Two Devils and One God
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters of Final Fantasy. They are the property of Square Enix and Sony. Nor do I own any characters of Devil May Cry, they belong to Capcom. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
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W A R N I N G: This is about male/male relationships. I'm letting you know now what the relationships WILL contain. So, if you are AGAINST such pairings, please find something else more to your liking, you have been WARNED.
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Summary: The emperor of the Underworld has found his son living with mortals after gone he had gone missing sixty years ago. The emperor sends his general to retrieve his heir. Unfortunately, the general has a run in with someone he had not expected to see, his ex, who stands in his way of completing his mission.
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Chapter 2: Mission 1
Bars were his kind of place to relax. The heavy scent of smoke and alcohol filtered through his heighten senses making his body tingle. The patrons usually tell their life stories to total strangers because they couldn't talk about their problems to people they knew or even open up to family.
And the bartender as a rule offered bits and pieces of information, if one asked politely, as it were.
Sitting at the counter, fanning out his crimson duster, the man waited for the waitress to take his order. The place was nearly full. He guessed the people was trying to wait out the rain and sought a dry warm place.
"Hi, sorry about the wait, but it's been crazy since it began pouring outside. So, what can I get you?"
The girl, of average height had her hair pulled back into a loose ponytail. She was nothing special to write home about, she was pretty enough for a female. But her scent indicated that she's a fighter; she had a slightly high elevated testosterone level than most females her age and if her biceps were anything to go by, he figured that she worked-out quite often.
"I'll take a beer and a medium pizza with ham and no olives. Oh, and add a strawberry sundae to that as well."
"Sure," the waitress said placing an ice cold bottle of beer on the counter in front of him then taking his pizza order to the kitchen.
From the crowd over in the far corner, he heard a very interesting conversation, "Shit, he told me that he had another delivery! Not to meet with that bastard!"
"Calm down, Cid—your reaction is the very reason why Cloud didn't tell you he had a meeting with Sephiroth," a girl about fifteen replied.
"Yuffie's right, Cid. You have an uncanny way of upsetting Spiky," the second man in the group commented. He was big and gruff. He was a dark skinned man. He practically took up two chairs easily with his large frame.
"What the hell do you know, Barret?" the blond snapped back at his companion. Maybe the guy was nuts for wanting to get into a bar bawl with massive black man. He looked like would be easily beat down, but he never underestimate an opponent. He did that one too many times with his brother, Vergil. The bastard tried to hack him into sushi inside the gateway.
But that's beside the point now. He went back to his private observing, making mental notes of everyone.
The girl, Yuffie, was relatively small compared to the men that she was sitting with. She had short cropped hair, highly strange for a female—most if not all women preferred to have long flowing hair like the chick behind the counter—but that was just his opinion.
He never had much luck with females. Or women's fashion, but he knew a good looking chick when he saw one.
The first lovely lady, extremely tall (his height almost), long silky spun gold hair, dressed in skin tight black leather pants and black bustier with a jagged split between voluptuous breasts. He smiled in memory at their encounter…
The doors of his business were knocked off their hinges as someone ram through them with his motorcycle. He remained placated. Shit like this only happened to him. He sat at his desk with his feet propped up on it.
"Whoa, slow down, babe!" he said since she was now casually walking around admiring his trophies. Heads of slain demons were mounted on the walls around Devil May Cry. Blood had oozed from them, drying up on the wood surface. "Well, well. What do we have here? Nature calls—it's in the back," he blunted stated.
"You're the man who lost a mother and a brother to evil twenty years ago, the son of the legendary dark knight, Sparda, Mr. Dante."
The smirk left Dante's face. She gained his attention. "I should hit the jackpot sooner or later…" In the moments to follow, she pieced him with Force Edge.
The next one, Lucia, didn't stab him at least but she did put up one hell of a fight when they first met. Third but not least was Lady, a real bitch. She was worse than Trish.
She had one shot him in the head trying to save her from plunging to her death on his way to the top of Temen-ni-gru. Had he been an average human, he would have died instantly. Then just for good measure she shot at him again, she was just surprised when he caught the bullet between his teeth.
Looking toward the rainy heavens, Dante saw something falling. On reflex, he grabbed a woman by the ankle. She literally was falling for him.
"Let me go!"
"Let you go? But it'd be a waste if you ended up as just a pretty stain." Before he could say anything else, a burning sensation pierced him in the forehead, knocking him on his ass therefore causing him to release his hold on the booted ankle.
Using her rocket launcher to stop her decent, the female hunter jumped on the weapon automatically aiming her gun at the tower's edge.
"What the hell was that for?! Here I am trying to help you, and you show your thanks by shooting me?!"
As soon as Dante looked down another round was fired off, this only served to piss him off even further. "Whatever, do as you please."
Slightly put off that the guy didn't die from the first bullet, the woman whispered to herself, "So, he's a demon too."
