Grim Tales: Dark Awakening
I don't own grim tales or other characters mentioned
Our story begins with a portal appearing in a dark and barren place and two children coming out of it one the first a skeleton with a grey eye and in the other socket a faintly glowing 'eye' if you could call it that as where the pupil would be was just a deeper shade of red. The child held out his hand and another came through the portal and grasped his and with a gentle pull a girl who for her age would have been extremely beautiful if not for the stiches that marred her body and her missing left eye but even so she was beautiful at least to his eyes especially when she gained a joyful smile at the sight of the bountiful purple flowers that grew in large gruops near the wall.
He watched her as she scoped up handfuls at a time to admire and smell he knew they were being watched but one was weak a low level demon and the other didn't have any intention to harm them so he waited for them as he enjoyed the girls overjoyed expression.
"Oh mine brother these flowers are beautiful, it's so unfortunate that they can grow so far from our home and territory is it not?" asked the girl.
"Yeah I agree Minnie they are quite beautiful but remember we must be careful you said it yourself we are far from home." He was about to continue speaking but was interrupted by a roar a demon jumped from it cover trying to startle the children but only succeeded in making Minnie jump.
The boy jumped back and shielded his sister with his body whilst summoning a serrated and rather demonic looking scythe the had a black blade with a red outline and the handle seemed to be made up of flesh, blood red eyes, and teeth near the bladed section.
Then a cloak that looked looked to be made of skin and had eyes on the hood, grew from his cloths giving him claws that looked to be made of the same material as his scythe the hood covered his face all any one could see were two glowing eyes underneath the left eye was entirely green the other eye however, remained the same except for that it was glowing more and as that crimson eye gazed, almost bored with the demon in front of it, the demon began to feel dread and an over whelming sense of death in the air it was like the air itself was suffering in agony from being near the boy.
Needless to say the demon was afraid but tried to intimidate the children "Do you know who I am boy, I am the VIOLATOR a general of the devils army you have no chance against me!"
"HAHAH you have a pretty dumb name but I guess since we are giving introductions I will give ours, my sister's name is MiniMandy and I am Grim Jr. otherwise known as the demon reaper and we are the children of death and the personification of evil. So if you want to talk shit about status we got you beat you ugly freak!" stated Jr. the Violator roared in anger and charged at him before lunging at Jr.
Jr. turned his scythe backwards so the blade face him the got in a golfers pose and swung catching the Violator in the jaw sending him backwards and into to the wall.
Suddenly before the Violator could get back up a serrated chain warped around his neck and tightened before they retracted sawing off his head he screamed in pain as his head and body melted. Jr. stared at the new arrival with a confused look then snapped his fingers as a look of recognition crossed his face "Hey your Spawn right." said Jr.
"Yeah what of it?" was Spawns reply. "Oh then I am going to assume you missed our introduction, I am Grim Jr." he paused and gestured for Minnie to give her introduction. Minnie peeked out from behind Jr. and shyly introduced herself.
"H-h-hello it is a pleasure to meet y-you Sir. Spawn I am MiniMandy, mine brother and mine self are the children of the honorable Grim Reaper and Queen Mandy the Rulers of the Underworld."
"Oh so mind explaining what you royalty are doing so far from home?" asked Spawn raising his eyebrow.
"We came to look at flowers also thanks for the assistance but I could have taken him." Jr. stated while lifting his right hand and several pitch black tentacles formed and then red eyes and the occasional mouth or two grew on them before Jr. brought his hand down along with the new appendages merging back into his body.
"Sure whatever you say kid, although you two seem very close" Spawn stated smirking a little.
"Actually up until two days ago we were very distant." replied Jr. "Oh, so what happened? You can tell me on our walk to the border."
"Sure if you want." replied Jr.
(Secret Reaper Art: Recollection of recent past)
We see the Jr. in a dark blue hoodie and shaggy jeans walking through a forest with trees that reach past visibility with their height, with three others a tall skeleton in a black robe with a red interior and he was carrying a scythe across his back, the other a tall slender woman with long smooth blond hair and had red pupil less eyes wearing very few articles of clothing that were black with red accents along with a cape, and the third was a small girl who looked identical in physical appearance to the woman if she were a child except for that she possessed grey eyes and wore old fashioned and formal cloths (like the ones from old black and white movies about the 1700s-1800s yeah that jazz) and had a skull pendant resting where her throat and chest meet and the pendant itself looked like the skull of the tall skeleton.
"Hey where are we going Mom, Dad?" asked Jr. with a smile as he looked to his parents.
"Yes, where are we traveling to on this fine evening Mother?" Jr. gave his sister a small glare but nobody noticed because no one was looking at him.
"Mandy, do you suppose that we tell'em?" asked Grim as he turned to his wife.
"Yes we might as well tell them. So have you ever wondered where holidays come from?" asked Mandy in a deadpanned/bored voice.
"Well, yeah actually every once in a while." replied Jr. while raising an "eyebrow" in confusion.
"Well good you are about to learn." She then gestured to a single tree in a semi-circle of trees that had an orange pumpkin with a jagged smile carved into it with the nose sticking out of it like a handle of sorts but as they got closer it opened like a door.
