Sin Will Cry
Chapter 26 Wrath
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
Dante and Wrath charged at one another swinging their swords. The blades met with a thunderous explosion that sent a small shockwave through the arena. Both Dante and Wrath were sent skidding back. Wrath recovered and hurled one of his blades like a boomerang at Dante, who expertly jumped over the spinning blade and fired a few shots from his guns in midair that clanked against Wrath's armor. Dante landed on the ground and ducked the spinning sword as it came back around like a boomerang and returned to Wrath's hand. Wrath let out a angry shout as he charged at Dante swinging his blades at him. Dante blocked and dodged the blows before flipping over the demon and struck him in the back of the head knocking him onto the ground. A few lesser demons charged at Dante and he blasted a few of them away with his guns as Wrath got back to his feet.
Wrath turned towards Dante and the demons and swung his blades at the attacking demons slicing most of them to bits! He then grabbed one demon that had managed to avoid his attack and held him up by the neck.
"Dante is my prey! Don't interfere!" Snarled Wrath before snapping the unlucky demon's neck and dropped his lifeless body to the ground.
The other nearby demons backed away from Dante and Wrath. Dante took notice that the wounds Wrath had gotten from him were healing up. It appeared Wrath had a healing factor, though Dante sensed there was a little more to it then simply healing after getting injured.
"Seems you have a few tricks up your sleeve." Said Dante.
"Oh I have plenty more tricks up my sleeve. Allow to show you my true power!" Said Wrath as the armor on his helmet peeled back to reveal a demonic face made out of living flames.
Wrath raised his blades up high and they unleashed a burst of red light around the arena. At first nothing happened and then the demons in the arena became more wild and fierce as they attracted Nero, Lady, and Trish with greater ferocity. Some demons even began to fight each other! Dante raised an eyebrow at this as he saw red streams of energy leave all the demons' bodies and connect themselves to Wrath who doubled in size as the flames on his body became brighter.
"Nice little light show big guy." Said Dante.
"Joke all you want boy. I can cause wrath in others and in turn I can feed upon on their rage and make myself stronger." Said Wrath.
"I'm surprised you didn't try to infect my friends." Said Dante.
"I don't need the rage of a human, a traitor demon, and a halfling, when I have hordes of demons to feed upon." Said Wrath.
"Enough tough let's get back to the party!" Said Dante gripping his sword.
"Let the carnage commence!" Declared Wrath.
The two of them charged at each other once more and began to fight.
As that battle raged on Nero, Lady, and Trish took on the horde of wrath filled demons. Lady had her guns out as she fired rounds into charging demons, Trish blasted some demons with lightning, and Nero cut some demons down with his sword. The demons went down, but some of them managed to get back up despite suffering heavy injures and lost limbs.
"Good grief some of these creeps just won't stay down." Complained Nero as he sliced a few demons in half.
"Wrath must be filling them with rage to make them stronger and have a higher tolerance for pain." Said Lady shooting a couple demons in the head.
"And by the looks of things these rage filled demons are getting fed on my Wrath making him stronger." Said Trish blast a group of demons.
"So we just have to kill enough of these guys to weaken Wrath a little bit, so he'll be easier for Dante to takedown and then the rest of these creeps will be easy to do away with." Said Nero.
"Pretty much." Said Trish.
"Then let's get to it." Said Lady.
The three hunters began to fighter harder to takedown the rage filled demons.
Wrath and Dante struck at each other with their blades. Their weapons collided with thunderous crashes releasing gusts of wind. Dante could tell that Wrath was indeed stronger then he had been when the fight had started and despite being bigger now, the demon's speed had increased. Wrath struck at Dante with a downwards strike with one of his swords, but Dante dodged the blade as it struck the ground and became imbedded in it and then sliced Wrath's hand making him release the blade and shout in pain. Dante sliced Wrath across the chest leaving a large slash mark in Wrath's armor that dripped fiery liquid. Wrath roared in both pain and rage before he grabbed Dante and rushed forward smashing him into one of the arena walls. The wall cracked and splintered as Dante hit it. Wrath then let go of Dante and then stabbed him in the chest with his and impaled him!
"Yes! Taste defeat and die! Victory is mine!" Yelled Wrath as he pulled his sword back with Dante still impaled on it and lifted it high in the air in victory.
All the demons and the hunters stopped to look at Wrath who proudly held his sword up high. The demons cheered while the hunters remained quiet. Wrath smirked at the hunters expecting to see either rage or despair on their faces, yet they remained perfectly calm. Trish and Lady were smirking a little, while Nero just rolled his eyes. Wrath blinked his eyes in confusion, when he heard a chuckle coming from his sword and looked up to see that Dante was alive and smile despite a sword sticking through his chest!
"Not bad flame head. Have to admit you're a cut above the rest of the Sins I've fought. Now it's my turn to take things seriously." Said Dante with a smirk before he pointed his guns downwards and fired a few rounds right into Wrath's face!
