Phantom May Cry
A 23 Year Revenge P-1
Daniel's P.O.V
Me and Greed were facing each other. I had Rebellion held out while Greed had both his hands black with his ultimate shield. We were in a flat stone arena inside a under ground room with Danielle off to the side watching us, both of us on guard.
Suddenly Greed charged at me with both his claws. I blocked one with Rebellion and stopped the other with my hand. We stayed like that for a second before I flipped over Greed and tried to slash his back. But Greed quickly turned around and blocked me with both hands.
I then jumped back a bit and started to swing and slash at Greed, however he ether blocked or dodged my attacks.
Greed then grinned before pulling his right hand back as it started to glow red. He then swiped it to the side creating a red slash of demonic energy.
Thinking fast I ducked under the energy as it flew over my head, as soon as it did I brought Rebellion and slashed up across Greed's chest, making a huge gash. Greed went flying outside the stone ring and hit the ground.
"Greed 2, Daddy 18." Danielle said as she wrote on a piece of paper.
Greed got off the floor while rubbing his chest, red sparks started to appear and heal the wound I made. "Damn, thought I could at least get one more win."
I just grind at him. It's been two months since Greed joined Devil May Cry and did some jobs with me and Danielle. We found out that Greed could produce demonic energy for attacks and absorbs it from other demons when he attacks them. He could even do it to me, but only if he lands a solid hit.
"Hey, you may be way older then me, but I got trained by three masters." I said as I got off the stone arena.
We were currently under Devil May Cry, this was a special training area Kent gave me last month. It was sound proof and even if something was destroyed it would repaired itself in less then a day, so no holding back. Suddenly a ring went off and Jazz walked in.
"Danny, you have a client." She said to me.
I nodded and walked to the door. "Danielle, while I talk to the client practice your duplication ability."
"On it." Dani said and walked to the center of the stone arena.
I walked to the stares as Greed and Jazz fallowed me.
"You know, you really need a secretary, I'm not going to always be up there studying." She said to me.
"Yeah, that be an interesting add in the papers, 'wanted, secretary for badass demon hunting agency, must have strong stomach and not be faint of heart'." I said with a chuckle
When we reach the top we entered my office and saw three people and a dog waiting for us. The first one was a women in her late 30's, she had light skin, light brown hair and was warring a biker outfit, she also had backpack on. The second one was a older man in his late 40's, he was warring a brown jacket and a baseball cap. Finley the last one was a younger scrawny kid about my age.
"Sorry to keep you waiting?" I said as I walked behind my desk and sat down. I nodded to Jazz and she went upstairs. When I turned back at the three they looked at me skeptically.
"Your Daniel Phantom?" The women asked.
"Yes that's me, professional demon hunter." I said, leaning on the desk.
The older man shook his head. "I knew this was a waste of time." He said before walking out.
The women turned around and glared at the man. "And where are you going?"
"I'm going to go kill that thing, common Jacky." The man was about the walk out the door with the other guy, but the women ran right in front of them both and stopped them. "What?"
"You don't have any chance of beating it, you'll die for nothing. So shut up and talk to the man." The women said harshly.
The man hesitated before he and the kid turned to us. The women let out a breath, walked over and took a seat in front of my desk.
"OK, straight to business." I said, seeing they had no room for small talk.
The women took out a knife from her bag and a folder. As soon as I saw the knife I know something was wrong with it. Before the women could talk I took the knife and inspected it, getting a strange look from the three. The weapon looked like the blade was being eaten by a demon.
"This is a demon blade." I said, looking at the women.
She nodded. "Yea, and this is what that demon did." She said and gave me the folder.
Inside I saw pictures and old news articles of missing person. There were also old pictures and drawings of some kind of bat monster.
"It's known as 'The Creeper'." The women said, getting my and Greed's attention. "It over centers old, and on every 23rd spring, for 23 days it... it get's to eat."
"Eat what?" Greed ask.
The women put on a grim face as she pulled out a police file and handed to me, and what I saw inside nearly made me vomit. "To eat us."
