Chapter 3: Three Dead Donkeys Down
While Dante and Vergil are fighting, elsewhere on the island, a demon taking the form of a giant scissors is chasing Heather and Alejandro, separated from the others. "What was that about? "Earlier, about that guy?", she asks him. Alejandro explains, "Seven years ago..."
Flashback(Devil May Cry: The Burromuerto File. Alejandro's story)
It was the year 2002. Nine-year old Alejandro, his brothers Jose(11)and Carlos(15), and their parents, the mother's a high school English teacher and the father's running for Senator, are at a fair in Barcelona, Spain. Alejandro and Jose are arguing. "I am the best in all things!", Alejandro said triumphantly. Jose replies snidely, "You're catching up, hermano, but you know the saying; close but no cigar! "And as long as I have something to do about it, Al, you never will get that cigar!" Alejandro, eye twitching, tells him, "I've already surpassed you! "Want proof, puto?!" "Both of you! "Pipe down! "You're giving me a headache reminiscent of that cinco el grande toro trampling that matador last year!", Carlos scolds them. "Don't make me...". At that point, a horde of all kinds of demons appear, killing people left, right and center. Everybody's running for their lives, only for said lives to be cut short by decapitation, skewering, dismemberment, blood drain, explosion, poison, fire and mind warping. The place could be called a carnival of blood, death and despair at this point. The boys, outwardly showing no fear, attempt to save as many people as they possibly can, but, after a split second of not focusing on their parents, they hear familiar screams. Leading at least six people to safety, they turn back to find their parents dead. Their mother reduced to a skeleton while their father was chopped into many pieces. Both Alejandro and Jose start crying, but Carlos, steeling his emotions, picks them up, hoists them on his shoulders, and tries to carry them away from the scene, only to run into a big, black-robed, skeletal demon wielding a purple-tinted scythe. Carlos froze, and in that time, the demon teleported out(leaving behind a small wisp of black mist and a tolling bell sound)then tried to dash through them from behind, only to reel back after clashing its scythe with a sword that has an opened mouth and arms as a hilt. "I see. "Papa Burromuerto bit the dust...unfortunate...", Dante, the man wielding the sword, mutters. Carlos, still in shock, asks timidly, "Y...you said Burromuerto...right?". Dante, whose back is facing the boys, continually slashes the demon, then kills it by stabbing it rapidly(Million Stab, Dante's Devil May Cry 3 attack), then dashes into the demon, drawing his shotgun and fires a demonically charged shot(Gunstinger. Basically Stinger but with a shotgun). "Breakdown!", he shouts. He turns around, sheathing the sword, holstering his shotgun and says, "Yeah I did. "Was the old man...". "Yes.", Carlos responds. "He was our father.". "I see. "Sorry for your loss.", Dante tells him. He was about to ask more questions but an explosion interrupted his thoughts. "Dante! "Get a move on! "We're supposed to find the conduit of where these suckers keep coming from!", a girl, whose light brown hair reaches to her upper neck, wearing brown cowboy boots, a white and red pants with ankle to shin length zips loosened, a black tank top, a necklace with a small red pendant and a long-sleeved hip-length jacket with the same design as her pants, an MP5 sub-machine gun with a foot-long blade under the muzzle on her lower back, a holstered .44 Colt revolver, under the sub-machine gun, a big rocket launcher with a half-yard long blade under its muzzle on her back and wielding two 9mm Beretta pistols, yells at him. "I wouldn't mess with the senorita if I were you.", Alejandro advises him. Dante, nonchalant as always, remarks, "But I'm havin' fun here!". He pulls out Ebony and his shotgun, then, with Ebony in his right hand, he shoots many a demon in the head. With his shotgun in his left hand, he flicks it around like nunchucks(Fireworks, a Gunslinger technique in Devil May Cry 3), blowing up the closer, surrounding demons. the girl, seeing this, yells again, "YOU'RE HAVING FUN?! "AT THE EXPENSE OF THESE CHILDREN'S LIVES?! "SHAME ON YOU, DANTE! "Please...", she says softly and pleadingly, "Don't traumatize them...". After shooting the last demon with the shotgun, Dante holsters his guns, then sighs heavy, "Don't be that girl now, Lady. "People need to live a little, you know?", he tells her, grinning. Lady The Girl With Guns, sighing irritably, holsters her guns, draws her .44 Colt revolver then shoots him in the head. The Burromuerto boys closed their eyes(actually, Carlos covered Alejandro and Jose's eyes and closed his own tight). Dante slowly falls to the ground on his back. After five seconds, Dante gets up as slowly as he fell, then gives in, "Fine, sister! "We'll do this your way!". Carlos, in shock, with his mouth wide open, drops Alejandro and Jose(they both shout, "OW!"). They too, look at Dante in shock, awe and fear. "Don't worry, boys...he's not gonna hurt you.", Lady tells them sweetly, walking to Dante. "What are we gonna do with them?", Dante asks her. Lady pulls out a cheque, and replies, "They're going to Mexico.". Carlos spoke up, "If I may, madame...". Lady looks at Dante and tells him playfully, "Awww...the boy's a gentleman...take lessons, Dante.". She looks at Carlos again, smiling, "You were saying?". "We can...uhm...afford our own flight. "Individually. "So no, I'll...uh...I'll take them to the...uhm...I'll take them to the airport myself, but thank you for your...uh...generous offer...um...", he stammers shyly, blushing and wanting to know her name. "Lady.", she responds. "You must be Carlos Burromuerto. "It's on you now, to pick up where your parents left off. "Be responsible. "Oh and...", she walks to him, swaying her hips. "Oh, for