Snake Lords
"Takes place around when Naruto comes back with Jiriya. Sasuke is still with Orochimaru. So yeah, they're all around 15 or 16. A Naruto and Harry Potter Crossover. I'm not sticking to the plots of either series."
Thinking
"Yelling"
Yey! I had a snowday today! Unfortunately, I was stuck shoveling the foot of snow we got off the entire driveway. And then, my Mom asked me to help the neighbors out with their driveway, so even though I had the whole day off, I didn't get much time to write at all! And to top it all off, I didn't even get paid for shoveling either driveway... whoopdee doo...
ZebioLizard2: Thank you much! Be prepared for an unexpected event!
the DragonBard: Oh, he got hit by all three spells alright... Later, you'll see why he could have broken out of the stone.
Shadow Fox000: I like retarded Lee too! But later, he'll get some actiony bits (unfortunately, not tons of it, but there will be some!)
On with the story!
Chpt 20: The Last Descendant
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"Since when have you ever been the boss of me Temari?" Gaara's face had a single blue lightning bolt drawn across it. Sand began to swirl around him threateningly. "I suggest you mind your own buissness." He shoved her out of the way. "Is anyone else coming with me?"
"I'll come." Ino said, stepping up.
"We're coming too." Naruto and Hinata said, stepping up alongside Ino. A four-man squad, perfect.
"We'll find a way to train the students faster while you guys are gone. In fact, I already devised a way to do so." Shikamaru said. "While you're there, get as much information as possible. I'll need it to devise a strategy." Everyone nodded and quickly ran off. If those two were captured, there must have been a reason behind it. The longer they were stuck there, the more danger they would be in.
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"Alright everyone! We believe that you have all advanced enough to move on to the next stage!" Shikamaru said, holding up a scroll listing all the volunteers and the groups they would be training in. He had scheduled an early meeting with them as soon as the four left had left to go behind enemy lines because he finally had the solution to getting their skills up to par.
"The groups are as follows." He said, unfurling the scroll, reading aloud who landed in which group. Kiba ended up with Ginny and Neville. Shikamaru decided Hermione would work best with him. Temari had Ron to deal with. Harry would have had Naruto, but since he was out on a mission, he had to be with Lee for now. Neji ended up with the most difficult person for him to work with; Luna Lovegood. (A.N: You can make up the other people in the groups as I refuse to list them all.)
"Alright everyone! Move out! Your squad leader will know where to go!" Shikamaru commanded, not sounding bored for once. Well, this was a matter of great importance.
Shikamaru's squad
Shikamaru led his squad out nearby the lake.
"Alright, you're all good at chakra control, right?" They nodded. "Then attach chakra to your feet and walk across the water. No magic either." They gaped at him with open mouths.
"You can't be serious can you?"
"Yes Eric, I am quite serious. Now go! We don't have time to waste." The squad gulped nervously. Each one attached chakra to their feet and tried to walk across the lake. Most of them sunk like a rock, except for Hermione, who was ankle deep in the water and losing her balance quickly. Shikamaru sighed.
"Alright, come back out…" The soggy group sloshed their way back to shore. "Drink this." Shikamaru said, tossing a small container of misty, red color that swirled about and had little electric sparks jumping along the surface to each of them.
"And what might this be?"
"This is The Enhancer, isn't it?" Hermione said, cautiously opening the bottle.
"Precisely. If you don't already know, The Enhancer is a potion that supercharges every cell in the body by 10-fold, except, I've made a small tweak in the ingredients." Shikamaru explained.
"I've added a touch of Scaler dust, making the effects last up to 24 hours. While under the effect of the Enhancer, your skills will increase, making it easier to train you to the best you can be. So when it wears off, your skills may not be as good as when you are under the effects of the potion, but they will be somewhat better than when we started out with. Now drink, and try the water-walking drill again." They all took a swig of the potion, draining the tiny bottle in a few gulps.
Everyone took a careful step onto the water, and to their surprise, they stood perfectly on top. Shikamaru grinned. His plan to train them better, had justsucceeded.
Neji's squad
"Do you have the Griddlebacks?" Luna asked an already agitated Neji.
"No Luna… I don't have the Griddlebacks." He said, grinding his teeth.
"But your eyes…"
"They're supposed to be like that!" He snapped at her. "All of you, drink this." He handed out the tiny bottles of The Enhancer.
"Why?" Someone asked.
"Because I said so! And if you don't drink it, I will cause you misery for the rest of your life…" While saying this, he turned on his Byakugan, scaring the shit out of the kid who asked.
"So… you do have the Griddlebacks!" Luna exclaimed. "Griddlebacks make the veins in your head explode by making a chemical imbalance in your brain." Neji slapped his face.
"It's called a bloodline limit ok! If you all don't get climbing those trees right now, you will have to run 100 laps around the school!" Neji yelled furiously.
"What's a bloodline limit? Does it make your head explode too?" Luna asked dreamily.
"OH WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP!" He shouted in her face.
