Author's note: Sorry for the long wait folks, but I got a extra long chapter and hopefully some explanations for yahs in this one. Once again thanks to my Beta Bubbajack for all his help.


"Hello class I got exciting news! This week is the school's annual club exhibition!"

Ms. Nekomone's usual excitement was currently in overdrive, she was addressing her home room class barely able to keep herself from jumping through the roof, though she was failing miserably at hiding her cat-like features.

"In order to help the student body learn to integrate with Humans the students, yourselves included, have to learn to do things that humans do, the clubs are a excellent, not to mention mandatory, medium for that."

"Uh teach wouldn't that mean you get a F in transforming" the student said pointing out the cat tail?

*PAINED SHRIEKS* The student in question was currently gripping his face which was scratched up by a trio of over lapping X's.

"Happy place! Happy Place!"

Ms. Nekomone was currently in the middle of filing down her freshly sharpened nails, followed by blowing the dust off.

"The list of clubs that you can join are on your desks, and remember to check out lots and lots of clubs! Including the News Paper Club!"

Junior studied the registry, Newspaper club supervising teacher: Ms. Shizuka Nekomone. Junior crossed out the News Paper club with his pencil.


Junior had to admit, he didn't see this coming. The courtyard had been decked out like the Halloween Town Bazaar that his mother took him to do the heavy lifting for her. Various bright and colorful banners proudly showcased the various clubs and the more attractive of club members had been decked out in what ever club themed porn movie-esque outfits that they could scrap together. Junior's fellow classmates Chi, Mimi and Moka had all joined him on the club hunting expedition. Kurumu and Yukari couldn't join them at the moment due to being in separate classrooms from the little group, Kurumu would be there at noon while Yukari would be there that afternoon.

"And here I was tragically misinformed that the idea was to blend in."

"Not that you would be able to tell that by looking at them now, isn't that right Mimi?"

Mimi nodded, agreeing with Junior and Chi's assessments.

"Well they look like fun! Come on lets go take a look around!"

First on the hit-list the acupuncture club.

"Join us Moka..." the student in question was wearing a speedo and had needles in the hundreds sticking out all over his body "we can stick each other with many needles."

"Figures. Perverts. Still..." Moka was visibly disturbed by the student hitting on her who was admittedly creepy looking and invading her personal space "Minnie will never forgive me if this ass-hat scares the daylights out of her wuss ass best-pal."

Junior grabbed the student by the shoulder, adding to the effect of the crushing aura on his shoulders.

"Can I talk to you for a second?"

The student slowly turned to face Junior.

"S-S-Sure!"

Junior led the pin cushion-esque student back to his booth.

"Out of respect to Cut-lip who is acting as supervisor to this little group I'm going to pretend I didn't just hear that; on the condition that you put some pants on and never go within five feet of Moka again!"

"Y-Y-Yes sir!"

Next up was the Chemistry club.

"Moka you must tryout all of our love potions!"

Moka was currently hiding behind Junior. But before he could mutter 'why I outta' the wheel on the clubs hydrogen tank turned open on it's own at the same time the Bunsen burner turned on. *BOOM* Lets just say for now the Chemistry club will be too busy to accept new members for the time being. Junior turned to Mimi whose eyes were glowing blue.

"Did you do that?"

Mimi confirmed with a nod as her eyes returned to normal.

"Mimi: you scare the crap out of me sometimes."

The Photography club.

"Moka can you do nude shots?"

Shameless, absolutely shameless. Junior brought out Scythe to deck them when Chi grabbed it preventing him from using it.

"Like I'm going to let you have all the fun!"

"Be my guess."

"Oh you-who...!" The photographer's attention was drawn away from Moka and to Chi "I don't think my friend here is feeling very photogenic today..." Chi slyly undid the top button on her undershirt "but if you want to take a few of me I'd be happy to oblige."

The Photographer was all too happy to accept the request, taking aim at Chi with his camera as she struck a alluring pose.

"CHEESE!"

You'd only see it if you were looking for it, but for a brief moment during the flash Chi's Silhouette changed, Junior didn't have enough time to figure out into what, only that it had tentacles. The photographer captured the image perfectly inside his camera, and he looked absolutely terrified of it. He looked back and forth between the camera and Chi several times as if he couldn't believe that the photo was actually of her.

"Oh don't tell me that myth about camera's adding ten pounds is actually true" Chi said donning a mock pouting face?

Sufficiently scared out of his mind he promptly ran away dropping the camera. Chi picked it up and gave it to Junior and the others. Mimi transferred the picture to her phone, Moka fainted, and Junior broke out in laughter of all things which caused Chi to blush from embarrassment.

"What's so funny!?"

"Wicked Scary, it's a character in a old movie I use to watch with Mom all the time."

"You watched Wicked Scary as a kid?"

"Yah, right before bed every night with Mom I said that."

"Well that explains a lot..."

Junior deleted the photo on the camera and left it on the table, followed by walking off to the next booth before Chi stopped him.

"Aren't you forgetting something?"

Chi was referring to Moka who was still passed out on the ground.

"Sorry I hadn't noticed."

Junior removed his shoe and held it over Moka's nose and mouth, she jolted awake, assuming a bent over position coughing.

"Ugh! What was that!? Smelling salts?"

"Worst: Junior's smelly sneaker."

Moka observed Junior hop away as he put his sneaker back on, prompting Moka to faint again.


Lord Charles Pain drove a carriage made of bone and drawn by a zombie horse to Doctor Finklestein's lab in Halloween Town, stopping in front of the clinic Mandy (cursed hand once again gloved though not sealed), Daniela, Manny, Harror and Grim stepped out of the carriage.

"Charles stay with the carriage and make sure no one comes inside."

*THUMP* "That won't be necessary" *THUMP* "after all that's what I have him for." *THUMP* *THUMP*

The Grim family looked over to see Doctor Finklestein standing in the doorway of the clinic with Sally. However what had their more immediate attention was the gigantic zombie Cyclops standing over them and carrying a equally gigantic double ended axe.

"Have you started the procedure yet?"

"We're putting the final touches on the safety precautions now."

"Well dat an we both know dat Mandy ere would rip yah's ta sheds if you did anyding without her say so."

"That too, Brutus stay here with Charles."

The Cyclops nodded in response and gave a salute confirming the order. With that done the group walked into the clinic where they saw Finklestein's hunched-back and one eyed assistant Igor finishing securing Minnie in a combination of restraint Jacket, Restraint pants, and strapped down to a table.

"Patient secured Doctor Finklestein!"

"Tis this really necessary Doctor?"

"I'm afraid it is..." Finklestein cracked open his head to scratch his brain before closing it again "that is assuming that you don't want to rip your own head off?"

*GULP* Sally walked over Minnie's side and reassuringly grabbed her shoulder.

"I know that this place might seem scary but trust me, you're going to come out okay. Remember that and you'll do fine."

Minnie did her best to nod and confirm Sally's words of wisdom. With that done Sally moved back over with the others. With a few taps of his keyboard Finklestein lowered a contraption to Minnie's eye level, which extended a telescopic protrusion with a mechanical ice cream scoop like device.

"Before we begin the procedure to modify your body to withstand the Sycophant transformation we have to stabilize your mind and body. Your Nergal eye is going to complicate the procedure so it's best that it be temporarily removed. For this to work we need your permission."

Minnie sighed, and steeled herself with a inhale of breath.

"Thou may proceed."

The machine began digging into the eye-patch, it sparked against the patch, it seemed to scream in defiance of the drill. Finally the seal broke. *DRILLING* *SHRIEKS OF PAIN* *RIPPING* Minnie's removed eye floated into a vat of preservation liquid, full of all sorts of nutrients and infused with heavy duty doses of Ecto energy to keep the demonic symbiote alive. The differences between the two eyes were as far apart as Heaven and Hell, literary. The eye for the most part was a solid sphere of red, with the exception of a slit of black and hints of gold.

"Fascinating! The seal Junior placed over the eye has had a profound effect on it's aesthetics!"

"Don't look directly at that thing we need that brain of yours intact!"

"No worries my dear Mandy, I'm already as mad as I'm going to get! On the subject..." Finklestein looked over to Minnie, whom had a look of terror on her face as the memories sealed away by the eye-patch returned in a flood "3, 2, 1." *SCREAMS OF TERROR*


Inside the Castle of Grim Mandy sat in her office, she was six months pregnant with twins and was impatiently tapping her fingers as she drank tea. As Lord Pain had learned already Mandy might be a mean drunk but she's far worst when she's sober. Even with his ridiculously potent healing factor he stood guard heavily bruised and clearly throttled. Mandy was half tempted to add two more Reapers to the family if not for the fact that she wasn't so cruel as to willingly inflict that fate on someone again, besides the twins would be far more useful as ghost human hybrids rather than just more reapers.

*MONSTROUS ROAR* "You can almost set your watch by him."

