AN: Hello and welcome back to Naruto: Azeroth Chronicles.
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Chapter 12
The Return of the Blue
Ogrimmar
Naruto POV
"Thank you, Vol'jin. I'm glad we'll have your support in the final battle."
The Knights of the Tempest, now 400 gold richer thanks to the Tauren, were setting out on the road, heading to Theramore to go to the Eastern Kingdoms.
"No problem mahn. We're happy to be on Big Juju's side for the final battle." He answered back, a grin on his face.
I shook my head at his nickname for Thrall. Most people would get their head lopped off if they talked about Thrall that way, but not Vol'jin.
Giving a slight bow, I said, "Well, we must be going. We have quite a task to gain the rest of the Race's together."
"Good luck mahn. See you on the battlefield." And with that we walked out.
Lately, Sventar has been getting annoyed at how long it would take me to go and help Malygos; they must've been very close.
"I'm guessing you all have to give your reports right?" I asked to which they looked at me incredulously.
"What, you don't honestly think that your leaders wouldn't want to keep tabs on me right? I saw how you all were studying my combat style, my jutsu, and my attitude in battle." I said, giving an all-knowing glance in their direction.
"Well, go ahead, I have chores to do. Meet back here in two weeks. Bye."
A large, black cloud formed over my head and lightning struck right where I was standing. The lightning bolt smashed the ground, giving a flash of light. When it calmed, all that was left was a small black mark on the ground where I once stood.
Border of the Barrens
Author POV
A calm silence waved through the area, birds chirping, and a slight wind passing through the brown grass.
Unfortunately, silence couldn't reign for long as a large bolt of lightning struck the ground. The flashing light blinded and scared away all creatures in the area, as a lone figure stepped out of the charred grass.
He cracked his neck and brushed off some ash on his shoulder, silently chuckling at the wide eyes of the Knights of the Tempest, and pulled out a glyph. He whispered a few words, and a glare of light shined out the glyph and a large, Red Drake came out. It gave a roar and leaned on its stomach, waiting for his master to get on.
Without a thought, Naruto jumped on Bloodclaw and he took to the sky. Bloodclaw looked at his master expectantly, waiting for his command of where to go.
At his questioning glance, Naruto looked forward and said,
"North.
Very, very far North."
Ocean before Northrend
'Get in here now!' A voice yelled.
On top of Bloodclaw, Naruto sighed and meditated, instinctively channeling chakra into his feet to stay on Bloodclaw
The scene morphed and twirled in a vortex until it became a new setting.
He looked to the side of the green patch and was not surprised to see Sventar there, staring at the small patch of green.
He gave a glance in Naruto's direction and said, "Tell me everything you know about the Burning Legion's entrance to the world, and Malygos's fall to insanity."
Naruto was a bit surprised, he expected Sventar to attack him in a fury in seeing how dead his mindscape looked, but answered anyway.
"Well, hundreds of years ago, the only major race that was in Azeroth, Kalimdor respectively, was the Night Elves. They were a proud, and slightly arrogant kind, as they looked down at any other race, pretty much anything that isn't Night Elf is what they targeted as 'impure' and 'trash'.
"Queen Azshara was the proud leader of the Night Elves at that time. She was the most 'beautiful' and 'perfect' Night Elf at that time, said by the Night Elves only. Her beauty entranced any and all those who followed her, her charisma and looks pretty much controlled the Race themselves. They looked to her for guidance, and she gave it as a good leader should.
"In her reign as leader, she started to get delusions of how the World should be run, lead by her and her alone, trying to create a 'perfect world' and 'cleanse the impure', which meant everything Non-Night Elf, and all who were against her, was to be destroyed. Her delusions of the world were easy to be manipulated by any strong and evil enough spirit, hence Sargeras.
"Sargeras filled her mind with delusions of grandeur, coaxing her into helping the Burning Legion into the world, and in return, they would help her get her 'perfect world'. So mad with power, she easily took the bait and quickly ordered her Highborne, the strongest magic users in that time, to create a portal for the Demons to come through.
"Throughout all this, the Night Elves came up with the idea that they would 'save' Azshara from the Burning Legion, a way to motivate themselves, all the while demolishing the idea that Azshara is behind the plot to bring the Burning Legion to this world.
