Author's Notes: Whoops forgot to put in Review response and author's notes, sorry guys I was in a rush to write this one. Well all I can say is eleven down and two left to go.

The Public Safety Commission's building was deceptively large, this was do in large part because while the Headquarters, or what people believed to be the headquarters, above ground was around the size of one of the dorm rooms the complex was mostly underground with many different facilities. The Headquarters featured barracks, housing about 30 to 40 students, all members of the Public Safety Commission. A bunker, art-diamond supports and a dozen magical barrier spells effectively making the base immune to anything ranging from a nuclear assault to the 7 plagues of Egypt. Most of it however was it's own prison, a massive facility full of cramped cells with students from the school wrongfully held prisoner, they were alive, they wish they weren't but they were alive. Kuyo was walking through the last of the three on his way to the prison's latest occupant.

A former teacher by the name of Ishigami who was arrested for gathering the single strangest art collection in the history of the world: students transformed into living stone statues. Kuyo was instructed to escort her from the school premises immediately, but since her capture she had made him a offer simply too good to resist. Knocking on a cell door he was allowed inside where he was greeted by Ishigami secured to a hospital bed, her health having improved dramatically after nearly being killed by Junior and almost sucked dry by Moka, thanks to the actions of an unofficial member of PSC that was tending to her, a young Spanish looking man of 18 or 20 years old, with dark hair, tanned skin and red eyes, he was wearing a poncho jeans combination with a sombrero allowed to hang on his back.

"Is she stable?"

"Si Senor."

"Then leave us be."

"As you wish Senor."

The makeshift nurse left the cell, allowing Kuyo his alone time with Ishigami.

"You told me you had information about the Newspaper Club: do tell?"

"I just said that the one they call Junior is human, he certainly tastes the part."

"Are you sure?"

"I managed to take a good bite out of him, nothing tastes quite like human, there's plenty of that there."

"No one else in the Newspaper Club?"

"With the exception of Moka Akashiya I didn't get a chance to take a bite out of any of the other members of their little club."

"What can you tell me about her?"

"Just some free advice: you had hope that limiter she's wearing is jammed in good and tight. And remember, just because something tastes sweet doesn't make it sugary."

Kuyo passed by his associate as he exited the cell.

"Keep an eye on her!"

"Remember Senor that unlike your subordinates I am not one to be ordered around as you see fit. My business here has concluded and so too has my stay."

With a wave of his hand the man exited the building through a familiar rip in space time.

"Damn high and mighty reapers."

Kuyo had to give an intel report to his superiors regarding recent events. He walked to the conference room, a circular room it's walls lined with TV screens. As Kuyo entered the room the screens sprang to life, but the intentionally fuzzy reception hid the features of those on the other side of the transmission.

"What information do you have Kuyo?"

"The Gorgon Bitch claims that your target, the one who calls himself Junior, is human."

"And how did she come across such information?"

"Claims she got a good taste of him during their little scrap. But I've seen how he fights: if he's human he's a damn crafty one!"

"He's far from human but he's definitely crafty!"

"Still if everyone at that school is as stupid as Kuyo then it should easy to turn them against the Reaper."

"And if he can even be mistaken for human then he's at his weakest. If we are to strike a blow against the Grim Family then we should do so now."

"Of course I still say our biggest mistake was in allowing the Demon Reaper to become this powerful in the first place!"

"The bastard hasn't left Grimskull in five years, if you want to lead a team into that hell hole then be my guest."

The meeting fell silent.

"We did send teams into that hell hole... remember?"

"Gentlemen we're missing the point! Bring him to us Kuyo!"

Mandy was sitting in her living room, apparently having dozed off in the arm chair quite some time ago. Across from her was her near mirror image, Harror also in a state of deep slumber on the couch. They were both breathing in the fumes from several lit candles. Grim stumbled upon the scene and immediately put two and two together, extinguishing the candles the pair slowly woke up.

"Psychic troll ear wax: used for millennial as a method of secret communication between nations and worlds, highly toxic to most living creatures, humans especially. This must be important."

"So long as you're keeping me alive I have no need for caution" Mandy groaned as she stretched.

"I'm over 1000 times yah age Mandy! Yah could give me a break once in a while. An what's so important dat yah would bust out dis stuff any way?"

"If you could draw your attention to the devil arm in the room..." Grim looked over to Harror, who had already poor a cup of tea for herself "then you'd learn that we're making our move cause now is the last chance we got to get my brother's head on strait again."

"So does dis mean yer finally gonna tell me what yer plan is?"

"We've just enlisted Aku's help but he'll need a few things first: Harror I leave it to you."

"Of course mother, I have a few things to settle with the so-called 'Mistress of Darkness' anyway."

"Bring the twins with you, they can use the fresh air anyway."

Harror used her tail to open a portal beneath her feet and disappeared through it.

"And what are you gonna be doin?"

"We'll require your brother's cooperation, we'll be heading to Halloween Town now."

"By all means..." Grim slashed open a portal leading to Halloween town "show me dis plan you been cookin up."

*MECHANICAL GROWL* "Get up before I kill you!"

An annoyed Chi hit the off button on her cell phone's alarm clock, silencing the chainsaw wielding hockey mask clad figure it depicted.

"That thing gives me nightmares."

Chi used a 'Mirror App' on her phone to check herself, a little pre-bathroom grooming. Unfortunately she soon spotted a familiar blond haired figure sitting in the corner of her room.

"Of course it isn't the only one."

Chi yanked Ikari out of it's sheath and used it slash at Harror, who was now holding the energy blade back with one arm which had been entirely converted into a green crystalline material.

"Would you like to get dressed or should I drag you out of here in your PJ's?"

"What do you want Harror!?"

"Well for starters there's that whole issue involving a certain death oath you made: have I mentioned that I would like to rectify that problem?"

Classes had just started, the teacher was late that morning so everyone was taking advantage to gossip about. Moka arrived in the classroom looking for Mimi, spotting her 'talking' to Junior.

"Ah Mimi...!" the raven haired girl in question looked at Moka "do you know where Chi is?"

Mimi shook her head, she hadn't seen Chi since yesterday.

"Why the sudden interest in Chi? You aren't planning on cheating on my sister are you?"

"Wha? No, it's nothing like that! I mean..." Mimi glared Moka into silence, clearly wanting to get back on topic "right, I heard some commotion coming from Chi's room this morning and when I went to check it out she wasn't there."

"She isn't here either. We should probably look for her after class is done."

"Someone ransacked Yukari's room last night too."

"You sure?"

"She was all frantic when she woke up this morning, from what she can tell who ever it was only took your scythe."

"Hmm. Bad news."

"I said you can't come in here!"

The teacher's words were falling on deaf ears, he was attempting, not to mention failing, to keep someone from entering the classroom. That someone abruptly pushed him through the door into the classroom. He had a white suit on and was wearing sun glasses, his long overly gelled hair was curved into several points. He was the school's resident language arts and literature teacher 'Excellent' Maki. Junior rushed to his aid helping him to his feet and immediately spotting who was responsible for pushing him into the room.

"Why if it isn't Kuyo leader of the Public Not-so-safe Commission. To what do I owe the immense displeasure?"

"Grim Junior, you are under arrest of the charges of being human, punishable by death. Do you deny the charges?"

Junior reacted in a way that no one expected: he started laughing his head off.

"Death ey? How exactly do you plan on doing that? Decapitation...?" Junior gripped his head with both of his hands and *POP* handed it over to Kuyo "got yah covered."

Junior reattached his head to his shoulder's as Kuyo explained.

"We were working off of reliable sources that you were human..."

"Oh at some far off point in the past that escapes me at the moment maybe. But it has been a long time since I could be called 'alive.' If having once been human is a crime around these parts..." Junior suddenly moved behind Kuyo and picked his lieutenant Deshiko up by her hair and with a flick of his wrist popped her head off too "then as a good samaritan I must report this 'diabolical criminal mastermind.'"

That got a laugh out of the class, a short quiet one, but a laugh none the less. They were however silenced by a glaring Kuyo, who was now suffering from a annoyed twitch.

"Sorry for the inconvenience, we'll be leaving now."

"And I will be joining you. I would like to set straight whatever poor deluded fool led you to believe that I'm human."

Kuyo used his hand to point out the door, clearly directing Junior out of the class room.

"Kuyo and Grim: I don't know who's scarier!"

"I guess not even Grim stands a chance against the Public Safety Commission."

"Are you kidding!? He's probably gone to join up with them!"

Junior was being escorted to the PSC headquarters through the school's courtyard when the entire group was suddenly ambushed *GHOSTLY WAIL* the group were tossed across the courtyard by the ghostly green sound waves. As Junior groggily woke up he was devising some horrible fate reserved for one of the few people he believed knew how to do that.

"Hi big bro!"

"Hello big Brother!"

