I seriously have nothing to say.
Just have fun. I guess.
Declaimer: I own nothing except for the effort and some plots.
"Speech"
'Thought'
"Demonic speech"
'Demonic thought'
Tap. Tap. Tap
"Kid, wake up"
Naruto yawned and stretched out his body, audible pop sound was heard followed by a refreshing feeling. He rubbed his sleepy eyes before opening them. Dante bent down in front of him with a hand in his shoulder.
"Did you sleep well?"
It was then it occured to him. He look at the sky outside and asked.
"How long was I asleep?"
"A few hours"
Naruto turned to look at him in disbelief. "That long? Why didn't you wake me?"
Dante shook his head. "I was the one who said we should rest before we continue, and you did just that"
"Come on. We have to keep moving"
"Okay"
Moving through the door they opened previously using the guiding light, they came to a narrow platform above the main hall they had been to before, with a gap separating them from the door on the others side of the narrow platform. They long jump across the gap and entered the door into a room with a Divinity Statueand an upper floor which had a door. They jump up to the platform and proceed through the door, reaching a circular arena with a closed gate. In the middle of the circular arena is a circular stained glass.
Naruto look up at open sky and then the surrounding "This looks like the roof top"
"Seems like it" Dante said while glancing around. He felt that something was not right.
Thud.
They turned around when they heard a rock fall behind them. The huge spider form of the phantom appeared in their line of sight.
"Web head! You finally showed up!"
Phantom jumped and landed in from of them with fire burning all over it body. It roared at them and said "Recess time is over humans. Here there's plenty of room to get real nasty. This time, there is no holding back".
Naruto grin cockily. The red cloak already taking form around his body but this time he has five tails waving behind him. "Took the words right out of my mouth"
"Dante?"
Dante shook his head at his eager voice and said. "He is all yours"
"Die!"
Purgatory countered the strike from it leg. A gust of wind blew with them at the centre.
"Don't disappoint me! Spidey!" Naruto swing purgatory pushing it leg back. He charged at the spider and attack with lightning fast move that it could barely react to. The phantom was like a leaf in a storm unable to do anything but get kicked around. The difference between five tails and three was already displaying itself.
As before, it is completely vulnerable to attacks on his abdomen and mouth, which Naruto capitalized on. The special thing about his block was that he could extent it like a part of his body, so all it weakness were open for him to exploit.
Sparks flew everytime the two clash against each other, sending out small gust of wind. Naruto maneuvered through phantom's attacks, sometimes blocking those he could avoid.
Dante watched from the sidelines like before, being the only audience of their fight.
He pinned the phantom legs with his tails incapacitating it and leaving it open for a round of combos. The cloak weakened visibly after the round of attacks, one of his tails receded back leaving him with only four.
Naruto cursed when he felt a drop in his power. Although the five tails could give him a massive power boost, he could only use it for 3 minutes, after that he will slowly lose his cloak form.
The phantom noticed this and used this opportunity to free itself. It leap into the air hoping to small Naruto with into paste with it body
"You are mine!"
"Naruto! look out!"
Crack
Dante pulled Naruto out of the way in the nick of time as the phantom landed on the glass shattering it under it weight and fall into the hole. The phantom fall through the hole and impaled itself on a pointed rock.
Even as it felt agony from being impaled it turned to look at Dante looking down on it from the roof with naruto. It was now that the demonic aura around him felt familiar.
"You... you're not an ordinary human. What are you?"
Taking a closer look, a humanoid demon image overlap with Dante.
"No...the Legendary Sparda...?!. It can't be.
"You're right, I'm his son, Dante. Sweet dreams."
Naruto stared at the slowly decomposing phantom and said. "Now I won't have to worry about seeing your stupid face anymore"
Dante slapped his shoulder with a proud smile on his face. "You did well kid."
"I didn't do much"
"Stop acting humble and just roll with it"
The two of them slowly walk away from the broken glass unaware of Trish watching them from below.
She had a surprise look on her face.
"The kid defeated the phantom?...Unbelievable."
She had seen everything that had transpired and to be honest she was caught by surprise. She had only considered Dante to be a thread but who knew that the kid was also like him. A human with demon blood.
