Chapter 2
before this chapter starts, would just like to say thanks to Bicorns' review. You said exactly what I was thinking. This may not be the best story, but I write it because I wont to.
Without further ado, here's the next chapter.
"This road goes on for everrrrrr!" I groaned in annoyance.
So here I was, I had finally made it out of the woods and onto this dirt road. Winging it I went left. I've been walking ever since.
'I'm bored. Could just start singing a tune to pass the time, shall we? Let's see, 'wake me up is a nice song'.'
Clapping my hands as I went along I started singing the song. "Feel'in my way through the darkness, guided by a beating heart. I can't tell when the journey will end. But I know where to start." This went on for a while as I continued down the road. "-Hope I get the chance to travel the world, I don't have any-," I was cut off when I saw six figures ahead surrounding a horse-drawn wagon. It seemed there was a young boy with a brown apron on and blonde hair covering his face. It looked like he had half a mango on top of his head.
But what really drew my attention was a massive hamster ridden by a big guy in full black armor with a red cape. On his back were a pair of massive hilts which were probably for a massive pair of swords.
Through the time I've been traveling I've been able to assess what my right eye could do. But after a while it would begin ache during each use. "Let's see what they have," saying those words I activated one of the eyes' powers. X-ray vision.
'Nothing but the obvious weapons, except for that hunter looking guy with the bow. He's got a few knives in his boots and-wait, is that a walking skeleton?'
Sure enough, what was underneath the black armor was nonother than a real skeleton. No flesh, nothing. 'Shit, we're approaching. I'd better 'up' my appearance.' Just like my eye, I have learnt what else my body could do. One of which was conjuring assorted items that I have either drawn or created out of LEGO in the previous world. But nothing bigger than a scythe so fat. Conjuring a pair of katanas in sheaths and I rested them by my sides.
Suddenly the guy at the head of the group began waving to me and as a sign of curtesy, I waved back. 'Maybe I can get some info from these guys.'
"Hey there adventurer, out on a mission from E-Rantel?"
"An adventurer? Oh no I'm actually a wonderer. You wouldn't mind telling me where I-." 'Wait, did he say E-Rantel? That's the name of the capital city of the Re-Estize kingdom in the Overlord anime!'
"Ur, are you okay? You seemed to have spaced out," asked a small kid in a black cape with brown hair.
"Oh, no, I just realized something. The names Garmadon, nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you Garmadon. My names Peter. The guy with the bow's L'croute-."
"Yow."
"-the big guy is Daine-,"
"How do you do?"
"-this little guy is Nena-,"
"Nice to meet you mister," replied the one that checked on me earlier.
"-the even bigger guy in black over there is Mommon-,"
"Good evening."
"-the girl next to him is Nabe-,"
The girl in question just gave a nod.,
"-the young lad, and employee of this quest, is Niferea Balliard the pharmacist. The giant creature is-."
"-The wise king of the forest," I finished. "He swore obedience to Mommon after the fight in the forest near Carne village."
'Oh shit, I blabbed my mouth to much. How am I going to wrap this up afterwards?'
"Urr yeah. That's right. How-how do you know that?" questioned Peter. The look of confusion clearly present on his face.
Starring around I noticed the others slightly on edge and Nabe had her hand on her hilt. Even Mommon looked startled. 'I'm going to have to make a break for it. Time to change the subject.'
"So, er, you're saying that if I follow the road behind me I'll be heading to E-Rantel right?"
"Yes," replied Peter, "but that doesn't answer my question. How do you know about the wise king incident?"
"Ya know I'm going to go to the other way in a jog. I'll need the exercise." Using my right eye I saw that Nabe was beginning to unsheathe her sword. "Any way, I do believe it's time to leave. I bid you all adu."
As I turned on the spot, Nabe had begun to charge at me. Sword drawn it was clear that she had one of two intentions. Threaten me at sword point, or kill me all together. Drawing one of my katanas I moved to intercept the blow.
Clang!
With blades colliding and sparks flying, we each pushed against each other with hands on hilts. Her strength was impressive. Like I was pushing against a solid rock wall.
'I'd expect nothing less from one of the pleiades battle maids of Nazarick.' While thinking this I noticed that it was easier to push back. 'Either she's getting weaker, or I'm getting stronger.'
Noting this I began pushing back with what I would describe as the most ridiculous grin on my face. With one final shove, I sent Nabe back. As she stumbled back she gave me the most hideous death glare I had ever seen.
"Dam Nabe. If you glare at me like that you face might be permanently formed like forever," I taunted while drawing my other katana. "Or should I say, Narberal Gamma of the pleiades maids," I continued while taking a stance with my arms raised and outstretched to the sides with both swords crossing in front of my face.
A look of both surprise and shock were imbedded into Nabes' face. "How does a roach like you know who I am mongrel?" venom was present in her voice.
"The same way how I know who he is," I replied nodding my head to Mommon.
