Author's Reasons: And like my other stories, the main reason I wrote this in the first place is because I can't find a good Devil May Cry/Final Fantasy XIII fic! That and I needed to put the first chapter of future stories in some place. And don't ask me for updates. I bet you read good fics before and the Author took a long time to update! So don't rush me!

Important Notes: This is NOT a story. This 'story' is for me to put all first chapters of future non-Kamen Rider related stories. Maybe this way I can finally concentrate on all my other stories. By the way, I will spoil it for all of you that Dante and Nero will practically be the same person, so Nero will not be appearing. Sorry Nero Fans. Dante will act like Nero if that's good enough for you. He will retain his cocky, flirtatious and laid back personality, but usually rather be a lone wolf, so he can be social if he wants to, but he usually doesn't.

His weapon will be... Red Queen. Sorry guys. But Red Queen would be more suitable then the Rebellion(Which apparently has no special abilities within the blade itself) due to the fact Dante will work PSICOM(But I got plans for those two swords...). Yes the guy will work for PSICOM. Deal with it. But he will retain Ebony&Ivory due to the fact they're more customized than the Blue Rose, even though Dante will use Ebony more since he's left handed. That's right, left handed. You know what that means? It means he has Devil Bringer!

Now, some of you may not like the changes. So if you say so, I will change Dante into an OC instead. That way said OC will just have Dante's and Nero's weapons with the combined personality(with some quirks). Though Vergil will stay in the story regardless of what you say. Though, if you say OC I'll have to change Vergil's name since he and Dante were named after the characters in Divine Comedy. So if I named the OC Sora, Vergil's name will be change into Riku. If OC's name is Ventus, then Vergil's name will be changed into Terra. Vergil's name will be change into the exact opposite of the OC's name meaning.

OH YEAH! I have no idea of PSICOM's Rankings... so I'm just going to wing it, okay?

Not-Important Notes: Please choose the OC! I have a plot twist that I really want to try out! Oh and I realized in DMC 3, playing as Vergil is broke. Seriously, you could fire the Summoned Swords at your enemies, which doesn't interrupt the melee attacks! So you can keep firing your swords while attacking at close range! That's cheating!

Disclaimer: Don't own anything. And I mean anything! Seriously, the plot is going to be practically a mix of XIII's plot, DMC 3 and 4's plot! I only own the idea of making the crossover and the mysterious plot twist that I mentioned above. But you all already knew that right? Oh and I don't own any references/items/characters/songs/quotes etc from other series.

Five hundred years ago, there was a war. Between the paradise known as Cocoon and the world below it... Gran Pulse. Two millenniums ago, Cocoon and Gran Pulse were the targets of another world... the Demon World. But during that war, somebody from the Demon World woke up to justice, and stood up against it's demonic legion, alone. His name... was Sparda. Later, he quietly reigned the Cocoon and Gran Pulse, and continued to preserve harmony until the war between the two worlds, the War of Transgression, where he was once more acknowledge as a war hero. After the war, he quietly protected the two worlds once more, until his death. He became a legend;

The Legendary Dark Knight, Sparda.

"Are you even listening to me Dante!-?" a man in armor complete with a helmet said to another man.

The man, sporting white hair and a handsome face, just gave the man in armor a look that said; "I'm sorry, did you say something?". Unlike all the other men in the aircraft, he was the only one not wearing the same uniform. The man wore a red coat over a black polo neck shirt, brown cargo pants and black boots. Strapped onto his back was a customized blade that looked like a long butcher knife with two holsters carrying a black gun with a white gun next to it. Curiously, his right arm was wrapped in bandages supported by a sling he was wearing a purple and blue glove over the supposed exposed part. His left hand also had a glove, but it was black rather than purple plus it was fingerless as well.

"Yeah yeah... ," muttered the man, even though he looked like he didn't even paid attention. How could he considering the fact he was wearing customized headphones? "We go in, Purge people and then Purge the Vestige. Now can I take a nap before I have to start the mission?" he asked sarcastically.

The man in armor muttered something under his breath about the man in red being a lazy ass, though the man in question didn't really cared. You asked pretty much anyone who knew the man and they will answer that he was an ass. The man in armor sighed. "Since you missed it Dante, I'll explain again. There's some trouble at the Hanging Edge, and you're taking your squad to fix it."

"Oh?" the man known as Dante asked, his curiosity pique. "What kind of trouble Chief?"

"Not that kind of trouble, you dumbass!" he said, smacking Dante for being the ass he is. "The deportees there aren't being... cooperative... ," he explained, trying to find the right word.

"Of course they aren't being cooperative!" Dante said, kind of shocking some of the other soldiers in the aircraft. "If I was going to be Purged then I would kick everyone's ass until I get killed!" he declared.

"You do remember that is the Purge is all about right?"

"Yeah yeah. People get executed instead of being sent to Pulse like we said," Dante muttered. He sighed. 'My jobs sucks... . Why did I join in the first place... ?' he asked, trying to find the memory that will make him remember why he wanted joined the Public Security and Intelligence Command, or PSICOM for short, in the first place. Though he didn't want to admit it out loud(to anyone for that matter), he kind of felt sorry for Purged citizens.

