Repeating of History -Devil May Cry Story-

Dominic’s Story

Chapter 0
Prologue

Voices echo, my head aching as scent of blood sneaks its way under my nose. My back was soak, chill to the bone as I felt the cracks and jagged rocks of the impacted ground underneath. Raindrops kiss the pale skin as sight faded in and out, causally focusing on a stray demon passing by overhead. Near death and yet didn’t even fix anything, what a cheap way to go. . . Little bro will be pissed off for sure.

Gathering enough strength to lift the bruised, battered body in an upright position against a wall. The aroma of blood still tickling my nostrils, nevertheless I can tell it was my own blood blended with another familiar aroma, belonging to my brother. This was very troubling for the eldest of his own litter to discover, though, before I could complete my thoughts and gain my surroundings.

“Finally standing, Brother of Mine.”

Weakly gazing these tired eyes to locate a male figure, eye to eye level. Those blue eyes, rose blonde short hair that combed back to a similar style like our uncle. Recognizing the silver color trench coat he wore, which was now stained with blood.

“Why. . . Do th. . . is. . . ?”

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">My words slur slightly from blood loss and, what I believe, the impacted to my head. All the same though, Erin was in front of me. ..

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">How did it come to this?

<span style="font-size:32px;font-family:Questrial;color:#0d5772;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Chapter 1
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Calligraffitti;color:#1cade4;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Leaving us behind

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Time: Three years ago <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Location: Devil May Cry Shop, Enamel City

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Nyahhhh!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">That sound rang throughout the shop, which belong to me. A five foot nine inches, pale son of a gun with white hair and some oddball extras. There I was, clinging on a set of black pant legs, trying to keep my pa home; and this sixteen year old wasn’t letting go of this pant leg.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“You can’t go!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Only being responded with a chuckle from the older gentleman, soon followed by a sigh from an older woman. Ma knew I did this plenty of times, he was my pa after all! The older woman picked me up from pa’s pant leg, which I resisted only in failure.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Dominic Dear, he has work. He’ll be back as soon as possible.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">That was Ma speaking, I looked up to the older woman. Those silver cat eyes with the rose blonde locks that rest pass her cheeks and nearly reach her shoulders, it was strange how only those lock of hairs had change from rose blonde to a red color. Ma and I were alike about one thing; looking up to top of her head was black cat ears poking out of the rose blonde hair resting on her head. I had similar ears, though my were white and match my white hair.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“B-But ma!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I pick to argue with ma, only for her to place a claw-like finger against my lips gently, only response I gave was a whine before letting my ears flatten against my head and looking down to the floor. Pa gave a reassuring chuckle one last time before I felt his hand touch my white locks. Our eyes met each other as I saw that wide grin while he had slightly brush some white hair out of his face.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“No worries son, I’ll be back like always! You just take care of your mother and siblings for me, got it partner?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">A smile warm up as a quick nod came from me, pa and I were always partners as it was my dream to be a devil Hunter like pa! He gives me a wide grin as he ruffles my hair before taking his hand away. I noticed Erin, my brother who was only an hour younger than me, walks into the living room of the shop. It seems like someone woke him up, most likely my whining.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Daddy is leaving?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The boy yawns, rubbing his blue eyes as he looks up to Pa. He had rose blonde hair that was comb back, pale skin like me and was wearing a t-shirt and some shorts. Pa gave a nod as he gone to Erin to pat his head before leaving for the front door and opening it.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Remember Dominic, take good care of our family, got it?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Yes Sir!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I said with pride, grinning as I embrace Ma. She hold me and waves at Pa till the door close behind him. The shop gone silence. . . Broken by Ma's sigh before she spoke.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Time for breakfast Dominic, will you help me?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I nod as I looked up to Ma's face, smiling brightly before squirming so she let me down. Once my feet touch the ground, Ma and I gone into the kitchen to start making breakfast while Erin gone to get the rest of our siblings for breakfast. I've always help Ma with making breakfast, Erin did lunch and then I did dinner.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Pancakes and bacon was for breakfast, having set up seven plates on the table, I let out a sigh before yawning a bit. I had set up the table right as I was placing the plates! It was Erin's job to set up the table this time. With that grumbling thought, I had gone to look for my siblings, which wasn't hard to find three of them. Rosavell, Layla and Leon happen to be in the living room watching television, Leon was the first to notice me as I wave for them to signal that Breakfast was ready. Leon and Layla, being the quiet of the six of us, got off the couch and gone into the dining room with Rosavell following.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Now it was time to find Erin and Marie. . . Marie was the third oldest of our siblings of six, Erin being the second oldest and I being the eldest son. I ran around a bit, calling out.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Marie!? Erin!? Time for Breakfast!! Ma will be piss if you two don't show up!!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I huff, narrowing my eyes as I couldn't find them anywhere inside the shop. I wasn't really allowed outside, but just peeking out the backdoor shouldn't cause too much trouble! Beside, Marie was always in the backyard, so maybe they're there! Running to the backdoor, my hand reach the knob and turn to open it a little to peak.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;">'''<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">BAM! '''

