Chapter 7 - Gringotts the Stardale and the supernatural. Oh dear.
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"Bla" speeches
Bla thinking
# Bla # Seraphim language
'Bla' telepathy
$ Bla $ Discussions with the shadow layer
/ Bla / Old Draconian
Ϩ Bla Ϩ Parsons tongue
Bla Translated Pokémon language
[Bla] Pokédex entries
" Bla " Bijuu and other beings
Bla Bijuu talk to their host
"b̶̧̺̟̞̭̘̒̈̊̐l̡̙͕͚̭̠͙̼͌̐̽̽͘͜͝a̘͙͓̩͉͚̰̭̔͊͛̇͛̋̌͘" distorted voice
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A / N: ca. 46,800 words. Have fun while reading.
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It was the next morning when Anoth was woken up by a soft moan. Created by Luna Lovegood.
"Good Morning." Said Anoth, who was still sitting on the floor, snuggling into the fur of his arcanona, which lay behind him.
"Good Morning." Greeted Luna with a very dreamy voice. However, her eyes betrayed more to Anoth. "Imperator and Overlord of the Seraphimian Intergalactic Alliance and Council Chairmen of the Council of Worldlords."
Anoth stared at her, startled. He had not told anyone his rank. And she knew only very badly, after all, she was unconscious all the time. Then again ... Her eyes told Anoth that she was a seer. So maybe that was something that he should have expected. Although what she had said was not quite right.
"Highimperator actually, but otherwise you are right."
"And we're on one of your spaceships."
"I have no idea how you know that." Anoth said, because there were no windows or holographic pictures on Ravager's infirmary showing what's going on outside. "But again you are right."
"I always wanted to go to space." Luna said with her dreamy voice. "See what's behind the stars."
Their further conversation was interrupted when someone else also regained consciousness. This time it came from Harry Potter. Shortly thereafter, all the others came to themselves again. It was not long before Anoth heard the first question. It came from Neville, who judged by the tone of voice, meant it more for himself than the others.
"What is that glowing rune?" When the others saw Neville peering under his blanket as he asked that question, the others promptly did the same.
"Without it, you all would have been dead for a long time. " Came Anoth's answer, which prompted further questions.
"What?" That was the surprised question from Hermione.
"You have been given a rune and spell system that allows someone to kill you remotely by activating this system."
"I beg your pardon?!" That came from Tonks.
"Someone took a pretty long way to see you dead."
"Is it gone?"
"Unfortunately, no." Was Anoth's answer. "But we eliminated the source that sent out the signal that activated the runes on you."
"And where was this source?" Harry asked.
Anoth got up and activated one of the holographic monitors. Which caused the Arkanona to get up, walk over to Luna, and be scratched behind the ear. And from both sides, because Neville did that only a short time later. On the screen, however, was a three-dimensional floor plan to see. Tonks immediately recognized the illustrated floor plan as the Ministry of Magic. Then the picture zoomed in until it showed only one room.
"There." Anoth just said. The screen now showed a red blinking dot that was roughly where the minister's desk stood.
"The Office of the Minister?" Tonks asked.
"Yes."
"Why should the minister ..."
"There are a lot of possible motives. "
"But why us?" Hermione asked. "What would he have if he killed us?"
"I think I'll wait to answer that question until the others are here."
"Which others?" Harry asked.
"Well, your parents Miss Tonks as well as your parents and sister Miss Greengrass and Luna's father and Augusta Longbottom."
The mention of her parents made Hermione remember the events that happened a few hours ago. The bank robbery. The hostage-taking. The death of her parents. Anoth had apparently noticed what was going on inside her and had come over to her.
"Miss Granger." Hermione obviously did not hear him as she held her head in her hands and cried.
"Miss Granger." No reaction. Instead of trying again, Anoth hugged Hermione and started to calm her down. "Calm down Hermione, calm down."
"My ... my parents ..."
"They live Hermione, they live, calm down."
"But but…"
Anoth said something in Seraphim which made her calm down.
"They are alive?"
"Yes, they live, and my doctors say they will fully recover." As what Anoth had said was registered in Hermione's brain, the embrace changed and Anoth felt suddenly as if crushed by a junk press. Hermione exaggerated a bit with her embrace.
"Everything alright?" Anoth asked as she released him.
"Yes."
"I have a surprise for you both." Anoth said, pointing to Neville and Harry. "We brought Alice and Frank Longbottom and James and Lily Potter from St. Mungos here, all four are in a coma right now and just need a potion and they're back on their feet."
It made Neville grin and Harry had his mouth wide open. He could not believe what he had heard. His parents were still alive. They were not dead. Only in a coma. Then another insight came to him. Dumbledore had lied to him. He must have known that.
His anger, however, was quickly overshadowed by his joy that his parents were still alive. Dumbledore could wait. He could still peel off his skin later.
"Where are we?" that came from Daphne.
"I think it would be better and easier if I showed it to you, but before that you should probably wear some clothes." With that, Anoth pointed to the clothes lying on a cart beside them. Shortly thereafter, he whistled briefly and the Arcanona came over to Anoth and sat down beside him. Immediately afterwards, opaque force fields were built around the single beds to give them a little privacy. Anoth had already mentally ordered that the others would be brought to the observation deck. From the observation deck, the entire length of the Ravager, measuring seven kilometers, was visible. And there was also a very nice view down to the planet.
Ten minutes later and Harry, Hermione, Tonks, Daphne, Neville and Luna were dressed and the force fields shut off again.
"Shall we?" Anoth asked and the others nodded. "Follow me."
The infirmary they were in was not very far from the observation deck and so it only took a few minutes before they arrived. As they reached the observation deck there was a surprise waiting for them. Not only for Anoth but also for Hermione.
Her parents sat at the table, which had been built there. Hermione was now unstoppable and literally jumped into their arms.
While at Hermione, the family reunion ran Anoth contacted the responsible doctor. He told him that they had dealt with the treatment of the two Grangers about an hour ago and then sent them here.
Anoth watched the drama in silence. Then they turned to Anoth, who had meanwhile gone to the top of the table.
"Um ... can I ask a question?" Mister Granger asked nervously.
"Go ahead." came the answer from Anoth.
"Where are we?"
Anoth grinned and tapped something on a holographic control panel that had appeared on the table. Immediately afterward, the walls and ceiling of the room became transparent, revealing the view of open space, and of the earth and the moon above them. They had a perfect 360 ° view and could also see the ship they were currently on.
"Welcome onboard the Ravager ."
"Is this...?" Harry asked as he looked down at the earth.
"Yes, that's the Earth, and yes, we're really in space." Anoth answered, while the others looked outside with their mouths open.
"Can they see us?" asked Mister Granger, who just felt like he had been transferred directly to a Star Trek episode.
"No, the ship is cloaked, otherwise a seven-kilometer-long ship would probably not have gone unnoticed." said Anoth. "The reason you can see it is that the computer on the displays makes it visible to you, which in reality is invisible at the moment."
"SEVEN KILOMETERS ?!" Mister Granger exclaimed in surprise as he swirled around to Anoth. "The Galaxy class is just 643 meters long." He murmured then and turned his gaze back outside.
For a while Anoth stared at him questioningly. He had no idea what he meant by that. Terra did not have a single ship of this length. Only a few space ferries. Then his AIs in his implants made him aware of a television program and then Anoth realized what he had meant.
"What do you want with such a slow space cucumber?" That did not come from Anoth but from Miana, who had also understood what Mister Granger meant. Anoth had to fight a strong urge to face palm.
"SPACE CUCUMBER ?!" cried Mr. Granger horrified. "So the-"
Anoth raised his hand and they both fell silent before it got out of hand.
"I would have said that a little bit differently, but basically Miana is right." Mr. Granger wanted to start again. but did not get more than Anoth continued. "Take, for example, the FTL propulsion of the Federation of the United Planets, the warp drive, we use a very similar propulsion, but only for short distances, for example, to maneuver quickly, etc. For long-range, the propulsion is just too slow. For 10,000 light-years the ship needs about 10 years with Warp 8. If we fly the same distance with our hyperspace drive, we need just over four minutes.
"Powering the ships, with a rather simple antimatter reactor, is not very efficient, there are fusion reactors, but they are quite weak. The tertiary reactor of this ship alone produces nearly 10,000 times more energy than the antimatter reactor of the Galaxy Class you were talking about. Let alone the main energy of this ship.
"The only thing that interests me about the Galaxy class is the fact that the ship can undock its saucer section."
"Yes, I understand, for deep space operations the ship is definitely not suitable." Mister Granger admitted. "Nevertheless, I would like to fly such a ship."
"The ship does not even measure 650m." said Anoth. "I just need to contact the Sovereign to build the ship, but if that happens, the ship will get some other systems."
"What systems?"
"Better weapons, armor, sensors, etc."
"And the bridge?"
Anoth could only grin at Mister Granger more than pleased expression. "We can do that, but there will not be any LCARS."
"I can live with that." The grin of Mr. Granger could easily compete with those of a Cheshire cat.
"But I think we're not here to talk about Star Trek ships, are we?" Anoth pointed to the table. "Sit down."
"So," said Anoth after they had all sat down. "Now I want to make clear where we are at the moment, this ship is the Ravager, a seven-kilometer-long ship of the Aurora class, and basically an up scaled version of the Alteran Aurora class."
"Alteran?" That came from Hermione. "I've read about them before, but virtually nothing is known about them."
"I'm not surprised, it's been thousands of years." Anoth said and all heads turned to him. "But the Alterans are your ancestors."
"What?!" everybody called in chorus in surprise.
"How should we understand that?" asked Augusta Longbottom.
"Every human capable of magic who is on Earth has an Alteran somewhere in the line." Before they could interrupt, Anoth continued with a brief introduction to the Alteran history. And some of the parts were familiar to them. After all, there were already several magicians who expressed similar theories but could hardly prove it. Two of them were among the founders of Hogwarts. Salazar Slytherin and Rowena Ravenclaw.
Only nobody believed them in their time. And the two also found little valid evidence to substantiate their theories. That did not stop them from putting their theories into books and publishing them as a theoretical story. Over time, there were other wizards and witches who studied these theories. All they found was clues but once again no valid evidence.
But now ...
Now they were sitting opposite someone who had witnessed the time of the Alterans personally and, in contrast to them, can also prove that they had been here. Although the Alliance with Alterans has collapsed a long-time ago due to the epidemic that plagued the Alterans, but he was able to reconstruct some of the Alteran history through the few computer databases found intact in the Pegasus galaxy that the wrath had not destroyed. And what they could learn from the log buoy of Atlantis. What exactly happened in the years after that was still a mystery to Anoth, which still needed to be solved. But at least some of the Alterans must have survived. Otherwise, the wizards would not exist here.
"The last 10,000 years are still a mystery to us, but the fact that you exist tells me that at least some must have survived and returned to terra or earth as you know it." Anoth finished his history lesson. "That's the history, at least as far as we know."
After that, they talked for several hours with each other on various topics. Among others, they learned a great deal about the seraphim itself. Including Anoth's age. Which made Hermione ask a few questions.
"46 billion years ?!" Hermione exclaimed, completely surprised. "But that is completely impossible?"
"What brought you to this idea?" Anoth asked, now a little curious about their reasoning.
"Well ..." Hermione had become a bit unsure as now all eyes were on her. "The Big Bang..."
"Big Bang?" Anoth asked. He had to think briefly about what she might mean by that. Then he knew it. "You mean the collapse of a black hole."
"But a black hole cannot ..."
"Believe me, it can." Anoth said, interrupting Hermione. "They only last much longer, but they do not last forever."
"Just out of curiosity, what happens when such a black hole collapses?"
"Well, not every black hole says goodbye in a blast against that a supernova is not much more than a firecracker, most of them just disintegrate over time, because even though a black hole looks like nothing escapes, a black hole is constantly losing matter that it emits in the form of radiation - if a black hole does not get new mass in to make up for that loss, it eventually disappears - it virtually destroys itself. "
"But if the explosion is so destructive, why is not there any records on it, I mean, that would be a sensation that would surely be made public, would it not?" asked Mister Granger.
"It does not surprise me that there is no record of it, the last time it happened that was some 100,000 years ago in a galaxy that is more than 6 billion light-years away - that is, before it can be seen from here it will be in more than six billion years, but by then neither this sun nor this planet will exist anymore, they will have long since perished.
"The explosive forces released by the explosion of a super massive black hole are strong enough to disassemble the elements into their components." Anoth pressed the controls for the holographic image. "This is the construction of a gold atom." He pointed to the differently colored balls in the picture. "At the core are the positively charged protons and neutrally charged neutrons, which are orbited by the negatively charged electrons."
"What's in the room in between?" Hermione asked.
"With the exception of a few subatomic particles, this is empty space, and if this atom is sucked into a black hole, this will happen with it."
He showed how the gold atom was compressed. The electrons, which otherwise orbited the atomic core with some distance, moved more and more to the atomic core. Finally, the pressure becomes so strong that even the core and the electrons decay into subatomic particles.
"The explosion of a black hole that is strong enough to almost completely destroy the entire galaxy in that it sits throws the whole mass of subatomic particles out again, eventually building into the simplest element that exists, hydrogen, to form a huge nebula.
"These nebulas of hydrogen will condense over time and form new suns, which will fuse the existing elements into heavier elements until those suns detonate again, the whole thing keeps repeating itself and then eventually the galaxy has stabilized enough to form planets. Planets that existed before them usually do not exist long enough to produce intelligent life, and the galaxy remains a very hostile place for a long time after the collapse of the black hole, as virtually all proto planets are under constant bombardment of meteorites and supernovae etc.. The planets are usually destroyed fairly quickly, either by other supernovae or by collisions with other planets, until the galaxy stabilizes many billions of years later, and with the stabilization of the galaxy, the future planets will emerge, and with them life will return back to the Galaxy.
"Which means that all heavy elements like gold, lead or even uranium have been in the core of a sun at some point in their history, they are the element factories of the galaxy.
"But we're not here to talk about the history of the galaxy, are we?"
"Um ... what exactly is a black hole?" Lady Greengrass asked.
"I think you're lucky." Anoth said after he had been silent for a short time. "One of my research ships is near a black hole to study it." He served the holographic menus and revealed a black hole, which was getting a sun for dessert.
On display was a red sun from which a stream of blue matter moved, turning around a black hole and developing a shape not so unlike a hurricane seen from above. It was also clearly recognizable that the black hole immediately expelled part of the absorbed matter. On the one hand a very destructive force of nature. On the other hand, also beautiful to look at.
"I think we got way off topic here." Anoth said after looking at the picture for a while. Again. He added mentally.
They argued a long time before they got to the topic. The upcoming visit from Gringotts.
"How should we carry out the visit?" Hermione asked. "I mean, we cannot move more than 20m away from you."
"That's quite simple, we'll take one of my Dropships." Anoth answered. "There is a small space dock just a few decks below us."
"Will they not see or hear us?" asked Augusta Longbottom. She was well aware of the capabilities of the Muggle world. Eventually, some of her business contacts took her there.
"The ships can completely cloak themselves, neither will they see or hear us."
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Diagon alley
London
Three hours later
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The flight down with one of the Dropships, as Anoth had predicted, had gone unnoticed by anyone else on the planet. Although the Dropship briefly flew side by side with a 747. Opposite the Dropship, it looked almost ridiculously tiny.
The Dropship of the Jakotana class was a good 240 meters long, 160 meters wide and a good 60 meters high. While the 747 over a length of about 70 meters, a span of about 60m and a height of about 20 meters came. The actual cabin height took up a little less than half the total height. Well... the Jakotana was a Dropship for heavy vehicles.
A short time later, both aircraft parted and the Dropship headed for Diagon Alley in London. And it joined by six fighters of the type wasp. They would give fire support with the Dropship if they needed them. Ideally, they did not need them. But since it came several times already to the fight with hostile forces, Anoth was there but rather more cautious and went with the rule: Better have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
Actually, the Jakotana class was a Dropship for unloading whole armored units at once. It was also the most heavily armed Dropship. Should it come to a fight, it could be guaranteed to impress and inspire the enemies with fear.
The ship now raced a few meters above the water surface of the canal towards the Thames estuary. Only a few minutes later, they had reached it and the ship rose to a height that allowed the buildings to fly over at some distance. Shortly thereafter, the ship came to a halt directly above Diagon Alley.
Anoth evaluated the sensor data and navigated the ship to a point over Diagon Alley where there was currently no visitor traffic. A small side lane close to Gringotts. Once there, the ship went down so far that separated him only a few inches from one of the rooftops. The ship could not land in the alley. it was simply too big for that.
"And how are we going to get down now?" Hermione asked as she watched as a flap opened in the middle of the ship, from where it went several meters vertically into the depths.
"Very easily." Anoth said and jumped with these words simply through the open hatch and let himself fall. Two meters above the ground his fall was slowed down by an antigravity field so that he landed very gently. He was closely followed by six Seraphimian soldiers belonging to Omega, that was Anoth's bodyguard. It was the best special unit of the Seraphimian Empire. "Come in, the water is glorious!" Anoth's amusement was clearly hearable in his voice.
"Gryffindors ahead." With that, Harry made himself courage, as he took the step from the open hatch in the depths and safely arrived at the bottom. When he reached the bottom he could not resist a laugh. "That felt awesome."
Hermione shrugged her shoulders and jumped out. The feeling when the gravitational field slowed the fall was really hard to describe. And so all the others jumped out and found themselves down below.
"Everyone here, all right, Miana you're securing the landing zone."
"I do." she confirmed and so they and the six of the soldiers took their positions. There would be more soldiers to follow, sniper positions, and others who simply mingled with the people and went undetected by posing as tourists.
A short time later, Anoth approached with the other Gringotts. The Skew Bank of the Goblins. Like all other buildings in Diagon Alley, too. Apparently, the residents had never heard from a 90 ° angle. The fact that the buildings were still standing was probably due to the magic Anoth could feel it everywhere in the air.
As they neared the bank, one of the guards outside the bank ran into the bank.
The goblins had detection spells on Diagon Alley. A relic from the last goblin rebellion. Although these spells were no longer actively monitored, when Anoth was recognized by the spells as a Drago-Seraphim, Gringotts raised a silent alarm that made the goblins spin. The return of the Drago-Seraphim meant at the same time the return of the Alterans and thus marked a change of times. And they had been waiting for this for a long time. Their seers had foreseen it. Finally the time has come.
Ragnok, the leader of the goblins, jumped up from his desk and put on his finest robe. Meanwhile, the other goblins were busy sending the remaining customers out the back door. Among them was a shrieking Molly Weasley, who had just tried to gain access to the Potter Vault and failed, because the alarm had come before her. She swore to tell Dumbledore about it and apparated away.
Meanwhile, Anoth, Harry and the others were on their way to the bank. Of course, her group attracted some attention, but Anoth grew his aura to such a degree that it simply shoved any one of them who stood in the way of the group out of the way while the group moved on to the bank without stopping.
The flash of a camera made Anoth pause briefly. A look at the source and a brief application of telekinetic power and the camera was just garbage including the acid green quill hovering next to it. After that, he just went on without appreciating the reporter next of the camera man.
Anoth knew, through the memories of Moody, very well who this reporter was and also what quality her articles in the Daily Prophet had. Or rather the absence of the same. Most of their articles were fictitious and, to put it simply, were just rubbish. At best, the newspaper itself was the replacement for toilet paper.
For Anoth, an interview with such a newspaper was unacceptable.
A short time later, they had reached the steps of the bank. The goblins bowed to them and opened the doors for them. A behavior that astonished everyone in the Diagon Alley. Otherwise, the goblins did not do that. Whoever that was, the goblins had respect for him. Massive respect.
As soon as they were inside Gringotts, the doors were closed and the guards were posted outside the door. Gringotts was closed for each customer for now. Much to the annoyance of a certain Lucius Malfoy, who was just about to get some money to pay a few people, so they would push through a law that would give the purebloods more power over the worthless, at least in his eyes, mudbloods. If the law came through, every pureblood could take any mudblood or muggle as a sex slave. The fact that the bank was closed, crossed his plans out. He was cursing the goblins the whole way back to Malfoy manor.
Meanwhile, Ragnok received his guests in the Gringotts lobby.
"We are honored to welcome you here in Gringotts Your Majesty."
"Majesty?!" Harry blurted out. And he was not the only one. The others, too, stared at Anoth in surprise.
"I have much too many titles to list here. If I wanted to tell them all we would still be here in a week, apart from that, they would not tell you anything anyway. Important for you is only one of these titles." I am the Highimperator of the Seraphimian Intergalactic Alliance other titles are nothing more than trivial decoration. "
"Intergalactic ..." breathed Hermione.
"I have control of four spiral galaxies and 176 dwarf galaxies, with more than 40,000 species on more than 240 billion populated planets and 14 Dyson spheres, plus space stations, space cities, and hundreds of miniature Dyson spheres, as well as fortress ships and world ships. "
"Wow ..." That was roughly the overall reaction to this revelation.
"Population numbers are in the quadrillion, which is a number with 27 zeros." Anoth grinned as he saw the faces that followed this revelation. "But that's not why we're here." Anoth turned to Ragnok."I need a few curse breakers looking at a runes and spell network that includes Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, Daphne Greengrass, and Nymphadora Tonks." Tonks growled as he gave her full name, ignored by Anoth. "Besides, I need an extended inheritance test, especially with Harry Potter."
"Extended Inheritance Test?" Hermione asked.
"And why with me?" That came from Harry Potter.
"An extended inheritance test shows all data rather than a simple test - a simple inheritance test just shows name, date of birth, parents, and the vaults that are the easiest to assign - no titles, no abilities, etc." Anoth answered.
"That's right." confirmed Ragnok. "In fact, we can do both tests, then the difference becomes obvious, we go to my office for it."
A short time later they were there. On the way there, Ragnok had sent one of the other goblins to get some items.
Exactly this goblin came back with a stack of paper of a pen, a small glass jar and a richly decorated dagger. He gave this to Ragnok, who waved Harry to him.
"What do I have to do?" Harry asked.
"Take the dagger here and drop some blood on the paper until it starts to light up."
Harry took the dagger and did just that. As soon as the paper began to glow, the small wound healed and words appeared on the paper. It was really short and short.
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Name: Harry James Potter
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Father: James Charlus Potter
Mother: Lily Potter nee Evans
Authorized for Vaults: Five.
Potter Trust Vault
Potter Family Vault
Black Family Vault
Gryffindor Family Vault
Peverell Family Vault
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Harry stared at the paper. That was not a lot of information. What would the Advanced Test look like?
"What do I have to do in the advanced test?"
"For this, this vessel must be filled with blood here." Ragnok pushed the small glass jar over. Harry let his blood flow down the vessel and then handed it back to Ragnok. He put the pen in the blood and put it on the paper and let go of it. Immediately the pen began to write by itself.
The list got longer and longer and did not seem to stop at all. But then it was finally completed and Harry held the completed list in his hands.
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VERY LONG LIST AHEAD
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Name:
- Harry James Potter (Magic acknowledged heir, disinheritance impossible!)
Note: This protection also overrides the Ministry of Magic.
Age:
-14
-12 (physical age)
Born:
31st July 1980
Gender:
-Variable because of Shape shifting (male preferred)
Species:
-Drago-Seraphim
(According to the Ministry's Creature Index, a Dark Creature)
Hazard Classification: (Class : Absolutely Deadly)
(only if in Beast form)
Classification of Magical Creatures according to the index of the Ministry:
X = boring
e.g.: Flobberworm and Horklumb
XX = harmless / can be tamed
e.g.: Grindylow and Ghoul
XXX = Competent Wizard should be okay
e.g.: Hippogriff and Kneazle
= Dangerous / needs specialists Knowledge / Experienced wizards should get along
e.g.: Thestral and Phoenix
= Known Wizard Killer / Impossible to Tame
e.g.: Werewolf (only if in beast form), Nundu and Basilisk
= Absolutely deadly (Don't even think about attacking!)
e.g.: Seraphimian Fire Wolf and Drago-Seraphim (only if in beast form)
Mortality:
-Immortal
Current employment:
-Student (Hogwarts; School of Wizardry and Witchcraft)
Parents:
-James Charlus Potter (Human, Magical) ( Stasis )
-Lily Potter b. Evans (Human, Magical) ( Stasis )
-Kimira Alexa Rothshield (deceased 1981) (Seraphim princess (semi immortal)) [Drago-Seraphim] [Blood-Adopted]
-Sirius Orion Black (Human, Magical) [Blood-Adopted]
-Remus John Lupine (Human, Werewolf, Magical) [Blood-Adopted]
Brothers and sisters:
-No
"Blood Status":
- Halfblood (according to Ministry) / Pureblood (Fact)
Relatives:
-Petunia Dursley nee Evans (Aunt)
-Vernon Dursley (Uncle)
-Lord Sirius Orion Black (whereabouts cannot be determined)
-Minerva McGonagall (Hogwarts)
-Bast (Planet Bubastis) [Goa'uld / Tok'ra] / Mina (Planet Bubastis) [Bastets Host (Human)]
-Seraphim King and World Overlord Anoth
-Seraphim queen Kagami
-Seraphim Queen Mitara
-Seraphim queen Kumiko
-Seraphim queen Konoko
Magical guardian candidates:
-Lord Sirius Orion Black (whereabouts cannot be determined)
- Remus Lupine (werewolf, therefore not eligible to adopt)
(According to ministry law of 1981)
-Frank Longbottom (St. Mungos, coma)
-Alice Longbottom (St. Mungos, coma)
-Minerva McGonagall (Hogwarts)
-Bast (Planet Bubastis) [Goa'uld / Tok'ra] / Mina (Planet Bubastis) [Bastets Host (Human)]
-Seraphim King and World Overlord Anoth [Drago-Seraphim]
-Seraphim queen Kagami [Drago-Seraphim]
-Seraphim queen Mitara [Drago-Seraphim]
-Seraphim queen Kumiko [Drago-Seraphim]
-Seraphim queen Konoko [Drago-Seraphim]
Acting Magical Guardian:
-Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (illegal)
Title:
Lord of the Houses:
-Quirrel (Right of Conquest)
-Riddle (after the right of conquest)
-Lupine (heir (Adopted))
-Evans (mother)
Lord of the old houses:
-Rothshield (blood-loving mother)
-Gaunt (after the right of conquest)
Lord of the noble houses:
-Malfoy (After the Anti Death Eater laws (must be claimed after acceptance of the Black title))
-Lestrange (According to the Anti Death Eater laws (must be claimed after acceptance of the black title))
[...]
(dozens more houses of Death Eaters)
Lord of the very old and noble houses:
-Potter (Paternal)
-Peverell (Paternal)
-Black (heir, since Lord is still alive) (blood-adopted)
-Hufflepuff (recognized by magic)
-Gryffindor (Paternal)
-Ravenclaw (recognized by magic)
-Slyverin (after the right of conquest)
-Flamel (according to the will)
Lord of the Royal Houses:
-Moros (also known as Myrrdin, better known as Merlin.) (Recognized by magic) (veto rights)
- Lal (aka Le-Fey) (via the Black Line) (recognized by magic) (Veto Rights)
Lord of the founding houses:
-Alteran (accessible to heirs of Lal and Myrrdin) (recognized by magic)
(Veto rights in the Wizengamot)
Other houses (must be claimed):
-All Houses of Marked Death Eaters (Must be Demanded)
Note: Due to the death of the slave master (Tom Marvolo Riddle) not only the house Gaunt falls into the possession of the conqueror but also all his slaves.
Seraphimtitel:
-Prince (blood-loving mother)
-Warlord (In Training)
Worldlord (Acceptance pending) (Blood adopted Mother)
Shadow Beastmaster (Blood-Draped Mother)
Alteran titles:
-Lord Commander (Must be accepted)
Useless titles:
- Boy who Lived
-the chosen one
Allied Houses:
- Most ancient and most noble house of Longbottom
- Most ancient and most noble house of Greengrass
- Most ancient and most noble house of Bones
- Most ancient and most noble house of Lovegood
Under protection from the house Potter:
House Tonks
Sirius Orion Black
Blood feuds:
House Malfoy
(For the attempted murder and attempted rape on Lilly Potter nee Evans)
House Fudge
(Tried extortion and theft from Potter fortune)
House Umbridge
(Tried extortion and theft from Potter fortune)
House Lestrange
(for the attack on the Longbottom family)
House Crouch
(for the attack on the Longbottom family)
House Pettigrew
(For the betrayal of the Potters' hiding place to Tom Marvolo Riddle aka Lord Voldemort)
Wizengamot seats:
-Potter: 4
-Peverell: 3
-Myrrdin: 3
-Lal: 3 (locked) (veto rights)
-Black: 2 (locked)
-Hufflepuff: 3
-Gryffindor: 3
-Ravenclaw: 3
-Slyverin: 3
-Flamel: 2
-Rothshield: 1
-Gaunt: 2
-Malfoy: 2 (locked)
-Lestrange: 2 (locked)
Number of seats currently available: 27
Note: The founding houses have rights of veto to all decisions made in the Wizengamot.
