Mission 4 - Lady

Nero woke up on the couch. He remembered how Dante slowly changed to more rough style but it was still good. He yawned and thought about where his partner was, because they fell asleep there, together. Did he go back to bed afterwards? The boy got up and put some clothes that were lying on the floor. Yeah, that was real, he couldn't have imagined it. He found a letter on the desk:

"Hey Sleeping Beauty! You were so sweet that I couldn't wake you. I went on a mission. It's supposed to be easy so don't look for me. And tell Lady if she comes. See ya' later!"

He fell on a chair. He was still thinking about last night. Dante has always seemed straight to him. All these magazines and poster in the bathroom… Maybe he was bi, but why he fell in him?

"Dante! You still didn't…" Lady rushed into the office "Nero? Where's Dante?"

"On some mission." The boy smiled.

"I suppose you don't have my money?" Lady smiled back and left Kalina Ann next to the fridge.

"Of course not." Nero tried to sit like Dante. It's not comfortable at all.

"You like billiard?" She said while getting the cue.

"I haven't played it yet. I only saw how Dante did."

"You want me to teach you?" The girl smiled at him again.

Why is she so nice now? "Not really. It's not my type of game."

Then Lady pushed the white billiard ball and it stroke two other into the holes. "For sure?"

"Yeah, for sure." He sat normally, cursing Dante and his way of sitting.

'Than maybe you want to go on a mission with me? I originally intended to ask Dante, but since he's busy with his own stuff…" She hit the white ball again.

"I guess it would be more interesting than sitting here." He answered.

"Okay, so we're going." Lady did one more shot and got her big gun. Nero got his weapons too and wrote something on the letter that Dante had left him. He smiled to the girl and went after her to her motorbike.

Dante was riding back to his office. The job was just to kill some demons that appeared near the city, so he ended it pretty fast. The hunter was thinking what Nero was doing himself. Was the last night bothering him? And what the hell would Dante tell him about it? He wasn't even sure why he did it. He just felt like it. And was drunk a little. But just a little. Hearing screams from the bathroom knowing that it's your fault isn't easy even for someone like him.

And Nero… he was wet and angry. And beautiful. He never felt anything like this to a guy. So he did it. And the boy wasn't even hesitating, so it's okay, right? He didn't do anything wrong…

Devil hunter went to the Devil May Cry, but no one was inside. The note that he had left to Nero in the morning was on the desk and there was something written under his text.

"I'm going on a mission with Lady, 'cause I'm bored."

"Wow, what a long note" the guy said to himself. He tried to lay on the couch but then he jumped. "I won't let this bitch take him away." He decided to ask the man who was selling weapons to Lady where they went, and go after them.

When they finally reached the place it was already 3 pm. Lady parked her motor in some hidden alley, but the whole street was empty anyway. They weren't talking, Lady seemed to avoid even looking at Nero. But soon the first demon appeared and the boy started a conversation.

"What the hell are Frosts doing here?" and he grabbed the ice demon and threw it onto the other one.

"Do you know these demons?" Lady asked while blowing the head of one.

"Kind of… Maybe we should separate, and look for the gate?" and he slashed Frost with exceed.

"Okay, I'll finish these ones, you go straight ahead!" she shot one which got too close with Kalina Ann and smiled to the hunter, but Nero was already running and killing devils that was ahead. After some time he found himself in a dead end, and the only way was to enter a building. Fighting in the closed area wasn't really the best idea with that much opponents, but it couldn't be helped. He got inside and it was… silent. Not a single demon. He realized that he was in some inn, and not the luxury one. More, it was really dull, but had no signs of destruction. And that was strange, if you know that the demons were everywhere outside. Why didn't they come there?

"I didn't suppose that such a marvelous hunter like you would be interested in some boring mission like that, Dante." He heard a voice from upstairs.

Dante? It thinks I'm Dante? Boy slowly walked in the direction of the voice, but there was no one there.

"You've got me mistaken, I'm not this guy who eats only pizza." He tried to drive the voice out.

"Really? So what do you eat?" The voice laughed, but this time from downstairs.

"Mostly pizza too… but not only. And it's his fault." Nero went back with his gun outstretched.

"So you know him? How fortunate! Is he with you maybe? Or I was right and that's a mission not for someone in his league?" Someone laughed again, but now Nero was completely confused from where.

"You're telling me that I'm not in his league, hmm? Maybe you should come out and see?" The kid opened the rooms on the first floor.

"I think I'll pass. As you see I'm a coward, who gets her job done by others. I guess I'm not going to change myself."

Her? And then the boy heard a crash from downstairs and he saw few demons coming in his way. He ran to them and put Red Queen to the work. He slashed them one by one and then he shouted to the voice, but it didn't respond this time. So he decided to go on a roof. There was no one there, but thanks to a ladder he went down and got to the other side of a building. Soon he realized that Frosts are not the only demons in there. He fought a bunch of Scarecrows and Assaults. But why only the demons from Fortuna were there? At the end he found himself fighting Blitz, but when had killed it, there was two more. He somehow managed to defeat them, but the worst thing was that it wasn't over.

"Three more? You've got to be kidding me! The most annoying demons in that numbers?"

It was hard to fight all three in one time, so he tried to lure them apart, but at the end he lost anyway, because he was already exhausted. He was lying on a ground and then…

"No one can kick his ass except me!" and something red flew in front of him, slashing the Blitz which was already near death, and when it turned red Dante was luring it away from the lying boy. When he dealt with the two more, Nero looked at him with a false grin.

"Where is Lady?" He asked while standing up.

"She is looking for the hell gate. And what makes you so upset, baby?" Red coated guy smiled at the boy.

"Don't call me like that. It's annoying."

Dante sighed "She probably already closed it 'cause there's no demons anymore."

"Anyway, why are you here? You were supposed to be on a mission." Nero walked to his friend.

"I ended it pretty fast, so I went after you, guys. Is there something wrong with that?"

"You've got an idea, how many of these electric demons were near the gate?" They saw Lady coming in their way.

"Oh, here she comes." Dante turned around.

"Nero, are you okay?" She changed her attitude really fast and blue coated hunter looked at her confused. Dante quickly grabbed his hand and pulled him in the side that he parked his motor.

"He's fine, I'll take care of him. Bye, bye!"

What the…?