Devil's Bash CHAPTER 10
SirenaLoreley: There's a pretty big fight scene in this chapter, so I hope you like it! Happy New Year! Thanks for reviewing!! *gives cookies*
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To make up for the shortness of the last chapter, this chapter is at least 2,000 words long! And it rivals the length of the first chapter of Diamondback-speaking of which I have posted a sketch of Nyoka I drew on Deviant Art (http:// bitbyboth. deviantart .com/art/Nyoka-from-Diamondback-148824296) Remember to take out the spaces! So check it out and leave me a comment if you would, I would appreciate it! :3
Remember I don't own Dante, Nero, Trish or Lady but Dorri, Artimus and Leo are all mine! I make no money for writing! Enjoy chapter 10 of Devil's Bash!
"Hell yeah. Let's rock Dante." he smirked.
The demons started to pour down the stands into the arena, the griffon crowing loudly.
"Head towards Captain Mayhem!" Dante ordered pushing against the middle of the younger slayer's back moving him towards Cobarde. Nero nodded and followed along firing Ebony at any demon that got in their way, Ivory backing him up from Dante's hand.
"Where the hell is Lady?" Nero called out, glancing over his shoulder the older slayer. He could see Trish was dealing with the demonic Tweety Bird but he hadn't spotted Lady thus far.
"It doesn't matter! She's a tough chick, she'll be just fine."
Nero nodded, focusing once again at the task at hand, grabbing a nearby demon and shoving it into it's brethren trying to clear a path. This was like a life or death game of capture the flag, Dante on their side and Yamato on the other. Whoever got what they wanted first won; Dante's blood or the demonic sword. The odds definitely weren't in their favor.
"Just keep movin' kid."
Nero attempted to do as he said, but faltered when a the sound of an engine cut through the air, along with the sound of more bullets.
"There's Lady." Dante managed above the sound.
"The cavalry has arrived!" the brunette announced, running over the demons in her path with her motorcycle and throwing Red Queen and Rebellion so they landed at the male devil hunter's feet. "Heads up Nero!" she shouted before tossing Blue Rose.
"You ROCK Lady!" he shouted when the familiar weight rested in his right hand. He tossed Ebony back to Dante, holstered his gun and revved Red Queen. "Now the party is really gettin' started!"
The male slayers quickly turned to blade based combat seeing as how the arena had almost turned into a moshpit it was so full of demons. There was almost nowhere their blades could slice that a demon wouldn't get hacked.
Nero was keeping a close eye on his older counter part. He wasn't sure how much blood it would take to open the hell gate, but he'd rather not even one drop of crimson land on the ground. He slashed a demon away from Dante before pressing his bare back against the older hunter's.
"I got your back old man, just make sure you don't cut me open." he smirked, swinging Red Queen sideways to cut some more of the demons in half.
"Thanks kid, but make sure you look out for yourself." he answered.
"Hey!" Nero gasped seeing Cobarde jump down into the mash of demons. "Uh-Cobarde is heading this way!"
"Good, let 'im come to us!" Dante grinned, before hearing a familiar kind of explosion and looking out over the demons before him, spotting what he was looking for. A Wrath, one of those condemned demons that carried bombs on their backs. That could speed things up a bit. He pulled Ebony and fired, the bullet hitting it's mark a fiery explosion taking out all the demons in about a five foot radius.
"Shoot the ones carrying bombs!" he advised the kid, who followed the action as soon as he spotted any Wrath within range. Lady seemed to have caught on to the male hunter's tactics as more of the Wraths exploded further away cutting chunks out of the demons they had to kill.
Trish had finally fatally wounded the griffon making it go down with a mighty thump, crushing any demon unfortunate enough to be standing underneath.
The demons were thinning out and it was a tiny miracle. Nero was becoming exhausted, sweat making his powerful torso and arms glint in the dim sunlight. He could hear Dante panting at his back. This wasn't fun at all. Usually they'd have the chance to play, taunt, dance around and piss off their enemy. This was just like an endurance test. How long could they keep fighting?
Nero had forgotten about Cobarde almost completely-too distracted by the demons in front of his face and trying to keep an eye out for Wraths. At least until the head demon was right in front of him; Yamato drawn and coming straight for him. The younger slayer gasped and shoved Dante's back away from him so that when the sword passed smoothly through his stomach it wouldn't continue through the elder hunter's back.
