HEY GUYS! I'M BACK WITH THE PROMISED CHAPTER OF THIS STORY. IT'S SHORTER THAN I EXPECTED, BUT KNEW THAT I WOULD HAVE BORED YOU THOUGH ALL THE FIGHT IN WHICH, PRACTICALLY, ENDED JUST LIKE THE BOOK, SO I ONLY ADDED THE THINGS THAT I KNEW WERE DIFFERENT AND JUST MENTIONED THINGS LIKE THAT. ALTHOUGH IT ENDED LIKE IN THE BOOK, IS NOT THE SAME, FOR VERY OBVIOUS REASONS. SO... TO SUMS THINGS UP, IS SHORTER BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO BORED YOU GUYS WITH THE BATTLES SINCE IT MAY HAVE ENDED PRACTICALLY THE SAME AS IN THE BOOKS. BUT I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS CHAPTER
The Will of the Hunt
Naruto was floating away. The darkness that surrounded him flowed like water, bathing him with the waves that collided onto him. The starless night seemed unmoving, a never ending night upon him. No land around him making him unable to stand still. He had to let himself flow like the water that was this darkness.
The only thing that accompanied him was the memory of the moon, his mother. Oh, how he missed her. He should hate her, despise her... but even if he tried, he couldn't. He couldn't hate his mother. He always wanted one, to impress her and to receive her love was all he wanted.
"I... love you... mother... did I... made you... proud?"
"Yes, Naruto... You made me very proud"
Proud. He made her mother proud of him. Those words would've kept him going on if he hadn't lost too much blood from that sword that impaled in his chest. He wanted to be with her, wanted to hug her, but he couldn't. He was in this darkness. The darkness that flowed to who-knows-where, to seal his fate.
But then light appeared. He looked to the source of light a found it. A moon illuminated the darkness. The darkness faded into nothing revealing patches of grass around him. But as the scenery began to change to a prairie with some trees here and there, he kept his eyes on the moon.
The moon was his connection to his mother. Every time he got the chance to admire it, he just stared at it, forgetting everything else. The moon shone a bright dark blue a couple of time before the entire prairie shone brightly.
Naruto covered his eyes briefly. As he uncovered them he found out that he wasn't alone anymore.
A silver-white long haired woman was in front of him. Her hair was branded with flowers, lilies to be exact. A silver tiara with a crescent moon looking upwards adorned her head.. She also had a silver-blue dress that covered her entire figure apart from her arms. While on the right arm it got nothing, the left arm was chain that went in spirals from her shoulder towards her hand. This is Selene, another goddess of the moon.
Naruto knew everything about her, after all she was the one that gave his mother, Artemis, the title of Goddess of the Moon after all.
"My lady..." Naruto got on his knees, not wanting to bring her disrespect. The goddess smiled slightly at his respectful aura, in which was accentuated by her silver-blue lipstick she had on her mouth. She really liked that in a man.
"Come here Naruto..." With a wave of her hands, the moon shone slightly before a silver table appeared in front of him. Naruto moved the chair to sit down, and when he actually sat down and looked up front, she was already in her chair.
"Naruto" She said. Her voice calm but sweet. Powerful yet soft. "I'm giving you a chance to become my Champion. If you do..." She stopped for a moment to look at him, since she was playing with her hair. She watched as his eyes, in which were wide in shock, shine brightly. "I'll promise to you, in the River Styx, that I'll reunite you with your mother, Artemis"
A thunder sound was heard, but there was no lighting. Naruto eyes widen more than before as tears threatened to fall. He couldn't believe it! He would be able to see his mother once more!
"Thank... you..." His sobs out, able to thank the goddess in front of him. The feeling that he was feeling made the remaining darkness to disappeared completely. Selene looked at Naruto and smiled slightly as she stood up.
"Come to me Naruto" He stood up and did just that. He wanted to be with his mother. He would do whatever she said, after all... She promised it in the name of the River Styx. Selene grabbed with both her soft glittery hand his head and kissed his forehead, leaving a silver-blue kiss on his forehead.
He then suddenly began to glow a low silver-blue before it all concentrated in the kiss mark. The mark that she left on him began to morph into a crescent moon, the same one that the goddess' tiara had.
"Go Naruto! Let your arrow reach to the twilight!" He nodded as he started to glow and disappear with the moonlight that glowed over him.
"Save Olympus, my Champion..."
With Naruto
Naruto appeared in a forest. He looked around and noticed that it looked like the same forest that went towards Camp Half-Blood.
*BOOM* *BOOM*
He looked towards the booming sound, but couldn't see nothing. His confused looked didn't last long as the words that he managed to hear.
"LIL SIS! I KILL YOU ASSHOLE!"
He recognized that voice anywhere. It was Apollo, his uncle. And the only person he called like that was-.
He gasped at the sudden realization. His mother was in danger. He had to help her. "Lady Selene... serene as water and powerful as the earth, help me find my mother so that I may help her" A silver-blue mist appeared in front of him and started to move.
