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Lady Deadly Nightshade: Hello everyone, it's great to be back. I would have updated sooner but I couldn't access the net. *laughs* But I'm here now and that's all that matters! Right? ^_~ Gabriel had fun being the MC of the last chapter, but well this time it's my turn. *smiles* Ok on to my review comments.
Lady Deadly Nightshade's Comments:
Tailisman: Thanks for your review. I'm glad you like the story! No worries there will be more! ^_^
Kikoken: *Smiles evilly* Muahahaha!! See the thing about me Kikoken is that I always and I mean always have something up my sleeve. Nothing is what it seems, unless I say it is. LOL!! Yeah, Dante is going to pop a vein. *sighs* Let's hope he doesn't kill me.
Gabriel: Hey Kikoken, I got my pie! ^_^
LDN: Yeah I did buy him a pie. *hugs Gabriel* After all he's my baby and I can't deny him anything. ^_^
Gabriel: ^_^
M. Masters: Yes!!! *echoes back to her in the long hallway of ff.net* LMAO!!! ^_~ Yeah, Flame took Gabriel. No one saw it coming and that's how I like it! LOL!! Like to keep you guys on your toes. ^_^ *looks down at you from the top of the cliff* Whatcha doing? LOL!! Sorry I had to make you wait M.M. I hope this long chapter makes up for it. ^_^
Charlie: Yay Charlie! Glad I still got you hooked. ^_^ I'm glad you liked the dialogue. I was trying to make Trish and Gabriel be like pals, you know? I wasn't too sure about the nicknames, but know everyone calls Gabriel, Gabe. So I guess it was all good! I hope you keep reading. ^_^
Athar-Luna: LOL! Another unsuspecting victim. *evil smirk is back* Athar, you know I thought you would have seen this coming. Glad to see I can still surprise ya! ^_~ I'm glad you liked the dialogue between Gabriel and Trish. I was trying to make it chummy. LOL! Yeah, I had to add the hair thing. I have a feeling Dante wouldn't like folks to touch them silver locks! *drools* About Flame? It will all be revealed soon enough. Something about Gabriel gets revealed in this chapter. -_- You already know what it is though! I told ya right after I finished the first part of this story! LOL!! Maybe you forgot, here's hoping! ^_^
Bustahead: Yes indeed. She drugged him, slipped him a mickey. LOL!!! No not the mouse! ^_~ I'm glad your OC was able to hold you back. Flame might have attacked you and I don't want my reviewers being attacked by my OC's. LOL!! ^_^
PoisonousFlower: haven't hit you over the head yet! ^_~ LMAO!!! You know I have a beating stick! LOL!!! Yeah, I've been watching him! He's been having too much fun with his healing power, but well it's a new power, so he should have fun with it. LOL! Well he be safe? Only one way to find out. Hopefully ff.net notified you. ^_^
Vergil: Hey Vergil, glad to see you around. I hope my umbrella kept ya from getting sick when you were standing in the rain. Am I diabolical or Flame? LOL!!! I hope you meant me. I have an evil streak in me. *bows* A pleasure to get your review. I hope to see more from you, beloved twin of Dante! ^_^
Ms. Cornell: Hey Ms. Cornell! ^_^ Glad to see you reviewing again. Yeah, Gabriel was kidnapped, but no worries. Ok well worry a bit, I guess. LOL!!! ^_^ I'm glad you liked Trish and Gabriel's interaction. I'm glad it came out the way I wanted. LOL!! You had a bad feeling about Flame did ya! LOL! You might have psychic powers or great intuition! ^_~ Don't worry, review when you can! ^_^
Lady Deadly Nightshade: Whew, finished!!! ^_^ Finally we have arrived at the new long chapter. Oh this chapter is revealing, finally after almost 2 years of creating Gabriel something about him will be revealed, something big. I know some of you guys figured it out at the end of the first story, but well me having finally revealed it makes it official. ^_^ Also…well I don't want to spoil the chapter so read on to find out what it was!! ^_^
Chapter 7- Deceptive Appearances
Trish groaned as someone shook her. "Trish! Trish, can you hear me?" Dante was calling out to her in an alarmed voice.
