Disclaimer-Bot: Unfortunately and to her continued dismay, the author chick still does not own DMC or any of the characters therein. Capcom owns those.

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DMC OTP100

Prompt # 007 Trouble

Word count: 288

Characters: Dante, Lady

Title: Burning Pain

Rating: G

Warnings: Very minor language

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"No way! Dammit, that did not just happen!"

With a frustrated snarl, the red-coated young man kicked the crumbling wall of the seemingly abandoned building he was inside. In response, the abused wall gave a shuddering, pathetic moan and collapsed on itself in more than a dozen splintering cracks. The young man ignored it though, because quite frankly, right now a measly collapsed old wall was the least of his trouble.

In the process of his demon-hunt here, everything had gone fairly smoothly and it seemed he'd make his 5:45 dinner date with an old friend. However, right before he'd come up alongside the old wall, the half-devil hunter had come upon some trouble from a pack of persistent Beezelbubs. Normally the little annoying bugs were just that, a tiny nuisance, but this time they'd made a bigger pest of themselves when they'd spit acid on some precious cargo Dante had, melting it into a perfect puddle of ooze.

Of course, he probably wouldn't have taken so much offense if it hadn't been extremely special cargo. His dinner date and he hadn't spoken in quite some time, and with her, he'd learned long ago how important it was to use bribery to get in the good graces as soon as possible. So Dante had actually gotten out of his office for something other than work for once and hand-picked a brand new, super-shiny, completely decked out submachine for his friend Lady.

Unfortunately for him, the freaking Beezelbubs had other ideas about gift-giving. The hunter gave a long suffering sigh and discarding the ruined piece over his right shoulder, he blasted the last few larvae on his way out, hoping the rest of his evening wouldn't be more troublesome.

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