"War broke out between the Night Elves and the Demons, a bloody war, with the Burning Legion mostly dominating the battle. It wasn't until the Aspects and their flights stepped in that the battle turned for the Night Elves's favor.
"Throughout all this, Neltharion, the former Earth Aspect, was driven mad by the whisperings of the Old Gods, filling the once good Aspect's head with ideas that he would rule the world and him alone.
"When the Aspects finally realized that Neltharion went mad with the power that the Demon Soul held, they gathered together to face off against Neltharion to stop him from going down the road of madness, but it was too late.
"Neltharion was later named Deathwing the Destroyer, as he obliterated not only the Demons fighting below, but also the Night Elves that were fighting against them, all massacred in the midst of their respective battles.
"Finally realizing their mistake in trusting Deathwing, Malygos brought up his entire Flight to the front lines, trying to use their extreme control over magic to try and make Deathwing submit, an attempt to regain the friend he had in Neltharion, and destroy the new Deathwing that came in his place.
"Malygos and his flight all cast their most powerful spell and it hit Deathwing straight on. Deathwing, in his pain, ate the Demon Soul, giving him the massive amount of power stored in it. With his new power, he canceled out the whole flight's spell, and forcefully pushed their strongest spell back at them, and they all were obliterated from the intense power within the spell. All but Malygos.
"Hearing that his flight was dead, Malygos fled to his lair in Northrend, never to be seen for the next hundred years. What he doesn't know is that Krasus traveled to his lair and found his next clutch, hidden away deep within his lair. He gave the few living eggs left to Nozdormu, and he kept them in safe keeping, and still hasn't told Malygos about them yet. Unfortunately, his Flight will most likely not be at its strength it once was for tens of thousands of years."
Naruto finished the shortened tale and looked up to see Sventar's reaction, and was not surprised to see rage and grief on his face.
Sventar looked at Naruto with unbridled rage in his eyes and said in a dark tone, "If you do not kill Deathwing," he started, spitting out the name, "I will make sure you never lived." He ended, his voice full of fury and sorrow.
Naruto nodded at that, the 'to-do list' was quite full with Kill Arthas, Kill Kel'thuzad, Kill Deathwing, and lastly, Kill Sargeras.
"So, where exactly is Malygos located in Northrend? The texts say he traveled there, but they didn't give a specific location." Naruto said, hoping to change the topic before Sventar attacks him.
"His lair is in Coldarra, the westernmost area of Northrend. He lies deep within a place where the strongest warriors go in, and get thrown out as a bloody, half-eaten corpse.
"He lies… within The Nexus."
Naruto gave a slight sweat drop at the explanation. No maps, no idea of the monsters within, just that they get thrown out eaten.
"Now… I believe we have just enough time to get some training in." He said with a vicious smirk.
Naruto didn't have time to say no, as Sventar lunged forward, jets of white flames beaming straight towards him.
Border of Coldarra
Bloodclaw was flying over the lands, easily soaring through the miles below them. Naruto was on his back, watching intently to make sure nothing would shoot them down.
Out of nowhere, arrows started coming from all directions, each aimed for Bloodclaw's wings, the easiest and worst place for an arrow to land.
Naruto started to form a dome of wind around the Drake, but, despite his many years of training, Naruto was a millisecond to slow as four arrows lodged themselves in both of Bloodclaw's wings.
"Shit…" Naruto said as they plummeted to the ground.
In midair, Naruto pulled out the glyph and sealed Bloodclaw in it, so he was the only one falling. He gathered monstrous amounts of chakra in his legs, and landed, creating a large crater under him.
He got up, his legs aching, but nothing that Demonic healing won't fix in a few minutes.
He heard the sounds of stomping footprints and cursed silently. He pulled out Sventar and the Daichi, and lit them with fire and lightning chakra respectively.
He waited for the stomping to get near, and wasn't surprised to see around 50 Blue Dragonkin.
He cracked his neck twice and readied his swords, just as ten charged, a way to test him.
Instead of waiting, Naruto charged right into the Dragonkin, surprising them as they didn't think a human would charge at them, and paid for it by losing two Dragonkin with swords stabbed through their heads.
