Grim's pov
I walked around in the woods gathering firewood for the night. I've been tailing some assholes for the past two months trying to figure out what they're after. Found them in my tomb when I woke up, I was out for 2 months nothing major just some time lost. When I saw them they just started shooting at me. Personally I would have taken that as a friendly greeting but when they started saying 'kill the freak' I figured they weren't friends so I did the best thing i could at the time. I slaughtered them, whimsical slaughter is the best, it feels so natural.
Flashback Begin:
I opened my eyes and saw darkness. I tried to feel around and was met with concrete walls and when I tried to push up I was greeted by a concrete ceiling. After a while of blindly looking around with my arms and legs I figured i was in my coffin. Now I know people would think i'm like a vampire or something like that but fuck that shit, werewolves are better in my opinion.
I started to gather my energy and make it pool within me. As I absorbed some more energy, my senses came back, I could see in the dark again, my hearing went up so I could hear people wal- wait… WHO THE FUCK LET PEOPLE INTO MY TOMB!? I let out a small energy pulse that only animal would pick up on and run away. I felt around 25 people in the room and someone will die for fondling aingeal dorcha and diabhal bán, no one touches my guns.
I gathered my energy and did a pulse so strong that it destroyed the coffin and hit the surrounding people with the debris and a very large piece of debris took out the lower half of the guy holding my guns. As soon as i was standing I sprinted to where my guns were and grabbed them before they touched the ground.
I identified five people in my field of view and started unleashing a volley of bullets towards them, four went down with fatal shots to the head or the heart. The fifth one was injured with a blow that went through her shoulder. She yelled for back up 'the fucker's awake! I need some assistance!' As she yelled this I aimed for her head and pulled the trigger. She fell back with only her jaw staying attached to her body while the rest was sprayed around her.
The rest of intruders ran in aiming their guns at me. I felt the shadows lunge at my face and created my mask. It had large white eyes and white smile that was all teeth that looked like a demons (A/N: soul's inner demon from soul eater, when he smiles like a creep showing his teeth in glorious symmetry!). I just grinned under my mask and let the party begin by turning on round one by Jeff Williams feat. Lamar Hall. I moved quickly and lunged at the nearest person, grabbed them and started using them as a human shield.
you got blood on your face
looks like you're a total disgrace
you came here to take me down
but i only see one of us on the ground
like a dog with a bone
I wont stop till you buried and your tombstone
reads "here lies a soul
who should have fucked with someone that wasn't so cold"
better pull yourself together
better figure out a plan
you're about to get your beating
better take it like a man
it's gonna be a long day
and it's only just begun
cuz it's only Round One
i'm in the saddle i'm in the black
you're like the sniffles bitch I'm like a heart attack
i'm like like iron i'm like steel
i got a heart made of metal and i don't feel
any pity or remorse
you made a bad move now it's gonna take it's course
I'm a bull in a china shop
you're a tea cup someone better clean you up
welcome to the terror dome now there's no escape
see what happens when you tug on Superman's cape?
accept your fate it's too late to try to save face
i'm goon' leave your ass in pieces all over the place
jabs hooks uppercuts yeah you're goin down
i'm guaranteeing you won't make out the first round
look at your eyes, i see i got you your ass shook
best believe your 'bout to get your monkey-ass whooped
better pull yourself together
better figure out a plan
you're about to get your beating
better take it like a man
it's gonna be a long day
and it's only just begun
cuz it's only Round One
Bullets flew around more than a flock of birds startled by a person stomping their foot at them. They dropped like flies, eventually they died either due to a bullet to the head or blood loss. As the song ended I bowed to a statue my mother as an actor would to their audience. Round one down now moving onto round two.
I walked down a hallway that was in my tomb, popping a cap in every other person here until i saw something different about someone's uniform, it seemed to be a hire up. I put a hand on the person's helmet and dissolved it into darkness, turns out that person is a women, oh well. I put my hand on her head and started to dig in her head with my power finding information. Turns out something called collectors are here to retrieve my powers. Huh, i don't remember putting it up for grabs.
I moved to the main chamber which should hold my crew but as i did i saw something that pissed me off more than a broodmother in a narrow hallway. I saw the coffins of my frie- no family being taken away. I walked when i looked at the coffins being moved i saw that the had the last one into the portal. Just after that coffin the portal closed i finally heard chatter. 'sir , we've been unable to locate the holder of darkness.' A soldier said to what looked like a lieutenant. The lieutenant didn't even look up from the papers as he received this report. The lieutenant looked up at the soldier and suddenly brought his gun up and fired at the soldier, killing him. ' now, would anyone want to join him with the same fate for failure? no, then get back to work.' The lieutenant said with disgust at the failure to locate me.
I jumped out of cover fired at the generator that shut down all the lights in the room. We were submerged in total darkness. My home turf. As I gathered more of my energy I looked at the confused soldiers, I fire two shots at the lieutenant's knee caps. The shot from aingeal dorcha nicked his leg and my luck was up high as a shot from diabhal bán just took out the entire knee, severing his shin from his thigh. He screamed in pain as I unloaded clip after clip at his soldiers.