He didn't expect that, looking above him he saw the twins floating several feet off of the ground, probably just trying to look taller. He pushed himself up to his feet and met the twins at face level as he retracted his drawn sickles.

"Which one of you did that?"

Dani pointed to Manny, who in turn pointed back to Dani, leading to an annoyed Junior to rub his temples.

"Oi it's a good thing you two are cute! What are you two doing here any way? Didn't mom ground you for three month's or something?"

"Only Dani."

"Don't remind me Manny."

"What are you doing here!?"

"That's a question better suited to me bro!"

Recognizing the voice Junior spun around *BAM* only to be dropped to the ground by Harror's fist, the twins landed on the ground next to him, Manny poked him in the face trying to see if he could wake him, getting no response.

"Is he okay?"

"He's immortal he can't be hurt: not for long anyway which reminds me..." Harror opened another portal to Halloween town "we better get going before he wakes up."

Kuyo stirred to consciousness just in time to witness Junior being dragged through the portal.

"What the hell?"

Chi saw Junior being dragged by his feet through the portal Harror made by his twin siblings. The entire Grim family, including both of their parents, all of the siblings, and even Jack Skellington had been gathered in the ruins of some old mansion.

"He's here. Now would someone please mind telling me what the hell is going on here!?"

"Mind your mouth Chi..." Chi flinched at that, turning around she saw her father Aku was also present "we're guests here!"

This was a rare sight for Chi, witnessing her father the demon lord Aku in his true form: that of a masculine, intimidating, six horned, hair-made-out-of-fire truely demonic form. Not the feminine, humanoid, friendly, 'I'm letting my guard down but not really' form that he seemed to don every-time he was in the company of one of the Hell Lords or the Big Five. It wasn't his appearance that scared her, though it would be enough to make any mortal piss his pants, it's what it represented: this was serious, life or death serious, and it usually involved the latter more then the first.

"I know I'm going to regret asking, but what is this all about?"

"You may have heard of Junior's problem, something in the range of a homicidal split personality trying to make his life miserable?"

"I heard. What about it?"

"Mandy here has devised a plan to sort these issues out. She has been gracious enough to inform me of this plan and the risks therein, including the fact that it could ultimately result in his death. Now this of course is of little concern to me, at least it was until she mentioned a certain oath you made with Junior. The kind that means that if he dies you die: unless of course you're the one who kills him."

Aku saw right through Chi, always had that effect on her, but Aku wasn't through with her yet.

"Don't get me wrong, that made me mad. The fact however that you never told me about it though? THAT infuriated me! This is your mess Chi..." Aku threw a book marked spell book at Chi's feet "and you will fix it."

Chi picked up the book, the title said it all: 'May All Those Who Read This Book Be Dammed to Hell.' Chi opened the book to the marked page, seeing that the book marker in question was a picture of Junior.

"Is this the curse that I think it is?"

"Indeed."

"We'll need to make him mad first."

Harror spotted Junior starting to get back up again.

"Leave that to me."

Harror grabbed Junior by his hair and forced him to look up at her as she crouched down.

"Harror?"

"Hey bro!"

Harror shot up and delivered a resounding kick to Junior sending him flying *CRASH* Junior pushed the rubble he landed in off of him and quickly climbed to his feet.

"You mind explaining why you keep trying to kill me Harror?"

Junior was sitting in Castle Grimskull's medical ward, the flesh of humanity still settling in and waiting for the bus in his school uniform, he always questioned the need for it, what with the bulk of the castle's inhabitants well among the dead, and in the case of the low few among the living the Grim Reaper would more than suffice for any ailment they might have. But for now he was thankful for a quiet place to rest, not for himself but for Harror, his Devil-Arm 'sister'.

"Brother..." Junior looked over to his other sister, from whom Harror's body was crafted, who had entered the hospital wing and was carrying with her a green glowing circular crystal "how is she?"

"No change since the courtyard; is that what I think it is?"

"A soul lantern, containing 1000 souls. This should sate her appetite if only for the time being."

Junior held Harror's mouth open and Minnie dropped the crystal inside. The effect was almost immediate, Harror rose from the bed into standing position, her muscles completely rejuvenated and all signs of starvation vanquished. Harror gave few stretches before she took in her surroundings.

"Would someone mind explaining why I'm in the infirmary?"

"Now you know I how felt all those times you used my body as a cheap suit. Come on or we'll be late for school" Junior said as he made the mistake of grabbing Harror's tail.

Pain was walking towards the infirmary, the bus had arrived and as per the young masters request he was on the way to retrieve them. *SMASH* Suddenly Pain was nearly blinded sided as Harror, once again in her feline like form, sent Junior flying through the door and into the wall on the other side, Minnie used a enlarged Nergal arm to attempt to grab Harror from behind and pull her off of her brother with out success. Completely missed by the dueling reaper and scythe pair Pain simply continued with what he was doing.

"Young master, mistress, you wished for me to inform you when the bus was here? Shall I tell the driver that you'll be delayed?"

"No..." Junior moved his head just in time to avoid Harror's scythe tail "we'll be out in a second."

Junior pushed Harror off of him followed by round house kicking her down the hallway. Junior followed up the kick by grabbing the dazed Harror by her neck and grinding her head against the wall as he ran down the hall way until he was outside. The bus driver, waiting with doors opened, saw the scene unfold.

"Looks like I have some time on my hands."

The Bus Driver casually put his feet up and took out a half finished crossword puzzle. Junior and the transformed Harror entered a stand off, waiting for the other to make the first move so that it maybe countered.

"What the hell has gotten into you today Harror?"

"Impostor!"

Harror leaped at Junior, only to be cut off by a wall of Nergaling flesh. Looking over to the stairs Junior saw his sister with her freshly formed claws dug into the ground. Suddenly Junior could feel the ground shaking he immediately knew what was coming.

"Thanks for the assist sis but I think that we just traded a panther for a..." Junior was cut off as Harror burst through the earth, having taken on the new form of a Nergaling shark "LAND SHARK!"

Harror bit down on Juniors leg and dragged him underground. A frantic Minnie began scanning the area looking for her brother or 'sister,' not even a 'fin' that usually warned of a impending shark attack like in the movies. Finally the suspense ended when Junior was shot into the air by the shark like creature whom was attempting to swallow him whole. Luckily though Junior was able to push himself out of Harror's jaws just in time for them to snap shut, followed up by a round house kick that sent her flying *CRASH* into the castle's wall as Junior landed on top of the bus.

"Sounds like those two are having fun!"

Harror turned into the form of a large bird and swooped down on Junior talons outstretched *BANG* only to be interrupted by gun fire *BANG* looking over at the direction the gun fire was coming from Junior saw his mother, wielding her fearsome hunting rifle with equally fierce accuracy she had already shot Harror to the ground, buying her time as she approached the wayward scythe and stomped her foot into her guts and the butt of her rifle into her face.

"Would you mind getting that thing out of my face!?"

No sooner had Mandy's foot touched Harror had she reverted back into her 'normal' form, Mandy removed the gun but kept the foot where it was, allowing Harror to explain herself.

"Would you mind explaining what you're doing Harror?"

"When you find out tell me please? Because as far as I'm concerned I was in the infirmary five seconds ago!"

"What do you remember?"

"Junior packed me up for the school..."

"And then you went crazy and tried to kill me: mentioned something about a 'impostor.'"

"I see..." Mandy helped the young scythe to her feet as she turned to face Junior "it doesn't seem like you and Harror are a very good match any more, you'll have to leave her behind."

"I intend to: I don't need a partner who tries to kill me constantly."

"Well that's harsh."

Pain brought the sibling's bags down from their rooms, both of their parents came to see them off as the bus drove away though Harror was the only one to wave goodbye.

"See yah's, have fun at school!"

The Bus opened its own portal as it left, prompting Harror to get down to business with her mother.

"So are you going to tell him? He has the right to know after all."

"Eventually."

Memories aside Junior took in his surroundings, trying to figure out what was going on here: he could spot Chi rigging up a talisman probably to be used against him. Nobody else seemed to be doing anything of note.

"What is all of this about?"

"It's simply time to straighten out your marbles bro. So tell me something: you pissed yet?"

"A little. There's something I've been wondering about for a while now. Why snapped at me way back when? Mimi already confessed that my quote on quote 'mother' over there got her to put a post hypnotic suggestion in your head that would make you kill anyone who attempted to use you whom you interpret of being unworthy of the title of Grim Reaper, less we experience a repeat of her childhood where she had to put up with everyone and their dog wreaking havoc with the old man's scythe, so I can only assume that is what was responsible. Of course we use to be able to work together in spite of my mother's little death trap so I can only presume the monkey wrench in our partnership had something to do with the 'Doom Candy' she came up with turning me into human. Of course if that was the case then you would not work for her either. So I can only assume that I'm the problem. That's about as much as I've been able to figure out."

