Naruto: Elemental Warriors Online.

Earthen walls and a stale and musky air was all that was left to be their companion as they made their way downwards into the unknown. They left their hands on the walls and used it to guide themselves, a fall down this stairs and with such little light was guaranteed to cause massive loads of pain. Rias could have provided a little light with her fireball spell, but it cost a significant amount of Chakra to keep it sustained for a long time, and they needed to conserve their strength for whatever was waiting for them at the end of this stair case.

For almost twenty minutes their echoing footfalls on the concrete steps was the only sound that was heard through the darkness. It was awkward to say the least as Naruto had no idea what to talk to Rias about. Thankfully the stairs came to an end with no small amount of protest from Naruto's aching legs. Sometimes the reality like feature of this game could be a hassle.

At the end of the stairs was a tunnel, its walls were lined with bioluminescent plants and crystals as they shone a sickly green light into their surroundings. This tunnel however was filled with five foot, heavily armored and armed goblins. The display over their heads read.

HOB-GOBLINS: LEVEL 60(ELITE)

Elite mobs were way stronger and smarter than other monsters of the same level. This was going to be a tough fight and they both knew it. Rias spat a few strange words, and black like sludge appeared beneath the feet of the hob-goblins directly in front of them. The tunnel was twenty meters long and ten feet wide.

The hob goblins were all arranged in files, like trained soldiers. A cavalry of sorts, breaking through them would be quite hard but not impossible. The worst case scenario is if they chose to swarm attack them like the previous goblins they had fought. They would have no chance but to retreat. And then Naruto had the whispering of an idea.

" Rias retreat back to the stairs, its more Narrower, which means we can fight them in an enclosed space. Prepare your spells, especially the AOE one that has saved out butts so far. And have this too."

He handed her three Chakra pills, she would need it more than he would for the fight that was to come.

Rias took the potions and rapidly retreated back to the stairs, she would not be going back to the top, but some ways up to keep the hobgoblins coming, but close enough to attack them.

The black sludge spell she had used, only slowed the hobgoblins down, but it bought enough time for Naruto to attack them and make them chase him to the stairs.

Naruto shot forward putting speed and power in his first attack as he went for an over head slash, sparks flew up as his swords scr.a.p.ed against the metal plate mail one of the hobgoblins had on. He was not able to deal much damage, but he was able to get their attention, but just to be safe, Naruto pierced his sword through the open helmet of the hobgoblin he attacked, killing it instantly. As it fell to the ground, the hobgoblin behind it shot forward with a vertical slash no longer enc.u.mbered by the slow spell.

Naruto shifted into his bat form as he made a beeline for the stairs. The slap of the heavily armored feet of the hobgoblins resounded behind him as they chased him for his transgressions against their comrade and their selves. Naruto flew as hard and as fast as he could, counting thirty steps before spotting Rias on the thirty fifth.

He canceled his SHIFT skill and equipped the entire dividing armor set. Though Naruto felt suffocated in all this armor he had all the set bonus activated, including a ranged skill he could use. So he braced himself, shield at the ready as the hobgoblins came marching and screeching up the stairs.

As soon as they were within touching distance of Naruto, so close that they only needed to lean in to make contact, Rias released her black and red mist like spell, as damage figures in the hundreds floated up the air every second for the next thirty seconds. When the spell duration was over there was a long line if dead hobgoblins, and a trail of shiny equipment's, coins and books. Naruto almost gave a jiggle in joy at the loot and bounty he finally had the chance of having. It was true what they say the higher the risk, the bigger the reward.

But his joy was cut short as another line of Hobgoblins came charging up, even more faster and ferocious than the first. Naruto positioned himself in the middle of the path, the stair case was about five feet wide from wall to wall. The hobgoblins though not tall were extremely bulky and were almost two feet wide. As such only two could come up the stairs at a time. And with Naruto blocking with his shield, there was no way they could get through him.

Rias had just used her most powerful skill, she needed another thirty minutes to be able to use it again. Naruto never doubted the power of this skill, during the Beta of the game it was what made her so feared and adored. The[Song Of Ruin] was from a secret school of magic called destruction. It literally ripped the flesh off a person destroying it down to the very last molecule. The reason why the spell was not as powerful was probably because it was still in its low levels.

The hobgoblins crashed into Naruto's shield, pushing him back as they swung their swords through the gap in his defense, but Naruto was wearing a full body heavy armor with impressive statistics. The damaged they inflict could not be ignored, but with the Armor Naruto could weather the storm.

He pushed back at the Hobgoblins with limited results due to how closely packed they were, then he took a rapid step back, moved his shield arm an activated SLASH cleaving the heads of the first two Hobgoblins in the line. Then he used KICK and sent one of the next Goblins tumbling into their comrades and messing up their formations.

With the breathing space created by the fall of the formation, Naruto activated the skill his current armor set gave him. Naruto activated the DIVIDE by swinging his sword Horizontally. A pale blue flash of light was discharged from the blade as it separated all the Hobgoblins in his sight in two. The skill was so powerful that it left a huge groove or scar on both side of the Narrow walls.

Naruto quickly advances forward, with Rias right behind him throwing fire balls at the rapidly approaching third wave of Hobgoblins. The divide needed another five minutes before it could be used again, its cool down was much shorter than Rias's ruin spell. But the cost will see Naruto out of chakra after using it two or three more times.

