Well, sorry I didn't get this chapter up like I was supposed to
yesterday. Since I'm in a very cheerful mood, (I got DMC
back!!) I'll throw some action into this chapter. It'll be a
little longer too. Oh, I'd like to inform everyone that I will
be explaining the boy's mother in the next few chapters. So
everyone who wanted to know about her, don't go get your
knickers in a bind, okay? Anyways, on with the story!
Chapter 17 It LOOKS like a Shadow, But Sucks Even Worse. (Hmm, what is this thing?!)
Dyne and Dante had left the clan's hideout about half an hour ago. They hadn't seen many monsters, just one blade and a little party of msira's. They were now on a small street. The sun would be setting soon, so the street was painted a shade of orange.
Dante was walking along very cautiously with Dyne to his left, walking casually.
Dyne rubbed his gauntlet lightly. He thought about what the moon spirit had told him.
"The blood of the Wolf clan flows through your veins. My powers will give you much greater strength, but you must first learn unseal my powers before you can use them. . ." Dyne recalled.
"Okay, I understand the part about 'greater strength'. I don't feel any different though. I don't feel stronger or anything. I'm not part of the Wolf clan though. 'Least, I don't think so. . ." Dyne mumbled.
Dante turned, hearing the boy mumble. "What are you griping about now?"
Dyne looked up at him. He decided to figure this thing out once and for all.
"Dad, when I got this thing," He began, holding up his gauntlet. "there was this spirit."
Dante nodded. "Yeah? I talked to some spirits when I found Alastor and Ifrit too. I can still talk to them. What about it? It's not that big of a deal to you is it?"
"No, I don't care that there's a spirit in this thing or whatever. It's what it said to me. . ."
Dante cocked his head. "What'd he say?"
"Well, the spirit said that it would make me stronger with this gauntlet. Okay, I got that, but he also said something that I want to understand."
Dante waved his arm in a 'go on' gesture. The boy continued.
"He kept saying I was part of the Wolf clan. I'm not, right?"
Just as Dante opened his mouth, a loud roar filled the street. Dante drew his sword with lightning speed and looked around. Dyne began searching the surroundings as well. A hiss came from under a nearby car.
"Oh, boy. . ." Dante grumbled. "A shadow."
Dyne nodded with approval. He was ready for the bastard this time.
"So, how bad are these things anyways?" Dyne asked. Sure, he'd seen Tye kill that one, but through his blurred vision, he could see that Tye had went into devil trigger. Dyne wouldn't be able to for at least 30 more minutes.
"They ain't that bad. It's all a matter of dodging, jumping, shooting, and running. After they dematerialize into a ball, you slash them with a sword until they turn back. After a little bit, they turn red. That's when you stay as far from them as you can. Don't let them get ahold of you. If you stay away, they'll blow up and die." Dante explained. "Easy enough. They're a good challenge if there's one or two. Too many more and it starts getting tough."
"Right. . ." That made sense. They didn't sound too bad. "So, how many at a time have you fought, dad?"
"Oh. . ." Dante thought for a moment. "Three in a very confined room. It was a bitch. Had to go devil trigger. I got through though."
Dyne hoped there weren't more than four. (Just imagine fighting about 10 shadows at once. . .) There was another loud roar, then a puddle of shadow came from under the nearby car. It changed into its cat-like form.
"Hmmm. . .this is different. . ." Dante said softly. Dyne wondered what he ment. He noticed that this shadow looked a little different from the one he'd fought earlier. It was black like the other, but had big spikes the same color as its body going down its back. That was all that was different.
The shadow jumped into the air and began to spin. The two held their ground to see who it was going for. It came flying down toward Dyne. He rolled to the side. Much like the other one, it now had it's back turned to Dyne.
"Okay buddy, I'm not making the same mistake twice." Dyne thought. Instead of slashing it, Dyne moved back a bit and whipped out his guns. He saw Dante do the same and they both began to shoot. As the bullets hit, Dyne could see them being reflected in every direction. He saw Dante move to the side, as one grazed his cheek. Apparently, bullets didn't work against this particular shadow.
