Great, I'm the New Bad Guy...

I walked over to the dog who was trapped by my minions, and knelt next to him asking "Is there anything you wish to say to me? Or would you like to join your... Pack? Group? What do you call yourselves?"

"We call ourselves 'Diamond Dogs', alpha! We go in packs! Umm... I forgot what to say after... I'm sorry alpha!" the medium sized dog said to me. Well okay then, I guess that answers that qusest-

Wait.

Did he just say 'Diamond Dogs'?

"Oh no."

There is only one place that I know of that has those, and they weren't male strippers.

Fuck.

Well I was nothing if not adaptable... I hope. I will just have to deal with this, somehow.

Regardless, I turned back to the DD saying "I believe it was 'Oh great and powerful Overlord, allow us to lead you to our home so that you may take all that you please, sparing me from your wrath, as I have already angered you with my belligerence and obviously unnecessary cruelty toward the sheeple.' Unless you can't say all of that, in which case just say 'I will take you to my home and then serve you.' I know some creatures have a hard time talking."

The dog looked blankly at me for a moment before saying/asking "Umm... Yes?"

I just sighed and motioned my minions off of him, after the dog had gotten up I heard the door to the cottage open. I turned to find the father of the family of sheeple looking at me with hope.

"Please, lord! The Diamond Dogs took a large portion of the people from the nearby town! I just know that if you can return them, the sheeple there would be happy to give you the land! Umm... our last leader ran away after the dogs came the first time... But I know that you won't run away lord! Please help us?" He said in a surprisingly strong voice, all of the earlier shaking gone.

"Bah! Sheeple weak! Good only as plaything! Diamond Dogs strong! Better!" the dog spat from where he was, tied to a minion with some thorny vines.

I turned without responding to any of them. While following the dog to their den, Gnarl came up to me and asked "So, sire, who will you side with? The physically weak, but obviously industrious sheeple, or the brutish and stupid Diamond Dogs? Both have their ups and downs after all..."

"I choose both." I said in responce.

"Both? But... that is, how does your lordship plan to go about this, enslaving both?" Gnarl asked, confused at my statement.

"Easy, I forcibly take over one, and take the other from gratitude for taking the first. They will get along if it kills them, mostly the Diamond Dogs by my predictions." I said in a board tone.

"My lord, is this the first time you've done this? You seem quite a bit smarter than other Overlords we've had in the past!" Gnarl said in an impressed voice.

"I'm actually around average intelligence for my people, it doesn't take a genius to figure out how to take control of two warring groups like this." I told him.

"Imagine if Aizen came here instead. Oh, everyone and their mother would be boned. All a part of his plan!"

"Well, I would hate to have to fight your people my lord!" Gnarl said in a last ditch effort to butter me up. It failed.

We had been walking for about ten, fifteen minutes, when the dog who was leading us shouted to us "It's just up ahead! Between those rocks there!" I wanted to beat him for yelling and ruining the element of surprise, but Gnarl beat me to it. (Plus I didn't want to kill him just for being an idiot)

Three dogs ran out of the opening to the den carrying crude polearms. My first thought was "Ooh! Upgrade!" as two minions had picked up poorly made axes from the first fight, but the other three needed new weapons. The minions looked to me for a split second before charging at the dogs as I had already raised my hand in their direction, the dogs for their part were confused, likely because of the small biting angry things that were for some reason attacking them, and then very dead with three minions dancing on their corpses, holding their weapons over their heads.

Once the Browns were done with their happy dance we went into the den to find the Tower Heart and maybe the stolen sheeple, if we had time... Yea...

It was a fairly straight forward place, really only going forward with a turn or a backtrack here and there. There were a ludicrous amount of the dogs stuffed in there, it seemed that they had communal rooms where you slept where you fell down, dogs and sheeple. Luckily the sheeple looked relatively unharmed, as it showed that the dogs were smart enough to not break their own equipment.
On the way we fought a surprisingly small amount of dogs, it seemed like they just never thought that anything would follow them home to attack them. At least the minions were getting something out of the encounters, some of the leather vests that the dogs wore would get so shredded by the minions that when the small fights were over they could wear them as a kind of proto-armor. It was better than nothing, as before they had been wearing nothing but a loincloth.

I had almost given up on finding the Tower Heart when we hit pay dirt in the very last room to explore. It was at the very back of the den, the farthest from the entrance, inside was what can only be called a treasure room. There, half buried in a pile of gems as tall as I was, was the Tower Heart. There was also a dog that came up to my shoulders laying on top of it.

"Hmm, it looks like that one has absorbed some of the power from the Tower Heart! It might be just a tad more difficult to beat this one, but we must have the Heart back!" Gnarl all but yelled at me, waking up the sleeping dog.

"Wha? Who the hell are you!? How did you get in here!? where are all the guards I had in this place!?" she, I assume as it sounded like a she, growled in annoyance.

"Oh, they're all dead. Now you work for me, everything you own belongs to me, and you will do what I tell you. Unless you want to join them, that is." I said to her in a monotone walking in front of my minions and motioning them back.

"Heh, if those weaklings are dead then it's their own fault! Just like this will be your fault!" she said, jumping at me while trying to bite my head off.

Using the back of my ax I smacked her out of the air, hitting the back of her head stunning her, while saying "Down! Bad girl!" Once she was flat on the ground, I put my foot on her head with just enough pressure to cause a small amount of pain, but not enough to cause permanent damage. She struggled under my foot for a few seconds before going still, then violently scraping and pulling to get out from under my foot, tearing the skin of her head just enough to have blood begin to leak out and down her face.

"Now that I have your attention, allow me to repeat myself. You work for me, everything you own belongs to me, and you will do what I tell you, when I tell you. Do you understand?" I calmly asked her.

She struggled for a few more minutes before I began to lose patience and began to slowly increase the pressure of my foot. After a few moments of whimpering and whining she relented, and finally said "Yes... Alpha..." in a very reluctant and angry tone.

I took my foot off of her head and kicked her across the room with one stroke, saying "What was that? Would you like to try again?" while she yelped.

She looked at me defiantly in the eye for all of three seconds, before submissively (If somewhat still angrily) saying "Yes, Alpha, I will be obedient."

"Much better. For that you get to keep one thing in this room, aside from the Tower Heart of course. Oh, and all of the sheeple, unless they wish to stay that is."I told her in a pleased but firm tone.