Disclaimer: I do not own any character but Rizua. The plotline is also not mine, only where I edit Rizua into the mix or go off original storyline which will happen many times. Enjoy.
~Rizua's POV~
I hadn't really expected to wake up the next day, much less that early in the damn morning. Dante had brought me home and bandaged me up. He also carried me downstairs and laid me out on the couch so he could keep an eye on me, and so I could at least watch television while I was laid up.
Patty's voice had been the culprit to waking me up, and despite my injury I dreamed of kicking her across a football field. The strange thing was, I didn't get a headache.
I tested this oddity out by pinching Patty, much to her annoyance. My blood threatened to cause me pain, but really didn't bother me. I was almost tempted to ask Dante to stab me again... almost.
We made up some stupid story about me trying to cook and impaling myself on the knife, but not going too deep. If only she saw the actual wound, haha she would freak!
It hadn't healed much since last night, but visibly it was just a vertical line almost between my breasts, but a little lower. I hadn't really talked to Dante since the whole thing happened, and he sensed my female rage and stayed clear. Good Dante.
I watched Patty throw a fit because of the state of the shop, covered in beer cans and pizza boxes. "Dante honestly, we clean and clean, but this place always ends up a mess!" She scolded Dante, who laid back in his chair, "What are you going on about." Dante said, not really paying her any mind. "I'm telling you to clean up your own mess Dante! I'm sick and tired of it and Rizua can't do anything right now!" She hit the broom in her hands fitfully against the floor.
"Ok sure, check in tomorrow and it will be magically cleaned." He smiled from under the magazine over his face. Patty looked confused for a moment, but then it clicked and she got mad again, "Because I clean it!" She yelled, she then proceeded to beat the demon out of Dante with her broom. "Clean up already!" Whew, she could make a good demon hunter some day.
"Alright already." He said, avoiding her beatings and going over to the mess. "Geez, whats with you, didn't your parents raise you to respect your elders." He groaned, but tensed when she dropped the broom.
Bad Dante.
"I don't have any parents." Patty whispered, she looked like she was ready to cry.
"Patty, I didn't mean it like.." His word were in vain as Patty threw everything in her reach at him which included a cloth, two books, the broom, a bucket full of water, a gun (she should have shot his foot), and some of the pizza boxes. "Dante you jerk, forget you!" She yelled running out of the shop.
"You know, you have the weirdest charm when it comes to girls." I sighed, I didn't like to see Patty upset, but there wasn't much damage I could do at that point in time.
"Worked on you didn't it?" He shrugged, pulling on his coat.
You know, despite the fact that he has insulted me, ignored me, abandoned me, kept things from me, and stabbed me, damn me if I didn't love the jerk.
There, I said it, well at least not out loud. I didn't know why I cared so much, but I think I realized it back on the ship when he got shot. I realized that if Dante wasn't there, I'd probably break. I wouldn't tell him though, not yet.
"Made her mad again huh?" Morrison said, walking into the door. "Shut up, what do you want anyway?" Dante said, restlessly moving in his chair. So upsetting Patty did a number on him too huh?
"Well, you can buy her a gift with the pay from your next job." He said, letting a peculiar woman into the shop. She had blond hair and pale eyes, but it was her face that caught my attention. She looked a lot like the steaming blond that had left only moments earlier.
"I'd like to hire you to guard this." The woman said, putting a pendant on his desk.
He took one look at it and it was obvious he wasn't interested. "She inherited it when her old man died, it's a priceless family heirloom, and Nina has been attacked recently. All you have to do is keep it safe. Since she inherited it ten years ago shes been hunted." Morrison finished, sparking Dante's interest.
"Ten years huh? Why do you suddenly want to give it to someone after that long?" He questioned Nina directly. "Well, I'm not doing much this week anyways, so I'll take care of it for ya." he said picking up the pendant.
After a few more words, they left, and it was just her and Dante again. "You thinking what I'm thinking." I asked, never having moved form the couch. "Your right, I'll bring back a couple strawberry sundaes, be right back." He said throwing on his coat.
"You read my mind." I grinned, leaning back.
