Some of the scenes, and battle portrayed here were inspired by cut scenes in one of my fave video games; The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. :D I have been waiting FOREVER to write them.
Oh, and an extra big cookie will go to the person who can guess the quote said from a deleted scene of Freddy VS Jason. I'll give you a hint, it was Freddy who said it during a moment in the battle in the cabin. If you have the DVD, you likely saw the scene.
The hanging bit came from the original final version of the movie's script, that wasn't done in the final version of the movie.
We're nearing the end, people. Not much left to go. But I won't get into that now. There's still more to come! So fear not. Here we go!
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With the dead bodies strewn about, the only obstacle now was getting through the barrier surrounding the fortress. It was impenetrable, that much was obvious. Its gold and blue subtle pulsating glows illuminated it ominously as it and the fortress itself towered over them. Leading to the main entrance were surrounded by two outer walls on either side of the walkway.
"Jeez, now how are we gonna get past this barrier?" Naruto groaned, frustrated.
"It seems to be a very strange kind of chakra...I've never seen it before." Sakura remarked, touching it with her hand. They could touch it, but it was like touching a stone wall.
Banging her fist against it, which caused black marks to appear where she hit it, Casana silently pondered what they could do about the barrier and how they could break it down. Breaking it was going to be no easy task.
Seeing her struggling, Jason followed suit and kicked it, punched it, and even used his machete to stab it, with no success. Hell, he was starting to get frustrated since he didn't know what to do. It made him feel ashamed that he was useless to his mother then.
".....Sakura, Naruto, I think I might know how we can break the barrier." Casana suddenly said. "Sakura, gather as much strength and chakra into your fist and punch it as hard as you can."
Not sure what good it would do, Sakura decided to try anyway. "Okay, hold on a second."
The rosette concentrated, and chakra laced her fist within a few seconds, and she threw back her fist, punching the barrier as hard as she could, all of her strength and chakra going into it. Sure enough, it cracked a few octaves bigger than her fist and her hand went right through it. She pulled her hand out, but seconds after she did, the hole closed back up!
"...Well, that failed." Sakura sighed, rubbing her hand.
"What are we going to do now?" Naruto groaned.
Casana smiled. "It's simple, I see the solution. We have to simply counterbalance the surrounding chakra compound by neutralizing its effect by striking it with a much more impacting weight chakra attack."
Sakura nodded, but Naruto just stared in confusion, as did Jason, who was barely even paying attention, but was listening when his mother spoke. In response, he tilted his head, and Naruto just scratched his hair.
With a sigh, Casana translated. "In other words, we're going to have to strike with a much more powerful chakra, and it has to be big."
"Okay...so then who's gonna do it?" Naruto wanted to know.
"The logical solution would be for Naruto to do it, since he has more chakra than Sakura and I combined, but, Naruto, I wouldn't do that if I were you. Ironically, it withstands against the chakra power of a demon." Casana tapped it with her knuckle. "So, I'll do it. My bloodline can handle that much power just about no problem. But since it has to be big, we're going to need some more juice. Stand back, you guys. This is going to get messy."
Naruto and Sakura nodded and backed away a few feet. Jason noticed this and followed them suit, wondering what his mother was going to do next.
"Here goes." Casana took her own machete out and placed it between her teeth. She made a few hand seals, drew out a scroll from her pack, and waved it across the ground before planting her palm against it.
An eruption of smoke surrounded her, but the force of energy lifted her up and sent her flying over the right outer wall, disappearing on the other side. Jason, worried about her, was about to run toward it, but Naruto held his arm out to stop him, keeping his eye on the outer wall.
Suddenly, there was a rumbling noise, and to their surprise, a giant hand came up over the wall and grasped it, when the rest of the body came up with it. It was Casana, who was now a giant about 100 feet tall, along with the machete between her teeth having more than tripled in size. She perched a leg onto the outer wall and looked toward the barrier before leaping up onto it. She nearly slipped, but climbed up onto the very top.
Casana stood up, and turned around to face the others, who were all staring up at her with great shock. She took the machete from between her teeth and held it up with both hands above her head, surrounding it with chakra, and something else also. She then stabbed the barrier with it, holding it in place. The barrier cracked, and then a blinding glow of light emitted from the barrier as it cracked, and then surrounded it in great light as Casana shrank down in size and fell from the top.
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"Hey, she's coming around!"
"Casana-san... Casana-san, wake up."
Feeling drops of cool moisture hitting her face, Casana slowly opened her eyes. She looked up to see Naruto and Sakura standing over her, and then to see that Jason was carrying her bridal style. He had seen her falling and ran to catch her. Now it was raining.
"You broke the barrier, look!" Naruto exclaimed, pointing.