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I was sent flying from the backdoor into the wall across it with great force, I might have even crack a rib. I groan in pain as I open my eyes to look at Marie and Erin fighting. Just lovely, normally it was me and Erin fighting, but Marie must have done something in her normal dull tone that pissed off Erin.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Kn- Knock it off you two!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">As their older Brother, I needed to end this before Ma sees this! I forced myself off the wall and tackle both of them to the ground which result in me getting knee in the gut followed with a head slamming against my own. Must have been Erin who head butt me, as it did enough to cause bleeding to where I've been impacted. I've lost my balance as well, so I've ended up easily rolled off of both of them as I lost my sight due to how hard that head butt was.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">My sight was dark, but took a while for the lids of my eyes to finally flutter open as I saw Ma over me. Shit! That's all I could think as I notice Ma, then I wonder how long I've been out.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Are you okay Dominic!?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I felt myself getting pulled in ma's embrace, she was so warm right now. . . Must be suffering from blood loss if I'm cold like this.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Wha . . . What happen . . . ?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">That's all I wanted to know right now, Marie and Erin were nowhere to be seen, yet my sis Rosavell was there next to ma. I could tell how her black cat ears were just like ma's, flat against those rose blonde locks. Ma exhales a sigh before replying to my question.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Erin knocked you and himself out completely with that Head butt, Marie is taking the blame of the starting of the fight between her and Erin. But, she took Erin and you to me, so I didn't punish her as I was more concern about both of you."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">So Erin knocked himself out as well, eh? Prick earn it for knocking my ass out when I try to stop him and Marie from fighting. I was only trying to be a big brother to them, and with that thought in mind. My eyes drift to see Erin passed out on the couch, he seem in a lot better condition than I felt. At last, I felt at ease and my eyes closed once more without waiting for Ma or Rosavell to say anything.

<span style="font-size:32px;font-family:Questrial;color:#0d5772;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Chapter 2
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Calligraffitti;color:#1cade4;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Blurry Lines

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Time: Three Years Later <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    Location: Devil May Cry Shop, Limbo City

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Some time has passed since Pa left, and by some time, I meant about three years or so. In Three years Enamel City has changed faster than Fortuna City. We had Soda Pop, Large television screens, towering buildings were seen more often, and it was a change for the worse in my opinion.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Here I was, sitting on the couch eating Pizza like Pops, having been forbidden to even walk outside the Shop. I wasn't the only one, Rosavell and Mom were both in the same boat as me. All 'cause we had animal-like ears and tails, yet Marie got away with it due to the fact she only had a tail, making it easier for her to blend in with the folks out in the streets. See, pops hasn't returned since he left us three years ago, and his partner in crime was getting really bored here.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I became disappointed when I noticed all the pizza was gone, a loud groan of annoyances escapes my throat as I lay out on the couch with my head staring at the abandoned Desk that belong to pops. Ears flicked a bit as I had an idea pop in my head.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Hehehe!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I was up to no good, going over to the Desk and sitting in Pop's chair. Mom used to sit here when it came to doing bills or answering the phone, and now I sit in the chair. Bringing my feet up to the desk, I let out a loud yawn as I pretty much recline in that Chair, making it a rather comfortable place for me to get some shut eye till Erin and the rest get back here. I knew Rosavell was chatting to peeps on her phone that Bro got her while Mom was most likely napping. Mom was a bit more depress since Pops hasn't return the year he had left, and yet she was still waiting.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I let out another exhale sigh before closing my eyes to get some shut eye as to pass the time faster. Well into the 20 seconds of my nap, I was startled awake, feet slamming onto the ground as I hunt for the source of what awaken my eyes. It was the phone, it was <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">ringing <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">! I started to panic a bit till I heard mom's voice

