Chapter 4

AN: Hello once again everyone and I still can't believe how popular this story has become in such a short amount of time. Anyway not going to drag this out so I will get right to answer a few reviews.

Kival737101: It just never really caught my interest when it was on TV so I never saw it.

Justus80: Each will be separated into different stories with the exception of those that are direct sequels. For example there will be a Naruto x How to Train Your Dragon story that will cover both movies in a single story instead of two separate stories with one being the first movie and the other being the sequel. I will also get around to making a general outline of how the whole universe thing will work and have it on my profile sometime soon.

FoxDemon1023: You will find out in this chapter.

CrimsonSylvan: Refer to the above response.

Darkwarp: I was actually the opposite and kind of liked Rourke at first which made the twist near the end of the movie to be a really big shock.

Guest "Zake": There will be some more prevalent changes appearing soon as a result of Naruto being the main protagonist instead of Milo. When Atlantis sank Naruto was 23 years old and had been in Atlantis for just over 6 years. When he was adopted by Thaddeus Thatch he was disguised as a 6 year old.

SonJubbi: Regarding the ships that is a pretty good idea but I likely won't use it. This is mainly due to the fact that even if he managed to locate where Atlantis sank he still wouldn't have a way to get down to it since it is hundreds if not thousands of feet beneath the ocean to where the air pocket leading to Atlantis is. Also there is an alternate opening deleted scene which explains why a lot of those ships are sunk there in the movie. Finally Naruto will begin to start acting very differently from how Milo acted right after the Leviathan attack and you will see why.

Alfredo203: I have stated this before but will do so one final time I CANNOT READ ANY OTHER LANUAGE THAN ENGLISH SO IF YOU CAN'T LEAVE A REVIEW IN ENGLISH THEN DON'T BOTHER LEAVING ONE AT ALL!

Dzerx: No Naruto isn't going to be gullible.

Fallen-Ryu: All will be explained in this chapter.

JJP123: No their most likely will not be Lemons in this story as I don't feel comfortable writing them and the site has begun to crack down on stories with Lemons in them again. However I may however IMPLY that a Lemon took place kind of like in Chapter 5 of my Return of the Maelstrom story.

Well that's all the reviews I will answer this time around. However to everyone else that reviewed I thank you for all the support as it really motivates me to buckle down and pump these chapters out for all of these last few weeks.

Now before I start the chapter I have one final thing to say; HELGA WILL NOT BE PAIRED WITH NARUTO! I am getting really tired of people asking me to add her to the pairing. Now as I have stated before I do have a different version of this story in mind that MAY have her in the pairing. However I am unable to write it at this time and would be willing to let someone else write it if they wanted. Said person would first have to get in contact with me so I can tell them a few details that would need to be in the story first though.

It had been roughly an hour or two since the journey to Atlantis had started and Naruto was making his way to his assigned lodging room. As he reached the door way to his room and stepped in he noted how small it was barely fitting a pair of bunk beds, and a small desk. However considering it was situated in submarine that had to accommodate 200 people, supplies, and all of the various vehicles and equipment needed for the expedition it was a pretty big room.

Naruto set his travel bag down and stretched for a moment as he heard the intercom come on and the voice of the expedition's communication officer Mrs. Packard say "Attention tonight's supper will be baked beans musical program to follow…Who wrote this?". Naruto chuckles quietly to himself as he had played another little prank by adding the little musical program part to her list.

After finishing his stretches Naruto decided to get some brief shut eye so he slid into the bottom bunk. However just as he was getting comfortable a telescopic goggle poked out over the edge of the top bunk and looked at him. It was shortly followed by another revealing the top half of a man's head and arms which then proceed to pull a string turning on his helmets mounted lighted right in Naruto's face jolting him awake. Startled by the sudden intrusion into his personal space Naruto jolted up smacking his head on the bunk above him as the man said "You have disturbed the dirt" in a heavily accented voice with his goggle lenses narrowing.

