Author's Note: Well, we're nearing the end, See yahs when I see yah.
Moka stepped out of a Reaper in the assembly hall for Fairy Tale. She looked around the area, spotting a variety of different high level monsters in human form and dressed in military uniform. The one that caught her eye was a black haired man with finely trimmed facial hair and red eyes.
"Dad?"
No, this was certainly a creature that looked a great deal like her father, but this aura was most certainly different, weaker, a cheap copy, but clearly still dangerous. More to the point her father would never willingly align with these people, even if he did marry one of them, and could never be forced to aid them.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't little Moka Akashiya." Gyokuro stated, standing next to a throne where Miyabi sat dressed like a king. "Aren't you going to say hello to your dear parents?"
"You are not my mother!" Moka spat furiously.
"Who said anything about your mother? Your silver hair didn't you ever wonder where it came from? Your father has black hair..." Gyokuro stated indicating the man who resembled Moka's father. "Your mother has pink, as you well know. So didn't you ever wonder why your hair is silver?"
"Really? You're trying to pull the old 'I am your Father' line?" Moka asked mockingly in a deep voice. "I know who my father is, I know who loved me, cared for me and gave me a family! Whatever you are you're not that!"
"Ah I understand you're confusion. I can safely say with all certainly that you are not my daughter you little brat! The real question here is, do you know who your father is?" Gyokuro smirking at Moka's cocked brow.
Suddenly alarms started blaring throughout the facility as all the lights suddenly turned red.
"Sounds like the rest of Rael's plan has gone into action." Moka stated smiling.
The Masked King brought up a holographic display, and those assembled were shocked to say the least when he saw what was outside. The entire mountain sized spaceship on top of which the Grim Castle had been built had just flown into the air space utilizing the grand mother of all reaper portals. Not only that, but several hundred smaller reaper portals had also appeared from which the hundreds of guns that normally protected the castle were now popping through and aimed at Fairy Tale.
"Zoom in! There!" Following the masked king's command's one of his subordinates Zoomed in on the grim castle. Looking through the device in question Miyabi saw, standing on three of the large spikes mounted on the forehead of the skull shaped ship was three individuals. On the left most spike, was Minnie, six angel wings spread and radiating glorious holy light like the Seraph she was. On the right most spike was Mimi, her aura dark and glowing with steaming Hell Fire, vicious and scathing in nature as if she were the queen of hell itself. And on the middle spike, radiating the darkness of his mother, power of his father in his prime, and the rage that he was all too well known for, was Rael glaring a hole through Miyabi's skull like he knew that he was there. "It would seem that we have company. Gyokuro! I believe that we must prepare an appropriate welcome!"
On that note the various monsters within started to smirk sinister smirks. Suddenly however, a loud 'clink' echoed through the entire space. Looking at the source everyone saw that Moka had reattached the Rosario to the chain around her neck.
"Sorry to disappoint you, I guess now your little scheme has been foiled!" Outer Moka stated smiling adorable at the assembled crowd. However Miyabi sighed with relief still smirking. "What's up, even like this I won't be easy to kill you know, as long as Rael and the others are backing me up!"
"I'm just happy that you took the liberty of bringing that damn seal along, you have no idea the trouble that we would be put through if we had to go all the way to the Grim castle just to get the damn thing! Gyokuro, could you go and break that piece of garbage for me?" Miyabi asked pointing to the Rosario on Moka's chest.
Outside Rael had the castle fire upon Fairy Tale, the projectiles seemed to do little else beyond bouncing off of the shield around the floating base.
"Thine father and his Colleagues should be congratulated for their workmanship Mimi." Minnie stated glaring at the invisible shield with a level of intensity that might just burn a hole through it.
Mimi nodded, also glaring at the shield in question.
"Don't forget, we have one of the people who built that place in our back pocket!" Rael stated smiling knowingly.
Inside of the castle a pale red haired man with glasses was tearing through firewalls from his computer terminal and punched in one final command code: Omlette Du Fromage.
"The shields are ours." Dexter calmly stated into a radio.
Outside the shields surrounding Fairy Tale's base of operations were finally shattered under the assault.
"Cease fire!" Rael commanded into a radio, prompting the guns to stop their assault. "Shall we ladies?" At Rael's question both Minnie and Mimi bolted off through the air at incredibly high speeds. "I suppose that answers that."
Having given the order to begin the assault Rael opened a Reaper portal directly below and stepped off of the spike with the intention of landing on top of Fairy Tale's base. Instead however another portal appeared between Rael and his intended destination, this one amounted to little more than a whirling pit of shadows, and was helpless when it dragged him inside and slammed shut on him.
