Devil May Cry

Dimensions to your world and the next

Chapter 54

Warnings: Language and Violence

*Author's Note: I actually don't want 'you' to leave Dante's world. It's too much fun around here, and if you go back, you won't be able to see him anymore! I don't know how this ends, so I'm as anxious as you people are.

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Tina closed the door to your room behind her, comtemplating whether she should lock it or not. She did not want you to feel like a prisoner, if anything, Aeon wanted you to feel right at home. Tina placed the key back in her pocket, leaving the door unlocked for you to roam free whenever you chose. She made her way down the hall to get back to her duties when Eerious intercepted her path. Tina was never really fond of Eerious. He was rather bitter for a man to have been blessed when he was a baby, given the power of the heavens, though he uses it for evil. She frowned up at him, adjusting the bun that held her golden hair.

"Are you interested in something, Eerious?"

He narrowed his eyes on her. "Aeon was interested in her condition, whether she is comfortable or not."

"Well, she was just kidnapped, basically, of course she is not comfortable. I doubt she'll even eat her breakfast. Where is Aeon? I'd like to speak to him personally."

"What for?"

"Is that really any of your business? Now, where is he?"

Eerious bit back a remark. He knew he really couldn't do anything to Tina. She was one of Aeon's favourite servants, she was really the only one Aeon would listen to. In fact he had her to be ______'s personal servant, considering the closeness of age. "He is in the library."

Tina nodded, and brushed past him without another word. She navigated her way through the maze of hallways, approaching the tall doors that led to the massive library. She pushed open the door. Walking through the entrance, her footsteps echoed across the area, where the books were stacked high and the ceiling exceeded so far that she was barely able to see the illustration painted of a war, Heaven against Hell.

"Lord Aeon?" Tina called out.

There was no answer, but Tina can distinctively hear the sound of voices speaking to one another. Aeon was possibly speaking to his brother, Orein. Tina had not spoke to Orien, mainly because she was afraid of him. A commander of a rebellion army from Hell was a profession she did not take very likely. Although Aeon was also a being from Hell, she respected him for not being as cruel as the other demons. Maybe he had kidnapped _______ and would use her power to conquer other dimensions but he decided against absorbing her power and killing her.

What Tina didn't know, was that he ordered his brother to kill Dante, the son of Sparda, the love of ______'s life. And if Tina knew, she wouldn't have approved of the situation. Tina may serve Aeoniom--which is a name Orein only addresses him as--but she knew her principals.

Tina strode through the halls of bookshelves, following the voices of what sounded like an argument. She had an idea of what the source of the problem is. Orein was still angered by the fact Aeon had awakened him to capture the girl. Tina stood at the very end of a bookshelf, hearing their voices clear.

"A half demon like him was an unacceptable excuse! You awoke me for a job that could easily be cut out from one of your demon superiors. It is a disgrace that you are not able to defeat his level."

Aeon took a moment before answering. "I, a morph, don't have the demonic strength a commander of a demon army has. I awakened you for your assistance and to give insight in what I have planned, and your army will be needed."

"My army? You were to use my army without my conscent!"

"I needed your conscent, that's why I awoke you."

Aeon sounded so calm, so collected while his brother seemed to be in a rampage. Tina listened further.

"And also to kill the girl's boyfriend," Orein added.

"Yes, well he was an obsticle I needed to get rid of. _______ is too blind sighted from what he says or does, that she doesn't know her true potential. He protected her from using her own powers, showed her that it was unnecessary to protect herself. And because of that, I have to train her in using her own magic. That Dante was a nuisance, and she may take a while to forgive in killing him, but I will make it known that she must forget about that half breed."

Orein laughed. "Spoken like a true devil."

Tina placed her hand over her mouth in shock. How could he do that to her? Tina felt her respect for him lower and she frowned. To kill someone who is important in someone elses life is a crime that could shatter anyone's heart. She knew now why _______ was so saddened. At first, Tina might have thought that maybe she was just angry about having been kidnapped, but no. She had watched someone she cared for die. Finally, Tina took the initiative to step out from the darkness. The two were standing by a desk which had been the support of many books. Orein looked towards in the instant, his red eyes boring into hers. Aeon's back was to her.

"Lord Aeon, I would like to speak to you...in private."

Aeon turned to her and smirked. He stepped towards her. "How is she?"

Tina furrowed her brow. "I doubt she'll take the opportunity to eat her breakfast."

Aeon nodded his head. "That's to be expected. I want you to report to me about her. I would like to see how her condition adapts to my home. If she would to escape at all, have Eerious stop her."

Tina nodded but what she wanted to do was shake her head, say no, say that he was wrong, let her go.

"You are dismissed."

Tina turned and walked her way back towards the entrance. She starred at the ground as she walked. The poor girl, she lost what was left to get back home. If she could, Tina would help her escape, help her escape from the clutches of the insanity ______ would have to face.

Dante watched as Lucinda felt for the potion bottle she would need in order to stand normally. She was leaning against him for support as she picked up a glass holding aqua coloured liquid. It wasn't too difficult to escape from the hospital.

Dante had picked her up from the bed, opened the window and jumped out and ran for the car. People had called to him to stop, but he didn't knowing that was not a choice he was willing to follow. Dante took Lucinda home at a quick speed. Now they stood in her storage room which held many bottles with different substances. She opened the bottle and drank. Lucinda swallowed before opening her lips to speak.

"It might take a while for the elixir to work."

"Doesn't matter, we'll be driving. Can you feel her aura? Can you feel the direction from where it's coming from?"

The urgency in Dante's voice made Lucinda frown. "It' not so easily found. Her aura...it's very faint."

Dante closed his eyes before helping Lucinda out of her home and towards the car. He opened the door for her, and helped her settle in. "Is there anyway I can contact her again?"

Lucinda nodded her head. "But, you must contact her when she sleeps. You will enter her dreams and be able to speak to her, but from what you told me about your last contact with her, it seems your connection towards one another is through the lips, and if you two to ever have direct contact with the lips, your connection in her dream will break."

"No kissing...got it."

Lucinda smiled. "I'm sure we will get to her in time. And when we do, we have to take the opportunity in bringing her back home. From what I learned in the book, there is a portal in which she can open, with some guidence."

Bring her back home. It was something Dante never really thought too clearly about. He didn't want to lose her again, but she didn't belong here, she wanted to go home. When this was all over, when she would return home safely, what was he to do after? Go back to Devil May Cry where he'd sit and wait for a phone call? The thought to ask her to stay with him nagged at his mind. Stay with me, would be all he had to say to her. But he knew he couldn't ask, he couldn't ask her to stay after what they had done to find her way back home. Dante closed his eyes as he put the key into the ignition and turned on the car.

______, I'll be missing you.

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*Author's Note: One more for tonight, then you'll get a couple more tomorrow, then sooner than you realize, we'll be done here.....