I had quite a bit of free time one my hands. (For once in a
while!) I wrote the other two chapters in one day, but this one
took me a while.
Chapter 3 Ship Ride!
Dante finally got back to the bar and went in. Marcus and Demitri were sitting around, waiting for him.
Demi had a bored look on his face, his elbow on the table and his hand on his cheek. His mood cheered up as he saw Dante walk in. He hopped up and waved.
Demi was wearing a black vest with a blue, long sleeved undershirt. He had on a pair of blue jeans. Dante could see a lightweight sword with a lion's head and claws on the butt strapped to his back. He also had one 45 pistol holstered at his side. There was a small backpack sitting on the table.
"'bout time you got back, sir." Demi said.
"Whatever." Was all that Dante said. He walked over to the table and put his hands down on it. "Now that I'm ready, how are we getting to the island?"
Marcus stood up and handed Dante a piece of paper. It read: Mr. Marcus, you have my permission to come on board my ship at any time. -Kenith
"Okay, this is for you." Dante said, getting a bit aggitated.
"Just take it to the boat docks. There's a ship waiting for you. I'm a friend with the captain of a ship there. He gave me this note to let the other sailors know that I'm allowed onboard. Just show it to Kenith and he'll let you on." Marcus explained.
Dante knodded and slipped the note into his coat. The docks were across town. "We'll have to go back to my place and get my bike."
Demi jumped up. "Don't worry, sir. I brought my motorcycle back so that we'd have a ride."
"Well, isn't that nice?" Dante said sarcasticlly.
Finally, Dante and Demi left the bar. Dante didn't complain at all about having to take the boy along with him. He figured he didn't have much of a choice. Demi drug his bike out from behind the bar. It was a big, dark blue street bike. Demi jumped on the front and motioned for Dante to get on the back. Dante quickly hopped on.
"I hope you know how to drive." Dante growled.
"Relax, Mr. Dante. I can drive fine." Demi reassured as he cranked up the bike and revved it a few times. He quickly drove off toward the docks.
~Somewhere on the island Dante and Dyne are heading to.~
Ori ran up the darkened stairs. He bursted through a large wooden door.
"General! General Gaul!" Ori yelled, out of breath. The general turned around.
"What is it, Ori?" He snapped.
"General, we just received horrible news!" Ori cried.
"What?!" Gaul hissed.
"Sir, we just heard that Dante Sparda is coming!"
Gaul's eyes widened. He didn't even know that Dante knew about their operations. NOONE could have known about it. Gaul had the army kill anyone who looked like they were going to leave the island, may it be human, or demon. "That's impossible. . ." He mumbled. His look of disbelief changed to one of anger. "Where is he?!"
"H-he's not h-here yet." Ori studdered. "He's getting ready to leave."
"Good, that gives us some time." Gaul thought for a moment. "I want you to get your men together. When he gets here, I want him DEAD! Understood?"
"Yes, sir." Ori said. He bowed and ran from the room.
~Back with Dante~
Dante and Demi got to the docks. There was a large ship docked. Dante could see an older man standing by a bridge that went to the boat. He noticed the two coming toward him.
"Hello there! Can I do something for you?" The man asked.
Dante came up to him. "Yeah, are you Kenith?"
"Yes sir. I'm him."
"We were told we could use your boat. Marcus told us that." Dante explained.
"Marcus? You sure?"
Dante handed Kenith the slip of paper. He looked it over and handed it back to Dante. "Alright. I guess if you're a friend of Marcus, you're a friend of mine." Kenith said with a smile. "Where ya headed?"
"We need to get to Zalari Island." Demitri said.
"Zalari Island? That's a week or so's boat ride."
Dante reached into his back pocket and pulled out his wallet. He opened it and pulled out a wad of bills. As he uncrinkled the wad, Demitri saw that they were all hundereds.
"Well, I've got one thousand here that says it'll be worth your while, and a few more if you want when we get back."
Kenith snatched the bills. He counted it out. "This'll be fine."
"Great. Let's get sailin'." Dante said as he boarded the boat. Demitri jumped on after him.
Demitri sat his stuff down in the cabin. Dante did the same. Demi began rumaging through his bag until he pulled out a book. He layed on his bed and began reading. Dante left the cabin.
As he walked out, salty air blew across his face. The water was a little choppy and it blew mists of salt water onto Dante. There were a few sea gulls flying around the boat. The land was still visable. Dante walked over to the railing of the ship and leaned over it.
