Claymore Fan Fiction / Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Red Dawn ❯ The Demons ( Chapter 4 )
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By: Zagger the Bloody Angel 
Anime/Manga: Claymore Fan Fiction / Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Thriller / Suspense / Romance / Adventure / Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 06.20.2011 | Pages: 4 | Words: 7.1K | Visits: 694 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Claymore Fan Fiction / Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Thriller / Suspense / Romance / Adventure / Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 06.20.2011 | Pages: 4 | Words: 7.1K | Visits: 694 | Status: Work In Progress
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Priscilla was unsure what to think as she felt an overwhelming, yet intoxicating power fill her system. It felt like nothing she had ever felt before and she was sure that there wasn't a single being that could challenge her now.
All of her clothes had been shred showing her crystal blue skin that shone brightly in the sun's light and seemed to be almost reflecting the light making it difficult to look straight at her. She had gold plates covering her ribs and above her now much larger breasts.
She had a large horn that grew from her head and curved towards the sky and brought attention to her face, more particularly her still beast-like silver eyes. She had a set of upper wings and lower wings that were covered a light red skin-like material allowing her the capacity to fly and very quickly.
Her muscles no longer bulged as they were fully developed and she towered everyone there by a few heads at least and that only added to the menacing figure standing before Teresa.
"There was no reason to hold back... This feels so wonderful." Priscilla commented as the power flowing through her veins made her feel unbelievable.
But as soon as she said this, she felt her stomach growl and a hunger unlike any before she had ever felt. The troubling thing was that she knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted guts and not just any kind of guts. She wanted human guts.
Her eyes fell onto the blonde haired teen with some of his guts spilt onto the ground. The smell was so enticing that she couldn't help but start walking over towards him. "Mhm... His entrails smell so good. I must feed on them while he still alive so they won't loose its flavor."
It wasn't often when Teresa felt like this. In fact, the only two times she could remember that she had felt like this was when she had left Clare behind in a mountain village before bandits attacked and when she felt the yoki release from the blonde that was lying in his own blood pool in front of her.
Bishou no Teresa was afraid.
She had never felt such a hopeless situation like this before as she looked towards the blue skinned demon as she slowly began to walk in her direction. Her hands had been sliced off and it would take her some time to reattach them, it being harder due to the fact that she had no way to keep the hands steady while reattaching them.
To add on top of that, the blonde she had been only traveling with for a single day had just sacrificed himself to protect her. She could also tell that Irene, Noel and Sophia were there as well, but after beating them down in the town they had absolutely no chance in surviving if they went to attack the newly awakened warrior without her presence in the fight.
For the first time in her life, Teresa knew that there was almost no chance for her to survive and to make things worse, Clare was still within the area. But she had to wonder why Naruto's clone was still standing next to the young girl after what had happened to the true Naruto and why it wasn't getting her out of there.
Coughing caught her attention and her eyes instantly feel onto Naruto as he blood was splattering onto the ground after each and every cough. Crawling over to him, Teresa laid her stump of a right arm on his back to try help him in anyway she could. However, when he batted her limb away, her eyes widened as he lifted his head and red yoki began to surround his body.
"Stay away from me!" Naruto growled out as his face began to turn feral-like as his eyes turned crimson. "I'm fine! Get yourself and Clare out of here now!"
Teresa couldn't help but began to shake once more as felt the horrible yoki but this time she was up close to feel how powerful it truly was. But with one good look at Naruto, she instantly began to realize he wasn't using the yoki for combat. He was trying to use it to close up and heal his wound; however, it seemed to be difficult as the yoki was trying to release itself.
He wasn't the only one to sense this as Irene, Noel and Sophia landed next to them. They were torn by which one they were more afraid of in Priscilla or Naruto, but they kept their focus on the awakened being as Naruto was still injured and therefore, not a major threat.
Giving Naruto a quick look, Irene had to wonder if the organization was trying experiments on males once again as there was no doubt in her mind that this blonde was one of them. However, his yoki was far more potent then anything she had felt before and was truly frightened that they had not even heard of the organization doing this.
Putting that aside for now, she looked over at Teresa before dropping her claymore and her hands that Priscilla had severed in front of the former number one. "Reattached them as fast as possible because we need your help. As of now, Priscilla is the biggest threat here and we can deal with your treachery later."
Turning her attention back to Naruto and seeing the amount of blood flow beginning to seize, Irene looked back at Priscilla before speaking in a rather stoic voice despite the situation. "Concentrate on your stomach wound for now. If we can't hold her off long enough for either of you to recover, get out of here."
Naruto growled lightly in his throat as more and more of the demon fox's yoki flooded into his system. He knew the fox was just trying to heal his wound, but the fox could also sense the threat outside and wanted Naruto healed as fast as possible and battle ready so he could take care of this threat to their lives.
He was restraining it as much as he could but each second he did, the more likely it became that the wound he was inflicted with would be fatal. However, if the others weren't around he wouldn't need to restrain it and unleash the fox's devastation onto this creature without worry of injuring the innocent. But if they didn't leave soon, he would either die or be forced to unleash it anyways and hoped they were fast enough to get away.
Growling deeply, Naruto gave Irene a death glare as the red yoki around him bubbled and slowly began to take the shape of the demon within. "No! Just get out of here! If you do, I can unleash my full force..."
"Don't push yourself. This is our job... To eradicate any and every yoma from this world. Just concentrate on healing, douche." Noel interrupted Naruto before giving him a pissed glare as a small amount of blood was still pouring from the chest wound he had delivered to her.
Teresa knew something was wrong with Naruto as he was trying to get everyone out of the area. She could tell, unlike the others, that he was restraining his yoki with all his might and despite that it was still coming and quickly. If she could guess, he wouldn't be able to hold on after a few more minutes as his wound was not healing quick enough and he would either die or he would be forced to release as much as he could.
"Irene... Listen to him and get out of..." Teresa tried to say but none of them listened as they headed towards Priscilla.
She cursed at this as she placed her bloody stumps onto to their correct hands and began releasing more of her yoki. Unlike the three, she planned on getting her hands reattached and getting Clare out of danger. She knew the depths of the power Naruto was releasing and did not want to be around to see how much he would have to release to heal himself from the grievous wound he was given. She only hoped that he wouldn't lose control of himself.
Irene was the first to leap towards Priscilla with her claymore aimed for the awakened’s wings to try and limit her new abilities. She didn't even get close as Priscilla simply turned and as if on accident, her claymore sliced through her left arm before she was able to put her blade in front to block it and keeping more damage from being done. However, the contact of the swords knocked Irene back and skidding against the ground.
Panting as blood began to pour from the remainder of her arm, Irene's silver eyes sparkled darkly as her veins began to pulse in her face and throughout her body. She wasn't going to give up so easily and allow herself to beaten handily a second time in one day.
Priscilla looked at Irene oddly for a moment as she didn't understand why she just attempted to attack her. However, she quickly put that behind her as she noticed the condition of the elf-like woman, mainly the bleeding stump where her arm use to be. "Hello Irene... It seems that you are missing an arm. What did you do with it?"
Irene gave Priscilla a dark glare as she began to concentrate as much of her yoki as she could into her right arm, getting ready to strike when Priscilla reached down and picked her severed arm off the ground before throwing it to her. "Ah! Here it is, Irene. You shouldn't leave something as important as your arm lying around."
