Eternal Dance, a dark legend...(PM to join)

[Hikari]

Intro

In the big city people go about their business. This city has many stories,
but perhaps the most intriging of all is the story of a demon slayer and
the half demon assassin sent to kill her. They say to understand anything
you must start from the beginning. I'm sad to say the beginning of this
story takes place when a 5 year old girl saw the unimaginable...

Miko Woke from her bed hearing some strange noises coming from the living room. "Mommy?" What's that noise? "Mommy?" She walked down the small corridor covered in shadow, looking as curious as any child her age would. Her eyes grew wide as she saw her mother on the floor surrounded by blood. She ran to her mother's side and began to shake her mom. "Mommy wake up!" She shook her harder but her mother's eyes didn't open. Miko gasped and began to cry. Across the room was her father's mangled body. For the first time in her life she felt completely alone. She never noticed that her night gown was getting soaked with her mother's blood, all she could do was hug her mother's motionless body. A crackled laughter interrupted the silence. "Look a lost puppy, we should return her to her parents." "Indeed, it would be cruel to let her suffer without her parents." "Her mother had to go no matter what.. She was the one that the prophesy spoke of." Miko got to her feet, with the most expressionless face you'd ever seen... "Don't worry little doll. You won't feel a thing.." He raised a sword and began lowering it with great force. Many people question what happened next. It wasn't explainable to your average person no matter how you put it. Half an hour after the whole incident started, a team of police and firefighters found young Miko still alive in the midst of the bodies of her parents and a large hole that went from her living room straight through the otherside of the apartment complex. Nobody could explain what had happened. Some say it looked like a large rocket from one of those cartoons had gone straight through everything in it's path. Even if one those rockets in the cartoons existed it would still be illogical that one was used. One would have had to gone clean through one side of the apartment then all the way through, but the wall opposite the one with the hole was completely intact. None of it made sense. When asked what happened, young Miko simply replied, "The bad people wouldn't leave so I made them..."

Characters

Dante - is an arrogant badass who likes to toy with his prey. His weapon of choice is the katana. He considers himself to be the best at what he does which makes him overconfident at first. No one knows that he isn't a full demon. He becomes completely human when sunlight touches his skin and is only a demon at night. He does have a softer side but not many have ever seen it. THIS ROLE HAS BEEN FILLED...

Miko- A demon slayer by night and goes through the motions each day at her job at a small book store. She is very attractive but isn't usually interested in dating anyone. She is awesome in combat and is excellent at what she does.. Mystery especially surrounds the incident of her parents deaths. She doesn't discuss it much, but it appears to be her motivation to slay problem demons at night. She mostly keeps to herself and has one friend (Sophie). I will be playing Miko...

Sophie- The friend of Miko, who often worries about her. She's a girl who would be very pretty, if she paid more attention to her looks. Her growing curiousity about what miko may be doing at night will eventually get her into trouble.

James- The shifty eyed guy who miko goes to when she needs information. He likes to play on words and does not always give a straight answer about anything... He tends to hit anything human, female, and even slightly attractive. Know one knows how he knows what he knows but will all eventually find out. (much room for elaboration here)

Random Demons- We need several demons with personal agendas. One will eventually try to assume power which will eventually result in a hopefully climactic ending.

There is room for different characters to be added.
pm me if you have an idea for a character or want to try out for one of the existing charcters. There is much room for related storylines and things of that nature. Character elaboration is encouraged and there is no actual direction for this to go at the moment. We'll figure it out as we go along...

 

[Hikari]

Miko stood on the rooftop of the apartment building in which she lived. The sky was charcoal black. It was the perfect kind of night for someone who didn't want to be seen. No one could tell her identity anyway from the clothing she wore and facial covering she wore, leaving only opening for sight. She jumped from one building to another with cat-like grace and reflexes. She was heading about two miles away. A group of demons responsible for many transactions on the black market would be meeting in an abandoned apartment building there. She would have to pay them a visit. She burst through the door of the room they were in. She had barely broken a sweat taking down the pathetic guards that were protecting the entrance. The demons in the room looked at her in shock as she took them all down in under ten minutes. They were weaker than what she was used to fighting. She was starting to grow bored with the lack of skilled opponents. Even though she wasn't doing this all for fun, she enjoyed the occasional challenge. She would be home early tonight which pissed her off. All of this planning to take down this group had been centered around her hope for it to be an hour long full out battle. Now it was just complete disappointment. She slipped out the window and onto the fire escape, then onto the one across the way and so on. She made it half way home then saw a dark figure on the next building as if waiting for her.

 

[amon_darknight]

Dante-
White hair, falling to about his lower back, usually keeps it tied in a pony tail.
Gold eyes, turns white at night
Wears glasses
Medium build, not buff, but very defined
5'8" 180lbs

Wears normal everyday clothes, usually a white button up shirt and jeans, or a jeans and a band shirt, what ever he feels like, but at night, he wears his long flowing black cloak with various armor pieces on him, a buckler strapped to his left arm, half a breast plate with chains and belts over them, all painted black and red.

He has many tribal tattoos over his body, tribal flames, tribal runes, and japanese characters all over. For every main demon his kills he gets a new tattoo. Has scars all over his body as well, from the battles he gets into, but the tattoos make it hard to see.

IC

Dante

He strolls across the rooftops watching a figure clad in armor and he only shakes his head.

“Foolish hunter, trying to arouse the big cheese so it will kill the hunter… hmm, oh what do I care, less work and more payoff for me.”

