A/N: Hello once more, I hope you're all doing well, I'm excited to be able to plow through this now and be able to sleep once I'm done, ahh sleep… I can't wait to greet you again… Though to be fair I did sleep for most of the day… woke up at noon, finished a book and then slept again until five… then played mgs2 and let me tell you that the end of that game is very much mind fucking… they kept subtly breaking the fourth wall and it was freaking me out… like the dog tags that Raiden had been wearing for like the entire game… they said Leigh. That's my name in case you didn't know, is it supposed to do that? Cause I don't recall telling the game what my name was… that and then in the mission that you have to do naked (don't ask and no I didn't see anything inappropriate, I would've enjoyed it more if all the shit hadn't hit the fan at that moment cause Raiden is one sexy guy…) but they kept saying, just give up and quit the game, you've been playing too long, don't sit that close to the TV you'll hurt your eyes… it was more than a little disturbing… anywho speaking of disturbing, let's get down to business shall we?

Disclaimer: Still none of the owns.

ALWAYS WATCHES, NO EYES

"Did you see anything strange when she left?" Dante asked, trying to keep his nerves calm, which was difficult considering the demonic aura that pushed down on the back of his mind. Cheri kept looking at the drawings on the table before sighing

"Just the mist and the trees, though I can't say that I've ever seen the trees look so thick before… thick and dark and intimidating…" there was a rather pregnant pause before Nero gave a small grunt of discomfort and tried to disguise it as a cough.

"You okay kid?" the elder asked, looking to his partner who was rubbing intently at his covered arm.

"I'm fine."

"Did you hurt your arm?" Cheri asked, looking at him, concerned. She paused, seeming to debate with herself if she should say what she wanted before continuing anyway. "Are you two sure that you'll be able to find Natalie…? I mean, you're injured…" Nero looked away and Dante simply smirked.

"Cheri, we've been doing what we've been doing for a long time, both of us are practically born to do this kind of thing, the kid's arm isn't actually hurt." He looked at the teen who gave him a questioning look

"Go on, show her, can't have her doubting us now can we?" the half devil said, Nero sighed but pulled his arm out of the sling. The glow from the demonic appendage was so bright that it showed through even the outermost layer of bandages. Cheri's eyes widened and the group heard a small gasp from the direction of the kitchen. The partial devil gave a small smile,

"Come on out, you deserve to know what's going on too." He said and then a girl not much younger than himself appeared from around the corner. She was the spitting image of her mother and could be none other than Natalie's sister.

"Stacey, what have I told you about eavesdropping?" her mother chided, seeming to revert back to what the two slayers assumed was what she was like before her second child was taken from her.

"I'm sorry mom but…"

"It's fine," Nero said "like I said, she deserves to know what's going on too." The teen was now unwrapping his right arm and the glow kept getting brighter and brighter as the layers disappeared. Finally the red hide and blue scales of his demonic arm were exposed to the air and the two women in the room stared.

"What is it…?" Stacey asked.

"It's my Devil Bringer," Nero answered "it's what's going to let me kill the thing that took your sister." He was about to continue when it flashed brighter, the demonic aura around them increasing in pressure, both Stacey and Cheri began to cough violently and Dante winced as he reached forward to make sure they were both okay. Nero would've done the same if it weren't for the sudden gust of wind that howled outside. The wind that seemed to speak to him.

Foooooollliiisssshhhhhh aaaaaaahhhhhhnnnnndd aaarrroooooggaaaaahhhhnnnt puuup… yyyooooouuuu knnoooowwww noooottttthhhhiing oooooff whhhhiiich yoooouuu speeeeaaaakk…

Nero gasped and whirled around, whipping out Blue Rose and pointing it at the window, turning in a slow and tense circle as he observed any and all exits to the house, he couldn't see anything out the windows not facing the street aside from fog and the branches of the trees. He narrowed his eyes as the branches seemed to sway and move in a way that seemed almost unnatural for them, his grip tightened on the gun. He was about to pull the trigger when Dante's voice snapped him from his battle instincts.

"Nero." The teen blinked and looked to the older slayer, who was watching him with concern.

"Sorry…" he mumbled, sliding the double barreled gun back into her holster and sitting down on the couch, though now he was as tense as steel.

"What just happened?" Cheri asked, looking between the two slayers with wide eyes.

"The aura that's hanging over town just intensified, I think it feels threatened by us." Dante said, still watching his partner from the corner of his eye, he'd question the kid later.

"Aura?" Cheri and her daughter echoed.

"It's typically something that only we as devil hunters, can sense, it usually allows us to feel the power and location of a demon. But this one's aura doesn't give it a location and it's so thick that I'm pretty sure you can feel it too." The half devil explained

"Is it that paranoid feeling?" Cheri asked and Dante nodded

"Like you're being watched?" he supplied and Stacey shivered violently.

"Natalie kept talking about that… she kept saying that she was being watched… that it watched her with no eyes…"

A/N: Aaaaaannnnnnd I am now officially disturbed by my own writing… I whispered the line that Nero heard out loud to myself (I do this a lot to check that things sound like speech when they should, especially when a character talks funny, like Agnus) and I felt the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I did… god I felt terrified and successful… Speaking of terrifying, my roommate and I managed to nearly give each other simultaneous heart attacks. I took a shower and came back in the room, I thought she was already asleep so I turned my desk light on toward the wall and she jackknifed upright because my turning on the light scared her but her leaping up scared the shit out of me… we laughed about it but jeez! Thought something was gonna kill me there for a second…

Till next time,

-Winged Elment