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Chapter 25 Dynes Newfound Ability; The Departed Friend
Dante snapped awake. He had apparently dosed off while he was resting. His body was stiff and his head groggy.
"What time is it?" He thought. He reached into his coat and pulled out an old pocket watch. He opened it to reveil that it was 3:15 in the morning. "Damn. I slept pretty well. Lucky I ain't dead though."
He stood up, yawning. After the fight with the infested car, Dante had tried to get some rest. Unfortunately, not soon after he closed his eyes, Demitri had come to fight him. In need of some rest, Dante hurriedly kicked his ass. He had then sat down again to rest.
Dante had tried hard to persuade Demi not to fight him, but he was left with no choice. Demi was like a brother to him after what they'd gone through. He could tell that Demitri had no true anger behind his attacks.
"Why did he want to kill me so badly? He kept hesitating to slash me. He had the opportunity." Dante thought. He remembered having his back turned to Demi at least twice. Demi never even tried to hit him at those times. Maybe he wanted a fair fight or something?
"Who cares." He thought. Dyne's safety was all that Dante could think about. They'd been apart for a number of hours now. God only knows what kind of trouble Dyne could have gotten into.
Dante looked around to see if anything was around to attack him. There was nothing.
"Better go find him. . ." He thought as he began down the sidewalk.
It wasn't too long before Dante heard a voice.
"Hold it, Dante." The voice growled from behind him. Dante recognized it to be Demitri's.
"What another ass kicking, do ya?" Dante sighed as he turned to see Demi standing in the middle of the street. He looked rather pissed.
Demitri scoffed. "I'm not going to let you win this time."
"That's what you said last time." Dante laughed. He really didn't want to fight Demi, but once again, he wasn't left with much of a choice.
Demitri turned from Dante. "Follow me. I want to fight somewhere else. You don't mind, do you?"
Dante shook his head. "I could care less. The time it takes us to get there just prolongs your life, if you know what I mean."
Demitri growled. "Arrogant bastard." He walked down the road, Dante following.
The two were walking next to each other soon. They looked more like best friends than enemies. Demi stopped in front of a large building. Dante noticed that it was the old hotel that he'd found Dyne in earlier.
"This is where you wanna fight?"
Demi nodded. "Plenty of space."
Dante shrugged and the two walked in together. As Dante walked all the way in, the door closed.
Demitri walked into the middle of the room. He turned to Dante. "Alright, let's get this over with."
Demi pulled out his swords, while Dante decided to put on Ifrit.
"Let's rock." Dante yelled and ran at Demitri.
(Somewhere closeby)
Dyne walked along with a rather stoic expression on his face. Tye had been nagging and bitching at him since the fight with Nevia. It had been a few hours since then. It was really beginning to piss him off.
"One more word Tye, just one. . ." Dyne growled.
"If you weren't such a arrogant dickwad, then maybe-"
Tye was stopped by Dyne suddenly grabbing him by the front of the vest. He picked him up and threw him into a wall. He let him go with one arm and brought the other to Tyes throat. He clenched down and slowly began to lift. Tye gagged a bit.
"What did I fuckin' tell you!?" Dyne yelled. He stared at Tye evilly. Tye grabbed Dyne's arm and tried to get him off. Dyne wasn't loosening his grip.
Saia ran up to Dyne and grabbed his arm. "Dyne!! Let him go! Please!" She yelled.
Dyne dropped his stare with Tye and looked down at Saia. She had a frightened, innocent look on her face. He slowly dropped his grip and Tye slid to the ground. He sat against the wall holding his neck, gasping.
"I can't believe you just did that to your own brother!!" Saia yelled and knelled down with Tye.
"H-he needs to learn not to piss me off!" Dyne argued. He was beginning to feel horrible about what he'd just done.
"Bastard!" Tye coughed.
"How could you do that?!" Saia cried. She hugged Tye.
"What do you expect? He's a demon." A voice laughed.
Dyne turned to see Nevia. She was still wearing her armor.
"And you aren't?" Dyne growled at her.
"Only a quarter. But I can still kick your ass."
Dyne grabbed his sword. "Can you back those words with your sword?"
Nevia unsheathed her sword. "Come over here and find out, hun."
"Oh, I'm your 'hun' now, huh?" Dyne laughed.
Before another word could be exchanged, there was a sudden explosion nearby. The sky around them lit up in a orange color.
Nevia turned and looked up. "Demitri?!" She yelled. She turned back to Dyne. "Sorry. Can't fight." She jumped onto a roof hurriedly.
Dyne followed. "Hey! Get back here, damn it!!" He ran after her, Saia and Tye close behind.
As they ran, Dyne could see the old hotel where he had fought the wyrns. There was a fire roaring on the roof. Dyne saw about ten more explosions erupt from the roof. The flames grew.
"What the hell?!" He thought. He came to the building and saw Nevia jump down.
Tye held back, he grabbed Saia and held her back as well. Saia tried to get away, but Tye wouldn't let go.
"Tye, why can't we go?!" She yelled, struggling.
Tye had his eyes on the flames. ". . .No. . .I won't let you get hurt. . ."
Saia stopped wiggling. "I won't get hurt."
Tye turned his head and looked at her. "Someones gonna die here. I can sense it. Whoever it is, I won't let it be you."
Dyne noticed that his brother was lagging behind. "Tye!! Get your ass over here!" He yelled.
Tye looked over to him. "No!! I'm staying back here with Saia." Tye yelled back.
