Hey! Hey! Back once again! Yes back again to deliver another chapter of
Corruption and innocence! But only coz Simi is threatening to take my
little slave Arson away from me. :'( SIMI DON'T DO IT!
Dante: Okay Simi you STALK me! *Mutters* like that's any better...
Me: Dante be nice! Or ill put you back in the padded room, this time with photo's of Simi everywhere!
Dante: NOOOOO! Not that! Okay I'll be good! I promise! *Begins begging*
Me: Good! ^^ lol! Arson is my valentine sorry it's late! *Shows Arson a box of Strawberry filled chocolates* but you only get them if your good!
Arson: Ahhh! *Begins Drooling*
Vincent: *Hands over a black box with silver ribbon to Reiko* Happy Valentines Day...its new spiked collar... *Grins slyly* I like you in collars...you know the gothic fashion...
Me: Okay enough! Lol! Hope you enjoy! As I said before I don't own Devil May cry or Dante, I don't own Vincent or Reiko either, but Arson's mine if Simi will let me have him! ^^ *Hugs Arson* Oh yeah Cole's mum is in this But she's dead? How? Remember, Cole sees dead people...Enjoy!
Chapter 5 Mothers Guidance
When Cole woke up the next morning, his wrist throbbing slightly, he sat up and rubbed his eyes, before Cole realized Dante was gone. The brunette demon hunter looked around nearby and found no sight of the older man and frowned 'Where has he got to...' Cole stood slowly and looked around the village, it was deserted as usual, no sign of Dante anywhere.
'I wonder if he's off brooding about what he said last night.' Cole to no avail tried very hard not to grin, but he couldn't help it; at least he knew now that Dante felt SOMETHING towards him, weather it was just friendship thing or something else, he would have to find out.
'Yeah, I have to find out if my feelings are the same too...I mean these feelings I have towards him are not normal...' Cole sighed and sat down in front of the nearly burnt out fire and rubbed his head, he in all honesty did not know how to react to this sort of thing. Demon's was one thing, dealing with relationships, weather it was on a mission or not is quite another...
/You shouldn't think too much into it you know/ Cole's head snapped up in surprise at the voice, before he sighed and shook his head, a small smile on his face, his blue eyes twinkling. "What do you mean mom? Why are you here?"
The ghostly form of Cole's mother gave him a small smile, some of her red hair falling over her left eye, covering a deep scar there where a piece of shrapnel had hit her. /I'm always here for you Cole, you know that, I'm your mother in both life and death no matter what, I'm always here when you need advice/ Cole nodded solemnly and sighed.
"Then help me with this mom, why am I feeling like this towards Dante? Why is it that every time he touches me or I'm near him that I shiver in something like...excitement or anticipation? Why?" Cole's mother just smiled gently and laughed lightly, before walked over to him she sat down near Cole. /Do you want my answer?/
Cole rolled his eyes and nodded before he sighed. "Of course I do mom" Cole's mother laughed again and stretched out her arms, giving her son a transparent hug, and despite the cold, he felt, Cole leaned into her icy embrace without hesitation. Neither mother nor son said a word; both just sat there quietly, Cole in his mother's embrace, before she spoke again.
/I think you love Dante, Cole/ the brunette blinked in surprise and stared at her, pulling away from her embrace, he stared into her dead, but at the same time, living eyes, and knew, like he always did, that she wasn't lying. /Cole...I know it's hard to believe, but don't worry, he cares for you, you've heard it from him yourself, now all you have to do, is act on it.../
Cole swallowed hard, suddenly feeling nervous. 'Act on it? What? Tell Dante 'Where have you been? Oh by the way I've fallen in love with you?' NO WAY!' Cole's mother grinned mischievously at his thoughts and kissed him gently on the forehead. /Only you can tell him Cole, when you do tell him, is up to you, but be warned Cole, if you leave it too late, you might never see him again/ And with that comment she stood up and smiled /I have to go, but I will come back whenever you need me, I'll always be there for you...my son/ then without another word she disappeared and a whips of white smoke.
Cole stared at the spot where his mother had gone for a while, before he shook himself out of his stupor and began packing his sleeping bag and the rest of his items away. Then Cole heard footsteps coming towards him and by the pace of the footsteps, he knew it was Dante coming towards him. "Where did you go?" Cole asked him, an eyebrow raised as he tied his pack up and slipped it into his back before he turned to face the demon hunter.
