The day was calm and easy. Eva didn't like it. Normally she wanted an easy going day, but when a archangel was flying around you never knew what to expect. Pulling on her boots and pants she grabbed her shirt as Chase walked in the room. He hadn't been with her in bed last night again, and he was up before her this morning. He was on edge. Was it because she was still on the fence about Dante and Vergil?
She knew Vergil was not the good brother, he was working with Gabrielle who was the biggest badass of them all. Mundus was a cakewalk compared to her nasty deceitful ways. She had done her research before she went to Dante. She knew everything about how he and Vergil got into because of killing Lilith and the child she carried. Which in her opinion she wouldn't have killed her the way Vergil had done, it was not her way. Dante seemed to be the more nobler of them, she just wasn't sure if telling them the truth was the best thing about her. Would Dante try to kill her? Or would he stand by her side as her brother as she was hoping for?
Chase caught her by her waist, pulling her from her thoughts. " Stop thinking so much."
Eva smiled at him, lifting her head up to his kissing him softly.
Chase held her for several minutes. Not allowing her to leave or move. His lips moved over hers. Pulling back ever so slowly he grabbed his boots. A sudden ear piercing scream rang through the room. Quickly covering his ears, falling back on the bed as the loud noise increased.
" Chase? Hey baby what is it?"
He opened his eyes seeing Eva wasn't being affected at all. Okay so this was a message to him. He had to get outside to see what the hell was making this damn noise. If he didn't his mind very well explode. Chase pushed up and got to his feet and got to the back door as fast as he could. The sound was getting louder and louder with each step he took. He heard Eva calling to him as he got to the door but he just shoved it open and saw a fallen angel standing there. Waiting for him.
Give her to our mistress for the ritual in two days for the gates to be open. Only then will Limbo City be spared the powers of her father within his evil spawn.
" What the hell does that mean?" Chase demanded.
The fallen angel gave its wicked smile and flared its decaying wings. Shooting off into the morning sky.
" What did it want?
Chase turned to her. closing the door behind him. " A deadline. We have two days to stop Gabrielle from opening the gates."
Evalynn gasped. No. Was the woman insane? Did her halo not digest right when she swallowed it whole or something?
" Wait wait. Does this mean she knows where the portal to Hell is? Because the gate to Heaven is located in the courtyard of my parents house."
" When did you figure that out?"
" When we were there yesterday. I felt the light energy coming from somewhere in the house. The courtyard is my guess because of the garden mom kept there. I have pictures of a window she always sat at looking up into the sky. So, logically to me that is where it is located."
Damn his woman was smart. Just being in that house he knew exactly where place gates were. One above and below the house. But the gate to hell was the most dangerous. Even even opened a small about, dark energy would seep through and give Garielle a big boost of power. Which she could give to Vergil to allow him to have even stronger abilities.
This was all going to hell. Literally.
" I bet this means you both owe us more details in this angel's plan. Baby sis."
Chase and Eva turned and saw Dante and Kat standing in their kitchen. The guilt on her face told Dante she had been hiding the truth from him since the beginning of them meeting each other. She felt Chase up behind her, his arms going around her for support. She just looked at Dante. His arms crossed with hip against the door frame. Kat was sitting up on the countertop next to the refrigerator.
" We found this in our father's office, seems mom liked to keep her memories down on paper so we would know about her. She wrote about the day she had you. I knew there was a reason you looked like her." Dante explained.
" Why didn't you tell him yesterday? You helped us after all." Kat looked at Eva with a wondering expression.
Eva stayed quiet. Looking to Chase for some sign that if she told the truth, it would all be okay. He gave her a slow nod, his arm around her waist grew tighter. Only she still didn't say anything to them.
" An answer would be great right about now." Dante said, his voice was traced with annoyance.
" Don't talk to her like that. Babe. It's fine." Chase kissed her neck.
Evalynn let out a breath, looking Dante straight in the eyes. " I am your sister, I was named after our mother. I am just as strong as you and can shove a knife in a demons throat and not look back. I Didn't tell you I was your sister because I didn't know if you were just like Vergil. I didn't know if you would kill me or not. I didn't know if I have to choose to kill you both or join one of you."
There she had said it.
Dante looked at Kat, who gave him a nod. " Now that is all cleared up, explain why that fallen was talking to your boy toy there."
