Disclaimer: First Chapter
Story Start!
"You have this under control right?" Xenovia asked Naruto, as they once more encountered trouble on a mission of theirs. This time they were just outside of the city, with the mission being stopping a group of Fallen Angels from entering the city, but the trouble this time were a bunch of Ex-Exorcists that were hell-bent on getting in their way. They were surrounded by a group of at least tweny, or possibly even more that were hidden further away. They all wore white priest and black nun outfits depending on gender, with masks over their faces so that they can keep their real faces a secret incase they had to run away, a smart move on their part. Naruto and Xenovia had gone on their way to met up and stop the West travelling group of Fallen Angels, while other Exorcists were dispatched to take care of the other groups trying to enter the city.
By take care of, the true meaning of those words was kill. They were to kill the Fallen Angels that were trying to break into the city and bypass the barriers before they could complete what they were trying to do, it had been confirmed now that one of the leaders of the Grigori group, an organization for Fallen Angels, was aiming to steal the Excalibur fragments for whatever purpose, but whatever it was couldn't be a good thing. That was why the strongest Exorcists in the city at the moment, with the stronger ones being out of the city, were being moved around to take care of the problem.
"I have this under control, you go take care of the Fallen Angels. I will meet up with you when I am done here." Naruto said as he and Xneovia seperated by jumping out of the light sword that would have cut them, with Xenovia landing on top of a nearby building before she started to run away. Naruto turned Excalibur Mimic into a spear with a cross at the end before finishing off with a foot long blade extended from the cross. He used the side of the spear to block a light sword, before he spun around and smashed the blunt end into the side of the ex-priest's head. The man's eyes widened behind the mask, before they glazed over as he went limp and fell to the ground.
He didn't have to look behind him to hear the footsteps getting closer, so he swerved to the left to avoid getting impaled through the back, before he spun his spear over his head and smacked him over the top of the head with the blunt end, knocking him down to the ground face first, before Naruto blocked a light sword with the blade of the spear while hitting a man behind him with the blunt end of the spear, smashing it right into his ribs hard enough to knock him back. Naruto pushed the light sword from his blade, before he spun around and smacked both men in the faces with the holy sword, in spear form, knocking them both out without him needing to try very hard. Naruto elbowed a man that charged him from behind in the sternum, before he spun his spear in his hands and blocked and diverted two sword strikes from in front of him from a man and a woman. Naruto stabbed the spear into the ground before he jumped and kicked off the wall to dodge a light bullet, before he kicked the two that tried to stab him in the face while in mid-air.
He landed on his feet and grabbed his spear when more people started to rush him while the two he kicked fell to the ground, knocked out. He yanked his spear from the ground before stabbing a trashcan that was nearby, lifting it into the air he spun around and threw the trashcan towards one of the men rushing him, knocking him back into a brick wall, denting the trashcan and knocking the back of the man's head into the brick wall, sending him to dreamland. He held his spear above his head lightly when a sword of light tried to brain him, he pushed off, before he bent forward and lifted his leg back up behind him, kicking an ex-nun in the chin, sending her soaring on top of an already knocked out man. He pushed off on the ground and stood up straight, following that he hooked his arm around a shorter nun's neck and flexed his arm to choke her out while he used his arm with the spear in hand to defend himself.
Liquid ran down the nun's leg, before her eyes rolled up into her head and Naruto pushed her to the ground, before he punched a man in the cheek hard enough to smash him towards the concrete with bone shattering force, just from his training making his punches extremely strong. He did have to lift up a sword that was bigger than he was, the fact he could do it one handed testified to his physical strength. The abs that were visible through the unitard were not just for show. He used a palm thrust with one hand, while thrusting the blunt end of his spear back with the other, hitting a man in the chest with his palm and with his spear. The man behind him gasped, before he collapsed to his knees. The clothes on the man's chest in front of him were torn to shreds, before he collapses backwards with a shout of pain.
A few of the men were trying to escape, with a nun leading them away. Naruto stabbed the blade into a truck parked at the side of the road and then he grit his teeth and spun his body before throwing the truck through the air so that it crashed in front of those trying to escape, not seeing it coming, they ran into the truck and were knocked onto their butts in surprise. He was glad that it was in the dead of night, an a state of emergancy had been delcared so everyone in the city knew to stay inside, so nobody would get hit by his fighting but those he was trying to hit. He stabbed the trashcan from earlier again and spun around, smacking a woman charging him and throiwng the trashcan at the people as they tried to stand up again.
