Hello, all you sinners! I hope you enjoyed the last chapter because we are going to continue this adventure. When we left off, Charlie banned all alcohol in the hotel but took everyone on her family's personal yacht. Terry and Applejack started hooking up, Alastor is seasick, and a pirate crew is ready to try and take the ship. Now for some Q&A's
Darkmessiah17: You will have to read to find out.
Dragon Blaze-X: Not sure? Shave his belly, Put him in a longboat with booze? Let him sleep with the captain's daughter?
Clown2107: Yes I did say that, my mistake. But let's put it this way. Dante has to fight a powerful angel to get an "Angel Arms" and I don't think God, Michael, or Sparda would want to send down a powerful angel just for executioner day. The enemies of DMC will show their faces soon, I just can't tell you when.
Nantono: Alastor will have a part to play soon.
Red Dusk 369: Let me put it this way. Zephyrus is at Millie's farmhouse where he can rest and stuff. All Dante needs to do is whistle and the horse will come whenever.
Anyway, Let's dive into Hell!
Mission 17: Devil's Waves Part 2
Cruiser stepped up to his position in the batting cage as he gripped his bat, keeping an eye on the pitching machine. 'Alright, you son of a bitch. Let's see what you got,' the greaser thought to himself, doing some practice swings to get a feeling for the weight before getting back into position. When the first ball was thrown, Cruiser kept his eye on it, then hit a foul. "Come on, you can do better than that, Cruiser," he told himself as he prepared himself and swung at the second ball thrown at him seeing that he hit himself a single. "Alright, alright one more. You can do this. You can do better than this," he told himself as he got ready for the third pitch as the machine threw a fireball. Cruiser saw this, swung his bat so hard that sparks flew from the bat as the ball was sent flying high as it ripped the netting in the cage and flew out of the boat and into the water. "Home Run!"
"I'd say, that had to be 300 feet at best," Dante said, approaching the greaser demon without his coat on.
"I bet that nothing compared to the things you hit with that giant sword of yours," Cruiser said leaning on the bat with one hand.
"Somewhat. Sent an energy blast right back at a giant arachnid," Dante told Cruiser about his fight with a demonic spider-like creature called Phantom.
"Awesome," the greaser commented. "Hey, where's your gal? I thought you two would go somewhere romantic?"
"She's with Vaggie in the spa," Dante told him. "Spas aren't my style, so I thought I'd check up on everyone for her."
"You're not worried that Vaggie would one-up you somehow," Cruiser asked.
"Why should I? We both agreed to share her and she's cool with it," the Son of Sparda told the demon from the 1950s. "Besides, I can't take all of Charlie's time. Vaggie was with her first and they deserve some time with each other."
Cruiser nodded as he listened to Dante. "Alright. So, did you slide into home base yet?"
"That's none of your business," the Son of Sparda said as he wasn't answering the topic of him and Charlie in the bedroom.
"Come on, man! It's the Princess of all of Hell. I'm sure you two would do some kinky stuff."
Okay, fine. We didn't do it," Dante told the Fonzie ripoff, who looked to be shocked.
"What!?" The greaser screamed in surprise at the news. Sure they dated recently after the concert. They started to go out on dates, and kiss. But he would have thought that Dante would have at least indulged in feeling up Charlie. "Why not?"
"Not enough time. I have to kill demons while also finding new clients for the hotel. And she's focused on everyone else getting rehabilitated," Dante told him not even bothered by it. "Plus, I haven't moved into her room yet."
"Then what the fuck are you waiting for," Cruiser asked the demon hunter. "For you to die and somehow end up down here?"
"Well, that's not happening anytime soon," Dante said as he got into the batting cage and hit a ball with the flat side of his sword, also breaking the net like Cruiser and making it go even farther than the greasers. "Right now, I have all the time in the world," he said, hitting another ball and doing the same thing as the first one.
"Just don't you wait too long. Right now, the Latina moth girl has you beat on that department," Cruiser said as he entered the cage next to the Son of Sparda and joined him.
As the two were enjoying a contest to see how well they could hit, one of the baseballs floated in the water before a fish-like tail knocked it back onto the deck. "Huh? What did that," Dante asked as he looked at the ball rolling back toward the cage. Shrugging his shoulders, he just continued batting while something peaked out from the water when he wasn't noticing.
Spying on the ship from the water, a scaly lilac head full of long auburn hair floated on the surface. The figure's eyes were green with marigold slits and dark rose sclera. 'I wonder if they're a threat or could be of some use,' the figure thought to itself as it plopped back into the water.
"This is so relaxing, isn't it, Vaggie," Charlie asked her girlfriend as the masseuse on the ship tended to the princess using some special oil while massaging her bareback.
"You said it, Hun," Vaggie agreed as another spa worker spread massage oil on her back. "Mmm~ I needed this," she moaned in pleasure as the succubus massaged her shoulders and back. "Everything at the hotel has been so stressful. But this just makes me feel like it's all melting away."
Charlie laughed as she saw her girlfriend thoroughly enjoy her massage. "I'm glad to hear you're loving it," the princess said before leaning over to Vaggie and kissing her on the lips. "Everyone I've checked is having fun, too. Well, except Al. He's a little sick at the moment."
"I would have thought that pompous cheesy talk show shitlord would have been good on boats," Vaggie remarked as she and Charlie felt their lower backs being massaged by the succubi masseuses.
"He said it was too big," Charlie mentioned. "Anyways, Angel and the girls from Valentino's were all having fun at the pool last I checked."
