind her.
She whirled around, hunting knife out as she faced the voice, before immediately putting it away giving a small bow.
"Lord Hades, it's unusual to see you in the mortal world."
Hades stepped out of the shadows of a nearby building, literally. The wall seemed to warp as it accommodated him, and then returned to normal as the last of him exited its cold structure. He stood beside her.
"Yes, Zeus's lightning has a special property, what doesn't kill immediately, will over time. His lightning is imbued with several "splinters" as it were. When they strike an enemy, the energy is immediately transferred to the target often killing them…but if the survive…well, let's say they aren't expected to live long. The lightning splinters lodge themselves into the targets body, and start to burn them from the inside. In a battle long past, he seeded the earth with these splinters, and destroyed the entire battlefield in an instant, charring the earth beyond recognition."
Zoë stared at Naruto in partial horror and surprise, you could clearly see he was still alive, and kicking…but those were probably electrical spasms.
Hades stared at Naruto's twitching form as the electricity started to dissipate, "Well, if he survives, he will be the first mortal to ever survive a blast from his lightning. Even Heracles feared a bolt of such proportions."
Zoë stared at Naruto intently, and watched the electricity gradually fade from view, "Are you here to save him?"
He shook his head, "No, I am only here to speak. He requested a meeting after all. Whether it is here, or the Court of the Dead, it makes no difference."
Wow, that was cold.
They stood by, Hades manipulating the mist so nobody would come upon the scene accidentally. After a few more minutes, the last of the electricity was purged from his system, and Naruto was definitely not happy.
He sat up, and grabbed the arrow to rip it out.
Yeah, no.
The arrow practically came apart in his hand, cracking and breaking under his grip. The arrow head that had been stabbed into the earth had melted off, and the once proud silver was now a charred black. He sighed, and then broke off both ends, leaving the black stub in, before closing his eyes in concentration. His Bijuu cloak manifested, and the arrow dissolved into a cloud of black. Naruto was seething on the ground, berating himself for being so careless.
'MORON! I NEED TO FOCUS! WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?!'
"Gaki, calm down." Son Goku called to his Jinchūriki.
'CALM DOWN! That could have ended us! I almost killed all of you for my short temper!'
Naruto stood up, dusting himself off as he looked at his charred clothes; he was honestly surprised they still managed to cling to his body. They were burned and blacked like toilet paper in a bonfire.
"Speak your piece; I am required in the Underworld." Hades said, drawing Naruto's attention.
Naruto immediately nodded in respect to him, before beginning. "I asked Artemis to confirm the answers of other dimensional activity…and the Olympians didn't know…but you're not an Olympian, are you?"
Hades fought back a smile, 'he's clever, he must have noticed.'
Naruto looked at him with a grin, his anger from before dissolving, "Death is one of the few absolute constants spanning every dimension…so that means you know of the other death gods, you share the same domain…don't you?"
Hades lips curled lightly at the ends, "And?"
Naruto nodded in victory, "Then, you have met the Shinigami, the Lord of the Dead from my dimension. That means you know where I came from, and might know of a way I can return home."
Hades grinned, "A sharp wit paired with a pair of strong hands, The Shinigami wasn't kidding."
Naruto blinked, "He knows me?"
Hades grinned, "You're his most desired soul. He has recounted your adventures to me, of how at even the darkest times, you evade death. Stabbed twice with a Chidori, and then later a Raikiri, through the chest was one of his favorites."
Naruto rubbed his pectoral muscle, "It certainly wasn't one of mine."
Hades let out a small chuckle, "Yes, well, he is rather fond of you; he tore apart the Realm of the Dead looking for you when you left his sphere of influence. He was furious that someone had killed you when he wasn't watching, and wanted to resurrect you so he could watch the battle again."
Naruto blinked, and then sweatdropped, "Really? Wow, I didn't know my death was so…widely anticipated."
Hades grinned, "You underestimate your own power, a battle that could kill you would be on a truly massive scale, even I would tune into it."
Naruto just stared at him, before rubbing his eyes, "Anyways, Does the Shinigami know I'm here?"
Hades grinned maliciously, "No, he does not."
Naruto did a double take, "What! Why?!"
Hades was grinning like a shark at that point, "Why would I give up such a powerful soul?"
Naruto balled his fists, "What?"
Zoë subtly reached for her blade, she didn't like where this was going.
"The Realm of the Dead isn't an actual place, more like a hub, a cross roads that all the souls of the dead witness before passing to the realm they existed in before. The Styx isn't just the border between life and death; it's the passage to my realm. The Rivers of Hell serve as a barrier system, separating dimensional zones and preventing confusion. At each spring, there is a gateway to other realms of the Dead. Think of them as portals if you will, but with every realm, they bear their own set of rules. You can cross only at certain times, and trespassing is a war between pantheons."
Naruto was clenching his fists…but not in anger anymore.
In excitement.
"The Kings meet on a specific day once every few centuries. It's when, across all calendars, the date is the same."
Naruto was staring at the god with a fierce gaze, "When?"
Hades stared to disappear, "Soon, it has yet to be determined. By the way, the Gods are currently decided whether or not to obliterate Percy Jackson. He is the harbinger of the Great Prophecy, and they seem to believe that eliminating him will solve that problem."
Naruto immediately tensed, "Wait! Tell me!"
Hades faded into the shadows, Naruto's hands slamming into the wall he disappeared into.
"Better hurry, The Death of Percy Jackson cannot come to pass."
Naruto grimaced, before turning to Zoë, a fierce gaze on his face.
"Listen, how far can you shoot?"
She seemed almost insulted, "With the blessing of Artemis and my own skill, there isn't a target I cannot hit."
Naruto grinned, "Well then…" He pulled out a weird tri-pronged kunai, before he unwrapped the strange tag on the handle and handed it to her, "Mind shooting this…at Olympus?"
All he got was a dumbfounded expression.
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"All in favor of destroying Percy Jackson?" Zeus called, reseated on his throne.
Some of the Gods hands started to rise and Poseidon's gripped on his trident tightened. Percy looked at the gods stoically. Thalia, who now had a strange silvery glow around her, was watching him in concern.
Just as the vote was about to be cast, a thud was heard. Everyone turned to the noise, seeing a silver arrow stabbed into the ground, a strange yellow tag on it.
Not a few seconds later, there was a strange whistling sound heard, and a familiar blond appeared with a silver Huntress on his back. He set her down, and stared at the gods, not looking pleased at being back, but here none the less.
Zeus's eyes bulged at seeing him again so soon, and alive for that matter, and Hera had a firm hand on his shoulder in an instant. He looked at her in shock, and she pressed down on him when he tried to rise, giving him the fiercest glare Naruto had ever seen. He visibly shrunk and sat back in his chair, like a child being told they were in time out. Naruto would have poked fun, but he wasn't going to let his idiocy get the better of him here.
Not this time at least.
"Olympians, if you vote to destroy Percy Jackson, I hereby swear to aid the Titans in their conquest of Olympus."
MWAHAHAHA!
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LATAS!