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Disclaimer: I don't own anything within... it's been created for my own amusement and the enjoyment of others. I'm not making anything for this so don't even bother to sue me...

Naruto Ultimate:

The Nightmare of Konoha…

Chapter 24: Lizards Storm…

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"Normal Speaking"

'Normal Thinking'

Radio in use

"Jutsu In use"

"Demon/Nightmare Speaking"

'Demon/Nightmare Thinking'

"Inner Spirit Talking"

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Raven walked down an old stone path, she had finally found a rumor about Beast Boy's location being deep in the mountains. "He had to come to the mountains… Not a plain or a field, or even a forest but the damn mountains…" She grumbled under her breath, an eye twitching as she flew up the mountain while looking for the giant green lizard that had once been her annoying friend. Landing on a solid part of the mountain she saw a strange foot print, assuming his size she figured it was Beast Boy's and floated further up the mountain, following the tracks.

Raven soon found an end to the tracks but raised a brow; she now stood at a large pass, a cave to her left and a steep fall to her right. "Why would Beast Boy come here?" She wondered aloud while walking towards the cave, she heard sounds of grunts and roars coming from the cave, but was worried when she heard more than one… Walking to the mouth of the cave and looking inside she paled seeing numerous Lizard creatures around the cave… Unfortunately, none of them were Beast Boy… "Oh shit…" She said to herself as several of the Lizardmen looked towards her then lunged forward, swinging what looked like clubs made of bone at her.

Flying back to avoid the crude weapons she then raised her hands but gritted her teeth when the dark energy covering her right arm began to spread. Biting back some pain Raven threw her left hand forwards instead and black energy formed from it and shot forward, grabbing one of the Lizard men and tossed it into another of the Lizards as they started piling out of the cave. Widening her eye's Raven floated into the air and stabbed her claws into the Soul-Edge Infectant's eye, and heard a cry of pain in her head as blinding pain coursed through her body.

The girl then flew down and narrowed her eyes on the only Lizard with anything other than a club, that being some kind of Ax. "Azarath… Metrion… ZINTHOS!" The girl exclaimed moving her hands forward to lift the Lizard up then swung it around her body, hitting all of the Lizards around her before tossing the Lizard back into the cave. The Lizards around her began to roar and Raven managed to look around and pale slightly upon seeing the sheer numbers of the creatures. One then lunged at her, swinging it's club only for a different lizard to block the attack then knock that one back by punching it with it's shield arm…

"What the…" Raven wondered to herself then narrowed her eye's on the creature and read its thoughts… While crude these creatures had minds, barely, they had some thoughts and some had desires, apparently this one felt she was stronger than the "Clans" leader and had decided to follow her… "Could be helpful if I want to talk to Beast Boy when I finally find him." She murmured then got to her feet and looked around as the other Lizard's began to stalk towards them, the club/shield wielding lizard hissing as it backed up to stand at her side.

The other Lizards all roared and hissed towards them, Raven actually felt bad for the creature now helping her, considering that the Lizard was also in danger because it was helping her. However, just as a Lizard jumped towards them a loud bang tore threw the air as a bullet went threw it, and Raven easily recognized the sound of a gun. Turning she saw a man in a red coat with two guns grinning on the top of the mountain as Raven and the only decent Lizard blinked.

"Hey, you better get out of here kid, I'll handle these guys!" The man then said while firing a hail of bullets into the Lizards, picking them off by the dozens and Raven looked to the Lizard, which helped her, and it nodded to the side before running off. Raven followed after the creature while the man in red continued to pick off the Lizards with a shit-eating grin on his face. "Man I love this world! Where else do you find giant lizards worth one-hundred pounds of pure gold just standing around?" Dante exclaimed loudly while continuing to pick off the Lizards till one jumped and nearly clubbed him.

