A Maelstrom's Venture

Chapter 37

O.S.I. Love You

Venture Compound

After the visit to the Greek Island, it didn't take long for the group to return back to the Compound, though Hank and Dean asked some strange questions about Medusa, Naruto simply explained to them the best way he could, that he found someone injured and decided to help them out, though it was pretty awkward due to Hank still wearing the strength suit, considering how it's figure is shaped like a woman, even making Medusa wonder if the boy was stable in the head, though the expressions on the others basically told her that they weren't too sure themselves.

Anyway, after the whole introductions were out of the way, with the boys asking if she were related to the gorgon from the myth, making both Naruto and woman simply state to them that she was named after her, due to her stunning beauty, which did two thing, it caused the boys to agree with that statement, but it also caused Medusa to blush towards Naruto since he said the "stunning beauty" part.

With that, Naruto took her to see Freya, seeing as the whole "turning-human" thing was mostly leaning towards magic than science, so even if Billy was willing to help, since he was now a certified doctor, Naruto pointed out that due ethics and morality, the person he was take Medusa to see was a female doctor, at least in someway, he thought to himself, so, Billy quickly left the whole thing to Naruto.

So it wasn't long before Naruto had dropped off Medusa to Freya, where Triana was actually visiting at the time, where he then explained what had happened between finding both Medusa and Tisiphone trapped on the island, long after most of the Greek Gods and whoever followed them were long since killed by his ancestor, so the whole curses should've been removed after Naruto had freed them both.

Though Freya was sceptical about leaving a Fury alone, Naruto had also told them about Tisiphone's punishment from Zeus for her failure as well, stating how such a thing had given the Fury a heavy dosage of humility for what she did in the past, so she might not cause too much trouble, which didn't help Freya's concern in the slightest.

"Actually, since Naruto slept with us both, she may want to stay on his good side for more." Medusa suddenly spoke out, making everyone's eyes widen at what the woman had just said, making both Valkyries blush at her openly admitting that they both slept with Naruto, while Triana couldn't help but shake her head at Naruto fooling around with a Fury and Gorgon, which she pretty much started teasing Naruto about, causing Naruto to whine and pout at such a thing.

After that, Freya started to use her magic to see why the curse was removed, though she soon got her answer, "It turns out that since Tisiphone was no longer a prisoner, the curse that kept Medusa in her monster form was no longer needed either, so your theory was correct Naruto, as for why she can't use her legs yet is more than likely because she's not use to them after so long, but don't worry, I'll use a little of my magic to help heal her legs so she can at least walk with them, though she'll still need to regain her muscle strength-!"

Though as Freya was using her magic, Medusa suddenly jumped from her bed, where she suddenly crouched down and shot off out of the house like a rocket, though what shocked the group was her legs and hair had turned back into their monster form, though luckily she was wearing a skirt, where just as she exited the house, she also grew to the same size as her monster form as well.

The others quickly rushed outside to see what was happening with her, though right now she was thrashing and wiggling on the ground, as though she was in pain from something, "Quickly! We need to pin her down so I can see what's wrong with her!" Freya quickly ordered, using her vine magic to help out as well, though Medusa wasn't making it easy for them.

Where Triana was using stabbing her spear into the ground in order to help hold the tail down as well, with Naruto getting on Medusa's back to hold her down, though she still struggled to get free, but thankfully Naruto had his axe on his back, so it pretty much "added" to his weight, keeping her pinned, thus giving Freya enough time to scan Medusa with her magic and found out that the residual Greek magic that is still somewhat inside her system, more than likely due to how long her curse had lasted on her, was now fighting with the Norse Healing magic in Medusa's system.

So, having no other choice, Freya quickly puts Medusa to sleep, making it easier to deal with the snake woman while they try to figure out how to help her, only for Freya to state that Naruto will need to travel to Helheim and retrive the Gatekeeper's Heart in order to help Medusa, having no other choice, Naruto then made his way to a Gate and traveled to Helheim.

While it took sometime to reach the Gatekeeper, not to mention fight and defeat it, along with ripping its heart out of it's chest, Naruto quickly rushes back, knowing that Medusa can only last for so long, saying that, he made quick work of any enemies that tried to stop him and gave Freya the heart.

With it, Freya began to create the potion to help Medusa, with Triana helping her with the potion thanks to her training, though due to Medusa's size they had to give her it outside, thankfully, both Triana and Freya had made sure that Medusa was placed in a more comfortable position, though the woman did wince a few times in her sleep as they moved her, but now she was resting peacefully.

Freya gave Naruto the potion, where he then poured it t an angle so it could slide down her throat more easily, along with not causing her to choke or drowned by it, though once it was all gone, Medusa's eyes suddenly open, where a burst of light had blown the others away from her.

