Quick note

whats this a new a chapter already, weird

Tonight was a very busy night for grim, while wars and battles were common in hell it always brings more work for him to collect the souls of the fallen soldiers. Not that he was complaining, of course he absolutely loved his job, bringing death to those whose time has run out or to those who mock him.

Though he would prefer a quiet night tonight especially after worrying his boney butt off for his wife and child in the delivery room, and the overwhelming joy of meeting his son. But for some reason some rogue angel and stray demons had decided on a full frontal assault on his home. The weapons and forces they had were numerous and formidable but have proven unsuccessful seeing that each of them are being torn apart and devoured by his soldiers and Cerberus, the battle was nearly over until some of the warriors began to blow themselves up, catching the soldiers off guard.

Deciding that enough was enough, grim jumped down to the battlefield and rained terror on his foes. He sliced his enemies left and right with his scythe taking everyone down with a single strike and when his enemies began to retreat he raised his scythe into the air before striking the ground causing the earth to split open and hundreds of damned souls raised grabbing the cowards before dragging them down with them.

When the battle seemed to be over he turned back to his home before hearing a thunderous roar coming from behind him, he looked back to see what caused it only to see a large heavenly beast and a damned hell beast charging towards the castle with reinforcements alongside them.

'Now things were getting interesting' grim thought before gripping his scythe in a firm grip.

With a strong horizontal slash grim sent out an energized shockwave that hit not only the two beasts but all the warriors with them causing all of the forces to fall out of the sky onto the ground with their other fallen comrades.

'That attack was enough to knock them down but not out, I need to get a few survivors to see what they seek to accomplish with this foolish scheme' grim thought before hearing someone running toward him. Knowing who it was grim calmly turned around to see lord pain with his trusty mace in one hand and a shield in the other.

When he was close to his master he knelt on one knee before saying, "Master I have informed the mistress about the situation and she will join the battle soon."

"What about Junior, I'd hate to see him startled by the commotion that is happening out here?" Grim said.

"The young master is within his room resting, the mistress has ordered a few soldiers to stand guard by his room just in case." Charles said.

"Very good, in that case summon the war beast to fend off the brutes from the castle grounds, and do as you wish to the enemies but leave a few survivors, we need to properly interrogate them for this endeavor." grim said before turning back to the battlefield to see the beast charging the ground meeting Cerberus halfway, the dog is managing a decent fight but the rest of the forces are passing by them as they fought.

"Yes master." lord pain said standing by his side before raising his mace and began speaking an ancient language, as he spoke a green mist started to form from the very air before connecting and taking shape of a massive beast wearing a furred lion cloth and skulled armor, wielding a large sword in its hand.

The beast let out a loud intimidating roar as it charged into the fray, crushing anything that stood in its path.

Wanting to take part in the battle grim took two steps forward before suddenly a lycan wolf tried to take a bite out of him. Sensing the foul canine behind them he turned around ready to cut off their head.

BANG

But before grim had his chance a gun shot rang out in the air as the lycan fell down with smoke from the bullet hole coming out of its forehead.

Grim turned towards the gunfire to see Mandy coming out in a skimpy armor that mostly covered her modesty, as well as her arms and legs.

Mandy walked towards grim with a passive annoyed look on her face. She walked past her husband before saying "keep your wits sharp bonehead I won't always be around to protect you."

Grim gave off a chuckle and replied "yes dear."

"Now let's get started, " She said, turning to lord pain, "have the troops surround the enemy no one is leaving here alive."

"Yes my lady." He said before joining the fray.

"Grim, let's get this done before things get unnecessary."

"No problem." With that the two joined the battle with grim bringing down victims with his scythe and Mandy shooting anyone getting too close.

(Meanwhile)

Not far from the battlefield was a cave on the side of a nearby mountain and within the cave was a figure wrapped in a cloak that covered his entire being, next to him was a guy with dark green skin and long black hair that went down his back, wearing brown pants tucked into gray boots, two armbands attached to his forearms and a pair of goggles on top of his head. Both of which were looking down at the battle unfold before them, with the warmth of a fireplace blazing behind them.

"You really think this is going to work?" The green man asked the cloaked individual knowing if they fail it would be hell to pay.

"Relax old chum," the figure said before resting near the fireplace before continuing, "all is going according to plan."

Not a second after he said that a stream of smoke came rushing into the entrance of the cave, it stopped at the fireplace before swirling around and taking the form of a guy in tattered and bloody clothing, within his arms was grim jr crying from being awake and from the whole ordeal.

The cloaked figure stood up and walked toward the man, "You have done well, but what happened to the others?"

With a somber voice he said, "While getting the little brat out we encountered some heavily armed guard that was sent to watch the kid. I managed to escape by the skin of my teeth as you can tell but the others weren't so lucky." Knowing that the mission was suicidal but was hoping some of his friends would make it out.