Being 'sent to Pulse' just for living near something from Pulse. It was no better then the reason why his arm was wrapped in bandages. If it weren't so damn useful in the first place, he bet that he would've got Purged as well. Now that he thought about it... why did he let the Purge come to pass anyway?

'I bet dear old dad would be SO disappointed at seeing his son letting murderers go about freely... ,' thought Dante, trying to suppress a smirk. It was funny that he mention his father considering the fact that he hated the man due to him leaving the house willingly and never returning home at all. Not even to visit.

"Get ready Dante," ordered the armored man that Dante always call 'Chief'.

"Yeah yeah... ," he muttered in reply as he got out of his seat. He then looked at his small squad of 5, if one included him. "Alright you maggots! I don't like you and by the end of the day, I'm pretty sure you won't like me, so let's get this over with... ." Dante knew that the four PSICOM Soldiers in front of him sweatdropped from hearing that. "Now... weapons check!"

Out of all the four soldiers in front of him, none of them knew what they were doing. All they did was looking over their weapons. Dante tried to resist the urge to face-palm from seeing their poor display but ultimately failed, causing a loud *SMACK* to echo across the aircraft's halls. "Not like that you idiots... ," he muttered before swiping one rifle from a soldier. "You're supposed to check if you're safety switch is on... ," He flicked the switch on the rifle. "... then make sure your clip is secure." He finished, checking the clip filled with bullets before sliding it back into the rifle, before immediately giving it back to the soldier.

The other three followed his example like obedient dogs, perfectly imitating him. He sighed. 'Rookies... ,' he thought annoyingly, he always hated babysitting. He sighed again before beginning to speak. "Alright. You all got the Grav-Con Unit, right?" He got nods in response. "Good. Now... ," He looked at the hatch of the airship, slowly opening. He walked behind to soldiers"... JUMP!" He said with a crazy grin as he pushed the soldiers, screaming like little girls(SJ: No sexism intended) as they fell.

The remaining two soldiers looked at him in shock. "What are you waiting for? Jump!" Dante ordered. The two gulped before jumping willingly. Dante rolled his eyes, muttering something about 'Chocobos' before preparing to jump himself, until Chief stopped him. "What is it now Chief... ?" asked Dante in a whiny like voice.

Chief rolled his eyes, even though he knew Dante couldn't see it. "New orders. Direct from the Sanctum."

'Well this won't be good... ,' thought Dante. "Which are... ?" Even though it sounded sarcastic, Dante was being fully serious.

"Sanctum says that all the deportees are now classified as targets. They want us to take them all out."

"... ." Dante stayed silent. 'That's it!-?' he thought in shock as an 'inner eye' twitched. "... That's it... ?" Dante could've swore one of his eye twitch.

"That's it," confirmed Chief. They stayed silent for a few seconds.

"... They're going die anyway, why didn't Sanctum just gave us the order to kill them on sight the moment they started fighting back?"

"I don't know. But orders are orders," shrugged Chief.

"And the Vestige... ?" Dante decided to ask.

"To be destroyed."

"Destroyed how?"

"Blown up destroyed."

"Sweet... ," Dante said to himself before turning his back on Chief. "Well Chief, I gotta go! I'm late for the party as it is!" Dante said before he jumped.

Chief shook his head at Dante's cockiness. At least there were no females on his squad or he could've swore Dante would start talking about girls. But then he remembered something. "Shit... . I forgot to tell him he could take his bandages off... ."

Dante activated his Grav-Con Unit, summersaulting to the ground in a dramatic fashion, before snapping his fingers to deactivate the Unit. "Alright rookies, switch your communications to frequency 101.3" ordered Dante, turning the knob on his headphones that doubled as a communicator. His squad followed, tuning the communicators in their helmets to the specified frequency.

"Alright, you idiots hear me?" asked Dante, as he didn't want other PSICOM Soldier to eavesdrop on them. His squad reluctantly nodded their heads. They all had the same thoughts;

'Man he's an ass... .'

"Good. Now, this is my personal frequency. Nobody gets to use this but me. So you're all are dead after this." Cue the dramatic gasp from them. "Now, I've done some bad things in my life, but who doesn't? Orders are orders after all. But this is going against everything I learned from my parents. This is mass murder. After all, the deportees are just innocent civilians, they don't deserve to be Purge. And so I decided... ." Dante said.

"... that I'm going to betray PSICOM and Sanctum."

"What!-? That's suicide!" said one of the soldiers.

"Ha! It'll take a lot to kill me and Sanctum knows it! They'll need a Demon to kill me!" Dante declared, he already saw one of the soldiers shook his head, thinking Dante was too overconfident on his abilities. 'If you only knew kid! Besides... the only one that can kill me doesn't take orders from no one!'

"Sorry... but if you're going to betray PSICOM and Sanctum... ," said one of the soldiers, raising his rifle. "... then we'll have to kill you," He declared.

"... . Ha! Like you could... ," Dante said, before everything went black for the soldiers, never to awaken again.

Sazh couldn't believe it. He just saw one of PSICOM's lap dogs kill his fellow soldiers in cold blood. Granted, one of them raised their rifles at him, with the others following, but to defeat them all in one slash... .

