Sin Will Cry
Chapter 25 Wrath Arena
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
Dante and Trish arrive at the Eastside of the stadium as Nero and Lady arrived on the Westside. The hunters could hear the sounds of fighting as well as cheering as they got close to the arena. The two teams entered the arena at the same time and were greeted by several demons fighting each other before a packed stadium of demons. The stadium had been nice at one point and had been used for football games, but all the grassy turf had been removed replaced with dry barren ground littered with weapons and a few dead demons and humans and the stadium looked like a nightmarish gladiator arena.
Several fights were in the process of ending soon there was only one fight left going on between a tall goat headed demon armed with a spear and a munch larger and bulkier demon with a eyepatch over it's right eye, wearing a loincloth and armed with a large shield with a demonic face and a mace. Sitting in the middle of the stands overseeing the fight was Wrath himself. The hunters recognized the demon as the one they from the video Morrison had shown them.
"Looks like quite a spectacle." Said Dante to Trish as they neared the center of the arena from the East.
Nero and Lady neared the center of the arena from the west.
The big demon with the mace managed to knock the spear away from the goat demon and forced him to the ground. The winning fighter looked up at Wrath and the crowd of demons to decide the fate of the loser. Wrath dramatically stood up and gave a thumbs down sealing the loser's fate. The victor raised his mace and swung it down crushing the losing demon's skull killing him instantly. The crowd of demons cheered in approval.
The cheering then stopped as the demons took notice of the four hunters in the arena. The demons began to roar, hiss, and curse. A good percent of the audience looked like they were about to charge into the arena, but Wrath merely raised his hand and flames rose around his body silencing the crowd.
"Well. Well. If it isn't Dante and his merry little band of hunters. I've sensed my siblings being defeated by your hands and I assume you've come all this way to beat and capture me as well." Said Wrath.
"We have. I thought you would be the stupid sin." Said Dante.
"I'm not stupid. I'm the most feared Sin that exist in all living things. There isn't a living being in existence that hasn't felt anger or rage one time in their life or another. Dante, you and the traitor Trish both hated Mundus, Lady you hated your father Arkham, and Nero you hated Sanctus." Said Wrath.
"There a point to this?" Asked Nero.
"My point is that you all felt hatred and committed the my sin in your lives. That anger gave you the strength you needed to destroy your enemies. In a sense I helped you all and you owe me for helping you become the people you are today." Said Wrath.
"Listen in big guy. You may be right about each of us hating someone in our lives, who we all ended, but those guys were evil destructive jerks who needed to be put down. Yeah we were angry at them, not going to deny that, but you're dead wrong about you being the one to gives us strength to do it and you played no role in helping us become the people we are today. We don't owe you a thing. The reason we're here right now is to take you and the rest of your twisted family down and make sure you can't hurt anyone ever again. So why don't you come on down and let's get this party started." Said Dante.
The crowd of demons were bearing their fangs as they looked over at Wrath to see what his reaction would be. Wrath just laughed.
"Oh what spirit you have! I'm going to enjoy fighting you, win or lose it doesn't matter as long as their is bloodshed! This will be a battle of the ages!"
The demon gladiator who had been silently standing nearby roared and charged at the hunters. Dante dodged a swing from the demon's mace and shot at it with his guns, but the demon quickly raised his shield to block the shots. Nero jumped in swinging his sword and knocked the shield to the side allowing Trish to run in and kick the demon in the face spinning it around. Lady fired her rocket launcher at the demon, who quickly raised his shield to block. The rocket hit the shield and exploded sending the shield flying from the demon's hand. Dante then raced forward swinging his sword and sliced the demon across the chest and killed it.
The gladiator fell to the ground and the crowd roared in anger. Wrath merely pulled out his blades and stomped down towards the arena as several demons raced out of some gates to aid Wrath and fight the hunters.
The battle was on!
To be continued.