Demi came out of the cabin after a few minutes. He came up to Dante and leaned on the railing with him.
"What's wrong, Mr. Dante?"
"Nuthin'."
Dante noticed that Demi had his sword. "What're you up to?"
Demi came away from the railing and held up his sword. "I was thinking about training a little."
Dante knodded with understanding. Demitri went out to the deck and began swinging his sword around. Dante got away from the rail after a few moments of watching the boy 'train'.
"Look, if you're going to train, you need someone to do it with." Dante said as he walked toward Demi.
Demi held his sword toward Dante. "Okay, come on."
Dante held up one finger as if to say 'just a second'. He walked back to the cabin and came out a few seconds later with Alastor. He went to the middle of the deck and taunted Demi. "Let's see what ya got."
With those words, Demi ran at Dante. He had his sword tucked close, then when he was close, he brought it out and came in for a downward diagonal slash. Dante smoothly sidestepped the slash and came in for a jab. If they were in a real fight, Demitri would have been impaled.
"Well," Dante said as he pulled the sword away from Demi. He had a smirk across his face. "you're dead."
Demi sighed and turned from Dante. After turning a bit, he spun back around and tried to take another slash at Dante while he had his guard down. Dante expected nothing less and put Alastor up to block. He stepped to the side again and gave Demi a slash in the side.
"Dead again."
Demi got somewhat aggrevated. He came at Dante in a flurry of slashes and jabs. Dante dodged and blocked every one of them. When Demi came in for yet another jab, Dante blocked it and pushed him away. He then ran at him and ducked, preforming a low roundhouse kick. Demi's legs went out from under him and he landed on his back. Dante stabbed the ground next to Demi to show another impalement.
"Dead, yet again. Is it just me, or do you suck?"
Demi slowly got up. "I'm good, sir. Come on, you killed the demon emperor. Of course you're better."
"Well, if you want to stay alive on that island, you better DAMN well show a better preformance than that when we get there."
Demi sighed and got himself ready to fight again. "Mr. Dante?"
"What?"
"Will you train me then?"
Dante scoffed at this. He'd never trained anyone before. He shrugged. If they were going to be stuck on this ship for a week, he might as well do something to pass the time. "I'll teach you a few tricks, I guess."
Demi's eyes brightened. The thought of being trained by the legendary Dante was overwelming to him. "Okay, let's start now!"
And so, Dante began training Demitri. They trained everyday for four days. Demi 'died' at least twice a day. Dante was lucky if he got a scratch. On the fifth day, Dante was actually amazed. He found himself lying flat on his back. Demi's sword was stuck in the floor next to him.
"You're dead, sir." Demi said with a proud smirk on his face. Dante sighed. He was happy that the training had been getting pounded into Demi's head. He slowly got up and dusted himself off.
"'Bout damn time. I was thinking you were a lost cause." Dante laughed.
Demi leaned on his sword. "That so? Guess I showed you then, huh?" He asked proudly.
"Naw. You're still an amature."
Demi scoffed at this and pulled up his sword. "I'm going to the cabin." He said and walked of to their room.
As Dante sheathed his sword, one of the sailors came up to him.
"Hey, we're getting close to the island. Just thought I'd let you know." The man said. Dante knodded and walked off.
He went to the railing and looked off. He couldn't see the island yet, but that didn't mean they weren't near. He stared off into the water. It had an orange tint to it from the sunset.
"Guess I should get off to the cabin too." Dante thought to himself. He got off of the rail and went into the cabin with Demi. Demi was taking off his shirt for bed.
"Going off already?" Dante mumbled. Demi knodded and threw his shirt at the foot of his bed.
"You should get some sleep too, sir. I think we're going to get to that place by tomorrow morning."
Dante knodded, realizing that the kid had a point. He sat Alastor down with Ifrit and dropped onto the bed.
He was asleep in a heartbeat.
"HEY!! GET UP, QUICK!!" Someone yelled, waking Dante from his slumber.
Dante opened his eyes and sprung to a sitting position to see one of the sailors in the doorway of the cabin. Demi was up too, staring at the sailor.
"What?" Dante snapped.
"D-demons! On the ship! They're everywhere!!" The sailor yelled.
Dante jumped out of his bed and grabbed up his equiptment. Demi did the same and they ran out of the room. As Dante came out, he heard numerous demon screeches and some human yells. He saw that there were indeed demons running around.
