Back again…. Because I've had no time since I got into college… so, hope you enjoy and thanks to all that've reviewed and even those that haven't… thanks…. Oh... and I don't own the titans... I don't own Devil May Cry or its characters which i'm using for this fic... i think i only own the nameless thugs... and Jeon... i think thats about it... Lol... so, Read on...


"People have hope. Because they cannot see death standing behind them."- Bleach Volume 2

3. Showtime!

Last time on Hard Luck:

She turned her head when she heard the door open, her eyes catching sight of her gun on the arm rest of the couch. She immediately snatched it up, aiming at the person who entered the room.

"Slow down, babe!"

AGX

Raven stared at the man in front of her. Tall with a height of 6'1, he had platinum white hair cut short, ice blue eyes and a super model face and body. He currently stood in front of her, hands in the air as she aimed her gun at him.

"Who the hell are you? Where am I?" Raven asked coldly, the sound of the gun cocking punctuating her questions.

Before the stranger in front of her could answer, another person stepped into the room. Raven stared at the new arrival, which stood there with his hair dripping as he stared at the gun in her hands. He was almost an exact duplicate of the first one, except that his eye color was a little darker than the first one's.

"Hm… I take it she's awake already?" his tone serious compared to his brother's playful one.

"X, get your ass in here," the first one yelled, still staring at her in the eyes.

X walked into the room, holding a plate of food as he responded, "Yeah, yeah, I'm here!" he halted when he caught sight of Raven sitting up with a gun in her hands. "You feeling better?"

"Where am I?" Raven asked, still not lowering her weapon.

"You're in our humble abode," X answered making a grand gesture with his free hand.

"You mean our house, you just squat here for no reason," the first twin spoke, gesturing towards himself and his brother.

"Shut up, I practically own this house with all the repairs I've been forced to make to it," X retorted with a smirk on his face. He turned back to Raven, this time smiling as he placed the food next to her on the couch. "Here, you must be starving."

Raven eyed the plate suspiciously, turning to look at X after doing so.

"Come on! If I would've wanted to give you trouble, I'd have done it when you were fresh wounded. Just relax." X spoke, his voice strangely disarming.

Raven looked at him for a few more seconds before placing the gun down and grabbing the plate of food.

"If this little scene is over, then I'm off to see Setsuna." The second twin spoke, turning around and exiting the room with a small nod to everyone.

"Oh yeah, I forgot." X exclaimed, punching a fist into an open palm. "These two idiots are Dante and Vergil Sparda."

"You shouldn't be calling me an idiot, Genius," Dante snapped at him.

"Yep, that's Dante, the ever so witty one. The cool, reserved one is Vergil." X gave a smirk before asking "Is there anything else you might want?"

Raven shook her head, taking another bite of the fluffy omelet that sat on the plate.

Vergil entered the room again, a steaming mug in his hand. "Your tea was ready," he simply said, setting it down on the corner of the billiards table. Vergil headed out of the room, motioning to Dante that he should follow, leaving both X and Raven alone.

"If you want to take a shower and freshen up, the bathroom's down the hall to your right. Just be careful with the bandages." X informed her, pointing at her shoulder.

Raven looked down, noticing what she lacked. Her shirt was removed, white bandages showing as they wrapped around her upper chest area and her shoulder. She looked up, her eyebrow twitching slightly.

"Your shirt was fucked up beyond repair, so we got rid of it. I took the liberty of breaking into your house to get you some clothes." X's face seemed to go slack, apathy taking over as he continued "I got you several sets of clothing and I also brought you some of your undergarments because I was unsure of what you might want."

Both Vergil and Dante both looked up from what they were doing at the sound of a gunshot, which was followed by several more. Bounding up the stairs, they found X crouching in the hallway, his face bleeding where a bullet nicked him.

Dante moved closer to X, asking "Is there any reason why she just shot up the house?"

"Nothing important," X answered as he wiped the blood off his cheek.

"What do you mean nothing important?" Vergil asked, a dangerous edge in his voice.

"It was my fault before you think of anything. So just let me deal with it." X snapped out before slowly peeking into the room. He headed inside, "I crossed a line, I was wrong."

Both Sparda brothers heard a loud thud along with a yelp of pain and they both rushed into the room. They caught sight of X on the floor cradling his head in his arms as Raven lay back on the couch gently.

"What happened to you?" Dante casually asked, picking up the now empty berretta off the floor.

X mumbled something into the floor, his hands still holding his head.

Vergil looked at Raven and he was joined by Dante. They watched as the stoic girl blushed furiously before turning and looking away. They turned to X, who picked himself up off the ground. "She threw the gun at me."

Dante burst out laughing while X was shooting him a murderous glare. Dante's laughter was slowly joined by the usually stoic Vergil who chuckled openly.

"You shouldn't be laughing, Dante. Setsuna was going to castrate you last time," X snapped out.

Dante's laughter ended abruptly with a wince.

"If Vergil, Trish and me hadn't done anything, you'd never had kids." X gave him a smug look before turning back to Raven. "I apologize. It's just that both Setsuna and Trish weren't around and I only did what I did to try to ensure your comfort."

Raven gave him a wilting look before turning away again.

X shook his head with a sigh before exiting the room. Dante and Vergil both looked at Raven again before following X out of there, both chuckling at X's misfortune.

Raven lay on the couch dozing off, her stomach full and her shoulder burning. 'Idiot.'

She thought back to the moment she fired at X. His movement replaying in her mind as he avoided the bullets. 'He evaded every round. He's not a normal person. ' Slowly, ever so slowly her eyes began to get heavy until sleep over took her.

On the other side of Jump...

"So... the hellborn left you unconscious?" a cold voice reached out across the richly adorned oak paneled office.

