Deku Meets Dante. Is this a good thing or a bad one? Part 6: The Enraged Hellcat. . .
Please note that I will be upping the rating on this story, this story will be found under the 'R' Rating, when Chapter 7 is put up. It's just too much for the 'PG-13' rating, I think you'll agree because of Chapter 5 and this one too. . . if not. . .well, I'm still gonna up the rating. Not for sexual reasons, but because it gets very violent and there might be nudity. . .
Disclaimer: Chapter 6 and I still don't own jack squat. . . I only own Deku, Damian, and Kojin. Neko is my friend's property. Thanx again Tessa!
Dante heard screams. They were familiar, he remembered those pain filled cries, from the night he met Deku and Neko. That was Deku, and there was no mistaking it. She was somewhere in trouble, because he could hear hyena-like laughs. "Nobodies. . ." He closed his eyes and cursed at Damian and Kojin. They were using Deku as bait. "Hold on, Deku. . .I'm coming for you."
Trish and Neko went outside and searched for Deku. Something told them that Deku wasn't there anymore. Neko could feel Deku's energy level, but it was weird. It would shoot up high, for a split second, then hit a low. That kind of a rise and fall usually would only occur when there was a fight going on.
Neko looked to Trish and sighed. "They've got her again, don't they?"
Trish nodded.
"There's nothing we can do to help get those two back, is there?" Neko knew the answer that was coming. There wasn't anything they could do to help them, and they knew that Deku couldn't hold her own, at this point. "Is Dante going to be ok? I know Deku's dead, so is he going to be alright?"
"Deku's not dead." Trish leaned against the doorframe. "I don't think anything has happened yet. But, something is going to happen, and we need to go down there."
"Wait a second, what do you mean something is going to happen?" Neko had a puzzled look on her face. "What do you think they're planning?"
"I don't really know yet, but I think that red moon will have something to do with it." Trish crossed her arms and went back inside. "That usually means that there is a power surge down in Hell."
Neko gasped as she looked to the sky and saw that the full, Harvest Moon was beginning to change to an odd shade of red. . .
Kojin called off his beasts and walked over to Deku, then tilted her chin upwards. She had passed out. Her body had wounds, major and minor, all over it. "Perhaps, I let Damian have a little too much fun with you." He sighed and began to unchain her. "No matter. Although, I would've wanted to hear all that screaming and screeching you would do if you were awake, when I sacrificed you."
Deku fell over his shoulder as he unchained her hands. She opened her eyes as he began walking away from the area where she was. Her arms felt like lead weights, and she couldn't move. She moaned once and closed her eyes. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself being laid down on a cold, flat stone slab, with Kojin looking down at her. "Where am I?"
"You are in the last place that you will ever remember." Kojin replied, touching her cheek with one finger. He ran a finger down her cheek to her neck.
"Wha?" She asked trying to sit up.
"No, no. . . Stay down, my little trouble maker. I want you to be conscious for this." He pushed her back against the stone altar and strapped her down, with energy rings around her wrists, ankles, and neck. He smiled, "Your Dante is too late to save you. The time is near, your blood spilt tonight, will bring upon my transformation."
"Where's Dante?" Deku tried to sit up again, but the energy rings that bound her to the slab prevented even the slightest of movements. "Where is he?"
"He's roaming around, lost, somewhere in Hell. Like I said, he's too late to save you."
A pair of red eyes opened in a dark corner of the room. "What makes you say that?" Dante stepped out of the shadows. "I've been waiting for you."
Deku glanced at Dante. When the hell did he get here? There was an eerie aura about his body. Dante looked more dangerous to her than ever before.
"Let her go. I swear, if you, or your damn lackey, touch her one more time while I'm around you'll know what hell really is." He had Sparda in his hand ready to attack at any second.
"Dante, the Son of Sparda, the Devil Hunter, Murderer of the Darkness Mundus. . ." Kojin shook his head with a smirk on his face. "You think, that I am less than Mundus. You thought wrong." His eyes shone bright yellow for a second, and Dante was thrown back hard against a wall.
"Dante!" Deku shrieked, trying to struggle free of her bonds, but they still held her tight. "Dante, are you alright?"
Kojin snickered in amusement with Deku's concern. "With a glare, I can crush you, Son of Sparda."
"Dante. . ." Deku looked at Dante. Kojin had him against the wall. Dante was being pinned up. There was something she did notice though. Her bonds were now changing colors, as Dante was struggling to get loose.
Dante growled loudly and forced himself away from the wall, with a power that countered Kojin's. He looked briefly at Deku, then gave her a smirk. "I'll show you how you're supposed to use Ifrit." Dante put Sparda on his back and put Ifrit on. He had found it in one of the rooms while he was looking for Deku. "Remember what I told you when we first met, Kojin? We would finish this, you and me."
