Back again! *Bows low* don't the chapters keep on coming for this? I'm
currently AWOL on my other stories due to Writers block again -_-; but this
is coming along great! ^^
Jen: See! See I TOLD you! I told you that you couldn't keep up! *Pockets £100 for winning her bet* now I'm richer for it! : P
Me: Oh shut it! All this updating has stressed me out a little...
Jen: Yeah suuurrrreeee it has *Sarcasm*
Me: *Hits Jen over the head with a baseball bat* SHUT UP! I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU!!! *Glares*
Jen: ugh! +_+ *Dies*
Me: *Sigh* At least she'll be quiet for a while!
Arson: YAYAYAYAYAYAY! Jenny scares me! *Hugs*
Me: Ha! ^_^ enjoy people!
Chapter 7 Ghosts and Ice
Dante was the first person to wake up the next morning, he mentally cursed himself because he had fallen asleep, and anything could have happened to either of them, both were easy targets. Looking over at Cole small frame on the sofa, Dante found, much to his relief; That Cole was safe, and still fast asleep. Dante walked over to Cole and smiled down at him gently before he shook himself out of his stupor and looked around the cottage they had broken into to find some food, seen as neither had eaten anything since yesterday morning.
Dante yawned and looked in the cottage's kitchen, finding, to his surprise, that most of the food here was still in tact. 'Hmm maybe the demons haven't gotten this far yet, or maybe there just using the villages they've conquered? We'll have to find out' Dante chuckled to himself as he pulled out a relatively fresh loaf of bread. 'I can't cook, but the least I can do is make the kid some toast'
5 minutes and 3 burnt-to-a-crisp pieces of toast later, Dante had some nice hot toast ready to eat for the both of them, Dante shook Cole's shoulder gently, Cole moaned and muttered something like 'Go away' Dante laughed and shook Cole's shoulder again. "Come on Cole, I even made you some toast" Cole groaned again and forced himself to lift his head to look at Dante, he took one look at the toast then back to Dante.
"I thought you said you couldn't cook?" Cole asked as he looked at the toast critically, before taking a slice and biting into it. Dante rolled his eyes and shook his head in disbelief. "I couldn't yesterday and I still can't today, I burnt 3 pieces of toast before I made these" The elder man made hand gestures at the toast, and Cole would have sniggered if his mouth hadn't been full of toast, Dante just rolled his eyes at the brunette and took a bite of his own.
After they had eaten the two grabbed there packs and decided to look around the village, this one was a lot bigger than the other's that they had been to, it was more like a town than a village, there was a church and a cinema next to it, a small market across the road and even a swimming pool/gym! "Hey fancy going in there for a work out?" Cole asked teasing lightly as he pointed to the gym Dante ignored Cole's comment as he stared at the gym, there was something about the gym that wasn't right...
"Dante? Hey I was only joking man, lets get out of here and find those demons..." Cole stopped and sighed, before he rolled his eyes; Dante was completely ignoring him, his eyes seemed fixed on the gym as though trying to x-ray it with his eye's like superman. Cole stifled a giggle at this; he had to be serious and composed the brunette then sighed in defeat. 'Yeah right, I can hardly compose myself around him as it is!'
Cole yawned, as he closed his eyes and lifted his arms above his head, as he stretched lazily, his loose but now grubby cream shirt, lifting up a few inches to reveal some of Cole's pale smooth skin underneath, and all the while, Cole never noticed Dante staring out of the corner of his eyes, fixated on the skin that was there, teasing him, until Dante managed to forcefully break away his gaze and back to the Gym. "Cole? Were going into that gym" Cole stopped in mid-yawn and stared at him in shock.
Cole broke out of his surprise and dropped his arms. "Err, May I ask why exactly? What the heck do you think is in there? A haunted treadmill?" Dante allowed himself to chuckle at Cole's joke, before he shook his head and turned to look at the brunette properly, unfortunately, Dante wasn't paying attention to how close he was to Cole, and nearly knocked the younger man over.
Cole gasped as he fell half expecting to fall, the other half expecting Dante to catch him. The former won as Dante grabbed hold of Cole by the waist and hauled him back onto his feet. Cole could feel Dante's slow breathing on his neck and Cole shivered again as he opened his eyes to see Dante's brown one's staring back at him and Cole for one moment felt a sense of peace. "Sorry about that Cole, I didn't pay attention to you" Cole blinked and shrugged smiling breaking reluctantly out of Dante's hold on him.
"It's okay, so um, are we still gonna go in there?" Dante nodded and let go of Cole, staring back at the gym, Cole looked at the gym's building and sighed shaking his head, in disbelief. "Alright, so what exactly do you think is in there then?" Dante didn't answer for a moment he just stood there immobile, and Cole watched him carefully, as a faint wind blew at Dante's pure white hair, Cole resisted the urge to kiss the half-demon man, but Cole resisted, clenching his hands tightly to stop him. "I think...I think that this is where there hiding underground, I think this is where the demons have been hiding there numbers, I can feel them Cole, I can feel there presence, and it's overwhelming, there's not just a small clan, and a whole army has to reside there..."
Cole blinked again, not really knowing what to say about all this, If Dante was right, they would be in for one hell of a rough battle, they would be in the demon's territory and that could mean trouble for them when fighting, it was unfamiliar ground, so the Demons had the advantage. Dante turned to him a soft smile grazing his lips and as though Dante had read the brunette's mind. "It'll be alright Cole, the demons won't know what hit them" Cole tried to smile back, he really did, but he had a really bad feeling that he might not make it out...