Greed looked over my shoulder at the file and he was shocked beyond belief. They were photos of body that were dried up and stitched together on a wall of some cave, there looked to be at least 50 of them.
"Good god." I said as I closed the file.
The women nodded with me. "When certain parts don't work anymore it needs to eat to replace them."
I rubbed my eyes a bit before looking at the women. "Why hasn't anyone killed this thing yet?"
"No one can, many have tried but it just keeps coming back. Last time it attacked, the police covered it up when they couldn't find it." The women said with some venom. "We want to hire you to finally kill this thing, if your the real thing."
"Where is this thing?" I asked with a bit of venom of my own.
"Kassel County, that's where it was last seen." The older man said for the first time.
"Are you sure, who told you this?" I asked.
"Yes I'm damn sure because I'm the one who saw it!" The man yelled at me before his face turned sad and grim. "I saw it when it took my boy."
I gave the man a sympathetic look before lowering my head. "Is there any chance-"
"No." The women cut my question off. "The Creeper never let's any of it's victims live." I saw she had a sad look on her face.
There was a moment of silence before I got off the chair and started to walk to the door. "I'm getting the car Greed," I said and stopped at the door, I turned around and looked at Greed with determination. "We're going to Kassel County and we're killing this mother fucker."
No One's P.O.V
After the talk and more details about The Creeper, Danny and Greed headed out to Kassel County along with the clients. From what the older women, now named Trish, told Danny, they only have two days to find The Creeper. If they don't find it until then, The Creeper will go back into hiding for 23 years.
So in order to maximize there chances Danny took Trish in his car, a black Camaro ford mustang with white flames on the side, while Greed went with Jack and Ray in there pickup. Each had a radio because cell phones don't get any reception at all out here. Danny was driving in the open road of the country with Trish, it would of been peaceful if the stakes weren't so high.
"So what made you so hell bent on killing this thing, if you don't mind me asking?" Danny asked Trish, never taking his eyes off the road.
Trish didn't answer him and just looked out the window. After about few minuets, she did. "It took my younger brother, Darry." She said softly. "23 years ago we decided to take the long way home through the country side during college, we stumbled onto the Creepers layer and after that it started chasing us until," Trish eyes started to get watery. "Until the police station. They said they could protect us, but all they did was lock us in a room and let that thing fly away with my brother."
Danny kept his eyes on the road but put a conferring hand on Trish as she wiped the tears away. She continued to speak.
"After that I started searching high and low for the Creeper when it went to sleep, I figured if I couldn't kill it while it was awake I'd kill it while it was sleeping." Trish then gave a hollow laugh. "But I never found it, for 23 years I searched, for where ever it might be but I never found it. I thought it was over when it came back, but a friend named Jezelle told me something I thought was impossible before she passed away." She said before looking at Danny very intensely. "She said she saw someone bring the Creeper to it's knees, a young man in black with white hair and two pistols. I saw you in the paper a couple of days ago and knew you where the one, or at least hoped."
Danny was silent for a moment before speaking. "From what you told me about the Creeper, it's tough, can fly, whatever it eats becomes apart of it, and super strong." Danny looked at Trish before giving a cocky grin. "Can't wait to show it why you don't fuck with humans."
About 50 miles away, Greed was in a pickup with Jacky behind the weal and Ray keeping an eye on the radio if any strange reports come up, the dog was resting by the feet of Ray. Greed looked out the window and looked as the country side past him, a lot has changed in the last month. He still missed his friends but knew they would be fine without him, he actually liked this world, a lot more interesting thing here then just plain old alchemy. Greed looked behind him and stared at the thing in the back of the truck that was under a tarp.
"Hey old man, what's that thing?" Greed asked, pointing to the back of the truck.
Ray didn't turn to Greed and just continued to stare at the radio. "A home made harpoon gun." Greed raised a eyebrow at that. "Before Trish convince us to come with her to find you guys, me and Jacky were planning on taking that thing on our own. Said she found us from some psyche that passed away."
