Three Days Later…

Naruto was sitting on his throne, awaiting the report of Gnarl. He has been patient and he had managed to connect himself to the Tower Heart, allowing him to use its' unlimited power at his disposal. Of course, he needed to plan carefully if he plans to defeat Celestia. He had a long list of things to do before confront her and possibly her sister.

The first part was to retrieve the Minion Hives so he has the full might of the minions at his beck and call. The second part was to form the Netherghuls, his generals, to aid him in his quest of revenge. The third part is to get allies through the power of domination so he has allies to aid him in his war against Equestria. The fourth part is to track down Astelle so he can be reunited to her at last to have her aid against her younger sister, Celestia. Then the fifth part is to kill Celestia and possibly Luna then establish all of the Southern hemisphere of Equus in his dark domain. Then the sixth part is to take the Northern hemisphere of Equus and complete his complete domination of the world, crowning him as the Overlord of Equus. Of course, it may sound somewhat difficult but Naruto knew it was more complicated.

Like the fact that Naruto needed to reclaim all of the Kyuubi's chakra before he even has hope to match against Celestia and Luna. Then there are those jinchuurikis in the Elemental Nations that suffered just about as much as he. He also knew recruiting the Netherghuls was going to be a challenge in itself as he didn't know who would be best suited for the five roles of the Netherghuls. But there was something that Naruto thought of and with the Tower Heart, he looked into the possibly and he couldn't believe it. Deep inside Celestia's mind, there was a trace of darkness in her and it seemed to be dormant for so long. Naruto didn't think such a thing existed in someone like Celestia but he knew this could work if he tried right, but the question was; would he do it or just kill Celestia?

"Sire." Naruto's train of thoughts was interrupted and he sees Gnarl approaching his right side.

"Did you manage to locate the other minion hives?" Naruto asked to Gnarl.

Gnarl nods "I have, sire. It appears that the Reds and Blues are stranded on an island near the core of Dragon Territory. I am actually surprised they haven't been discovered by those flying fire-breathing lizards since the volcano appears to be active or dormant and it's' just the Reds doing it smoke. I have located the Greens in a place called the Everfree Forest, it is a cursed corrupted forest that surrounds the Tree of Harmony. Ironically, a lot of dark magic seems to affect the forest so I think the Tree is the only thing that is not corrupted." Gnarl explains to Naruto.

Naruto raised an eyebrow "Really now? That's odd…" Naruto was curious as to why the forest had a lot of dark magic in it to make the forest so corrupted. Perhaps something happened in the forest that is the source of darkness? He looked at Gnarl once more "What should I be warned of?"

Gnarl smiled "It seems the forest was so corrupted that they created a species called 'Timberwolves'. These wooden wolves appear to be corrupted and under the dark magic influence as well and they act as vanguards of the forest, they rarely attack the neighboring village. Of course, there are some other species in the forest but I would suggest avoiding the big creatures, sire."

"What of the Tree of Harmony?" Naruto had to ask because it needed to know in the event Celestia has been trying to reverse what Astelle did to Starswirl.

"The tree has become weaker, probably due to lacking the harmonic energies of the Elements of Harmony." Gnarl reported with a grin "The energies of the Tree of Harmony have grown weaker to the point where you could attempt to dominate the Tree of Harmony and force feed it dark magic where you can make the Elements of Harmony weaker to the point where they will be corruptible and the harmony shield won't make them impervious to your domination spell."

Naruto had to admit it, it was quite the good catch. They could get the minion hives and possibly corrupt the Tree of Harmony, making the Elements slowly lose their power to the point where they will be useless rocks. Best part is, if the elements slowly lost their power, the less powerful the harmony shield surrounding the current bearers of the elements will weaken and make it more possibly for Naruto to corrupt them.

"Anything else?" Naruto asked to Gnarl.

Gnarl scratched his chin to think before snapping his fingers "Yes, there is Sire. Thanks to the Tower Heart, I have learned that underneath the soil of the Everfree Forest is a bunch of black seeds that are attempting to sprout and drain the power of the Tree of Harmony. The tree has created a harmonic energy layer around its' soil to prevent the black seeds from sprouting but at the rate it is going, it is going to be quite the while. If you corrupt the tree of harmony, it will speed up the process for the black seeds to sprout."

Naruto began to think about it before he got up. He was what he was going to do. He will retrieve the Reds and Blues first, then go grab the Greens. As for the Tree of Harmony, he will wait for now. But not without taking a seed or two from below the Tree of Harmony to see what they were. Perhaps it could be useful for something in the future?


On the island…

A gateway opened on the island and Naruto came out. He sees he was on a beach on an island.

'Now to find those Reds and Blues.' Naruto thought before he summoned some Browns to his side and began to proceed. As he searched around the beach, he finally see the Blues on Beach Chairs they somehow have with their hive in the water.

"Oh those lazy bums, they knew we would be looking for them so they decide to lazy around!" Gnarl said in anger "I'll teach those worthless sacks of puss pain for what this!"

"Overlord!" Naruto heard a voice nearby and looked, seeing blue minion with robes and he had a scythe in his grasp.

"Well, I'll be. Overlord, that is Mortis! He is known as The "Resurrector" as he can raise fallen minions from the grave. It is said that he served under the Infernal God, or the Third Overlord, and oversaw all the events that caused the downfall of the Overlord's Empire." Gnarl told Naruto as he became interested in Mortis "He's in charge of resurrecting dead minions at the request of the Overlord. He is also in charge of the spawning of new minions using the collected lifeforce, which makes him an invaluable asset to the Overlord."