I laid there for at least five hours, and it had gotten fairly dark when Dante finally got back. He smelled like demon blood so I figured he met some buddies on the way back... instead it was a whole different story.
I sat up to eat my ice-cream while he filled me in.
"The pendant is some sort of seal for a demon named Abigail, turns out Nina's been hunted by demon who want it, only recently more and more have been showing up to take her life. I ran into one of the ugly bastards after it, and Nina came to the site. She said she'd come tomorrow to pay me and get the pendant back. Patty's coming too, she thinks Nina's her mother." I paused in my destruction of the strawberries.
"It's possible, and it would explain why she gave Patty up, because of the demons." I said, before cowing down again.
~Next Day~
I lay on the couch again, only this time in my full outfit, a different tank top of course since my other one was ruined. Under the new shirt my wound was freshly bandaged, and I could move around better.
The chick never showed up, but Patty and Morrison did. It was clear Patty was still angry with Dante by the way she tense whenever Dante tried to talk to her.
"That chick is late, I thought I gave her the right time." Dante said, aggravated that he wasn't getting paid. "I hope she's trustworthy Morrison." He said, looking over at the old man who sat near me.
"Well she's human for sure, Rizua hasn't reacted badly toward her, and she staying at a fancy hotel room, Grand Dia Hotel if I'm not mistaken." Morrison said, but I wasn't watching him anymore, my attention was on Dante. Would he go to her?
Patty suddenly dropped some of the pool balls on the floor, Dante dropped the pendant on his desk and proceeded to fetch one, Morrison got up and followed suit.
The young girl ran out of the shop, much to everyone's surprise. I wondered if she gave up on the chick coming here.
"Damn, wheres the pendant." I blinked and turned towards Dante, uh oh.
"Patty's taking it to the hotel, yay." I grumbled, grabbing my weapon and easing my steps toward the door. Dante grabbed his things and picked me up around the waist, running to Morrison's car. Morrison also ran, jumping in the driver's seat.
"Oh, your letting me come?" I inquired, seated on his lap in the front, this wasn't strange at all.
"You'd walk all the way no matter what I told you, so whats the difference? At least this way your off your injury." He shrugged.
Hey, he learned fast!
They got to the hotel, and Dante jumped out with me before it had even come to a complete stop. By with me I meant I was holding on to his back for dear life. He threatened the human behind the desk, asking for Nina's room number, when the human didn't give it to him Dante pulled out one of his guns. That got the number.
Dante didn't bother with the elevator, he ran to the stairs, using the rails to hop at least three floors at a time. I was ready to drop, but he gripped my legs, running for the door at the end of the twentieth floor. He kicked open the door, and my jaw dropped to what I saw.
Patty and Nina were on the floor to the side of the room, but in the center a huge blue portal had been opened. Around the portal were things I was very familiar with, it chilled me to the core.
The slimy demon's jewel mask sliced in half, the black twin's skull, and two more skulls of demons Dante had killed. I had no time to gawk, because Dante ran at the portal, dropping me before he jumped in.
Fuck if I was going to let him have all the fun again, I jumped in with him. When we landed, I realized we were in the demon world... home sweet home.
I found that I didn't really want to be here, the ground was nothing but barren dirt. Roots stuck up in odd places, and ruins were all around them, it almost resembled that of a human cemetery. Not the mention the huge cross sticking out from the ground, only supported by roots that tangled around it.
That's when I noticed him. He was a demon of short stature, his back hunched over from a bad habit. His skin was brown, eyes and hair to match. Those crooked teeth, however, told her who it was.
"Your that demon, the one back at the hotel when I first met Dante!" I said point to him accusingly, he only laughed.
"Your too late, I already have Abigail, the demon whose power rivaled Sparda himself!" He yelled victoriously.
"I have to confess, I'm already tired of your ugly face Sid." Eww, Dante knew this thing's name? I Ran over to Dante, my weapon out. He looked a little annoyed to see me, but let it go. "Can't promise you'll survive this fight, and if you die I'm going to be pissed." He said, pulling out his gun.
"Looking forward to it." I smirked, both of us attacking the cackling demon.
Then everything went black.