Yo all this is Ttrunks, sup I finally got my five reviews… ANYWAY, let's get on with the replies and the chapter.
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Dargos – Thanks, I'm going put in mentions of it this chapter, and I can't do a really specific scene until I get a beta and can post the more adult scenes on Twisting the Hellmouth. I've had a similar idea for awhile now, and if I ever get the chance I'll post it there.
alphaMilca – You always see the big things, I'll have a good response posted for that in this chapter. But I can kind of give you a hint, Xander's Bankai is a HUGE flame dragon, it's a finishing type move, if it's dodged or canceled Xander's screwed. I'm not going to have him use it to much because while it's REALLY powerful, it takes a lot of energy and for him and his style it's easier to just cleave through an enemy.
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Xander wasn't doing well. He would swear he could taste the air he was breathing. He couldn't feel his lower body, only the face that as he rolled over her felt it touch sand guaranteed it was still there. He saw his sword half of the blade buried in the sand, sitting almost ten feet from his hand.
Dante Sparda has been knocked around A LOT. He's been hit by huge things, and tiny thing that pack a huge punch, hell he's fought giant statuesque demons. However, nothing has ever made him feel quite as bad as he feels right now.
Dante can't feel the entire left side of his body, which is something amazing considering what all he's been through. He looks up and swears his body it throbbing in pain. He sees his sword, well not his sword, Xander's sword roughly ten feet from him, buried deep in the ground, probably half its blades length. He looks at Xander and breathing heavily says, "Ha, that all you got, let's go round what four now?"
Xander looks at Dante and takes a few deep breathes of his own, looking at the son of Sparda he says, "Ha, yeah, I wasn't sure you could take anymore, I wanted to go easy on you, and I'm ready if you are."
Looking at the half demon Xander sees his wounds, a DEEP slash going just to the left of straight down his body. It starts at his collar bone, and goes down to his pelvis. Bloods gushing out, coloring the sand, you can see the burned fringe of his clothes, where Xander's power melted and burned the cloth.
Dante takes in Xanders wounds, an obviously deep slash across his stomach. Okay actually it was just too high to be called his stomach, more probably lower chest. Blood pouring from the wound, it was turning the sand a dark red.
Xander and Dante both stood up at the same exact time, luckily they both missed the stumbling of the other. Both saw Xander's sword and charged for it, blood gushing as they both swung for each other, and reached for Xander's blade. Xander took a rib cracking punch from Dante, while Dante got a jaw breaking punch to the face form Xander.
Both men flew up into the air lightly, only their hold on the sword kept them from flying back.
Dante went to knee Xander in the kidneys only to get his nose smashed in by a brutal head butt from Xander. Xander went for a follow up throat punch only to get a hard punch in his already at least cracked sternum.
Xander and Dante you might think had looks of pain and anguish on their faces, and they did. BUT they also had the biggest "Shit eating" grins on their faces, blood pouring down their damaged bodies, several small cuts along Xander's face, Dante's broken nose just adding to the look as both their eyes looked crazy and controlled. Both men looked like a nerd who'd been told they'd have a princess Leia clone in her metal "outfit" from return of the Jedi.
But let's go away form that semi disturbing thought, and get back to the nice savory violence?
Xander gave the half devil a nasty upper cut, even as Dante gave Xander a nasty kidney punch. Both men flew back slightly, hands still tight around the katana's hilt.
Now what happened next will be debated by the two men for years to come.
Whether by dumb luck or skill the sword finally slide from the glassed ground around it, allowing Xander to jam it into the half demons kidneys.
Dante grunted in pain, grabbing Xander's hands he forced him to cut into the cut already existing in his body, luckily it was give or take an inch, then turn the blade and kicked him hard sending them both apart.
The kick had finally broken Xander's ribs driving him to his knees, even as Dante fell to his own knees from the back flip form the kick and slid quite a ways.
Both men sent globs of blood out as they coughed hard.
They looked at each other, the same smirk on both their faces, for the first time in a LONG time they were having fun, going all out against an enemy.
Xander saw a blade lying on the ground covered by sand, picking it up with his foot he threw it at the ground by Dante's feet.
