Ahhh, finally, another chapter up!Thank you for your positive comments! I've been running blanks, but I am trying to find a happy way to end this. I think I got what I am looking for. :] So, yeah, Surely Blue, you are absolutely right! There has to be a dramatic moment or two otherwise it'd be far too boring, and me being a mood wrecking kinda guy, I decided to add that spicy action! But I PROMISE, It will be happy ending. I am trying to work my way out of these.. Depressing scenes. Haha, so enjoy!~
Chapter 7 [Leaping that Hurtle]
I can't tell you what it really is,
I can only tell you what it feels like,
And right now there's a steel knife in my windpipe.
I can't breathe but I still fight while I can fight,
As long as the wrong feels right.
~Love The Way You Lie; Eminem
The sun leaked in through the cracks of the curtains. Bathing the room in a velvet warmth. Last night was a blur.. Warm touches and feverish antics.. Hot skin and a regretless deed later, Raevynn felt as if he was choking down fire. The kind of burn that is good, if that made sense at all.
How'd they end up on the floor?
If memory served him right, he had shoved Dante on the couch, crawling on top of him. That wasn't at all like Raevynn.. Though maybe Dante had that talent of bringing this.. Craze out in him.. Whatever the case they ended up on the floor and Raevynn had awoken to the sound of chirping birds and the rustle of trees. The kind of shit he had never payed mind to.
Raevynn stirred on Dante's naked chest with a sense of vague bewilderment. He supposed he should of expected it.. The man asleep under him oozed with sex appeal and yet.. There was something hidden under that facade bravado.
"Thought you'd never wake, sleeping beauty..~" The taunt came like a flutter of a breeze, there was a soft vibration in Dante's chest that made Raevynn smirk. "My arm's asleep 'cuz of you, y'know."
"Fuck you~" The words were said with a grin.
"Again? Tempting offer.." Dante was quick to counter, rolling them over to where he was hovering over Raevynn. Raevynn was left breathless.
He opened his mouth to retort but a crash had thrown them both off and Dante was the first to shove himself up, grabbing for his pants quicker than Raevynn could sit up.
"Dante..?!" The rise of uncertainty surprised even Raevynn, though the words did fall from his lips.
"Stay down!" Dante warned; a sternness that was laced in a sense of protection lingered. He was buttoning his pants and opening the door just a crack. Enough to look through.
Raevynn harnessed this time to get dressed, sliding into his dark jeans and reaching for his baggy Misfits jacket. He zipped it up, not bothering with his already shredded shirt. He was stepping into his sneakers when the door blasted off it's hinges and Dante with it.
There was no thought to Raevynn's scream as Dante was thrown into the wall across the room. The wall cracked from under Dante's spine. A picture had clattered from the wall, frame breaking in several pieces.. The woman's beautiful features in the picture were sprinkled with glass on the floor..
Seeing the picture caused Raevynn's head to burn. He squeezed his eyes tightly, uttering as loud as he could.
"D-Dante?!"
He heard shuffling as footsteps flooded into the room.
"I'm fine..! Raevynn, get out!" Raevynn opened his eyes to Dante gathering himself from the fall. It wasn't long before something large had barreled into him, throwing him crashing out the window. Raevynn bidded life in his shaken legs and sprinted towards the window where shards of glass had sprayed down from the tall building.
"DANTE!" He swayed from the opening, fear of heights clutching his already throbbing heart. He staggered back with a gasp. The large figure had knocked Dante down onto the rooftop of another building, large hands digging at Dante's chest...
Was he... Trying to pry apart Dante's chest?..
Raevynn's mind screamed in panic. He had to recollect his thoughts, and fast. The world was wavering. He had to fight it.. Red ripples cascaded across his vision as he staggered towards his backpack, grabbing the boomerangs that poked from the zippered opening. He didn't think; didn't weigh out his options. He only took a running start and darted out the window. He jumped.
"Don't waste your life on regrets.." The elderly woman muttered softly on her death bed. Raevynn's eyes welled with tears, her words stung.. His heart drinking them in as a wrinkled hand layed flat against the slope of his cheek. "Like glass, they'll break.. And nobody likes a throat full of glass..~"
Raevynn says nothing. How could he retort? He focuses on the beeping of the machine.. The only thing keeping her alive.. He strays from dwelling on that..