Dante however didn't notice anything as he made his way towards the gym, Cole right behind him, slotting shotgun shells into his gun, if there was going to be a battle, he had to at least be prepared for the worst. Dante watched Cole out of the corner of his eyes and sighed, swinging Alastor off of his back and held it loosely in his hands, waiting for Cole. "Ready?" Dante asked, Cole nodded finished loading the shotgun and slid the first bullet into place with a sharp click, Cole tried to smile convincingly, and nodded "As I ever will be" Dante nodded but wasn't convinced at all, but decided that now wasn't the time to question it.
A light wind blew and Dante shivered, he didn't know why, but he had a very bad feeling about this, he looked over at Cole and knew this bad feeling had something to do with him. 'What am I thinking? He'll be fine...I won't let anything happen to him...I can't...' Dante shivered again before he hardened his resolve and in one swift move, chopped the gym's door off, it teetered on it's own for moment, before it fell to the floor with a dull thud, on the floor. Dante stepped over the door and into the dark, dirty gym and looked around the area; it seemed that this was the reception of the gym; papers were scattered everywhere, wallpaper had been ripped from the walls, and doors had been shattered or torn off.
Cole followed behind Dante and felt sick; many people had died here, there were a lot of corpses scattered...well not so much scattered, as in ripped into tiny pieces. Cole saw many of the ghosts hiding, prying or crying, Cole sighed sadly; none of them seemed to know that they were dead, and it saddened the brunette. Suddenly one of the ghosts spotted him, surprised and panicked, and crawled up to him, half of her leg was already missing, but she didn't notice it, as she crawled desperately towards him. "Please! Please help us! Send us to where were supposed to go! Tell us what to do!" Cole shook his head sadly at the women; she seemed to be the only one who noticed him and Dante.
"I can't, you're...you're a ghost now, you have to do what you feel is best now, it's your own choice, your decision on what you do" The women blinked, and then she smiled, nodding, then with out another word, she crawled back to the others, and began talking to them, soon each and everyone of them turned to Cole and noticed him. The brunette blinked in surprise, instead of them fading away and resting in peace like he expected, all the ghost began crawling towards him, and not just the ones in the gym either, it seemed that the ghosts of everyone that had died on the island had come; Cole even spotted the little girl from the bar with her father, as she smiled and waved to him, Cole smiled and managed to wave back, as the room became extremely cold.
Meanwhile, Dante had been looking in another room when he noticed the temperature change, at first he shrugged it off as nothing, but as soon as he noticed that one of his boots had been frozen stuck in a puddle, and that icicles were forming above his head, Dante decided to look back for Cole. The half-demon man walked back into the reception and was shocked by what he saw.
Ghosts, not just one or two, but hundreds of them surrounding Cole in a circle., The brunette himself seemed to be freezing to death and not trying to show it "Cole! What the hell?" Dante managed to call out, despite the cold. Dante walked through the ghosts quickly and grabbed Cole, only to withdraw from him just as quickly; he was as cold as ice, no scratch that, he was COLDER than ice, to Dante; he was starting to look like an ice statue.
Dante guessed that that really wasn't a good thing. "C-can...C-can y-y-you- s-see them?" Cole asked gently, his teeth chattering violently from the extreme cold of the ghosts. Dante looked at the brunette and nodded "I have no fucking idea how though believe me" Cole didn't answer, he just nodded, while his lips turned blue. Dante swallowed, feeling extremely worried at this point. The white haired man realized that he was becoming extremely cold too, he looked at the ghosts and sighed, all the ghost must have been waiting for Cole to say something but, the brunette was so cold he could have hypothermia by now, Dante noted that the brunette's eyes were closed, and he looked like he was trying to hibernate.
The half demon looked around him again "You have to leave now, or he'll die" The ghosts nodded in a sort of understanding and backed away as fast as they cloud, soon all of them left but the little girl that Cole had seen in the bar, who smiled at Dante.
"I was right then, you will protect him from anything" the little girl laughed and Dante raised an eyebrow at her "Don't be so surprised, I told him before when I was home" Dante smiled down at the little ghost who's smiled widened even further. "We are all here to help you, were going to come back tomorrow at noon, so now you have time to take care of him" Dante just nodded and took off his jacket, wrapping it around the freezing brunette, and rubbing Cole's arms as and effort to warm him up. "Thanks for telling me...but... how can I see you?" the little girl giggled and shook her head before she answered.
"Live people only see what they want to see, Cole has a gift to see us, and when he told you he could see ghosts, you began to believe, that you could see us too" Dante blinked at this before he smiled again, it sort of made sense...Dante stared down at the thawing brunette and decided to take him back to the cottage that they had stayed in earlier. Dante stood slowly the brunette in his arms, who still seemed to be hibernating, and with a small nod and smile to the little ghost, the white haired man left the gym.
The little ghost smiled and sighed happily as she watched them walk out of the doorway, it was so romantic, Cole was the damsel in distress and Dante was the hero. "There so cute together" she giggled herself.
"Chloe! Chloe where are you!" The little ghost Chloe turned around as her father came trough the wall, looking worried. "Oh Chloe! I was so afraid that I had lost you again!" Chloe giggled and hugged her father gently; he hugged her back a small relieved smile on his lips. "I'm okay papa, I just needed to give them a message" Chloe's father seemed to understand, and he nodded as the two walked hand in hand through the wall and disappeared
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Dante meanwhile was trying to warm Cole up back in the cottage, to no avail, the brunette was as cold as ever, and still wasn't responding to him. "Cole, hey can you hear me?" Cole didn't answer or open his eyes and Dante sighed, laying him on the sofa gently. 'What can I do to warm him, up? A fire might alert demons...ah! I know a bath!' Dante blinked at his idea then he did something _VERY_ un-Dante like, he blushed; he blushed a bright red before he managed to force it down. 'Okay, enough, nothings going to happen, I need to get moving or he'll freeze to death' Dante searched the cottage and found an old bath tub, one of those old tin ones you have to fill with about ten bucket's of water before it was half filled. Dante sighed and got to work. 'The things I have to do...for someone I love...' Dante smiled to himself at this thought, before he went to the kitchen.