"As long as they're keeping everything in their pants and private, I could care less," Vaggie said as she felt her legs get rubbed.
"Speaking of private, Applejack finally tempted Terry, and they…"
"You walked in on them, didn't you," Vaggie guessed.
"Me and Dante did. At least it was before they started rocking the boat too much," Charlie confessed.
"That's going to be a problem back at the hotel," Vaggie grumbled, but soon moaned as the masseuse returned to her back. "But I can't be mad at these magic fingers working away at me," she sighed blissfully. "A little higher."
"That's what happens when my mom's the one to choose the spa workers," Charlie said before she felt her chest get grabbed by the masseuse. "Hey, not there," she blurted out with her face turning red. The masseuse quickly retracted her hands off Charlie's chest and chose to do her waist instead.
After seeing Charlie's expression at the sudden chest grab, Vaggie chuckled. "You'd definitely want to save those for me, Hun," she teased in a way that Charlie knew wasn't normal for Vaggie. She thought it was probably the massage oil releasing her inhibitions or something.
"Well, you or Dante," Charlie admitted.
"Me or Dante," Vaggie repeated. "Charlie, if you want to sleep with him, I'm okay with it."
"Really," Charlie asked in surprise.
"As long as he doesn't hurt you. If he does, I'm going to see how much pain the Son of Sparda can take," Vaggie protectively declared. But after, she began to blush. "And… maybe if I get to watch."
Hearing this, Charlie had a devious grin on her face. "Vagatha, I had no idea you were such a voyeur," the princess teased.
Vaggie only sputtered as she couldn't give an actual answer. "Let's just get in the hot tub," she said as she stood up.
"Right behind you," Charlie replied as she and her girlfriend went to enjoy the spa's bubbling bath for themselves. When the hot water surrounded them, the two cuddled up with each other and sighed in bliss. "This is good. I wonder how Dante's doing with the others?"
"UUUUGGGHHHH! Not a single drop of booze anywhere!"
"What did you expect after everything at the hotel earlier this week," Dante said as he rolled his eyes at the winged cat, who was in an empty bar with not a single bottle of alcohol.
"We did kinda deserve it," Bullet said, wearing blue swim trunks with a matching Hawaiian shirt on with bone patterns.
"Well, you fucking mutt, I can't live with or without it," Husk hissed at the hellhound.
"Don't call me a mutt, furball," Bullet growled right back at him.
"Okay, break it up you two. The deed is done and you can't go back in time," Dante said while standing in between them. "Husk, I know you're still upset over this. But I bet you can mix up something that resembles the drinks you like?"
"But I won't get drunk," Husk complained.
"Not my problem. Still, it should keep you occupied for some time until the ban is lifted," the demon hunter pointed out. Husk only grumbled before he decided to work on his bartending skills by making virgin cocktails.
While the cat demon worked on making drinks, Lechuza flew into the bar. "Hey, we got a problem, Dante," the owl demon said.
"What kind of problem," Dante asked. Being taken out of the bar, Lechuza pulled a telescope out of her hair and gave it to him, pointing out something in the distance. Taking a look at where the harpy was pointing to, Dante started to see what got Lechuza in such a panic. "Ah. That kind of problem," he said before handing the telescope back to the owl harpy and looked around to find an intercom and spoke into it. "Attention, all passengers. This is your resident demon hunter speaking. We seem to have pirates after us and they will most likely attack and pillage the ship. Everyone meet in the dining room to discuss what to do," Dante said before hanging up the intercom and heading toward the aforementioned room.
"So what is the plan, Admiral," Lechuza asked as she followed behind the demon hunter.
"That's something we need to discuss when we have enough people," Dante told her as he put on his long red coat from the chair he hung it on and rested Rebellion on his shoulder.
"Well, I don't know about you, but I didn't see any type of weaponry attached to this ship while flying," Lechuza stated.
"Let's see what we have to use on a defensive level," Dante told her as he kicked the door to the dining room open. Charlie, Vaggie, Angel, Bullet, and everyone but Alastor were gathered around a table. "Thank you all for being here. I hope I didn't keep any of you waiting."
"What gives?! Pirates? I mean, the only ones I dealt with are the copyright-avoiding sleazebags that make the video look like crap," Angel said with an open white shirt on, both sets of arms folded.
"We'll probably be slaughtered and made into their playthings," Salvia says in worry.
"No one is going to be anyone's playthings," Dante assures them.
"Wouldn't it be better if you just jumped on their ship and slaughtered them like you always do," Applejack asked as she had her arms around Terry.
"Yeah, but I don't feel like swimming in black water trying to fight off anything lurking in that mess of an ocean," Dante stated. "I've had my share of cutting my way out of monster stomachs when I was eaten alive."
"Huh, kinky," Angel stated before he bent down and was now holding his piglet, Fat Nuggets.
"You smuggled your pet on board," Vaggie asked the spider demon.
"Charlie brought you," Angel said, getting into the moth demoness's face, sticking his tongue out.
"If I wasn't still coming down from that massage, I would stab you in the junk," Vaggie growled as a vein started bulging on her forehead.
"Oh, come on! The grease monkey brought his pet. Besides, who's going to feed him when we're all on this ship," Angel said, trying to make a point. "Unless you are one of those people who like to see animals starve. Are you Vaggie?"
"Angel, you know she loves Fat Nuggets like any other animal," Charlie said as she stepped in before Angel could piss off Vaggie again. "But we should come up with something or those pirates will be eating your pig."
