Forever Hunters

Devil May Cry/Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Dante gets called by Giles to Sunnydale to train Buffy in order to highend up her skills. Unknown to the Buffy gang though is Dante's true being and the new danger both of them will face.

Chapter 9: The jacket, Part 1

[Present, Night]

"Ugh!"

Dante grunted as the slayer threw him on the floor. He tried to get up but the slayer jumped right on him, effectivly blocking his move.

"Now you won't get away from me, you devil!"

Dante was stunned. Whatever he had thought about the character of his trainee, he never knew that she would go that far. She striked him with the aggressive look of her eyes. It seemed that her immediate will or wants superseeded her amibitions and dreams or anything she planned for the future. All she wanted now was his flesh.

"Now is the part where the real fun comes!"

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[3 Days ago, Midnight]

"Damn it keeps getting better every day!"

Dante was busy with a horde of vamps, while Buffy and Spike fought another group 20 meters away. Dawn was watching from afar. The trio weren't even aware of her presence. She kept her eyes on Dante who was swinging his sword at the enemy. He did it with such skill and elegance that Dawn could not kept her mouth shut. She began to daydream....

"Help! Help me!"

Dawn was bound to a tree. In front of her, a huge dragon which was just after beautiful virgins. Its mouth came so near that she could smell the bad breath. It stank of bad meat. When she opened her eyes, she almost vomited. She saw partly broken skeletons between its teeth. She shut her eyes tight and cried her heart out.

"Did my ears hear the voice of a woman in danger?"

The dragon turned around to face the new figure in the scene. Dawn opened her eyes and saw an armored knight on a horse with a big sword on his back. His visor was still up so Dawn could see the face with some strands of white hair peeking from the helmet. Could it be....

"No worries my princess! I will free you from the clutches of this beast!"

Dawn was confused.

"Princess, what the hell are you talk... Oh.... nice..."

Dawn noticed what she was wearing. A clean white dress dating early 16th century.

"Well, whatever..." Dawn whispered to herself. "Yes, my hero. Save me!"

The knight shut his visor, drew his sword and charged on the dragon. The dragon let out a war cry and launched a fireball at the knight. Dawn couldn't look. She thought that that was it. All that she heard was a slash and a cry from the dragon. Then there was silence. She opened her eyes again only to see a headless dragon in front of her. The knight appeared behind the body and walked to Dawn. He cut down her ropes and Dawn fell into his arms immediatly. Loosening her embrace a bit, she put her hands on the helmet and pulled it up only to reveal the face of Dante!

"My hero!"

"You are save now my princess!"

They both locked their eyes for a while. Then they both came closer and closer. Dawn closed her eyes and waited for a moment she had always dreamt off. Dante said her name, again and again and again and every time louder, louder and louder. Dawn suddenly smelled blood and dust. Out of curiosity she opened her eyes to see the normal Dante, who was holding her.

"Dammit, Dawn what the hell are you doing here?"

"Ummm, what?"

Dante turned around and kicked a vamp away from them. Then he faced Dawn again.

"You should be thankful that your sister didn't see ya! OK, you wanna help? So go get some ammo from my bike! And take that with ya!"

Dawn nooded. While Dante gave her cover, Dawn ran like a drunkard. She was still angry that her little dream ended so abruptly. She reached the bike, which was parked on the corner of the cemetary entry, and did what Dante requested her to do, though it took her a bit long to find the handgun magazines.

"Shit I will be late!"

Dawn hurried back and left Dante's jeans jacket (she picked it for him) back on the bike.

A little while later, some boys came around and saw the ownerless bounty.

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[2 days ago, morning]

"I can't believe that Dante is whining over some jacket!"

"Ummm yes..."

Dawn did not want to add anything to that topic. They were both sitting on the bench in the school's football stadium watching the guys crashing into eachother. But that was not their main interest.

"Buffy, you love him?"

"Who?"

"You know!"

Buffy took off her sunglasses.

"No, I just... I don't know what I'm feeling. I think I can't stand him, but sometimes... I feel for him"

"Feel what exactly?"

"Dawn..."

"No, I'm—I'm just trying to understand. I mean, none of it makes sense. First you say Spike disgusts you, but secretly you two are doing it like bunnies. And then Spike says he'd die for you, but he tries to rape you."

Buffy listened to her sister's lecture but let the words fly by. She then stood up and left abruptly leaving Dawn back on the bench. Dawn was still babbling untill she spots the quaterback wearing a jacket.

"Hey this is Da...."

She was mesmerized as the quarterback drank from a squirt bottle and then doused his face with water from the bottle and walked off.

"Wow..."

Then she fell from the bench.

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[2 days ago, midday]

The bell rang and the storm began, a storm of hundreds of children escaping the classroom. Under them was still-dreaming-Dawn walking around. Her mind was just focused on the quarterback she spotted on the field that morning. When she looked up, she met him again, circled by some girls.

"Probably cheerleaders... Great..."

Dawn walked up to the circle.

"Hey, R.J."

The quarterback turned around.

"Hey, Summers."

"Ok, Dawn... Start a conversation, start, start..."

While she was thinking what to talk about, the girls tightend the circle literary pushing her out. They were chatting again about their cheerleading team and the search for new recruits. Dawn again had to interrupt them to get R.J.'s attention.

"Um, so I-I-I was wondering. You had Mr. Gurin for English back at your old school, right?"

R.J. faced Dawn again.

"We all did."

"I have him this year. What a drag..."

"I actually kinda liked him."

"Damn," Dawn thought. "Wrong sentence... Change it, change it, change it...."

"Right! Right. No, no, I like him. It's just, you know, I meant drag in a good, fun way."

The others cut her off again. Despite the fact that these people were actively ignoring her, Dawn persisted. She really wanted him to notice her soo bad.

"Hey, um, so, you know, I heard someone saying yesterday that we're gonna go all the way to the championships this year. In football."

"Yeah, we actually have a good shot, considering we're a new team."

R.J.'s buddy and team mate cut in.

"Yeah, well if you can get us past Highland, we've got a good shot."

"Oh, like you could do better."

"We'll see."

"Wait, you actually think Coach'd start you at quarterback over me?"

"I'm just saying..."

That was enough for Dawn. She had to burst this out now..

"The quarterback is like the most important member of the team. He is like the rudder that guides the ship."

R.J. gave her a quiet nod. Then he helped his fans of cheerleaders carry some books and walked off without saying anything to Dawn. Then suddenly someone else grabbed her by the arm. It was one of the cheerleaders.

"I know we do not know each other so much but can you tell me something?"

"...OK..."

"When does your Uncle pick you up again?"

"Uncle??...."

Then she remembered.

"Oh you mean him? Well probably today when he is not busy?"

"OK then, thanks sweetheart. And if you want to join R.J., although I know you can not, try the try-outs tommorrow, so we can all have a laugh."

Then she ran after the group giggling by herself. Dawn let go a sigh. She thought off her feelings with her Uncle Dante...

"Ah screw that Dante. I think I have found my real boy."

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[2 days ago, Night]

Down in the basement of the Summer's house, Dawn was going through boxes of some old stuff of her sister. Buffy, Dante and Spike were hunting the demons who were recently in Anya's apartment, leaving her almost alone again. That almost was in form of a sleeping Giles, again. Anyways after a while her eyes widened after she found the object of her search.

"Try-outs here I come."