Chapter 44
On the way back from doing some inspections at the redwood forest, Team RWBY were talking about having a stew pot for dinner...with Yang saying that it is okay for her to do her puns outside of the encampment and their the only ones.
That is until Blake change the subject, "But I can tell you one thing."
"What's that?" Ruby asks as she places her hands behind her back.
"I'm still finding it hard to believe that the four girls are the four maidens from the fairy tale. Same that goes with Ozma as the wizard."
"Not only that." Weiss adds into the conversation. "Ozpin and Ozma were one in the same."
"Perhaps there is some truth to the fairy tales." Yang says. "Like the one about the two brothers, The Girl in the Tower, the Shallow Sea."
"Isn't Salem the girl in the tower, or was?" Ruby asks. "She did say that she was locked away in the tower by her father."
"Could be." Weiss agrees a little. "Although I think we should ask in great detail. I mean Ozma and Salem are from the age of fairy tales so why not?"
"I don't think we should disturb her right now." Yang says.
"Why?" the three ask.
"She mentioned something about a piece of her soul missing. Don't know much about that but best to let her get a bit more time to adjust. And who knows. Maybe we may find it someday."
Over at Salem's fort, Salem is cooling off in the river in order to find solace. She just relax in the cold water under the hot sun right before she notices something at the bottom of the river close to her. Curious, she swam below to see what it is down there. When she gets close, it is some sort of treasure chest of some kind. Salem opens it and found some mysterious gauntlet that looks evil along with a strange, orange, glowing thing on the back of the hand part. Below it near the fingers is some sort of skull-like feature with sharp-teeth. Salem swam up to the surface and heads back to the beach.
Once she breached the surface and head back to the fortress, she looked at the glove. There is a dark and ominous feeling to the gauntlet as if there is some sort of dark magical energy to it. Feeling such power, Salem puts the gauntlet on her left hand. Salem has been infused with the power of this mysterious gauntlet.
"Miss Salem!" one of the troops arrived. "We got a situation!"
In Salem's war room, two fighter thralls brought in a strange humanoid creature that has green skin, bad dental hygiene, a hideous face, and dressed like a scout of some sort. The creature was chained and brought to his knees in front of Salem, who is sitting on her chair. All of her subordinates are standing right behind her.
Salem asks, "What is this...thing?"
"We don't know ma'am." one of the fighters say. "We just found it skulking around."
Salem looks at the strange creature. "What are you?"
The green skin creature spits at Salem yet hits the ground close to her feet.
Salem is getting close to reveal her ugly side. "I'll ask again. What. Are. You?"
"That thing is an Uruk, or an orc." says a mysterious voice.
Almost everyone has their weapons out as they prepare for the intruder. The door behind the two thralls and orc open to reveal a very strange, well stranger, creature. It looks like a gremlin of some kind with gray skin, evil yellow eyes, and some white hairs. It appears to be hunched back while wearing old red cloth and black leather clothing and a piece of armor on it along with a yellow glowing crystal handing over its head attached to some string and a stick.
"Who are you?!" Adam says in a hostile tone of voice.
"Easy there, young one." says the morbid creature. "I am Gnarl. I am Gnarl, minion advisor to the Overlord. But in this case..." he looks at Salem, "...Overlady."
Salem tilted her head a little.
"I am referring to the one who holds the gauntlet."
Salem looks at her new gauntlet that she just found.
"That gauntlet you have have been passed down from one Overlord to the next, my Overlady. With it, you have control of the minions in your new tower. Grubby has dug a new chamber under your fortress that opens a portal to the Netherworld Tower."
Salem lowers her gauntlet and looks back at Gnarl.
"Wait!" Tock says while looking at Gnarl. "You guys dug a tunnel under our feet!?"
"Well, it is a lot easier than going through the front gate. But I hate to waste a few of your good soldiers by playing ball with their heads, having their eyes as an ingredient for our soup, and use their corpses as vermin bait for food."
Tyrian laughs. He points at Gnarl while looking at the others, "I love this guy!"
"Ahem!" one of the soldiers holding the orc prisoner went. "Sorry, but we also have this thing here."
Gnarl looks at the two men and the orc. "The Uruk? That thing is here to find a very special item." He looks at Salem. "Which I do have for you, my new mistress." Gnarl approaches Salem while her subordinates are ready to take him on. As he approaches, he pulls out something from his pocket.
As Gnarl approaches, Salem's subordinates will try to attack. Except for Hazel who just watches along with Arthur. Salem orders her subordinates to hold as Gnarl shows what is in his pocket. It is a silver ring with some glowing blue lettering on it. Salem senses tremendous power emanating from such a ring. Gnarl places the ring in both his hands and kneels down to offer the ring.
Before Salem takes it, the Uruk interrupts, "WHERE DID YOU FIND THE RING?!" The Uruk spoke for the first time.