Harror proceeded to clap her hands, not a congratulatory one more like a slow and condescending sarcastic clap.

"Well done! It never ceases to amaze me how incredibly smart yet dense you are bro!"

Junior only rolled his eyes in response to Harror's sarcasm, getting back down to business.

"You want to fill me in on the rest?"

"You were right about the Doom Candy affecting our relationship. The effect wasn't immediate but it got the idea into your head that you could stop being a reaper."

"That's the whole idea of Encroaching doom isn't it? Turning the dead into living."

"Not even close! The only thing Doom Candy does is grow flesh around reaper's bones like a fungus..." Harror moved behind the twins, playfully messing up their hair as she explained "specifically fungus made using these two thanks to a special batch mommy dearest whipped up."

"This true you two?"

"Ah ha!"

"It hurt a lot but we'd do anything to help you big brother!"

"So what I'm part ghost now?"

"Nothing of the sort: only the once living can become ghosts. You dear brother were never alive."

"So what am I?"

"Something that's pushing the boundary between the living and dead. You're not alive but you're damn close! Your failure to recognize the distinction is how we got into this mess."

"Do you even know what a strait answer is Harror? You're making something simple ridiculously over complicated! What the hell am I!?"

Harror only gave a sadistic laugh in response, infuriating Junior. She walked over to Chi and took the talisman she was working on, evidently the photo of Junior.

"What you are, brother, is ridiculously over complicated."

That infuriated Junior, he bull rushed Harror and attempted to punch her in the face. She easily blocked the blow with one hand *BOOM* Junior was sent flying by the Talisman in Harror's hand.

"Okay, I walked right into that one."

"You're telling me this...!?" horror struck Junior's face he looked over to Harror, the picture had already fallen to the ground and shadows and sparks were flowing out from it in waves and began to take shape, red for the most part replaced black as a cloak of demonic energy clad his body, the figure itself a twister mirror image of Junior sporting green and red eyes with black sclera "I've known for years how easy it is to manipulate you Junior!"

"WHERE THE HELL IS HE!?"

Mimi shrugged for the umpteenth time as Kuyo repeated the question.

"Do not lie to me Hell whore! You are the only one on campus with the capacity to create portals. So where did you take Grim Junior!?"

Obviously not getting the message Mimi decided to take a different approach: mockingly sticking her tongue out a Kuyo. An enraged Kuyo gave a retalitory back hand *SHRIEKS OF PAIN* Kuyo tugged hard on his bloodied hand, which was only making the problem worst as Mimi's teeth threatened to rip the flesh from his hand. Satisfied she let go of the hand resulting in a rather comical scene of Kuyo falling backwards onto the floor before he quickly regained his composure.

"Why you good for nothing...!" Kuyo wound up his arm for another backhand and in response Mimi licked the blood off of her lips, reminding Kuyo of how he got into that situation "take her to the holding cells and continue the interrogation."

Kuyo left his subordinates with Mimi, one made the mistake of grabbing her by her arm and attempting to force her to come along. Meanwhile the News Paper club was having a meeting to discuss the Public Safety Commission's sudden actions against them.

"This isn't good guys!"

"Would you mind being a little more specific furball" Kurumu stated in an annoyed tone?

A somewhat annoyed Gin rolled up the screen in front of the chalk board revealing his 'breakdown' of the PSC, using a ruler to direct the group's attention to point A.

"Lemme spell it out for you: all members of the PSC are trained in unarmed martial arts as well as kendo..." with a loud *SNAP* the ruler now drew attention to point B "the bulk of the forces consist of B-ranks with their fighting styles specially tailored to their abilities, higher ranked members consists of A-Ranks such as giants and undead creatures, and the whole group is led by Kuyo, a S-Ranked Yoko which leads me to..." a second *SNAP* directed the group to the final point C "the fact that all the way from the bottom of the goon squad latter to Kuyo himself the PSC consists of nothing more than a bunch of corrupt psychopaths! They force bribes from the clubs less they be shut down, get their kicks by beating the crap out of people, and let the crap that we've been stopping all year go on without a hitch!"

"And now they're after us" Mizore said sharpening her ice claws.

"Well more accurately they're after Junior: Kuyo did specifically ask for him" Yukari pointed out.

"And Chi was missing this morning, and they got Mimi in custody too: they're picking us off one by one!"

Moka had a good point, members of the club seemed to be disappearing left and right today, and that begged the question.

"What do we do?"

"We lay low, try to stay out of the spotlight for now, until the PSC loses interest in us."

*SMASH* The girls looked outside to see a golem being thrown across the courtyard, Mimi the obvious suspect had already transformed into her devil form and had been surrounded by 3 more PSC goons, one of them looked like a big foot, another like a giant mole, and a third was a gil-man.

"Mimi's in trouble!"

"Hold your horses...!" Gin once again had all eyes on him as he explained "those are just lowly B-ranks and a A rank, Mimi can take guys like those in her sleep."

Suddenly the Gil-man held out his hand to Mimi palm out and sprayed her with a large amount of water, and contrary to the usual effects of what this burned her skin on contact.

"Amazing ain't it? A lowly little B-Rank like me bringing a S-Rank like you to her knees with just a little Holy water."

Recognizing his que Kou flew in.

"Gil-man, a amphibious monster with the ability to store huge amounts of water within themselves and the fire it back out at pressures ranging from a child's toy to a steel cut..." Kou was suddenly cut off by a blast of water shooting him across the campus "why does this always happen to MEEEEE!?"

"What an annoying creature!"

Kou landed in the Newspaper Clubroom no worst for wear, though the club's more immediate concern was Mimi.

"Still think she can handle herself furball?"

"We still shouldn't get involved."

"Are you nuts!? That's our friend down there?"

"Are you!? They don't have any mercy, any remorse, and any fear! What they do have however is a army on their side! Going down there is suicide!"

Kurumu countered with pointed a extended claw into Gin's face.

"From hence forth, you cowardly mutt, all of your opinions are rejected!"

With that out of the way the girls rushed out the door leaving only Gin behind.

"Mom always said that women would drive me crazy!"

Mimi, despite her weakened state, over half of her body's devil essence burned off, attempted to get back up and stared angrily at the amphibious monster.

"Are you going to come quietly or am I going to have to knock you down another notch? On second thought I think I'll do that anyway."

The Gil-man raised his arm again to blast Mimi with the water a second time *SLAM* *SHRIEKS OF PAIN* the Gill-man gripped his broken arm in pain and gave the tub that had fallen out of the sky and broke it an annoyed kick *DONG* *SHRIEKS OF PAIN* immediately regretting his decision as a broken toe was added to his list of injuries, somewhat comically jumping around on one foot as he gripped the painfully throbbing limb.

"Hey dummy...!" with the exception of Gin the remaining News Paper club gathered outside "get away from her or I'll bury you in those things!"

"Then I'll turn you into a Popsicle" Mizore followed up by assuming her true form, growing long ice claws and donning of helmet of ice as-well!

"And I'll make you into a shaved ice cone" Kurumu said lifting herself into the air with her wings as her twitching tail sprouted out and her pink claws were readied to make good on the threat!

"Four against one eh? While I could easily deal with all of you I'm under orders: Boys! Come on down!"

Suddenly the group could feel the activation of two additional demonic aura's, their owners hidden away.

"Anyone else feel like this is a trap?"

Suddenly a massive flying snake like creature with antlers swooped in and scooped up Mizore and carried her away *SADISTIC LAUGHTER* Kurumu looked down to see a disgusting pile of yellow goo grab her leg *DISGUSTED SHRIEKS* Kurumu suddenly bolted off into the forest trying to get away from the blob of slop that was now being towed by a unwilling succubus.

"GET IT AWAY FROM ME, GET IT AWAY FROM ME, GET IT AWAY FROM ME...!"

Suddenly Yukari could feel her cape being tugged at from behind as her feet left the ground, being turned around to face the stone golem that Mimi had thrown across the courtyard at face level.

"BACK OFF...!" *GONG* the washtub Yukari summoned to her defense failed to so much as flinch the Easter Island head impression as the tub fell to the ground "can't we talk about this?"

The Golem flicked Yukari away sending her flying through the air. Mizore, still preoccupied with not being eaten, spotted Yukari being sent flying through the sky.

"Great! That's all I need!"

Mizore blasted a shot of cold down the throat of the dragon sending him crashing into the ground and allowing her to escape the snapping jaws. Mizore was narrowly able to make it in time to grab Yukari around her waist followed by forming an ice slide that they both used to safely descend to the ground.

"That was close! Are you okay Yukari?"

Mizore only just noticed that Yukari was in pretty bad shape, though she was still breathing her pulse was erratic and feeling around Yukari Mizore could feel several broken ribs.

"Not good! Not good at all!"

Suddenly Mizore received a massive bullwhip at the tail of the dragon she took down, sending her flying across the clearing and dropping Yukari.

