†††††††††††
"Lucia?"
"You look like you've just seen a ghost," Lucia smirked
She looked the same as she did before she died nearly twenty-five years ago, except now she had black streaks running down from her bright green eyes, while her hairstyle pretty much remained the same. She was wearing a three-quarter long tight midriff top and leather pants with knee high boots. She also wore fingerless gloves and had a collar of long black feathers up around her head, obscuring it from view from behind, while her trademark cutlaseers were strapped to her thighs
"Ghosts don't frighten me," Dante said, "Seeing dead friends kinda do"
"Well, I'm not dead, not anymore," Lucia said, "Now, I control death"
"Oh man, you should have seen the looks on your faces," Maverick cried, appearing out of the darkness, "Completely priceless!"
"You!" Trish growled, "You're the one responsible for this!"
"Uh, yeah, I completely am," Maverick said with a shrug, "What are you gonna do?"
"So, you resurrected Lucia and resurrected the Goddess through her," Vergil said
"Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner! What does he win, Johnny?"
"I can't believe you did this, Maverick," Dante said, "This is low, even for you"
"No, it's not. I'm a demon. There is no such thing as low," Maverick said
"Well, at any rate, you're not resurrecting Mephisto," Dante said to Lucia
"Watch me," Lucia replied
"So, I'm guessing she's an old friend of yours," Jenny said, "And she died years ago"
"I watched as her body burned," her mother said, "This is not possible"
"And yet it is," Lili added
"Now that my powers have completely regenerated, I can raise Mephisto," Lucia said, "And you will not stop me"
"Watch me," Dante echoed
"Time to bring her down," Vergil said
He lunged at Lucia and drew Yamato, but Lucia was fast, drawing her cutlaseers and blocking Vergil, before doing a twisting kick that caught Dante in the chest when he came flying in with Alastor drawn. Trish fired a lightning bolt, which Lucia dodged, as she threw a dagger into Trish's shoulder. Jenny and Tristan moved in, but Lucia blocked them both and brought her legs up to kick them in the head, throwing them away. Nero reached out with the Diablo Bringer, but Lucia sliced into the arm, forcing him to retract it back. Maverick grinned and created a large gate of ice in front of Nero, Celeste and James, but the latter melted it with his flames
"Let's heat it up," Maverick cried, "Tonight, hell freezes over"
"In your dreams," Celeste said, throwing a glaive
Maverick leapt out of the way, as Celeste caught him in the chest with a kick, before whirling around with the other glaive and slashing him across the chest. He created a sword out of ice and sliced, but Celeste blocked, kneeing him in the gut, then slicing him across the chest again, before kicking him onto his back
"Okay, that hurt," he muttered
Lucia deflected Envy and kicked James in the chest, throwing him against the wall, before parrying Dante's Stinger and stabbing him in the stomach. He gritted his teeth, as Lucia threw him off the cutlaseers to block Vergil's blow and smack Trish aside at the same time. Tristan slashed with the Devil Wings, missing when Lucia teleported out of the way and threw several knives into his torso. He cried out in pain, slowly removing the daggers, as Lucia took on Lili and Nero at the same time
Lili stabbed, then spun around with a slash, but Lucia jumped over the blade, before blocking Nero's Dark Bringer and kicking him in the groin. He gritted his teeth in pain, as Lucia spun over Yitoma and slashed Lili across the shoulder. Revving up the White Queen, Nero slashed, but Lucia ducked out of the way, kicking Jenny in the stomach, then spinning around and blocking Trish's Stinger. Dante and Celeste came in at the same time, but Lucia jumped up and kicked them in the faces
"And you call yourselves the saviours of the world?" she asked smugly
"Never called myself that," Dante said, "Okay, so I am. What you gonna do?"
