Disclaimer: I do not own Devil May Cry or its own characters, just my OC's
Dedicated to crazynachi, thanks for the beta reading.
Recap: "Don't think you're the only one to have killed your family."
"Yeah, I know." I say sadly, everyone at Devil May Cry knew what it was like to do what I had done.
"Oh and kid." I look at him, "You're not alone now."
I stare at him blankly, and then break out into a smile. "Yeah, I know that now, thanks Dante."
He chuckles, "No problem, but I have one more thing to say."
"Lay it on me." I challenge him.
"You can date my brother." He says coyly with mock and amusement.
"DANTE YOU FUCKING IDIOT!"
I was already up before Cassie got here at 7 that morning, I was attempting to make myself breakfast, and so far I had only managed to heat up last night's left over pizza, no wait it's from two days ago.
Dante and I had gotten back from our job at around one in the morning; I had hit the sack right after that. So here I was, sitting on the couch, eating two day old pizza and drinking a bottle of calypso. Fully dressed, freshly showered in an actually working shower, with all my school stuff stuffed inside my big old backpack.
Cassie walked through the door as Nero walked down the stairs. "Hey Nero." She says casually.
He yawns and waves, "Mornin', so how's it feel to be a senior?" why do people always ask that?
"Better than last year so far." She responds, she then turns to me and I see that she has a McDonald's bag in hand.
"If that's for me, I am going to kiss you." I tell her, eyeing the bag and sniffing the delicious smell of hash browns.
"Well then pucker up." She says, and then tosses me the bag. I catch it and tear into it. I was halfway done with the meal when I noticed her first shirt. It was a beige color that red 'fuck you, you fucking fuck.' I smirked at it and stood up, finishing off the food she gave me. "Now where's my kiss?" she asks.
I kiss my hand and blow it at her, "Happy."
She pouts until she notices my shirt and smiles, I wore a black shirt that said 'People say I have a bad attitude, I say fuck'em.' "Now I'm happy."
"Good, guess we should go then." I say, and throw my bag over my shoulder.
"Aw, I wanted to say goodbye to Dante." She pouts.
"Well, do what Lady does to get him up." I advise her.
"Here," Nero says, handing her Blue Rose, "You can use this on him."
"Nah, I have a better idea." She says. Cassie then goes to the kitchen, "Hey Nero, you got a bucket?"
Nero and I share an instant smile and head after her to help find the bucket, turns out it was under the sink. Cassie puts it under the faucet and fills it up, me and Nero go to the fridge and carefully open the door, we both have been attacked by the blue fuzz and we were ready to kill it. Luckily it seems that I had gotten rid of it yesterday, so we just shrug and he grabs the ice cube tray.
"Oh that just makes it so much better." Cassie coos, she takes the tray and pops all of the cubes into the bucket.
"And I know how to make it even greater." Nero says, and then hurries off to Dante's desk. I grab the bucket and I and Cassie follow him.
"Here we go." He says with glee, he turns around and we see him holding a spiked tri-nunchaku.
"Cerberus?" I ask.
"Yep, I've learned how to use pretty much all of the other devil arms." Nero brags. Cassie and I share an eye roll as he dips one of the spike tips of Cerberus into the bucket. Instantly a chill vapor rises from the water and I feel the cold over my hands.
"Okay, I think that's good enough." I say, then head towards the stairs, Cassie and Nero follow, they both are trying to suppress laughter and snickers. I concentrate on my steps to keep them even and try to make as little noise as possible while going up the stairs. Cassie pushes open the door on the right that's at the top of the stairs.
Compared to Nero's room, this one is complete and utter shit. The walls looked like that from the yellow wallpaper story, mold and some sort of fungus growing on it, and a couple big stains on them. The floor was covered with discarded underwear and pants, which is strange since I've only seen Dante wear one pair of pants, well two if you count the chaps. And lying face up on the bed, arms tangled in the sheets is Dante, and oh my god, I think he's naked! No wait, I see the underwear, phew, weird I didn't have a fan boy moment, and I just shrug it off and silently walk to the bed.
Dante is sleeping like a baby, kinda looks like it to, a baby with stubble that is. I just smile evilly and tip the bucket up and watch as the water pours on him.
"WHAT THE HELL!?" he shouts, jumping right out of the bed, he's soaked in water and Goosebumps are running up and down his skin, I just smile and drop the bucket on his foot. "Ouch, you little, what the hell was that for?"
