Code Name : Phatom
I can feel it, something major is about to happen.
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I can see it, the event that is quickly coming today.
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I can smell it, scents of fear, pain, death, and awe.
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I can taste it, the lush flesh as I rip my prey apart piece by piece.
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I can hear it, as the heartbeat races knowing the end is upon its owner.
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Again I see it again this memory of mine, forever haunting me. Forever taunting me for my past sins, I am a monster, a beast with no heart. Empty and hollow even my cries seem to carry no feeling to them. I have been left behind and forgotten because of what I did… but I wasn't given a choice about what I have done. Fate…. Fate is full of shit the idea we always have a choice is a lie! Everything! Everything I ever thought I knew about myself… all for nothing! My birth may have happened but I was never expected to live beyond the first days of life. Monster, freak, abomination, every negative word, every negative meaning… was created to describe me. Madness cannot touch me, corruption is but a joke. I am not bound by the rules of all others even my own kin. Though the words hurt they hold truth, though the truth hurts it is a fact. I am the abomination born out of necessity to keep everything else in check. Even the great one who started it all has fallen to the force of corruption. A heart they all have and it is a heart that I lack, I consumed my own heart when I destroyed my brother… yes after tearing out his still beating heart and consuming it I turned around and tore my own heart out and ate it. Sadly fate had other plans for me I did not die or fall but was giving a new lease on life. Power unlike any other no limit, but the price I pay for this gift is harsher than anything you can dream of. The Forgotten that is what I am and forever shall be.
I know that I will never be able to escape my fate bound to it forever and beyond I am. It is why when I face my enemies theirs screams will be in silence, for I have ripped their lungs, and even as their eyes fall dark in my shadow, I know I have been forsaken. Let fate forsake me for it is I who keeps fate from fading away.
I will never be understood will I? It hurts I want it to stop… just one… please just give me one… one being to walk with me… please I don't want to be alone anymore. I have done my job without question for so long no words can bring light to it, please just give me one partner to ease my ache and prevent me from being completely hollow.
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Some things I just hate one… is mornings, especially early morning starts! Much to my displeasure I can't crush this damn alarm clock that is making the most unpleasant screeching ring. Instead I stuff the damn thing into one of the pillows and throw it across the room to slip back into a deep sleep. Or at least I thought so…
Wake up moron time to get going.
Sorry Orb Dante but I have no plans on getting up for the next five or so hours. Don't like it too damn bad I want my sleep. Since these people are dumb enough to assume I will be ready before the come in to make me get up and get dressed. Nothing this orb can do about it either… or at least that's what I think till…
I said… WAKE THE FUCK UP!
With that I'm being held by my ankle of my left food upside down and halfway from the floor in air. Okay good morning world! I couldn't help my stunned groan when it first happened. As I look at the reflective surface of the orb I see that he knows more than I first assumed. It seems Dante who is trapped in this orb of liquid metal can actually manipulate the mercury into tentacles and use them much like we would hands. Rather impressive for someone I just discovered only seven hours ago.
Now that I have your undivided attention… get dressed. I'm already in a weary mood with the fact these fuckers are going to try and move me again.
Orb Dante all but sighs out. He seems rather flustered or at least that is what his tone is letting on. I think he forgot that I can't do anything while being held upside down… or maybe he is deciding to drop me on my head. "Much as I would love to get dressed…" I start slowly and in a dull tone. "I can't go anywhere till ya put me down." I allow my smartass tone to override my dull tone. I hear the odd animalistic growl escape the orb and just like that he lets go. Sorry to disappoint ya Dante but I ain't landing on my head.
Within the few seconds it takes for my body to fall to the floor my arms are already out to catch and brace my fall. Like I had been doing push-ups without my feet ever touching the floor, I ease myself down just enough so I can do a flip onto my feet and stand again. I stretch and yawn as I head over to the bathroom to take a shower to get ready for my day escorting Dante to his new home I suppose you would call it.
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Even under the soothing sensation of the hot water I can't seem to get my mind off this other Dante. Even though we share the same name as far as first names go… I can't help but wonder if we share anything else in common. Like is this other Dante also a half breed or pure blood demon, is he human, one of the contractors, or perhaps something else. Funny how usually I couldn't give one rat's ass about people unless they intrigued me enough after seeing them for the first time. This guy I have not truly seen yet I just can't get him out of my head.