Dyne growled. "Fine! I'll go in on my own, fuckin' coward!!"
Tye looked at him angrily. "I have to protect Saia. I won't let her die."
Dyne scoffed and turned away from them. He looked around the roof at the flames and could see a large hole through some of the flames. He sighed.
Dyne turned his head back to look at his brother. "If you aren't going to fight, I'd suggest getting away from this place. The roof could cave in at any minute. You never know. Take Saia and leave, now. . ." Tye hadn't heard Dyne speak like that in a long time. His voice had been soft and calm, rather than his usual smartass tone.
Tye nodded and began to back away. "Alright. . ."
"Hey wish me luck, huh?" Dyne asked, softly again.
"Good luck. . ." Tye said and began off.
Dyne turned his head back to the flames. He could only hear the roaring and crackling of the fires.
"Here I go. . ." Dyne told himself. He ran at the flames and through them into the hole. He landed gently on the tile floor below.
The air was hot from the overhead inferno. Dyne looked around to see Dante and Demitri. They were both facing each other, about 20 feet from one another. They appeared to be having a stand off. Nevia was watching them from behind Demitri.
Nevia noticed Dyne and turned to look at him. "Ah! 'Bout time, brat. Seems Demitri has his fight under control now. Guess we can have a little fun."
"Nevia!!" Demitri yelled. "Get that fire put out before you fight!"
Nevia sighed and put her arm into the air towards the fires. A strange energy emitted from her hand and she shot it into the air. It hit the flames and they immediately extinguised.
"Okay, let's begin." Nevia growled.
Dyne started by charging at Nevia. She side stepped him and kicked him in the side. He jumped away some to minimize the blow.
From the corner of his eye, Dyne could see that Dante and Demitri had started fighting as well. Nevia suddenly swung her sword at him. He felt a light sting on his cheek. He hopped away from her a bit and wiiped his face.
"Damn, she got me. I better be more careful." Dyne thought.
"I seem to have the upper hand here. I can tell you aren't putting your all into this fight. Come on!" Nevia growled. She lunged forward at Dyne, who rolled away. Nevia landed on the ground on all fours and turned back to face Dyne. She saw that he was trying to go help Dante. He was running toward Demi.
"No you don't, damn it!!" She thought and ran in front of Dyne. He stopped abrutily and slashed out at Nevia. She blocked it and got her face very close to his.
"You're mine. I'm not going to let you go help daddy. You're playing with me, remember?" She said at a whisper, then pushed Dyne away.
The two continued. Dyne tried for a jab, but it didn't work. Nevia stepped behind Dyne and tried to swing into his side. He jumped into the air and flipped behind her. After completeing the unsucessful swing, Nevia brought the sword around behind her to block Dynes oncoming slash to her back. As his gauntlet hit her sword, she pushed her body backward to force Dyne away. He was knocked back and he lost his balance. Nevia turned to see Dyne sitting on his ass.
"Get up. Unless, of course, you'd rather I end your usless life right here." Nevia taunted.
Dyne rolled backward and hopped onto his feet. Nevia smirked and ran at him, but he scurried away and started running toward Demitri, who was obviously not having as much fun as Nevia.
"Damn it, there he goes again!" Nevia thought. This time, she ran up behind Dyne and grabbed a tuff of his hair. His feet flew out from under him and he somewhat fell. The only problem was that Nevia was holding him in the air by his hair.
"Better stop it you little fuck." She growled and threw him across the room. "Don't try it again."
Dyne was crouched on the ground. He rubbed his head.
"Dyne. . . ." Someone called. It was a familiar voice, but not from any of the people in the room.
"What!!" Dyne yelled. Nevia gave him a funny look.
"Who in the hell are you yelling at?" She asked curiously.
"Dyne, listen to me!!" The unknown entity yelled at Dyne again. Dyne noticed it was in his head.
"What? I'm listening. . .Dyne whispered to himself.
"Ignore the woman! She will kill you with your strength. If you're going to fight someone, help your father."
"If I try, then this 'woman' is gonna kick my ass."
"Well. . ."
Dyne noticed that the person talking to him was the Cerbis gauntlet. He looked down at it.
"Hey, you're my fuckin' weapon!! I didn't know you could talk. I thought you were supposed to be some great and all mighty weapon! Help me out here!" Dyne yelled. Nevia was sitting back, thinking that Dyne had gone insane.
"I wonder if I should just put him out of his misery. . ." Nevia thought to herself.
Dante was having a rather easy time. He had hit Demi a few times, but Demi hadn't given him one cut. They had spent most of the fight dodging. Dante had noticed that Dyne was trying to help him, but the woman kept him away. Now Dante saw that his son was crouched on the floor, talking to his gauntlet. He would say a few words, then listen. It seemed that he was having a conversation of some sort.
"Do you remember when I told you that you needed to unseal my powers?" Cerbis asked Dyne.
"Yeah?" Dyne nodded.
"Well, now would be an opportune time to do so."
"Yeah, how?"
Cerbis sighed. "Well, I better make this quick, since that girl is about to lose her patience. Okay, close your eyes and let me take over your mind for a moment."
"You mean, possess me?!"
"Something of that matter."
Dyne closed his eyes. "Okay, any time now."
Dyne felt a strange serge through his body. There seemed to be a vast amount of energy flowing through him. His head began to throb and felt like it would explode. He grabbed his head and yelled.
