Hmm.
Dante acted ignorant to the look he was receiving from Naruto. To be honest he could have kept on going for a few more days without rest, but he had to consider the kid, that's why he always gave them breaks in-between. There's a reason why he always works alone since others couldn't keep up with him. It was already shocking enough that Naruto could keep up with him.
'Is it the work of the demon inside of him or does he just have a monstrous stamina?'
After an hour of rest they resumed back their journey. Dante walked up to the main door with a decoration resembling two knights on it and a space in their hands like they were holding something. Dante pulled out the two Lance's and placed it in their hands triggering a mechanism that opened the doors allowing them entry to a massive, ominously empty ampitheater.
"Is that a giant magic circle?!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly when he saw the glowing blue-green magic circle in the middle of the arena and moved closer to get a better look.
"Be careful. It looks like a pain in the ass to make" Dante rubbed his chin as he moved closer to observe the magic circle.
"Stop being paranoid" Naruto scoffed at him before bending down to touch the magic circle. He felt a light shiver up his body followed by slight headache.
"What is it? are you okay?" Dante asked when he saw Naruto acting weird after touching the magic circle.
"I can hear someone speaking to me inside my head" Naruto answered after shaking off the weird feeling.
"What did it say?"
"Offer a sacrifice to the coliseum. It shall connect the wheel of destiny"
"The wheel of destiny?" Dante stroked his chin in thought before he sensed something in the sky so he quickly warned.
"Naruto look out!"
Crackle.
Naruto dived out of the way in time as a bolt of red lightning hit the spot he had been standing on a few seconds earlier. After narrowly avoiding the attack he looked up to the sky to see red lightnings gather together forming a huge sphere before exploding outwards to reveal...
"Griffon" Naruto spat out the name like saying it left a bad taste in his mouth.
The Griffon didn't exchanged any words with them and immediately attacked them with a diving attack.
The both of them dodged the attack before Dante looked at the Griffon with a cocky expression. "I guess you won't be giving us a little speech this time. what a shame. I was already getting used to your pretty voice."
"The both of you will..
Boom!
Dante shot a grenade at it mouth interrupting it up which only served to infuriate it.
Roooooaar!
"Now that's more like it" Dante relinquish in it misery which made Naruto sweat dropped at his idea of taunting the Griffon.
"Seriously? you just had to rile him up"
"What? Nobody likes a boring boss fight"
Griffon flapped it wings and flew up into the sky before performing a bombing run carpet bombing the whole arena with lightning balls.
Naruto maneuvered through the wave of attack. The griffon sticked to the air and kept attacking them with a series of lightning attack.
"Enough of this" Naruto growing sick of the attacks dashed forward and jumped at the Griffon. His five tails chakra cloak formed around him in an instant and purgatory gained a red hue.
"Fall down to earth, you big fat chicken!"
"Hey kid wait!" Dante's warning fell on deaf ears as the deed was already done.
"Foolish ant! Die!" The Griffon gathered a ball of lightning inside it beak before shooting it at Naruto.
"Oh shit!" He hurriedly placed purgatory in front of him, wrapped his tails around himself and brace for the attack before a giant bolt of lightning struck him sending him crashing down to earth.
Dante facepalmed. 'Impatient'
"Die peasant!"
Griffon dived down at Naruto, lightning surrounding his body. The Griffon descended at him like a comet.
'No backing down' Refusing to back down Naruto grabbed purgatory and readied himself.
Boom!
A green beam of light hit the Griffon before it could reach Naruto pushing it a few meters away.
The green beam of light caught Naruto by surprise and he turned to look at the other person there besides him and the Griffon. Hie eyes immediately wanders off to the Nightmare-β in Dante's arm.
"Dante. I could have handled it"
Dante glanced at Naruto and scoffed. "Not in the slightest"
He turned to Griffon and smirked. "How about you dance with me?"
The griffon who had managed to steady himself not long ago turned to face Dante and roared angrily.
"You will die here before you see Lord Mundus!"
"We'll see about that" Dante smirked cockily. He transformed into his DT from before aiming it at griffon and faint green light starts to gather around the mouth of the barrel.
