Chapter 25

"This is proving harder than expected. I can't seem to find a way to do this safely." Naruto muttered as he stood up, the process to procure chakra had been a failure and he didn't even find a way to break these seals

"No need to be distressed, our friends have found a piece so let us go to them." Gaia said as she felt the Gorgon sisters searching for Naruto

"Show me the way." Naruto muttered and Gaia shared the location with him. He rose into the sky and flew towards them.

Within moments, Naruto arrived at the place of slaughter. Hunters' bodies were strewn across the mountain as the gorgon sisters bled from the many arrows lodged into their bodies.

Naruto even saw the body of Artemis on the ground with a blood red spear piercing her skull. He didn't know what to feel at the scene, it was what he never wished to experience but once again he was seeing such a sad reality.

Naruto rushed to the girls with worry on his face, they were his friends and his first priority.

"Stheno, Euryale, are you okay?" Naruto muttered as he got down to his knees and put his hands on their shoulders as they were sitting on the ground back to back

"Naruto, I am so happy to see you again. I thought I had die before that happened with our current state." Stheno said in a tired tone and with difficulty as she smiled at him

"Relax, I will heal you two and then we will talk." Naruto replied in an assuring tone and his energy covered them both

"Here this is yours" Euryale passed him a green bow which she was holding onto tightly

"Thank you for your assistance but you need to careful about your life. I would not be happy if you had died." Naruto said as he took the bow and felt a strong connection since it was his natural element and he had grown even more in this elemental route

"Hehe, I am happy if you are pleased with this gift. It's a first after so long that we did something so heroic and not actually bully some weak demi's. Look we defeated an Olympian, can you believe that. Its freaking awesome." Euryale said in an excited tone as her energy was being recovered by Naruto

"I can see that and you did superbly. It is awesome and you can be proud of it." Naruto replied with a smile and pinched Euryale's cheeks

"Can you be quiet, let me heal in silence and we can talk later?" Stheno said in annoyed tone as Euryale was moving around too much causing her pain

The duo nodded and Naruto healed the girls in silence in a field of death.

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After a few minutes, the girls took a short rest while Naruto took the bow and the gloves to try and take the power back.

It was a slow going process but he was able to absorb the items as they resonated with each other. Once the artifacts fused into his soul turning into pure energy, Naruto guided it to rebuild his body.

The chakra took in the foreign energy and strengthened, after which Naruto remade the chakra system. It took him an hour to finish and he was filled with sweat, his body was burning from inside as it went through the transformation while he was conscious but he was happy as he was finally close to being complete.

'I didn't know how much I missed my chakra before now.' Naruto thought as he felt his emotions raise so much by just remaking his chakra system.

"What happened, did something go wrong? I can't feel our energy anymore." Stheno stood up and walked towards him in a hurried state as she felt worried about his health

"Nothing went wrong, I just remade the energy system that I originally had so you might not be able to sense it but you should be able to see that I am stronger now." Naruto muttered as he took her hand and she felt how solid his hand felt, no matter how much she squeezed.

"That's good, you had me worried."

"I apologize" Naruto replied as he felt he should have told them that he might change to avoid worrying them

"Hey, hey, don't forget about me. I am still here and can we get our reward now." Euryale separated them both and asked in a jovial tone

"I didn't forget about you so what do you want as a reward." Naruto asked in a gentle tone as he flicked her forehead playfully

Stheno looked at Naruto and then towards Gaia sitting on his head, 'I don't think he will accept as lovers truthfully and it will bring him pain. She won't make it easy for us either. It is better to be indirect about it and seduce him when we are in a peaceful environment.'

Before Euryale could say anything, Stheno blocked her mouth and said, "We want to be your maids and serve you once you take the throne of Olympus."

Naruto was surprised at her words as he hadn't really thought about this issue, 'Who will take the throne? Is there anyone worthy? They will only cause more trouble later on so she is right, I should take it.'

Naruto thought about the different scenarios and couldn't find anything positive happening when he wasn't in control. His mind had lost his optimistic side and now he was filled with pessimism concerning others.

"Okay but you don't have to really work. You are my friends so you could have just asked to stay in the palace."

"We want honest work; it's boring without a purpose." Stheno replied with a smile, hiding what purpose she meant

Naruto felt danger and quickly erected a golden barrier to stop the attack. The barrier was hit by large needles filled with large amounts of energy.

Naruto looked above and saw an unknown figure. It was a woman wearing a mask and only her eyes were visible, her arms had a strange weapon that shot the needles, and she was wearing a purple cape.

She had a golden scepter in her right hand and two lances floating behind her along with golden armor for her legs till her knees, which made her feet sharp like blades.

Naruto could feel a connection to her and knew she had a piece of his power inside her but this transformation was much more extreme than anything else he had seen.

"It is Hera" Gaia provided as she analyzed the woman

"Naruto, we feel you are a good person so let those wenches die for the sin of killing our child." Hera muttered in a calm tone as she looked down on Naruto literally and otherwise

"I can't allow that and you may have good feelings about me but I do not have anything good to say about you. You owe a blood debt to Hercules and I will fulfill his wish." Naruto replied as he walked out of the barrier leaving the girls under protection. His body changed and was covered in his golden chakra once again but with a slight green and black hue.