As soon as Priscilla threw the arm, both Noel and Sophia appeared besides with their claymores arching towards her neck. Despite being caught off guard by the attack, Priscilla still managed to block Sophia's strike with her claymore while she allowed Noel to sever her arm.
It didn't stay severed, to their misfortune. Her own flesh and blood seemed to become tendrils and reattach the arm that Noel had severed within seconds.
Having never seen anything like this before, both Noel and Sophia were caught off guard and were not prepared for Priscilla's fingers to turn into lances as they pierced through their flesh, but more importantly, through their head and heart.
Irene looked on in dread as she watched both women's bodies suddenly become limp. She needed both of them to even stay in this fight and Priscilla had gotten rid of them as if they were just cannon fodder. It also wasn't too reinsuring that there had barely any time to pass by meaning that neither Teresa nor the young man had enough time to recover from their wounds.
Teresa cursed as she knew there wasn't going to be enough time to fully reattach her hands. Hell, she doubted that there was going to be enough time for her to get to Clare and get her out of there.
Turning to Naruto, her face fell as the blonde seemed to in great pain as he restrained the yoki around him and was failing. But now, she could see clearly the form the yoki was making as a second tail began to form. It looked like that of a fox.
A fox with multiple tails? She knew she had heard something about that before, but she did not remember where.
Shaking her head of that, she focused on her hands once more to make sure that they were at least attached enough to work correctly. She cursed as her left hand fell off meaning that it had not healed over correctly meaning she was going to have to do it again. The only problem was that there wasn't much time.
"Teresa..." Naruto's darkening voice caught her attention as she began to regenerate the fibers that held her hand to her arm. "Once you're finished with your hands... Get that woman and Clare out of here... I'm going to buy some time with my clone. It should give you a few minutes."
She had to turn back and look at Naruto as he said this. Was he trying to sacrifice himself once more just to save a few lives? While she understood the logic that had to be running through the blonde's mind, she just couldn't figure out why he was ready to lay his life on the line for people he didn't know.
However, Teresa knew not to argue as he clenched in pain as another surge of powerful yoki began to go through him and quickly release more of her yoki to regenerate her hands quicker.
Priscilla looked at the two corpses of the hunters that were on her lance-like fingers before throwing them off with disgust written on her face. "How annoying... All of you actually plan on killing me?"
Seeing that Irene only bit her lip as she looked her in the eyes, Priscilla frowned before turning towards Irene. She wasn't sure why they were doing it, but she was not going to die so easily. "Sorry Irene, but I can't let that happen. I just want some guts to devour, that is all."
And with those words, Priscilla just seemingly disappeared from her vision. Even her Quick Sword could not save her as Priscilla appeared in front of her with her claymore already inches from her chest. Knowing it was the end; Irene closed her eyes and waited for the inevitable slice that would end her life.
But after a few seconds and not feeling it, she opened her eyes to see a black cloak with red clouds blocking her vision. It took her a few more seconds, but Irene realized what it was and looked up to see the young blonde man standing in front of her.
At first, she was confused at this as she could see that he was still clearly besides Teresa but she remembered the clone that he made for the girl and turned towards her to see it was no longer there. She wanted to tell the clone to guard the girl once more, but at the same time she was grateful that her life had just been spared.
"Woman," Naruto's clone spoke in an emotionless tone despite it seeing to fidget every few moments as if it was in pain, "Grab your arm and head over to the girl. Teresa will be joining you shortly and after she gets there, leave this place so taishou can go all out and regenerate his wound at the same time. The longer he has to wait, the more likely he is going to die from the wound."
Irene didn't hesitate to listen this time as she picked up her arm and began to limp towards the young girl. She wanted to argue, but even Teresa seemed to be ready to flee herself as she had reattached her hands to the point that they wouldn't fall off and was heading towards the young girl.
Knowing he still had to buy some time, the clone looked towards Priscilla before cracking his knuckles before its eyes turned gold and waited for the blue demon to make the first move.
Priscilla frowned as she looked at the young man. It didn't make sense that there was two of them, but she did not care. She was rather hungry from moving so much and if there was two of them, that meant there was more food for her to devour. With a single flap of her wings, she took off into the air and flew to him.
The clone was ready for this and jumped into the air just as Priscilla was on him before landing on her back. Pulling out a kunai from his pouch, he drove it in between her shoulder blades and held onto the handle tightly as Priscilla screamed in pain before she flew up into the sky, trying to get the clone off of her back.
Hanging on for dear life as Priscilla began to spin rapidly, the clone held on despite become extremely dizzy. Knowing the awakened being was in a panic, the clone began to charge up for his originator’s signature technique as it began to gather chakra in the palm of its free hand.
Sensing this, Priscilla began to panic even more as she could feel the raw power beginning to build behind her. As she tried to reach behind her and grab the free loader, she couldn't get him as the clone weaver around her hands while keeping his grip firmly on the kunai driven into her back. Panicking even more as she spun while trying to grab him, she began to fly towards the ground as fast as she could before turning at the last second and slamming her back into the ground.
But she could still feel the power being gathered but she couldn't tell where it was coming from. Standing up, she looked into the crater to see that there was absolutely nothing in the crater before she caught whiff of his scent. He was above her making her look up to see the blonde clone falling straight at her with a dazzling blue orb glowing in its hand.
Despite the speed of the falling clone, Priscilla still managed to dodge and allow the clone to hit the ground causing a huge cloud of debris from the impact. But almost immediately, the dust kicked out towards her as the clone rushed towards her with the orb still glowing and becoming more powerful by the second.
Priscilla was even more frightened then before stretching her fingers out like lances to pierce through him and stop this insane charge. But Naruto's clone simply weaved around them without so much as being touched. The fear in her eyes became more obvious as the clone was just about on her when she flew up to try and get away from the blonde haired warrior.
But it just wasn't going to happen as the ground beneath the clone exploded as it jumped towards the airborne Priscilla and cried out the name of his technique as he thrusted it towards her head. "RASENGAN!"
Somehow, despite the position they were in, Priscilla managed to dodge. However, she did not dodge the attack. She dodged just enough to keep the technique from becoming fatal as it hit home into her stomach. Or so she thought.
In an instant, Priscilla's stomach was torn asunder and shredded across the ground beneath them as the Rasengan tore through her like paper, tearing her clean in two. The awakened girl's pain filled screams sounded out through the entire region as Naruto's clone traveled through the giant gap.
Both Irene and Teresa looked on in amazement and fright as they saw what the clone had done to the awakened Priscilla. While the power of the technique was astonishing, what was more remarkable was that the clone, which they doubted was as strong as the original, was able to not only keep up with Priscilla; it had just delivered a fatal blow to the awakened being.
That is what they thought when thousands of tendrils shot out from both the torso and from the legs, ripping through the clone as if it wasn't there at all. The clone disappeared into a plum of smoke as the tendrils threaded with each other as her yoki gushed out of her wounds, reforming her stomach almost instantly.
All eyes were on Priscilla as this happened, none more so then Naruto. At first he was sure that it was regeneration, but he knew it wasn't. It reminded him of when Kyuubi's yoki suddenly surged through his system as it would heal almost any wound, no matter how fatal it could be.
