Well folks, it's time for the next chapter of Devil Hunter of Night Raid.
Now admittedly I wanted to get this out four days ago, but first there was the FF site going under maintenance right when I was about to start writing this chapter, and yesterday the two internet hogs in the house just would not call it a night last night (They stayed up to 2 A.M. and have been getting up at 5:30 A.M.), Then FF went out AGAIN. And the day nothing happened and I could write I just couldn't get myself to write.
Now then about the little thing a couple people have spoken of in the comments regarding Dante and Night Raid...Well I'll explain at the end of this chapter.
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By the time Dante had found the Capital night had fallen.
"Well I certainly hope this is the Capital." Dante mused, "Be kind of annoying finding a titanic city that doesn't have any form of corruption when it's the opposite of what I'm looking for."
Dante walked up to the front gate of the city, where two guards that were half asleep jumped awake and drew their swords,
"Halt!" One of them shouted as Dante slowed to a stop, "Are you with Night Raid?"
"Well that's a dumb thing to ask." Dante said, "I mean if I was I could easily say I'm not."
"Does that mean you are Night Raid!?" The second guard shouted.
"No I'm just saying you're asking a really dumb question." Dante joked, "But in all honesty I'm not Night Raid, I'm just a traveler."
"Then what's with the giant sword?" The first guard asked lowering his sword slightly.
"You're joking right?" Dante asked, "Do you really think I can kill Danger Beast's with my own two hands?"
"You've got a point." The Guard said stepping aside and opening the front gate slightly enough Dante could slip in, "Welcome to the Capital."
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"Whew." Dante breathed dramatically waving his hand in front of his face as he walked through the nearly empty street, "You can practically smell the sin in this place."
Looking around, he could tell he was in one of the middle class districts... or at least it was middle class for what could constitute as such back in his home, here who knows what it could be classified as.
As he walked down the street he passed a carriage, hearing a woman inside speak to the driver.
"Stop the carriage." The womans voice said, "Excuse me sir?"
Dante tilted his head to see a young woman with short blonde hair wearing a white long sleeved shirt, under a sleeveless light blue dress and black bodice with a light blue ribbon around her neck and white boots.
"Yeah?" Dante asked.
"Do you have a place to stay for the night?" The woman asked.
"Haven't even started looking little girl." Dante said.
"Well you can stay with me and my parents." The woman said, with Dante noticing her suppressing a smirk.
"Sorry, not interested." Dante said as he started walking again.
"What?" The woman asked suddenly confused, "I'm offering you a place to stay for free."
"And I'm not interested." Dante said, "Night's young and I just got here."
"But-" The woman started.
"See ya." Dante said turning a corner.
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"So this is Night Raid." Dante said looking at a set of four posters on a bulletin board, "Well that had better not be all their members, if they are that small a group then they aren't gonna last much longer."
Dante turned away from the bulletin board and walked down a street at random, "Then again, I run a business with only four people hunting demons, and I do most of the work." Dante mused, "Then again, I'm the only one in debt."
Shrugging Dante walked into one of the higher class districts and stopped.
"Shouldn't be surprised Demon's are here." Dante said before pulling out Ebony, turning around and firing the gun at a figure.
The figure flew back from the bullet and slammed against a wall.
It's body was made of sack cloth, all seeming stitched together, with a violet sack on it's head with eyeholes, it's legs were wooden pegs from the knee's down, one of it's arms was a wood stick with a pair of short prongs on it and it's other arm was a large curved executioner's blade.
This was a lesser demon known as a Scarecrow.
[OST: Devil May Cry- Lock and Load]
When the Scarecrow managed to pull itself off the wall, swirls of dark brown insects appeared as more Scarecrows rose out of them, some of them having the blade on their leg instead of their arms.
"Well then." Dante said pulling out Ivory, "Let's rock."
Lunging at the first of the Scarecrow's Dante kicked the demon airborne, turning to the next Scarecrow, one with a blade leg, Dante swapped his guns for Rebellion, slicing the Scarecrow in half, killing off the demon insects within it.
Dante swung Rebellion around to bisect the Scarecrows surrounding him before backflipping into the air, landing on the Scarecrow he had launched earlier.
