Scars

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IX: Nobody

They all looked pawns from this height. Perhaps if he wanted to, he could've play God with his prey before killing them off. However, he didn't want to; he wanted to give them a merciful wrath, but eyes watching him would not allow it.

Wait, what was that just now? One of them was moving… Lilith? Yes, it looked enough like her, but where…? She loomed over the woman beside her, Morrigan, but what was she thinking?

Suddenly, a faint hissing noise filled the man's ears as Lilith's fangs grew. Not good. And he flipped out a rose and fired it toward the group. Wake up, Morrigan. Wake up!

"OW! SONUVA!" Gem cried, shooting up as something sharp pierced his leg! "What the crap just…?" His sentence was left incomplete as a figure, Lilith's figure, sprang away from them and took off.

"Wha-wha…?" Syra blinked oddly, awake as well along with Morrigan. "What just happened?"

"Lil!" Morrigan hurried to her feet and ran after her sister. "Lil! Wait!" Yet despite the kunoichi's speed, the halfbreed's was even faster. She took off out of the village and into the dark forest, ignoring the scraps from the tree branches and bruises she received from tripping. Only getting away was in her mind at that point and before she knew it, Lilith was far gone into the shadows, with no one to find her, but that taunting voice in her head.

"Dammit." Morrigan slowed to a halt in the forest as Lilith faded from sight. It was just like before when…

"Hey! Devil-Nin!" Gem shouted as he and Syra caught up to her. "What just happened!" He asked again, yanking the rose sunk deep into his left leg and threw it into the ground.

"It couldn't be…" The ninja whispered atrociously, moments before a bizarre echoing laughter surrounded them. Morrigan and Gem drew their weapons immediately while Syra hid behind her protector. As the laughter grew, three figures crawled from the forests. They were oddities, even among the ranks of monsters, with their four arms and legs, bent backs, and their heads twisted around with pointed noses and empty holes for eyes. They grinned and laughed wickedly as they crept closer and closer to the others.

The horrifying sound they made in their laughter sent shivers down all their spines. Even Dante would've been shaking in his boots with such a laughter surrounding him. "Wha-what are the creepy things!" Syra cried out, the most frightened of them all.

"N-NoB-bodies." Morrigan shuddered her answer. "Undead that were so neglected in life that they become insane in death." She gulped and brought her kodachi in front. "We're in for a rough battle."

One Nobody from the side screeched it's wicked cackle just before jumping at Morrigan, who ducked below and slashed her kodachi through it's thick, leathery skin just as Gem took Syra and rolled to the side. It landed, laughed, and turned around for another pounce, just as another Nobody readied it's own leap. As they jumped, the kunoichi flipped out two kunais and did a quick 360, throwing her shurikens at their faces and knocking them back, only to see them leap back to feet and taunted the ninja by dancing on their's hind legs.

While fought the other two, the other Nobody leapt at Gem. The Jewel Demon pushed away Syra, as the creature stopped in midair and slapped him into the ground, landing right beside him afterwards. A jolt of pain rocked the Jewel Demon's body as he hit the dirt, and the kick of dirt in his face as the Nobody jumped up again didn't raise his spirits. He rolled away, just before the monster could pounce him, and stabbed his dagger into it the moment it came back down. A grin came across his face as his blade cut through the creature's skin like a hot knife through butter. Yet his confidence quickly faded as the Nobody just laughed and struck him into a tree, cracking it.

The two Nobodies fighting Morrigan sneered devilishly, reaching for masks across tied to their backs and put them on. "Oh no!" Morrigan pulled out another pair of Kunais and threw them at the undead psychos' masks, hoping to disrupt their plans. However, it was too late. The most the Kunais did was scratch their masks. The Nobodies began growing, both in size and in extra limbs. Now they were giant Somebodies, so to say, with giant horns growing all over their bodies and another pair of arms springing from their backs.

Gem on the other hand was approached by the insane demon, a hungry and vicious look wrinkled on it's face. Damn…get up, Gem. He yelled at himself, still aching against the cracked tree. You've got to get up. But his hopes were in vain as the Nobody's mouth stretch wide open, ready to devour the Jewel Demon. Then suddenly, a powerful kick pushed the psychopathic demon into another oak tree. Imagine Gem's surprise when he saw Syra facing the Nobody, looking as though someone dumped cold water over her in her sleep.

"Gem-Gem okay?" She asked, facing the rising monster.

