Chapter Twenty…
(Lucy Heartfilia - Part 8.)
11th of February 783 - Netherworld Tower, Throne Room:
One second the girls were in the field, but the next moment they were in a Throne Room with strange Brown and Blue imp like creatures running about. They were sure that they thought they saw one or two Reds and Greens running about. These imp creatures must be the Minions that Natsu talked about.
When these Minions saw Natsu, they all called out, "Master is back, Master is back!" showing that they were as simple minded as Natsu told them that they were. Once Natsu ordered them away, a grey old looking Minion walked up to him, and said, "Welcome back Sire, I see you have brought more allies with you."
"It's good to be back Gnarl," admitted Natsu, he missed the place, "sorry I haven't been back in the last two weeks. I was hoping I could finally find Lucy and be done with it all. She is becoming a pain to find, I'm thinking about informing her father that I won't be finding his daughter."
"Well you're in luck Master," Gnarl informed his Overlord, "I have a lead that you might be interested in. And I have something else you might be interested in too." He was careful what he was saying, as he didn't know who these people were, or what they connection were to his Master. He didn't want to say too much in case they could become a problem later on.
"OK thanks Gnarl, give me a minute." Natsu told Gnarl before turning to Happy and said, "Happy can you take our new guests and give them a tour of the tower? I'll be back with you lot later."
"Aye sir," agreed Happy, "I'll see you later." And with that Happy lead the girls away, to give them a tour of the tower.
Than as Natsu followed Gnarl to the command centre that they set up, Natsu asked, "So this lead, it isn't another false lead is it? I really getting fed up with this job. The pay might be good but searching for one person with no luck is getting to me."
"Yes, the Eye of Evil have given us the precise location Lucy Heartfilia." Gnarl informed his Master.
"So the damn thing finally fixed itself at last?" Natsu asked with interest. This Eye of Evil meant to be able to spy on anyone, and find anyone or anything, but yet it hardly works most of the time.
"I understand your scepticism Master," acknowledged Gnarl, "but this time it had the image of the young girl, and I had Lyon and his people check it out first. And sure enough she was there, and still there, I have one of the few Green Minions we have keeping an eye on her. As I knew you wanted to get her and return her to her father."
"Thanks Gnarl." Natsu thanked the Minion Master, as they entered the Command Centre, upon entering it, he saw a few Blue Minions running about, keeping on a few Surveillance Lacrimas. These Surveillance Lacrimas were connected to other Surveillance Lacrimas that placed around a few places of interest around Fiore, the Magic Council, Fairy Tail and a few other Guilds. Then he had one of the Blue Minions that had a small ability to talk, to get Inferna. Then he asked Gnarl, "So what is the second lead you wanted me to know."
"As you know, your former Guild Mate, Mirajane Strauss has been travelling around training to become stronger." Gnarl reminded his Master, "Well, we have finally found her, she is training in a forest known as Spooky Forest in the country Seven."
"Now that is interesting." Natsu acknowledged thoughtfully, he had for some time wanted to pay that bitch back for the way she had treated him in the past and allowing his Lisanna hurt and taken to Edolas. It reminded him that once he finished with Lucy, he needed to find this Princess Jellia so he could find a way to Edolas.
As he was thinking about this, the Lisanna from Edolas came into the room. Natsu had begun call her Anna, and have her grow her hair long, so that he wouldn't mistake her for his Lisanna. Upon entering the room, Anna said, "Master, I heard you are back. I was wondering if you needed anything from me?"
"Yes, but I'm only here for a short while before going out again." Natsu told Anna, before a plan begun to form in his head on how to deal with and realized Anna might be able to help him find Jellia. "Yes you can help me, I have two things I need your help with. The first is, in your home world, have you ever heard of Princess Jellia?"
"I do Master," Anna acknowledged her Master, "she is the daughter of Faust King of Edolas, she disappeared a few years ago and no one knows what happened to her. How did you hear that name?"