"Eyes on your opponent ice bitch!"

Mizore got back up after a moment, taking a moment to spit a broken tooth out and infuriating herself in the process. The once again conscious Kou flew onto the scene.

"Lung Dragon, one of hundreds of different sub-species of dragon characterized by long snake like bodies and magnesium fire breath" Kou flew over the Golem as he continued his trivia binge "Golem, often described as 'magical robots' they are constructed from stone and clay and brought to life via a magical scroll implanted in their head they are unyielding loyal to their creators and masters" Kou settled above Kurumu and the slime, which by now assumed a black dotted slug like form and was relentlessly groping her "Madslug a slug monster that enjoys wet places. It likes being a bother, and is often found in swamps and wetlands enjoying scaring humans who come nearby. They eat rotten food and make poison gas with their body. When scared, they use the gas as an attack."

"Oh perfect!"

Kurumu was trying to hack away the slimy slug like creature, trying being the keyword as the viscous material reformed at will.

"Nice try, and thanks to master Kuyo you are mine! All I have to do is take you down and I get to do with you what I want!"

*DISGUSTED SHUDDER* "That is a disturbing thought!"

Kurumu spun around using her claws to slice the goo to bits and flew above the battle field to get away from him.

"It's not that easy to get away from me bitch-o-mine!"

"Seems pretty easy to..." *COUGH* "to..." *COUGH* *COUGH* "what the?"

Suddenly Kurumu fell out of the sky unconscious, a direct consequence of the toxic gas that was being mass produced by the slug's putrid body, leading to Kou to shake his head as he kept his mouth covered.

"Did I not specifically say 'Poison Gas?' Why does nobody listen to the bat?"

Moka wasn't doing much better by now, the Gil-man was making full use of her weakness to water to push her back and painfully shock her.

"So much for the high and mighty vampires. To think that your kind would be killed by something as simple as a bath."

The Gill-man continued his assault, an enraged Mimi attempted to get back up only to fall down again. Defeated she decided a different strategy was in order as her eyes turned a bright blue.

"What the hell is going on here!?"

Junior felt the overwhelming need to smack himself and make sure that Harror didn't accidentally knock him out and he was simply suffering from a unconscious nightmare.

"Isn't it obvious bro!?"

Sadly for him it was all too real, he was watching the darkest side of himself for the first time outside of his conscious mind and in the world classified as real.

"It's quite simple really..." the pair looked over to the direction where the group of people, including his family. had gathered and where their mother was speaking "that is what's known as a shadow-ganger. A physical manifestation of the darkness in your heart existing for the purpose to kill you. Either you find a way of killing it or it will kill you!"

"Now that we have that out of the way...!" Demon pulled his arm back and grabbed Harror by her tail, instantly transforming her into her scythe form "can we please do what we came here to do already?"

"Not yet..." Mandy threw Junior Scythe, catching it in his hand he donned his own green cloak as he put two and two together and realized that he has his powers back "Aku can you create a barrier around those two to contain the fighting, I don't believe my brother in law here would appreciate having his town destroyed again."

Aku nodded, he formed a sphere of energy in his hands and slammed it into the ground, circling the ruins of the building and encompassing it inside a massive dome and isolating the two from the spectators.

"You've had this coming for a long time Demon!"

The two went at each other, locking the two scythes together as they clashed.

"Not as long as you have bro!"

The two pushed each other back and decided to switch to long range attacks. Junior aimed Scythe at the double and prepared to strike with the familiar attack.

"BOMBARDA!"

The beach-ball sized sphere of purple charged Demon, but the grinning Shadow-ganger was fully prepared, like the Big Bad Wolf he huffed, puffed *GHOSTLY WAIL* and stopped the spell midair, but only briefly, then the power of the green colored sound waves shot it straight back at Junior. Thinking on his feet he wound up scythe like he would a base ball bat.

"PROTEGO!"

Junior hit his own spell with the shield spell and sent it back at demon three times it's size. *BOOM*

"And that's all she wrote."

With a swing of his arm demon blew away the smoke kicked up by the explosion, emerging completely unharmed.

"What the heck! How'd you block that!?"

"Seriously, you think I had to block a weak-ass attack like that!? Why the hell would I need to block a blow from a peashooter!?"

Demon wound up a attack of his own using Harror and slashed at Junior, unleashing a massive wave of green energy. Junior braced himself for the blast expecting the attack to rip him in half...

But after a few moments nothing happened, opening his eyes to a familiar city like landscape with giant spires of rock with rooms carved into them replacing buildings Junior realized that he was the city of Limbo, or at least what looked like it.

"Great we're doing this again! Yah know considering the fact that this is suppose to be in the 'real world' I kind of expected this little scrape to feature less screwing around with my head!"

Suddenly Junior could feel severe chest pains, looking down at his chest he could see a familiar blade sticking out through his chest, before he could look behind him to see the rest of the blade or the person whom had ran him through with it he was pulled back, a considerable distance if the amount of stuff he could see flying past his face was any indication, before the wielder of that blade grabbed him by it and slammed him into the ground and retracted the blade before he kicked Junior face up.

"Kratos...!?" Junior got back to his feet, taking a moment to heal the damage that the god of War did to his body "what the heck was that for!?"

"What do you think you're doing?"

Kratos delivered a Earth shattering punch to Junior's face sending him flying across the city ending with him crashing into one of the makeshift buildings.

"What am I doing...!?" Junior's sentence was interrupted by Kratos leaping through the air and attempting to stab both of his blades into Junior, thankfully for him Junior rolled out of the way of the attack just in time "you're the one attacking me! We're suppose to be allies Kratos!"

Junior moved Scythe into defensive position as Kratos brought both blades down on his head blocking the attack.

"That is the whole point! Here I am trying to kill you and all you're doing is talking like we're best friends or something!"

Kratos followed up his statement with a resounding kick to Junior's abdomen smashing him through several buildings and ending with him on the ground a deep trench having been dug with the back of his head.

"Well I wouldn't say best friends, but we do have a mutual friend in my..." Junior was silenced by Kratos landing on his head, grinding his face to the ground with one foot.

"Let me offer you some free advice kid! If someone is trying to kill you then they are not your friend. If you want to know why they're attacking you then don't ask beat the damn answers out of him!"

Kratos ended the life lesson by stomping his foot into Junior's face seemingly knocking him unconscious.

At the same time he awoke in the 'real world' once again alone with his shadowy doppelganger.

"What happened?"

"Turns out you take a punch about as well as you throw one!"

"That a fact...?" a plan had formed in Junior's head, he started by pointing Scythe into the air "Carpe Retractum...!" the purple lasso gripped the top of the barrier, pointing the weapon back down at Demon "Aguamenti...!" the steel cutting jet of water burst forth from the end of Scythe cut into the crazed shadow-ganger, simultaneously expelling shadowy mist like material and rapidly regenerating his body back as the water rapidly built up, the pressure being produced by the stream of jet propelled water was keeping Junior in the air and ironically dry as a bone "Glacies...!" Junior began to fall back to the water, enough to drown a person standing up as the white light rushed down to water and turned it to ice on contact, freezing Harror and her shadowy wielder in the middle of regenerating, Junior landed on the bed of ice brushing imaginary dust off of himself "that's all she wrote."

Suddenly Junior keeled over from headache, a direct side effect of Mimi contacting him through telepathy.

"Mimi what's wrong!?"

Chi and Minnie were having similar problems also receiving Mimi's SOS as they all saw images of their friends in peril, Yukari's broken body, Mizore in the jaws of a dragon, Kurumu semi conscious and being relentlessly grouped by by the crazed Madslug, Moka having lost the ability to fight back against the water her aura having been shorted out in her usually weakened state, and Mimi in the worst shape of all half of her body covered in third degree burns.

"DAMN IT...!" Junior forced himself to calm down and readied scythe "it's been a while since I've done this so I have to stay calm and focus: creating a portal to another world is one of the most basic abilities of a reaper..."

Suddenly Junior felt his leg being grabbed, looking down he saw demon's hand coming out of the ice.

"And where do you think you're going?"

Outside the field Minnie and Chi were just recovering from Mimi's telepathic assault.

"Chi doth thou just...?"

"Yah you too?"

"Indeed. Tis seems that our friends art in mortal peril."

"Think your screwball brother's gonna be able to help us?"

*CRASH* *SMASH* *WHAM* "Nay."

"What are you two babblin bout?"

"Some friends of ours from the academy have run into a spot of trouble. Father if we're not needed..."

"Much like the case with poisoning the poisoner need not be present for the shadow-ganger to finish his task."

That's all Mandy needed to hear, she elbowed Grim and gave him the jist of what she wanted him to do. Where Junior failed in opening a portal to the academy his senor succeeded.

The Gil-man finally ended his assault on Moka, satisfied that he had defeated the vampire.