Wrath yelled in pain as he let go of the sword and reeled back. Dante landed on his feet and pulled the sword out of his chest before tossing it at Wrath. The demon caught the blade and glared at Dante with even greater rage. Dante just smirked as he waved for Wrath to come at him. Wrath obliged by charging at Dante and the two began to exchange blows again across the arena. Dante dodged a blow from Wrath and jumped back a few yards. He then pulled out the twin swords Agni and Rudra and charged at Wrath. The swords clashed and the twin swords unleashed fire and blast of wind striking Wrath and a few nearby demons.
As that was happening the three hunters found themselves facing a couple of humans turned demons. One was a short asian man with horns and a beard dressed as a monk armed with a Guan Dao and the other was a massive dark skinned man with horns dressed in black armor and armed with a large flail.
"I'm Zhi." Said the asian man.
"I'm Kahn." Said the giant man.
"In the name of Wrath you shall die!" Said Zhi as he and Kahn charged forward.
Zhi went after Lady, while Kahn went after Trish and Nero.
Lady fired her guns at Zhi who expertly deflected them by spinning his Guan Dao, before he lunged forward and thrusted his weapon at Lady. The human managed to dodge the blow and fired one of her guns into Zhi who reeled back a little and let out a wild snarl before he charged back at Lady and took some swings at her with his weapon. Lady took a few scraps across her arms and legs, but she managed to avoid serious damage as she threw a flash bang grenade at Zhi and quickly shielded her eyes. The grenade exploded blinding Zhi making him stumble around blindly swinging his weapon and striking a couple of unfortunate demons fighting nearby. Lady took this opportunity to shot the Zhi's hand that held his weapon making him scream in pain as he dropped it. The hunter then raced forward, picked up the fallen weapon and swung it at the demon's neck, slicing his head right off!
Zhi's decapitated head bounced off the ground and rolled a few feet. The demon had a look of shock on his face as he died and his headless body collapsed.
Kahn charged at Nero and Lady like a enraged tank swinging his flail around at them. The two hunters avoided his attacks and the flail ended up sticking a few unlucky demons in the area killing them. Nero fired his gun at Kahn and Trish blasted him with lightning. The attacks struck Kahn, but seemed to only do a little bit of damage to him and enrage him even more. Nero changed tactics and rushed at Kahn dodging his flail and struck him a few times with his sword. Kahn roared with rage and struck at Nero with his free hand and Nero countered with his Devil Bringer. The two fists met with a mighty crash and a crunch as Kahn reeled back yelling in pain as he looked at his now broken and mangled hand. Nero smirked as Kahn roared in rage as he he swung his flail at Nero. The Hunter met the attack with his Devil Bringer as it smashed right through the weapon and slammed right into Kahn's face cracking his jaw and sending him flying back and smashing into the arena wall. Kahn tried to pull himself out of the wall and charge, but Lady blasted him back into with a powerful surge of lightning. Nero charged forward with Red Queen as Kahn was pulling himself out of the wall. The hunter stabbed the demon in the chest with his blade piercing his heart. Kahn gasped in shock as he fell back dead.
With the two human turned demons dead Nero, Trish, and Lady went back to killing the remaining demons.
As the demons were killed Wrath began to lose some of his, height, strength, and speed and Dante quickly took advantage of this by dealing out blows to the demon. First with the twins swords and then Rebellion. Wrath stumbled back from the onslaught as he tried to strike Dante, but he was too quick for him. One blow after another struck Wrath, whose anger just grew as his body took on injuries.
"I will kill you!" Snarled Wrath as the flames of his body shot up and he lunged at Dante.
Dante deflected Wrath's attacks and plunged his sword right into Wrath's chest! Wrath's blades dropped to the ground and he fell to his knees. Dante removed his sword.
"I'll admit that was one hell of a fight, but you relied too much on the boost you got from those angry demons. Once they were gone you lost a bit of your edge. Now it's time to end this." Said Dante as he pulled out the amulet.
"You...may trap me an my kin in those amulets, but we will still exist in all living things." Said Wrath.
"True, but you won't be able to physically manifest." Said Dante before he sucked up Wrath into the amulet.
The demons in the arena that weren't dead quickly regrouped to try and launch a full assault on Dante and his allies. Dante just smirked at the group as he pulled out the Devil Arm, Pandora and made it take on it's PF594: Argument form. The demons took a nervous step back before they regained their confidence and rushed forward.
"Goodbye." Said Dante as he fired several rockets at the demons.
The rockets struck the demons and killed them as well as destroyed a good chunk of the arena. The slaughter lasted a few minutes and soon all the demons were dead. Dante put up Pandora and he and his allies left the arena and made their way to the tallest building in the city to face Pride and put a end to the Seven once and for all.
To be continued.