My God, I can hardly believe I got to this. The final chapter of my first non-one shot fic. Damn, I feel rather proud for some reason.

And don't think that this is over just yet; I have what I hope will be an entertaining one-shot that ties in to this fic planned. I hope to get it up relatively soon.

Here it is guys, the final chapter to Devil Apocalypse! Hope you enjoy it until the end!

Final Chapter

Everyone couldn't believe what they were seeing: Takashi with a spectre looking a lot like Dante's Devil Trigger standing right behind him. Dante was very shocked to say the least despite the situation. Not only did Takashi manage to activate his Devil Trigger, something that he definitely had not seen coming anytime soon, but said Devil Trigger looked like a cross between his and Nero's. He had a feeling that it meant something, but wasn't sure what.

Takashi just ignored their looks of shock and started walking forward, the spectral figure behind him moving a bit until it seemed to overlap Takashi. Dante saw this happen as he knocked aside an incoming Scarecrow, his eyes narrowing a bit. He figured that the spectre would hang back a bit just like Nero's did, but this one was now practically covering up Takashi.

Like with Nero's Devil Trigger, the spectral figure was larger than the teen, but when it overlapped him, it seemed to shrink a bit to better fit Takashi, yet it was still large enough to most likely give him more of a reach with his attacks.

Dante managed to shake out of his stupor a bit as more demons and zombies began to approach him again. Their numbers now weren't as great as before thanks to his efforts so far, but the mob was still large enough to cause some trouble. He slashed one Assault at an angle with Rudra while decapitating an approaching zombie with Agni. "Give them hell kid," Dante muttered as he swapped then swapped out the twin swords for Nevan, which he then started to play, dozens of bats that were covered by purple lightning. The bats slammed into the nearest enemies, that being a few Scarecrows and zombies, the deadly bats tearing them apart as the lightning served to practically fry them a bit.

This action of his got Lady to snap out of her staring too and start to run right at the mob once more, pulling out her machine gun and quickly reloading it. "Make it hurt for them," she said as she started to shoot at the nearest targets she could spot.

Despite the noise Dante was now making, Takashi heard him and Lady. "I will," he muttered back to the devil hunters without looking, the sudden increase in the flurry of bats and shooting being their way of telling Takashi they heard him too.

Takashi walked angrily towards Shidou, who was still standing a bit too close to Saeko for his tastes. Shidou, on his part, had what could best be described as confusion on his face, his undead mind recognizing that Takashi had somehow just gotten stronger, but unsure of how it happened. Saeko just stared at Takashi, seemingly ignoring Shidou despite how close he was. "Komuro-kun," she said under her breath.

She was shaken out of her stupor when Tsunoda, who had recovered from being knocked back by Takashi's sudden Devil Trigger activation, roared and leapt from where he was at the silver haired teen. "Komuro-kun!" Saeko cried out in warning, but Tsunoda was already well within range of Takashi and reeled back his arm for a punch.

However, thanks to Devil Trigger, Takashi's senses and physical abilities were considerably greater than before. This was shown when Takashi almost lazily brought up his left hand and caught Tsunoda's wild punch. The punch was strong enough to budge Takashi a bit, but the teen was able to stop it. This had the effect of greatly surprising the group save for Dante and Lady.

They would have made some kind of sudden comment too if Takashi then didn't push Tsunoda back and deliver a vicious punch of his own. "Back off!" Takashi roared as he swung at Tsunoda. As he did so, the spectral fist of his Devil Trigger seemed to enlarge a bit and extend a bit off his actual fist. The punch came hard and fast at Tsunoda, who clearly hadn't been expecting it to be so much faster than before. First the spectral fist made contact with his face followed an instant later by Takashi's own. The two-for-one punch was so powerful that it slightly caved in Tsunoda's face a bit, cracking it and making it bleed as it sent him flying past Saeko and Shidou. The only reason why it didn't take his head off completely was because Tsunoda had instinctively taken a few steps back right before Takashi's fists made contact and thus saved himself a bit.

The group and Shidou followed Tsunoda's unexpected flight in amazement, only with the Blitz-zombie looking confused as to what was going on. "Saeko-san, go with the others and get that gate open," Takashi practically commanded, wishing for her to remain with the others in relative safety while he dealt with Shidou and Tsunoda.

Saeko, who had been looking at the now fallen Tsunoda in shock, snapped out of her funk and looked at Takashi, once more ignoring Shidou. "What about you?" she asked him, looking eager to help him rather than just wind up on the sidelines.

Takashi flexed his hands, the Gilgamesh gauntlets of his own hands and that of the spectre pulsing with power. "I'll take care of these two fuckers. Just help the others get in there and get a damn boat for us to use!" he roared as he suddenly ran past Saeko and went straight for Shidou. Shidou was taken aback by the speed Takashi was moving at, but was able to move to his right in time avoid the punch Takashi threw, though the spectral fist narrowly missed due to its size.

Saeko quickly turned around to see Takashi charge at Shidou once more, going for another punch. As she looked at him narrowly miss again, she knew that trying to help out would just result in nothing more than her being a burden to Takashi; he, Shidou, and Tsunoda were just out of her league. Grudgingly, Saeko slowly took a few steps towards the others by the gate before turning around for a brief moment. "Be sure to win," she said before running over to the others. As she wasn't too far away from them, she quickly reached them and past Kohta so that she could get to the gate. "Let's get this open, now," she said.

This snapped him and the others out of their own daze and got them focused again on the matter at hand. "Right," Kohta said back as he went back to working on picking the lock. Once more, he tried to work as quickly and quietly as possible just in case.

Takashi, with his hearing, heard him work on the gate lock, Saeko and Rei standing guard in case any demons or zombies somehow managed to pop out from anywhere. He smirked a bit knowing that such a thing shouldn't happen and they should be relatively safe for now. He focused quickly again on Shidou who had proven fast enough to dodge his attacks even when they were faster than before. "Ugly bastard," the teen snarled out before charging again.

