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Chapter 22 Three Old Friends (Friends my ass!!)

The red ground began to crack. A huge hole opened up. Dyne felt a tremendous heat coming from the hole. He saw a large arm looking thing grab the ground around the hole. Five more arms joined and the heat became even worse. Dyne watched a giant spider covered in lava leap from the hole. Demi moved and let it jump in front of him. It screeched/roared at the two, sending a blazing wind in their direction. Dyne covered his face to try and shield the heat.

"Damn! Now that's a demon!" Dyne yelled. He didn't want to admit it to Dante, but he was waiting for something 'worth killing' to come along.

Demitri jumped onto the spiders back. "Phantom, you remember Dante, am I right?"

Phantom growled. "YES!! HE'S THE ONE WHO KILLED ME!!!"

"Yes, well, I've brought you back to life so that you can try to kill him one last time. If you win, you get to have your life back. If you lose, well, you die obviously." Demi jumped from Phantoms back and into a safe tree.

"I'LL KILL YOU THIS TIME, SON OF SPARDA!!!!!!" Phantom yelled, sticking his head into the ground. Dante ran as the ground under him turned red and huge pillars of lava shot from the ground. Dyne jumped away from a pillar that shot up near him. Just being so close made him feel like he was in a bar-b-que pit.

After Phantom stopped making pillars come from the ground, he jumped into the air and tried to crush Dante. Dante jumped to keep from becoming a pancake and just as Phantom hit the ground, he charged forward and stabbed Phantom in the mouth. Phantom screeched in pain and tried to grab Dante in his front claws. Dante did a back flip and kept his distance. He eventually ended back next to Dyne.

"Nice little spider. Can I have a go?" Dyne asked, itching to go fight. Before Dante could argue, Dyne was already in Phantoms face.

Phantom stopped and stared at the boy. He huffed in Dynes face, blowing his hair a little. Dyne stood bravely.

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?! I HAVE NO QUARREL WITH YOU, I JUST WANT TO KILL DANTE!!!!!!!" Phantom roared. Dyne stared at Phantom. "WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM, KID?! MOVE OR I'LL KILL YOU TOO!!"

Dyne looked up into the tree where Demitri was sitting. He looked at Demitri for a moment, then back at Phantom. He closed his eyes and had a cute, rather innocent smile on his face. (One of those cute anime kind of Vash smiles.) "Actually, I think that guy up there wants you to kill me too." Dyne explained. "See, I'm Dante's son. I'm sure you want to kill all Spardas, right?"

Phantom seemed somewhat confused. He obviously didn't know who to kill now. He turned and looked up into the tree. "WHO DO I KILL?!?!?"

"Phantom, you imbecile!! Kill them both! Not just Dante, both of them, you dumbass spider!" Demi yelled, rubbing his temples.

Phantom turned back, only to have a faceful of Dynes spikes stabbed into his head immediately. Dyne jumped away for a moment to keep from getting slashed. As Phantom tried to build up for a fireball, Dyne smashed him in the face, causing Phantom to hurt himself more. After a number of slashings and a few gunshots, Phantom dropped to the ground and began melting.

"I thought you just wanted a turn." Dante said sarcasticlly.

"That was my turn, I just happened to kill it in under five minutes."

Dyne turned back to Demitri. "Hmm, not bad. Unfortuatly, I've got more where that came from." Demi said holding his hand up again.

"No you don't!" Dante yelled, running toward Demitri. Before he could get to him, a large portal opened in front of Dante. He stopped and stepped back a bit. He dodged away from it as red lightning began to shoot from the portal.

Dyne tried to run at Demitri, but was knocked away as a huge bird flew from the portal, hitting Dyne in the head with one of it's feet as it flew at him.

The bird landed next to the tree where Demitri was sitting.

"Griffon. Thanks to Dante, Mundus saw you as unworthy and killed you, am I correct?"

"YES!" Griffon roared.

Demitri stroked Griffons face. Well, I'm your new master, and you can prove to me that you are worthy.

"How's that, master?" Griffon asked softly.

Demi pointed at Dyne and Dante. "See them? Just kill them and I'll see you as a worthy demon, suitable to live."

Griffon knodded and turned to face the two. He saw Dante and made a groaning kind of sound. "AW, SHIT!! I CAN'T FIGHT HIM! HE'LL JUST KILL ME AGAIN!" Griffon wined. Dyne thought he seemed like a big crybaby for being such a big ass demon.

"Stop complaining Griffon. Just do it."

"No. I don't wanna die again!"

"Just go."

"Nooo!"

"Yes."

"Please, no!"

"GO!!"

"NO, I BEG YOU!!"

"Do it, or I'll kill you myself!"

"Nnnonononononononononono!!!!!!!!!"

"Griffon. . ." Demi growled.

Griffon seemed to begin crying. He jumped into the air. Red electricity shot around his body.

"Well, I guess he decided to start fighting." Dyne said looking at Dante, then back up to Griffon.

"SORRY SIR!!!!!!!!!!!" Griffon yelled through his crying. He suddenly dissappeared. Everyone stood around, dumbfounded.

". . . . . . . . . .Ooookay. . ." Dante said to himself.

". . . . . . . . . .That sucks. . ." Dyne groaned.

". . . . .Damn you, Griffon. . . . ." Demitri groaned.

Dyne and Dante stood on the ground for a few moments, Demitri in the tree, waiting to see if Griffon was coming back.

He wasn't.

Dyne gave a funny little snort, followed by obnoxious laughter. Dante watched him sit down and start laughing like an evil hyena. Demitri didn't seem too happy about it.