Kenith ran up to Dante. He seemed to be trying to say something. He suddenly stopped and fell to the ground. There was a hole in his back and a large demon standing behind his body. It was a large infestant.
"Well, this is a surprise." Dante said as he whipped out his sword. With the greatest of ease, Dante struck the infestant and sliced it in half. Demi ran up to Dante.
"What's going on?!" Demi yelped.
"Looks like the greeting committee." Dante said sarcasticlly as he plunged his sword into another infestant. "Let's see what you can do, aye kid?"
Demi looked at Dante dumbfounded. He couldn't believe that Dante could be so calm in a situation like this. He sighed, there was no way he'd let himself panic! At least. . .not in front of Mr. Dante. He drew his sword and looked around. He saw a small group of infestants tearing at one of the sailor's bodies.
"There." Demi thought and ran wildly at the infestants. Dante watched and sighed. It appeared that acting like a total jackass helped Demi stay alive. . .somehow. No regular person could even last half as long as he was. Demi was miraculously dodging every blow from the demons. He even managed to bash in a few heads in his clutsy preformance.
"And I trained him for the past five days why?" Dante thought. He calmly pulled out Ebony and without looking, pointed it over his shoulder and decapitated an infestant that apparently thought it was going to get Dante in the back. It fell in a heap behind him. He then pulled Ivory in the other hand and pointed it past his side. He shot off three times, penatrating the head of another infestant.
Demi finished off the last of his demons and ran back over to Dante.
"Boy, you looked like a damned fool." Dante growled.
Demi huffed. "Nah, that's one of my styles. just makes me look like an idiot."
"Okay. . .so you think it helps to make yourself look retarded?"
"Yes, sir. They put down their guard."
"That doesn't help against DEMONS! They don't know what's weak or strong until you kill a few of their buddies. Then they still try to kill you. At least, that's how low level demons work."
Demi sighed. "'kay, sir. I'll try some better stuff." Demi looked around until he saw a group of infestants that was much bigger than the last. He ran and jumped into the middle of them. They jumped back and hissed.
"Hey there." Demi said as he pulled out his pistol. Dante saw a bright aura of green emit from the gun, then the bullet flew from the gun with a blast of energy following it. After the shot hit one of the infestants in the face, Demi holstered the gun and pulled his sword back out. He held it to his side and behind him. Dante watched, curious of what the boy was up to. Dante whipped out Ebony again and shot yet another infestant.
Demi charged energy into his sword. It glowed a bright green tint. As the demons closed in, Demi spun around in a circle, slicing through the demons like a hot knife through butter. Dante shrugged and walked over. Demi looked up at him with demon blood on his face.
"Is that better, sir?" He asked with a smirk.
"Yep."
Demi looked around, not seeing anymore of the infestants. "Was that all of them?"
Dante shrugged.
"What was with those demons, sir?"
"They were infestants. They can possess machinery. They might have been trying to take over the ship." Dante explained.
"That would suck. This ship isn't wind powered. It has an engine, right?"
"Yeah."
Suddenly, the ship trembled and rocked.
"What the hell?!" Demi yelled. Dante could only figure that one of the infestants had managed to get into the engine room.
"Well, this is just peachy." Dante groaned. He cursed Demi for the jinx under his breath.
Down below deck, in the engine room, five infestants were taking over the engines. One of the demons merged itself into the boiler. To serve its master, it began to force it to overheat.
Dante ran to the side of the ship. "Come on, we gotta jump! Something REALLY bad's about to happen!" He yelled to Demitri. Demi ran over with him. Dante grabbed his arm and jumped onto the railing. He pulled Demi up and dove off into the water below.
"Swim, Demi!" Dante commanded. The two began swimming as quickly as they could. Behind them, they heard an explosion. Demi looked back to see the boat, flames blazed high into the air.
After they were a good distance from the boat, Dante stopped and looked around. The water was as dark as the sky, and there was no land in sight. He looked in the direction that the boat had been going.
"Demi, we'll go that way. We should get to the island." Dante said calmly. Demi knodded and they began swimming in the direction Dante had pointed.
"Mr. Dante. . .I'm getting kinda tired." Demi huffed after an hour or so of swimming. Dante stopped, keeping himself in the direction they were heading. Demi layed on his back and floated in the water.
