At Some Point in the Past

Island of the Fates

"Sisters! I have great news… the apocalypse is coming!" The youngest sister of the three ladies of Past, Present, and Future cried out in joy as she joined her eldest sisters in their main viewing chamber. Past and Present both looked at each other with looks of confusion on their faces.

"What are you talking about you dullard, Armageddon, Ragnarok, or simply the end times are all just lies and fantasies made up by gods to make themselves feel more important and mortals scared of their own mortality." Past sneered at the absurd idea of the end of the world. Earth had been around far before any of the Gods had been born, even humanity predated the gods even if said gods wished for that not to be true. So the idea that the Earth would be destroyed by anything was just moronic to the eldest of the three.

"Now hold on sister…" Present said in her normal calming way before looking to their youngest sister. "… will the humans finally blow themselves back to the stone age. Some might consider that to be the end." Future just shook her head gleefully at the denial. "Will someone finally open Pandora's Box?" Again, another denial. "One of the Dragon Gods turns Evil?" Once again… but they continued this on and on going over all the doomsday myths from all around the world. "Then what is it?" Now Present was beginning to get annoyed.

"It's the upstarts, they've escaped and Fate Itself has said they will bring about the end of this world." The bouncy sister continued to shake with excitement while her elders went pale at this information. This was truly doomsday that could spread out into the cosmos. The escape of Earth's shattered pieces of the second Cosmic Pantheon could be the beginning of a chain of events that put the whole universe in danger. "But that's not why I'm so happy! Fate told me that he's letting us choose and groom the next Champion of the True Entities of Reality."

"Us… t-this… this is an honor we do not deserve. How could we ever live up to the last, the Hero of the Three Kingdoms." Past could not believe this grand news mixed the dread of possible annihilation on a universal scale.

"Yeah! But guess what… he's given us total free reign on what we can do with them so long as they turn out super duper powerful!" Future giggled madly as she began thinking about all the fun things they could do. The sisters loved three things, creating impossible coincidences in the lives of heroes, watching the love lives of said heroes, and watching the resulting drama and interactions of heroes and their friends and lovers. They had little else to entertain them as they weren't allowed to leave their island and the only company they had were their guards/wardens.

"Does this mean?" Present asked with a perverted fox-like grin on her face. They always had fun when they were told to create a hero, they usually had to limit their desires for their type of fun because their lord and master the Avatar of True Fate was in their words a killjoy that hated their messing around. Which was ironic given that was their job, to mess around with the fates of mortals that would otherwise just be great and turn them into legends.

"Super Zeus level harems!" Future squealed out happy that they were given the freedom to both save the universe while at the same time having their fun and giving said hero rewards they deserved.

"Mmm… it's going to be male… we did female last time." Past hummed seductively as she began her fantasies. Present grumbled a bit as she preferred the fairer sex and Future was just happy with anything. "Do we have prospects?"

"Let us see… did we get a time period for this hero?" Present asked as the three walked over to the middle pool where they viewed the timeline.

"Lord Fate said early twenty-first century." Future was practically hopping with excitement.

"Good time for possible heroes. Many to choose from." Past nodded at the choice, but then it would always be a good choice when it came to the Master of Fate. "A westerner, the last Champion was of the East and we know our own better. Shall he be Greek?" There would be calls of favoritism from the other beings of Fate but their master had made his decree and no one could argue that.

"We do have a Greek hero, Percy Jackson… Son of Poseidon and Hero of Olympus. Fated to save the Greek Gods twice in his life, a possible choice however I'm not sure that he would be best to serve outside his own pantheon. It would take a great amount of work for us to have him look outside his own bubble." Present explained as she looked over the boy's fated history." We could use him… certainly. We can create a relationship between him and our Champion."

"We do have that Wizard, a prophesized hero… but the problem with Jackson lies worse with him. Oh and there is a great deal of fun to be had with him." Past whined thinking about all those girls that could do so much better than the men they would naturally end up with. Even if they had to share.

"I know we said no one from the East but what about this one?" Future asked as she touched the pool and the images in the water swirled around and changed to show a young man with orange hair and holding a massive sword. "Please! He's got so much going for him! He's handsome and powerful… and best of all surrounded by smoking hot women!"

"Again… maybe… Maybe… we involve him with our champion but we have too little influence in that region for us to work at our best." Present vetoed the idea but took a deeper look at the boy in the pool. "However… I do think that the Champion of the True Entities of Reality should be a force of Reality. Such as Death."

"Sister… you are not suggesting?" Past looked worried, while Future said they had free reign to do as they please so long as they get the results… this was something else. This was involving themselves in the affairs of other Avatars of the True Entities.

"That the Prophet of Death be our Champion… yes. What better person to fight the upstarts than the being that is their greatest fear."

