Hey all and welcome to the latest edition to The True Dragon!

Before we begin after some consideration and seeing as some still felt the need to change names I decided to hell with it. Went back to the first and second chapters and remade Natsu's name to Natsumi as suggested by 'Shiki Ouji sama', So there you go.

I also made this longer because of the lack of length in last chapter and my inevitable absence when AC IV: Black Flag is released.

Lastly, I just want to thank everyone for their support in this story I'm honestly amazed this has more favorites and alerts then my first story. But it makes me happy to see everyone enjoying this story thus far.

With that said, Enjoy!

The True Dragon

Chapter 2: The Calm before the Storm

Naruto had to admit, in his long time of exile he found the sight of this small village to be a rather welcome sight. Away from the more advanced human cities and kingdoms this type of village is where true beauty lay. All the way out in the country with no criminal activity, where everyone knew each other in their small community. It was basically having a rather large family living together in a small area of their own.

His eyes took in all the townsfolk the people knew how to live off the land from the huntsmen coming back carrying more then a few elk on their shoulders. Many vendors had baskets filled with all types of fruit and vegetables like corn, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, carrots, apples, oranges and many more varieties of foods. All the smiling and happy people around him showed just how much these people were used to the peace and without the restriction of modern day society weighing them down.

But as his eyes took in the 'guards' he had to say they had to make sacrifices in their security. These people weren't warriors and the guards were just townsfolk armed with swords from their blacksmith. He supposed with such distance from the other human towns and Kingdoms they didn't want to hire guards from other lands and potentially wreck their way of life with their laws and such. Which he could understand seeing as the laws of this time and era were less then pleasant for the average non-magical folk.

He may have been in exile for centuries, but his visit's with Igneel had been rather informative with how much the world had changes over the years. And least to say Naruto was not the least bit happy nor impressed with how it had become.

If you weren't a mage then you weren't treated as fairly as most, the common folk had to make due to relying on their own talents to make a living. From being a tailor, to a blacksmith and if you lacked talent in rudimentary civilian skills you were drafted into the Kingdom of Fiore's military. Plus if you had a problem then you couldn't ask for help from the countries Kingdom but from nearby Mage Guilds and they had to be legalized by this Magic Council that ruled the Governing body of magic in Earthland. You had to make request for help and pay in jewels in exchange and each requests was ranked pending on the difficulty of the task.

In all truth this system made Naruto remember his old time and how scarily similar it was to now, and it left a bad taste in his mouth.

'Of course most humans can't feel safe without having something to look too for guidance their like children who can't stand on their own two feet...' it was why Naruto respected villages like this that knew how to survive without the need for a ruling government or sovereign system to aid them.

''Naruto?'' hearing his name be called he shook away his thoughts and looked down at Natsumi who had a small frown on her face and though she may try to hide it there was a small twinkle of concern for the blond. He saw this, but didn't dwell on it much as he just put his hand on her head and ruffled her hair a bit. He felt a grin form as the brat tried to pry his hand off her head only to fail miserably, ''Oi! Stop that!'' she growled until finally Naruto lifted his hand to show hr unruly spiky pink hair was even more of a mess.

''What was that for?'' The girl aimed an exasperated look at Naruto who just grinned even more before speaking, ''Oh nothing, anyway why don't you go and explore the village a little bit while I go and fetch what we need after that we'll book ourselves a stay in the Inn. We can meet up back here in no less then a an hour or two.''

Seeing this as an opportune time to get away from the 'sadist blonde' as she liked to call him Natsumi all but agreed. With that she ran off as Naruto watched her go off easily taking in her energy signature should anything come to rise. Shaking his head his grin vanished before the blonde turned and started making his way through the villages trade district. He was in need of certain materials for Natsumi's training and he had ran out long ago.

