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Chapter Six
New Strength of the Canyon Mist
Believe it or not, they were outside again. It was a long drawbridge that, the moment they stepped off the end of it, lifted up, giving them no way back to the Manor just yet.
"Well, there's something we gotta do to get out of here," Micheal frowned. "Why isn't it ever easy?"
"To make you whine." Dante grinned, moving forward.
The man looked at the woman beside him. "How do you want that?"
Ryona smiled as she followed Dante. "How can you not?"
"Uh, I'm not gay." He replied. "That and you're just freakin' crazy. Sometimes I wonder who's worse; you or him." They moved past a short Obelisk and down a set of long, spiral stairs that led down into a Garden.
"Oh, thank god," Ryona sighed in relief. "I was fearing a coliseum just like last ti-ahh!" She had been walking forward as she spoke and a set of lizard-like warriors popped up out of the ground in front of her. Dante was quick in whipping out his guns and shooting them off. They ran back into the ground.
"Keep yourself ready for anything, Ryo. Mind open." Dante told her. She flushed as she stood, grumbling under her breath. Now was not the time for her not to be ready. This was a dangerous area and keeping her mind set was the best way to go. Now was time to set all playing aside. Dante and Michael still played around but she knew that they were also set on the task before them. How could they goof off together ad still be set? It pissed her off.
Dante led the way through the Garden this time. Ryona kept silent, thinking to herself about all the events as they followed the half-breed around. That Black Knight was on the top of her mind again, torturing her. She could swear that she had seen him before, been around him somewhere. She just couldn't place where. Maybe she could get him to talk to her next time they ran into him. Dante might not like it, but-
"What's on her mind?"
Dante looked over his shoulder at Michael's words to look at the woman behind them. He gave a small smile before turning back to the crest in front of him. He pulled out his sword. He remembered this device from Vergil's tower. "Her family is all involved in this. What else could be on her mind?"
"True," The man nodded his head. "But still, for her to be the granddaughter of Mundus…I still just can't see it. She's too…she's too sweet. Too kind."
"She also has never met her grandfather," Dante replied. "She was raised with Vergil and me, remember?"
"Yeah, and you see how your brother turned out, no offense." Michael told him, turning to look at the floating platforms.
"True, but Vergil was just…" Dante's voice fell and Michael closed his eyes for a moment, leaving the conversation there before speaking again.
"Floating Platforms?" Michael gave a snort. "Please, leave this to me, Dante."
The half-breed watched as the man stomped his Hermes Boots on the ground before floating off into the air. He turned to Ryona.
"Hey, get your head in the game, Ryo. We got stuff to do, remember?"
The woman pulled herself from her thoughts and then gave the man before her a small smile. "Yeah, I know. I'm sorry."
"Don't apologize, sweetheart, just make it up to me after we leave." Ryona's face went beet red and Dante laughed. "I was more referring to cooking something when we got back home but I would gladly take a trip to the bedroom as payment as well."
Ryona gave a swift kick at the half-breed as giggles escaped her mouth before being cut off by Michael's cries from above them. Both of them lifted their head to find Micheal being circled by two, separate balls of fire before they smashed onto his arms.
"I'M ON FIRE!" The man began to scream. "I'M ON FIRE! I'M…Okay?" Michael stopped screaming and landed on the ground beside the two of them again, looking at the gauntlets that had now encased his arms. He turned and glared at Dante. "Is this going to be just like that damn tower last time? We get new weapons for every bastard that we kill?"
"Are you, of all people, complaining about that?" Ryona asked him, placing a hand on her hip.
Michael glanced down at the new gauntlets for a moment before a large grin spread across his face. "No, I guess not. So, either of you have any idea on where to go next now?"
"Back through the gate, I suppose." Dante answered him. "Maybe you can use those things to break down one of the doors and get us through."
"With nothing else to go off, let's go with that."
On the other side of the gate, though, they were greeted by dark, red lightening raining down on them, bringing with it a huge, ugly-ass Griffon down from the sky.
"You!" It's deep voice rang out at them. "Are you two the humans, the son of Sparda and companions that challenges the Darkness Mundus while holding his granddaughter captive?"
"Captive?" Ryona shared a look with Michael. "Do I look captive?"
"Flock off, featherface. Or you can stick around and find out the hard way." Dante called up to it, beginning to bounce on his feet, getting ready for the fight that was bound to happen.
The bird decided to attack from a distance, dropping down some weird ass red balls on them.
