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Dark Sorcerer.
Chapter VI.
Unlike Luthor and Ra's, who had a lot of contacts or just super powered assassins, I had nothing of these. Of course there was an army of robots… and Aquaman had his powers an army… yet this Game was played by another rules, rather than one I played before. My enemies were masters of said Game, especially Ra's, so I needed my allies to be more… powerful, than I presumed before. Mistake in calculation led to very unpleasant consequences.
Naruto Von Doom. First Gathering.
Latveria. Castle Doom.
Were it naught for the fact that he was in his own castle, Naruto would have destroyed this building and an area nearby, just to relief his stress.
Second lesson, taught to him by his father was: 'never leave the enemy alive'. Unfortunately, killing Sasuke was impossible, while heroes were around, something like that would have compromised his status quo and dealing with entire League wasn't something that he wanted. Yet.
But leaving Sasuke alive wasn't in his intentions. So he sent an assassin, while young ninja was in hospital. Something lethal in his veins was enough for the prick, he wasn't an Uzumaki or Senju to survive acid in his veins.
But assassin return empty handed, of course if not count a video, where several young girl dressed as nurses and woman, dressed as doctor, moved Sasuke to operation room.
Usually something like that wasn't worthy of his attention. But one of the girls had pink hair, other one's eyes seemed to be pure white and even if the other two had no noticeable features, Naruto knew assassin when he saw ones.
As interesting as it was, some other matters needed his attention. He rose from his seat and went to the meeting room. Bothered by the conflict Qurac and Bialya, ruler of Kahndaq, Teth-Adam, or simply, Black Adam, was now seeking allies to protect his country.
Knowing Queen Bee's ambitionns, she will try to either use or enslave powerful political figures. And Aquaman, Doom and Black Adam were in their numbers. Just with those three in her hands she would be able to cause such levelks of chaos and brutality that were never seen before.
Alliance between Doom and Aquaman seemed promising to him, so the duet promised to turn into trio in near future.
So, three leaders gathered together in the Castle Doom. To show equality between them and pay respects for the old times, they sat behind the round table. Everything was discussed, all papers signed and cups were raised to celebrate the alliance.
Everything was normal, until…
"I hope I didn't disturb your fun?" asked a low male voice. Pale skinned male with long black hair and beard, dressed in red armor stepped from the shadows.
"I hope my little intervention didn't stop this pleasant conversation." Said he. His eyes glowed for a moment, but returned to the normal second later.
"Dracul." Said Naruto. "I thought that after all that invasion that happened in your country, you will be there, helping to rebuild Castelvania."
"They renamed it. But don't worry, I will deal with all this and with power struggle too. To answer your question, yes I didn't leave it alone. Right now the reconstruction is being overseen by my son and those, who believe that only strong hand shall bring the country back to greatness." Said the ancient vampire.
"Well…" said Naruto. "…so you came here seeking what? Allies?"
"Yes." stated Dracul. "Your not-so-secret society, Illuminati, isn't it? Needs more members to throw and hold a punch. The name wasn't as original as I expected, but yet again, you are the traditional man and hiding in plain sight was something that I expected from you. So... what will you tell?"
Three kings looked at each other and nodded with a click of his fingers another throne and empty cup appeared behind the table and on it.
"Sat with us, king Dracul. Celebrate the forming of our alliance." Said Doom.
"But of course." Said Dracul, walking to his place behind the table. "Excuse my rudeness, but I'm with my own drinks."
Hidden dungeons. Konoha.
Blood. Murders. Betrayal. Thirst
Those words would describe the life of one Sasuke Uchiha. Everything started with blood. With hidden curse inside the very essence that granted them life. Superiority, thirst for power and battle was in Uchihas' genes.
Murder of all his clansmen by his own brother set him on the dark path. And everything went down really fast.
He betrayed Konoha for his own gain, to achieve the needed level of power to destroy his brother once and for all.
Thirst for power, however, wasn't sated. Once fed, in Uchihas, it continues to grow to unimaginable sizes.
And the circle continued. More blood, more murders, more betrayals and once again thirst.
Some would say that Sasuke was a typical vampire, but we really don't want to insult somebody like Dracul, don't we?
So chained to the floor, in kneeling position, he was contained in his cell. And in front of him sat the Fifth Hokage of Konoha, Tsunade Senju. Around her were her faithful apprentices. Hyuuga Hinata, Haruno Sakura and Yamanaka Ino. They, like Sasuke before them, walked through the gates, that connected dimensions, made by Orochimaru, who managed to create them, through salvaging the remains in the Uzushiogakure.
