Roar Of Isearus
A lightning bolt fell from the sky and struck Isearus. The hound now had pulsating eletrical circles emanating from his head to his tail. While roaring with extreme force, he rose up on his hind legs and slammed his forepaws into the ground. Several shockwaves of electricity rushed across the ground towards Dante and Angela. Dante simply jumped over them and then used Air Hike to gain some extra air. Angela held Nevan out in front of her and let the demonic guitar absorb the electricity.
Dante landed and instanly pulled out his pistols and started firing at Isearus. Isearus was hit by a few rounds before he realized the weapon actually hurt him. He surged his mane with an electrical current that caused the bullets to deflect away. The demon charged forward towards Dante; teeth bared. When the hell hound was stopped cold in his tracks by his foot long canines hitting something metal he instinctively jumped backwards.
"Rebellion!" He roared in recognition of the Dante's blade. Before he could speak again he jumped back from a swarm of purple electrical bats aiming for his head. Angela ran up to his right and swung Nevan in her sycthe form at Isearus's chest, but the dog dodged it easily enough. Isearus prowled in a circle around the two looking for an opening. "That sword," Isearus began, "It belonged to Sparda." His eyes narrowed. "You are not human, are you?"
"You're starting to sound like someone I know." Dante remarked at his encounter with Cerberus. "I taught that dog a lesson a while ago, though. Maybe you know him." Dante swapped Rebellion for Cerberus by spinning the nunchucks around his body in a display of taunting.
"Brother!" Isearus said astonished. "You will release Cerberus from your servitude and give him to me, NOW!"
"How about you come and take him from me." Dante taunted further.
"Irritant pest!" Isearus roared. "I am the Lord of Lightning! You will obey me." Another bolt of lightning, much larger than the first, struck Isearus as he slammed his paws into the ground. The shock wave was too wide and high to aovid, and Dante wasn't sure Nevan could absorb all that energy, so he grabbed Angela by the waist and pulled her close to his body. Dante spun Cerberus above his head and a barrier of spinning ice solidified around him and Angela. The shockwaves passed harmlessly around them.
"You okay, Angela?" Dante asked, looking down on her with his trademark smirk. Angela just nodded her reponse. She didn't want to speak just incase her voice came out as a whimper. She was absolving in the moment that her body was in such close contact with Dante. Her face turned completely red, but she quickly shook herself back to reality. When Dante let down the ice shield Isearus was there and waiting. His leap was so fast Angela didn't have time to react, but Dante did. He spun the nunchucks around his right shoulder and smacked Isearus clean across the face. The force of the blow knocked him face first into the dusty ground at Dante's feet.
"Chew on this." Dante used Crystals to freeze Isearus to the ground. "It's cool!" Dante punched the nunchucks into the ground, causing massive spikes of ice to shoot up around him and Angela, but stab Isearus into the air. Angela charged Nevan and sent a swarm of several hundred electric bats at the demon dog impaled onto the spikes. All of the bats hit their mark, knocking the hell hound into the air. The Lord of Lightning fell to the ground on his side. He struggled to get to his feet.
"You will not defeat me as easily as you did my brother." Isearus panted.
"Actually, I think you're easier to beat than him." Dante stated matter of factly.
"Dante!" Angela hit him on the arm. "All the hounds of hell-"
"YOUR IGNORANCE WILL BE YOUR DEATH!" Isearus roared. An uncountable number of lightning bolts struck Isearus in a brilliant glow of light. Thunder boomed so loud to the point Angela had to cover her ears. Once the glowing light receded, it was obviously seen that the Lord of Lightning had gone through a transformation. His canines were two feet longer. His lightning stripes were a gold color. And the most distinguished change was that his white mane was now blue and made entirely of crackling, radically moving electricity. Isearus howled towards sky resulting in him shooting a stream of blue electricity from his mouth.
"Have a second more powerful form." Angela finished her previous statement with a sigh and face palmed. "That's why demons never taunt hell hounds."
"Oops." Dante shrugged nonchantly.
"Oops? OOPS!" Angela yelled at him. She was about to scream a string of curses, but the stream of lightning that went flying past her head snapped her back to the reality that there was an overpowered demon dog attacking them.
"Know the roar of ISEARUS!" The demon hound kept shooting bolts from his mouth. Everytime a bolt hit the ground it crackled with the intensity of Isearus's thundering roar.
"Damn it, Dante!" Angela yelled while dodging lightning from Isearus's maw. "Do something!"
"Working on it!" Dante grabbed Rebillion and rushed at Isearus with a Stinger. Isearus noticed what Dante was doing just in time to block his sword with his canine teeth. He tried to shake his head to knock the demon slayer away, but he couldn't budge the sword. He had underestimated Dante's strength. Still locked with the sword, Isearus sent an electrical current from his canines to Rebellion which surged up the sword and into Dante. The electricity engulfed Dante in blue light. "Dante, NO!" Angela screamed.
