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Chapter 15: The dragons roar on death island.
It had been a couple of days as Naruto and his group got to know one another.
Jiraiya and Tsunade were both beaten badly in a sparring match by Minato and Kushina, mainly as payback for them not being a part of Naruto's life for so long. All seemed well afterwards, but it was obvious that their relationship with the two sannin was shamed.
Naruto walked past the training yard and found the one-eyed swordsman Guts, and Date. The man moving surprisingly quickly with the six-foot four-hundred-pound sword in his hands, and clashed loudly with Date's six swords style, an unorthodox style that is very effective from what he had seen. As he watched, so did Serpico, Casca, Isidiro, and Schierke.
Naruto remembered the group's story. Guts and Casca were both a part of the Band of the Hawk, a mercenary guild. One day they were called to take out a person attacking a village. They didn't know what happened, but soon the entire group was wiped out by a single man. Guts and Casca had been the only ones to survive, with Guts losing his eye and arm to the man, who simply touched his arm and caused it to explode. The only reason they survived was due to a hermit who happened to be going to the town for food, a man named Godo, the same man who made Guts' arm and sword. After being cleared by a professional doctor, the duo was cleared to leave and became mercenaries. They wanted to find the man who killed all their friends. Guts and Casca agreed to join, but Guts said he would leave if he ever felt that their little guild would get in the way of his revenge. This made Naruto wary of the black swordsman, seeing some of Sasuke in his thirst for revenge, but Casca kept him grounded at least. Naruto made sure to share his fears with his parents to agreed that they would be keeping a close eye on the duo.
Serpico and Isidiro would be the next to join the group. The former was a cadet of the rune knights. Unfortunately, the group he was with was corrupt, and allowed a gang of miscreants, one of which was an unwilling Isidiro, a run away at the time, to go almost unchecked. When Isidiro tried to go to his superiors with the findings of corruption, he was met with a willingly blind captain, who told him that his team wasn't part of any scandal and was laughed out before being dishonorably discharged for trying to start rumors. It only made it more embarrassing for the rune knights, and satisfying for Serpico, when the corruption was exposed by a member of Lamia Scale.
This brought in Isidiro, who joined around the same time as Serpico. Serpico was a part of the gang that had been a part of the gang of miscreants, having been born into it due to an affair between the gang's leader and some random woman. He was mistreated horribly, but he had nowhere to go. However, that came to an end when Guts came to town. Guts got into a fight with the gang's leader when he tried to put the moves on Casca and thought Guts would be too chicken to stop him. The end result was a huge brawl, with the thug leader losing most of his teeth. Soon after the rune knights showed up and started making arrests, and Isidiro turned on his so-called father, exposing him as a criminal and the corrupt knights in Serpico's squad. When Guts left, Isidiro and Serpico decided to tag along, the former because he wanted to get as far away from the town as possible, and the latter because he had grown to respect Guts after a rather one-sided fight between them.
Next to join the group was Schierke. The young mage was a part of a village that Guts, and his now expanded group, stayed at. Unfortunately, the village was attacked by a huge group of trolls. Guts and his crew managed to hold them off just long enough for Schierke to end them with a powerful water spell, thanks to her affinity for stave magic. Unfortunately, the village was destroyed, and several of the villagers blamed her for her lack of control, essentially banishing her. Guts and his crew decided to bring her along deciding she was useful as she knew the area, and because most of them knew what it was like to not have anywhere to go.
The final members to join were Wendy and Carla. The group had arrived at Cait Shelter and wound up revealing to Wendy that it was populated by ghosts, the remains of Cait Shelter had died out years ago. It had heartbroken the girl, but Casca and the other managed to help her get over her grief, and eventually joined the group, much to Carla's disbelief and slight discomfort.
Naruto walked away from the training room and walked down several halls in the temple. Eventually, he came to a room and entered. Inside was Wendy with Naraku and Tsunade. The girl was laying in bed, with Carley next to her looking slightly nervous.
"Are you sure she is okay?" Carla asked, earning a deep groan from Tsunade
"For the fifth time, yes!" Tsunade said, "Her body is just adjusting to Naraku's magic…still having a hard time hearing myself say it. Anyway, it should wear off in another two weeks and she'll be fine."
Naraku said, "For a cat you sure are high strung."
Carla turned and glared at Naraku and said, "I'm allowed to be high strung because you got her sick, boy!"
Naruto rolled his eyes. When he revealed to the group that dragon magics could be mixed. Wendy wanted to do it. She had wanted to have something that made her magic stronger, not only for her new guild, but for herself as well. She wound up choosing Naraku, who Azure Dragon was a mix of wind, fire, and lighting magic, making it somewhat more adaptable to her. However, she was still trying to stomach the new power, which wasn't going very well.
Meanwhile…
"That's it. just one more mile. You got this."