Dante stopped in his tracked and flashed him his usual cocky smirk. "I was just checking the path to the next village to see if it was clear, it seems okay, but we'd better get moving if we want to avoid an army of demons today" Cole nodded and waited for Dante to pack up, Cole noticed one of Dante's gun Ebony lying near the fire and stooped to pick it up...
...Just as Dante did, Dante's hand landed on the gun first just before Cole, the two locked eyes, both were immobile for a second, and then Cole withdrew his hand and broke the eye contact, quickly trying to fight down a blush that was forming on the brunettes face. Dante smiled in satisfaction, but didn't say anything as he grabbed Ebony and stuck it in its holster. "Come on, lets go Cole" Dante muttered before he turned and walked towards the direction he had come.
Cole nodded despite that fact that Dante couldn't see him and followed Dante without a word. Cole looked around at the fields that were on both sides of the path; Cole could see corpses of dead cows, and those same cows grazing in the field as though nothing had ever happened to them.
Quickly Cole turned away, feeling slightly sick; even Cole after seeing dead people for most of his life, never really got used to the sickening sight of dead people walking around like normal people, there wounds open, and fresh, all for Cole to see... Cole hated his gift sometimes.
"Cole? Are you okay?" Dante questioned; Cole had been unusually quiet for the past five minutes and had now paled again for some reason. Cole turned his head slightly to look at him a, what looked like it was supposed to be a reassuring smile. "Yeah...yeah I'm fine" Cole mentally winced at the off- handedness of his words; he hated having to lie to people, especially Dante. 'Lucky I'm a good liar then' the brunette thought bitterly 'I have been lying nearly all of my life after all'
Dante just nodded not entirely convinced that Cole was telling him the truth. "Okay then..." Dante shrugged and turned away from the brunette, continuing to walk along the deserted, dirt path. Cole sighed before he stuffed his hands into his pockets and lowered his eyes staring at the ground; it looked like it was going to be a very long day...
~*~
It was noon by the time Dante and Cole had reached the next village without any interruptions from any demons of any kind, which Dante found as odd. "It's not like them to keep hidden, and the path must have crossed over there territory at some point..." Cole nodded and had a strange sense of uneasiness creeping in him. It certainly was strange, that demons were avoiding them...
"Listen..." Dante said as his ears picked up on a strange sound, Cole took a glance at Dante's face, who was listening to the strange sound intently, and then there was a high pitched shriek. Dante snapped his head towards Cole. "It's a griffon, and we don't want to be here when it comes"
Without another word Dante grabbed Coles arm and dragged in across the path to the next village, Cole struggling to keep upright and go at Dante's pace. As soon as the two had entered the next Village, the griffon had arrived, landing on one of the taller buildings, studying the two demon hunters. Cole's eyes widened in shock; the huge bird like demon must have been at least 30 ft tall!
"Holy fuck!" Cole gasped as the huge demon glared at them; Dante stood in front of Cole protectively and drew out Ebony and Ivory. "Cole are you alright?" Cole gulped and nodded brining his crossbow from his back and slotting some arrows into it. "I'm fine I just never thought that a demon like that was so big!" Dante regarded him with a look before he nodded.
'He's never taken a Griffon on before? Maybe I should do this myself...' Dante sighed and shook his head instantly at that thought, Cole was a fighter, he said so himself, he was not about to go and tell him to back away from this fight. "Alright, but be careful Cole" Cole nodded and Dante was sure he could see the hint of a blush on his face, the elder man just smiled at this.
The Griffon decided it was time and with a huge sweep of its wings' it was airborne. Cole raised the crossbow and waited, Dante realized the griffon was going to try and land on them, and Dante moved back slightly ready to run.
Cole didn't move and inch.
"Cole you have to move that griffon is coming down on us!" Dante cried desperately, Cole nodded, which told Dante that he understood, but still, he didn't move, His crossbow aimed at the griffon's eyes... "Come on, just a bit closer..." Cole whispered to himself as the griffon flew closer and closer to the ground. Then Cole fired his crossbow, his aim true and it hit the bird like demon in the eye.