The man in the red coat walked towards his fallen former comrades, before stomping on their helmets. Judging by what he was doing, he had just betrayed PSICOM and didn't want anyone finding out just yet. The woman next to him, Lightning Farron, glared at the man before continuing to walk away.

"Hey. Are you trying to stop the Purge?" the man suddenly asked, causing Sazh and Lightning to freeze in their tracks. "If you are, you don't mind if I help, right?" asked the man, turning his head to them.

'How could he know? We didn't even made a peep!' thought Sazh, as they had hid themselves from sight.

"What's the matter? Chocobo got your tongue?" the man smirked as he started to walk towards them.

Lightning drew her Gunblade. "How do we know that you won't betray us like you did with PSICOM... ?" she questioned him. Sazh drew his guns, ready to fight if necessary. The man put his left arm in the sky, seeing that his right one was in a sling.

"... Easy now... . I'm not the bad guy here... . Sanctum is... ," he said.

"Freeze!" unfamiliar voices said. They turned around and saw PSICOM Enforcers and two PSICOM Warden. The two PSICOM Wardens eyes widened in shock(Not that anybody could see) while the Enforcers pointed their weapons at the three rebels. "Drop your weapons and put your hands in the air!" one of them ordered.

Lightning let out an annoyed "Tsk", thinking that she should've known he called for backup. The PSICOM group he murdered were probably the real traitors. She and Sazh did what they were told, do to the fact that the red coated man could broke any of her initial strikes, giving his 'allies' a chance to shoot her and Sazh.

"I said drop your weapons and hands in the air punk!" the PSICOM Enforcer ordered again, seeing that the red coated man wasn't doing what he said.

"You idiot rookie!" snapped a Warden, smacking the Enforcer. "That's Sergeant Dante Redgrave you idiot! He's one of us!"

"What!-? He's Sergeant Dante!-?" asked another Enforcer, not believing it.

"Let see.. ," the man known as Dante spoke up. "... white hair, red coat... . Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm Dante Redgrave, brat," the man said said in a cold voice.

"Sorry sir!" the two Enforcers said.

Dante turned to the two rebels, as if scanning them. "... Say soldiers... ," he started, getting the attention of his fellow PSICOM soldiers. "... do you think what we're doing is right?" he asked, confusing everyone that was around to hear the question.

"Of course we are sir! These 'people'... ," said a Warden, saying 'people' with venom dripping over his tongue. "... no longer belong here, let alone live. After all, they did kill your squad."

"I see... so you're saying that, even though all these people are probably not l'Cie, we're going to kill them?" Dante questioned them, confusing them even more.

"Of course sir! All things that are connected to Pulse must be Purged!" the Warden answered.

"I see... . You're a loyal PSICOM Solider buddy," said Dante, drawing his sword and stabbed it to the ground, then revving part of the handle near the cross guard, which surprisingly has a brake lever like you see on hovercycles. He revved it quickly about three times, the blade of the sword becoming bright red.

"Uh... what's he doing?" asked the final Enforcer.

"His sword, the Red Queen, has a system called 'Exceed'. Basically, by revving the handle near the guard, the sword will release flammable liquid spray on itself and any opponent nearby. When swung, the liquid will combust, covering the blade with fire and increasing it's blows." explained a Warden. "Due to that feature and other customizations, only Sergeant Dante can wield it."

"Heh. You did your homework... ," Dante said mysteriously. "But not all of it... . Those PSICOM Soldiers that were killed over there?" Dante swung his sword, AT the PSICOM Soldiers! The blade release an arc made of fire, hitting all the soldiers, slowly killing them. "Yeah. I killed them... ." He turned around to Lightning and Sazh, who were shocked that he was the traitor. "So... , you mind helping me putting them out of their misery?"

"You won't get away with this, traitor!" said a slowly dying Warden, unable to put the flames out. "You will be hunted down until you die!"

"Hey... you're the guy I said was a loyal PSICOM Soldier, right?" Dante asked, walking to him. "Yeah well, let me take that statement back. You ain't loyal to PSICOM, or it's teachings... ." He raised Red Queen, intent of putting the Warden out of his misery. "... You're just a loyal Sanctum Puppet." With that, he stabbed the Warden right between the eyes, instantly killing him. He turned to Lightning and Sazh. "... So... , mind telling me why you're heading to the Vestige?"

"How did you know... ?" Lightning asked. Surely their goal wasn't that easy to figure out, right?

"Well, if I were you, that's the only place interesting enough to make me run around the Hanging Edge," he said, putting his sword on his back and taking out his black gun, before twirling it around. "Judging by the personal Guardian Corps uniform, I doubt a soldier would want to be willingly get Purged without a reason... ." He pointed the gun at Lightning, before pretending that he shot her, complete with the mockery 'Bang'. "I'll warn you though. PSICOM is planning to blow that place sky high. You still wanna go there?"

Lightning didn't do anything but glare at him, before beginning to walk to the Vestige. His warning only strengthen her resolve to go there. She would be damn if she let PSICOM blow up the Vestige while she was still in there. "I'm still going. No matter what happens. I will not leave until I complete my mission," she declared.

"And... what mission is that?" asked Sazh.