Growling as this got even more complicated; he looked over to see that Irene and Teresa hadn't fled as he asked. He could feel his third tail had came just as his clone was destroyed but now he was teetering on unleashing his forth tail. He now did have control of it, but he knew Kyuubi still had more yoki on the way. It was reminded him way too much of the feeling he had when he believe Pein to have killed Hinata.
"I think it is time to go." Irene spoke out loud, trying not to sound too nervous as she looked up at Priscilla.
Teresa could only nod in agreement as she looked up at Priscilla. Even now, she was sure she could not defeat the awakened being without awakening herself now that the full extent of her yoki was on display. If she didn't know any better, she was sure that they had witnessed the birth of a new Abyssal.
As she was about to reach down and pick up Clare, Priscilla's gaze fell on them, more importantly, Clare. "Hm... Maybe I should consume that girl's innards before going after his. He is becoming... Troublesome."
Both warriors tensed as they heard this and Teresa turned to pick up Clare when Priscilla was suddenly in-between them and had knocked away both her and Irene.
Hitting the ground nearly thirty meters away, Teresa looked up without caring about the pain she was in to see Priscilla reaching down to the young girl. Fear gripped her heart, not unlike what she felt a few weeks ago and she attempted to get up only to find her legs immobile. "CLARE!"
As panic began to take over, she tried to will her legs to move but her legs wouldn't budge. Trying to figure out what happened, she turned around to see her legs had been taken off and a woman with reddish-brown hair stood behind her, smiling as she watched what happened.
Clare looked up in fright at the blue skinned demon as she looked down at her hungrily. Her entire body shivered as she looked into Priscilla's eyes, not sure what to do as the creature's hand crept towards her.
Naruto's entire mind set had changed as he saw both Irene and Teresa be separated from Clare. He was only trying to get them out of there so he could go all out, but now there was nothing more important then to protect the young girl he had given his grandmother's necklace to.
He would no let her be devoured by this creature. No, not after he had just found someone who was deserving of that necklace. He was no going to let her die.
Red yoki exploded around him, tearing the ground out from underneath him and forming a massive crater. The yoki formed a giant sphere around ten meters wide with a column of yoki reaching twenty to thirty meters high as the ground that was torn away by the explosion of yoki spiraled around the great sphere.
And finally, a great, demonic roar filled everyone's ears and their heart with fear as the power was unlike anything they had ever felt before. The only one that was not fazed was Priscilla as she went to rip Clare's guts out of her stomach just as the green stone on her chest began to glow.
Priscilla suddenly pulled her hand back as it began to wither as a light green aura surrounded Clare as the green stone shone brightly, as if it was reacting to something. But what, the young awakened being could not understand when she began to sense the great surge and turned to see what it could be.
And where she turned, the sphere had fallen to reveal a humanoid fox bathed in a dark, crimson yoki with six tails flailing behind it. Her eyes widened as she suddenly felt dwarfed by the yoki creature as what seemed to be bones began to form, creating a fox-like skeleton surrounding the creature.
"Grrrr..." Naruto growled as he looked at Priscilla with his hollow white eyes. His attention was only on the awakened being and nothing else. He didn't even care that the young girl was beside the monster. He just wanted to destroy the creature before it could cause him any harm.
Without warning, Naruto leapt towards Priscilla with his claw extending towards her. Priscilla jumped to the side as Naruto landed and the dirt kicked up into Clare's face before he swung around and slashed at the awakened being again as one of his tail wildly swung towards Clare.
It never connected as Clare suddenly found herself swept of her feet and a good twenty meters away from Naruto and Priscilla. Looking up, she expected to see Teresa but was shocked to see it was the elf-like woman that had rescued her. She wasn't sure what to think when Irene let her down and looked over towards Teresa with wide eyes.
"No way... It can't be." Irene muttered in fear as she looked at the same woman that had intervened and kept Teresa from jumping in to save Clare. "Luciela of the South..."
The brunette only chuckled at Irene's response as she walked away from Teresa before turning her attention to the battle. Her smile only widened even more as she paid particularly close attention to the battle, her eyes focusing on only one of the combatants.
Neither Naruto nor Priscilla noticed this new presence as they were focused on one another. Naruto lunged towards Priscilla once more and this time caught her with a slash as she tried to defend herself.
Priscilla managed to block the claw with her hand but only felt her hand begin to burn for her trouble. She still held on as she raised her other hand and shot lances into him, only for Naruto to bring his other arm in front of him, using the bones to block the lances before he swiped at her stomach.
Jumping back, Priscilla hissed as he had pierced her skin once more but to make things worse, the gashes he had given her had burnt his flesh. Her yoki pouring out of the wounds still healed the damage that was done, but it was much slower then it was before.
Seeing this, Naruto didn't waste a second as he roared loudly at her when yoki suddenly began to concentrate and form in front of him. Within seconds, it burst sending a wave of yoki towards the awakened Priscilla.
She attempted to move out of the wave, but a shockwave had been created from the burst and caught her wings. This knocked her off balance and allowed the yoki burst to consume her left leg, the bottom half of her left torso and a portion of her lower left wing.
Screaming in pain, Priscilla stumbled forwards when Naruto lunged at her once more. She was only able to roll out of the way but the claws of bone caught her left arm and severed it without any trouble.
Knowing she had to get out of there otherwise this creature would destroy her, she jumped forward thanks to her still working wings and dodged another swipe, this one aimed for her head. To her misfortune, or possible fortune, she got behind Naruto with the roll and was hit by a few of his flailing and was knocked back, skidding across the ground but gaining distance from the demon fox.
Releasing more of her yoki, her wounds slowly began to heal as Naruto turned towards her and roared once more before lunging at her. Her healing arm suddenly burst forward and her flesh wrapped around Naruto and with a great pulse of yoki, in constricted around him, crushing the bones like they were nothing.
Naruto roared in pain as the flesh constricted around him tightly. He tried to squirm his way out of her grip, but it didn't seem to be working as it began to become harder and harder to breath. The yoki surround him, while keeping him from shattering like a twig from the pressure was causing difficulty breathing for the protection it was granting.
His tails were wildly thrashing about and cutting some of the flesh, but were not doing enough to get him free. He bit at what was in front of him to try and free himself, but all his efforts seemed to be useless when salvation came in the form of more yoki.
Receiving even more yoki from the fox, Naruto knew what to do as he roared once more and the yoki began to concentrate in front of him once more. But unlike last time, it continued to concentrate in front of him for longer and longer, gathering more strength by the second as his lights began to dim. But he continued waiting until it was the right moment before releasing the yoki in front of him.
The blast incinerated the flesh binding in front of him and traveled towards the stunned Priscilla. But once more, Priscilla avoided the blast as she flew into the air, her leg and torso now fully recovered.
This turned to be a bad thing as something wrapped around the bottom of her foot as the yoki blast hit the ground beneath her and exploded. Looking down, she saw a brunette with yoki filling her system to the brim and two long, cat like tails gripping her newly healed leg. Priscilla's eyes widened as she tried to fly away, but found herself thrown into the ground.
"Now, now. I can't let you live after seeing your power." Priscilla heard the woman's voice as the tails released her leg and slithered back underneath the long dress connected to a long golden chain that hung loosely on her shoulders and chest.