In the very beginning, there was nothing. This is a commonly accepted idea among many peoples. And then there was something, the world and universe, the how's and who's have been debated and battled over but everyone understands that before… there was nothing. And to this day, every mortal feels that call of nature to return to that nothing. Death. The End of Everything. The unavoidable fate that each and everything faces, after the world as we knew it was created, the ticking clock of its doom began.

It was not the only primal force of nature that came into being. Many others formed in the first moments of the universe. All of them took their place as the embodiment of the most fundamental concepts of existence. But it was Death that came first. For even in the moments of creation, the end had been set. Death had been made in the begin of everything. And its touch is felt by all by the power of its Avatars. Just as all other forces of reality created beings to enforce their laws on all worlds so did Death. True Death placed upon our world the first God of Death, to carry out the end of all living beings.

And like many of the Gods that came to be, the Lord of Death created children. These were not angels or fellow gods, but a race of beings to find and harvest the life force of living things. Their very souls. These were the Reapers, beings entirely and uttering alien to a living creatures as they were inherently not, they did not live… but existed. But as life came to grow and change and develop beyond mare animals so did the supernatural. Mankind advanced from their own beginnings from the various places that birthed them. Cities were built, wars waged, stories turned to legend. And populations grew beyond what the Reapers could handle.

Other Gods of Death had also formed, beings lesser than Gods as well. But they ALL answered to the first, the primordial entity that was Death itself. But even with this help, the growth of man continued to strain the ability of the Reapers to do their duty. What didn't help was that the various other Gods and Pantheons were waging their own wars over territory, worshipers, slights against each other… many things. Early in man history, before the Pyramids. Before the Great Wall, before the Parathion, it was decreed by Lord Death that all his servants remain neutral to all affairs of the Gods and Pantheons. Even during the Great War, the Reapers never took part on any side. This… ended with the disappearance of their master.

Towards the end of the Great War, Lord Death vanished from the world and no one could find the Primordial Being. The Reapers frenzied, the Black Harvest began. It took the combined might of all Supernatural beings, all Gods no matter what faith marched to crush the wild Reapers.

In the end it was done, at a high cost. Many had died. But ironically none of them died. All of those that had been lost returned as they were. The Reapers could not take their souls or take them from the world to nothingness. They had been killed and now the balance of the universe was upheaved. The very laws of nature were unwritten. Many at first joked that this was a good thing, but many other knew that this would lead to ruin. Maybe not death and destruction but ruin and misery.

The various beings of death and other gods who knew the cost of what had happened had gathered together. And took what remained of the Reapers, their souls… or what the Reapers had instead of a soul. The beings' physical bodies and minds had been destroyed, but their souls for lack of a better term had been collected and put in stasis. These husks had been taken and researched by those Gods that ruled Death in their respective faith and their allies. Soon, new creations had been made, given more independent thought than their predecessors and given mortal lives prior to ascending to their full heritage, thus to give them human traits instead of the alien and cold mentally of the previous reapers. Thus were now called Grim Reapers, in morning of their lost master. These new Grim Reapers were given one last insurance of compliance, they would all be decedents of a God of Death. Thanatos, Mictlantecuhtli, Hel, Mara, Chernobog, Nergal, and several more.

These modern-day Grim Reapers still perform their predecessor's task of harvesting the souls of the living. And now that an uneasy peace had been brokered between the many Gods, the Grim Reapers' task can go unhindered. But they also have another duty… finding their lost master… wherever it may be.

Author's Notes

So! Here is the prolog of the rewrite. Fair warning, the first couple of chapters are backstory heavy. just to let you know that the canon start of DxD takes place quite a few chapters in.

Second, there will be lemons. You can't have a DxD fic without sex. I have read good ones without full lemons but… its not the same. That being said… it will get graphic and fetishes will be a plenty at times. Though nothing too bad… you all know. I will post warning at the top of chapters when and what will be going on if there is anything beyond normal sex. But not mid chapter as I fell that breaks the story up. Also I have found my lemons tend to be a little on the short side, if you would like to help this than get me in contact with a Beta that does lemons. Please! Lastly on this there will be only sparsely used, not every chapter. It will pick up much later but for right now not that many.

And lastly as you guys likely picked up from above, I have some crossover stuff going on in this story. It won't a big part until much later and even then it will mostly focus on the DxD part of all this. But this my story and if I want to throw in some extra stuff in there that's my choice! The following take place in this fanfic world, to what degree varies. (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Bleach, Harry Potter, God of War, American Gods, Lucifer) that is it. For now. I might add in more if I feel it works in well enough. And assume that everything happens as in canon to those unless I say so. Like for instance only the first God of War game takes place here. Kratos in this story is still the Greek God of War.

So with all that in mind I hope you all enjoy.