note: this episode isn't compulsory, it's only here to explain some elements that will be later explained in the story that's why its short, some may find this episode boring. you may read if you want to but it is not completely relevant

Anne's POV

sometimes a life changing event can happen in the form of an accident or a phone call, but who'd had taught that mine would happen from just a doorbell. It was a calm night in my neighborhood in new York and I was just getting ready to turn in until I heard the doorbell. I was a little scared seeing how late it was but I decided to check anyways. I unlocked the door and opened it but I couldn't find anyone, I stepped out into the streets that was lit up by the streetlights but I couldn't fond anyone. I turned back to find a baby in a little basket on the floor of my porch sound asleep with a note on it. I picked up the note and read it and I almost totally broke down in tears as I realised it was from my step sister jessica, I looked at the sleeping baby which according to the note was my nephew Damien. His mother who was my stepsister had dropped him off at my doorstep and left him with me. I immediately took Damien into my home and placed him on the brown couch in the living room. I sat in the kitchen reading the full content of the note which read ' Anne, I know this is all of a sudden but please can you take care of Damien for me, me and his father, your brother, got discovered by, him. I believe you know who exactly he is and what he is capable of and so I believe you know what cones next if someone gets on his bad side and gets discovered by him. I'm sorry to say this but your brother got killed trying to protect me and I have to avenge him so you may Nevers see me again. I avoided meeting you in person to protect you from my brothers. Please keep Damien away from this side of the family, I left a guitar and a little pup to keep Damien company, they should be delivered to you this week and please make sure he lives a normal life. that's my last request from you". immediately I finished reading this Damien woke up and began to cry, I walked to the couch and picked him up and tried to cheer him up but he continued to cry, I guess even he knows how sad the atmosphere is right now.

So far its been 16 years since then and normally people enjoy raising kids but for me, its been utter hell, Damien runs around the house like a wreaking ball just smashing the first thing he sees, or at least the most expensive thing he sees, he pees, poops and breaks stuff all day, I don't even know why Jessica would leave a guitar for a child who couldn't even spell his own damn name. And to top it all off the dog just sits there doing absolutely nothing but sleep, eat and poop all day, like seriously I would kill that dog if Damien wasn't looking, when Damien was 10 I started teaching him how to play his guitar to where I knew how to but I wasn't an expert so I took him to crystal school, it was a normal school but they also took guitar lessons too, in fact it was there where Damien met Sasha, the cutest little girl I've ever seen. they both seemed to get along pretty well and even her single mom was an Amazing friend and soon we became family friends. Sasha and Damien became besties in their school and things was finally feeling like it could get better from here,

"beep....beep...beep" an alarm rang on a stool beside a white bed in a messed up room with urban decor. A brown coloured boy stretched his hands to to shut it off. He sat beside the bed shirtless and in pajama trousers. " finally, its the last day of hell, you can do this damien" he taught to himself as he got up from his bed and headed straight for the shower to take his bath. He got out of the shower and wore a white cloth and a black jacket as he always does. he walked past the hallway and went down the stairs to see a woman in a gown and an apron with long hair in the kitchen cooking stir fry, it was aunt Anne." wow, you're up already, last day of school huh, you gonna miss your friends" Anne said as she continued cooking her stir fry." good morning Anne" Damien said with as he tried to force a smoke on his face, normally he would always keep an emotionless face. " Sasha's coming to stay over for a while, her moms on a business trip, so you both can keep your selves company over the holiday" said aunt Anne as she served her stir fey and came to the dining where Damien sat and began to eat. " Sasha takes martial arts class, she isn't gonna be lonely" Damien said as he ate his stir fry as fast as he could to get to the bus stop on time. " I'm done" Damien said as he stood up to drop his empty plate in the sink, just then Monroe came running to Damien. " whose a good boy " Damien said as he pet Monroe on the head. " oh, you're finally gonna have time to walk your 'good boy', he's already getting chubby" aunt Anne said. Monroe immediately growled at her and continued wagging his tail at Damien. " whatever, that dog has never liked me, I'm surprised he's still alive right now" said Anne as she cleared her own plate. Damien grabbed his guitar from the couch and ran towards the door with his school bag. " I'm off aunt" Damien said as he closed the door behind him, just then Monroe peed on the rug and sat there looking at Anne. " you dumb dog, you know I could kill you right, ull call it an accident " Anne nagged as she went over to clean it up.

Damien ran towards the bus stop to meet a white girl with curled hair wearing a white dress and a school bag, it was Sasha. " Damien, good morning " Sasha said greeting Damien." hey Sasha, I heard you're coming over today" Damien said as he slowed down to wait for the bus. " yeah, my mom's got this long business trip so she'll be gone for half the summer" Sasha said as she played with her hair. " oh, well, can't wait" Damien said. Just then the bus arrived and Damien and Sasha got into the bus and left for school.

