(AN: Hey guys this is my first attempt to write a story hope you guys like it. It's a Combination out the game Overlord and some Vampire universes like Legacy of Kain and World of Darkness. Also I must inform you that English is not my first language and I don't have a Beta Reader so please if you see any mistakes see over them. Also I don't know when I can update this story I'm rather busy in the future but I you enjoy this and please Review.)

Chapter 1: Forgotten

The seven Heroes.

From far and near the bards sing their songs about the seven heroes. The heroes who fight against the Overlord, the one who brought darkness over the lands. He who enslaved thousand of Humans, Dwarves, Elves and Halflings. And many more where killed in his bloody conquest of destruction and domination. From each of the seven heroes the Overlord killed at least one person they held dear.

Goldo the Dwarf of the group, he has (as you might already can guess from his name) a small obsession with gold and beer. After every battle he would loot the bodies of his enemies after golden and alcoholic item, but he never stole from anyone and when he takes the gold from his enemies he usually says something like

"That bloody bastard ain't even got a head so for what does he need that gold."

Goldo was the younger of two children in the royal Dwarven family. When the Overlord invaded the Golden Hills the homeland of the dwarves, Goldos brother was commanding the border defenses was defeated and a week later box with the man's head arrived at the royal palace. The Overlords forces annihilated the Dwarven defenses and it wasn't long till the Royal Palace was reached.

As the Palace was overrun, Goldo was ready to stand by the side of his father and fight to the end.

Goldo walked inside the great hall where they were meant to make their last stand, the gold of the statues of his grandfathers glittering in light of the torches a sight Goldo was found of even now he could not help but stare at the Gold. The Echo of his father's voice made him focus again as he shouted to make the Royal Guard ready for their last battle.

"Soldiers of the Dwarven Kingdom fighting alongside you is filling my old heart with pride, the stone waiting for us, a feast alongside our ancestors is waiting for us, but I say let them wait this may be our last battle but we won't go alone. In the years to come they will know that for each of us dozens of them fell. Now let's get going, drinks on me at the other side!"

With that the warriors cheered, shouted battle cries and made them self ready for the attack.

Goldo approached his father and said "Nice speech now let's make them pay for the lives they took."

"We will but you will take tunnels and leave." The old man answered.

"WHAT ARE YOU INSANE?!" Goldo screamed in rage.

"Listen son," the old Dwarf placed a hand on Goldos shoulder and said "If both of us die today then our entire line will be destroyed. You have to leave. Only through that the survival of our family is ensured."

"I'll not leave you behind!" Goldo shouted.

"Here only death awaits you when you die here our line will be wiped out, but when you leave you have the chance to avenge our people and to destroy the Overlord. This is why I ask you to leave." The old dwarf finished and looked into the eyes of his son.

Goldo was given the choice to stay and die like a warrior or leave like a coward but to avenge his family later.

"I'll go." Said Goldo but in his voice you could hear that he fought against the tears.

"Thank you son." The sound of a ram hitting the gate to the hall made them both turn to the direction. "They're coming. You must leave quickly."

Goldo stood still, he knew this would be the last time he would see his father and a single tear came down his face "Father I promise you that one day I'll ram my axe through this bastards head."

"I know, son," with that the Father hugged his son and then said "Make me and our ancestors proud out there." with that they parted from each other and the old then turned around and rushed to the other defenders.

Goldo stood still for a second then ran to the tunnels. When he reached them the sound of battle echoed through the halls and stopped for a second.

'I should fight with them and not run like a coward' He stood still for another second 'Overlord, you will pay for this' he thought.

Then he ran through the tunnels as fast as he could till he reached the end.

As he came out the chilling night air and the Full moon greeted him. He took several deep breaths before he continued till he could see the palace in the distance.

Flames.

That was all that was left of the place he spent all of his live. The sight was too much for him to bear as he sank to his knees and the tears he had been holding back flowed down his face freely.

"OVERLORD" Goldo screamed as loud as he could "YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS AND I SWEAR THAT I WILL KILL YOU."