Nevia wasn't sure what to think. She stepped back, somewhat terrified. Dante and Demi stopped fighting to see what was happening. Dyne began to float in the air.
"What the hell is happening to me!!!!!?? Dyne thought to himself. After a few moments of agonizing pain, Dyne felt his body fall to the ground. He landed on his feet and breathed. The pain slid away and he opened his eyes.
The three others in the room were looking at him, horrified. They were no longer looking at Dyne, they were looking at a demon. Dyne seemed to be in a devil trigger state, but it was different. His eyes glowed with a bright, blue-white flame, rather than his red. His hair had grown longer, his teeth had sharpened and his hands clawed. His ears had grown and became pointed and he had a pair of horns coming from his head that turned backward. He also had something that just didn't match the rest of his attire; a long, black, fluffy, wolf-like tail. Dyne stood up and stretched. The others saw a pair of demonic wings spread from his back as he did so. This was apparently the full potential of the crossbreed Dyne.
"SHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT SHITSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" That was all that went through Demitri's mind.
Dante stepped forward and in front of Dyne. He felt his fear subside. Dyne looked at him and a demonic smirk crossed his lips. He felt much stronger than he'd ever felt in devil trigger. He unfortuatly had no clue what he looked like. He felt Cerbis in his mind.
"Now, are you satisfied?" Cerbis asked Dyne calmly.
"Oh yeah." Dyne said slyly. He continued his attention to Dante.
"Can we get this job over with?"
Dante nodded and they both turned to Demitri. He was staring at Dyne, still horrified. As Dyne took one step toward Demi, Nevia jumped in front of Demi. Dyne stopped.
"Move. I just want to kill him, not you." Dyne growled.
Nevia stood her ground. "No. I won't move."
Dyne didn't say anything. He stared at Nevia.
"Why do you want to kill him anyway?! He never did anything to you. We're just doing what our master told us to do!" Nevia growled.
"Yeah? Well I'm being paid to kill him. And quite a lot too." Dyne growled back.
"Yeah, by who? Skail, That sorry excuse for a demon leader?"
Dyne shook his head. "No. Some guy in a black robe hired me to kill him."
Nevia looked at him confused. "What do you mean? Guy in a black robe?"
Demitri's eyes widened. "W-wait a minute. The only person I can think of who wears a black robe is. . ."
Nevia turned around and stared at Demitri. "Master. . .?" She whispered.
"Why would he. . ." Demitri began.
Dyne sensed something coming. He lept to the side as a four huge ropes of energy came toward the four. Dante dodged as well. Nevia turned just in time to see them and rolled to the side.
They watched as the ropes pierced into Demitri and hurled him into the wall. He was pinned to the wall with the four energy ropes impaled into his chest and stomach. Demitri groaned in pain as blood splattered onto the wall with his impact. Dark crimson blood seeped from the stabs. He coughed up some as well.
"Demi!!" Dante yelled. He ran over to try and pull him from them. No matter how hard he tugged, the ropes wouldn't give. Nevia ran to try and help too, but it was no use. Dyne just stared at the sight.
"I guess you weren't going to do your job. Pity that I had to do it for you." A voice laughed. Dyne turned around to see the black robed man floating down to the ground holding the energy ropes. Dante and Nevia turned as well.
Dante's eyes glowed red. "YOU BASTARD!!!" He yelled.
The man laughed. He put his hand on the hood of his cloak and threw it back to reviel his face. He had long, silver hair and green eyes. He was smiling devilishly.
"Idiot boy. He couldn't do as I asked. He knew what I wanted him to do, but never did it. Not only that, but he wasn't loyal. I had to have him killed." He laughed.
Nevia growled. "Tethis!!! How could you! You son of a BITCH!!" She yelled.
"Now, now, Nevia. You should learn to tame that tounge of yours." Tethis warned. He let the ropes go and they flew toward her. They wrapped around her and threw her into the wall next to Demitri. She strained to get loose, but to no prevail. She looked over to Demitri, who was barely clenging to life.
"Now," Tethis began, turning to Dante and Demitri. "I will dispose of you so that I may complete my plan."
"And that would be?" Dante asked.
"To resuscitate Mundus. I am following in the footsteps of my father. He also wished to do so." Tethis explained.
"Uh huh, yeah well, it ain't happening." Dyne said with a smirk.
"God, why don't you guys just get a new leader instead of wasting your time trying to bring back Mundus?" Dante sighed.
Dyne looked down at his gauntlet to make sure it was okay. He saw a large handle like thing sticking out from by the wrist. He grabbed it and pulled to reviel a large sword.
"Cool. Now I don't have to just punch everyone." He said with a laugh.
Dante, who had on the Ifrit, took them off and pulled out his sword instead.
"Dyne, we need to make this quick, so we can help those two." Dante told Dyne, nodding his head toward Demitri and Nevia. Dyne nodded.
"I guess you two want to end your lifes. Alright, just let me get ready." Tethis said. He pulled of his robe to reviel that he was wearing a pair of makeshift pants. He wasn't wearing a shirt and a pair of wings unfolded from his back. He put out his arm and a large, green energy sword appeared in his hand. He put his arm to his side. "Let us begin."
Dyne, feeling very confident with his new form, took the first move. He moved so quickly that Dante could barely see him. Dyne faked a frontal stab, but at the last minute swerved to the side and attemped a slash to the lower back and side area. Tethis calmly and easily put his sword around to block the strike.
"No way!! I barely even saw that! There's no way he could have blocked it." Dante thought.