Lightning didn't answer. She only continued to walk. "Since nobody could enter the Vestige before, I doubt you know your way around. What if you get caught in a dead end. I doubt there's anybody else that would go to the Vestige," said Dante. Hearing him say that, made her remember about that man. She knew that he would go to the Vestige as well. If luck was on her side, then maybe he'll get lost inside it and stay out her life.

"It doesn't matter," she said, before running ahead.

"Heh. Aren't you just a ball of sunshine... ," Dante said to himself. "But then again... who am I to complain?" He looked at Sazh. "Let's go old man. Wouldn't want to get left behind now would we?" He ran off.

"Hey! I'm not that old!" said Sazh. He then sighed. "Kids these days. They should learn to slow down a bit... ," he muttered before chasing after them.

(Minutes later, after going through fights after fights...)

"Told you this would happen... ," muttered Dante, who was sitting with Sazh as they watched Lightning trying to cut the door open. "You know... I could help with Red Queen's Exceed System and all... ."

"Quiet! I don't need help! Especially from an injured man!" Lightning said.

"Oh this thing... ?" Dante asked, raising his supposedly injured arm. He pushed his arm against the sling, snapping it. He then clenched and unclenched his hand. "It's... 'nearly' healed... ." He explained, taking out the Red Queen before revving it to it's maximum, before slashing against the door. To his surprise, the door still didn't budge. "Huh... tougher then it looks... ."

"Why didn't I listen... ?" Lightning asked herself.

"Beg your pardon/Pardon... ?" Sazh and Dante asked respectively.

"This is all my fault... ." She continued to talk to herself.

"Hey, if you're going to go crazy on us, why don't you take a seat... ?" asked Dante.

"... . Cover your eyes," she ordered, seemingly back to normal.

"Oh! Blast charge!-? Oh! Hold on, hold on, hold on!" Sazh asked, running away until he was a few feet away from them. "Okay then! Make it happen!" he gave them the okay as he covered his ears. Lightning glared at Dante, who sighed and walked to Sazh was and covered his ears as well. Lightning turned the door, and pressed her hand against the shield.

"I'm so sorry... ," she said, as if to someone she knew. Unknown to her, Dante had ceased to cover his ears. "Please let me in... . Please?"

'Now who are you talking to... ?' Dante thought to himself. As far as he knew her, Lightning seemed to... proud, to say sorry. As if responding to her wish, the shield on the door dropped and the door itself opened.

Sazh was shocked since he didn't felt any shockwaves, asking Lightning how she opened the door as they walked through the Vestige. As they walked, they were suddenly intercepted by three Pantherons. "Heh. Well, might as well let these girls play," said Dante, drawing out his customized guns Ebony&Ivory.(SJ: Yes I'm well aware they are called 'guys' by Dante in the games while in the reboot they are called 'girls' even though there are no portraits of females on the new Ebony&Ivory. So I'm switching. Original are called girls while reboots, if I ever used the reboot versions, are called guys)

"Hope you know how to use those son," said Sazh. The last thing he needs is getting shot in the ass by a rookie gunslinger.

"Have a little faith old man... ," said Dante before the three began to battle with the biological weapons. Lightning charged right into the middle of the three Pantherons, before initiating a Blitz, dealing damage to all of them. Sazh began shooting them, causing Dante to sigh. 'Talk about no style... ,' thought Dante, even Sazh was kind of showing off. He then jumped over the Pantherons and Lightning, before spinning his body while shooting at the same time, the bullets hitting the Pantherons but not even one hit Lightning.

Dante landed across Sazh and Lightning, meaning the woman was in between the two man with the Pantherons still surrounding her. Dante then let all hell loose by jumping over them again before rapidly firing bullets at his targets, defeating them all. "Not bad kid," complemented Sazh.

"Thanks old man," muttered Dante, though Sazh can tell he meant it.

"Customized guns?" asked Sazh, causing Dante to nod.

"Yeah. PSICOM's gunsmith, Nell Goldstien, made them for me. Though the old hag made me assemble the girls myself... ," Dante said, then suddenly got lost in memory.

"Hey kid!" Sazh said, causing Dante to snap out of memory lane before he could walk it. "Not the time go through memory lane kid. We still in Pulse area," he warned.

"Yeah yeah... ," Dante muttered. When they reached another flight of stairs, they floor that greeted them was filled with enemies. Dante sighed. "This is going to take a while... ," he muttered to himself before the group attacked the Pantherons and Zwerg Scanroids in the area. They easily defeated them all. They walked to the stairs, only to be greeted by a Myrmidon.

"Are you kidding me!-? This thing again!-?" Sazh asked in shock.

"A Myrmidon... . Fast but can be staggered easily. We can take it... ," Dante said, explaining it's strengths and weaknesses to his allies.

"We beat it before. We can beat another one," Lightning explained to Dante.

"Hn. Guess this'll be easy then," said Dante, taking out the Red Queen. He and Lightning charged at the Myrmidon, hacking and slashing it. When it seemed it was about to attack, Lightning and Dante backed away while Sazh began firing at it. Noticing that Sazh will be the bigger threat as he can continue firing at it non-stop, it decided to attack him.

"Oh no not again!" said Sazh, as the Myrmidon before it decided the same thing. He began running away, though the Myrmidon was closing in on him due to it's jets. But it was stopped by Dante. He revved up the Red Queen to maximum, before cutting it with an X-shaped slash. They all backed away as the Myrmidon exploded due to the flames. "Whew... thanks a lot son... ," thanked Sazh.

