Disclaimer: I do not own Devil May Cry, just my OC's
Recap: Marlo hung up the phone and turned on her heel to face the group that was at the table, all doing homework. Experience had allowed her to respond to the message and keep her cool, the code meant that a demon was in the house, and it could only be one person, or for better term, something.
"Time to party." Marlo thought.
Marlo yawned and stretched her arms above her head, the others were busy doing homework, but she had her eyes on Joey, or the doppelganger of Joey.
'Let's see, the holy water is under the sink, the wards are up so it can't bring any friends in, now all I need to do is take out any other form of independent variables.' She though, then mentally smacked herself for using a math reference.
"Hey Joey." The impersonator looks up with a bored questionable gaze, "think you can go upstairs and grab my Ipod for me."
"Actually I was-"
"Thanks buddy, you're great." Marlo interrupts with mock appreciation, forcing a smile. The imposter sighs and gets up, he left eyeballing all of them.
Alice started to say something but Marlo held up her finger to her lips to show she wanted silence. RoRa looked at the elder twin in question as she listened for any noise.
Marlo monitored the sounds of the imposter's footsteps. Once she judged that the imposter was far enough away from them, she dived to the sink and started to pull brittle vials out from underneath it.
"Marlo what's going on? Alex asked, RoRa's ears where pressed back flat against her head. The wolf demon had deducted that a demon was in the house, and the only one within reason was the guest, Joey.
"Alice, take the others, get into the car, and go." Marlo instructed, and then thrust the vials of holy water into Amanda's arms. She then pulled out the car keys from her pocket and gave them to the elder sister.
"But-"
"Su casa de Mephistopheles." Marlo replied emotionlessly. The three girls stared at her in shock; they all knew the code because the twins had worked out multiple plans in case something like this did happen, but like others who have repeatedly learned drills, they forgot everything in the face of the actual even.
"Joey." Amanda whispered in disbelief, Marlo and RoRa shook their heads.
"No, that-" Alice started.
"No time for talk, now get Alec and GO!" Marlo ordered.
Alex numbly shook her head yes and picked up her baby brother, then tan to the door. Alice and Amanda followed suit, but both seemed to lean on each other for support.
Marlo watched them as they exited the door, leaving it wide open. Sighing out of relief, a grin of wickedness overtook her face. She produced her Ipod from her coat pocket and walked over to the sound bar in front of the T.V, it had an option to dock an Ipod and work as a speaker.
RoRa was keeping tabs on the sounds of the impostor's footsteps; the footfalls seemed to have quieted, as if not even moving at all.
"I have a feeling that Chris will be back any minute." Marlo stated as she scrolled through her song list. "Or, at least I hope its Chris." RoRa shakes her head in agreement, then Marlo lets out a soft noise of achievement, then presses play on her Ipod. Soon a countdown timer sounds, and then the opening rift of 'Hit me with your best shot' by Pat Benatar starts playing. Without even turning around to face RoRa, Marlo snaps her fingers and says, "Libere." Almost instantly RoRa's two forms attach themselves to her back, the weight held a comfort to the older twin.
Marlo turned on her heal and walked towards the stairs. As she climbed them, she was whispering the lyrics to the song and trying to find the imposters location. From what she could gather, his last movements where from the general area of her bedroom.
"Crap." She mutters dourly, "I sure as hell hope Chris cleaned the damn room." It meant that he put away all of the important things. Outside, she registered the sound of a car engine attempting to turn over, but failing. Marlo waved the idea away, the family car was old and had plenty of problems, and the others would be fine.
Marlo reached the top of the stairs and took a right. She was three steps away from the door before she reached behind her and pulled both Rod and Ran out. Marlo reaches the door and pushes it open with her foot and calmly walks in. She turned her head towards the bed and found the imposter lying down on his back, on Chris's bunk, reading one of her copies of Hellsing. Resisting the urge to charge over to the imposter and beat the shit out of him for touching her things, Marlo calmly walked to the bookcase. She put Ran on her back and reached up and took a volume of Totally Captivated from off the shelf and mentally said goodbye to it, the chances of many of her things surviving where slim and none.
"I figured out how you fooled us." She tells the imposter boredly as she flips through the manga, smirking at some of the scenes that she crossed.
"Oh?" the imposter asked amused in a different tone of voice, it sounded gravelly and annoying, it seems that the imposter no longer thought of it as fun to disguise his voice.