"It would appear that four of your people have come to this world to find her," Natsu informed her and Gnarl, with Gnarl muttering about something on the lines of how people should stay in their own world, "it would seem she has been making problems for them. It would seem she is stopping her father from stealing the magic from this world somehow. So I was hoping you can tell me what she looks like, so that I can find her before they do. As she could be the key of me getting to your world."
Anna was saddened at this, as she knew full well why her Master wanted to go to her world, to get her counterpart back. Part of her wanted nothing more but to lie to him, so that she would be the only Lisanna in his life, and so he would finally fuck her. But at the same time, she knew she couldn't deny what he wanted, he was her everything, and even if it hurt her, she would give it to him.
So with a sad sigh she said, "It has been a few years since I seen her Master, but the last time I saw her before she disappeared, she had long light blue hair and red tattoo above and under his right eye."
"Hmm," the pink headed Mage hummed thoughtfully, "that's a start. Is there anything else you can tell me about her? As I suspect she would be hiding her identity, so would make it a bit hard to find her before the people looking for her do. Like the type of magical weapon, she would normally use?"
"Sadly I can't tell you Master, as she wasn't in public a lot, so can't tell you anything else." Anna told her Master sadly, unhappy she couldn't help in this.
"That's a shame," Natsu said with sigh, he wasn't a step closer to find this princess, "but no matter, it can't be helped." Then turning to Gnarl, he said, "I know this is little to go by on, but I want you to have our people keeping an eye on for a girl with this description."
"Of course Sire." the Minion Master acknowledged with a bow.
Then turning back to Anna, Natsu said, "Now the other thing I need your help with, is to help me punish Mirajane of this world. As she belittled me, and is part of the reason the Lisanna of this world is no long in this world, and is most likely in your world."
Anna was a bit conflicted as to this, whilst she might not be her sister, she did seem to look a bit like her, and part of her didn't want to hurt her. But at the same time though, her confliction ended when she remembered of this world's Mirajane's personality. Whilst her Mirajane's was a very kind, loving and cheerful person, this world's Mirajane's was feared and was rather temperamental and bad-mouthed everyone around her. And so she asked, "How can I help Master?"
"She believes that her sister is dead, so I want you to work with Gnarl on this and mess with her mind until she breaks." Natsu told her what he wanted, "If possible, I want only her to see you. As if anyone else sees you, it'll make it harder to break her mind."
"I think we have an item that can help with this," Gnarl informed his Master, "I'll have a look once we're done here."
"Good and once you broke Mirajane, let me know and I'll finish her off." Natsu told the two.
"Master, I don't ask for much, but once this is done can I ask for one favour?" Anna asked her Master, hoping if she do this, she could get want she want at long last.
"Depends on what it is, I have no problem doing you a favour." Natsu admitted.
"I would like you to fuck me Master." Anna informed the Dragon Slayer, and to show her willingness to have him do so, she took off her clothes and laid down on the cold floor in front of everybody there. Natsu was mildly surprised by her boldness to reveal her nudity to everyone there, but as Anna began to rub her pussy with her right hand and massage her breasts with her left, he decided to enjoy the scene in front of him.
Anne moaned as she saw her master's hard-on inside his pants grow and licked her lips wanting nothing more than to have him ravage her right there and now. Gnarl laughed delightfully at seeing any subject to his Overlord in such a position, and noticed Natsu's eyes leering at the sight before him. Anna panted and moaned as she felt her orgasm build up intensely. However, right when Anna was on the brink of her orgasm, Natsu had decided to stop her.
"Stop, Anna, I will not fuck you yet." Natsu told her, causing her to painfully pout as she stop masturbating and stood back up. The young Overlord smiled and looked lustfully at her, and whilst there was still a part of him that wanted to fuck his Lisanna first, the idea of fucking Anna in front of this worlds Mirajane popped in his mind. It could push her over the edge, and break her so he could rebuild her to his needs. So he said, "I'll think about it though, if you can break Mirajane's spirit within the next month, I'll give you what you want. But any longer, and you'll have to wait." He told her this so that she could break Mirajane sooner than later, as he didn't want to wait for long to punish her for the way she treated him all this time.
"I'll break her within the month Master, you have my word." Anna told her Master eagerly, wanting nothing more but for him to fuck her. And she would do whatever it took for it to happen.
