Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x Rarity x Twilight x Fluttershy x Applejack x Pinkie Pie x Rainbow Dash x Ditzy x Luna x ? x ?

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For Normal Speech

Inner thoughts, Text read, Italics used to represent characters speaking in the different language.

Demonic rage, Demonic characters, Kurama Speak

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Story Start

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"Something...something's...wrong." Naruto murmured as they traveled through the passages of the temple. The stone passages were lined with roots and tree trunks that had seemed to grow amongst the temple. The masonry and stonework seemed to be perfectly integrated with the plants and trees sprouting around it, but Naruto couldn't shake the feeling coursing through him.

The trio had soon reached the end of the corridor and opened a wooden door, which opened into a vast central chamber. The room was lit by a quartet of torches, set around a platform in the center of the chamber.

Doorways and passages led out of the chamber in all direction, but all of them were shrouded in shadow, and an oppressive gloom hung over the entire chamber, an almost palpable sense of malevolence and evil. At the center of the room, Link saw a single diminutive figure pacing in the center of the torchlight, peering around the chamber restlessly, tapping his booted feet impatiently whenever he paused.

"Ah don't understand. This place doesn't feel right. You think them Caribou did something?" Applejack questioned her fellow blond who was looking all around the room. "Nar?" She asked as she got no response.

"Stand back," He urged them before he began channeling chakra and transformed. Calling upon the shroud Naruto was nearly overwhelmed as unimaginable terror and sadness bombarded his senses. He was knocked off his feet as the shrouded disputed.

"Naruto!" Both mares exclaimed as they rushed to his side.

"Are you okay?"

"What happened?"

"I just need a few seconds." The disorientated stallion told them as they helped him to his feet. "There's a dark presence here. I'm not sure who or what, but the only way we're going to find out is by getting to the prayer chamber. " With that, they continued forward through the first set of doors. Opening it they found a long hallway lit by candles.

The corridors beyond that hallway were just as empty and silent, but none of the three relaxed. They passed through a darkened chamber of blank stone. Ladders rose up through several levels of masonry to a higher floor above them, and the group found themselves repeatedly blocked off by cracked stonework and collapsed debris. With some pushing and shoving, they were able to get some of the debris out of the way, opening up a way toward the upper floor.

The top of the stairs led to a massive, open chamber, circular in shape, with a vaulting ceiling that disappeared into the expanse of darkness. As with the other chambers and corridors, the room was dimly littered with candles that were arranged in coves in the wall.

The room itself was empty . . . save a rather large chest sat at an altar along one of the walls. Curious, they made their way towards it

The chest itself seemed to be made of dark oak and steel and looked rather polished. It was well maintained and lacked nary a scratch. Considering there was a faint layer of dust with the ring slightly pushed outwards from some sort of impact this chest couldn't have been here long.

Naruto opened it, throwing the top of the chest back eliciting a gasp from Fluttershy and a grimace from Applejack. His face scrunched up and he turned slightly from the stench that hit his nose. Swords, shields, staffs, and all manner of weapons. Each of them stained in what was mostly blood.

Naruto was the first to sense something to which Applejack and Fluttershy picked up from the bond, turning around and facing the threat.

It was a hideous bipedal beast that seemed to be some sort of mixture of zombie and skeletal. Its body composed of sinewy green, pale white and black flesh with jagged claws. Its face was composed of three faces stitched together facing forward, left, and to the right all at once, sunken in and hollow. Where holes should be were nothing more than empty spaces as its eyes glowed a burning gaseous orange. And in place of hair was that of fire which strongly smelled of burnt flesh, ash, and graveyard soil. Terror and pain filled the air as the faintest whispers of screens echoed from it.

The Collector

"Another...hero soul...collect." It spoke out in drawn-out whispers that made their skin crawl.

'Get ready.'

Pools of darkness formed as different forms began to emerge from the portal. They were all matter of different beings. Some were human and others were of different species that Naruto had only heard of from lore. Naruto didn't know what it was, but he felt some strange sort of kinship from several of them and from what he could feel the bond so could Fluttershy and Applejack.

Not much time was given to this as they immediately attacked. They did not wait for the enemies to fully emerged before they started attacking. Bomb arrows from Fluttershy's bow had sent several of the bodies exploding into remains.

The steel of their weapons proved worthless against the toughness of Applejack's boots as whatever strength they might have held in life did not prove to be a one to one transition to their hellish unlife.

Drawing out two kunai Naruto blocked two jagged swords launched at him before running his fingers quickly along the kunai and launching them into the creatures promptly blowing them into pieces. One attempted to charge him only to be easily blocked by Fluttershy jumping in and intersecting the blow with her shield.

Pushing back against her they promptly spun as Naruto blasted it away with an Almighty Push. With his other hand, he used the pull to which Applejack capitalized on the Momentum to flip and crash both her feet into the master summoner sending him flying back into them all.

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To Naruto's left a human with red hair appeared out of the mystic black smoke that the other creatures summon did. He blocked the strike only for a sharp impact against his skull hit him on his right.

Naruto fell forward landing on the floor arms first and his vision blurred slightly as he reached a hand back to feel the back of his head. Bringing his hand back he saw that blood had stained his fingers, but the impact had not been enough to do any lasting damage. He crawled to his feet and looked up to see several more summons flying in the air.