"Yeah, I mean, even if you just put on Joey's skin, you wouldn't have been able to fool us that you were a demon, let along fooled RoRa's nose." Marlo closes the manga and replaces it on the shelf and turns around to look at the demon. "It's like that episode of 'The Walking Dead', when Rick and Glenn had to cut up a zombie and smear its guts on their clothes so they wouldn't be detected by the walkers. When you cut off Joey's skin, you made sure to collect all the blood, hell you maybe even kept a few organs to grind up, and you then bathed in the blood."
The imposter chuckled, and then choked slightly, he held up Joey's right index finger, asking for a minute while he put his right hand to his mouth. After a little of maneuvering, the imposter pulled out a set of dentures, Marlo shivered and let out a 'ooh' as the imposter then tossed the dentures on the floor. Marlo looked at the dentures and her eyes widened a fraction, they were bloody and the roots of the teeth poked out from underneath the gums, they were real, they were Joey's teeth. "Now that feels better." The imposter voiced, his true voice clearer than before. Marlo looked back at him as he put down the manga and swung his legs over the side of the bed. He chuckled more, showing off his teeth, they were spaced apart, blocky, and looked like they needed a jackhammer to knock off the plaque, let alone the bits of food.
"So am I right?" Marlo asked, not amused or disturbed at the display that the demon had put on. Well, she was disturbed as it pulled outs its…. Dentures.
"Quite right actually." The demon laughed, "And to think that you're the dumb one."
"Ouch," Marlo said, putting her free hand over her heart, "That…" she sniffled slightly, "That really hurts."
The demon only laughed even louder, the noise grating against her ears. "You… you are defiantly your fathers daughter." The demon says wheezing.
This catches Marlo off guard at this comment, but only momentarily. Anger flared up behind her eyes, the subject of her father was rarely talked about between the twins, and personally she could care less about what type of man he is, or was if the case happened to go that way, but something about how the demon said it irked her. She started to ask him what he was talking about, then shook her head and then waved her right arm holding Rod sideways, as if saying 'forget it'. "You know what, fuck it, I don't care about him. Now, a better question is, what the hell do you want if it means wearing someone's skin?"
The demon smirked and cocked its head, Joey's face crinkling, as if it lost its ability to cling to the demon. "Oh, its actually a specialty of mine." It remarks, holding up a hand and looking at the skin as it started to bunch up around the knuckles. "The names Sid by the way." It, Sid, remarks, then slowly traces its right finger down the left underarm skin, cutting it down the middle slowly, revealing a pasty grey skin, unnatural of a human.
"Look," Marlo tell Sid, giving him a blank look, "I don't give a flying fuck what your name is." She watched as Sid then pulled off the skin that covered its left arm, then tossing it to the floor. "Now answer the damn question."
The demon chuckled darkly, then leered at her. "I don't see why it would matter, you're going to be dead soon anyway."
Marlo scoffed, "Oh please, me and my brother are a lot harder to kill than you think." She then puts her free hand on her hip and smirks. "Besides, its going to take more than some pussy like you to take us on."
Sid laughed at her, a full belly laugh that resounded off the walls. "Oh such an amusing little girl." Marlo's eye twitched at the 'little girl' comment. "But who said I wanted to kill your brother?"
At this, she narrowed her eyes, and quicker than any human eye could detect, even some demons, she was standing in front of Sid, Rod pressed to his forehead with Ran in her other hand. She glared down her arm as Sid looked up with amused eyes, he didn't even seem to register the gun. "You're annoying." She said. "I know Chris would want a piece of you for what you did to the wheelers, but I'm afraid that if he did, it'd escalate. And quite frankly, I don't want to have to deal with Shcri-" she pronounced it Scry, "today. So, just die."
Then, a loud roar echoed, followed by the house shaking, and the screams of three frightened girls came from outside. Marlo's head snapped towards the sounds, all she was able to do was mutter 'shit' before a demon appeared on the wall opposite of her, and pounced on her back and forced her onto the bed. The demon was black with glowing yellow eyes, its skin was wrinkled everywhere and resembled that of a monkey, but with smoking coming out of its back. Sid jumped to the side out of the path of Marlo falling onto the bed, as she fell she fired off two shots wildly before the demon clamped its jaws onto her arm, and wrapped its clawed hand around her left wrist. She grunted with pain as the demon placed its weight onto her back and forced her face down onto the bad.
