AN: Hi everybody, here's the 2nd chapter it was actually longer but I decided to divide it into 2 parts so here's part 1 enjoy.
Chapter 2 "In the Presence of Enemies Part 1: Here Comes the Tears"
"Ready for the party? Let's Rock" Said Dante, while they all got out of the office with their weaponry.
"Okay, Trish and I will go together on my bike and you and Lady on yours" Said Dante demanding as the leader he was.
"What?! I have my own bike, why should I ride with him?!" Said Lady exasperated. "And besides, who are you to give orders?"
"First, it's easier that way, second, I'm the leader here"
"Who says?" Questioned Lady.
"I'm the oldest and strongest so that makes me the leader and besides I'm the crafty one here" They all looked at Dante with confusion. "If what Lady said is true, then we might bump into a lot of demons on our way, so it would be easier if we go by couples, so one gets the chance to attack while the otherone drives" Said Dante changing the subject.
"Yeah, that's true, I ran into some demons on my way here, it would've been much easier if someone would've attacked for me, and much faster too. The road must be full of demons by now" Said Nero agreeing with Dante.
"Alright, we'll do it as Dante says, but if I'm riding with you, then we should at least shake hands!" Said Lady.
"That's what I tried earlier, but you left me with my hand stretched out" Complained Nero.
"Oh, sorry kid" Said Lady shaking his hand.
"And by the way, it's Nero"
"Whatever, Nero" Said Lady a bit annoyed.
"That's better"
"Alright, let's go then" Said Dante getting on his bike eyeing Trish to do the same. He eyed her up and down and noticed her slow pace, she stood next to him and grabbed his shoulder in order to keep herself from falling down. "You alright there babe?" He asked her.
"I'm fine, I felt a little giddy that's all" She said covering her eyes with her other hand, and turning her face down. "I'm okay, let's go" She got on with him and he started the engine.
Lady did the same, she got on with Nero with Kalina Ann strapped to her back.
"Whoa, what the hell is that? You're not riding with me with that thing close to my head!" He yelled.
"Shut up or I'll put it close to your ass" She grumbled.
Nero had no choice but to keep it close to his head. So they set to their new journey. Lady told them the directions and they drove to their destiny the fastest they could. People could be slaughtered right that moment.
The night breeze was cold, the air had a stench to death, meaning the demons were close. The city was dark and silent, except for the roaring engines from their bikes. It was a cloudy night, the moon covered by the black clouds made the only pure light to be extinguished.
Braking the ice and most of all the tension between them, Nero tried to make conversation. "Hey so what was all that mess about? He said. "What mess? At Dante's? She said while Nero nodded. "Well, turns out that Dante and Trish are married and they were having a wild night. Thank God they were already finished when I showed up" She said relieved. "What?!" Nero almost crashed with a tree. " Yeah, you didn't know either?" "Well I guessed they had a relationship, but married? That's the revelation of the year" He said getting back on track. "Well I just found out too, and I have years knowing them" She said.
"Hey, what the hell's wrong with you two? We're supposed to get there in one piece" Dante yelled out in order to be heard.
"We're cool. I just tried to skive a big rock on the way" Nero yelled back.
"He surely missed" Dante whispered to Trish. A giggle escaped from her ruby red lips. Her expression changing to serious in a second. "What's wrong babe?" He asked. "I have a bad feeling about all this" She said worried. "Don't worry Trish, while you're with me you'll always be safe" He said conforting. Trish just sighed. "I know hun, I know".
"Hey! C'mon babe, cheer up, let's have some fun. You sure you're alright?" He eyed her confused.
"I'm fine Dante!" She said annoyed. "I think this is a trap, the place should be full of demons already and there's no living soul"
"Yeah. It's kinda weird" He said twitching his nose. "You smell that?"
"Ugh, don't even mention it, it's worse than before, it's making me sick" She said holding her nose.
"Speaking of the devil" Said Lady pressing her legs tightly to the bike while she pulled out her long range guns.
"No wonder the stench" Said Trish pulling out Luce & Ombra.
The demons started showing up in large groups like zombies, except they were running, though some zombies run too. They were mostly lesser demons and a few with higher power. Others came flying, so they were attacking from all directions.