A smug look appeared on his face when the Nightmare-β fully charged up.
"Order up. CHICKEN WING!"
Boom!
The green bean draw a straight line towards the griffon moving at breakneck speed.
The Griffon moved out of the way of the attack at the last second causing it to ricochet off the wall behind him. A red orb appeared in the Griffon's mouth and he fired off a double check at Dante.
"oh oh" Naruto exclaimed as he was already familiar with this move. Two beams of electricity that snap together like scissors at the two of them
"Move!"
Even without Dante saying it he didn't plan on waiting for the attack. He wrapped his tail around the top of a pillar and pulled himself towards it avoiding the attack. Dante flew up in his DT form and the attack passed underneath him harmlessly.
"That was close"
Roooooaaaaarrrrr!
The Griffon flapped it wings sending out a gust of wind all over.
Naruto jumped down from the pillar as the gust of wind obstructed his view.
"He seems a little mad" Naruto said as Dante still in his DT form landed beside him.
"Be careful I can sense his power fluctuating"
"You insignificant creatures. This place shall be your final resting ground" The whole amphitheater suddenly darkened before Lightning strikes at the ground around the Griffon almost like I was trying to keep them out.
"Disappear!"
Crackle.
"Look out!"
Naruto and Dante rolled out of the way as twin bolt of lightning hit the ground. He didn't have enough time to think as another hit the ground followed by another. Chains of lightning kept homing in on them. The attack continued for a few seconds before stopping.
'Shit'
Naruto made to move but a hand on his shoulder stopped him. He turned his head to look at Dante only to see him pointing at something. His eyes followed the finger and he was left speechless. Right in front of him was a faint red light, his body was a few inches from touching it.
'Shit. I nearly fell for it trick'. He noticed the same faint red light all around the amphitheater lightning arcs across it.
"Not so fast"
The Griffon opened it mouth to unleash another double check but Dante fired off the Nightmare-β at it causing it to dodge which disrupted it's technique.
"Hahaha. You missed"
"Not quite!" Naruto appeared above him, purgatory glowing with a giant red aura. Overdrive descended down on the Griffon's head sending it crashing down. It let out a loud painful screech as it crashed towards the ground.
Dante appeared underneath the Griffon and attacked with a magma drive snapping it head back. Naruto descended headfirst from above the Griffon with purgatory. His tails coiled around him and he spined like a drill.
'Fivetails Demon Corkscrew'
Naruto crashed into the back of the Griffon pushing it back down to the ground. A small dust cloud blew from the point of impact.
The Griffon laid motionless on the ground unmoving. The attack from Naruto just now managed to tore off it left wing.
"Is it dead?" Although Naruto asked the question he himself didn't believe that it could be so easy. And just as he thought, a few minutes later the Griffon got up from the ground.
Roooooaaaaarrrrr!
"You will pay for that insects! YOU BOTH WILL DIE!" Another thunder storm fell upon the arena homing on the too of them just like the last time but this time their trajectory easier to predict.
Dante switched back to the grenadegun shooting grenades at Griffon while Naruto used limbo. The Griffon was forced to taketye bombardment head on. It torn talon left it defenseless and lacking in the power it once had. The bombardment continued for a few seconds before Dante exchanged looks with Naruto and nodded.
"Try to keep up, kid"
Rooooooaaaarrr!
A red orb appeared in it mouth and it shot out a double check at the two of them. The two dodged the attack before running towards the Griffon. Dante pulled out Alastor which arcs with lightnings. The Griffon sneered when it saw them running towards it.
"Die insolent creatures"
Bolts of lightning shot towards them from the sky bombarding the whole arena.
"Oh shit" Naruto and Dante maneuvered through the blasts of lightnings. One of them nearly managed to hit Naruto but he dodged at the last second.
'That was close'
Naruto and Dante skid to a stop when they got within range of the Griffon. Purgatory and Alastor gained a red and blue hue respectively.
"Crosscut overdrive"
Swoosh.
