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Chapter 26 Parting Ways

Dante, Dyne, Tye, Saia, and Nevia were standing in a small field behind Dante's home. They were standing around an old oak tree. They had come back from Berail only an hour or so ago. It was now about 7:00 a.m. They had taken Demitri to the field to bury him. They'd just finished.

Dante knelt down, propping himself up on a shovel. He looked over to the trunk of the tree where Demitris sword was sitting. He stood up and grabbed the sword. He then stabbed it into the ground above the top of the grave.

Everyone was silent for a moment. Dante and Nevia seemed to be the most upset by Demi's death. Saia and Tye didn't really know what had gone on between him and the others. Dyne also felt some greivance over Demi's death.

Dante had acted extremely weird. Dante insisted on carrying Demi to his truck. He wouldn't let anyone help him at all. He had made Dyne drive home so that he could sit in the back with him. Dyne had never seen Dante act so affectionate before.

"Demitri. . ." Dante began. "you were like a brother to me. I'm sorry for how I used to treat you. I guess I wasn't used to having anyone around me. I'm sorry. But, maybe now you can find some peace."

Dante knew that Demitri had had a rough life, much like himself. Being half demon was hard for a person. Dante understood Demi.

Dante closed his eyes and sighed. He felt like crying, but refused to do so. He opened his eyes and turned to everyone else. "Let's go inside. . ."

After everyone was in the house, Dante sat on the couch. He calmed his mood as much as possible.

"Okay, so now what is everyone going to do? We obviously aren't any richer from that job and now I have two more people to take care of."

"Well, actually. . ." Tye began. Everyone looked at him. Tye continued. "I was talking to Saia on the way home, and I was thinking I'd stay with her and the clan."

Dante raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure about that?"

"I want to stay with Saia. Not only that, but I can help the clan get rid of the left over demons in Berail." After saying that, Tye wrapped his arm around Saia's side and held her next to him. Dyne gave them a dirty look.

"Alright, that's fine. You aren't interested in helping the business, huh?" Dante said with a sigh.

Tye shook his head. "Dad, I found out that killing demons my whole life is NOT what I want to do. I was swallowed by a dragon, watched my brother get impaled, and got my ass kicked by a girl. I really don't think I'm cut out for hunting demons."

"Well, I actually got impaled about four or five times." Dyne butted in.

"More if you include when that shadow got you." Saia snickered.

Dante sighed. "I understand." With that he turned to Dyne. "Dyne, what are you gonna do?"

Dyne smirked. "Well, I was thinking about staying here and sponging off of you for a while, but I was really hoping that you would let me hunt demons with you now that you've seen how good I am."

Dante shrugged. "Well, guess I could let you help me with some easier missions. You know, the kind that hopefully won't involve impalement."

Dyne grumbled a bit. Much like his father, his weakest point seemed to be. . .his chest. Well, his head too, but he tried to protect that a lot more that his chest. At least he knew he could live through a chest hit.

Dante smiled and looked back at Nevia, who seemed to be trying to leave. "And just where are you going, young lady?"

Nevia froze and spun around. "Me? What do you care? I ain't part of your family."

Dante continued to smile. "You can stay here, if you like."

Nevia shook her head. "No way! I am NOT staying here!" Nevia had a slight fear of the Spardas. She wouldn't admit it though. Being in the house at the moment with all of them made her feel uneasy.

"Dante shrugged. "That's fine. See ya around."

Nevia turned back around and headed to the door. She seemed in a hurry as she opened the door and left the house. Dyne waited a few moments, then went to the door. When he opened it, Nevia was nowhere to be seen.

Dante came up behind Dyne. "She probably teleported." He laughed. Dyne grunted and closed the door.

After and hour or so, Dyne had his butt plastered to the couch, playing Metal Gear Solid 2 on his PS2. He heard Tye making a comotion upstairs and saved his game. He turned off the system and went upstairs.

As Dyne got to his room, he saw Tye getting numerous books, articles of clothing and other stuff together and putting them all into pillowcases, a dufflebag, two old backpacks, and a suitcase. Dyne saw that he was having trouble getting an arm full of books into a pillowcase. Dyne grabbed a number of the books and helped him out.

"Thanks." Tye said, relieved. Dyne smiled and turned to look at his brother after putting up the books.

No problem. So, you really leaving?"

Tye knodded. "Yeah. I wanna stay with Saia and help the clan."

"Awwww! Ain't that sweet!" Dyne said, grabbing Tye in a headlock and ruffling his hair.

Dyne stopped when he looked toward a wall of their room. They had a huge mirror on the wall. Dyne let Tye go and began examining Tye and himself in the mirror.

