Hello everybody this is UltraZeta120moron or Zeta for short.
i have to apologize for those who got interested on HyperDimension: The Fool Journey and have waited for a loooooong frickin while for an update for any chapters, that's because i've been busy as hell ever since i quit school and got a job which i'm quite happy about but ever since i start working i hardly have any free time i used to have before.
hell most of the time when i got back from work i'm tired as hell and don't have the willpower to do anything BUT THAT WILL F*CKING STOP! this time i will do my best to continue some of my stories likely HyperDimension: The Fool Journey so don't worry about it.
so anyway enough of my rant, i'm here to introduce you all my new story The Death Knight.
a crossover story with Naruto, Witch's house and few other i might put in the story.
Anyway enough me talking, enjoy the story :D
Death Knight.
Act 1: A new beginning...
All mortal fear death.
Death is a concept of everyone fear and hate it.
and yet without death, endless destruction and suffering would last forever.
the sinners causing needless suffering while the sinless suffer of their cruelty.
without the concept of death, there is no future or a beginning.
Death lead to the end and yet lead to a new beginning to us all.
Death... was never evil, just misunderstood by us all.
{Konohagakure-Hidden village in leaves}
{Insert theme song-The Witch's house Lost chair}
A dark stormy night have befallen over the village of hidden in leaf.
most of the inhabitants are sound asleep, few villager dared walk out in the stormy rain while most shinobi's patrolled around the village despite the harsh rain. neverthenless it was peaceful night despite the harsh storm and the potential danger of enemy shinobi that might lurking around the dark corner of the peaceful village, however somewhere within a dark back alley a small grey rat creeped out from old ruined dumpster and sniffed up in the air for any scent of other animals nearby, making sure to be safe from any dangerous predators.
finding no scent. The rat crawled away from it temporarily home as right now the rain isn't making it any safe since its home might attract other animals such as cats and dogs, seeking shelter from the storm.
The rat kept going, ignoring the rain while creeping near the walls and shadows. Just as it was nearing the exit of the back alley it stopped as a pair of couples walked by, talking about something that the rat didn't care about as it top priority is to find a better home.
it waited as the couple walked past the entrance and made a break for it toward a closed ramen stand, ran around it and kept going through another though a less dirty back alley.
luckily the back alley wasn't occupied with people so the rat kept running while keeping a look out for any cats or other predators.
It ran for a while, dodging and creeping around back alleys and looking for a good place to rest, but never found one so the rat kept searching by climbing up couple of boxes stacked up high enough for the rat to jump up to the roof top. It knew there was a danger for walking on the roof but it was much faster than walking around narrowed alleys.
While the rat was kept going it saw something at the distance, an abandoned warehouse within the abandoned part of Konoha, now it knew where it can find shelter as it searched for a way down.
however it seemed luck is with the rat as it saw a black thick wire connected to the building it was standing on and to the abandoned warehouse.
The rat carefully walked on the wire and made its way toward the roof of the warehouse, once it made it safely the rat began searching for a way in or down from the roof. Luckily it found a open window on the roof and jumped into it.
Once the rat was inside it began to find a suitable place to rest, but just as it made its way toward the main storage room it stopped as it sense that something was inside, it sniffed the air and got the scent of a human living in there. Curious it sneaked through couple old boxes and broken bottles on the ground that has been in the warehouse for many, many years.
the rat climbed up on some boxes and looked around, trying to find the human when it looked at the center of the room.
there on the center of the storage room was the floor there broken up and patch of grass and flowers grew there, there was a closed window on the roof which the light shone down on the little garden, but that was not what got the rats attention.
in the middle of the garden was a boy.
a young human boy who looked to be around 13 year old, wearing a hooded black shirt with long sleeves, the hood got pair of rabbit ear with round dull blue eyes that also have some blue colored sharp teeth, giving it a feral look. Wearing white shorts with a large loose brown belt around the waist and wearing dark brown boots. However the boy had the hood covered his face so nobody couldn't see the boy's face but the dull blue round eyes and the row of sharp blue teeth.
