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Unleashed

Marcus stared up at the sky. Rain landed lightly against his face. He was aware that he was in pain. So much pain. And that he was no longer in his Devil form. He tried to move but even twitching his finger seemed impossible. He could see the light of the seal. He could hear swords crashing against each other. He felt his right arm warm up before a weight settled on it and was able to get his head to roll to the right, seeing a katana in a blue sheath lying in his hand. When had that gotten there? He looked past his hand, seeing Dante was up and dueling with Vergil, only barely holding his own, already in his own Devil Trigger form, his wound healed. Then, the ground shook, and the light around them shone blindingly. Both half-devils stopped, looking around. Then, Marcus felt something else. The ground was moving. Sinking. Cracks were spreading across the ground but he could only barley hit them. His weight was shifting him on the two blades through his chest, the pain blocking out his senses as he lay there lifelessly. The ground continued to sink below him, then, it crumbled.

He was falling. There was no sound, the only light being what he could see above him, the ground crumbling away and making the hole bigger but he was falling fast, the hole seeming to shrink rapidly. He was aware of his Devil Bringer clinging to the katana instinctively, of the other two swords tearing free of his body. But still he fell, darkness beginning to swallow him and the two swords falling just above him. Then, he heard something. The rush of massive wings, stone grinding against stone, the sound of massive objects slamming together rapidly, and finally a deafening roar from above. Then, the world faded altogether.

Dante hovered over the gaping hole in the earth, Trish hovering beside him, holding Lady and Kyrie by the hands. Kyrie had been reluctant to allow Marcus and Nero's body to fall, but Trish hadn't given her an option. Besides, there were other problems. Firstly, Arius. He had come back to life when the seal was opened. Now, he was on the edge of the seal, a massive black demonic lizard of some kind with Arius's head, a massive gaping hole below that with bone spikes across it like Arius's previous form had had, and only front legs, his rear half just a tail currently wrapped around a skyscraper that had survived the summoning circle opening. The next problem was much, much worse than Arius. The Savior, the massive living statue Dante and Nero had worked together to destroy s long ago in Fortuna was floating above the circle, glowing blue orbs, floating chunks of debris, and glowing wings. just as he had been before. Right down to his face being that of Sanctus, rather than the original Savior. Next, was something Dante seemed to recognize. A massive demon formed out of nothing but debris. A massive humanoid made from pieces of shattered ground and obliterated skyscrapers. It had three eyes like Mundus, and Trish knew from the stories that he had once called himself Mundus. But this demon's name was Samael. Lastly, there was the single greatest threat of all. Mundus himself, hovered above even the Savior, glaring down at Dante before grinning.

"It is time for me to spread my armies over the world once again, Son of Sparda," Mundus said. "And it is time for you to die."

With that, he turned, flying away.

"Trish, I'm going to need Sparda," Dante said.

"Right," Trish nodded, turning and flying away with Lady and Kyrie.

As they flew, however, Arius burst out of the ground before them, roaring. No sooner had it appeared, than a white streak crashed down on it. The figure flew back up out of the dust a moment later, a demon with white feathers covering her body and the right half of her face.

"Hello again Lucia," Trish nodded. "Glad you could make it. Lady, help her deal with Arius."

"Right," Lady nodded.

Trish set her down on the roof of a building then turned, flying away with Kyrie. As she did, Dante flew at Samael. Samael raised a hand and swiped at him, several massive chunks of debris flying at him. He flew around them holding his sword out just in time to blast into Samael, tipping him backward. Samael roared in pain, slamming his hand into the ground to catch himself, then swatted at Dante, who leapt out of the way. Dante flew back a bit, putting Rebellion away, then shot forward, crashing into Samael with both fists and both feet, a massive blast of light shooting off. Samael roared in pain, staggering backward several steps before Dante's fist crashed into his upper left arm, a massive explosion of light shooting off of the impact point before the arm fell away, crashing to the ground. Dante spun behind Samael and then blasted into the other arm, not removing it but blasting a crater into it. From there, he drove both hands into it and wrenched them apart, literally ripping the arm off before spinning, smashing the arm into Samael's head, smashing the arm to bits and knocking Samael onto his back.

"I'm a lot stronger than I was last time we met, Samael!" Dante shouted, shooting down at him from above. "Die!"

His fist exploded into Samael's head which exploded, the rest of Samael's body glowing cherry red before exploding.

Lucia flipped over Arius's tail, then rolled in mid air, avoiding an energy beam. As soon as it ended, the bone spikes began to close over the hole. Lady pulled out Kalina Ann and fired, the rocket slipping between the bone spikes at the last second and then exploding somewhere inside of Arius. He roared in rage, rearing back just before Lucia appeared in front of him, her swords splitting him open along the bottom, Lady filling any exposed opening with bullets instantly. Finally, Lucia flew away from Arius, landing lightly beside Lady and reverting to her true form as Arius began to tip backward.

"Nice," Lady grinned.

Then, Arius fell into the pit, roaring as he fell.

"Alright," Lady said. "Now you need to go and help Dante. He can't fight that thing alone."

"Right," Lucia nodded.

She reentered her devil form and took off toward the Savior, where Dante was struggling to avoid its strikes while destroying the crystals. She flew up beside him and slashed the crystal he was attacking, her strike finally shattering the heavily damaged crystal. Dante nodded to her then sped off, flying at another as Lucia did the same. However, just as she neared hers, Dante crashed into her, bleeding badly.

"Dante?" Lucia gasped, catching him just as Vergil flew into view.

"You should have payed better attention!" Vergil shouted, hurling Rebellion like a javelin.

Trish flew out over the edge of the circle and stopped. Clearly something had gone wrong. There was a massive chunk of ground that had been blown off of one side of the circle, Lady was lying in a pool of her own blood, though fortunately still alive, and Dante and Lucia were both impaled on Rebellion, sticking into the ground off to one side. She flew over, landing beside them and wrenching the sword out, both groaning in pain and stirring but unable to move.

"What happened?" Trish asked. "When I left you had it under control."

"Vergil," Dante groaned. "Vergil happened."

"Why am I not surprised," Trish sighed, looking around. "How many did you get?"

"I took out Samael, and Lucia got Arius," Dante said. "And we were doing well against the Savior, sort of. But I didn't realize Vergil was on statue guard duty."

Trish nodded before picking the two up carefully.

"Come on," Trish said. "We need to get the three of you to the shop to rest."

"Trish," Dante said. "It'll be all out war."

"We'll deal with it," Trish said. "For now, we need to rest."

Dante nodded and Trish also picked up Lady on the way by, then flew back to the shop where she and Kyrie patched the three wounded Devil Hunters up.

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