Author's Note: For those who are following me from my other stories, this chapter will explain a bit about Zeref's and Natsu's past. And if you have started to read the comic, the start of chapter will have some spoilers about the story. For those who think there is no female Minions, there is ONE in Overlord: Fellowship of Evil, which is the one that I used in the last chapter.
Chapter Four…
(Two Months Later.)
5th of September x782 - Netherworld Tower, Throne Room:
It has been over two months since Natsu and Happy left Fairy Tail, and a lot has changed since that day, the main one was that he found out that he wasn't even a human. He was a manmade demon known as Etherious. Etherious were in fact books, that when active would take form of a demon. What shocked him was that it was the Dark Mage Zeref who created these demons, and not only that but he, Natsu, meant to be the Dark Mage's brother. Natsu was shocked to learn that Zeref was a female and not a male that everyone was taught she was.
From what Gnarl was able to find out, about four hundred years ago during the Dragon Wars, Natsu along with his parents were killed when a dragon attacked their small village. The only one who served the attack, was his sister Zeref. Here Natsu and Happy were shocked to hear this, they couldn't believe that Natsu was born so long ago and was the brother to Zeref.
But Gnarl went on to explain that Zeref had a thing for her brother, was it love or lust the Minion Master wasn't sure. But to bring back her brother, Zeref attended the Mildian Magic Academy, to research the connections between life, death and Magic to revive her brother.
During her time at the Academy, Gnarl learnt that Zeref created two items to try and bring Natsu back to life, the Resurrection System or as it was now known as the R-System and the Eclipse Gate, both items failed to do its job.
R-System: Zeref was urged to abandon this idea by teachers at the Mildian Magic Academy, due to the sheer amount of energy required, as well as the need for a human sacrifice. Zeref wasn't bothered about taking another life if it meant having her brother back, but it was amount of power she needed to do so, something she didn't have at the time.
Eclipse Gate, this was another failed attempt to revive Natsu back, the Gate was able to travel through time and space. But Zeref was forced to abandon this idea too, as like any gate, it needs to be opened. Once she created the Gate, she begun to do a few tests and found out that she couldn't travel into the past as she wanted, as there was no Gate in the past and she could make it so that one would appear in the past.
Two things happened that happened in creating these two items, one he was expelled from the academy for breaching the sacred teachings of their God Ankhseram. The other thing that happened was that Zeref was cursed by Ankhseram, by the Curse of Contradiction, which was a Curse that kills anyone around Zeref without prejudice.
Gnarl told them that the rumour was that Zeref's powers was controlled by her emotional state, which is why she had trouble controlling her powers. So should she care about the lives of others, her Magic would become uncontrollable and randomly bursts outward, killing all those around her. However, over time she learnt not to cares about others, and so she learnt to complete control her Magic, and becomes the ruthless, cold-hearted Zeref spoken of in legend.
Gnarl admitted that this was the kind of person he could look up to, but the problem was that after being cursed, all she wanted was to die because she would no longer be able to love and feel like she used to. Not only that, but Ankhseram seemed to have a sick twisted sense of humour, as she had become near immortal, she stopped aging so forever looking in her late teens. And not only that, but she wasn't able to kill herself as her powers would somehow stop her doing so. And so Zeref wandered around the world, wishing for death and looking for those who could kill her, but all of everyone that she faced wasn't strong enough to kill her.
Gnarl told Natsu that seeing that no normal human could kill her, she started to create the Etherious Demons, in the hopes that they would kill her. Over the years she created many Etheriouses, many of these demons were books or items like a Flute, that had demonic forms. Out of all Etheriouses, she created nine powerful demons eight of which, whilst they don't their names at the moment, later became known as the Nine Demon Gates along with one unknown powerful demon. The demons had different powers than Mages, they didn't have magic but instead Curses, a very form of magic that was rooted from the negative emotions set forth by humans such as greed, envy, and hatred.
However out of the nine of the most powerful demons, there was one who stood out the most, the one that from what Gnarl found out Zeref believed could kill her, was E.N.D. or as the old Minion now known him as: Etherious Natsu Dragneel. Over the years Zeref had his body in a magical stasis, so that she could use it to revive her brother just like he was when he died, a five year boy. But instead reviving his dead brother as a human, Zeref revived her as the most powerful Etherious she ever created, thus fulfilling her goal of bringing her brother back to life, but also her hopes of creating something that could kill her.