His voice seems rather soft for a man. I wonder if the metal is distorting the voice and it's really a woman that's hidden within. Wouldn't that be something… fuck I can forget about getting too close then if that's the case with this other Dante, for whatever reason women just don't like me. You'd think with my body and care free spirit they'd go head over heels… not the case at all.
I place my palms flush upon the wall of the shower and let my forehead rest on the marble wall in front of me. The shower water now massaging my back and neck, it seems that father was right about one thing with our demon self once something interesting appears it consumes all energy till it discovers just what that item is. Maybe that is why I don't do so well with women my demon half must be putting out some bad mojo or something.
"Tch, yeah sure blame your demon blood… dumbass." I can help saying that bit out loud in the bathroom. I am sure once I see this form of Dante in the orb it will pass and I'll go back to being that smartass joker with the big mouth.
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It seems as soon as I got dressed members of this U-corp. came in. each with some odd looking gloves on their hands. Okay so I wonder what will happen next not like they can fit it through the damn door in the first place. Hell the only way I see them moving it out will be through the window that's the only thing large enough.
Sometime later and all the furnishings moved to either side wall, I watch them place their hands up the effect is the orb moving pretty quickly. Must be some kind of impulse or something and since this orb floats on its own moving it seems easy as pie. Okay so now what… are… they going to do? No way… they ain't going to do…. Oh shit!
I watch them push the orb right out the window what in the fuck are these morons doing! I run over to the window and watch as the orb falls quickly to the earth below. Are they trying to kill him or something?!
Seems I get to see a new trick this Dante knows. Just before hitting the ground and becoming a splatter it stops a few feet above. I then watch it slowly lower down till he's at the normal height for floating. Well seems he isn't a one trick pony after all. I will give him that much. Not one to be out done by someone else I end up jumping out the window before landing next to the orb landing on my feet of course.
"Show off!" I hear Haseo shout from the room above.
I smile then flip him the bird. I don't like him and he doesn't like me so I have the right to that little show of my ass to the guy. Should have been nicer when he first met me that stupid ass, I swear some people don't get that if you show your ass to me I'll show mine right back. Many people may be passive but I am not one of those people, never have been never will be.
That makes two of us….
Dante in the orb whispers to me. I can't help my stupid grin at the orb. I am starting to like this guy more and more as I spend time with him. I wonder if he has an obnoxious streak too… I suppose I'll find that out in time.
~~Time jump… Train station deck 46 A…~~
Man what a car trip that was. I swear every twisted thing that can happen in a matter of seconds did happen. On the way to the first large carrier car the back wouldn't open. Something in one of the hydraulics misfiring and preventing the bottom of the door from opening, making it impossible to load the orb Dante into the carrier car… then when we got a carrier car that worked about halfway to the Train station we ended up with double flats on either side of the car. Making us take over an hour worth in changing those tires.
And Traffic was absolutely horrible! I swear I didn't think you can have a six car pileup unless on some kind of race track or slick black ice trap. One lane open out of seven… talk about being reduced to a crawl. Thank god this is a company train because we would have missed it seven times over with all this shitty luck.
Needless to say loading the orb into the train compartment had issues of its own. As the sides started to open the sensor would go off and force the doors to stop. A few engineers on hand started working on the issues with the door. After much yelling and screaming among one another they found some device in the sensor causing a false alarm to stop it from crushing someone. Finally we get the orb loaded and we all boarded but who was on the train was not someone I was expecting to see here.
"Good morning Dante… I trust you have been behaving yourself." Trish chuckles out at my blank face. Not often that people shock me half to death like that. Really what in the seven hells is Trish doing here!?
"What's with that look Dante?" Trish speaks again. She seems confused by my reaction to her being here which I find rather silly especially in her condition!
"Why are you here…?" I ask slowly maybe these guys are fucking with me or something.
"Did you really think I'd leave you to this alone Dante?" Trish sighs out at me. Yep this is really Trish and I frown even deeper than before.