She had meditation, running laps, the Leaf Concentration exercise and Shogi so it was coming near time for her to start learning more advanced exercises. So the things he was gonna consisted of a roll of parchment paper, a paint brush and a tube of ink. There was also the fact he needed to attain a map of sorts to get better acquainted with Earth lands geographical structure. To memorize all the locations, towns, villages and Kingdoms was needed so he wouldn't need to keep asking some random stranger.

Seriously these humans, every century or so they just like to redesign their great wonders and such just to appear more extravagant and hide their true dark disgusting appearance underneath. It was like painting a pile of dog shit gold, but while it was pretty to look at it was still just that, Dog Shit.

It was annoying...

However as he made his way into the district he stopped in mid-step as his nose twitched, a frown made it's way on his face. This scent was familiar to him and yet as he searched for where it belonged to he couldn't recognize it. Yet he felt it was familiar to him and he cast his gaze out amongst the towns people. Taking in every single person with acute detail Naruto's iris began to morph into slits as he searched within the crowd.

Then he found it...

There!

A flash of red hair...and Naruto after so long was greeted with a sight that once again sent memories long since buried rising back up. What his eyes found was a person, a child no less around Natsumi's age. It was a girl, but it was her red scarlet hair and brown eyes that were staring straight back at him. Surprise, Confusion, Familiarity and more swirled in the girls eyes and in that single moment the blonde grit his teeth as an ethereal image of someone nearly identical with the girl came to mind.

It was of a woman from his past, from a past he never wanted to remember again. Of his blood soaked world that haunted him and taunted him throughout the centuries. The woman had long silky red hair and she was smiling at him, her violet eyes crying tears of sorrow and regret, her voice was calling out to him reaching for him. Only for him to be ripped away from her hand and thrust forward to continue living against his wishes.

The blonde hadn't noticed he was gripping his hand so hard it bled...

'Now I know my mind is playing tricks on me...it can't be...' he refused to believe it, he shook his head and did his best to wipe his mind of that image. He turned away casting his gaze away from the child refusing with all he had that what he saw was a figment of his imagination. Maybe he really was going senile!?

But then...his ears caught something, it was low softer then the breeze, but his ears perked up. His eyes went wide and a sudden urge of adrenaline filled him when he heard it.

''...Naruto...?''

He swerved around to try and find the child only for his eyes to narrow when the child was no longer in sight. His iris's were fully slit as his eyes scanned the area o where the girl once was only to find hide nor hair of her. His hand went up and clenched his heart that was beating like an erratic drum, ready to just blast its way out of his chest. The blond grit his teeth as a spike annoyance began to make its way within him. Was he losing it? Was the past finally coming to haunt him, to curse him with all his failures?

''...Fucking hell...'' turning away Naruto strove off determined to get away from that location as quickly as possible. Because of this Naruto never noticed the very same red haired girl hiding behind a building a block away from where she was. Her hand planted firmly on her mouth and eyes wide in both fright and shock.

Her hand trembled as she did her best to walk away...

This girl was Erza, age 7 and just your typical village child that lived in Rosemary Village, she had friends, a loving mother and father. She was complimented by her parents for her scarlet hair which she seemed to have inherited through what her mother guessed was through some ancestor bloodline since her mother had brown hair and and her father had black. Of course she inherited her mother's eyes and father's skin tone and both of their hot tempers.

She was very ambitious from what her mother would say about her, wanting to learn more about the world. Wanting and yearning to learn about the magical world and the history that surrounded them. She didn't know why this goal came to her, but she wanted to know everything about the world and its mysteries, the idea of using magic fascinated her to no end. Although she did have a fascination with other things, like the water, the color gold, and the word fishcake which she had named her house cat that exact name.

However there was much more to Erza then she would admit because it was out of fear of what her parents would think if they knew what she was seeing. It was in her dreams that made her feel different from everyone else. It wasn't dreams that were like any normal child's, her dreams always consisted of something else. Places she's never been, people she's never met before, techniques being thrown around that amazed her to no end. She even remembered a giant nine tailed fox one time glaring at her as if it was annoyed with hr presence for some reason. That had nearly petrified her for a whole week.