Priscilla was frightened even more, not sure where this new person had come from and the power she held was incredible. And with the yoki fox closing in once more, she had to get out of there before her life perished. She could feed later. She just had to survive for now.
With a single flap, she blew past the woman before she could even grab her and took off towards the northern mountains.
"Wow. That one is powerful and fast. Hm... Seems to be heading towards Easley. Eh, I'll let him deal with her then." Luciela whistled to herself before she noticed that the one she was paying attention to was about to chase after the blue demon.
She did not allow this to happen as she wrapped her two tails around his feet just as he jumped after her. The result was Naruto smashing into the ground and creating a massive crater while Luciela hissed and let go of his feet and her tails returned to her. "Ow... You stretched my tails."
Naruto's attention turned to the woman that had stopped him from chasing after his target. Growling at her, he turned his entire attention to her before releasing a loud roar and disappearing from view.
Luciela simply jumped into the air as the ground beneath her exploded as Naruto reappeared with his claw striking the ground. Soon as she landed, she back flipped out of another claw strike, having her two tails smack Naruto in the face and keeping him away as she put some distance between them.
Landing, Luciela smiled and put her hand on her waist as she gazed towards the figure in front of her. "Now stop that. You've already proven that you are worthy to be mine. There is no reason to attack me."
His white eyes gazed at her for a moment, as if he was trying to recognize her before he bellowed again. However, this one created a shockwave forcing everyone to shield themselves as his bone fragments began to gather and reform around him.
Watching in fascination, Luciela was getting excited to see such power in action. She was not a fool and knew she could not match it herself; she just wanted to see more of it as the power seemed to be hypnotic to her. "Hm, maybe testing you myself isn't too horrible of an idea after all. Now show me more of that power!"
Growling as his the skeleton of the fox was complete once more, Naruto raced towards her as the ground broke beneath his feet. But once again, his opponent easily dodged him as he came in and slashed at her. Getting irritated, he thrusted one of his claws towards her despite the distance between them and watched it stretched towards her.
Luciela was not expecting the claw to extend towards her and as quickly as it did. But she was an Abyssal one and had despite the unknown element of his abilities, she knew exactly what to do. Ducking underneath the claw, she ran towards the blonde knowing it to be pointless to try and grab the yoki having seen what it did to Priscilla.
But to her surprise, as soon as she got to him Naruto had charged for another blast. He had predicted this move and had baited her in to think he was defenseless. As the yoki began to pulse, she released her yoki in a great amount and disappear almost immediately as the ground she was previous at was obliterated.
Soon as she reappeared, she stood erect as yoki began releasing from every pore in her body. She knew she should have thought it through about provoking the six tailed demon, but she wanted to see more of his power. However, it was a bad decision as he seemed to think she was an enemy and wanted to erase her existence from the face of the earth. That was one thing she could not let happen.
"I guess I should have known better. I'm playing with fire after all..." Luciela sighed to herself before her very visage began to change as her yoki exploded around her.
But she suddenly halted her flow as she noticed the fox began to stagger around and trip over its own feet. At first she was surprise by this before she realized what was happening. "Ah, you aren't adjusted to using so much of your power for so long."
Looking over towards her, Naruto growled at her words but couldn't do a thing to prove the wrong. Kyuubi's yoki was leaving him in a hurry and it was quite painful. He had reached his limit and the fox was taking back his power not wanting to break down his tenant's body from the pressure of his yoki.
As the yoki began to fade from around him, Naruto's image became visible once more. It looked like he had seen better days, but overall, he was alright. However, he was dead tired and the stress of Kyuubi's yoki did not help.
Falling to his knees, he began to pant heavily as the entire world spun around him madly. He had a powerful migraine that made the spinning of the world even worse and every single sound made only made him shudder in pain as it felt like his head was about to split in two.
Despite the agony he was in, he knew there was someone next to him and he wasn't sure who it was. Hell, his senses were completely useless at the moment as every time he tried to get a hold of himself, he lost control and everything became a blur once more. He cursed at this, but knew that this was going to happen after he released the fox's power.
As his vision began to darken, Naruto tried to fight himself to his feet but it seemed like he was fighting an uphill battle. But to his surprise, he was suddenly lifted off the ground entirely by the collar of his cloak. He didn't like the feeling, but he really couldn't do anything against it as he didn't have a handle on what was going on at the moment.
"Well, you are coming home with me. I could use a strong man like you at my side and finally break the balance of power between me and the others." He heard a woman's voice.
Never hearing the voice before, he was unsure what was going to happen now. He swore he could hear Teresa and Clare, but he couldn't make them out as his eyes flickered before they finally shut. He couldn't starve off unconsciousness any longer and fell into a deep sleep.
Seeing this, Luciela began to release her yoki once more, getting ready to go home, when Teresa stepped in front of her with her claymore drawn. Looking at the Claymore oddly, Luciela only shrugged her shoulders as she did not deem the woman a threat at the moment. She could tell if the woman was at peek condition, she would have to worry but as of now, she was the stronger of the two.
"Let go of him!" Teresa growled as she stepped in front of the Abyssal of the south, unafraid of what could happen. Despite the hopelessness of the situation, she believed that recovering Naruto was still a possibility.
Luciela gaffed at the warrior's statement. She wanted her, Luciela of the South, to let go of her prize. "That is not going to happen. I've laid claim to him soon as I felt his presence. It isn't often a human has the power of demons and not only that, have power that surpasses our own. He is a great find and may be what I need to rule these lands."
Teresa knew that she wasn't going to reason with the Abyssal one. In fact, she could tell that the awakened being didn't even fear her as of now. There was some hesitation; however, it was not there any longer. Luciela knew that she wasn't ready for another fight and could defeat her with ease.
Still, she prided herself on her abilities and even if she could not win this fight, it was possible for her to get Naruto out of her clutches and escape with Clare and Irene. With a quick burst of her yoki, she lashed out toward Luciela.
But to her dismay, Luciela simply disappeared and had taken Naruto with her and was no where to be seen.
Falling to her knees, Teresa dropped her claymore before driving her fist into the ground. She could not keep her end of the bargain and therefore not only failed the blonde, but herself. After punching the ground a few more times, Teresa slowly stood up as Irene and Clare walked besides her.
"Irene... You can go now. You know as well as I do you cannot completely your mission now." Teresa commented darkly as she picked up her claymore and sheathed it as she looked forward.
"I would go back... But they would execute me on the spot for failing to take your head and allowing Priscilla to awaken. ...And to be honest, I rather like where my head is. And you know as well as I do that they will train warriors to take us out easily. So maybe we can join forces to take care of anything they throw our way." Irene countered back as she stood besides Teresa.
Teresa didn't bother to respond to Irene as she knew that it was the truth. Instead, she searched for the faintest trace of either Naruto's or Luciela's yoki. After a full minute, she felt a small tug on her hand and looked down to see Clare looking up at her in worry.
For once, Teresa could not smile at the young girl. Instead, she simply reached down and lifted the girl onto her chest and held her tightly as she found a small trace of yoki in the distance and was going to follow it.
As she was about to do so, she stopped before glancing in Irene's direction. "Follow me if you want, Irene. I don't care either way. I have a job to finish."
