Too Close for Comfort 3

"Guys, what happened? Naruto will be back soon and we can tell him then" said Natsu with a smile. But they fell on deaf ears. All the members lunged at him and started another Guild Brawl, but this time, they all concentrated on Natsu. Happy flew from the situation with a fish in his mouth.

"Sorry, sorry. I won't do anything like this again" screamed Natsu, but his peers didn't care and so continued his 'education' by the Guild.

With Cloe

"Shit. He found us. Men, prepare yourself for battle" ordered Cloe. Lock prepared his attack. Lock made purple chains that flew towards Cloe and men.

This threw the group into chaos, 2500 men running around like headless chickens in the face of a terrifying enemy without any semblance of battle spirit.

"Calm down, men. We can defeat them. If we work together" shouted Cloe, trying to create a semblance of balance among his ranks. The chain soon approached and everyone resigned themselves for their fate and started doing their last prayers.

"Chain Style: Adamantine Barrier" came a voice and golden chains encircled Captain Cloe and his men and the purple chains that were coming towards them were deflected by these chains.

"What! How do these chains have the power to repel my curse lock chains?" said Lock in anger and turned to see the source of the chains, only to be shocked.

In the place where 'Naruto' stood motionless was a wooden log, broken into pieces. Naruto was standing behind Amon as if he was not controlled and Lock can see Amon's demeanour change.

"You will die in the hands of Lord-Naruto'' said Amon in a monotone.

"What? Amon, what happened? Can't you recognise me, your caretaker Lock, can't you remember your Master, Lord Keyes" yelled Lock, trying to knock some sense into Amon.

"You'll die in the hands of Lord-Naruto" repeated Amon again. This time, he lifted his eyes. Lock saw a weird pattern in Amon's eyes instead of his normal black eyes. It was a red swirl with black lines within.

'Those eyes look ominous. They must be the source of Naruto's control on Amon' thought Lock.

"You think you won by controlling Amon, filthy human? Lord-Keyes gave me a Key in case of situations like this" said Lock and laughed evilly.

"Chain Curse: Molecular Destruction: Activate," said Lock. Lock's special curse, the Chain Curse specialises in locking things up. When Keyes turned him into an Undead, Lock was given this special curse as his body can't be destroyed by regular means. He was given this special control over Amon for situations like these and it was released at last.

This attack kills a target and anything within a 100-meter radius around the target. By activating this curse, he not only put Naruto in danger but also the group of human trash that were within the radius. Lock laughed in glee.

"If you survive this, I'll happily take you to Lord-Keyes. There, you'll be put to good use for his noble purposes" said Lock and just like that, the area was engulfed in purple light. While waiting, all the soldiers said their last words.

"I had a good time working with you men, I apologise for not informing you about the severity of the mission," said Cloe in a sombre tone.

"No captain. We are honoured to work under a magnificent and great Captain like you, Sir. We thank you as well" said some soldiers and others nodded.

"Adamantine Sealing Chains"

Cloe could have sworn he heard a low tone just a few seconds before the explosion, but he wrote it off as his mind's delusions in the face of death.

"BBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM"

The explosion caused a small scale earthquake with its intensity. Most of the forest was destroyed to smithereens in a 5 kilometres radius and the lava village which was formed because of some unknown attack to Cloe also got damaged by the explosion.

Cloe's concern on Naruto. They are at least some distance from the blast site, but Naruto is beside it without any protection.

But it struck Cloe then. 'How the hell were we able to observe all these even after a large scale explosion like that. Where are we?' thought all the Rune Knights along with Cloe at once.

They didn't see it till then. There was a translucent blue barrier protecting them from the explosion. It has large black lines on it and was made of the same gold chains that Naruto used before, to protect them from the attack from Lock.

"We're alive," cried a soldier in relief.

"Yes, we're alive," said another one.

They started to celebrate their miraculous survival by cheering and hugging each other. Cloe is the only one who didn't celebrate yet. He showed his status as a Captain is not just for show at this moment.