Dante Price: Multiverse Jumper Chronicles
The Rosario + Vampire Chronicles
A/N: Well everyone after a two-month hiatus we're back... again. There's been a lot of conflict between me and my fellow cowriter so that's why it's coming out this late. Now some of you readers may see I've already started on the Winter War Arc for my story(Thanks to some assistance from Jason Grace son of zues). If you want to read ahead go ahead and be my guest. Also I should inform you that after months of debating, fellow author sakuraphoenix has decided that Dante will be a part of her new story Code: Heart. So be on the lookout for that. Anyway let's get this party started! Allonsy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who or Rosario Vampire. Doctor Who belongs to the BBC and Rosario Vampire belongs to Akihisa Ikeda and Shonen Jump. Dante belongs to me and Connor belongs to freakypanda12345.
Chapter 9: The Cyberwitch Ranch Repentance
By lostsoldierS636 and freakypanda12345
Dante awoke the next morning feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. He poked his head outside of his tent to see if anyone else was up and about. To his surprise, no one else was out and the sun was just rising.
'Might as well take a morning stroll.' He thought.
After changing into some clothes, Dante got out of his tent and decided to walk a few feet away from the sunflower field. After about a couple of minutes, he heard footsteps behind him and turned to see Connor strolling right alongside.
"Good morning." Dante greeted.
"Morning." Connor muttered.
"Sleep well?" Dante asked.
"More or less." Connor said squinting behind his sunglasses.
"Oh?"
"Kinda hard to sleep with a succubus cooing you all night."
Dante chuckled and looked to the rising sun.
"Y'know I may have bad memory's asociated with the ocean but you cannot get over that beautiful sight." Connor said.
"Yeah." Dante sighed. "But..."
"But?" Connor asked confused.
"Sometimes even the site can bring the good and bad memories back."
"So what you're saying is?" Connor asked still confused.
"Like the ocean, people are in conflict with themselves." Dante explained. "Both emotions and the sea have ripples and waves that we cannot control nor forget."
"Personally I've never had time for most of that "poems and sonnets" thing, but you're really good." Connor said ruining the moment.
"Good morning sleepy head." A tired voice came from behind them. Kurumu was standing just outside her and Connor's tent. She was currently wearing Connor's shirt from the other day with only a thin set of lingere cut off above the mid thigh. She was squinting in the sun and walked arms wide towards Connor.
Taking her into an embrace, Connor started combing her messy hair with his fingers.
She looked at Dante and asked, "Things between you and the other girls seem pretty rough right now huh?"
Connor shrugged and confessed to telling Kurumu about Dante's situation.
"They've come to the agreement of sharing me due to a little...confrontation in my quarters awhile back before the exams."
Kurumu giggled while resting her head on Connor's chest. "Glad I don't have these problems with you."
"Well I better get you some breakfast with wholesome fruits." Connor said to Kurumu.
"Why fruits?" Dante asked confused. "Wouldn't you want things like proteins or carbs?"
"No, fruits improve the flavor." Connor answered moving to the fire pit.
Kurumu followed and sat down on the stump she sat on the other night.
"Moka, Mizore, Yukari breakfast!" Dante called.
Connor started poking at the embers from last night quickly restarting the flame. Quickly, he set up a small grate with a frying pan on top. Moka and Mizore came out of their own tents while Connor got some bacon from a cooler nearby.
"That's alright with me Yukari. If you want to sleep in and miss breakfast." Dante said while he prepared the eggs.
Connor set the bacon down in the frying pan and started dicing up fruit for a fruit salad. The bacon smell was powerful in the morning air. Noticing the strong aroma, Moka wearing pink pajamas took a large whiff of the air.
"Mmmmmm." Then she commented, "Oh you even made fruit salad for Dante."
"Why is fruit so important now?" Dante asked as Mizore went to another cooler and took out some frozen jerky and started gnawing on it.
"I thought I told you Dante, it improves the flavor of your blood." Connor explained.
Dante sighed, "Oh well. If I must I must."
Laying out the meal they had just created, Connor and Dante started serving everyone. Except Yukari who was still asleep in her tent. The only two who did not grab food, was Connor and Moka who both sat eagerly next to Kurumu and Dante.
Dante sighed and pulled down his collar while Kurumu eagerly let Connor sink his teeth in.
Mizore smacked Moka on the arm. "How do you expect him to have any energy for the rest of the trip. I have a say in this now."
Connor noticing this, pulled away and said, "Let her drink."
Mizore instantly sat up straight and her mouth was shut tight. Dante shot Connor a dirty look. "Don't do that. You don't know what it's like to have your free will taken from you." He paused when Moka bit his neck. "It just isn't right and you know it. I will not sit idly by while you do."
