Welcome to my new story Professor Sparda! Obviously, this is a crossover between Devil May Cry and RWBY, in an alternate universe where Dante is a professor at Beacon Academy. Now before I begin I must say that I do not consider myself a great writer so do not expect some Shakespeare like writing. So, enough delays let us begin.
(DISCLAIMER: I do not own RWBY or Devil May Cry.)
Dante was still contemplating what had gotten himself into this mess as he was sitting outside of the headmaster's office. Oh, that's right Lady suggested it to me on my scroll last night after I specifically told her that I was bored of going out into the field, and me being my usual act first before thinking, decided that it was a great idea, after all who was best to teach the new generation, other than the most stylish and most good-looking huntsmen around?
"The Headmaster will see you now Mr. Sparda." A woman came out of the doorframe. She was wearing a white long-sleeved pleated top that seemed to be connected to her skirt which had bronze buttons and black brown stockings. On her feet were black, almost witch-like boots with bronze heels. She had a cape on her back that was purple from the front, but black in the back. She had blonde hair and green eyes. She also was wearing glasses.
"Time to get a new occupation." He muttered to himself as he walked through the doors to said man's office. It was spacious with not much furniture to accompany the room besides the desk in the front. Behind the desk, there was a gargantuan window giving a good look over the campus. The headmaster spun around in his chair behind the desk. "Glad you could make it Mr. Sparda. Now can I see your papers." Dante hummed before he placed them on his desk. There was a brief segment of silence between the three as Ozpin looked over Dante's employment documents.
"Dante, Sparda. 24 years old, 6' 5, and 180 pounds, graduated from Mistral Academy, and has been a huntsman for 3 years. Is this information correct?" Ozpin said as he looked up at the huntsmen.
"Yep." Dante responded with a straight face. Seriously can this guy just give me his approval already? I am tired of sitting here. I had already been here for a couple of hours and it is starting to become frustrating.
Almost as if Ozpin was reading his thoughts, a smile came upon his face. "Welcome to the Beacon Staff Mr. Sparda. As of right now you are a teacher of hand to hand combat. To make it more convenient, we will give you your own living quarters. You have a key to there and your classroom, and we have placed a guide on the curriculum that you will be teaching this year." A smirk came across Dante's face as he heard about the fact that he got to rub it in Trish's face after she said that "there was no chance that he would be accepted."
His thoughts quickly turned to confusion as he realized something. "Wait shouldn't I be an assistant teacher? After all I am the new guy and also don't you have a combat teacher already?" Ozpin just chuckled to himself as he heard the new employees question. "No Mr. Sparda. We have already seen some of your earlier achievements, and have shown extreme capabilities of teaching and leading, so there is no reason to hold you back. Besides, we lost our hand to hand combat teacher last year after an irreparable shoulder injury happened and as for your second question, Glynda does not teach any hand to hand at all so I would suggest you start packing your bags for your stay here at Beacon Academy.
Dante walked out of the office with a huge grin as he pulled out his scroll and dialed a number. "Hello Dante what do you want?" the tired voice over the call said.
"Guess who owes me 20 lien Trish." The girl on the other side eye's widened.
After Dante had told both Lady and Trish about his new teaching job, he was quick to get a new set of clothing to make him look more professional. (which Dante never thought he would ever imagine and/or say." He had managed to find a red long-sleeved shirt that went well with a suit vest that was a black color. For his lower body, he got a pair of black suit pants and business shoes. "This definitely shows off some form of style." Dante mused to himself as he looked at himself in the mirror.
Dante after that went home to start packing his bags for his new stay at Beacon Academy.
"So here it is the new place of stay." Dante muttered to himself, as he looked around his new office/room. It was the size of a large apartment, with multiple bathrooms and a study, bedroom, kitchen, and a living room. As soon as he had finished looking around the room he set down his bags just in time to see one of the professor's burst through the door.
He was obviously of the older folk. Represented by his white moustache and hair. He was also quite portly in terms of figure. Although, his appearance did intrigue him in the fact that it made him wonder what he did teach. "Why hello young chap! I heard around the school that you were going to be our new teacher at this enlightening school."
Dante nodded already feeling a bit annoyed at his enthusiasm. "Yep name's Dante. I am going to be the new hand to hand teacher."
"Wonderful, we did need one after the last one broke his shoulder in a fist fight he managed to get caught into with a student. By the way my name is Peter Port, glad to make your acquaintance." Peter reached out his hand to shake Dante's, which the younger man tiredly did.
