What trickery is this?
Chapter Four? This long after chapter TWO?
PREPOSTEROUS!
Welcome to Chapter Four.
Also, to the person who pointed to me that Elrond was also half-Elven... I looked into WHY he was Immortal. It's because of his parents, who were half-Elven as well. They can choose their fate, to be immortal, or to die. Thank you for saving me from doing something like making Gwen into a Bijū like Naruto...
Gandalf and Naruto were riding at the back of the company, both on horseback.
"Is Sauron truly rising again," he asked in a hushed tone. Naruto nodded solemnly, before whispering to the old man.
"He has yet to achieve a fraction of his strength and I have robbed him of a Ringwraith, but he is still strong. He has went back to his slumber since we last fought, but he was far closer to rising than the Valar liked."
Gandalf frowned, and filed the information away for later.
"You have been in contact with them?"
Naruto snorted, and nodded his head.
"They're the reason I even got Sauron's Eye in the first place. Tossed me into Mordor, and I woke up in a stronghold of Uruk-hai. Killed them all, and Sauron sent his Nazgûl after me. I threw a boulder at his tower, but it was destroyed like an ant being crushed by an ent."
"So they cannot interfere either," the old wizard said, his tone disappointed.
"They did anyways. I wouldn't have been pulled here and thrown to Mordor otherwise."
Silence reigned until a sudden voice cried out to them.
"WAIT," yelled a voice.
Naruto and the company looked back, and saw Bilbo running as fast as his little legs would carry him. Being three feet tall must horrible, Naruto mused.
"Glad you could join us, Master Thief," came the snarky voice of Thorin, sarcasm laced in his tone. Bilbo ignored him, in favor of handing the contract he was holding off to Balin.
The Hobbit and Gandalf spoke for a while, while Bilbo signed a rather lengthy contract, before Bilbo got onto a pony, and the journey continued.
"So how long do we have," Gandalf asked, looking at Naruto,
"Until Sauron fully awakens? A decade, if we're lucky and I can pose a threat that forces him into a corner. He still has his Wraith army hiding in Barad-Dur. They were created to combat me, as they couldn't be killed by anything other than Wraithfire, which my sword was enchanted with on accident during my tenure at the Black Gate. But if we are unlucky, and he manages to find a way to get rid of me, we have less than five years, maybe two." Gandalf scowled at the information.
"Wraithfire is a Necromantic spell. Why would your sword be enchanted with it?"
Naruto closed his eyes and sighed, debating whether or not to tell the Wizard.
He decided he should.
"I wasn't born here, Master Wizard. I am, quite literally, an alien. When I was born, my world's Death God sealed into me a being of Chaos, a fragment of the power of Morgoth, whom was sealed away eternally in the Void. But his power escaped, and reached into my world as Chaos itself. A massive beast with ten tails. The world would quake when it stretched. It's very breath caused windstorms and hurricanes, and the quietest whisper from this monster could shear mountains half it's size from the rock they sat on. But one day, it gained a level of sentience, and it's power found a woman. A mate, if you will.
"The Great Calamity fathered two children by this woman, before she died hiding them away from his terrible sight. Twins. Hagoromo and Hamura. They grew up and sealed their father, the mad power of Morgoth, into Hagoromo. He went into his mind, and split the power into nine beings. Shukaku, Matatabi, Isobu, Son Gokū, Kokuō, Saiken, Chōmei, Gyūki, and Kurama. He died after freeing them. But my people were warriors, blood-thirsty savages that only saw power and wealth. They saw the Bijū, and they sought to make them into weapons. One man nearly succeeded, had I not had Kamui, a teleportation technique, used on me as I used one of my own.
"But my birth happened on the eve of the worst massacre in history. I was born into a blood-stained world, surrounded by death, and then my people's Death God touched me when I wasn't even an hour old. I grew up with Death's power holding back Morgoth's, and recently, Death's power failed. The mark it left on me was hit with Wraithfire, and melted. I merged with the strongest fragment of Morgoth, named Kurama. Death's power needed a new home because it could no longer return to it's master. So it went into my blade, where it will remain until I either find a way home or die."