Grim was busy with adding research notes to his memoirs. Him's devil essence creation was a enigma wrapped in a riddle, deep fried in a mystery, and smashed into a puzzle that numbered in the millions! *MONSTROUS ROAR* That wasn't helping any.

"Would somebody mind shuten em up!?"

"With all do respect sir: you don't scare us enough to go down there!"

Minnie was in her room using a sowing machine to make baby clothing, a hobby she developed after learning that her Mother was pregnant with twins. Considering the ample amount of frilly lace and pink she hoped that at least one of them was a girl. Not surprisingly she looked significantly different then her modern appearance, her hair had been gelled to death to the point that it stood strait up into the air in a pair of devil horns tied in a pink bow. She was missing her right eye and seemed trapped in her rag-doll form as well as wearing a tattered purple dress.

*MONSTROUS ROAR* "I most protest! Why doth we even keep her around anymore?"

Minnie realized that she had stitched her hand to her project, luckily her transformation into a rag-doll had destroyed all sense of feeling in her body or else that would hurt like hell. With her free hand she ripped away the failed art project. Next order of business was in the dungeon, it was a short trip thanks to the elevator her mother insisted on installing. Of course she still had to contend with the the 1 foot thick Artificial diamond vault door that was standing between her and the single most dangerous prisoner to ever grace the underworld.

"Thou canst let me see him or thou canst go see him for me."

The two skeletons guarding the door looked at each other then at Minnie. They debated who they were more scared of, Mandy or their prisoner... at least Mandy will destroy them quickly. The pair cranked the handle on the vault door opening it in the process. *SMASH* The gigantic Nergal arm that had crushed the guards with the door narrowly stopped in front of Minnie's face.

"Calm yourself."

The hand reabsorbed itself into it's host, a familiar looking Nergal demon wearing a green flame printed Reaper cloak, he was bound to the back wall by chains made of artificial diamond. Mimi was also there, currently in human form and wearing white dress as her eyes glowed blue attempting to telepathically calm the beast down, the best she seemed to be doing is giving him a headache evident by his rolling around the ground gripping his head in pain.

"Isn't keeping mine Brother calm suppose to be your job demon spawn?"

Mimi only rolled her eyes in response, continuing to do her best to telepathically restrain the Nergal Reaper hybrid, but having to settle for telepathically knocking him out instead. Falling to the floor the beast reverted to the one eyed skeleton and plain clothed Grim Junior.

"Ouch!"

"Art thou alright brother? Did the spawn hurt thou?"

A vein popped in Mimi's forehead as she glared at Minnie, sparks seemed to fly as the two got into a staring contest that was fueled by nothing but pure unadulterated rage. Time to play peace maker.

"Settle down both of you! I'm suppose to be the outta control psychopath here remember?"

The two redirected their glares at Junior in a 'shut up and don't remind us' type move before they returned to glaring at each other.

"That whole 'hate each other in silence' thing really doesn't work when everyone can see you guys you do know this right? Minnie don't tell me you came down here just to have a staring contest with Mimi right?"

Minnie gave a sigh as she broke off the glaring contest and turned to her brother with her usual kind look.

"Ye hath a fair point brother."

"I have my moments. So what's up sis?"

"Tis almost dinner time brother, Mother will not be happy if we art late again..." Minnie returned to scathingly glaring at Mimi "we must make sure even the spawn arrives safely."

Mimi sensed the hostility in waves, Junior gave her a nudge of his head requesting that she leave and albeit reluctantly she telekinetically flew off leaving the two siblings alone.


Back in the present Minnie had finally stopped screaming, not by choice granted, her eye was locked opened in terror and her mouth agape with fright, her voice had simply become too sore to scream anymore. The twins watched in horror as they watched their sister suffer this torture, while Harror looked on with a rather grim look on her face. The adults were discussing what was going on with Minnie and what they would do to save her.

"At least she's stopped screaming."

"Always de lovin mudda."

"Yes well unfortunately the memories would be quite traumatic considering that this would be the first time she ever experienced them..." Finklestein popped his head open and scratch his brain as he pondered his theory "I doubt that back during that dark hour she wasn't even aware of her actions let alone in control of them. Now that the seal blocking them has been broken she has full access, coming at her all at once they would be quite traumatic."

"I'm assuming that there's more to this procedure then this torture?"

"Madame you wound me! I have been working to cure your daughter ever since she was first diagnosed with Sycophancy five years ago! Surely you didn't think that this would be all I have to show for it?"

Finklestein accessed his computer as he went over the finer points of a well manicured plan.

"Issue one, bodily modifications. In order to prep her body to receive the massive amount of hybrid Demonic and Angelic essence located within her eye..." Finklestein indicated the eye still floating in a vat of nutrients, by now it looked less red and more gold "we will need to modify her body with hybrid human angelic genetic material, in other words we need to get our hands on a Nephilim."

Mandy puffed her idle cigarette as she pondered this news.

"Not good: all the Nephilim were wiped out in Noah's flood when God did the whole 'Global reset thing.'"

Finklestein printed a bit of information off of the computer which he then gave to Mandy.

"At a great personal cost, personnel, financials, time, etc I have located someone who I believe that in addition to being the final Nephilim is also a compatible match to give Minnie bone marrow: A critical component in stabilizing Minnie's condition."

Mandy examined the documents, absorbing the information about her new target and latest obstacle between her and her daughter's restored good health.

"You need bone, I'll bring you his skull."

"Do not underestimate him Mandy! He is a Nephilim: Their very existence justified the death of every other living thing on the planet just to kill them off! Even then he has not survived this long by being a pushover which means that he is a exceptionally powerful specimen!"

"Then his bone should make a excellent core for Minnie's new body. Harror, we're leaving."

Harror flew over to her 'mother's' side, transforming into her scythe form Mandy used the Nergal beast turned Reaper scythe to open a portal to the listed co-ordinates, with that out of the way Sally noted how depressed the twins were looking and decided to do something about it.

"Come on you two..." the twins looked up from their sobbing to see their aunt Sally "lets wipe those tears away and go get some ice cream shall we?"

The twins did as commanded, wiping away their tears as they followed their aunt out. Leaving Grim and Finklestein to a far more serious topic, Grim pulled out a book, or what looked like a book, from his sleeve. It was hard cover, the cover being made out of bone, the pages looked like pale white skin, it had a singular red cat like eye, which oddly enough was still moving about observing and studying both the Doctor and the Reaper, and was bound closed with chains that resembled rough unpolished diamonds.

"Is that what I think it is?"

"A powerful Devil Arm Spell Book: De Necronomicon Ex Mortis."


Junior and company walked away from the Mummy club, the members of whom were tied up with their own namesake after they made a lewd comment on 'unwrapping' the girls.

"Thank you for defending our honor Junior!"

"I didn't do it for you three..." Chi smug smirk had a bit of a puzzled look added to it as Junior explained "that lot is the lowest echelon of the male specimen, blatantly shameless perverts. It offends me to the very marrow of my bones to so much as look at them!"

"Ah isn't that cute! He's over protective and he doesn't want to admit it!"

"Do you want to sniff my shoe Chi?"

Junior wasn't kidding too, he already had his hand around his shoe.

"Got-it-Junior's-Not-over-protective completely-cold-hearted-psychopath-bye!"

A Chi shaped cloud of dust replaced the real thing as the young mistress of the dark ran away.

"Is it really that bad?"

Mimi nodded in response confirming the suspicions and waving the imaginary odor out of her face.

"Oh come on it can't be that bad!"

Mimi nodded in response, yes it was that bad.

"Alright, alright I get I smell bad, I'm death incarnate give me a break."

Moka stared at Junior in awe. He wasn't acting like himself at all, he was being friendly, respectful, over protective, to her no less, if she didn't know any better, she'd almost say that he was treating her like he did his sister. She couldn't help but wonder if it had something to do with his sister falling ill; she'd ask him about it later, right now he was one of the few people who had gathered around the Public Safety commission booth. It was being run by a nerdy looking boy, most likely a desk clerk or a office boy, he was wearing glasses and had a bowl cut hair style. Junior recognized the girl he was with: she had long red hair that went to her buttocks, yellowish green eyes that were mindlessly staring off into space, was resting a bo-staff on her shoulders, but most notably of all was that she was about Yukari's age, she couldn't be more then 11 years old like Yukari. She was Deshiko Deshi, one of the four 'Kings' of the Public Safety Commission.

"Excuse me sir..." Junior's attention was drawn to the student wearing glasses "would you like to join the Public Safety commission?"

"Depends; exactly what does the Public Safety Commission do?"

"What do you mean? It's the Public Safety Commission: what we do is in the name, we keep the public safe!"

"I meant no offense; Just that I've been dealing with a lot of weird crap lately and I expected to see you guys show up about it."

"Weird crap? Oh you must be that Junior guy who destroyed the girls dormitory and the gym."

