My secondary account elsewhere is giving nice results, I am both glad and impressed.
I know ENVY is missing from the list I gave in the previous chapter, but the reason is that had I explained it I would have given you OMEGA-OMG-GIANT-HUGE SPOILERS! I plan to use that 'Progeny ofEnvy' somewhere in the bottom half of the story, more I can't tell, I am sorry.
And my haters can kindly go fuck themselves.
Have a Good Day!
" You bastard" - demon talking / jutsu
"Let's finish this" - dialogue
" Can it get any worse? " - during flashback/thoughts
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or whatever I will use here in this fic.
A certain blond in an RPG World Chapter 9: To the Fairy Kingdom we go, we go, we go! To meet the pretty Fairies we go, we go, we go!
Trevaria Kingdom – Forest – Three days after the battle against Agolor -
The small convoy of Wyverians accompanied by several members of various guilds, one of which the 'Monster Star Guild' of Naruto, was slowly making its way through the last stretch of trees before entering the first of many mountains passes their itinerary was bound to traverse before returning home to Serena city.
"Are you sure you don't want to go back? All of you are heavily wounded." the head of those scholars, old lady Hazak, asked in worry.
"There is no need to worry, we took this mission and we will complete it, no matter what! Getting injured is part of the job!" Lars answered with a kind smile, still sporting a bandaged arm held in a sling.
"You can barely hold your lance, human, you are hardly useful in case of an attack." Azal the elf answered huffing annoyed.
"Be quiet, recruit." the former Captain of the Church guards answered.
"HEY! Show me some respect! I am way older than you!" the elf answered, scandalized.
"You are still a green-horn to us, you just joined our Guild so you are at the bottom of the ladder." Tanya answered, unfazed.
She and Lars were the only ones actually riding next to the cart housing the old wyverians, Naruto, Mi and Rimuru were still considered too wounded to leave the small cart the group salvaged from the ruins where they fought Agolor barely three days ago, even if by the speed of their [Regeneration], Naruto and Rimuru were by now a step away from 100% recovery.
"You should stay with the wounded too, Tanya." Lars said, concerned.
"We still need a long-range fighter to defend our clients and our wounded, and beside me and Azal, you others are all close-range specialists." the tiny girl answered.
"Wizards and Mages hardly take these kinds of jobs, nowadays they are all too focused on the interests of their Guilds/Orders, so it's hard to find one open to join a simple expedition." a Wyverian answered with a sigh.
"It doesn't help that our convoy passes very close to Elf territories, Human Mages and Elf Mages hardly act friendly with each other." the scholar's sister added.
"Eostra and Unastra are right, besides rangers and gunners, we wouldn't have found many long-range specialists to help us." Hazak said with a defeated tone.
"Thank the stars I am here then! Thanks to me you actually have a master archer AND managed to avoid entering elf territories, so we could travel smoothly." Azal answered with just a smudge of smugness in his tone.
"Yeah, yeah, hurray for you." one of the other adventurers answered, rolling his eyes.
"I sent a message to Olaf, he will wait for us in one of the small dwarven settlements in the mountains up ahead called Armillia, from there, with the help of Azal, we will be able to communicate with both the dwarves and the elves from safe distance and behind good defenses, just in case those pointy-eared buffoons get violent again." Tanya informed them.
"So I will have to go back-and-forth from Armillia and Aurea? Between the two there are one day and a half of travel distance!" the elf of the group moaned in annoyance.
"From what to what?" Lars asked, confused.
"Uhn! Armillia is a dwarven mining outpost that doubles as a small village, more or less at three days distance from here; Aurea is a small elf town we will pass near to pretty much tomorrow at sunset...If we keep this pace. Both are the biggest settlements if the two races in this general area." Azal answered.
"And you know both, why?" Tanya asked.
"I know some people in Aurea...And...Kind of argued with several Dwarves in Armilla over...Technicalities about who between our two races discovered how to enchant Mithril weapons first." he admitted with a low voice.
"Define argued." Lars begged with a groan.
"A bit of a fistfight in a tavern after the number of pints both me and that dwarf reached double digits, but in my defense, he gave the first punch, mine was just self-defence. If then everything turned into a tavern-wide free-for-all brawl it was not my fault."
"Just in case you will enter last, so to not be kicked-out before even entering." Tanya answered with an angry grimace.
"We too wish to make a detour and stop there instead of the small human town we planned for, that mess with those exiled elves wounded a lot of us, more than we anticipated, and we need to heal their injuries before we run out of medicines." the head of one of the other Guilds accompanying the convoy added.
"No issues for us, we will use it as a chance to ask the locals about what is happening in this area, the monsters' uprising cannot be possibly be relegated to Serena's territory only. Hopefully, your friend Olaf will help us talk the dwarves into letting us stay for a week, before moving through the various check-points we planned for!" the Head Wyverian conceded.
"Dwarves are way more open-minded compared to elves, we should not have troubles to get some hospitality." Lars confirmed.
"Hn!We just love our privacy, nothing else." Azal answered, huffing annoyed.
"Spare your energies, while we are there you will come and go to talk with the elves of Aurea for us," Tanya countered with narrowed eyes.
"I haven't forgotten that have no fear." the elf answered with a small voice.