Naruto lunged forward and slashed at a Dragonkin, and he tried to block it, but the force behind the swing was so massive, that the sword broke in two, and his body went in two shortly after. He blocked a sword and dodged another, and easily slid under one of the Dragonkin and stabbed a gash through its stomach, and it died with its guts spilled.
Unfazed by their kin's brutal death, the remaining 7 charged forward, only to be blasted back from what seemed as a gust of wind. Another blast of wind, and all 7 lost their heads, as if a sword came out of thin air and decapitated them.
Not caring that he killed 10 Dragonkin, Naruto charged into the mass of Dragonkin before him, and barreled through the first two, and stabbing two behind him. He dodged three swords, parried another and did a quick Rotation, easily blasting back the Dragonkin around him.
He noticed twenty more charging, and charged into them, stabbing the first two through their necks. He looked at the next three and raised his swords, the Dragonkin still impaled on them, and threw them at the charging Dragonkin, and they fell to the ground, either with broken necks or snapped legs.
Seeing five charging, he gathered wind chakra in his lungs, and spat it out. Five compressed balls of air soared through the air at amazing speeds and slammed into the surprised Dragonkin, and they fell to the ground, cuts all over their body.
He looked around and studied the faces of the Dragonkin around him. He noticed they were a bit more wary, they were studying him more to try and find a better advantage, as their plan to 'charge in and kill' isn't working on this human.
One of them, a much larger Dragonkin than the others, gave a loud roar and the front line of the Dragonkin changed. Naruto looked around and saw that the once sword-wielding line was now around twenty crossbowmen, and gave a small curse.
Without warning, the Dragonkin started firing their crossbows, and Naruto was forced to evade them. Knowing that dodging will not accomplish anything, he ducked under a hail of arrows and charged towards three close archers aiming for him. The Dragonkin, as if expecting this, put two strong swordsmen in front of them, and Naruto dodged another hail of arrows flying towards him.
After dodging a few arrows, he looked to his right and saw a large cliff and came up with an idea. He threw an explosive tag at the cliff, filled with wind chakra, and it pierced the ice, hanging limply as the battle went on.
The Dragonkin seemed to brush it off, just thinking that that the human wasted a weapon, and continued the onslaught of arrows.
Naruto dodged three arrows and did a few hand seals and whispered,
"Ice Style: White Whale Jutsu"
And with that, the cliff broke apart and then a giant piece of ice broke off, forming into an enormous whale, almost as big as an Aspect, and it fell to the ice below. It smashed into the ice, and a large BOOM filled the area, all around a large group of Dragonkin. Shards smashed into those that weren't crushed, and they fell to the ground, howling in pain. From the giant whale, a crack appeared in the ice below, and Naruto flared his chakra; the near-forgotten explosive tag blew a large hole in the ice, forming a large bed of ice cold water.
Not even caring about the shocked Dragonkin's expressions, he jumped over to the bed of water and landed gracefully on top. Doing a few more hand seals, he whispered,
"Water Style: Giant Exploding Water Shockwave"
The water around him started bubbling, and the entire waterbed below, as well as some from the Hydrogen in the air, formed together and created a giant tidal wave, easily dwarfing an Aspect. It rose higher and higher and just before it came crashing down, Naruto jumped off the water and shot thousands of volts of electricity through the water. It glowed with intense light, and fell down on the hordes of Dragonkin, all being shocked and crushed by the wave.
Naruto landed gracefully next to a barely breathing Dragonkin, all of its legs off, as it was trying to crawl away. He stomped on its head, and his foot went through it, his sight never leaving the north.
Without another thought of the massacre before him, Naruto traveled north, a lake of blood and bodies all around here, all being witnessed by a Shade as it disappeared to inform his master about this Human of unnatural strength.
Twenty Minutes of Traveling Later
Naruto slowed down close to 'The Nexus' but had no visual of it, as a hill was in his way. He trudged up the hill, shivering slightly at the sight of a frozen windigo, unbridled fear on its face.
Throughout the trek here, Naruto has been seeing many giant shards of ice coming out of the ground. But that wasn't what made him feel pity. He pitied the Naga, Humans, native Windigo, and even some locals that came near here, all being frozen alive by the thing that was once an Aspect.
It was a way to discourage all travelers from coming near his lair, and those who didn't heed these warnings were either eaten alive or frozen outside.