"For a desk jockey you have a bad habit of leaving out the details, like the fact that I was fighting for my life at the time, or the fact that it was the guys I was fighting were the ones destroying the buildings?"

"Not according to the reports filed by Mistress Deshiko."

Junior snapped his fingers in front of the young girl's face, getting no response.

"Yes because she's so attentive. Frig it I'm out of here!"

While Junior walked away Chi spied on the conversation, tapping her fingers as she contemplated her thoughts.

"Is she what I think she is?"

Moka and Mimi caught back up with Junior, Moka shooting him puzzled looks.

"What was that about?"

"Just wanted to file a complaint about the quality of work I've been receiving."

Junior spotted a rather large crowd of students gathered around one booth, Junior wasn't sure what was going on but he heard various 'owes' and 'ah's' and comments like 'she's smoking hot!'

"Now that's strange."

Junior looked around to make sure no-one was watching him, after that he popped his head off his and held it above the crowd, observing the latest object of their affection was a line up of attractive female students in Bikini's.

"Figures."

Junior re-secured his head onto his body and went to walk off, only he didn't get very far.

"Excuse me, you in the back..." the entire crowd side stepped the girl's gaze to reveal Junior who was in mid step "I don't believe we've met: I'm Club President Tamao Ichinose."

"The names Junior."

She was a very pretty girl who looked very good in her suit, she had long green hair, green eyes and was wearing a purple bikini with a purple towel wrapped around her lower section.

"Such a odd name for such a reputation. I was wondering if you would be interested in joining the Swimming club."

Junior turned to face the club President, he might as well hear what she had to say.

"I'm afraid that my associates here aren't really very good swimmers."

"That's okay, currently all the members of the swim club are girls, and any boy who joins gets free swim lessons from all the senior members!"

That sealed it.

"I'll join!"

"Me too!"

"I wanna swim!"

"Please teach me!"

All the other boys in the crowd swarmed the swim club with requests to join. Junior had a suspicious glare on his face, Moka recognized it, the kind of look he shot someone who was making him angry, but there wasn't the overwhelming sense of terror that usually came with it. He cocked Mimi a suspicious brow and she nodded, whatever the two of them were silently talking about they apparently agreed about it.

"What about you? Why don't you come and take a look? I'll take good care of you!"

"Sure; what about you Mimi?"

The mute girl nodded in response. Chi watched the events with mixed looks of glee and joy.

"Mimi in a swim suit!?"

"I'm going too" Chi yelled stepping in front of Junior!

"Me too" Moka yelled raising her hand!

Tamao just smiled at the younger girls.

"The more the merrier."


The Grim Family were gathered around the dining table in Grim-Skull. Minnie couldn't really eat what with being un-dead and all, but her Nergal was doing enough for the creature, it's host Junior and her. It was weird; she had given her brother the Nergal eye months ago but it still felt like a part of her, she often wondered if this is how he felt after his head gets knocked off, she doubted it, last she checked he could still feel his limbs when he gets his head knocked off, but her entire body felt numb, like she was dead inside, which would make sense since she is... dead and all.

"Junior..." the young reaper was called to attention by the sound of his mother's voice "I would presume by the tantrum you were throwing this morning that you still haven't got that monster under control."

"Unfortunately."

"Nor do I presume that you're able to hold him back?"

Mimi nodded her head, yes she can.

"Then why didn't you?"

"She can't keep me in check day and night Mom, I go crazy once in a while and there's less crazy she has to deal with later."

"That would explain the regularity, still once per day: that isn't a good sign."

"The frequency in which thou 'vents' this madness brother is most disturbing. I can't help but think back to many months ago in which the Demon Him used his spawn to turn me against you."

*ANGRY GROWLS* The vein in Mimi's forehead visibly throbbed as she glared at Minnie, Junior could feel the sparks going through his head as the two girls on either side of him returned to their Glaring contest. Suddenly all three of the children felt a strong and terrifying aura

"Enough of this you two...!" the girls broke the glaring contest by turning away from each other, like wise Mandy brought her aura back down as she began speaking calmly again "Mimi with all the time you spend inside my son's head I'm sure you must have some idea of what is wrong with that thing?"

Mimi nodded, confirming that she understood what the problem was. She used a stub to point to Junior, then to Minnie.

"What da fook does dat mean?"

"Sorry Dad; I got no idea!"

Mandy rubbed her temples at Junior's lack there of understanding of his own body. She couldn't just keep locking him in the dungeon for the rest of his existence, nor could she turn him loose while he was on the brink of insanity. On the other hand it wasn't like he did much outside of sulking and going nuts in the dungeon anymore, that might be contributing to his mental instability she'll have to look into that.

"Charles, see if we can get into contact with Mrs. Doolin again."

"Right away mistress."

While Charles went to organize the meeting the family finished their lunch. With that over Minnie had called a meeting of their own between Junior and herself inside the dungeon vault.

"So what was it you wanted to talk to me about sis?"

"I noticed that the gift I gave thou is causing thou a spot of trouble brother."

"You got a knack for the obvious sis. Any tips from the pro that might help?"

"Well; as far as I know we art the first people to attempt something like this. Two consciousnesses coming together like this is almost unheard of, mayhaps if we attempted to communicate with the creature and reach a understanding between thou and it these rage issues will cease."

"Okay sounds promising... how do we do that exactly?"

"I... doth not know brother."

*COUGH* The pair of siblings looked over to Mimi who was floating in the doorway of the cell.

"What doth thou want spawn?"

"I think she wants to help Minnie. Let me guess a mental bridge between me and the eye?"

Mimi nodded her head, confirming what Junior spoke was true.

"I most protest brother! The spawn is not to be trusted! Especially in such a... personal area of your being..."

"Well if you want you can join us inside my head: you can do that right?"

Mimi nodded, confirming Junior's suspicions.

"Mayhaps tis worth a shot brother."

Mimi flew over to the siblings and offered each a stub, they took each other's hand before they accepted Mimi's.


The three children awoke in a circle inside a graveyard, it was drenching wet, as if it was recently hit by a rain storm, though there wasn't a single cloud in the sky there nothing else was either, no moon, no stars, nothing but darkness, and yet there was a perpetual source of light that kept the area from being pitch black.

"Where have thou taken us spawn?"

Mimi pointed to Junior's head, that's where they were.

"This is your mind brother? Tis not what I expected."

"Dark and gloomy; looks about right."

*DEMENTED LAUGHTER* "What was that?"

"I doth not know brother, tis your mind. Tis sounds most joyed filled; Mayhaps that is good sign."

*DEMENTED LAUGHTER* Mimi shook her head in a no, pointing at the source of the laughter. He was about Junnior's height and age, wore a white hoodie and had black skin, he had one green eye and one red eye and was carrying a green bladed scythe with a black haft on his shoulder.

"Mayhaps he is the Eye brother?"

*SMASH* The white coated creature sat on his scythe which was now sticking out of a grave he had just destroyed.

"I hope not."

*DEMENTED LAUGHTER*


*BOING* *BOING* *BOING* Junior did a flip over the pool as he splashed into the water. He was wearing a pair of black cutoff jeans with sinister looking skull patterns on the legs. Things were relatively peaceful at the pool, the boys were enjoying the 'lessons' from the older girls, Tamao had offered to personally 'tutor' Junior but he 'politely declined' explaining that he already learned to swim from a crocodile. Still he had to admit Mimi looked pretty good in that swim suit she was wearing; he suspected that it largely had to do with the fact that it was basically two straps going from her pubis up her torso, only barely covering her breasts, and going down her back and connecting back where it began. Chi was wearing something less elaborate, a simple pink string bikini, either he had underestimated her cup size or she had used her shape shifting make her breasts bigger just to take attention off of Mimi; which was quite effectively working.

"Damn she's hot!"

"Is she dating anyone?"

"Yah Mimi."

"Haven't you heard they broke up!"

"So does that mean she's back on the market?"

It took every ounce of shape-shifting she had to keep the vein in Chi's forehead from bursting at the seems.

"Oh please, please; your flattery is too much really!"

"Why is it I get the feeling that by too much she means not enough?"

Mimi was a attempting to swim without the use of telekinesis, which was notoriously difficult considering that she lacked the use of her legs and her hands. She decided to take a break and pulled herself onto the ledge of the pool, which also brought his attention to the only person at the pool who was not currently in the pool: Moka. In fact it almost looked like she was doing everything in her power to stay out of the pool short of actually leaving the pool area, she didn't even have a swim suit on.

"Oi Junior..." Junior looked over to Chi whom was currently lounging next to Mimi on the side of the pool "why's Moka so freaked out? She looks scared of the water, which wouldn't make since for her to join the 'swim club.' Then again she could be trying the whole 'face your fears thing' if she is scared of water that would make sense. But if that's what's happening here: I don't think it's working very well. What do you think Mimi?"

Mimi shook her head as she scratched her head with a stub.

