Once Upon A Time

Chapter Five: Familiar?

"AGH!" God dammit! How did I get roped into this again!? Seriously! Dante thought as he dodged another swing from a shadowy blade before jumping back a good ten feet. He already fought at the very least six stray devils in the last hour and a half straight. This would make the seventh as he dodged another blackened blade slash. An ex-knight he was fighting.

Combat rolling to the side before unleashing a hail of magic rounds, elemental magic's taking effect ranging all from fire to ice, then another slash came his way as the mostly humanoid devil charged him again and he had to roll away again.

"Goddamn! You're worse than the fucking magicians!" The golden eye male shouted in anger before drawing his cross-blade and charging the ex-knight. Shooting the black silver-baller at the stray to make it have a bad time moving so he could get in close for melee, and if a bullet or two hits it yippy, less effort needed in slashing it to death.

A single round hit the devilish knight, and it froze the thing in place, which Dante quickly doubled up with a dash-slash. Pretty much a copy-cat move for fighting a knight, this speed technique is easily used and created by forcing a lot amount of magic energy into one's leg muscles.

All of the muscles, though sadly it comes with a cost. Multiple if you are untrained and don't have strong leg muscles you could tear them, if you are trained with strong muscles, at worst you'll fatigue yourself.

Disappearing from sight faster than the knight could even keep up with, Dante went literally through the stray devil at the speed he was going and stopped right behind him, holding the cross-blade out to his side with a single drip of blood coming off it before he slashes the air to let it splash off the blade cleanly and hit the ground before Dante slowly turned around.

Finding the stray he was fighting was now in half dead, he smirked and reached into his pocket, but not before holstering his handgun, and then he drew out a lighter and a single cigarette.

"Exsúrgat Deus et dissipéntur inimíci ejus: et fúgiant qui odérunt eum a fácie ejus." Dante started to speak slowly as he was then walking to the body, a completely different language, but to the words, the body began to smoke and build up heat. "Sicut déficit fumus defíciant; sicut fluit cera a fácie ígnis, sic péreant peccatóres a fácie Dei…"

More smoke and a larger grin coming from Dante. "In nómine Pátris, et Fílii, + et Spirítus Sancti. Amen…" He flicked the lighter open and lit the flame, this caused both the flame of the lighter and the body to burst into flames, except with the lighter, the flame was the normal orange color, with the body, it was a deep green with a bluish aura.

Lighting his cigarette, Dante took a moment to savior this few minute break before he was put back into work by Rias. 'Damned she-witch….lucky the Jericho squad was dismissed after my past life…Slave driver...ugh, it's like she wants me to die…actually that would make sense.' Shrugging the thought away, Dante finished up his cancer stick before throwing it to the ground and stomping on it. Afterwards, he reached into his coat pocket to retrieve his cellphone.

For those who do not know, Dante is wearing his hunter attire, and or battle gear. This is what he was wearing when he went into the church to slaughter the Fallen Angels.

Hitting a few buttons before slamming down on the green one and bringing the phone to his ear, he continued his walking before he got a strange message, and then a beep.

"Rias…It's me Dante, I thought I'd let you know I took care of our little pest problem, if it's all the same to you I'm heading home now, getting to damn late and rather not…stay out too long. Anyhow, do me a favor? Leave me either an audio recorded report or a written one on how both Freed and Asia did today. I need to make sure Asia's safe and Freed isn't going off the deep end again…Anyways, thanks…Oh, and if you or anyone else need anything, you know where my apartment is." He spoke into the phone before clicking the red button and putting it away.

After that, he simply continued upon his way to home. Tired and honestly, a bit horny, maybe he could get Asi- 'Who are you and what have you done with Dante? No way in hell you're pulling an Issei on Asia!' He mentally scolded himself.

Dante's Apartment

Walking in through the door, the time was, if he had to guess Ten-thirty, maybe. He may be a bit ahead. Upon walking through the door, he was greeted by a sound of a scream and a large thud. Dante quirked a brow and drew his sidearm before continuing forwards towards the kitchen. For an apartment, it seemed like a small house.

Walking straight down the hallway and taking a right going straight to the kitchen, he found Asia dressed in a green skirt and a green button shirt with an apron while holding a large pot with the lid to said pot on top of her head. Freed was behind her helping her up from the ground was also wearing an apron, but he was also wearing his teaching uniform under it without the top. Without that, he just had a simple white-t shirt on under the frilly apron.