Fifteen minutes later, Dante had the bath filled with hot water; he tested it, before he went back to Cole, who had been sleeping the whole time, thawing slowly. The brunette face was extremely pale, and he was slow melting, dripping ice-water on the wooden floor. Dante sighed, shaking his head "How the hell do you get into these messes Cole?" Dante asked, not really expecting an answer.
"I-I dunno...B-b-ad L-luck I g-g-guess..." Cole managed to whisper through the chattering of his teeth, his eyes were open now and it seemed they were having a hard time focusing on Dante's face. Dante chuckled at the reply as he began slowly peeling the brunette's wet jacket off of his soaked skin, Cole obviously didn't know what was happening, because the look he gave Dante was of utter confusion; the older man locked eyes with him, and instantly felt drawn, closer and closer to the younger man's face. Cole's eyes widened a little, but he waited to see what would happen. Then Dante stopped, mere centimetres from Cole's lips, before he backed away slightly "I need to strip you for the bath Cole, your freezing to death and a fire might alert demons, this is the only way I could think of to keep you warm" Cole swallowed and nodded, and lowered his eyes, feeling very disappointed, as he began to slowly dispose of his clothes.
Once Cole was stripped completely, (Ohh naked Bishie's ^^) Dante helped him into the bath, an arm around his waist, but the half-demon man, was having a hard time resisting the urge look at Cole's *Cough* ego, and pinning Cole to the wall and kissing him right there. 'Stop it! I can't! He's going to die if I don't warm him up...later, soon, but not now!' Dante eased Cole into the bath tub, who winced as his body warmed up, and Dante was glad to see that Cole's skin that was very white, begin to return to a pale pinkish colour.
Cole sighed happily, a small smile on his face, before he stuck his head under the hot water, his face turning a nice pinkish shade, Dante smiled in relief and turned to look on the cupboards for any decent towels, to wrap Cole in after his bath. To Dante's luck, he managed to find a couple of decent towels and brought them back to Cole, who was sat in the tub, his eyes closed, a frown on his now pinkish face, it seemed Cole was thinking about something. "Cole? Are you alright?" Dante asked, placing the towels on the floor next to the bath.
Cole opened his eyes and blinked, looking up at him, before he smiled. "Yeah I'm fine, I feel a lot better now...thanks Dante" Dante smiled at him and shook his head, as Cole lay back in the water a little.
"Hey that's what partners and friends are for" Dante said, then he turned and headed to the kitchen "I'm gonna make something to eat, stay in your bath a little longer, you can get out later" Cole nodded and lay back again, his eyes fixed on Dante's every move. 'He's so nice to me...I know he cares for me...but does he care for me, the way I care for him? No...Dante doesn't love me like that; I'm just a friend to him...' Cole sighed and without hesitation dunked his head under the hot water.
~*~
Ten minutes later Dante came it with two plates of sandwiches, that looked like they had just gone though major surgery. Cole, who had just stepped out of the bath and wrapped one of the fluffy blue towels around his waist, took one shocked look at the sandwiches and sniggered quietly. Dante however heard him and threw him a warning look "Hey you KNOW I can't cook!" Dante said sighing as he placed the sandwich's on a battered coffee table, all the while taking sneaky glances at Cole's chest. Cole nodded a smile fixed onto his lips to stop himself from laughing, while he grabbed the other towel to dry his hair.
Soon after Cole was munching down the sandwich's Dante had made and, despite there grisly appearance, they tasted quite good. "Okay" Cole murmured swallowing the last of a sandwich before grabbing another. "Maybe you're not that bad a making sandwich's, but your presentation needs improving!" Dante just rolled his eyes at this comment, before he bit into a sandwich of his own. Cole finished his sandwiches quicker than Dante and grinned "There were good, I'll let you make sandwiches in future, at least I know you can't botch them up that much!" Dante glared and gave Cole a nudge in the ribs, while still munching on his own sandwich. Cole just grinned slyly at him, before he stood, still only wearing the blue towel, and went over to see weather his clothes had dried yet, after a second Cole picked up his shirt and put it on.
"Well at least something is dry, my pants are soaked" Dante shrugged, finishing his own sandwiches, and tried not to study Cole too closely, in case the brunette noticed. "Well the ghosts said that they would come back tomorrow, I don't know why, but they will, I think they have some sort of plan" Cole nodded a frown on his face.
"Yeah I heard them...but what exactly are they planning to do? I don't know about you, but I have a weird feeling about this, what can they do? Revolt?" Cole stopped suddenly, and turned to Dante, a smart ass grin on his face. "Ah so THAT'S what there going to do! There going to let us show them the way to the Demons nest, and then they're gonna attack the demons that killed them! That must be the reason! What do you think Dante?" Dante just raised his eyebrow and gave the brunette an unconvinced look.
"It sounds like something out of a B class-horror flick Cole" Cole glared at him forcefully while sitting back down on the worn out sofa, and Dante sighed, picking up the discarded plates and heading over to the kitchen "But I think you have a point, why else would the ghosts stay here? I thought all ghosts needed a purpose in order to exist?" Dante sat down next to Cole who was buttoning up his shirt "There here for revenge, that's why they stayed" Dante finished while trying not to get his eyes glued to Cole's pale, but well built chest peeking at him from under his shirt, as the brunette oh-so slowly buttoned it up.