He smiled as he watched the hunter move and started to pace the hunter, staying a good 30 feet in front and finally after a good distance ahead he stood and watched as the hunter looked up to him, a good hunter this one must have been to notice him. All Dante did was chuckle a bit and gave the hunter the bird. He was a bit pisssed off, he wanted those demons that the hunter stole from him, but it was open game and Dante was there a minute to late as he already killed 3 others. Dante just stood there and watched the hunter, making sure to make eye contact. The hunter could see his lips move, but he spoke not loud enough.

“Stay out of my fun, those demons were mine. Chump.


He than takes a step back and shakes his head as he looks around his surroundings.

 

[Hikari]

She barely looked at him in detail. All she saw was someone in her way and quickly went by him on the building ignoring him like he was nothing. Continuing her journey home she felt him following her path right on her tail.

"Who the hell is this guy? Nobody has ever been able to follow me for over a mile..." she thought..

How could he possibly follow her? She'd been training herself since 9 for this kind of speed and agility. Nearing her apartment building she knew she'd have to lose him and fast.

 

[amon_darknight]

He watched as the hunter blew by him and didn’t even stop to say hello.

“Well wasn’t that rude… no one walks by the best in the business and not say at least a “hey” damn it.”

He than took off after the hunter and pursued the bastard. He had risked his life many a time to kill demons and save others, well mainly just make a name for himself, but that wasn’t the point, there was no foe, nor demon he could not defeat, Dante was moving at un-human speeds, and noticed that the hunter was moving that fast as well.

“Well, well, we got ourselves a experienced hunter… no matter, I will get my greeting out of him, if I got to BEAT it out of him. No one disrespects Dante and gets away with it.”

He than just about blinked out of existence when he was side by side with the hunter and he smiled as he put his hand on his shoulder and came to a stop as he watched the movements of the hunter.

“All it takes is a “hey” or a “yo” don’t just walk by the best hunter and not say anything. Jeez, don’t you have any respect boy?”

He took his had off his shoulder as felt something bad was going to happen, so Dante slipped his hand to his Katana hilt, ready to draw.

“What’s the matter, cat got your tongue?”

He grinned and he kept ready for anything.

 

[Hikari]

He flew right beside her, making her eyes wide with shock. If he wanted a fight she was more than willing to give it to him. He placed his hand on her shoulder like he knew her.

“All it takes is a “hey” or a “yo” don’t just walk by the best hunter and not say anything. Jeez, don’t you have any respect boy?”

He then removed his hand. Their swords were drawn at the same time and crossed in a block position. She spoke in a low harsh tone than what she was used to trying to hide her gender.

"Find your own territory... This city is my domain. Go find your own."

Breaking the block she moved backward readying herself for the next move.

 

[amon_darknight]

Dante saw how skilled the hunter was with the blade he wielded and he smirked at that.

“Hmm I see you have some skill with the sword, but not as good as mine.”

He laughed briefly and thought something was not right about this hunter, the voice didn’t seem to fit the person and he thought about that in his head as he saw the hunter draw back and stand ready. Dante stood and looked the hunter over, anticipating and planning every move, but he grew tired of that.

“Your territory, this place is only big enough for one and that one is…”

He moved with amazing speed and precision as he seemed to almost vanish and than appear behind the hunter to slash downwards aiming for the shoulder, but to Dante’s surprise he held the sword ready behind him and blocked the blow and rolled forward and Dante leaped back a few steps and started to clap.

“Congratulations hunter, not very many, nor no one could have blocked nor, seen that blow coming. You have more skill than I thought. But can you take another; I saw your step falter a bit as you took it, what’s the matter, not strong enough to take a hit?”

He taunted as he playfully bounced back on each foot, like a boxer.

“Come on puppy, let’s see what you got.”

He held his sword and a ready position as he watched the hunter and waited, Dante was ready for anything.

 

[Hikari]

Through the last few moves she'd gotten a good look at him. White hair, armour, black cloak, but it was those eyes of his that threw her off. She'd seen similar eyes like that before, a shadow demon... He was a shadow demon, like the ones that killed her parents. White eyes gleaming in the shadows, crimson blood, hopelessness. She felt a sharpness graze her side. She'd let herself become distracted. Blood was dripping from her side and four inches across her stomach. "Shit!" Her voice was almost feminine as she swore. She continued to meet him move for move, but her speed was now off from her wound. She would mentally curse herself later for letting anyone wound her this badly, but right now she had to stay alive. She'd lost her acrobatics and agility that usually gave her an edge. Sword block, stiff hold, amateur mistake. Her sword was knocked from her hand, and she was on the ground. He stood over her looking at her mockingly with those white eyes of his. Mysterious and beautiful, an almost pitying look on his face as his hand moved to her head and facial covering.

"Let us see what the face of a lowly puppy looks like," he said before pulling the mask away.

She watched his eyes widen as her striking beauty shone through. Her piercing green eyes looking at him in anger and her long dark curly hair blowing wildly in a sudden strong wind. In his shock she managed to grab her sword almost out of arms reach, slash at an opening in his armor and backflip off the building disappearing from sight.



An hour later she showed up at the home of a doctor friend of hers, her clothes becoming soaked with blood.

"Miko! What happened this time?"

"Bastard demon on the rooftop, I was distracted, he was was rather good..."

"Look I don't complain about your...nightly activities..but please try to be more careful!!! This is the third time you've showed up here with a strange wound this month..."

"I know... I should take care of myself more, but I just can't quit this...atleast not until I'm 30.."

The doctor carefully stitched the wound together so that it wouldn't scar too badly. The wound was a clean cut but deep enough to cause bad blood loss if not taken care of. He wrapped her abdomen after finishing the stitches. She changed into some clean clothes she'd brung with her after the wound had been taken care of and went to leave.