The boy however was sleeping on the grass peacefully, ignoring everything around him.
however this boy was no ordinary young human boy, this boy is something else. The boy is a disowned child of a great leader who has a great destiny in the future, right now the boy was dreaming.
but it was a dream he have seen and experience it many times before but this time it was different.
this time it was a warning...
{Theme song ends here}
{Within the boy's Dream}
{Insert theme song-The Witch's house Outline}
"this dream again..." the boy mutters behind the hood as he slowly open his eyes behind the hood, the round blue eyes on the hood began to glow a little meaning the child is awake and looking through the special eye holes he had designed to his shirt.
The boy looked around his surroundings and saw he was inside a white room with a long hallway in front of him, the boy stood up and stared at the end of the hallway and saw someone he usually see's whenever he comes back to this dream.
a girl with golden hair in a white dress and brown boots who looked to be around the boy's age, she also had this bright white glow around her. Making it hard what she really looks like exactly.
The boy stood there in the middle of the room, watching. Everytime he come back to this strange dream that girl will always be there. The girl at the end of the hallway who had her back facing toward the hooded boy began walk through a door, the boy watched as she walked away. Knows that she alway walk away when he come back to this strange dream.
but he know something is different, he's not sure why but he could sense something that shouldn't be in this strange dream world.
the sense of darkness lingering somewhere, hiding from plain sight and awaits for their prey to come.
this confused him, he have never sense this hateful darkness before nor ever expect it to appear in this particular dream. The boy frowned and looked down at his feets, something isn't right here, whenever he felt this darkness something bad would happen and it would usually end badly for either him or someone else.
He looked back to where the girl disappeared to, would that mean something bad would happen to her if he didn't stop it?
or maybe it would happen to him instead and the girl is leading him to safety, away from the shadows?
He shook his head, strange dreams like this are always confusing. They never give him a straight answer and he always had to figure it out himself, and once he does figure it out it usually too late to do anything like everybody else who probably experience this kind of dreams.
"your up and at em, ain't ya?"
the boy blinked, he looked down to his left and saw a small blood red fox with red eyes. The fox looked at him with a small smirk and tilted his head a bit "you know... i'm surprised that you didn't immediately start chase after the girl of your dream as you usually do when you come back here, so how come?" he asked.
The boy looked at the fox for a bit but then looked back to the hallway where the girl once was, he knows the fox is right. Everytime he comes back he would chase after the girl, he want to know who she is and why does she appear within his dreams everytime.
but ever since he felt this strange darkness he knows something is wrong, very wrong.
"..."
"..."
"... you know if you keep standing there like an idiot, you may never know what will happen to the girl right?" the fox asked. The boy snapped out of his thoughts and looked down toward the fox, he nodded and began following where the girl have gone to with the fox following him.
he needed to know, he must know what this strange darkness is and find a way to banish it.
he made a choice, he will follow the girl as usuall and find the darkness and banish it, with that he walked through the door.
{Theme song ends here}
{Forest of lies}
{Insert theme song- The Witch's house Undermine}
"well... this is new..." the fox comment as he and the boy walked through the door.
around them is a mist filled forest with red grass everywhere, the mist is so thick both the boy and the fox couldn't see more than two meters, but what made the boy creeped out is that he could hear whispers, he couldn't make out what the whispers was talking about but it was probably better he just ignored them.
he looked around trying to comprehend what's going on, whenever he follow the girl he would always end up a large field filled with flower of different kinds but this... this is something else.
"..."
"... what's up with the whispers?" the fox mutters while trying to listening what they were saying, but like the boy he couldn't make out what they were saying.
The boy didn't answer, he was trying to find a way out of this strange forest and find the girl. He can't help but be really worried, even this is a dream he just couldn't help but be worried, that's just how he is.
The fox however was getting annoyed with all the whispering, he looked around trying to find anything that is out of this place. All he found was just dead trees, white chilling mist and red grass that seem to whisper to each others... wait what? The fox looked at the grass and listen closely, he can hear the strange colored grass whisper each other but what exactly he didn't care.