Now before anyone could say more, or do anything, Inferna entered the room. Over the months, she had removed her mask, showing that along with her tanned skin, she had long brown hair, and red eyes. Upon entering she said as she sees the Dragon Slayer, "Welcome back Master, you wanted to see me."
"Yes Inferna, I have a job for you." Natsu informed the Netherghul, "I want you to go to Eisenwald and hire them to get to the Heartfilia's Mansion and wait until I get there before killing Jude Heartfilia."
"Why don't you do so before going to get the daughter Master?" asked Inferna.
"Should things go south and for some reason Eisenwald decides to cross me, I don't want anything connecting me to this." Natsu explained his reasoning for the Netherghul going instead of him, "I want you go to them, telling them the truths of sorts. That you have information that you would be returning home, and your Master wants everyone other than Lucy to die, even me who is returning her home. If asked why not kill the girl, tell them that your Master has plans for her, and witnessing the death of her father, and those at the mansion is part of your Masters plan."
"Why would you want them to try and kill you for?" asked the Netherghul, a bit confused at this.
"So that they and no one else suspects I had anything to do with the attack on the mansion." Natsu told her, "Not only that, but should I be questioned, I can say that I fought back whilst not only protecting myself, but Lucy too and she could back me up. Never knowing I was behind it all in the first place."
That was a clever plan that both Inferna and Gnarl liked. Whilst Gnarl would have liked the Overlord to have a more hands on in this, he could see the benefits of his Master's plan. As the Fire Dragon Slayer said before, his plans was to stay under the radar until they had all the Minions and had the power to back up their actions. Not only that, but to be able to push back if needed. As of right now, they won't able to do much, and would be defeated with ease should they were discovered before they were strong enough. Whilst Gnarl loved violence and would like to see it more often, he also, unhappy to admit it, knew that an Overlord needed cunning to take over the world. And Natsu was showing him how cunning the new Overlord can be.
"Now before I leave, is there anything you need or anything I need to know before I leave?" asked Natsu, wanting to get Lucy as soon as possible.
"We finally found a way to merge Deliora's and Ur's souls together," Gnarl informed his Master, "I have to admit it took longer then I would have liked. But Deliora was a stronger demon than we first thought he would be after all these years. But we were able to find the right ritual we need, and now we're waiting for your word to get things rolling."
"In that case I want you to wait until I return," the young Overlord told the Minion Master, "I want to be here when you do this. I want the first thing that Ur sees, is her new Master."
"Understood Master." the old Minion said with a bow, before asking, "Next I would like to know about these four new people that you brought back to the Tower. What are their deal?"
"Well the one with green hair, Mulan Rouge, and the one with black hair, Minerva Orland, are my two new allies." Natus informed Gnarl, Anna and Inferna, "They know more or less everything, that I'm a Dark Mage and that I'm planning to create a Dark Guild."
"And the blunette and the white Exceed?" asked Anna, "What do they know?"
"Very little," Natsu admitted, "the girl is Wendy and the Exceed is Carla, Wendy at the very least believes that Happy and I are Gray Mages. That we do what is needed, even if the rest of the world thinks that we're evil. Carla on the other hand, think we're up to no good, and that we're going to use her friend for some nefarious reasons. She's right of course, but we haven't yet give her any real reasons to make her believe that. I think she might have some hidden power, some foresight power. As she knew about the so called kill the Dragon Slayer mission when Happy didn't"
"That's problematic Master," Gnarl sneered at the thought, "I have dealt with those with such powers before, and they are nothing but trouble. They either try and stop us or try and us for their own needs. I remember such one, the mother of the Fourth Overlord. The bitch used us to get rid of another evil, one simply known as The Devourer, something a foolish human created to try and control the land of his time, and if unstopped the world."
"I know," the pink haired mage acknowledged, "but as far as I can tell she can't fully use it at will."
Before Gnarl could say anything, Anna asked, "Why do you make them think that you're a Gray Mage for My Lord?"
