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Mage Naruto; Prologue, in slowly incoming snippets
Topic Started: Apr 1 2009, 06:25 PM (559 Views)
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The idea came initially from LXK3K (aka Warboss, Satsuki, Meroko, Eskander, etc.) back when I first started Elynsynos, actually, and he and I fleshed it out a bit... got a little feedback from Cerisse, and then nothing happened for a long while.

edit: My initial, dark prologue-y thing was partly to force War's hand. It worked. Removed, I'll start a new thread for it if I ever write more of it.
Edited by Solarman, May 26 2009, 04:33 AM.
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Hopefully properly flow-edited now.

Mage Naruto
Prologue

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away..... wait, no. Wrong story. Ahem.

Once, in a distant land, a nine tailed demon fox appeared - its mighty tails could crumble mountains and cause tsunamis.

To fight the demon the people assembled all the shinobi from the village. One brave shinobi was about to seal up the demon at the cost of his life. That shinobi was called the Fourth Hokage. But his plan went awry when one of the most powerful forces interfered - a mother's love.

The Hokage wanted to use a special technique to summon the Shinigami, the Death God, and have him rip out the demon fox's soul. The soul would then be sealed into a newborn child as a means of containment. The sealing technique would cost him his life, but it would be an exchange he would gladly make if it meant the defeat of the demon fox.

As he was about to perform the final exchange, the mother of the child that would of been the container interrupted the technique. Her love for her son was too great for her to simply stand by and watch. Unfortunately that meant that the seal itself went awry and did not properly execute. The demon fox's soul was ripped out and cast into the newborn child and the Fourth died soon afterwards. Everyone thought the process finished, but they never knew what price the child paid for his mother's well-intentioned actions.

The mother of the child decided that she did not want her child's life to be shadowed by the stigma of being a demon container and swore to find a way to remove and destroy the fox's soul. She left after making the third Hokage, who had come out of retirement after the death of his successor, promise that her son, named Naruto, would be treated according to the last wish of the Fourth—as a hero that saved the village.

Unfortunately, it is a law of human nature that people fear that which they do not understand. The people of the village mostly disliked the child because almost none of them understood the seal, and feared that it had merely left the demon in control of a human body, even after repeated assurances by those who had at least some idea of what the seal did that the design held the demon separate from the child's mind.

Until the age of the four, Naruto lived in his village, Konohagakure no Sato (often shortened to Konoha), completely unaware of what was inside him. And he would have continued living unaware of that fact until the time when he would begin training to become a shinobi of his village, but that was not to be.

One day, a rival village attempted to kidnap someone—a member of the head family of the Hyuuga, one of the most prestigious clans of Konoha,. A ninja from Kumogakure named Gashir attempted to steal Hinata, daughter of Hiashi, the clan head. He succeeded in nabbing the girl, and was about to escape when he was spotted by Naruto.

To Naruto's credit, he recognized that the strange man was doing something suspicious. What he did about it, though, was perhaps less brilliant—he started yelling.

Gashir's first instinct was to ignore the child in favor of speed, thinking that perhaps he could pass by unnoticed, but Naruto proved himself a complete nuisance by hollering at him. Gashir decided to take no chances and remove the unnecessary witness, and attempted to kill Naruto. Fortunately for the child, the now-awake victim of the kidnapping came to full awareness, and wanting to help stop her attacker, bit Gashir. Unfortunately, the man was a hardened veteran and did manage to sink a kunai into his target.

The noise Naruto made did, however, prove to be useful. The distraction bought Hiashi, who had been hot on his heels, enough time to catch up to Gashir and swiftly kill the man before he could do any more harm. Hiashi then rushed Naruto to the Konoha hospital, for even if he did dislike the child, he still inadvertently helped save his daughter.

The hospital's best medics, under the careful watch of Sarutobi, the Third Hokage, examined Naruto and found the results of his mother's interference. The mystical energy, chakra, that allowed shinobi to perform feats that defied imagination and literally powered everything in the world was absent from the child. His chakra coils, the pathways that carried this energy, were completely burned out. Not only could Naruto not become the hero that the Fourth wanted, he was now an anomaly in the world where even civilians had some chakra, even if they were untrained in its use.

