Chapter Six
Dante twitched in his troubled dreams. They wouldn't let him escape…
Rayne was sitting there smiling at him, buds from trees falling down around her as the wind blew. The sun was shinning and all seemed perfect. He gave a small frown, the air was quiet, no sounds. His thoughts were answered when a giant Vanguard appeared behind Rayne. Before he could move or shout Rayne was stabbed through the heart. Dante ran at her, never seeming to get closer, he just had to save her! Finally he reached her, cradling her in his lap. Unbidden, tears slipped down his face…once…twice, landing on her beautiful face as she smiled up at him. She reached up and touched his face once before her head fell back and she died…happy and content in Dante's lap.
With a shout Dante shot up, colliding heads with the one from his dream. She grabbed her forehead in pain and sat back down. "That ego of yours defiantly made your head a whole lot harder!"
He just looked around him confused, why was he laying on the ground?
As if reading his mind, Rose spoke up, "Once the orb zapped away from you, you collapsed on the ground. You ok?"
"Of course I'm ok, when is the gorgeous Dante not ok?" Dante tried to say suavely, working his hardest to banish the dream from his mind.
The two girls just shared a look before shaking their head as if it wasn't worth it. Rayne offered a hand to him to help him up, but he acted like he didn't see and jumped up. "Well ladies, shall we move on?"
"Oh yay, more killing," Rose said sarcastically.
Prides had arrived, and no matter how simple they were to fight, she was getting hungry after not being able to eat since yesterday afternoon. Or at least she assumed it had been a day; there was no way to tell in this Demon Tower.
But before they could even take out their weapons, a giant horse appeared kicking away the demons. It was a beautiful shade of blue and glowing as if on fire. On his back was a carriage that would have been used by nobles in the olden days.
"Talk about horse power," Dante said smirking reading his twin blades.
"Talk about cheesy," Rayne muttered.
"Now be nice to your lover boy Ne!" Rose said grinning as she danced away from Ne's swatting arm.
Before they could continue, Geryon charged at them. Rayne and Dante went to work using their quartet of twin blades while Rose hung back, going into gun mode. When came back at a run, Rose jumped into the bridge's sides to avoid being knocked out again while Dante grabbed Rayne and jumped up into the air. After a few seconds of fighting, the floor fell out from under the four, causing Rayne to scream and grab onto the nearest thing for safety.
Dante grunted as they landed, Rayne squeezing him to death. "Get off of me woman!"
She huffed and stood up, "Shesh, no gentleman in you is there?"
"First chicken, now gladiator. This just keeps getting better and better. Too bad no one is here to enjoy the show."
"Oh Buster! What about us?" Rose said, glaring at him.
"You don't count loser," he said smirking.
"WHY YOU LITTLE…" She started, going at him.
Rayne grabbed a hold of her sighing at the two's antics. "May I remind you both that we are being attacked by a demon of great size, let us finish him first please?"
Dante smirked like a child who got away with something while a sibling didn't, and immediately went back to attacking Geryon. Rayne soon followed, the two some how moving in a dance again as if they were in one mind. Dante slashed out with his right arm while whirling his left around and cutting in a cross cut. Rayne jumped up into the air and as she fell did an X cut, landing neatly next to Dante. And as soon as her feet touched the ground, they were off at it again.
Rose watched this from afar, constantly shooting. When her amo refills was getting low on one gun, she switched the other faster then a blink and without a hitch. Geryon began to weaken, the charges and bolts of energy getting closer and closer together in what seemed an effort to stall or stop them entirely. Rose began to tire, and slow her actions down. She was in a desperate need of food, but she pushed past her weakness and kept going, her want to help her friends out weighing her growing fatigue.
Rayne went to attack, but was caught in a red ball slowing her down. She tried to move faster and move out of the way, but she couldn't and she was hit by Geryon. As he ran over her, she fell to the ground and rolled. She continued to lie there, even after the slow motion had worn off. Her body felt as if she had just been crushed by a hundred tons. Wincing she sat back up just as Dante and Rose managed to finish off Geryon.
