Well. I messed up. THIS chapter will break 15k. The NEXT will break 20k. Or this one. Depends on the length...
Sorry for the mix up.
(Still not mine.)
Much thanks to: Lord Kyuubi Yoko, windstorm16, el mano, Yinko, Acolyte of the Blood Moon, and Super Vegito 2. You folks have helped me develop a few ideas, and SV2 and LKY have offered to help the story along the ways they can. As a sign of respect, GO READ THEIR STORIES. SV is actually the writer of the two, but Kyuubi had some good ideas.
As Naruto slept, there was a rumbling below the Company.
The floor cracked, and Thorin jerked awake.
"WAKE," he shouted as he stood and gathered his weapons. The rest of the Company, bar Naruto, woke up and did the same. The floor fell open, and Naruto's limp body was the first to slide down the tunnel.
The Company fell into a cage, and were quick to recover, only to be waylaid by goblins. The creatures grabbed the Dwarves, disregarding Naruto and Bilbo, as they couldn't smell the latter and the former was thought dead.
Bilbo stood up, and looked around him. His searching eyes spotted Naruto lying on the cage's floor, and he darted over to the mercenary.
"Wake up," he said as he smacked Naruto's cheek. When the man failed to recover, Bilbo grabbed him and began to drag him away, towards the safety of some shadowed barrels.
A goblin stood up from behind them, and the duo froze when they locked eyes. The goblin screamed, and rushed Bilbo, who dropped Naruto and drew his blade, and thrust it into the goblin's chest. The goblin died, but it fell on Bilbo, who had sheathed his blade and grabbed Naruto, and drug them down into the caverns below.
They were smashed against the rocky walls, and Bilbo was saved from death by hitting a few soft and large moss patches, and grabbing them as best he could to slow his descent.
He landed, and bashed his head against the unforgiving stone floor of the underground ravine.
Naruto stared at his mindscape. There was a pair of presences inside it that didn't belong.
He followed his sense to the duo, and blinked at what he saw.
Sauron had managed to get into his head, and was fighting a massive man with a single eye in his forehead, but two others in the normal spot. The cyclops was dressed in black armor, but he stood at twenty feet tall, while Sauron had grown to fifteen feet tall. The taller giant was wielding a massive warhammer that he swung around with ease.
Sauron was essentially just made bigger, and was avidly dodging the war hammer, which was cratering the ground and causing lightning to strike with every miss.
Naruto growled, and his body began to glow as nine chains with kunai attached to the ends began to spin around him. His katana was held in his hands as he rushed at Sauron, roaring at him.
The taller man must have found the sight amusing, because his shoulders were shaking. A six foot something man attacking a man that has a nine foot height advantage.
However, the sword cut through Sauron's Achilles Tendon, and the nine chains stabbed the other, bringing the dark lord down mercilessly to the ground.
The other being slammed his massive hammer into Sauron's head, crushing it and sealing the wound off with a lightning blast.
Naruto pointed his blade at the now openly laughing giant.
"Who are you? How did you get here? Why was Sauron in my head," he said.
"I have always been here, Naruto Uzumaki of Konoha. From the very day of your birth, to the day you arrived. I am Melkor, named Morgoth by Fëanor. I am The Lord of the Dark and the Elder King. Your kin called me Juubi, and I am your ancestor," Melkor said.
Sauron stood on his tower, a scowl on his face.
"So begins a fight. Three Titans against one another," he muttered. He raised his right hand, and a golden ring appeared in it.
"A gift, for our little friend from another world," Sauron said, as he looked to his left. A stone casket had been brought into his throne room.
"I call forth Túrin Turambar, named Mormegil. Come from Beyond, and serve me," Sauron commanded. A whitish-blue fire enveloped the casket, and the lid exploded.
The shadows of the throne room formed a shield around Sauron, who looked amused.
He beheld the man laying in the casket as he stood. Aged brown hair streaked with white hung over equally brown eyes, which were dull and glassy. Rotten flesh was covered by simple worn leather clothes under ancient and rusted armor. A hand grasped a black sword as the other lifted the man from his resting place.
"How may I serve, Lord Sauron," the dull voice of the undead man asked.
Sauron handed the Ring to Túrin.
"Deliver this to Naruto Uzumaki. Do not, however, simply give it to him. Fight him, and allow him to wield it should he win," Sauron said, projecting an image of Naruto to Túrin. The undead soldier nodded, and stood up to leave.
"And do try to kill him. His death will be beneficial," Sauron said, as he vanished into a condensed shadow, and left.
In his hands, he held a helm with a dragon atop it. Sauron grinned as he put it on, feeling the power rush through him.
Melkor stared into a silvery substance in a bowl, and frowned when the liquid fogged.
He could not see the fate of his heir, which was disconcerting to say the least.
Behind him, a grumbling made itself known to the giant man.
He turned, and peered into the cage he sat in front of.
Red eyes stared into red eyes, before one pair widened and the other pair glinted in victory.
"Victory is mine," Morgoth said as he gripped the massive fox's nose, and pulled.
A sharp pain in his left arm made itself know, and the giant blinked as the fox grinned and bit the arm of the man off.
"You are powerless here, Morgoth. The kit has already taken my power for his own, and my power will never stop regenerating. Meaning he will never stop growing stronger," Kyuubi said, grin spreading further over his face.
And CUT!
I like the new direction. Big thanks to Super Vegito 2 for the ideas of giving these new things to the characters.
The Ring Naruto is being offered is one of the unnamed Lesser Rings. I chose it, because it allows me to customize the powers of it easily :)
R&R?