"Dante?" She said absently.
"What happened? Are you all right?" Dante asked her urgently.
"Yeah," She said slowly reclaiming her bearings. "I'm fine." She added softly. She looked into Dante's ice blue eyes and saw relief cross his features at her words. Looking into his face, it reminded her of someone. In her mind she saw herself sitting on the couch in front of the TV with a boy with black-silver hair laughing with her at something they were watching. With a jolt she grabbed a handful of the silver haired hunter's red coat and gripped it firmly between her fingers.
"Trish?" Dante asked perplexed.
Her eyes were wide as she remembered. "They've taken him!" She told him urgently. "She took Gabriel and I couldn't stop it!" She added anxiously.
"What?" Dante yelled. "Who took him?"
"Flame took him!" She told him. "She went psycho and she took him."
"Flame? Took him…but she's on our side." Dante replied.
"Apparently she's playing both sides." Trish said angrily. "I couldn't stop her!"
"Damn it!" Dante cursed slamming his fist against the floor where he knelt beside Trish.
"Dante we'll find him." She told him reassuringly as she placed her hand on his shoulder, squeezing it gently. "I'll make sure we do."
"I hope you're right Trish." Dante said solemnly.
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Gabriel's eyes slowly opened to gaze up at a grey ceiling. He winced and brought a hand up to touch the side of his face. His head was pounding, like if someone had used his head for a drum. He slowly sat up from the cold slab of steel that he had laid upon. It was completely dark around him and it didn't help him see better with his vision all blurry.
He leaned back against the cold wall and closed his eyes. Where the hell was he? Was he dreaming? He heard the quick click of heels on the floor, but he didn't open his eyes. He heard the click of a switch and he saw a flash of light through his closed eyelids. He opened his eyes to notice the steel bars that stood a few feet in front of him and beyond them stood Flame, a smirk on her face, but it quickly vanished.
"Glad to see you're up." She said her voice very impartial.
"Flame?" Gabriel rose completely from his steel bed and walked toward the bars. "What's going on?" He asked her looking at her through the bars, inches away from her.
"Gabriel, you have to understand, that I didn't want to do this." She told him, sorrow in her voice. "I had no choice in the matter." Her eyes welled with tears.
"Where am I?" Gabriel asked her firmly. She simply stood in front of him, tears threatening to fall. "Where the hell am I?"
Suddenly right in front of Gabriel's eyes, Flame's eyes turned a bright red. Her facial features took a sinister look and her mouth spread into a malevolent smirk. The voice that came out of her mouth was rough and manly sounding, but a hint of her normal voice remained. "Hello there," The new voice said. "I'm glad to have you here. Welcome to my home. I hope the accommodations are to your approval."
"No, your accommodations really suck! You couldn't even give me a mattress, now my back is all sore." Gabriel said sarcastically. "Who the hell are you and what the hell do you want with me?" Gabriel demanded.
"You will meet me soon enough!" The voice told him.
"Why don't you show yourself to me now and stop hiding behind a girl!" Gabriel challenged him.
The voice chuckled. "So impatient for one so young." The voice chided him. "But if that is your desire, then so be it."
Gabriel watched as Flame went back to normal, panting as she fell down to her knees upon the floor. He was about to ask her if she was all right when he noticed a figure dressed completely in a black hooded cloak behind her. The figure stood in the only darkness of the room and he was perfectly still, making it difficult to spot him.
"Who the hell are you?" Gabriel shouted at him.
"I have heard so much about you." The figure walked forward into the light, but the hood kept his face hidden from view. "Finally I met the legendary dark knight, Dante Sparda."
Gabriel looked at the figure and laughed. A loud hearty laugh. The figure stood motionless, apparently shocked by this reaction. "I'm not Dante Sparda." Gabriel told the figure.
"You lie." The figure replied coldly.
Gabriel laughed again. "Why would I lie? It's the truth." He smirked at the figure. "You have the wrong man."
The figure turned to Flame and roughly grabbed her arm, causing her to cry out in pain. He lifted her to her feet. "You idiot! Who the hell did you bring me? I told you I needed the dark knight." He said angrily into her face.