"For last night's little comment." I remark, then turn around and barrel down the stairs, apparently Cassie and Nero already left, oh great, the demotivational poster for insight, they were smart and left a long time ago.
I got to the end of the stairs and found Nero waiting by the door, holding out my bag, the door was open and I saw Cassie in Carol, already started and purring.
"Thanks." I tell him while grabbing my bag.
"No problem, see ya." He calls as I slide across Carol's hood and hop in. I release the E-brake and shift into first, then step on the gas. Cassie is laughing, doubled over and banging her fist on the dash.
"Oh my god, that was priceless." She says, wiping a tear from her eye. "And he looked great without the clothes." She added with a coy smile and wiggling eyebrows.
"Yeah he did, but-"
"But what?" she ask, curious.
I shrug and shift into second, "I don't know, I just didn't really feel anything." I say quizzically, I mean Dante had a great body, but I just didn't have those fanboy moments like I did with Vergil.
"What if it was Vergil almost naked and soaked with water?" Cassie said a devious smirk in place.
A picture of Vergil having a wet sheet wrapped around his waist comes to my mind, my face flushes as heat runs through my body, and of course my nose started to gush like old faithful.
"Gotcha." Cassie declared as my hand went to my nose. I shift my lefts slightly to get a more comfortable position, damn teenage hormones; my pants are to fricken tight.
"Yeah, yeah, just shut up and plug in my Ipod." I remark. Cassie smirks and starts to dig through my backpack, then produces my Ipod and hooks it up to the auxiliary cord I have attached to my radio.
"Whats you wanna listen to?" she ask, scrolling through my list.
"I have a playlist that says school, pick that would ya." Soon the beginning beats to 'Rose tint my world' from the Rocky Horror Picture Show starts playing.
"I love this movie!" Cassie declares after a few seconds of listening. "We have got to go see it in theaters on Halloween, that would be awesome." As much as I would like to watch the movie, I really would, it was just that the aspect of Halloween was what brought me down. "Whats wrong?"
I sigh as the song continues on, "Sorry, it's just that I'm not a huge fan of the day of Halloween."
Cassie looks like I just punched a kitten, "You hate Halloween!"
"No, I don't Halloween, I actually love it, it's just the date." She raises her eyebrow and seems to be lost, "Can you keep a secret from Patty?"
Now she just looks offended, "Oh come on, I may be somewhat friends with her, but we're not close like that." She did have a point.
I sigh and take a lift, "My birthday is on October 31st."
"Are you serious? You are so lucky!" Cassie shouts, then notices my face and drops the smile, "But I take it you have a reason why you don't like the date."
I nod my head as the song changes to 'Sweet transvestite', "My family is my reason, and they made my birthday into a big ole shit-fest. So you can kinda see why I don't like the date right?"
"Yeah I can, sorry for dragging it up." She says sadly.
"It's fine, hey I'll gladly go watch it with you." A small smile spreads across her face, and then it gets replaced with a blank look of disgust as I pull into the school's parking lot. "Are you ready for highschool drama?"
She snorts and unplugs my Ipod, "Yeah, I've got my camera."
"And I'm on the phone with the cable network, by the end of today will have a great new reality show." I finish the joke, then pull the E-brake and cut the engine.
"You might wanna take the spark plugs out, no telling what asshole will try to jack your ride." Cassie advises while grabbing her backpack, I grab mine and look at her with my eyebrow arched. "This is a classic car; some of the guys here would kill to have it."
"Yeah, and I'll put them in the ground if they try, but I'll take your advice." I open the door and hit the lock. I then go to the front of Carol and pop the trunk, then spend about a minute trying the unplug the spark plug. You see cars before 1951 and the invention of the V8 engine were all lined up in a straight line, so it takes a bit to locate the plugs since the position is different on each straight engine.
"Oh, by the way do you have those tires that won't go flat even if punctured?" she asks again after locking and closing her door.
"You mean run-flats?" she nods her head, "Yeah, are you telling me that someone will slash my tires?" a little bit of anger was creeping into my voice; I close the hood down violently.
"Yep pretty much, it's what happened to my car last year after I punched miss slut's lights out." Cassie replied with a shake of her head.
"Well, the only thing I have to say to that is 'Punch your lights out-" I start to sing.
"Hit the pavement, that's what I call entertainment." Cassie continue the Mindless Self indulgence song, she cross her arm around my back.
"Causing problems make you famous." I sing on key, throwing my arm across her shoulder, we start to skip to the door.
"ALL THIS VIOLENCE MAKES A STATEMENT!" we both shout then burst out into laughter as we open the front doors. And the first thing I see is Aisha the librarian, and some bald guy.