The Lord of Lightning laughed in a deep throaty growl. "Your mate is dead, and you are next." Isearus rumbled through clenched teeth at Angela. He ceased his electric current and the glow that was around Dante began to subside. "How is this possible?" Isearus fumed when the blue glow went away completely. Dante was giving his trademark smirk to the lightning hound. Angela noticed he looked completely unharmed; other than the fact he had smoky wisp rising from his body.
"That actually stung a little." Dante sliced through Isearus's left canine, then kicked him in the face a few yards away. "But atleast now I have a metaphor for how just smoking hott I am." Dante grinned.
"Yes you are." Angela murmered to herself.
"Thanks Angela." Dante winked at her. The look on her face showed surprised that he had heard her. "Ears of a devil, babe."
"This battle is not over." Isearus interrupted the conversation between the two half demons. He ran at Angela and made several swipes at her. Electric blue wisps flew out of the dog's claws. She barely was able to dodge and block the lightning imbued claws with Isearus's increased speed in his second form. Next Isearus tried shooting lightning out of his maw at her. He followed up with electrical streams discharging from the electricity on his back. Angela couldn't even find an opening in his attacks. Thankfully, Dante intervened by slashing rapidly at Isearus. Now the dog was on the defense, dodging the devil hunter's sword, but that didn't last long.
Dante made a clean slash across Isearus's chest, catching him off guard. That's when Dante saw his opening and performed his Dance Macabre. A flurry of slashes descended upon the Lord of Lightning as Dante speed up swinging Rebellion. It was a display of absolute mastery of his skill with a blade. He even had added a few new moves to his entourage of slashes to extend the length and power of the attack. The most noticable change was the upward slash knocking Isearus high into the air.
"Are you ready?" Dante asked Angela as he charged Rebellion with his demonic energy, making the sword glow red and crackle with power. Throughout the whole onslaught she had been strumming Nevan like Slash, charging up an enormous store of power.
"Ready." She confirmed with a nod. The two released their stored energy directly at the descending hell hound. Dante's took the form of a giant Drive, while Angela's attack was a swarm of thousands of electrically charged demonic bats. Both attacks hit. The resulting explosion engulfed Isearus entirely.
"He's down and out." Dante strode over to Angela, not even bothering to give the explosion the time of day.
"That was...intense." Angela remarked. They two began to walk towards the entrance that was the giant gate.
"Hold!" The deep growl of the Lord of Lightning was unmistakable. Angela and Dante turned around to see Isearus hobbling towards them out of the dust. He was back in his original form with his missing left canine. He was bleeding profusely from all the cuts and gashes on his body.
"Don't you die!" Angela pulled Force Edge off her hip and was about to charge, but Dante held Rebellion out to stop her. She looked up at him and he shook his head no.
"You did not attack with even a quarter of your power." Isearus's comment was directed at Dante. His voice was filled with anger and shame. Angela's eyes went wide at what the demon had said.
"I know he has power, but he couldn't be that powerful." Angela thought. She gazed up at Dante to see how he reacted to the accusation. He seemed somber and serious. Quite unlike him to act that way.
"You purposefully spared my life." Isearus continued. "You could have easily killed me from the beginning of our bought." Isearus stopped a few feet away from Dante. Angela tensed up and prepared for an attack. To both the suprise of Angela and Dante, the Lord of Lightning bowed his head at their feet. "You have great power, yet you show restraint in its use. That is a discipline I respect highly. My brother was right in his choice of the bearer of his soul." Isearus returned himself to his full height and walked past the duo to the front of the gate. "You are free to pass through these gates at your leisure." Isearus howled towards the sky and thunder boomed defeaningly overhead in the swirling black sky. Soon afterwards, the gate to the prison slowly began to creek open.
Dante was the first to start walking through the gates and pass the hell hound. Angela followed a distance behind him.
"Half angel." Isearus grabbed Angela's attention. She didn't know hell hounds could sniff that kind of information out of people just by scent. "I must sate my curiousty. Did you hold back on using your demon blood abilities for a reason? I could not tell if it was intentional or not."
"Such a blunt question." Angela groaned in her head. "Well...yes. I...wanted to...test myself with only a portion of my power."
"Hmmm, confusing, but honorable." Isearus nodded.
"Yes, it is." Angela sighed in relief that the demon bought her lie. She didn't want anyone to find out, especially Dante, that she had never accessed the devil inside her. She proceeded to follw Dante into the prison, lost in her own thoughts.
A/N: OH YEAH! EXPLOSIONS! Okay maybe just one, BUT STILL: EXPLOSION! Okay I'm just being silly. As you probably can guess, the fight mirrors Cerberus's fight with Dante. I decided not to go with the snapping fingers to change styles for Dante, though I believe Sword Master was used exclusively in this chapter anyway.
Well that's about it for this chapter. Got any questions, comments, or suggestions feel free to ask or tell through PM or review.