However out of these dreams she remembered something, it was the image of someone, someone she never knew yet somewhere inside she did know this person. Gold spiky locks of hair, azure blue eyes deeper then the ocean itself and 6 whisker marks on both of the mans cheeks. His grin at the time filled her with happiness and at the same time pain, she only woke up more then a few times crying in her sleep when she saw that person.

His name escaped her every time, who was he? Why did seeing him make her wake up crying? Why did he seem so familiar to her? And why did his name always feel as if it was on the tip of her tongue yet always escape her.

Just who was that man...and better yet...

Who was she? It was a question she sometimes asked herself, but left it alone since it always made her feel uncomfortable. Now today she felt today would be different that she wouldn't be met with those dreams again and strangely she was right, she wasn't which made her happy. So when asked by her mother to go to the market to fetch a basket of carrots he never expected to see the very same man in her dreams looking dead at her.

Honestly it felt as if her heart was going to explode...

His blue orbs froze on the spot, they were so much more vivid then in her dreams, it was as if she was looking into two pools of the deepest part of the ocean. It captivated her young eyes at how intense they were as they looked straight at her. His hair was longer then in her dream now reaching past his neckline, hiding his eyes along with two bang framing his face. However the faded whisker marks were the main thing.

It was him...

The man she knew yet did not know...

The man whose name escaped her...until that single moment...

It was an alien surge, foreign and completely unrestrained and it downright terrified her, it passed from her lips without any control over her own body. It was like a whisper, but she had heard herself say it, the mans name if him reacting was any indication.

Naruto...

Why did that name make her want to cry and smile at the same time? Why did she want to run up and hug him as if he was a long lost friend she hadn't seen for so long? Why did his gruff appearance make her sad and even more when he turned away from her at first.

But that mattered little to her urge to get away as far as away and fast as she could from this location. Its why the girl was currently running through the alleyways tying to get back home and hopefully get to her room unhindered. However since she was in such a rush she wasn't able to stop herself when another child came in front of her as she was about to cut across the street.

Thus she and the other child met head first...

''Ow!'' she grunted as she collided with the other kid resulting in Erza falling in her butt holding her head rubbing furiously at the red mark on her forehead. Looking up Erza saw the person she had ran into and was surprised to see it was a girl around her age. She too was on her butt rubbing a red mark on her forehead, but the girl had outrageously rosy pink spiky hair that fell in a mess past her ears and nearing past her neckline along with a few bangs hovering over her head. Her blacks eyes were aflame with annoyance as to what had hit her.

''Ow dammit what hit me!'' opening her eyes Natsumi's black eyes flashed when she saw the person that hit hr was staring at her with the same red mark on her head as well. ''Oi! Why'd you run into me for?!'' she shouted making Erza frown feeling slight bad ans silly for not watching where she was going.

''I'm sorry about that I wasn't watching where I was going, I deeply apologize!'' she bowed her head as Natsumi just growled a bit before waving her hand. ''Ah well whatever, I guess I should have been more aware of my surroundings.'' she mumbled to herself awhile scratching the back of her head. Erza on the other hand decided to take another look at the girl, her rosy pink hair was an oddity, but she didn't have much room to talk with her scarlet red hair, but she kinda of felt something from the girl. It was she felt some type of presence she gave of that sent chills down her spine, tingling the hairs on the back of her neck.

She just didn't know it was Natsumi's overflowing magical power...

Natsumi on other hand did the same and looked at Erza and remembering that this was her first time meeting someone besides Igneel or Naruto made hr a tad nervous. Not being near other people her age and only around a dragon most of hr life and more recently a certain blonde sadist. So it was to reason that Natsumi felt a bit awkward being around someone in her age group.

Seeing as a silence had fallen between the two Erza decided to speak up first with a smile, ''Well you're a new face around here, I've yet to see you before so you must be a tourist right? I'm Erza, what's yours name?'' Natsumi blinked once, twice, three times before deciding to answer Erza with a sheepish smile.