"INTRUDERS! YOU ARE ENTERING THE FORBIDDEN GROUNDS OF OUR KINGDOM! TURN AROUND AND LEAVE, OR ELSE YOU WILL FACE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES FOR THIS TRANSGRESSION!" a booming voice echoed through the forest, making the lizards pulling the carts stop abruptly to look around and taste the air with their long, forkedtongues.
"Didn't you say that by going this way we would have avoided elf villages?" an adventurer asked, her voice low but still filled in anger.
"Yes! In fact, we avoided them all! We are just passing very close to a small territory occupied by fairies...If you can call there's a kingdom! I mean, they practically use toothpicks as lances! Nobody ever takes them seriously!" Azal answered, chuckling.
"HOW DARE YOU?!" the booming voice rapidly turned high-pitched and shrill, signifying that whatever 'trick' was behind its modulation had just stopped working.
"Fairies?" Tanya asked, curious.
"Yes, their "Capital", if we want to call it that, their biggest territory, should be around here somewhere, but besides being very good at hiding, they are not that impressive."
"I'll show you not impressive! You elves are insufferable!" the same voice replied, heavily offended.
"My apologies, miss. Unfortunately Azal is a new recruit of our Guild, and even if his temper and manners are severely lacking, we still needed his guidance to avoid meeting other elves, we have too many wounded to face a race that is not very friendly with any other being that is not an Elf." Lars said, politely, and trying to pinpoint the source of the tiny voice.
"He is very rude! A ruffian!"
"HEY!"
"He is, but we still need to pass through here. We are going to Armillia, the Dwarven mining outpost, and passing through here is our fastest and safest route." Hazak the Wyverian answered.
"I don't believe you!" the unseen guard answered, making the ensemble of adventurers and scholars groan in unison.
"I say we pass through regardless, we are wasting time." an adventurer hissed in contempt while adjusting the giant hammer strapped to her back.
"Me too, let them come! I am tired of being bossed around!" her colleague, a broad-shouldered man with a giant bone-made sword, added.
"Please be patient, we cannot antagonize whoever we meet." a Wyverian begged with a calm voice.
"You cannot pass! You can only turn around and look for another way!" the voice replied.
"Listen, missy! We will pass by here, whether you like it or not." Tanya answered, having reached the limit of her patience.
"YOU WILL NOT!"
BANG!
"EEEEP!" the hidden fairy shrieked as the bullet (from her point of view even bigger than her entire torso) flew past her and missed her by a millimeter.
"I have long since found your position, I won't repeat myself: We are passing through." the small girl said with a tone that clearly left no room for arguing.
"...Too wounded my ass, she still shoots like a pro." Lars muttered in awe.
"I CAN'T LET YOU THROUGH! You are entering the Fae Woods! No humans or monsters can enter the realm of the Fairy Queen!" the high-pitched voice answered in anger.
"Then come out and face us, we are not moving." an adventurer, he too utterly tired of this, declared as everybody in there prepared their weapons.
"Y-You don't scare me! This is my last warning! LEAVE AT ONCE!" When the owner of said voice finally appeared to freely glare the 'intruders' to submission, the convoy could only see a tiny girl, maybe twenty centimeters in height, look down on them from the top of a tree, unfortunately any dangerous aura her grandiose armor was supposed to cast on the onlookers died with a whimper because she looked more like a small doll than a proper 'warrior' if compared to the intruders.
"Is she alone?" a Wyverian asked.
"Yes." Tanya answered.
"So a lone fairy against three dozen Adventurers. Seems fair!" the woman with the giant hammer said, snorting in ridicule.
"Y-Y-You should be wary instead! I, Leafannabelle, are the strongest warrior of the Kingdom! I am the sworn captain of the Royal Guards and I will destroy all of you if I have to!" the tiny fairy declared with just a faint trembling of her voice.
It was then that a loud groan was heard coming from one of the carts holding the wounded members of the various Guilds.
"What's happening?" Naruto was heard ask groggily from the covert cart.
"Who's there?!" the Fairy said with a gasp.
"We encountered another unfriendly stranger." Lars answered, sighing.
"Oh, God, another?! Who is it this time?" Rimuru, he too apparently awakening just then, asked in disbelief.
"Just a fairy, no real threat." Tanya answered, smirking at the tiny thing's offended frown.
"Uh?! Fairies!? I always wanted to see one!"
"I was sleeping, Rimuru...Can't it wait?" Naruto begged.
"Sorry, sorry."
"May as well get down, Naruto. You said you needed to stretch your legs after all!" Mi said with a gentle voice.
"May as well..."
"Who is talking?" the tiny fairy asked.
"Just a couple of friends, two of which just Evolved and in need of rest after a big battle, but I guess they won't mind helping us in removing you." Tanya replied with a savage, merciless smirk.
"Evolved?! Humans do not Evolve!"
"They are not humans if that is what you are asking." Old lady Hazak replied.
"Monsters then? I knew you were hiding something! Show yourself!" Leafannabelle ordered sharply, somehow gaining a few extra octaves in her voice.
"Coming, coming..." Naruto answered with an annoyed growl, one way more bestial than intended, thing that sent both lizards and fairy on edge, and had Mi let-out a cute little squeal, all for Kurama's amusement.
Twoomp! overcome a little from the improvise lack of weight pushing it down, the small covered cart they were riding jumped a little upward as its three inhabitants descended at the same time, especially the giant Oni of the three that was the heaviest of them all.
