I guess it has sure been awhile, though I hope this makes up for it. - Elivanna

'thoughts'

"Lines taken directly from the script."

Disclaimer: I think by now you would all know that I do NOT own DMC. The characters are way too cool for me to own.

Chapter 11: Yamato!

"You should go. Agnus should be at the cathedral." said Trish nudging him to move on so she could get him to focus on the mission instead of on her.

"Since when are you on first name basis with demons? He's not good looking is he? With the name Agnus I highly doubt it"

Trish rolled her eyes. "Dante. Just go and defeat the crazy alchemist before he can cause anymore damage."

"What you're not interested in crazy alchemists?" he asked jokingly which only caused Trish to start walking away. "Hey, where are you going?" he called out.

"Somewhere I could think." she responded.

'To think about what? About Lady?' he thought surprised that Trish was concerned with the other female. 'I guess they really are friends.'

Dante sighed wondering how Trish acquired her victory over him. 'How does she always manage to convince me? One moment I have the upper hand, and the next I'm too far gone to even notice her sudden victory. What am I going to say to Lady, anyway?'

'Oh, I'm sorry, Lady, that you're jealous and all, but I suppose you wouldn't mind having a relationship with Trish and me, right?' Dante chuckled to himself as he pictured the shower of bullets that would come straight at him with that question. 'What the hell is her problem anyway? Ever since Trish came back into the picture she has been acting very strange.'

Pushing the thought away to focus on more dire matters he quickly walked towards his next destination. 'Back to where it all started.' he thought as he remembered jumping in through the cathedral stained glass window.

'Maybe I could just shoot him and be done with it.' he hoped getting anxious as he fingered the cool steel of his gun as he entered.

He spotted the before mentioned alchemist sitting on the steps leading to the podium holding a clipboard.

'Well, will you look at that. He's got himself a spotlight.'

"It was my assumption that those demons would prove far inferior in the face of your tactics." Agnus suddenly spoke aloud theatrically sensing that the demon hunter was already here watching him from the distance.

'Great, just great. He wants to act. I guess it wouldn't hurt to let him act out his last dying words. Even though I guess I could butcher the poetic moment for him.' Suddenly the spotlight was focused on him awaiting his contribution to Agnus's on the spot play. He kicked away the chair that he was currently leaning his weight on.

"You summon and kill… summon and kill… I fail to see the logic here. Is sanity the price to pay for power?!" he spat back mockingly hoping his overacting would discourage Agnus from continuing his well over thought drama even though he was smugly enjoying the attention from the spotlight which was making him feel grandeur. Dante looked up to see the sudden lightning and thunder within the room. 'Maybe I shouldn't have broken that window.' he thought before turning his attention to Agnus who was currently holding a skull.

"Humans… they are but stubborn and foolish. It takes a journey to Hell for them to accept and praise their God. A fact that tickles irony's judgment."

'Someone is taking this way too seriously. Guess I better cut to the chase and get what I want from this psychopath.' he rationalized while seeing how easily Agnus had crushed the human skull.

"Ha, and your judgments interest me not. For I'm here… to reclaim… what is rightfully mine." he enunciated getting up from his comfortable position on the floor to exaggerate his movements. He sensed that Agnus had transformed and was about to strike him with the gargantuan sword he had in his possession.

'No way he's going to skewer me with that thing. Though it would be a change to see an insect crush a human for once.' He disappeared from view leaving the pseudo lab created demon form of Agnus standing alone raising that sword into the air while he watched from his position.

"Yamato! That is what you seek. And that is why I wait in your path!" Agnus declared swinging his sword in the open space before holding the sword up proudly before Dante had returned to ruin his moment in the spotlight by sliding in with a bench and confetti falling all over them. "Ha… Ha…Ha…Ha. You will fumble in your opposition of my quest."

He pulled out Ivory shooting a single shot indicating the beginning of the battle. The lights went out giving him the opportunity to move to a different spot. Standing on the deformed statue of his father he urged the other to start moving from his frozen spot on the center stage. "Though I encourage! For an opportunity to battle a being of such grand delusion as you is a sweet fortune!" he continued to say before kissing his fingertips and waving them to the invisible crowd.

Dante delivered the final blow sending Agnus reeling backward onto a bench which caused Agnus to transform back to his normal just as ugly self.

"How… can there be such a difference b-b-b-between us." he stuttered refusing to believe that he was defeated.

