Unbound Love
Chapter 8
The stomping from Dante's feet could be heard as he walked along the sidewalk. On his face he wore a very grim expression. His face was contorted into an almost permanent frown, and his eyebrows were creased downward. Any person that could read body language and expression could tell he was pissed.
"Hey, watch it man!" A pedestrian said, reacting to the way Dante bumped into him.
Dante ignored the complaint. He had his eyes set on going to the one place that solved all of his problems, at least for the moment anyway, Love Planet. He started to speed walk, getting there in a little under fifteen minutes.
"How's it goin' Dante?" One of the security guards said at the entrance.
Dante waved at the man in a silent greeting. He had to be one of the best know customers that came here. He walked through the entrance door, and the purple-pink neon lights of Love Planet's lobby created a shadow over his figure. He walked straight to the bar.
"Hey, Dante. What brings you here, tonight?" The bartender said while cleaning out a glass mug.
"The same reason I always come here. To see sluts dance and drink my problems away." Dante said being blunt.
"Something wrong, Dante?" The bartender asked.
"Oh, nothing really Rick, just employee issues is all." Dante said with an exasperated sigh. He had confided in this bartender several times since he'd started coming here. In a way he was kind of like Dante's psychiatrist.
"So what'll it be?" The bartender asked.
"The usual." Dante said. He ordered the same drink every time he came here. Some might say he had no variety, but Dante didn't give a blue fuck about what others thought.
"What kind of employee problems we talkin' about?" Rick asked, sliding Dante his drink.
"Well, I told him to take it easy, and he kept resisting me. Then he gave something of mine away to somebody, snapped at me, then I left." Dante said.
"Well, Dante since when have you taken an argument laying down?" Rick asked. He had seen Dante's arguments physical, and verbal. And needless to say, he never took one without fighting back.
"I didn't it's just I told him not to give it away and he did anyway." Dante said, taking a sip of his drink. "After that I was done. I needed to get out."
"Sounds like you got a bad case of cabin fever." Rick said with a hearty laugh.
"Something like that." Dante said.
After two bottles of "the usual", Dante felt pretty mellowed out and decided to go search for one of the demon gates Vergil was talking about. "Well, see you later Rick."
"Alright, I'll be seeing you around Dante." The man said.
"Yeah." Dante said tossing a twenty on the bar table. He walked outside and immediately smelt something very disgusting. He walked to an alley and Devil Triggered and flew to the source.
A black demon gate stood in front of him, unmoving. With a small opening tinged a dark booger-like green.
"Man, something stinks." Dante said holding his nose and fanning the air. "I think your melting my nose from the inside out."
No response.
Everyone should know by now, Dante hated to be ignored. Especially if it was during a fight. But Dante knew of a way to get this demon's attention. He pulled out Ebony and shot three bullets into the gate's opening.
"Who dares disturb me?" Said a raspy voice from inside the gate.
Bingo. "Oh, no one in particular, just someone who thinks you smell like straight ass." Dante said.
"You dare insult me? Belial, one of Lord Mundus's subordinates?" The voice said stepping out, allowing it's grotesque, ugly form to be seen. It's body was that of an octopus, it stood on all eight of it's tentacles, it's color was a green-brown with dark brown spots, it had a duck bill for a mouth, and the suction cups on it's tentacles produced a very nasty green gas.
"Mundus must've had a nose plug when he chose you." Dante said, talking through his held nose. "I'm surprised every plant in the area isn't wilting because of how bad you smell."
"Shut up!" The demon said, angrily. It shot one of it's tentacles at Dante.
Dante cut the tip of the tentacle off like it was nothing more than butter. He was surprised however, when the stub shot a jet of gas.
"HAHAHAHAHA!" The demon laughed, crazily. "In my excremental gas, there's a chemical that eats away at anything, even flesh."
Dante looked at the front of his trench coat, and to his surprise it was being eaten away very quickly. He discarded it on the ground right as the acid had burned through the trench. "Man, I can't have the same trench more than a week can I?" Dante said, talking to himself.
"What are you going to do you piteous human?" The demon asked. It was, unlike the others, unaware of Dante's deeds in Hell.
"I've kicked Mundus's once, so doing it again won't be too hard." Dante said.
"Your bluffing!" The demon said in disbelief, he believed that Mundus was the strongest creature in Hell. Boy, was he wrong. He had yet to see Dante's wrath.
Dante disappeared.
Belial looked in all directions. Dante seemed to have just vanished out of thin air. "Where are you, you coward?"
"Up here, you stinky squid!" Dante said.
Belial looked up just in time to be cut right down the middle.
"Well, that takes care of that." Dante said, in a clapping motion. He dodged just in time to dodge a flying tentacle. He landed on the ground with a smirk on his face.
"How did you know?" Belial asked, bewildered.
"Simple. When I jumped up to cut you I'd noticed your tentacle regenerated." Dante said, simply. "It doesn't take Stephen Hawking to figure that out."
"How dare you make a mockery of me!" Belial yelled.
Why is it every demon that I've fought over the years has an attitude problem? Dante thought. "Enough, with the talk. Let's get down to making some sushi."
"Ha. You treat me as though I'm nothing more than a Mephisto. Do you really think I'd let you?" Belial said.
