I'm back from Disney World, and had to sleep in a terminal in Phoenix after my flight was delayed for five hours before it was canceled. Staying in the Phoenix Airport sucked, but at least it didn't affect my vacation too much, and it made the hotel all that much sweeter once we arrived in Orlando.
Anyways, here's part two of the Harry Potter x Elden Ring crossover arc we're into. Next chapter will revolve around Harry, Hermione, and Melina going up against Kira and Ranni. The author's notes will be at the bottom, please enjoy!
Upon stepping through the rift, Naruto and Haise were both nearly blinded by the brilliant expulsion of chakra that neither of them had ever experienced. Rising their forearms over their faces to shield their eyes, the two of them could feel a pulsating wave of energy surging through their bodies and souls, as the trees around them swayed back from the force of where the blast had come from.
In order to shield the two humans along with her little brother who was resting on Naruto's shoulder, Tamamo casted a spell and created a magical barrier around them— creating a glowing transparent yellow and iridescent-purple bubble around them that absorbed the dispelled chakra. Having not expected for them to be attacked so soon, especially by such a powerful shockwave that was straining the ex-Goddess to the point where she was visibly exasperated and sweating as she maintained the barrier, Tamamo was gritting her sharp teeth and clenching her jaw tightly while falling down on one knee with her arms outstretched.
"S-Such power…! I… I don't know how much longer I can keep this up— Tch…!" Tamamo grunted with one eyelid closed, as she panted out of her agaped jaw while her arms began to violently tremble with how much effort it took for her to continue to secure her magical barrier.
Seeing the avatar of the goddess who he saw as his older sister, Kurama leapt off of Naruto's shoulder and shouted, "Amaterasu! I'm coming!" Curling up his nine-tails around Tamamo to shield her, Kurama dug his claws into the Earth and immediately shouldered the burden of keeping the magical barrier up by transferring his chakra into her spell— an act that immediately caused the fox to let out a cry of agony. Gnarling his teeth and letting out a growl mixed in with a whimper, Kurama narrowed his eyelids and felt his entire body tensing up as both he and Tamamo used their combined chakra to keep the barrier steadfast throughout the entire ten minutes that it took for the powerful ethereal shockwave to die out— leaving the two of them exhausted and collapsing onto the grass beneath them.
Unable to maintain his large proportions, Kurama's physical form reverted back into its small three-foot tall form as he laid on his side while feeling lightheaded to the point where his vision and hearing was extremely disoriented. Blurry-eyed and stuck with a high-pitched ringing in his ears, Kurama could barely make out the silhouette of Naruto kneeling down over his drained body. "That… That was incredible…"
Naruto, relieved to hear Kurama speaking coherently while appearing to be gathering his wit, flashed a half-cocked smirk at the nine-tailed beast while scooping his small body up in his arms. "Gonna be honest with ya— I totally wasn't expecting to hear that. Usually, most people would still be in shock after what you two probably went through…" Naruto said with a chuckle, and watched as Kurama rolled his eyes at him before fading back into the shinobi's soul to rest.
With Tamamo doing the same with Haise, the two young men were left out in the open in the middle of the mythical woods around them— both of them feeling uneasy by the eerie silence within the forest that made them instantly wary of their surroundings. Before either of them could take a moment to appreciate the fact that the woods and floral life around them held up, despite the powerful divine shockwave that nearly vaporized the four of them, Naruto's foresight alerted him of an incoming danger.
Whipping his head around within the dimly lit forest, Naruto stared over at Haise and shouted, "Hey! Watch your ass, something's coming!" Not wanting to risk seeing whether or not Haise would be able to react in time, Naruto immediately leapt forward and wrapped his arms around the older man's waist— tackling him and skidding across the ground just in time to avoid a glowing purple-and-black trail left behind what Naruto figured to be an arrow-projectile.