However, he was interrupted by Tsunoda who had recovered from the first punch. Tsunoda roared as he tried to blindside Takashi, but the silver haired teen was able to stop his charge and step back in time to avoid the Blitz-zombie. But the Tsunoda wasn't done yet, swiping at Takashi with his left arm, which he hadn't been prepared for. But when it struck, it struck the side of the spectral figure first, it appearing to truly have some form of mass for it to be hit and bend under the force of the swipe. But it didn't stop the attack and so it hit Takashi's actual side and sent him flying several feet back before he landed. Takashi noted that the attack didn't hurt as much as before, though it certainly wasn't something that he could just laugh off. He didn't know what exactly the spectral image could fully do, but what it has done so far for him was certainly proving to be very useful.

Takashi shook off the pain and charged at Tsunoda, who in turn chose to meet his charge with one of his own. The two collided violently not even a second later, the force making a bit of a crater underneath them as they found themselves almost evenly matched. Both growled at each other, Tsunoda more than Takashi, before a few seconds later, Takashi began to actually push Tsunoda back a bit. He then stood up a bit straighter without letting go of Tsunoda and kneed said Blitz-zombie right in the gut, the spectral figure hitting a bit of a wider area than Takashi's actual knee. This had the effect of lifting up Tsunoda into the air a few feet. Takashi, still with a hold on him, spun around a few times and then threw him as hard as possible. He took a bit more than a little delight in watching Tsunoda go flying helplessly.

This feeling wasn't to last though for in that second Takashi dropped his guard and Shidou, who had been standing by for an opening, moved in and sunk a fist into Takashi's stomach as hard as he could. Even with the spectral figure taking the brunt of the hit, the punch was incredibly painful for Takashi, actually making him cough up a little blood as he skidded back from the force of it. He swore under his breath as he tried to get some air back in, having it knocked out by the punch and he looked at Shidou warily, noting that he hits far harder than Tsunoda.

He was about to re-experience this new fact for Shidou ran right him, going in low as if he was aiming for his legs. Right when it looked like Shidou was going to attack, Takashi tried to hit him with a vicious kick, but much to his surprise, Shidou suddenly jumped up and kneed Takashi right in the face with enough strength behind the hit to shatter his nose. Takashi swore once again as he stumbled back, but was able to recover quickly enough to punch Shidou in the side of the head as the Blitz-zombie landed in front of him. Shidou staggered a bit to the side from the blow, looking a bit disoriented and Takashi took advantage of this with another punch straight to Shidou's face followed by a low uppercut to the stomach and finally a powerful kick to Shidou's now lowered chin. This last hit knocked Shidou back and Takashi chased right after him, but had to dodge suddenly as Shidou came back to his senses and lashed out with backhand. Shidou wasn't done yet with his counterattack as he let the momentum of his own attack spin him around so that he can go for a punch with his other hand. He did it so quickly that Takashi actually didn't even try to dodge it, feeling that he wouldn't have been able to so instead he brought up both of his arms to block the hit. Shidou's fist slammed straight into the Gilgamesh gauntlets with enough power to make a loud clanging sound and forcing Takashi back a bit before the teen managed to dig his feet into the ground.

As quickly as he could, Takashi moved his arms back and then smacked Shidou's fist to the side. This had the effect of making Shidou lose his balance a bit due to how his footing was a bit unstable when he threw the punch and Takashi moved in on this and punch Shidou as hard as he could in the chin. Shidou did try to pull his head back to avoid it, but the punch still connected and knocked off a bit of the hard, stone-like material on his chin that a Blitz usually had.

This got a growl out of Shidou and before Takashi could even see it coming, Shidou suddenly leaned his body forward and hit Takashi square in the face with a nasty headbutt, breaking Takashi's nose again. Takashi stumbled back from Shidou, holding his nose in pain even as it healed. "What is it with them and breaking my nose?" Takashi couldn't help but wonder in annoyance.

Shidou charged at the teen, roaring loud enough to make Takashi's ears ring a bit. Takashi got into a defensive posture, ready for what Shidou would throw at him next. He wasn't anticipating Tsunoda coming up from his unguarded back and so was slammed forward by the Blitz-zombie, who had, after recovering, made his way around them until he was behind Takashi. Takashi stumbled forward right into Shidou, who knocked him down with a powerful fist to the chest. Takashi grunted in pain as he hit the ground hard. He closed his eyes for the briefest of seconds due to the pain, but when he opened them an instant later, he was looking at Shidou and Tsunoda almost standing right over him, about to attack once more. Takashi swore; this little double team of theirs is going to make this fight much, much harder.

As this went on, Kohta was trying to pick the lock still. The reason why he was taking so long was because he didn't have that much experience with lock picking and the lock in question was particularly difficult. "Can you hurry it up?" Saya practically growled from where she was standing.

"I'm going as fast as I can," Kohta said calmly, but his body language showed the frustration that he was feeling at this lock. A few minutes later, he just gave up. "Screw it," he muttered before standing and taking hold of his machine gun from Rei, who had been holding on to it all this time. Before any of them could say anything, Kohta took aim at the lock and fired off a round at it, blowing it clean off.

"What are you doing?" Rei asked, looking almost horrified. What if the round had gotten a demon's attention. Sparing a glance over to Takashi dodging some attacks from Shidou and Tsunoda as he got up off the ground, she noted that none of them seemed to react to the obviously loud shot.

Kohta had glanced at them too. "See, they're too busy fighting with Komuro to pay attention to us," Kohta said as he took a step back and kicked the gate open. "Now let's get in there and find a working boat." He moved into the port area and the others followed after him, Shizuka and Saya barely remembering to grab the supply bags, which they had nearly forgotten about in the wake of this fighting.

They walked in and noted all of the docks that there were at this port. Many of them were empty, the boats long gone, but thankfully there were several that still had a few boats there, all of them being surprisingly large cruiser boats, which perfectly suited their needs. "All right, we're finally getting somewhere," Rei said happily. The situation was now starting to end up a bit more positive, enough for her to ignore her wounds and pain a bit.

