A/N: I'm just coming right off the last chapter so I'm just gonna keep right on going.

Disclaimer: I still don't

Kyrie?

"How dare us?" Dante asked, casually getting to his feet after tackling his partner to the ground to avoid the dragon-like mouth of the monster. "How dare you lay a hand on my partner here!" he said, brushing imaginary dust from his coat, which was thoroughly covered in dirt, grime and the blood of both himself and his partner. It was definitely going to be time to buy a new one when they got back home, Nero decided, not looking forward to the trip, it hadn't gotten any easier to convince Dante to get new work clothes as the years had gone by…

"Partner…" the demon hissed with a roll of her eyes. "You think that you get a choice to not bond with one of my children?!" she snarled and darted forward with an angry shriek. Nero rolled out the way with ease. She continued to scream and screech and whip her tail at them and summoned up small armies of seeds to fight for her as well. The pair had little difficulty dispatching her, perhaps if it had only been one of them it'd have been more of a challenge but honestly the hoards of the smaller demons had been more of a challenge…

She tried to flee last minute but Nero reached out with his Devil Bringer, snagging the end of her tail as Dante shot her to pieces. The hellgate faded to black and the power source glowed ominously at its side. Nero looked to his partner and raised his brow.

"I told you, this one's yours."

"Better be something good." Nero grumbled, striding forward, the end of the creature's tail absorbing into his Devil Bringer as he did. He reached forward, the light flaring around his body as Ifrit was delegated to the back of his mind and a new devil arm took its place. Nero willed the mouth cover that'd formed to fold back and glared at his partner.

"Dammit Dante! I already have one of these!" he shouted, Dante winced

"I didn't know that that was going to be the devil arm powering the gate! Plus I have one too, it's not like I need another…" Nero stalked forward, feeling the power that flared out from the devil arm, he felt like he could punch Dante clear back to the castle if he so wanted to… and maybe he did.

"Please be reasonable Nero?" the half devil asked, backing away with his hands up in the air. Nero let out a growl and then whirled around, flying at the hellgate, a singular punch blowing it to smithereens and a few kicks ensuring that there was no way that anyone was going to reassemble the damn thing.

"I get the next one too. If there is one." he said with a growl, stalking forward and delegating the devil arm to the back of his mind and calling forth Ifrit again. The devil arm tried to assert itself.

I am the might Gilgamesh! You-

I don't care. Nero pushed back, silencing the thing in the back of his head. I seemed surprised at the force behind the lazy words.

"Great, it's a talkative one too." he grumbled, shaking his head and continuing onward, his partner following behind him.

"It's better than the ones that never say anything and just try and command your body instead." the half devil said, giving Yamato a pointed rattle, the sword didn't react. Nero paused then and looked over at Dante.

"Hey, does Rebellion ever speak to you?" Dante gave a small smile

"She hasn't for a long time, but I know she's always listening," he leaned in conspiratorially "always judging."

"Judging? Judging what? Wait Rebellion's a she?" Nero looked over at his friend, he'd never bothered to ask that and suddenly felt bad that he hadn't thought to do so before.

"Red Queen's a she too." Dante pointed out "And Rebellion judges everything, the last thing that I heard from her was that I needed to get off my ass and get in gear and teach you to quit wasting so much energy in your sword swings."

"Hey!"

"Her words, not mine." the half devil said "She doesn't talk much anymore, I think it's because she's been a weapon for so long now that she's kind of forgotten how to." Nero looked at him.

"Huh."

"Yeah, there's a few books back at the shop that have to do with devil arms, you should give them a read when we get back, they're honestly fascinating. A pain in the ass 'cause they're written in a very old version of demonic script but fascinating none the less." He patted his lover on the shoulder

"But we should be moving on, finish up with all the problems that my dad started in your city." Nero couldn't help but laugh at that

"Yeah no kidding. Hey where's Trish? Wasn't she going to help us out with this? Go undercover or something?" Dante just shrugged

"Hell if I know what's going on in that woman's head, half the time, I'm sure that she's just fucking with me just for fun and then I just sigh and let it blow over. If she's here, great, if not, well that's what I'm counting on so…" he shrugged again as they made their way to the bridge and slowly crossed.

"Gods what is up with the weather changes around here right now?" Dante said, suddenly feeling cold now that he wasn't sweating constantly anymore.

"I think it's the effect of having so many hellgates open in one area, even if they aren't true hellgates, they still let in the effect of the hell they lead to. Either way, it's not our problem as soon as we stop His Holiness and get the hell home." Nero sneered the name and then froze as they crested the hill to the entrance to the headquarters of the Order of the Sword.

"Kyrie?"

A/N: Yup, and moving right along again so,

Till next time,

-Winged Element