"Wuss..." the Gil-man exclaimed as he turned his sneer away from Moka to Mimi "now where were we?"

Mimi let a smile creep onto her face.

"Smiling in the face of defeat: I like that."

Suddenly a bolt of lightning came down from above and separated the two a fair distance.

"What the heck?"

Seemingly from the same place the lightning came from Chi fell out of the sky and landed between the pair with grace and elegance, the first thing she did was grab the Gil-man by his throat and hold him in the air by it. Naturally he attempted to blow a hole into Chi's chest using his water jets, and was initially successful, until the hole immediately closed up thanks to Chi's immense healing factor.

"Lets see how well you do against someone who isn't afraid of water!"

Minnie was the second to fall out of the sky, having a bit of a rougher landing thanks to her not-so rubbery body but immediately summed up what she could see starting with Mimi, badly burned, in need of medical attention without a doubt but hers was not the more immediate concern. Moka had entered a coma and was face down in the water. Minnie started by dragging her body out of the water and turning her face up, pressing her head to Moka's chest she determined that she was still breathing but just barely.

"May this work with all mine might!"

Minnie yanked the rosario off of Moka's chest, hoping that the sudden burst of aura would awaken her. Sadly that did not seem to be the case, their was no dramatic transformation Moka simply remained in her weakened state, thus the time came for Minnie to use her last resort.

"I had most hoped tis would not come to this!"

Minnie opened the collar of her suit, picking Moka up she forced her jaws to bite down on her neck, from there vampire instincts took control. The entire academy was consumed by an aura black as night much like how it was on day one, but this time lightning was running through it, bolts of electricity punched holes in buildings and lit tree's on fire, Minnie could feel Moka's bust grow as her breasts pressed against hers and saw silver over take pink, finally Moka's red eyes bolted open and instinctively spat the morsel from her mouth, standing to her feet as a true S-Ranked vampire.

"Why the hell do I feel like I was hit by a lightning bolt?"

"Close..." Moka's attention was drawn to Chi who had that damned Gil-man in a headlock "you bit one."

Not understanding Chi's meaning Moka looked down at what she was pointing at and saw Minnie laying on the ground unconscious.

"Minnie...!" Moka crouched down to Minnie's level and gave a few light slaps on her face stirring her to consciousness "welcome back to the land of the living sleepy head."

"Aye, same to thou."

With the reunion done with Moka turned her attention to Chi's prisoner whom she had some unfinished business with.

"Let. Me. At. Him!"

"Gladly but first what do you say we disarm him shall we?"

Chi spotted Mizore in a midair wrestling match against the dragon, smiling she aimed at the beast with the Gil-man's built in water pistols and forced him to discharge his entire arsenal at the dragon knocking him out of the sky and Mizore out of his mouth.

"He's all yours!"

Chi punched the blue offender in question in the gut and allowed him to fall to his knees at the mercy of Moka. Looking up he was greeted by the sight of a furious S-Ranked monster cracking her knuckles and looking down at him.

"Mercy!"

"Know your place little man!"

Moka delivered a resounding kick to the Gil-man sending him flying and landing *CRASH* on the other side of the gym.

"Nice one, now can we please go get those guys?"

"Chi thou must stay with Mimi and aid her with thine necromancy."

"No arguments here!"

"Moka our friends are in need of assistance. I believe divide and conquer is appropriate."

Moka looked past Minnie and saw another problem best dealt with immediately.

"I'm going to be a little late on my part Minnie."

Looking behind her Minnie saw what Moka was talking about, the golem from earlier had already come back and was in the midst of shooting them dirty looks.

"I will render aid to our friends, would thou deal with this?"

"Gladly!"

Oddly enough instead of going strait to help either of their three friends Minnie sat down and took off her boots.

"Ah Minnie: what are you doing? This isn't the time to be taking in personal grooming."

"Mayhaps but I will be able to move quicker if mine electricity is allowed to move freely."

Minnie got back up and gave her feet a few shakes, the electricity sparked between her feet and the ground as she stowed her boots in her belt.

"What are you talking...?" before Moka could finish her question Minnie bolted off, in every since of the word, her leg muscles being super charged by the electricity being forced through them "oh. That would explain a lot..." Moka's look of surprise was slowly replaced by a smile "it would seem that you have some new tricks up your sleeve Minnie."

Moka looked over to the Golem, grinning with anticipation.

"What are you waiting for? Are you scared of me?" At that the Golem delivered a punch aimed at Moka *SMASH* once the dust cleared Moka was revealed standing completely intact, having just fist bumped with the unwilling Golem and in the process broke his middle finger "because you should be!"

Kuyo had just finished getting his hand healed by the PSC's resident Reaper when he saw Minnie's flashy entrance off in the distance.

"I give him one simple assignment" an annoyed Kuyo said rubbing his temples!

"Perhaps you would like some assistance dealing with the rebellion senor?"

"Don't insult me Django! I don't need help dealing with such pathetic people!"

"If you insist I will take my leave."

Django as he was called left through another reaper portal, revealing a familiar student leaning against a tree behind him.

"Letting you live after what your Newspaper club did to us last year has turned into one of my greatest mistakes dog!"

Gin walked out from the forest into the clearing where the PSC building was located, cracking his knuckles as he prepared for the fight to come.

"But not your greatest, that was sending your reaper pet away. Cause he was the only thing stopping me from killing you Kuyo!"

A monstrous aura consumed the forest, Gin's clothes left him as his muscles grew dramatically in proportions, settling at six feet high and growing silver colored hair all over his body most notably his back, his face stretched into a wolf like snout and his legs broke down into a dog's double jointed hind legs as a silver colored tail grew out of his rear end completing the transformation.

"Werewolf..." Kou sat on a branch just outside of the clearing, what he believed to be a safe distance from the fight to come "a S-Ranked monster of legendary status originating from the western world, most well known for their blurring speed rivaled only by the raw physical strength of the Vampire and ability to absorb power from the moon."

"You!?" *SADISTIC LAUGHTER* "Have you already forgotten what I did to you last year you dumb-ass dog!?"

A second aura threatened to overwhelm Gin's, this one coming from Kuyo. Much like the case with Gin Kuyo's clothes were destroyed, but rather then being ripped to shreds by spontaneous muscle growth his were incinerated by flame revealing swirling tattoo's lining his torso. Kuyo dropped to all ours as he gained a canine like body, complete with a set of elongated ears and snout, though unusually he also gained a grand total of four fiery tails to match his flaming 'fur.'

"Yoko, or better known as a 'nine tailed fox' is a powerful S-Rank fire monster once worshiped in Japan as gods. Their immensely powerful aura's rival that of Vampires and Werewolves and translate directly to heat and flame. Though neither as strong as the vampire or as fast as the Werewolf getting into close quarters with one is considered to be suicidal and are not to be underestimated."

With introductions and banter done with the two leaped at one another, forming a ball as the two snapped and clawed at one another, Gin was on top when they landed and had Kuyo pinned under him which suited Kuyo just fine. Kuyo used an explosive ball of fire to send Gin flying, getting back on his feet he shot himself after him like a rocket, almost instantly catching up to Gin and grabbing him by his snout.

"I'm not that easy!"

Gin grabbed Kuyo by one of his ears and threw him to the ground, followed by landing on him and punching him a couple of times sending him deeper into the ground. Unfortunately Kuyo exhaled a blast of fire sending Gin reeling and setting the fur on his chest on fire.

"HOT, HOT, HOT!"

Gin plopped himself onto the ground smothering the fire on his chest. This was all the opening Kuyo needed to pounce on Gin and like some kind of skate board from hell began pushing Gin across the ground grinding his face into the ground and smashing him through a tree on their way into the graveyard, Gin stopped their collective momentum by grabbing onto one of the grave stones sending his unwanted passenger flying.

"The graveyard, nice of you to save me the time of bringing you out here Gin!"

Gin tore a grave stone out of the ground and slung it over his shoulder like a giant stone club.

"Funny these rocks look more your size then mine little man!"

The bantering pair were interrupted by the appearance of a shadow from above them that was rapidly shrinking. Looking up they saw the cause behind it. *CRASH*

*WHAM* The latest of many punches delivered by the Demon Reaper sent Junior flying, though he was still able to stab scythe into Demon's guts and ripping it out when he went flying. Sadly not even the 'un-heal-able' prowess of Scythe's cuts were enough to keep the shadowy creature from restoring himself.

"Damn-it why the hell wont you die already!?"

*SADISTIC LAUGHTER* "I'm not called a SHADOW-ganger for nothing yah idiot! Like a shadow I'm just a reflection of the real thing! Who do you think your gonna hurt just attacking my shadow!?"

The Demon grabbed a chunk of rubble from the manor and threw it at Junior like a giant Frisbee, Junior ducked out of the way as he thought about what Demon said.