"Yeah they do...what should we do Dante? Should we let them fight?" Dante looked at Cole wondered what the brunette meant; Even if the ghosts did fight with them, they were still dead at the end of the day, and no one would be hurt, and maybe after it was done they would rest in peace. "I think we should, maybe this will let them rest in peace afterwards, if we don't then the ghosts might haunt this island forever, I know you don't want that" Cole sighed and nodded, scratching the back of his head nervously.
"Yeah okay, anyway we can ask them when we see them tomorrow right? I'd better make sure I wrap myself up this time" Dante laughed and Cole laughed with him, and then Dante decided to let everything go and do something naughty...
He grabbed a pillow from the sofa and hit Cole over the head with it. Cole gave a strangled cry, before he fell on the floor with a dull thump and looked at Dante in amazement; the half-demon man was chuckling and towering over the brunette. "Gotcha" He said a sly smile on his face, Cole couldn't believe it; Dante was actually messing around like he was a kid. Cole, once he was over the initial shock, glared at the white haired man, he was NOT going to be beaten up with a pillow by Dante, not without a fight anyway. The smaller man grabbed a pillow from the sofa and hit Dante back, soon a pillow fight ensued, Dante and Cole running from one another and hitting each other as soon as they were within range. Dante however had the advantage over Cole, due to the fact Cole that kept having to adjust the towel that was still hung loose on his hips.
Dante smirked as Cole paused again for the fifth time during the pillow fight to adjust is towel. Sensing weakness, the white haired man whacked Cole right behind his legs, which made them fold up underneath him, and he collapsed on the floor. Before the younger man could move however, Dante came and pinned him to the floor, Cole's hands pinned above his head. Cole struggled of course, but Dante laughed and added more pressure and his hands. "Hmm got you again, so this mean I win" Cole mock glared at him.
"Hey! It wasn't even a competition, AND you started it!" Cole snapped back, trying, fruitlessly, not to enjoy the feeling of Dante on top of him, Dante laughed again and smiled down at him, strands of his hair falling into his face and into his eyes, but he ignored it. "Even so I still won Cole, so now you have to give me something" Cole sniggered and shook his head in disbelief that he was doing this, what could Dante possibly want from him? As a matter of fact what the hell did he have out here on this island? Not a lot. "Alright, fine! What do you want?" Dante smiled gently at the brunette and said the last thing Cole expected from him.
"A kiss" Cole blinked at Dante, not believing that he had heard the older man right, he opened his mouth, but no words would come out. Dante smiled at him and leaned his head closer to Cole's, the brunette shivered and swallowed hard "Did you think I didn't notice? That you wouldn't stop staring at me, or shivering whenever I was nearby?" Cole's eyes widened in shock, before he shook his head, weather it was in denial of disbelief Dante didn't know, either way, the elder man's smile widened. "Yes Cole I knew you liked me...like that".
Cole didn't know what to say, he didn't move, his eyes the size of saucers, then Cole glared and managed to find his voice again. "Well if you knew...then why didn't you say something earlier, why are you leading me on like this?" The brunette glared at him fiercely and Dante's smile shrank a little, then with one movement, Dante kissed him, Cole's arms still above his head.
The brunette's eyes widened, if it was possible even more, but then he sank deep into the kiss, and closed his eyes. Dante's mouth was so soft, his lips were like rose petals and when Cole entered his mouth he tasted like...strawberries* Cole moaned and Dante wanted to whoop for joy; Cole was actually enjoying this, Dante did have his doubts, but now...he had none at all...
Dante's arms let go of Cole's wrist's and went slowly down to Cole's waist, caressing Cole's stomach gently, the brunette moaned again and arched his back slightly. And this time it was Dante's turn to shiver, as his tongue caressed Coles, he swore he could taste chocolate. 'How fitting' Dante thought with a grin. Soon the two broke apart breathless Cole's eyes were wide, his mouth slightly open as he gasped for air. The older man managed a smile and decided to answer Cole's earlier question with one of his own. "What made you think...that I was leading you on at all?"
~*~
*Ha! Ha! Now you know where Arson's hyperness originates from Simi, DANTE'S MOUTH! LMAO!
YAY! *Sings* I GOT EM KISSING! I GOT EM KISSING! Oh joy! *Does the happy dance* I was stuck between not letting them kiss until the next chapter, or letting them kiss! In the end I even I couldn't take it anymore and I did the kissing scene! (Which I'm really proud of) You better worship me for this Simi Seghal (Did I spell it right?)! 10 F***ING PAGES GOD DAMNED IT! 10!!! *Pants* AND I left a cliff hanger *Evil laughter*
Dante: *Grins* Oh good, now everyone knows...COLE IS MINE! *Evil laugh*
Cole: YUP! *kisses Dante while he's in mid-evil laugh*
Dante: O_o *Moans* ^_^
Vincent: Reiko love, I miss you! *Kiss*
Reiko: ^^ *Kisses back* me too! Eep! is that Iesha? *Climbs up a tree in fear*
Vincent: No it's Trish and Lucia kiss-WAIT I MINUTE!!!! *Eyes wide* THERE KISSING!!! *Climbs up the tree after Reiko and watches* 0_o
Me: *Unfazed* So? They don't complain when you and Reiko kiss?
Vincent:... *Eyes still wide* O_o
Arson: *Sings* I love you, and you love me, lets go and f**k the whole family! *Giggles*
Me: ARSON! Don't sing stuff like that! *Blushes*
Arson: *Giggles* you taught it me!
Me: *Blushes even more* Oh whatever! I hope this keeps you people happy! Come on R&R I worked real hard on this chapter, so please everyone that reads this! Review!!!!