Connor went back to sucking on Kurumu's neck and snapped his fingers. Mizore relaxed, but was still quiet.
The group heard a new sound apart from the surf pounding on the beach. An engine from the school bus rolled up to the patch of sandy vegetation the group was on. Ms. Nekenome stepped out horrified at what she saw. "Connor! Moka! Leave your classmates alone. We did not come on this trip as a romance."
Connor pulled away a second time his lips covered in blood. Shocked, Ms. Nekenome screamed, "Stop what you're doing this instant!"
Connor licked his lips and shrugged as he stepped away from Kurumu. Moka followed his example by stepping a distance away from Dante.
"So why did we come here Ms. Nekenome?" Dante asked rubbing his already healing neck.
The teacher pulled out a newspaper from her back pocket and opened it. The headline said:
Mysterious Disappearances on Witch Hill
"For the past couple of weeks, mysterious kidnapings have happened on this hill. We came here to investigate the cause of it, then report it... Where is the little one?"
"She should be in her tent." Dante said moving towards the green tent. Knocking on the tent poles he asked, "Are you awake Yukari?"
No response.
He asked again... Still nothing. Slowly unzipping the tent Dante peered inside. Instantly tensing up Dante quickly entered the tent. "She's gone!" he exclaimed from the inside.
Connor instantly jumped to his feet and quickly rush to Dante's side. Then he heard it a rustling in the woods. Snapping his fingers Connors sword materialized in his hand out of a black and blue smoke. He slashed open the back of the tent to reveal a being covered in a metallic suit with a metal head that looked like it had tubes connecting from the top of the head to the ears. The strangest thing about this creature was that it was covered in vines and look old and rusty. Taken aback that it had been discovered the metal man flinched. It only took him a second to analyze what had happened. Making a move towards Dante the creature moved with such speed and accuracy it was inhuman.
Connor flicked his wrist and with greater speed still he sliced the metal creature on half like thick butter.
"Sword?" Connor asked. Looking at the compiled mess of metal and white organic flesh.
"Sword!" Dante agreed and he summoned the black sword to him.
Suddenly a piercing scream came from outside. Mizore's scream. With speed to almost match Connor's, Dante almost blurred out of the tent to see an empty campsite. Connor was instantly furious marching through the sand to get to Kurumu and the others.
"Wait!" Dante cautioned. "It could be a trap to take out the key players... Me and you."
"You think I don't know that!" Connor snapped. When suddenly the brush rustled once again revealing eight more of the metal men. Followed by more and more. Some came from the beach, others from the field and others still from the small forest nearby. All the same but slightly different as each had a different type of plant living on or in it. Then a pinkish red pairsmattic barier of light so rounded each and everyone of them. Connor swung his sword at a barrier and it bounced harmlessly off. Dante tried his luck only to have it crack the barrier. A menacing scream of what steamed to be metallic voice called out and they charged. Fighting with shear strength and tactics, Dante and Connor went back to back holding off the hoarde. Connor tearing limb from plantlike limb and using them to beat others with. Dante furiously fighting his way through having set the ultramatrix to a pair of red eyes. He closed his eyes and slammed the dial as he was engulfed with a certain sensation. Rage. A small mist followed his movements and quickly disappeared. His eyes glowed red and small runes of fire covered his hands and forearms. Slicing as hard as he could he was making short work of his metal foes.
Connor started blurring around the beach tearing the groups apart. He too was fighting with rage but more of a savage ferrocity than brute strength. Snapping his hands out, the blue black smoke reappeared around Connors hands except this time they were fist weapons in the shape of claws, shredding the enemy as he ran past. Dante now needing to cover his back, was constantly spinning around swinging his sword and performing martial arts moves that blurred with the power he now had . The red mist had now started to create a haze around them as he gained more focus. And power.
Suddenly, one of the oncoming foes shot out a highpitched frequency tone that hit Connor in the ears...hard. He dropped to the ground, his new weapons disappearing into thin air. He covered his ears wriggling on the ground in pain. Others did the same forming a circle around him. Blood started dripping from his ears. Connor faded and went limp while the others started to march towards him. This didn't go unoticed by Dante.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Dante roared out as he lifted his sword to the sky, which caused the sky to grow pitch black in storm clouds. All the creatures looked up to see lighting strike down at the sword but not electrocute the curly haired boy. Swinging his sword in a 360 degree arc, a lightning field struck the whole group killing them stone dead.
"Ha ha ha." A loud voice called from the sky. "I did not think you could withstand my oncoming force." A girl asked from the sky with huge flapping raven wings.
