Disclaimer: As always, Evangelion and Devil May Cry are two things I wished I owned, but alas, I don't. At least I got the story to call my own and my crazy style of writing which I'm so damned proud of.
Author's note: Why is it that every time I update this story, people always get entertained by it? Really, you guys amaze even me sometimes. Well, this is it, folks…the chapter you've all been waiting for. The one chance meeting which our favourite demon hunter will meet and punish Gendou for his deeds is now here. Hang unto your seats, because I've one hell of a smackdown in mind that I'm sure you will all like! Anyway, time for me to say my appreciation to those who reviewed the last chapter:
To X-Over: As always, your reviews are enough to inspire me to continue this story. Glad you like with what I'm doing so far. I'm still on the block with 'The Third Sentinel', not to mention, busy with my other current crossover stories and now starting some new projects, so sorry if you think I may have forgotten it. But worry not, as soon as this story is completed, I should be working on more expecting more updates for that story soon. Hope you will like this chapter.
To Fury Cutter: Glad to see you've hung around for the update and that you like with how things are going. I was being nagged in the head to bring Vergil into this fic as a good guy, (but I really loved his ruthless self as a villain in DMC 3 too, so that's why I really like him as well.) but it wouldn't have made any sense if I did. Sorry if I disappointed you in that area, but at least I'm glad you're still enjoying the direction this story's going.
To DarkFusion: As always, good to hear that you enjoyed the update, especially with the interaction between the DMC and NERV cast, like the Ritsuko and Lady scene. (Personally, Arkham can kick Gendou's ass anyday too if he felt like it, heh. That would have been fun to watch…) Hell, I like your idea about Lady interacting with Shinji so much that I will use it later, thanks for that one. And I'm sure you'll love the moment Dante meets Gendou and what he has in store for him.
To windwingxs: 'All hail the new abilities' indeed. With all those attacks and moves Dante has in DMC 3, he might as well be Capcom's next fighting game hero. As a matter of fact, how many of you heard the rumour about Dante being in the PS2 exclusive version of SoulCalibur 3 that is due to come out later this October? What I heard is that both Capcom and Namco are working together to make that happen, but it's still a rumour. Let's cross fingers in hoping that he does become part of the roster in that game. God help the sucker who challenges him…anyway, thanks for the review. Gendou has no escape…
To nick2951: Good to see you're still enjoying this story, stick around for Dante's face off with Gendou in this chapter, you're going to love it.
To Majin Naraku: Thanks always for the cool comments. Seems you're the first to guess that I'm crossing this fic with another series, but alas, it's actually none of the anime or games you've mentioned, though it would have been cool if Viewtiful Joe or Hellsing was part of it. I personally agree with you that the series totally ignored Touji, Hikari and Kensuke late in the series, especially after the dreaded 13th Angel. I thought they could at least give Touji and Hikari a special scene together, but didn't. And he's one of my personal anime heroes and this is how they treat him? Those heartless bastards at GAINAX! (Ahem, sorry…just venting my frustration there…calm blue ocean, find my centre…) Anyhow, be sure to stick around to see what happens to Gendou, I'm sure you'll love the final set of battles and who's the surprise I have in store will be. As for getting COE or SX updated soon, I'm still working on it, but progress is kind of slow for those two famous fics, so the updates of this will have to do for the time being.
Okay, time to move on with a new action packed chapter of this story. To those who loved the last combo at the end of the Crazy Gameplay video…well, just read the chapter and when you get to the best part, be happy. Be VERY happy.
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End of Evangelion May Cry
Chapter 9: Legendary Battle, Part 1
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The battle in the Geofront raged on as the remaining number of the white Mass Production Evangelion series which were reactivated earlier are have now gotten close to only a small number of three against NERV's own Evangelion Unit 01 and Unit 02. Thanks to Dante's intrusion awhile back, he had made the work for the battling Eva pilots even easier, by destroying a number of the pesky JSSDF troops and group of the MP Eva's by himself. Shinji and Asuka still found it hard to believe that one man was capable of decimating almost an entire platoon of enemy troops, let alone have the inhumane strength to destroy some of the MP Evas.
"Now's not the time to think about who that guy was…" Shinji said to himself as he piloted Unit 01 in the heat of a battle with two MP Evas. "I'm sure when this is over eventually; I'll get to find out more about why he's here."
