BOSS BATTLE TIME!
LET'S ROCK!
After leaving the bar/strip club, Sailor Jupiter realized how close they were to their destination. They closer they walked to it, the more she could practically feel the evil energy radiating off the tower.
For someone with no ESP powers, unlike her teammates Sailor Mars and Sailor Neptune or even Sailor Venus for that matter, to feel the energy herself was mortifying at the least. Sailor Jupiter gulped silently. Who in their right minds would build this? For what purpose to do so? What could have possibly driven them? Too many questions had risen in her mind and with no answers, more questions came up. Why do build it? Were they coaxed into evil?
The brunette sighed inwardly. She looked at Dante, who stopped just a couple of feet away from the entrance in to Temen-ni-gru. His back was turned to her. "What's wrong?" she asked.
"You can still turn back, you know."
"Not without Usagi."
Dante turned around. He looked straight out into the brunette's forest colored green eyes. "There's no changing your mind then, is there?"
Sailor Jupiter's eyes were full of fiery determination. "No, there isn't. Once I set my heart on something, I'll go for it. There's no way I could ever leave my best friend behind. I refuse to do that."
The white haired teen saw the the fire burning in her eyes. He knew instantly then that the strange outfitted girl in front of him was dead set on rescuing her friend. But why was this strange girl all by herself? Where was Setsuna? That bothered him, somewhat.
"Then you know what we're up against," he warned.
The senshi of Jupiter nodded. "If you haven't noticed, I'm one tough chick."
"In that case, don't except me to rescue you then." Dante added, smirking.
Sailor Jupiter replied with her own smirk. "I don't expect you, too."
"Good." Dante turned on his heel and entered the eerie looking tower with the ponytailed brunette following behind.
As soon as they entered, cold, bitter air had hit them. The entrance was dimly lit with torches high above them, but it did not make difference against the chilly air. Huge blocks of ice, twice their heights had surrounding the corners and walls of the room. Sharp, icy pillars dangled from the ceiling,ready to fall at a moment's notice.
Jupiter tried to keep warm by rubbing her upper arms, but the attempt was futile.
"It's cold..." She muttered to herself. Memories of a past battle once fought in the cold began to replay in her head. How the sailor soldier of Jupiter hated memories.
"You're the one wearing the mini skirt." Dante reminded, looking over his shoulder.
The brunette began to glare at him once again. "Look, I'm not wearing this by choice."
The white haired teen turned around, intrigued. He began to eye the green eyed girl up and down. "Really, now?"
Sailor Jupiter tried not to blush under Dante's intense stare, but failed miserably.
"Yeah, really..."
The male teen was silent for a few minutes before he spoke up again.. "Y'know my offer is still available."
The green eyed girl's blush died down."What offer?"
"To help you get out of the ridiculous mini skirt of yours." the blue eyed male offered with his signature smirk. "I'll give you a discount. And you'll get some body heat to keep you warm."
The brunette's blush returned again in full force. "You...! You son of a bitch!"
"I said I'd give you a discount."
"Screw you!"
"Fine. Shiver in the cold then."
Sailor Jupiter let out a low frustrated growl. Oh, how she really wanted to electrocute him so bad.
All Dante did was shrug his broad shoulders. "Suit yourself. Just tell me when you're ready."
He turned on his heel again and began to walk away toward the towering ice block in from of them.
The brunette senshi of Jupiter glared icy daggers at her companion's retreating form.
'Damn it, Sets! Why him of all people?' She complained to herself before following.
She caught up to Dante and headed to the gigantic piece of ice blocking their only way to fully infiltrate the tower. Jupiter noticed chains attached to the ice block in front of them. Then she felt her ears burn again. Something was about to happen.
The chained up block of ice soon began shaking. The surrounding blocks of ice began to gave way revealing a three-headed monstrosity of a demon named Cerberus . The main head had menacing orange eyes while the heads on both the left and right only had an eerie green color for their eyes, with its body still covered in ice.
Cerberus stepped forward to the two teens. He stopped just barely an inch from the two of them, due to its chain for a collar. Feeling frustrated by the weight of its collar, Cerberus let out a howl, sending a slab of ice towards them. Dante quickly pulled Sailor Jupiter behind him, just as fast he pulled out his sword Rebellion and slashed the incoming chunk of ice in two.
