Final chapter of the Harry Potter x Elden Ring arc, LET'S GOOOOO.
This chapter was a blast to write, and can't wait for you all to enjoy it! I wrote the author's notes at the bottom, and there's plenty of reading material down there, if you want to know the future of this fanfic.
Anyway, again, I hope you enjoy the finale for this crossover arc!
As the torrential rains continued to pour down upon Hogwarts, the students and staff were huddling up in organized groups within the basement of the castle— each of them being accounted for by the professors, before being sent through a portal that led them to wizard-populated village of Hogsmeade, in Scotland.
Once Harry was reunited within the crowded underground chambers with Hermione, the two of them practically threw themselves upon one another. Tightening his arms around Hermione's slender frame, Harry let out a trembling sigh of relief as the two of them slowly gazed into the other's eyes. "… I'm sor-"
"-Don't you dare finish that sentence, Harry. You… You have nothing to apologize for; none of this your fault," Hermione hushed with a saddened smile across her face, as she raised a hand up to press her cold finger up against her boyfriend's lips. "You did what you thought was best; I challenge anyone else who has your bravery to claim that they wouldn't have tried saving that girl in the woods either… Besides, it's not all bad… You're here, those beasts are gone, and we'll be able to return for next semester."
Although Hermione was usually one for being cynically factual rather than blissfully naive, Harry could tell that there was nothing but desperate hope in her voice. Feeling her finger lowering down from his lips, Harry swallowed back the spit in his mouth before lowering his head slightly. "… I hope so too, Hermione; I truly, truly do."
Having promised the wizards and witches of Hogwarts that they wouldn't have to worry about him further damaging their property or pursuing their lives, Kira was levitating a few feet off of the stone-brick laid grounds of the castle's massive courtyard entrance— the smoldering ashes of the Hailing Tree still eternally burning despite the rain falling down upon its scattering particles into the air of the conquered battlefield.
Kneeling down on her prosthetic knee with her golden-arm lowered down to maintain her balance, Malenia had her blue gaze lowered to the ground in defeat— trying to calm herself and maintain collected for Miquella, despite feeling fatigued from her healed wounds. Miquella, standing by his sister's side, was ordered by Kira to stay within the vicinity of him and Melina, who had her black hood up and over her auburn head of hair.
Waiting for the servants that Kira had sent to search for the final shard of the Elden Ring, after having told the Master of Death about Radahn being last seen in the Forbidden Forest, Miquella felt compelled to ask more about Kira's master plan, despite knowing that he had already lost and there wasn't anything he could do against the very man who slayed almost his entire bloodline.
"… These Deathly Hallows… They've given you the power to triumph against any opponent who dares to cross blades with you. You are immortal and incapable of dying… What more do you seek from the Elden Ring?" Miquella asked in a quiet voice, as he wrapped the water-resistant cloak that Melina brought to him tighter around his slender frame.
With his arms crossed over his chest, and his eyes looking forward toward the long bridge that was the only physical way for the servants to return to him from the Forbidden Forest, Kira let out a deep and humorless chuckle. "Power for the sake of having power isn't what I'm after, and as for being immortal? For those who are nearsighted, I can see my current status as something that only exists in the imagination; perhaps the ultimate goal to those who seek to live forever…"
"… But in the grand scheme of everything, and I mean the literal sense of 'everything', immortality and conquering death is just a speck within an endless sea of vast, cold, nothingness," Kira lamented with audible disdain in his voice, before continuing to speak while waiting for his servants to return. "Death is an absolute, and is far more eternal than anything immortality can claim to be— it's a gift that many take for granted. The Deathly Hallows have made me powerful, yes, but it isn't enough to transcend through all of time-and-space…"
"… Once I summon the Greater Will and conquer it, Melina shall transfer its power and permanently bestow upon me blessings of all the Great Runes from the Elden Ring. Together, I'll have the amplified power to tear a hole not into another dimension, but into the great infinite-nothingness that houses every universe within the multiverse. From there, I'll follow the path from this universe all the way to the prime center of all existence: the Throne," Kira explained with a mild-mannered tone of excitement in his voice, as he closed his eyelids to momentarily think of the man who he saw as a Messiah.
Narrowing his blue eyes at the back of Kira's head full of swept-back white hair, Miquella's uneasy frown deepened. "The Throne…? You called it the center of all existence… Unfathomable power must reside in such a place… What scheme do you have reserved for such a place?" Miquella asked with a somewhat frightened voice, as the thought of Kira tampering with the idea of an infinite source of omnipresence made even the demigod feel fearful of what awaited them after death.
"… I'm going to unlock its gates, free the only man in the entire multiverse who's worthy of reigning over the Throne. I shall free Madara from his prison, and he shall be the one to free all of us from the chains of our existence," Kira replied with a wide smile spreading across his lips, as his fondness for the Uchiha clan member made his heart warm, just from speaking about him.
"… Our collective consciousness, including everyone within the multiverse, dead or alive, will return to the Throne. Only then will all of us experience an eternal afterlife, free of any influence. And eternity of peace, where we all control our own 'Heaven'," Kira proclaimed with the confidence of a true zealot, as he opened his eyelids the moment he sensed two of the three servants who he sent out into the woods, walking back towards him along the path of the stone-brick laid bridge.
Lowering her head down while raising her hand up to her chest, Melina frowned beneath the cover of her hood as she felt her heart tighten. "Such a path towards the ultimate grandeur, and at such a cost," Melina spoke in a hollow voice, as the thought of an eternal dream for each soul within a collective conscious seemed bought grim and beautiful to her; even if she had every intention of doing everything within her power to stop such a destiny from coming true. "Truly, the path to 'Heaven' is one of tragedy…"
"… The most beautiful aspects of anything come from the catharsis of devastation, my dear friend. One must suffer through hell before they can experience heaven," Kira said reassuringly, before floating forward to meet Ryouma and Oryou halfway. Levitating above the start of where the foundation of the massive castle transitioned into the bridge off of its magical grounds, Kira extended his arm out as Ryouma handed him the missing piece of the shard.
"Here ya go, Boss— as promised," Ryouma said with his drawn out and cool voice, while Oryou levitated behind him as he stood before the Master of Death.
"Thank you, Ryouma. You and your companion have done well," Kira congratulated with a gracious voice, and stared at the red-painted shard with an unsuspecting look in his blue eyes, before shifting his gaze back up towards the direction of where the bridge led to the Forbidden Forest. "… Where is Izou?"
Adjusting the brim of his white fedora, Ryouma remained stone faced for the most part as a look of mild sadness came across his black eyes. "… He didn't make it, unfortunately. He was slayed by some blond ninja and a friend of his… The kid looked an awful lot like you, before I put a bullet in his skull," Ryouma said with an indifferent look on his handsome and youthful face, as Kira seemed to be mildly curious upon hearing the vague description of the ninja. "… Here, thought you might recognize this," Ryouma followed up, before pulling out a bloodied black forehead protector that bore the symbol of the Hidden Leaf Village.
Using his free hand to take the headband from the servant, Kira couldn't tell whether or not Ryouma had killed Minato or one of his nephews that he knew of. "… I was curious as to what those four explosions I heard earlier were. And they were the ones who possessed the Elden Ring's last shard?" Kira asked with a perplexed expression on his face.