"Where do they keep coming from?" Naruto questioned silently, wondering what was up with the number of Ex-Exorcists that were popping up. Sure, on average about 30 or so Exorcists a year went rogue, drunk on their own thoughts of gaining power to murder devils, but for so many to be collected at the same place was strange. Normally the Church didn't do anything against these guys, because they had no allegance by definition, so they could kill devils without igniting a war, but for them to gather with Fallen Angels... this was suspicious.
"Suck on this!" One of the men shouted, with Naruto's eyes widening when he saw two grenades being thrown towards him. Knowing he had to act quickly, Naruto threw his spear and kicked the blunt end so that when it flew it started to spin around, smacking both grenades and knocking them high into the air where they exploded. Naruto turned around and punched a man in the gut, before headbutting him in the nose and grabbing him by the shirt and spinning him around so that he could slam both the man, and another charging man into the wall, before he rolled across the ground to avoid three seperate swords of light and catching his spear before it touched the ground and standing back up to face the three men.
Ropes wrapped around Excalibur Mimic, before yanking it out of his grasp and tossing it across the street to the other side, before impaling in a wall. More of the ex-priests and nuns stood in the way of him and his weapon, thinking it was his only weapon he could use, not counting Durandal, but these people were not worthy of him pulling out Durandal if he had been able to fight them so far in their greater numbers without getting hit once. Naruto tensed his legs, channelling chakra into them as the ground cracked behind him from the chakra going into it by flowing from his foot. Then, in a flash, Naruto shot forward and clotheslined a nun and two priests as he reached the other end of the street next to his weapon.
There attempt to seperate him from his weapon having failed horribly, Naruto smiled widely as he shot into action and went on the offencive with a rush and spin where he knocked out two nuns and a priest by elbowing their skulls and smashing his pole into them. Naruto looked at the last few of them almost shaking in their boots before he saw them charge him, the last of the ground he had been facing were all going to concentrate their forces on a last ditch effort attack when everything seemed hopeless, hoping against their hopeless situation.
Their hope was undeserved, because Naruto knocked them out seconds later with a straight right hook and kneeing the next one in the chin, before spinning in the air and smashing his heel into the face of the last one. He landed on the ground, and the three he had defeated all hit the ground at the same time, looking around, Naruto saw that he had left the bodies of the unconscious littering the area, all of them groaning in pain or bleeding on the ground, so with a shrug Naruto turned Excalibur Mimic into sunglasses again as he jumped up to the nearby cafe that had feet hanging out the broken window, and in the distance he could see flashes of light being thrown around. Naruto started to run along the roof tops, before he heard a shout.
"Naruto-sempai, Naruto-sempai~!" The joyful and upbeat shout of a young girl was heard running towards him, so jumping from the roof to the ground Naruto saw one of the other Excalibur Fragment sword users running towards him, speaking in Japanese and using the suffix that showed that she respected Naruto as her elder. The girl running towards him wore the Unitard uniform that denoted her as a wielder of an Excalibur fragment, but unlike Xenovia her uniform had no sleeves instead od short sleeves, and instead of ending along the panty-line, her unitard ended similar to biker shorts. Her skin was lighter than Xenovia's skin, and her long hair was done up in two twin side tails on each side of her hair, held up with blue scrunchy. The color of her hair was light brown, almost orange looking, with her eyes being violet in color. The girl was almost as toned as Xenovia, and somehow she was also way above average in the breast department.
This girl was Irina Shidou, a girl that wielded Excalibur Nightmare, the Holy Sword of Dreams, after having her body modified with a light crystal so that she could use holy swords. She wasn't a natural holy sword user like Naruto and Xenovia, instead she was an artificial user, making her much weaker when it came to actually using her sword, but among the artificial users she was one of the strongest, making her fit enough to use an Excalibur fragment. The Excalibur fragment in her right hand was a silver dual edged sword with a golden edged black handle with no guard. This Excalibur fragment let her use the power of illusions and manipulate people's dreams.
Funny enough, she was the exact same height as Naruto and Xenovia, being at 5 feet and 5 inches, it was funny how all of the Church Excalibur Wielders were the exact same height.
