She arrived home fifteen minutes later. The house creeped into view, she turned off her lights and pulled into the driveway. She knew what was waiting inside and she considered not going in, but the punishment she would receive for that would be much worse than the verbal beating she was about to get. She jumped off her bike and started toward the door. She took a deep breath and opened the door. Trish was sitting on the leather sofa, she stared lazily into the fireplace until Aurora walked in.

"Well well well... look who decided to come home, have fun...?" Trish said sarcastically

"Hey Trish..." she glared at Trish and whispered sharply " Bite Me!"

Trish's eyes burned with anger and she stood.

"Don't make me hurt you!"

"You... hurt me... now thats the funniest thing i've heard ALL day... not that three human girls trying to threaten me, and then me sticking a sword under one of their little necks' and them running away wasn't funny, but that was definetly the best..."

"DANTE!"

Aurora winched at the name. She had hoped he wasn't home, but to her dismay apparently he was. He walked into the room and sat down in the oversized chair facing the fire.

"Dante, she... she... deal with your daughter!"

"Trish..!" he said slightly irritated "leave us alone..."

"But..."

"Go!"

Trish stalked out of the room leaving Aurora to face her father alone, not that Trish would have helped her.

"...Aurora..."

"...yes..." she managed to sqeak out

"Come here..."

She walked over and stood infront of him. His broad shoulders were hunched and his face shadowed by the fire's light. He looked even more like a demon than normal.

"..sit!"

Almost instictively she sat down

"... what the hell happened?"

"What, oh wait you mean the demon don't you...?" her smart mouth was going to get her killed,. But without thinking she threw her bag on the floor and the little orbs spilled out and rolled happily over the carpet.

"What the..." Trish spoke from the doorway, marveling in horror at the orbs.

"yeah i had alittle run in with an eighteen foot tall demon. Killed it never-the- less. Too bad most of the school saw me in my demon form. And the best part is apparently "No one" told them about our lifestyle"

"I did it to protect you... us... everything! but you can't seem to keep yourself under control!" he slammed his fist down onto the small tabel beside him and Aurora heard a small sound of cracking wood.

"Listen you're the one that sent me to that hell hole. What was I suppose to do let the damn thing run wild!"

"What were you thinking!"

Her temper flared.

" I was thinking that behind me there was a school FULL of innocent humans that really didn't deserve to die today. I was thinking that i KNEW that something like that would happen... and i was thinking that MAYBE you would see what listening to Trish does!"

"Don't bring her into this!"

"No she needs to be brought into this, its always her idea as to what i do... SHE HATES ME, and you know it! Yet you let her control my life... she isn't my mother, i know that much, if she was she would try to get rid of me so easily... She doesn't like it when you pay more attention to your own daughter than her..."

"Aurora... watch your tongue!" he hissed with deadly sharpness.

"No, I've had enough... YOU ARE a mere shell of the devil hunter you were, and its sad! I've heard the stories... Yet i don't see that fire in your eyes, she'd tamed you... the Great Dante has fallen!"w

He stood and looked at her. His eyes were hard but at the same time despair shown in them.

"Aurora... i know why you did what you did today...and i understand... i was angry but the more i thought about it the more i remembered myself as a teenager. I was just as wild as you are and you get it honestly. I love you, hun." he hugged her tightly.

"Aww..." Trish said sarcastically "Isn't that lovely..."

"Trish..." Dante warned.

"No Dante, you listen to me. She's lying to you. You know you can't trust her. She ran away from school today. And you are going to let her get away with it!"

"Trish, shut up!" Aurora snapped. " You are annoying and you're wrong... i was protecting those people, not like i give a damn about any of them, but i felt i needed to... Its Sparda's Blood... Not that you would know anything about that. You're Mundus's offspring."

Aurora had hit the one nerve that snapped when it was brought up. Trish couldn't escape her past and if it was the last thing Aurora did, she would NEVER let Trish forget what she had done to Dante. Trish stopped dead in her tracks and looked at Dante. His eyes were emotionless, as he remembered those days. She turned and ran out of the room.

"oh well... she'll get over it..."

"Dante... i mean... dad... there was this girl at school, who... well come to think of it now kind of looked like you... but she said that i should know her... and honestly i don't... Then when i was at the Village i found a note on my bike that said "We're Watching"... i dunno what to think.."

Dante walked over to the window and looked outside.

"I dunno, but i will ask you to be careful... i know you won't, but i have to ask... and i know that you'll do the same thing i did and run off trying to figure it all out... and i have to let you go... because... well... you need to know... a while back... when i re-sealed the portal to the underworld i told Mundas that when he returned to give my regaurds to my son.. well... obviously i never had a son... but for a few weeks now i felt something strange was at work. He's back. And... i think... well nevernmind that... but just be carefully"

"I will... but why don't you come with me.."

"I'm too old..." he was cut off.

"oh please demons barely age."

He smirked. "yeah you're right... i just wish i was still as bold as i was when i was you're age."

She laughed " well i'm offering... but the next time a demon that size confronts me... i'm gonna go find this portal... and i WILL close it..."