Reformation: Prologue

The sun was slowly rising on the northeast coast. Above a town a small hole was slowly opening, tearing though it like the sky was made of silk. It glowed a golden yellow with white shining from it like an aspiring hope; most normal mortals would be unable to see it with out a higher sixth sense. However this town was home to three abnormal beings in human form and little did they know the pain they would soon have to face and how grim both life and death could be in only seven days.

The town of Vickson, Ohio. It would not exactly be a backwater hick dump but at the same time the last thing it was going to become was the next Metropolis. With a population of about 500,000 people, five high schools and a local University, two malls, as well as a DMV and even a town statue at the center of the town right in front of the current mayor's office; Mary Wilkinsburg. It was quite impressive in its own right. It wasn't without its fair share of problems either. Crime, gangs, slums, and finance were problems that every city faced like the Black Plague and Vickson was no exception. The crime rate was temperate but it was still something the Vickson, Ohio police force had to contend with more and more, even a few times finding them self's overrun with the typical group thief's or crime spree. The chief of police Mike Mcyal had even recently asked for a raise in the police budget as things were strangely enough getting more and more out of hand each day.

The mayor herself was of French descent although she knew none of her homeland's language. Not one person in her family had ever had expressed any interest in politics at all so she had been the only one to stay from the norm. She was 40 years of age, although she would soon be 41 in March and despite her age was still quite naturally beautiful. She had been mayor for the past five years, a feat she was quite proud of. She loved her town even with all of it's impairments but still on the night of April 15, 2007 she went to bed with a foreboding feeling, a feeling of dread of some kind. She quickly brushed it aside and went to sleep as dreamland swallowed her whole sense of being.

Grim Jr let out a deep and tired sigh. Early 21 century life had never been easy and this was even more true when you were the aborted son of evil reincarnated and had she-devils for a wife and daughter. Fortunately for all of them his love of his life and former foe, Her had managed to find a way to shut up their daughter's second mind. He closed his eyes and shook his head in disbelieve. A split personality was a fairly stupid and over used idea but it still didn't change the reality of the situation. At least the other Rose would be less of headache to both him, his wife and of course his daughter. In truth Jr enjoyed his human identity of George Miguel Smith even more so then his wife did. The 40 some year old reaper always had wanted to live on earth and almost every day in the small Ohio town was at times a dream come true to him.

Still, work with Johan Tech, the company he worked for, was not the most lax company when it came to working. Now more so then ever with the deal they had managed to strike with CEO and Duel Monsters legend Seto Kaiba. Even someone of Jr's stature knew of the famous businessman's skill both in the office and in the game, Johan Tech had been very happy to have such a powerful company such as Kaiba Crop with them and because of so had started cracking down on everyone and anyone who worked for them. This was bad for everyone but Jr sucked it up anyways. The extra pay was a good an excuse as any plus his job wasn't that bad in the grand scheme of things.

At 12: 46 when he was about to go down to the buildings cafeteria when his black cell phone began to ring, fittingly enough the song that was played at funerals, his own personal joke of sorts that Jr had kept for over ten years for the more ironic side of sorts. Jr picked it up and turned it on.

"Hello?"

"Jr sweetie." A voice said though the static but was none the less recognizable as his wife Her.

"Heather? Why are you calling?"

"Look out the window and I think you'll see what I mean." Jr arched an eyebrow up but did as his wife told him. No sooner did he get to an office window did his jaw drop a little from fear. The portal that had appeared in the middle of the night was now the size of a mini van and was glowing brighter then before. If any mortal could have seen the hole they odds are would not have know what to make of it but unfortunately Grim Jr knew exactly what was before his light blue and gray eyes. The pink color from his face blanched in seconds and he was as white as a sheet from fear.

"Where are you now?" Jr asked his wife with a hint of worry in his voice as it quavered a little uneasly.

"I'm at the house with Rose, Sadako, and Sakura. We'll wait for you before we talk about anything." Her replied coolly.

Jr nodded. It was times like these that he was glad he had marred her, although she had changed greatly in personality since they had first meet when they were kids she still had her hardcore tough as nails personality, something their daughter had never seen before, and her natural cool way of thinking made her ideal in wost case scenarios, which they unfortunately were in..

"I'll be there as fast as I can." he said and with that turned off his cell and put it back into his pants pocket. He then began to speed walk to the nearest elevator but was quickly stopped dead in his tracks by the voice of an old friend.

"George! Where's the fire?" A rugged, male voice boomed behind him. The Underworld prince mentally cringed to himself, off all the time why did HE have to show up now?

