"Way too close"

"I have a mission for you two?"

"What is it, Captain?" Ivory asked jumping on top of the nearby couch. Ivory McKnight was a first class demonic feline. Her long wavy black hair and fiery red eyes couldn't mask it. She looked at the Captain smiling. "It's about time too. I'm ready for our next mission." Dante was eating a strawberry sundae, kicked back in the Captain's office chair. The Captain looked at Dante and sighed.

"Can you 'not' sit in my chair?"

"But, I like you chair." he retorted placing his feet up on his desk.

"Really?! Do you have to be a dick all the time?" Ivory expressed flicking him off.

"I know you want too." he smiling blowing a kiss at her.

"Eww!"

"That's enough you two...but really Dante?" He looks at him grumpy.

"What?" Dante staring, clueless.

"Nothing. Moving on...the mission."

"So, what is this dangerous mission that we are doing today?" Dante sarcastically asked eating the last few spoon fills of his strawberry sundae with extra berries.

" I need you guys to take care of a man-eating demon."

"Man-eating demon?" Ivory puzzled, "Can he eat Dante?" sticking her tongue out at him. He sticks his back but, flicked it as if he was licking her.

"NO! Its name is Xenos, the demon of men. He eats the bodies of the males and mates with the females. He was spotted around the outskirts of town by a man named Vincent Cordeal. I need you guys to be surreptitious or he's going to wreak havoc around town."

"Does he know we're onto him?" Dante asked.

"No, that's why I want you guys to be cool and quiet. I don't want this to get messy." The Captain explained before pushing Dante feet off of his desk and took a seat. "You have one hour to prepare for your leave; dismissed." He turns to Dante and slaps him on his head.

"Get up!" He shouted.

"Fine, damn. That hurt by the way."

"Oh save it, you're a demon. Nothing hurts you."

"That's not true. Stomach aches hurt me."

"Go away!" The Captain shouts for the last time before he pushes them out and slams the door.

"Why do you always get on the Captain's nerves, Dante?"

"I think it's funny." He smiles and grabs his guitar bag and swings it over his shoulder. Ivory grabbed her duel Taurus TCP738 pistols engraved with her demon's crest on both sides. Her crest enables her to fuse her powers into every shot she pulls; along with her red-bladed sword, which she straps to her back. Once outside, Ivory goes to her motorcycle and watches Dante walking down the street.

"Hop on. We can get this done faster." She offers cranking up her bike. He switches his guitar bag from one shoulder to the other.

"No." he answered.

"Okay, now don't get on my nerves too."

"I think getting on your nerves is sexy." He smiles.

"Eww, come on, Dante. I want to get this over with. I have a date tonight."

"Why are you telling me? I don't care about your date." He walks a little faster. She rides up to meet him.

"Come on, Dante. After all these years we have worked together. I never asked you for anything, until now. Please, just get on." Ivory pleaded giving him her best smile, which was hard to do with a straight face.

"Fine, but I'm driving."

"Fine." She stops the bike and turns it off. He pushes her back before she could even take her next breathe, and the next thing she knew they were gone. The wind blew steadfast through her hair. Dante's silver shoulder length hair brushed against her face like feathers as they flew to their destination. Ivory could feel an evil presence in the area as the bike came to a complete stop. Dante gets off and looks at Ivory staring at the abandon warehouse ahead.

"You feel that?"

"Yeah, and it's strong."

"You ready?" He asks pulling out his five foot long sword from his guitar bag. Ivory took her guns out of her holster and got off the bike.

"Yeah, I'm ready." They proceeded toward the eerie feeling. The closer Ivory got to the feeling to more calming the feeling was. The evil was no longer around.

"I don't feel it anymore. Maybe he is gone."

"What? You don't feel it anymore?"

"Yeah, I'm feeling something else." She located the sense and ran straight into the warehouse.

"Ivory! Wait! Damn." Dante chased behind her. He was almost there before he heard her scream.

"Dante!"

"Ivory!" he shouted running deeper into the warehouse. It was dark but, since he's a dragon demon he can see in the dark. "Ivory!"

"Dante." He spots her over by the far corner. She had a little bruise on her head, but everything else looked fine.

"You okay?"

"I think so." She tried to stand up but fainted.

"Ivory?" no response. He checked her pulse and saw her breathing even out.

"She asleep? What a perfect time to sleep." He picks her up and places her outside next to her bike before he went back inside to take care of this 'man-eating demon'. A few minutes later, Dante and Ivory were back at their headquarters, when Ivory finally wakes up.

Ivory opens her eyes and sees everyone looking at her from their own areas in the room. Little Paddy, the orphan child we care for, comes up to her crying.

"Ivy, are you okay? You can't die on me."

"I'm not dead. Just a little dizzy."

"And wet, your sweating bad and drooling." the Captain commented walking over to her. Ivory wiped her drool away and pushed up against the couch she was laid out on. She scans the room for Dante.

"What the hell happened? Did you get him?"

"Yeah, no thanks to you. You fainted before the mission started."

"I did?"

"You don't remember? When I found you, you were bruised and your clothes were torn off."

"Really?" She looks down at her body and saw other clothes on her. She covered herself.

"Did you look?"

"Of course I did. You have a great body." he smiles again and winks.

"Captain! Can I kill him, please?"

"After he saved your life and killed the son of a bitch before he could step out into town? No. Maybe next time."

"He was going out into town? Why?"

