In the dank darkness of the underground caverns that held untold numbers of dark creatures that hid their DARK desires within the undergrounds own darkness… what I'm trying to say is that it's super freaking dark.
"Why Gnarl choose displace again?" muttered one of the browns as the rest carried their sleeping prize. Counting themselves lucky that the child didn't wake up and make any noise, in fact, the little Overlord to be, didn't make a peep and slept soundly, even when they raided a small farm for food to both feed them and their Overlord… if she made the cut. They just chalked it up as them more than likely making the right choice. If the little girl wasn't bothered by the sounds of screaming farmer and dying sheep then she had to be the overlord... right?
"Me hate saying it over and over again," muttered another brown while growling at the first. "Palace is last place of old world before the shiny and darky brothers killed almost everyone and make moon go cablewy."
There was an awkward silence as a few minions gave the second one a look that screamed, 'who are you and what did you do to our fellow minion?'
"Where you know dis?" asked a third brown as he made sure not to trip, While they could see in the dark, this place was so full of evil energy you couldn't be too careful, you might windup tripped and eaten by some overgrown rat or bug. "That sound way to smarty for Minion."
"Me heard it from Dim," the second brown said as the others let out annoyed groans. The only thing that lightened their moods was the old castle in the distance.
"Dim to smarty even for blue!" the first brown muttered. "Never loots, just looks at books and tries to read them!"
"Well at least not as bad as J-!" the first brown muttered before an arrow landed in front of his feet. Though instead of fear the browns all looked annoyed, and Brown number one growled. "Jock…"
"Who goes there!" shouted a shrill voice as the minions looked upwards to one of the old castle's decrypted spires. Standing on top of it stood another brown dressed in some tattered leather armor and sporting dirty bandages that covered most of its face beside its left eye and its mouth. The most stand worthy thing about this minion was that it held a worn out and gnarled bow that looked like was held together by tape and glue.
"Speaks now before I's filling ya with arrows!" the archer minion shouted while trying to find something else to use as a projectile.
Growling out, minion number two shouted out. "Shuts it Jock, we's know you used yous only good arow trying to be fancy!"
"Not true!" Jock screamed. "I has plenty of deadly weapons to shoots you with!"
"Better not have used Gnarl's shiny dinner tools," Brown number three shouted. "He skin us all if you used his eaty tools."
"Nah, me learn lesson," Jock shouted. Throughout the conversation, the archer noticed the non-minion amongst the group. "What's that? Is it be a snack?"
"NO!" Brown number one shouted. "We thinks it new Overlord!"
Nearly dropping his bow in surprise, Jock shouted to the top of his lungs. "Open the Gate!"
As the old gates began to open Brown number two shouted. "We nots sure it the Overlord though!"
"Close the gates!" and with that order from Jock, the gates slammed shut much to the brown's annoyance and a few giving number two a glare.
"Its still can be snack!" Brown #1 shouted hoping that would get the gates open and not leave them out in the open with their possible master in harm's way.
"... open the gate a little!" Jock shouted after a moment of thought; honestly, the longest a minion has ever thought over anything.
Sighing in relief the small squad of minions carried their prize through the gate being careful to duck under the barely opened gate as to not let their future (maybe), overlord get even a scratch less they face Gnarl's wrath.
For you see, one must take great care in nurturing evil.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (back in Patch)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back on the island of Patch, in an area that had a house built in the middle of the woods, where a family of three lived… or more accurately it housed only two now.
"I don't care if your busy getting ready for the school year!" shouted a blond man as he slammed his fist into the was in front of him, leaving a massive hole in the wall. The man was of a muscular build, which was modestly on display with his simple but effective line of clothing, brown cargo shorts with a dark brown belt, a pair of black shoes, a red bandana on his left arm and a brown leather vest over a tan dress shirt with the right sleeve cut off. He even sported some armor which consists of a metal spaulder, leather vambrace and a brown fingerless glove all on his right arm.
The man growled out while running his hands through his blond hair, which was turning gray from age, while also glaring at his phone.
"Now Taiyang, I know you must be very upset right now but!" someone on the other end tried to say but was cut off.
The now named Taiyang shouted at his phone while glaring daggers at the offending phone. "Upset!? You think I'm just upset!? MY DAUGHTER HAS GONE MISSING OZPIN, AND YOUR TELLING ME YOU CAN'T HELP BECAUSE OF A FEW MEETINGS!"