"So your just a reflection of me eh...?" Junior looked down at scythe as an idea formed in his head "that means whatever happens to me happens to you!"

*SCREAM OF PAIN* An annoyed Demon took a break from pounding the crap out of Junior to rub his temples.

"What was that suppose to do?"

Junior was working to hold the blood coming out of his face back, thanks to the self inflicted cut starting from the right side of his face and ending at the left side of his lower lip.

"After that little speech you gave about you being a reflection of me I figured it would hurt you as much as it did me. Funny I never knew you to lie to me before."

"How many times do I have to tell you! I'm a living shadow not a bloody mirror! A shadow is simply the void of light created by a object getting in the way. What I am is what you hide away from the light! Basically I am you in absence of light."

Demon attacked Junior again with Harror, Junior blocked with scythe. The two struggled for dominance for what seemed like an eternity before Junior was able to force Scythe into a position where he could employ Scythe's secondary function aimed directly at Demon's head.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!"

A spell of last resort, it's use has been warrant for many executions, and used with great reluctance on Junior's part, it was known far and wide as the killing curse, while leaving the body completely intact causing them to drop dead their soul would be completely destroyed and leave nothing left for a reaper to send off to the afterlife. However in this case the bright green light had no effect what so ever, the beast only grinned as the realizing dawned on Junior as to what this meant.

"So not even this forbidden spell can harm you?"

Demon pushed Junior to the ground, followed by attempting to stab Junior with Harror resulting Junior grabbing the weapon inches away from his chest.

"It's not that it doesn't affect me, I simply don't have my soul at the moment for it to affect, I have to share it with you, but soon you will gone and I will have all of me!"

Demon kicked Junior in his side and sent him flying across the room and deep into unconsciousness again...

When Junior awoke he saw the strangest sight yet, a miniature building right in front of his face, Town Hall if the sign was to be believed.

"Great I'm seeing things again."

Reminded of the cut across his face Junior necromantically reabsorbed the blood and cauterized the wound close with a steady stream of ecto-energy. Getting to his feet he looked around and recognized the city, it was Halloween town, only smaller.

"I don't even want to know where this came from."

"So you're what the big deal is about...?" Junior recognized that voice, cold and methodical, almost a mocking tone, he spun around and slammed his scythe into decapitation position around the head of fiery white hair "you don't seem so tough to me."

"Dan Phantom!"

Junior yanked the scythe back and expectantly did no damage on the ghost whom simply phased through the attack.

"Over 20 years stuck inside that thermos and people still know my name: my reputation precedes me...!" Dan flew above Junior and inhaled deeply *GHOSTLY WAIL* Junior barely acted in time, not able to move in time he instead cast another shield spell, he initially suspected he failed to act in time not actually hearing the words coming out of his mouth, though he soon realized that the deafening noise from Dan's attack had blocked out all else it felt like an eternity had went by before he finally stopped and an Junior exhausted fell to the ground "though now that I think about it I shouldn't even have a reputation yet since I'm not meant to exist in this timeline."

Now he was starting to understand, this was a twisted memory of the Halloween Town Massacre, while technically he, or rather this version of him, wasn't a part of which led him to conclude this was from warped perspective of the Demon Reaper, most notably Dan who is now disproportionately several times taller then most of the buildings as oppose to his normal height.

"If you go down that easy then me and Clockwork need to have a serious chat about what 'end of all life' means!"

*GHOSTLY WAIL* Junior used the sonic blast to shoot himself into the air, he followed up the attack by concentrating a ball of ecto energy into the palm of his hand and throwing it at Dan. Dan grinned as he grabbed the ball and threw it aside before it exploded.

"Nice try ki..."

Junior followed up with a punch to Dan's face, augmented by ecto energy.

"So you can't phase through ecto eh? That's good to know."

Junior unleashed a salvo of ecto augmented punches mostly aimed at Dan's face and torso, when he finally felt as if he had knocked him senseless he decided to finish him off *GHOSTLY WAIL* the attack sent Dan flying across the town.

"That's all she wrote."

Junior prepared to go looking for a way out of the hallucination when he heard something disturbing.

*SADISTIC LAUGHTER* "I knew it was too easy."

Junior was blind sided by another huge ball of ecto, sending him crashing through several of the buildings.

"Now that's more like it! If you can keep this up you'd might actually be worth my time!"

Dan followed up the attack with an ecto grenade and threw it at the feet of the sore Reaper, not realizing that it was there until it was too late.

*BOOM* "Who's yah daddy!?"

Junior pulled himself to his feet, glaring at Dan as he assumed a fighting stance.

"What's with the sour look on your face kid? Lighten up a bit kid, or you won't get any fun out of this fight."

"What are you talking about?"

Dan fired a huge ecto beam at Junior, taking the offense is the best defense approach he fired another spell.

"Sectem SEMPRA!"

Scythe fired of a huge slash of energy that began cutting through the Ecto beam, the severed halfs both grazed Junior as they rushed past. Unfortunately before he could recover and fire another spell the beams reunited and sent Junior flying once more.

"So you're one of those types eh? Hm. Aw well you still look like you're gonna be fun to fight anyway."

Junior was using Scythe to prompt himself up while letting his necromancy work it's magic on his body.

"What are you talking about?"

"Ah so you don't know do you? Lemme spell it out for you: For those who fight there are only two very basic, very similar, but extremely different reasons. Fight to gain power, or gain power to fight."

"What the bloody hell is the difference!?"

"That is a very good question, and I have the answer. The difference is if you fight to gain power, or to gain power to fight stronger opponents. Me I'm what you would classify as 'battle crazed' I live for a good fight, if I can't find one I start a fight and let the good ones come to me. The other guys who don't fall under this class are what people dub as 'power hungry' they wage war and combat seeking greater power."

"That is a pretty messed way to look at the world there."

"Maybe but I'm pretty messed up!"

Dan joined his palms together in a familiar fashion as he charged a new beach-ball sized and shaped sphere of ecto. Recognizing the attack Junior attempted to bolt for it off to the south of the town trying to evade the up coming attack rather than out run it. Sadly for him Dan anticipated the dodge attempt and instead fired the beam in his path which Junior ended up running into anyway.

Junior was smacked against the barrier Aku set up around the ruins of the mansion.

"Did I wake you, you lazy bastard!?"

Outside the gathered group were waiting for the victor to be decided.

"Don sound like he's winnin."

"Be patient Grim."

"Would they hurry it up already!? That idiot Shadow-ganger is sure taking his sweet time!"

Mandy glared past her husband at the fellow member of the Five.

"Nothing against your son Mandy, but it's either him or my daughter."

Mandy lessened her scowling glare as she returned to watching the dome.

"Careful Mandy, or else you might actually look like you give a damn if he makes it out of there alive or not."

Mizore was locked in a battle of opposites. She, a snow woman, was using her cryokinetic powers to blast a stream of super cooled air down the throat of an angry dragon blasting her with fiery breath.

"I got paired up with a really poor choice of opponents!"

*SCREAMS OF PAIN* Something had put the dragon in such a great deal of pain that it plummeted to earth, spitting out Mizore when he landed. Looking up she saw the source of the dragon's pain, a sword lodged in his eye.

"A sword?"

*ANGRY ROAR* "WHO THE BLOODY HELL THREW THAT!?"

"Excuse me fiery one..." Mizore saw a odd looking blonde walk by, near as she could tell she wasn't student at the academy, she wasn't wearing the uniform instead some kind of weird suit, she was currently barefoot her boots tucked into her belt instead of on her feet and she was also wearing a eye patch over her right eye "but I would like that back if thou would nay mind."

"You...!"

The dragon charged Minnie, she side stepped him and grabbed onto the blade, letting her lightning flow into the dragon as she shoved the blade further into the dragon's head *SHRIEKS OF PAIN* Minnie ended the beast's pain by ripping out the sword and wiping the blood away from the blade.

"Mine apologies but I doth nay believe that we hath been introduced. I am Minnie Mandy of the Grim Family."

"Minnie...?" Mizore picked herself up as she face Minnie. "Grim's sister Minnie?"

"Indeed, and seeing as how thou art the only one to address him by his first name thou must be Mizore. I would offer a hand but I suspect it would result in thine most unpleasant of deaths."

"Huh?"

The crashing dragon had interrupted the fight between the dueling S-Ranks Kuyo and Gin, both having differing opinions about the new arrival.

"Another child of the so called 'Queen Bitch.' Peachy."

"Damn she's HOT!"

Completely forgetting the fight he was just in the middle of Gin's perverted instinct ruled his every thought as he rushed at Minnie on all fours and leaped at her.

"MINNIE LOOK OUT!"

Taking heed of Mizore's warning Minnie turned around to face her would be attacker only to be too late. *SCREAM OF PAIN* Contrary to what Mizore had been expecting Gin was now sprawled out flat on his back stinking of burnt hair.

"Oh... that must be Gin."

