(A/N: Last chapter! Read & review. I just want everybody to know right now that I am ending on a cliffhanger and that I do have plans for a sequel but it will not be published for a very long time. This is just something I did for fun and when the mood strikes I will do another one. As for this one, I hope you enjoyed it because this was one of the most fun projects I have worked on and gotten the most reader feedback from. I have quite a few of you to thank for that. You know who you are!)
Spawn and Dante looked at each other. Dante and Spawn locked eyes. Those blue human eyes gazed deeply at those green lights of Spawn. They both wanted to kill each other. They stood still as Dante sheathed his sword. Spawn's arm went back to normal. Dante close his eyes and breathed in the air. He was relishing the air. He knew that they were going to fight again. This was what he lived for. Maybe Spawn did this because he felt forced to but Dante did this because he loved it.
Spawn began to encircle Dante menacingly while Dante stood calm and poised. He ripped out his guns ready for something from Spawn.
Suddenly, Spawn's cape came alive and flew out Spawn's sides like red bat wings. Dante was a little intimidated as the cape wavered in the air with absolutely no wind.
A bright green glow came over Spawn and his green eyes were glowing more then usual. He was brimming with evil energy. His monstrous powers going through the roof. Dante took a step back as Spawn's cape seemed to grow as the green light got brighter.
Dante held onto his guns tight waiting for some kind of monstrous attack. His defenses on full alert. His own coat began to waver from the power of Spawn.
Dante aimed his guns straight at Spawn ready to fire. Spawn's both arms turned into huge blades and he held both of them up close to his face ready to attack and Dante knew it.
Spawn's green aura faded and Spawn launched at Dante. Dante began shooting and launched himself backwards to the ground as he did. Spawn crashed into Dante's feet and Dante flipped Spawn as he fell. Dante still continued the destructive onslaught as they both were on the ground. Spawn got up quickly and so did Dante. He spun his guns right in front of him crossing his arms and spun his guns right back into their holsters and ripped his sword out.
Spawn scraped the two blades together making green sparks fly at Dante. They both charged each other and both hit the others blades. Dante's sword collided with Spawn's two blades. They stood struggling against each other as the three fine sharp pieces of steel pushed on each other. The three blades became red hot with friction.
Dante and Spawn stared at each other their faces only inches apart. Their eyes locked on the other. Each was the others match. This struggle would probably decide the outcome of the entire fight.
Sparks began to fly from the friction of the three blades. Suddenly a bright spark launched from them and flew into the air. The both of them had not noticed it, not yet. This spark bursted and a small black vortex was born. It grew quickly becoming almost twenty feet tall in size. It took up most of the road and was about the size of a small building.
Dante and Spawn stopped struggling with each other. They knew exactly where the vortex went. Spawn could feel the familiarity of Hell's fire. Dante could smell the brimstone coming from the swirling black hole. It was definitely a gateway to Hell.
They both looked at it feeling the familiarity of the essence from the other side. Spawn walked over to the other end of the vortex and looked on the other side and saw nothing. It was like a giant coin standing tall. Both sides swirling with blackness.
A strange suction was coming from it as it stood on the road. Spawn and Dante both felt guilt for bringing this upon the world. They both knew secretly that their battle had caused this rift. Both knew that things can go in and things can come out. Spawn and Dante could both feel a presence on the other side. A force - an array of beings. They could feel an entire army on the other side. They could also feel this dominate force on the other side. A force that commanded them all. Dante and Spawn looked at each other. They knew that neither was at bigger fault and that both of them were equally guilty.
Suddenly, they felt something coming. It felt like it was coming straight from the vortex. That it was going to burst right through the opening. Spawn and Dante got ready for anything except for what happened next.
A voice from the other side came out of the vortex. It entered their minds. Dante knew it was a powerful demon. Spawn recognized it as Malebolgia's. His master was angry. "Dante! You dare to challenge me and my general? I knew my general would allow Armageddon to begin! Chaos will commence! I needed someone like you Dante for my general to lock in battle with. Someone like you, just the type I created Simmons to destroy! I created Spawn out of the best because I need the best to deal with someone like you. To have two powers of such magnitude to rip a hole into this plain for my armies to slide through!
