DEVIL MAY CRY

CHAPTER TWO: WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?

Dante was restrained placed in the back of an armored truck so he won't attack anyone on their way to their headquarters. The woman sat in the front to keep an eye on him while one of her men drove the car. After about an hour of driving, Dante got out of the chains and cuffs. "You guys really know how to make someone enjoy a car ride, y'know that?" he said.

"We restrained you so you won't attack anyone in the vehicle." said the woman.

"Lady, there are steel bars between you and me in the only opening to the front from the back and it's the size of a small window." He said crossing his legs and putting his arms behind his head. "Isn't there anything to do back here?"

"Entertain yourself." she responded.

"How about we talk?" he said. "So, how about a name? You already know mine, so it should be fare."

"My identity is top secret." She responded.

"Oh, a secret agent, huh?" he said smiling. "So, where's James Bond?"

"Can you shut up?" she asked.

"What?" he said. "You told me to entertain myself, so that's what I'm doing." Then something was thrown at him and landed on the ground. He picked it up. "Umm, this is a box of smokes."

"Entertain yourself with that."

"But I don't smoke." he said throwing it over his shoulder. "Got any booze?" She didn't answer this time. "C'mon, at lease tell me your name, lady; then maybe I'll leave you alone."

"Sakura Katsuragi, subject 207"

"Sakura, huh?" he repeated. "So what's the subject part?"

"I'm the two hundred and seventh subject to the F.D.H. research facility." said Sakura.

"Okay, whatever." he said. Dante reached into his coat and pulled out the pizza box from before that was tossed around his shop. He opened it up and took a piece before sticking his head between the bars. "You want some pizza? It's still warm."

"No." she said.

"Okay, more for me." He said taking a bite out of one piece. He looked to the person driving. "Why isn't Silent Bob here saying anything?" he said with pizza in his mouth.

"Because he's smart not to speak unless I tell him to. I'm his superior." she said.

"Whatever." he said he took another bite and looked to her face. He reached his other hand through the bars and grabbed her head to turn her face towards him. "Hey, the bullet wound already scared."

"That's because my body was genetically engineered to regenerate faster than normal humans." She responded before pushing his and off her head.

"Great…science…" he said pulling himself out of the bars.

Hours later, the cars and armored trucks came to a halt and the doors of the truck Dante was in flew open. "Dante Sparda." said Sakura.

Dante got up from the floor and squinted his eyes at the sun. He was sleeping on the ground with the pizza box thrown out on it. And the box of cigarettes where open with three of them smoked and put out on the ground. He was using his jacket as a sheet. "I just had a great dream. And you where in it, naked too." he said.

"Get him up." said Sakura. Two men walked into the truck and grabbed Dante's arms after he put his coat back on. They carried him out and stood him on his feet.

"Hey girl, I was joking, okay?" he said pulling his arms out of the hands of the men. "Where are we?"

"F.D.H. headquarters." she said.

Dante looked to his left to see the large room they where in. It was a garage with many vehicles in it for combat: tanks, jet fighters, armored cars, and very expensive sports cars. "Nice."

F.D.H. HQ…

Dante was escorted down the halls of the brightly lit building. There where two men in front of him with bullet proof vests and other padding, helmets, and high powered, automatic machine guns and two other men with the same weapons and gear behind him. To his right was Sakura. They halted and saluted the man that came in front of them with his hands held together behind him. Sakura walked in front of all of them and walked up to the man. He looked around 25 and had his hair pulled back. He wore a black turtle-neck with black pants and shoes. He also had an expensive wrist watch on his left arm. "Sir, mission accomplished, we've brought Dante here."

"Very good." said the man. He had a strong English accent. "Let me see the man." The guards walked to the sides and exposed Dante, who was twisting his finger in his ear, to the man. "This…is Dante?"

"Yes, sir."

"He's very unsanitary and he reeks of decaying corpses." he commented.

Dante took his finger out of his ear and smelled his sleeve. "I don't smell that bad."

"Do you have any better garments to wear?" he asked. "Those clothes are in terrible condition."

"Are you saying I have bad taste in clothes, little man?" he said grabbing Ebony in the holster.

