"What is that?"
"Oh this." Dante held up the gun for Naruto to see. It's a needle gun, but it only works underwater. I found it while you were busy." Dante said before keeping the needle gun in his spatial storage.
"Since it only works underwater then why keep it."
"We don't know what to expect so it might come in handy."
"If you say so." Naruto frowned and turned around to walk up the stairs in this section of the ship. Dante quietly followed behind him without hiding the smirk on his face which only served to infuriate Naruto. He could tell that Naruto was still mad from the cheap shot earlier. They walked through the door at the top of the stairs which leads onto the deck of the ship.
"This is a huge ship." Naruto exclaimed. True to his words the ship could be considered big since it has three separate masts with a cauldron on each part and on the main mast. the ship was split into three different people arts housing each masts. The view from outside was nothing compared to inside.
Are we really going to search around this huge ship?"
Bong.
"Ow." Naruto held his head and glared at Dante who had knocked his head. "What was that about for!"
"Use your head for once dummy."
"Wha..." He stopped whatever he was about to say when he saw where Dante was pointing at. He looked up to the door at the stern of the ship with two glowing swords crossed over it.
"Hey wait!" Dante was already walking up the stairs so he quickly ran up to catch up.
Hey kid, there's something written on it." Dante said as he stared at the writing on it.
Naruto grumbled under his breath as he walked up to Dante. "Can't you read it yourself for once."
Dante raised a brow when he heard that and said. "If I was going to do everything myself then why did I need to bring you along."
Naruto walked up to the door with an unpleasant look on his way.
"It reads; I am the ship that carries the wandering souls on the brink of the underworld. Protect the ship and you shall be given the Fire of Saint Elmo
"The underworld huh. Looks like we are on the right track." Dante said thoughtful expression.
"Protect the ship? From what?"
Scwring.
Clank.
Naruto blocked a scythe that appeared out of the door. Sparks flew around as the blades made contact.
"I take it that it's from you then." Naruto said as a body slowly emerged out from the door like a spirit. First it was a skeleton hand followed by the rest of it body before the death scythe fully emerged. Fire surrounded the scythe in it hand.
Dante pulled out alastor when he saw the death scythe fully surface. Lightning dancing around the blade. The two of them quickly got to work on it. The death scythe slashed down on Naruto who parried it with purgatory. This stunned the death scythe which Dante immediately took advantage of. Alastor dished out a series of lightning fast attacks not giving the death scythe anytime to react before he ended it with an aerial stinger.
On cue, three more death scythes appeared around them engaging in a fierce battle. The red chakra cloak appeared around naruto with a single tail serving as his defense. The red cloak tail blocked out any attacks that Naruto might have missed. Dante was like a punching machine with Ifrit on. The death scythes were reduced to nothing more than punching bags for him.
"IT'S MINE!" Naruto and Dante charged at the last death scythe together. Naruto spinned on his heel like a spintop towards the death scythe and Dante charged up Ifrit before jumping at it.
"BUZZSAW!"
"KICK 13!"
The two attacks connected and the death scythe let out a death screech before shattering like glass.
"I had that covered!" Naruto shouted angrily at Dante.
Dante picked his ear with a disinterested look on his face. "As if. I clearly finished it with Ifrit."
"You..." The ship suddenly vibrated interrupting Naruto's sentence. Blue flames lit up three cauldron on each section of the ship and on the main mast. Naruto looked around and noticed that the ship has started moving. It moved down a small waterfall causing him to stumble and nearly fall.
"I guess we are on our way to the underworld now." Dante smirked. The two swords blocking the entrance moved apart unsealing the doorway. Dante was about to reach for the door when he saw a huge shadow pass over him.
"Holy shit it's that fucking bird again." Naruto shouted when he saw the griffon fly over head them to the front of the ship.
"Time to die, you insects." The Giffon flapped it wings the winds caused by it extinguishes the flames on the ship causing the two blades to block the door again.
"This is the end of the road for you."
Naruto held purgatory at the ready while Dante frowned and said.
"That's not for you to decide."
The Griffon screeched loudly causing them to sober their ears from the high pitch sound.
"This fight won't be like last time."