Deku Meets Dante. Is this a good thing or a bad one? Part 5: Torment Session #2. . .
[Dream]
Disclaimer: I don't own Dante or anything else. *sniffle* I'm just a highschool student! I don't own jack! Except for Deku, Damian, and Kojin. As was said, Neko belongs to my friend. I have permission. Thanx Tessa! Now, on with the fic!
Dante walked through the doors at the end of a hall way and came into a room lit only by candles, the walls were black and pulsing with red and blue blood vessels, that pulsed with every beat of Hell's heart. On the far side of the room there was a black altar dressed in blood colored hangings and small candles. An upside down cross stood in the center of the altar. To the right of the cross, there was a book that looked to be bound in some sort of skin. "Damn." Dante finally said, sensing nothing from this room. Where were they? He had almost searched the place from head to toe. If anything, they had to be in that last tower, planning something. At least Deku wasn't here to beat him to it and get hurt. She was safe at least. He was going to miss her, but at least she wouldn't be around to get in the way. . .
[Deku awoke and sat up. She was back in Dante's bedroom. She looked around and everything was in order. The door opened and Dante came in. He sat on the edge of the bed and smiled at her. She got up and went over to him. He put her on his lap and kissed her. She broke the kiss with a smile, but that smile quickly faded as she looked into Damian's face. His cold black eyes were staring back into hers. She got up immediately and tried to run for the door. Just as she opened it, he slammed it shut with one hand.
"Too late to run, Deku." Damian hissed, snatching her by the waist and holding her against him. "I've got you now. You're going with me!"]
"No!" Deku awakened in the back of Dante's shop. She looked around and saw no one, but could hear Neko's voice up front, along with someone else's voice. She got up and snuck up front, hiding herself in the shadows of the dark hallway. Peering around the corner, she masked her energy, a blonde woman dressed in black was sitting on Dante's pool table, and Neko was sitting on the edge of Dante's desk. Neko's eyes were blue now, and her hair was back to its normal pale orange color, so were her feline-like ears. She looked to be perfectly normal now.
But, there was only one way to tell if she was back to her normal self, or if she was trying to trick her. Deku took a small breath and whispered, "Milliardo Peacecraft looks like a woman!"
Neko fell off the desk backwards and shouted, "Deku, he does no-!" Neko covered her mouth, realizing what she had just said. "Deku, you're not dead!" She jumped off the floor and ran to hug Deku, who sidestepped at the last second, allowing Neko to almost smack into a wall.
"Of course not. How'd I get back here anyway?" She thought about it for a second, then it came back to her in a rush. She growled and clenched her fists. "Dante. . .that ass hole. . . he tricked me!" Deku punched a hole in the wall. "I am going to rip him limb from limb!"
"No you're not, you're not going anywhere. Dante told us to keep you here, no matter what." Trish said, putting a hand on Deku's shoulder.
"You have three seconds to get that hand off me, before I throw you through a wall. Take me back to Hell, or else." Deku's hair was beginning to turn red.
Trish removed her hand from Deku's shoulder. "Kill me, and there's no way that you can get back into Hell."
"I know one way I can get back down there." She took a bottle of sake off Dante's desk with a smile on her face.
"Deku, drinking won't get you back down there anytime soon." Neko said, slowly approaching Deku.
"Who said anything about drinking?" Deku took the bottle by the neck and smashed it against the edge of the desk and held the broken end of the bottle to her throat. "Either you take me back, or I'll go back on my own. If I go on my own, it's going not going to be pretty."
Neko stood in front of Deku and looked into her eyes. Deku was serious. She had always known Deku to be a little insane when she got mad, but this took the cake. Neko gulped and made a fist, Deku was getting out of control.
"Ugh!" Deku hit the floor. She got up and looked at Neko. "I never knew you had it in you, but just now was not the best time to let me know!" Deku growled loudly and glared at Neko, as she wiped the trickle of blood from her bottom lip. "Neko, you just made a huge mistake."
"Stop it!" Trish said, blocking Deku's path. She almost got KO'd, but Deku was able to stop herself. "Dante ordered us to stay up here. If we take you back down there, it might throw a wrench in whatever he has planned."
Deku looked to the ground and off to the side. "I don't care. . .Dante. . . I'm not gonna let him get killed! He saved my ass a few times and now, I want to return the favor. Let me go back down there!"
"Deku, no. It's like Trish says, you'll only get in his way, Dante can take care of himself." Neko put her hand on Deku's shoulder.
"Don't touch me." Deku shoved Neko away, still looking at the ground, and started walking towards the door to the outside. "First person to bother me while I'm outside gets a free beat down. I mean it, if I even sense your energy signal out there, I'll kill you, and I won't ask questions. Is that understood?"
Trish and Neko just looked at Deku as she stormed out the door and flew upwards. Trish looked at Neko then asked, "Do you think she really meant that?"
Neko looked at the door. "I wouldn't put it past her. She's upset and more than capable of killing someone. She has never done it before, but I know she will this time. I've known Deku since we were kids, and she doesn't like being seen when she's upset." Neko stood and sat on the pool table. "She could be gone for hours, before she calms down and comes back inside."
Damian watched her from the shadows. Deku had been up there for about an hour or so. How she escaped, he didn't know, but she was to come back with him. Such a beautiful little minx. "I'd keep you for myself, if master didn't want you."