"Well is it isn't the Self-Proclaiming Raised in Japan, I thought you were dealing with the Fallen Angels coming from that way." Naruto said as he pointed towards south, and she seemed to fume for a second at the nickname, before she calmed herself down and took a deep breath.
"I was raised in Japan, and I finished with my end already. I was told to come to you if I wanted more orders Naruto-sempai." Irina explaimed, and Naruto nodded to himself before he thought of what she should be doing right now. The flashes of light coming from where Xenovia was had ended, meaning either she won or lost, but since no Fallen Angels were coming into the city, he could guess she one and was back on her way, or searching for any Fallen Angels hiding out, waiting for thier guards to drop.
"Go to the Catholic Church and guard Excalibur Rapidly, make sure that it isn't taken, BUT don't sacrifice your life to do so. We can always retrieve it if it is stolen later, but if you are killed we lose both Excalibur Nightmare and Excalibur Rapidly." Naruto ordered seriously, knowing that the life of a talented holy sword wielder was something that couldn't be replaced so easily, while an Excalibur fragment was only a sword, it could be retrieved later and returned to it's rightful place, but if she died they wouldn't know who took it, and they would lose another sword, making it even harder to retrieve the swords... not to mention he didn't want her to die.
"Gotcha Naruto-sempai, and my the Lord smile on you tonight, Amen!" Irina shouted out with an extremely happy smile on her face, even a small blush, her faith in the Lord was very high... very high. Naruto watched as she ran off in the direction of the church guarding Rapidly, before he turned to see if the signs of battle in the other directions were dying down. Naruto could still sense the Ascalon coming from Xenovia's direction, the sealed dimension worked in a way that it was possible to sense the wielder of the weapon. Not to mention if the wielder every died, then the sealed dimension would be broken and the weapon returned to Heaven. The fact he could sense Ascalon, meant that Xenovia was alive, and moving towards the East to take out the remaining Fallen Angels there.
The targets were obviously the Excalibur Fragments, with how the information seemed to be centered around them, it was easy to see that they were wanted for some reason.
Out of the Seven Excalibur's, six of them were within this very city, with Excalibur Ruler being lost to them. Two Excaliburs were held in each Church, the Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Churchs all had two swords, though right now only Excalibur Rapidly, Excalibur Transparency, and Excalibur Blessing were without wielders. The Holy Sword of Heavenly Flare (Rapidly), the Holy Sword of Blessing (Blessing), and the Holy Sword of Transparency (Transparency) they also went by, each powerful in their own right. Rapidly was being held at the Catholic Church, which also used to hold Excalibur Destruction that belonged to Xenovia. Blessing was being held that the Orthodox Church, just like Excalibur Mimic. Finally, Excalibur Transparency was being held with the Protestant Church, just where Excalibur Nightmare used to be before Irina got possession of it.
It was impossible to say where they would strike first, but it would be best to have Rapidly protected, being more powerful than the other two not in use. It allowed the user to grow much faster than humanly possible... for normal humans that is, not like the super trained humans like Naruto and Xenovia that were used to carrying super heavy swords. Though they couldn't use their mx speed when carrying their larger swords, Excalibur Destruction for her, and Durandal for him. Trasparency only allowed you to become invisble, and Blessing was the least likely to be targeted thanks to it's nature, and how it's power wasn't based for more direct battle, but instead support and giving power.
What, he was an idiot with how he fought using raw power as his main go-to, it didn't mean he was completely stupid. He just prefered using pure strength to overpower his opponents instead of pussyfooting around waiting for the best chance to present itself for him.
Naruto started to run towards the Protestant Church, jumping from building to building to save himself time, because the quickest way to some place was a straight line. The building were only a slight annoyance, but he could jump the roof tops so they weren't that annoying. Naruto dropped down in front of the church moments later, before he went into a full speed run towards the front, going inside of the Church without hesitation, and when he entered he ran towards the large cross at the front of the Church, right behind the podium where the priest would give sermons.