Tethis grabbed Dyne by the throat and pulled Dynes face in front of his own. "I am at a much higher level than you're, boy." He growled and threw Dyne away from him.
Dyne readied himself, but noticed that Tethis had turned his attention to Dante. Dante used Alastor to taunt Tethis. Tethis took the taunt and came in for an attack. Dante jumped and flipped behind Tethis just before he could stab him. He slashed at Tethis and got him across the lower back. Tethis growled and came around for a stab at Dante. Dante jumped to miss it.
"Dante, Dyne!!" Nevia yelled. "Don't let him hit you! If you get slashed, it can't heal!" She warned.
Dante grunted understanding as he ducked a decapitation. He slashed, trying to cut Tethis' legs off. Tethis jumped and did a backward flip. Dante hopped up and put up his sword. He unholstered his guns and shot. Tethis raised one hand and the bullets reflected around him. Now knowing that guns didn't work, Dante pulled the sword back out and stood guard. Dyne came and stood next to Dante.
"Need some help?" Dyne asked.
Dante looked over at him. He still wasn't too keen of Dynes new form. He didn't show it, but it just about terrified him. He nodded and growled.
"I'll kill him for what he's done." Dante growled.
"And I'll help."
The two ran at Tethis. Tethis smiled and put out one arm. A ball of energy emitted from his hand and shot at the two. They narrowly dodged it and continued on.
Dante was the first to reach Tethis. He swung the sword from above, but it was blocked. While Dante slashed one side, Dyne was at the other. Somehow, Tethis blocked every move.
Dyne managed to get behind Tethis. He slashed and hacked off one of Tethis' wings. Tethis yelled in pain and spun around. He slashed from below and upward. As Dyne jumped back, he felt the right side of his face burn. After jumping far enough away, he felt his face to notice that he had a large slash from his right cheek to the middle-right part of his forehead. A few of his hairs were gone too.
"Damn it." Dyne thought. He came back into the fight. Dante had managed to slash his lower back. Tethis grabbed both of them by the head. He threw them into a nearby wall. Dante hit the first, then Dyne on top. Dante had a fluffy tail in his face.
"Damn it, get up!" Dante growled. Dyne jumped up. He saw Tethis put out his arm. Red electricity crackled around it, and shot toward the two.
It hit them and encased them is a red ball of electricity. The two groaned in pain.
"Well, looks like you weren't as bad as I thought you would be." Tethis said, starting toward the them. "Once I'm rid of you, there will be no one to stop my plan."
"This guy's too damn strong!" Dante thought. He was apparently not immune to this odd red lightning.
"Well," Dyne strained. "Looks. . .like this is it. . .huh?"
Dante also strained to speak. "Never say never. . ." He groaned. Dyne saw that he was looking up to the holes in the ceiling. Dyne looked up too and saw the sillouete of someone or something.
There was a sudden howl through the room. Dyne saw the sorce was coming from one of the holes. Tethis turned and looked to see a large, black wolf jump in his face. A silvery white wolf and a brown one jumped from the hole and began to attack Tethis as well. The electric field around Dyne and Dante disappeared. Dyne saw three more figures jump down. He saw that it was Tye, Chris and Saia.
Dante smiled. "Hey guys!!! Just in time. We were about to die." He laughed.
Chris came forward and greeted Dante. "Tye came back to the hideout and got us.
"See!!" Tye began. "I ain't a coward!! I just believe that you should go into battle well prepared. Dyne just don't know any better."
He stopped. He looked around. "Hey, where is Dyne?" Dyne came up behind Tye and hugged him around the neck.
"Right here, smartass!!" He yelled happily. "You just pulled our asses out of the fire."
Tye turned around. "AHHH!!" He yelled, seeing Dyne. He stumbled back a few feet and tripped.
Dyne rolled his eyes. "Man, why does everyone keep giving me weird looks?"
"Maybe 'cause you look like a mix between a goat, bat, wolf and human!" Tye yelled.
"Oh. . ." Dyne said. "Cool."
Dyne turned to look at Tethis. The black wolf was clenging to his throat. The other two had him pinned to the ground. Dyne walked over and pulled out one of his guns. He pointed it at the middle of Tethis' head. The energy that had been flowing through Dyne suddenly disappeared, but it didn't matter. His form reverted back to normal.
Tethis looked up at Dyne with a look of horror on his face.
"You lose, buddy."
The blast rang though the room, then all was silent.
Dyne and Dante sighed at the same time. Dante looked over at Demitri and Nevia to see that the energy ropes had disappeared. He ran over to where Demitri was laying, face down.
Dante bent down and rolled Demi over. He was still breathing.
". . .Dante. . ." Demitri breathed. He was dying.
"Demi. . ." Dante started.
"Dante, I'm sorry. I really didn't want to have to fight you. I guess I dyied anyway."
Dante didn't say anything to reassure Demi's life. He knew he was going to die. Tethis' attacks couldn't be healed.
"Hey man, I really love ya. You're like a brother to me. . .I know you hated me back in the day, but we ended up being good buds."
"Yeah. . ."
"Look. I know I'm dying. I don't wanna die like those other demons. You take care of my body, 'kay?"
Dante merely nodded.
Demitri became limp. Dante tried to get him to move, but there was no response.
Demitri was gone.
There. Finally done with that chapter. I hope it isn't too bad. Review it and I'll try to get the next chapter up soon. Bye. I'm going to bed. . .(ah, bed.)