He cried for help but soon all his troops were dead some missing limbs while other missing head and the occasional swiss cheese soldier. I cleared out the entire chamber and made my way back to the lieutenant and surprise he's still alive. He should have died but i can feel he's on the brink knock on death's door. Might as well grab what I need. I took off the glove on my right hand and thrusted it into his chest and pulled out his heart. He immediately went limp. I moved my mask and coated my mouth with the power of the darkness to consume the heart.
I tilted my head back opened wide, brought the heart above my mouth and dropped it in. as i ate the heart i felt a small amount of power return to me. I shook and shivered at the taste of it. Disgusting, this is why I hate mercs, they have hearts that taste half assed. All they want is money. 'Welp, time to leave, I need to go pass out somewhere for real.' I thought as I summoned monsters from the darkness. They're my monsters, monsters that I've captured from different religions. 'Listen up and listen good, you all know i can't speak, but you know i can fight you to the point where you would cease to exist. So do me a favor and kill all heavily armed guards. You can eat their hearts if you want I just want this place cleared out, IS THAT UNDERSTOOD!' I thought to them in a authority manner. They all nodded and i just shadow traveled out of there.
Flashback End
And that is how I ended up here, in the woods. Personally I like the woods but I also like the city both can be crazy at times. But yes i'm in the woods getting wood for my fire, I moved over to where I was camped and added some wood to the fire and bring it back to life. I grabbed a decent stick to poke the fire with.
While I was poking the fire I felt four presences in the forest look at my back. From the size of their small feet their all female and I felt hatred. But not normal hatred this felt forced. Almost like they're taught how to hate. Another part of me told me that some of it wasn't forced and that they do have genuine hate. I turned to where they were and gestured for them to come closer. They stayed where they were. Oh well, they can do whatever. I just went back to taking care of the fire, just blankly staring off into the flames as they dance and showed me memories, some good, some bad, and some that should stay buried six feet under in concrete while in hell.
As I watched the flames I felt movement in front of me, I spread out my power to feel what was infront of me. It was odd it was the same thing but different. It felt like the girls that were watching me but this one felt different, like she wasn't mortal or- son of a gelatinous slime. She's a fucking goddess, great fucking great.
I just shook my head and went back to watching the flames. The flames danced nicely tonight, bright but powerful, loving but destructive. That's why i love fire, if respected, it's a great asset but if not it would flicker out or engulf everything. I then felt a presences suddenly behind me. I turn to see a 12 year old girl in a silver uniform. It just had to be the goddess didn't it, fuck you mom, you should stop messing with me.
As i analyzed her for a couple of second, I realized she was a little cute, silver eyes, auburn hair and that fire in her eye that scream determined. "What are you doing here male?" She said male with venom as if I did something to her or one of her hunters, yes I know that this is artemis, trust me be reborn with all your memories eight times and you tend to remember everything in all your past lives every time you hit 10 years old.
I just shook my head and sighed. I must have done something to upset her or some bullshit. From the looks of things she was getting impatient.
I put two finger right above where my vocal cords are and shook my head. She tilted her head in a cute way showing she's confused but went back to angry "well? Say something you filthy male or i'll turn you into a jackalope. NOW TALK!" as she yelled this she began to glow silver
I snapped my fingers and outstretched my hand at the fire while i just stare into her silver eyes like I could get myself lost in those. I took control of the fire and put it in between us in the air. With the fire ablaze in the darkness between us I wrote with it. 'I'm mute' then I wrote 'Hello' with a little wave.
'My name is grim, as most people call me, i'm currently hunting down a group of nuisances. They should be in this area or in this forest in general, but unfortunately they're slippery assholes.' as I formed the fire in this way she became more serious and deadly while looking at me. 'Oh relax i'm not after some group of pre-teen sexist girls that don't know how to deal with their past and decide to blame half the population for their mental problems.'
Just then darkling emerged from the shadows and gave me a report i was half expecting. "Oi, monkey, I got good news and bad, bad is that we can't find the bastards and there a giant horde of monsters nearby. The good news is that we located the tomb." he took a moment to realize that I had a guest. "Ok, i'll answer questions for the lady. While you go and eat, I know you powers are famished and are struggling to manifest me at the moment. Now go i got this." I just tilted my head but just got up and went to the hordes location.
Artemis pov
I watched the male leave as this thing was watching me with worry and protectiveness. When grim was out of earshot the thing let out some laughter "to think he would fall for a girl like you in just one look into your eyes and boom falls for you. Oh that is rich, falls for a maiden goddess at first site dear gods this is hilarious. Ah, now, is there any questions you would like to ask?" the thing asked.
"Well, for one what the hades are you, and what is he? I have never seen someone control fire like that unless they were aunt hestia or my brother." I said wondering who the hades would go attack a horde of monsters without anyone else.
