This is no where near the end of this story, I'm just getting started. I can't wait to get to the things I have in store. I just hope I can borrow Kryalla Orchid's hammer and be able to use it perfectly. Teen Titans fans, you must go read this girl, she is an addictive one and I can't stop reading her, but I digress. So, where were we? Ohh yeah, Jr. and the gang getting the hell out of dodge.

Disclaimer: All characters are in no way shape or form a declaration of owning and are used with the knowledge of each characters respective owners and said copyrights. If anything, they own me, but we won't get into that right now.

Mandy shot quickly in rapid succession against the many demons coming for her, twisting and contorting her body for the best method in shooting them, making them immobilized. It didn't matter, her army was cleaning house, taking them down and making a path towards her. Mandy switched to holy bullets. She had them issued soon after the beginning of her reign.

She jumped back and aimed before letting ten rounds into the two demons in front of her, two through the kneecaps, on in the sternum, and four repeats in the head, all fewer than five seconds. Grim came up behind her, his face in mild distaste as he had to step over dead demons.

"You watch too much Equilibrium, messin wit ya head, hon."

"You say too much, I say not enough. I could have easily killed them with six if I instead shot through the eyes. Just showing off."

"Yea yea, so when are we goin get ta savin Jr. and Minnie."

"If anything, those two will be coming up to greet us actually. Give it a moment. PAIN!"

"Yes, my lady."

Pain handed her cigarette and lighter before snapping his fingers for one of the soldiers to come behind him with a towel, who began to clean the blood from Mandy's outfit. If there was a perk to being Queen, it was that she didn't stay dirty. Oh, and the rules of death, disease, or anything for that matter didn't exactly apply to her. NJ came up behind the two, Jack in tow, his face in confusion.

"Shouldn't we be getting back to the kids now?"

"They're coming. Cthulhu isn't much of a threat, especially with all that Jr. knows."

NJ shrugged, not all that concerned. He saw Jr. throwing down in the hallway, so he wasn't afraid for his daughter too much. Still, it was the principality of the situation he had to take into account. His daughter was captive and he should be worried.

"Still, shouldn't we check, or at least send someone in-!"

"Christ, Grim will you please go get our kids before the big baby has a fucking heart attack!"

Grim grumbled at NJ, but opened a portal into the building still.

TLTS

Jr. and Minnie walked close, more so than Adram that possible. If they tried to move any closer, they would become one entity. Something was up with these two and he didn't think it was so much as sibling love. His inner thoughts were completely pushed back when a large hole in the center of the room they were walking came into view.

"Oh, father is coming."

Jr. nodded, stopping everyone with a wave of his hand. Grim walked through and sighed. Then got real angry.

"Boy, whot da hell did ya dink you were doin! Jumpin through a portal will-nilly. I ought ta debone ya fer yer mom's stew! And takin yer sister wit ya was even worse, putting her in complete danger!"

"I'm sorry dad, I wasn't thinking."

"Damn right ya weren't! You bettah hope ya mom don't care about dis as much as I do."

Jr., Minnie, and Grim all visibly shivered. Grim was the first to recover.

"But I understand. Protect da one ya love da most nd all dat jazz. But you should keep yer mate from danger, not put her in more."

"AHHA, I knew there was something else going on here. You two are way too close to be siblings. Or at least regular ones."

Grim raised a boney brow at the fire-headed demon. He pointed slowly, his face contorting in confusion.

"Hmmm, you remind me ah someone. Someone very familiar, I just can put me finger on it…"

Adram looked up, taking a closer look at Grim before popping his eyes out, realizing at the same time as Grim did.

"Oh yeah, you're Sat- mmphgmg!"

Adram had leaped toward Grim, closing his hand over his mouth, and nervously laughing.

"What are you talking about? Hehe, I mean, sure I know a lot of beings, but I don't know if I know you. I mean, c'mon."

Jr. turned back to Gaap, who raised his hands.

"He's done it that so many times, I just get used to it."

Jr. shrugged it off. He kept his hand on Minnie's, gripping it softly as they walked into the portal. The rest followed through, all except Adram and Grim.

"Boy, I ought ta zap you fer dat!"

