This chapter has been beta'd. Interludes are now considered unrelated by beta and are therefor unbeta'd.

You have been robbed!

I sighed. Was it just me or is this alert getting more and more obvious?

"Who are you?," I said to the obvious demon who took my saber and my seastone staff without me noticing. It wasn't until he took Cerberus that I noticed him (which is when the pop up came up). He had blood red eyes and fiery crimson hair that obviously made him a fire element user.

When he walked towards me, his footsteps had flames coming off of them. He also had my gun pointed at me.

"Hand over that kid of yours! Don't even try to use those claws of yours!"

I blinked, just remembering that they were on me. I had completely forgot about them! Vincent started to cry so I cradled him to keep him happy.

He smirked at me and then proceeded to pick up my weapons and he ate them!? The hell, why isn't he going to at least save my beautiful gun! Now he's in for a painful ending! I'll have Dante take a swing at him though since he needs the practice. That and this demon looks like a very weak enemy.

Even though this demon is annoying, surprisingly I wasn't worried since my Cerberus and seastone are heat proof so they should last awhile but my saber is gone.

Using my vampire speed, I started searching for Devil May Cry (which was somewhere in the streets). The demon was having a hard time keeping up with me since my speed was at a much higher level them his. Looking behind me I noticed I lost him. When I spun around to keep running, I noticed Devil May Cry was literally across the street.

Devil May Cry found! Find town hall and merchant district to receive map of the area.

I sighed in frustration, absentmindedly rocking Vincent as he began crying and walked over.

Dante's POV

It was a boring day so far because no work has been coming in for the past week. I had paid off the land lady recently but if this is how new jobs are going to come in, I might have to borrow money from her again. I sighed. I worked hard to get out of debt but I don't want to get sucked back in.

I looked up from my desk (that I have been sitting at for the last half hour) to the door that had just opened, hitting the bell that Trish installed.

I silently observed the newcomer while she was looked down at what was in her arms covered by her cape. 6'5" swimmer's build, large chest dressed in red leather. She wore an empty gun holster on her hip and a blood red tattered cape hanging over her shoulders. She had ruby red eyes and long raven black hair and was pale as a ghost. When she pulled the cape aside I was surprised to see a baby in her arms (with claws on one of her hands).

"What can I do for you, Babe?" I said, smirking. She was very pretty. I admit there was something wrong with this picture though... my eyes darted back to the empty gun holster; where was her weapon?

"Well I have a demon problem." She said while looking at her kid briefly in worry. "He snuck up on me and stole my weapons! I didn't notice until he took my gun which I keep my hand on whenever I enter someplace new. He has crimson eyes and hair not to mention he was manipulating fire to intimidate me into handing Vincent over."

I looked over at the kid. He too had the red eyes but they had a dangerous glint to them, even more than the mom.

"I really don't feel like cutting that demon open to get Cerberus and my staff back. The saber was of inferior quality so it is probably unusable by now."

Was this chick really hiring me just to cut the demon open and retrieve her weapons for her? My face twitched in disgust.

She looked up at me and smirked, "I'm not getting my claws dirty. And by that look on your face, I say you don't want to do it." I smiled. This woman has good instincts, I'll give her that.

"I'll tell you what how, about a bet." I perked up. Nobody had betted with me in awhile.

"I'm listening." I said.

"Seeming as we don't have much time and I don't really know the streets yet, we will do a coin toss and if it lands on heads, I win and you have to do the job for 500,000 beli, but if it lands on tails, you win and I'll pay 5,000,000 beli for the mission. What do you say deal?" She said, holding out a hand to me waiting for a handshake.

I hate agreeing to a bet that I might lose at but I just can't resist them. I brought my hand forward and took her hand.

"You got yourself a deal. The losing bet isn't too bad and it'll pay my rent at least." The next thing I knew, the baby was in my arms and a coin is in her hand. She then spun it on her finger and showed me that it is a normal beli coin.

The coin went up in the air and landed right on my desk, spinning quickly only to tilt showing the heads side up. For a moment I could've sworn I saw a meter in my vision showing something but I wasn't sure but when I looked, it was gone.

I groaned at myself for having gone through with the bet. I hate cutting monsters open! At least I won't have to borrow from the land lady in a while.

I looked over at the lady and grinned. "The name's Dante."

She smiled and walked towards the door. Just before she opened it, she looked over her shoulder and said," Victoria Valentine." Then she was gone out the door.