"Gin?"

"Gin Morioka, the president of the News Paper club and the school's number one pervert."

"Ah I see..." Minnie crouched down closer to Gin, donning a cheeky grin "mine most sincerest of apologies Gin. Had I known to warn thou nay to grope mine breast I would have."

"No problem... I probably deserve it" Gin said weakly!

"Mizore doth thou know where our friends art?"

"Kurumu flew off in that direction" Mizore pointed towards the south "and Yukari came down pretty hard over there" Mizore said pointing in the other direction "they both probably could used some help."

"I see. Gin..." the werewolf looked up at Minnie "I believe the Succubi could use some assistance perverted one, she should be in that direction. Mizore will render aid to the young witch: her ice powers should help to prevent any further harm to her."

"What are you suppose to be?"

"Pardon?"

"That prick over there is going to get in our way. If me and the ice queen are playing rescue then at least one of us should stay and deal with him. He's nasty piece of work even for a S-Rank. As much as I'd like to play knight in shining armor to Kurumu I'm a S-Rank too so I probably stand the best chance against him."

"Truthfully I nay know what I am perverted one, a hybrid tis would seem, A-Ranked if mine mother's estimations are to be believed. Very well, I leave him to thou."

Minnie bolted off again after Kurumu while Mizore coated the palms of her feet with ice and 'skated' after Yukari.

"Now than where were we?"

Kuyo gave roll of his eyes.

"You sound eager to die!"

"And you act hesitant to fight!"

*ANGRY SNARL* With that out of the way Kuyo shot himself at Gin like a rocket tackling into him and forming a ball of monster as the two wrestled, clawed and bit each other.

*BLISSFUL SIGH* "I can keep this up all day..." by this the the Mad slug in question was referring to his relentless grouping of Kurumu whom was enjoying the experience significantly less "this is just as good as I imagined! No better even!"

Kurumu made another attempt to cut herself free, failing miserably thanks to the slug's slimy body.

"Give up it's no use! You're going to be too tired for later!"

*DISGUSTED SHUDDER* "Are you trying to make me more cooperative!?"

A figure by a tree spotted the interaction, with a snap of her fingers a crackling bolt of lightning formed in her hand *THUNDER CRACK* and as if the wrath of god himself sought their end the bolt struck the pair down viciously. The Mad-Slug fell easily, melted down into his liquid slimy form, Kurumu fell after landing in the Mad-Slug's remains, she would be disgusted had she been conscious.

"Maybe I overdid it."

Minnie arrived on scene from the forest, she removed a pair of elbow length gloves from her pocket, they seemed elegantly made, beautifully in fact, made out of silky lace that resembled spider webbing, in fact it probably was spider webbing. Of course this silky layer was merely the top most layer, underneath was the same black non conductive material that made up the rest of her suit, and by putting the pair of gloves on she was giving herself the ability to pick Kurumu up without roasting her from within with her vast uncontrollable power.

"Minnie...?"

"Easy Kurumu. I am nay he whom violated thou so."

Minnie slung Kurumu's arm over her armored neck.

"Minnie... Run!"

The slug's toxic gas returned in full force, creating a variable smog of the deadly gas, Minnie acted in time to cover her mouth with a handkerchief, not that the gas seemed to be bothering her very much she presumed she had Finklestein's mad science to thank for that.

"A repulsive creature, with revolting powers, and regurgitating habits! Tis a very poor idea of the three Rs slug."

"Two for one, twice the fun!"

Minnie rolled her eyes and gave the offending slime in question a electrified kick.

*PAINED SHRIEKS* "WHAT THE HELL!? Wait: were you the one who threw a bolt of lightning at me!?"

"Take heed of this warning thou pathetic creature: if thou repeat or continue this course of action then I shall strike thou down until thine pitiful existence hath..."

*MUFFLED COUGH* Minnie took the handkerchief from her mouth and saw a red stain, presumably her new brand of Nephilim blood.

"That tis nay..."

Minnie collapsed on the ground, Kurumu landing on top of her.

"As hot as she is I better not risk any more lightning bolts..." the Mad Slug pulled Kurumu off of Minnie before he emitted more of the toxic gas "this should do her in."

"Minnie..."

Kurumu weakly reached out to Minnie attempting to help her, thoughts raced through her mind about a way to help her, but ultimately determined that she had none. She pleaded to whatever god would listen for Junior's safe return and save them, after all he was the most fearless fearsome person she knew. No that was a lie, she glimpsed something in his mind that had managed to scare even Junior, very well then if not the reaper then the being of such overwhelming ferocity that it made even he quake in his boots.

"What is this bitch any way? I've already pumped her full of enough gas to kill ten people!"

Suddenly a massive mechanical foot stomped behind Minnie, the Slug looked up terrified as the full form of a gigantic pumpkin shaped robot appeared from the foot. Now with the supply of gas that was keeping her unconscious cut off she awoke to a living nightmare from her past, she froze as if trapped in an invisible block of ice paralyzed with fear. The mechanical nightmare ignored Minnie and instead grabbed the slug, and in a all too familiar manner tore off one arm, both legs, and ripped what was left in half before letting it fall with a wet Plop. With the series of events over and done with the pumpkin monster disappeared, along with any trace of it's presence, even the Mad-Slug was put back together though he remained on the ground curled into fetal position. Without the slug's gas Kurumu was able to rouse herself to consciousness and the first thing she saw was Minnie lying on the ground.

"Minnie you okay?"

"FRIG HER...!" Kurumu looked over to see the mad slug on the ground relatively intact "HELP ME! I WAS THE ONE TORN APART BY A GIANT MECHANICAL JACK-O-LANTERN!"

"'Giant mechanical Jack-o-Lantern...?'" that sounded oddly familiar, none the less Kurumu was in no mood to provide help to the pathetic creature, and from what she could tell he was either faking it or it was mental in nature, either way she had more important things to attend to "Minnie you okay?"

Kurumu walked over to Minnie and saw her face frozen in terror, trying to wake her up she made the mistake of slapping her in the face.

*PAINED SHRIEKS* "Electricity!? What was...? Minnie did you throw a lightning bolt at me?"

Minnie didn't respond, her face still locked in terrified shock.

"Great."

Kurumu experimentally picked Minnie up by the clothed portions of her body, only just now realizing the suspicious resemblance to someone she saw before. It was hard to tell the girl from the memory was still in one piece, lacking the scars or eye-patch that she has now but taking a closer look at her Kurumu knew for a fact that Minnie was the little girl she saw in Junior's memories. Furthermore she also realized that she had somehow summoned the very monster that had torn her apart, it was no coincidence that the very monster she was praying would appear did so, and now Minnie was none too responsive, no doubt she was reliving that nightmare over again.

"Come on Minnie lets get you out of here."

*SADISTIC LAUGHTER* Demon was slamming a chunk of rubble turned weapon rapidly up and down on Junior's head.

"What's the matter yah freaker!? Finally give up?"

Taking a moment to assess his handiwork he saw that Junior had been rendered unconscious.

"Oh you're in lala land again."

Demon threw the rock behind him and sat down on it as he waited for Junior to wake back up.

"That's odd. You'd think he'd be seizing the opportunity to finish him off."

"You presume Aku that you know what that lunatic's motives are. He has had many opportunities to finish this fight with Harror but has ignored everyone of them in favor of his fists. If you ask my opinion, it seems that he's just trying to make Junior miserable."

"Dat's odd: He keeps claimin dat he wants Junior dead but he seems ta have based his existence round him."

"I don't presume to know how his mind works Grim."

"Oi my head's killing me."

Junior got up and rubbed his sore head, looking around he saw that he was back at the academy, although no one was in sight it was as if the whole academy was abandoned.

"One of two things are happening here, either I'm being screwed with again or everyone at the school has been shipped off for some reason..." *BANG* "figure it out later."

Junior bolted over the direction of the gunshots, arriving in the courtyard he saw Mimi lying on the ground bleeding out from a gun shot wound dealt to her. Looking around he saw the figure responsible, tall, blond hair, a all too familiar outfit that in his opinion was all too skimpy for her own good. None the less he came to the aid of the young half devil over that of the despicable woman.

"PROTEO...!" Junior's shield spell reached the path of the bullet just in time to prevent another wound being inflicted upon her "alright you what's the..." now that Junior was standing in front of her he could clearly tell that she wasn't the one that he thought she was, sure her and her mother looked alike from a distance they looked almost nothing like up close, most notably the eye-patch over her right eye and the tear like scars running down from her eyes "Minnie, what the hell are you doing!?"

"Tis obvious brother."

Rather then explain herself *BANG* *RING* she forced her brother to block another attack with his scythe.

"That it is, but the question is why are you doing it?"

*BANG* *RING*

"I doth nay need a reason brother. As thou well knows."

*BANG* *RING*

"I'm not letting you hurt Mimi Sis!"