"This is Shaun Fredricks, he's my superior." said Sakura.

"Well isn't that nice." Dante said angrily.

"Perhaps he should be washed up before introducing him to our boss?" said Shaun. He turned his attention to Dante. "And you better clean up your attitude."

"Hey, you can't be going around giving me orders." said Dante. "I was already around before your daddy stuck his tiny cock in your mama's ass; I know how this world does business!"

Shaun stood calm after that comment. "I'll pretend I didn't hear that." He turned to the guards. "Get him washed up and give him better clothes before we present him. We can't have that smell in the building now can we?" They saluted and he left down another hall.

"I don't like that guy, how can someone take orders from him?" he said.

"It's not my job to question my superiors." said Sakura. "We'll be doing as he says." The soldiers assumed their original positions and escorted Dante to the bathing facility.

"Are there babe's there?" he asked.

Dante was lead to a door on the left of the hall. The guards saluted Sakura and left. "This is the bathing room. Make sure you wear the clothes the women there give you."

"Women?" he asked with a smile. The door opened and Sakura walked down the halls. "Aren't you coming?"

"I have business to take care of before going to my boss." she said.

"But you really want to see me naked, don't you?" he teased.

"That's the last thing I want to see." She said walking town the halls and taking a left.

"Hard to get, huh?" he laughed and walked in. It was a bright room with plants all around and a pool of water in the ground. "Okay…"

A woman dressed in a white robe walked up to him. "Welcome, Dante, we've been expecting you."

"You have?" he asked.

"Yes." she responded. "May I take your coat?"

"Can you take my pants too?" he asked.

"Of course." she said. Dante removed his coat and his pants and gave them to her. Then he took off his weapons and put them on the table next to him. "I'll be back for the bathing to begin." She took his clothed and went behind a white curtain.

Dante watched the woman leave and looked around the room with his hands on his waist then nodded. "I think I might like it here."

After going to her room Sakura removed her clothes and put a towel on. She was about to go into the bathroom before her computer beep to inform of an incoming message. She walked over to it and turned on the screen. It was Shaun. "Agent Katsuragi."

"Yes sir?"

"Are you sure that man may be able to help us?" he asked.

"Yes sir, he's very strong and very skilled." she answered.

"I see, so you fought against him?" he asked.

"Yes sir; and I lost to him, as well." she said.

"It's not like you to lose a fight with a demon, however that just means that he is no ordinary demon." he said leaning back in his chair. "The Son of Sparda shouldn't be underestimated. It would be more convenient if his brother was here as well. However, his whereabouts are unknown"

"Yes sir." she said.

"You will take him to our commander at sixteen hundred hours." He said. "Do you understand?"

"Yes sir." She saluted and the screen switched off. She pulled her hair behind her ear and walked to the bathroom.

Dante, enjoying himself in the pool, sat still with his arms on the edge of the pool as the woman, now in a swimsuit, washed his hair. "Hey, can I get a massage after this?"

"Whatever you like, sir." she said.

"Fuck, yeah." he said with a big grin.

After her shower, Sakura got dressed in a similar outfit to Shaun's, but she wore a necklace along with her outfit. She headed down the halls to the room Dante was left in. Sakura looked at her watch half way there. It read: 5:45 p.m. She got to the door and pressed a button that made it slide open and she walked in there to see Dante on the table to her left getting a massage. "Hi, Sakura." He said looking up.

"What the fuck are you doing?" she asked.

"Hold on." He said getting up from the table. When he got to his feet the towel around him fell off and he stood right in front of her. "So what I understand from the woman over there is: that everyone in this building is a genetically enhanced science project, right?" Sakura widened her eyes at his naked state and tried to pay attention. "So all of you have been given some kind of steroid that makes you better?"

Sakura got her focus back. "What do you think you're doing?" she asked again. "We have fifteen minutes before I take you to my boss and you're still undressed?!"

"Yeah." he said. "And I'm expecting a happy ending from that nice lady."

"No! You get dressed right now and come with me!" she said. "I'm not going to let you get me in trouble because you want to stick you're dick in one of the employees!"