"grass that talks now huh...? better get rid of them..." the fox mutters. The boy looked at the fox curiously, wonder what he muttering about but shrugged, it's probably not important. He looked around again and saw the door he came through before and saw it was covered in green thorny vines, preventing him from going back to the white room though he really have no reason to go back there anyway.
He stared at the door for a bit, wondering when those vines got there since he didn't hear anything. The boy frowned, it is probably that the whispers are too frickin distracting that he let his guard down. But then the whispers stopped, the boy looked around again seeing the forest is quiet now that all the whispers is gone but what made him surprised is that all the red grass is gone. all that is left of the red grass was a single white flower.
The boy raised an eye brow, when did the red grass suddenly disappeared and was that poor white flower buried under those bloody grass?
"well that's been taken care of~" the fox spoke, seem satisfied about something.
The boy looked back toward the fox and wondering what he's talking about, the fox notice his stare began explain "you notice those bloody grass when we got here right?" getting a nod he continue "well turns out they were the source of these bloody whispering so i took care of them" The boy was surprise, he have to admit that this dream is getting weird now but he was glad that his companion took care of it.
he focused his attention toward the white flower, he walked toward it and bent down.
there was something about this strange beautiful flower, like it was alive. But then "how do you do?" the flower spoke to him in feminine voice. The boy blinked, he wasn't expecting the flower talk to him but he might as well answer back "feeling fine miss flower" he said which earned a giggle from the flower.
"what a polite young boy..." the white flower said.
The hooded boy stared at the flower for a bit "um miss flower do you know how do we get out of this forest?" he asked, the flower seem to tilt its head a bit. "Hmm... well since your friend took away those lying jerks i can tell you where to go, but be careful there is something lurking within the woods... whatever it is, it appears to be some kind of shadows formed through somebody's past" the white flower shook its head "but whose past i don't know, it could be yours or someone else past. All you have to do is confront them and the way through the forest will be cleared."
The boy was surprised at the information, so the darkness he is sensing are formed through someones past.
But better question is whose past?
The boy sighed "i can only hope it isn't THAT past..." he thought, but for some reason he have a gut feeling that once he confront the shadows and see's what kind of past they are formed from he will know whose past it is.
"well that sucks..." the fox commented, almost like he read the boy's mind. The boy ignored his companion and focused his attention toward the misty forest, so all he had to do is confront the shadows and find the girl and everything will be back to normal right?
...
...
...
"why do i getting the feeling it is not that simple?" he thought as he stood up and walked around the flower, heading toward a bit to the forest.
"because things would never be simple, not after what happened to you five years ago remember?" the fox said, appearing next to the boy. The boy sighed, he know the fox is right, things have never been simple for him not what happened five years ago and if anything it just went worse all becuase of his so called Family abandon him AND killed him.
The boy frowned, whenever he thinks of his parents he feel nothing. Nothing at all, to him they were nothing but strangers to him and even if they wanted him to come back to their so called perfect family he will deny it. He have no love for them nor any hatred for them, because he have accepted that things will be that way from the beginning and there was nothing he could do about it that could change them.
however his backstabbing twin sister is another story, he hates her with passion.
whenever he think about her his hatred just rises up and sometime it's hard to control it and prevent himself from even trying to go up to her and make her suffer like how he had suffer by her hands.
the boy place his hand on his throat as he could remember what his sister did to him, how she played with his emotion and his fragile hope to come back to his family only to shatter it and making them kill him instead.
all for sake of power.
the boy shook his head, he can't comprehend why she would do it but that doesn't mean he will forgive her whatever other reasons she has, there were no way for her to redeem herself of what she did to him. he shakes his head again, he knows that mope around and hope it get's better won't get him anywhere, no he will find his own path and will find someone that will accept him of who he is and what he is.
he don't need them, his parents and the village never cared about him and still does even though they don't know he's alive. He will find a home where he can be accepted and if he happens to come across his "Sister" during his journey.
she'll be another corpse once he's through with her.