Shizune ran alongside an exhausted looking Yakumo Kurama. The girl had joined a few days prior. After waking up in her home for a midnight snack, the girl had overheard her uncle speaking to someone about using her for some deal involving traders. Knowing how much her uncle hated her for the lapse of control years ago, she decided to leave nothing to chance, taking the portable kunai Naruto gave her and teleported her away. She wasn't physically fit enough to fight, so Tsunade and Shizune immediately put the girl on a strict diet and exercise regimen. She had done well and was quickly working her way up.
Naruto smiled at the progress his guild was making. They had managed to trade in some of the gold, silver, and precious gems from the Uzumaki treasures. It turns out that the gems were nearly flawless, and if that wasn't enough it turns out that the real gold used in the coins, was worth a lot more than the gold used to make the Jewels, so they gained a lot of funding when they traded in at a local bank. Of course, a banker tried to screw them over, but a wavy haired Kushina stopped them.
A sudden explosion followed by a loud series of curses reached Naruto's ears coming from the anti-magic room. Minato, Jiraiya, and Kushina had all commandeered the room to use it as a lab to keep the magic in the air from messing with the seals that were going into building Tsunade's soon to be made elemental weapons. However, it was tricky, and nothing had been working, resulting in a lot of confusion.
Naruto walked through the halls of the guild, until he felt something pulse in his pocket dimension. Pulling out his communication lacrima it showed him the file for another member to join the guild. It also showed him that this would be the last he would be hearing from the goddesses as they had already helped him enough. After reading through it, Naruto switch to the communication Lacrima and turned it on.
"Mom get Naraku. We are going to get our final member," Naruto said.
A few minutes later the trio was walking down the path from the temple to the town, more specifically the train station.
Kushina asked, "So where are we going?"
Naruto answered, "Our last member was last seen on Galuna Island. I have no idea what he is doing there, or much about the island itself, but if he is there, we need to find him."
Naraku raised an eyebrow and said, "Galuna Island? I wonder what he's doing on the island of the moon?"
As they approached the train station, Naruto asked, "You know more about the island than I do."
The azure dragon slayer answered, "I don't know much about it. All I know is that you can gather moonlight there, which can be used for some old rituals for good luck, bad luck, or if you just want to have a fancy night light. It's just east of Hargeon, so it should only be a few hours until we get there."
Naruto nodded and said, "Okay. Let's get on the train. The sooner we get there the better."
The trio ordered their tickets, got on the train, and headed south for Hargeon. However, there was one unexpected problem.
Naraku and Naruto both suddenly doubling over feeling their stomach churning, and their strength draining.
"Okay, what the hell?" Naruto asked.
Naraku said, "You don't travel much on vehicle do you. It's a side effect of being a dragon slayer. We tend to get motion sick."
Naruto dry heaved and let out a belch as he said, "Oh, come on. Seriously? That's stupid. That's like grabbing a monkey by the tail and saying that drains it of its power."
Kushina simply sat between the boys and rubbing their backs gently, hoping to help the two.
An hour of stomach-churning hell later…
"Finally!" Naruto said as they exited the train, "I think I'll stick to using portals to get places."
Naraku let out a belch, his stomach still settling, and said, "Yeah. If we ever got into a fight on a train, or on anything moving we would be screwed sideways."
Naruto said, "Yeah, at least we don't have to worry about that again."
"Uh, honey…" Kushina said, bursting her son's bubble, pointing far out.
Naruto followed her finger and saw that he was going to have to get in a boat to get to Galuna.
Naruto let out a groan as he said, "I'm starting to hate this job."
Kushina said, "Don't complain dear. You are a man."
A few minutes later, after getting a boat, the two dragon slayers were laying over the sides of the boat looking about ready to throw up. Kushina and the captain of the boat, who had been paid a hefty sum to go near the supposedly curse island, watched in disbelief.
"You should know that you aren't the only people to come that island," the captain told the red-haired woman, "Yesterday, a few mages from Fairy Tail went to that island to try and break the curse on it."
Kushina blinked and asked, "Fairy Tail…this should be interesting. You hear that, Naruto, we'll get to see Fairy Tail!"
Still groaning in discomfort, Naruto raised his arm shakily with a thumb pointed up.
The ship slowly came to a stop and the ship dropped anchor.
The captain said, "We can't go any farther. Any closer and my men may try to mutiny."
Kushina said, "I guessed as much. I'll take it from here."
The woman then picked up both Naruto and Naraku and slightly bent her knees.
"Fire Make: Greaves and Afterburn!"
Flames erupted and condense around Kushina's legs forming a pair of boots. Suddenly, they ignited and launched her and her two passengers into the air. Naruto and Naraku suddenly woke up, as she reached the apex of her flight and fell to the ground below, landing hard on both feet, forming craters in the sand.
Naruto yelled, "Oh thank god!"
