Hello everyone!
If you have followed my work you would know that I use to write a remake, of sorts, of the Bleedman comic Grim Tales. Many people have asked about the subject. I hate to say this but... it is being canceled.
I had written myself into a corner with no idea how to get out of it, no ideas where coming to me.
YF, the co-writer who helped me with that fic, is doing a reboot of that fic. I am fully supportive of this and I know it will be amazing.
Me and GhostKaiser23, a friend and frequent collaborator of mine, will be doing our own sort of thing. We are giving our owe retelling of how Grim and Mandy got together, their marriage and such. It will all end at the start of Grim Tales, which Ghost and I WILL get to eventually.
We hope you enjoy!
Here is a message from Ghost:
Hello everyone. For those of you who are wondering, yes. This IS a bit of a retelling of how Grim and Mandy got together in Grim Tales. Grey and I thought it would be a cool way on how to flesh out the backstory on how Grim and Mandy got together.
Co-Writer: GhostKaiser23
Disclaimer: We do not own Grim Tales, Grim and Evil, the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy or anything else we mention
Dark Beginnings, Rise of the Queen of Hell
Chapter 1: All Grown Up
Endsville, a city that borders on the crazy that is both insane and the regular. It was considered normal because it was bland and every day. But insane? Well...
"GRIIIIIIIIIMMMMMM!" a female voice yelled in anger, echoing through the town
"Oh...My head...What is it?" A Jamaican-accented voice responded as we zoom into a house in a nearby neighborhood. It looked peaceful, normal... boring. But we zoom into a simple one story bungalow. It was a beige colour with round and square windows, a bit like a normal house...But inside we see the voices who were yelling. Inside we see a teenage girl, a blonde one who was fairly beautiful. She had blonde hair that seemed to be curved upwards like devil horns, blue eyes and features in a scowl. She had C-Cup breasts that where slightly strained in her tight a black dress/shirt with a single pink five petaled flower on it in the middle of her chest/dress. She had some long legs and wide hips encased in tight black denim jeans and simple, basic yet stylish black shoes. Finally she had a black waist length black leather jacket with some pink lining around the wrists of the jacket as well as around the bottom of the jacket and inside the jacket
"What do you want, Mandy?" The Jamaican voice asked. Walking into the room... was a walking skeleton?! A six foot seven-inch, black cloak wearing skeleton with an equally sized scythe. His skull had a long elongated jaw that seemed to go down to the base of his neck. This was Grim, the Grim Reaper "Well? What is it?" Grim asked
"What is that?" The girl, called Mandy, snarled as she pointed at the sink which was full of dirty dishes
Years ago Grim, the embodiment of death and taker of souls went to reap the soul of a hamster. However he was challenged for this soul by two children, the challenge was Limbo. He had lost and was now their 'best friend forever', which the blonde considers meaning a slave. Mandy was, and still is, an embodiment of evil "It's a sink fulla dishes. What of it?" Grim responded
Mandy glared intensely at Grim, almost like a scowl "You where supposed to clean them bonehead." The now 19 year old teenage blonde snarled
"Dat's all well and good...but HOW can I do dat AND clean your room?" Grim rebutted. Mandy just glared, a glare that would make a normal human die. However it only made Grim sigh "Alright...alright. I'll get to work on it." He grumbled bitterly. He walked off slowly, clearly annoyed
"Good. Get to work." Mandy whispered under her breath as she walked into the living room. She looked away, trying not to stare at him. Over the years, since winning that limbo and going on adventures with him and her friend Billy...She had grown...feelings for the bag o' bones. After all Grim had been one of her two friends, always there for her and saving her despite how she treats him. Plus she was a force of pure evil and she loved power and darkness, what was lighter than death itself in those eyes? 'Oh man...What to do with that bonehead.' She thought. She frowned and tapped her chin lightly. She began to postulate several ideas in her mind on what to do with him. Many, many, many dark and terrifying ideas and each one was worse than the last... And so she began to laugh evilly
Grim shuddered in slight fear as he worked 'Something tells me Mandy's thinking of killing me.' Grim shuddered. Oh god how ironic that thought was
"Arf, arf." A dog's yip came from Grim's leg.
