"Naruto," Madoka gasped surprised.
Solaris sighed punching a demon away and sending the creature flying back. Madoka looked surprised, that kind of strength was similar to Tsunade's strength. "My name isn't Naruto anymore, It's Solaris. Understand my name is now Solaris."
Madoka wanted to say so many things but there was other stuff going on right now. "What are these things? How can you beat them when we can barely push them back?"
"They're demons, real demons summoned to fight and your skills are useless against them. I'll take care of them but you will have to take care of the zombies and Hollow Men." Solaris told her.
"Hollow Men? And you mean those things are real zombies, but I thought they were -"
"Hollow Men are those skin bag creatures, just puncture them and they'll be useless. Just don't let the zombies bite you before you can destroy their brains and you'll be fine. Now less talk and more fighting." Solaris threw out his arms creating a wall of blue energy that slammed into a couple of demons.
Valiant appeared inside the purple box barrier next to the Hokage. Minato looked at the newcomer in surprise, so did Orochimaru and Loki, that barrier was supposed to be impenetrable. Only Loki recognised the person that arrived and glared at Valiant.
"So they sent you then, the great Valiant himself, The God of Magic himself. Isn't that what they used to call you?" Loki asked.
"I take it you know him?" Orochimaru asked.
"Oh yes, he fought in the ancient wars, helped wiped out the Faceless Ones and drained the power of the gods Odin, Thor, Nyx and Hecate taking them for themselves which allowed him to end the Celestial War in one great big battle. How many did you slaughter that day, billions? Trillions? That war wiped out who know how many galaxies thanks to the ripples in time and space. He then used his power draining it from himself to repair the damage done to time, seed life in many places, to create new power which anyone can use and increase the abilities of all mages. To basically put it he was one of the few to create this world. But he gave up all that power to do so and now is just a normal mage, from god to mortal. It really is pitiful that someone so strong would give up all that power just for some rats." Loki sneered at Valiant.
"How did you know all that, those records are not anywhere you should be able to reach? Not even the councils would be able to reach them, only eight people are capable of doing so." Valiant calmly asked him.
"The same place I got these." Loki held up his arms revealing the gold and black bracelets fused to his wrists.
Valiant recognised the bracelets immediately. "Those are his bracelets, Wraith's bracelets just where the hell did you get those?!"
Minato Namikaze listened to the two of them talking confused. He recognised by description the man who was with his son that day two years ago, and he seemed to know the one called Loki. So were they both working for Orochimaru?
"I got them from the man himself, after you failed to kill him. He got lucky in that battle and managed to slip himself slightly into the realm of the dead. Even if your power still managed to reach him it weakened the effects so he was able to survive, even in a powerless state. He gave me the bracelets and told me all about you." Loki told him. "Those mortals you gave power too, the ability known as chakra was a mistake. They waste your gift; they only use it for war and battle all that bloodshed how do you feel knowing all of it wasn't possible without you."
"Remember, remember the times back then when chakra didn't exist. When magic and science were the only powers the world had ever known. Remember when Mage's hid from the rest of the world. How we called normal people mortals while a lot of us thought we were better than them."
"We were better!" Loki snarled.
Valiant smiled softly and continued ignoring him. "I wanted a way to give everyone potential, the same potential every mage is born with. Because if everyone had potential people would have less fear. After we destroyed the Faceless One's we thought that we had destroyed the greatest threat to the world. But then another set of Gods and Goddesses appeared that made the Faceless ones look like ants appeared. We won, but not without most life getting wiped off the face of the planet. They needed every advantage they could have to survive."
"Are you trying to tell me this man created chakra?" Orochimaru asked Loki who simply nodded. "Fascinating, I can just imagine what I can learn from his body." The snake like man licked his lips.
"Chakra is a law of nature, every living thing produces chakra, you couldn't have created it." Minato said.
"Laws can be changed, creation can be altered, time can be rewritten." Valiant said turning his head slightly to look at the Hokage. "There is an old saying, something from a play that existed a long time ago. It went 'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'"
"Shakespeare huh, that was a long time ago wasn't it." Loki shook his head and sighed. "This gift of yours to them is wasted; they either needed to be shown the way or they need to be destroyed before they abuse it more."
"So you want to try and play god? To decide who lives and who dies. I was wondering why you would come here, so how long have you been watching these lands for? Or better yet….who was she?" Valiant asked causing Loki to widen his eyes slightly before smirking.
"You are as good as they say you are Mr Detective. I heard about some of your old tales after the war, trying to redeem yourself after all that bloodshed?"
"No," Valiant told him surprising Loki. "They were the ones who started the war so I fought to protect what I can. Their blood is on their own hands, my work is something I've always wanted to do even as a child, that and own a shop. I'm going to make this simple Loki, you can come back peacefully or I can drag you back to the Sanctuary and that wouldn't be very pleasant."
"You can't beat me, not without that power you once had, especially since I have Wraith's powers and skills." Loki's confidence was growing with every word.
"I hate it when people do that," Valiant muttered then turned to Minato. "You take care of Orochimaru while I take care of Loki."
"You will explain everything later. Including my son." Minato told him glaring.
Valiant smiled again "I will not, I am not one of your ninja's Minato. You have no authority or powers over me so don't try it."
Loki launched a blast of black lightning and Valiant blocked with a gold force field. There was a large flash of golden black light and when it died down everyone was standing in the same places.
"I may not have the same power as before but I am most certainly not weak. Surrender or I cannot guarantee you will survive this fight." Valiant told him his tone sounding like the rumble of an oncoming storm.
"Just try and take me, I'll kill you where you stand!" Loki shouted.
Snakes flew towards Minato as a stream of fire was sent in Loki's direction. The real battles had begun.