"So, was it worth it?" asked the Fifth. "You ran to Orochimaru, killed him after he gave you power, but while he was at weakest, gathered team of allies, tried to kill your brother, fought him, lost your team, thank you for giving us such valuable ninjas, by the way and returning my distant cousin to Konoha, spend several years running and hiding learning from different masters and leaving behind yourself only the road made of their corpses."
She was silent for a minute, only to smugly smile and continue: "Only to return later to find out that your brother died from illness. Life is surely a cruel thing, isn't it, Sasuke?"
"Laugh all you wish, Senju bitch." Said Sasuke. "But this doesn't change the fact that I know something that you don't."
"Oh?" she moved to him. "And tell me, what do you know, that I may, I don't know… spare your life, for example?"
Sasuke smiled. "I know where he is. Your demon brat. The Jinchuriki."
Cabal's base. Nearly the same time.
While Naruto gathered more allies and Tsunade found out the shocking truth, Lex Luthor and Ra's, alongside the black Manta also gathered the strength alongside allies. Vandal Savage, Queen Bee, Brain. Cabal gathered forces, but it was still forced to rely heavily on the powers of its members.
Right now, Queen Bee, despite being one of the core members was forced to act alongside Thalia, Cheetah and Galatea, to reach their goals.
The femme fatales were really effective in stealth missions and with Galatea they had enough power with them to destroy anyone, who dared to disagree.
But soon they had found out that there was something that they missed: lack of the magic users. To properly fight Doom, who was equal, and as many suspected stronger, than Sorcerer Supreme, they needed magic users, and where they couldn't get with quality, they decided to compensate with quantity.
Felix Faust, Circe and many others. To all were given different tasks, all hoped for the place in Cabal, for having power and prestige that comes with that.
"So…" started Felix, looking at his main opponent, Circe. 'What are you going to do? Gather some artifacts?"
"Maybe…" answered Circe, who was indeed sent to gather the sword of Dark Archangel. "And you? Going to kidnap kids of some rich parents? Because really… I can't see you managing to do anything worthwhile."
"I was sent to bring the Amazons under the heel of Cabal and after I deal with it, by extension, under my heel." smugly answered Felix.
"What?" Circe was really surprised, a good-for-nothing, second rate mage like Faust was given such a delicate task? "They cannot! I'm much more worthy and suitable for such a task than you, I know them, I fought with them and against them! I know how they think!" exploded she.
"Well, unfortunately, Cabal gave this task to me." answered Felix. "But I will gladly let you play with some of your former Amazon friends, when they will be properly reeducated, to serve the Cabal."
While Circe gritted her teeth in anger, Felix walked away laughing under his nose.
"Just don't forget, our part of this deal, mortal." But the voice in his head quickly returned him to reality.
With Diana.
Return to her home wasn't as good as she thought. Her sisters turned to stone. Her mother as well… all this done by this madman, who claimed to have power to do so. But he seemed to speak the truth as he raised his hand with strange amulet in it and her mother returned to life.
"My daughter…" whispered she, when she saw Diana. "I had hoped to see once again before my demise, I was happy that you weren't among those, who fall to our enemy's spells, but also I had feared that I will never see you again."
Slowly raising to her feet, she noticed Faust. In her eyes a flame of rage instantly started to burn. "Help me, daughter, let's deal with that coward!" Hippolyta raised her sword and with loud battle cry leaped forward, smiling Faust raised his amulet.
Bright flash, made by plasma shoot, hit their eyes and their reflexes pushed them to different sides of the temple. Hippolyta gracefully landed, stabbing her sword in the floor, to stop her movement. Felix also made salt backwards, something that nobody expected of him, trying to evade the attack, what he did successfully.
Another figure stepped in the circle of the light raising his right arm with smoking plasma shooter in the center of his palm. Dark cloak clapped behind his shoulders, his body was clad in metal armor and his face was hidden by the metal mask, which resembled the fox and the demonic face alike.
"Well, well, well… and here I dressed up my best armor, for the meeting with beautiful ladies, only to find out that some second rate magician, dressed in rags, is also here? Do you really have such a bad taste in guests, Diana?"
"Doom." Said she. "Would have never presumed that I will say this, but I'm glad that you are here."
"Well, I'm glad to disappoint you in that particular assumption, but why is Faust here? Aside from the whole, 'destroy the island of Amazons' situation?" asked he.