"Don't mention it... ," Dante said as Lightning began to walk the stairs. He sighed. "I swear that woman... ," he muttered to himself before he and Sazh ran to catch up. Once more, they were greeted by the sight of enemies, except this time Lightning had engage them. "Well then, no time to slack off, huh old man?" Dante smirked at Sazh, as the two drew their respective guns.

"Yup... ," agreed Sazh as the two shot the Pantherons surrounding Lightning. But then the Zwerg Scanroids noticed all of them and began to float dangerously(that's a laugh to Dante) to them. Dante decided to finish off the pest first as he used two Charge Shots to finish them off. He then began focusing finishing off the Pantherons, only to see that they were already killed by Lightning.

"Geez... . Lady takes all the fun to herself... ," commented Dante as he followed Lightning to ANOTHER flight of stairs. 'Wonder how many stairs are there... ?' he asked himself as they encountered another Myrmidon, except this time it had another Pantheron as backup. Though, they were quickly dispatched by the combined efforts of Lightning, Sazh and Dante.

"If those things are here, guess that means that there're soldiers trapped here too... ," commented Sazh. "Probably l'Cie by now. Not even human anymore... . Just Pulse l'Cie. Enemies of Cocoon... . Can't show mercy to them... ," Sazh said, unaware that Lightning was clenching and unclenching her hand into fists as he talked about what he thinks about Pulse l'Cie. Though Dante was fully aware. He sighed.

'This won't end well... ,' he thought as they continued to their journey, by ascending another flight of stairs. 'Why the hell are there so many damn stairs!-?' He then noticed that Lightning had suddenly became hasty, something that Sazh also noticed.

"What's the matter Soldier?" asked Sazh, since he still didn't know the name of the woman yet. "I thought you came looking for a fight?"

"I thought she came cause she was looking for something," Dante admitted, causing Lightning to slightly tense herself. "You are, aren't you? What or rather who are you looking for?"

"... . My sister... ," she finally admited.

"Your sister?" Sazh repeated, not believing it.

"She's a l'Cie," she confessed, shocking her two allies.

"A l'Cie!-? As in, a Pulse l'Cie!-?" questioned Sazh. Lightning nodded.

"The Pulse Fal'Cie has her captive... but I'll find her... ," she explained.

"Is she still... ?" Sazh began to ask, though Lightning had began to walk.

"What was her Focus?" asked Dante, speaking up. Lightning didn't face him, so he walked in front of her. "What did the Fal'Cie ordered her to do? Something that has to do with Cocoon's destruction?"

"... I didn't asked... ," she admitted.

"Was it because she was l'Cie? Did you push her away because she wasn't Human anymore?" questioned Dante, only to get punched right in the face. Sazh winced from seeing the man fall down, clutching his nose.

"I love my sister! She could turn into a Cie'th but I will still love her!" she angrily declared.

"... . I see... . Nice to know... that some things that can't broken... ," Dante said, somewhat sadly.

"If she did turn into a Cie'th... would pull the trigger?" asked Sazh, causing Lightning to glare at him now. "Hear me out! I mean... once you turn into a l'Cie... you're not Human anymore... ."

"Just say it! Both of you!" Lightning yelled. "Any l'Cie... anyone who might ever become a l'Cie should wipe off the face of Cocoon!" she yelled at them, Sazh turning his head away in shame but Dante held his ground. "... It's people like you... that started the Purge in the first place... ."

"No... ," Dante started, causing Lightning to glare at him even harder then before. "It's people who can't understand... , who let their fear control them... that started the Purge... . People like the old man? At least they show mercy by killing the l'Cie... freeing them from the Fal'Cie's strings... ." Then suddenly the door nearby with a Pulse l'Cie Brand dropped down it's seal, freeing the Cie'th inside. "You want your sister to end up like that... ? Can't even recognize them... . Next thing we know, she turned into a Cie'th and we accidentally killed her along the way... ."

Lightning pulled him by his coat before punching him again. "Shut up! Just shut up!"

"Hey! Enough already!" Sazh said, getting in between them. "Look, how about we focus on beating those things and finding your sister first?" Sazh asked, though Lightning ignored him in favor of glaring at Dante, who just stared at her.

"... Fine... ," she said, before drawing her Blazfire Gunblade and charging at the Cie'th.

Sazh sighed. "Did you really have to piss her off?" he asked as Dante got up.

"Just telling her what I think... ," Dante said, brushing himself off. "Now let's go... . Less you want her to kick your ass for leaving her," he said with a small smirk before charging in to the gathering Cie'th. Sazh sighed again as the chocobo chick he bought came out of his afro and landed onto his open palm.

"Man chocobo... we really can't get a break, can we?" he asked it, causing the chick to chirp before going back into his afro. He took out his guns and got into the battle as well. Though he didn't really need to do much as Lightning had killed most of them out of frustration. "Well, that was easy," he commented, seeing some Cie'th corpses disintegrating into black particles that disappeared into thin air.

"That was because they were the weakest out of all the Pulse Cie'th… they were Ghouls… weakest of the weak. "explained Dante.