Casana followed their gazes and looked up toward the fortress. Sure enough, the barrier was gone, and the fortress stood above them, as if daring them to enter.
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"So...it would seem that they've broken through the barrier." Fujisaki couldn't help but laugh as he saw the scene on his crystalline ball. "This is rich, quite rich!"
"What shall we do, Boss? They have killed all of our reinforcements." Himetsu said in a hesitant tone. "I can see they're going to make it in here."
"Hush, Himetsu, let them come, just as planned." Fujisaki said calmly, and looked up toward the cage, where Teah was peering down at them, listening intently. "It's foolish, and so amusing...that they think they can come in here and save their little Princess. Pathetic, really."
"You won't get away with this!" Teah yelled from above them. "Naruto and the others will save me, and they will defeat you!"
"Dream of it all you like, Princess." Fujisaki mocked, and sat back on his throne, waiting for them to arrive. "Set the trap, Himetsu."
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Going through the dark corridor of the inside, they walked along a red carpet that led into another room up ahead. Judging by the chakra of Teah and her own demon, along with Fujisaki, it was obvious they were in there. But just to make sure, Casana activated her bloodline limit, the Nentougan, to read the brain waves coming from inside.
"Yes, they're in there all right." Casana said. "And they're expecting us...and have a little trap on their hands in store. Let's go, guys. We'll take him down once and for all."
"Right!" Naruto agreed. "We're all in this together."
"Together to the end." Sakura nodded and smiled in triumph. "We'll stop him."
The four of them marched on ahead, and came into the room. It was huge, big enough to fit a small village inside, with high ceilings, pillars, high windows. The majority of the room was shrouded in shadows, but enough light was lit among the floor, and the throne.
Up above, Naruto caught sight of the cage, with Teah inside of it. She saw him too, and smiled big in relief to see that he and the rest were all safe. But not for long.
"T-Teah-nee-chan!" Naruto exclaimed with happiness and nearly ran forward, but Casana held out an arm to stop him, her focus straight ahead. That was when he saw what he hadn't seen a moment ago.
"Welcome to the fortress, foolish kids..."
Fujisaki was sitting upon his throne, smirking at them maliciously before he slowly stood up, with a long sword in a scabbard in hand. He stared down at them as if they were mere flies that needed to be swatted away.
"Fujisaki..." Casana spat out with hate, glaring at him. "...We meet again."
"Heh heh...so you all made it after all..." Fujisaki said, bemused. "You people have all amused me, since this whole thing began. You, and that retarded little slime."
"Hey, at least Jason's pretty much innocent in this!" Naruto shouted at him. "Sure he killed a few people, but he was dragged into this without even really knowing it to do your own handy work, coward! He's not some errand boy, you know! Maybe he's a bit screwed up in the head and has his morals a little looped, but he's still a human being like the rest of us, damn it!"
"You took advantage of his mental disability. And for that, you are an absolute despicable monster. Jason never should have come here in the first place, this is not where he belongs."
"You have pretty words, Miss Kusabana. But is that all they are? Pretty words?" Fujisaki mocked.
Casana's hateful glare didn't cease, her grip on the handle of the blood-dripping machete tightened.
"Do you even understand...what it means to live your life...with only one person you can count on? Everyone around you, always outcasting you because of something about you they don't understand...something about you they fear. But you don't need anyone else, because the one person who sees you as the person you are inside, is always there for you, and always makes you feel so much better. Do you know what it means, Fujisaki? This is why....this why I understand him."
"Heh heh, YOU, of all people?" The evil man laughed.
"I know what it's like, Fujisaki! I know how it feels to live under someone who saves you from the real world, someone who cares about you...and that making them proud and happy is your goal in life, being with them for all time. Seeing them proud of you...is worth more than all the money in the world. Being with them, only makes you feel happier, stronger. Nothing else matters, as long as you have each other. You love them so much, you do everything to make them happy, and it seems like nothing. Making them happy is the easiest thing ever, because they don't expect a lot from you. They just love you for who you are, enjoy the pleasure of your company, and are proud of you always. They love you unconditionally, without asking for a thing in return. You admire them, look up to them, you think they get up half an hour early in the morning and make the sun rise..."
"Hahaha!!! As if I care!" Fujisaki laughed. "You speak so strongly, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to burst your pretty bubbles." He looked up toward the cage, and slowly brought it down to the ground, opening the door with his chakra. "I will do you one better. Deny me if you will, you and your little friends..."
Seeing this, Naruto let out a cry and ran to the cage, standing protectively in front of Teah. "Don't you touch her!"
Scoffing, Fujisaki dematerialized his body into waves of dark-looking chakra, which in turn floated into the air and sailed right past him, into the cage. Teah cried out as the chakra surrounded her and entered inside of her, disappearing. She trembled and slumped over, her long black hair hiding her face.