Dante & Cole: *Stops kissing* Bye! *Carries on kissing*
Arson: *Jumps on my back* Bye!!! *Waves*
Jen: See! See I TOLD you! I told you that you couldn't keep up! *Pockets £100 for winning her bet* now I'm richer for it! : P
Me: Oh shut it! All this updating has stressed me out a little...
Jen: Yeah suuurrrreeee it has *Sarcasm*
Me: *Hits Jen over the head with a baseball bat* SHUT UP! I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU!!! *Glares*
Jen: ugh! +_+ *Dies*
Me: *Sigh* At least she'll be quiet for a while!
Arson: YAYAYAYAYAYAY! Jenny scares me! *Hugs*
Me: Ha! ^_^ enjoy people!
Chapter 7 Ghosts and Ice
Dante was the first person to wake up the next morning, he mentally cursed himself because he had fallen asleep, and anything could have happened to either of them, both were easy targets. Looking over at Cole small frame on the sofa, Dante found, much to his relief; That Cole was safe, and still fast asleep. Dante walked over to Cole and smiled down at him gently before he shook himself out of his stupor and looked around the cottage they had broken into to find some food, seen as neither had eaten anything since yesterday morning.
Dante yawned and looked in the cottage's kitchen, finding, to his surprise, that most of the food here was still in tact. 'Hmm maybe the demons haven't gotten this far yet, or maybe there just using the villages they've conquered? We'll have to find out' Dante chuckled to himself as he pulled out a relatively fresh loaf of bread. 'I can't cook, but the least I can do is make the kid some toast'
5 minutes and 3 burnt-to-a-crisp pieces of toast later, Dante had some nice hot toast ready to eat for the both of them, Dante shook Cole's shoulder gently, Cole moaned and muttered something like 'Go away' Dante laughed and shook Cole's shoulder again. "Come on Cole, I even made you some toast" Cole groaned again and forced himself to lift his head to look at Dante, he took one look at the toast then back to Dante.
"I thought you said you couldn't cook?" Cole asked as he looked at the toast critically, before taking a slice and biting into it. Dante rolled his eyes and shook his head in disbelief. "I couldn't yesterday and I still can't today, I burnt 3 pieces of toast before I made these" The elder man made hand gestures at the toast, and Cole would have sniggered if his mouth hadn't been full of toast, Dante just rolled his eyes at the brunette and took a bite of his own.
After they had eaten the two grabbed there packs and decided to look around the village, this one was a lot bigger than the other's that they had been to, it was more like a town than a village, there was a church and a cinema next to it, a small market across the road and even a swimming pool/gym! "Hey fancy going in there for a work out?" Cole asked teasing lightly as he pointed to the gym Dante ignored Cole's comment as he stared at the gym, there was something about the gym that wasn't right...
"Dante? Hey I was only joking man, lets get out of here and find those demons..." Cole stopped and sighed, before he rolled his eyes; Dante was completely ignoring him, his eyes seemed fixed on the gym as though trying to x-ray it with his eye's like superman. Cole stifled a giggle at this; he had to be serious and composed the brunette then sighed in defeat. 'Yeah right, I can hardly compose myself around him as it is!'
Cole yawned, as he closed his eyes and lifted his arms above his head, as he stretched lazily, his loose but now grubby cream shirt, lifting up a few inches to reveal some of Cole's pale smooth skin underneath, and all the while, Cole never noticed Dante staring out of the corner of his eyes, fixated on the skin that was there, teasing him, until Dante managed to forcefully break away his gaze and back to the Gym. "Cole? Were going into that gym" Cole stopped in mid-yawn and stared at him in shock.
Cole broke out of his surprise and dropped his arms. "Err, May I ask why exactly? What the heck do you think is in there? A haunted treadmill?" Dante allowed himself to chuckle at Cole's joke, before he shook his head and turned to look at the brunette properly, unfortunately, Dante wasn't paying attention to how close he was to Cole, and nearly knocked the younger man over.
Cole gasped as he fell half expecting to fall, the other half expecting Dante to catch him. The former won as Dante grabbed hold of Cole by the waist and hauled him back onto his feet. Cole could feel Dante's slow breathing on his neck and Cole shivered again as he opened his eyes to see Dante's brown one's staring back at him and Cole for one moment felt a sense of peace. "Sorry about that Cole, I didn't pay attention to you" Cole blinked and shrugged smiling breaking reluctantly out of Dante's hold on him.
"It's okay, so um, are we still gonna go in there?" Dante nodded and let go of Cole, staring back at the gym, Cole looked at the gym's building and sighed shaking his head, in disbelief. "Alright, so what exactly do you think is in there then?" Dante didn't answer for a moment he just stood there immobile, and Cole watched him carefully, as a faint wind blew at Dante's pure white hair, Cole resisted the urge to kiss the half-demon man, but Cole resisted, clenching his hands tightly to stop him. "I think...I think that this is where there hiding underground, I think this is where the demons have been hiding there numbers, I can feel them Cole, I can feel there presence, and it's overwhelming, there's not just a small clan, and a whole army has to reside there..."
Cole blinked again, not really knowing what to say about all this, If Dante was right, they would be in for one hell of a rough battle, they would be in the demon's territory and that could mean trouble for them when fighting, it was unfamiliar ground, so the Demons had the advantage. Dante turned to him a soft smile grazing his lips and as though Dante had read the brunette's mind. "It'll be alright Cole, the demons won't know what hit them" Cole tried to smile back, he really did, but he had a really bad feeling that he might not make it out...