"Indeed they did, Boss. I saw some ugly sonofabitch's corpse not too far from where they were, and a bunch of corpses laying around that were just as vile as his… I reckon that they picked it up, not knowing what it was, and just carried it while lost in those woods," Ryouma said, while giving Kira a half-truth as he kept up his loyal composure.
"… They must have found the rift we left behind. And here I had been under the impression that we had been covering our tracks," Kira mused somewhat sarcastically, before tossing the bloodied headband over the edge of the bridge, and down into the dark waters of the massive lake that surrounded the hill that Hogwarts sat upon. "There's not a doubt in my mind that the 'boy' you killed was of my blood; only Minato or his children would have had the intuition to find me… I suppose it doesn't matter now though, doesn't it?"
"Not that I can say, Boss, not that I can say," Ryouma said coolly with a half-cock smirk, as he whipped out a packet of cigarettes. Using his palm to pat the bottom of the pack, the samurai arched an eyebrow at Kira, who was unveiling all the other shards of the Elden Ring that he had collected. "So… This 'Elden Beast', or whatever… Do we know what exactly we're dealing with? Or are we just gonna wing it, Boss?" Ryouma asked, while taking out a cigarette before putting the rest of the pack back into his pocket.
"… I have no intention of accepting defeat, no matter the cost," Kira said with a determined voice, before handing Melina the shards while Oryou lit the tip of Ryouma's cigarette for him. "With that being said, I'll be the one to engage with the vassal for the 'Greater Will' myself. I'll need your help protecting Melina, Miquella, and Malenia, understood?" Kira asked, as he turned back forward to get confirmation from the two servants.
"Understood, Boss. And should I take them back inside the castle over there, then? For safekeeping?" Ryouma offered, while also just wanting an excuse to find somewhere dry to smoke, due to the rain having just extinguished the tip of his cigarette.
"… Only after Melina activates the Great Runes of the Elden Ring, and summons the Greater Will to us," Kira replied, while agreeing with the servant that inside Hogwarts' ward-protected walls would be the safest place for his temporary companions in the meantime. "I'll summon you and Oryou when I've defeated the Elden Beast. When that happens, you'll make haste in ensuring Melina is back outside to transfer the Greater Will's divinity into my body."
Tipping the brim of his fedora to acknowledge the instructions, Ryouma and Oryou made their way behind the ground of demigods, while Kira turned around while still floating in the air to turn his attention back to the Kindling Maiden. "… On your mark, my dear friend, you and I shall take the first steps towards the end. Heaven awaits us, and the key to its gates lies within your palms," Kira ushered with what appeared to be a genuine look of appreciation and trust within his blue eyes, which only made Melina question whether or not she actually wanted to betray the charismatic shinobi's trust.
"… Be careful, the Greater Will will do everything in its power to defend itself," Melina warned with a cautious tone, before using her magicka to place the last shard of the Elden Ring back into its place; creating a universe-wide shockwave that everyone within that dimension felt through their very souls. The Elden Ring grew in size, and the Great Runes that made up its many circular shapes gave it a golden fire that illuminated the area around them, while somehow sucking out all the light, save for the electric-white aura that engulfed Kira's body.
And as Ryouma and Oryou escorted the three demigods away from the ominous Elden Ring, Kira remained still and prepared as the divine artifact before him transformed into a massive golden longsword that pierced its helix blade into the ground. The world around Kira seemed to fade into darkness, as the floor beneath him turned into a black-reflective surface, as if there were nothing but an eternal sea of nothingness beneath where he levitated.
Growing out of the sword was a massive arm made up of a blue translucent ghostly form, that had brilliant stars within its developing limb. Awaiting for the Greater Will to take its colossal, several-hundred meter tall form that reminded Kira of an amalgamation of the majestic way a galaxy looked, there soon was a looming god that stood on short-stubby legs that appeared to be a part of the eternal sea of nothingness beneath them.
With a serpentine neck, lined with golden nerves and stars that made up a skeletal figure within its enigmatic form, the head of the Elden Beast bore the largest star amongst its translucent and celestial body— appearing as though the center of its consciousness to Kira, who was finding him mystified at the sight of the god before him. Unveiling its many tendril-like wings from the back of his wide body, the Elden Beast in all of its glory reminded the Master of Death of a dragon, except with far more alien features.
And as the Elden Beast raised its body out of the sea of nothingness with its golden sword raised up by its right arm, the realm in which it had transformed the dimension around Kira began to illuminate dimly, as rays of golden-divine light broke through the eternal darkness from above. Looking out at the vast infinite space around them, it was only then that Kira realized that what he was looking at was what he had to looked forward to: he and the Greater Will were within the space of nothingness that encapsulates the multiverse, and the pillars of light pouring down from above were the radiance of the Throne itself. It was but a peek of what remained ahead for him, but it was still enough to motivate his already determined soul to regain focus on the task at hand.
Endowing its golden sword with the magicka of holy fire and space-time itself, the aura that surrounded resembled a colorful nebula made up of purples and yellows, the Elden Beast's entire golden nerves lit up brighter within its physical form, as it slashed through the nothingness— leaving behind long-horizontal projectile of holy fire, that was sent toward Kira like a divine tidal wave.
Although Kira was an immortal Master of Death, his physical form was still susceptible to damage that could harm his soul, something that the white-haired man found out when he wasn't quick enough to fully dodge the nearly mile-long wave of holy fire. Letting out an agonizing grunt as his white aura fought to dominance against the golden holy fire that had engulfed his body and soul, Kira had to use his chakra to heal himself while charging after the Elden Beast, as it flew away from him after seeing how he was able to tank its universe-scaled attack.
Diving into the sea of nothingness, the Elden Beast swam away while using its golden wings to not only guide its massive form away from its purser, but to summon orbs of holy fire that acted like homing projectiles. Flying towards the evading god, Kira used his chidori to summon a massive blade of magical lightning from his right hand, in which he used to slash apart the millions of orbs that the Greater Will had tried using on him.
When it realized that its guided projectiles weren't working on Kira, the Elden Beast dove out of the endless sea of nothingness, and took flight upwards— getting its tail lobbed off in the process. Letting out a eternal shriek of pain that shook Kira to his core, the Elden Beast used its divine powers to create a ring of holy fire that was the size of a massive solar system behind it— creating a closing barrier of light that it made to trap Kira within a cell of incoming pillars.
In the eye of a holy fire vortex that was closing around him faster than what he could imagine, Kira used a massive amount of his chakra to shot himself upwards towards the Elden Beast— escaping just in time to avoid having his soul incinerated by the same flames which were still burning away at his soul. With an explosion behind him that could only be rivaled by the Big Bang itself, Kira's velocity increased— giving him the speed needed to outmatch the Greater Will itself.
Knowing that it couldn't flee any longer, the Elden Beast turned its celestial body toward Kira, and pulled its sword-baring arm back before swinging down to collide its galactic-endowed blade against the Master of Death's beam of chakra— creating a golden shockwave that shook the entire multiverse. With how fast the Greater Will was with its blade, Kira's arm movements and air-borne dodging was only able to keep up with the Outer God through his sixth-sense alone— the ability to constantly know where his opponent was going to strike gave Kira the edge he needed.