"Then you were sent here for a purpose," Gandalf said, conviction evident in his voice.
Naruto grinned.
"I'm convinced it's half to save your people, and half for my reward for saving mine. How else would I find a woman like Gwendolyn?"
Gandalf smiled, and he and his horse trotted ahead, before Naruto's smile melted into a frown.
His nose twitched as a smell he'd not smelled in a week reached him.
'Orcs,' he thought.
He put his hand near his sword and nudged his horse ahead of the group. Each and every Dwarf got the message, and tensed up, and became more alert.
They would not go quietly into the night.
Naruto cursed his luck as his horse suddenly crumpled beneath him, a Morgul arrow shaft sticking from it's once proud breast bone. Gandalf had been driven off by Thorin, who was too proud for his own good.
He cracked his knuckles and growled. The sound was impossibly loud for a human throat to make, and it sounded more animalistic than human.
A Morgul arrow whizzed by his head, and Naruto charged towards it's shooter as another horse fell behind him. The Orc died in shock as a clawed hand ripped through the exposed skin of it's neck, and punched through his neck bone.
They were almost to the Last Bridge when the blasted Orcs attacked them. Naruto could see the bridge.
"GET ACROSS THE BRIDGE, YOU FOOLS," he yelled to the Dwarves, and Hobbit. as he drew his katana as a shadowy figure darted into the open.
The blue-white blade erupted into a blue-white fire that made the Wraith scream it's horrible screech, startling the horses into bolting across the bridge in a furious stampede.
Naruto's first slash was evaded, as was his second and third. He stabbed at the Wraith, only for his body to be stabbed by the Wraith's own sword. A wicked smile struck the shadow's face.
But the Morgul blade suddenly began to dissolve. Naruto's very body became acidic, and he capitalized on the shock of the ghost, and killed it with a slice of his sword.
The Wraithfire enveloping the blade ignited the Wraith, causing it to be reduced to nothing. A second Wraith vanished from behind Naruto.
Naruto grimaced as the chakra that made up his body tried to purge the Morgul poison, and the man lurched.
Black vomit splattered on the ground, as Naruto suddenly heaved the poison up. Small bits of the metal were also ejected as Naruto retched.
"Gods, I hate that," he said as he stood up. He inhaled once, and then seemed to vanish in a burst of speed.
Naruto and the company had rejoined one another in the Trollshaws. He heard Bilbo speaking with three trolls on how to best cook a 'burahobbit' and thirteen Dwarves.
He sighed and prepared to intervene, when he noticed the sky break into dawn, and grinned as he heard Gandalf shout at the top of a rock that was blocking the sun.
The old wizard raised his staff and smashed the rock under him, splitting it in half and exposing the trolls to sunlight. They became stone, and died.
Naruto stood up, and moved to free the Dwarves.
"You survived," Thorin said, amusement dancing in his eyes.
"Of course. It was merely a single Wraith and a poor Orc archer," Naruto replied, grinning.
"Come on. Trolls of this kind could not have travelled this far in the the day. There must be a cave nearby," he said as he cut the last Dwarf free, before he began to look for the tracks.
Suddenly, he began walking off, the Company following him, idly wanting to know what a troll would take on a raid.
Naruto and the company stood in front of the trolls' cave. The stench of troll made Naruto and many of the Dwarves gag and dry heave. Littered at the bottom of it were gold pieces, and jewelry, and chests filled with gold.
He immediately pulled out a storage seal and began to seal the gold up.
"Grab what you can. After a good scrubbing, these things will be worth something," the ninja said as he sealed the last chest up.
"When we get to Erebor, I will deposit the gold inside this Seal to your coffers," he said to Thorin, who was looking at him odd.
"Gandalf! Look at this," Thorin shouted. Naruto turned, and saw the King handing Gandalf a blade.