Damien probably had the most shittiest day of them all as he was constantly made fun of, ridiculed and pranked, all this because people found it amusing to pick on the kid with problems and Damien had plenty of that. the bell for school's ending rang and Damien could barely hold his excitement. " okay kids, have a nice summer vacation and I really want you to read on the history of england cuz we're definitely gonna have a test on it when we see each other again" said the teacher as he wrapped up for the day, just then a slender boy with cool hair and wearing all white showed up at Damien's table and Damien already knew who it was. " hey dickman, we're taking summer vacation soon, more time for you to spend quality time with your dolls am I Right " the boy said making fun of Damien. " wow, you just can't survive without constantly showing us how low your IQ is can't you Kevin" Damien said as he packed his books into his bag, as he opened his bag his guitar head stuck out of it and Kevin pulled it out. " hey look this, the puppets got strings" said Kevin as he played with the guitar. " give it back...Now!" Damien said as he stood up and faced Kevin. Sasha who sat a few tables away loomed at and assessed the situation and sensed trouble. " really, what're you gonna do about it dickman" said Kevin. " its Damien you piece of shit" said Damien as he punched Kevin in the face so hard, he was sent flying into the next table, Damien smoked but remembered his guitar and rushed to get it but a string had already been cut in two. just then the principal walked in and assessed the situation and looked at Damien with his youre-in-trouble eyes and Damien already knew what was coming.

" really, a fight, you got into a fight" said Anne as she scolded Damien in the living room. Sasha sat on a stool in the kitchen sipping a juice box watching the entire thing. "he started of..." Damien said before being interrupted. " cut the crap Damien, I know you have attitude problems " said Anne " who even taught you his to fight in the first place" asked Anne. Damien immediately looked at Sasha and Sasha immediately looked away. " wow, you're really stressing me out Damien, and I'm not even your..." Anne didn't finish the sentence before she stopped herself. " mother, go on, I know its what you wanted to say" said Damien. " damien-" Sasha said. " I get it yunno, I'm this huge insignificant freak that came to this world to take up space, heck my own mothereft me and I still don't know why, you've never complained about me before but the fact that you did it now means you've kept it inside you for a long time now haven't you, if you didn't want my problems then you should have left me on that porch to die of cold" said Damien as he took his guitar and stormed to the roof while Monroe followed him and growled at Anne. " I'll follow him, make sure he doesn't do anything stupid " said Sasha as she followed Damien. Damien sat on the roof looking at the night sky while petting Monroe who laid on his lap. " Hey Damien, you okay?" asked Sasha as she cane to sit beside Damien. " why does it have to be me who feels this, I have done nothing to deserve this treatment from the universe " said a weeping Damien. " Damien, everything's gonna be alright " said Sasha " at least I care about you". " I know, but I wonder how it feels like to actually mean something to people, to be something important, that'd be great" Damien stared at his guitar while Sasha stared at Damien's face. " maybe if I could meet my mom, then I'd know " said Damien as he played the patched guitar string and started to weeo. immediately he played it, the strings began to glow blue. " uhm, Damien, what's going on" Sasha said confused. Damien opened his eyes to see his glowing guitar and rushes up out of panic. " what the-" Damien said as he began to panicked and dropped the guitar on the floor and then the whole atmosphere began to glow blue. Monroe was continuously barking at the phenomenon while Sasha and Damien tried to go back but the doowmr was nowhere to be found, the glowing kept getting brighter and brighter. " okay, let's relax and remain calm" said Damien to Sasha trying to keep a level head. " yeah, I'd advise you to stay calm now, cuz what's coming next is definitely gonna make you scream" said Monroe. Damien and Sasha immediately passed out at the sight of Monroe actually talking and everything went pitch blue until the glowing stopped and there was no one on the roof anymore.