Chapter 25 Dynes Newfound Ability; The Departed Friend
Dante snapped awake. He had apparently dosed off while he was resting. His body was stiff and his head groggy.
"What time is it?" He thought. He reached into his coat and pulled out an old pocket watch. He opened it to reveil that it was 3:15 in the morning. "Damn. I slept pretty well. Lucky I ain't dead though."
He stood up, yawning. After the fight with the infested car, Dante had tried to get some rest. Unfortunately, not soon after he closed his eyes, Demitri had come to fight him. In need of some rest, Dante hurriedly kicked his ass. He had then sat down again to rest.
Dante had tried hard to persuade Demi not to fight him, but he was left with no choice. Demi was like a brother to him after what they'd gone through. He could tell that Demitri had no true anger behind his attacks.
"Why did he want to kill me so badly? He kept hesitating to slash me. He had the opportunity." Dante thought. He remembered having his back turned to Demi at least twice. Demi never even tried to hit him at those times. Maybe he wanted a fair fight or something?
"Who cares." He thought. Dyne's safety was all that Dante could think about. They'd been apart for a number of hours now. God only knows what kind of trouble Dyne could have gotten into.
Dante looked around to see if anything was around to attack him. There was nothing.
"Better go find him. . ." He thought as he began down the sidewalk.
It wasn't too long before Dante heard a voice.
"Hold it, Dante." The voice growled from behind him. Dante recognized it to be Demitri's.
"What another ass kicking, do ya?" Dante sighed as he turned to see Demi standing in the middle of the street. He looked rather pissed.
Demitri scoffed. "I'm not going to let you win this time."
"That's what you said last time." Dante laughed. He really didn't want to fight Demi, but once again, he wasn't left with much of a choice.
Demitri turned from Dante. "Follow me. I want to fight somewhere else. You don't mind, do you?"
Dante shook his head. "I could care less. The time it takes us to get there just prolongs your life, if you know what I mean."
Demitri growled. "Arrogant bastard." He walked down the road, Dante following.
The two were walking next to each other soon. They looked more like best friends than enemies. Demi stopped in front of a large building. Dante noticed that it was the old hotel that he'd found Dyne in earlier.
"This is where you wanna fight?"
Demi nodded. "Plenty of space."
Dante shrugged and the two walked in together. As Dante walked all the way in, the door closed.
Demitri walked into the middle of the room. He turned to Dante. "Alright, let's get this over with."
Demi pulled out his swords, while Dante decided to put on Ifrit.
"Let's rock." Dante yelled and ran at Demitri.
(Somewhere closeby)
Dyne walked along with a rather stoic expression on his face. Tye had been nagging and bitching at him since the fight with Nevia. It had been a few hours since then. It was really beginning to piss him off.
"One more word Tye, just one. . ." Dyne growled.
"If you weren't such a arrogant dickwad, then maybe-"
Tye was stopped by Dyne suddenly grabbing him by the front of the vest. He picked him up and threw him into a wall. He let him go with one arm and brought the other to Tyes throat. He clenched down and slowly began to lift. Tye gagged a bit.
"What did I fuckin' tell you!?" Dyne yelled. He stared at Tye evilly. Tye grabbed Dyne's arm and tried to get him off. Dyne wasn't loosening his grip.
Saia ran up to Dyne and grabbed his arm. "Dyne!! Let him go! Please!" She yelled.
Dyne dropped his stare with Tye and looked down at Saia. She had a frightened, innocent look on her face. He slowly dropped his grip and Tye slid to the ground. He sat against the wall holding his neck, gasping.
"I can't believe you just did that to your own brother!!" Saia yelled and knelled down with Tye.
"H-he needs to learn not to piss me off!" Dyne argued. He was beginning to feel horrible about what he'd just done.
"Bastard!" Tye coughed.
"How could you do that?!" Saia cried. She hugged Tye.
"What do you expect? He's a demon." A voice laughed.
Dyne turned to see Nevia. She was still wearing her armor.
"And you aren't?" Dyne growled at her.
"Only a quarter. But I can still kick your ass."
Dyne grabbed his sword. "Can you back those words with your sword?"
Nevia unsheathed her sword. "Come over here and find out, hun."
"Oh, I'm your 'hun' now, huh?" Dyne laughed.
Before another word could be exchanged, there was a sudden explosion nearby. The sky around them lit up in a orange color.
Nevia turned and looked up. "Demitri?!" She yelled. She turned back to Dyne. "Sorry. Can't fight." She jumped onto a roof hurriedly.
Dyne followed. "Hey! Get back here, damn it!!" He ran after her, Saia and Tye close behind.
As they ran, Dyne could see the old hotel where he had fought the wyrns. There was a fire roaring on the roof. Dyne saw about ten more explosions erupt from the roof. The flames grew.
"What the hell?!" He thought. He came to the building and saw Nevia jump down.
Tye held back, he grabbed Saia and held her back as well. Saia tried to get away, but Tye wouldn't let go.
"Tye, why can't we go?!" She yelled, struggling.
Tye had his eyes on the flames. ". . .No. . .I won't let you get hurt. . ."
Saia stopped wiggling. "I won't get hurt."
Tye turned his head and looked at her. "Someones gonna die here. I can sense it. Whoever it is, I won't let it be you."
Dyne noticed that his brother was lagging behind. "Tye!! Get your ass over here!" He yelled.
Tye looked over to him. "No!! I'm staying back here with Saia." Tye yelled back.