Once they crossed the thresh hold they appeared on the edge of a creepy, quiet, and dark town then suddenly they all heard singing. "Boys and girls of every age wouldn't you like to see something things strange" (to lazy sorry but look up This is Halloween and the comic you won't regret it). "Boo" whispered jack creepily into Jr's. ear as he held both Minnie and Jr.
"aaaahhh" screamed Jr. but Minnie stared blankly at Jack.
Jr. at that point jumped and ran to his father quickly getting behind his father and stuck his head out and waited for something to happen. Minnie on the other politely asks to put down and then introduced herself. "Hello I am MiniMandy, my I know your name sir?" asked Minnie while curtsying
"Boy you are as polite as they said you were any way, my names Jack, Jack skelington nice to meet you Miss MiniMandy." Jr. at that point blushing from embarrassment (I don't know how but it happens in the comic a couple of times.) came out from behind his father and shyly walked up to Jack.
"Sorry for freaking out like that , I am Grim Jr., but you just call me Jr." said Jr. while scratching the back of his head.
"It's fine I was actually kind of expecting a worse reaction." Said Jack with a smile on his face. "Any way let's get going to the party!" Jack shouted inciting a cheer from the town's people, and then off they went further into town.
(around 30min. into the party)
Minnie was with Jack in a graceful dance getting complements left and right for their dance Jr. however was sitting at a table alone glaring darkly at his sister, Sally (jack's girlfriend) notice him and thought that he looked kinda sad so she walked up to him and asked "Would you like to dance Jr."
"Ah s-sure if you want." Jr. replied stuttering a little and so they danced, and after a while she said "You know you're pretty good."
"Thank you but I am better at break dancing." he replied with a smile on his face.
"Oh, care to give a demonstration then?" she said laughing lightly
"Sure "he said gaining a big grin so he started and actually started to gain a bit of attention because of how well he was dancing it shock those that watched at just how good he was doing, but like a wise man once said "all good things must come to an end."
Jr. just got done doing a spin on his head he flipped up still a little dizzy and his sister accidently bumped him while coming off of a twirl knocking him in to the apple dunk game several monster bust out laughing Jr. quickly got up and glared at his sister and for a second everyone who was actually looking into his eyes would have sworn that they saw a flash of red and in that second they saw something dark something evil.
Those who saw it stopped laughing and froze. Mandy for the first time that night gained a curious look in her eyes, Jr. then turned and ran out of town and into the graveyard just outside of it not noticing the little ghost dog following him.
Once he got to the grave yard he found a large tombstone and leaned against it he then finally notice the dog (its name is zero) and called it over it was hesitant at first but quickly came forward after that Jr. began to pet him then ask the dog if it wanted to play fetch the dog got excited and wagged its tail he then took one of his ribs and chucked it as far as he could.
Neither undead canine nor Jr. noticed the three shadow sliding towards them. Suddenly the shadows pulled out a bag and stuffed Jr. in to it and then put the sack in a tub then got in themselves then the tub started to walk off toward a treehouse in the distance Zero whimper after seeing no one near when he came back and ran off to find help.
Meanwhile, Minnie asked to be excused and went to take a break outside of town, so no one would see her and expose her secret. She reached the edge of a cemetery and looked in all directions to confirm that nobody was nearby, then demonic and metallically bladed wings and a tail emerged. Her eyes glowed faintly green as she began to fly gracefully through the sky, before noticing Zero running around like he'd lost something.
She landed near him startling him before he ran to her and gave her the rib bone she froze this was her brothers (I have no idea how she was able to tell it was his but she recognizes it in the comic as well) "Can you lead me to mine brother ghostly canine?" she ask worried for her brother. The dog took off as fast as it could following the scent of the young reaper.
(At the treehouse)
After getting into the treehouse the shadows let Jr. out of the bag and then introduced themselves stepping into the light as they did "Hi I am shock ,I am barrel , and I am lock."
"What the hell is with the bag?!" yelled Jr. as he jumped out of said bag.
"Sorry we wanted you in our club and old habits die hard so it's kinda like a rite of passage." said Shock.
"Why would you want me in your club?" asked Jr. looking at them suspiciously.
"Well you're the son of death aren't cha? Tell us about your reaper powers." said Barrel from the couch.
"Ohm I don't have any yet." replied Jr. with a embarassed look.
"What but you'll get them eventually right?" asked lock in a shocked tone.
"Yeah I guess but hey, I got this book from my dad's study that we can look through it, I think it's a journal." said Jr. they opened the book and read from the first few page they recounted Grim's really servitude to Mandy and Billy then went on to recall Mandy releasing him from her service after finding out that she at possessed immortality (the inability to die not ageless)
Grim then went on in the journal to recount encounters with Mandy until he proposes then Mandy's pregnancy and abortion to have Jr. with the words will I have a boy or a son written above a picture of Grim pacing in the abortion clinic waiting room.
Then pages later was a picture of a baby MiniMandy, Jr. seeing this got mad and started to rant about how throughout the years MiniMandy has seemingly tried to erase him from everyone's memories even his favorite uncle who he was sure didn't even know his name anymore ever since she was 4.
Then a dark shadow creeped up behind him and said "Personally I think your being a baby about it!" then whacked Jr. over the head with a bat.