Realizing that the mist was going to reunite him with his mother, he followed it. "Don't worry mother, I'm coming"
With Artemis
Artemis groaned as she watched her father use his lighting bolt to hit Typhon, in which did little to no damage at all. She also saw her brother, Apollo, using his sun abilities to burn the monster, but not even burn marks appeared on his body.
With a roar of anger, the monster sent flying both said gods flying to a near mountain.
She kissed her teeth in anger as inchor fell down her mouth and head. Drawing her bow, she unleashed a powerful arrow in which pierced his arm, but it didn't even roared in pain. It only turned around to looked at who was done such damage to the monster.
The monster jump right at Artemis, but before he got even close to her, she heard.
"I am the bone of my bow. Steel is my body and fire my blood. I have known over a thousand bows, but only use one. Unknown to death nor known to life. Have withstood death to return to my bow. Yet those hand will never have blood So, as I pray..." Suddenly arrows filled with a silver aura fell from the sky and collided into Typhon's back. "Wolf's Twilight!" The arrows shone brightly thanks to the moonlight, and then-
*BOOM*
The explosion sent the monster back into the ground, making the earth shake.
Artemis watched as the one that had saved her was in front of her giving only view to his back, but when he turned around, it left her speechless.
It was her son... Her beautiful son that she knew that had died in her arms that fateful day. She started to tremble as she got up.
Naruto smiled at his mother. He expected this. It was like when you don't visit for a long time and suddenly arrive one day and surprise everyone.
"Naruto...?" Her voiced rippled into his ear. Ohh, how long he waited to hear her voice again. Her sweet motherly voice that he managed to hear on his last moment before dying.
"I'm here mom... I'm back" Those word snapped Artemis out of place and rushed at Naruto to give him a big hug. Tears fell from the mother/son duo. Ignoring that Ares was crushed by the monster's hand.
She couldn't believe it! Even though she was hugging him, she couldn't believe it! Her son was back! Her broken heart finally started to throb once more. Ever since that day, she couldn't feel her heart any longer. She was getting poorly in her hunt, got mad easier than before, and the sad look on her face didn't left her.
There wasn't even a real full moon during these years, obviously mortals, that weren't clear-sighted, imagined a full moon, but Gods, Demi-Gods and clear sighted humans started to notice that the moon was out.
They separated from each other what it seemed like hours, but in reality was only one minute.
"Let me help you mother" His hands glowed silver before resting them on her injuries which heal in a matter of seconds. "I'm going to Olympus to protect it. Survive this mother... For me, please" He added. His mother only nodded and kissed him on the mark on his forehead. She noticed it when he arrived, but let it go. She will ask him about it when this was over.
"Good luck my son" She said as she saw him disappear, leaving an after image. Her so was back... and she wasn't going to let him go again! Not this time! She needed to finish this faster! She rushed at Typhon with new strength in her body.
With Naruto
He quickly arrived at the front of the Empire State Building and quickly had a claw in front of him. So he bent backward making the claw passed over him. He noticed that the monster in front of him was the Nemean Lion. The legendary lion that only a few Demi-Gods have managed to kill. He remembered escaping from this creature before. He was a little when he saw one for the first time.
He grabbed his divine hunting knives. Forged by Hephaustus and blessed by Ares, these hunting knives were presents from Ares when he was younger. Being blessed by Ares was a big deal, as it made the weapon unbreakable and able to cut through anything. He had tested this when he sliced a minotaur's' head like it was nothing. No power nor strength behind the attack. just a swift slice. And being forged by Hephaustus was a plus, because every weapon or robot that he created received a blessing from him.
So his knives hold two blessing that made it stronger than any weapon in existence... Apart from the Gods' weapons and other divine weapons.
So twirling the knives in his hand, Naruto rushed at the lion and slashed his body. As predicted, slashes began to appear on the lion's not long after he stabs both knives onto the lion's brain does the lion fades into a golden dust. He sheathed them in their respectful sheaths.
This didn't even take much time as he thought it will go. He rushed towards the elevator, without even telling the man on the reception. He pressed a button that he knew that would show him to Olympus.
As soon as he arrived, he saw the boy, Percy if he remembered correctly, fighting against Kronos, his great grandfather... Yeah he would never see him like that.
Drawing an arrow into his bow, it glowed silver for a moment before the aura surrounding the arrow changed into a three-way spiral. Silver, red, and gray. Silver because of his mother, red because of Ares, and gray because of Hephaustus. It seemed that his bow was also a divine weapon...
He let the arrow fly towards it's prey, Kronos. And just as it was going to go through Kronos' head getting into his brain, it stopped in mid air. Kronos looked to the side and noticed the revived son of Artemis glaring at him.
"Come boy... This mortal has bored me" Mocking Naruto, Kronos made a 'come on' gesture, as Naruto sprinted towards him.
With Artemis
Artemis let out a roar as she kept summoning arrows to throw with her bow at Typhon. Ever since her son weakened the monster, it was easier for the gods to manage to back Typhon into a corner. Apollo had already started with the sealing so all the other had to do was keep Typhon still. The others were doing that, but Artemis kept launching arrows at the monster to make it weaker because of the lost of blood.