During their long and seemingly endless battle, the only reason behind why Kira was able to go on as long as he did was because the fire within him burned brighter than the fire that the Greater Will had tried using to slay him. Letting out a righteous battle cry, Kira created a trail of afterimages of himself to overwhelm the already panicked Outer God— making its accuracy take a plunge, and leaving it open for the white-haired man's final counter strike.
Flying beneath the massive golden sword, and its nebula-like aura that engulfed its divine blade, Kira dug his chidori-created blade into the Elden Beast's arm. Flying circles while spiraling upwards towards its shoulder, Kira carved his blade into the shrieking Outer God's limb, and before it could use its wings to fly downward to find security within the endless sea below, the Master of Death teleported to each of its wings— severing each one from its base, and causing the Greater Will to remain suspended in the vast nothingness.
Making use of the holy fire that had fully engulfed his entire body, Kira used his entire body as a projectile— leaving behind a yellow and white fiery-trail behind him, as if he was shooting star himself. Aiming directly for the brightest star within the Elden Beast's body, Kira had achieved speeds beyond light as he flew down like a bullet— piercing through the Greater Will's head. Beheaded and unable to exist outside of any form of reality, the window to the vast nothingness that Kira wanted to break out of vanished around them— the black skies and pillars of light around them fading away, as the endless sea of nothingness dried up beneath them.
And as the two returned to the universe which housed Hogwarts, the holy fire was becoming to much for Kira to bear— his soul dwindling down to a mere speck, as he knelt down on the ground beside the headless vassal for the Greater Will, which had shrunk down to the size of a mere whale. Seething in pain, as his physical form began to disintegrate, Kira used his burning reserves of chakra to summon his two servants and the three demigods back to his side.
Taken back in awe at the sight of the slain god laying beside where Kira was huddled over in agony, Melina found herself disturbed the moment her eye wandered over to Kira, and the trail of fire emitting from the leftover ashes of the Hailing Tree. "That's-"
"-The Frenzied Flame," Miquella said, while appearing just as shocked at the unexpected sight of another Outer God, that had been the reason behind his tree burning down since they arrived at Hogwarts. "It stowed itself away along the back of the Greater Will… It's been here this entire time…" Miqeulla spoke in a trembling voice, as the malicious Outer God that had clung itself to Kira was one that everyone from the Lands Between feared.
Feeling himself getting lost to the flames of the destructive Outer God who was devouring his soul, Kira let out a cry of pain as he crawled toward Melina on his hands and knees. "M-Melina! Help me…! Transfer the Greater Will's powers into my soul, before it returns back from wherever it came from…! H-Hurry!" Kira choked out, while violently trembling as his body was constantly having to restore his charred flesh, as the flames of the Outer God intensified by the second.
Having thought about letting Kira die by the destructive fire eating away at him and the Deathly Hallows, Melina knew that she would need to follow through with their plan of betrayal. "… Allow me to ease your pain, my friend," Melina spoke with a remorseful voice, as she extended her arms outward toward the Elden Beast. Closing her eyelid as tears trailed down her cheek, Melina transferred the divine soul from the Greater Will— ultimately annihilating the Outer God in the process, as she endowed Malenia the Severed with the power of the Great Runes.
Having watched as the nebula-trail coming out of the disappearing Elden Beast's headless body was transferred to the nearly twelve-foot tall demigoddess instead of himself, Kira felt as though a dagger had been thrusted into his burning heart. Looking up at Melina with a betrayed look in his blue eyes, Kira's trembling arms gave way— causing him to collapse onto the stone-laid brick floor of the courtyard.
Not even the passing storm above was enough to quell his pain, as Kira rolled over on his side to stare up at the crying Maiden who he had made the mistake of trusting. "I… I don't understand… Why? W-Why are you doing this, Melina?" Kira asked in a surprisingly calm and spiteless voice, despite the fact that his soul was reaching its end.
Unable to help herself, Melina walked over to him and knelt down beside him— just far enough to keep away from the reach of the Frenzied Flame, which was consuming the Deathly Hallows that served as the last line of defense for the shinobi's soul. "Forgive me, my friend… Your ambitions were questionable, and although the promise of eternal happiness was tempting, in the end, I wasn't strong enough to walk down the path of 'Heaven'," Melina explained, while she heard Malenia's prosthetics falling off her body from behind her— the limbs of the newly endowed 'Elden Lord' were returning to her body, completing her whole.
"I… I understand," Kira said with a disappointed voice, as his frown softly formed a forced smile, as traces of the Deathly Hallows were being absorbed by the Outer God within him. "The path to 'Heaven' is a hard one… Perhaps it's one that was never meant to be walked down."
Surprised at how forgiving and at peace Kira sounded, even in the fact of his dream becoming burned to ablaze, Melina was taken aback by the shinobi's attitude and wanted to speak to him more before Malenia put him out of his misery. "You… You aren't angry with me…? There's no hatred that you feel for me, in spite of what I did…!?" Melina asked in a whispered voice.
"… There's no malice I have for you. You did what you thought was best… In the end, Fate was the one who decided this outcome, not you," Kira said with a weakened voice, as he closed his eyelids while accepting his end. "This thing inside of me… It's burning away at my soul; tearing it into fading ashes… I'll do my best to contain it, and drag it back with me to the Throne. Now go, end us, before it has a chance t-"
Before Kira had a chance to finish his warning, the Frenzied Flame had completed its task of breaking past the Master of Death's defenses. Endowed with the power of the Deathly Hallows and the soul of a shinobi, the Outer God was able to break through its restraints— piercing a beam of its fire straight through Melina's chest. Seeing the wide-eyed expression on the Kindling Maiden's face as her entire being became engulfed in the Outer God's flames, Malenia grabbed a hold of the Elden Beast's sword and swung down at the fiery tendril while Ryouma and Oryou attempted to strike the limb themselves.
Unlocking the chains placed around its divine soul by the Outer Gods who feared it by using Melina's soul to shatter them, the Frenzied Flame was able to accomplish its final goal of becoming capable of forming a physical form, but wasn't able to kill Melina in time. Getting its fiery tendril extinguished by Malenia, Ryouma, and Oryou, the Frenzied Flame leapt out of Kira's disintegrating body before Miqeulla had a chance to seal it back using his golden needle.
A massive pillar of fire erupted from the spot Kira was, forcing Oryou to summon a magical barrier over them as Miquella knelt down beside Melina's fatally wounded body. The world around them ignited in an eternal fire that was burning away at the seams of reality itself, and looming over the crumbling Hogwarts castle stood an Eldritch horror.
Appearing to have dark-bark like skin that covered its slender frame, its black tendrils that spouted of its lower half were covered in hellfire. Emitting hatred and rage through the red-light that shined ominously out the hundred of enormous eyes that lined vertically up its anorexically thin body, the head on top of the humanoid figure had long elk-like antlers that grew out of the side of its eyeless skull. Hovering over its skull was a wicked crown made of fire and ebony, and it smiled as it cackled— raising its arms up to pull apart the burning fabrics of reality.
"What… What is that abomination?!" Melina asked in a weak voice, as Miquella used his needle to stitch and heal the large burning hole in her chest.
