Blood on the Dagger part 3
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Abandoned mansion in the abandoned district of Konaha
In a large, creepy mansion, hundreds of assassins and robed figures gathered; the cult of Xitherion were now at full strength. The head of it stood at the top of a large central staircase, with a altar, and a strange large rock door under it. Hinata layed unconscious on the altar, and her limbs chained to it.
"Necromage. What is your progress?" A cold, malicious voice asked
"My lord, the final virgin soul is ready." He replied
At that moment a green swirling portal appeared, and all he could see was his eyes. Eyes wouldn't be a good description, they were merely gold glowing holes surrounded by a thick black coloring.
"Excellent, you mortals have performed better than I expected. Make sure you get the incantation right. One syllable wrong and I will be sent who knows where." Xitherion said
"Of course. I will not fail you, oh greater demon of destruction." He humbly replied
"My loyal subjects! You all have performed splendidly. Now I will be released, and we will create destruction across the land!" He roared
"All hail the lord of destruction!" They all cheered, over and over again as the greater demon laughed maniacally
Naruto/kuroi apartment
The two were gearing up for the rescue. Naruto was putting on his armor, and sharpening his axe, while Kuroi was getting himself into a frenzy to make his wolf form more intimidating.
"The things I do." Naruto said
"Quite complaining, we got a Hyuga to save." Kuroi replied
"That was so corny, I'm surprised even you would say something like that." Naruto said speaking through a face palm
"Shut it, lets just go." Kuroi replied and they raced off
Little did they know was the cult was keeping an eye on them. A Necromage and a few assassins were near them, and thought fast to stop them.
"Quick, summon one of Xitherions minions." One of the assassins said, and the mage went to work
Erupting from the street in a pillar of fire, the minion arose. It stood 12 feet tall, and looked humanoid, save for a tail and massive black leathery wings. Instead of skin, it had a black bone plated hide. On its hands its fingers were like jagged, segmented blades. Its head started big, but got into a narrow, dinosaur like look to it, and its eyes were like its overlords, gold glowing holes. On its head were several jagged horns. What stuck out the most was the orange and gold patterned orb in its chest, and there was a indent with several spikes reaching in to keep it in place. Similar colored lines branched out from the orb and patch worked there way over the entire body.
"Kill them fire gargoyle, fulfill the will of you overlord!" the mage yelled and the monster sent a blast of magma out of its mouth, blocking Kuroi and Naruto with a cascade of magma
"You take the big guy." Naruto said, taking the long route to the mansion
"This isn't my day... oh shit!" Kuroi mumbled then yelled as he dodged another blast
The creature then blasted him with a gust of air, and sent him crashing into the village, leaving a trail of death and destruction behind him. The beast then fired again, and a fire instantly blazed across the village. Shinobi scrambled against the beast, and he cut down any of them that got too close as he lumbered towards kuroi. A bolt of black lightning hit it, and it staggered. Kuroi turned into his wolf form, now not a cub, but a full sized wolf, and howled. The howl brought down a large bolt of black lightning, and knocked the gargoyle back, but surprisingly did very little in the way of damage.
"Bow down to Xitherions might!" The Gargoyle staggered out
Ninja hounds gathered around Kuroi, and he talked to them in there language. They all then turned and attacked. Most were killed in a magma blast while they were charging towards it, and even when they did get close enough to attack, the beasts hide was too tough to pierce with any kind of attack. The remaining hounds were slashed apart, and the last one was bitten in half by the monsters jaws. The Inzuka clan then attacked the Garoyle in pure rage over the loss of there partners, but they fared no better than the Ninja hounds.
"How the hell do we stop this thing?" A shinobi called out
"I don't know, but that thing will pay!" Hana and the few remaining Inzuka clan members yelled as they continued there assult on the beast
A lucky kunai touched the orb in its chest, and the flaming monster whinced in pain, and a visable tear flowed from its 'eye'. It then grabbed the ninja that threw it and ripped him in half.
"Guys, its weakness is the orb!" Kuroi yelled, but most didn't listen, save for Minato, who was having a hard time bringing everyone under control
"If I could get them to do anything, then we could, but there all blinded by rage. That thing's killed there friends, loved ones, there not thinking straight. I'll do it." Minato said
Minato walked up and the Gargoyle stood over his most recent massacure of 27 shinobi. He readied a Rasengon and the two charged each other. The gargoyle swung his right arm, but Minato flipped over it and the Rasengon made contact with the orb. In the ensuing explosion, Minato took the full blast, to prevent anyone else from dieing. Kuroi survived, due to the fact he hid under a pile of rubble. Draco flew over to Kuroi.
"Quite a mess you made here." Draco said, observing the carnage
"That thing was to strong, nothing me or anyone else did could kill it. Minato sacrificed his life... to save the survivors." Kuroi replied in pain
"Minato." Draco said, and walked over to his body, then picked it up, and carryed it to the survivors, and began a mourning speech, "We now must honor a good man. He was a good soldier, a great Hokage, and now, a even greater hero. He's lost much in his life, but the choices he made were the right ones. May he rest now in peace."
Despite all the devastation, the battle has only finished its first phase.
At the mansion
The cult heard the front door be kicked open, and Naruto walked in. Everyone turned around, and drew there weapons.