"Leave now, mortals! The likes of you two are forbidden in this land!" Cerberus cried out with it's eerie orange eyes staring down the two teens with hatred. "You and the girl are powerless. You two aren't worthy to set foot here!"
"Wow. I've never seen a talking dog before." the silver haired male sarcastically remarked. "Y'know, in a dog show, you'll definitely win first place."
Sailor Jupiter rolled her green eyes. 'He really knows to piss people off.'
Cerberus was enraged. "You, a mere human, make a mockery of me!"
The monstrosity of a dog braced himself as it fired a blast of bone chilling ice breath. In a blink of an eye, Dante picked up the tall brunette, and jumped several feet in the air, avoiding the blast. Sailor Jupiter's face turned a very bright pink by his sudden actions. They both landed safely on the ground, only to have the only exit covered completely in ice. Now there really was no way to turn back now.
"Easy Fido. How bout I take you out for a walk. C'mon puppy! Let's go!" the blue eyed devil hunter taunted.
Cerberus growled ferociously at the two intruders. "You'll regret this you worm!"
'Yeah... He definitely knows how to piss people off...' Sailor Jupiter thought.
Dante looked over his shoulder, glancing at the brown haired girl. "You ready?"
"As ready as you are." she answered, cracking her joints.
"Alright then." the silver haired teen jumped lightly on his feet, giving a few shift punches in the air, barely containing his excitement.
"C'mon!" he signaled.
The demon dog wasted no time in charging after them, only to be yanked by his chain. Out of frustration, he let out a howl. His howl caused the ice pillars hanging from the ceiling to fall down. Jupiter made a cartwheel, escaping the falling pillars. Dante, in the mean time, had quickly whipped out his two handguns, Ebony and Ivory, and began shooting away at one of Cerberus's heads; chipping away the ice surrounding it.
Cerberus howled again causing more pillars to fall. The brunette decided to take the offensive. She created a series of lightning bolts and sent it upwards. It shattered the cascading ice pillars, causing a rain shower of small shards of ice. The orange eyed demonic guardian glared at the green outfitted girl. He blasted a breath of cold air at her. Jupiter just barely dodged the frigid blast.
"Damn it." She swore to herself.
The brunette's green eyes took a quick glance at the silver haired teen. He was in the air, firing bullets. With him distracting Cerberus, Jupiter began to charge electricity in her white gloved hands. Higher and higher her electricity became in both voltage and size. Once the size and amount were sufficient, the brunette senshi of Jupiter leaped several feet into the air and threw the massive lightning ball at Cerberus's right head, severely damaging it.
The Ice Demon Guardian screamed in agony. He reared his head to the descending Sailor Jupiter and started to charge at her. Not wanting to be killed, the green eyed senshi shot up her antenna gathering energy. Just moments before Cerberus could catch her, a gigantic thunder dragon emerged rushing at full speed towards the icy devil. Cerberus braced himself against the on-coming impact. After the bright flash of white dissipated, the devil dog monstrosity felt something amiss. He felt... lighter. The ice guardian shifted his head his right only to find the right head completely obliterated.
The iced devil, Cerberus, turned his attention to the green clad warrior. "You obnoxious worm!"
The ice guardian's body began to to turn a disturbing shade of red. He then let out an ear piercing growl shaking a large amount off the ice ceiling. Cerberus manipulated the falling sharp pillars towards to kill the brunette. Just seconds before the sharp pillars came crashing down, Dante picked up the green eyed girl out of harm's way.
"You alright?" He asked, setting her down.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Jupiter responded. 'Thanks to you...'
Cerberus growled ferociously, trying to set himself free from his chained prison.
The silver haired male snuck a quick peek of his shoulder at Cerberus, then back to the Sailor Senshi. "Hey. You can still fight?"
Sailor Jupiter brushed herself off. "Yeah."
That was all the silver haired devil hunter needed to hear. He rushed to the left head of the ice guardian and began shooting away again. Sailor Jupiter began to follow his lead, when Cerberus stomped the ground causing sharp ice spikes to rise up and surrounding the green senshi. Sailor Jupiter tried to dodged but the effort was quickly lost. The senshi made a quick decision and used her Oak Evolution to break free from her icy prison.
"Damn it." She hissed after setting herself free.
