Devil May Cry #1

Devil May Cry #1


Black Gold Saw walked down the mountain path, trying to spot any signs of civilisation and being careful not to trip off the cliff. She was already weak from two days worth of fatigue, and her vision was getting blurry. Suddenly the path ended, and she saw a small flat clearing on the slope on the mountain she was on. On one side was a steep cliff, on the other the mountain continued to rise. In the rock wall there was an opening, enough for a human to fit through. It probably led to an inhabited cave.

Saw decided that before heading to the cave, she would need to rest. I'd do nothing to recover her strength, but maybe something would happen meanwhile, and it would be wise to wait and confirm that the cave wasn't home to some powerful human or creature. She sat down and out of sight of the clearing, waiting for something to happen.

Lucky was flying in the mountains. He had his black wings out, they were little small but enough to carry the young cat. Lucky wasn't in the mountains just to pass time nor collect information, his song somewhat revealed his intentions, "Fish, Fish, I want to eat fish." While singing the same sentence over and over again Lucky was searching for some kind of body of water to get some of his favorite food. After he had spent about 30 minutes on the mountain he was getting kinda bored though as he didn't find anything interesting. His song got quieter and quieter.

Suddenly he flew over a young looking woman. He looked little different than humans or any other species young cat had met before. He glared the woman's horns and lowered himself to the ground. Then he made his small black wings disappear as he walked closer to her. "Hello. Might I scan your head?" asked Happy out of the blue. He was rather interested to know what kind of race the woman with black hair was and one most certain ways to find that out would be using his own magic. He calmly waited for the woman's reply.

"..."

Saw looked at the thing before her in slight bewilderment. This was her first encounter in the human world, but her father described humans otherwise, so this must be something else. She didn't know what "scan her head" would mean, but being too weak to protest, she closed her eyes in acceptance.

"Do as you please, creature."

Lucky walked closer to the girl. Cat walked right before of her so he could see young woman's face clearly. It looked emotionless but it wasn't much of an art to see that the woman was tired. Lucky grew his wings once again and flew himself over he girl's head, sitting between her two horns. "I am only going to take information about what you are?" Lucky placed his hand on the girls head and started using his magical powers. In a split second he got scared, the girl was over 15000 thousand years old. Lucky pulled off his paw and asked, "What kind of creature are you? I am way too novice yet to get special information from a brain like yours... and I can't take it all since my abilities aren't high enough. Are you some kind of sage?" Lucky was very interested, he wanted to know everything about who the girl was.

Saw was silent for a few moments. She didn't move a muscle, simply sitting and feeling the something on her head.

"Sage? No. I am a mere fool, sent to this world for reasons unknown to me. Time passes so differently here. So much haste... so much vanity... I already am at my limit."

She was silent for another few moments.

"Yet what are you, creature? Does your kind inhabit this realm?"

Cat glared at young woman's horn, slightly touching them. He then tried to explain some things to the woman, "Realm? Does that mean you are from another realm?" without getting an answer young cat continued talking. He felt like he had to answer woman's question now since she had answered his, "Well, I am an Exceed. I don't know much about my kind as when I was born my race only gave me little info trough telepathy. And no, our race doesn't inhabit this lan... realm." He caught his breath a little, thinking about a way how to explain things to the woman. "This realm is inhabited by lots of different creatures. There are so many I can't name them all to you and I am 100% sure I don't know all of them myself. Most of them are humans though, they seem to be rather intelligent as they have built a lot of towns around Biso Kingdom."

"Humans..."

Saw licked her lips.

"I would speak to you more, but I need to find a human first. Are there any such ones nearby? You would certainly be perceptive enough to notice."

Antonio was in a little camp of his own design and he started to wonder... What the hell was he doing there. "Sigh.... If the town i was heading too only was I don't know through the mountain, But Nope! I have to go over it... Hmph... I should stop complaining... At least I'm nearly over it...." Toni stood up and got some wood and made a fire. He pulled some food he had brought along out of a bag he was carrying and started to cook it.