She stared at the destroyed glass one more time before walking away.
"I need to correct my evaluation of that kid"
After exiting the arena through the now opened gate, and drop down to an area with two horse statues with a human sized crack in the floor between them and aTrident stabbed into the ground in front of them.
They drop through the crack in the floor into a room with the castle's drawbridge mechanism. Dante kicked the lever to open the drawbridge. Making their way around the mechanism they found a skeleton resting again the wall holding a grenadegun beside an hatch in the floor.
Naruto pick up theGrenadegun and handed it over to Dante since he didn't like the weight of the gun in his hands. They opened the hatch and climb down the ladder to another room.
Inside the small room is a device with three small hole. A statue of a head with it mouth wide open rested against the wall behind the device. A small gap separated the statue from the device. A double door rested to the far left corner of the room. Two short pillars a few feet apart stood in the middle of the room opposite the device with a narrow space on the ground in-between them.
Dante to the device by the wall and stab the Trident in his hand into the holes on the device.
Swoosh! Clanking!
Water rush out of the mouth of the statue. the chains on the pillar started moving pulling up a portcullis from the gap in the ground.
Dante jumped out the portcullis to Naruto on the other side.
"What do you think that did?"
Dante shrugged. "I don't know. I guess we'll just have to find out."
They move through the door and down the stairs, opening a door to their right at the foot of the stairs. They entered into a room with a slowly lowering portcullis, behind the portcullis is a metal double door and a double door opposite it as well.
"So that's what it does" Naruto had a look of enlightenment on his face as if he had finally solved the world's greatest mystery.
Dante shook his head. He was already used to this kind of random behavior.
They quickly make their way through before the portcullis closes too far and out the door.
The Naruto noticed when he walked out the door was the sky. In front of them is a draw bridge leading to the other side
"We are outside the castle?"
"I have a feeling that we are only just getting started"
Naruto turned to him with a raised brow.
"Why do you say that?"
"Mundus is known as the ruler of the underworld. But so far, we have only fought two powerful demons."
"So you mean that there will be more powerful opponents coming up" Naruto was not dumb. Even he had thought that their journey till now was a little too easy.
"Be on guard from now on"
"Got it" Hearing the seriousness in Dante's voice gave him a bad feeling since Dante was anything but a serious person.
Immediately after crossing the bridge and stepping into the new area, the bridge rise back up rise back up but neither of them found it surprising.
The new area has a number of tall pillars standing parallel to each other. Two have diamond-shaped tops while the other three do not, and there is also a Divinity Statuein this area. Standing in the middle of the pillars is a huge stone tablet and behind it, is a stairway.
Making their way down the stairs, they reached a wooden double door at the end of the stairs.
Rumble Rumble...
On walking out of the doors they were confronted with a new enemy, theBlade. Three reptilian like demons popped out of the ground wielding Shields and swords with a helmet on their head. Their body was a green color with scales growing all over their body except for the belly area.
Naruto looked at the new demons with a raised eyebrow. "So now we are fighting overgrown lizards in gears?."
Dante sneered. "I think they took it a little too far this time. They should have just stick to the walls"
Naruto grab onto purgatory, his eyes filled with killing intent. "How about we cut them down to size?"
"Agreed"
The reptilian demons were very aggressive, lunging at the two of them with fast claw slashes. Sometimes burrowing underground and shooting their claws at them at long range. They also have a mid-air recovery move that prevents them from being juggled to death. Their armor protects them from weaker firearms, so they can only resort to using the grenadegun and shotgun.
Out in the main area, double-rows of cold blue flames burning on the ground show the way to an ominous dark archway with a raised portcullis.
Naruto looked at the flames on the floor and smiled. "Looks like they really plan on giving us a warm welcome"
"Then let's not keep them waiting any longer" Dante said with a smug look before they make their way through the arc.
They walk out into a new area which appears to be the barbican of the castle: a collapsed entrance stood opposite them preventing them from moving any further. On the walls to their left an right respectively is a ladder leading to the up to the second level into a hallway that connects the two walls.
"Naruto frowned when he saw the collapsed entrance. "Did we already outlive our welcome?"
