Deity

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Dante rose from the bed, he had regained consciousness, he looked up at the ceiling, it wasn't his regular roof ceiling. Dante realized he was still in Lucians tower, he had a dream but he couldn't recall what it was about, he sighed and looked down at his body, it was bandaged up, Dante was also much cleaner then he could remember, he was also wearing a small pair of pants that must of belonged to Lucian back in the old days. Dante's body hurt in almost every spot, the feeling reminded him when he use to train so hard and fight so much, he climbed out of bed and stumbled forward trying to keep his balance, "well you're finally up." There stood Sarah on the side of the door. Dante sighed and walked towards the cupboard, it was rather hot in the fiery pits of hell so Dante kept the pants on and simply threw on a tank top, "well didn't you sleep well." she had a light giggle at her own remark, "after all it has been 3 days since you collapsed on the floor."
"Ah shit, what a pain." Dante sat on the bed brushing his messy hair out of his face with his hands 
"Oh by the way all your stuff is safely packed in the trunk at the bottom of your bed." Sarah walked away from the door but she paused and turned around, "oh and Lucian wants to see you in his office." And with that she walked off down the hall, Dante took a few minutes to recollect his thoughts, then he reached into the bed trunk and got dressed. Dante stood looking at himself in the mirror his hair had grown rather long but in his opinion it looked great, he brushed it back as he walked down the hall to Lucians office. Dante proceeded to open the door, there all three of them sitting there waiting for him, "took you long enough Dante." Lucian seemed happier than usual but that quickly faded as he brought the matter at hand up, "well Dante I'm sure you have heard that the sinful 6 have returned." Lucians face went dark and grim and an awkwardly silent tension was broken by Dante laughing hysterically, "wait, so you're telling me they call themselves the sinful six now." Dante continued to laugh and Sarah looked around utterly confused once again, Lucian stood up from his desk in frustration in an attempt to make his speech more profound, "hey I came up with that name and I thought it was pretty damn cool!" Lucian returned to his seat, "Besides everyone calls them that even themselves."
"What kind of a lame ass name is that seriously L?" Dante wasn't phased by the situation he found it profoundly humorous, "come on L your the devil surely you can sort this out yourself?"
Sarah interrupted him, "so L you're Satan?" She seemed overcome with fear
But Dante reassured her, "no, the devil and Satan are two different people, this short little red headed asshole is nothing compared to satan himself."
"Hey I might be short but I have some capability and besides I don't even have any hair on my head so why do you keep making fun of it?!"
"I know dumbass but you are red, so is you head, making you a red headed person." The debate soon ended when Dante changed the subject, "so they don't call themselves the hateful 8 anymore?"
Sarah interrupted them, "wait who are the sinful 6 and the hateful 8?" No one replied to her, they were too busy debating over the name, "well there are only 6 of them now so it seemed reasonable to change their name." Lucian still rried to get his point across, "keep in mind Dante, those guys are just as strong as you are." Dante quickly went quite but his arrogance got the better of him, " I'll have you know, I'm the best demon hunter out there, so if they're causing any kind of shit I'm the one they'll have to deal with." Dante was met with shock as a blow from Sarah's fist just missed his arm, " are you gonna tell me know or what?" She seemed genuinely annoyed
"Alright, alright calm down so let's start with the hateful eight." Everyone went quite as Dante began talking, "Back in the original Eden, we were know as the hateful eight Lucian and I were apart of them. We were ruthless tearing everything in our way to pieces although eventually it got tiresome spending eternity like that so I decided to leave and so did Lucian and then things got messy and we had no choice but to go back to them, but then when the new Eden was created Lucian and I decided to leave once more regardless of what happened, so I became a demon hunter and Lucian came to work here, Hmm it's funny, I guess you are what you eat." No one understood what Dante meant by that but still everyone remained silent. Dante leaned back and continued the story, "so when we left they basically became mercenaries but they were far more violent than ever before, the six of them are so horrific demons and since they're mercenaries from the black market they're all run under the control of Satan, that bad bastard himself." Dante stood up and walked over to the window, took out the box of cigarettes from his jacket and stuck it in his mouth, he leaned back onto the window pane. "Lucian are you sure these are the right guys?" Dante was far too calm, it was almost frightening in a way but on the other hand Lucian looked immensely grim, "Yes Dante, these are the men."
"Then I'll murder each of them." Dante turned around and spat his half finished cigarette out of the window, "listen Dante I know how you feel but that's practically impossible, they surpass you by a great amount."
"Lucian I will take back what they have stolen  from me." Dante began walking to the door, "you can email me the rest of the details later I need to start getting prepped for this." Dante's smile returned towards the end of the sentence and he was no longer so serious. Dante walked out the door and down the hall and he stepped into the elevator, there standing in the elevator was a man who's face was shrouded by a mask, "you know, no one has ever come face to face with a member of the sinful 6  and lived to tell the tale." Not another word was said in the elevator until the door slid open, "then call me no one asshole." Dante walked out feeling extremely confident and cool about what he just said to the suspicious man in the elevator

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