When Rael had regained consciousness he awoke in a familiar room, a makeshift hospital room inside of a ridiculous looking casino, where in his days as a child he was kidnapped, rendered unconscious and nearly dissected. The argument could be made that this place was where his downward spiral into insanity had begun.
"Hello Brother." When Rael looked around he saw Harror sitting on one of the tables, as if waiting for him. "I believe that we need to talk."
"I don't have time for another trip down to crazy town Harror!" Rael stated annoyed.
"And yet you don't have a choice. So let us bring this little scene to life shall we?" On that note the scene was filled with it's characters.
Center stage was the eleven year old Grim Junior, strapped down to the dissection table. Watching him struggle with mad glee were Lock, Shock and Barrel. Toying with the young skeleton as he explained his plot was the mastermind Oogie Boogie. Cue Minnie, a bright shining light in this moment of darkness, no, a brilliant shining beam of holy light in a world wrought with darkness and chaos, who without even the slightest bit of hesitation or hope of reward cut down all that were between her and rescuing him. Cue Junior, who in spite of being kidnapped, humiliated, terrified and moments away from a proper death only to be saved at the last moment he still somehow found it in himself to viciously, verbally cut down his sister. Cue the Pumpkinator, a mechanical monster who had taken his opening to tear his sister to pieces, and who still trying to save his worthless bony ass removed her own right eye, the very core of her powers, and inserted it into his right eye socket.
"We've all seen this before Harror. What's the point of trying to make me watch it again?" Rael asked glaring at Harror intensely.
"Harror? Harror Necro Shade? That's right, I did tell you that was my name. Or more accurately, the name that I share with you as the manifestation of your soul." That got Rael confused, it was rare that Harror contradicted herself, he might misinterpreted what she was saying yes, but never contradict herself. "But now we've been changed, right down to our soul, and because of that our name has been changed as well. You do know what that name is don't you?"
"Rael?" Rael asked stating the obvious.
"You're forgetting a very important part. The one that's over there." Harror stated gesturing to the Junior that was strapped down to the table. "Shall we go and see what he's thinking about?" Harror walked over to the scene of the crying child as he was consumed by the power, and taking Rael's hand, she put it on the boy's head.
"She's dead! She's dead and it's all my fault!" Like he didn't know that before, however new unfamiliar thoughts soon followed, hollow joy, like the kind of joy you have when you try to tell yourself that you're okay when you're really not. "She's dead! I did it! She's finally gone!" Now laughing, Junior got up and began tearing into the Pumpkinator.
"What the Hell is going on here Harror! Are you trying to tell me that I was actually happy when she died!?" A infuriated Rael growled pointing at Gun at Harror's head.
"That isn't you!" Suddenly Rael found himself facing the rampaging Nergal Reaper, who was now standing over Minnie's dying body and ripped out her soul, creating the form of a young Angel. "You were off in the room with Sr. at the time remember!? That! Is him!" Harror stated annoyed with the need to explain.
"Him who!?" Rael barked his patience now running on fumes.
"Grim Junior! Who had so much grief and pain in him in that amount of time that he went insane!" Harror shouted, completely ignoring Rael's look of complete shock on his features. "You actually thought you were him? That you simply woke up with your own sister's soul in your arms and those pricks bleeding out on the ground!?"
Events then proceeded as Rael recalled, he had walked up to Oogie with the intent to finish him off, but was interrupted by the appearance of the Redeemer who despite his best efforts successfully made off with Minnie. Then he sunk down into a depression, a bottomless pit where he didn't care what happened.
"Go! Go away! I don't know what you are but you don't belong here! GO!" And thus the twisted and insane personality had reasserted itself and continued to rampage about, consuming the Pumpkinator and using it to attack Halloween Town.
"You were never the original! You were his memories scanned into the Nergaling, mixed with Minnie's and burned into your very soul! He is the original, so deeply consumed by grief that the only way to survive was to latch onto a single happy thought, any happy thought, and sink everything he had into it no matter how dark and twisted it was and he became it!" Harror stated, scolding almost, all of them for letting it come to this.
"Good speech." Accompanying the sound of clapping a third party entered the scene. Turning around the two saw Az, slowly sarcastically clapping his hands. "I would have told you sooner, but we both know that you would have never believed me anyway. Especially when it should be obvious!"
"Alright you..." Rael got his scythe ready for a fight. "Let's get this over with!"
Suddenly Rael felt someone grabbed by his shoulders and yank him upwards.
Back in front of the Grim Castle Minnie was currently using her arm like some manner of over sized fishing rod, her pond one of Mimi's Devil circles that had forcibly reopened the portal that had snatched up Rael.