After his Evolution the reborn shinobi had not turned into an Ogre as expected, but he hadbecome a giant (almost nine-foot-tall) muscled Oni with light silver-grey skin and very long white hair, things that he already decided will be cut back into his old hair-style at the first occasion; and while every inch of his body had muscles that screamed POWER, his eyes still held the gentle light of his old self, and even if those too were silvery in color, a faint cerulean glint could be easily seen, his blue eyes though were deep in contrast with the angry-red gem on his forehead, right between his eight-inches-long horns going upward from the top of his forehead and slightly back in a gentle curve, that gem was now so life-like to have gained a black pupil, it was in fact now a fully-functional stone-made third eye he could control independently from his normal ones.
To be honest he was not really happy about his Evolution, surpassing even Ay the Raikage in muscle department, as he had never truly been a fan of the 'Mountain of Muscles' look, even more so since until back home for resizing them, he won't be able to wear his clothes, thus being forced to wear an improvised loincloth to cover his bits under the bandages covering his torso.
"AN ONI!?" the fairy shrieked in fear while trembling heavily.
"It really is a fairy!" Rimuru said in excitement while being held in Mi's arms, he had not changed much, his slime body was just almost completely transparent with a silver hue now.
The three of them (Naruto, Rimuru and Tanya) also had a strange tattoo on their backs that looked like a black flame enclosed inside an enneagram circle of runes signifying their new (Calamity) Sub-Alignment, something Azal made clear NOBODY had to know about, and while the slime could easily hide it as it only showed up when he was in Human Form, both Loli Soldier and Reborn Shinobi had to be careful and hide it under their clothes.
"I see what you were planning now! You all are his accomplices." the fairy hissed in disgust.
"EEEH?!"
"Accomplices? For what?" Lars asked, appalled.
"Don't play dumb with me! I-I know what you all came here from! You people, are here to sample the Ultimate Forbidden Fruit of Eden! You want to abuse our delicate maidens' bodies!"
"...What?" Naruto asked, incredulous.
"I am no doctor, but even I can tell that with how small a fairy is compared to us, there would be some clear 'Compatibility Issues' in that case." Tanya answered, groaning.
"D-D-Do not spin excuses! It is clear he himself will tear-off my clothes, grab my nude, defenseless, nubile body in his strong hand and rub my entire being all over his engorged, throbbing beastly thing until he orgasms, pleased to see me drown in his obscenely thick release! Ah! He clearly wants to ruin me! Who will then marry me if I am forever marked with such horrible, virile stench and-"
"WHOOOORE!" Mi roared in fury as she chased the fairy around, her fury so great to dull the pain from her wounds enough to hunt down the tiny flying thing while bellowing obscenities and death threats.
"Okay, no, she can't have improvised all that, way too many details." Lars admitted while watching Mi trying to bite the fairy mid-air.
"You think she has an Oni fetish?" Rimuru asked,
"That or a 'Submission' fetish." he answered.
"Ooh!"
"It's still disgusting." Azal commented, grimacing.
"I am a good boy! I swear I am a good boy! I don't wanna sex the mean fairy!" Naruto sobbed with a depressed expression while going through a small 'corner of woe' moment.
(Latibulating, for the few of you that have just recently eat a dictionary)
"It's okay, darling! We know it's all in that mean fairy's head, have no fear, we believe in you." old lady Hazak answered with a grandmother-level smile while consoling the distraught Oni, just like every other girl in the convoy was doing, Wyverian or adventurer.
Half an hour later -
Finally, after a titanic group effort, the fairy and Mi calmed down, giving to the convoy enough time to explain what they were actually there for.
"Oh...So you others are not here to violate me and the others in a giant unholy orgy?" she asked.
"No!" Naruto almost yelled.
"Oh..."
"She does look disappointed." Tanya muttered, unsure.
"No, dear, we just want to pass through." Hazak the Wyverian answered with a kind smile.
"Pass-through-"
"The forest! Pass through the forest!" she then added, annoyed.
"I see...You sure you don't want to come to visit us? Your friends are clearly wounded, our Healing Magic is unmatched in all Elru-"
"Oh, please, Darling! You others can't compare to us elves." Azal interrupted her, scoffing.
"Unmatched in all Elrune. It won't take long for your friends to be back to 100% health." the fairy finished saying unperturbed, albeit while also sticking-out her tongue to the elf who answered in kind immediately after.
"Some medicines would be nice..." Mi, lying on the ground face-down and whining in pain, answered.
"You had to run around while still recovering, you asked for it." Lars answered, chuckling.
Sigh! "Fine! But just because we owe those guys for stopping a world-ending catastrophe, we'll make a short stop in your kingdom." the spoke-person of various assembled guilds conceded after a short round of consulting.
"Wonderful! Then follow me, we will show you the Legendary warm welcome of the Fairy Kingdom! Just please, before going, I will need to blindfold everyone of you, so you won't see where the secret entrance is located." the Fairy declared in pride.
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say." the convoy answered as one while rolling their eyes, even the lizards pulling the carts.
Ten minutes later – once passed the super-secretentrance to the Fairy kingdom -
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! AN ONI!"
"HE IS GONNA RAPE US ALL!"
"I CAN SEE HIS THING FROM UNDER THE LOIN-CLOTH! IT'S AMAZIN- I MEAN, DISGUSTING!"
"FUUUUUUCK!" Naruto howled in dismay at the unanimous chorus of screams he got in an answer as soon as he and the others entered the very small kingdom.