Kushina let out a breath and said, "I'm glad that's over. I thought you two were going to throw up all over me for a second."
Naraku said, "Actually, I think it might have to do with the fact that we got off the ship. One time, when I got hurt back in my old town, a guy carried me back on a makeshift gurney and I didn't get sick at all. I think the whole motion sickness thing might be mental and physical."
Naruto said, "So we get sick when we are in a vehicle, but not when we are carried by someone. At least we know this won't potentially ruin piggyback rides with my kids."
Naruto blinked as realized something.
"Is it just me or does the moon look a little off?"
The group looked up to see that the night sky to see the moon in its full glory, the normally white circle a bright purple hue.
"Okay, that is weird," Kushina said, "And I'm starting to realize why there is a guild here. Come on, let's see if we can find anyone. Did those three friends of yours tell you where eon the island our last member is?"
Naruto answered, "No, but I think there might be an answer to that somewhere on the island."
Naruto harnessed his chakra and used his sensor abilities. He couldn't reach very far, but he did sense a lot of people nearby. A village from what he could tell.
Naruto nodded and said, "I think I found a town. We might be able to get some information there."
The other two nodded and made their way out. They soon found a town surrounded by a huge wooden wall with spikes on it, and a sign that said keep out.
"It looks like they aren't taking any visitors," Naruto said as he approached the door and knocked on it, calling out, "Hello, is anybody there?"
Suddenly, someone came out from atop the wall and said, "Hey, can't you read? The sign says go away."
Kushina yelled, "Listen, we just want some information. That is all."
The guard yelled, "I don't care. Unless you're with Fairy Tail, stay away from the village."
Naraku looked up and yelled, "Listen, we're looking for someone. He's been on the island for a while now."
The guard was quiet and said, "Okay, listen. We will allow you entrance, but at the first sign of trouble, we'll sic Fairy Tail on you. You got that, punks?"
After confirming the information, the door opened, and Naruto and company entered the village. The group was shocked at what they saw. The village looked like it was half destroyed, and there were what they guessed were demons all around them.
"What the hell happened here?" Naruto asked, confused.
A short man, with dark skin and white sideburns that ran down to his hips, wearing tribal gear said, "Before we go answering any questions, I want to know who you are? You aren't with the people who attacked our village are you?"
Naruto said, "We don't even know what the hell is happening here. My name is Naruto, this is my comrade Naraku, and my mother Kushina. What happened here?"
The man stared at Naruto and his friend. Finally, he sighed and said, "I'm sorry for being so rude. My name is Moka, and I'm the leader of this village. You see, for the past few years we've been affected by a horrible curse, and the Fairy Tail guild came to help us, and we recently found out that there is some kind of crazy ritual going on."
Suddenly, a new voice said, "I believe I can take it from here."
The trio turned and saw that saw a trio approaching them. The first was a red-haired woman with brown eyes and wearing armor with a gold cross on the left side of her chest, over the famous Fairy Tail stamp. If it wasn't for the fact that they were in a different dimension, Naruto would have thought that he had found a cousin from the Uzumaki clan.
Behind her were three people, two of which were wrapped in ropes. The first was an attractive blonde with the Fairy Tail stamp on his hand. The second was a blue cat with a green backpack.
The trio idly wondered if the cat was an exceed like Carla, or just another magical cat.
Finally, there was a shirtless boy with black hair, and the Fairy Tail stamp on his pectoral.
"Who are you?" the red head asked, a distrustful look in her eyes.
Naruto said, "My name is Naruto. This is my mother Kushina and my friend Naraku. We're here on business."
The black-haired boy asked, "What kind of business? Nobody comes to a cursed island for entertainment."
Naruto sighed and said, "We're here to try and recruit someone into our guild."
The red head examined the trio and said, "I don't see any guild stamps on you. You wouldn't happen to be from a dark guild, would you?"
Kushina said, "Well, excuse us for not having a fancy name or tattoos. Listen, we're just here to find a potential recruit."
Black hair stepped forward and said, "Listen lady, I don't care where you're from. Right now, we have bigger problems than some red head, her brat, and some punk!"
Kushina snarled and grabbed the boy by his shoulder and lifted him off the ground growling, "First off, I have a name brat, use it. Second, I don't know what your attitude problem is, but I really don't care."
In a flash of a magic seal, the red head mage pulled out a weapon and pointed it at the woman.
"I suggest you drop him."
Kushina's response was to reach out, grab the blade, and in a flash of red light, the metal melted in her grip.
The younger red head was shocked at the sudden change to her weapon and glared at the woman.
The exceed asked, "Wow…with that temper she must be related to Erza somehow. You think she might be her mom?"
The blonde ignored the cat and yelled, "Erza, don't fight them. We're going to need all the help we can get, especially if Deliora wakes up!"
Hearing the urgency in her voice, Erza realized it was true.
She said, "Who are you looking for?"