"Oh, I see. You're also suffering from a case of the Wheples…" Luna said, a look of understanding dawning upon her face. When she said that, Neji began to cry and whack his head against a tree.
Kiba's squad
So far, everything was going smoothly for Kiba's group. Everyone had taken the Enhancer, and was learning some interesting new jutsu from Kiba. Kiba's group consisted of those who had the brute strength, and the raw talent to be able to cause quite a bit of damage. At the moment, they were learning how to time jumps in the air and rebounding off of each other, creating miniature versions of the Gatsuga.
Lucky for Kiba, the people in his group weren't as hard to get along with, and really understood the meaning of teamwork.
Temari's squad
"WOULD YOU GET TO WORK RON?"
"I DON'T GET IT!" This squad wasn't doing too much as Ron and Temari apparently loved to argue with each other. It was obvious that Ron completely understood what Temari was telling him, and that Temari could have made him get to work any time she wanted him to. In short, they were arguing with each other for no real reason at all, and it didn't look like they were going to stop anytime soon.
Lee's squad
Ok, if it wasn't for all the youth speeches driving them insane, they would be fine. Well, somewhat… It seemed like everyone was about to pass out because Lee was making them do 1000 pushups with heavy weights tied around their midsection. Poor Harry had managed to do 25 since he had the help of the Enhancer, but he was stuck at the bottom of his 26th one and couldn't get back up. This was made even worse torture when Lee went on and on telling them how beneficial this would be to their youthful flames. Gotta feel sorry for them…
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Inside Snake Lords HQ
Amanda opened her blurry eyes and looked around, only, she couldn't see. She tried to move her arms, but those wouldn't move, neither would her legs. She tugged and tugged, but she still couldn't move.
"Don't even try escaping, it won't work…" A light shone out from the ceiling revealing an underground stone chamber. Amanda was strung up on the wall by chains coming out of the wall. A disgusting white face with red was staring straight at her. "Now, you do know why you are here, right?" Her heart started to pound painfully up against her chest. "No? Well how about we enlighten you?" Another face zoomed up right next to her head on a neck that stretched quite a long ways.
"You have the seal that we need, and the blood needed to use it." Then she knew who these two were, and she was good as dead.
"You see, we've got a little problem..." Orochimaru bent down next to her face. "That seal only works with your blood. Without it, it's comepletely useless... And do you know why?" He bent down ever closer to her, only about two inches away from her face. Amanda nervously shook her head 'no', trying to edge as far away from him as he could. "You mean, you don't know why 'we' sent you the seal? Or why 'we' placed the book in the library in the first place?" Placing an emphisis on 'we' each time.
Control through fear. That was Orochimaru's motto. "You my dear," he said, placing his finger on her forehead. "Are the very last descendant of the Kentosen race..." Since he and Voldemort were joining forces, training in each others' techniques were a necessary. However, they soon came upon a problem, the energy imbalence. After fruitless weeks of seaching, they had found ancient documents and books, along with the seal, saying that the imbalence could only be fixed with Kentosen blood.
Their race was so advanced, as they were able to harness the entire energy inside the body, and likewise, only they could seal it up. They had traced ancient bloodlines for ages, and finally came down to the bottom, where Amanda's name was written. Only she, out of any living descendets, had inhereted the raw talent and power that her ancestors had.
"Why else do you think you learned how to use chakra so quickly? It takes years for even a person raised among ninjas, to be able to become that good. How else," He contiued, ignoring the look of confusion and fear on Amanda's face. "...can you manage to mold so much chakra, so much that you can fly?"
"We need that blood so that we can become strong..." Voldemort spoke up. "If you make this difficult, we will take that blood by any force neccesary." Those words rung throughout the chamber. Amanda pieced two and two together and finally understood. The ninjas were going to use magic, and the wizards were going to use jutsu. She was the link between the two. It was them who had sent the seal to her. In short, she was being used. They were going to become the strongest people on the Earth, and they would get there by any means neccesary, and their first taget was... Hogwarts. The only real thing that posed a threat to them; Harry, Dumbledore, and all the strongest wizards, witches, and ninjas, that were held within its' walls.
Out of nowhere, smoke exploded and filled the entire chamber. Someone, or something, snapped the chains that held her captive, and dragged her off.
"Don't just stand there!" Voldemort hissed, pulling out his wand. "We have to go after her! Now!" Orochimaru just stood there, picking imaginary dirt out from under his fingernails.
"No we don't. Trust me, they won't get very far..."
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"S-Sakura!" Amanda exclaimed. It was Sakura who had set off the smoke bomb, allowing them to escape. She had one arm wrapped around her stomach and she was panting heavily. "What happened to you?" Amanda asked, barely keeping up with her.
"I'll explain later..." She gasped out. "But right now..." An explosion came from ther far end of the corridor.
"Hehehe..." Sasuke flexed his arm muscles. "That hurt a lot, Sakura. I won't fall for that again..."
