A/N: Okay so these first few chapters may be a bit spotty as I get this one going, but I'm very excited to move onto a different fiction! It's literally been years since I started Legends so now I'm super stoked to do something different, especially since I try to use fanfiction just to keep my wheels turning for my original works. So without further ado, let the hunt begin…

Disclaimer: I own the platinum trophy for Bloodborne? Does that count? Yeah didn't think so…

Power… I Need…

"Hey and kid?" Nero looked over his shoulder at Dante where he was leaning back, his eyes were still on Lady, who was lining up a shot on the pool table, but his voice was directed at him. "Be careful." he said, Nero rolled his eyes at the half devil's overprotective nature.

"Yeah yeah," he said, waving him off "got any other gems? Nico's already waiting on me."

"Get out of here punk." the older hunter sighed before picking up his stick to take his own shot. Nero swung out of the shop, the bell over the door tinkling cheerfully as he did. He sighed deeply, the dirty smell of the city hanging over him. He was really only taking this job as a favor to the older hunter, he and Nico were on their way out of town and it was on the way. He slammed the door of the RV beside him and immediately opened a window, trying and failing to wave away the cigarette smoke that had already filled the front of the cabin. Nico just smirked and started the vehicle.

"What'd he want?" she asked out of the side of her mouth as they pulled down the narrow streets of Capulet.

"Nothing important." the partial devil shrugged, checking his ammo and fuel stores for his weapons, expertly balancing them with the bouncing of the RV as Nico flew down the street.

"He cares about you, he just doesn't know how to show it." she said with a smirk. Nero scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"The only thing that geezer cares about is fighting and pizza." the hunter said, Nico just laughed and shook her head, glancing down at the scrap of paper that Lady had written the address down on.

"I swear, I don't know how Kyrie deals with it, your whole family is emotionally incompetent." she drawled. Nero grumbled something and maneuvered into the back to pick out a couple Breakers to take with him. He wasn't sure he'd even need them, the call had sounded like only a single demon, but it never hurt to be prepared.

Nico came to a screeching halt, as she usually did, honestly Nero didn't know how she had a license… The partial devil jumped out of the RV and approached the ramshackle warehouse that the caller had heard the noises from. Honestly, these were the worst types of calls, the ones that could just as easily be a stray dog or a couple of junkies getting a bit too… into things. But Nero couldn't justify just leaving them be, neither could Dante, which was why he found himself here… he sighed and pulled out Blue Rose, if it was just a couple of humans, a gun usually provided all the motivation he'd need to get them to clear out… The warehouse was silent as he approached and he wondered if they had the right place, he looked inside, eyes adjusting easily to the gloom of the inside of the building. It looked empty too and he wondered if he'd been dragged out here just to look into an empty building… A dim glow caught his eye and he wandered inside.

"Who put a lamp in here…?" he mumbled, crouching down to get a better look at it. It looked like a gas lamp, like some of the ones that were posted around the older buildings in Fortuna that for whatever reason, hadn't been replaced yet. It glimmered an odd shade of lavender but it wasn't tipping off any of his senses for demons so the hunter assumed that it was safe… at least relatively so. He reached out and touched the surface, it was cold to the touch, despite being lit, a fragment of the metal caught his finger and Nero hissed as it broke skin, automatically lifting it to his mouth despite the fact that it healed up almost immediately. He grumbled under his breath and the single drop of his blood rolled down the lantern and plipped onto the floor. Nero looked at the lamp for another moment and was about to brush it off as an oddity but nothing more when the ground around the lamp rippled like water and then a small skeletal monster sprung from the ripples.

"What the…?" Nero stood abruptly, startled by the sudden appearance of the creature. He stood and tried to take a step back only to realize that the creatures had hold of his boot. He tripped, sprawling flat on his back. The creatures, there were dozens of them now, clambering over his body. The partial devil yelled, trying to claw his way out but his vision was quickly covered by hundreds of tiny, cold, slimy hands.

The hands were gone, the feeling of touch gone, and echoing voice…? Noise…? Fractured in the back of his mind, the hunter shook his head, trying to clear his mind, his vision. He immediately regretted this choice as he glimpsed something that his mind did not want to make sense of, it was enormous… too many joints, too many limbs, too many eyes…

Nero surged upward with a yell, only to find himself in a small building. It didn't look like the warehouse… how had he gotten here? A noise, a growl, echoed from outside and his reflexes took over as he stood, widening his stance and reaching back for Red Queen. He walked over to the exit, nudging the door open only to leap out of the way as something large barrelled through. It was covered in blackish fur and scraps of fabric that the hunter didn't have the time to sort out. It turned to him, saliva and blood dripping from its maw. It licked over teeth that were too big for its face as it advanced, snarling and slavering.

"Well you're an ugly one aren't ya?" Nero said, revving Red Queen and pulling on his demonic abilities, clawed and feathered ethereal wings materializing over his shoulders. The creatures haunches bunched and it leapt and the partial devil dodged easily to the side, Red Queen slicing through its side, igniting fur and fabric alike. The creature howled and spun, faster than Nero anticipated, claws slicing through the fabric of his jeans. He growled back at the thing and swung with his wing, the ethereal fist slamming into it and knocking it back. He slammed Red Queen in before it could regain its footing. Thankfully it stayed down.

"What the hell is going on…?" Nero sighed, he glanced out the now open door to see a figure standing in it.

"The line between man and beast is blurred…" they said, grip tightening on one of the goriest weapons Nero had ever seen, blood dripping off the teeth of the metal. With a loud 'clank' it was extended out before the figure's body.

"Whoa…" Nero raised his hands as the figure advanced "I'm not here to- shit!" he dodged to the side as the figure swung. He met the gory makeshift weapon with Red Queen, surprised at the force behind the blow.

"Will you slow down?! I just want to talk-fuck! Stop that!" he aimed a shot and clipped the person's thigh. They stumbled and took a punch from the partial devil's wing, flying backward. Nero wasn't sure what he was expecting, but seeing them roll to their feet and jam something into their uninjured leg with a hiss was definitely not it. He decided that whatever he was facing was either not human or completely deranged, or both and went on the offensive. The other person surprised him with a firearm at one point but Nero was eventually able to overpower them, finishing them off with a shot to the chest.

"Power… I need…" the figure said as they fell forward motionless.

"Tell me about it…" Nero grumbled.

A/N: Okay so this first ones a bit longer than I usually do them but I'm very pleased with it, hope someone else enjoys it too!

Till next time,

-Winged Element