Hallelujah! Yes I am BACK! Ladies and gentlemen! *Ducks as various sharp
objects head my way* Hey stop it now! *gasp* phew! I KNOW it took me a
while but I'm back on track! Yes Chapter 3 is finally here! ^^ Dante and
Cole are gonna work together! Enjoy!
Thanks to my reviewers: Devon's Child (Thankies! ^^), Veronika (I'm going! I'm going! ^_~), Eowen (Hey sis! *Waves*_^), Luminara (Thanks ^^), Celestial Fury (lol! Put me on! Put me on! n_n), Gem-Sama1 (I like Trish and Lucia's bitchiness too! ^__^), and Twilight (1st reviewer! I think you! =^o^=).
Oh *This* Is Demon/Devil speech* "This" Is normal speech and 'these' are thoughts! Just so you know! ^^
Chapter 3 Partnership
"What do you mean, 'I'm late?'" Dante asked as #both he and Cole stepped out of the factory slowly and into the dim sunlight and began walking towards the village. Cole sighed and shook his head. "I sent off a message four days ago, I was expecting help sooner than now" Dante shrugged off haughtily.
"Look, it took a hell of a lot of planning, and then convincing the CIA that we were coming here for research purposes and not to do any demon ass kicking, I wish it was all that simple" Cole smiled gently and shook his head some of his dark brown hair falling into his eyes; Dante had the sudden urge to swipe them away. 'What the hell is wrong with me today?' Dante shook his head and carried on walking. "Don't we all wish life was that simple? But unfortunately life can be a bummer..." Dante laughed knowing how true that could be...
As soon as the two men were outside the village Cole stopped his pale complexion getting, if possible even paler, his eyes fixed on the village. "Cole? What's up?" Dante looked at the younger man in concern, then to the village, there was nothing out of the ordinary that he could see, but it was like Cole had seen something Dante hadn't. Cole shook his head and tried to smile convincingly to Dante. "Nothing, I'm alright, let's keep moving". Dante frowned unconvinced that nothing was wrong, but decided not to inquire any further, for now.
"Alright, then" Dante muttered before going ahead, in to the village Cole smiled and hurried to catch up to him. 'I guess all of this won't be so bad after all...' As soon as the two had entered the village, they stopped and looked at one another in a silent agreement. "Demons are defiantly here, I wonder why there here and not in last village I went to?" Cole turned to him and smiled.
"What? The one by the sea? That was me I used some holy water to purify the village and used a seal to stop demons from entering" Dante just rose an eyebrow slightly impressed; the young brunette was smarter than he looked. "You did a good job" Cole nodded and scratched the back of his neck almost nervously.
"Thanks" Dante just nodded before they walked into the village's small town market. As expected it was deserted but the village itself was a mess; doors of houses had been torn off, walls had been demolished, personal possessions were scattered all over the dirt floor, and some houses had been on fire; the walls were charred black, still smoking faintly. "You think we should split up?" Cole asked but Dante instantly shook his head in disagreement.
"No, those demons will have picked our scent up by now, if we split up they'll pick us off, you first then me, best thing to do is to stick together" Cole nodded without protest "Alright partner whatever you say" Cole said flashing Dante a grin before the two headed off into the village's main square.
As soon as the two were inside the square Dante stopped, and looked around, his eyes fixed looking above and below him; then he froze all together. "Dante what?" Then, Cole stopped to; there it was the faint noise in the background steadily getting louder and louder. "Demons" Dante muttered and pulled out Ebony and Ivory while Cole brought out his shotgun, before facing away from one another, both looking for any sight of the demon's, Dante smirked "Here they come" Cole nodded, suppressing a shiver, but weather it was from Dante's tone of voice or the anticipation of battle he didn't know.
Then they came, from all side, pouring into the town square and surrounding the two demon hunters, the largest one, which was most likely the leader roared in satisfaction upon finding more prey, and roared again, Cole sighed waiting, while Dante listened to what the demon said. *More survivors! Tear them apart, leave no trace!* Dante had to roll his eyes at this; demons could be so cheesy sometimes...
