The Son Of Dante

"You... you're not an ordinary human. What are you?" In the phantom's eyes a humanoid demon image overlap with Dante and it eyes widened in horror as it recognized the figure.

"No...the Legendary Sparda...?!. It can't be.

Dante was somewhat surprised that the phantom had actually figured out his identity despite it stupidity.

"You're right, I'm his son, Dante. Sweet dreams."

Naruto stared at the slowly decomposing phantom, scoffed and said. "Now I won't have to worry about seeing your stupid face ever again"

Remorse? Regret? Why should he care aboany of that?

Dante slapped Naruto lightly on his shoulder with a proud smile on his face. "You did well kid."

"I didn't do much" Naruto shook his head dejectedly. At the end of the day the phantom had died because of Dante's intervention. If Dante hadn't interfered, Naruto would probably be the one to die and not the phantom.

Dante rolled his eyes when he saw Naruto's expression. "Stop acting humble and just roll with it"

"Hm" Naruto nodded. He knew Dante was right. There was no point sucking about it. What's done is done.

The two of them slowly walk away from the broken glass unaware of Trish watching them from a pillar on the lower floor. She had a surprise look on her face.

"The kid defeated the phantom?...Unbelievable."

She had seen everything that had transpired and to be honest she was caught by surprise. She had only considered Dante to be a thread but who knew that the kid was also like him. A human with demon blood coursing through his veins.

She stared at the spot where phantom had died and turned to demonic ashes and then at the destroyed glass one more time before walking away.

"I need to correct my evaluation of that kid"

.....

After exiting the rooftop through the now opened gate, and drop down to an area with two horse statues with a human sized crack in the floor between them and aTrident stabbed into the ground in front of them.

They drop through the crack in the floor into a room with the castle's drawbridge mechanism. Dante impatiently kicked the lever to open and lower the drawbridge outside.

Naruto pick up the Grenadegun and handed it over to Dante since he didn't like the weight of the gun in his hands.

Why thank you kind, sir" dante gave Naruto a mock bow after he receiving the grenade gun causing Naruto's eyebrows to twitch in annoyance.

Inside the small room is a device with three small hole. A statue of a head with it mouth wide open rested against the wall behind the device. A small gap separated the statue from the device. A double door rested to the far left corner of the room.

Two short pillars a few feet apart stood in the middle of the room opposite the device with a narrow space on the ground in-between them.

Naruto observed the room while Dante walked up to the device by the wall and stab the Trident in his hand into the holes on the device.

Swoosh! Clanking!

Water rushed out of the mouth of the statue and the chains on the pillar started moving pulling up a portcullis from the gap in the ground.

Dante jumped out the portcullis to stand beside Naruto.

"What do you think that did?" Naruto asked Dante as he watched the water gushing out of the mouth of the statues.

Dante shrugged. "I don't know. I guess we'll just have to find out."

Naruto frowned. The demon castle really is filled with the unknown. It's like pioneering an ancient tomb or something.

They walked through the only door in the room and climbed down a flight of stairs. At the bottom of the stairs was a dead end with a door to their right. They entered into a room with a slowly lowering portcullis, behind the portcullis is a metal double door and another double door adjacent it.

"So that's what it does" Naruto had a look of enlightenment on his face when he saw the room identical to the one they entered previously. He had been confused as to why the portcullis had been raised up previously but it all made sense now. While one rise another falls. Naruto looked like he had finally solved the world's greatest mystery.

Dante shook his head and let out a helpless sigh. He was already used to this kind of random behavior.

They quickly make their way through before the portcullis closes too far and out the door.

In front of them was a draw bridge leading to the other side.

"We are outside the castle?" Naruto exclaimed. He felt like a prisoner leaving his prison for the first time in years.

"I have a feeling that we are only just getting started" Dante shook his head. They might have left the castle but their job was still far from being done.

Naruto turned to look at Dante with a raised brow. "Why'd you say that?"

"Mundus is known as the ruler of the underworld. But so far, we have only fought two powerful demons." Dante explained seriously with folded arms. The king of the underworld was called that for a reason. As even his father once served in his rank.

"So you mean that there will be more powerful opponents coming up" Naruto was not dumb. Even he had thought that their journey till now was a little too smooth sailing. The demons barely put up much resistance.

"Be on guard from now on" Dante adviced.

"Got it" Hearing the seriousness in Dante's voice gave him a bad feeling since Dante was anything but a serious person.

"The fight is only just beginning"