Setting out in the forest outside a large village a man was playing an eerie tune on what looked like a harp as large as the man was tall. All of a sudden a voice was heard from around him as if the forest was alive when hearing the man's song. The man playing the harp is Lucian; he stood six foot, nine inches tall with silver hair down to the middle of his back wearing a battle kimono with a golden fox and a silver dragon sewn into it.
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Two tall men walked into the massive gates of the Village Hidden in the Leaves.
"What's your business for being here?" asked one of the guards of the gate. The man on the left answered, "We are here to talk to the Hokage. It is of the greatest importance"
"Sign the entry form and then go to the tallest building in the center of the village." The guard replied. The two men signed and walked to the tower. When they got there they saw a young looking blond haired woman and a dark haired woman next to her. The woman with the blond hair is known as Tsunade and has a green vest, with the kanji for gamble, and grey kimono pants. The other woman is Shizune; she is holding a pig named TonTon.
The man with hair like starlight touched the first and middle fingers to his lips and said, "Atra esterní ono thelduin."
Tsunade raised an eyebrow but returned the gesture and saying, "Mor'ranr lífa unin hjarta onr."
The dark haired man ended by saying, "Un du evarínya ono varda. Greetings Tsunade-elda. My name is Gwendal and my companion is Günter von Christ."
"What did you just call me?" asked Tsunade in a voice that promised pain and a tick mark on her forehead.
Günter, the innocent fool he is, said "He called you 'Tsunade-elda' it is a-"was as far as he got as Tsunade slapped him through two walls and out the window and into the marked.
"I hope you know that you just proposed to us with that slap," Gwendal deadpanned.
Tsunade just stood there with her jaw on the floor and Shizune started freaking out because she was doing Tsunade's paper work and yelled, "WHAT THE HELL, SHE PROPOSED BY SLAPPING HIM!"
"In our culture when someone slaps the left check with the right hand it is seen as a marriage proposal…" Gwendal replied nervously.
Günter walked back into the room holding his head. "What hit me?"
"Tsunade slapped you which means we are in trouble when we get back. The Queen will want us to bring her with us," Gwendal replied to his mate. Tsunade was just now getting back to the real world and started looking for her sake when she saw Sizune drinking it by the bottle.
"Why are you drinking? I'm the one who proposed to a FUCKING ELF!" she yelled to her assistant.
Scene change Suna
"Darn it Gaara where are you!" yelled a girl with chocolate brown hair down to her shoulders deep silver eyes and wearing sand brown cargo pants and a skin tight blue shirt. She looked like a man because of her A-cup boobs. A teen with short red hair was looking down in fear from a cloud of sand right above Kamai. This had been going on since he and his siblings got back from the mission to retrieve a missing nin from Konoha. His sister was hiding in the hospital and his brother was hiding in the Hidden Waterfall Village.
A man walked down the market streets looking for these two. He had half his face covered by a cloth, this man was Baki and the teacher of the sand siblings and Kamai's adopted father. He yelled, "We just got a letter from Konoha and are to leave in one hour. Gather your stuff while I go get Kankurou."
Gaara stared thanking the kamis above for that message. Just as he was about to leave he felt something behind him, looking back he sees Kamai flying on sand wings glaring at him.
"There you are Gaara. I've been looking for you to help me train." She said with a grin that scared even the Shukaku that was sealed inside him. Now Shukaku is not an easy demon to scare seeing as she is one of the most blood-thirsty of the Nine Tailed Lords, but when Kamai wants to train it usually means pain for everyone else.
"To bad, maybe I'll get to train with that blond boy. What was his name again?" Kamai thought out loud.
"Naruto Uzumaki." said Gaara in fear of this crazy girl.
With said blond
"ACHOO!" Naruto sneezed, "Someone must be talking about me again."