"Alright… Lets really get this party started then!" Dante said with a grin as he holstered Ebony and Ivory then pulled Rebellion from his back and lunged at the demons, swinging the swords and cutting one lizard in half as he then jumped up and cleaved another in half. Kicking the next Lizard Dante whooped as he then punched another while cleaving the head from another Lizard. "C'mon boy's, keep on coming, I don't get paid without bringing a hundred of your fucking heads to town!" Dante said with a grin as he lunged forward with a stinger, stabbing a Lizard in the heart while grunting as one clawed him in the back.

Grinning Dante turned and kicked the Lizard in the face while then lunging forward and cutting it in half. "You guys aren't demons… But I guess you'll do for the time being!" Dante then exclaimed as he reared Rebellion back and sent the blade forward along the ground, crimson energy traveling from the weapon and cutting through numerous lizards making him smirk. Placing Rebellion along his shoulders the red clad warrior looked at the remaining Lizardmen around him with a grin splitting his face. "Heh, now this is what I call one hell of a party!" He exclaimed while swinging his sword down and lunging at the Lizards…

Meanwhile, Raven and her new companion soon found themselves at the opposite side of the mountain, Raven letting out a breath of relief. She then actually took the time to know what the Lizard beside her looked like, after all if she didn't she might mistake a hostile Lizard for this one. It was taller than her, even while crouched like it was much to her chagrin, with blue-black scales which had bright red under it's eyes, it had spikes coming from the back of each elbow and it's knees, four spikes growing from the back of it's head like horns which were colored violet. It's tail was long, with two spikes on it, one at the end, and one at the middle, two more spikes grew from it's shoulder blades to point backwards like the ones on it's head.

However, its eye's were a whine color, which slightly worried her, as she hadn't seen that color in any of the other lizard's eyes. It had on black armor over its legs with kneepads, a strange silver wing shaped symbol on the knee parts while the armor flared to the outside in three spikes while then reached over some of it's thighs. A pair of brown fingerless gloves were over it's hands with a black vambrace over it's right arm that had an elbow pad with a silver wing shape on it like the knee armor, the armor flaring to the side like it's greaves. On its left arm was a strange manacle, which was black with a silver eye at the back along his forearm silver spikes came off the side like his vambrace, with a silver band around his wrist and elbow.

It's chest armor was black as midnight, with a red symbol on the chest, brown straps over it's shoulders holding black shoulder pads onto it, a black steel band was around it's waist to hold the armor to it tightly while leaving it's spiked shoulders clear. Last was a strange object around it's neck, which was black like the rest of it's armor but left the front of it's neck visible and attached to the chest plate with two leather straps. It wielded a bone club like the other Lizards, only in it's right hand, with a shield in it's left that was made from stone and looked very heavy.

"Well, your ugly, you're a lizard… But your probably more acquainted with the oddities were going to meet while looking for Beast Boy then me…" She said mostly to herself and the Lizard tilted its head to one side before nuzzling her face making her smirk. "Now don't you go getting any ideas buster…" She said playfully while pushing its head away and the Lizard gave her a confused expression, making her smirk before walking off, the Lizard following after her. She knew the creature had no ideas about her; it was only following the strongest warrior around at the moment, which happened to be her or the guy in red.

'Well… I did always want a pet…' The girl thought to herself seeing as the creature was following her like the classic lost puppy would. "You wouldn't happen to know where a large green and black Lizard like you is… would you?" She asked out of boredom but was surprised when the creature nodded its head to her. "Eh… Lead the way then…" She offered and the creature lunged passed her running off in a direction to the north, Raven rolling her eye's at it's enthusiasm as she then floated off the ground and followed after the lizardman…

Though the girl had to wonder why a parrot flew down, then landed on the back of the lizard before speaking. "Hunter! Hunter!" The green parrot called out before whistling and pecking under it's wings, making Raven frown slightly before deciding to call this lizard creature hunter seeing as the parrot did. Though she had to wonder how a lizard, which had no way of speaking itself, managed to teach a parrot how to speak?