"Fool!" screamed Faust. "You don't understand what kind of powers will hunt you down for disturbing my mission!"
"You are certainly not speaking about those fools in the Cabal. Who are your true master?"
Faust smiled. "Try to figure it out. For now, farewell, but Queen…" he turned to Hippolyta. "He really wishes to see you. So many years in Tartarus just made his thirst for you grew in tremendous proportions."
Laughing madly, he disappeared in black smoke.
"What did he mean?" asked Diana.
"Something that was my greatest shame, for my entire life." answered her mother.
"Anyway…" changed the topic Diana. "How did he get here? How did you get here, Doom? And what do you both need?"
"In order: he works for Cabal, secret society, created to shape the world according to its core members' wishes. That would explain, how he managed to get here, according to my intel, among the core members is Ra's Al Ghul." said Doom.
"Who?" asked Diana.
"Batman never spoke of him?" it may have been unnoticed because of the mask, but Naruto raised his brows. "Well, not one of the brightest moments in his detective career. Ra's Al Ghul is an immortal, or rather long-lived individual, who tried to made Batman his heir. He is also the head of the League of Shadows and supporter of the theory of the 'Golden Million', in other words, he believes that the Earth must be purified from the corruption that is the current Humanity and repopulated by the best specimen. That would also explain what they really wanted here."
"What?" asked Diana.
"What I wanted here, Amazons."
"Amazons?" asked Diana, while her mother prepared her sword.
"Actually I just wanted to propose alliance to your mother. With growing activity of Cabal, the number of those, who are worried about them are growing. And since your mother has felt, how troublesome they can be, I hope she will take an offer of alliance."
"I will think of it." said Hippolyta, putting her sword in the sheath on her belt. "But right now I need a gift of good will from you, if, of course, you still want me and my Amazons as allies."
"What do you want?" asked he.
"Many years ago, Hades, God of Underworld, tricked into releasing him from the Tartarus, during the battle with him, many lives were lost, but eventually he was bound and returned into the Underworld. As punishment I, alongside my Amazons, must guard the Gates, which lead to Tartarus."
She paused for a minute and continued. "The Gates can be opened with a key, however. It was broken into several parts and hidden in the different locations around the world. I need your help to secure the parts."
Meanwhile with Faust.
Faust stood near the altar in abandoned temple,
"How is our plan going my minion?" asked the deep menacing voice from the flame on the altar.
"They decided to secure the part of the key. Not everything went as planned, but they still are reacting as you predicted."
"They? I thought I ordered you to blackmail Dian with her mother, in doing everything alone?" asked the voice from the flame.
"At first I wanted to turn her mother back to stone, but I was interfered…"
"Who?" the coldness in the voice was enough to freeze the world several times.
"Just a man, he is of no importance to our plan, even if he will not be killed during the gathering of the parts of the key, he is of no importance."
"I can sense when you are lying! Who is he?!" voice became even colder.
"He calls himself Doctor Doom. I do not know anything else about him." Faust was shaking because of the might of his master.
"Doom. With new name, the Chosen, the Slayer of Gods, will come, to face the God of the Underworld and doom shall prevail. You insignificant idiot! You brought my death right to me! Do anything that you wish and can, but make sure that he will not survive! I can't risk anything now! Not when I'm so close!"
Pyramide. South America.
Red energy bolts summoned by the small kid in the black suit with horn-like hairstyle, were counterattacked by the green energy bolts.
Doom and Klarion clashed in epic magical duel, while Diana went to the Paradise Island to meet with her mother and decide where they will hide the parts of the key again.
"You have already lost, Doom!" laughed Klarion. "You will not get to the island in ti…" hand in the metal glove grabbed the face of the face of annoying entirely young Lord of Chaos.
"Now tell me..." he got the child closer to his mask, who pulls the strings?"
Themiscyra. Near the opened Gates of Tartarus.
Hades held Diana by her throat, rising her high in the air.
"Wait a minute, dear." Said he to Hippolyta, who tried to rise. "I will punish your daughter and then… well I had a lot of time and I invented a lot of ways to punish you."
Bolt of plasma hit his left side, making him release the Wonder Woman.
"you shouldn't try to trick or anger Doom, in the end what waits you is just a demise." Figure in the armor made of eternium and black cloak behind his shoulders had his smoking palm raised in the god's direction.
"So you are the Doom, Slayer of Gods?" he smirked. "I had expected someone higher."