"That day.. I.." Raevynn wets his lips before trying to wrestle with his thoughts. "I believe an angel.. Was watching over me..."
"Maybe there was..~" A weak chuckle proves that her spirits can't be broken. And Raevynn smiles at this. "Promise this old bird something?"
"Anything... Grandma" Raevynn answers without thinking.
"Don't ever be afraid to jump.. 'For a baby bird never learns to fly without a little faith.."
The fall is what hurt the most, but it was broken by Raevynn's shoulder, and sending him into a roll. He rose up on shaken feet, only briefly casting the glance over his shoulder at the gap he had cleared between the buildings. He'd have to praise himself later. He whirled to face the man hovering over Dante's writhing form. Without contemplation, Raevynn's lungs screamed.
"HEY, MUNDUS..~" The name felt so natural to him. The man throws a glare in his direction, proving it's placement. And Dante struggles.
"Go back to hell~!" Raevynn's words were punctuated with a thrust of his wrist, he released a boomerang hard enough to have it slice through the air and nailed it right between the man's eyes.
The hefty man roared with anger, throwing himself off of Dante, in the most barbaric way. Staggering to get the object that had been hammered into his skull.
Raevynn wasted no time, seizing a precious moment to sprint towards Dante, helping him up.
"I-I fuckin' told you to run!" Dante snarled, though his words were greatfull at Raevynn's timeliness. "What the fuck do you think you are doing?!"
"Saving your ass!" Raevynn hissed, the hand pulling Dante up tightened in mists of frustration.
Raevynn felt himself being shoved by Dante's palm, pushing him out of the way of Mundus as he once again berries into Dante. The boomerang still jutting from his skull, submerged halfway in. But this time, Dante was prepared for it, he dug his feet into the ground and pushes back, fighting for control.
And once more Raevynn proved himself to be quite the opportunist, had bolted up, latching himself onto Mundus' back. With all his strength, the teen pulled the man backwards, Raevynn had used Mundus' own weight against him; making him topple back. He swung himself off before Mundus had fallen onto his back. The building shook and it was Dante's turn.
The dark haired teen had leapt up high, tearing through the air to give himself leverage. Raevynn watched in shock as Dante aimed his heel downwards and drove the boomerang in encouragement of it's decent, splitting open the man's skull. Raevynn quickly threw his gaze elsewhere as the sound of blood splattered the rooftop. Cracks had crawled beneath his feet and it didn't give Raevynn's brain time to register before he was scooped up in strong arms. The building's foundation gave a harsh bellow.
"Time ta' go!" Dante howled with a grin in his voice, leaping off the building and seizing the air from Raevynn's lungs at the sudden lurch of movement.
When he felt Dante land onto the ground, Raevynn nearly melted into goo in Dante's arms. Was it finally over?
One could only hope..
"The path is finally clear for us to rule..~" The words that curled from Vergil's lips were daunting.. His true colors were fanning out as they stood among the rubble. Raevynn noticed Dante's jaw tighten, his arm around Raevynn's had tightened. Raevynn only responded by running a smooth thumb across the other's palm. A failed attempt at soothing.
"What did you say?" Dante's question was dark and low in his throat. Vergil looked from the horizon to face his twin, in almost disbelief.
"I said.. The path is clear for us to finally rule..~" It was the sparks casted in the already gasoline drenched field of hay.. The fire was ignited. Dante finally snapped.
"What the hell are you talking about?!" He snarled, separating from Raevynn. Raevynn bit his lower lip to hold back a retort. "You're sounding like Mundus!"
Vergil shook his head with a hiss of detest, the bridge of his nose creased and the male stepped forward to correct his twin.
"No.. Not like Mundus at all, we'll respect our subjects.." He taxed as if that sounded a whole lot better. It was Raevynn's turn to voice his objection.
"The fuck you say?!" His voice climbed from the shell in his throat, cracked open by a new bravery Dante had installed in him. Dante's face consorts in disgust as he approached his twin, brushing past Raevynn.