"They are all looking at us..." Rimuru muttered, unease.
"I guess because there are not many male fairies around." Lars answered.
"The ratio is 100 females for every male." the slime answered, thanks to Great Sage's prompt.
"How can they thrive with so little males?!"
"You heard her, their Healing Magic is the best-"
"Hem-Hem!" Azal fake-coughed with a frown.
"SECOND Best in all Elrune, they clearly have a way to compensate for that, in a way or another." the Slime boy answered, a little annoyed by their elf friend's attitude.
"Oooh...That would explain a lot..." the human knight answered, looking in pity a lone male fairy (emaciated and utterly drained, almost desiccated) sporting a tiny IV on his arm while being carted away on a stretcher by two nurse-dressed female fairies that were not hiding the evil glint in their eyes as they passed near them.
"I'm going to camp outside." Naruto, looking miserable, muttered with his head held low while walking back towards the exit.
"Stop, you vile beast! Leave my beloved fairies go and I, their Queen, shall sacrifice myself in their place to sate your demonic Lust." a fairy slightly bigger than the others, more or less thirty centimeters in height, declared haughtily while tossing back a fringe of her overly-long mint-green hair.
"No fair, My queen!"
"Yeah! Totally unfair!"
"...I am definitely going to camp outside." the reborn shinobi said, shivering heavily in dread.
"Do you want some explosive traps?" Tanya offered.
"Yes, all of them."
"Shit, I feel like a virgin schoolgirl walking through a tentacle monster convention, and I am a [Skill]." Kurama admitted, unnerved.
"This is gonna be a stressful stop." one of the Wyverians said, groaning.
Later that night -
"Over here, her majesty wishes to speak with you three alone. Do not try anything funny." the guard hissed before leaving Naruto, Rimuru, and Tanya alone with the Fairy Queen in an isolated patch of grass soon covered by a shining bubble of energy.
"Like this nobody and nothing will listen or see us." the Queen assured them with a gentle smile as soon as she joined them, signing them to sit down on the grass and get comfortable.
"I am really sorry for the peculiar way we welcomed you, I hope it was not too overwhelming for you." the fairy admitted with a bashful expression.
"Don't worry, passed the first moment of shock, nothing else happened." Rimuru answered.
"Is there anything you actually wish to talk with us about?" Tanya asked, cutting-in in the discussion.
"Many things actually, Chosen ones of the Sleeping Titans." the Fairy Queen answered, making them a little tense.
"What do you mean with that moniker?" Rimuru asked, switching into human form as the three blatantly readied their weapons.
"Fear not, as I am not your enemy. On the contrary, I have every intention to help you."
"Why should we believe you?" Tanya asked with narrowed eyes.
"As the current Fairy Queen, I possess the [Eyes of Truth], a skill only two other beings other than me posses: King Leodas and Ainz Ooal Gown, for he is the real Demon Lord."
"Real Demon Lord? What about Asgard?!" Rimuru asked with wide eyes.
"There was a switch?" Tanya asked as well.
"The situation is a bit more complex, actually, but it is not up to me to disclose it as poor Ainz asked me not to. What I mean to say is, that your secrets are safe, nobody will know."
"And what secrets do we hold? Let's hear!" Naruto challenged her.
"What about that Title that indicates that you three have been reincarnated from another world?" the Fairy Queen asked with a mischievous smile.
"SHIT! She's onto us! Kill her! Eat Her! DO SOMETHING!" Kurama yelled in panic.
Bang!
To the other two's shock, Tanya lifted her rifle fast as a flash to shoot the small thing, only for the bullet to stop mid-air before reaching the Fairy Queen's tiny outstretched hand.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Similar to the first, the other four bullets went shot one after another, each one hitting the back of the previous to try and push the first bullet forward and hit the Queen, all five of them though still stopped mid-air to form an ordinate line of floating, immobile bullets.
"I understand your hostility, and I am sorry if I made it sound like I was trying to black-mail you. I am the Fairy Queen, I represent the Fairies of all Elrune, I am here to show my support to your mission, nothing more." the tiny woman said, turning the bullets into butterflies with a mere wave of her hand.
"And how can we trust you?"
"You three hold the Mark of Calamity on you, and yet we still welcomed you and I made sure you and your friends got the best treatments for your wounds. Does not this prove that I am on your side?" she answered simply.
"I think we should try trusting her, we don't have many other options, besides exterminating every fairy we meet...And I would prefer not to." Naruto tried saying.
"Thank you, 'Defiler of Fate', I foretold I would have met you, I am glad my vision has finally becomes a reality."
"Let's just exchange what we know, eh? It will be easier like that." Rimuru begged with a groan.
One long explanation later -
"I see...So the Mad King the prophecy warned us all about is indeed real. I can't even begin to imagine what are the plans of that Fool; hunting down both the Three Titans and their Champions, the Guardians, for their cores would mean collect the most powerful artifacts in all Elrune, but at the cost of freeing the Darkness their sleep is imprisoning...It honestly doesn't make any sense." the Fairy Queen muttered with a horrified expression.
"You people foretold this would have happened?" Rimuru asked.