Where in her place was the normal Medusa, who was now laying on the forest floor, where she easily sat up, wondering what had happened to herself, with the others explaining what had happened and how they had helped her, with her being even more thankful towards Naruto, though Naruto soon got close to her and helped her stand, with her being thankful that Freya's healing magic had helped her, but there was a little problem.

"(Thump!)"

Due to her sudden size difference, it would seem that Medusa's skirt was stretched enough to have slid down her legs, but that's not all.

"Ah!" "KYAAAAAAAAAA!" "GAHAAAAAAAAAA!" "(SMASH!)" "BY THE GODS NARUTO! I'M SO~ SORRY!"

Because of her transformation, she had pretty much lost her underwear, making her pretty much naked from the waist down, though because of this unfortunate turn of events, it had surprised her, but because of this surprise, her lower half had suddenly shifted to her snake form, where, on instinct, she used her tail to batter Naruto away from her.

Where due to her feeling guilty of batting Naruto away in such a fashion, she had slithered towards him to check and make sure he was alright, though right now Naruto was feeling somewhat dizzy from the surprise attack," I~ okay~ my~ healing~ is~ kicking~ in~" He answered back, while Medusa pulled him up to herself and gave him an apologetic hug.

All the while Triana and Freya were shocked at such a turn of event, with Freya coming to the conclusion that Medusa can now transform at will now, with the once cursed woman making the transformation her own and no one else's, meaning that she can also turn on and off her cursed eyes as well, where after calming down and explaining such a thing to both Medusa and Naruto, once he regained his senses, the two couldn't help but feel shocked at such a thing as well.

Venture Compound

After that, Naruto had decided to return to the Compound, since Freya and Triana can help Medusa with her transformation and train her to use it however she wants, though both had made sure that the snakewoman didn't constantly use such a gift, otherwise instead of it being an asset, it would be more of a crutch in future fights, not to mention the fact that Freya had also asked Sindri and Brok to make some weapons and armour for Medusa, along with explaining her "special needs" for the armour to be magically resized when Medusa enters either her snake form or her human form on a whim, which both Brok and Sindri found it to be a challenge to their crafts and get to work right away, since such a thing had excited the blacksmiths.

Anyway, after that, Naruto was now hanging out with the others, explaining that Medusa needed time to recuperate from her healing, so she'll be away for some time, though Naruto pointed out to Hank that he should change out of the strength suit more often, otherwise he'll be far too "ripe" for him to guard, only for both Rusty and Hatred to drag all three to the O.S.I Base, with Hatred explaining that he wanted to get rid of his breasts due to them being more "distracting" than anything else.

With Naruto understanding and decided to go with them, "Who knows, maybe the doctors there could surgically remove Hank from his strength suit." Naruto jokes, making the others laugh, though Hank just brushed it off and joined them on the trip.

O.S.I. Base

Unfortunately, things didn't turn out as they'd expect, seeing as Naruto, Dean, Hatred and Rusty were now being interrogated, yet all the while Naruto was bored out of his mind by the whole thing, where they pretty much explained the reason for why they were at the O.S.I. Base and everything.

"Um, I don't know if this would be insulting or not, but, can I have the reason why Naruto has the axe on his back, or the reason why it's not locked up while he's here." The nervous agent that was with them asked, feeling a little intimidated by both Naruto and the weapon itself.

Naruto just simply answered, "Because even if I were to just put it in lock up, no one is worthy to pick it up, not to mention that I only need to "call" for it and it'll rush into my hands, pretty much smashing its way through everything just to reach me, so I doubt everyone would want a flying, smashing ice axe, breaking and destroying everything as it tries to reach me." Naruto grunts out, pretty much letting everyone know how much he hated all this bureaucratic stuff and didn't care much about it.

With them pretty much explaining what the doctor had theorized about Hatred's breasts, though it soon shifted to Hank's smell, where Naruto was wearing an O.S.I. gas mask at the time that he "borrowed" because of the stench, where he basically did the whole Looney Tunes skunk thing, what with it being a small room and everything, "I wished I'd thought of that." Rusty had stated, a little jealous of Naruto thinking up the gas mask thing for Hank's stench.

Though due to the mask, Naruto missed his father passing them by to interrogate Monstroso, but due to the size on the guy, it was difficult to do a proper search of him.

Where the agent then questioned Naruto about his affiliation towards his mother, "Look, she trained me in everything I know, we then split up so I could spend some time with my dad, Brock Samson, the only time I saw her was during her babysitting gig at the Venture Compound, where she tried to help the boys by giving them training, where the last time I saw her before here was when she set my dad up to take out her hitmen competition, where I BLEW UP AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD, alright, but I don't hold it against her, since she obviously didn't plan for it, so I forgave her for accidentally killing me."