"What da?" He looked down and saw Mandy's dog looking at his lower leg. And if you're wondering, yes. This IS the same dog Mandy had as a child, she just forced Grim not to reap him. The dog ran off with Grim's thigh bone, Grim forced to jump around with just one leg "Oh, not again!" Grim yelled out and tried to chase after him"Get back here you damn dog!" That was when the door opened and an annoying laugh filled the room "Oh no...Not now...Not him." Grim groaned in despair
"Hi Grim!" The teen cheered as he ran over. This was Billy, the other one of the two who defeated him for the Hamsters soul... And he was dumber than a sack of bricks
"Billy...What are you doing here?" Grim sighed as he fell to the ground due to the dog
"I wanted to play!" He grinned as he ran inside
"Grr...Did you track mud in here?" Grim yelled out
Billy was an orange-haired teen with a big round nose, he was wearing a blue jacket and a blue and white striped shirt, grey jeans and black shoes with brown soles...At least the soles were brown "No Grim!" Billy smiled "Come on, let's go! There's a fair down town!"
"A fair?" Grim inquired, normally he wouldn't be bothered with rides...But people, shovelling high salt/fat/butter/sugary products into their gullets, shrinking their hearts, fattening them up and clogging their arteries and cause heart attacks...THAT he could get behind.
"Yeah!" Billy nodded
"Hmm..." Grim pondered
"GRI-I-I-M!" Mandy shouted, her voice echoing with a promise of pain
"Oh boy." Grim groaned "Yes Mandy?" He called
"Have you cleaned the dishes?" Mandy asked. "The floor needs cleaning."
"Mandy! Fair!" Billy called, interrupting the conversation
"A fair? That's why you're here, Billy?" Mandy scowled
"Yeahyeaheyahyeahyeah!" Billy nodded quickly with a grin
"...Fine. Grim. Finish the dishes and clean the floors, then you can come with us." Mandey ordered
"I... But... Fine." Grim grumbled, walking back to the kitchen in anger
"Come on bone-head." Mandy spoke
"Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah!" Billy nodded quickly and almost bounced out of the front door.
Mandy hummed as she looked at the sky. It was a warm day, maybe she should dress down a bit to stay cool? 'I should take my jacket off.' She thought "I'll meet you there Billy." Mandy ordered before she left and walked upstairs
"Okay! SUGAR!" Billy answered and bolted off in a large cloud.
"Dumbass." She rolled his eyes, walking upstairs. Mandy headed to her wardrobe so that she could get changed for the day. Seeing as it was going to be warm and sunny, she needed something light in order to keep her cool. She hummed, flipping through the cloths she had hanging from the hangers "Hmm...No. No. No...HELL no." She whispered to herself...Until she landed on a dress that caught her eyes. She smiled, stripping naked with a hum. She soon then slipped into the dress she chose for herself. It was a snug fit, clinging to her while showing off her curves. It was a black dress with red stitching, leaving a red rose pattern. The dress was sleeveless with a small cut on her chest, stopping an inch after her hips. She then grabbed some dark blue lycra short shorts and pulled them up, hugging her hips tightly before she put on some white flipflops "There. Good enough for the fair, I think." She told herself. She adjusted her headband and nodded with satisfaction, walking downstairs... Where she head a crash as she passed the kitchen door "Grr...Grim..." She growled as she turned back
Grim was staring at her in shock, his jaw having literally fallen off and hit the floor with a light howl of a creepy wind blowing from his non-existance mouth
"Oh. Pervy skeleton." She sighed in seeming anger, though keeping her thoughts to herself. The thought that she was glad she had that effect on him
"I-I-ai-yai-yai..." Grim mumbled to himself in shock
"Just finish your chores and you can go to the fair." She ordered before she left calmly, her normal neutrality in place
"Urr...S-Sure." Grim nodded and got to work 'Oh man. Since when was Mandy so attractive?' he thought. Grim sighed and continued to work on the dishes, just so he could get through this grueling task