"Jr. cannot know who I am. It doesn't matter."

"Da hell it ain't. My boy is not hanin round no damned direct spawn of da dev-!"

"Stop! I know what I am. I don't need you to tell me. God, it kills me that I'm a part of that sonuvabitch. So please, do me the favor of not reminding me every two seconds."

"Whot appen?"

Adram shook his head and rubbed the back of his neck. He sighed as he looked up to the gray ceiling.

"I never went back to him. When I jumped back into the portal of hell after dying, I made sure that I hid from him. I couldn't back to that existence, it was too…too-."

"Too finite."

"Yeah…"

"Get da same feelings at times. Don worry, we might just be able ta keep ya hidden. Jus don get me children inta trouble. I'm trustin ya ta watch their backs, especially Jr.'s."

"Don't worry, I'll make sure to have Jr.'s back, although, I think Minnie will be doing more of that than me."

"Yea."

Adram happened towards Grim with slight curiosity.

"So, you aren't, like, weirded out by your son and daughter, ya know, being together?"

"Boy, I've don seen worse. She's only half so it ain't much of a problem."

"Yeah. The Underworld doesn't exactly have humanly rules like the earthen plane does. Shit, Hell is even worse. Demons have the most grotesque babies."

"I heard dat. Let's get goin for me wife throws a fit."

"It's still hard to believe that you even have a family, even more so a wife."

"It was either dat or she would have overthrown me. I figured tying da knot wouldn't be too bad. Made it hard for me ta get her to except da kids. Don tell her I think she's a great mudda."

They stepped through the portal and arrived to a much stalled situation. Mandy was staring Jr. down so hard, his head was beginning to smoke on her gaze. Adram couldn't explain what was so powerful about this woman, but apparently she held much prominence than anyone else around. He even believed Grim to be below her. Jr. was so docile compared to when he was fighting Cthulhu.

He stepped very lightly so as not to catch her attention, but it was all in vain as she slowly raised her head to meet his. His entire being froze. Those eyes bore into him, making him feel like a mouse against a cat atop his tail. He could feel his being beginning to shiver and shake under her glare and he was certain that if he were a spawning, he would have pissed his pants.

"Mandy, stop scaring da boy's new friend. It's not nice."

Adram would have prayed to God to get that woman to stop looking at him for even a second, so much so, he would have started kissing Grim's feet just as a kindness for making her put her attention on him.

Mandy looked up at Grim then down at Jr. again. Even Minnie had stayed her distance to at least three feet. When Mandy crouched down to his level, everyone gulped loudly. She tilted his head so he looked at her, but even then he could only look at her for a couple of seconds before he had to avert his eyes. She didn't even twitch a nerve on her face, but instead brought a hand up. Jr. would have flinched, but fear was too great. He waited with bated breath as his mother brought her hand to rest atop his head and rubbed it. He shook once before he relaxed and nodded. She nodded back…then slapped him upside his head that was sure to leave a mark for his troubles. His eyes welled, but a grown man would have cried out a hit like that, so he was in the clear.

Mandy rose from her position and from Adram's perspective, it seemed that everyone was waiting for her call. With position like that, he expected so.

"Let's get a moving people. Let's get the fuck out of here; I want to be home by the next hour and a half."

Everyone marched in positions, the Pain and the army marching away from the building and massacre of demons. Mandy switched to holy bullets. She had them issued soon after the beginning of her reign.

The group of Royals walked slowly, leisurely strolling away. All would have been great until they felt the ground beginning to shake. Jr. and Minnie held onto each other as the ground crackled from under them. The Royals quickly ran from the caving building to get a safe enough distance to see what they were dealing with.

Slimy, slithering flesh ran under the cracks of the ground before tentacles pushed out of the red concrete. Worms fell from the slime, wriggling away from the destruction. A bald head over turned the giant building and rose with its gargantuan body. Tentacles inhabited every flab, crease, and roll on its body, wings protruding from its back. It was kind of like a giant squid beast, demon like with claws at the end of its arms and sharp eyes instead of regular pupils. Adram was the first to find his voice as he questioned what stood before them.

"What the hell is that big ass thing?"