Naruto took a quick breath to calm down, "(Sigh!) Also, if it wasn't for her, I would've taken even longer to heal, since she stole the only remaining "piece" of my body, which happened to be my head, where her team noticed that my jaw was slowly regrowing it's skin, so she put me in a special tank to wait for me to fully heal."

"Um, okay, d-did you help her escape?" Now he was truly nervous, since he didn't want to get on Naruto's bad side.

"(Sigh!) No, I didn't help her, when we met up due to a quick trip to the toilets, we simply and quickly greeted each other as any loving mother and son would, where she then went off to try and escape." Naruto explained, though skipping his "meet-up" in the toilets with Amber after she was released due to Molotov tying her up, with the poor woman crying her eyes out since her boyfriend, Headshot, had found out that her golden long blond hair was a wig, but that she was still a natural blond, just a more darker colour, which Naruto "helped" cheer her up, simply stating that it didn't matter what the hair looked like, just her.

Though due to the interrogation, Amber had to come clean about her state and what she and Naruto did, of course she stated it by herself without Headshot being there, since it wouldn't do well for her if Naruto got into trouble for such a thing, which the agent agreed that both Naruto and Amber had an alibi concerning the whole Molotov escape.

Along with Naruto just making it back to the Nozzle Room, though he quickly put his gas mask back on due to Hank's smell, but he did find it funny how Rusty was using Hatred's breasts for napping, making quite a weird sight, though Hank was getting antsy about always being in a panic room or something.

Where it turned out Hank wanted to go and fight Molotov in his strength suit, but it was obvious that the woman was more skilled, seeing as she stole Hank's suit, but because of how long Hank had stayed in the suit, he couldn't feel any of his muscles, meaning he needed to exercise in order to regain his ability to walk once more.

Naruto on the other hand knew that his mother wouldn't hurt Hank, but take the one thing that Hank had relied on, knowing it was more of a crutch than anything else, so, he left the whole thing alone so that the O.S.I. can deal with it, since it really wasn't his problem.

"So wait, you spent the whole time napping in the Nozzle Room while everything was happening!?" The agent couldn't help but ask.

Naruto just shrugs his shoulders, "Pretty much, since I figured I'd safeguard the Doc and Dean while Hatred sorted Hank out, but like I said before, I figured that I didn't need to help anyone out, so I just sat back and relaxed with the others, though I was thankful that Hank had "removed" the Nozzle Optic thing, I think we three can certainly agree that it was really annoying." Naruto answered back, with Dean, Hatred and Rusty agreeing somewhat.

Though after the interrogation Naruto became somewhat morosed due to his mother's death, only for a ping to hit his phone, making him look at it, noticing the slight notification about something, making his eyes wide but then returned to their neutral state, where he left the others to be alone for the time being.

When he entered the toilets, he did a quick follow through with the notice, but then smiled in relief at what it said, "[Love you Fishcakes3]" making Naruto realise that only one person had ever called him that during their "time off" together after a mission, quickly clearing his throat, Naruto sent a quick "[Don't call me that!3]" Reply, since both knew that they needed to no keep radio silent from now on, for who knows how long.

With that Naruto returned to the others, with both Hatred and Brock patting his shoulder, though Naruto gave Brock a "knowing" look, making him understand that Naruto knows about Molotov being alive, which he too was relieved about, since he didn't have to keep such a thing secret from Naruto.

Though Naruto did hear Hunter complain about losing his breasts, making Naruto roll his eyes at the guy's antics, "Geez old man, just let it go, your breasts are gone, deal with it." "YOU DEAL WITH IT, YOU DAMN BRAT!" "Whatever, I'll see you guys on the X-1." Naruto had stated towards Hunter, only for the man to yell back at him, but Naruto wasn't in the mood and simply left.

Where at first Hunter was confused since usually Naruto would always argue back at him, but quickly realised that Naruto had just "lost" his mother, so he decided to leave the boy alone for a bit and let him mourn his loss, not really knowing that Naruto knew Molotov was still alive due to the secret notice she sent him, due to it being code between the mother and son duo that she was gonna be in deep cover.

But obviously Naruto wasn't gonna tell Hunter that he knew, since it'd be a little prank on the man, so with that, he stayed on the plane until they all left for the compound, with everyone leaving Naruto to himself, even Dean couldn't help but feel condolences towards Naruto's loss, so he no longer hates Naruto for stealing his interests, though he'd still keep some of his secrets, but then what teenage boy didn't have secrets that he didn't tell others.

The End.

There you have it, Medusa is now able to transform into her monster form whenever she likes, thanks to Freya's potion, since I figured Medusa could use an "edge" considering the era she was now in, not to mention the whole hero/villain thing going on, so having her transformation would certainly help her later. lol

But here you go, Molotov faking her death and going deep undercover, so she won't be making anymore appearances now, since she stopped showing up now.

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