Dante shook his head. "It doesn't feel like it." He turned to Naruto and said. "let's take a look around".
Naruto nodded. "Okay"
They wall climb into the second layer, making their way to the hallway. The main thing in this hallway is another wheel device: activating this cause a stack of platforms on the far wall to arrange themselves into a spiral formation so that Dante can get up to a stone platform hovering high in the air.
Naruto and Dante exchanged looks.
Naruto pointed at the platforms and said. "First one to the top. The loser has to perform one request for the winner."
Dante smirked and nodded. "Agreed". Then he raised three fingers and said. "On three"
Naruto nodded. He prepared to move across the platforms and reach the top immediately after the countdown. But nothing could prepare him for what happened next.
"Three!" Dante moved before Naruto could react jumping across the platforms, and quickly using air hike to reach the higher ones.
"Wait..what?" Naruto stood stunned for a few seconds before it dawned on him that Dante had just pulled a fast one on him. "Hey! That's cheating!" Naruto hurried after him but unfortunately it was already too late.
Naruto arrived at the top which is a floating gazebo to see Dante's arms covered with flaming gauntlets. Naruto had noticed two flaming run laps in a circle at top when he was making his way up.
Dante marvelled atIfrit In his arms. The heats the flames gave off didn't bother him in the least. These powerful fire-element gauntlets will allow Dante to perform punches and kicks that will deal extra damages to whoever or whatever they come in touch with.
Dante looked up at Naruto, cheekily and said. "Looks like I won kid"
Dante's word snapped him out of his initial shock of seeing the new devil arm. Naruto's anger resurfaced when he remembered how Dante had played him.
"Hey, Dante! You cheated!"
Dante shrugged with a small smile on his face. "Sorry kid. But I won fair and square, so now you owe me a favor. Don't forget it"
Naruto grit his teeth trying his best not to jump Dante right there and then. After managing to calm himself down, though his frown still remained, he asked.
"What would you have me do?"
Dante took a thinking pose for a few seconds, then he shrugged. "I can't decide for now. I'll think about something later. First, let's get out of here"
Naruto sighed in defeat. "Fine"
He had originally suggested the challenge in order to owe him a favor which he would keep as a secret weapon to use against him in the future, but it turned around and bite him in the ass.
'I'm going to get him one of this days'
Jumping down the platforms to fight the marionettes that had spawned on the ground. Dante use them as test subjects for Ifrit. The marionettes fragile bodies couldn't handle the explosive power of the gauntlets shattering them into pieces.
Dante look at the gauntlets with a hint of joy and excitement. He felt a excited shiver down his spine.
"This...things...ROCK!" A small ring of fire burst out around him spreading out. Naruto shield his face from the ring of fire.
"Really, Dante?"
Dante look at him, eyes shining, not bothering to hide his excitement.
"What?! This devil arm is awesome! They remind me of the gauntlets I used to have."
Naruto eye roll 'And am supposed to be the kid'
"Let's just go"
"Okay" Dante said after getting his emotions back under control.
They had just stepped outside the door when they heard thunder boom in the dark skies. They look up to see streaks of red lightnings converged together at one point in the sky before transforming in a giant demonic bird-Griffon.
Naruto marvelled at the scene. "What a flashy entrance"
Dante nodded in agreement.
Griffon landed on the edge of a building. Red lightning flashing around it body. It look at Dante and said.
"You! Are you the human, the son of Sparda who challenges the darkness Mundus?"
"Seems like you are already getting famous around here, Dante."
Dante scoffed at him before r returning his gaze to the demonic bird. "Flock off, feather face! or you can stick around and find out the hard way!"
Griffon roared sending a bolt of that pierced the ground between them. Naruto's gaze moved from the smoking hole in the ground to the bird that hard taken flight.
"I take that as a yes"
Dante grinned, his eyes trained on the bird making it way over to them. His held the grenadegun in his hands and said. "I wouldn't have it any other way."
They dodged out on the way of the griffon's dive. The griffon didn't look disappointed that they managed to dodge it attack, rather it turned around and move to dive again. Dante noticed this and used his grenadegun to prevent it from doing so.