At that moment, a spark ignited in the former gangster porn star. "Not on Mama's watch," he said as he revealed his third set of arms holding a Tommy gun. "If those barnacle-covered fish fuckers lay one fin on my baby, I'm going to make sure they'll be sleeping with the fishes!"
"I'm liking his style more and more," Lechuza whispered to both Dia and Summer.
"Anyway, if Angel is done raging out, let's get back to planning," Dante said to get everyone's attention.
"Wait, shouldn't they know about this ship? I mean, Charlie's mom is on the side of it," Niffty mentioned.
Upon hearing that, everyone looked at each other. "No, it doesn't seem they know about the boat. At most they think it's a rich fan's," Charlie said to everyone in the room.
"Then let's welcome them," Dante said with a smirk now having a good idea how to beat these approaching pirates. "Okay, here's what we are going to do…"
The Kraken was fast approaching the ship as it made its way toward the boat, Captain Maelstrom chuckled as he drew his weapon. With a large and rusty cutlass in the style of a sawtooth shark, he grinned as he made a declaration to his enemy's vessel. "Hand over all your loot, you rich stinking snobs! If you don't, then prepare to have your ship taken and sunk to the bottom of the black sea!" A long pause of nothing but silence as Maelstrom made his announcement. "Very well. Prepare to fire!" he told his men as they were readying the cannons. "Alright, men on my mark! Ready, Aim…"
"My eye," one seaweed-clad crewmember shouted as he had a baseball suddenly flew onto the ship and got lodged into his eye socket.
"What in Davy Jones!? Are they fighting back," Maelstrom exclaimed.
"Actually, it looks like it just be a baseball, Cap'n," an eel crewmember said as he looked at the white ball that landed next to them. But the eel gets a baseball hit on his head, giving him a lump.
"That's still an attack, fire the cannons," Maelstrom commanded as cannonballs started to fly towards the Apple of Eden. But before any could hit the yacht, the iron balls turned bright yellow before disappearing in puffs of smoke. "Any of you hairy-palmed algae-sucking swabbers want to tell me what the fuck just happened," Maelstrom asked his men.
"We have no idea Cap'n, they just disappeared," a lobster sinner said before they heard splashing. Looking down in the water, the lobster read a message written on a plank of wood. "Why not come over here and take us like men, you mermaid-lusting hook-handed sea-monkeys!"
"They dare to insult us!? Board the ship, you good-for-nothing yellow-bellied sea dogs," Maelstrom shouted at his men.
All of the pirates grabbed boarding planks and started to get onto the Apple of Eden to search the ship for anything or anyone. "Huh? Where is everyone? This place is deader than a ghost ship."
"Let's split up and look for them," a Kappa said as the crew split into several groups.
The first group was on the fourth level looking to see if anyone was around. "Keep your eyes peeled on anything moving," a manta demon told his shipmates.
"I think I saw something," a lobster pointed out as he believed something moved. The others looked and saw a small shadow moving around the corner, skittering like a cockroach. "After it," he said as the group ran toward the shadow.
After chasing it around the halls and deck, the group stopped as they were face to face with many baseball pitching machines that were aimed right at them. "So glad you guys could make it to the game," Cruiser said as he walked up next to the machines with a bat in hand, and Franky on his shoulders. "Hey, doll. Mind giving me a hand?"
"Okay," Niffty said as she quickly flicked the machines on and set them to their highest pitching speed.
"Not again," the seaweed-covered demon whimpered as his swollen eye managed to go wide. Just as he said that, baseballs came flying at the pirates like machine guns firing on them. Most of the pirates were getting hit in the face and arms, but the not-so-lucky ones got hit in their groins.
"Batter up," Cruiser said as he let loose some practice swings before he started to approach the pirates as balls were still coming towards them. Under fire from the baseballs, the pirates were left open to Crusier smacking them around with ease and knocking most of them into the water. "And a double for the Cruise! The crowd goes wild! Going up to bat again," he said as he knocked a skeleton pirate's skull right into the water. "Home Run!"
Niffty was cheering alongside him as the pirates were floating in the water. "That was neat! Can you do it again," Niffty said as she clung to Cruiser's shoulder like another monkey.
"Sure thing, baby. Let's lure the next batch this way," Cruiser told her as he took out his comb and fixed up his hair quickly.
"They have to be here. I can smell the cheap perfume," a bull shark crew member said as he sniffed the air with his group trailing alongside him.
"Hey! That stuff ain't cheap, you walking talking piles of sushi," Angel screamed from the end of the hall. "Oops."
"Way to go, Angel. You got us caught," Dia said, disappointed at the spider demon.
"There they are! Let's get them!" The crew of pirates changed as both Angel Dust and Dia were running out into the pool area. "Where did they go?" Looking around to see that they lost them.
"Yoohoo," Summer waved to them at the top of a water slide. "Come and get me, boys!"
"Ha! That lass got herself trapped," a clam-headed crewmember said. As the others started to climb up the steps. The crew started to laugh and comment about what they wanted to do with the vixen.
"End of the line, missy," A lobster crewmember said as they cornered Summer.
"Yeah, for you shitheads," Summer said as she pointed behind them, showing Angel and Dia having pipes in their hands. Knocking several of the pirates out, the succubus and spider demon chuckled. "Nice job, guys."
"Thanks," Dia said with a smirk before seeing somebody new show up.
Standing in front of the group was a large eel-like demon with red eyes, dark brown skin, and blue fins that acted like hair. "Okay, you three. Any last words before I cut you up or fill you up?"