Ignoring Belial's comment, Dante brandished Agni and Rudra. He always carried them as a backup just in case he needed them, or things got hairy. This was neither of those cases, he just wanted to have fun.
"Ooh, brother we're being used!" Agni said.
"I know, it's so exciting!" Rudra said.
"You guys ready to make some sushi?" Dante asked, getting in a battle-ready stance.
"Master, I believe it is calamari." Rudra said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Whatever!" Dante said, rushing at Belial.
Belial tried to put his tentacles up to guard himself, but it was like going through a food processor. He was being sliced up into a billion different pieces by Dante's blur of slashes.
"Oh, I just love the feel of the wind through the teeth of my blade again." Agni said dreamily.
"It does feel quite great doesn't it?" Rudra said.
After chopping Belial up into nothing more than organic dirt, Dante stomped and ground his microscopic remains into the earth. "Mundus did a terrible job. In the end all you will ever be is useless." Dante said.
"Don't you think that's kind of harsh, Master?" Agni asked.
"Shut up. Remember the deal? No talking." Dante said. When he first got the two blades from Vergil's tower he made a deal with them that said no talking. Right now the two were breaching this deal.
"Master…" Agni and Rudra both droned. They were very social and they hated being shut up.
Ignoring their complaining, he put them away in the back of his coat.
Suddenly the organic dirt that was Belial started to stir. It started to coagulate into a solid shape. What came out of the form had black knight armor, a cape, grieves, and a helmet with its visor down.
"So this is what you really look like." Dante said clapping his hands. Not many demons pulled off actually looking menacing, but it didn't matter Dante wasn't scared.
"Indeed." Belial said standing imposingly. He then materialized a scythe out of some black mist. The scythe was also black, matching the rest of his appearance. "Let's get this started." He said dashing forward.
"Finally, a demon that speaks my language!" Dante said excitedly with a big smile. He met Belial with a Stinger.
"I'm glad your taking in your demise so willingly." Belial said.
"Who was that guy earlier?" Dante asked as their weapons created sparks from the force their wielders were putting out.
"That was a form that I took to catch you off guard." Belial said as his jumped back a few feet. "But it didn't work out. Your not stupid"
"Long distance fighter, eh? Well, too bad cause I don't play that kind of game." Dante said as he dashed forward, Rebellion flying through the air with the slightest of ease.
Belial guarded with a combination of guarding and dodging.
The air around the two continued to vibrate as the conflict dragged on.
Dante parried one of Belial's attempts to guard and capitalized with a Stinger. He swore he had this guy.
Instead of attempting to block he caught the Stinger with his hand. Belial hoped this showed Dante how powerful he really was. Unfortunately his opponent's attitude didn't allow him to back down due to fear.
Dante smirked, and put Ivory to Rebellion's blade and shot. The gunshot broke Dante from Belial's death-like grip. He then shot a bullet through one of the holes in his opponent's visor.
Belial snatched the bullet out of thin air, and flicked it back to Dante. The speed of the bullet was easily five times that of when it came out of the barrel.
Dante put his sword in front of him and the bullet was cut in half. Then following up he shot a bullet up in the air and swung Rebellion like a baseball bat, hitting the bullet.
Belial didn't see this coming and the bullet hit him square in the chest. He was pretty winded so he couldn't put something up to block Dante's follow-up either.
Dante immediately followed up with a slash straight down the middle. He smirked. This fight from here on out was his.
Belial let out a pained gasp. "Your better than I thought." He said as his helmet and his breastplate fell off of his body. He had not been expecting this. Dante was indeed no pushover.
"Let's see you dodge this." Dante said pointing his sword away from himself and charging it. He let an energy wave discharge from Rebellion that headed straight for Belial.
Said demon put his scythe up in preparation for the coming attack. At contact, the Belial struggled to fend the attack off, but with enough effort he cut it and half and it dissipated.
"You still got some fight in you?" Dante said. This demon was actually putting up a pretty good fight. The last thing that gave him a good fight was the Savior imposter. "I'm impressed."
"You'd be stupid to count me out just yet." Belial said dashing forward.
"Really now?" Dante said. He stepped aside Belial's attack and shoved him. Belial fell on the ground. "You're getting sloppy."
"Don't judge me!" Belial said, getting up slowly.
"Your pathetic" Dante said, walking up to him and punching him. He beat Belial like a redheaded stepchild. "Do you really want to be worthless like your name says?" He said grabbing Belial's blue-ish black hair.
"AHHHH!" Belial cried in pain. He was shocked how much Dante's attitude changed in the past couple of minutes.
"I'm gonna put you out of your misery." Dante said as he Devil Triggered and knocked Belial on his back. After that he stuck Rebellion through his heart.
Belial coughed and wretched, but eventually he lay still, unmoving.
"A little better, but still worthless." Dante said, heartless.
Belial's body dissipated into a black mist and the wind carried it away.
Dante charged Rebellion and let out a slash toward the gate. At the same second he put his sword up, the gate collapsed. He stood up with a grunt and headed back to the shop.
End.
So sorry for the long wait, I hit several snags during the development process.
This isn't the best work I've ever done but I don't think it's the worst.
Alright guys, once again sorry for the wait, and next chap will be out later.
See ya!
-A