"What does that mean?"

"She's trying to wrap her head around how smart and stupid you are at the same time Chi..." Chi didn't even bother hiding the vein in her head, though she still did a poor job of forcing a smile, and the twitch in her eye didn't help any "don't get me wrong Chi if it was the observation of someone who didn't know that Moka is a Vampire that would be a very good and well educated guess. The fact that you do know that Moka's a vampire and still had to guess, incorrectly by the way, proves that you don't know the first thing about them!"

Chi's smile turned into a frown, complimented by a angry glare that could burn a hole through a tree.

"Alright smart Alec! Why doesn't she want to go into the pool?"

"Because in all likely hood doing such a thing would kill her slowly, and quite painfully."

"Say what?"

"A lot of the lore about vampires is utter crap, for example pretty much any human movie will tell you that the sun will cause vampires to burn to dust when quite clearly that doesn't happen in real life. In other cases such as the whole 'cross weakening vampire thing' are pretty accurate, that cross you see her wearing reduces her from a S-Ranked bad-ass to a B-Rank wuss. Other things are a partial truth like vampires and water, while it's completely untrue that vampires can't cross running water it would be more accurate to say that they simply can't touch water with out their over powered aura's shocking them to death!"

"Ouch! But wait why join at all then?"

"Best guess: she didn't want to be left out. Though by the looks of things she's dealing with a whole other set of problems right now."

Junior as it turns out was right in his assessment, though no one else could see her, good thing since they all would have passed out from nosebleeds by now, Moka was being scolded by her completely naked inner self.

"What the hell are you thinking being this close to a pool of all things?"

"Shouldn't we do this somewhere else? People will think we're crazy if they see us talking to ourselves."

"You idiot! We shouldn't leave to keep people from thinking that we're crazy! We should get as far away from here as possible because there's a giant pit of death five feet away from us!"

Moka got up and ran away, something that didn't go unnoticed by the rest of the people present.

"Is she okay? You should probably go talk to her Junior."

"And why me and not you exactly?"

"Well you've known her for the longest, you were the only one to know about the vampire thing, and it was your idea to join the swim club to begin with!"

"You forgot about the part where you get Mimi in a swim suit all to yourself."

"No that's just a bonus."

"Can you handle things here Mimi?"

Mimi nodded in the affirmative, Junior gripped the ledge and in a feat of acrobatic might flipped over and landed feet first on solid land, leaving Chi perplexed.

"Wait what are you two talking about?"

"A suspicion we have about the swim club; if it proves to be substantiated it's nothing that Mimi can't handle, if we're wrong you get to spend the rest of the day drooling over her."

"Sounds good to me."

Tamao spotted Junior heading for the exit, with a snap of her fingers she sent two of her cohorts after him.

"Come on Junior!"

Junior was suddenly grabbed by both arms by two exceptionally pretty looking girls in bikini's. He had to admit they were pretty looking, under different circumstances he might actually enjoy this.

"Come swim with us!"

Alas Junior was spoken for, and he had business to attend to. Junior grabbed both of the girls by their wrists and threw one back into the pool and the other into the air, who landed on a diving board and unwillingly bounced back to the pool.

"Hey did you see that!? That jerk is threatening those girls!"

"This seems oddly familiar."

"Lets kill the punk!"

"I don't have time for this Bull-crap."

By now the terrifying aura had become nothing short of a warm arm that belonged to her boyfriend around Mimi's neck. Everyone else on the other hand had been reduced to quivering behind the ledge of the swimming pool like scared little Chiwawa's. Looking back on the situation Junior glared at the populace out of the corner of his red eye.

"If you people are ever going to attack me would you mind hurrying it up and doing it already! This is getting annoying!"


Moka, still seeing her other half, was hold up in a darkened bathroom, away from prying eyes she could now talk to her other half in private.

"We can talk here."

"You fool! Why were you so close to something like a pool?!"

"It's Minnie..."

"Water is our weak point. Its purifying properties can drain vampires like us. You risked our life for someone who isn't even here?"

"I know… but her brother..."

"You should stay away from that boy. He knows nothing about you. He doesn't even care about your feelings."

"No…" Moka cried "Why can't I be like everyone else? I want to help Minnie!"

"Knock, Knock."

The girls looked up to see Junior holding the door open.

"What are you doing here?"

"I could say the same about you" Junior said pointing to, or rather out, the boys sign on the bathroom door.

Blushing Moka leaped out of the bathroom and hoped no one saw her go in or out.

"Sorry!"

Moka turned to leave when Junior stopped her with a surprisingly gentle hand.

"But we do need to talk Minnie."

The nervous vampire turned around to face the terrifying reaper.

"You do realize that a vampire joining a swimming club is a really stupid idea right?"

"You aren't the only one."

"So the other you already warned you against joining, or scolded you after the fact. But that just leaves the question of why the heck did you join anyway?"

"Your sister, Minnie."

"What does Minnie have to do with this?"

"She told me: about you, I know you are the Grim Reaper Junior, I know you teeter on the brink madness every day, I know what you're capable of when you lose yourself to your demons, and I know how much she worries about you. I want her to get well as soon as possible but the best I can do is give her one less thing to worry about."

"With all do respect Moka: if you want to help me then when, not if, when I lose control the only way you can help me is to bust out your white haired friend and kick my ass! Understood?"

With a sad look gave a nod that was both sympathetic and sad.

"Good now if you'll excuse me I have to get dried off and changed."

Junior began to walk off as Moka processed what she heard.

"Wait? You're not going back to the pool?"

"I never intended to remain a part of the swim club; I joined because I suspected something to be wrong with the club."

"Wrong how?"

"For those of us who haven't been paying attention this school is full of perverts: so would you mind explaining to me how a club full of, if you'll pardon the language, smoking hot girls in incredibly skimpy outfits managed to stay all girl for over a year? That in on itself is odd but not worthy of investigation on it's own but Mimi seemed to think that they were up to something too and considering that she's telepathic that means they probably are."

"Shouldn't we go and help her then?"

"I cleared it with Mimi, it's nothing she can't handle and she's with Chi. To assist them now would just be beating a dead horse."

Suddenly a dark aura loomed over the entire academy, and for once it wasn't Juniors.

"Sounds like our suspicions were correct."


*DEMENTED LAUGHTER* The group was getting a little disturbed, if not annoyed, by the white cloaked figure, he never responded to their questions and only continued to laugh.

"Alright now this is starting to get a little annoying."

"I completely agree..."

The trio spun around to see the familiar black figure, he wore a almost entirely black suit with a red undershirt and black tie, he has bright green eyes with black skin and green fingernails with a head that ends in a swirl. He was sitting on a red chair with golden trimmings and was surrounded by a series of large flat screen TVs.

"Grandfather!?"

"Nergal!?"

"Hello kids."

"Wait if that's you then who or what is that thing?"

"Nothing you need to concern yourself with just a pathetic creature that is beyond our ability to help. Junior, if I can talk to you in private for a moment."

"Uh sure."

Suddenly the earth started to move, the grave stones were ripped from their foundation and began to form together into a makeshift building.

"Hey wait a second!?"

"Doctor can you keep the ladies entertained for me."

Minnie attempted to squeeze her way into the building but was swatted out of the way by a scythe to the mid section. Standing in front of her was the entity that her grandfather had identified as Doctor, tauntingly waving a finger at her. *DEMENTED LAUGHTER*

"What's the big idea Nergal!?"

"We need time to talk young reaper."

"What about?"

"What you came here for of course: to learn why your Nergaling is not cooperating with you."

"You mean you?"

"If only, that would be significantly less complicated. I'm only the owners manual."

Nergal summoned a glass container, inside it was a familiar looking silhouette: Junior could make out the figure of a young girl with bladed wings and bladed tail.

"This is your Nergaling."

"Why is it stuck like that?"

"This is the end combination of your soul and your sister's consciousness."

"So this is Minnie?"

"Minnie is on the other side of that wall. This is Harror."

"Harror?"

"A name for her chosen from your consciousness."

"You still haven't explained why she's encased in crystal?"

"The creature that was dubbed 'The Demon Reaper' was born from a psychic feedback loop between you and Harror here. In order to prevent it from gaining power again she had to be quarantined."

"So why is she going crazy all the time if she's quarantined?"

"When you attempt to tap into your Nergaling side, knowingly or unknowingly, you also tap into her as well, giving the Demon Reaper the opening it needs to start taking over your collective body again."

"So is there a way of the two of us getting along?"

"Not safely."

"What do you mean 'not safely'?"

"I meant what I said and I said what I meant. As you get older your instincts as a Reaper to kill and your instincts as a Nergal to feed will grow stronger and stronger. You will subconsciously tap into this creature causing your madness to grow in strength, anyone or anything around you will not survive the process."

"Even Minnie or Mimi?"