Dante however didn't notice anything as he made his way towards the gym, Cole right behind him, slotting shotgun shells into his gun, if there was going to be a battle, he had to at least be prepared for the worst. Dante watched Cole out of the corner of his eyes and sighed, swinging Alastor off of his back and held it loosely in his hands, waiting for Cole. "Ready?" Dante asked, Cole nodded finished loading the shotgun and slid the first bullet into place with a sharp click, Cole tried to smile convincingly, and nodded "As I ever will be" Dante nodded but wasn't convinced at all, but decided that now wasn't the time to question it.
A light wind blew and Dante shivered, he didn't know why, but he had a very bad feeling about this, he looked over at Cole and knew this bad feeling had something to do with him. 'What am I thinking? He'll be fine...I won't let anything happen to him...I can't...' Dante shivered again before he hardened his resolve and in one swift move, chopped the gym's door off, it teetered on it's own for moment, before it fell to the floor with a dull thud, on the floor. Dante stepped over the door and into the dark, dirty gym and looked around the area; it seemed that this was the reception of the gym; papers were scattered everywhere, wallpaper had been ripped from the walls, and doors had been shattered or torn off.
Cole followed behind Dante and felt sick; many people had died here, there were a lot of corpses scattered...well not so much scattered, as in ripped into tiny pieces. Cole saw many of the ghosts hiding, prying or crying, Cole sighed sadly; none of them seemed to know that they were dead, and it saddened the brunette. Suddenly one of the ghosts spotted him, surprised and panicked, and crawled up to him, half of her leg was already missing, but she didn't notice it, as she crawled desperately towards him. "Please! Please help us! Send us to where were supposed to go! Tell us what to do!" Cole shook his head sadly at the women; she seemed to be the only one who noticed him and Dante.
"I can't, you're...you're a ghost now, you have to do what you feel is best now, it's your own choice, your decision on what you do" The women blinked, and then she smiled, nodding, then with out another word, she crawled back to the others, and began talking to them, soon each and everyone of them turned to Cole and noticed him. The brunette blinked in surprise, instead of them fading away and resting in peace like he expected, all the ghost began crawling towards him, and not just the ones in the gym either, it seemed that the ghosts of everyone that had died on the island had come; Cole even spotted the little girl from the bar with her father, as she smiled and waved to him, Cole smiled and managed to wave back, as the room became extremely cold.
Meanwhile, Dante had been looking in another room when he noticed the temperature change, at first he shrugged it off as nothing, but as soon as he noticed that one of his boots had been frozen stuck in a puddle, and that icicles were forming above his head, Dante decided to look back for Cole. The half-demon man walked back into the reception and was shocked by what he saw.
Ghosts, not just one or two, but hundreds of them surrounding Cole in a circle., The brunette himself seemed to be freezing to death and not trying to show it "Cole! What the hell?" Dante managed to call out, despite the cold. Dante walked through the ghosts quickly and grabbed Cole, only to withdraw from him just as quickly; he was as cold as ice, no scratch that, he was COLDER than ice, to Dante; he was starting to look like an ice statue.
Dante guessed that that really wasn't a good thing. "C-can...C-can y-y-you- s-see them?" Cole asked gently, his teeth chattering violently from the extreme cold of the ghosts. Dante looked at the brunette and nodded "I have no fucking idea how though believe me" Cole didn't answer, he just nodded, while his lips turned blue. Dante swallowed, feeling extremely worried at this point. The white haired man realized that he was becoming extremely cold too, he looked at the ghosts and sighed, all the ghost must have been waiting for Cole to say something but, the brunette was so cold he could have hypothermia by now, Dante noted that the brunette's eyes were closed, and he looked like he was trying to hibernate.
The half demon looked around him again "You have to leave now, or he'll die" The ghosts nodded in a sort of understanding and backed away as fast as they cloud, soon all of them left but the little girl that Cole had seen in the bar, who smiled at Dante.
"I was right then, you will protect him from anything" the little girl laughed and Dante raised an eyebrow at her "Don't be so surprised, I told him before when I was home" Dante smiled down at the little ghost who's smiled widened even further. "We are all here to help you, were going to come back tomorrow at noon, so now you have time to take care of him" Dante just nodded and took off his jacket, wrapping it around the freezing brunette, and rubbing Cole's arms as and effort to warm him up. "Thanks for telling me...but... how can I see you?" the little girl giggled and shook her head before she answered.
"Live people only see what they want to see, Cole has a gift to see us, and when he told you he could see ghosts, you began to believe, that you could see us too" Dante blinked at this before he smiled again, it sort of made sense...Dante stared down at the thawing brunette and decided to take him back to the cottage that they had stayed in earlier. Dante stood slowly the brunette in his arms, who still seemed to be hibernating, and with a small nod and smile to the little ghost, the white haired man left the gym.
The little ghost smiled and sighed happily as she watched them walk out of the doorway, it was so romantic, Cole was the damsel in distress and Dante was the hero. "There so cute together" she giggled herself.
"Chloe! Chloe where are you!" The little ghost Chloe turned around as her father came trough the wall, looking worried. "Oh Chloe! I was so afraid that I had lost you again!" Chloe giggled and hugged her father gently; he hugged her back a small relieved smile on his lips. "I'm okay papa, I just needed to give them a message" Chloe's father seemed to understand, and he nodded as the two walked hand in hand through the wall and disappeared
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Dante meanwhile was trying to warm Cole up back in the cottage, to no avail, the brunette was as cold as ever, and still wasn't responding to him. "Cole, hey can you hear me?" Cole didn't answer or open his eyes and Dante sighed, laying him on the sofa gently. 'What can I do to warm him, up? A fire might alert demons...ah! I know a bath!' Dante blinked at his idea then he did something _VERY_ un-Dante like, he blushed; he blushed a bright red before he managed to force it down. 'Okay, enough, nothings going to happen, I need to get moving or he'll freeze to death' Dante searched the cottage and found an old bath tub, one of those old tin ones you have to fill with about ten bucket's of water before it was half filled. Dante sighed and got to work. 'The things I have to do...for someone I love...' Dante smiled to himself at this thought, before he went to the kitchen.