Sazh sighed. "Great… . So what's the strongest Cie'th then?"

"Nobody on Cocoon knows who's the 'strongest', but I do know that there can't be any strong Cie'th in this place. Worst come to worst, the only strong ones here are the ones that can cast basic Magic spells…. ," Dante said. He then began walking where the Cie'th came from. "C'mon. I heard that a l'Cie turns into a Cie'th faster when they're going through emotional distress. Judging by how guilty you feel, I doubt your sister has much time," Dante told Lightning, who widened her eyes at the information. If he was telling the truth, then her little sister Serah didn't have much time.

"Let's go!" She ordered.

Sazh sighed again. "Why do you all always run?"

"Who knows old man… ," Dante said. "But let's follow her, before this little party spins out of control… ," Dante said before the two chased after Lightning. It wasn't that hard as all you had to do was follow the trail of disintegrating Cie'th corpses. When the came near a platform, they saw that Lightning was engage in battle with two bulkier and larger Cie'th. Dante had recognized both of them as Ghast Cie'th.

He revved the Red Queen a few time, causing part of the sword glowing red. This showed that the Exceed Gauge was currently at Level 1. Though, charging up the Exceed System had cause the other Ghast to turn it's attention of them. The Ghast fired the basic Fire Spell at Sazh and Dante, both managing to dodge before the fireball managed to hit them. Dante countered by utilizing his Streak technique, powered up into the EX Streak due to the fact that the Exceed Gauge had been filled up by one Level.

When the fire covered blade of Red Queen hit the Ghast, Dante noticed that it was dealing a lot more damage then Lightning's normal attacks. He backed away next to Sazh, just as Lightning backed away, landing next to Dante. "Listen up. Those things cast Fire, right?" he gotten a nod from Lightning and Sazh. "When I used an Exceed Attack on the other Ghast, I noticed it dealt a lot more damage then your attacks woman, and a lot more damage then it should've. That means that it's weakness is Fire. You two need to make those two shoot each instead of us. Think you can do that?"

He got a nod from Lightning, but Sazh didn't know if he could. "Oh well old man. Just keep shooting them then," he said in a tone of voice that said Sazh was weak, though Sazh paid no mind to it. Dante and Lightning charge at the Cie'th, with Dante revving up the Exceed System as he ran. Both Cie'th cast Fire at them, though Dante jumped over one fireball while Lightning redirect the other at one of the Ghasts. Dante then used another EX Streak, killing one of the Ghast while Lightning slashed the head of the remaining one, cutting it in half and instantly killing it.

"... Let's go!" ordered Lightning, walking up to the platform. The platform jerked a bit, before beginning to ascend to the upper floor. Luckily, Dante and Sazh managed to jump on before it was too high up for them to jump. They ascended another flight of stairs, though it wasn't as long as the others. Then, right in the middle of the area, was a young woman that had some resemblance to Lightning, namely pink hair.

This was her sister, Serah Farron.

"Serah!" Lightning cried out the name worriedly, running to her unconscious sister. She picked her up, bridal style and began walking back towards her allies. For some reason, seeing her carry her sister like that had caused Dante to have the weirdest thought. Just imagine Lightning in a tuxedo and... well, you get the rest.

'What the HELL is wrong with me?' Dante thought to himself.(SJ: What the hell is wrong with me?)

"Alright, let's go. We've got to get out of here before PSICOM... what do you think you're doing?" Lightning asked Sazh, who picked up his gun.

"She's a Pulse l'Cie... ," he began. "... and Pulse l'Cie are enemies of Cocoon."

"And killing her is a mercy!-?" asked Lightning. Dante then took out Ivory and pressed it against Sazh's head.

"... . Put the gun down Sazh or me and the woman are going to have to scrub brain of the floor," Dante said.

"Look. You both know what will happen if she doesn't complete her Focus in time... ," Sazh said.

"Just. Put. The Gun. Down... ," Dante said ordered calmly. Sazh sighed and did what he was told.

"Serah!" they heard an unfamiliar voice say. Well, unfamiliar to Sazh and Dante. Lightning recognize it all too well as she gently put her sister down. On another platform was a man in a white coat named Snow and two kids, a boy with silver hair and a girl with red hair, causing Dante to raise an eyebrow on why the leader of the gang NORA(No Obligations, Rules or Authority) was here and why he brought two kids. "Serah!" he cried again as he ran to Serah, clutching her hand in relief. Lightning glared at Snow, causing Dante's eyebrow to be raised even further.

'This might not end well... ,' he thought as Serah opened her eyes.

"Is that... my hero... ?" she asked softly.

"Yeah," he said, letting out a sigh of relief seeing her alright. She smiled before turning to Lightning.

"Light... you came... ," she said somewhat happily.

"It's going to be okay Serah... ," Lightning said softly, kind of shocking Sazh considering the fact that Lightning had never acted so... kind during their time together. Though, Dante wasn't shocked. In fact, he looked sadly at the two sisters, jealous even.

"Let's go home... ," Snow said.

"Hand's off!" Lightning said suddenly, voice practically filled with every type of poison known to man. "I'm taking her home!"

"Sis, I-" Snow began, but was interrupted by Lightning.