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(Grandall Sewers…)

Lizardman walked down the sewers and wondered why he had agreed to do this? Then he remembered, because if he could get other Lizardmen to follow him and this new Nightmare then he would no longer be a Monster alone. An army of Monsters working together meant that they could defend themselves from the humans who treated them as though they were to be destroyed on sight…

Lizardman stopped as he soon heard a hiss and narrowed his eyes, a pair of Lizardmen then jumped out at him wielding what looked like meat and garbage can lids. Aeon snarled at the two then let loose a loud roar and the nearly fell back, showing fear at the much larger and more powerful looking Lizardman they huddled back. Aeon asked the two hunters if there was anymore Lizardmen around and they looked to one another.

They then explained that Humans had been paying a man in a red coat to hunt their kind, paying him much gold to defeat and destroy them. Aeon snarled, and then roared furiously into the sewers, the two Lizards cowering back from the sight of the enraged Alpha as Aeon then thought of what to do. If the new Nightmare had been expecting a grand army or something, it seemed that he was going to be sorely disappointed. Aeon clicked his tongue for a few moments before glaring at the two Lizards he HAD found and roared.

The roar was a command, one he knew of from ages passed when he had led these creatures into battle for the first Nightmare, now they severed them once more. The two nodded to Aeon as the massive Lizardman turned and walked towards the exit, the blue and red Lizardmen behind following after him quickly. They knew better than to piss off an Alpha after all, the last time they saw a Lizardman do that it had it's jaw ripped open… They liked their jaws the way they were quite frankly…

Aeon felt the two follow behind him a few paces farther than was normal for one of their kind. He supposed that the thousands of years he had been trapped meant that the Lizardmen had to evolve, or perhaps simply grew smarter and thus, they now knew both fear and anger. They were no longer creatures of instinct alone, but beings capable of conscious thought. Aeon actually grinned at that, it would be useful to him and to Nightmare after all. A soldier had to understand his or her orders if he wanted to follow them after all.

Walking back towards the exit, Aeon wondered about the rather plain armor that the Lizards with him were wearing, before then brushing it off and jumped onto a ladder to climb back to the city streets. The two Lizards then followed him and Aeon decided to just call them "Red and Blue" for the sake of it being easier on him, and certainly on Nightmare. Rolling his eyes when one of the Lizards tripped on it's claws Aeon roared for them to follow and the two jumped back to their feet and ran to his sides.

Aeon twitched for only a second before then rushing off into the city with Red and Blue hot on his heels. The three lizards stuck to the shadows, keeping themselves out of the line of site of any wondering humans, Aeon then looked up and saw that Charade was hovering over a building. Aeon grinned toothily, it seemed Nightmare had planned in case they needed to find him, good; it was nice working with a competent warrior…

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A familiar green Lizardman was walking through the country, a cloak being used to hide its features as its slitted eyes looked around its form with suspicion. He had no idea how this had happened, all he knew was he woke up about two weeks ago with the body of some kind of mutated lizard straight out of a videogame. He was slightly wary about his surroundings now, and the fact he had a sword and shield with him didn't help seeing as he had no right idea how to use them beyond slashing or stabbing…

Shaking his head he walked further down the plain country road, trying to think of what he should do. When he attempted to return to his human form he was a little discomforted when all that happened was his body shape changed. He learned he could grow spikes on his body, horns, thorns, thicker skin, thinner skin, a frill of some kind, and could change his appearance like that, but he couldn't turn into a human or change his coloration from green and black!

Calming himself down he looked around this strange world some more and couldn't help the slight smile. It was pure; free of the pollution his home world was plagued by, free of people stripping the land of resources, free of the giant cities towering up to the sky, and finally, free of GUNS… Truthfully if he was honest with himself, even though he was a six and a half foot tall lizard thing with spikes and such… He could really get used to this new world he had found himself in, hell he hadn't even missed Video-Games for the time he'd been here, though that was because he was telling himself to think of his new life as one Giant video game.