"Miko, you're a nice girl. You'll make some guy very happy one day. Try not to scar yourself up too much."


"Me? With some one? He'd have to be able to keep up with me first..."


Although she wasn't sure why, her mind went to the demon who had been so skilled and had gotten her to the ground like that, and those mysterious eyes of his...


"Try giving regular guys a chance. They may not be able to do backflips, but they might surprise you..."


"Okay, I'll try..."

"No fighting demons for atleast three days!! You hear me?"


She nodded, hugged him and left. Doctor Tanaka had been like a father to her and he always gave good advice. Although he was happily married and had two daughters already, she knew he thought of her as his third. Upon arriving home, she put up her sword, threw away her bloody clothes, and collapsed on her bed, asleep the second she hit the mattress. Waking seven hours later to her evil clock radio.


((Good Morning to all you cats out there. Hope you didn't crash too hard lastnight!!))


"Shut up!"


She pulled the pillow over her head.


((Cause we've got the hottest tunes playing for ya all morning long!!! <random sound effects here> The temperature will be mild, and it's going to be a beautiful day. Stay tuned to station 41.1 the heat!!!))


She turned off the clockradio and wiped her eyes. Her cat shadow, slid through the halfway opened door and looked at her meowing for food.

"Okay shadow, I'll get you more food..."

She went into the cabinet, pulling out a bag of cat foot and poured her some.
Upon inspecting the fridge she was further reminded that she would have to buy groceries after she was paided today. It was practically empty, aside from half a quart of milk, a bottle of ketchup, and some old ice cream in the freezer part that was hard as a rock... She had some cereal, took a shower, re-bandaged her wound, pulled back her hair, and got dressed. Most people would say she needed a makeover. That she should wear nicer clothes from expensive stores and to wear her hair down more often. The fact was that she could care less about fashion or how she looked, but even with her careless attitude, guys sometimes saw passed her lack of make up and fashion, then would randomly ask her out. She turned each one down and ignored them. An hour later she was at work at that small book store on main street. It wasn't as big as those huge, bigger than a library stores, but it always got steady business. She and her friend sophie would take turns stocking and manning the register. It was a fun job but it wasn't the most exciting...

 

[amon_darknight]

Dante went into a series of masterful swings, a flurry of motions, upward, downward, left to right, cris-crossing, it was a memorizing dance of death, circles he moved as feinting, parrying and the sweet ring of metal rang on the roof tops. Dante only grinned as he knew his opponent was very skilled, but not better than himself. Finally as the battle rolled on he saw the hunter drop his guard and Dante attacked at that weakness, he rolled first to the side and back swung to slice at the hunter’s abdomen and scent of sweet blood filled the air, but to Dante’s surprise he heard the hunter swear and it sounded almost feminine. As the hunter fell to one knee, Dante had to end this, he looked to the sky and sensed that morning was coming, Dante swung down hard to have the hunter try and parry it away, but Dante was too strong for that and he kept repeating the strike as he knew the hunter would not be able to keep that blocking up, finally the sword was knocked out of the hunters grasp and a solid thump could be heard as the hunter fell and Dante just laughed as he closed in and had his Katana poised at the hunters throat.

"Let us see what the face of a lowly puppy looks like,"

He said before pulling the mask away and revealing what was a beautiful woman. Dante was shocked to see this, but she had the most beautiful green eyes and it made Dante feel a twang of guilt come over his body, he shook his head and before he knew it he felt a burning sensation at his hip and felt blood dripping down, but never did it faze him, he watched as she back flipped away and ran off.

“Till we meet again sweet demon hunter.”

He wiped his blade clean on his pant leg and he sheathed his sword as he walked to the edge and leapt off to start into a mad dash to get back to his place which was down the street and as he ran it was like he was blinking in and out of existence. All he was thinking of was that woman, why was such a beautiful woman hunting demons, he had to find out and this place is where he would search for her, he had her scent now and he would find her hell or high water. He already knew he was better than her, but he was interested in finding out more about her.

When he got to his place, he walked in and saw that his wound had already healed itself and he sighed as he set his Katana on the table and he quickly changed his clothes.

“I hate the morning.”

He slipped on a tank top and some sweats and he sighed as he laid down and took a bite of a apple and just thought of that woman.

 

[Hikari]

Miko didn't know why but her mind kept going back to that demon on the rooftop. He had been so skilled, and she had looked like an amateur because of one little distraction. She remembered about her parents, which didn't happen often, and it threw her concentration. She was far better than that. He probably thought of her as some kind of weakling now. The thought of someone thinking her weak, pissed her off completely. He had been somewhat attractive... Those eyes that shone in defiance, the face that mocked her abilities... No one had ever gotten her to the ground or wounded her that badly. His swordsmanship had been absolutely excellent. She'd never met anyone who challenged her skill like that. The more she thought about it, the more she realized he wasn't somewhat attractive. He was very attractive.
She gave herself a mental slap.


"Get a hold of yourself Miko... He's a demon. Demons are selfish and only think of themselves... Even if he ever considered you.. You'd just be a woman, an object of lust. He'd never ever love you...or hold you...or..."


Her cheeks blushed red at the thought of something like that... This was uncharacteristic of her. She never thought much of anyone...least of all males... She'd always thought it best to distance herself from other people.
The only person she ever really talked to was Sophie. Mosty because, of all people sophie needed a friend the most. Sophie was shy and often talked about guys. She hoped one day to have a boyfriend, a concept that was quite alien to Miko.


"Young lady!!!!"


Miko snapped out of her daze.