Greed could only nod, not understanding half of what he was talking about. He looked at the window and saw that the sun was starting to set. Just then the radio beeped.
"Greed, can you hear me?" A familiar voice said.
Greed reached over and grabbed the speaker. "Yeah we can hear you."
"OK listen, Trish says that the Creeper likes to hunt at night, makes scaring people much easier. So be on guard." Danny said through the radio.
"Got it, talk to you soon."
Danny side, it's been three hours since the sun had went down. They only heard some petty crimes on the radio, nothing strange enough to raise any alarms. Trish had a depress look on her face.
"Damn it, it's over, the Creeper has won." Trish said hanging her head.
"Hey, Hey, don't get all depressed on me, we are going to find this thing one way or another." Danny said in a determined voice as he started to speed up the car.
Trish gave Danny a heated glair. "And what if we don't!" She yelled in his face.
Danny paused for a second before answering her. "Look, will find it ok, we just-"
"-ny one hear me," The radio suddenly went off, cutting Danny off. A scared voice was on the other end, belonging to some kid. "This is Andy Buck, do you read me. We are stuck on a broken down school bus out on east 9 and we are in serious trouble, DO YOU READ ME!"
Not missing a beet, Danny grabbed the radio speaker and stopped the car. "Yeah I read you, what's wrong."
"Oh man, listen this is bus 226, we are stuck on east 9 and something is trying to kill us!"
Danny and Trish gave each other a knowing look. "OK listen good kid, I need you to tell me what exactly is trying to kill you and where you are." Danny said in a calm voice.
"I-It's has wings, c-claw feet, and it just took our fucking teacher man. We need you to call the cops and come help us! We're near some farm but that's all I know!"
Danny tested the range of the signal, he grimaced on how weak it is. "Your signal is very weak, it might take me a couple of hours to get to you." Then Danny realized something. "But I got some friends that are closer to you."
"What dose that mean, are you calling the cops or not!?"
"Yeah, yeah I'm going to call the cops, but my friend is going to reach to first. So until then, stay away from the walls and don't do anything stupid."
The call ended and Danny wasted to time calling Greed.
"Greed here."
"We got a hit, the Creeper is attacking a school bus on east 9 near a farm."
"We're on that road right now."
"Then speed it up, will see you soon."
Danny put the speaker down and looked at his phone. He didn't have a signal to make a call, but he still looked at his map.
"Ok, the nearest road to east 9 is... ten miles from here." Danny said with some dread
Trish slammed her fist on the dash board. "Damn it, we can't lose it!"
Danny scowled before giving a grown. "Hope this doesn't fuck up my car."
Trish gave Danny a confused look before he suddenly started the car and started to drive off road through the fields.
Off on east 9, a broken down bus was on the road with about 20 scared kids. Bucky, a short pasty kid with glassed, was in the front seat of the bus.
"We should be getting help soon." He said but was still scared shitless.
Izzy, a tall skinny blond kid with a jean jacket, bent over and picked something that was wrapped up. When he unwrapped it he was surprised at what he found.
"Javelins," He said, getting Bucky's attention. "We got spears on this bus."
"Sticks," said Scotty, a tall buff blond guy in a sports jacket. "You want to wait around so you could poke at that thing with sticks."
"That thing shows up here again I rather have a sharp stick in my hand then nothing at all." Izzy throw back.
"Hey guy," Dante, a tall slightly buff guy with short black hair, said getting some peoples attention. "Betty's flair gun, a bunch of flares for it to." He said with some enthusiasm.
Scotty just ignored him and looked at everyone. "Who says we wait around," This got a shocked look from everyone. "I'm serious."
Rhonda, a pretty burnt with a gray hoody, walked up to Scotty. "Scotty, your not talking about getting off this bus?"
Scotty grabbed Rhonda and pulled her to the window. "You see that," He said pointing to a fence. "That means there's a farm out their and that is as fair any of us has to get to."
"With that thing out their," She said looking at Scotty, who just stood quiet. "Scotty, with that thing out their?" She said a little louder, but Scotty just stood quiet. "Scotty!?"
