I own no rights to The Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy, nor am I affiliated with Grim Tales by Bleedman.

So, just to let you know right now, there are going to be lemons in this story, but they will not be the focus of the story and be very scattered throughout the story. They'll happen where I think they'll best fit with the plot and I just wanted to give that warning before it was too late.

Part 1: To Hel with poor planning

"For the record, I blame you."

"Shut up, Manny."

Five minutes earlier:

The realm of Hel (that's H-E-single hockey stick): one of the less than luxurious of the nine Norse realms that hang on the tree Yggdrasil. A barren, cold wasteland of the fallen, lined simply with rock, ice, and the bodies of the long forgotten. Hel is another of the many realms of the dead throughout the Underworld, filled with the souls of those who died less than gloriously and who now exist in just the same way. Their endless days are simple. They exist as part of their master's collection…and not much else happens beyond that. There are a few exceptions to this, such as when the ruler's father comes to visit, a hero comes to reclaim the soul of a loved one, or today when a pair of over-zealous ghost twins (mainly the boy) appeared from nowhere and started beating the shit out of everyone.

"I thought you said they'd be a challenge." The girl said to her brother as she ecto-blasted another rotting soldier against the rocks.

The brother was busy flying around and punching his way through everything he could find. "Not my fault they don't live up to the hype." He said with a sneer as he caused the head of one of the fallen to be knocked yards away from its body. "Guess I'm just too strong for them."

"Yes…that's the reason." She responded resignedly, turning intangible and causing a sword to pass harmlessly through her.

These two are Manny and Daniela, the fourth and fifth human-ghost hybrids to ever exist, and, at the ages of sixteen, the youngest of the children of the House of Grim.

They're here because they didn't think this through.

"Well that was boring." Manny said as he dropped the last of the dead men. "What's your count at?"

"Manny, I told you before that I'm not interested in your juvenile entertainment."

"Mine's at 540."

"550."

"You liar! My blasts hit way more than yours do!"

"No, you just let yourself think they do because of all the dust you blow around when you miss." She said stately.

Manny boiled. "Why I oughta-!"

He was then interrupted by the massive blood-stain wolf monster, significantly larger than both of them, that slammed down in front of the two, its four paws cracking the ground as it landed. As the beast snarled at the two teens who invaded the hound's territory, Manny asked in awe "What is that?"

"That would be Garmr, the watchdog of Hel and guardian of its gates." Said the computerized weapon resting on Manny's back. This weapon is known as Scythe 2.0, the next generation in Reaping technology (made in 2005). Manny is not one for ever using weapons, so having such a tool with him is very unusual, but we'll get into that later.

"Guardian of the gates?" Manny asked the blade. "So…it's stronger than everything else here, right?"

"Well, that's one way of looking at it." Scythe 2.0 responded.

"Dibs!" Manny yelled as he dove at the dog-beast. Daniela sighed and rolled her eyes at her sibling's battle hungry and short sighted attitude (making a mental note to herself to remind him this still only counts as one).

Garmr bit at him, but Manny dodged underneath the wolf's legs and got behind him. Manny charged up his ecto-beam, but the wolf swung its mighty tail at him. Manny turned intangible but the tail hit him anyway and sent him flying back, smacking first into a frozen stalactite and then onto the ground.

"The beast is meant to keep the dead in, Manny. Obviously it would have ways of dealing with ghosts." Daniela called out to him with a slight know-it-all tone in her voice.

Manny slowly got back to his feet as the hound bounded at him at top speed, teeth bared. "Fine by me." Manny smirked, a little bit of green blood dripping from his mouth. "I don't like using tricks anyway!" The ghost teen took in a deep breath and let loose the Ghostly Wail, a powerful ecto-fueled sonic scream, at the monster that shook the very ground itself. Garmr was sent tumbling back, not expecting such powerful attack from such a young opponent, and crashing into the rocks. Garmr was about to get back up when he was then slammed even further back by Manny's ghost ray. Manny hit the hound again and again with his blasts until finally he heard the dog whine for mercy.

Manny ended his attacks and beamed with triumph as the wolf collapsed. "Beat that." He smirked to his sister.