"Young lady!! I'd like to purchase this book..."


An elderly woman was infront of her at the register and looking rather impatient. This was justifiable, since Miko had been staring into space like that for 10 minutes.


"I'm very sorry Ma'am"


Miko began ringing up the book then felt something odd.. Over the years Miko had developed sort of a sixth sense for demons. She could feel their presence, but this was different. Demons never came out during the day. So she never had to worry, yet she felt something odd. Like darkness and human spirt combined...


"Young lady!!!"


Miko finished ringing up the woman and handed her the book in a bag. The strangest feeling came over her as someone walked through the door ringing the bells. A guy who appeared around her age with white hair and gold eyes walked past the register and into the book shelves. She could swear that he was looking at her several times from his book. He then went over to sophie and appeared to be talking to her. Putting up the book, he walked by, smiled at her, and left. Miko's eyes went wide and sophie ran over to her.


"Miko do you know that guy?"


"I was about to ask you the same thing..."


"All I know is that he was super hot, and he was asking about you"


"What did he say?"


"He wanted to know your first name... So I told him.. Oh my god! You have a secret admirer"


"You don't know that..."


Mr. Leevy, the store owner and manager walked up to them.

"Okay ladies you go have you're break and be back in one hour."


They ordered some chinese. Miko ate while sophie talked, looking absolutely excited.


"That has to be the hottest guy to ever be interested in you. You sure you don't know him? Cause it seems like he's definately seen you before."


"No, I've never seen him before in my life. I think I would remember seeing a guy with white hair who wasn't in his 60's"


"Oh it'd be so great if you two got married. A wedding dress with blue in it would bring out your eyes.. Oh and the children would be so cute."


Soda sprayed from her mouth at Sophie's words. She finished her pork fried rice and got back to work. When the day was over she cashed her check, and bought some groceries and went home. The night was beautiful. She knew she wasn't fit to fight for two more days, so she decided to take a walk in the park. There was a rather nice one not too far from her apartment building. She got a strange feeling as if she was being followed which disappeared as she entered the park. It was odd, but she enjoyed her walk in the park. She walked over to the children's playground and sat on a swing. It made her remember her mother, who would give her that extra push when on a swing. Then she felt that presence again.... Someone was behind her...

 

[amon_darknight]

This was all to funny, Dante woke up and had to find this woman, where ever she was, he had her blood scent now and knew what her blood tasted like, he only grinned.

“She was amazing, got to find out about her.”

Than Dante was thinking, “What the hell am I thinking?” she was a demon hunter for crying out loud and she was remarkable at her skill to. He stood up and grabbed his blue button up shirt and threw on a black tank top underneath the button up shirt and he let his white hair stay in a pony tail as he slipped on a pair of black slacks and he walked out the door as he slipped on his glasses, even though he really didn’t need them, he walked over to his job, which was at a law office, where he was a file person and as he walked there, he looked at a book store that was down the street and he just smiled as he walked by it and saw this woman with breathtaking features, her dark brown curls hung down and her enchanting green eyes and he stopped and almost started laughing as he walked in and watched her. All that could be seen was a smile on Dante’s face with his glasses. He reached into his pocket and felt his knife and he sighed as he walked over to another very attractive woman and he started to ask her questions with a book in his hands. He asked her about the woman behind the counter and he found out that her name was Miko and she lived in the south district and Dante smiled and waved bye at her, but as he walked by Miko, he smiled nicely at her and waved, he went to his job and he talked to his boss and his boss smiled as he let Dante leave when he was done with his work and than Dante was back on the street again with in a few hours, he followed Miko and her friend from a distance as he watched them eat and when he ever saw Miko look his way, he turned the corner, why was this woman so attractive and capturing the every attention to Dante, it was driving him nuts. He than saw her leave the Chinese joint and he followed after her back to her work where he waited outside as he whistled a tune and after a few more hours he saw Miko on the move again, to the grocery store and Dante just followed, when he found out where she lived, he would leave. She walked over by where there fight happened and than he saw what building she lived in, Dante just smiled as he jotted down on paper where this location was and he put it in his pocket as he felt the sun setting and night was coming, he could feel his powers restoring to him, he had to concentrate to keep his eyes from not changing. He saw her walking across the street to a little park and he quickly followed after her, not staying too close, but Dante too sensed that something was wrong as he looked around.


“Fucking Imps…”

He reached into his pocket and drew forth his small folding pocket knife and he held it ready as he knew how to make the imps run off fast, had to find the Pit Fiend that was leading them and he finally saw it, closing in on Miko, he took his button up shirt off and he was only wearing his black tank top as he appeared behind the pit demon, watching as the fool was going to strike at Miko with its sharp poison dripping tail and Dante just gripped the small knife even harder.


“Hey bitch tail, why don’t you pick on someone that is ready for a foe like you, wait… where is this foe…”

He than jumped up and spun around to throw his legs out to kick the demon in the face four times and he landed to the side of Miko and he handed her the knife.

“I can handle this, just hold onto this if you need it, I will protect you.”

He than threw his elbow back and smashed a Imp right in his ugly looking face as he rolled off to the side and caught a Imp as it jumped up and smashed him with his strong fist, completely breaking in his skull and he looked to see the tail lashing at him as Dante just rolled to the side evading it, finally he picked up the trash can and launched it at the Pit Fiend only to have him knock it back at Dante with his tail and he just smashed it with his fist as he charged in and went into a series of blows on the large Pit Fiend, Dante was being a little soft on this one as he watched to make sure Miko was alright, finally the last blow was dodged and Dante rolled to the side to evade the tail and a swipe of his claw, he looked to the demon and shook his head as his eyes were white and focused on this demon, he cracked his neck.

