Chapter 6: Fun Time.
Disclaimer: I do not own Devil May Cry or the characters of Devil May Cry.
It wasn't that much of a stretch of the imagination to believe what they were seeing, it was just a very impractical thing that was more of a waste of power and stone. Dante and Lady did see how intruders would be baffled with how the stair case, that went everywhere, even upside down, and they were able to walk up each stair by some strange act of physics defying. Lady was being confused by the stairs because she was actually trying to plan her path, but Dante was just waking wherever he could just because he figured that he had to reach the right path soon. When Lady found out that Dante was walking around randomly she was pissed off, so much that she immediately started slapping him around with her gun while he explained himself.
"Look, I just figured that if I walked this way then I would eventually run into the right path," reasoned Dante between slaps, but Lady didn't show any sign of letting up so he slipped out of the grip and wound up behind her. "Look, I know you aren't that happy about it, but hey, your way is giving you a headache which you don't need while you're listening to the sounds of gun fire and death cries."
"You're an ass, do you know how long it would take us to do it just by walking around," asked Lady as she grabbed him by the collar and looked into his eyes. "I am not going to be the one to tell our client that her sister died because we took our happy ass time enjoying the scenery and not thinking about the time."
"Hey, the time isn't right for the sacrifice and it will be another day before that, we have plenty of time," retorted Dante, but Lady just glared at him.
"Who knows how many other things they have like this in this freaky castle," exclaimed Lady as she waived her gun in the air. "You know the client loves to know that you've been dicking around on a fucking M.C. Escher painting!"
"You shouldn't yell, it would stunt your growth," said Dante as he walked on and almost ran into a large dog. "Well maybe we can ask Benji to tell us where to go."
"He doesn't talk much," said a strange man dressed in a white armor "He can, of course, help you find the way if you know how to get him motivated."
"I seem to have left my milk bones at home so how would you get Benji motivate to help us," asked Dante as he looked at the man, who only smiled at him.
"Well first don't call him Benji, he hates it and only lets me call him Benji," said the strange man as he bowed towards the two while taking off the wide brimmed Fedora that he was wearing. "My name is Alexander Ducard, and I am the one who helps those who fight against the demon world get through this castle. You could easily get him to move just by throwing the bone of an enemy down the stairs, the bone will go the right way and then the dog follow it so you follow the dog. Luckily for you, I'm so nice a guy, I'm going to throw the bone down the path myself and you follow the dog, just be mindful he can get fast so start out at a jogging pace. Okay on your marks, get set, go!"
The strange man who called himself Ducard threw the bone down the path of the stairs and the dog chased after it, followed closely by Dante and Lady. At first it was easy to chase after the dog, it ran at a steady pace that wasn't to taxing and the path it walked was very easy to navigate, but as the path got more treacherous the dog got faster. With each new twist, the dog seemed to spring forward with even greater speed until it seemed like the dog would disappear if they did not find some way to move faster than they already were. Dante thought he could try to use his devil trigger, but decided against it because that was something that he only used when he needed to and he had never showed it to Lady before so he was a bit worried as to her feelings towards it. As a substitute, Dante used his stinger move to shoot out right past it like flash steps that compensated for some of the distance but not enough. Then something odd happened. Dante hit the dog, which had grown a lot bigger along the way, head on and was taken aback by the sudden impact that he didn't realize that the dog had changed from the less threatening regular dog that he had seen to a more snarling dog with serpents slithering over its back and the hair on the back of its neck raised into spikes.
"Dante, look out for that thing," shouted Lady as she tried to catch up, but it didn't seem like she was going to make it as the dog lunged at Dante, who was still shaking his head a bit to fight off the dizziness. "Duck you moron!"
Dante didn't duck as she ordered, instead he brought up his sword to stab the beast in the nostril as he tried to bite him and he twisted the blade in its nostril, blood spurting out from the wound. When he seemed to have gathered himself he turned his head to look curiously at what he had done out of a reflex and then took Ebony out of its holster to shoot the beast right between the eyes. It didn't go down at first, as it sent its head back roaring in pain and Dante was being pulled along with its head like a rag doll until he pulled his sword out and started to unleash a barrage of bullets into its back. The beast let out one last roar before it fell to the ground, blood seeping from its bullet riddled corpse.
