Chapter 24 The Trial of Pandora part 2
One day before the Trial
"What do you mean we can't use Chakra in the temple?" Sasuke asked Sean as they sat down.
"I said there are parts in the temple where you can't use Chakra for different reasons. Magic on the other hand you can use anywhere. I'm telling you this so you won't be unprepared." Sean said.
"Is there anything we should expect?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah expect the unexpected. There a numerous traps and hidden passageways inside the temple so keep your eyes open. However I do have some good news that will help you progress inside the temple. There are a few monuments of the gods inside the temple. If any of you step on them the god of that monument will grant you a power or weapon to help you in the trial." Sean said.
Meanwhile
"Hmm? Could you repeat that Kabuto?" Orochimaru asked.
"It would appear that Sasuke and a few others from the ninja lands are participating in a trial called the trial of Pandora. This trial is to test the skills and the limits of whoever is selected for this trial. Whoever passes the trial will gain Pandora's box. A powerful item that holds unlimited power." Kabuto said making Orochimaru chuckle darkly.
"Fascinating. I do believe its time for us to get even with the greeks who ruined my invasion and destruction of the leaf village. Where exactly is this trial being held?" Orochimaru asked.
"In Athens. These Greeks are nowhere near as strong as the Spartans. Killing them all should be easy." Kabuto said making Orochimaru grin.
"Excellent. Prepare our forces. I will see these Athenians exterminated like the bugs they all are. And Pandora's box will be mine and with it I will crush the Regime and destroy these so called pitiful gods of Olympus." Orochimaru said. (Yeah right Dumbass)
Present time
The Ninja group that was still alive looked for the next door.
"Man where is the door?" Shikamaru asked leaning on a wall before the symbols above him started to glow making him jump back and saw the symbols before a secret door that was basically a large rolling circle moved to reveal the door.
"That answer your question?" Sasuke asked as they moved forward to the room which was basically one giant circle. The door behind them closed.
"Neji can you see anything in here?" Guy asked.
"No my Bayukgan wont activate." Neji said confused.
"That's because Chakra doesn't work here. You have to rely on strength, skill and magic." Sasuke said.
"I believe I just found the next part of the trial." Shino said leading them to a room and this was rather brutal due to the slamming walls with spikes on them constantly slamming together. (I don't know what these traps are called. If anyone does know let me know in PM so I can go back and fix it)
"Uh." Shikamaru said uncomfortable.
'What a drag. No wonder Sean said this trial was so brutal. I don't think anyone could come out of this and stay the same.' Shikamaru said.
Shino quickly rushed through the traps and he was doing good till.
Crunch!
"AHHH!" Shino yelled in pain as his left leg was crushed and went crashing through the room. He was so used to using his Chakra to escape situations like this but without it he had to adapt and he was failing at that.
"Shino!" Choji yelled till Shino stopped in front of one of the traps and.
SLAM! CRUNCH!
Shino's body was completely crushed with his blood and internal organs leaking out.
"Damnit!" Shikamaru said before he used his head to calculate the time when the walls smashed against each other and quickly rushed in and got to the end. And also he had to face a few monsters. "AHHH!" Shikamaru groaned in annoyance before quickly taking out a Kunai and fought against the monsters before taking them all out.
Once that was done and out of the way he found a lever between two statue holding some broken object. Pulling the lever the traps that led to the room stopped.
"What a drag." Shikamaru said before the crushed body of Shino came out looking completely mutilated. "Oh man." Shikamaru said looking at his former comrade who was completely dead.
"Theres nothing we can do for him now." Guy said.
"Hmm?" Itachi said as a rotating mechanism appeared next to them.
"Now what is this for?" Kakashi asked.
"I think I have a guess." Shikamaru said pushing it and the room began to move before they came to a new room where one of the Olympian monuments was seen.
"Hmm?" Asuma said approaching it before the projection of the Goddess Artemis appeared.