"Okay, now what?!" Dyne yelled.
"Guess it's an new form. Must have evolved to be immune to bullets now too." Dante explained.
"I figure that out by now!" Dyne yelled as the shadow turned and used its head like a spear. Dyne jumped up and over to keep from getting impaled.
Just as the shadow turned toward Dante, Dante charged forward and stabbed at it. The needles came from its body and flew at him, but he dodged them.
"Okay, so swords don't work either!" Dante yelled, dodging to the side to miss a number of spike pillars erupting from the ground.
"How do we kill it?!?!?!?!?" Dyne yelled as the beast turned its attention to him. Dyne ran from it and up the face of a building. He jumped off and landed behind it on the sidewalk. Dante ran over to him.
"Well, my boy, we don't. In a certain change of events, we run like rabbits." Dante grabbed him by the coat and began running with him. Dyne got the point and knocked his dad's hand off. They ran from the shadow, who was in hot pursuit. It suddenly stopped.
Dyne stopped and watched it. It began to change form. It's body melted into a puddle.
"Hey, I think it's gonna leave us alone. . ."
Dante turned and began watching too. The puddle bubbled and turned red. After a few moments, it went back to its ebony color. The two watched it curiously.
"Should we go?" Dyne asked.
"Naw, I want to see what it does."
They heard an odd moan come from the puddle, then it began to take another form. It changed into a more human like form, but still some cat-like features. It still had the spikes, red eyes and a tail. It had two black-clawed hands and huge fangs.
"Well, that's definitely new to me." Dante said.
This new beast hissed loudly and a large sword-like spike protruded from its hand.
"Reminds me more of a plasma than a shadow now." Dante said as the beast charge at him. He rolled and jumped up.
"Time to get the hell out of Dodge Dyne!!" Dante yelled and began running. Dyne immediately followed.
The two ran until they got to a large fork in the street. They turned and ran down the left side into a very narrow road. Dyne looked behind him to see if the shadow human had stopped chasing them yet. He didn't see it.
"I think it's gone." Dyne called. Dante stopped and Dyne ran to his side.
"Guess we lost him. . ." Dante sighed.
The two heard a grunt from behind them. As they turned, there was a huge Abyss Goat standing only about 10 feet away.
"Aw man." Dyne groaned, making the spikes and blades come out of his gauntlet. He ran toward the goat and slashed away. Dante helped. Together they made short work of the Abyss Goat.
"That was easy. . ." Dyne thought as the goat groaned its last breath of life and disintegrated.
Don't speak so soon. . ." Dante said, looking at the roofs of buildings around. There were about 6 more Abyss Goats and some other members of the goat clan.
"Damn it. . ." Dyne groaned. A few of the goats jumped down to the road and began circling the two. A few of the others became airborne.
"Okay, we can handle this. It ain't too bad." Dante reassured himself and his son.
Right after making that comment, they heard a roar that marked the presence of the shadow-human. They saw that three more had joined it.
"Way to go, dad. Ya jinxed us. . ." Dyne growled.
This was about the worst situation Dante could recall being in for a long time. The two backed up into a wall that marked a dead end in the road. The goats and the shadow human advanced toward them.
"Okay dad, now what?" Dyne asked, hoping his old man had an idea.
"Well, since I didn't bring my rocket laucher and those shadow look-a-likes are impossible to kill. . .my advice is: Bend over, stick your head between your legs, and kiss your ass goodbye."
"Great advice. . ." Dyne said sarcasticlly. It is very doubtful that any other person would ever be so calm about this situation as these two.
As three of the flying goats began to do a spell that would send a barrage of fireballs at the two, one of the threes heads was split in half with a small, blade-like energy. The other two stopped to see what had just attacked.
Someone came flying from a nearby building with a large kris sword. They decapitated two of the airborne goats in one hit. The other goats and the shadow-humans on the ground watched as the mysterious person took out the rest after jumping off of the falling body one of the decapitated goats. All of the flyers fell to the ground, decapitated like the other two. The person landed on the ground just as the bodies disintegrated.
