When the light faded, both me and Dante stared around the dark, creepy place we had entered into.

"where are we?" I asked staring around, Dante shrugged his shoulders.

"Nice to see you finally" Dante and I turned around to see a small deformed man, or rather demon.

"and who the hell are you, midget" Dante aimed his ebony at the man, but the man didn't budge he didn't even flinch.

"I'm cray and you are Dante correct" the demon replied, Dante nodded silently.

"and you young lady who are you?" Cray asked me, grinning.

"she's not important, where's the girl?" Dante shouted, stepping in front of me, the demon merely shrugged.

"in there" he said, pointing towards the castle.

"thanks little man" Dante said, grinning before firing a shot or two at Cray, however the demon dodged them easily and scurried off again into the darkness.

"open sesame!" Dante shouted before kicking the gates open, they lead into a dark corridor, lined of both sides by high walls, topped with metal spikes.

"doesn't look we have much choice as to which way we go" I said, gesturing to the straight path before us.

"its not as straight as it looks" Dante said, he ran his hand along the wall as we walked it seemed strange to me but he seemed to be searching for smething. I copied him and ran my hand along the wall on the other side, the stone was cold and wet against my skin.

"found it" Dante exclaimed stopping dead in his tracks.

"found what?" I asked, I looked at the wall it was normal looking, well normal considering where we were.

"watch" he said pushing on the stone of the wall. I watched carefully as the wall before us opened like a door.

"how did you know that would happen?" I couldn't believe he actually knew it would.

"I didn't" he answered shrugging his shoulders. I sighed and followed him through the doorway and into a huge garden, at the end of the garden was a mansion. It looked amazing I stared around I awe, but Dante just stared blankly at the building as if he knew it well.

"nice try!" he shouted pointing at the sky, and making me jump.

"what are you talking about" I said looking confused. He didn't answer he was staring towards the mansion doors in disbeilief. I turned to see a woman leaving the building through the doors. She was beautiful, her hair was golden and flowed to her waist her eyes shone a beautiful blue. She held the hand of a small child with silver hair he looked remarkably like a young version of Dante.

"mother" Dante whispered next to me, and when I looked at him, his face showed his pain.

"Dante are you ok?" I asked edging closer to him, he nodded but didn't take his eyes off the two before him. As the two walked down the steps of the mansion in our direction demons appeared as if from nowhere and attacked them. Dante sprang into action firing his twin pistols but he missed every shot, or rather his bullets went through the demons with ease. He tried rebellion but that too went straight through the demons they didn't even seem to notice he was there at all. I raised my hand and shot a bolt of energy at them but my attacks too went through.

"whats going on?" I asked myself shaking my head.

"why isn't it working?" Dante said firing again.

"Damn it!" he shouted landing in front of me and replacing his guns in their holsters behind him. I wathced as the blonde woman pulled the boy behind her and crossed her arms across her chest bracing herself for the attack.

"Damn it!" Dante shouted again firing yet again in the demons direction even though he obviously knew it wouldn't work, it was useless. The demon attacked the woman and child causing Dante to charge it but he just ran straight through, he wasn't about to give up though he wheeled around and charged again.

"Dante its no use!" I yelled to him but he ignored me completely and charged again. I turned my attention to the woman again just in time to see her fall lifeless to the ground the young boy was crying and shaking her furiously.

"mother, no, wake up" he whined rubbing his eyes, I nearly ran over to them but realised that Dante was sitting on the ground next to me shaking his head.

"Dante" I knelt down beside him, but he didn't look at me he was staring at the scene before him.

"you ok?" I asked him not expecting a reaction from him.

"that woman, she was my mother." he said quietly, nodding towards the woman on the ground.

"your mother?"

"yeah she died, exactly like this years ago"

"I'm sorry" I said, not knowing how to make him feel better about it. I mean what does someone say to that, I'm sorry didn't seem like enough.

"we should continue" I said trying to bring back his fired up attitude, but he didn't respond or move. As I looked at his face I saw water sliding down the side of his face.

"are you crying?" I knew it sounded insentive but I just couldn't believe what I was seeing.

"devils never cry" Dante said to me, standing and offering me his hand.

"lets go find Patty" he smiled at me but I could tell it was just a mask to hide how he really felt. I knew because I did the same thing every time something upsetting happened in my life I just smiled and hoped no-one would notice.