Naruto who was rubbing his aching head just looks at the man before saying "Um what?" a little groggily.

The man jumps down from his bunk revealing he is a rather short and rounded person and says "You have disturbed the dirt! Dirt from around the globe spanning the centuries!" before pulling back the blanket on Naruto's bunk revealing tiny piles of dirt each with their own little flag stuck in them. The man then gasps when he sees two piles in particular "What have you done? Englad must never merged with France!" he says before gently brushing two piles with an English flag and French flag away from each other.

Naruto just stands there with a quirked brow watching this in confusion and thinks "I don't get what the big deal is after all I am pretty sure they were merged together at some point in the past anyway". After finishing his train of thought he realizes something and asks "Well what the heck is it doing in my bed in the first place?" rather annoyed that his bed is full of dirt.

The man narrows his eyes hearing this and says "You ask too many questions who are you, who sent you? Bah I will know soon enough" before he pulls out a pair of tweezers and grabs Naruto's hand much to his shock. He then proceeds to use the tweezers to pull out a tiny speck of dirt from under Naruto's fingernail and says "A-ha there you are, now tell me your story my little friend". The strange man then twists a knob on the side of his goggles causing the lenses to zoom out towards the speck of dirt and begins to talk to himself "Parchment fiber from the Nile circa 500 B.C., lead pencil number 2, and paint flecks of a type used in government buildings. You have a cat short-haired Persian, two years old, third in the littler of seven".

Naruto just watches in both awe and slight repulsion as the man finishes his analysis of the speck of dirt. The man then looks up to Naruto and says "These are all the microscopic fingerprints of the mapmaker…and linguist" adding the last portion after licking the speck of dirt. The man then grabs Naruto's bag and throws it at him as he shouts "This is an outrage, you must leave at once!" before he begins pushing a dazed and confused Naruto towards the door.

However as the man pushes Naruto to the door they run into a blockage in the form of a tall dark skinned man. The dark skinned man looks down at Naruto and the person pushing him and says "Uh-oh sat in the dirt didn't you? Moliere, now what have I told you about playing nice with the other kids?" the now named Moliere or "Mole" for short opens his mouth to say something only to stop as the tall man kneels down and pulls out a bar of soap "Get back, I've got soap and I 'm not afraid to use it" he says.

Mole hisses as the soap is placed near his face and turns to run to his bunk. The tall man whips his towel at Mole and says "Back foul creature, back to the pit from which you came!" as Mole climbs up into his bunk before hiding under his blanket with only his eyes and headlamp visible. Throughout this whole little interaction Naruto just stands there dumbly watching it. The man then drapes his towel over his shoulders before smiling at Naruto and saying "The name's Sweet, Joshua Sweet Medical Officer" introducing himself before walking over to the desk and putting on his doctor coat and opening his medical bag.

Naruto smiles at the man and says "Nice to meet you I'm Naruto Uzumaki" politely introducing himself.

Sweet quirks and eyebrow hearing this "Naruto Uzumaki, You're my 3:00. Well no time like the present" he says before pulling out a rather large bone saw from his medical bag. Naruto whistles in awe at the saw getting a smile from sweet "Nice isn't it, the catalogue says this little beauty can cut through a femur in 28 seconds. I'm betting I can cut that time in half" he says before putting the saw back in his bag. He then pulls out a tongue depressor and says "Now stick out your tongue and say AH".

Naruto does so and Sweet begins to inspect his mouth before throwing the tongue depressor away and replacing it with a thermometer "So where you from?" he asks getting gibberish as a response. Sweet just smiles "Really I have family up that way. Beautiful country up there, do you do any fishing?" he asks as Naruto raises a hand gives him the "Off and On" signal. Sweet just seems to ignore this as he continues on saying "I hate fishing and fish, hate the taste, hate the smell, and hate all them little bones". He then proceeds to reach down and pull up two very large beakers and holds them out towards Naruto "Here I am going to need you to fill these up" he says.

