Welcome to the Birthday Bash. I am celebrating two years of fanfiction and as such I felt I needed a mass upload so here's the next piece. I do not own Overlord but I claim my OCs and story. Enjoy.
(DARK TOWER/UPPER LEVELS)
Malek stared out of the window at the battlefield far below. His Minions had been utterly defeated. The humans were now swarming to the open gates.
"Sire" Gnarl hurried over to him, "All the artefacts have been gathered in the Private Quarters. Where are they going to go?"
"I don't know, Gnarl." Malek lowered his head, "The Netherworld is lost, the Dark Tower will soon be, my armies have been destroyed or turned against me, and even if my elite manage to kill my family they are no use against an army of non magical humans."
The advisor listened in horror, "Are you giving up master?"
"No..." a voice gasped.
Malek and Gnarl turned to see Rachel regain consciousness with her hand outstretched to the Overlord.
"Master please" she begged, "Don't concede, there is still a chance for your victory."
Even Gnarl seemed sceptical, "And what might that be?"
"The plague" her eyes seemed to light up, "Detonate the Tower Heart. Your enemies will wither and die while you escape."
Malek slowly turned to the window, "I would lose all my magic."
"But I would protect you my Lord." Rachel rose to her knees, "The vampires will be your sword and shield. The after your enemies are dead we will retrieve the pieces of the Tower Heart and repair it for you."
"That would also destroy the Dark Tower" Gnarl reminded her, "And us with it."
"We will evacuate" Rachel countered, "There are enough vampires to take you and the Overlord along with the artefacts. We can abandon this place to its fate along with our enemies."
Malek pondered this for a moment, "Gather your species. Get Gnarl and the artefacts to a secure location. You and I will stay until the last minute."
"Yes master." Rachel bowed her head before flying away through the walls.
"If I fail then you must give rise to a new Overlord" Malek looked down at the wizened Minion, "Go and wait with the artefacts."
Gnarl bowed deeply, "As you wish Dark One." He scurried away.
"The music shall do the trick." Malek muttered to himself as he turned to his organ, "Let the Opera of Destruction begin."
(LOWER LEVELS/THRONE ROOM)
The fight was rapidly becoming brutal. Each spark from an Eradicator or each brief touch by the Sentinels' lights burned fiercely on their skin.
Malek had obviously been busy. His elite guard seemed to have magical shields of their own which were blocking any and everything thrown at them.
"I don't know how much longer I can go." Amelia hurtled another knife at an Eradicator's exposed neck. As had happened many times before the knife bounced off a green shield that appeared on impact.
"Keep fighting" Sierra encouraged, even though she felt ready to drop.
Normally during a fight the Blue Minion magic in them would continuously heal any injuries. Problem was that these enemies were designed to be anti-magic. As a result each injury they sustained was unable to heal, leaving them weaker with each small attack.
"We're going to need help." Amelia winced as she barely avoided the Sentinels' beams.
Cynthia put two fingers in her mouth and whistled as loud as she could.
"What was that for?" Sierra shouted as she jumped onto an Eradicator's back.
A large shadow covered them and everyone looked up to see a winged unicorn fly through the open balcony and ram its horn straight through one of the Sentinel's head. The other turned and raised his sceptre but before he could focus the beam Ventrika had knocked him over with one of her wings and then crushed him beneath her hooves, the magical shield shattered beneath her powerful stomps.
The Eradicators faltered and looked at each other, clearly hoping one of the others had a plan. Matters were more complicated by the fact Sierra had her arms wrapped around one of their throats.
"Get this bitch off me!" he grunted to his companions.
They moved to help him but stopped as loud roars filled everyone's ears. A wave of human soldiers charged into the room and tackled the Eradicators. Even though the shield prevented the humans from damaging the Eradicators it didn't stop them from being knocked to the ground by the weight of the many soldiers.
"Um, should we get out of here?" Cynthia asked as she, Sierra, and Amelia back flipped onto the upper balcony where Ventrika was waiting patiently.
The humans didn't seem to notice them, busy attacking the temporarily invincible Eradicators. Following with another wave of soldiers was Spartacus who gave them a brief wave before turning and giving orders to have the Eradicators tied up and their weapons removed.
"Hey" Amelia whispered to her cousins, "Where's Edward?"
The trio frantically scanned the room, looking for the Paladin/elf's body amidst the humans.
No sign of him.
"That cunning little..." Sierra growled, "Where the hell is he?"
