Chapter 3: Welcome to Hell
"Leon!" Luffy shouted in a serious tone. Everybody turned to look at him, but for some reason he has a huge smile on his face.
"That's a funny name!" He exclaimed. He began laughing obnoxiously.
Leon continued to look at him, trying to puzzle out exactly what was funny about him name. Suddenly, the orange haired man punched Luffy in the back of the head, and point out that his name was Luffy.
"Yeah, Luffy is a funny name." Naruto said as he snickered, and rubbed the back of his head.
"Enough." Dante said with authority, "Leon S. Kennedy. Why do I know that name?"
"Have you ever heard of Racoon City?" Leon asked suddenly getting very serious.
"Yeah, it rings a bell. Some kind of viral outbreak, right?" Dante replied.
"You could say that. It has become more well known as a zombie outbreak.", stated Leon.
Luffy suddenly busted out laughing again, "Did you get your shadow stolen too!"
Luffy continued laughing, and talking about his experience on Thriller Bark, but nobody was paying any attention. That is except for Naruto who keenly focusing on Luffy.
"I'll tell you what. You help me. I help you." Dante told Leon.
Leon locked eyes with Dante, and could tell that he was completely serious. The only question was, what could Dante possibly be need help with, but he did say that he had a big task ahead of him.
"Luffy mentioned something about going to Hell. What does he mean by that?" Leon asked cautiously.
"He meant exactly that. We are going to Hell. We have to find somebody. I could use your expertise in stressful situations to keep these guys under control." Dante answered.
Leon really doubted that he seriously meant Hell. That just wasn't possible. He agreed to help Dante for now, but only under the circumstance that he would him find who he was looking for.
"Let's go." Dante said
They were all standing on top of Dante's unnamed shop waiting for something to happen. Dante, who had witnessed his brother open the portal to the Demon World began doing what was necessary. After a few minutes, everything surrounding the odd group began to turn dark.
"What's happening!" Naruto shouted in disbelief as a giant red hole began to form itself within the air in front of them.
"Follow me." Dante said as he stepped through the portal. The others reluctantly followed him. As they stepped through some kind of force seemed to rip them through at dizzying speeds. One by one they all slammed into the ground on the other side. They were in a completely new environment. They looked around, and saw that they were indeed in what could be called Hell.
The ground was dark red color as if it had been stained for centuries with blood. The ground seemed to simply break apart in several areas, and had fire spouting up from the crevices. Everybody quickly bunched together except for Dante, and Ichigo who stared forward with their hands on the hilts of their swords.
"What is this massive spiritual pressure?" Ichigo muttered as sweat began to form on his brow.
"I feel it too." Dante responded.
"There's a huge amount of chakra approaching us" Naruto shouted. He suddenly fell to his knees clutching his stomach. He could feel the seal on the Nine Tails weakening almost instantly. He began to shout in pain, and fell face forward on the ground.
Inside of himself, Naruto found himself face to face with the demon fox, Kurama.
"Listen kid", he growled, "I don't know where exactly we are, but I can tell you one thing. I am not the strongest beast here." Kurama continued to talk to Naruto.
"If you don't release my power, then we may both die here today."
Naruto who continued to clutch his stomach stood up, and looked at the Nine Tails.
"No. I can't release you. You'll simply try to kill everyone, and I will lose myself." Naruto stammered through the pain.
With this Naruto regained his consciousness. He opened his eyes slowly, and had to blink a few times to believe what he was seeing in front of him. There was a giant creature standing in front of them. The creature was very man like in stature, except that he was made of what appeared to be fire. The creature was wearing old medieval armor, and holding a giant sword. Naruto quickly clambered to his feet, and saw that the others were already in a defensive position around him.
"Son of Sparda, why are you here, why do you bring lowly humans with you?" the creatures voice boomed out across the open area.
"I have business" Dante replied casually. Dante quickly drew his sword knowing exactly what was about to happen. The creature charged them causing the entire ground to shake as he moved. In an instant, the giant creature closed the gap between it, and the group.
The creature brought the huge sword down towards Dante, who stood ready to receive the blow, and quickly raised his sword to block it. He was too slow however as Ichigo jumped over him, and parried the blow using Zangetsu.
