Deku meets Dante. Is this a good thing or a bad one? Part 8: Downfall of the...
Dante: It's about damned time you continued this damned story, Silver!
Silver: Can I help it if when I get writer's block I get it bad?!
Deku:: does a dance:: I can fly again, and Silver's a big loser!
Silver: Shut up, Deku...we'll see who the big loser is at the end of this chapter...¬_¬
Disclaimer: I don't own Dante! I don't own Devil May Cry! But, Deku is mine and so is Akujin and so is the late Damian! ^_^ Though...Neko belongs to Tessa...¬.¬
They both looked upon the evil god, Akujin, with clueless expressions on their faces, as he began to grow. Sparda soon was ingested, as Akujin's body grew around it. The large black blade became a part of Akujin's body. He laughed manically as Deku and Dante began to shrink, becoming smaller and smaller in size compared to himself.
Deku had never imagined anything like this. Giant, powerful devils, feral and insane, lesser demons, ancient evil gods and demi-devil knights. "What's next?" Deku asked herself, as she watched Akujin continue to grow into giant proportions.
Dante gritted his teeth, wondering how in the hell he was supposed to defeat something like this. Mundus was a few times larger than Dante, but Akujin was at least twice the size of Mundus and from what he could tell, he was at least three times as powerful.
Deku eased back against one of the many living walls, watching Akujin as he was watching her. She was sizing him up just as he was sizing up Dante and herself, and she could tell that Akujin knew: She wasn't capable of running anymore.
"Ready to help me, little one?" Akujin asked, with a snicker.
Deku began to levitate off the floor against her will. Growling and grunting she fought against an invisible force, trying to get back onto the ground. "What are you trying to pull? Put me down!"
"Ah, ah. Bad girl." Akujin bent his index finger as if he were beginning a fist.
"Ack!" She began to feel a great pressure around her tail, something was holding it as if she had put it in a vice and it was tightening with every passing second. Pain shot through her every nerve like a rocket; her black and red eyes instantly returned to blue and yellow. Her fangs and nails shortened back to their original lengths as her hair returned to it's original colors of black and silver.
It became impossible for her to move a muscle, and all Deku could do was gape and gasp with her eyes wide, showing all the pain that she had been ignoring in full force. The wounds on her backside and thigh were throbbing as if some one was raking across them with a jagged glass bottle.
"You are going to become a part of me, little one." Akujin smiled again. "But, I can't, very well, have you squirming around inside me, now can I?" He bent the rest of his fingers into a fist and tightened it.
Her arms went to her sides and it became hard to move. Hard to breathe. Though it was invisible, she could feel something large and cold around her body, constricting her like an anaconda would its prey. It sparked in her mind as she noticed the glint in his eyes: Akujin was going to kill her.
All Dante could do was watch Akujin constrict Deku. He didn't know what to do. Should he try to attack, Akujin would snap her in half. If he continued to watch, she would be killed anyway.
"Do you know what the best part of this is, Son of Sparda?" He tightened his fist around Deku even more. "In a few minutes, her bones will snap like twigs." He could feel Deku squirming in his palm, though he was not touching her. Her pulse was racing, he could hear it. The sounds of her bones threatening to break and her labored breathing, were music to his ears. One or the other. Either, her heart would burst or her own body would impale her. He made his fist tighter, making Deku scream in anguish. Music to his ears. "It truly is a shame to kill off such a lovely creature with potential, like you, but...your attitude is really starting to annoy me."
How much longer she could endure, she didn't know. Too much more and her bones would break and impale her. "Argh!" She felt the bone in her upper left arm beginning to give way. She managed to look at him and give an amused look, despite her pain; when he read her thoughts, his were left in the open for her to read."Put...me down and I promise...to let the dog crap on...what's left of your liver!" Deku snarled through her teeth.
Determined to be stubborn, Akujin guessed. "You were born to piss me off, were you not, little one?" Deku seemed to be refusing to beg for mercy. Such a cocky girl. It would be a pleasure to break her and absorb what powers that she had to offer, and to wipe that ever-present smirk off her face. Even when she didn't have that smirk on her lips, it was still present, in her eyes. It drove him insane when she looked at him like that. She had a look that said, she couldn't be controlled. He had seen it through Damian's eyes.
"Stop it!" Deku tried to electrocute him as hard as she could, as well as burn him. Nothing worked. As she was doing this, she failed to notice that she was tiring herself out.
Akujin ignored her attempts to fight back. No, she would not win this time. She would not live to try again. She would not live to give him that look of defiance again. This time she would die, and he would benefit from it.