Sarutobi, though, was old, wise and very crafty. He knew that the village would never accept Naruto, the container of the demon fox that killed so many... but he thought that because Naruto had no chakra pathways, the demon could not influence him and thus was effectively sealed off for good, consigned to limbo no matter what. It was a shame what this meant for Naruto, but he could use this... he could definitely use this.

Within hours the rumors were flying all over Konoha that the "demon kid" was not a demon at all. He had no chakra, so he obviously could not be the demon, whose entire makeup was solidified chakra. Sure, he was a curious anomaly, but a far cry from the bloodthirsty fox. All of this was backed by the doctors that oversaw Naruto and thus the village once more celebrated the death of the demon fox at the hands of their beloved Fourth Hokage.

Humans, though, are also prone to errors... and Sarutobi did not have all the information.

And so, our story begins.
Edited by Solarman, May 26 2009, 03:52 AM.
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Inside the seal grafted onto Naruto's belly, the self-same seal that now will never be visible, Kyuubi, the nine-tailed demon fox was shitting a brick. He *just* woke up from the doozy of an ass-kicking he got from the Shinigami and found his host dieing. His first reaction was to flood the kid with demonic chakra and have him regenerate. When nothing happened, his second instinct kicked in, which basically translated into more demonic chakra.

When that failed, Kyuubi panicked. He was around since almost the beginning of time. He was ageless! He was immortal! He was also about to buy the farm along with the kid. Since the prospect of death did not really appeal to the fox and his chakra did exactly nothing, what followed was a rather pathetic display of a giant demon fox ratting the cage he was locked in and shrilly screaming "SAVE HIM YOU MISERABLE FLESHBAGS, SAVE HIM!"

After some time passed, the demon fox calmed down. Seeing as how his host was still alive and Kyuubi himself was not being dragged down into the abyss, the child was saved and alive. Composing himself and looking around just in case for presence of anyone or anything, after all it did not help one's fearsome reputation to be caught screaming like a prepubescent human female, demon fox began to think.

His host was weak. His host was mortal. And his host could not use the glorious demonic chakra the fox had. That was bad. That was REALLY bad, because that asshole Madara was still around. Kyuubi was not, unfortunately, lucky enough to have that tapeworm kick the bucket, and Madara would most likely try something again. Probably dupe some toadies into doing his grunt work as well.

So the great nine tailed demon fox Kyuubi began to plan. After all, he was around for eons and had traveled to countless places. Surely he could do something with his host. Grant him some sort of power to make sure he protected himself - and Kyuubi as well. Not that he would tell him that the fox needed to be protected due to host's lack of chakra capability. "No" mused the fox, "I should probably spin some bullshit story about me granting him exceptional power, yada yada yada. Mortals do love to be told they're special and to have power. Idiots."

Kyuubi settled down and started traveling down memory lane as he recalled various things and beings he had encountered during his existence.

"Give him a magic stick and have him cast spells?" he mused. That was out as the host had no magic core and, well, how would the fox make the stick in the first place.

Maybe that flashy transformation sequence with all those giant metallic golems? But how would he make them? Sure, he had the idea and understood the mechanics, but where would the host get the necessary materials? And who would maintain the things once they have been completed.

"Oooh!" the proverbial lightbulb lit over the fox's head, "a gun and a red coat! Bah, no sand anywhere around. Might be able to convince the host to run away and go that desert village though."

As Kyuubi continued down the line of reminiscence, more and more ideas were thought of and discarded. Perhaps a hunter killer golem he encountered once? Once again, the materials problem.

Something those humans called "hotblood power"? No way, the speeches got entirely too annoying. And it left them open for attacks. Though the sheer indignation of being interrupted and smacked down in the middle of the speech! Who the hell did they think he was? He was a demon for crying out loud, of course he went for cheap shots.

How about a sentient sword that was part of his soul? That would require sharing and no way in hell would the great Kyuubi share his host. Plus, people with sentient swords attracted all kinds of nutcases.

A dragon tamer? But where would he find a dragon? He refused to even consider the thought of that vermin in red and white spheres. That was just stupid.

Perhaps arrange a meeting with a deity to watch over the host, over a communication device maybe. But they might smite his furry behind and that would be bad.

Maybe a piece of the Triforce... but that would bring that failure Ganon to this world. Honestly, how many times did he try to take over the world and kill that blonde elf kid? Failure of that magnitude did not belong in the same world as Kyuubi, thank you very much.