"Trish in your condition you shouldn't even be here… what would happen if we can't keep off a large mass of demons or better yet contractors…" So I am being somewhat over protective can't blame after seeing what happened to Trish.
She gives me a deep sigh before mumbling something about being useful in other ways. She joins Haseo and they move to the next car away from me and orb Dante. Okay so I'm the bad guy for being concerned for someone who is pretty much disabled. I just sigh before taking a seat on the rather plush sofa behind me. I thinking to myself for about ten minutes later the train dose its whistle from the horn and I can feel it slowly start to move.
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It ends up being a rather quiet trip for almost three hours. For some reason it makes me unable to calm down and take a nap. I end up pacing around the orb and gazing at it intently. I wonder if my demon blood would be able to handle the Mercury if I tried to force the liquid to move so I can see this body inside.
Dude… your giving me the creeps would you knock it off.
I raise one of my eyebrows at Dante so he can see me then? I wonder how he does that. Instead of backing off I chose to poke the liquid. I watch the way it ripples like water. Bit by bit the ripples slow and grow smaller till it is just a smooth surface again. Finger by finger I repeat and watch as the liquid metal has the same reaction every time. I eventually place my forehead on the liquid.
What exactly are you up to Dante?
"I wanna know… things about you." I blurt out of the blue. Normally this would cause me to make some smartass after comment but right now my demon blood isn't allowing for that. My demon self is extremely intent on this kid now, why I could not tell you.
Why is that?
Well at least he isn't completely turned off by me being blunt. "To pass time, to clear my freaking mind so I can take a nap, to get my mind off Trish being on this trip… fuck I don't know why… I just do okay."
I… see…
Five minutes turns to ten and as time ticks by I figure this other Dante isn't in a sharing mood. This seems to piss my demon half off as I lose control of my demon self for the first time in a long time and growl like a wild animal would.
Oie are you really so interested in me?
"What do you think…" my voice somewhat darker than usual, I know that is my demon-self speaking. I flex my fingers that rest on the orb causing new ripples to dance across the surface. I can feel it now my demon half is scratching at the walls, it wants out and wants to blow this frail outer layer away.
That would be a bad idea Dante…
"Oh and why is that since you don't want to share anything with me why don't I just rip you out of that fucking liquid?" I snarl out. I know if I were to look upon my reflection on the metal I would see the demons golden eyes and my fangs would be bore.
'Cause it is what is keeping everyone safe… it in a sense is a field to keep you all safe and to prevent myself from being found by…. unwanted eyes.
Okay now things just got even more interesting, "Please do explain." I growl out my demon half seems to calm down somewhat but not enough to stop clawing at my inner mind. So this liquid shell is meant for more than the others thought. However I don't understand how it can protect us from him. That doesn't make any sense at all unless he has some deadly sickness that we can get. I also wonder what he means by unwanted eyes.
Sadly no deadly sickness….. as for unwanted eyes well let's just say I have something that those beings want and I am the key which to find 'it'.
"And what would that be?" I end up cocking my head to the side. I can see it my eyes still carry the essence of gold but now slowly turning back to my pale icy blue eye color. My fangs still poke out from my lips a bit but not much.
I….. do not remember….
Oh wow that must be something to know you are a key to unlock something but unable to remember what. Now this kid has both mine and my demon half attention. So it will be breaking one mystery at a time that comes with this Dante. I wonder just how long I will be his bodyguard and if he will ever be out of this shell. So many questions that I hope get some kind of answer maybe this job isn't going to be as bad as I first thought it would be. This might be what I was missing back then, when I didn't care about anything and just counted the days as they went by. I was bored with life back then nothing really intrigued me or my demon blood. Sure I made fun of shit and had lots of crazy adventures but that was because of my father Sparda… the one demon who didn't like what he was seeing of his brothers and sisters.
You see father had a very gentle heart and he was one of the best warriors of the demon world. He in every meaning of the words stuck to 'fair fight' and with the way demons would slaughter humans a lesser race with such brutal intentions and not a care for the pain they caused in their wake had father change his mind. He sealed the demon world from the mortal world because demons… much like humans today lack the compassion of a fair and honorable fight.