"AISHA!" Cassie shouts, then runs to her and gives her a hug, Aisha laughs and hugs her back, hey whats with the camera on her wrist. "Ready?" Cassie asks with a wide smile.
"You bet." Aisha says, holding up the camera, "Oh Adrian, I see your joining in to." I do a 'huh' look and she points to my shirt.
"Oh, yeah I am."
"Great, now you two strike a pose then, make sure I can read the shirts." Me and Cassie stand shoulder to shoulder at an angle, my left hand on my hip, Cassie's right on hers, both of our arms crossed behind the others back.
Aisha smiles and laughs as she snaps two pictures, "Is that truly nessacary?" the bald man asked.
"Oh, hey Clint." Cassie remarks boredly.
"That is Mr. Serts to you Miss. Bordeaux." The man, Serts, chastises Cassie. "Now, shall we continue on like every year?"
"Ah Clint, you finally learned." She remarked, "Oh Adrian, this here is Clint Serts, the school principal." She introduces.
Serts looks me up and down and narrows his eyes. "Young man, do you have any idea what the dress code is here?"
"I have a good idea, and I also know that normal kids aren't supposed to be allowed guns on campus." I remark with a smile.
He just scowls, "Yes well, you wouldn't happen to know the definition of normal would you."
"Aw, touché, but I have a counter argument, there is no such thing as normal, only different degrees of dysfunctional and crazy."
"Of which, you are neither, you little monster." He replied calmly, "Now take those things off."
I just roll my eyes and slid off my coat, then peel off my shirt, Cassie does the same. We strike another pose and Aisha laughs and snaps two more photos's while Serts's scowl deepens.
My shirt was beige and showed a walther ppk pistol on it, it read 'Guns don't kill people, crazy mother fuckers do.' Cassie's was white and read 'FEMA' underneath it read 'evacuation plan, Run mother fucker run!' we both laugh as Serts looks even more angry, another plus.
"OFF!" he shouts, by this time we have a group of people looking at us.
We both smirk and peel off the shirts, I make sure to turn and show off Mila and Annie. A collective gasp and a few kids scampering off later, I and Cassie are both posing in matching black shirts. We had the same gun on our shirts outlined in white, but on mine it read 'If at first you don't succeed, reload and try again.' on hers it read 'Guns don't kill people, it's mostly the bullets.'
"TAKE THEM OFF NOW!" Serts screamed, Aisha was smiling now as we shed another set of shirts and threw them into my backpack.
Now I was wearing a black shirt that read 'LIFE- it's sexually transmitted and always fatal.' Cassie was wearing a gray one that read 'With all due respect, you're an ASSHOLE.' We go through the same routine of poses, shouting and peeling off a shirt. Now I'm wearing the last one before the final shirt.
Now I was wearing a dark gray shirt that read, 'I'd tell you to go the HELL, but I work there and I don't want to see you every day.' Ironic due to my job, Cassie was wearing a similar color shirt but hers read 'the road to Hell is paved with everything that feels like heaven.' True that.
"That's four, are we sticking to the same pattern as last year miss. Bordeaux?"
"Never know Clint, we may have a whole bag full of them." She replied cryptically. He frowned and then motioned for us to take off the shirts.
We ended up in the shirts that we said would be our last ones, mine that was about the title of children's books that never made the best seller list, and Cassie's that had the three cartoon glasses about realism. "These good enough for ya?" I ask annoyed.
Serts tries to say something, but finally shuts up and shakes his head yes. We grin and pick up our stuff; we have about 15 minutes till the bell rings.
"See you 7th." Cassie calls to Aisha as we head off towards our lockers.
"See ya." She replies. Aww today is going great so far.
-Lunch-
"Doesn't seem like this year is going to be so bad." I remark as we make our way towards our lockers. We had just come from lit and it was rather easy in my opinion.
"Yeah, it also helps that she's a new teacher here, the last one was a real bitch." Cassie remarks as she puts her stuff in her locker, mine was right next to her, awesome, and I was putting my stuff in mine. "But I think that our major problems will be Bio and Chem., thank god we have a shit ton of new teachers."
Her remark led me to think about it, I haven't heard anything about the last teachers, which is strange since people usually gripe about what happened to old teachers that people liked, and then I remember what Aisha had said yesterday. She did say something about past events were the reason why I was allowed weapons.
"Cassie, what happened here in the past?" she stiffens slightly and turns to me with a sad smirk.
