Disclaimer: First Chapter
No, Erza isn't a Fanalis, she is just REALLY angry, and that anger forced her power to grow. The reason her power didn't drop is a secret for the moment.
Story Start!

"So how do we know when we get to the Country of Darkness?" Naruto asked the captain of the ship with a questioning tone of voice. The slightly insane master of the boat looked at Naruto for a second, before he took a swig of rum and wrapped an arm around Naruto shoulders and walked him to the front of the boat. Moving his free hand in front of them, Naruto looked and saw a large line of whirlpools in the way.

"First we have to worry about those Fancy Feet, those pools are the reason only this ship has passed by into the Country of Darkness. Beautiful place really, some a complete blunder on the namer's part. Wide open grassy plains, amazing jungles, and warm all year round. The hunting tribes though, they don't like most humans on their country. Barely tolerate us either, but they need our cargo and we need their business." Captain Jack said with a grin on his face, before he let go of Naruto and spun the twelve year old around on his feet. Naruto was stopped when Captain Jack placed a hand on the dizzy boy to steady him.

"So what is the cargo that they need?" Naruto asked, and Captain Jack hummed a jaunty tune to himself before turning to Naruto.

"Salt mostly, but the hunting tribes usually be needing metal for armor. I myself have been to the Fanalis side of the Dark Continent, scary place. I warn you Fancy Feet, if you ever go to the Fanalis home grounds on the Dark Continent then prepare for eternal darkness. The Great Rift around the Fanalis home grounds in so powerful that not even the worlds brightest sunlight can light it up. I hear that when a Fanalis enters their homelands they turn into beasts, just a rumor though." Captain Jack said with a noticable shiver when he remembered the one time his ship had entered that cursed zone. The inability to see, and having to rely on smell and hearing alone was hell for any sailor. They weren't born with the super hearing and super smell of those creature, which was why the Fanalis had agreed to meet with them on the light side of the Dark Continent.

"... Do you hate Fanalis?" Naruto asked, before Captain Jack punched him in the arm with a slight smile on his face even as he finished drinking his rum.

"Can't say I do, the women are beauties, and most of the men respectable. Once had sex with a Fanalis woman, and now I can never have sex with a human. Nothing compares truly, yep, by October 13th we will have traded these goods for those amazing animal pelts. Just one of those sells for 1,000,000 Jewels on the market. The rich biddies love 'em." Captain Jack said, and the smell of greed practically radiated from him in buckets. Naruto chuckled slightly, before something registered in his head. If they were going to be at the Dark Continent tomorrow, and his birthay was Octorber the 10th then that would implay that he had missed his own birthday.

'Happy late 13th birthday Naruto.' Naruto thought to himself, before he was pulled from his thoughts when he saw them going closer to the whirlpools in front of them. Naruto raised an eyebrow though when the ship just kept going towards it's end. Then he saw three men, and a female jumped from the ship and use Water Magic to skate across the water towards the whirlpool. Running around the larget whirlpool, they all held their hands out in unison and with a good sized build up of magic the whirlpool vanished under the water so that the ship could pass through safely.

"Those four have been our ticket to getting through whirlpools for years, and have been faithfull members of this crew for even longer." The first mate of the shit commented to Naruto as the slightly overweight man looked overboard as they passed the area the whirlpools were. The four water users jumped back on the boat with a spray of water, and Naruto's face turned deadpan as he spat out a mouthful of water that had landed in his mouth.

"Ship ahead!"

Naruto heard the sound of somebody yelling about an approaching ship, but when he looked he saw nothing but ocean in th distance. When he heard laughing from the crew he blushed with an annoyed expression on his face. Being tricked like that was so uncool of him, so with a smirk Naruto let his illing intent reign free for a few seconds and the laughing stopped right away. He smirked and chalked that up to his victory.

"Impressive desire to kill for somebody so young, but how strong are those arms you got?" Captain Jack asked with a light tone to his voice, and Naruto raised an eyebrow at first before he saw a storm coming. Getting the idea, Naruto sprung into action and lifted up one of the canons on the deck and started to carry it bellow the hatch. Naruto passed by many people as he went up and down the stairs multiple times carrying the canons. To him these things weren't heavy at all, which was impressive since it was taking two burly men to carry one of them.

"These arms of mine are pretty strong." Naruto commented with a joking tone to his voice as he passed Captain Jake with the last canon. With the last of them safely placed away from the rain, he could help but marvel at how well this ship was built to be able to take his heavy steps without cracking. Even stone cracked when he was walking lately unless he was controlling himself.

"You ever thought of joining a shipping guild, with a strong body like what you have you would easily be able to make a living as a sea traveller. A strong, entertaining boy like you would be a great addition to my crew." Captain Jack offered to him, and Naruto chuckled and gestured to the Cait Shelter symbol on his arm. The guild captain sighed with an understanding but disappointed tone coming along with the breath. You can't blame a man for trying to get fresh blood inot his crew.

"Sorry, but I have a family to go back to. The sea may be amazing, but my heart will be with my friends on land. That and I am trying not to throw up right now." Naruto said the last part as a joke about his mild sea sickness. While it wasn't very bad, sometimes he really did have to run over to the side of the side and throw up. He truly had never been on the ocean in knowing memory before this ship, the whale didn't count since it hadn't caused him sea sickness.