"I think this is going to leave a bruise," she muttered, starting to stretch in order to loosen up, and hopefully help, her sore body.
"Bye-bye pretty horsy," Rose said sadly, putting up her guns.
Dante just rolled his eyes, watching as the blue orbs entered his chest.
"Guys," Rose said again, this time not in a childish voice, "I've got some bad news. I'm running out of ammo. Yes, I brought as much as I could, but seriously, all this shooting is going to cause me to have none left till I return home and can buy some more."
Rayne looked concerned, "Well…if worse comes to worse you can always use one my blades."
Dante just sighed; he himself had ammo left because he used his blades most the time. "How about his, I'll let you use my sword while I use Agni and Rudra…will that work?"
Rose's eyes grew big, "You'd let me use the big pointy knife?"
His eyes narrowed, "Swoooord, it's a sword."
"Right, a big pointy knife."
"No use arguing with her on this Dante," Rayne said shaking her head, "sometimes she refuses to use correct terminology."
Dante shrugged and started to walk out of the coliseum. As he did, a rock began to fall down on him. Rayne and Rose both cried out, but before the rocks could hit him, they froze in midair as he looked up. In movement to fast to follow, he popped up the rocks and continued walking. Right as he left their shadows the rocks fell, smashing the floor where he had just stood.
"Well…that ought to come in handy," Rayne remarked, slightly awed at the display of power.
They walked into the "Lair of Judgment," prepared for any surprise attacks that may come their way. But instead they were surprised to find a white haired person striding back and forth muttering to himself angrily.
"Why isn't this working? Is there something missing? Must more blood be shed?" He said, not noticing the other three in the room.
"You seem to be in bad mood." Dante said, smirking at him while taking up position in front of the two girls.
"Dante…" Virgil said, whirling around. His eyes widen slightly before quickly narrowing back to Dante as he caught sight of Rose and her companion.
"So... my mother's amulet is the key that unlocks the door to the demon world. Good plan, pop."
"Just the opposite actually. Originally it was the key to the demon world but was given to human as a gift."
Dante just shook his head, "It doesn't matter to me one way or the other. More importantly, I've come all this way. I'm sure you have time for one more game…right?"
"Oh, I love games!" Rose said grinning.
The three just stared at her like she was an idiot. She tried grinning at them and when they didn't even blink, she looked at the ground. "What? I was trying to cut the tension…"
Vergil didn't even respond, instead he smirked at Dante, "Why not? After all we share the same blood, I'll just use more of yours to undo daddy's little spell."
Dante gave a sigh as if this was all so troublesome. "So you want a piece of me literally. Okay bro, come and get it. If you can."
Rayne went for her twin blades, but Rose restrained her. Rose looked unusually serious, "This is one fight we can not participate in." Rose moved back against a wall to reinstate her point.
Dante and Vergil slowly drew their blades. Before Dante could do anything else, Vergil attacked. Running, he swung his yamato down from above. Dante blocked it and for a moment they struggled for the best leverage.
In a sudden surprise move, Dante twisted to his left freeing his blade. The two brothers circled each other. The tension grew in the round room, everyone feeling it in their bones and become extremely on edge.
Without a word, in synch the two brothers launched themselves at each other. They met, their blades crossing together, heating up. Sparks were flying everywhere as the swords met, whirled, crossed, and attacked.
Vergil hit Dante's blades sending one flying away. Vergil smirked advancing as a tiger on a trapped prey. Rayne went for her blades again, taking a step forward. Once again, Rose grabbed her arm staring her down. Rayne gave an inaudible sigh and stepped back. Dante had managed to roll to the side and dodge Vergil's swipe. His left hand grasped the blade again and he barely managed to bring his swords up in time.
"Alright," he grunted out looking up at Vergil's smirking face, "this is enough, let's get busy."
With a powerful push, he shoved Vergil back as he stood up at the same time. He attacked from the left with Agni and as Vergil blocked, he whirled behind him to slash at him from the right with Rudra. Vergil didn't have time to block that too, so Dante managed to give him a slash.
Rose's hands clenched into a tight fist, while Rayne watched her silently; this fight was not only intense for the fighters, but also the two silent witnesses. But as soon as the blade was removed, the wound started to quickly heal up.
