Sunset's journey

Dante was running through a fun house in Limbo that he had ducked into in order to get away from the Hunter demon that was chasing him. Now that he had a few second breather without a demon trying to murder him, the man’s thoughts drifted back to the girl named Kat that had warned him of the Hunter. “Just who was that girl?” He thought. “And when am I not in trouble?!” Suddenly there was a loud bang of a gun firing. “There’s someone else in here?!” Dante had never run into a demon that could use a gun so that was a logical conclusion. Say what you want about the man, he’s a jerk and all around asshole, but he would never leave a fellow human in a place like Limbo.
He ran to the end of the corridor then took a sharp left turn, just in time to see a demon get sent flying past him! “Ok.” He peek into the room and what he saw made him gap in awe.

It wasn’t a human but some kind of humanoid creature. Its head looked like a red helmet, it had a pair of white lines cutting vertically through the centre of it and the faceplate looked like a light blue circle shaped gem. On the centre of her forehead was a bronze coin, with a pair of white curved horns coming out of it, forming a V. Her skin from the neck down looked like a black full body spandex suit except for the forearms arms which were red, going down the side of her arms and the front of her legs was a dark blue line. Her hands looked like black gloves and her feet were in the shape of black combat boots. Her chest looked like a bronze coin with white outlines, her shoulders like red shoulder armour that curved down with white outlines. Her forearms were made in the image of red forearm armour, as was the back of her hands and her shins were made in the image of red shin armour with a pair of white lines cutting vertically through the front of it. The front of her knees were made to look like grey circle shaped knee armour and her shins and ankles looked like red bracelets and anklets respectively with silver frame work. Over all this she wore a black sleeveless overcoat with silver outlines and a high collar. Going around her waist, outside her coat was a silver belt, the buckle looked like a silver circle, with a black hand print in the centre of it that had golden outlines. On either side of which was a small silver square shaped lever and connected to the left side of the belt was a silver chain that had a single slot in it. On her left middle finger was a silver ring with a large red A shaped stone in the centre of it. In her hand she held a silver single sided sword, with the guard looking like a closed fist with golden outlines and having its thumb sticking out.

At that moment the creature was attacked by lesser Stygian. She pulled on her sword’s thumb making the hand open.

[COME ON AND SLASH SHAKE HANDS! COME ON AND SLASH SHAKE HANDS!]

The sword kept repeating that before she scanned the ring on the hand.

[ACTIVE SLASH STRIKE!]

A magical glyph appeared around the blade and covered it in bright red lightning, before the female brought it around and cut the lesser Stygian in half!

“So what kind of demon are you?” Asked Dante as he walked into the room, drawing his sword as he went.

“What are you-?! Wait a minute! I’m not one of these things!”

“Well, your not a demon and your not trying to kill me and since I’d feel like an ass if I killed someone that sounded like a teenager in cold blood, your free to go!” Dante turned away, when the girl shouted:

“Wait!”

Dante turned back to her. “What?” He asked a bit of anger and hostility edging into his voice as a result of his impatience.

“Can I come with you?”

Anger and hostility was replaced by shock and dumbfoundedness. “Seriously? You want to come with me?”

The girl nodded. “I’ve been here for about a month and you look like you know a way out of this crazy place!”

Dante could stop the wince. The longest he’d been in Limbo was a day and he’s nearly lost it! “Ok and now I’d feel like an even bigger asshole if I left you here. You can come but you’ve gotta pull your own weight!”

“Trust me that won’t be a problem.”

Dante turned and walked out of the room. “So what’s your name?” He asked in curiosity.

“Sunset Shimmer or but some people call me Kamen Rider Symbol.” Came the reply.

“Weird names.”

“So, what's yours?”

“Dante.”

“Then I fail to see how you are in a position to judge.”

“Touchie!”

Sunset / Symbol was just glad to have found someone that looked like he knew his way out of this nutso world, where some places where up was literally down! All she remembered was her two names and how to fight as well as the name of her sword which was Sunshine Dawn and how her powers worked. Everything else, where she learned to fight, her family and her friends was all blank!