"That thing hasn't been back in almost an hour." He throw back.
"That doesn't mean it's not up their somewhere. Plus help is on the way!" Izzy said.
Scotty got up and faced Izzy. "But that doesn't mean were saved, it could be hours before that guy on the radio shows up, or his friend, we should make a run for it."
"Hey this isn't about who can run the fastest ok."
"Or being a pussy."
"What is your problem?"
"You tell me Izzy or isn't he."
"Hey, check your selves both of you!" Deaundre, a skinny but tall black guy, yelled.
They both ignored him. "Oh do I make you nerves!" Izzy said.
"Thinking your going to come on to me, and every other swinging dick on this bus makes me nerves!"
"Yeah it makes you fucking stupid too!"
Scotty pushed Izzy into a poll and was ready to punch him but Deaundre put a hand on his shoulder, stopping him.
Scotty was breathing heavy and then looked at the hand. "You better get that hand off me or we're going to have one more missing person on this bus." He threaten.
"There nothing about any of us that is more important then sticking together." Deaundre said. Scotty pushed Izzy and spun around, glairing at Deaundre. "It's the only way we're going to get through this." He said, trying to stay calm.
"You want to play cock of the walk now, huh?" (AN: I have no idea what that means.)
Deaundre shook his head. "Now's not the time for this Scotty." A large black kid stood up behind Deaundre, ready to back him up, but Deaundre put his hand up. "Big K sit."
"I'm serious, you want to play cock of the walk... bruh."
Deaundre glared at Scotty. "Why do I think you want to call me something else?" Scotty just kept his mouth shut. "You want to call me something else Scotty? Because I don't think you get I can see thinking it weather you say it or not. "
Having enough of this, Rhonda got between the two. "Just stop it right now, both of you stop it."
Off to the side Minxie, girl with short blond hair, was ignoring the fight. She caught something in the corner of her eye at the front door. Walking slowly to the door she see's what's their and starts to back peddle back, bumping into Scotty. Scotty fallows her line of sight and see what's at the door. When he got to the door, he saw what scared Minxie, The Creeper. Everyone screamed and hid in between the seats.
After a minute Dante looked up at the window, but as soon as he did the Creeper jumped at the side of the bus. The Creeper started sniffing the inside of the bus through the open window, it suddenly looked down right at Dante before climbing to the top of the bus.
Scotty went to Bucky and grabbed his arm. "We have got to move this piece of shit!"
"On what, the rim?"
"Can you drive this thing or not!?" Scotty yelled.
"We wouldn't get two feet man what do you want me to do!?"
Suddenly everyone turned to the back of the bus and saw it, The Creeper. Everyone screamed and rushed to the other end of the bus. Joe shined a light on it and they finally got a good look at it. It had sharp teeth, greenish brown leather like skin with a white pony tail, it was warring a cowboy hat with a brown duster. Everyone was looking at the thing in fear and disgust.
"What the hell dose it want?" Izzy asked the million dollar question as the Creeper just stared at them. Then the Creepers eyes landed on someone.
"The fuck, is it looking at me?" Dante said as he backed up a little.
The Creeper suddenly winked at Dante, then it started to sniff the glass excessively. It then looked at Scotty and grinned, then it gave Minxie a disgusting smile, Bucky just ducked out the way when it stared at him, The Creeper just waves off Big K. Finally, when the Creepers eyes landed on Deaundre they widened a bit, it started to sniff and lick the glass like a psycho. It then grabbed the side of the bus and started to shake the whole bus on it's own.
Dante brought up the flare gun and was ready to shoot.
"Hey don't shoot that thing in here man!" Izzy warned Dante.
Scotty pushed Dante's weapon down. "He's right, it'll fill this place up like a smock bomb."
The Creeper kept shaking the bus and everyone heard something dropped. When Joe pointed the flash light on it they saw it was a screw.
"Did that just come off the door?" Rhonda asked in fear.
"Bucky, get on those front doors and get ready to open them!" Scotty said, never taking his eyes of the monster.