Gritting his teeth while feeling outmatched by the massive being before them, Ryouma answered Melina's question by saying, "That's Khahrahk… It goes by the 'Scarlet King'… When the Throne created 'Light' and 'Darkness', it was born from the Darkness itself…"
Rolling her eyes at the fact that her beloved believed in the mythos behind the being before them, Oryou added, "That was then… The 'Scarlet King' is just a servant now… A vengeful servant, that had been casted away by the Throne."
Unimpressed with either of their explanations for the Eldritch God before them, all that Malenia cared about was the fact that the Scarlet King was pulling its unholy form through the massive tear it had opened up above it. "God or demon, king or servant, it doesn't matter to me. If that being is the vassal for the Frenzied Flame, and has knowledge of the 'mega verse' you speak of, then it's certain that its goal is to burn all of existence into nothing… That shall not stand," Malenia declared with a determined voice, as the long-red hairs behind her transformed into six-glowing wings that left behind an afterimage of butterflies in her wake, as she phased through the barrier keeping her brother and comrades alive.
And as Miquella watched in fear as his beloved sister left a beautiful glowing red trail in her wake, Naruto, armed with Kurama and Ranni's souls inside of his own soul, left behind sparkling stars of white light behind him. Blessed with the souls of two powerful beings, Naruto's new 'Moonlight Bijuu mode' had transformed his golden flames into a gentle white-light that coated his glowing-white form in the same way that the full moon itself glowed at night.
Looking up at the gapping rift above, and at the small glowing figure following behind the Scarlet King into the infinite nothingness, Naruto's glowing white eyes furrowed. "What the hell was that thing?! That thing was freakin' massive!" Naruto shouted out loud, to which he got two completely different answers from the two souls inhabiting his own soul.
"That's the Scarlet King…!" Kurama answered in an intense and battle-ready voice. "What the hell is going on?! I was under the impression we were stopping Minato's brother, not that monster!"
"What you saw was the Frenzied Flame… An Outer God in its true form," Ranni replied in a calm and collected voice, while acknowledging Kurama's own explanation by adding, "It goes by many names, all of which foretell its destructive nature. We can worry about Kira afterward, all that matters is that we help Maleina with extinguishing the Frenzied Flame, once and for all; nothing else matters."
Even with his newfound power gifting him with the combined strength of magicka and chakra, Naruto found himself questioning whether or not they even had a chance to defeat something like the Scarlet King himself. "… How do we stop it?" Naruto asked, while pushing aside his own worries in order to stay determined as both he and Haise flew toward the burning rift.
Having no other choice upon hearing Ryouma describing Kira's plan earlier, Tamamo had reluctantly agreed to use her 'Eight Blessings of Amaterasu' to revert herself back into her true goddess-self; risking giving up her life with Haise, for the sake of protecting all of existence. With the power of the Sun Deity within him, Haise was able to achieve a 'Super' form that turned the whites of his hair a yellow, and both of his irises red, while his Rinne Sharingan had become dangerously unstable— leaving rips and tears into the fabric of time-and-space behind him, as he flew beside Naruto's side.
Knowing how dangerous he was within his 'super' form while he was inside of that universe, Haise remained determined as both he and Naruto approached the fiery hole in the sky, where they saw a golden trail leading from that universe that traced back all the way to the Scarlet King's destination. "I said it once, and I'll say it again: We're going to kick its ass," Haise said with a confident smirk on his face, as he turned his head to look Naruto in the eye.
Smiling in the face of danger, Naruto let out a short chuckle as both he and Haise entered the black void that encompassed every single universe that stemmed out of the Throne. "Pfffft, hell yeah! BELIEVE IT!!!" Naruto shouted with a motivated fire inside of his heart, as both he and Haise left Hogwarts behind, and caught up with Malenia, who was trailing behind where the Scarlet King was soaring over the golden trail leading back to the center of all existence.
Having not expected to see anyone but herself and the Outer God who threatened everything she knew and loved, Malenia took a moment to turn her head over her shoulder to stare at Naruto and Haise. In that moment, she felt Ranni's presence within Naruto, and her intuition that was bestowed upon her by the Elden Ring told her that both of them were her allies.
"… Never thought that I'd die fighting alongside men," Malenia remarked in a playful and confident tone, before transforming into a silhouette of holy light, as she dodged a beam of eternal black-fire that the Scarlet King had fired from one of its many lower tendrils.
Chuckling at how serious Malenia sounded, even as it was apparent that she was trying to crack a joke, Naruto smirked while keeping his eyes locked onto the burning Eldritch God in front of him. "What about side by side with friends?" Naruto shot back, as he used Ranni and Kurama's combined powers to create an entire galaxy's worth of star-powered Rasengans that he fired directly into the burning tendrils of the Scarlet King.
Hearing the embodiment of the Frenzied Flame screaming in pain, as many of its tendrils burst into explosive quasars that all three of them were able to fly straight through, Maleina's usual stoic lips cracked an amused smile, as she felt an uplifting sensation resonating in her soul that once seemed like an impossibility to her. "… Aye, I could do that," Malenia said with a genuine look of happiness on her face, before using her newfound godly powers to create a suit of golden Valkyrie armor that shined brilliantly like the aura that embodied Haise's body.
Stretching her angelic wings out, Malenia soared past all the beams of crimson fire that the Scarlet King was attempting to annihilate her with by firing multiple beams from all the eyes upon its torso. Turning its back to the direction of the Throne, the Scarlet King bared its teeth at the three heroes while summoning black holes between him and them.
Traveling faster than the concept of infinity itself, Malenia was able to outpace the gravitational pull of the black holes, leaving Naruto to use his combined magicka and chakra to close the inter dimensional anomalies before they could cause any lasting damage. Bobbing and weaving through the firey-black tendrils of the Eldritch God, Malenia the as severing whatever unholy limb that the Scarlet King was slashing at her with— creating the perfect opening for Haise to fly through.
Despite the obvious size difference, Haise had the power of a Goddess inside of him, meaning that every kick and punch that he threw at the Eldritch God did an immense amount of damage. Flying back each time he landed a hit, Haise was flying circles around the screaming Outer God. Upon the Scarlet King getting accustomed to the pattern in which Malenia and Haise were using to attack him with, he was able to simultaneously shoot a beam of dark-energy directly at Haise while entangling the newly crowned Elden Lord in his regrowing tendrils.
Grunting as he was sent flying out into the endless void and away from the golden path back to the Throne, Haise had to redirect his trajectory in order to avoid colliding into a cluster of sister-universes. With Haise nowhere in sight, and Malenia struggling to free herself from the cackling Eldritch God's hold on her, it was up to Naruto to step in to engage with the Scarlet King.
"I'll wipe that smile off your ugly face, you big burning piece of shit…!" Naruto growled with his fangs bared at the Scarlet King, and watched with his hands raised as the burning god shot out a blast of hellfire from his outstretched and blackened hands. "STARBURST RASENGAN!!!" Naruto screamed from the bottom of his lungs, as nine glowing-white fox tails sprouted from his lower back— all of them arching back to aim their tips directly at the incoming wave of undodgeable hellfire.