Naruto trudged up the hill and what he saw made him whistle in appreciation.
The Nexus was a giant pillar, with many floating platforms around it. He could tell that each had very strong presences, all formidable foes. He noticed that the highest platform contained a very large presence, bigger than Onyxia. Its emotions seemed crazy, borderline insanity, reeking of grief and sadness.
'Must be Malygos…' Naruto thought, looking at the highest platform.
He ran towards The Nexus, and looked on as a Blue Dragon passed his position, silently whistling at the size of it. He could probably take it on, but he already killed nearly all of Malygos's followers, after all, there's no need to kill too many more.
He looked forward, and all that was in front of him was a long, open, snowy field ahead of him, no cover whatsoever, just snow and the footprints of passing Dragonkin. He furrowed his brow in thought and came up with a plan.
He watched silently for a few minutes, and locked his eyes on a group of five passing Dragonkin.
He willed the wind to make a loud ruffle in the bushes near him, and one of the Dragonkin stopped and talked to the other groups, and they all stalked towards the bush. Making hand seals, he jumped out of cover, surprising the Dragonkin, and they locked eyes just as Naruto finished his seals.
Their eyes still locked, they were about to roar in alarm, but just as they were about to alert the Blues nearby, Naruto whispered, "Ninja Art: Paralysis Jutsu"
With that, the Dragonkin's bodies all froze, their nervous systems not responding, despite their minds willing them to. Naruto studied the Dragonkin thoroughly and created four Shadow Clones.
The clones looked at the frozen Dragonkin, and all used a Henge to look exactly like the Dragonkin, each detail pinpoint and perfected. The remaining Naruto walked forward, the Paralysis still in effect and did a seal less Wind Sword Jutsu.
All of them were decapitated, and all five of their headless bodies fell to the snowy ground below them. Naruto used a Henge to look like the leader of the squad, and the group of 'Dragonkin' walked along the barren land before them, a simple wind jutsu burying the dead bodies in snow below.
They walked through the field, trying to avoid most of the groups, and trudged towards the base of The Nexus.
Using peripheral vision, Naruto noticed that the closer they got to the Nexus, the stronger the Dragonkin got, and the more Blue Dragonkin and Drakes you see. He saw many of the Dragonkin looking at them suspiciously, but they seemed to brush it off.
A very large Dragonkin walked to the group and started speaking in a language that he couldn't understand.
'Oh shit… I just remembered I can't speak Draconic…' He thought with a sweat drop.
Noticing that the 'Dragonkin' in front of him wasn't reporting any problems, or making any voice whatsoever, the large Dragonkin smelled the scent of the 'Dragonkin' in front of him, and his eyes narrowed. He gave a mighty roar, and Naruto cursed, dropping the Henge and stabbing the Blue straight up his mouth and through his brain, the other clones dropping theirs. Hundreds of Dragonkin swarmed around the small group, three Drakes covered the skies, and two Dragons loomed above them all.
One of the clones whistled in amazement of how many Blues there were, and the others tensed, realizing that this will be a tough battle.
The group stared down the masses of Dragonkin around them, their swords out, blazing with their respective element.
Suddenly, the three Drakes and the two Dragons took deep breathes, and the group tensed even more, waiting for the flame to come.
A dark cloud traveled across the sky, and it blocked out the sun, just as the Blues let out their torrents of pent up flames.
The flames screamed as they traveled through the sky, and the group started making seals, each in perfect tandem with each other.
All at once, they all finished and said, "Water Style: Multi Furious Current Jutsu"
The entire group gathered enormous amounts of water from the Ice and Hydrogen around them, thinning the air and melting most of the ice and snow below. It all condensed into five large whirlpools of water, and condensed into one, becoming a massive typhoon, all being held together by enormous amounts of chakra, and intense control.
The combined flames collided with the typhoon, and they both struggled for dominance, the storm making gale force winds, blowing away most of the Dragonkin, the Drakes trembling from the strain of flying and firing, and Naruto's group forming slight beads of sweat from holding the jutsu for so long. The only ones fairing a bit better was the Dragons, but even they were having trouble breathing the continuous amount of flames.
Gritting his teeth in effort, Naruto watched as the Drakes, one-by-one, stopped breathing the flames and coughed in mid air, wheezing from the effort. The last Drake gave out, and it was just the Naruto's against the two Dragons.
