Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction ❯ Demonic Misadventure ❯ Dante ( Chapter 5 )

Zeal: This would be the 5th chapter… right?

 

Miranda: Zug-zug!

 

Envy: No hard feelings, I hope?

 

Zeal: What makes you say that? *whacks Envy with her hand*

 

Envy: OUCH!! ><

 

Aku: No fryin'-pan! ^^

 

Zeal: Nope.

 

Naji: Which indicates you're fine.

 

Zeal: Yep.

 

Solo: …Not very talkative today, are ya?

 

Zeal: *smirks* Nope.

 

Envy: HEY!! Stop stealing my lines!!

 

Solo: >:p

 

Dante: *walks in* Yo.

 

Miranda: Hiya!

 

Envy: O.o

 

Aku: OHAYO DANTE-KUN!!! *glomps Dante*

 

Dante: Oof! *strained* Yeah nice to see you too, Aku. Mind letting me go now?

 

Aku: *lets go* Okie! ^_^

 

Envy: Wait… you're Dante!?

 

Dante: Yeah, that's me. Anyway, catch ya later. *walks through the portal*

 

Envy: HEY WAIT UP!! *runs after*

 

Miranda: …Well gee, that was fast.

 

Zeal: Don't think I ever saw him getting into the story that fast…

 

Solo: Well, might as well go after him. *heads in*

 

Aku: Whee! *toddles in*

 

Naji: … *walks in as well*

 

Miranda: Well… *hands on hips* let's get started then. That's an example of unpredictability. No one would expect everyone walking out so quickly.

 

Zeal: …… *rolls eyes and walks off*

 

Miranda: See, there's another example. No one would expect that my big sis would leave me here. …?? *pauses and looks around* … And now I'm just sitting here… talking to myself. -.-; Now that's Chaos Theory… *gets up* ZEEEEEAAAAAAL!!!! *runs after*

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 5: Dante

 

“Owie…” Envy moaned, rubbing his head painfully. “What the hell happened?!”

 

“We fell into a trap, that's what happened,” Solo deadpanned, studying the walls. “Damn… Smooth walls. It's gonna be a bugger getting outta here…”

 

Envy felt like cussing up a storm. “Then how're we gonna get the hell outta here?!”

 

“Say please.”

 

Both males snapped their gazes up toward the edge of the pit, straight into the grinning face of another male. The guy had a slight tan, which clashed with his stark-white hair and baby-blue eyes. Dressed in black pants and a red jacket, the guy seemed pretty average otherwise… safe for the massive sword strapped around his back and the pendant dangling around his neck.

 

“Dante!!” Solo exclaimed, nearly making Envy topple over. “This your pit?”

 

“Nope. Doesn't mean I can't get you out. Give me a second.” With that, he was gone.

 

“That was Dante??” Envy questioned when he had gotten up. Solo just nodded.

 

“Yes. What were you expecting? An old hag?”

 

Envy was wise enough not to comment.

 

Less than two seconds later, a rope dropped right on Envy's head.

 

“HEY!! Watch where you're throwing that thing!!”

 

“Then you shouldn't have been standing there in the first place.”

 

Solo just laughed, grabbing hold of the rope. As Envy held onto it as well, there was a sharp yank, and both were pulled up within another minute.

 

 

 

“So what were you two doing down there anyway?” Dante asked cheekily, a wide grin on his face.

 

“Bugger off, Dante…” Solo grumbled, making the whitehead laugh. “How the hell did you know we'd be here?”

 

Dante looked at him for a minute, before he smirked. “I didn't. I was just passing by.”

 

Solo frowned darkly. “Dante, you never `just pass by'. So what the hell were you doing here?!”

 

Envy was sitting back and watching the whole argument with silent snickers, enjoying the battle of wits between the two, as it was good for a few laughs. Solo hadn't been kidding when he said Dante was a smartass.

 

Dante was about to answer, but stopped short and looked around with a small smirk. “I'd love to tell ya… but I'm afraid we've got to take care of our company first.”

 

“Compa…? Ooohhhh. I see,” Solo said with a cold smirk.

 

Envy blinked, looking back and forth for a minute or two, before it seemed to register. “Oh shit… Demons…”

 

Neither of the Demon Hunters said anything as both pulled out their weapons, Dante pulling out two guns (one black, one white) and Solo pulling out both katanas.