"Asuma Sarutobi. The son of the Third Hokage. Your skills with the Chakra blades is most impressive. But you will need more than those if you are to pass the Trial of Pandora. I offer you the very blade I used to slay a Titan." Artemis said as her blade appeared in front of Asuma making him blink before picking up the blade and swung it over his shoulder.
"I can get used to this." Asuma said with a grin.
"Go all of you. Go forth in the name of Olympus." Artemis said before she vanished.
"Thats some sword." Shikamaru said before they entered the next room and surprise there was a lot more monsters this time. "Oh you got to be kidding me." Shikamaru said before noticing he had Chakra to use in here. "Well, At least we have Chakra to use." Shikamaru said.
The battle was over in minutes with the creatures dead.
"Wonder what this does?" Choji said pulling a lever and a large bolder tied up to a long rope dropped down a hole.
"I'm not going down there." Shikamaru said before Sasuke pushed him down making him scream as he crashed to the bottom. Itachi looked at Sasuke in amusement.
"I guess Sean's starting to rub off on me." Sasuke said smirking.
"I hate you all." Shikamaru's voice echoed down bellow which only made it funnier.
Standing up he looked around before spotting a shield. Looking at the writing below it.
"The Shield of Hades. Now what is this thing doing all the way down here?" Shikamaru said.
"Find anything?" Sasuke asked.
"Just some shield." Shikamaru said picking it up and immediately a large group of monsters came out. "Oh crap! I'm outta here." Shikamaru said rushing up the rope quickly just as Kakashi threw a paper bomb down to kill the monsters.
"Hmm." Itachi said inspecting the shield. "This was placed down there for a reason. This shield is to small to be used in combat." Itachi said.
"Yeah I figured as much. Problem is though is that I have no idea where this thing goes." Shikamaru said.
"I think I do." Sasuke said leading them to the next room and saw a door that had a couple holes of the same size as the shield. "My guess is we need both shields to open this door. Sean said expect the unexpected." Sasuke said.
"And I think I just found the other shield." Omoi said pointing above them. Being able to use Chakra Sasuke quickly jumped up and grabbed it before both he and Shikamaru placed the shields on the door and it quickly opened.
"Well, that was easy." Choji said before they entered down a hallway to the next room and holy shit you would not believe it.(I swear I about had a heart attack when I first saw this playing the god of war game for the first time. The dudes who designed this game were fucking sick!)
"What the hell is this!" Kakashi said in shock as the room was full of giant buzz saws moving quickly. One wrong step and your dead meat.
"Uh." Choji said feeling really uncomfortable. Suddenly however more monsters appeared and attacked them.
And one of the ninja was ambushed and that person was Choji.
"AHHHH!" Choji yelled in shock before he was thrown into the buzz saws and.
SLICE SLICE SLICE!
"CHOJI!" Shikamaru yelled as his friend was sliced to pieces by the blades while the monsters just continued their assault. Soon enough the monsters were all killed. "Man we're in way over our heads. Not even a full day here and we already lost three people." Shikamaru said.
"Well, we can't turn back now. You heard what he said. Those doors won't open till we complete the trial or pass enough tests." Itachi said making him sigh in frustration.
"Uh which door?" Guy asked since there was two doors here. One of which was sealed shut but since there were levers here it was safe to assume they opened the door.
"I vote the one thats not sealed shut. Expect the unexpected. My guess is the door thats not sealed leads to a vital piece that we need." Shikamaru said.
"Agreed." Kakashi said as they went though the door and found more smashing walls. "Oh great." Kakashi said before they quickly rushed through them not wanting to get smashed like Shino and Kiba. Coming to the end of the hallway they found a door above them. Kakashi and Guy quickly jumped up and found a room that on the left had a handle for one of the mechanisms from before.
"This seems to easy." Guy said before he walked forward and surprise the door behind him shut with Kakashi on the other side.
"You and your fat mouth." Kakashi said before more monsters appeared around guy.