Clearly irritated with the answer I gave her, she charged at me again with a stab strike aimed for my neck. Using my swords positions to my advantage I swung them so that a type of pincer strike was dealt to the blade. Striking both the tip and base of the blade with such force it caused Nabes sword to spin to the right, ultimately disarming her. With the look of surprise on her face I used this opportunity to spin anticlockwise on the spot and strike her with my left leg to the side of her head.
The impact sent her flying, landing with a 'thump' a few feet away.
"Oops sorry. I guess I used my prosthetic leg for that strike," I said as Nabe slowly got up. The side of her head had lines of red running down the side as blood dripped from a wound on her temple.
"Ho-How can a mere insect have so much streng-," but she was cut off with a pair of blades piercing her arms pinning her to the ground. But the two projectile swords soon disappeared in a scatter of blue cubes.
"Can you please stop insulting me like that," I sighed while admiring my throw of the katanas. "It's getting really old."
With a sigh, I began to turn and walk the way I had come. "Stop!" pausing for a moment I turned my head to see the five other warriors preparing their weapons to fight, even the soon to be Hamsuke looked poised to strike. "I don't fully understand what happened, but I'm going to ask that you come with us," demanded Peter.
"Sorry, I don't have time for that," I replied with a wave of my hand. "Later!" with that I ran like crazy to E-Rantel.
'I may have just made enemies with Nazarick.'
Pretty soon I had made some distance between me and them and could no longer see the small group. Slowing myself down to a jog than a brisk walk I began to think over what I had just learnt.
'Okay, for some reason or another I've been transported to the world of the anime Overlord. A world of magic, monsters and hypocrisy. Here I have the power of creation along with a mechanical arm and a yin-yan eye, while still having my prosthetic leg. Ultimately becoming Garmadon, my fantasy character. And to top it all off, I may be the most wanted man by Nazarick in history. What a pickle-.'
Crunch
Pulled out of my train of thought I spun around to see five men behind me armed with swords, maces and axes. Gazing the other way I saw six more armed as well. All of them wearing either leather or steel armor. Using my eye I saw three more in the woods with crossbows at the ready.
'Highway men hu?'
"Looks like we got ourselves a defenseless boy here lads," one of them in thick armor boomed while waving his sword around. The others chuckled while moving forwards.
'Judging by that guys attire and attitude, I'm guessing he's the leader.'
"Tell ya what son. Give us everything you have and we'll let you go with your life. Or would ya rather feel some pain first?" the leader smirked while pointing his sword at me.
"You're very arrogant to make threats like that when you don't know who your mugging," I grinned while flexing my fingers old western style.
'I've seen way too many standoff scenes.'
Having his pride obviously taken a blow, the leader cringed in annoyance. "You cocky little shit. I was going to ask what's up with your eye and let you live. But I can always ask you about it while you're bleeding out on the ground. Get'im lads. But don't kill him just yet, I want to make it slow and painful."
'Dam that's cruel.'
With his command, the rest of the bandits around me charged with weapons at the ready. As they closed in I decided to make my move. With a grin on my face I back flipped over the oncoming bandits and materialized a shuriken between each of my fingers before throwing them into the group, striking four of them. Wincing in pain they turned around with the rest and moved towards me.
Landing on my feet I materialized a silver staff like weapon with a battle axe head at each end facing in opposite directions. Lifting the weapon above my head I brought it down on one of the bandits' head, splitting him in two.
Spinning the weapon in my hands I moved to attack two more. Swinging their swords at me I used the rapid rotating movement of the two-headed axe-staff to slice their arms into chunks of bloody flesh. As they screamed in pain I swung horizontally cutting both their heads off.
Suddenly I found myself encircled by the remaining seven. As they lunged forward I pushed the axe down on the ground propelling myself into the air while bringing the weapon with me.
"Fire!"
Reacting to the call, three twangs could be heard. Using my eye, I saw three arrows coming from the direction of the archers aimed for me. Spinning my body around I threw the two-headed axe-staff at the incoming arrows.
The projectiles were shattered into splinters as it made contact. The momentum of the weapon carried itself on as it crushed into the bushes creating a dust cloud. Severed limbs and blood splatters came out of the cloud confirming the death of the bandit archers.
Focusing back on what was below me, I fell and brought my right fist down onto one of the bandits' heads. The impact of the heavy blow caused the guys' head to cave in. Now at head level I swung my left leg to the side of another bandits' head, ripping it off as the kick connected. It went flying until it smacked the bandit leader in the head. I didn't see his facial expression, but I bet it was priceless.
Landing on my right leg I noticed my hand still in the bandits' body and had seemed to be caught on the collar bone.
'Didn't think I went down that deep, I Guah-!'
I was snapped out of thought as I felt a sharp pain in the right side of my abdomen and a blunt force landing on the center of my back. Turning my head around sharply I saw a gash in the side of my abdomen. It also felt like a bone in my spine had been dislocated.
'Dam. Talk about handicapped.'
Seeing an incoming mace, I materialized a shield to intercept the strike. As the blunt force made contact with the defense the force caused me to cough up some blood. I noticed the others rearing up and readying their weapons.
'Think, think. Come on what can I do? What limbs do I still have to use? -My leg!'