"Then it seems that we have the same goal" a voice spoke behind Goldo.

Goldo spun around his battleaxe in his right hand and ready to face whoever had spoken.

Confusion would be the best word to describe what Goldo felt at this moment. In the moonlight he could see a Human with a long beard and clothed in a blue robe and a staff in his right hand. Next to him was a woman clothed in leather armor and several daggers on her.

Then there were two other man in front of Goldo, one was clad in full plate mail armor with a long sword on his belt and a shield on his left arm. The other had like the women leather armor but instead of daggers he had a sword on his side and a bow and quiver on his back.

Goldo almost didn't noticed the last in the group a small person that didn't wore any armor but two daggers sheathed on each side of it hip, judging by the size the person the daggers would feel like long swords to it. Why "It" because Goldo couldn't tell if it was a man or a women.

"Come with us," The old man spoke "and you shall get your revenge"

Goldo still held his weapon ready for battle and said,"Why should I trust you? And who are you by the way?"

"Because you cannot defeat the Overlord on your own thus you will need allies and trust me we all have reasons to wish that Overlord dies as soon as he can. For your second question call me the Wizard"

Goldo was thinking over his options. The Wizard was right he could not defeat the Overlord alone but he had also no reason to trust them they could be spies or something, which would bring him to the Overlord and ….

Well being brought to the Overlord would at least give him a chance to take his revenge.

Goldo let out a sigh and decided, "Fine I'll come with you but this better be not a trap"

The Wizard smiled and said "It isn't." with that said the Wizard raised his staff and a portal was created behind Goldo, which startled him and then also jumped away from it.

The Wizard behind Goldo placed a hand on his should and said "Come, we have work to do"

The Wizard then stepped through the portal and vanished. Goldo stood there with eyes wide he certainly didn't expected that. He stared at a few seconds at the portal and with a deep breath he stepped inside.

And so Goldo became part of the band of heroes.

He quickly got to know the other heroes the small person was called Melvin who was a Halfling and he was small even for Halfling. The man came from a Halfling village close to the human settlement Spree which was one of the villages to under the Overlords reign. Melvin's family was enslaved stayed so a long time. Melvin's family died one by one in the mines in which they were working if it was through a collapsing tunnel or as punishment for something they did. After his sister and last relative died he managed to escape. In the wilds he found the Wizard and was the first to join him.

The second one was William and was the armored man. He is a Paladin and the last one of his order. Williams order was almost completely wiped out from the assault of the Overlord. William was one of a group that managed to escape and from day one they were hunted like animals, so long till only he was left. By coincidence Melvin and the Wizard stumbled upon as William lay badly wounded in the middle of the road. Given a chance to wipe the great shadow of the Overlord from existence he joined them and so there were 3.

The fourth then was the one with the bow his name was Oberon an Elf from the Evernight forest. While most Elves train magic Oberon barely knew how to use spells he simply favored the sword and the bow over magic. While this was something some Elves saw that a waste of the gift the Mother-Goddess gave the Elves. But it was his skill in weapons that made him survive through the attacks of the Overlord against Evernight since many of the evil forces used magic that seemed to repel most of the elf magic. And so Oberon defended his homeland against the armies of evil.

Oberon saw many of his kind die and it took its toll, Oberon grew more and more tired of the war and searched for a way to end as quickly as possible. When the Wizard, Melvin and William appeared and told Oberon about their plan he agreed and came with them.

The fifth one was a woman called Jewel. Jewel was an orphan and very early in her life she began to steal but not for herself but for the other orphans. Over the years she trained herself pick pocketing, lock picking, sneaking, alchemy which she use to make smoke bombs and non-lethal poisons etc. also she knew some tricks with daggers. When the Overlord and his armies came things went bad for Jewel the Overlord took everything valuable and what could've helped the orphans to live. When the Orphanage couldn't pay the taxes the Overlord demanded it was swiftly set on fire.