Irene looked at Teresa for a moment as she began to walk away before walking after her, walking at her side. But after a few moment of silence, which Irene didn't mind too much, she had to speak. "So what is so important that you're traveling deeper into the south?"
Teresa's reply was simple, but it stopped Irene in her tracks as the words echoed in her mind.
"I'm going after Luciela of the South."
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Priscilla was unsure what to think as she felt an overwhelming, yet intoxicating power fill her system. It felt like nothing she had ever felt before and she was sure that there wasn't a single being that could challenge her now.
All of her clothes had been shred showing her crystal blue skin that shone brightly in the sun's light and seemed to be almost reflecting the light making it difficult to look straight at her. She had gold plates covering her ribs and above her now much larger breasts.
She had a large horn that grew from her head and curved towards the sky and brought attention to her face, more particularly her still beast-like silver eyes. She had a set of upper wings and lower wings that were covered a light red skin-like material allowing her the capacity to fly and very quickly.
Her muscles no longer bulged as they were fully developed and she towered everyone there by a few heads at least and that only added to the menacing figure standing before Teresa.
"There was no reason to hold back... This feels so wonderful." Priscilla commented as the power flowing through her veins made her feel unbelievable.
But as soon as she said this, she felt her stomach growl and a hunger unlike any before she had ever felt. The troubling thing was that she knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted guts and not just any kind of guts. She wanted human guts.
Her eyes fell onto the blonde haired teen with some of his guts spilt onto the ground. The smell was so enticing that she couldn't help but start walking over towards him. "Mhm... His entrails smell so good. I must feed on them while he still alive so they won't loose its flavor."
It wasn't often when Teresa felt like this. In fact, the only two times she could remember that she had felt like this was when she had left Clare behind in a mountain village before bandits attacked and when she felt the yoki release from the blonde that was lying in his own blood pool in front of her.
Bishou no Teresa was afraid.
She had never felt such a hopeless situation like this before as she looked towards the blue skinned demon as she slowly began to walk in her direction. Her hands had been sliced off and it would take her some time to reattach them, it being harder due to the fact that she had no way to keep the hands steady while reattaching them.
To add on top of that, the blonde she had been only traveling with for a single day had just sacrificed himself to protect her. She could also tell that Irene, Noel and Sophia were there as well, but after beating them down in the town they had absolutely no chance in surviving if they went to attack the newly awakened warrior without her presence in the fight.
For the first time in her life, Teresa knew that there was almost no chance for her to survive and to make things worse, Clare was still within the area. But she had to wonder why Naruto's clone was still standing next to the young girl after what had happened to the true Naruto and why it wasn't getting her out of there.
Coughing caught her attention and her eyes instantly feel onto Naruto as he blood was splattering onto the ground after each and every cough. Crawling over to him, Teresa laid her stump of a right arm on his back to try help him in anyway she could. However, when he batted her limb away, her eyes widened as he lifted his head and red yoki began to surround his body.
"Stay away from me!" Naruto growled out as his face began to turn feral-like as his eyes turned crimson. "I'm fine! Get yourself and Clare out of here now!"
Teresa couldn't help but began to shake once more as felt the horrible yoki but this time she was up close to feel how powerful it truly was. But with one good look at Naruto, she instantly began to realize he wasn't using the yoki for combat. He was trying to use it to close up and heal his wound; however, it seemed to be difficult as the yoki was trying to release itself.
He wasn't the only one to sense this as Irene, Noel and Sophia landed next to them. They were torn by which one they were more afraid of in Priscilla or Naruto, but they kept their focus on the awakened being as Naruto was still injured and therefore, not a major threat.
Giving Naruto a quick look, Irene had to wonder if the organization was trying experiments on males once again as there was no doubt in her mind that this blonde was one of them. However, his yoki was far more potent then anything she had felt before and was truly frightened that they had not even heard of the organization doing this.
Putting that aside for now, she looked over at Teresa before dropping her claymore and her hands that Priscilla had severed in front of the former number one. "Reattached them as fast as possible because we need your help. As of now, Priscilla is the biggest threat here and we can deal with your treachery later."
Turning her attention back to Naruto and seeing the amount of blood flow beginning to seize, Irene looked back at Priscilla before speaking in a rather stoic voice despite the situation. "Concentrate on your stomach wound for now. If we can't hold her off long enough for either of you to recover, get out of here."
Naruto growled lightly in his throat as more and more of the demon fox's yoki flooded into his system. He knew the fox was just trying to heal his wound, but the fox could also sense the threat outside and wanted Naruto healed as fast as possible and battle ready so he could take care of this threat to their lives.
He was restraining it as much as he could but each second he did, the more likely it became that the wound he was inflicted with would be fatal. However, if the others weren't around he wouldn't need to restrain it and unleash the fox's devastation onto this creature without worry of injuring the innocent. But if they didn't leave soon, he would either die or be forced to unleash it anyways and hoped they were fast enough to get away.
Growling deeply, Naruto gave Irene a death glare as the red yoki around him bubbled and slowly began to take the shape of the demon within. "No! Just get out of here! If you do, I can unleash my full force..."
"Don't push yourself. This is our job... To eradicate any and every yoma from this world. Just concentrate on healing, douche." Noel interrupted Naruto before giving him a pissed glare as a small amount of blood was still pouring from the chest wound he had delivered to her.
Teresa knew something was wrong with Naruto as he was trying to get everyone out of the area. She could tell, unlike the others, that he was restraining his yoki with all his might and despite that it was still coming and quickly. If she could guess, he wouldn't be able to hold on after a few more minutes as his wound was not healing quick enough and he would either die or he would be forced to release as much as he could.
"Irene... Listen to him and get out of..." Teresa tried to say but none of them listened as they headed towards Priscilla.
She cursed at this as she placed her bloody stumps onto to their correct hands and began releasing more of her yoki. Unlike the three, she planned on getting her hands reattached and getting Clare out of danger. She knew the depths of the power Naruto was releasing and did not want to be around to see how much he would have to release to heal himself from the grievous wound he was given. She only hoped that he wouldn't lose control of himself.
Irene was the first to leap towards Priscilla with her claymore aimed for the awakened’s wings to try and limit her new abilities. She didn't even get close as Priscilla simply turned and as if on accident, her claymore sliced through her left arm before she was able to put her blade in front to block it and keeping more damage from being done. However, the contact of the swords knocked Irene back and skidding against the ground.
Panting as blood began to pour from the remainder of her arm, Irene's silver eyes sparkled darkly as her veins began to pulse in her face and throughout her body. She wasn't going to give up so easily and allow herself to beaten handily a second time in one day.
Priscilla looked at Irene oddly for a moment as she didn't understand why she just attempted to attack her. However, she quickly put that behind her as she noticed the condition of the elf-like woman, mainly the bleeding stump where her arm use to be. "Hello Irene... It seems that you are missing an arm. What did you do with it?"
Irene gave Priscilla a dark glare as she began to concentrate as much of her yoki as she could into her right arm, getting ready to strike when Priscilla reached down and picked her severed arm off the ground before throwing it to her. "Ah! Here it is, Irene. You shouldn't leave something as important as your arm lying around."
As soon as Priscilla threw the arm, both Noel and Sophia appeared besides with their claymores arching towards her neck. Despite being caught off guard by the attack, Priscilla still managed to block Sophia's strike with her claymore while she allowed Noel to sever her arm.