Hades raised his fist and threw a punch in Naruto's direction, opened palm caught and the shock wave nearly destroyed everything around them.
"This armor is made of eternium, fusion of vibranium and adamantium. Even god will kill to have something like this." Armored fist met Hades' chin and powerful uppercut sent him in the air. Not letting the god prepare the counterattack, Naruto grabbed his leg and threw him into the wall.
Hades raised to his feet and spitted something golden on his dark glove. Ichor. He had already made him bleed. Hades raised his head, but all he saw was armored fist. Barrage of punches fell on his body. He tried to block but with no result.
He cannot withstand such attacks for long, somehow he felt that his powers were slowly vanishing, as if someone was sapping them out of him. Another hit made him puke a pile of blood on the ground. Red blood. Hades understand that he cannot win this fight. If it continues any longer he, without a doubt, will be beaten to death.
Of course the gods don't die. They return to the core, to the Source, to rest and prepare for their return. But Hades had no intention of returning to it. But Naruto had no intention of letting him run.
Once again Naruto grabbed the god, but this time by his cloak.
Hades noticed that slight red aura surrounded his opponent. In eyelashes of his mask glowed the unholy flame.
"They say that gods always defeat the demons. But what if the demon is more powerful than a god? The answer is simple: this will be one-sided beating."
"How?" managed to ask the well-beaten God of Death.
"My abilities of the Chosen and the God Slayer gives the power to… 'equal' the fields a bit. That's why you are spitting nice red blood instead of that stinky golden ichor." He threw him to the opened Gates. "And touch of the Shinigami, which I received several hours after my birth, made me immune to your powers." He raised his hand and blast of plasma destroyed the key. "Adios."
'You dealt with him." Said Diana, who stopped near him, alongside her mother.
"And Faust is dead." Said he getting the talisman Faust used from the rags and dust he was turned into.
"Now, let us test if I didn't spend my time in vain, learning the magical arts." Said Naruto raising the amulet. Bright light blinded them for several seconds and when they opened their eyes again, all Amazons were back to normal and amulet turned into dust.
Several minutes later, Naruto prepared the jet to leave the island.
"So what about the proposal?" asked Naruto.
"I'm thinking that I will take it." Said Hippolyta.
"My Queen!" one of the Amazons, with long, fiery red hair, stopped near Queen, pushing the crowd of her fellow Amazons aside. "You cannot!"
"Queen raised her elegant brow.
"Why?"
"Because you cannot let this… this… man in royal family of Themiscyra." Said she.
"Artemis… what are you…"
"She is right, my Queen…" said a blonde amazon dressed in white.
"Aresia…"
"Amazons love you, my Queen, but we will not tolerate the man in power."
In the coming silence the laughter of the King and the Queen, accompanied by the Diana's one, was heard especially clear.
"I will not marry your Queen, if that is what you fear. Our Alliance was created to save the people of the kingdoms, who were the part of it. We live in dangerous time, Gods of old returns to Earth and new ones rise to power. Only together we can stand against the hostile forces that gather against us. Your Queen has chosen your safety over her pride and old grudges against other world. Respect her decision, because all her sacrifices are for you."
With those words, he went inside the jet and amazons finally got silent.
"If there only were more men like him." Said Hippolyta.
"There are." Said Diana. "Not all of them are monsters."
"And those who are?" asked Aresia, who silently appeared near them.
"That's why I will be there." said Diana, walking to the jet.
"What will you do there, daughter?" asked the Queen.
"I have started the study of jurisprudence. Maybe with words I will save as much lives as I do with my fists." Answered Diana.
Several minutes later the jet left the air over the island.
With Cheetah. Inside her personal apartment.
In working for Luther and by extension, for government were several pluses. Hologram to mask her appearance, apartment in rather nice part of the New-York and even paychecks.
Apartment was rather new, so when she heard the noise behind the door, Barbara decided to check it. When she opened the door large box nearly fell on her head. Fortunately, she managed to catch it.
"Oh I'm sorry. I thought because this building is rather new I was the only one on this floor." Said a nice female voice, from somewhere behind the box. Barbara accurately placed the box on the floor and finally managed to look at the one, who disturbed her.
Before her stood the beautiful, raven haired woman, dressed in business suit. In her hands was even bigger box and she hold it easily. Right now she placed it on the floor, to not bother her new neighbor.
She stretched her hand. "Diana Prince, advocate."
Barbara took it. "Barbara Ann Minerva, doctor of biology and genetic engineering."