To this Dante holstered his weapon and leaned in the door way, standing around his six foot two, he smirked and watched for a moment as they had some more kitchen related comic moments before he cleared his throat to make himself home. When they looked to him, he quirked a brow with his smirk. "I'm…home?" He asked rhetorically, before chuckling and turning around. "I'm heading to the bathroom to take a shower, oh, and if Koneko or Rias show up come find me. Understand?"

Receiving only nods, he walked off straight to his room which held one of the three bathrooms around his apartment, again, it may be an apartment, but the damn place was like a small fucking house.

About twenty minutes later was about the time he finally was able to get himself under some warm water, or as he prefers scolding fucking hot. The room was filled with steam, and his hair now being patted down against his head, some of it over looking his face as he was staring to the floor. Palm of his hand open and pushed against the wall as he was leaning on it. Eyes slightly narrowing, both out of annoyance, and being tired of hell, but another reason was there, he was so close!

"Ah…ah…ahh…" His hand moved faster and faster as his head slowly looked over, his left arm moving up and down on his shaft as he had been there for only a couple of minutes and he was ready to let load his first load. Then again, Dante was always quick at the first round on his part, and then he had a strangely large amount of stamina.

"Ah... Ahhh AHHHH! AHHH! AGH!" and there it was, white webs streamed from his dick, holding onto it as it pulsated, and emptied onto the wall and floor. "Ahhh…ah…man…I'll never lose my ability to enjoy that…ahh…" with a satisfied look, he moved his other arm to the wall and leaned a bit more onto both his arms to rest for a moment.

Letting the water slap against his skin, head, hair, everywhere it could reach. It was scolding hot, but that's how he likes it. He quickly washed up and turn off the water and stepping out of the shower, what he didn't expect, he had a visitor, who just seen him do just that.

When he turned to the door way, his eyes widened in horror, noticing a certain blonde girl who was as red as a cherry. "Uh…um." He had no words to say to this, she just smiles and blinked a few times. "…K-koneko, a-and R-rias are h-here…so-so is, e-ever-everyone e-else…I-I tho-ught Th-that you should know…." She finished up quickly from her stuttering before turning around and dashing out after seeing him in the full buff. It wasn't a bad sight, just; she was too innocent to understand without being embarrassed.

"Well. Damn. That sucked. Hehahahahaha." Chuckling at the end before shaking his head before sighing and finishing up to dry off, then quickly walking out into his room.

About Two Minutes Later.

Dante would be sitting in the living room on one of his two couches with Koneko sitting next to him, and Kiba at the end. Rias sitting on the other one with Akeno and Asia, and Freed took the recliner chair. The living room was pretty much setup for a western style "Getting ready to watch a football game" look.

"So, what's up Rias, we got a problem or?" He asked curiously, a brow quirked and tilted head.

"Oh nothing, just wondering if you'd like to accompany us to the familiar forest, I was hoping to see if I could also get Asia to come with, maybe the exorcist if he behaves *Hey!* himself." She stated as if it was nothing. Dante only shrugged and nodded. "I've been meaning to take Asia and Freed myself, so why the hell not? Hope the Pokémon wanna-be isn't still pissed at me."

That earned him a confused look from everyone. Koneko looked up to him and tilted her head. "…What do you mean?"

"Hmm? Oh nothing, I just, may have fucked with his mind a little too much…" Dante said trying not to go back into detail on how he made the familiar master see the little slice of "heaven" that he had a long while ago, when he was originally the "firstborn" and not just the reincarnation.

"May I ask how?" Akeno asked, pretty interested in this all of a sudden, probably has to do with her having a thing for magic maybe? Who knows?

"Simple, intoxicating the man with a chemical that'll make him think of illusions be it from his wildest fantasy's...'if it was his wildest fantasy than he's one fucked, up motherfucker..' or worst nightmare. 'Yeah, sounds more like it.'." He told them.

"Ah, which one appeared?"

"My guess? Worst Nightmare…or possible mix of the two, that's never a good sign."

"Ufufuf. You, my friend are an evil little monster aren't you?" The sadist asked playful, which made the hunter quirked a brow and smirk.

"Eh, not evil, just demented…Why, does it turn you on?" He asked just as playfully as he gave her a look over for good measure to add to the joke.