''A-ah yea I'm here with my...Guardian and are just gonna be here for the night. And my name is Natsumi Dragneel, nice to meet you Erza!'' shaking hands the two stood up before the redhead decided on something. Seeing as she needed to get away from her current location and needed to visit her friends she may as well take Natsumi with her and show her around the village.

''Well, you wanna come with me and I introduce you to some of my friends? I'll show you around the village while I'm at it if you want.'' The pinkette blinked before thinking about it. Naruto DID say to explore the village and not to meet back for an hour or two. She had plenty of time and it did sound fun to relax and have some fun. Nothing could go absolutely wrong here...

Right?

Looking to Erza she decided with a grin, ''Sure, lead on!'' and with a nod from the redhead the two children began their trek through the village distancing themselves farther away from the district.

10 Miles Away

Walking through the forestry bypassing a nearby town was a man garbed in a high collared tattered black cloak with metal shoulder-plates; around his waist was just a simple leather belt. He wore loose black plants with a metal waist guard bearing the same metal plates as the shoulder guards. The man was tall and muscular with a healthy tan skin tone with slicked back shoulder length orange hair and a stubbly beard. His light brown eyes stared ahead of him with complete and utter seriousness for the task given to the man.

Gildarts Clive was not usually a man that was serious and straight to business, he was usually laid back and sort of a lazy guy in all honesty. Some could say he was a lone wolf which was true and a womanizer which was also true. However none could fault the man in his skills as a Mage, he was renowned all over the world as an S-Class mage of the increasingly famous guild, Fairy Tail,

He was their ace, their trump card, their super ultra omega weapon of awesomeness as Gildarts himself liked to say.

However today was just not a day to be slacking off by any stretch of the world. Nearly two months ago while he was about to be off on another 100 year quest he and Makarov was called in by the Magic Council themselves to speak directly about an issue that had arisen across Fiore. It had been pertaining to a mass increase of Dark Guild movements in the area. While that didn't seem all that bad it was the fact that among the dark guilds they had spies in had been rooting out all potential traitors. This cut away all information they had on them and their feedback on what the biggest dark guilds were doing. It had happened too fast, all the spies had been killed and their bodies left to burn in the wake of the movement.

The movement itself was too huge to accurately count since the number of Dark Guilds in Fiore were too huge to truly count let alone in all of Earthland itself. A scout reported on the trail left behind with a few Dark Guilds they knew only to reveal pure chaos and death in their wake. Villages outside the jurisdiction of the Kingdom Crocus and the Magic Council were ransacked. Children and adult alike were either abducted or killed and left to rot in their ruin of a home. It was a complete mass of hysteria and pandemonium and a matter the Magic Council was doing all they could to keep the matter as quiet as possible.

Because they, Makarov and Gildarts knew if this was known to the public knowledge it would get even more out of hand.

What made it even worse was sighting of creatures nigh seen in Earthland before, nightmarish beings that could only have come from the deepest stygian pits of Hell. It was just a rumored sighting of a few travelers, but they had seen creatures of such hellish appearance traveling through the mountains. Numbers unforeseen and without know how many they were made it all the more dangerous. The path these creatures took made it easy for them to escape the public eye of most besides local travelers, but it was the path they took the destruction and carnage left in their path is what gave them away.

It was Demons...

Unlike most monsters in Earthland that usually chose to dwell in caves or underground caverns demons were a whole other matter together. It made the entire situation all the more serious and threatening to the balance humanity in itself had made for itself for so long. Demons were not local to Earth land. They came directly from the pits of Hell, the Underworld itself and there was only one recorded person in the world that could command such abominations.

Zeref...

It was purely speculation and a wild guess, but it was true that Zeref in ancient times were the one who commanded hordes of demons. Which once threatened the very race of mankind with total annihilation. Zeref was the only man in history to be able to command demons, but seeing demons now rising up in Fiore left only one thing to conclude.

