THIRD PERSON'S POV
"There's no way I can do that, (Y/N)!!" Ruby exclaimed in a frantic voice, (Y/N) jumped back in shock from how loud she suddenly went, and the others looked over in surprise, Ruby realised she had just yelled and blushed knowing that all the attention was on her now.
"S-Sorry about that, please, go back to what you were doing, ehehehe..." she said as she laughed in embarrassment and waved everyone away.
"I-I mean, we can't just take their food away (Y/N)! It's not ours, and they might need it!" Ruby said in a whisper-yell.
"Yes, because they look oh so hungry right now..." (Y/N) said as he looked at the peasants, they all seemed very well fed for people who were starving.
"Even so, we should do the right thing and give it back, besides, we've already got a lot of food from these Halfling Homes, and this kitchen's got a lot of food in it. let's just take that instead?" Ruby suggested, hoping that she wouldn't have to kill the village people that were with them right now, she knows for sure that Weiss and Blake would never forgive her for doing that, and yang would be so disappointed.
"Oh, very well Mistress... we'll do it 'that' way, just make sure those peons don't forget to reward you for your efforts!" (Y/N) said grumpily, he was kind of hoping she would take the destructive route, but in the long game, that wasn't good for long-term evil plan or a way to keep the new Dark Domain sustained for a long time, but in the end it was still evil they served.
"Don't worry, we've got this all under control" Ruby said, she turned back to the Browns and had them drop the food onto the platform, the villagers cheered happily and went to carry the food back up to the village.
"A generous act, I hope that village will reward you accordingly" (Y/N) said with some doubt evident in his voice as the villagers lifted the massive pile of food, Ruby and (Y/N) followed after them along with the Minions, Weiss and Blake.
"I'm sure the people of the village will be very thankful for us returning this food to them, especially after all of the time and effort it had taken for us to get it for them" Weiss said as she walked with Ruby and (Y/N), as the group emerged from the lower tunnels, they were suddenly ambushed by a group of Halflings!
"Ambush!" (Y/N) yelled as he hurled a Fireball at one of the Spearmen that was charging towards the group, engulfing him in a blaze as he dropped his spear and screamed in pain, the Browns charged past the group and engaged the Halflings in battle, supported by the four humans, while the peasants cowered with their food.
The battle was short and ended with no casualties for the Minions, who were grabbing new clothes and weapons from the dead Halflings, the group looked at one another and decided they would have to hurry through the remainders of the homes to avoid another ambush, the group moved on with the scared villagers following close behind, after a close call with a group of Rock Throwers the group finally emerged from the Halfling Homes, when they came outside the Minions looked out hissing in annoyance at the bright sunlight glaring down at them, as the humans walked into the open ground where the Trolls once stood a wooden gateway opened up, and a group of Halflings emerged from the newly opened gate.
"Looks like Melvin sent his men to stop us from crashing the party, if we leave we'll have trouble coming back to face Melvin! Mistress, I think we should press onwards, before they close those gates and lock us out!" (Y/N) said as he conjured the Anger Spell and cast it over his Minions, they Browns he controlled jabbered and hissed angrily as they rushed to fight the Halflings that emerged from the gate.
"No, my Lady please! Don't make us walk back to the village alone! What if there are more Halflings on the path back to the village, we'll all be killed!!" one of the village men cried as he grabbed hold of Ruby's combat skirt, clutching onto it as tears and snot dribbled down his face making Ruby recoil in disgust, along with Weiss and Blake, however he quickly let go when a fireball hit the ground in front of him.
"Do not presume to touch the Mistress's clothing so casually, worm!" (Y/N) yelled angrily, he could feel the magical flow he put into his Anger Spell draining his Mana, so he quickly drank down a Mana Potion, to restore his lost Mana.
"Don't worry you won't be alone, Weiss Blake, make sure they get back to the village, and get Yang!" Ruby called out as she unfurled her Crescent Rose and sent her Minions into the battle with (Y/N)'s.
"You've got it!" Blake said as she went over to the villagers.