Unit 01 fought off one of the MP Evas which came with its two handed sword, which the purple Eva had already deflected with its' AT-Field, which stunned the enemy Evangelion. Before it could register to recover from the blow, Asuka's Eva Unit 02 had already impaled it with one of the other MP Eva's swords, slicing into its body and cutting it open.
"Nice one, Asuka." Shinji called out to his partner. Asuka merely smirked at Shinji's position, but her eyes opened wide as another MP Eva that they missed suddenly leaped up and try to ambush Shinji's Eva from behind.
"Shinji, behind you!" Asuka shouted, starting to charge at Unit 01 to assist Shinji. The Third Child only had enough time to turn and watch a flying MP Eva about to throw itself at Unit 01, tackling it down into the lake. Shinji reacted as quickly as he could and threw his weight to spin his and the falling enemy Eva's before the two went deeper underwater. Unit 02 had caught sight of the MP Eva and grabbed it off of Unit 01 in time. With a tug of aggravated strength, Asuka threw the MP Eva a distance away from her and Shinji's position and grabbed hold of another one of the MP Eva's swords.
"Grragh! Die, you ugly excuse for an Evangelion!" Asuka shouted, throwing the sword at the MP Eva, spinning and picking up speed. It hits it mark, cutting into its face area and splitting it open. With that, the MP Eva fell down, having ceased activation definitely from the damage it sustained. Asuka breathed a little seeing they were close to putting down SEELE's own Evangelion army for good. She turned around and saw Shinji's Eva now getting out from the lake.
"Baka Shinji…even at a time like this, you're still slow, huh?" Asuka shook her head as Unit 01 stood at its side to survey the situation before them. Almost all the Evangelions sent by SEELE were destroyed completely, save for one more MP Eva which was ready to charge them from a distance.
"Well, how can you expect me to even get as close to you, when you started to take on all of these Evas by yourself before I got here?" Shinji spoke, trying his best not to distract himself from the mission beforehand and not to get into any kind of argument with Asuka. He simply took charge and bum rushed the MP Eva with its prog knife and stabbing its S2 organ. Asuka's Unit 02 charged from behind and gut punched the MP Eva, sending Unit 02's hand through its chest area. The red Evangelion had a firm grip on the S2 organ now and proceeded to rip it out from the MP Eva, causing a much bloody destruction to the MP Eva. The white, enemy Evangelion fell down in a loud, shuddering crash, while the Evangelions stood triumphant in the GeoFront as the long battle against the SEELE Mass Production Evangelion has ended.
Shinji sat back to breathe a bit, as he never thought it was hard fighting another Evangelion, much less a number of them at the same time.
"We…finally did it." Shinji said, feeling tired and now relieved. "We beat the enemy…"
"Yeah. All thanks to that weird guy from before…and you of course." Asuka lamented from the cockpit of her Evangelion. "But what I don't get is why now? Why did you come out to fight, Shinji?"
"I've decided not to fight just for myself any longer, but for everyone else who are depending on me, Asuka." Shinji spoke seriously. "I've run away from myself for far too long…the only time I could face everyone again, is by facing myself first."
"Jeez….did Misato said something to make you come out of that slump? That would be very surprising if she did."
"Not her, someone who was very concerned about us came to help." Shinji said, then his eyes widened when he remembered something. "Oh, no…Ayanami! I wonder what happened to her and everyone else?"
"I don't know…everything was falling apart inside NERV so quickly. I hate to think something may have happened to her, but if that father of yours knew about this whole invasion business, Wondergirl may have…" Asuka spoke solemnly before Shinji charged his Unit 01 and started to sprint back to NERV.
"Come on, Asuka! We have to get back and get to Ayanami before my father does start the Impact!" Shinji cried out, which caused Asuka to blink.
"What! What are you saying?" Asuka demanded.
"My father…he wants to start the Third Impact by using Rei, before the enemy that attacked NERV did." Shinji explained. "I found this out from Misato and the woman who came with us and helped me."