Naruto was working on his chakra control by floating a rock over his hand. He was wearing a dark orange shirt, dark blue pants with pouches on both of his hips with throwing knives and stars as well as ninja wire. The thing that stood out most about him was the three whisker-like marks on each cheek and silted blue eyes.
"It could be my brother Lucifer. Or that perverted sage," a young woman replied. She had fire red hair down to the middle of her back in a braid. She was wearing a red dress with an orange fox on it. "Now back to training Naruto,"
"Ok Hitomi." Naruto replied as he started to walk up the tree behind him. He then pulled out six kunai and floated them over his fingers. This was just another day in the life of a ninja.
In the center of the village Lucian was seen walking into the market from the forest.
"Lady Hokage wants to see you," said an AMBU from in front of him. Lucian just sighed.
"Thank you bird, I will head over now."
Bird bowed and vanished in a swirl of fog. As Lucian walked to the tower thirteen fox tails formed from his tailbone and two fox-like ears formed on his head laying flat on his head in annoyance. 'So Lessa what do you think happened this time?' he ask his other side.
'If I knew then so would you, but I think that two elves appeared and she slapped one or the other. More than likely one called her "elda" and she thought they said "elder"' said Lessa in his mind.
He kept walking when a couple of teens ran into him. One of the two has blue hair, pale lavender eyes, and a tan jacket, her name was Hinata Hyuuga. The other had golden hair with silver streaks purple eyes and fox ears and four tails. She was wearing a dark blue shirt and a green skirt. She is Kira Yoko, also known as Lucian's daughter.
"Dad do you feel the magic in the air or hear the girly scream and crash?" asked Kira.
"What do you mean by magic?" asked Hinata.
"Would you two go get Kiba and Tenten for me and met at the Hokage's tower in five minutes?" Lucian asked them. When the girls nodded he thanked them and told Hitomi just what he learned.
'I'll open the portal now so you two can get back,' he said in his mind as a hole in the air form and out walked Naruto and Hitomi.
"What should we do now Uncle?" asked the blond.
"For now we should head to Tsunade and see what she needs. I just hope Lessa was wrong and she didn't slap an elf," Lucian responded.
When they got to the tower the secretary glared at Naruto and yelled, "What are you doing here you demon!" She suddenly found it hard to breath from the killing intent doming form Lucian.
"You would do well to remember who I am do I make myself clear," he asked with a tone that promised pain and suffering.
The secretary cowered and let them enter. They saw Shizune drinking and Tsunade healing a person's cheek. The two men looked at Lucian and touched their lips with their first two fingers and said, "Atra esterní ono thelduin."
Lucian did the same and replied, "Mor'ranr lífa unin hjarta onr."
This was repeated two more times for the other people who came in with Lucian. When the greeting was exchanged Gwendal explained the reason they were there. Lucian just shook his head when he learned what Tsunade had done and pulled out a scroll.
"In this scroll is an egg that was given to me by a dear friend during the Fall when I had to flee," he said sadly as he unsealed the egg.
"So what is so great about the egg? It looks like a large chicken egg to me," wondered Shizune when Tsunade slapped her in the back of the head.
"You fool that is a DRAGON egg!" she said as Shizune rubbed her head.
The egg started to crack but no one saw this, "Tsunade I would like to request a team of Kiba, Hana, Hinata and Naruto to come with me to Alagaësia to help the newest Rider save my homeland," Lucian a nearly pleading.
"I will b calling a new Hokage soon to take my place seeing as I will be leaving with you to see the elf queen," she said. Right before the egg hatched Lucian's eyes changed in color to green with six triangles around a slit like pupil, as this happened Tsunade started to look younger until she looked around twenty. Lucian's eyes changed back to red and the de-ageing stopped. Shizune was surprised to see her master as young as herself without her genjutsu on.
"Why are you staring at me Shizune?" Tsunade asked when a sharp crack was heard in the room and something brushed against her hand. To Tsunade it felt like fire shot through her hand, and she passed out from the feeling.