Using Ranni's magicka and Kurama's chakra to create an unstable rasengan that was the size of a small singularity point, Naruto aimed its universe-busting explosion directly into the face of the hellfire— overpowering the Scarlet King's hellfire, and surprising the Eldritch God as the white burst of magicka and chakra broke through his attack, and was heading straight for him.
Before he could move, the reach of the Starburst Rasengan had vaporized his entire lower half— freeing Malenia and allowing her to ride the shockwave of Naruto's god-busting attack. Lowering her sword down and piercing it straight into the Eldritch God's groin, Malenia broke the concept of light with how fast she carved the Greater Will's sword straight up the Scarlet King's torso— effectively slicing through all of his red-eyes along his chest, and using her combined powers of scarlet rot and holy fire to permanently cauterize them.
Blinded and screaming in pain from having been flayed alive by the new Elden Lord herself, the Scarlet King's wicked smile disappeared just like how Naruto said it would, as Malenia performed her 'Waterfowl Dance'— a graceful and beautiful dance of her blade, in which she slashed and diced the golden sword deep into the already wounded god's torso. With the brilliant center of all existence, 'The Throne', only a minute's worth of time away from his mutilated body, the Scarlet King's heart was suddenly pierced by Haise, who had used the gravitational pull of a nearby cluster of universe to volley himself straight through the Eldritch God's chest, which had been split open thanks to Malenia.
"Now! Exterminate this monster, once and for all!" Malenia commanded, as she hovered over the momentarily stunned god's body. Following her orders like the general she used to be, Naruto summoned a hail fire of falling star rasengans upon the Scarlet King's body. Grabbing a hold of the Eldritch God's antler, Haise began to use Ameratsu's strength to begin pulling the Scarlet King's head off of its tearing neck, while Malenia used her affinity over holy fire and scarlet rot to project a rotting flame that was causing the mutilated monster's body to flake away into the void.
With the Throne so close and it becoming apparent to the Scarlet King that it would make it in time to see its destruction, the Eldritch God was determined to have the final laugh. Before the three heroes could slay him, the Scarlet King used the powerful remains Deathly Hallows within its body to cast a spell strong enough to completely annihilate its physical form and soul— leaving behind a massive fireball that was too powerful for even the three of them to stop with their attacks alone.
Realizing what the Scarlet King had done, Ranni told Naruto, "The Frenzied Flame used all of its remaining power to create an eternal flame— it's going to destroy the Throne, and everyone else in existence!"
Even in the face of pending doom, Naruto dismissed Ranni's prediction and shook his head violently as he gritted his teeth. "LIKE HELL IT IS!!!" Naruto spat back with determination in his soul, as he, Malenia, and Haise flew past the multiverse-ending ball of hellfire to put themselves between it and the celestial center of light, 'The Throne' itself.
Extending his arms out toward the incoming orb of burning doom, Naruto thought back to the sealing symbol his mother had shown him, and remembered the exact way to combine that using his father's 'Flying Thunder God' technique. "EVERYONE!!! GIVE ME YOUR STRENGTH!!! IT'S NOW OR NEVER!!!" Naruto screamed defiantly, as he started to create literal stars in the vast void behind where the fireball was heading toward them.
Placing their hands on Naruto's shoulders, Malenia and Haise clenched their jaws tightly as they connected their very souls to the shinobi's— bestowing him the combined power of the Elden Ring and Ameratsu, giving the already powerful 'Moonlight Bijuu' mode of Naruto a significant boost of power. With the Nine-Tailed Goddess' powers of space-time, Naruto was able to pull back and keep the fireball still when it came within inches of his outstretched hands— Ameratsu's ability to reverse time made the unrelenting flames suspended.
With the Scarlet King's kamikaze attack held back, angelic butterflies made up of celestial magicka floated out in waves from Naruto's palm. Soaring through the void and around the literal unholy sun in front of them, the 'Moonlight' butterflies used their holy light to connect the lines between the stars that Naruto had created— forming the perfect seal needed to begin absorbing the eternal flames into it.
Knowing that the seal, as powerful as it was, wouldn't hold on forever, Naruto used his father's 'Flying God Technique' by creating another magicka and chakra enchanted symbol in the vast open nothingness— in the direction where neither the universe of light or darkness branched out to. Feeling his soul being torn apart by the amount of power flowing through it, Naruto was screaming in agony as he was beginning to lose his concentration— causing the seal containing the eternal flames to begin burning through the celestial butterflies and stars that were trying to seal it.
In the face of all hope being lost, Ameratsu, who was considered to be an extremely self-centered goddess, had always wondered why Kaguya had sacrificed her very existence for the sake of those who would never truly appreciate what she gave up for them. Before she used Tamamo No Mae as her avatar, the thought of giving her eternal life up for the sake of others was one that she could never have fathomed.
However, as she sensed Kurama using his own chakra and soul to essentially sacrifice himself in order to keep Naruto fruitlessly alive, it was then that she remembered the warmth she felt inside of her when she first laid eyes upon her baby brother— the same warmth she felt when she first laid eyes upon Haise.
"… You can't have this," Ameratsu said defiantly with determination inside of her voice, and before anyone could understand what she was doing, she transferred all of her remaining power to Tamamo— giving the shrine maiden her own identity and soul, and leaving behind everything to Haise and Naruto, as she flew past them and directly into shattering seal.
Upon seeing through Naruto's eyes the sight of his older sister using her soul to trap the Scarlet King's flames into the seal, Kurama let out a heartbroken sigh as the entire starlit seal became golden— Ameratsu's remaining divinity being the final sacrifice needed to create an equal power capable of forever binding Naruto's seal. "A… Ameratsu… N-No…" Kurama whispered out with shock in his trembling voice, before suddenly letting out a cry of agony as he used everything he had left to make sure that her sacrifice wasn't in vain. "D-DAMN IT!!! DO IT NARUTO!!! DO IT NOWWWW-WUAHA!!!" Kurama choked out while screaming inside of the shinobi's head— snapping him and everyone else back to reality, after having watched the goddess sacrifice herself for the sake of everyone else.
With his only opportunity to save all of existence at his fingertips, Naruto could feel his very soul igniting as he screamed, "F-FLYING SUN GODDESS TECHNIQUE: ETERNAL DISPERSE!!!" Naruto literally shrieked out while his very being felt like it would shattered into a million pieces at any point. And in that moment, Naruto was able to create an entirely separate universe out of the seal his mother had taught him to do— using Ameratsu's power along with his comrades' to save the Throne, and all of existence.
And while Kurama sobbed uncontrollably at the loss of his older sister, Ranni used her magicka to put Naruto into stasis— preventing him and Kurama from exploding into a ball of expellated chakra themselves. Still in his super form, albeit a less unstable form, Haise could feel Tamamo inside of him, and sensed the confusion and sorrow in her soul— a combined feeling of emotions that Haise could sum up as her feeling lost without Ameratsu to guide her, like a part of her actually died.
With the two men under her watch exhausted in their own different ways, Malenia made sure to pay tribute to Ameratsu's sacrifice by gently pushing the golden sword of the Greater Will towards the massive-orb that was the separated universe in which would be the eternal hellfire's prison for the rest of existence. With her hands free, Malenia reached down with her scarlet rot-free limbs to intertwine her fingers between Haise and Naruto's hands.
