DEVIL MAY CRY.doc by Unknown

way to put a stop to her bullshit. "Fine.
    I'll trust you on one condition only. Tell me how to kill you."
    Her eyes widened in confusion. "Excuse me?"
    Sin smiled, knowing he had her now. She'd never give him the source of her powers. "All gods
    have a secret that can render them powerless and subject them to execution. What's yours?"
    Now he saw the suspicion in her eyes. Good, she wasn't a trusting fool. "How do I know you
    won't kill me?"
    "Yeah," he said, his voice thick, "it's not so easy to trust, is it?"
    Still, she didn't back completely down. He had to admire her for that. "You have the Tablet of
    Destiny. That can render me powerless."
    "But that doesn't show your trust, does it? Tell me how to kill you without it."
    Kat stopped dead as she seriously considered the consequences of answering him. Given his
    hatred of her mother, it would be all kinds of stupid to give him that kind of power. He could kill her, any
    time, any place.
    She remembered all the things that had been posted on the Dark-Hunter boards about him. He
    was without compassion or even sanity. But then a man such as that wouldn't be scarred from battling
    demons to help mankind.
    Such a man wouldn't have come to her rescue. No, he wasn't the monster other people had
    painted him. But he wasn't a saint, either.
    Trusting him could cost her her life. Not trusting him could destroy the world.
    Was there really a choice here?
    Don't do it...
    It was terrifying even to contemplate, but she really had no other option. One of them was going to
    have to open up, and it dang sure wasn't him.
    "I tell you the answer and you'll train me?" she asked point-blank.
    "Yeah, what the hell?"
    She took a deep breath for courage before she spoke again. "Very well. My powers are derived
    from the sun and the moon. The longer I go without one or the other, the weaker I become. It's why I
    can't stay here with my grandmother for too long or I'll be sick. If I were confined here without exposure
    to the sky, it would kill me."
    Sin stared at her incredulously. He couldn't believe she'd told him that. Was she insane? "Do you
    know what you've just done?"
    "Yes. I trusted you."
    Yeah... She was nuts. No doubt about it. What kind of fool let loose something this important?
    "You know how much I hate your mother."
    "And I know what you think of my father."
    "Who doesn't even know you live."
    "There is that," she conceded. "But I want to help you do the right thing, and if that means giving
    you power over me, then I'll do it."
    She really was insane. He couldn't get past that. What kind of being would be so damn stupid and
    trusting? And for what? To help a race that didn't even know she existed? "I can destroy you now."
    "Yes," she said, her eyes burning with intensity. "You can. But I'm trusting that you won't."
    Sin shook his head in disbelief. No one had ever trusted him like this... not even his wife. Gods just
    didn't relinquish that kind of control to anyone under any circumstance. "You're not right, are you?"
    "Could be. Other people have definitely thought so, and right now my inner monologue is going
    wild with worse insults than that."
    He lifted his hand to touch her cheek. Her skin was as soft as silk against his fingertips. She was so
    delicate and yet he sensed within her a core made of steel. "Do you understand the danger you're going
    to face?"
    "Seeing how my arm was broken earlier by one of them and your body is pretty torn up, I have a
    real good idea. But I've never been one to back down from anything. You need help and I intend to give
    it whether you want it or not."
    Someone by his side. To fight. What a novel concept. No one had ever made such an offer before
    and he still wasn't sure if he should accept. But he had given her his word and he wasn't the kind of
    person to break an oath.
    Still he was doubtful of her. "How do I know you won't take what I teach you and use it against
    me?"
    She made a rude sound at him. "Hello? You have the knowledge to