Saeko nodded, a small smile on her face as she felt the same. So did the others, with Alice being vocal about it. "We're leaving on one of those?" she asked, feeling a little excited. She's never really seen that many boats up close before.

Saya ruffled her hair, a smirk on her face. "That's right brat. We just have to make sure one of them has enough gas to get away from here."

Saeko pondered something for several seconds before speaking. "We should also see if we can find any gas containers to take with us in case we run low," she said.

The others nodded. "Then spread out and see if you can find any. The fighting back there is starting to sound even more intense," Kohta said, noting that it seemed like Takashi was taking the offensive once more against his opponents with a vengeance. The roars of the two Blitz-zombies seemed to be testimony to that.

They all nodded and Rei and Saeko went off in separate directions, hoping to find anything of use. Saya was going to take off too, but Kohta stepped in front of her and placed a hand up to stop her. "You might want to stay here, you three," he began to say, but then Zeke barked at him, making him smile a bit, "Sorry, I meant you four. I'll go check things out too, but it might be better for you to find a boat with enough gas for us to get of here."

Surprisingly, Saya didn't argue. "Fine," was all she said. And she took hold of Alice's hand and started walking to the nearest boat to check.

"Be safe, Kohta onii-chan!" Alice said as she was practically dragged away by Saya. Zeke followed after them barking.

Shizuka just grabbed hold of the supply bag she had and tried to catch up with them. "W-wait! Don't just leave me here!" she whined cutely, like a child.

Kohta couldn't help but chuckle as he went to go look for gas containers. He just hoped that things didn't get worse while he, Rei, and Saeko searched. "Be safe, everyone," he thought to himself.

As this went on, Dante and Lady were still having their hands full with the demons and zombies showing up. The two had silently decided to divide things up a bit: Dante focuses on the demons while Lady puts down any zombies, both normal and demonified ones. It was an arrangement that worked best for them; Dante had the stamina and power to kill scores of demons in seconds while Lady had enough bullets to put down a considerable number of Them. However, things were still looking a little bleak for them as the numbers just kept on piling up.

Dante strummed Nevan once more, a torrent of bats appearing out of nowhere and circling him as a shield, warding off some Assaults. But there was a Mega Scarecrow approaching slowly and it didn't seem too put off by the bat shield Dante had up. The devil hunter noticed this and immediately took his Tune Up stance before performing the standard combo that he had for the Devil Arm, shooting out a small swarm of lightning empowered bats right at the massive demon. The bats were crackling with more lightning than usual due to Dante still being in his Devil form and so when the bloodthirsty creatures slammed into the Mega Scarecrow, it was done so with enough force to make it cry out in great pain before making it stumble back a bit. This also had the benefit of making its legs slam into some nearby Scarecrows and zombies, knocking them back too or in some cases even severely wounding them or even killing them due to the sharpness of their leg blades.

But Dante was starting to tire now, his Devil form draining his stamina fast as it had been quite some time since he has ever been forced to use it. "Shit," he muttered as he saw the Mega Scarecrow recover rather quickly and try to move forward again. The Assaults were also starting to try and make their past the bat barrier that he still had up. If things kept up, he may actually end up screwing himself over here if he made a single mistake.

Not far from where he was at, Lady was in a similar predicament. She was shooting fast, but with a level of precision that only Dante could match and surpass. The zombies she was aiming at went down, a single bullet hole in their heads. Some demonified zombies were also showing up and they were proving a bit more resilient than the normal ones, requiring Lady to double-tap Them to put Them down for good. Blood and bodies littered the ground around her as she flipped over one zombie that tried to come at her from the side. As she flipped over it, she kicked it hard in the back, making it stumble forward into a few other zombies and Lady was quick to put Them all down with a short burst of bullets from her pistol. She then took aim with her other hand, machine gun wielded by it, and fired at several demonified zombies approaching her from the left. As they fell, Lady couldn't help but wipe away a bit of sweat that formed on her forehead and threatened to get into her eyes; while zombies were very easy for her to kill, their numbers and surprising ability to sneak up on her was taking its toll on her as she has had to duck and flip and weave past Them to avoid getting caught by their strong arms and eaten. It didn't help that every now and then a Scarecrow would move away from Dante and head for her, but thankfully it was just as easy to kill it as the zombies.

"Hurry up guys," she muttered to herself, hoping that a boat would be found and they can get away. If things dragged on any longer, then not even Dante and her would be able to get out of this without getting a good portion of their bodies bitten. And she had no intention of spending the rest of her life slowly becoming a zombie.

She moved forward a bit and put a bullet into the nearest zombie's head. Before it could even start to fall, a demonified one, a Scarecrow one, moved towards Lady and tried to cut her with its blade arm. However, the attack was slow and so Lady easily avoided it and smacked it in the head with the butt of her machine gun. The demonified zombie staggered a bit from the gun whip and Lady proceeded to blow its brains out with the same gun.

But that was when an actual Scarecrow demon broke off from the demon mob and hobbled over to her. A zombie or two got in its way and it actually cut them down with its blade leg, spinning around to slice Them in half horizontally. As the demon spun, it moved closer to Lady, who was once again being ganged up on by three zombies. Lady saw the Scarecrow coming and decided to put the demon and its low intellect to good use. She baited it by shooting a pistol shot or two at it to infuriate the demon and made it spin even faster, which in turn caused it to move towards her faster. As the Scarecrow approached, Lady quickly ducked underneath the arms of the nearest zombie, circled around it and kicked it hard in the back. Due to the positioning of the other two zombies, all three stumbled forward right into the path of the Scarecrow who unintentionally cut Them in two. The zombies' upper bodies spewed some blood as they went forward after being separated from their lower halves and slammed into the Scarecrow hard enough to knock it off balance. Lady then moved in and peppered the now fallen demon with machine gun rounds while firing into the back of the zombies' skulls with the pistol.