Dante kept his eyes on Deku, as she mouthed words to him, and they nodded in agreement, like in his premonition, and after the last words she mouthed, Akujin smiled.
An ominous crack was heard. Her bones had finally given way. She screamed as pain ripped through her whole body. Her ribs snapped and broke, protruding from her skin. Her scream was cut short, because the invisible fist Akujin had around her. It tightened and squeezed all air from her lungs and forced up blood. The crimson liquid spilt from her mouth in a small stream, that trickled from her bottom lip down her neck..
Dante turned away. She had told him not to interfere. Deku knew what she was doing.
"What is the matter, Son of Sparda? You cannot look at her?" Akujin smiled hearing Deku struggling to breathe through her blood and choking, as he continued to squeeze his fist tighter. "Can you not look upon your precious, Hellcat? It is obvious that you feel for this thing."
"Wait for my move, then shoot." Deku's words echoed in Dante's mind, as he kept his eyes downcast. Her blood spattering against the ground made his control begin to slip. Her choked cries rang in his ears along with her words.
Akujin began to laugh again, as his gaze resettled on Deku. "You are not much of a fighter, anymore, now are you, little one?" He raised his hand to his chest and one of his claws became a razor sharp talon. "Do not worry your suffering will soon be over. You will soon be part of me."
Deku opened her eyes to look at Akujin. Though her vision was blurred, her ears were not mistaken. She could hear the sound of flesh being sliced and bones repositioning themselves. Her nose was not mistaken either. She could smell blood and rotting flesh. "What are you doing?" Deku asked in a panic.
Something cold and slimy caught Deku around the waist, wrists, and ankles and jerked her free of the invisible fist, at a speed so great that she hardly had the chance to scream. She slammed against something as slimy and cold as the things around her waist, ankles and wrists.
Dante faced Akujin, not being able to stand the grunts and groans of her struggling. What he was met by was nothing that he was prepared for. Akujin had cut open his chest. It was opened wide like cabinet doors, and Deku was inside amongst his blackened flesh, trying to break free, as it began to engulf her. "Wait for my move, then shoot." He reminded himself with Deku's words, restraining himself from running to her rescue. Whatever she had up her sleeve, might be their only chance at stopping Akujin.
Akujin smiled yet again and closed his chest around her. "You are not going anywhere, little one." He laughed, patting his chest in a satisfied way, as one would his stomach, after a large meal. He commanded his body to take its course and absorb her as quickly as possible. Deku was still squirming around within him. As weak as she was, Deku was still hard to take in.
Akujin's eyes settled on the Son of Sparda. "If you kill me she dies as well, and with the power I gain from her and the power from Sparda that I have gotten, you don't stand a chance against me."
"I hope she gives you indigestion." Dante snarled, cracking his knuckles, and removing Ebony an Ivory from their holsters.
Akujin laughed, "Pea-shooters? You must be running out of ideas, half-breed!" He laughed more feeling Deku's wiggling in his chest beginning to die down. "Say your goodbyes while she can still hear you!"
Dante stared at the giant's chest. It wasn't true. She couldn't be dying already. Deku wouldn't give up that easily. Akujin was playing mind games again. He had to be! She was as stubborn as you could get, he couldn't have made her give in so soon.
"Ah, but I can make her do anything now, Son of Sparda. Deku is mine now. She is now nothing but a shadow of me. Like Damian was before her."
Dante only glared and took the safeties off his guns. "Deku isn't like Damian." His glare turned to a devilish smile, as if he knew something that Akujin did not.
The giant Demon God, pointed a finger at Dante and a small ball of light appeared. He laughed again. The ball of light began to grow at an alarming rate, until it reached the size of a boulder.
Dante realized what was going on. That was one of Deku's capabilities. Ki Blasts.
Akujin fired the giant energy ball at Dante, laughing like a maniac.
Dante dodged the giant ball and let it crash into one of the living walls. There was a gigantic explosion and bloody parts of the walls flew everywhere as did blood. Dante stared at what was left after the explosion, a gigantic charred and bleeding hole.
"Here we go again, Son of Sparda!" Akujin charged another and aimed for Dante, whom was ready to dodge again. "All you can do is ru-!" Akujin's breath was taken away by a cold flash, before he could finish.