"Figured it out did ya?"
"Yeah, I just connected the dots, what happened here that would make the school board allow me to carry guns?"
"Why don't you tell me your theory." She replied, and then closed her locker; I grab my lunch box and closed mine.
"That demons came to the school and killed them." I replied, a few people in the hall looked at us with shock and then disgust, and then scampered off.
"Your right on the money," Cassie replied, "Last year a demon came to the school in the skin of a student it had killed, it had set up a few portals throughout the school and let a flurry of its buddies in. but what they didn't anticipate was that a number of sports games were scheduled that day in other cities, so the school was let early and the only ones left were some of the teachers and a few kids."
"I get it, so the teachers that are new this year replaced the ones that either died or quit right?"
"Exactly, Aisha would have been one of those teachers that'd be dead right now if it weren't for the fact that she had an arsenal of holy water in her office in the library." Cassie seemed a little bit hollow when she said this.
"And so would you if you hadn't of been there I take It." she looked up at me and beamed sadly.
"Yep, I was in there doing homework waiting for my dad to pick me up when we both heard the screams, but it wasn't exactly our first time dealing with demons, so we both knew what to do." We reach the lunch room and see the congestion of students in two separate lines that lead up to the actual cafeteria part, everyone else was already seated and some had take out at their tables. "What do you have for lunch?" she ask after seeing the crap they were serving, you figure that at a school where kids to the social elite go to there'd be better food, that's public school for you.
"Two day old pizza." I respond lifting my lunch bag.
She looks at the bag, then back at the line, and then repeats it twice, "I'll buy the drinks." She finally says, "There's a good spot over near the pillar at the far corner." I nod my head and go off to the pillar table; it was near the far corner of the room and was empty at the moment.
I sat down and started pulling out the slices of pizza, it may be two days old but it was good pizza, so I had brought around 6 slices with me, so we can spit them up evenly. I was about to bite into my first slice when someone cleared their throat.
I turn my head slightly and see a group of kids standing, the guys wearing letterman jackets and the girls looked like the cheerleader type. "You're the new kid here right?" the guy up in front said, I just nodded my head and took a bite of my pizza, aw pepperoni. The guy seems a little ticked off that he was intimidating as he thought he was, hah; face off against Vergil or demons, hell even Grandma Florence and you'll learn not to flinch at pathetic guys like this. He leaned down and put his hands on the table, "Since your new and all, I'll let you off for not knowing your place, now move, and this is our table."
I lean forward and lean one my elbow and take another bite, chewing slowly as I inch closer to the guys face. I finish chewing and swallow, "Don't see your name anywhere." I respond.
The guys face darkens in anger at my defiance and growls slightly, ooh, I'm shaking in my boots. He then reaches forward and grabs a fist full of my shirt and pulls me closer to him, I go with him and look at him boredly. "Do you know who I am you little freak, now get your ass up and move."
I just bore into him and take another bite, when I get done I put the slice down and then place my hand on his wrist. "You have one warning and this is it, get your hand off of me." I don't squeeze my hand, I know that I could break his wrist without barely any exertion of force, but I wanted this to be fun.
"Or you'll do what?" he challenges with a sneer, I just smirk and start to apply a little force, his face slowly does a 180, it goes from the arrogant sneer to that of surprise then pain. He lets go of my shirt as his mouth forms an 'O'.
"I'd say you better buzz off," Cassie interrupts; I turn my head and see that she's carrying to cans of Dr. Pepper, my favorite. "Or he might just break your arm clean in two, saw him do it to a demon."
The rest of the group all look at her in shock and gasp, then slowly as a group turn to me, "Yo…. You're that kid!" one of the girls stutters.
I smile and let go of the douches wrist, "Guilty as charged, though actually I just twisted its arm then kicked it in two, want me to show you?" Cassie laughs and sits down next to me while the others shake their heads and back away.
But the guys is much stupider than he seems to be, "This won't be the end of this." He threatens.
"Oh, a cliché line, I am so scared." I retort and open up my can. The guy scowls and then stalks off.
"I love you right now." Cassie jokes with a big smile, then opens up her can with one hand and grabs a slice with the other.
"Thanks, love you to." I respond with a smirk, then take a sip, "Oh, I also have an apple if you want it, I added it on a whim and because it would go bad if left in the kitchen." I then pull an apple from my bag.
"Huh, reminds me of a shirt I once read, 'An apple a day will keep anyone away, when thrown hard enough'." I laugh and take another bite.