Her targets were now dead and after that, the female devil hunter immediately turned around in big circle, guns drawn, in order to see just how many zombies were left. The number of zombies that she felt had to be dealt with immediately were very small, only a few of Them little more than ten feet away. There dozens more however closing in around the whole area, but they were still meters away. Granted, some of Them were demonified zombies, but their movement speed was scarcely greater than the normal zombies. That didn't mean that Lady could relax a bit. She held back a sigh and wiped off a bit more sweat that had formed on her forehead; she still had plenty of work to do.

Back to Takashi, Shidou, and Tsunoda, their fight dragged on. Shidou and Tsunoda were bad enough to deal with on their own, but together, they were a force to be reckoned with as they kept on the attack, hardly giving Takashi enough time to launch his own attack. Even with Devil Trigger, he was hard pressed to keep ahead of the two thanks to their surprisingly good teamwork, both attacking at roughly the same time from different sides to ensure that Takashi had great difficulty avoiding.

Shidou came at the silver haired teen from his right and went for a leg sweep. Takashi leapt over Shidou's leg just in the nick of time, but then Tsunoda suddenly made his appearance right behind Takashi and tackled him hard out of mid air. The two went flying and rolled across the ground, Shidou immediately chasing right after them as soon as he finished the missed leg sweep. Takashi swore loudly as he and Tsunoda rolled to a stop. Tsunoda tried to make Takashi's head practically become one with the ground with a punch, but Takashi managed to hit him first with a fierce left hook, this one charged to almost full power. Tsunoda went flying from the hit and right into Shidou, knocking the two back.

Takashi looked at the Gilgamesh gauntlet, pleasantly surprised. Apparently, his Devil Trigger let him charged up his strikes faster than normal, a fact that Takashi immediately found useful. He was snapped out of this slight revere of his by Tsunoda, who quickly got off Shidou and charged at Takashi, roaring loud enough to burst eardrums if done up close. Takashi winced a bit at the sheer volume of the roar, but shrugged it off and started to charged up his right fist as much as possible. If Tsunoda noticed this, he didn't show it and just kept coming at Takashi and right when he was within three feet of his target, he lashed out with his left arm, but Takashi managed to see it coming and ducked right under it. As soon as he avoided the arm, Takashi stood straight up as fast as he could, hitting Tsunoda right in the jaw with a fully charged punch. The result was something Takashi found astounding: when his fist made contact with Tsunoda, at first, it looked like any of the other punches he hit him with, cracking the jaw a bit and making him spit out a little blood from the damage done, but then the full effect of the punch kicked in and Takashi watched in shock and a bit of awe as Tsunoda's head all but exploded, a fine blood mist appearing where his head was while some bits of flesh went flying about the surrounding area. This was also partially in thanks to Tsunoda not being anywhere near as durable as a Blitz as well as the other damage Takashi dealt him earlier in their fight adding up.

"One down, one to go," Takashi muttered as he briefly flexed his right fist after pulling it back and watching Tsunoda's body fall to the ground truly lifeless. Shidou, who had gotten up and appeared to have deduced what just happened through his hearing, roared in pure anger. That got Takashi's attention and just in time too, for Shidou moved blindingly fast towards him, eager for some revenge. Takashi charged forward as well and the two reared back a fist and struck each other with as much power as they could muster. Takashi had managed to charged up the punch about sixty percent, but Shidou proved to be very durable, taking the punch right in the side of the face, but without suffering the same fate as his now dead comrade. All the damage it did was just chipping off more of the Blitz-like features of his face. The punch he hit Takashi with also did its damage, nearly knocking his head off, but the teen endured until both of them pulled away at the same time.

Takashi moved in once more, hoping to get in close again before Shidou could react. He managed to do so and landed a solid kick to Shidou's left knee, the kick being charged as much as he could charge it in a split second. He had been hoping to cripple Shidou, to slow him down a bit, but the Blitz-zombie's knee proved to be strong thanks to it partially being like that of a Blitz. Shidou did stagger a bit, nearly buckling due to the strength of the kick, but he was able to stay standing and even managed to ram his other knee right into Takashi's stomach. Takashi skidded back, having seen the blow coming and was able to brace himself for it a bit. He grunted as Shidou then closed in on him. Once more the two punched each other in the face, intent on ending this fight right now.

Back at the port, Kohta felt the force of the blows from where he was at. He winced at the sound of it and prayed that Takashi would be able to put Shidou down soon. He had spent the past several minutes searching for any gas containers, but only had a little luck in this task, finding a relatively small one that was about three quarters full. He hadn't given up though; the port area was surprisingly large and he had yet to search every inch of the place yet, so he still had a chance to find more gas for the boat later on.

He lightly jogged across the open area over to a closed office. Looking at it from the outside, it looked like it was meant for paperwork and the likes, not the storage of supplies, but the gun otaku didn't want to potentially overlook gas containers because of this fact. When he made it to the door, he tried to get it open, but it was locked. Sighing, he opted to kick it in, the door looking weak enough for him to do so. He pulled away from the door and lightly charged at it with as strong a kick as he could muster. His foot slammed right into the center of the door with enough force to make himself back away, his leg a bit numb. The door budged a bit, but it was still standing locked. Kohta swore mentally before giving it another kick, this time backing up a bit more before doing it to add some extra momentum. This time, the door did give way, slamming right open.

Kohta moved in, gun drawn in case there was any of Them in the office, but he saw none. Sighing in relief, he gave the place a quick glance. The office was surprisingly tidy, only a small layer of dust that he could see, suggesting that it hadn't been used in a while. It was large enough for several people to work in, Kohta seeing five small work stations a decent distance away from one another.

He started walking forward, looking around the place for any small areas that may have had some stuff there. As he walked past the work stations, he found nothing there of any use, but he did noticed a door at the end of back of the whole office. Kohta figured that it probably led to either a closet or an office for the supervisor of this place. Kohta reached the door and gave the knob a twist, smiling a bit as it moved to show that it was unlocked. He opened the door enough to look in. It was indeed a supervisor office. It was relatively spacious, a nice desk in the middle of the room with some personal items on it.