While the other demons watched the person in aw, Dyne and Dante took the advantage and began to kill the surrounding goat demons. Before the shadow-humans knew what happened, they saw all of the other demons around them, slain.
This apparently pissed them off royally, and they began attacking. Dante dodged as one took a slash at him.
Dyne, not wanting to mess up his new coat, whipped it off and threw it on the ground. He started dodging the slashing of the demons. He heard someone, apparently the man, yell.
"Use your gauntlet! It'll kill them!" He turned to Dante. "Go devil trigger. That works too."
The two decided to take the mans advice. Dante went devil trigger and Dyne got ready with his gauntlet. They were both surprised when they took a few slashes and saw that the mans plan had worked. Dyne slashed and stabbed one of the shadows. Unlike a normal shadow, when it died, it just melted into a puddle and disappeared. Dyne went for a second one. Dante did the same.
As Dyne fought his second one, it jumped over him and slashed him in the back. He quickly turned around and tried to jab it, but the demon brought its sword arm up before he could and impaled him.
"Damn it. That's the third time today I've been impaled. . ." Dyne thought as the shadow-human kicked him into the wall. He fell onto the ground.
"Dyne!" Dante yelled, blocking an attack from his demon. It wouldn't let him near the boy.
Dyne's shadow-human advanced toward him slowly. It lengthened its sword.
The man jumped in front of Dyne and jammed his sword into the demon's throat. He then pulled it out and chopped its head off. The demon turned into a puddle and disappeared. Dante hurried and made quick work of the last shadow and ran over to Dyne.
The man was knelling next to Dyne. He had his hand on the huge wound on his chest. Dante could see a blue aura around the mans hand and it began to spread to the wound. The wound quickly healed.
After Dynes wound was healed, he and the man stood up at the same time. Dyne looked him over. He was wearing a hat that covered his eyes and hair, but Dyne could see some silver hair and a few strands of black poking out.
"Thanks, you saved us. Who are you?" Dyne asked weakly.
The man seemed to hesitate. "My. . .my name is. . .Raith." He said.
"Dante put his hand on the mans shoulder. "Thanks for helping-" Dante began. Raith turned around and stared at Dante. Dante could barely see his eyes, which were a pale purple. The two stared at each other silently for a moment. Raith looked away and at the ground.
"What are you doing here, Dante?" Raith asked. Dante cocked his head. He couldn't shake the feeling that he knew this guy.
"Helping my kid. Who are you?"
Raith ignored Dantes question and turned his attention to Dyne. He pointed at the gauntlet.
"Young man, um, Dyne? Where did you get that?"
Dyne held his arm up. Everyone seemed to like this thing. "A moon spirit gave it to me."
Raith seemed surprised at his answer. "T-that's the Cerbis gauntlet. How could such a young man like you get such a powerful weapon?"
Dyne shrugged. "Hey, he just came and forced me into it basiclly. At least now I know what to call this thing." He smirked.
Raith turned back to Dante. "Well, I'll be going. I have some business to attend to. I'll probably be seeing you again. Unfortunatly, we won't be helping each other next time." He said and began backing away from Dante. "Oh, and watch out for those Umbra's; I'm sure you saw that they're a real pain in the ass."
"Umbra's. Must be the shadow things." Dante thought.
"Yeah. The shadow things." Raith answered Dantes thought. He continued backing away until he jumped into the air and onto a roof.
"Like I said, I'll be seeing you again." He said and left.
Dyne walked over to his dad. "Looks like he isn't our buddy. . ."
"Nope."
Dyne sighed and put his arms behind his head in a relaxed position. He then looked at his dad.
"So, what were we talking about before this predicament? Oh, I know; what did that spirit mean?"
Dante walked to a building and jumped to the roof. Dyne jumped after him.
"Well, let's rest and I'll discuss that. . ."
HAH! Did everyone like it? One of my better chapters, I think. I know Chasm'll give me a good review, right Chasm? Thank you, anyone who gives me reviews. Oh, in a review, will someone tell me how to spell 'msira'? I'm not sure if it's right or not. I can't spell half the names of the monsters in DMC 2. Also, tell me some kinds of monsters I should have the guys fight too, okay? I have a few plans, but I think they should kill a load more. I will have another chapter up by the end of the week hopefully.