"Because she is innocent and brought up to become a Light Mage," Natsu inform her, "but seeing she is so young, I'm planning to corrupt her. How much? Only time will tell. Now although we only been together for a few days, corrupting her looks like it'll be easier than I first thought it would be."
"What do you mean Master?" asked the Netherghul, and with that Natsu begun to tell them what happened over the last few days.
"That's something you couldn't plan better for," Gnarl said thoughtfully, "it was like one of the Dark Gods is looking out for you. Making it so that things go your way to become the next Overlord."
"Do you have any plans to corrupt the innocent girl?" asked Inferna.
"Not right now no," Natsu admitted, "I was just going to see how things go and go from there, slowly turning Wendy dark."
"And what if the white Exceed?" asked Anna, "What are you going to do with her? You yourself said she could be a problem."
"I'm leaving her to Happy. You could say this is my test for him." Natsu told them.
"A test for him?" asked the Minion Master.
"Yes a test for him," Natsu acknowledged, "whilst I know he wouldn't betray me, I want to see how far he has come from the Happy I used to know, the happy and careful Happy who wouldn't hurt anyone. And having to deal with Carla will be a good test. And if he is unable to deal with her one way or another, well, accidents do happen." Here Natsu give a dark smirk at this, "Whilst it would be good if Happy can't deal with Carla, as her death will only help with Wendy becoming a Dark Mage."
Whilst Anna was unsure about this, the other two could see the plan as a good idea, as it would show how far the blue Exceed has came along. And if he can deal with the white Exceed or not, she would be useful in one way or another.
Then Natsu asked, "So tell me, where is Lucy?" And with that, Gnarl told Narsu where she was, and he left the Command Centre to get Happy so that they can leave to get the young girl.
And Then…
Netherworld Tower, The Minion Burrows, With Happy:
Whilst Natsu was with Gnarl, Happy was showing the new group around the Tower, the first stop was the Minion Burrows. It had been a while since Happy been here, and other than a new battle arena for Browns to fight in, not much had changed. The arena was there to stop the Browns from fighting wherever they wanted, as their fights created unneeded damage.
As they got into the Burrows, Happy explained to the group about the basics of the Minion Burrows, explaining they still had to find the Red and Green Minions. He was carefully not saying too much to Wendy and the bitch Carla, who was making slide remarks about him and Natsu. The only reason he had done anything yet was Wendy, his father wanted the young girl on his side, and harming or killing the follow Exceed would ruin things for Natsu if he killed her because he let his emotions get to him.
As they got to the new arena, the girls saw it was twenty foot high, forty foot round and it had seats at the top of the arena to watch the fights from the above if they wanted to watch from above instead of below. In the arena was a bluish silver hair male, as he was fighting thirty brown imp creatures with ice attacks. When they were at the top of the arena, it was Carla who asked, "Isn't it a bit unfair? That there's about thirty of those things fighting one man?" But the others, even Wendy, was amazed that this one could take on so many at once.
"Normally yes," Happy told the other Exceed, "but the thing is that Lyon is helping them to train to fight against Mages, as the Brown Minions are the weakest when it comes to fighting Mages. As they use brute-force only, and can easily get defeated, so Lyon is helping them to fight better."
"Why would you do that?" Carla asked with a sneer, "Why would you make them more of a hoodlums?"
"Carla!" Wendy called out in shock, "We're their guests here, we have no right to argue about their training. To me it makes sense to train them like this if they could get defeated against Mages. It's why I'm here isn't it, to become stronger and better at fighting."
"But child, this is too rough for you." Carla told her friend, not wanting to see Wendy hurt, "You could get hurt or worse."
"Do you think that other Mages would go gentle on her in a fight?" asked Happy, "Once she learns the basics, she'll be trained as if she is facing real Mages. This way she'll know what to suspect in the future. There's no reason to be gentle once she knows the basics, as those we fight against won't gentle and could be worse than anything we could do to her.
"Still I won't let a hoodlum like you -" Carla begun, but was interrupted when Wendy give her a look, "I know you are only looking out for me Carla, but so are Happy and Natsu. I want to become as strong as they are, and if I have to go through the same training as their to do so, I'll do my best to bare it, even if it is rough."
