(AN: just before this starts, my mind decided to think of an idea, which is this. No spoilers though.)
Where my life decided to take a turn
Edward's (OC) P.O.V.
My name is Edward Nightingale, and I'm currently 16 years old. My life… is not what you would expect. I had a… troubled life. Lived with my mother for a few years before moving in with my grandpa when she died. Sad, I know, but I moved past that. I still pay my respects to her grave every now and then.
My Grandpa died last year, about six months, six days, and if I'm looking at the clock correctly, six hours ago. He wanted to be placed near my mom's grave when he died, and it happened.
"Well, looks like it's time to go to school." I said out loud before grabbing my bag, my mother's and Grandpa's rings, and left through the front door.
Time skip…
Edward's P.O.V.
"Hey, looks like I arrived just in time." I thought when I reached the school. This was my high school that also doubled as a middle school, Yancy Academy. There were a lot of things going on, but for today, I'm going with the younger students to go to a museum with Mr. Brunner.
"I still have time to go do some things before going on the trip." I thought while looking at the time. I then saw a vending machine and thought "Might as well get the younglings something to eat if they don't like what they've brought… Might get Grover some vegetarian food as well in case he loses his." I continued before opening my wallet.
After a while of buying some food and drinks for the kiddos, I looked at my watch and saw the time. "Damn, I have about twenty minutes before going to the museum. Might as well get to Mr. Brunner's class." I thought before going to said teacher's class.
"Hey, I have arrived, and with the snacks as well." I said when I entered Mr. Brunner's classroom. He taught Greek and Latin, which is good in my opinion, though unneeded when it came to reality. Why do we even need to know this when it should be an elective? "Hello Mr. Nightingale-" "Call me Edward, since they might not know my first name." I interrupted.
Mr. Brunner was silent for a split second before saying "This is Edward Nightingale, and he will be helping when we arrive at the museum, you may ask questions starting… now.". Multiple hands were raised and I pointed at the one kid whose hand wasn't raised. "Kid, what's your name?" and said kid pointed to himself and I said "Yes you." "My name is Percy Jackson, Edward.".
"I'm choosing you first Percy, because I'm not letting you go last. And by the way your body is moving, it looks like you are a… ADHD kid, right?" and the kid looked shocked, since he hadn't told me that. "Your face language says it all kid, besides, I get to meet a fellow ADHD kid." I said, and Percy sighed in relief, and seemed to be… happy as well.
"Well, since I gave him his turn, and that we have about…" I looked at the time, and we had about fourteen minutes to go before we left, "fourteen minutes before we go on the trip. I will answer your questions, so go nuts kiddos." I said before the questions started to happen.
Time skip…
After answering those questions, getting on the bus, leaving the bus, and getting to the museum, we had to go in. "Well well well, if it isn't my old math teacher. How are you Dodds?" I asked. Dodds was the math teacher for the younger students. "... I was fine before you asked." "Right… sorry." I said before letting her be.
After a few minutes of waiting, which was time taken for me looking at the weather before we were told to get into the museum.
And we got to one of the Greek art sculptures that dedicated it to some kind of war. One side was the gods, the other was the Titans.
I tuned out the conversation while I looked around, seeing a lot of things such as an Apollo Statue and a Hermes Statue. "Dudes looking like they are the best bros." I thought before hearing Percy say "Will you shut up!". I looked at him, and inwardly, I was thinking "He's got some balls for saying that while Brunner is teaching about the history of these things.".
I tuned out the following conversation, since it was unimportant for me to deal with these kinds of things. And after a while, again, we went out for lunch while I grabbed some snacks out of my bag.
"Hey Percy, hey Grover." I said, walking towards them. "Hey/Hello Edward." they said. "Mind telling me what that was about, because god damn you have some literal balls for saying that out loud." I said and Percy suddenly became nervous. "Sorry, I won't pry, but just for amusing me so far…" I said before grabbing a chocolate bar for Percy, "Here, you go, free chocolate bar." "Hey dude, thanks." "No need, besides, I've been wanting to give that one out to someone." I said before seeing a girl approach us with… Oh god, was that a peanut butter sandwich, with ketchup on it. This girl… no, this monster, is approaching us. Who even puts Ketchup on peanut butter?