Naruto pushed his worries aside for now as he activated stride, and rushed forward with his shield covering his body, his intentions were not well scouted by the Hobgoblins as Naruto implemented a full Body tackle blasting the first three lines of Hobgoblins in formation to the ground. Naruto obviously had great strength, and couple with a charging tackle and it was now known that the Hobgoblins were not outfitted to deal with the blunt force Naruto brought to the table.

The already grounded Hobgoblins were sitting ducks as Rias bombarded them with numerous fire spells. Eventually the smell of burnt skin was also present among the stale air of this underground tunnel or something. Naruto took a step forward over the dead still burning bodies of the Hobgoblins and activated SLASH cutting the heads of the two in the next line. Then it was rinse and repeat.

A few minutes later Naruto Used the DIVIDE clearing the stair case of enemies, as they advanced once more, they met what could be the last wave. But there were only four hobgoblins so Naruto and Rias were comfortable with taking these four out just with their fighting skills.

Eventually they found themselves in the tunnel with bioluminescent plants and crystals, this time it was completely devoid of any Goblin or Hobgoblin. At the end of the tunnel the huge metal doors were waiting with a promise of an ominous encounter.

Naruto did not know why but that door freaked the hell out of him. He leaned against the wall resting his head on a huge glowing mushroom as he tried to catch his breath. This time Rias sat opposite him making him feel quite unlucky she was not sitting beside him again.

" That was intense" Naruto said, in an attempt to start a conversation.

" I have been through and seen worse." Rias replied.

" But I bet you never expected you would be clearing a dungeon with your favorite student ehh."

" First of Naruto, you are not my student in here, and secondly you are not my favorite student either."

Naruto gave a fake gasp of outrage and disbelief.

" I am not your favorite student. Who is he, I need a name and an address."

Rias looked at him with mirth plastered all over her face. And then she spoke, and this time she was picking the dirt out of her finger nails again. It seems to be a quirk of hers or something.

" What makes you think the student is a he. And even if it was a guy what would you have done with his number and address? Kill him, intimidate him, tell him to stay far away from me."

Naruto bent his head to the side and had a peculiar expression on his face, probably looking like he was thinking very hard about something. Rias would not say it, but one word described Naruto perfectly. Cute.

" I don't know what I would do. I am possessive you know, but I also understand that your favorite student is your favorite student for a reason. You would tell me eventually.

" And what makes you so sure of that?" she asked.

" because as soon as we are done In here, out there, in the real world. I will make sure Hinata Hyuga belongs to no one else but Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze."

She looked at him with an unreadable expression for a few minutes, Narrowing and enlarging her eyes as she seemed to try to figure something out. She did not say anything more but turned her head with an almost unseen smile on her face.

...LOADING...….

After about ten minutes they both approached the door at the end of the tunnel. It was just made form metal. There was no distinguishing feature about the door. Rias pulled a lever that Naruto had not noticed and the door slid to the side with a screech that almost made Naruto tear his ears off.

The room beyond was something you would expect from a destroyed lab. Huge glass tubes and pods filled with bubbling emerald green liquid. A disheveled and scattered office area as papers and writing apparatus littered the floor. Desiccated corpses of Humans and other species of sentient races spread out on various operating tables colored black from dried blood. In a glass case hung high of the left side of the lab were two sets of wings, one from a flying reptile since the wings were made of membrane and were covered with gray scales in Various places. And the other wing was fiery red with wisps of flames still coming off of it.

The smell of death was in the air, though Naruto was not sure what death smells like, but if it ever had a scent, it would be safe to say this lab portrayed it. He could hear water dripping from a faulty pipe, and a low breathing almost like something was sleeping.

" Humans, why have you come here? Have you finally come for Norman Osborn? Did Aizen finally remembered that he left me here. He left me behind, he left me behind. He made me change, he made me strange."

Naruto felt a chill flow down his spine from the sound of the deranged conversation, he could hear the footsteps beyond the shadows of the lab, he could hear the humming and hissing of machinery. Whoever Norman is, he has probably lost his mind due to the years of isolation and solitude.

Naruto exchanged subtle glances with Rias as they leaned their backs against each other. They could not exactly pinpoint the origin of the voice or who owned it. It was like a scene from a horror movie, the part where the ghosts sucks their souls and brains and probe them for good measure. But Naruto was not sure ghost could probe.

At the thought of ghosts Naruto's heart sped up. He shivered in fright as memories of his childhood arose. Naruto was deathly terrified of ghosts. He never seemed to outgrow that weakness. But his trip down memory lane was stopped as the voice began to speak again. And this time with clear aggression.

" if you have come for Norman, it is to late, to late…. ITS TO LATE!!!!!!! Hahahaha. There is no Norman, no more Norman Osborn, no, no not at all. There's only the green Goblin. Dieeeee!!!"

The sudden appearance of the eight foot and four hundred plus pounds of green muscled skin and height almost made Naruto pee his pants. What's worse, this Goblin seemed to be gliding on some sort steam and magic powered glider as he flew around the room heading straight for a clear target. Them.

Naruto and Rias dodged the glider as the sharpened blades on its edges sliced through the air above them. Right above the Head of the now revealed Goblin on steroids was the name.

[Norman Osborn the mutated Green Goblin( Boss) level 70]

Norman was unique in a way that of all the monsters Naruto had faced, he had two health bars floating above his head. Of course, none of that would mean anything with a well placed blow to the heart, but the fact of the matter is if they were conservative in this fight and were not smart about how to deal damage. This bastard will outlast them, and then they would be singing a different tune.

With no time to prepare the Green goblin charged at them with his glider. There was no backing down now, it was time to go all by. Naruto unequipped his shield, and then he charged.