"Mortis," Naruto said, gaining the Blue Minions attention to him "take you and your brethren to the nearby gateway and return to the Netherworld. Leave five Blues here, however, as I may need them. Can you point me to where the Red might be?"

Mortis pointed at the volcano "There, Reds are in the volcano."

Naruto nods "Take the Blue Hive with you." He looks at his browns and five blues "Now, follow me!"

Naruto began to head to the volcano as Mortis had the Blues grab the Blue Hive to transport it through the gateway.


Naruto walked into the volcano, thank goodness that the local wilderness beasts were still asleep. Naruto had made it to the volcano without much delay and when he arrived, he sees the Reds were either having fun swimming in the lava or relaxing on a rock, resting up.

"Typical Reds." Gnarl said at the scene "Always burning and having fun with the heat. I'm actually surprised they didn't turn the forest ablaze yet, they did that a lot back where we were at."

Naruto was actually thankful for the Reds for not doing that as it would attract unwanted attraction. Naruto went down to the Reds and started to shout at them, telling them to pack up, grab the hive, and get off the island before attracting unwanted attention.


Later…

A gateway came out of the ground next to an old ancient castle and Naruto came out and summoned some browns, blues, and reds. He did, however, tell the reds to not throw their fire around as it would not only attract unwanted attention but cause a forest fire to reveal their location and possibly attract Celestia onto them.

Naruto began to venture around the forest, searching for the greens when he sees the pit that held the Tree of Harmony. There was a stairway to it and Naruto saw the Greens around the tree.

Naruto began to walk down. Once he was there, the greens noticed him but Naruto didn't respond to them and approached the Tree of Harmony.

"So many years since you were put in there, eh Starswirl?" Naruto asked with a grin "Forever trapped in the form of a tree. Such a terrible fate for you, isn't it?" Naruto turned around and began to walk away "You deserve it, old fool."

"Master, why not weaken the tree?" Gnarl asked to Naruto.

Naruto looked at the tree and began to sense it out and learned that it was still incredibly powerful, but it has lost a lot of its' former power.

"I have enough power to weaken at least a since element." Naruto said before grinning "So why not weaken the greatest of the elements; Magic!"

Naruto aimed his arms at the the center of the tree and fired a blast of lightning at it, at the center of the star. As he continued, the star began to change from its' normal color to green. Once it finished changing, Naruto stopped using Domination and sees the Tree of Harmony raising a magical shield around it.

'So it has some defensive mechanisms that I wasn't aware of.' Naruto thought before adding 'Either that or the Tree of Harmony is sentient with Starswirl in control, but only to an extent undoubtedly otherwise I would have been attacked from just by speaking.'

Naruto looked at the green "Take your hive back to the Gateway and go." Naruto looked at the ground before he threw a fist into the ground and then pulled three black seeds out of the ground. He and the minions began to walk away, heading back to the gateway and then the gateway withdrew from the forest.


Meanwhile…

Princess Celestia was sitting in her studies when she felt a surge of darkness appear. She got up and began to look around, trying to find the source behind it but the darkness was hiding in the shadows, keeping silent and subtle. But Celestia knew one thing.

Evil was on the move.


In the Frozen North…

Inside of a chamber, deep underground with the entrance being frozen and sealed by harmonic magic, was two ponies.

The first one was a stallion. He wore steel armor chestpiece, gauntlets, pants, and boots. He had a long red cape and had a steel/gold greatsword. He had grey fur and black mane and tail. He had a lot of muscles on him and steel crown of sorts on his head. He also had a long curved red horn. His eyes were red with green sclera and purple smoke radiated from his eyes.

The second one was a mare. She wore similar armor, cape, mane and tail color, fur color, and same eyes and curved horn. However, she was smaller than the stallion and she looked beautiful in terms for evil. However, she had a black scythe instead of a sword.

The two had a camp fire, two tents with sleeping bags, and some food and water that is usually always refilled and reformed (it came with the seal, it magically makes food and water for them). When they sensed the surge of darkness, they looked up.

"Do you sense it, brother?" The female asked with a grin "Something dark is stirring in the shadows. Almost like we were back in the day."

"Indeed." The male answered with a nod "Whoever or whatever is at work, I must see who it is."

"Perhaps one day after we are freed." The female replied before looking at the wall of sealed magical ice "The seal is almost broken, we will soon be freed."

"As well as the Crystal Empire." The stallion added before he looked back at the fire "So soon."


That is it. Now that the Minions are united once more, it is time for the Netherghuls. To make it official, I will be doing my POV as the votes have finally stocked up and it seems some people see it my way of POV. BTW, I have decided to bring down the Warlock class as I have both forgotten the reason behind it and I see no reason to have it. So there will be Four Netherghuls.

Also, I have an idea about the Wraiths of Overlord: Raising Hell. It is a big idea but I will not tell you, since I want it as a surprise. Oh and before I forget, I will be concentrating on the Orange Inkling Maelstrom since it is, after all, the second story of a Naruto X Splatoon and a bunch of people really want it worked on. So the Potter-Dracula is on Haitus, both Equestrian and Overlord Maelstrom are going to updated on occasions but the main focus is going to be Orange Inkling Maelstrom.

Thank you and have a nice day.