After a while, the ideas became more and more obscure and ridiculous. The Necronomicon sounded nice, evil and if he taught the kid to control it exceptionally powerful. But then he remembered that vicious bastard with the chainsaw on his hand that followed the book. He just jumped him and started hacking away at his beautiful tails. No, that nutcase had to stay exactly where he was, which was away from his magnificent tails.

Perhaps a shrine to that ridiculously powerful human with a third fist under his beard. No way in hell. Shinigami is feared by all, but that human Chuck Norris considers him “a promising rookie.” Plus there have been rumors that Chuck emerged in some world under the moniker Saurfang..... Wait a minute! That was it!

The lightbulb went on again and stayed on this time, because the fox started remembering that one time he was in that strange world called Azeroth. At the time, he ran into someone called Sargeras and he ra—ahem, *strategically retreated* because the army of that being was, well, massive would be an understatement. And on that world they had humans tapping into an ambient source of power that was between their planets called the Twisting Nether! And some of those humans practiced demonology! That was absolutely perfect.

Of course, the host could not tap into the magics of the Twisting Nether... but the fox could. By becoming a conduit, he could supply the power needed by the host and also *control the gateway* so to speak which would allow him to keep everything but the power from crossing over to Kyuubi's own reality.

While the demon fox was planning, Sarutobi was holding a conversation with Hyuuga Hiashi. The topic was Naruto and Hiashi's somewhat shameful admission that he did not like the boy very much. Now, however, with the Hokage's deception firmly in place and known only to the Hokage himself, Hiashi was attempting to make it up to the child. After all, the noble Hyuuga do not leave debts unpaid. Especially debts of that magnitude.

"No, I will not allow you to adopt him into your clan, Hiashi." Hiruzen Sarutobi's stern voice added even more weight to the words, "I understand your motives, but Naruto will stay with me. He is basically a cripple now. No chakra whatsoever. And I know how your clan treats weaknesses. And not even the fact that he saved your daughter will sway them in the end. My word is final and I will ask you to also relay that to any other clan head that might ask. Naruto stays with me until adulthood."

After Hiashi bowed and left, Hiruzen Sarutobi turned to Naruto and mulled over his idea some more. With the rumors spreading, soon the whole village would stop treating the child as a demonic scourge. And the pariah situation Naruto had been in just resolved itself. While having no chakra would normally made him useless in the eyes of shinobi and civilans alike, the interest of Sarutobi himself and the waves Hiashi would make trying to repay the debt to the boy virtually guaranteed that people would treat him with interest. After all, if two great clans of Konohagakure saw something in the boy, surely he couldn't be useless. The old man allowed himself a small smirk. He loved when a good plan came together.
Edited by Solarman, Apr 2 2009, 05:21 AM.
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Several weeks passed since the incident with Gashir. Hiashi was officially off the hook for killing the man. While the kidnapping could have been contested, an actual assault with intent to kill a citizen of the village could not, even with Gashir's diplomatic immunity. Kumo could rock the boat all they wanted, the debacle's consequences simply slid off Konoha like water off the proverbial duck's back... and right back onto Kumo.

Naruto meanwhile was having a strange time. Normally the population of Konoha was unfriendly to him, now he was treated with looks of curiosity and surprisingly pity. Pitying looks completely caught him off guard because far as he knew he did not really do or not do anything that deserved pity. But hey, it was better than some outright hostile glares he got and improvement is improvement. Then one night when he came home after *not* being turned away from the grocery shop, his life changed.

After falling asleep quickly due to having a rather big meal, Naruto experienced a falling sensation and found himself in what looked like a sewer. Now he knew that he should not be walking in dirty water, old man Sarutobi told him it was bad for his health, but the simple curiosity of childhood drove him on. Face it, suddenly finding himself knee deep in water and no old man in sight? Exploration time!

The sewer-like tunnel eventually led him to a huge cage of glowing bars made of what seemed to be paper. To Naruto's mind these glowing sticks were absolutely the best thing since ramen-flavored cheese, and he wanted a closer look, dashing giddily up to them.

As soon as he came close to the cage, he backed off in fright because two huge glowing eyes suddenly appeared behind it. Then two rows of huge teeth flashed underneath and curved into a horrible smile. Before the smiling mouth could make a sound Naruto squeeked "Whoa, what big eyes you have!"