When the Scarecrow hit the ground Dante kicked the ground toward the remaining Scarecrows, causing his ride to spin as he pulled out Ebony and Ivory and began to fire non-stop through the crowd of demons.
"Woo hoo!" Dante shouted in glee as the dozen or so Scarecrows were filled with bullet holes that the demon bugs inside of them escaped through in a gas-like form, signifying their death.
When the only Scarecrow left was the one Dante stood on, he quickly jumped off the demon, flipped himself upside down in the air, and with a spin began to rain down bullet's on the lowly demon.
[OST End]
"Well, that was lackluster." Dante said holstering his guns, but hesitating on letting go of them as he felt someone behind him.
Spinning around Dante pulled Ebony and Ivory back out and aimed them at the being behind him.
The figure behind him was a young looking girl with long black hair that reached her knee's and had red eyes, she was wearing a dark sleeveless minidress with a white collar and red tie, long black socks, and black shoes, and red gauntlet's over black gloves. In her left hand was a sheathed long katana that had a red handle and sheathe.
Dante could sense a dark power from the sword.
"Sorry ab-" Dante started, only for the girl to unsheathe the Katana and faster than a human eye could track swung the blade at Dante.
However Dante wasn't fully human, thus with the slightest shift of his hands blocked the sword with Ebony.
"Well that's not very nice." Dante said putting Ivory's barrel at the blade, "Neither is sneaking up on people."
Ivory fired, knocking the katana away from the gun, and causing the woman to stumble from the sudden shift of resistance and force.
[DMC4: Blacked Angel]
The woman leapt back after regaining her balance and glared at Dante.
"Hostile." She said quietly, "Elimate."
"Why can't I meet any nice girls?" Dante sighed pulling Rebellion off his back, "Hey, aren't you one of those Night Raid chicks? Akame?"
Akame, as her name was, didn't answer, at least verbally, instead she lunged at Dante and attempted a flurry of slashes.
Despite it's size, Dante swung Rebellion at speeds that easily matched Akame's.
Akame on the other hand was shocked at the speed the man was wielding the sword, sometimes she didn't even see her sword bounce off the claymore.
Akame then felt her weapon get hit harder than the last few swipes in the flurry, this time locking her down so she couldn't pull away without getting harmed.
"Shouldn't you be in school? Not out killing nobility?" Dante teased before overpowering Akame causing her sword to slam into her face.
As Akame tumbled back she quickly checked her reflection in her swords blade, letting out a slight sigh of relief, personally glad that Murasame's 'One-cut kill' didn't completely extend to the back of the blade, after all no one ever tried attacking with the non-lethal side of the blade so no one knew if Murasame's flat sides could inflict the curse.
Thankfully it didn't, but that still put Akame on further edge, not only was this guy fast enough to keep up with her with a massive weapon such as his, but he easily threw her, something that didn't happen too often when she was fighting for real... And not against one of her teammates.
"I mean what's with the school girl outfit if you don't go to school?" Dante asked.
Akame refocused and lunged at Dante, catching his sword by it's skeletal gaurd and twisted. Doing this she managed to knock the sword from Dante's hand.
But the man managed to use it against her and launched Murasame away from her hand, embedding it in the wall while his sword clattered against the ground.
Not willing to give Dante a moment to breathe, Akame felt glad she had gotten hand to hand practice in her training as she threw a quick jab at the older man, which would be enough to knock any normal person to their knee's.
However her eye's went wide as her fist connected with Dante's, however he was wearing something he clearly wasn't wearing before.
On his hands and fore arms were black gauntlets that vaguely resembled wolf heads, while he legs were covered by greaves that looked like clawed legs and had glowing white veins running through them.
Akame pulled her fist back, noting the throbbing pain in it from punching what felt like metal, but tougher.
"Haven't used this puppy in a while." Dante said throwing a few test punches and kicks with one of his older Devil Arms, Beowulf, "Let's see if he holds."
Akame stepped toward Dante slwoly, knowing she was outmatched against him in a fist fight.
Dante threw the first punch, which Akame ducked under, noticing the light that came from the gauntlet as he did so, however she was caught off guard when Dante threw another punch soon after the first one, before swinging his leg up to launch Akame into the air.
