"hahahahahah" Griffon laughed maliciously when the bolt of lightning hit Naruto .
"Naruto!" Dante panicked as was about to rush into the huge light bolt to help Naruto but then the lightning bolt cleared up to reveal a half kneeling Naruto, his body still emitting smoke. Purgatory stabbed into the ground beside him. He would have been badly injured if not for his timely use of the kyūbi chakra cloak.
Seeing him unhurt with only a few light wounds, Dante directed his rage filled eyes to the griffon. He unleashed his devil trigger with full force. The power taking the griffon by surprise.
"How is that possible?" Griffon couldn't believe it eyes when he saw Naruto still alive. That was his strongest lightning attack and the human kid was able to tank it!
"I'll make you regret ever hurting him." Dual wielding force edge and alastor, Dante attacked griffon with a flurry of attacks. His DT granting him resistance to most of it attacks.
Naruto watched from the sidelines, his breathing heavy. Unlike Dante he needed time to recover his chakra, and It had taken everything he had to block that attack but Dante was able to avoid them because of his lightning fast reflexes.
He had be avoiding saying this but the truth was that he had been having trouble keeping up. First the phantom, then the Dark Knight and now this giant demonic bird. It like the further they went the more powerful the demons become.
'I am starting to feel like a burden. Maybe I shouldn't have come.'
Seeing Dante go toe to toe with the bird also drive that point home. After a few minutes of fighting the battle finally reached it climax.
Griffon and Dante clashed one last time but in the end it was Dante who won their little tug of war. A slash from force edge was enough to send the Griffon crashing into a wall.
"Impossible. How could I have lost?" A look of disbelief appeared on the Griffon's face. How could it have lost to such an inferior creature? it just couldn't fathom it.
"It's easy. I'm just stronger than you" Dante taunted with a smug look on his face.
"But that shouldn't be possible" It was servant of the mighty mundus how could it loset a puny human.
"Believe whatever you want. You can think about as much as you want in hell." As Dante said that force edge gained a light hue to it. His body radiated KI as he prepared to put it out to fit misery. "Disappear!" Overdrive flew out like a lightning bolt, rushing towards it target. The attack connected with griffon causing it to let out a pain filled screech but before the attack could do any real damage it disappeared in a stream of lightning.
"He got away" A look of annoyance crossed Dante's face but he quickly wiped it away. He turned around to see Naruto already back to his feet.
"Are you okay, kid?"
"I'm fine" Naruto replied with a depressed smile on his face. To be honest he had been fine for awhile he had just been feeling a little down after nearly being taken out by a single attack.
Ignorant of Naruto's inner conflicts, Dante nodded and said. "The bird managed to escape before I could finish it off, but it shouldn't be coming back for a while."
Pushing his depressing thoughts to the back of his mind Naruto said. "We should probably keep moving before anymore shows up".
"I agree. I just hope we make it in time."
With Griffon defeated, they make way to a door in the area with two alcove and only one of them lit. Dante use Ifrit to ignite flames in the alcoveon the right-hand side of the exit door, causing the door to open. Going through the door lead then into a misty wooded garden.
"This place looks kinda spooky" Naruto pointed out as he observed the scenery.
Dante also looked around and with a glint of mischief in his eyes, said. "It kinda of reminds me of when you still used to be scared of ghost"
"Wh... what?" Naruto nearly stumbled over his own feet when Dante casually revealed one of his most embarrassing moments in his life.
"That was a long time ago!"
"I was just messing with ya" Dante laughed in a way that showed he enjoyed poking fun at Naruto.
"It's not funny! What if somebody heard you?!"
"Who? the ghosts? hahahaha!"
"Dante!"
"Relax kid. The only things here are these trees" Dante gestured at the trees around them.
It took a while for Dante to get Naruto to calm down before making their way to small structure at the far end of the garden with Naruto grumbling under his breathe about stupid adults and their tendency to bully those younger than them.
Dante ignored him and moved to open the door of the structure which resulted in it sealing itself.
Naruto blinked owlishly at this sight and asked. "Is it a trap door again?"
"It is." Dante snawered before sensing something behind him. He turned around to see the arrival of a group of Marionettes followed by a new enemy, theFetish; This is a much stronger and more durable Marionette which can block like a Bloody Mari and has a powerful flamethrower counter-move, as well as the ability to project the burning weapons it carries like yo-yos.
Dante smirked at the marionettes and said. "Looks like the puppets still haven't given up"
Naruto gripped purgatory and grinned as he locked onto the new type of marionette and said. "And they brought their dad with them this time"
"Then let's go say hello"