Lady Deadly Nightshade's Disclaimer: Dante and Trish belong to Capcom. Flame, Gabriel, etc, etc, belong to me! Solely me! Thank you very much! ^_^
Lady Deadly Nightshade: I am here with chapter 5 and guess what it is long. The longest chapter so far. Whew! Oh and it has action and I must tell you guys that I hate writing action, I don't think I'm good at it at all. *frowns* So don't be too hard on me about that. Anyway, after the authoress notes, is the new long chapter!! ^_^ Enjoy everyone!
Authoress Notes:
Bustahead- Hmm, I think tackling him won't be necessary, but I won't say anymore. I will not reveal any plot, nope, nope. ^_^ Things will be clear as the story progresses. I will say one thing; Gabriel is going through a change. *places tape over mouth* ^_~
Athar-Luna- LOL!!! I had to have a cliffhanger. ^_~ Yeah, the dream scene was cool to write. I think it turned out well. I had to show Gabriel in another light. LOL! Yeah, you guessed it about the shields. *shakes fist* damn you! ^_~ Yeah, I'm trying to stay truer to Dante's personality. I'm glad you loved his comments. LOL! I hope you had a great B-day by the way! ^_^ (Gabriel: Athar, where's my croissant?) *LDN rolls her eyes* Oy! There he goes again. ^_^
Charlie- Look Charlie, I'm doing author notes again. ^_~ Thanks so much for saying you loved my imagery in the dream sequence. I'm glad to know you loved the chapter. I don't want to disappoint anyone. Thanks for the review! ^_^
M. Masters- Thanks for the review M.M. I'm glad you liked the dream sequence. ^_^ *hides behind Dante* Sorry I couldn't make it longer, but hey this chapter is my longest so far, so enjoy! ^_^
Ms. Cornell- ^_^ Glad to see you back and reviewing. I kind of went upload crazy last week, but the plus side you had a lot to read. ^_~ I'm glad you loved the dream sequence too. It was so cool to write it, though at first I had no idea where it was going. It ended up displaying some feelings of guilt from Dante about Gabriel. I will keep the chapters coming, Ms. Cornell, and I hope to keep ya hooked. ^_^
Kikoken- LOL! Nope, not trying to give you a heart attack, not at all. *evil smirk* LOL!! ^_~ Ah, I see your new OC is with ya. His name sounds cool. Is he the one in your DMC fic? LOL! And I see you have Kaiba with ya too. I love that cold hearted bastard too! ^_^ Well behind my boys Yugi and Yami of course *Yugi and Yami smile, Kaiba sneers* Gabriel will be here shortly. *Gabriel clears his throat* Yeah, what is it? *Gabriel: I didn't like that she called me hers. I only belong to you.* (LDN rolls her eyes) Don't worry about Kikoken, she's cool. Right, Kikoken? Besides she has Darion and he seems cool to me. Don't mind Gabriel Kikoken, he's going through something. ^_^
Alastor- Hey Alastor, thank you for your review. I'm glad you liked the chapter. LOL! I will be mentioning you more often. Dante's sword is Alastor in the fic, so many more mentions. ^_^
Vergil- Oh Verg, you're back. I haven't forgotten you, it's just you didn't review chapter 3 where I based my author notes off of. Sorry about that. *frowns* *places an umbrella over your head* Wouldn't want you to get sick, from standing in the rain. LOL! ^_^
Lady Deadly Nightshade: Wow, I think this AN's get longer every time I put them. Anyway on to the chapter! ^_^
Chapter 5- An Unexpected Ally
The zombie closest to Dante leapt at him with his sword extended, but before he could advance close enough to hit the red clad hunter, the zombie was struck by two beams of white light, sending the zombie back. Dante was oblivious to the light as he was preoccupied with another zombie that was trying to grab him. Dante rammed Alastor into the zombie's gut that had tried to grab him and swung the sword splitting the zombie in half.
A few more zombies headed toward him. Dante stood in a defensive pose and as one zombie neared him, he swung Alastor and cleanly decapitated it. Dante smirked as he saw the zombie fall and turn into nothing but bone. "More where that came from." He informed the rest of the zombies.