"Well looks like I have to train them on this trip. Great another hatchling to teach," Lucian said to himself.
Three hours later
Tsunade was starting to wake up as she sat up the little dragon waddled up to her and put its head under her hand for her to scratch it. Tsunade pulled her hand back thinking it would hurt but nothing happened so she started scratching the hatchling's head. "You should probably feed her," Lucian told Tsunade.
"Her, how do you know Lucian?" asked Günter.
Lucian raised an eyebrow and two golden dragon wings formed from his back. "A dragon would know."
Gwendal and Günter bowed in front of him and asked for forgiveness for not realizing he was a dragon.
"Get up; you should know that I do not stand on formalities. Nor do I view you as lesser to me. We will need each other to train the Riders," said Lucian.
"I asked Suna to send Gaara and his team so we will have more back up," Tsunade said as she looked out of her office window and out into the village with a sad smile. Lucian walked up to her and said.
"You know you can still run the village while we are gone?"
This had Tsunade's attention as she looked at him and asked,"How would I do that?"
Naruto said one word' "Clone." Tsunade the slapped herself and then hugged both Lucian and Naruto with all her strength, which sent pops off from their backs and ribs.
"Darn…it…Granny…can't…breath," cried Naruto about to pass out.
Letting them go Tsunade said the phrase only two people could say with money to spare, "Naruto the ramen is on me tonight." Strangely she said it with a smile that sent chills across the stack of paperwork, 'Take that you evil paperwork! I now know how to beat you,' thought Tsunade.
"I just remembered that I would like to request Tenten to come with us on this trip as an apprentice," stated Lucian, "I have sent Kira and Hinata to get her and Kiba. They should be here about now." Just as he said this there was a knock at the door. Tsunade gave a quick enter and they came in.
"Alright you three there is something you need to know. I have asked you and Hana to come with me, my family, and these two elves to help end a war," Lucian said. When he said war Tenten and Hinata looked shocked, Kiba started talking to his nin dog. "You can refuse to come and no one will think any less of you. If you decide to come I will personally teach you to the best of my abilities," he told them next about the war from what he knew.
Hinata was the first to speak asking, "What is the length of the mission and what is the rewords if we succeed in helping to end the war?" This surprised everyone in the room seeing as she does not like fighting.
Hitomi recovered first from the shock and answered, "The mission will be ongoing and the reword will be what you will be taught by us or anyone else."
"Also you will be payed an "S" rank salary to any group of your choice. This is continuous until we return. You have three months to decide and tell your family," Lucian continued, "You will also receive an allowance while we are there."
After that was said the genin walked out of the office. Lucian asked Tsunade to fallow him out of the tower and to his home. The place looked like it was part of the forest that surrounded Konoha, it was made from four trees growing close together with an open atrium and a door recessed into one of the walls. Inside the atrium was forge that seemed to be in use. Coming closer they see a woman with long golden hair worn in a braid as of now wearing an apron working on a weapon that was ordered by the weapon shop they sold items to. The forge was known as The Dragon's Forge also known for the strength of the weapons under pressure.
"Lessa the egg has hatched. Would help me prepare to leave in three months?" Lucian yelled to her.
"Give me a minute to finish this sword," came the answer. Lessa finished the sword and sent it to the shop via clone with a message to the owner.
She walked into the house to clean up and find scrolls to seal materials needed on the trip. "Come on in Tsunade."
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The Yamanaka Flower shop is close to the middle of the market. As Lessa walked into the shop the person behind the counter called, "Welcome to the Yamanaka Flower Shop, how may I help you?" The person was a young woman with platinum blond hair and cornflower blue eyes she is wearing a purple skirt and shirt with her stomach bear. Her name is Ino Yamanaka and is the heiress to her clan.
"I need to talk to your father about training some people in blocking their minds, Brother and I can only teach so much as we're no elves but foxes," Lessa said making Ino gasp. The only other people to know were the Nara, the Akamichi, and the Hokage that her clan came from elves.