"Deep inside the royal palace, hidden behind my throne, there is a small room filled with prophecies, we have studied them all, and up until now very few have actually become reality, one of which was about the rise of a Mad King unleashing the greatest Evil upon Elrune; this event would be heralded by the appearance of three 'Stars of Calamity'...We mistakenly thought that the stars were mere Relics, Magical Artifacts of ancient times, one error that we are certain other possessors of Far-sight too have done in their own prophecies since a similar Artifact is what created the [Lords of Calamity] in the first place...But then, I saw you three enter my Kingdom, and I understood."
"Do you think others will know about us?" Naruto asked.
"Unlikely, I could see your full alignment because of my [Eyes of Truth], but not even a LvL 10 Appraisal, the highest Level the skill can reach, would be able to see it as only a Divine-Class Skill can pierce the veil and reach real Truth."
"Why does King Leodas possess that skill then? I can understand the Demon Lord...Mostly, but why the King too?" Tanya asked.
"Huhuhu! That is because King Leodas was more far-sighted than his predecessors! The title of [King] is hereditary, and when Leodas became king, he had to renounce to his old title of [Hero] that is instead bestowed upon a Chosen One by the gods. Since he had fulfilled his duties as the [Hero]...Albeit by removing the Dark Lord from the equation in a different manner compared to the previous Heroes, he was permitted to keep one single skill that usually is gifted to the holder of the [Hero] Title; instead of clinging to raw strength or Magical power, he choose to keep the [Eyes of Truth], reasoning that a King that can discern right from wrong or see-through lies and deceit will be more useful to his people than a mere increase in might. The Gods were impressed, let me tell you, so much that now the [Eyes of Truth] have been removed from the [Hero] Title to become a gift that will be bestowed only to whoever will be deemed the rightful King of Serena city." the fairy answered with a little, adorable amused chuckle.
"This takes care of us hiding that mark...But would that mean that you can tell us where the kind of Barad-Se is hiding?" Rimuru asked.
"I am afraid I cannot help you in that, I personally tried to cast my eye on this world to see if I could find the Mad King. But Wherever he is hiding, is a place even the [Eyes of Truth] cannot divine, And this scares me the most."
"Why?"
"It means that where he is hiding is a world of absolute Darkness, a Void so far removed from us that he may as well be hiding in another world."
"And what is this place?"
"Only two places spring to mind when one looks for such an isolated hideout: the Void, that is a pocket between the layers of reality where the Lords of Calamity have been imprisoned...And...The Pit." the Fairy Queen answered with a shiver of dread.
"The Pit?" Naruto asked.
"If the Void is a pocket created between the layers of Reality, The Pit is a similar pocket world, but created in-between the waves of Time, existing in the interval between instants. But I have no clue how they would have managed to go there as it was supposed to be just a myth." she answered with a frightened voice.
"That sounds like a bad place." the reborn shinobi said, confused.
"It is because it's a cold, lifeless place where time does not flow as it exists detached from it, legends even talk about all-powerful devils falling in there that remained eternally frozen, never to be seen, neither alive nor dead. Nobody should know how to go there as it technically should not exist, I mentioned it as it ideally would be the only other place able to hide somebody from the [Eyes of Truth] or even the eyes of the Gods...The third one would be the Prison created by the Sleeping Titans itself, but the only way to enter that is by removing the Seal holding it close, and that would mean the immediate end of everything, and they lack the core of a Titan and of every Guardian for that."
"Let's say they are hiding in the Pit, somehow…How do we reach them?" Tanya asked.
"I don't know, it's existence is considered a fairy tale, so there is nothing about it in our texts, you should try to see if the Dwarves or the humans...Or even the Demons...Know something."
"What about the elves?" Naruto asked.
"The king of Barad-Se is married to a former Elf Queen, so maybe she held onto something about the Pit, or discovered something about it herself." Tanya answered.
"You can also try there, but the Elves are not privy to part from their knowledge, even with other elves."
"We still need to confirm the existence of the Pit, though, we cannot rule out the possibility that they have just found a way to hide for good somewhere in Elrune." Rimuru countered.
"We will keep both options open." Naruto answered with a nod.
"And you will be the key for it, my dear Oni." the Fairy Queen added.
"ME?!"
"You are the Defiler of Fate, that Title did not exist before your arrival."
"Eh?!"
"The only explanation I can give it is that you must have broken free from the chains of Fate in your previous Life, and even after being reborn, you still stand unchained here in Elrune. You have broken free from the constrictions of Destiny while the Chosen Hero still is since he has been selected by the Gods.
Tanya, Naruto, Rimuru...You three have been called here by the Jailers of the Great Darkness in direct defiance of the will of the Gods, maybe your Mission IS more important than the one of the Hero, something that probably even the Gods failed to see! And your ability to defy the Wheel of Fate will be the key to this! In the end, The Hero is and will always be an Instrument of Fate, just like its counterpart the Demon Lord is, but sometimes, Fate has to be forced to change.
You and the other two Chosen may have been summoned here to change the course of Fate."
"What do you mean?" Tanya asked with narrowed eyes.
"I am sorry, I wish I could tell you more, but I cannot, and this is not my choice, unfortunately. I am already risking a lot by telling you all this."
"Figures!"
"Naruto...Your Evolution was not a mere chance. Oni and Ogres' Evolutionary Lines run parallel, but for a Hobgoblin to skip from one to the other is not an easy feat, same goes for a slime to become a 'Silver Slime'. That too is linked to your position as Chosen Ones of the Titans."
"You know why I became an Oni?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, I have a theory, and I hope that it will be enough when the time comes."