After hearing the eel's threat, Angel put a hand to his chin in contemplation. "I've got something," he said before pressing a button he was standing next to. "Have a nice ride."
Confused by what the spider said, the eel pirate heard a buzzing noise before the floor beneath him suddenly gave out. Screaming as he went down the water slide, the eel soon went through many twists and turns before he shot out of a dismantled part of the ride like a cannonball. When he did, he splashed into the ocean before surfacing. "You think that'll stop me? You've got another thing com-"
The pirate didn't get a chance to finish his declaration as a giant crocodile-like sea monster shot out of the water and swallowed him whole. "Mosasaurus," the others said as they were scared of what just happened.
"I thought those wouldn't be in Hell," Angel remarked.
"Well, one seems to have gotten here," Dia said as the aquatic dinosaur was brushing against both ships. Luckily for the Apple of Eden, they were only nudged around while the pirate ship took on a bit of damage.
"I think he's hungry," Angel said, holding onto the rails.
"Throw him more pirates," Summer shouted as she and Dia started frantically tossing the invading demons overboard.
"On the one hand, I don't think this will help us get into heaven," Angel remarked. "On the other three, trying to kill pirates is fun!"
"It's either us or them," Summer said as a load of pirates was sent into the water slides and out into the jaws of the Mosasaurus. "Why'd it even show up here anyway?"
"I'm not sure," Lechuza said as she carried four more pirates in her hands and talons. "Maybe something lured that thing here," she questioned before chucking the pirates overboard.
"Good news, it helps take care of our pirate problem. Bad news, it's a hungry motherfucker," Angel said as the sea monster roared, wanting more to eat.
As the pirates kept being thrown overboard, the auburn-haired figure from before was watching the chaos. "Good Mosa," they said in a whisper while diving under the water again, revealing a green fish-like tail.
Inside the dance club of the ship, the group of pirates was on high alert. "What was that," a seagull demon questioned about the ship tilting slightly.
"No idea. Let's just find whoever's hiding on this ship, take them, and whatever isn't nailed down," stated an archerfish pirate. Suddenly, the room was getting darker and darker as doors started to close, caging them in.
As the pirates were confused by what was going on, a microphone was turned on with many speakers and a disco ball descending on the center of the room. "I hope all of you like to party! Because this number is a blast," Dante said over the microphone as he put in some earplugs and Vaggie started to play Dragonforce's 'Fury of the Storm' over the sound system. With her own soundproof headphones on as she turned up the volume, the pirates were writhing in pain as the noise was too loud for them.
"Make it stop," an octopus demon that had green skin and six arms was covering his ear sockets as they were bleeding out.
"What," A pufferfish shouted as he had a hard time hearing.
"He said, drop it pops," an anglerfish crewmember shouted while covering his ears.
"Fuck a rock?! How?"
The pirates continue to cover their ears as they were on the floor begging for the song to stop. "You think they learned their lesson yet," Vaggie asked Dante by holding up a whiteboard and writing on it as they watched them struggle.
"Might as well. They can either run away and jump on board their ship, or they can try to attack and have a bloodbath await them while badass music plays," Dante said as he lowered the volume. Soon, he and Vaggie descended to the dance club with their sword and spear ready for action. "Alright, you have two choices. Leave now or die. All up to you," he told them as the octopus charged at him with rage, only for the white-haired hunter to cut him digitally as green blood oozed out of the corpse as it sprayed the floor and walls. "I'll take that as an answer. Are you ready, Vags?"
"When am I not," Vaggie told him, readying her spear at the pirates that were in front of them.
"Alright, let's rock," the demon hunter smirked as he blocked an attack from the anglerfish demon as Dante parried the attack and sliced off his illicium, prompting Vaggie to stab him with her spear. "On your right," Dante shouted, making the moth demoness throw a couple of knives at a demon with barnacles all over his face. While the pirate was screaming in pain from the blades digging into him, Dante decapitated him with ease.
"Which one of you motherfuckers want to get in our way," Vaggie asked many of the pirates that she and Dante were facing.
One crewmember looked like a demonic saw shark that had bluish skin and webbed hands as he stared at the two. "So you two want to fight, huh? Well then, I'll be your opponent," he said as he grinned.
"If that's the way you want it so be it," Vaggie said while she charged at the demon, only for the saw shark to block the attack with his nose.
"Is that all you got bitch," he asked as he delivered a punch right at Vaggie's gut, making her cough up some saliva and forcing her to drop her spear. The saw shark grinned as he picked up Vaggie's holy spear. "Nice spear you got. A little low class but one strike from this and you'll be nothing but dust," he said as he was ready to stab Vaggie, but Dante took the blow instead as he stood right in front of her.
"What an idiot. That's a holy spear, that will kill you in an instant unless-"
"Unless you're a really powerful demon, or better yet a half-demon," Dante asked as he held the handle to the spear, pushing it further into his abdomen and stabbing the saw shark in the chest with Rebellion. As black ooze foamed out of the shark's mouth, the demon hunter kicked the fish off of him. "Doing okay, Vaggie," he asked as he pulled her spear out of him and tossed it back to her while his wounds healed.
"I'm okay. Just underestimated that dart-nosed freak," Vaggie said as she was slowly getting back up from her beating. "Let me kill him."
"As much as I would like that. I'm going to have to say no. You saw how easily he took you down." Dante stated while he stood a few feet in front of her as he swatted down a few enemies like flies. "But if you like I can always clear out a path for you."