"I don't believe what I'm hearing! But I'm certain as hell not going to let your own old man put us into extinction, especially by using Wondergirl!" Asuka followed Shinji's Evangelion back to NERV, hoping that she too gets to at least know the situation regarding the attempt to thwart the Impact. She has so many details to get informed on the way back…
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Misato had a rather smooth ride coming down to Terminal Dogma, most of the JSSDF who haven't destroyed the access elevators to that area have either been pulled out, or been killed thanks to Lucia. It was obvious that Lucia had a hand in cleaning out the troops in that area before she went off to find Gendou as she saw slash and knife marks about the fallen troops corpses.
Stepping out of the elevator, Misato wondered if Dante had arrived as yet. She wanted to find Gendou and rescue Rei as soon as she can, but before she can get moving, three JSSDF troops stepped out of the darkness, wearing night vision goggles.
(Shit! It's an ambush!) Misato thought, after seeing herself being surrounded by more of the JSSDF troops. But before they got the chance to shoot at her, one of the troops was taken down in a hail of bullets, as Dante was now entering the area via the large shaft using his Rain Storm move. Landing right near Misato, Dante then stared down at the enemies before him, as they all started to steps back at the sight of him.
"Damn it, now I'm really getting fed up with you guys. You're about the same level of cockroaches…there's too much of them to step on and more of them just come for more." Dante said, as he provided Misato some cover while she hid from the troops, as he used Twosome Time to keep the troops from getting close to Misato.
(The background song, 'Divine Hate' begins to play.)
Dante then took the troops in front of her by surprise and performed a Rising Dragon move using the Beowulf gauntlets, raising the troop into the air. Then Dante used a Rain Storm for more of the troops down below him. He then landed in front of another group of troops which Dante got set as he switched to his shotgun.
Blasting a JSSDF troop airborne above him, Dante fired a barrage of bullets from his twin pistols at the airborne, while two other troops approached his sides, he used his Twosome Time attack to shoot one troop at his left and right positions, firing at their directions and firing at them, and using it to fire at the falling troop while Dante stepped back from distance between the other two troops and hopped onto the fallen troop's back to execute a Free Ride, which Dante used the battered JSSDF troop's corpse to ride across the flooring, spinning and firing his twin guns at the remainder of troops, taking them down.
Leaping off the troop he was having fun with, sending the corpse flying into a wall, Dante then equipped his Spiral weapon, a large rifle weapon. Lady made sure to arm with the best heavy armour and Kevlar piercing type bullets she had since he was going up an entire battalion.
"Fire!" Dante said, firing the Spiral with the Trick Shot attack, as the bullet ricocheted off the walls and took down a trio of JSSDF troops. Dante then turned and fired another Trick Shot attack, only to continue on with his attack and fire his Sniper attack, targeting a heart area of a JSSDF troop and firing it at him.
"I'm on fire!" Dante shouted as the shot burst open the troop's chest area, and right after that, he fired another Sniper shot, and now cancelling it into the Reflector attack. The bullet started to deflect on the walls around Dante, picking up velocity and attacking the troops unfortunate in its path. Dante's shooting skills were totally messing up the JSSDF troops that dared to step before him. Dante then switched back to his Ebony and Ivory guns and fired powerful Charge Shots to decimate the remaining troops who survived the Reflector move. After clearing the area of the troops, he blew the smoke from the guns, as Misato slowly came out from cover.
She simply shook her head in amazement as Dante placed back his Ebony and Ivory guns back into his holsters, but not without twirling them first in style.
"Thanks for the save back there." Misato said to Dante.
"Hey, I wouldn't feel good about myself if I let a hottie like you get killed and won't be able to see the main event, now would I?" Dante replied.
"How is it that you get to be so cool?" Misato asked with a light grin.
"Practice." Dante simply replied as the two continued their trek further into Terminal Dogma, getting closer to the large door which leads to Lilith's chamber. Dante used this chance to replace his Alastor weapon and equip his Agni and Rudra weapons, while still leaving on the Beowulf gauntlet.
"Well, now…let's bring this crazy party to a close, shall we?" Dante said, now holding unto the dual swords composed of wind and fire. "You go and get the kid out of there, while I'll take care of him, got it?"
"Understood." Misato replied, right behind him. "Kick his ass all the way to hell, will you?"
Dante smirked at the comment and the two stepped into the room, where Lucia was still in the midst of confronting Gendou, whose appearance was slightly more different than before, but their was something even more wrong with him. Misato got a good look and saw the Adam embryo that was embedded into his right hand had grown and taken over half of his body. The look in his eyes was near frightening to Misato, but it hardly fazed Dante a bit.
