Teenager CHAPTER 7
PayingInNaivety: Yes, I do like cliff hangers XD You are working overtime to figure out who the murderer is but you'll find out for sure in just a few minutes XD Thanks for reviewing! *gives cookies*
JustHexx: People tend to look forward more when I leave them hanging about something :3 I thought the Daemon Rosa was just a funny tidbit for my loyal readers XD Thanks for reviewing! *gives cookies*
Rialga: I actually needed to do something with Emily, her being a seer was something I thought of on the fly, though it also explains why she's such an outcast. I also figured Dante should know Latin because lots of rituals and such are in Latin and it might be something good for a half-demon to know. :3 Thanks for reviewing! *gives cookies*
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SirenaLoreley: Nero is always in trouble XD Nero definitely needs some help. Thanks for reviewing! *gives cookies*
The Man Who Has No Life: Glad you like so far :3 I wanted to do a completely new twist to the high school fic and really at first this wasn't suppose to be a 'high school fic' so I'm really happy this went over so well. The murderer kind of explains herself ;3 Thanks for reviewing! *gives cookies*
Alright all-this is the last chapter so I hope you all enjoy it! I don't own Dante, Nero or Lady but I do own all the other OCs I introduced here, such as Emily, Ashley, Tiffany and Chloe.
"Don't seem so surprised. I've seen you in action." the demon continued forward until her blonde hair and blue-green eyes were bathed in light.
"Tiffany." he breathed.
She giggled. "No need to be shy. You, by far, are the best possessor I have ever seen and strong to boot. The way you handled yourself-mm." she smirked and shuttered as she continued to approach. "Defending your territory, except for from me."
"Hmm," Nero tilted his head, wow, this demon was mixed up but he wasn't about to correct her if it kept her guard down.
She reached out and grabbed one of the fingers of Nero's glove and started to pull it off. "But you must tell me…how did you change your host?"
The hunter chuckled and pulled his arm away so the glove slipped right off, showing his demonic hand, the rest of his arm covered by his blazer. "To tell the truth I'm not sure either." he replied as the female dropped the glove to the ground.
"Perhaps you've just been in this vessel a long time. I'm starting to see your hair is also that of a demon. Hmm, you are fascinating. I don't understand though why you let that little worm Kalso go a few nights ago. He was a little brute, I remedied the problem though. He made some delicious screams." she whispered.
Nero had to keep a look of disgust from crossing his features and tried to stay neutral. Inside he was panicking a bit. He wasn't really ready to take on this particular demon. It's not like he could discreetly reach into his backpack and pull out the salt and sage and say 'please wait here while I get a sword.' It just wasn't feasible, she'd catch on.
"How did you get in that vessel?" he questioned, more to buy some more time to think than a matter of curiosity.
"Quite a catch isn't she? So beautiful and curvy." she smiled, touching her hair and running her hands down her sides to her hips. "Nothing like my last vessel," she scrunched up her nose in repugnance. "Anyway, the three girls stumbled upon some kind of summoning book and summoned me accidentally, I had my choice of the lot. I had thought Tiffany was the leader of their little crew, but it would appear I was wrong. Which is unfortunate, but I will fix that soon enough. Boys are so much more fun, but girls can be entertaining in their own way."
Through the long-winded explanation Nero had enough time to come up with a plan. It was convoluted but it was all he had to go with.
He chuckled. "Yeah. I don't do stuff like that too much anymore."
"Why not?" she wondered, confusion flickering across her features.
"Because I'm kind of a prisoner. A damn half-demon tricked me into this body and put me under his control with some kind of spell,"
"Hmph. Mens imperium. I have heard of the spell, but never anyone smart enough to cast it."
"I can't be free until he's dead. You know how I've been saying that my old man will get pissed if I don't get home? That's him, he lets me go out to keep up appearances and appease the government, this body is only eighteen years old. To make matters worse he's the damn son of Sparda."
"The traitor?" her eyes blazed.
"Yeah." he grimaced.
She frowned tilting her head. "What is it?"
"He's calling me again. I need to go."
"I'll help you."
Nero smirked, she was buying this hook, line and sinker. "Okay. Not now though. Come to Devil May Cry in a few hours. Eight O'clock," he said, picking up the glove on the ground. "The old man always drinks until he passes out. He's always out by eight. It'll be easy."
She grinned. "Alright. I'll see you then Nero." she kissed him deeply on the lips before turning away and walking off.
The young devil hunter stood dumbfounded, having to resist the urge to spit and tear at his lips. Instead he turned towards Devil May Cry and started quickly there. He needed to get ready for her arrival.