Naruto's eyes widen hearing this and he spits out the thermometer before asking "WITH WHAT!" in shock. However before Sweet can respond the intercom once again turns on and Mrs. Packards voice can be heard saying "Will Naruto Uzumaki please report to the bridge". Naruto lets out a sigh of relief after hearing this before smiling and looking towards sweet "Well it was nice meeting you" he says before quickly making his escape.

On the bridge of the submarine Mrs. Packard is at her station talking to her friend over the radio she one of the lights above her switch board begins flashing. She notices this and tells her friend she will be right back before flicking to that channel and listening to the report. After listening to the report she looks over to Rourke and says "Sir we are approaching coordinates" before switching back to continue talking to her friend.

Rourke nods hearing this news and says "All right, let's have a look around" to Helga.

Helga nods in understanding "Set course to two-four-zero, 15 degrees down angle on the bow planes. Come right two-four-zero" she orders to the various crew members.

As Helga finishes giving her orders Rourke spots Naruto climbing up the staircase to the bridge and smiles "Welcome to the bridge, Mr. Uzumaki. Okay everybody I want you to give Mr. Uzumaki your undivided attention" he says.

Naruto walks over to stand in front of a white shade next to a slide projector. He recognizes a few of the people in attendance like Vinny, and Mole along. He then spots a teenage girl in an engineer's outfit before recognizing her as Audrey Ramirez the Chief Engineer for the trip.

Naruto clears his throat "Good afternoon everyone and I thank you for attending. Now to start off I will show some slides. The first slide is the depiction of a creature so terrifying that sailors were said to be driven mad by the mere sight of it" he says putting in a slide.

However instead of the creature in question being shown instead it is a picture of a shirtless Naruto wearing a pair of swimming trunks at the beach with a fishing pole in hand, a pair of sunglasses over his eyes and smiling towards to the camera while his cat tries to get at the very large fish at the end of his fishing line.

The picture gets a few wolf whistles and cat calls from some of the female members of the crew.

Mrs. Packard chimes in with a "Hubba Hubba".

Audrey raises brings her hand up to cover the slight blush on her cheeks.

Helga whistles before joking "After seeing a body like that it's no wonder sailors went mad in comparison".

Naruto's cheeks flushed a bit at the attention since even despite his advanced age as he was unused to this kind of attention from the fairer sex. After a moment he regains his composure by coughing into his fist "I'm sorry it seems I may have mixed up the slides" he says before quickly shuffling through the slides in his hand.

He quickly finds the right slide before putting it into the slide projector as the picture changes to a large lobster-shaped creature attacking a boat from underneath next to a few lines of runic symbols. Naruto points to the picture and says "This is a picture of the Leviathan, the creature guarding the entrance to Atlantis".

Vinny looks at the picture for a moment before chuckling "With something like that I would have white wine I think" he jokes getting a smirk from Audrey.

Naruto hearing this also chuckles before continuing "It's a mythical sea serpent described in the Book of Joe. The passage regarding it reads "Out of his mouth go burning lights, sparks of fire shoot out" but it is most likely a carving or sculpture meant to scare away the superstitious" he says while inwardly he hopes that it really is just that. This was mainly due to the fact that if it wasn't a statue or carving and instead something that Naruto was very familiar with then things could get very bad very fast.

Rourke quirks a brow hearing this and asks "So we find this masterpiece then what?" only for Mole to quickly chime in with a "When do we dig!" with a crazed grin on his face.

Naruto shuts of the slide projector and takes out a marker "Actually we don't have to dig. According to the journal, the path to Atlantis will take us down a tunnel at the bottom of the ocean, and we will come up a curve which will lead into an air pocket. When we reach the air pocket we will find the remnants of an ancient highway that will lead us right to Atlantis. Kind of like the grease trap in your sink" he says while drawing a diagram to help everyone visualize what he is describing.