"Oh! Teah-nee-chan!" Naruto cried, realizing what had happened. He ran into the cage, checking her over. "Teah-nee-chan...a-are you all right? What did he do to you??" He touched a hand to her cheek, seeing that her eyes were closed. "Please wake up, Teah-nee-chan! I love you so much, please, please wake up!"
Suddenly, Teah's eyes popped open, but they were bright green, instead of violet, and a strange force knocked into Naruto and sent him flying out of the cage and skidding across the ground. Sakura and Casana rushed to him, helping him up.
"Naruto, Naruto what happened?! Sakura asked in fright.
Casana felt a hand touch her shoulder, and she turned around to Jason, who pointed toward the cage. Teah was walking toward them, a sick grin on her face, and her eyes were bright green, like Fujisaki's.
"Foolish shinobi, you could never exceed my power!" Teah said, but it sounded like another voice was talking along with hers, which was Fujisaki's. His sword flew into her hand, and she rose into the air, hovering above them. "With my power and hers combined, I am unstoppable! Though I cannot control the Nine-Tails, this will have to do..."
"Princess!" Casana cried in shock.
"You demon!" Naruto growled, his eyes turning red. "You get the hell out of her right now! She's not some kind of a puppet!"
"Think what you like, Nine-Tails!" Fujisaki cackled, raising his sword above his head. "But you my friends are exempt, for now. HE is the one I want!"
A force of energy shot Naruto, Sakura and Casana in the gut, which knocked them backwards along the floor, but before either of them could move, a barrier sprung up, closing them off. The barrier was large, and encircled around Fujisaki inside of Teah's body, and Jason.
"Jason!" Casana cried in fright. "Oh no! There's no way he could stand up to a flying maniac!" She tried to rush forward, but the barrier knocked her back.
"Good try, foolish girl!" Fujisaki laughed, and turned his attention to Jason. "You stupid piece of crap...I cannot believe you failed me. You could've killed them, but instead you fall victim to that wretched woman you believe to be your wench of a mother! I cannot believe it, I've never seen such stupidity! Look at you, you're an absolute mess. You're slow, you're stupid, and you have no style. You have a face that only a MOTHER could love!"
Jason had just about had enough. He didn't understand most of the words that this woman was saying, but when his mother was mentioned, and quite badly, he was getting angrier by the minute. He wanted nothing more than to kill her. But he was confused as to how she was flying. As far as he knew, humans couldn't fly, which therefore made it impossible for him to reach.
Fujisaki flew around, taunting Jason as he cackled. He then raised his sword above his head, and sent an orb of electric chakra flying toward him. Jason's eyes widened at this and the orb surrounded him in electricity.
"What are we going to do!?" Naruto cried in anger and panic. "If he hits Fujisaki, he'll be hurting Teah-nee-chan's body! And I think he wants to kill her!"
"What if he turned his attacks against him?" Sakura suggested. "It would hurt her body, but at least he would be weakened and we could get him off guard and out of her body!"
"Wait..that's it!" Casana said, and turned back to the makeshift arena. "Jason! Hit the ball when it comes flying to you! Hit the ball!"
Jason, having recovered, glanced at his mother in confusion as he tried to make sense of what she was telling him. Hit the ball? What ball?
"Over here, Jason!" Fujisaki cackled, sending another orb of electric chakra toward him.
On instinct, Jason kept his eye on the ball, grasping his machete with both hands like a baseball bat, and smacked the blade against the orb, sending it flying toward Fujisaki. His camp days of playing baseball had definitely paid off. Having expected it somehow, Fujisaki hit the ball back, sending it propelling back toward Jason, who in turn swung his makeshift baseball bat and sent it back at the enemy.
Seeing it come even faster, Fujisaki didn't even have time to hit back as the orb engulfed him, sending painful jolts of electricity through him. Once recovered, he furiously flew around, and then landed on the ground.
"Hey Jason, come and get me, over here!" He yelled.
Seeing him on he ground level at last, Jason stomped toward him, completely oblivious to what he was really walking into. Fujisaki taunted him, and even danced in Teah's body, making her look very inticing to annoy him. It worked, since he stomped even faster toward him, raising his machete.
Fujisaki jumped aside and Jason stepped right into the trap, a thick rope wrapped around his ankles and strung him RIGHT up, where he hung several feet above the floor upside down. One of the oldest tricks in the book, and just as he expected, Jason walked right into it with absolutely no idea.
"HA! I should have known you were that stupid! Look everyone, a retarded pinata!" He mocked.
Dropping his machete to the ground, Fujisaki picked it up and then tossed it aside, not really caring where it ended up. It flew through the air and then landed on the ground, sliding to Casana's feet.