"I'll take you on that offer, Dante," Vaggie said as some of the crew members heard what she said.
"Wait did she say, Dante?"
"As in Dante the Demon Hunter?"
"I think she did."
"So it's true. The Son of Sparda is in Hell hunting demons."
"Everybody run," one demon shouted as many of them were fleeing right back at the ship.
"Come back here, you cowards! I'll be sure that Maelstrom makes fish soup out of all of you," the saw shark demon yelled at his crew members, only for him to be left as the only pirate in the room.
"Looks like your friends abandoned you," Dante said as he looked around.
"Friends? HA," the saw shark barked out a laugh. "Those cowards were just crewmates and nothing more."
"I think there's some popular comic that says otherwise," Dante remarked. "Man, now I feel like watching the anime version of it."
"I think I know which one you mean," Vaggie added. "Now that you mention it, doesn't he look like one of the antagonists from an early story arc?"
"Maybe. It's been a while since I read it," Dante shrugged.
"If you two are done chit-chatting with one another, I'm going to turn you into chum," the shark demon pirate said as he lunged at the duo.
"Typical," Dante sighed as he let loose a small yawn and delivered a punch right at the demon's jaw. The shark was knocked sideways as his jaw was broken and many of his teeth shattered. After doing that, Dante held his wrist and twirled it around. "I need to get a new set of gauntlets," he remarked, remembering when he used Beowulf and Gilgamesh whenever he fought hand-to-hand. "Anyways, he's all yours, Vags."
"With pleasure," Vaggie said with a grin as she twirled her spear around and stabbed the shark through his heart. The saw shark screamed in pain as he was stabbed. With one last effort, the shark bit Vaggie around the waist as his jaws tore up her one-piece swimsuit but failed to harm her as he died from his injury. "Hijo de puta tiburón bastardo. (son of a bitch shark bastard.) That was my favorite swimsuit," Vaggie complained as she saw the damage in her outfit. With rage in her eye, she continued to stab the corpse many times.
"Hope you packed another one," Dante said as he watched Vaggie vent her anger by beating a dead horse, or rather shark. After what could be counted as 20 stabs, the moth demoness was huffing out of anger. "You good?"
"Yeah. But now I need to get something else on," she complained.
"On the bright side, I bet Charlie would like seeing you in a bikini."
"When doesn't she," Vaggie chuckled. "I'll leave the rest to you. I have a feeling the captain is still on that ship."
"Aye-aye, Vaggie," Dante saluted jokingly before he went off to face Maelstrom.
Maelstrom watched as some of his crew were retreating onto the Kraken. "What is the meaning of this, you spineless jellyfish bastards," the captain shouted before the boat was jostled again. "That beast again," Maelstrom exclaimed as he saw the mosasaur devour more pirates that went overboard.
"Cap'n, we should retreat while we still can," a crewmember told him while the others agreed.
Hearing this made Maelstrom very angry as he took the pirate that said that and pushed him over the edge of his ship. "You think I'm afraid of some sea monster? I'm worse than that oversized bag," the captain told his men. "Now get back on that ship and kill every man on board!"
"That might be a problem," said a voice high above the pirates. They looked around to find the source of the voice coming from up on the mast of the ship. Swinging down on a rope, everyone saw Dante was grinning at the pirate captain as he pointed his sword at him. "You'll need more than these guys to cut me down and take this ship."
"And who might you be, boy? Do you have any idea who you are talking to," Maelstrom shouted as he took out his cutlass and pointed it at the demon hunter. "I am the terror of the sea, I am the sinker of ships, and the nightmare of all sailors. I am the pirate king! Captain Maelstrom!"
"You don't look like a king to me. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that title belonged to Henry Avery," Dante quipped.
"Don't you ever mention that name," Maelstrom shouted. His eye turned red with rage at the mere mention of the historically infamous pirate.
"No need to get mad. I'm just pointing out that he was said to be the Pirate King according to history books," Dante said, pissing off Maelstrom more. The pirate captain thrust his sword at the demon hunter only for Dante to block the attack with his sword. "Oh, I get it now. He killed you didn't he?"
Maelstrom let loose a low growl from his mouth as he swung his saber at Dante only for the demon hunter to parry every slash the hammerhead. "That swindling seadog took everything from me. My glory, my treasure, everything!"
"To be fair, no one's heard of you," Dante said, attacking as he jumped onto the railing of the ship jumping at a few sword swings under his feet and matched with his own. "Let's rock this ship."
(Play He's a Pirate Meets Metal by 331Erock)
Dante swung Rebellion at the pirate captain, only for it to be blocked by the rusted cutlass. Maelstrom did the same as he swung his sword as Dante blocked the attack. Both men parried one another as they fought on the railings of the ship. 'Normally, I would let him be surprised by letting him stab me somewhere. But his sword is rusty and I don't want tetanus,' he thought to himself as he dodged a sword swing that was aimed at his face.
"You got some skills there, boy. How about you be me, first mate? Together we can collect a lot of booty," Maelstrom offered.
"No. I've already got a good one," Dante declined the offer as he cut a rope and grabbed onto it as he flew upward and landed on the mast.
"You should have taken my offer, boy," Maelstrom said as he climbed up the mast with the crab-like appendages over his back. "Now you die."
"Or maybe you die," Dante said as he thrust Rebellion at Maelstrom, only for the pirate captain to block with his sword before he used his crab legs like spears. Dante managed to block the oncoming attacks but should have brought another weapon with him other than Rebellion. The demon hunter started to lose his balance and started to fall, only to catch a rope on the mast.