Naruto answered, "Scars on his face, long black hair, fangs in his mouth."
Suddenly, Moka interjected, "That…that sounds like the outcast! He showed up a little over two years ago. He lives on the other side of the island and doesn't seem to bother anyone."
Naruto asked, "Outcast?"
Moka answered, "Some sailors dropped him off on the island, saying that this cursed island would be his grave for something he did or for what his guild did. Personally, I didn't catch a lot of the conversation, and my boy Bobo died around that time, so I don't have all the information."
Naruto nodded and said, "Listen, we'll help you take care of this…Deliora thing. Once, that is over, however, our business is done. Do we have a deal?"
The woman looked uncomfortable, but said, "I guess so. I am Erza of Fairy Tail. This is Gray, Happy, and Lucy."
Naraku then stepped forward and said, "I'm more interested in this Deliora thing. What's that got to do with anything?"
Gray glanced over at Naraku, slightly surprised by his resemblance to Natsu, before he said, "Deliora is a demon and some idiot old friend of mine wants to wake up."
Gray proceeded to tell the trio about what had happened. How they had come for an S-rank job to clear a curse for the island, only to run into Gray's old friend, Lyon, who had become obsessed with surpassing their teacher Ur, who had sacrificed herself to stop it, all the while taking off his pants, which lead to Kushina punching him in the face and calling him a pervert.
"Hey," Happy said, floating towards Naraku, "You wouldn't happen to be related to Natsu would you?"
Naraku raised an eyebrow and asked, "Who?"
At this point, everyone realized it was starting to get dark. When the sun set, the moon was revealed to be glowing purple. To the shock of the newcomers, the people's bodies mutated, switching out for scales, and other different body parts.
"Curse?" Kushina asked.
"Curse," Lucy said, before turning to Gray and yelling, "and will you put your pants back on!"
Gray reapplied his pants and said, "We have to stop Lyon."
There was a sudden flash of light, and a huge jet of flame erupted from the forest nearby.
"Natsu!" Happy yelled, sprouting wings and flying off int the direction of the blast.
Naruto said, "Mom, Naraku, go after him. If he uses fire magic, then you should be able to help each other. I'll head with the others to take on the rest."
Kushina and Naraku nodded and ran out towards the blast.
The remaining mages proceeded to head towards the temple with Gray leading the charge.
"Hope you can keep up," Gray said, "Jump on Lucy."
Lucy looked surprised before she jumped on Gray's back saying, "You better not get any funny ideas, Fullbuster!"
Gray then leapt forward and called out, "Ice Make: Sled!"
A light blue magic circle appeared in front of Gray's arms and he blasted the ground with ice. A layer of it formed in front of him and he began sliding on the frozen surface at a much faster pace.
As the pair took off, Erza and Naruto decided to follow their example.
"Re-quip: Flight Armor!"
In a flash of light, Erza's armor was replaced with a rather skimpy cheetah themed two-piece suit. With a grunt, she launched after the remaining members of her guild. Deciding not to be out done, Naruto summon the gold and black flames of his slayer magic on his arms and legs, and using his reflector magic, unleashing a spiraling inferno from both, launching himself forwards, his legs acting like thrusters and his arms like stabilizers.
With their speed now greatly increased, they launched forward heading towards the temple.
meanwhile…
"Fire Dragon Roar!"
A boy with salmon (pink) colored hair a vest, and white mage pants, and shoes unleashed a massive blast of fire right from his mouth a man in a cloak and tribal mask.
The man simply formed a field around his body and the flames flashed out of existence.
"Damn lost magic," Natsu growled angrily, having not had any success in his fight with the woman so far.
"Fire Make: Eagles!"
"Azure Dragon Roar!"
A trio of birds made of flame, and a column of bright blue flames shot past Natsu and rocketed towards the man. He dodged the attacks and avoided the wave. However, he was tackled by Happy who had used his acceleration ability to smash into the man, knocking him backwards.
"Happy!" Natsu yelled, happy to see his friend.
However, the pink-haired mage turned back when he caught scents he didn't recognize. He turned to see Kushina and Naraku running towards them.
"I take it you're Natsu," Naraku said, examining the dragon slayer.
The two looked at each other and Natsu yelled, "Hey, who are you? And what are you trying to copy me for!?"
Naraku said, "I'm not trying to copy you! I'm my own dragon slayer damn it!"
Natsu stopped and said, "Wait, you're a dragon slayer too? Do you know what happened to yours?"
Naraku said, "Maybe we should save that for later. What can you tell us about this guy?"
Natsu turned towards the mask man and said, "His name is Zalty, and he uses lost magic that cancels out our magic and powers. Though, it doesn't seem to work entirely on living beings."
Kushina smirked and said, "Okay, so we got to get him to hold still."