"Especially Minnie and Mimi, they're tampering with your mind, contrary to popular belief, is not helpful but is a hindrance to your mental stability, a crutch you need to ignore, and even this vault you attempt to isolate yourself inside won't be able to contain you for long, and when you break free everyone inside of this castle will be in danger. Their is only two ways of reconciling this problem. A: you must isolate yourself from your friends and family to prevent yourself from further harming them by leaving and only coming back when you and the conflicting parts of your consciousness have reconciled your differences."

"I'm assuming that there is a option B here?"

"Or B: return to Minnie what she has given you. Just remember both options have severe consequences; for your sister most of all."

Suddenly the earth started to shake, the makeshift building began to crumble away, Doctor gripped his head in severe pain from a headache, suddenly it was torn in half as the entire world crumbled."

"The choice has been made."


The trio woke up in the vault, Minnie scratched her head as felt like she had been thrown against a wall. Wait? Felt? Looking down at her hand Minnie saw the color had returned, looking at the mirror polished floor she saw that not only had she both eyes but she had also been restored to human form with the exception of some barely noticeable scars on her face.

"Sis? You alright?"

Junior had instinctively made the decision to return to Minnie her Nergaling during his exchange with the creature that gave the beast it's name. Suddenly Minnie's eyes changed color, not to the red of their mother or the green of her Nergal but a bright and powerful gold that did not bode well *TERRIFIED SCREAMS* suddenly the tentacles lashed out, throwing Junior and Mimi against the walls of the vault Minnie fell into her own inner world. Contrary to the dull graveyard inside Junior's mind Minnie's was a bright and colorful palace that remained on dry land, it was a city, mostly white buildings mixed with a large amount of greenery. One might be able to enjoy the view if it wasn't the scene of a small war. In the middle of a fight to the death was Minnie and what appeared to be the same laughing entity from before, but it looked almost entirely different now, while it's cloths remained white instead of a hoodie and jeans combination like what Junior wore she was now wearing a feminine robe. Further more while it's skin stayed black the face was more clearly like Minnie's, with the exception of the golden colored eyes.

"Lets have some fun shall we!?"


"This is the life!"

Chi was enjoying having Mimi all to herself a little too much, the boys had all been focusing on their 'lessons' with the other girls and taking all the attention off of herself and Mimi. Yet despite the almost perfect circumstances between the two Mimi's full focus was on the other girls. Either what Junior said about the girls being up to something was true or... no it was the Junior thing.

"What is it? Something got your suit in a twist?"

Mimi pointed to a girl who was giving a 'lesson' to one of the boys. Suddenly her jaws split open and she used them to bite down on his shoulder, the boy's face wrinkled and his hair grayed, both clear symptoms of rapid onset aging and that the life was being sucked out of him.

"Pool Party's over right?"

Mimi nodded in response confirming Chi's suspicions.

"Don't think less of us Mermaids..." Tamao had also turned into her true form, her ears had turned into fin like gills, her skin had turned rough and scaly, her hands had become webbed, and her entire lower body had turned into a fish tail "this is simply the way of us mer-people."

As if on que Kou, the orange flying hamster, flew in from the girl's bathroom.

"Mer; a human like water dwelling species whom for millennium have dragged sailors to their watery demises in order to feed upon their life force."

While Kou provided his ever impressive encyclopedic knowledge of monsters he had drawn Chi's attention in all the wrong ways.

"For what reason exactly were you in the girl's changing room?"

"Wha...? Ah well you see..."

Kou was cut off by a oversize black fist to his face knocking him over the fence.

"If you have to lie about what you were doing then you shouldn't have been doing it!"

Suddenly all the boys were yanked out of the water by blue energy fields belonging to Mimi who then dropped them into the courtyard.

"Nice! My turn!"

Chi slid into the pool, the mer naturally followed her and attacked in swarm. Suddenly Chi's body inflated to huge proportions, where only moments earlier the white skinned heiress of a Darkness was floating a gigantic octopus like creature was now taking up the bulk of of the pool, holding the various females of the swim club in tentacles including Tamao who was being held upside down in front of Chi's face.

"Y-Y-Your true form is a Kr-Kr-Kraken!?"

"I'm sorry I don't think I heard you right, with that stutter and all. I'm pretty sure you called this my 'True form.' Let me tell you a little something about me..." Chi's black humanoid form grew out of the head of the Kraken creature "I'm Chi, heiress of the Throne of Darkness. Daughter of the great and powerful Master of Shape-shifting Aku. I have inherited his power, my 'true form' is what I say it is! When I'm in the water I'm a fish..." Chi threw her captives into the air, chasing after them by turning into a version of herself with large bat wings "when I'm in the air I'm a bird..." in a series of acrobatic flips Chi kicked the mer back into the pool "and when I want to kick ass..." Chi ended the display of beating into the ground by turning into a giant mass of black the same shape as the pool, dropping into the pool and delivering a crushing blow to all of the girls, she soon turned back into her regular form and climbed back out of the pool "I turn into a ass kicker."

Chi heard a distinct thudding sound, nothing most would notice, not as loud as if it were being made by a giant of some sorts, more like two blunt objects banging together, looking around she saw Mimi tapping her stubs together like she was clapping.

"Thank you, thank you, please no autographs" Chi said bowing like she was on the stage.

Mimi threw Chi a towel, followed by walking back to the changing room with one of her own on her head.

"Looks like we just quit the swim team."


*SMASH* Minnie flew out of the giant gaping hole she left in the wall of Grim Skull using a pair of giant neon green bird wings. The large hole in the wall drew lots of attention especially from Mandy who was watching her daughter fly away.

"Great; where is he going now...?" Mandy looked down to see Junior standing in the hole that was punched through the door "Or more accurately where is Minnie going now?"

The entire castle was thrown into a panic, scrambling to get organize to chase after Minnie. One minion in particular had already gotten a head start: a raven, one of the Grim Reaper's familiars, sent to track down Minnie, preferably before she went on a rampage somewhere. Mandy however was equally concerned with locating her son as well as tracking down her daughter.

"Junior! Where the blooming heck are you!?"

The young reaper in question was currently with Mimi and uselessly trying to open a portal to chase after his sister using his original scythe, a large silver colored weapon it's shaft connected to it's large guillotine like blade with a bolt.

"Come on work you stupid thing! Work!"

"Insulting the weapon isn't going to make it work Junior."

"What do you want me to do!"

"Stay put! You're not doing anything to help her getting yourself killed: metaphorically that is."

"Damn it why aren't we doing anything!?"

"I am doing something Junior: she's being followed and what's left of the army is being sent to apprehend her as we speak."

"Apprehend her? She isn't some common criminal! She's my sister! Let me go after her! Talk some sense into her!"

"We tried to do that with you: it didn't work."

"Well we got to help her! We got to do something!"

"What exactly do you propose we do?"

"Help her!"

"Very specific."

While Junior and his mother discussed how they were going to help Minnie the young Nergaling in question was flying over the Grim Skull Mountain Range, eventually landing on a rather large statue of her mother that was carved from the mountain. As she squatted on the statues nose she gripped her head in pain from a headache.


No wonder Minnie was having a headache, considering the fact that inside her inner world her other half had grabbed her head and was currently bashing it against a wall.

"Why art thou doing this!?"

The creature threw Minnie against another wall, still with that mad grin of hers.

"Seriously? You still talk like that? We're in the middle of the blooming 21st century not the Dark ages! That's just another thing about you that pisses me off!"

"What hath I done to earn such irate wrath?"

The entity responded to Minnie's attempts at peace with a kick to the stomach.

"That's what! I'm kicking your ass here and all you want to do is take me out on a bloody picnic! You act like you don't have a single violent bone inside your entire body and its pissing me off!"

"And whom art thou to speak such hate filled words?"

"Haven't I made it clear yet? I'm what you deny exists! I'm every violent bone inside of your body!"

"I see. Should I assume that there is nay way to resolve our differences?"

"Look at this place! It's you mind, and you don't even realize how epically fucked up it is inside of here!"

Minnie took the white figure's advice into consideration, looking around as far as the eye could see it looked like the entire city inside of her mind had been a war zone, most of it she hadn't even seen before let alone fought in it. Such a pity she could tell it was once a beautiful place.

"You're mind is just as broken as these buildings and you don't even realize it! You don't know the first thing about what has been going on inside of here do you? FYI it's been absolute hell! And yet you live in blissful ignorance."

"My apologies; I did not know that thou hath been suffering so."

"SHUT UP! SHUT THE FUCK UP! STOP TRYING TO BE NICE TO ME I'M TRYING TO KILL YOU HERE!"

"Then May I ask the name of mine executioner?"

"It's a little complicated: basically I'm your version of the Demon Reaper!"


While Minnie learned more about the entity inside of her that hated her so much Mandy had been gathering her forces to retrieve her wayward daughter.

"Grim: Update!"

"Dusk has followed our little spawn to that big honking tower of superiority ye carved out a few years ago. She seems to be resten dere."