Dante tried the same, but he had to keep paddling his arms and legs. His coat and weapons were weighting him down quite a bit. He closed his eyes and let his body sink a bit, then bobbed himself back up. As he did this for the tenth time, he felt a cold shiver through his body.
"Um. . ." Dante groaned. At first, he thought he was just getting goosebumbs from the chilly water. It wasn't until he felt something brush against his legs that he knew there was something wrong.
"Demi, there's something with us. . ." Dante growled as he unsheathed his sword. Demi wasn't too sure what was going on, but he wanted to find out. He took a deep breath and dipped under the water. He looked around, but couldn't see anything. As he came back up, the wind was beginning to blow hard.
"There's nothing there. What's going on?" Demi asked.
Dante shrugged. He was still being cautious. "Damn, if the wind picks up, we'll end up lost!" Dante growled. "We don't have a choice, we have to keep swimming."
Demi sighed and followed Dante. They swam for quite some time, until Dante noticed that Demi was struggling to stay with him.
"What's wrong?" Dante yelled. Demi was trying to get up to him, but couldn't.
"The current's got me, sir!" He huffed.
Dante sighed. "Looks like we're going to have to split up. Keep heading this way, okay?"
"B-but! I can't get out of here by myself!" Demi yelled.
"Sure you can! Just go slowly. The current will pass soon."
". . .Yes. . .sir."
Dante stopped for a moment, seeing if Demi could get out of his predicament in the next few minutes. He felt something brush his leg again.
"What the hell is that?!" Dante thought to himself. He felt it again. "God, don't be a shark."
No, it was worse. Suddenly, a beast that looked like an odd shark snake emerged from the water. It towered over Dante and roared.
"Aw shit!" Dante yelled and whipped out Ivory and Ebony. He charged some electricity into them as quickly as he could, and shot at the demon. The bullets hit the thing in the face, causing it to fly backwards and back underwater.
"Mr. Dante! Are you alright!" Demi yelled.
"Just fine!" Dante yelled back sarcasticlly as he searched the area with his guns.
"What was tha-"
Dante turned as Demi was cut short. He was nowhere to be found.
"Demi? DEMITRI!!!?" Dante yelled. Noone answered.
Well, unless you include the demon shark that jumped out of the water at Dante only seconds after his call. Dante shot off as many rounds as he could into the shark demon. After numerous shots to the head, the thing fell into the water, flailed around for a few moments and sunk.
Dante sat floating in the water. He could only hear the sound of his own, heavy breathing and the water around him making soft splash noises. Demi was still gone. Dante had never seen him come up.
"Damn, poor guy never even made it to shore. Died quicker than I thought." Dante thought. The wind suddenly ceased. Dante sighed. "Guess I should go ahead on to this island."
It had been long over an hour. Dante was still swimming. He only hoped that he was headed in the right direction. He stopped for a moment to rest.
"I don't know if I can keep this up for much longer. . ." He told himself. His body was beginning to tire and stiffen from the swimming and the coldness of the water. He let his body bob in the water again.
As he did this, he felt some relief, until he went under one time to see the face of a rather ugly shark demon right in his. He let out a sudden yelp underwater and with lightning fast reflexes, unholstered Ivory and Ebony. Since the demon was so close to him, the water didn't slow his bullets down. About ten bullets flew into the creature's eyes and upper face. It writhed with pain and rolled up to die. It suddenly disintegrated.
"I gotta get out of here!" Dante thought. He kept in his direction, now underwater. He swam as quickly as he could. In the darkened water, he could see about six of the shark demons swimming around. They were too close for comfort.
One came at him. He pulled out Alastor and with a quick boost of energy, he committed an uppercut to the demons body. It's insides spilt out into the ocean and it dissolved. Two more of the demons came toward Dante. He had a sudden idea.
"If I use Alastor to charge the water with electricity. . ." He thought. He quickly went into devil trigger and shot in the water. The energy made an electrical current in the water, electrocuting any nearby shark demons. Dantes devil trigger soon faded away and he felt more tired than before.
"I need some damn rest. . ." He thought. Soon after he thought that, he felt something on his body. Waves began washing over him and he felt the sandy ground around him.
"Did I hit land?"
Sure enough, as Dante's head came out from underwater, he heard smooth waves spashing on the beach that was around him. Dante crawled onto the land a little ways and let his body collapse.
He closed his eyes and passed out from exaustion.
Damn! That took a while to write! I'll put up the next chapter soon, I hope. I'm not sure how long it will be. Just bear with me here! Review, please.