The both of them unleashed their attack at the same time. The overdrive overlapped with each other forming an X. The Griffon raised it talon to block the attack but the overdrive cut through it before cutting through it body. The griffon let out a loud pain filled screech before falling to the ground in the middle of the magic circle.
Dante's DT receded when he saw the Griffon fall to the ground after taking their joint attack.
"I guess the early bird took the wrong worm"
"Hey Dante, I think it's still alive." Naruto said when it saw it slight movement. At that movement the magic circle gave off a faint light and the Griffon started floating up taking the two by surprise thinking it was going to get up again only for a stone pillar to fall from the sky and hammer it back down to the ground. It let out another pain filled screech. It eyes eventually wandered off to the two who had caused it misfortune. It gaze however lingered on Dante.
"Yours are definitely the power of Sparda. even more so. But I cannot let you live, for I serve my master, Mundus."
"You can't fight with that wound. It's already game over for you"
"Mighty is the power of Mundus. Master! Please grant me one last surge of power to... the power to finish him!"
Crackle! Boom!
Up to this point Naruto had done nothing but listened in on their conversation. So imagine his surprise when he saw three glowing red orbs in a triangle formation appear in the sky behind the dark clouds. Griffon chose this exact moment and spoke.
"Master... Mundus."
'That is Mundus.' Naruto went wide eyes. The demonic power he felt from Dante was nothing when compared to Mundus. So this was the so called Demon King.
"Griffon, you have failed me. you are no longer worthy" Immediately it said that it unleashed a surge of purple lightning upon the Griffon ignoring it plea as it turned it to ashes.
Mhaahahahahh
Mundus let out an evil laugh before disappearing.
'So that is that power of mundus.' Naruto stared back at the spot where the Griffon had been a few minutes ago.
"That three eyed...
Crackle.
A bolt of yellow lightning hit the ground behind them and took the form of Trish who walked up to them looking speechless.
"You beat Griffon. Maybe it was a little too easy for you guys"
Click Click.
Trish tightened her lips when she saw the two gun barrels pointed at her courtesy of Ebony and Limbo.
"You guys don't seem happy to see me"
"We would if you hadn't just bailed on us from the very beginning. Tell us, what are are you hiding?"
Trish ignored the question and turned to look at Naruto, the kid who had managed to exceeded her expectations and defeated the Phantom. From her research and analysis the kid seems to inhabit a demon but he doesn't appeared to be possessed. So it could only that the demon is sealed in his body. Buy to be able to survive that. Those sort of rituals had long been lost in the sands of Time. Demons are usually sealed in artifacts that took years to make and fortify inorder to seal a demon talk less of a powerful one. Human medium were even more rare if not non-existent. And she could tell that the demon sealed inside the kid was a very powerful one. So that begs the question, who could have carried out such a powerful ritual.
Forgoing her thoughts, Trish let out a small smile and said
"I have been busy"
Click
The sound of a gun being corked brought her gaze to the other person there with them. Dante's eyes stared back at her with a serious expression. She could tell that hew was on guard against her.
"You say that but how can we be sure that you are not working for Mundus?"
"Do you actually believe that I would bring you to this island to stop him if I was in servitude to him?"
Naruto furrowed his brows while Dante grabbed the red amulet handing around his neck. His thoughts wandering back to the three eyes he saw in the sky.
"Mundus...his heinous ways make me sick... Killing even his own... like they were nothing. He's the one who took the lives of my mother... my brother...I'm sure of it! My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and a righteous heart."
"In the name of my father, I will kill Mundus! And if anyone stands in my way, no matter who they are I will cut them down as well."
Although Naruto has heard this before, the emotions he felt from Dante this time was completely different. Almost like he won't rest until he made do with his promise. Trish however was hearing it for the very first time and his words caught her by surprise and left her speechless. She felt a weird and indescribable feeling in her body. Unable to tell what the cause was, she quietly stepped back and disappeared in a flash of yellow lightning. Dante didn't pay her any mind cause nothing will stop him from getting his revenge. Naruto however frowned when he saw her leave.
"She left"
"We'll deal with her later. First let's see where this magic circle leads.
"Hmm"