Marlo fought to twist her head to where she could breath, and glared at Sid as he removed the facial skin of Joey Wheeler. As the face cleared the ears, Sid's face was revealed better, the skin was the same unnatural pasty grey, his mouth wide open showing off his terrible teeth. his ears where pointed, and as the skin was ripped off, ruining the remaining facial structure that belonged to Joey, his spiky hair and wide forehead was revealed. "Not so tough now, are we." He taunted, then flicked his wrist, the skin on his right hand, as well as Joey's face, flew and hit the wall.
"Bastard." Marlo threw at him, her gaze was angry, but she hardly registered the bite of the demon. "How the hell did you get this piece of shit," she motioned her head backwards at the demon. "past our wards?" The twins had dabbled in the art of magic, the results of it were protective wards that they had placed throughout the house.
"It was child's play." Sid remarked. "Any demon with even an ounce of knowledge could get past them." He then reached into his pocket and withdrew a cylindrical object that was white and metallic. "I also took the liberty of… relieving your car off a few pieces, can't have some valuable hostages get away now could I?" he teased.
Marlo realized that the object was a spark plug, a key component in actually getting a car to run. She narrowed her eyes at Sid, 'dammit' she cursed herself mentally. "So then, what are you going to do now?"
Sid smirked at her, then leaned forward closer to her face and breathed, Marlo bite back the urge to gag at the demons putrid breath. "Oh, you'll see." Sid replied with a chuckle. Marlo could only roll her eyes.
Outside –
Chris was about to turn onto his street when he heard the bellow of a demon, then sensed its presence. "Damn it." he cursed, then increased his speed.
"Looks like we're late for the party." Dante mused as he effortlessly caught up with the younger twin. Few words had been exchanged as the trio had taken the five minute run back to the house.
"And it would seem that we aren't the ones to crash it." Trish remarked as she kept pace with the other two. She showed slightly worry, more in for the children that the twins were living with, but also for Chris as well. Something back at the house came from him, a presence that did not settle right for him.
"Now they are new ones for me." The aforementioned teenager quipped as they drew closer to the house.
Flying above the house, its wings flapping, was an humanized goat that was coal black with red veins. Surrounding, or on top of the car in the driveway, where twelve or more black demons that resembled primates with smoke emitting from them. In addition to them, were six tall figures in black coats that covered their faces, all were holding staffs as a glowing circle surrounded them.
Dante snorted and drew Ivory out from underneath his coat and fired off three rounds, all of them hit one of the lone figures, it flew backwards and soon disappeared in a red mist.
"The ones on the car are msira, the cloaked figures are mancer demons, more specifically Pyromancers, and the one over the roof is-"
"Thank you," Chris interrupted her, then waved his arm in an arc, six summon daggers appeared pointing straight at the demons. "But I think a lesson would be most helpful," he then flicked his hand, the daggers flew in a straight path and imbedded themselves into five msira, and one into the pyromancer's head. "When there isn't children in trouble." The pyromancer disappeared in a red mist, as did two msira.
Trish sighed and pulled out Luce and Umbra, with well placed aim, she finished off the remaining msira that Chris had injured, as well as two more of the pyromancers.
"The goats mine." Dante yelled as he reached the house. He then ran to the wall, then ran up it and launched into the air, Rebellion drawn.
Chris grunted in response, Trish just sighed as Rebellion cleaved into the wing of the abyss goat, which in return let out a bellow of pain. Chris jumped into the air, pivoting on his side, and went into a windmill kick. He soared across the lawn and brought his foot down upon a misra that was unfortunate enough to receive it. Chris lashed out with one clawed hand and grabbed hold of another msira that was on the roof of the car. The demon cried out in pain as the clawed hand attached itself to its arm and instantly started to burn from the immense cold. Chris relished in the sounds of pain as he jerked the msira towards him, then brought up his hand and stabbed the msira in the chest. The demon disappeared in a cloud of red, at this Chris sneered and laughed darkly, the laugh sounded as if it didn't even belong to him.
Trish stared at him as he stopped and shook his head. The sound of another msira getting ready to pounce drew her back to where she was. Pulling up Luce, she fired without aiming and took out two more msira. She then went to the driver side window and peered into the car. Inside where four people, three girls, the oldest barely looking old enough to drive, and a baby that was crying.
"Are you four alright?" she asked, her voice calm and level.
"Y..Yes!" the girl holding the baby said.
"We can't start the car." The girl in the drivers seat said.
"Alice." Chris yelled as he stabbed his hand into another msira that had jumped at him. "Get going."
