Revenge, Pain and Regret

Chapter 8: Bad Revelations.

(Following Afternoon at the Park)

Grim sat watching parents stroll their babies through the park and other things that he usually didn't a damn about much less liked. He was thinking about Dementia. Damn Dementia.

I could barely get Mandy off my back about who Dementia was. She didn't buy it that all I knew about her that she was insane, made herself mortal then one day mysteriously committed suicide. Worse I'm really starting to worry about that Janet girl. If she's really a Goddess or a spirit then Janet isn't her real name. But what could it be? (Grim's thoughts)

"Hello Grim," a voice said formally from beside him.

Grim turned to see Junior standing beside the bench smiling at him respectfully.

"What are you doing here?" Grim asked incredulously, "aren't you supposed to be at school?" he asked and Junior simply sat beside him without answering.

"Do you think about things of the past Grim?" Junior asked him suddenly and Grim jumped to his feet angrily.

"What the HELL is this about?" Grim demanded angrily, "if this is one of Janet's tricks because of me not being ready to accept her probably fake apology I'm not laugh….!" he exploded but stopped when Nergal suddenly appeared and looked at his sun with wanton fury.

"YOU!" Nergal screamed and grabbed Junior by the neck and shook him furiously, "you know that he's under the Vengeance Allowance Contract of No Intervention!" he cried shaking his son even harder, "if you tell him anything we'll permanently lose our powers," he continued as Grim sat on the bench stiff and horrified, "and Nutria's upped the ante by threatening to kill your mother if you open your big mouth," he added and Junior's eyes widened as Nergal loosened the grip on his throat, "yes Junior, your mother, my wife will die if you don't keep that 'meaning well' trap of yours SHUT," he told him and Junior's dark eyes widened fearfully behind his glasses, "You need to keep quiet," he hissed and threw Junior unto the ground and the human looking boy looked up at his father with his black covered body, green eyes with black pupils and the black tentacles which stuck out his back as Nergal clenched his fists and continued to glare at Junior.

"Yes father," Junior responded tearfully as he rose to his feet and brushed himself, "is Nutria's ante in the contract?" he asked suddenly.

"No," Nergal responded as he calmed down, "she's made that threat free from any contract," he told Junior.

"But she can't do that!" Junior protested, "she'll get in trouble with the law and…" he continued.

"Do you think that she CARES about the law Junior!" Nergal exploded angrily, "she only got her sisters to sign the contract to keep other meddling and more powerful spirits, gods and other special beings from intervening," he told Junior, "she'll take imprisonment to ensure that she gets what she wants," he continued, "what she and her sisters want," he concluded.

"And what exactly is that?" Grim demanded, "I know that contract," he continued before Nergal could say anything, "it gives the persons who want it the right to commit any form of vengeance upon someone the top Gods feel has cost them great pain," he recalled, "who got the contract on me?" he demanded.

"Are you deaf!" Junior retorted, "we tell you anything we loose our powers," he reminded Grim, "and remember that Nutria's also threatened to kill my mother who's not only Nergal's wife but also Billy's aunt," he said.

"But I still want to know!" Grim protested and Nergal boxed him in the face.

"My family's not going to suffer because of you," Nergal told Grim as he pulled his son to him and ran a hand through Junior's black hair, "you probably deserve it anyway," he muttered and quickly disappeared with Junior.

Grim sat quietly on the bench in shock. How could the main God's sign off permission to make this contract on his life official. If the culprits murdered him neither the God's or any unearthly counsel'd never prosecute them. It gave the culprits freedom of committing any crime against the person who they've set the contract against. They could kill them, kill someone for them or even destroy some form of material possession that was precious to them. But what made the contract horrible was that it was vengeance per person. So if six persons took out the contract, each of them had a choice of one act of vengeance. But of course it was ensured that each culprit had to be harmed by the person who they've taken the contract out on. To not do so would've been complete chaos.

Bet Eris would love that. But who would really want to kill me? Wait. Nergal mentioned something about Nutria. Isn't she the goddess of Vegetation and Forestry? Oh no. She's Dementia's daughter. Wait. Oh God! She must've been the one who I dissed last night. But wait. Nutria has green hair. She could disguise herself of …. Oh ShiT!!!! Dementia had only one daughter with red hair. Hatria, Goddess of Hatred. It couldn't have been her that I angered last night could it? But Billy did notice her look of hatred last night and it must've been really bad for it to be noticed by him despite his thick head. Damn it! She also had that older one named Deirdre. She doesn't have a Goddess position because she's part mortal and worse yet by god's standard, human. But what is it that I'm not remembering? (Grim's thoughts)

Grim got up and started to return to Mandy's house to finish doing her household chores before she returned. But then he finally remembered.

"Hatria was the one left behind in the fire!" Grim cried aloud, "Oh man!" he shouted, "she's definitely going to feel that she has a right to kill me!" he cried in despair, "it was always rumoured that effects of those who were burned severely by Hercules Fire varied, but they always had the one common thing of always being in some form of pain whether from time to time or always," he recalled, "but she hurt me when she touched me so…" he said but stopped, "Oh Crap she couldn't have causing pain to people as well through physical contact besides being in pain on a regular basis because of me?" he asked himself in despair, "Oh I am so DEAD!" he cried and started to sob as he rushed to Mandy's house.


(Meanwhile at School)

"Pssst," Mindy whispered to Mandy in gym and Mandy glared at her, "did you hear about what happened to Patrice from the dance class that Penny goes to?" she asked and made a fearful glance at Penny who was across the room speaking and giggling with Irwin.