"Oh I don't know, call me crazy, but we kill you?" Maverick suggested
He fired a blast of ice, which Lili smacked aside, wearing her Hunter Armour. Maverick smirked and raised his hands into the air, creating a shower of deadly ice shards. Only Lucia was unaffected as the shards sliced into everyone else. Concentrating his powers, Maverick then unleashed a large blast of ice that turned everyone into frozen statues. Moving swiftly, Lucia sliced and slashed everyone, while shattering his or her icy prisons. Dante stumbled forth, multiple injuries covering his body, but they started to heal, as he swung Alastor at Lucia
She blocked and slashed him across the stomach, then locking Yamato between her cutlaseers and twisting, allowing her to kick Vergil in the head and flip him onto his back. Trish fired a few bolts of charged lightning, but Lucia danced around the bolts, before teleporting in front of Trish and doing a jumping spin kick that threw Trish into Nero, taking them down, as Lucia then defended against Jenny's moves
"And I thought you were all better than this," Lucia said, smacking Jenny aside
"Well, honestly, we've never gone up against a goddess," Vergil said, "This is quite a first for all of us"
He sliced upwards with Yamato, then whirled around and slashed with the Hellebore. Lucia struck him rapidly in the chest with the hilts of her cutlaseers, before doing a spin kick. Vergil slammed against the wall, but got up and summoned the Phantom Cannon, before taking aim and firing. Lucia smacked the shot aside into Celeste, before snap-kicking Tristan on the jaw and slashing forth. He managed to block and broke away, slicing at her head, but she ducked and swept his legs out from under him
"This is just too easy," Lucia said, "Are you sure you're not holding back?"
James let loose with a large fireball, but Maverick froze it on him, as Lili moved in and attacked. Lucia blocked all of her moves and sliced her across the chest, before kicking her along the ground, then stopping Nero's strike and doing a scissors kick that threw him against the wall. Dante came in with his trademark Stinger, but Lucia did a pirouette around him and stabbed him through the back with both blades
"Sorry, Dante, but this time around, you lose"
She then ripped her cutlaseers up out through his shoulders. Dante cried out, as Lucia stabbed him again and threw him out of the window, sending him plummeting eighty storeys down into the road below. Vergil and Celeste lunged at Lucia, but she blocked and smacked them aside, before kicking Trish in the stomach, then throwing a knife into Tristan, Lili and Jenny each, as Nero struck with his Devil Bringer. Lucia pushed off his arm and kicked him in the face, then impaled James with both blades
"As fun as it was, I have things to do," Lucia said
She kicked James off the blades, before disappearing, as Maverick did the same. Down on the road, Dante rolled over painfully, wincing as he sat up, blood splattering his body, most of it his own, as he slowly got to his feet, his injuries already healing
†††††††††††
Trismagia roared in agony as his heads were destroyed from the combined might of Kyrie, Lady and David, as the Furiataurus fell to Michael and Cameron
"Well, that must have been an effort and a half," drawled a voice
Everyone whirled around to see Lucia and Maverick walking towards them
"Lucia?" Lady said in surprise, "But…you're dead"
"No, I was dead," Lucia replied, "Now I control death"
"You're the Goddess of Death?" David said, "So…you're evil?"
"More or less"
Maverick created an igloo of ice around Nero's two sons, blocking them off, as Lucia moved forward with lightning speed. David grabbed his automatic rifle and fired, but Lucia deflected the bullets with her cutlaseers, before slicing David open. He fell forward into a pool of blood, as Lady fired a rocket at Lucia. She sliced it in half, teleporting in front of Lady and slicing her down her torso. Lady groaned as she fell over into her own blood, while Kyrie launched several balls of energy. Lucia dodged them, making her way to Kyrie, before impaling her through the stomach
"Game over," Lucia smirked
She ripped the cutlaseers away, as she and Maverick left the tower. The igloo melted, as Michael and Cameron raced to their mother's lifeless body, before checking on their aunt and uncle, finding that they were deceased as well
†††††††††††
Uh, yea, that doesn't look good, does it?