Up to that point, Natsu felt sorry for his sister, as he head one or two stories about how evil she was when he was at Fairy Tail, it was something the adult would tell their kids to behave, do as you told or the evil Zeref would get them. But now he knew that she wasn't really evil, it was because of Ankhseram who cursed her for trying to bring him back to live that the stories begun and how she had to deal with the new ability so not to kill anyone, The only thing evil you could say that she done was creating these Etheriouses, the worst known today there were many who knew about the Nine Demon Gates, whilst they didn't know who they were, they did know about they were part of Tartaros, the only demon Dark Guild out there.
But what got to him was that once Zeref she brought him back, even if it was as a demon, the two of them were together again. And having her die would mean he would too, thanks to Gnarl explaining about the spell, as should she die so would all of her creations. Natsu couldn't understand how once she got her brother back, why she would be willing to die and taking with him.
Gnarl himself couldn't explain about that either, all he could come up with was that by the time she created his new body, Zeref had lost it all and all she was thinking about was dying and didn't think about anything else - not even being back with her own brother. As much as Natsu hated to admit it, he didn't know how long his sister lived with this before she brought him back and so it was possible that it was as the old Minion said, she lost her mind because of the Curse and the only thing that she could think of was death, no matter who else dead as long as she could.
It was Happy who asked why couldn't Natsu remember anything of this, which Natsu agreed, as he couldn't remember any of this and so wondered why this was. Not only that, but why was he left with his foster father Igneel, how did he awake in the year x777 and what the hell happened to Igneel?
As for how Natsu ended up with Igneel with no memories, Gnarl had to admit that he didn't know. But there were two rumours going on, the first is that whilst out gathering herbs, Zeref stumbled across the Fire Dragon King Igneel, who unlike many other Dragons at the time was not opposed to associating with humans, and after acquainting with one another, the Dragon agreed to teach Natsu Dragon Slayer Magic and raise him.
The other rumour was that as E.N.D he fought against Igneel for some reason, but for reasons unknown to anyone, Igneel had the upper hand in the fight but didn't kill E.N.D for some reason. Gnarl suspected that that Nasty looked so young and the fire breathing lizard couldn't kill a child.
But out of these two reasons, Gnarl suspected the first reason to be true. Because with his dealings with Tartaros in the past, the leader of the Demon Guild Mard Geer, was always holding a book with the letters 'E.N.D' written on the cover. And it meant to have their Master in the book, but because of so much magic in the air, they couldn't revive him and so they are looking for ways to destroy magic so they can revive E.N.D.
So Gnarl suspected that Zeref took Natsu to Igneel to become even stronger, by learning Dragon Slayer Magic. As seeing that Natsu was also a human, he should be able to learn the Slayer Magic and his Fire Curse. But to learn the Dragon Slayer Magic easier, Zeref might have sealed Natsu's demon side and memories and put them into the book that Mard Geer had on him.
With how Natsu was at that time, what Gnarl told him next made him even angrier than he already was - but at the same time made sense as to why he wasn't able read the current language, as it changed a lot of the years. The reason that he was sent to the future, was a plan that the dragons came up with to kill Acnologia.
The true name of Acnologia and if the sex of the dragon was lost through time, but what people didn't know was that Acnologia was once human. Born over four hundred years ago, Acnologia was one of the first Dragon Slayers to come into being, entering the Dragon Civil War on the side supporting coexistence.
But as time passed though, Acnologia and a group of other Dragon Slayers, however, disregarded the cause their comrades fought for, and killed every Dragon they could, bathing in their blood. Gnarl research explained that due to the overuse of his Magic, Acnologia's physique eventually turned into that of a Dragon's, and he proclaimed himself to be the Dragon King. This event was forever etched into history as the Dragon King Festival.
For many years, Acnologia roamed Earth Land, reputed as a fearsome Dragon, and was credited with the single-handed destruction of an entire country. And during these years, Acnologia and a few other of his people found a way to make them more powerful, and that was to rip the souls of dragons out of them. At one point before Igneel meet Acnologia where partially ripped the Fire Dragon's soul, but like a rare few dragons before him, Igneel was able to escape. But leaving him weak, and slowly and painfully dying.
