Chapter 10
A large stone room, damp and dark from years of neglect is the sight for a sinister meeting. The only source of light and heat came from the fire place that was alive with red and orange flames casting shadows over the two occupants in the room.
"I see your little pet failed to reteive what is mine," the socceror said as he sat in front of the fire.
"Not entirerly my lord. We now know for a fact that your pet is in the company of the younger son of Sparda. I've seen them together. It looks as if he is watching over her while she heals," came the reply from a figure standing in the shadows.
"Figures that tramp would shack up with that half breed. Tell me how this news is any better. Once she fully heals she will be almost impossible to track down and capture. And I want her back now!"
"Patience my lord, I have a plan that will get us what we want. But thats not the only problem we have to deal with. The two huntresses who are friends of Dante are starting to snoop around. Its only a matter of time before they come across information that will give them and the dragon some new questions they wish to answer. To avoid any more problems I think we should move quickly. You go ahead to Fortuna and I will stay here and cause some trouble for your dragon."
"Do not think to double cross me again. Remember, I only brought you back because you said you could capture her again."
"And I will. All I have to do is seperate the two."
"And you have a plan to do this?"
"I have a plan."
Trish and Lady sat near each other at a table in the middle of the city library. The many stacks of books they had pulled off the shelves surrounded them to make a wall that closed them off from the rest of the library.
"I cant believe we have been in here for hours and have hardly found anything," the raven haired woman commented.
"Hm, this is proving harder than I had thought," replied the blonde.
"We've eliminated the few castles in the area. So where else would Lacerta go if he likes castles?"
"I dont know but if we keep looking we're bound to find...," Trish turned the page in her book, "Well, look at that."
"What? You find something? Let me see."
Trish slid the book across the table to Lady. Lady's eyes widened at the sight of the black and white photo in the page in the old book.
"Looks like we need to talk to the dragon again."
The second day of the dragon girl's stay started off with a bright and sunny morning. Capulet city was alive with its early morning people starting their day. In the heart of town, the Devil May Cry office was still dark and quiet with its occupents snoozing the morning away.
Dante sat sleeping in his chair, fully dressed with his feet propped up on the desk and an old magazine on his face. The young woman was asleep on one of the couches, still recovering from the past few days events.
The door to the shop swung open and Patty shattered the lazy morning feel by running into the office.
"Hey, I found you a name!"
The shout woke the two sleeping beings in the room. The dragon sat up quickly, but calmed down when she saw there was no threat and yawned as Dante groaned from under his magazine but hadn't moved from the desk. His voice muffled by the papper still covering his face as he addressed the young blonde who had so rudely awoken him.
"What the hell are you doing here so early for? Go away."
Patty sighed as she marched up to the hunter and snatched away the magazine frome his face.
"It's not that early. I wanted to stop by before school to see the dragon girl cause I found her a name," Patty finished with a warm smile at the thought of the reason for her trip all the way down to the shop.
The shape shifter finished waking up and turned to the blonde haired girl with a curious look when she heard the reason for the visit. The young girl rushed over to the older female with a bright smile still on her face.
"You found me a name already?" The dark eyed girl question with some amazment.
"Yes, I stayed up late with my mom thinking over different names. We thought we found one that is perfect for you! How would you like the name, Kaida?"
Dante snorted from the other side of the office, "K-whats-a?"
Patty turned to glare at the male and put her hands on her hips, "Its pronounced 'ka ee da'."
"Whatever. Where did you even come up with a weird name like that?" Dante questioned while looking at the females with one eye opened.
"Its not weird. Its the name of my favorite character on one of my soap operas," Patty said with a happy note in here voice.
Dante scoffed and closed his eye as he tried to go back to sleep as Patty turned back to the dragon. "So do you like it?"
The dragon girl looked at the blue eyed girl with a smile, "Kaida, huh? Its very pretty. I like it. Thanks Patty."
Patty looked delighted at the response. But her happiness deflated somewhat when she saw the blood stain on the side of the girls shirt.
"What happened to your shirt? Did something happen after I left the park yesterday?" Patty asked in a slightly worried tone.