 

Envy decided to keep low for now, so as not to end up as lunch. Solo looked around a few times, before he snapped his gaze to the front and lashed out with both blades in a vertical upward arc. That attack sliced right through a Demon that had suddenly materialized in front of him, before bursting apart into black clouds. Dante chuckled a bit at the scene, before swiveling around and shooting with both guns, hitting a different Demon to the head several times, before its head burst apart. Which caused a chain reaction and caused the rest of the Demon to evaporate.

 

“WHAHOO!!” Dante shouted. “TIME TO PAAAR-TYYYYYYY!!”

 

“Eeeeeyahahahahaha!!!” Solo cackled, shooting straight ahead and slicing his way through the now huge amount of Demons popping up everywhere and nowhere.

 

Dante suddenly leapt up into the air and aimed both guns toward a group of Demons. Said Demons looked up in surprise, only to find themselves showered in bullets, the force of the shots keeping Dante in the air. As he dropped back to the ground, he quickly sheathed his guns and grabbed the hilt of his sword. With a roar, he reared back as he dropped the remaining distance and slashed out downward, a large shockwave tearing through the Demons.

 

Envy whistled, watching the two Demon Hunters tearing through the hordes of Demons. He had to admit, those two were good.

 

 

 

“Ugh… gross…” Solo grumbled, shaking the Demon-guts off his katanas. Dante just chuckled, before looking around.

 

“Hey scaredy-cat!!” he suddenly called out. “Ya can come out of your hiding place!”

 

Envy growled in anger, jumping out of hiding and screaming: “OH SHUT THE HELL UP YA GODDAMN SONOVA---”

 

Tonk!

 

“OUCH!!”

 

Dante blinked as a small rock dropped to the ground, before turning to Solo, who was purposely looking away with his hands behind his head. A small vein twitched on Envy's forehead, but before he could say anything…

 

“WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”

 

The trio whipped around, spotting something soaring through the air and Dante ran a little back, holding out his arms quickly, and catching the flying kid with ease. “Nice of you to drop in, Aku.” Aku meeped, before she chirped a “thank you”, hugging Dante around his neck cheerily. Said Demon Hunter pretended to gag, causing the kid to let go.

 

“Aku?!!? I thought I told you to stay out of this!!” Solo shouted.

 

Aku frowned sadly, hanging her head. “Sowwy… but I's was bored…”

 

Solo gave a slight aggravated sigh, but Envy chuckled a bit. He'd been wondering what took her so long to follow…

 

“ENVY-KUN!!!”

 

WHUMP!!

 

“YAAH!!”

 

CRASH!!

 

“…ow.”

 

Both Solo and Dante burst out laughing when Aku hug/glomp-tackled Envy to the ground, nearly crushing his ribcage with the force behind the tackle. Envy took a moment or two to get his bearings, trying to get rid of the stars dancing in front of his eyes. When it faded however…

 

“Aaakuuuu…”

 

Aku blinked, before she shot up and ran off. Envy leaped up in anger, and chased after her, the two starting to run in circles around Dante and Solo, who watched it in surprise.

 

“GET THE HELL BACK HERE, AKU!!!”

 

“Why shoul' I anyway?!”

 

“STOP AND YOU'LL FIND OUT!!!!”

 

“IIIYAAAAAH!!! TAS'KETE!!!!”

 

Solo and Dante exchanged a look, before they simultaneously shrugged.

 

 

 

After a while, the city gave way to a deserted highway, equally ruined as the city they'd just left. Aku was skipping ahead merrily, sometimes stopping to wait for them. Solo was next, carrying Aku's swords over his shoulder, allowing the girl to happily skip about.

 

Behind them were Dante and Envy, of which the latter was walking bent over and panting for breath. Dante didn't offer any conversation, and Aku was talking a mile a minute to Solo. Envy grumbled several obscenities under his breath, and if Dante heard him, he was wise enough not to respond.

 

“Are we's there yet!?” Aku called out.

 

“Not yet,” Dante called back, a small grin in place. That had been the 5th time in two hours she'd asked that, and it was starting to get on Envy's nerves. And obviously, Dante knew.

 

Silence settled for a while again, with Aku chattering happily to Solo, who nodded and sometimes said one or two words, but otherwise kept quiet. Envy dragged himself along reluctantly, not really wanting to be left behind.

 

“Are we's there YET!?” Aku asked again.

 

“NO!!!” Envy shouted angrily.