The chakra was much more potent than before and the cloak a lot more solid and malleable. He had learned a lot from fighting with weapons and armors so his chakra cloak changed into an armor to enhance the defense and offence.

"You would go against us for those monsters, have you gone insane?" Hera said in disbelief as she shot the lance behind her at the gorgons

Naruto's cloak copied her and a lance connected to his cloak blocked her attack.

"You are the monster here while they were forced into it, with hardly any choice and they wish to change but I don't see the same from you. Your daughter was there when I died, she knew it was my power but she still denied my desire so she deserved to die.

Let her stay in the underworld for some time and she might learn something from her uncle because her father is a blood scum that needs to be eradicated. Why do you still support him when he raped you, why do you harm the children for his misdeeds? Where is the justice, where is your fairness when it is your domain? Do you deserve mercy?" Naruto muttered as he looked at her with boiling rage which was induced by each word he said and could be felt by the collapse of the island around him as his energy was leaking

Hera felt the pressure and knew she had low chance of winning this fight but she felt a compulsion to act. She was the new holder of sand artifact after it had absorbed all the children of Hermes, which had caused it to mutate after eating so much essence since even Hermes was also absorbed.

Hera was not knowledgeable about the fact and Zeus had gifted her the scepter with a loving smile and she had taken it like a child not knowing the games being played.

'I need to resist this temptation. Why is this happening? Naruto is right and we were wrong. I have already been working on change so I deserve his mercy.

We need to fight and kill, we need his power. Bring it to us, Hera.' Hera was about to snap out of it when she heard the command from Zeus and he eyes turned pure white

With a thought the sky was filled with golden needles and they fell towards Naruto at speeds multiple times the speed of lightning, which would have caused disasters around the world by Gaia was doing damage control so that the world wouldn't be affected by the battle.

Naruto knew that she was acting weird but didn't really hold back anymore as he thought she could go to Hercules and ask for his forgiveness by dying.

He held his hand and giant Rasenshuriken was made, which he threw at Hera without hesitation. The attack went through the needles like they didn't exist and hit Hera.

Hera blocked the attack with her scepter that made a barrier out of gold but even then she was damaged heavily.

"We will not forgive you for this insolence, child. You have hurt our belonging and you will pay for this act." Hera muttered but Naruto knew it was his hated nemesis

"Zeus! Why don't you stop hiding behind a puppet and fight me like a man."

Hera chuckled and the sky was once again covered with golden lances that spun sharply and headed for him but Naruto noticed that she sped away.

'He is heading for the others.' Naruto thought and quickly followed while he was covered by a slightly big avatar that looked like Kurama but it was only big as a two floor house

Naruto attacked Hera with chakra lasers and Rasenshurikens but she managed to dodge them somehow. Naruto scowled as he felt the interference from outside it was probably Zeus which was confirmed when his attack was blocked by lightning from above

"Enough" Naruto yelled in anger and shot out with a bust of chakra that enhanced his speed and with a charged fist using unlimited strength from steam release, Naruto hit Hera in the back.

The punch was powerful as it packed a force of million tonnes and Hera had no resistance as she was blasted through the icy mountain into the cold sea.

They had arrived at the location and Naruto could see his team had been successful except that the children had already fused with his power.

Naruto ignored it as he didn't have time to cry about it and quickly went towards them.

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While underwater, Hera was in pain and her body was breaking apart from the damage she received.

"You have done well, now rest and let us take over." She heard Zeus but only felt dread as his hand pierced her heart and she was absorbed without any resistance.

'The bastard is really fast and if we hadn't quickly finished of Thor and Odin, he would have taken our prizes under our nose.' Zeus thought as he felt his body change and was covered in golden armor with two hammers instead of his hands, which were made from Odin's spear, his master bolt and Thor's Hammer.

'Now let's take a shot at the kid. The game is only beginning for us but it is the end for him.'

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Percy and the group lay on the ground in exhaustion, mental and physical when they felt the world shake and the mountain close by was destroyed completely by something.

"What was that?" He muttered when he saw a man land in front of him, he looked to be in his twenties and Percy felt the power radiate off him as he was covered in it.

"I believe my comrades have already explained the situation so I will need the items. Do not resist." Naruto muttered as he walked closer towards Frank since he gave of the feeling closest to him

Before he could reach them, the kids started to fly towards the sky. Naruto quickly reacted and held onto Frank but Zeus wasn't having any of it and a giant bolt of lightning covered the area.

The destroyed everything but Naruto protected everyone except for Percy and Hazel as they were already in Zeus's hands.

"Sorry" Naruto muttered as he killed Frank painlessly and absorbed his existence because he could feel extreme threat from Zeus. He had even surpassed the level of power, Naruto held in six paths mode once he ate Percy and Hazel.

Naruto was already hurt from the attack that hit him and it wasn't even serious so he had no chance but to act as hesitation meant getting everyone killed.

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AN Hope you enjoyed.

Hera looks like Junomon from Digimon

Zeus looks like Jupitermon