When Natsu asked Gnarl what this has got to do with him and how he was sent into the future, the old Minion explained that the reason was that Igneel was within him. Natsu was in shock at first, saying that it couldn't be true, as he would know or his father would have informed him about it. But Gnarl should Natsu his results to the tests that he done, and it showed that not only was he really related to Zeref, but Igneel was indeed inside him. Here was upset at this, but at first he thought that his father couldn't talk to him like this, but Gnarl shot that down, saying that whilst it took some doing, it was possible for the two to talk to each other.
As Natsu thought about it, more angry he got with his father, all these years he thought that his father abandoned him and only to find out he was inside him all this time. Why didn't his father not inform him all these years, tell him what was going on, even if it was a one time deal. At least this way he knew he wasn't abandoned by the fire breathing lizard. Natsu was also angry that Igneel didn't prepare him for this, warning him that he would be sent into the future. If he did, Natsu felt that he might have done things differently, and people might not look down at him.
But this wasn't the top of it all though, now when Natsu asked how his father got inside him and why he was sent into the future, this what got him real mad. Gnarl explained that Igneel and a few other dragons used a rare technique called Dragon Soul Technique, to fuse with another soul. But it couldn't be any soul that they fuse with, but with a Dragon Slayer soul, and so that had to find and train new Dragon Slayers to make this technique to work.
Gnarl explained that there was two reasons from the records he found, the first was so that they can heal their own soul. You see, at the time the land was low on Magic (Ethernano) and so they planned to seal themselves with the young Dragon Slayers, to a time where Magic was high in the air and so the could recover enough to kill Acnologia. And the second reason they did the Dragon Soul Technique, was to create antibodies to prevent the process of Dragonification, the ability to become full dragons like Acnologia could. As they feared that the Dragon Slayers might turn out like Acnologia, and that was something they could not risk.
Upon hearing this, was what made Natsu angry and let his power out, showing the old Minion Master, his potential in magic. Natsu was angry as by the sounds of things, his father didn't seem to really love him, as he and the other Dragons were only using the Dragon Slayers to their own gain or at least with Igneel, as Natsu thought. As he didn't warn him about being sent to the future, or didn't prepare him, and he limited his power as he presume that he would turn out like Acnologia. He would need to find the other Dragon Slayers and see what their story was, and if the same, have them join him if he could.
As for ending up in the future, I it would seem that Zeref had her hand in this. As the dragons came to her because they needed her Eclipse Gate to make their plan work. Seeing how powerful Acnologia was and how weak the dragons were, Zeref agreed to help them, but only because it would save her brother. To make sure that the plan worked, she altered the Gate a bit so that only Celestial Spirit Mage, someone who could summon sprites from another world, could open the Gate as long as they had all twelve Golden Zodiac Keys - these were one stronger set of sprites that could be summoned. And the dragons agreed to this, as they didn't want the Gate to be opened at a time when Magic wasn't strong in the air.
So with the help of the current Celestial Spirit Mage, Anna Heartfilia, they opened the Eclipse Gate to the future. Zeref made a deal with Anna Heartfilia, that her family would be responsible for opening the Gate again when Ethernano was strong enough in the land for the Dragons to heal themselves. Which lead Natsu awaking on the morning of the 7th of June x777, as a Layla Heartfilia reopened the Gate and sending the Dragon Slayers all over the land.
Natsu was shocked to hear this, but he was happy to hear that his sister was looking out for him, by sending him to the future so that Acnologia couldn't kill him. But he was real angry with his father, with everything he had been through, this topped it all. Now if things hadn't been so bad, Natsu might have a clearer mind and after he calmed down might have understand better and things wouldn't have gone the way it did next.
As after thinking about everything, Natsu asked two things, first was what happened to his sister, and next was there anything the old Minion could do about undoing everything that his sister and so called father done to him. Gnarl smiled at the young Overlord and told him that as for his Zeref, he wasn't sure what happened to her over the years, as she kept to her so most of the time and so not much info could be gained. But there was a rumour about Zeref founding what later shaped itself to become the Alvarez Empire over a century ago, but he didn't know if that was true or not.
Natsu whistled at this, as he heard about the Empire in passing, as it united all of its seven hundred and thirty odd guilds of Alakitasia by martial force. No one is really sure who rule the Alvarez Empire, as the ministers and generals of the Empire do the majority of the work. And whoever does rule the Empire, rarely dabbles in politics unless necessary, preferring to stay beyond the capital, or even the empire itself.
As for undoing what was done to him, Gnarl said he could do it, but he had a better idea. Merging the two powers to create a hybrid between the two, a Demonic Dragon Slayer. Thinking before acting on an idea that he thought was cool, Natsu asked if there was going to be any side effects he should worry about and would he look or act differently.