There were hundreds of demons coming their way, Lady and Trish were getting rid of most of them very skillfully. Lady shooting and loading rapidly wiping out their way, while Trish used her powers to shoot her guns, her lightning bullets killing demons like mad. But as Lady said, the more you shoot, the more will come. And it came true. They were shootinng everywhere, to the sky, to the sides, even their backs, the demons were coming from everywhere.
They were getting close to a bridge. The one that would lead them to their destination, their battleground, but the demons were making it hard for them to get there.
The demons were mostly attacking Dante and Trish, like if they were their main target, so they had a bunch of them over their heads. Trish did her best to kill them to free their path. The road was getting full of dust from all the demons extinguishing and the wind was blowing it away clearing their path. There were still a lot of demons and Trish didn't notice one that almost got her slashed by it's chained blades.
There were a few leveled-up demons that carried several blades chained together and it seemed they were poisonous. One of these almost caught her, but Dante effortlessly deflected it with a bullet from his shotgun, which he pulled out faster than the blink of an eye. The bullet crashed the demon's blades and pushed the demon closer to the others that were surrounding them. They were all about to attack them one after the other but the shot made all of their blades to collide. Dante speeded up, getting in a single wheel and in one motion, rose to the sky, while the demons' blades formed a whirl slashing themselves to pieces until there was nothing left but dust.
"You okay babe?" He asked her as they landed on the ground.
"That was close, but yeah. Thanks hun"
"No prob. Your reflexes are a bit slow tonight" He stated.
"I must be tired, that's all" She said expressionless. "We had a wild night and it seems it just won't get to an end"
"You said it!" Said Dante looking forward.
Dante and Nero had both stopped their bikes at the sight in front of them. Behind them there were no demons left. They were in front of this amazing bridge about to enter it, at the end of it it could be seen at the distance that a large horde of demons were expecting them.
"And you call me reckless?!" Complained Nero, thinking of what Dante had just done.
"Shut up kid, sometimes it's good to be reckless, and right now it would be the perfect moment" Yelled Dante.
"It's a bet?" Asked Lady. "We'll give you reckless" She said with a wicked grin. She encouraged Nero to go crazy.
If they had thought their backs were cleared, they were so wrong. A large horde of demons started coming at their backs again surrounding them. Flying demons were at both ends of the bridge coming their way too, but the shape of the bridge could be of help at least while being inside of it.
There were demons everywhere again, but now their battle space was minimized. The bridge was two-lane wide and it was supported by large pillars resting under the sea. It was made of pure metal, it had a cylinder shape and was surrounded by metal bars vertically, not so many as an actual cell, but enough to make it look like a closed space. At the top were a pair of bars across, from which the lights were suspended. Two more bars were strained across the cylindrical bridge from the outside, making it stronger. It was a pretty rough bridge, able to stand any adversities. It was a pretty good design quite futuristic. Dante could make good use of it though.
Dante roared the engine skidding on the road and blowing both Nero and Lady's faces with the dust in the wind.
"C'mon babe, let's teach them who's the boss here" Siad Dante wickedly. He speeded up and entered the bridge heading for the side-walls to go all the way from bottom to top giving rounds. It was like watching those bikers at the circus, except they were killing demons at the same time.
Trish wrapped her legs around Dante's waist and used her flexibility to bend backwards and snatch a demon's weapon, like the one that almost slashed her through. Dante unsheathed his sword and made a round trip while Trish was slashing demons with the chained blades using her lightning powers to electrocute them at the same time. Dante put his sword back to his back and at the same time he drove, he killed demons with the sharp tip of his sword while giving the rounds due to the immense size of it.
Trish was slashing and shooting at the same time killing demons all around. Dante took his shotgun and shot to several directions in a rapid motion. Some flying demons outside the bridge were cought by the bullets and killed instantly crashing down at the sea.
Lady and Nero were agaped at the scene before their eyes. Dante and Trish were exterminating a lot of demons pretty fast, that they even thought they wouldn't leave any for them. So Lady motioned to Nero to start killing too. She didn't want to lose the bet, though when it comes to killing demons, Dante's number one.
"What a show off!" Said Lady annoyed.
Dante was driving forward now, killing demons to the front while Trish to the back and sides, never losing the grip on Dante.