Chapter 3 Ship Ride!
Dante finally got back to the bar and went in. Marcus and Demitri were sitting around, waiting for him.
Demi had a bored look on his face, his elbow on the table and his hand on his cheek. His mood cheered up as he saw Dante walk in. He hopped up and waved.
Demi was wearing a black vest with a blue, long sleeved undershirt. He had on a pair of blue jeans. Dante could see a lightweight sword with a lion's head and claws on the butt strapped to his back. He also had one 45 pistol holstered at his side. There was a small backpack sitting on the table.
"'bout time you got back, sir." Demi said.
"Whatever." Was all that Dante said. He walked over to the table and put his hands down on it. "Now that I'm ready, how are we getting to the island?"
Marcus stood up and handed Dante a piece of paper. It read: Mr. Marcus, you have my permission to come on board my ship at any time. -Kenith
"Okay, this is for you." Dante said, getting a bit aggitated.
"Just take it to the boat docks. There's a ship waiting for you. I'm a friend with the captain of a ship there. He gave me this note to let the other sailors know that I'm allowed onboard. Just show it to Kenith and he'll let you on." Marcus explained.
Dante knodded and slipped the note into his coat. The docks were across town. "We'll have to go back to my place and get my bike."
Demi jumped up. "Don't worry, sir. I brought my motorcycle back so that we'd have a ride."
"Well, isn't that nice?" Dante said sarcasticlly.
Finally, Dante and Demi left the bar. Dante didn't complain at all about having to take the boy along with him. He figured he didn't have much of a choice. Demi drug his bike out from behind the bar. It was a big, dark blue street bike. Demi jumped on the front and motioned for Dante to get on the back. Dante quickly hopped on.
"I hope you know how to drive." Dante growled.
"Relax, Mr. Dante. I can drive fine." Demi reassured as he cranked up the bike and revved it a few times. He quickly drove off toward the docks.
~Somewhere on the island Dante and Dyne are heading to.~
Ori ran up the darkened stairs. He bursted through a large wooden door.
"General! General Gaul!" Ori yelled, out of breath. The general turned around.
"What is it, Ori?" He snapped.
"General, we just received horrible news!" Ori cried.
"What?!" Gaul hissed.
"Sir, we just heard that Dante Sparda is coming!"
Gaul's eyes widened. He didn't even know that Dante knew about their operations. NOONE could have known about it. Gaul had the army kill anyone who looked like they were going to leave the island, may it be human, or demon. "That's impossible. . ." He mumbled. His look of disbelief changed to one of anger. "Where is he?!"
"H-he's not h-here yet." Ori studdered. "He's getting ready to leave."
"Good, that gives us some time." Gaul thought for a moment. "I want you to get your men together. When he gets here, I want him DEAD! Understood?"
"Yes, sir." Ori said. He bowed and ran from the room.
~Back with Dante~
Dante and Demi got to the docks. There was a large ship docked. Dante could see an older man standing by a bridge that went to the boat. He noticed the two coming toward him.
"Hello there! Can I do something for you?" The man asked.
Dante came up to him. "Yeah, are you Kenith?"
"Yes sir. I'm him."
"We were told we could use your boat. Marcus told us that." Dante explained.
"Marcus? You sure?"
Dante handed Kenith the slip of paper. He looked it over and handed it back to Dante. "Alright. I guess if you're a friend of Marcus, you're a friend of mine." Kenith said with a smile. "Where ya headed?"
"We need to get to Zalari Island." Demitri said.
"Zalari Island? That's a week or so's boat ride."
Dante reached into his back pocket and pulled out his wallet. He opened it and pulled out a wad of bills. As he uncrinkled the wad, Demitri saw that they were all hundereds.
"Well, I've got one thousand here that says it'll be worth your while, and a few more if you want when we get back."
Kenith snatched the bills. He counted it out. "This'll be fine."
"Great. Let's get sailin'." Dante said as he boarded the boat. Demitri jumped on after him.
Demitri sat his stuff down in the cabin. Dante did the same. Demi began rumaging through his bag until he pulled out a book. He layed on his bed and began reading. Dante left the cabin.
As he walked out, salty air blew across his face. The water was a little choppy and it blew mists of salt water onto Dante. There were a few sea gulls flying around the boat. The land was still visable. Dante walked over to the railing of the ship and leaned over it.
