Don't get mad at me! Dante still hasn't made his big dramatic entrance! *Hides behind a rock* He will show up soon, and then everybody will be happy ok? Just be patient, and... The beginning of this story goes a little slow at first, but it will pick up the pace soon enough, Devil May Cry and Dante belong to CAPCOM, the rest of the story belong to me! Please review and enjoy!

Chapter One: Messenger

She was sitting at her cherry wood desk working on her homework. She almost never left the house, even for school, the schoolwork and textbooks came to her. No contact with human beings, no way for the information to leave her lips. Her father never trusted her with other people and after 17 years, he still didn't.

"Veronica, come here at once!" She looked over her shoulder towards the door behind her and sighed, she stood from her desk and homework, walked over to the door and opened it and looked down the long hallway to her father's office. She strode towards it and pushed open the oversized door and saw her father standing in front of the giant window, his hands clasped behind his back. Veronica brushed back her long blonde hair and nodded towards his way,

"Yes father?"

"Take the envelope on my desk. The limo is waiting for you outside; the next delivery after this one will be your last one." He told her, not even bothering to turn, much less to even glance at Veronica. She closed her eyes, nodded and grabbed the envelope that was resting in the middle of his desk and turned to leave. Then, she stopped and asked,

"May I ask as to where I shall be going?"

"The laboratory that is near the states border," She closed her eyes and let out a soft sigh,

"Very well father." Veronica left his office and thought to herself, 'He's just getting rid of me; he doesn't want a 17 year old daughter in his way.' She went down the stairs and opened the front door to see the black limo waiting for her. The chauffeur held the limo door open as Veronica got inside and sat down in the black leather seats. She opened the envelope, since she was allowed to, and read the papers that were inside. Veronica sighed and placed them back into the envelope. More orders of what to do to the patients, all written in code that everyone else understood but her.

After they were done with this experiment, and they gave her the next delivery, they have no more use for her; they will kill Veronica without a second thought. Her father always told her that it is a great honor, but Veronica knew that he was lying from the start. These days, in this world, there is no such thing as honor, they just didn't want her to be caught and spill out information to her captives about what she knows about the experiments and put them in jeopardy. She sighed and reached into her pocket and pulled out her iTouch and stuck the earphones in her ears and turned it on full blast. She wanted to drown out the uncomfortable silence that permeated the limo. She felt the engine rumble softly as it came to life and the limo started to move. Veronica watched the mansion grow smaller until it was but a tiny black dot in the distance.

The view was the worst thing you could imagine. Everything was flat and bare, no color changes, or any signs of life. Veronica's father had decided to move into the middle of nowhere for no reason and destroy anything that was alive while doing it. She'd assumed that it must've been for the isolation. But she didn't care; she never even spent much time around the house anyways. She leaned back into the seat and looked at the roof of the limo. 'Might as well get some sleep now,' she thought to herself as she closed her eyes, fingering the silver locket around her neck, 'if I don't, who knows when will be the next time I get any.'

~OooO~

Veronica felt a soft tap on her shoulder and she stirred; she looked up to see the chauffeur holding the door open waiting for her to step out. She pulled out her iTouch and turned it off and took the earphones out of her ears and put them in her pocket and got out of the limo gazing up at the building. It was normal sized, and weather worn. The sharp edges of the building had become soft and rounded. She stepped inside and passed by different rooms where she heard whimpering and growling.

One that she passed by had metal bars on the door and a large creature staring out at her from behind the bars. She gazed back at it and noticed the large muzzle and the ears turned towards her. She neared the door and noticed large dents on it. The bars were a little bent and she raised an eyebrow at the creature as she saw what it was. It had a dark brown fur coat and stood taller than her, she looked up into the round milky brown eyes of the horse. Veronica smiled softly and raised her hand and reached out to the horse but stopped when she noticed something was wrong. Its nostrils flared and it tossed its mane and she noticed two black horns protruding from the creatures head.

The horse's lips pulled back as it let out a whinny and instead of blunt square teeth, it had sharp serrated teeth. It kicked its forelegs up into the air and instead of hooves, there were cruel looking claws. As it came back down, its forelegs scraped against the metal bars and it started to snap at her and she pulled her hand away and stepped back from the barred door, clutching at the silver locket hanging around her neck. The horse trotted back a couple of steps and charged at the door, ramming it with its head. Fierce whinnies and strange hoarse growls escaped the creature's mouth as its eyes rolled around in their sockets, changing from a milky brown to a reddish color. Veronica turned away and closed her eyes as she made her way towards an open door at the end of the hall. The angry cries of the creature seeming to follow her until a shrill whinny filled the air and everything went silent. She didn't look back to see what had happened to the horse, she didn't want to, so she stepped into the room with the open door.

He watched from a distance as the girl entered the building. He had decided to attack, but reconsidered as curiosity took over and instead he leaned back against the boulder as the shimmer of golden hair disappeared. The area was bare of everything, the closest city was miles away and he was wondering what was going to happen after she arrived. The sun beat down on him and he glared up at it and moved into the cool shade of the boulder as he waited.