Dyne growled. "Fine! I'll go in on my own, fuckin' coward!!"
Tye looked at him angrily. "I have to protect Saia. I won't let her die."
Dyne scoffed and turned away from them. He looked around the roof at the flames and could see a large hole through some of the flames. He sighed.
Dyne turned his head back to look at his brother. "If you aren't going to fight, I'd suggest getting away from this place. The roof could cave in at any minute. You never know. Take Saia and leave, now. . ." Tye hadn't heard Dyne speak like that in a long time. His voice had been soft and calm, rather than his usual smartass tone.
Tye nodded and began to back away. "Alright. . ."
"Hey wish me luck, huh?" Dyne asked, softly again.
"Good luck. . ." Tye said and began off.
Dyne turned his head back to the flames. He could only hear the roaring and crackling of the fires.
"Here I go. . ." Dyne told himself. He ran at the flames and through them into the hole. He landed gently on the tile floor below.
The air was hot from the overhead inferno. Dyne looked around to see Dante and Demitri. They were both facing each other, about 20 feet from one another. They appeared to be having a stand off. Nevia was watching them from behind Demitri.
Nevia noticed Dyne and turned to look at him. "Ah! 'Bout time, brat. Seems Demitri has his fight under control now. Guess we can have a little fun."
"Nevia!!" Demitri yelled. "Get that fire put out before you fight!"
Nevia sighed and put her arm into the air towards the fires. A strange energy emitted from her hand and she shot it into the air. It hit the flames and they immediately extinguised.
"Okay, let's begin." Nevia growled.
Dyne started by charging at Nevia. She side stepped him and kicked him in the side. He jumped away some to minimize the blow.
From the corner of his eye, Dyne could see that Dante and Demitri had started fighting as well. Nevia suddenly swung her sword at him. He felt a light sting on his cheek. He hopped away from her a bit and wiiped his face.
"Damn, she got me. I better be more careful." Dyne thought.
"I seem to have the upper hand here. I can tell you aren't putting your all into this fight. Come on!" Nevia growled. She lunged forward at Dyne, who rolled away. Nevia landed on the ground on all fours and turned back to face Dyne. She saw that he was trying to go help Dante. He was running toward Demi.
"No you don't, damn it!!" She thought and ran in front of Dyne. He stopped abrutily and slashed out at Nevia. She blocked it and got her face very close to his.
"You're mine. I'm not going to let you go help daddy. You're playing with me, remember?" She said at a whisper, then pushed Dyne away.
The two continued. Dyne tried for a jab, but it didn't work. Nevia stepped behind Dyne and tried to swing into his side. He jumped into the air and flipped behind her. After completeing the unsucessful swing, Nevia brought the sword around behind her to block Dynes oncoming slash to her back. As his gauntlet hit her sword, she pushed her body backward to force Dyne away. He was knocked back and he lost his balance. Nevia turned to see Dyne sitting on his ass.
"Get up. Unless, of course, you'd rather I end your usless life right here." Nevia taunted.
Dyne rolled backward and hopped onto his feet. Nevia smirked and ran at him, but he scurried away and started running toward Demitri, who was obviously not having as much fun as Nevia.
"Damn it, there he goes again!" Nevia thought. This time, she ran up behind Dyne and grabbed a tuff of his hair. His feet flew out from under him and he somewhat fell. The only problem was that Nevia was holding him in the air by his hair.
"Better stop it you little fuck." She growled and threw him across the room. "Don't try it again."
Dyne was crouched on the ground. He rubbed his head.
"Dyne. . . ." Someone called. It was a familiar voice, but not from any of the people in the room.
"What!!" Dyne yelled. Nevia gave him a funny look.
"Who in the hell are you yelling at?" She asked curiously.
"Dyne, listen to me!!" The unknown entity yelled at Dyne again. Dyne noticed it was in his head.
"What? I'm listening. . .Dyne whispered to himself.
"Ignore the woman! She will kill you with your strength. If you're going to fight someone, help your father."
"If I try, then this 'woman' is gonna kick my ass."
"Well. . ."
Dyne noticed that the person talking to him was the Cerbis gauntlet. He looked down at it.
"Hey, you're my fuckin' weapon!! I didn't know you could talk. I thought you were supposed to be some great and all mighty weapon! Help me out here!" Dyne yelled. Nevia was sitting back, thinking that Dyne had gone insane.
"I wonder if I should just put him out of his misery. . ." Nevia thought to herself.
Dante was having a rather easy time. He had hit Demi a few times, but Demi hadn't given him one cut. They had spent most of the fight dodging. Dante had noticed that Dyne was trying to help him, but the woman kept him away. Now Dante saw that his son was crouched on the floor, talking to his gauntlet. He would say a few words, then listen. It seemed that he was having a conversation of some sort.
"Do you remember when I told you that you needed to unseal my powers?" Cerbis asked Dyne.
"Yeah?" Dyne nodded.
"Well, now would be an opportune time to do so."
"Yeah, how?"
Cerbis sighed. "Well, I better make this quick, since that girl is about to lose her patience. Okay, close your eyes and let me take over your mind for a moment."
"You mean, possess me?!"
"Something of that matter."
Dyne closed his eyes. "Okay, any time now."
Dyne felt a strange serge through his body. There seemed to be a vast amount of energy flowing through him. His head began to throb and felt like it would explode. He grabbed his head and yelled.