Helga quirks an eyebrow at haring this "Good looking, Cartographer, Linguist, Plumber, hard to believe he is still single" she jokes before shooing away Mole who was tugging on her arm complaining that she said there would be digging.

Naruto rubs the back of his neck sheepishly at hearing this "I have also been told I am a pretty good cook, and give great massages" he states.

Before anyone can comment on this though the helmsman interrupts by saying "Captain, you'd better come take a look at this sir" with a slight fearful tone.

Rourke sighs before saying "Okay class dismissed, helmsman give me exterior lights" before the helmsman nods and flips a switch turning on the lights. The lights swivel around to reveal countless wrecks of sunken ships littering the ocean floor and various undersea plateaus.

Naruto's eyes widen at seeing all the wrecks and he says "There are ships here from every era" while on the inside he is panicking as there is only one explanation for all these shipwrecks to be found so close together when they are all from different eras. As the submarine continues on passing the various shipwrecks a large object hidden by the shadows stirs before moving. It passes underneath the submarine reaching out with a massive clawed arm grabbing a nearby plateau to help it move.

Back in the submarine Mrs. Packard puts out her cigarette in her coffee cup before flicking a switch on her switchboard. Her eyes widen slightly before narrowing as she turns a dial and looks towards Rourke "Commander, I think you should hear this" she says trying to get his attention.

Rourke meanwhile listens to Naruto read from the Shepherd's Journal in another language. Naruto finishes speaking in Atlantean before he says "Enter the lair of the Leviathan. There you will find the path to the gateway" translating what he just read while Helga peaks at the journal from over his shoulder.

Rourke sighs as he hears Mrs. Packard and says "Yes Mrs. Packard what is it?"

Mrs. Packard cups her headset closer to her ear as she says "I am picking up something strange on the hydrophone that I think you should hear".

Rourke quirks an eyebrow at this before he says "Put it on speaker". Mrs. Packard flips a switch and the ships speakers start broadcasting the sound she is picking up which is a loud whooshing and growling noise. As the crew listens to the noise they are unaware that a large creature is watching the submarine as it swims past some undersea plateaus on their left side.

Roruke and Helga walk over to Mrs. Packard's station and Rourke asks "What is it a pod of whales?"

Mrs. Packard shakes her head side to side before she says "Uh-uh bigger…much bigger".

Helga reaches over to the communication station and twists a dial before saying "It sounds metallic could be an echo of one of the rocks" before she looks upwards.

Mrs. Packard raises an eyebrow at this comment before she says "Do you want to do my job? Be my guest".

A few moments later the sound stops and Helga says "Well whatever it was, it's gone now" however Naruto can't help but shake the feeling that things are going to go very bad soon.

Rourke looks over to the helmsman and begins to say "Helmsman bring us about. Tighten our search pattern, and slow us to…" only to be cut off as something slams into the side of the sub knocking everyone off their feet. Outside the submarine the having just rammed the sub swims over it and begins to turn around to attack it again.

Inside one of the subs corridors alarms are ringing and red lights flashing as Audrey tries to make her way down the corridor which is now tilted at a near 45-degree angle due to the sub being almost on its side. She passes by several crew members who are holding on to pipes in terror. Back outside the sub which is now drifting out of control in the water the creature which resembles a massive lobster has turned back around and smacks the sub once again this time with one of its claws. Meanwhile Audrey finally makes it to the end of the corridor, through the door and into one of the boiler rooms to see it beginning to flood with water as crew members run for their lives.

Back in the command bridge Rourke who is now back on his feet and holding onto a railing for support turns to Helga and says "Tell Cookie to melt the butter and break out the bibs. I want this lobster served up on a silver platter" to Helga while the creature can be seen lining up another run on the sub through the bridges viewports.