Dante smirked as his lighting blade was returned to him. Picking it up he warned Xander, "You know with this you have no chance right?"
Xander laughed as he heard what Dante said, smirking even more than before he said, "Wrong Mister Sparda, now I won't feel so bad when I send your head flying with my next attack."
Dante and Xander both stood even shakier than before, charging at their "enemy" an insane glint in both their eyes, both knew the other was aiming for a head cut, the only way to kill one of their levels.
With less than an inch to the blades meeting flesh both men stopped dead even as "DANTE SPARDA" and "ALEXANDER LEVELLE HARRIS" rang through the air.
Xander looked at Dante.
Dante looked at Xander.
Both men said at ounce, "I think ritual suicide is the best way this can end."
Both men nodded and went to finish their slash only for a green energy whip to TIGHTLY tie around Xander's throat, and a thick piece of steel wrapped around Dante's throat, the blade at the end coming dangerously close to the half demons neck artery.
Both men almost desperately grabbed a hold of each other arms as they said again at the same time, "IT WAS HIS FAULT, GODS SAVE ME!"
With a HARD yank, Xander Zaraki the man who'd killed the last true demon on earth, the man who had killed robots, demons, and master vampires met the one true enemy neither he nor any man can hope to defeat.
Standing there, her newest toy in one hand, the other on her hip stood one VERY angry looking Jenny Calendar, next to her stood one equally angry look Joyce Summers.
Dante would have laughed at Xander's predicament, he would have rolled on the ground laughing, and it would have been quite hilarious. That is, if he didn't have two very peeved looking women glaring at him.
One was the ever looking for an easy job Lady.
The other a blond bombshell of a woman wearing black leather pants, a black leather bodice, her ice blue eyes looked almost like they were trying to burn his very soul.
"Trish, good to see you are back in town." Dante tried feebly.
Trish Sparda was an evil soulless demon, or she was supposed to be. She was a clone of Dante's mother, she was supposed to make him lower his defenses, after he saved her however she joined his side and was now quite a demon hunter.
She used lighting Dante remembered as he saw the blue energy crackling on her fists, she was VERY annoyed.
Mentally Dante wondered exactly how much lighting it would take to fry him like a bad piece of shrimp.
Shaking his head Dante said, "Hey I was hired by Lady, she wanted me to hunt down this guy and besides his name was Zaraki, a title given to one who could fight Sparda and stand for three days."
Trish rolled her eyes throwing Dante a large green star shaped crystal.
Dante grabbed it with a quick, "Thanks"
Crushing the green crystal he felt the demonic energy stored in it released super charging his own thus healing him a hundred times faster. He was shocked to see Xander's major cut was still there, he had a scar.
Xander looked in pain at Joyce and Jenny saying, "Babes, I had to do this, it was important for me, he's Dante son of Sparda, the man who you had to defeat to get the title of Zaraki."
Jenny seemed to growl even as Joyce ordered her blade to unlock and heal Xander.
Ounce he was fully healed Xander said simply, "I had to do this; I just had to on my own."
Jenny thumped him as she said, "Xander, why didn't you Bankai, or at least unlock Zippo?"
Xander replied, "Simple, imagine a orange covered in rubber, you see our Soul Slayers are like that, to keep the layers pulled back it takes concentration and a certain amount of energy, more power can be sent through a blade in its unlocked form."
Jenny nodded even as she was thinking and said, "Really?"
Xander nodded, "At least mine, although to be fair I think mine has three unlocks, see the sword I got form Giles looked nothing like this one, I think the original was destroyed and shifted into this form, this form reflects more my will than say Kenpatchi's and or the Hyena's, the other one is more their choice, while the Bankai is a combination of all three, Kenpatchi's love for raw power, my love for being ironic, and Hyena's love of style."
Jenny and Joyce nodded slightly as they thought.
Xander added, "Plus I think it's one of Zippo Xander's forms powers to steal or copy powers of enemies, since I got not only acid and poison, but."
Holding the blade out Xander willed the sword to "Release" its newest power which made him smirk as blue lighting arced along the blade.
Xander smirked as both girls nodded.
There you go folks, the second to last chapter of the Devil May Cry arc, when I get five reviews I'll start and or post the next chapter. Until then, T out R&R