It seemed like their knowledge exchanging dialogue had ended. Lucky was thinking a little, making a map of East Continent places he had visited in his head. Once that was complete he happily said, "Aye!" He wasn't going to lead the woman to a village without a favor though, "But I am not going to say you where it is without nothing." said the cat. One of his requests was already planned but he was thinking another one aswell. Suddenly he got a little idea, "Okay, I am going to show you where humans live. There is a village nearby here, but I want two things in return. First one is fish... You have to feed me with fish, raw fish. It is so yummy so I just love it." Lucky smiled a little and proceeded with his second one, "My second one is rather simple. You came to this real with a purpose right? So you are going back to yours someday. Until that day I am gonna stick with you and take information from your head pit by pit." That was the end of Lucky's requests and he calmly finished. "If you agree with both terms I am going to show you the way to village."

(Let's play it that Hatarou's camp is on the way to village.)

"I do not know what this "fish" is, but if it is something a small creature like you would eat, I doubt it will be beyond my power to obtain. Feel free to take your information. How it would be useful to you isnone of my concern. Now take me to this human settlement without further ado, if you wish me to survive long enough to fulfill my promises."

Saw stood up with wobbly legs. The strange lover of mysterious fish was
still on her head.

(I go ahead and post since Hatarou has nothing to do in his camp.)

"Aye!" shouted the cat happily. He placed his paw on woman's head and uploaded a map inside her head, a map leading from their position to Sampagui Village. It was rather small village which mostly lived themselves off from farming. Lucky also implanted basic information about fish on young woman's head. After the uploading was done cat seemed little tired. "I doubt that the information will be useful to me at all but I want to know." said the cat his reason why he wanted to download information from woman's head. "This cat name is Lucky. What might horn girl's name be?" asked Lucky for his last question, for now at least.

"Your unreasoned hunger for knowledge is commendable. I would be called Black Gold Saw in your tongue."

After saying this, Saw looked over the map image uploaded to her head and went along a nearby path leading there. The path was going at the bottom of an abyss, with cliff walls on both sides. After a couple minutes of walking, she noticed a large cave indent in the mountain. A smell of cooking food was coming from inside. If there were humans in there, there wouldn't be a need to go to the village at all. Saw made her way into the cave and looked around, supporting herself on the wall.

Antoni heard footsteps from afar and he looked back. He picked up his bow and readied the arrow onto it. "Who is it?" He saw a tired woman who seemed to have pushed herself to go this far. He thought to himself, "A woman... but she has horns... Ok i'll admit that's a first, but thats not important, I should help her...." He put down his bow and ran to the woman. "You ok? Let me help you to the fire!" He held the woman onto his shoulder and helped her to his little camp. "Hey woman! You hungry? I Have some foor if you want..."

Lucky was still sitting on young woman's head. He answered her sentence, "So Black Gold Saw. What a weird nname... I am only hungry for fish. Is knowledge edible though?" He was staying quiet for the rest of time he sat on woman's head. Young cat was rather sad to see the woman so tired but he couldn't do anything about it... He was hungry and little tired himself.
When two of them encountered the man he didn't do much anything about it... Just sitting on top of Saw's head, letting the man help the tired one as the cat couldn't do it. When the man asked about if she was hungry the cat had an answer ready, "Of course she is hungry, give her food." Cat didn't exactly catch what kind of creature the woman was earlier so she wondered a little what did her kind eat.

Saw sat near the fire and looked around the small campsite. A beef was roasting on the fire and gave off an appetising aroma, but she paid no attention to it. Finally her eyes stopped on Antonio and she looked him up and down with a studying look.

"There is no food here. It seems that the nearby village would be my last chance."

Then Saw attempted to get up to leave, but her legs wouldn't obey. She looked at the man before her.

"Will you do me a favor, creature? Take me to the village, and I will repay you after I have eaten and my fatigue is recovered."