"These were not forged by trolls," the Dwarven King said, as he examined the blade he held.
"Nor were they forged by the smiths of Man. They are Elvish. You cannot ask for a finer blade.," the old man said, giving Thorin a pointed glare, when the Dwarf made to discard the blade. Thorin looked disgusted, and Naruto sighed.
"Why do I feel like this will be the cause of a headache," he said to no one in particular.
Naruto stood outside the cave as Gandalf exited, and handed Bilbo a weapon.
"I can't take this," Bilbo whispered.
"Yes you can, Bilbo Baggins! You may have no skill with the blade, and I hope you never are forced to use it, but you WILL take this blade," the Wizard whispered fiercely to the Hobbit.
Naruto spoke up from behind Gandalf.
"Strength with the blade does not come from skill. It comes with experience, and the knowledge of when to take a life, and when to spare one. I will teach you the basics of it, and you will become strong enough to defend your friends, your family," he said as he clapped the Hobbit on the shoulder.
A rustle in the branches nearby tore the attention of the Company to the noise.
"Something's coming," Thorin shouted as he drew his axe and new sword and charged the noise.
A sled with rabbits shot over the Company and stopped dead.
"Gandalf! Gandalf! We have a problem," shouted the man on the sled.
"Radaghast the Brown! What ails you so," Gandalf said, pulling the man aside.
"The Greenwood is sick. Nothing grows now, or not anything good, anyways. And then, there are the webs," Radagast said.
"Webs?"
"Spiders. Large ones, not seen in an age. They came from Dol Guldur." Gandalf frowned, and listened to his cousin as he spoke of a Necromancer.
"A Necromancer? Are you sure," Gandalf asked.
Radagast pulled a blade wrapped in cloth from his side.
"This blade is not of the world of the living," he hissed. Indeed, the blade reeked of death and a dark aura surrounded it.
Above them, Naruto frowned.
A sudden sound tore through the woods.
"What was that? Was that a wolf," Bilbo asked.
"No. That was no wolf," Kili said, as he turned and fired an arrow.
A Warg fell from the rocks, the arrow jutting from it's left eye.
A second Warg growled and leapt at Thorin, who dodged to the right, and stabbed it from behind.
"A scouting pair. There are Orcs nearby," Gandalf said as the trio rejoined the Company.
"Run. I will distract them," Radagast said.
"Are you mad?! Those are Gundabad Wargs," Gandalf hissed. Radagast grinned.
"And these are Rhosgobel Rabbits," he whispered, grinning as he got on his sled.
Naruto and Gandalf looked out as Radagast led the Wargs and their riders in circles.
"Move," the Wizard said. The Company darted out from behind the rock cropping, to another.
This repeated until an Orc jumped atop the rock they hid under.
"Kili," Thorin whispered, and Kili nodded. He drew an arrow, and nocked it, before stepping out and shooting the Orc in the chest.
The Warg fell under the Orc's weight as an arrow hit it's breast, and the Company fell upon it with their blades.
However, the death throes of the Warg attracted the others, and Naruto swore.
"Run," he said, as he raised his hands above his head. A blood red Rasengan formed in them, before it expanded to a monstrous size. Naruto forced the sphere to flatten, and he threw it.
The attack cut through half of the Orc riders, and exploded. The other half forced Naruto back, and the Company fell back.
"We're surrounded!"
"Where's Gandalf!?"
"He's abandoned us!"
Naruto growled as he saw the Orcs closing in before he raised a single foot. His body began to glow a deep red, and he stomped on the ground.
A large fissure formed between the Orcs and the Company, and Naruto roared. His chakra erupted from his mouth in a shockwave, throwing the Orcs and Wargs back several feet.
"In here, you fools," Gandalf suddenly yelled, his head poking up from behind a rock.
"GO," Naruto yelled, as he grabbed the nearest Dwarf to him, Kili, and ran towards the hole.