Nevia wasn't sure what to think. She stepped back, somewhat terrified. Dante and Demi stopped fighting to see what was happening. Dyne began to float in the air.
"What the hell is happening to me!!!!!?? Dyne thought to himself. After a few moments of agonizing pain, Dyne felt his body fall to the ground. He landed on his feet and breathed. The pain slid away and he opened his eyes.
The three others in the room were looking at him, horrified. They were no longer looking at Dyne, they were looking at a demon. Dyne seemed to be in a devil trigger state, but it was different. His eyes glowed with a bright, blue-white flame, rather than his red. His hair had grown longer, his teeth had sharpened and his hands clawed. His ears had grown and became pointed and he had a pair of horns coming from his head that turned backward. He also had something that just didn't match the rest of his attire; a long, black, fluffy, wolf-like tail. Dyne stood up and stretched. The others saw a pair of demonic wings spread from his back as he did so. This was apparently the full potential of the crossbreed Dyne.
"SHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT SHITSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" That was all that went through Demitri's mind.
Dante stepped forward and in front of Dyne. He felt his fear subside. Dyne looked at him and a demonic smirk crossed his lips. He felt much stronger than he'd ever felt in devil trigger. He unfortuatly had no clue what he looked like. He felt Cerbis in his mind.
"Now, are you satisfied?" Cerbis asked Dyne calmly.
"Oh yeah." Dyne said slyly. He continued his attention to Dante.
"Can we get this job over with?"
Dante nodded and they both turned to Demitri. He was staring at Dyne, still horrified. As Dyne took one step toward Demi, Nevia jumped in front of Demi. Dyne stopped.
"Move. I just want to kill him, not you." Dyne growled.
Nevia stood her ground. "No. I won't move."
Dyne didn't say anything. He stared at Nevia.
"Why do you want to kill him anyway?! He never did anything to you. We're just doing what our master told us to do!" Nevia growled.
"Yeah? Well I'm being paid to kill him. And quite a lot too." Dyne growled back.
"Yeah, by who? Skail, That sorry excuse for a demon leader?"
Dyne shook his head. "No. Some guy in a black robe hired me to kill him."
Nevia looked at him confused. "What do you mean? Guy in a black robe?"
Demitri's eyes widened. "W-wait a minute. The only person I can think of who wears a black robe is. . ."
Nevia turned around and stared at Demitri. "Master. . .?" She whispered.
"Why would he. . ." Demitri began.
Dyne sensed something coming. He lept to the side as a four huge ropes of energy came toward the four. Dante dodged as well. Nevia turned just in time to see them and rolled to the side.
They watched as the ropes pierced into Demitri and hurled him into the wall. He was pinned to the wall with the four energy ropes impaled into his chest and stomach. Demitri groaned in pain as blood splattered onto the wall with his impact. Dark crimson blood seeped from the stabs. He coughed up some as well.
"Demi!!" Dante yelled. He ran over to try and pull him from them. No matter how hard he tugged, the ropes wouldn't give. Nevia ran to try and help too, but it was no use. Dyne just stared at the sight.
"I guess you weren't going to do your job. Pity that I had to do it for you." A voice laughed. Dyne turned around to see the black robed man floating down to the ground holding the energy ropes. Dante and Nevia turned as well.
Dante's eyes glowed red. "YOU BASTARD!!!" He yelled.
The man laughed. He put his hand on the hood of his cloak and threw it back to reviel his face. He had long, silver hair and green eyes. He was smiling devilishly.
"Idiot boy. He couldn't do as I asked. He knew what I wanted him to do, but never did it. Not only that, but he wasn't loyal. I had to have him killed." He laughed.
Nevia growled. "Tethis!!! How could you! You son of a BITCH!!" She yelled.
"Now, now, Nevia. You should learn to tame that tounge of yours." Tethis warned. He let the ropes go and they flew toward her. They wrapped around her and threw her into the wall next to Demitri. She strained to get loose, but to no prevail. She looked over to Demitri, who was barely clenging to life.
"Now," Tethis began, turning to Dante and Demitri. "I will dispose of you so that I may complete my plan."
"And that would be?" Dante asked.
"To resuscitate Mundus. I am following in the footsteps of my father. He also wished to do so." Tethis explained.
"Uh huh, yeah well, it ain't happening." Dyne said with a smirk.
"God, why don't you guys just get a new leader instead of wasting your time trying to bring back Mundus?" Dante sighed.
Dyne looked down at his gauntlet to make sure it was okay. He saw a large handle like thing sticking out from by the wrist. He grabbed it and pulled to reviel a large sword.
"Cool. Now I don't have to just punch everyone." He said with a laugh.
Dante, who had on the Ifrit, took them off and pulled out his sword instead.
"Dyne, we need to make this quick, so we can help those two." Dante told Dyne, nodding his head toward Demitri and Nevia. Dyne nodded.
"I guess you two want to end your lifes. Alright, just let me get ready." Tethis said. He pulled of his robe to reviel that he was wearing a pair of makeshift pants. He wasn't wearing a shirt and a pair of wings unfolded from his back. He put out his arm and a large, green energy sword appeared in his hand. He put his arm to his side. "Let us begin."
Dyne, feeling very confident with his new form, took the first move. He moved so quickly that Dante could barely see him. Dyne faked a frontal stab, but at the last minute swerved to the side and attemped a slash to the lower back and side area. Tethis calmly and easily put his sword around to block the strike.
"No way!! I barely even saw that! There's no way he could have blocked it." Dante thought.
