Just bringing out another chapter of Hard Luck… Thanks to all that've reviewed… and I'm going over this again… cause I don't own anything Teen Titans, none of the Devil May Cry characters that are here as well as one of the characters to a manga called Negima…

"To reach the top, We must crush their dreams and climb atop their shattered hopes!" – Air Gear, chapter 91

4. Breaks…

Last time on Hard Luck:

X 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 leveled her gun and fired.

AGX

Both Dante and Vergil ran outside, eyes roving around as they searched for enemies. Satisfied that they weren't in any immediate danger, they headed towards their car in search of X. They found a shell casing and a blood stain on the ground along with one of X's knives several meters away from the car.

"He got shot…" Vergil stated as he picked up the knife and put it away.

"Great. Just great," Dante muttered as he looked around for any trace of his whereabouts.

Both Dante and Vergil heard the rumble of an engine and they turned in time to see a sleek looking black Mercedes SLR drive away. "Damn windows are tinted," Dante spat behind holstering his guns and walking off towards their own car.

They reached the car in record time, when Vergil raised an arm to bar Dante's way. "Wait…" he said as he pointed out the blood pooling near the car along with the bloody hand prints on the paint job.

"He better not be the one that did this." Dante pulled out Ivory, finger on the trigger while Vergil withdrew both Umbra and Luce, his twin revolvers. Dante put a hand to the car handle and raised his hand, counting down to 1 from 3 before he yanked it open.

"Hey! Hey! It's me, don't shoot!" X yelled as he raised his bloody hands in front of himself.

Vergil immediately holstered both his revolvers and quickly climbed in alongside of X. Dante was already jumping into the driver's seat, "We're going to go see the doc, just hang on." His cocky attitude replaced by a seriousness that could rival Vergil as he drove quickly.

"How'd this happen?" Vergil asked, as he examined the gunshot wound to X's side.

"Some blonde chick and a big orange haired guy just popped out of nowhere," X managed to speak, clenching his teeth, trying to fight off the wave of darkness that tried to swallow him. "The blonde just shot me."

"I swear if you fuck my car up, you're gonna pay." Dante said, trying to lighten the mood a bit but it was useless. Vergil silenced him with a glare before turning back to X.

"She didn't say anything? Who she worked for? Nothing?" Vergil pressed on, trying to figure out who the shooter was from a long list of enemies they had accumulated already.

"Nothing… and the worst part is, I've never seen her before…" X hissed in pain as Dante took a corner too fast before he continued. "So she's either… a new gun… or someone's trying to take us out of this scene…" before he passed out.

Later on in at an undisclosed location…

"He was supposed to be one of the Dark Knights?" a sickeningly sweet female voice asked.

"Yes," a gruff male voice answered her.

"He wasn't much, he's not worthy of using the name," the female spoke again before she stepped forward revealing herself to be the same blond haired girl that wounded X.

"He managed to wound Mammoth severely," the gruff voice pointed out "and you did catch him off guard. Now imagine how he'd react if he'd been expecting that encounter."

The blond girl stayed silent, the point made by the other made a lot of sense.

"Now, we're bound to meet them again. The Knights take care of their own."

"Let them come and be washed away in a tide of sin…" the female answered before stepping out of the room.

Somewhere else…

"Great, just great. Now we've got two people to take care of," Dante grumbled he drove back home, glancing through the rearview mirror every once in a while. X was sprawled out in the back, his half closed before he said "Keep grumbling and I'll make sure you join us…" before he dozed off again.

X's familiar ring tone echoed throughout the car and he gave a groan before shifting slightly to get it.

"You carry your phone on a mission?" Vergil asked arching an eyebrow before grabbing X's jacket and answering the phone. "Hello," he waited for several seconds before continuing "yes, this is his phone, hold on a moment."

He handed the phone to X giving him a look as he answered it.

"Yo…" he answered weakly. "I'm not up for any jobs… not any time soon, anyway." He winced once he heard the yelling on the phone before hanging up. "Well, someone's mad…" he stated before dropping the phone and closing his eyes.

"Don't go to sleep yet, we're home." Vergil opened the door, helping X get to his feet and helping him inside the house.

"So what do we tell his guest?" Dante asked once they delivered the wounded X to his room.

"Nothing, she is to be told nothing." Vergil answered, stalking off towards the kitchen where he found the petite, raven haired Japanese beauty named Setsuna. She currently sat at the table drinking tea and having a staring contest with Raven.

"Yo, Setsuna, what's up?" Dante asked, falling back to his bravado and cockiness.

Setsuna turned and gave him a nod before standing and bowing to Vergil, who merely bowed in return before turning to Raven. "Are you feeling better?" he asked, his eyes visually inspecting her shoulder and the way she moved it slowly.