Gnarl admitted that other than a demonic form that he could transform into, he wasn't sure if there's any other side effects, but he didn't suspect so. When asked when they could start undoing what was done to him, Gnarl told told the young Overload that once they brought his friend back from the dead, they could begin to merge Natsu's powers together.
Now as for being Lisanna back to life, will that didn't went to plan. Yes Lisanna was brought back to life, but the fact was to Gnarl's, Natsu's and Happy's surprise, it wasn't the Lisanna that Natsu and Happy knew. As when she first 'awoke' she had no idea who Happy was, and was wondering why Natsu wasn't in his car.
It would seem that this Lisanna came from an universe parallel to Earthland known as Edolas, their Kingdom which theoretically covers the area of the whole continent, and their capital located in the eastern part which share the same name. This shocked Natsu and Happy, but not Gnarl, as he explained he knew that parallel universes, even though he knew nothing what each of them were like.
And unlike Earthland, Magic in Edolas is not stored within a person's body, but rather in Magic objects, often in the form of Lacrima, which can be imbued into items to grant them specific magical function. The reason for this was because the Magic in Edolas was low, and was becoming lower each day, and so the Magic that where was, was limited.
So the output of the magical item is limited to how it is used, so that the limited amount of magic there was wouldn't run out sooner. Someone who without training could unleash all of the Magic within a magical sword in one use, but through proper training and control, it could last hundreds of times. The transportation of Edolas is also more developed than Earthland's, as while Earthland's Transportation requires a Mage to transfer their Magic Power to run the vehicle, transportation in Edolas is powered solely by Lacrima.
One of the few differences was that their lands floated in the air, another was that there won't any guilds in Edolas and the only there was considered as a Dark Guild. The reason for there being no guilds was that to try and control amount of magic being used, their King, Faust, ordered the outlaw of Magic unless they worked for the Kingdom or got permission, and to make sure no one can learn magic they disbandment of all guilds. The only guild who didn't disband was Edolas Fairy Tail Guild, who was run by someone known as Lucy Ashley. And because they didn't disband, they were considered as a Dark Guild. Natsu couldn't help but scoff at this, as it reminded them of the Magic Council, as in if they didn't like you or the way you act, they could decide decide you are a Dark Mage when you won't.
From what Edolas Lisanna told him and Happy, everyone in the Edolas Fairy Tail Guild, was very different from theirs. The main two differences that stuck out to Natsu and Happy was that the Natsu of that world was a weak scaredy cat, who stays in his car as if his life depended on it when he wasn't in his Guild Hall. Then there was the Gray of their world, instead of stripping all the time, he puts excessively layers of clothes on. Edolas Lisanna explained that her guild were the only ones that stood up against the Kingdom.
When asked what she meant by standing up against her Kingdom, she explained that they didn't like being told what to do, nor being faced to do things that they don't like to do. Whilst other guilds have tried to stand up to the king, they were all defeated one by one, with only the Fairy Tail Guild left to stand up against the. Another thing that they were trying to stop was the King's plan for Earthland, as he is stealing all the magic from this world to try and save Edolas and the cost of Earthland. She also explained that at times when the King uses whatever it is that steals the magic from this world, at times things from her world and this world trades places. With her case her dead body, was replaced by this world's Lisanna, who might just be alive.
Here the reactions from Gnarl, Natsu and Happy were different, Natsu and Happy whilst angry that the King of Edolas stealing, they were more happy that there was hope that their Lisanna might be alive. Gnarl was angry at someone who would dare to steal magic from their world, the fact was it was the right of the Overlord to steal magic from others, not some corrupt King.
Natsu asked if there was anyway to get to Edolas, but Edolas Lisanna informed them they didn't know a way back to Edolas without the use of whatever the King used to steal magic and swap things over. But even if they were able to get to Edolas, there would be a high risk of Natsu not being able to do magic. So before Natsu plan of finding a way to Edolas, he should train in hand to hand and learning to control magical weapons so that when he got there, Natsu would know how to without using the weapon's power up.
So with that knowledge about Edolas power problem, plans were drawn up for Natsu to learn better non-magical fighting and using magical weapons instead of Natsu's own magic. With learning magical weapons was something Happy could do, seeing that he could not use any other magic other than his Aera Magic. But that was something that Happy and Natsu was going to look into, so that Happy could do more.