The man and Kamen Rider went to the end of the hall, at which was a giant mirror. Suddenly it broke to pieces, with the Hunter Demon standing were the mirror once was. It snarled swiped at them, Symbol jumped over the blow and Dante leapt back out of arm reach. It demon gave a growl as it pulled out its knife, which Dante blocked with his impressive strength and threw over his shoulder through a wall! It snarled as said wall came down. “Hey GET BACK HERE!” Yelled Dante to no effect as the monster ran off.

“Nice.” Commented Symbol as the two of them ran to the end of the hall and took a left turn. Suddenly at the end of the hall a giant doll lit up with blue lightning! It was terrifying! “EEP!” Which Sunset demonstrated by leaping into Dante’s arms!

“Yeah I don’t like those things either, but we do have to go past it if we want to get out of here.” Explained Dante, while wondering why this girl seemed so familiar.

Sunset stiffened but nodded. They got past the doll, thankfully it didn’t light up this time. Dante put the Kamen Rider back down and they ran down a flight of stairs, before following the corridor around to the left, in the next room was a door with a neon green EXIT sign above it.

“Exit, good.” Muttered Dante, as he ran into the room.

“NO! Wait its a trap!” Shouted Symbol as she ran after him.

Suddenly, some of the gear’s around the room pulled themselves free of the wall and moved, blocking the way to the door. “Not good!” Muttered Dante.

“Oh geh you think?!” Shouted Sunset as she drew sunshine dawn sword style, getting ready for whatever kind of demon would be popping out of the ground.

“Yeah whatever.” Muttered Dante as a giant doll peeked out from a cabinet. One of the gears pulled itself free from the wall and roll through the floor leaving a gap as it went out of which climbed a Lesser Stygian. At that moment a giant bob wheel came loose and roll across the ground, nearly hitting Dante.

“LOOK OUT!!”

Who thanks to Symbol's warning was able to sidestep it, letting it slam into the demon.

The first wave was made of four Lesser Stygians.

Dante slashed his sword in an upwards arc sending one into the air, before he twisted around to dodge the blow of the second one and rammed his sword into its gut, forcing it back and grinding the demon to dust on the gears.

Sunset slashed at the first of her Lesser Stygians, clashing her sword against its club, before she uppercutted it in the face and spin kicked it into the gears, but the demon was able to survive. Symbol then ducked under an attack from the second Lesser Stygian and slashed it twice with sunshine dawn sword style each blow letting off a blast of red lightning. The Kamen Rider then saw that the other Lesser Stygian had gotten up, she quickly pressed down on the left shift lever once, turning the hand author in that direction and the belt to start singing.

[TOUCH TO GO AND CAST YOUR SPELL]

Sunset then scanned the active ring across the hand author, making the belt stop chanting at shout:

[ACTIVE C TIER SPELL!]

A glyph winked into being around the Kamen Riders right fist, it was an A, with a red circle within a red eight pointed star within a second red circle. She drew back said fist and slammed it into the ground sending out a blast of lightning in all directions “Lightning burst!” Whispered Symbol as the demons faded away, having been killed by the electrocution.

Dante slammed its sword down on the other Lesser Stygians head, before stabbing it so fast that it looked like he had ten arms!

While the man and Kamen Rider had been dealing with those pest, four more identical demons yanked themselves from the ground.

“More for me!” Muttered Dante, he started firing at them with Ebony and Ivory, his twin costume handguns, well more like hand cannons. That had been altered to fire bullets which were made of demonic energy, one of the Lesser Stygians was killed by the constant bullet barrage and the other was ripped to bits by several continuous spinning slashes from Dante’s sword.