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Get the Phone Dominic!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Without saying anything, I pick up the phone and answer it, trying to ensure I didn't sound panic or weird in a sense.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Devil May Cry!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Even with Pops not around, we were still open for business and haven't changed the name of the shop. Though, very few call us, so this was a huge surprise to me. Nevertheless I, Dominic, was doing what Pops would do!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Is Dante Sparda there?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Nah, Hasn't return from his last mission. I'm assuming you have a password or something?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It was only part of business to ensure the customer calling had the password, or else it was nothing to us Devil Hunters! Though, I thought we updated that Pops wasn't around still.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Oh, Must have not gotten the news, sorry. Yes, I do have the password! Is Siliv there, then? Devil Hunter's wife?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Yea, hold on a sec, I'll get her." I took the phone away from me and look to the stairs.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Mom, Caller with a Password wants ya!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I called up as Mom came down in her normal shorts and shirt attire. She had walked over to me and taken the phone from my hands, giving me a quick glance before chuckling a bit and placing the phone next to her head.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Hello, this is Siliv, Dante's Wife. Lady? Normally if you have a job you be here in the shop, is it something really important?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Now I was just listening to Mom, not very entertaining on my end. However, It's Aunt Lady? Didn't notice it was her, she sounds so different on the phone than when she's in person. I stop paying attention to Mom and the phone conversation since it was one sided on my end, and went to return to my cat nap.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Excuse me, Lady. But, did you just say you wanted Dominic to take that job!?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At first I yawn at the idea. That was till I took a double take and fallen out of Pop’s Chair, ears perked and my eyes seem to widen while looking up at my Tired Mom.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Say wha?” That was my only reaction as I noted mother looking at me with some worry clearly express in those silver eyes.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Well, Lady, I can’t just throw my eldest son at your way like that! I understand that Dante trained him, but my son doesn’t even have a weapon passed down from his father! None of them do!” Clearly Mom wasn’t happy, and she wasn’t lying about how I nor any of my siblings been given weapons from pop.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Lady, Dante haven’t been- I. . . I understand Lady. . . It’s really up to Dominic, and I’m sure Dante would be very proud of him.” A sigh soon follow after those words, I could tell Mom wasn’t able to make the choice. I give her a grin as she looks at me.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“No worry Mom, I can always count on Erin to take control from here when I’m gone!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">My reassertions wasn’t really what she wanted to hear, but it did give her a smile. Even though Erin and I fought, my trust on my bro wasn’t misplace. Speaking of the devil, he did just walked in right as I said that.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Brother, what do you mean by that?” The rose blonde Vergy wanna-be question me, which I answer with a handstand jump from Pop’s desk to land next to Erin, a grin wide on my face.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I’ve just been given a mission by Aunt Lady! It seems extremely important!” Crossing my arms as I state this to my brother, he gives me a rather dark glare yet it was caring at the same time. Mom seem to confirm to lady that I was willing to take the job. Erin was about to speak when Mom cut him off.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Dominic. . .” She sighs as she hung up the phone. “Your Aunt wants you to meet her outside the pizza place that your father always get pizza from. Understood?” I give her a nod, grinning as I rub at my nose a bit. She doesn’t even need to tell me twice when it came to that place. Pop’s always order pizza from there, and it happens to be about 12 blocks west and about 6 blocks north from here.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Also, Dominic. Can you either take Pandora or Nevan with you? I would say Agni and Rudra, but I feel for now Nevan or Pandora would help you with this.” My eyes blinked for some time before grinning ever so big. Pop’s Devil Arms! I get to use one of them too!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Nevan!” Nevan was a guitar-like Devil Arm, pops allowed me to interact with her sometimes. So, Nevan and I became somewhat pals thanks to pop. I could see my mom give a light, yet tiring chuckle. Seeing mom in a better mood makes me more pump than I needed to be, and Erin clearly saw this.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Brother, please relax a bit." Erin stated as he glance to his left to see our sis, Marie. Marie have been observing us, giving no sounds or even words as she gotten up and left to go upstairs with the twins, Layla and Leon. Erin and I looked at each other, both shrug and then he just goes to sit on the couch as I wait for Mom, who left to get Nevan.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Nevan in hand, mom hands the guitar-like weapon to me. I was grinning widely as I take Nevan carefully in my hands. Glove hand stroke the purplish colored Guitar that was Nevan, I could hear her hum softly as if in approvable to my touch. My lips warm up to a smirk as I then slip her onto my back as I glance up to Mom, only to find homemade Lunch in a bag.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“-!? Homemade Lunch Mom?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I question as my mom nod her head, taking the bag into my hands before winking at mom, though I fail to notice she brush her hand through my hair to force my ears down into my hair. I gave a whine mew before ensuring my tail was pushed into my pants. I could feel Erin was secretly laughing to himself as mom was done petting my ears against my white locks.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Be safe, my son.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Mom then leans down a bit and place a kiss on the pale skin of my forehead. I became a bit flusher, I was nineteen after all! Giving a nod, following with ‘love you’ and out the door I was! Meeting Aunt Lady at the pizza place was going to be a bit difficulty with how fast cars seem to be going and made even harder with how many peeps were moving through the streets. Scanning for any opening before spotting one, slipping right into the large group of peeps as I head west. Slipping pass more individuals, I finally gotten 12 blocks away from the shop westward, and slip out of the group to go north. Everything seem to work out swell, a few bumps but nothing to make it noticeable I wasn’t human. It was a bit too quiet outside of the norm, as I brush my fingers though my snowy-colored hair, Nevan had spoken.