"Da true form of Cthulhu in all his nasty, parasitic glory."

The army that had once started its way back home had stopped and was now at the forefront of the beast. Mandy had Pain ready the weapons on the tanks and land rovers. She turned to Grim with cynicism clear in her voice.

"Next time Grim, when I say just let me kill the damn thing, just fucking let me kill the damned thing! We wouldn't even be in this mess if you had."

"How was I supposed ta know he would be comin back?"

"You make sure to cover your tracks with your enemies. Always, to the day your existence disappears, make sure that you kill your enemies and make sure that they can never come back."

"Just because dat's what you did wit Mindy don mean I have ta follow."

"Just an opinion."

The beast didn't give long to let them know it meant business. A tentacle shot from the ground and decimated a tank, the explosion knocking down everyone, but Mandy. She looked back and shook her head.

"Damnit, that was mine, you fat bastard. Fire!"

Pain bellowed his Queens command and the tanks began to unload on Cthulhu's gelatinous body. The army fired off holy bullets, hoping that the sacred ammo would be able to slow the creature down at least a little. The best they actually did was bounce off him like water balloons against a mattress.

Jr. turned to Grim who was calm about the situation, if a little ticked by it anyway.

"Dad, what do we do? I don't think the tanks are doing much."

"Ahh, Ya Uncle will take care a 'im. I'm not too worried."

"Oh, well, how did you beat him last time?"

"Hmm, de last time I had ta deal wit Cthulhu, I was in top form. Didja ya know dat Nergal Jr. aint ya only uncle? You even have an aunt. Back den, we took Cthulhu out in seconds. Made im cry too!"

"Really?"

"I can still turn inta Death the Hroseman, but only if me nd me scythe's spirit merge as one. Me scythe hasn't talked ta me in a while so dat's a no."

"So what were you guys called?"

"The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse!"

Grim added theatrics to it, raising his arms, but Mandy quickly came up behind him and slapped him upside his head.

"Stop talking about the old days."

"Come now, me boy should look up to his fadda like any son, not his low down uncle."

"Get over it. Unless you can contribute to this fight, like I don't know, form the horseman at this time, stop talking and try to figure out the best way to take this guy down. And stop talking about those assholes."

"Just because you only favor Fury, don mean ya have ta diss me bruddas like dat."

If Mandy reacted to the favor comment, she didn't show it and instead called more orders on the front lines of the fight. Grim quickly kneeled to Jr. and whispered into his ear.

"Ya mudda and Fury are like da two sistahs dey neva had. Ohh, and ya get ya personality form ya uncle War. He's way cooler den ya Uncle Nergal."

Jr. grinned up at his father. Grim sighed and watched as NJ formed more of his Nergal features, popping Cthulhu with green plasma lasers. It was working so far, tentacles began turning black, charred, and falling off, but it seemed for naught.

NJ hadn't seen the tentacle coming from behind and was blown away from the force, hitting the side of another business building. He fell and hit the ground hard. Minnie came up to his side, along with the others and sat him up.

"Father!"

"Ehh, I'm alright Minnie. Damnit, I can't seem to kill him, he just regenerates."

"You are all going about it all wrong."

Heads spun around to see Clockwork floating a couple of feet away, frontal from the explosions and fire the Grim Army was creating with Cthulhu. Grim was disgruntled about seeing his old friend here.

"What da hell are you doin here, Clockwork?"

"Figured you would like a bit of advice before this monster completely wrecks havoc."

NJ stood up, an eyebrow raised in confusion.

"I thought you were one of dose leave it alone guys, not really getting involved with anything and just going with the flow."

"Certain…circumstances have come to my attention."

He glanced pointedly at Jr., who quickly averted his gaze. Clockwork turned to the Royals.

"I can give you the advice you want or be on my way. There ARE more important time streams I must check out to prevent unnecessary changes."

Mandy was fed up with it all and quickly pushed through the group to stand at its forefront.

"Clockwork, you know I am not a patient woman. You've seen me when I gave brith to Minnie, all knowing spirit. Tell me how the fuck are we supposed to kill this sonuvabitch, or I swear to you, I will go back in time and kill everyone at the same time."