Sunset was dealing with the other two, but as she blocked the attack from one of them with her sword and then booted the other away, sparks flew from her armour when she was attacked from behind by another two Lesser Stygians. “GAH!” Shouted the Kamen Rider in pain as she stumbled forwards. Symbol slashed her sword in the direction of the two Lesser Stygians that were behind her, only to get hit by the other two. “Nuts!” Muttered the girl as she fell over, all of a sudden another ring chain grew from the right side of her belt, it had a single slot, in which was another ring! “Please let this be something good!” The girl tore the ring from its chain and slipped it onto her right middle finger it was coloured red with a green gemstone in the centre of it that looked like three claws. Symbol pressed down on right shift lever turning the hand author to that side, causing the belt to start singing:

[TOUCH TO CHANGE YOUR CLASS!]

Sunset then scanned the ring.

[SLASHER PLEASE!]

The sound of claws being unsheath came from the driver as a glyph appeared to her right side. It had three black claws in the centre, inside a green circle inside a golden eight pointed star inside a green circle. It passed through the girl just as the Lesser Stygians brought their weapons down!

Sunset's overcoat snapped shut and the front of it now bore a green raptor foot, with golden claws and in the centre of it was the image of three black claws. Her shoulder guards turned dark green with golden outlines and coming out of them was an upwards facing golden spike. Green armour materialized around her upper arms, coming out of which was a golden outwards facing spike. Symbol's forearm armour turned dark green and covered her whole forearms with a backwards facing spike coming out of it that covered her elbows. Sunset's bracelets turned golden the armour on the back of her hands turned dark green and out of which burst three foot long green claws.

Symbol crossed them over her chest, blocking all four hits from the Lesser Stygians. “So this form increases my strength a bit.” Muttered the Kamen Rider as she remembered how she had only just been able to block the blow from a single Lesser Stygian but was now holding four of them back with ease! She threw her claws up, forcing the Lesser Stygians back, before spinning to her feet, slashing at the legs of one of them as she did so, making it fall over. Sunset then stabbed her left claws through its head, blocking the blow from another Lesser Stygian she then rammed her other claw through its torso and forced it back. Using the demon as a battering ram, to force another one onto the gears killing it. Symbol then threw the Lesser Stygian who’s torso she had her claws in into the final demon. The female quickly pressed down on the right shift lever, resetting the hand author, before she scanned the slasher ring:

[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: SLASHER C LEVEL SPELL!]

The slasher glyph appeared below Sunset again as her claws were covered in bright green energy. “Take this! Slasher attack!” She ran forwards bringing her claws around in an uppercut that split the first Lesser Stygian in half, before a second slash ripping the other in half via the waist.

“Well that's that!” Stated Dante. The two of them turned towards the door, when it suddenly extended away from them! “What the-?!” Going across the floor were two sections of five lines, which Dante idiotically ran towards.

“NO! Green Rush!” Sunset slammed her hand down on the right shift lever twice and scanned the lasher ring.

[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: SLASHER B LEVEL SPELL!]

The Kamen Rider blitz forwards as green energy shined around her body. As Dante ran across the lines one of the gears pulled itself from the wall and rolled towards the male member of the two. Symbol appeared and quickly knocked it back with her claws, before grabbing Dante and throwing the both of them over the lines. “Jump over them! Don’t run through something like that!” Shouted the Kamen Rider.

“Sorry.” Dante rubbed his head sheepishly.

Sunset rolled her eyes and jumped over the next line with the man following her through the exit, which thankfully stayed where it was this time!

As they reached the entrance Dante suddenly grabbed Symbol and yanked her back just as a spinning blade rolled past where she was just standing! “And you told me to be careful?” He questioned with a mock glare on his face.

“Sorry.” Replied the Kamen Rider just as sheepishly as he had. Suddenly, she looked back at Dante and covered her mouth guard to keep from laughing.

Said man raised an eyebrow “What?”

Sunset just shook her head and point to a store mirror behind Dante. Who turned to look, then stopped and stared at the white wig covering his black hair.

Suddenly they both heard a loud growling sound, both of them turned and saw the Hunter demon at the far end of the pier. “Let's kill it!” Cheered Sunset.

“Not in a million years.” Muttered Dante making Symbol look at him, just in time to see the man yank off the wing, pull out his guns and opening fire on the Hunter Demon.