I then see another table at the other side of the cafeteria, it was Mary Conneling's table, and she was motioning for a girl to sit next to her. "Hey, isn't that Abbey from Bio and Chem.?" I ask.
Cassie turns, "Where?" I point to Mary's table and she looks, then instantly scowls. "Aw shit!" she snarls.
"What?" she shakes her head?
"They're gonna give her a 'washout' greeting." She tells me, I must have looked clueless because she sighed and started explain. "It's where they take liquid white out and cartons of milk, mix them together and pour it on the new kid after inviting them sit with them."
My mood sours, "I take it they did it to you right." She shakes her head and glares back at the table.
"Four years ago, about the same time I met Dante and the crew." She seemed a bit sad at this remembrance. We both shot up to our feet when we see two girls carrying a bucket between them, I then think about what Cassie said, an apple a day huh?
"Give me the apple." I tell her, she turns with an arched brow, but when she sees my face gives me the apple. I stand away from the table and put my hand behind me in a pitchers stance, every other students eyes are all on the girls as they creep up on the table, Abbey is completely oblivious. The girls were five feet away when I chucked the apple at one of the bitches head.
"ABBEY, GET DOWN!" Cassie shouts as the apple flies over the cafeteria, the girl in question turns her head to us and then turns her head again to see the girls with the bucket, Mary who's sitting next to her looks like she's about to explode.
The apple is about a foot away from the girls when Abbey scoots back from the table and jumps away with her things in tow, the girls don't see the apple and get ready to chuck the bucket when it hits one of them in the side of the head. Bitch one pitches forward and sideways, bitch two follows along and flings the bucket, it goes off course as it gets released from their grasp. The liquid spills out from it and goes straight to the table of Mary, Dwayne and the other bastards and bitches. It hits Mary in the face and splashes everyone else around her, and then the bucket hits Dwayne in the head and knocks him backwards.
The entire room is quiet, except me and Cassie, because we're doubled over and laughing our asses off. Abbey looks on in disbelief, and then her face contorts in rage, she steps up to Mary and slams her tray full of taco soup onto her head, then stalks towards the girls who were carrying the bucket. They were both getting up, but when back down when Abbey punched their lights out at the same time.
Me and Cassie whistle and clap as she comes over to our table, and Principal Serts comes to the aid of Mary and her crowd. She reaches our table with a small smile as another teacher goes for the girls that Abbey laid out.
"Thanks for the help." She says, "Can I sit here?"
"Hell yeah." We say at the same time, our smiles mirroring each other. She smiles and sits down.
"Here," I say giving her a slice of pizza, "and no problem."
"Thanks, Adrian and Cassie right?" she asks taking the slice.
"Uh huh, here have one of mine." Cassie says, and then gives Abbey one of her slices. "You need a drink just ask."
"Thanks again, names Abbey by the way." She then extends her hand to us. I take it first, then Cassie.
"So Abbey, did you get the Biology homework at all?" Cassie asks, I just laugh and continue eating.
-P.E, sixth period.-
Lunch had gone by pretty much as I expected it would, Cassie and I had made a new friend in Abbey, and Serts had come by to our table to yell at us. Until I pointed out that they were going to play a cruel prank on Abbey that could lead up to a potential lawsuit that had shut him up. Mary had to take a shower in the girl's locker room, there was still white in her hair and patches on her skin, and was now wearing a cheerleader's uniform that left little to the imagination.
At the moment, the three of us, Mary's group, and the group of kids that had tried to take our table were all in the gym getting ready for hell. A guy in slacks and a dress shirt comes up to us, and blows his whistle softly.
"I'm coach Mayo, in this class I don't expect anything much, just fifteen minutes of walk and another 20 of some sort of physical activity, the last 15 you can do whatever you want." That sounded reasonable to me. "But I have rules, you can be in your ordinary clothes, we don't make you wear uniforms to exercise," now that sounded great, "But you cannot wear the following." He said raising up his clipboard, oh crap. "None of the following are allowed while you exercise: coats, slippers or flat soled shoes with no traction, gloves with metal on them, collars, removable sleeves, fake nails, earrings, necklaces of any kind, rings." Shit on a shingle. He raises his head at us and glares softly, "Alright, take them off people."
A lot of the kids moan and groan, well except the three of us, we just sigh as we take off the things listed. Most of the whiners are from the prep section, "Anyone with glued on fake nails will walk the entire time of class." A good portion of the girls cry out in protest.