He slowly turned his head and forced a smile. "Harold my main man! What's up?" The man named Harold was a large man most of it from his muscles and brawny bulk. An equal large dark red golf shirt covered his wide shoulders. His bottom half was also buff with muscle and a pair of slacks covered his other half. Both Jr and Harold had meet 15 years ago when Jr, Her, and a newly born Rose had first come to Vickson Ohio to avoid some kind of crazed demon attacking the Underworld. Both men shared a love of sports of any kind and had quickly become good friends. Harold shrugged which made it look more like a rowing stroke if anything less.

"Not much", he replied. Just as Jr started to walk away Harold then said; "The boys and me were thinking of checking out early and going down to a bar and relive ourselves a little, was wondering if you could come with us."

"Normally I would but the wife and kid are sick with the flue." Jr hated lying to his best mortal friend like this but he knew he had no choice in the matter. "I have to get back home fairly quickly and any other time I'd be more then happy too but duty calls."

"Really? Sucks mate, hope they get better soon and tell Red I said hi." With that the wide man walked off leaving the son of death alone again. When he was sure that his best friend was gone Jr let out a deep sigh of relive. That had been too close for comfort. As he made his way to his car a ping of guilt rushed over him like a waterfall. He hated having to lie to Harold but right now he had larger things to worry about. The streets had proved far more clearer to drive though then they had in the morning and made it back to his house in about roughly 45 minutes. Slowly Jr opened the door and walked in and made his way to the living room.

His family lay before him. Rose was in her human form and both of them sat with their mothers, having no real idea what was going on. Sadako was in a sky blue dress which went all the way down to her legs. She turned her head and gave her former crush a perplexed look, she was as confused as her daughter and niece was. And then in the back of the living room sitting in a wicker chair was his lover and his wife Her. The devil women's red eyes were hardened and cold with a lack of fear. She was dressed in her Santa outfit which she most likely had changed into when she had brought their daughter home.

For a while no one said anything, Jr was first to speak up.

"So... no doubt you three are wondering what that hole in the sky is." he said at last.

"Dad I didn't even know there was anything going on, so mind telling us what's happening?" Rose asked in a confused tone. Both lovers eyed each other, pondering how to answer the question. "We'll give you the brevetted version. We have seven days to prepare an army for battle because on height of noon the 22 of April our town will have an entire army of angels to contend with."

There was only silence after the divulged and concise truth was put out in the open, Sadako was the first to recoil enough to ask, "Couldn't we just forestall them, strike them before they strike us?" Jr simply shook his head. "That's imposable, when an Alky Lai is shown then that means that the time of judgment is at hand, they can come to us but we're powerless to get to them. All and all the only thing we can do is concerted a strategy of some kind and ready our self's for battle when the day comes."

Her then turned her head to Sadako and Sakura with a demurred look on her face, "I want both of you to go back to your apartment and gather anything you want, don't worry about the other important things, both Jr and I will let you live with us until we have this mess straightened up. And make it quick, time is of the essence."

Both mother and daughter gave a nod and wasted no time leaving the house, now only the daughter, mother and farther was left. As soon as they did Her turned to face Rose, "Rose same thing. Get anything from your room and get back to our time and wait for us in the center hall. The rest of us will be there shortly and if you see anyone tell them that an Alky Lai has been cast over our home, if you can't find anyone we'll take care of it." Rose did as she was told with out question and when she was finally gone her mother let out a deep sigh. When the sound of space and time being opened and closed came to their ears Jr deiced to try and comfort his wife.

"You were great my sexy Santa." Jr said as he kissed Her on the cheek bone. She gave a demure smile. "You haven't called me that pet name in years! Not to bad for something extemporaneously made if I do say so my self." she said as she returned her husband's gustier kiss, but on the lips.

"I can't believe that those pompous windbags have really gone and cast an Alky Lai on us..."

"Well the fact of the matter is they have. Now here is the game plan, you will go and try to get as many people out of the town as you can. I'll work on helping Dan and Kat get to safety and training Rose, she won't fight in the battle but we'll start with the basic of basic and work our way up after this battle is all said and done."

"So should you make the force field or should I?" Jr asked suddenly.

Her pondered for a moment. "Me. I'll make the force field and invisibility shield for the house." she said after thinking for a moment. After that there was only silence once again and neither said anything. It had been quite a long time since they had any time to just talk. In truth neither of them knew what to talk about for that matter as it had been that long since they had done the art of conversation. After appreciable amount of time had passed both Sadako and Sakura appeared with arms full of things, bags almost bursting at the seams.

With that Grim Jr ripped open a portal with his Nergal made scythe, which he had dubbed many years ago as the name Doom Hawk. He then stepped back and turned to his best friend, wife and godchild and said; "Ladies first." With that all three black haired women stepped in and Jr soon followed in after them. The portal closed with a slight sonic boom as it closed behind them. Leaving the small house bare once more.

The Reformation begins...

AN: Well this is the first of the betaed chapters, the only the first chapter needs to be fixed now. Much thanks to Jonathon Morris of Snauf for becoming my new beta reader!:An