Note # 2: The locked houses require a minimum age of 17 years.
Shadow Beasts:
Lord of spiders, snakes, wyvern, phoenix and griffin
-1 Hungarian Horntail (Classification: Wyvern. Nahlaasdein (Living Protection) transmitted by Kimira Alexa Rothshield.)
- 2 Emperor Griffins (Rira and Jira (get transferred by Kimira Alexa Rothshield))
Natural element:
-Electricity (blocked)
List of all magical abilities (double answers possible):
-Parselmouth
Language: (by Seraphim descent) (Partially blocked)
Magic: (by Seraphim descent) (blocked)
- Natural Master in Wandless Magic (by Seraphim Lineage) (blocked)
-Elemental (by Seraphim and Alteran descent) (blocked)
Air Elemental (by Seraphim and Alteran descent) (blocked)
Fire Elemental (by Seraphim and Alteran Lineage) (blocked)
Water Elemental (by Seraphim and Alteran descent) (blocked)
Ice Elemental (by Seraphim and Alteran descent) (blocked)
Lightning Elemental (by Seraphim and Alteran Lineage) (blocked) [Major Elemental Force]
Light Elemental (by Seraphim Lineage) (blocked)
Shadow Elemental (by Seraphim Lineage) (blocked)
-Atmokinesis (By Seraphim and Alteran descent) (blocked)
Dimensional Jumper (by Seraphim Lineage) (blocked)
Magic Creation Master potential (blocked)
Rune Magic Master potential (blocked)
- Potions Master potential (blocked)
Defense Against the Dark Arts Master potential (blocked)
-Transfiguration Master potential (blocked)
- Enchantment Master potential (blocked)
-Arithmatik Master potential (blocked)
-Dark Arts Master potential (blocked)
-Aura view (by Seraphim descent) (blocked)
-Aura reading (by Seraphim descent) (blocked)
-Magic view (by Seraphim descent) (blocked)
-Magician sense (by Seraphim descent) (partially blocked)
Natural Occlumency Master (by Seraphim Lineage) (blocked)
- Natural Legilementic Master (by Seraphim Lineage) (blocked)
-Obliviator Master potential (by Seraphim descent) (blocked)
-Multi Animagus (by Seraphim descent) (blocked)
-Metamorphmagus (by Seraphim descent) (blocked)
-Genamorphmagus (by Seraphim descent) (blocked)
-Beast speaker (by Seraphim descent) (blocked)
-Unforgivables have virtually no effect (by Seraphim and Alteran descent) (blocked)
- Natural Empathy Master (by Seraphim Lineage) (blocked)
- Natural Telepathy Master (by Seraphim Lineage) (blocked)
- Natural Martial Arts Master (by Seraphim Lineage) (blocked)
- Natural healing magic master (by seraphim descent) (blocked)
Natural Elemental Magic Master (by Seraphim Lineage) (blocked)
High Speed Reading (100 Pages in Under 1 Minute) (By Seraphim Lineage) (Blocked)
-Photographic memory (blocked)
Eye of Truth (blocked)
-Miasma (blocked)
-Basilisk poison in the blood (100% resistant to poisons and high resistance (75%) against love potions)
Phoenix Tears in the Blood (Increased Healing Rate)
Drug Seraphim Blood in the Blood (Improved Healing and High Resistance to Various Potions)
Master of Death (66.66% blocked) (birth right by father)
-Elderstab: Illegally owned by Albus PWB Dumbledore
-Cloak of invisibility: Available
-Stone of Resurrection: In Gaunt shack (Ring of Slytherin) (ATTENTION: RING IS DAMAGED!)
Creature Bindings:
-Fawkes: Phoenix (blocked)
-Sisska: Basilisk (in a state of stasis in the Chamber of Secrets)
Magical core:
-Magical Core Status: 2% Available; 98% blocked
MPI rating: 120 (Witcher)
MPI classification without blockages: 6000 (Great Holocaust Mint)
MPI = Magical Power Index:
Muggle (0)
Squib (1 - 20)
Wizard (21 - 100)
Witcher (101 - 200)
High Witcher (201 - 300)
Grand Witcher (301 - 400)
Grand High Witcher (401 - 550)
Warlock (551 - 700)
High Warlock (701 - 850)
Grand Warlock (851 - 1000)
Grand High Warlock (1001 - 1150)
Magician (1151 - 1300)
High Mage (1301 - 1450)
Grand Magician (1451 - 1600)
Grand High Magician (1601 - 1750)
Archmage (1751 - 1900)
High Mage (1901 - 2200)
Grand Mage (2201 - 2500)
Grand High Archmage (2500+)
Note: All blockages were made by Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.
Available magical energies:
- ZPM energy or manna (partially blocked)
-Chakra (blocked)
-Ki (blocked)
-Aura (blocked)
-Seràakìin (blocked)
Note: Blocked energies are still present. But cannot be actively used
Note: All blockages were made by Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.
Other Magical Data:
-Horcrux (can be removed for a fee (knowledge of Horcrux remains at extra cost))
-134 Obliviate. (Reminder period includes 4 months 18 days 6 hours 10 minutes and 34 seconds.)
-Different Forced Spells
- Mauling Angry Curse (Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley) spoken by Albus PWB Dumbledore
Rune and Magic Network (Rune Network is unknown)
Influence of potions:
Loyalty Potion (Albus PWB Dumbledore) (administered by Albus PWB Dumbledore) (75% Resistance by Basilisk Poison and Drago-Seraphim Blood)
Loyalty Potion (Molly Weasley) (administered by Albus PWB Dumbledore) (75% resistance to Basilisks venom and Drago-seraphim blood)
Loyalty Potion (Ronald Billius Weasley) (administered by Ronald Billius Weasley) (75% Resistance to Basilisk Poison and Drago-Seraphim Blood)
-Magic Growth Hammers (administered by Albus PWB Dumbledore) (60% Resistance by Drago-Seraphim Blood)
- Physical growth hammers (administered by Albus PWB Dumbledore) (30% resistance by Drago-seraphim blood)
-Body growth hammers (administered by Albus PWB Dumbledore) (30% resistance through Drago-Seraphim blood)
-Eternal Nightmare Potion (administered by Albus PWB Dumbledore) (30% Resistance by Drago-Seraphim Blood)
Suppressive Potion to Adults (administered by Albus PWB Dumbledore) (50% Resistance to Drago-Seraphim Blood)
Anti-violence potion against child molesters (administered by Albus PWB Dumbledore) (15% resistance through Drago-seraphim blood)
Love Potion (Ginevra Molly Weasley) (given by Molly Weasley and Ginevra Molly Weasley) (75% resistance to Basilisks toxin and Drago-seraphim blood)
Magic Core Destroyer Potion (administered by Draco Malfoy) (100% Resistant to Basilisk Poison and Drago-Seraphim Blood)
Potion of Blind Trust (Featured on APWB Dumbledore) (30% Resistance by Drago-Seraphim Blood)
Light Mind Potion (administered by APWB Dumbledore)) (70% resistance by Drago-Seraphim Blood)
Physical data:
-Malnourished
-Various fractures (which have grown together partly crooked)
-To small body growth
Current Account Manager:
-Griphook
-Wolfsclaw
Stock in the individual vaults:
-Potter Trust Vault
350,000 Galleons
Fills up to this value every month.
-Potter
25,365,152 galleons
325,254 Sickles
125,124 Knuts
Various books and magical items as well as magic weapons
-Peverell
18,154,365 Galleons
1,255,458 Sickles
163,541 Knuts
Various magic items
-Rothshield
1,547,369 galleons
41,653 Sickles
6,546 Knuts
Various magic items
Various books
-Black (heir, since Lord is still alive)
only visible after handing over the Lordship
-Hufflepuff
2,258,468,165 Galleons
354,861,655 Sickles
16,516,651 Knuts
Various magical objects and books
-Gryffindor
3,152,852,821 Galleons
1,616,316 Sickles
98,476 Knuts
Various magic weapons and books
-Ravenclaw
1,125,882,821 Galleons
46,531,231 Sickles
31,351,313 Knuts
Ravenclaw library
-Slyverin (after the right of conquest)
3,524,258,962 Galleons
263,121,230 Sickles
41,313,155 Knuts
Various magic items, weapons and books
-Flamel
1,256,258 galleons
41,312 Sickles
231 Knuts
Flamel library
-Merlin
8,253,584,162 Galleons
3,201,321,351 Sickles
3,113,151 Knuts
A myriad of magical artifacts
-Alteran
No money
Valuable artifacts
An Alteran repository
-Seraphim
No gold
An enormous collection of books
A Seraphimian repository
A library consisting of currently 3,457,892 books
-Malfoy (According to the Death Eater laws (must be claimed))
Only after demand Visible
-Lestrange (According to the Death Eater laws (must be claimed))
Only after demand Visible
-Quirrel (Right of Conquest)
56,584 galleons
1,321 Sickles
12 Knuts
Various magic items
-Gaunt (after the right of conquest)
78,852 Galleons
12,313 Sickles
4 Knuts
-Riddle (after the right of conquest)
12,254,639 Galleons
123,213 Sickles
135 Knuts
Total:
18,373,910,150 Galleons
3,869,279,307Sickles
92.688.339 Knuts
Final amount :
18,601,702,823 galleons
15 sickles
18 Knuts
Note: Check debit lists!
Possession:
Castle Hogwarts
Village Hogsmeade
Castle Gryffindor
Number 4 Privet Drive, Surrey, England
Fortress Azkaban (Former Peverell residence, leased by the Ministry of Magic until 1985)
Magic Ministry (Former Le Fey residence, leased by the Wizardry Ministry until 1983)
-Potter estate (England, USA)
-Peverell Estate (England)
-Godrics Hollow (England, Monument)
Various holiday homes around the world
-Isla Sorna (part of the archipelago Las Cinco Muertes (the five deaths) leased by InGen)
-Isla Pena (part of the archipelago Las Cinco Muertes (the five deaths) leased by InGen)
-Isla Muerte (part of the archipelago Las Cinco Muertes (the five deaths) leased by InGen)
-Isla Tacaño (part of the archipelago Las Cinco Muertes (the five deaths) leased by InGen)
-Isla Matanceros (part of the archipelago Las Cinco Muertes (the five deaths) leased by InGen)
-Isla Nublar (leased by InGen (site of Jurassic Park))
shares:
Magical
-Diagon Alley (60%)
-Nocturne Alley (40%)
-Daily Prophet (70%)
-Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (100%)
-Azkaban Islands (100%)
-Azkaban Prison (100%)
Not magical
-Grunnings (90%)
-InGen Inc. (55%)
-Jurassic Park (55%)
-IBM (4%)
Microsoft (2%)
-Siemens (2.4%)
-Sony (1.3%)
Various others.
Marriage contracts:
- Ginevra Molly Weasley (illegal and void)
Soul ties:
-Hermione Granger
-Nymphadora Tonks
-Daphne Greengrass
Life debts owed by other persons:
-Hermione Granger (1) (rescue from a troll)
-Ginevra Molly Weasley (1) (Rescue from Tom M. Riddle aka Lord Voldemort)
-Ronald Billius Weasley (2) (rescue from Peter Pettigrew and Aragog)
Peter Pettigrew (1) (Protected from being killed by Sirius Orion Black and Remus John Lupine)
-Sirius Orion Black (1) (Rescued from Dementor attack)
debts of honor
House Malfoy (heir Malfoy has not appeared to the planed duel)
Self-incurred life debts:
-None
Still to be read wills:
-Kimira Alexa Rothshield
-Lily and James Potter
prophecies:
-One
- (Sibyll Trelawney; 4th July 1980) (Fulfilled: 31st October 1981)
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...
born to those who have thrice defied him,
born as the seventh month dies...
and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal,
but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not...
and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives...
the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies..."
(Q: Harry Potter, Volume 5)
Final Note: After accepting the title of Lord Potter, the age limits for Magic and the Magical Guardian will be removed.
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Anoth read the list over Harry's shoulder and grinned. He was right. Harry was a Drago-Seraphim. Kimira Alexa Rothshield had apparently been blood-adopted. This was not really that unusual in the Magical World. What attracted his attention was that Kimira was a Drago-Seraphim. Probably one of the few who stayed behind, as the Alterans locked the galaxy down because of the plague.
"Three point Four million books." Hermione whispered who also read the list.
Harry, on the other hand, had problems controlling his anger. That damn old manipulative bastard. He had either blocked or severely weakened most of his abilities. Then also the potion of nightmares. That explained why he hardly had a quiet night. There were also several other potions.
But one point made him a little worried.
"What is a Genamorphmagus?"
"It's the ability to change gender at will." replied the goblin.
"Does that mean that I am going to become a girl?" Harry asked in alarm. What Anoth just grinned at.
"No, take it as a complete package, but the ability to change its look is called Metamorphmagus, but any right shape shifter can change his gender at will, but that does not mean you have to use that ability."
"And what should that ability do for me?"
"I can tell you a little story." Anoth said with a grin. "I once infiltrated a secret base where illegal weapons of mass destruction were being produced and pretty much ruined those days there, sabotaging anything that sabotaged me, but unfortunately my camouflage failed on the way and I could have fought with them Of course, but I did not feel like taking a bath in poison gas and so I went away, I looked for a dark corner and took the shape of a woman and changed quickly the disguise. I only had to do dam, as if My pursuers did not pay any attention to me, after all, they hunted a guy and not a woman, and just ran past me, so I was able to easily escape. "
"You fooled your enemy."
"Exactly." confirmed Anoth. "If the enemy is looking for a man, you can usually easily disappear in the guise of a woman, or the same way, or if you do not want to do anything, then you just take the shape of one of the domestic pets and escape in that way." Anoth turned to Ragnok. "We got off topic here, we came here for the Runes and Charms hodgepodge, which removes Harry, Daphne, Hermione, Nymphadora (Tonks growled a bit, but said nothing), Luna and Neville."
"Yes." said Ragnok. "Follow me."
After that everything went relatively fast. The goblins made an inheritance test of all. As expected, they also found potions and blocks that had no business there. Also, the connection with Harry made sure they became Seraphim, just one step below the Drago Seraphim. Anoth was able to zoom in on Drago-Seraphim so easily. In fact. They were just in front of it. Thanks to the blocks. Instead of weakening it, the body adapted to overcome it. What let her power level hunt up enormously.
In other words, the idiots who had put the blocks on them to weaken them had achieved exactly the opposite. Instead of weakening them, they only became stronger.
That's probably why they missed them this rune system. They knew that their blocks had failed or would fail.
The fact that they became Seraphim brought Anoth to another point. They needed education. They had to learn how to control their enormous powers.
But he could not do that here in this dimension. The Goa'uld, Voldemort, the Vineans. He already had enough to do here. And he needed time for training. Much time. More precisely, a good 2,000 years of time. He simply did not have it here.
2,000 years was a lot of time. But if you are immortal and literally have eternity, it was not more than a blink of an eye.
The only question now was: where?
Then he remembered a dimension that was already explored a bit. There they could just take an island and spend the first few hundred years there. The world was technologically seen in the Middle Ages. There were enough islands to use. Then they could travel further in another dimension.
This dimension had made Anoth curious. The spirit in the machine was not a new concept to Anoth, and he had imagined several times that his ships were alive in some way. But in this world, this concept was fact. And that made Anoth curious. Time will tell if he was going there.
Ragnok led them to one of the ritual chambers right after the inheritance test and requested that Anoth stay outside. The others went inside.
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Just 30 minutes later:
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"Lord Anoth?"
These words tore Anoth out of his mind and his plans for the education of the six. At the same time he wondered who the missing number seven might be. He had decided it had to be someone outside of Britain. Otherwise, the one or the other would certainly have found these runes.
Damn, he or she did not even have to be human. He or she just needed to have one of the ancestors in the family tree. And in over ten thousand years, a lot could happen.
Anyway, that had to wait first. He had more important things to do.
Anoth got up and followed the one who called him into the room.
"What's happening?" Anoth asked as he saw his charges lying naked on the stone tables.
"The runes are connected to the spells." Explained one of the curse breakers.
"I knew that already." Anoth muttered to himself. He said aloud, "And?" when the curse breaker did not continue to talk.
"They must be removed at the same time." he explained in embarrassment. "Only we do not have that many rune magic experts in. In fact, none of them are currently in the house and we cannot reach one either."
"Understood." Anoth said and took out only five of a shadowy beast, only to bring out six more shortly thereafter. So they could each work on the runes in pairs.
All of them were dragonesses who had assumed their human form.
The goblins recognized this fact and treated them with the necessary respect. The wyvern under the bank guarding the vaults of wealthy clients were a little smarter than wild beasts. But Anoth's were not only very clever but strong enough to turn the bank into a crater, if the goblins made the mistake of angering Anoth's dragon ladies.
Anoth stood on one side of Harry, who lay on one of the tables on his stomach, and The Drachin stood opposite him. The curse breakers were each at the head and foot. The others repeated this picture.
As soon as everyone had taken their positions they started to remove the rune matrix as well as all spells. The whole procedure lasted for eighteen hours of nonstop work until the Rune Seal, the associated Rune Matrix, and all spells were removed. It was often a step ahead and two back when they came across more and more Failsafes that somehow had to be bypassed. But finally it was done.
Harry and the others were now asleep, and the only rune left on them was the Rune of Life, which Anoth had linked to another rune network that would make sure that the runes would simply evaporate from them come the next morning.
As they slept, Anoth was experimenting with the soul fragment. During the removal of the so-called Horcrux, Harry had received the knowledge that Voldemort had accumulated. And only the knowledge, not his experiences. Anoth was sure that Harry could do without the nightmares that would cause them.
The Horcrux itself was transferred from Harry into a simple piece of wood. This piece of wood was currently held by Anoth while he was sitting at a desk provided by the goblins.
He needed the soul frequency of the fragment, because it was very small. Too small for it to be the only Horcrux. Using the soul frequency, the remaining fragments, including Voldemort itself, would be easily located.
It took a couple of minutes but then he had the frequency he was looking for and immediately let go of a scan impulse. If his detector worked, he should see the soul fragment he held in his hand. The result, however, made him open his eyes in surprise. He did not get only one result but two. And judging from that first scan, he was almost directly over that second Horcrux.
"I was not expecting that." Anoth said to herself.
$ We too. $ Came it out of its shadow plane.
$ Maybe you should tell the goblins about it, $ said another voice. In this case it came from Lereya, one of the two Kyuubi Bijuu. $ I took the time to review goblin terms and conditions. The storage of black magic items in the vaults is strictly prohibited. $
$ And a Horcrux is black magic. $ That was from Laraya. Lereya's sister.
$ Then we'll do it. $ Anoth agreed. $ Find the Horcrux. I tell the goblins. $
Now it became clear why the Shadowbeasts bore this name. Anoth sent out several of them. These immediately fused with the shadows and disappeared into the depths of the bank. They would not enter the Vaults themselves, but they could seek out the Vault from which they could feel the soul frequency of Horcruxes.
A few minutes later, Anoth was in Ragnok's office.
Anoth let Ragnok not even start talking but came straight to the point.
"I have reason to believe that there is another Horcrux in the bank, more precisely in one of the vaults below us."
Ragnok's eyes widened in surprise. Then his face took on a look of rage.
"Where is it?"
"My Shadows have located the Vault where the Horcrux must be." Vault 289. "
"Vault 289? This is the Vault of the Lestrange family." Ragnok said thoughtfully. "The Lestrange family are well-known Death Eaters." he added thoughtfully. Immediately, he turned to one of the guards and issued orders in quick succession to get the Horcrux out of the Vault. And investigate the other Death Eater Vaults for other forbidden items.
"What happens when you find the Horcrux?"
"If it is confirmed that the Horcrux is actually in the Vault, then the owners lose the entire Vault and all the other Vaults in their name, including its content. In this case, because someone alerted us on the presence of a Horcrux 50% of it to the bank for violating the terms and conditions and goblin laws and the other 50% to the tipster. "
"I do not need the money." Anoth said, thinking for a moment. "Send all the money and the other items from the Vault to a new vault where we can look at things in peace and then decide what to do with it."
"As good as done."
Just at that moment, one of the Goblin Guards came back and immediately confirmed that there was a Horcrux in said Vault, which is now disposed of by the Curse Breakers.
"Good." said Anoth. "Everything else we can discuss tomorrow."
Ragnok just nodded as Anoth left the office to doze a little.
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The next morning.
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Anoth had passed over the inheritance tests of the others in peace. Nothing really surprising. They had all become Seraphim when the ministry had tried to kill them and the life runes Anoth had saved them by drawing on Anoth's own life force into there's. Thus, Anoth's student group now consisted of a young Drago-Seraphim (Harry Potter) and five slightly weaker Seraphim (Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood, Nymphadora Tonks and Daphne Greengrass)
Anoth's attention was now focused on the billing list. The inheritance test had explicitly pointed this out.
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Debit from 1.11.1981 (monthly):
1,500 Galleons converted to British Pounds (7,500 £) to the Dursley Family (since 1.11.1981)
2,500 galleons to the Weasley Main Vault (since 1.9.1991)
1,500 Galleons to the Vault of Ronald Billius Weasley (since 1.9.1991)
1,500 Galleons to the Vault of Ginevra Molly Weasley (since 1.9.1992)
7,000 Galleons to the Vault of the Order of the Phoenix (since 1.11.1981)
8,500 Galleons to the Vault of the Ministry (since 1.11.1981)
10,000 Galleons to the Vault of Hogwarts (since 1.11.1981)
10,000 Galleons to the Vault of Fawkes (since 1.11.1981)
15,000 Galleons to the Personal Vault of Albus PWB Dumbledore (since 1.11.1981)
7,500 Galleons to the Personal Vault by Cornelius O. Fudge (since 1.11.1981)
8,000 Galleons to the Malfoy Vault (since 1.9.1991)
20,000 Galleons to the Vault of Severus Snape (since 1.11.1981) **
35,000 Galleons to the Office of the Minister (since 1.11.1990)
15,000 Galleons to the office of Senior Undersecretary (since 1.11.1990)
10,000 Galleons to Personal Vault by Dolores Umbridge (since 1.11.1990)
120,000 Galleons to Azkaban Prison (since 1.11.1981) *
Monthly debits: 273,000 Galleons
Note: Transfers were also made to Hermione Granger but all amounts were returned to the Potter Family Vault the same day.
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In Total:
195,000 Galleons, converted into British pounds, to the Dursley family (since 1.11.1981)
(975,000 British Pounds)
87,500 Galleons to the Weasley Main Vault (since 1.9.1991)
52,500 Galleons to the Vault of Ronald Billius Weasley (since 1.9.1991)
34,500 Galleons to the Vault of Ginevra Molly Weasley (since 1.9.1992)
910,000 Galleons to the Vault of the Order of the Phoenix (since 1.11.1981)
1.105.000 Galleons to the Vault of the Ministry (since 1.11.1981)
1,300,000 Galleons to the Vault of Hogwarts (since 1.11.1981)
1,300,000 Galleons to the Vault of Fawkes (since 1.11.1981)
1,950,000 Galleons to the Personal Vault of Albus PWB Dumbledore (since 1.11.1981)
975,000 Galleons to the Personal Vault by Cornelius Fudge (since 1.11.1990)
1,040,000 Galleons to the Malfoy Vault (since 1.9.1991)
2,600,000 Galleons to the Vault of Severus Snape (since 1.11.1981)
2,030,000 galleons to the minister's office (since 1.11.1990)
870,000 Galleons to the office of Senior Undersecretary (since 1.11.1990)
580,000 Galleons to the Personal Vault of Dolores Umbridge (since 1.11.1990)
15,600,000 to Azkaban Prison (since 1.11.1981) *
Total debits up to: 16.8.1994: 30.629.500 Galleons
* = Legitimate debits, since there is a right to vault
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Noteworthy stolen items:
-Elder Staff (Albus PWB Dumbledore) (Peverell Heirloom)
Thick Cloak (Albus PWB Dumbledore) (Peverell Heirloom) (returned)
-Godric Gryffindors Sword (Albus PWB Dumbledore) (Gryffindor Heirloom)
-Potter Family Pensive (Albus PWB Dumbledore)
-Potter Families Grimoire (Albus PWB Dumbledore)
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That was interesting. More than 30 million galleons have been booked. Of these, only a little more than half was legal. Even Hermione had apparently received money. Only this immediately flowed back into the Potter family Vault. He was curious about the explanation. Harry would want to see that for sure.
Anoth also looked at the other lists. These showed no abnormalities.
That was kind of funny. Everything that happened here so far has had its main focus on Harry. The name Dumbledore popped up surprisingly often. According to Moody's memoirs, many of the other names were also part of Dumbledore's small private army.
It could have been the prophecy. But it was already fulfilled.
But what if someone still considers it active?
Anoth snorted in amusement.
How stupid did one have to be to really believe in a prophecy?
But you never know. Idiots are everywhere. You never get rid of them.
Just at this moment a goblin came into the room. Anoth turned to him.
"They have woken up." Everything was what the goblin said.
"Good." Anoth got up and found himself again only a short time later with his protégés.
"How are you feeling?" Anoth asked, standing in the doorway.
"As if a flock of Hippogryphs trampled me." came the tormented response from Harry.
"Ditto." moaned Tonks.
The others made very similar comments.
"So you're fine." Anoth said, which earned him some bad looks. They just made Anoth smile. "The runes and spells on you have been removed, including the Horcrux behind Harry's Scar. From now on you are my disciples."
"" "" "" Disciples? "" "" "" It came in chorus.
"Yes, that's probably the fault of the life rune." Anoth admitted. "They activated Harry's Drago-Seraphim heritage and turned you into Seraphim, so you're my student now."
"How? Transformed?"
"The Rune seal applied to you came from the Ministry, that has been proven without a doubt, and when they activated the seal, the Rune of Life I put on you sucked life energy away from me to counteract the Ministry Seal's effect. As a result my life energy has mingled with yours, which has mutated you, or, in Harry's case, it has activated its Drago-Seraphim heritage. "
"My Drago-Seraphim heritage, what do you mean ?!" Harry exclaimed, completely perplexed. "I am a human!" he shouted, adding uncertainly "... or not?"
"Does the name Alexa Rothshield tell you something?"
Harry blinked at him. The name actually seemed familiar to him. Only he could not place it at the moment. Then he remembered. The name stood on his inheritance test. But now that he was thinking about it, there was also aunt Alex. With her hair as red as fire, like his mother. Yes, he remembered her. But what did she have to do with it?
"Yes, I remember her." Harry confirmed. "Only I do not see the point."
"She was a Drago-Seraphim, probably one of the few who stayed behind in this galaxy or came back with the Lanteans, and she was the one who had you blood-obsessed, but unfortunately she was murdered shortly afterwards, which caused it The Drago-Seraphim properties were still inactive until recently, and now they are awake, which also means you have to learn to deal with them. " The last one was addressed to Harry in front of everyone.
"What would happen if I did not learn that?"
"Then you could easily wipe out half a continent should you lose control of your powers." Anoth said "And if you have not noticed, your look has changed a bit."
"What?" Harry asked in surprise as Anoth made a mirror appear in front of him. In fact, the transformation had changed him a little. He had grown a little and now looked no longer malnourished but as a healthy 14 year old.
Harry was about to ask something when a radio message from the Ravager, still in orbit, came in.
"Ravager to Anoth, Ravager to Anoth please come."
"I hear you." Anoth answered. "What's happening."
"Now." Anoth's Khajiit concubine at the other end answered with some reserve. "You will not like it."
"Spit it out."
"We've located a Harvester colony ship with the long-range sensors."
A few seconds of silence.
"YOU HAVE FOUND WHAT ?!" exclaimed Anoth.
The Harvesters should be extinguished. 2.4 million years ago, the Seraphim fought a heavy war against the harvesters. The Harvesters had simply invaded the Seraphimian Empire and had attacked a heavily populated colony world. Every attempt of communication was ignored. In the end, the Seraphim had no choice but to declare war on the Harvesters. Especially after cracking the computer database of the enemy ship and finding out that the Harvesters acted like grasshoppers. They went from planet to planet. First they destroy the indigenous people and then slaughtered the raw materials. They also saw themselves as the forefront of evolution and do not negotiate. No matter who they faced. The fighting went on for more than 200 years. With a good more than 300 years in which they repeatedly sought out nests of Harvesters and destroyed them. In the end, the harvesters in those galaxies controlled by the Seraphim were considered extinct.