It didn't stay severed, to their misfortune. Her own flesh and blood seemed to become tendrils and reattach the arm that Noel had severed within seconds.
Having never seen anything like this before, both Noel and Sophia were caught off guard and were not prepared for Priscilla's fingers to turn into lances as they pierced through their flesh, but more importantly, through their head and heart.
Irene looked on in dread as she watched both women's bodies suddenly become limp. She needed both of them to even stay in this fight and Priscilla had gotten rid of them as if they were just cannon fodder. It also wasn't too reinsuring that there had barely any time to pass by meaning that neither Teresa nor the young man had enough time to recover from their wounds.
Teresa cursed as she knew there wasn't going to be enough time to fully reattach her hands. Hell, she doubted that there was going to be enough time for her to get to Clare and get her out of there.
Turning to Naruto, her face fell as the blonde seemed to in great pain as he restrained the yoki around him and was failing. But now, she could see clearly the form the yoki was making as a second tail began to form. It looked like that of a fox.
A fox with multiple tails? She knew she had heard something about that before, but she did not remember where.
Shaking her head of that, she focused on her hands once more to make sure that they were at least attached enough to work correctly. She cursed as her left hand fell off meaning that it had not healed over correctly meaning she was going to have to do it again. The only problem was that there wasn't much time.
"Teresa..." Naruto's darkening voice caught her attention as she began to regenerate the fibers that held her hand to her arm. "Once you're finished with your hands... Get that woman and Clare out of here... I'm going to buy some time with my clone. It should give you a few minutes."
She had to turn back and look at Naruto as he said this. Was he trying to sacrifice himself once more just to save a few lives? While she understood the logic that had to be running through the blonde's mind, she just couldn't figure out why he was ready to lay his life on the line for people he didn't know.
However, Teresa knew not to argue as he clenched in pain as another surge of powerful yoki began to go through him and quickly release more of her yoki to regenerate her hands quicker.
Priscilla looked at the two corpses of the hunters that were on her lance-like fingers before throwing them off with disgust written on her face. "How annoying... All of you actually plan on killing me?"
Seeing that Irene only bit her lip as she looked her in the eyes, Priscilla frowned before turning towards Irene. She wasn't sure why they were doing it, but she was not going to die so easily. "Sorry Irene, but I can't let that happen. I just want some guts to devour, that is all."
And with those words, Priscilla just seemingly disappeared from her vision. Even her Quick Sword could not save her as Priscilla appeared in front of her with her claymore already inches from her chest. Knowing it was the end; Irene closed her eyes and waited for the inevitable slice that would end her life.
But after a few seconds and not feeling it, she opened her eyes to see a black cloak with red clouds blocking her vision. It took her a few more seconds, but Irene realized what it was and looked up to see the young blonde man standing in front of her.
At first, she was confused at this as she could see that he was still clearly besides Teresa but she remembered the clone that he made for the girl and turned towards her to see it was no longer there. She wanted to tell the clone to guard the girl once more, but at the same time she was grateful that her life had just been spared.
"Woman," Naruto's clone spoke in an emotionless tone despite it seeing to fidget every few moments as if it was in pain, "Grab your arm and head over to the girl. Teresa will be joining you shortly and after she gets there, leave this place so taishou can go all out and regenerate his wound at the same time. The longer he has to wait, the more likely he is going to die from the wound."
Irene didn't hesitate to listen this time as she picked up her arm and began to limp towards the young girl. She wanted to argue, but even Teresa seemed to be ready to flee herself as she had reattached her hands to the point that they wouldn't fall off and was heading towards the young girl.
Knowing he still had to buy some time, the clone looked towards Priscilla before cracking his knuckles before its eyes turned gold and waited for the blue demon to make the first move.
Priscilla frowned as she looked at the young man. It didn't make sense that there was two of them, but she did not care. She was rather hungry from moving so much and if there was two of them, that meant there was more food for her to devour. With a single flap of her wings, she took off into the air and flew to him.
The clone was ready for this and jumped into the air just as Priscilla was on him before landing on her back. Pulling out a kunai from his pouch, he drove it in between her shoulder blades and held onto the handle tightly as Priscilla screamed in pain before she flew up into the sky, trying to get the clone off of her back.
Hanging on for dear life as Priscilla began to spin rapidly, the clone held on despite become extremely dizzy. Knowing the awakened being was in a panic, the clone began to charge up for his originator’s signature technique as it began to gather chakra in the palm of its free hand.
Sensing this, Priscilla began to panic even more as she could feel the raw power beginning to build behind her. As she tried to reach behind her and grab the free loader, she couldn't get him as the clone weaver around her hands while keeping his grip firmly on the kunai driven into her back. Panicking even more as she spun while trying to grab him, she began to fly towards the ground as fast as she could before turning at the last second and slamming her back into the ground.
But she could still feel the power being gathered but she couldn't tell where it was coming from. Standing up, she looked into the crater to see that there was absolutely nothing in the crater before she caught whiff of his scent. He was above her making her look up to see the blonde clone falling straight at her with a dazzling blue orb glowing in its hand.
Despite the speed of the falling clone, Priscilla still managed to dodge and allow the clone to hit the ground causing a huge cloud of debris from the impact. But almost immediately, the dust kicked out towards her as the clone rushed towards her with the orb still glowing and becoming more powerful by the second.
Priscilla was even more frightened then before stretching her fingers out like lances to pierce through him and stop this insane charge. But Naruto's clone simply weaved around them without so much as being touched. The fear in her eyes became more obvious as the clone was just about on her when she flew up to try and get away from the blonde haired warrior.
But it just wasn't going to happen as the ground beneath the clone exploded as it jumped towards the airborne Priscilla and cried out the name of his technique as he thrusted it towards her head. "RASENGAN!"
Somehow, despite the position they were in, Priscilla managed to dodge. However, she did not dodge the attack. She dodged just enough to keep the technique from becoming fatal as it hit home into her stomach. Or so she thought.
In an instant, Priscilla's stomach was torn asunder and shredded across the ground beneath them as the Rasengan tore through her like paper, tearing her clean in two. The awakened girl's pain filled screams sounded out through the entire region as Naruto's clone traveled through the giant gap.
Both Irene and Teresa looked on in amazement and fright as they saw what the clone had done to the awakened Priscilla. While the power of the technique was astonishing, what was more remarkable was that the clone, which they doubted was as strong as the original, was able to not only keep up with Priscilla; it had just delivered a fatal blow to the awakened being.
That is what they thought when thousands of tendrils shot out from both the torso and from the legs, ripping through the clone as if it wasn't there at all. The clone disappeared into a plum of smoke as the tendrils threaded with each other as her yoki gushed out of her wounds, reforming her stomach almost instantly.
All eyes were on Priscilla as this happened, none more so then Naruto. At first he was sure that it was regeneration, but he knew it wasn't. It reminded him of when Kyuubi's yoki suddenly surged through his system as it would heal almost any wound, no matter how fatal it could be.
Growling as this got even more complicated; he looked over to see that Irene and Teresa hadn't fled as he asked. He could feel his third tail had came just as his clone was destroyed but now he was teetering on unleashing his forth tail. He now did have control of it, but he knew Kyuubi still had more yoki on the way. It was reminded him way too much of the feeling he had when he believe Pein to have killed Hinata.
