Misson 1: Sparta's quest
Fortuna Isle ~ DANTE
Dante walked along the open road of a twilight lit Fortuna while smiling, carrying his reward for another days successful bounty, taking out a lowly demon and funneling the network in which it had operated was done and gone off without a hitch. He didn't even have Rebellion driven through his stomach which meant that his coat wasn't dirty with blood stains (not that it mattered, it was honestly why he wore red.) "Trish will be thrilled for once." He said absent mindedly as he rounded a familiar corner, coming to a halt at his shop, "Devil May Cry" "She doesn't have to look at my bloody clothing and our pay out for the mission was good for once." He walked up the stairs and began to open the door, suddenly his senses told him to sidestep as a Trish came flying through the door on a table.
"Well your late to the party." Trish said regarding him with her cool blue eyes while her golden hair flowed, " An old friend of yours stopped by. However she is rather rude to begin with." Trish dusted off her black pants and hopped off the table, her boots making an auditable clunk as they hit the ground, "I tried telling her that you were currently out and to leave a message, but she insisted that she talked to you." She said while walking up the steps toward the shop, "You know how much that I love rudeness so I thought that I would show her what it begot." the air suddenly crackled and smelled of Ozone as yellow lighting coursed through her fingers.
Dante sighed and grabbed her shoulder, "Look Trish its rude of you to shock out customers, that's not how you party properly." Trish looked over her shoulder and Dante began to think about she resembled his mother, Eva, "Besides" He turned his attention inside the shop, while a lone figure stood at his desk smelling of arcane and devil scent "I know her, she's the one that gave me the job in the first place." He smiled and walked towards the desk, the figure was that of a women who dressed as if she was going to go to a club, she wore a lavender cocktail dress with some sort of strings going through her back lacing through her neck for some reason "Miss. Lilith I take it that you weren't satisfied with the results?" Dante rounded the corner of his desk and kicked the side making his chair slide out, pulled out his sword slammed it into the wall and threw his guns into the air for the holster to catch them in the wall, he then sat down and casually spun around swinging his legs up on the table for a comfortable stop, "Otherwise you probably wouldn't have picked a fight with Trish." A funny image of Trish as a blood thirsty guard dog came into his head.
"You took care of it rather fast." She said flicking her blonde hair to the side making Dante take note that she was wearing a wig, "I came down her to confirm that you had received our payment and to see if you had the confirmation, I asked for." She spoke as if she was high class society and he began to wonder who she was really was. Lilith crossed her arms and pursed her already full lips, Dante smiled and reached into his pouch on his side and tossed it in front of her, Lilith raised an eyebrow and reached over to open the bag, she peeked inside and smiled sinisterly and chuckled then snapped her fingers as an animal looking like a porcupine/over-grown rat hopped down from the ceiling and handed her a case.
"Whoa, whoa, Whoa," He protested, "Not that I don't mind lady but didn't you already give me a reward?" He asked as he saw Lilith put the case on the table, instead of answering she simply opened it and he laid his eyes on a pile of cash, Trish whistled as she sat on a pool table across the room. Lilth slid the case towards him after putting a card inside and turned away after picking up the sack.
"My dear friend you have no idea who or what you have taken out right?" She asked with a evil gleam in her eyes, "Perhaps its better if you don't know, after all the last time I told a human it didn't end up well." She snapped again making the dog thing disappear and turned to walk out, "Oh and tell your guard dogs to be more welcome to those who are of high class." she stuck her nose in the air and Dante could have sworn he saw her skin sag, "Oh and inside you'll find yourself a card to my club feel free to come by any time." With that she walked out amongst the wood splinters and chucks outside, her heels began to clack as she walked away and within three steps of her leaving the air thinned and she vanished.
"So when did we start letting demons give us jobs?" Trish asked casting an annoyed look at Dante, "Its almost like you are really hurting for business." She crossed her legs and began bouncing an 2 ball on the floor, however Dante cocked his head curiously but he didn't answer, instead he look towards the case and opened it casting a look at the card that he was given. It was for a local night club that he was at once when he was younger but he was trying to rack his brains, why hadn't he noticed that women before?
"You know if you don't have a door , then other people can always see what your doing." A gruff and younger voice said interrupting his thoughts, "Plus they'll see that your packing some old weapons as well." Dante smiled as Nero walked in his shop with the usual look of discontent and boredom, carrying a case that most likely held his Red Queen, Dante stayed silent and stood smiling, he had to admit no matter how many times he saw Nero, it always made him think of Virgil, although the clothing was a huge difference as Nero wears a long black and red coat with insignia sewn into both shoulders. He also wears a red zip-up hoodie/vest underneath this coat, a navy muscle-shirt beneath that, and a pair of dark blue pants.