"Sad but we all knew what we were getting into." The cloaked individual said not taking their attention away from the child.

"Whatever man, let's just kill the kid and get this over with." The man said wanting some sort of payback for what he witnessed at the castle.

"Oh you misunderstand, whoever said we were gonna kill the child of evil and death." The cloaked man said standing in front of the fire place, while his green skinned accomplice grabbed a charred branch from the fire.

"Wait what?"

(Back at the battlefield)

Lord pain sailed through the air striking any foe he could come across with the last one getting their head caved in from the excessive force.

He looked around to see that most of the enemy forces had already fallen or given up, with his master's forces only suffering minimal damages and minor casualties that the master would bring back without hassle. Seeing their victory was assured he turned to where his masters were standing in all their glory, both of which were standing back to back taking enemies down left and right.

His mistress was shooting her enemies with incredible accuracy and precision, killing them instantly, but when some of them got too close his master sliced them into pieces with a powerful strike from his infamous scythe.

Despite wanting to admire their greatness for a moment longer, his masters gave him a task to fulfill. So without a second thought he sent out multiple units to see anyone or anything that's still living.

"You know this whole thing is crazy right, I mean how do we know this is gonna work?" The wounded demon asked, pacing around with his hands running through his hair.

The cloaked figure sat by the fire with grim jr within their arms as the green skin figure was walking around them dragging a piece of chard wood from the fireplace.

The cloaked figure replied, "Crazy or not this will change everything." Not taking their eyes off the child who stopped crying but was whimpering scared.

"The circle is almost done." The green skinned guy said passing by them.

"My lords, these were all the survivors we could find that were able to speak." Lord pain said.

Kneeling before Grim and Mandy were the last of the enemy forces, two demons and an angel, all of them badly wounded and held down by lord pain and some heavily armed soldiers.

"Very good Charles." grim said before walking past each one of them, trying to determine which one would be most likely to talk. The angel who was wearing bronze armor and had their wing skinned to the bone was keeping a calm composure meaning he had accepted his fate, the first demon who resembled a pig and orc was trying to struggling to get out of the soldiers grasp, this showed that it was either panicking or trying to fight to get out, showing it was unable to answer any questions at this moment, the second demon who mostly resembles a human with red skin and small black horns coming out of the sides of his head, on the other hand was terribly shaking and quietly whimpering to himself, perfect.

Leaning forward Grim calmly asks the shaking demon, "Do you fear death," causing the demon to shake and whimper harder, "do you wish to know a fate worse than death that would make even a celestial quake in terror?" Grim finishes with an even tone causing the demon to look up and frantically shake his head no.

With fire coming out of his sockets he grabbed the demon by the collar and said in a calm but haunting tone, "Then tell me, why did you attack our home?"

"Don't tell 'em anything!" The pig demon roared out before lord pain hit them in the face with his mace knocking them out instantly.

"Silence." Lord pain said in a low tone, hating that a mere failure of a warrior would dare interfere with his master's work.

Freezing in place the demon said with a stutter, "W-w-we w-want-ted t-t-to s-secure o-our f-f-future."

Keeping his vision locked on the smaller demon grim asked him, "And how was sacrificing a legion of angels and demons supposed to secure your future?"

Before the demon could respond, the angel calmly said, catching everyone's attention, "It doesn't matter, we fulfilled our purpose and before the night reaches twilight, the fates among heaven, hell, and the living world will be saved."

Intrigued, Mandy stepped in front of the angel and asked in an equally calming tone, "And what makes you so certain?"

Before the angel could answer a skeleton soldier hurriedly made his way over. "My lords, the young master has been taken by an intruder!"

"What?!"

"The circle is complete." The green man said, throwing the branch he was using into the fireplace. Looking at his handy work to make sure that everything was right.

The circle consists of three layers with. The inner and outer circle is lined with ancient writings along with several carvings that encircle around the fireplace, with the middle circle holding smaller circles that are placed in polar opposite sides.

"Very good." The cloaked figure said as they placed junior on one of the circles before making his way to the other making sure not to step or ruin any of the markings.

The injured demon stood back next to the green man, he sighed before saying "Here goes…well everything."

"Send these three to the torture chamber, I'll take care of them later, Grim let's get our boy back." Said Mandy.

"All ready on it." Grim said, swinging his scythe into the air and creating a portal.

"Whoever started all this will be begging for death." Mandy said walking through the portal.

"Only to see that I have abandoned them." Grim finished following close behind.

Once they both crossed to the other side of the portal they found themselves on a cliff side. Grim took a few steps forward looking around before making a sharp left, sensing Junior nearby.

'Don't worry Junior daddy's coming' grim thought anxiety and anger running through him, fearing the worst for his child.

And for Mandy she felt anger that she never felt before, someone stole her child and she will make them pay.