Deku turned around and looked around cautiously. "I can sense you. There's no use hiding!" She growled, still searching around. "Come out, Damian! I'm not in any mood to play stupid games!" She gasped as two muscular arms encircled her waist, from behind, and held her against a rock hard, cold, body. She felt her stomach churn, as cool lips pressed against her neck.
"You called for me, little minx?" He squeezed her a little closer to him. "Did you have a nice dream? I'm here to get you." A smile touched his lips, hearing her growl deeply at him. He loved her anger.
Deku hissed loudly and jumped away from him. She landed gracefully on the edge of the building. "I swear, touch me like that ever again, and you'll regret it!" Deku cracked her knuckles. She was ready for a fight. "You crossed the line. I'm going to rip your heart out and nail it to my wall!" She hissed again, as Damian approached her.
"Hey, if you wanted my heart, all you had to do was ask for it." He laughed and began unbuttoning his shirt. He stopped a few meters away from her and tenderly felt the area over the left side of his chest, then smiled. He plunged his hand into his chest, and pulled out his heart. "Here, you can have it." He tossed it on the ground, before her feet.
She began to tremble, as she watched his heart squirt blood. "What in the hell are you?" She asked, feeling her stomach tying itself in knots, as she continued to watch the black heart increase speed in its beats. It pumped one last time and squirted blood into her eyes. She screamed and dropped to her knees. It felt as if someone had poured acid into her eyes.
Damian smiled. "You're even more attractive when you're in pain." He picked her up, ignoring her flailing fists. She struck him rapidly, but it felt like nothing more than a feather being pushed against his chest.
"Let go of me, you son of a bitch!" Deku shouted, trying her hardest to ignore her burning eyes. "Put me down!" Deku made the worst sound she could come up with, as loud as she could, right in his ear, and it came out sounding like an ill-fated cat.
Damian dropped her and covered his ears. He glared at her, then kicked her in the stomach. She stopped and whimpered, holding her stomach. "Learn to keep your mouth shut, or I'll put my foot in it."
She coughed up a mouthful of blood, but still managed to growl, as her eyes still burned.
Damian kicked her again. "That should take the fight out of you." He pressed his boot down on her throat. "Make another sound and I'll kill you."
Deku started to cry. She couldn't help it anymore, her eyes burned, her body ached from Damian's assault, and she was still tired from when Dante had knocked her out. She didn't care anymore about getting revenge . . . she just wanted him to get away from her.
"Look at you . . . you're pathetic . . . nothing but a rabbit in a lion's skin. You are nothing but an arrogant, child." He removed his boot from her throat, lifted her off the ground, and put her over his shoulder.
Deku wept as the stinging in her eyes finally began to subside. She hacked up another mouthful of blood, and opened her eyes . . . A scream filled the nighttime air, as Damian disappeared with her over his shoulder.
"Dammit!" Dante roared as he smashed his fist into a wall. Still nothing! He had scaled this damned tower twice and still no sign of Damian or Kojin. He could sense them, he just couldn't find them, and now he was sensing an extremely weak life force. He recognized it, but it had never been this weak before. It was Deku. She was in hell again, and was growing weaker by the moment. He probably couldn't find a couple of devils, but a mortal. . .all too easy. . .
Deku kicked and screamed as Damian chained her to the wall. She couldn't stand it, whatever he had done to her, it was making her weak as a kitten. "Let me down!" She growled, jerking at her chains. "I'll tear you apart!"
"Is that so?" Damian laughed, putting his finger under her chin.
Deku spit in his face. "Yeah, that's so!"
"Little. . .!"Damian growled and slapped her across the face, sending a little blood flying.
Deku spit out all the blood that had accumulated in her mouth and smirked. "Is that all you got? My tail could probably slap me harder than that!"
"You should listen when people tell you to shut your mouth. It will only get you into deeper trouble." He punched her in the jaw, knocking her head to the side.
Deku spit more blood out and managed to regain her sarcastic smirk. "Hell. . .I was right. . .My tail does hit harder. . ."
"As you say, but I know you're bluffing. You're trying to make me hit you hard enough to make your chains stretch and break." He leaned into her face and put his finger under her chin, she was growling at him again. "You're so beautiful when you're mad at me." He kissed her deeply, enjoying the taste of her blood.
Deku tried to pull away, because her jaws hurt too much to bite down. She tried to turn her head away from him, but he had grabbed her chin. A tear ran down her cheek. She was helpless, and wanted more than anything for Dante to come to her rescue, then take her into his bedroom and give her the scolding of her life.
"What's this? Are you actually crying?" He wiped away a tear from her cheek. "Yet another thing that I would never expect from the lovely and arrogant, Deku." Damian kissed her again. He could tell that she was tempted to bite his tongue. He could feel her anger and resentment, and he loved it all. She was also something that he had only rarely sensed from her. She was scared. "Another one like the Son of Sparda. Too proud to have tears, but look at you now. Shedding tears like a child. I wonder what you will do, when I hand you the Son of Sparda's head." He turned and walked away from her with a satisfied look on his face. Satisfied with the look she had given him, after he had said that. She had a look of disbelief and shock.
As he walked away, he could hear her chains rattling. "I would advise that you keep still. . . nobodies don't notice things if they don't move. Move, and they'll rip you apart." He snickered as he watched a couple of creatures jump down from the ceiling and start making noise and jump around the room. . .
Relatively short chapter, I know and not too much Dante, unfortunately (and, for that I do apologize), but tell me if there should be a Chapter Six! If you review, I'll give you a piece of candy, okay not really, but review anyway! ^_~