The griffon shrieked in pain, and as it couldn't see properly, it misjudged its landing and landed on its side, before it began skidding quite fast into the village square; Cole turned and sprinted away, not far behind Dante. The two ran until there was no where else to go, Dante broke the door down of and old bar and grabbed Cole inside, just as the Griffon crashed into the entrance and was stopped altogether.
There was silence for a second, Cole didn't dare move, suddenly he felt tired, and he didn't know why. "Cole can you get off me, I can't breath" Dante whispered in the darkness. Of course that's when Cole realized that he had landed on top of Dante when he had pulled them both in the deserted bar. Cole must have been blushing furiously, but in the darkness Dante couldn't see much at all; even with his devil eyesight, the brunette quickly go up off of Dante and managed to help him to his feet.
"Sorry..." Cole whispered in the darkness, and Dante could just see Cole brushing he clothes down, "Ah shit..." Dante raised an eyebrow and stood next to where he thought Cole was. "What is it?" Dante heard Cole sigh in irritation, but from what Dante couldn't tell...yet.
"I've broken the crossbow, I must have landed on it when we fell down here, now I'm virtually weapon-less, and great I have a shotgun with no bullets and a broken crossbow which is about as useful as a chocolate teapot!" Cole threw the crossbow across the room in irritation before he sighed. "Were screwed or namely, I am" Dante chuckled and grabbed hold of Cole's arm, spinning the younger man around to face him.
"Cole calm down, we'll look around here, there has to be something you can use" Cole glared at the other man for a second, before he sighed, and threw his hands up in exasperation and defeat. "Alright! Fine but what the hall are we going to find in a disused nightclub?" Dante smiled and began feeling his way towards the back of the bar.
"You'll be surprised Cole You'll be surprised..."
~*~
Hooray! Done...finally! Thank friggin god I though I was NEVER going to finish! But hey it's long! 5 PAGES SIMI 5!!! I hope you happy now! ^^ R&R!!! *dies*
Dante: Wow...we've been in the wars huh?
Me: Yeah well gotta keep the action up haven't I? I don't want to lose Arson! *Grabs arson and hugs him*
Arson: YAY! My mistress! ^_^
Me: Enjoy people! ^_^ bye! Lol! Hope everyone had a good valentines day! Bye! *Waves*
Dante: Okay Simi you STALK me! *Mutters* like that's any better...
Me: Dante be nice! Or ill put you back in the padded room, this time with photo's of Simi everywhere!
Dante: NOOOOO! Not that! Okay I'll be good! I promise! *Begins begging*
Me: Good! ^^ lol! Arson is my valentine sorry it's late! *Shows Arson a box of Strawberry filled chocolates* but you only get them if your good!
Arson: Ahhh! *Begins Drooling*
Vincent: *Hands over a black box with silver ribbon to Reiko* Happy Valentines Day...its new spiked collar... *Grins slyly* I like you in collars...you know the gothic fashion...
Me: Okay enough! Lol! Hope you enjoy! As I said before I don't own Devil May cry or Dante, I don't own Vincent or Reiko either, but Arson's mine if Simi will let me have him! ^^ *Hugs Arson* Oh yeah Cole's mum is in this But she's dead? How? Remember, Cole sees dead people...Enjoy!
Chapter 5 Mothers Guidance
When Cole woke up the next morning, his wrist throbbing slightly, he sat up and rubbed his eyes, before Cole realized Dante was gone. The brunette demon hunter looked around nearby and found no sight of the older man and frowned 'Where has he got to...' Cole stood slowly and looked around the village, it was deserted as usual, no sign of Dante anywhere.
'I wonder if he's off brooding about what he said last night.' Cole to no avail tried very hard not to grin, but he couldn't help it; at least he knew now that Dante felt SOMETHING towards him, weather it was just friendship thing or something else, he would have to find out.
'Yeah, I have to find out if my feelings are the same too...I mean these feelings I have towards him are not normal...' Cole sighed and sat down in front of the nearly burnt out fire and rubbed his head, he in all honesty did not know how to react to this sort of thing. Demon's was one thing, dealing with relationships, weather it was on a mission or not is quite another...
/You shouldn't think too much into it you know/ Cole's head snapped up in surprise at the voice, before he sighed and shook his head, a small smile on his face, his blue eyes twinkling. "What do you mean mom? Why are you here?"
