Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy 8, Squaresoft does. Devil May Cry belongs to Capcom.
~Devil's Don't Cry~
Rinoa and Zell sat in the bar across the street. She had to admit, the title was rather odd. But upon stepping inside, she immediately realized that it matched the place perfectly. Placed along the walls were the heads of creatures she'd never seen before, and the fact that they were only being held up by a large sword being driven through each of them was rather disturbing. The name Devil May Cry definitely fit the place in Rinoa's opinion. Poor Zell had nearly passed out at the horrible sight. And now, he sat across from her at one of the many wooden tables that occupied the room with his head resting on his arms. "Zell, are you alright? You can wait outside if you want."
He slowly looked up at her, and made a motion in the direction of the doorway Christian had went into only a couple of minutes ago. "Hell no! There's no way I'm leavin' you in here alone. Hyne only knows what kind of psycho she might be."
"Zell", she giggled, "I don't think she would try anything with or without you here. I also think she wouldn't appreciate it if you vomited all on her floor."
He scoffed and looked down at the dirty floor, then brought his gaze back up to Rinoa. "I don't see what difference it would make. This place is already a dump."
She smiled slightly and looked around the room at all the different heads that decorated the walls, and without looking at Zell, asked, "Zell, what do you think these creatures are? I've certainly never seen them before."
He shrugged. "I have no idea Rinny, but they have to be the freakiest things I've ever seen."
Just as she was about to speak again, she heard the dull thump of footsteps coming from the doorway, and turned to see Christian walking towards them. Rinoa watched her as she took a seat in the other chair, which placed her next to both of them. Rinoa noticed that she was dressed rather oddly from what most people would. For one thing, she didn't know anyone who went around in all black, well, except for Squall.
Christian wore a long trench coat, that touched the floor when she sat down, over a thin black jacket and black turtleneck sweater, along with a pair of black leather pants with a pair of boots that covered half of the calf of her leg. What really caught Rinoa's attention was the two guns she had holstered at her side, one of them nearly black, while the other was silver. "Umm..what're those?" She pointed to the two weapons at Christian's side.
"These?" She drew them from their holsters and twirled them around before holding them up, and handing them to Rinoa. "That's Ebony and Ivory, my father's custom made Desert Eagles."
Rinoa looked the guns over, finding them heavier than they looked. Along each of the barrels she noticed an engraving, the one on the black pistol read "Ebony", and the one of the silver read "Ivory". She grinned and handed the guns back to Christian, and her expression became serious again. "Okay, Miss Knyght, could you please explain what in the hell is going on?"
"Alright, this is going to be a rather long story, please understand that.", she paused for a moment and took a deep breath, before finally continuing. "Let's see, about 4000 years ago, a powerful Devil Prince was born in the deepest and darkest pits of the underworld. He grew rapidly. And within a short period of time, he gained his full powers and thus, claimed the Devil Throne for himself. After declaring himself the emporor of the Devil Kingdom, he planned on taking over the human world, where he would rule both the upper and lower Realms. "Little did he know, he would soon be brought down by a powerful devil knight known as Sparda, who had took pity on the humans for their brief, transient lives. Eventually, through many fierce battles, Sparda evenutally defeated the emporer's demon army. Thus, ending in the death of the Devil Emporer. "Upon achieving his victory, Sparda abandoned the Devil Kingdom to live in the human world, where he married a human woman and fathered a half-demon, half-human son, Dante.", she paused for a moment, before continuing again, "Who was my father..."
Rinoa sat there, a look of shock on her face, this certainly was one of the weirdest, or strangest, things that she's been told. "S..So you're saying that, basically, you're part demon?"
"Yes, that's exactly what I am saying.", she stood up from where she was sitting at the table and slowly proceeded to walk around them, the only sound was that of her boots making a dull thud on the wooden floor. After a few minutes of silence, she finally spoke again. "I guess you can say it's been somewhat of a responsibility of my family's to keep this world safe from the Devil Kingdom. For my father had to face the next Devil Emporer to come into power, Mundus; which was 2000 years ago."
She watched Christian intently, listening carefully while trying to puzzle all this out in her mind. "So, it happens every 2000 years? Is that what you are implying?"
"Yes, that's exactly what I am saying."
"Alright, but what does that have to do with me?"
"Well, I'm not exactly sure. I do not know how I ended up in your dreams, but I do find it rather odd that something like that would happen. "
"Okay, now I'm really confused."
"Well, see, it's kinda difficult to explain. The only way I can explain is it's kind of the way my parent's met one another. My father used to own this place, only he ran it as a mercenary buisiness. One night, he was sitting her and all of a sudden this strange woman came bursting in here on a motorcycle, this same woman ends up as my mother of course. She was also a Sorceress, much like yoursef, and at the same time she served the emporoer Mundus. Well, to skip ahead, she and Mundus had set my father up. Although, no matter how much Mundus tried, he couldn't defeat my father, for he had even more strength than Sparda, my grandfather. "After he saved my mother from one of Mundus' villains, she later turned against Mundus and gave her life for my father. Where, in a rage, he defeated Mundus. Somehow, my mother was brought back to life, and during their escape from the island, she helped him defeat Mundus for the final time. And well, I guess you can figure out the rest."
"Yes, that is kinda odd when you put it like that. There's another thing, whoever has been playing games with my dreams must be very powerful, because Doc Odine designed that amulet to keep that sort of thing from happening."
Zell suddenly jumped from his chair, knocking it over in the process, and practically screamed at Rinoa. "Rinny, we have got to go, we gotta be back at the Rag in like, five minutes! So hurry up and finish up here, I gotta run." He quickly left bar at a run, nearly tripping as he exited.
Rinoa turned to Christain, who was already strapping a sword across her back. "You're coming with us?"
Christain turned back to her, and spoke while tucking a shotgun similar in looks to Irvine's Valiant into her trench coat. "Of course, I'm coming. Once you and your associates land on that island, most of them will most likely not last ten minutes."
"Umm..I don't think our leader will allow a..civillian..on the ship with us."
Christian stopped a moment and simply looked at Rinoa, then finally smirked. "Then I guess you'll just have to sneak me on there and hide me until we get there."
A/N: Okay, I need everyone's help in this. See, I need to know who I'm gonna pair Rinoa up with, so here are three choices, please give me your answer in your review. I will decide the winner when I go to right the next chapter, so whichever pairing has the most votes, it's the winner!
A.) Rinoa x Zell
B.) Rinoa x Irvine
C.) Rinoa x Christian