It helped him cope; he missed his friends more than he missed being human, or Video games. Then again they had been the ones to accept him even though he was green, he somehow doubted they'd hate him for being a giant lizard. The Lizard soon shook it's head and let out a tired sigh, it could keep walking for days, something it secretly enjoyed, but it was starting to depress itself with thoughts of his friends. Also, he couldn't speak, he was fairly sure it had something to do with him being a human-sized lizard but he hadn't been able to even crack a joke since this happened!

He wasn't sure what he did for this punishment but he knew it couldn't have been bad enough to deserve THIS kind of punishment!

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A storm roared as lightning struck, the seas tossed and turned like never before as a Maelstrom spiraled off to the side. A single ship rested in this, a ship with golden skull and crossbones emblazoned upon it. The helm was abandoned, the crew was lost to the sea as she swept the vessel too and fro, only two occupants rested upon this vessel, both engaged in mortal combat.

A figure rolled to the side as a familiar blue skinned man swung his curved sword down at him. The figure was none other than Kilik, and the boy was panting as Cervantes ran towards him, swinging one of his two swords. Kilik blocked the attack however, grunting as he strained to hold Cervantes back then kicked out at the ancient Pirates head, knocking him back as Kilik then swung his staff, knocking the man to the ground as he brought his staff up and prepared to slam it down only for Cervantes to roll out of the way.

"So another puny soul stands in my way…" Cervantes growled out as he glared at Kilik, the younger man swinging his staff to hold it at his side.

"My family has challenged monsters like you for centuries, I will not allow myself to fall at your hands Dread Pirate!" Kilik exclaimed while lunging forward and swinging his staff at the pirate, Cervantes roll to the side to avoid the swing before then lunging at Kilik with a thrust of his blade. Kilik barely managed to dodge, a shallow cut now rested on his left side as a result and Cervantes smirked evilly before roaring and swinging his Soul-Edge at the boy.

Kilik dodged this also, and then kicked the Dread Pirate in the face, knocking him back only to flip back to his feet. "Honestly boy!" Cervantes growled as Kilik panted, holding his staff at the ready. "I have fought for centuries, defeating countless warriors! Do you honestly believe a mere child like you will undo ME?" He demanded and Kilik gritted his teeth and narrowed his eye's on the Pirate.

"I may not have your experience… Nor the skill of an immortal… But I cannot lose I have to keep fighting! My family pledged to destroy that cursed sword, I will finish what so many have died to achieve!" Kilik exclaimed, lunging at Cervantes and swinging his staff towards him, the ancient Pirate snarling at the "Impudent Youth" who felt he could challenge the Immortal Pirate. Cervantes blocked the child's swing then lunged forwards to knock Kilik to the side of the boat, and lunged forward swinging his own swords into Kilik's staff, knocking the boy back and off the ship into the water's below…

"Blasted boy, I could've used more souls…" Cervantes growled as he then went and jumped up to the helm of the ship and took hold. "I best find a port soon… I need more Souls!" Cervantes roared then laughed into the night as he steered the ship towards land, sensing the presence of many strong Souls in that direction…

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Naruto sat with his legs crossed in a lotus position, hands placed on his knees while Madness sat before him, it's eye looking towards its master. The red head was still in his human form, but now he was also thinking more clearly, even more clearly than he ever had before. In fact without Soul-Edge's voice in his head, Naruto could finally figure out what he wanted to do when he finally had Soul-Edge. His first idea was to travel the world and gather more souls, but there were numerous problems with that idea First of all, him traveling would be like adding fuel to a fire, everyone that was able would try and destroy him, which would eventually destroy all life.