Over the last few days since Wendy met up with Natsu and the others, her confidence grew each day. Sure they might not be the good guys pre say, but they helped her when they didn't have to and because of them, she gained confidence that she never had before. Enough to talk back to Carla when she believed her best friend was being too hard on her new friends for no reason.
Just then, Lyon appeared next to them, riding on a sheet of ice. At the bottom, the defeated minions were to move aside, forgotten as new set of minions begun to fight each other. Upon seeing the new girls, Lyon asked, "Happy, who are these new girls?"
"They are Mulan Rouge, Minerva Orland, and Wendy Marvell and her friend Carla," Happy introduced the girls to Lyon, "ladies this is Lyon Vastia. He and his friends, are a Gray Mage like Natsu."
'Gray Mage?' Lyon thought to himself, confused as to what his master was planning, 'What is Master Natsu playing at? What is he trying to hide?' But he knew better to ask when it looks like it he was trying to hide something from these four, or at least one of them. So until he knew more, it would be better if he didn't say anything.
"So he is just another barbarian just like your and the pink headed fool." Carla sneered, not liking the group at all, and not afraid to show her feelings.
"Lyon can you do me a favour, and take Rouge, Minerva and Wendy and show them the farm area please?" asked Happy, it was about time he and Carla about her attitude. She needed to change it if she was going to live here, and know that she can keep pushing people around and call them names.
"Sure but why?" asked Lyon.
"I need to have a talk with Carla." Happy told the Ice Mage.
"Sure." Lyon said simply as he lead the girls out the Minion Burrows, and to the local farm area that Natsu had built.
Once they were away, Happy looked at Carla and he sneered and asked, "What is your problem? We have done nothing to you nor Wendy, in fact me and Natsu went out of our way to save you and help you, and how do you repay us? With being rude and calling us names. Why?"
"You and your friends are no good hoodlums, no matter how you might around act around her." Carla told the blue Exceed, "You have no problems with killing other people, and doing whatever you see fit to get the results you want. No matter who it hurts."
"Don't you see, this is a dark world, and if you don't look out for yourself, if you're unlucky, you could be walked all over by other people." Happy told the female Exceed, he had seen how the world really was over the last few months, and he didn't want to be one of those who were walked over because he strong enough to do what was needed to be done. "If you don't do whatever is necessary, even things you wouldn't normally do, you could end up being walked all over, enslaved or worse dead."
"I don't care," Carla told Happy, "I won't let you allow you to corrupt the sweet girl that Wendy is. One way or another, I'll make Wendy see the truth about you and your master, and after that I'll get her out of here."
"That's a shame you would say that." Happy sneered at Carla, as he closed the distance between the two of them, as he poured some of magic in his hand, and touched her.
As he did, Carla felt the magical force from Happy's hand and within that moment, the magical fur that was covering her pussy and her asshole disappeared to reveal them. Now, normally they were covered by white fur so that she could walk around without anyone seeing her parts if she wanted. It was something all Exceeds had, fur magically covering their private parts, and they would only appear when they need the bathroom or clean their parts.
"What are you doing?" Carla asked fearfully.
"Showing you your place around here," Happy sneered at the white Exceed, "if you're going to be staying here for a while, you need to understand where you stand here. So you know what is going to happen now is because of you. If you've been more nice and much less rude, this wouldn't happen."
"What are you talking about tomcat?" asked Carla, "You don't have the balls to do anything to me. Not if you don't want Wendy to find out what you done."
Happy just smirked at this, as he used a gust of wind that he created in his hand to push the damn female Exceed into the arena. As he did so, Carla screamed in fear as Happy called down to the Brown Minions, "Play time guys."
Before Carla could do anything, the Browns were on top of her before she knew it, some of them were pulling against her skirts and shirt. Whilst others would poking her pussy and ass with their fingers. She tried pushing them off, scratching them with her claws, but no matter what she did, the Brown Minions kept coming. At this, Carla called out to Happy with fear in her voice, "Tomcat, please help me please!"