Antonio looked with a sympathetic look abd said to her, "Well Lady... I'll help... The name is Antonio but people call me Toni."[/b He then looked to the cat and pondered for a second then he exclaimed. [b]" Aha! You're an Exceed I've heard of your kind, it's my first time meetin one though... Well either way I siggest we start going since whatever she needs is far over to the village I'm heading to!" He stood up and started packing his things waiting to go.

Cat looked at the man. He was little surprised that he knew about them, after all they were sent to Earth Land only 3 years ago and they didn't differ from most of the cats unless their wings were out... well at least Lucky didn't differ from most of them. He examined him and with just one look he noticed that he wasn't a human. Although he didn't differ from human he smell different from most of them. Exceed kept quiet about that though. "Yeah, I am an Exceed, and the closest one is Sampagui Village." He uploaded the same map into boys head as she had uploaded into Black Gold Saw's head. It showed the easiest and quickest way to Sampagui Village. "Got the image?" asked young Exceed just to be sure.

An image had popped into his head, it felt strangely relaxing to him. He saw the map and sweat dropped down his face. He thought to himself, "I'm an idiot I've been going around in circles all day......" He let out a strange laugh and gulped. '' Well lets go as soon as possible! I already packed all my stuff so I'm ready when you two are!" He got up and stood next to the woman and readied to carry her.

Saw wanted to say something to Lucky, who she still felt on her head,
but decided to put it off until later. She climbed up on Toni's back and wrapped her arms and legs around him.

"Let us make haste."

Saw closed her eyes and waited to see how strong and fast the man was.

She mounted his back and he stood up and readied to go. "Well ok I recommend holding on tight. He started to jog until out of the cave and onto a path. He thought to himself, Ok! According to the cat the town is about kilometers away.It won't take that long to get there if I don't get tired! He started to run as fast as he could without getting tired. "So! Why you two going to Sampagui Village?"

Just before young man started running cat wrapped his tail around Black Gold Saw's horn, just in case so he wouldn't fall off. Lucky staid quiet at first but then in the end decided to say something, "I am sticking with horn girls here since we made a deal... I don't know why she wants to go to the village though." after that the young cat stayed quiet.

"We are going to the village in order to find food."

Saw held on to Toni and looked forward as he ran. When they made a turn around a cliff, she noticed a small hut standing in the shadow of a large rock. There was a small vegetable growing patch beside it and a few chickens walking around, so it looked it was home to some self-sufficient peasant who didn't need much contact with the nearby village.

Saw pointed one hand towards the hut for Toni.

"Could there be a human in that building? If so, there is no need to travel all the way to the village."

He slowed down and shook his head, "Got it mam!" He turned and started to run toward the hut. So these two can tell I'm not human.... I need to be careful. If I got caught I'm screwed." He arrived at the hut and knocked on the dooe with the woman and cat on his back. "Hello! Anyone here!?!

When man slowed down he released his tail from Saw's horn. Now that the moving was done he figured that just in case it would be better if he actually got off from girl's head so it would be lighter for man to carry. He grew himself little wings and flew off from woman's head, flapping his wings and flying on the same spot, watching the two of them from above.

No answer came, but snoring and small shuffling sounds could be heard beyond the door.It looks like the onwer of this hut was sleeping.

"Excuse me. I will be back soon."

Saw slid down from Toni's back and stood next to the door. She pushed it, and it opened. The door closed behind her.

Antonio and Lucky were standing outside, not sure about what was going on in the shack. They heard a short yelp, followed by a series of snarling and crunching sounds that lasted for about five minutes. After another minute of silence, Saw came out of the hut and closed the door. Her red eyes glowed brightly, and her posture didn't give any sign of the previous tiredness. Her formerly faint aura was now much stronger. Some thick red liquid was dripping from her claws. Saw turned to Toni.

"My strength is restored. Now, what do you wish me to do in return for your help? I would rather not remain in debt."

Then she walked forward to Lucky, who was floating beside him.

"I found this while inside. It corresponds to the information you uploaded earlier. Is this what you wished for?"

Saw hands Lucky two salmons.