"I thought you would do better then that brother," Vergil commented smirking. "After all, we share the same blood; I can just as easily heal as you."
Dante just grunted, his eyes hardening even more. Virgil put his yamato away, confusing Dante. "What? Giving up to me already?"
"No Dante, in fact, I'm just getting started."
Virgil's feet and arms glowed as a metallic barrier around them formed, making them look stone hard. He advanced on Dante, who looked like he didn't know what to do. Should he attack his brother with his blades…or fight with fists too? In his moment of hesitation, Virgil swung and hit him in the jaw with his right fist.
"Hm, I must admit that is a sexy weapon," Rayne said to Rose.
Rose just shook her head, not seeing how a weapon could be sexy, but the fighter themselves…now that was another thing. Shocked at her thought, Rose blushed and shook her head, trying to concentrate on the fighting.
Dante quickly bounced back, coming back with rapid fire attacks with his blade. Virgil began to fall back, and with a quick burst of speed, Dante hit him in the head, causing Virgil to crumple.
Rayne smirked at Dante as he stood there, "You know Dante, I might just start going after the old, nasty demons…I mean their weapons are just so sexy."
Dante looked over at her smirking, "They can't get sexier then I am babe."
Rose snorted, laughing behind her hand at his comment. But before they could say more another voice spoke.
"Seems as if your demon ego is taking over," a girl's cold voice spoke.
They looked to the voice and saw the girl from before, the one with the red and blue eyes. As the quartet stared at each other, Virgil awakened. He stood up and scowled.
"Another one?"
"I could say the same," Lady said, hoisting up her gun, the Kalina Ann, aiming at the demons.
But before anymore action could break out, a cackle rang out throughout the room. A black and purple jester stood suddenly there in the midst of their presence.
"Well isn't this perfect? I got all of you together, and so weak!"
"Shut your trap, I hate people who talk more then Dante." Virgil snapped, "And that's hard to do."
"Hey!" Dante exclaimed outraged, "at least I'm not always so frigid!"
"Why I love a spat," the Jester started, "I do believe its time to move on!" The Jester quickly moved between the two and sent them flying. Then he cackled, "It seems the devil boys aren't as great as they thought!"
"Why you," Dante started getting up and rapidly firing bullets at the Jester.
"To slow!" The Jester cackled again as he dodged Virgil's blade. "If you weren't as tired Virgil, you could have sliced me to pieces."
Suddenly Arkham was standing there, "You want to know why you couldn't open the seal Virgil?"
"Whoa…that is confusing," Rose said to Rayne.
Rayne shushed her, "I don't think we want to be noticed right now."
"You had the two amulets, and the demon's blood, so why won't the seal open?"
The Jester came back, dancing over to Lady. "You need the blood of the priestess." He leaned in close to her now, again Arkham, "Time to visit mommy Mary."
He stabbed her in the leg with her own gun, causing her to cry out. As the blood began to flow out, it moved towards the middle opening. He pulled the gun back out, this time as the Jester. "And now the Tower shall be open!"
"Its time for the clown to bow out," Virgil said, pulling out his yamato.
"Dude, the shows over." Dante said standing besides his brother.
But before they could act, they were kicked against the walls around the room, followed by Lady. As the tower with Arkham on it began to move up, great cracks appeared in the floor. Rose and Rayne ran to a part near where Virgil had landed the floor opening in giant cracks behind them.
But before they could reach him, the ground under them opened up, and they fell.
Author's Note: Wow, it's been like…4 months since I updated! bows repeatedly I'm so sorry! But as I post this, I am working on Chapter Seven. The reason this one took so long was because of the Virgil fight scene, I was so nervous about that. But a quick thing: I know it is spelled "Vergil" but because I had started out with "Virgil" I'm leaving it at that for the rest of the story. But rest assured, if I follow the plot bunnies I have (which would mean about 2 more full length stories like this one), his name shall be spelled right. So again, thanks for your patience! The next chapter should be soon! And sorry that this one is shorter, only about 5 pages on Word.