Then after explaining a bit about Edolas, Edolas Lisanna asked why he was with a Exceed. Than when asked what a Exceed was, Edolas Lisanna explained they were talking cats in Edolas that controlled most of the world. They live on a floating island known as Extalia, which was ruled by Queen Shagotte, who was the god of Edolas. It was said that not only could the god foresee death, she is also capable of deciding the life and death of all living creatures in Edolas. It was also said that the Queen sent one hundred unborn Exceed eggs to Earthland, for the mission to eliminate the Dragon Slayers who prose a threat to Edolas.
Both Natsu and Happy couldn't help but laugh at this, as over the years Happy other than his Aera Magic, he didn't show any super power that could take down a Dragon Slayer. And they would know, as Happy didn't want to be a burden to his friends/father/mother, and so tried to learn any kind of magic without much luck. So to think that the other Exceeds having some kind of power was laughable, and so they had to be pulling something over the people of Edolas. This got Edolas Lisanna thinking, and wondered all the stories about the Exceeds were true or not.
Then there was the matter of Everlue's Mansion, when Gnarl learnt about the identity of Everlue he was shocked to say the less. He was surprised to find that the Halfling was the descendant of the family of Melvin the Small, or as he was later known as Melvin Underbelly once previous Overlord corrupted the Halfling. But if what he said was true, then it was very possible for Everlue to gain some of the Overlord's items that were lost over time years. So he suggested that Natsu go back to his mansion before anyone else find them, something Natsu agree with.
And so Natsu and ten of the Brown Minions returned to Everlue's Mansion by the Netherworld Gate, and to their shook found that his body was still there. It would seem that he wasn't missed yet, which give Natsu and the Browns time to look around the place.
During the search, Natsu found two items that shock Gnarl to no need, as these items were lost to the Overlord long before he was spawned from the pits.
The first item was the Eye of Evil, was a three foot fiery orange orb, with a strange looking eye within it, it reminded Natsu of a cat eye. Gnarl explained that from the ancient records, the Eye of Evil would allow the Overlord to spy on any targets and places, as long as they didn't have magic protecting them from someone spying on them. But the problem was that the Eye of Evil was damaged, and so Gnarl wasn't sure if the orb would work the way it should, and might only spy on those in a short distances and for a short time.
And over the last two months proved right, he could only spy on those he wanted for a short time and couldn't spy on those who were too far out. But Gnarl did inform that now that the Eye of Evil was now connected to the Neither Heart, it would be only matter of time before he repaid itself.
The next item that they found on Everlue's Mansion Coffin of Regeneration, which was another item that Gnarl thought was lost. This item would allow anyone within it to heal any wounds, but more damage that needs to be healed, longer it would take to heal. As long as the damage wasn't too serious, it can also heal brain damage too. However, the problem was that the Coffin was missing an important part that would immediately transport the Overlord into the Coffin itself, so until they find it, the Minions would have to bring him back as soon as possible to get him healed. Once they got these items from the mansion, Natsu burnt the building down, so that when someone find Everlue's body, no one could find anything on him.
From that day on, Natsu trained to get better, and with the help of Gnarl slowly getting the education he needed so he wouldn't be as dumb as he once was. Surprisingly, without the threat of getting hurt like he did with Erza when she was teaching him, he was learning much faster than before as Gnarl and those who Gnarl found to teach him, spent time and explain things to him so he would understand.
Then there was his combat training, both magical and non-magical, and he was surprised that it was one of the Netherghūls that Gnarl told Natsu and Happy about. This Netherghūl was Inferna, who was literally put on ice, the Netherghūl was in thick blue ice, as Gnarl believed she might have been one of those who helped to steal the Neither Heart in the first place.
The reason that Inferna was on ice, was because she was a great Fire Mage, and this ice was the only thing keeping her from escaping and maybe killing Gnarl and the rest of the Minions. You see Inferna comes from what was a small desert village in the red desert lands, called the Rubornian. Now although her people always had an affinity for fire, it was discovered that Inferna had the ability to summon fire from within her body - the living flame.
Like many times in the past, there were many who feared magic and so it led the people of Inferna's village to fear, and eventually ostracised by her own people when she was just a child. Frightened of the powers she held within her, Inferna's own father took her out into the deep desert and, to her horror, left her alone to die.