Chapter 17 It LOOKS like a Shadow, But Sucks Even Worse. (Hmm, what is this thing?!)
Dyne and Dante had left the clan's hideout about half an hour ago. They hadn't seen many monsters, just one blade and a little party of msira's. They were now on a small street. The sun would be setting soon, so the street was painted a shade of orange.
Dante was walking along very cautiously with Dyne to his left, walking casually.
Dyne rubbed his gauntlet lightly. He thought about what the moon spirit had told him.
"The blood of the Wolf clan flows through your veins. My powers will give you much greater strength, but you must first learn unseal my powers before you can use them. . ." Dyne recalled.
"Okay, I understand the part about 'greater strength'. I don't feel any different though. I don't feel stronger or anything. I'm not part of the Wolf clan though. 'Least, I don't think so. . ." Dyne mumbled.
Dante turned, hearing the boy mumble. "What are you griping about now?"
Dyne looked up at him. He decided to figure this thing out once and for all.
"Dad, when I got this thing," He began, holding up his gauntlet. "there was this spirit."
Dante nodded. "Yeah? I talked to some spirits when I found Alastor and Ifrit too. I can still talk to them. What about it? It's not that big of a deal to you is it?"
"No, I don't care that there's a spirit in this thing or whatever. It's what it said to me. . ."
Dante cocked his head. "What'd he say?"
"Well, the spirit said that it would make me stronger with this gauntlet. Okay, I got that, but he also said something that I want to understand."
Dante waved his arm in a 'go on' gesture. The boy continued.
"He kept saying I was part of the Wolf clan. I'm not, right?"
Just as Dante opened his mouth, a loud roar filled the street. Dante drew his sword with lightning speed and looked around. Dyne began searching the surroundings as well. A hiss came from under a nearby car.
"Oh, boy. . ." Dante grumbled. "A shadow."
Dyne nodded with approval. He was ready for the bastard this time.
"So, how bad are these things anyways?" Dyne asked. Sure, he'd seen Tye kill that one, but through his blurred vision, he could see that Tye had went into devil trigger. Dyne wouldn't be able to for at least 30 more minutes.
"They ain't that bad. It's all a matter of dodging, jumping, shooting, and running. After they dematerialize into a ball, you slash them with a sword until they turn back. After a little bit, they turn red. That's when you stay as far from them as you can. Don't let them get ahold of you. If you stay away, they'll blow up and die." Dante explained. "Easy enough. They're a good challenge if there's one or two. Too many more and it starts getting tough."
"Right. . ." That made sense. They didn't sound too bad. "So, how many at a time have you fought, dad?"
"Oh. . ." Dante thought for a moment. "Three in a very confined room. It was a bitch. Had to go devil trigger. I got through though."
Dyne hoped there weren't more than four. (Just imagine fighting about 10 shadows at once. . .) There was another loud roar, then a puddle of shadow came from under the nearby car. It changed into its cat-like form.
"Hmmm. . .this is different. . ." Dante said softly. Dyne wondered what he ment. He noticed that this shadow looked a little different from the one he'd fought earlier. It was black like the other, but had big spikes the same color as its body going down its back. That was all that was different.
The shadow jumped into the air and began to spin. The two held their ground to see who it was going for. It came flying down toward Dyne. He rolled to the side. Much like the other one, it now had it's back turned to Dyne.
"Okay buddy, I'm not making the same mistake twice." Dyne thought. Instead of slashing it, Dyne moved back a bit and whipped out his guns. He saw Dante do the same and they both began to shoot. As the bullets hit, Dyne could see them being reflected in every direction. He saw Dante move to the side, as one grazed his cheek. Apparently, bullets didn't work against this particular shadow.
"Okay, now what?!" Dyne yelled.
"Guess it's an new form. Must have evolved to be immune to bullets now too." Dante explained.