I quickly left, not wanting to deal with this, and entered the museum, because I gave up over there, and not wanting to approach that monster given human form.
Time skip…
I followed Percy since I had a feeling that something was going to happen with him. "Hey Percy, what… WHAT IN THE NAME THAT IS ALL THINGS UNHOLY IS THAT!" I said, seeing a bat-like creature in front of them. "Die honey!" the bat creature said before going to attack Percy, and even though I was near him, we both dodged. While dodging, I started to feel the rings heat up, though not enough to burn me, but enough to warm my fingers, as if it was warning something.
"Holy shit, who the fuck are you and what are you!" I said while trying to survive with Percy. "My name, little lord, is of no importance, let me kill Perseus!" the creature said, and what did she mean by 'Little Lord'?
"Shit, Percy, make sure to dodge again!" I said before the creature started to attack Percy. "What ho Percy, Edward." someone said, and I looked back to see it was Mr. Brunner threw a pen at Percy while a keychain was thrown at me. We both caught them and my keychain seemed to be a scythe-like weapon, and to me, it looked like something out of a game due to the coloration of it. "What are we supposed to do with these!" I thought before seeing the scythe get larger and saw it was indeed, a bigger version of the keychain scythe. "Holy shit!" I said out loud, feeling the sudden weight on my hands.
Percy was also shocked and before I could use the scythe weapon, Percy used his sword that was not there a second ago and sliced the creature in half, and from what I was seeing, dissolving into golden dust. I then looked at the scythe and decided it was not worth it and then the scythe decided to go small again, back into a keychain.
"...Not today, nope, nopity nope nope." I said before putting the keychain into my bag into the deepest end I could find. I needed to study the damn thing and see what made it that way.
"You saw that too, right Percy?" I asked, and Percy nodded. "Good, then it wasn't just my eyes seeing things." I said before seeing Mr. Brunner and I decided to say "See you on the bus." to Percy before heading to said bus.
Time skip…
I managed to lie to Brunner, got my excused absence for the rest of the day since I helped with the museum, and decided to go back home. "I need to go check this thing out and see what it could do." I thought to myself, looking at the keychain. I then arrived at my house, and saw that it was open, "Shit, someone's here." I thought to myself before rushing in and grabbing the nearest thing I could use as a weapon, since the keychain seems to not be cooperating.
"Whoever is here, I'm armed. I'm not afraid to call the cops on your ass." I said, while holding the hunting rifle that my great grand uncle used, who is known as Alastor Nightingale. I also had a knife with me, and it belonged to my great grandfather, who was known as Asterius Nightingale. I made sure to clean them both while also keeping the remaining ammo for the rifle in case something or someone is in the house without permission.
I then saw that the door to Alastor's room was opened, which was a room I was not allowed in, and for good measure as well. What I saw were three people from the church. "Hey, what are you doing in my house?!" I asked, and when I said that, I saw the shadows in the room darken.
"We are exorcists, and we have the right to be in here." one of them said. "Great, those kinds of people." I thought before raising the rifle. "And what is the reason why you are here, and make it short, you broke into my house." I said.
"You aren't allowed to threaten us, we are chosen by God himself to-" was all one of them said before I fired the rifle at their face, causing blood to pool on the ground. "Used up a shot, got to use the knife." I thought before preparing to fight the other two, who also seemed to have weapons as well. "Good thing I have ADHD and took those fighting classes." I thought to myself before going to what I was going to later call 'The three-exorcist battle'.
One of them had a sword and the other a knife… Where did the one with the sword keep it? "You fired upon holy men, prepare to die." one of them said. "If anything, I have the right to kill you, you trespassed on my family property." I said before going forward and, while moving very fast, used my knife and stabbed the neck of one of the priests, the one with the sword.
Priest sword guy, as I am calling him now, seemed to not have enough training with a sword, so I've beaten that guy easily enough. "And now for you…" I said before seeing the Priest knife guy near Alastor's rifle. He seems to not realize it's there, probably due to me killing the other two priests.