Apparently, one of the so-called harvest queens had managed to escape and had managed to rebuild their race in another galaxy.
"You did not mishear us, we located a colony ship of the Harvesters."
"Damn it." Anoth said, rubbing his fingers over the bridge of his nose. "Any idea where they go?"
The ship's course is erratic, we can only ever locate it for a short time, it has no fixed course. "
"Keep it in mind. If that thing even farts in the direction of any of my colony worlds or allied worlds or any found settled worlds, I want to know it."
"Roger that." it came back from the Ravager. "One more thing, our scans found a Harvester spy ship in the Nevada desert in a military base called Area 51."
That made Anoth listen up. "Then they probably come here." suspected Anoth. "That would explains the course as well, they're probably following the course of their scout, any guess what time they might be here?"
"At the end of June, beginning of July next year, according to the calendar of the Planet."
"Send a message to Seraphimia: Code Warbug is in effect. I want to have two world ships plus four fortress ships complete with their corresponding warfleets ready for immediate deployment into this galaxy."
"Consider it done And there's something else ... Our sensors have found an um ... ... Tel'tak? Yes, they tracked down a Tel'tak in Egypt, probably because it's released small amounts of energy through energy fluctuations. And Scand show some more small Goa'uld energy signatures. "
"Interesting." said Anoth. "Send a team down and remove the Tel'tak, and scan the planet for more Goa'uld technology."
"Understood, Ravager end."
"What's happening?" Hermione asked.
"The Ravager has located a ship that might be heading here, a ship from an old enemy, and it will probably arrive sometime around July next year - enough time to welcome these bastards." Anoth said to them. "I stand by my allies, and earth is under the protection of the Seraphim, if only because the ancestors of the Alterans live there, and if they attack here, they will fail." Anoth reassured her. "But I think we've gotten off topic a bit here now."
Anoth walked over to one of the free beds and sat on it. "As I said earlier, you are now my disciples, the apprenticeship usually takes a good 2,000 years-" Anoth was interrupted by the others.
"2,000 YEARS ?!"
"Yes, 2,000 years."
"But we're not living that long." said Neville.
"The oldest wizard in history turned 202 years old." Hermione agreed. "The Flamels, by the potion of life, not counting."
As they saw that Anoth was starting to grin at them they grew quiet.
"Now that you are Seraphim or Drago-Seraphim, you are one of the immortals, and if you have eternity, 2,000 years is only a blink of an eye. " After the others said nothing, Anoth went on to explain what exactly would happen during those 2,000 years.
The training would start with meditation. No ordinary meditation. They would stay connected telepathically throughout the time. At this level, they would first learn to control their energies. At the same time, they also learn a lot. This part alone takes the first 1,000 years or more. This is followed by the practical part. What will take the rest of the time.
The whole thing will be done into another dimension. The first will be a world where mankind is still in the deep Middle Ages. They would go on an island and hide it with a spell. There they would meditate peacefully. Then the journey continues.
But before that, they had some other things to clarify.
Below the billing list. When Anoth showed Harry, Harry remained surprisingly calm. He had already expected something like that. (Or it was Anoth's calming field that worked on him.) What surprised him were two points. The debits to Azkaban. And Hermione.
The debits to Azkaban were easy to explain. After all, the island and the prison were property of the Potter family. Nevertheless, the island was actually leased. Therefore, the ministry should have borne these costs. It was a job for the goblins to get the money back. Plus the lack of lease payments from the contracts.
Hermione, however, was strange. So he asked her.
"Sorry Harry but I had no other choice Dumbledore forced me to spy on him and take the money, otherwise he would do something to my family I would have told you before but without Occlumency Dumbledore would have known it anytime. "
"What did you tell Dumbledore?"
Here Hermione grinned. "The color of your pants, what your favorite color is, what you had for lunch and all that worthless information, nothing he really could do anything with."
"And the money?"
"Well, since Dumbledore could only get statements from your Trust Vault, I redirected the money to the Potter Family Vault, I did not keep a Knut."
"So you played Dumbles out."
"Exactly." confirmed Hermione. "I was forced to give him information and accept the money, but unfortunately he did not specify what information should I be giving him and what to do with the money."
They discussed a few more things, but ended up agreeing that they would set the punishments for Dumbles and others when the training was over. Right now they wanted to visit the Vaults. That's exactly where they were now. More specifically, they were at the door of the Alteran Vault. The Potter families Vault, like the others, he would not accept unless he officially accepted the title of Lord Potter. Dumbledore would know that, though. So they hesitated until after the training.
"How do I open those?" Harry asked the goblin who had brought her down to the vault. Right next to the vault was the vault of the seraphim. There were no other deeper vaults. They were at the lowest point of all Gringotts. So deep down, the air was already warm again by geothermal heat. Only by cooling magic remained the air temperature at an acceptable level.
"Just put your hand on the board next to the door, if the door recognizes you, it'll open, if not ..."
"What does that mean" if not "?" Harry asked a bit unsure if he wanted to hear the answer to this question.
"The last one who tried, by the way, was a Malfoy who had tried it 124 years ago, he was vaporized."
"Good to know." said Harry and walked over to the blackboard, took a deep breath and put his hand on it. The blackboard lit up, first blue and right after it green. The door next to it gave a hiss and began to open.
The room behind the door was completely black. As soon as the door was fully opened, the lights went on inside the room.
The vault itself was small and the walls completely white. the only thing that stood out in the room was a small control console on the wall and a round surface on the floor.
"More is not here?" Harry asked disappointed.
"No, what the Vault is protecting is not here, but this on the ground is a point-to-point ring transporter." said Anoth. "I'm very sure that it will take us there."
A short time later, they were all on the transporter platform. All but the goblin, who clearly said he could not follow. No sooner had the transporter activated several rings shot out of the ground and immediately they disappeared into a flash of light. At the transport target several rings also shot out of the ground and directly afterwards they found themselves in another dark room again. Seconds later the lighting started. What they saw through the windows, where they were right now, made Anoth speechless and the others had to find their jaws somewhere on the ground.
"The Stardale ." Anoth breathed completely in disbelief. "So they brought her here."
"Stardale?"
"The Alterans once called this galaxy their home, but when the plague took over, they fled to another galaxy, and thousands of years later, they encountered the Wraith, a species that sees other organic life as little more than its source of food. As a result, a war broke out, won by the Wraith, not by technological superiority but by sheer numbers. During this war, the Alterans built in a hidden nebula a massive city ship more than three thousand five hundred kilometers in diameter it should have been their last fortress.
"At that time, we only learned about the existence of the cityship when we evaluated old scattered databases, but we did not find much more than vague hints to the plan and that it was under construction somewhere. We combed the whole galaxy for the ship but we never found it, now I know why. "
Anoth approached the windows, confirming what he had suspected. They were in the main command tower of the Stardale .
"We are in a pocket dimension whose anchor point is at the planetary south pole." said Anoth. "That's why our sensors could not detect it."
Anoth turned away from the windows and walked across the room and up a flight of stairs that led to the computer consoles with which the city was commanded. All the consoles were covered with cloths, which Anoth simply pulled down. Then he activated the console and called up the current status report of the cityship.
This city was constructed differently than any other Alteran cityship. This city ship had been designed effectively for the universe. In contrast to the city ships of the Atlantis or Troy class, which were basically nothing else than colony ships, this ship had a solid outer shell. It had nevertheless retained the familiar snowflake shape. Much to Anoth's amusement they stayed with these models. It was heavily armored and bursting with weapon systems.
The ship also had more than 4 million stasis capsules. Unfortunately, none of them had ever been occupied. And there was something else. On the ship was a repository in which all the knowledge of the Alterans was stored. Only there was a small problem. A quick check of the device revealed that it had virtually no energy left. They had arrived just in time. Two days later and the repository would have been without energy.
That's not enough. The razor's amount of data in the repository would blow away anyone present here, because the repository would transfer all the data at once, that was the standard programming for almost all repositories. And even if not. The energy shortage of the repository triggered this standard programming.
That would not have been a problem for another repository. He would simply install another source of energy. Only this particular repository was intended for one-time use only and would then become useless. All data would then be effectively lost.
Only Anoth was compatible enough to absorb the knowledge at the moment. He would absorb the knowledge in himself and during the training he would then give it to the others bit by bit. It was their right and they needed that knowledge too. At the same time Anoth would find out what the Alterans had done in the time when the Seraphim considered them extinct. In the first one thousand years of training they had more than enough time for that.
Meanwhile, the cityship would go nowhere. The energy reserves of the ship were far too low. Only to start the tertiary generators they needed at least three ZPM. Six were better. And the quintary anti-matter reactors, which could have taken over the launch, were all completely out of fuel. At the moment, the ship ran on emergency power over a small Naquada based generator. And that was just enough to supply the central command area of the main tower with energy.
The fact remained. The ship was at the moment flying nowhere.
"So the following situation." Anoth said and turned to his charges. "The ship is indeed the Stardale, the computer has just confirmed that, but the bad news is that the ship has just enough energy left to supply the command level, so it's not flying anywhere at the moment.
"Besides, I found a repository that-" Anoth was interrupted by Harry.
"What is a repository?"
"Well, it can best be described as a knowledge data base or a huge library, with the repository having the ability to write all the knowledge stored in it directly to someone else's brain. This repository contains the accumulated knowledge of the Alterans. "
"Wonderful." Harry said happily. "Where is it."
"Unfortunately there is a small problem in your current state, you cannot absorb the knowledge. None of you can do that. Your brain would fail in the flood of data. But there is a way around it. I can take the knowledge myself and then just handing it to you bit by bit as your brain gets more powerful - that's part of the transformation into a Drago-Seraphim or Seraphim, by the way. It only takes longer."
After a short conversation, the others agreed to the plan. Because it was clear to them in the 1,000 years of meditation, the knowledge of the Alteran would only make up a small part of what they would learn. Because a whole part of the accumulated knowledge of the Seraphim came on top of it.
Anoth turned to the repository on the wall next to the control chair. It reacted as soon as he was within reach. Two hand like devices wrapped themselves around Anoths head just to release him a few seconds later. Anoth dropped to his knees in front of the now inactive repository. These were headaches he had at the moment he did not even want his worst enemy.
After a few minutes, the headache subsided and Anoth stood on his feet again. "That was brutal." he groaned against one of the brackets supporting his head with one hand. "That's more information than I expected."
"Was that really that bad?" Neville asked.
"How would you feel if you get a transfer of millions of years of history and technology in one go?" Anoth asked, which made all of them grimace. They really did not want that headache. "But do not rejoice too soon, you'll get the knowledge transferred too." Anoth's grin was downright evil. And the others went pale.
That made them swallow. Even Hermione had to swallow. She was happy about the knowledge, which she will get. However, not on the headaches that will surely follow.
"The Alterans must have set the ship for automatic information gathering, because the database also contains information about World War II, World War I, and so much more." said Anoth, who was still mentally reviewing the data. "Grindelwald, Dumbledore the complete history of the wizarding world, and something called the supernatural, a mighty three-fronts war between angels, fallen angels and devils, and a civil war among the devils, they must have put everything they've discovered and stuffed it into this repository. " He wondered what else he would find in this flood of knowledge..
Anoth wanted to continue talking, but was stopped by the appearance of an summoning circle in the room. Red light lit up the room as someone came out of the summoning circle.
'All behind me.' came Anoth's telepathic order. Harry and the others saw that they did just that. Anoth's gaze turned to the console he had leaned against earlier. A hidden magic circle had been attached to it. But apparently centuries ago. Looks like someone else has been here before. But this person could not do anything with the technology and disappeared again. No wonder. Alteran technology was DNA encoded. It took a certain genome to respond to you at all. And only the Alterans and the Seraphim had that "key DNA".
A quick query from the computer bank of the ship's internal sensors confirmed that. Someone was here in the many thousands of years that the ship rested here. That was almost 1,400 years ago. And the person just came up to this room and no further. Anoth's gaze returned to the newly arrived person.
It was a woman wearing glasses and she also seemed very young. Anoth watched as the young woman with eyes as big as they could possible go looked around completely fascinated. Anoth had a feeling that she didn't even knew that a seal existed here.
Anoth watched as the person approached a window and looked down into the lower-lying Stargate Room, which housed 10 Stargates. There were also turrets on the walls that no doubt served to secure the gate area. Her gaze wandered to the large window which gave the view outside. The fact that they were in a pocket dimension caused the walls of the dimension to shimmer in all different colors. That light allowed her to see the entire cityship.
"Where am I?" she muttered to herself.
"The better question would be: Who are you and what are you looking for?"
The woman whirled around and froze instantly. She had never seen these weapons before, but she recognized a gun when she saw one. And just over a dozen of them were aimed at her. As a result, she raised her hands. Anoth had brought out a good dozen of his Shadowbeasts. They came out in full combat gear and aimed their weapons at the unknown woman. If she turned out to be hostile they would turn her into dust within seconds.
"My name is Katerea Leviathan, I'm not here to fight."
"Why are you here then?"
"I am here at the behest of Ophis-"
"Ophis ?!" shouted Anoth. "What has my little brat done again?"
"Yyy-your brat?" Katerea asked, completely surprised.
"Yes, my brat, Ophis is my daughter, the youngest one at that." confirmed Anoth. "So, what did she do?"
"Um ..."
"Can you bring her here?"
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Can you bring her here? Yes or No." Anoth asked again.
"... Yes." Katerea finally said. She activated a seal and shortly thereafter a loli girl with long black hair stood next to Katerea.
"Why have you-OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!" Ophis wanted to ask Katerea why she had been summoned here just to stop when Anoth grabbed her ear and started pulling on it. Her otherwise completely emotionless voice quickly swung to a mournful whimper. No sooner had Katerea seen this than she jumped behind one of the consoles and peered over her console at the spectacle of what was happening. The last person to do that had dyed the room red.
"So, young lady." Anoth Ophis growled in the ear. "What bullshit did you do this time, and why can I feel your energy signature in Katerea?"
"..."
"...Hmm?"
"Father ..." Ophis said hesitantly as Anoth finally let go of her ear and she began to rub it. Ophis was unable to look her father in the eye, knowing he was currently looking at her with fully activated planetary eyes.
"I'm waiting." Anoth growled.
"... Uh ..."
"Ophis !?"
"I uh ..."
"Spit it out!"
"Uh ..."
"If you do not start talking in 10 seconds, I'll put you in a piggy-pink colored dress and give you a nice pink bow on your head."
When Ophis heard that, she turned white. She hated pink and bows.
"My stupid sister!" it burst out of Ophis. "She took my home just to fly her stupid stunts!"
Anoth face palmed. "Why do you guys always have to fight each other?" You've always done that back then ... I thought you'd last in the last, -What is that now, 10,000 years? -become a bit grown-up."
Ophis found the floor at once extremely interesting. "That's why I founded the Khaos Brigade to throw them out of my home."
"And how long ago was that?"
"Several centuries."
"And what did they do for you?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?" Anoth did not believe what he was hearing.
"They are not strong enough."
"And?" Anoth knew that something was coming.
"I give them of my power, with which they can do as they please."
Now it was not just one hand anymore, but both. Anoth really believed that he was in the wrong movie right now. How naive was she? Did she not notice that they shamelessly exploited her naivety? That they had come only to her, not to drive her sister away, but just to push their own goals. Ophis saw that her father was about to explode. And just wanted to take a step back. She did not come to that when she suddenly found herself flying.
" Have you gone completely bonkers !? " Anoth took several deep breaths, having seen that the force of his voice had simply thrown Ophis across the room. "How dumb are you actually?" Anoth growled out as he slowly walked over to Ophis, who was sitting on the wall, not daring to move. She had never experienced her father so angry. On his back were now twelve wings to see and also nine dragon tails swung behind him. His aura he sent out was so strong that Katerea fainted. Harry and the others were forced down to their knees but remained conscious. They stared wide-eyed at Anoth. Only Anoth's Shadowbeast did not disturb the aura.
"What a power." Harry whispered admiringly.
Anoth's power level was gigantic. 12 wings and nine tails. Each of these tails stood for a multiplier of power. So if you figure out which power level he showed open in wings, the bill would look like 12x12x12x12x12x12x12x12x12. The result: 5,159,780,352 . The fact that the wings were astral and feathered to one half and the wide dragon increased the number again. And that was only a circa number. So it was understandable why Ophis was afraid. His aura was powerful enough to vaporize the area around him. Fortunately for the others and also his surroundings, Anoth limited the power level he used.
You will call those in the Khaos Brigade that you trust the most, and then I want to know from you and those who know what is going on there, and the answers they give me will determine how your sentence will turn out. After that, we'll both talk to your sister. " Ophis wanted to open her mouth to speak but a look from Anoth was enough to keep her from getting four people in the city.
One of them opened his mouth but Anoth came before them.
"SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN! YOU ONLY TALK IF YOU ARE ASKED!"
The four did not resist and instantly sat down exactly where they appeared.
"First of all, I want to know who you are."
"Kuroka."
"Bikou"
"Le Fay Pendragon."
"Arthur Pendragon."
"So, what do we have here, a Nekomata ... no, a Nekoshou, a Monkey Youkai, and the Pendragon siblings." Anoth said as he looked at all four in turn.
"Um ... If I may ask Nya?" said Kuroka. Anoth gestured for her to continue. "How do you know that I am a Nekoshou Nya?"
"Nekoshou are rare, only about one in a thousand Nekomata is a Nekoshou, both look identical from the outside, but their aura is what the difference is between an Nekoshou and a simple Nekomata. The Nekoshou have a special ability, they can use Senjutsu from birth. Fact is, you're in the process of using Senjutsu, if only in microscopic quantities, and unlike many other races, the Senjutsu cannot let them go mad, they will never go mad by using too much Senjutsu If they are untrained and overworked, they will be tired and sluggish, only the trained can go into overload mode and really use the power. You do not have this training, your aura says so clearly. "
Kuroka stared at him in disbelief. He had just talked about facts that she did not even know. Anoth's eyes moved away from Kuroka and walked over to Arthur. More specifically, his sword, which he carried with him. Even before he could react, the sword had disappeared from him and was now Anoth's hand.
I did not even see how he moved. Went through their heads collectively. In one moment Anoth looked at him the next, he had the sword in his hand. Arthur reached out to where he had carried the sword earlier, and right enough, it was gone.
Anoth ran his fingers over the flat side of the blade until he stopped as part of the blade began to glow in a blue light. That was the fragment of the original sword that made this one.
"What happened to the original sword?" Anoth asked, looking around the room. the sword, with part of the blade still glowing, still in his hand. Katerea was in the arms of one of his shadows, staring at him with more than anxious eyes. His eyes swept over to Ophis, who only shook her head and made it so clear she did not know. His eyes fell back to Arthur, who had begun to sweat.
"I'm waiting."
Surprisingly it was not Arthur who answered the question but Bikou.
"The sword was destroyed in the Great War."
"What war?"
"The big one."
"Are you kidding me?" Anoth was getting angry.
"Between the fallen angels, angels and devils now almost 700 years ago."
"And why didn't you just say that?"
Bikou just grinned.
* BAM *
And lay now with a bump on the head moaning on the ground. Thanks for that went to Kuroka.
"So the sword was broken into your little conflict, tell me, who held it?"
"God himself." Anoth's expression darkened.
"Do you want to make me angry?" Anoth growled. He really did not feel like pulling everything out of his nose. "There are hundreds of those who have the rank of a God."
"The god of the Bible." Came Le Fay's intimidated answer.
"So, huh?" Anoth muttered more to himself than to the others.
"Why does this sword interest you at all?" Arthur asked. Anoth grinned and used the sword as a support.
"What do you know about the history of this sword?"
"It's called Excalibur, what we know about it, is just what the legend of Arthur tells about it." was Kuroka's answer. "Plus it's a mighty Holy Sword, if not the most powerful."
"There are seven fragments of the sword Excalibur Ruler is the fragment you are currently holding in your hand, the others are Excalibur Mimic, Excalibur Nightmare, Excalibur Destruction, Excalibur Rapidly, Excalibur Transparency and Excalibur Blessing. Most of them are owned by the church. " said Le Fay.
"In other words, next to nothing."
"Well," added Arthur, "it is claimed that the God of the Bible forged it himself."
Anoth just snorted. "The original Excalibur is old, very old, far older than the Bible, it came from a time when the primitive humans did not even exist, when the ancestors of the humans still swung from tree to tree and were in zoos. I forged it then, almost 18 million years ago, as a gift to the then Lord Commander of the Alterans on the occasion of his 300th birthday, Argandius Padrakius, your ancestor. " Anoth's eyes rested on Arthur and Le Fay as he said that. What made that both of the jaw open stood now. "Argandius Padrakius was the Lord Commander of the Alteran people, so his rank was about the same as that of a king."
"May I ask." said Bikou, who was still bumping on the floor. "Who were the Alterans?" Ophis was interested too. She had now moved away from her wall and sat on a nearby level. Close enough to listen. Katerea had sat down beside her. Harry and companions had also sneaked closer to the scene. They too were curious.
"The Alterans dominated this galaxy until nearly ten million years ago, and they were much more technologically advanced than humans today, in fact we are currently in one of their city ships, the largest of all the Alterans ever built." With that he pointed out the window. "Go ahead."
Le Fay, Arthur, Kuroka, Bikou, Kuroka and Ophis walked over to the window and looked out. They could not believe their eyes what they saw.
"This is the Stardale, the largest and also the last ever built Alteran Cityship, and the most technically advanced of them all." said Anoth, who now stood with them at the window and let his gaze wander over the city ship. "I am the High Emperor of the Seraphimian Intergalactic and very soon Interdimensional Alliance, we have long been the allies of the Alterans."
"What happened?" Kuroka asked.
"A plague broke out among the Alteran people, and the first investigations showed that it was not a natural disease, but a bio weapon of unknown origin at that time, and the Alterans and we tried to stem it, but we did not succeed to prevent the plague spreading. In the end the Alterans declared the hole galaxy to be a quarantine zone. The plague was weird. Further analysis of it showed that none of us seraphim or any of the other species was affected, only the Alterans, we went on to investigate the plague and finally found an antidote. I myself traveled with one of my ships to the delivery point that had been arranged for such a case. We waited for almost 10 days, in vain, so we decided to send out probes.
"When one of them reached Terra, they reported that the planet was deserted, the same with the second governmental planets, Terra and Dakara were abandoned, huge cities with several, sometimes many kilometer high skyscrapers had vanished, as if they had never been there. We were too late, I sent more ships into the galaxy to comb it through, they found nothing, we had to assume the Alterans had been wiped out, one of our longest allies was dead. "
"How long have you been allies?" Katerea asked.
"For over 53 million years." Anoth answered. "A long time." Anoth's gaze swept to one of the docked ships on the town. An Aurora class that the Alterans liked to use. In over 20 million years since the first prototype was completed, the exterior design had barely changed. It was larger than the first ship of just 1.3 km in length to today's 3.5 km in length. The basic design remained the same.
"That does not explain how this Padrakius can be our ancestor." Arthur said.
"What we did not know at the time," Anoth continued, apparently ignoring Arthur's question, "was that some of the Alterans had fled, seeking their fortune in another galaxy, but even there they were unlucky, and after initial success, they made unfriendly contact with a species that they themselves unknowingly created, the Wraith, a species capable of literally sucking one's life away, one in a moment a 20-year-old tough guy, the next looking the same guy was looking like a couple of hundred Years old man. "
Anoth reached out his arm and showed them the hologram of a Wraith drone and a Wraith Hive ship. For comparison, he had the Manhattan Island appear next to the ship. A hive ship of the Wraith is enormous. About 11km long and eight kilometers wide. About half as long as the island of Manhattan. And twice as wide.
"The Wraith triumphed in the end, not by technological superiority but sheer numbers: the Wraith multiply like insects, a queen can create tens of thousands of descendants in no time at all, and the Wraiths found a technology to do it even faster. They build massive clone factories. And they cloned not only their foot-soldiers but also their organic ships - in every fight the Wraith lost dozens of ships, but that did not matter much, they could produce the ships faster than they lost them. With the captured energy cores of the destroyed Alteran ships they could build even larger ships with more firepower and even more clones.
"The Alterans, in turn, could not replace the lost ships and personnel so quickly and were pushed back on and on until they were sitting on an old city ship, Atlantis, the last fortress of the Alterans in the Pegasus galaxy. They had found the old data of our alliance in the computer and had decided to give it a try, they had nothing more to lose. The probe was damaged in the flight of Atlantis and through the blockade by the wraith ships. And when it finally reached us and we managed to decode the data and send a fleet towards the Pegasus galaxy, it was already too late.
"When we reached Lantea, that was the planet Atlantis had landed on, the planet was little more than a radioactive dust ball, angry that we had lost our allies for the second time we turned our attention to the Wraith. Our ships, in proportion to those of the Alterans, were not only bigger by far, but also significantly better armed, we wiped out more than 99% of the Wraith, leaving only a few Hive ships that were hiding somewhere in the galaxy. Every few months we discovered one of them and destroyed it, but in the end we had to return to our own galaxy. I'm pretty sure that the Wraith are still active in the Pegasus galaxy.
"When the Alterans realized that the fight was lost for them, some of them called their ships and headed back here, and almost all of them were either damaged or destroyed trying to escape, but some are still active. Somewhere out there, and approaching this galaxy at 99.9% of the speed of light, it is needless to say that they will be on their way for many thousands of years. I only recently knew about them." (the repository was the one who had informed him about it.) "I will send fleets to them to check them out. But there is another problem. From most of these ships we know the raw course they had taken. But to find them... we don't even know if they still exist at all.
"Others took the so-called "ascension." They took the form of pure energy beings and disappeared. The last group took the Astria Porta or simply Stargate, a device that allowed instantaneous travel between the planets, and came back here. That was 10,000 years ago.
"But once again, luck was not on their side, and when they arrived, they found the galaxy under the control of a parasitic form of life. The Goa'uld, who acted as gods to control the people under them. So the Alterans instigated a rebellion, in which ultimately the Goa'uld who had taken this planet as their seat of power, were forced to flee.
"Only a few of the ships from the Pegasus galaxy had made it here at the time, and none of them had a functioning hyperdrive that would allow them to jump into another galaxy. Now they stood there, outnumbered by an enemy that had technologically profited by the artifacts they left behind so long ago, even if the Goa'uld used the technology very badly. They had no choice but they needed allies in this galaxy.
"So they found the Nox, the Furlinger, and the Asgard, that was the beginning of the alliance of the four great races, but even with them, they had little chance, the Goa'uld were just too numerous, after almost 1,000 years of conflict they gave up the fight after the Goa'uld destroyed the Furling Homeworld. Most of the surviving Alterans joined their Ascended brothers and sisters, the others renounced their technology and mingled with the indigenous population, what happened with the other three races Rest is unknown. And the rest is , as the saying goes, history. "
"So my ancestor was one of those Alterans who mixed with the humans from that time?" said Arthur.
"That's right."
"Hard to believe, and yet ... I cannot deny what I see, this city is what we've come to expect from computers - my newest PC has a 50Mhz processor, about 12MB of memory, and a hard disk of 1000MB, that's a shitty joke against this here. " Arthur muttered more to himself than to the others. "What happened to the survivors, where are they?"
"Now the largest number of the offspring from the Alterans live in the same land where the Arthus legend plays, with the remainder spread all over the planet." Anoth answered, then his eyes fell on the Nekomata. "Tell me, why do I feel something in your chest the whole time, which reminds me of a chess piece?"
Kuroka touched her breast. Exactly where it was, what she hated the most. Two Bishop pieces with which she had been reincarnated with as a devil. The biggest mistake she ever made. This mistake had cost her, her youngest sister. She did not know if the older one (Shirone) was still alive. But after the way the devils reacted after killing their Master to save Shirone from certain death, the odds that she was still alive were not very high. The "Nekomata Purification". That's what the devils called it. Just because she killed a senior devil. A literal bastard that nobody liked. And yet the Nekomata were considered too dangerous. Bad luck for the devils, Yasaka, the Kyuubi, who led the demons of Kyoto, got wind of it and openly threatened them with war if they should actually pull through the genocide of the Nekomata species. The devils had no choice but to have the Nekomata removed from the underworld. They could not afford a war with the demons and all the other factions who would then be involved (With the Shinto faction on the front).
