Chapter 7: Bryant
The boy with the red eyes, rags, and tattoos is stumbling by a busy road.
Dante: "I'm alone again Dante... I'm alone again..."
Dante notices helicopters hovering over a house deeper into the block to his left.
Dante: "What are those?"
A wolf tattoo glows before he turns into a white wolf and darts towards a street that leads into the neighborhood inside...
Meanwhile...
???: "O-Oh my god!"
A male wearing a light blue T-shirt with a darker blue stripe at the top, black glasses, fairly chunky, tan cargo shorts, pale skin, short, brown hair, white socks and black shoes is sitting in front of a computer, creating abominations in either 3D modeling, or paper drawings at a desk.
Male: "(laughing) Oh man! Max is going to be so pissed tomorrow!"
He can hear helicopter blades outside.
Male: "Hm? A car crash?"
The male gets up to go check it out.
Meanwhile...
Dante: "What kind of thing can fly without wings?"
Dante is standing by the house with helicopters hovering overhead, still in wolf form.
Dante: "Hm?"
A rope ladder descends to the front door, with a soldier climbing down.
Soldier: "Catalyst."
Another male wearing all black and has sunglasses on his head steps out.
Male: "Can I help you?"
The Catalyst Detector doesn't react.
Soldier: "Anyone else on the premises?"
Male: "There's my brother Bryant..."
The male from before arrives at the door.
Bryant: "What's going on?'
The soldier grabs Bryant by the arm.
Soldier: "You're coming with us Catalyst."
Bryant: "Save my model Mitchell.
Mitchell: "Can do."
Mitchell goes back inside as Bryant is led to the ladder.
Dante: "Something isn't right."
Dante looks at the soldier.
Dante: "It's not right!"
Dante rushes up before head butting the soldier's hand holding Bryant, causing him to let go.
Soldier: "A mangy mutt?"
Dante: "Mutt?"
The soldier steps back a bit.
Soldier: "A-A Creation?!"
Bryant: "Say what now?"
Dante: "I have no idea what you're talking about."
Two more soldiers slide down the rope ladder, both carrying shotguns on their backs along with a third one for the first soldier.
Dante: "I've never seen a weapon like that."
The third shotgun is caught.
Soldier 2: "Don't aim anywhere vital."
They aim their shots at Dante's back legs.
Bryant: "Get away from them! The closer they are, the deadlier the shot!"
Dante: "Okay!"
Dante runs backwards the second the shots are fired.
Soldier 3: "Someone shut that Catalyst up."
The first two soldiers quickly tie and gag Bryant before he can react.
Dante: "Hey! Let him go!"
Dante's sense of right and wrong kicks in, only for it to be his downfall.
Soldier 3: "Big mistake."
Dante gets shot in the legs, crippling him.
Dante: "(in pain) Great!"
Dante is unable to move.
Bryant: "(in head) Well, looks like I'm not coming back."
A voice echoes in Bryant's mind.
Voice: "Creativity, it's your biggest strength."
Bryant: "(in head) Who's there?!"
The third soldier walks up to Dante.
Voice: "You know there's a solution to this predicament."
The Catalyst Detector explodes.
Soldier 2: "What just happened? A malfunction?"
A dark red aura surrounds Bryant and Dante.
Bryant: "(in head) What do I do?"
Voice: "Watch..."
The aura turns into balls of light that falls onto Bryant's skin around his left eye, back, the right side of his chest, and around his upper right arm.
Voice: "Thy soul unshackled..."
The light begins to form more distinct shapes.
Soldier: "Wh-What's that light?!"
Dante's injury begins to heal.
Dante: "My legs..."
Dante is soon able to get back on his feet.
Voice: "Thy desire unchanged..."
The light forms the marks that were on Dante in his human form as something snaps in Bryant's mind.
Bryant/ Voice: "(in head) The time is nigh for your desires to become the new reality of this world..."
The mark of the wolf begins to glow.
Bryant/ Voice: "Now awaken..."
Bryant changes into a wolf like Dante.
Bryant/ Voice: "Shift!"
Bryant swift changes back and sprouts bat wings.
Dante: "Metama and Transi abilities?!"
Bryant takes to the skies as the helicopter books it out of there.
Bryant: "Dante! Switch to your snake form and suffocate the left one!"
Dante changes to a snake.
Dante: "Then what?"
Bryant dives towards the other two.
Bryant: "The others are mine!"
Bryant develops the tail of a snake as he tail slaps the shotguns out of their hands.
Soldier 1: "Huh?!"
Bryant switches to a pure rhino above the first soldier, crashing down and crushing his bones and organs into paste.
Dante: "Ouch..."
Dante has wrapped himself around the third soldier's neck.
Soldier 3: "(suffocating) Get off me!"
Bryant switches to wolf form and digs his claws into the other soldier's neck, slitting his throat.
Bryant: "Let go!"
Dante returns to wolf form and lets go of the soldier, allowing him to breath.
Soldier 3: "(coughing) P-Please!"
The dark red aura surrounds the two.
Bryant: "Goodbye."
The two position themselves in front and behind the soldier.
Dante: "I see your idea!"
They both dash towards the soldier as he panics, searching for a weapon.
Bryant/ Dante: "Synergy Attack..."
They bash their skulls into his stomach simultaneously, shattering his spine.
Soldier 3: "(in pain) I can't feel my legs..."
Bryant/ Dante: "... Wolf Basher!"
The moment the two touch the ground, they leap back into the air and destroy the soldier's skull with two head butts, killing him instantly.
Mitchell: "What the hell just happened?"
Mitchell witnessed the whole thing unfold at the front door.
Bryant: "Everything."
Bryant changes back as the marks fade, falling to the ground.
Mitchell: "Okay..."
Dante changes back to his human form.
Dante: "You okay?"
Bryant: "(mumbling) Oof..."
Dante and Mitchell pick up Bryant.
Mitchell: "Come with me and you'll see..."
They head inside...
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