But Happy left her to her torment for a few minutes, wanting to show her that he was in charge here, and that her attitude isn't welcomed here. After a few moments, before the Browns could go too far, Happy transformed into his battle form, a huge blue cat, and jumped into the arena and started to throw the Browns off Carla.
When the Browns were thrown off her, Carla was shocked to see a tall muscle version of Happy, throwing of the imps were on her. And once the imps were off her, the muscle version of Happy return to his smaller form. She was shock she could do this, she thought he was only able to do wind magic, but this was more.
He looked down at her as she tried to clean herself up, he said with a sneer, "So you know, I could have left you to the Browns and make it up as if it was some tragic accident. I walked away and you slipped into the arena and before I could do anything, the Browns got to you and killed you."
"What is stopping me from telling Wendy?" Carla asked with tears in her eyes, as she couldn't believe what happened to her. But at the same time, was strangely aroused at how Happy was dealing with her.
Ever since the night where Wendy gotten 'The Talk' from Minerva, and she found out about Happy's ability in wind magic and his bad boy attitude, she had been having dirty thoughts about the tomcat. Thoughts that she wouldn't normally have, him throwing her on the floor and having his way with her, treating her like dirt and so on. She wouldn't admit to these feeling, but they were there for some reason, and they were getting stronger. She was trying to fight these feelings, as she believed she shouldn't be having them, but Happy was helping matters. As every bad boy action he done, and the way he talked to her, just made it so her body wanted him more.
"Oh tell her if you want, but who she is going to believe?" Happy with a smirk, "You, who have been nothing but a bitch towards me and Natsu, saying awful things about us and trying to get Wendy away from us. Or me, who with Natsu been nothing but nice to you, and comforting when Wendy learned the truth about her mother and her village. We done nothing against you, Natsu saved your sorry ass when he didn't have to and done nothing but being nice to you two. So I ask again, who is Wendy going to believe me or you?
"Even if you tell her, I just make it out that it was an accident. That after I told you to stop being a bitch or you two are out, I walked away and somehow you slipped into the arena where the Browns were fighting. I didn't notice until you called out for help what was happening. I could make it out that what you were saying were lies, as you wanted you and her to leave this place as you didn't like us. And why wouldn't she believe me? With the way you have been treating me and Natsu. In fact, I could do anything I wanted and make it out that you're only lying to get her to leave Natsu who is training her."
Carla couldn't believe it, she looked at him in fear, the damn tomcat had got her right where he wanted her. He was right. He could do anything he wanted to her, and Wendy would most likely believe the damn tomcat over her. And it was all because of the way she had been treating the group, Wendy would have a hard time believing her over the blue Exceed and Natsu, who had rescued and comforted her. They done nothing in front of her to make her think that they were in the wrong, they even admitted that they were Gray Mages and sometime do things that others wouldn't think of.
So unless they done something big in front of her, Wendy would believe them over her any time because of the way she has been acting. If she wasn't careful, Happy or Natsu would make sure she had a tragic accident where she could end up dead. Which would make it so their plans were easier with her out of the way, Carla knew that until she could find a way to prove to Wendy that these people weren't who they seemed to be, she had to keep her mouth shut so that she could keep Natsu's over her influence to a minimum.
Now before Happy started to walk away, he smirked and said, "Now if you play nice, and show me that you are truly sorry, I might even teach you a few things that I learnt over the last few months. But you really have to be nice to me."
As Happy walked away, Carla could guess how nice she had to be if she wanted him to each her what she knew. The thing is, to be able to fight against Happy and the group, she would have to be very nice to the bastard to be able to get stronger. But part of her, the part of her that was into the bad boy Happy, was more than happy to be nice to him only so that she could feel him inside her.
She shook her head, she needed these thoughts out of her head for now, and get back to Wendy. She had to keep her safe from these people. She just hope that she could fight off these thoughts about the tomcat, so that she could gety Wendy away from here. As if she couldn't, she and Wendy would become Dark Mages, and she wasn't sure if that's what she wanted.