"They can't." Trish replied, then shot the three remaining msira that had jumped at Chris. He turned to her and nodded his head thanking her.
"Fine." He said, then reached behind him and pulled Kindness out from behind him. "We'll cover them till they clear the block."
"Fine with me." Trish replied, then swiveled around and shot the remaining pyromancer in between the eyes right as its flame started to produce. She then tapped on the car roof with the butt of her pistol, "Come on girls, we need to get moving." The girls nodded and started to file out of the car.
Dante slashed at the abyss goat again, then with his other arm drew Ebony and fired at it six times. The goat roared as Rebellion cut its arm and the bullets hit it center mass, but the roar was not out of pain, but as a warning that it was about to summon its magic. Its chest glowed brightly and five bright yellow circles appeared in the air around it. four of the circles soon condensed and shoot off in arrows of light that targeted Dante and went after him with deadly precision. Smirking, Dante sidestepped all of the arrows with ease, but his smirk faded slightly as more Pyromancer demons appeared on the lawn and around the front of the house.
"This party is getting boring." He tells the abyss goat, then jumps off his perch on the roof at the demon, Rebellion behind him but poised to strike. The goat attempted to summon more magic, but its cry died in its throat as Rebellion sliced through its neck, severing it. Dante turned around to survey the remaining demons, and found that four of the mancer demons had turned to Trish, Chris and the girls as they ran to cover them, while the other six mancers where facing the house, their circles of magic appearing, soon a breath of flame would appear and set fire to the house. "Heh, too easy." Dante remarked, then placed Rebellion on his back and pulled Ivory out of his jacket and ran to the end of the roof, and jumped.
Dante preformed a front flip while crossing his arms, with little need for aiming he fired off multiple volleys of bullets at the six mancer demons, three on his right, three on his left. All the bullets hit their marks, causing them to stumble and stop their spell, and then disappear into red mist. Dante then landed on his feet, Ebony and Ivory pointed skyward, he then took a bow and smirked.
"You remind me of Marlo." Chris replied to Dante's moves, then with a wave of his arm, cut two of the mancer demons in half. He turned around abruptly and axe kicked the mancer demon behind him.
Trish and Dante shared a smile as they both fired upon the remaining mancer demon. The three hunters relaxed slightly as they surveyed their surroundings, the girls all visibly relaxed under the pretense that it was all over. Then, another wave of msira demons appeared, all of them either clung to the side of the house or on the lawn. They all stared at the group of soulless piercing gazes, and snarled and growled as a group.
Chris turned his head and saw Amanda with a vial of holy water in her grasp. He stuck out his gauntlented hand, "Amanda, if you would please be so kind." She shook her head silently and handed over the vial. Chris smiled at her, then turned to the swarm of demons and smirked savagely. "Parties over," he then threw the vial down at the ground in the middle of the swarm. "Get lost." And with that, the vial burst, letting out a wave of purifying power that immediately exterminated all demonic presence.
Trish felt slightly faint, she always did whenever holy water was used, even though she was a demon with a heart, she still did suffer from being a full demon none the less.
Dante wrapped an arm around her shoulders and steadies her. "Nice job kid." He remarked.
"You didn't do so bad yourself," Chris replied back with a small smile, "For a substitute." As the words left his mouth, an explosion rocked the house, and the top front corner of the home blew outward. Chris looked upward and pursed his lips. "Damn it, that was my room." Then Marlo flew out of the room backwards, and landed on top of the car, crushing it inward on impact.
Trish turned to the girls who where gaping at the elder twin as she groaned and sat up. "Go, now!" they all nodded and took off down the street, hopefully out of the way entirely. She then turned back to see Chris sprinting to the car and to his sister as she slide off the top of the now useless car.
"Hey Chris." Marlo said boredly, then rotated her shoulder. In her grasp was still Rod and Ran. She then stopped and gave Chris a level stare. "You are Chris right now?"
Chris rolled his eye and held up his hand. "Scouts honor, it's me."
Marlo smirked and punched him in the arm. "Ass, I was the one that tried out for boy scouts."
"Wait," Dante interrupted amused, "You tried out for boy scouts?"
"Yeah," Marlo remarked scathingly as she crosser her arms, both Rod and Ran sticking out from under her elbows. "But they wouldn't let me join, sexist pigs."
"Actually they were going to let you join, until you put the scout leader in a half horatio nelson for making an off hand comment about girls." Chris threw in with a grin. Dante laughed aloud at this, as did Trish, they both doubled over.