Dante consumed by the rage flowing through him jumped a clear fifty feet in the air swinging his sword now covered in a small red flame.
FLASH
Dante only felt the earths gravity pulling in him and the rage seeping out of his body. He hit the ground with a large thud and he felt his spine snap and skull crack. The last words he heard before blanking out were, "Take them with the others, they need to see the master before assimilation."
Moka awoke to an uncomfortable pain in her wrists. She looked up to see they were bound by a thorny vine. Looking aroud she saw she was in the great hall of a mansion. But something was odd. The walls were cracked and filled with dirt. The floor was covered in grass and the stair case was made up of two downed trees carved out with extreme prescision. Looking around further she saw Kurumu and Mizore along with mrs nekenome all tied up. She saw Yukari across the room in a white dress and in a chair. Upon further examination she was bound and gagged. Five more figures uttered the room. A girl around Inner Moka's age, followed by two more of those robotic plant things dragging two limp figures. She wanted to scream when she realized that one of the figures was a bloody Dante. The back of his neck and down his shirt were soaked in blood. Connor was the same but there was more on his arms and chest and legs. Thankfully the gag she had prevented her from getting sick at the sight.
The cybermen dropped the two and went to guard the door.
The girl then kneeled down in front of a fire place and started talking. "Master... The others were not human. I have brought them to you before I destroy them to make sure your final judgement is sure." Kurumu awoke and started screaming into her gag at the sight of Connor. This made the girl twitch her head to look at the prisoner but never once leaving a respectful position.
Then it happened all in a instant. Connor flashed to his feet hearing Kurumu's muffled screams. In a strength that seemed to have magically appeared, he was instantly next to the witch kneeling on the ground. Holding her wand, fangs mear inches away from her neck.
The cybermen advanced toward him. "Call them off or I will drain you faster than you can call for help." he hissed.
"St- stand down" she said in a defeated tone.
Dante eyes then shot open as he stood up and said, "Now then let's get down to it then shall we?"
He pulled out his sonic screwdriver and pointed at each persons' bonds which released them. Once out of their bondage, each girl went to her crush. Moka and Mizore helped support Dante while still cowering behind him. Kurumu went to Connor not sure how to help this lacerated being. She started sobbing unable to do anything else. Connor stayed in a position to kill. Not moving a muscle.
"Now then," Dante started. "Explain to me how you came in contact with the Cybermen miss..?"
"I'll never..." The girl started but then realized her current situation. "Toujo. Ruby Toujo."
"Please meet you. I'm Dante, the one at your neck is Connor, and that's Moka, Mizore, Ms. Nekenome and the little one on the wall is Yukari."
Ms. Nekenome then helped Yukari down from her captivity and held her bridal style do to the young witch still being unconscious.
"So how did you come in contact with the Cybermen?" Dante repeated. "Last I checked the cybermat these cybermen have been using are long gone dead and the last time I checked they were stopped above earth in the far future. Blown apart, due to a sacrifice of a former companion of The Doctor's."
[Doc...tor?]
Dante fell silent.
[The Doctor? The Time Lord.]
"Yes." Dante spoke. "I'm one as well."
The entire room then fell silent. A small hissing noise then turned into small cracks that eventually grew into a large rusty whine as the giant fire place spun around. Revealing a throne with a metalic super body grown into with roots.
[Timelord... I have waited eons for this day.]
Dante's eyes grew wider. "It can't be." He breathed.
[Oh but it is.]
The chair fully spun to fully reveal the cyberleader. But this one was different as half of his mask and the other half look like the face of an old woman. I'd only that but buyings and leaves were growing off the chair and off its body
"You were destroyed. The Doctor saw to it. Even Adric sacrificed himself to see you all destroyed." Dante protested.
[A mear illusion of what the Doctor saw what we wanted him to see. After the ships detonated, we went drifted through a rift to this dimensional reality similar to the one we were in previously.]
Starting to weaver, Connor's burst of adrenaline had begun to wear off as he stumbled dropping the witches wand. He collapsed once more and the witch reclaimed her powerful weapon and positioned herself between the group and her master.
"Kurumu. Get Connor out of here. Mizore and Moka you provide support and get out yourselves. Ms. Nekenome follow them and then start performing first aid on Connor hopefully we can save him." He paused looking at the throne. "This is my fight."
[You speak just like him.] The Cyberleader said.
"You can thank over 650 years of universal time and space travel for that." He replied straightening out his shirt. "So you're the reason people I gone missing. Am I correct?"
[Your observation is true. We needed to survive.]
"So what about her?" He asked pointing towards Ruby.