Kushina slammed her hand on the ground and unleashed a massive wave of chakra as a series of chains shot up from the ground. Zalty moved through the air with incredible grace and speed, avowing the woman's chakra chains.
"Oh, no you don't," Kushina said, "Fire Make: Gatling!"
A fire seal appeared above her back and transformed into a large gun, which fired a barrage of flaming bullets. The man smirked as a field of energy formed around him, the bullets breaking apart, but the chains remained. Kushina smirked. Apparently, they didn't affect chakra since it was considered life energy. thank you, power form another dimension.
"Naraku!"
The blue-haired dragon slayer responded, "Right. Azure Dragon Lightning Cage!"
The dragon slayer punched the ground, creating a seal on the ground, and another appeared beneath them and a series of lightning bolts shot out of the seal and wrapped around Zalty, shocking and leaving him paralyzed.
Kushina smirked and said, "Nice."
Naraku said, "I wouldn't bother using your magic. My lighting cage not only paralyzes the body, it prevents the target from harnessing magic. While that cage is in place you can't use your magic."
Natsu yelled, "Wait, you can use lighting and fire magic?"
Naraku said, "Azure dragons are a breed that combines fire, lightning, and wind magic. They aren't as powerful as the likes of the fire dragon king Igneel, but it's enough."
Natsu was suddenly in Naraku's face and said, "You know Igneel!? Where is he?!"
Naraku said, "I don't know where he is. Sorry."
Kushina yelled, "Will you both focus so we can get on with this!"
Natsu shrunk back and said, "Geez lady calm down, you're like an older version of Erza. Wait…you aren't related to her, are you?"
Happy floated down and said, "They do both have the same angry face."
Kushina groaned, "Oh shut up cat."
Zalty thought, 'I can't believe I got captured by these people.'
Natsu then turned to Naraku and asked, "Hey, you do note something off about this guy's smell, right?"
Naraku sniffed the air and said, "Yeah, I do notice something now that I think about it."
Under their gaze, Zalty kept calm but was starting to freak out that two of them could identify his real gender despite the illusion that was put up.
Back near the temple…
The group of mages/ninja were making their way towards the temple.
Inside said temple a boy with spiky blueish silver hair, and fancy clothes, joined by a curvaceous woman with pink hair. Near them was a humongous rat wrapped up in bandages.
"He's back," Lyon said, "Sherry, you and Angelica hold them off for as long as you can. I don't want them interfering with my mission."
Sherry smiled and said, "Yes, my frozen emperor. Me and my Angelica will show you our greatest expression of love!"
The woman sauntered forward and held out her hands as Lyon entered the temple.
She held out her hands and declared, "Doll Attack: Earth Doll!"
The ground in front of her shifted and rose up forming a large mouth and a pair of hollow eyes. The now large earth made doll shot forward with a roar, intent on crushing the charging mages.
"We got company," Naruto said, as he charged forward.
"It must be that Sherry woman," Lucy revealed, "Her and her giant rat are the ones who attacked the village with acid. She can use some magic called doll attack to create puppets out of animals, the ground, and she even used my own celestial spirit against me."
Naruto saw the woman and her doll and said, "I got this!"
The boy poured more magic into his abilities charged forward at a much faster speed. Then, taking some influence from the Inuzuka clan from back home, he spun like drill forming a gold and black tornado, the rotation increasing his speed even further as he travelled like a human bullet.
"Dragon God's Drill Charge!"
Erza's eyes widened as she asked, "Did he say dragon god!?"
Lucy asked, "Another dragon slayer? That's two in one day…aren't they supposed to be really hard to come by?"
The spinning projectile that was Naruto slammed into the wall, smashing through the wall with an incredible amount of ease.
Sherry's eyes widened at the sudden arrival of Naruto as well as how he's just smashed her magic puppet. She prepared to attack with her magic again.
However, Naruto landed in front of her couched, with a rush of wind that blew back her hair and almost lifted her skirt. With a growl, Naruto threw an uppercut that slammed into the woman's jaw knocking her back and onto the ground, knocked out. Naruto then repeated what he did to Sherry, pinning the monstrous rodent to the ground.
Naruto then used his reflector magic and focused it into the ground, forming tight bonds to hold her in place. The giant rat charged at Naruto but was intercepted by Erza letting out a battle cry as she sped forward and dropkicked it, both of her boots knocking the rodent to the ground. Naruto repeated his process
"One down, and judging by the lack of giant explosions," Naruto said, "I'd say mom, Naraku, and your friend took care of whoever he was fighting."
Gray nodded and said, "Okay, stay out of this. Lyon is mine."
The group entered the temple, and immediately found a room that was covered in ice. In the back of the room, was a large monstrous shape that was covered head to toe in ice.
Lyon smirked as he approached the group.
"I'll have to admit, Gray," he said, "You're starting to get on my nerves. You and your friends have gotten in my way for the final time!"