Yet it wasn't just her strength aloned that shocked the warrior. "You're um…you're not wearing any panties…" he said with a blush. The sudden impact of the top half of trunk Gem was against exploding was enough to make his comment too stupid at the time, as one of the Somebodies against Morrigan, all cut up and stabbed, rolled to a halt at the base of another tree in front of Gem. It writhed around in agony before curling up and hacking up multiple small explosions of blood and organs as it finally died.

While the first Somebody died, the oter one fighting Morrigan reached across it's back, tearing a giant eye out and threw it toward the Succubus. "Oh no you don't!" She cried, flipping out another kunai and dashed it against the eye as it began to roll toward her. It popped upon contact just the Somebody pounced against Morrigan, letting out a painful cry as it pinned her. It's veiled, horrid face twisted around like a crooked clock, winding up to strike the chimes that marked her death, until…

BANG!

A spray of bullets flung the Somebody off and against a tree. "Did you have to start the party without me?" a cocky smart-alek voice remarked as a man stepped into the opening. His white rough hair reached down his neck, his blue eyes glimmered red every few seconds, and his crimson coat wavered in the night breeze. He had confident smirk on his face, revealing that he was edgy for a fight.

"Dante!"

"Relax, I got this!" Dante flicked the sawed shotgun in his hand, cocking it, and reaimed it at the Somebody, who had readied itself back to it's feet. It scampered viciously at the devil hunter and lifted its claw to strike down the demon slayer. At least it would've, if Dante hadn't pulled back his gun hand, infusing it with the scorching flames from his gauntlet, and struck the Somebody in the gut. While the Somebody was paralyzed with pain, Dante pulled the trigger of the shotgun buried in its belly, sending the monster's organs out of it's body, and followed it up with a quick kick as it exploded into death.

As Dante killed off the second creature, Gem and Syra readapted their battle stance, standing side by side toward the beaten down Nobody. Gem held his dagger firmly in both hands by his waist, aiming it toward his opponent, while Syra stood hunched over with her hands and feet spread like a lion's claw, her tail waving back and forth. The neko struck first, dashing at it at godly speed and striking it's side as she past it, while Gem followed up with slash across his face and then impaled his dagger atop the monster's head. The skull shattered as Gem yanked back his weapon and quickly jumped back as the Nobody also exploded.

"That's that."

Dante and Morrigan regrouped with the other humanoids, sheathing their weapons in their appropriate places; Dante across his back and Morrigan behind her waist. Gem and Syra looked up and did same with their weapons. "Mya, what-what just happened?" Syra murred.

"Pfft. Hell if I know. I just showed up." Dante remarked, scratching the back of his head. He looked to Morrigan, who looked to be the most solemn to the Demon Slayer. "Why are we out here anyway?"

Morrigan glanced up at Dante, her eyes brimming with sadness. "Lilith ran off."

"Say what?"

"Damn it." She cursed herself. "I couldn't stop her again. This is exactly what happened last time."

"Last time?" Dante cocked a brow and leaned against a tree, crossing his arms. "I think you should probably tell me the full story." He glanced to Gem and Syra. "…Um… Just head back to the Village. Don't run off."

"Yea, yea." Replied Gem. "Now that I know we have quite some enemies against us, I think leaving you guys wouldn't be so great an idea. Let's go, Syra." He began walking back the way they came and the neko scampered after him, leaving Dante to stare down his supposedly ally.

"Where do I begin?" Morrigan whimpered softly.

"From the beginning. It would probably be better to know everything."

Morrigan let out an aggravated and worried sigh, then she nodded. "All right… it was 20 years. 3 years before Lilith was born…"

Gemakai: And so that ends this chapter.

Kora: Do people even care about this story anymore?

Gemakai: Should be, I mean dang, I've been working my butt off on this.

Astar: No you haven't. You've been playing Jade Empire, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Virtua Fighter 4, Guilty Gear XX… (goes on for about 3 hours) …Xenosaga, Devil May Cry 1 AND 2, and lastly God of War.

Gemakai: So I love me games, sue me.

Lawyer: (readies papers) That can be arranged.

Astar: (Snaps fingers and the lawyer bursts into flames) Regardless of your laziness, Gem. I'll still be your "assistant".

Kora: Awww…

Gemakai: …What are you? Gay? (turns to audience) Anywho, read and review, my holmes, or I'll send Astar to burn your hou-(notices that his butt's on fire) AHHHHH!

Astar: (Chuckles) Revenge is sweet…