"Is that…Adam?" Misato asked, in shock. "But how…?"
"Seems that your commander doesn't have what it takes to keep that kind of power in check…" Dante simply said. "That Adam thing has taken over him completely, using him as a host instead. In any case, that makes my job a whole lot easier to get done."
Misato turned to see Rei getting up after being knocked down before. Taking off her jacket, she ran across to the naked First Child and covered her up.
"Rei! Are you alright?" Misato asked, as Rei, who was still dazed, looked up steadily at Misato, and then at what was happening before her.
"Major…Katsuragi…?" Rei asked, still trying to get a gist of the situation.
"I'm here, Rei. Everything will be alright…" Misato said, as both she and Rei looked on at Lucia, who was still in her demon form, attacked with a combination of Flame Heart and Offence Heart slashes, while Dante stepped forward and rushed in at Gendou with his Jet Stream attack, slashing away with a rush melee combo string of fire and wind slashes, not even giving Gendou a chance to recognized what was happening since Dante got straight to dealing with him.
"About time you got here, son of Sparda." Lucia simply said, spinning her cutlasses and using a string of horizontal slashes on the possessed Gendou/Adam hybrid. "I'm actually was having a hard time dealing with Gendou in when he became like this."
"I ran into some setbacks, so sue me." Dante said, using a Crawler attack, searing Gendou's feet with a carpet wave of flames from the Agni and Rudra weapons, and then using a Beast Uppercut from the Beowulf gauntlet to raise Gendou into the air, as Dante then switched back to Agni and Rudra and used his Sky Dance move, hitting Gendou a repeated succession of slashes from the two swords and then finishing off with a descending spinning wheel slash, hitting Gendou's body with a Crossed Swords move creating an 'X' styled slash.
Even with these brutal attacks, Gendou was still able to even breathe after the punishment, as he was able to push both Dante and Lucia off from him using a powerful AT Field, sending Lucia flying towards Misato and Rei's directions and unto a wall, while Dante was able to get back his balance once he landed on his feet perfectly. Lucia was able to get up quickly, while Gendou looked on at Dante with a possessed look of interest. But it was Dante was who started to talk bravely first at Gendou.
"Well, well…aren't you the peadophile/wanker everyone has told me about, huh?" Dante said, walking around coolly. "You know, for someone who passes himself for a commander or a father, you do a piss-poor job as a living being."
"So, the descendant of Sparda came to intervene, am I right?" Gendou asked, as the tone of his voice different than usual and reverberated in the LCL chamber. "I have no plans to waste my time on you; I will be reunited with my Yui once I am joined with Lilith. I am quite certain she will be pleased with what I have done for her…"
"Oh, please! As if your wife wants to come back to you after all that you've done, you asshole." Dante cut in. "It's like staring at a backed up toilet. Why do you always insist on doing this will bring back your wife? You never was worthy of her in the first place, let alone have anyone else give a damn about you. Come on dude, don't you have any hobbies?"
"I will not be hindered by a devil so easily…your kind and Angels have an enmity for two millennia since your accursed father had rebelled against his own worthless kind." The Adam possessed Gendou spoke. "I have waited for the day when the humans have chosen to destroy themselves with the same sins that you devils have brought upon us…"
"Don't lecture me about your crap on how my father brought this up. I hate cleaning up after him." Dante spoke. "At least he was a better father than you were to your own son, Gendou Ikari. Words can't describe how much I really want to give it to you for mistreating all those around you just to satisfy your own fetishes."
"You're a simple half breed, son of Sparda, I can't be defeated. The worm infested heart that this man, Gendou Ikari, has willingly offered to me in exchange for his body as a host while I give him power, is enough to perform all my deeds and reunite Lilith's into one form." Gendou spoke. "Here's a sample of my true power!"
From out of nowhere, Gendou shot an AT Field burst at Dante, which the demon hunter simply used a Double Dash and stepped aside to avoid the attack. This angered Gendou a bit as he then set his sights on Misato, Rei and Lucia altogether. He opened his right palm to unleash another AT Field blast at the three, but Dante was already in front of the three in time to perform his Royalguard Style move, Ultimate. Dante stretched out his arm and a yellow, magical shield decorated with runes surrounded his frontal position, protecting him and the trio of women behind him, while Gendou's attacks recovered a slight amount of Dante's health.
