__________________________________________________________________________________ /////////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////////////////////////////// ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ _______________ ___ _____ _____________________________ / / /ŻŻ| / | / ___/ /###########################/#\ /____________ / / | / /| | / / /#/ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ/#/[]/ / / / /| | / / | |/ / /#/ _____________________/#/##/ / / / /_| | / / | / /#/__/######################/##/ / / / ___ | /_/ |__/ /#####______________________/##/ / / / / | | /###########################/##/ / / / / | |_____________ /#/Ż/#/_/ /#/################\#/ / / /_/ |_______________/ /#/ /#/___/#/ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ / /___________________________ /#/_/#/\###\/ / "Devils May Cry" / /#####/#/ŻŻŻŻ / By Slayer Z / \ŻŻŻŻŻ\/ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ŻŻŻŻŻŻ __________________________________________________________________________________ /////////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////////////////////////////// ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Today was a day that had gone totally insane. The underworld had chosen the wrong time to invade earth, catching the young defenders of the precious planet off guard. Five young warriors, all athletic and brave, fearlessly defended the earth at times of crisis. This was one of those times, the underworld had unleashed a whole undead army at each of the warriors location. But we focus this little war on one of the particular heroes... _________________________________________________ |\-----------------------------------------------/| | |ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ[_]ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ| | | | Agent Info: ||| Weapons Of Choice: | | | | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ||| ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ | | | | Name: Zan ||| Twin Pistols (.45) | | | | Age: 19 ||| Straight Katana | | | | Height: 5'11" ||| Hunting Dagger | | | | Weight: 185 lbs. ||| Martial Arts | | | |_ \_/ _| | | |>]==================[#]====================[<| | | |Ż Ż Ż| | | | Appearance: Dark Blonde Hair | | | | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Blue Jeans | | | | Black Shirt | | | | Brown Overcoat | | | | Black Boots | | | | Black Gloves | | | |_____________________________________________| | |/-----------------------------------------------\| ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Zan was busy trying to fend off the demons that had invaded his home. An army of gigantic, undead birds had swarmed the sky's above his trailer. The monstrous birds were an as big as him and weighed at least three times as much as he did. They are completely gray with abnormal shaped heads and bodies. The young man looked up, three birds had literally dropped their wings, took a nose dive and were headed straight for him. Without hesitation, Zan slid both of his .45s against his ammo belt, two clips of ammunition popped out from the side. He slammed both his guns onto the clips, and slid the tops of the pistols together to load them. He aimed up and after 6 quick shots, he dropped his hands to the side of him and looked straight ahead. All three birds had slammed into the ground on opposite sides of the young man. The other bird didn't react kindly to this... another one had dropped and began to flap it's wings violently at Zan, making him fly back against his fence that surrounded his house. He lifted his guns and fired a couple of shots off into its chest, making it draw back some. He slammed his guns into their holsters and drew his katana. He ran quickly to the bird and sliced it in half at the stomach. He slid his katana back into his sheath. "What the... there seems there's more now then there was," Zan said to himself as he looked up into the sky. It was hard to tell it was broad daylight because of all the swarming demon birds. "Where are they coming from?" He unhoisted his pistols and spun them around. The young gunslinger held them up and blindly shot whatever he could down from the sky with the remaining ammo in the current clips he was using. Five more birds dropped down from the sky. Zan quickly reloaded his pistols and started firing; they walked closer and closer to him. He kept walking back to avoid being attacked. When three of the birds dropped, Zan noticed a strange glowing coming from under the connecting building to his home. Quick lights of dark red flashes from under the trailer... "What the..." Zan wondered as he took down the final bird with a slash of his sword. He kept himself from firing once again and just let the demonic birds fly above him. He ran over and crawled under his trailer... then he noticed a strange hole in the ground that was slightly glowing. "What the hell! The underworld's gate?!" Zan said. "So THATS how they're getting here!" He was right. The flashes of light were when more birds came from the underworld. There were thousands of birds swarming the skies now. Just then, Zan heard the sound of another gun going off... a shotgun. He crawled out from under his trailer and to his surprise... his mother was standing at the front door firing a shotgun at the gigantic birds. Zan's mother frequently came to visit him and always tried to help him in battle Hell's forces when the time came. "Mom go back inside!" Zan yelled to her. "Don't worry, dear! I got em!" She yelled back. Zan's mother jumped off the porch and on the ground next to him. She too had seen the light from under the trailer. "Zan... what's that?" she asked. "Wait Mom! Don't go over there!" he said. But knowing mothers, they never listen to their expert sons. She went under the house and for some reason; the gate seems to suck her right in. "What the...!" Zan said as the portal devoured his mother. It was strange to him how the portal didn't come alive when he was around it. The ground started to shake... almost like a small earthquake, but not quite. Zan jumped onto his porch, blowing away a few more birds as they came down to attack him. From the porch, he grabbed on to the edge of the roof and pulled himself onto it. The rumbling only seemed