Anoth could feel her emotions. Whatever she had, she would love to get rid of it. That much was clear.
"These are so-called "Evil Pieces." The devils use them to revive other species as devils and to fill their ranks, as you've noticed, I'm one of those. The Evil Pieces are based on chess pieces. There are sixteen in all. A king, the master of the peerage, two bishops, they give the wearer increased magical abilities, they are also the ones I have inside of me. Two knights, who give the wearer extreme speed. Two rooks, which get increased defenses and tremendous power. Then there is the Queen, she combines the traits of Rook, Knight and Bishop in her own, as well as eight pawns, that have the option to ascend as soon as they are far enough in hostile terrain, they can take on the powers of all the other pieces except the King . "
"Do you want to get rid of them?" Anoth came straight to the point.
"Nya ?!" Now he had Kuroka's undivided attention.
"Do you want to get rid of these things and become a pure Nekomata or Nekoshou again?"
"But, that's impossible Nya ~" said Kuroka sadly. "If they are removed I will die Nya ~."
"If you just try to rip them out, then yes, then you'll inevitably look at the radishes right from the bottom up, but it's not impossible to remove them. The feeling that I get from the pieces is that they're soul-anchored. That is not that Hard to fix by cleansing your soul, which will undo your transformation into a devil, but you still keep the devil's magic, as I said, do you want to get rid of them or not? "
"Why do you want to help me at all?" Kuroka asked. Why would he help someone that he didn't even know? Kuroka could feel her mask breaking, which she had been wearing for so long.
"I felt sadness, hate and anger as I asked you about the Evil Pieces - hatred of yourself - I could sense that behind the Evil Pieces inside you is a story that you love to send to the Land of Oblivion and yet you will be reminded of it every morning. " At this time Anoth had hugged a now nearly crying Kuroka. "Without a way to ever escape it, damned to be forever reminded of it." The last sentence was enough and from Kuroka the pent-up grief broke out. Everything that had accumulated over the years emptied in one fell swoop.
It took several minutes before she could calm down again. When she finally calmed down, she just said two words. "Do it." It was clear what she meant by that. Not being able to walk herself at the moment, Anoth took her in his arms.
"She has to lie down if I want to do that, and there's a bed in the ready room from the commander on duty." then he glanced over at Ophis again. "Do not think that I forgot you." That made Ophis swallow and get a little paler on the spot than she already was. "Deferred is not suspended."
The ready room was on the right side of the main control panels. There was also a conference room. Anoth walked in with Kuroka, but denied access to the others. They had to wait outside. No matter if they liked it or not.
"Take off your clothes and lie down." Kuroka obeyed without asking questions. Had this been a different situation, she would certainly have commented accordingly. Right now she just wanted to get rid of this damned thing in her. There was not much to take off with her anyway. A black red kimono a yellow obi (belt) and a chain with some big gold colored balls and that's it. "You will be unconscious for most of the procedure, and believe me, it's better so."
Shortly after she lay down, she saw Anoth morphing into his beast form. Immediately thereafter, etheric tentacles came out of his back and when they got in touch with her body, the world went black for her.
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Sometime later
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Kuroka did not know how long she was unconscious and her consciousness came back only slowly. And the first thing she felt was a massive pain concentrated on her back. Her body writhed in pain and her mouth was wide open in a silent cry of pain. But as quickly and brutally as the pain came, it disappeared and left Kuroka breathing heavily. It was only when she had calmed down that she noticed a hand resting on her chest. right over her heart. And it was the same hand that was radiating a green field that enveloped her whole body.
Her eyes followed her arm up to the one who touched her. It was Anoth. "I have to apologize for having to endure this pain, these Evil Pieces were anchored far deeper than I expected, I am suppressing your pain at the moment, but the pain should stop by itself very soon." Kuroka could confirm that. The previously almost unbearable pain was reduced to a dull ache, which she managed to ignore without problems. She could also feel the pain getting weaker by the second.
Shortly thereafter Kuroka became tired and before she knew it, she had fallen asleep. After Anoth had reassured himself that the after-effects had disappeared, he covered Kuroka with a blanket and then left the room.
As soon as he was outside, he stopped in surprise. They were all there, that was not what Anoth had surprised, but that Ophis now held Harry's hand and that Harry's had marked what very clear were hickeys.
Anoth just wanted to comment, then he felt like he was called somewhere else.
"Of course, when it comes, then it comes all at once, as if they agree with each other." Anoth growled. "You must excuse me, I'll be back in an hour, it looks like we're getting three more students." Anoth threw a meaningful look at Ophis, who grinned at him, then opened a dimensional portal and disappeared.
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Elementary nations
Naruto universe
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It was the one-month training break in the Chunin exam and Naruto was in the hospital after visiting Lee, who had been badly battered by Gaara, and facing his sensei Hatake Kakashi.
"Hey Kakashi-sensei, I was wondering if you could help me to train for the Chunin exam final." Naruto asked.
"Sorry Naruto but I have to train Sasuke, he needs more help than you, because he has to face Gaara." came Kakashi's answer. He did not even look up from his book.
"And I have to fight Neji, you saw what he did to Hinata, how can I beat him?" said Naruto, who did not like it that his "sensei" just left him in the rain.
"And you saw what Gaara did to Lee, Sasuke could not survive this fight." Kakashi replied while continuing to read his book.
"Can you not just give me a scroll to help me get stronger?" Naruto asked, slowly but surely getting angry. However, it managed to keep out of his voice.
"Sorry, Naruto, but I do not have time, Sasuke has at least a chance against Gaara, while you can only lose to Neji, you can ..." Kakashi wanted to keep talking. but he was interrupted by Naruto.
"Let me guess, the Civil Council?" Naruto asked, who had noticed something in the voice of Kakashi. Kakashi sighed and lowered his book.
"Yes." confirmed Kakashi. "They forbade me to train you."
"I should have thought so." said Naruto, more to himself than to the others.
The Civil Council had made it virtually a livelihood to make Naruto's life as hard as possible. They were led by none other than the drone king Shimura Danzo. Drone King because he still had his ROOT Anbu on duty, instead of dissolving them, as the Sandaime Hokage had ordered him to do. Every one of the ROOT Anbu was loyal to Danzo, and as far as the opinion from Naruto, Kurama, and Anoth, Naruto's secret second Sensei, was going, the ROOT were little more worth than cockroaches. In fact, Naruto had already killed several of them when they tried to force him to Danzo. Twelve ROOT had tried. None of them came back.
Danzo put his ROOT mainly on quantity not quality. And here was the dog buried. Quantity is something that you can count. Quality something you count on. There were many ROOT Anbu. Their average level, however, was far from a proper Anbu. in fact, more than 95% of the ROOT Anbu were not stronger than the average Chunin. The loss of their emotions did not make them stronger, but weaker. And very clearly at that.
"It's about time I contacted my second sensei." Naruto muttered.
"Second sensei?" Kakashi asked in surprise. "Which second sensei?"
But Naruto ignored him and marched out of the hospital and then directly to one of the training grounds. Kakashi followed him. His curiosity was to great. Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Sandaime Hokage, had also heard Naruto's exclamation about his crystal ball and was following him as well. Together with Jiraiya, who was in Konoha, as well as some Anbu.
Naruto just stood there, staring into the distance, seemingly in thought. Suddenly four ROOT Anbu appeared directly in front of Naruto.
"Danzo-sama has ordered your presence Demon." said one of the ROOT Anbu.
Instead of replying, Naruto ignored the present ROOT Anbu and instead flew through the signs of Kuchiyose no Jutsu.
The result was a huge cloud of smoke. Then came a presence over all present, which they all, without exception, forced to their knees. Only Naruto remained completely untouched. The looks of Anoth and Naruto met and a silent discussion took place between the two.
" So ... " Anoth said as he stood there in human form, ignoring the ROOT Anbu. " The Chunin Exams? "
Kakashi and the others could not help but stare at the giant that had appeared there. He even outshone Hoshigaki Kisame with a height of about 2.25 m.
The ROOT Anbu turned to Anoth.
"Who are you? What do you want in Konoha?" The leader demanded as he went on the attack.
" I do not owe you an answer at all ROOT drone ." The ROOT did not like this answer, so they attacked Anoth with drawn swords. A huge mistake, as they should learn very quickly.
Anoth at first dodged the attacks very skillfully and then caught one of the swords with bare hands. Immediately afterwards, he literally crushed the sword, grabbed the ROOT by the throat and broke his neck with a single move of his hand. The now lifeless body he threw on two of the other ROOT, who wanted to attack him from behind.
The fourth ROOT attacked him now, only that Anoth skillfully steered his sword away from him, only to slam his arm into his chest. Only that Anoth's arm had taken on an ethereal form. And when he pulled his arm out again, he pulled the soul of the ROOT Anbu out too. As soon as the soul was completely removed, the ROOT Anbu collapsed as if one had cut off the cords of a puppet. Anoth simply let the drawn-out soul dissolve and turned to the two ROOT Anbu that were left. However, they had managed to get on their legs again.
Anoth did not even allow them to attack him, because before they came to attack, Anoth was already amongst them. The first he opened his throat with his claws and took his sword from him, only to ram the same into the chest of the second. That was the end of the fight.
The whole fight from beginning to end did not last even twenty seconds. " And that would eliminate that annoyance. " Anoth turned back to Naruto. " What about your sensei? "
"Kakashi-sensei was forbidden by the Civil Council to train me."
" So the senile old goat is still lets the Civil Council dance on his nose ." Anoth growled. " Do you realize that the Civil Council could never give you orders in any way? "
"What do you mean Anoth-sensei?"
"You're a Jinchuriki, so the authority over you does not even fall into the Shinobi Council, but only to the local Kage, or when there is no Kage the local Daimyo," Anoth explained. " That means the real fault that Kakashi cannot train you is not with Kakashi but with ... er ... " Anoth have to think for a moment. " Sarutobi Hiruzen, right? "
Naruto nodded. He already knew about these facts. Only he could never tell the Hokage. The danger of Danzo and the Civil Council was too high. Now that Anoth was here in person, he could easily reveal it, knowing that Hiruzen was watching this meeting.
Anoth shook his head.
" The mere fact that the Civil Council dares to command someone who is far beyond their reach, giving orders to someone who in the end only the Hokage could order around, would be more than enough reasons for those involved to be executed for high treason. " said Anoth. "But enough of that, it's time I brought my two other students here."
With these words, Anoth transformed and only seconds later there was something in place, which send every Shinobi and Kunoichi a cold shiver down there back. A Drago-Seraphim with a shoulder height of over 50 meters. And with an aura that made the Kyuubi look like a puppy. Thanks to the barrier around the training ground stopped every single villager to get a heart attack but the people who were nearest were still lying on the ground.
Nevertheless, the sight of such a giant made for panic and it drew all Shinobi to the training field only to run against a barrier that they could not penetrate. Immediately after, Anoth roared with a force that shook the ground beneath them.
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Hokage tower
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Hiruzen did not believe what he had just heard from the crystal ball. Had he really become so blind?
There was only one way to find it out.
With that Hiruzen jumped up and scurried over to the bookshelf. There lay the scroll with the basic laws of the village. He opened the scroll and scrolled through to the point Jinchuriki. What he read made him think slowly that it was time to retire.
Anoth was right. The authority over the or the Jinchuriki carries only the Hokage of the village. It also said that should the civil council interfere in it, it could be considered high treason. That was also true for the Elders Council.
Hiruzen started to grin.
Now he was looking forward to the next Council meeting. That would be after the finals of the Chunin exam. He would wait till then.
It was about time that the Kami no Shinobi shows that he was worth the title.
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Kumogakure
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Nii Yugito wished that she had stayed in bed today. She was back in Kumo when some drunken villagers found her and thought that it would be really great to hunt the "demon whore" through the streets.
She was not allowed to defend herself against these villagers nor to fight them. The Raikage had forbidden her. Or rather he had been forced by the council to forbid it. And even if she could, the damned advice had caused her to wear chakra armchairs out of fear that would destroy the Akatsuki Kumo. For as soon as the Akatsuki came, the Council would simply accuse them of eating them. So she was only an option. Run away from them.
Why was she hated so much? Kirabi was loved. Not you. Why was that?
Before she could think about it, she realized she had run into a dead end. In the distance she heard a dull roar, and she knew the day had come that she had been waiting for.
The big boss is here. That made her grin despite the situation she was in right now.
Yugito turned around and saw the mob coming towards her when the mob's first ones were simply crushed by a massive jet-black dragon's paw. As Yugito looked up, she grinned. She recognized the dragoness who had come to her help.
"DDDD- DRAGON!" a member of the mob exclaimed, completely shocked. This scream made sure that the mob, who was still standing there as if rooted to the ground, as if unable to grasp what had just happened, ran in all directions. Screaming loudly that the demon had managed to summon a big black dragon.
If only they knew. Thought Yugito.
Several Kumo Anbu came running to the point, accompanied by more Kumo Shinobi and the Raikage plus Kirabi. Just to run against an energy wall. They could do nothing but watch as they tried to tear down the barrier.
"Andurina!" Yugito shouted happily, trying to hug the massive paw, not even hugging one of the massive toes.
" It's always funny to watch ." came another voice, as Andurina only grinned, that made the numerous razor-sharp teeth visible which were in her mouth.
"Beroana!" Yugito shouted excitedly and ran over to the second dragon, who was currently in a half human and half dragon form, and hugged her.
"Nice to see you again, my little pussycat."
"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that?" Yugito crossed her arms and stared at Beroana. The only thing she got with that was that Beroana started with stroking Yugito over her head, where two cat ears had now become visible. Just seconds later and Yugito was purring. Very much to Matatabis amusement. Said Bijuu laughed in her seal rolled around on the ground.
" Can we move this to later? Anoth awaits us. " Asked Andurina who watched with plenty of amusement how the Kumo Shinobi still vainly tried to penetrate her barrier, only to fail. Interestingly, the Raikage had stopped trying to penetrate the barrier when he spotted the crest on her. Instead, he had turned white and was almost frozen.
"So it's true." A the Raikage murmured . Andurina could read this from his lips.
'That's where you're right A ' The Raikage froze in horror as he heard the voice in his head. 'My name is Andurina and I am a Shadowbeast servant of the Worldlord Anoth. 'A had to swallow when he heard that.
"Why are you here?" parallel to the question he gave a signal to the Anbu who then stopped trying to get through the barrier.
' My master, the Worldlord Anoth, chose the Jinchuriki, whom you know as Nii Yugito, as his apprentice. We are here to bring her to him . ' All the others had also heard these telepathic words. Some of them became white, others simply fainted from shock.
A knowing that he had no chance in the fight against a Shadowbeast servant, even with Kirabi at his side, not to mention two of them, had only one choice, because if it would come to a fight then Kumo's downfall was sealed.
"We will not stand in your way. " A said, recalling his Anbu. The dragoness nodded and only seconds later they had disappeared into a flash of light.
A quarter of an hour later, A made an announcement before the council.
"Nii Yugito is no longer a resident of Kumogakuro no Sato. "
The Civilian side of the council was about to cheer, but the gaze of A and Bee, and a healthy dose of Killing Intent, silenced them before they could cheer.
"She was picked up today by the Shadow Servants of the local World Lord and is now a student of said World Lord." A continued. "That means she will be listed in the Bingo book as a Z class."
Z class. The Civil Side and Shinobi side did not believe what they were hearing. Even the hidden in the ground Zetsu did not believe his ears.
Z-class meant: If you really want to be destroyed, then attack me. Z classes were able to wipe out a hidden village without breaking a sweat. They could kill entire armies with ease. Such a classification has never been. Where Z-class enemies met, the maps had to be redrawn. The highest ever achieved was SSS class. But that was before the first Shinobi World War.
Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama tore the valley of the end into the ground during their fight. Were they both Z class, they would have sunk the entire continent.
And EVERY single Shadowbeast servant of Anoth was Z class.
Kumogakure would never have survived a fight against them.
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Takigakure No Sato
Fuus hiding place
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Krashindzul and Dreynaaral were very close to the hiding place Fuu used as her home because she was not even welcome in the village of Takigakure. The two great dragons were accompanied by two smaller dragons named Nelarth and Darlath. All four had adopted their human shape so as not to attract to much attention.
'We are being watched.' Krashindzul said telepathically to her companions.
'I already noticed.' confirmed Dreynaaral.
'Should we take care of him?' Nelarth and Darlath asked almost at the same time.
'Yes.' pressed Krashindzul.
The two dragonesses grinned and seconds later they were gone.
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In a tree
Close by
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A man with an orange mask with only one peephole stood in the tree and watched what was going on down there. Especially these four women who had entered the forest had his attention.
These people had a special energy field around them. It was-
Two of them had disappeared suddenly.
"Hey Pumpkin hat!" He spun around, only to be hit in the face by a fist that completely disassembled his pumpkin mask and sent him straight through several trees.
"What the...?" he wondered when he got up again after being stopped by a tree rather roughly. How was that possible? He had become immaterial, the fist should have gone through him without damage. Instead, the fist, only fractions of a second before it hit him, had pulled him back into the normal dimension, but that was completely impossible.
When he heard footsteps approaching him and he looked up, he saw that the woman who had smashed his mask before was definitely not human. Her clothes had disappeared, instead green scales were visible on parts of her body. Her hands had become claws, as well as her feet, and behind her swung a much more visible and very muscular tail. Their scales covered their private body parts and if he looked closely, the areas that looked as if they were skin were also covered with small scales.
"What, what are you?"
" Someone who is far superior to you, " came her cryptic answer that send a cold shiver down his spine. Her voice contained a tremendous power. " Uchiha Madara, or should I call you Uchiha Obito? "
Obito's eye became huge. How did she know that? Never mind, she would not live long enough to tell anyone about it.
Obito Activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and called "Kamui". He opened with his Sharingan eye a dimensional portal, which began to suck everything in itself. What surprised him was that the person in front of him remained completely unimpressed and almost casually raised a hand and aimed it at the dimensional portal. Then something happened that Obito had not expected. He lost control of his Kamui as it slowly closed.
" A nice try, " she said. " But if you want to capture a being who has spent most of his life traveling freely through the dimensions, then you have to come up with something better. " She sounded completely unimpressed. Immediately afterwards the Kamui closed.
"Amaterasu" shouted Obito and now shot black fire at her, only to watch in shock as it came to a halt in the middle of the air.
" Fighting a fire elemental with fire is not one of the smartest ideas. "
Obito's eyes widened again when he realized his own fire was being sent back to him, which quickly moved him to stop the jutsu.
Suddenly, there were several explosions right in front of the dragoness, which made her take several steps back and look up. Somebody was flying at a bird that seemed to be made out of clay, and who was yelling something about art. When she looked down again, she only saw how Obito disappeared into a new Kamui. She looked up again and the bird was gone.
" We'll meet again. " With these words, she too disappeared.
"Disappointing." She said to her sister afterwards. At the same time, she had again assumed her human form.
"Yes, somehow." she replied.
"You could at least punch him in the head at least once."
"Yes, while you played with him."
"That's right."
A short time later, they reunited with Krashindzul and Dreynaaral, who had made themselves comfortable on a tree trunk. Krashindzul got up and walked toward them while Dreynaaral lay on the trunk with a branch in her mouth, chewing on it while she watched the passing clouds through a hole in the canopy.
"Done?" Krashindzul asked.
"Yes." the two dragons answered.
"Even if he has delivered a disappointing fight."
Krashindzul just snorted amused.
"The first blow should have shaken him up a lot, and next time he might deliver a better fight." Krashindzul said.
"By the way." this came from Dreynaaral, who was still lying on the tree trunk. "Fuu is already here, we did not find her, she found us." With that, she pointed to the green-haired girl, who was sitting next to the trunk and calmly sipping a soup from a wooden bowl.
The two dragons looked at the girl, who concentrated solely on her soup, and then looked back at Dreynaaral with their eyebrows raised.
She was hungry. " Dreynaaral said.
The two dragons just sighed.
"At least we do not need to look for her anymore." said Nelarth.
"If she has eaten then we can go back to Anoth." said Darlath.
A little over fifteen minutes later, a flash of light illuminated the clearing, and immediately afterwards it was empty.
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Konoha
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Anoth, again in his human form, stood with Naruto on the training ground and waited. He was told by Naruto exactly what had happened in the Chunin exams so far. For some of the stories, he had to wonder how those involved were even included in the Shinobi forces.
The fight between Yamanaka Ino and Haruno Sakura was, as Naruto said, simply embarrassing.
Then Gaara. A highly unstable Jinchuriki and basically a ticking time bomb. He had hurt Lee very badly and had this sensei not interfered with the fight and saved Lee he would for sure have killed him.
Then Hyuuga Neji. The "Prodigy" of the Hyuuga family and Naruto's opponent. What Anoth asked him about how to develop so much hatred. He almost killed Hyuuga Hinata if the Jounin had not interacted. The funny thing about the fight was that Hinata could have ended it anytime. She only needed to activate Nejis Hyūga Sōke no Juinjutsu. The curse seal of the Hyuuga branch family. Instead, she decided to fight Fair. That was already a strength in itself. Others would certainly have activated the curse seal instead of entering into a fair fight. Why Neji felt this much hatred was unknown to Naruto.
That would be interesting to find out exactly.
To enrage an opponent also means that he is more likely to make mistakes. That makes him to easy prey for a trained fighter.
Their conversation was interrupted by several Kamui, from which several people came with horns on their heads.
"Ah." said Anoth. "The Otsutsuki clan, I was already wondering when you would come."
"We look forward to meeting you personally, Worldlord." it came from the leader.
"Yeah, the last time I was here, you just went to the knee Kaguya."
Kaguya just giggled. She also wore completely different clothes than she was often shown in. In fact, the kimono in which they were portrayed so often was useful in only one thing. To be constantly in the way. Instead, she was wearing something that was much closer to her body. Which also meant that her curves came out more clearly. The other Otsutsuki wore it too.
Also, it was noticeable that none of them carried visible weapons, which did not mean much, if you can believe the stories about the Otsutsuki clan.
"Who are they?" Naruto asked curiously.
"This is the Otsutsuki clan, my eyes and ears in this dimension." Anoth answered.
"Yes." confirmed Kaguya not just without pride. "For almost 14,000 years now."
"Is that a Sharingan in your forehead?"
"Curious?" Kaguya sounded amused. "Yes and no." Kaguya dropped to her knees in front of Naruto so he could take a better look at her third eye. It had clear similarities with the Sharingan but also with the Byakugan. And yet it was something completely different. The outer area of the eye was red, while the inner area shimmered bluish silver. In the eye itself were several rings in which twelve commas were. Three each per ring. In addition, in the middle of the eye, there was a pattern that Naruto had already seen in some Sharingan eyes. "This is the Byaku Rinne-Sharingan, the forefather of Byakugan, Sharingan and Rinnegan."
"Only that our Byaku Rinne Sharingan have little in common with the today's Byakugan and Sharingan." That came from another member of the Otsutsuki. In this case, a man. "My name is Otsutsuki Shigeki." Shigeki said as Naruto looked at him questioningly.
"Um ... what do you mean Shigeki-san?" Naruto asked.
I'm also interested in that. Thought the Hokage, Kakashi and also the Anbu who heard this.
"Do you know the three levels of today's Sharingan?" Shigeki asked Naruto.
Naruto thought for a moment and then answered. "I know that the Sharingan has to be awakened first, and that the basic form has only a comma, and when fully developed it has three commas."
"But that's just her first step." said Shigeki. "The second one is the Mangekyo Sharingan, it is awakened by experiencing the death of someone very close to oneself, that fact has led to many wearers of the Sharingan who had become power hungry to murder their closest friends and family members just to get this Mangekyo Sharingan, which led to the formation of the Nikushimi no Noroi, the curse of hate, but this Mangekyo Sharingan is not going to last forever. To prevent this from happening, one needs the Mangekyo Sharingan eyes from a close relative and thus has to replace his own eyes. The eye Mutates again and thereby takes on the third level. The eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. This eye does not go blind ,Can you follow me so far? "
Naruto nodded.
"As far as the Byakugan is concerned, it has lost a lot of its power - it once had two stages of development, and today the second is practically nonexistent." explained Shigeki. "The first-level are the sensor skills that have also declined significantly, the original eye was able to see all the energy flows, it is now virtually limited to chakra. Results of inbreeding by the Hyuuga in an attempt to "keep their clan clean". They have not even noticed that they only harmed themselves with it. "
"What could the second stage do."
"The second stage of the Byakugan was the Tenseigan, it is awakened in three stages, in the first one the Byakugan loses its milky color and gets a blue border, the second level makes the eye more colorful and the in the third stage the Tenseigan is finally fully awakened. The eye looks like a colorful galaxy, the white is barely visible, but the third awakening level is even more painful than the second.
"Many of the Tenseigan's techniques have been lost over time, with only two known for their tremendous destructive power, the first being the Kinrin Tensei Baku (Rebirth Explosion of the Gold Wheel) and the Gudoudama. Gudoudama are formed into a ball from which the bearer fires a golden colored beam, which is strong enough to cut a moon in half.
"The second technique would be the Ginrin Tensei Baku (Rebirth Explosion of the Silver Wheel), in which case the Gudoudama are placed in a ring and rotated very fast, creating a hurricane which has enough power that one must redraw the maps.
"As for the Gudoudama (Truth-seeking Orb), they are something of a multi-purpose tool, attack, defense, with which almost anything is feasible, since the Gudoudama are nothing but energy, they can take on all imaginable forms. I doubt that one who owns or owned the Gudoudama can exhaust the full range of possibilities that the Gudoudama allows one, if that is even possible. "
"Wow." Naruto breathed. "And they did not realize they lost that?"
Shigeki nodded. "The original versions of these eyes or Dojutsus still had these powers, and with the original Sharingan, murder was not the prerequisite to reach the next level, but hard training." Shigeki looked up. "They are back."
Right enough. As soon as he said that, a flash of light illuminated the place and Yugito appeared just like Fuu. Along with the Shadow Beast servants that Anoth had sent to them.
"Nice, that you are here again." said Anoth. "Difficulties?"
"Just an idiot in a pumpkin mask." came the answer from Nelarth. The dragoness shrugged her shoulders. "The fight was pretty pathetic."
"That must have been Uchiha Obito." said Kaguya.
"Is he not the leader of the Akatsuki?" a member of the Otsutsuki clan asked.
"Yes." confirmed Kaguya. "But to my knowledge, he goes under the name Uchiha Madara today."
"He can be glad he has not given us any reason to attack him, yet." another member of the Otsutsuki clan growled.
"I'm pretty sure the time will come." Anoth said. "If what you have told me about the Moon-Eye Plan is true, then he will give us more than enough reasons soon enough to crush the Akatsuki."
"And all because of this Rin ... something."
"Nohara Rin." Kaguya corrected her clan member. "If I remember, it was Hatake Kakashi who killed Rin, right Aguri?"
Otsutsuki Aguri was the one who was there when Rin died. "That's right and wrong alike." she said.
"What do you mean, Aguri?" Kaguya asked.
"Kakashi wanted to attack an enemy Kiri Ninja with his Chidori when Rin threw herself right into his attack." she explained. "Rin had previously asked Kakashi to kill her, but he refused, the reason behind that request was simple: Kiri had sealed the Sanbi inside her, using a seal that made Rin a living time bomb. Namikaze Minato, the team's sensei at the time, could have easily corrected that, yet Rin chose suicide and Obito had seen that. "
"Then how did he come to call himself Uchiha Madara?"
"It seems Madara saved his life back then, and somehow he used his name and kept his legend alive." explained Aguri. "No idea what this old bastard is up to."
"The moon-eyes plan?"
"I doubt it." Aguri replied, shaking his head. "Madara does not care about Rin, and getting Rin back is Obito's target not Madaras, no, there's something else behind it."
"Does not matter now." said Anoth. "The original Madara is dead. And if he is not brought back with the Edo Tensei, then he stays that way, and whatever he had for a plan has failed." Anoth turned to Naruto, Yugito, and Fu. "Your training starts here - in a month of real time, Naruto has to prove himself in the exams - there will be a lot more time for you, after that there will be a lot more waiting for you, my young Seraphim students."
A bright flash of light later and the training field was empty.
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To the observers
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Kakashi could hardly believe what he had heard.
Obito was still alive?
And was he crazy about seeing Rin's suicide?
"How was that possible?" he wondered aloud.
"I have no idea, but now I am looking forward to the finals." said the Hokage and could not hide a grin.
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One month later
Konoha Stadium
arena
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"May Hyuuga Neji and Uzumaki Naruto come to the arena, please." exclaimed Genma, who started the final battles of the Chunin exam with this fight.
