The Dragon Overlord

by The Dark Dragen

Alternate start from when the Strauss Siblings go on the S-Class: What if instead of Elfman telling Natsu that he can't because it was his as the man of the family to protect them, but Mirajane Strauss, who tells Natsu, he is too weak and destructive to go with them and from there things changes for him. Overlord/Lemons/Dark/Powerful/Harem/Natsu Female/Zeref PLEASE READ & REVIEW!

4. Chapter 3

Chapter Two…

(Netherworld Tower.)

23rd of June x782 - Netherworld Tower, Throne Room:

Nastu found himself, alongside Happy, Gnarl and the carriage, slowly being floated down towards a lake of lava, where the floor was to be. Natsu panicked internally for a moment, until he saw he majority of the lava be covered with stone, making a smooth platform. Around the platform, were fifteen Minions, cheering, a ten browns, and three greens. Separating the platforms, from Natsu, were streams of lava. Leading or leaving, from what appeared to be a throne room.

The throne room itself, was full of little besides that which was meant to enhance the atmosphere. Pillars, made of a dull, grey stone, and shining, luminescent silvers. The silver, etched in runes, blanketed the bottom and top of the pillars, connecting the floor and the ceiling. Flanking the pillars, were carved stone walls. Covering two walls, close to the throne were crimson red banners, held by pieces of metal. "We will have to fill this place out" thought Natsu.

In front of Natsu, was a slightly elevated platform, made entirely of silver. The majority of which, was a tad bit dull. Beside the platform, were two braziers, that served the purpose of summoning Minions. Below the platform, steps began, covered with a light red rug. The steps, themselves, were made of a lighter-looking silver, which ceased to continue at the throne - near the backdrop of the platform. The throne itself, was made of a bright, faintly luminescent silver. The silver 'branched' or extended outwards, in a circular fashion, presumably there, for when the overlord, desired to rest his arms. The throne had a crimson, cushy material cover the back and the bottom of the throne, to stimulate comfort. Silver seemed to puncture the red material at the back of the throne, which was also where intricate designs, meant to enhance the visual aesthetics were. The peak of the throne - a silver triangle, with the base being part of the red material - was surrounded by pointed, triangle-like silver extensions, two of which, had holes in the center.

Flanking the steps, leading to the throne, were additional staircases, which would put one besides two corridors, and a contraption that spewed lava in droves, keeping the streams full aplenty. The awe-inspiring 'contraption' worked, in part, due to gravity. Above the throne, were layers of dark metal, made to allow lava to flow, in a stunning visual display. The design retained i's practicality, and usefulness, by way of the layers seemingly condensing, in order to focus the lava to travel from behind the throne, to elsewhere within the throne room.

As Natsu looked above him, he saw the portal gate, which hung from the ceiling as a chandelier would. Beneath his feet, was the trap door, which would drop any who opposed him to their fiery death.

Now as Natsu and Happy followed Gnarl to the throne, they realized that the place had seen better days. Not only did some parts looked wrecked, but it looked neglected too.

"What happened to this place?" asked Happy.

"Sadly heroes and time happened," Gnarl said darkly, "when heroes attacked this place and stole and damaged the place. And over time, without an Overlord, the Minions got less motivated to do much unless it involved staying alive and find the next overlord, and so the place went to the dumps sadly. I'm sorry Sire."

"No worries, I'm here now and we can start to rebuild the place." Natsu said with a smile, before realizing about the Minions that were there, "Hey Gnarl, I thought that you said we had no more Browns and what about the Reds, Greens and that Blue one over there."

"Grubby the Digger Minion, and Ricket and Giblet the Forge Masters, sire" the Minion Master told Natsu, as he sat down on the throne, "so we couldn't risk them. As for the other browns, they are new thanks to the new lifeforce that you gained in killing the Halflings and their boss. And as for the other Minions, we couldn't send them to you as either we didn't have right lifeforce to create them or we don't have their hive."