Appearing thankful and mildly annoyed at the same time, Haise forced a smile onto his face as he wrapped his arms around Naruto to roll both him and the blond shinobi out of the way of a path of raining arrows that were piercing down through the treetops above them. "So much for doing some sightseeing…" Haise muttered, as he extended his arm out to materialize a long-guardless katana in his right hand.
While Naruto made the hand movements to summon a small army of shadow clones to surround them, as to confuse whoever was trying to take pot shots at them, Haise cracked his left knuckle and out came three glowing red tail-shaped tendrils from over his lower back. "Let's trace the path from the first arrow, that'll lead us to whoever the hell is trying to shoot us!"
"Agreed," Haise quickly said underneath his breath, before both he, Naruto, and all of his shadow clones leapt from branch-to-branch towards the source of where the arrows were coming from. While making their way towards their unknown enemy, Naruto couldn't help but to notice that the glowing purple arrows were homing in on the shadow clones who were taking the front position— and no matter what they did, the arrows seemed to pull the clones toward its trail.
"Hey! Don't try to run or block those glowing arrows— you're just gonna get sucked into it and turned into ground-meat!" Naruto shouted out to Haise, after noticing a shadow clone imploding into a small singular point the moment before it puffed into smoke.
Taking Naruto's advice to heart, Haise furrowed his brows and remained focused on the path ahead. When it finally came time for him to once again be targeted by a gravity-arrow, Haise leapt forward at it while Naruto watched with confusion and horror. Just when the blond shinobi thought that Haise would meat the same gruesome fate as his shadow clones, Naruto's eyes shot wide open as he watched the older man's entire body become engulfed in black-squares before becoming completely translucent as it faded out of existence just as the gravity arrow shot right through where he was a moment ago.
Thinking that Haise had just performed a variation of the 'body flicker technique', Naruto watched as the other man's physical form blinked right back into existence right on the branch where the shinobi figured that he would have landed before momentarily disappearing from reality. "Yo! What the hell kind of ninjutsu was that?!" Naruto shouted with an awe-struck look in his blue eyes, before creating multiple rasengans that he used to parry the volley of meter-long arrows that were shot straight at him.
Shrugging while appearing somewhat smug about his display of performing an advanced form of space-time ninjutsu, Haise replied, "Eh, I've always been able to do that. It's nothing special, really," before once again performing his own modified version of 'Yomotsu Hirasaka' to dodge another gravity arrow.
Chuckling although he knew that both him and Haise were in danger, Naruto smirked while muttering, "Pffttt, show off," as both he and the dimensional-shift spamming man made it deeper into the woods. By the time that Naruto and Haise had broken out of the woods and landed near the shore of a small lake, all of his shadow clones had fallen victim to the nearly forty-foot tall bipedal beast that stood just a measly twenty meters away along the shore from where they stood.
There, underneath the light of the full moon above, was a mighty warrior cladded in decorative silver-plated heavy armor that fit snuggled against his bulging muscles. Wielding two large curved-greatswords that appeared to be cobbled out of meteors, the warrior's bow was strung over his back where his quiver filled with magical arrows rested over his right shoulder-blade. Sprouting out the top of his open-faced and horned helmet were majestic long strands of his red-hair that flowed out behind him— giving his brutish appearance an almost regal and majestic look.
"You carry yourselves as capable warriors, yet you are not tarnished… Does that mean you are but mortal men?" The large-hulking figure spoke with an authoritative-booming voice that carried with it a sense of elegance behind it.
Regardless of how charming the forty-foot monster of a man spoke, Naruto still kept his guard up and his fingers remained tightened around the bandaged-wrapped handle of his kunai. "You've got a lot of nerve to talk to us like that… You were trying to kill us just a minute ago, so what the hell's up with the fancy talk?!" Naruto shouted with an annoyed and distrustful voice, while Haise took his place beside the young shinobi.