Sunset pulled out sunshine dawn sword style, pulled the handle down and flipped the blade inwards, turning it into its rifle style and joining the bullet barrage.

“That won’t work.” Came a voice from behind the two. Symbol glanced behind her and saw that it was a girl, who seemed to be partly see through.

“Why not?” Demanded Dante looking at his guns as if they’d betrayed him.

“He’s bullet proof.” Shot back the girl.

“How do you even know that it's a boy?” Asked Sunset getting the girl to notice her.

“Who is this?!”

“Oh right, Sunset this is Kat. Kat this is Sunset.” Introduced Dante as the Hunter Demon leapt away over some buildings.

“There’s a rift up ahead!” Shouted Kat as she lead them away.

“A what?” Asked Dante.

“It’ll bring the both of you back to the real world! We can come back for the Hunter!”

“What does she mean the real world?” Asked Sunset as she and Dante jumped over two gaps in the pier that forms just in front of them. The buildings around them seemed to jump into the sky and break apart as they did so!

“Well, this is Limbo, sort of a space between the demon world and the real world!” Explained Dante. “So far the only method that I know of getting out is killing the demon that dragged you in here, but Kat thinks that these so called ‘rifts’ can get us back!”

Suddenly, Symbol fell to one knee. “What’s wrong?” Asked Dante in concern as he ran back, once again wondering why he was being so nice.

“I-I don’t know!” Panted Sunset, why am I so exhausted?!” At that moment crescent rose spoke up.

Dante hummed in thought. “This is your first time in this form? Right?”

Sunset nodded slowly. “Yeah.”

Dante pulled out his sword. “When I first got this I was exhausted afterwards. It's probably the same for you so you should change back into the form that you where in when we first met.”

Sunset nodded as she pressed down on the right shift lever and scanned the active ring on the hand author.

[TOUCH TO ENTER THE MAGIC: ACTIVE PLEASE: LETS GO!]

A glyph appeared to her left. It was all red with an A in the centre, inside a circle which was inside an eight point star that was inside a second circle. Sunset extended her arm to the left and it passed over her, returning the Kamen Rider to her active style. Symbol instantly felt better. “Looks like this style doesn’t use as much energy.” She muttered.

“Right, now, let's get back to running for our lives!” Dante and Sunset ran for it as the houses kept jumping into the air and coming to bits. Suddenly, something shot past them and into the funhouse where the rift was. The man and girl briefly saw a cable before whatever it was attached to was pulled out making the funhouse collapse! They both turned around and saw the Hunter Demon preached on the Ferris wheel as it put its grappling gun back behind its back.

“Well, that ways out.” Stated the Kamen Rider.

“Ok then, let’s fight.” Stated Dante to both the demon and female.

The Hunter leapt to the ground, just as the two were about to engage it a voice called out. “Dante, Sunset wait.” Kat ran past and threw a Molotov at the Demon it slammed into the monster’s face and exploded. The Hunter Demon shrieked in pain as it thrashed around. “It's working, you can fight him now. It won’t be easy Hunters are brutal fighters.” Warned Kat as she vanished.

“Yeah? Well so are me and Sunset.” Was Dante’s reply. The man opened fire with his guns, when Kat remember one last piece of advice that she could give.

“Dante, Sunset can you still hear me?”

“Yeah! We can hear you.” Shouted back Dante was Symbol used crescent rose sword style to deflect a knife swing rolling back with the force of the blow.

“Attack its face!”

“Thanks for the advice!” Shouted Symbol as she flipped sunshine dawn sword style into sunshine dawn rifle style and fired a spray of dust bullets at the monsters face, causing it to back off in pain!

Dante ran past the girl jumping into the air and slashing at the monsters face, with a roar it lasted out trying to hit him with a spinning back slash but missing, the man pulled out his guns and opened fire on the monsters face once again. It gave a roar and swung its blade in a sweeping arc, which Dante rolled out of the way of, only to be kicked back by the creature!

“DANTE!” Shouted Sunset, with a growl she pressed down on the left shift lever twice and scanned the active ring.

