The Emperors Return
Chapter 8: Investigation
The three half-devils walked down the steps into the darkness; the entrance that they came though closed behind them and they were plunged into darkness. Nero took his glove off and rolled up his sleeve, exposing the Devil Bringer; it provided an eerie blue light to the dark tunnel they were in.
"Great, the way out is closed and all we have for light is the Kid's arm," said Dante.
"You're wrong there Dante," Nero began, sticking his left hand into to one of his pockets. "Unlike you, I always come prepared," the teen pulled out a small torch from his pocket and turned it on. The trio started walking.
"I came prepared too; I brought Rebellion and Ebony & Ivory with me," said Dante.
"Yes, but you're never prepared for anything else are you, brother?" Vergil asked, "Otherwise you wouldn't have to improvise all the time." The blue clad thought back to the incidents at Temen-Ni-Gru.
"Yeah well, it's fun" said Dante.
They carried on walking through the darkness.
"You find improvising fun? When was the last time you actually had a plan?" Nero asked.
"Two weeks ago, when we took out the Assaults," Dante stated.
Nero looked at him, "You call that a plan? All we did was charge in there, guns blazing and swords swinging, kill all the demons and collect the money."
"It was still a plan," Dante argued. Nero sighed and shook his head.
Vergil sighed, "Plan or not Dante, it sounds like it was reckless and you know it."
"Yeah, yeah whatever," Dante said dismissively.
The trio walked past a doorway in the stone tunnel. Vergil stopped and looked inside; the room was rather large and very well lit. Every wall inside was made of marble that was polished to perfection. Eight stone columns stood tall on each side of the room, holding up the ceiling. There were several engravings in the walls that the blue clad could not depict from where he was standing, but he knew that they would probably be important clues to the murder case.
Noticing that Vergil wasn't walking with them, Dante and Nero stopped and turned around to the blue clad. "Vergil?" Dante asked.
"I think I've found a room we should investigate," said the blue clad.
The younger twin and Nero walked up to him and looked inside the room, "I think you could be right, Vergil." said Dante.
The older twin took a step forward into the room. Suddenly, a marble slab under his foot moved downwards and a stone door came crashing down in the entrance, heading straight for Vergil.
"Look out!" Nero yelled. The teen pushed the blue clad out of the way, but this meant that he pushed him into the room. The stone door came down between the trio, separating them.
Dante and Nero pushed on the stone door; "Vergil!" the red clad called. He pressed his ear against the ice cold stone to try and hear a reply. When he didn't hear even a faint sound he called out again, "Vergil!" again he heard no reply from his twin.
On the other side of the stone wall, the Dark Slayer growled a little as he looked at the thing that blocked his way out. He thought about using Yamato to slice the stone away, since it could easily cut through the door, but he decided against it, since his highly trained senses told him that breaking down the door would be a foolish thing to do.
Vergil sighed and looked around, "There should be another exit anyway."
"Dammit," the red clad muttered. "Looks like we'll have to break it down instead," Dante unsheathed Rebellion and prepared to strike the door down.
Nero backed away slightly and raised an eyebrow, "Dante, I don't think that will work."
"Of course it will work, watch" the red clad unleashed Million stab on the door, but as soon as Rebellion touched the stone, he got an electric shock that made him cry out in pain. The red clad dropped his sword and fell to his knees, panting.
Nero sighed, "I hate to say I told you do, but, I told you so." He walked over to Dante, "You okay?"
The older hunter groaned as he hauled himself to his feet, "I'm fine, but I don't think we're getting in this way." He brushed his hands against his coat and looked at the door. He stared at it intensely, as if he could see though it and into the room itself.
Vergil stared into the palms of his gloved hands, panting, while he knelt on the floor. He seemed a little shaken, which was usual for the Dark Slayer since he was normally unfazed by anything. …What… what just happened? I was just looking at the door and then… I felt a terrible pain, like I was being electrocuted. The older twin looked up at the door and then had an idea about what must have happened. Dante must have tried to break the stone door, then I somehow felt the shock… could it be because the room itself has a defence mechanism that activates when someone tries to damage the door? And electrocutes people inside this room when that happens?
"Foolishness Dante, foolishness."
Vergil stood up and glared at the door. His eyes narrowed when another thought came into his mind, no, that's not it; it's something else…
Dante turned his head away from the stone and looked down the tunnel. "Come on, let's find another way in." The red clad began to walk cautiously through the tunnel, being careful in case there were other traps.
The teen followed close behind the older half-devil, making sure that the torch he was holding lit up their path enough so they could spot anything that could be dangerous. The pair walked for a bit until they came across two path ways; one going left and the other going right.
"Great," said Nero, "Okay, left or right?"
Dante crossed his arms and actually looked like he was thinking about this decision logically, (yes logically) "Okay, we don't go down the left one because left is seen as the Devil's route, so we go down the right. Only we don't because demons think in equal numbers and would go down the right path which would probably be littered with traps, so we do go down the left path."
Nero looked at him with a very confused expression, "That made no sense."
"Basically-"
"Don't bother, you'll only confuse me more," the teen interrupted.
"Okay, Kid," said Dante.
The two hunters began walking down the left tunnel, only to have the entrance to said tunnel close behind them.
"Great," Nero sighed, "Now we have no choice but to go down this route."
The older hunter sighed, "Don't sweat it, Kid; this will be like a walk in the park," Dante told him, while walking backwards. It was then the red clad discovered that he was standing on top of a trap door, which decided to suddenly open, revealing several tall spikes with a few skeletons stuck on them.
Nero ran forward and grabbed Dante's forearm just in time to stop him from falling on to one of the spikes. "Damn, you need to lay off the pizza," the teen joked, as he pulled the older hunter up.
"Shut up, Kid," Dante said, as he clambered over the edge with Nero's help. The red clad stood up and looked over the edge, studying the spikes, "Damn, that's a lot of spikes."
The teen also looked over the edge and looked as well, "Yeah…" he looked behind him, "Looks like we took the route with all the traps."
Dante chuckled, "Looks that way," the older hunter sighed, "Well, let's just suck it up and carry on." He started walking.
"Wait," Nero ordered.
The red clad stopped in his tracks and turned around, "What?"
The young half-devil walked past Dante, "This time, I'm going first."
Dante held his hands up, "Whatever you say, Kid." He started walking behind the teen.
I cut this chapter in half so that I could update this crappy fic. My other DMC fics are a lot better than this so I'm sorry. I will rewrite this someday, I'm just very busy at the moment. Hope one person liked it and thanks for reading (if you did)