The Dragons started tiring fast, and it was only a matter of seconds until the first Dragon, the smaller one, gave out, giving coughs from the strain.
The final Dragon gave a roar of anger, as it was easily being overpowered by the combined might of the Naruto's. Two of the clones dispersed, as they used up all of their chakra, leaving three Naruto's and one Dragon. The remaining three gave a grunt of effort and forcefully pushed their chakra into one final burst, and the typhoon blew through the flames, hitting the Dragon with extreme force. It gave a roar of pain and fell to the ground, its chest heaving in exhaustion and its whole body in pain from the blast.
Naruto studied the damage done to the land before him. Dragonkin bodies tossed about, three Drakes on the ground, their breaths short and swift. A big circle of melted snow and ice where he was standing, strands of grass under it.
He created then clones and said to them, "Kill those that are wounded beyond heal, but make their deaths quick and painless. Those that can be healed will be saved, but bind them to make sure they won't try anything." He finished, watching as the clones walked off without complaint.
He looked to the Dragons, and saw the smaller one getting up on wobbly legs, and watched it struggle to move towards the larger Dragon. The large Dragon was still on the ground, giving short wheezes of pain, showing that his lungs are most likely damaged, shortening the amount of breath he can take in. The Dragon was hyperventilating in panic, which is shortening the life he hangs on to.
Naruto sighed, knowing that he may regret this, but walked towards the Dragon. He watched as the smaller Dragon glared and snarled at him, but made no move to stop him, knowing that it would get hurt if it tries to stop him.
Naruto, blatantly ignoring the pitiful attempts at intimidating him, put a hand on the Dragon's head. He channeled chakra into the wind around him, giving a calming breeze that washed over the area, calming down the Drakes, Dragonkin, and even the Dragons around the decimated area. He ran a diagnostic over downed Dragon, and found out that one of his ribs pierced his lung, and visibly winced, knowing that he is likely in agonizing pain.
He waved over the smaller Dragon and it cautiously walked towards him, its eyes narrowed in suspicion.
"Can you understand me?" He started, to which the Dragon nodded, "I'm going to heal him, but he will be in very intense pain, excruciating pain. You need to help him through his pain, or he will not survive this. I cannot provide verbal support, as I will be completely focused on the healing. Unless you want your friend to die, then keep him awake and aware as I start. Ready?" Naruto ended and the Dragon nodded.
Naruto blocked out everything around him, completely focusing on the healing. Every sound around him was dulled; the only thing that he heard was the quickened heartbeat of the wounded Dragon before him.
The first step was to remove the blood that was in his lungs. He pushed his chakra inside, and made it evaporate the blood, and the blood slowly went away, but the sheer amount of blood was astounding, so it took a very long time to dissolve it all. After five minutes of cleaning out his lungs, the Dragon started breathing a bit less heavily, but was still in pain.
He still had a rib stuck in his lungs so; naturally, he would still be in unbearable pain.
Naruto took a shaky breath, knowing that this will be the most painful part of the healing, but it had to be done. Steeling himself, he willed his chakra to pull the rib out of his lung, and put a large shell of chakra around it so no more blood would get in his lungs. Despite being in a meditative state, he could still hear the agonized roars coming from the Dragon, but ignored it, knowing that the slightest lapse of concentration could possibly be the Dragon's end. After four minutes of horrendous roars coming from the Dragon, the rib came out of the lung.
Naruto used his chakra to simultaneously completely heal his lung and put the rib back together, something done only by the greatest medics. Finally, the process was done, and Naruto took a deep breath and came out of his meditative state, regaining his senses back to the real world.
He looked at the healed Dragon and saw nothing but intense relief on his face, but also severe signs of fatigue from the grueling process he just went through.
Naruto just gave a pat on his snout and said, "Tell your friends about what I did. I could use their help in a later battle."
The Dragon gave a happy sigh, which blew gusts of wind out of his mouth, and rested his head on the ground, falling in a deep, well-earned sleep, and Naruto walked away, nodding at the silent thanks from the smaller Dragon.
He watched as his clones finished binding the Dragonkin that were alive and healthy, but could see that they had no intention of fighting him. He walked to the largest Dragonkin still alive, and could see he was high in rank, as his power level was higher than the others.