"What, you think we're going to run outside?" Bucky asked, looking at Scotty in disbelief.
"If it fucking comes inside." Was all Scotty said.
The Creeper shook the bus some more before climbing on top of the bus. Then all the noise just stopped. Everyone looked around expecting the demon to come popping out of nowhere. Rhonda was the only one to notice Minxie swaying, and before she could ask what was wrong Minxie fainted. Scotty caught her before she could hit the ground and laded her down. Everyone was trying to wake Minxie up and when she open her eyes, her pupils were white. Everyone was just more scared.
Minxie P.O.V- In mindscape
I had no idea where I was. Last thing I remember was being on the bus, then everything went hazy and I was here. For some reason, I wasn't scared in any way, I felt calm. I was on some farm, in front of a corn filed, there were three scarecrows and for some reason I was drawn to them. I walked through the corn field and stopped right in front of the middle scarecrow. I started to here voices, sounded like ten at lest. When I turned around I saw the boy from my earlier dream, he had short brown hair and was warring a torn up yellow shirt. He was talking so fast I could barley understand him, but for some reason I did. Suddenly he stopped and looked at me.
"Trust the man with snow white hair, trust the Phantom and his friends if you want to live. If you don't it may continue what it's done every 23rd spring every 23 years, to eat." The boy said with a neutral tone.
I looked back at the scarecrow. "Eat what?" I asked, still looking at the scarecrow. "Eat what..." I said as I started to look back but what I saw shocked me.
Both eyes of the boy were missing and I could see clearly through them. "Eat us." was all he said before everything went white.
No one's P.O.V
Minxie suddenly jerked up and gasped for air. Her friends came over to see she was drenched in sweat and still out of it.
Joe looked out the window and around. "I think it's gone, I'm willing to bet money on it."
"Are you willing to bet stepping off this bus because that's the real bet." Izzy said as he looked out the window.
"How long it's been?" Joe asked looking at everyone. "It's gone, it came and did it's thing and went away."
Scotty looked at Joe. "Went away? Then what the hell was it doing?"
"What do you think it was doing." Surprisingly Minxie said getting everyone's attention on the bus. "It was picking people out."
Scotty walked up to Minxie. "What?"
"It can smell something in people, in there fear, something that helps it pick people out." Minxie told everyone.
Diane looked at her friend, confused. "Pick people out for what. I don't understand how you would know that sweetie."
Minxie hesitated before answering. "A-a dead boy told me." Everyone just stared at her. "I think he was trying to warn me, he was trying to warn all of us. That this thing has been round for hundred of years and nothing has been able to kill it... until tonight."
Rhonda looked at her friend in confusion as well and slight hope. "What do you mean 'until tonight'."
"T-the boy said, 'Trust the man with snow white hair, trust the Phantom and his friends'." Minxie explained.
Scotty was looking at Minxie in disbelief. "This was a dream you head?"
"Well the boy was dead, so yes I'm assuming it was a dream Scotty!" Minxie yelled.
Scotty got close to Minxie and glared at her. "You were waving pompoms at people this morning, now your all of a sudden a psychic hot line."
"I don't know!" She yelled, shutting him up. "You want to explain it to me because I can't!" Everyone was quiet as the looked at her. "The boy was trying to warn us, by morning it has to go back into the earth," Scotty started to complain but Rhonda quickly shut him up. "Into the ground for 23 more years unless something can kill it."
Scotty scoffed at her. "And what it lives happily ever after, huh. Why don't you clean out your bong alright."
"Scotty just listen to her!" Rhonda scolded her boyfriend.
"It is coming back." Minxie said looking at Scotty.
"This is a dream she had Rhonda." Scotty said, thinking what Minxie was saying was all bull. "What, are you going to believe it?"
"And it doesn't matter if were hiding on this bus or we're hiding under our beds, it will find us." She said with such certainty that it scared everyone. "The one's that it picked out." Minxie started to take deep breaths and her eyes were starting to water. "The boy told me it can smell in our fear, who it wants, and what from them." Tears started to run down her face. "What it wants to eat."