"What do you mean their hive?" asked Happy.

"Well sire, to put it simply, Minions are created from Minion Hives, without them we can't create more Minions for you." the old Minion explained, "And not only that, but without their hive, the few reds and greens we do have, we can't open their gate to allow them to come to you. The only way to get them to the surface other than the Minion Gates, they need to either the Netherworld Gate, or one of the old Tower Gates, but without the power we couldn't use them. The other was the use of the tunnels which would have taken too long. And as for Mortis, the Blue Minion, we would never risk him going out on the battlefield."

"Why not?" asked Natsu,

"Mortis has the power to resurrect the dead, in other words he can bring the dead back." Gnarl told the new Overlord.

Just then, running up from some stair at the side of the room, came a Brown Minion, he was holding a cane with a skull and bells on it, and he wore a jester's hat and had white markings on him. "Sire, Sire sorry I'm late…" began the Minion. If Natsu listened he would hear that like Gnarl, he was the one of the few Minions who spoke clearly. But the problem was that Natsu heard something interesting, a Minion that could bring the dead back, and his first thought was Lisanna. So with this Minion barging into the room, and interrupting things, so he threw his strongest fireball at him which threw the jester against the wall.

"Be quite." Natsu hissed at the Minion, fire alight in his eyes, putting some fear into the Minion.

"I'm impressed sire," Gnarl said with an evil smile, "sometimes there's no stopping Quaver, believe me I've tried. For you to do so, so soon, it says a lot about you."

"Tell me Gnarl, can Mortis only being Minions back from the dead, or can he bring humans back to?" Natsu asked the old Minion, ignoring what Gnarl said about Quaver. When Happy heard what his friend/father asked, he paid attention, as he knew what his father was going to ask, and he thought, 'Is it possible, can this Mortis being mum back from the dead?'

"Only if they were evil in life sire." Gnarl admitted to the young man, he was worried this, this could be a turning point for the young man, this could be the point that he would turn away from being the Overlord. But at the same time, then said, "although there is one way though, but the problem is that the person that is brought back won't be the same. They would be evil, and loyal to only you."

Natsu and Happy looked at each other at this news, and both were thinking the same thing, they could bring back Lisanna but she wouldn't be the same. She wouldn't be the same sweet girl that they knew and cared for, but she would be evil, and they wouldn't be sure what she would be like. But seeing the look in Happy's eyes, one of hope and wanting nothing more for Lisanna to come back no matter the cost, he knew his son felt the same as him.

So with a look of determination in his eyes, Natsu said, "I understand and I want to try it."

"In that case sire, let's move the Nether Heart out of the way, and can then introduce you to the Minion staff and then we can get down to evil business." Gnarl shouted out some orders in the Minion language, in which the Brown Minions started to go around the Nether Heart, and carried it outside where they reached a balcony and onto one of the floating platforms, where it disappeared from sight. Then Gnarl walked to stand next to the right side of the throne, the old Minions place as the Overlord's adviser and was getting the Minions ready.

With Happy seating on his shoulder, Natsu watched as most of the Minions rushed about, cleaning and fixing the tower up. Out of all of the Minions, four of them came up to the throne, "The first one you have already meet sire," Gnarl said pointing at the first Minion in a hard hat and holding a pickaxe, "Grubby, the Minion digger, he will be able to expand the tunnel network and reopen old ones that were blocked by the heroes so many years ago, so we can send more portal gates out"

Grubby bowed his hard hat almost falling off, and said "Master, I am happy to dig for you."

Then two more Minions stepped up, one was a male and the other was a female, they were both more muscular than any of the normal Minions, the male had a metal helmet that covered his face and thick gloves, and the female was green, with pitches of brown and she had red hair unlike the other Minions.

