Author's note: HEHE! I can't believe it! I got my fourth short chapter up! I've noticed that I've only gotten one review for this fic... That makes me upset. This is a GOOD story. It deserves reviews! I don't care if they're bad! That means that you are helping me get better! I'm taking a wild guess here, but I think the reason no one is reviewing my story is because of A: my name, B: my previous fics, or C: they don't read my story and are not following the plot. Tsk, tsk, tsk… U hurt my feelings… maybe, if I get at least five reviews, then I'll post a fifth chapter. I'm doing all this writing in my creative writing class, and if I stop writing, I won't pass! U don't want to see me fail, now do u? Then REVIEW FOR GODS SAKE!
Standing on top of a bookshelf, Crystal was safe for a few moments from the demons searching for her. It was dark, and from what she's seen, they don't see too well in the dark. Unfortunately, one of the bony figures made her out and called out to his companions in a deadly moan. When the leader turned back around, she was gone. There was a moment's delay before Crystal dropped from the ceiling, pulled out her five foot katana, and put away with all five of the demons. She sheathed her blood covered sword, and then slowly stood up. Crystal walked over to a shelf then skimmed through the books. Most of the titles didn't interest her. She was looking for a certain book.
"You must be looking for something special here," Dante said, just casually strolling up to her.
Crystal jumped, startled, unaware that Dante had even come in. "How did you get here so fast?"
"You took care of everything for me. Gosh, you could have just left me a shadow cat! So how come you came here?" Dante said, picking up a book and flipped through the pages. "Damn, no pictures."
"I'm here to find information…"
"Well, duh!" Dante retorted, throwing his hands up in the air. "Information about what?"
"I need information on finding my family murderer! I know that he is still out there. The only thing I know about him is that his name is Alacur. So I thought if I came here, I would find something, but I've got nothing so far." Crystal implied, leaning up against the bookshelf, and then let herself fall to the floor.
"You know, maybe I could possibly help you find this guy," Dante mumbled under his breath as he sat down next to her and put his arm around her shoulders. "After all, I am a demon hunter and I have never lost a case."
"I came looking for you. I meant to get your help. That, and the fact that you just so happened to be living in the same town as the library I needed to get to. I guess that means you are going to help me find Alacur," She just stared ahead, not really looking at anything in particular. "I think we have some uninvited guests coming."
The two white-haired half-breeds got up, turned into their Devil-trigger, and then went into the next room to fight the leftover demons.
"So, how did you find out that you were part demon?" Dante asked, as he took out a blood-goyle with a few slashes of his sword and several rounds from his shotguns, Ebony and Ivory.
"Well, I guess it was when my father fought Alacur the second time," Crystal responded, slashing through the three abyss that were heading her way with her specially made daggers that curled around the handles. "It took me a while to comprehend exactly what was going on. I always felt that I had some kind of special power inside of me, just waiting to break free." She barreled through the soul eaters and ended up back to back with Dante.
"So, you say that this guy's name is Alacur? I think I may have some information about him back at my shop," Dante said, as he shot at the soul eaters and Crystal cracked out her ice whip and started freezing every enemy she whipped. "Nice whip! Where'd you get it?"
"My father gave me lessons since I was eight. He taught me all of the moves I know now, except for a few I made up that are tweaked versions of his," she yelled, as she fought off the last two blood-goyles. "Wait, you have information back at your shop? Why didn't you tell me this before? I need that information!"
"You should have spoken up and told me what it was that you needed. I think that I have a few books and journals that I found here," Dante commented, twirling his guns around his index fingers then putting them in the holsters on his back. "I thought the books seemed kind of interesting. I thought that maybe I could get another mission if I read through them. We can go back now that we finished these guys off."
"Fine, but I need those books. They mean the world to me since they are the only things remaining I could use to track down Alacur. He will pay in blood for what he did to my father and sister." Crystal remarked as she turned around and headed out of the library door.
"Okay. You want me to order some pizza when we get back to the shop?" Dante asked, chasing after her.
"Is that the only thing you eat, pizza? You really need to try something new," Crystal demanded. "I have to get you out more…"
Stepping out into the blinding sun, Crystal searched the street for a decent eatery. She couldn't live off of pizza alone. "Hey, Dante, do you have a Chinese place around here? At least it would be different than what we had last night. Do you have any ideas?" Crystal said stepping over the rubble in the street left over from the Temen-ni-gru breaking out of the ground.
"Uh, yeah, how about we get pizza?" Dante joked, emerging from the dark and gloomy building.
"Ugh! No PIZZA!" Crystal screamed, turning into her devil trigger with flames engulfing her, scaring Dante quite a bit.
"Fine, we can go to Tony's. They have quite an assortment of foods. Just don't get on his bad side." Dante said, waving his arms around. "Here, I'll show you where it is so that if you ever want to go there again for some other meals, you can." Dante gestured down the street.
"That's better." Crystal returned to her human form and followed Dante to the restaurant.
The outside of the restaurant had moss growing on the walls and iron bars over the windows, much like a prison. The windows were covered by neon lights of Alcoholic beverages and outdated take out menus. Dante opened the door and gestured into the dark restaurant. Inside the eatery, the walls were cleaner, but the stench of cigarettes slightly ruined the appeal. They sat down at a two-person booth and waited for the waitress to come.
"Hey, baby. I haven't seen you around lately," the young waitress flirted to Dante. "Who is this girl you're with tonight?"
"Hey, Christy, this is Crystal. She says she is my cousin," Dante said firmly.
"Hi," was all Crystal said.
Christy put a hand on her hip. "Well, she looks almost like you. She has very similar facial features as you. Back to business. What do you want tonight?"
Dante glanced down at the menu. "I'll have a beer and some piz-"
Crystal cleared her throat, hoping Dante got her point.
"I'll have a coke and a burger," Dante gave the menu back to Christy then glared at Crystal. "Happy?"
"Yes, I'm happy. I'll have a coke and some pasta with the sauce on the side." Crystal handed her menu to Christy as well.
"So-" before Dante could say anymore, a Hell Vanguard busted the restaurant door in and headed straight towards Dante, and possibly Crystal. "Damn it! Can't I go one day without having to get rid of you guys?"
Crystal jumped up as well and quickly took out her ice whip. "How about I take care of this one?" Crystal smirked.
"Sure, just get it out of here and into the street!"
Crystal wrapped her whip around the demon's scythe, freezing it, then threw it out of the restaurant causing it to shatter into millions of pieces. The demon followed her out of the eatery then lunged at her once she stood outside. Crystal jumped out of the way at the last second.
"Oh, so that's how you want to play, eh?" Crystal pulled out her hand scythes and charged right back at the Hell Vanguard, cutting off its arms. As it stood in shock, Crystal stabbed the monstrosity in its stomach, causing it to turn to dust and just blow away. "That was pretty easy."
Just as Crystal thought the fight was over, a medallion rose up from the ground and shone brightly.
"Crystal, look out!" Dante yelled, running towards her and then hit her harder than a professional football quarterback. The medallion shot a beam of light, hitting Dante and Crystal, who lie on the paved street. They fell unconscious as the blinding light absorbed them.