Again, Daniela had to roll her eyes at her sibling's attitude. They'd known each other their entire lives and Manny's cocky attitude was something she'd long grown tired of. Looking over to the limping body of Garmr, she commented "If this wolf is truly as strong as they come in this realm, it would seem our business is done here."

"Well, there's still is always Hela herself." Manny commented, floating back over to his sister.

"I would heavily recommend against that idea." Scythe 2.0 said. "Dead soldiers are one thing, but Hela is a literal Goddess. It would be unwise to provoke her wrath, especially if she is not already aware of the mess you have just caused within her realm."

"Aw, you worry too much." Manny said to the blade. "Come on, Dani, what do you say? Winner takes all on Hela?"

"You speak as though the score is tied, brother." Daniela said, part of her honestly curious as to how she'd fair against a Goddess. "Or that you actually have a chance." She goaded.

Manny straightened his collar smugly as he walked past her. "Give me just a minute alone with her and I guarantee you Hel will have a new ruler quicker than you can-"

Manny's hype was interrupted as he smacked face-first into a large metal pillar. He had not noticed it before because it was not there before. Rubbing his sore nose, he and Daniela gazed upwards and discovered the metal pillar was in reality a leg, attached to giant metal man, roughly 30 tall with a large cannon attached to his right arm and a purple insignia on his chest.

Both twin backed up in awe of giant, neither having expected anything larger than a frost giant on this adventure, much less what appeared to be a robot.

The large metal man grinned sadistically at the ghost children and pointed his cannon at them, the muzzle glowing as it prepared to fire.

Being completely straight-forward by nature, Manny's first instinct was to counter the upcoming blast with his own and within his palms started building up a powerful ecto-blast. And just as he was about to fire, Scythe 2.0 cried out "Masters! Behind you!"

Caught off guard by the shout, Manny could not react in time. But thankfully for him, Daniela could, grabbing her brother by the collar as she bolted upwards, getting out of the way just in time to avoid the powerful red energy beams that came from behind.

Both looking down to where the blasts came from, they saw a tall green man with a single shoulder pad and gauntlet on his left arm, a broadsword on his back, and a face not unlike that of Cthulhu's. The man did not give them time to adjust to his alien appearance as he fired again at the twins, the beams coming from his eyes.

Still holding onto Manny, Daniela flew to avoid the beams, but every time she changed direction to avoid them, the beams would bend their path to follow. As they started to catch up, Manny signaled for Daniela to let go of him. She complied and released him. Hovering in midair, Manny turned to face the beams and let loose the energy he'd stored, hitting the beams dead-on and overwhelming them, disrupting the path and ending the threat.

The twins floated side-by-side, neither taking their eyes off the new opponents that had attempted to ambush them. The waited patiently, ready to strike the moment either enemy made their move.

…This left them vulnerable to the blast that struck them from behind, the power being too fast for Scythe 2.0 to warn them of in time. Pain rippled through the bodies of both ghost until the blast ended and both fell to the ground.

As Manny and Daniela struggled to remain conscious, the man who struck them walked up to the twins, followed soon by his allies. He was a very muscular blue man in a purple loincloth and boots, his most noticeable features being his skeleton face and his staff, with what appeared to be the head of a ram on the end of it.

"See, I told you we'd get lucky eventually." He told he companions, his voice a higher pitch than one would expect from a man of his build. "It was only a matter of time and my genius planning."

"Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back, Skeletor." The giant said. "Just get it on with."

The blue man muttered under his breath about breaking the robot's arm as he moved closer to the twins. Daniela was the first of the two to sit back up, but could not yet move much beyond that. "Do…do you have any idea who we are?" She panted.

"Should we?" The octopus-faced man asked.

"We are Daniela and Manny of the house of grim, third and fourth in line for the throne of Death, and children of the great queen Mandy! Any act against as is an act against her!" She threatened.

"Never heard of her." The giant commented.

"Contrary to my appearance, none of us are from around here." Skeletor explained. "I am Skeletor, future ruler of Eternia! These two are my current allies, Vilgax and Megatron. As you may have guessed, they are aliens."

Manny's head tilted up at that last bit. "Aliens? WE GET ALIENS DOWN HERE?!" His face almost lit up with excitement as he spoke.

"WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE DOWN HERE!" Megatron roared in rage. "Starscream's incompetence caused my ship to burn up as I reentered your planet's atmosphere and me with it! Now the great Megatron is trapped in this cursed Earth Underworld."

"At least you'll have someone to punish for your death." Vilgax commented. "My ship's reactor core malfunctioned and blew up while I slept."

"And at least you both chose to go to Earth!" Skeletor ranted. "I'm not even from this dimension!"

"How'd you die?" Manny asked in curiosity.

"Dog show." Skeletor said bitterly. "I don't want to talk about it."

"It doesn't matter how we got here." Megatron said impatiently. "What matters is that we're going to get free!"

"What-what do you need us for?" Daniela asked.

"We don't need you. We need that." Vilgax explained, pointing at Scythe 2.0.

"Me?" The weapon asked in surprise.

"We could all feel its power from the moment the two of you entered this realm." Skeletor explained. "That level of technology, mixed with that level of magic, we can easily use it to tear open a doorway out of this blasted place and back to our homes!"

Daniela managed to get to her feet, feeling a little better that Manny was able to do the same in his effort to protect Scythe 2.0. "We…we cannot allow that." Daniela stated bravely. "The souls of the dead are to stay where father has placed them, no exceptions. And we certainly are not going to allow three filths such as yourselves to abuse what belongs to our mother."

"I'm curious as to where it was in this conversation that you believed your opinion mattered to us." Vilgax stated, pulling out his sword.

"You saw what we did to the rest of this realm. We can take you!" Manny declared.

"Perhaps you could." Skeletor commented. "After all, even we had trouble with Garmr and all it took was one of you to take him down."

"Yeah! That's right!" Manny boasted. "So you'd better just back off if you know what's good for you!"

"Oh, you're right, child." Skeletor feigned despair as he turned away from them. "After all, I can only think of one thing that could possibly give us an edge over you two…"

Skeletor then sharply turned back to the twins, blasting them with his Havoc Staff. An energy field surround the two and pain rippled through their bodies as the staff suspended them in the air, the agony far worse than last time.

"I've dealt with the supernatural before!" Skeletor cried over the twins' screams of pain. "I have spells specifically designed to deal with ghosts!"

The pain was too much and neither of the twin could move beyond it. They didn't even see it as Vilgax and Megatron smirked at the children's pain and fired their respective blasts. A direct hit and both fell to the ground.

Skeletor inspected the singed bodies of the teens. "It's risky to leave your enemies in one piece, you know." He said to the other two.

"If we'd gone any further we might have destroyed the scythe and all this would have been for nothing." Vilgax spat.

"Fair enough." Skeletor said as he removed the scythe from Manny's back.

As his eyes glowed while beholding its majesty, he was suddenly startled when two white circles appeared around the ghost twins, sliding across them and reverting them back to their black haired human forms.

"They are ghosts and humans?!" Skeletor exclaimed. "I…I don't think I've ever encountered such a creature! The…the possibilities of what they could do!"

"If you'd like to stay behind to study them, you're more than welcome to, Skeletor." Vilgax said, extending his hand to take the scythe.

Skeletor looked back and forth between the scythe and the twins before finally pulling the scythe closer to himself. "…No. I think the scythe will be more than enough to satisfy my curiosity. But do not worry, my allies, I have not forgotten our deal. Our first stops shall be at your respective planets and then I will return to Eternia."

"Hold on a minute." Megatron intruded. "That implies that the scythe shall stay with you. What makes you think I will allow that?"

"Oh please. Like you could ever fully comprehend the true might of this supernatural power, you festering bucket of bolts." Skeletor spat. "Only a magical and scientific mind on my level would know how to truly use it."

"If we are basing possession on who could truly master its power, than I am the only true candidate." Vilgax spoke. "Out of everyone here, I am the only one who has known true power, like that of the Diagon."

"Power which you lost to a teenager!" Skeletor pointed out.

"And in all your battles, you've both lost to humans." Megatron snapped back. "The scythe's power will serve me best in destroying the Autobots once and for all!"

"Don't I get a say in this?" Scythe 2.0 asked.