Zeref had died that much was almost absolutely certain, but his influence still reached across the entire world even after centuries had passed. Even when all records they had on him were wiped clean his influence was still there lingering like a plague that wouldn't die. It was this plague which made the Council worried because it showed that the only other plausible way demons could show up now without their master would be through.

Cults...

Zeref Cults that worshiped the Killing Mage as a deity, mages that threw away their morality and humanity and delved into the Black Arts too deep and became twisted unjustified creatures that deceptively resembled humans. These people were rare too find, but when found showed just how dark they were, human life's didn't mean anything to them. Only to serve Zeref in his honor was they all cared for, and as for their ultimate goal it only came down to one thing when it came to this Cultists.

The Resurrection of their Lord, Zeref...

So it made some sense these cultists found some way in the forbidden black arts to summon demons into the mortal world and even more so to control them. Because they were only ones truly deranged enough to go that far for more power. However with all this coming to pass The Council began to fear that something was coming, something huge and they wouldn't be prepared for it. Were the Dark Guilds massing with the Zeref Cultists and Summoning Demons for an attempt to start a war?

It wasn't too far from the imagination...

And this was why Gildarts had been called personally, being one of the strongest S-Class mages to ever live he was called to deal with this personally. To seek out their next theorized target which was supposed to be a village nearby and hopefully get a good count of how big this following was. Who were their Leader or Leaders? Just how big a following did they have? What were their numbers and Guilds that were involved in this? Exactly how many demons did they have in force?

'And how many poor souls were sacrificed to bring those creatures to the mortal world.' Gildarts scowled in disgust at this, but it was true. Besides the Ancient Art of Living Magic, an Art Zeref wielded in Ancient times to create creatures that resembled demons. To summon a demon would have required sacrifices in exchange to bring them to the human world.

Of course Gildart's wasn't stupid enough to try and take on the force himself he may be insane, but not stupid and while he was strong this was something else altogether. If the force was as big as theorized then he would be killed plain and simple.

And Fairy Tail couldn't afford to lose him...

Grimacing at his morbid thoughts, Gildarts sighed and looked ahead of him and his scowl deepened once he saw black clouds rolling in ahead of him. Near his destination, the ominous black shade, the incoming storm that was approaching.

'I got a very bad feeling about this...'

Quickly Gildarts began to run as his feeling of dread growing by the second.

Rosemary Village-Natsumi and Erza

Natsumi had been showed around the village by Erza for a good hour or so showing all places, stores, vendors and places in and outside the village. It was a bit refreshing to her to be able to see a human settlement like this since it was a far cry from her home in the mountains with Igneel. Or traveling the road with Naruto while training every waking moment. Plus she was beginning to find a friend in Erza since their collision awhile back.

The thought made her smile a bit, her first real friend...

Currently Erza was taking her to one of her friends house which we find the two young ones heading. ''Well here we are!'' the redhead spoke revealing the Natsumi a small little house. Probably enough room for two people at the most. Erza continued as she walked up the stairs, ''This is where my friend Simon and his sister Kagura live.'' she didn't mention the fact she was going to visit earlier, but was caught up with the incident with the blonde man in the district.

Natsumi seemed to shrug although inwardly she as a tad nervous to meet new people and friends of Erza. But for some reason she couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong as the two neared the door. Yet she tried to shake it off thinking it was paranoia of being in a human settlement for the first time.

It because of this Natsumi was out of her element, unguarded, and not ready for when Erza opened the door after knocking that she and Erza were welcomed to a horrific sight. The entire inside o the house was ransacked, the table was shattered and chairs thrown to the wall. Ornaments, housewares, silverware; everything was knocked to the floor.

However Natsumi's blood chilled at the sight of a boy on the floor in a puddle of his own blood...

''Simon!'' Erza rushed past her heading towards the downed boy only to be blindsided when the door behind them slammed close before a cloaked figure appeared behind Erza.