"I'm not your sister! You couldn't protect her! It's your fault that she-" Now it was Lightning's turn to be interrupted, by her own little sister no less.

"You can save us... ," Serah said, almost tired. Her words confused all of them, wondering what she meant by that.

"Serah?" asked Lightning, worried.

"You can save us... ," she repeated. "Protect us all... . Save... Cocoon... ." The was she acted and how soft her voice was made the two worried. She was acting like she was dying.

"Protect Cocoon? Serah, that was your Focus?" asked Lightning.

"Anything! I'll do anything!" Snow told her. "Leave it to me, you'll see. I'll protect Cocoon, I'll save everyone!" His promise caused Lightning looked up at him before turning back to Serah.

"Somehow, I'll make things right... ," she said softly.

Snow grinned at Serah reassuringly. "You just relax... ." Serah softly smiled up at her hero before replying.

"Thank you," she said weakly to both her sister and fiancé, before closing her eyes. Then, a blue light flashed from within her, causing her to rise upward, levitating.

"Serah!" Lightning said desperately as her sister rose higher into the air. She didn't want anything to happen to her sister, not when they were so close! They stood with her as she rose higher. The teens gasped at seeing her levitate while Sazh looked shocked. Dante only narrowed his eyes, having a good guess what's going to happen as Serah's hand slipped from Snow's grasp. There was an odd grating sound, like something being frozen before Serah was suddenly yet slowly enveloped in crystal. Her arms folded across her chest, as if praying, before the crystal fully covered her. While that was happening, something floated down to land in Snow's still open hand.

It was a crystallised tear.

Snow exhaled, his breath caught in a lump in his throat as he helplessly stared at his crystalized fiancé. Lightning was no better. Snow began calling Serah's name, as if she could hear him. The red haired girl asked why she turned into crystal, with the silver haired teen telling the 'good' part of being turned into a l'Cie; you turn into crystal and gain eternal life.

"Just like the story say... ," commented Sazh.

"... . Serah... sweet dreams," Snow said, staring sadly at his bride-to-be.

His words though, snapped Lightning out of her depressed state and caused her to shove the nearby Sazh away in anger. "'Sweet dreams'? She's not sleeping!" she snapped at him, grabbing his coat. "Serah! She's... ," she said, her voice slowly becoming softer as her eyes slowly produced tears, but they refused to fall. She let go of Snow, as Dante walked to her and put a hand on her bare right shoulder. She looked him, with his eyes saying that he went through something similar to what she was going through right now. Her eyes soften at that.

"She's not dead... ," said Snow softly, though Lightning didn't listen. "The legend! Remember the legend! l'Cie who fulfill their Focus turn into crystal, and gain eternal life! It's the same with Serah! She's not dead!" The faces around the room told him that they didn't believe him, much. He began to addressed Lightning. "Serah is my bride-to-be. I promised to be hers forever! I don't care how many years I have to wait-"

The leader of NORA never got the chance to finish as Lightning shrugged off Dante's hand of her shoulder and punched Snow right in the face. "It's over!" she told him. "Open your eyes and face reality already Snow!" But Snow refused to believe what Lightning believed. Serah was still alive and he'll wait until he has to die without her by his side then so be it. He was loyal to Serah and Serah's forever! Even if she'll find another man if she wakes up after he dies so be it! She deserves to be loved.

Then suddenly the whole area shook like it was experiencing an earthquake. "What now!-?" asked the female teen.

"PSICOM!" Dante told them as he wore his headphones and tuned it to the standard PSICOM frequency.

"Leave no trace!" He heard a Commanding Officer ordered. "The Pulse Vestige never existed!"

"Tsk... . We've got to go! PSICOM is ready to blow this place sky high!" Dante warned them. His words caused Lightning and Snow to cover Serah, as they saw a few debris falling. They have to be dead if anything happened to Serah!

"Why are they doing this!-?" asked the red haired teen. "Aren't they going to send it back to Pulse!-? Isn't that the Purge is all about!-?" she asked, grabbing Dante's coat.

"All they care about is getting anything related to Pulse off Cocoon!" Sazh explained. "Dead or alive, it doesn't matter to them!"

"We have to get out here!" the silver haired boy said, grabbing the the red hair's hand. "They'll kill us!" Then suddenly, as if to prove him wrong, the earthquake stopped. Snow and Lightning looked around, and after deeming that nothing is going to fall, they got off Serah.

"Hey old man... ," Dante said, walking to Serah and stared at her crystalized form. Sazh acknowledge his words by saying that he wasn't that old. "You and the kids get out here... ," Dante said.

"Where you going then?" asked Sazh, dreading to know the answer.

"... ," Dante didn't answer, looking at the flight of stairs in front of them. "... To see the guest of honor of this little party... ," he replied, beginning to walk to the stairs.

"What!-? You want to see the Fal'Cie!-?" asked Sazh. "That thing isn't a tourist attraction you know!"

"Well... a party would be a bit boring if you don't drag the guest of honor to it... ," Dante said, before walking up the stairs.

"Are you... going to help Serah?" asked Snow.

Dante sighed, seemingly because he was getting barrage of questions. "Look, I've seen families torn apart before. Hell, I've experience the what could be considered the worst kind. ... I don't want to see another family torn apart. Not while I can help... ," he explained his reason, before finally able to ascend the stairs in peace.