A hand shot out from the darkness, aiming for Sasuke's head. He just ducked and it missed by a mile. "Don't think I'm stupid..." Naruto turned around, red eyes blazing in fury. Hinata struck from behind with Jyuuken, but Sasuke foresaw this and ducked again, Naruto almost gettinghit with Jyuukenin instead. Sasuke smirked, and a barage of punches and kicks came from both Naruto and Hinata. Of course, Sasuke just kept dodging and dodging and dodging, smirking the whole time. Ino supported Sakura, who was taking another sodier pill and healing minor injuries with the limited amount of chakra she had. Gaara was, in the meantime, figuring a way out of here stat.
Both Ino and Amanda shouted 'Stupify!', and both spells hit him squarely in the chest. Sasuke fell backwards into the wall, clutching his chest with both hands, but he didn't go down."By now, I've got a nicely built up resistance to magic. Quite handy, don't you think?" He gasped, quite obviously in a lot of pain. "I won't go down so easily, with just plain old spells..."
"But, that's impossible..." Sakura said to herself.
"Let me show you how much strength in numbers can terrify a person..." Sasuke said, melting away into the wall. "This, is what I command... this is what you are all doomed to face sooner or later!" Sasuke's voice echoed throughout the hall. Everyone turned around and froze.The snake doors had men streaming out of them by the dozens. After several seconds, the entire hall, that was twice the size of the Great Hall, was packed with men wearing purple headbands and dressed in black. All in all, there had to be at least 2000 of them
"Oh shit..." Gaara whispered. "Get out of here, come on move!" He dragged everyone out the opposite way. The men started to advance upon them quickly.
"Gaara! Can't you just use your Ryuusa Bakuryu no jutsu (A.N: It means 'Desert Avalanch' for those of you who forgot what that meant.) to crush them all at once?" Naruto screamed over the loud commotion as he ran.
"Are you kidding me? If you haven't noticed, WE'RE UNDERGROUND! That jutsu takes a heck of a lot of sand! If I try to compress the rocks and minerals to make sand for the jutsu, this whole place will collapse right on top of us! I can't do anything big at the moment!" Gaara yelled back. Everyone kept running for the exit as fast as they could.
When they burst out through the doors and into the large canyon, they screeched to a halt. Even more guys were out here, the only difference, was that they all wore robes with hoods and had wands. Barely visable, were the purple forehead protectors with the Sound note. If they didn't do something fast, the other guys would catch up to them. All at once, the robed figures raised their hands, and sent off a blizzard of spells in their direction.
Naruto was hit in the shoulder, which was quickly turning a stony black color, and Ino was hit in the diaphragm by some sort of green, spiralling spell.
"Gaara!" Amanda shouted over the whistling of other spells. "Get on a sand cloud, bring Ino, Sakura,and Naruto with you, and get out of here!"
"What about you two?"
"Don't worry!" Amanda said, ducking under a yellow lightning bolt. "I'll get us out of here!" Gaara picked up Ino and Naruto and lifted upwards as fast ashe could, out of the range of spells.
"Hinata! Jump on my back! I'm sorry you had to come with me, but Gaara can't carry all of us!"
"I-It's alright Amanda!" Hinata said, locking her arms around Amanda's neck. "But how are we getting out of here?"
"All I have to say is, HOLD ON TIGHT!" A huge cloud of dust rose from the ground, as they shot off from the ground in a shining blue light, twisting and turning to avoid getting hit by any spells coming their way.
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Gaara landed right next to the school doors, shortly followed by Amanda. Hinata rushed over to Naruto to see if he was alright, which he was, so Hinata hugged him tight. (A.N:Aww... how cute! And random!) Sakura had managed to get rid of the rocky substance spreading along his arm, but, she couldn't do anything for Ino. No matter what Sakura tried, Ino's condition just seemed to get worse. Shikamaru rushed out to meet them, pausing a second at seeing Ino's whitened face.
"What happened?" He asked, his eyes twitching back and forth to Ino.
"What's wrong with your eyes?" Naruto asked.
"Nothing." Shikamaru said, looking straight ahead. "What happened?" He repeated.
"Let's just say we got attacked by over 2000 ninjas and wizards. All at once to make it even more difficult." Gaara mumbled, looking very annoyed. "It took precise timing to dodge all of those spells aimed at us..."
"O-over 2000?" Shikamaru gasped. "Oh no... they can't... they wouldn't!"
"What?" Everyone asked.
"If I thought everything out right, than...I think whatthey're planning...is afull-scale invasion of Hogwarts..." Nobody spoke, until Ino suddenlystopped moving. "Oh God... I'll bring her to the hospital wing." Shikamaru picked her up bridal-style, and rushed inside, leaving everyone else deep in thought.
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Ok, I was being really lazy this week and decided to draw, instead of working on writing this chapter. I just made a really great picture of Team 7 (I don't think you really care though...) Next chapter will be up either this weekend, or Monday. And if I'm lazy againthis week, the next chapter will be up by Wednesday! Hehehe...