''Kid's dead kiddo and so will you if you don't come along quietly...'' was all the redhead heard before she was knocked out. Picking he redhead up the figure threw her on his shoulder while another kid, a girl wit violet hair was held in the figures arm. The figure turned to Natsumi who was wide eyed at the sight, the first time seeing something like this and for her, a child not experienced with death made it all the more traumatizing.

But she tried to fight it and to help her first friend, ''Oi Let go of Erza you bastard!'' gathering magical power in hand she was about to launch at the person. Only to gasp when another figure appeared behind her directly from the shadows before chopping the back of her neck. Effectively knocking her out the second figure picked up the young pinkette and looked towards the first who nodded.

''Capture of the Fire Dragon Slayer, Natsumi Igneel completed, tell the Alexei to begin the operation.'' the second one spoke making the first nod once more before he pulled out his hand and pointed to his head. Deciding to relay the information through telepathy and get it to the leader as soon as possible because after all.

They were on a dead line...

With Naruto

Something was wrong...

Naruto knew this to be a fact the minute he heard an explosion a few buildings from his location, the ground rumbled as he turned to see a couple buildings ablaze. People running in the streets fleeing from the sight and screaming in fright. His face remained impassive although his eyes narrowed when he saw figures running after the people cloaked in dark cloaks. His eyes glanced to see in the distance an even greater following of these figures in the great distance.

Then hi eyes widened when the scent o something peculiar caught his nose, something he hadn't smelled for centuries.

The scent of Demons...

'What the hell...'

''Ah dammit, why now just when I finished getting the supplies.'' he complained outright, but inwardly he cursed himself for letting this come to pass. He knew he should have killed their stalker before they entered this village. Seems being in exile for so long made him both rusty and lazy.

''Dammit...gotta go find that brat...'' he started to go only to be stopped when a presence made itself known to him. The very same presence that had stalked him and Natsumi all the way to this very village.

''I am afraid you are too late to retrieve your little student, Sir.'' the man spoke causing Naruto's eyes to narrow before he turned around to meet the person. It was a man alone, by himself, he stood a good height of 6,0 or 6,1. His attire consisted of mainly a black fur-lined cape that went over his shoulders and went down to his feet. Underneath he wore mainly gold plated armor with a gold helmet. It's black eye-holes staring straight back at the blonde without so much as a hint of hesitation.

The blonde's brow perked his curiosity piqued as to who this fool was, but his words are what triggered his rising annoyance. ''Oh? And what do you mean by that? And for that matter, who the fuck are you?'' truthfully he wasn't in the mood to mince words as the chaos round him started to get even more out of hand. But the golden armored man simply reached out with his hand as if he was reaching out in a friendly gesture to the blond.

''Ah my apologies, my name is Alexei and as for your little student. We need her for a very special event that's coming up and unfortunately we cannot allow anyone with such immense magical power especially with one such as yourself to be involved. Personally I never would have believed it to be possible for you, an entity as yourself to appear again, but it seems my friend was correct.''

Naruto this time scowled at the prospect of Natsumi being captured, but more along the lines of how this little prick knew who he was. He had made sure to quell his power to a bare minimum to that of nothing when he left his self-exile. Still the promise he made with Igneel rung loud and clear, for him to protect Natsumi and raise her till she could hold her own.

'Dammit Igneel I told you this would happen...my return will trigger the events that are to come...you old fool. And now the consequences may very well hurt Natsumi!'

Naruto began to clench his teeth which slowly began to lengthen into fangs, his iris's began to quiver before forming into slits.

''But I digress, seeing as you truly are here I have no other option, but to rip you out of this scenario although I was ordered to not to even try and fight you. Which is why...I shall use this...'' his hand began to glow before a small black shard began to floating from within his armored hand. It floated upwards glowing with a purplish outline and when Naruto saw this jewel his eyes widened in shock as he easily recognized that object.

''Oi oi, how did a mortal like you get a hold of that...''