"Huh?"

Junior, despite all orders from his mother to the contrary, had insisted on attending the meeting to go after Minnie. He was persistent she'll give him that.

"A giant statue of myself I had made a few years ago. It's not far from here."

"Then what are we waiting for! Lets go!"

"And he still doesn't get the idea. Charles..."

"Way ahead of you."

*BONK* Charles leaned on his freshly used Mace like a cane as he picked up Junior's unconscious form.

"Shall I bring him to his room mistress?"

"I'll deal with him go with Grim and the army and bring me my daughter back!"

"Of course madam."

Grim observed Pain hand off Junior to Mandy.

"At least she realizes her limits: While I have no problem wid haven more reapers in da family she has no intention of inflictin dat fate upon someone again. It's more den what can be said for da lil one: from what I can tell fer some reason his powers were absorbed by dat parasite, for whatever da reason dat it happened, Junior is left effectively defenseless."

Grim noticed that their fiery horse headed soldiers, better known as Tibikians, were giving them strange looks.

"Wad are yah Mons lookin at...!?" Grim opened a portal a fair distance away from the statue "gid yer asses drew da portal already! We'll sneak up on her from behind and knock her on her freaky ass!"

They didn't need to be told twice, even Mimi moved to the portal, only to be stopped by Grim's scythe.

"An jus where do yah dink yer goin?"

Mimi pointed to the portal in response.

"Not likely yah lil freak! We don't need a useless cripple gettin in our way!"

Suddenly a chunk of a nearby mountain was torn off inside a bright blue telekinetic field and held above Grim's head. Looking down Grim saw that Mimi's eyes were glowing the same color as the field.

"Dat could come in handy."

Not needing any more than that Mimi flew into the portal and the army followed her. The group arrived at the mountain range that the statue was part of. Looking at the statue they saw that Minnie had already left.

"Where is she Master Death?"

Grim looked around until he saw his raven Dusk. He was circling Minnie as she rolled down the mountain side.

"Down dere...!" Everyone's attention was immediately drawn to the direction Grim was pointing to "turn her into a pin cushin as soon as she stops movin!"

"Sir are you sure that's wise? Are you sure she would even survive something like that between the fall and the 'pin cushion'?"

"She has dem annoyin Nergal regenerative abilities. Plus she might look like she's alive now but she's still a rag-doll, no madder how bad she gets all torn up we can just put her back togeder again."

"Right away master! READY...!" the Tibikians drew their fiery spears "AIM...!" the Tibikians had Minnie in their sights "FIR...!" *CRACK* "what was that!?"

Grim saw that the statue had broken at the ankles and was currently falling over, looking over the statue Grim saw that it had a passing blue aura around it. The statue fell down the mountain and landed on Minnie.


Minnie and Demon could feel the crushing effects of the statue, and the world felt it too, what was left of the buildings were falling apart around them too.

"What's happening?"

"We're dying idiot!"

One of the buildings landed on top of Minnie, crouching down she attempted to shield herself from the blow.

"Not yet."

Minnie looked up to see someone holding the building up with one hand. He was dressed in a white Dress shirt with a black tie and skull clip, on top of that he was wearing a black zip up hoodie with dark pants. His face was obscured by the shadows of his clothing and by the light coming off of the buildings behind him but regardless there was a air of familiarity about him, like instead of a complete stranger she was looking at a old friend.

"Who the heck are you suppose to be?"

The figure looked over to see Demon who was not so fortunate as to avoid the rubble.

"Someone who will not let this girl die."


Minnie's arm laid limp in a pool of her own Neon green blood, the rest of her body crushed underneath the rubble of the statue, suddenly the blood turned a golden yellow while the arm formed a fist.

"Lemme guess: yer idea?"

Mimi nodded in response, confirming Grim's suspicions.

"You were the one who said that it didn't matter how bad she gets beaten up sir."

"Oi Mandy's gonna kill me! Wadda all waitin fer!? Get yer asses down dere and dig her out!"

"Master Grim! Something's happening down there!"

Minnie's blood formed webbing and stretched across the broken parts of the statue, re-assembling it into something that resembled it's original form, however the material formed a pair of giant bird like wings from the back, and a giant scythe blade from the right arm. Minnie herself was currently lodged inside the right eye of the statue, a massive electrical current running through from her body into the entire statue, though she didn't appear to feel any pain.

"MAY ALL THINE SINS BE REMEMBERED!"

Minnie wined up her arm to strike down the gathered army.

"HIT DA DECK!"

The Blade narrowly missed the bulk of the army, thanks to following Grim's instructions to duck for cover.


"Bloody hell!"

Junior was with Mandy, pacing impatiently awaiting the return of his sister.

"Damn it where is she?"

"You do remember that it took us all night to get you under control right?"

"Ugh Don't remind me."

Junior spun around to see his uncle Jack Skellington.

"Uncle Jack!? What are you doing here?"

"Nice to see you too kiddo. But I'm just playing messenger boy..." Jack handed Mandy a small chest, she opened it to reveal a black eye patch with a sinister skull symbol "here you go Mandy."

"What the heck is that suppose to be?"

"A seal I had Finklestein prepare to seal off all of Minnie's memories inside your head, which in theory can be used as a hail Mary pass to prevent you from turning back into the Demon Reaper. Luckily it can be easily adapted to work in reverse sealing off your memories inside Minnie's mind which in theory is what causing her to go crazy. According to Finklestein all we have to do is get this over that damned eye of hers."

As if on que Grim called Mandy on her phone with more bad news.

"Ah Mandy: we got a small problem."

Grim switched to video phone, showing Mandy over the small electronic device Minnie puppeting about the giant statue of Mandy.

"Peachy. This might be more complicated then I initially thought."

Mandy noticed that Junior left the room, oddly enough she had a pretty good idea where he was too. Getting there was pretty simple, Junior had clobbered the guards into submission and opened Mandy's vault.

"I thought you might have come down here"

"Why's that?"

"You hear all sorts of rumors about this castle, like for example a room full of artifacts of world ending power that had been reduced to simple wall art. Perhaps you believe that one of these will allow you to take on Minnie in her current condition."

"What of it?"

"The part that those legends leave out is that most of these artifacts have such huge draw backs that range from virtually uncontrollable to down right suicidal."

"I'm not going to be the one using it. In fact I know exactly who is going to use it."

Junior brought out a empty glass canister and plugged it into one of the display cases, it was the newest addition, added not but six months ago: The devil essence of Mimi. The canister was flooded with the devil essence as Junior removed it.

"So you're planning on giving Mimi back her Devil Essence: Has it occurred to you that it might not be a gift worth giving?"

"Her choice, but we need all the muscle we can manage. Push comes to shove I'll absorb it myself."

"You really are crazy."

"You can't stop me."

"Yes I can..." *SHATTERED GLASS* Mandy pulled out Scythe 2.0 from one of her display cases and opened a portal to the battle field "but I won't."

Mandy threw Junior the chest, opening it he saw that it had the eye patch, he gave his mother a suspicious look.

"You only stopped your rampage when Minnie finally talked some sense into you, you're the best candidate to talk some into her."

Carrying both the chest and the canister Junior left through the portal.

"You think he can do it?"

Mandy shot scythe a rather nasty look, the kind you shoot someone whom has just insulted you.

"You for some strange reason seem to think that he can't."

Mandy put Scythe back into his display case, which regrew around it, before she left her vault.


Meanwhile Junior had just arrived at the site of the battle, their guys weren't looking too good, that could have something to do with the fact that there weren't too many left over after he was through with them. He could see Minnie towering over the battle field in the form of the statue, but at the moment she wasn't the one he was looking for.

"Come on Mimi where are you?"

"Junior saw who he was looking for up in the air, she was floating on one of her Telekinetic fields, she lured Minnie between two mountains and sandwiched her between the two.

"Figures, they still don't get along."

Unfortunately the reason that she was able to move the combined rubble of those mountains was because they were so ridiculously weak and brittle, which also made it easy for Minnie to shake it off of her.

"Hey Mimi...!" Mimi looked down at the young reaper waving at her "down here!"

Mimi flew down to meet up with Junior, intending to discuss whatever plan he had to deal with his sister.

"Mom gave me this..." Junior showed Mimi the opened chest which had the eye patch inside "she says we can use it to turn Minnie back to normal if we can get it over her right eye. Also there's this..." Junior showed Mimi the canister containing her devil essence "I know you don't like it but it might just give us the edge we need..."

Junior was cut off by Mimi's telekinesis, she picked up a chunk of rock and nearly dropped it on Junior, failing to thanks to his quick reflexes moving him out of the way. Unfortunately she succeeded in destroying the canister.

"Okay not big on that idea."