Appearing amused by how heated Naruto was getting, the brute of a warrior smirked while letting out a chortle. "A demigod such as I wouldn't waste his breath on cannon-fodder… You stand before General Radahn, 'The Conqueror of Stars'— son of Radagon!" Radahn shouted with a proud voice, as he dug the blade of his meteor sword into the ground beneath him, just so he could pound his gloved fist against his armored chest-piece. "You will tell me where I am, and how I awoke here… Try to deceive me, and I'll turn you into a bloody stain in the dirt!"
Although both he and Naruto were both extremely wary of the hulking general who was claiming to be a demigod, Haise wasn't fond of the way that Radahn was trying to intimidate them. "There's no need for that, okay? We're not from here either, so we can't help you with that… But hey, maybe we can help each other, yeah? There's no need for senseless violence now, is there?" Haise asked with a hopeful voice, which seemed to actually cause the amused across Radahn's lips to fall into a look of disgust.
"Spoken like a true coward— despicable," Radahn muttered with a righteous voice of authority, as he reached down with his right hand to grab the handle of his sword. Pulling it out of the ground, Radahn effortlessly clashed his thirty-foot tall blades made out of solid meteor against one another— creating purple and black sparks of gravity-magicka that Haise and Naruto both recognized from the arrows that he had shot at them earlier.
"It would seem as though I have misjudged the two of you. You are not warriors, you are but lambs for the slaughter. You face the Red Lion General… Let us see how you fare against the might of the stars themselves!" Radhan shouted with a battle cry, before leaping up with his two dual-wielded greatswords raised up over his shoulder— their blades coated in gravity-magicka as he moved faster than what the two young men anticipated.
Knowing fully well from their experience with gravity-magicka that trying to parry such attacks would prove fatal, both young men evaded the powerful shockwave that sent debris into orbit from the sheer force of Radhan slamming his swords into the ground— creating a large crater in his attack's wake. Proving his skill, Radhan was able to predict and parry each attack that was thrown at him— whether that be clashing his meteor-blades against Haise's tendrils and katana, or blocking the rasengans and slicing apart the shadow clones Naruto tried using against him.
Realizing that the 'Conqueror of Stars' had earned his title the moment Naruto looked up to see large glowing balls of gravity-magicka forming over Radahn's body, it wasn't long until both he and Haise were being assaulted by falling meteorites that were the size of small rocks. Due to how small and how numerous they were, it became apparent to them that trying to parry or block the mini asteroids was a task that was too difficult for them to accomplish.
Instead, Haise was blinking in-and-out of existence while trying to find a perfect moment to launch his counter attack, all while Naruto was left to rely on his own intuition to predict where the meteors would fall from— all while he was singled out and targeted by the demigod. With how drained Kurama was, access to Naruto's 'Kurama Chakra Form' was out of the question, much less his 'Bijuu Form'.
So, in order to turn the tides of the battle, Naruto had to focus on activating his 'sage mode', all while continuously dodging meteorites and the unblockable swings of Radahn's two swords. Cursing underneath his breath about how useful being able to dip in-and-out of dimensions would have been for him right then and there, Naruto was able to enter 'Sage mode' only after Haise was able to reappear right in front of Radahn's face, where he rammed his blade through the demigod's right-eye.
Quickly retaliating by head-butting Haise with his armored helmet, Radhan sent the young man flying down toward the ground— creating an impact powerful enough to quake the earth and create a nearly fifty-meter long tunnel into the Earth with Haise's body. Taking advantage of the fact that the demigod had only one good eye left, Naruto strafed on Radahn's blindside before leaping up with a Rasenshuriken in hand— burying it deep into the forty-foot tall demigod's left eye socket and fleeing just as it exploded at a point-blank vicinity of his hairless face.
Even without his eyes to guide him, Radhan was able to use his gravity orbs around him to sense the area around them— allowing him to 'see' using a pseudo 'byakugan' that painted a picture in his mind of where Naruto was. "You insolent mortal, you shall pay with your blood!" Radahn screamed with a blood-curdling rage that made Naruto flinch, and just when the shinobi thought he was in the clear after leaping backwards from the demigod's slamming his swords down into the Earth, it was then that Naruto was hit directly with a propulsion of gravity that sent debris and magicka into his body.