The armored man chuckled ignoring the jab at the mass age difference between them before speaking. ''My friends of course, although I can't really call them 'human'...but they seemed to predict you would be here and told me to use this. Quite remarkable for them to have this in possession, a jewel of such legend. The Jewel of the Goddess Izanami said to be able to hold the power to send anyone no matter how powerful into another dimension and eternal trap there for all of eternity. Quite fascinating and even more so that they would need this to hold you...you must be incredibly scary to make them go to this length.'' the man's voice took on a tone of taunting and a tad arrogant.

He was only adding oil to the proverbial firestorm he was about to unleash...

Naruto's scowl deepened into a snarl, his blue slitted eyes began to bleed red as he glared daggers at the armored man. This jewel was truly the only thing capable enough to hold him imprisoned for an extended period of time. And due to shrinking his body from his true form his powers were considerably much less powerful then in his true form.

How? How did these maggots get a hold of that thing he made sure to have thrown in into the deepest circle of hell long ago. It could only be used once, but it's power was to ensure complete and total imprisonment of the target. And for Naruto...he was on a deadline Natsumi was in trouble because of his own lowered guard.

''Here!'' the jewel flashed before it appeared on Naruto's chest. The effects were immediate as the jewel flashed a dark royal purple before straps of nether energy began to wrap around Naruto's form. More and more began to cover his body as he glared furiously at the armored man.

''You think this will hold me? Clearly you and your little friends have no idea who your messing with. You better be prepared you little shit.'' Naruto spoke his voice becoming deeper and more guttural as the straps began to close around 2/3rds of his while body. Ore and more came covering his forehead, left eye, chin, his mouth. And still the blonds voice was powerful enough to leak out from within his closing dimensional prison.

''For when I break out of here I am going to make you experience pain the likes of which you have never felt before. If so much as a hair is plucked from that girls head...I will devour your soul! Be prepared...you wretched little maggot!'' Naruto shouted his voice causing the ground beneath him crack and crater causing a shockwave that blew Alexei off his feet. However the armored man was left stricken on the ground as Naruto's sole right eye just before it was hidden changed to a celestial shade of crimson that began to glow with primordial power. It's sole gaze threatened his very existence, made him feel as if his soul was going to be ripped out and vaporized.

It made Alexei feel as if he were an ant being gazed down at by a titan...

Then it closed...

The the prison completely closed around the blonde before it shrunk down in to a tiny purple speck before it vanished into nothingness. The silence from there on was deafening as Alexei quickly got up and backed away still feeling this new emotion of fear take hold of his soul in its vice-like grip.

''Just what the devil was that guy...'' shaking his head Alexei straightened up and began t make his way to his forces as the rest of the village was being plundered. He had to hurry and regroup his forces and gather the slaves and head towards the designation location set by the leader. Yet why couldn't he shake off his feeling of fear as he walked away from where Naruto once used to be standing...

If only he knew what he had just angered...

Thus ends this chapter of The True Dragon, I'll admit it went a tad different then I expected it to be, but I'm satisfied with it nonetheless.

For those that were waiting for Naruto to help the village I'll be straight out honest with you, he isn't gonna be some kind of righteous hero of justice. Not saving people left and right oh no that isn't gonna happen. He could care less for most of the mortal race due to his own reasons and only came out to help Igneel with raising Natsumi.

The only humans he could respect too some degree is humans that stand on their own two feet instead of relying on some Government or Sovereign system to help them.

As for the Jewel of Izanami, it was an idea that came to me, I can't exactly say how strong Naruto is, but let's just say this. It takes the power of a jewel belonging to the Goddess of Creation just to imprison him which its original purpose is to seal the target for eternity. But for Naruto...well...he is severely powered down in his human form, but still...

It won't last long...

Dimensional prisons are not to be underestimated, it's like being trapped in a whole new realm with the realm being your cage.

Also yes I DID go there with Erza I haven't seen it done before so I decided to try it myself.

But I digress next chapter will be incredibly fun to write well for my sadistic twisted little mind that is.

With that said, I'm out and everyone have a Good Halloween!