To the contrary, Mimi removed the rock from the crushed canister and willingly allowed the Devil essence to overtake her, turning her red skin, giving her a stegosaurus like tail, crab claws grew from the ends of her stubs replacing her severed hands and finally grew bull like horns that wrapped around her head. Her clothing changed too, she was now wearing a red Santa Claus suit coat with thigh high heeled boots.

"Apparently not..." Junior observed Minnie deal another devastating blow to the army with her scythe blade "Think we can get to her?"

Mimi nodded and pulled Junior onto her back. Minnie scanned the entire battle field, spotting the familiar streak of red flying at her.

"Demon!"

Minnie attempted to cut the pair off, using the scythe to open a massive reaper portal from which a massive flow of lava burst out and nearly roasted the young demon and young reaper.

"Was that a reaper portal!? Well I guess it explains what happened to my powers."

Mimi dodged the flow of lava in a flash of red light, the tell tale sign of one of her demon portals, when the pair returned Mimi was carrying a large radio antenna that had been twisted into a spear and that Junior was inside of.

"Ready when you are Mimi."

No sooner had he given the all clear did Mimi throw their makeshift spear at Minnie, Minnie attempted to open another portal to dispose of the projectile but Mimi had already grabbed the giant stone arm and was currently pinning it to one of the mountains. Unfortunately the other arm was completely free and Minnie was already swinging it at Junior.

"Plan A not working Mimi!"

The spear became lodged inside the arm, followed by the tentacles wrapping around it.

"Crud!"

Junior only narrowly escaped the crushing tentacles and ran up the arm to the shoulder.

"Okay small set back but no problem, I'm only a hop, skip and jump away from Minnie."

Suddenly Junior could feel the electrified giant shaking, a pair of massive golden wings sprouted from the statues back and began flapping shooting the entire hunk of demonic flesh and stone up into the air. Junior was swept up in the feathers of the wing and tangled up.

"Oh this is just peachy! Okay think, if I jump at the same time as the wing flaps..."

Not waiting to finish that chain of thought Junior swung from the wing and only narrowly grabbed onto the other one.

"Okay not tangled up anymore that's good now I need to get to Minnie: years of experience on the Jungle Gym don't fail me now."

Much like he was on the monkey bars Junior began swinging from one feather to another. Sadly Minnie soon noticed that something was tugging on her feathers and formed an eye on her back to look at it and much to surprise saw Junior scaling her something that Junior also took notice.

"Secrets out!"

Minnie reached behind and grabbed Junior in a crushing grip with her scythe arm and brought him up to her face to face.

"Hey Minnie..." Junior pulled one of his arms free gripping the eye patch "I know you're not feeling very well at the moment but if you put this on you're feel better."

It didn't look like Minnie was listening, she was currently gripping her head and was suffering from what looked liked a rather nasty headache: combine that with the blank stare on her face and all the electrical shocks going all over the statue and her body he doubted she even knew what she was doing.

"Heretic!"

Minnie's death grip on her brother tightened as she began channeling the electrical shocks. *PAINED SCREAMS*

"LEAVE MAH BOY ALONE YAH FREAKER!"

Junior looked up to see a newly opened reaper portal above the statue. The bright light left who or what ever came out as nothing but a silhouette but that accent gave him away instantly. The Grim Reaper used the momentum of his fall to add a little punch to his attack, breaking off the hand and cutting the scythe off of the statue. The debris and two reapers fell out of the sky, it was a significantly more difficult process to chip Junior out of the hand rather than to break it off. Grim succeeded after a few smashes but by that time it was too late to use a portal to shorten their fall.

"HANG ON JUNIOR!"

Grim took the younger reaper in his arms and attempted to shield him from the fall. The two Reapers hit the mountain hard, Junior could feel several of his bones break, he could only shudder to imagine what kind of shape his father was in right now. Grim attempted to stop them from rolling down the mountain by stabbing his scythe into the rocks but his arm picked to worst possible time to come out of its socket. Junior wasn't sure how long it took them to reach the bottom, he could swear that they hit every rock going down the mountain and suspected that the bulk of those blows were to their heads. When the rolling finally stopped Junior and his father were at the bottom of the mountain, their bodies were broken into too many pieces to count. Junior's one workable limb was his right arm, and though his vision was blurred it looked like his father's head was in several pieces as well.

"Damn it!"

Junior wasn't sure how he was still conscious, stubbornness he guessed. Not that it was any better then being unconscious, to the contrary, he could clearly see that his father's body was broken beyond the point that most could repair, his sister was still trapped in a cycle of homicidal crazy, and he was in too much pain for even the most hard core masochist could handle: blissful unconsciousness would be nice right about now. And yet despite it all he refused to yield. He could make out something in the distance, he couldn't tell what but he felt drawn to it, like he could solve all of his problems if he could just get to it.

"Minnie!? Can you hear me Minnie...?" and thus Junior began to use his one semi good limb to crawl to this miracle item "I want to help you so badly but I can't do it without your help...!" Junior could feel the golden viscous liquid underneath him "please give me a sign! Anything! Just to let me know that there's something left of you that can be saved...!" Junior crawled on top of the broken chunk of Marble. He could feel Minnie's soft flesh stretched over it, and dug his hand into it as if it was Minnie's hand he was holding, as if he was trying to reassure her or himself "COME BACK TO ME MINNIE!"

"All you had to do was ask."

Suddenly a pulse of energy came off of Junior, the golden color was blasted out of the blood and turned back into green, the flesh of the hand and blood on the ground swarmed Junior, forming new flesh around his bones, picked up the shattered bits of his body and put him back together: the creature that stood moments later was almost wholly different from the young reaper: this was the form of the Demon Reaper, or some approximation of the beast made from Nergal Flesh and Blood and Reaper Bone and Soul. Though he was still groggy Junior clearly remember two serious problems that required his immediate attention. Seeing as how his father's broken body was the closest of the two he decided to deal with that first. Junior walked over to the body and in a similar manner to how it reassembled him Junior had the bits of Nergal gather together the broken pieces of his father and with a brief cocoon of black he was whole again, whole and conscious that is.

"Junior!? What da fookin heck happened to yah mon!? Did Minnie give yah da parasite again?"

Grim looked up to see that Minnie not only still had her powers but was also still on a rampage, currently fighting Him's little spawn to a stand still. Junior completely ignored the question though, in fact he was acting like he didn't even hear it, he had already found a rather important object he lost in the fall: the eye patch seal.

"Junior can yah even hear me!?"

"Plug your ears dad!"

*SONIC BOOM* He didn't even give him a chance to act upon the warning. He was already shooting up into the air on Nergal formed wings at speeds that would make a fighter jet jealous. Mimi was in the middle of using a giant makeshift bat to fight the giant statue, however the stone creature suddenly took off like a like a bat out of hell, and Mimi would know what that looks like, and soon understood why. Even she had to brace herself for the break neck speed that Junior shot passed her. He caught up to the statue in almost no time, Minnie attempting to attack him again with the left arm but Junior narrowly dodged, stabbed his bladed wings into her arm and tore it to shreds as he zoomed up her arm. Arriving at the top Junior slammed his hand into Minnie's face with the eye patch.


Inside Minnie's world it began shaking again.

"What the hell now!?"

"Seems our time to go is now."

"What!? I'm not going away again you can't..."

The cloaked figure silenced Demon by back handing her through several buildings. Cracks formed in the sky as bits began to fall off.

"Don't worry my young friend we'll meet again until then please accept this as a parting gift."

The older entity passed Minnie glowing object, a large ring, with four sharp blades sticking out in a cross. Minnie held the object in her hands as the entity who gave it to her disappeared, suddenly the cracks turned into a full on shatter as they formed a giant sinister looking skull. The jaws of the skull opened to reveal Junior holding out his arm.

"Time to come home sis."

The two siblings locked hands as Junior pulled his sister out the skull shaped opening.


Junior dropped onto the ground through a Reaper portal, carrying his sister's unconscious body as well, he laid her on the ground giving her the chance to get some peaceful sleep hopefully not plagued by nightmares.

"Well that was intense wasn't it...?" Junior's newly acquired flesh melted off of his body, followed by reforming into a new form, Junior had to admit he didn't see it coming, it was like he was looking at his mother over twenty years in the pass, around Minnie's age, she was wearing the same outfit as his mother and had the same cold red eyes, but one major difference was that she had Nergal wings and a Nergal scythe tail "I don't believe we've been formally introduced, my name is Harror."

"Minnie's Nergaling?"

"Nope: Your scythe."


Minnie had been taken back to the Finklestein clinic. The wheel chair bound mad scientist who bares the facilities name was currently giving the unconscious Minnie a check up. He was also being watched by the Grim family.

"Well doctor; whats your conclusion?"

"Physically? In peak physical health. Mentally? That's another story. I can't really determine that until she wakes up. I don't know what her mental state will be like or how much she'll remember. This much I know for certain: if she remembers or is told even a sliver of the truth of what happened then her mental state will be severely damaged if not completely broken, under no circumstances can she be allowed to know what happened here."

