Mission 1 – Getting money

When he woke up he was lying on the old couch, which was soft, but had a lot of scratches and its fragment was completely cut off. He yawned and sat. The room he was in was a complete ruin. Half of the ceiling and the walls was on the floor, and almost everything was in pieces. He saw some pizza boxes and drink bottles, a half of a billiard table, a desk lying upside down under a wall, a chair, and there was even a jukebox, a guitar and drums, but there wouldn't be any use of them now. Stains of blood were everywhere. Soon, he heard a sound of a motor in front of the building, in which even a front wall was only a bunch of stones, but he couldn't see people who had just arrived.

"Come on, if you don't borrow me some money, then how the fuck am I supposed to sleep?" a young, manly voice started a conversation.

"You could earn some if you had a job!" some girl answered.

"But I told you that I will start a business here." The guy didn't seem to be in a good mood.

"I know. I'll think that over. And for now, you can stay at the hotel." Nero heard a starting engine.

"I don't have money for that too, Lady!" now he was really pissed.

"Then sleep in the ruins! Bye, bye, Dante!"

"D...Dante?" Nero couldn't believe his ears. This guy didn't sound like Dante at all! This had to be just a coincidence. 'Dante' started to curse this Lady silently, and then he somehow crossed the ruined front wall. He had a long, red coat, brown trousers, and no shirt. But the most recognizable things for Dante were white hair, two guns and a big sword on his back. But he was like... less than 20 years old?

Guy looked at Nero and grinned. "Hey, look who's up! Our sleeping beauty!"

Nero ignored the weird text of the white haired, and tried to look serious. "Shut up and better tell me where the hell I am."

"I guess that's not hell." Dante turned the desk like it was supposed to stand. "But with that hand of yours I wouldn't be so sure."

He saw my arm! Nero thought to himself and hid his Devil Bringer in his sleeve, while red coated man found the chair and sat on it with his legs on the desk. "And what's wrong with it?" Just after that, he realized how stupid his question was.

"Nothing at all" the man grinned again "I found you in front of my shop so I picked you up, if you don't mind" he closed his eyes "Man, I'm so hungry!" and stood up. "You don't happen to have any cash, do you? Cause after this incident with Vergil, the only thing I have is red orbs."

"Yeah, the worst problem - why can't we buy normal things with orbs." Nero didn't notice the strange name that appeared in the conversation.

Dante smiled and again sat on the chair in the same way that he did before. "So, what's your name?" he asked.

"I'm Nero. And you're Dante, right?" the boy started to be more relaxed.

"Heh, you heard me argue with Lady, didn't you?" the guy said without changing his position at all.

"Mhm" Nero muttered. "Lady is her name?"

"Kind of. That's how I always call her."

"Mind if I stay here for a little bit?" he finally decided to ask about it.

"In here? This thing doesn't even have a ceiling." Dante still didn't change his position.

"I may try to convince this Lady to borrow us some money."

"If you convince her," he finally got up "then welcome home!"

Time was passing fast, when Nero and Dante were trying to solve the problem what to do with the mess in the Devil May Cry. They finally settled that the most important thing is to repair the building (yes, that was that hard to settle) and that they need new billiard table, jukebox and drums (Dante is the most stubborn creature in the world). Other things could have been fixed. So now they could only wait for the source of money.

"Okay, she told me that she will come here today" Dante fell on the couch.

Place didn't look so wrecked as before, but all this ruined walls made a bad view. They even realized, that TV and telephone were working, so that wasn't that bad. But the fridge was broken, and there was nothing inside anyway. The only thing to do was waiting for Lady, but they couldn't help (mostly Dante) that they were hungry as hell. Nero decided that he wouldn't tell Dante that he's probably from the future, because he would not believe him anyway and even he wasn't sure if that wasn't just one of his crazy dreams. Maybe later, when they will trust each other enough, and Nero will find a way to prove it. Then he will think about telling him. For now he just realized that Dante in the past was even more 'kid' than he was.

After some time (almost 6 hours of hunger and sleeping) Lady arrived.

"Hey Dante! I see you've cleaned up a little." She said while jumping over the front wall.

"He did the most of work." The half devil answered without a break in reading a magazine. "And where the hell have you been? I have no money, and no food, so I'm pretty angry now, you know?" he still was reading (or pretending to do so).

"And who do you think I am? Your babysitter?" Lady wasn't really looking at him too. "And I guess I haven't met this guy before. Your another brother?"

"No, 'course not! Though he's a half devil too. Nero, that's Lady, Lady, that's Nero. He was supposed to convince you to borrow us some money." Dante was sitting before the desk with his legs on it, but he wasn't reading anymore.

"You've just met him and he's living with you already?" Lady left her backpack and Kalina Ann on the table. "And don't worry; I'll borrow you a little bit of cash. How much do you need?"

"You were counting, Nero"

"Heh..." he couldn't help not to smile "Over 100 000 $"

"What the fuck do you want to do with those money?" Lady looked pissed.

"Repair the walls and ceiling and buy a billiard table, a jukebox and drums. And some decorations. Oh, and a new fridge" Nero summed up.

"For what do you need a billiard table and drums?"

"To play, and for what else?" Dante went back to his lecture.

"The most of money are for repairing the building." The blue coated boy wanted to calm down the situation a bit.

"Okay, but if you're not going to pay me back, then I'm going to kick your ass. Cash is in the backpack." She took her gun and left.

Nero looked to the backpack. It was really full of money.

"So, what do you want to eat?" He asked his new roommate.

"Pizza, and what else?" Dante said, while dialing the number to the 'Pizza One'