to get worse, violently shaking the entire area only after a few minutes. Four birds landed in front of him, he began to shoot and them while jumping back to avoid their undead beaks and claws. Unexpectedly, two more birds landed behind him. "Damnit, there's no end to this..." Zan thought to himself. Out of breath from all the running and jumping he was doing, he slumped to the ground completely out of stamina. While still firing at the birds, the rumbling continued. This time, however, the whole ground seemed to transform into a burning, deadly sea of hot molten lava. The birds jumped back from where Zan was and began to fly off. The house was suddenly sinking into the death pool. Zan was lost; without thinking, he jumped up and ran to grab hold of an undead bird. He snagged hold of its foot just as it took off into the rest of the flock. Zan looked down and saw that the bird was rising very quickly and had soon joined the rest of the flock. He fought hard not to let go and fall what seemed like miles down, but he pulled and tugged some until he finally crawled up onto the back of the disgusting bird. The other birds that he ran across found the human on the back of their comrade quite fun, as they began to attack him from up in the air. At first, Zan had to use one hand to hang on and another to knock them away. After frustration and several bites, Zan squeezed as tight as he could with his legs and pulled out his trusty pistols. He pulled off a few shots, sending birds straight to the ground, and dying (again). The ground was covered for miles with lava, even as high as Zan was he could see no ground but lots and lots of molten lava and nothing more. "They've must've taken over... damnit!" Zan said frustratingly. Has it happened? Has evil taken over the earth? What has happened to all of Zan's other allies? The answer to that... is that the other four were already dead. He was the only one left strong enough to comprehend with this whole undead army, and he didn't even know it. From thinking too much on wha happened to his allies, a random bird came and knocked Zan off the one he was on. He fell a couple of yards but landed with an "Oof" on another bird that was flying in the opposite direction of the last one. The flock of birds hadn't gotten any thinner; Zan still couldn't see in front of him. He was amazed that no bird slammed into him because of how fast he was going. Zan got to thinking; holstering his guns, he then grabbed the huge bird's head and pulled it up as hard as he could. This caused its body to fling higher up into the air, which Zan had to hang on for dear life not to fall. The bird somehow completely flipped backwards causing Zan to fall back on it's body... he took the little time he had and pushed it's head down, which in return caused it's whole body to take a nose dive straight into the ground... in this case, the molten lava. "Ahh!" Zan clearly stated as he pulled up and headed back into the flock, only a little lower then all the other birds were flying at. He started looking around. "The only way to completely kill these birds was to send them back to the underworld... but the lava is covering the gate. Bummer." Zan thought. All he could do was circle around with the bird he was on and look at the lava gushing up from the ground. Each time he circled around the area, Zan noticed a strange glow from the lava - a dark red spot appearing every now and then at the same point. He thought for a minute. "The gate to the underworld! It has to be!" He said with excitement. "I have to go in there... but how? It's blocked off by lava... I definitely can't just walk to it." He took out one pistol and fired down at the gate. Lava was sent in all directions... he couldn't get in that way. He then got another idea; he hoisted his pistol and took hold of the bird's head. As he controlled its movements through its head, he flew higher up then the rest of the flock. He then took it on a direct nosedive straight for the gate, crashing through a few birds on his way down. He aimed just right as he headed straight for the gate. He made contact with the lava; at the speed he was flying at, the bird incinerated but made a vortex just big enough for Zan to get through. He had done it... he was in the underworld. ~*~*~*~*~*~ PART 2: ~*~*~*~*~*~ The underworld gate was connected to a very large, dark red and empty room. Zan floated down like he was in water. Only he could breathe and move around freely. "Weird..." He thought to himself, floating downward and finally touching a solid surface. He kneeled down, took out his pistol and tapped the ground. "Rock? No.. Stone? It's hard to tell..." He looked around the quiet area. He could hear a small sound. "A... hum? What is that....?" Zan walked forward, with his hands above his eyebrows. It had suddenly got slightly foggy. The humming he heard getting closer and closer. He had his eyes fixed directly ahead of him. Suddenly, a silhouette figured appeared in front of him, slightly visible. He didn't know what it was but he knew that humming was coming from it. When Zan came within about ten feet of the figure, a light shown above it... revealing a little girl with her back turned to him. With waist long blonde hair and wearing a white dress. Zan could see the edges of a small table in front of her. She hummed a pretty hymn while being preoccupied with something. She sounded around six years of age. "Hey..." Zan started, putting his gun away. "What are you doing here, little girl?" The girl ignored him, continuing with what she was doing. "Er... hello? Can you hear me?" He said with a slight grin on his face. He took another step toward her and the girl stopped humming. "Daddy... will you help me?" The little girl said, not moving. "What?" Zan asked. She turned around; Zan jumped back in terror. "WHAT THE HELL?!" The little girl was holding a bloody handsaw in her left hand, while her right hand was missing her pointer and middle finger. Her thumb barely hanging from her hand, swinging from side to side with every movement. They were gushing blood. "Mommy? Will you play dolls with me?" The girl had said in a sweet voice. "Cindy won't play with me." Zan pulled out his pistol and held it at the girl. "Ok.. back away. I know you're not