Oh jeez I'm so sorry this took so long to write.. but good lord it's quite long isn't it? The reason is school starting and I went to Anime festival of Orlando... oh and I'm met Dante's voice actor.. no biggie... not! I got a hug and an autograph! Whoops fist But alas here is the story you were waiting for... I own nothing but the plot and Alice over here. Enjoy.
The room grew very quiet. The sons of Sparda were waiting for Nero's explanation of the girl, Alice, and why Vergil came back from the "dead". Once Dante finally put a shirt on (cue the aawww's from fangirls) all the attention was on Nero. He felt like he was in a school talent show, he gulped then started.
"Well, about two weeks ago I found her back around that geek-freak Agnus's lab. I know the lab was pretty much totaled from the blast, but this annoying feeling in my gut told me to go check it out again. Just to be sure before I left it alone, right? Sure enough when I got there it was crawling with those demons again, the damned things where practically swarming everywhere like wasps in a nest. I noticed oddly that all of them were circling around this door made with steel bolts along it's edges, and then the door pulsed, by then I knew something was up. So after quickly getting rid of all those pathetic things like flies-"
"If I remember correctly you were bleeding from the shoulder like mad." Alice commented, making Dante snort with a smirk. Nero's devil trigger glowed and he glared before continuing again.
"Anyways," he seethed "I took them out and went up to the door. Symbols and different charms were littered across the thing, like those incantations I saw with the Order. I was going to knock it down with the devil trigger… but the second my hand came within an inch of it all of the symbols and charms melted up into the air in blue. Yamato was glowing too. " Nero turned to the other son of Sparda, Vergil looked over at his weapon.
" When I went to the door I was horrified. The room was completely white and-"
" What's wrong with white?" Dante interrupted, baffled.
" Can I finish!-? For the love of Sparda, you guys are rude!" Nero yelled. Dante dragged out a sarcastic apology and motioned for him to continue.
" In that creepy room there were all sorts of beakers and and test tubes, That's where I found her." This time Dante could interrupt.
" You found her?"
" She was bound up on the back wall with chains and locks. She had on some ancient looking white outfit," Alice dragged up her jacket sleves, rubbing her wrist that seemed to have a clear bruise wrapped around it. The younger Sparda tried not to stare.
" But the chains and dress were only half of it, she had wings. After I-" Vergil broke Nero's tale.
" As much as I'd love for you to continue, would it kill you to be a tiny bit more detailed, or is that to much for you?" He seethed. Someone was annoyed.
This time the storyteller did as he was told, not daring to yell back at the other twin. He gulped.
" Wings.. ah, her's looked like a broken angels. They were forced up against the wall and looked all messy, white but dirty and with gold trimmed around the top of them. There were feathers on the floor and she had a distant look to here face like the cords were clouding her brain..." He looked around and everyone seemed content so he continued. Vergil looked off to the side at Alice once Nero returned to his story.
'So this Alice was either an experiment or summoned...This sounds all too familiar... That's all I needed..' Vergil silently stood up, gaining no notice.
" Once I cut her down- safely!-" Nero added before Dante spoke up again ", she fell down to floor before I could catch her. I went to help her up but stopped when she screamed in pain. I didn't know how to help her, all I could do was watch. She was holding her head and crying out as her wings just evaporated into thin air , just like the those angel monsters when you kill them Dante, you know? When she stopped screaming I instantly ran up to her and bent down, I didn't notice it before but she had those I.V. needles stuck all up in her back. She was obviously in pain from it but... I was afraid it would kill her If I took them out, but she somehow had the strength to pull herself to her knees and yank them out. She was so out of and dazed that it took her a minute to even figure out I was there. I think the I.V.s were the only thing keeping her alive down there. She must have been in that room for weeks! When she glanced up at me she immediately fell back and scrambled away, begging me not to touch her. It was a horrible sight to see someone so afraid of just one person that she didn't even know. It was about five minutes before I finally convinced her that I wasn't going to hurt her. The minute it got threw to her though, it was something, like a she'd seen some kind of miracle. She looked so happy, and once I told her we were leaving she started to cry and hugged me. When she touched me, it didn't hurt like the two other times her skin has hit mine. No, It... I felt amazing! It was like a thousand different thoughts rushing at me, and so much power, it almost burned, it sorta did... but it felt so... it was like... like..."
" -like liquid fire." Dante finished, grinning and stretching back on the desk. Nero looked shocked but then confused.
" Yeah, that's it. I tried to get anything I could out of here...but all I got was a name."
" So, Alice..." Dante started up with a purr of her name, going over to the woman in question, " are you an angel, or some sort of demon summoned by the religious freaks?" 'Cuz, you definitely don't look like any demons I've seen... but then again there were those nymphs once...hmmm... nymphs.''
" I'm not a demon... or an angel,... I think." Alice huffed. embarrassed that she didn't even know what she was.
" You think?" Nero and Dante spoke together. Apparently Nero hadn't heard this either.
" Well all I can remember is being taken from someone... out in the forest somewhere. Before they knocked me out again I remember only two things they kept muttering. Sparda and some woman... her name was, so familiar, I like I knew it before. I think it was Eva." Dante Immediately choked on air and coughed.
"What!" He asked... many referred to Dante's mother as Eva, whether or not that was actually her name even he couldn't recall himself, but , Sparda and Eva together like that aren't a coincidence.
" Vergil, did you ...Verg?"
Vergil was gone, only a book was left open in the chair.
" Aw hell!" Dante groaned.
' Note to self: Too much attention to detail is bad.' Dante perked up. ' Wait Vergil!'