Kaida gazed down at the stain in the fabric and then sheppishly looked back up at young blonde. Along with the blood stain there where a few rips and even some acid spots covering the shirt.
"Yeah, sorry about the shirt. Had a little run in with a jerk after you left and reopened my wound. But no worries, I took care of him. He wont be ruining any more clothes," Kaida said in an attempt to lightn the mood.
Patty frowned for a moment as she digested the new information but smiled as she came to a conclusion.
"Thats alright. Trish and Lady told me that being a hunter would be a dangerous buisness for the fashion world. But dont worry, I'll bring you a new shirt after school. Oh, I guess I should go before I'm late," Patty finished with a smile as she walked towards the door. But before she left she called over her shoulder, "Dante, make sure you take good care of Kaida while I'm gone. See you guys after school!"
Kaida watched Patty go with a smile on her face at the young girls attitude. Looking back at Dante, the shape shifter saw that hunter had already gone back to sleep. Deciding to follow his example, the dragon layed back down and drifted back off to sleep.
Their sleep was once again interupted a few hours later by the phone ringing. Dante groaned again and started grumbled something incohirent as he hit the desk with his foot to send the phone flying into his out stretched hand. Kaida stayed on the couch with her eyes closed but listen in on the frustrated and sleep derprived hunter as he answered the phone.
"Devil May Cry. Oh, hey Morrison. Really? Might be interesting. Ok, we meeting at the usual place? Sounds good. Ok, see you there." Dante finished the conversation and tosed the phone back down.
"A mission?" Kaida asked as she opened her eyes to watch the red clad man stand up and move to get his coat.
"Maybe. I'm going to go meet Morrison and get the details," Dante resoponded as he finished putting his coat on and grabbed his black guitar case and headed for the door.
"Cool. Can I come with?" The dragon asked as she stood up and stretched.
Dante turned back with a confused look on his face. "What do you want to come for? Besides, you're suppose to be resting so you can hurry up and heal so you can leave."
"I just wanted to get out of this shop and get some fresh air. I can still heal while I'm at the meeting with Morrison. Whats the big deal?" Kaida responded while looking at the other hunter with a little pout.
Dante smirked as he walked over to Kaida and put his gloved hand on her head and and gave it a little shake. "Tell ya what Babe, you stay here and be a good girl and when I get back I'll take you out to eat. Sound good?"
Kaida frowned at the teasing tone but before the dragon could respond, Dante pushed her back so she fell back into the couch. In the second that it took her to look back up, the door was already closing and Dante was gone. The shape shifter hopped off the furniture and started to go after the half demon and give him a piece of her mind. But half way across the shop a thought crossed the back of her mind and stopped her in her tracks.
'I don't like giving in so easily but he did save my life and is watching my back while I heal. Guess it wouldn't kill me to listen this once and chill til he gets back.'
With a sigh the dragon turned back around and took a good look at the shop. Not really feeling tired any more, she decided to do some exploring of her temperary home. First walking over to the billard table to take a look. She thought the game looked interesting, but not knowing how to play she decided to move on. Walking to the other side of the shop she looked at the drum set, guitars, massive speakers, and a framed record.
Thats when she first thought she heard something. It wasn't loud but her dragon hearing picked up the sound of whispering. Stopping to look around but finding nothing she continuded on her way.
After looking at the jukebox, that had seen better days, the young woman went to go sit at the desk. After seeing the same view that Dante sees everytime he sits down, the shape shifters eyes landed on the only photo seen in the entire shop. While looking at the women dressed in red with the long golden hair and oddly familar eyes, the dragon thought she heard the whispering again. Looking back up and around the shop to still see no one around the dragon started to think she was losing her mind. Putting her head down at the desk and letting out a sigh, Kaida started to listen hard. Thats when she finally heard a quiet voice float through the air.
"Listen brother, she is sighing."
"Another sigh? What is a sigh again?"
"Well, like I said before, a sigh is when..."
Kaida stood up and yelled before the voice could finish its sentance.
"Alright whose there!"