"What made thou think that this is about the spawn?"

Junior looked behind and Mimi gone without a trace, not even the blood she had lost *BANG* which sadly for him allowed his sister the opportunity to shoot him in the head.

"This is about thou brother."

"Great another hallucination!"

Minnie fired off a salvo of bullets, not wishing to be shot again Junior had Scythe Carpe Retract them into the school, for all of what little good it did the walls may have well been made out of paper the way that the bullets were going through them.

"How many bloody bullets does that thing have!?"

"It's not a gun it's a figment of your damn imagination!"

"Does that mean I can make it run out of bullets?"

Junior stopped and rubbed his temples as he tried to will the bullets to stop, fortunately Scythe yanked the both of them to safety as the bullets shredded the wall behind them.

"Any more bright ideas bone head?"

"I'm open to suggestions."

"How bout we screw the defensive and start shooting back?"

"Now you're starting to get the right idea."

Junior stopped again using Protego to protect himself, hoping that his sister would fall for the path he was taking before he switched into a defensive position, clearly though she was not fooled as the bullets only pelted the shield instead of continuing to shred the wall.

"Is there more to this plan?"

"Yep."

Junior shot a current of ecto through his body, and with newly supercharged leg muscles rammed through the wall to the outside world and bull-rushed his sister. She was caught off guard as her brother kicked one gun out of her hand and wrestle the other one away too before planting the gun's barrel against Minnie's forehead, prompting a uncharacteristic snicker from the younger of the two siblings.

"Art thou going to shoot me brother?"

"I'm not your brother you twisted figment of my imagination, and I don't even have a real gun to shoot you with!"

"How fortunate for me...!" *CLICK* *CLICK* *CLICK* an annoyed Junior glared at the gleeful hallucination when he realized the gun wasn't firing "that this weapon is even less real than me!"

"Well that's just cheap!"

Junior dropped the weapon just in time to grab Minnie as she delivered a retaliatory kick and slam her into the ground, instead of staying there she flip rolled over and sent Junior flying into a wall.

"On the subject of cheap can you drop the farce Harror?"

The hallucination gave a grin as she took her eye-patch off, opening her eyes to a shade of blood red, bladed wings and tail sprouted from her back as gloves and boots were replaced by bright green claws.

"Finally! Do you know how hard it is to try and talk like that all the time? Honestly how the hell am I related to that?"

"No idea. Carpe Retractum!"

Not wasting any time Junior pulled Harror over to his feet with the spell followed by pinning her head to the ground with scythe.

"BOMBARDA MAXIMA!"

*BOOM* The explosion seemed to vaporize Harror, and kicked enough dust into the air to create a blanket of fog around the area. Junior however wasn't fooled.

"Harror, come out come out wherever you are!"

*GHOSTLY WAIL* The green wave of energy cleared away the dust and sent Junior flying across the courtyard.

"Okay I'll admit I asked for that."

"So bro..." Harror walked out from what remained of the dust cloud, wearing her usual cheeky grin "are you gonna go to your room now and cry your eyes out like the big wuss you are!?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh please we both know that the only thing you do when you're not getting your ass kicked is mope in your room! It's really quite pathetic!"

"Oh yes how pathetic am I for staying sane in a world gone mad!"

"'Staying sane!' That's rich! You were never sane! Or have you lost track of how many voices are in your head!?"

"If I am crazy it's your fault Harror!"

"Oh yes blame the voices inside you're head for all your faults: 'the aliens made me do it officer! They put chips in my head and sucked on my semen!' Do you even hear yourself sometimes!?"

"I have never said that Harror!"

"I know it was mockery: Jesus bro rent a sense of humor! You'll be better for it."

"It's hard to find stuff to laugh at when you're up to your eyeballs in death constantly Harror."

"It works for the humans. After all they have no care for the lives that are slaughtered so that they may live in comfort. You on the other hand slaughter lives just so that you can live, if you live then they can keep living."

"Call it a selfish desire to be better then I am."

"Don't try to be good bro, just try not to be bad. Life will get a lot easier both yours and the people around you."

Harror leaped into the air, spun a few times to building momentum, before she drop kicked Junior in the face.

"Oi what happened to my face?"

Junior used his necromancy to heal his face which had been beaten in, getting back up he saw the Demon Reaper leaning on the barrier that sadistic grin of his plastered all over his face once more.

"Good you're finally awake, I was beginning to think I hit you too hard!"

"I noticed that, this whole fight has been about screwing with me but why? What's your end game?"

"Wouldn't you like to know. But I think we've reached the point where we should finish this! How about you?"

Demon disappeared in a flash of green as he opened, entered, and closed a reaper portal.

"Okay: he's never done that before..."

Junior swung his scythe behind him blocking a attack from Harror and Demon from behind him.

"You two are going to have to do better than that to beat me!"

"Challenge accepted!"

The pair disappeared back into the portal, suddenly opening dozen's more portals and surrounding Junior with them.

"One of these days I'm going to learn to keep my big trap shut."

The pair appeared from one of the portals and struck at Junior before running through another and appearing from another direction, continuing the barrage to the point that it appeared that there were dozens of them all at once, Junior was barely able to keep track of all of them, and was for the most part failing to block their attacks, until finally he felt it, the pain running through his chest, looking down he saw her, Harror's blade running through his chest.

"Game over: you sorry excuse for a Grim Reaper!"

Chi shot up from tending to Mimi, she saw it all happen, the blade running through his chest, the green colored soul being pulled out and compressed down, the twisted doppelganger eating the soul. The only thing she couldn't see was the look of sheer terror strewn across her face.

"He's... dead!"

The only one who could help her, the one for whom she would gladly lay down her life for, her greatest hope was dead. Chi's sorrow turned to rage, she grabbed the sword in the holster around her waist and pulled it out, and unlike before where only a singular sliver of her power would be pulled out a massive spiky club came out and fired it across the academy grounds, it exploded raining destruction down upon the rallying PSC forces. Tenmei could see the explosion from his office, already standing with Jack the two were looking out the window at the chaos below.

"Should we help them?"

"Help whom?"

"That looked like a pretty big explosion there, so I'd say that helping anyone would probably be good right about now."

"If your talking about Kuyo's thugs then Cut-lip is already attending to them. If you're referring to his prisoners then Maki already evacuated them. There's nothing either of us can do."

"I was talking about those kids down there Tenmei!"

"Then you have nothing to worry about, they're handling themselves quite nicely."

"Until Kuyo..."

"Will not be laying a finger upon them: he will be far too busy fighting for his life in a few moments."

Not understanding what Tenmei was saying Jack looked up to where he was looking in the sky and saw it, a massive fiery object streaking across the sky.

"What the hell is that?"

"Something that eats so-called-gods for breakfast."

Chi was exhausted, she had drained the last of the rage and power from her body leaving only the despair that had come before. She collapsed to the ground and hugged Mimi to her. Kurumu supporting Minnie and Mizore carrying Yukari ran into the courtyard and witness the sight of Chi crying into Mimi's raven black hair.

"I'm sorry, I'm Sorry, I'm sorry..." even without the formality of reading her mind Mimi had a feeling she knew what Chi was talking about, doing so only confirmed her fears. She pulled her dearly beloved friend into her embrace and a singular tear fell from her eye onto Chi's shoulder as she mourned the lost of her first love.

"Guys what are you talking about?"

An unharmed Kuyo walked into the courtyard, dragging along a beaten Gin by the hair unceremoniously threw him at the feet of Moka, who was sitting on top of his defeated golem. He looked around sizing up what else he had to do, the witch brat was as good as dead already, Junior's lightning wielding sister looked like she had the life scared out of her and their escorts looked as if a feather could defeat them with the shape they were in, the Demon girls looked a little too preoccupied with each other to fight though he would soon change that. But for the foreseeable future his main concern was the vampire.

"I will make you pay for what you have done to my subordinates bitch!"

"And I you for what you have done to my friends you bastard!"

*CRASH* The stand off was interrupted by the landing of a meteoric object from the sky. The entire school was consumed in the overwhelming aura that crushed that of the three S-Ranks. Pure shadow seemed to radiate off of the pit in waves surrounded it in a layer of darkness that seemed thick enough to cut with a knife. The only detail that could be made out was it's eyes, one green and one red.

*INHUMANE ROAR*

Review Section:

Kuroko-Kyler-For the foreseeable future Moka will not be joining in any lovey dovey exploits involving Junior.

DuncanWarlord-Coming to terms with that will be the focus of my second story in the Rosario Grim Series and yes I agree, fan-girls are the bane of men.

BladeofHell56-Excellent question, Nergals don't blush in the same way humans do, whereas we blush when blood rushes to our heads Nergals blush through the use of shape shifting, it's a mix of unconscious and conscious reaction.

TheDarkSpade-Mimi is Bisexual, meaning that she likes guys and girls.