"I think I should have taken the big guy." Naruto said to himself
"Get him! And make sure he's alive when your through with him!" Xitherion yelled
The first few attackers Naruto dispatched with ease, but then he was quickly surrounded. Gripping his axe tightly, he began making a strike zone by keeping his axe moving even if it wasn't hitting something. It gave him at least some measure of control over his situation. One idiot tried to attack him, and was killed by a chop to the right eye. Another one came from the front, and Naruto split his head in half, then use it to pulvalt into another and use his boots to crush the mages face in.
"Bind him now!" A assasin said to one operating a ballista in the rafters, and fired a binding net onto Naruto
Naruto jumped out of the way and it hit one of his own men, it tangled wrong and choked him to death. He then scrambled to crank the string back to fire again. With a last ditch throw, Naruto's axe was sent into the ballista operators heart. In the process of throwing his axe, he was held down and bond, then dragged up to the alter.
"So you killed a few of my cult, so what? I have hundreds more where that came from! Now you can watch me come into this world, and you have the honor of being the first being I kill in my rebirth." The greater demon taunted
'Naruto, can you hear me?' The oriental dragon's voice asked in his head
'Ya, I'm sorry my lord, the first time you contact me, and I fail you.' Naruto replied
'You have not failed yet, only if you give up now.' the dragon said
'How? I'm tied up, I have no weapon, and in when that guys done chanting, Hinata and me will be dead.' Naruto replied
'Perhaps I can give you the edge you need.' He replied, and Naruto started to feel weird
A gold aura surrounded him, and his eye color changed to a goldish orange. After the aura appeared, the bindings snapped, and he was free.
"Kill him! He or she who kills him will get a reward!" Xitherion ordered
Naruto jumped down, and created a 10 foot blast radius of a wave of energy. All hit by it were sent flying; some only injured, some dead.
"Okay, who wants some?" Naruto asked, and the mass hesitated, but one attacked
With a smirk, Naruto blocked his dagger, then punched him three times in the face, and finally threw him across the room. The attack opened the flood gates, and the rest stormed at him. Naruto responded with attacking the masses with a animal furosity; a cold, effective, and powerful furosity like a dragon. Through brute strength, speed, and a knowledge of melee combat, the masses of the cult were being killed faster than they can charge into battle.
"Well this sucks. Time to call in the big guns." Xitherion said
the massive rock door opened, and out came a titanic fire gargoyle, and on its back seated right behind the neck was a rider. He wore a steel helmet, with chainmail drapping down from the back of his neck down to the main armor. The main armor was layered, with cloth, then a middle layer of chainmail, and the outerlayer was a pattern of squard metal plates and interconnecting cloth. Large metal shoulder guards protected his shoulders, and wore thick gauntlets similar in style to the chest armor, save for a flat metal spike that went out enough when arms held down, could cover half of the lower arm. Finally, he wore boots in the similar style, and wielded a odd weapon. It looked similar to a bolt action rifle, only its wood was pitch black, and its iron sights were black and demonic spikes. Its ammo were crystals, only they needed to be reloaded when the crystals were depleted.
"This just isn't my day." Naruto said
"Need a little help?" Kuroi asked, limping in
"What took you?" Naruto asked
"Well there was traffic, fires, and a giant killer monster. The usual." Kuroi joked
"Kill them!" Xitherion roared
The fire gargoyle pulled out a massive flaming flail, and a flaming shield. It swung and nearly hit Kuroi, but Naruto still were he was, and they collided. With feet planted in the ground, he skidded for 5 feet, but stopped it. Kuroi ran up the arm of the gargoyle and came under fire from the rider, red explosions all around him. The monster opened its massive jaws, and nearly hit Naruto with a massive blast of magma, and the missed blast hit the hokage monument, obliterating it into ruble.
"I sure hope you can pay for that!" Naruto yelled and tried jumping up to its level, but was hit by the flail, and crashed through one of the remaining walls
That gave Kuroi enough time to get close to the rider, and he brandished a sword to fight him. The rider cut down, then diagonal, and a uppercut to try and get a good cut in. With wolf like vigor, he dodged the attacks and got in a slash on his weakly defended neck. Before passing out, the rider weakly fired his rifle with the other arm, and hit Kuroi, sending him to the floor, and sending the rider back through the door.
"Naruto! Hit the orb!" Kuroi yelled
"Already got it." Naruto mumbled and made one last ditch attack
The monster fired another magma blast, but it was too late. Naruto hit the orb with the last of the energy the dragon gave him in a punch. His magma beam sent him flying back into the door, and it closed behind him, but they could hear the boom. Naruto fell by the alter extremely bloody, broken, but alive.
"So here we are, now at the beginning the end of the mortal worlds existance. Our faithful heroes lay broken, and can't do a damn thing to stop the evil monster. Oh this is so thick you could cut it with a dagger." Xitherion said with delight
"Funny, cause I was going to say something similar to you pal." Naruto said as he took the necromages sacrifical dagger from him
"What? No, you wouldn't1" Xitherion said
Naruto grabbed the mage and slit his throat, then finished the chanting, using the mage as a sacrifice.
"Greater Demon of Destruction, using the virgin soul I offer to you, I banish you to the nearest object that can hold you power!" Naruto said
"Mortal! I will kill you, and when I do, not even the lowest level of hell will except your soul!" Xitherion said in his final words, and was sealed in the mages skull shaped amulet, and Naruto put it in his pocket for safe keeping
The instant he banished him, Naruto fell down to the ground comatose, but before he did fully, he had time to say this.
"Maybe this day wasn't so bad after all."
MHG: Well thats a good way to end a arc. But when one ends, another begins, and next time, we will see the true extent of the aftermath, and where this story goes from here. Have a good day everyone.