BSWS CH-60 The Chunin Exams XXVIII - Gods? Demons? Titans? Part-1

Sakura arrived at the Training Ground and saw Karin waiting for her. Seeing her arrive, Karin tossed a scroll at her.

"What is this?" Sakura asked.

"That is a Storage scroll that contains instruction scrolls and materials for Uzumaki Style Basic Fuinjutsu and Ritualistic Fuinjutsu. It could be useful in an unfamiliar land. Also here.." Karin tossed Hiraishin Kunai to Sakura "One Hiraishin Kunai as promised."

"Now, I know that on successful completion of the Trials put forth by the Summoned Animal they will award you with the Contract Scrolls and send you back to Konoha."

"However, if you take too much time you might end up missing the Chunin Finals. So if you are not back by the Start of Chunin Exams, I will summon you back through the Hiraishin Kunai. So keep it on you at all times." Karin warned Sakura.

"I understand." Sakura said with a smile "So are we ready?"

Karin nodded back with a smile "Yup. Go forth and get your Summoned Animal."

"Okay here goes nothing.." Sakura muttered as she bit her thumb for the Blood Sacrifice required before quickly going through the Hand Seals for Summoning Jutsu and slamming her hand on the ground.

"Summoning Jutsu!!!" Sakura shouted as she was pulled in by Space-Time current to a different Land.

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When her eyes opened, Sakura found herself being buffeted by cool winds while also being bathed by hot sunlight on the grassy ground.

As she stood up she saw that the clouds in the sky seemed much closer than ever before. She could also see the sky and the stars more clearly, even though the sun was right there.

'Where am I?' Sakura thought. Just as she was about to get up and explore, she felt a tremor through the ground she was standing on.

The next moment, a huge armored dog head emerged from the ground, followed by another almost immediately. Seeing Sakura, both heads gave extremely loud barks that shook Sakura's bones from the force of the sound waves.

Sakura flipped back and rapidly retreated from the two giant dog heads. The two dog heads then started emerging out of the ground. When they emerged further, Sakura realized that the two heads were not from different dogs. They were from a single huge body of a dog covered in organic armor.

"Awoo!!" the two-headed dog howled before rapidly bounding towards Sakura. Sakura came to her senses soon and immediately created a giant Earth Wall in between her and the giant dog.

However, to her utter surprise, the dog was not even held back for a moment by the Earth Wall. It crumbled to dirt as soon as the Giant Dog crashed into it.

"Awoo!!" the two-headed giant dog howled again. Suddenly, it opened its mouths wide and a huge suction force acted upon Sakura, pulling her towards the dog.

"Ah, damn it!! What is this?! Earth Style: Added Weight * 20!!" Sakura screamed in frustration as she increased her weight to counter the suction. This dog was extremely swift and unpredictable in its attacks.

As Sakura and the Two-Headed Dog competed to see who will be defeated first, a third voice suddenly sounded, breaking the stalemate they were in.

"Orthrus, Stop it!! You will end up hurting the Child!!" a soft and melodious voice reprimanded the dog, who immediately shut up.

Sakura looked around for the source of the voice and was greeted by the sight of an extremely gorgeous white-haired woman smiling at her. However, as her eyes took in more of the sight, she realized that the woman had the body of a huge spider from the waist down.

"Don't worry child, we won't hurt you." the spider-woman said with her calm smile "You are the first guest we have had in millennia."

As if confirming the spider-woman's words, the Two-Headed Armored Dog, Orthrus, ceased his attacks and sat back on its haunches. Both of its armored heads peered at Sakura with interest with their tongue hanging out.

"Who are you all? And where am I?" Sakura asked.

"Where you are, that can be answered easily enough. You are in the Five-Span Intrinsic Archipelago, also named the Altar of Titans. We are located in a Parallel Dimension to your world. Or maybe trapped is a better word." the spider-woman said.

"We are in a parallel dimension? And you are trapped here?" Sakura asked in astonishment.

"Yes. And as for our identities, this two-headed cutie goes by the name of Orthrus, whereas I am called Jorogumo. There are others like us in this place, each with own unique appearance, powers, and characteristics."

"If you ask who we all are, well, we are unique entities that go by many names: Gods, Demons, Spirits, Titans, and much more." Spider-woman said with pride "We migrated to this world many millennia ago from a different world, which had been on the verge of destruction when we left it."

"When we arrived here, we fell into a conflict with some other entities of even greater power to us. However, we fought equally with them for a long time, as we had more to our ranks."

"But we eventually lost and were trapped to this place since we had been weakened by the travel between worlds."

"Over time, we regained our power and tried to break through the seal and get back to the world. A few of us managed to in one way or another. But the majority of us are still trapped in this place." Jorogumo said with a sad expression.

"Who broke through from here?" Sakura asked curiously.

"Well, let's see." Jorogumo said while thinking hard "there was the World-Ending Serpent, Yoja. It converted its own body to energy and managed to break through the seal."

"But the seal still managed to damage its spirit, and it fell into barren part of the world. Last we saw, it had merged itself into the Ryumyaku Energy and transformed it into a semi-sentient energy source."

"Rhaegal was another who managed to break through from the seal. However, just like with Yoja, the seal damaged Rhaegal separating it into two entities: Human Girl Miroku and Monstrous Demonic entity Moryo."

"After these two incidents, we realized that brute forcing through the seal was not an option and started looking for other options."

"First, we tried sending a meteorite willed with an amalgamation of energies from all of us. Though that energy got fused into a separate new form of energy on emerging into the world, we realized that the world was not rejecting our energies."

"Some people found the place where the meteorite fell and were even able to harness the energies to a certain extent. But since it was just a crude amalgamation of chaotic energy, it damaged them whenever they harnessed it."

"But we were inspired by that and started perfecting the method of sending our energies into the world. Two geniuses among us were finally able to do it: Jashin and Shinigami."