"We'll get it done, but don't go rushing off into the battle without us! We've got no idea how many of them there are in there!" Weiss scolded as she went to join Blake with the Villagers, Ruby nodded her head as she used the sniper rifle form of Crescent Rose to give covering fire to the Minions.
The villagers picked up the food and quickly started to go up the stairways carved into the hill, going back to the village with Weiss and Blake following close behind, as they reached the top of the hill at a cliff overlooking the crater the Halflings made their home, Weiss and Blake looked down to see an entire army of Halflings down below dancing, singing and eating as music and food was served by human and faunas slaves, however it was the sight of Melvin that made them pause in shock.
The Halfling Hero was so bloated and swollen with food that he resembled a massive balloon of flesh and fat, he grunted and bellowed at his Halfling subjects taking whatever food he wanted and stuffing it into his wide open mouth, he let out a loud burp that send little pieces of chewed up food spraying over the assembled Halflings.
"Urgh, yuck!" Weiss said as she held her hand over her mouth in disgust.
"That's so disturbing..." Blake said as she too saw the overweight Halfling stuffing yet more food into his bloated body.
"And Ruby's supposed to fight that thing!? How disgusting!" Weiss said.
"We should get these people back to the village, and get Yang quickly, then we can deal with the Halflings and that guy Melvin" Blake said as she grabbed Weiss by the shoulder, the heiress nodded her head in response and the two girls quickly rushed off to get Yang and bring the Villagers back, as the Halflings in the party heard the oncoming fight and grabbed their weapons.
Meanwhile back in the opening (Y/N), Ruby and their two hordes of Brown Minions battled the Halflings, (Y/N) had switched off the Anger spell to keep some of his Mana in reserve, he stayed back encouraging the Minions in their battle for their master while Ruby had jumped into the fray, swinging rescent Rose in a deadly dance, hacking and slashing any Halfling Swordsmen that came close.
"(Y/N), why aren't you fighting?!" Ruby called out as she sliced a Halfling in two, then kicked another one away before five of her Minions rushed in and bashed the Halfling to death.
"I don't have much Mana left unfortunately Mistress, it would be best if I stayed back for now until we find more Mana Potions!" (Y/N) called back, unfortunately he also had no weapon to fight with.
"Okay, just stay back for now, maybe we'll find more Mana Potions inside one of these houses!" Ruby called back as she kicked a Halfling into the air then used her folded Crescent Rose to shoot him away, the Minions continued to fight until the last few Halflings fell dead at their little, clawed feet.
Ruby quickly lead her Minions through the opened gate the Minions rampaged through a Pumpkin patch, smashing the large orange gourds up before they broke down the door to the last Halfling Home, the Browns rushed inside, smashing up the inside of the hole until smoke came out of the doorway, then the Browns rushed out, holding some smal bags of gold coins and two Mana Potions.
"Ah! Here, take these!" Ruby said as she quickly tossed the two small bottles of bright blue liquid towards the Sorcerer, he quickly caught them both and drank them down to replenish his Mana.
"Thank you Mistress! Now that my Mana is partially restored, let's see what we have to deal with..." (Y/N) said as he walked to the barred wooden gate, he looked between the wooden poles that served as bars, Ruby walked up beside him and looked through as well.
"Well, well, well it appears Melvin the Halfling hero is all grown up... and out! Pity he doesn't have the taste in music he does in food!" (Y/N) said as he looked over the huge, jiggling mass of flesh and fat that was Melvin Underbelly.
"That's Melvin! How the heck did he get so big!?" Ruby exclaimed with wide eyes as she looked at the oversized Halfling.
"Probably from cramming all that food down his throat, like I said, Halflings are very greedy creatures, they'll steal anything not nailed down, then steal the nails! But Melvin is renowned for his massive appetite, he's even eaten people who displeased him..." (Y/N) explained, Ruby looked horrified at the explanation before she gained a look of determination on her face, she wouldn't let some overgrown balloon hurt her subjects!
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Overlord Ruby x Sorcerer Male Reader
FanfictionOne day, in the world of Remnant, an ancient evil had awakened once more, but what would happen when that evil's last hope, rested in the hands of a certain little red caped girl? I do not own RWBY it belongs to RoosterTeeth and Monty Oum. I do not...