Going behind the cross, he reached into his pocket and knelt down to the floor level and raised up a section of the carpet, revealing a keyhole, that was the perfect match for the key in his hand. Naruto twisted the key in the lock, before the cross in front of him started to split apart the more Naruto turned the key, showing that the cross was hollow, and inside of that cross was a glass case with a unique sword inside. The sword looked like a thin european sword, but the entire thing had a metal swirl design going up the handle and surrounding the blade, before stopping before hitting the tip. This was Excalibur Trasparency, with the power to turn things invisible.
He sighed in relief, before he began to turn the key in the other direction so that the cross would close up around the sword again, hiding it in plain sight, even if it wasn't the msot secure location, nobody would think of it being hidden there. Naruto reached for the book at his belt, before he opened it to show that the handheld book had strange runes on it. Naruto placed his fingertips at the runes, before he began to chant under his breath the words he was reading. The runes moved up his arm, down his chest, down his leg onto the floor, before moving towards the cross in front of him and going up it to form a protection barrier to keep tainted being, Devils and Fallen Angels, from touching the cross. He snapped the book closed, before he stood up and placed the book back on his belt.
The book he used was filled with various sealing arrays and runes so that he could place barriers, erase memories, place trackers on objects. As long as he had the book, he could look up the current location of anything that he had marked, but he would have to manually go there, so it was sort of a bad way to track something when it could run away while you chased after it. Now that he was standing up, he started to run out of the church, before he slammed right into Xenovia and knocked them both to the ground. With the two on their butts, they groaned before sighing in relief at the sight of each other.
"Excalibur Transparency?" Xenovia questioned with a genuine look of concern.
"Safe, and now under a protective barrier. It should be safe from Fallen Angels or Devils now, and now it has a tracking charm on it. With my book we can track it no matter where it is taken. I was about to go check on Blessing, Irina is heading to, or at, Rapidly's location to protect. You midn helping her out while I check on Blessing?" Naruto explained and questioned, Xenovia nodded, knowing the urgency of the situation so she left to run towards the Church holding Rapidly without saying another word against it. He himself ran off to go check on Excalibur Blessing and place the runes on it as well, he hated that nobody had given him permission to place them before now, technically he didn't have permission, but it was an urgent situation.
He rushed as fast as he could, knowing every second counted, and he was able to get there in five minutes easy, before he ran into the church to see a small group of Fallen Angel with dark gray wings, each only having two wings each, a single set, inside of the church. Naruto turned his sunglasses into an axe, before he threw it towards the nearest one, a young female Fallen Angel with green hair and yellow eyes. The girl didn't get to see what hit her before her head was split in two, and her body turned into golden dust, before the golden dust vanished into nothing. Naruto jumped into the air and caught the axe before it could hit the ground, and then he turned his axe into a golden glove.
'Damn, I hope they didn't locate it.' Naruto thought as he used the golden glove that was resting on top of his black gloves, to catch a pink spear of light that had almost pierced him through the face. He tossed the light spear aside and started to run around to avoid getting impaled. Naruto jumped high into the air, his target being a young male Fallen Angel with a smirk on his face, and dark blond hair with violet eyes. His face was punched so hard that it caved it, and his body started to turn into dust like the female before him. Naruto started to skid across the ground when he landed, before he turned his glove into a japanese katana and cut a spear of light heading towards him into two pieces. He didn't give the Fallen Angels time to think or taunt him before he was on them, his sword already swinging as he cut through three skulls, seperating the top and lower halves of their faces.
They turned to gold dust and vanished before they could even touch the ground, or was it golden energy instead since it vanished? Either way, with only one Fallen Angel left, who looked like he had shit his pants, Naruto rushed him and stabbed him through the heart without mercy.
This all happened in the span of four seconds, and in those four seconds Naruto had killed every Fallen Angels in the room. Naruto ran out of the main room, before he turned to the left and entered the room where the bastisms were preformed. Inside of this room, right in the middle, was a large cross shaped pool with light inside of the water so that it could be well lit even at night, all night long. Not all of the swords were located in the same place in each church, that would be just stupid of them. Naruto went inside of the pool, before he ducked under the water with his eyes open and his hand traced the area for his key to enter. Turning the lock over and over, the case holding the Holy Sword of Blessing opened up so that the glass case with the sword inside of it was plainly visible, making Naruto let out a sigh onf relief, bubbles rushing to the surface of the water as he did so.
