Brook X GN Reader || I'm The Grim Reaper

Chapter 18

   Scarlet dropped out of the window. Looking down, she saw a young high school student walking down the alleyway, looking at her phone. She was a sinner. Scarlet formed a scythe in her hand as she fell. 'I have one shot...' She kept thinking to herself as she started getting closer and closer to the ground.

   She successfully sliced through the girl as she fell, and they were transported to hell before Scarlet hit the ground.

    Brook looked at the window with wide eyes. How could he have let this happen? "Well damn, you know the rules. No going out without the mask." The leader said from behind him. "Ermmm, maybe there's some duct tape around here..." He slightly rolled his eyes, looking back at the window.

     "Nah, I'm tired, I'm going to update my blog." He pulled out his phone, flopping on the floor. "Can a grim reaper even get tired? Furthermore, isn't she the same thing as you?" She asked with a scowl. "I shouldn't even have to ask you to go after her!" She threw her hands up slightly in frustration. "Don't you need to fight for reaper dominance or something?!"

   Brook looked at her oddly. "What? That's not how it works." She rolled her eyes. "Well, I'd know how it worked if you actually told me." "I don't have to chase her. She'll be back for that blonde guy." He held his phone up slightly, still on the floor, showing her his screen. There was a small cat keychain hanging from his phone case. The photo was of Scarlet and Chase on the night they first met, in the alleyway shaking hands.

   A notification popped up on his phone. Someone commented on his blog. The leader saw they had a bright green profile picture. "Is it that deer again?" Brook looked at his phone and sighed. He clicked on it.

    "Sounds like a fun day! We should meet up for ice cream later :D" - Xx69_D33R_69xX

    Brook smiled very slightly, but it faded just as fast as it came. He started typing.

  "No" - ChocoBunnyBrook7

      He turned his phone off. "Maybe I should chase her."

     His phone dinged again, but he didn't turn it on to check, and put his arm over his eyes.

     In Hell, Scarlet fell to the floor, still missing two limbs and half of her face having a demon covering it. "It.. Hurts.." She wanted to yell at him. How could he not have told her? "Satan!!!"

     Satan, who was talking to the new sinner that had just arrived in Hell, turned to her. He dropped the leaf he was holding up to the girl and pushed her so that she could start her sentence in Hell. . "What the hell happened to you?" He smiled while saying this, clearly amused.

   Scarlet was somehow managing to stay upright. She was bending over, slightly hiding her face. "Why..." She looked up at him, the demon covering her face leaving her body slightly, still disfigured. It looked bad. "Didn't on you tell me... There was another reaper..." Satan smiled wider. "You didn't ask." This smartass.

    "Shut the fuck up. I'm so fucking tired of your shit. Do you think you're funny?" "Seriously? You're losing control over this?" The demon kept growing bigger, more parts sticking out. It was still very disfigured. He couldn't tell what it was supposed to be. "All you do is fucking talk! I'm tired, tired, tired of you!! Shut the fuck up! I'll... Fucking.. Kill you..."

   Satan smiled, his own demon (or satan) abilities coming out for him to use, which were just black arrows with a mustard yellow around them, sending them towards her. "Watch your language." One of the arrows zoomed towards her, piercing right through her stomach. Her limbs were back now, and so was her sanity. She slid back for a second on the ground, trying to catch her breath.

   Her eyes widened and she patted her head with her hands, checking her leg. She rose quickly. "I'm fine?"

   "I can repair that body every time you return to Hell. I've done it before." Satan said matter of factly, a hand on his hip, the other held up on his side. "You just have to be careful that you don't injure yourself so much that you can't move. You got awfully close. One more limb, and you would have either been unable to walk, or unable to hold your weapon. It's awfully hard to kill a sinner while crawling."

   "It would have been nice if you gave me the specifics earlier." Satan let one hand fall to his side the other on his chin. "Honestly, it should be a pleasant surprise. That body is the least of your worries, anyways. You let the demon inside of you completely take over for a moment. I had to smack it back into submission with that little stab." "The WHAT inside me?"

  Satan looked to the side slightly. "The demon.." He muttered, as if telling his mom something important that he didn't mention. He practically was, but Scarlet wasn't his mother. Scarlet felt herself losing control again. 'Actually, should I have intervened?' Satan turned around and thought to himself.

     The demon inside Scarlet was out, again. "You put a fucking demon inside me?!" "Can you please stop that?" Satan yawned, stabbing her a little bit again. "Why are you surprised? I told you this already. I wasn't using a euphemism. I literally put a demon inside of you. It's rattling around in that body of yours with your actual soul. It's what gives you your reaper abilities." Scarlet remembered when what she now knows as the demon had gone into her mouth when she first came here.

     "Usually you're the one driving your body, but that demon is always there. Waiting." Scarlet couldn't help but imagine tiny little flames, herself as red and the demon as black. The red flame was at the wheel, the black one in the passenger seat, nagging to start driving. "If your emotions are unstable, your demon will start to take control. It feels nothing but primal instincts; fear, anger, rage...." The black flame pushed the red flame out of the way, as the red flame started to feel overwhelmed, and started driving crazily, unlike the red flame, which was normal.

    "Your body will respond in turn- most likely unreasonably, and violently. It depends on the situation, and the emotion that triggered it. You losing control from anger means you'll lash out, but it's a response to something like fear would probably be to shut off your nerves and run." Scarlet thought back to when she killed that kid in the alley, and when she tried to run away from Brook when he ripped her arm off. "It's an animal, basically. Fight or flight. And if it manages to take total control, you're screwed. Good luck wrangling power back from that thing." Scarlet's eyes widened. She couldn't believe what she was hearing.

     "Then what about that reaper I just ran into?! He had his demon thing out, and he was completely calm! And he didn't even have a sinners mark! That makes no sense! How is he a reaper?!" Satan leaned back slightly. "Oh, you ran into Brook? Good thing it wasn't the other ones." "There's more of them!?" Satan smiled and leaned his head on his hand slightly. "You're a little confused, aren't you? Well, since I'm such a nice guy... I'll tell you more about the other reapers."

    "Did someone say... Exposition?!" - Graveweaver

   (Revised and checked for errors: yes, once.)

    Words: 1269

Fun fact of the day: My favorite Harry Potter character is Neville, and if you don't like him get off this story 😇 /hj