Helga turns to the other crew members and shouts "Load the torpedo bays! Sub-pod crews battle stations!" only to gasp as the creature slams into the submarine again. In the sub-pod launch bay crew members rush to and into their sub pods one of which piloted by Vinny and Mole and start up their craft. As they are doing this Rourke can be heard telling them not to panic over the intercom.

The submarine is once more rocked as the creature grabs it this time holding on to it with its massive claws. It brings the sub close to its head with its eye looking right into the command bridge.

Naruto who had been thrown into the glass viewport and knocked out after the creature's initial attack begins to wake only to find he was looking directly into the glowing red mechanical eye of the creature which to his horror is none other than an Atlantean Guardian Leviathan. Naruto pales seeing this as he thinks "OH SHIT! It was an Atlantean Leviathan that was guarding this area and was responsible for all those ship wrecks"

Naruto reaches into his shirt and grabs his crystal necklace to try and control the Leviathan to make it stop. This was mainly due in part to the Atlantean Guardian Leviathan being just as its name implies a Guardian. It like all of the other machines of Atlantis was powered by its own crystal like the one he wore and was able to be controlled by someone with another crystal.

As Naruto used his crystal to gain control of the Leviathan he was unaware that the sub-pods and their crews had already launched and looped around back towards the submarine and fired their torpedoes at the Leviathan. Right as Naruto was about to gain control of the Leviathan the first of the torpedoes slammed into it and detonated followed close by the rest. The sudden shock of the attack while having caused no damage to the Leviathan made it release its grip on the submarine and give chase to the sub-pods.

Naruto paled seeing this as he even though he was second away gaining control of the Leviathan due to having been attacked it initiated the " Self-Defense Protocol" of the Leviathan. This basically meant that Leviathan would attack whatever attacked it and wipe it out, which meant that all of the sub-pods and their crews were now targets for the Leviathan. Naruto being the one to have designed the Leviathan Guardians had made them initially as escorts to help protect the transports that would carry valuable resources or important people knew that there was no controlling the Leviathan when in entered "Self-Defense Protocol". The only protection against it was if you were wearing a one of the Atlantean Crystal necklaces something only he was wearing.

Naruto watched helplessly as the Leviathan chased after the sub-pods crushing several of them against the undersea plateaus with its large claws. He then heard Rourke yell "Fire Torpedoes!" causing his eyes widen and open his mouth to tell him to wait. However he was too late as he saw the torpedoes fired from the submarines dome-turrets streak towards and detonate against the Leviathan.

The Leviathan turned its attention towards the direction it was hit from and spotted the submarine. It had registered moments ago that a citizen of Atlantis was aboard however it was just attacked. It's "Self-Defense Protocol" quickly shifted the submarine from a non-threat to immediate threat. Normally this would not have been possible due to the presence of an Atlantean Citizen being aboard the vessel however the Leviathan's crystal had been damaged during the sinking of Atlantis which resulted in a defect in its Self Defense Protocol. This resulted in the Self Defense Protocol being able to override the one that prevented it from harming Atlantean Citizen's. The various symbols and lines that decorated its body lit up as energy was transferred to its head. Sparks of electricity began to shoot around the tips of its facial-tentacles/whiskers before they converged in front of its mouth and it fired a concentrated bolt of electricity at its newest target.

The bolt of electricity slammed into the mid-section of the submarine punching through its hull, vaporizing several unfortunate crew members, before finally punching through the opposite side of the submarine.

Audrey who was down in the boiler room having just closed one of the water-tight doors made a break for the nearby ladder using a coal shovel to protect herself as the metal rivets that held the sub room together began shooting out of their places. She climbed up the ladder before being helped through the hatch by another crew member who immediately sealed and locked it after she was clear. Audrey then ran over to a nearby message tube and said "Rourke we took a big hit down here and are taking on water fast! I don't want to be around when it hits the boilers!"

A moments later she hears Rourke's reply of "How much time do we have?"