But his mind kept going back to that sigh, imagining Mandy in that silky...tight...dress... "Ah! What is wrong with me?!" He yelled suddenly. He stopped doing what he was doing and groaned "Why did she have to grow into such a sexy woman?" He asked no-one. Grim let out a breath in misery and rubbed his eye sockets, he honestly didn't know what to do. He should not be feeling these sort of things for that... That little monster! "What is wrong with me? MANDY of all horrible creatures!" He grumbled "Calm down Grim. It is not like you are looking at her romantically, she is just physically attractive. It is nothing serious." As he calmed down, the Grim Reaper had to focus, honestly with the lustful thoughts he briefly had, had to be put to one side. He was DEATH for God's Sake. The epitome of finality. He should not be wanting to mate with a living being such as Mandy
But she looked so tantalizing...It was hard NOT to... "Oh hell damn it!" He growled
*With Mandy*
Mandy was walking through the fair, she was trying to be as "nonchalant" as possible while making heads turn. She was far from a stuck up bitch obsessed with her looks, but she knew she had a desirable body and showing how superior she was to the bimbos around town never hurt and one of the poor schmucks who was falling for her was a long time admirer: Irwin. Honestly, he had gotten more annoying over the years.
Honestly Mandy found it funny how easy it was for these fools to be ensnared by her looks. This was the most revealing she dressed and even then she was not showing much skin: just her legs, her arms and a small amount of cleavage. Her body was just too much for these simpletons, with her very nice curves and the confidence she carried herself with
"MANDY!" Billy called out as he was covered, LITERALLY covered, in cotton candy
"What do you want Billy?" She frowned, taking a deep drink from her ice cold water bottle
"So. Much. CANDY!" Billy answered, jumping up and down from the rush
"Calm down, I don't want to drag around your puking ass." Mandy ordered with a scoff, whipping water from the corner of her mouth. But she sensed something, years of supernatural adventures doing that to you "Hmm?" Mandy hummed as she looked around trying to figure out what was going to attack. Because something always tried to attack. Tried to cause trouble. To cause death and destruction... and she stopped it with Grim, Billy being there as a distraction going along for the ride. But she did not do this to be a 'hero', because it 'saved people'.
No.
Causing death and destruction was HER job! And one day, when she finally passed away after she has gained the needed knowledge and experience, she would take over hell itself and bend it to her will. But until that day she needed this stupid town to torture.
After all, how do you master a craft if you do not practice it?
"Billy, stop acting like that." Mandy ordered. Billy tripped over his own foot and fell into a barrel, Mandy seeing a posted for fortune readings with some weird green skinned woman on it 'Bingo.' she thought, clicking as Billy showing she was ordering him "Go get Grim, he can finish his chores later. We have another... annoyance to clean up."
"Okay!" Billy nodded and rolled in the barrel back to her house
Mandy hummed, tapping her pale and unpainted but well manicured fingernail against her the poster. The being was not one she had faced before, meaning she had to be careful. Unfortunately concealing an adapted weapon would be impossible in her current attire 'Guess I'm going in unarmed.' She thought. Not what she would like, but only option.
Her cold blue eyes stared at the figure, trying to work out anything that could give her an advantage
"Ah...come...Come, my child." The figure spoke, to Mandy. Trying to entice her to her fortune telling. Yes, the poster ITSELF was saying this to her. And she was getting suspicious "Come and see your future...Madam Zorastra knows..." The poster spoke
"I might as well." She whispered, knowing she should distract this creature until Grim gets here "Fine." she nodded to the poster
"Come in, my child..." The poster spoke, opening the tent door to the inside. Mandy frowned but entered the tent slowly, walking into what seemed like an endless hallway
*With Grim*
Grim sighed as he was cleaning Mandy's room "How can dis girl be so messy?" He grumbled
True she was a teenager, nearing 19, but she should have some sense of... Of... Of just putting stuff away and having a presentable room!
