Hey everyone. So this is going to be me writing assorted short stories and tidbits based off of themes (some made up and some from the 100 theme challenge). I don't know how many I'll write or how often I'll update.

The stories themselves can consists of any characters from the DMC series; I'll shy away from OC's at all cost! I may refer to earlier chapters or events as I continue to write more, we'll see.

Anyways, I'm excited to start and I hope that you all enjoy this as much as I do!


Theme: Date

Written from Nero's POV

I glanced at the calendar hanging on the wall, something had caught my eye. The crisp pages were adorned with chibi animals; it was free from the Chinese restaurant in town. A date was circled with a red pen. I flipped open my phone to check the date, and sure enough, it was today.

What was today you might ask- Valentine's Day…

I obviously hadn't written on the calendar, so that meant the only other person who would was….Dante.

I casually walked away from the wall and sauntered over to the couch. I plopped down onto the worn seat and as usual my thoughts began bubbling up filling me with all sorts of scenarios.

'Maybe he has a girlfriend,' I thought to myself,' or he's trying to skip town today because he broke some chicks heart….hmmm.' The second one made me give a chuckle. Imagining Dante getting his ass kicked by a girl was priceless.

The possibilities were endless. Whatever it was I wanted the scoop. I hated when people kept secrets and acted sneaky. That, and I was a tad nosy, but whatever.

"Hey kid, think any harder any your head may explode," Dante called out as he came down the stairs. I had been in deep thought and hadn't even heard him coming. I shook it off and planned my next move.

The older slayer took his usual seat at his desk and kicked his feet up. Nothing seemed unusual about him today. He was wearing his usual attire, a black v-neck shirt and some worn dark blue jeans. Maybe he was playing it cool to trick me.

I decided to take action.

"So, do we have any missions planned for today," I asked casually and awaited his reply.

"Mmm, someone called about a few low-grade demons in the next city over, but I think it can wait until tomorrow," replied Dante nonchalantly. He rustled through a few papers on his desk idly.

This was my chance. "Why, do you have something planned today?"

I was almost on the edge of my seat anticipating his reply. Not wanting to look too eager I leaned back onto the worn couch.

"Just some stuff, nothing important," he explained.

Damn, no dirt. This was going to drive me crazy. Dante never did anything important or planned. He did the same things every day: eat, sleep, and piss people off. I didn't want him to know I was snooping, so I went on with my business.


It was just after noon now. I had made a few trips to the kitchen so I could casually walk through the main room and check up on the old man. He hadn't move. Something I did catch though, he almost always ordered a pizza around this time of day, but not today. Hmm.

I decided to pry again.

"Hey Dante, is there any leftover pizza?" I questioned hoping he would explain why he didn't get a pie today.

"Sorry kid, not today," was all he offered in return.

I let out a tense breath and walked upstairs to my room. I needed to come up with a better plan to figure this out.


Hours passed, it was getting close to dinner time now. I had been holed up in my room since noon waiting for him to make his move. I kept my music turned down lower than usual so I could hear if he made any movements. I didn't want it completely off, he might suspect something.

I had been plotting for a while now. I decided that if he left I would follow him, and if someone came over I would have to be stealthy and get close to listen in.

Just then I heard Dante's bedroom door close. He walked down the stairs and possibly to the front door. Now was my chance, I had to keep close and follow him.

I left my room and shut the door behind me. When I emerged downstairs he was already gone. I hurried over to the door and slipped my boots on when I noticed something. There on the back of his desk chair was his red coat. He never left the office without it on, something was up!

Maybe he was dressed up for a date and didn't want to wear his loud leather coat. More and more questions popped into my already crowded brain. I didn't have long to ponder this though, I needed to hurry and pursue Dante.


He hadn't gotten far when I saw him from a distance. Sure enough, he was walking without his coat on. He was instead wearing his attire from earlier today.

I kept my pace far enough so he wouldn't suspect anything. He didn't seem to be in a hurry, I noted.