And Then…
Netherworld Tower, Farm Cave, With Lyon:
Whilst Happy was having a talk with Carla, and the girls were being lead to the farm area, Wendy asked to herself mainly, "I wonder what Happy wants to talk to Carla about?"
"Has she been bad mouthing him long?" asked Lyon, whilst being called barbarian wasn't too bad, he felt there was something more to this.
"Ever since we meet up," this came from Rouge, "ever since she learnt that they do things differently, a bit darker than normal, she was rude to them. I'm surprised that they haven't acted before hand."
"So am I," admitted Lyon, "but than again, it could be they wanted you to see them as them first before putting Carla in her place." What the Ice Mage didn't say, was that the true reason that they might not of done nothing to the white Exceed. That they were somewhat pretending to be nice, to get something from them. What he didn't know. "But my guess is that he is warning her to behave, otherwise he'll act. Now that you seem to be part of our group, neither he nor will let that attitude be, so he would want to warn her about it."
"Why didn't he do it in front of us then?" asked Wendy.
"Who knows, could be an Exceed thing," Lyon informed the young Dragon Slayer, "don't worry, he won't hurt her." That was a lie, the Ice Mage had no doubt the blue cat would hurt Carla without a second thought. But he wasn't going to tell the blue haired girl this.
By now the group were now in the cave which had the farm area. The area which use to have two hurt, and a small patch of land, was now a whole lot different. The farm land was much bigger, it could grow enough food for about five hundred people. It had ten huts, which would allow up to five people to live in each one. The last thing that the cave had was two pens, with strange bugs in them.
These pens were to farm lifeforce, to create more minions, and whatever else lifeforce was needed for. The first pen had thirty brown bugs, whilst the other pen had thirty blue bugs in it. The idea was to allow these bugs to lay their eggs, and allow the eggs to hatch and make those newborn bugs strong enough before killing them for their lifeforce. Lyon had to admit this was a great idea, as each of these bugs lay between twenty to fifty eggs every seven months or so. So within two years or so, they would have enough lifeforce to get what they needed and more. It also means they wouldn't have to kill people unless they had to, like innocent people. They had another cave like this to farm not only more food, but lifeforce for when they get the Greens and Reds Hives.
Now there were a few Browns and Blues, looking after the bugs, and doing some building and farming. Wendy asked, "What are these bugs for?"
"What do you know about the Minions and how they come about?" asked Lyon.
"We don't know anything about how they come about, we thought they were born and raised the way they are." Minerva told Lyon thoughtfully.
"No, they come from Lifeforce that comes from a person or creatures that dead, their soul." Lyon informed the girls, as they grasped in shock, as they learnt the truth about the Minions. "Well in the past the former masters of these minions would kill anyone and anything to get these souls to create more minions, but this wasn't something that Natsu wanted, killing innocent people needlessly to create more minions. So he created this farm of bugs, so he can use them instead of people." This wasn't the full story as to why Natsu wasn't going after people, but enough for the girls for now.
Just by looking at them, Lyon knew that the green haired and the black haired girl didn't believe him for one moment. Which meant they knew what Natsu really was, it was Wendy who looked in wonder and amazement told him that she believed in the story. Now he knew why Natsu was pretending to be a Gray Mage, for this girl. She was too innocent and trusting, and Lyon could only guess that Natsu had plans for her if he was playing the Gray Mage card. He was most like planning to turn her dark, and need to do so slowly. But Lyon had to wonder what this young girl had, that his Master would go through all this trouble of turning her dark.
Before he could think more about it though, Happy and Carla entered the farm, Carla looking worse for ware. Seeing this, Wendy called out, "Carla! Are you alright?"
"She fell into the arena," explained Happy before Carla could say a thing, "I give her a talk about her attitude and how me nor Natsu was going take it any longer, and what would happen if she keeps up with it. But as I was leaving to catch up to you guys, she must have fallen into the arena, as the next thing I knew she was calling for help and I saw the Browns all over her. She I came to help her."
Happy put on such a show, that if you didn't know him as he was now, if you won't Lyon who knew what he was like, you would hard not to believe the story. Seeing this, Wendy ran up to her, and holding her like a baby asked, "Carla are you okay?"