Fortunately for Jewel the Wizard and the others came to their rescue. While most survived some were caught in the flames after the heroes brought the children to safety Jewel asked the heroes if she could join them in order to make the Overlord pay for what he has done and they accepted.

After Goldos joining a seventh hero came and his name was Kahn and he was a half-Giant. Kahn was born in an itinerant-circus and never knew his parents. When the Overlord raided the circus he killed most of people only Kahn was left alive and because of his incredible strength he was forced to do the hardest work in the Overlords Empire. After some time the heroes came and rescued Kahn together with a lot of other slaves. Kahn not knowing where to go asked the heroes if he could join them and since you could always need a half-Giant double the height of any normal human the Heroes accepted his offer.

Later Kahn and Jewel became a couple which later became an inspiration for bards to write songs about love being able to grow even in the darkest of times.

So the Bards made their songs about the heroic deeds against the Overlord. And like in many cases before history forgot about someone. The truth is that it were not seven but eight heroes.

This Hero was a woman and that was the only thing you could be sure of her. She usually had a black cloak over herself that went down to her feet and a hood that hid most of her face under a deep shadow from time to time people could see the lower half of her face which didn't gave much away except of her pale skin. Something only few saw were her hands and those who saw them usually kept silent about it her because her hands were claws! Not just fingers with long fingernails. No, her fingers were from the tips to the knuckles solid bone like material how she moved them like fingers nobody knew.

But why no songs about the eight Hero, why no tales of heroic deeds and why no tale of her heritage?

The answer was rather simple, because nobody knew anything about her. One day when the heroes returned from one of their missions against Evil she was simply with them. When people asked about her name, where she came from or anything else the heroes avoided the questions and she stayed silent as always.

Silence is a good word to describe her. She never said anything, nobody knew her name and while others celebrated she watched in silence, while others trained she watched in silent. Come to think of it she never ate and the only thing she ever drank was from her drinking tube and even that was rare.

She was simply the mysterious woman with weird hands nobody wanted to talk about. And so was forgotten from history.

Well enough about the Heroes personal history let's go to the Heroes greatest deed they ever accomplished.

The destruction of the Overlord and his empire of Evil.

After a long march the Eight arrived at the Dark Tower which isn't just a name, thick black clouds were blocking out the sunlight the only light that shone on the tower were the torches on the guard posts and a regularly lighting from the sky both made it actually just scarier than it already was.

The Heroes arrived and were greeted by could have been roughly one thousand of these small goblin like creatures. While the brown creatures were the "meat" of the army and for each one the Heroes slay ten seem take its place. The red ones constantly letting fire rain upon them which meant for the Wizard to maintain a constant fire shield over the group. The green ones were probably the most dangerous ones while everyone is busy with something those little creatures would come and stab you in the back if not for their lack of hygiene which gave the Heroes a hint when they would strike again. The blue ones were alone the least threat to the Heroes if they would not have the ability to resurrect the other creatures.

But after a long (and bloody) ascent they finally arrived in the Throne room with a fully black armored Overlord the helmet only showing his red glowing eyes. As he was sitting in his throne and looked more annoyed than scared about the Heroes who just slaughtered themselves through almost his entire army.

After a moment of silence the Dark Lord stood up and with a voice which almost felt like it shaking the very ground he said "WHAT DO YOU WANT!"

Nobody in the group ever heard the Overlords voice before and was a little shocked, before they could answer the Overlord spoke again "IS IT GOLD YOU SEEK? I HAVE MORE I COULD EVER SPEND. IS IT WOMEN OR KNOWLEDGE I HAVE ENOUGH OF ALL THESE THINGS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO GET THEM IS TO KNEEL BEFORE ME!"

There was a silence a few seconds and then Oberon spoke "We've just slain a big part of your armies and now you want to bribe us to join you."

"WHY NOT, ONLY A HANDFUL OF PEOLPLE IN THIS WORLD COULD DO A TASK LIKE THAT SO WHY NOT TRY TO-"

"Stop talking and start killing that bastard 'cause that's what we're here for" the Eight hero shouted and with that the Heroes prepared to attack.