Dante flinched at her complaint. "Fine, be that way." He grabbed the towel. Sakura was hopping for him to put it around his waist, but he wrapped it around his neck over his shoulders and walked behind the curtain. "Give me ten minutes."

Twelve minutes later, they where heading up in the elevator to the room Sakura's boss was in. Dante was now wearing black like Sakura but he had his weapons on his back. He also had his hair combed back, but once he noticed that he shook his head and ran his and through his hair constantly to get it back down again. "I want you to be polite to my boss, when we meet him."

"Beg me to." he said. The doors opened and they walked into a white hall with one door at the end of it. When Sakura opened it, they where lead into a larger room with well carved designs on the walls and well portrayed paintings on the walls. There was a fire place at the far side of the room from their position with a shield and swords over it. The top was like a dome with a large chandler hanging from it. In the middle of the room was a large dinner table with food on top of it and chairs on all sides. On the far end of the table was a man in his late thirties sitting down waiting for them. Dante walked in and looked around. "…classy…"

Sakura walked up and bowed to the man at the end of the table. "Professor Graves, I've come back with my mission a success."

"Ah yes, come sit down." he said motioning them to sit at his right. Sakura walked down to the chair at the end of the right side of the table with Dante behind her. She sat down and Dante sat next to her and put his sword on the chair next to him. "Welcome, Son of Sparda, I hope you're enjoying your stay?"

"I was, until Sakura came around and flushed it down the crapper." he said putting his feet up on the table. "So, Hi Doc, how's it hanging?" Sakura glared at him. "What? No feet on the table? Okay, I'm cool with that." He put his feet down off the table.

"I'm doing quite well, me research has been going very well too. I am the one responsible for the genetic engineering of the warriors in this facility" He said before drinking his wine. "Is there anything you would like you discuss before I tell you about why I need you?"

"Yeah, is there any pizza on this table?" he asked. The Professor pointed to Dante's right to a plat with a top on it. Dante grabbed his sword and put it through the handle of it to take it off. Sure enough, it was pizza. "Awesome." He put the put the top down and grabbed a piece. "So tell me Doc, what do you need me for?"

"Well, you have a long history of slaying demons, am I correct?" he said. "And my men have had some hard times against the more powerful ones. I need your abilities so that we may be able to get rid of them."

"Okay…" said Dante taking another bite. Sakura sighed at his attitude.

"Will you help us?" asked Prof. Graves.

Dante swallowed the rest of the slice and grabbed another one. "What's in it for me?" he said before taking a gulp of beer out of the bottle. "I'm not a cheap mercenary."

"What would you like?" asked the Professor. "I can surely fund your business for you if that's what you want, Dante."

"That, and a few other things." he said. "I could use someone to help fix up my shop after Sakura here waltzed in and tore the majority of it up."

"Of course." he said. "I'll have some one repair the damages."

"And, I'd like a nice woman to take care of the place for me when I'm not on business." He said looking at Sakura.

"Well, if that's what you want, anything else?" asked the Professor.

"And a fancy sports car like the ones you have in your garage." He said.

"Well, I guess that's reasonable." Graves said.

"So, what do you want me to kill?" asked Dante.

"Demons, of course." said the Professor. "The people here are genetically and physically enhanced, but they can't match the abilities of a full blooded demon like yourself."

"I've noticed." said Dante looking to Sakura again. "But I'm only half, remember? My mom was human."

"I see, so will you accept this job? We're willing to give you your reward if this works out." said the Professor.

Dante threw his head back and looked back to the Professor. "Well, business has been slow at my shop, I guess I'll accept."

"Good!" said Prof. Graves. He grabbed his glass and raised it. "A toast to partnership, you will be working with Sakura's unit."

"Sweet." said Dante.

"Professor, I don't really think this is a good idea." said Sakura. "Maybe he should go with Shaun's unit."

"Nonsense, Shaun's unit is the finest, it doesn't need any more improvements." said the Professor. "He will go with your unit."

"Yes, sir." She said before getting out of her seat and walking to the door.

Dante watched her leave and looked to the Professor. "She doesn't like me, I take it?"

"Well, she doesn't really trust demons." Graves said.

TO BE CONTINUED…