"NO!" All three yelled.

As the three villains bickered with each other over the scythe, Daniela slowly regained consciousness. She held her pounding head as she straightened herself up. Seeing that the villains were paying no attention to them anymore, it was the perfect opportunity to escape. Unfortunately, she knew that she couldn't just leave without Scythe 2.0. If it was powerful enough for her mother to keep it locked up in her vault, then it was too powerful to be left in their hands. And with Manny still knocked out, it was up to her.

"Scythe 2.0!" She yelled out, startling all three of the villains. "I order you to shut down!"

"As you wish, mistress Daniiiiii-[click]." Scythe 2.0 trailed off as he ceased all function.

Skeletor looked at the lifeless device in his hands. He shook it but nothing happened. "What-what have you done?!" He yelled in fury.

"That weapon belongs to my mother. As her daughter I have the authority to shut it down and prevent anyone other than her from using it." Daniela stated defiantly (which was a bluff, as she had no idea if that order would have worked or not). "It's useless to you now."

She could almost feel the rage flare from both Skeletor and Megatron. She tensed herself, ready to go ghost and fight at a moment's notice. But then Vilgax spoke.

"From we've just seen, it can be shut down by voice command and likely turned on the same way. Meaning our best chance for turning it back on is to get you to cooperate…or taking out your vocal cords and figuring it out from there."

Daniela made a small gulp as Megatron and Skeletor's faces changed from rage to a sinister smile. "I like the way you think, Vilgax." Skeletor chuckled. "For now, let us not worry about ownership. Once we're free of here, then we can fight it out to our heart's content."

"Wouldn't have it any other way." Megatron sneered as he advanced towards Daniela. Daniela's eyes reflected her fear, but she stood her ground. Megatron dove his fist forward, striking where she stood hard, sending rock, bone, and snow flying up from the spot.

Megatron sneered, convinced he got her, until he realized he couldn't feel her body under his hand.

And then from his hand popped out the intangible Daniela, back in her ghost form. Using the Decepticon leader's surprise to her advantage, she used both hands to hit him dead-on with the most powerful ecto-blast she could create. Everyone in the immediate vicinity was momentarily blinded by the incredible green light.

As the smoke cleared, Daniela floated panting, rarely ever having used so much power in one go. She was ready to attempt taking the scythe back from Skeletor, but when the smoke cleared fully, she froze. As still standing before her was Megatron, several scratches on his chest from where she'd hit him, but otherwise undamaged.

"Heh…pathetic." Megatron scoffed. He threw his fist at her again and this time the ghost girl was too overwhelmed by fear to save herself. He struck her hard into the ground and then for good measure, picked her up in his hand and slammed her into it again.

The vibration through the ground caused Manny to start waking up, just in time to see the proud Megatron let the beaten Daniela slide from his hand and fall on the ground next to him.

"D-Daniela?" He stuttered as he looked at her beaten body. He could see her still breathing and the fact that she was still in her ghost form meant that she was still conscious, but she was too hurt to do any more fighting. "What…what did you do to my sister?!"

"Oh, now he's awake." Skeletor commented. "Should probably take him out too, just in case."

"Do not tell me what to do." Vilgax threatened as he walked towards the twins, brandishing his sword.

Manny wanted to change form and fight, but he'd wasted too much energy earlier fighting the dead and Garmr. It was a mistake he made often while fighting and now this was going to be time he and his sister really paid for it.

As Vilgax raised his sword above them, Manny held his eyes tightly closed and waited for the deathblow to be struck.

But it never came. At least, not to the twins. For out of seemingly nowhere, a massive chunk of metal spun past Skeletor and Megatron and struck Vilgax. The weight of the object sent the alien flying and he was impaled by his back to a rock wall by the massive iron stake.

Megatron and Skeletron were struck speechless. Manny and Daniela just stared wide-eyed at Vilgax, still adjusting to the fact that they were alive. And Vilgax was gagging on his own blood, the metal gouging through a good chunk of his torso.

"Huh. Honestly surprised it didn't hit the big guy."

Everyone (expect the physically unable Vilgax) turned to the direction of the voice. There they saw a rather tall and very thin man, clad in a black hooded jacket, with green skull buttons lining the chest and along the sleeves. His eyes glowed bright green and a tuft of brown hair stuck out from under his hood.

