Sin Will Cry

Chapter 8 Sloth Man

By: Major144

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

Dante and Trish made their way through the city towards the subway station. As they got closer they noticed a lot of tree roots scattered about sticking into the city street and buildings. They eventually reached the subway station and saw a convoy of large demons that looked like a cross between a beetle and a crab heading into the subway carrying various things. These things included food, cushions, TVs, speakers, and video game systems.

"Looks like Sloth is setting up a man cave." Said Dante.

"And it looks like he's got himself a fair amount of minions to set it up for him and protect him." Said Trish.

"Looks like we get to play exterminator." Said Dante.

The two of them approached the station and immediately the demons saw them and tried to attack them. Trish took several of the demons with her lightning and Dante sliced them to bits with his sword. The demons weren't very strong and the two hunters made short work of them. After a few minutes the way to the station was cleared. Dante and Trish entered the station and found more roots spread out and the skeletal remains of several humans tangled up. Trish walked over to the remains to examine them.

"Looks like these roots were feeding on these people." Said Trish.

"I'm guessing that this is Sloth's doing." Said Dante.

Before Trish could respond a monitor on one of the walls turned on displaying a pale human man with dirty brown hair and beard wearing a sunglasses, a red bathrobe, and gold chain around his neck. The man appeared to be sitting in a lazy boy recliner staring lazily at the screen. Dante and Trish stared back at the man wondering if he was some kind of weird commercial or a human that had actually survived the fall of the city and was broadcasting a message to them.

"Who the heck are you two?" Asked the man.

"I'm Dante and this is Trish. We're a couple devil hunters here to deal with the demons infesting your city." Said Dante.

"Devil hunters. Yeah I'm going to have to ask you to stop what you're doing and leave." Said the man.

"Why on Earth, would you ask us to stop hunting demons and leave?" Asked Trish.

"Because I got a good thing going. That's what." Said the man.

"Who are you?" Asked Dante.

"I'm Theodore "Teddy" Lagerfeld Jr. and my dad was the mayor of this city. Then the demons came and started wrecking everything and Sloth found me. Sloth took a liking to me because I greatly exhibited his sin, so we made a deal. I get to live if I agreed to serve Sloth and he gave me powers. It was a pretty good deal and I got to kill my dad afterwards. Jerk always complained about me and told me to get a job."

"So you betrayed your own people for power and a chance to live. That's pretty low." Said Dante.

"Don't you judge me. I got a sweet life now and I'm not going to let anyone ruin it for me. Now I'm going to show you my power." Said Teddy.

The ground began to shake as several roots burst from the ground and blocked the way Dante and Trish had come in. Dante responded to this by pulling out one of his guns and shooting the monitor and destroyed it.

"Come on Trish, looks like we have to deal with this man child trust fund baby, before we can deal with Sloth." Said Dante.

The two of them found some roots and followed them down a tunnel to find and takeout Teddy.

To be continued.