Sasuke was entirely unsure HOW that worked but didn't really care that much. His dark eyes swept the area, taking in details as he determined exactly what the four of them had been thrown into.
Reddish stone, bare. Some sort of desert environment from what he could see. A big stone archway over there - big enough for six people to walk abreast.
He could tell that because there was a stream of tusked human-like creatures carrying swords and other weapons charging out of that shimmering wall of energy outlined by the stone arch.
Facing the charging tusked humanoids was an ARMY. There were a few normal-looking if not normally-dressed people in that second army but there were others that didn't look terribly normal by Konohagakure standards.
"Well, damnit?" asked Naruto as he stepped out of the tent. "What the hell is - oh."
Hinata was next, followed by Sakura.
Honestly, did nobody know what 'wait here' meant? Sasuke made a little noise of disgust at this lack, but privately couldn't argue that the spectacle before them was enough to grab their attention.
"Wha th' ail?" said a short and thickly built guy as he stepped around the side of the tent. "Wha be some kids doin' here?"
A woman with really long ears stepped around the same edge of the tent and looked them over as well. "Young heroes in the making?"
Sasuke was about to deny everything and demand answers, unfortunately someone else was reacting to that question.
"YEP!" declared Naruto, grinning fiercely and pointing to himself. "Naruto Uzumaki! Future Hokage and ninja hero!"
"Ah, well, this is a bit high level for young heroes such as yourself," said the woman, her extremely long pointed ears twitching. "Perhaps we should see if Dekthena can Portal them back to Stormwind?"
"Nae lass," said the short guy. "They's a teleport block up around the Gate ta keep the Iron Horde from just jumping off elsewhere. We'd have to escort alla way back ta the beach."
"Uhm," said Sakura, confused.
"HEROES! NOW IS OUR CHANCE! FOR FREEDOM! FOR OUR HOMES! FOR AZEROTH! TAKE THE PORTAL!" yelled some guy out in the crowd facing the
"CRAP!" declared the short guy. "Everyone! Party on! Buffs up! Blessing Of Kings!"
All four of them noted the golden glow surrounding them and then a feeling of increased power.
"You children stay back with our priest and spellcasters," said the tall woman with the long ears. "Mark Of The Wild."
Another glow, this one a purplish color, briefly flickered along their forms.
"Damn it, not ready," said some short woman as she rushed forward. "Kids? You're involving some human kids? Have you lost your freaking mind as well as your morals?"
"Ye may be me sister," said the short guy. "But I be telling ye again - DON'T go insulting me friends. And the kids weren't me idea - but they're here now."
"Aye, sure, and ye stopped being me brother when ye took up with non-dwarves," grumbled the woman. "Power Word: Fortitude. Ye wee bairns stick with me. I'll keep ye from pickin' bad habits at least."
"HEROES! FORWARD!"
"We should just sneak away," suggested Sakura.
"Hmph," indicated Sasuke, pointing at where Naruto had gone running to join the heroes charging the portal. Or rather where two dozen Naruto were charging the portal alongside much taller individuals.
"What is that idiot thinking?" asked Sakura. "We need to leave!"
BOOM! went an iron sphere bigger than Sakura was as it ripped through the tent behind them then bounced along the ground briefly.
"Nae place is truly safe on a battlefield," griped the stout woman, raising a staff high.
"No ti isn't," said a blue woman with horns as she strode forward. "Arcane Blast! Arcane Blast! Arcane Blast! Arcane Barrage!"
Sasuke's eyes widened as he watched the unfamiliar jutsu destroy a giant-sized one-eyed version of one of the tusked humanoids. He NEEDED that!
"We should sneak away, this isn't our fight and it doesn't look safe. Right Sasuke?" asked Sakura.
The dwarf woman sighed. "Lass. Yer friends already left ye."
"Eh?" asked Sakura, seeing the empty spaces where Naruto and Sasuke and Hinata had been a minute ago.
"Naruto!"
Naruto watched as the girl just struck one of these big tusked guys. Just once, but the guy's knee folded under him immediately. At which point the stocky guy from earlier used a two handed sword to chop through an unarmored neck.
"Tha's the way, lass!" approved the stocky guy. "Teamwork. Hang back a moment, let Dekthena blast yon ogron."
Blasts of white energy hit the charging giant, bringing it down after a few moments.
"Good job, Hinata!" declared Naruto. "Shadow Clone jutsu!"
An orange swarm went over and caught a wolf-riding tusked-guy and piled on him.
"Grab that!" called out the stocky guy on seeing something fall loose from the Iron Horde Commander.
Naruto picked it up, curious.
| Badass Longcoat Item Level: ??? Soulbound 23 Armor +30 Intellect +30 Spirit +30 Mastery +25 Perception +10% Reputation gains +10% Experience "The spirits of your parents watch over you."
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"What's that-" began Naruto, before giving up on getting answers while some tusk-guy was trying to cut him in half.
Hinata found herself back to back with Naruto, but really couldn't spend a lot of time thinking about that. No, she was pretty much concentrating on staying alive to the extent that lesser considerations like how close or warm he was - not really something she could pay attention to.