 

Aku ignored the angered reply and started chattering to Solo again, and Envy wondered vaguely how said boy could stand her. Grumbling a few things, he finally asked: “Where're we going anyhow?!”

 

“You'll see when we get there,” Dante said simply.

 

`3…2…1…'

 

“Are we's there yet?” Envy said at the same time as Aku. Aku blinked in surprise, before chirping: “Oy! Tha ain't funny!” at the same time as Envy. Aku puffed up her cheeks childishly, putting her small fists on her hips in a pose that clearly said “I am mad!”

 

“Okie, then I'm stayin' quiet!!” Aku finally shouted.

 

“Finally!” Envy sighed in relief.

 

 

 

“…I'M BORED!!” Aku shouted after 15 minutes of quiet, pouting sadly.

 

Envy groaned. He knew the silence had been too good to last for long…

 

“So?!” he asked. “Find something to entertain yourself!!”

 

Second that was out, he realized that was a baaaaaad idea.

 

As did Solo and Dante, as both gave him a look as if he'd just signed his own death-sentence. Aku looked around for a moment or two, before she grinned. Leaping up, she grabbed hold of a streetlight and climbed up. Hopping from one to another, she held on by her tiny claws, hanging upside-down before moving on as the others passed by underneath her.

 

However, after a while…

 

“YAAAH!!”

 

“GAH!!”

 

Envy almost toppled over at a sudden weight on his back, as Aku had jumped right on him from behind. Said little Demon was grinning from ear to ear, and not about to get off. Solo laughed, and Dante grinned, saying: “Looks like the lass wants a piggy-back ride.”

 

Envy's eye twitched dangerously. “WELL I AIN'T A PIG SO GET OFF!!”

 

“Nopes!” Aku chirped, arms slung around Envy's neck.

 

Envy let out a shout and tried to wrench the small girl loose from around his neck, with little luck. Only thing that did was nearly choke himself.

 

So eventually, Envy started walking again, with Aku still clinging to his neck.

 

“…Are we's there yet?!”

 

“ARGH!!!”

 

 

 

“She's way too light for her to be healthy…” Envy grumbled, adjusting the now sleeping Demon's weight against his back.

 

Solo just grunted in confirmation, not bothering with an answer. Aku had fallen asleep somewhere during the trip, and had nearly fallen off, but Envy had caught her a bit before she could've. Right now, she was half dangling, half lying on Envy's back as the Homonculus was forced to walk bent over to avoid her from tumbling off.

 

They'd encountered a few Demons, but either Solo or Dante took care of it. And luckily, they didn't have a run-in with…

 

“Yo, Dante!” Envy called out suddenly. “You ever heard of a Demon called “Naji”?”

 

Dante looked up curiously, before he grinned. “Najito? Yeah, heard of `er. She used to be a human, but she lost her identity ages back.”

 

“…Naji was… human?”

 

Dante shrugged. “She's too humanoid to have been born a Demon… unless she was born half-Demon.”

 

“What? You planning to ask her on a date?” Solo asked cheekily.

 

“Shut up,” Dante mumbled, though he was grinning slightly. Envy couldn't help but chuckle too. That'd be rich…

 

“Mmmm…” came from over his shoulder, and Envy peeked over curiously, looking into a single, half-opened amethyst eye. “…we's there yet…?”

 

“Actually…” Dante suddenly called out, pointing to a city up ahead. “We are.”

 

 

 

-OWARI

 

 

 

Aku: Yay! *yawn*

 

Miranda: Awwwwww!! ^-^ So cuuuute!!

 

Envy: …

 

Zeal: Well… that's good to go.

 

Dante: Good enough. But I'm not asking Naji out.

 

Naji: Wouldn't recommend it anyway…

 

Aku: Oy… *yawn*

 

Envy: …

 

Solo: …? *knocks Envy on the head* Earth to girly-boy!! You there?!?!

 

Envy: OW!!! ><* WHO YOU CALLING A---

 

*CLUNK*

 

Envy: OWCHA!!! @.@

 

Zeal: *frying-pan slung over shoulder* Ch.

 

Miranda: ^.^;; Guess I'll have to take care of this… *drags Envy off by his feet*

 

Aku: … `s tha safe?

 

Solo: …I'm not sure.

 

Zeal: *smirks* It's not.

 

Dante: Hm. I figured as much…

 

Aku: … …… YAY!! ^^ *yawn* Darnits…