Nobody knows why Kyuubi answered the way he did. "Instinct," he later would say, "and for some reason that sounded so damn familiar too". "Well to better see you of course!" the owner of the eyes and smiling teeth proudly stated.

Naruto was impressed! The huge whatever-the-hell-it-was had this really awesome deep voice! And teeth looked totally cooool! "What big teeth and awesome voice you have!" Naruto breathed in awe. Because to a 4 year old kid it was like seeing something out of stories old man Sarutobi told them sometimes. Kyuubi's ego got another boost. Even this little fleshbag monkey realized how freaking awesome he was. Hell yeah!

The thought that to a 4 year old kid, a strangely shaped turd was awesome never even crossed his mind.

Then Kyuubi moved forward and lit the sewer up so his host could bask in his magnificence. Naruto naturally decided beforehand that the owner of those awesome looking eyes and those totally cool teeth would look completely freaking badass, so when a "Whoa, what awesome....wait, holy crap, you're ugly as all sin!" tumbled out of his mouth, Kyuubi's ego took an uppercut to the testicles.

After few moments Kyuubi composed himself after his ego's crushing ball check and roared at Naruto "You insignificant little monkey! How dare you! You insult the great Kyuubi no Kitsune! I will crush you body and grind your bones to dust! I will consume your soul and then urinate on the graves of your ancestors after I dig out their remains and burn them to dust! I will...!"

"You're stuck behind the cage, aren't you?" the child asked him.

"Shut up and don't interrupt when they are ranting at you! Did you even understand what I am telling you, you pathetic waste of life energy?!" the fox leveled a stare at Naruto.

"Not really, your words are strange and old man Sarutobi only has me reading um.. ba...basic S E N T E N C E S yeah!"

That essentially took the wind out of Kyuubi's sails. He sighed, sat down and glared at the kid who was now in process of stomping in the water to make splashes and giggling at the droplets that flew around. "Just goddamn great. I get stuck inside someone who cant even comprehend the words I speak and apparently has the attention span of squirrel who ate several bags of sugar" demon fox mumbled as he watched Naruto switch from stomping in the water to observing his toes.

"Now listen here you worm, I am the great Kyuubi no Kitsune and I have been sealed inside you by that yellow-haired ape rat you call the 4th Hoka... WHAT IN BLUE BLAZES ARE YOU DOING?!" the fox roared at the Naruto that from all the water surrounding him got the urge to bleed the lizard and was in the process of making sewer well, more sewer-like.

“I have to pee, so please turn around. Old man Sarutobi told me that you shouldn't stare at people when they are doing this" Naruto replied to Kyuubi and demonstratively turned his back to the great fox in order to finish the deed.

Kyuubi voice suddenly sounded very close to Naruto, which forced him to stop what he was doing and swiftly turn around "You will stop this instant. It is bad enough I am sealed here without you adding more humiliation to my circumstance!"

Naruto just whined at the great beast "But I have to go!"

Finally figuring out that threats and insults will not have a desired effect, Kyuubi switched the tone and tactics. "Listen up you idiot child, this is not real. We are inside your head so you only *think* you need to relieve yourself. So simply tell yourself that you do not need to do it and believe it in."

"But I don't believe that I don't need to go!" Naruto whined at the fox. "Then don't believe in yourself, believe in me that believes in you!" Kyuubi bit out, clearly losing his patience with the kid.

"But I don't know you!" came from Naruto and Kyuubi snapped.

"I DONT GODDAMN CARE YOU LITTLE VERMIN, JUST STOP PISSING IN THE WATER!" roared the fox loud enough to have its breath knock Naruto into the sewer water.

"Fine, ill hold it" he pouted "but you're still ugly!" The fox just facepawed.

"And you look like something I defecated after eating particularly bad meat and yet I'm not holding it against you... much... now shut up and pay attention. I will use small words so even your retarded brain could understand."

Kyuubi then proceeded to tell Naruto all about himself and how he ended here in the sewers, which were NOT real and were a part of Naruto's mind. Between the exclamations of "Cool!" when the fox explained the battle between himself and the 4th Hokage, "Ha ha, you lost!" when the topic touched the ass-kicking from the Shinigami and "Sealed into me? But why?! And what do you mean, broken?" when the details about the seal were explained the fox finally managed to get Naruto to understand their situation. And then the kid just sat down in the water and started sniffing.

