Devil May Cry
Tears Of Blood
Chapter III
A flashy mirage of bullets ripped through the chest of the closest Vampire he could see. The force sent the creature back to the ground. Quickly, Dante kept backing up as the other three still remained air-born with their sharp fangs out.
Dante knew he would have to act quickly.
He pointed his large guns at the two outside Vampires and began to unload as fast as he could. They too met the other on the ground a fair distance away.
The fourth and final Vampire managed to grab Dante by the throat. He rolled to the ground and took the Vampire with him. Using his knees, Dante pushed the Vampire off of him and over his head. It laid on the ground for a moment, then rose.
Dante looked to his other side. The other three were already up and walking toward him. The one with the shredded chest from the bullets was in the middle.
Dante looked at his guns. He slammed them back into their holsters and smiled at the Vampires got closer to him.
"Bring it on."
Dante quickly went into his fighting stance and punched the one vampire to his left in the jaw. It reared back as it spat out blood. He turned to his right and grabbed the closest Vampire of the three and kneed it in the stomach. The creature bent over. Dante uppercutted it in the head. The Vampire fell to the ground.
He quickly looked to his left again and gave his enemy a quick jab to the face. It stumbled backward and fell onto a small pile of wooden crates.
Dante looked to his right again as one of the remaining two Vampires swung at him. Dante moved out of the way and returned a swift punch of his own. The creature attempted a weak kick, which was easily blocked and countered. Dante effortlessly kicked it in the chest.
The defeated Vampire reared back into the other with the shredded chest. Angrily, he threw his companion away. He wanted the Devil Hunter all for himself.
It angrily threw a hard kick at Dante. It connected and Dante found himself breathing heavily for a moment. He quickly grabbed the leg of his enemy and brought his elbow down hard on its kneecap.
The creature roared as its leg bent the other way.
The wrong way.
It stumbled back and fell to its knees. Dante walked up to it and kneed it in the chin. The Vampire slowly fell on its back. Dante took a moment to catch his breath.
But that was all the time his enemies needed to recuperate.
He glanced at the battle scene in the courtyard around him. They were getting up. All of them. Even the one he had just kneed. He shook his head slowly.
"You bastards never learn, do you?" he said aloud. They slowly charged him. Dante closed his eyes and thought.
Okay. They're Vampires. Bullets don't put them down unless they're silver. What else would work…The Demon I killed before. He had an ax… A wooden-handled ax…
Dante sprinted over to where the dead Demon beast from before lay in its own pool of blood. He pried the biggest piece of the wooden handle he could find from its body. The sharp end was dripping fresh blood.
He let the first Vampire come near him. When he got close enough, Dante thrust the sharp end of the wooden handle piece into the creature's heart. Its eyes widened as it quickly turned to ash and faded.
He smiled to himself as the other three Vampires stopped dead in their tracks. Dante held up the bloody piece of wood.
"How do you like my stake?" he said as he laughed.
The three rushed him as fast as they could. Dante, surprised by their bravery, quit laughing and jabbed the end into the next closest enemy. It too, like the one before it, crumbled to ash that fell to the ground.
Dante grabbed the second last vampire and pulled it into his hand. He pushed his hand into the chest of it as it screamed. Dante's hand was covered in a charcoal pile of ash that he shook off.
It was only he and the one with the shredded chest left.
Dante threw the bloody piece of wood over his head. It hit a brick wall and rolled onto the ground. The Vampire was shocked. It looked at the wood on the ground, then at Dante.
Dante held out his hands. "Make a move."
The intimidated Vampire hesitated, then screamed and threw a heft hook at his enemy. Dante blocked the punch. He kicked the vermin in the stomach, which sent it back a few feet.
Dante pulled out his guns and pushed them against the Vampire's chest. He again unloaded bullet after bullet on the helpless Vampire, backing it up until it hit the same brick wall where the wooden piece of ax was thrown.
Dante picked it up, then grabbed the filth by the throat and held it up against the brick wall. He put the 'stake' against the Vampire's chest and beat it into its heart with the blunt end of Ebony.
Dante stepped away from it and held his guns at his sides. His work was done.
Just as this thought crossed his mind, he felt something move through both sides of his hair as two real, professional-looking stakes pierced the creature up against the brick wall in the chest. It was quickly reduced to ash. Dante's wooden stake fell to the ground, but the other two remained stuck in the brick wall.
Dante's eyes widened as he realized that the stakes could have easily gone into his head, not past it.
Slowly, he turned around to see the most gorgeous woman he'd ever seen standing there, slightly bent over with her hands out. She must have thrown the stakes. She straightened herself out and put her hands on her hips.
She was wearing a pair of skin-tight black leather pants with a red thong built into it that went over top of her pants. Thigh-high leather boots also covered her legs. She was also wearing a skin-tight black leather vest that ended at her midsection and was left open. It was only held together by thin red leather stitching, revealing half of her breasts. Black and red leather gloves covered her hands and ended at her elbows. Two black collars were wrapped around her biceps. There was also a black leather collar around her neck. One of the most striking features about here was her hair. It was brunette with wild, red streaks and was in an untied ponytail. There were two large strands of hair that fell over her eyes. The other most striking feature about her was the large tribal tattoo that started above her eye. It went all the way around it, and ended halfway down her cheek.
Dante stood there in silence.
The woman in black leather shifted her hips and turned her head sideways.
"You must be Dante. It is a pleasure to finally meet you," she said, sporting a small smile. Her voice had a slight accent that Dante quickly picked up on.
Dante finally blinked. "And who, may I ask, are you pretty lady?"
The woman walked up to Dante, put her hand out in the position for a hand shake, and looked him straight in the eyes.
"My name is Kira. I represent the Vampire Nation."