But Salem takes the ring and puts it onto her gauntlet's index finger. She is then infused with great and powerful energies from the ring. What happened next is that she shadow stepped in front of the Uruk and tries her new abilities. Salem uses the ring to interrogate the orc. When she presses her gauntlet hand on the orc's head, the ring started to glow and some form of blue and white wisps coming from it as the Uruk is being tormented.
"Who are you?!" Salem demanded in a frightening voice.
The Uruk tries to resist but the power of the ring is too strong. "Just a scout...from...Mordor... Far west...from here..."
"Need more!"
"GAH! Since we appeared on this world...the Dark Lord disappeared...leaving the warchiefs without a leader... So...all of them fight for power... But they need...the ring...to dominate the others..."
"Dominate?" Salem asks. "Do you mean, like this!?" Salem uses the dominate ability on the Uruk which he is under her control now.
The Uruk starts saying, "I am yours. Dark Mistress."
Salem smiles, "Good. Now then." She turns to her subordinates, "Time to get to work."
Gnarl took them to the Netherworld Tower deep beneath the Exiled Lands to where Salem's main headquarters shall be as he gives them the tour. It is a dark stalactite-like tower in an abyss of black rock and lava. All the brown minions are hard at work to make the place dank and evil for their new Overlady as they try their hardest to make the place suitable. Although it is hard for creatures that like to smash things than use their brains to complete the finishing details of such an important project.
"This is your new tower, Mistress. A lot more evil and darker than the original Dark Tower in my opinion."
He takes them to the throne room, "Here is your throne room! This is where you sit and watch your minions do the dirty work, see what the lowly peasant or soldier has something to say, or to teleport you to where ever Grubby makes any portals on the surface."
Then he takes them to the Minion Burrows, "This is the Minion Burrows. Here, you can spawn, train, and even resurrect your favorite minions here. Unfortunately, only brown minions can be spawn here. We lost the other hives some time ago."
Then he takes them to the Infernal Chasm. A dark hole with lava being poured down to it. "This is the Infernal Chasm. A new edition to the Netherworld Tower, where you can spawn wraiths to fight by your command. You can call forth any undead for a cost of a few souls."
"You can bring the dead back to life?" Hazel asks Gnarl.
"Depends on your version of living."
Then Gnarl takes them to the Foundations. "This is the Foundations. This is where you get to forge your weapons and armor along with upgrading them, upgrading the minion barracks, and store your equipment in the armory."
"Can I get a new weapon?" Adam asks. "I like to have my Wither and Wilt back."
"If you have details on how to make 'em I'm sure that Giblet will do his best to forge them."
Then he takes them back to the throne room. "There are more quarters, but many of them are under construction to accommodate your...servants?"
Adam grabs the hilt of his sword as he address Gnarl in a hostile tone of voice. "Watch it, you little monster."
Tyrian smiles at Adam, "What's wrong with being a servant to our savior?"
"You too, you freak."
"Enough!" Salem demanded. She looked at her subordinates. "Listen carefully. If we are gonna need to fight against the people who sent us here, we're gonna need an army. I don't know much about it but they even preventing me from using my scrying magic. However, it won't stop us from mounting an assault somewhere on this planet. For now, we should gather an army."
Salem and her subordinates gear-up with a small force of thralls and minions armed with some of the best equipment they can forge. Grubby, the tunneler minion, manage to make a portal to the Mordor territory the Uruk, now named Rhuz, now serve as an advisor and captain of the first wave for Salem's forces. They gather at the first fortress at the edge of Nurn, close to Carnan's Forest that is in the control of the Feral Orc Tribe. The fortress is adorn with the bones of many beasts along with some cages of imprisoned beasts.
Salem's forces are outside of the gates and out of range of some of the siege beasts on the walls. At the head; Rhuz, Tock, and Hazel will take the first charge.
All the thralls under Salem's command chant, "SA-LEM! SA-LEM! SA-LEM!" as they prepare to battle. Minions chant loudly, "OVER-LADY! OVER-LADY! OVER-LADY!"
Salem walks among them as she approaches where Rhuz, Tock and Hazel are.
When she made it to the front, she sees an Uruk dressed in bone and misshapen steel armor in a tower in the back of the fort as it rages. The warchief is speaking in black speech so here is a translation.
Translation: "You think you can come here to my fort you bloody Menfolk and challenge me? Guess again you fucking shitty pathetic excuse of morons I have ever met!"
Then he heads inside of the keep.
"Any idea what that thing said?" Tock asks.
Rhuz says, "My Black Speech is a little rusty. He may have insulted us or wants to torture us in the most hideous way possible."
Hazel just stands there quietly.
Salem then pulls out a great sword with her gauntlet and shouts, "CHAAAARRRGGGEE!" in a female demonic voice.
