Unbound Love
As the sun rose, the first one up was believe it or not, Dante. Dante sat up and rubbed his eyes. "I got some personal crap to attend to today." He got dressed in his usual attire and headed downstairs. Lady was sitting on the couch stretching.
"You got something to do today? Your never up this early." She asked.
"Yeah," He said with a sigh.
"What's the deal?" Lady asked, curious.
"This new group of demon trappers are jacking up my business." Dante said, putting his hands on his hips.
"Well they'd be messing with my business too, if they're trapping demons." Lady said.
"No, they've been going after just my jobs." Dante said.
"Looks like you've got a rat that's leaking info." Lady said, crossing her arms.
"The hard part is going to be finding him." Dante said, rubbing his chin.
"Not necessarily, who's been giving you jobs?" Lady asked.
Dante thought for a moment, then the realization hit him in the face. "Enzo that two-faced son of a..."
"Should we go pay him a little visit?" Lady asked.
"Yeah, I'll teach him to double-cross me." Dante said, popping his knuckles.
"We need to leave Nero a note so he doesn't wonder where the hell we went." Lady said.
"Right." Dante walked to his desk and pulled out a pencil and paper. He wrote a note that read: Went to go kick Enzo's teeth down his throat. Be back later, Dante.
"Write him anything creative?" Lady asked.
"Maybe a little." Dante said, with a smirk.
"Are we gonna beat the crap out of him or are we gonna talk to him?" Lady asked.
"I'll give the little fucker time to talk, but if his timings not fast enough I'm gonna beat the shit out of 'im." Dante said.
"Sounds good." Lady said.
"Alright let's rock!" Dante said, excitedly.
Lady chuckled; she loved how excited Dante sometimes got before he did something.
They packed up in Dante's Lambo, and with a mechanical purr they were off.
The drive didn't take very long, with Dante going twenty miles over the speed limit. Dante walked up the steps to the house and banged on the door.
"What?" came the disgruntled reply.
"Enzo, you and I got some stuff to talk about." Dante said, semi-angry.
"Dante, can it wait? I had a hard night last night." Enzo whined.
"No Enzo, it can't wait. Now open this fucking door." Dante said.
"Ehh. Fuck off, Dante. I'm to tired to deal with your shit." Enzo said.
"Alright, Enzo. I warned you." Dante said, then kicked down the door.
"Dante, what the fuck?" Enzo said, standing up from the couch he was sitting on.
"That's what I'm saying." Dante said through gritted teeth, while grabbing Enzo by the collar of his shirt.
"Dante, what are you doing?" Enzo said in fear.
"Shut up. How come the last two jobs you've handed me, this new group of demon trappers shows up and I don't get paid?" Dante said.
"I swear Dante, I have never tried to get rid of you." Enzo said.
"Then what's with these demon trappers targeting only his jobs?" Lady asked.
"Look, the word with some of my connections is the governments heard of some of your deeds, and they wanna talk to you." Enzo said.
"And when did you hear this?" Dante said.
"About two days ago. If I could of told you I would." Enzo said, frantic.
Dante dropped Enzo with a sigh. "Do you at least know the address?"
"Yeah, it's on Truman Avenue. It's a place called Genesis." Enzo said.
"Lady let's go." Dante said.
They loaded up and left. About five minutes later, a big building came into view. They parked the car, and went inside. "Hi tell your boss Dante wants to talk to him." He said to the receptionist.
The receptionist made a call, and a couple of minutes later a man with grey hair and a suit approached them. "Ah, Dante. "
"Hello fucktard. You'd better give me a good enough reason as to why you're stealing my cash or I'm gonna slice you into bloody ribbons." Dante said, with a straight face, as if it was the easiest thing to say in the world.
"All will be explained shortly, meet me at the top floor." The man said.
"You'd better have a pizza up there if you expect me to stay long." Dante said.
"Will do." The man said with a wave of his hand.
At the top floor of the building was a penthouse with a world-class view, the carpet was red, the walls were white, the glass was a grey-ish blue, and the conference table was brown. These official types had a terrible taste in color.
"Take a seat, Mr. Dante," The man in the middle of the room said.
"Just Dante will do, fucktard." Dante said, as he took a seat, putting his feet up.
"Alabaster." The man said.
"So what do you wanna talk about, Al."? Dante asked.
Lady took a seat next to him.
"Sorry young lady you'll have to wait outside." Alabaster said.
"I don't do my business without my partner. If she goes, I go." Dante said.
"Fine. I suppose that can be arranged." Alabaster said in resignation.
Lady blushed a little. She and Dante had always been business partners, but maybe somewhere deep inside her, she wanted them to be something more.
"Okay, fucktard. What you wanna talk about." Dante said.
A look of annoyance crossed Alabaster's face before he answered. "We are Genesis. The next step in human evolution."
"So your capturing demons to research them." Dante said. Dante might not be the smartest in the box of rocks, but he certainly wasn't stupid.
Before Alabaster could answer a person that looked like a bellhop came through the door. "Someone ordered a pizza?"
"Over here." Dante said, waving his hand.
"As I was saying, precisely. We're studying demons to hopefully find out a way to speed up human evolution." Alabaster said.
"It ain't gonna work." Dante said, as he took a bite of the pizza. Ugh. This was not Pizza One.
"How can you say that? The introduction of demonic tissue to the human genome increases strength, speed, and reflexes. The only side-affect was the patients got a little delirious after a while." Alabaster said, making gestures with his hands like a mad man.
"Yeah, keep 'em going like that, and eventually they'll lose they're sanity." Lady commented.