Kohta ignored this though and focused on what was lying right in the middle of the desk though; a backpack. "The guy in this office must have left it behind for some reason. Probably because of Them," he pondered to himself. He entered the office and stepped up to the desk. Reaching for the backpack and unzipping it, he found a set of car keys, a wallet and some other small personal items. Kohta dropped them back into the backpack, wondering why the hell the guy would keep his personal stuff in a backpack of all things. But then when he reached back into it, he felt two large things at the bottom of it. Grabbing hold of both, Kohta pulled them out and when he did, he smiled. Right in his hands were two walkie-talkies.

"Nice!" he said happily as he inspected them and found them to have power still. He and the others could use these in the future. But before he could continue going with this line of thought, he looked over the desk and froze. On the chair opposite from him was blood. The sight of this blood immediately put him on edge; he didn't see any in the room he just came from and the place had been locked, meaning that someone, living or undead, should still be in here. He placed the walkie-talkies down and gripped his machine gun. As soon as he did, he felt a finger tap him on the shoulder.

Yelling out in fright, Kohta quickly spun around took aim at what just tapped him. He expected a zombie – most likely the guy that this office belonged to – but instead, it was Saeko, who looked very surprised at having a gun drawn on her. Kohta relaxed immediately and put his machine gun away. "Sorry," he muttered.

"Don't worry about it," Saeko said with a small smile, just glad that Kohta had checked before pulling the trigger. Rei was standing just a bit behind her, looking just as surprised as Saeko.

"Did you find anything?" she asked, snapping out of the surprise of seeing Saeko barely avoid getting her head blown away.

Kohta, still looking a little sheepish at his action, picked up the walkie-talkies. "Could be of some use for the future," he said. Then he noticed that Rei had one gas container in each hand. Saeko also had one as well in her right hand while two more sat by her left side. She had set them down before tapping Kohta on the shoulder. "Ah, so you found some extra gas!"

Saeko nodded. "We were lucky to have come across a rather large supply area over on the other side of this place. It was rather empty though; the people here must have raided it when this outbreak occurred, but we were still able to find some," she said as she reached down and grabbed the two by her left side, hefting them in indication with her words.

Rei nodded her head in confirmation of what Saeko said. "What got you so freaked though?" she asked, having noticed how jumpy Kohta had looked when Saeko had tapped him.

Kohta moved away from the desk so that the two girls could see the chair. They immediately tensed up. "Do you think…?" Saeko began.

Kohta nodded. "The guy in this office probably got bitten. There isn't enough blood on the chair to suggest that he died." And after he said that, he looked around the room once more, this time taking in every detail. In doing so, he noticed a window that he hadn't noticed before; he had been too focused on the desk. And the window was open, big enough for someone to crawl through for whatever reason.

That worried the three; there was probably one of Them roaming around this port. And there were quite a few places for it to sneak up on them. That didn't comfort them one bit. "Let's get going," Rei spoke. Kohta and Saeko nodded before they all got their stuff and left the office in a hurry.

As they did so, not far from where they had entered the port, Saya, Shizuka, Alice, and Zeke were looking at the boats that were docked. Some had been too small for the entire group to fit on, so the girls had opted to ignore those in favor of the boats that were big enough for everyone. Saya was mainly the one to do the searching of an adequate boat and to make sure it had enough gas to get them all a decent distance away from here, while Shizuka and Alice merely followed along. Zeke had the role of sniffing the boat out to make sure no one else was on board.

Saya let out a growl of annoyance. "Why are all of these boats so damn low on fuel?" she asked no one in particular. All of the boats she's check so far have either had less than half of a tank or were practically running on fumes.

Alice looked at the boats they haven't checked yet and pointed at one in particular: a large red and white cruiser boat. "What about that one?" she asked. Zeke moved from where he was by Saya, where he had been sniffing around, and ran on over to the little girl and barked out his agreement with Alice.

"Ehhh, you think that boat might have enough gas?" Shizuka asked, feeling positively tired; she had been carrying the bags they had taken with them from Takashi's house. The weight of them and the running around they were doing were really taking its toll on the busty nurse.

Saya didn't bother asking Alice why she thought it would be that one, but she did decide check the boat anyway. It's not like there was much to lose. "Fine," Saya replied to Alice and walked quickly over to the dock that the boat was at. The others followed after her.

As they got onto the dock and approached the boat though, Zeke slowed his running pace and growled at the boat. That got the girls' attention. He was clearly sensing something that he definitely didn't like. Saya growled herself at this possible obstacle. "Great," she thought aloud.

This whole time, she had the gun her mom had given her gripped tightly in her right hand. She had the safety on and intended to keep it on for now until she determined whether or not she needed to use the gun. "Stay back," she said to Alice and Shizuka. Zeke walked up to Saya and followed her as she approached the boat while the other two did as she said, albeit reluctantly.

Saya began to sweat just a little as she stretched a leg over the side of the boat and made her way onto it. She looked back at Zeke, who she left on the deck and the dog was still growling so whatever had him on edge was still there. This in turn put Saya more on edge. She started walking towards the cabin of the boat, gun gripped tightly and pointing right out in front of her. Reaching for the cabin's door handle with one hand, she gripped a bit harder than she meant to due to her nerves and quickly swung the door open before stepping back, taking aim inside.

There was nothing in there. Sighing a bit in relief at that, she still couldn't help but wonder just what was it on the boat that had Zeke so freaked out. In that same moment of quick relax, she got her answer to that question. "Saya one-chan, look out!" Alice cried out.

At the same time, Shziuka yelled too. "Above!"

Saya looked up just in time to see a zombie, a guy dressed in office clothes, stand up from whatever he was doing and lean over the railing of the boat deck on top of the cabin. What it was doing up there near the steering wheel of the boat, Saya didn't know, but she wasn't too worried about that for as soon as she had looked up to see him leaning over the rail, he fell right on top of Saya, who had been too shocked and slow to move out of the way.

Saya yelled in pain; the guy, even when a rotting walking corpse, was certainly no lightweight as his literally dead weight crashed into her, knocking the air out of her and crushing her a bit too. It didn't help her that the zombie was unaffected by the fall and started to try and bite her. Saya managed to push aside the pain in time to place slam an elbow under the zombie's chin to keep his biting face away from her.