“Game over bitch… with this next move, you will be dead.”

The demon laughed as he saw Dante vanish and than appear behind the Pit Fiend and monkey kicked him into the air with two feet, than he jumped up and swung his leg around to shatter the bone in the Demons neck, after than he wrapped his legs around the demons neck and leaned up to punch it multiple times, after the series of attacks he yelled.

“LION LOTUS CRATER!”

He than shifted his momentum and started to spin with the demon’s neck wrapped between his legs, they spun into a fast vortex as when Dante landed it would be head first for the poor Demon, the Imps just watched as this one person was defeating the Large Pit Fiend, the vortex landed into the ground with a sickening thud and a explosion off to the side of the sand box, straight into dirt, bone shattering could be heard and out of the smoke came Dante as he walked up to the Imps.

“Be gone before I kill you to.”

The imps didn’t think twice as they were cowards with out there master and they ran off in different directions. Dante looked to Miko and he walked up as he smiled.

“Guess the favor is returned Miko… I am…sor…”

He shook his head and turned his back.

“Get healed up and practice Miko, you have some training to do.”
He smiled as he walked away, he had to get home and get his Katana, he walked and picked up his blue shirt and headed back to his place.

 

[Hikari]

Miko turned to see a pit fiend behind her and the demon from lastnight attacking it.

"How the hell did he find me?"

He spinned kicking him in the face four times, landed to her side, and handed her a knife.

“I can handle this, just hold onto this if you need it, I will protect you.”


Miko was completely confused by this whole thing. She had been about to jump up from the swing, and over whatever was behind her. She had not anticipated that it would be something like this, but she was sure she would have figured out how to take it down on her own... Yet he wanted to protect her... Why? Before she could finish thinking about it all, it was all over...


“Guess the favor is returned Miko… I am…sor…”


Her eyes widened as he turned away without finishing his sentence.


“Get healed up and practice Miko, you have some training to do.”


She began running after him as he walked away.


"How did you find me? How do you know my name?"

 

[amon_darknight]

He sensed that she was running after him and he hid his blue shirt behind him, he only smiled and bowed to her in respect.

“What is the hurry young lady, I know your scent and tasted your blood, I can find you very easily, as of how I know your name, well I have my connections and I found out. Keep the knife as a souvenir, a remembrance of how I beat a pit find with my hands and feet, something to look forward to in your training.”

He grinned at her.

“Is there any other questions you have for me?”

 

[Hikari]

She looked at him, with her eyes looking unsure of the whole situation. All day long she thought about him. Now, there he was and she wasn't sure of what to say. That grin of his was making her blush a deep red and she wasn't sure why...


"Why... Why are so interested in knowing my name or who I am?


She felt a warm feeling spread all over her as the redness of her cheeks, made her sure it was noticable to him. He wasn't wearing armor like last time and she could see his bare arms and nearly bare shoulders. He was in excellent shape... He had all these markings on his body. Why was she thinking about his body? There couldn't possibly be anything attractive about seeing him without that shirt, or those pants, or those... Her eyes widened, and she looked at the ground. "No way do I like him... I haven't had a crush on anyone since I was 6..."she thought... She secretly hoped that demons couldn't read minds or tell what you were feeling.


"You know my name but I do not know yours..."


He walked right up to her and looked her in the eyes. What on earth was he doing?

 

[amon_darknight]

He chuckled as she asked him her questions and he only wanted to tell her that he was interested in her, but he decided against that notion. He smiled at her as he saw how she blushed at him and he only chuckled some more.


"You are so cute when you blush, it is a good color for you warrior hunter, I am here to tell you that I am sorry for hurting you so bad, if I would have known that it was a beautiful woman I was fighting, I would never had struck for blood, I am the best at what I do, but when it comes to fighting women, that is where I draw the line, it is just not my style, but if you dare get in my way again, I will put you down and make sure you stay down and out of my way."

He looked very serious at that point, but a smile took over and he put his glasses back on as he looked around.

"My name, well that is something I haven't had to do in a while, my name is Dante Surreal, and I am the best hunter out there. This is a very dangerous business and I don't know why a beautiful, angelic woman like you is doing this, for thrills, for adventure, why? You tell me."

He sat on the ground and now you could see his blue button up shirt and he waited for her answer. He wished he could know what she was thinking.

"You are very skilled with your sword, it has been a while since I have faced a skilled warrior such as yourself, where ever did you learn those skills?"

He sighed as he looked around and sensed no danger anywhere near here and he was glad for that.

 

[Hikari]

"You are so cute when you blush, it is a good color for you warrior hunter, I am here to tell you that I am sorry for hurting you so bad, if I would have known that it was a beautiful woman I was fighting, I would never had struck for blood, I am the best at what I do, but when it comes to fighting women, that is where I draw the line, it is just not my style, but if you dare get in my way again, I will put you down and make sure you stay down and out of my way."

"He thinks I'm beautiful?" she thought...

The fact that he saw that she had been blushing, made her blush even more.
No one had ever made her blush before. She didn't know she was even capable of something so schoolgirl-ish.


"My name, well that is something I haven't had to do in a while, my name is Dante Surreal, and I am the best hunter out there. This is a very dangerous business and I don't know why a beautiful, angelic woman like you is doing this, for thrills, for adventure, why? You tell me."


He sat down waiting for her answer. She knew he wanted a straight, answer to his question but she didn't really know the answer herself..


"You are very skilled with your sword, it has been a while since I have faced a skilled warrior such as yourself, where ever did you learn those skills?"