The entity of death opened a random draw in anger, ready to stuff random cloths in said draw... When he realized it was Mandy's underwear draw "Oh, my great Aunt Kali...!" His eye holes widened, seeing her menagerie of panties. He was not surprised how they are all purple or black. He was surprised at the fact they where all very skimpy in some way or another. Either very lacy, slightly transparent or where very small. And several of them had skulls on them. He gave a surprised gasp and covered his gaping jaw with his hand to hold back the scream...and honestly, he was getting images in his skull again... Luckily he was safe as he noticed several stacks of paper hidden inside the draw under her underwear
"Huh? What're deez?" He asked in his Jamaican accent, his time curious. He picked them up, flipping through the pages... And his jaw fell to the floor
These notes spoke of specific events which, when put into motion on the right days, would cause catastrophes. War, famine, death and sometimes more. An assassination here, a plane crashed there, a secret being leaked to the right people, a random shooting at certain date... So many horrible, HORRIBLE things planned out years in advance...
It... It was beautiful to the old bag of bones.
And it made Grim remember. Back when he was younger, a more spry and wild party reaper. Being part of a certain blimp crash, pushing an iceberg in the direction of a certain boat, whispering into the ears of certain dark hearted Germans. He had caused so many deaths, he had reaped so many souls... Where had those days gone?
Even before he had met Billy and Mandy he had met his passion leave him. He had lost his spark, taking joy in the little things but forgetting the bigger picture. He had been a movie star... And he had let himself wither away into a random cafe waited long before he had lost that limbo game.
He felt disgusted with himself... But also inspired. It was like these plans where made for HIM, to give him a kick in the tale bone. He saw the darkness that was inside Mandy's soul, used to ignite his shriveled black heart. It was almost like Mandy wanted to being him back to his best
"Oh...Hell...This...These are..." Grim shuddered as he held the papers...But grinning. Wide. Wider than his natural grin was. His eyes glowed and eldritch green as he gazed at this chaos...no. Not a chaos. An orchestra of death! "Thank you Mandy! Thank you! You have reminded me who ah am, what it MEANS to be the Grim Reaper... And ah love it." He grinned evilly as Billy ran inside
"Grim! GrimGrimGrim!" Billy yelled out as he was running around downstairs making a mess.
"... What is it Billy?!" He snapped, storming downstairs to see all his hard work destroyed
"Mandy says...Go get chicken-waffles!" Billy responded
"What?! You came, ALL this way, to tell me THAT?!" Grim yelled
"Err...No...She said: get to the fair." Billy answered
"Then WHY did you-You know what? Never mind. Let's just go." Grim groaned. He summoned his staff and hit the base against the floor, darkness wrapping around him and forming his robe. He grabbed Billy by the shirt and dragged him away, grumbling
*With Mandy*
Mandy was finally out of the seemingly endless hallway, looking around the room curiously to analyze the situation. 'Okay...This is getting ridiculous.' She thought as the room began to change into a castle setting. In the middle of the room was a small table, a purple tablecloth atop it. Sitting at the table was the woman from the poster and on the table was a crystal ball set on a fancy gold pedestal
"Hello, my dear, Mandy..." The woman spoke, tapping the table gently with her long fingernails. She somehow knew Mandy's name, what a surprise
"Whatup." Mandy shrugged, sitting opposite her and crossing one of her long legs over the other casually "So how's this gonna work?"
"Unwavering aren't you? Well...You must cross my palm with green." The woman answered
Mandy rolled her eyes and pulled out her purse from her short's pocket, throwing $50 or so onto the table. None asked where she got her money. Those who do, are never found "There."
"Hmm..." The fortune teller smiled and examined the $50. 'I just expected a dollar.' She thought but continued to smile. "Now...To examine your future."
