A/N: Hello everyone! It's currently 12:30 in the morning and I'm going to slam out this last chapter of the weekend so I may post relaxedly throughout the week, I hope that you guys will enjoy this crossover cause I know I'm going to (I've kind of already done it :p) after this I gotta shower and do dishes and get ready for tomorrow ^.^; heh, yeah talk about not being prepared. Well if sleep must be sacrificed to bring you fanfiction, so be it!
Disclaimer: I don't own Slendy or Dante, I'd love one and be terrified of the other.
Guest: Haha, yeah, I don't think you'll feel too bad for him by the end of this… he can kind of be a dick sometimes…. Thanks so much for the review though!
LEAVE ME ALONE
"So what's this all about?" Nero asked once they were in the car.
"There's been a lot of weird sightings and missing people in this town, a lot of people living near the woods have been weirdly sick too, most of the missing people had it before they disappeared." Dante explained.
"Who's our employer?" the teen asked, now curious, this mission sounded strange to say the least, not that most of their missions didn't sound at least a little strange.
"If you wanna get technical, Lady."
"Lady?! Lady hired you to do something for you?! Why didn't she just threaten you with more debt?"
"Because this is personal, her cousin just went missing." The younger's expression immediately became serious as he digested the information just handed to him.
"Oh… so… how many missing people does this make?"
"Six."
"And we don't know what's causing it?"
"No."
"How will we find out?" Dante chuckled at this and looked over at his partner.
"Kid, your inexperience is showing." Nero's face darkened but the elder ignored him and continued. "Sometimes the demon isn't right up in your face or easily visible, sometimes we have to do a little of this fancy thing called research." Nero continued to glare and Dante just laughed.
-Predator and Prey-
Upon reaching the town the half devil noticed several things right away. One, there were very, very few people out on the streets; two, those that were were rushing hurriedly about with nervous looks on their faces; and three, there was a very strange demonic presence in the air. It seemed to be everywhere and nowhere all at once, watching, waiting for your very own paranoia to drive you mad before it decided to strike. It made the hairs on the back on Dante's neck stand up and he shivered lightly as he tried to brush it off, it was thick enough that he was sure that the humans walking down the street could feel its eerie touches.
"What is that?" Nero asked from the passenger seat, his Devil Bringer was flaring so wildly that it could be seen through the wrappings and sling that he was wearing. Dante had seen it like that only one other time, and that was when he walked in on he and Kyrie passionately making out on the couch… now that had been a riot…
"I'm assuming that that's what we're hunting." The elder said, attempting to suppress another shiver.
"It hurts…" the teen mumbled, rubbing at his right arm. Dante looked at him in surprise for a moment before remembering that the partial devil was a heck of a lot more sensitive to demonic auras than he was.
"Powerful one ain't he?" he said as he drove up to the address that Lady had given him for her cousins.
The two slayers exited the car and walked up to the house; Dante knocked politely on the door and waited. Moments later an exhausted and sad looking mother opened the door.
"Can I help you?" she asked
"Hello ma'am, we're friends of Lady's, could we step in?"
"Lady?" the woman echoed before she seemed to realize who Dante was talking about "Oh, Mary… I suppose…" she held the door open and stepped aside, allowing the two white haired men to enter.
Once inside the woman sat on the couch and looked at the slayers wearily.
"My name's Cheri, what brings you two to this gloomy town?" the poor woman seemed to be falling apart, losing a child could do that to you, Dante had seen far too many parents lose their children to demons and devils.
"Well my name's Dante and this kid is my business partner Nero, and actually, Lady sent us here to help you. We're in the same kind of business as she…" Cheri let out a tired sigh and looked down at her clasped hands in her lap.
"I never believed her you know… the whole demon hunting deal… but now… now I'm not so sure, what with what everyone's been seeing and what happened the night Natalie went missing…" the two slayers looked at one another and Nero reached forward and put a hand over hers.
"We'll bring her back, okay?" he said "Can you tell us what happened though?" Cheri had tears in her eyes but nodded.
"We told her that it was dangerous, what with the disappearances and all but Natalie's just always had a fascination with the woods. And then she started making those drawing… and writing those weird things…"
"Do you have them?" Dante asked, Cheri nodded and went into what looked like the master bedroom before returning with a handful of paper. She spread them out on the coffee table and Nero felt his eyes widen at the frantic drawings of pines and a stick figure lurking within, of long and dark things swirling at a window, and most commonly repeated was a simple symbol. It was a circle with an 'X' through the middle, often accompanied by the word 'NO'.
"How old is she?" the elder asked and Nero didn't fail to notice that the half devil used a present tense, he assumed it was to make Cheri feel better and it seemed to work because she took a deep breath and said.
"She's twelve, she just wandered into the woods one night, walked away right in front of us and into the mist, we haven't seen her since…"
"You just let her go?" Nero asked
"No… you should've seen her face…" Cheri shivered and gave a light cough "it was like she was possessed… it was terrifying… I don't think any of us could've stopped her if we tried…"
A/N: This is a fantastic thing to write right before I go to bed… not. Yeah sleep isn't going to be easy cause now my brain's whirring with what happens next…
Till next time,
-Winged Element