Some things you can't change about a person no matter what blood runs in their veins. Personality it is in everything contra to popular belief even demons have a soul. So we can feel even though each demon lacks the ability to feel one complete emotion that differs depending on the demon. So in essence no demon is actually hollow and feels nothing that is complete and total bullshit that humans made up. Not that you can blame humans though it is not like the demons tried to sit down and talk about it. Even those who have chosen to hide and live in guise of a human.
Maybe one day I will feel inclined to share with this Dante which emotion it is that I lack. But I not only have to earn his trust he must earn mine and then my demons. Things happen for a reason and I went to hell, for one I thought I would never come back but seems' fate had other plans for me. I still can't remember much after coming out of Hell Gate it is still blank in my mind maybe in time I will remember just what it was that happened. I wonder if Vergil came out of one of the gates like me, never know what could have happened with Vergil his will to live is even greater than mine and always has been. Even as kids Vergil was more willing to do what it took to stay alive and keep what he loved safe, after the death of our mother however that seemed to change him. Who knows what will happen but now I am actually enjoying the ride and plan to see it through to the end.
I smile to myself after making up my mind. "Don't think I'm letting ya off the hook… I will get you out of that orb yet." My voice matching my new mood as I slap my hands on the orb causing rather violent waves around the orb, my mind made up good luck trying to change that.
You make no sense at all.
"Why thank you!" Even though I know he can't see it I give a large and rather foolish grin showing all my pearl white teeth. I hear him sigh at my antics and I can't help but do one of my chuckles and this causes a hitched breath to come from my counterpart.
Devil! You are the DEVIL!
~~Time jump – Two hours and some minutes later~~
Geeze this other Dante is rather unforgiving he hasn't spoken to me since the time I chuckled to mess with him. Even now I think he is drowning me out or something cause no matter what I do I can't seem to get any reaction out of him. What a sourpuss I swear he is. Not much to do in this car. Sure it has some things for me to mess with but not much. Should have put a TV in here or some kind of radio… something!
I hear one of the doors open and I see Trish and Haseo come into the room I've been stuck in. Maybe these two will help kill my boredom or at least I hope so. I choose not to get up to greet the two as they enter the room. I continue to tap my left foot on the arm rest on the other side. I hear the two of them slow to a stop in front of me. I only open a single eye to greet the two. Trish seems her usual self and Haseo just has a rather sour look.
"So what do I own this pleasure of your company?" I drawl out in a bored fashion. Just like the good old days I see Trish snicker and Haseo's frown deepen. Like I care this is how I am, get used to it.
"Really… is this man as good as you say he is?" Haseo asks Trish I see her just roll her eyes at the guy. Clearly not happy with being doubted on knowing peoples and the skill level the person has.
"I can assure you that even though he dose like to laze around and be a smartass he is the best of the best. Not that you believe me… after all you are a man that must see for yourself isn't that right?" Trish says to the man only sparing an eye at Haseo. I hear him grumble something before returning to his normal frown.
"Dante I suggest you get your ass ready, our scanners are picking up several demons and contractors on the way to our train. I've no idea what they are planning but I know what item they are after." Haseo says quietly to me.
"So going to be a party eh? 'Bout damn time I can expend some of this pent up energy." I say both eyes now open I turn my head to them a smile pulling at my lips. Maybe this will get my mind off a certain orb for at least a little bit.
It seems like not even a second passes by after I say that before the train is jerking to a sudden stop. No it is not by the train's means it like something has grabbed it and is no holding the thing in place. Whatever the fuck it is must be huge maybe the demon is what is holding the train.
I Watch as Haseo pulls out two short swords from under his suit coat ready for combat. He takes a defensive stance in front of Trish as I get up off the sofa. I remain sitting as the whole side of the train car we are in is ripped off the train by what I couldn't say happened too fast to tell.
They have a Wyrm with them…..
A worm really what the fuck would I be worried about that for?
Not Wyrm as in w-o-r-m I mean as in W-y-r-m, nasty fuckers I'll tell ya that much.
Okay now that makes more sense but I don't think I've ever dealt with this Wyrm. I mean how bad could this thing be?