"Get out of my way, Hollow!" he yelled. He began to swing Zangetsu repeatedly at the creature who was easily blocking all of his blows.
"Hollow?" the creature bellowed, "You mean those weak trash running around in the living world? The creature boomed out laughing.
"I will kill you, and show you the difference between a Hollow, and a Demon." With this giant creature began to burn more intensely, and the flames began to turn blue on it's body.
As ichigo was blocking a blow from the creatures sword, it punched him. Ichigo was sent flying, and his robes began to catch fire as he tumbled across the ground.
This spurred the rest of the group into action. Although he didn't think it would do much good, Leon drew his handgun, and began to shoot at the creature. The rounds either bounced off of it's armor, or melted as they reached the flames.
"Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted as an exact duplicate of him appeared next to them. The clone quickly began moving his hand over Naruto right hand, and a small blue sphere began to appear. The two Narutos began to charge at the creature.
"Wow cool!" Luffy shouted happily as he looked at Narutos clone. Simultaneously, he began to shout something. His arm quickly began to grow enormous, and was almost as big as the creature. Luffy swung at the creature before Naruto could get there. His giant fist collided with the creature, and sent him flying. The creature tumbled, and slammed into the ground causing several chunks of stone to break apart and go flying.
Luffys attack was quickly followed up with Naruto as he leaped, and headed towards the downed creature. "Rasengan!" he shouted. He brought the small blue sphere towards the creature, and slammed it into the chest plate of it's armor. The impact pressed the creature further into the ground, and caused it to shout out.
The creature swung his arm at Naruto, and hit him in the side of the head. Naruto was sent flying in the direction of a flaming hole. Before he reached it, Dante appeared behind him, and caught him. The creature stood up, and yelled in rage.
"It seems I have underestimated you!"
The creature then flung his sword into the ground, and shouted something unintelligible. A whip made of flame formed in it's right hand. He instantly swung it towards Leon who was helping Ichigo to his feet. Leon pushed Ichigo away, and quickly rolled out of the way.
"Why don't you pick on somebody your own size" shouted Luffy who was smaller than usual due to his use of his giant arm.
He swung the whip towards Luffy but this time was intercepted by Dante's sword.
"This ends now." Dante said aggressively.
Dante charged at the creature, parrying the blows from the whip as he made his way towards him. Dante leaped into the air, and brought The Rebellion down into the creature's chest. After a cry of pain, the creature grabbed Dante who did not seem to burn, and slammed him forcefully into the ground. The ground buckled where he hit. The creature then ripped the sword out of his chest, and drove it into Dante's all the way to the hilt. Dante stopped moving.
"Dante!" Leon shouted.
Ichigo rushed forward, and swung his sword well before he reached the creature. A blue blast formed in the shape of his slash, and sped towards the creature. The attack impacted on the chest of the creature. This caused his armor to finally crack, and fall apart.
Amidst all of the flame, there was a single human part. A heart was beating completely unshielded in the center of the creatures chest. Leon quickly noticed this, and raised his handgun and started firing. However with Ichigo charging towards him, and Leon aiming for his heart, the creature got smart, and turned to run away. However, he was faced with Naruto who had a kunai in hand with a piece of paper hanging from it. Naruto threw the kunai towards the creature's heart, but it turned slightly and the kunai impacted a little to the left. The kunai suddenly exploded, taking the creatures heart with it.
The creature cried out a final cry of anguish, and then fell over dead. With this the others quickly ran towards Dante. He was lying there in a pool of his own blood with his sword piercing his heart, with only the hilt visible.
"Damn it!" Ichigo shouted. "Acting all tough, and now you go and die." Out of frustration Ichigo kicked Dante in the side.
Dante instantly opened his eyes. He put both hands on the hilt, and began to pull the sword out without so much as a grunt of pain.
"A little help." He said looking at Ichigo.
Ichigo grabbed the hilt, and quickly yanked it out of Dante. To everyones surprise, Dante stood up, and took his sword back from Ichigo, and simply said "Let's go then."
Author's note: Okay seriously people let me know what you think! Tell me who you think these guys should run into while in Hell. Remember just about anyone can be down there. I value your opinions, and input. So give me suggestions, and it may just happen.