"And was I wrong for doing it?" Marlo returned.
"No." Chris replied.
"What did you mean by asking if he was Chris?" Trish asked the sister twin.
Marlo was about to say something else when a rustling noise was heard from above, they all turned to see Sid and a large buzzard stood beside him.
Dante's eyes narrowed for a seconded, he then took a step forward. "Sid, damn man, I thought I killed you what," he turned to Trish, "7 years ago?"
"Around that time." She remarked, then placed a hand on her hip, or at least her knuckles since Umbra was in her grasp.
"Man, is every asshole I've killed coming out of the wood work?" Dante asked, then started pacing. "I mean, sure I was kinda glad Vergil came back from the grave, but if that douche Arkam comes back I'm gonna be pissed."
"Who's Arkam?" Marlo asked.
"Better yet, who's this?" Chris asked.
"Arkam was a douche that was after my old mans power, not only was he a douche, he was a real perv at the same time." Dante remarked, then shivered. "I'm just glad Vergil went through the same shit I had to put up with from him."
"Anyway," Trish drawled out. "This is an old enemy that we thought was dead."
"Yeah, and he's also the one who killed Joey and skinned him." Marlo added bitlingly, then looked up at him and glared. "Plus, YOU BLEW UP MY FUCKING ROOM!"
"Dante," Sid chuckled, "Such a pleasure to see you again."
Chris threw a summon dagger at Sid's feet to silence him. He glared up at the demon, his aura changing into something dark and sinister. "So you're the one who killed the Wheelers eh?" he then twisted his neck to the side, causing it to pop. "Good, this makes it easier for me to kill you."
"Chris, hold it together, I do not want to have to deal with Shcri." Marlo warned.
"Who's Shcri?" Trish asked, a tinge of worry in her voice.
But Sid cut them off by laughing. "Oh, you'll have to wait some time before you can kill me young Chris." He said, then crawled onto the buzzard demons back.
"BASTARD!" Chris yelled out, his voice wavering and changing tones, it sounded watery and choked. "GET BACK HERE!" Chris then ran to the house, placed one foot on the wall and pushed off. He went soaring upward and at the two demons, his eye glowing with anger and blood lust, Kindness poised and ready to strike. Chris shot a hand out and caught the edge of the bed and threw himself up over it, as he got to his feet he lashed at the buzzards form with Kindness, only to have it pass through a ghostly image.
Chris stared in shock, his anger boiling over as his vision started to cloud around the edges. It was only so long before he lost control, then…
"Hmm? A projection spell." Trish said as she jumped up and joined Chris in the ruined room. Dante and Marlo joined them shortly, Marlo bent down to Chris and started to calm him down.
"You didn't think it would be this easy did you?" Sid taunted them. "Don't worry Chris, I'll be back soon enough, you can try then."
Dante walked over to the twins huddled forms and then stood in between Sid and them. "Stay away from them you jackass, that is unless you want another trip back to hell."
Sid smiled wildly at him, then threw back his head and laughed. "Oh that is too sweet Dante. After all these years, you're finally giving a damn about your children." The resulting silence was beyond deafening. "I'll be seeing you all then, later more than sooner I'm afraid, must conserve energy and all that." And with that, Sid and the buzzard disappeared from sight. Sirens could be heard in the distance, but no one cared about that, what they cared about was what was just said.
"What did he say?" Chris asked as he got up, and stared at Dante in disbelief and shock. Marlo looked at him blankly as she helped her little brother up.
Dante sighed and turned around to give them a meaningful look. "What he said was true, I am your father."
Chris looked at him with a mixture of confusion and some unknown emotion, he then dropped his head and sighed. Marlo looked at Dante, then to Trish, then stepped forward and punched Dante in the face.
Dante slide backwards on his feet slightly, but didn't make any attempt to put his arms up or stop Marlo from hitting him again, which she didn't.
To his surprise, and everyone else's, she instead wrapped her arms around his neck and let a sob escape from her mouth. "Took you long enough, asshole." She sniffed.
Sorry to anyone who has been reading this series, its has been a long wait, and for that I am sorry. I have not abandoned my other stories, I've just been caught up in writing my other one. But more will come, I promise you that, as well as possibly a new story. So again thank you to anyone who likes this story.
Dedicated to icouldbeemo, NoraOmikami, and ReadsToMuchALot, you guys are great for reviewing.