Cassie peels off her arm sleeves and her plastic black spider ring and puts them in my coat pocket. Abbey takes of her thin jacket that's for looks, her rings and earrings and does what Cassie does. I sigh and take off my gloves first, Abbey's eyes widen a little, I then take off my collar, and Cassie goes doe eyed. Putting them in my coat pocket I slid it off and lay it down on the bleacher seat behind me.
By now, everyone in the room is looking at my arms and throat, also Mila and Annie in their holsters on my belt. "No arm sleeves." Coach remarks with annoyance, he doesn't see the guns because I'm facing him.
"They aren't arm sleeves." I tell him, then hold up my hands and show him.
His eyes narrow slightly, "Either you take them off or I will." He warned.
"How bout I show you that they're real." I tell him with a sigh.
"Sure, I could use a laugh." He says. I shrug and peel off my shirt for a fifth time that day. A collective gasp rings out as I turn slightly and take it off the rest of the way. The lights on my arms and hands are pulsating slightly as they all look. Coach seems a little shocked and silent but finally says something. "Sorry kid, I knew who you were but I needed to see it with my own eyes."
"No problem, can I put my shirt back on?"
"Go ahead, the rest of ya, get walking." He shouts. A collective groan goes out as they all start treading the gym floor. "I don't want you starting anything with those guns boy." He warns me.
"No need to worry, there empty." I tell him and tread off.
I follow behind Cassie and Abbey while pulling the shirt back on. "So, what did you guys think of the little show?" I ask them.
Abbey is the first one to say anything, "Did it hurt?"
"Yeah it did, but it doesn't hurt know."I say calmly, and then model my hand for her.
"Well, at least you're open about it." Cassie says arms behind her head. "You could have hidden it from all of us, so why bother."
"Yeah your right," Abbey says, "Sorry I acted like that."
"No problem, now, let's think about our strategy for avoiding those assholes." I say.
-Library, 7th period-
The rest of sixth had gone on smoothly, we ended up playing dodgeball. So needless to say, the three of us on a team mixed with a few of the other kids, kicked the other teams ass. Now I was shelving books while Cassie was working on her half of the Biology homework, we split it up between us.
I made a sound of disgust as I shelved twilight, "Why do we have four copies of the entire series?" I ask.
"Because of popular demand." Aisha says from further down the shelf. "It would seem that these kids can't tell the difference between love and a fucking stalker."
Cassie and I laugh, "I know right, if I saw Edward in my room, I'm going for Annie and Mila." I quip as I shelf the final copy.
"Sounds good to me, but bring back Taylor Laughtner for me would ya?" Aisha says with a smirk.
"Oh, me too." Cassie adds in.
"Fine, but I get him first." I retort, they both laugh at that, then my cell rings. "Um can I?" I ask Aisha sheepishly.
"Why the hell do you think you're in here boy? To actually help?"
"Yeah sorry." I then dig out my phone out of my pocket. "Whats up?" I ask, knowing that only Trish, Lady or Dante would be calling me, well Cassie would be to, but logic is on my side for that one.
"Got a job for ya kid." Dante said over the phone. "The sites four miles from your school."
"This from Morrison or a customer with a password?" I ask, Morrison meant that there wouldn't be any protesters; a customer with a password always meant the opposite. I think we should check the phone for a wire tap.
"Customer." Dante replied. I cursed under my breath.
"Text me the location, I'll get there in time."
"Great, Vergil will meet you there." Dante says with humor, and then hangs up.
I yank the phone from my ear and stare at it stupidly; did he say what I think he said?
"Got a job I take it." Cassie remarks, closing the textbook.
"Yeah," I sigh, "sorry."
Cassie just waves it away with her hand, "No need, I'm going with."
"I don't think that's such a good idea." I say quietly.
She puts her hands on her hips and glares at me, "Why, do you think I don't know how to protect myself." Then she surprises me by reaching behind her back and pulling out a micro Uzi. How the hell did I not see that? "You're not the only one who knows there way around a gun."
I hold up my hands in surrender, "Fine, let's go, sorry Aisha." I say grabbing my bag; I had brought it along so we could get straight to parking lot after school.
"No problem, just go and kick some ass for me."
We both laugh and sprint to the door, "Will do." I call back, then head to the parking lot.
-A few minutes later-
After about five minutes of driving I found the place, it was a home improvement store like Lowes or Home Depot. What is it with demons and big ass stores?
