A/N: Hey guys, sorry it's been a while, I just graduated, so I'm officially an engineer now! WOO! No more homework! Well at least until whatever company I work for is willing to pay for grad school but I'm at least going to take a year or so before that. Looking for a job is boring btdubs. I at least have my co-op to pay the bills until I find a big person job but still, I've been trying to put in extra hours to save some money for loans… boo…
Disclaimer: I still don't own Devil May Cry, despite having graduated…
Great, We Get Crazies Too
Nero wrinkled his nose at the smell that permeated the air the second they crossed into the harsh snowy winds that whipped outside. Dante sneezed and then both of them looked up to see a pair of glowing beckoning blue women, Nero looked at his partner in confusion.
"What's this?" he wondered out loud, flexing his claws but trying to remain passive, sometimes you could get out of an encounter without a fight. It didn't happen often but it was possible.
"I don't know… looks like we could have some fun…" the half devil wiggled his eyebrows in a suggestive manner and Nero rolled his eyes. "Aww, c'mon, you're such a party pooper!" the half devil was met with a gaze that could've melted all the snow around them.
"You realize that means that I would have to share…" he said this softly but the half devil's sharp hearing still picked up on it. He felt his heart skip a beat for that one moment, even after years of being together and sharing one another's company he could still be made to feel like a kid again when the other man did something like that. The feeling only heightened when Nero leapt almost straight up into the air and landed on top of a toad-like monstrosity.
"I suppose we were right, there was a big ugly demon on the other side of the door." Nero grunted, shoving Ifrit through the monster's body. It yowled in pain and shook the younger man off.
"How did you know?!" it shouted, Nero just scoffed and Dante, finally shaken from his stupor laughed.
"There's no hiding a stink like that!" He said, yanking out his newest devil arm and giving it a whirl. He grinned like a small child when he was correct in his assumption that the spears would explode upon contact with a body, particularly one as large as this one. The monster was an easy target, although less so when Nero started swinging it around by one of its rather leggy floating lures. The line holding the lure snapped and the overgrown toad crashed into the wall, shouting out for its brethren. Dante silenced its cry before too long and turned to look back to Nero, who was looking at his arm curiously as the lure was absorbed into it.
"Okay, seriously, you've got to quit doing that, that was part of a demon, not a demon arm, a piece of corpse…"
"Yeah, I'll let you know as soon as I figure out how I keep doing it…" the partial devil grumbled and then looked to the portal slightly startled. Dante turned to see what his partner was looking at and sighed
"Shit…"
"Looks like we were both wrong, there wasn't one big evil monster, there were a bunch…"
"Well it looks like we have work to do." Dante twirled his pistols and Nero crouched down, claws flexed and ready for the fight.
-Time Slip-
It was a rather long battle for the duo as neither had heavy artillery or the means to take out more than one of the monsters at once. More than a couple devil stars were cracked open in the process of trying to defeat the group. The battle finally came to a conclusion with both hunters in their Devil Trigger, hacking and slashing at the pile of them until they were good and truly gone from this world. They looked up to see the gate close and the pedestal next to it begin to glow with the light of unclaimed devil arm. Nero looked to his partner
"I told you, I took the last one, you get this one." the half devil said with a grin, Nero smirked back
"Damn straight." he reached forward, the devil arm floating over to him and taking the form of a briefcase. Nero frowned for a second before the thing transformed into a gun and the younger hunter laughed, firing wildly at the hellgate, whipping it around himself and throwing the now bladed weapon, he caught it and with a wink at his lover, transformed it into a large artillery weapons, destroying any remaining chunks of the hellgate. The weapon folded back into a briefcase and opened for a split second, light pouring out before Nero slammed it shut.
"Alright, now I'm jealous, also, that would've been extremely useful in that fight."
"Yeah no kidding." the partial devil laughed "But hey, at least I now have a gun until I can get Blue Rose back."
"That's a hell of an upgrade… what's its name?"
"Pandora." Nero said after a moment's hesitation, consulting the strange otherworldly presence in his mind that was the devil arm. He was still getting used to that, even after all this time, it still occasionally unsettled him when Ifrit spoke up in his mind, he hadn't grown up with devil arms as Dante had.
"Whoever is setting up these hellgates, or these falsified hellgates, more specifically, has collected quite a few powerful devil arms. Not just any old one can support a tear in the veil between the two realms." Nero nodded
"It's probably Agnus."
"Who?"
"One of the scientists from the Order. He was a real wacko, even back when I was still here, I can't imagine that he's gotten any better."
"Great, we get crazies too." Dante huffed
A/N: Sorry this is a bit boring, trying to get back in the swing of things.
Till next time,
-Winged Element