"Hey ya know what?" Dyne began. Tye hummed a 'what' sound. Dyne started playing with a strand of hair that hung in front of his left eye. "If we stand together like this, and I don't have my hair slicked back, we look more alike."

"Duh! We ARE twins, after all. The biggest difference is that goofy white streak in the front of your head!" Tye laughed. He didn't mention the large scratch across Dynes right eye.

"Goofy?!" Dyne yelled and grabbed Tye around the head. He threw him onto his bed, then one man dogpiled him.

"Okay! I take it back! Just get your fat ass off of me!"

Dyne jumped off, but the blanket came with him. He lifted his right arm to see that Cerbis had a spike stuck in the blanket.

"Hey, how do I get this off?" Dyne asked himself.

Right after he asked, three band-like claws that held the gauntlet onto his arm retracted. The whole thing seemed to writhe and shrink and it soon fell onto the floor with the blanket. Dyne untangled it and examined it. There were four blades sticking from the sides and one on the bottom. It looked kind of like a weird horseshoe crab or something.

He sat it on his bed and rubbed his arm. It didn't feel any lighter, seeing as how the gauntlet had weighed nothing at all. He felt some energy leave him.

"Well, you got a pretty cool toy, aye Dyne?"

Dyne knodded. "Yeah, but you got a girlfriend."

Tye laughed.

After Tye got all of his stuff together, he proceeded to bring it downstairs. Dyne followed. Tye sat his stuff down in the living room.

"So, when are you leaving?" Dyne asked.

"As soon as Saia's ready."

Dyne sighed. He figured he'd be pretty lonely without his brother to pick on.

"I'll miss ya." Dyne groaned.

"Don't worry, I'll miss you too. But, I'll come and visit after the towns back to normal."

Dyne knodded satisfaction. "I don't know how you plan to leave, since we totaled the bronco."

"Could I get you to drive us in the truck? That way you guys don't have to worry about it."

"'kay."

Moments later, Dante and Saia came from the kitchen. Dante had a cup of coffee, and Saia had some tea.

"You can eat here before you leave, if you want." Dante told Saia.

"That's okay, Mr. Dante. I'll eat when we get home."

Saia came up to Tye. "Are you ready to go?"

Tye knodded. The three men began picking up all of the bags and taking them out to the truck. After they had everything packed, Dante turned and looked at Tye.

"Are you sure you want to leave?"

"Yes."

"Alright." Dante sighed.

Everyone but Dante jumped into the truck and they took off.

* * *

Dyne parked the truck outside of the Wolf clan's hideout. He helped Tye get everything out of the back.

"That's it." Dyne said as he took out the last pillowcase.

Tye knodded. "Oh yeah!" He said and began taking off his bangle. He handed it to Dyne.

"What? This is yours." Dyne said, trying to give it back. Tye pushed it away.

"No, you keep it. You'll probably get more use out of it than me anyways."

Dyne reluctantly took it. He put it onto his left hand and showed it off. Tye smiled.

As Tye began to leave and Dyne jumped back into the truck, Dyne poked his head out the window.

"Hey!" He shouted.

Tye turned and came back.

"Hey, thanks."

"For what?"

"For saving my ass. Numerous times. If it wasn't for you, I'd be dead three times now."

Tye laughed. "Yeah, no problem. What are brothers for anyways?"

Dyne stuck his arm out the window and ruffled Tyes hair. "Be seeing ya!" He laughed.

Tye laughed and moved back. He stuck one arm in the air and waved farewell. Dyne cranked up the truck and drove home.

* * *

Dyne came back inside. He yawned. It had been a long day. He proceeded to the kitchen, where Dante was sitting with breakfast made. Dyne smirked and leaped into a chair. He was famished. He tore into the meal like a ravenous dog. After he finished, Dante sighed.

"So Tye's gone. . ."

"Uh, huh."

"You gonna miss him?"

"Yeah."

Dante stood up and went into his room. Dyne hopped up and cracked Dante's bedroom door open. He could see his father digging through some stuff. Dyne moved back as Dante came to the door.

Dante had in his arms his lightning sword, Alastor and a book. He handed Dyne the sword.

"Here. It's yours now."

Dyne examined the sword. It sent a shock of electricity through his body.

"Oww. . ."

"Yeah, it likes to do that." Dante growled.

After the unexpected jolt, Dyne pointed at the book. "What's with that?"

Dante held it up. "This book had just about everything you need to know about the underworld, Mundus, demons, and even the devil language." He explained, handing Dyne the book.

"Thanks." Dyne said taking the book. Dyne, as we know, didn't know much about anything Dante had just mentioned. He decided it was time to learn.

