Prompt: "it's your fault we're in this mess."
A/N: Most of scenarios are not edited nor beta read, as they were for requests. Apologies for any typo you see.
Barking out a yelp Kagome dove underneath legs of a gigantic monster, narrowly missing a swipe of its claw. Three scars into the earth—Kagome found herself again being glad of being capable of dodging such monsterities. Twisting onto her back onto the pebbled ground, taking advantage of the momentum, she jerked out her pistol from her holster. Aiming her Red Queen, she summoned her holy power within. It blasted out bullets right into the belly of the horned creature.
It didn't have a chance to bellow out its' final scream, when its stomach grew glowing cracks. It quickly took over its body, and before it could blink, its entire form collapsed into ashes. The ashes of what once was the Minotaur twirled away into the breeze.
Thudding against the ground Kagome groaned, wiping away the grime from her forehead. Not minding the rocks painfully jabbing into her back she muttered, "Fucking ass…did not sign up for…" With another groan she flipped herself onto the surface, tapping her toes onto a chunk of debris to get some feeling back into her calves.
Kagome could barely feel her legs after running through the maze for so long, with paths being too small to fight properly in. The moment she saw the clearing was the moment she breathed and took the reins of this ongoing battle between her and the asshole demon. At least she found the exit from the labyrinth.
"Geez." Tucking away her Queen under her jacket, she shook her head at a tinge of the nostalgia of the memories of shooting arrows. Guns were so much more practical in today era, she found. Bullets take less energy to form than the spiritual arrows, making it possible that Kagome would virtually never run out of any ammo. It didn't stop her from missing that old weapon though. "Well, I don't sense any more abnormality here…"
Slamming a fist into the hand, she narrowed her eyes and pinpointed into a direction, "And there he is." Gritting her teeth at the remembrance of the situation she was in, Kagome scowled, "I'm going to kill you, Dante!" With that she was gone.
Dante shivered at the sudden sense of dread, before he shook his head and laughed. "Ah, it's just her." The grin stretched his face, in an utter enjoyment. Every so often he'd drag an unfortunate partner with him, just for the hell of it. While he is fond of Trish and Lady, Dante wouldn't admit to them that he already had a favorite gal.
"DANTEEEE!"
Snickering he leapt down from the peak of the towering debris. It used to be a building, before he knocked a demon into it. Afterward Dante, on an impulse, decided to use it as his observation spot. He had been there since, waiting for demons to come to him—or perhaps to wait for a certain someone.
He wasn't sure which.
"Hey, Kag—ack!" Dante yelped, diving away to dodge a blindingly brilliant bullet. It tore into the bottom of his jacket, and boomed into a skewed steel-beam. Thudding his boots against a toppled wall, he jerked away from a volley of projectiles. "Why are you shooting at me!?"
Gritting his teeth he stopped the urge to recoil at the sight of Kagome's infamous Red Queen right in between his eyes. Nearly a decade ago when he saved her pretty ass, he was feeling generous enough to gift her a pair of guns similar to his own. It was partially out of pity at her lack of experiences and his attempts to woo the priestess into his bed. Of course the latter didn't happen, but nonetheless he didn't really expect Kagome to make the full uses of his gifts and even had them putting burning bullets in his ass.
Regardless, he was proud at how far she came.
Dante's broad shoulders slumped and he held up his hands in surrender, "Is this necessary?"
"For kidnapping my ass from my freaking bed and dragged me to this…" Kagome rose her head around to survey the area, "wherever the fuck this dry ass place is."
Chuckling at her sour tone Dante pointed out slyly, "We're in Greece."
She fixated a glare on him, "Yeah, I figured with that damn monster I dealt with." Lowering her Red Queen Kagome gestured at him, confused, "So, why are we here? You didn't tell me, you ass." She turned her gun away and tucked it in the holster under her arm.
Dante allowed mirth to take over his words, and a grin grew, "We're due for a date, no?" He inched toward so to rest his arm over her shoulders.
"Hell no." Kagome stepped away, eying him, and ignored his pout when his arm missed his target, "Why are we here?"
Still pouting he crossed his arms and kicked at the gravels, "Apparently, we got a bad pest problem here and that we needed to find the source of it." Dante arched back and frowned at the quietness in their environment.
"So, we're here as a pest control." Kagome sighed, "Nice. But seriously, why drag my ass here…" She stiffened, her eyes going wide.
Dante noticed, his arms going toward his Rebellion, "Did you sense anything, love?"
She darted into the air and thudded onto the peak of the debris he earlier created, "First of all," Kagome shot him another glare, while her hands slipped into her jacket, "don't call me that. Second of all…!"
The ground of where Dante stood rumbled. He jerked at it, releasing his blade, with his readied gun, "Hey—!"
"It's coming from below!" She cried out when even the peak she stood on crumbled, forcing her to fled to another area. She leapt off of a flying boulder, cursing all the way as she dodged every sizable projectile that flew her way. Kagome didn't see the monster bursting out from the ground, clawing for Dante.
So distracted was she she missed the creature's ranting monologue and Dante's snorting laughter. When debris stopped falling Kagome stopped and saw the ugly horned demon and the mercenary duked it out. She inwardly debated letting him have the creature, before she soured at the memory of being rudely woken by Dante. "Screw that." She muttered, launching herself into the battlefield.
Volleys after volleys of her shining bullets, Dante grinned when the demon was staggering. With a great swing of his blade the demon's head fell, and it turned into ashes. "Boo ya." He laughed, resting Rebellion on his back, and clapped his hands, "We're a good team, don't you think, babe?"
Kagome gave him a deadpanned stare, "Right. Can we go home now? I want a shower." She tugged at her dirtied uniform and twisted her face at the sight of her poor matted hair, "And maybe visit a hair salon." She muttered, irated, with a small whine at the end.
"I think I saw one on the way here." He chuckled at her glare. Such a feisty, girly thing she was.
She froze in her position, before groaning out loud.
"…Damn." Dante recognized that look. Immediately he too sensed what Kagome sensed, "Ahhh…" The sky went black with swarming creatures, screeching at the death of their mother. "Flock."
Her glare heated, Kagome growled and slung out her guns, "It's your fault we're in this mess!"
Dante muttered, shrugging off his Rebellion, "So much for that plan…" He was hoping to convince Kagome for a dinner date.
Look like that isn't happening tonight.