"I hath a hold of something! I shall try to pull him out!" In spite of Minnie's best efforts whatever she had plunged her arm into was like tar, tar that had the mind and means to not let either of them go. "I could use some aid here Mimi!" Mimi grabbed Minnie from behind and entered a telepathic parley between the two of them and Rael deep inside of the portal.
When Minnie opened her eyes she saw that she was joined by both Mimi and Rael.
"Minnie? Mimi? How the heck did you two get here?" Rael asked looking between the two of them confused.
"The time has come for you to become the man you use to be again." A familiar yet unrecognizable voice said, Rael knew it though, it was Mimi's. "We made you carry the darkness in our hearts so that we wouldn't have to do it alone..." Mimi held out one hand for Rael to hold. "Together we have created monster..." Mimi held out the other for Minnie. "Together we shall banish it to the land of Oblivion."
"Once more unto the breach eh brother?" Minnie asked with a smile holding out her hand for Rael.
"Let's do it you guys!" Rael took Minnie's outstretched hand and immediately the three of them froze up.
Behind each of them memories rapidly flashed by, most of them not good.
"The darkness is trying to force it's way back in. Find your brightest, fondest, favorite, memory and put it in front of you." For Mimi the answer became obvious, over nine month's ago outside of the Yokai Academy on her birthday where Rael had restored to her her hands, numerous nights inside of the castle with Junior and several of a red haired woman with glasses. For Minnie, the answer was in different directions, her time spent with Moka, the fields of Malebolgia with the Necropolins that her brother took her to, her plays that her brother attended. "It's alright if you can't pick one, the more good that you are able to cancel the bad with the good." With that Minnie became a fortress of memories. Unlike the other two however Rael couldn't find any good memories, all of his life before had been taken from him, all of life since has been nothing but Fairy Tale. "We know that you want this to end too. You have the means but we need your help." Suddenly a mass of darkness crashed into the space between them, from which came Az, rapidly shaking like a man possessed, from which Rael ripped out a huge mass of memories. Rael saw through them, the time he spent with his siblings, with Mimi, with his friends at the academy, it brought a tear to his eye. "Look through the memories, what are you wearing?"
"Black hoodie, Yokai Academy Uniform." Rael stated in a hushed voice.
"Purple dress, Yokai Academy Uniform." Minnie stated in a hushed whisper.
"White dress, Yokai Academy Uniform. Now reach out and put the clothes on."
Following Mimi's instructions the three of them put the clothes on. In Rael's case he was wearing the brown pants and white shirt with a black hoodie that smelled of Necropolins, on top of that he was wearing the jacket of the academy uniform. Minnie was wearing the tattered purple dress that she wore following her transformation into a ragdoll, still laced with the smell of Necropolins and was wearing the girl's uniform on top of that. Finally Mimi was wearing a white dress with a big purple bow tying up her hair, much like the clothes she wore in her child hood, with the jacket from her uniform on top.
"These clothes are from your fondness memories. They are your armor against the madness, against the darkness in your soul. Now Rael, hold the darkness in your hand."
"RRRAAAGGGHHH!" The shadows that made up Az's form was being pulled away, pooled into Rael's fist growing shorter and thinner as the black cleared away.
"Now let it go." Following Mimi's instructions Rael dropped the darkness in his hand, causing it to dissipate into nothingness.
"I'm sorry for everything I did. I was so lost in the darkness that the only thing I could do was laugh away the pain while embracing the Madness. Eventually, I just forgot the difference between being sad and happy." The smoke cleared away revealing a eleven year old skeleton with a single blue eye in the left socket.
"Tis alright." Minnie bent down and embraced the child like skeleton, tears enough for the both of them streaming down her face. "I'm sorry I made thou suffer so much. Thou were always in pain but I twas blind to it. Thou hath no need to apologize, thou hath suffered enough." Az hugged Minnie back, crying as best he could.
"It's time to bring this to an end, there is a pool in front of you, Az and Rael." Suddenly Rael, Mimi and Minnie were standing on a block of stone in the middle of a massive lake. "When you look into the water you see your other self." Looking down at the water Rael and Az saw each other staring back at them. "Now step into the reflection."
"Minnie..." Minnie stood at attention to Rael's stating of her name. "Always be kind to your family." At this Rael jumped into the water.
Immediately, with the point where he entered the water as the epicenter, the world collapsed in on itself, being sucked away.
Minnie and Mimi were sent flying over the battle field, having lost their target.
"What's happening!? Where is mine brother!" The only response Mimi could give Minnie was to shrug her shoulders. "Brother, get back soon." Over looking the mid air battle field, Minnie had a overwhelming feeling of dread. "Your family still needs you."