Tethis grabbed Dyne by the throat and pulled Dynes face in front of his own. "I am at a much higher level than you're, boy." He growled and threw Dyne away from him.
Dyne readied himself, but noticed that Tethis had turned his attention to Dante. Dante used Alastor to taunt Tethis. Tethis took the taunt and came in for an attack. Dante jumped and flipped behind Tethis just before he could stab him. He slashed at Tethis and got him across the lower back. Tethis growled and came around for a stab at Dante. Dante jumped to miss it.
"Dante, Dyne!!" Nevia yelled. "Don't let him hit you! If you get slashed, it can't heal!" She warned.
Dante grunted understanding as he ducked a decapitation. He slashed, trying to cut Tethis' legs off. Tethis jumped and did a backward flip. Dante hopped up and put up his sword. He unholstered his guns and shot. Tethis raised one hand and the bullets reflected around him. Now knowing that guns didn't work, Dante pulled the sword back out and stood guard. Dyne came and stood next to Dante.
"Need some help?" Dyne asked.
Dante looked over at him. He still wasn't too keen of Dynes new form. He didn't show it, but it just about terrified him. He nodded and growled.
"I'll kill him for what he's done." Dante growled.
"And I'll help."
The two ran at Tethis. Tethis smiled and put out one arm. A ball of energy emitted from his hand and shot at the two. They narrowly dodged it and continued on.
Dante was the first to reach Tethis. He swung the sword from above, but it was blocked. While Dante slashed one side, Dyne was at the other. Somehow, Tethis blocked every move.
Dyne managed to get behind Tethis. He slashed and hacked off one of Tethis' wings. Tethis yelled in pain and spun around. He slashed from below and upward. As Dyne jumped back, he felt the right side of his face burn. After jumping far enough away, he felt his face to notice that he had a large slash from his right cheek to the middle-right part of his forehead. A few of his hairs were gone too.
"Damn it." Dyne thought. He came back into the fight. Dante had managed to slash his lower back. Tethis grabbed both of them by the head. He threw them into a nearby wall. Dante hit the first, then Dyne on top. Dante had a fluffy tail in his face.
"Damn it, get up!" Dante growled. Dyne jumped up. He saw Tethis put out his arm. Red electricity crackled around it, and shot toward the two.
It hit them and encased them is a red ball of electricity. The two groaned in pain.
"Well, looks like you weren't as bad as I thought you would be." Tethis said, starting toward the them. "Once I'm rid of you, there will be no one to stop my plan."
"This guy's too damn strong!" Dante thought. He was apparently not immune to this odd red lightning.
"Well," Dyne strained. "Looks. . .like this is it. . .huh?"
Dante also strained to speak. "Never say never. . ." He groaned. Dyne saw that he was looking up to the holes in the ceiling. Dyne looked up too and saw the sillouete of someone or something.
There was a sudden howl through the room. Dyne saw the sorce was coming from one of the holes. Tethis turned and looked to see a large, black wolf jump in his face. A silvery white wolf and a brown one jumped from the hole and began to attack Tethis as well. The electric field around Dyne and Dante disappeared. Dyne saw three more figures jump down. He saw that it was Tye, Chris and Saia.
Dante smiled. "Hey guys!!! Just in time. We were about to die." He laughed.
Chris came forward and greeted Dante. "Tye came back to the hideout and got us.
"See!!" Tye began. "I ain't a coward!! I just believe that you should go into battle well prepared. Dyne just don't know any better."
He stopped. He looked around. "Hey, where is Dyne?" Dyne came up behind Tye and hugged him around the neck.
"Right here, smartass!!" He yelled happily. "You just pulled our asses out of the fire."
Tye turned around. "AHHH!!" He yelled, seeing Dyne. He stumbled back a few feet and tripped.
Dyne rolled his eyes. "Man, why does everyone keep giving me weird looks?"
"Maybe 'cause you look like a mix between a goat, bat, wolf and human!" Tye yelled.
"Oh. . ." Dyne said. "Cool."
Dyne turned to look at Tethis. The black wolf was clenging to his throat. The other two had him pinned to the ground. Dyne walked over and pulled out one of his guns. He pointed it at the middle of Tethis' head. The energy that had been flowing through Dyne suddenly disappeared, but it didn't matter. His form reverted back to normal.
Tethis looked up at Dyne with a look of horror on his face.
"You lose, buddy."
The blast rang though the room, then all was silent.
Dyne and Dante sighed at the same time. Dante looked over at Demitri and Nevia to see that the energy ropes had disappeared. He ran over to where Demitri was laying, face down.
Dante bent down and rolled Demi over. He was still breathing.
". . .Dante. . ." Demitri breathed. He was dying.
"Demi. . ." Dante started.
"Dante, I'm sorry. I really didn't want to have to fight you. I guess I dyied anyway."
Dante didn't say anything to reassure Demi's life. He knew he was going to die. Tethis' attacks couldn't be healed.
"Hey man, I really love ya. You're like a brother to me. . .I know you hated me back in the day, but we ended up being good buds."
"Yeah. . ."
"Look. I know I'm dying. I don't wanna die like those other demons. You take care of my body, 'kay?"
Dante merely nodded.
Demitri became limp. Dante tried to get him to move, but there was no response.
Demitri was gone.
There. Finally done with that chapter. I hope it isn't too bad. Review it and I'll try to get the next chapter up soon. Bye. I'm going to bed. . .(ah, bed.)