Neji appeared in the arena but Naruto did not show up.
"Uzumaki Naruto, you have ten minutes left to appear here in the arena or you will be disqualified!" cried Genma.
Several minutes passed but everyone had noticed in the time that the sky, which had just been radiant blue with a few clouds, was now completely black and the cloud density continued to increase. Then it happened.
First the lightning flashed between the clouds, then the first hit the edges of the arena. When the flashes of light disappeared and the visitors and Ninja were able to see again, several dragons stood in their Anthromorphic forms on the wall of the arena.
Before the Ninja had time to react, there were two more strikes. These, however, were a lot stronger. One was in the arena and the other in the box where the Hokage sat.
"You do not mind Hiruzen, if we follow the fighting from here, right?" asked a grinning Anoth, who had appeared in the Kage's box with Fuu and Yugito.
The Kage, who had all jumped up and were ready to fight, felt the tremendous power Anoth sent out and all knew they would not stand a chance if they went against him.
"O-o-o- of course, Worldlord-sama." said Hiruzen. Anoth just grinned.
A world lord? thought the "Kazekage" That would be the ideal body for me.
As soon as Anoth had sat down and Yugito and Fu took their places behind him, he said something that raised a few question marks above their heads at Hiruzen and the "Kazekage"
"Ah, they arrived too."
"What-?" even before Hiruzen could finish talking, two more flashes hit the Visitor area of the Arena. Immediately afterwards the sky cleared up again.
"I think you recognize the two?" Anoth asked, who had seen the completely surprised Hokagen mine.
"Yes, but that's impossible."
"For real?"
"They are dead."
"No, they never were."
"But how?" Hiruzen asked. "Uzumaki Kushina and Uchiha Mikoto are dead."
"The correct one would be Uchiha Uzumaki Mikoto."
"As..."
"As amusing as this is, I think it's better if I tell it in a little story."
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Flashback
Four days after departure
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Anoth was back in Konoha. This time, however, he had disguised himself as a normal civilian. He had returned to check something that he had felt the first time he was here that was below the village when he had changed. These were two auras that were quite similar to Naruto's. One more than the other.
And such a similarity is usually only with family members.
Strangely enough, Naruto's direct family members were officially all dead. So why did that aura come from there?
Anoth entered a dark back alley near where he could feel the two auras. As soon as he was in the alley, he sent a light pulse of energy through the floor. He did not need to worry about the Ninja, because it was not chakra which he used there and the pulse was so weak that even a sensor had to pay close attention to it.
What he got back were the typical signals for a sewage system. But underneath it was an enormous system of caverns far larger than would be needed for a village of this size. They were definitely not part of the sewers, because the chambers were too well developed.
As Anoth upped his sensory abilities, he noticed that these caverns were filled with human life signs.
A secret base?
A little more analysis and he knew what kind of basis that was.
He felt the chakra signature of the seals that the humans were wearing.
Root . Anoth growled thoughtfully. I should take a closer look.
Anoth was looking around for the next manhole cover or boarding and found it just one street down and descended without being seen down the sewer from which there was access to the root base.
He found the access only ten minutes later. A sealed door of stone.
Anoth studied the seals and realized immediately that he could not remove them without alarm. So Anoth shrugged his shoulders. It was just root, it was not like he was destroying anything that officially existed.
Anoth took a few steps away from the door and then pointed with his forefinger.
"Knock Knock." With these words he fired a short concentrated red-colored energy impulse on the door, which exploded immediately.
The ROOT Anbu responded surprisingly quickly, but they also had to discover just as quickly that they could not stop Anoth, who had not even pulled a gun but simply killed most with bare hands or claws.
The first of the ROOT he simply cut the throat with his claws, the second was thrown so hard against the wall with a blow that all bones were literally crushed in him. The third was finding himself as a impromptu club again as Anoth used him on several other Root, only to be flung a fraction of a second later into an onrushing group of more ROOTs at near-sonic speed.
Another attacked him with his tanto, only to see Anoth stop the blade with his claws, only to break the sword and shove the broken part of the blade into the eye of the ROOT.
"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" He heard how it was called by several ROOT just to see several fireballs racing towards him.
Anoth just held out his hand and brought the fireballs to a halt in the middle of the air. Instead of simply dissolving them, Anoth intensified the fire technique so much that they turned from red flames to blue and then white, and sent them back to the sender.
In the narrow corridors the ROOT had no chance to dodge and were reduced to ashes within seconds without being able to scream at all.
Another group of ROOT approached Anoth, only they did not come too far when Anoth let the two sidewalls of the tunnel rush at them, simply crushing them.
Anoth slammed his own claws into his arm and held the now bloody claws before his eyes, the wound healed immediately.
"Hijin Kesso!" The flying Bloodblades cleared Anoth's path deeper into the underground facility. The ROOTs hit by the Bloodblades were either immediately dissected into pieces or died of poisoning by Anoth's highly toxic blood.
The blood used by Anoth disintegrated into dust only minutes later.
Anoth kept racing down the corridors, always following the aura. Every ROOT that got in his way usually found a very bloody end with his claws.
Only a few minutes and a good two hundred partially chopped up ROOT later he stood in front of the door behind which he felt the aura. It was, how could it be otherwise, closed.
"Why do they always think they could keep me from reaching my destination with a locked door?" Anoth wondered. Granted the door in front of him was secured with booby traps. The wall next to it, however, had no traps in any form. It was just a normal wall.
An explosion later and Anoth was in the room and in the wall was a new hole.
There were no other ROOT cannon fodder in the room, but there were several large tanks in which two completely naked women were floating. A review of her auras confirmed it. They were the ones he was looking for.
He approached the first tank, which contained a woman with red hair. Looking closer, he spotted a large scar on her chest. It could be seen on the back as well, that could only mean that something had impaled her. And something big, starting from the size of the scar. Anoth put his hand to the glass tank and used the liquid as a medium to scan her.
She had recovered completely, but was kept in a kind of stasis. He also found that he was right in terms of family affiliation. It was actually Uzumaki Kushina. And the stasis also explained why she had not aged in all those years. On the contrary, she even looked like she was younger. If Anoth had to estimate her age, then she would have to be around 19 years old. Although she should actually be older. She "died" when she was 24 years old.
Turning to the other tank, he realized that it was Uchiha Mikoto. But she was younger than she should be. By her "death" she was 35 years old. But she looked like she was in her early twenties. She, too, had recovered completely and was in stasis. There was clearly a scar on her chest that, judging by its shape, was left by a sword blade. Then there was something else. He sensed a similar aura to that of Kushina.
A DNA scan later and he had his answer. Apparently the two were experimented on while they were down here and during that time they gave Mikoto Kushina's DNA. Why? He did not know that.
It did not matter. The two had to get out of here.
There he heard more ROOT drones approaching his position. The sounds of how they ran were clearly audible.
"Well ... time to disappear." said Anoth. With that he transformed himself and reached with his tentacles both stasis containers. A flash of light later, and all the ROOT and Danzo saw as they entered the room through the hole in the wall, was that it was empty. There was no sign of the containers.
But there was something else in the middle of the room for that.
Something whose timer was running down very fast.
5 ...
4 ...
3 ...
2 ...
"Oh shit." Danzo exclaimed.
1...
And the next thing he felt was unbearable heat as the Hellfire bomb exploded, flooding the corridors of the base with its deadly burning cargo.
Only through the use of Izanagi and the sacrifice of one of his implanted Sharingan eyes was Danzo able to survive this bomb.
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In the training camp
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A glaring flash of light announced the return of Anoth. And he was not alone. Beside him in his beast form also appeared two stasis containers.
It was not long before Naruto stood next to him.
"What did you bring with you?"
"A secret from Konoha." Anoth answered. "Your mother and your godmother."
"But ... they are dead." said Naruto, who now stood in front of the tank of Kushina and at the view of her naked body was slightly red.
"Danzo apparently found them at that time and took them with him." said Anoth. "I tracked them down in one of their Underground ROOT bases, I did not tell you anything because I did not know what I would find down there and did not want to give you false hopes."
Naruto just nodded. It was better that he did not say anything to him first. But he still had a question. "Can you get them out of this?"
"Yes, but it will be a while before they're back in shape." Anoth explained. "The stasis was not perfect and their muscle mass has suffered significantly." Anoth turned. "But since we will spend a good 10 years here, they will eventually be back to their full potential."
Naruto nodded. Then he got something Anoth had said. "Ten years?!"
Anoth chuckled something. "Oh, do not worry about the Chunin exams - it's 10 years here, but only a month out there - your sensei has done a lot of crap in your training and your nutritional habits are not really helping you there. We will correct everything, not only that you will be trained, but also Mikoto and Kushina as well, training will come not only from me, but also from my shadow-beasts, so we've talked enough now and the training starts. "
"Just one." Naruto interrupted. "What is a shadow beast?"
"I did not come up with the title." Anoth said to the question.
"It came from one of our enemies." Answered Serina. A water dragon in her human form who had just appeared out of nowhere next to Anoth.
"What Where..."
"Where I come from?"
Naruto just nodded.
"Now we Shadowbeasts are essentially a part of him and yet independent." Serina explained.
"How do you mean?"
"Well, we retain our individuality, and we do not become slaves of his will." she pointed to Anoth. She rubbed her butt against Anoth, which made it clear that they were a little more. However, this also brought her a light slap on said rump, which made the water dragon in human form, however, only to giggle.
"Are you in his service forever?"
"If we want that, yes."
"That means there's a way out, too."
"Naturally." confirmed Serina. "Many of today's Seraph, Seraphim, and even Drago-Seraphim were once Shadowbeasts who now have Shadowbeasts themselves."
"Where does that name come from, Shadowbeast?" Naruto asked.
"This has to do with our usual battle tactics."
"What do you mean by that?"
"When we attack our enemies out of the shadows, we are often seen for less than a second." Explained Serina. "When one sees one of us in this short time they only see a black foggy figure with shining red eyes, before we grab our opponents and disappear again in the shadows."
"That means it's not an insult at all?"
Here Serina had to laugh. "No. We are proud of the title because it means that our enemies are afraid of us."
"Yes, that's what my ladies are." said Anoth. "They not only look pretty, but they are also highly dangerous." Anoth grinned here. "And the enemy, who once had the misfortune to meet them, knows that."
Anoth left already but then turned around again. "Oh, something else, before we get started." Anoth gave Naruto no chance to react when he slammed his hand on Naruto's stomach. " Gogyou Kaiin!"
Naruto screamed and then landed on his back. When he had recovered from the shock, he immediately felt his energy flowing freely through him again. Anoth had just destroyed the seal Orochimaru had placed on him.
"Now we can start."
Naruto only swallowed when he saw the look in Anoth's eyes.
And what training that was. Welcome to the training of hell described that very well. Naruto, as well as Kushina and Mikoto, who only really joined them six months later, could more than confirm that. Anoth, however, was also very efficient and a damn good teacher.
He trained not only with Anoth, but also with his Shadowbeasts. The same was true of Kushina and Mikoto. None of the three was spared.
All three of them were in the bingo book, but according to these levels of training, if they were registered there with the current scores, they would be upgraded to double S grade.
Naruto was in the end more than happy to have found a sensei, which he could call Sensei, one who had earned this title.
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End of the flashback
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"Danzo." Hiruzen growled.
"Can we lay the filleting of this insignificant worm to later?" Anoth asked.
The "Kazekage," who smelled suspiciously of a certain snake, became a little pale through the worm's comment.
"Naturally." With that, Hiruzen gave the signal to start the fight.
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In the arena
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Neji stared at Naruto. He had changed significantly in the last month.
The "come and kill me" orange suit was gone. Instead, he wore completely black. He had also grown up and jumped from 1.45 m to 1.65 m. He was now bigger than Neji himself. He could also see several weapons on him.
Neji was nevertheless confident of victory.
"Give up loser, your destiny is to lose." Neji talked more comments and all had the same result.
No reaction from Naruto at all.
Instead, Naruto looked at Genma silently.
He nodded.
"The fight Hyuuga Neji against Uzumaki Naruto starts now, fight!" Genma shouted, watching him leave the arena. Because something told him that he did not want to stay in the arena.
Neji activated his Byakugan.
Just to disable it immediately.
That cannot be. Thought Neji and activated his Byakugan again only to disable it immediately thereafter. How is that possible? Genjutsu!
"Kai!" Neji shouted while trying to break Genjutsu. Only nothing happened. The result remained the same. How can that be?
"Problems Neji?" Naruto asked scornfully. He had a delicious laugh on Neji's puzzled face.
"HOW, HOW ARE YOU INVISIBLE FOR THE BYAKUGAN? "
Instead of answering, Naruto's grin only broadened.
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With the spectators
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Hyuuga Hiashi sat next to his daughter Hyuuga Hanabi and could not believe what he had heard.
Hiashi activated his own Byakugan and found Neji was right. Naruto was invisible to the Byakugan. But that was impossible.
Or not?
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With Hinata
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Hinata just grinned. She knew exactly what Naruto had done there. She also knew that Neji was in for a top-class beating.
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At the Kagen
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"How is that possible?" the Kazekage asked in surprise.
"Oh, that's easy to explain." said Anoth. "We're all secret sadists, we're like cats if they've got a mouse."
"How do you mean?" Hiruzen asked.
"We love to play with our prey, and we like to let them believe that they have a chance of winning, even if it only exists theoretically."
"That's Naruto-"
"Playing with Neji." Anoth grinned. And the "Kazekage" was getting more and more queasy by the minute.
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with the spectators.
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Mikoto and Kushina just grinned.
Her plan had worked.
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In the arena
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"Are you not overdoing it a bit?" Naruto asked with a grin. "You're just not able to recognize my chakra points."
"That's what it's all about!" ripe Neji. "I can only see your-" he did not get any further, because he suddenly found himself flying.
"Stop talking, time to play." Naruto shouted, chasing after Neji.
Neji had no choice but to use Hakke Shou Kaiten to fend off Naruto, but even then, the chakra ball Hakke Shou Kaiten formed around him, with Neji in the middle, was shot like a ball through the arena.
Something that should not be possible.
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With the spectators.
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Sakura and Ino sitting side by side had their jaws dropped. A glance at the Kage showed that they, too, could not believe what had just happened. Even Hiashi was completely speechless.
Why break the perfect defense if you could use their own power against them?
With Hakke Shou Kaiten, Neji practically created a ball of chakra around him.
And you can play with a ball.
That's exactly what Naruto had done.
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arena
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Neji charged at Naruto and engaged him in close combat. There was only one problem, since his Byakugan practically saw Naruto only as a kind of ghost, and thus he could not see either the chakra points or the chakra paths, his juken was almost completely useless. Neji had also trained in another form of Taijutsu (Maito Gai had insisted), but was completely inferior.
And Naruto let him feel this fact.
He clearly showed the Hyuuga that if they took their ability to use the Byakugan effectively, they quickly became easy prey.
That was the problem, if you only built your skills on one basis.
It was like a house of cards. If you took away one of the cards of the foundation, the rest will collapse.
"I would run now." Naruto's voice suddenly sounded just behind Neji. His fox like grin left Neji to guess that nothing good was coming from that. The fact that Naruto's hands held two fireballs only underscored that fact.
Neji did what Naruto had advised him to do.
He ran.
The explosions followed him.
A quick look back also revealed why.
Naruto fired fireballs at him in quick succession.
And with that, Neji realized one thing.
He had to come up with something.
And fast.
There was only one problem.
One of the fireballs had caught him and thrown him into the air with his explosion. In addition, Naruto now came exactly to him with the full intention to catapult him into the stadium wall.
That will hurt.
*WHAMM *
Now he was hanging there. With wide spread arms and legs and almost half a meter deep in the concrete wall and upside down.
"Maybe it was my destiny to underestimate him so much." Neji murmured, then his eyes rolled back into his head and he fell unconscious out of the wall.
Genma jumped back into the arena and looked at the unconscious Hyuuga Neji lying on the ground.
Then his eyes swept over the crater-strewn area that had once been the floor of the arena.
"Winner: Uzumaki Naruto!"
And the audience started sheering. Only the spectators from Konoha were less enthusiastic.
Naruto waved to the audience for a moment, then disappeared to the other participants.
"Due to the damage to the arena we take a 15 minutes break." called Genma.
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15 minutes later
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Naruto had quietly talked to Kushina and Mikoto throughout the break. Hinata had joined as well. Anoth had taken her out of the hospital when Naruto had told him about the fight against Neji and there was a possibility that Hinata had sustained lasting damage from the fight.
What was not healable to Konoha's doctors was a trifle for Anoth. After all, he had had to handle far worse injuries on the various battlefields. And as soon as she was back on her feet Hinata joined the training regime of Naruto, Yugito, Fuu, Kushina and Mikoto.
She had not been there for the entire 10 years but had been training with them for good a year. However, this would be more than enough for Hinata to take control of the Hyuuga clan.
Today, there was no doubt that if Hiashi tried again to finish her off, he would now be the one that would be finished.
Also, she realized that she and Naruto would probably never really be able to start something romantic with each other, because both looked more like siblings. Not like lovers.
Now the next fight was on.
Genma had regained his place in the arena.
"Would Uchiha Sasuke and Sabaku no Gaara would come to the arena." he shouted.
Gaara was almost instantly in the arena via Shunshin.
Sasuke, however, was nowhere to be seen.
"Uchiha Sasuke, you have 5 minutes left to appear in the arena!" Genma shouted as Sasuke had not appeared in the arena after several minutes and already one-time calls.
Even after six more minutes, Sasuke showed no sign of coming and Genma looked up to the Hokage box.
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Hokage box
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"Uchiha Sasuke is still not here." Hiruzen muttered.
"Disqualify him." Anoth said dryly.
"Should we not wait a bit?" asked the "Kazekage". "Many of the people came because of the Uchiha."
"The Chunin exams are a substitute for an open conflict, the enemy does not wait for you, if you're not ready, bad luck, and for Konoha, it's not good publicity, it should not be tolerated." Anoth explained. "It says that Konoha Shinobi only appear when it suits them, and not when they are called for or needed."
"Anoth is right." Hiruzen fully agreed with Anoth. "Those who arrive late on the battlefield to support their own are most likely to find them dead."
Hiruzen stood up with these words.
"Since Uchiha Sasuke did not show up in time for his fight, he is therefore disqualified!"
The audience was not happy about it, but could not do much against the decision.
Meanwhile, Genma called out the next opponents.
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A / N: The fights are Cannon, so I just skip them.
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"May Sabaku no Gaara and Uzumaki Naruto come to the arena, please." cried Genma.
Gaara appeared with a Shunshin in the arena and Naruto with a flash of light.
"Mother thirsts for your blood." said Gaara.
Naruto just stared at him. "Yes, yes, is clear." and waved it off, as if that was completely insignificant. Then he nodded to Genma.
He just wanted to start the fight, as with another Shunshin Hatake Kakashi and Uchiha Sasuke appeared in the arena.
"Yo!" Kakashi shouted with his typical eye grin. "Are we too late?"
"You can say so." Genma said. "You are so late that Sasuke has since been disqualified."
"WHAT?!" Sasuke exclaimed angrily. "I AM AN UCHIHA! I-" His furious screaming was ended by Kakashi, who had knocked Sasuke unconscious with a deliberate blow to the neck. Kakashi gave Naruto a discreet thumbs up and his typical eye grin and then disappeared to the spectator stand.
Under his mask, Kakashi was grinning. The Civil Council had managed to blackmail him into training Sasuke for the Chunin exam. But they had failed to make it clear to him that he should be there TIMELY. Yes, revenge was something nice. Even if it was small.
"Are both opponents ready?" Genma asked.
Naruto just nodded and Gaara did the same.
"Fight!" and Genma was gone.
For a few seconds Gaara and Naruto stared at each other almost motionless, then Gaara released his sand and the fight began.
Naruto easily avoided any of the sand tentacles that Gaara sent after him.
The game of the two had been going for a few minutes and Gaara had to resort more and more to the Bijuu Chakra. That was exactly what Naruto wanted.
During their training, they also came to talk about Shukaku. The Bijuu that had been sealed in Gaara. And Kurama could not explain how a peaceful Bijuu had become a murderous creature.
The sand rat, as Kurama called Shukaku, was always pretty peaceful. This behavior was more than unusual.
And so Lereya, Laraya and Kurama sat down during a break in their own training together to try explanations or at least ideas, about what was responsible for it. One possible explanation came as they ransacked the story of Shukaku. Apparently, about 100 years ago, a completely mad monk had been a Jinchuriki to Shukaku. But this one was long dead.
Or had this monk, who was obsessed with immortality, left something in Shukaku?
Theoretically, this was in the realm of possibility. Only checking that should be difficult.
Thus, the three developed a theory.
If the monk really left something in Shukaku, then this would have to be felt if Gaara, the current Jinchuriki, used more of the chakra of his Bijuu.
And fact.
There were more than two signatures that Naruto could perceive from Gaara.
'Anoth, please check that out and tell me if I'm wrong.' Naruto sent telepathically to Anoth. 'Because I sense more than two signatures in Gaara.'
Two signatures were normal with a Jinchuriki. One was the Jinchuriki itself and the other signature of what had been sealed in the Jinchuriki.
More than two meant there was something wrong with it.
Anoth confirmed Naruto's guess just seconds later, when he reported that he could not detect two but four signatures in Gaara.
One was Gaara herself.
The second was from Shukaku.
The third was very close to Gaara. Probably his mother.
The fourth, however, was strange. It was incomplete and somehow it gave Anoth the feeling of insanity. Besides, the signature resembled more of what he would expect to feel from an old man.
'You have to separate Gaara from the other signatures. Use the Five Elements Seal. ' Anoth advised him.
'I will.'
'When that's done, we can show that crazy old man in Gaara's head where the door is.'
'Yes.'
However, Naruto had a problem. Before he could attach the said seal on Gaara, he first had to crack his armor of sand.
The question was how?
While Naruto was thinking about it, he constantly had to dodge Gaara's sand. Then an idea came to him.
Water.
Sand and water gives mud.
It was worth a try.
Naruto waited for Gaara's next wave of attack, dodged it, and immediately chased through hand signals. Shortly thereafter, a water wall rushed towards Gaara.
The sand Gaara used was immediately drenched and fell to the ground. It was exactly as Naruto had expected. he could only use dry sand.
There was only one catch. It worked only briefly, then Gaara could use the sand again.
He had to soak as much sand as possible at once.
There was just one more problem. The water he used before was just about everything he could pull out of the air in such a short time. The air was too dry and clouds were not in sight.
So another plan had to be used.
Naruto avoided Gaara trying to put him in a coffin of sand and fired a few fireballs at Gaara. He used his sand and caught it. In the process, a small part of the sand became glass, but it quickly fell to sand again.
OK. That was nothing.
Oh how much Naruto wished he could go all out, then the fight would be long gone. Only if he did that would the serpent-eater surely shed its planned invasion. And that should not happen. Because if all went well, Orochimaru would die here today. The trap was already laid. He was just waiting to strike.
Then an idea came to him.
Gaara was almost a psychopath. He was not even wounded. Thank you Kabuto, you worthless traitor, for this information. What would happen if that changed? And for the glass. Gaara needed a few seconds to turn it back into sand.
'If you do that, he has to get out of Konoha so you can fight him.' Anoth warned telepathically.
'I know.' Naruto returned.
"Kagebunshin No Jutsu!" And next to Naruto, a dozen copies appeared quickly taking positions around the arena and began bombing Gaara with fire attacks as they parallel dodged the sand.
Then Naruto noticed it.
The gap he had been waiting for.
Naruto drew his sword, a completely black broadsword, pumping Wind chakra into it and suddenly disappeared. Just to reappear right in front of Gaara, who had crawled into a sand cocoon with an eye of sand over the cocoon.
The blade broke the sand cocoon easily.
The sand around Naruto, which had attacked his clones earlier, fell to the ground and suddenly it was deathly quiet.
When Naruto withdrew the sword, there was blood on the blade.
As soon as the sword was out, Gaara's sand cocoon dissolved and Gaara was revealed. Which caused Naruto to make several jumps away from him.
Gaara's hand touched his wound and he guided it to his eye.
"Its blood? MY BLOOD ?!" shouted Gaara.
Directly after it feathers began to fall from the sky.
And so it begins. Anoth thought. 'TO ALL! ALL SUNA AND OTO SHINOBI ARE ENEMIES! DESTROY THEM! ' he telepathically sent to his people. 'Naruto, you take care of Gaara. I'll take over snake face. ' he immediately telepathically sent to Naruto.
Orochimaru, in disguise of the Kazekage, had ignited a smoke bomb as soon as the Genjutsu unfolded its effect and landed with the Hokage on the roof of the stadium.
Meanwhile, Gaara, who had begun to transform himself, was taken out of the arena by his siblings. Naruto hot on their heels.
Up on the roof of the arena Anoth had appeared beside the energy barrier built by Orochimaru's bodyguards. Anoth walked around the barrier until he came to a stop in front of a girl with red hair.
"Interesting." Anoth said to herself. That must be her. Before he could continue to watch them, several Anbu appeared on the roof. One of them jumped into the barrier and was vaporized on the spot.
Anoth sighed and shook his head.
That was a flame barrier.
Trying to just go through it without any protection was suicide unless you were a fire elemental.
Anoth, on the other hand, was a fire elemental, allowing him to simply pass through the barrier as if it was not there at all. Parallel, he sent out an energy field that prevented Orochimaru's bodyguard from dissolving the barrier. Orochimaru would not leave this place.
"Hello Orochimaru." Anoth said calmly, interrupting the small verbal battle between Sarutobi and the snake-face creature that had already torn the face of the Kazekagen from its head.
"How did you get in here ?!" cried Orochimaru.
Anoth just sneered.
"You would like to know that, huh?" Anoth said calmly. "I know it. It's for you to find it out."
"GAH!" Orochimaru was angry. "I do not have time for that." And flew through hand seals. He grinned at both. Then he hit both hands on the ground or roof.
When Hiruzen saw what was coming out of the ground he wanted to destroy it, he realized that Anoth was holding his hand grinning and shaking his head.
Three coffins came out of the ground. They carried the kanji for the numbers one, two and four.
When the coffins were completely out of the floor or roof, they opened, revealing two dead Oto Genin and an ash pile.
"What is it Orochimaru?" Anoth sneered. "Little problem with your jutsu?"
"What?" Orochimaru was completely surprised. "How is that possible?"
"Pretty easy." said Anoth. "During the time I trained Naruto, we also talked about your attack in the forest of death, and I've send some of my shadows into infiltrating Oto and watching you, so we learned about your plans." Anoth explained.
"All I had to do was go to the hospital and see the three Genin, one of them was worth saving, the other two I just killed and surrounded with an illusion that allowed you to believe they were still alive. Kin, that was the third one, I just replaced with a blood clone, and you did never notice.
"Aside from that. Bringing back Namikaze Minato would make a certain Shinigami pretty angry, his soul is still in his belly and I do not think he would have liked it if you had succeeded in taking that away.
"As for your army, well ... look around."
That's exactly what Orochimaru did. And he did not like what he saw. A dragon had appeared and had the three-headed serpent, which was to tear down the main gate, in its mouth and flung it around like a toy.
At the same time, all Suna and Oto forces were literally slaughtered on the streets.
Wait a moment...
Had the shadow just come to life and swallowed several Oto Nin?
There!
It had happened again!
Another group of Suna Shinobi and Kunoichi had thrown away their weapons and surrendered and were now arrested by beings that were literally jumping out of the shadows.
Anoth grinned then he shouted so loud that Orochimaru and Hiruzen had to shut their ears.
" TO ALL SUNA FORCES! YOUR KAZEKAGE IS DEAD! OROCHIMARU HAD TAKEN THE POST OF THE KAZEKAGE! YOU WERE ALL DECEIVED! LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPONS AND SURRENDER AND YOU WILL BE SPARED! IF YOU FIGHT YOU SHALL NOT EXPERIENCE THE NEXT DAY! "
The reactions came promptly. Baki, who was still in the fight against two Konoha Anbu, laid down his weapons and surrendered. But not before he ordered his followers to do the same.
Everywhere in Konoha the Suna forces laid down their weapons and surrendered. The Oto forces, however, were mercilessly wiped out.
"Your invasion has failed." said Hiruzen.
"I'm not yet OOOF!" Orochimaru's furious roar was broken by someone who landed on him and now sat on Orochimaru as if he were a chair. A beautiful black-haired woman in a rather short outfit.
"Yura, what are you doing here?" Anoth asked, immediately recognizing the said person.