"Get ready Cole" He felt Cole nod and shiver again, and wondered why. 'Not now you idiot! Later, if you survive!' The demons didn't move, they were waiting for there leader to give them the signal to attack. Dante smirked ready for anything, Cole next to him waiting, anxiously...Then it came.
*Attack!!!!*
Chaos ensued as the demons rushed forward on command, Cole and Dante attacked as best as they could, scores of demons going down on the first swoop, then more and more were added to the pile as Cole and Dante worked as a team, but the demons kept coming, until there was a sea of them, and Dante knew they couldn't hold them off forever. "Dante I'm almost out!" Cole cried indicating his shotgun, then hitting a demon over the head with the butt. Dante passed him some bullets before counter attacking a demon with his sword Alastor.
A few minutes later and the two men knew, that there was little chance they could get out of this situation, and it was getting even worse as the battle wore on. "Got any idea's Dante?" Cole asked as he kicked a demon back and shot it into the air before it slammed into some of its allies. Dante grunted and attacked once more before he nodded. "Only one keep at it Cole" Dante then stopped attacking to summon up his devil trigger, but before he could change fully one of the demon's pounced upon him, knocking him off balance and covering him before pinning him to the ground. Cole watched in horror, while still attacking the demon's that flew at him, there sharp claws ready to slice at him, to cut into him. "Dante!" Cole cried but it was no use; the demons, now seeing one human was down, turned there full attack on Cole.
It wasn't long until Cole had no bullets and was surrounded by demons as far as he could see. Cole dropped the gun to the floor; it was of little use now, there was no way Cole could fight off all of the demons with just his fist's; he would have been dead before he tried. The leader came up front, the lower class demon's parting like a wave to let him pass.
Cole backed up almost automatically in nervousness, as the Leader came closer, then it grabbed Cole by the throat with his right hand, with what looked like a smirk on it's scarred, mutilated face. Then he drew his claws out in his left hand and looked at Cole then back to the claws on his hand as if inspecting if they would do enough damage. Cole closed his eyes slowly, not wanting to see what was going to happen to him, the leader gave off a long victorious roar, and he knew that the Leader was going to make his death very slow and painful...
But suddenly the roar ended on a gasp of confusion, Cole's eyes snapped open to look at the Leader, but it seemed to be frozen in place, it's clawed hand still around Cole's pale neck then, Cole looked down and his eyes widened; Dante's sword Alastor was stabbed right through the leader, black blood was pouring from the wound and dripping on the floor in a steady rhythm. Many of the lower class demons shrunk back, some running off in fear.
Suddenly, the blade slid out of the Leader smoothly and it dropped Cole who landed heavily on the dirt floor. The Leader gave out a faint growl of confusion, before it slumped on the ground. Cole looked up weakly and stared at the figure above him; a tall figure, dressed in steel a bloody sword on one hand and it was holding out his other hand out to Cole. Cole blinked, it HAD to be Dante. The warrior just stared at him, hand still outstretched, the brunette paused briefly, before he grabbed the warrior's hand and was found hauled back onto his feet. "Dante?" Cole asked surprised before he cocked his head to on side, as though observing him. The warrior seemed to smirk, then in a flash of black and blue light, the warrior disappeared and Dante was himself again.
Cole blinked; for a millisecond between Dante changing back to normal, the demon hunter looked almost...angelic... Cole shook his head quickly to clear it, and pushed the thoughts away. He shouldn't be thinking these things about someone he hardly knew. 'Just stop it! You hardly know him and now you're daydreaming about him being an Angel?' Cole pushed this to the back of his mind and looked up at Dante, and smiled weakly. "Thanks Dante I owe you one" Dante just grinned and shook his head.
"Don't mention it Cole" Cole nodded and picked up his shot gun and strapped it back onto his leg, noticing that the other demon's had fled in the sight of there leader being killed. "So...what do we do now? Purify this village like the last one?" Dante didn't answer for a moment as he looked at the horizon. "Those demons...they arrived and disappeared too quickly not to be close..." He looked at Cole and blinked "Yes, I'll let you purify the village with holy water shall I?" Cole laughed and nodded in amusement before he took off his backpack and began rummaging in it.