Naruto got his book out, which was waterproof, before he breached the surface to take a large and deep breath of air, before going back underwater and beginning his chanting so that the runes would copy onto the case holding the fragment of Excalibur, placing both a barrier and tracking rune on the sword and sword case. With that done, he inserted the key in the lock and started to twist it so that they case would begin to close, hiding Excalibur Blessing from view. He got out of the water when he was done, once more thankful that his clothes were waterproof... besides his pants and the cut out hole on his lower back that let some of the water in. Naruto smacked himself on the butt, and the water inside of his unitard mostly got out, but his pantes that he wore over the bottom would have to dry the old fashion way... not that he could even notice it that much. The went pants still weren't pressing against his skin.
He placed his book back into it's holder, before he saw Xenovia and Irina waiting for him outside of the pool with frustrated looks on their faces.
"Naruto-sempai, the case holding Excalibur Rapidly has been broken into, and the sword missing by the time I got there. How is Excalibur Blessing?" Irina asked, with Xenovia nodding to the question.
"It is safe and sound, did you see anyone run off with the sword, or was it completely gone when you got there, no clues left behind?" Naruto asked carefully, wanting to make sure what happened. Only the higher ups and other Excalibur Fragment holders like himself and Xenovia had keys to unlock the cases and reveal the swords, Irina didn't have a key yet because she was new to being a sword user of a holy sword of this level. Before a few monthes ago, she had been a regular exorcist that used a normal mass produced Light Sword and Light Gun, so she wasn't trusted with the key to unlocking all of the Excalibur fragments they had.
Naruto and Xenovia had been using their fragments for years in their line of duty, having become fully fledged exorcists together when they were younger, and being given the swords right off the bat, proving themselves to the point they had been given the keys to the cases years ago.
"Nothing, but statue with it inside of it was destroyed, and the case smashed long before I got there... the guards... they were dead." Irina said sadly, looking at the ground with disappointed eyes. If only she had gotten there sooner, then she could saved their lives.
"Damn, this isn't good. Irina, go to the Vatican and have them prepare coffisn for the brave men and women that died today. Report to them that it was stolen, don't worry yourself over the sword too much. It can always be retrieved later, now we have to increase the guard over the two remaining swords. No doubt they will come back for another attempt, I doubt anyone after the fragments would stop at one." Nartuo groaned out, while Irina seemed to pick herself up at how he was attempting to comfort her by keeping her busy. She nodded and was about to run off, before she was stopped by the firm grip of Xenovia.
"Irina, before you go, this wasn't your fault. Naruto and I weren't there to stop it either, and we are more experienced than you. If anything, the blame rests on our shoulders." Xenovia comforted to help the girl, and because it was the truth. The situation was far from perfect, but they had gotten to the other two swords in time to keep them safe, with only one sword stolen, and the casualities were extremeley low considering that they had been dealing with rogue exorcists and Fallen Angels. Only a few of the trained exorcists that had fought today were killed, with the guards to Excalibur Rapidly being the exception, having been killed without mercy by some high ranking Fallen Angel since all that remained of them were blood soaked weapons... they had been killed by a powerful weapon of Light.
"Thank you Xenovia-sempai." Irina thanked with a small smile, before she ran off, leaving Naruto and Xenovia to frown over what happened.
"I can expect the people I knocked out are being taken to questioning?" Naruto asked, with his friend nodding. Naruto didn't knock them out JUST because he hated killing other humans, but because they could have valuable information on who the enemy that was after the swords was. If they had any information, then they could be offered some form of agreement for their lives.
"No doubt the enemy will come back, obviously the forced outside of the city were just a distraction to get us out of the way long enough for the swords to be stolen. Next time they will sent stronger people now that our guard is raised higher, and the higher ups will place stronger security around the swords." Xenovia concluded with narrowed eyes, while Naruto leaned against the wall and sighed at the frustrating situation. Now they had no clue where Rapidly was, and they were going to have to face enemies stronger than the ones they got done beating down and slaughtering.
Blessing and Transparency were safe though, and that was a good thing.
Naruto only hoped that they weren't given a mission anytime soon so that they could be here to protect the swords.
They NEEDED to be here to defend these swords!
Chapter End!
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Irina Shidou - Sex: Female - Age: 16 - Race: Human - Height: 5'5" - Birthday: Unknown
Equipment: Excalibur Nightmare, Silver Cross