His summons had taken up all matter of shapes and sizes. From as willowy as trees to as large as sumo wrestlers. If there was a shade of hair color possible then it littered the forms that began attacking him en masse. Suddenly the chamber began to dim as a bright energy began to crackle in the hands of the summoner.

"AJ...Shy.' He called out to them. They bolted from the platform as the large orb of energy at the floor where it shattered out into several bolts of lightning. The streaks sprayed out in a six lined shape.

Taking aim Fluttershy quickly fired three mithril arrows. Two of them pinning the shoulders of the summoner against the wall and the third one puncturing its torso. With a mighty yell, Applejack launched herself past the attackers before driving the third mithril arrow deeper into the summoner's torso pinning him to the wall.

As if heeding to their master's situation the creatures turned their attention to Applejack and began to rush. Replacing himself with Applejack, Naruto quickly used the Kyukon on the summoner.

The soul absorption technique had allowed the shinobi to read his mind and learn everything about the summoner.

The summoner was a Carceriere, a dark magic practitioner that dabbled in forbidden soul magic. He was not from this dimension, a transmigrant from a world that also had magic heralding from a land known as Italy. The man born Anatolio desired wealth and power above everything else and by selling his soul to a demon he gained that power, doing the demon's bidding by killing and enslaving powerful souls.

And while it was too late for the poor souls they were facing in battle there was at least one soul that hadn't been sacrificed yet. Using his dojutsu Naruto entered the mind of the creature. He soon found himself in front of what looked like an old shrine. The wood of the structure was mainly a faded red color with the roofing made out of gray shingles. Despite being deep within the mind of the former human he was surprised to see trees and that the background was that of a sunny day.

Walking past the large stone with carvings on it he went into the shrine where there was a casket with ropes and talismans on it. He reached his hand out as his chakra radiated through the air and onto the casket. The talismans soon crumbled and burned away as the casket blasted outwards.

From out of the casket erupted a black mist. Soon the black missed solidified into a ball. He could feel a sense of loss, confusion, and fear to exhume from the mass.

"It's okay. I won't harm you." Naruto said as he held out its hand.

It was difficult to decipher the mass's actions considering it was a mass but it appeared to be looking at him as it went to his hand. He could feel some sort of bond or connection forming with him and the spirit. A light began to radiate as the background they were in began to fade.

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"Welcome to the world of Void." Those were the words Naruto heard as his vision began to focus. Floating in the middle of space he could see stars and planets for as far as one could see. He turned to see a humanoid bipedal mass that was twelve feet in height and has no distinguishable gender features besides a deep male-like voice. "You may call me Xeon. Uzumaki Naruto you have caused quite the stir."

"Yeah, I get that a lot," Was the blond's lackadaisy response. "You must be my mentor spirit?"

"In a matter of words. What I have to share with you is knowledge of the ultimate art of combat. A form even most gods fear, but achieving it let alone mastering it naturally will take years even for a talented combatant like yourself. And maybe...just maybe...you might be the one..."

His cryptic words drew the blond's interest. "The one?" He really wished this entity, this Xeon had facial features so he could get a read on him.

"You are aware, you were never attended to come to this dimension correct?" He asked as the blond nodded.

"The circumstances that brought me here were far from normal." He answered.

"It is the result of entities in many different worlds messing with the rules of time and space in their own dimensions. The resulting backlash has caused shockwaves that have traveled out to other multiverses within the Omniverses. It can cause things like infinitely replacing dimensions recreated through thoughts, feelings, and what-ifs from existing inhabitants. These replicated copies are often referred to as fictions in similar sentiment to fictional stories created by the mind of a writer. In these fictions inhabitants who souls have been disrupted will find themselves binding to these worlds anchoring them to realities. These beings are known as Displaced or in the event that two realities come together and alter into another new reality together its known as a Crossover. Normally crossing over is not allowed as it is seen as one pantheon encroaching on another's territory, but in your case, it presents a unique opportunity. By using this dimension as an anchor of sorts we can draw out these entities messing with the omniversal wall."

Naruto had a pretty good idea of where this was going. "I'll agree to this only on one condition. I want to be on the in knowledge wise. I'm not some mindless soldier that simply follows orders. You wouldn't have come to me otherwise if this is something the gods could easily take care of."

"Very well, now I shall reveal to you the first step in achieving the *^&%!"

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From where Deemeter stood she could see the final beacon of light began to erupt from the temple. Raising her staff in the air the gem-encrusted at the tip began to glow as it shot out a beam of light. The energy resonated with the three beams as the natural energy glazed brightly and slowly washed over the land like a shockwave. The life energy began to feed into the ground nurturing the land causing nature to bloom. The vegetation began to sprout and developed as well as the mind and hearts of the animal life unifying. The pool of magic within the Cervidae people began to swell brilliantly.

Mother had beckoned and nature answered her call.

On the battlefield the battle mages feeling the life int he land returned began casting spells. The vines of the nearby trees flickered to life attacking the caribou, wrapping them up and ensnaring them in their limbs.

And the animal life was quick as well to turn on the invaders who invaded their territory without prejudice.

With their defenses renewed once more the Caribou would soon be pushed out of the territories they claimed. The situation in this Queendom was swiftly improving, but otherwise in the nation of Equestria trouble was brewing.

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