"Lucia, you and the Major better break out of here like a bat out of hell…it's going to get ugly up in here." Dante said without looking back. "I'm going to make sure this bastard's get what's coming to him."
"Just be sure to come back, Dante. This is only one part of your task, there's more for you to do." Lucia said, taking Misato and Rei up to leave the room.
"Yeah, yeah…I got you, let me just have my fun punishing him, okay?" Dante simply replied. While Gendou saw them attempting to escape, he started to charge at the escaping trio, however, Dante already used a Stinger attack from his Rebellion move to come to Lucia and the other's aid in time before Gendou could have touched them.
"Oh, no you don't!" Dante said, causing Gendou to back off a bit while the others stopped to see what the half demon was up to now. "I happen to have a personal gift I want to give to you, so from compliments of the likes of my father, it's time for you to suffer for your deeds, Gendou Ikari."
(The background theme of the Cerberus boss battle, 'Suffer' begins to play.)
"I will not be defeated by a merely, low demon!" Gendou's voice was beyond recognition by now, as Adam had totally taken over his body. This didn't bother Dante a bit, as he already guessed this was obvious. The appearance on Gendou's face was no close to human anymore either, but Dante still didn't care. It only meant a better reason to punish Gendou very painfully.
"Dude, you're even more hideous than Arkham when he tried to take my old man's power…oh, well, that look suits you much better." Dante smirked. "Now then…let's dance."
Gendou charged at Dante and tried to deck him with a blow, but Dante was ready to block the pathetic excuse for a punch Gendou threw and used his Block and Charge move, effectively blocking the attack as he crossed his arms in a parry like motion.
"Predictable…" Dante muttered, as Gendou's attack built up Dante's anger and power. "Come on, you can at least do better than that."
Gendou threw another punch at Dante, but Dante wasn't even near to starting tormenting Gendou as yet. The next punch was countered with the Block and Charge move, as Dante releases the power from Gendou's blow and sends him flying into the air with a powerful gliding palm blow. Misato and Rei looked on in surprise to see Gendou getting his just desserts.
"Why won't he just hurry up and finish him off?" Misato quietly spoke, all the while trying to hide the sneer of enjoying seeing this.
"Dante's just having fun with him…he has barely started." Lucia said as they watched Gendou get up from the ground after being knocked down before.
"Time to bring the pain…" Dante said as he performed a Stinger attack from the Rebellion and then equipped his dual swords, Agni and Rudra right after he stunned the Adam possessed Gendou with a Stinger attack from his Rebellion. He then started to execute his Agni and Rudra Type 3 combo attack, slicing Gendou's chest area with lethal slashes of wind and fire. While Dante got into a rapid slicing motion, he cancelled his attack to execute his Million Slash attack, increasing the pace and velocity of the swings of both his swords, creating a small wall of wind and fire in front of Dante which seemed to be cutting Gendou into ribbons. Misato couldn't believe what she had just seen, and even Rei was in awe to see Dante slice Gendou with lighting quick slashes.
"Grrragggh!" Gendou shouted, feeling his body is now in extreme pain as Dante punished him with his attacks. He would have been long dead if Adam wasn't part of him. Yet still, he was only living still to be prolonging the suffering. Dante couldn't stand listening to Gendou crying out in pain, and he was far from done with him.
During the Million Slash attack, Dante used his Quicksilver powers and activated his TimeLag move, which all of a sudden, everything around Dante was soon enveloped by a dimensional time rift, which slowed down everything in the rift, Gendou included, while Dante still moved at quick pace speeds. Lucia, Misato and Rei were unaffected by the rift as Dante was, and Misato's eyes widened even more when they saw the physics of time manipulation being controlled by Dante's abilities.
"What's happening?" Misato asked, seeing even Gendou's body was moving slower while Dante was still attacking him at ultra high speeds.
"He slowed down the flow of time around us, causing Gendou to be trapped within the time rift to slow him, giving Dante the chance to move even faster than he is." Lucia spoke. "He may be showing off, but I bet he's giving Gendou a punishment that he deserved."