"Damn child!" Cobarde screamed in rage upon seeing that his plan had failed. Nero grabbed onto the guard of the blade that was pressed against his sculpted abs and smiled. The flag was his.
The head demon realized too late what was happening as the younger hunter's arm absorbed the powerful blade, making him gasp and take a step backwards.
"Kid! You okay?" Dante asked with concern, still fighting to keep demons from overwhelming him.
"I'll be a lot better in a few minutes." he promised, followed by a bright blue light signaling that he had devil triggered, the demons around him falling away due to the shockwave as he advanced towards Cobarde.
"Heh, well good luck with that." Dante chuckled, knowing now the kid had things under control as he spotted another Wrath skillfully blowing it up as well as any of it's unfortunate friends standing too close.
Trish managed to make it to his side, "This is some devil's bash, huh!?"
"Hell yeah! I think it's about time to wrap it up though, don't you?"
The blonde grinned with a nod, before both of the devils lit up the space around them with their own devil triggers and set out to smash anything in their path.
Lady stayed near the outskirts of the mob, riding around on her bike and firing through the crowd with Katalina Ann making sure she wouldn't hit any of her allies.
"Man I hope I don't run out of bullets." she sighed, firing one of her pistols into the face of a demon that got too close.
Nero stalked after Cobarde, his devil trigger hovering overhead, any demon who dared get close enough was easily sliced in half. He was getting sick of this game of cat and mouse. He drew Blue Rose and fired into the back of Cobarde's leg making him stumble onto one knee-his body was still human after all and Nero had shot for his kneecap.
The head demon turned around and snarled. "I will not be beaten by a pack of no good half-breeds!"
Nero grinned exposing his fangs. "You already have. Your demon army is in shambles Cobarde. They're starting to run and that's always a good sign for us. You'll never open this hell gate. And now I'm going to make sure you die," he reached out with his devil arm and grabbed the demon's rust colored hair dragging him closer. "In the most painful way I know," he smirked at the glimmer of fear in those ruby depths. "You may have gotten the antivenom last time…but we'll make sure that doesn't happen again." he whispered in his double demonic voice, before diving forward sinking his fangs into the demon for the second time, this time in his shoulder injecting whatever reserves of venom he had left.
Once the venom was in Nero pulled back his mouth painted crimson. He smashed Cobarde's head onto the ground, thinking for a moment of how to keep the demon from moving. He grinned when he thought of it, karma could be a bitch. He brought up Yamato and started by slicing the Achilles tendons at the back of Cobarde's feet so that he couldn't walk, making the demon cry out in pain, then Nero sliced open the joint of his arms at the shoulder so that his arms wouldn't function.
"Pray you bleed to death because that venom could take more than a day, and it will be extremely painful." he chuckled before turning to cut up demons approaching to his rear as Cobarde screamed profanity at his back.
It took another hour to wipe out all the other demons. Lady shot down the last one before it could escape.
"That's it guys!" she called out, wiping her wrist across her forehead to remove the perspiration there.
Cobarde's swearing had died down as he started to slip into delirium. The venom was taking effect much faster than it had on Dante probably because he had received more venom and had, for awhile, been struggling sending the poison coursing through his veins much faster.
"Not quite." Nero sighed looking at the twitching male on the ground. "He's in a lot of pain, and he'll probably die, but I'd rather not take the chance of leaving him here."
"Yeah. Let's put him out of his misery and get out of here." Dante agreed.
Nero nodded walking over to the demon before raising Red Queen revving it up and bringing it down in flames on his throat, cutting the head clean off.
"Now it's all over."
Dante smirked coming over to him. "Nice job kid." he said, patting his shoulder, all of them were slick with sweat and blood.
Trish frowned. "What's that sound?"
The other two with super hearing paused to listen.
"It sounds like…" Nero trailed off.
"A car engine." Dante mumbled curiously.
"Who would be coming out here?" Trish wondered.
Lady lightly smirked. "I have a feeling the ambulance has shown up."
"Ambulance?" Dante quirked his head.
"Dorri." Nero smiled as he caught on. He was just grateful that it seemed to mean that he wouldn't have to walk back to the shop barefoot and covered in demon blood.
The four hunters made their way out of the coliseum, and they were quiet a sight to see. Lady had lost her sunglasses during the fight her heterochromatic eyes exposed, there were small tears in her clothes tinged with clotted blood.