The Company fell into it, one by one, and waited. The Orcs looked into their hole, but were distracted by a sudden horn.
Arrows hit the Orcs, and one of them fell into the hole.
Naruto pulled the arrow from it's neck, and stared at the head.
"Elves," growled Thorin.
Thorin stared at Rivendell with disgust in his eyes.
"This was your intention all along wasn't it? To have us consort with Elves," he yelled at Gandalf.
"They have something we need, and we cannot go for long without food and supplies," Gandalf replied.
Naruto was extremely nervous. He'd not met the Elves of Rivendell before, and was traveling with Dwarves, and a Hobbit, and a Wizard.
And there of them were wielding Elven Blades. Thorin was also angry with Gandalf, again, for making him come to an Elven city.
"What sort of drinks do these Elves have," one of the many Dwarves asked as they cam out of a cave and looked into the valley that Rivendell was in.
"Wines, mostly. Nothing to your tastes, Master Dwarf. The few non-wines Elves have are water and tonics," Naruto said. Gandalf nodded.
"Unlike your kin, they are rather stiff, often preferring propriety over enjoyment. However, they are not ones to be late to a party," the Wizard said. The Dwarves seemed to sulk after that, except for Thorin.
The disappointment and distaste for Elves was clear in his eyes, but he stood proud, with his blade on his back shining in the light.
"Do not be disheartened, my brothers! We are returning home, where our finest ales have only aged to perfection," he said, looking back at the other Dwarves in his company.
'Twelve Dwarven Warriors, a Hobbit Burglar, a Human Wizard, and me. Oh yeah, this is a story to tell,' Naruto thought.
Suddenly, the Company was waylaid by Elves on horseback.
"What business do you have in Rivendell, strangers," one of the Elves spoke.
Gandalf spoke up, "We come seeking the council of Elrond on our quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain of Erebor from Smaug the Terrible."
There was a lull in conversation as one of the gate guards fetched Elrond.
Finally, the gates opened, and a pair of Elves stepped out.
Gandalf greeted him, but Naruto immediately noted the differences between the man and the Elf beside him.
Human ears with points. Beautiful and aristocratic features. Human facial shape. Taller than Gandalf, by a few inches, but the Elf next to him stood at almost 7 feet tall.
"Peredhil," Naruto whispered, his eyes wide with shock.
Elrond's eyes shot up to his, and one dark eyebrow raised.
"You're the second Peredhil I've met. I know the differences between your kin and your subjects," he said. Elrond smiled.
"Another like I and my wife and children exist," he asked. Naruto grinned, and nodded.
Gandalf smiled, knowing who Naruto meant as he recalled the similarities between the two people in question.
"My bride to be, Gwendolyn, daughter of Gawon Stormbow, a Vanyar of the Mirkwood," the ninja said.
Elrond smiled more, and extended an arm to Naruto.
"Then I know why you were shocked. They have strict laws concerning Peredhil born of their kind, and you are a stranger here. Who are you," Elrond asked.
"Naruto Wraithslayer, Master Elrond," Naruto said.
"Welcome to Rivendell, Master Wraithslayer," the Half-Elf Lord said, holding his arms out to his sides, as if showcasing his city.
And CUT!
Naruto has met another Peredhil, and the Company is off!
The Rivendell scene was harder to write, because Naruto is hiding his power as best he can. The Kyuubi is part of Morgoth, and Sauron is Awake enough to hold a body for ten minutes. Then he made an army that set him to sleep for four years, and now he's Awake again, in Dol Guldur.
Next Chapter!
A surprising appearance! New powers! Gawon's fate is found out! Zombies, Wraiths, Ghosts!
See, I was totally in canon when I made Sauron a necromancer.
Also, imagine how the ghosts look in the films and in Shadow of Mordor.
That is how Naruto's Wraithblade's fire looks. The Nazgûl's Wraithfire is a deep crimson and black. This spell attacks the soul instead of the body, which is why the Shiki Fuuin melted.
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