"Cover me" Naruto charged in. Purgatory radiated a faint red glow. Naruto had added the nine tails chakra to it to increase it damage Output. The griffon not being a fan of close combats used it wings to send out a gust.
"Shit". Naruto cuss as the gust of wind charged at him. As he was already in it range, he could do nothing but get swept away by it.
Dante continued to use his grenadegun to keep the griffon at bay. It seemed to work as the griffon was slowly pushed back. Not finding a chance to attack the griffon flapped it wings and jumps to another part of the arena to reposition itself. It releases an orb which descends to the ground. The orb unleashes two beams of electricity that spread out the arena and snap back together like scissors.
Naruto and Dante sensing the danger jumped up in the nick of time to avoid the attack. Naruto felt goosebumps all over his body as the lightning had missed him by a few margine. They didn't have enough time to relax as the While flying, Griffon droops his wings into a downward "V" shape and glides forwards, releasing clusters of lightning balls underneath him as he carpet-bombs the arena in a straight line.
The attack was easy for them to dodge as it was done in a straight line. The grenadegun in Dante's hand never stopped shooting.
"Die, humans!" Lightning bolts rained down from the sky all around the arena. Naruto was unfortunate enough to be hit by an enormous bolt of lightning.
Griffon laughed maliciously when the bolt of lightning managed to hit one of them.
"Naruto!"
The lightning bolt cleared up to reveal a half kneeling Naruto, his body still emitting smoke. Purgatory stabbed into the ground beside him. He would have been badly injured if not for his timely use of the kyūbi chakra cloak.
Seeing him unhurt with only a few light wounds, Dante directed his rage filled eyes to the griffon. He unleashed his devil trigger with full force. The power taking the griffon by surprise.
"How is that possible?"
"I'll make you regret ever hurting him." Dual wielding force edge and alastor, Dante attacked griffon with a flurry of attacks. His DT granting him resistance to most of it attacks.
Naruto watched from the sidelines, his breathing heavy. Unlike Dante he needed time to recover his chakra, and It had taken everything he had to block that attack but Dante was able to avoid them because of his lightning fast reflexes. He had be avoiding saying this but the truth was that he had been having trouble keeping up. First the phantom, then the Dark Knight and now this demonic bird. It like the further they went the more powerful the demons become.
'I am starting to feel like a burden. Maybe I shouldn't have come.'
Seeing Dante go toe to toe with the bird drive that point home. After a few minutes of fighting the battle finally reached it climax.
Griffon and Dante clashed head-on but in the end it was Dante who won their little tug of war. A slash from force edge send it crashing into a wall.
"Impossible. How could I have lost?" A look of disbelief appeared on it face. How could it have lost to such an inferior creature? it just couldn't fathom it.
"It's easy. I'm just stronger than you"
"But that shouldn't be possible"
"Believe whatever you want. You can think about as much as you want in hell." Force edge gained a light hue to it. His body radiated KI as he prepared to put it out to fit misery. "Disappear!" Overdrive flew out like a lightning bolt, rushing towards it target. The attack connected with griffon causing it to let out a pain filled screech but before the attack coulduld do any real substantial damage it disappeared in a stream of lightning.
Sigh.
"He got away" A look of regret crossed Dante's face but he quickly wiped it away. He turned around to see Naruto already back to his feet.
"Are you okay, kid?"
Naruto nodded with a depressed smile on his face. To be honest he had been fine for awhile he had just been feeling a little down after nearly being taken out by a single attack.
Dante nodded, ignorant of his inner conflicts, said. "The bird managed to escape before I could finish it off, but it shouldn't be coming back for a while."
Pushing his depressing thoughts to the side he said. "We should probably keep moving before anymore shows up".
"I agree. I just hope we make it in time."
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I keep mentioning the Divine statue so you guys can pinpoint exactly what I am referring to in case you are finding it difficult to follow.
I should also say this that the grenadegun as finally appeared. Unlike devil arms anyother ordinary weapons will be kept on their body, thats why I had Dante give naruto his shotgun during the last episode. The grenadegun will be hung over his back with a strap on.
Everything else you guys should be able to decipher on your own.
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Until next time.
Ja ne.