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Dominic dear, I don’t think we’re alone. It isn’t friendly either~”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">She hum into my thoughts, it was a good thing I can only hear her. Letting out a sigh, I swing her off my back and hold her like a guitar.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I guess we’ll just have to give them a show, eh?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I replied to her as I turn slightly around to look behind me. It explained why the street was a bit empty, but I’ve also notice that the area around me had slightly changed. I wasn’t the only one that notice that issue when Nevan hum once more, a sign to dodge. I leap back with the strength of my legs out of the way of a scythe hitting the ground, belonging to a demon. Empty eye sockets look up at me before a small orb of red appear. Landing on my feet, I form a toothy grin before suddenly stroke downward on Nevan’s base that cause three bats to form. Not any typical bats either, as electric sparks from the bats before they flutter off and slam their whole beings into the demon. The demon explode into tiny shreds of black fabric before vanishing into a black mist that disappears off into the walls.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Hey! Get back here Pal!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I shouted after the mist only for Nevan to hum for me to ignore it. Letting out a sigh, I nod before smirking, turning around back to where I was heading and start walking once more. Nevan not being so quiet anymore, but I didn’t mind.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“That was such a lovely performance darling. You might have even surpass your father, though in your own charm~”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Chuckling a bit, I rub the tip of my nose with a grin. I felt my ego has been struck by Nevan, though Pops always said she was one for stroking egos in the right way. I stop in front of the pizza place, but it seems very. . . Empty.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Yo Nevan, It’s a bit empty here, didn’t Aunt Lady said to meet her here?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">As I question Nevan, I heard some noises inside the building. Turning towards the doors, they were blasted open by a large creature, extremely build and could even see veins shift as it moves. I’ve seen demons, and I mean, I’ve seen demons. No words nor images that I’ve seen could tell me how different nor unfamiliar this huge brute was. I whip out Nevan, gently tapping the edge of her guitar shape.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   “How much ya wanna bet this mission involve some person or thing creating their own freaks of natures?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   “I say I’ll agree with you Darling~ Best we get this over with before your father’s lady friend ruins your fun~”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   That just stroke my Ego even more as a grin form widely on my face.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   “Ya got yourself a date Nevan~”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   With that said, I start running towards the brute, carefully but quickly stroke down the guitar base three times, one after another, sending out three electric bats with each stroke towards the brute. Sounds like music to my ears as Nevan hums, the brute goes to swing down its massive arm for the only result being that I slip pass with a spin, going down on my knees and strokes down the strings as suddenly I was swallow up by electricity raining down around me and Nevan. The brute roar in pain as it sparks here and there, unable to tell I had gotten behind it with Nevan in a more Axe appearance of the guitar, leaping up and slashing downwards on the back of the brute, causing it to roar once more in pain till it thrashes around, hitting me with its elbow. Resulting an impact to a wall, which I just let out a slightly pain laugh.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   The brute falls down as black blood expands from its body, well I at least killed it. Bracing myself for peeling the bruise body out of the wall, landing on my feet before stretching. Popping sounds could be heard.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   “Jeez, what a work out.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   “Darling, are you alright? You’ve seen to taken that blow quite hard.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   “Eh, I’m fine Nevan. Doesn’t hurt compared to the wall.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   I chuckle a bit at what I said, placing Nevan on my back as I go over to the body. I kneel down and go to touch the brute only for it to suddenly shred into black fabric and go into a black mist before disappearing.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   “Damn it… Not again”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   A growl escaped my throat, brushing a hand through my snowy-hair once more as my ears twitched under the locks. Best I figure out what is going on, why no one was around and find out where Aunt Lady was at.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   After searching the dinning part of the pizza place, I’ve confirm that my surroundings are brightly colored compare to when I had originally walked the street from Home. Nevan also suggested that’s why the demons are a bit different from what I’ve heard from pops. Aunt Lady wasn’t anywhere to be seen either, though it could be because she is in a different plane, or some oddity like that. Letting out a bit of a yawn, I’ve gone to the employee only door. Nothing was off limits to me now since no one was around to stop me. With a bit of struggling, I finally gotten the Employee only door to swing inward, and that’s where things got a bit freaky.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   Unlike what it was meant to be; with some ovens, clearly was meant to be a kitchen, counter, etc. Normal pizza place behind the scenes. Nope, nothing like that, I stood there a bit dumbfounded to find some steps going down into a pitch black nothingness, in my opinion.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   “Eeeeh, Nevan… Clearly we’re not in Limbo City anymore”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">   Nevan only hum in response, she must be as dumbfounded as I was with this whole thing. So, I have the options weighted in my hands. I either go into Hell-knows where down the steps or I find another way out. Muttering to myself I was about to take a step down before hearing someone’s voice, a grip on my shoulder and getting yank back like some ragedoll. <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Staring up at the ceiling, noises weave themselves through my ears as I blink once and awhile. I was trying to figure out what just happened before seeing someone lean over me. That someone was a female with blue and red eyes, black hair and a clear scar over her nose. Yep, that was Aunt Lady alright.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Good thing I stop you before you gone too far."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I felt that a lecture might happen after we get out. She offer a hand to me, which I took into my own hand and she help me up onto the feet. I rub the back of my head.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Sorry about that Aunt. Thanks for stopping me."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Ah, no need to thank me. It's all new to me as well."