"And if she does remember?"

"I doubt she will, after all the seal was designed to block off her memories. That said what happened today was sealed off as well, since that's one of her actual memories that might bleed through. If it does then it will weaken the seal on Junior's memories and the madness will come back in a flood."

"What do you suppose we do then."

"For the time being...?" Finklestein scratched his brain as he thought it over "leave her in my care for the time being. Once she awakens it will only take me a few days to determine her mental health and devise a plausible scenario for any memories that survived our little purge."

"Good. Now than what about this thing?"

Mandy was of course indicating the creature that had declared itself Junior's scythe, who was clearly annoyed with being referred to as 'this thing.'

"From what I can tell when Minnie's Nergal absorbed Junior's Reaper powers it concentrated them to one part of the body to render them usable. Which Grim then cut off when he cut her off. Under normal circumstances the development of a reaper scythe would take years of a reaper conducting their power through a medium by which process they customize it and transform it into their own unique tool. This stunt likely accelerated that process by years but at a cost. What ever is left of Junior powers is only just enough to keep him going."

"When will he get his powers back?"

"Not when if. If he gets his powers back it will take several years. A Reaper's power is meant to be built up over several years of Reaping the souls of the dead, Junior's powers were force to the surface thanks to that Demon-Reaper mess several months ago and I doubt that he'll ever be able to restore them."

"What about what happened to her?"

"Based on the analysis I ran on Minnie's body, combined with what I could tell about her behavior during the battle: it has a suspicious resemblance to hybrid Demonic-Angelic creatures. If I had to guess I would say that Minnie turned into some kind of angel when she went to heaven several months ago, detecting her sins of Wrath and Lust it attempted to purge her of these via a type of electroshock therapy."

Not many would notice it, reapers expressions don't work like normal people since they don't have normal faces. But the rage in his voice was quite evident.

"Are you saying that the reason why my sister was so crazy during the fight was because she was being tortured?"

"In a nutshell? Affirmative."

"Then why wait until now? Why did the Angelic essence wait six months to strike?"

"She wasn't alive for the past six months."

"So I did this to her..."

Now it was Mandy's turn to provide support.

"Grim: How hard would you say it would be to get a angel feather pillow?"


The nightmare was finally over, Minnie had stopped her silent screams. Finklestein was right about the memories bleeding through, she remembered her body burning alive with the electricity as words whispered in her ears to hate her brother. When she had asked for what happened they told her that she under went electroshock therapy at her mothers orders, she stayed with her uncle in Halloween town until the twins were born a few months after the incident. Her mother never minded all the grief she gave her, even though she acted like it, she understood that her role to play in this charade was to be hated and hated she was.

She never really understood where Harror came from, she understood that she was one of her Nergal beasts fashioned into a scythe for her brother but she couldn't remember doing it nor did she remember him doing it, whenever she asked she got some vague comment about leftovers. Still she fully accepted her 'sister' into the family even if it was a little awkward between the two. Now things had changed, in her, in her family, in her friends, and she doubted they'll ever be the same again. Looking through her unlocked memories and Junior's mind inside hers she saw things about him that she doubted even he knew about. Finklestein saw that Minnie had awoken from the barrage of memories, something that was also attracting Grim's and Igor's attention.

"Doctor! She's awake! Should I get some Nightshade to help her sleep?"

"No Igor I will take it from here go get Brutus something to eat."

Igor scurried off following the Doctor's instructions. He gave Minnie a shine in the eye as Grim peered over from his reading.

"How is she Mon?"

"Dead: as made obvious by looking at her eye."

"Hilarious."

"I thought so. How's that coming by the way?"

"From what I can decipher of dis damn ding she'd be bedder off dead den have any of dese spells forced onto her. Even den dey would only reanimate her, which she already has been, instead of revivin her. I don't get what she got againt bein ded."

"It's not something she's use to Grim, being dead is a entirely different experience from being alive: some who have experienced both describe the experience as different as Heaven and Hell: literally."

"I suppose dat every one of dem blokes started out as alive?"

"Hoping that one of them started out dead?"

"Jus pointin out da bias."

"So I take it that you have an un-bias opinion?"

"As id so happens I do! Yah ever wonder why dey call the stuff that turns us Reapers into humans encroachen doom syndrome?"

"Because for a reaper being alive is like being trapped in a overwhelming pit of despair. I take it this means you suffered from the disease at one point in your life?"

"How'd yah dink Mandy found out about it?"

"Tell me about it. I thought she was crazy when she told me to whip up a batch of the stuff based on her son..." Finklestein gave a shudder, clearly disturbed by what just ran through his mind "god forgive me for what I've done."

"It ain't god you need to start beggin to doc."

*ANGRY GROWLS* Doctor Finklestein attention was drawn to Minnie, her eye had a pinkish hue to it, something that reminded Finklestein of her mother.

The good doctor also spotted Harror sitting on a nearby chair moping.

"Interesting..."


Several student volunteers were helping the nursing staff pull the injured students out of the pool, the bulk of which consisted of the female members of the swim team, Tenmei was also present, shaking his head with disappointment.

"It's such a shame when we have to suspend a entire club. How are they?"

"Both victim and victor will live, the boys will be okay after a little life restoring treatment I created. As for the girls... I suspect that further punishment will not be necessary."

"Agreed: but I will have to have the Safety Commission put a officer on them when they awaken."

"Yes because they've done such a great job thus far!"

While Tenmei and Nurse Cut-lip discussed the Safety Commission Junior was with Moka waiting outside the Girl's change room for Chi and Mimi. Moka couldn't help but notice that Junior seemed to be depressed about something.

"OH JUNIOR...!" Moka looked over to the direction of the cooing and saw Kurumu and Yukari arriving in a bright yellow bikini and black one piece swimsuits respectively "I'm here!"

"I'm here too Kurumu!"

"Now why would he be happy to see you pimple chest?"

"I could ask the same of you Beach Balls! If you think yours is so good lets see him!"

Yukari yanked the strings on Kurumu's bikini top and soon the young witch was running circles around the pool waving the garment like a flag all the while being chased by Kurumu who was attempting to cover herself with one arm while reaching for Yukari with her free arm.

"HEY COME BACK HERE YOU LITTLE TWERP!"

"GUYS...!" the two girls stopped running around at Moka's call for attention, Kurumu retrieving her errant bikini half and putting it back on "can you two calm down!? Can't you see Junior's depressed?"

"Something's wrong with Junior!?"

Kurumu soon had Junior in yet another of her infamous death hugs.

"Don't worry Junior I'll make you feel all better!"

*DONG* Mimi's first whack had Kurumu in a daze and walking backwards *BAM* a second whack of the Iron sent Kurumu flying into the pool *CRASH* which was extra painful since the water had been drained from the pool.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR! And more importantly why is all the water gone?"

"Chi joined the swim team: enough said."

"Now, now..." Chi walked out from behind Mimi, wearing her dress shirt, skirt and her floral pink kimono "you make me like some kind of monster."

"You were the one who put half the swim club in a coma Chi."

"After you roped me and my precious Mimi into your hair-brained scheme!"

"It was Mimi's idea too Chi."

"Time out...!" Chi and Junior looked over to Kurumu who had her hands in a T shape "would somebody mind explaining what you two are talking about!?"

"The swim team is full of homicidal life sucking mermaids."

"...Oh."

The group spotted Ms. Nekomone stepping over patients as she made her way to them.

"Hello!"

"Good afternoon Ms. Nekomone. How may we help you?"

"Well with the Swim Club dismantled you Mimi and Chi are the only ones in my class who haven't joined a club yet."

"Sorry, something came up" Junior said waving to the large amount of injured students.

"I can see. But I was wondering if you would be interested in joining my newspaper club."

"Interesting offer..." Junior pulled out the list of clubs, all of which had been dubbed perverts in pencil with the exception of the news paper club which they never visited "what you think Mimi?"

Mimi looked up as she thought about it for a moment, done thinking she nodded yes.

"Yah I'm in."

"Me too!"

"Diddo!"

"Where Mimi goes I go!"

"If everyone else is doing it."

"Six new members of the newspaper club!? YAHOOO!"

Ms. Shizuka was so filled if joy she was jumping like a jack hammer... strait to the still empty pool.

"Ms. Shizuka wait...!" *CRASH* "Nurse Cut-lip we got another patient for you!"

"Ouch!"


Review section:

Nightmaster000: I agree

The Fox Boss: Afraid not, I'm naturally dark guy and my writing reflects that.

coldblue: I believe I've already summarized the symptoms of Sycophancy, that is what's happening to Minnie. I would imagine that they would develop a working relationship of sorts.

t-biggz: Junior surprisingly does have friends outside his family, he's managed to befriend several of the castle servants, as well as other children of the big five. But his mother being so over protective, though she'd never admit it, he rarely gets the chance to meet anyone else.