The knife guy leapt and slashed at me, and he had managed to hit me in my right arm. "That's it fucker!" I said before lunging, and the guy didn't even have time to raise his knife, because I managed to stab him in the neck, pulled it out, and then the head.
"You… are going to hell, damn you…" the knife guy said before dying. "Heh, I need to get this checked out." I said out loud, seeing the knife wound on my right arm before seeing… "Holy shit, is that a Demon summoning circle?" I asked out loud. And I did not expect to suddenly see it glow and a portal to appear with someone walking towards me.
"Now, who is the one that summoned me?" the being said, with what seemed to be static in his voice, after stepping out of the portal. "I think we have bigger problems, but who are you?" I asked, I was still high on adrenaline since fighting those exorcists. "Ah, sorry, my name is Alastor Nightingale my dear, now who are you?" the being now known as Alastor Nightingale said.
"Edward, Edward Nightingale." I said before picking up the rifle before realizing something. "Wait, you said Alastor Nightingale, right?" I asked. "Why yes my dear, and it seems we have the same last name as well." Alastor said. "Well, I think that this is yours. I had to use it." I said, handing him the rifle.
"Well then, it looks to be quite familiar… how… how did you get this?" Alastor said. "Well, it looks like you haven't seen the family tree in a while, it's a pleasure to meet you. You know the family motto?" I asked. "If you are what you say you are, then. The world is a stage," Alastor said first, "And a stage is a world of entertainment." I finished.
"Hahaha, it looks like I get to meet a family member after all. Anyways, what has happened here Edward?" Alastor said. "What happened, were these church exorcists breaking into the house to try and exorcise something." I said.
"That seems to be quite bad. If anything had happened to this summoning circle, I would make sure to kill them before killing them again in hell with various methods of torture." Alastor said, with a lot more static in the killing part.
"Anyways, you saved me from my boredom since I haven't been summoned in years. Mind if you come with me?" Alastor asked. "If it means I get something to finally do, then sure." I said.
"Oh, you get something to do alright, but be warned, my magic is a bit unruly today due to the extermination, and by seeing what you can do, judging by the dead priests, I'm sure that you will be fine." Alastor said before doing something with his hand.
"Wait… WHAT!" I said before I see my red symbols appear and made me black out.
Meanwhile…
Hades P.O.V.
I sighed as another few thousand souls arrived here in the Underworld, the place where I currently reside. And what my brothers, sisters, nephews, and nieces didn't know was that I don't get every single human soul on the planet when they die. Honestly, after I met that Nightingale, she was the best thing to happen to me, she even knew things that I didn't even know about and on how to deal with paperwork a lot better.
I then saw a portal open up to see… "Wait, that's Lucifer." I thought before getting out of my throne. "Hello Lucifer." I said, properly greeting Hell's leader. The other gods don't even know the other pantheon exists, but the other pantheons know of us. "Hello Hades." Lucifer said.
"What brings you here? I thought you don't go to other gods unless it's visiting them." I said, while sending a few of my servants to make us some tea and food. "I'm here because I don't want to deal with the yearly extermination for a few hours. Besides, the paperwork gets tiring." Lucifer said.
"Oh don't remind me, I have to deal with a lot of paperwork, and when a demigod dies, I have a lot more paperwork than the normal human to deal with." I said, and for good reason. I made sure whoever made paperwork for our pantheon would be tortured for eternity by signing off paperwork by themself with no help, and with no breaks as well.
"Besides, I get to visit you, one of the gods that knows my pain with ruling an entire world. Isn't that something." Lucifer said. "I still have the room set up, want to go use it?" I asked, with Lucifer knowing which room I meant. "Oh I fully intend to. Hell does get boring with the usual bouts of territory disputes. And the overpopulation problem is another one after a few days have passed on Earth." Lucifer said.
"I've fully gotten the room stocked up with the newest games Earth has, even have the best damn Wi-Fi with the newest router after enchanting it." I said. "Well, what are you waiting for, let's get to it." Lucifer said. "Alright, just a sec. Hey, you five, do my paperwork for a few hours. I'll let you get some time off for that." I said while ordering some servants that know how to do paperwork.