"What?" she asked hypocritically. "May I not even visit my old master?"
"Should you not keep an eye on Inuyasha and Kagome?"
"I should make sure they work together." corrected Yura, who made no sign of getting up from the moaning Orochimaru.
"You attacked them." that was not a question of Anoth but a statement. The wound in her breast said more than enough.
"Well ... I had to give them a reason to work together." said Yura, who now got up from Orochimaru and walked over to Anoth. Orochimaru tried to get up at once, but was sent down to the ground by a blow from Yura, where he caused a crater.
"And you thought it was necessary that someone rammed a hand through your chest?" Anoth asked, noticing the still healing wound on her chest.
"Actually, I could have done without it." Yura admitted. "By the way, that was Inuyasha's work." Yura now stood right next to Anoth, who had put his hand on her chest wound and had begun to heal it. That brought Anoth a relieved sigh from Yura.
Although Yura had not shown her pain externally, Anoth knew she was in pain. He knew her way too well.
"If I may disturb you?" Hiruzen asked, who now had her attention. "But who is that?"
"That's Yura." said Anoth. And kept talking before Hiruzen had a chance to say something. "She has been one of my shadows for a long time and now she has been traveling alone for several millennia and is self-employed." As he said that, he pinched her ear. "Hey!" "Only she has the unfortunate habit to pay me again and again surprise visits."
Yura sulked a little now.
"But since you are here now, you can also make yourself useful." Anoth said and Yura became curious. "My Shadows have rounded up several hundred prisoners down there that need to be tied up, that's your specialty, and if you see people wearing a hitai-ate with a musical note, you can kill them." Yura grinned and teleported downstairs. "YOU CAN ALSO HELP LATER IN THE INTEROGATIONS AND TORTURES!"
What could be heard was easily interpreted as a demonic sadistic laugh.
"Is she a demon?" Hiruzen asked.
"Actually a dragoness." Anoth answered. "A pretty sadistic dragoness to be exact." Anoth turned back to Orochimaru, who in the meantime had managed not only to get back on his feet, but also had drawn a sword. He did not want to know where he got it from.
Anko 2.0 . Hiruzen thought. Oh please no.
Anoth seemed to disappear for a moment, then he was visible again. With a difference. Now Anoth had Orochimaru's sword in his hands.
"Kusanagi, huh?" Anoth looked at the sword in his hands. "Nice sword, just too bad for someone like you."
I have not even seen how he moved. It was the thought that crossed the minds of both Hiruzen and Orochimaru.
Anoth, however, rammed the sword into the ground and leaned on it like a walking stick. "So where did I stop?" he asked rhetorically. "Oh, yes, before I continue to cut you out of your snake skin, here's someone else who wants to talk to you."
An energy ball came from Anoth's back and floated next to him. There, the ball quickly materialized into a feminine form. Tayuya recognized her immediately.
"Kin." she mumbled in disbelief. If Anoth did not keep her in the position where she was at the moment, she would rush to Orochimaru and strangle him. He had told her that her closest friend was dead.
"Hello Master ." Kin almost hissed the last word. Orochimaru instinctively took a step back. "YOU DAMNED PIECE OF SHIT!" What followed after that was a series of insults that would have reduced every sailor to a crying pile of misery.
And did Hiruzen just have a notebook in his hand to write down the insults?
Anoth stared at Hiruzen, who was busy writing.
"What?" asked he. "You never know when you need such an insult."
"Right." Anoth replied amused.
Anoth turned his attention back to Kin, who had just made a pause to breath..
"First you send us against this Uchiha, knowing that we have no chance against him with your toy in his neck, then you also want to use us as offerings for your stupid jutsu!" Kin pointed to the three open coffins. "You can be sure that I'll tell Konoha everything I know about Oto, and I hope that you rot in hell where you belong you bastard!" With that, Kin walked over to Tayuya and knelt down next to her, which the two used to talk quietly.
"Now that that's out of the way." Anoth said, causing Kusanagi to disappear into his storage dimension. "We can now go over to sending you exactly where Kin wishes you were already."
This Hiruzen and Anoth attacked together Orochimaru.
"Kuchiyose: Sanjuu Rashoumon"
Orochimaru swiftly summoned three massive gates to give himself some time, only to be appalled to see a massive paw with glowing claws cut all three gates into firewood in one fell swoop.
Hiruzen took advantage of this and sprinted through the destroyed gates, giving Orochimaru a mighty blow with his Thunderbolt Priest Staff, sending Orochimaru in the direction of Anoth, who had meanwhile retraced himself and welcomed the flying Orochimaru with a massive punch that left Orochimaru very rude moved the roof.
Orochimaru immediately jumped up and sent a snake towards Anoth. He dodged it and immediately tore her head off, causing the snake to dissolve in a cloud of smoke. This used Orochimaru to get at Anoth and engage him in a close combat. Just to be sent directly to fly again. This time, by a chin hook.
"Too slow." came Anoth's comment. "And you count yourself as one of the Sannin?"
Orochimaru jumped up again and used Senei Jashu to shoot out of his sleeves several snakes that attacked Anoth. Instead of dodging, however, Anoth grabbed the snakes and held them tight.
"Amateur." Anoth murmured and now used the snakes, which were still connected with Orochimaru, in order to spin him through the area and then ram him into the roof with massive force. Directly after it he heated his hand extremely and so literally burnt the snakes into ash.
Before Orochimaru had the chance to get up this time, he found himself pinned under a massive paw.
When Orochimaru looked up, he froze and became even paler than before. What pinned him down there was no ordinary creature. A desert demon held him tight.
"May I introduce?" Anoth asked, crouching next to Orochimaru. "Cimolar, one of my two desert demonesses."
Orochimaru swallowed and stared at the beast holding him. It was almost 6m high and had a kind of metal helmet with pointed teeth. The blood red eyes of the demoness stared down at him. The beast was completely black and his belly and neck were covered with scales. Further observation was interrupted as the demons lowered their heads to Orochimaru and showed their razor-sharp teeth.
He tried to free himself with a Kawarimi. But had to realize that his chakra did not answer him.
When the facts became clear to him, Orochimaru was almost transparent with fear.
"I'd kill you now, only there's a little problem, you know?" Anoth said, as if he were talking about the weather. Meanwhile, Hiruzen had come over to him and stroked the demon through her, surprisingly soft, fur. "Your love patches you gave to your subordinates contain a tiny part of your soul, so they must go first." Explained Anoth. "We do not want you to use one of those hickeys to get you back to the land of the living, right?" Anoth got an almost wicked grin.
"Lucky for me, each of these spots is still connected to you." Anoth now almost demonically grinned at the pinned Orochimaru. "For one thing, I can sense your aura of the four that sustain the barrier and, on the other hand, we've found enough documentation on the subject in your hiding places. " That made Orochimaru only paler.
Anoth turned his eyes towards Kin and nodded to her, she nodded back, she already knew what she had to do now. Before Tayuya could warn her, Kin had already stretched her hand through the flaming barrier that separated Tayuya and Kin from each other and put her hand on Tayuya's shoulder.
Tayuya did not believe what had just happened. Kin had shoved her hand and her arm through a barrier that was supposed to burn her. Instead, the barrier did no damage to her.
"I'm fireproof thanks to Anoth." came Kins answer to Tayuya's unspoken question.
Anoth's eyes and hands began to shine in an unnatural black light as he turned back to Orochimaru.
"Might of the Black Sun: Soul Merging." With these words he rammed his hand into Orochimaru's chest. Instantly Orochimaru was surrounded by a black shimmering energy field from which seconds later energy tentacles shot out.
Four of these tentacles joined the necks of the four, who kept the flame barrier active. Another connected with Anko's neck and another found its counterpart in the still unconscious Sasuke. (Kakashi did not think it necessary to wake him up.)
Dozens more tentacles raced in all directions and found what they were looking for in Orochimaru's secret laboratories, where he had tested the curse seal.
Before this spell could take full effect, Anoth send another spell through the now existing connection with all of Orochimaru curse seals that still existed.
"Verdict of the priesthood of the Black Sun!" This was a spell that weighted the soul of all of them who were now connected with Orochimaru and therefore himself, whether they deserved another chance or whether they are so corrupt that they are not worth a second chance.
Many of Orochimaru's Curse bearers were killed by it in an instant. Most, however, not because of their actions, but because their bodies were so deformed by Orochimaru's experiments that death was not a punishment but only a salvation. They would not have survived, even if they had been taken out of their stasis tanks.
Three of those who held the barrier were killed by the spell. Tayuya, Anko and Sasuke were the only three who had not been killed by the spell. However, all three lost their curse seals.
Tayuya sensed an energy connecting with her curse seal, then she heard a voice in her head that called innocent. Right after that the pain started. Only to let up as she felt herself being wrapped up in a kind of protective cocoon by Kin.
Tayuya would never really be able to describe the feeling later. The best she could say was a sense of total security that surrounded her at this moment.
Anko also sensed at the same moment how something connected with her curse signs. Then she felt a very sharp pain in the back of her neck that came as fast as it disappeared again. In between, she thought she heard someone say innocent. She had no time to think about it at the moment when several Oto Chunin stormed towards her.
Sasuke had awoken by a sudden pain in the back of his neck and sat wide awake in the stalls of the stadium. Shortly thereafter, he ran in the direction where he could feel Naruto. Ignoring all calls for him.
Orochimaru could only watch as one after the other the energy tentacles came back to him. Then they were all with him again. Immediately, he felt Anoth's hand, which had now assumed an ethereal form, sank into his chest, only to come out in his grasp with what Orochimaru identified as his own soul.
As soon as Orochimaru's soul was completely out of his body, his body stopped moving.
"Here ends your way Orochimaru." Anoth said as he was about to open a gate to hell, then stopped when something came to mind.
" Shinigami, get your ass out of here! "
"W̛̟̝̭̗ͨͤ̄̽ͩ̎̊̽̚͟h̵̫̮̥͍̼̖͖̺͐͋̍ͯͮ͌̄͘͝ṏ͎̫̦̱̜̦͖̽͒̐͌́͝ ̣ͭ͋ͩ̆̈̀̀d̯̘͓͕̜̀ͣͪ̚͢å̀͏̼̪̳͉̱̮̗̠r̶̢̰̟͙ͬͦ͆ȅ̛͓̱̜̱͔̏ͦ̿̍͋̆ͧͦ͝ͅṡ̝͙̫̖̹̰̻͖̪́̇ͦ͞ ͕̮̻͈͎͈̔ͣͥͭͩ̂̏ͅt̗̼̭̹̫̖ͮ̐̔̄o̶͎̮͉͖͎̻̎̓̒͑̀͂̐̓̕͝ͅ ͚̤͛̾ş̵̋ͦ̊̉ͮͧ͑҉̥̥͓̬ú҉҉͉̞̳̯͔̟͎̲̀m̴̡̘̪͒̀̔̂̎ͥ̽͞m̨̲̩͍͓̼̦̲̮ͦͩͯ̃ͨ͌ǫ̵̣̐ͦ̓ͧ͑̔ͦͥ̀͘j̢̞̲̼͌̒͐͛̊͌͢͜n̼̫͕̜ͫ͌ ̶̵̭̫͓̯̺̌ͫ̎̄̑ͣ̄́͊m̻͙̠͎̑̆̑͌̿̑e̸̴̱̠̮̠͛̽̂͒̂͘?̷̻̫͉̤̯̝̫͆ͬ̓͘" a distorted voice sounded only seconds later.
" I dare, " said Anoth. His voice reeked of power.
Suddenly the voice of the Shinigami sounded much more understandable. "He-Hello World-lord-dono."
"Nice that you recognize me." his sarcasm was tastable in the air. "You still remember our agreement, right?"
"Yes."
"Well, here I have the soul of Orochimaru in my hand." Anoth said, showing him the wriggling soul that desperately tried to flee from the god of death. "And you know exactly what I want."
"I keep my word. You destroyed the Shinigami's mask for me, so now you have the second half of Kyuubi, which was sealed in Namikaze Minato." The Shinigami reached into his mouth and pulled out a small orange ball. "You know what you have to do for Minato's soul."
"Yes, and you will get Obito's soul as well."
"Good." said the Shinigami and grabbed Orochimaru's soul just to devour it directly. "Then we are done here." With that the Shinigami disappeared again. And Hiruzen took a deep breath. He had not realized how he had held his breath when the god of death appeared.
Hiruzen watched as Anoth led the orange ball to his mouth, whispered something to it and then let it fly towards Naruto.
No sooner was this done, Anoth released the control of the four who had controlled the barrier. Three of them died and collapsed directly after it and the barrier dissolved. Tayuya, however, was almost crushed by Kin as the two friends finally hugged each other.
As Anoth's eyes wandered over Konoha, it was clear that the invasion had failed.
The Anbu had gone over to the Hokage and asked if he needed help, while another Anbu sealed the corpses of Orochimaru and the three killed Oto Nin in scrolls. they always kept a proper distance from the now sitting and cleaning like a cat desert demon. Anoth could clearly feel her amusement about it.
Anoth's attention, however, was focused on something in his hand. A ring to be exact. A ring he had taken from Orochimaru.
With this one ring, I can also find the others. Thank you Orochimaru. You just gave me the key to the sinking of the Akatsuki.
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With Naruto
A few minutes before
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Naruto chased after Gaara, who was pulled by his siblings into the forest that surrounded Konoha.
As Naruto followed them, he found that he himself was being followed by several Oto Nin. Nine of them to be exact.
"Damn cannon fodder." Naruto growled as his senses told him his pursuers were just mid-genius. "Better I'll do it fast, before they get in the way."
Naruto jumped up against a tree and then jumped off of it, landing behind his pursuers. Before they had a chance to react, four fireballs were already chasing them, and all four hit their targets as well.
There were only five left who had now pulled out their Kunai and went on to attack Naruto. Naruto waited until they were with him before he disarmed the first and rammed his kunai into the eye of the second one, only then to break the neck of the one he held.
And so there numbers were reduced to three. These three threw Shuriken to Naruto, who caught them from the air and sent them back at supersonic speed. In the short distance they had no chance to dodge and so all three were fatally hit, which led to the Naruto immediately resuming the hunt of Gaara.
The whole incident took only a few seconds.
A short time later Temari had noticed him and separated from the three to intercept Naruto. As soon as Naruto was within reach of her, Temari sent shockwaves out of the wind against him. Only to find that Naruto made no sign of dodging or even stopping. Instead, he had surrounded himself with a chakra cloak and rammed his way free right through the wind blades. Temari did not have time to send another attack, as Naruto was just too fast, and was punched into a tree where she landed and drowsily laid on the ground.
Naruto paid no attention to her and raced after Gaara and Kankuro. The latter split off from Gaara and tried to stop Naruto, only to realize seconds later how beautiful flying is when Naruto literally rammed his way through him. His dolls were reduced to firewood.
"He just ran right through me." Kankuro murmured in disbelief to himself, who still could not believe what had just happened. "As if I had not been there at all." Immediately it he fainted.
Naruto followed the growing destruction, a sure sign that Gaara was about to change, and came to a stop on the edge of a clearing.
And sure enough, there stood Gaara. Half transformed into his Bijuu Shukaku.
"YES! I AM FREE!" Laughed Shukaku in a voice that suggested the madness in him.
Naruto ignored Shukaku's insane screaming. Instead, he noticed that Gaara was lying on the head of Shukaku. Apparently unconscious.
Gaara's seal was so bad that when he falls asleep or becomes unconscious in any way, Shukaku can come out of the seal, even though the Bijuu could not completely leaf or break the seal.
For Naruto, to send Shukaku back into the seal, that meant nothing more than waking Gaara up again.
Easier said than done.
Shukaku, meanwhile, was busy trying to fill Naruto with air projectiles and to bury him with sand attacks, which Naruto either blocked or dodged.
Let's scatter the fire a bit. With these thoughts in mind, Naruto created a series of clones without hand signs, forcing Shukaku to split his fire.
This gave Naruto a little bit of air to cover Gaara with dozens of fireballs. With that he shrunk Shukaku a little but it was fast compensated by Shukaku draining Sand from the earth around him.
Naruto was now forced to transform himself to become equal to the now growing to full size Shukaku. Naruto's clones had all been destroyed in the meantime.
These two more than 40m tall Titans caught the attention of everyone. Shukaku in full size and Naruto in the form of a Drago-Seraphim. Although a very young Drago-Seraphim. that meant that Naruto only reached a shoulder height of just under 30m. With his head, however, he was at eye level with Shukaku.
Shukaku started the fight by firing sand balls at Naruto, who used one of his two wing pairs to block the attack and countered with an energy beam sweeping away the lower half of Shukaku.
Shukaku countered by forming his hands into tentacles of sand to try to capture Naruto. Naruto, however, powered up his aura, breaking the control that Shukaku had over his sand. The sand then trickled harmlessly to the ground. And another energy beam reduced Shukaku to a much more manageable form.
Right after Naruto tried to land on Shukaku's head with a huge set of jumps, but this jump was interrupted by Shukaku as he let Naruto fly back with sand balls so that Naruto crashed into the surrounding forest and looked back at Shukaku. He was growing again. Much faster than before.
Far away he heard the voice of Anoth shouting: " TO ALL SUNA FORCES! YOUR KAZEKAGE IS DEAD! OROCHIMARU HAD TAKEN THE POST OF THE KAZEKAGE! YOU WERE ALL DECEIVED! LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPONS AND SURRENDER AND YOU WILL BE SPARED! IF YOU FIGHT YOU SHALL NOT EXPERIENCE THE NEXT DAY! "
Interesting information, but Naruto's focus was on Shukaku.
He was about to not only regain his size but double it by pulling sand out of the ground.
"Oh no, you don't." growled Naruto, who had come up with an idea. His aura had resolved the chakra that controlled the sand tentacles. Then theoretically that should also work with the body.
That's either the idea that ends the fight. Or the stupidest idea I've ever had. Naruto thought.
Rather the stupidest. sounded the answer in Naruto's head.
Good that you are awake Kurama. Naruto replied.
But an idea that could work. Kurama continued, ignoring Naruto's comment.
Naruto grinned, surrounded himself with his aura and then charged full speed at Shukaku who tried to prevent that Naruto came too close to him. But had to realize that Naruto was very difficult to hit. Especially when he moved like a rabbit while he came up to him.
Then they collided and Naruto plunged into Shukaku's sand body. His aura broke the control that Shukaku had over the sand so Naruto could ram Gaara from Shukaku's head with his own horns.
Shukaku's body, now separated from its source of energy, crumbled to the sand it was made of. Shukaku, meanwhile, was sucked back into the seal as Gaara woke again through the violent collision.
Naruto, who, as soon as he realized that the plan had worked, had regained his human form, did not hesitate for a moment, he rammed his hand in Gaara's stomach that held the seal of the Five Elements in the middle of the air, separating Gaara, if only temporarily, from Shukaku's chakra and also from Shukaku himself.
Naruto landed with the now unconscious Gaara in his arms, whom he threw over his shoulder as soon as he landed, like a sack of potatoes.
"I'll take you back to the village, I'd rather let Anoth remove the this crazy monk, he has much more experience in things like this."
He was about to leave when an orange glowing energy ball came towards him and disappeared into his belly before he had a chance to react.
"What was that?" Naruto asked no one specific.
He got the answer from his seal. There he heard a relieved sigh. Finally I am complete again.
It clicked on Naruto. So that was the other half of you?
Yes, the half your father took with him into the belly of the Shinigami. answered the fox, whose voice had now clearly shifted to the female side.
What about your voice?
You mean, because I sound different now . the fox asked. That's because I'm no longer just a small part of myself, but now I'm complete again. And yes, I am a vixen. And since I am once again complete, you can also easily accept me, as one of your shadows.
'Yes, that is possible now.' The answer came telepathically from Anoth. 'Very simple in fact. The fact that she has been sealed into you makes things a lot easier. I'll show you how to do it afterwards, Naruto. But first come back to the village. The invasion is over. The last Oto and Suna troops have withdrawn or surrendered. '
'Understood Anoth. I'm on my way.' Naruto replied.
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With Kushina and Mikoto
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Kushina and Mikoto had the biggest fun of their lives when they used the Oto Shinobi effectively as bowling pins and bowling balls.
Said "bowling ball" was an Oto Chunin who had come too close to Kushina. And the associated "bowling pins" was a group of Oto Jounin who stormed towards them.
"Ha! All ten!" Kushina shouted, throwing the bowling ball into the Oto Jounin.
"Good hit." It came from Mikoto, who had just taught another Oto Jounin to fly, via a kick in his soft tissue.
"These idiots." Kushina said. "They are not even good for getting warm."
"That should be Orochimaru's best fighters?" Mikoto sounded sarcastic. "That's cannon fodder, nothing more."
The two of them continued to literally mangle Orochimaru's forces until they were forced back by several bones who shot out of the ground. Seconds later, Kimimaro stood in front of them.
"A Kaguya." Mikoto stated. "Well that's surprising."
"Have not you all been wiped out?" Kushina asked.
"I am the last of the Kaguya."
"Interesting." commented Mikoto.
"But without meaning." Kushina continued.
"Do we go on then?" Mikoto asked.
Immediately thereafter, the three went over to the actual fight. Kimimaro could use his bones as weapons through his Kekkei Genkai, the Shikotsumyaku. He did this by first using Yanagi no Mai, extending his forearm bones, which then came out of his hand, allowing him to use them as swords.
Only to find that his bones, which usually used to be far harder than steel, could not withstand the swords of Mikoto and Kushina. This forced him to jump back, using Teshi Sendan to fire his fingers bones from his fingers.
Instead of avoiding these projectiles, Kimimaro realized that they were using their swords to intercept and destroy the approaching projectiles. Afterwards, they dived after Kimimaro, who meanwhile jumped to the roof of one of the nearby houses.
How is that possible? Kimimaro wondered. First they destroy my bone blades with their swords, then they manage not only to catch my finger projectiles but also to destroy them. I have to-
He did not get any further than he was hit by a massive force that drove him from the roof down into a grocery store that promptly collapsed on top of him.
"Is he dead?" asked Mikoto Kushina, who was responsible for Kimimaro's involuntary shop visit.
"No." Kushina answered curtly.
Kimimaro came out of the pile of rubble, only this time he had activated his curse seal on level two. Instead of attacking, he preferred to seek salvation in flight when a large group of Oto Shinobi Kushina and Mikoto attacked. Who had no problems to deal with the cannon fodder.
"What was that?"
"He probably realized he would not stand a chance against us and used the attack on us to get away." Mikoto replied to Kushina's question. "Let's look for other Oto Nin."
They were about to leave when they heard a soft, almost stifled, cry for help. They followed the call up to a partially collapsed house. In between, they made short work of several Oto Shinobi.
As they arrived at the ruins, they could feel a faint life sign below the collapsed ceiling, which was slowly weakening. At that moment, both were glad that they had decided to become Naruto's first shadows. Because one of the bonuses as a shadow beast was tremendous physical power.
This Kushina now used to raise a several-tons weighing ceiling piece so that Mikoto could get under it and the person who was sitting underneath could get out.
As soon as the person was out of the rubble, Kushina just let it crash back down on the floor and looked over to Mikoto. She recognized immediately who Mikoto had pulled out of the rubble.
"Yugao" Kushina shouted and knelt right next to the severely injured Yugao and immediately started analyzing her injuries. She was once a member of Kushina's Genin Team. Like Minato, Kushina also had a Genin team for training.
Yugao's condition was not good. Various puncture wounds all over the body, but mainly in the abdominal region, as well as several, sometimes very deep cuts. Although Kushina had been trained in healing arts, it was far from copious enough to handle such extensive injuries.
It had to take one of Anoth's shadows. They had far more experience in healing such and even worse injuries.
Fortunately for Kushina, luck was on their side this time. One of Anoth's Shadows, one of his Liepard, if she remembered her species name properly, just came around the corner as she tried to catch some fleeing Oto Shinobi that she catched up quickly with them and killed them via cut throat with her claws.
As she looked over to them, she came running over to them and as she approached Kushina could make out that it was Lana who came running over to them.
As soon as she was with them she immediately took care of the lying on the ground Yugao.
"She's dwindling, and fast." Lana mumbled as she began to heal Yugao's wounds. "I cannot do it alone." she realized very quickly. She had been with Anoth for more than 50 years, but her real healer training had only started about three years ago. 'Serina, I need you here.'
It was not long before she got an answer from the water dragon. 'What's going on my pupil?'
'I have a seriously injured Konoha Kunoichi in front of me, for whom I can hardly do anything, and Kushina and Mikoto are with me. You just told me that my patient is Uzuki Yugao. She was in Kushina's Genin Team at that time. '
'I'll be with you right away.' Serina answered, cutting off the direct telepathic connection.
In fact, barely twenty seconds passed before she jumped down from one of the nearby rooftops and landed next to Lana.
Instead of Lana, who wore a dress that showed the color pattern as she had on her coat in her original form, Serina wore no clothes. Instead, she had assumed the shape of a half-dragon. Her body was partially covered by blue to violet-colored scales that also concealed her private zones. Also, she had a tail that ended clearly in something that looked like a fin.
As soon as she was next to Lana she began healing the injuries. "Lana, we need a shield."
Lana just nodded, got up, walked two yards and then stretched out her arms in front of her. Immediately, their palms began to light up and over Serina, Mikoto and Kushina, a protective shield was created, as soon as the shield was complete several Suna Nin ran around the corner and attacked the shield, only to find that their jutsus did absolutely no damage to the shield.
Seconds later, Anoth's voice thundered over her city.
" TO ALL SUNA FORCES! YOUR KAZEKAGE IS DEAD! OROCHIMARU HAD TAKEN THE POST OF THE KAZEKAGE! YOU WERE ALL DECEIVED! LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPONS AND SURRENDER AND YOU WILL BE SPARED! IF YOU FIGHT YOU SHALL NOT EXPERIENCE THE NEXT DAY! "
As soon as the Suna Shinobi heard this, they dropped their weapons on the ground and surrendered. They knelt down on the floor and put their hands on their heads.
"What happened just now?" Mikoto asked in surprise.
"That was Anoth." Serina answered without looking up, she had completely undressed Yugao with a wave of her hand, so she could better get to her wounds. Lana had already done that, but only partially, using her claws to cut Yugao's clothes. "It's more than words, it also contained telepathic images of what had happened on the roof, the Suna Shinobi have just watched her Kazekage tear down his own face that revealed Orochimaru under it. " she explained. "Suna has been deceived, and now they know that, there's no reason for them to keep fighting."
Good that Kira has brewed me some healing potions. You can say what you want about this Alicorn. But she knows her stuff with potions. Serina thought as she prepared a special syringe. Yugao was no longer able to swallow the potion and an injection into one of the arteries was no longer in question due to the strong drop in blood pressure. Therefore, she prepared this syringe for something else.
As soon as the syringe was ready, she aimed it at Yugao's chest and stabbed her. The needle penetrated her until it reached her heart, where she then injected the potion. A potion that consisted mainly of a healing potion plus blood replenisher and strengthening potion.
The effect was immediate. The blood pressure rose almost immediately and the wounds on her whole body began to heal at high speed. At the same time, the blood replenisher made sure that Yugao's body replaced the lost blood at high speed. The necessary energy she got over the strengthening component.
On the worst wounds, Serina helped with healing magic, but otherwise she was well on the way to surviving her injuries. What unnerved Serina, though, was the various bits of bone she had extracted from Yugao's larger wounds. Bone fragments that could not come from Yugao.
Bone fragments that looked like finger bones.
But that was a question she could answer later.
"She has to go to a hospital." said Serina. "I want to keep her under surveillance for at least one more day."
"That is possible." said Kushina. "Looks like the invasion is over."
In fact, two more Shadows of Anoth had arrived and were arresting and removing the Suna Shinobi. At the same time, everywhere in the village, the fighting noises gradually fell silent.
The invasion had failed.
Lana then dropped the protective shield.
"Are you taking her to the hospital? I'm needed somewhere else." Serina said, and jumped away after her question was answered positively. But not until she conjured a thin textile for Yugao, which was not much more than a hospital shirt.
Kushina simply took advantage of her telekinetic powers, letting Yugao float behind her as all four (Mikoto, Kushina, Lana and the floating Yugao) made their way to Konoha Hospital.
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To Anoth
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Naruto found Anoth on the street in front of the stadium talking with another woman the Hokage and Jiraiya, who had arrived in Konoha shortly before the invasion.
As Naruto approached, Anoth looked over at him. "Ah, there you are, and you have Gaara with you, very nice."
"Yes, it was not easy, but I did it."