Thousands of knives stabbed into him in unison with the freezing cold that he felt. He beat his chest where Deku was, but his pain only increased. Needles were piercing the underside of his flesh as the cold grew worse. He tried to strike her again, but his muscles were aching and the blow was weaker than the last. It felt like nails were stabbing into his every muscle as they fell numb and froze over. Frost appeared on his legs, quickly turning into crystals and growing until they reached the floor. The crystals created patches of ice on the floor and froze Akujin in place. "What...is she doing to me...?" Akujin asked, his voice now raspy because there was ice forming in his lungs.
Dante grinned, watching Akujin's chest where he had last seen Deku before she was pulled inside. A small white patch of frost was forming there, and quickly growing into ice crystals and spreading.
"Wait for my move then shoot me." Her words again echoed in his mind, reminding him. Letting him know that this was his chance. He took aim at the white patch of ice where Deku was. He charged Ebony and Ivory with demon energy and glared at Akujin over the guns that were sparking with blue lightning. "Deku...I can't..."
The frozen area on Akujin's chest glowed a bright yellow color. "What do you mean you can't?" Deku's voice shouted in Dante's mind. Akujin had neglected to close the link when she had surprised him. "He's going to adapt if you don't do it now! I can't hold him much longer!"
"Can't you get out of there?" Dante asked, staring at the area in Akujin's chest. He could see her outline in the yellow light.
"Dante, he has my arms and legs, and my ribs are broken...there's no way in hell that I can move. You have no idea how much pain that I'm in, trying to restrain Akujin as weak as I am now." She sent him images of what she looked like within Akujin's body. "It hurts to think."
She was surrounded by slimy, black flesh, and her eyes were closed and it appeared as if she was unconscious. Deku's arms and legs were being invaded by Akujin and he was slowly trying to make his way to her heart. Small blueish-green tentacles were pushing underneath her skin and forcing their way into her veins, inching ever so slowly towards Deku's heart. Dante shook his head to rid himself of those images. "No...I'm going to get you out of there!"
"This time you can't save me, Dante. Face it! I'll blow this son of a bitch to the moon and back with the charge I'll get from your bullets!" She sounded as if she was crying as she thought to him. "Dante...he's going to get loose! Do it now! I'd rather die by your hands than his!"
Dante shook his head. "I told you...I will not do it!"
Laughter echoed throughout the room and the ground quaked. "You should have listened to the little brat, Son of Sparda!" Akujin's eyes flared red, and he began to move. He acquired a black aura and the ice that held him in place and broke into large shards and began swirling around his body.
Dante heard Deku scream in his mind as a sharp pain split through him. Deku's image appeared in his mind again and he saw the bluish-green tentacles branching out faster within her veins shooting towards her heart.
"I'll teach you to mess with me, little one. I don't feel like waiting for you to die, anymore." He took one of the swirling shards of ice from around his body, pointed it at his chest. "Little brat!"
"Love you, Da-." Deku's thought didn't finish.
A bolt of lightning struck Dante's mind. He froze and stared at Akujin, as the giant shard of ice forced it's way through the devil god's back. It was stained red. A sole tear rolled down his cheek, as he gritted his teeth. "That's going too far..."
Akujin laughed and pulled the icy spike from his breast and lapped some of the blood from it, then threw it to the ground before Dante. "A Hellcat's blood over ice, is it not a delightful treat, Son of Sparda?" He grinned. The hundreds of ice shards directed their pointed ends towards Dante, like hundreds of harpoons.
Dante threw Ebony and Ivory to the ground and removed Alastor from his back. "You've gone too far, Akujin..." Dante glared with burning red eyes as he went into his Devil Trigger state and sprouted large black wings. "You're going to pay dearly for what you've done to her..."
"I think not, Son of Sparda." Akujin commanded the shards of ice to attack him all in unison, they cut the air with lightning speed all penetrating the ground at once, completely missing the Son of Sparda.
Dante floated in the air his eyes burning brighter as he glared at the giant. "I told you, I'm through with your games!"
The End...of Chapter 8...*dodges rotten fruit* Gomen-nasai! I didn't mean to kill her off! It just happened! Honest! Well, anywayz...review and I'll finish it up! I promise!
In the mean time all of my reviewers, I want you to e-mail me and tell me if Deku is dead, or if by some miracle she is still alive. Your e-mails will tell me how to end the story! Tell me already! This message is long enough as it is!! I'm out! Peace!
Deku:....Silver....you killed me off...::points to her devil horns:: ...you killed me off!
Silver ::inching away slowly:: Uhm...about that....heh heh...^_^;;
Deku::growls::
Silver: ^_^;; ... Uhm...I gotta go bai! ::waves and takes off running::
Deku: Come back here, Silver! ::chases Silver off into the sunset::