"… Come, we have much to do still," Malenia instructed with a respectful tone in her voice, as she stretched out her crimson wings before flying through the void of the multiverse— saying a prayer under her breath as she passed Ameratsu's universe.
The whole planet within the universe her brother was left in had been engulfed in fire, a fire in which she was able to be extinguished using the power of the Great Ruins within her. With there being no competition between her remaining the Elden Lord and restoring the planet to the way it was supposed to be, Malenia sacrificed the Elder Ring and used up all of its power to restore all life on Earth, including Miquella, Melina, and even Ryouma and Oryou, who she respected enough to dub them her allies.
And as the Great Runes all disappeared from her soul, Malenia stood at the center of the recreated courtyard at Hogwarts, where she took a moment to appreciate the blue skies above her— the storm having finally passed on, leaving behind a light overcast of white clouds and sunshine. Back to being a demigod who would never again have the power of a true goddess, none of that mattered to Malenia, who was happy enough with all her limbs back, and her body and soul free of scarlet rot.
Walking past where she left Haise and Naruto to sit down on the courtyard floor, Malenia showed the more humane side of her by kneeling down to embrace her arms lovingly around Miquella's small body— picking him up and kissing him on the top of his forehead, as Ranni's soul left Naruto's very being, to return to her puppet body she left nearby for safe keeping.
Having all been brought back from the afterlife was different for everyone, especially Ryouma and Oryou, who found it jarring with how little time they actually got to spend back home, when their souls returned to the Throne. Having been there herself for what seemed like the first time she could actually remember it, Melina felt at peace, knowing what awaited her after it came time for her to pass on. Smiling softly to herself, Melina stared up at the glassy sky above, and softly chuckled as she spoke aloud, "I see it, Kira… I saw heaven, and it's beautiful… Thank you, dear friend… Thank you for everything."
Teleporting back to the courtyard after her soul had been reunited with her puppet body, Ranni made her way over to Melina, where the two of them gazed upon one another before the moon witch leapt forward to wrap her four arms around her other half. No words were spoken as Melina returned the embrace and warmth, and the only sounds that could be heard were the gentle sobs of joy and sadness that Ranni had been holding onto for eons. Rubbing the witch's porcelain back, Melina whispered comforting hushes into Ranni's ear— letting her know that she forgave her, in spite of everything she had done wrong in the past.
Feeling cathartic with the empathy of sharing the heartache felt by Kurama and Tamamo, Haise and Naruto sat beside one another— each of them watching with gentle smiles on their faces, as the four natives of the Lands Between rejoiced in what could be best described as their freedom. "… This is good… This is what she would have wanted," Haise spoke softly for Kurama and Tamamo to hear, as he watched four beings embracing and sharing love with one another. "I can see why you loved her so much, Kurama… She was the best sibling one could ask for… And everything she left behind for you, Tamamo, is proof that you and her will forever always share a bond… You're her legacy… You both are."
Wanting to speak up and give his words of respect, Naruto cleared his throat before adding, "I… I read once in the Ninsū Bible that Ameratsu was seen as Kaguya's opposite in almost every way. One was prideful, and one was humble… I see now that whoever wrote that didn't know what they were talking about: She was just as brave and selfless as Kaguya Herself… I felt that in her," Naruto said with a croaking voice, and silently sighed as he raised a hand up to wipe away the tears that Kurama was shedding through his own eyes.
With both Tamamo and Kurama too emotionally fragile to speak, the two of them remained silent, yet the shared emotions that they and their masters felt allowed Naruto and Haise to know that their words of respect for Ameratsu gave the two spirits a sense of cathartic comfort. Turning their attention away from the four demigods, Naruto and Haise raised their gaze up to meet the friendly eyes of the samurai servant and his stoic dragon-companion.
"Everyone in the Throne saw what you two did… Both us, those four demigods, and everyone who was momentarily sent to their afterlives. Front row seats, one might say," Ryouma said humorly with a proud smirk on his face, as he lowered his hands down toward the two young men for them to grab a hold of. Pulling both of them up once they grabbed onto his hands, Ryouma made sure to use his gloved hands to dust them off, before taking a step back.
Speaking bluntly, Oryou said aloud, "Once you two 'heroes' are done wallowing in your sadness, you two outta think about heading back to Konoha with us… That is, if you're still wanting to stop the White Suits."
"Oryou! Have some manners, won't ya?! Can't ya see that they're still mourning?!" Ryouma scolded with a disapproving look in his dark-colored irises.
Before Oryou could apologize for being so forward, Tamamo appeared with a gentle smile spread across her face, as she held Kurama's small fox body within her arms. "No, no… She's right. Ameratsu wouldn't approve of us feeling sorry for ourselves, not when we still have a mission to do," Tamamo declared, as she comforted Kurama by gently petting his head, as well as the back of his furry neck.
Nodding his head while tipping his white fedora out of respect, Ryouma replied, "Fair enough, ma'am. However, I feel the need to inform you all that Yamoori is too chicken-shit to leave his little dimension, and seeing how we servants are all pretty much on the same page, none of us have any loyalty to him… With Tsunade's group active right now, and without Kira to be the brains behind the operation, I'd say that the White Suits are spending their borrowed time as sitting ducks."
Narrowing his eyebrows out of confusion, Naruto tilted his head at the handsome samurai before asking, "So, uh… What are you tryna imply here, buddy?"
"He means to say that you two need to take a break. You guys literally saved the entire multiverse, including the Throne; I'd say that warrants a little 'r ', wouldn't you?" Oryou interpreted for her easy-going partner, while throwing a peace sign up.
Chuckling softly, Haise lowered his gaze momentarily to the stone-brick floor beneath his bright-pink Timbs, and shook his head before looking back up at Oryou's crimson gaze to flash her a playful look. "Weren't you just on our case about us GOING after the White Suits? What changed, huh?"
"Nothing changed, and I wasn't trying to boss you two around, if that's what you're implying;" Oryou replied back with her same monotone expression on her face, as she kept her peace sign held upwards to express to everyone how chill she was. "I was merely reminding you two that you still have problems waiting for you back home. I only said that because after having just accomplished what you all did, it would be easy for you two to overlook something as insignificant to the grand scheme of the Throne as Yamoori."
Adding to what Oryou had said, Ryouma chuckled as he pointed out, "You three just fought an actual god that was too dangerous to ever leave the Throne… The Scarlet King, nonetheless! I'd say compared to the guy who was powerful enough to be called an 'Outer God' in his weakest form, I reckon you two shouldn't have an issue taking on some meat-head who wears a white suit, and who drinks alcohol and smokes cigarettes every chance he gets."
"Are you talking about Yamoori, or yourself, love?" Oryou asked playfully, while looking back at the shocked expression on Ryouma's face, after being called out for his own similarities to the leader of the White Suits.
"Hmph… Smartass," Ryouma chuckled with a growing smirk across his face, as he blushed from feeling embarrassed by Oryou's zinger.