"No, it wasn't her! She was down and some guy interfered," Robin almost yelled, his fists balling in anger.

"One boy humiliated you? I thought you were better than that," the same cold voice stated simply.

"No, Mr. Wi-" Robin started to say but he was cut off as the figure raised a hand. 'Bastard...' the thought crossed Robin as he seethed.

"Now, now, mind you temper. You are one of my best operatives... but know this, I won't stand for such manners in my presence..." the man leaned forward revealing a ruggedly handsome man with long blond hair. His red and black eyed gaze gave him a sinister feeling as he met his eyes.

"Yes, sir, I apologize for my unprofessional mannerisms," Robin stated coldly as he stood up straight and gazed at the floor.

"You're dismissed," the man said, waving robin out of the office casually.

'One day fool...' Robin thought as he left the office in silence.

Once outside, he revealed how furious he was. Not only did he miss an opportunity to one-up the hellborns but he got embarrassed by an interloper.

"So, what's the next move?" a voice interrupted Robin's thoughts as he stepped outside of the office. He looked up to catch sight of a tall, well muscled African America male whose name was Victor Stone. A person well known through out Jump for being the one to go to when custom tooling was needed on a vehicle, it didn't matter which type it was.

"We find the interloper and we make him pay. Then we deal with the Hellborn." Robin stated icily. He tossed the car keys to Stone, climbing into the passenger seat of the car.

"You said the kid gave you a warning about going after him and the girl," Stone started as he watched Robin's face contort with anger, "I mean… if the kid did what he did then and there, then I think he might be able to back that warning up."

Robin turned to face him, anger burning in his eyes "What? You think I can't take him? Is that it, Stone?"

Stone raised a hand in his defense "Nah man… I know you can. Where to now?"

"I need to find out who he is and where I can find him…" Robin said turning back and sitting down correctly in the car seat.

"So we're going to see her? Okay then." With that said, Stone put the key into the ignition and started the car as they took off towards their destination.

Jump City docks at midnight…

"So… what are we doing here?" Dante asked, annoyed because he was missing his sleep.

"We're here because someone's trying to take our turf." Vergil's cold voice answered from the shadows where he stood, wearing a blue trench coat with a pair of blue pants, black boots and a blue shirt.

Dante wore the opposite, a long red trench coat, black pants and a black shirt along with the black boots. "Well...where's X? Shouldn't he be on the roof top with the sniper?"

Vergil swore when he heard the muffled scream from nearby. "He's already at it, lets go…Since he just gave us away." He ran into the warehouse in front of him quickly followed by Dante.

Inside the warehouse 2 minutes earlier …

X crept behind a crate, watching as the targets sat around a table playing cards. "Hold on, I'm gonna take a piss, don't look at my cards." One stood up, laying down his cards on the table before walking off towards a shadowy corner behind some crates.

He quickly made his way towards him, hiding behind some crates waiting. He pulled his butterfly knife out of his pocket opening it with a quick twist as he watched the thug finish his business and walk back to the card game. As the thug reached the crates behind which X hid, X punched the knife up to the handle into the thugs throat, earning a muffled scream that broke the silence.

"What the hell was that? Ross, is that you?" The men at the table started looking around.

"It came from over there. Go check it out."

"The dumbass probably just caught himself on his zipper; you know he's an idiot."

"I don't care, just go check it out."

Footsteps echoed throughout the silence as one of the men stood up and began to look around. X pulled out the knife and slid further into the shadows as the thug headed in his direction.

"Dumbass, is that you? Don't tell me you slipped and fell?" The thug stepped closer to his buddy, catching sight of the blood seeping from his neck and he started yelling. "Shit! Ross is dead! Someone's in here and he killed Ross!"

The rest of the men at the table stood up quickly, reaching for weapons to defend themselves with.

Before any of them could step further into the place, a loud gunshot echoed throughout the place as the familiar form of Dante walked forward holding a silver gun in his hand, his red trench coat swishing as he took long steps. "Now, how about you all relax and put those weapons down?"

"Who the hell are you?" One of them asked as they all turned to face Dante, leveling weapons in his direction.

"Who? Me? I'm just someone that doesn't like trespassing." Dante answered before unholstering a second gun, this one ebony black with a slimmer barrel than the silver one in his other hand.

"You're trespassing in Dark Knights territory, what would be the reason?" Vergil's voice filled the silence left by Dante's appearance as he stepped out from behind them. "Depending on your answer, you might live…" he trailed off.

"Screw you! Ross is dead, and so are you!" One of the men screamed as he aimed his weapon at Vergil.

Something flitted quickly in the darkness, glinting off the bit of light inside. The thug screamed as a blade embedded itself in his gun hand.

"Seems like you want death, right?" X said as he embedded another knife into the thug's throat.

Everyone in the room stared at the corpse, watching as X walked up to it and removed his blades from it. "So… you gonna tell me why you're trespassing? Or are you going to stand there and die?"

"Fuck you!" one of the remaining four thugs yelled as he turned towards X and leveled his gun. Before he could pull the trigger, he was dropped by a barrage of bullets from Dante's pistols as Vergil unholstered his own twin revolvers, opening fire as well.

X walked off towards the warehouse entrance, wiping down the blades he used for his kills.

He was out of the warehouse and close to the car when he realized that someone was following him. He turned to catch sight of heavily muscled orange haired man taller than him walking next to a slim, petite blond girl, who just so happened to be holding a silver Smith and Wesson 4500 in her right hand.

Before he could move, she aimed her gun and fired.

Inside Warehouse….

Both Sparda brothers heard the gunshot and immediately realized that X wasn't with them.

A/N: Well, here's another installment of Hard Luck… hope its doesn't suck…  Read, Review… and Adios for now…