We only walked for maybe fifteen minutes when he stepped into a familiar place, the local café in town.

"I knew it," I said to myself feeling a rush of adrenaline," now's my chance to catch him on his 'hot date'. I can give him crap about this for years."

He loved talking mushy crap in front of me about how Kyrie must be missing me all the time. He took so much enjoyment in my embarrassment. Well it was my turn to catch him and rub it in his damn face!


I needed to wait a few minutes before I went in. I was positive that whoever he was seeing was already in there though because Dante was never on time for anything. He had probably made the poor girl wait for half an hour on him.

I took in a deep breath and walked inside.

The room was fairly busy, there were lots of happy couples talking and laughing. I scanned the room and saw a mop of white hair facing the other direction. He was seated in a booth in the far corner.

I walked a little closer and saw that there were two strawberry sundaes in front of Dante.

'A-ha, he is here with someone,' I thought feeling high and mighty at catching him,' I can't wait to nail him with this!'

This was probably the best time to approach him. His date was probably in the bathroom freshening up. I didn't want to embarrass her by interrupting the date. But since she was gone for the moment, it was a perfect time to catch Dante and rub it in his face.

I clenched my fists in excited and walked over to Dante's booth.

"Oh lookie here," I said aloud with a big grin on my face," this sure looks like a cozy scene."

Dante looked at me with a mouth full of sundae and raised one eyebrow.

"You thought you could fool me, but I'm sneaky Dante," I boasted as I crossed my arms over my chest in triumph," so who's the lucky lady huh?"

Dante continued to stare at me, only now looking at me like I had something crawling out of my head.

There was an awkward silence as I waited for him to fess up. He swallowed the rest of the treat in his mouth and placed his spoon in the sundae bowl.

"What the Hell are you talking about?" Dante leaned back and waited for my answer.

My heart began to race a little.

"You're here on a date right, because it's…..Valentine's Day…..." I could almost hear all of my logic crumble on the ground around me. I suddenly had a bad feeling.

Dante began laughing and clutched his side. I stood there looking like an idiot as people turned to glance at us. I quickly took a seat across from Dante at the booth.

"Look out everyone, here comes the date police," The elder slayer continued laughing for a bit before it slowly died off.

"If you're not on a date, then what the Hell are you doing here," I questioned feeling once again embarrassed by Dante.

"What does it look like kid; I'm eating a sundae…or two."

"But, you were acting so strange, and you put off the mission…." I never thought that he was just here to eat ice cream like usual. All the signs had pointed otherwise.

"Acting strange?" he asked puzzled," ok snoopy, what have I been doing that's so strange?"

"Well, you didn't order a pizza for lunch today," oh gosh, this was going downhill fast.

"Yeah, so I could eat more ice cream, its give and take kid- keep going."

"Umm, you didn't wear your coat today; you never go out without it!" That was strange indeed; I needed an explanation for this.

"You said yourself that it's Valentine's Day," Dante began," I didn't want people seeing me in my red coat thinking I was celebrating it or something."

Oh shit, that actually made some sense.

"Okay, last one- why did you put the mission off until tomorrow?"

Dante lazily took another bite of his sweet treat and gave a grin.

"There's a special going on here today and the strawberry sundaes are buy one get one free," He looked at me and I knew that I had been defeated.

"But, I was so sure…"

"Who needs a girlfriend when you have a psycho stalker roommate living with you," Dante voiced, only adding to my humiliation.

I wasn't sure where I had gone wrong. All I knew was that if Dante had made fun of me before, then it would only get ten times worse from here on out.

Utterly defeated I placed my palm on the table and began to slide out of the booth.

"Wait, let me at least buy you a sundae kid," Dante said halting me," it is Valentine's Day after all, and I'm sure you're missing your girlfriend." He made a kissing noise and began to laugh once again.

There wasn't much more he could do to embarrass me, and the sundaes here were pretty awesome.

"What the Hell…"


Ta-da, there was the first chapter of hopefully many more to come. Thanks for reading and favorite or review if you enjoyed it.