"Russellville, Arkansas huh?" Naruto said as he looked at his map and pointed at his own dot, and when he had travelled to a southern area he had expected for the weather to be...dryer. He expected it mostly because it was in the middle of summer, and the city before this one was undergoing a heat wave. The moisture he could feel in the air right now was so thick that water was forming on everything, and it was really annoying him.

"I hate was this is doing to my hair." Desma commented dryly as she tried to flatten her frizzy hair, and she was annoyed by the fact that the second they had entered the city the tires of Naruto's bike had popped.

"I am more worried about the Divine Presence that is in the city here. It is much more potent that my own, but not as controlled." Naruto commented as he felt the layer of energy that seemed to surround the whole city. Unlike his own energy that had a small amount of human in it, this one was nearly ALL divine in nature. No, this energy also had some monster energy in it.

"A god or goddess?" Desma asked with raised eyebrows, and Naruto narrowed his eyes for a second. The energy was very similar to a god or goddess, but it felt more primal. This power also felt younger than either Artemis or Mr.D from the camp.

"Maybe, but either way I believe we should check this out." Naruto said as he started to walk towards the city, and the second they entered the city boundaries they were both his with a wave of nausea. Desma actually had to run over to the side of the lake they were near and throw up, and Naruto knelt down to her side and gave her a few pats on the back. When she was done she had decided that she would comment.

"I don't think whatever that Divine presence is wants us here." Desma said with a light grin, yet her pale face said differently. Naruto's eyes widened when he felt a presence appear, and he turned around to see a white mist start to form and take the general shape of a young male. No features were shown, and when the figure spoke Naruto's eyes widened at the layers voice.

"Demigod of Apollo, and Male Goddess...if you enter my domain I do not promise you will leave." The figure said before it started to vanished, as the mist it was made out of started to dissipate into the wind.

"Not creepy at all...and I wish they didn't call me that! I HATE the "Male Goddess" nickname!" Naruto commented, before he felt the same energy from earlier start to move underground. He grabbed Desma and jumped out of the way as hands made of bones came out of the ground and made a grab at them. Naruto summoned a fireball in his hand, and threw it at the hands sticking from the ground. The second the fire hit the ground it expanded and made a small crater about seven feet long, and four feet deep. He sighed in relief when the hands stopped coming from the ground.

"Maybe we should leave." Desma said with a small amount of fear in her voice. Though that could be because Necromany was a skill that only people connected to a god or goddess of the dead were able to use, and this person also used the Mist to fit his needs.

"No, I think that we should see what this guy is like." Naruto said with a light frown on his face. When he had saw the white mist he had gotten a better read on the energy that this guy had, and it wasn't evil in nature. Just powerful, and more primal. Not only that, but it felt kind of... lonely.

"No, I am out of here this time." Desma said as she turned to leave this city, only to see that when she tried to leave she would be surrounded by mist. She ran though the mist for a few minutes, before when she left the mist she saw that she was right where she started.

"Looks like we can't leave anyway." Naruto commented with a frown as he watched her try again a few more times, and each time she ended up right where she started. She ended up giving up on escaping, and started to walk next to Naruto.

"Okay, so we find this guy and ask him to let us leave." Desma said with a stubborn look on her face, and Naruto rolled his eyes. He didn't want to fight this guy either, but maybe talking to this person will get them to let them leave. I was worth a shot, and what was the worst that this person could do to them?

"Yeah, but the problem is where would we find him?" Naruto asked out loud, before the two of them heard a rumbling noise. She thought about it for a second, and tried to put any clues together. This person uses dead bodies as a weapon, so maybe a graveyard? No, it didn't even matter because pretty much the whole city was a graveyard at this point.

"I have no clue, but lets check the middle of what is left of the city first." Desma said, and for the first time Naruto actually looked towards the city and gasped at what he saw. The building of the city were destroyed, and trees grew out of the rubble of what was left of the city. Animals could be seen running around, and that wasn't all, tending to the plants were dozens of Nymphs. Each of them ignoring everything around them, with their only concern being the trees and flowers.

"No dead bodies." Naruto noticed as they walked through the remains of the city, and that was strange. No dead bodies, so signs of fighting, no blood on the ground at all. It was like everyone in the city had vanished before the city was destroyed. He couldn't even smell death in the air, so nobody was dead either.

"That's weird...the animals!" Desma shouted when she realized what had happened, and yet she was still ignored by the blank eyed Nymphs around them.

"What about the animals?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow, and Desma looked at him like he was an idiot for a moment. Then she remembered that Naruto didn't know very much about Greek mythology, so he wouldn't see anything familiar about this.

"Gods and Goddesses have the power to turn humans into animals, or even objects. They can even turn girls into the nymphs around us if they want to." Desma stated, and Naruto sighed in relief. This proved that the person just wanted to be left alone, but was not very violent. The reason they weren't turned into animals or nymphs when they entered the city was because they had their parents protection, which was why they had felt so sick when they entered the city.