" Wait that's it? You aren't going to question my motives or anything?"
" Why should we? You helped us and instead of lying you said the truth. We have had enough of trouble from Vergil to know when to spot a lie. And you sweetie don't even reek of that smell when speaking untold truths." Kat said sliding of the counter and standing by Dante.
Eva couldn't believe that she was standing with her brother, and nothing was going to hell and a hand basket. Well, not at the moment.
" Now about that small and brief conversation you had there."
" Right. I have a strange power to understand demons that don't speak anything but their language. As it seems it works with fallen angels as well. It gave us a deadline to stop Gabrielle and Vergil." Chase explained.
" That would be what exactly?" Dnate need more to go on then that.
" They want to open the gate to heaven and hell."
Dante and Kat just stared at them. Their mouths opening as if in complete shock and terror. Oh yes terror. Cause nothing about that sound good in the least. Dante gave a deep groan and stayed against the door frame." What exactly will happen if he opens them?"
" He will gain our dad's powers. Which will allow him to kill everything and everything he touches."
Oh that was just wonderful!
Was vergil insane? Their father was a very well known powerful demon ass kicking machine. Did he really think that he could control that kind of power on his own?
" Okay so he wants power. We knew that, he wants to purify the human race as he likes to put it. But how do they gates open? And if he opens them how do we shut them?"
Chase was the one to answer that. " The opening are with two sacrifices. One is to stay alive the other die as an offering of some kind. Closing it… I have no idea how that would even be done."
" Best bet, kill the archangel and beat Vergil till he can't walk anymore before the gates are even close to being opened. That's my vote." Eva said.
Dante busted out laughing. He liked his sister's style. Just like his, direct and straight to the damn point of it all. He liked her, he really did. Maybe when this was all over he could really get to know her. Maybe even have a relationship with a sibling that wasn't out to kill him and everyone else around.
" You said we had a deadline. How long till the gates can be opened?" Kat asked them.
" Two days. Then they will have twenty-hours to open them. if they don;t have their two sacrifices nothing will happen. No one will even notice the change."
Okay that made perfect sense. Just had to find Vergil and his psycho girlfriend from getting their hands on two innocent people to open the gates. That didn't sound too hard at all.
Yeah right.
Now they just had to find them and stop them in their tracks to keep them from doing this crazy plan. Of all things for Vergil to be going after was their father's power. Dante would never once thought for a second he would even be crazy enough to even try to get his hands on something like that. He didn't even want that kind of power. He was crazy enough with the weapons he had.
" Do you know where the gates are?"
" Well I know where the gate of Heaven is." Eva looked at them both before saying it. " Your house."
" What? No freaking fucking way. Where?" Dante wanted to know.
" The courtyard where the garden is. Mom had a window there right?"
Dante paused as she said that. How could she possibly know that?
Eva went to the living room and bent down to get a small box. Opening it she rumbled through it till she found a picture. She looked at it then walked over to Dante and handed it to him for him to see for himself. He took it and felt his heart sink as he saw his mother sitting at the very window in the courtyard with the rusty old swingset. He looked up from the picture and just looked at Evalynn. He knew that this picture was her only connection to her family. It was all she had even know of her mother. Reaching out he pulled her to him.
Kat gasped in shock as she saw Dante hugged someone other than her.
Eva wasn't sure what do think or do. Dante pulled back from her, handing her back the picture. " Come with us and protect the gate. If he they can't get both gates everything should be fine right?"
" Logically, yes." Which did make sense. If neither Gabrielle or Vergil could open the gate to Heaven then opening the gate to hell would be pointless.
" As good as that plan is, I am not allowing Eva to just go with you." Chase stood his ground. No way was he allowing his woman to go off with them not knowing if Dante really was a good guy.
" Then come with her you dumbass. I doubt she would leave without you anyway." Dante smiled.
Eva nodded and went to their room and got bags ready for them.
This would make it easier to keep watch on the one gate. But where was the other gate? Was it near the house?
Maybe the other side of the city?
They would find it. For now they had to at least protect the first gate, and that was a huge step into stopping Vergil from taking the power of Sparta for himself.
Now they needed to find out the most logical people they would target for the gates to be opened. Or hell would literally open its mouth say hello.