Things were just getting interesting for Damien and his friends

next episode: the spirit realm

Damien slowly opened his eyes, everything was a bit blurry for a while but things began to clear up, but as things began to clear up, that's when Damien began to get more and more confused. He was no longer on his roof in new York, heck he wasn't even sure if he was in new York anymore. he slowly tried to get up but felt a little restraint holding him back, he was tied to the humongous tree with glowing yellow leaves, cone to think of it, every single grass around them was glowing yellow. The whole area was a giant grassland for miles and miles, it seemed like it was never ending. the only different land mark there was a stream that flowed calmly towards north. " you're up " said a voice beside Damien. Damien looked at the person speaking but couldn't even recognize her, although she looked a lot like Sasha but definitely older. " uhm...who are you " Damien asked " and why am I tied to this tree" . " its me Damien " said the young lady speaking. " sh...Sasha?" Damien asked confused " why are you older all of a sudden, how long was I asleep " Damien asked. " I'm older, look in the mirror genius, you look older than me" said Sasha " if you think we look weird, wait till you see the person coming right at you" said Sasha. immediately a giant werewolf like figure leapt from behind Sasha and drooled all over Damien. Damien nearly fainted out of fear for his life. the monster sniffed all over him and opened his teeth to take a bite out of Damien's neck but paused right before his teeth made contact. " gotchya didn't I" said the beast as he fekk on his back bursting with laughter. " wha...what's going on...what is this " asked Damien who was now even more confused. just then the beast jumped back on his feet. " Take a good look at me and tell me who you think I am" asked the beast. Damien squinted his eyes for a second before widening them out of shock. " Monroe?" asked damien. " bingo" replied the beast who appeared to be Monroe, Damien's let dog. " how did you get so..." damien didn't finish his sentence before Sasha interrupted. " you're never gonna believe this" said Sasha " we're in the spirit realm". " aww, Sasha, whydya have to always ruin everything, I wanted to tell him" said Monroe. " sorry " said Sasha. " woah " said damien. " I know right " said Sasha. " now this is what you call a lucid dream, wish juice wrld could see this " said damien excitedly. " this isn't a dream " said Monroe as he walked towards damien. " right, we're in the spirit realm right....please tell me, why is Sasha taking this so lightly " asked damien. just then Monroe showed damien a scar on his hand. " believe it or not, you're taking this better than she did when she woke up, whydya think I tied you up" said Monroe. " Wow, I still haven't woken up yet...this dream is pretty long isn't it. just then Sasha came up to damien and slapped him hard on the cheek. " hey, what gives" asked damien a little annoyed. " if it's a dream, then wake up already" said Sasha. damien immediately widened his eyes out of shock as he realized that it wasn't a dream bit reality. Monroe cut off his roles and he fell to his knees confused. " but how, how did we get here" asked damien. " believe it or not kid, you brought us here" said Monroe as he helped damien up. " but how" asks Damien. " cuz you are from here from your mother's side, you are a reaper damien" said Monroe. damien immediately froze in shock.

"Long ago, when you were just born, a group of reapers came together under the command of your mother to wage a war against the other reapers. these group of reapers called themselves the angels. your mother knew what she was going up against and doubted that she would ever return so she hired me to be your personal spirit guide and keep you away from the spirit world at all times. That was the last day I ever saw your mother, heck I don't even know if she's alive" narrated Monroe as he kept a long face. " but why would his mother do such a thing" asked Sasha as she felt the sadness in the atmosphere. " I don't really know the purpose of the war, but I know your mothers main objective was to kill the king of all reapers and the one who I suspect to be responsible for your moms absence....Grimm" said Monroe. immediately Damien heard that name he began to have a headache and collapsed on the floor. while Monroe and Sasha rushed to his aid he saw a flash of images, he saw a skeleton faced shadowy figure with two shadowy figure with red eyes laughing behind him, the figure reeked of death and raised a scythe and slashed damien right before he woke up. " what happened to you" asked a worried Sasha. " Damien just kept on panting and kept what he saw to himself " oh...it was just a headache, I'll be fine, I'm just processing all this" said Damien, he felt like their worries was enough as it is. "this is all cool and all, but that doesn't explain our looks" said damien. " oh, this is called a spirit form,your physical form is just the shell of your spirit, this is how your spirit or aura looks like" explained Monroe. " I assumed Sasha knew that too huh" said damien. " well she was very intimidation when she woke up " said Monroe as he held his hand to feel his new scar. " wait a sec, where's my guitar " asked damien. just then a blue light began to illuminate Damien's hand. " remember what I said about spirit forms, that doesn't only work for living things" said Monroe as the light began to clear revealing a glowing blue sword. " damien, just like his the Grimm has a scythe, you have a sword" said Monroe as damien admired his sword. " uhm, not meaning to interrupt or anything but, how exactly do we go back" asked Sasha. a smirk immediately formed on Monroe's face, " I haven't the slightest clue" said Monroe who now bows his head in shame. " really, them what was the smirk for" asked Sasha. " well, there is a way we can get back, but if that's the only way then we might as well call the spirit realm our new home" said Monroe. " what way" asked damien who was still processing everything. " your mother stole the gateway crystals from Grimm on her last battle, if we could find them then we could teleport out of here, but the only way we could do that is if we could -" Monroe didn't finish before damien interrupted. " find my mother" said damien " that is what you wanted to say right, finally I can get answers" said damien who now looked like he had finally processed everything. " we don't even know if she's still alive " asks Monroe. " yeah damien, how do you expect us to find" Sasha was rudely interrupted by damien. " we don't know if she's dead either, she had to have been strong to pick a fight with him, she might even need our help right now " said damien with a serious face as he rested his sword on his shoulders. this was a more serious Damien, it was obviously not just in looks alone that he was older." *gasp*, if you're one hundred percent sure you're up for this then follow me" Monroe said as he led both Sasha and Damien to the lake and dived inside and was nowhere to be seen. Sasha and Damien were a little confused as to what had just happened. " well are you coming " asked Monroe who had surfaced the water to stare get both damien and Sasha who looked as shocked as ever. " c'mon its the spirit realm, you don't really expect anything to make sense do you" asked Monroe as he dived back into the water. damien and Sasha glanced at each other before Sasha took a leap of faith and jumped right into the water completely disappearing. " it's for you mom" whispered damien as he took a deep breath and jumped right into the water with Sasha and Monroe.

how i want you guys to picture damien from now on, and his sword kinda looks like this too, pls note that this isnt my artwork