"Hey can I ask you where I could find room 400?" Dante questioned as he looked down at the number on his key. The older man nodded his head vigorously. "At the end of the hall you will want to take a right and a little bit down you should see the room on the left-hand side." Dante saluted Port before he walked in the direction that he had been supplied by Port.
Dante had managed to find the room with little difficulty; well, besides the fact that the door's down the hallway, that featured his room and he just had to wing it. Dante reminded himself mentally to bring this fact to Ozpin's notice. After he had managed to put his key into the lock and opened up the door, he walked inside, satisfied with how big it was. Look-wise it looked exactly like Glynda's combat room. The only difference was that it had a shower room next to the door, most likely used for students change out of their school uniforms, which he supposed was better than having them fight in something not meant for said task.
After he was about to leave to go back to his office, he noticed a box against the back wall. When he eventually got their he noticed a note was in the box. "Consider this a gift from the staff. Ozpin" Inside were multiple punching bags and speed bags. However, on the bottom there was something that was wrapped. When he unwrapped it, his eyes widened. Inside was a list that included all of the first years that would "hopefully" pass initiation, and get his class. He quickly scrolled over the sheet. The only one that captured his attention however, was Ruby Rose, the only one on the list that wasn't 17 years old. She was actually 15, 2 years younger than the rest of them. "She has got to be good to be moved up two years." Dante smirked at the thought of maybe finding someone that wouldn't be boring.
Dante quickly rushed back to his room to finish reading the curriculum; which Dante found a little bit of interest in the fact that on the first day Dante would be having three teams battle him at once which brought a grin to his face. He finally finished it when he noticed that he got a message on his scroll saying that the first bullhead had left it's landing zone having already picked up some of the new students.
"Yang did you hear they got a new teacher, I wonder what he teaches, or what he looks like, and…" Ruby went on a tangent as she told her sister about the new teacher that was hired. Apparently, they didn't even show him on the news. All they said was that it was a male, and told them that his name was Dante Sparda, a creative name if Yang said so herself. She looked around the bullhead at the other first year students that may or may not be new friends, for her and her younger sister, that was if she even tried to make new friends. It didn't help that she was also socially awkward, which made it even more hard to get her to increase her circle of friends.
"Yang are you even listening?" Ruby interrogated with a frustrated tone.
Yang was snapped out of her thoughts by Ruby's voice. She just gave her one of her famous grins and bear hugs. "I was just thinking of how unbelievable it is that my sister managed to get her two years early." Ruby had trouble breathing because of her sister's bear hug. "Yang can't breathe." Ruby managed to get out through her gasps for air. Yang was quick to let her sister down after her protests of help.
"Sis I am really proud of you." Yang admitted to her sister.
"Really Yang it was nothing." Ruby responded. She honestly did not want to be put on top of a pedestal just because she was put into beacon two years early.
"What do you mean it was nothing? Everyone at beacon is going to think you are the bee's knees." Yang
"Yang I don't want to be the bee's knees. I don't want to be any kind of knee. I just want to be a normal girl with normal knees." Ruby said nervously as she fidgeted in place. Yang gave a sound of disappointment before they landed on Beacon Academy's landing platform. The doors opened and almost as soon as they opened a boy with blonde hair and blue eyes darted out of there. Prepared to throw up his breakfast into the garbage can.
Ruby and Yang walked out shortly thereafter, in a leisurely pace. Almost as soon as Ruby reached the circle in the center of Beacon's campus, she immediately started drooling at all of the weapons and their unique attributes. "Sis that kid has a collapsible staff and she's got a fire sword." She was knocked out of her trance by Yang as she grabbed her by the hood and dragged her back to her side.
"Easy they're little sister. They are just weapons." Yang commented.
"Just Weapons? They're an extension of ourselves. They're a part of us. They're so cool" Ruby said that as she jittered in place from the pure thought of a weapon.
"Well why can't you swoon over your own weapon? Aren't you happy with it?" Yang asked with a brow raised.
"Well of course I like Crescent Rose silly, it's just that I really like seeing new ones, it's like meeting new people. But way better." Ruby replied excitably.
"Ruby come one. I want to see you make some new friends here." Yang said honestly. She did want to see her younger sis make friends. She really did, because it showed her that she was breaking out of her shell.
"Well why do I need to make friends when I have you?" Ruby questioned.
"Well actually my friends are here that I need to get catched up with kay, c'ya bye. Yang sprinted off with her friends leaving a disoriented Ruby to herself. "Wait where are you going? Do we need to go to our dorms? Do we even have dorms?" Ruby asked a multitude of questions as she fell to the ground onto someone's luggage
"What are you doing?" A new infuriated voice asked. When Ruby looked up she saw a girl with white hair and blue eyes stare at her, she had a scar over her right eye, obviously indicating that she wasn't someone new to scuffles.