"Yeah, so what BS do I have to do for your stick." She scoffed
"Well...Place your hands on the table and look into the crystal." The fortune teller answered. Mandy nodded and did as she was told, being as cautious as she could be "Now...We look deep. DEEP into the crystal ball..." The Fortune Teller spoke
Mandy narrowed her eyes as she focused into the crystal ball, seeing smoke fill the ball. Mandy saw the swirling mist surround the crystal ball, her eyes getting glazed over from her vision. Mandy blinked as she looked around, finding herself in endless blackness "What...The hell?" She asked as she turned around and looked for any location, figure or ANYTHING to get her bearings. As she was walking slowly through the area she soon found... An older her?!
The woman appeared to be in her mid twenties, nearly 30. Her hair was no longer in horns, it was instead long and flowing over her shoulders to mid-back even though she still wore her 'classic' headband. However instead of her cold blue eyes... She had red eyes like pure blood. She was dressed near naked wearing just a V shaped black thong with some red lines on it, a black corset which stopped a few inches past her nipples with some fancy red markings and a red circle in the middle. The corset had an almost coat tail which sent down to her ankles. She also had black armsleeves/gloves that went from her wrists to near her shoulders which had red fluff on the ends. Her feet where in shiny black heels with some real high heels, her fingers painted a shiny black and her lips painted black as well
"Wow...This...This is..." Mandy blinked in shock before calming down, she was amazed at the pure... power rolling off the older her
"Amazing? I know." The Future Mandy answered, with an almost echoed voice
Mandy nodded, noticing a skull shaped ring on the woman's hand . That was when she saw two small figures running out of the smoke, one jumping into the older Mandy's arms while the other hugged her let "Wait...Who-?" Mandy looked on to the small children, annoyed at being thrown off guard so much
One looked like a young, innocent version of herself with shining blue eyes. And the other...Was a young boy. More to the point: a skeleton with brown hair "Mother, who is that?" The girl asked, being the one in her mother's arms
"Yeah, she...kinda looks like my sister." The boy added, holding her leg
"... I hate kids." Mandy grumbled as she understood what was going on
"As did I." Older Mandy nodded "I am now the immortal queen of hell. But you need to toughen back up the bone head." She said as she smoke began to grow heavier once more, concealing the three "Grow strong, weaker me."
"I...Hey, WAIT!" Mandy called out as she returned back to the real world. Her eyes blinked, seeing that she had returned to the present... And the fortune teller monster looked terrified
"M-My...GOD!" The fortune teller had fallen over off her chair in fright. She looked like The Scream mixed with the sight of a frightened goldfish
"What?" Mandy frowned
"I... I have to kill you! To save the world!" The fortune teller yelled in fear
Suddenly the woman grew to fifty feet tall, massive spikes and fangs emerging all over its body alongside several extra arms. With a roar she slammed her arm, aiming to crush Mandy bit the blonde dodged with her eyes in a hate filled glare
"So that's how it's gonna be, huh?" Mandy hissed, kicking the table and breaking a leg off before she held it up as a club "Bring it on you ugly bitch!"
*Elsewhere*
"Where is she?" Grim frowned as he and Billy where walking through the fair, looking for Mandy. Soon the bonehead and the idiot, try and guess who's who in this duo, saw the fifty-foot tall monster erupting from the fair, causing the crowd to scatter.
"AAAAHHHHH!" Billy called out in fright, his brain thought this monster looked spider-like so he was panicking the hell out
"Dat answers dat then." Grim sighed. He held his scythe ready, slashing open and port and jumping through. As he appeared on the other end, back at the battle, he saw Mandy jumping and running all over the beast while stabbing at it with her improvised weapon "Need a hand there?" Grim called out almost sarcastically
"Get to work bone heaaaaaaaad..." Mandy started and then screamed as she was backhanded by the creature, sent flying high into the sky before she plummeted into the ocean
"Mandy!" Grim yelled in surprise worry. Grim grew enraged at the monster and flew towards it wielding his scythe, slashing the air causing a razor-slice at it
Mandy bobbed back out of the sea, getting her strength back as she hit the water quite hard and was now pissed off. "I'm gonna kill that bitch." She hissed but at the same time... Something was strange to her. A fall from that night should have killed her. She wondered about that as she flouted in the seemingly endless ocean
"Here, grab onto me." Grim extended his hand to her.
