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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