Dante walked away rubbing his throbbing head, wiping blood away from the closing bullet hole, smearing it along the wall of Temen-ni-gru as he entered another hidden entrance. "I'm beginning to think I've got rotten luck with women."
Pulling himself from his past, Dante focused on the last guy at the table with Yuffie and Barret. The other man, Cid, was a slender blond. Goggles sat on top of his head. He was probably a driver or something. A cigarette dangled from pinched lips with another one tucked behind an ear. He also spied a band-aid a little bit behind is left eye.
He also noted that the blond had his fair share of fights. His nose seemed to be slightly crooked, barely noticeable but he saw it nonetheless.
The waitress was back with his pizza. Damn! I'm gonna miss some info.
"Thanks."
"Sure, you need another beer?"
"No, but I do need some answers to questions that I have."
The girl eyed him carefully. He knew that type of look. She was checking him out, wondering what the hell he wanted. He always got that look especially from jerks like the ones in the corner when she'd subtlety glanced their way.
"What do you want to know?" she finally asked, tending to business like a good barkeep by wiping down the counter with a damp white towel.
"Nothing much, but I'm looking for someone; or rather something. I'm looking for a demon that's been reported being seen in this area."
"Who are you?"
"Me? I'm just the guy hired to get rid of a nuisance," he drawled polishing off his beer and starting on his freshly hot pizza.
"Sorry, but we've never heard of a demon been seen around, sir," she answered truthfully, a puzzled look adorned her features.
An explosion rocked the building causing the people within to scream or gasp in shock. "Well, that might be him calling. I gotta get to work," he said to her unsheathing the lengthy sharp blade on his back.
As he got to the door, the female yelled at him. "Hey, buddy, you didn't pay!"
"Put it on a tab, I'm good for it."
"Hey! I want my money, you jerk!"
"Don't worry, as soon as I get paid for this job, you'll get it."
He eased out of the door in a flash of red before Cid and the others could reach him to yank him back into the bar and pay his bill.
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His memory was instantly jolted. The short petite blond was the one who he had dueled against several times. The boy was the only cadet of his year that was able to be any type of competition. The rest of the newbies were cowards at best. None wanted to take their chances to fight and possibly get humiliated by the great general of ShinRa.
"Mr. Strife."
"Cloud would do fine, General."
"Cloud…" the general said looking the boy over never giving permission to use his first name. To do that would mean to get personal and he wasn't about to get personal. Not in his line of work, he couldn't afford that. It was bad enough to allow Zack, and the other 1st Class SOLDIERs to get close to him. "I would like to know your reasons for agreeing to meet with me."
The boy smirked. The gesture was small and he would have missed it if he had not been inspecting the younger male so intently. His first-in-command's opinion of the boy was correct, he was beautiful, stunning in fact. Spiky flaxen hair held his attention far longer than it should. Enormous colorful cerulean eyes sparkled with an underlining strength that didn't go with the small petite body.
"Rufus called me as a favor. Apparently, the town of Nibelheim had pooled their money together to hire a demon hunter to kill a monster that has been terrorizing them off and on for the past several months. But as far as I know, there's no such creature lurking in the area," Cloud explained.
"Oh… and how would you know?"
"Nibelheim is where I hail from."
The blond stepped around his bike and up to the general. Cloud had purposely sat on his machine. He wanted to just soak up the man's appearance. He had been too scared as a cadet to talk with him. Even though Zack claimed that he was harmless as a mouse, Cloud didn't trust himself not to look like a fool. He tended to get tongue tied when he talked to people that he liked.
Since seeing a poster ad for military recruitment, Cloud had always wanted to meet the tall and sexy looking general. His high school friend, Zack, had visited one Christmas after taking a short leave of absence from work to get him to sign up with SOLDIER after he graduated from school. Cloud initially declined telling Zack that he would be laughed at. He knew he was on the small side for a male and was teased mercilessly through his school years for.
Joining SOLDIER was the perfect opportunity to meet his idol.
"And trust me, there is no monster there. Besides, I also wanted to work along side the most feared man in the world."
The general's face revealed nothing at Cloud's statement. "Did you now and why is that?" Emerald cat-like eyes glittered with some minute hint of amusement.
"Because just you like you, General, I love a challenge every now and then."
At that response, the general did smile. It wouldn't be too bad to get personal he thought. "Please, call me, Sephiroth."
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A/N: Well, tell me what you think. So far, we've meet, Cloud, Sephiroth, and Dante as well as Cid, Yuffie, Barret, and Tifa. Am I forgetting any one? Let me know and I'll add him or her in the next chapter.
I know the order of Dante meeting his women were not in order if DMC's story line is be followed. It should go as thus: Lady (DMC3), Trish (DMC), Lucia (DMC2). The reason why Lady is first and not Trish is because DMC3 is the prequel to DMC. But for my muses they wanted Trish first.
Nemesis