Another swipe of Alastor and another zombie down. A zombie swung at Dante and Dante successfully cut off the zombie's arm taking the sword from him. The zombie now defenseless came toward Dante mouth opened as to bite him and Dante placed a quick punch under the zombie's chin, dropping him to the ground. Before the zombie reached the ground though two bullets hit him squarely in the chest. Dante turned slightly to see Flame shooting down the zombies with her gun.
With the sound of bullets going off behind him, Dante continued to destroy the zombies with his sword, Alastor. With every swing of his sword a zombie went down and a body part went flying through the air. Yes the zombies had swords, but their puny swords were no match for Dante and Alastor. He saw Flame out of the corner of his eye head off toward the side of the house; apparently there were more zombies over there. When Dante had finished killing all the zombies around him, he went toward the direction Flame had gone earlier.
When he turned the corner he saw Flame standing alone in the pouring rain. As a matter of fact Dante was soaking wet from fighting in the rain too. He noticed Flame kept staring off into the distance, her gun still smoking slightly.
"What is it?" Dante asked her.
"There was another figure lurking around." She told him. "I fired a couple of shots in that direction and I haven't seen any movement since."
The shrill sound of the cell's phone ring startled the rain drenched hunters. Dante turned on the phone and pressed it to his ear. "Dante speaking." He said into the receiver. "Trish, what's wrong?"
Flame watched Dante intently as he continued to converse.
"Are you sure?" He said nervously into the phone. There was a moment of silence as Dante just stared in the direction Flame said she had seen the figure. "Oh shit!" He cursed and he dropped the phone onto the ground, making a mad sprint into the darkness.
Flame could hear the urgent screams for Dante coming out of the dropped cell phone. She picked it up and turned it off.
"Dante!" She yelled out into the darkness. "Dante, where are you?"
She ran forward and out of the darkness she made out Dante's red clad figure coming toward her. What surprised her more was that in his arms he held someone. She could see the figure was dressed all in black.
Dante walked past her and toward the porch of the house. Sometime during the fight the lights had come back on. He entered the house and laid out the black clad figure on the couch.
Now Flame could see him clearly. He was indeed dressed completely in black, right down to his shoes. He had black hair and every other strand was silver. His facial features looked remarkably just like Dante's. "Who is this?" Flame asked him.
"This is my son, Gabriel Sparda." He told her as he checked Gabriel over for any wounds.
"Wait! Gabriel, the hunter that every one has been talking about is your son?" She said shocked. "I should have known!"
Dante's brows creased slightly as he noticed blood running down Gabriel's hand, pooling onto the carpet. "Yeah, he's my son and you shot him!" Dante yelled accusingly voice full of anger.
"I'm sorry!" Flame apologized. "I didn't know who the hell was out there!" Dante gave her a look of fury. "It could have been another zombie!" She said in her defense.
Dante's ice blue eyes just gazed at her with rising fury.
"I'll go and get something to bandage him up." She said quickly and she back pedaled out of the room as fast as she could. She didn't really want to experience the legendary hunter's wrath.
Dante gently lifted Gabriel, so he could remove his black denim jacket. When he removed it he noticed he had a black shoulder holster with two identical silver handguns. They had Gabriel Sparda engraved onto them in black calligraphy. Dante froze; shocked to see that Gabriel had the guns. Dante had sent the guns to Gabriel's adoptive parents' house and had asked them to give them to Gabriel if they saw him. He had sent the guns as a gift for Gabriel's nineteenth birthday. Dante had no idea; they had ever gotten to him though. He thought the guns were still at Gabriel's adoptive parents' house.
"What are you doing?" Dante broke out of his thoughts at the sound of the voice. He turned to see two light blue eyes staring back at him.
"Gabriel, don't move." Dante advised him. "You've been shot."
"I've been what?" Gabriel exclaimed shocked. He looked down at his arm and noticed a hole in his arm oozing blood. "Damn, I was careless." He chastised himself.
Dante had just been thinking that and he was glad that Gabriel had said it and not him. "Don't worry I'll bandage it right up." Dante told him. He grabbed Gabriel's arm and now that Gabriel was awake, he grabbed it not at all gently.
"Ouch! That hurts!" Gabriel complained.
"The good thing is the bullet went straight through." Dante said observing the wound, completely ignoring the anguished look on Gabriel's face.