To say she was shocked was an under statement. "Give me a moment."
Lessa started looking around the shop. Some of the flowers should not be growing, others and colors not original to the plant. Inoichi walked into the store from the back and asked, "How may I help you Lady Lessa?"
"Could you help my brother and me to train a group to defend themselves against mind-readers and spell weavers?" she requested, "Also I would like some lavender if you have any."
"Well yes we have…" Inoichi paled at the request and was about to respond when he felt someone's mind against his own, 'This is very important and could save the world and the dragons as a race,' came Lessa's mental voice.
He bowed his head and asked whom he was to teach; he was shocked to hear whom.
"If you want I could train your daughter. She is very good at singing plants but she lacks a larger vocabulary in the Ancient Language," offered Lessa. That seemed to be what was needed to get him to agree.
"AS a reward I could check my scrolls to see if there is anything that would help the Nara and the Akamichi clans with their projects sense they seem not as human as others," Lessa came up with the idea from the clans' relationships.
Same time in the Inuzuka clan compound
Lucian walked up to the clan head's house and knocked on the door.
"Get the door Kuromaru," yelled a woman with a gruff voice from inside the house. The door opened to revile a wolf/dog wearing an eye patch and missing part of an ear. What is more shocking to some is that he spoke, "To what do we owe the pleasure Fox?"
Lucian just chuckled at that and pulled out a stake and gave it to the wolf. "I'm just here to talk to the Alpha."
This surprised Kuromaru seeing as Lucian referred to the head by name and not title. He sniffed the air to be sure it is the real Lucian. Confirming that this was the real one, he led him in. Then a woman walked down the stairs. She had a red fang-like tattoo on each of her cheeks, feral hair, and brown silted eyes, her name is Tsume and is the clan head or in animal terms the alpha of the pack.
"What do you want Lucian?" Tsume asked. Lucian then told her of his reasons for coming to her. "So you came to ask me to sent my pups to help save your homeland?" she stared at Lucian, "Okay, on two conditions, you help them when needed and to try and clean up our clan's relationship with yours."
Now the second condition did not seem so hard, but foxes and dogs usually did not get along very well. Lucian nodded his acceptance to, "I will do what I can, also I would like to court Hana to give our packs a better view of the other and bring them closer together. I would like to let you know Kiba and my charge Haku have been seeing each other lately and seem to be getting along very well."
Tsume just chuckled at this and shook her head. "So that's who's sent it was. We thought she was a dragon."
"She is," Lucian stated, "one of the last who could use both fire and ice. Zabuza was right to save her. We ice dragons were rare as it was but, now I know of only Haku and I."
Tsume now felt bad for them and was about to say something when her son came into the house. Both of them just stopped the conversation. Lucian got a mischievous look to his eyes, reached into his kimono and pulled out a red ball and threw it out the door. When it flew over Kiba's head he ran out after it. Tsume just shook her head at this as Kuromaru and Lucian fell down laughing at the sight. Kiba came back in holding the ball in his mouth like his partner would. Even his mother laughed at that, Kiba dropped the ball and growled at Lucian for that trick.
"That is not funny and what are you doing here we still have three months to prepare?" he shouted wile Akamaru, his dog partner, walked up to Lucian's hand and rubbed his head against it to say he wanted scratched. As Lucian scratched him Kiba calmed down from his embarrassment.
"I just came to talk about clan business. Your mother told me she would support us in any way she could," said Lucian. To Tsume he asked, "Do you know were I could find Hana at this time?"
Tsume said to check the vet's office and then the kennels. "Keep the ball Kiba."
As he walked to the vets a fox appeared from the shadows and bowed to Lucian and spoke in a female's voice, "Lady Lessa has made contact with the mountain elves. She has agreed to help their friends."
"Thank you Kimi, tell your kits hello form me," he said as she turned into fire and faded from sight. 'I'm going to the vets Lessa why don't you pamper yourself,' he suggested.