"How did Vergil come back!" The only twin left thought out loud. Nero gave a funny look and shrugged.
" That's realllly helpful kid." He glared.
" Well what do you want from me old man? A report! All that happened was you little brother back there," he pointed to the now vacant seat ", busted threw the doors when Alice started touching Yamato. Dante sighed, what part of 'take care of my bro's sword' didn't the pint get? He wondered if Nero just let everyone touch it like a new car or something... Dante turned to Alice who just shrugged like Nero before looking at her watch.
" Are we good here?" She asked looking between them .
" I gotta go to work. I'm gonna be late soon..."
" Work? Were?" How the hell did this chick get a job in this town? Nero looked up and laughed.
" Oh she works at a-" Kick!
" Not. A. Word." She seethed. Nero nodded, he wasn't a pansy, but alice wasn't some fluffy little chick either. Besides, he'd seen Kyrie angry, and he definately didn't want to see her angry. Dante quirked a brow. ' Oh really? This looks interesting...'
" Well, I'm off." Alice waved stepping out the door, but before she left she spun around like she forgot something. " Nero!"
" Whaaattt?" He groaned.
" Living arrangements." She smiled before going out the door. Dante didn't like were this was going...
" Living ... arrangements, don't tell me..." Nero looked away sheepishly after the comment.
" We'll there's only so much room in my house, what with Kyrie moving in and all, and you have so much room here. She's got a job!" He starte started to make excuses.
"Still, can't she get her own place, wait Kyrie's moving in with you!-? Oh hoho you dog you, I get it... you want her out for "space" eh, ha-ha nice!" Dante laughed out and used finger marks for the word "space", making Nero flush.
" Shut up you stupid old pervert." He grumbled.
" Hey!... Don't call me old."
" ..."
"What?"
" Are you gonna take her in or what?-!" Nero was getting fustrated.
" Fine, no go home kid."
" Thank god."
" It's Dante, actually." The phone rang beside him.
" Shouldn't you be answering that?"
"Shouldn't you be leaving?"
"Fine."
"Fine."
"Bye."
" Bye bye." Dante grinned, twinkling his fingers in a wave. Then, as an after thought:
" Use a Trojan!"
" AAGGHHHH!" The door slammed and Dante's laughter was heard out the whole city.
The crowd in the finally club let out, but it was an hour before they let the girls themselves out. Safety measures, Alice guessed.
" Don't wander around to much Angel, it's not as safe as it used to be."
" Yeah, Rick, I know." Alice groaned, thinking of how ironic her alias they picked for her was, she really should stop working here, with all the oddballs in this town, but the pay... oh the pay... Alice shook herself. She was getting a bit too money centered. She fixed the dress she had on and started her walk home, Nero had called her, so now she lived with Dante... wow.
" Well this is all peachy..."
" Alice." Her eyes flew open and she whirled around. Gasping she looked onto the person in front of her, and narrowing her eyes at the blue coat the not-so-stranger dawned.
" It's you. What do you want?"
"Might you walk with me?"
Dante woke up with a start. He grumbled and rolled over to look at his alarm clock. It was blinking some unfamiliar time. 7:00 A.M.
" 7:00? I don't wake up till at least noon on Saturdays... what gives? " He rolled back over.
" Whatever." He tried to go back to sleep.
BAM
" VERGIL!"
Now, that, would wake Dante up. He ran down stairs not caring what he had on, which would be boxers. When he got down stairs, what he saw was... interesting. Alice was home... finally, there was a jar of milk spilled all over the floor. When was the last time that he had milk? Vergil was also in the room, shockingly enough. Looking down at the spill like it was something from a demented cartoon and holding a bag of animal crackers.
" Ugh, were are the stupid paper towels in this house?" Alice commented opening up all of the drawers and cabinets in a flurry, her blue skirt swaying with the strides.
" What ... the ...hell..."
Alice immediately spun around, screamed, and covered her eyes. Vergil looked up before tacking a step back in annoyance and looking away.
" Clothes! Do they mean anything to you!-? Are you gonna be naked the next time I see you!-?" Alice yelped, black hair covering her face that was red in embarrassment.
'If it's what the lady requests...' Dante forced his mouth shut, but he took the hint.
" Honestly Dante." Vergil agreed. Dante turned around and went back up stairs with an angry slant to his jaw. Once he came down he saw that not only was the mess cleaned up, but Vergil was already gone and Alice was drinking coffee on the couch. It looked like Vergil knew that his presence was not wanted by the owner.
" Why the hell was he here!-?"
"We went shopping, you've got nothing in this house..."
"You went shopping...with Vergil?" Dante was gaping. The carnage... the destruction...the casualties...his shook his head,
"He shouldn't be allowed in here."
"What? He said he isn't after us anymore now that he has his sword back. He's even apologized to me, can you believe it? I think he just wants to live a normal life. Well...as normal as he can get. He's nothing like the guy I thought he was...neither are you..." Alice mused, finishing up here coffee and looking at Dante for a reply.
"I'll believe that when Trish and Lady wear turtle necks..."
" Who?" Alice said curiously.
"My Co-workers.." Dante sighed, just thinking of the two femme-fatals gave him an unwanted headache.
" Oh. So... what's new with you?" Her blue eyes looked up at him with a light of purity that Dante hadn't seen in a while.
He, sat down held his head in his hands.
" A lot, apparently."
Oh haha I like the ending of this chapter... The next one will have more funny than filling you all in, and alot more with Dante and Alice. It's titled : You work WHERE!
till next time