Demi came out of the cabin after a few minutes. He came up to Dante and leaned on the railing with him.
"What's wrong, Mr. Dante?"
"Nuthin'."
Dante noticed that Demi had his sword. "What're you up to?"
Demi came away from the railing and held up his sword. "I was thinking about training a little."
Dante knodded with understanding. Demitri went out to the deck and began swinging his sword around. Dante got away from the rail after a few moments of watching the boy 'train'.
"Look, if you're going to train, you need someone to do it with." Dante said as he walked toward Demi.
Demi held his sword toward Dante. "Okay, come on."
Dante held up one finger as if to say 'just a second'. He walked back to the cabin and came out a few seconds later with Alastor. He went to the middle of the deck and taunted Demi. "Let's see what ya got."
With those words, Demi ran at Dante. He had his sword tucked close, then when he was close, he brought it out and came in for a downward diagonal slash. Dante smoothly sidestepped the slash and came in for a jab. If they were in a real fight, Demitri would have been impaled.
"Well," Dante said as he pulled the sword away from Demi. He had a smirk across his face. "you're dead."
Demi sighed and turned from Dante. After turning a bit, he spun back around and tried to take another slash at Dante while he had his guard down. Dante expected nothing less and put Alastor up to block. He stepped to the side again and gave Demi a slash in the side.
"Dead again."
Demi got somewhat aggrevated. He came at Dante in a flurry of slashes and jabs. Dante dodged and blocked every one of them. When Demi came in for yet another jab, Dante blocked it and pushed him away. He then ran at him and ducked, preforming a low roundhouse kick. Demi's legs went out from under him and he landed on his back. Dante stabbed the ground next to Demi to show another impalement.
"Dead, yet again. Is it just me, or do you suck?"
Demi slowly got up. "I'm good, sir. Come on, you killed the demon emperor. Of course you're better."
"Well, if you want to stay alive on that island, you better DAMN well show a better preformance than that when we get there."
Demi sighed and got himself ready to fight again. "Mr. Dante?"
"What?"
"Will you train me then?"
Dante scoffed at this. He'd never trained anyone before. He shrugged. If they were going to be stuck on this ship for a week, he might as well do something to pass the time. "I'll teach you a few tricks, I guess."
Demi's eyes brightened. The thought of being trained by the legendary Dante was overwelming to him. "Okay, let's start now!"
And so, Dante began training Demitri. They trained everyday for four days. Demi 'died' at least twice a day. Dante was lucky if he got a scratch. On the fifth day, Dante was actually amazed. He found himself lying flat on his back. Demi's sword was stuck in the floor next to him.
"You're dead, sir." Demi said with a proud smirk on his face. Dante sighed. He was happy that the training had been getting pounded into Demi's head. He slowly got up and dusted himself off.
"'Bout damn time. I was thinking you were a lost cause." Dante laughed.
Demi leaned on his sword. "That so? Guess I showed you then, huh?" He asked proudly.
"Naw. You're still an amature."
Demi scoffed at this and pulled up his sword. "I'm going to the cabin." He said and walked of to their room.
As Dante sheathed his sword, one of the sailors came up to him.
"Hey, we're getting close to the island. Just thought I'd let you know." The man said. Dante knodded and walked off.
He went to the railing and looked off. He couldn't see the island yet, but that didn't mean they weren't near. He stared off into the water. It had an orange tint to it from the sunset.
"Guess I should get off to the cabin too." Dante thought to himself. He got off of the rail and went into the cabin with Demi. Demi was taking off his shirt for bed.
"Going off already?" Dante mumbled. Demi knodded and threw his shirt at the foot of his bed.
"You should get some sleep too, sir. I think we're going to get to that place by tomorrow morning."
Dante knodded, realizing that the kid had a point. He sat Alastor down with Ifrit and dropped onto the bed.
He was asleep in a heartbeat.
"HEY!! GET UP, QUICK!!" Someone yelled, waking Dante from his slumber.
Dante opened his eyes and sprung to a sitting position to see one of the sailors in the doorway of the cabin. Demi was up too, staring at the sailor.
"What?" Dante snapped.
"D-demons! On the ship! They're everywhere!!" The sailor yelled.
Dante jumped out of his bed and grabbed up his equiptment. Demi did the same and they ran out of the room. As Dante came out, he heard numerous demon screeches and some human yells. He saw that there were indeed demons running around.