Meanwhile…
Back to Edward's P.O.V.
"Son of a bitch." I said after I felt the ground. I opened my eyes to see the sky red, multiple buildings, and some sort of being that is about to kill some… I'm in Hell, aren't I? "Mother fucker." I said while trying to hide for a while.
I was then trying to move from one place to another and then saw someone about to be killed. I don't know what made me move, but I grabbed my keychain and used it on the being about to kill the… I'm going to call the small being an imp. The imp had curved horns, white hair, a long thin tail that had a barb at the end of it.
"You alright?" I asked, while holding out my scythe and being ready to fight the being that was about to kill the imp. "Huh, why am I not…" The imp said before I looked at it and said "Run, I'll try to hold it off the best I can.". The imp nodded and started to run and entered a car, and then I looked back at the being in front of me.
"You side… with demons... Prepare to… die!" the being in front of me said before lunging at me with its weapon, which was a sword.
I dodged as I tried to keep my word for the imp. I grunted as I blocked the attack with both hands on the scythe. I then found an opening to attack as the Exorcist Angel went to wind up another attack. So I took the chance to hit the Angel as hard as I could, which is to say, not much since I don't know if this thing can be harmed at all.
We both attacked each other and I saw that the Angel had not a lot of grip on the weapon, so I used one hand to hold my scythe while using my other to grab the Angel's sword.
When I grabbed the weapon, I pulled back as hard as I could with all of my strength, and managed to get the weapon out of the Angel's grasp. The sword then took a different form once out of the Angel's reach, and said Angel didn't know what to do without it's weapon.
"Huh, get the weapon out of their hands, and they don't know what to do." I thought before seeing the weapon take the form of another scythe. "What is it with me and scythes?" I thought before using both scythes on the Angel, which tried to grab it's weapon back but failed.
"Suck on this, bitch." I said before using the Angelic scythe to cut off the head, and the Angel failed to dodge in time, and I cut off its head. "That's one down." I said before feeling some unnatural bursts of wind. "Need to get out of here." I said before I got to the car.
And when I got in the car, the imp started to drive. "Holy Satan… you managed to kill an Exorcist Angel." "That's what the thing was?" "It was, and they come here every year." the imp said. "By the way, never got your name." I said, and the imp also realized it and introduced itself. "Moxxie.".
"Edward Nightingale." I said, and when I looked in the mirror, I saw the Exorcist Angels no longer chasing us. "Okay, we're good Moxxie." I said before relaxing in the seat, even though it has no comfort.
"Are you sure, I mean, I still need to drive fast enough to outrun them." Moxie said. "I'm sure, I looked in the mirror." I said. "Well, I still need to make sure to get to work fast enough. And you look like a human, how'd you get down here anyway?" he asked.
"Didn't realize I had a relative that was currently here, touched the ritual on the wall in my great grand uncle's room after killing some priests that invaded my home. I'm sure you can figure out the rest." I said.
During the rest of the trip, Moxie told me about his life, the people he works with, the company for which he works at, which is Immediate Murder Professional, or I.M.P. for short. I.M.P. has special access to the human world, as I'm calling it now, and they basically get hired to kill people, who screwed sinners over before they died.
He gave me a business card and went inside the I.M.P. building to go grab something when we arrived, and what he got was a gas mask that was used during the world wars. "Thanks Moxxie." I said before he smiled and said "No, thank you for saving me from the Angel, without you, I would've died." "No problem, now I have to go find my relative I was talking to you about." I said before I saw Moxxie run towards the building while I put on the gas mask. It would help with not getting spotted as a human, or if my day is anything to go by, something else.
Time skip…
"Finally found you Alastor." I said, seeing him smirk and gave me a grin. "What a wonderful performance. It's amazing you managed to kill an Exorcist Angel, simply wonderful." Alastor said, with static still in his voice. "Yeah well, I also managed to get a business card." I said, showing him the card for I.M.P..