"Sorry." Ruby apologized.
Dante was already tired of filling out paperwork and he hadn't even started teaching yet. "Now I am scared of how much I have to fill out when I actually do start teaching." He thought with a grimace. Before he could finish his last paper, he heard an explosion from outside. "I guess someone set off a piece of dust." Hoping it would reprieve him from his current problem he walked outside only to see two girls covered head to toe in ash, and currently in a large crater; most likely formed from the dust.
Dante walked over to the third girl dressed in black and white. She had a bow on top of her black head of hair, her weapon was on her back with the ribbon that was most likely attached, wrapped around her wrist.
"Do I even want to ask?" Dante questioned the teen. Her amber eyes glanced at him for a second before she answered his question. "The girl in white shook the vial of dust causing the other girl to sneeze. I assume that you are the new teacher that everyone is talking about?" She may have answered his question, but she also managed to sneak in a question of her own; knowing Dante's luck he would be playing 20 questions with this mysterious student.
"Yep. So, you want to see if we can break up this argument. If you want I will pay you 15 lien." The girl's eye's widened before it turned into a glare. "Fine, Fine I can do it myself." Blake stopped him before he could take a step forward. "Wait let me come too. I know what to say so let me take the lead." Dante nodded with a smirk as he walked forward. "Hey kids can you explain why the hell you two are covered in ash?" The black-haired girl rolled her eyes. So much for letting her take the lead.
The white-haired girl's eye turned on him, it was pure anger, most likely focused on the girl dressed in red and black. "This imbecile decided to sneeze into a dust crystal causing us to nearly fall off the cliff." Weiss was waving her arms around comically. Dante looked between the edge and where they were a few times before he spoke up. "First off. How the hell is she the imbecile when you were the one waving fresh dust in front of her face. Second you were nowhere near the cliff and finally who the hell do you think you are to yell at her for your mistake?" Dante yelled at the girl causing her to sink more and more. Before she could speak, the black-haired girl spoke up. "Weiss Schnee, heiress of the Schnee Dust Company, which is the leading company in terms of producing dust." Weiss raised her head in pride before it was immediately lowered in the girl's next statement. "Also known infamously for it's questionable slave labor and suspicious business partners." Weiss' eyes lit up again in anger. "How dare you." As soon as Dante had seen Weiss she was gone.
"Thanks, you two." Ruby said to both Dante and the black-haired girl. The two nodded while Dante handed the black-haired girl her 15 lien which she gladly took before she walked off.
"So, what is your name." Ruby said to Dante yet she hadn't realized that he was already walking towards his office. Ruby flopped to the ground "Welcome to Beacon Ruby said solemnly.
"God, being a teacher at this school is already annoying, and it is not even initiation yet." Dante muttered frustratingly to himself. He reached over the sheet of first years that he had been given by Ozpin to see if he recognized the black-haired girl that was with him near Weiss Schnee. He found the amber eyed girl first, her name was Blake Belladonna. After he was done with that, he heard a knock on the door. "Come in" Dante said with a raised voice. It wasn't Glynda or Port like what he was expecting, instead, it was another teacher that he assumed was Bartholomew Oobleck, with his green hair and thick glasses. In fact, his glasses were so thick that you couldn't even see his eyes under them. He wore a white long-sleeved shirt and cream-colored work pants.
"Hello I would presume that you are the new hand to hand teacher." Dante nodded not really understanding what he was saying because of how fast he was talking. "Outstanding, I must inform you that you and I are going to be in the ballroom to monitor the sleeping students. Normally Glynda would but, she has to prepare for the upcoming field." Dante said okay before he gathered up his pizza and walked over to the ballroom, with Oobleck staying a far bit ahead of him because of how fast he moved around the place.
They got there just in time to see the first students arrive in the mess hall and pick their sleeping arrangement. What piqued his interest was Ruby Rose sitting next to a buxom blonde. He looked at them for a few seconds before he ate a few slices of his pizza. He was snapped out of his eating by the redhead/brunette walking over to him. "I just wanted to say thank you for earlier. I didn't mean to do what I did it was just that she was being so frustrating, and I just wanted to get on with my day."
Ruby was stopped mid tangent when Dante decided to interrupt her. "No problem kid, just try not to sneeze straight at a piece of fire dust." He raised a thumb up and was grinning at the young girl. After that confrontation, Ruby went back to her spot in the ballroom. As soon as she left Oobleck spoke up. "it would seem that you are making a good first impression with Miss. Rose."