[TOUCH TO USE THE MAGIC: ACTIVE B TIER SPELL!]

The active glyph appeared below the Kamen Rider as red lightning surrounded her fist. “Active thunder!” She zipped forwards and slammed said limb into the Hunter Demon’s face, sending it toppling over as electricity surged through its body. Dante ran past her and started to slash at its face with his sword doing major damage. Sunset quickly started to build up power as she pressed down on the left shift lever thrice and scanned the active ring once more.

[TOUCH TO USE THE MAGIC: ACTIVE A RANK SPELL!]

Wizard placed her hands together, before drawing them apart as bright red lightning gathered, forming into a bright red ball of pure electrical energy. The active glyph winked into being below her as the Kamen Rider drew the ball back. “DANTE MOVE! Active beam!” She thrust the ball forwards and it turned into a beam of red lightning which slammed into the demon, only for it to use the recoil to get back to its feet much faster! “Oops!”

The Hunter Demon leapt up to the fersis wheel. “Now shoot him down!” Came Kat’s warning as the monster pulled out its grapple gun and starting shooting, whenever it hit the ground a hand made of earth burst out and tried to crush them. Dante and Sunset spent the next five minutes dodging the rock hand while shooting back at the Demon, Dante with ebony and ivory and Wizard used crescent rose rifle style. Suddenly, the man tripped and the demon was quick to take advantage, it fire its gun and the earth hand grabbed Dante! “GAH!” He screamed as it started to crush him.

“GET AWAY FROM HIM ACTIVE ELECTRONIC!” Sunset pulled on sunshine dawn's thumb opening its hand author.

[COME ON AND SHOOTING SHAKE HANDS!]

Before she scanned the active ring.

[ACTIVE SHOOTING STRIKE!]

A loop of red energy appeared around the bottom and top of the rifle barrel as a ball of red lightning condense at the tip, before roaring out in a massive beam! It slammed into the Hunter Demon with a loud *KABOOM!* Sending it tumbling down!

“Thanks Sunset!” Dante ran past and used an upwards slash on the monsters face to launch himself into the air then come back down with a hard downwards sword slam. He then used his sword in several spinning slashes then a club strike. “Do you fucking demons even feel pain?”

Suddenly the monster pulled itself back to its feet and came at Dante with a spinning back slash. “That old trick?” Dante ducked out of the way, but that demon’s other arm came around and slammed into him sending the man flying!

“DANTE!” Shrieked Sunset.

The Hunter Demon leapt into the air and brought its knife down, Dante managed to twist out of the way but didn’t escape unscathed. He got a nasty cut from hits shoulder to his hip! “ARRGGGHHHHH!!” Shouted Dante in pain!

“GET AWAY FROM HIM! Green rush!” Sunset slammed her hand down on the right shift lever, turning the hand author in the corresponding direction and scanning the slasher ring.

[TOUCH TO CHANGE YOUR CLASS: SLASHER PLEASE!]

The slasher glyph winked into being to her right and transformed the Kamen Rider into her active slasher style.

She pressed down on the right shift lever twice and scanned the slasher ring once again.

[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: SLASHER B LEVEL SPELL!]

The slasher glyph appeared below the girl as she blitzed forwards, crossing her claws and blocking the knife as the demon drove it down towards Dante’s face. Unfortunately, while this form did give her a bit more strength, it was nowhere near enough to hold back the demon for long, especially when it started to put its whole body weight against the blade!

Thankfully Dante had recovered. He ran past her and jabbed his blade into the demon’s face before giving it a downwards heavy slash, then firing his guns. The demon backed off and leapt back onto the ferris wheel.

“Not this time!” Shouted Sunset as she pressed down on the right shift lever thrice and scanned the slasher ring.

[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: SLASH A LEVEL SPELL!]