While not really caring if he did, he'd find it very… Annoying… for himself and his little troupe to have to exist for all eternity without any more souls to devour. Next, their was a chance that his troupe would be attacked while he was in battle, and unfortunately, much like Ino and Sasuke, he was already attached to them… 'I really have to figure out why I become so attached to every damn thing I own…' The redhead thought with a frown as he then thought of his third and final reason. It would be stupid for a man in blue armor to just walk around waiting for some moron to attack him, rumors might lead people to the wrong place and or to a different person in blue armor.

'Heh, the problem with the Nightmare's in the past was that they all tried to burn the world into ashes. None of them ever thought of what they would do once they had destroyed everything… No, I need a plan that allows me to gather souls, while not risking the destruction of the entire planet…' The redhead thought to himself, eye's still closed while trying to think of an adequate way of making sure his troupe was safe, gathering strong souls without them getting lost on their way to find him, and making sure he didn't burn everything to the fucking ground in the process…

However, a sudden weight on the red heads torso prevented him from continuing his thoughts and brought a frown to his face. Opening a single eye the blond found Anko had decided to sit in his lap, arms wrapped around his neck. "What do you want, Anko? I'm kind of busy at the moment…" The Redhead told the woman with an annoyed tone, making the insane woman grin.

"I know something you don't." She said playfully and Naruto twitched.

"And how does this involve sitting in my lap?" He questioned with a twitching left eye and the woman looked mock thoughtful.

"I want a reward if I tell you." She said simply and Naruto raised a brow.

"What kind of reward are you talking about?" Naruto asked skeptically while still wondering why the girls around him were completely bat-shit crazy.

"Hmm… Lets see now, I'm sitting in your lap, I'm basically married to you, and I've resisted my urges to screw you for over a month… You tell me." The woman explained with a grin while Naruto raised an amused brow towards the woman's words.

"Resisted? More like indulged without indulging in the act itself Anko…" He stated making the woman pout.

"Ha ha. Do you want to know about the guy in armor with a white Curse Seal on his shoulder, carrying a large hidden object on his back or not?" Anko then challenged and Naruto's eye's widened.

"Wait… Your saying you found the fool who sealed Soul-Edge?" He questioned of the woman who nodded with a grin… "Well… Perhaps you DO deserve a reward then…" Naruto mused as was cut off from any further thoughts as Anko knocked him down while throwing his helmet off and pulling his mask down to kiss the younger man, surprising the hell out of him with her boldness he simply held her sides… Then rolled over so he was now grinning down at the woman who mimicked his grin.

"Someone's sure getting into the swing of things…" She said and Naruto chuckled lightly, eye's beginning to glow darkly.

"Now Anko don't think that just because I've never done anything like this before that I'll be easy on you…" The Redhead warned as his eyes continued to glow and his voice switched between his normal human voice and that of a Nightmare. However, Anko grinned right back at the younger man, her Curse-Seal activating as its first stage formed over her skin, making her eyes turn yellow with a black sclera.

"He he… Don't think I'm just going to bow down and let you do with me as you please Naru-kun… That's Tira's thing, not mine, your going to have to really work for it if you want anything from me, big guy…" The woman said with a mocking grin and Naruto laughed darkly, quickly taking a Kunai from his coat and tossing it at the only light, as he and Anko both began to fully change into their monstrous forms…

"Then let the fun Begin…" Naruto's voice cut through the darkness as his eye's glowed bright red and Anko's own began to glow a golden amber…

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TBC…

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Harem Will Include: Tira (The Misguided Angel of Death), Anko Miterashi (The Serpentine Snake Mistress), Tsunade Senju (The Broken Angel), Seras Victoria (The No-Life Queen), Yugito Nii (The Flaming Hell Cat)

AN: Sorry for the late chap, but I've been trying to update my other stories some before continuing, also had to finally decide when this was going to end, seems like it'll be quite a few chapters from now so don't worry. Sorry for the cliffhanger, but I've never made a lemon, though I'll probably try when it comes to Naruto and Tira, Nightmare and Medusa/Anko is a little bit out of my league seeing as they are monstrous…