(I can't believe I'm about to have this in my story)
"All right you unruly beasts. I'll show you the power of YOUTH!" Guy said making Kakashi and even the monsters sweat drop. (Shudders in repulse)
'Guy I swear.' Kakashi thought in his head before he heard the sounds of fighting on the other side of the door before it stopped and the door opened revealing Guy unharmed holding the handle.
"Like I said the power of..." Guy tried to say till Kakashi glared at him. "What?" Guy asked before Kakashi grabbed the handle.
"Not another word." Kakashi said as he jumped down along with Guy.
"Is that all you could find?" Asuma asked.
"Pretty much." Kakashi said.
Heading back to the other room they used the levers to open the door and jumped across till they found a statue holding a large stone sphere.
"Man whoever designed this place really knew his stuff." Shikamaru said impressed.
Flashback A day before the exam
"So who designed this temple anyway?" Sasuke asked Sean.
"A Zelot. Guy had his whole family design and build that temple during the ancient times. There was even original rumors of him still alive trying to please the gods. Reality tells it differently, however." Sean said.
"Meaning?" Sasuke asked.
"You'll see soon enough." Sean said.
End flash back
"Hey give me that handle." Sasuke said grabbing it and placed it on where it was needed.
"See I told you." Shikamaru said before Sasuke started turning the device and in so doing moved the statue who now held the large stone sphere above him.
"I think I know what this is going to do." Itachi said jumping up above them and found a leaver. "You all might want to get out of the way." Itachi said pulling the lever and like he guessed the statue threw the sphere and ended up smashing a large door behind them granting them passage.
"Jeez." Omoi said before they found a grave outside. Sasuke quickly remembered there was a door where they first started they had the appearance of a skull.
"Neji help me pull this off." Sasuke said as they took the top part of the grave off.
"Sasuke. What exactly do you think your doing?" Kakashi asked.
"I think the skull of whoever this is might be the key to opening up the door that had a skull picture on it." Sasuke said pulling the skull off.
"Not just anyone. This is the body of the architect's youngest son. I think Sasuke might be right about this." Omoi said reading the inscription on the grave.
"Exactly." Sasuke said before the grave moved and a small hole appeared.
"Looks like this is our way back." Kakashi thought before they jumped down. Soon they walked down another passageway and in doing so they found another monument to one of the gods and Sasuke was the one who stepped on it and who it was made Sasuke widen his eyes.
"Ares." Sasuke said looking at the God of war. Sean's father. (Picture his God of war 1 appearance just so no one gets confused)
"Sasuke Uchiha. You have come far since my son started training you. But that training will not be enough to see you through Pandora's trial. I offer you a weapon similar to that of the blades of Chaos. I offer you the blades of Athens." Ares said as the blades of Athens appeared before Sasuke who took them and placed them on his back. "Use these blades wisely Uchiha. Now continue your quest to pass the trial of Pandora." Ares said before vanishing.
"These blades are almost exactly similar to the blades of Chaos." Shikamaru said inspecting them.
Soon enough they entered the room where Shino was killed in but only this time his body was not to be found.
"Hey! Where's Shino's body?" Asuma asked.
"He was here the last time we came through." Guy said before Kakashi saw a blood trail starting where Shino's body was last seen making him narrow his eye.
"Someone took it." Kakashi said surprising them.
"But why?" Guy asked.
"Who knows. But I'm willing to bet that someone took the body for a sinister reason." Kakashi said.
Authors Note: Now I wonder who Took Shino's Body. Was it the harpies to take back to the Body Burner or was it something else? Find out in later Chapters. Right Now I'm going to be taking a break from Foreign warriors and go back to me Sixth Titan Story for a little while since my friend 3head-Dragon's story of Teen Titans is convincing me to go back. Also right now the current poll for Adding Sakura or not is tied so if you guys want me to add or not add her you guys need to Vote. Read, Review, Vote, Fav and Follow. REVIEW AND VOTE! See ya.