Nero was drenched in his own blood from his stomach down from where he'd been impaled, along with the crimson smear on his shoulder blade when he'd cut himself on that rock, and of course was hardly dressed. Red Queen rested on his shoulder Blue Rose clenched in his left hand. Trish was worse for wear after dealing with the griffon, but her wounds had healed for the most part and Dante amazingly only had a few scrapes though, like Nero, he only had pants on. Rebellion was on his back; Ebony and Ivory in his hands.
A black van pulled up stopping in front of them…but who was inside wasn't exactly who they'd expected.
Nero blinked. "Leo? Artimus?(1) What are you two doing out here!?"
"We thought you guys might need some help judging by the looks of Devil May Cry." Artimus began.
"And we found this beauty up a tree along the way. She said you'd headed this way hours ago." Leo motioned at Dorri who was resting in the back seat.
"How were you guys planning to help? It would have been suicide for you if you'd gotten here much earlier."
Leo smiled sheepishly. "There's something we haven't really told you about. Artimus and I…"
"I'm an ice demon." Artimus stated, holding his palm out as ice spikes danced in it. "And Leo is a fallen angel(2), but that's not really important the moment. Come on we'll drive you guys home…I'm sure you don't want to walk barefooted."
Nero looked curiously at Dante who shrugged as if saying 'I didn't know either.'
"Thanks but I'll head back with my bike." Lady stated.
"I live near her, so I'll go too. See you guys later." Trish stated, mounting the bike behind the brunette and taking off.
Nero tiredly heaved open the side door to the van and climbed in, Dante at his heels.
Artimus wrinkled his nose. "You guys reek."
"We know." they answered in unison.
Leo and Artimus dropped the two demon hunters off at their place, Dorri still dozing in the back.
"We can come and help you guys with repairs tomorrow if you want." Leo offered.
"Thanks Leo. I'll give you a call if we need a hand." Nero said getting out of the car after Dante.
"We'll take her home. Good luck guys." Artimus said.
Nero waved his devil arm in goodbye and Dante gave them a salute. Then the devil hunters turned to each other. The younger lightly laughed.
"We must look like hell."
"That's because we've about been to hell today kid." Dante laughed walking into the building with the younger on his heels.
Nero sighed upon looking around. Furniture was toppled over and destroyed. The walls were scratched up and had holes-not that that was something new. The only thing that seemed intact was the desk with the huge rotary phone.
He glared when said phone started to ring. Dante brought up Ivory to fire at it, getting a very unsatisfying click, he brought up Ebony to get the same result, making him sigh.
"You got any rounds left kid?"
Nero opened Blue Rose's chamber and gave it a spin with his thumb, empty casings falling onto the floor with all the others from the attack earlier. "That'd be a no." he informed.
"Shit…"
"Just leave it," he sighed. As tired as he was, there'd be no where to sleep until the two cleaned and repaired at least their bedroom. "I'm gonna shower and get dressed then I'll help you clean up." he explained placing his weapons beside the desk and heading to the bathroom in the back, which-miraculously-seemed untouched. He supposed the demons had no reason to go in there.
So he showered and then found some clothes in their over turned dresser to put on before heading back downstairs where Dante was fully clothed and finishing sweeping up the bullet casings.
"And for the millionth time Devil May Cry has to be rebuilt." Nero joked lightly, picking up some papers from the floor.
"Actually, this is the fifty-sixth time." Dante corrected and Nero laughed.
(1) You guys remember Artimus and Leo from the first chapter, right? XD I don't expect you to. They were the two bartenders that Nero had worked with before he found Dante. Leo is blonde with blue eyes and Artimus has black hair and purple eyes they were dressed as a fallen angel and devil respectively.
(2) Seems like a confusing explanation I know but I needed to have a plausible reason for the two to be there, so I hope you'll excuse it they-like Dorri-won't play a big part, but if you're interested in their story just let me know in a review and I'll include a summary in the next chapter.
This chapter ended in a rather nice way, life returns to normal at DMC :3 So I hope you guys liked this chapter I'm thinking that I'm going to make an epilogue so there will hopefully be one more chapter explaining what happens in the aftermath of everything. Until next time!
Ja ne!
~Bitbyboth January 3, 2010 (I almost put 2009! XD It's weird being in a new year!)