"I figure that out by now!" Dyne yelled as the shadow turned and used its head like a spear. Dyne jumped up and over to keep from getting impaled.
Just as the shadow turned toward Dante, Dante charged forward and stabbed at it. The needles came from its body and flew at him, but he dodged them.
"Okay, so swords don't work either!" Dante yelled, dodging to the side to miss a number of spike pillars erupting from the ground.
"How do we kill it?!?!?!?!?" Dyne yelled as the beast turned its attention to him. Dyne ran from it and up the face of a building. He jumped off and landed behind it on the sidewalk. Dante ran over to him.
"Well, my boy, we don't. In a certain change of events, we run like rabbits." Dante grabbed him by the coat and began running with him. Dyne got the point and knocked his dad's hand off. They ran from the shadow, who was in hot pursuit. It suddenly stopped.
Dyne stopped and watched it. It began to change form. It's body melted into a puddle.
"Hey, I think it's gonna leave us alone. . ."
Dante turned and began watching too. The puddle bubbled and turned red. After a few moments, it went back to its ebony color. The two watched it curiously.
"Should we go?" Dyne asked.
"Naw, I want to see what it does."
They heard an odd moan come from the puddle, then it began to take another form. It changed into a more human like form, but still some cat-like features. It still had the spikes, red eyes and a tail. It had two black-clawed hands and huge fangs.
"Well, that's definitely new to me." Dante said.
This new beast hissed loudly and a large sword-like spike protruded from its hand.
"Reminds me more of a plasma than a shadow now." Dante said as the beast charge at him. He rolled and jumped up.
"Time to get the hell out of Dodge Dyne!!" Dante yelled and began running. Dyne immediately followed.
The two ran until they got to a large fork in the street. They turned and ran down the left side into a very narrow road. Dyne looked behind him to see if the shadow human had stopped chasing them yet. He didn't see it.
"I think it's gone." Dyne called. Dante stopped and Dyne ran to his side.
"Guess we lost him. . ." Dante sighed.
The two heard a grunt from behind them. As they turned, there was a huge Abyss Goat standing only about 10 feet away.
"Aw man." Dyne groaned, making the spikes and blades come out of his gauntlet. He ran toward the goat and slashed away. Dante helped. Together they made short work of the Abyss Goat.
"That was easy. . ." Dyne thought as the goat groaned its last breath of life and disintegrated.
Don't speak so soon. . ." Dante said, looking at the roofs of buildings around. There were about 6 more Abyss Goats and some other members of the goat clan.
"Damn it. . ." Dyne groaned. A few of the goats jumped down to the road and began circling the two. A few of the others became airborne.
"Okay, we can handle this. It ain't too bad." Dante reassured himself and his son.
Right after making that comment, they heard a roar that marked the presence of the shadow-human. They saw that three more had joined it.
"Way to go, dad. Ya jinxed us. . ." Dyne growled.
This was about the worst situation Dante could recall being in for a long time. The two backed up into a wall that marked a dead end in the road. The goats and the shadow human advanced toward them.
"Okay dad, now what?" Dyne asked, hoping his old man had an idea.
"Well, since I didn't bring my rocket laucher and those shadow look-a-likes are impossible to kill. . .my advice is: Bend over, stick your head between your legs, and kiss your ass goodbye."
"Great advice. . ." Dyne said sarcasticlly. It is very doubtful that any other person would ever be so calm about this situation as these two.
As three of the flying goats began to do a spell that would send a barrage of fireballs at the two, one of the threes heads was split in half with a small, blade-like energy. The other two stopped to see what had just attacked.
Someone came flying from a nearby building with a large kris sword. They decapitated two of the airborne goats in one hit. The other goats and the shadow-humans on the ground watched as the mysterious person took out the rest after jumping off of the falling body one of the decapitated goats. All of the flyers fell to the ground, decapitated like the other two. The person landed on the ground just as the bodies disintegrated.
While the other demons watched the person in aw, Dyne and Dante took the advantage and began to kill the surrounding goat demons. Before the shadow-humans knew what happened, they saw all of the other demons around them, slain.