Audrey thinks for a few second as she estimates how long the submarine would have before it sinks "Twenty minutes tops if the bulkhead holds…" she begins only to a loud clang "Better make that five!" she says changing her estimation.

Back up in the command bridge Rourke turns to everyone and says "Well you heard the lady let's move!" as everyone begins running towards the transport subs.

Helga runs over to Packard who is shockingly talking with her friend again and yells "Packard, sound the alarm!". After a moment Packarad tells her friend she will call her back and gives the "All Hand's Abandon Ship" message as all across the submarine crew members made a mad dash toward the transport subs.

Naruto was running down the corridor towards the transport subs following Audrey who had turned into corridor from one of the connecting ones and being followed by Sweet. As they reached the transport sub launch bay at the end of the submarine Helga was already there standing next to the transport subs emergency exit/entrance hatch "Move it people sometime today would be nice!" she snaps as Audrey, Naruto and Sweet jump into the transport sub.

Helga then tells them to grab a seat and buckle in before she runs up to the driver compartment and takes the co-driver seat next to Rourke. Rourke looks to Helga and yells "Lieutenant get us out of here!" as Helga tries to push the emergency release lever.

Helga pushes against the lever to no avail before leaning back in her seat and kicking it which finally makes it work and the emergency exit hatch at the tail end of the submarine to fly open allowing them to make their escape just in time as the Leviathan had fired another lightning attack hitting the submarine only a couple of yards from the back end.

Helga pilots the transport sub out of the submarine with two more following behind her. A fourth transport sub begins to exit the launch bay however it is caught up in the submarine exploding and destroyed killing all who were aboard.

The three remaining sub-pods link up with the three transport subs with the Leviathan giving chase right behind them. As pieces of debris from the submarine ping of the hull of the transport sub Rourke looks back at Naruto and asks "Where to Mr. Uzumaki?"

Naruto flips through a couple of the journal's pages before he says "We are looking for a big crevice!"

Rourke looks out the transport subs viewport and spots a giant crevice in the ocean floor ""There up ahead!" he yells.

Helga reaches up and pulls down a communication microphone and says "All craft make your mark 20 degrees down angle" getting frantic acknowledgement that they understood from the other subs.

As the group makes their way down towards the crevice the Leviathan nears the back section of the group and destroys one of the transport subs with its claw. One of the sub-pod pilots looks back in terror and yells "Were getting killed out here!" as the group reaches the crevice.

The Leviathan takes a few snaps at the group with its claws missing by mere feet as it slams into the crevice unable to make it in due to its size. It fires another lightening blast hitting one of the sub-pods directly and destroying it. Another sub-pod narrowly avoids the deadly attack only to slam into the side of the crevice wall and be destroyed. The explosion from the sub-pod buffets one of the two remaining transport subs and the driver can't correct it in time as they also crash into the wall and explode. The Leviathan then begins to fire several more lightening attacks in an attempt to destroy the last two vehicles.

Inside the last remaining transport sub Naruto reaches up and grabs a hold of his crystal necklace before closing his eyes in a desperate attempt to try and get the Leviathan to stop attacking since it could no longer see them. After several moments and very near misses from the Leviathan's lightening attack he was able to finally make contact with the Leviathan and make it stop since it was unable to visually see its target.

Naruto then turned his attention toward the front of the transport sub and watched as Helga expertly piloted it through the crevice narrowly avoiding the walls before finally making to the end of the crevice and into the air pocket which was their goal. The lone remaining transport sub and sub-pod broke the surface of the water into the air pocket. Helga and Rourke climbed out of the transport sub first and turned on its search lights lighting up the area. Naruto followed right behind and noticed Vinny and Mole climb out of the lone remaining sub-pod. He then turned his attention to the nearby shore and saw crumbling ruins of the start of the ancient highway that would lead to Atlantis. Despite everything that had happened in the last several minutes including all of the death he couldn't keep the small grin of his face as soon he would finally be home.

End Chapter 4