Howling in pain as he felt shards of rock piercing through his arms, legs, and abdomen, especially since his body was pulled forward and straight through the propelled shrapnel, thanks to the gravity-magicka causing him to be pulled back down into the cratered ground below, Naruto was unable to move limbs to protect himself against the demigod's metal boot. Getting the wind knocked out of him when Radhan kicked him straight in the gut, Naruto would have been splattered in the air had it not been for his chakra keeping him protected.
Nevertheless, even in his 'Sage mode' getting punted by a forty-foot beast of a demigod still hurt Naruto, and had knocked the wind out of him as he went spiraling up into the air. Prepared to chop the shinobi clean in three slices with his two incredibly-large blades, Radahn raised his greatswords back and took aim using his gravity orbs to paint a target along Naruto's body.
Before the demigod could swing his blades downward, he was caught off guard the moment he felt four tendrils wrapping themselves around his right lower leg. Attempting to shake whatever was wrapping itself around him at first, it was only upon further inspection did Radhan realize that the four tail-shaped appendages were poking out of the nearly one-hundred and fifty foot long tunnel that he had created with Haise's body. Before Radhan could sever Haise's tendrils, the young man's glowing red tails suddenly tightened and sliced clean through the demigod's muscles and bones— severing his entire leg from the knee down.
Grunting in pain and losing his balance, Radhan came tumbling down— causing him to momentarily lose his grip on the handle of the left meteorite-sword that Naruto had pulled out of his grasp while still in mid-air. "Nice sword, asshole! Let's see how YOU like it!" Naruto shouted angrily in a triumphant voice, before using his powerful strength to cleave the twenty-foot long weapon straight through Radahn's left shoulder— completely dismembering the demigod.
Falling straight in his face while attempting to defend himself with his right arm, Radahn let out blind roars of anger as he swung his right blade wildly like a defiant warrior. Just as he did with his left arm, Naruto was eventually able to completely chop off Radahn's right arm from the elbow down— leaving the forty-foot tall behemoth laying face down in a pool of his own blood, with only a single limb attached to his injured body.
Unable to maintain his spell, Radahn's gravity orbs disappeared, leaving him with only his sense of hearing and touch to take a guess at what was happening around him. Hearing what sounded like the sword Naruto had swiped from him being dropped onto the ground just a few meters away from him, Radahn did his best to how his head from the awkward position he was in as he listened to the footsteps of the men who defeated him coming to a halt within a few feet away from his face.
"It would seem as though I have fallen into the position of a fool… How arrogant of me to underestimate mortals such as yourselves… You have bested me in combat— I am not blind to such a fact," Radhan said, while trying to maintain a level of humbleness in the face of utter defeat.
"Yeah, but you're blind to pretty much everything else, huh you jerk?!" Naruto shot back, while not even bothering to give the demigod the respect that he was seeking. "Don't try to be noble after getting your ass handed to you— especially since you're the one who started this crap!" Naruto shouted, while pointing out the facts to the fallen demigod. "Why?! Why did you even bother trying to demand crap out of us, if you were just gonna try and kill us again?! Come on man, what the hell were you thinking?!"
Becoming frustrated at the fact that he was being patronized by a human, out of all things, Radhan gritted his teeth before retorting, "You attempt to deceive me, even when victory is yours?! Are you trying to mock me, or are you truly just an idiot who is clueless to the shard of the Elden Ring, in which I possess?!"
"You can shove that shard up your ass for all I care! GUH!!! You're lucky I'm not gonna kill ya, you asshole," Naruto spat out with a frustrated look on his face, as his sage mode wore off as he crossed his arms over his chest.