Kojin chuckled to himself. "You really think that you can win, with a pair of mittens?" He rose to his feet and looked Dante dead in the eyes. "Son of Sparda, you will not live past the hour when Deku's blood is spilt under the Red moon."
"You aren't touching her." Dante jumped into the air and came down in a kick with flames behind him. The kick connected with Kojin's ribs and knocked him back, but not off his feet. Dante's fist connected with Kojin's jaw in an uppercut and knocked him to the ground.
Kojin rolled out of the way of a flaming boot, that almost met his throat. He jumped back onto his feet and looked at Dante, then wiped the trickle of blood from his mouth. "Very good, Son of Sparda." His eyes narrowed and he charged at Dante, connecting a fist to Dante's face. "But, not good enough." When Dante reeled back from the blow, he jumped and dug an elbow into Dante's chest, knocking him to the ground. He smiled evilly as he put his boot down on Dante's neck, then stripped him of Ifrit, and threw it across the room.
Deku could only hear the fight. She heard the blows exchanged and heard Dante's grunts of discomfort. Something was wrong with him. She wanted to help, but couldn't and it was driving her crazy. She struggled with her bonds as hard as her battered body would allow, and they broke. She looked at Kojin, who was preoccupied with Dante, then she looked at the floor and spotted Ifrit. . . .
A sword materialized in Kojin's hand and he put it to Dante's neck. "Goodbye, Dante." He gained a smile as he prepared for the final cut.
"Yeah. . .Goodbye." A voice said, as a light appeared behind Kojin.
"Hmm." He sounded amused as he disappeared from over Dante, with a smile.
Dante looked at the giant energy bomb mixed with a fireball coming his way. He rolled out the of way of the explosion, and into a standing position, then looked for a source. He saw Deku in the stance after firing an energy bomb. She was trembling and bleeding all over.
"Damn. . . I missed." Her eyes closed, her hands dropped to her sides, and her legs gave out. She was caught in a pair of arms, before she could hit the ground.
"Master, she is ready. She can't put up a fight now." Damian said, as he scooped her fully into his arms.
"Very well, then. Damian, place her back on the altar and then restrain him." Kojin said, as he reappeared next to the altar. He kept his eye on Dante, as Damian laid Deku down, then walked towards Dante.
"Hard way or easy way. Either way, Son of Sparda, you're not going to interfere with this." Damian said, in a calm voice, as he approached Dante. "If you try to interfere with this, we will kill her. Stay out of it, and you might get to see her wake up."
"Let her go!" Dante shouted, trying to run towards the altar.
Damian blocked his path. "I don't think so." He glared at Dante and threw him back against the wall. Blood vessels, like tentacles, shot out of the wall and ensnared Dante's arms and legs, holding him back, against the wall. "Stay put." Damian turned towards the altar and watched as his master bound Deku to the altar and let her arms hang over the sides, letting her blood trickle slowly, down her arms, onto stone circles carved into the floor, landing directly in the center.
The ground began to quake and then the sky began to open, letting a strange red light shine down onto the altar and the stone circles. Deku began to glow with a red aura, as Kojin chanted to the Gods of the Underworld to restore him to his true form, Akujin, the evil god. He also began to gain a red aura. A bolt of red and black lightning shot down out of the hole and hit Kojin. It completely engulfed him as he screamed.
Dante watched at the transformation and only two words escaped him. "Oh shit. . ." He looked at Deku, who was beginning to come around again. The hole that had let in the red light, was now shining on her. Her chest was barely rising and falling. She looked to be in worse shape than when he had found her inside the Nightmare. She had bite and scratch wounds all over her. Her clothes were tattered rags now. To be honest, he didn't have a clue to why he was paying so much attention to her, now, when the Demon Akujin, was returning to his full power only a few feet away from them. Then, he noticed it. Some of her wounds were closing up, but something weird was happening to her.
The silver streaks in her hair . . .were turning red. A blood red. She was changing just as quickly as Akujin was. She gained a reddish-brown aura, as she continued to heal. Soon, she started to flare with small flames. It was then that he notice what was on her hands. Ifrit. Under the red moon, it had activated a DT for Deku, and she was healing.
He thought back to when she could've put it on, then he remembered Akujin throwing them away, and then seeing them on Deku's hands after she had shot off that energy bomb. "Deku, you think of everything don't you? Hell, you probably planned this whole mess." Dante whispered to himself as he continued to watch her heal and change.
