Sin Will Cry
Chapter 9 Root Out
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
Dante and Trish followed the roots down a subway tunnel, until they came across a large cavern. The two hunters looked around and saw what appeared to be another tunnel covered by roots and thorns. There was a scuttling sound and a dozen bugs demons dropped down from the celling surrounding the duo.
"So you want bug duty or plant duty?" Dante asked Trish.
"I'll take plant duty." Said Trish as she pulled out the Devil Sword Sparda and jumped forward using the heads of the demons as stepping stones to reach the roots and began to hack away at them.
Dante just smirked as he pulled out his own sword and began to hack the demons to bits. Trish was making some good headway with the roots, when some roots burst of the ground near her and attempted to impale her, but she jumped out of the way just in time. She just scowled a little and hacked the roots that tried to kill her and then she went back to hacking the roots blocking the tunnel. Dante finished off the bug demons, when Trish finished clearing out the tunnel. The two of them continued on down the tunnel killing a few more demons, until they reached another clearing that had a tunnel blocked by roots. Dante dealt with the roots, while Trish killed the demons that dropped from the celling. It only took them a few minutes to clear things up and they continued on.
They reached a much larger chamber, where they saw Teddy sitting in his recliner surrounded by TVs hooked up to gaming consoles and a few generators. Dante and Trish took notice of what appeared to be more roots growing out of the back and bottom of the recliner Teddy was sitting in. Teddy himself was holding a game controller playing Final Fantasy on one of the TVs, when he took notice of his two guests and put the game on pause.
"Seriously? I told you two to scram." Said Teddy looking annoyed.
"Yeah hunting demons is what we do. Now the way I see it you have two options. You can either point us to Sloth and step aside or we could just fight and kill and then go find your boss. Your choice." Said Dante.
"I think I'm going to go with the third option." Said Teddy as more roots sprouted from the back and bottom of the recliner and began to spread out and surround Teddy and his setup.
Dante and Trish watched as the roots formed a enormous chest, arms, and head with horns and a mouth. The root demon let out a great roar.
"They always chose the hard way." Said Trish.
"Well at least we can have a little fun." Said Dante.
The root demon swung it's arms at Dante and Trish forcing them to jump back to avoid getting hit. Trish fired a blast of lightning striking the demon in the face making it reel back. Dante jumped up the right arm and run up the limb towards the head, but the demon recovered quickly and shot it's lefthand up and grabbed Dante. The demon then clapped both hands together with Dante between them and sprouted several giant thorns and impaled the hunter's body multiple times.
"Yes! I pwned that loser!" Laughed Teddy's voice from within in the demon.
"I wouldn't be so sure of that." Said Trish.
Before Teddy could respond the root demon's hands were sliced to bits as Dante flew out towards the demons the wounds he sustained already healing and closing up. Teddy cried out in fear as Dante swung his sword and began to chop the root demon to bits. The chopped up bits fell to the ground with a thud. Soon the root demon was gone leaving Teddy in his recliner cowering in fear.
"Please...please...don't hurt me!" Cried Teddy.
Dante studied the cowering man wondering if he should spare him or not, when Teddy's eyes went wide as he gasped and grabbed his chest before slumping over in his recliner. There were a few moments of silence and then Teddy farted loudly, but didn't move. Teddy was dead.
"Did that guy seriously just die of a heart attack?" Asked Trish with a bit of disbelief.
"Looks like it. Don't know if I should find this funny or sad." Said Dante.
They looked at the body for a few more seconds and they continued on down another tunnel hunting for Sloth.
To be continued.
