Quick note

A third one, all in the same day?! THIS IS MADNESS!

just kidding seriously this one final installment to the first chapter, (so far) again thank you for your time.

i do not own Grim Tales

Back in the cave the cloaked figure was chanting in an ancient tongue that was starting to have an effect upon the circle he was in, causing it to glow a dark green and grow more powerful with each symbol it passes before connecting with its counterpart.

The air around them started to swirl and pick up as the altar began to grow more intense. The two other individuals slowly backed away fearing what was about to happen.

While the cloaked figure continued his chanting the young reaper across from him started to rise and levitate a few feet above from his spot before starting to radiate multiple energies. The energies started to leave juniors body and and follow the circle and make their way to the cloaked figure.

BANG

But before the energy could touch his finger tips the figure fell backwards lying motionless on the floor smudging the circle in the process.

The other two individuals turned towards the entrance of the cave to see the faces of the queen of hell and death himself, the former holding a gun which was still smoking from the previous gunshot and the latter walking towards them with fire in his eye sockets, both of them looked at the scene in an a menacing silence showing they were both done with tonight.

But before anyone could say anything a loud electric crackling came from the center of the room catching everyone's attention, turning towards the sound they saw as the ritual was going erratic. The energy that was coming from it turned bloody red combining with the energy that was coming from junior and was spinning out of control, both figuratively and literally. Before anyone could have done anything the energy started to converge above them creating a powerful vortex slowly sucking everything nearby, including the dead body of the cloaked figure and junior.

Thinking fast both Grim and Mandy knocked the two beings to either side, knocking them into the wall and rendering them unconscious, as they ran towards their child and reached out for him and grabbed the blanket before pulling it towards their body and held him close then moved away before he could get too close to the vortex.

Trying to get away from the phenomenon, the vortex was growing in size and power, sucking anything that wasn't nailed to the floor. Grim and Mandy struggled to get away from it as the bodies that lay around were pulled into the maelstrom getting lost and sent to who knows where.

Fortunately after the cloaked figure was sucked into the vortex the portal collapsed on itself and closed off before things got even more hectic.

Lightly panting from the whole experience grim and Mandy looked at each other before turning their attention towards their son who was lightly crying from the whole ordeal, they held their child close in a tight but tender hug, relieved that he was ok.

Reveling in the moment for a few minutes before turning back to the cave, Grim asked, "What do you think they were trying to do?"

"I have absolutely no idea, and that is just annoying but I'm glad that they didn't hurt the kid," Mandy said, holding her child close who was starting to calm down, she turned towards the entrance of the cave before continuing, "I'll send Charlie's and a few other back here to see if they can find anything."

With that said, Mandy started to head out of the cave and said, "Come on, let's go home, I'm about ready to put this night behind us."

Following close behind Grim replied, "Right behind you."

"And Junior will be sleeping with us tonight." Mandy said, holding her baby in a firm but tender hug.

"Sounds good to me." Grim said not wanting anything else to happen to his child.

With that grim opened a portal right back into the confines of their castle, where they found Charles standing nearby holding Mandy's pink robe with a somber look on his face.

"My masters, I take full responsibility for the young master's misfortune." Charles said ready to face his master's wrath.

"It's fine Charles, junior is fine but we may need to refine our defenses for future intruders, so after properly integrating the three prisoners go over all security footage and see what happened so we will find a way to make sure that it doesn't happen again." Grim said to Charles as he help Mandy put on her robe.

"Yes my lord." Charles said, walking down the hall towards the dungeon.

Taking in a deep breath grim let out a exhausted sigh before turning to his wife who was equally exhausted from tonight's events.

"Come on dear, for now we'll rest and recuperate, then we'll deal with all this in the morning." Grim said, placing his arm around her shoulder before walking to their quarters.

"You're right I'm just glad that Junior is safe and this whole thing is over." Mandy said looking at her child who was now asleep in her arms.

Both husband and wife retreated to their sleeping quarters unaware that events of tonight was being observed through a crystal orb

Zooming we see a pair of hands holding the orb before the individual holding it monologues "I'm afraid for both of us that what happened tonight will affect and change the course of reality, not to mention give me a colossal headache."

The sense changes towards the remainder of the battle field where soldiers were still cleaning up the remains of the enemy's forces with the voice continuing, "While you did manage to win the battle, and stopped the ritual from being completed you were unaware that this was merely a prologue of the beginning."

The sense changed once more to where grim and Mandy were sleeping in their bed, before focusing on Junior who was sleeping soundly between them.

"This journey was far from over, because it had just begun." The voice finished.

With that the individual cut off his connection leaving the grim family in their slumber, unknown that everything that happened tonight will change everything.