"I think it is time to go." Irene spoke out loud, trying not to sound too nervous as she looked up at Priscilla.
Teresa could only nod in agreement as she looked up at Priscilla. Even now, she was sure she could not defeat the awakened being without awakening herself now that the full extent of her yoki was on display. If she didn't know any better, she was sure that they had witnessed the birth of a new Abyssal.
As she was about to reach down and pick up Clare, Priscilla's gaze fell on them, more importantly, Clare. "Hm... Maybe I should consume that girl's innards before going after his. He is becoming... Troublesome."
Both warriors tensed as they heard this and Teresa turned to pick up Clare when Priscilla was suddenly in-between them and had knocked away both her and Irene.
Hitting the ground nearly thirty meters away, Teresa looked up without caring about the pain she was in to see Priscilla reaching down to the young girl. Fear gripped her heart, not unlike what she felt a few weeks ago and she attempted to get up only to find her legs immobile. "CLARE!"
As panic began to take over, she tried to will her legs to move but her legs wouldn't budge. Trying to figure out what happened, she turned around to see her legs had been taken off and a woman with reddish-brown hair stood behind her, smiling as she watched what happened.
Clare looked up in fright at the blue skinned demon as she looked down at her hungrily. Her entire body shivered as she looked into Priscilla's eyes, not sure what to do as the creature's hand crept towards her.
Naruto's entire mind set had changed as he saw both Irene and Teresa be separated from Clare. He was only trying to get them out of there so he could go all out, but now there was nothing more important then to protect the young girl he had given his grandmother's necklace to.
He would no let her be devoured by this creature. No, not after he had just found someone who was deserving of that necklace. He was no going to let her die.
Red yoki exploded around him, tearing the ground out from underneath him and forming a massive crater. The yoki formed a giant sphere around ten meters wide with a column of yoki reaching twenty to thirty meters high as the ground that was torn away by the explosion of yoki spiraled around the great sphere.
And finally, a great, demonic roar filled everyone's ears and their heart with fear as the power was unlike anything they had ever felt before. The only one that was not fazed was Priscilla as she went to rip Clare's guts out of her stomach just as the green stone on her chest began to glow.
Priscilla suddenly pulled her hand back as it began to wither as a light green aura surrounded Clare as the green stone shone brightly, as if it was reacting to something. But what, the young awakened being could not understand when she began to sense the great surge and turned to see what it could be.
And where she turned, the sphere had fallen to reveal a humanoid fox bathed in a dark, crimson yoki with six tails flailing behind it. Her eyes widened as she suddenly felt dwarfed by the yoki creature as what seemed to be bones began to form, creating a fox-like skeleton surrounding the creature.
"Grrrr..." Naruto growled as he looked at Priscilla with his hollow white eyes. His attention was only on the awakened being and nothing else. He didn't even care that the young girl was beside the monster. He just wanted to destroy the creature before it could cause him any harm.
Without warning, Naruto leapt towards Priscilla with his claw extending towards her. Priscilla jumped to the side as Naruto landed and the dirt kicked up into Clare's face before he swung around and slashed at the awakened being again as one of his tail wildly swung towards Clare.
It never connected as Clare suddenly found herself swept of her feet and a good twenty meters away from Naruto and Priscilla. Looking up, she expected to see Teresa but was shocked to see it was the elf-like woman that had rescued her. She wasn't sure what to think when Irene let her down and looked over towards Teresa with wide eyes.
"No way... It can't be." Irene muttered in fear as she looked at the same woman that had intervened and kept Teresa from jumping in to save Clare. "Luciela of the South..."
The brunette only chuckled at Irene's response as she walked away from Teresa before turning her attention to the battle. Her smile only widened even more as she paid particularly close attention to the battle, her eyes focusing on only one of the combatants.
Neither Naruto nor Priscilla noticed this new presence as they were focused on one another. Naruto lunged towards Priscilla once more and this time caught her with a slash as she tried to defend herself.
Priscilla managed to block the claw with her hand but only felt her hand begin to burn for her trouble. She still held on as she raised her other hand and shot lances into him, only for Naruto to bring his other arm in front of him, using the bones to block the lances before he swiped at her stomach.
Jumping back, Priscilla hissed as he had pierced her skin once more but to make things worse, the gashes he had given her had burnt his flesh. Her yoki pouring out of the wounds still healed the damage that was done, but it was much slower then it was before.
Seeing this, Naruto didn't waste a second as he roared loudly at her when yoki suddenly began to concentrate and form in front of him. Within seconds, it burst sending a wave of yoki towards the awakened Priscilla.
She attempted to move out of the wave, but a shockwave had been created from the burst and caught her wings. This knocked her off balance and allowed the yoki burst to consume her left leg, the bottom half of her left torso and a portion of her lower left wing.
Screaming in pain, Priscilla stumbled forwards when Naruto lunged at her once more. She was only able to roll out of the way but the claws of bone caught her left arm and severed it without any trouble.
Knowing she had to get out of there otherwise this creature would destroy her, she jumped forward thanks to her still working wings and dodged another swipe, this one aimed for her head. To her misfortune, or possible fortune, she got behind Naruto with the roll and was hit by a few of his flailing and was knocked back, skidding across the ground but gaining distance from the demon fox.
Releasing more of her yoki, her wounds slowly began to heal as Naruto turned towards her and roared once more before lunging at her. Her healing arm suddenly burst forward and her flesh wrapped around Naruto and with a great pulse of yoki, in constricted around him, crushing the bones like they were nothing.
Naruto roared in pain as the flesh constricted around him tightly. He tried to squirm his way out of her grip, but it didn't seem to be working as it began to become harder and harder to breath. The yoki surround him, while keeping him from shattering like a twig from the pressure was causing difficulty breathing for the protection it was granting.
His tails were wildly thrashing about and cutting some of the flesh, but were not doing enough to get him free. He bit at what was in front of him to try and free himself, but all his efforts seemed to be useless when salvation came in the form of more yoki.
Receiving even more yoki from the fox, Naruto knew what to do as he roared once more and the yoki began to concentrate in front of him once more. But unlike last time, it continued to concentrate in front of him for longer and longer, gathering more strength by the second as his lights began to dim. But he continued waiting until it was the right moment before releasing the yoki in front of him.
The blast incinerated the flesh binding in front of him and traveled towards the stunned Priscilla. But once more, Priscilla avoided the blast as she flew into the air, her leg and torso now fully recovered.
This turned to be a bad thing as something wrapped around the bottom of her foot as the yoki blast hit the ground beneath her and exploded. Looking down, she saw a brunette with yoki filling her system to the brim and two long, cat like tails gripping her newly healed leg. Priscilla's eyes widened as she tried to fly away, but found herself thrown into the ground.
"Now, now. I can't let you live after seeing your power." Priscilla heard the woman's voice as the tails released her leg and slithered back underneath the long dress connected to a long golden chain that hung loosely on her shoulders and chest.
Priscilla was frightened even more, not sure where this new person had come from and the power she held was incredible. And with the yoki fox closing in once more, she had to get out of there before her life perished. She could feed later. She just had to survive for now.
With a single flap, she blew past the woman before she could even grab her and took off towards the northern mountains.
