A/N: Hello everyone and welcome To The Dark One Rises, this is my first story so I ask that you please be patient if there are any problems with grammar, spelling, ect. those will be fixed as time goes on. Also any reviews will be greatly appreciated.
Just to get this out of the way I do not own Overlord or anything connected to it.
Within the depths of the ruined Dark Tower the remaining minions were searching through a side chamber in the spawning pits for anything that might help them find a new master when finally they found something, or rather someone.
I don't know how long I have been laying here stuck somewhere between life and death not even knowing how I got in this damn place or anything. The only thing I see is darkness that reveals nothing. However I do know this, I will make whoever put me in this hell pay dearly and preferably slowly and very painful.
Time continues to pass as I lay still looking into the darkness, when I suddenly hear something shout out, "Here! Here! This one!" in a muffled voice. Then suddenly light assaults my eyes and I see these brown imp like creatures looking down at me with glowing yellow eyes. I try to speak but am interrupted when I see another imp pear over them at me. This one looked different being gray in color, its eyes did not glow, and having some kind of glowing stone hanging above it. Along with the fact that this one was clothed in a set of old robes unlike the others, "Ah yes he will do nicely." it said. The other imps pulled me up and started to place armor on me, where they got it from I am not quite sure. The armor was steel and had the basics along with a worn axe that looked like it had either seen much use or had been forgotten for a long time. The final touch to the armor though was an unique looking gauntlet for my left hand that had a glowing stone embedded into it that looked like the one the grey imp had hanging over its head.
After the grey one finished rambling about something that I wasn't paying attention to, I was finally able to get a word in, " I will do nicely for what exactly? And what the hell are you?" The grey one just looked at me for a moment like I was a simpleton before replying, "Why you will be our new overlord what else? And as for what we are, we are minions loyal servants to darkness and our overlord, and I am Gnarl minion master." I look at Gnarl and thought about the possibilities being this overlord could give me. "Gnarl?" "Yes master?" "What exactly do I get out of being this overlord?" "Why many things, power, riches, death, destruction, revenge and." As soon as I heard revenge my curiosity was piqued and I stopped him "Wait you said revenge." "Of course as the overlord you will have the power to do anything you desire including getting revenge, oh I do love seeing a proper revenge scheme work out it just gives me chills." Gnarl replied as he started to almost have a far off look in his eyes. "Alright Gnarl, you help me get revenge on the person or people who put me in this shithole and I will be your overlord no questions asked." I said with no hesitation already thinking of what I would do to the bastard/s that put me here to begin with. " Well master if you will follow me and I will show you the basics of commanding your minions and then the real fun can begin." Gnarl said with an evil cackle as he stated to exit the chamber. I followed behind him, while the three brown minions ran to catch up with Gnarl.
Once I exited the chamber they found me in I looked around this larger cavern we had entered into. In the center there appeared to be an empty space with rocks spinning around it but there was nothing in the middle. As I went in a little further I noticed four different alcoves that had a unique color to each. Three of them were empty the red, green and blue colored ones. Yet the one that was brown in color had some sort of giant rock thing in the middle that pulsed with energy. As I start to approach it Gnarl spoke up from behind me, " Ah I see that you have noticed the brown minion hive." "Minion hive?" I asked looking at the so called "hive". "Yes you see master we minions are born from lifeforce the energy that powers all living beings, hence the name. If you placed a life force into the brown hive a new brown minion would be spawned. That being said let me introduce you to this area dubbed the spawning pits. If the other hives were here you could summon the other minions. But more on that later, Sire now is the time for you to become acquainted with the browns." "Very well Gnarl let's begin." I said while walking with him back to the center.
"Now Lord this here is a minion gate these allow you to summon minions to your side outside of the Tower." Gnarl said pointing towards a small rock mound with a yellow light coming out of it. "Let me guess brown gates for browns and the other colors for when I retrieve their hives?" I said with a smirk at the fairly simple concept. "Why yes, you are quite bright Sire, better than some other overlords we had in the past. One actually started off hardly knowing which end of a sword was the tip." "How long did he last?" "Oh if memory serves about an hour before he tripped over his feet and stabbed himself." "Pathetic." I said while shaking my head in disgust. "I agree, yet back to the minions, browns are your main shock troops they run straight towards the enemy bashing and killing anything in their way. They are the strongest and most durable out of the minions which helps with their main policy towards killing. Which is to bash, stab, or crush, first and then jump up and down on the corpse later." Gnarl explained with a wave of his hand. "And what are you exactly Gnarl? You don't appear like the browns, first off you seem to have a brain unlike them." I said pointing over my shoulder to two brown minions that had been chasing a rat during our conversation only to run into each other. The third was laughing at his brothers idiocy until the three started to fight each other over what had just happened. Gnarl sighed deeply as he answered, "I am a brown Sire yet I have been around for a very long time, and we minions grow in intelligence with age yet we are usually too stupid to last that long without having a specific role back here in the Tower." he finished.