The iced devil had rushed towards the green clad brunette, but once again his chains stopped him short. Feeling enraged by his restriction, Cerberus blasted his ice breath on the ground, forcing to make the two teenage intruders to take the defensive and jump.
Dante wasted no time and began to slash away at the head of Cerberus's left side. Sailor Jupiter, on the other hand, sent multiple bolts of lightning (also while avoiding to hit Dante) at the icy devil dog.
Twice had Cerberus blasted his bone chilling ice breath at the unlikely duo. Twice the duo took the initiative and jumped sending off there respective attacks.
In a mini explosion left behind bullets and electricity, the second head finally been destroyed, leaving all but the main head to remain. Cerberus began to feel his strength draining away from him rapidly as both his brother heads were gone. He wanted nothing more to see these two dead. Using the last bits of his waning power, the demonic ice guardian braced himself for his most powerful ice breath.
The blue eyed male rushed to the brunette and pulled her closer to him as they leaped in the are avoiding the blast. Using his free hand, he continued to fire more bullets at Cerberus. Once on the ground, Dante let of the green senshi of Jupiter.
"Stay here." he ordered.
Before Sailor Jupiter could protest, the blue-eyed demon hunter reached for his sword -Rebellion- and used his charged attack Stinger sending the iced covered demon flying against the wall.
With no more energy left to fight, Cerberus spoke to the silver haired male. "You are not human, are you?"
Dante shrugged. "Who knows? I'm not even sure myself."
Sailor Jupiter tilted her head slightly.
'What does mean by that... How does he not know...?' the brunette wondered.
"Regardless," Cerberus spoke breaking the young woman's thoughts. He then looked at the young Sailor Senshi beside Dante.
"You two have proved your strength. I acknowledge your abilities."
The ice demon returned to the silver male standing in front of him. "Take my soul and go forth! You have my blessing!"
Cerberus let out a howl. His iced cover body began to shake when a blue light escaped from him causing him to disappear. The blue orb descended down to the young devil hunter. In a flash of white, the blue orb had transformed in to a three headed nunchaku.
The young brunette sighed loudly. "Now with that's over and done with. Let's go before my butt freezes."
She began to walk ahead from the blue eyed male. Dante just stood there staring at his newly acquired weapon as if it was a new toy.
'Alright. Let's see what this baby can do.'
When the ponytailed teen noticed that he was not following her, she turned away to find him standing still in the same place. Jupiter then noticed a small grin beginning to appear on his face.
"Dante?" she called out.
Then without warning, the silver haired male began to show off his new weapon, Cerberus bestowed upon him. Sailor Jupiter soon found to have a what-the-fuck look she as she her companion spin his nunchaku on his arm and then using his right leg to the same thing.
'Really... but he's not bad. Show off.' the green eyed girl could not help but think.
"Too easy." Dante announced when he finished. He took glance at the green eyed girl who looked very annoyed, standing not that far away from he was.
"What?
"Was all that really necessary?"
" 'Course it was." the silver haired male replied. He, then, walked over to the brunette and poked her on the forehead.
"I had to test it out to see what it was it capable of."
Sailor Jupiter frowned. "Smart ass."
"You'll be seeing that a lot, so get use to it."
"You're a pain."Sailor Jupiter said. 'And cocky too.'
Dante ignored her last comment. "C'mon. Let's go before my ass freezes."
He turned on his heel and began to walk straight ahead.
'Stupid cocky son of a bitch.' She thought with an attitude.
"Like I have a choice." Jupiter muttered before catching up to him.
Suddenly, a red motorcycle burst through the ice high above the two teens, making the ice shards rain down like glittering crystals.
'Well now...' the white haired devil hunter thought as he watch the motorcycle to descend.
Just moments before, the motorcycle landed, the blue eyed male jumped in the air catching a quick glimpse of the rider. A young female who looked no older than him or possibly a year younger was driving the red motorcycle. She was wearing a white button shirt with denim with short brown hair. The female motorcyclist was armed with guns of all sorts and a rocket launcher attached to her back. A small smirk played on his lips.
'Now that's what I'm talking about!'
"Are you going to the party?" Dante asked once he and the female motorcyclist both landed at the same time.
"What's the hurry? Didn't you get an invitation?"
Sailor Jupiter in the meantime, rolled her green eyes at his mockery. 'Seriously, what's with him and his cocky attitude?'