"What do I care?" Mandy asked coldly, "she's YOUR friend," she said sharply, "you girls bonded so well yesterday after finding out that she's rich and you both love expensive and hard to buy stylish girly clothing," she pointed out, "she does hang around your posse unless she's hanging unto Irwin like she's in love with him or something," she added.

"Oh she's not romantically interested in Irwin," Mindy said dismissively, "she told us yesterday that she finds him interesting," she continued, "and by interesting I know she means a boy who will suck up to her and she'll keep until she tires of him," she added.

"Boy she's nice," Mandy said sarcastically, "so what about this Patrice girl?"

"I heard that she got Penny's part in a recital because of an altercation that Penny had with the instructor," Mindy continued, "Penny dropped out of the class and left," she told Mandy, "but after the class Patrice left ahead of everyone else to shower and when the others came they saw her curled up on the floor sobbing and all of her red hair was on the floor," she said, "Patrice is now in a mental hospital because she keeps claiming that voices made her cut her hair off and blames Penny," she concluded.

"How do you know for sure its Penny?" Mandy asked despite already believing that Penny was definitely the culprit.

"Didn't you see what their Aunt did to the janitor?" Mindy asked incredulously and gave another fearful glance at Penny who started to look their way, "she must've some form of mind control," she whispered quickly, "um Mandy?" she asked fearfully and Mandy noticed from the corner of her eye that Penny was coming over by herself while Irwin now spoke to Billy, "could you behave like you usually would if I stood by you blabbing this long about stuff that would never interest you in a billion years?" she asked nicely but her eyes and voice didn't hide her fear as Penny got even closer.

Two punches later Mindy skidded across the gym floor unconscious with a black eye and her right cheek sunken in and two teeth flew out her mouth and landed in opposite directions in the gym room.

Mandy rubbed her fist slightly and started to walk towards the showers after deciding to leave gym early.

But she felt a hand grab her shoulder and her eye moved to the side to see Penny standing behind her with a grin. Soon it turned into a sadistically insane evil grin and she squeezed Mandy's shoulder tighter.

What did she tell you?

Mandy's eyebrows flew up. She heard a voice but it wasn't coming from Penny's immobile mouth or anywhere around her. It was coming from inside her head and it didn't sound friendly.

Bet it was about Patrice. I could tell without even trying to read either of you two girl's pathetic minds.

"Why don't you speak up so the rest of the class can hear you?" Mandy challenged coldly knowing that the voice had to be from Penny despite it sounding NOTHING like her.

Oh No. I've got a pretty good thing going as the innocent little girl who hangs with popular Mindy yet still giggles and hangs unto Irwin as if he's my little boy love bunny. I don't have any intention on ruining it. Plus, even if I spoke no one would notice. Look around Mandy.

Mandy looked around and noticed that everyone else was frozen in his or her current spot. But then she noticed Kara standing by the benches with a superior grin on her face as she cocked her head to the side and then she soon saw Janet standing in front of the gym's exit staring at her (Mandy) as if she weren't even there.

"Tell Grim that his time is about up," Kara said suddenly, "I didn't see Junior today so he must've gone to warn Grim," she said then laughed loudly and maniacally.

Suddenly Mandy heard a scream and turned in the direction to see Billy cowering in a corner as he screamed and his hands dug into his temples. Mandy turned to see that Janet wasn't really looking at her but at Billy.

"What do you expect me to do?" Mandy asked, "cry over Billy?"

But Penny and Kara looked at her as is if she were nuts.

"What do you see?" Kara demanded.

"Why don't you ask Janet?" Mandy responded coldly and the other two turned to look at their sister.

"What are you doing Janet?" Kara asked seriously.

"He wanted to see," Janet responded emotionlessly.

"See what?" Penny snapped angrily.

"Why I hate Grim?" Janet responded simply.

"Bring him back," Kara said firmly, "she took him into her territory," she explained to Mandy, "that's why we can't see him," she told Mandy, "you can only see or hear him from her territory if she chooses to let you or you're strong enough to break through," she finished.

"So you're telling me that he's in her territory yet he's still in the gym?" Mandy asked.

"She can make anywhere her territory," Kara explained.

Just then they all heard a loud shriek and they (except Janet) turned to see Billy on the floor curled up in a ball bawling and sometimes letting out random shrieks.

"Why did you do that for?" Penny demanded, "we don't want their pity," she snapped with unhidden scorn.

"I didn't do it for pity," Janet responded coldly, "I did it to make him suffer," she said then left the gym.

Penny closed her eyes for a moment then chuckled.

"She's finally become one of us," Penny muttered then left the gym as well with Kara not far behind.

The moment the doors closed behind Kara everyone became unfrozen and continued doing what they were doing as if nothing had happened.

Mandy walked over to Billy who was still cowering in the corner.

"What did she show you?" Mandy asked him.

"She was in a fire," Billy croaked, "she was burning Mandy," he said tearfully.

"Who?" Mandy asked coldly.

"Janet," Billy told her, "she was only a baby and Dementia…."

"Dementia," Mandy said incredulously, "who is she Billy?" she demanded.

"Her mother," Billy responded in a whisper then passed out.

"Darn it!" Mandy cried after a moment of silence and ran from the gym to find Grim.

I might not like that bag of bones but I at least want someone smarter than Billy around to do my chores. (Mandy's thoughts)

Done.

Things to clear up.

Kara is Deirdre, Janet is Hatria and Penny is Nutria. These are their real names and if you remember chapter 2 of this story you'd know that Eris mentioned them in Grim's flashback.

The Vengeance Allowance Contract of No Intervention allows Dementia's daughters to each extract a form of Vengeance on Grim. Also the contract disallows any God's or pure special beings from intervening. Only humans are exempted but this contract is only granted to non-human beings, which are usually WAY stronger than humans and not hesitant in killing them either.

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