Nero ran his left hand throught his hair as he poked at his food. Chuckling, he realized that even though he had his new arm for about two weeks, he still did everything with his left. 'Old habits die hard'.

"Nero, is everything okay?" asked Kyrie, worried for the devil hunter. "Is this about Dante and your father?"

"No, I'm not worried about that," said Nero. "That old timer can handle himself and, if Vergil is anything like his brother, he can handle himself too."

"You're still worried for them," said Kyrie. "If you want to, I won't keep you here. You can go and save them if you want".

"I can't," denied Nero. "Last thing Dante told me before he went to the underworld was to protect things from this end".

"Oh, shut up and go get that old bastard," said Lady from her place in the door. Trish was standing next to her. "I thought I would check up on you guys and overheard your conversation".

"But..."

"No, we can handle things over here," said Trish. "While Dante usually take care of the final boss, we can hold our own or do I need to remind of my history as Gloria?"

"Let me guess," said Nero with a sigh. "you won't let me stay here".

"Yep," said Lady with a smirk, "and the best part is that we just got a mission".

"Why is that the best part?" asked Kyrie.

"This old man thought he was smart when he opened a gate to the underworld. Now we need to clean out the mansion and, as a bonus, Nero has a open door to the underworld". Nero groaned as he stood up. Grabbing his sword, Red Queen, he walked out the door.

"You coming or what?" He said as he revved his blade.

"Now wait just a damn minute," said Nico as she opened the garage door. "Aren't you forgetting something?"

"Nope, I want to try this mission with just my normal arm," said Nero as he glance at his right arm. "I need to get used to not having a special weapon in place of my right arm".

"Whatever," said Nico as she closed the door. "Your lost".

"So, where's this place?" asked Nero, shaking his head. Catching the letter Trish threw at him, he glanced at the address before throwing it back. "See ya there". With that, Nero ran off.

(ONE MISSION LATER)

Nero jerked his head to the gate as he shot the last of the demons that tried to come through. "Guess I'll go get those old timers and be back in time for dinner". With a salute, he leapt through the gate. Running through the underworld, Nero only stopped to cut down any demons dumb enough to attack him.

"Nero?" said the familiar voice of Dante. "What the fuck are you doing here?"

"I didn't want to be here," said Nero as he nodded at his father and Dante. "Lady and Trish didn't give me a choice".

"Let's hurry and shut the gate you came through," said Vergil as he ran a hand through his hair. "Lead the way". Nero said nothing as he led the two brothers to the gate.

"Ladies first," joked Dante as he patted Vergil on the back. Rolling his eyes, Vergil leapt through the gate. "First, a bath, then pizza". With plans made, Dante leapt through the gate as well. Laughing at Dante's antics, Nero also leapt through. When he got to the other side, he was surprised to see a forest. "Nero, over here".

"Something is wrong?" asked Vergil, seeing the confused look on his son's face.

"The gate was in a mansion," said Nero. "Did we go through the wrong portal?" Nero retraced his steps in his mind. "No, we went through the same portal that I entered with". Turning around, he panicked when he saw that the gateway was closing. Unfortunately, he just barely missed the portal, causing him to land on the ground with a grunt.

"Man I hate that cliche," said Dante as he watched Nero's tumble. "Either the hero make it at the last second, or miss it at the last second".

"While I find this conversation fascinating, I'm afraid we have company," said Vergil as he glance at the approaching creatures. they looked like animals, like wolves, bears, ravens, and more. All of them were black and had strange bone-like armor covering their body. "Same rules as always?"

"Of course," said Dante as he punched a wolf that tried to pounce on him. "That's one for me". Dante then ducked as Nero slashed Red Queen at a bear that tried to sneak up on the devil hunter.

"Come on, old man," said Nero as he dodge Dante's gunshot that killed another bear behind him. "Hopefully you can keep up". After that taunt, the three descendants of Sparda began mercilessly killing any creature that got too close. Even the raven creatures, who tried to stay away and attacking from the air, was quickly taken out by the groups' numerous amount of ranged options. When no more creatures came, Nero called out, "58!"

"Ha, I got 59!" bragged Dante. "Guess this old man can keep up, huh?"

"Look like this is another tie," said Vergil, causing Dante to groan. Before he could complain, a nearby tree fell over.

"Well, would you look at that?" said Dante as he pulled out the blade that shared his name. "Who deals the killing blow wins?"

"Sounds great to me," said Nero as he revved his blade.

"Such childish acts," said Vergil as he also got ready to fight. What they saw wasn't what they expected. Two females stepped out, clearly just argued with each other. The younger one wore mostly black with red highlighting her oufit. the two most notable features were her silver eyes and the large rectangular shape on her back. The older one, though it didn't seem like much, had white hair and a white outfit. In her hands, she held a rapier with a revolver located in the guard, right above the grip.

"Hello," said the girl with the silver eyes, "I'm Ruby Rose and this is Weiss Schnee. I don't remember seeing you three before this began".

"I would be surprised if you did," said Nero as he let go of Red Queen. "We got lost trying to get home, so care to help us?"

"How did you get here?" asked a suspicious Weiss as she pointed her weapon at the trio. "This is the Emerald Forest, no one can just accidentally wanders into this place".

"We didn't 'wander'" said Dante as he pushed the heiress's blade away. "It's much more complicated than that".

"Well, we have a initiation to finish and don't have time to waste," said Weiss, not wanting to deal with more annoyance. "Ruby, let's go".

"Wait, shouldn't we help them?" asked Ruby. Weiss didn't respond, forcing Ruby to run after her. "I hope you find your way home".

"So...pick a random direction and walk that way?" suggested Dante. With two shrugs, the trio walked in the opposite direction of the two girls.

Hoped you enjoyed. see ya next chapter.