"So... who's the other guy you hired, Lucrecia?" Meryl asked, leaning against the hood of her Jeep Cherokee.
Lucrecia let at out sigh and looked at her wrist watch, before turning on her not so appropriate stiletto heels for off road walking to face the empty dirt road. "His name is Dante and is was supposed to get her 30 minutes ago!"
Meryl ran a hand through her hair and eyed Lucrecia's equally not so appropriate white cocktail dresses. "If I didn't know any better I'd say I was just the third wheel on your little date, Lu"
Lucrecia didn't find the joke funny and made it known by shooting the dark haired hunter a seething glare, before letting her gaze return back to the road to see a red 1964 Volkswagen Ghia convertible driving down the road. Patting down her dress and fixing her platinum blonde hair- she moves to stand on the side of the road where the Volkswagen pulls up.
Inside was a man in is late 20's early 30's, with white hair and a red tench coat. Next to him was a massive broadsword with the plain gripe and a skeletal guard, that had a skull-design on each side leading to the rib cage from which the blade emerges. Lucrecia stands beside the driver's side of the car glaring down at Dante, who calmly turns of the engine and smiles innocently.
"You're late!" Was all that Lucrecia said. Putting her hands on her hips.
"Sorry, I had a few loose ends to tie up before I could leave," Dante replied, as he hoped out of the car.
"That's no excuses, Dante!" Lucrecia snapped. "I told you to be her at 12 o'clock not 12:30!"
"Sorry babe!" Dante said, holding his hand as he walked around the car to collect his sword."
Meryl who was watching the little show from the hood of her car deiced to step in before Lucrecia blew a gasket or something. Pushing her self off, she walks up to the white haired man and extends a hand.
"The name's Meryl and I'll be the second Devil Hunter working with you tonight. It's a pleasure!"
Dante looks down at the hand and accepts the handshake with a growing smirk. "Dante and pleasure is all mine!"
"Good good! Now that we have all the pleasantries out of the way, we can get down to business." Lucrecia said.
"Right, so there is some sort of demon running around here?" Meryl asked, stuffing her hands into her bomber jacket.
"Not quite," Lucrecia said. "The client told me there is a group or some sort of cult that moved in not to long ago and he believes they where the cause for the sudden appearance of these demons."
"Sound like my type of party!" Dante remarked. "And I'm just itching to get things started!"
"Not so fast, hotshot!" Lucrecia said coolly. "First you need to find your way in."
"And did this client of your provided a way in?' Meryl asked.
"Yes and no," Lucrecia replied regretfully. Turning slightly, she grabs a small purses that was hanging around her shoulder and retrieves a map folded in half. "He gave me this map, but you'll have to look for a way in...the demon cults hideout should be somewhere in the old fort just outside the town."
"Sounds like it's going to be a trip in a half just trying to find a way in." Meryl said wryly, taking the map and placing it in her jacket.
"Well then what are we waiting for? Dante asks spreading his arms out before letting swing back down to his sides. "An invitation?"
"And you two better hoof it from here on out," Lucrecia warred. "I don't want anyone in the village to see you."
"What about you, Lu?"
"Don't worry the client is going to pick me up, just go!" Lucrecia said. "You're running late."
"I wonder why is that?" Meryl said raising a playfully eyebrow.
Dante in turned fringe indignation. "Just because I was late didn't mean I did it on purposes!
"Just go you two!" Lucrecia snapped and shooed them off with no true heat behind her words. As she watch the two figures walk off into the night she whispers under her breath for both of them to be safe.