"Wow. That one is powerful and fast. Hm... Seems to be heading towards Easley. Eh, I'll let him deal with her then." Luciela whistled to herself before she noticed that the one she was paying attention to was about to chase after the blue demon.
She did not allow this to happen as she wrapped her two tails around his feet just as he jumped after her. The result was Naruto smashing into the ground and creating a massive crater while Luciela hissed and let go of his feet and her tails returned to her. "Ow... You stretched my tails."
Naruto's attention turned to the woman that had stopped him from chasing after his target. Growling at her, he turned his entire attention to her before releasing a loud roar and disappearing from view.
Luciela simply jumped into the air as the ground beneath her exploded as Naruto reappeared with his claw striking the ground. Soon as she landed, she back flipped out of another claw strike, having her two tails smack Naruto in the face and keeping him away as she put some distance between them.
Landing, Luciela smiled and put her hand on her waist as she gazed towards the figure in front of her. "Now stop that. You've already proven that you are worthy to be mine. There is no reason to attack me."
His white eyes gazed at her for a moment, as if he was trying to recognize her before he bellowed again. However, this one created a shockwave forcing everyone to shield themselves as his bone fragments began to gather and reform around him.
Watching in fascination, Luciela was getting excited to see such power in action. She was not a fool and knew she could not match it herself; she just wanted to see more of it as the power seemed to be hypnotic to her. "Hm, maybe testing you myself isn't too horrible of an idea after all. Now show me more of that power!"
Growling as his the skeleton of the fox was complete once more, Naruto raced towards her as the ground broke beneath his feet. But once again, his opponent easily dodged him as he came in and slashed at her. Getting irritated, he thrusted one of his claws towards her despite the distance between them and watched it stretched towards her.
Luciela was not expecting the claw to extend towards her and as quickly as it did. But she was an Abyssal one and had despite the unknown element of his abilities, she knew exactly what to do. Ducking underneath the claw, she ran towards the blonde knowing it to be pointless to try and grab the yoki having seen what it did to Priscilla.
But to her surprise, as soon as she got to him Naruto had charged for another blast. He had predicted this move and had baited her in to think he was defenseless. As the yoki began to pulse, she released her yoki in a great amount and disappear almost immediately as the ground she was previous at was obliterated.
Soon as she reappeared, she stood erect as yoki began releasing from every pore in her body. She knew she should have thought it through about provoking the six tailed demon, but she wanted to see more of his power. However, it was a bad decision as he seemed to think she was an enemy and wanted to erase her existence from the face of the earth. That was one thing she could not let happen.
"I guess I should have known better. I'm playing with fire after all..." Luciela sighed to herself before her very visage began to change as her yoki exploded around her.
But she suddenly halted her flow as she noticed the fox began to stagger around and trip over its own feet. At first she was surprise by this before she realized what was happening. "Ah, you aren't adjusted to using so much of your power for so long."
Looking over towards her, Naruto growled at her words but couldn't do a thing to prove the wrong. Kyuubi's yoki was leaving him in a hurry and it was quite painful. He had reached his limit and the fox was taking back his power not wanting to break down his tenant's body from the pressure of his yoki.
As the yoki began to fade from around him, Naruto's image became visible once more. It looked like he had seen better days, but overall, he was alright. However, he was dead tired and the stress of Kyuubi's yoki did not help.
Falling to his knees, he began to pant heavily as the entire world spun around him madly. He had a powerful migraine that made the spinning of the world even worse and every single sound made only made him shudder in pain as it felt like his head was about to split in two.
Despite the agony he was in, he knew there was someone next to him and he wasn't sure who it was. Hell, his senses were completely useless at the moment as every time he tried to get a hold of himself, he lost control and everything became a blur once more. He cursed at this, but knew that this was going to happen after he released the fox's power.
As his vision began to darken, Naruto tried to fight himself to his feet but it seemed like he was fighting an uphill battle. But to his surprise, he was suddenly lifted off the ground entirely by the collar of his cloak. He didn't like the feeling, but he really couldn't do anything against it as he didn't have a handle on what was going on at the moment.
"Well, you are coming home with me. I could use a strong man like you at my side and finally break the balance of power between me and the others." He heard a woman's voice.
Never hearing the voice before, he was unsure what was going to happen now. He swore he could hear Teresa and Clare, but he couldn't make them out as his eyes flickered before they finally shut. He couldn't starve off unconsciousness any longer and fell into a deep sleep.
Seeing this, Luciela began to release her yoki once more, getting ready to go home, when Teresa stepped in front of her with her claymore drawn. Looking at the Claymore oddly, Luciela only shrugged her shoulders as she did not deem the woman a threat at the moment. She could tell if the woman was at peek condition, she would have to worry but as of now, she was the stronger of the two.
"Let go of him!" Teresa growled as she stepped in front of the Abyssal of the south, unafraid of what could happen. Despite the hopelessness of the situation, she believed that recovering Naruto was still a possibility.
Luciela gaffed at the warrior's statement. She wanted her, Luciela of the South, to let go of her prize. "That is not going to happen. I've laid claim to him soon as I felt his presence. It isn't often a human has the power of demons and not only that, have power that surpasses our own. He is a great find and may be what I need to rule these lands."
Teresa knew that she wasn't going to reason with the Abyssal one. In fact, she could tell that the awakened being didn't even fear her as of now. There was some hesitation; however, it was not there any longer. Luciela knew that she wasn't ready for another fight and could defeat her with ease.
Still, she prided herself on her abilities and even if she could not win this fight, it was possible for her to get Naruto out of her clutches and escape with Clare and Irene. With a quick burst of her yoki, she lashed out toward Luciela.
But to her dismay, Luciela simply disappeared and had taken Naruto with her and was no where to be seen.
Falling to her knees, Teresa dropped her claymore before driving her fist into the ground. She could not keep her end of the bargain and therefore not only failed the blonde, but herself. After punching the ground a few more times, Teresa slowly stood up as Irene and Clare walked besides her.
"Irene... You can go now. You know as well as I do you cannot completely your mission now." Teresa commented darkly as she picked up her claymore and sheathed it as she looked forward.
"I would go back... But they would execute me on the spot for failing to take your head and allowing Priscilla to awaken. ...And to be honest, I rather like where my head is. And you know as well as I do that they will train warriors to take us out easily. So maybe we can join forces to take care of anything they throw our way." Irene countered back as she stood besides Teresa.
Teresa didn't bother to respond to Irene as she knew that it was the truth. Instead, she searched for the faintest trace of either Naruto's or Luciela's yoki. After a full minute, she felt a small tug on her hand and looked down to see Clare looking up at her in worry.
For once, Teresa could not smile at the young girl. Instead, she simply reached down and lifted the girl onto her chest and held her tightly as she found a small trace of yoki in the distance and was going to follow it.
As she was about to do so, she stopped before glancing in Irene's direction. "Follow me if you want, Irene. I don't care either way. I have a job to finish."
Irene looked at Teresa for a moment as she began to walk away before walking after her, walking at her side. But after a few moment of silence, which Irene didn't mind too much, she had to speak. "So what is so important that you're traveling deeper into the south?"
Teresa's reply was simple, but it stopped Irene in her tracks as the words echoed in her mind.
"I'm going after Luciela of the South."
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