"This is Giblet and Ricket, they are the Forge Masters, Giblet is somewhat of a robust fellow been around almost as long as I have. But like most of the Minions here, he isn't a great conversationalist." Gnarl explained to Natsu, "Ricket, whilst it don't look like it, is a Brown Minion, but down to some accidents in forging, most of her skin became green. She's one of the few like me that can give you a good conversation, and unless you upset her then you'll see how good she is with her hummer, fairly cheerful and friendly. Both of them well help you create new weapons."

"Greetings Overlord," Ricket greeted the new Overlord, "Giblet and I are glad to have a new Overlord to serve. But right now, we are unable to, we don't have the Reds to power up our forge. But once the forge up and running we will make great armor, spiky armor."

Gnarl nodded at Giblet and Ricket the turned to the Overlord "Ricket and Giblet along with the help of Grubby, are in charge of renovating the tower and the rest of Netherworld, and will put the Minions to work on it right away." The three Minions in questions bowed then went off to get to work, this left only one Minion to be introduced.

The Natsu and Happy look at the last Minion, unlike the rest of the Minions they saw so far, he didn't have big ears like the Browns, but had a tail which the Browns don't. His skin was pale blue/grey, he had gills on his neck and webbed feet, hands and around his face. He was wearing a black hooded robe and carrying a scythe twice the size of him, he looked like a Minion grim reaper, the Minion bowed and in a gurgling voice said "Master."

Natsu look at Gnarl as the old Minion started to speak "This is Mortis, he is in charge of the Minion Burrows, that is to say he facilitates your decisions. The Minion Burrows are the home of the Minions and where we keep the hives, Mortis makes sure the Minions come into the world and leave the world properly. He can also bring Minions back from the dead so we don't have to worry about losing your strongest of Minions."

Mortis spoke up at that "Yes Master that is true, but remember, there is always a price: life for death and death for life. You will have to use the life force of the lesser Minions to bring them back." Natsu nodded thoughtfully at this, taking all the information in, whilst he didn't like the idea that much, he could understand the reason for it, he would to think about this at a later date. "Master, we Minions, we live, we serve and we die for the Overlord. It is what we are and what we will always be.

Gnarl continued talking "That right Mortis but don't worry sire Minions will happily die for their Overlord, several times if necessary, hehe. But you need to resurrect a fallen Minion, you'll need to sacrifice Minions of the same colour. Why go about training newborns when you can easily resurrect a well trained one."

"Mortis, Gnarl tells me that you might be able to resurrect a human, is this true?" asked Natsu, with Happy in hope this was true.

"It is difficult but it is possible," Mortis admitted, his voice was rough as he spoke, "but unlike minions, I would need the body of the human that you want brought back to life. And not only that, but I would need a few lifeforce of at least five humans to do so. Than there would be a ritual to bring them back, the last time it was down was about two hundred years ago when we brought back the Netherghuls. But I must warn you though, unless the person was evil to start with, when they are brought back they are different, darker Master, and they would be loyal to you."

"I understand that, but as long as we can being Lisanna back, I don't care how she turns out." Natsu told the Grim Reaper Minion, with Happy saying 'Aye' in agreement.

"Good Master," Mortis told his new Master, "tell me where the body is, and I'll send some Browns to retrieve the body."

And with that Natsu informed the Blue Minion where to find Lisanna, but then give a warning, "So you know, should the Browns harm the body in anyway, I'll be using them as training dummies and I won't be easy on them."

"I understand Master, I'll make sure that they don't hurt her." Mortis informed the new Overlord, as he left to get a few minions to get the body that his Master want.

With Mortis gone, Gnarl said, "Whilst we wait for Mortis to return, would you like a basic tour of the place?"

"I would like that Gnarl," Natsu said with a smile, "I would like to know the basic area I'm now living."

"Aye, I would like to know too." Happy told Gnarl as he flew onto Natsu's shoulder.

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It was a few hours after Mortis left to get Lisanna's body, over that time Natsu visited three places, Minion Burrows, Private Quarters and the Foundations which was where the Forge was. To get to these places, they had to use floating platforms, which to Natsu's shock he didn't get sick on, Gnarl told him that was because of the magic on the platforms. On the platform, Natsu and Happy saw the Netherworld Tower for the first time, and it looked like some kind of upside down castle.