The unknown female wasted no time reaching for her rocket launcher and firing a missile towards the demon hunter. The silver haired shoved Jupiter hard to the floor. As soon the miniature missile came close, Dante bended down (A/N: Matrix style) and put his right foot against the missile and rode it like it was some kind of surf board all around the chamber.
"Whooo!"
Sailor Jupiter could not believe what she seeing before her very eyes.
"He's freakin unbelievable." green eyed senshi of Jupiter murmured.
Knowing that his ride was going to short lived, Dante got off the missile and the rocket crashed into the ceiling creating an opening. What first started out to be boring was turning into a one of his favorites.
The silver- haired male let out a laugh full of excitement. "Whoo!"
He started to make his towards the unknown female when she turned her head revealing her different colored eyes. One green and one red.
Both Dante and Sailor Jupiter had the same thought. 'That's something you don't see everyday.'
The different eyed girl revved her cycle before making a complete circle aiming for the hole Dante made. She headed towards the silver haired male, but he didn't panic or move for that matter. He just stood there with a smirk as she jumped into the hole, just an inch away of missing his face.
The white haired male turn to look at the now departed girl. "This just keeps gettin' better and better."
'Yeah.. maybe for you..' The green eyed senshi of Jupiter thought with bitterness.
Dante looked over to the brunette. "Well, then. Let's not keep the guests waiting."
Sailor Jupiter frowned as she nodded. "Right..."
Both teens finally began their way out.
::On top of Temen-ni-gru::
It was now nightfall. The tower stood against the moon hanging in the dark velvet sky. Vergil was still standing patiently, waiting for his guest. Arkham was sitting on the foot on one of the statues that surrounded the edges. He glancing through the pages of his book. Their hostage, the Moon Princess, Usagi was also sitting with the same soulless look in her sapphire blue orbs.
"Looks like we have another uninvited guest." Vergil announced.
"Is that so?" Arkham replied still flipping through the pages.
"Another human. Another woman."
Arkham closed his book. "I'm afraid I should ask the other uninvited woman to leave."
He stood up.
"That is what you want. Actually, I happened to be acquainted with that woman."
Vergil turned to look at him for a brief moment. Then he turn his gaze back to the city hundreds of feet below them.
Arkham turned on his heel and started to walk away. "A storm is approaching..."
::Inside::
After that brief setback caused by both the ice guardian dog and the mysterious woman, the two teens finally made there inside Temen-ni-gru. A set of two broken spiral staircases had greeted them. Between the staircase, a tall statue stood there, almost as if it was staring them down. In each stairway a door was presented to them, but only one of them was accessible since the other door was blocked off by a pillar of fire.
With no other options to go on, both Dante and Sailor Jupiter headed up the right spiral staircase.
As they made their way up, the brunette's tiara gem began to glow very brightly.
"Hm." Sailor Jupiter noticed. 'Why is my gem glowing like that.'
Then something caught her eye. A tall dark green door. Embedded on the green door was the insignia of her once home planet Jupiter. Her curiosity got the better of her as she walked up to it. She took a quick peek at the silver haired just up head. Her gloved hand touched lightly against the door. The moment her fingers brushed against it, her symbol began to glow. Jupiter began to back away slightly.
'Oh great...what did I do?'
The green door flew open and long black arms shot out and began to grab the Sailor Senshi, pulling her inside. She tried to pull herself free but her attempts failed miserably. She even to tried use her powers, but could not use them. The brunette tried to scream but one of the hands quickly covered her mouth. The long black arms began dragging the girl inside when she finally managed to pry one of the hands off her mouth.
"Get your damn hands the hell off of me! Dante!" Sailor Jupiter cried out.
The said male turned around around and saw the green clad girl being dragged away inside. "God damn it!"
He went back towards Jupiter and outstretched his arm towards the senshi. He was so close to grab her hand. However his rescue attempt was in vain as the elongated black arms quickly snatched the brunette and the dark green shut tightly in front of him.
"Shit!" Dante cursed aloud. He then took out his twin handguns and began shooting. His bullets ricochet off the electric barrier that surrounded the door.
He put back his pistols. "Tch. Great another barrier."
'Just great. Just fucking great...'
::Mission 3: Cleared::
Haha! A cliffhanger!
Until Next Time.