Gray yelled, "Damn it, Lyon don't you get it? The Ice Shell is Ur. If you destroy it, you'll destroy what's left of her?"
Everyone who heard this was shocked. That certainly explained why he didn't want the Ice Shell to be destroyed, other than potentially unleashing a monstrous demon on the world.
Lyon simply stated, "You don't think I know that? With her truly gone then, I will no doubt be able to surpass her! Now, I'll give you this last chance to leave before I put you down myself, Gray!"
Gray snarled and said, "Fine. If there is no other way to stop you, then come on!"
Gray charged forward creating an axe with his magic, only for Lyon to form a shield, and then counter creating a group of ice eagles and that shot forward at a high speed and hit Gray.
Lucy asked, "How is he doing that? I've never seen Gray create anything like that."
Naruto answered, "Mold magics like Ice Make can be split into two categories, dynamic, which can move on its own, and static, which focuses on weapons and affecting the environment. Gray here specializes in static, while Lyon seems to focus on dynamic, however, there's something off."
Erza said, "Yes, he only uses one hand while using his magic."
Naruto said, "That may work to Gray's advantage as both hands are required to correctly use make magic."
Lucy blinked and asked, "How do you know so much about it?"
Naruto answered, "My mother uses fire make."
Naruto turned back to the fight, as Gray created a cage to stop a snow leopard that Lyon had created.
Naruto thought, 'Moving on though, there's something that I don't get. He could have used something a lot more powerful than those creatures…plus I don't think he would let something like this stop him…I wonder…'
Naruto discreetly summoned his sacred treasure Gilgamesh, placing the tip of the weapon on the ground. Utilizing reflector Magic Naruto pulled a spear shaped chunk of earth from the ground forcing the fairy tail mages to step back to avoid the weapon.
"Gaia Spear."
Naruto then launched the attack with as much force as possible, sending it right towards Lyon. Gray saw the incoming projectile and got out of the way, while Lyon wasn't so lucky. He summoned a hexagonal shield to block it, causing the two spells to clash. Naruto saw it wasn't going to work, and used his reflector magic again, launching a spinning vortex of air, which forced the spear-shaped chunk of earth to spin wildly and drill through the shield, breaking it, and slamming right into Lyon.
Gray growled angrily and faced Naruto and creating a seal.
"One Sided Chaotic Dance!"
Gray unleashed a massive wave of ice blades at Naruto. The boy simply crossed his arms and said, "Pulse."
A sudden flux of magic erupted out of him, blowing away the swords, shattering them to pieces. The boy then caught one of said swords and proceeded to eat it, much to Gray's shock.
Erza and Lucy all stared in shock at Naruto stopping one of Gray's spells and were also shocked that he hadn't use dragon god slayer magic to do so.
'Oh great, he knows more than one magic,' Lucy thought, 'I hope Erza and Gray can take him. I wonder if it is the same magic that he used to bind Sherry.'
Lucy was scared at this point, as he wasn't much of a fighter.
"Damn you!" Gray yelled, "You were supposed to stay back and let me fight him! You weren't supposed to interfere!"
Naruto raised an eyebrow and asked, "You mean interrupt your fight with a puppet?"
Gray looked confused, and Naruto pointed at Lyon's body. To his shock, he found Lyon's body was made of ice, the shattered pieces scattered around the stone projectile.
"A…A fake," Gray asked in disbelief.
Naruto answered, "A fake created by a unison raid between Sherry's doll magic and Lyon's ice magic. No doubt they were meant to distract us, so they could finish the ritual and free Deliora."
Erza snarled and said, "And we fell for it like fools."
Suddenly, the purple moon began to glow, and a bright light shown down on them. Everyone turned with fear in their hearts as they saw the ice that held the great demon began to melt away.
"Run!"
A few moments ago, with Kushina…
Kushina, Naraku, Happy, and Natsu were on the move from the now defeated and still chained Zalty.
However, they quickly ran into another problem. This time in the form of a boy who was now holding the in a dome of energy arrogantly laughing, and man with a dog-like face and a collar. It should also be noted that the former had a huge bruise on the side of his face.
"You might as well surrender now," the first boy who introduced himself as Yuka declared, "While you are caught in the grip of my wave magic, you won't be able to fight back."
The second, who introduced himself as Toby, said, "And if you manage to get out, I'll paralyze you with my jellyfish claws…it does exactly what it says it does."
Natsu, remembering his last fight with these clowns, said, "Hey, you got something on your face!"
Toby blinked and said, "Oh, I am not falling for that again!"
Naraku blinked and asked, "He fell for it the first time."
Kushina, steadily pumping chakra into her back to unleash her chains, said, "Are you two idiots? Once Deliora comes out, he'll wipe out he entire island and you along with it."
Yuka snarled as he declared, "You should worry more about yourselves than us. With Lyon at our side, and our magics combined, we will finally end Deliora, and have revenge for what that vile monster did to our homes!"