Clockwork was taken aback. He actually started to sweat a little, hands clenching onto his staff.

"You wouldn't actually kill the first human in the world, would you? You'd disappear."

"Knowing that without humans, without a means of time continuation, you can't survive and you'd eat your mind with all that time to your lonesome, I think I'll manage."

Clockwork shivered and held out his hand. He breathed to calm himself.

"The only way for Cthulhu to become nonexistent is for the weapon that killed his humanoid form reap his creature form."

Jr. gulped as he realized it was his scythe that was needed. He walked past the adults to face Clockwork.

"So, you mean I have to do this?"

"Yes. Your scythe has his humanoid form, the form he can't live without. Once you reap his true form, he'll become nonexistent."

Jr. began to shake, but Grim placed a hand on his shoulder. He looked up at his father, who nodded in approval, then to everyone else. Jack gave him a thumbs up, Adram shrugged, NJ raised a brow, and Mandy stared at him before gesturing to Cthulhu. He looked down at Minnie, who beamed at him before mouthing that she knew he could do it.

His eyes widened before he narrowed his eyes in determination.

"I'll do it."

Mandy kicked at NJ's downed form.

"He's going to need to get to a high point. Fly him up there."

"What about my Nergal wings?"

"You won't be able to fly up fast enough before Cthlhu's reptilian eyes catch you. NJ, get your ass up and help my son."

"Alright, alright."

NJ stood and lowered his back for Jr. to climb on. He spread his wings and flapped at the ground hard, speeding off the street.

"Jr."

"Yes, Uncle Nergal?"

"I'm trusting you. You are unlike your father, but even so, you still have that Black gene, but I know you are your own person. So I trust my daughter in your hands. Please, don't let me down."

Jr. was quiet before he nodded, speaking lowly as they passed Cthulhu's blobbish form.

"I promise I will keep Minnie safe…forever."

He jumped off NJ's back, aiming for Cthulhu. The demon caught sight of him and began to send tentacles after him, but he was too fast. The tentacles that did aim true, he catapulted off of. Another came at his right and he slashed with his scythe, cutting it off. He was moving too fast and Cthulhu could only groan and screech as the Son of Death sliced into his head. Everyone cringed at the sight and watched with baited breath as they waited for Cthulhu to drop.

"Oh yes, I forgot to tell him he had to reap Cthulhu's heart for it to work."

Everyone looked at him with a glare in their eyes at which he shrugged off.

Jr. kept sliding down veins and arteries as he cut all that he could. Apparently, Clockwork forgot to mention something to him because this bastard wasn't dropping. It was so enclosed in here, it was a wonder how he even was able to move his hand to cut.

Suddenly, he dropped from below as he entered the lungs. He was getting close to something at least.

Everyone outside watched as Cthulhu lurched forward. Mandy ran up to Clockwork and pulled his cloak.

"What the hell it happening?"

"Jr. must have reached a specific organ. If he cuts it, it'll disappear into nothingness."

Jr. dropped downward as he fell from where he cut the right lung. The entire space at which it had encompassed was present, the organ gone. He looked around as the flesh began to concave and took notice of the beating at his left. He smirked as readied his scythe and ran at the muscle.

Cthulhu heaved back before his entire body seemed to suck itself inward. The moment the demon was gone, a figure fell from the air at which everyone sprinted towards it.

Jr. sat up, his entire body covered in sticky gore and slime. The Royals came up to him, but immediately took a slight step back as to distance themselves from the smell coming from Boy Death.

"Brother, thou smells most rancid."

"Da moment we get inta da castle, you are takin a one-hour showa, ya undastand?"

"Got it dad."

"Good God, it's like you decided to roll around in the pit of death."

"Jr., I am so very, ugh, very g-glad that we were able- dear lord, I can't even breath and the smell is reaching me."

Jr. shook his head at his family, but caught Minnie's rueful smile through it all and he smirked as he leaned back, content that things were, for the main part, going to be alright.

I am so sorry guys, I know so many people were waiting for this one chap and I couldn't get it in last weekend before Halloween due to some unsavory circumstances, but I got it in as soon as I could today.