I pulled up into a parking lot to find a mob of people that were but missing the torches, I saw a few with pitchforks so I couldn't add that to the missing list. What I could add was a grenade, missile, or some other type of explosive launcher. I mean these people were armed to the teeth with weapons from axes to guns, I even saw a guy with a .22 rifle. What a joke. But the only thing that was really scary was Vergil standing alone opposite of the mob, and he looked calmly stoic, which I learned translated to pissed off.
"Looks like someone's about to die." Cassie remarks, I nod my head.
I pull into a spot and pulled the e-brake and cut the engine. Getting out we lock the doors and make our way over to Vergil. both he and the crowd turned to us and glared as I step further, oh hey I see father asshole from the last time, now he's carrying a hunting shotgun, I could tell because it was camo and looked fairly well used.
"You're late." Vergil says with a flat tone, yep he was really pissed.
"Sorry, Cassie advised me to take out the spark plugs from my car to prevent it from getting jacked, had to put them back in." he then notices Cassie and eyes her coldly.
"Hey Vergil." she says with a wave.
"Cassie," he says slowly like it taste bad, what's his problem? "Why are you here?"
"I'm here to watch the entertainment." She replies with a smirk. "Even if you don't care about my safety, I can take care of myself." She replies, and then pulls out her Uzi, she calls it kitten apparently.
"Your right, I don't care, but I'm glad that you won't be a bother." Vergil says.
"Are you just going to ignore us?" father asshole asks annoyed.
"Trying to." I tell him, arms crossed, "Now would anyone care to tell us why the hell there's armed mob here."
Now he looks smug, "We are here to show that the citizens of Capulet City do not need such charlatans to aid us in ridding the world of demons." He declared, and members of the mob cheered in agreement. Apparently the mob had a few members that weren't part of the whole 'fight for god' thing, and they looked like they were professionals when I came to fighting with living beings, mercenaries?
"And so what, you guys think that by picking up some axes, guns and knives, throwing some holy water and blessing them that you can just go out and chop down some demons." Cassie said bitingly. She then snorted in mock laughter, "Yeah right, you guys will be dead in a matter of minutes."
"That is what I have been trying to say to these dullards." Vergil replied with a scowl.
"Define dullard please." Cassie asked.
"A stupid or insensitive person, synonymous with dimwit or dunce." He tells her informatively.
"Alright, so it's a better way to say idiot." Cassie mused aloud.
"Yes, though an idiot is actually a stupid person that has the mental capacity below that of a three year old, it is a better way to say an idiot."
"Huh, you learn new things every day." Cassie says.
"Are you insulting us?" father asshole asks.
"No, we're actually just figuring out ways to help you all." I remark sarcastically.
Father asshole starts to say something when a smooth laughter fills the air. We all turn to see one of the guys I think is a mercenary laughing; he's wearing a ground length black trench coat buttoned up.
"I'm sorry padre, but they are some funny people." The guy says.
Father asshole narrows his eyes, "Rowan, be quiet." He then turns to us and scowls. "No matter what happens, we are not leaving."
Vergil takes a step towards him and fixes him a gaze, the asshole backs away slightly.
"I've got an idea." I say aloud. Everyone turns to me and glares. "How bout we do what Odysseus did in the Odyssey."
Everyone in the mob save for a few people all look at me stupidly or confused. Vergil, Cassie, Father Asshole and the Rowan guy all look at me quizzically.
"How can we do that?" Cassie asks, "We'd need a long bow and you'd have to commit about 300 acts of second degree murder."
"No, it'd be first degree since he thought of it before hand," Rowan corrects her, "Odysseus killed the suitors for his wife in second degree, also it was 100 suitors he killed, but she is right about the question."
"Explain your idea to us please." Vergil asked, wow did he just say please?
"Well, think of it like this, the demons are the bow, the money is Penelope," I then wave my hand towards the mob and us, "And we're all the suitors, or in our case Odysseus, and trying to get Penelope, or the money."
"But in the Odyssey, Odysseus let the suitors try to string his bow before he himself strung it and killed the suitors." Father asshole mused.
"Are you saying that we should allow these asinine dullards go first?" Vergil asked, a little bit of venom in his voice.
"Asinine means senseless right?" Cassie asked Vergil, he glared at her and nodded his head.
"Yes, I am saying that they go first, remember how I said that they were the suitors."
Vergil's scowl lessened with realization, he then relaxed his body a little bit. "Yes, I do see your point, it is a good idea." He then turned to father asshole, "You and your men can go in first." Everyone's face in the mob dropped, they're jaws hitting the ground.
"Wait!" Cassie says aloud, we all turn to her, the 'what' look on our faces. "Where's the guy who's paying, we need to clarify something."