"You can't defeat me, boy. I have the high ground," Maelstrom laughed at the Son of Sparda dangling from the mast as he was ready to chop Dante's fingers off, only for the demon hunter to move his hands very fast to avoid harm. With the sword slicing the rope a bit, it began to fray and break under Dante's weight.
Using this to his advantage, Dante swung around on deck until he came from behind Maelstrom and cut off one of his crab legs. Maelstrom howled in pain as the appendage fell onto the deck below. "Maybe after I defeat you, I'll use one of your legs for dinner. Crab is delicious as well as expensive."
Growling at Dante as the stub of his crab leg twitched, Maelstrom swung his blade at the same time as Dante did with Rebellion, causing sparks to come off from both blades. "Now I send ye to Davy Jones' Locker."
"Really? Not exactly the best place from what I heard. They say you go mad in the locker. I never went mad myself, but then again, I'm not exactly a fan of complete and utter silence. Need a little noise to get some form of entertainment," Dante said to the captain as he pushed the sword away and kicked the pirate in the stomach.
Maelstrom tumbled backward as he started to fall off the mast and cut part of the sail to lessen his fall. Maelstrom stared at his crew, who stared back. "Why are you standing there!? Shoot him!"
The crew scrambled to their feet and started to unload their flintlock pistols at Dante, but he easily deflected the bullets with Rebellion. The demon hunter dodge the oncoming bullets as he taunted the crew on their aim and such. "Come on, my nephew has better aim than any of you combined," he said as he caught a bullet with his teeth and spat it out. Deciding that had enough fun, he jumped off the mast of the ship and started slicing and dicing the crew members, dismembering all of them as heads rolled and fish came out of their guts. "Now who else wants some?"
The pirates that weren't heavily injured or didn't dare attack the Son of Sparda dropped their weapons. "What are you doing!? Pick up your weapons and kill this fucking dog," Maelstrom shouted at his men who didn't dare pick up their weapons and fight. All of the crew refused to listen to their captain and didn't pick up the weapons. One member handed Dante his flintlock before he made it to the longboats. "Where do you think you're going, cowards!? I'll hang all of you once I'm done with him!"
"It's your fault for not respecting your crew. How does that saying go? A captain that disrespects his crew shouldn't be captain at all," Dante asked the captain as he slowly walked towards him.
"Who are you," Maelstrom asked as he was now realizing that this man was no ordinary demon.
"Jack Sparrow," he joked before blocking a sword swing. "Okay. It's Dante, happy?"
"Dante? As in the Son of Sparda," the hammerhead pirate asked, making the demon hunter nod. "Well now taking your head will make me more fearsome," he said with a crooked grin.
"Bring it, salty," Dante smirked as he pointed Rebellion at the hammerhead. The demon hunter swung his gigantic sword at the hammerhead while blocking and dodging his rust-covered blade and the crab legs that acted like spears. The demon hunter parried the sword swings as he moved backward to the cellar of the ship.
Maelstrom pinned Dante with his crab legs on his back to the wall, ready to stab Dante's heart. "Give it up, I have you beat," he cheered.
"Think again," Dante smirked as he took the pistol Maelstrom's crewmember handed him and fired it.
Maelstrom turned his head slightly, thinking that the demon hunter missed, only to see behind him, was barrels of rum. His eyes widened as he could only think of one thing. "NOT THE RUM!"
"You should focus on something else," Dante remarked.
The shot set off a chain reaction that knocked off a few barrels and bottles of alcohol, which rolled into some spare swords and cut a rope supporting a large keg of gunpowder. When the powder fell and crushed some bottles of rum, glass shards knocked off a torch and the flames started to burn at the powder that was spread from the crash. With the explosive material trailing like a cartoon, Maelstrom turned back to Dante as he realized what was going to happen. "I hate you… so much," he muttered to the Son of Sparda.
Before the explosion went off, Dante kicked the shark in the shin and made him scream in pain as the pirate dropped him. The demon hunter kicked him into the barrel and ran off as a massive fiery cloud overtook the ship and tore it to pieces. Quickly getting back on deck before the ship was destroyed, even more, Dante grabbed onto a rope, cut it, and was sent flying back to the Apple of Eden before he landed on the main deck.
(Song ends)
Everyone on deck watched as The Kraken blew up from the inside. Watching as the flames engulf the ship as it slowly sank to the bottom of the black sea. As remains of the vessel floating in the water, several longboats stayed behind to witness the aftermath of their flagship's destruction.
"Look like that's the end of the cap'n," one crewmember said.
"Good riddance," said the pirate who handed Dante the gun earlier. He had pale skin covered in barnacles, black eyes with blue pupils, and long dirty yellow hair tied with a blue bandana. He also wore a green shirt, black pants, and brown boots.
"Guess that takes care of our pirate problem," Angel Dust remarked.
"Along with her captain," Dante saluted.
"A good captain always goes down with his ship," Salvia said as he copied Dante's salute.
As soon as Dante was ready to walk off on the ship, something flaming emerged out of the water and was aimed at Dante. "Look out," Bullet yelled at the demon hunter who swung Rebellion at the flaming object.
The object in question jumped back on deck, revealing the being was none other than Maelstrom. The captain was now looking bigger, disfigured with burns all over his face, and his crab legs turned into octopus tentacles.
"You're still alive? Aren't you supposed to go down with your ship," Dante asked, getting annoyed at this guy.