"Well it seems like you finally found your way down here," said Ducard as he stood upon a ruint column in the large round room that they were in. It appeared to be the tower of the castle and the stairs spiraled upward farther than Dante could see. "You didn't disappoint, no not one bit."
"Well I'm very glad that you let us borrow your dog, but I'm afraid he had to be put asleep," said Dante as he put his foot down onto the head of the dead beast.
"Oh now that is too bad, he was my favorite," said Ducard in a mockingly lamenting voice.
"Don't worry, I know just what will make you feel better," said Dante as he pulled out Ivory and shot at the strange man. Ducard simply vanished before the bullet hit him.
"You know you should really give them in person if you're going to give an apology," said Ducard from an unknown place in the room. "Why don't you come up to the top if you're so sorry?"
"I'll be right there so don't go anywhere," replied Dante as he started walking up the stairs.
"Wait up, I'm still a part of this," said Lady as she ran up with Kali Ann slung over her shoulder. "You keep on trying to leave me behind even though I'm probably the only one covering your back now. Without me I doubt you would be able to sleep on your back from all the wounds that you suffered from the attacks that you let through your guard."
"Oh, does this mean you really care about me," asked Dante in the way that a child would ask someone for something that they really wanted.
"My trigger finger is itching," said Lady in anger just before a knife flew right between the two and embedded itself in one of the walls.
The thing that threw it was not very scary looking, just had a dolls face with clothing that was from the 17th century and in each hand was a knife. Around it were other creatures just like it with knives and some with other bladed weapons, some with hats, and some were hanging from the wall. The original doll titled its head from side to side with a clicking sound, as if it was based solely on clockwork, before rushing at Dante. Dante blew its shin off and then pressed a gun up into its head and blew its inner mechanisms out, along with something that looked very much like brain matter. So these tin men have a heart, eh, thought Dante as he looked at the fallen thing and then at its friends. With a bit of a sigh he fired at the other creatures twice, splattering everything around before kicking another one down. Behind him was Lady shooting down two other dolls that were coming at him from behind and then kicked the side of Kali Ann so that it spun in mid air and cut down the two dolls that were attacking from the side.
"Wow, we've just gotten onto the first floor and already this party is getting crazy," laughed Dante as he pulled out his Force Edge and started using it to cut down some of the dolls, stopping once to hit a doll that was throwing knives from the third floor. "But I think we should be going up floors while we do this so our host doesn't get too bored waiting for his guests to show up in the VIP lounge."
"You never do change, just go," shouted Lady over her gun shots and was pulled into one of the rooms on the first floor by someone unknown. "Hold right there damn it!"
"Easy there I just had to get you out of there before the floor got you," said a familiar voice as she was held up by none other than Knives.
"What are you doing here," asked Lady as she looked at him and then noticed that his brother wasn't with him. "And where is Nicholas?"
"Me and Nicholas got separated and I was wondering around, but I think I found the way to the girl," said Knives as he helped her up, his hand getting dangerously close to her breasts. "I think the door is locked anyway so why don't we go see if we can find another way around to Dante?"
"Yeah sure," replied to Lady keeping the question of how he knew that the door was locked to herself as she walked on.
"What the hell, this fucking door won't open," exclaimed Dante as he tried to tug at the doorknob and then started to kick as well before going all out ballistic on it. "Fine! You know what I didn't even want to go through you in the first place!"
Grumbling angrily, Dante walked up the stairs to the first door on the second level and as soon as he walked in he felt a cold shiver go through his body. Opening the door, Dante found himself staring at the body of a knight in blue armor trapped in ice and holding his severed head as he walked forward. When he got close enough the glass shattered, revealing that the suit of armor could function after years of residing in ice.
"Well this fight looks like it will be interesting," said Dante as he hefted sword up on his shoulder with his right hand.