Trust me you will hate them after today.
I chuckle to myself and note to myself about adding a newly discovered beast I'm not going to like. It is not long after this that a group of people make an appearance before us. Most of them are hiding their faces with masks that would be worth of a jester or something rather silly like that as jesters of old days.
"Turn the one in the orb over to us and nobody will be killed." One of the masked men speak his deeper than mine and holding a far more bored emotion to it.
"Now why would we do that? And while you're at it, how do ya even plan to get him out of this orb eh?" I state back at them my voice dripping with some sarcasm. My arms draped over both my legs as I lift my head.
"Who the hell are you?" another one of the masked me ask.
"No one you need to concern yourself with, you'll be dead soon enough." I say as I sit back and place my arms over the top of the sofa I am sitting on. These boys are not demon that much I can tell but they are also not human leaving them as contractor's kind of an odd scent. The aura these guys hold isn't impressive to say the least.
"Why don't we show ya…" another one speaks but points an odd looking relic at the orb. Before any of us have time to react the relic gives off a really odd light before firing into the orb. After some time and nothing happening I just raise an eyebrow to the boys.
"Is that it?" I say bored with them already I can tell you right now these boys won't be worth my time but the Wyrm might be.
After some more time drags by I am getting pissed at these guys really I thought they came here for a fight… what the!?
Before our eyes we watch the liquid metal start to drip from the bottom of the orb. A small puddle starts forming slowly. Without warning I react and send one of the masked men flying into the ground below. I don't hear the guy inside screaming or anything though either he is doing a damn good job of hiding it…. Or…. He feels nothing at all.
Drip, Drip, Drip…
I can feel it now… caving slowly.
Drip, Drip, Drip….
My hunger is growing my hunger is stronger than before.
Drip, Drip, Drip…
My inner monster will never find peace, these binds will not hold for much longer….
Thump….
Great Guardian have mercy on these poor beings for my slumber will break, claws and fangs bore before the world in front of me. Death, Decay, Dust, Despair…. Yes run you little roach's scatter, scream, suffer….
Thump…. Thump
The world is singing just for me, a song that no other can hear but I, I dance upon the grave of my fallen prey. A sweet smell, a great feeling inside….
Thump… Thump... Thump
Nothing will stop it in the end I will rise again leaving nothing but a cemetery of a world behind in my shadow. I hunger for something deep within but what is it? I can't tell you for you will try to stop it… that's not how it works poor fragile things.
~Slowly a cracking sound echo's as if a glass orb or mirror is giving way to stress~
You can dance within my wake. Life and Death…. The End and The Beginning. It all starts with me. I hold each of the solar systems upon a single hair of mine a tiny bead on end. Cry, scream, beg…. I want you to feel my pain.
As you dance upon my palm I feel nothing at all. Cry, scream, beg…. I want you to feel my pain…
I close my fingers onto my palm…. Cry, scream, beg…. I want you to feel my pain…
A cage I form around this frail solar system again. Cry, scream, beg…. I want you to feel my pain, which will forever flow in my veins.
Till I crush it in my fist…. Another one ends and in its place another thousand will take its place. Forever the cycle will be and beyond will it continue on… My cry echoes in the flow of life, my screams go unheard, and I beg to be freed just to be ignored by the greater one. Great Guardian I will find you and consume you whole…
~Glass shattering sound echoes~
Wake me up… within….
Well at least the others who had yet to speak are putting up a fight. I haven't had a good fight in a good long while like this and it is a nice change. However all of us stop dead in our tracks when we hear the sound of glass shattering, its source the orb. I turn my head as does everyone else to face the orb. Just like that the rest of the liquid metal drops off. What I see leaves me speechless…..
~To be Continued~
~~Author's Notes~~
So ends another chapter for this story. I am sorry to those who have found this one interesting but this story was made to be more or less a Palette cleanse for me when I get stuck on my other works.
This one is my more freedom than anything else, I have nothing set not even story type why I put obnoxious based this one will jump around as I try to figure out just where I want to go with this one. This was a last minute throw together however I don't want it to be random either.
I hope you guys liked this update! Thank you for taking the time to read my story. *bows*