"What is his evolutionary line?" Rimuru asked.
"Oni, Oni Lord and the last one, unrivaled, and one apparently not a single Oni Lord had ever reached: the final Evolution called 'Asura'."
"..." at that the presents could see the reborn Shinobi's eyes slowly grow too wide to be healthy, just as his heart briefly skipped a beat, for an instant the young Oni looked like he had fainted while sitting.
"When was the last time we heard that name?" Kurama asked with a weak, near-hysterical, chuckle.
"I can tell that this name means a lot to you, isn't it?" the Fairy Queen asked.
"A bit..." he admitted, shaken.
"We still have lots to talk about before you depart tomorrow. I will then give you a small token to give to one of the Elders of Armillia City, show it to Angus Oak-skin, he will help you to the best of his abilities, that friend of ours Fairies will spare no effort in helping you." the Fairy Queen answered.
"Thank you."
Three weeks later – Serena City – Monster Star Guild HQ -
"Aaah! Finally back! I mean, I love the warm, homely feeling of a Dwarven underground city cut-out from majestic walls of rock...But Home Sweet Home indeed!" Olaf the dwarf bellowed in relief as soon as he, Fist and everybody else entered the warm, comfy main room of their Guild HQ.
"Fist is happy to be back! Fist was missing his bathtub!" the giant troll, still a head taller than Naruto's new evolved form, answered with a long sigh.
"Never saw a Mountain Troll so fixated on hygiene." Tanya admitted.
"Maybe because he is a bit smarter than normal." Naruto, hair cut back to his normal hairstyle and clothes resized and 'updated' by Olaf, answered unsurely.
"Maybe." Rimuru, in slime form hold by Mi, added.
"Whatever, I'll be bathing if you need me." Tanya answered, uninterested while leaving the room.
"Fist too, Fist needs a bath," the giant Troll conceded as he too walked away.
"I'll be in the forge instead, I want to tinker with a couple of materials they gave us in Armillia for a couple of my side-projects."
"I'll help you." Rimuru offered, accompanying Olaf to the forge area.
"Azal has been taken to the Royal Palace to be registered as a new member of our Guild, we are alone." Mi said as soon as she and Naruto remained alone in the room.
"Do you want to go see what Albedo and Alice are up to?"
"Later, I want to stay alone with you a bit before that." the Hobgoblin girl answered.
"Okay!" he conceded laughing, amused to see her happily sit on his lap to cuddle with him as both sat in silence on one of the couches in the room.
"Is it a bad moment?" Kurama asked.
"I am listening." Naruto answered, outwardly just sitting there with a small smile buried in Mi's hair, and as usual feeling semi-drunk on her 'amazing' scent.
"I cannot have been the only one of us smelling some bullshit while that Fairy Queen talked." the Biju-Turned-Skill asked.
"I can't talk for the others, but what do you mean?"
"The Gods choose the Hero, always did and always will.
The Hero normally could see through pretty much everything thanks to a OP Skill called [Eyes of Truth] that had always been a perk coming with the job to make their Quest WAY easier...But Surprisingly this time the 'Chosen One' does not have it because a simple King from a random country wanted it as a prize for making sure the Dark Lord won't be a problem anymore, in a way that makes sure a new Demon Lord won't surface unless necessary because the old one is still alive, and the Gods 'magnanimously' accepted taking away such fundamental skills from the new Hero and give it to the King.
And going by Albedo's remarks, her father (and current Demon Lord) is 'enjoying his retirement' by himself someplace isolated while another poor bastard had apparently been killed and framed as Demon Lord..."
"You think this is a set-up?"
"I am just listing the long series of coincidences." Kurama answered, snorting mirthless.
"So we have:
A Mad King planning something foul with some Super Evil Entity barely sealed away.
A Chosen One that lacks an all-important Skill in a way that will probably come back biting his ass later on.
Three Guardians forced to secretly summon their own 'Chosen Ones' from other worlds in a manner even the Gods would not notice until it was too late to do something against.
Two of said Guardians forced to hide their Cores and an 'Elemental Titan' that has already been killed, with more to come.
All this because a common King had 'SOMEHOW' found a way to find the secret location of all those Titans and Guardians that had remained perfectly hidden for ages before, a king that apparently now can hide from those same Gods,probably in a place that technically doesn't even exist."
"And do not forget the fact that Monsters are now breeding like crazy to increase their numbers while at the same time becoming more restless by the day...AND a Prophecy just popped-up that just happened to say that at the appearance of three bearers of the Mark of Calamity things will go bad, as if we are the ones responsible. I am seeing a pattern here!"
"Very curious for a Monster to have an Evolution called Asura, one that incredibly never appeared before...And for me to happen to be reborn in that exact race, yeah." Naruto added with a mental growl.
"I am paranoid, I admit it. But After Madara, Obito, and Kaguya, I am starting to see set-ups everywhere. If the Fairy Queen is right and you yourself are not bound by Fate, it doesn't mean that Gods and Devils can't still try corralling you around like the others by manipulating things around you."
"Why would they?"
"Do Gods need an excuse to fuck with people's lives? You heard Tanya, her former Nemesis Being X did something similar once he brought her here. Gods here may not be too different."
"Sooo...We'll need to watch our backs constantly?" Naruto asked.