Nero speeded up to go ahead of Dante. He was shooting too, though not as skillfully as Dante, while Lady was using her variety of guns to kill the demons. She still had Kalina Ann strapped to her back. Nero was using his Devil Bringer to punch some demons and get them closer for Lady to finish them off. She pressed her legs tightly to the sides of the bike, and took Kalina Ann to slash some demons with the sharp blade. They were now ahead of Dante, reaching the end of the bridge, which was infested by demons. Dante and Trish got rid of the demons at the back and Lady would deal with the rest. She fired to the hords of demons with her rocket launcher three times, until the only thing you could see was dust.
Three explosions filled the dark night with flashing orange-red light and a lot of smoke, while the demons' pieces flew around everywhere. Pieces that rapidly turned to dust and were blown by the cold wind. They stopped the bikes waiting for the dust to vanish. When it finally did, there was no demon left.
"Nice shot Lady" Said Dante. "Though I think we win anyway"
"That's not fair, you're both demons and are far more skilled than us!" Complained Lady.
"I never thought you would degrade yourself that much" Said Dante.
"Hey, don't include me" Said Nero.
"Ok then, it's settled, now we need to get moving" Said Dante seriously.
They continued their path, traversed the bridge and went through the farthest ends of the remote city. They slowed down their bikes, sensing the minimum changes of the environment.
Trish pressed Dante's chest with both of her hands while her head was pressed against his back facing to his left. Dante looked at her closely out of the corner of his eye, he turned his face a little over his shoulder to catch a glimpse of her look.
"You alright?" He said, noticing a sad look on her face. "What's wrong?"
"I felt a little sick, that's all" She said emotionless. "All those rounds back there really made me dizzy. You always have to show off?"
"You never complained of that before. I thought my cocky attitude turned you on"
"And it sure does" She said reaching a hand to his crotch and smiled mischieviously.
"I was not talking about that, but I'm glad I put a smile on your face" He smiled back. "You better not play with it, or it might get up" He said teasing.
Suddenly a slight tension filled the air. A cold breeze blew their faces.
"Can you sense that?" Asked Nero.
"Yeah, it's coming from that direction" He pointed to his left. "I think it's better if we continue by foot"
They turned off their bikes and got off. They left the bikes in a safe place.
"C'mon this way!" Dante grabbed Trish's hand and motioned them to follow him.
They went through a forest full of trees and weird plants that seemed that they were going to come to life any second. They followed a trace on the ground that led them to their battleground, the place were the portals started appearing and vanishing after the demons went out. It was a large field in the middle of the forest similar to the one both Dante and Nero had fought to Echidna. A portal appeared in front of their eyes at the center of the battlefield. Demons started to burst out.
"Brace up! More demons" Said Dante unsheathing Rebellion.
Demons of all kinds appeared in front of them. They were hundreds of demons, but mostly lesser demons easy to kill. The four hunters attacked furiously in every direction killing demons like mad. There were scarecrows, assaults, faust demons, chimeras, sins and demons that they had never seen before. Dante and Nero were used to fight these demons, Trish had fought to some of them as Gloria, so she knew some of their weak points. Lady on the other hand, had never fought demons of this nature, but it jut made it more challenging for her. That's what she loves the most. And fighting alongside her friends was so much fun, and they could watch their backs, which made it quite safer for them all.
Nero agressively slashed demons left and right with Red Queen, he was doing pretty good using his Devil Bringer too to punch them and throw them to the air finishing them up with an air slash and some shots from Blue Rose. He snatched some demons with his Devil Bringer performing Roulette Spins and a variety of midair attacks with his unique Red Queen all togehter. All the adrenaline of the moment mixed with his overconfident self, made him a little unaware of all of his surroundings. He was fighting Assault demons; he busted one with his Devil Bringer, kicked him to the ground, while shooting to the others beside him, trying to brake their shields. Suddenly a Death Scythe appeared behind him, without him noticing. He was too focused on the Assault demons that he didn't realize the whole scenario.
"Nero! Watch your back!" Yelled Lady shooting her guns to the scythe.
By the time Nero had noticed, it was a little late. He couldn't evade the scythe, but at least Lady's bullets made the demon to move backwards so the scythe made little damage to his back. He got just a few scratches but that made him to lower his guard. With his guard down, he was vulnerable to the attacks so the demons took advantage of this to attack him fiercely. He got several cuts by the demons' claws and more Death Scythes joined them.