The dragon listen carefully for the voices to start again and pin point their location.
"Brother, she can hear us! What do we do?"
"Calm down brother. We need not worry as long as she does not tell the master of us talking."
Walking over to the back corner of the shop, Kaida saw a seven foot tall steel cabinet that she had some how missed before but knew that was where the voices where coming from. As she got closer to the doors she felt a small amount of magic energy coming off the steel cabinet before her. Now understanding that this was the reason for over looking the object before her and knowing that the magic was not ment to directly effect her, she opened the doors but was not ready for the sight that greeted her.
Looking into the steel cabinet she saw a red and blue set of simatars, a dark guitar, a silver brief case, and a number of other odd items all just sitting in there. Still not understanding, Kaida called out into the cabinet.
"Um, hello?"
"We have been found Brother!" The red sword said.
"This is not good Brother!" The blue sword also comented.
Kaida looked at the two swords with the talking heads for a moment before she realised what was going on.
"You two must be some of those devil arms I've heard about. Why are you here?"
The swords looked at the new woman before them but had stopped talking.
"Whats the matter. You not going to talk to me now?" Kaida asked with a little frown on her face.
"We do not mean to be rude."
"No, it is nice to talk to someone new."
"But master said 'no talking.'" Both swords said at the same time.
The dragon smiled at this and sat down in front of the two swords.
"But your 'master' isn't here at the moment so why don't we get to know each other and talk a little? Its nice to meet you. My name is Kaida. What are your names?"
Delighted with the thought of someone new to talk to, the swords responded quickly without a second thought.
The red sword spoke up first. "My name is Agni."
"And my name is Rudra," the blue sword said.
"It is a pleasure to meet you Kaida," they both finished.
"So how did you guys meet Dante?" the shape shifter asked.
"That is a grand story for telling."
"Yes, an amazing story."
Kaida smiled and started to enjoy the odd but interesting story time.
A couple hours later in was early afternoon and Dante was making his way back to his shop. Walking up to the doors he was happy to see the place was still standing.
"Well it looks like she didn't cause too much trouble while I was gone," Dante thought out loud. Just as he was about to open the door, Dante heard more than one voice coming out of his office along with the sound of laughter.
'What the heck is she doing in there?'
Dante thought as he opened the doors and looked around his shop. His eyes finally came to rest on the shape shifter lying on the floor in front of his devil arms cabinet. Walking closer to the girl, Dante saw she was talking to two specific members of his collection.
"So you mean that when they first met, she not only shot him once but twice! Thats priceless," the dragon girl laughed.
Hearing the foot steps behind her, Kaida turned and saw the devil hunter standing a few feet away giving her a curious look.
"Oh, hey Dante."
"Yes, hello master."
"Master, hello."
"What the hell is going on in here!" Dante question, still not quite believing his eyes.
"Uh ho, I think we're busted," Kaida told the brothers who gulped and looked on with a worry.
"How many times I gotta tell you guys? No talking," Dante told the swords as he walked up and shut the doors to the cabinet and then turned around and looked at the girl still sitting on the floor, "And you. What are you doing?" he asked suspiciously.
"What? I was just talking," the shape shifter said as she stood up and looked at the hunter. Dante scoffed as he walked passed the dragon girl to go sit at his desk.
"How did you even find the cabinet? Its protected by a magic charm to stop random people from finding it. Shouldn't you be allergic to it or something?"
"The magic wasn't made to directly effect me so it wont harm me," the dragon girl explained, "So how did the meeting with Morrison go?"
"Fine. I have a job later this afternoon. Couple of demons are being a pest on the other side of town."
"Cool. Are we still going out for food?" Kaida asked as she came to stand beside the desk.
"You want to go out looking like that?" Dante smirked as he eyed the girls still tattered shirt.
Before Kaida could answer, Patty ran into the shop with a piece of material in her hand and a smile on her face.
"Hey, I got you a new shirt! Its just like your old one too!"
"Guess that solves that problem," the dragon girl said with a smirk, "So lets go!"
AN: Sorry its been awhile sents the last update. My thanks to those who are still reading the story