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">A bit relief that I wasn't the only one who didn't understand what was going on, I go to ask her something but was cut off.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"How about we get out of this place and go somewhere a bit more private?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I blinked, but nod as she goes to the entrance of the pizza place that lead outside. I didn't notice lot of eyes were staring at us, though I pay no mind as I go after Lady. She open the door and I walked out into the open world. My ears were filled with city noises once more as I glance up to Aunt Lady, her eyes were always weird to me. Blue and red, I found it very interesting truly, though Aunt Lady did look back at me and smile slightly.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"You've grown since I last saw you, you sure take after your father."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I took that as a compliment, Aunt Lady wasn't one for compliments, so it was a bit new. I could feel a grin form on my lips while I nod in agreement with her.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Let’s just hope you don’t become in debt like him.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I felt that being somewhat of a tease, but I knew Aunt Lady also meant that I shouldn’t take in pop’s debt. I could never really understand how he got into so much debt so quick and still be in business.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Nah, I won’t get in Debt like Pops! Besides, I haven’t owe anyone anything yet~”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I could feel my Aunt giving me a look as my eyes close while I place my hands behind my head, I knew Nevan was being quiet now.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“So, Aunt, where are we going?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Having open one eye to look over to Aunt Lady, she then pointed to a Warehouse. I then notice we had just walked to the Warehouse district of the city without even acknowledging my surrounding having changed. We’ve gotten into the house, where I saw a female as tall as pops with blonde hair and a very familiar face.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Aunt Trish?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Now both aunts were involved, and this is where I knew something has seriously gone down if they were hoping for pops over me. My eyes scan around the abandoned warehouse before resting on Aunt Trish and Aunt Lady once more as they seem to be whispering among themselves. I felt my ears flick and my hearing kick in.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“ <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Shouldn’t we wait till Dante returns? I’m not sure his Son is ready for such… Changes, Lady. <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“ <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">You’re giving the kid less credit than he deserves, He got stuck into this thing called Limbo, His more than ready! He is Dante’s son after all. <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Aunt Trish seem to sigh. Aunt Lady seem to know something that I didn’t know about me, but Aunt Trish and Lady settled on something.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Dominic, come on over.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Lady gives me a grin as she called me over, which I gladly go over to my Aunts. Aunt Lady ruffle my white hair while Aunt Trish cross her arms and smiles a tiny bit. These two were planning something, and I was going to be the <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">test subject <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> so to say.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Dominic, you’ve been in this plane called Limbo?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I nod, carefully removing Aunt Lady’s hand from my hair.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Yea, Can’t see anybody and I’ve been attacked by demons that when Defeated, become shreds of Black Fabric that then disappeared into a black mist that leaves. I knew their not dead, which really dampers my luck of defeating them.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Aunt Trish blinked at me, this must be new news to her if she didn’t experience the same issue I’ve experience. Aunt Lady nod her head once I glance to her, I could note she was pondering this situation.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Look, Aunts. Is this Limbo thingy new or what? Cause I don’t like being pulled from my home ‘plane’ to dance with a much of non-killable demons in some plane that look like home with some funky colors.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Aunt Lady couldn’t help but let out a laugh as Aunt Trish stares at me, which a sigh escape her lips and shakes her head. Aunt Lady finishes laughing as she smiles.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Great Dominic; that is a great way to explain your first time in Limbo. Yes, Dominic, Limbo is a new thing that has appeared. I and your Aunt, Trish, was hoping Dante was home to help us with this confusion. Yet, seem like you’re the next best person in your father’s line of work.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Blinking, a toothy grin forms from my lips at those words. Next Best person, eh? What about Mom? She was just as strong as Pops last I check. Yet, I wasn’t going to complain about this. I brush my fingers though my white bangs and brush them back quickly before they reposition over my face, my eyelids halfway close.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Alright, what ya want?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I could see the look on my second Aunt, if it wasn’t for the fact that she place sunglasses over her eyes, Aunt Lady was giving me a grin as she place a hand on my right shoulder.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Dominic, this will be a tough mission, so understand you might be away from your family. We need to learn what this Limbo thing is, where those gates lead to and what problems we might be facing.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I life a white eyebrow up while the other was leaning further on my other eye. What did she mean by gates? Was it that void I found at the end of those steps? A smirk appear though, I love a sense of challenge.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“A tough mission, eh? I enjoy getting missions AND a challenge.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I could feel lady laugh a bit while Aunt Trish places a hand on my left shoulder. I couldn’t tell if they're mocking me or enjoying my company. Yet, I grin as I felt welcome as a Replacement for Pops.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Maybe we can figure out where your father is while doing these, Mm?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I glance to Aunt Trish, maybe we can find pops and figure out why he hasn’t return in three years. Instead of my grin, a warm smile appeared.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Mom would like that, wouldn’t she?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Aunt Lady and Trish both nod in agreement to my statement, before both of them ruffle my white hair and expose my white ears.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Nyaaaahhhh!!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Damn these two! Not my hair AND ears!