Lady hurried herself to help Nero, she shot the Death Scythes to brake their guards. She jumped and rolled to the sides to dodge the scythes. There were three Death Scythes near them, more over her now that she had cought their attention, leaving Nero the chance to kill the Assaults.
Lady shot to a demon's scythe, jumped the highest she could, she stepped on another demon's skull and snatched his scythe, she gained a bit more altitude and launched out at one of the demons, breaking it's guard and slashing at it, killing it. While falling down, she clashed another demon's scythe with the one she was holding, it's guard prevented her from falling down for some seconds wich she used to elevate herself a bit more and slash the two remaining demons with the scythe as she spun around falling down with grace.
When she reached the ground, she bent a bit her knees without touching the ground. She was panting as the two remaining scythes sank into the ground beside her. The scythes turned to dust including the one she was holding.
Nero had finished up the demons closer to them and watched the whole scene.
"Nice moves Lady, you're pretty good at this!" Said Nero
"Oh thanks, I do my best" She said flattered.
"Hate to admit it, but you saved my ass"
"You're welcome" She said grinning. "We better keep on fighting so we can finish this up already"
"Yeah, we better help them, the demons seem to go only their way"
"Now that you mention it, it's true. All the demons are going their way, we can even be talking right now without worrying about getting hit" She said surprised.
"They must be after Dante, they must want something he has"
"Maybe, though if you ask me, it seems more like they're after Trish, don't you think?" She said wondering.
"But why would they want her?" Asked Nero surprised.
"I don't kow, I have some ideas but we'll find out sooner or later. C'mon let's go!"
They ran closer to Dante and Trish heping them kill some demons. Dante seemed to have no problem at all. On the other hand, Trish seemed to have troubles to kill the demons. Dante noticed her exhaustion and hurried to help her out. He hurried to her side killing demons with ease, slashing with his massive sword Rebellion. He used his beloved guns to wipe out some other demons and the ones closer to Trish.
Trish seemed weaker with every bullet she shot, her lightning powers were diminishing. Her expression of angst, terrified Dante. All the demons were after her, Dante was helping her a lot, keeping the demons away from her, though she still had a few demons corrupting her space. She kept fighting the way she could, electrocuting the demons, though her powers weren't enough any longer. Desperation was eating her alive. She fell to her knees, realizing her fate. She feared the worst. She was now sure of what the demons wanted. She knew all along but had the hope that she could be wrong, that it could be something else. But the more time passed, the more she realized the truth.
"Trish!" Desperately screamed Dante.
He shot all the demons around her killing them instantly, and performed a Round Trip to avoid any more demons to reach her. The distance between them seemed longer every step, desperation to the max. He finally got to her side, kneeled down and surronuded her with his arms.
"Trish" He whispered to her ear. "I don't know what's happening to you, but I promise you, we're gonna be alright. I won't let anyone hurt you" He said while a tear escaped his eyes.
"Dante" She said sobbing. It was all she could say.
"Trish, stay back!, I'll finish them off" He said after standing up.
Dante got Ifrit from his coat. He savagely punched and kicked every demon with streams of fire. His flamed fists and feet burned every demon to pieces. The overpowering rage he felt, made him kill like mad. A bunch of demons gathered around him; he devil triggered and shot balls of fire from his fists and then performed Inferno burning every demon alive to ashes.
Another portal appeared and more demons burst out of it. Dante rapidly got Pandora and used it as the many ways it could be used. He shot missils, bazookas and every possible gun available, until there was nothing more but smoke to be seen. Lady and Nero were beside Trish. They didn't know what was going on but they knew they needed to protect her. When the smoke finally cleared, Dante ran to Trish's side. Nero and Lady moved away to give them some space, still agaped from what they had just seen.
"I want one of those" Said Nero wide-eyed.
"Me too" Said Lady nodding, perplexed.
They moved farther. A couple more demons started coming from their backs, they hurried to kill them fast, before they could get closer to Dante and Trish. They were chimeras. Nero and Lady got rid of them in a blink of an eye. There were more coming but now, it was only their way, as if it was all planned. They were just chimeras and some other plant demons but they could kill them easily as they came in small groups. So now Trish and Dante could have some time to talk.