Being intrigued by what the defeated demigod said, Haise knelt down beside his bloodied face and asked, "What is that? What's an 'Elden Ring'?"
"Tch… Damn bloody mortal… It's THE Elden Ring, not AN Elden Ring, you moron," Radahn scolded, after feeling the need to correct Haise. "The Elden Ring was a golden star, brought onto the Lands Between by the Greater Will… It existed within Queen Marika's body, and is the physical manifestation of the Golden Order: A movement following-"
"- Yeah, we really don't give a crap. Just skip to the good part, alright?" Naruto interrupted, while making it clear to Radahn that he wasn't interested in any philosophies that he wanted to tie in with the Elden Ring. "What does it do?"
Laughing mockingly at Naruto and Haise for being completely in the dark about the power behind the Elden Ring, Radahn laughed harder while the two young men stared at him with confused looks on their faces. "F-Fools! The Elden Ring's powers unite the Great Runes! Whoever possesses the Elden Ring shall have sovereignty over the land in which they roam! To put it simply, whoever becomes the 'Elden Lord' shall become a GOD!!! That is the reason why I attacked you! I cannot afford to throw caution into the wind, not when my damn siblings have their own shards! It's mine, do you hear me?! MINE, MINE, MI- Y-YOU THIEVES!!!"
While Radahn was having his monologue about what led him down the dark path of violence against anyone who so much as breathed at him the wrong way, Naruto had managed to pull a large golden piece of a ring out of the demigod's back satchel. "The power of a god, huh?! Damn dude, that's all you had to s-say!" Naruto chuckled, while stuttering after nearly losing his balance from just how heavy the shard was in his hand. "Damn, this weighs a ton…! It's gonna be hard tugging this thing around…!"
Hearing that her services were required, Tamamo appeared before Haise and made her way over to Naruto. "Allow me, Naruto. I can store whatever it is that we need into my own little pocket dimension for safekeeping… Like this!" Tamamo proclaimed, before casting a spell that enveloped the shard within Naruto's hand in a gentle-glowing light.
Letting out a relieved sigh from the burdensome weight being lifted once the shard had disappeared out of his hands, Naruto let out a relaxed sigh and drooped his shoulders, all while Radahn rolled back-and-forth in rage. "Thanks Tamamo, that'll make things a lot easier than trying to seal each piece into a paper tag… Speaking of which, can I ask you for a favor?"
Tilting her head at Naruto, Tamamo blinked her brown eyes at him before raising an eyebrow at him. "… Depends on what the favor is," Tamamo asked cautiously, while being wary of the young man who she still needed to be underneath Kurama's paw.
"Can you do that 'teleport' thingy again, so that we can hold onto that asshole's swords? They look pretty cool, maybe I can sell them to a museum, or some cool crap like that," Naruto asked excitedly, while pointing a hand up towards the two curved-greatswords that laid on each side of Radahn's armless torso.
Smiling back at Naruto with a shrug, Tamamo nodded her head before making her way over beside Radhan, where she proceeded to steal his weapons. "There we are! Loot obtained, and we're one step closer towards getting the 'Elden Ring'… Whatever that thing is," Tamamo chuckled cutely, before making her way back to Haise to continue to rest in his soul.
Rubbing his chin curiously, thinking to himself about the theoretical power of becoming a god while Naruto used his mother's seal technique to literally force the demigod's lips closed in order to shut him up, Haise's gray and red eyes shifted over toward the glistening waves of the moonlit lake that was still within their vicinity. "We shouldn't go after some wild goose chase just yet… Not when we still have to figure out who opened the rift into this world in the first place. Seeing how our 'friend' here seemed even more oblivious than we were, I believe it's safe to say that he himself isn't native to this world… Meaning that we still have some investigating to do on our parts."
"Yeah man, I totally agree with ya— if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, right?" Naruto added with an agreeing tone behind his words, as he turned his back to the defeated demigod. "Anyway, 'Muscles' over here is probably a goner if we leave him here. I'm not saying we should save him, but maybe we can do something for him?"