"Subjects..." He echoed with a snort that settles between his teeth. "He means you.."
"Without guide, humans will destroy this world!" Vergil reasoned further, voice itching with annoyance. Budding a whole new theory from Mundus' plans. "They need this.. If you can't accept this responsibility.. Stand aside.. I'll rule without you.."
Dante's upper lip flared in a sudden scowl.
"I can't let you do this, Vergil.." He made his point clear. And the tension shoots from there. Thick enough for Raevynn to feel.. It almost crippled him.
"And I can't let you stop me, brother.." Vergil countered. Sealing the deal and breaking the firey deadlock between them.
Birthed by disagreement, a whole new rivalry was bloomed from the savaged care between the two.. Raevynn was helplessly left to watch as the two trail from the railing and into the center of the clearing.
"V..Vergil.. Don't do thi-.." Raevynn attempted to reason, but was cut off by Vergil's jolting shout.
"SHUT UP!"
"Don't talk to him like that!" Dante snapped, the final thread of his patients snapping. And it finally doesn't surprise Vergil, though it clearly phases him.
"You dare attach yourself to these feeble humans?!" He scoffed and Raevynn sank to his knees at the words.. Some part of him.. Believes Vergil is right. "How pathetic!"
"Shut your damn mouth!" Dante hisses between clenched teeth, his eyes gave a sharp flicker.. From ice to a firey red. His hair was bleeding to a feathery white. "Rae' had saved my life. Without him, we'd all be dead!"
Had Dante really meant that?.. Raevynn's breath had caught in his throat. The side of Dante Raevynn knew was there had shone through and reviled itself..
The Side Dante Rarely Showed:
Care.
With that, the words had been cut short. Dried up and set ablaze. Dante was the first to charge, and the two twins lashed out. The sound of metal clashing onto metal tore through the sound barrier. Sparks rained down from grinding, heated blades. And again, Raevynn was helpless.. Unable to do anything but watch as the two brothers fought.. A sick twisted rivalry that was unmatched by any sibling. The two shadows danced in a heated sway, as if rehearsed many times before..
It was Dante who overthrew Vergil, sinking the blade of his rebellion into the twin's chest and pinning him onto the floor. The blade slowly sank as Vergil struggled to fight it. Raevynn staggered from his spot on the floor.
"D-.. Dante.. Knock it off!" He didn't know why he was stopping him.. Vergil deserved this.. But even this.. Wasn't right. They were brothers.. Dante would regret this.. And nobody likes a throat full of glass.. His grandmother was right.. "You'll kill him!"
The blade sank further into Vergil's chest as Dante snarled in response. Raevynn's hands found Dante's shoulder and the teen squeezed softly.
"Please, Dante... You're fuckin' better than this.." He whispered softly. Something broke in Dante's eyes then.. They fadeded back to that familure ice, though his hair remained unchanged.. He jerked the blade out and allowed Vergil to stagger up, coughing
"You've picked your side.." Vergil hissed straightening himself up, hand over his wound. Dante confirmed his words:
"The world has a new protector now..~"
Vergil's expression is shere disgust as he shook his head, with his blade, he cut a void into the air, and looked back at his twin. There was almost a sense of loss in his broken tone.
"And I loved you.."
Raevynn almost swore he felt Dante wince under the weight of those words as Vergil slipped from sight. He hung his head in disbelief, collecting what had just happened, slowly drinking it in as if it were poison.
"What have I done?"
"Dante.." Raevynn's hands lifted the male's face up to look him in the eyes. "You're amazing.. You've saved us all.."
It seemed as though that very claim was enough to mend.. Dante's smile is genuine and he leans in to place his lips over Raevynn. Making his heart flutter within his ribcage.
"Well, I have you to thank for that.."
OH GOD, THE CHEESYNESS! I am not used to corn, people. But I gave it a shot. LOL.. Wow.. Okay, so I am so close to finishing this.. All I got left is the conclusion.. My goodness.. I have to say, I kinda like the pairing, I am glad a friend suggested it.. Hahaa.. Well, sit tight people, the last chapter is coming soon, very soon!