Nero quietly stood at the window of Devil May Cry, looking out into the streets that were slick with the rain that had started drizzling down from the bleak sky as he chewed a strip of gum. The clock was nearing eight pm when the demon was suppose to come calling. He was taking Emily's warnings seriously and taking some precautions. The stage was set. Dante was napping at his desk with his feet kicked up and a magazine over his eyes, beer bottles littered the desk as Dante had insisted that it look 'authentic.'
Nero rolled his eyes at the thought, just glad that Lady was in the wings waiting for his cue with the salt and sage. The book with the ceremony inside was in the drawer of Dante's desk and there were swords all over the office. All that was missing was the demon.
As the thought crossed his mind, headlights flashed outside to a nice looking red car. The driver got out bundled in a trendy black raincoat and started up the stairs to the shop. The younger devil slayer hurried to get the door and opened it quietly to let her inside where she pulled off her hood.
"Him?" she mumbled, waving towards Dante's sleeping form.
"Yeah."
"There's weapons all over this place why not just kill him?" she asked strolling forward.
"I'm not allowed to hurt him, besides most of these I'm not allowed to use."
The demon rolled her eyes as she reached out towards a purple guitar hanging on the wall, yelping when a bolt of lightning zapped her outstretched fingers.
Nero hurried over and shushed her as Dante shifted. "See what I mean?"
"Hm, well you still have those other weapons you use don't you?"
"Yeah." he waved to Red Queen that was sitting across the room near the couch as she started towards it Nero knew he had to do something. This wasn't like fighting any other demon, it made Patty's advice come to mind about fighting Kalso.
"But he isn't a demon. He may be an asshole but you can't hurt him too badly." Tiffany was a demon, but not fully so the advice still applied. He had to take her down without hurting her because once the exorcism was finished she'd be herself again and have to deal with any injury she'd been dealt.
'Well…I guess I better stick to hand-to-hand for now, even with my bringer I shouldn't hurt her too badly.' he thought as he ran forward, his body smacking into the back of hers and knocking them both to the floor.
"Ow! What are you doing! Get off!" she snarled, thrashing under him. The teen grabbed her wrists as he straddled her hips trying to hold her down.
"Lady!"
"Nero! What are you doing!" she screeched.
"What I'm paying him for." the brunette replied as she ran out of the kitchen and started pouring salt into a ring around both of them.
Tiffany screamed with rage, finding some wells of strength inside that manicured body and flung Nero off her as she scrambled to get to her feet.
"Lady hurry!" Nero gasped, trying to get a hold of the blonde again, only to find her pink nails were digging into his neck, rage flickering beyond control in turquoise eyes as she tried to strangle the devil hunter.
Nero clawed at her hands trying to pull them away as his airway was constricted some of his nails even broke the skin, but Tiffany didn't seem concerned. His eyes watered and he had the urge to reach for one of his weapons but he couldn't afford to hurt her that badly.
After a moment he saw Dante out of his bleary peripherals and a hand grabbing Tiffany's head from the other side. A booted foot kicked the girl in the stomach and she gasped doubling over as warm arms wrapped around Nero and yanked him backwards while being careful not to let him touch the ground. He was put down a second later, coughing and gasping for breath as he looked up at the older devil hunter.
"You okay there kid?"
"Wha-?" his voice came out as a croak so he swallowed and tried again. "Why the hell didn't you two do anything! ?" he demanded bursting into coughs again and rubbing a few pinpricks of blood off his neck from the girl's nails puncturing his skin.
"I needed to finish the circle." Lady shrugged, smirking at the demon that was seething in her doubled over position on the floor.
"And she needed the demon distracted, which you did very well at kid."
"I'm going to throttle you old man." he grumbled pulling himself into an upright position, walking over and yanking the book out of the desk drawer. He slammed it down on the desktop on the page he needed.
"Dante, go get that other shit." he muttered and the older devil gave a salute as he walked off to get the sweet grass and a lighter.
Nero rubbed his throat with a sigh as Dante lit the grass aflame and it began to smoke he handed it over to Lady.
"Seems like priestess work to me." he grinned cheekily. The female lifted a gun threateningly and Dante brought up his hands in a placating gesture. "Just saying."
Lady snatched the grass from him and waved it in front of the demon who snarled and tried to bite her, making her jerk back. "I think I like it better when we can just blow them up."
"No kidding." Nero sighed as he hefted the book with his devil arm walking over to pick up Red Queen with the other.
"Then that would kill that precious human that I share this body with." the demon snapped.
"Which is exactly why we're exorcising you," Nero smirked. "We're almost done too," he turned his icy colored eyes to the writing in the book that Dante had explained he needed to read aloud.
"Vox of ventus EGO super vos.
Vox of ira EGO super vos.
Vox of incendiary EGO super vos.
Vox of levitas EGO super vos.
Vox of tempestras EGO super vos.
Vox of luna EGO super vos.
Vox of sol solis super vos.