But somehow the young Inferna managed to survive the sandstorms, the burning sun and the desert beasts. When she emerged from the wilderness she did not return to her village. Inferna had endured the harshest trials of nature. She didn't need any help from anyone. Instead she continued to look after herself, hunting and stealing what she wanted; the flames her only companions.
Inferna grew tough and resilient. She taught herself to fight and stalked the land taking down whatever stood in her path, determined to be as hostile and brutal to the world as it had been to her. Eventually she got such a reputation that baskets of food and drink were often left outside village gates just in case the "Red Death" was passing so she might take the goodies and not attempt to singlehandedly destroy their homes.
Inferna eventually met her demise fighting a family of rock giants for the gem seam they protected. Whereupon the Minions that were secretly observing her recovered her shattered remains and brought them back to Gnarl, the Minion Master, who resurrected her as a Netherghūl.
Gnarl made a deal with Inferna, he would free her and in return, to prove her loyalty, she would train Natsu in non-magical combat along with Fire Magic too, which greatly interested the young Dragon Slayer. Although she had great resentment towards the Minion Master, she was interested to see what the new Fire Dragon Slayer Overlord could do and so agreed to train him.
But the training with Inferna didn't happen until after Gnarl undid what was done to Natsu. This was an interesting event for the young Overlord, as when he was unconscious during the time of the spells being undone, for the first time in years that he saw his foster father. Igneel was trying to stop Natsu from undoing the magic on him, as they were there for his and those around him. But the new Overlord was still angry with what happened over the last week, and what what his own father done to him without telling him what was going on. Natsu told his father this, and how he and the other Dragons were using their children to get their revenge on Acnologia for what he did to them, and that they didn't care about their kids. And blocked what could be the main power that they could defeat Acnologia if they could not.
Igneel was shocked at how his foster son acted, sure to the outsider it would look like he and the other dragons used their children to take revenge on Acnologia. But the fact was in part yes they did use them, but the rest of the story was that they did indeed loved their children. And as for the Dragonification, the reason they want to prevent it, is that he and the rest of the dragons feared it was what made Acnologia even more mad than he already was. Which was the reason for them doing what they done.
Natsu argued that they could have taught their children so that if the Dragonification was the reason that Acnologia in his father's words, made the Black Dragon mader, it wouldn't have happened to them. Even than they could have found another way to counter the problems with the Dragonification, if it was the problem. And it could be the only thing that would help them defeat Acnologia, if they the other dragons could not, because, thanks from Gnarl told him and Happy, as the Dragon Slayers were now with Acnologia having hundred years weak as Acnologia had the experience and power to defeat them. And because he, Igneel, at the very least kept quiet, he didn't have any new Dragon Slayer skills or experience to deal with the Black Dragon. Igneel tried to tell his son that it was decided by the other Dragons, it was for the best, as it would take power to talk to them, power that would take away from creating the antibodies to prevent this Dragonification.
Natsu argued once again, this time why didn't they warn them about being sent to the future, prepare them that things wouldn't be the same. Here Igneel had no real argument about this, and all it did was to make Natsu angry, which made him go through the changes, trying not to stop it.
With the new transformation, apart for looking taller and stronger in his human form, he now had a demonic dragon hybrid form. Where in his human form he was about six foot tall, he was now about eight foot tall, and was a human demonic dragon hybrid. His main body was made of scale, and the body was musclely. Bronze scales decorated the soft underside of the wings. The bones protected by black scales. The other side of the wings, were blanketed in an overwhelming amount of pitch black scales. He head was a demonic dragon's head, with horns either side of his head, and one coming off his snort. And he had a long tail, the end of it had a ball of spakes on it.
One other thing that happened in the last two months, other than training, his education and gaining a demonic form, he learnt about the Golden Keys that he gained from Everlue. It would seem that this Golden Key was one of the Golden Zodiac Keys that Gnarl mentioned when was telling him about his past and how he got to the future. This Zodiac Key was Virgo, who had control over Earth Magic.
Here Natsu asked more about the Golden Keys, so Gnarl explained that unknown to most Mages, even to Celestial Spirit Mages that weld the Celestial Keys, there were many kinds of Keys but information about them and where to find were lost through time. The main set known of today was the basic Silver Keys and the Golden Zodiac Keys, the Silver Keys were different kind of spirits, mainly the Silver Keys whilst there were a rare few that were useful, the main of the Silver Keys were useless and they only summon them for pets or whatever.