Next thing they knew every human in the room was flat on the ground screaming in agony with their hands over their ears as a powerful melody echoed around the tower. Malek had started to play and the music was laced with enough magic to overload an army of Eradicators.
"Spartacus!" Cynthia yelled.
Their human ally looked up at them, with blood streaming from his nose and mouth and his eyes screwed up in pain.
"Good luck!" he cried.
Flesh began falling off bone and blood flooded the throne room. Cynthia covered her mouth and turned away. Ventrika lifted a wing as a screen to hide the monstrous act from the trio of hybrids.
They could still hear the music booming around them, still hear the humans dying, and still smell the sickening aroma of death.
(UPPER LEVELS)
Malek pounded away at the organ with a masterful precision. The magic of music had been an area of interest to him since he became aware of it. Almost no other Overlords had thought of it, now he would perfect it.
The Tower Heart beside him had given him the power to lace his own magic with the music, enabling the music the power to kill humans. He had no intention of allowing the Tower Heart to be destroyed. It was far too valuable to be used as a bomb. Without it he would be vulnerable, and then Rachel would probably try to take over.
"Master!" Rachel strode into the room, "What are you doing!" she shouted over the music.
The music continued only now it seemed, weaker. It was no longer filled with magic. Malek had destroyed all the humans in the Dark Tower. His advisor and artefacts, except the Tower Heart of course, had been evacuated. A new domain was waiting for him.
"We need to go" Rachel strode forward.
A beam of energy blasted past her and hit Malek in the back, amazingly it didn't even seem to affect him as he continued to play.
Rachel spun around to see Paladin Lord Edward standing in the doorway. He held his sceptre in one hand and Friduwulf's enchanted sword in the other. As her eyes narrowed he sent a blast at her. She vanished into black smoke and reappeared right in front of him.
"Would you just die already!" she screeched and slammed her fist into his gut.
Upon finding her fist impacting on what felt like solid steel she winced.
"You first." Edward swung his sword and slashed a deep gouge through her chest. His enchanted sword trumped her undead abilities. Rachel blinked slowly as she registered that she was about to be destroyed. She turned to Malek for one last time, even with everything that had happened she still loved him.
"Master" she gasped, "I...love you."
With that her eyes rolled and her body turned to dust and fell to the ground.
Edward stepped over her remains and towards Malek.
"Your reign of evil ends here Overlord." He declared, "My duty will be done."
The music stopped abruptly as Malek turned to Edward. For a long while the two archenemies stared at each other.
"You have been an annoyance for far too long Edward." Malek seemed to smile, "Now you shall prove to be useful."
The Tower Heart glowed a blinding white and bolts of lightning surged from it into Malek who turned the energy at Edward.
"I AM THE OVERLORD!" Malek yelled as his Evil Presence spell flooded every fibre of Edward's being, "I AM ALL-POWERFUL!"
(OUTSIDE)
With Malek's small army of vampires gone and the music stopped Ventrika was now able to fly Sierra, Amelia, and Cynthia to the upper levels of the Dark Tower.
One room was glowing with light and bolts of lightning were arching along the walls, shattering statues and cracking the structure itself.
"The heck is Mal doing?" Amelia frowned.
Ventrika hovered beside a window and let the three hybrids jump inside before flying away into the air.
"Come on" Cynthia led the way down the corridor to the room that was practically spitting lightning bolts in all directions, "Keep your guard up."
Upon peering into the room they found an unusual sight. Malek was standing with one hand on the Tower Heart and the other gripping Edward's face. Bolts of energy were coursing along his arms and bouncing in all direction around the room. It was the going to be the last time these two would ever fight. Either Malek's spell would overpower Edward or the Paladin would destroy Malek and the Tower Heart.
"Come on Mal!" Cynthia shouted, "We've come too far for you to die on us now!"
Almost in a trance the three hybrids walked through the storm of energy to stand beside Malek. They lifted their hands and placed them on his shoulders. Their energy blasted into him and followed the energy stream to sink into Edward's face.
A miniature explosion was set off. The Tower Heart cracked and blew apart. The entire floor of the Dark Tower crumbled, sending everyone falling to certain death.
Ventrika swooped down and caught her three female friends. Edward and Malek were still locked together and both vanished in a green flash.
"Not again!" Cynthia groaned in frustration as her pet flew away from the collapsing fortress, already the magical ooze was started to form, and the dead humans were beginning to mutate.
"Where do we go now?" Amelia asked.
A figure flew alongside them.
"Greetings," he smiled, "I have been sent by Gnarl to show you the way to the new heart of the Overlord's domain."