When Cole resurfaced from his bag, Dante was sat on an unbroken bench and staring at the hill at the end of the village; Cole sighed, turning the bottle of holy water over in his hands absentmindedly, while he wondered what Dante was thinking. 'I HAVE to stop wondering about this guy! I don't know him, suddenly we meet and what? Suddenly I'm in love?' Cole shivered at those last words. 'No I can't be it's just a stupid hormonal urge that's all, I've been on this damned island too long...'
Cole then, began sprinkling the holy water around the village muttered the Lord's Prayer as he passed. A soon as he had blessed the entire village he packed the water away and sat next to Dante. "What are you thinking?" Cole asked, while studying the white haired man's face. Dante just shrugged offhandedly and turned to his partner. "I'm thinking, that those demons can't be far, they must be camping on the hill or underground, they certainly had this village under surveillance" 'That and the fact I keep finding you shivering strangely or staring at me. A lot.' Dante added as a mental after thought.
Cole nodded, not understanding why he felt a slight pang of disappointment as well as relief. 'That's all? Then why do I feel like this? What is wrong with me? And why HIM?' "So what are we going to do? Go after them or camp here?" Cole said trying hard not to blush at his thoughts. If Dante noticed the new colour on Cole's face, he didn't show it, or mention it; He just stood and looked around the village. "I think we should camp out here for the night, this place is purified so most demons will stay away, one of us will have to keep watch half the night while the other sleeps and vice versa, just in case"
Cole nodded and smiled, relived that Dante didn't notice the colour on his face, which he, of course had tried to hide, to no avail. "Alright I'll take first watch" Dante nodded before Cole turned and went to find some firewood. Dante stared back at the hill. 'Something tells me that tonight will be interesting...' With that thought in mind Dante stood and went to find something edible to eat, after all they couldn't starve, could they?
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DONE! YAY!!!! So? You guy's proud of me? ^^
Jen: I am this is the 4th story you've updated in two weeks! The gods are with us!
Me: Yep I'm on a roll people! If any one remembers my 1st story on here 'Dreaming of a demon' (Tekken) I am currently writing a chapter up for it! ^^ So yes that will be another one out of the way!
Jen: *Unenthusiastically* Yay...
Me: Oh shut up! ^^ People R&R so I can do the next chapter! ^^ Bye!
Jen: Bye... *Waves sarcastically*
Thanks to my reviewers: Devon's Child (Thankies! ^^), Veronika (I'm going! I'm going! ^_~), Eowen (Hey sis! *Waves*_^), Luminara (Thanks ^^), Celestial Fury (lol! Put me on! Put me on! n_n), Gem-Sama1 (I like Trish and Lucia's bitchiness too! ^__^), and Twilight (1st reviewer! I think you! =^o^=).
Oh *This* Is Demon/Devil speech* "This" Is normal speech and 'these' are thoughts! Just so you know! ^^
Chapter 3 Partnership
"What do you mean, 'I'm late?'" Dante asked as #both he and Cole stepped out of the factory slowly and into the dim sunlight and began walking towards the village. Cole sighed and shook his head. "I sent off a message four days ago, I was expecting help sooner than now" Dante shrugged off haughtily.
"Look, it took a hell of a lot of planning, and then convincing the CIA that we were coming here for research purposes and not to do any demon ass kicking, I wish it was all that simple" Cole smiled gently and shook his head some of his dark brown hair falling into his eyes; Dante had the sudden urge to swipe them away. 'What the hell is wrong with me today?' Dante shook his head and carried on walking. "Don't we all wish life was that simple? But unfortunately life can be a bummer..." Dante laughed knowing how true that could be...
As soon as the two men were outside the village Cole stopped his pale complexion getting, if possible even paler, his eyes fixed on the village. "Cole? What's up?" Dante looked at the younger man in concern, then to the village, there was nothing out of the ordinary that he could see, but it was like Cole had seen something Dante hadn't. Cole shook his head and tried to smile convincingly to Dante. "Nothing, I'm alright, let's keep moving". Dante frowned unconvinced that nothing was wrong, but decided not to inquire any further, for now.
"Alright, then" Dante muttered before going ahead, in to the village Cole smiled and hurried to catch up to him. 'I guess all of this won't be so bad after all...' As soon as the two had entered the village, they stopped and looked at one another in a silent agreement. "Demons are defiantly here, I wonder why there here and not in last village I went to?" Cole turned to him and smiled.
