And the story list gets longer, everyone I am here to introduce you all to my latest story in the lineup: OPM: Fallen King! I had this idea swimming through my mind when I looked into the Monster Invasion arc of the Manga after hearing and watching some of season 2 and a couple of Youtube videos.
Point out any mistakes you see and speak out your opinion about the chapter and be respectful for that of others.
Also stay tuned for an important announcement at the end of this chapter, don't worry it's nothing bad.
Now lets begin everyone!
Chapter 1: Downfall
Within my throne room I sit on my oversized throne, the rapid tapping of my claws being the only sound that fills the room as my head rests on my hand. Damn I'm bored, I've already conquered the subterraneans and making them my slaves and all, and I'm not even interested in ruling the humans, they're too easy for me and plus I'm not even a fan of sunlight. There's nothing exciting for me to do at all, many I should try expanding into the undersea kingdom, I've heard the Sea King is one hell of a fighter. But the water would be too much of a hassle to deal with so no.
I yawn as I continue to think of other stuff to do, flashing my serrated teeth to no one but my body guard Renga who is currently stands unmoving next to me with her big-as-hell spear axe at hand. I just notice something though, despite being a head shorter than me she can wield that oversize hunk of sharp metal like it's nothing despite that being the size of me. In fact if it wasn't for the blood red skin, amber eyes, and those three blade-like horns on her forehead then she would look just like a human woman with super strength.
Also I can finally examine her outfit properly since she is usually killing my enemies in my name. So let's see, starting from the top her hair is messy and in a ponytail and is a brighter shade of red. She's wearing her usual attire consisting of a black tank top, metal shoulder and forearm armour with off her toned upper arms showing which no doubt contribute to her strength; along with a pair of belted dark grey pants and large black boots which I believe have metal in them since I heard her say that about them at some point. There's still that back holster that she uses to carry her spear axe but I really see her actually use that around me. She really is built like a warrior, fortunately she's an absolute fanatic of mine and would follow any order I gave out to her no matter how ridiculous. One time I made her dance like a chicken just so I can laugh, maybe I should do something like that again.
"Are you alright lord ? Is there any demand you have of me?" Renga asked in curiosity and concern noticing my attention to her.
"I am my servant, I'm merely bored that's all." I responded while facing towards the door again.
"Is there anything I can do to quell your boredom my lord? I am at your every command." She faces towards me and straightens her whole body out as to accentuate her statement. Knowing her she'll be persistent in trying to improve my wellbeing weather it's executing someone I dislike or try giving me massages whenever I feel sore, which she is surprisingly good at.
"Perhaps..." I start thinking about what I should make my servant do for a few seconds, thinking whether I should make her-*BOOM*- a muffled explosion followed by a strong tremor derailed my thoughts startling me. What the hell is happening now?! Renga and I quickly looked around to find the source of this disturbance when another muffled explosion brings forth another tremor causing rubble from above to rain down on us.
Shortly after a subterranean bursts through the door and quickly closing it behind him. He turns back around and holds the door closed as he breathes heavily from whatever he was running from.
"Master, we are under attack!" The subterranean yelled in complete fear as he starts shaking uncontrollably.
"By who?"
"We don't know but they're cutting through our forces in droves, we can't hold them ba-" My minion was cut off when a large explosion bursts open the door sending him and the two door frames flying until they all land right in front of me.
I look down at the smoldering and unmoving corpse of my minion before I look back up to be met with a large humanoid figure almost the size of my doorway walking through the inferno. When it cleared the flames I can easily see the appearance of the intruder.
My opponent's body is completely consisted of what looks like the bodies of serpents all entangled together taking the appearance of muscles. On his shoulders, knees and wrist these serpents seem to come out of serpent heads, hell even his claws look like creatures that are throwing up giant spikes of bone. The head however looks much more human though it looks like a mask with black voids in place of where the eyes should be and large bone like horns arching up in the shape of a crown. I think this guy is lowkey mocking me just with that. On top of all that is a cape connected to what resembles somewhat of a heart.
I then noticed a much smaller and far less intimidating figure walking beside it with it only making it to the height of the larger monster's ankle. It's appearance doesn't help as it's short, green, and pudgy with two legs and four arms all short by comparison. The head consists of only one large eye with a bunch of arms sticking out like a fine.
