"Did I just hear Diva scream?" Saya thought out loud, almost allowing herself to get stabbed by Kisaki.

Luckily she managed to parry the strike before it reached her and the "queen" flew on by.

However, she thrust a high-heeled foot out in front of her and managed to stop her travel, turning around as she rose.

"Best not allow your mind to stray from the fight… you don't have enough brain power to win to begin with, it would be a shame if you were to die too quickly for me to gain some amusement."

She ignored the woman's words, thinking only about Diva.

"I told you to stay safe. Don't get hurt." She thought, bringing Ru-Kui-n out in front of her.

"Oh? What are you doing now?" Kisaki asked her, still sounding arrogant.

"I can't afford to waste my time anymore. I have to go see if Diva is alright. If you want to defeat me, you had better release your sword entirely."

One of the queen's eyebrows rose.

"Because I'm done holding back." She told the woman as the crystal flower at the base of her blade opened.


"Are you ready to go?" Nero asked her, standing now.

It took her a moment, but Diva nodded.

She pushed herself up and away from the metal container behind her, but as the two began to head for the metal shutter they heard someone clapping from high up, near the ceiling.

"Bravo! Bravo! You're a genuine Hollywood actress aren't you?!" A joyous man shouted down happily from on top of one of the metal containers; high enough that the spotlights did not illuminate him.

Nero instantly manifested his hook swords and she wondered what is was that caused him to respond so significantly to this man.

To anyone else, the man's attitude certainly would have been unsettling, but to Diva, who used to act that way more or less all of the time, it seemed commonplace.

"Hey, who's Italian man?" She asked, referencing his use of "bravo". Despite the fact she had no idea if it was really Italian or not.

Nero didn't look at her as he responded.

"He-"

"Oh don't be so tense! I can introduce myself you know! I am Nanba-juusan, Kuroihando Migigawa!"

A second later something flashed down from the containers above and landed quietly on the concrete floor, sounding only as if he had hopped forward.

It was strange seeing a man mostly in black with spotlights behind him, but she didn't really care, and manifested her sword.

"You're the one who fought Vergil, aren't you?" She asked him.

The man, grinning, gave a mischievous "mhm".

"Good." She responded, smiling herself.

Then she leapt forward, making sure not to look him in the eye, and swept an Erebrise at him half the way there.

Kuroi spun out of the attack's way with a dance-like spin, but as he did so, she was already there, and swung her sword through the air.

"Oh great light! Strike this evil thing from the earth!" Someone shouted before she stepped into something bright and wet.

It only took a moment to hop backwards, but she still almost lost her feet as she jumped out of the way of large beam of light that struck up from the floor.

"Darn." She spoke under her breath, landing on the floor near Nero.

"Be careful. These two are the strongest members of our organization on the Nanba-side. They won't be the kind of fodder you're used to."

She glanced over at him.

"Stronger than that jerk with the water?"

Nero nodded.

Diva looked back at Kuroi and the man who had just emerged from the metal shutter.

"I am Nanba-juuni! Shiroihando Migigawa!" He shouted with the strength-of-voice of a fanatical preacher.

"I hope you've said your good-byes to that sister of yours. The likes of you won't last long in my light."


"Well isn't that cute?" Dante asked Kingu rhetorically as the waves of energy around him dispersed.

"I hope your attacks haven't just gotten shinier. 'Cause of if that's all you might as well lay your ass down in a coffin right now."

Kingu stared at him, a solemn expression on his face.

"Your insignificant words have no effect on me." He spoke, bringing his sword behind.

"However, I will cut your dirty body to pieces!" The man spoke with vigor as he sprang forward, a trail of bright green energy following his sword as it swept down through the ground and then up towards him, dragging a large wave of energy with.

"Oh crap-"

The wave hit him and he it singed his skin as he was slammed back into the wall, the front four inches of the hard material dissolving as the radioactive-looking "water" receded and disappeared, leaving Dante clothes and skin looking darken than usual.

It only took a few moments for his body to make his skin better again, but these clothes would take quite a while to do the same.

"Hey, asshole, you'd better be ready to pay for this thing to get mended if you melted away some of my coat!" He yelled before grinning.

Dante heard heavy rock music begin playing in his head and he aimed Gemonia at the man.

"Come on!" He yelled like a singer at a concert before firing off a Lamigarda.

The energy shot towards the man, who swept his sword up in its direction and covered the energy with a wave of green.