Taking comfort from the playful couple, Haise smiled as he crossed his arms over his chest. "While I don't think Naruto or I aren't capable at the moment of being as powerful as we were, I think I can agree with what you're saying. If we have Tsunade's forces and whatever servants you two can round up for us to help us, then I'd say that we shouldn't have an issue beating the White Suits, once and for all… What do you think, Naruto?" Haise asked, while wanting input from the young man who he shared so many qualities and traits with, even if the two of them had two different personalities.
Stretching his arms behind his back, Naruto let out a loud yawn before reaching down to pat a hand over his stomach. "I think we'll be fine when it comes time to kick their asses! But in the meantime, uh… I'm pretty hungry and tired, and, well… I think it's fair to say that the two of us could go for a bath… And new clothes," Naruto said with an embarrassed chuckle, as he pointed out the fact that both he and Haise had on tattered articles of clothing, all of which were hanging on by mere threads— save, of course, for Haise's bright pink Timbs, which somehow were able to survive the entire ordeal.
"Amen to that, hehe… Eh…" Haise trailed off, while suddenly becoming self-aware of how badly he and Naruto stunk of soot, body odor, and burnt cotton. "… Think they have any of that in the castle?" Haise asked Ryouma, to which he nodded before shrugging.
"Yeah, I reckon they do, but seeing the insides of that place, I don't think any of us are going to be able to enjoy its ametties without knowing the right 'hocus-pocus' crap to say," Ryouma said half-jokingly, before gesturing toward Ranni and Melina. "Those two might, but instead of bothering them with that, how about I show you all to the cool village that all of the student body and the staff got evacuated to? That way, we can kill two birds with one stone when we tell them that the coast is clear," Ryouma suggested, to which seemed reasonable for the four of them.
Nodding his head, Naruto was up for a little vacation himself with Haise before the two of them needed to head back to Konoha. "Oh hell yeah, I'm down for that— BELIEVE IT!!!" Naruto shouted with a wide smile on his face, before rushing off past Ryouma and Oryou to approach the group of winding down demigods. "Hey guys, we're gonna go tell the wizards and crap that it's safe to come home to their castle! Wanna come along to hang out?! Do some sightseeing before we all need to head back to Konoha?"
Ranni smiled at Naruto before saying, "I believe I speak on behalf of all four of us when I say that we… We've decided to call this world our new home— we won't be coming back to Konoha, I'm afraid."
"But, that doesn't mean we won't visit!" Melina added, while finally appearing to be more laid back and chipper, now that she nor the other three demigods ever had to worry about being under the thumb of any Outer God ever again.
Respecting their wishes, Naruto nodded his head and smiled proudly at the four demigods as he stuck his hands in what remained of his pants. "Cool, cool! Yeah, this place is pretty cool I think, and I think suits you guys perfectly! Plus, you're all in tune with that magicka stuff, so I think you four could teach these guys a thing or two about how it's REALLY done!" Naruto said enthusiastically, while complimenting the four of them on their powers. "But uh… You're still cool with coming with us to that village, yeah? It'd be nice to look around at the place you're planning on calling your permanent home, right?"
Taking a step forward to nod, Maleina removed her golden Valkyrie-helmet off of her head to show off her beautiful blue eyes while she spoke. "It would be a sin if warriors such as ourselves didn't share a pint of ale to celebrate… All of us, we made this happen, we did this, and it's our right to celebrate! It's that right, Miqeulla?" Malenia asked aloud, and was momentarily confused when her blond brother didn't reply to her banter. Looking down with an arched brow, Malenia spoke quietly as she called out, "Miqeulla?"
Having his eyes glued to Haise the moment he realized how attracted he was to the white-and-black haired young man, Miquella jumped slightly when he felt his sister's finger tapping his exposed and small shoulder. "Hmm? Oh, right, uh… Y-Yes! Yes, I… I do agree! I could find comfort in a warm bed, a glass of wine, and some companionship right about now," Miquella replied with a smitten voice, as his blue eyes once again darted back to Haise, who caught sight of the femboy staring at him, and simply waved back with a confused smile across his lips.
Getting the hint, Maleina flashed a sly smirk at her brother while playfully patting his on his head full of blond-braided hair. "I see… Then we should depart at our own leisure, no?" The red-headed demigoddess mused, while waving her hand to usher for the others to follow behind her, as she and Miquella held hands while carelessly walking back towards the closed gates of Hogwarts' school of wizardry, where the two of them along with Ranni and Melina planned on staying for the rest of their days.
With Ryouma and Oryou rushing ahead to lead them toward the direction of the basement, where the platforms resided that would teleport them to the cozy wizard village of Hogsmeade awaited for them, Ranni and Melina held hands while talking chatting away as they followed behind Malenia and Miqeulla. Needing more time to rest and lament about the loss of their loved one, Tamamo and Kurama faded away back into the souls of their respective masters, leaving Haise and Naruto alone and out in the open courtyard.
"… Heh… Didn't think all of this would have played out the way it did. If I knew how crazy all of this was going to be, I might have ditched you back in Konoha too, just to keep you out of it," Naruto mused aloud with open-honesty, before turning his head over to Haise to flash a cheeky-smile. "Glad I didn't though; I don't think I would have made it out of that one by myself."
"I don't think any of us would have, ehehe…" Haise replied back with an uneasy chuckle, while still somewhat processing just how close the entire multiverse came to total annihilation. "I'm happy that I was able to have you by my side too, Naruto. You and I make a pretty good team, wouldn't you say?"
"Ten-outta-ten, I would definitely save the entire multiverse with you again," Naruto said with a half-joking voice, and shared a laugh with Haise as the two of them finally began to make their way toward the castle entrance. "Hopefully that doesn't happen again, but hey, if it does, at least I know who to turn to for help," Naruto said with an uneasy chuckle, before knocking his fist against the air, as if to 'knock on wood'.
And as Naruto began to ramble on about all the things he wanted to do while vacationing in Britain, Haise smiled and listened at the chatty young man's banter— feeling a sense of comfort from Naruto, as if he had met him before in a different life. The name 'Hide' kept popping up in the back of his mind, and Haise couldn't figure out why exactly that was. Before stepping inside Hogwarts' warm interior, Haise held the large wooden door open, and turned his head to look over his shoulder.
Gazing upwards where the burning rift had been closed by Malenia, Haise smiled softly and let out a content-chortle as his eyes began to softly tear up. "… Thank you, Ameratsu…And you too, Kaguya… Rest easy now… We'll take it from here," Haise whispered with a heartfelt tone in his words, and said one last prayer before closing the doors behind him.
Boom, this is easily my favorite story arc I've ever written, hands down. I don't usually read my own stuff, but as far as the Harry Potter x Elden Ring arc went, I might actually re-read it for myself. To me, it showed a good amount of action, character development, and world exploring, and honestly, other than like the demigods and Outer Gods who died, I freaking loved the way all the characters who had dialogue in this story ended up being. Even Kira, who I wrote to be the main antagonist thus far, was someone who I ended up feeling attached to when he died.
I'm usually not the sort of person who toots his own horn, but damn, I loved writing this crossover within a fanfiction that I already love writing! This, hands down, is my favorite fanfiction that I've ever written. Total creative freedom while being able to write entertaining and meaningful paragraphs, I don't think I've ever once dreaded or had writer's block while writing this. That has part to do with the reviews and suggestions I get, so thank you very much for making this possible.