The ghostly form of Cole's mother gave him a small smile, some of her red hair falling over her left eye, covering a deep scar there where a piece of shrapnel had hit her. /I'm always here for you Cole, you know that, I'm your mother in both life and death no matter what, I'm always here when you need advice/ Cole nodded solemnly and sighed.
"Then help me with this mom, why am I feeling like this towards Dante? Why is it that every time he touches me or I'm near him that I shiver in something like...excitement or anticipation? Why?" Cole's mother just smiled gently and laughed lightly, before walked over to him she sat down near Cole. /Do you want my answer?/
Cole rolled his eyes and nodded before he sighed. "Of course I do mom" Cole's mother laughed again and stretched out her arms, giving her son a transparent hug, and despite the cold, he felt, Cole leaned into her icy embrace without hesitation. Neither mother nor son said a word; both just sat there quietly, Cole in his mother's embrace, before she spoke again.
/I think you love Dante, Cole/ the brunette blinked in surprise and stared at her, pulling away from her embrace, he stared into her dead, but at the same time, living eyes, and knew, like he always did, that she wasn't lying. /Cole...I know it's hard to believe, but don't worry, he cares for you, you've heard it from him yourself, now all you have to do, is act on it.../
Cole swallowed hard, suddenly feeling nervous. 'Act on it? What? Tell Dante 'Where have you been? Oh by the way I've fallen in love with you?' NO WAY!' Cole's mother grinned mischievously at his thoughts and kissed him gently on the forehead. /Only you can tell him Cole, when you do tell him, is up to you, but be warned Cole, if you leave it too late, you might never see him again/ And with that comment she stood up and smiled /I have to go, but I will come back whenever you need me, I'll always be there for you...my son/ then without another word she disappeared and a whips of white smoke.
Cole stared at the spot where his mother had gone for a while, before he shook himself out of his stupor and began packing his sleeping bag and the rest of his items away. Then Cole heard footsteps coming towards him and by the pace of the footsteps, he knew it was Dante coming towards him. "Where did you go?" Cole asked him, an eyebrow raised as he tied his pack up and slipped it into his back before he turned to face the demon hunter.
Dante stopped in his tracked and flashed him his usual cocky smirk. "I was just checking the path to the next village to see if it was clear, it seems okay, but we'd better get moving if we want to avoid an army of demons today" Cole nodded and waited for Dante to pack up, Cole noticed one of Dante's gun Ebony lying near the fire and stooped to pick it up...
...Just as Dante did, Dante's hand landed on the gun first just before Cole, the two locked eyes, both were immobile for a second, and then Cole withdrew his hand and broke the eye contact, quickly trying to fight down a blush that was forming on the brunettes face. Dante smiled in satisfaction, but didn't say anything as he grabbed Ebony and stuck it in its holster. "Come on, lets go Cole" Dante muttered before he turned and walked towards the direction he had come.
Cole nodded despite that fact that Dante couldn't see him and followed Dante without a word. Cole looked around at the fields that were on both sides of the path; Cole could see corpses of dead cows, and those same cows grazing in the field as though nothing had ever happened to them.
Quickly Cole turned away, feeling slightly sick; even Cole after seeing dead people for most of his life, never really got used to the sickening sight of dead people walking around like normal people, there wounds open, and fresh, all for Cole to see... Cole hated his gift sometimes.
"Cole? Are you okay?" Dante questioned; Cole had been unusually quiet for the past five minutes and had now paled again for some reason. Cole turned his head slightly to look at him a, what looked like it was supposed to be a reassuring smile. "Yeah...yeah I'm fine" Cole mentally winced at the off- handedness of his words; he hated having to lie to people, especially Dante. 'Lucky I'm a good liar then' the brunette thought bitterly 'I have been lying nearly all of my life after all'
Dante just nodded not entirely convinced that Cole was telling him the truth. "Okay then..." Dante shrugged and turned away from the brunette, continuing to walk along the deserted, dirt path. Cole sighed before he stuffed his hands into his pockets and lowered his eyes staring at the ground; it looked like it was going to be a very long day...
~*~
It was noon by the time Dante and Cole had reached the next village without any interruptions from any demons of any kind, which Dante found as odd. "It's not like them to keep hidden, and the path must have crossed over there territory at some point..." Cole nodded and had a strange sense of uneasiness creeping in him. It certainly was strange, that demons were avoiding them...