"Damon, I'm sorry! I couldn't get Dante, but..."
He flung her away from him and she fell roughly to the floor. She gazed up and looked at the figure. "I brought you his son, Gabriel."
"His son?" Damon said intrigued. "I thought his son was dead?"
"No," She replied. "This is his son."
Damon stepped closer to the bars and held out his hand palm first. He seemed to be trying to sense something.
"What are you doing?" Gabriel asked irritated. Something inside Gabriel urged him to move out of the way, but he seemed rooted to the spot.
Damon with his hand still outstretched muttered some strange words under his breath and a light enveloped over Gabriel. The light was white but subtle, not intense like it had been before and the outline of his aura had a red tint to it. Damon's breath caught in his throat and he staggered back. With Damon's hand down the light around Gabriel vanished.
"What happened?" Flame asked him.
"I can't use his essence." Damon replied tersely.
"Why not?" Flame asked.
"I can't use it because it's contaminated." Damon told her.
"Contaminated?" Flame looked at Gabriel, a questionable look on her face. "I don't understand."
"His essence is not solely demonic. It's mostly angelic." Damon told her and by the tone of his voice, it sounded like he had a smirk on his face, but Gabriel couldn't confirm it since his face was hidden from view.
"Part angel?" Flame said stunned.
Damon looked at Gabriel. "Isn't that correct, Gabriel?"
"Yeah, you're right. My mother was an angel," Gabriel said proudly. "And I don't appreciate you saying that I'm contaminated because of that. I'm proud of what I am. Very proud of my heritage and my parents." Gabriel said eyeing Damon fiercely. His eyes glowing blue, his temper showing.
"Calm yourself, boy!" Damon hissed. He turned to Flame. "You have failed. He is worthless to me. I cannot be healed using a half angel's essence even though he has traces of demonic energy in him."
"Heal yourself?" Gabriel said softly in a puzzled tone.
Damon turned back to Gabriel. "Yes, I need demonic energy to heal myself from what I've become." He told him. Before Gabriel could ask what he meant, Damon lowered the hood off his head.
Gabriel gasped and pulled away from the bars. Flame too had stepped away from Damon.
Damon's face was decomposing. One side of his face was in perfect condition, but the other side was a rotting mess. The flesh had a dark green tint with small yellow pustules among it. As Gabriel watched one of the pustules erupted and a thick yellow liquid oozed down Damon's face. The stench of rotting eggs mixed with other putrid smells reached Gabriel's nostrils and he pressed an arm against his nose to keep the smell out. He really didn't want to retch in front of the bad guys.
Damon's face made a lopsided smirk, since only half his mouth was functional. "See, now you know why I need a powerful demonic essence. I am part demon, a demon that needs demonic essences to survive. So adding the essence of an angel will do me no good."
"Then Gabriel isn't useless." Flame told him. "Dante will come for him and then you can use Dante to heal yourself."
"My father doesn't know where we are." Gabriel said icily to them, removing his arm from his face. He looked at Damon and he couldn't hide the disgusted look from his face at what stood in front of him.
Damon placed the hood over his head again, hiding his hideous face from view. "That can easily be remedied." He told him.
"My father will…" Gabriel broke off as he convulsed violently. He felt the pain radiate through him again. "Oh, not now." He muttered to himself. He clutched his arms around himself.
"What's happening to him?" Damon asked Flame.
"I don't know, but this happened when we were at my house as well." She told him.
"No!" Gabriel whispered and then he cried out in pain. He felt the pain go toward his back again. The world went black again and he fell to his knees. He felt the bile rise in his throat and he vomited. Then he felt nothing.
Lady Deadly Nightshade: Another chapter complete!!! Another cliffhanger! Yup, finally it is revealed. Gabriel is indeed part angel. I dropped some hints in the first story like: the white light around him, when he comes back at the end he's dressed all in white, his name is a hint too. LOL!! ^_^ I know some of you guys already knew, you observant people you! ^_~ Ah, and now we know who the bad guy is too. LOL!! What did you guys think about him? Now click on that there button and leave me a review! Until next time, everyone stay safe! ^_^