The siege is on as many thralls and minions charge at the fortress with a few boulders being launched at it by a few trebuchets. On the walls, siege beasts armed with ballistas fire from their backs. Some of the minions try to build stack onto each other but got boiling oil pour on them. Hazel uses his semblance to dull any and all arrows being fired at him as he scales the wall. Some of the thralls fire snake arrows and flame arrows at the Uruk archers. Tock, strangely agreeing, was used as a battering ram at the gates for one minute because of her semblance. Hazel, at the top of the gates, killed many Uruks while showing no emotion whatsoever as he get the gates open.
When the gates open, many thralls and minions charge in while some of the troops below prepare to defend against the attackers. However, Salem's forces got a few named thralls from the Purge that manage to make many dents to the Uruks' defenses. Salem approaches the Uruks before her and killed them all with one swipe from her dark sword. She even manage to kill the captains at every key points of the fortress until they made it to the inside of the keep. Inside the keep; Salem, Tock, and Hazel enter and see the Uruk warchief sitting on his throne. This throne room is a mess of bones, carcasses of people hanging on the walls as trophies, and some caragors and one, mean graug in the cage to the far left.
They now face Shrel the Shadow, Feral Hunter. He speaks in Black Speech.
Translation: "Not bad. Not bad for a bunch of Men. Yet a She-Man leading the charge? That is a bit unusual. Nonetheless, you will die by the fangs of my pets!"
Shrel pulls a lever that unlocks all the cages that unleashes all the caragors and the graug. Salem just flicks her hand at them that cause all the beasts to die instantly. Shrel was ready to attack but drop his spear after seeing all of his pets die instantly.
"Uh-oh." Shrel is in big trouble.
Salem approaches the Uruk warchief and sliced his head-off. With that, Salem heads towards the top of the tower and addresses her troops in a dark, demonic voice.
"TAKE HEED! THIS IS THE FIRST OF MANY VICTORIES OF THIS NEW WORLD! SOON, THIS WORLD WILL BELONG TO YOUR DARK MISTRESS AND ALL THE SPOILS WILL BE YOURS!" Then does the signal banner just like that of Shadow of War.
The energy from the shockwave was felt throughout all of Mordor (presumably) as every Uruk and Olog-Hai overlord can feel a change in their battles. Something new has come to Mordor and seeks to dominate all.
Over at a nearby river, Adam removes his helmet and look at his reflection. He rub his fingers over his left eye where a brand should be, but it is gone and his eye is fully healed.
"Are you alright, Adam?" Fennec asks as he approach.
Adam looks at him, "I think so." before he but his headgear back on.
"How's your eye?"
"It looks all healed up, but I can still feel a bit of pain."
"I do believe they call it, the phantom pain, sir. A medical condition where an individual perceives to feel pain in limbs and organs that are not physically part of the body. But in your case, it is your scar."
"I see. But tell me, is it time to take on the next fortress?"
"I believe so. Lady Salem wants you, Tyrian, and Hazel."
Adam scoffs. "Lady Salem."
"Sir?"
"That woman is a human, a witch, and a Grimm. A monster among all monsters. But we'll humor her for now." Adam walks off, "Come on. Time for another siege."
AN: Hey everyone. Work has been a huge bitch. Like I said, I am gonna upload a new chapter every two weeks rather than once a week because of this. Wish I can quit, but I do need the money for today's economy. Now for the Q&A:
From my biggest fan all the way from Costa Rica, Junior VB: The reason why Church and Taiyang have the same voice is because they have the same voice actor, Burnie Burns. If you check both Red vs Blue and RWBY wikias on these characters, you can see.
Oh, and by the way: Gracias por tu apoyo
Guest: Those are Gasbags from the ARK DLC, Extinction. If you go to the ARK gamepedia site, you can see what it is.
Now for a bit of an important announcement. Coming on the Summer of 2019, I will do a remake of my RWBY x Pokemon story, Huntresses in a New World of Adventure. Team RWBY get trapped in a world full of Pokemon. It is overdone, but this fanfiction has Fakemon in it (fan-made Pokemon) from a variety of fan-made games that are good.
Here's a list and the websites (the dots are between the spaces) if you want to check them out:
1. Pokemon Sage: capx wiki com
2. Pokemon Uranium: pokemon-uranium wikia com
3. Pokemon Solar Light and Lunar Dark: pokemonsolarlightlunardark wikia com
4. Pokemon S.P.E.C.T.R.U.M.: p-spectrum wikia com
5. Pokemon Vega: pokemon-vega wikia com
6. Pokemon Sardonyx: rtw-wiki nebulon-ranger org/mw
7. Penkin's Ruby Hack: ruby-hack wikia com
8. Pokemon Insurgence: wiki p-insurgence com
9. Pokemon Sweet Version: pokemonsweet wikia com (May not appear but will try)
If anyone know of any fakemon games, please let me know and I will check them out when I have the time to check (except for Pokemon Clover due to inappropriate content for children).