Plus Dante could never figure out why but, he wears two rings on his left hand: one on his index finger that has the emblem of The Order of the Sword on its face, and another on his ring finger which bears a rose design, identical to the designs on his belt buckle, coat clasp, and coat buttons. He has white hair brushed down and blue eyes, similar to Dante and Vergil when they were still in their younger days.
"Oh look Dante, the hunters lapdogs here." Trish said in a bored voice sliding off of her spot on the pool table and walking towards Dante, "What can we do for you? Did your girlie get kidnapped again? Or are you fighting over who wears the pants?" she slinked around Dantes fram and put her hand on his shoulder, much to Dantes surprise though, Nero just shook his head and didn't say anything back and only picked up and slammed his case on Dantes desk.
"Look Barbie, I don't have time to fight with you today." He opened the case and pulled a strange looking glowing green gem, "I was walking to the waterfall after a meeting and I encountered a demon that came out of no where, when I say like no where I mean he had just opened a Hell gate portal and fell out with no catalyst or anything around it. When I questioned him he said his name was Issei Hyoudou, and that he wasn't of this world but before I could get any more questions out of him he transformed into this giant Red Dragon who started to wreck everything." Nero paused to pull out something else, like a purple flame inside of a jar, "When I killed him, he dropped both this green gem and this flame but Ive never seen either or, So I figured Id ask both of you because when he died he opened up a portal and I was thinking that more might come through like that giant frog."
Trish clicked her tounge and picked up the gem, "You said he just appeared and then transformed? So he was a demon bred?" She asked turning over the gem, Dante was more interested in the flame, and as he took the jar from Nero he couldn't help but think about if this thing was a deadly as Nero said then why didn't he see it?
"Well he looked like a normal teenager, his clothing was a little off but other than that he looked like a high school student of average height with short spiky brown hair, with two short locks of hair behind his head, and light brown eyes, there was no real indication that he was a demon, and when I thought about that I thought of this clown." Nero said pointing to Dante, "When I first seen him I didn't think he was a demon, just a murder. So I came to ask you, I know that you've been getting a lot of weird clients here recently as well as that clone from another dimension, who fights in 'Limbo' "
Dante frowned as he thought about the other version of him, the six foot bad attitude and black haired version of himself, although they both shared a name and family members, he was a hybrid of angel and demon and way more harsher and his fighting style was too loose with no style, however when it came to raw power and demon control he did have a lot of Raw power that he was control because he was using it with angel flourish. Dante couldn't help but smile as he remembered their fight, although the other Dante tried he still lost but only barley, it was a pretty close match.
"You said he opened up a portal?" Trish asked setting down the gem and stretching, before putting one hand on her hip and the other one on desk, "Did you close it, or where you too busy being excited for the fact of seeing your uncle you forgot too?" She teased and Nero rolled his eyes and then looked toward Dante, who was still observing the flame, "Look Barbie, like I said I thought id come to ask you before I go in and close it myself-"
"However since there is no real stable catalyst then you have to travel inside of it, and since you have no idea what to do, you came to us to do it for you right?" Dante broke away from the jar and smiled knowingly at Nero who once again sucked his teeth and rolled his eyes, "Or more accurately, you wanted to ask if well watch over you?" he set the jar on his desk and walked over to his sword and pulled it out of the wall and pulled his guns out admiring them, "Well when do we get started?" He asked with a smile, and beside him Trish had already suited up with Sparta, and her own Luce and Ombra the twin guns that Dantes father Sparta himself once used, "Im ready to party, I'd love to see this portal." He began walking out of the door with Trish in tow and Nero close behind, "Oh Nero, if you leave your case here, I'm not responsible if it gets stolen. I'll meet you there I need to make a call to someone as well" He put two fingers to his hand and nodded as the started to become more like a hologram and then disappeared.
Nero scowled, "Show off." He also made a make shift door and a sign saying
CLOSED FOR REPAIRS.
FORTUNA ISLE ~ Trish
The air smelled of moisture and salt as all three of them stood in front of the portal, it had been awhile since she had traveled to the back of Order of the Swords castle and hideout, and even then she was disguised as someone else. She had to say she didn't mind the get up but at the same time it was a pain to try and get past all of the screens, she smirked crossing her arms over her chest and looked over at Nero, she remembered the first time she had ever met him at the castle front while killing off a few scarecrow, he always looked like the Demon referred to as Nelo-Angelo the one of Dantes now deceased brother Virgil. She had only ever heard about how strong he was from Dante and thought about if Nero knew about him as well, it was funny because she could feel faint traces of Spartas Blood in his energy.
"Hey kid." She said making Nero look at her, "You don't see many people just appear out of no where are you sure someone wasn't just casting something from afar?" She said putting Ombra on her shoulder, " I mean I know that a novice and all but did you even think to check?" She was hoping to get a reaction out of him, to see if she could "Trigger" him but he just shook his head and chuckled annoyed.