"Incredible…" Was all Misato could say as she looked back to the battle.
"Silence!" Dante shouted, executing an overhead slash at Gendou's body and as he did, he then used the Whirlwind move to launch the battered Gendou airborne with a supersonic slash of fire and wind.
"Lift off!" Dante said, then leaped up and fired a barrage of bullets from Ebony and Ivory into Gendou's body as he descended and as soon as he was back firmly on his feet; he fired a buckshot from his shotgun, sending Gendou's body flying backwards, all the while still in slow motion. Dante had then changed his Devil Arms back to the Rebellion sword and used the Stinger move to stab Gendou from underneath, then cancelling into a Million Stab attack, which began to cut into Gendou's back with its repeated strikes.
And all of this happened during the activation of TimeLag, as Gendou was surely feeling hell's fury compliments of Dante. As soon as the rift ended, Dante then grabbed hold of his Agni and Rudra swords once more and used his Jet Stream attack behind Gendou's body as he fell on the ground, slicing into Gendou with a string of melee attacks.
"Had enough?" Dante simply said, sending Gendou flying a distance. His clothing was torn and battered by the blows Dante rested on him, and his skin tone was paler than before. He was already fully taken over by Adam due to the injuries. Slowly, Gendou got up, his body shook trying to stand up, but there was something even more wrong with him now.
"I...will…not be…defeated so…easily…!" Gendou muttered as suddenly, his arms suddenly bulged in size in a white colour, the raw muscle tissues revealing themselves, his revealed to be a tone of an empty red, while his chest area seemed to be a place for living parasites, breed from Adam. Misato felt even more disgusted than ever seeing Gendou like this, she just hoped Dante finished him off once and for all.
"So, you've finally decided to go all out, huh?" Dante said, now taking out the Sparda sword. "About time you did, I was going to get bored on finding more ways to torture you for what you had done if you stayed as you are. At least this last dance will provide me with some entertainment before I send you to Hell."
Dante used his Devil Trigger and instead of his normal appearance, the form of Sparda suddenly took over his body, transforming him into a large, horned demon in brown and dark armour and large wings stretching outwards from his back. The Sparda sword had now transformed Dante into his true form as a demon.
"The battle against demons and Angels…now is the time for that war to come to a close when I finally eradicate you and unite humanity into one form!" Gendou spoke, rising into the air using Adam's power. "And I will be one with Lilith and the one that came forth from her!"
Dante looked at Rei's direction and simply sneered in anger at Gendou. "Just try, asshole. A paedophile like you has no right to be alive, destroying human lives, ignoring your own son; seriously injuring one of his best friends…I can go on. I have my own personal reasons too, but as if you care you'd want to reason with them. It's time for you…to start singing your swan song, Gendou Ikari!"
Dante rose up after him, the red aura surrounding him. The two faced off each other near the towering Lilith as the legendary battle has reached its peak.
(Time to show this guy the just how I am when I'm really pissed off.) Dante thought to himself as he took the charge at Gendou's possessed and metamorphosed form with humanity's existence on the line…
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ShardclawK: Ah, hell…even after all that, Gendou refuses to die? Dante better uses his devil powers to put Gendou down for good, or else he could start the Third Impact. I just had to put this confrontation into two parts, since I felt I had to incorporate the Sparda sword being used in this fight, as Dante did use it in the final battle in the classic DMC 1. I just happened to be one of my favourite gaming moments that I got to have Dante use it in this story.
Now, to those of you who are still bowing to me for having Dante use that combo from the Crazy Gameplay video on Gendou, please stop it, it's really undeserving. The very first time I saw that combo, I had to pick my jaw off the ground afterwards and catch my breath afterwards. Putting the 'Suffer' theme also was my idea of adding even more enjoyment to the scene, so I thought I would do my fans a favour and use that combo as part of the punishment Gendou is getting in this fic. Hope you enjoyed that sweet piece.
In the next chapter: Dante concludes his battle with Gendou! You owe it to yourself to see the moment you've been waiting for! And what happens to everyone in NERV since SEELE's still around? Will a repeat invasion take place, or will they fight back? I can only answer that in the next chapter of this story, as we'll see our favourite demon hunter save the world from Third Impact in bad ass style! See you in the next update.
Collis aka ShardclawKusanagi.