"What…?" Skeletor gaped as the man walked forward to them.

"Oh! Didn't see you there, Skeletor." The man said casually. "Alright. This is good. Having you three all together like this is going to be a huge time saver."

"Time saver?" Skeletor asked, but the man ignored him, walking up to Vilgax.

"Hey, Vilgax, before you slip into rigor mortis or anything, you got to settle a bet I've got with a guy at Moe's. He says your species only has one organ, like an Irken. I say it's got to be more than that. Which is it?"

"CCCHGGHHKKKKK!" Vilgax exclaimed through his gasps for air.

"Look, buddy, just play ball here and I'll split the bet with you. 60-40, what do you s-…" The man trailed off as he finally noticed Manny and Daniela. "Hold that thought."

He walked over to the twins, Manny preparing to fight to protect his sister if need be. The man just looked at the two for a minute before saying "I'll be honest, you two are not the last people I thought I'd ever see here, but you're definitely close."

"You-….you know who we are?" Manny asked hesitantly.

The man raised an eyebrow at the two. "Do you two really not recognize me? …Well…yeah, I suppose it has been quite a few years. You both were…what, three, four years old the last time I saw you?"

As the twins looked back and forth between each other in confusion, Megatron finally lost his patience. "You! Human! Who are you?!"

"Easy, rusty, I'll be with you in a minute." The man waved him off, before noticing what was in Skeletor's hands. "…Scythe 2.0?"

Before either could react, the man was suddenly right in front of Skeletor and yoinked the weapon from his hands. "Scythe 2.0, activate." He commanded.

The weapon lit back up and his word and said "Scythe 2.0, operational. How may I be of serv-! Master Junior! What a pleasant surprise!"

"Master Junior?" Thought both twins. "Brother?"

"About time." He smirked.

He was about to talk with his siblings when Skeletor leapt and tried to take the scythe back from him. Junior just casually pulled it away from him, turned him around, and kicked him back to Megatron. "Rude." He commented.

Turning back to the Reaper, Skeletor yelled "Give that back! We stole it first!"

"Really? Why?" Junior asked. "I mean, I know it's powerful, but most of the people I know who've used this thing just call it a piece of crud. Why would you want it? No offence, twoey."

"None taken, sir." The computerized voice said. "It would seem these three, er, two gentlemen wish to use me to open a portal out of this realm and back to their own."

"Fair enough." Junior said. "So here's a better question, why are you here in this realm?"

"That, I'm afraid, is a little more complicated of a story."

"How complicated could it-…..oh my God." Junior started to say before pinching the space between his eyes. He didn't even turn to look at the twins when he continued. "Oh my God, you two idiots stole from mom's vault!"

"We did not steal him!" Daniela defended.

"Then how do you have him?!" Junior yelled.

"As I said, that is a rather complicated story, parts of which are actually classified." Scythe 2.0 explained.

"And I'm guessing that story involves these two taking you into a realm that your owner would no way in hell allow you to go to." Junior stated.

"Well…."

"Enough of this!" Megatron roared, blasting his cannon at the entire group (including Skeletor). Junior pushed the twins quickly to the side before getting out of the way himself. The Decepticon leader continued a rapid fire assault at them all, the adrenaline of the danger being enough for Manny and Daniela get back on their feet and fly to avoid the shots.

Doing his best to avoid the shots himself, Skeletor went straight after Junior.

"Give me that scythe!" He yelled as the head on his staff glowed brightly with power.

"Ok." Junior said calmly and spun the scythe forward, jabbing the blade into the wizard's midsection. But he didn't stop there. Junior continued the spin and used his momentum to fling Skeletor off the scythe and into the metal that impaled Vilgax, making him share the same fate.

"…This! Is! The worst! Pain! EVER!" Skeletor screamed as the metal stuck out a few feet through him.

"Ah noh rih!" Vilgax spat.

The Havoc Staff fell from Skeletor's fingers and landed beside the two. Daniela, remembering how easily the wizard had taken them down before, figured it would be in her best interest to get it away from the battle while she had the chance. She flew over to grab it and found herself face-to-face yet again with Megatron. His cannon pointed directly at her and glowed brightly.