"My guess was that he saw, your beautiful body and wanted more, or he saw that you had a gun and you were coming after him, your pick? Dante responded. He got up from his seat and walked over to her. She jumped back but he only grabbed for her hand.

"Your bruise is gone. That means you're fully healed."

"Good. Now, what the hell happened to you out there, Ivory? This is the first time you have got hurt in battle before." The Captain snapped moving Paddy aside and sitting on the table next to the couch.

"I don't really remember. I was pulling out my guns and started walking into the warehouse with Dante when the feeling disappeared and change to something so warm, loving, and calming. I located the feeling and took off. The next thing I know I saw Dante then..." Ivory didn't want to finish for what was coming next was something she couldn't believe.

"Then...what?"

"Then, I dreamt that I won the Nobel Peace Prize." she lied. Ivory couldn't say out loud what she really dreamt about with Dante and Paddy in the room. The Captain she didn't mind. He was like a father to her.

"Wow, how lame." Dante nagged going back to his seat.

"The Nobel Peace Prize is cool." Paddy exclaimed padding Ivory on her shoulder. "Don't listen to him. He is a dick. They say dreams show us our hidden desires and goals."

"That's true." The Captain agreed getting up and walking up stairs to his office.

"Why does everyone get on me? Ivory is the one that messed up."

"Gosh, you really are a dick." Paddy (agreed) walking back to her room upstairs.

"Don't leave me down here with him?!"

"Great, you too."

"Guys?" she whispered knowing it was hopeless. He comes back towards her couch and sits next to her.

"Okay, what did you really dream about?"

"What do you mean? I told you."

"I know that wasn't it because your were calling out my name back at the warehouse and even on the way here, but you stopped, why? What were we doing?"

"Nothing." She pushed him away and walked up the stairs but she started feeling dizzy again. Dante had his arms around her holding her up.

"Are you okay? You almost fainted again."

"Really?" She looked into his blue eyes. Those eyes that burned pleasure through her. Remembering them stare into hers as he felt down her body. Caressing every curve of her. She surfaced back and pushed up off him. "I'm good. I just need to lie down."

"Why? What's going on with you, Ivory?"

"Nothing." Suddenly, she couldn't get Paddy words out of her head.

"Something is going on."

"It's nothing." She sucked the drool back into her mouth that appeared out of nowhere and continued to walk up stairs to her room. Dante followed behind her still pressuring for answers. She thought about that dream. That dream that disgust her mind, but not her heart. She couldn't even be in the same room with him, without her remembering him kissing her down her body and onto her... Was Paddy right, did dreams show us our hidden desires?

"What are you smiling for?" She asked brushing back a piece of hair behind her ear.

"Oh, nothing." He pivoted and headed out the door.

"Oh, now it's nothing." She began but pushed it aside. "Never mind." She couldn't keep her mind off that dream. His very presence was hard to bear. Looking into those beautiful silver eyes as he entered; coaxing him with her essence. She stared at him as the visions came clearer and hotter. Her body reached to him just as much as it did in the dream. Maybe Paddy was right. Maybe my hidden desire is to be with Dante in every way possible. She has thought about it, but the thought itself, makes her sick to her stomach. What did that demon do? She was still feeling a little off balance.

"He must have mated with me, or tried" she whispered to herself.

"Tried." he answered from the door.

"How did...never mind...wait how do you know."

"Cause if he did, you wouldn't be alive."

"Right." now, she wanted to jump his bones, but she couldn't; even if she did love him.

His muscles fit his shirt perfectly and brag. Imagining those muscles wrapping around her waist as they played together endlessly into the night until the morning. Some extended kissing, hugging, licking, sucking, and biting. This demon's venom still hasn't worn off.

"Okay, you have to go."

"Why?" he asked walking inside her room towards her. He narrowed his eyes at her. "Why, Ivory? Am I making you horny?"

"What? Hell no!"

"You're lying. I think that demon got to you and now you're dreaming about me sexing you." he sat down next to her on her bed.

"I'm not lying." she lied.

"Really, well let's prove it." he leans forward.

"No!" She shouts and quickly pushes him back. She gets up and fast walks to the bathroom slamming it behind her. She then started to feel better.

"Why not?" Dante questions sitting on top of the toilet seat.

"Really? Get out!" she yells at him.

"No, not until you tell me why. If your aren't lying, then you should have no problem kissing me."

"Eww, no."

"Then, you are lying."

"I'm not!" She shouted again walking out of the bathroom. He follows her out and grabs her hand.

"Let-" He pulls her close then he kisses her. She falls into his seductive track and kisses him back; fully unaware that she is until she pushes him back again and slaps him hard. He looks into her eyes and she looks into his. Her breath uneven and fast. His heart started racing and his member screaming. He pushed her into her door and kisses her again. This time grabbing her hands and placing them above her head. The feeling in her body began to fuel pleasure inside of her. It burned at her neck, breast, stomach, pussy, and ass. She kisses him back with the same passion as he was. His tongue dancing with hers as him pinning her down increased her pleasure. Remembering him pinning her down just to lick, nibble, and bite at her neck. He stops kissing her and started to move to her neck.

"Don't!" He stops and releases her. His eyes showed heat, passion, and fire as he looked at her and spoke.

"Told you so." He smiled.

"Urgh!" she grabs him, opens the door, and throws him out slamming the door. She took a moment to catch her breath and her senses that disappeared.

"That was close." She commented smiling.