Realizing my potential salvation, I swung my left leg at the mace wielding bandit. As I kicked his legs and causing him to trip over, the mace in his hands fell on top of the body my right hand was still, in causing the bones to grip harder on me had.
'Aw come on! I already have enough to deal with!'
"You little brat! Die!" yelled a bandit.
'Can't I do anything else? My shield won't protect me from all the attacks and if don't get free from this position soon I'm a gonna die.' The flurry of barrages continued on but most were hitting my own body. 'What else could the character that I designed do?'
Then it hit me. Like a lightning bolt to the brain. 'Matter manipulation. The ability to influence the very matter that's around me or in the same area as me.' Closing my eyes I began to focus on an element.
'Blood. Red blood. The color of roses and the hungry flames of a fire. In a ball of fire everything is destroyed by the flames and-'
Suddenly my right hand began to tingle. Looking up I saw the familiar dark purple glow emanating from within the bloody corpse. Smoke than began to flow out of the wound and the sound of bacon on a frying pan could be heard.
"What's that smell?' I heard one of the bandits' growl.
BANG!
Soon he got his answer. The body my hand was in exploded causing the bandits beside me to be blown to the side. Taking this opportunity, I focused on healing my wounds and in a series of bubbling flesh and red lightning sparks my bones were relocated and my flesh was mended. I then saw my free arm to be ablaze.
Turning to the flames in my right hand, I thought about first panicking about the fact that I was on fire, and that's what I did.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! I'm on fire! I'm on fire!" screaming while running around, the bandits looked on in shock. "AAAAHHH! I'm ….not being burnt?"
As I calmed down I stopped running around. 'This flame, it doesn't hurt.'
"A magic caster er? Guess that explains a thing or two. You know if you come with us-," started a bandit before being interrupted.
"Turn to ash," I said coldly while pointing my hand at him. A ball of fire formed in the palm of my hand then launched at him.
As the projectile neared him, his own flesh began to burn from the heat. 'Dam, is that sire ball like the sun or something?'
Boom!
The fireball made contact and the outlaw screamed in pain as his own flesh began to crisp'n in the flames that engulfed him. It was truly a spectacle, makes me almost want to have marshmallows right now. But soon the flames subsided and in the bandits' place was what looked like a burnt statue of the famous painting 'the scream' (look it up if you don't know it).
Looking at my hand still ablaze I internally sighed. 'The fire is great and all, but I would really prefer to have lightning powers in addition at this point.
Without warning my arm lost its' flames. The intensity of the situation soon began to die and I was losing my groove. "Well that's inconvenient-," but I was then interrupted by a sudden series of electrical sparks that began pouring out of both my arms. "Now this is what I'm talking about!"
Turning my head around, I starred at two of the remaining bandits. 'I think I can smell urine.' Sure enough the bandits had the look of someone who knows they're about to die.
"Please," one of them began to plead.
"No," I replied without a hint of emotion in my voice. Spreading my feet apart and holding my arms out to the side with hands turned in, I began to generate an increase of electrons and pooled it in front of me, thus creating a massive ball of electricity. Then with a flick of my wrist I launched the ball towards the pair.
Bffffffff!
As the sphere collide with the pair scorch marks appeared all over them as their body's were pumped with excess electrons. The immediate massive discharge caused the particles surrounding the impact zone to become electrified as well.
Several lightning bolts flashed out from the surface of the orb. Two of which struck the remaining bandits, burning them to a crisp as well but not as much as the first two.
"Now that, is what I call premium cooked," I mused as the lightning show subsided to reveal four smoldering corpses with their mouths agape in a silent scream.
"Now," I started, turning to the bandit leader, all sign of his previous arrogance now replaced with utter horror. "How should I kill you?" I questioned while walking to him, lightning sparks still coming off my arms. "Lightning related heart attack? Fried to a corpse? Pumped so full your head explodes? Or just melt you with highly induced plasma?"
"Who-who the hell are you?!"
"The names Garmadon. And I'm the wonderer whose also your worst nightmare."
Saying those words, I increased the overall polarity creating more sparks. This increased the terrifying image making him even more scared. "N-no. I refuse to die like this!" with those words he threw his sword at me and turning tail to run.
As I watched the sword approach me, I released a discharge of electricity towards it. The white zig-zag shot through the air, struck the sword stopping it in its tracks where the remaining current travelled through the metal and out the other end. The exiting flow shot towards the fleeing bandit who had turned slightly to face me. Unfortunately, this than resulted in the lightning to strike the exposed side.
"AAAAHHHH!" he screamed as he fell to the ground with the side of his face scorched. The guy was out cold.
As I relaxed my muscles the lightning around me began to calm down before it stopped all together. "That was a close one."
'I wonder if they have any gold?' I thought turning to fourteen dead bodies. "I'm gonna need money if I'm in E-Rantel," I said as I began ransacking one of the corpses. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move in the bushes to the left of the road. Using my eye I couldn't see anything. 'Maybe just a rabbit,' I thought while rubbing my eye. 'Using it to much hu?'