Everyone on the bus looked at Minxie in disbelief and fear at what she mentioned. Bucky didn't waste any time to run straight up to the front radio.
"Hello is anyone out their...Hello w-we have a serious problem out here and we need help right away, can anyone hear me." Bucky waited a couple of second before answering. "Can anyone hear m-"
"Yeah, yeah I can hear you kid, so shut your mouth." Someone on the radio said, cutting Bucky off.
Everyone looked at the radio in shock and moved to the front. "Oh thank god, listen we're not playing games her alright. We are trapped in a broken down school bus out on east 9, and something is going to kill us if we don't get help soon."
"Well your going to get help sooner then you think, I can see you."
Everyone looked ahead and saw a pickup coming their way. They cheered as they saw the truck stop a few meters away from the bus.
As Greed got out the truck he glared at the two other passengers. "You two stay here, don't come out unless it is completely necessary." The older one looked reluctant but nodded anyway.
Greed walked over to the side bus and saw at least 20 kids staring at him.
"You guys alright." Greed couldn't help but ask.
Bucky moved straight to the window and started talking. "You need to get the cops and get out of here fast, that thing might be still near."
Greed looked a little lazily around, not really expecting much. "Ok here's what's going to happen, I'll send my driver to get the cops," Greed started to explain, unaware of a shadow figure landing behind the bus. "While I stay here and keep an eye on you guys."
Everyone looked at Greed in disbelief and thought the same thing. "Are you crazy." Scotty exclaimed. "You can't stay here you got to go get the cops or that thing will kill you."
Greed just gave Scotty a big grin. "Trust me when I say this, it's going to take more then some demon to keep Greed down." Greed said in a cocky tone before he started to walk back to the truck.
"That guy is crazy." Scotty said as he watch Greed walk away.
"I'd take crazy if it can save our ass right now." Izzy said.
Minxie was staring at Greed, she had a feeling he could actually help them. But then she got a more sinister feeling, she turned and saw IT turn the corner around the bus.
"Greed Move!" Minxie yelled.
Greed glanced behind him and saw something not good. The thing behind him throw a bone throwing star at him, Greed turned around and harden his hand, trying to catch it. Unfortunately it slipped right through his fingers and hit him straight in the heart. The thing caught him off guard and Greed landed on the road on his back, hard. Everyone screamed as Greed hit the floor, the Creeper slowly walk to him and stared down at Greed. It then turned to everyone on the bus and gave them a big smile. The Creeper then reach down and was about to pull out the bone throwing star, but it failed to notice Greed's right hand hardening.
As soon as the Creeper grabbed the star, Greed grabbed it's hand and punched it right in the face, the Creeper stumbled back. Everyone stared at Greed in disbelief as he got up without trouble and took out the throwing star like it was nothing and red sparks started
Greed glared at the Creeper. "Damn you are one ugly fucker, although Envy was even more ugly in his beast form."
The Creeper just looked at Greed and started to sniff the air but then looked at Greed with slightly wider eyes. Greed looked confused at to what it was doing until he remembered what Trish said.
Greed couldn't help but start laughing. "Trying to smell the fear on me, sorry to disappoint you ugly, but my brother was scarier then you." Greed said as he took off his jacket and throw it to the side. "And he was only 4 feet tall."
The Creeper snarled at Greed before bringing out a silver axe. Greed grinned and brought up both hands, which were in there ultimate shield. The Creeper rushed forward and brought it's axe down on Greed who brought a hand up to block it. Everyone, even the Creeper, was surprised to see to see actually catch the axe in his hand with little effort. Greed pulled his free hand back and punched the Creeper right in the face who jumps back with the force.
The two stare down at each other, either one ready for anything.
"End of the line Creep, I don't get paid until you kill over. And let me tell you something," Greed then jumped foreword, right at the Creeper. "GREED ALWAYS GET WHAT HE WANTS"
And with that the fight started.
TO BE CONTUINUED