I might write a short fun chapter later on, where it's about Ameratsu and Kaguya having a tea party, while existing in the heart of the Throne in their own slice of Heaven. Tamamo won't be as attached to Haise, and thus probably will want to spend time alone to herself while reflecting on her own existence, now that she and Ameratsu are gone, while Kurama will be mourning her death for a while himself. A lot of what made Tamamo her was Ameratsu, so she's probably going to have a bit of an identity crisis until she comes to terms with who she is, and how she sees Kurama and Haise.
I stuck to my initial plan of having Naruto's power level balanced, I think. I wrote the 'Moonlight Bijuu Mode' to be vastly stronger than the 'Six Paths Sage Mode', but at the cost that it was sort of a one-time ordeal that almost killed Naruto and Kurama. Haise even got his own 'Super Saiyan/ Super Sonic' form, and showed that he was capable of tanking universe/multiverse level damage from the Scarlet King, who I wrote to be the true vassal of the Frenzied Flame, because I thought it would be cool.
Instead of going too vulgar with the following lemons, I'm gonna stick to more romantic love-making for the most part, because I sort of grew attached to these fictional little characters lmao. We're gonna keep it simple, aight lol? Harry x Hermione, Harry x Ranni x Melina, Haise x Miqeulla x Malenia, and Naruto x Ginny x Luna, but with more romance… Except, wait, wait… I didn't write Ginny or Luna, and I don't want them to come out of nowhere. And I did write them, I think I only mentioned them once…
Scratch that. It's gonna be Harry x Hermione, Haise x Miquella, Naruto x Malenia (He's blond and reminds her of Miquella), and as for Ranni and Melina? Might just ship them with others, because I already love the way I wrote their dynamic in this one. Like I said, looking to be more romantic with this one than raunchy, at least for now. Still gonna take tips and inspiration from what you wrote.
Except Naruto x Moaning Myrtle, because the concept of Naruto stumbling upon her while trying to take a piss would be hilarious and sexy. And it gives Naruto the bragging rights of saying 'I cream-pied a ghost'. I'll eventually have more characters return to Hogwarts after the lemon vacation, just not for a while.
Anyways, onto the reviews.
I'm glad people enjoyed the crossover, lol. Hopefully this final chapter of the arc was worth the build up.
Again, thank you for all the ideas, I promise to use them at some point in the future, if I don't use a majority of them for the next lemons! And as far as the suggestion goes, I wouldn't mind writing a crossover for Cyberpunk Edgerunners, but just to stick to the idea of crossing other franchises over while already including them into a franchise, I might do a Metal Gear Rising Revengeance x Cyberpunk Edgerunner, where I can have fucking Raiden as a companion instead of some guy name 'David'.
That way, I can have Senator Armstrong team up with Adam Smasher, who will both need an upgrade in order not to get blitzed by Naruto and whoever tags along for the ride. More likely than not, it's gonna be Haise, but next time I'll have other characters come along for the journey, now that they're all familiar with crossing universes.
I might end up at least doing Naruto x Ginny and Luna, seeing how Naruto wouldn't mind being treated like a beloved celebrity instead of an outcast for a change. Yeah, expect that, and I'll do Haise x Miquella x Malenia instead. Like I said, these author notes aren't ever set in stone, they're just my mad ramblings.
Yeah, expect the next crossover to be Cyberpunk Edgerunners x MGRR, where the male protagonists in the story are definitely going to be Naruto, Haise, and Raiden; all of which are actually capable of protecting their loved ones, and kicking ass. As far as ships go, I agree with the ones posted, especially Haise x Rebecca, as she would take comfort and find his gentle and friendly nature to be attractive (Opposites attract, sort of deal). Although, again, I'm gonna have Haise be reluctant in agreeing to hook up with her, with her being pushy about it until he finally caves in.
And hey, Naruto and Haise can transport the girls/femboys they actually end up having good chemistry with back to the White Suits' mansion, whenever they clear it out when Tsunade raids the place.
Seriously though, fuck David. I dabbled in the show a bit, and didn't like his character, and noticed that a lot of other people share that opinion as well. Naruto and Company would definitely be able to take down the corruption within Night City, especially since he and Haise literally fucking fought the Scarlet King lmao. From that point forward, it's smooth sailing that makes their dialogue and actions entertaining in a comedic and satisfying way: the same kind of way someone feels when they know the hero is about to do a well-deserved beatdown on the villian.
Seriously, I think that fight with the Scarlet King might be my favorite fight scene I've ever written, lol.
Anyway, I love the feedback! I'll do Mario x Sonic, where Naruto gets Peach at the end, while dabbling in some other females as well, like fucking Toadette and Gombina lmao. Not every crossover will have a significant plot point, sometimes they'll be for shits and giggles, and their investigation just ends up being for nothing, so they fuck around for a bit before leaving.
Sakura could get Amy Rose to finally seal the deal with Sonic, and then Sonic could agree to help Naruto whenever he needs him. Naruto could probably hook up with Sally Acorn, since that's a request I got too. He'll definitely have post-nut clarity after that, and insist to everyone that he's ready to leave after that. Might have Sasuke or Haise hook up with Rouge the Bat at that point, idk anything is on the table. Or Vanilla the MILF Rabbit! That's a good one.
Fuck Sally, Naruto is gonna hook up with the Mommy Rabbit with big tits.
Also, Elsa and Anna are from Norway, so wouldn't they speak Norwegian instead of English? Lol. Then again, I sort of made languages universal for the most part, as to skip having to repeatedly have Naruto and Co learn languages each time they travel to another universe.
But yeah, I could do a, uh… A short Frozen arc, where Naruto and Haise accidentally end up stuck in the middle of the ocean, and have to sail to the nearest shore using a ship made out of solid ice. Naruto could hook up with Elsa, and Haise could just chill and fuck around with Anna and Olaf (They don't need to be fucking someone everytime they travel). Haise could be helping Anna and Christoph make a snowman, or go out to chop a tree down while Naruto and Elsa end up falling in love and screwing.
And then hooking up with Korra and Asami would be awesome too, especially when Naruto and Haise, and whoever else comes along, shows off how much better their chakra abilities are, in comparison to elemental bending.
As far as Elizabeth being introduced after Madara returns and starts leaping through universes, while trying to regain his strength, I could have her fall in love with Kaneki, who then agrees to join his harem after she gets approved by Eto. I wouldn't mind dabbling in Chainsaw Man too, but I read some of it and thought it was okay.
I'll tell you what, since I didn't get too much into Edgerunner, because I really don't watch anime like most of you do, I would appreciate it if I could get help with writing a scenario or basic outline of how the crossover would work?
Also, taking out MGRR, it's just gonna be a Cyberpunk Edgerunner crossover, to make it easier to write. So yeah, I'm gonna need a little help with that. The sooner we get that down, the quicker I can get to that once I write like, maybe six or so chapters of lemons and the White Suits Annihilation Arc.
And thank you for wishing me a happy holiday, I appreciated that! Anyways, that about does it for now, I gotta edit this for fanfiction dot net.
Again, last chance to write ideas for Harry Potter x Hermione x Melina x Ranni, becuase fuck it I'm gonna write a foursome after all.
Peace, and chicken grease, cya next time.