And that's when Junior appeared. With one arm he scooped her up bridal style and with the other grabbed the end of the metal that held Skeletor and Vilgax in place; the end which Daniela now recognized as a hilt. It wasn't a large hunk of iron, she realized. It was a massive sword.

And with one circling swing, the sword cut through Vilgax, Skeletor, the wall that held them, and finally, Megatron and his cannon.

The two halves of Megatron flew away from each other before the build-up from the cannon finally backfired and exploded. Junior held his sister in front of him, using his body and the sword to protect her from the blast.

"Are you ok?" Junior asked Daniela as the wind from the explosion flew past his hood and through his hair.

Daniela would later blame the heat and redness of her face on the explosion and the sudden thumps of her heart (which until now she didn't even know she had in ghost form) on the exhaustion of the battle. At the moment though, there weren't a lot of thoughts coming to her mind as she stared up at her elder brother and into his strong heterochromatic eyes.

"I-…I-…"

"THAT WAS FUCKING AWESOME!" Manny yelled out, snapping his sister back to her senses. As he flew over to the two of them, Daniela quickly moved to get out of Junior's arm, facing slightly away from the two of them so they wouldn't notice her blushing.

"You alright, Manny?" Junior asked.

"Oh yeah." The ghost boy said, slowly building his confidence back up. "You know it'll take more than these three losers to put me down."

Junior just smiled and let him brag, as it was clear that his little brother was quite exhausted and his hype was probably the only thing keeping him from collapsing.

"So that thing's a sword?" Manny asked excitedly, some of his inner fanboy showing.

"Like it?" Junior smiled as he sheathed the massive blade on his back. "It's called Dragonslayer."

"Whoa…" Was all Manny could manage to say in his awe.

Daniela, partially hiding her blushing face behind her fan, said "There are those who'd say a weapon of that size is meant to compensate for something, brother."

Manny stared daggers at her for her comment but Junior just shrugged it off. "Not to the guy I took it from. Though I suppose that's mainly because he was a little slash-happy with it." He said. "Now…would you mind telling me what you two are doing here, with Scythe 2.0 nonetheless?"

"Manny here decided we should test our skills against some of the greatest warriors who have ever fallen and thus brought us here in hopes of fighting some Vikings." Daniela explained, quickly selling her brother out.

"Hey! This was your idea, too! Don't pin this all on me!" Manny retorted.

"I did no such thing."

"Did so."

"Did not!"

"Did so!"

Junior quickly interrupted their argument. "Okay, 1. Hel is the place where warriors go when they die of anything other than glorious battle. You're probably thinking of Valhalla. 2. Regardless of if you were thinking of Valhalla or not, you wanted to test your battle skills against people who died in battle? Really? And 3. That still doesn't explain why you have Scythe 2.0."

Manny and Daniela went silent for a minute as they looked back and forth between each other, questioning what they should tell him.

"Well…brother…" Daniela said hesitantly. "The thing is…in regards to Scythe 2.0 being out of the vault…we were told not to tell anyone outside the castle, under any circumstances…"

"Who told you that?" Junior asked skeptically.

"…Mother did." Daniela said.

Junior studied the two for a minute, taking that time to understand the situation. "…Alright." He nodded. "I haven't exactly been involved in what happens back home for some time, so I guess I can understand keeping me out of loop. And speaking of home, you two should probably head back there now. Hela doesn't exactly like it when people mess with her stuff, and considering I thought Dan had found his way in here after I saw all the beaten up souls, she definitely won't be happy with you two."

"Dan?" Daniela asked.

"No one you know." Junior said before instantly moving away from the topic.

"Not like you're one to talk, considering what you did to these three." Manny pointed to the remains of the villains.

"Unlike you, I actually have a job that concerns these guys." Junior retorted. He raised his hand upward and the remains of Skeletor, Vilgax, and Megatron were pulled towards him, breaking apart and reforming into his palm as three blue flaming balls of soul.

"Ah yes, we'd heard rumors from the guards that you'd taken up a career as a bounty hunter." Daniela commented. "Not exactly the most proper profession for one of royalty."