Damian watched Dante wondering why he was so fixed on a girl that the grim reaper was probably about to take away. He glanced at Deku. Flaming. Her body was flaming in the light of the red moon. Her body wasn't looking as beaten up as before. In fact, she didn't have the bruise on her jaw anymore, from when he had hit her. He disappeared and reappeared right next to her. "No you don't, Deku. I'm gonna take care of you, before you can even try." He put his hand around her neck. "I'll see your soul walking around here after this." He smirked as he prepared to snap her neck, but just as he began to twist his wrist, Deku's eyes shot open and she glared directly into his eyes. For the first time in his existence, fear, true fear, shot up his spine as he looked into those eyes. Black as night, with red, blood colored feline pupils. The eyes of a Hellcat. He felt helpless, as he stared into those eyes.
Deku's hand was at his neck, before he knew it, when she sat up. "Who are you going to kill?" She tightened her hold around his throat, and dug her fingernails--now razor sharp claws-- into his skin. "Nope, it ain't me." She dug them in deeper, and heard Damian give a choked cry, as her she pierced his skin and made him wince. "Put me through hell, then think I'm gonna take it lying down? No, that's not how the game is played."
Damian looked at Deku, feeling her grip getting tighter. Now her nails were beginning to sink in deep. "What . . . are you? Some . . . kind of . . . demon?" He choked out, as he felt her tearing into something in his throat, and draining his energy. Somehow, he knew he wasn't going to survive this.
"No, I'm not a demon. I'm something much, much worse." Deku started running, and slammed Damian's back, hard against the wall. The blood vessels shot out of the wall, and ensnared his wrists and ankles. "I'm Deku." She growled loudly bearing her fangs, which were now vampire like. Her eyes flared red and her nails began to penetrate deeper into his neck, making blood stream from the wounds onto her fingers and down his neck.
The last thing Damian could've sworn that he'd seen, just before Deku began to tear open his throat, was something in a black robe, standing behind her. It's face was hidden, but its hands weren't. Skeleton hands, that were holding onto a large scythe. As her nails dug into place, it turned the scythe sideways, as if preparing for a swing. When her eyes narrowed, the scythe was swung. . .
"Very nice work, Deku." Applauded the now, newly transformed Akujin, as he began to approach her. "I couldn't expect less from a Hellcat."
Deku glared at him as she ripped Damian's lifeless body from the wall, and tossed it to the ground like a broken doll. She licked the blood from her fingers, then looked at him. "Let Dante go, or else."
Akujin looked down at her and used some of his power as he spoke. "Who do you think you're ordering around, little girl?" He made a scratch just below her right eye on her cheekbone.
Deku looked at the cut that was drawing blood, then returned her glare to Akujin. "I said, let him go." She continued to glare at Akujin. He was a mix of human and dragon. Akujin's hair was now a wild black mane, going down to the base of his scale covered back. His scales were so fine, that one almost couldn't see them they made him seem to be covered in velvet. His wings were black as the midnight sky and large, dragon like. His eyes were still yellow and glowing brighter than ever, as he looked at Deku, and his face was now one that was straight out of a horror movie.
"Let Dante down, now!" She shouted, as she looked directly into his eyes.
"Easy there, little girl. Go on, rescue the son of Sparda." He crossed his arms. "But, you had better be quick about it."
She started tearing at the blood vessels that held Dante to the wall, but couldn't get them off fast enough, before another set shot out and ensnared his limbs again. "Stop with these stupid games!"
"Fine, have it your way, Deku." Akujin smirked at her. "I will not play anymore games." He made his eyes change to red for a second, and both he and Deku heard Dante cry out with pain.
Deku heard something pierce flesh and heard bone crack. She didn't want to look up at Dante, but did it anyway. As she had guessed, a spike had shot out of the wall, and went straight through the right side of Dante's chest, from his back. . . .
Ladies and Gentlemen, (If any men actually bothered to read this story) This is the end of the 6th Chapter! Now, now, don't cry. *gives the girl in the front a hankie* Just review if you want a Chapter 7, and blow your nose while you're at it!^_^
Dante: What?! Hey! What about me?! You can't end the Chapter now!
Deku: Yeah, you can't end it now! It was just getting cool! ::growls at Silver(Me):: Continue the Chapter, or I'll tell Sho what you said about him!
Silver::glares and starts typing up a new document::
Deku: Silver, what are you doing?! What are you typing?!
Silver::is smiling evilly:: Tell him anything, and this'll get posted.
Dante::Picks up the phone:: Continue the Chapter!!!
Deku: Silver what did you type up?
Silver::lets Deku see the screen:: This is a lemon, that'll really make my story go with Crystal's story about your and Dante's daughter! Trust me, I'll post it if you keep threatening to tell Sho!
Deku & Dante::while blushing:: No, don't do that!
Deku: Just tell us why you won't continue the 6th Chapter?
Silver: Because, it's called leaving them in Suspense!!
Deku: *mumbles* Yeah. . .also known as Writer's block. . .¬.¬'
Silver: Shut up, Deku . . . ¬.¬ ;