But she found herself quickly losing strength in her arm; the zombie was particularly relentless in trying to eat her face right off, pushing himself against her with his strength. Saya mentally swore, hoping to shoot him and be done with it, but when he landed on her, it knocked the gun out of her hand and when she tried to reach for the gun with her free hand, she found it to be just slightly out of her reach. "Just like in the movies. Typical," she thought venomously, absolutely hating this situation. This anger of hers quickly disappeared as the zombie's face came ever closer to hers.

She was saved however when a supply bag came smacking into the side of the zombie's head. It struck the undead with enough force to knock him off of Saya and roll a few feet away. Saya looked up quickly to see who had just saved her. It was Shizuka, who had gotten from the deck to the boat and swung the supply bag filled with clothes and food – she didn't want to risk messing up any of the few medical supplies they had – to knock the zombie away.

Saya nodded her head in thanks briefly before quickly getting the gun and standing up. At the same time, the zombie had begun to get up. When he was half up, Saya took aim at his head and fired. The bullet went and tore through the right side of his forehead, narrowly missing the brain, but still hitting it enough to make the zombie stumble back a bit before falling down, dead. Blood began to pour out of the gunshot wound and due to the body's proximity to Saya, said girl had to take a step back to avoid getting it on her shoes.

"Thanks," she said to Shizuka, honestly grateful. That had been far too close for comfort.

"Yeah," Shizuka said, looking at the body instead of Saya. "Umm, what are we gonna do about that?" she asked, not wanting the body to just stay here on the boat.

Saya was about to speak when she heard worried yelling. Turning around, she saw Kohta, Rei, and Saeko quickly approaching the dock. Alice, who had been looking at Saya and Shizuka in obvious relief at their safety, turned and waved to the three, who calmed down when they got closer and saw that they were fine.

"What happened?" Saeko asked as she got close enough to talk.

Saya just moved aside and pointed at the zombie's body. Kohta got onto the boat and took a closer look at it. "Looks like this was the guy that owned that office," he commented aloud, more to himself than to the others.

Rei and Saeko just nodded, understanding what he was saying, but Saya, Shizuka, and Alice didn't. Rei chose not to enlighten them on Kohta's words. "How much gas does this boat have?" she asked, getting back to the whole point of this situation.

Saya shook her head. "Haven't checked yet. You could thank that zombie for that," she replied.

Kohta got up from where the body was and climbed up a small nearby ladder on the side of the cabin that led him up to where the steering wheel and other mechanisms were on top. Upon getting to the top, Kohta approached the steering wheel and looked to the side where the gas meter was at. He smiled. "It's a little more than three quarters full," he said happily, loud enough for them to hear.

Alice and Shizuka cheered, Zeke barking happily. Rei, Saeko, and Saya merely looked relieved. "Then what are we waiting for? Get the supply bags and those gas containers of yours stored on this boat," Saya said as she turned to Rei and Saeko and took note of the gas containers they had. The two of them just gave her a quick nod and proceeded to go into the cabin to put the gas containers there. Shizuka put down the supply bag she had to get the other one she had left on the dock along with helping Alice and Zeke onto the boat. After that, she and Alice put the supply bags alongside the gas containers in the cabin, which they found to be surprisingly spacious, big enough for five people to sit in without squashing up against one another. There was a small bed too, big enough for about two or three people to lie down. Whoever had owned this boat sure liked to have a lot of space.

"Does anyone know how to drive a boat?" Kohta suddenly asked.

Everyone froze on the spot, which answered his question immediately more surely than words. "Ah hell," he muttered. He looks back at the gate to the port and managed to get a small glimpse of Takashi and Shidou still fighting. "Looks like we're going to have to wait for them to get here," he said.

As they were doing all of this, Takashi was busy trying to keep Shidou at bay now. Takashi had landed some good hits on the tenacious Blitz-zombie, but his Devil form was really taking its toll on his stamina while Shidou was still going strong thanks to his undead state. Takashi was practically rasping for breath as he dodged a punch aimed for his stomach, twisting his body to the side as fast as he could. Shidou growled at his moving target and moved in a little more to slam a knee into Takashi's stomach. Takashi grunted both out of pain and exhaustion as he staggered back.

"God damn it," he muttered as he coughed up a little blood. The spectral figure that protected seemed to be losing the little substance it had to begin with, allowing for Shidou's blows to strike harder as the spectral figure offered Takashi less and less defense. The speed up that his Devil form also gave Gilgamesh's charge was also starting to wear off, forcing Takashi to have to charge up the strikes seconds before hand, which put him at yet another disadvantage.

He started to charge up the left grieve, ready to go in for kick. However, Shidou ran at him before he could charge it up that much and Takashi was forced to release the kick with the little power he managed to put in it. shidou was too close now to have noticed the kick and so ended up taking the full brunt of the attack as Takashi's foot slammed right into the side of his face. Shidou grunted and flew several feet from the force of it before he managed to roll and correct himself.

Takashi started to charge up his right gauntlet and ran over to Shidou as fast as he could, hoping to get him before he could move again. But he wasn't as fast as before though, being quite tired now, and so Shidou was able to just get up and side step to his left a bit to narrowly avoid Takashi's punch. But Takashi had been expecting the worst so he was ready for Shidou's dodge and so let the momentum of his punch carry him forward before he spun around and nailed Shidou dead center in the face with a left backhand, the blow taking Shidou by surprise enough to make him stagger back and open himself up to more blows.

Takashi took advantage of this and charged forward, kicking the Blitz-zombie as hard as he could manage in the left kneecap, following it up with a left hook as Shidou hunched forward from the first blow, then a right uppercut that knocked him right off his feet. Shidou flew back and nearly landed on his head, Takashi hoping that there was a small chance of Shidou cracking his skull open on the ground, but that hope was quickly dashed when Shidou placed his hands on the ground to keep himself from crashing as he flipped over.