'I may do just that if the girls want to come with me. Why don't you and the guys go out for a drink? Just make sure not to get so drunk I feel it!' Lessa yelled through their mind link.
He just chuckled at her response to his offer. Looking up he sees that he is at the vet's office. Opening the door Lucian went to help the animals in any way he could and find Hana to talk to about his proposal.
A young woman walked up to him; she had brown hair tied into a ponytail, brown sited eyes, and two red fang-like tattoos, she is Hana Inuzuka. "Did you come for a check up?" she asked with a smirk.
"No I came to ask you out, but seeing as you asked to check me out I'll take that as a yes," was his smug reply. "Before you attack me I do have your mother's blessing on the matter." This stopped the growling from Hana's companions.
'What do you get out of this Fox? You should know that we will rip you apart if you hurt her,' barked one of the dogs.
Hana looked into his eyes as Lucian told her what he planned to do. She saw no lie from him. In fact she saw sorrow as he told her about his past. "I will help you in any way I can. So would you tell me more about your past?" Hana asked. So Lucian told her about his mother; saying that her name was Vervada and that it meant "Storm Cleaver", he then told her of his teacher Imerúngr, who was a bounded dragon. He told of his fight in the Fall and how he was also one of the few foxes who had a female half who took control and was just as much a part of him as he was a part of her.
Hana felt the need to ask about his living family, "Who should I know about that maybe joining us in Alagaësia?"
"You should know that as the heir to the Yoko clan I can have more than one mate. That said Lessa's mate is Vince a where-wolf from the Beor Mountains. Our son, Jacob, is a where-fox, don't ask. My daughter, Kira, and my half sisters Saphira and Hitomi. Then there is Eragon, Saphira's rider. Those are the ones who we should meet," he answered.
Lucian and Hana walked to a restaurant for supper. The restaurant was one of the few that allowed in dogs into it, known as the "Dancing Leaf". The weightier looked at Lucian and frond and said, "your kind is not welcome here demon. However this beautiful woman is more that welcome."
Hana's triplets growled at the foolish man who insulted a clan heir and a supporter of the village in the summons world. 'You insult a Dragon and expect to live! I should gut you like a fish!' they growled shocking both Lucian and Hana from the sheer killing intent they felt coming from them, and the weightier looked to have soiled himself.
Hana looked to Lucian and asked, "Should we leave and go to a karaoke bar or go to my place and drink?"
Lucian asked what music they had. Hana gave him a list of songs that they have. What caught his attention was "The Howling" by Within Temptation.
As they started to walk to the bar they talked about singing together and chose to sing "The Howling". Hana sang
"We've been seeing what you wanted, got us cornered right now
Fallen asleep from our vanity, might cost us our lives
I hear they're getting closer
Their howls are sending chills down my spine
And time is running out now
They're coming down the hills from behind
When we stare killing
It's all coming down right
From the nightmare we've created,
I want to be awakened somehow
When we start killing it all will be falling down
From the Hell that we're in
All we are is fading away
When we stare killing…
We've been searching all night long but there's no trace to be found
It's like they all just vanished but I know they're around
I feel they're getting closer
And time is running out now
They're coming down the hills from behind
When we start killing
And it's all coming down right now
From the nightmare we've created
I want to be awakened right now
When we start killing it all willing be falling down
From the Hell that we've created
All we are is fading away
When we start killing…
When we start killing…
I feel they're getting closer
Their howls are sending chills down my spine
And time is running out now
They're coming down the hills from behind
The sun is rising
The screams have gone
Too many have fallen
Few still stand tall
Is this the end of what we've begun?
Will we remember what we've done wrong?
When we start killing
And it's all coming down right now
From the nightmare we've created
I want to be awakened right now
When we start killing it all willing be falling down
From the Hell that we've created
All we are is fading away
When we start killing…
When we start killing…
When we start killing…