"YOU?!" called a certain pink-haired banshee, who just happened to be there too. "THAT WAS SASUKE! YOU HAD-" She did not get any further than Naruto, without even looking in her direction, threw her with a gesture through the wall of the next best house.
"Sasuke right." said the Hokage, as if something had just occurred to him again. "I got reports that he disobeyed direct orders and followed you, did you meet him?"
"... no." Naruto replied. "I was alone with my fight against Gaara as far as I know."
"You changed during the fight, could it be you ..." Anoth left it there.
"You mean if I trampled him accidentally into the ground?" completed Naruto Anoth's question. Naruto's amusement was clearly in his voice as he imagined Sasuke lying flattened in one of his footprints.
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Former battlefield
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Sasuke lay flattened in a huge footprint and slowly came back to himself.
"What was that?" he asked himself dazed as he slowly got up again.
The last thing he remembered was Naruto fighting with Gaara, then suddenly he turned just like Naruto did. Then he saw only a massive paw on him and then nothing more.
The next thing he saw was Kakashi appearing next to him, and right after that, darkness was closing in around him again.
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Back to Anoth and Co.
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"When I think about it, right after my transformation, it actually felt like I was trampling on something." Naruto said thoughtfully. But then shrugged.
"As amusing as that is, let's get back to the topic." Anoth said, turning to Hiruzen, "I need enough flat ground to help Gaara."
"Training area 38 has a big completely free flat space." Hiruzen replied. "Follow me."
Minutes later, they were there.
"Naruto, put Gaara here in the middle." Anoth said while he began to draw an extraction seal using his magic.
Gaara lay there in the middle of a four-pointed star. These four prongs stood for every single aura or soul that was in Gaara. But since Anoth only wanted to extract one soul, three of the spikes were endowed with a rune weave, which made sure that said parts were not extracted. At one of the tips stood the Seraphimian sign for Shukaku. The Bijuu within Gaara. At the next peak, the sign had been placed for Mother. Anoth did not really want to remove that aura, because it was very useful to Gaara and not harmful at all. The last was the sign for Gaara. He would not rob Gaara of his own soul.
The fourth spike had another rune weave with a black crystal in the middle. Anoth had brought this directly from his Black Sun. It was the crystallized form of a power that the Black Sun wielded itself. A black soul stone.
There were some worlds where you could find Black Soul Gems freely, but they were rare, weak and easy to destroy compared to the version that came from the Black Sun itself. The counterparts were light soul gems. The Black Sun could give out both.
The difference between a black and a light soul gem was that the black one was used to capture the souls of intelligent creatures while the light ones was very good for the undead and animals.
Another difference was that the soul gems of the Black Sun could be used multiple times. The other soul stones disintegrate after being unloaded again.
As soon as everything was ready, Anoth began with a kind of chanting. However, one in a language that none of the present except Naruto understood.
Immediately afterwards, the entire seal began to glow and the massive forces were felt in the air. Three of the spikes lit up in a bright blue light and encircled Gaara, like a protective cocoon. The fourth spike, however, began to shine in a deep black light and a hand of semi-transparent black mist formed. It approached Gaara and vanished in him a short time later.
Anoth's chant increased in intensity as he realized that the Old Bastard's soul was far more persistent than he had expected. Okay, so you want the heavy guns, then you shall have them. Thought Anoth and activated his Black Sun, from which now also two foggy hands shot out and disappeared in Gaara.
At the same time, new runes appeared on the right and left of the fourth spikes, which significantly increased the extraction power. Gaara woke up, screaming in pain, with the increased forces now tugging at the Fourth Soul, which Anoth at the moment described as little more than a parasite soul. Anoth ignored Gaaras screaming and continued unimpressed.
It took almost three minutes, then the three hands slowly reappeared as they pulled out a figure from Gaara. An old man in a monk's robe.
An old man in a monk's robe, screaming very loud crazy stuff, that he would destroy everything, that the world would belong to the blood and any other nonsense that was ignored by all.
Screaming loudly, he was dragged by the three hands in the direction of the soul gem, which had now been pushed up by the seal on a glass column at about a meter above the ground. Closer and closer he was dragged to the stone, until finally a part of the soul of the monk touched the stone. No sooner was that the case, he was sucked loud screaming into the soul stone.
When it was over it was completely silent. The glow of the seal disappeared, leaving a burned-in trail of glass on the floor. So high was the heat the seal had produced. A testament to how much energy had flowed through the seal.
Anoth went first to Gaara. A quick test revealed that only three signatures were left. And that's exactly what Anoth wanted to receive. He also noticed that Gaara had fallen asleep.
Then he turned to the soul-gem, which was still perched on the pillar of glass. When he looked through the stone he could, albeit vaguely, make out the figure of the monk who was now trapped in the stone.
Anoth grinned.
The extraction was a complete success.
Anoth turned to Jiraiya, who had followed the extraction and was now looking at the remains of the seal and quickly realized that no Shinobi would be able to provide such a complex seal with the necessary energy. One would have to be already the Jinchuriki of seven-tailed Bijuu and up. However, even such a Jinchuriki would not be able to keep it constantly powered for several minutes. How much power did Anoth have?
"If you want to correct Gaara's seal, then this is your opportunity, because he will sleep through at least the next three days."
"Then I'll get to work." Jiraiya went over to the Gaara lying on the ground.
"If I may ask." came the Hokage. "That's a question I've been asking myself for some time, how exactly did you two (meaning he hinted at Naruto and Anoth) even get in touch with each other?"
"How did I get in contact with Naruto for the first time?"
"Yes."
"That's about 10 years in this dimension now."
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"STAY STILL DEMON!"
"DIE, KYUUBI BRAT!"
Those were the calls that a certain Otsutsuki Kaguya heard, who was currently in Konoha, hiding her true appearance under a simple illusion. A transfiguration jutsu would have been noticed by the guards.
Becoming curious by these calls, Kaguya pursued the mob through the village. In order not to attract attention, she had made herself invisible.
She had pursued them until they reached a dead end, where they started beating and stabbing something. Kaguya could not tell exactly what it was from her position.
Then something happened.
She felt Bijuu Chakra rise from the middle of the mob. And even more.
"So, you're the one the toads talked about, huh?" she muttered. With that she contacted Anoth and told him that she had found the chosen one and the frequency of his aura. It only took seconds and she could feel Anoth making contact with whoever was being processed by the mob into mincemeat.
What exactly he discussed with him, Kaguya could not find out, but what happened shortly thereafter was more than clear. An energy pulse shot out of the center of the mob and everyone who was touched by the pulse crumbled to dust on the spot.
In under two seconds, a mob of 30 people including clothing, weapons and everything else, had been reduced to dust in the street.
This started the contact between Anoth and Naruto, who was not older than six years at this time.
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"That explains why thirty people disappeared without a trace on this day." the Hokage muttered. but then shrugged. Had he caught them, they would not have survived anyway.
"From that point on, we started secretly with the training, the result is now known."
"That's all I wanted to know."
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A few days later
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Anoth was in the Hokagetower with Hiruzen. It had been several days since the failed invasion and a council meeting had been called. Interestingly, Danzo was not present at the meeting.
It was time to disempower the Civil Council and the elders.
And the whole group was more than ready to do just that.
In the days before, Gaara and the rest of the Suna forces had left and, if the negotiations came to pass, had announced assistance in the destruction of Oto. Oto had betrayed them both, now they would feel their anger.
"We all know that the invasion of Suna and Oto has failed." With these words, the Hokage opened the meeting. "And that it was Orochimaru who persuaded Suna to attack us by literally stealing the skin of the Kazekage."
Baki stood in the middle of the council chamber and knew what was coming. A new contract between Konoha and Suna had to be negotiated.
And that's exactly what followed. Baki was the highest ranked Shinobi of Suna. Right under the Kazekage and thus, if only temporarily, had control over Suna.
The negotiations were long and tough, but finally there was a new treaty that kept Suna from being wiped off the map and renewed the old alliance between Suna and Konoha. That was only possible because Orochimaru had fooled them both. Otherwise it would have been very different. And because almost all Suna forces surrendered and the damage was massively contained. This contract also contained an alliance against Oto.
After that was done, the vote on a formal declaration of war to Otogakure was discussed.
That was really just a formality. The declaration of war was settled in less than five minutes.
And Anoth's assessment that the war against Oto would take at most two months was supported by the Hokagen. Jiraiya also joined and agreed with Anoth and the Hokage. After all, Oto had just lost its entire main force, including its strongest fighters, in the attempted invasion. Tayuya and also Kin had confirmed this in their interrogation by Ibiki. Not only did they reveal the strength of the force Oto still had at their disposal, but also all the defense plans that would now be implemented by Kabuto, who had managed to escape.
As for Kin and Tayuya, he had given Kin to Naruto and Naruto had taken Tayuya. Both were in fact at the moment right and left of Naruto together with Kushina and Mikoto and were just waiting to enter the council.
"Then we come to the next point." said Hiruzen. "I have decided to withdraw from the Hokage post very soon." Hiruzen raised his hand to stop the protest before it could be pronounced. "I'm getting old, I'm not as fit as we used to be, it's time for someone younger to take my job." Hiruzen continued. "I have decided that Senju Tsunade should take my post."
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Said Senju had already been picked up two days ago by Jiraiya, Naruto and Anoth. Granted, she had not come voluntarily, but she had made a crucial mistake. She had challenged Anoth to a fight and got what was probably the worst beating of her life.
During this "fight" (you could not really call it that if Anoth could take a hit with full power from Tsunade, without him being moved even a millimeter) Anoth had something done. More specifically, it was a request from Kaguya. She had made the mistake of bringing a creature called Zetsu to life. Now this mistake had been corrected. And it was a blow from Anoth, that looked like it missed his target for Naruto, Jiraiya and also Tsunade and instead hit exactly where Zetsu had hidden himself. Zetsu had not survived this blow and was now little more than soup in a nearly 40m deep and over 200m wide crater.
The best part was that the Akatsuki Zetsus had to think that it was an accident. He had simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Tsunade was completely on escape mode after this attack and only tried to get away from Anoth. Because she had felt that the force with which he had caused the crater, was not even near the full force with which he could have hit. But, however, he was not easy to shake off, as she had to find out very quickly.
Worse, when Anoth slammed the crater into the ground, Tsunade could sense, if only for a moment, a part of his full strength. If he wanted it, he could destroy whole mountains with just one blow.
In addition, Anoth seized the opportunity to punish Tsunade for neglecting Naruto. She should actually take care of Naruto as his godmother, instead, she lost herself in alcohol and gambling (in which she failed miserably and as a result was called the Legendary loser).
A few minutes later, Tsunade was lying defeated in one of Anoth's craters. Luckily they had fought outside the village because the whole territory had been reduced to a lunar landscape.
"That would be it." Anoth murmured more to herself than to the others. "But I'm not quite done with you yet." He almost snarled it out,,.
Anoth came down into the crater and now knelt beside the Tsunade lying on the ground. "You preferred to indulge in gambling and drink yourself unconscious instead of taking care of Naruto. We want to know why, and I hope you have a good reason to do it." By now, Naruto and Jiraiya had joined Anoth. They also wanted to hear their answer.
"I did not know he was alive." Tsunade said, who had managed to get herself into a sitting position . "I was told he died in the Kyuubi attack with his parents."
"Who said that?" Naruto asked.
"I do not know, I just know he wore an Anbu mask." Tsunade replied after a brief thought.
"What did it look like?"
"I ... I do not know."
"Concentrate, what did the mask look like?"
"It was a mask without special marks." Tsunade replied.
"Was any sign on the mask?"
Tsunade was silent for a while longer. "Yes, yes, there was" Ne "on the mask."
Naruto, Anoth and Jiraiya exchanged glances, then they all said a name. "Danzo."
"That bastard and his stupid ROOT." Anoth growled as he helped Tsunade to his feet. "Even though Hiruzen finds himself unable to remove him permanently, I have no problem with that, especially after what he did to Kushina and Mikoto and what he wanted to do with Naruto."
"Kushina, Mikoto, does that mean they're still alive?" Tsunade asked in surprise.
"Yes, they do, in fact, they're here too." Anoth answered.
"And why can I not see her then?" Tsunade asked.
"Because they are inside of Naruto." said Anoth, as if he was talking about the weather.
"Please what?"
Anoth nodded to Naruto, who rematerialized Mikoto and Kushina. Which made Tsunade's jaw drop.
"Hello Tsunade." Kushina greeted her.
Before Kushina could react, she found herself in a hug that made it impossible for her to breathe. With an openly crying Tsunade hugging her.
Half an hour later, they all found themselves in one of the hotels in the neighboring village.
"How can that be?" Tsunade asked, still hovering around Kushina, as if she still could not believe her eyes.
"I found her in a subterranean ROOT base below Konoha, she was in a kind of stasis capsule, I have no idea what they did to her, but both Kushina and Mikoto are younger than they should have been. "
"What exactly was that with the energy that came out of Naruto?"
"Now." Anoth started. "By now you must have realized that I'm not human." Anoth now showed his planetary eyes. "I've been watching Naruto for some time now." Naruto continued. "Recently, in Konoha, the finals of the Chunin exams were running, and before that they had a month to train, and when Naruto was unable to find a sensei, thanks to the Civil Council, he called me in. When I arrived there, I immediately sensed that there was an aura below the place that was very similar to Naruto's - I did not tell Naruto directly about it at the time, so as not to give him false hopes and took him with me to training, but not here in this dimension but in a parallel one. Also, that was not a month of training, but 10 years.
"Konoha has massively neglected his training, these 10 years were needed to correct the damage they had done, damn it, when I put Naruto into my training, his only Effective Jutsu was the Kage Bunshin, now he has a lot In addition, I have now made him one of my students, which means that I will take him with me so I can finish his training.
"Naruto is now a Drago-Seraphim, which means he has to learn how to use his powers, and once this training is over, I will give Naruto control of this dimension and he will get his training with Yugito and Fuu. "
"What do you mean by that?"
"I mean, as soon as his training is completed, I make Naruto the world lord in charge here."
"So the legends are true."
The Prophecy. It was meant literally. Naruto will decide if this world is worth to be existing in this form. Or if it goes down. Jiraiya thought.
They argued a while longer until they wanted to leave.
Wanted to.
That was the keyword here.
Would not two such crazy cloud worshipers have turned up. Exactly at a time where Tsunade and Jiraiya were not there. They were busy buying supplies.
By name.
Uchiha Itachi
And...
Hoshigaki Kisame
Two members of Akatsuki.
Naruto and Anoth were in a hotel room, talking to each other about how he could use the powers of his shadows without having to summon them. Kurama, now known as Kurami, sat on Naruto's lap. She had taken on an Anthromorphic form that made her a good head shorter than Naruto. Her nine tails hung loosely to the ground and Naruto scratched her head. She was dressed in a black bikini and black panties. And that was it.
They just wanted to continue discussing, as it knocked on the door.
Anoth got up and opened the door.
"Can I help you?" he asked, looking down at Kisame. Something that was strange for Kisame, the good 2.0m shark like man. Anoth came in his human form on good 2,25m.
"Yes." said Itachi, having recovered from his first fright, to have such a giant in front of him. "We were told that Uzumaki Naruto should be in this room and we wanted to talk to him."
"Yes, he is here." Anoth turned his head away from them and roared into the room. "Naruto, here are some Akatsuki cloud priests who want to talk to you!"
"The Akatsuki ?!" it came back from the room. "Those damned cloud lovers should look elsewhere for their believers, and we will not buy anything at the door!" Kurami chuckled in the background.
"There you have your answer." said Anoth. "I wish you a nice day." With that, he shut the door in their faces. As soon as the door was closed, Anoth drew one of his swords and got ready to fight. Naruto did the same. Both of them knew that the two Akatsuki members would not disappear so easily. Kurami was ready to fight. She had simply conjured two swords with her chakra.
Right enough.
Only seconds after Anoth closed the door, it was kicked in by Kisame. Only to be catapulted straight through the wall with a punch. Anoth jumped after him immediately. Kurami and Naruto took over Itachi while Anoth took care of Kisame.
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Anoth vs. Kisame
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Kisame landed hard in the backyard of the hotel. Just to roll aside as Anoth landed there fist first, where his head had been earlier, leaving a smaller crater.
"Akatsuki scum." Anoth growled. "It was only a matter of time before you nutcases would show up." Anoth's voice became highly hostile toward the end when he got up and slammed his sword into the ground in front of him.
"Nutcases?!" cried Kisame. "We want peace!" Kisame had pulled Samehada and held the sword in front of him. Whereby it was still wrapped with his bandages.
"By hunting the Jinchuriki like some wild animal, it's not that there life is not hard enough."
"It is necessary"
"Necessary ?! For what? Your stupid moon-eyes plan?"
"What?"
"You have no idea about what I am talking. Who do you think has it really to say in your little band of degenerates?"
"I will not tell you for sure!"
"Do you really believe the Pein is the boss, no, he's only a tool, he's used by the one who pretends to be Madara, not the other way around."
"How do you know?"
"You have no idea who I am, right?" Judging by his gaze, he did not know it. "Well, you should know, my name is Anoth, and I am the world lord here." With these words he released his aura so strongly that it became visible. He also blended his Reiryoku into his aura and made it a force strong enough to force Kisame to the ground. If you add the killing intent, Kisame was about to shit himself.
When Kisame looked up and spotted Anoth's eyes, he shivered. For behind Anoth he could see the spirit form of his beast form.
'For me you, Hoshigaki Kisame, are not much more than prey.' Kisame's eyes went huge as he heard this in his head. 'An annoyance that I can get rid of at any time.'
Kisame could feel his sword Samehada screaming at him that he should get out of here immediately. He could feel Samehada's fear.
The aura vanished just as fast as it came. But it was more than enough for Kisame. As soon as he could move again Kisame jumped up and sprinted away as fast as he could. He could not defeat this opponent alone. A fight against him was suicide.
Behind him he could hear Itachi leap through one of the closed windows just to run away in panic. Kisame changed his course to pursue the completely in panic mode Uchiha.
Luckily, they were not pursued.
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Naruto and Kurami vs. Uchiha Itachi
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Itachi stared, more than a little stunned, through the hole through which Kisame had just flown through and had been followed by Anoth.
"Hello Itachi." These words drew Itachi's attention to Naruto, who stood there with his sword over his shoulder. "Long time we last met, or should I call you Weasel?"
"How do you know?"
"Oh, I do not forget the Anbu, who always saved me from the crazy mobs."
"Good that you still remember me."
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why did you hook up with the Akatsuki?"
"For the peace?"
"Peace ?! You want to get peace and follow this Madara wannabe." this time it was not from Naruto, but from a person who now stepped out of the shadows and had two swords in his, or better, her hands.
"Th-Th-Th- That's impossible." stammered Itachi and took a step back.
"Impossible? Really?"
"K- K- Kyuubi."
"Correct."
Itachi gathered the rest of his courage and looked at Naruto in the hope that the Kyuubi was still connected to him and activated his Tsukuyomi.
Naruto let it happen that his mind was pulled into the Tsukuyomi.
A Genjutsu world dominated by a blood red sky and a blood moon. A dark, unpleasant world.
"Not a good idea of you Itachi." Itachi spun around in the world of Tsukuyomi, because the Naruto standing in front of him just grinned at him and the voice that came from behind his back was the same as the one from Kyuubi.
"A really stupid idea in fact."
It suddenly became clear to Itachi that this was a huge mistake. He had no control over his Tsukuyomi. But Naruto and Kyuubi did.
"Now we have 72 hours to talk in peace." Naruto said casually.
When these 72 hours were finally around and the Genjutsu collapsed Itachi immediately took his chance to flee. He had no need to be consumed in the real world by a Drago-Seraphim or by Kyuubi herself. Not to mention the other things she had done to him.
And since the fastest way out, and as far away from Naruto and Kyuubi as possible, was the window, he jumped right through it. He ignored Kisame, who was only a few meters away.
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With Uchiha Sasuke
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Sasuke had seen his hated brother come to the village. And of course he followed him until they came to this hotel. He had lost track of him for a short while, so he arrived just as Itachi's companion took an involuntary shortcut through the wall.
He hid in one of the bushes and watched what happened there.
Then something happened that he never expected. He had felt the killing intent of Zabusa and also of Orochimaru. But this was a completely different level.
Way too strong.
Sasuke tried his best to resist, but fainted seconds later. It was just too much.
Only minutes later, Maito Gai found him lying unconscious on the ground. He put him under his arm and made his way back to Konoha.
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End of the flashback
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"I accept the job as Hokage." Tsunade said.
What followed was a brief discussion of when the ceremony should be held, as the daimyo had to be present to officially and formally appoint the Hokage. The Ninja villages were in the broadest sense independent city-states, yet they were subordinates to the local daimyo in whose country the village was.
This was not only the case in Konoha, but also in all other Shinobi villages.
"Okay, let's get to the last point." Hiruzen started. "Naruto Uzumaki"
He did not get any further, when there were shouts from the Civil Side of the Council, which interrupted him.
"Lock him in a cell!"
"Execute him!"
"This demon is-" further he did not get, as said councilor had a hole in his head.
"WHAT MEANING IS THIS?! ANBU! INCARCERATE THESE DEMONS FOR-" Further, even this Civilian councilor did not get when this time one of the Anbu cut off his head him. Not only because he broke the law with the mention of the demon, but because he dared to command the Anbu, who only the Hokage could directly issue orders.
'Kill stealer!' Anoth sent telepathically to the Anbu.
'What can I do if you are too slow.' the Anbu replied telepathically with a shrug.
Anoth just grinned.
"Would anyone else want to interrupt me?" Hiruzen asked.
"Where is Danzo?" one of the counselors of asked. "He should have been here a long time ago."
"Oh, he will never enter this room again." answered a seductive voice entering the room through a back door.
"Yura, I assume everything went smoothly." Hiruzen asked.
"Yes." confirmed Yura. "Danzo is dead. Including all his ROOT." She produced a scroll and activated the storage seal on it. Out came several files. "I found this in Danzo's desk. You should read them." And so she handed over the files to Hiruzen.
He scanned the files and came to a conclusion very quickly.
"Anbu!" Hiruzen exclaimed. "Arrest Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura for high treason!"
"WHAT?!" shrieked Koharu.
"You worked with Orochimaru and also planned the attack so that Danzo could appoint himself as Hokage when I'm dead." Hiruzen growled. "Not only that, you also planned another Shinobi World War."
"Konoha is the strongest of all Shinobi villages!" called Homura. "It is our purpose to subdue the others!"
"Konoha is the rightful ruler of this world." Koharu agreed.
"You are crazy." Hiruzen said. "Why did I not notice that before?" Hiruzen turned his gaze to one of the Anbu. "Anbu! Take them both to Ibiki and tell him to go all out."
The Anbu nodded and seconds later, both Homura and Koharu were gone.
"The rest of the files are already in your office under Anbu Watch." Answered Yura Hiruzen's unspoken question as he turned to face her. "These two I had just considered as particularly urgent." Yura wanted to turn away, then she remembered something else. "There's something else, this is what Danzo hid under his bandages." With that, she pulled out another scroll, activated the storage seal, and out came a severed arm. A severed mutant arm crammed with eyes. Sharingan eyes of the Uchiha. She activated the seal again and the arm disappeared again. Then she handed the scroll to Hiruzen, who accepted it and immediately gave it an Anbu.
"Destroy this scroll." Hiruzen ordered. "Nobody should use this again."
"Burn it right here." Anoth said and went to the middle. He made a stone trough appear with a simple gesture.
The Anbu put the scroll into this trough and a short fire jutsu later, all that was left of the scroll was ashes. Anoth let the stone trough vanish directly afterwards.
"Now that this is done, we can come back to the actual topic." Hiruzen said, drawing his attention back to him. "Naruto Uzumaki is here today because Anoth has applied to take him for several years as his apprentice."
Of course, then the civil side had to speak again.
"What ?! This brat does not deserve training!"
"Yes, he should train the Uchiha!"
This was silenced when the door to the council chamber opened and Naruto entered the room followed by Kushina, Mikoto, Tayuya, Yugito and Fuu.
The Shinobi side could not resist a grin anymore. They all knew that Kushina was back. The Civil Side, on the other hand, did not recognize them. But even if they did not recognize her, her Killing Intent quickly convinced them that it was healthier for them to be silent now.
"Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto, how nice that you could come." Hiruzen said with a slight grin.
"Namikaze ?!" came the surprised call on the part of the civilians.
"This demon is-" And again there was one less on the Civilian side. And this time Anoth was faster, which earned him an evil look from the Anbu, who also had his sword ready.
"They just do not learn." Anoth said as he put his smoking gun back in his holster and grinned at the Anbu. 'The point is mine. Two to one. '
'Nothing is decided yet.' the Anbu replied telepathically.
'That's right.'
Meanwhile the Hokage went on as if nothing had happened at all. "Would you be so kind as to introduce your companions?"
"Of course Lord Hokage." said Naruto, who pretended that the Civil Side of the Council did not exist. He started to introduce everyone. "Here we have my recently found mother Uzumaki Namikaze Kushina and her best friend Uchiha Mikoto." Naruto turned to the other side. "Here is Tsuchi Kin with her closest friend Uzumaki Tayuya."
"THEY WILL BE TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU AND GIVEN TO THE UCHIHA! A DEMON LIKE YOU-" It was now 2: 2.
"I am accompanied by my co-disciples Nii Yugito and Mizutani Fuu." Naruto continued, ignoring the outcry and the following death of a member of the Civilian Council.
"Very nice, may I ask why you have applied for a training trip?"
"Of course, I was unable to find a sensei for the month between the final bouts and the eliminator bouts, as the Civil Council had forbidden my sensei to train me."
"Let's interrupt, the Civil Council has forbidden your sensei to train you?" If someone had looked at the civilian side now, they would have seen that they slowly started to sweat.
"What's your sensei's name?"
"My old Sensei was Team Seven's Team Leader, his name was Hatake Kakashi, my new Sensei is right there, his name is Anoth."
"Is this correct?" Hiruzen asked Anoth.
"That's correct, I accepted Naruto as one of my apprentices." pressed Anoth.
"Inu, come in the middle." said the Hokage. As soon as said Anbu stood there he ordered him to remove the mask. it was Hatake Kakashi. "Can you confirm what Naruto said here?"
"Yes, that's correct, they blackmailed me and forbade me to train my students except the Uchiha."
"Who exactly?"
"They were led by Haruno Fukami."
The Hokage did not even have to give the order, as said council member was already tied down on the ground.
"Take her to Ibiki." he only said while Haruno shrieked around, but it fell silent as the Anbu punched her unconscious. Seconds later they were gone.
"Thank you Kakashi." Kakashi bowed, put his mask back on and stood back to the other Anbu. "Now that's done ... Naruto, please continue."
So Naruto started talking about his time under Anoth. His training regime was anything but normal, and some of the training exercises Naruto told about was making the Shinobi pale.
"Why did he took you on so hard?" the Hokage asked as he interrupted Naruto.
"Once again, thanks to the civilian side of the council for completely ruining the training at the Shinobi Academy, but not enough, they also bribed some of the teachers there, or blackmailed them to throw me out of their classes or sabotaging my tests or rating them poorly. "
The sweating of the rest of the civilian council members has now become much stronger.
"Also, the story of my clan-"
"THE DEMON HAS NO-" Now it was 2: 2: 1 because this kill went to Kushina's account. Which earned her angry looks from Anoth and the Anbu, which she answered with a grin. With the death of five council members and the arrest of one, only six civilian council members remained.
"-is not mentioned in the academy at all." Naruto continued ignoring the incident. "And although the symbol can be found all over the Jounin Flak Vests and even in the Hitai-ate, and it's thanks to the Uzumaki clan that Konoha is what it is today."
The last six members of the Civil Council were already sweating quite a bit.
"But let's get back to the academy, or more precisely, the jutsus that are necessary to graduate." Naruto continued. "Oh yes, Kawarimi, Henge, and the simplest version of the Bunshin, none of which is an offensive jutsu, all three are supplementary and very easy to learn, in fact, when you're digging through the old records you will find out that these are Jutsus that were taught in the first year, and now they are the final exam after three years of training? That's a joke!
"But that's not enough, the civilians boast that many of their children pass the academy, and yet more than 90% of them are sent back to the academy by the Jounin, and I think the question of why? I don't think it's necessary to answer it."
"That's true." agreed Kakashi Naruto. "I've been interviewing other Chunin and Jounin from the other villages and asking what they think of the local academy, and the answer was pretty much the same for everyone. In terms of academic education, Konoha has become the laughing stock of all Shinobi villages. "
"Yes, and here we have the problem." This time it was Anoth who spoke. "The civilians do not realize that what they are doing is not just hurting Naruto, it is completely Konoha."