"Your really pushing your luck Barbie, I check around but I couldn't feel any traces of demon energy." Nero started to pull out his revolver and check it for bullets, Trish cocked an eye brown and rolled her eyes, the kid was kinda boring, Dante said he could fight and he was strong but she was never lucky enough tot pull it out of him. She debated shooting at him when Dante shimmered into vision along with a taller punkish looking young man with a strange hair cut.
"Sorry to keep you waiting but we needed one more for the pre-party." Dante motioned to the kid who gave him a rather defensive look and looked at both Trish and Nero with his careful and guarded grey and blue eyes, "Everyone can I introduce you to the more brutish and younger version of me."
The young man wore a faded black, 3/4-length, hooded leather jacket with red interior linings and the British Union flag sewn on the left arm, a gray tanktop, black fingerless gloves, black faded jeans, black military boots, and a necklace reminiscent of half of the Perfect Amulet that Dante wore, "Well I thought that when you said we were going to a party, you meant one where we slay Demons. Not some meet and greet with the band members." He shook his head and turned away walking away to leave
"Dante, if this guy is you then why does he reek of angel?" Trish said raising an eyebrow as she pulled sun glasses out of her pocket, electricity coursing though her body,"I thought that anytime that a Demon and an Angel had children, they were found and the angel was sacrifice f-" She side stepped as a fist came flying through the air, she saw the way that the other Dante was stanced and flashes of Dantes, "Sting" ran though her head.
FORTUNA ISLE ~NERO
"Trish be nice, this version of me had a terrible fate with his parents ok?" He turned and began walking through the portal and Trish shrugged walking in after him, while only Nero and Dante remained, before they could even move however, the ground around them shook and both in front og them and behind them the bridge path broke, and flew around them and stopping directly above them and the water began to fall upwards and the sky turned to red with black bits of something flying by.
"Great back in Limbo." Dante said looking around and frowning, Nero looked at him and saw tha the now donned a long sword and two pistols, he thought immediately about rebellion and Ebony and Ivory.
"What the hell is Limbo and how do we leave?" Nero asked falling to one knee, it was really disorientating being here, "More importantly how are we the ones stuck here while Trish and Dante get to leave?" He took a few deep breaths and stood up reaching towards his sword.
The other Dante chuckled and said, "Its funny because all you have to do is slay the demon boss that brought you down here, but the thing is that there is no demon around here, just you and me." He gave Nero the most serious look that it only took Nero a few second to get what he was trying to say about him, but before he could even protest Dante drew his sword and lunged at him so fast that Nero barley had any time to react.
As he rolled backwards he took note that it wasn't as fast as his Dantes but he felt the power behind the thrust, and he drew his sword, "Look Im not a Demon I hunt them, but if you want to attack me don't come crying to me if your face gets messed up!" He lunched forward himself and right before he came close to Dante hit his throttle making Red flames dance up his blade and slammed into Dantes blade that he raised to block him,
"That all you got?" Dante asked laughing, Nero scowled and spun again putting more power into the next slam, felt the vibration ringing and running through his own sword as he made contact with Rebellion, Dante flew back but stopped himself after putting his sword int the ground and using the momentum to spin around and vault towards Nero, "If its Power you want to play with" Dantes sword soon shifted into a gigantic heavy ax that made Nero feel as if he broke something when it knocked away, Dante used the surprise attack to his advantage using the flat of the axe to knock the breath out of him and stun him, he then upputted him and kicked his legs out from underneath him and jumped high into the air and began to rotate while pointing his guns at him.
Nero recognized this move and rolled to the side while shaking his head, while this Dante may not be as graceful or as smart he made up for it in sheer power and battle experience, to be honest Nero wasn't about to lose to this version of Dante as well, he quickly got to his feet and pulled his revolver from his belt and went to take aim at Dante only to find that he wasn't were he last saw him, Nero heard a sound of steel being dragged into granite and felt the earth around him quake, the next thing he knew he was being thrown into the air.
He quickly recovered to find that Dante had slammed the axe into the floor and was looking at him rather smug, "You know for Demon Scum, youre pretty weak." and before Nero could think of a retort Dante shifted his sword into some sort of claw and pulled himself to Nero and jumped off of his body, "Your all out of time too." His fist suddenly swelled up in size and glowed of demon energy.
Before both Nero could react and Dante could attack something roared and flew at the both of them, Dante was able to dodge as a body of a rage flew into him and knocked Nero towards a flying piece of concrete and through the portal, he however didn't see the Ghost rage as he wasn't using the heavenly aura. Dante was soon treated to the same reward as Nero, (who wanted nothing more than to laugh but he couldn't) and was soon flying through a place where he couldn't breath or move. It almost came to be so much that he past of from the lack of oxygen and faded into the light.
This is nothing more than an teaser please tell what you think and what you would like to see and well as how im doing, hope you enjoyed.