Messed 2

She kept screaming as she was pulled into a swirling mass of light. The buildings next to her blurred and vanished as she was sucked backwards into the vortex. She hit the ground hard a minute later. The alley was different but still an alley. Her knees hurt where she connected with the pavement. Then she heard the growl. She shoved her mass of hair out of her face and looked in the direction of the growl.

The creature, now that she could see it clearer was at the end of the alley. It shook itself off and stood up to its full height. It resembled a seriously terrifying version of something off the Scooby doo movie. She climbed to her feet and ran for it screaming as she did so. She reached the end of the alleyway it was hot on her heels.

Someone came around the corner grabbed her arm by the elbow and spun her to the pavement. Before she could climb to her feet to yell at him the guy pulled two guns and started shooting at the creature. Alex climbed to her feet and ran for it anyways, no way was she watching some good Samaritan get eaten. The guns stopped firing as she reached the church steps.

She pulled open the door and ran inside. The building was deserted and cobwebs hung from the rafters. Alex collapsed next to an overturned pew and tried to calm her erratic breathing.

"Are you ok my dear?" said a voice

Alex literally jumped and squeaked a short scream before stifling it.

"Easy there my child" said the old man.

Alex looked him over he was a priest so she sighed in relief.

"Oh thank gawd father something, something horrible is chasing me" said Alex

She pointed towards the door. The door was pushed open at the exact same time she pointed at it. Alex's mouth dropped open in shock, no way was that possible.

"About time I finally found you" said Dante.

Alex blinked in shock and turned to look at the priest. The old mans face was upturned in a horrible grimace. His skin split at his nose and peeled back to either side like something was crawling out.

Alex backed away from him in fear. The priest looked at Alex and said "don't worry child the lord will protect you"

While she wondered what lord he was referring to he lunged for Alex. She rolled under the pew and started crawling away from it. she headed for the alter area. Dante opened fire on the priest but it kept coming at him. Alex kept crawling away from the two fighters.

Dante drew his sword and started to hack and slash the false priest up. The priest tried to do the same to Dante with sharp claws and teeth. The demon priest eventually fell and Dante cleaned his sword off. Alex stayed where she was on the floor hoping he would just go away. She heard his boot falls on the wood floor. He sat on the back of one of the pews and remained still for a few minutes.

Alex couldn't see him anymore but the door was standing wide open. She started to get up to run and some thing knocked her feet out from under her. She hit the pew behind her and went over its back. landing upside down with her head near the floor. she was half on the bench and half on the floor. Dante smiled at her and sat on the bench back right next to her. She swallowed and stared at him. Holy shit he looked real.

He put a cigarette in his mouth and lit it. The flare from his lighter lit up his eyes and face in the amber glow. She swallowed when she saw what looked for a moment like fire behind his eyes. She started to inch away.

"don't make me stab you babe" said Dante.

She froze and her eyes went wide in fear.

In the alley Dante watched the girl run from him unfortunately he had blade troubles so he mentally put it to the back of his mind. He killed the blade and followed her. He saw the girl dart into the old abandoned church and smiled. So he followed hoping she would lead him to a descent fight.

He could smell her terror wafting on the breeze and knew it would attract more demons. He walked into the church and spotted the girl talking to a demon, though it was dressed like a priest. Part of him wondered if she was some sort of low level servant or minor demon. The demon changed in front of her and she screamed again before diving under a pew.

He smiled at least she gave him a clear shot. He opened fire and kept firing until he realized it wasn't doing much damage so he went for melee, pulled his sword and got bloody. The creature finally fell and Dante looked for the girl, it was time for mop up. He wasn't sure if she had fled or not because her scent still lingered. He sat down and waited for a second. If something found her she would scream again and if she was still here she would run for it.

He heard shuffling and grinned to himself when he saw her get up to run. He was on her in a second. A foot sweep took her legs out from under her and she hit the bench and went over. He rolled his eyes, man she was pathetic. She started to scoot away again so he resorted to a threat.

She cowered obviously she believed him. She swallowed and started to shift some. He rested a hand on her leg and squeezed ever so slightly. She was sitting so precariously he couldn't help himself. Her legs were over the back of the bench and her head was near the floor. She was staring at him so hard it was unnerving.

"so babe lets start at the top who do you work for?" he said

she swallowed in fear surly he didn't think that she worked for, one of them?

She swallowed and said "I'm sorry what?"

He smiled at her and set his sword blade down next to her side. Stabbing it into the wood next to her hip. He crossed his hands over the hilt and leaned on it. He looked just like a poster her brother had on his wall.

"You heard me" he said.

The look in his eyes made panic bubbled up in her stomach oh shit he really thought she was some sort of demon worshipper. This is what her brother idealizes; man does she need to have a little talk with the shit head.

"what do you want to know?' she said

hopefully she could convince him she was just a damsel in distress, she inwardly winced. Mikhail would be loving this right now. He smiled at her and she was lost in those eyes of his for a moment, or at least until he cleared his throat. He could tell she wasn't in league with the demons he had just wasted but it amused him to mess with her.

The view wasn't so bad either, she had nice legs. After she started rambling off everything about her life he decided to finally call it quits. I mean who really cared that her favorite color was green.

"Easy babe relax I ain't gonna kill you" he said

he climbed off the back of the pew and extended his hand to her. He pulled her upright with one swift pull. Yeah she was rambling and she knew it she just had never been that scared in her life. So she literally told him everything about her. It wasn't until she was starting to run out of things than she saw his mischievous grin; he was playing with her the jerk. He stopped her when she started deliberately adding boring crap to her ramble.

He stopped her and held out his hand to her. She hesitated then took it. He was solid and strong and then she was upright. She blinked in shock wholly shit he was strong. He put his blade away and started walking towards the door. She blinked in shock was he going to leave her there. She started to follow him.

He stopped at the door.

"Why are you following me?" he asked

she looked embarrassed for a few minutes

"I don't have anywhere else to go" she said softly.

His hand was on the door he sighed and brushed his hair out of his eyes.

"Ain't my problem babe" he said.

Then he walked out the door leaving a shocked Alex in his wake.