"You need to understand," the person now named Ozpin said in a firm tone. "I WANT to help Taiyang, but this meeting is with the council, and also with the other headmaster's, I cannot just cancel said appointments and I can't spare any Hunters besides the ones already in that area, it would cause people to question the sudden behavior and tip HERoff that something is going on."
"I don't care!" the father shouted. "After Summer disappeared after going on that mission YOU sent her on! You swore you would help us if we were ever in need, well guess what WE NEED YOU!"
"I KNOW!" Ozpin shouted on his end. This caused the conversation to go quiet on Tai's end as he was caught off guard from Ozpin's little out bust. This gave Ozpin time to calm himself and continue to speak. "I'm truly sorry for what you are going through but you need to calm down and be patient, you have Qrow there helping you, the huntsmen, and even the people of the island helping you in the search, and soon I will send some men to help as well."
An awkward silence filled the room as Taiyang took a deep breath to calm his nerve as he spoke in a low tone. "I… I'm sorry Ozpin, I'm just worried and desperate, I just lost Summer, and I can't lose Ruby… but most importantly Yang can't lose her baby sister.
He wanted to curse himself if he'd hadn't been moping for the past months over his Wife's death and started acting like a father to his two little girls then none of this would of happen. But no, because of his failure, his daughter he had with his first wife Raven went out looking for said women in an attempt to find her and bring her back to cheer her depressed father up, all the while taking her baby sister with her on such an insane idea.
Taking another deep breath to calm down his nerves. He loved Yang but she acted without thinking, something she got from him, and she acted without thinking on how it affected everyone around her… something she got from her Mother along with a bad temper.
As if reading his thoughts, Ozpin then said. "Speaking of your eldest daughter, how is miss. Xiao long taking this?"
Grimacing at the question, the tired father could only mutter. "She's… handling it in the only way a child from Raven and me can…"
In other words, intensely.
The scene then changes to the basement of the household, or in this case the gym that was once a basement but was converted into a gym so a self-conscious Tai could work out and make sure that a certain dusty old crow's comment of being one sandwich away from being fat would never come true.
But Tai's weight issues aside, what really matters is that the gym was being used by someone, that someone being, a little girl who was trying her damnedest to make the punching bag she was wailing on budge… with little results.
"Huff… huff," Yang breathed as she wiped to sweat off her face. Staring down at her hands the young girl saw how her hand was swollen red, and her knuckles were turning purple from the abuse she was putting them through.
Scoffing the little blond fighter went back to punching the abused training equipment. Each punch landed just a little bit harder than the last, and little by little the punching had begun to start making the bag swing back inch by inch slowly.
'I will find you, Ruby,' Yang thought as she punched harder and harder.
This time the punching bag was starting to move and the chain holding it begun to groan out.
'No matter what tries to stop me,' this thought went through her head as she threw a few more powerful punches. Not noticing that a golden aura start to cover her and her eyes turning red. 'That's a promise!'
At this point, the punching bag was swinging back and forth with each punch, the height that it was reaching when it was punched back would make any normal man both jealous and wary. And every time it went swinging the chain holding it would let out even more noise. Showing how much it was struggling to hold up with all the crazy movement it had to endure.
"And we will be a family no matter what!" screamed the young blond as she lashed out with one final swing and knocked back the punching back with such force that the chain finally gave way and the training gear went flying into a dumbbell rack.
The young girl winced as she saw all the training equipment go flying everywhere. Well at least her training was going well.
Staring down at her hand again, the young girl was amazed when she saw the bruising on her hands heal up from the golden aura covering her. Though sadly she didn't have long to admire as she was about to be in a world of trouble in, three, two…, one.
"What did I say about training in here without either your uncle watching you or me!" shouted one Taiyang, apparently done with his call as he made his way downstairs all the while muttering about how he was going to add a week of grounding for every busted training equipment he found.
Letting out a few curses she heard her uncle Qrow say one time, the young blond quickly went to work trying to clean up her mess in a vain hope to lowering her grounding time.
She didn't have time to be grounded; she needed to get ready to save her sister!
The poor girl didn't know the surprise she was in for in the future.
I hope you like this chapter.
Next time, Hearts, Training, and Long ears?