"I like your ship better," Maelstrom cackled as he stared at the demon hunter with a lot of hate, unleashing his tentacles upon everyone on board the vessel as they were caught.
"I've seen enough of hentai to know where this might go," Bullet joked, trying to lighten the mood.
"Now is not the time for jokes, Bullet," Dia shouted as she was trying to get loose from Maelstrom's clutches.
"Eww! I hate tentacles! Get me out of this thing," Summer cried as she was struggling to get loose.
"Let them go," Dante growled as he pointed his sword at Maelstrom.
"You'll need more than that sword to beat me," the captain chuckled as he tightened his grip on the others.
"Maybe, but it's enough to beat you," Dante retorted.
"Ha, ye must be mad," Maelstrom laughed, squeezing his tentacles tighter. Before Dante could make his move, a gunshot sounded off and hit Maelstrom in the back. "Who shot that!?"
Dante saw that he now had an opening and took it as he slashed the tentacles that were holding everyone with lightning-fast speed. He then used a favorite move of his as he spun the Rebellion in his hand like a buzzsaw on the shark as he was lifted up in the air, followed by Dante swinging his sword a million times under a second.
Maelstrom, now weakened, was covered in cuts all over his body. "Well done…" he said as he coughed up blood. "Ye be the second man to finish me off… the first being… Avery."
"You fought well, fin-face. But it's time you were sent to Davy Jones' Locker," Dante said as he split Maelstrom in half with a final swing of his sword. Blood oozed from Maelstrom as it covered the deck before his body started turning into light. The demon hunter reached out in front of him and the Devil Arm manifested into a gold trident with prongs similar to a shark's teeth, a shark design in the center, and a green chain at the end of the shaft. The demon hunter swung his new Devil Arm around and when he did a thrust, water shot out of the weapon. He swung the water even harder as a great white shark made out of water came from his attack, chomping down on a large piece of the burning pirate ship. He then threw the weapon like a javelin, only to catch it by the chain as it transformed into an anchor on a large chain. Swinging the Devil Arm around him as it picked up a large piece of the burning ship and lifted it up in a vortex of water, tearing it into twigs and splitters. Slamming the anchor down into the water, a tidal wave surged out from the impact and washed away the remains of the pirate crew's ship.
After watching the demonstration of his new weapon, everyone was impressed. "Is there any weapon you can't master," Candy asked the demon hunter.
"Nope, I pretty much master them all every time," Dante answered the succubus, putting away his new weapon. "Now, if there are no more questions at this point, let's try and enjoy this boat trip before more pirates or sea monsters try to attack this ship."
Before any of them could head back, somebody's voice caught their attention. "Hello…" They all turned to see that it was the pirate that was glad Maelstrom was caught in the explosion.
"You come to face me? If so, take my advice and leave before you end up like your former captain," Dante warned.
"Nothing of the sort. I came to join you," the former pirate said. "My name is Cabin. I'm in your debt for killing that bastard. He was the worst," the barnacle-covered sinner stated.
"Call it even. If you didn't hand me your gun earlier, I wouldn't have been able to take out the ship. Lucky shot, though," Dante remarked, thinking about the chain reaction.
"I'd still like to join you," Cabin told the demon hunter. "I heard that the famous demon hunter was helping out the Princess of Hell on her journey to redeem sinners."
"I did, too," a new voice was heard as everyone looked around, confused by where the new feminine voice was coming from. "Down here," the voice called out from the water. Everyone ran towards the edge of the ship to see a girl waving up at them. Soon, the mosasaurs surfaced again and tossed her into the air so she could grab at the railing and pull herself onto the ship. "Thank you," the girl told the aquatic dinosaur.
Everyone then got a better look at the new girl and saw she was a mermaid-like demon. She had long auburn hair, green eyes with marigold slits and dark rose sclera, lilac skin on her upper body, and darker green scales from her lower body. She had fins that matched her skin instead of ears, sharp teeth, and gills around her waist. She was wearing a large pair of shells as a bra while her lower half was a mermaid's tail. However, her tail started to turn lilac and split into legs, prompting Charlie to provide her with a towel to cover up. "I'm glad both of you are taking a chance on redeeming yourselves, but let's talk in a more secure location," the Princess of Hell told the mermaid and Cabin.
"Okay. I'm Undine, by the way," the mermaid introduced as Charlie guided her into the ship.
After everything was handled and Charlie learned what she needed about Undine and Cabin, she was ready to relax in her room's private hot tub. While there, she saw Vaggie had already changed into a new white two-piece with little red bows on her back and sides with two gray X's on the front of her top. "Aww, Vaggie, you look adorable."
"Y-you think so," Vaggie asked as she blushed.
"Of course," the princess said as she kissed her girlfriend on the cheek. "The bows look like cute butterflies."
This made the moth demon blush brighter before she locked lips with Charlie. They moaned and swapped saliva for a few minutes before hearing a knock on the door, leading to Vaggie grumbling at the interruption before seeing it was Dante. "Hope I wasn't bothering you too much," the Son of Sparda said.
"Not at all," Charlie told him before pulling him inside the room and shutting the door. "You get in the tub first."
"Don't mind if I do," Dante said as he got in the jacuzzi, noticing it was big enough for more than three people. "Man, this is just what I needed after all this time. A nice dip in a hot tub," he said as he looked over to see Vaggie was standing just outside the tub. "You look nice, Vaggie. Bet Charlie likes that bikini."
"Oh, I do," Charlie said in a flirty tone, making Vaggie blush again.
"Not in front of Dante," Vaggie said in embarrassment.