"Greetings, I am Gyoro Gyoro and this here is Orochi, the true monster king! Despite our intrusion we come to you with a choice: either join us as one of the first council members of the newly born Monster Association or simply be thrown aside to make way for more suitable subjects." The creature known as Gyoro Gyoro announces as loudly as, what I presume is a she, can. Is this one serious? There is no other monster king but I and I don't care what position I am, I serve no one and that's that!
"You're a fool to think that the great king will accept that offer!" My red skin bodyguard yelled in protest clearly furious with the pudgy little monster's statement. Though a king should still keep a tight leash on even the most royal of subjects.
"Do not speak for me Renga." I stand up stretching my arms out as to prep them for the oncoming conflict. "You think me a fool to serve under the likes of you tiny one? All serve me and I serve none and those that oppose will parish. Let your master speak for himself like I do if he is as much of a king that you claim him to be." I proclaim as I walk a few feet from my throne smirking cockenly.
"If you insist young, arrogant one. I, Orochi, come here to create the Monster Association. If you refuse to join then you will know only defeat." The beast now named Orochi says with a low and booming voice. Oh yeah this guy can certainly talk the talk but let's see if he can walk the walk, my entertainment depends on it.
"My answer is still never." Green, flame-like energy starts to surle around me before rising into a tower of bright green light. Inside, my body starts to grow and morph as my more human-like features start to become more beastly. My head expands and becomes more lizard-like as two large horns arc upward and my eyes are filled with nothing but energy. My body grows with thick armor plating to match. My claws grow to the length of my original arms and my legs become more muscular as to support my new form. As the energy twister dissipated it reveals my much stronger form of myself that matches the size of my intruder. A flaming aura emits from the gaps of my armor showing my immense excitement for this battle."Renga, take on his little friend, the serpent enthusiast is mine." My now bellowing voice fills the room as I assert my dominance.
"Yes my Lord!" She bears a smile as wide as her face as she dashes for Gyoro Gyoro at the same moment as I towards Orochi. This is it, the fight I've waited for, or hopefully so or else I would've been hyped up for absolutely nothing.
I cocked my fist back as I make the first strike against this so called king and before even a second I throw my punch at him. He immediately blocks my first strike thought the impact has sent him back quiet the distance. He recovers quickly and retaliates with a series of strikes of his own and I admit they have some notable force behind them. This is great, he isn't talking out of his ass then! I step up my in my abilities as materialize my energy around my hands like gauntlets as dig my hands into the earth beneath me sending the energy right towards my opponent causing it to break apart before quickly reaching him. A large explosion engulfs the entirety of him in in a great pillar of fire bathing the entire room in green light that overpowers all other light sources in the room.
I admire my handiwork as smoke covers the entire area, I haven't used that in a while, it felt good to be honest.
This was cut short when I narrowly dodge what looks like a tendril that was meant for my head, however one of my horns gets cut clean off before I feel a powerful shockwave from it. I look back to see that the tendril is only one of many on his head. He also seems to be completely unharmed from my last attack, this guy is far tougher than I thought. Good then, looks like I'm going all out for the first time in my entire life, this is a great opportunity to see the full extent of my power!
I grin from ear to ear at this very thought as I begin to bring up all my power from within causing my already violent aura to flare into a raging inferno. I speed right towards him in a blur for my next round of attacks but Orochi's tendrils begin their assault as well. Despite my best efforts to dodge them some of them make contact with me making holes within my armour. I then feel numbness in my left leg causing me to tumble ungracefully and violently to the ground until I land right in front of him.
I look to see that my left leg is gone but I quickly look up to see the silhouette of the lifeless face of my pretender looking down at me. I wasted no time as I focused my power into the ground below us, hoping to stager my rival and give me the edge, but lose all feeling in my arms as two more shockwaves hit me. I soon saw that both my arms are gone, no doubt from the tendrils.
Damnit! I need to do something now! I start to summon my ethereal power once again but before any progress can be made I start to feel my entire body being torn apart rapidly, the pain is sharp and quick with each strike until it stopped as soon as it ended.