Kushina rolled her eyes and said, "Yeah, four kids are going to defeat a monster that even a master of ice make magic couldn't do. Oh, I'm so scared."
Yuka declared, "You should be."
Suddenly, a bright purple light flashed in the sky, and purple light descended upon the island.
Kushina said, "Damn it, we're out of time."
Kushina unleashed her chakra chains from her arms, launching a chain with a large wrecking ball on the end. The projectile slammed into Yuka knocking him backwards and onto his back. Toby attempted to attack with his claws, but Naraku caught him first, punching him in the throat, stunning him, and then raising him into the air by his neck and then slamming it into the ground. \
Kushina and her allies charged through the forest. They soon came across the sight of Lyon standing with a victorious grin on his face as a loud roar rang out from the temple.
"Finally, I will surpass Ur," he declared, a small tint of madness in his voice.
Kushina was about to charge at the boy, but she saw Naruto and the other fairy tail mages near the temple, briefly distracting her, as well as seeing Naruto pick up a pink-haired girl who was bound on the ground. She saw the group stop outside the temple, and then stop. She quickly realized that something was wrong. Shouldn't Deliora have come out rampaging by now?
Inside the temple, Deliora let out some deep labored breaths. The icy monster could feel his life force fading as he felt his life be drained by that damned ice spell for the past decade. He focuses his powers and began to inhale deeply, the creature's lungs burning, sucking up the ice around him. It felt some of its strength return due to the magic in the ice all around it as well as the soul fragments that he felt were still in it, however, it knew it would need more, and thankfully, it could sense several souls nearby.
The great beast then lunged forward smashing through the temple, landing on the outside of it and unleashed a vicious roar.
In the village…
Moka looked up at the sound. All the villagers turned towards the noise and gasped when they saw large amounts of debris and smoke rising in the distance.
"What is that?" he asked, a large amount of fear seizing his heart.
On the other side of the island…
A figure stood up, the calm of the night shattered by the sound.
"What the hell was that?"
With the others…
"Lyon you idiot," Gray said as he backed away, fear present in his eyes.
Naruto growled in anger at seeing the massive creature. That idiot succeeded. Naruto briefly considered going into nine tails mode, but he didn't want to accidently wipe out the village or the other mages…though given his current opinion of Lyon and his crew he wouldn't be entirely opposed to hurting them. He would use sage mode, but he couldn't use it here due to the world being laced with ethernano instead of chakra.
Naruto felt a tug at the back of his mind, and realized his mother was messing with the three-pronged kunai. Naruto used his reflector magic to grip the others with the air and then teleported away in a flash of yellow light.
The group stopped, Naruto feeling his stomach get queasy, as he, Gray, Erza, and Lucy all proceeded to barf.
"Oh, man that is not good for the stomach," Gray said as he spat up some ice.
Lyon laughed aloud. Yuka and Toby soon joined him declared, "Finally, with your return I shall finally destroy you and prove I am better than…"
Lyon was cut off in his ranting when Deliora turned towards them. The creature unleashed a powerful roar that rattled the air and sent a rather foul stench at them. Lyon's eyes were now wide with fear as he felt the creature glaring at him, making his blood run cold as it did ten years ago.
Naruto said, "Yeah a lot harder to face a monster when it isn't locked up, huh?"
Kushina said, "Naruto, you can chastise this idiot later. If we don't stop it here, that thing won't just wipe out the village, it'll head straight for Hargeon."
"Uh, guys," Naraku said stopping the mother/son duo, "We have bigger problems!"
Delior was inhaling again, frost forming on its maw and mist rising from its teeth. The beast roared, unleashing a massive blast of freezing energy. Naruto immediately felt something off when he saw it. Whatever it was, it didn't feel like regular magic.
Yuka jumped in front of the group and said, "Don't worry my magic will stop this."
A blue come appeared around the group. Naruto could feel the caster magic the arrogant sounding boy used, and a sinking feeling in his gut told him that this was not going to end well.
Naruto immediately went through hand signs as the blast approached.
"Earth Release: Stone Box!"
The earth around the group immediately shot up and formed a large box big enough to cover the entire group, much to their surprise, closing just as the blast hit. Kushina immediately joined her son so he wouldn't drain too much chakra, forcing her own into the technique and enforcing it.
The blast continued for nearly a full minute, the temperature dropping quickly to the point everyone could see their breath, something that made Yuka pale. At the thirty second mark even Gray and Lyon were starting to shiver, an indication of the sheer cold that the beast was emitting.
When the blast finally stopped, Naruto dropped the box and was shocked at what he saw. They were encased in a block of ice. A cube shaped cave had been carved out by Naruto's technique.
"I…I don't understand," Yuka said, his eyes wide a mix of disbelief and fear in his voice, "My magic…it should have stopped it…"
Naruto said, "Tell me…did any of you really do any research into what Deliora could do, or did you automatically jump into this situation with no idea what you were getting into."