"You surrendered your humanity. It's that simple." Dante stated making his way toward the other man stopping at the edge of the stage as Agnus desperately asked. "If you're not human…! So why am I inferior?"

"You assume human are weak." Dante began to explain giving Agnus a reason to stand up once more. The devil hunter was giving him answers to his beloved research. "Ok yeah their bodies lack the physical ability of a demon but humans possess something that demons don't."

"What..? What is it that demons l-l-l-lack? Please for the sake of my research! Please! tell me!" he begged taking a moment to stall his writing to look at Dante's form slowly retreating from him.

Dante halted his steps at the sound of meek pleading. He turned slightly aiming Ivory to shot the other's clipboard which as a result sent the Agnus's papers flying. "Ah! No! No. No. No. No." Agnus continued to say his arms reaching over his head as he tried to retrieve his valuable research.

"If you're gonna continue your research in the next world…"

Agnus gasped as he finally got a hold of one of his papers which had a bullet hole through it in which he could see Dante holding his gun pointed at him.

"Do your homework first." he concluded shooting Agnus, the impact of the bullet sending him flying back onto a bench where the documents of Agnus's life work floated above him before one last sheet landed on his face a fitting end to someone as pathetic as him. 'They lack a heart and soul…which is something you can never understand no matter what form you change yourself into.' Dante answered the question to himself glad that Agnus would never know the answer.

"And the rest is silence." he bowed down before standing straight once more to shoot another bullet into the air signaling the end of this overly ridiculous poetic battle.

'Now to get Yamato.' He moved to the center of the stage which took him down to a secret hallway where he saw Yamato glowing red from a distance. Once he reached the sword he stared at it for a few minutes. He hadn't seen it since…he battled Vergil all those years ago. It didn't feel right to be in another person's possession but he had no other choice but to take away from the enemy.

'If only you were here to reclaim what was rightfully yours.'

Using his strength he pulled Yamato out holding it in his hands admiring the blade's good condition after everything it has been put through.

He stared intensely at the sword for a few seconds remembering the last time he saw Vergil use the sword was when he tried to stop him from jumping down into the Demon World, Vergil had cut his hand forcing him to let him fall. Even though he saw him later on as Nelo Angelo he hadn't been using Yamato. 'How did you manage to lose Yamato? What had Mundus done to take one of the few things that you've held onto so dearly? How did the Order retrieve your sword? Is it possible that your still alive out there somewhere? Have they found you?'

Dante was stirred out of his many thoughts as the whole area started to shake. Gripping Yamato tightly in his hand he moved on.


Devil Rebel: It took awhile but here you go another chapter.

Satanic Park Of Madness: Resident Evil 5 was a blast in my opinion. I really like The Mercenaries mode and also the new versus. I gotta say I'm obsessed with using S.T.A.R.S. Wesker because I love his triple barrel shotgun and Jill with her perfect aim for head shots. I guess you can say that's what I've been doing on my spare time instead of updating this story but as promised this story will continue. Isn't Trish always frisky? Then again so is Dante.

Angelforever06: Sorry, I have been AWOL for several months but here I am again making up for my long absence. I've just been busy as of late lots of projects that I've been working on also been spending my spare time playing video games.

ichiban: I would love to explain Lady's jealousy but I have to leave you waiting awhile longer.

lazyguy90: Glad to see you're still enjoying this hope this reaches your standards.

Eric Draven201: You and everyone else has been awaiting the Dante & Agnus scene because it is very humorous isn't it? One of my personal favorites by the way. ^_^

catharsis25: Dante having perspective? I guess he would have more if Trish wasn't around to distract him but then again this is the same guy who spends his time joking around throughout the whole game. Surprisingly though he does manage to get the job done even with all the fun in between.

Max Orido: Lol mind if I call you Oreo? Because my spell check keeps telling me I have an error each time I type your last name and one of the options was Oreo which I found hilarious for some reason. Anyways, I loved RE5 did you? Oh and here we go with a new chapter.

ching: Well with such flattery how can I say no to the request of Dante being jealous. I'll hold my word as long as you wait patiently for the scene that I have planned out in another chapter.

Brukaoru: Damn Capcom and their poor decision. Well what can we do? Though I will check out Bayonetta.

Night Companion:Maybe a little interest was lost due to other video games I've been playing recently but I promise I will NOT abandon this story because I also want to see how the ending turns out.

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Next chapter will be up as soon as I am able and willing to. -Elivanna