A small mousy guy comes towards us, "Yes, I'm the owner, what is your question?"
Cassie then points to the mob, "If these dumbasses die, will it get taken out of the money you'll pay them?" she then points to me and Vergil.
The mob looks angry and starts to protest, Vergil quiets them all with a glare. Okay, he may not be on Grandma Florence's level, but he's close to it.
"No," the man says, "I don't care what happens; I just want them dead with as little damage done to my store as possible."
"Works for me." I say.
"As does it for me." Vergil says, and then turns to Father Asshole. "After you."
"We do not need your permission to do the lords work." He says to Vergil with a sneer, he then turns to the mob. "Onward my fellow men, we shall succeed today in the lords name, he shall protect us all from harm." The mob cheers and starts a march to the store.
As the mob leaves, only Rowan and Father Asshole stays. The latter glares at us then stalk off to follow behind the mob.
"Well it seems you know how to handle a crowd." Rowan says with a smirk, he tips down his sunglasses and leers softly at us.
"Not interested." Cassie says, pulling up her arms and crossing them at her wrist to make an 'X'.
"I wasn't talking to you sweetie." Rowan said, and then winks at me. Bile rises up to my throat as I just stare at him stupidly. He then quickly steps forward and grabs my hand and brings it up to his lips and kisses it. EEEEEEWWWWWWW! My skin is burning. 'GGGGGRRRRRRRR' a growl inside my head resonates, its Garoukin, and it seems to agree with me on this guy.
I don't see Vergil move as I use my right hand to reach behind me and pull out Annie from her holster and point it Rowans crotch. The only thing I do see at the moment is the tip of Yamato pointed at Rowans throat as he is still bent over with his lips on top of my left hand. I then see Vergil from the corner of my eye; he's standing to my right and actually looks pissed off, not cold and stoic. He holds Yamato down at waist level but points the blade of it up at a 45 degree angle.
"Let him go, NOW!" he states the last part with venom.
"Thank you Vergil, but I can handle it." I say as Rowan bows upwards, I press the barrel of Annie further into his crotch. "Touch me again, and I'll castrate with this, GOT IT!" I shout the last part.
Rowan holds up his hands and grins sheepishly. "Got it loud and clear baby." Cassie and I gag at the same time. Rowan backs away from us slowly and turns around to walk to the mob. "By the way, I'm only doing this as a favor to the padre, I could care less about the actual agenda." He then stops and turns around and bows. "Oh, and the name is Rowan the wizard, remember it because you'll be-"
I fire off three rounds at his feet, "Don't even finish that sentence you piece of shit."
He looks a little shaken up at my accuracy, unfortunately he smirks at me and leers from the space in between the gap of top of his glasses and face, "Your feisty, I like that." This time Vergil joins in on our gag fest. "See you later baby." Rowan declares, then kisses his hand and blows me a kiss, he winks and turns as the rest of us gag again.
I shudder up and down, making the disgusted noises, "I need a bath in some germex," I remark, Cassie and Vergil both nod in agreement, "EEEEWWW, that bastard kissed my hand, where's Agni and Rudra when you need a demonic blow dryer."
Vergil smirks and Cassie laughs, then burst out into giggles.
"What?" Vergil and I ask.
She waves her hand at us. "Oh, nothing, just thinking about how you guys reacted together." She then burst out into more giggles.
Me and Vergil both wear 'WTF' looks as we stare at her, then at each other. What the hell is she talking about?
Then the abrupt noise of gunfire and screams comes from store, we all turn and stare at it blankly as the other pedestrians all look on with horror.
"And so the suitors fall." Vergil says as the screams radiate. I felt nothing but pity for them.
Adrian: okay, that was a good chapter, but what the fuck are you doing bringing in Rowan from Black Lagoon here? *shudders* he kissed my hand.
Alucardismaster: I didn't bring him in fully, I just borrowed the name and coat. And besides, I needed someone to act like a creep.
Vergil: True, we did need a creep.
Cassie: *giggles* you guys are so clueless.
Adrian & Vergil: huh?
Alucardismaster: shh, Cassie don't tell them yet.
Adrian: tell us what?
Cassie: nevermind, I'll close today.
Alucardismaster: go for it.
Cassie: leave a comment and review at the end of the chapter. Fav it, follow it, vote on it, whatever there is.
Dante: just leave a damn review!
Thanks to all those who have commented on this story so far, you're all great. And thanks to crazynachi for all the beta testing, you're the best friend ever. =)