Lyon and his followers were quiet, the only answer everyone needed. Erza was about to bash all of them over the head only for Kushina to beat her to the punch.
"You idiots!" Kushina yelled bashing all of them on their heads, "You try to take down a monster that can wipe out entire towns and you didn't think to try and gauge its abilities beforehand?!"
Natsu said, "Oh no, she really is Erza's mom!"
Kushina and Erza both turned to the dragon slayer and yelled, "Will you shut up!"
A cry of pain got everyone's attention as they turned towards the sound. Gray had touched the ice with his hand and was now gripped it, the cold having burned him.
"Damn," he said, "this stuff cold, even by my standards. We got to get out of here before we freeze to death."
Natsu placed his hands close to the ice and lit up some bright flames, but nothing happened. Even his fire couldn't melt through this stuff. Naraku, Kushina, and Erza joined in, the third one using her flame empress armor in an attempt to melt it but found no success.
Naruto rubbed his chin in thought. He walked up to an icy was and with a quick jab broke off a small piece. Taking the piece of ice, he tasted it, and immediately spat it out.
'Gross! So bitter. This doesn't taste like normal magic. What the hell kind of power can this damn thing use?"
Naruto, deciding it was time to amp up the flames said, "Mom, Erza, Naraku, Natsu, give me some fire…a lot of it."
However, before they could start Naruto sense something.
"Hold on. I think we have a guest."
The group stood in silence, briefly shivering. Suddenly, there was a dark green glow from beyond the ice, which was steadily starting to melt.
"All those with fire powers start burning on the other end," Kushina ordered as she and her fellow fire magic users.
The group combined their flames into a giant ball and pressed it against the wall. After nearly a minute of heat, the flames melted the ice. The group had to step back from the ice wall as a dark green gout of flames erupted from the wall. They all stepped back as they saw a man standing across from them. He wore somewhat ragged clothing, and had long black hair, sky blue eyes, with scars on his face, a long red one on his left eye, and a fang shaped one under his right eye.
'Huh…I'll be damned. We came here looking for him, and he comes to us. This guy just screams tragic backstory,' Naruto thought, 'I just hope this guy isn't like Sasuke.'
"Who are you guys?" the black-haired asked, lifting his rags up to cover his neck, something they filed away for later, "And what's up with the overgrown monster?"
Gray said, "In the abridged versions. These morons unleashed a demon but had not real plan on how to stop it once they did, and now it is going to go on a rampage."
Everyone turned to see Deliora had moved a good distance, but was still pretty far from the village, thankfully.
The man said, "Well that sucks."
The black-haired stranger then sniffed the air slightly and said, "Blondie, help me out with this will you?"
Lucy yelled, "I can't take that thing on!"
He rolled his eyes and said, "I meant the other one. I can tell he's got a higher tier magic than most of you."
"Hey!" the offended shout came from a lot of people.
Naruto walked past and said, "Yeah, come on. By the way, after this we need to have a little talk."
The man looked a little suspicious, but he relented and walked to the cliff and facing the side.
"So…what's the plan?" Naruto asked.
The man simply answered, "Deliora is on his last legs. He probably hasn't recovered from whatever locked him up. I aim for the heart. You aim for the head."
Naruto nodded as he summoned Gilgamesh in a flash of light.
The stranger held out a hand to the right of his body. The green flames erupted into existence and form a long shaft with a pointed edge.
Both drew their weapons back, the stranger aiming with his free hand using his thumb, and Naruto aiming with his free arm, using his fingers like a scope, and the air distorting around his weapon as gold and black flames erupted and began to spiral wildly, showing a mix of reflector and dragon god slayer magic.
"Cremations Lance!"
"Deity Killing Spear!"
The duo launched their attacks. The stranger's dark green flames launched and slammed right into Deliora's back, piercing through is body. Naruto's magic attack slammed into his head, causing the body part to erupt. The monster stumbled as its life was snuffed out, and then fell forward with a loud boom. Its body turned to ice and snow before it broke down in the field.
Naruto nodded at the work before him and then turned towards his friend and said, "By the way, my name is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze."
The black-haired stranger turned to him and said, "Zackery Masayoshi Orion…just call me Zack."
The two shook hands.
Cut! Okay that went a lot longer than I thought it would. Now, Zackery is the last of the OC characters and our final recruit, aside from Itachi. Now, the reason for Deliora actually making it is because, I wanted that to happen. In my mind, I don't think Lyon entirely thought the whole thing through. I mean, his master, who was probably a lot better than he was at her age and experience, couldn't beat it. I chalk it up to revenge madness. Now, this is the end of the recruitment arc, and we can move on to the next arc. I hope you all enjoyed the chapter.
Flames are ignored, criticism is welcome.