The boy turned around toward the flower and asked "so all i have to do is to find the shadows and beat them, i will find my way out of this forest right?" the flower nodded "indeed. but to find them you need to sense the closest one nearby or else you will be running around in circles, no way of finding them unless they decided to search for you that is" the boy nodded at the asnwer "i see... very well i will be going now, have a nice day miss flower" he said and walked into the misty forest with the fox following him.
"and to you as well... young Death knight" the flower said as the boy disappeared into the forest.
{Theme song ends here}
{Insert theme song- Majora's mask Ikana Canyon}
"wonderful... i wonder when things would change from a creepy mist filled forest to an outright terrifying black forest at night with the moon as a frickin bleeding eyeball looking at us" the Fox mutters as he and the boy somehow appeared into a more scary looking black forest with demonic faces, it was also night time as well but the moon as the fox said was replaced with a large bleeding eye.
"let just try find out where the shadows are" the boy said as he kept walking, not caring one bit about the scary atmosphere.
The fox just rolled his eyes as he followed the boy "as you wish kiddo, though how exactly are we going to find these shadows that the flower told us about?" he asked and while ignoring the eye that seem to follow them for no reason. The boy didn't answer as he kept walking while taking few glances at the forest.
that was a good question, how the hell is he going to find them in a place like this?
The forest is simply too dark, there were strange noises coming from somewhere in the forest. The boy not sure if someone is moaning in pain or just wandering ghost doing whatever the hell they usually do, scare people perhaps? Soon they ended up a crossroad with a large dead tree in the middle.
"well this is lovely, any ideas kid?" the fox asked while looking around, to him it just got more annoying than ever. The boy however stared at the tree in front of him, he knows that once he pick a road to go through it is likely they will get lost somewhere in the woods. But how are they going to find the shadows if they only get lost?
the boy kept staring the big dead tree in front of him until he notice something, he walked up to the tree and saw something was written on the bark.
Within the forest of lies...
you will be lost...
but have no fear...
the maiden's light shall guide your hand...
but on the end...
the elder tree and the false prophet will be there...
to lead salvation or eternal darkness...
"Maiden's light..." the boy mutters.
"maiden's light huh? don't you think it means the girl within your dream here? and what is this about the elder tree and the false prophet thing is?" the fox asked while read the words written on the bark. The boy didn't answer but looked around for any clues of what the text meant and wondered if the girl will be the one leading them to the shadows. But it also lead to another question, who is this false prophet and the elder tree? and what do they have anything to do with what's going on right now?
"too many questions... too little answers to everything" the boy thought while sighing.
The situation isn't helping, with no way knowing where they should go and not wanting to take the risk of getting lost in the black forest, he swear he thought he saw something moving in the woods, plus the eye moon is still creepy as hell. Just saying. "so now what?" the fox asked, he understand what the kid is thinking and can't help but agree. Getting lost in this strange creepy dark forest with who knows what's in there is bad, with another sigh the boy answered.
"guess we have no choice but to find out what this Maiden's light really is and how does it help us find these... Elder tree and the false prophet"
"wonderful..."
with that the boy and the fox choose one of the path and hoped they chosed the right one. as they kept walking the boy notice something in the woods, he's not sure what but there were shapes moving around but it was too dark to see what it was. The fox however thanks to his better hearing duo to being a fox he could hear sounds of creaking and hissing, it took for a moment for the fox realize what it was in the woods.
"Risen Skeletons... why are those things in this dream?" the fox thought with a frown, this have gone from a scary dream to a dangerous one. If the fox didn't know better someone is trying to kill the hooded boy within his dream, but better question is why aren't those undead not coming for them? they are way out in the open and yet it's as if they are avoiding them of something.
"no doubt about it this is the work of a demon or several of them, trying to take both our souls to satisfy their hunger" he thought while walking closer to the boy. he won't let them take the boy who have become his only human friend he ever gain in his cursed life, if it means to going all out with his true form then he will.
And that's when i stopped writing, yeah this was a naruto (vomit waterfall), Witch's house and various other that i can't remember.