<span style="font-size:32px;font-family:Questrial;color:#0d5772;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Chapter 3
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Calligraffitti;color:#1cade4;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Secrets. . . And unwanted memories. ..

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The sounds of motorcycle running, and the night wind blowing by was somewhat music to my ears at they were press against my white hair, my back press against Aunt Lady’s back as she was driving the motorcycle to our mission location. It was somewhere near the docks so to say, where Pops’ favorite parlor was with his Strawberry sundae. Didn’t help that the place was forcible close and now is abandoned due to Pops’ disappearance.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Aunt skid the motorcycle to a stop, it vrooms a bit more before being parked and turn off. I open my eyes partly as I glance around the abandoned area around me and Aunt Lady.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Well, Dominic, we’re here.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I can see that, but why nighttime?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I had to ask, not afraid of the dark or anything, but I knew the crime rate around here has completely changed. The highest rates of crime of the area was during nighttime. I glance up to the sky to see a full moon, so maybe the moonlight might limit what crimes we may come across.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“It’s an ideal time in my opinion, a high chance of getting suck into limbo?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We both knew that was simply a guess, and I was going to be the <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">test subject <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> to test that theory. I shrug, swinging my legs down as I get off the motorcycle. Pity my cat nap had to wait, so hopefully on the way back home I can get that cat nap. Aunt Lady gotten off her motorcycle as well, setting the helmet that goes with the motorcycle on one of the handles. I had to make a guess someone might run off with Aunt’s motorcycle one of these times, and it wasn’t going to be pretty if they do.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Once we were all ready to go, leaving the Motorcycle behind, Aunt leads me up to the front steps of the place. She pulled out some keys she ended up borrowing for this little experiment followed by a lie that pretty much gone like <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">‘ Demons pop up in the area, someone might be using the place as a ritual.’ <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> Which <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">really <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> means, to my knowledge. <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">‘We’re going to kick up some dust, cause enough problems to see if there is a more likely chance of getting suck into an unknown-dimension-plane-full-of-nonkillable-demons at night on a full moon, please give us keys.’ <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Or, well, that’s how I translated it anyway.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Once the doors swing inward, I took in the surrounding area, and damn. The place was a mess, looked like a fight broke out with broken bottles, chairs, one of the booths were damaged, and glass just line the floors minus in front of the front door and the employee only entrance. Aunt Lady made a whistle noise, clearly she was quite impression with the leftover condition of the place.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Once we were done taking in the sights of the place, we both walked into the parlor. Aunt Lady close the door behind us as I walk up to the counter with some of the, still intact, stools in front of it. I brush my hand on one of the stool sits, one I considered to be my sit every time Pops and I gone to get strawberry sundaes together, sometimes Erin came along, though rarely. I brush the top of the stool clean of broken glass, dust, and many other things that might have lay on it. I then sit on the stool, placing my arms on the counter itself, it did bring back some enjoyable memories when I was younger. I felt Aunt Lady look at the back of my head, before she came over to me and brush the stool next to me clean, sitting down.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I figure I at least bring you here one last time.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I glance to Aunt Lady a bit confuse, bring me here one last time? Was that her real plan or was that part of the plan. I then shrug and glance at where all the glass cups used to be.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I know how much you and Dante enjoy this place, it’s sad it gone down once Dante left.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“True…” I couldn’t really make a comment about that, closing my eyes before feeling Aunt’s hand on my right shoulder. I open my eyes as my cat ears twitched.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“While we’re at it, Dominic. I’ve never really seen you with your siblings most of the time. I’ve known only pieces of it from your father.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I give a half-hearted chuckle. Ooooh, am I going to regret ever remembering some of these memories.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“You really want to know, Aunt? Me, Erin and Marie don’t exactly get along that well, while Rosavell, Layla and Leon normally do their own things around mom.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I glance over to Aunt Lady, to see her head slightly tilt. This was going to be a long night, and I’m guessing since we’re waiting for limbo to do stuff, why not storytelling time. I closed my eyes as I started thinking.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I remember you didn’t really hang out with pops when all six of us were only three years old. Though, those times were a bit different back then. Erin and I gotten a long pretty well, while Marie sis gone to ensure the safety of our younger three siblings. It’s <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">funny <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. . . Looking back on it, Erin and I always had each other’s back, slept together, and defended each other from everything that try to harm one or the other. Taking turns in being the protector of the family and following around Pops here and there. We’ve been almost unbreakable till we’ve became eight years old… Something deep happen between that bond we had held so deeply…”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I had closed my eyes, before opening them slightly to looks over at Aunt Lady. My mind remembers it now, how much the two of us ran around playing pretend. We wanted to be the Devil Partners for Devil May Cry, we’ve always wanted to work together. Yet. . . Somewhere, that silver line became dull and breakable. It didn’t even crack, it exploded into millions of unfixable shards that pierced only my heart psychology, could even be said that I didn’t handle such damage in a manner that might be able to be repairable… Yet, I don’t completely remember what cause such a blowout.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Aunt Lady stares at me, before giving an almost pity frown. She then move her hand that was on my shoulder to my forehead, which cause me to give her a questioning look towards her.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“You seem tired, honestly. Maybe I can set everything up and you can sleep, how about that?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Quick change of topic and something about sleeping? Yea, my brain had slightly shut off when I first thought about having a catnap after all of this, but me sleeping right now?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Aunt, I thought I needed to be awake for this part.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I swear Aunt Lady, if you lie to me- “That part of the mission hasn’t come through yet, Dominic. Trust me.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">She was my aunt, so trusting her shouldn’t be <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">too <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> bad, besides, I get to sleep. I stood up from the stool, letting out a yawn to show how tired I was. I noted Aunt Lady giving a bit of a chuckle before going off. Question, where am I sleeping?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Aunt!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Yes?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Where shall I be sleeping?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“The floor will do, the floor without shards that is.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Why not the booth?” I was confuse in why it <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">had <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> to be the floor, one of the booths weren’t broken and looked more comfortable than the floor.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“It could be unstable, Dominic.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Unstable? Looks fine to me as I glance to the booth. Though, it could be that the wood is rotten… I gave an exhale sigh and gone to a clear floor from any form of damage. I then kneel down, before sitting my butt down. Jeeez! How uncomfortable was this floor! I grumble a bit, before laying down completely on my back with my hands behind my head.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Comfortable yet?” My aunt was asking me if it is <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">comfortable yet