Dante crouched next to Trish, while Nero and Lady were fighting off a few demons still corrupting their peace.
"Trish, what's wrong, what happened to you, why did you lose your strenght?" He asked her while helping her to stand up.
"I'm sorry Dante" She said as she stood up. "There's something you need to know"
"What is it?" He wondered, he had no idea what was going on in her mind. He didn't know their life was about to take a 360° spin.
"Dante, I know what the demons want, and they won't stop coming until they get it"
"That's it? And according to you, what is that?"
"Me" She said with a sad look on her face.
"What? Why would they want you?, if there's someone they want dead, that would be me, not you. Is me who they have a grudge with" Said Dante a bit confused. " I think you're a bit paranoid here"
"I carry your child, is that enough reason for you, for they wanting me dead!?"
"I'm sorry what?" He said confused.
"I'm pregnant Dante"
"I think I heard you the first time" He said calmly staring to the ground. "When did you find out?" He said looking back at her.
"Last month, I must be around two months pregnant now"
"What?! Did you actually planned on telling me!?, or you were just gonna wait until your belly did the talking for you?!" He protested.
"I just wanted to find the right time to tell you"
"No excuses. Then right in the middle of a battle is the perfect timing?!"
"This is exactly the reaction I expected from you" She said disappointed.
"Everything fits, how didn't I notice before? Your bad mood, your cravings, your giddiness, you avoiding me. You get weaker when you're pregnant" He said solving the puzzle, which was already solved.
"You think you solved the problem?, 'cuz it's not even started yet" She said.
"Oh, and thanks to whom this is happening?" Dante said like blaming her.
"Don't put the blame on me, you're the one who got me pregnant!" She said losing her mind and about to cry.
"C'mon Trish, that's not what I meant. You know I want this, but you should've told me before. Have you any idea of the dangerous this is? If I would've known you were pregnant I wouldn't have brought you here in the first place. You wanna lose the baby again?" He said with a higher, tougher tone in his voice.
Trish just looked down. Locks covering her eyes. But even her tears could be seen in that dark eternal night. Her tears rolled down her cheeks. She couldn't bear the memory. If there was something Dante hated the most was making her cry.
"I'm sorry babe, I didn't mean that" He said while he wiped away her tears with his caring hands. "Devils Never Cry".
"I thought you didn't believe in that anymore, since you changed the name of the shop back to Devil May Cry after I left you"
"That's not important right now, what matters now, is our baby" He said touching Trish's stomach. "I promise you, everything's gonna be alright. I won't let any demon take you away from me. I'll protect you and my child no matter what"
"Maybe I'm just not destined to be a mother" She said helpless.
"Don't say that" He said trying to soothe her.
Trish sank her head on Dante's chest and started crying again. Dante wrapped his arm around her back and stroke her hair.
"It'll be alright, I promise and in seven months or whatever, we'll have our son in our arms"
"Dante, I'm really scared" She said sobbing.
"If this is a trap, and some demon tries to take you away, don't act scared, don't be the damsel in distress. Fear is the worst ally"
"I know Dante, but it's hard to stay calmed when I know we're in danger" She said touching her stomach.
"Just remember, no matter what happens, I will always be there for you" He said kissing her forehead. "While you're with me, you'll always be safe"
"And if I'm not?"
"Then you'll have to trust me"
Nero and Lady were still fighting a few demons a bit far from Dante and Trish. All the demons coming now, were going just to Nero and Lady's way. They kept fighting anyway wondering why the demons only attacked them.
"I have a bad feeling about all this" She said to Nero.
"Yeah, why do they only attack us now? I think they are setting us up"
"I think you're right. Maybe they just want to distract us while their master attacks them"
"Yeah, it could be, but where's the suppossed master?"
"I don't know, but we should keep an eye on them anyway"
"I think Dante's strong enough to protect themselves, but whatever"
Nero's arm started glowing very strongly. Then all of a sudden a portal appeared in front of their eyes, and all the demons they were fighting just vanished, they turned to dust as their master burst out of the portal.
"Showtime!" Dante said bracing up.
AN: Please review it's as easier as reading it. Let me know if I'm doing good tell me if you like or not. Any comments accepted. And thanks for the ones who reviewed, you really keep me going. Thanks for reading you all.