"That's a good thing." Gabriel replied sarcastically. "How about not having a bullet hole in me at all." As Gabriel finished his sentence he was engulfed in a bright white light. It was so bright Dante had to shield his eyes from it. When the light vanished he looked back at Gabriel.
"Oh, wow. That's never happened before." Gabriel said astonished looking at his arm.
"What?" Dante asked.
"The wound is completely gone, blood and all." Gabriel told him.
Dante looked at Gabriel's arm and it was completely intact. No bullet hole, no blood. "You said this has never happened before?" Dante asked him.
"Not like this." Gabriel replied. "I mean I can heal faster then a human but I've never been able to heal just by mentioning I want to heal." He looked at his black denim jacket. "Damn." He said annoyed.
"What?" Dante asked him.
"You should have left the jacket on me. Maybe my power would have mended it too." Gabriel told him. "Now I have to buy a new jacket."
Dante stared at his son with an incredulous look on his face.
At that moment Flame entered the room with the first aid supplies. "Ok, I have everything you need to treat a bullet wound." She told Dante. She stopped in her tracks when she saw Gabriel sitting up and looking at her.
"I'm assuming you're my father's trigger happy partner." He said derisively.
She gave him a feeble smile. "Um, well…"
"Gabriel, that's Flame." Dante said giving introductions. "Flame, my son Gabriel."
"I'm so sorry I shot you, but I had no idea who was out there." She apologized. "I guess I got a little carried away."
"Don't worry about it. No harm no foul." He told her.
"I'm really sorry!" She apologized again. "Let me bandage you up."
"No need." Gabriel said and he showed her his freshly healed arm.
"Everyone is just so damn full of surprises." She said flatly, placing the now unneeded first aid kit onto the coffee table.
"How did you get here?" Dante asked Gabriel, ignoring Flame's remark. "Also how did you find me?"
"I drove here." He replied simply. "As for how I found you, well, I have many ways of finding someone." He said with a mysterious smirk on his face.
"Did you go to Devil Never Cry before you came here?" Dante asked. "Trish said she saw a glimpse of you there."
"Yeah, I was there." Gabriel's face broke into a mischievous smirk. "I hope I didn't scare Trish."
"I doubt you did." Dante replied flatly. "She called me on the cell phone to tell me you might be heading my way."
"Good ol Trish." Gabriel said fondly. "How is she doing?"
"If you had been at home for the past year, you would know the answer yourself." Dante said tightly. "Instead of just disappearing into the night without a word to anyone."
"You're right about that." Gabriel said contemplatively. "But if I had stayed home, it would have been like I was in jail." Gabriel said tightly looking at his father.
"I was just looking out for you." Dante told him.
"Oh that's what that was." Gabriel said sarcastically. "It felt more like you wanted to keep me locked in my room with a little flap on the bottom of the door so you could feed me bread and water ever so often."
Dante curled his hands into fists and squeezed them slightly. "Don't you think you're over exaggerating?"
"No, I don't think so." Gabriel told him. He rose from the couch and grabbed his jacket. He stuck a finger in the hole of his jacket with a dismayed look on his face. Then he put on his black denim jacket. "Maybe this was a bad idea." He said heading toward the door.
"Gabriel, where are you going?" Dante demanded.
He whirled around to face his father. "I'm leaving. Clearly I made a mistake coming here." He glanced over to Flame. "Pleasure meeting you, Flame. Maybe I'll see ya around and hopefully you won't shoot me then." He winked at her and turned back around.
"Gabriel, wait!" Dante told him.
Gabriel kept walking toward the door. He pulled open the front door and stopped at the threshold. He braced his arm on the edge of the doorframe as his breath quickened. He felt a pain radiate through him, then the pain focused on his back.
"Gabriel?" Dante asked uncertainly, looking at his son's back. "Are you all right?" Dante took a few steps toward him.
Gabriel didn't turn around but he shook his head. That was a big mistake. All of a sudden everything in front of him went black. He blinked his eyes, but the darkness engulfed him. He felt himself falling back and then he felt nothing.
Lady Deadly Nightshade: Yeah, boy!!! Gabriel is finally in the house! I hope you guys were satisfied in the 'Gabriel department', if you weren't that's too bad. But the good news is there is more too come of him. ^_^ So comments, questions, leave me a review! ^_^