But Dante dove, slamming his shoulder into the hard floor and shooting a whole stream of energy "bullets" at him from the weapon shouting out how much fun he was having all the while.

Once again, the king swung his sword and sent a wave of energy towards Dante. But this time the wave was huge and threatened to turn into a tidal wave if it rose any higher.

His grin widened and Dante flipped up into a standing position, rapidly charging a Lamicanhao.

As the energy began to gather, the tidal wave of bright green energy came down towards him, making his heart slam against his chest in anticipation of the attack.

There wasn't enough time to charge, and the energy swept down onto him, crashing into the bottom of the wall and dissolving the floor into dull green ground.

However, Dante was nowhere to be found in that stain on the ground, and leapt out of the wave, skin burnt red as his coat, and fired the ultra-powerful attack at the man with a giant grin on his face.

Though Kingu tried to counter it with another quick wave of energy, it couldn't handle the full power of his attack and he had to haphazardly dive out of the way of it, dirtying his fancy-ass clothes in the process.

While his attack blasted through the floor, Dante landed on the ground, his coat swooping in behind him melodramatically, as his eyes fixed on the recovering man.

Dante kicked off the floor and ran at the man, holding Gemonia behind him like a baseball bat as its entire blade was encased in energy.

The man just got to his feet as he swung the weapon at him and hit his sword from his hands with a Batifogo(fire strike)

Kingu dove for his sword, landing hard on the ground and swung his sword up at Dante, once again unleashing a wave of energy at him.

Still, this trick was getting old and all it took for Dante to avoid the thing was to run away from it for a few seconds and then back towards the man, this time jumping over the energy wave like it was a huge puddle.

He landed on the other side and used Podorente(power current) to make Gemonia's attacks stronger.

The "king" seemed in a stupor over how fast he'd started losing and brought up his sword as Dante quickly made his way over to the man.

Their swords clashed in the air multiple times, green energy flowing from Kingu's sword and bright white light emanating from Dante's.

However, just like the remaining neon-white tiles outnumbered the ground that had been burnt green, Dante's own power quickly overcame Kingu's and he slammed his sword against the man as he brought his sword up to block, sounding out a cracking sound from his legs and creating a crater in the floor.

Kingu's teeth ground together and he eventually managed to force Dante and his shining sword away, though he was still grinning.

"What's the matter, man? Looks like you're getting impeached or something." He spoke as the glow faded from his weapon.

The man was breathing heavily and bent over, but wasn't dead yet.

He scowled at Dante and forced himself up.

"You…filth! You think you've won?! You're crazy!"

Kingu's eyes flared as energy burst forth from his blade and he his whole body trembled in anger.

"Don't do it." He warned the man, but he was too stupefied with rage to pay attention and ran towards him, energy trailing behind his blade.

Dante sighed as the idiot ran towards him as if he had to stay still and get chopped in half.

As appealing as that sounded, he thought he'd pass.

Kingu neared him and he stood there, not moving at all.

Then, when they were only ten feet away, he looked up.

"Get stylish, Dividinia(Separate blades)!" He yelled as the man ran towards him.

The moron had just about enough time to kiss his ass goodbye before Dante's two-handed grip became two single-handed grip as Gemonia split into two weapons.

"Gemefatia(twin slices)" he spoke, stepping forward and striking the blunt sides of both of his blades against the man's single one, sending it bolting away and imbedding itself in the wall near the door they'd come through.

Before Kingu even had enough time to gasp Dante announced another attack, this time Milhilia(Million family).

His weapons were a blur as he cut, stabbed and crushed Kingu's body into a barely-living bloody pulp before combining them together again and swinging the blunt side of the blade at the man's head, cracking his skull open and bashing him across the large room, into the wall by his sword.

The man made no more sound and he put Gemonia back under his coat.

A silence followed.

"Craaaazy?! Ha!"


In case anyone was wondering, the thing Dante says at the end is a taunt of his from Devil May Cry 3.... on a somewhat interesting note I'd beaten the game like fifty times before actually discovering it. ha. The name of the chapter is also a ranking on the "stylish meter", I think, in Devil May Cry 4.

Anyone who reviews this chapter please just tell me in addition to what you'd normally say if you'd like me to add some more "break" chapters. If anyone says they'd like that I'll try to make every other chapter a non-violent, story-driven one. Though the next chapter will probably have more action in it. At least at the very beginning.