She used flexibility, her Byakugan's ability to see everything, and her precise chakra control. She also used a throwing axe that she'd snatched out of the air to knock away arrows, darts, throwing knives, and a bottle of something that smashed onto the rocks nearby and let off a bubbling noise.
Yeah, probably just as well to toss stuff to the side there.
Then a particularly large one-eyed creature that seemed mainly muscle charged towards them.
A bear came out of nowhere, charged in, and knocked the cyclops aside. Claws slashed at legs, and when the neck was in reach - jaws snapped and ripped a good section of it away.
Hinata was ready to try and defend against this new threat when the form blurred and she saw the woman with the long ears standing there, making a distasteful expression as she spat blood and something unidentifiable to the side. "You kids alright?"
"Uhm, yes?" asked Hinata, still wrapping her head around what she'd just seen.
"We're going to push through the gate," said the woman. "Be ready. So far you're doing better than I would have thought."
Hinata's eyes followed the woman as she leapt, becoming a panther as she arced over to another group of tusked humanoids. "That must be a chunin at least."
"STORM THE PORTAL!"
Naruto was on the path to being a great ninja hero. Believe it! After all, these guys had been identified as heroes. They were using ultra-cool jutsu! There were obvious bad guys! All he needed was a princess to rescue and it would be perfect!
He had shrugged on that long coat thingie and immediately felt like everything was suddenly clearer!
Once through that archway-thing, he was on the stairs of some big city made of stone. Lots of spikes and leering faces as far as decorations.
"Quickly!" said the short guy from earlier, holding up a hand. A blast of light shaped like a hammer slammed into the nose of a tusked warrior-type.
"Right!" declared Naruto, following, his new coat flapping behind him. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
"Send your solid images over there, block those troops long enough for reinforcements to get there," said the short guy, pointing. "Are ye a Hunter?"
Naruto blinked, then remembered something about hunter-nin that Iruka had talked about once.
"No," said Hinata. "We're new genin. Naruto-kun. I'm almost out of chakra."
"Yeah," said Naruto, thinking she looked tired. Looking past her at a pile of bodies though, he grinned and gave her a thumb's up. "You ought to get some rest, cause you were AWESOME!"
Hinata stood there for a moment as the short woman came up on her right and the blue woman came up on her left.
"Decent stamina on the boy," admitted the short woman. "Oi. Let's set up a medic area over here. Recover mana and use potions where we can."
"Are you okay, child," said the blue woman, leaning over the human girl. "You turned all red. That can't be good."
"I..." began Hinata.
Naruto turned and chased after the short guy. He sent twenty shadow clones to the one area, another bunch to clear the way ahead of them, and then more to knock another wolf rider over a railing and into a bunch more troops that were trying to swarm up the stairs.
That big blue guy and that green tusked guy were fighting back to back with hammers, sending the pale tusked guys flying.
"Orcs," said the short guy with the sword, not even slowing as he quickly did a one-handed gesture and another hammer of light slammed a tusked guy off-balance. A smooth motion of the sword and the tusked guy fell in two pieces.
"Eh?" asked Naruto.
"Ye don't have a clue what's goin' on, do ye?" asked the stout guy. "The big guys with the tusks are 'orcs' and - hang on. Exorcism! Hammer Of Wrath!"
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" responded Naruto, sending another wave out to replace the ones that had dispelled.
"Is that the only spell ye know, lad?" asked the stout guy.
"Uhm, yeah," said Naruto.
"Somethin' else ta work on then," said the dwarf as a door exploded ahead of him. "This way now."
"We could still escape, I think," said Sakura. "They've mentioned something called a Portal which can get us back to home."
The blue woman put down her tea. "Not at present, but that's right. Right now the area is unsecured and there is a teleport block. Either Kelgar or myself could open a portal back to Stormwind - a human city. You'd be relatively safe there."
"But Naruto-kun..." began Hinata.
"Probably dead already," said Sakura. "We should go ahead, right Sasuke?"
"Can I learn those jutsu you used earlier?" asked Sasuke.
"You're not kids from Stormwind or somewhere around here," said the blue woman.
"Wot?" asked the stout woman, looking up from some gadget with too many gears. "They not?"
"No," said the blue woman. "I've been around humans enough. Not all of them are as guarded as you, black-hair."
"Hnn," said Sasuke.
"As to your question," said the blue woman. "Yes. You're not the first person to come to this world. It all depends on how long you're here and what you want to do."
"There be others?" asked the stout woman. "Like the Burning Legion?"
"No, humans," said the blue woman. "Most sources state that humans were descended from the vrykul. Weakened children abandoned, then enslaved by the magnataurs. There's another theory though."
"Theories, ye sound like that daft idjit," said the stout woman. She spat and left the circle of boxes. "Ye clean up after yerselves. We prolly move in another half-bell."
"Thordra doesn't get along with her brother, as you might have guessed," said the blue woman. "The other dwarf? The short guy with the sword? That's Thoram. Now you eat something. Get at least one of the blue potions each. Be ready to move in another ten minutes or so."
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