Fifteen minutes later, Dante had the bath filled with hot water; he tested it, before he went back to Cole, who had been sleeping the whole time, thawing slowly. The brunette face was extremely pale, and he was slow melting, dripping ice-water on the wooden floor. Dante sighed, shaking his head "How the hell do you get into these messes Cole?" Dante asked, not really expecting an answer.
"I-I dunno...B-b-ad L-luck I g-g-guess..." Cole managed to whisper through the chattering of his teeth, his eyes were open now and it seemed they were having a hard time focusing on Dante's face. Dante chuckled at the reply as he began slowly peeling the brunette's wet jacket off of his soaked skin, Cole obviously didn't know what was happening, because the look he gave Dante was of utter confusion; the older man locked eyes with him, and instantly felt drawn, closer and closer to the younger man's face. Cole's eyes widened a little, but he waited to see what would happen. Then Dante stopped, mere centimetres from Cole's lips, before he backed away slightly "I need to strip you for the bath Cole, your freezing to death and a fire might alert demons, this is the only way I could think of to keep you warm" Cole swallowed and nodded, and lowered his eyes, feeling very disappointed, as he began to slowly dispose of his clothes.
Once Cole was stripped completely, (Ohh naked Bishie's ^^) Dante helped him into the bath, an arm around his waist, but the half-demon man, was having a hard time resisting the urge look at Cole's *Cough* ego, and pinning Cole to the wall and kissing him right there. 'Stop it! I can't! He's going to die if I don't warm him up...later, soon, but not now!' Dante eased Cole into the bath tub, who winced as his body warmed up, and Dante was glad to see that Cole's skin that was very white, begin to return to a pale pinkish colour.
Cole sighed happily, a small smile on his face, before he stuck his head under the hot water, his face turning a nice pinkish shade, Dante smiled in relief and turned to look on the cupboards for any decent towels, to wrap Cole in after his bath. To Dante's luck, he managed to find a couple of decent towels and brought them back to Cole, who was sat in the tub, his eyes closed, a frown on his now pinkish face, it seemed Cole was thinking about something. "Cole? Are you alright?" Dante asked, placing the towels on the floor next to the bath.
Cole opened his eyes and blinked, looking up at him, before he smiled. "Yeah I'm fine, I feel a lot better now...thanks Dante" Dante smiled at him and shook his head, as Cole lay back in the water a little.
"Hey that's what partners and friends are for" Dante said, then he turned and headed to the kitchen "I'm gonna make something to eat, stay in your bath a little longer, you can get out later" Cole nodded and lay back again, his eyes fixed on Dante's every move. 'He's so nice to me...I know he cares for me...but does he care for me, the way I care for him? No...Dante doesn't love me like that; I'm just a friend to him...' Cole sighed and without hesitation dunked his head under the hot water.
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Ten minutes later Dante came it with two plates of sandwiches, that looked like they had just gone though major surgery. Cole, who had just stepped out of the bath and wrapped one of the fluffy blue towels around his waist, took one shocked look at the sandwiches and sniggered quietly. Dante however heard him and threw him a warning look "Hey you KNOW I can't cook!" Dante said sighing as he placed the sandwich's on a battered coffee table, all the while taking sneaky glances at Cole's chest. Cole nodded a smile fixed onto his lips to stop himself from laughing, while he grabbed the other towel to dry his hair.
Soon after Cole was munching down the sandwich's Dante had made and, despite there grisly appearance, they tasted quite good. "Okay" Cole murmured swallowing the last of a sandwich before grabbing another. "Maybe you're not that bad a making sandwich's, but your presentation needs improving!" Dante just rolled his eyes at this comment, before he bit into a sandwich of his own. Cole finished his sandwiches quicker than Dante and grinned "There were good, I'll let you make sandwiches in future, at least I know you can't botch them up that much!" Dante glared and gave Cole a nudge in the ribs, while still munching on his own sandwich. Cole just grinned slyly at him, before he stood, still only wearing the blue towel, and went over to see weather his clothes had dried yet, after a second Cole picked up his shirt and put it on.
"Well at least something is dry, my pants are soaked" Dante shrugged, finishing his own sandwiches, and tried not to study Cole too closely, in case the brunette noticed. "Well the ghosts said that they would come back tomorrow, I don't know why, but they will, I think they have some sort of plan" Cole nodded a frown on his face.
"Yeah I heard them...but what exactly are they planning to do? I don't know about you, but I have a weird feeling about this, what can they do? Revolt?" Cole stopped suddenly, and turned to Dante, a smart ass grin on his face. "Ah so THAT'S what there going to do! There going to let us show them the way to the Demons nest, and then they're gonna attack the demons that killed them! That must be the reason! What do you think Dante?" Dante just raised his eyebrow and gave the brunette an unconvinced look.
"It sounds like something out of a B class-horror flick Cole" Cole glared at him forcefully while sitting back down on the worn out sofa, and Dante sighed, picking up the discarded plates and heading over to the kitchen "But I think you have a point, why else would the ghosts stay here? I thought all ghosts needed a purpose in order to exist?" Dante sat down next to Cole who was buttoning up his shirt "There here for revenge, that's why they stayed" Dante finished while trying not to get his eyes glued to Cole's pale, but well built chest peeking at him from under his shirt, as the brunette oh-so slowly buttoned it up.