"We've already made a prototype cure for the delirium." Alabaster said.
Give it time. The demonic DNA in the tissue will become immune to the cure." Dante said.
"Demonic tissue is like a Trojan horse, it comes it disguised as something good, then spreads and invades the host." Lady said.
"But-."
"But nothing. I'll tell you this now, if you keep messing with things you don't understand, I'm gonna come down here and kill all of ya." Dante said. He wasn't serious about the killing thing, but he had to still some fear in the fucker so he wouldn't try it.
"I had hoped this wouldn't turn out this way." Alabaster said with a sigh.
"Keep going the way you are, and that's how it will turn out." Lady said.
"No, I'm afraid not. It seems you'll both have to die if you're going to get in my way." Alabaster said. He left the room and shortly afterward twenty or thirty men came into the room. All equipped with guns.
"Aw. Now this just ain't fair." Dante said. He jumped on the conference desk, then through the glass roof of the penthouse, with Lady in his arms. Finding a level place to set Lady down, he turned his back to her and said. "I'll be back." Then disappeared through the glass again.
Lady's inner ego burned at not being able to help Dante. She hated feeling useless. Just because she was human doesn't' mean she couldn't help. But she already knew she couldn't help Dante anyway, one gunshot in a crucial place and she was done for.
As soon as Dante landed, the men opened fire. He had foreseen this though, in a flash his trench coat was in front of him.
"I think we got him." One of the men said.
"Yeah, there's no way that coat can be bulletproof." Another said.
"Peek-a-boo." Dante said, as he quickly parted the trench coat.
"N-No way." One of them says.
"You guys, this is my second one this week. Come on." Dante said gesturing to his trench coat.
"I bet that trench coat didn't even cost you twenty." A man said.
"Of course it didn't, it cost me a hundred." Dante said as he strode over to the conference table.
"Bullshit." One of them said.
"Man, you guys get distracted too easy" Dante said as he suddenly kicked the table. Then he jumped on the table. As the table hit one of the men, Dante jacked the man of his gun. Then opened fire on all of them.
One after the other, each man hit the floor with a THUD!
"Man, talking to the enemy? That's the oldest trick in the freakin' book." Dante said, as he picked up a pair of Uzis and jumped back through the glass to get Lady.
Lady was still brooding over her thoughts when Dante came through the glass.
"Something up?" Dante asked as he picked her up bridal style.
"No, nothing." Lady said. I really wish I could tell him how I really feel.
"Okay, whatever." Dante said, as he handed her a pair of Uzis. She's hiding something from me.
"These aren't my pistols, and they vibrate a lot when you shoot them. It's almost impossible to get an accurate shot." Lady said.
"Sorry, Lady I know we should have went back to the shop to get our weapons, but this couldn't wait. And besides, I'm the one that makes the impossible possible." Dante said, feigning a smile.
Lady smiled back, but the plastic smile and the slight annoyance in his tone didn't go unnoticed. She couldn't help but sense an argument in the near future.
"Let's raise hell!" Dante said, briskly walking down the hallway.
Lady followed him "So who are we looking for?"
"The guy with the grey hair that met us at the entrance, names Al." Dante said, flicking his wrist right to left, shooting at the men that appeared.
Lady's movements were quite the same, with less speed, but equal lethality and accuracy.
The building opened into a large corridor with, guess what? A Blitz right in the freakin' middle.
"Can this day get any fucking better?" Dante said.
The blitz roared and then flashed about the room in a helter-skelter fashion.
"I don't have time for this." Dante said, as he Devil Triggered.
Lady offered support fire the best she could, while Dante went for a frontal assault.
Dante felt like he was playing tag with the beast. He'd just get it in his grasp and it would flash away.
Lady grimaced. Normally, their guns would cut right through the Blitz's barrier. But that was the thing, their guns. These Uzis compared to her pistols were second-rate BB guns.
Dante was getting fed up. Fucking around with this demon was causing him to lose precious time, so he whipped out Ebony and Ivory and said, "Die, bitch!" In the echo and animalistic undertone of his Devil Trigger.
The demons barrier came down, and right as Dante was going to finish it off, it charged up again, this time its aura was red. Dante cursed under his breath.
Dante was knocked back as a result of the power surge; he flew right into the white walls of the building. When he looked through the smoke, he saw the demon ready to pounce on…Lady.
Lady had figured Dante was out for the count, she prepared for her end noiselessly.
Dante's heartbeat slowed, much like Lady's. thump-thump...thump-thump…thump-thump. He flew as fast as he could toward Lady.
Lady's heart was pounding in her ears. Suddenly a silhouette was in front of her, and she was shielded from the blast. Lady looked up to find Dante exhausted and burned.
"It looks as though even an average demon can severely wound 'Dante The Demon Hunter'" Alabaster said, and suddenly vanished.
"Come back you bastard!" Lady screamed.
"Now on to my next target. I believe you know him as Nero." Alabaster said, and vanished for the last time.
Dante being unconscious in her arms, despair slowly seeped in. He was going after Nero and she was powerless to stop him. She cried for the first time since her mother was killed. "Dante, Nero, Kyrie, I'm sorry." She said as her cries echoed throughout the building. It looked as though Nero's fate was sealed.
The End.
Yeah, not as big as usual but the plan was to get something out there. Dippychick I'm sorry this was late, but they gave me a mountain of homework yesterday.
NOD's update will be out tomorrow.
Hopefully I will start updating regularly.
And to all those who are reading this, check out my Lightning/Nero FFXIII Crossover; A Chance Meeting. It is a one-shot for now.
-A