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Hell no, it ain’t comfortable! Though, might be worse if I was laying on glass!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I could hear her chuckle, making a bit of a comment about how I was like pops. Though, my brain finally shut down and my eyes close. I heard some faint words, but I couldn’t understand them… Sounded like Nevan trying to tell me something, but it could have been Aunt Lady for all I know.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Voices swirl… I hardly recognize these voices, though they weren’t Nevan or Aunt Lady’s… My eyes flutter open, staring at a familiar ceiling…

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Devil May Cry shop <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">; What was I doing back home? Wasn’t I with Aunt Lady? I then noted I was laying on the floor, yet the place looked a bit trashed… Why was it trashed? Sitting up, I grumble as I noted pain, and I mean <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">pain <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. Out of habit, I place my right hand on my left hip, and I felt something warm… Liquid-like. That was when I glance over to see red. Blood!?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I lift my right hand to the sight of my widen eyes, I was shocked. Dismay, why was I bleeding? When I slept, did Aunt Lady and I get attacked? If that was the case, why didn’t I wake up right away?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Dominic… Dooommiiinniiiiic…

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I jumped a bit at the voices, they were calling my name. Multiply voices chanting it as if nudging me to do something. What did they want? I finally gotten to my feet, noting how the Shop didn’t look the same… It was more familiar to when I was five.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Who’s there?” I called out, scanning around my surrounding, no one was around…

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Dominic, it’s a nightmare. You need to wake up Dominic!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I didn’t understand, A nightmare? Wait, this sounded like Erin this time. Was Erin here!? Was my little bro here with me? Where was he?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Erin!? What do you mean a Nightmare!?” I glance to the front door of the shop, making my way to it to open it. Yet I heard something behind me, turning around quickly with my reflexes thanks to being a Nekad. Yet, I felt a sharp pain to the gut, my eyes widen as they glance down to see a scythe-like weapon having stabbed into me… Was this a Pride Demon? I only knew the Seven sin demons by Pops stories, never really gone up against one. My eyes finally glance up to see who stab me, or what stab me. Up close, face to face, was one of the seven sin demons… Was this the Pride demon? Or Lust Demon? Or maybe Sloth…? No… It was a Pride demon, I could somewhat make out the face of this demon.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Yo-you… Pesk…” I couldn’t believe it, I was standing here, stabbed by a Pride demon! Pops told me how weak they were, if it had been a Lust or Sloth demon, I would have a run for my money. But, this was a pride demon! . . . Yet, Didn’t the seven sin demons vanished when Uncle gone to hell? This only meant that… I was in limbo, in my own sleep.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">My left hand reach out and tighten into a fist as I punched the Pride demon in the face. I felt the scythe rip out of the gut as I sent the demon flying. The action caused me to double over somewhat, coughing up some blood before only my breathing could be heard. My left ear flicked.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Wake up… You can’t fight them here, you can’t think of the past right now… Not right now, that is.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">A groan escaped my lips, trying to force myself awake right now… It was all a dream, A nightmare as I’ve heard… Yet, I noted a frighten power suddenly spark up, causing my eyes to open widen as I glance to the door to see black leaking through the cracks of the front door.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“The… Hell!?” This caused me to quickly back away from the door, covering what wounds I did have. Clearly I wasn’t healing from the damage, so my dream isn’t completely my own.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">‘Soo…I meet a different face. That spawn of Sparda wasn’t joking when he meant I would have to say hello to his offspring.’