Kenith ran up to Dante. He seemed to be trying to say something. He suddenly stopped and fell to the ground. There was a hole in his back and a large demon standing behind his body. It was a large infestant.
"Well, this is a surprise." Dante said as he whipped out his sword. With the greatest of ease, Dante struck the infestant and sliced it in half. Demi ran up to Dante.
"What's going on?!" Demi yelped.
"Looks like the greeting committee." Dante said sarcasticlly as he plunged his sword into another infestant. "Let's see what you can do, aye kid?"
Demi looked at Dante dumbfounded. He couldn't believe that Dante could be so calm in a situation like this. He sighed, there was no way he'd let himself panic! At least. . .not in front of Mr. Dante. He drew his sword and looked around. He saw a small group of infestants tearing at one of the sailor's bodies.
"There." Demi thought and ran wildly at the infestants. Dante watched and sighed. It appeared that acting like a total jackass helped Demi stay alive. . .somehow. No regular person could even last half as long as he was. Demi was miraculously dodging every blow from the demons. He even managed to bash in a few heads in his clutsy preformance.
"And I trained him for the past five days why?" Dante thought. He calmly pulled out Ebony and without looking, pointed it over his shoulder and decapitated an infestant that apparently thought it was going to get Dante in the back. It fell in a heap behind him. He then pulled Ivory in the other hand and pointed it past his side. He shot off three times, penatrating the head of another infestant.
Demi finished off the last of his demons and ran back over to Dante.
"Boy, you looked like a damned fool." Dante growled.
Demi huffed. "Nah, that's one of my styles. just makes me look like an idiot."
"Okay. . .so you think it helps to make yourself look retarded?"
"Yes, sir. They put down their guard."
"That doesn't help against DEMONS! They don't know what's weak or strong until you kill a few of their buddies. Then they still try to kill you. At least, that's how low level demons work."
Demi sighed. "'kay, sir. I'll try some better stuff." Demi looked around until he saw a group of infestants that was much bigger than the last. He ran and jumped into the middle of them. They jumped back and hissed.
"Hey there." Demi said as he pulled out his pistol. Dante saw a bright aura of green emit from the gun, then the bullet flew from the gun with a blast of energy following it. After the shot hit one of the infestants in the face, Demi holstered the gun and pulled his sword back out. He held it to his side and behind him. Dante watched, curious of what the boy was up to. Dante whipped out Ebony again and shot yet another infestant.
Demi charged energy into his sword. It glowed a bright green tint. As the demons closed in, Demi spun around in a circle, slicing through the demons like a hot knife through butter. Dante shrugged and walked over. Demi looked up at him with demon blood on his face.
"Is that better, sir?" He asked with a smirk.
"Yep."
Demi looked around, not seeing anymore of the infestants. "Was that all of them?"
Dante shrugged.
"What was with those demons, sir?"
"They were infestants. They can possess machinery. They might have been trying to take over the ship." Dante explained.
"That would suck. This ship isn't wind powered. It has an engine, right?"
"Yeah."
Suddenly, the ship trembled and rocked.
"What the hell?!" Demi yelled. Dante could only figure that one of the infestants had managed to get into the engine room.
"Well, this is just peachy." Dante groaned. He cursed Demi for the jinx under his breath.
Down below deck, in the engine room, five infestants were taking over the engines. One of the demons merged itself into the boiler. To serve its master, it began to force it to overheat.
Dante ran to the side of the ship. "Come on, we gotta jump! Something REALLY bad's about to happen!" He yelled to Demitri. Demi ran over with him. Dante grabbed his arm and jumped onto the railing. He pulled Demi up and dove off into the water below.
"Swim, Demi!" Dante commanded. The two began swimming as quickly as they could. Behind them, they heard an explosion. Demi looked back to see the boat, flames blazed high into the air.
After they were a good distance from the boat, Dante stopped and looked around. The water was as dark as the sky, and there was no land in sight. He looked in the direction that the boat had been going.
"Demi, we'll go that way. We should get to the island." Dante said calmly. Demi knodded and they began swimming in the direction Dante had pointed.
"Mr. Dante. . .I'm getting kinda tired." Demi huffed after an hour or so of swimming. Dante stopped, keeping himself in the direction they were heading. Demi layed on his back and floated in the water.
Dante tried the same, but he had to keep paddling his arms and legs. His coat and weapons were weighting him down quite a bit. He closed his eyes and let his body sink a bit, then bobbed himself back up. As he did this for the tenth time, he felt a cold shiver through his body.