The air was so thick with the innuendo, you could probably cut it with a damned stick, well, that was before both Akeno and Dante started chuckling at each other and relaxed a bit more. That cleared the room up pretty quick. Although, if anyone was looking Koneko was eyeing the queen with a bit of jealousy obviously, but also a lot of territorial protectiveness over her fellow snow angel. (N/A Hair Color…)

"Anyways, let me throw on some clothing and we can go." He said simply before looking to Freed and Asia. "You two do wanna come right?" Asia to this nodded very quickly; actually if she had nodded any quicker you could say she was having a fan-girl moment. Freed simply gave a single nod before standing up and walking to his room in the apartment to change. Asia quickly did the same and Dante remained in the living room.

To this everyone looked around his living room until one of them realized he was still there, quirking a brow, a blonde knight spoke up. "Dante, don't you have to go get dressed?" He asked very confused, only to get a smirk from Dante until said white haired demon was quickly surrounded by millions of flies, all pitch black before a few seconds then they just seemed to disappear and the ex-mercenary was fully dressed and armed somehow.

Each and one of them blinked, both in disgust and confusion. "Heh, don't ask…" Was all he said before sitting back down and leaned back. Somehow, flies, had showed up, dressed him, and disappeared. At this moment, they all were agreed upon something which was an unspoken question in the room. Stop trying to understand him.

After maybe five minutes of waiting, Asia and Freed finally graced us with their presence, what fucked them up is to see Dante in the same spot from when they left, hadn't moved an inch, and was already completely ready with a grin on his face.

"Don't ask." Was Dante's only reply to the faces of confusion from the two before look to Rias. "It's your show boss, teleport us?" He asked curiously and she simply nodded. With that, everyone stood up who was sitting, and then they all walked to the middle of the room before a large red magical circle appeared on the floor, and went straight up sending the people standing on it to the familiar forest.

Forest only a few minutes later

The group appeared, but as they looked around, they noticed something, Dante wasn't among them. This being a very strange conundrum due to the fact that he was in the magic circle when they left, they only stopped looking around when they heard a sudden shriek of a creature as if it was dying in the worst and most painful way.

Quickly, all of them charged off to investigate the noise, ready for anything with weapons at the ready, they walked through the vegetation covered landing before coming to a clearing to find a dark coated figure checking a very large and dead creature. Looking him over at first glance you could miss interpret him as a possible poacher or something but in all reality, this male sighed before standing straight up and they had seen the white hair upon the person's head.

This is when everyone made the sudden connection from the clothing to Dante, and then the voice that spoke out confirmed it.

"Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory. For ever and ever. Amen…" spoke the white haired man before reaching for a pendent from his chest and pull it up and giving it a small kiss before tucking it away into his undershirt and look over his shoulder.

"You waiting for a written invitation or what?" He asked a bit smartassily. With this, Rias's peerage with Freed and Asia, standing there and staring down at the body of a blue scaled almost fully adult dragon.

"…If I were to guess it was in the lightning and or thunder end of the type of energy it used." He spoke, while looking to the wound. "Someone, slashed open the neck and then stabbed it maybe four times in the chest for good measure." He told them; pointing out each slash and cut mark he could see.

"Who do you think did this?" Kiba suddenly ask, looking over to Dante to get a sigh in response.

"No idea, possible magi, maybe hunters passing through, or we may be dealing with a different kind of creature from this forest…" Shaking his head, it didn't exactly make sense, but right now that's not what they were there for. Turning his head he looked to Akeno. "Did you guys find the familiar master?" He asked a bit quick and hopefully.

Akeno simply shook her head. "He wasn't at the spot where we usually find each other when we show up to the forest." She explained before another sigh came from Dante.

"Jeez, this is annoying, first the familiar master's not here and now we got something or someone who can kill a dragon with ease on the loose. Just fucking great…" He said before reaching into his coat and pulling out his sidearm from its holster.

Dante started off in a direction, just trusting his sense of smell, his eyes stayed cold and ready for anything while he clicked back the hammer on the gun he was holding. Following this path, he started to whistle loudly, hoping to attract someone's attentions from outside their group.

Sadly this was not successful, and Asia had to be comforted by the group's psychopath Freed, which strangely worked. Asia was freaked out, Rias was worried, and Akeno was, guessing from her facial expression, indifferent, Kiba looked ready for a fight, but finally Koneko just moved closer to her snow haired friend as they walked. "Dante…What do you think happened?" She asked finally.

"…." Sighing he looked to Koneko, with probably the softest expression he's ever had on his face. "I wish I knew…" Was all he said before his gaze became harder and looked forward, sniffing the air again before eyes widening suddenly, he dashed off before anyone could react and then gunshots rang out.