"Yeah they do...what should we do Dante? Should we let them fight?" Dante looked at Cole wondered what the brunette meant; Even if the ghosts did fight with them, they were still dead at the end of the day, and no one would be hurt, and maybe after it was done they would rest in peace. "I think we should, maybe this will let them rest in peace afterwards, if we don't then the ghosts might haunt this island forever, I know you don't want that" Cole sighed and nodded, scratching the back of his head nervously.
"Yeah okay, anyway we can ask them when we see them tomorrow right? I'd better make sure I wrap myself up this time" Dante laughed and Cole laughed with him, and then Dante decided to let everything go and do something naughty...
He grabbed a pillow from the sofa and hit Cole over the head with it. Cole gave a strangled cry, before he fell on the floor with a dull thump and looked at Dante in amazement; the half-demon man was chuckling and towering over the brunette. "Gotcha" He said a sly smile on his face, Cole couldn't believe it; Dante was actually messing around like he was a kid. Cole, once he was over the initial shock, glared at the white haired man, he was NOT going to be beaten up with a pillow by Dante, not without a fight anyway. The smaller man grabbed a pillow from the sofa and hit Dante back, soon a pillow fight ensued, Dante and Cole running from one another and hitting each other as soon as they were within range. Dante however had the advantage over Cole, due to the fact Cole that kept having to adjust the towel that was still hung loose on his hips.
Dante smirked as Cole paused again for the fifth time during the pillow fight to adjust is towel. Sensing weakness, the white haired man whacked Cole right behind his legs, which made them fold up underneath him, and he collapsed on the floor. Before the younger man could move however, Dante came and pinned him to the floor, Cole's hands pinned above his head. Cole struggled of course, but Dante laughed and added more pressure and his hands. "Hmm got you again, so this mean I win" Cole mock glared at him.
"Hey! It wasn't even a competition, AND you started it!" Cole snapped back, trying, fruitlessly, not to enjoy the feeling of Dante on top of him, Dante laughed again and smiled down at him, strands of his hair falling into his face and into his eyes, but he ignored it. "Even so I still won Cole, so now you have to give me something" Cole sniggered and shook his head in disbelief that he was doing this, what could Dante possibly want from him? As a matter of fact what the hell did he have out here on this island? Not a lot. "Alright, fine! What do you want?" Dante smiled gently at the brunette and said the last thing Cole expected from him.
"A kiss" Cole blinked at Dante, not believing that he had heard the older man right, he opened his mouth, but no words would come out. Dante smiled at him and leaned his head closer to Cole's, the brunette shivered and swallowed hard "Did you think I didn't notice? That you wouldn't stop staring at me, or shivering whenever I was nearby?" Cole's eyes widened in shock, before he shook his head, weather it was in denial of disbelief Dante didn't know, either way, the elder man's smile widened. "Yes Cole I knew you liked me...like that".
Cole didn't know what to say, he didn't move, his eyes the size of saucers, then Cole glared and managed to find his voice again. "Well if you knew...then why didn't you say something earlier, why are you leading me on like this?" The brunette glared at him fiercely and Dante's smile shrank a little, then with one movement, Dante kissed him, Cole's arms still above his head.
The brunette's eyes widened, if it was possible even more, but then he sank deep into the kiss, and closed his eyes. Dante's mouth was so soft, his lips were like rose petals and when Cole entered his mouth he tasted like...strawberries* Cole moaned and Dante wanted to whoop for joy; Cole was actually enjoying this, Dante did have his doubts, but now...he had none at all...
Dante's arms let go of Cole's wrist's and went slowly down to Cole's waist, caressing Cole's stomach gently, the brunette moaned again and arched his back slightly. And this time it was Dante's turn to shiver, as his tongue caressed Coles, he swore he could taste chocolate. 'How fitting' Dante thought with a grin. Soon the two broke apart breathless Cole's eyes were wide, his mouth slightly open as he gasped for air. The older man managed a smile and decided to answer Cole's earlier question with one of his own. "What made you think...that I was leading you on at all?"
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*Ha! Ha! Now you know where Arson's hyperness originates from Simi, DANTE'S MOUTH! LMAO!
YAY! *Sings* I GOT EM KISSING! I GOT EM KISSING! Oh joy! *Does the happy dance* I was stuck between not letting them kiss until the next chapter, or letting them kiss! In the end I even I couldn't take it anymore and I did the kissing scene! (Which I'm really proud of) You better worship me for this Simi Seghal (Did I spell it right?)! 10 F***ING PAGES GOD DAMNED IT! 10!!! *Pants* AND I left a cliff hanger *Evil laughter*
Dante: *Grins* Oh good, now everyone knows...COLE IS MINE! *Evil laugh*
Cole: YUP! *kisses Dante while he's in mid-evil laugh*
Dante: O_o *Moans* ^_^
Vincent: Reiko love, I miss you! *Kiss*
Reiko: ^^ *Kisses back* me too! Eep! is that Iesha? *Climbs up a tree in fear*
Vincent: No it's Trish and Lucia kiss-WAIT I MINUTE!!!! *Eyes wide* THERE KISSING!!! *Climbs up the tree after Reiko and watches* 0_o
Me: *Unfazed* So? They don't complain when you and Reiko kiss?
Vincent:... *Eyes still wide* O_o
Arson: *Sings* I love you, and you love me, lets go and f**k the whole family! *Giggles*
Me: ARSON! Don't sing stuff like that! *Blushes*
Arson: *Giggles* you taught it me!
Me: *Blushes even more* Oh whatever! I hope this keeps you people happy! Come on R&R I worked real hard on this chapter, so please everyone that reads this! Review!!!!
Dante & Cole: *Stops kissing* Bye! *Carries on kissing*
Arson: *Jumps on my back* Bye!!! *Waves*