Trying to take advantage of the pause I try to move my body but I'm only met with an unresponsive body followed by more numbness. With my body no doubt torn asunder I am helpless before my opponent's feet while staring at the floor. How can this happen, I'm the true Monster King, how can I be defeated by some nobody!?
I suddenly feel myself become weightless and see myself moving away from the ground and away from Orochi until I was brought in front of his partner and what else I see only infuriates me even more: the floating unmoving and badly beaten body of Renga.
"This could've all been avoided if you had just accepted our offer Batearis, you and your servant would've made fine warriors for our organization. But that's the thing with those like you, you're you too stubborn for your own good." Why that insolent little bastard! I spat a glob of energy at her aiming right for her eye but it stopped right in front of her and was thrown back right at me hitting me in my left eye adding to the hatred for these two impotent bastards as the spit itself began to sting. "Whatever, others will take your place anyways so this isn't going to be too much of a loss." She replied in a more irritated tone and I start to feel my neck start to tighten and in seconds it snapped and my head falls limp before the bodies of me and my fallen guard are sent flying out my throne room and into the numerous corpses of both my own monsters and the subterraneans.
This is humiliating, now I, the true Monster King Batearis, am now a corpse in the pile of many as my pretenders take my throne and tear down all that I worked for. I can't believe all this is happening and I'm helpless to stop it now, I'm a helpless corpse and all that serve me are now dead or dying around me.
I just can't believe all of this is happening…
…
No! I won't believe that this is happening, I won't die as a miserable corpse! I am the King of ALL monsters and I will not stand for this, not here not now!
I start to gather all the strength that I have left and begin to gather my energy in one last ditch effort to try anything to help me and as this energy builds up inside me what's left of my body begins to lose feeling before any sign of life in them disappears. Now what is left is my consciousness within a ball of my own energy floating above my broken body, this is a disgrace, no arms and just one leg that is connected to a body that can't even support a subterranean weigh. As for Renga, her body is unusable to me as it's broken to head to toe, in fact she would've been even more useful alive, damn that cyclops. I have no time to recollect wvdv ĺhat just happened, this vessel won't last forever, I must find a much more suitable one even if I need to leave the caves in their entirety so I set off into the dark caves ahead leaving the burning ruins of my kingdom behind.
Hours later
I fly through the dark trees and foliage of the surface as I continue to search for a worthy vessel for me to inhabit but so far I found nothing of the sort with the underground having nothing and the best I've found up here were just some furry creatures of various shapes and sizes. Throughout this journey I can feel myself slowly but surely lose a little bit more of what's left of myself and it only gets harder to hold myself together than before. I continue to zoom pass the greenery as I hasten my search for whatever I can find looking in every conceivable croner for anything I can find. So far nothing but leaves, dirt, and weak little animals that are absolutely useless to me are what I can find.
I make a left at the next break of trees as I continue my search only to encroach upon something odd, a circular metal door embedded into the ground, and from the looks of it it's not been used for some time. Surely something of use has to be down there and it seems to be the only way inside whatever this structure is. I look for any leaks in the hatch only to find a small hole at its base and without hesitation I push myself against the hatch and start slipping into the breach little by little until I got my entire being inside. I go down the tunnel the hatch is connected to only to find a dark and desolate hallway that bore the same sort of condition as the hatch but with various claw and scorch marks alongside the numerous ruined remains of some sort of metal being scaling the entirety of the passageway.
Damnit, don't tell me that the place is abandoned! I'm on the verge of tearing apart and the only plausible place for me to recover is abandoned!? This can't be it for me, I didn't come all this way just to die alone in this metal tombe!
*clang*
Wait, what was that? That sounded like metal hitting against metal, that doesn't happen on its own, which means I'm not alone, and that I have a potential vessel to take over. I immediately fly to the source of the noise as fast as I can zooming past the silent hallways like a green projectile. The halls seem to never end as I continue to make numerous rights and lefts and even through the occasional door and shafts leading down already making me grow impatient by the second.
Just when said impatience was reaching its tipping point I see a visible light source at the other end of the hallway that I'm in and my excitement grew as I rush towards it. When I reached it, my excitement grew at what I bear witness: a worthy vessel.
