Summary:
After not seeing each other for more than twently years Dante runs into his childhood friend, Erin, who also happened to be a devil hunter. Though Dante thought that he had already defeated Mundus, it was Erin who proved this wrong. Nelo Angelo also reappeared and there seems to be more behind the latest events than it seems... M for language and adult stuff. DantexOC
Chapter 1
A man entered a dark hallway, the hem of his coat was touching the ground as he hurried through the corridor and behind a door he heard loud music and opened the door, holding his broadsword ready for action. Opening the door slightly he took a look inside and noticed that it was a normal bar but there, in one corner was a demon with a huge body and small, thin limbs.
The young man stepped back for a moment before he kicked in the door to the bar, gaining the attention of the demon which pounced at him. The man then reached out to a black gun and shot the demon several times so it fell back onto the ground and with a clean cut the demon hunter killed the demon which vaporized afterwards.
"Thank god you came around." The owner - who had lurked behind the bar counter - looked up with a fear stricken expression. "Thanks, Dante."
"No worries Riley, I just came around because Morrison told me you have got some information regarding Mundus." Dante replied and put his gun away as he approached the bar owner who nervously cleaned his glasses.
"Y-yeah. I guess that's also why I'm haunted by those damn demons." Riley hissed and put his glasses back on. "Well, I heard that the old demon is still alive in the underground and has gained more followers than ever. Seems like he wants to sever the seal which keeps the Human and Demon realms apart and kill all human beings."
"Damn, does this guy ever give up?" Dante sighed and Riley shrugged.
"I think not, he's an ancient demon after all. Though you weren't the only one who came here and asked me about this information, a blonde woman was here yesterday, too."
"Do you mean Trish?" Dante asked as Riley handed him a drink, the bar owner knew both Trish and Lady so Dante asked him.
"No, no. It wasn't Trish. That woman was more curvaceous and buxom than Trish, not to forget a demon hunter. She killed several demons with only one shot from her gun." Riley replied. "I tried to ask her name but she won't tell me."
"Don't worry about that, it's probably just a traveling demon hunter, they pop out here and there lately." Dante replied as he gulped down the rest of his drink, standing up as he put the glass down on the table.
"She was carrying a sword without a hilt, covered in black bandages. I swear it was glinting white through the bandages when she fought the demons and they seemed to be afraid of it."
Dante stopped in his tracks when he heard that, many people told him that there was a single weapon which the demons fear most - even the high leveled ones. A nameless sword which was nicknamed The Blade Demons Fear.
"I see. Thanks for the information." Dante said then left, wondering how that female demon hunter obtained that sword.
The half demon then headed to his office in the downtown and noticed a car parking before his office, the man who always brings him new job requests sitting in the driver's seat, looking over to Dante who approached him with a surprised expression.
"I thought you're on a vacation in the south." Dante said but Morrison only shrugged.
"I was about to leave but there was another request coming in. Here." He handed Dante a piece of paper with a photo inside.
"A Banshee which is hiding in a church?" Dante muttered and looked over at the photo which showed a very old church, looking quite familiar to him.
"Right. The preacher is quite desperate because it's going rampage in the building." Morrison replied and Dante looked back at the sheet of paper, the reward was written on the back.
"50 thousand Dollars? That man must be really desperate." Dante only commented and he needed money right now so he accepted this one but before Morrison could drive off he requested something from him.
"While you're at it, you need to find some information about the owner of The Blade Demons Fear for me." Dante said as he hopped onto the co-driver's seat. He even doesn't knew why he asked Morrison to find something about that woman but he was curious, mostly because she has the famous sword in her possession.
"All right." Morrison replied while driving the car to the church. Dante slowly came to realization why the church was looking so familiar to him; on the hill behind the church stood the mansion where he used to live with his family. Trying to not look up he jumped out of the convertible, heading to the barricaded church while Morrison drove away.
t felt weird to be again in the surroundings of his childhood and as the memories of happier moments passed through his head but Dante shook off the memories before he headed into the church and search for the demon.
The big hall was usually always full with people but this time it was eerily empty as Dante passed all the bench seats where slaughtered people were sitting or laying towards the altar but then heard loud steps behind him. Spinning around he noticed a rather tall woman with very long wavy black hair, clad only in a black blanket which hid her face. She resembled a Banshee - a Death Fairy - and Dante immediately reached for Ivory and Ebony when the woman raised her head.
"Lord Sparda?" She muttered in surprise which caused Dante's hands to sink, staring slightly irritated at the Banshee. He had met many demons who called his father a traitor or even many other names but never with such respect.
"That was my old man." He replied then but still took Ebony to shoot the demon in case. The Banshee stared at him through strands of black hair before she let out a loud cry which caused Dante get goosebumps and he shot the Banshee when she came running at him with full speed. The bullets hit her several times in her stomach and she fell onto the ground, holding her wounds.