"Grim?" She blinked, seeing him covered in monster blood while hanging off the pear and the dead creature in the background. She grumbled and reached up, grasping his hand as he pulled her out
"Gotcha...Come on." He spoke as he opened a portal back to Endsville
Mandy sighed as her feet touched the floor, glaring down at her cloths that have became all set and stick to her skin. She had even lost a flipflop "Look at me. Soaked to the bone." She huffed and scowled at the dead creature "And it is all your fault." She snarled, snatching the scythe from Grim and walking towards the dead creature. A large shadow covered her as an aura of rage surrounded her, her eyes flames
Grim didn't react when Mandy snatched his scythe from his hands...in fact, he almost WANTED her to take it. And as he saw her aura of shadow and flame, of rage and darkness surround her...It was like he could see her vileness and unbridled evil emanating from her. And he LIKED IT! She was a force of destruction wet cloths stuck to her gorgeous body... She was like true perfection, a true demon stuck in the body of a human super model
Mandy raised Grim's scythe aloft and began to cleave off the creature's body as the scythe rend the soul piece by piece like a hot knife through butter. Mandy's face remained as cold and emotionless as ever while her gaze was all that was needed to convey her emotions. Rage. Fury. Hatred. Calm control. Methodical. A paradox of emotions, blended to make a force of nature. She continued her relentless attack for nearly twenty minutes before she finally finished, dropping the scythe as her chest heaved lightly. Grim's eyes glistened as Mandy was covered, save for her head, in the red of the dead monster...it was like she was wearing a gown of roses, rubies and blood. It was...beautiful. Lustful.
He wanted her
He wanted to ravish her. But right now...right now, he needed to wait. Death and sex don't happen right after all this.
"Let's go home Grim." She ordered, not looking at him before she walked away
"Okay." Grim answered simply, picking up his scythe and opened a portal back to her house. The two passed through, appearing in Mandy's home. As their blood soaked feet came into contact with the carpet, Mandy began to walk upstairs to the shower. "Clean this up." She spoke simply.
"Yes Mandy." Grim nodded, feeling no need to argue here. It would be trouble for him, if would piss Mandy off... And enjoyed the sight of her wet shorts hugging her ass, and to see them give such a sensual figure to her body made him shudder in lust. 'Oh Hell, this is going to be a recurring thing isn't it?' he thought
*With Mandy*
Mandy began to strip off in her bedroom, leaving the bloodied clothes on the floor as she grabbed her towel and headed to the shower, wanting to wash off the monster blood. She did not care that her room was a mess, as she did call Grim away from his work. And she guessed Billy destroyed downstairs. She would go easy on the bonehead this time. She turned on the shower and felt the hot water cascade from the shower head, stepping through she felt the water wash away the bulk of the blood and the heat warm her.
She sighed, staying still and letting the water cascade over her. She was thinking about what her future self had told her. Telling her to "Get Stronger" and to toughen bonehead back up, if she was going to be the immortal queen of hell. Over the years she had beaten Grim down and made him her servant, her little toy. And while that made him loyal to her, even if he does not like to admit it... She had broken him. He has let a CHILD rule his life. If she wanted to be queen, if she wanted Death at her side... She had to fix him, make him stronger. The question was... How?
She had an ambition, a goal. Now she had to just find out how to achieve it. Luckily...
"I have the time in the world." Mandy whispered with an evil grin, her reflection in the mirror returning the grin while the blood made the mirrored Mandy look like she had red eyes