"We protected Konoha from this D- ... this brat." One of the civilians protested, barely able to say what would equal his own death sentence. In fact the sword of the Anbu was already on half way to chop off his head.
"Protected Konoha?" this time the Hokage was speaking. "By making sure that Naruto could not fight back while trying to kill him?" the Hokage was angry, but he pulled himself together and then continued quietly. "Did you ever think about what would have happened, had you really killed Naruto."
The civilian side was silent.
"Do you think Kyuubi would have died with him?" Hiruzen raked after.
Here the council members nodded.
Anoth nodded to Naruto. He nodded back and released Kurami from his shadow plane. She rematerialized in her Anthromorphic form with a kimono.
"Do you really think I would have been so easy to kill?" she asked the civilians as she stood right in front of their tables and leaned on them. Those, however, had slid back a long way with their chairs. Two even fell over with their chairs. Meanwhile, Kurami had settled on the table. "Let's say you had succeeded." she continued. "Well, Naruto would have been dead and I would have escaped from the seal, Granted I would need several years to regain physical form and once that time was up, you would have had a very angry vixen right outside your gates, with only one aim to kill those who killed the one she considered to be her own offspring. And then what? You would not have anyone in whom you could have sealed me. Only an Uzumaki is able to hold me. "
"The Uchiha would be able to hold you." Two things were really infinite. The universe and idiocy.
"The Uchiha ?!" laughed Kurami. "Do not make me laugh, he would have been burned from the inside out."
"He is worth more than the demon!" again the idiots of the Civil Side. And with these words it was now 2: 3: 1.
"You really do not listen or do you?" Kurami asked a little bit annoyed at the brain dead idiots in the Civil Council. "I could explain it to you, but your pea brains are apparently incapable of learning, so I'll let the Hokagen do what he should have done years ago."
So she got up and snuggled up to Naruto, who began to stroke her over her head and play with her ears.
"Yes." said the Hokage. "Anbu! Take down any surviving members of the Civil Council and bring them to Ibiki, and clear away the garbage." With the latter sentence, he pointed to the dead council members lying on the ground.
"WHAT?!"
The Hokage ignored the breakout from the Civilian side. "They are arrested for sabotaging the training of Konoha's forces."
"THIS CAN NOT-" He did not get any further, when the protestor was sent to the Land where the sheep are jumping over a fence by one of the Anbu.
Shortly thereafter, the civilian side was empty.
"Result?" Anoth asked. "I have two."
"One." Kushina admitted.
"Three." said the third in a league and took off her mask. Under the mask was a grinning Yugao.
"That means Kushina is spending."
"Well, none of us expected the civil side to be so stupid." Kushina said.
"Yes."Anoth agreed. "I expected them to learn their lesson after the first dead, but their hatred was far too deep."
"So where?"
"Ichiraku!" It came not only from Kushina but also from Naruto and a few others.
"Before you do that," came the amused voice of the Hokagen, "let's finish this council meeting first."
The council meeting came to a close shortly afterwards. Without the civil side being able to make any interjections, everything was quickly agreed.
The war had been declared against Oto and Anoth had yet to warn Iwa and Kumo that they should better not use the conflict of Suna and Konoha against Oto to attack Konoha or any of their allies, as long as Konoha does not do the same. Should they do it anyway, the village responsible for it would be erased from the map by Anoth. The Otsutsuki Clan would do that if he forgets it.
For the conflict itself, Anoth would not stay, but the Otsutsuki clan would watch the events very closely.
Shortly thereafter, the council meeting was over. And the departure preparations were over a day later, but not before they had eaten Ichiraku for all his supplies. Who would have expected Naruto, Kushina and Yugao to eat so much?
Then the day of departure was there.
"When will you return?" Tsunade asked.
"Three years will pass here before we will come back." Anoth answered. "One of my people has just informed me that there are some Oto Shinobi in the Uchiha district right now to pick up Sasuke, including Kabuto. "
No sooner did the Hokage hear this ordered his Anbu to run there on the spot and check it. 20 Anbu made their way there on the spot.
"Kaguya, keep your position here until we return."
"Naturally." she replied.
"Everybody ready?" Anoth asked.
"A little nervous, but ... yes." said Naruto. Yugito and Fuu joined.
"See you again in three years." Anoth said, opening a portal with a wave of his hand.
A short time later they were gone.
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The Stardale
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As soon as Anoth, Naruto, Yugito and Fuu came out of the portal, they could feel Anoth getting angry. In parallel, they also felt that the target of Anoth's anger was not them.
" WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS? " His voice shook the hole City Ship.
Instantly everything came to a standstill around them.
Kuroka lay bleeding on the ground. Above her was someone with bat-like wings who was about to ram a blade into her chest. Before he could react, he felt an incredible force reach out and lift him to the air where he felt as if he had just been thrown into a junk press. Immediately afterwards there was only darkness when he was crushed in mid air. What was left of the body was thrown by Anoth with a wave of his hand into a corner of the room, where what remained of his body fell to dust.
The others, who had attacked Harry, Hermione, and Co., also learned to fly involuntarily as they were thrown from an unseen force to the other end of the room.
" I will not ask again. "
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With the uninvited guests
An hour before
Ukraine
The city Kropyvnytskyi
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Leodal of the House of Palphens, a lower house of the House of Phoenix, was on the hunt for Kuroka, probably the most sought after and best known stray cat of the underworld. She was wanted by the devils because she allegedly killed her Master because she went mad by Senjutsu.
He personally chased her because she was a Nekoshou. And beyond that, she would also do well as a sex slave.
After a long search, Leodal, together with his entourage, had tracked them down here in Ukraine and followed them to the town of Kropyvnytskyi, where they finally found them in a side street. They were about to attack when they just disappeared without warning into a flash of light.
It took almost an hour before they found out where she had disappeared and they had decided to follow her.
No sooner had they reappeared someone called out to them, "Who are you, what do you want here?"
Leodal growled. A simple mortal wanted to stop him. No, he was a magician. And he was aiming at him with his wand. It should be noted here that Leodal's abilities to judge someone, or to feel his aura, were not very well-developed. Unfortunately, this also applied to his entourage.
"That's none of your business!" growled one of Leodal's followers. Then his eye fell on Kuroka, who had since awakened again and sat on one of the steps. "Kuroka, I am here on behalf of the Phoenix Family! Raiser Phoenix wants you in his peerage! If you refuse, we will kill you!"
Kuroka just snorted. "I have no Evil Pieces left in me, so I'm no longer falling under your authority or your laws, devil ." There was only one problem. The ritual that Anoth had done to her had left her very weak and she would only regain her strength gradually. She could not afford a fight against Leodal, or his entourage at the moment. Ophis, please come back quickly, I'm not able to fight with full strength yet.
Ophis, along with the others who had come with her, left, and then wanted to come back with Great Red. But that could take a while. And it did not look as if Leodal would run off without a fight.
"So be it." growled Leodal "The venerable Lucifer has set out a bounty on you and I'll get that too!" He attacked.
Kuroka struggled as well as she could in her weakened condition, but was unable to defeat Leodal's queen in the end and was pinned under him.
Harry fiercely resisted along with Hermione, Neville, Daphne, Tonks, and Luna, but were pushed back further and further. Although they managed to kill several of Leodal's peerage or incapacitate them.
Then HE came back again.
His exclamation of "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" Effectively brought the fight to a halt. Then Kuroka sensed how the weight that had just captured her had disappeared from her, immediately after that she could see how Leodal's queen was literally crushed in mid air, only to be thrown like worthless garbage in a corner of the room.
Immediately afterwards, Leodal felt an invisible force reach out to him, then he felt himself flying and the next thing he felt was pain as he crashed into a wall with full force.
" I will not ask again ."
In the meantime, multiple of Anoth's Shadows had come out of him, in full combat gear, holding their weapons to the attackers lying on the ground. Another of them took care of the lying Kuroka and others around Harry and the rest, who were injured in the attack.
When no one answered after a few seconds, Anoth marched over to the obvious leader and seized him by the throat with enormous force, holding him in front of him. And so that he could see it in his eyes.
#Show me what you know!# Anoth's eyes lit up and Leodal started screaming in pain as he felt Anoth walk through his memories, destroying his mind in the process.
"So that's it." Anoth growled, breaking Leodal's neck as it happened, causing it to fall to dust. "On behalf of the Phoenix family, because the youngest of these turkeys wants to have a new sex slave."
"What should we do with them?" one of Anoth's shadows asked. From Leodal's entourage there were only four left. The rest was dead. Leodal included.
"These four will take advantage of the hospitality of our new prison station." Anoth growled. "They went to a place where they were not supposed to be, and they attacked people under my protection, and I do not care if they did it on command or not. They will be our guests for a long time. " With that Anoth turned and looked into a corner of the room where only seconds later Ophis and Big Red appeared.
"FATHER!" Before Anoth knew what was going on, he was already being run over by Big Red who was happily hugging him.
"Do you believe me now?" Ophis said as her blue eye healed. The two had once again argued.
"Nice to see you again, Little Red." said Anoth.
"Little Red" pouted. "I'll never grow out of that name, will I?"
"No chance." Anoth grinned as he ran his hand through her red hair. "For me you will always stay small."
Ophis chuckled into her hand.
However, Ophis's laugh vanished very quickly as Anoth's gaze settled on her. "So, Madame, what about you and the Chaos Brigade?" when he was released from "Little Red" and he was back on his feet.
Ophis had to swallow.
And so she began to tell. How she founded the Chaos Brigade, what they had done for them, everything. And also how she had given them her strength when she could not do what she had hired them for.
"And have you secured yourself in any way?" Anoth asked, still unable to believe what she had done.
"Well ... they signed a contract when I gave them my powers."
"A magical contract?"
"Yes."
"Then declare it to be broken, they've been pulling off your power for years and have done nothing."
Right after that, Ophis did exactly that. Because they had pledged to help Ophis drive Red out of their realm, but Red had voluntarily followed Ophis, the contract was void and she demanded all borrowed assets back from them. The only exception was Katerea, because she would continue to accompany Ophis.
For many members who had joined Rizevim Lucifer or the so-called hero faction, who were in reality little more like racist assholes, this was a black day.
It started with a slight pain in the chest, which quickly became stronger. Shortly thereafter, ethereal snakes shot out of them and disappeared before they even had a chance to know what just happened.
That's not enough. The effects of relying on the power of Ophis now became apparent. Their bodies were so focused on Ophis's powers that they lost their strength themselves with the loss of Ophis' power. Many of them completely.
Some, like Rizevim, got away with a black eye. Others, like the leader of the Hero faction, not only lost all their powers, but their sacred gear as well. They were not taken from them, but they could no longer use it.
Meanwhile, Ophis received all her power back, which came to her in the form of serpents. As soon as that happened, she sent out instructions, above all to the Arthur siblings and to Bikou, that they should keep an eye on the other activities of the Chaos Brigade and if they, or their allies, were planning something to inform her immediately.
"Okay, I think we'll finish this one then." Anoth said, "But just in case, the others mean they have to teleport into here, where their noses have no business to be."
Anoth released a massive energy impulse that closed off the dimension of the Stardale. Now there was only one way in and out. And that was over Gringotts.
"No more uninvited guests." said Anoth. "The only access is now only over Gringotts." Anoth turned to the others. "Do we want then?"
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Gringotts
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Sometime later, all of them found themselves back in the Vault, where the Teleporter was to the Stardale. The only way in to the Stardale and out again.
And as soon as they stood in front of the Vault, which sealed the goblins shortly thereafter, Anoth contacted the Ravager , who was in orbit.
"Anoth to Ravager."
"I hear you." came the answer of Ashiasa, Anoth's Khajiit concubine.
"I have four detainees here for the detention cells, they have isolinear markings."
"Do I want to know where you got them from?"
"You will learn later, as soon as we are back on board?"
"Roger that." came Ashiasas answer. "Targets are sensor locked, initiating transport."
Immediately after, the four captured devils disappeared into a flash of light. And rematerialized again, separated, in the cells aboard the Ravager.
"All right, Anoth end."
"Isolinear markings, huh?" muttered the goblin standing by the cart. "Clever."
"How do you know about isolinear markings?"
"Our species was not always known as goblins." replied the goblin. "But that's a story that Ragnok can tell you."
"Where to go?" the goblin asked shortly afterwards.
The answer came from Harry. "My trust vault."
"Alright, all boarding."
A few minutes later, they faced Vault 687. The Trust Vault of the Potter family. There they took only a little money and after that they were already out of the Vault again. Barely outside Anoth contacted Miana, who continued to secure the landing zone.
"Anoth to Miana."
"I hear you." came the voice of Miana, who was still guarding the landing zone.
"I'll send you some gold coins or galleons and a shopping list with the names of the stores where you find the ingredients for the potions, all in Knockturn Alley, then we can bring the Potters and Longbottoms back to the realm of the living."
"I have the list and the coins, then I'll go shopping, Miana's end."
"When do we look at the other Vaults?" Harry asked.
"When we are back." Anoth answered. "They will not run away."
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A short time later
Ragnok's office
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"What Hammerclaw told you is true." Ragnok said as they all stood or sat in an office. "We were not always known as goblins, our real species name is Furling, and when the Lanteans fled the Pegasus galaxy, we were one of the allies they made in this galaxy, so they entrusted us with the Stardale back then .
"My ancestor was there when we lost the conflict with the Goa'uld, and more than 10,000 Goa'uld ships destroyed our Homeworld. What's in the Gringotts storages on Terra is all that's left of the Furling race.
"The Nox have retreated to their planet, as far as we know, and the Asgard have left this galaxy and sought a new Homeworld somewhere in the Ida galaxy. We, like the Lanteans instead renounced most of our technology and focused on surviving. We were too few to take on the Goa'uld in any way, and since the Goa'uld were effectively looking for us, escape was out of the question, so we hid from them. Hoping that one day, the first allies would re-enter this galaxy to continue where we failed. "
"Yes, we have already met one of these Goa'uld, except one who probably started losing his mind some time ago." Anoth said, confirming to Ragnok that the Goa'uld were still active in the galaxy.
It was Harry who spoke up. "I plan to resurrect the great alliance with Ragnok and side by side with the Seraphim, this time we will certainly not fail, but before we can do that, we need to complete our training."
"That's why we all carried this seal." said Daphne. "Just to prevent that."
"Yes, thanks to the Ministry." growled Neville. "But they ultimately helped us a lot more than hindered us."
"That's probably true." Tonks said. "Fudge has always been paranoid and scared."
They discussed a few other trifles, but the rest were postponed until after training. It would take 2,000 years for them to practice. Here, however, it was only a few days.
And so, just minutes later, they found themselves on the steps outside Gringotts.
"Well that was very informative." said Harry, talking to Naruto. Mainly about his life in Konoha and if it would be possible to learn different techniques. In fact, Harry had already made a Kagebunshin. It was only one, but Harry was still proud of it.
Shortly afterwards, they heard a hateful. "POTTER!" and then they were attacked.
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Hogwarts
A few minutes earlier
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Dumbledore was sitting behind his desk, sucking on a lemon drop as usual and planning. His farmer had somehow left and it was still not clear where he was. The Dursleys had disappeared without a trace and also his people had no idea what exactly happened.
He was torn from his thoughts as the Floo started.
"Albus! Albus!" that was the voice of a member of the Order. "We have spotted them, they are currently in Diagon Alley, but with unknown escort."
"Thank you, my boy, keep an eye on them, I'll call the Order together."
Half an hour later, Dumbledore and the rest of the Order of the Phoenix were in Diagon Alley, waiting for Harry to come back out from Gringotts.
Only about an hour later, they came out of the bank. And of course it was Serverus Snape again, who could not bring his anger under control.
"POTTER!" Before anyone had a chance to react, he already attacked. Except that the shot spell was blocked by a mud wall that had came out of nowhere. Immediately after, the adult in the group raised his hand and fired a lightning bolt at Serverus. It broke through his hastily erected shield and immediately sent him into unconsciousness, where he remained lying on the steps. Other spells were stopped by Anoth's shield. A short time later, Anoth enlarged his shield exponentially, sending all the attackers flying. Including Dumbledore.
"Good reaction Naruto." said the adult.
"Arrest him!" Commanded the leader of the outside guards of Gringotts and pointed to the lying on the ground Snape. Immediately afterwards, several goblin warriors stormed towards Serverus, who only seconds later found himself in several shackles. "Gringotts steps are also part of Gringotts territory and we do not tolerate attacking our customers in our territory." the goblin shouted loud enough that everyone heard it. "Put him in a cell. Ragnok will judge him."
Shortly thereafter, Snape had disappeared inside Gringotts.
No sooner had this happened than Anoth contacted the Dropship, which immediately moved towards the group. Ready to pick them up.
"Harry, my boy." came Dumbledore's unwanted voice.
"What do you want?" came Harry's cold answer.
Dumbledore tried to get closer, but hit the shield, which stopped him abruptly. "Harry, my boy, I'm so disappointed in you, why did you run away from your loving relatives, they'll miss you already."
"Run away?!" exclaimed Harry, who could not believe what he had heard from Dumbledore. "I have told you often enough that I do not want to go back to those ... those ... animals, but no, you always insisted that I be sent back to Privet Drive 4 in Surrey. Back to the rabid animals that I call my Aunt and uncle. But that will not happen again, because they are now in a place that you cannot reach anyway, unlike the many other times when they were arrested for child abuse and where you simply took them out . Mister Obliviator! "The last two words were dripping with hatred. "We two have nothing to discuss with each other, Dumbdork!"
"Our taxi is here." said Anoth. "Just step in the beam." Anoth continued as the Dropship came to a stop right above them and the bottom flaps opened. That was all that was to be seen from the massive 240m long Jakotana class. The rest of the ship remained cloaked.
That made the wizards see only that a massive door opened in the middle of the air from which a beam of light shone down.
Kuroka was the first to enter the beam of light. Closely followed by Yura. The first thing that made Kuroka felt as she entered the light was like she was feeling weightless as she was lifted up quite quickly by the beam, where she was then dropped off onto the deck of the Dropship. A really very strange feeling. "Well, that was something else." she just said afterwards.
So, gradually, everyone else came on board. Only Anoth stayed down there for a few more seconds.
Several Aurors had appeared in Diagon Alley and had tried to break the shield to arrest Anoth. However, much to their shock, they were completely ignored.
"I do not know why the wizarding idiots think that the light shines out of your ass, Dumbledore, but I honestly do not care, because one thing is certain, Harry is not under your control anymore, and your house of cards is about to collapse. " With these words he entered the beam of light and disappeared.
As soon as Anoth was on board, the hatches closed. Then they heard only a soft howl that quickly disappeared.
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15 minutes later
Aboard the Ravager
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"That damn old goat!" Harry was obviously angry.
"He's not worth it, Harry." Hermione replied, wrapping her arms around Harry.
"You're right Mione, he's limited to his small, insignificant world, but there's so much more to see, things he cannot even imagine."
"Yes, and honestly, I cannot wait." Harry admitted. "Departure is in 30 minutes, if we want to wrap something up then we should do that now."
"Wow." breathed Kuroka as she walked down the ramp of the Dropship, looking around the massive shuttle ramp with wide eyes. Naruto felt nothing better and he could feel how Kurami and all the others in him had their jaws dropped to the floor. They knew about the Ravager, but being on the ship now was something else.
"Ah." Yura called, looking around. "Good old Ravager, nice to be on board again."
Fuu and Yugito looked around with wide eyes as well. They had already seen the ship through the special windows of the Dropship. But to stand on it. Wow. Just wow. Chomei and Matatabi in them felt nothing better.
And that was just the tip of the iceberg.
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The bridge of the Ravager
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Meanwhile, Anoth chatted with Ashiasa on the bridge, who informed him of the latest sensor results. Yura was there too. But she kept in the background.
"So, what do we have?" Anoth asked.
"We've recovered the Tel'tak, as well as a ring transporter found there and some other Goa'uld Tech, including a Kara'kesh, but there is something else has fallen into our hands." With these words, the Khajiit led Anoth to a fish tank in Anoth's ready room where two snake-like creatures were now swimming their tracks. "May I introduce Osiris and Isis."
"Where did you find them?"
"We found them in so-called Kanopen jugs on the bottom of the sea and they were in stasis for more than 5,000 years."
"You found more?" Anoth asked as he turned to face Ashiasa.
"Yes, we found a Goa'uld queen in an old temple complex in Central America, she was still in an active sarcophagus, is currently in a stasis capsule and the sarcophagus is in one of our cargo holds. And we found this here. " She led Anoth over to a holographic table on the bridge and activated the map, which revealed a three-dimensional image of a mansion plot.
"There's an active Goa'uld at this mansion near Seattle, we're not sure yet how to deal with it, because our sensors have detected a gas in the air that has reduced the other people in the mansion to little more than slaves, and there are two ring transports and one transporter jammer that makes direct teleportation impossible. "
Anoth stared at the display for several minutes, looking at the location of the two ring transports. They will not get into that mansion easily because the ring transporter down the tunnel was connected with the counterpart right in front of the Goa'uld throne.
Then an idea came to him.
"Ion torpedoes."
"I'm afraid I can not quite follow you now." said Ashiasa confused.
"The Ion torpedoes were designed to paralyze enemy ships by emitting an ionic impulse, but theoretically they could be modified to deliver a stunning impulse."
"You realize that these torpedoes are still in the test phase, right?"
"Yes, but it should be doable."
"If we can do that, then you've just created a new genre of weapons and a new title for your collection."
"Do not remind me." Anoth's titles were extremely numerous. and the worst part was that EVERY TITLE he had to be called out loud in official affairs. Anoth had found a simple solution for that. While the guidelines require that they be named, there stands nothing in it that they must be called out in an understandable form. So he recorded all titles in the computer and then let them play it with 10,000 times the speed after his most important title had been called out. Which made it easy to hear mouse squeals for a few seconds, but his titles were named and thus the protocol was done. Even if nobody understood the titles. "Did you find anything else?"
"Yes we have." The picture changed and now showed the military base of Cheyenne Mountain. "We located a Type 2 Stargate on the lowest level, it seems to have been used before, so we left it there, but we found even more." The picture now switched to one of the polar caps.
A Mark 2? That thing belongs in a museum. Anoth thought, but let Ashiasa continue to report unhindered.
"We found another Stargate deep under the ice here, as well as an old Alteran outpost, and there's something else."
The picture changed again and swerved away from the outpost. A flashing red dot became visible. "A sign of life in the ice, it's Alteran, it seems to have been in stasis for millions of years, and the sensors have confirmed the presence of the plague within it."
"Can we beam it on board?"
"Yes."
"In the isolation ward." ordered Anoth. "And inform the infirmary."
"Target is on board and infirmary is informed."
"Do we have more?"
"Yes, we have a third, but inactive gate located. This, however is a Mark 6."
"Mark 6. Were it not the standard gates for the Atlantis class city ships?"
"That's right."
"Where is it located?"
The image on the holo table changed again and now showed the wreckage of what had once been a sea freighter. With a clearly visible hole in the fuselage side.
It looks as if the ship was sunk by a torpedo, and time dating estimates the time of its demise to be around 80 years ago - when a dialing computer was present, it was probably destroyed by the explosion of the torpedo. " Ashiasa reported. "This puts it in a time that falls into an epoch which, according to the historical database that we put together in meantime, was called World War I. We have recovered it and it is now in one of our cargo ramps. We could locate the missing dialing computer from the gate in Cheyenne Mountain in a military camp in uh ... "She briefly called up the Political Map of the Earth. "... Russia. It's now in one of our cargo ramps. "She paused for a moment. "Did I forget something else?" She thought for a moment.
"Oh yeah, we've discovered something else, another energy signal, it's also Alteranic, this time in Britain, near Glastonbury Tor, it seems to be a hologram emitter, but we're not sure we found a ring transporter there." Ashiasa explained. "I've sent a team to take a closer look and they should contact us at any time now."
Just at that moment, not only a response from the team arrived from Glastonbury Tor but also Harry and the rest came on the bridge. Anoth just gave them a little nod and told them they could see.
"Away team to Ravager, we have arrived at the target zone." reported the leader of the team. "Our sensors report a cave with a breathable atmosphere. We use the ring transporter we brought with us." A short break. "We're in the cave now, switching to optical transmission."
On one of the screens the inside of the cave became visible. It was striking that there was a stone in the middle of the room, with a sword in it.
"We get you loud and clear away team." Anoth answered. "Look around carefully, we do not know if there are traps there."
"Confirmed." came the answer back.
"Ashiasa, how do they dial the gate in Cheyenne Mountain?" Anoth asked, after recalling a detail that Ashiasa had mentioned in her previous report. They did not have a regular dialing computer for the gate there.
"They ... connected the gate to one of their primitive computers, bypassing some of the security measures." Ashiasa replied after a quick look. "Why?"
"Try to get access to their computer."
"I'll put Zephyr on it." Zephyr was the ship AI, which took the form of a griffin. "Meanwhile, your two Tekara can evaluate the log files of the gate in Cheyenne Mountain."
$ Yes, we can do that. $ Confirmed the two Tekara, who rematerialized directly and made their way to the computer core of the Ravager.
Meanwhile, Anoth continued to watch the live stream of the away team.
"It looks like ... no, I'm sure the sword is a hologram." As soon as he said that, the hologram of an old man appeared.
"Welcome, ye knights of the round table, men of honor, followers of the path of righteousness. Only those with wealth of knowledge and truth of spirit shall be given access to the underworld, the storehouse of riches of Ambrosius Aurelianus. Prove ye worthy, and all shall be revealed." As soon as the hologram had said that, it disappeared again.
"Hence the energy values." Anoth muttered.
"We're going deeper now." reported the leader of the outside team. "The way seems to be dividing in two here. We split up."
The screen now showed two pictures. One from Team A and another for Team B.
"Team Alpha here, we've entered a dark room, there seems to be a kind of logic puzzle in the middle, it looks like we have to crack this one before we can get out of here." Reported the team when they realized that the access behind them had closed and the ceiling had started to lower.
Team 1 had two pots in front of him. One golden and one silver. Each had a sentence in front of them. The Golden ones said, "Space is infinite." and before the silver ones. "The treasure is in this pot."
"It's a simple right or wrong puzzle." He opened the Golden Pot and found a coin in it, which he simply left lying there. No sooner was the puzzle solved than the ceiling lifted again.
Team 2 reported that they too were dealing with a logic puzzle, a reflection puzzle with the numbers one to eight. Only on the stones were not only the numbers, but also its mirror images. Therefore, they were not immediately recognizable as numbers. Only a few minutes later they found themselves back by the sword, where an old-fashioned knight had appeared in heavy armor.
"Well, we should fight." said one of the members of the field team. "Who is the best swordsman of ours?"
"I." said another member, pulling the sword out of the stone.
The fight against the knight was far less impressive than they had expected. He was defeated in seconds.
"And what's next?" the leader asked the team when the cave did not change.
The one who had fought the knight earlier, looked briefly at the holographic sword in his hand. Shrugged and put it back in the rock.
That was the capstone of the puzzle, because now a transporter activated and lots of jewelry and jewels and other treasures appeared in the cave.
"Okay away team, I see what happened." Anoth said over the radio. "Take your tricorders and scan all that stuff in. Let's see if we can find anything more interesting than gold, gems and all that worthless rubbish."
It took a few minutes, then came back the message that they had actually found something among all the worthless gold. Namely a book and a device, which could not be determined exactly. Plus associated control stones.
"We beam everything on board and analyze it here, including the hologram generator and ring transporter." ordered Anoth. Only a minute later, the cave was empty and everything aboard the Ravager in one of the cargo holds. Only the book and the unknown device were beamed to one of the labs for analysis. As well as the data memory of the hologram generator.
"Well, I think we'll finish it here, we'll meet in two minutes, and then we'll leave. Hangar 4. " Anoth said to Harry, who passed it on to the others.
A few minutes later they were there.
"Everything ready?" asks Anoth.
He got a chorus of yes answers back.
"We're back in a month." he told the parents, who were understandably worried. But their time, even if they stay back on the Ravager, will never be boring. They still had a lot to learn. And so would the apprenticeship for the parents begin. Yura and Ashiasa would do that. "Let's go then."
With these words, Anoth opened the portal and Harry, Hermione, Tonks, Daphne, Neville, Luna, Fuu, Yugito, Naruto, Kuroka, and finally Anoth, stepped through.
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A / N: That took forever.