5 Minutes earlier
? P.O.V
I look at my invention growing in the stasis pod in front of me in pride as the accumulation of all the work of me and my deceased compatriots is nearly complete and is entering the final stages of growth. It's sleek, black, metallic skin is nearly completely formed as the blue highlights start to show making a much clearer image of our assassin. If only the others can see it now, maybe I should get that champagne out in celebration, after all the calculations show that this one actually works unlike the previous one.
I head into a storage room nearby and opened the door and the first thing I see is the champagne bottle behind a photo of me and my former colleagues all huddled up for the picture as we started the "Icarus" automated micro-bot battle unit. I approached the two objects and grabbed the picture and examine it looking at each member in the picture.
John, Martin, Jack…
Calie.
I miss her, we were close, in fact we were so close that the others teased us for being a couple whenever we worked which really got on her nerves specifically since she is usually so focused on her work. I always thought that she looked good with her orange hair in a bun along with her glasses, it really fitted well with her timid yet feisty personality. For a time I actually thought of getting together with her at some point but that was before we were...never mind that I have something to celebrate about even if it's alone.
What the, where did I put that corkscrewer at? I swear that I put it next to the bottle. I put the picture back with the bottle and started to search for the screw among the various spare parts and tools in the storage closet knocking a couple down causing a loud clanging to fill the entire room and beyond. I've grown so used to the silence of the lab for so long that the clanging irritated my ears as I continue to find the screw. I swear I've left it somewhere here, where did I put it? Maybe after the celebration I should reorganize this closet like I should've done before, but that's what I get for focusing too much on my work, but I'm sure Calie would be no better either.
For what seems like a few minutes I continue to rummage through the various objects making sure that nothing else makes a loud noise again. It was until I find it at the very back of all the stuff how in the world did it end up here of all places? Whatever, I remove myself from all that stuff as I scruff off all the dust on my lab coat.
It was then I start to hear what sounds like static electricity right behind me so I immediately look right behind me to see what looks like green energy arcing from the stasis tube with the subject spasming inside. I ran out into the room to investigate this phenomenon myself and what I bear witness is horrifying as the body began to grow some sort of scale-like growth throughout its entire body as the once blue highlight emit the same green energy inside the tube.
I tried to access the terminal in front of it but I get struck by the energy making me stagger back away from it forcing me to watch as the machine further mutates into a more organic form before I see two lights that look like eyes form on the face follow by a tooth filled mouth. It continued to flare around now looking like it's gasping for air before it studied itself causing the energy to die down a little. It looked at me briefly before it cocked back an arm and strike the glass causing a shockwave that shatters the glass and spilling the stasis fluid all over the floor in front of it. I cover my face in response as glass shards fly everywhere and a heavy thud sound off in front of me.
I look to see that my creation laying on the floor among the glass with the fluid still dripping from its body. I examine it and to my horror I see what was once my clean and sleek assassin is now some sort of scaly creature in front of me as it recovers from its escape. It looks up at me with glaring emerald green eyes before it begins to crawl towards me with clear hostile intent. I tried to flee from my former creation but I felt it grab my leg causing my to fall over. Before I can recover it crawls right over me before using the same arm to grab hold of my neck vurtualy pinning me to the ground.
I tried in vain to release its clawed grip around my neck for a few seconds but gave up knowing my situation. I look up to lock eyes with the monster as it bared its teeth at me and snarling at me like some rabid dog. I close my eyes tightly while I begin to hyperventilate awaiting for my inevitable demise. I can hear it's growling come right in front of my face before it ceases.
"This body...what does it do?" My god, what has this machine become?
I hope that you all enjoyed that chapter now for that announcement.
I'll now upload a chapter of this story and A Life Worth Molding, my Starcraft story, every weekend weather it's one or the other or even both at around Friday through Sunday. This is because now I have only work to worry about so the schedule is cleared up a little more and I'm taking advantage of that before the next classes start. The second is that I hate leaving these two stories unfinished since they have become my favorites personally and I, and I know you, would like to see at least the former story to finished if you've been following me for that long.
Now for the fun fact of the day:
Honey is the only food that never spoils meaning that it makes a great long term bunker food.
With all of that done for the day I hope that you all have a great day or night wherever you may be.