The slasher glyph winked in under Wizard’s feet as green energy drifted up from it into her claws making them glow bright green. Sunset then slashed them forwards sending six crescents of bright green energy at the Hunter Demon, cutting most of the muscles in its legs and forcing it to fall to the ground! It got back to its feet and clear decided that a change of tactics was in order. It vomited some kind of black fog that covered the area. Making it so that the man and Kamen Rider could barely see two feet in front of them! “This is disgusting! Are you ok?” Shouted Sunset.

“I can barely see my hand in front of my own face! How can I be ok?!” Demanded Dante. Suddenly a spinning blade flew out of the fog! “Move!” Dante tackled Sunset to the side, which she was able to repay seconds later when the blade came back, by deflecting it with her claws. They expected the blade to come back out of the fog where it had gone in, only for it to come at Sunset from behind! Drawing sparks off her armour. “Owie! What the-?!” The blade once again emerged, this time from their right!

“How the hell is he doing that?!” Demanded Dante as he rolled out of the way.

“I cut most of his leg muscles, so this fog must let him teleport somehow!” Shouted Sunset in return, then she glanced at her aura levels and paled. “I’m almost out of aura!”

“What’s aura?!”

“The energy that powers my attacks! I’ve got one S class spell left then I’m out!”

“Try and pin him down! I’ve got something that should be able to finish it! But I need time!”

“I’ll get you that time!” Sunset converted sunset dawn back into its sword style and pulled its thumb opening the hand author.

[COME ON AND SLASH SHAKE HANDS!]

Symbol then scanned the slasher ring on crescent rose’s hand author.

[SLASHER SLASH STRIKE!]

The slasher glyph flashed on the hand author as the sword’s sharp edge grew to energy replicas beside it. After several seconds of waiting the blade came flying out of the fog and Sunset shot forwards “Triple slash!” She swung the blade ripping the knife in half, before continuing on, she ran into the fog and slashed open the Hunter Demon’s side, it gave a loud roar of pain as Sunset yelled: “NOW DANTE!” Said man smirked as his sword glowed with red energy. “You got it!” He slashed the blade forwards, sending a wave of red energy at the Hunter Demon, splitting it in half!

Dante caught his breath and walked over. “Game over.” He stated smugly.

“Son of Sparda.” Growled out the demon.

“Son of who?” Questioned Dante, but he was ignored.

“You have been found. You are dead, just like your whore mother.”

“Whore mother? I don’t know my mother but if your calling me a son of a bitch then you wouldn’t be the first!” Dante brought his blade down on the demon’s head. He put the sword back on his back as Limbo faded into the real world.

“You ok?” Asked Sunset as she walked over.

“My mother, I barely remember her.” Muttered Dante as he fingered his necklace.

“Looks like we have something in common.” Dante raised an eyebrow at Sunset questionly. “I don’t even remember anything beyond waking up in Limbo.”

Now Dante started. “Nothing at all?”

“Nothing, except how to fight, my name and things that were engraved as a child like reading, talking and writing.”

Time skip

A few hours later Dante and Sunset were walking down a sidewalk when Kat drove up in a car. “Are you ok, Dante? Sunset?” She asked.

“How do you know ours name?” Asked the Kamen Rider.

“My boss knows you, he wants to meet.” When they didn’t say anything she added. “Please. I helped you both back there.”

Dante scoffed and leaned on the cars window. “Neither of us asked for your help.”

A police car went zooming by and Dante sighed before getting into the car alongside Kat while Sunset got in the back.

She pulled a U turned and drove away. “We know all about you, Dante. I’m with an organization called the order. Heard of it?”

“Something to do with that masked freak on the net?” Asked Dante.

“That's my boss.”

“Wonderful, can’t wait.” Came the sarcastic reply.

“Really?” Asked Sunset.

“That was sarcasm!”

Meanwhile a news bulletin came up on a big screen. “We just received reports of a terrorist attack that has taken place at the Bellevue pier in the western district of the city. Police are asking the public to remain vigilant as further terror attacks could take place anywhere, any time, when you least expect it.

Undisclosed location

A bald man was sitting in an office with a really ugly lady standing in front of the desk. “We have your scent Son of Sparda.” Stated the man. “Now it's just a matter of time.”

To be continued