Disclaimer: Turn around, touch your toes, spin on one finger, bark like a cat. Yeah, that's about as useful as me claiming anything that would actually make me money instead of taking my money.

(Thoughts are in parenthesis just like in the game)

What it Takes to be an Overlord

Chapter One: First Day

Episode 2: Sedative, Please!

"Alright Prinny Triangle!"

"Dood! We're Prinnies, not cheerleaders."

Etna tossed a knife, landing the sharp point only inches from the complaining Prinny. "Sorry, I can't hear you," she sang.

Forming a slightly crooked triangle, the Prinny's began to chant. "E! T! N! A! ETNA! ETNA! Yay! yay. yay."

"Well, they certainly started off strong, but the ending could use some work."

"Huh?" Etna hummed as she turned to inspect her visitor. Leaning against the wall was a girl with blonde hair wearing an apparently expensive dress. "Oh, yeah. Good help is so hard to buy these days."

"Do tell me about it. By the way, who are you? I haven't seen you here before."

"Beauty Queen Etna!" Etna flipped her hair with a quick flick of her wrist. "And who are you… Oh, wait! A dodge ball!"

Etna didn't notice the guy that had appeared on the lawn of the school; only the shinny red ball he carried. She only scrutinized him for a short time before extending her hand. "Letmeseeit! I need your dodge ball for just a minute."

"Sure," the red head spoke with uncertainty. He passed her the ball. "But be careful with it. That's going to get me to the finals!"

"Yes," the blonde said. "Adell here is the school's top dodge ball player."

"Aw! How sweet. Let me guess, you're the popular girl and he's the jock?"

"I am Rozalin, daughter of Principal Zenon, and he is Adell, the only human to attend Demon High."

"Well, I was close enough. Anyway, stand back! I'm aiming for a strike!"

Every Prinny in the triangle began to sweat. "Dood? Did she say strike?"

"She's going to bowl us down, dood!"

-Meanwhile, down the hall in the nurse's office.-

Larharl slowly opened one eye at a time. Sitting up, it didn't take long for him to spot Flonne talking to the school nurse. The nurse was looking at him with all three of her eyes. She smiled as she approached the bed.

"You poor thing you. It would seem you hit your head rather hard. But, you're fine now and can get back to class. You missed all of your sewing class, but the next class is about to start."

Larharl didn't show one ounce of emotion. "So, I don't have to go back to the bimbo's class?"

"Nope!" Flonne replied enthusiastically. "Not until tomorrow."

Larharl hopped off the bed and made for the door.

"Just a minute, Mr. Overlord." The nurse spoke loudly. "Since it would appear that this nice young lady is in your next class, let her escort you."

"Oh, yes, please Larharl. I wouldn't want you to relapse in the hall."

Larharl grunted. "Fine, whatever!" he mumbled under his breath.

"MOM!" a voice screamed. Following the cries, a red headed human entered the nurse's station in a hurry. "I need your help, mom! Look! Look what that demon did to my dodge ball!"

"Oh dear, it looks like a Prinny exploded on it." The nurse took the flattened, once red, plastic disc from the red head.

"Six Prinny's to be exact."

Larharl chuckled. "Etna."

"Yeah! That was her name."

"Adell, I don't think it's that bad. The ball will be alright. Just leave it to me." With that, the nurse propped the flattened ball in the bed Larharl had just vacated.

Adell joined the nurse; leaning over the bed. Small beads of sweat lined his brow. "How bad is it?"

Hooking the monitor to the plastic surface of the flat, floppy, underweight, down right pathetic looking ball – a steady flat line appeared, accompanied by an endless beep.

"It's going into cardiac arrest!" Adell screamed.

"NO!" the nurse matched Adell in a heart wrenching scream. "We have to get it to a hospital ASAP! Stand back everyone! We're professionals."

Larharl took a quick step away from the door to leave space for the nurse and human to wheel the bed out of the room.

Turning to Flonne, Larharl smirked contently. "I take it back. You aren't a moron. You are demoted to rank of idiot… Those two are the morons."

Beaming with pride, Flonne gave him a very genuine smile. "Why thank you Mr. Overlord!"

-Back on the school lawn.-

"Oh phewy! I need more Prinnies." Etna rested her cheek on her hand and blew a stray strand of hair from her face.

"PRINNIES! What do you mean, Prinnie?!? Adell's ball…it was…oh it's too horrible to say," Rozalin whined.

"Well, you win some, you lose some," Etna chanted turning to face the blonde. "I'm sure he'll still win the finals. I mean, come on, a human! Just by being there it'll throw the other players off enough to give him the advantage."

Rozalin shook her head. "You don't understand. Adell had this thing about promises. He promised that ball he would win the finals. That ball meaning that no other balls would do. He'll never break a promise."

"He…promised that ball?"

Rozalin nodded. "If that ball doesn't make it to the finals, Adell will never forgive himself."

"Humans sure are strange."

"Huh? Well, I guess…Adell does take some getting use to. I finally got him to stop trying to kill my dad and that was hard enough. How am I to get him through the grief if he loses that ball?"

Etna leaned forward, entrapped in her curiosity. "Kill your dad?"

"It was a mild misunderstanding. Adell thought his mom, who isn't his real mom but her calls her mom anyway, was being mistreated by being the school nurse. It took a full blown battle to convince him that schools didn't have doctors. He wanted his mom to be more than just a nurse. So dad allowed Adell's dad to be vice principal. It was okay at first, I mean his dad is a nice enough guy but that pimple is rather annoying."

Before Etna could inquire more, not that she really wanted to, Rozalin straighten up quickly. "Oh my! I nearly forgot. The pep rally is to start in two hours. I have to go get ready."

"Don't tell me," Etna replied shooing her with a lazy hand. "You're making a speech?"

"No, nothing like that. But Demon High's most popular girl can't show up in anything less than her best. I have my groupies to consider. It would be poor of me to set a bad example."

Etna was given no option but to watch her jog out of sight.

"Most popular…groupies…I can top that!"

Lights go dim

End of Episode 2

-Prinnies dance circles around Pleinair-

Ring around the Prinnies

Pocket full of Pennies

BOOM BOOM BOOM

We all fall down.

Yo dood! What are pennies?

Don't know dood, but I guess they aren't worth the Hell to find out.

Pleinair: "…"