"If I untie you, will you swear upon the Blue Dragonflight's name and honor that you will not attack me?" He said to which the Dragonkin gave a shaky nod, "If a single one of you attacks me, you will wish you were that Dragon over there, in the same agonizing pain, except for three days and three nights. Do we have a deal?" He said darkly, and the intimidated Dragonkin gave a fearful nod.
Giving a sigh, Naruto said, "Binding: Release"
With that, all of the bindings of the Dragonkin came off, and they all shied away from Naruto, showing their admittance of defeat to the stronger opponent. Naruto nodded in approval at this and walked towards the bottom of The Nexus, looking up at what looked like a pillar that reached past the skies and sighed in defeat, and started to walk up the wall, chuckling silently at the shocked looks from the Dragonkin below.
After all, it's not every day you see one Human wipe out an army of Dragonkin, three Drakes, and two Dragons, and to top it off, walk up a wall.
Near the Top of the Nexus
'So…cold…' He thought with a shiver.
For the past three hours, Naruto has done nothing but climb up a seemingly endless tower. He didn't want to run, because his gut told him to conserve as much chakra as he can for Malygos.
Now was the time he wished Bloodclaw was here, but no, they had to shoot him down. Just when he needs something most, it gets snatched right out of his grasp.
He gave a curse and continued walking up the endless tower.
After another tedious hour of climbing, with many curses sailing through the wind, Naruto reached the top. He looked up and saw a huge platform above, and noticed the large presence on it.
Suppressing his chakra, he silently moved to the opposite side of the top of the pillar, and did a running start for the jump. Knowing that muscle alone would likely not get him to the platform, he took the risk in channeling miniscule amounts of chakra in his legs to get him up there. He jumped up, and gracefully landed on the underside of the platform. He stealthily walked to the edge, and looked up, just to see a giant, flame-filled Dragon mouth.
He cursed loudly and threw himself over the platform, just barely dodging jet of flames directed at him.
"WHO ENTERS MY DOMAIN?" He roared, looking at the intruder with rage.
"The one who will bring you peace." Naruto answered back; just to dodge a beam of mana.
"YOU FOOL!" He started, swiping his claw, to which Naruto barely dodged, "I DON'T NEED PEACE! I NEED MY FLIGHT BACK!" He ended, his roar with fury and sorrow.
Naruto looked at the Aspect with pity, but crushed that when he started dodging beam after beam of mana. Getting annoyed by the constant dodging, he charged a Rasengan in his hand and plowed it straight through the next beam. The mana exploded, stunning Malygos and pushing him back, Naruto being shot back to the edge, his hand smoking.
Malygos however was stunned at the 'power' the Human just used. As Malygos is the Aspect of Magic, he knows of every spell in existence, but has never seen or read about something that the Human just used. Narrowing his eyes, he shot a more powerful beam, just for the same technique used to cancel each other out.
'He's channeling his power into his hand, making it rotate in various directions, a sphere of swirling energy. It's very powerful; it burst through my magic easily. The faster he rotates it, as well as the more force he builds up, the further that power would travel into the target. If he used that technique on a low-life below, it would easily tear through the body, severely damaging it on a molecular level. Not bad…' Malygos thought, easily breaking down the technique, showing why he was the Aspect of Magic.
Naruto, seemingly tired of being studied, ran towards the Aspect doing hand seals.
Malygos was getting ready to shoot another blast, but Naruto beat him to it, saying,
"Wind Style: Great Wind Dragon"
The wind picked up around the area, and a figure came out in the wind. It was large, almost as big as Malygos, and took the form of a Dragon. Slashing winds were flying around it, but none of them hurt Naruto. Malygos, thinking that the Dragon was a bigger threat, shot the mana at the Wind Dragon, but was surprised to see it go straight through. In his stunned state, the Wind Dragon barreled into Malygos, its gale force winds piercing his scales and sunk its teeth into his opened stomach, a gash forming. Blood squirted out of the wound, and Malygos gave a roar of anger and slashed at Naruto, who was forced to cancel the technique to dodge. The Wind Dragon dissipated, and Malygos stared down Naruto, only giving one slight wince at the gash on his stomach.
