Celestia channeled her magic through her horn, covering it in a golden aura as she touched a hidden wall. Everypony gasped in shock as the wall slid back and away, revealing a dark gaping hallway. Torches soon became lit when they made contact with the air, burning a bright orange. The sun ruler turned to the gathered and extended her arm out.

“Please, step inside. The tale requires some…visual aids.” Celestia said somberly.

The seven looked at each other before nodding and heading in. Luna cast a glance at her sister, the look unable to be deciphered; was she telling her not to go through with the plan she had or was she begging Celestia to just leave the now awoken dragon alone? Hard to say, but Celestia paid no heed to the look, rather she just looked at her younger sister with a pointed look to get in the hall to help narrate the tale.

Luna sighed but did as she was silently told. She entered the halls long since forgotten and waited until Celestia joined her. The door closed behind them with a dull thud. Twilight was the first to speak in the dimly lit place.

“Princess Celestia, how long ago was this hallway installed?” Twilight asked, her scholar side coming out making many of her friends chuckle lightly even her former teacher.

“I installed them around five hundred years after my…sister’s banishment. I intended the hall to act as a part of a museum I had in development. I had hoped the museum would be open upon your coronation, Twilight.”

The six looked at one another before Celestia took the lead. They began to travel down hall to get the explanation of what had happened prior to their arrival.

OVMLP

The girls had traveled far into the hidden hall and soon came upon a room that was not lit by torches. Twilight summoned out her magic, lighting the place in lavender light and making it easier for everyone to see. Celestia and Luna joined the six, lit their horns with their magic, and lit the dais that was left of the room’s doorway. It glowed bright blue with magical fire, raced around in a circle, and revealed the contents of the room.

Stain glass windows were revealed, much like the ones that depecited Twilight’s and her friends's various deeds, but unlike the ones that were destroyed, these particular ones held a massive figure in the center covered in gray armor, wielding a weapon that differed from picture to picture and had some tiny figures surrounding him. In some, the figure was holding an axe, in some others, he was waving a sword, and in a select few, he had a mace. The girls looked at the images with confusion, awe, fear, and excitement.

“Princess, what are these?” Applejack asked as she ran her finger over a window.

The window showed the princesses of Equestria surrounding the gray figure that seemed to be in agony as a light blue mist was ejected from the body. She turned to Luna who was speaking.

“These are the windows that depict of a foul being that even Tartarus could not contain,” Luna said in scorn. “These tell of the reign of the Overlord.”

Everypony felt a shudder go down their spines at the name; even Pinkie Pie could say that the shudder was not part of her pinkie sense. It was something else entirely.

“Who…or what is this Overlord character, Princess Luna?” Rarity asked after regaining herself.

There was silence for several moments before Celestia answered.

“He is pure Evil, Generous Rarity. He is the last of his kind and immortal like Luna and I. He only seeks to conquer and control,” Celestia said with biting venom.

Twilight gained a thinking stance, looking over the answer she had been given before she looked at her teacher.

“Celestia that only gave us a brief description of this…Overlord. You didn’t fully answer the question. Who is he?” Twilight said her tone slightly accusatory.

Luna stepped in before Celestia snapped at her former student; the overlord was a very touchy subject for her.

“The Overlord is human, Twilight Sparkle and he is the worst of them.”

Rainbow swore out-loud at the answer.

“Human?! Bucking horseapples! I owe Lyra forty bits now!”

Every other mare voiced their opinions, each one similar as Rainbow’s answer. Luna chuckled mirthlessly as the swearing died down.

“If she ever meets the Overlord; she will change her opinion of Humans, very fast. The Overlord ruled the western area for close to thirty thousand years. Even the dragons, for their might and power that was at the peak of those long lost years, feared him.”

“Why?” Fluttershy asked timidly as she looked at the glass of the human being over a dead dragon’s body.

“Because he had slain Barong the Unmatched.” Celestia replied.

That tidbit made Twilight’s eyes go wide.

“Are you bucking kidding me, Celestia?” Twilight said in a hoarse whisper.

The only answer was silence.

OVMLP

Netherworld Tower

The Overlord roared with laughter as he watched the last brown minion shoved his club, fat end up, into a green’s nostril. The said green screamed bloody murder before he fell down to the ground, a skull rising up over his body.

The brown that had killed off the green now stood proudly over a large pile of minions. He beat his chest and let out a yell that soundly odd like Tarzan of the Apes. The Overlord blinked in surprise; who knew that such a tiny being could produce such a loud and powerful yell?

He got up off his stone seat, grabbed his axe, got behind the brown, positioned his axe’s blunt side to face the back, and, while the brown was still yelling, swung.

“FORE!” He shouted in a poor Scottish accent.

The blunt end hit the minion and sent him flying through the air. The minion paused in his yell and began to laugh madly as he flapped his arms.

“Lookizez! I’m a birdie!” The minion shouted at many of his brothers before he impacted the wall. “OOF!”

The wall indented with the impact of the minion and he fell…into a pool of water where the Blue minion hive was. The Overlord roared with laughter at the panic cries of the minion before he drowned.

Several of the Blues rushed to reanimate the dead minions from the brawl and from the pool. Once they had cleared the bodies, Gnarl got up with a grimace and a glare.

“Confound it master, why did you have those three try to rip me apart?! Furthermore, why didn’t you stop the brawl?! I’m not the spry minion I used to be!” Gnarl snarled.

The Overlord glared at Gnarl who shrunk back in fear.

“Because I found it hilarious, Gnarl.” The Overlord simply said.

Gnarl was about to retort when Giblet returned in his forging armor and mallet.

“Mastah, the smelters, forge stones, and molds are all still here thankz in part to youse hiding them along with the Arcanum armor you wear and Sword of Life Stealing,” Giblet reported making the Overlord smirk. “Howeverz, all spellz, the rest of the weapons, most of the minion totems, and trophiez are gonez Mastah.”