"If you must know, my parents were killed when I five. The ones who killed them were demons with eyes like yours. Something about a prophesy, and my mother... They were going to kill me too...but... I don't remember much after that... I was sent to live with my aunt and uncle. My uncle was an interesting man.. His work was rather interesting.. Most would call him a ninja, but he was more than that. He was a genius at strategy, fighting, and stealth... He taught a martial arts school during the day, and was paid to fulfill certain missions. He was my idol. I caught him coming home from a mission one night, and he agreed to teach me everything he knew if I promised not to tell my aunt what he'd been doing. I eventually surpassed even him, and started training myself so that if they ever came back... I'd be ready.. I'm not completely sure why I take down these demons. It started out as revenge I guess, but now I feel like nothing more than a glorified exterminator. I do it, so that somewhere a little girl doesn't have to suffer like I did..."

 

[amon_darknight]

Dante listened as she told him her tale of her past and he cursed his half demon side for ever doing such vile and cruel things to innocents.

“I am sorry for what has happened, but I cannot apologize for them, please don’t ever compare me to them, I am not pure evil and not ever going to go down that path, that is why I hunt these evil creatures. I may have the features of one of those filthy demons, but trust me, my heart is pure. I have a human side that fills the other half of me, this prophecy you speak of I have no idea what it is about, but if it helps you to rest your pain, I will seek these Shadow Demons out and kill them all for you.”

He took her hand as he said that.

“Your uncle sounds like a great warrior, to see his niece perform feats of that skill I already can see how great he was. I told you my name; can I ask you what yours is?”

He sighed as he thought about the last thing you said.

“True, I fight for that same reason, I never want to see a child taken away from their parents, I would kill anyone who tried to do such an act, but I fight to cleanse this world of filth, demon or not, I am better than them, and there is no demon that can surpass me in combat, you know why?”

He grinned as he said that.

“Cause King Kong got’s nothing on me!”

He bounced up on his feet and looked like a boxer the way he was dancing around. He was laughing at the same time.

 

[Hikari]

“I am sorry for what has happened, but I cannot apologize for them, please don’t ever compare me to them, I am not pure evil and not ever going to go down that path, that is why I hunt these evil creatures. I may have the features of one of those filthy demons, but trust me, my heart is pure. I have a human side that fills the other half of me, this prophecy you speak of I have no idea what it is about, but if it helps you to rest your pain, I will seek these Shadow Demons out and kill them all for you.”


His words seemed to be true.. She searched for malice in his soul and found none.. He took her hand and her heart skipped a beat..


“Your uncle sounds like a great warrior, to see his niece perform feats of that skill I already can see how great he was. I told you my name; can I ask you what yours is?”


"It's Mikomi...Mikomi Taran... It's Japanese... It means hope..."


He spoke again in regards to the last part of her story..


“True, I fight for that same reason, I never want to see a child taken away from their parents, I would kill anyone who tried to do such an act, but I fight to cleanse this world of filth, demon or not, I am better than them, and there is no demon that can surpass me in combat, you know why?”


She shook her head seeming naive as he smiled.


“Cause King Kong got’s nothing on me!”


She watched him as he started jumping around, feeling herself starting to laugh for the the first time in months. Before she knew it, she was smiling. Could this be what happiness feels like? These feelings were strange to her...
All her life, she had been training. Spending all her time trying to become stronger, and here she was laughing like she hadn't in years. Every time something good came to her it would get taken away.. Should she be worried? He stopped his antics suddenly. He was looking at her. Staring at her eyes like many people did. She became nervous.


"Does he know I thought about him all day? Oh my god... I could be a complete joke to him... Plus why would anyone like him fall for someone like me?"

 

[amon_darknight]

As Dante was dancing around like a boxer, he stopped suddenly and saw how her smile and laughter just disappeared and stopped, he looked to her and sighed again as he fixed his glasses that he wore just as a ruse to look more human in the day. He looked to the night sky and he felt a cold breeze blow and he saw Miko shiver slightly, he looked to his long sleeve shirt and didn’t care anymore if she recognized it, he didn’t think she would, but wouldn’t matter if she did, he too knew about her, so they were even. He unfolded his shirt and with much speed and grace he slung it around her and covered her for warmth.

“Sorry, I don’t have a jacket or anything, but I hope that will help. I like seeing your smile, and hearing your laughter makes my heart dance in sunshine Miko, why ever did you stop?”

He again sat down on the ground and looked up at her as the breeze blew his long enchanting white hair, making it flow in the breeze.

“That is the trouble with long hair, maybe I should cut it? Ah… doesn’t matter, it would just regenerate in a few minutes anyways.”

He smiled again at her and just couldn’t take his eyes away from hers, she had the most beautiful green eyes he has ever seen, like that of a emerald shining in the sunlight, they even shined at night, what was this woman, she couldn’t have been a normal human, she had to be an Angel of something.

“You have very enchanting eyes Miko, I can’t take my eyes off of them.”

He almost felt as if she was casting a spell on him, his heart was beating quite fast and he didn’t know what this feeling was growing inside of him.

 

[Hikari]

“You have very enchanting eyes Miko, I can’t take my eyes off of them.”

Her heart was beating fast as ever. She didn't know what to do. By all means she shouldn't be interested in a demon, but in the end her body betrayed her and she began to slowly lean towards him. He began doing the same thing until their lips met in a forbidden kiss. She'd never kissed anyone before but her lips seemed to know this strange dance. He was alot better at this than her and he seemed to take over. The passion he was delivering to her in that one kiss was so intense that it left her panting for air as she pulled away.