[She is merely a lost lamb in need of her master.]
Dante then realized what he meant as he looked down to the floor. "That is cold." He said in a deadly tone. "You manipulated this poor young woman making her think her master will come back when only you just assimilated her and put your brain into hers."
When he said these words, Ruby's eyes grew wider. "M-master," she managed to choke out. "I-is what he says true?"
The Cyberleader then rose from his chair and walked slowly over to Ruby. It then put both of its hands on each side of her head and started to squeeze.
[Silence or you will be destroyed.]
"But you can't." Dante pointed out. "If there's anything left of Ruby's master in there, she would never allow herself to bring harm to her."
The cyberleader then fell silent and suddenly released Ruby and brought it hands up to its ears and let out a yell that started to sound more human than cybernetic. It then slumped over by a near wall and started to...pant?
[Ruby.."
"Master?"
"She's resisting him but it won't last." Dante said with a sad smirk on his face. "Say what you must and let's leave."
"Why?" Ruby asked bitterly.
"Knowing your master would rather die then have you hurt, she'll possibly use her remaining strength to destroy every bit of cyber-technology."
Ruby wanted to yell at him and say he was wrong. She wanted to shout that he was lying. But she knew he he was telling the truth. She walked closer to her former master as tears formed in her eyes.
"Ruby?" Her former master's voice asked still in a metallic tone.
"I'm here master."
The revealed side of the cyber converted witch elder smiled. "Good. Now listen to me child, I am going to destroy these abominations once and for all and I need you to bring me my spell book."
Ruby nodded and did as her master said. She brought over the spell book and gave it to her. The converted Cyberwitch flipped to a page and recited a spell. After she spoke the last words, the entire mansion started to rumble. She then dropped the book and looked up at Ruby.
"Never forget me Ruby, no matter what. Do you promise?" Ruby started to sob as she managed to sob a yes. Her master smiled and then had a pained look on the still visible part of her face.
"It's taking back control. I have little time. You." She said motioning to Dante. "Please take care of her."
Dante nodded. "I promise."
"Good. Now run." She said starting to shake.
"But master..." Ruby pleaded
"Don't argue with me child. Just run!"
Dante grabbed Ruby's hand and looked her in the eyes. Ruby looked back and saw in his eyes regret, sorrow, passion and anger. Having no argument to bring up, she just nodded as the two ran out of the collapsing two kept running trough the field of sunflowers, running back to the beach at full speed. Ruby only barely able to keep up. they finally met up with the others. Dante looked back to see the entire mansion implode and then vanish.
Connor lay on the picnic table striped down to his underwear. His legs were clean and wrapped in gauze in several locations. Ms. Nekenome was furiously tending to Connor's upper half cleaning each wound and wrapping them in gauze. Yukari was handing her clean disinfectant wipes, gauze, and disposing of the used ones. Mizore was onlooking in horror that somone could be so badly bleeding. Kurumu was on the other side of the site sobbing with moka to comfort her. Dante looked back to Ruby who had tear tracks down her face looking at where the mansion used to be.
"Are you going to be ok here by yourself." Dante asked concearningly.
"Just go." she sad closing her eyes and bowing her head.
Dante then went to Ms. Nekenome's side.
"Let me help." he said starting at Connor's head. He noticed a large slash down his eye. Not wanting to put anyone in danger, Dante patched the one eye then wrapped a band around his head so nobody accidentally was looking the wrong way when he woke up.
In a few more minutes they had him patched up. "What about you Dante?" Ms. Nekenome asked. "You're covered in blood."
"Oh me...?" Dante paused for a moment thinking. "I have regenerative traits." he said while wiping of the blood to reveal that all his wounds were gone. Of course for the exceptions that were the scars on his arms from past battles.
"If I were to be seriously injured, let's say blungend or near death to an illness, I'd have to completely regenerate which causes my appearance to change. Now do you understand Ms. Nekenome?"
"Oh." The cat lady teacher said putting a finger on her chin. "So how many appearances have you've gone through so far?"
"None." Dante replied. "I've only had minor injuries such as broken bones and cuts. Stuff like that is easily fixed and can heal over time."
"Kurumu!" Connor yelled bolting upright. He jumped to his feet and inhaled deeply through his nose. He blurred down to her position and wrapped her in his arms. "Are you alright?" he asked with a worried expression behind the bandages.
"I'm *sob* alright what about you?" She replied and started to break down again.
"No no no it's not about me at all. Right now it's about you being safe." He said pulling her sobs into his chest.
"Welcome back to land of the living." Dante said.
Connor managed to cock his head in Dante's direction. "I don't remember much, just fighting on the beach and you whooping those metal plant things. So what happened?"
