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Nero?!
The basement of the building smelled, neither of them could place the chemical stench but it stung at their noses and caused for both to cough as the smell clogged their lungs.
"What is that?" Dante hacked, waving the air in front of his face, Nero shrugged, looking for the way deeper into the laboratory, they'd found the entrance only after extensive exploration and a fair bit of luck.
"I don't know, all I can tell you is that the last time I was in here it didn't smell like this but that was… what three years ago now?" he said, thinking back on it and realizing that yes, in fact, it had been three years since he'd lived on the island. It seemed like a lifetime ago to him, the way that he lived with Dante now just felt so natural that living in fear and under the control of the Order seemed like a different time, a different person that it all had happened to. Up until a crazy foreigner had washed up on the beach. The partial devil smirked at the thought.
"What're you snickering about?" Dante asked, raising a brow as he followed the other hunter deeper into the laboratory.
"I'm just thinking, it seems like so long ago that I fished a crazy man in red leather out of the ocean. And to think! The crazy man didn't even have a shirt on!" Dante rolled his eyes.
"Yeah yeah, make fun of me, but I seem to recall a stuck up knight who couldn't even admit that he was part demon." Now it was Nero's turn to roll his eyes
"Hey, I didn't know!"
"And I'm still amazed at that, huh, looks like we've got company." he gestured ahead of them to the bizarre looking creatures swimming through the floor as easily as if it were water. Nero sighed and prepped Ifrit as Dante pulled out his guns. "I mean, you had all the signs of being part devil and you just ignored them until your arm went all crazy…" he said as he took pot shots at the fins that jutted from the floor. Once one flinched above the surface of the floor Nero went for it, punching and kicking at it until it collapsed dead, blood pooling out and crystalizing into orbs.
"I didn't know that being stronger than other people and healing quickly meant that I wasn't human!" he snapped, the statement accentuated by a quick punch.
"I didn't have any demonic marking until I was a teenager but I knew I wasn't human, at least, not entirely."
"You were also told when you were a kid."
"That's true." the red hunter shrugged, finishing off the last demon with a quick shot from Ebony. He looked over to his partner
"You know I'm just teasing right?" Nero blinked, pulled out of his thoughts, he'd been thinking that when he was younger he really should have noticed that he wasn't entirely human, he'd just been so afraid to admit it…
"Yeah, I was just thinking that things have been so much better since I moved in with you. Since I accepted what I am, who I am."
"Since you found this sexy devil." the half devil teased, nudging his partner with a hip. Nero laughed
"Since I found a friend," he looked at the other "since I found love." Dante smiled at the other hunter and leaned over to peck him on the lips. That peck deepened quickly into a much longer kiss and both pulled away for air, pupils blown wide and breath pulled quickly through swollen lips.
"Damn, when we take down this asshole, I need at least a week of just you. In bed. No interruptions."
"I think we seem more like lovestruck teens than two grown men, y'know that?" the half devil said with a grin as he ran a hand through his partner's hair.
"I know, yet here we are." he looked to the doorway that had been cleared by the demons that they had just killed. He walked forward into the room and then stopped. This looked like a testing room, a big bay window in the front of the room.
"Shit." he cursed, gauging the reinforced glass. Dante peeked around the other male's shoulder to see what the fuss was all about.
"I agree." he grumbled, once this was said there was a startled squeak on the other side of the glass, transmitted over a loudspeaker so that the two hunters could hear it clearly. Nero looked to his partner and raised a brow. Dante just shrugged and then a hunched over, large man came into view, greasy dark hair falling into his face.
"Y-you! You escaped! You're here!" he stammered and Nero just sighed, his shoulders falling forward. Dante leaned over and whispered in the blue hunter's ear
"Is this the crazy guy?" Nero nodded
"Yeah." recently dubbed crazy guy just chuckled,
"Oh, how fortunate for me… the t-two of you… all mine! I thought that when you had escaped…!" Dante hefted Rebellion off his back and prepared for a fight, he knew that if they worked at it, the pair could get through the glass. "I hadn't the t-time to f-finish my experiments but very nearly… now… now I get to see my studies in action!" the room filled with gas and Nero started coughing. When it started to clear Dante just barely managed to dodge out the way of a punch.
"Nero?!" the partial devil gave no look of recognition, only a low growl as his eyes flickered to a bright red and cerulean flames licked off his Devil Bringer.
Till next time,
-Winged Element