"I should go... Good night Dante..."


She smiled and disappeared into the dark..

 

[amon_darknight]

He watched as she leaned down and had her eyes closed, she was going to kiss him, she was really going to kiss him… oh wow…

He than leaned in and caught her lips with his as he started a passionate kiss from his heart and he heard her moan into it very softly as his hand went around to her back, but she pulled away and ran off.

“Night… Miko…”

He sighed as he stood up and than started to walk, he was in heaven it felt like, walking on clouds as he headed to his apartment, nothing could touch him. No demon dared to attack him, and if they did interrupt his happiness, watch out.

Dante got back to his place and he plopped down on the couch as he again sighed.

“Miko, am I falling for you?”

He sighed again as he closed his eyes.

“I guess I will see you later.”

He smiled and slept, dreaming of Miko and her angelic form, how it could move in a sensual dance of passion, how her smile just shattered Dante’s every wall of defense, and her eyes, how if she stared at him and caught his eyes, she could make him do anything she wanted. But what wonders could she work with her body… ohhh that made Dante shiver with pleasure.

Morning came and Dante woke up to the sound of a dog and a cat, both nudging him to wake up.

“Ohhh Midnight… Yuki… chill out…”

The Welsh Corgie licked Dante’s face and his black cat laid on his chest purring, but Dante opened his eyes as he heard harder pit-pats and knew it was his dog Shadow.

“SHADOW NO!”

Midnight leapt off Dante and onto the top of the table while this big Siberian Huskie landed on top of Dante and licked his face. Dante just grabbed the dogs white head, with gray on it and petted him.

“Damn it you guys, I don’t have to work today and you guys wont let me sleep. Alright, alright.”

He got up and went to get them food and to play with them.

“Wonder what Miko is up to, I should go and visit her.”

He smiled as he poured the dog and cat food for them.

 

[Hikari]

She had run to her apartment with her heart still racing.. Nothing could compare to this wonderful feeling that she felt all over. She opened the door and plopped down on the couch, with a huge smile on her face. That was the first time she'd even been kissed by anyone. She never told anyone that she'd never had a boyfriend in her life. The kiss had been so intense, she had been almost afraid of what could've happened next, so she'd broken it. He might have gotten her on the ground and... She took a deep breath... She'd loved the kiss and moaned in her throat. She'd loved every moment of it. Why was she so afraid?


"What's wrong with me? I can't possibly be falling for a demon..."


She'd tried to deny any feelings that made her a human being, for as long as she could remember. The desire to feel love, to be touched. It had been hardest denying these things during her teenage years, but once most of the raging hormones were gone, she could pretend like she liked being celibate. She started imagining him kissing her to no end, then moving downward. The warmth inside her turned redhot as she felt a wetness form between her legs. She was aching there. She'd have to rid herself of this aching so she could regain herself. She ended up removing her pants and underwear, then sliding two fingers inside of herself again and again until she moaned and shook in ecstacy. She laided there on the couch in that euphoric after state. This urge to release, came more often than she would admit, and she hid it well. She fell asleep on her bed, then came to a few hours later with the help of her evil alarm clock.



((and that was desert rain by (insert stupid musical group name here) We'll continue these jams all morning long!!! On 41.1 's countdown OF HEAT!!!))



She turned it off wiping her eyes. He'd ended up in her dreams, feeling every part of her. Why was she suddenly obsessed with being touched? She went through her regular routine then realized she was running a bit late she rushed towards the book store at top speed running into someone.


"I'm sorry sir!"


She looked up and could swear it looked like...


"Dante?"


She realized she must be mistaken, because shadow demons couldn't come out during the day...


"I'm sorry I thought you were someone else... forgive me"


She ran to the bookstore and saw the closed sign up.


"huh? Oh no it's a holiday... How could I forget? I came all this way for nothing..."


She turned around to see that the man she bumped into, had been the man from yesterday at the bookstore..


"Sorry again.. I shouldn't have been in such a rush like that..."


He had two dogs with him. Both wagging their tales like crazy. They looked so sweet. One even jumped up and licked her. She smiled, laughing as the guy told the dog that he shouldn't jump on people especially beautiful women.
For some reason, he gave her the same feeling that Dante had, but there was no way a regular shadow demon could go out in the light. They would die. She smiled and waved goodbye to this man.



She went home and plopped on the couch. For some reason her side didn't hurt anymore. She'd been too busy to look at the wound earlier, and removed the bandages. Her eyes widen as she looked at where some stitches and dried blood should have been, but in it's place was an almost needle thin scar.


"What the? This is incredible."


She decided to do her workout. Her skill was better than ever. No one would ever wound her like that again. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and decided to take a shower. She wondered if she would ever cross swords with that demon again. He challenged her. She loved the sweet mesmorizing sound of metal against metal, that rang though the air that night. It made her smile. She went up to the roof to watch the sun go down. Holding the knife he'd given her, she thought about him again.


"Am I falling in love?" she thought...

 

[amon_darknight]

She really didn’t recognize him, it was a relief, but felt painful at the same time. She still had his shirt and had his knife, so she wouldn’t forget him, well at least he hoped she wouldn’t forget him.


”Come on Shadow, come on Yuki, lets go guys.”

The large Siberian Huskie was a large dog that was gray and white all over, had a gold eye and a green eye, while Yuki was the smaller dog, a Welsh Corgi and it was brown in color, Dante started to turn back to see the woman run off again and he smiled.

“Lets go and get home; I am going to get some rest since you guys woke me up so early.”

Both dogs looked back to him and nodded happily.

