The Dead Will Cry
Chapter 8 Magician
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything this is just a story for fun.
Curien watched a monitor that showed live video footage of Dante riding the elevator down to the lab. The scientist had already sent some of his zombies to greet Dante once he arrived as he planned his next move. Dante and his allies proved themselves to be formidable fighters who made short work of his zombies and elite creations, it showed that Curien needed to improve his work if he wished to conquer and change the world. Curien was undeterred by the defeat of his creations, he still had his masterpiece and he already collected some really good combat data to help improve his future creations. He turned to the sample of Dante's blood he had and decided to take a little risk by loading it into a syringe and injecting it into his own body. Now normally Curien would have run some more test on the sample before injecting it into himself, it was dangerous to mix samples and he had no idea how the sample would react with the demon blood and chemicals in his system, but some desperate times called for desperate measures and Curien hoped that Dante's blood might help and accelerate his own evolution he had planned for the future. After that was done Curien turned to the BioReactor machine. Curien's masterpiece was in there and it was time for it to make it's grand debut.
Unbeknownst to Curien everything going on at the mansion was being watched and seen by both Thornheart and Goldman. The two men sat in a office watching a live video fed on a large monitor. Thornheart and Goldman were very surprised by the recent developments and they took special interest in Dante. They watched as Dante took a elevator down to the lab and once it opened he started to fight his way through the horde of zombies waiting for him as he made his way to the lab. The grand finale between Curien and the hunters was about to begin.
Dante entered the main lab and felt a strong demonic presence as he arrived coming from a large cylinder machine. He then saw Curien standing nearby looking very confident.
"Game over Curien." Said Dante.
"I must admit. I really respect your consistency. But you will never ever defeat me! Say hello to my masterpiece! The Magician!" Said Curien waving a hand at the cylinder as it rose up to reveal a new creature.
The new creature was a armored, levitating humanoid with horns and talons. His lower right leg, upper left leg, lower right arm, and upper left arm had exposed muscles and pulsating nerve-like appendages.
"Now Magician show this fool your might and destroy him!" Said Curien pointing at Dante.
The Magician cast Curien a look and then spoke.
"Who are you? Nobody gives me instructions. I will destroy everything!" Said the Magician as he created a fireball on his hands and fired it at Curien!
Curien screamed as the fireball struck him slamming him into a console before he dropped to the ground with the front of his chest blackened and burned.
"What...happened? Why...won't...you follow...my...instructions?" Asked Curien in shock at his creation turning on him before he let out one final shudder and died.
"Pretty much saw that coming." Said Dante as he pulled out his guns and faced the Magician.
"You aren't like that nobody who tried to command me. Who are you?" Said the Magician studying Dante.
"The names Dante and my job is to takedown creeps like you." Said Dante.
"I will not fall by your hands. You will be destroyed with everything else!" Said the Magician as he flung a half dozen fireballs at Dante.
Dante quickly shot the fireballs blasting them to bits before he fired a few test shots at the Magician's armor, but it seemed to have no affect on him. He then switched targets and fired at the areas of the Magician's body that weren't armored. The shots struck the exposed muscles causing the Magician to jerk a bit in pain. Now Dante knew where to hit the Magician, so he fired more at the exposed areas, but this time the Magician flew out of the way with incredible speed and flung some fireballs at Dante forcing him to shoot them out of the air. The Magician then gathered a large fireball between his hands and flung it into the air making it explode and rain multiple fireballs down on Dante, who either shot them or dodged out of the way. As Dante did that the Magician gathered another fireball in his right hand and rushed at Dante striking him with the fireball as it exploded sending Dante flying back and out onto a large balcony overlooking the countryside.
"Not bad Magician, you're certainly a cut above the rest of the guys I fought here so far." Said Dante as he stood up dusting himself off as his wounds began healing.
"I am just getting started. Join me Dante and we shall rule this world together." Said the Magician as he floated out to face Dante.
"Hard pass. My old man went through a lot of effort to keep this world safe and I've done a bit of hard work keeping this world safe as well. So I'm not going to let some zombie demon takeover and ruin everything." Said Dante.
"Then you shall die!" Said the Magician before flinging more fireballs at Dante.
Dante shot them out of the air like before and the Magician created another giant fireball he flung into the air where it exploded into multiple fireballs that rained down on Dante who dodged and shot at them. The Magician tried to rush at Dante again with a fireball on his righthand, only for Dante to turn and shoot it making it explode and send the Magician reeling back.
"The same trick won't work on me twice." Said Dante as he shot at the Magician's weak points.
The Magician cried out in pain as it tried to use it's speed to avoid getting hit, but Dante's reflexes and sharpshooter skills kept track with the creature hitting it multiple times. The Magician felt his power weakening as he took more damage.
"Jackpot!" Said Dante as he fired a few carefully placed shots into it's upper left arm.
The Magician let out a scream pain and rage.
"...haven't...seen...anything yet!"
The Magician then vanished in a fiery explosion.
"Now that was a good trick." Said Dante putting his guns away.
Dante headed back into the lab and looked down at the body of Curien.
"Well Curien it looks like it's the end of this little adventure. Hate to say I told you so, but I did pretty much called it that one of your creations would kill you. Now we just got to sit back and clean up what's left of your work." Said Dante before he headed back to the elevator.
Thornheart and Goldman watched as Dante left.
"It seems like Curien was done in by his own hubris. A real pity." Said Goldman.
"Yes, but at least his research won't go to waste and he did show us the people who would oppose our goals." Said Thornheart.
"Yes Curien's research will be important for our goals not to mention we can see how Curien's resurrection process and evolution process goes once we collect his body and deliver it to the EFI Research Facility." Said Goldman.
"I look forward to see how that goes. In the meantime we must continue our other work and prepare for the future." Said Thornheart.
Curien was dead, but far greater threats were working in the shadows for Dante and his allies to deal with.
To be continued.