Michael gave a huge grin as he glanced at the duo beside him. "You two stay right here, let me take care of bird brain."
Dante gave a frown as the man lifted off into the air on his shoes. "I need to get me a pair of those."
Ryona gave a laugh. I don't think that there's a second pair of those anywhere in the world, Dante. You're out of luck."
"Damn," the half-breed kicked at the ground as Michael tried out his new gauntlets on the Griffon. "Too bad."
"Fuck yeah!" Michael landed next to them with a grin about five minutes later. Griffon had run. "I am so badass."
"Yeah, yeah," Ryona flapped a hand before walking away towards a set of doors that was behind a line of purple lights on the ground. "Let's just get this over with."
After Michael had open the doors with the gauntlets, the trio found themselves in a forest of some kind. There was a strange, evil feeling of this place and they kept close to eachother as more Marionette's decided to join them in the trees after Ryona's door-friend joined them again, locking them inside until all the wooden puppets were destroyed. Their path continued through a tunnel to a small outdoor are with headstones.
"I swear to God that if something dead spawns out of the ground-" Michael began. Ryona gave a small laugh until her eyes landed on the Sealed door before them.
"Why?" She hung her head. "Why me?"
"Just look at it this way," Michael grinned. "They must find you attractive."
"What?!" Ryona pulled a face. "Oh, do not say that!"
Dante apparently did not like it either and ending up bursting a hole in the door, ignore the red hand. "Let's go," He called to them, leading the way through. They both laughed before following him.
It was a canyon on the other side and it was just a creepy, straight path until they came to a podium that stood in between two paths. On the bottom of the podium, floated a small, white light.
"Valley of the Mist," Ryona read. "One must choose the right path to enter the lost land. Only those who protect the weak light shall have the power to decipher the right path.
"What does that mean?" Michael asked her.
"It's a riddle," Dante watched as the white light floated into the air and began to move down the left path. "It means that we follow the light and keep it safe until we get to the end of the path."
"Keep it safe?" Michael asked as the trio followed it. "From what?"
"From shit like that." Ryona replied, pointing ahead of them. More of those floating ghosts popped up as the light hid in another podium in the middle of the two paths, waiting for the trio to kill the enemy before continuing down the right path. It happened two more times, with different creatures, before they reached the final door. There were two Kyklops(mini-Phantoms) waiting on them here. Ryona was tired of the damn spiders and beat the hell out of them as fast as she could, relieving them of the problem. She gave a grunt.
"How much more of this are we going to have to take? I am getting pretty freakin' tired of this.'
"I know you are," Dante smiled at her. "But-"
"Hey, no crying coming from you young lady." Michael told her. "It's your family that's doing this so you're going to suffer just as much as the two of us, got it? If I got to deal with your grandfather then you do to." Ryona gave a sigh as Dante gave the other man a swift kick and a look. Michael gave a worried look and scratched the back of his head. "Sorry, Ryona, I'm just annoyed with all this damn puzzle work as well."
"No, you're right. Mundus is my family, even if I've never met him before, so it is my problem."
Dante stared at the woman he loved, a small smile on his face. He loved her with all that he was. She was a sweet woman but could be strong, too. She was nervous on what she could do when it came to events like this, though. Events that pertained to her powers. She had lost control several times before and she feared doing it again.
She feared what would happen if she got closer to Mundus. Was he going to take control of powers? Could he? Mundus was the Prince of Darkness. What could she do to someone like that? Dante was safe with his powers since he was only a half-breed but her powers… something awful could be done if she lost control again, either by accident or by Mundus taking hold of her.
He remembered the first time that he had ever seen her lose control; only a few years before the events with Vergil and his tower. He had never been more scared in his life. He had to find a way to keep that from happening ever again.
"So, just what are you going to do about it then?"
"It had been a question to himself, but he had apparently said it aloud. Ryona gave him a look as a small smile spread across her lips. She turned to face the door.
"First, I'm gonna walk through that door. Then I'm gonna go find that bastard, and then I'm gonna kill him!"
Michael moved after the duo before pausing in his steps as they disappeared ahead of him. If Mundus was to die, then what would happen to the underworld? Was there someone there that could take up control or was it just like the King thing where his child took up the throne? And unless Mundus had had another child down there somewhere, Ryona was the only living relative left to the Prince of Darkness. He knew where that would fall. Without someone to rule, the entire place would fall apart and that could rip Earth apart as well, couldn't it? It was hard to think about, but he had to start thinking something up. He had to have a plan if something like that would happen after they took care of Mundus.
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