Takashi didn't get a chance to do anything as Shidou took off faster than any bullet and slammed right into Takashi, hitting him hard enough to send them both flying right through the open gate to the port.

"Takashi onii-chan!" As he and Shidou skidded across the ground, Takashi tried to look in the direction of where the voice came from and briefly saw Alice and the others on a boat, watching in horror as Shidou recovered first and got on top of the teen. Takashi looked back at Shidou just in time for Shidou's fist to smash right into his face. The ground caved under them and blood spurted out of Takashi's crushed, but rapidly healing face as Shidou drew his fist back. Takashi's face didn't heal that much before Shidou punched him again with his other fist, making the ground cave even more, shaking the area.

Takashi grunted in pain and tried to fight back, but he was really feeling tired here. He hardly had enough stamina left to do anything. Shidou took advantage of this and pressed on with his punches, each stronger than the last as his fists quickly became a blur. Takashi grunted under the assault, his entire head wracked with pain.

Despite all this though, he still maintained his Devil form, though the spectral image was nearly nonexistent at this point. And on top of that, the silver haired teen managed to focus enough to start charging up his right fist, the Gilgamesh gauntlet crackling with more energy than ever before as Takashi put all of his focus on it. Under Shidou's assault, the fist burst with bright red energy, but seconds later that burst turned a dark blood red, signifying that Takashi had charged it up as much as it could go.

Grunting, Takashi then quickly brought up his left hand and caught Shidou's incoming fist, throwing the Blitz-zombie's assault off for a second as he was surprised at Takashi managing to catch his fist. He was so surprised that he didn't notice Takashi's left fist starting to charge while his fully charged right fist suddenly come up and strike him right in the center of his face, the power of the punch being so great that it actually completely shattered his nose and caved in his face, knocking Shidou off of Takashi.

Through sheer will power, Takashi quickly stood up and went after Shidou. The Blitz-zombie was too busy staggering from the hit to notice Takashi in time when he got close and hit him again in the face with his left fist, which was now fully charged at that point. Shidou roared as the punch connected, smashing his face in even further. The Blitz-zombie did try to go for short uppercut, but Takashi saw it coming and swatted the incoming fist aside before unleashing the most furious assault he's ever unleashed, intent on putting Shidou down here and now before he completely ran out of stamina.

Shidou was helpless as Takashi hit him over and over again in the face, chest, and stomach, the punches doing serious damage as bones began to falter and break under the powerful strikes. The few times Shidou did try to fight back, Takashi would put a stop to it with a good kick to the knee to halt the counterattack and force Shidou down a bit. "Just go down already!" Takashi nearly yelled as Shidou still managed to remain standing after several seconds of this relentless assault.

A few seconds later, Takashi tired of this and stopped his attacks, rearing back his right fist and started to charge it up, intent on finishing Shidou with this punch. Shidou was quite damaged from the assault, his face a complete wreck as it bled while his upper torso was badly bruised from Takashi's punches. However, that didn't mean he was going to let that stop him from fighting still. As Takashi started charging up what he hoped would be his final punch, Shidou tried to hit him with a left hook, which Takashi was able to avoid by narrowly tilting his head back. But Shidou followed it up with right one, and then an uppercut, a cross punch, and a kick to the legs, but Takashi was able to avoid Shidou's attacks, which were getting even wilder than before.

But he knew that he couldn't keep dodging for much longer. His charge wasn't as fast as before as he felt his Devil form about to give out on him, taking the benefits its given him with it. "Just two more seconds," he thought.

Shidou roared as he charged in low to go for Takashi's legs with a powerful tackle, but Takashi just barely managed to jump high enough to avoid it, flipping forward to get behind Shidou. But Shidou apparently knew Takashi would do this because midway through the flip, Shidou adjusted himself, moving a bit up now, causing Takashi to accidently bump into his upper back and messing up his flip. Takashi landed unceremoniously on the ground. "Shit!" he yelled.

Shidou then turned around and went for him once more. Takashi's eyes widened as he now felt his Devil form just about to give way. Not wanting that to happen just yet, he let out a bit of a battle cry as he forced himself to roll out of the way when Shidou tried to smash an elbow into his head. Immediately after dodging it, the both of them stood up quickly, but Takashi managed to get up first. Forcing the little energy his Devil form had left into his now fully charged fist, Takashi yelled as he threw a vicious punch at Shidou's face, the Blitz-zombie too slow to avoid it.

Takashi could feel the others watching as it seemed as if time slowed down. Shidou was still getting up from the failed elbow drop and so was unable to avoid Takashi's punch as it slammed right into his messed up face. The instant the punch made contact, Takashi's Devil form gave out, reverting him back to normal. Takashi gasped as complete and utter exhaustion came over him, but before he could fall down due to this, his fist proved to be powerful enough to not only cave in Shidou's face even more, but was actually able to punch right through his whole head. Takashi felt Shidou's brain matter and pieces of his skull fly out as his fist emerged from the back of his head. Shidou let out a feeble cry as this happened before his arms slumped. This was then followed by the rest of his body slumping as well. Shidou was now dead.

Takashi just stared at the now dead Blitz-zombie, almost unable to believe what he was seeing. After several seconds past and the body still didn't move, he finally began to accept that he was indeed dead and he slowly pulled out his fist, Shidou's body falling the ground like a puppet cut from its strings. He let out a bit of an joyful cry before he suddenly slumped to the ground himself, utterly tired.

"Takashi!" he heard Rei yell from the boat.

He waved to them, letting them know he was relatively okay. However, he didn't have the energy to try and make his way to them on the boat. "Uh, damn it…" he thought. However, about a half minute later, he felt someone get his arm and place it over their shoulder while the person grabbed him with the other arm. Looking up, he saw Kohta as the gun otaku started to move as quickly as he can with Takashi now slumped against him. "Good timing," he said, feeling quite thankful.

No problem, Komuro," Kohta replied with a smile. But it quickly was replaced with a serious expression. "What about Dante and Lady?"