Knowing that they are at a stalemate, Malygos flapped his wings once and took to the air, circling around Naruto slowly, an attempt to intimidate him; it didn't work.
Naruto silently cursed at this, wishing even more now that Bloodclaw wasn't injured. He watched as Malygos circled around, but stopped right above the center of the platform. He gathered enormous amounts of mana in his lungs, and Naruto cursed loudly.
Naruto ran to the edge and blurred through hand seals. Just a second later, Malygos let out the mana and Naruto slammed his hands on the ground and said, "Earth Style: Mega Earth Wall"
A large dome of stone rose up from the ground, and Naruto could see the gale winds and shards of rocks being flown past the wall. Everything settled down, and Naruto noticed the building of mana behind him. He turned around and cursed when he saw Malygos's open mouth, shooting the burst of mana.
At point-blank range, the beam went straight through the wall, and right through where Naruto was standing. For about three seconds, the beam kept going, blasting a gaping hole through the rock wall.
Malygos stopped, and looked at the damage in front of him. All he saw was the remains of the wall the Human brought up, and some pebbles, and nodded, knowing that the Human was dead.
"You know…" A voice said.
Malygos looked around in shock and saw a figure standing on his head.
"You really shouldn't kill random people when they just want to talk."
Malygos looked at Naruto's grinning figure in shock, confusion, and then rage for embarrassing him in his domain.
"Now are we going to be civil and talk about this, or are we just going to fight like mindless brutes until one of us loses all of their energy?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.
Malygos looked livid that this Human used magic to fool the Aspect of MAGIC, but flew down to the platform and roughly shoved Naruto off, and he touched the ground gracefully.
Naruto didn't quite know how to approach the conversation about his clutch; he could drop the bomb and tell him his clutch is alive, or could explain it.
Naruto sighed and said, "Do you remember way back, when the Burning Legion was let loose on this world?"
Surprised at the question Malygos said, "A hard day not to forget. My clutch died." He answered back, glaring at him.
"Do you remember the participation of the Dragon Mage, Krasus?"
Malygos looked confused for a second but remembered an old Elven Mage, stronger than almost any Mage at that time. He had a strong bond with the Red Dragon Korialstrasz…
Putting the pieces together, he nodded, remembering that Krasus is Korialstrasz's mortal form.
"Good. That saves a lot of explaining," Naruto said with a sigh of relief, "When your clutch was killed by him," He cringed at seeing Malygos's look of unbridled rage, "Krasus checked your lair, not to check for valuables but to check…for eggs."
Malygos's eyes widened, and a glint of hope was there, but was pushed down, since no egg could live without being in a heated space for the duration of hatching, and by the time he goes back, the eggs would be simple shells.
Seeing the look of hope die on his face, Naruto quickly said, "You're right, no egg can last for so long, so if you did go back, they would be dead," Seeing more grief on his face, he dropped the bomb.
"They're alive."
Malygos's eyes widened in shock and faster than almost anything Naruto has seen, he was pinned down by Malygos's claws.
"WHERE ARE THEY!" He yelled at Naruto, who was having trouble breathing.
Naruto gave a cough and Malygos lightened his hold just a bit, so he could hear where his eggs are.
"Who else can defy the laws of Time to keep your eggs alive?" Naruto said cryptically, and watched as Malygos's eyes turned from rage, confusion, relief, and anger.
With a roar echoed throughout Coldarra, Malygos yelled, "NOZDORMU!"
He flew away through the skies, leaving Naruto to curse and say one thing.
"Thanks for the ride…"
And cut!
Sorry that it isn't as long as the last chapter, but I think 6,000 words is enough right?
The poll will go on for a few more chapters, as there will be two or three more chapters until Cataclysm comes along. All I can say is that one is winning by a long shot.
When I read over this story, Chapter 1 had a serious flaw in power levels, so I fixed that.
I'm not going to have the Dragonflights have a civil war. To me, it's just a pointless way to kill off Dragons who will be of much more use later in the story.
I just want you all to know, that this story was just for me to prepare for a class I have this school year, I had no intention of it going this far.
But for all the reviewers, ether those reviewing one chapter or all of them, it's all thanks to you that I've kept this story going, so the more reviews I get, the better this story will be.
That's it for this sappy AN!
Sseasshark signing out.