Dante filled Connor in on the missing blanks and explained what happened. After he finished, he then turned to Ruby who was still staring at the cliff side.
"Question now is what do we do with her? We can't just leave her here."
"We have every right to leave her here!" Kurumu exclaimed. "She nearly killed Connor and the rest of us."
"True." Dante put his hands in his pockets. "But she just lost everything she held dear. She has nowhere else to go."
An idea then spring to Connor's mind. It was a stupid idea but...
Turning to Ms. Nekenome, he asked, "Didn't the headmaster need a new assistant?"
"Yes. But what...?" The idea then hit her as she perked up and said, "That would work wonderfully!"
"What are you getting at Connor?" Mizore asked.
"Isn't it obvious... We make her work at the school." Connor suggested.
"I don't know about anyone else but I'm not going to have someone who kidnaped me help hand out my math homework." Mizore said in her same cold voice. She seemed to be fully recovered from the attack apart from red marks on her wrists from her bonds.
"I think it would be a wonderful idea." Dante pointed out.
"We'll it wouldn't hurt." Mizore said quickly correcting herself now knowing Dante's opinion.
Dante then walked up towards Ruby who was still looking at the burned down mansion.
"I am sorry for all that's happened. Your master did what she thought was best, and sacrificed herself knowing it. If you come with us, the headmaster could help you with your struggle."
She turned to him, tears still running down her eyes.
"I don't think you friends would approve." She said bowing her head.
"What happened wasn't your fault." Connor said putting a hand on her shoulder wincing as he did it. "Your master was under the influence that was not her own. The academy could be you new home. We...we could be your family."
"I still don't know about this." Kurumu said wrapping her arms around Connor's waist. "She is still the one who kidnaped us. And we barely know her."
"Can I talk to you for a minute in private?" Connor whispered to her and she guided him away from the group.
While listening to the previous conversation, Yukari had thought about having Ruby as a friend. True, she was kidnapped by her but as Connor stated she wasn't in her right mind. The young witchling walked up to the older witch and said, "I forgive you. I might of not liked being kidnapped, but we witches need to stick together."
Ruby's expression softened as more tears covered filled her eyes. She walked up to Yukari, got on her knees and wrapped her arms around the young witch.
"Thank you, thank you thank you." She repeated. Yukari returned the hug and they stayed like that for a while. After a few minutes, Connor and Kurumu stepped back to the group. Kurumu rushed to their tent and rummaged around grabbing something from her bag and rushing it back to Connor.
"Thanks love." Connor stated as he pulled off his bandages and fastened his mask to his face. "Now I can see."
The low rumbling of the bus engine was heard off in the distance. Miss Nekenome was almost giddy when she said, "Goody now we can get out here."
The bus rolled up on the sand and Dante looked to Ruby. "Would you like a ride?" He asked.
"No, I need some time alone." She replied.
"How will you find the school then?" Moka added to the conversation.
Ruby turned towards Moka and with a wink she said, "Magic." with that she transformed into a raven and flew towards the remains of the mansion.
"Well are we going or not?" The bus driver asked behind his cigar.
"We haven't even taken down our tents." Yukari pointed out.
After collapsing their tents and collecting all their items, the group boarded the bus. After throwing everything in back, Connor and Kurumu took up a seat followed by Ms. Nekenome taking up one to herself. Yukari sat infront of Ms. Nekenome and Dante took a seat next to her. Moka and Mizore then sat in the same bench next to him which made Dante smile to see the two were getting along. He then looked over to see Connor attached to Kurumu's neck with Ms. Nekenome freaking out.
"Dante?" Yukari asked.
"Yes?" Dante answered focusing his attention on her.
"I'm a little nervous about having her as a friend." She said looking out the window.
"Yes?" He asked again a little confused and worried.
"Well with another girl in the group, I'm afraid Connor and I will have no chance."
This made Dante chuckle. "Don't worry even with her in the group it won't hurt your chances." Because there aren't any he added to himself looking back at Connor.
He felt a tap on his shoulder. It was Moka with her glazed over eyes as she said, "Uhm... Dante?"
"Sure." He exhaled and pulled down his shirt collar. Moka attached to his neck and he sat back for the rest of the ride home.
A/N from freakypanda12345: Well that's another chapter for you. I apologize for the late update being my fault being so busy and not trying to find time for the story. But as it gets more popular I am trying to make it one of my top priorities.
A/N from lostsoldierS636: Again sorry about the late update and I'm sorry if this chapter is too short but we're gonna try our best to bring out chapters more often I don't make any guarantees but we will see.