Multiple and it was repeating for at least a good twenty seconds before everything became deathly silent. Koneko looked back at all her friends before Kiba came up to be next to her with a nod, they both knew exactly what they were going to do. They started walking forwards Kiba had his sword at the ready and Koneko was ready for straight action with her fists.

When they walked out, they could see three bodies lying around the figure with white hair, who was holding someone by the throat with a gloved hand. "B-but t-that was the c-co-correct re-response, agh…" He started coughing as Dante sighed and gave him a cold dead look. "The code was updated…Your fault for not finding out faker…" He then applied pressure to the throat of this man, and they could see it, colors were draining, air wasn't able to make its way into the man before…

Crack!

Dante broke the man's neck, but didn't stop there; he continued to squeeze until...

"AHHHHH!" Asia screamed from behind Kiba surprising the hell out of all three of them. She was shocked to find Dante had close to no regard for one's dead body. Seeing how he just made the man's head explode with pressure to then neck.

Slowly, Dante looked over his shoulder, demon-like slits for eyes in his now glowing golden eyes. The perfect hunter's look as he held his "prey" dead in one hand up and a handgun in the other that was facing down towards the ground.

He dropped the corpse and started walking forwards to what started to sound like crying and muffled screams. Then the demonic hunter crouched down and started to do something to what looked like a giant squirming sack on the ground, quickly opening it and pulling the person who was inside if it out he seen a tied up and gagged familiar master, with another sigh, he cut the ropes quick as a flash so no one seen how he did it and then ungagged the man after holstering his pistol.

Coughing as he can finally speak again and breathe better without the gag that was constricting his mouth, the Familiar master slowly sat up and started to rub his sore and bruised spots on his body, groaning in pain as he did so.

Taking a moment to stop and catch his breath, the Ash-wannabe slowly looked around to see but smiled to everyone behind the monster that saved him. That's when he looked to Dante and sighed before nodding. "Thanks…" He mumbled before standing up slowly before growling. "But I thought I told you not to come back here…" He said a bit hostile.

To this Dante shrugged with his eyes going back to normal. "Isn't my fault you confused what kind of hunter I am…" Holstering the sidearm, he went over to the bodies and began to loot them for ammo, cash, and other things while everyone else began to talk to each other, questioning what happened and such, so Dante didn't pay it any real mind.

The only real question on his mind, was just what the hell these exiles were doing here, none of this made any sense, so with that, he sighed and stood up before looking to Rias. "Yo boss, I'm getting out of here for a while to look into something. You got my cell number if you need something, also…take good care of my student and my, ah lil' sis." He told them with a shrug before disappearing into a shroud of blackness.

Muhahahaha...finally finished this chapter, honestly was waiting for someone to answer the question correctly, but to those who didn't know, didn't answer, or didn't care, the answer is simple. The firstborn idea from Clive Barker's Jericho, That's what Dante is reincarnated as...So yeah basically the next fucking GOD!

Anywho, yeah...so I made a quick turn on what I was going to originally do for this chapter. I was ORIGINALLY going to follow a bit more cannon with how Issei learned what the pieces do, but even if I did that, Dante wouldn't be able to do anything cause he's a temp and even if he learned what the pawn can do, he couldn't do it himself.

Well, this is Demon's Poet, Monster of the Night, Sla- Ah you know what, you already know me. Well signin' off. Later ya'll. OH! And now a word from o- SON OF A OW FUCK NO! NO PLEASE NO! NOT THE CROTCH NOT THE! AHHHGHHHHH! *screams and wails in pain as Dante beat the living shit out of him.*

Dante:*Takes ten minutes to thoroughly crush DP's pelvis into the dirt* YOU FUCKING BASTARD! I LOOKED AT YOUR IDEA BOARD! I'LL KILL YOU FOR EVEN ATTEMPTING SOMETHING LIKE THAT ON YOUR NEXT FANFIC!

Koneko:*Walks in and sees this before sighing and going to pull Dante off of the Author* Dante, calm down...DP could fuck your fanfiction up if you aren't careful.

Dante: Oh he wouldn't dare, this is his most liked and viewed Fanfiction at all...

DP:..D-don't...t-t-test m-me...I-I..I own y-you...I-I'll Turn you into a frog! Or..or...or...um...Dante, why is there an electrical typhoon behi- Oh no...you didn't...oh god no...

Dante:*Evil Grin and picks up Koneko Bridal style.* OH I did...Have fun in my toybox...*Disappears in a swarm of darkness with Koneko.*

DP:Well...fuck...Escape tactic number 59: RUN AWAY! *Turns tail and runs like a man from his wife coming to stab him.*