"That makes sense now how exactly do I control them?" I ask trying to get back on topic. "That is fairly easy master just focus your will through you left gauntlet and think on what you wish them to do, they will receive your orders and carry them out to the best of their abilities. This includes calling them back to yourself." Gnarl explained. I look over to the three browns still fighting, I focus for a moment and sent out a mental command ordering them to stop and come stand behind me. They stood still for a moment before running over to stand behind me. "Excellent Master now follow me to the throne room and we shall begin on the path to restoring the Dark Tower." Gnarl said as he started to head towards a set of stairs leading upwards.
Once we arrived in the "throne room" I took a moment to look around, and I was not impressed at all to say the least. Rubble laid everywhere blocking off several different areas and my so called "throne" looked like a giant slab of stone that someone had just randomly tossed into the middle of the room. "Well my initial statement of calling this place a shithole seems to be quite accurate." I said with a disdainful tone. "Yes this is what happens when you try to be a bastion of evil these days. So called "heroes" lining up to prove themselves taking your hard stolen loot and spells why the last lot was particularly troublesome." Gnarl said while walking towards a viewing edge at the front of the Tower. "What exactly made the last batch troublesome?" I asked having a feeling that something important was about to be told. "Why they killed your predecessor and... well ..I shouldn't say just yet." Gnarl began to trail off.
Yet I was not having any of it "Say what Gnarl" "They may have also." Gnarl started before he was cut off. "Been the ones to almost kill you. Shame they didn't though you aren't what I would call imposing maybe pathetic but not imposing." The minion that spoke up was a old looking brown with a jester hat on and a skull wand. "And what exactly would you know about being imposing you little shit." I asked with the promise of pain and suffering in my words and eyes. "Ah Sire this is the Tower Jester, he is meant to amuse and praise your accomplishments however I feel you have another idea for him." Gnarl asked with the starting of a gleam in his eyes. "The only idea this waste of skin could have is what hole he'll crawl into after getting his sorry ass handed to him. Bah, I bet he couldn't kill a fly sitting in front of him just waiting to die let alone lead minions to cause destruction and death. He's just a waste of time not even worthy of being called overlord." The Jester said with a great deal of disdain in his words.
"Gnarl," I ask my voice very calm in tone, "exactly how long can a brown hold up with no substance at all?" "About two weeks I would say Lord why?" "Minions come." I said and the three came up behind me. "Yes Master?" they asked in unison. " I want you three to take the Jester here and brake all of his bones, then set him in a hanging coffin overlooking a fire pit during the day then at night place him into a iron maiden and under no circumstance is he to be given any food or water. I presume we have the devices mentioned Gnarl?" "Of course Master we do they might be a bit rusty but that will only add to the pain." Gnarl wickedly said with a definite gleam in his eyes and a large tooth filed grin.
"Now wait a moment Sire we don't need to be hasty here." The Jester said slightly backing up. "And you will do this for the next two weeks am I understood." The three browns nod. "Then go." I said waving them off. Before the jester could move he was pick up and carried off to face his punishment. He started raving and cursing me but I tuned him out.
"Now that was a nice warm up for the evil deeds ahead Master." Gnarl said approvingly, glad to see a new overlord that took to evil so easily. "A warm up indeed, now these heroes they are the one that put me in that pit?" " They were Mater I was merely waiting to tell you about them after we returned the Tower Heart, the source of your and the Towers magical power." he says as he walks over to the viewing pool. "This Sire will allow you to transport instantly to any where there is a Tower Gate open, thankfully the pool has enough power left to transport us to the last know location of the Tower Heart." Gnarl explained. "Well what are we waiting for let's get the Tower Heart so I can bring back evil to the land and more importantly get my revenge." I state as I walk into the pool and with a flash Gnarl and myself left the Tower.
Well I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter of the Dark One Rises. Again any review will be greatly appreciated. I will see all of next time take care.