"How dared he to marry another woman - a human one nonetheless!" She hissed and Dante sighed, he wasn't in the mood to take care of his father's admirer but since this is a job and he already agreed he had to do it so he changed from Ebony to Rebellion, pointing the tip of the blade at the female demon which tried to stand up again.
"What happened had happened and you should leave it be." He said but the Banshee only looked up at him, grinning.
"You should know how it feels like to love someone but not being able to be with this person. I can see in your heart that you liked that goddamn woman." Hearing her say that Dante held Rebellion's blade to her neck and stared angrily at her but the Banshee only giggled. "Oh, have I hurt your heart?"
"What do you know about Erin?!"
"Nothing, except that she's also a demon hunter - a pretty skilled one. She has killed my three sisters with ease." The Banshee said and suddenly a vengeful grin appeared on her black lips. "I have hid but I will get revenge for my sisters-"
Before she could go on Dante slit the demon's throat open and then cut her in half. He stared at Rebellion's blade, remembering his childhood friend of whom the Banshee has spoken. He then shook his head and left, deciding to not think too much about it. He has done his job and a great reward was waiting for him, he was short on tomato juice after all.
However when Dante stepped outside his gaze immediately went up to the mansion and he sighed, his feet moved on the abandoned building where he used to live with his family. However only on one side of the house, the other one belonged to Erin and her father - Sparda's best friend - before they moved out due to Michael's work as a professional demon hunter.
Passing the gate he then moved into the house, his heart pained with every step.
Dante headed up the stairs under which he hid as a child before he was about to go to his former room but a figure scurrying in the corner of his eyes made him stop and when he looked around he just saw a female leg in the door leaving. Having a feeling who it might be he hurried after the woman but she has already disappeared the moment he stepped outside she has already disappeared.
"Damn it!" He hissed and decided to leave the building and instead walked all the way back to the Residential area, to Devil May Cry.
Inside he found a small piece of paper and a photo on his desk, probably put there by Morrison before he left.
"The famous unnamed blade is currently in possession of the demon hunter Erin." He read out and looked at the photo which showed a young slender yet buxom and curvaceous with shoulder-length strawberry blonde hair and bright green eyes. She seemingly hadn't realized that a photo of her was taken as she looked at the smartphone in her hand with a serious expression. Dante let the photo lay on his desk and compared it with an older photo of his childhood friend Erin, Vergil and himself he had in the drawer of his desk. Without doubt, the woman was his childhood friend - his first love.
He then sank in his office chair and spun around while looking up to the ceiling, he wanted to see her but was angry at himself to not call out to her before.
Sighing he stood up and headed outside to the closest supermarket to buy himself some tomato juice.
Later that evening...
Having earned some money Enzo went over to his favorite strip club and as always had some girls around him with whom he could make everything he wanted. Lately he started to earn more money than usually and was glad while the girls hugged him tightly. He was bragging to them about once having worked with a devil hunter named Dante.
The women were impressed by that as everyone in the Residential Area knew about Dante, or Tony Redgrave, the devil hunter who has his own office not so far away.
Voices grew louder around him and Enzo wondered what was going on until he noticed a buxom and curvaceous woman entering the club and walking over to the owner of this striptease bar, talking to him. The owner had a solemn expression when she talked with him. She had blonde hair but Enzo couldn't see her face from here but he could hear the girls around him talking about her.
"It's that girl again..."
"Yes, I saw her coming here and asking the boss about something, leaving right away."
Enzo was about to ask them about her when the owner pointed with his thumb over to Enzo so the woman also looked around, the blonde hair was surrounding her beautiful face, shining bright green eyes were staring right at him. She then nodded to the owner, making her way over to Enzo who sat up straight, a bit excited that such a beauty was coming over to him – until he noticed that she was carrying something which looked like a sword and two guns in holsters around her thighs which caused him to wonder if she was doing the same things like Dante.
"You." She said as soon as she was close enough to him but Enzo only grinned at her, although it was intimidating that she was carrying weapons with her but the pretty face was distracting him from them. That woman was far more beautiful than any other he had met and he hoped to persuade her to stay with him.
"Do you have some business with me, pretty lady?"
"I do. The boss here told me you know Dante." She said, her eyebrows furrowing slightly as if she disliked him looking at her like that but Enzo wasn't deterred with her expression, not noticing the coldness in her eyes but felt the oppressive aura around her.
"What if I do?"
"Tell me where he is." She demanded which made Enzo puzzled, he couldn't think of one reason why such a woman would search for a man like Dante.
"Hm, I could tell you. Only if you..." He rubbed his chin while staring at her but she only squinted her eyes, starting to look impatiently at him.
"Only if I what?"
