A/N 1: This story uses the characters and story line from Friday the 13th, the series (AKA: Friday's Curse). Within the Friday the 13th show, it had hinted that the store "Curious Goods" was located in or somewhere near Chicago, so in the story "Curious Goods" will be located in Chicago.

In later chapters, this story will also use the characters from the Chicago franchise world (Chicago Med and Chicago Fire, and possibly Chicago P.D. and its natural NBC crossover show Law & Order).

A/N 2: The Road Not Traveled (Part 1 to Part 4) that will follow the Prologue was listed on Friday the 13 category. That story had been deleted. A slight revision of the story is now the first 4 chapters of the story that I'm working on now.

I do not own, nor do I have any rights to the aforementioned shows. This story is solely for entertainment.

A Cosmic Shift

Prologue

The Underworld (Hades' Kingdom) was neither heaven, nor hell; it was a place for the souls to go to reflect on its past actions once its mortal life had ended.

Hades (the ruler of the Underworld) was neither good, nor evil, nor does he punish sinners when their souls enter the Underworld. The souls of sinners would punish themselves during self-reflection as the souls equally reflected back onto themselves all of the sins they had committed.

More than two thousand years ago, only the souls of the dead had gone to the Underworld, and once their self-reflection was over—whether if it took a few hours or several decades—the souls would be reincarnated and then the process would repeat.

Also more than two thousand years ago, half-mortals (first generation offspring between a mortal and a God; AKA demigods, or the first generation offspring between a mortal and a demigod who had god-like abilities in some form or another) lived side-by-side with mortals.

The Gods (the Olympians and Hades) had interacted with mortals and half-mortals. They had even bestowed gifts (elixirs, items and raw materials imbued with magic) upon the mortals and half-mortals so they could cast bridled magic (magic that can be easily controlled by the gods). However, those gifts were just a small taste though that left a powerful desire to obtain unbridled magic. But because of the aggressiveness that the mortals had towards each other and how they would misuse the magical gifts that they had been given already, Zeus denied them unbridled magic, and so mortals turned to the Dark Lord (the devil) to obtain it.

The Dark Lord reveled in violent-deaths and chaos; however, he wasn't free to kill or spread chaos on his own, so he welcomed each mortal—and even half-mortal—who yearned for unbridled magic with opened arms, but in return, each mortal or half-mortal had to forsake the Gods and become his agents; someone who would kill and cause mayhem in the name of their new master—the Dark Lord.

As the time went on, many of the Dark Lord's agents ascended to become vampires and demons, and as the Dark Lord's forces slowly and continuously grew, Zeus came to the conclusion that the only true method to combat the Dark Lord was to take back every gift that the Gods had given the mortals and for them (the Gods) and the half-mortals to go into seclusion.

Hollows within the Underworld were created to bury the magical items, and a vault within Mount Olympus was created to store the raw materials that were imbued with magic.

The half-mortals were given the option to be reincarnated purely as mortals or live within the mock-venues (hollows within the Underworld created solely for them that would imitate the mortal realm).

In the very beginning of the Gods and half-mortals' seclusion, very few half-mortals had given up their ability to be reincarnated, but as time went on, more and more half-mortals had reconsidered and allowed themselves to be reincarnated in order to rejoin the mortal realm.

As the centuries slowly passed, the half-mortals who lived in the mock-venues longed for the day when Zeus would reverse his decision of them being in seclusion. Many of them had even voiced their discontent for not being able to return to the mortal realm as half-mortals, and a few of them—even though they knew what their punishment would be—had threatened to take action themselves by giving unbridled magic to the mortal realm if the opportunity would ever present itself.

As time moved into the present, Kristopher (a half-mortal who had the ability to move between the past by seven days and the present) developed a deep-seeded grudge against the Gods and the mortals and secretly turned to the Dark Lord.

With the Dark Lord's help, Kristopher came up with a plan that would release unbridled magic onto the mortal realm, and in returned for the Dark Lord's help, Kristopher was to protect the Dark Lord's agents and demons.

At the very beginning of the month of May, Kristopher began by putting a spell on Neopolis (the great-grandson of the sea god Poseidon) and having him move a large container that was sitting at the deepest depths of the ocean to shallows waters. The container was filled with cursed items—items that was purposely plunged into the deepest part of the ocean twenty-five years before.

During the last week of the month of May, Kristopher—with the Dark Lord's help—became invisible to the Olympians and snuck into the Olympians' vault, grabbed everything that was there and snuck out. He then tricked Ambrose, Goran, Kellogg, Thanos, Isadora and Kristabella (half-mortal who had the ability to transmogrify raw materials into useful items) into taking that magically enhanced raw materials to the mortal realm, creating jewelry and trinkets with them and selling the magically enhanced items to the mortals.

Next, Kristopher—while again invisible to everyone in the Underworld—dug up several magically enhanced items and one hundred magically enhanced coins that were buried within the hollows of the Underworld. And those items and coins were then distributed within the mortal realm.

Kristopher then stole twenty-five gallons of Hecate's water (water that was imbued with magic) and two scrolls that each had a powerful incantation written on it.

The water was then divided into five portions and anonymously given to Lilith, Kingston, Dayton, Aliza, and Rory (half-mortals who had voiced their desire to unleash unbridled magic onto the mortal realm to other half-mortals). Along with the water, the five half-mortals were given instructions on how to get the water to the mortal realm and how to release the water into the atmosphere.

Days later, after the water was in the atmosphere, rain enriched with magic was to soak the mortal realm and released unbridled magic across the globe.