Disclaimer: I don't own DMC.
Power to Protect
by Navquessewen
We are so different. Even now, when I see you running towards Temen-ni-gru like my mirror image wearing a trench coat that could easily be mine if drenched in blood, I know that we were, are and will be so very different. You too realize this perfectly well, I trust.
Because this is why you are coming here, ready to fight your way through a demon-infested tower, to find me in hope of ruining my plans. Because this is why you're so sure that a gigantic demonic tower cannot be raised in the middle of the city with good intentions. But this same thing, our differences, also explains why we are so similar in some ways.
The world cannot be only white and black, good and evil, as you sometimes think it to be. If you are a white warrior, then everyone else that opposes you cannot be black. And, yes, a demonic tower can be raised with good intentions.
I see the world in a grey spectrum. Dome things could be generally described as positive, other as negative, but absolution isn't present. If you grew up like me, you'd know this multi-coloured world pretty well, and vice versa – if I grew up with you, things would be good or evil and not as complicated as they are now. And this very thing is what makes us similar, 'cause we both strive for what we believe is right in your case and best in mine.
The raising of Temen-ni-gru is one of these things. I need your half of the amulet, that's why I sent you that 'invitation', though I knew you'd come anyway – because we are similar. In any other case this tower would appear as far from you as possible. Why? Not because I'd fear you messing with my plans but because you wouldn't understand why I'm doing it. You wouldn't understand my reasons and my decisions.
Raising a tower in the middle of the city is bad.
Raising a tower in the middle of the city to gain power is even worse.
But what about raising a tower in the middle of the city to gain power to protect those closest to you? In your opinion it's still just as wrong as the first one, in mine not.
I wish I didn't need your half of the amulet as you'd have nothing to do with this madness, for, yes, I admit that opening the gate to Hell that our father sealed, of your own free will, must be a madness. But a needed one. I must have that power. To continue our father's legacy and to protect the only remains of his family, my family. Our family, Dante.
You can't understand this because your world is white and black. And maybe I envy you because of this. But you won't stop me no matter how hard you try and I know you will.
I shall succeed for our father and mother and you.
I shall obtain it.
The power to protect.
Maybe not as good as my first one, but still interesting. R&R