"Well, i'm a darkling and one of the very few that can be manifested when there is a light source nearby. I'm also the manifestation of monkey's subconscious. The subconscious is able to figure things out faster than the part that always awake. That's why I said what I did because it's true. He fell for you at first sight, ain't that a bitch. But him he's a vessel I guess you could say. Within him lies hundreds of monster that he controls at will and is able to release them or cage them and do what he wants with them but thanks to that he's removed his own emotions. The power in him, the thing inside of him will consume him if he doesn't show authority, restraint and the right to rule it. He would lose himself to the madness. But that all you're going to get out of me for I have no right to relinquish all of his secret to you." with that darkling was about to vanish into the shadows when i ask another question.
"Then why are you here. I mean you told him where a tomb was what's that suppose to mean?" I asked the little darkling what his master was after but after a second I knew I wasn't getting my answer from it as it lowered its head.
Then a gunshot rang and more followed, the darkling was smiling. "I can't tell you but I can tell you keep your hunters away while gunfire is going off around him. I get the feeling he's not going to check his shots and he might fire at anything that moves. Also expect him in your dreams tonight, goodnight moon beam." with that the darkling dissolved back into darkness and the fire went out.
I was stunned for a bit until another gunshot rang out that snapped me out of it. I opened a mental link with all my hunters "everyone go away from the gunshot, do not dare investigate. I don't want anyone dead, ok?"
Thalia was the first to respond to the mental link message. "Yes we know milady but we got a problem. Desa and alex went to investigate when they were on patrol on didn't' come back yet"
When I heard this my mind went blank for 2 second then hell broke loose in my mind. "SHIT! Thank you thalia but I must go retrieve them! Stay put with that others and that's an order!" after I said that I dashed off into the direction of the gun fire. As I ran I started to see slash marks in trees and the ground along with piles of golden dust. As I ran the dust became much more apparent and I was soon running through golden sand until I came across a clearing and saw something I will never forget.
The horde of monsters was at least about the size of 200 strong all converging on one point. As I saw the situation i saw desa and alex on the ground, unconscious and bleeding. I saw someone standing over them constantly slashing at the monster making a protective circle around them. The male that was above them did something only a god can do. He created a doppelganger jumped onto his shoulders and jumped 15 ft into the air. He pull out two gun and fired them rapidly while spinning as he came down from his jump.
In one motion he shot over 160, killing only 130 leaving 70 left. He fell back onto himself and started moving outwards attacking any monster that came close. He went on a attacking with deadly efficiency, hitting every target his blades came down on and then i noticed something. Something was going from the monsters to the male without much of a difference on his movements, with every new something from each monster he got more energy.
He killed a lot of the monsters and that when the last one was alive it started to run away in fear but before it could get to the forest something grabbed it and brought it back to grim, then held it up. Something sprung from grim launched to where the monsters heart would and ripped it out. The monster turned to dust and grim brought the heart to his face when are large amount of darkness covered his head and consumed the heart. When the darkness dissipated you could see him pounding on his chest try to help the heart go down.
I made my way to my hunters, to see that they're still unconscious and bleeding. The male came over to us and placed both his hands over the hunters hearts. At first I thought he was going to do something perverted or kill them but then I saw a grey light extend from his hands and land on them and started spreading over their body. When it reached their wounds it started to heal them and the blood that spilt out of there body went right back in without any dirt or anything then their respective blood.
Grim got up and turned away to walk. He went for a couple of steps before falling forwards and coughing hard. He just coughed harder and harder for a while before calming down enough to breathe. Eventually he got up then started walking in a direction that would lead him to the heart of the forest. As i inspected the two hunters I noticed that they were perfectly fine just unconscious when I looked up at the place grim had collapsed I noticed something shining a little in the moonlight.
I walked over to it to find something I had not expected. When i looked down i saw one of the most disgusting sight i have ever saw. I saw a pool of blood on the ground. It's was 6 ft in diameter and a inch and a half deep from poking it with a stick. I went back to the girls and decided to take them back home. I flashed us back to the infirmary back at camp and laid the two girls down on the beds.
I heard mumbling from both of them and just sighed. They were both safe and I don't need to worry. As I started walking out of the infirmary I heard something they both said in hopeful voices.
"Boss"
A/N: so what all ya think good bad surprise me, insult me, I need your opinion bitch. Also if any of you have an idea of who i should have percy paired with, yes he will be in the story and no percabeth, ok maybe they broke up but not like cheating just the spark faded. So yeah give me your opinion on this also, grim is cursed mute.
He can regenerate just fine without problems but not his vocal cords until the curse is removed. I'll leave the way his curse can be removed to you imagination. But fair warning I already have it thought up but I would like some opinion about it.
Ao to all you lovely bitches and asshole out there, stay crazy, because they are better than sane people unless they're manipulative to their friends then kill them. *insert creepy laughter*