"Just in case there is more going on than advertised. If there is already a Chosen Hero, having us three here would be superfluous or just redundant, even if Tanya technically was brought here by yet another manipulative fool." Kurama answered.
"Wasn't being dead supposed to mean: Rest in Peace?" Naruto asked, groaning.
"No Rest for the Wicked! May it be just a power struggle between Deities big or small, or something more sinister, only one thing is certain: We'll need to find an umbrella big enough for when the shit will hit the fan." Kurama answered with a defeated sigh.
"Hurray..." the reborn shinobi mentally whined, finding just a bit of solace from the warmth of the pretty girl sitting on his lap.
Omake – at great request – Oni Summoning Fun Times Episode 2: Ay the Cucked Raikage -
Kumo – Raikage Tower -
"I am sorry, Brother, but the Hyuga Heiress ignored your advances again." Killer Bee said with a sorry expression.
"...Even after I sent her the pictures of me mid-training?" Ay, the Raikage asked with a small voice, looking a bit too wounded and defenseless for the Hachibi Jinchuuriki's tastes.
"About that..."
"Yes?" the Village Leader asked hopefully.
"The messenger reported that she started laughing as soon as she saw the pictures."
"L-L-Laughing?" Ay asked, utterly heartbroken.
"She...She baby-talked the pictures...And defined your abs 'Adorable', well, she actually called them 'Almost-Abs'," Bee admitted, looking contrite.
"Baby-talk?...Almost-Abs?...Adorable?" the Raikage, now shaking heavily in fury, uttered with an animalistic growl.
"There are voices about a special ritual able to summon a creature that many believe is the reincarnation of our old friend Naruto. They described it as 'The God of metals'."
"God of metals?" Anger momentarily forgotten, the Raikage asked in confusion.
"Well: Silver hair, Golden Heart, Iron muscles...And Adamantium dick," Bee answered, a bit squeamish when talking about another dude's penis.
"So she laughs because…"
"Because she may have summoned him enough times to now be able to draw comparison...And find you lacking."
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" to be fair, the loud and inhuman roar of madness was something Killer Bee should have seen coming.
The next Day – Raikage Tower -
"I am still saying this is a bad idea." Bee, looking worriedly at the by-now 'legendary' summoning circle, said in dread.
"Everything is ready, Raikage-sama." Mabui, Ay's secretary, answered once given the finishing touches.
"Good! Start the ritual, I want to humiliate this supposed Muscle God once and for all!" Ay answered, shirtless and already flexing as he was ready to establish his muscle dominance on this challenger.
"Yeees." Mabui purred in answer.
Everybody in Kumo knew the woman had a muscle fetish bordering on obsession, so there was no better 'Muscle' judge than her, all things considered.
After the usual visual effects of wind, unnatural eclipse and all the other creepy light-show caused by the ritual died-down, in the thick smoke generated by the Summoning, a lone, TALL silhouette could be seen standing with a relaxed posture.
"There he is." Ay growled with narrowed eyes, flexing his pectorals as hard as he could and ready for 'Battle'.
"Must have fallen asleep while cuddling with Mi..." unheard by them, Naruto muttered unsure as he believed to once again be having the same strange dream he kept having every single night during his entire time outside Serena city after the battle against Agolor.
"Let's see those fabled muscles, you Sissy!" Ay roared as soon as the smoke finally dissipated.
"A muscle challenge?... What the hell, why not..." taking everything as a mere metaphor of his subconscious suggesting that he should just accept his new muscled body, Naruto gave a helpless shrug and took off the top half of his clothes to remain bare-chested.
"Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck!" Killer Bee muttered in awe at the sheer Perfection and size of those muscles, like the ones of a Greek statue depicting a God.
"Wow..." Mabui, already captivated, muttered in shock as she slowly walked towards the Oni.
"Mabui? No, I forbid you!" Ay hissed in anger.
"Flex, please?" Mabui asked with a small, trembling voice.
"Flex? Like this?" Naruto asked unsure while doing as asked, making his muscles bulge-out even more.
"U-U-Unf!" the woman purred in lust while shamelessly caressing his broad chest with both hands.
"Wow, are you made out of granite? You make Machio-kun look like a wet noodle..." Mabui muttered in awe as she kept feeling him out with low-key molesting touches.
Machio Naruzou, character from Mabui's favourite anime Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru, and the woman's Husbando and main character of some of her raunchiest Self-Insert porn Fanfic she secretly wrote and published under alias, but now, she was in the presence of somebody even buffer/manlier than her favorite fictional character, and her hormones were begging her to take action.
"That means nothing! Muscle size is not important!" Ay said with a shrill voice.
"Pfft!"
"Don't laugh, Mabui!"
"Brother, sorry, but-"
"I forbid you to finish that sentence!"
"Nnnngh! AAAAH!" deciding it was a case of emergency, Ay pumped his muscles in chakra trying to make them swell just a bit more.
"What now?!" the Raikage asked laughing madly.
"I can do that too! AH!" the Oni answered, flexing every muscle of his body and making his tight pants (something Mi secretly black-mailed Olaf into making two sizes too small) explode, leaving NOTHING to cover his body.
"FUUUCK!" Killer Bee yelled in disgust at the humongous beast that also broke free.
"BEE! LOOK AWAY, I BEG YOU!" the Eight-tailed Ox begged.
"Kyaaaaaa!" Glistening Godly Muscles aside, the unleashing of that giant thing blew away what remained of Ay's self-esteem, making his lightning armor dissipates like a fart in the wind.