"What? The one by the sea? That was me I used some holy water to purify the village and used a seal to stop demons from entering" Dante just rose an eyebrow slightly impressed; the young brunette was smarter than he looked. "You did a good job" Cole nodded and scratched the back of his neck almost nervously.
"Thanks" Dante just nodded before they walked into the village's small town market. As expected it was deserted but the village itself was a mess; doors of houses had been torn off, walls had been demolished, personal possessions were scattered all over the dirt floor, and some houses had been on fire; the walls were charred black, still smoking faintly. "You think we should split up?" Cole asked but Dante instantly shook his head in disagreement.
"No, those demons will have picked our scent up by now, if we split up they'll pick us off, you first then me, best thing to do is to stick together" Cole nodded without protest "Alright partner whatever you say" Cole said flashing Dante a grin before the two headed off into the village's main square.
As soon as the two were inside the square Dante stopped, and looked around, his eyes fixed looking above and below him; then he froze all together. "Dante what?" Then, Cole stopped to; there it was the faint noise in the background steadily getting louder and louder. "Demons" Dante muttered and pulled out Ebony and Ivory while Cole brought out his shotgun, before facing away from one another, both looking for any sight of the demon's, Dante smirked "Here they come" Cole nodded, suppressing a shiver, but weather it was from Dante's tone of voice or the anticipation of battle he didn't know.
Then they came, from all side, pouring into the town square and surrounding the two demon hunters, the largest one, which was most likely the leader roared in satisfaction upon finding more prey, and roared again, Cole sighed waiting, while Dante listened to what the demon said. *More survivors! Tear them apart, leave no trace!* Dante had to roll his eyes at this; demons could be so cheesy sometimes...
"Get ready Cole" He felt Cole nod and shiver again, and wondered why. 'Not now you idiot! Later, if you survive!' The demons didn't move, they were waiting for there leader to give them the signal to attack. Dante smirked ready for anything, Cole next to him waiting, anxiously...Then it came.
*Attack!!!!*
Chaos ensued as the demons rushed forward on command, Cole and Dante attacked as best as they could, scores of demons going down on the first swoop, then more and more were added to the pile as Cole and Dante worked as a team, but the demons kept coming, until there was a sea of them, and Dante knew they couldn't hold them off forever. "Dante I'm almost out!" Cole cried indicating his shotgun, then hitting a demon over the head with the butt. Dante passed him some bullets before counter attacking a demon with his sword Alastor.
A few minutes later and the two men knew, that there was little chance they could get out of this situation, and it was getting even worse as the battle wore on. "Got any idea's Dante?" Cole asked as he kicked a demon back and shot it into the air before it slammed into some of its allies. Dante grunted and attacked once more before he nodded. "Only one keep at it Cole" Dante then stopped attacking to summon up his devil trigger, but before he could change fully one of the demon's pounced upon him, knocking him off balance and covering him before pinning him to the ground. Cole watched in horror, while still attacking the demon's that flew at him, there sharp claws ready to slice at him, to cut into him. "Dante!" Cole cried but it was no use; the demons, now seeing one human was down, turned there full attack on Cole.
It wasn't long until Cole had no bullets and was surrounded by demons as far as he could see. Cole dropped the gun to the floor; it was of little use now, there was no way Cole could fight off all of the demons with just his fist's; he would have been dead before he tried. The leader came up front, the lower class demon's parting like a wave to let him pass.
Cole backed up almost automatically in nervousness, as the Leader came closer, then it grabbed Cole by the throat with his right hand, with what looked like a smirk on it's scarred, mutilated face. Then he drew his claws out in his left hand and looked at Cole then back to the claws on his hand as if inspecting if they would do enough damage. Cole closed his eyes slowly, not wanting to see what was going to happen to him, the leader gave off a long victorious roar, and he knew that the Leader was going to make his death very slow and painful...