Now all you have to do my child is kill Dante and their will be no one left to oppose us. The Earth will be mine at last and with you by my side, as top commander, we will march to the gates of Heaven and burn them down!"
Spawn's arms returned to normal and he said, "No!"
The voice went on with both warriors listening on. "We will destroy the cosmos and create a new universe! One with a natural order. Bow down to the new god, the both of you!"
Dante spun his sword in front on him, "Bow - to you? I'm the one demons' nightmares are made out of! At the end of all this, your skinny ass will bow to me!" Dante said pointing his sword right at the vortex. "Hell didn't know what hell was till I came along!"
A loud roar came from the vortex and a powerful force pushed at the both of them. Fear was nonexistent. The two stood proud against the vortex.
Spawn then said as the powerful force pushed at them more, "Go ahead, come out of that portal so I can beat you down!"
Dante looked over at Spawn and yelled out, "I say we don't give him the chance! Let's shut him up for good!"
Spawn nodded his head in agreement.
The voice yelled which drove the two back. Not to mention that the suction had stopped and now this powerful force was trying to drive them back. "Get back! You foul minions! Kill him my son - kill him now!" Spawn started walking as well as Dante against the strong hurricane-like wind blasting out of the vortex. The wind was hot. So hot that buildings around them were starting to melt.
"You will pay for you insubordination my child! And you Dante..." Malebolgia said.
Dante sneered as he walked. He sheathed his sword and said in defiance, "Better say something good because it's the last thing you're ever going to say!"
"You have been the biggest nuisance of all time! You, at first, only destroyed some of my minions and then scratching your way all the way up to the anti-Christ! You caused him to turn his back on his own father! I will drink of your blood in Hell for all eternity! You and your father's! I will storm the regions of Heaven searching for Sparda and when I find him, you both will share the same fate! You both will burn in the ashes of this world for all time!
I will burn the Earth to asunder and you two will be at the ground floor watching its decimation! You will watch as the world is turned to a new Earth - a scorched Earth! One of burnt remains of an old kingdom and standing tall of a new one. A new one of pain and suffering! A kingdom of fire and malice.
My general will learn his place with time. As the eons go by he will forget his whore of a wife Wanda and will stand by me!"
Spawn screamed against the voice, "Never!"
"You will learn that your existence is to serve me! You are Hell Spawn and you are mine! Mine for all eternity! I am your master and you will abide by me even if it takes me another ten thousand years to do it! Love will die and hate will reign!"
Spawn and Dante entered the vortex and the swirling blackness disappeared. Spawn and Dante were now stuck inside Hell and they were going after one of the most powerful demons in Hell. The lord of the the eighth plain, Malebolgia.
Overtkill crawled over to Violator's mutilated corpse and laid himself against a wall. Overtkill was in a bad way and was only a few minutes from death.
Another swirling vortex came into view and suddenly these evil little minions started to appear from out of it. Overtkill watched as the final attack on Earth by Hell was in its first stages.
He then looked back at Violator. A strange hellion voice entered Overtkill's mind. He couldn't tell who it was but it sound very dominate. It also sounded very dashing and suave like a young car salesmen. 'I think we could help each other. Let the small minions merge you and the dead evil on the ground.'
Overtkill was about dead when he agreed. The small minions began to flock over to him and ripped him apart merging him and Violator together. White flesh and armor becoming one! It was brutal but Violator would soon be back in action and he would be better then ever now with Overtkill's armor and his power being almost double what it used to be. It would take the small minions some time to complete the process but the main goal was to get Violator back in working, breathing condition.
Violator would become a Hellish machine of destruction not even the powers of Spawn and Dante combined would be able to stop him. Nothing would!
Violator knew Hell inside and out. Spawn and Dante would be lost. The two would never find their way out and in their confusion, he would strike and kill them both. Then he would become the new general of Hell. He would lead the charge onto Heaven and Earth. He would show no remorse, no pity, no fear. He would become the savior of Hell. He would be a savior in Hell. He may even become the new anti-Christ! The kingdom of fire must be born. It would be born!
Meanwhile Dante and Spawn were in Hell. It would be a long hard road but little did they know that both of them were about to be put to the ultimate test. To make the Devil cry!