Lady Deadly Nightshade: Disclaimer: I do not own Devil May Cry or anything that pertains to them. I only own the character Gabriel and Amara, but she will not show up much in this fic.  Blah, blah, blah. ^_^

Chapter 10- Nothing to Do but Fight

            "It's great that you could join us, Gabriel Sparda," the Nelo spoke politely. "But then again it's not like you were given a choice in the matter." He said with a taunting smirk. "You had to play the hero by rescuing your father and of course since I captured her, Trish as well." He glanced past Gabriel to the unconscious Trish. "You saved me some trouble by coming here." The Nelo said as he advanced forward toward Gabriel. He snapped his fingers and Dante followed behind him.

            "What do you mean?" Gabriel brandished Alastor as he moved away toward the opposite side of the room. The Nelo now stood by Trish while Gabriel's back was toward the doors. Gabriel watched the Nelo intently as it sat down luxuriously in a throne that stood near Trish. Funny, Gabriel hadn't even noticed it before.

            "Relax, Gabriel, I'm not going to fight you." The Nelo said sincerely. "That's what your father is here for, but don't worry he won't attack you until I tell him too." The Nelo missed the horror on Gabriel's face as he had turned to look at Dante who stood perfectly still beside him. "He's my own personal lap dog." The Nelo chuckled softly at his own comment. "Ah yes, lets get back to your question." The Nelo replied in a serious tone. "To answer your question, you saved me the trouble of having to look for you. You can't believe the difficulty I was having trying to find you and your father wasn't very helpful either." He said scornfully, casting a quick glance at Dante. "We tortured him for hours, days, months, years and still he said not one word about you." The Nelo smirked at him. "He clearly loved you once but now he doesn't even remember you existed. He is simply a creature that I control. It was such a big hassle to brainwash him. Your father is a very stubborn man." The Nelo informed him.

            Gabriel gazed at his father as he processed everything the Nelo told him. Deep down inside he knew the demon was telling the truth. The blank expression on his father's face proved that he was just a mindless puppet under the Nelo's control. "What did you want us for?" Gabriel asked him.

            "My Lord Mundus wanted your blood line eradicated. Your father fought my Lord and defeated him. You and your father are a threat to him because it is foretold that as long as a descendent of Sparda lives, my Lord will not be able to conquer the world. Therefore with you two are killed the bloodline will die with you. Then when it is time for my lord to come back there will be no opposition and he will be free to rule the world." The Nelo told him. "Now do you understand?"

            "Yeah, I understand that Mundus, was it, isn't so great and powerful." He replied dismissively.

            "Watch your tone boy!" The Nelo warned him.

            Gabriel laughed mockingly. "I mean come on, Mundus is afraid of a blood line made of half demon half human hybrids. Yeah, he's so powerful that he will rule the world." Gabriel said sardonically. "He quivers in fear at the mere mention of the name Sparda; I have no doubt about that."

            The Nelo stood from the throne rather quickly. "Shut your mouth, human! You have no right to speak of the great Lord Mundus with your unworthy tongue!" He shouted angrily at Gabriel.

            "Seems I struck a nerve," Gabriel replied unperturbedly.

            The Nelo formed a giant fireball and launched it at Gabriel. Gabriel threw himself out of the way and landed roughly on his stomach. He turned on to his back and got back on to his feet. He stood in a fight stance, sword pointed at the Nelo. The Nelo looked at Gabriel and laughed hysterically. "I'm not going to fight you idiot boy, but he is." The Nelo indicated Dante, which sword in hand advanced towards Gabriel.

            "I'm not going to fight him, he's my father." Gabriel told the Nelo.

            "You don't have a choice, either you fight him or he kills you. Whichever you prefer makes no difference to me." The Nelo replied nonchalant.

            Gabriel turned his attention back to his father, just in time to block an upper hand swing from his father. Gabriel backed away a few steps to get out of his range. "I don't want to fight you!" Gabriel yelled at his father, as he blocked another hit with Alastor. The two swords clashed together, locking themselves against each other as if to stop the fight between father and son.

            "Father, stop!" Gabriel pleaded. "I'm your son!"

            Dante looked indifferent and with an almighty shove pulled the swords apart, causing Gabriel to stumble back from the force. Gabriel quickly regained his footing as his father advanced forward, his relentless attacks continued.

            Gabriel could match his father blow to blow, but he couldn't bring himself to strike at his father. Gabriel could feel his muscle getting heavy and feel his strength depleting, but his father wouldn't stop. He didn't know how long he could last before he would get hurt or worse by one of his father's attacks.

            Suddenly Dante threw a punch at Gabriel and it connected squarely with his cheek, sending him reeling back completely off balance. Dante also stepped forward, and swung Sparda and before Gabriel could dodge it, the sword connected with his shoulder slashing it open. To finish off his combo, Dante also did a roundhouse kick, knocking the sword out of Gabriel's hand, also causing Gabriel to land roughly on his back onto the floor.

            Forehead sweating, chest heaving from lack of oxygen, muscles hurting and exhausted, Gabriel had lost the fight and lay motionless. From the ground, he gazed up to his father looming over him. The tip of Sparda lay threatening over Gabriel's chest, right over his heart. This was the end; he could do nothing more. His saddened blue eyes gazed into those cold emotionless red eyes that belonged to his father and a solitary tear fell out of Gabriel's right eye. "I love you father." Was all he said and he closed his eyes in defeat.

Lady Deadly Nightshade:  Oh no! What's going to happen? Oh wait I already know what's going to happen. ^_ ~   Chapter 10 is complete! The story is almost finished as well. So please review! See ya later peeps!