Vox of astrum super vos.
Vox of abyssus quod universities super vos."
Tiffany screamed a high pitched horrible sound that had Dante and Lady covering their ears the entire time Nero read, but the louder she screamed the louder Nero spoke. As he reached the last 'vos' he lifted Red Queen and swiftly brought it down.
Silence rang through the shop Tiffany's lips still parted in a silent scream as her eyes turned completely white and she collapsed forward onto the wooden floor.
The demon hunters stared at her before looking at each other.
"…Did it work?" Nero asked.
"I have no idea but it looked pretty cool." Dante commented.
Lady rolled her eyes before kneeling on the floor and prodding Tiffany's arm with the tip of her finger as if worried that she would shoot upright and try to take off her finger. Instead she just rolled over onto the salt at her side and groaned.
"Well…she's alive." Dante commented.
"Shut up Dante." Lady sighed, crawling into the circle and rolling Tiffany fully onto her back. Nero closed the book and put down Red Queen as he cautiously came over to her other side. The girl's eyes cracked open as Dante shrugged and flopped back into his desk chair.
"Where am I? Nero?" she mumbled.
"I guess you're coming around." he smiled softly.
"I can take it from here." Lady offered.
Nero looked up and met the female demon hunter's mismatched eyes before nodding slowly.
"You're alright Tiff. Lady is gonna take you home now."
The blonde blinked and nodded slightly before her eyes flagged again, leaving her unconscious.
"Will she…?"
"I don't think she remembers a damn thing when the demon was in control." she said, finding Tiffany's car keys and taking them from her pocket.
"Probably better that way."
"Alright. I'll take her home. I'll have your pay in a week or so once they realize there won't be anymore killings." she said.
"What about Emily?"
"That's actually my department kid." Dante grinned. "You meet lots of crazy people doing this job. I know a lady who can be a mentor to her. If she wants that is."
Nero smiled lightly. "I think she would. She needs someone on her side."
"No problem then."
Lady had Nero bundle the blonde into the car she'd driven to Devil May Cry and took off down the road, in the drizzling rain.
One week later…
Nero sighed as he toweled off his hair before looking up at himself in the mirror and smiling, the last of the stubborn brown dye had washed out of his naturally platinum hair which meant the last ruminants of the mission were finally gone-aside from the money Lady still hadn't gotten him.
He made his way out of the bathroom into the office where Dante was lounging at the desk as usual, but there was something unusual.
"Dante, why is there a silver suitcase on the desk?" he wondered placing the towel over his shoulders.
"Ah, Lady stopped by and dropped off your pay for that mission."
Nero frowned, almost suspicious as he walked to the front of the desk and flipped the case around to flick open the latches and see what was inside. The case wasn't full of money but it was more than he'd gotten for any of his other missions.
"Enough in there to buy me a pizza?" Dante asked hopefully.
Nero chuckled. "Sure old man. Pizza on me-just one though." he amended. He was trying to save up to buy a house here on his own. Not that he didn't like living at Devil May Cry.
He snapped the case closed as there was a knock on the door. The younger hunter quirked an eyebrow and Dante shrugged. Nero shrugged then as well and went over to open the double doors.
"Nero-Oh my God you look so much different with light hair. Did you bleach it?" Emily lightly laughed. The haunted look was gone from her face and she was smiling.
"No, actually the brown was the dye job. This is natural." he chuckled.
"Well, I just stopped by because I wanted to say thank you for…believing what I told you and not thinking I was crazy like everyone else. I also wanted to thank you for helping me to meet my new sensei."
"Actually that was Dante," he said hitching his thumb back towards the man sitting at the desk. "But I'll pass along the message."
"Thank you. All of you. I have to go now. Hopefully I'll see you again sometime." she blushed before turning to head back down the steps.
"Bye." he offered watching as she left before closing the door.
"Guess you made everything right, huh kid?"
"Looks that way." he agreed.
"Now how about that pizza?" the older male rubbing his hands together in anticipation.
"Can you think of anything else?" the younger said rolling his eyes.
"Yes-no olives."
"Fine I'll get you the damn pizza now." he sighed a small smirk playing across his lips. Things seemed to be back to normal now, but who knew how long it would last in a place like Devil May Cry?
Actually, this is the end. I know it's a bit abrupt and all, I tried to wind it back down slowly and tie up all the loose ends :3 I hope you enjoyed it anyway! After this I will likely be returning to Ebony and Ivory Queens. So until then.
Sayonara!
~Bitbyboth January 26, 2011
PS. If any of you were curious about the 'ritual' for the exorcism I just took bits and pieces from other rituals I found and combined them. What Nero is saying is: Power of _ I have over thee. The blanks are wind, wrath, fire, lightning, storm, moon, sun, stars, 'hell and the worlds.'