Once again feeling like she was the older sister who was in charge of sorting out their problems, Tamamo reappeared out of Haise's soul and tried to keep a smile across her lips as she approached Radahn. "Allow me, boys… Ahem", Tamamo said, before clearing her throat and cracking her fingers in preparation for her next spell. "Honkey, tonkey… You are now a DONKEY!!!" Tamamo shouted with a wide smile, as she finished casting her spell and watched along Haise and Naruto as the injured forty-foot tall demigod transformed before their very eyes into a four-foot tall donkey.
Standing before them on all fours, Radahn blinked at them with his dark equine eyes— appearing as though he was a mockery of his former self. 'He-Hawing' at them like a donkey would, Radahn began to trot away with his tail tucked between his legs along the shore of the moonlit lake, and managed to get a few meters away from them before suddenly begging dragged underneath the surface of the thrashing water by several hungry mermaids who grabbed the donkey by his legs.
Shocked at what they were seeing, Naruto, Haise and Tamamo had deadpanned expressions on their faces as Radahn was pulled deeper into the chilly waters of the small lake and upstream toward the river— never to be seen again. Once the shock had worn off and they tried awkwardly laughing about what they had just seen, the group decided to head down the shore and away from the dangerous dark-waters to see where the river that Radahn had been forcibly pulled through led.
And there we have it, Haise and Naruto fought Radahn, bested him with the power of friendship, and tried showing him mercy by turning him into a donkey, only for him to become mermaid-food. Haise and Naruto will have fought a bunch more shard bearers while on their way to Hogwarts that they don't have a problem with, until they fight Mohg.
Harry Potter will have to fight the God-Devouring Serpent, which got me thinking, would Harry Potter fight in a way similar to Arima if he had the strength to wield the Sword of Gryffindor with one hand? He could dual wield the Elder Wand and Sword of Gryffindor, and use 'apparate' to dodge and become mobile with buffing spells. Melee obviously wouldn't be his strong suit, but it could come in handy in a pinch.
Speaking of which, him being able to use apparate to gain access into the room of requirement was an oversight, but I could justify it like you said, where he's in his seventh year and learned how to do it, in spite of the protective wards.
Oh, let's get to the reviews and some requests I've gotten.
I'm glad I was able to write Harry in character, and I only wrote him being sick at the sight of seeing the White Suits dying because of how Ranni killed them. It was a rather grizzly execution, and a slow one at that. For me, I'm planning on Ranni being a villain until she realizes how bad she screwed up and tries to abandon the mission, when of course gets injured by Kira and before he could finish her off, Harry saves her and tries to fight Kira.
While Harry and Kira fight, Ranni flees and manages to find Naruto to convince him to hand over the shards so she can stop the Hailing Tree from spreading scarlet rot across Hogwarts, which was a lie. Once she gathers the pieces, she tries to proceed with her plan of freeing her destiny from the Greater Will, only to realize that the Greater Will doesn't exist outside of her universe, which means all that the Elden Ring does is summon the Elden Beast.
Disappointed and trying to fight for the winning side, she 'joins' Harry and Naruto as they and their companions fight the Elden Beast, all while Kira makes off with the Cloak of Invisibility— knowing that Ranni and Melina are going to rat Yamoori's location out to them.
So in the end, Hogwarts is saved, Melina, Ranni, Maleina, and Miquella are able to settle down at the School of Wizardry, but not before the school celebrates a victory, in which Naruto and Haise are invited to partake in. That'll be the slice of life moment. That's when we get the following lemons: Naruto x Luna Lovegood x Ginny Weasley, Haise x Miquella, Harry x Melina x Malenia x Hermoine x Ranni.
Phone battery dying, that's all to say. Oh, and I had a request for Krillin x Android 18, which is pretty cool I think, where he controls her with a remote and makes her have sex with him. Anyways, that's all for now. Until next time, take care!