"What the hell are you crying about child?" the fox demanded. "You said I don't have that chatra thing! That means I cant become a cool and awesome shinobi and cant run on walls and cant shoot fireballs at dogs that are chasing me and I cant even jump really high!" sniffles turned into tears.

"Its chakra, and who cares about that. We don't have any means to defend ourselves and you care about fireballs and such?!"

"But I wanted to be a shinooobiiiiiiiiiiiii" waterworks were going all out now. "Will you stop this wailing! This is why I even attempted to talk to you, you idiot child. I have an altern....sigh, I mean, I have a way for you to be cool like shinobi and throw around fireballs and maybe even fly!" Kyuubi immediately switched gears when he saw that his words were having no effect.

"Really?" the tear stained face looked at the demon fox with hope in its eyes.

"Yes. I can help you" was the demon fox's simple answer.

"But why would you help me? You came to our village and hurt a lot of people. And people even thought it was me that did it because of you!"

Kyuubi sighed, “Because there is a bad man out there that will try to hurt you and me and hurt everyone in the village and hurt your old man Sarutobi, do you get it now? I just want you to be able to beat him." demon fox said. *Not to mention if this pans out I will be able to influence you through the demonology link and make you unseal me somehow.*

Naruto's eyes went wide at the mention of people getting hurt. "Even Tora-chan" he blurted out while thinking of his little tiger toy old man Sarutobi gave him not long ago. Fox's eyes got a glint.

"Especially Tora-chan. In fact, he might start with Tora-chan first. He is that kind of a bad man. Bad, bad man."

The thought of such absolutely heinous crime ignited a resolve in Naruto's eyes. "Okay, Mr. Fox. What do you want me to do?"

Kyuubi smirked at that and then started pooling his energy. "Just stand there. I will open a door for you and you will step through it. I will anchor myself to the magics of the Nether and will form a link through which I will supply you with power. While I hold the link open, you will find yourself a mentor and bring him or her to me back through the door so I can elaborate my plan to them. After that you will begin training in your new craft"

Spotting a blank look on Naruto's face the great fox just sighed and said "Go into the door, ask around for something called a "warlock". Then lead the "warlock" person to me. Can you do that?"

"Waaalok. Waallok" Naruto tried to pronounce the strange name.

"Close enough" Kyuubi said as the energy formed itself into a swirling portal. "Now go".
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The Twisting Nether—a wondrous dimension of swirling energies that contain various life bearing planets. It is on one such planet we focus, to observe a gathering—six ghostly figures are locked in a heated debate about their latest predicament.

One of them, a large green skinned male clad in ornate brown plate armor with a mighty shield and a gleaming axe hanging on his back. A warrior, a juggernaut of martial combat specializing in standing toe to toe with the most powerful hostile beings the Twisting Nether has to offer. Another, a female of the same species clad in the fiendish garb of the Warlock, a magic user from ages past who practices demonic arts in other to combat them effectively. They are orcs, natives of the planet Draenor, once berserkers under the command of the demons. After invading another planet, Azeroth, their people freed themselves from the corruption flowing through their veins and are now flourishing in a militaristic society under the banner of the Warchief Thrall.

Sitting together, slightly away from the others, are three, one in robes adorned with the signet of the Kirin Tor, a society of mages hailing from the planet of Azeroth. Another is a Warlock as well, but judging by the flow of energies around her, a different specialization than the orc. And last, a holy warrior of Light, member of religious order of Paladins who dedicate themselves to protection of the mortal races of Azeroth by wielding divine energies. All three are Blood Elves, natives of Azeroth. Once the mighty Highborne, with their kingdom destroyed and their race addicted to magic, they now gather under the banner of the Horde and its Warchief to rebuild their lives.

The last member of the curious gathering is a female sitting in deep meditation. She is a troll, another humanoid species that has been allied with the orcs since their initial invasion of Azeroth. The totems near her and the green tint of the life force surrounding her signifies her a shaman, a powerful channeler of the primal forces of nature. She stirs as conversation becomes more heated.

"Anaba, I don't care if he is your friend! Not anymore! This is the last time he comes with us." the orc spat out at the blood elf mage who shuffled her feet guiltily. "Next time I see him, I'm going to feed him to my dragon."

