A/N: Alrighty, here we go… next chapter, I'm just gonna keep plugging away at these tonight and see how far I can get. Also anyone have an opinion on either of these two fandoms crossed over with Bloodborne? Not at the same time, of course, but each of them, individually. I've been more than a little obsessed with that monster of a game lately (I'm so close to being done with the chalice dungeons I can taste it… then I can beat the game and ascend to a Great One…). Yeah if anyone has opinions on that I'd love to hear them.

Disclaimer: I just…. I don't even know anymore…

Death Mountain

Link saw Dante talking animatedly with the man who Renado hadn't introduced when he finished getting caught up with the children. The two seemed to be getting along swimmingly and the teen couldn't help but think that they made such an odd pair. The short pot-bellied man and the tall strong warrior, chit-chatting. Renado had brought up that they had been having issues with the Goron tribe in the local mountain and didn't know what to do. Link decided that he might as well head up in that direction and could sense Midna's approving glare in the back of his head. She seemed to know that they needed something in the aptly named Death Mountain as well. Dante looked up when Link exited the hut and waved him over, a bright grin on his face.

"Kid, Shep here makes explosives. He said that his shop blew up but he's going to attempt to rebuild it and that he'd love some new customers." Link just blinked slowly, explosives were dangerous… but there was something in the back of his mind that told him that they were also fun and a great tool. It was the same part of his mind that always told him to pick up the new weapon, to try the next puzzle and somehow… they were always so familiar…

"Alright." he said softly "Hey, we should go check out that mountain." he pointed toward the mountain and Dante followed his gaze, as did Shep. The redhead let out a surprised squeak and Dante just looked back at him.

"Uh, kid that's not a mountain, that's a volcano." Link just looked at the half devil in confusion.

"What's a volcano?" he asked, trying out the strange word in his mouth. Now it was Dante's turn to look confused.

"You don't know… you probably just don't have a word for that…" he nodded and then Shep spoke up.

"I don't know what that is either but that mountain there is called Death Mountain for a reason." The shop owner seemed more than a little nervous at the sight of the huge thing in the distance. Dante just grinned.

"Alright, now that definitely sounds like my kind of party…Let's go kid." and with that he started walking toward the path.

"Wait!" Link said, darting after the man, who just turned and looked at him. "We don't have any supplies left and it's at least a day's trip up the side of the mountain on foot." Dante sighed, he really wasn't one to prepare for things like this but he supposed that it wouldn't hurt. The teen turned to Shep.

"Can we get supplies, mostly just rations for a few days and I need a new waterskin… mine's sprung a leak." Shep nodded toward a rather run down house.

"You're welcome to raid the old shop, shop owner's not around anymore so… well no one's lookin after the goods, take whatever you can find." Link nodded and made his way over the ruins, turning the handle and thanking the goddesses for opposable thumbs for what felt like the millionth time, that was always something that he just could never get over… the lack of thumbs as a wolf. Some good digging through broken boards later and the teen was able to find some jerky that wasn't spoiled and a waterskin that was salvageable. He dug his way back out and saw Dante waiting, checking down the sights of his strange weapons, not that everything about the man wasn't strange but particularly his weapons… The teen sighed and started forward, looking at the half devil as he passed him.

"You ready?"

"Oh I was born ready." he said with a wide grin.

-Legends-

The pair gradually made their way up the mountain, hiking slowly, they hadn't run into any Gorons yet and honestly Link was a little nervous about it, he'd never met any, or even seen any for that matter. He knew what they looked like, but only because of heresay and stories from Ordon.

"So why do we need to make our way up this mountain?" the white haired man asked, clambering over another large boulder that blocked the path and offering a hand back to the teen, who gratefully took it.

"Kakariko, oof, they said that they're having issue with the local Goron tribe and that it's very strange, Midna and I both think that it likely has to do with the Twilight." Dante looked at him

"Goron?" the half devil was getting used to hearing words that he didn't know but there was just a point where he had to ask. This one was so silly sounding, he had to know.

"Y'know, big rock people?" the teen said this as though it were the most normal thing ever and yet it stopped Dante in his tracks.

"Wait wait, so you guys don't just have people with pointy ears,"

"Hylians." Link supplied and Dante waved the interruption off

"but you have other races too? These big rock people?"

"You don't?" Link looked to the devil hunter in surprise.

A/N: It's got to be confusing for poor Dante, a world with a bunch of different sentient species, not that devil's don't count but they're on a different plane than humans in the DMC universe so it's got to seem baffling to have these different races coexisting.

Till next time,

-Winged Element