"Maybe not, but it keeps me busy." Junior said simply, the three souls floating gently in his hand. "These three have apparently been causing some trouble in Hela's realm, so she hired me to get them back under control."

"And what a good job with them you have done."

Daniela and Manny both jumped at the sudden voice, though Junior didn't react much to it. Before the three, through a gust of black wind and snow, appeared a woman, half of her body as beautiful as could be and the other half a corpse. Junior smiled at the woman's appearance and walked up to her.

"You saved me the walk." He said, presenting the souls to her. "As promised, three assholes for you to fuck with to your liking."

Hela smiled (half of her did anyway) as she took the souls from him. "As always, Grim Hunter, you have quite a way of phrasing things. But still I must thank you for a job well done."

"Well, you are one of my best customers, Hela. No way am I going to spare any quality when it comes to you."

With a wave of her hand the Goddess commanded the souls to leave her and fly off deeper into the realm. "As per usual, you shall be paid handsomely for your services, Grim Hunter. But first, there is a certain transgression involving your siblings that I must deal with." She said, staring venomously at the twins.

Junior quickly stepped between her and the twins. "Look, Hela, I know they're idiots but they're still family and I can't just let them suffer divine retribution. Do you think you could let them go just this once, as a favor to me?"

"They intruded into my realm, assaulted my property, and most importantly, injured Garmr, whom guards my realm's gates." Hela pointed out.

"Look, tell you what," Junior said calmly, trying to defuse the situation. "Any souls that escape because of this little incident, I'll do those as a freebie. That'll give you a little bit of a safety net while Garmr is recovering, something you wouldn't get out of simply punishing these two. Plus…you'd get the occasional pleasure of my company…" He said with a slightly flirty tone in his voice.

Hela pondered his offer for a minute. She then turned to him with a sly smile on his lips and said "Very well. I will not seek vengeance on your siblings. On one more condition."

"Name it." Junior said.

"You have to personally escort these two back to their home and inform your mother of what they did to irk me."

The smile faded from Junior's face. "…Dammit…alright, deal." Junior shook the Goddess's hand and she left a soul in it as payment.

"As always, a pleasure doing business with you, Grim Hunter." Hela said before walking off into her realm.

"Yeah, yeah…" Junior muttered before turning to the twins. "Alright you two, let's go."

Manny watched in confusion as Hela walked away. "I don't get it. Why would she make you telling mom on us part of the deal?"

"Because before there was a chance you could lie your ass off about almost causing an interdimensional incident and not get caught." Junior explained. "Now, with me telling her, she's guaranteed to know. And Hela knows that her wrath is nothing compared to Mandy's."

An audible gulp echoed off the icy walls of Hel.

Author's notes: Hey, hoped you liked this start to a new Grim Tales story (with me murdering your and my childhoods). Sorry if these first two chapters feel a little slow. I just wanted to get some stuff set up properly for future chapters. The upcoming chapters after should hopefully flow better, so we'll see.

Sorry to disappoint anyone who likes them, but this story is not going to focus on the Phantom twins, but on Grim Jr. They will be involved in the story (one significantly more than the other) but the title of main character goes to Junior. Sorry.

In case anyone is curious, in this story Junior was 12 when the twins were born, making him 28 years old currently, with Minnie being 27, as she is a year younger than him. Doesn't really matter how old Grim and Mandy are as they don't age anyway.

The Phantom Twins look like they do in Grim Tales New Generation (which I highly recommend looking up on Google Images) as it is honestly one of the best designs I've seen for a grown up Manny and Daniela and because I suck at describing physical appearance.

Grim Jr meanwhile looks pretty much as he does in Afterbirth, with the noticeable addition of the gigasmic sword on his back, which, yes, he did get from Guts of Berserk fame. Pretty simple story of how that happened, but it's for another day. If you've never seen or read Berserk it's ok because it's not going to factor much into the story. All you really need to know about Dragonslayer is that it is a 6 ft. long 400 pound sword of pure destruction and badass and that I really, really wanted to give Junior a bigass sword because would you not?

Questions to ponder: None this time since this is just the first chapter. But I likely will have some ready at the end of chapter 2.