"Stop laughting!! It isn't funny!!"

"You're stupid demon henchman hauled ass on you!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!" Dyne laughed, on the verge of hyperventilating. Dante giggled a little at this.

"Your big bird was just a big ass chicken!!" Dyne laughed. "Bawk, bawk, bawk, bagawk!!!! Heh, heh, heh, heh!"

Demitri tired of Dynes laughter and jumped from the tree. "Screw you! I'll kill you!" He yelled, pulling out his sword. He ran at Dyne, who was still laughing like a maniac. Dyne saw Demi coming and blocked. He then punched him in the face.

"Come on, give us something better to kill. I'm getting bored. Can we just kill you now?" Dyne griped.

Dante stood back. He didn't want to have to fight Demitri. Dyne and Demi spent a good 10 minutes just dodging each other's attacks. Dyne gave Demi a hit in the shoulder. He reeled back a bit and jumped up into the tree.

Dyne could tell Demitri was getting tired and weakened. He sat in the tree huffing. He wiped some sweat from his face and growled when he saw that Dyne had a smirk across his face.

"Okay. I've got enough energy for two more summonings. I'll use one as a trump, then if they get past him too quick, I'll do something to keep them occupied." Demi thought. He raised his arm into the air. Blue energy swirled around his hand.

"Come forth, Nelo!" He yelled.

"Nelo?" Dyne mumbled.

Dante raised an eyebrow. "Don't sent him. How can he send dead demons anyways?" Dante thought. First his friend, now his brother? What would he have to fight next?

There was a loud rumble of thunder, then blue lightning hit the ground a few feet in front of Dyne. A large man in armor appeared from the lightning. He had white hair like Dante and glowing red eyes.

"Nelo Angelo!" Demitri yelled.

Nelo turned around and faced Demi. "I'm your new master! Nelo, kill that young man right there. When you're done, you can deal with your brother there."

"Huh, my brother?" Nelo thought. He looked and saw Dante standing a few yards behind Dyne, staring at him. "Well, looks like I can see how my abilities fair against his." He then turned and looked at Dyne. "And who's this? Oh well, guess I'll just get rid of him first. I should be grateful to this man for bringing me back to life."

Nelo brought up his sword. Dyne stared at it, his eyes widened.

"Oooohhh. . .HOLY SHIT!!!! That's a big fuckin' sword!!" Dyne yelped. Nelo came at him, he jumped into the air and bounced off of Nelo's head.

Dyne heard a plop sound. He looked behind him to see Demitri running away.

"HEY!! You son of a bitch! Get back here!!" Dyne yelled.

Demi stopped and smirked at him. "Sorry, but you know that saying about running away and living to fight another day. I'm following that right now, so. . .see ya!!" He said running out of the park.

Dante turned to Dyne. "I'm going after him. You stay here and fight Vergil." Dante yelled, running after Demitri.

"SHIT!!!" Dyne yelled as Nelo came down with his sword. Dyne barely rolled away. He felt a cool breeze pass his face as the sword hit the ground and upheaveled some dirt and grass.

"Yeahhh!!! Fuckin' scary!" He yelled and tried to slash at Nelo. Nelo blocked it. He then rammed Dyne away from him and jabbed. The sword hit Cerbis and bounced back. Dyne saw this as an opening and jabbed forward. Nelo grabbed Dynes head as he came forward. He picked him up and threw him a good 20 yards. Dyne was stopped by smashing into a tree.

"Owie. . ." Dyne slowly got up. "Thanks for leaving me to kill the more bad ass guy all alone." He grumbled. Nelo held out his sword in a taunt.

"Don't fuckin' tease me!" Dyne yelled. He was getting rather tired from the day's fight. Not to mention. . ."

"What's the matter, boy?" Nelo asked in a stern, yet teasing voice.

Dyne drooped his body. "I'm hungry. . .I need a nap and something to eat. . ."

Nelo laughed loudly. He slowly walked up to Dyne, boots clanking. He came in front of the boy.

"You want a nap?" He said laughing. Dyne knodded. Nelo picked him up by the head again and put him in front of his face. Dyne thought he looked remarkably like Dante. "I don't have any reason to kill you. Why does that man who brought me back to life want you dead?"

"Well, because we wanted to kill him, and because I'm Dante's son. You know my dad?"

Nelo was silent. He cocked his head. "I don't think I'll kill you."

"Really?! That's great, 'cause I think you have one hell of a chance right now."

Nelo dropped Dyne slowly. Dyne looked up at him gratefully.

"I'll let you live. You're very lucky. Besides, I'd want to fight you when you're at full strength, not exausted."

"I'm glad to hear that."

Nelo came right up into the boy's face. "Now, you said you were tired, then sleep." Nelo brought up his hand and slammed it down into the back of Dynes neck. Dynes eyes widened, then closed. He collapsed into the grass.

Nelo turned around and began to leave. "Dante has a son? Well, that's nice to know. Maybe I can fight him at better terms sometime." He thought. He looked around the park.

"Mundus is gone, that man who says he is my master is nothing but a coward. Why should I follow his orders?" Nelo laughed to himself. "I'll fight Dante on my own time. For now though, I'm gonna go have a little fun."

Nelo smiled as he dissappeared. He felt very happy to be alive.

Alright. Did anyone like that chapter? I don't think I'll have Nelo come back, maybe if I write a sequel. . .Oh, never mind! I wasn't supposed to tell you guys about that 'til the end!! Oh well. . .so now you know. Review and I'll have the next up Monday or Tuesday.