"The Immediate Murder Professionals, my dear nephew, it looks like you managed to gain a connection already, judging by how you saved that imp." he said. "How Did you even know about that? Wait, you watched, didn't you?" I asked and Alastor seemed to grin even more.
"Why indeed, but nevertheless, follow me, I know the way home." Alastor said before walking on the sidewalk, probably to where his home is at.
While on the way to his house, I started up a conversation. "So, Alas-" "Call me Uncle, dear nephew." Alastor interrupted. "So Uncle, how is life down here?" I asked. "It will seem to be fun until it gets boring. All these low tier Overlords trying to take positions and take some territory until they try to challenge the higher tier Overlords. It's quite funny how they try to kill me when I kill them faster than they can blink." Alastor said.
"... Seems to be… interesting, to say the least." I said and he said "I know, but it can get quite amusing to see them fight each other, even after the extermination ends. Those get to be the most amusing.".
"So how much longer until we get there, Uncle?" I asked and when we turned, I saw a four-story house that looks like it belongs in the nineteen twenties to nineteen thirties. "We just arrived, so, are you up to Jambalaya for dinner, dear nephew?" he asked.
I looked at him and said "Are you kidding, I love Jambalaya, basically my favorite food." and he laughed and said "I know, I still have my mother's recipe, and it's a special occasion.". "You mean I get to eat the legendary family Jambalaya?" I asked, getting excited. "Why of course, and it's legendary for a reason." he said.
"Well, what are you waiting for, let's go." I said, walking faster to the house. We both entered the house and what I saw was things that belonged during the time Alastor was alive. There are a lot of things, even an old radio that looks like the one at the family home, which I used to hear songs and also hear old radio broadcasts.
"Before you go searching, I'm going to give you this." Alastor said, giving me a crystal shard necklace. "What's this for?" I asked. "It's to prevent you from turning into a demon during your stay here in hell, if Lucifer manages to find out about your existence, he won't hesitate to turn you into one. You can use low tier spells but higher tiers will break it." Alastor said, and I immediately put it on, because I do not want to be turned into a demon within a month of living here.
"Now, there is a way to go back to the human world, but if you do return back there, I'm giving you this book in case you want to summon me so you can go back here. I am expecting you to do some chores for me in a few days, but we will be doing a shopping trip before the chores start happening." Alastor said. And I have the feeling that I'm not going to like those chores at all, even though I get to do something.
Meanwhile back on Earth…
Acorn's (OC) P.O.V.
"Sir, I checked his home, he isn't there at all, but I did detect some magic at the house." I told Chiron. "What type of magic was used, Acorn?" he asked. "I don't know, even with my knowledge in magic doesn't help since it's not familiar to me, but one of the rooms had three dead mortals in it and what seems to be a ritual on the wall. The mortal weapons… they seemed to not be made out of anything we know of, sir." I said.
I saw Chiron shift around in his disguise, since him being in full height won't be able to fit through the doors. "Well, if he managed to disappear, it won't be long until some monsters discover him, but I can't get the feeling I saw one of those rings before." he said. I then saw the door open to see Grover, my friend, and was about to hand his report for the week.
To be continued…
(AN: didn't expect to see this, now did you, took me 9 pages of google document, but it's worth it, I will be continuing my other stories, but this one will take longer than the others due to me having school, and the fact that this is my first Hazbin Hotel/ Helluva Boss crossover with Percy Jackson.
My head canon though, is when Hades finally gets some free time, he plays some video games to relieve some stress with the best WIFI possible, and no ping whatsoever. Another head canon, is that Hades doesn't get all the human souls, due to the belief and worship mortals do, but Hell is basically an area where people don't believe or worship any gods, so Hades does get less paperwork, but he still has a lot of paperwork, which is the bane of the gods.
Last head canon for right now, can't deny that Apollo and Hermes are best bros.
This is what happens if my brain decides to have an idea after months of reading fanfiction and seeing the Hazbin Hotel pilot and Helluva boss episodes multiple times. Would you like a reaction fic though, can't seem to find a lot of those for the PJO fandom. This is Infinite0001 signing off for now, see you next time.)