Dante nodded "The poor kid was being yelled at Weiss Schnee for sneezing into a piece of fire dust even though it was technically her fault. Of course, me being the good Samaritan I am decided to enlist the help of a student and help her."
"May I ask who this mysterious student was?" Oobleck was honestly curious as he sipped his coffee.
"You see the girl in the black pajamas leaning against the wall? She was the one who helped me and in turn, just to be generous, I gave her 15 lien." He pointed at the girl reading a book that he wasn't that familiar with, then again, he never really read books so it wasn't really hard for him to find a book that he had not seen before.
"Ah Miss Belladonna I see. She is probably the most mysterious out of all of the first years. In fact, this is the first combat school that she has gone to." This honestly surprised Dante as he had never heard of someone getting into someplace like Beacon without going to Signal or one of the other schools.
He was snapped out of his astonishment when he heard the voice of probably the most annoying kid he had ever met.
"Can you stop talking so loud people here are trying to sleep." Weiss Schnee yelled at the three, even though it was making her look hypocritical.
"What is your problem." The four were surprised to hear another voice enter the fray. They looked up to see the very much annoyed and intimidating figure of Dante Sparda who had a glare set straight at Weiss.
"Did you not realize that your damn screeching doesn't help either, or are you just so caught up acting so high and mighty that you didn't consider that?"
"Uh nor sir I won't do it again." Weiss was practically sweating bullets at this point In Weiss' opinion he was way more intimidating then he let on.
"Kiss ass. She must have been. After all, who does a complete 180 in personality when a teacher was there." Dante thought to himself.
Weiss was quick to leave with her tail between her legs in a matter of speaking as she didn't make another peep on the way back to her sleeping bag.
"Thank you." The three said simultaneously to the white-haired man.
"Eh no problem, I can already see her becoming my least favorite out of my whole entire students." As soon as those words left his mouth it seemed like a bomb was dropped on both Ruby and Yang's mouths were wide open as they came upon this revelation.
"Wait so you were a teacher this whole entire time?" Ruby questioned with a surprised expression. Now it made sense why he had helped her earlier. It was because it was pretty much his job to help her.
"Yep in fact Belladonna and I am guessing the Schnee figured it out already." At the mention of her name, Blake got her turn of surprise as she just stared slack jawed at the man.
"Let me guess you want to know how I know your name?" Blake nodded. "It's because we got a list of all of the first years that would be showing up today and well, your name was on the list. Blake felt stupid for even asking. Of course a teacher would have a list of students that would be here today.
Before he could blow the minds of the three teens minds anymore he walked back over to Oobleck who was still in the position that he was in before. Laying against the wall with a coffee cup in hand.
"I see that you put the young Schnee in her place." Oobleck said with an amused tone.
"Yep sure did doc." He said as he reached for his now cold pizza "In fact I don't think she will try anything else while I am around." Oobleck was honestly interested as he heard Dante's tale. "Funnily enough the redhead and the blondie didn't even know that I was a teacher."
"That is indeed funny Mr. Sparda. Now I would suggest that we get sleep as we have a long day with initiation and such." Dante opened his mouth to argue but he quickly closed it. before he drifted off to sleep however, he wished the doctor a good night.
As everyone was falling asleep in the ballroom, both Glynda and Ozpin were in the headmaster's office. It was silent for a few seconds before Glynda spoke up.
"I am honestly surprised you didn't ask what Mr. Sparda's semblance was." Glynda admitted to Ozpin as he silently drank his coffee.
"There was no need to force him to admit to me what his semblance. In fact, I give him credit for hiding it so well. The only people who know about his semblance is his brother and his team which in case I need to remind you, his brother is missing and all of the members of his team are dead. Not even his two friends Lady and Trish know what it is." Glynda's expression turned from bland to shocked as she heard of Ozpin's knowledge of Dante's two friends.
Ozpin seemed to notice her expression as he started talking again. "You would think that I wouldn't research extra information on people who want to become part of the staff? That would be a threat to security if I just let anyone into Beacon." Glynda sighed before she walked outside of the door.
"Goodnight Glynda." Ozpin said softly.
"Goodnight." Goodwitch walked outside of the
Now that is the end of chapter one. To be honest I feel kind of happy of how this turned out. I felt like this wasn't as much of a train wreck of a first chapter as my other story. Yet, I still feel like there are problems, but not enough to weigh down some of the good. But hey that is just my opinion. Just so you know I am going to skip initiation all together and pick up when they are announcing the teams simply because I feel like I can't change anything worthwhile enough to warrant a chapter focused solely on initiation. But enough on my rant I will say goodbye for now and see you next chapter.