"Hey, I'm the Princess of Hell. If I want to tell my boyfriend how my girlfriend is attractive to me, I'm going to," Charlie stated as she and Vaggie said in the hot tub. Charlie rested herself against Dante's chest while Vaggie sat next to the two. "And if I want to tell my girlfriend how attractive my boyfriend is, even when she doesn't swing that way, I will."
"I'd say something about enjoying the show, but that's your private time," Dante added before Charlie was now sitting on Dante's lap and facing him.
"Since you brought that up, I think we took our relationship up a notch," Charlie said, licking her lips seductively.
Seeing the lustful look in Charlie's eyes, Dante turned to Vaggie. "Was she planning this from the start or did something happen in the spa?"
Vaggie bit her lip a little as she looked sheepish at what she might have said during their spa section. "I may have said something about me being okay with you sleeping with Charlie and possibly watching you two," she mumbled.
Hearing what Vaggie said, Dante blinked before he chuckled. "Only if I get to watch the two of you as well," Dante half-joked.
"Don't tempt me," Charlie said before planting a kiss on Dante's lips.
Dante returned the kiss with a lot more passion and the two soon began to french kiss each other while Vaggie watched. "Okay, this is actually pretty hot. Seeing my girlfriend making out with somebody and knowing I'll get my turn soon," the moth demon remarked out loud.
"Glad you like the show," Dante said when separated for air.
"Shut it," Vaggie growled in a lighthearted way before she started to feel the room swaying. "Uh…"
Seeing the water shake around in the tub, Dante and Charlie stopped making out. "Is there such a thing as a water-walking T. rex in Hell," Dante questioned as he saw ripples in the tub while he and the girls stopped moving.
"I think I know what it is," Charlie remarked as she started to hear moans that sounded suspiciously like a cow mooing.
Blushing and facepalming at the boat-rocking that Applejack and Terry were causing, Vaggie groaned. "Well, it's a good thing sinners can't have kids because I get the feeling neither is the type to play it safe."
"I can understand the whole 'sinners not having kids' thing because of the overpopulation thing, but I think they'd actually have calf kids," Dante remarked.
"Oh, you're right," Charlie said, gushing about the idea of Terry and Applejack being parents. "If they could have a baby, would it be a boy or a girl?"
"I think they would have a herd," Dante shared his opinion as Vaggie had the same idea.
"Oh yeah. If they met each other when they were alive, they'd definitely have a big family that was well fed from birth," Vaggie added to his comment.
"Probably six to ten kids," Dante laughed. After the girls laughed with him, they soon changed topics. "So, what did you learn about Cabin and Undine?"
"Cabin was once a merchant sailor from the Caribbean during the age of piracy. His sins were that he committed adultery with a wealthy woman who liked to cheat on her husband and was a bit greedy with the money he earned in his trades," Charlie stated. "He said he died when he refused to transport cargo for the rich woman's husband and was branded a pirate. He didn't do it because he said that people weren't cargo."
"He refused to participate in a slave trade? Gotta hand it to him there," Dante remarked.
"He was then captured and hung," Charlie added. "Maelstrom ended up finding him and literally made him his cabin boy since both were in Hell."
Vaggie nodded as she heard Cabin's story. "What about Undine?"
"She died around the same time, but her story is different," Charlie told both her lovers. "Her sin was that she was in love with this man and did everything to please him, but found out he loved another and she was so envious that she killed the woman, only to feel guilty and drown herself."
"Wow. That's tragic," Dante said. "Kinda like the actual story of The Little Mermaid if she killed the prince."
"Wait, you know the actual story? I only know the Disney version," Charlie asked her boyfriend.
"In short, she trades her tail for legs in exchange for her tongue, the sea witch warns her that her new legs would be painful like walking on shards of glass, and she would turn to seafoam if the prince didn't love her back. The prince only saw the mermaid like a daughter but fell in love with another woman. The mermaid's sisters had a magic dagger and said she would turn back into a mermaid if she spilled his blood onto her legs, but she didn't and jumped into the sea to meet her fate. However, she was able to turn into a wind spirit and was given a soul. She was promised that if she did good deeds, she would be accepted into Heaven," Dante explained.
"That was bittersweet," Charlie said, half expecting it to be a bad ending, but figuring that it wasn't all that bad.
"Some stories have a happy ending while others have sad ones. But some just have an ending," Dante said, shrinking into the hot water. "But let's just enjoy this while it lasts."
"Yeah. And nothing can't beat it with the two most important people to me," Charlie said as she brought Dante and Vaggie into a hug. As Charlie's big hug brought them into her chest, Vaggie and Dante smiled at their situation and Charlie's happiness.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the Ring of Wrath
Large mountains of lava and molten rock exploded out of the ground as something big was in the middle of a field. There, a giant demon let out a roar as flames consumed the plants around him. With the heat and flames obstructing his appearance, he growled as he looked at the damage he caused. "I shall be the new King of Hellfire," he chuckled as he looked at his apparent training ground. "I shall rule this part of Hell, just as Berial did before me!" Unleashing another burst of magma from below, the demon watched as the ground beneath him was scorched. "That Son of Sparda will soon know the terror of Balrog."
And this is where we are leaving things off Ladies and Gents. This was a long one and for good reasons too. Thanks again to WaterDragonMaverick for the editing and suggestions. And thought it was a good idea to show the next demon who happens to be from canon lore. The Romance is growing and the hotel is filling up. Hope you all enjoyed and I will see all of you in Hell!