Takashi, in the heat of his battle with Shidou, completely forgot about the two devil hunters. "Ah shit," he said. He pondered this for a moment as Kohta walked back to the boat. Then, much to the surprise of everyone, he suddenly yelled. "Time to go!" he yelled as loud as he could, knowing that Dante could probably hear him.

Sure enough, Dante did. He was still pressing back against the now considerably smaller mob of demons, though he was feeling quite tired now thanks to his Devil form eating away at his stamina. It was right after he switched from Nevan back to Rebellion that he heard Takashi's yell. He grinned. "About damn time kid," he said to himself before running forward at a Mega Scarecrow that had been approaching him for some time now. Running up to it, he suddenly jumped and dropkicked it right in the center of its massive body while at the same time kicking himself off of the demon as it flew back from the force of the dropkick.

Upon landing, he turned to the thinning zombie crowd nearby. "Hey Lady, time to leave this party!" he yelled.

Lady, who just put down a few zombies with a well placed missile from Kalina Ann between Them, smiled. "Finally."

She put Kalina Ann back on her shoulder before whipping out her machine gun and blasting all of the zombies in her sight in the legs to slow Them down. As soon as she did so, she turned and made a run for the port.

At the same time, Dante faced the demon crowd once more. Suddenly flipping Rebellion so that he now held it in a reverse grip, the silver haired devil hunter unleashed his Drive attack, grunting considerably as he swung the sword as hard as he could. The energy wave was absolutely huge, easily several times larger than normal thanks to him being in his Devil form.

The energy wave traveled fast, much faster than any Assault demon could move, and it plowed right on through the demon crowd, the attack instantly killing all demons that touched it save for the Mega Scarecrows, these demons only surviving due to their large size and the area that the attack hit. Regardless, much demon blood was spilled as the Mega Scarecrow were still bleeding out to death now, some of them practically flying back and crushing other demons under its weight.

After Dante had performed the attack, he took off, easily catching up with Lady as they both reached the port gate at the same time, Dante deactivating his Devil Trigger at this time. His run faltered due to him being incredibly tired, but he quickly recovered and moved on, keeping pace with Lady now as they hurried to the boat.

"Nice one," Dante said admiring the boat briefly as he quickly ran onto the dock and leapt onto the boat from there. Lady followed close behind him, looking just as tired as him.

"Let's go. Right now, before the demons and zombies start to recover," she said in all seriousness.

Takashi, who had dismissed the Gilgamesh gauntlets and grieves just a moment earlier and was now sitting down as he rested, looked at them. "Just one thing: none of us know how to drive a boat."

Dante smirked. "You leave that to me kid," he said.

"Are you sure, Dante-san?" Shizuka asked him, concerned because of how tired he appeared to be.

Dante nodded. "Don't sweat it. I may be itching for one hell of a nap now, but I can manage driving this thing." Without another word, he made his way to the latter and climbed it to where the steering wheel was at.

He fiddled with the controls for a minute, making everyone getting a little antsy as they really wanted to get moving soon. "What's the problem up there?" Saya growled out.

Dante rolled his eyes. "Relax. I'm just getting a feel for this baby," he replied.

Saya was about to retort to that, but that was when Dante started the boat, the engine kicking in loudly enough to cut her off before she could even start speaking. At this, the group cheered a bit. Even Lady couldn't help but smile, glad that they finally made it.

"Alright, now let's see what this can do," Dante said. And before the group could steady themselves against anything, Dante practically put the boat on full throttle, the boat shooting out from the dock so fast that the rope that connected it to the dock – something that the group forgot to check – snapped easily. Those of the group that were standing, which was everyone except for Takashi, lost their balance and nearly fell.

"Damn it, are you trying to make us fall off this boat?" Saya yelled at him.

"That was too close," Kohta muttered, having been near the edge of the boat when it started moving. He got agreeing nods from Rei and Saeko, who were near the edge as well. Alice had been launched from where she was standing onto Takashi's lap along with Zeke, Takashi weakly chuckling as Alice and Zeke slowly got up. Shizuka and Lady looked quite frazzled, steadying themselves, Shizuka more so than Lady as the latter had been expecting Dante to do something like that.

Dante laughed from where he was at, but settled down and got a little serious after a while. "So where to?" he asked.

"Anywhere but here," Takashi spoke up as he tried to stand, a small task that he proved to be successful at, though it was obvious that it was sapping him of the little stamina he has recovered. He made a note to himself to talk to Dante later about his Devil Trigger.

The group got serious, thinking about all that had gone on these past several days. At first, things had been so normal, but then out of the blue gone completely to hell. At first figuratively, and then literally with the appearance of demons. They could all say quite calmly that given the way things are now, the world may never return to the way it was before.

"For now, I think we should just head to an island or something. You know, to relax and rest up," Saeko said, noting how tired and hurt all of them were.

"Yeah, I'm with you on that," Rei said, rubbing a particularly nasty bruise in pain.

Dante nodded. "Alright then."

"Just keep heading in this direction and we'll eventually see some small islands. It shouldn't take too long since we just left from the west side of Japan," Kohta said, thinking aloud a bit near the end.

After that, the group began to sit down and rest a little, talking a bit amongst themselves as Dante kept on with the sailing of the boat. Takashi just tuned them all out, closing his eyes a bit to rest. He thought about everything they had gone through and how despite what they've had experienced so far, they still had very few questions to the many questions they all had. Just how did this zombie outbreak start? How did this make the demons start to appear more and more? What happened to their parents? And if they're still alive, will they ever see them again? These just a few of many questions that Takashi felt really needed to be answered at some point.

He opened up his right eye to look at the group briefly. Already, he could see them relaxing just a bit, knowing that no demons or zombies could possibly chase after them now, especially at the speed Dante was getting this boat to move at. He watched as Alice laughed a bit at a bad joke that Kohta told her, Shizuka, and Lady, no doubt one he just made up to try and lighten the mood.

Takashi smirked a bit before he closed his eye. He figured that he could worry about those questions later.

End

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is it! Yeah, sorry for the rather cheesy ending; I've worked through all the scenarios in my head on how to end this and that was the best I got.

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