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The door started to force open, I watched with some horror, my whole body stiff and felt the very warmth of my body dimming. What monster had such powers to cause even me to fear!? I narrowed my eyes, clearly annoyed at my trembling figure as I was now forcing myself to stand up. That voice sounded like it was filled of poison…

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">‘No response? Perfect for me, spawn of a spawn of Sparda. However, I am curious in how you could ever hopes to defeat me… When clearly, you are weaker than your own Father.’

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">This just pissed me off, Weaker than my own Pops!? I bare my teeth, feeling how tighten my teeth were clench together as I glare daggers at the doorway as it was being forced open. There, I saw three red eyes and I noticed who was speaking to me. <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Prince of Darkness!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Prince of Darkness was speaking to me, in my own dream, and making it a living hell right now!? Were we that close for him to talk to me!? Did he gets pops or something? Why was this happening!?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Hmph,” I then smirk, I couldn’t believe that I would let myself show fear to the likes of him. Lifting my left hand, I then point at the Darkness as I slyly grin. “I can’t believe it’s a rival of my old Pops! Here I am, thinking you were some unknown power and yet it’s just you, three eyes!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I could see the three red eyes glare daggers at me, which I took as some success on my taunting side. I tighten my left fist, smirking.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Look here Pal, I got a date with my Aunt that I need to finish up. If I have to defeat ya to make this quicker, then I guess a Dance will have to sufficient, don’t you agree?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">‘Talk big for a weakling! I should have expected you wouldn’t go down easily, though I won’t give you the chance you seek to defeat me. You only have your natural weapons to fight me, weakling! Ha!’

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Chuckling, I close both hands into fist as I smirks. He was going to regret that choice real quick! I could see how confuse he was when I didn’t see at all upset about that. With a shift to my footing, I did something similar to a stringer that Pop’s rebellion could do.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">BAM!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">My fist met the three eyes’ face, slamming him further into his own darkness, I brush my hands as I glance to him from the side of my eyes.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Should do some research on pops kids before assuming, ya know! The beauty of being able to do hand to hand combat is not far from my choices of weapon!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I heard him growl, glaring at me.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">‘You’ll regret that! I will make you suffer your worse dreams, nightmares! I know what you fear! Wretched weakling! I will make you <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">relive <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">your memories!!’

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I felt my body tense, it stiffen as I stare at the Darkness with widen eyes. He couldn’t do that, and if he could, he would rather do something worse than make me relive <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">those times <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">That dark chuckle shiver through my body, this was my only chance.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Look pal, I think it’s time to shut the door.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">‘What!? How Dar-’

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">With that, I swing my foot behind the door before kicking it closed, making it shut tighter. Pain remind itself to me once I was all done, gripping my wounds as my body finally fallen on the floor. I needed to wake up. ..

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">To wake up. ..

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;text-align: right;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-Flashback

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It was a lovely day, blue skies overlooking me and my Little bro, Erin. Playing tag outside of the shop since no one was out and I behaved well enough. I was the victim of this game of tag with brother, yet I had the speed over him.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Brother Domi! That isn’t fair! Slow Down!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I slow down enough for Erin to somewhat reach me. “Sorry about that Little Bro! I’ll keep in mind next time!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Flashing a grin to him, he giggles as he goes to touch my shoulder but it paused as I had gotten further from him. Why did he stop, I turn around as I slow to a stop.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Little Bro?-”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Domi! Watch out!!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I was confuse in why my little bro said that, yet It was too late as I heard the noises of a car.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Huh-?!” That’s all I got to say, before extreme pain and silences overtook me. I saw ground, sky, ground, sky, ground, and finally… Sky, eyelids halfway closing as I felt the warmth escaping my body…

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I heard crying from the others, Ma calling out to me, and the footsteps that were little bro. His words at first, I didn’t hear, but now…

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Domi *hic* Why didn’t you move? Didn’t you trust me!? Domi! *hics* Stay here! I’ll protect you from the dark!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;text-align: right;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-End of Flashback

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The air was cold, chilling my body to the bone. How long have I’ve been out? Why was it cold? It felt almost winter with this kind of chills. These eyelids of mine finally open up to stare at the ceiling of the Parlor I remember sleeping in. Well, I’m back… I guess?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">My body was stiff, having just sat up. I noticed I was in a circle with some strange demonic markings and glance around a bit more, noticing outside the parlor seem like some Winterland gone wrong. This was like a Fairy tale turn into a horror story, Jeez!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Grunting, my whole body was sore as I finally stood up; I was so getting Aunt Lady for this shit! Honestly, if I had known she wanted me to sleep so she could <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">send <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> me into limbo in this fashion, I wouldn’t have agreed to take a nap in the first place! Yet, I remember that nightmare and…

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">That Flashback, no wonder I didn’t know anything. I was hit by a <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">car <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> for goodness sakes! Letting out a groan, I run my fingers though my white bangs that once rest over my face slightly. I was <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">alone <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Alegreya Sans';color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> however, meaning I’m in limbo still. I reach over my arm to find Nevan still on my back; good, I was going to be concern if she didn’t come with me. It looks like there is more to Limbo than I thought, and there was no going back.