Then there was the Golden Zodiac Keys, whilst they were stronger than most of the Silver Keys, and most of the Mages in Earthland, they were still the weakest and for a few seemed to be useless. Like the Golden Zodiac Key, Cancer whilst not bad at fighting, he welds a pair of scissors as weapons, and cares more about cutting and caring for hair than he does for fighting. Then there was Sagittarius, most would imagine a centaur when you think of him, but the truth was that the Golden Zodiac Sagittarius was a man in a horse outfit and use a bow and arrow, but with new real skills to speak of. And lastly, the weakest of Golden Zodiacs, was Aries, she was meek and unwilling to fight unless she had to and even then she could be a risk.
However, there were two other set of Golden Zodiac Keys and other keys, the Red Zodiac Keys and the Black Zodiac Keys. The Red Zodiac Keys were the ones that Alakitasia used to use, before they were lost and only one or two were in use now, these Red Zodiac Keys known as, Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and the Pig. They not only were they stronger than the Golden Zodiac Keys, they were more aggressive and more useful than their Golden Counterparts.
The Black Zodiac Keys were the dark version of the Golden Zodiac, and they came about when one of the past Overlord's fought against the Celestial King. Will not against him personal, but against the Red and Golden Zodiacs and the other Celestial Spirits. The past Overlord had found a way to kill all Celestial Spirits, something that before was impossible to do for anyone on Earthland. To save many lives, the Celestial King and the Overlord of the time came to a deal, for the Overlord to stop killing the Celestial Spirits, the Celestial King agreed to create the Overlord his own personal Dark Zodiacs, in return the Overlord would destroy the weapon that could kill any Celestial Spirits. Celestial King asked which version of the Zodiacs would the Overlord want, the Red or the Golden, which after some thought decided to have the Dark version of the Golden Zodiacs - which give birth to the Black Zodiac Keys. These ones were stronger and more useful than most of the Golden Zodiacs, their looks were gothic like.
Finally there were the Blue Keys, these Keys were used to summon warriors and special Spirits to add them in a fight, be to fight alongside them or make them stronger in some way.
Then Natsu asked if there was anything else that the old Minion Master knew about the Celestial Spirits, in which Gnarl admitted that there was only one other thing he could think of. It would seem that time between Earthland and the Celestial World was different, a day in the Celestial Spirits World, is approximately one week in the human world.
After learning all this, the final thing Natsu asked and something Happy was interested in, was it possible for the Dragon Slayer to use Virgo's Key and what kind of spirit was she. Gnarl told them that until he tried, he wouldn't know if Natsu could use the magic or not. As for the kind of spirit Virgo was, from what Gnarl knew of, she was a loyal type Celestial Spirit, that takes on the looks that her Master thought was attractive and she had power over Earth, but mainly used it to dig holes.
Knowing that he wouldn't have to worry about her looking like a gorilla, Natsu tried to use the Celestial Key, and to their present surprise, it worked. Virgo took the form of a maid with shackles around her wrists, short pink hair, and blue eyes. She wears a typical maid outfit, consisting of a black undercoat and a white, frilled-trim apron.
Natsu and Gnarl were surprised that Virgo was willing to make a deal with the new Overlord, as from Gnarl told him, normally Golden Zodiacs don't normally work with someone like them, someone who was truly evil the Overlord was. But Virgo didn't seem to mind this though, and made a contact with Natsu with what to suspect from each other. Over the following two months, Natsu was amused to find out how she turned out to be a masochist, as she would beg for him to punish her, it didn't matter if she deserve it or not, she just wanted to be punished. It was something whilst shocked Natsu he was interested in, he wasn't ready to do so.
Another thing that has happened in the last two months was trying to find a way to make Happy stronger, as the Exceed seeing his best friend/father gaining new power felt jealous. So when Natsu wasn't training, or going out with the Minions to gain what they needed, the new Overlord was looking into way to make his friend/son stronger. So far they won't able to get far, but they were able to create a blade for Happy along with a few Lacrima Bombs, which the blue Exceed could use.
Now as Natsu was thinking about the past two months or so, he was interrupted as Gnarl entered the Throne Room, and said, "Master, Lisanna from Edolas wants a word with you about the construction you have her and the Browns, she said she got a few ideas she wanted to ask you about."
"Ok Gnarl." Natsu said as he stood up from his throne, and walked towards the floating platforms.