"Oh, don't you worry about that. I had thought he would actually do as he told this time. Relax Warboss, I will never invite him to anything again." the mage plopped down on the ground and took out a muffin from her backpack.

"Well, just updated our list with that idiot's name so its not just us that avoid him in the future." The paladin turned to the orc, "Think we should be fine to rez now. Obviously this raid is shot, but I want to at least get some gold out of this fiasco today." Before Warboss could grunt a reply, a swirling vortex of energies started gathering near the group. After few violent moments, it stabilized itself into a fiendish portal and spit out a yelling blond kid.

"The hell?" blurted the paladin and turned to the blood elf warlock. "Talita, is that your *suitor* coming to visit you again?"

Talita growled at the paladin, "Suitor my ASS, Cer. I fucking hate him. How the hell was I supposed to know that would happen?"

"Well, next time someone askes you 'Art thou a Goddess?' you'd better say NO. Worst they can do is try to kill you" snickered the mage at the glaring warlock.

While the byplay continued, the blond kid picked himself up, dusted off and turned to the group. He said something in a strange language and glared at the group.

"Um, anyone get that?" the orc warlock said turning to the group.

"Nope, sounded like moonspeak to me" Anaba looked at the kid. "Never heared anything like that before. Neither here or on Draenor. Completely new planet?"

"Demon infested then judging by the portal" Warboss reached for the axe. "He could be a scout, I'll signal the rest of our raid to rez us as soon as possible and prepare for immediate combat."

Meanwhile, the orc warlock went towards the kid and sat down in front of him. Said kid was a bit startled but a gentle smile and the nonthreatening gesture calmed him down somewhat while the warlock examined the child with curiosity. Finally after a few moments, she turned to Warboss, "I'm not sensing any demonic taint whatsoever. Just the lingering after effects of the portal."

"Portal does not feel demonic either. Energies are completely different. Structure and incantation feel the same, but whats powering it is different." Talita added as she walked around the portal sending occasional fel probe into the construct.

Warboss peered over the kid and portal in contemplation and then shifted his eyes to Cerisse. "Deal with the raid, im intrigued by this." He then turned to the orc female "Nanoha, can we communicate with him in any way?"

The orc warlock shrugged. "Not my forte, ask Ana. I only know Orcish and Demonic. Whatever the child is speaking, I cant use it."

"Well, like I said earlier, this is not something I can help with either. Arcane translators are based on common structure between languages. Every language I encountered before had at least something in common. Whatever the kid is speaking, it's not from around here," the mage intoned with finality. The group just growled in frustration and looked at the kid who became a bit nervous.

Warboss finally turned to the final member of the group, the troll shaman. "Meraya, I know we're in the nether at the moment and you have a tenuous connection to the spirits, but do you think it would be possible for you to do something?"

The troll opened her eyes and looked at him. "Suuuuure, wen da hard scorpid bites ya on da ass, its always ' 'ey shaman, help me out, will ya?' Fine, i cant do much here in dis.... place" she waved her hand indicating the nether "But I tink I got someting dat might actually work."

She moved toward the blonde child and began to rummage through her pouches. Eventually she pulled out a glass bauble out and crouched down in front of the kid. She then moved the bauble near her mouth and breathed gently on it. Whatever it was in the glass began to swirl around, moving in patterns and forms.

Eventually the movement reached its peak and the glass shattered and fell off leaving a marble sized sphere composed entirely out of wind. The shaman then offered the sphere to the child and motioned him to take it. Confused, he did and then she motioned him to take in into his mouth and swallow it. The kid hesitated but looking at the troll and not seeing any malice or subterfuge, complied.

"Dat should do it. Now child, try sayin' someting. I want to see if da wind spirits blessed ya." The kid hesitated but gave it a shot "Um, hello? I'm Naruto. Where am I, who are you all and, um, I'm looking for something called a warlock?"

"Hello young one" Warboss spoke, "I am called Warboss". He then motioned to his group. "These are my friends Nanoha, Talita, Cerisse and Meraya. You are currently in a place called Twisting Nether, where the souls of dead heroes temprorary linger before being resurrected. Why do you need a warlock?"