"Oof." Akame grunted as she landed on her back.
"Listen lady, you really got to be careful who you attack." Dante said walking toward her slowly.
Akame looked to her left and noticed Rebellion on the ground next to her.
'If those Gauntlets are his Teigu.' Akame thought to herself, 'Then this should just be a normal sword.'
Faster than she expected of her self Akame grabbed Rebellion by the handle, jumped up and thrust the sword's tip at Dante.
Dante didn't even try to dodge as Akame plunged Rebellion through Dante's heart up to the hilt.
[OST End]
Akame breathed a sigh of relief as Dante fell over from the force of the impalement as she let go of the claymore.
"Whoa, what happened here?" A voice asked from behind Akame, causing the woman to turn around.
Leone, a girl with, currently, long blonde hair with lion ears popping out of it that had two bangs that framed the side of her head and golden eyes, she was wearing a short tube top that left her midsection well exposed, short pants that left all of her legs exposed, a white scarf, gold bangs on her arms, two side veils on her hips, her hands were more of a lions paws and she had a feline tail poking from her rear.
The more animalistic parts of her came from her belt, the Teigu Lionel.
"Guy pointed guns at me." Akame stated straightening up and walking over to Murasame and grabbed it from the wall.
"He must have been pretty strong." Leone said watching as Akame tugged several times trying to pull Murasame from the wall.
"He had Teigu Gauntlets." Akame said pulling her Teigu free, "But he didn't use them until after we disarmed each other."
Leone whistled in approval, "Damn, kinda wish he would have been on our side." Leone said, "Well, we'll take his Teigu back to the-"
"Urf." Dante grunted.
This caused both girls to jump and turn their gaze to see Dante standing back up, Rebellion still lodged hilt deep in his heart.
"What the hell?" Leone muttered, even with Lionel's regenerative properties she knew she wouldn't be able to recover from having her heart cut in half.
"Impossible." Akame muttered.
"You would not believe how often I've taken my own sword in the heart." Dante muttered placing his palms on the sides of the skeletal guard and pulling it half way out, then shifted his grip then pulling the whole sword out and dropping it so the tip hit the ground but managing to catch the handle of the sword.
Leone and Akame looked at each other, not sure of what to make of that, especially when they noticed there wasn't even a hole in Dante's outfit from the impalement and no blood.
"So, who are you kitty?" Dante joked, "You Night Raid as well?"
This caught Leone's attention, "Who are you to ask? You tried to shoot Akame." Leone growled.
"Hey, if someone was behind you and you were on edge you'd do the same." Dante said, "Beside's she's the one who tried to cut me in half when I was about to apologize."
This caused Leone to blink and turn to Akame, "He was trying to apologize and you tried to kill him?" Leone scolded.
"He didn't lower his weapons." Akame said.
"And it's a good thing I didn't." Dante muttered.
Leone sighed and shook her head, "Good lord..." Leone sighed, "Well, we've got two choices now seeing as you've met us."
"And those are?" Dante asked putting Rebellion back on his back.
"Either you come back with us to Night Raid..." Leone said, "Or we kill you."
Akame held out Murasame to emphasize this.
'I really hope you come with us.' Leone thought, 'I'm not sure if we can actually win this fight considering he shrugged off getting stabbed in the heart.'
Dante tilted his head to the side, "Well..." Dante said, "Why not? I can't walk around the city killing demons all night. Plus I was looking for you guys."
"Why?" Akame asked.
"I've got a client who wants you to win." Dante said, "So lead the way ladies."
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Okay folks I know you're all going to be annoyed with Dante joining Night Raid for one reason or another so let me say this.
First off, Dante will not fully sync with the group, heck you can expect Mine to dance fairly often.
Secondly most of the enemies Dante will face are... Well Demons.
Now, expect Original Devil Arms to appear in this story, I've talked with Swift about this and we agreed together on this, so if you hate it put half the blame on him.
Also for those of you wondering if Dante will be capable of using Teigu... well I've actually been considering it but I'm just not sure really.
Anyway I hope you enjoy and I'll see you all later.