The last bit of information make the Overlord growl enraged at the information.

“Damn those two. They must have taken them to appease their neighbors.”

Gnarl huffed in anger; those prissy ponies. How dare they steal from his dark majesty! Nothing ever good came from them! He looked at Giblet and then back at his master.

“Sire, we need to gain those back, but first we should reinforce the tower a bit. Another couple of decades and this would’ve collapsed with all of us in it!” Gnarl said.

The Overlord nodded and began barking orders at the now revived minions. They snapped to attention and began to scurry around to set about repairing their homes. The Overlord turned back to Gnarl.

“Gnarl, use the tower heart to find the missing items,” He ordered to which Gnarl bowed and hobbled off. The Overlord turned to his forge master. “Giblet, fire up the smelters and see if there is some way to make a new material from the metals found in the earth around here and combine it with the Arcanium! I want to make those beings that have our items recall the fear I instilled in them so long ago!”
Giblet saluted before he dashed off to the forging rooms. The Overlord turned his head to the ceiling of his tower.
“Cry havoc and let slip the hounds of hell, Celestia.”

OVMLP

The other five stood there slack-jawed at the information Twilight had provided to them.

“So…this here Baloney,” Applejack started to say when Twilight interrupted.

“Barong.”

Applejack huffed in annoyance at the interruption. Twilight sheepishly giggled, but they all knew it was just a means to hide the fear underneath.

“Barong essentially ruled not only all of the Dragon Empire, but the places where Fillydelphia, New Yoke, Applelosa, and Manehatten would be for close to fifteen thousand years before being killed by this Overlard feller?” Applejack asked.

Celestia nodded stiffly.

“Yes. Barong was the emperor of the Dragon clan at the time before the Elder council came to be. The Overlord challenged the Dragon Emperor for control and after three years of battle, the Overlord killed him.”

Twilight butted in.

“Barong was said to have a skin as tough as a diamond with his fire as hot as hellfire. For the Overlord to kill him is…is…”

Rainbow finished Twilight’s stuttering.

“Nothing short of awesome?”

Twilight looked at her cyan friend and smiled slightly.

“Yes…but at the same time no. It’s nothing short of inconceivable! The weapon would have to be at least a metal that can pierce through that hide!”

Luna lit her horn, adding more light and revealing something that had been hiding in the darkness. Everyone gasped as they saw a massive Sword imbedded in the center of the floor in front of them.

The hilt of the blade was black with a skull and serpent at the end, the serpent acting as a tongue to the skull. In the skulls eyes were black opals that seemed to absorb all light into it, but still glow with power lurking within. From there the hilt split off into two paths, each path ending in a dragon like claw containing a dazzling white diamond that seemed to contain several rainbows with in.

The blade itself was finely crafted. Despite the years, it had not aged nor had it dulled. The blade shone with unholy light and as they glanced over it, they could see black lightning arcing across the blade.

“W-what is that?” Pinkie pie asked in fear and awe of the sword before her.

“That is the Infernal Sword of Armageddon; the blade that had slayed Barong. It can easily slice through anything, as I can attest to that having seen it in battle. This is a third of a set that allows the Overlord to unleash a form he calls the Infernal form. Why he calls it this, we do not know. The only person to see this form was Barong and we all know how that turned out.” Luna explained.

Rarity gulped.

“Where are the other two pieces?” She asked.

“Safe.” Celestia replied curtly before she turned to another glass window. “He also was responsible for a being that bends and warps reality.”

“A being? What was it?” Fluttershy asked.

There was a loud pop and Discord was standing next to Celestia and Luna. His long face was stone cold somber and his tone of voice was serious.

“Me.”

OVMLP

Gnarl sighed as the sound of hammers hammering filled the air. Getting the tower back in ship-shape would take some time, time that they certainty did not have if those two prissy ponies were concerned. They were probably prepping their guards and slash or soldiers to invade the netherworld and the tower.

No, they needed to find at least some of the spell stones and minion totems before the day was through. Not to mention a crane…

The tower heart pulsed starting Gnarl out of his thoughts. The minion master hobbled over to the blue sphere excitedly. He gazed at it eagerly as the orb showed a crane, the fire spell stone, the domination spell stone, two minion totems, and some of the steel weapons and armors. Sadly, it showed several bipedal beings with large eagle wings and a lion’s body in their lower form patrolling the area.

“Griffins, pha! The master will not be too pleased about this.” Gnarl mumbled unaware of the dark one walking up.

“Not too pleased, Gnarl? Hardly. I have enough totems for ten minions. I will simply have to be…selective of whom I chose.” The Overlord said as he crossed his arms.

“Selective?” Gnarl asked dumbly.

Hey, he could never understood this particular Overlord; he was as wild and unpredictable as the winds and seas!

“For starters, I’ll need a good majority of Reds, three to four should do. The remaining six to seven will be both browns and greens should things go south. The reds, once positioned here at these ridges,” The Overlord explained, pointing to several ledges overlooking the camp. “They’ll set the tents on fire to make a distraction. It takes five minions to carry the crane, so that’ll be our last objective. It takes three minions to carry the first totem. Once we have that one, I’ll summon more reds and some blues to further the distraction so we can get the second one. Finally, we’ll grab crane before returning to the tower.”
The Overlord looked at Gnarl.

“We will, of course, return to the camp and slaughter them. I’ll need the Sword of Life Stealing for that though.”

Gnarl nodded and felt hundreds of years younger. He still knew how to cause a major ruckus when he needed to. Ah, it was good being Evil again.

Author's Note

Hey there, another chapter up! Hope you all are liking the story so far. Please leave a review and help me out with any mistakes i made.