"Hey, I also wanna take you down to my office tomorrow." Dante said, going across the room.

"Really!?" Dyne knew what he ment by 'office': "Devil Never Cry". Dyne smirked. "Cool."

Dante walked up to Dyne and rubbed his hand through Dynes hair. "Go get some sleep. You deserve it."

Dyne knodded and yawned. Exausted, he headed upstairs and plopped down onto his bed. He was soon asleep.

Dante walked up soon after and checked on him. He sighed.

"Well, I'm proud of you. . ." He thought. "Your mom would be too."

* * * *

1 year and 4 months later

Dyne jumped out of his chair. He'd just had ice water thrown on his head.

"SHIT!! THAT"S FUCKIN' COLD!!" He yelled. His buddies laughed. One of them fell on theground.

"That's what I get for letting them get drunk. . ." He thought.

One of his friends threw a towel on Dyne's head. He laughed began trying to dry Dynes hair.

"Here! Le' me get thawt!!" He boy yelled.

Dyne managed to make his buddy release him and sighed. "Okay, I think we've been partying long enough. You guys need to get home!"

One of his friends looked at their watch. "We've only been here for 6 hours. . ."

"Exactly. That's plenty long enough. Everyone out!"

Five of Dynes friends proceeded to leave with many complaints. Three of them had to carry the other two out because they were so drunk.

"Wait, there should be seven. . ." Dyne thought. He began searching the building for his two missing friends.

He went upstairs and to his small room. As he opened the door, he saw one of his friends in his bed. Another was standing on the bed, just about completely naked, except a bra, which she was proceeding to remove.

"AW SHIT!! GET OUT!!" Dyne yelled. He apparently shouldn't have let his friend Jake bring his girlfriend.

Jake practically fell out of Dynes bed and proceeded to put his pants on. Jakes girlfriend did the same, but much more quickly. Dyne went to the wall where he kept Alastor.

"You guys got 20 seconds. . ."

The two struggled feverishly to put on their clothes. Jake jumped out the door and fell on the last step of the stairs. Jakes girlfriend jumped over him and ran out the front door as quickly as humanly possible. Jake finally got up as he heard Dyne coming down the stairs, feet thumping loudly.

"Does this look like a burlesque house to you!!? Get the fuck out!" Dyne yelled. Jake tore out of the house at a speed Dyne thought that only he or Dante could reach. Dyne ran to the front door and stood in it, triumpant.

"That's the last time I let you come party at my place, you son of a bitches!" Dyne yelled. He stabbed his sword into the wooden floor behind him. "Fuckers."

Dyne rubbed his head. He felt a bit tipsy himself. He came in and slammed the door. His buddys had wanted to have a party at his place, since Dante was out on a mission.

After Dante had gotten a few more jobs about a year ago, Dante had decided to rebuild the "Devil Never Cry." It was still in the same place though. Dyne had wanted to rename it back to "Devil May Cry", because it had a better ring to it, but Dante refused. Dyne had moved in and taken it over pretty much. He was more of Dante's secretary than a devil hunter. He just got small jobs, which sucked for him.

"Dad'll let me have a good one some time." Dyne sighed. He looked around at the mess his friends had made.

After getting everything cleaned up, Dyne ran upstairs to his room. He looked at his bed in disgust. He pulled the blankets off and put new ones on it. He decided he'd rather not take a nap in his room, because it smelt funny. He went back downstairs and hopped into the chair at the front desk. He proceeded to take a nap.

Unfortuatly, after a few minutes, there was a loud crash. Dyne opened his eyes and looked around. He looked out the window and frowned. It was raining.

"Damn. . ." He groaned. He tried to get back to sleep, but found it impossible with all of the thunder.

After a half-hour, the phone rang. Just as Dyne looked at it, thunder crashed. He let it ring a few more times, then picked it up.

"Hello, Devil Never Cry. What can I do for you?"

He listened for a few moments while the costumer talked with him. "Yes ma'am. . .Yeah, no problem. I'll be out there in a little while. . .Thanks, bye." He said and hung up.

Dyne looked around the room for a moment.

"Oh, dad won't notice I even left. . ."

THE END

That is the end of my fic! But don't be mad! I have a plan to write two more DMC fics that go along with this one! For some reason, I wrote this one first, but I should have written my other one first. (I guess I wanted to confuse everyone!) One is the prelude to this one and the other one I haven't put much thought into yet. (But I do have a few ideas! It involves Dyne. That's all I can say.) If you think I should go ahead and write the prelude, let me know in some reviews and I'll have the first chapter up in the very near future. Please let me know!!!

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