This apparently pissed them off royally, and they began attacking. Dante dodged as one took a slash at him.
Dyne, not wanting to mess up his new coat, whipped it off and threw it on the ground. He started dodging the slashing of the demons. He heard someone, apparently the man, yell.
"Use your gauntlet! It'll kill them!" He turned to Dante. "Go devil trigger. That works too."
The two decided to take the mans advice. Dante went devil trigger and Dyne got ready with his gauntlet. They were both surprised when they took a few slashes and saw that the mans plan had worked. Dyne slashed and stabbed one of the shadows. Unlike a normal shadow, when it died, it just melted into a puddle and disappeared. Dyne went for a second one. Dante did the same.
As Dyne fought his second one, it jumped over him and slashed him in the back. He quickly turned around and tried to jab it, but the demon brought its sword arm up before he could and impaled him.
"Damn it. That's the third time today I've been impaled. . ." Dyne thought as the shadow-human kicked him into the wall. He fell onto the ground.
"Dyne!" Dante yelled, blocking an attack from his demon. It wouldn't let him near the boy.
Dyne's shadow-human advanced toward him slowly. It lengthened its sword.
The man jumped in front of Dyne and jammed his sword into the demon's throat. He then pulled it out and chopped its head off. The demon turned into a puddle and disappeared. Dante hurried and made quick work of the last shadow and ran over to Dyne.
The man was knelling next to Dyne. He had his hand on the huge wound on his chest. Dante could see a blue aura around the mans hand and it began to spread to the wound. The wound quickly healed.
After Dynes wound was healed, he and the man stood up at the same time. Dyne looked him over. He was wearing a hat that covered his eyes and hair, but Dyne could see some silver hair and a few strands of black poking out.
"Thanks, you saved us. Who are you?" Dyne asked weakly.
The man seemed to hesitate. "My. . .my name is. . .Raith." He said.
"Dante put his hand on the mans shoulder. "Thanks for helping-" Dante began. Raith turned around and stared at Dante. Dante could barely see his eyes, which were a pale purple. The two stared at each other silently for a moment. Raith looked away and at the ground.
"What are you doing here, Dante?" Raith asked. Dante cocked his head. He couldn't shake the feeling that he knew this guy.
"Helping my kid. Who are you?"
Raith ignored Dantes question and turned his attention to Dyne. He pointed at the gauntlet.
"Young man, um, Dyne? Where did you get that?"
Dyne held his arm up. Everyone seemed to like this thing. "A moon spirit gave it to me."
Raith seemed surprised at his answer. "T-that's the Cerbis gauntlet. How could such a young man like you get such a powerful weapon?"
Dyne shrugged. "Hey, he just came and forced me into it basiclly. At least now I know what to call this thing." He smirked.
Raith turned back to Dante. "Well, I'll be going. I have some business to attend to. I'll probably be seeing you again. Unfortunatly, we won't be helping each other next time." He said and began backing away from Dante. "Oh, and watch out for those Umbra's; I'm sure you saw that they're a real pain in the ass."
"Umbra's. Must be the shadow things." Dante thought.
"Yeah. The shadow things." Raith answered Dantes thought. He continued backing away until he jumped into the air and onto a roof.
"Like I said, I'll be seeing you again." He said and left.
Dyne walked over to his dad. "Looks like he isn't our buddy. . ."
"Nope."
Dyne sighed and put his arms behind his head in a relaxed position. He then looked at his dad.
"So, what were we talking about before this predicament? Oh, I know; what did that spirit mean?"
Dante walked to a building and jumped to the roof. Dyne jumped after him.
"Well, let's rest and I'll discuss that. . ."
HAH! Did everyone like it? One of my better chapters, I think. I know Chasm'll give me a good review, right Chasm? Thank you, anyone who gives me reviews. Oh, in a review, will someone tell me how to spell 'msira'? I'm not sure if it's right or not. I can't spell half the names of the monsters in DMC 2. Also, tell me some kinds of monsters I should have the guys fight too, okay? I have a few plans, but I think they should kill a load more. I will have another chapter up by the end of the week hopefully.