Chapter 1: Dirt
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This story was originally posted back in 2009. Now It is being fixed and improved chapter by chapter, so bear with me. And pleaseeeee review 3 I will answer each and every one of you!
Please bear in mind I do not follow any timelines and I do mix a lot of things and situations, so lots of things will not make sense if you think of the games' timeline...more creative room =)
Chapter 1
xxxAt Devil May Cryxxx
"Come on, you gotta clean up this mess Dante, it's just plain unbearable! All these empty pizza boxes, beer cans...there must be even mice living here! Gosh!" - exclaimed Lady, simply done with Dante's never ending messes.
Devil May Cry was a dark pit full of dust, as she would often put it. Dante would wake up, go for jobs, come back to sleep and use the whole place as a garbage can. It was a little too overwhelming for anyone who had the minimal sense of hygiene. Of course she didn't live there, but being able to find a clean cup to drink water whenever she visited sounded like the bare minimum to expect.
"Oh come on, it's not that bad."
"Yeah, it's a dump, really Dante, stop shoving all your work into those who visit you, and do something for yourself!"
"You mean, yourself."
"Just forget it.", Lady rolled her eyes at the immature reply. She did get it, it could be a pain in the ass to clean up after demon hunting, especially when bringing back guts and gore, but then again living involves much more than simply mopping blood splatters off the floor.
The shop was a mess. Pizza boxes and empty beer cans scattered all over the floor. Dust and spider webs covered every inch of Devil May Cry, making the place not as pleasant as it could be, even for Dante's incredibly poor standards.
Life was very simple for him: hunt a few demons whenever he got a call, spend the money on beer, pizza and strawberry sundays, maybe go to Love Planet to relax or plainly sit around on his usual spot reading a magazine/snoozing. What else could he ask for?
"Yeah, I'll stop doing the work around here. You just make everything a mess. I'll put an ad in the newspaper, so then you can find a suitable maid.", Patty chimed in, while dusting off the spot she wanted to claim for herself on the couch. She would come ever so often much to Dante's dismay.
Both Trish and Lady snickered while leaning in one of the corners of Devil May Cry. That would definitely not end well.
Little did they know...
"I most definitely don't need a maid. I already don't make a lot as is!"
"Well, maybe if you didn't spend most of it on garbage then you would have enough…", replied Patty while picking up several pizza boxes from the floor and shoving them inside a garbage bag.
"Yeah, maybe...you know what! Fine, do it, but under one condition!"
"WHAT!", said Trish, Layd and Patty in unusion. The older ladies were getting tired of so much bickering.
"The babe gotta be hot, Isn't it true Verge?", Dante asked his twin, who was silent in one of the corners of the room, nose buried in one of those thick books of his. Until then none of them even noticed the presence of the blue-clad devil, after all it was so easy for him to simply go unnoticed wherever he was. If Dante did not address him, no one would ever see him there. In fact, no one would even notice Vergil at Devil May Cry at all.
Ever since the Qlipoth incident Vergil had no other choice than to live with his brother, after all the place was "as much Dante's as his", as his younger brother would so often put it. Vergil on the other hand was not the one to vocalize his true thoughts and opinions, not that it mattered anyways with Dante's large mouth doing the job for him. As long as he would not be bothered, everything was fine. Being in the human realm was not easy, but for the time being that was th smartest thing for him to do. At the beginning it was plain weird as to how the whole relationship would evolve. Dante and everyone else really did not know what to expect, he was literally this big white elephant in the room.
If it wasn't for Vergil's immaculate room upstairs, the only clean corner of Devil May Cry, no one would even know he lived at the place. He really wasn't the one for chit chat, especially after everything that happened not that long ago. He would often go out for a few days, hunt demons, come back, sometimes hunt with his brother and that was that. He did have some money saved up somehow and so managed to have a decent car and other things he cherished available when needed. None of the members of Devil May Cry really figured what was up with him, no one seemed to care anyways. Vergil was always a sensitive subject, no matter when or how.
"Whatever, do as you please.", he said before hopping up the stairs heading to his "little sanctuary" as they so often joked about it. Both ladies just watched as Vergil disappeared up the stairs.
Dante shrugged it off, and headed towards his desk, only to snatch an old slice of cold pizza.
"So any new job calls, Patty?"
"Not really, just that one from that guy who ended up not paying you the last time...so I doubt you would ever be interested in working for him again."
"You're right kiddo.", another thing no one understood at Devil May Cry was why Patty Lowel spent that much time at the place doing stuff she did not even have to! Cleaning, organizing, taking calls. Well, she was just probably quite bored so nothing else better to do.
"If you continue to choose which job you will or won't do, you'll never pay your debt! I want my money back!", retorted an angry Lady, who had just moved from her position near the dusty walls to sit across from Trish on the beaten up leather couch.
"Calm down sweet Lady of mine, I'll pay you… eventually."
"Don't call me that unless you want me to put a bullet in your face once again!"
"Come on, you wouldn't want to blow this handsome face of mine, would you?", replied Dante playfully.
"Do you want me to put it somewhere else? In a place where you'll still have your face, but will not be able to produce any faces like yours?"
"Come on babe, surely you are willing to be making these faces with me? We'd better get started, the sooner the better!", he threw at her. Yep, no one expected that reply. He was definitely pushing his luck that day!
"Go to hell you self-centered bastard!, if you want ANY children I suggest you start cleaning up this hellhole, so then a decent woman, not one of those sluts that are all over you, may show up and maybe, just maybe, want to start a serious relationship with you.", Lady spat face red in embarrassment. Even though they knew each other for years now, she could never shrug it off when he flirted with her, especially in front of others.
"Tell me Lady, what normal woman wouldn't want to make some babies with me? Tell me since you're so sure of yourself, surely you are one of them, you just won't admit it, not even to yourself, you are just eager for me to clean up my bed for YOU to jump there and spread your legs for me to..."
Dante only felt something collide with his face, hard, pretty hard, not that something like a human's blow would hurt him, but anyways.
The older he got the more brazen he seemed to be when it came to flirting, even with his partners.
"DON'T YOU EVER , EVER AGAIN INSINUATE SOMETHING LIKE THAT! I'D RATHER DIE THAN TO SLEEP WITH YOU, I'M NOT A SLUT, I'D NEVER EVER WANT TO BEAR SOMETHING AS VILE AS A DEMON, LET ALONE YOUR DEMON, SO GO FIND ANOTHER ASS TO FUCK, YOU DUMBASS!
"What the hell !?" exclaimed Trish throwing her arms up in the air as a sign of sheer frustration as Lady stormed off Devil May Cry.
"She just heard the truth.", winked Dante with a playful smile.
Rolling her eyes, Trish continued "And that would be, let me see, how much she wants you to fuck her senseless, and then, eventually bear your children along the way."
"Exactly.", replied Dante without a hint of doubt.
"You're delusional...", Trish sighed and walked away, also leaving Devil May Cry for the evening.
"You'd better stick to the ads, anyways.", said Patty after hearing the whole commotion from upstairs.
"Yeah, bring the hot chicks on!"
That was chapter one :) please review, it would make me really happy. By the way, I am editing this fic I would love to hear your comments and suggestions, don't be shy!
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