With him distracted a the barrier disappearing, Naruto then got an idea.
"Hey, Casana-san, throw it to him!" He said, pointing at it.
Casana smirked. "Okay, I'll do that." She picked it up and took a few steps forward. "Hey! Fujisaki!"
Turning around, Fujisaki faced her just in time to see her throw Jason's machete at him. It swished through the air in circles, went over Fujisaki's head and struck Jason in the leg.
"Ha! You missed, you stupid bitch!" Fujisaki cackled. "What are you going to do now?"
Her smirk didn't cease, which obviously meant she knew something he didn't. "Think again, Fujisaki. I wasn't aiming for you."
"What?!" The evil man possessing Teah cried, turning around toward the hanging slasher.
As expected, Jason removed the machete from his leg, and then used it to cut the rope that was binding his ankles. He then gracelessly fell to the floor, stunned for a moment before he slowly stood up, rubbing his head.
"No! NO!" Fujisaki yelled, leaping away and then hovering into the air again to avoid Jason. "You damn bitch!"
Fujisaki then sent another orb flying toward Jason, this time, with much more power within it.
With the "ball" coming, Jason once again struck it with his machete and sent it flying back at Fujisaki, which hit him before he could react, and he was this time falling to the ground, yelling out in Teah's feminine screams.
The barrier dissipated, much to everyone's relief. Jason started to go toward the fallen body that was Teah possessed by Fujisaki, but Casana stopped him, saying in a low voice that he was not to touch her.
"Do it, Naruto! Use the power of the Nine-Tails to extract Fujisaki from the Princess!" Casana yelled. "Hurry, while he's still weak!"
"Oh, right, okay!" Naruto said, and as if the Nine-Tails heard this, the glowing red chakra arose from within him, surrounding him in the shape of a fox.
Fujisaki tried to shakily stand, his own power ruining him, and the Long-Tail also working to get him out of there, but since Teah's body was weak, it was easier to for him to try to fight back.
The large form of the Nine-Tailed fox, encased of its chakra, then lunged his arms forward, as if stretching them out to a great length, grabbed Teah's body and shoved her up against the throne. A bright light emmitted from his enclosed hands, and dark chakra arose, with Fujisaki screaming in pain. The paws/hands then released Teah, gently sitting her onto the throne.
Sakura grasped Naruto's hand in order to calm him, and the red chakra dissipated, and Naruto's eyes became their normal blue colour. It was as if nothing had happened.
"Oh! Teah-nee-chan!"
Naruto hurried to her with the other three in tow. Teah was sitting on the throne, her eyes closed as she appeared to be asleep. He looked to the girls questioningly, and Casana motioned for him to stand back but rest assured. That was when the silvery chakra of the long-tail surrounded Teah, healing her wounds and restoring her energy, purifying her from having been possessed by the dark entity that was Fujisaki.
Opening her eyes, Teah looked among them, and smiled a little.
"Hey...you guys made it okay."
"Teah-nee-chan...! You're...you're okay!" Naruto cried happily, relieved at this.
"Well of course I am. I was more worried about you guys." Teah stood from the throne. "So...what happened to Fujisaki?"
"I don't kn-" Sakura began, when suddenly there was a rushing sound coming from behind them.
They all whipped around, seeing the dark chakra and power of Fujisaki as he was reforming himself, he was surrounded by a purple fire-like chakra which glowed burgundy.
"You didn't think you had me that easily, did you?!" He cackled.
"Oh no!" Sakura cried. "He's still alive!"
"What are we going to do!?" Naruto said, backing away to protect the girls.
That was when Casana stepped up ahead of them, drawing her weapon from its sheathe behind her back.
"I will take him on. Alone. You guys get out of here." She said.
"What?! Are you crazy!?" Naruto cried.
Casana shook her head. "I'm serious, Naruto. ...You've all done so much, and I don't deserve to be among you. Get the Princess out of here, and above all, get Jason back home, where he belongs." She turned to the said slasher and smiled sadly. "...Goodbye, my special, special boy."
Goodbye? What did she mean goodbye? Where was she going? No! She couldn't leave, not now! Jason realized what was happening and tried to run at her, reaching out to her, but before he could even touch her, his body dematerialized into vines, as did Naruto, Sakura, and Teah, all rising up toward the ceiling and disappearing.
Smiling serenely, Casana watched as the vines above disappeared. If I do die here...at least I will have helped them save the Princess...and at least I will join you, Deidara.
Turning her attention to Fujisaki, her smile became a hateful glare, and her eyes flashed pink with the Nentougan.
"Hahahaha....come and get me then, Kusabana!"
"This is the end, Fujisaki!"
Not wasting a moment, she ran in and leaped toward him, to which he cackled in mocking, raising his sword to block the blow from her weapon.