Naruto hesitated but remembers that the fox told him to ask around, and these *people* looked nice if a bit strange. Now that he actually was capable of understanding them, he was not as frightened and looked at them closely. Strange color aside, the man looked pretty cool and badass! The green girl was rather pretty in a strange and fierce sort of way, like those dog people back in Konoha. The one that made him swallow the wind thingy just felt...right. And the other three ladies were really pretty! And wow, they had some awesome ears!

So it was not strange at all that Naruto blurted all of that out while staring at the group. The elves naturally almost bristled before realizing that he was a little kid and judging by the rapt fascination exhibited, never seen an elf before. Meraya just chuckled and watched the wind spirit shift approvingly around the blonde child. Nanoha felt flattered and wondered about dog people and Warboss just smiled, wishing that all humans thought like this kid. But the question needed to be answered and it was asked again—and of course was ignored because Naruto had entered the "holy shit, this is awesome" zone and decided not to leave.

Having dealt with mentally deficient members of his faction before, Warboss adopted a stern but soothing tone and promised Naruto to answer all of his questions in a moment. He explained that they needed to know how was he able to use the demon gate and why was he looking for a warlock, because it was very important and warlocks liked prompt answers. That cooled off Naruto down enough to explain about the big fox.

After the story was finished, Azeroth denizens sat down to contemplate what they just heared. They of course knew about other worlds and various other dimentions, but everything was rather interconnected through the Twisting Nether or ran parallel like Emerald Dream. The though that there was an even more vast world out there did humble them somewhat. But, they were used to those kinds of world shattering revelations by now, thus the awe and wonder was packed tight and moved aside for more prescedent matters.

"So, a demon wants a warlock to accompany him. Pretty obvious what for" Warboss grunted and looked at Nanoha "You said no malice in the kid?" After seeing the nod, he just adopted a far away look and sat there in silence.

Cerisse meanwhile was getting more irritated by the moment. Eventually she let loose a particularly vicious curse and turned in irritation to the rest of the group, who began to inch away from her. "What?!".

"Um... might wanna cool down a bit, ya? What been bugging joo?" Meraya asked the paladin.

"Uh, Cale is being absolutely insufferable. She actually survived the damn fight somehow and is now spamwhispering everyone *just as planned* over and over again. I asked her to stop, only to get a smirk in return."

"Actually.... that sounds like something she would do" Talita snorted.

"So, whats with him" Cerisse pointed to Warboss who was sitting in deep contemplation. "Dumped all of this shit on me and just relaxing?" Explanations proceeded then and Cerisse was brought up to speed with what has been happening. "Still doesnt explain what's with the thinking orc pose." was said again, just not with any hostility anymore.

"Eh, bossman probably has some plan ya? He always gets quiet wen he be tinking someting big." Meraya just shrugged and sat back down to meditate.

Moments later, Warboss stirred and turned to the group. "Meraya, Cerisse, resurrect and tell everyone to wait on us. Talita, stay here and monitor the portal. Nanoha and Anaba, you're with me. We're going to meet this *demon*".

"Huh? Why? Whats the point? Why involve us in something not even in our dimension or close to it?" Cerisse asked him. "I mean, we have our own problems, like rebuilding the raid that just fell apart.”

"Simple. Grom Hellscream." Warboss then turned to Naruto who was hovering near a smiling Nanoha and chatting her ear off. "Child, we're going with you to meet your demon. The lady you are near is a warlock by profession and the one you came here to look for."

Meantime, seeing that she would not get any answers from Warboss, Cerisse turned to the rest of the raid. "Whats this has to to with Hellscream?" confusion was evident on her face.

"Simple. Hellscream be da greatest hero of da Horde. He removed da bloodcurse from da orcs at da cost of his own life. I would tink dat bossman, who admires Grom grealy, would just sit down and not do anyting wen he could help da kid. Freeing him from da demon's control be someting Hellscream would be approve of, ya."

Comprehention dawned on Cerisse' face after that. Few did not hear about the heroic sacrifice of Hellscream. He and Thrall shaped the Horde into what it was now, gave it a beginning, a future. So it would be natural that Warboss, being an orc, would attemp to do something akin to Hellscream's deed if opportunity presented itself.

"Very well, i will do as you ask" the paladin said and motioned to Meraya. "Lets go and smooth this over with the rest of the lot."
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