"Um. . ." Dante groaned. At first, he thought he was just getting goosebumbs from the chilly water. It wasn't until he felt something brush against his legs that he knew there was something wrong.
"Demi, there's something with us. . ." Dante growled as he unsheathed his sword. Demi wasn't too sure what was going on, but he wanted to find out. He took a deep breath and dipped under the water. He looked around, but couldn't see anything. As he came back up, the wind was beginning to blow hard.
"There's nothing there. What's going on?" Demi asked.
Dante shrugged. He was still being cautious. "Damn, if the wind picks up, we'll end up lost!" Dante growled. "We don't have a choice, we have to keep swimming."
Demi sighed and followed Dante. They swam for quite some time, until Dante noticed that Demi was struggling to stay with him.
"What's wrong?" Dante yelled. Demi was trying to get up to him, but couldn't.
"The current's got me, sir!" He huffed.
Dante sighed. "Looks like we're going to have to split up. Keep heading this way, okay?"
"B-but! I can't get out of here by myself!" Demi yelled.
"Sure you can! Just go slowly. The current will pass soon."
". . .Yes. . .sir."
Dante stopped for a moment, seeing if Demi could get out of his predicament in the next few minutes. He felt something brush his leg again.
"What the hell is that?!" Dante thought to himself. He felt it again. "God, don't be a shark."
No, it was worse. Suddenly, a beast that looked like an odd shark snake emerged from the water. It towered over Dante and roared.
"Aw shit!" Dante yelled and whipped out Ivory and Ebony. He charged some electricity into them as quickly as he could, and shot at the demon. The bullets hit the thing in the face, causing it to fly backwards and back underwater.
"Mr. Dante! Are you alright!" Demi yelled.
"Just fine!" Dante yelled back sarcasticlly as he searched the area with his guns.
"What was tha-"
Dante turned as Demi was cut short. He was nowhere to be found.
"Demi? DEMITRI!!!?" Dante yelled. Noone answered.
Well, unless you include the demon shark that jumped out of the water at Dante only seconds after his call. Dante shot off as many rounds as he could into the shark demon. After numerous shots to the head, the thing fell into the water, flailed around for a few moments and sunk.
Dante sat floating in the water. He could only hear the sound of his own, heavy breathing and the water around him making soft splash noises. Demi was still gone. Dante had never seen him come up.
"Damn, poor guy never even made it to shore. Died quicker than I thought." Dante thought. The wind suddenly ceased. Dante sighed. "Guess I should go ahead on to this island."
It had been long over an hour. Dante was still swimming. He only hoped that he was headed in the right direction. He stopped for a moment to rest.
"I don't know if I can keep this up for much longer. . ." He told himself. His body was beginning to tire and stiffen from the swimming and the coldness of the water. He let his body bob in the water again.
As he did this, he felt some relief, until he went under one time to see the face of a rather ugly shark demon right in his. He let out a sudden yelp underwater and with lightning fast reflexes, unholstered Ivory and Ebony. Since the demon was so close to him, the water didn't slow his bullets down. About ten bullets flew into the creature's eyes and upper face. It writhed with pain and rolled up to die. It suddenly disintegrated.
"I gotta get out of here!" Dante thought. He kept in his direction, now underwater. He swam as quickly as he could. In the darkened water, he could see about six of the shark demons swimming around. They were too close for comfort.
One came at him. He pulled out Alastor and with a quick boost of energy, he committed an uppercut to the demons body. It's insides spilt out into the ocean and it dissolved. Two more of the demons came toward Dante. He had a sudden idea.
"If I use Alastor to charge the water with electricity. . ." He thought. He quickly went into devil trigger and shot in the water. The energy made an electrical current in the water, electrocuting any nearby shark demons. Dantes devil trigger soon faded away and he felt more tired than before.
"I need some damn rest. . ." He thought. Soon after he thought that, he felt something on his body. Waves began washing over him and he felt the sandy ground around him.
"Did I hit land?"
Sure enough, as Dante's head came out from underwater, he heard smooth waves spashing on the beach that was around him. Dante crawled onto the land a little ways and let his body collapse.
He closed his eyes and passed out from exaustion.
Damn! That took a while to write! I'll put up the next chapter soon, I hope. I'm not sure how long it will be. Just bear with me here! Review, please.