The first stop was the Minion Burrows, where the Minion Barracks were which was in one of the huge floating rocks that was going around the tower. The rock had four caverns within it, one for each race of minion. One cavern was like a forest, where Gnarl told Natsu and Happy that this was where the Greens meant to be. Then there was a cavern which was full of mainly water with little land there, it also had a waterfall too, this was the place the Blue Minions meant to be at. Another place, which was Natsu's favourite place, it was full of fire and lava, where the Reds meant to live if they were there. The last cavern was of the Browns, where their cavern was full of ruins buildings, where they were fighting with each other.

Gnarl told Natsu and Happy that the Brown Minion were the toughest of all the Minions. That they never shy away from a fight, and once they start to fight, it was quite difficult to get them to stop unless you were the Overlord. Such is their dedication to the fight that Browns can also use many different objects as weapons. In the middle of this cavern, there was what looked like a huge brown hive of some kind, where Gnarl explained that the Browns come from and like the other Minions once they got the other hives.

During the tour, Happy asked where were the other hives, in which the old Minion explained that he didn't know. The Minion Master told them that as much as he hated to admit it, it wasn't the first time that they lost the other Minions, as they often disappear without an Overlord there to command them.

After visiting the Minion Burrows, they went to visit the Foundations, which was the place where the Forges was. At the moment Natsu and Happy saw Giblet and Ricket with a few Minions fixing the place up, Gnarl explained that in the last attacks the place got damaged too.

After the Minion Burrows, they went to Private Quarters, where two Minions were cleaning the area. Gnarl informed Natsu and Happy that this would be the place that they would be sleeping in when it was fixed, and later on should Natsu find anyone, mistresses. Natsu went red face here at the thought of this.

Once the tour was over, Natsu, Happy and Gnarl was returning from the Private Quarters, when Mortis returned with Lisanna's. When Happy saw this, he flew to the body and cried on it. But Natsu was able to fight the urge to do the same, instead he turned to Mortis and asked, "So can you bring Lisanna?"

"We need a few lifeforce, but I believe so," Mortis told the Overlord, "but I should warn you sire, there is a reason why we don't do this ritual often. The success rate of it is low, and sometimes should we succeed, magic could deform it magic. Not only that, the ritual can be only used once per person."

"I understand that," Natsu told the Grim Reaper Minion, "but I'm willing to take the risk."

"I understand Master," Mortis bowed his head, "I'll prepare the ritual, but you need to get a few magical souls for the ritual sire."

Natsu sighed at this, he knew that to do this he would have to kill, but it didn't make it any easier. But that didn't mean he wouldn't do so, not if it meant it would bring Lisanna back to him and Happy, and he knew a few Dark Mages that he could use to do this. "It'll take a while Mortis, but I think I know where I can get the lifeforce you need to make your ritual work."

"Ok Master, if there's nothing else, I'll get things sorted." Mortis said with a bow before he left to prepare the ritual to bring the human back. Happy went with him, to keep his mother company.

Once Mortis left, Natsu sighed as he sat in his throne, he knew that soon he would be back with Lisanna, but she wouldn't be the same. As thanks to the ritual, she would be evil thanks to the ritual that was being used, but if he was honest with himself he didn't care, as she would be back with her. It was a small price to do so, and it's not like he was going down the light path as he once used to.

As he sat there, Natsu mind went back to some time ago, something he asked Gnarl, why was he chosen to become the next Overlord. So with some time to spare before he had to find the lifeforce to bring his first friend back, he asked, "Gnarl, remember that I asked you why I was chosen to become the next Overlord, can you tell me now?"

"Sure Master," Gnarl said with a bow, "With the Nether Heart returned, we'll be able to find out soon enough. And to be honest, I would like to know myself. Please follow me."