"Well, stay here and let me have some fu-" Before he could go on she quickly grabbed the gun in the right holster followed by a click and then Enzo stared at the muzzle of a black AF2011-A1 with the lettering Berserker in a white ornate font on the side.
"I'm not here to joke around. Tell me where Dante is or I'm going to shoot you." She growled which made Enzo shiver in fear, her threatening voice had reached his heart and he realized that it was a dangerous woman and he won't be able to handle her. The girls around Enzo were starting to get nervous although he tried to calm them down but some of them were used to see it, Dante had done the same before after all.
"O-okay, I'll tell you – just put that thing down!" He said and shrank back in his seat but the woman doesn't budged so he kept talking. "Dante is a devil hunter, he has got his own office down the street called Devil May Cry..."
He told her the exact address and slowly the woman lowered her gun.
"I see. Don't dare to have given me false information. Otherwise I'm going to leave a hole in that perverted brain of yours." She hissed before putting the gun back in the holster, leaving the strip club and a shaken Enzo surrounded by half-naked women.
Dante was meanwhile drying his wet white hair with a towel, trying to get his old jukebox to work again but no matter what he did only a few tones came out before it stopped playing.
"This damn thing, I shouldn't have bought that by second hand." He complained, letting the towel hang around his bare shoulders. "I liked that design, though. I'm never going to get the same anywhere."
He decided to leave the jukebox alone and was about to return to the back of his office when he heard the door being opened. Although it was way past closing time he had forgotten to lock the door so no one would bother him still many were calling his telephone, thinking he might help them with the dead.
"It's already closed. If you need something then you have to wait until tomorrow."
"Oh, then I'm not allowed to visit a childhood friend of mine to see how he's doing?" A soft female voice asked as the door snapped shut. A rather perplexed Dante turned around and saw his childhood friend smiling at him with a crooked smile, her hand on the door knob. Slowly she closed the door behind herself and approached him.
His eyes grew bigger when he looked at her, he could still remember her being so tiny as a little girl but there was no sign of that petite child. He had already saw her in the photo but seeing her in real in front of him was something else.
"Erin?"
"Surprised?" She asked and chuckled as she stopped right in front of him, peering into his face. When they were still children it was Dante who had to look up to the one year older girl but he could feel his lips breaking into a smile when he saw her smiling.
"A lot, although many had told me that you were running around here lately." He said, still captivated by her beautiful face. "You have taken some good jobs from me."
"You mean the Banshee sisters? They were saying some ugly things so I decided to shut them up though one of them escaped." She said and scratched her head. "But I couldn't care less about some death fairies. By the way, you have changed quite a lot."
"You're the right one to say. You have changed even more than I did." He said as he threw the towel on the office chair and grabbed his turtleneck sweater to pull it over his his head and stuck his arms in the sleeves. He could feel Erin's eyes on his body but when he stuck his head through the neck he saw her averting her eyes quickly.
"Well, people do change..." She suddenly grew silent and Dante noticed that she was looking quite sad. "But... I didn't knew what had happened to Lord Sparda and Lady Eva. I'm sorry."
"You don't have to be, it was a long time ago." Dante replied and noticed that it pained him to see her being sad although he had no idea why. Erin only showed him a wry smile as she looked around while he put on his red vest.
"What had happened with Vergil?"
Dante had a feeling that she would have asked that but was unsure how to answer that question and if he should tell her what had happened with his older twin brother so he hesitated so Erin shook her head and looked back at him.
"Sorry, I shouldn't have asked. Forget my stupid question." She quickly replied and turned to take a look at all the weapons displayed on the walls but Dante still decided to tell her, after all Vergil was her friend, too. He told her everything what had happened with his older brother which shocked her and a expression of anger appeared on her face.
"I see… that damn Mundus. Judging how Vergil had been back then I would have never thought he would change so much."
"Don't worry about it too much, it was his own decision." Dante said and patted her head to calm her down but Erin only shook of his hand, chuckling.
"It's surprising to hear you of all people say it." She said and he complained that she was thinking too bad of him but was glad to see her in a better mood.
Dante only continued stare at her which made her frown. "Why are you staring at me like that?"
"Nothing." He grabbed his coat.. "Let's go out."
Putting it on Erin grinned at him as she folded her arms before her chest, tilting her head to the side.
"Is this an invitation to a date?" She asked and Dante grinned back at her.
"Damn right."
She blushed when he agreed on it, Dante knew she meant the question as a joke but enjoyed seeing her face turning red. Dante walked around the desk and playfully put one arm around her shoulders, pulling her close. Erin only poked his side and Dante winced, bending his body to the side. This reaction made her laugh.
"Aw, you're still ticklish." She chuckled while Dante took his arm away and only tousled her hair. "Ah, hey! Not my hair!"
Joking with each other which made Dante feel like they were children again they left Devil May Cry.