some normal little girl!" "Daddy! Jakkie's being mean to me!" Her voice changing to a grown woman's voice. "PleaSe... KiLL HiM!!!" The little girl's head shot back and her whole body began to morph. Her arms, legs, and chest growing larger, her hair growing shorter. Her skin went from a pale color to a bluish gray. Her white dress morphing into a tight black sit. "I think I will!" The now grown woman shrieked. Zan grinned. "Who are you?" He hoisted his gun and unsheathed his katana. "I am Lana! Mistress of Darkness! It's a real pleasure seeing you again, Zan! It will be a real pleasure killing you!" "Lana? Doesn't sound familiar.. then again I never could tell one hell-spawned bitch from another" Zan remarked, unsheathing his katana. Lana chuckled... "You would be wise as to take that comment back while you can" she said.. readying her claws which sprang out of her fingertips. "Just tell me how to send back this undead army... and maybe I'll let you live." "Then I'll take my chances! ... Mr. Tough Guy! Ja!" Zan only grinned and closed his eyes. He kept his sword straight in front of him.. up in the air with his right hand behind the blade, slightly meditating, his entire body glowed a light aura. The dark assassin prepared for what was about to happen, bracing a foot behind her and pulling and arm up to guard her face. Since her and Zan had fought against each other before, she knew a couple of his moves. Zan's eyes snapped open! "YAH!!" he shouted as he flew with light speed toward Lana, he swung his sword quickly hoping to hit the demonic woman. A loud swoosh echoed throughout the area as Lana gracefully jumped and avoided his attack. Zan turned quickly only to feel a double kick in the face that sent him flying back a few feet onto the ground. He quickly flipped backwards onto his feet with his katana still at hand, he looked at Lana, who had landed swiftly on the ground. Zan chuckled slightly, "Eheh.. Its about time one of you demons could lay a hand on me. I was getting awfully bored." Lana faked a yawn, "Too bad I will be the only one to hurt you, ya?" "Mmhmh.. a warrior with guts... I like that!" Zan said, readying his katana again. "Shutz up and fight!" the dark assassin laughed. Lana took off towards Zan with her hand extended... when she reached him, she arched her other hand to strike. Zan blocked it with his sword and swung his leg around to trip her, she reacted by backflipping out of the way. She then rushed Zan... trying to madly swing and clawing her way through him. The young warrior blocked all of the incoming attacks with his trusty sword. Sparks could be seen and the sound of metal slashing and gashing could be heard, created by the two fighters. As they both advanced and retreated from each other's attacks, they had made enough sparks during the whole brawl to light up and small neighborhood. Zan finally found a small break in Lana's swipes to pull a swift kick to her stomach. Her face fell forward, giving Zan another break to elbow her down to the cement. He then backed away from her, with a slight grin on his face. "Don't you .. DARE turn your back on me!" She yelled, flipping up and charging at Zan again. The calm warrior jumped forward onto his hands right when she struck at him again and then pushed to kick. She once again gracefully dodged his attack... but he landed back on his feet and backflipped, kicking the assassin in the chin.. knocking her off her feet onto the cement again. "Ugh! *cough cough* She sat up and looked at Zan very carefully. "You... win..." She said carefully. "Tell me what I want to know." Zan said, holding his sword up to her throat. "As you wish. There is only one way... but it will cost a life." Lana said. "Then I'll use you... Either way, you WILL die." "Then that is fine, but I cannot in my weakened state. If I rested, then the earth will be destroyed when I came to." "Just tell me how to destroy it..." Zan ordered. "Go forward, There will be a giant sphere... a power source for all evil... destroy it..." "How?" "....With your energy. There is no other way..." Lana said slowly. Zan put away his sword and took out his gun. "May you rest in peace." Zan stated, pointing the gun directly at her head. "..and may god forgive what you have done." He pulled the trigger, with a loud bang, it sent a bullet through her. Her head caved in as she fell over dead. Zan put it away and ran forward. He didn't travel 100 yards before he came across the sphere. It was a large Red sphere that matched the color of the area. He took out his gun and fired a shot into it, with no effect. Then he ran up to it and sliced it, it broke his sword in half. He dropped it to the floor and looked down. "I guess this is it..." Zan thought. "For the safety of the earth, I will destroy the underworld. Even at the cost of my life." He unstrapped his sheath and dropped it to the floor, as well as his pistols. He placed his hands on the sphere, immediately feeling the sphere's energy discharge go through his body. He closed his eyes and gathered the chi energy in his body. He chanted his final words as he gathered. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "We have long lived to protect the planet. Zach, Sakuza, Jewel, and Kat... may you all rest in peace... my friends..." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ At this.. he sent his energy into the sphere, which immediately exploded, killing Zan. The destruction of the sphere completely annihilated the evil armies that plagued the earth at the beginning of the day. The lava disappeared, and the birds dissolved in midair. The evil was destroyed... at the cost of the elite special forces' lives. - The End - ************* * Prologue: * ************* What happened after that? The earth was left severely damaged after the attack, but was saved. The heroic actions of the brave young people that gave their lives will never be forgotten. Amen. __________________________________________________________________________________ /////////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ ################################################################################## \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////////////////////////////// ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