As they were floating to one of the caverns, Gnarl asked, "Master, I know it's not my place, but I was wondering, what is the point of your idea of creating the farm and homes in one of our caverns for?"
"Have you ever heard the saying hope for the best but prepare for the worst?" Natsu enquired.
"I don't think I have sire." Gnarl admitted to the young Overlord.
"We'll the Old Man back at Fairy Tail often says that," Natsu told the Minion Master, "it means that whilst you hope for the best in battle, you should prepare for the worst should it happen. In the past I never prepare for the worst, as I was cocky and thought I could never be beaten. But then I read about the past Overlords, about how they were defeated or was stopped half way in doing so. But that was when there was less Mages, but now though there are so many more Mages than you use you."
"So what is your point?" Gnarl asked with interest, "So we have to deal with those with magic, I don't see the big deal is, all humans die the same way."
"I don't know what the Mages in the past was like, but the Mages of today are more than likely more powerful and shouldn't be underestimated." Natsu told the old minion, "What I fear is that if we aren't ready, they could seal our way onto the surface, keeping us and anyone we gather here. So I'm preparing so should the Magic Council find about us before we our ready, we would have the food and a place to live until we can find a way back to the surface. So far we have been lucky with the Browns, stealing and killing what we need so far."
"Hmm," Gnarl hummed thoughtfully, "as much as I hate to admit it Master, you might be right. But when we get the rest of the Minions, we might not need this idea of yours."
"I don't know about that," claimed Natsu, "whilst they might be useful in the past, when there was less magic users, but now? I think they would be outdone, defeated with ease. I really think we should strengthen them up some home."
"You really think that our Minions could be defeated so easily by these magic users?" Gnarl inquired in shock, not believing that any humans could defeat a horde of Minions. "And what if they were defeated, we can get more lifeforce to create more Minions."
Natsu could see his Minion Master not believing that the Minions couldn't be defeated by Wizards, but he did. Whilst most won't that strong, or at least not as strong as he and a few others were or even stronger than him, he knew that when in a group they can outnumber him even it was a huge enough of a group. So should the Minions attack a guild full of Mages, they would more than likely be defeated. As for lifeforce, as he read up there isn't many people or creatures that had Green or Red lifeforce these days, unlike a few hundred years ago. And he didn't see the point of killing needlessly either, control can be gain in many other ways than killing or that is what he was learning now anyway.
"I know, how about a deal," Natsu said thoughtfully as the floating platform stopped at the entrance of a cavern, "we send about twenty Browns to a guild of my picking, and if they can defeat the guild I'll say no more about this. But if they are defeated, you'll have to help me to find a way to make them stronger, even if it means creating new Minions all together."
Gnarl looked at the Overlord in disbelief, not believing that he could not believe that the Minions could handle some simple Mages. But then again, the Overlord hadn't had the chance to see them fight well, so far the new Overlord has been training and do small raids, so this deal could be interesting. This would show that the Minions were strong enough to deal with a Mages that they would run across. But at the same time though, if by some strange twist they would fail as the Overlord suspected, it would be fun in making them stronger and better.
So with a smile, the Minion Master said, "You have a deal sire."
"Good," Natsu said with a smile, "let's see what Lisanna wants."
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. I hope you like the items that I have added to the Overlord World, let me know what you think of them. This chapter is not Beta Read, and 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.
I altered this part as it made no sense at on other than making things impossible for Fairy Tail: a day in the Celestial Spirits World, is approximately three months in the human world. So instead of one day to three months, I changed it to one day to one week, which I think is more believable.
As for should I make the other Dragon Slayers as female? I've decided that I would only do one or two of them as females, the rest will stay males, and I might add a few OC Dragon Slayers. So if you got any ideas, let me know.
Now as you see I'm planning to get Natsu to Edola soon enough, and some of the people who live there will be coming back with the young Overlord. Three of them are going to be Levy, Erza Knightwalker and Lucy Ashley. Which leads me to ask, should Natsu of Lucy Ashley or Lucy Heartfilia as a mistress/slave or should he have both of them? Please let me know, as I need help to decide and want to see who you want and why.
Please know that any flames will be ignored, any guests 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.
Either way, thank you for reading this story, and I hope you'll leave a review letting me know what you think, and any ideas you might have, as I'm looking for some. 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.
Overlord Log
Overlord Items:
Eye of Evil: An Orb to allow the Overlord to spy on people.
Coffin of Regeneration: A Coffin that can heal anyone from near death.
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.