Giving Happy a look, Carla knew that what he said early was right. Right now, with the way he acted, no one would believe her as to what really happened. So instead she said, "Yeah I'm okay, thanks to the tomcat."
"I'm glad to hear it." said a voice behind them, as they looked round they saw Natsu standing behind them. As he walked towards them, he said, "Up 'til now, we have done nothing about your attitude, as we wanted Wendy to join us and didn't scare her off thinking that we were just barbarians. But now you're part of the group, you'll have to start showing us more respect than you have been doing. I'm not saying that you have to like us, hell there'll be members that you might hate, but as long as you are part of my group. You can fight with them, argue with them, but you'll show them respect unless they done something to you personally, or be punished in one form or another."
As much as Wendy might not like it, she and the others could understand about respecting each other unless they done something against them personal. Natsu went on to say, "Talking about punishment, let's talk about rules. We don't have many rules here at the moment, but the main three are respecting each other unless something happens, and that when not on missions you train a few hours to get stronger, last do not betray us. The punishment will fit the rule breaking."
All of them nodded at this, like all guilds they had rules to follow, so it wasn't a surprise that Natsu had some. "Either way, I just came to get Happy, and he and I got a job to finish. One we have been working on for a while, so I'll leave you girls in Lyon's hands. He'll start your training. But I have one order, one that he and his group follows, and that's should you leave the tower, you're not allowed to tell anyone about this place. You guys know because I see something special, and I trust you."
The girls were proud to hear this, Rouge and Minerva both knew that Natsu wasn't saying this for Wendy's sake, but because he meant it for all of them. They wouldn't want to betray his trust like this, more so Wendy than the other two, as she lost everything already and she didn't want to lose this too. She would do whatever it took not to betray or let Natsu down.
As for Carla, she knew she had to play the long game, to get on the tomcats good side, and get stronger so that she could deal with Natsu herself. As she didn't want him in Wendy's life any longer than necessary, so the other Dragon Slayer couldn't corrupt the sweet girl.
Either way, Natsu said goodbye to the girls, and left to finally find Lucy Heartfilia.
To be Continued…
Here ends the next chapter of Dragon Overlord, I was able to bring this chapter sooner than the last, as I was writing it before I posted the last chapter. As part of it was going to be in the last chapter, and for reasons I can't remember, I decided to cut it off where I did in the last chapter and continue with the rest in this chapter.
Now as I said in the last chapter I'm planning to add a few OC Dragon Slayers, I have one or two good ones, but would like some more if possible. I would like to ask those who already give me some, for ideas how I can add them into the story. And for any new characters you might send, I would like to ask you how I can add them and which group they should belong to. I don't want them with Natsu, as he got or well have enough Dragon Slayers on his side and don't need more just yet.
I'm still after your thoughts about how I can add Sting Eucliffe and Rogue Cheney into the story, as I have no idea at the moment as to how I can do this. So please, if you got any ideas as to how I could add them please let me know. Now as you know, I have a poll up to see if I should switch the genders of them, and if so which of them should it be. I'm only change ONE of their genders if that's what you want, not both as some of you wanted. So you know, I'm leaving up if they are female or not up in your hands, if the results aren't to your liking and you haven't voted, that's down to you. So vote before it's too late.
Here's the results so far:
Rogue as female: Poll - 23. Reviews - 1.
Sting as female: Poll - 35. Reviews - 8.
Neither as female. 10. Reviews - 4.
One last thing, I'm going to do more with the Exceeds that were seen in the anime and comics, so I would like to see a few OCs for new Exceeds. A few males, and lots of females are welcomed. :D
So you know the Lucy Heartfilia chapters are coming to an end, next chapter or two, and I would like to ask what you would like to see next. The basic ideas are to do with the group from Edolas, looking for the princess, meeting Sting and Rogue and finding a few Exceeds before going to Edolas. But whilst I know what I want to happen, I haven't got much else and whilst I'm better at creating things on the fly, I would like a few ideas to help what should happen next. As I'm not good at creating guidelines for each chapter, so would like ideas from you.