"It's healing perfectly." Raven answered shortly before returning to her tea while Setsuna walked off towards X's room while Dante sauntered off towards his room.

"X never told me where you received that injury or why you were carrying your own firearm, care to enlighten me?" Vergil asked coolly taking a seat across from her.

"I carry a weapon for protection," She replied, taking a sip of her tip.

"Yes, but that seemed to fail you." Vergil arched an eyebrow as her face contorted into one of irritation.

"What about X?" she challenged him.

"What about him? He carries knives since he doesn't need a gun," Vergil stood up and went into the fridge, taking out one of Dante's coronas. He opened it after taking his seat again as he waited for Raven.

"Where exactly is he at the moment?" Raven asked, "He brought me here and now he's gone?"

"Nope, was just resting…" X grunted from where he leaned against kitchen's doorframe.

"You will be the death of me, Styler," Setsuna appeared behind him, her voice soft yet firm as she tried to herd X back to his room.

"Come on, Se-kun," X whined and Vergil shook his head at the sight while Raven again was forced to try and evaluate X.

'Who exactly is he?' Raven thought, mentally ticking off items on her list. 'He's in excellent physical shape, he's trained and he carries weapons.' Her thoughts were interrupted when X gave a groan of pain and she quickly looked up.

His side was red with blood. She realized that it was a gunshot wound and she turned towards Vergil, who called Dante and they both carried X back to his room. Raven followed them up, silent as they put him back in bed when Vergil turned to Setsuna "Someone tried to kill him. I don't know who yet, but I'll find out. In the meantime, make sure he stays in bed and take care of him."

Setsuna nodded before going to her room and returning with several weapons.

Vergil turned to leave and Raven was in front of him, a questioning look in her eyes. "What happened to him?" she asked, "I thought he could take care of himself."

Vergil didn't answer; he just stared at her as he waited for her to get out of the way.

Dante appeared behind her, seeing the look in Vergil's eyes, he quickly pulled Raven out of the way. As Vergil stalked off, Dante warned Raven "Don't mess with him, he's not in a good mood and when he's not, there's trouble ahead."

The next morning, Dante woke up to the smells of breakfast. It took him a few minutes to stumble down the stairs to where X sat at the kitchen table, waiting for a tall blond haired woman to finish with breakfast. She was none other than Trish, a woman whose beauty belied her temper.

Setsuna appeared at the kitchen entrance eyes dulled by drowsiness as she took her seat at the table. After a quick meal that consisted of scrambled eggs and sausages, X looked around realizing that Vergil wasn't at the table.

"Hey, where's Vergil?" he asked.

"He took your little bird home," Trish answered with a smile as she watched X's reaction. The door opening caught everyone's attention and they all turned to look.

"So, now that everyone's here, I have some news." Vergil walked into the room, his face grim as he tossed something on the table. X reached out and grabbed it, looking at the small crest in the shape of a strange stylized S it had engraved on it.

"Is this what I think it is?" X asked, his voice remaining neutral.

"The mark of Scathe." Setsuna spoke quietly, her eyes revealing only cold fury.

"Where did you find this?" Dante asked, grabbing the crest out of X's hand and examining it closely. "And what would the Hellborns have to do with us?" He tossed the crest back on the table.

"This was on one of the corpses we left in that warehouse," Vergil answered as Trish gave a shrug.

"I don't know… they've upheld their half of the deal so far, so why would they suddenly make a move as bold as that?" Trish asked "That's not their style."

"We'll find out whether or not they had a hand in this," Setsuna stated calmly "If they are, we'll crush them."

Downtown Jump, 4 hours later…

"Where have you been?" was all that was asked.

"I was wounded during my fight with Slade's lieutenant and I've been resting," Raven answered, her voice removed of all emotions.

"You weren't at your quarters for several days now," another voice stated. The owner of said voice stepped forward revealing to be a tall beautiful woman, her long indigo hair framing a face that looked similar to Raven's. "So, tell me, where you with a boy?" she asked, a wicked smile on her lips as she leaned forward.

"Arella, now is not the time for this," the only male in the room stated before returning his gaze to Raven. "Since you failed this task, then I'll be leaving it to the hands of more capable person." He gave her a cold look before waving her out of his office.

"Don't be so hard on her, she's a teenage girl. She can't exactly match up to your expectations so quick," Arella's voice held a reprimanding tone as she stepped out of the office as well.

A/N: So ends another piece of Hard Luck…. It was probly full of suck, and I apologize… Hope ya read and review… Adios for now…

kun- The suffix is used at the end of boys names to express familiarity or endearment. X uses it with Setsuna because he views her as someone close to him... and he likes to mess with her.