When Dante got back he let the dogs go in and they plopped down on the couch and Dante just shook his head.

“Thanks guys, I take you for a walk and when we get back you take the couch. Lazy bums.”

He shakes his head as he stripped his shirt off and got into the shower, tossing his pants to the side in the bathroom was not that big at all, the water ran over his muscular body and he smiled to himself as he knew that Miko’s wound was all healed now, Dante had been blessed with healing powers from his mother, she had a close relation to the Churches and she taught Dante how to heal, but it always took a lot out of him if he had to do it. He thought of Miko in the shower, how the kiss felt and how it would feel if her body was pressed against his, he felt his cock start to get hard and in the shower he started to stroke it slowly as thoughts of Miko came to him, what would it feel like to make love to her? He moaned her name out as he stroked and after minutes passed by he spewed cum all over the shower wall and he breathed deep as he got out of the shower and dried himself off as he still was catching his breath, he put his clothes on and he went out to sit between his two dogs and lay back.

“I think I am in love with that woman. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?”

He looked to the sky and he felt it was going to turn to night soon. He shook his head.

 

[Hikari]

Once the sun had gone down she noticed a blue shirt on the couch. She remembered the demon covering her with it to warm her up a bit. Looking at it she saw the tag on it. It was from a department store that was only open during the day. She also found a small drop of white out on it. It suddenly hit her like a ton of bricks.

"He's not a demon all the time...only at night.. He must work in an office. Regular demons don't need white out. I should return his shirt to him."


She then thought...


"Wait how am I going to find him? All I have is his scent and my nose isn't as strong as a demons.."


She decided to go out. If she was lucky he would find her. Remembering her ruined fighting clothes she rumaged through her closet and found some old clothes from her late teen goth phase. She slipped on a crimson tank top, a pair of black baggy pants, her fighting boots, and a black trench coat. Finally she hooked on the belt that fastened her sword to the side under the coat.
The wind was strong that night, the coat flying behind her as she jumped from building to building. She sensed something and moved out of the way at the last second. A burst of fire shooting down making a huge gap in the cement rooftop. A demon with a bulky frame and spiked armour stood before her.


"You thought you could get away didn't you little doll..?"


Miko didn't know who he was or what he was talking about, but she drew her sword quickly.


"Oh put that thing away.. Such a measily piece of metal does not fit someone born with your talents."


"No one is born with talent. I trained for years to get this good..."


"Don't deny it. You tried to hide it. The ability that killed three of my best men that night... All those years ago... We mistook your mother for you . Your father only got in the way..."


He was lying he had to be. She knew killing the demons was a dream. It had to be.


"So here I am to fix the mistake..."


He threw balls of fire at her, making her dodge. Each one blew up whatever it touched. He drew an elaborate sword and began coming at her strong. She fought as hard as she could, blocking each blow, but he was just too strong. He struck her down with the blunt sword hilt. She shook there in pain.


"Poor thing, you look so much like your mother..."


Those were his last words as something inside her snapped. She became covered in light and got to her feet. She looked at him as she sent sheer power into his body causing him to burst into flames and explode. Then just as quickly, it left her as she fell to the ground slipping in and out of conciousness. She could swear at some point she saw Dante, then passed out completely from the blow to her head and exhaustion...

 

[amon_darknight]

Dante was roof jumping, all seemed pretty quite here, which was strange, he didn’t even sense any demon movement at all, what was going on? He was looking around and than saw a blast of energy from a roof top and it felt like holy power. Dante was in shock as he covered his eyes.

“What the hell was that?”

He than smelled the air and picked up Miko’s scent and he quickly moved towards the light as it faded, he saw the ashes of some demon and he slid to the ground as he got to her.

“Miko… Miko are you alright…”

He saw she was bloody and hurt, but no mortal wounds to his knowledge, he ripped a part of his shirt off and he wiped the blood away from her face.

“Miko I am going to take you somewhere safe.”

He picked her up easily and held her in his arms as he heard the pit-pats of Shadow.

“Shadow, watch our backs.”

He than leapt off and took her to his place, she would not know where he lived, but he figured it was alright, he would be gone by the time she woke up anyways, so there would be no connection to the Dante she knew in the morning, to the badass Demon Slayer at night.

When he got back to his place, he laid her on his bed and stripped her of her bulky trench coat and even stripped her of her shirt and pants as he checked her body for any wounds he missed. He couldn’t help but to take her beautiful form into account and soon he shook his head as he saw she was ok, just a little banged up, he bandaged her cut on her forehead up and smiled as she slept soundly. But he thought of what could have caused that surge of holy power, was it from her?


”Can’t be… I would have been able to know and why wouldn’t she have used that against me that night? What the hell is going on, was it Angels coming to fight as well, is that what she was, it had to be someone else that helped her, a Redeemer or holy knight, or paladin, or a Monk or priest of something, not from her.”

He kneeled down and petted Shadow and Yuki.

“Watch over her, I am going to sleep on the couch.”

Both dogs kneeled beside the bed, while Dante stripped his clothes off and was in a simple tank top and sweat pants as he laid on the couch and Midnight his black cat purred and laid on his chest as Dante sighed again.


“What if I wanted to sleep on my side Midnight? Lazy cat. Night gorgeous.”

When morning came, he awoke at the first light of dawn and he quickly got up and brewed coffee, he wasn’t going to leave, he would just tell her he found her on the street, banged up and he took her back here, she didn’t know the connection between the slayer and Dante, no way. He looked to the mirror on the wall and saw his eyes change back to gold and he smiled as he laid down again to have his cat lay back down. He slipped off to sleep as the coffee would brew and than turn off when it was done.