"At least he shows some kind of care towards peoples lives." Naruto commented with a slight smile, happy they weren't dealing with somebody that was truly evil. He was a person that just wanted to be left alone, and prefered nature over cities...or maybe he liked nature over the ruins of cities?

They were interrupted from their thoughts when they saw purple flames appear in front of them, before the flames vanished and they saw two monsters appear. Two monsters that they knew they had already defeated before now, and both monsters glared at Naruto with hatred in their eyes.

The Nemean Lion and the Colchic Bull were back, and judging from the looks on their faces, they remembered Naruto!

"Shit!" Naruto yelled as he grabbed Desma and jumped out of the way as the bull charged at them with death in it's glare, and he cursed again when he saw the Nemean Lion jump over the bulls back right at them. Naruto threw Desma to the side, before he grabbed the lions paw and spun himself around to toss the lion at the bronze bull. Naruto grunted when he was hit in the side by the bulls mechanical tail, and sent skidding across the ground.

Two more flames appeared, and Naruto saw two new figures come out of the fire before the flames vanished. The first looked like a mix between human and bull, while the second looked like a like a giant person with only one eye.

"The Minotaur, and a Cyclops!" Desma yelled in true fear as she saw four dangerous monsters all start to surround Naruto, and she took her bow out and aimed an arrow at the closest target. With a twang she sent a golden arrow into the shoulder of the Cyclops, but it had very little effect on the monster. Naruto had to jump out of the way from the charging bull man, and he saw the Cyclops's fist coming at him.

Creating a fireball in his hand, he threw it at the cyclops. This caused Naruto to move away from the monster, and Naruto almost grinned, before he saw that the monster had been unaffected by his attack. It was completely unhurt!

"MY EYE!" The cyclops yelled in pain, and for a moment Naruto saw a golden arrow sticking out of it's eye. Naruto ran at the monster to finish it off, before he retreated in favor of dodging the claws of the nemean lion.

"Desma! Look out!" Naruto yelled just as Desma was smacked by one of the cyclops's hands, and sent flying through one of the crumbling walls of a fallen building.

"... I'm okay... my legs and ribs hurt, but I'm okay. I landed on a nymph!" Desma yelled, and he saw her hiding behind the crumbling wall a few moment later. She was going to use this spot to help him out, and fire arrows from here.

"Good." Naruto said to himself as he jumped onto the back of the Minotaur and covered his hand in flames. Making a stabbing motion his hand burned through the skull of the monster, and Naruto summoned his knife and jumped off the falling Minotaur to jump at the blinded cyclops. The cyclops smelled him coming, and leaned back so that Naruto sailed passed him. Naruto was then tackled by the bull, and he moved his body enough so that the horn only gave him a slightly deep gash on his leg.

In retrospect maybe he should have made it aim for his chest, because he was wearing a vest made of the Nemean lions fur. That would have protected him, but to bad for him he had forgotten about that fact until now.

Naruto kicked off the ground into the air, and the formed a Shadow Clone. Holding his hand out, Naruto and the shadow clone started to form a rasengan in his hand. Then as the tow started to fall the rasengan changed shape, so that four small blades of wind came out of the sides.

"Futon: Rasengan!" Naruto yelled as he thrust the rasengan into the nemean lions neck just as it tried to take another bite out of him. The lion's head separated from it's body, and it's body turned into gold dust. It only left it's pelt around again, signalling it's second defeat at Naruto's hands.

"Suck on this!" Desma shouted as she shot an arrow, and this time she aimed it right into the cyclops's mouth and pierced it through the brain. It exploded in golden dust, leaving only the horn on top of it's head behind as proof.

"Good job!" Naruto yelled to her, before Naruto saw the bull rushing him again. Taking his knife he waited for the bull's mouth to open, before he threw it down the creatures throat and it exploded into gold dust like all the other monsters. Looking around he looked at the transformed items on the ground, and saw the horn had turned into a keychain, the Minotaur's horn had turned into a smaller version of itself, the bulls remains because a bronze pen. The lion's pelt had turned into a golden pair of pants.

"Holy SHIT!" Desma yelled as she ran up and grabbed her her own item, the keychain from the cyclops. The other three were Naruto's, and she saw him fall to his knee and grab his leg in pain. She rushed over to him and saw the cut on his leg was still bleeding, and had only healed a small amount at the moment.

'Fox! Give me some damn chakra!' Naruto yelled in his thought, and he sighed in relief when the foxes chakra seeped into his body and healed his leg the rest of the way. He stopped the flow of the beast's chakra, and he was glad that his eyes didn't change color with the use of the foxes chakra this time. Normally he could feel when the chakra changed his eye color, because certain colors were more pronounced than others.

"That was summoning magic." Desma said out loud with a frown on her face, and she was sure of one thing as she watched Naruto said back up and collect his prizes.

Things had just gotten a little harder than they had thought.