"HOW DISSAPOINTING." muttered the Overlord as he draw his sword which glowed in a dark and sinister way.

It was a long battle and the creatures from before took their toll from the Heroes, exhausted and tired they fought but no one complained. They knew what was at stake here. Only their outstanding teamwork saved them from almost certain death situations. The thing that made the battle harder than it actually would have been was the Overlords armor, everything the Heroes threw at him was repelled from the armor no matter if spell, arrow, sword or anything else. And when they finally managed to do any damage it swiftly repaired itself.

The sword wasn't much better it sliced itself through everything the heroes put in its way. It didn't matter if it was a shield spell, armor or a pillar that the heroes used as cover for his spells.

And the spells, well the Overlord seemed quite found of the idea to burn everything in the Throne room that wasn't himself.

After a long battle the heroes found themselves behind a magical shield created by the Wizard and William.

The Overlord laughed at the sight of the heroes cowering behind the shield, wounded and weak. He clapped and then said "IMPRESSIVE, A SHAME YOU CHOOSE TO FIGHT ME BUT WELL TIME TO DIE!"

The Dark Lord then prepared a final spell to roast the Heroes alive, but at the moment he wanted to release the spell and seal the fate of the Heroes, his glowing red eyes caught something a small detail and yet important enough to make him stop instantly.

There were only seven of the Heroes inside the shield.

When he was about to look the last one something jumped on his back and before he could do anything to get it of him. Two clawed hands came and buried themselves deep inside his throat, and if that wasn't enough the hands then began to tear the Overlord head from his body.

Without its head the Overlord sank to his knees blood spurting out of his body and then followed by a thick black fog with a crimson red core seeped out of the once so powerful Overlord.

The Wizard and William let the shield fall and everyone was silent as if they couldn't believe that it was finally over. The eight hero stood behind the body the head still in her right hand.

Then the Dark Tower quaked and the Heroes struggled to stay on their feet.

"The Tower is collapsing we need to get out of here quick" shouted the Wizard.

With that the Heroes ran as fast as they could to the nearest exit. The Overlord body was mysteriously now floating above the ground and the Dark Energy now surrounding the body to the point where you could barely see it any longer.

While the others ran the eight Hero waited, she watched the scene with great interest. Her long cloak burned during the battle and it remains quickly discarded revealing her black hair that went almost to her shoulders. And she stared at the scene in front of her. Her eyes had the same color as the blood that was coating her clawed hands.

'Now I will finally be free from the old fool's leash.' She thought.

With that the body of exploded into Evil Energy which shook the whole tower to brink of collapsing and unfortunately the blast sent the hero flying as well.

When she regained her senses again she thought 'By the Abyss how could I forget that he would blow up. Where am I anyway?'

Then she noticed that she was falling down somewhere into complete darkness she fell further and further. And when the Hero realized that there was only one thought in her mind.

'This is going to hurt.'

She hit the ground hard. And hard means that probably every bone in her body broke.

As the hero was lying there she realized that that was the end for her. She could not move an inch so broken was her body.

'Great job, Ariel. First you get caught by some morons, then you finally figure out a way to escape and then that way spontaneously blew up, almost killing you in the process, only to have a very slow and painful death. Great job.' She thought sarcastic.

When she opened her eyes a bit she then saw a red glowing energy above her. The smirk that formed on her lips was more painful than you would think but she couldn't help herself.

'Now that's convenient' she thought.

The energy came down upon her flowed and from her mouth and nose inside her body. Her body shook as the energy merged with her. It was painful, but yet Ariel felt great joy from this.

When the flow stopped Ariel felt more tired than ever before and with the smirk on her face the darkness was claiming her mind.

Her head fell to the side and as she began to close her eyes she saw two golden orbs in the darkness. And the last thing she heard before she fell into a deep slumber was.

"Evil always finds a way."

(AN: So what do you guys think pleas Review and thanks for reading.)