"A vampire" Sierra muttered darkly, "One of Rachel's grunts."
"I come on Gnarl's orders actually." He looked at Sierra, "With our Queen dead our loyalty is absolute to the Overlord. This way please." He flew on ahead.
"Do we follow?" Cynthia gripped her pet's reins.
Sierra shrugged, "Not like there's anything else we can do."
Next thing an arrow pierced Ventrika's wing. The unicorn let out a wail of pain and tossed in the air. Amelia slipped off, but was caught by their vampire escort.
Sierra jumped off and landed on a large rock cliff where her head collided with a large rock and knocked her out.
Cynthia was gripping Ventrika's reins with a death grip but the unicorn was bleeding from her wing and bucking like a wild horse. A wide volley of arrows flew past them and Cynthia looked down to see the remnants of the human army firing up at them.
"Fools" she hissed as she tried to bring Ventrika under control.
The unicorn let out another wail and Cynthia spotted two more arrows in her other wing. This time Ventrika's wings both stopped flapping.
"SHIT!" Cynthia yelled as they plummeted towards the blue ooze.
At the last minute the vampire swooped down and seized Cynthia. He pulled her from Ventrika and flew up to the cliff top where Amelia was attempting to revive Sierra.
"VENTRIKA!" Cynthia screamed as she tried to escape the vampire's grip, "Let me go!"
"It's too late Cynthia" Amelia slapped Sierra's face, "C'mon cousin wake up."
Cynthia rushed to the edge and watched as her beloved pet sank into the blue ooze.
"I'm alive!" Sierra sat upright," What happened?"
Amelia quietly filled her in before both of them stood beside Cynthia and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. The vampire stood at a distance, keeping his eyes on the humans far below.
"I've lost...her." Cynthia choked, tears were falling down her face and she was taking shaky breaths, "She, was so...loyal and brave and I..."
Sierra squeezed her sister's shoulder, "It's okay. Let it out."
Before more tears could emerge something truly incredible happened.
The ooze started to move. All of it zoomed together to form an enormous mountain around where Ventrika was buried.
"What's happening?" Amelia raised an eyebrow, "And what...what is that!"
The ooze vanished into flames as where Ventrika had been buried now stood a thirty foot tall black scaled winged lizard with gleaming yellow eyes. It stood upright on two large clawed feet each big enough to crush a catapult. Its two fore claws were being used as hands as it pushed itself upright.
"DRAGON!" the humans ran for their lives.
Trapped on the top of the cliff the three girls could only stand and stare in horror as the enormous creature climbed the cliff towards them with its mouth wide open and a long thick tongue reaching out.
"Ideas?" Sierra looked over at the vampire, desperately hoping there was some way to avoid death yet again.
He merely stared in horror as the dragon pulled itself into view with its claws anchoring it in place while its feet dug into the rocks. The long snouted head leaned down to them and its horrible breath washed over them.
Cynthia stepped forward and a tower of fire rose from her figure into the air.
"Ventrika!" she stared right into the dragon's yellow eyes, "It's me! Cynthia!"
The dragon's eyes narrowed craftily as its tongue closed in on the hybrid.
"It's mutated!" Amelia shouted, "She's gone savage!"
Cynthia's fire vanished as the tongue slowly pressed against her. She stood firm on the spot as it slimed up and down her. Then the tongue quickly retreated into the mouth as the dragon reared its head into the sky and loud out a piercing roar that shook the area before releasing a massive stream of fire.
"Come to me" Cynthia stretched her hand out to the creature, "Ventrika, come to me."
Incredibly the dragon lowered its head down in submission to Cynthia and allowed the hybrid to stroke the scales and even plant a kiss on the giant lizard.
"Are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Sierra clutched Amelia for support.
"I'm seeing it." Amelia gaped, "But I don't believe it."
Cynthia turned with a broad and slightly disturbing grin, "How's this for firepower?"
Amelia face palmed while Sierra groaned.
There we go, another bit closer to the end… for the record Cynthia did not clear it with me to get a dragon.
Cynthia: C'mon General, Ventrika was getting overlooked too easily. She deserves more of the spotlight.
General: I've got a dead Vampire Queen, a Paladin in an elf's body, a crazy Overlord, three human/Minion hybrids, and a unicorn that has turned into a dragon? What has happened to my story?
Sierra: You created Rachel, she screwed things up from there.
General: She did mess things up I'll give you that.
Amelia: Anyway, please review readers and we hope you enjoyed this Birthday Bash upload. Till next time.
General: You stole my line!