"Aye, throwing up is never fun when you might tumble over into the depths of the water." Captain Jack said with a knowing nod, and one of the crew came up behind them and decided to make nher opinion known. Naruto realized that this was the girl that had truly begged him to give her a repeat performance of his dance last night... Katherine Seawater, and he was not kidding about the last part. She was a Water Mage that had the last name Seawater, with powers like Juvia that focused on salt water.

"Uzumaki-kun isn't a drunk like you Captain that has to worry about being drunk and falling over, or falling over when you have a hangover... do you guys hear that?" Katherine asked as she rose her head up, and Captain Jack tried listening for anything out of the ordinary as well. Sadly though, the answer to everyone's questions something large crashed into the side of the boat. Captain Jack fell over the edge, and if Naruto hadn't grabbed him by the ankle and pulled him back up in time he would have ended up as sea food for the... creature just bellow the waters surface.

"Curses, everyone to battle stations! They are back! Somebody get me my jar of dirt!" Captain Jack said as panic spread momentarily through the crew, and only one thing rgistered to Naruto.

"Jar of dirt?" Naruto asked in utter confusion.

"Captain uses Earth Magic so he always has a few jars of sand or dirt on board in case we need them, now if you will excuse me." Katherine said with a polite bow, before she got serious and started to weave her arms through stances while the water under them moved to the will of her and the tree other water mages on the deck. Not much longer Captain Jack come rushing out holding a jar of dirt in his hands, before he opened it and sand rushed out and swirled around him.

"All hands on deck! Here she comes, back for round two!" Captain Jack shouted out, and Naruto's wrists glowed as his Amol Selseira appeared around them. He had never gotten back his old shackles from the Tower, so now he was considering wearing these around his wrists all the time. Naruto got into a battle position, before the boat shook again when something slammed into it's side. Naruto steadied himself in time to see ten giant female arms, each as long as the boat itself. The hands of the arms had clawed nails, and the skin of the creature was colored moss green.

"Sea Shredder!"
"Sand Buster!"
"Multi-Bullet!"

Naruto watched as Captain Jack, Katherine and her brothers, and finally the first mate with a gun started to attack the arms with a fury to their calm blows as strange as that sounded. Sand crashed into the arms, while four arms were attacked by jagged blades of water trying to cut them. The bullets were slower than normal bullets, but they exploded into ice when they made cotnact with the arms. Helping out, Naruto swung his arms and the chains on his gear extended and wrapped around two arms. Clapping his hands together, he forced the giant hands to do the same above them all. He grinned when fire raced across the chains of his weapon, and set the two arms he had trapped in his chains completely ablaze.

"Aeyeeeeeekayeeeeeee!"

"She be in pain, and like a woman scorned she will only be more powerful in her fury!" One of the lesser crewmen shouted, before Naruto had a idea. Turning to Captain Jack, he started to run over to the front of the boat.

"Captain! Make me a platform of sand!" Naruto shouted as he jumped off of the boat, and a few second later sand collected under his feet so that he wasn't touching the water. Naruto made his chains shrink back to his weapon, before he set the sand ablaze with them. Jumping slightly the sand turned into glass and started to float on the water. Landing on the glass he looked down into the water to see a large, bald, green head with glowing red eyes and hundreds of sharp teeth glaring at him. Swinging his arm, the chains wrapped around the creatures neck.

"As corny as this sounds, anybody in the mood for grinned fish!?" Naruto shouted up at the deck as the chains of his weapon trailed with fire, befo0re going intot he water and turning the cool liquid into a steaming mess. Naruto hopped from foot to foot when the glass he was on started to heat up as well, but then in a jerking motion Naruto was being dragged through the water as the creature started to swim away. Using the glass as a way to stay afloat, Naruto leaned back as he was pulled along by the unnamed creature.

He could now see that the lower half of the creature was like an squid, while it's torso was those ten humanoid arms. Gills lined it's ribs, and it had five fins on it's back. Naruto yanked up on the chains, and just like when fishing he foced the creature out of the water and high into the air. Naruto yanked down on the chains, while jumping up, and he was forced soaring through the sky with his legs pointed up. Naruto soon passed by the creature, before he set his chains ablaze again and twisted his body. Landing his feet on the falling creatures head, he yanked up again and cut through the neck of the creature and killed it with the easy trick of removing it's gaint head.

Summoning his wings he flew back down to the water, dragged the glass, before he started going back to the ship. He was met immediantly with dozens of cheers from the crew, and he didn't even get a second on the deck before he was lifted up into the air like a hero.

"Way to go Fancy Feet, you just saved us the need to repair the ship before sailing again. The old bat always attacks us at least once a month." Captain Jack said with a light smile on his face, before he sighed when he realized that Naruto wouldn't be joining his crew. He then shrugged and watched as the crew started to party now that one of their Three Great Pains were dead. Now if only they could get Naruto to kill those pesky mermaids, then everything would be that much better.

Then Captain Jack suddenly remembered where he had heard Naruto's name before. One time while they had been docked in Hargeon there had been rumors of a 12 year old boy named Naruto Uzumaki that had slain a dragon that fit this boy's description. They were in the presence of the that boy.

Byakko the White Tiger, the King of Beasts.

Chapter End.
Yes, Captain Jack is a Sand Mage... because I liked the idea of his jar of dirt. Yes, he will never stop calling Naruto Fancy Feet. The Captain of a sea vessel is indeed an Earth Mage, the irony of that is pretty funny. He doesn't just use Earth Magic, but also Sword and Gun Magic. All his crew can use Gun Magic, and they carry swords. They should arrive on the Continent of Darkness next chapter though.
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