In seconds, Typhon was turning to stone and it wasn't because of the seal. She turned to see Athena with Medusa's head in hand. How ironic... The goddess that cursed her handmaiden using the power gained through said curse to defeat this monster. But if she had the head with her, why not use it earlier? Why not show it to him when they first appeared to face it?
And so that happens that Apollo asked her just that. Huh... how convenient.
"Annabeth gave me the head just now as a sacrifice... This way we'll be able to finish much faster and will be able to go towards New York and help the Demi-Gods" The goddess reasoned, making the other nod in acceptance. Artemis didn't let it eat at her. All she wanted was to talk with her baby... That's all.
With Naruto
*BOOM*
Naruto gasped in pain as he collided with a pillar that was in the Olympians'' Throne Room. His body was covered with bruises and slashes from Kronos' scythe. Kronos, however, had some bruises here and there, but the most prominent was the slash in his cheek that was left by one of Naruto's hunting knives.
"Impressive child of the moon" The titan praised the child of the moon. "Join me and I'll make you the strongest Demi-God ever!" The titan added.
"Fuck you!" Naruto cursed out making the titan frown at such vocabulary used against him. Don't get him wrong, he curses a lot... But when someone curse at him... It make him angry and a bit doubtful.
His frown twisted into an angry glare as Kronos with his scythe in hand began to charge at Naruto.
"You're dead mortal!" The titan yelled out as he brought down the scythe onto instead of hitting flesh, it hit metal. The hunting knives able to resist such strong impact from the scythe of the Titan of Harvest.
Naruto saw a crack in the blades of the two knives and sheathed them to later give them to Hephaustus since he could fix them.
He couldn't use his bow because the bow was on the other side of the room, so the only thing he could do was fight with his bare hands and he knew that it was a deadly idea. Trying to buy time, Naruto began to dodge each and every attack from the titan. He was tired and wanted to rest.
"Give up mortal, you won't win" Kronos said as he looked down on Naruto. Unfortunately he didn't noticed Annabeth creeping behind Kronos, in which by the way was using Luke's body, and grab a hold of him and stab her knife, a curse blade, in Luke's Achilles heel... his armpit. Roaring in rage was the last thing he could do before Kronos' essence within Luke's body was spread to the wind.
And just as Kronos was spread to the wind, Artemis appeared in a flash of silver.
"Naruto!" She rushed at her fallen son. The three Demi-Gods widen their eyes at the name and looked at him with happiness in their eyes.
"Good to have you back Naruto!"
"Good to be back Percy..."
Artemis then grabbed him and flashed towards her room in Olympus. He noticed that his mother's room was very simple with only a bed and desk as furniture. She had another room for her bows, but he didn't get to see them. How did he knew this? The door was labeled 'Bow Room'.
After getting Naruto into her bed, she gave her son a small smile in which was given back by him.
"I'll be back with Apollo, rest here. Please" Her moistened eyes shining pleadingly at her son. She didn't want to see him hurt for years if needed. He gave her a nod before closing his eyes and quickly falling asleep. She kissed his forehead before flashing away.
With the Fates
"It was written that he would be born"
"As well as that he will live and die"
"The prophecy made it for him to be revived"
"So enjoy your son Artemis... He'll be the next carrier of the Will of the Hunt"
Time Skip - With Naruto
Naruto was standing next to his mother and in front of the hunters, acting as their leader. Today was the annual game of Campers versus Hunters. With his bow on hand and his knives on their sheaths.
He was excited to fight, in a friendly manner, against the campers in which many were his friends. Especially Percy, he was his best friend. Looking at his mother, he saw her smile at his before disappearing in a flash to Olympus.
"The Will of the Hunt..." He murmured as he hold his bow tighter, making it glow in a silver aura. He's been told that he was going to be one of the few Demi-Gods that was going to be turned into a God, so said the Fates once they announced Naruto's fate.
Ironically, today was his last day as a Demi-God, so he wished to enjoy this game to the last.
"Hunters!" Each and every 'sister' including Zöe, looked at him. "May the Will of the Hunt guide you through this game... Let's award our mother with this victory that we'll accomplish!"
"Let the game between the Campers and Hunters, begin!"
A/N: I HOPED YOU LIKED THIS CHAPTER. IF YOU GUYS WISH TO BE BORED WITH THE BATTLES, LET ME KNOW IN THE REVIEWS. HOPEFULLY ILL BE ABLE TO UPDATE THIS CHAPTER WITH THE ENTIRE BATTLE SCENE (AT LEAST NARUTO VS. KRONOS). IF YOU NOTICED, I ADDED A BIT OF FATE/STAY INTO THIS. WANTED TO MAKE SELENE'S CHAMPION POWER HAVE SOMETHING LIKE A CHANT AND THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MIND WAS ARCHER'S CHNAT TO INVOKE 'UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS'. ANYWAYS HOPE YOU LIKE THIS. DON'T FORGET TO FOLLOW OR FAVORITE. REVIEW IS YOU LIKE THIS AND IF YOU WISHED TO SEE THE FULL BATTLE. AND I'LL SEE YOU GUYS NEXT TIME!
Zeckromizder, out!