"Uhmmmmm! Is that for me?" Mabui asked transfixed, molding her whole body to his chest while both her hands tirelessly petted the Oni's overwhelming dong.
"...I guess." having accepted defeat by now, the Oni gave a helpless shrug.
"So if I ask you to tear off my clothes and take me on that desk?" Mabui asked.
"I did it for Baa-chan...May as well do it for you." he answered.
"Goood! Now come here!" the woman ordered, pouncing on the Oni in great thirst.
"NUOOOOOOOOOH!" Ay cried in Horror as the monster immediately set to brutally defile his office and his secretary at the same time.
Several days later -
"MORE WEIGHTS! BRING ME MORE WEIGHTS!" Ay bellowed as he kept weight-lifting without stop.
"We can't, Raikage-sama! Your muscles will explode!" an ANBU cried-out in fear.
"BRING ME MORE WEIGHTS, I SAID!" the man ordered as even more plates were added to the already insane weight he was lifting.
"Brother is been eight hours. Please, stop." Bee begged.
"NO! I CAN SURPASS HIM!" Ay answered, foaming at the mouth in deranged hysteria.
"Brother, he is not human, you cannot compete with-"
"YES I CAN! ADD MORE WEIGHTS! BRING ME MORE PROTEIN SHAKES! AND BRING ME A DICK PUMP!"
"Good Morning." Mabui was heard saying as she wheeled her own wheelchair in position behind her desk.
"Mabui-san! They let you out?" Bee asked in wonder.
"As long as I take it easy. But they said I will have to wait a month before repeating the summoning." she answered with a sad expression.
"Hello, Mabui!" Ay said immediately, throwing away the giant weights to show his new chiseled physique.
Snort! "Hello to you too, Ay-chan!" Mabui answered with a gentle smile.
"A-A-Ay-chan?" he Raikage asked with watering eyes.
"You're muscled look adorable today!" she answered, her tone utterly identical to a mother praising her child crayon doodle.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Brother/Raikage-sama!" both Bee and the various ANBU yelled in concern.
"My male pride...Destroyed!" Ay muttered while crying in a fetal position.
At the same time – Elrune – Counselor office -
"And then...Then I had that dream again." Naruto said with a miserable expression while lying on the custom-sized recliner of his trusted psychologist, as always closing his appointment with his dream dairy.
"I see, who was it this time?" the old man asked, he was sitting behind a thick wall so as to assure complete anonymity to his patient.
"A woman named Mabui, she was the assistant of a Village Leader I used to know."
"Have you ever had any contact with her before the dream?"
"No, that is what makes it strange! I met her once and exchanged maybe a word or two! Why am I having those dreams?!" the reborn shinobi asked.
"Having recurring erotic dreams can have numerous reasons, was she the only case this week?"
"No...The following nights there had been Hinata, then Tsunade-baachan, then Shizune-oneechan, then Tenten, then Sakura-chan AND Kiba's sister at the same time...Then Hinata again, and doing it with her on a wheelchair felt very wrong."
"Did you have similar dreams before you decided to come to me?"
"Maybe once or twice when I was a kid, but not every day like now! What does it mean?! Why I'm-I'm-I'm SCREWING every girl I ever met?! For fuck sake last week it was Temari with Shikamaru tied to a chair and gagged and forced to watch! I like the guy! Why would I dream about Netorare-ing him?!" Naruto asked, almost in tears.
Especially since he always woke-up with 'Mister Stiffy' looking ready for action in the real world too! And he had started to feel uneasy under the intense gaze Mi and both Albedo and Alice would always level on him whenever that happened, making him feel as if he was the world's biggest bowl of ramen.
"Have you considered that maybe this is your subconscious alerting you that it is maybe time to take things to the next level with your girlfriend? As if it was some sort of warning about not stalling too much in fear of losing her? It may be just your repressed urges acting out, or even part of you wishing things would have gone differently with one or two girls you failed to recognize as having feelings for you. One should never ignore the warnings our mind gives off."
"And the dreams about hungry sex with random women I am fairly sure I have actually never met before?"
"As I said, it may very well just be a matter of hormones acting without control now that you are an adventurer and so under constant stress, have you ever thought about finding a hobby? Something simple and relaxing to distract you from, ah-hem, Peculiar thoughts?"
"...I-I-I need to speak with Mi-MY girlfriend first, m-maybe she is sending me some signal and I am not getting it?"
"Try talking to her, by your words you two are very close, she will help you understand, and if you want, I'll be here next week as well."
"Thank you, Doc."
"Naruto? She keeps insisting on sleeping with you while naked, there is 'Signals' and then there is 'Writing it in Neon Letters'." Kurama said with a disbelieving tone.
"I just didn't want to assume..."
"I love you, brat, but fuck you." the living Skill answered, shaking his head.
These dreams have to stop! Naruto was actually starting to be scared of sleeping! He didn't want to dream about his friends doing those things to him! Clearly, Jiraiya managed to make some damages, there was no other explanation!
The way Tsunade kept 'slurping him' while role-playing with him sitting on a throne...UGH! As if his beloved Baa-chan could really do such things! Luckily they were only dreams! Disgusting, but just dreams…
Meanwhile – Konoha -
"Oh...Fuck..." Tsunade muttered while looking at the positive pregnancy test in her hand.
End of the omake.
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