But suddenly the roar ended on a gasp of confusion, Cole's eyes snapped open to look at the Leader, but it seemed to be frozen in place, it's clawed hand still around Cole's pale neck then, Cole looked down and his eyes widened; Dante's sword Alastor was stabbed right through the leader, black blood was pouring from the wound and dripping on the floor in a steady rhythm. Many of the lower class demons shrunk back, some running off in fear.
Suddenly, the blade slid out of the Leader smoothly and it dropped Cole who landed heavily on the dirt floor. The Leader gave out a faint growl of confusion, before it slumped on the ground. Cole looked up weakly and stared at the figure above him; a tall figure, dressed in steel a bloody sword on one hand and it was holding out his other hand out to Cole. Cole blinked, it HAD to be Dante. The warrior just stared at him, hand still outstretched, the brunette paused briefly, before he grabbed the warrior's hand and was found hauled back onto his feet. "Dante?" Cole asked surprised before he cocked his head to on side, as though observing him. The warrior seemed to smirk, then in a flash of black and blue light, the warrior disappeared and Dante was himself again.
Cole blinked; for a millisecond between Dante changing back to normal, the demon hunter looked almost...angelic... Cole shook his head quickly to clear it, and pushed the thoughts away. He shouldn't be thinking these things about someone he hardly knew. 'Just stop it! You hardly know him and now you're daydreaming about him being an Angel?' Cole pushed this to the back of his mind and looked up at Dante, and smiled weakly. "Thanks Dante I owe you one" Dante just grinned and shook his head.
"Don't mention it Cole" Cole nodded and picked up his shot gun and strapped it back onto his leg, noticing that the other demon's had fled in the sight of there leader being killed. "So...what do we do now? Purify this village like the last one?" Dante didn't answer for a moment as he looked at the horizon. "Those demons...they arrived and disappeared too quickly not to be close..." He looked at Cole and blinked "Yes, I'll let you purify the village with holy water shall I?" Cole laughed and nodded in amusement before he took off his backpack and began rummaging in it.
When Cole resurfaced from his bag, Dante was sat on an unbroken bench and staring at the hill at the end of the village; Cole sighed, turning the bottle of holy water over in his hands absentmindedly, while he wondered what Dante was thinking. 'I HAVE to stop wondering about this guy! I don't know him, suddenly we meet and what? Suddenly I'm in love?' Cole shivered at those last words. 'No I can't be it's just a stupid hormonal urge that's all, I've been on this damned island too long...'
Cole then, began sprinkling the holy water around the village muttered the Lord's Prayer as he passed. A soon as he had blessed the entire village he packed the water away and sat next to Dante. "What are you thinking?" Cole asked, while studying the white haired man's face. Dante just shrugged offhandedly and turned to his partner. "I'm thinking, that those demons can't be far, they must be camping on the hill or underground, they certainly had this village under surveillance" 'That and the fact I keep finding you shivering strangely or staring at me. A lot.' Dante added as a mental after thought.
Cole nodded, not understanding why he felt a slight pang of disappointment as well as relief. 'That's all? Then why do I feel like this? What is wrong with me? And why HIM?' "So what are we going to do? Go after them or camp here?" Cole said trying hard not to blush at his thoughts. If Dante noticed the new colour on Cole's face, he didn't show it, or mention it; He just stood and looked around the village. "I think we should camp out here for the night, this place is purified so most demons will stay away, one of us will have to keep watch half the night while the other sleeps and vice versa, just in case"
Cole nodded and smiled, relived that Dante didn't notice the colour on his face, which he, of course had tried to hide, to no avail. "Alright I'll take first watch" Dante nodded before Cole turned and went to find some firewood. Dante stared back at the hill. 'Something tells me that tonight will be interesting...' With that thought in mind Dante stood and went to find something edible to eat, after all they couldn't starve, could they?
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DONE! YAY!!!! So? You guy's proud of me? ^^
Jen: I am this is the 4th story you've updated in two weeks! The gods are with us!
Me: Yep I'm on a roll people! If any one remembers my 1st story on here 'Dreaming of a demon' (Tekken) I am currently writing a chapter up for it! ^^ So yes that will be another one out of the way!
Jen: *Unenthusiastically* Yay...
Me: Oh shut up! ^^ People R&R so I can do the next chapter! ^^ Bye!
Jen: Bye... *Waves sarcastically*