"All we have to do is to find where that key fits, right?" Anima said, still holding the two hunter's hands. Nero smiled at her.
"Yeah, so, we have to find something trapped here and see if the key fits." Nero answered.
"Maybe not something, but someone…" Lucy said, pausing for a while and finding where the smell is.
"This can't be…" Lucy mumbled.
"What's that?" Dante asked. Suddenly, Lucy ran to the left. Dante and Nero, who carried Anima, followed him. They stopped at a capsule full of pink water. What shocked the two white-haired hunters especially Nero is the person inside that capsule. His eyes were closed as if he's in a deep slumber. The guy is wearing a black, sleeveless jacket and he has a metal armband at his left arm. He's wearing long pants but the lower half of it was covered because of the cowboy boots, moreover, the man looks exactly like Nero! Nero's eyes widened as if he saw his twin. However, Lucy just stared at the capsule's direction.
"Leon…" He muttered. Lucy ran towards the direction when Anima felt something, Nero's arm glowed.
"Lucy, no!" Anima tried to stop Lucy, but it was too late. A demon appeared beside the capsule and used a force to throw Lucy back. Anima's eyes widened as she saw the demon, the very same demon that is the reason why Lucy came out of her body and she became a soul.
"I thought I killed her…" Anima mumbled as she hid her face on Nero's back.
"What do you mean, Anima?" Nero asked in a soft tone. He can feel Anima trembling.
"She tried to take my best friend's body… That's when I started to see demons around me few days before she showed up… she's the reason why Lucy got out of my body and I became a soul…" Anima explained, her voice is quite shaky. Nero thought it's because she remembers the horror the demon brought to her life. Lucy stood up, he glared at the demon.
"Fuck, it's you again…" Lucy muttered. Dante took a good look at the demon. She's wearing a white, ripped off wedding dress and her hair is short and ruffled. She's pretty, if not because of those stitches in her body.
"We meet again…" The demon answered. It walked towards the capsule ran her hands all over the glassy container. "Isn't he a beauty?"
"Get your filthy fucking hands off of him." Lucy growled, eyes narrowing to the demon with fury. Dante was about to walk forward when Anima stopped him by holding the collar of his coat.
"Let him be, Dante." Anima said. "This is their unsettled fight. Lucy's not only mad to the demon because he kept Leon contained. He's also angry with the demon because it's the reason I died."
Dante looked at Anima with confusion but he let Lucy take care of the matter. He walked back.
The demon continued as if it didn't heard Lucy's threat.
"It was such a waste he's turning his back on Mundus. He's a skillful fighter." The demon said. Lucy's hands is getting painful again, it was snaking its way to his legs and chest. Lucy knows that there's a demonic writing. The demon's eyes went on Anima; she licked her lips, getting hungry at the sight of the soul.
"Is that the girl who almost killed me?" The demon smirked. "Oh, how nice of you to come here and be my meal."
"Boo!" Anima yelled, taunting the demon. "Get away from me!"
Nero putted Anima down and covered her mouth.
"Shh… You're making the demon want you more." Nero warned.
"Don't even think on eating Anima." Lucy threatened. The demon smirked at him.
"What makes you say that statement? Am I really that inhumane to eat that poor soul?" The demon asked with a fake sad tone.
"You can take them over my dead body, bitch." Lucy said in a furious tone.
"Then, I shall proceed killing you, no?" The demon answered. Lucy placed the Silver Slayers on his back and decided to fight the demon using his psychic abilities, especially the psycho-kinesis.
"Is he going to be okay?" Nero asked worryingly. Dante patted Nero on his shoulder.
"Right now, we can only believe in him. I've seen him use that ability, works like your Devil Bringer. Except that his is invisible or something like that." Dante informed him. The demon and Lucy fought away from the capsule, demons started appearing in front of the capsule and they look like they're going to take Leon out of the capsule.
"We have to take Leon out of that capsule!" Anima said. Dante and Nero ran towards the capsule and started killing the demons. As Anima found a chance, she ran towards the capsule behind the two hunters and placed the key at the metal table with a tube connected to the capsule. "Can you two buy me some time for me to do this?" She asked. Dante and Nero nodded at her. Anima turned around, taking her time to find where the key would fit. As she found it, she groaned.
"Ah, fuck. Passwords." She mumbled. Dante heard her.
"Watch your mouth, Anima." Dante said.
"Sorry." Anima apologized. "Give me more time. I'm going to guess this."
"Just hurry up, Anima." Nero said. "It's getting harder here."
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Meanwhile, Lucy and the demon are still on war. Both are throwing offensive attacks to each other. The demon blocked Lucy's attack and Lucy managed to defend himself from the demon's kick.
"Not bad." Lucy taunted. "I'm getting fired up."
"However, I'm not a fair player, my dear." The demon answered.
"So am I." Lucy answered. He smirked. "May the best cheater win."
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"Uh… Strawberries don't work." Anima muttered, guessing the password. "Come on, brain, think now."
It was getting harder and harder to stop the demons from coming to Leon's capsule. They're getting more and more aggressive every minute.
"Anima! Hurry up!" Dante said, slashing a demon.
"I'm trying! But, this fucking thing doesn't even give any clue about the fucking password! This is bullshit!" Anima yelled.
"Your mouth, Anima!"
"The hell with my mouth! This thing is a bitchy machine!" Anima yelled back to Dante. She thinks again for the password.
"Ani-"
"Just shut the hell up for now, Dante. I'm pissed." Anima said. "Okay, I'm going to try that word."
Anima typed the password on the metal and it started loading.
Password recognized
"Yes!" Anima cheered. "Got it!"
The demons stopped appearing and the demon Lucy's fighting is started to grow weaker.
"Nice one!" Dante praised. "What did you typed?"
"Red Velvet Cake."
"What the hell?!"
"Hey! That's my favorite!" Anima argued. Nero patted her head.
"Good job." He said, smiling. The container opened up and the water rushed out. Leon fell down, still unconscious. He dropped on top of Anima.
"A little help here…" Anima begged.
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The demon that Lucy's battling fell to the ground hard as Lucy dragged it down. He changed the Silver Slayers to the Sora and Luna and pointed the Luna to the demon's head.
"So, this is the unrecognized Mundus' son," He glanced at Lucy. "Lucius Francesceine Klaine…"
"Too late to say that." Lucy said. "I am his son, and he told me once, 'Kill those people who didn't recognize you at the first glance.'"
The demon chuckled, blood spitting out as she does.
"You are really… his son…" That's all she said before she was burned into crisp. Suddenly, the whole place started shaking and the ceiling is crumbling.
"We've got to get out, now!" Nero said, carrying Leon. Lucy ran towards them and turned Anima into a small pyre and made her enter his chest, living inside him. Dante and Nero were on Dante's bike while the unconscious Leon is in Lucy's bike. They drove their way out, just in time that the whole alley crumbled.
"Does this mean I'm now an official member of the Devil May Cry team?" Nero asked Dante in a joking way. The elder just chuckled, letting the wind ruffle his hair.
"You are a member, Nero, the moment you stepped inside my shop and started working with us. And you will always be a part of it." Dante answered. Nero smiled.
Few minutes later, they had arrived to the Montre City.
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Author's notes: They found Leon! Whoo! *Starts popping confettis at my room.*
I'm so happy! I feel like I'm a total genius! Hahahaha! (Just laugh, it's the first time in my whole life I feel like a total genius.)
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