And with that Natsu followed Gnarl to the balcony and onto one of the platforms where it took them all the way to the top of the Tower, above the Foundations. The room that they got was a room full of pipes, which was connected to the Nether Heart. The only thing other than the pipes and the Nether Heart, was a huge like test tube, with a seat in it. Upon entering the room, Gnarl told Natsu to seat in the tube and the Nether Heart would do a scan to let them see what is what.

Natsu was in the tube for about ten minutes, he came out of it, to see a shocked Gnarl looking at him. It was mixed with awe and fear. And so it was no surprise that he asked, "What's wrong Gnarl?"

"Why didn't you tell me sire that you were E.N.D, the younger brother of Zeref." Gnarl asked Natsu with a new respect for the young Overlord.

But Natsu had no idea has to what the old Minion Master was talking, he was what and how could he be the younger brother of the most evil Dark Mage that anyone ever knew about? So it was once again no surprise that Natsu could only ask one thing to this, "I'm what now?"

To be Continued!

Author's Note: Here ends Chapter 3 of The Dragon Overlord, and I want you to thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoyed the chapter. This is shorter than I wanted, but I just couldn't think of anything else to add to the chapter, so I just hope you like what I have done so far.

Got a question for you all, do you think that other than Natsu, should I have all the other Dragon Slayers as female? I know, perverted idea, but I would like your thoughts about it. I would also like to ask what girls would you like to see in the story, and ideas on how they could join Natsu.

There's going to be a time skip in the next chapter, of about two to three months, and so I would like a few ideas as to how I should write how Fairy Tail has been over the last few months. I hope you can all help me.

Please know that any flames will be ignored, any guest's reviews that aren't useful to make the story better, will be deleted! I am a dyslexic, and had a bad schooling so without a Co-Writer/Beta Reader, my spelling, grammar and the way things are written will not be as good as the rest of the work here. So please don't moan about this, as it can't be helped.

If you think you can doing a better job, I'm still looking for a Co-Writer/Beta Reader to help me write this story, I want someone to talk to about ideas and suggestions about the part I'm writing and how to make it better. If you're only want to be a Beta Reader, I'm looking someone who is willing to alter things to make it better, even if it means deleting or rewriting it, or adding things to it. parts of it. So if you are interested, and you are a fan of Fairy Tail, knowing a lot of it, please leave a review or PM me.

Either thank you for reading this story, and I hope you'll leave a review letting me know what you think. As I would like your thoughts about my first ever Fairy Tail story, be it bad or good, so please leave a good length review. One thing I'm looking for are ideas for new Overlord Items, and how to add them. I hope you can help me out. So you know, I'm going back to Rise of Overlord Vulcan - Rewrite and do a chapter there before going back to this one. I have decided that I'll be going back and forth from that story to this story.

Overlord Log

Overlord Items:

Spell Stones: Got a few spell from Overlord that I'll use, but I would like ideas for more spells that I can use. So ideas are welcomed here.

Mana Pillars: Going to be called something like Power Pillars or something like that, which give the person as the name suggests, gives power to the Overlord.

Health Pillars: Not going to appear, as I can't see how I could use them.

Minion Totems: Not going to appear in the story, as I don't like the idea of limiting how many minions Natsu can use at a time. Not only that, I had no idea how to add them into the story. Unless you have an idea how to alter them to fit into a story.

Tower Heart: To follow the Followship of Evil, the Heart will now be called Nether Heart.

Tower Smelters: Unlike the games, the first Smelter will still be at the tower.

Minion Hives:

Brown Hive: Like in the game it'll be in the tower.

Red Hive: Like the game not in the tower, in this story the Red Minions will be found near Sun Village.

Green Hive: Like the game not in the tower, but I am unsure where it'll be found, so ideas would be welcomed as to where to find it. Was thinking of some kind of swamp or something.

Blue Hive: Like the game not in the tower, in this story I was thinking they could be found on Galuna Island, unless you can think of another place for them to be found.