The Legend of the Slayer

[madimpossibledreamer]

I don’t think most people should use the term ‘females’. I also think Trish needs to be shown as not-human more often.

Main Points:
Buffy/Devil May Cry/Resident Evil/Background NCIS Crossover (though this one is mostly DMC)
Chapter Summary: The Council's reputation isn't great.
Word Count: 370
Rating: Teen

         From there, it continues as it usually does. Cultists are, in Dante’s experience, an extremely unhelpful lot, all too willing to talk about anything that doesn’t actually matter and surprisingly tight-lipped on the things that do.
         It’s Trish overhearing a remark that gives them the real next clue about Dante’s half-brother. “The Slayers? They’re bad news.”
         “Wait, you’ve heard of these guys?” Dante demands, and even Lady looks intrigued.
         Trish looks uncomfortable, which is rare for her, but at his pleading expression gives in. “Look, I haven’t run into any myself. All I know is what I hear. They’re basically human females, foot soldiers, who have had the soul of a Devil shoved in them. There’s only one at a time, but they’re capable of taking down full blood devils, and from my time in the Order of the Sword, I gathered a lot of their research about making human-devil hybrids was stolen from their commanders—the Watchers—during a period of upheaval, besides what they picked up from your brother’s notes.”
         Dante really doesn’t like what he’s hearing, and Lady seems to be equally outraged.
         “So, what’s their policy on devils?” Is my half-brother a prisoner, or brainwashed?
         “Kill on sight, although they mostly hunt demons. The Watchers are the ones you really have to watch out for, though. They’re squishy like most humans but they’re the brains of the operation, and they basically just treat Slayers like tools—and the Slayers are taught to be their living weapons from when they’re really young.”
         So, they’d have killed his brother. Unless he turned out to be useful. And they’d probably have offered him lots of shiny things, like protection from anything that was also hunting Sparda.
         Lady and Dante exchange unhappy looks.
         “If it’s to rescue somebody from these jerks, I’ll do it for free,” Lady declares, which is as close as she gets to ‘of course I’ll help you rescue your family from these creeps, Dante’. “This is all just wrong.”
         Dante nods and swallows and tries to look confident, but the more he’s hearing about this mess, the more his hope drowns in an ocean of despair, because family, in his experience, doesn’t get to go well.