the love of God...", Dante says exasperatedly, facepalming. Lady, after reaching Carlos, leans over and whispers in his ear seductively, "I really like a man who has his own money.", then kisses him on the cheek. While she walks back to Dante, Carlos blushes a deep red, about as red as Lady's lipstick. "Th...th...thanks, Lady...we...uh...we need to go!", Carlos stammers, saying the last four words really fast. The boys leave the bloodied fair, all the while Alejandro and Jose sing together, "Carlos has a girlfriend! "Carlos has a girlfriend!" Dante, seeing what's going on, and hearing this thanks to his heightened senses, drops to his knees, muttering dramatically, "Dad...what did I do to deserve this? "I guess I do have rotten luck with women...". Lady, walking back to Dante, not listening to his dramatic muttering, smacks him upside the head and tells him, "Get up! "We've still a lot to do. "Apparently, a demon named Abigail is behind this...". Dante, getting up, not even looking at her, then coldly says, "Yeah, that'll be a blast. "Happy birthday to me, I guess...". She tells him, "If you were wondering, I really AM a fast woman.". He stiffens for a moment, looks at her, raises an eyebrow and asks, "Really...". Then, a gunshot goes off, killing a demon trying to get to the Burromuerto boys. "PSHHAHAHAHA!", he laughs. "Yeah, Lady...I just...", he continued. Still holding the Colt in her hand, she points it to him, warning, "Don't. "Finish. "That. "Joke.". He says flatly, "You're one type of buzzkill, you know that?! "But at least...", he draws both Ebony and Ivory, shooting more demons trying to get to the boys. "...there's target practice. "You up, Lady?". Lady holsters her Colt and draws her Berettas. She responds smiling, "You're learning, Dante. "But yeah, you didn't even have to ask!". The two spend the rest of the day protecting the boys by shooting demons for...well...target practice.
Flashback end
"And that was the last time I've ever seen him...until right now." Alejandro ends, picking up and throwing whatever he could find on the island at the demon chasing them, but the items just pass through the demon as if it was a ghost. Heather yells, "Never mind that...just...what the hell IS that thing?!" "I...don't know...never saw it before, mi amor...", Alejandro replies. "Nothing seems to work!". While running, Heather trips over a stone but Alejandro catches her before she hits the ground. She tells him, "If you didn't catch me, I'd force you to never live it down!". "Ungrateful senorita...", he mutters. He lets her stand by herself. He takes her hand, runs, then says louder, "Let's just leave, okay?". In the sky, another hole like the one Dante and Vergil appeared from forms and expands(the lightning kills the demon, a Sin Scissors, that was chasing the two)and a boy their age, wearing white sneakers, dark blue jeans, a light blue short sleeve sweatshirt, a broadsword on his back, a hairstyle that covers his left eye and a sinister smirk on his face, descends from it, blocking their way. Alejandro stands in front of Heather protectively. "You're not going anywhere.", the boy says. "Trespassing on the property of The Prince Of Darkness is only punishable by...". Heather interrupts, "Death?" "Don't make me la...". "Heather!", Alejandro shouts. "What are you...". The boy instantly appears directly in front of Heather with his broadsword drawn, held in his left hand, shocking her to silence. He points the sword to the left, asking, "Laugh? "Well, here's something amusing!". She looks at the sword, following where it's pointed to, only to discover...Alejandro's decapitated remains. "ALEJANDRO! "NO! "HOW COULD YOU?!", she yells, saddened and angry. "How could I?", the boy asks in a 'playing dumb' tone. He then continues in a smug manner, "Because I can. "In fact, here's something even funnier; 'Don't call my name...Don't call my name...Alejandro...'...hahaha! "You gonna do something about...", he suddenly drops his sword and clutches his stomach. "Argh!", he chokes out. "Wha...what's happening?! "Why do I feel...". Taking advantage of the time given to her, Heather runs for it, not forgetting to pick up the boy's sword. The boy hunches over, then another boy, looking identical except that he's not waring a sweatshirt but a gold chain around his neck, and a slicked back hairstyle, struggles forcefully to climb out of the hunched over one's back for a minute. "UUUUWAAAAAAAHH...!", the hunched over boy yells in pain. Then the boy who climbed out jumps to the ground and runs away. The remaining boy breathes slowly, then says, "Serves you right, Vito. "You may very well be The Jerkass From Joisey, but truth is, I never needed you anyway.". He streches himself straight a bit. "Rrraaaarh!" "Much better.". He looks at the ground, only to see that the sword is missing. "She took Mike.", he mutters. "Ha! "What a fool!...she'll discover the hard way that he...no, I mean IT...has no choice but to return to me.". Stretching his left arm horizontally to his left side, he commands, "Chester, you old coot! "Get out here and go kill some trespassers! "Your remaining lifespan, whatever's left of it, demands it!". Then, out of his hand, another identically looking boy, but he's hunched over permanently(he holds one hand on his hip), has one closed eye, grey hair that stands upwards and wrinkled skin, appears. "Dang nabbit!", the boy, identified as Chester The Grumpy Old Man shouts. "Back in my day, we sent letters if we wanted to call each other, whippersnapper!". The boy who summoned Chester snaps, "You are in no position to question me, do you understand?! "I can erase you from existence the same way I brought you here!". "You don't have to have a cow over it, child!" "Okay, I'll go!", Chester replies then leaves, going to the broken bridge. The boy sees Chester disappear beyond the horizon. "Perfect.", he mutters. "Now to find that wimp Mike..."