A/N: Hey guys, back at it again, I should be doing more homework, applying for more internships and all that jazz but… well I think I'm gonna type for a bit first, mostly cause I just spent an hour on one problem of electromagnetics… one problem… y'know math has gotten interesting when your exams are an hour long and it's like three problems… yup, so goes my life right now… ^^;
Disclaimer: I need to figure out how to write this in binary… I can… the question is… do I put in the effort…
I'm Glad You're Okay
They went through several more rooms and fought their way around though the marionette-like demons proved to be little challenge to the two hunters. They were about to head into another when Nero grabbed Dante's arm before he could open the door.
"What?" Dante asked, turning to look at his partner curiously, who was looking at the wall. The half devil followed his gaze and saw a sword pierced into a statue of a woman, the sword wasn't just a part of the art either, it was an actual blade. The older hunter tilted his head curiously
"Do you hear that?" he asked Nero, trying to make it out himself as he stepped closer to the carving.
"Hear what?" Nero whispered, he'd just been surprised by the blade, he didn't hear anything unusual, though now that he focused on it, he was pretty sure it was a devil arm, it pulsed slowly with demonic energy and then he could hear it. It was soft but both could hear the power it carried.
I am Alastor. The weak shall give their heart and swear their eternal loyalty to me. Nero raised a brow but didn't have much other time to react when the statue of the woman disappeared, revealing a carving of a reaper in the wall behind. It was in that moment that the partial devil thought that maybe that statue hadn't been a statue at all… The blade sparked with blue-hot electricity and flung, spinning, from the wall and straight into Dante's chest. The half devil grunted as he fell back into the ground and then didn't move. Nero practically flew over to his partner and knelt next to him, he knew that Dante could survive being impaled through the heart but that didn't mean that he didn't worry every time it happened. Besides, this time the blade was sparking with electricity, would that affect him in any way. He thought back to the office and Trish and figured that while it might be painful, the half devil would get up, just like he always did.
His hands were still fluttering over his fallen companion when Dante's fingers twitched and his eyes flew open.
"Dante, geez, you really scared me…" he trailed off when he saw the older hunter place his feet flat on the ground and start to push up. "Dante. Dante what are you doing?" he said as the half devil made no sign that he had heard him and the younger hunter realized that the blade was firmly stuck in the ground, at this rate Dante was going to injure himself further.
"Dante do you need help? Dude stop!" he said but Dante just kept going, his arms hanging limply at his sides, almost as though he weren't in control of his actions himself. Nero winced when Dante paused at the hilt of the blade before, with some horrific sounds, pulled himself right over it. He took a few steps to catch his balance and the partial devil thought that maybe it was over but one look at Dante and the slumped over way that he stood proved him wrong. Suddenly the half devil spun and grabbed the bloody hilt, staring at it menacingly before pulling it from the stone floor, the electricity that had flowed over just the blade now covered both it and Dante, crackling with energy. Dante lifted it toward the ceiling and a huge bolt of lightning crashed through the glass, and it shattered as the thunder rattled the room a fraction of a second later. That fraction of a second was all the time that Nero had to react though as Dante swung the blade down and nearly cut his partner in two. Nero blocked and dodged as glass rained down around them, too startled to even protest but somewhere in the back of his mind he was impressed that Dante had such control over the weapon despite only just picking it up.
Dante then grinned and flipped it in the air a couple times, toeing it back into his hand and slinging it comfortably in the sheath on his back where Force Edge was curiously missing. He turned around to a gobstruck partner.
"What the hell!?" Nero demanded after finishing his impression of a fish out of water.
"What?" the half devil asked "New weapon, I wanted to try it." He shrugged as though this were all the explanation he needed to give.
"I thought you were possessed or something and that I would have to really fight you! You had me worried you ass! You could've said you weren't dead."
"I'm not dead?" Dante tried meekly, he had learned over the past few years that Nero's wrath was definitely something to be avoided.
"And what the hell was with that stunt?!" the partial devil pointed to the crack in the floor and the blood slowly leaking into the ground.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time, it was hard to think with all the electricity in my system, plus it wouldn't come out of the ground." Nero gave his partner a flat look before sighing and running a hand through his hair
"Ask me for help next time you big oaf but…" he leaned over and pecked his partner on the lips "I'm glad you're okay." Dante looked over at Nero in surprise at the action, only to see the partial devil rubbing at his nose as if to hide the light blush creeping over his cheeks before he grinned and swooped his arm around the younger's shoulders, leading them on to the next room.
A/N: I feel we were way overdue for some fluff, I like going through the game but I'm super anal about checking my facts so it makes writing these chapters a lot longer than my other chapters so it was fun to just have some interaction between the boys. Also! The scene with the lightning, glass is an insulator so lightning will avoid striking it (though since Dante's summoning it it will likely take the fastest route) and even then it's highly unlikely for the lightning itself to shatter the glass (the stuff I look up while writing is ridiculous) therefore I made it the shockwave from the thunder that broke it, hope that's cool ;p
Till next time,
-Winged Element
