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And here I am doing more. They're like cookies. Feel free to make requests, but I'm not promising I'll do them anytime soon.
1. Sunrise
He felt about sunrises the way most people felt about sunsets: the workday was usually over and you got to look at something pretty while you played around and relaxed. Sunset was when he had to go to work.
It was weird that humans considered the return of the light to be the most 'ungodly hour.' It was calm and sometimes he went up onto the roof with a bottle of tomato juice or something and watched it before he ran errands or went to bed.
He and Vergil used to start practicing as soon as it was light out.
2. High Noon (This is the Sparda's twin that gets a brief mention and no name in Wonderful Journey. Devil chibis are love.)
What had possessed his Twin to turn traitor? Before those who had been restive under Mundus' rule rose up and deposed him after his loss of power and huge failure he had done everything he could to destroy the family of the one that had turned against him. He and his parents had hidden but all of their siblings except Magot had fallen.
He'd defeated Mundus! He should have taken the throne, seen to the security of their family, not remained in the primitive realm of light! What had possessed him to abandon them!
He wouldn't have. Not his Twin.
3. Copper – Lucia/A&R – for Alexander – Godslayer (He actually requested this in the last set, but I misread it as Lady. My bad.)
She whirled the blades around, trying them out as Dante had told her although she couldn't accept such a princely gift. The souls of demons he had conquered! If she accepted them, she would have something to use to become a devil other than the Protector's amulet, so another could use it, but Matier said she earned, deserved the Protectorship.
"There's one problem with them," Dante informed her. "They keep talking."
"Hey!"
"That's unfair!"
"See what I mean? That's why I barely use them."
If these were not ones he used but a cast-off, then, "Thank you, Dante." She bowed.
4. Icy – Lady/Cerberus – for Alexander – Godslayer
Dante told her to put on thick gloves before handing her a strange arrangement of rods and chains. Some sort of weapon? "This is Cerberus," he told her. "You need a melee weapon. Some things are going to be able to get in close."
"I have my guns, and Kalina Ann. She has a bayonet."
"She's heavy, Lady. Really heavy, and you're not that strong."
"I'm strong!"
"Look, women have less upper body strength than men, and you're human. Women are better at endurance and running, which is good. Take Cerberus, Lady."
"Cerberus? Is this a demon?" An icy glare.
5. Light – Lady/Beowulf – for Alexander – Godslayer
"They're so light!" She marveled, bouncing a little in the boots and gauntlets.
"Magic," Dante explained. And it's not because they're a demon, no not at all. He tried not to whistle innocently. "They'll make you stronger so you can punch away anything that gets in close to you."
She frowned. "That was why you beat me, I couldn't always get away before you got your hits in."
He nodded. "They're not that useful for me." Which was another lie, but Beowulf would be a lot more happy serving someone who wasn't a son of Sparda. "Want to try them?"
6. Void – Vergil/Ebony – for Alexander – Godslayer
It had been so long, but his fingers knew exactly where to go. That wasn't a surprise, he could master any weapon, although he preferred Yamato, his father's sword. His father had used guns, there wasn't any dishonor. "I'll do it your way for once."
They'd practiced their special gun technique in the forest, when Dante accepted who he was instead of being a fool and ignoring his true power. Their Father… Dante had copied their Father's guns.
Perhaps there was hope for him yet. "Jackpot."
He tossed the gun back to Dante and felt a momentary sense of loss.
7. Wind – Dante/Laryna – for Alexander – Godslayer (Aargh! Self-insertion! Run while you still can!)
"Aargh!" The woman who had appeared banged her fist against her head. "Amateur magicians!"
Dante leveled her guns at her. "You're a sorcerer?" But she didn't have demonic taint on her. She didn't have any demonic taint. He'd never seen that before.
"Hell? No." She snorted. "Although you'd shoot me if I said yes. Great. I'm trapped in an alternate universe. With no money." She looked at Dante. "Would you trade room, board, and access to your father's library so I can figure out a way home for help around the place?"
"How do you know about the library?"
"Well..."
8. Legend – Sparda's soul in Force Edge dreaming of Legend Mode (This was originally in the Rapture drabbles but I noticed it's outside Rapture's timeframe, so I moved it instead of deleting. Lazy, I know.)
When had he decided to count?
He did not know why he bothered. Why would he want to know how long his family had been dead, how long ago he had abandoned them to death by falling in battle?
He counted, because there was nothing else to do but go mad.
Sometimes he dreamed, or hallucinated, battling through the tower Temen ni Gru, fighting on Mallet Island. Fighting a lost child.
Of fighting Mundus. That was a dream he relished, to break the cause of his pain. Was he imagining he was called Dante?
One of his children alive? Madness.
9. Dreams (this one's new, but takes place pre-Rapture, which starts when Sparda met Eva. This is young Eva.)
The birthday girl, now thirteen, tapped the shoulder of the woman in front of her. "Excuse me, Ma'am, could you please take off your hat? I can't see." It was only the cartoon that was played before the feature, but she didn't want to miss anything. She loved movies.
"Why certainly." What a polite young lady, the woman thought.
Her big sister was back with the popcorn. She took a fistful and waited impatiently for the movie to start. She loved romantic stories with knights and great evils. She just knew The Legend of Sparda was going to be great!