"Listen..." Dante said as his ears picked up on a strange sound, Cole took a glance at Dante's face, who was listening to the strange sound intently, and then there was a high pitched shriek. Dante snapped his head towards Cole. "It's a griffon, and we don't want to be here when it comes"
Without another word Dante grabbed Coles arm and dragged in across the path to the next village, Cole struggling to keep upright and go at Dante's pace. As soon as the two had entered the next Village, the griffon had arrived, landing on one of the taller buildings, studying the two demon hunters. Cole's eyes widened in shock; the huge bird like demon must have been at least 30 ft tall!
"Holy fuck!" Cole gasped as the huge demon glared at them; Dante stood in front of Cole protectively and drew out Ebony and Ivory. "Cole are you alright?" Cole gulped and nodded brining his crossbow from his back and slotting some arrows into it. "I'm fine I just never thought that a demon like that was so big!" Dante regarded him with a look before he nodded.
'He's never taken a Griffon on before? Maybe I should do this myself...' Dante sighed and shook his head instantly at that thought, Cole was a fighter, he said so himself, he was not about to go and tell him to back away from this fight. "Alright, but be careful Cole" Cole nodded and Dante was sure he could see the hint of a blush on his face, the elder man just smiled at this.
The Griffon decided it was time and with a huge sweep of its wings' it was airborne. Cole raised the crossbow and waited, Dante realized the griffon was going to try and land on them, and Dante moved back slightly ready to run.
Cole didn't move and inch.
"Cole you have to move that griffon is coming down on us!" Dante cried desperately, Cole nodded, which told Dante that he understood, but still, he didn't move, His crossbow aimed at the griffon's eyes... "Come on, just a bit closer..." Cole whispered to himself as the griffon flew closer and closer to the ground. Then Cole fired his crossbow, his aim true and it hit the bird like demon in the eye.
The griffon shrieked in pain, and as it couldn't see properly, it misjudged its landing and landed on its side, before it began skidding quite fast into the village square; Cole turned and sprinted away, not far behind Dante. The two ran until there was no where else to go, Dante broke the door down of and old bar and grabbed Cole inside, just as the Griffon crashed into the entrance and was stopped altogether.
There was silence for a second, Cole didn't dare move, suddenly he felt tired, and he didn't know why. "Cole can you get off me, I can't breath" Dante whispered in the darkness. Of course that's when Cole realized that he had landed on top of Dante when he had pulled them both in the deserted bar. Cole must have been blushing furiously, but in the darkness Dante couldn't see much at all; even with his devil eyesight, the brunette quickly go up off of Dante and managed to help him to his feet.
"Sorry..." Cole whispered in the darkness, and Dante could just see Cole brushing he clothes down, "Ah shit..." Dante raised an eyebrow and stood next to where he thought Cole was. "What is it?" Dante heard Cole sigh in irritation, but from what Dante couldn't tell...yet.
"I've broken the crossbow, I must have landed on it when we fell down here, now I'm virtually weapon-less, and great I have a shotgun with no bullets and a broken crossbow which is about as useful as a chocolate teapot!" Cole threw the crossbow across the room in irritation before he sighed. "Were screwed or namely, I am" Dante chuckled and grabbed hold of Cole's arm, spinning the younger man around to face him.
"Cole calm down, we'll look around here, there has to be something you can use" Cole glared at the other man for a second, before he sighed, and threw his hands up in exasperation and defeat. "Alright! Fine but what the hall are we going to find in a disused nightclub?" Dante smiled and began feeling his way towards the back of the bar.
"You'll be surprised Cole You'll be surprised..."
~*~
Hooray! Done...finally! Thank friggin god I though I was NEVER going to finish! But hey it's long! 5 PAGES SIMI 5!!! I hope you happy now! ^^ R&R!!! *dies*
Dante: Wow...we've been in the wars huh?
Me: Yeah well gotta keep the action up haven't I? I don't want to lose Arson! *Grabs arson and hugs him*
Arson: YAY! My mistress! ^_^
Me: Enjoy people! ^_^ bye! Lol! Hope everyone had a good valentines day! Bye! *Waves*