Lightning stared at her ally, who was about to take the Fal'Cie just so he could reunite her with Serah. "Thank you... ," she muttered in a voice so soft no one heard it. She began to walk towards where Dante was heading.

"You too!-?" asked Sazh.

"... . My family... . My problem... ," she said simply, before running to catch up with Dante.

"Sis... ," Snow said, though Lightning didn't heard since she was too far ahead. He sprinted and ran to catch up with the two soldiers. Sazh sighed, this time expecting it.

"Guess we better follow them... . Don't want them to bit off more they can chew... ," Sazh said, ruffling his afro before leading the kids to their direction. As they walked, they saw some Cie'th disintegrating, no doubt by the trio ahead of them. They walked until they reached a dark hallway, where they could hear footsteps coming from it. Sazh nodded to the two kids behind him before leading them in. They continued to walk until they reached a wide area, with a machine standing in the middle of it.

"So... this is a Fal'Cie... ," silver hair said, staring at it almost in awe if it wasn't from Pulse.

Snow began to speak. "Serah's a crystal now," he said, pointing at the fal'Cie. "You gave her a Focus, and she did it. You got what you want, now let her go!" Silence was his only response, menacing and absolute. Snow fell to all fours. "Please," he begged. "Turn her back." He kneeled before the fal'Cie, one hand on his chest. "I'll be your l'Cie instead!" His voice broke at the end.

"Well... you gotta admire his determination," commented Dante, though Snow didn't pay any attention to the white haired man.

Lightning sighed. "Fine," she said. "You go on begging." She drew her Gunblade and strode forward. "Like this thing gives a damn what we want!" Her words became a yell at the end, and she hacked at the metallic exterior of the fal'Cie. The group watched in silence as her attacks had no effect on the being that towered over them. Until finally, she staggered backwards.

"Lightning!" Snow yelled in a worried tone as she again took up a battle stance.

"It's this things fault the Purge started," she said quietly. And it's people who are dying." She paused to look at us with a fierce expression. "Serah told us to save Cocoon, that means this thing needs to die!"

"... . Great speech... . Too bad the things not awake... ," said Dante, causing everyone to stare at him shock. He looked at them. "What? Seriously? You haven't noticed yet?" He pointed at one of the screens attached to Fal'Cie. "This things got screens all over it and their not even on. And the whole room is dark. Not to mention it didn't react at all when you attack it. My guess it's asleep," he explained as he knocked his fist against the metal. "Yo Fal'Cie! Wake up! We need to talk!"

Then suddenly, some part of the floor began to let out yellow light, strong enough to make the group cover their eyes from the sudden brightness. Snow instantly got onto his feet as the bright light revealed gears across the room "That's better... ," Dante said, though no one paid him no mind. A white light was released from the metal base in front of them, showing them it can be opened. Two metal pillars, arms if you could call them that, rose next to the metal base as it opened, revealing Fal'Cie itself along with it's crystal core.

Dante noticed the silver haired boy tried to run away, but the Fal'Cie intercepted him by raising a barrier with the Pulse Brand of Pulse l'Cie. The red haired girl came to his aid as Lightning and Snow gotten into battle stances while Dante drew the Red Queen and pointed it at the Fal'Cie. "Alright, let's dance!" he said with a smirk.

"Hey now, let's be reasonable!" warned Sazh. "You guys really think you can kill a Fal'Cie!-?"

"I faced scarier things than an oversized robot... ," shrugged Dante.

"Besides... I'm doing to this for Serah!" said Lightning.

"And there are somethings... that you have to do!" said Snow, his voice raising until the end.

Snow words caused something to change in Sazh. "Dajh... ," he muttered to himself as the Fal'Cie's screens turned on and revealed the Pulse Brand. As his resolve to fight strengthen, the chocobo chick in his afro let out a small cheer before jumping back in as Sazh tool out his guns from their holsters. "I'll help, as long as you guys don't mind an amateur! After all, I've got these things! Might as well use them."

"Thanks," Lightning said, letting him know about her appreciation for joining the fight. She then glared at the Fal'Cie before she and all the others concentrate their attacks on it. Seeing that nothing was attacking it's arms, the Fal'Cie began spinning one of them, almost like a drill, that headed straight towards Lightning! Unlike all the others, Dante actually noticed the threat.

"Move it!" he told Lightning, pushing her out the way before blocking the drill. To everyones except Dante's surprised, the arm wasn't cut through like they had thought. Instead, it was holding it's ground! The arm then let out a gold pulse then let out a gold shockwave that destroyed the arm. With it's bandages and glove ripped apart, the arm was revealed in all of it's demonic glory. Unlike Dante's normal left hand, his demonic one looked like a organic gauntlet sporting glowing fingers which had golden lines connecting to the back of his palm which spun around the demonic 'gauntlet'.

(SJ: If you have trouble imagining it, try to find a picture of Nero's Devil Bringer with a gold glow instead of blue since it was originally gold before changing into gold for unknown reasons.

"Your arm... ," Lightning said in shock.

"Save it for later!" Dante said, in a tone a voice that said he did NOT want to talk about it.

"You... ," a metallic voice said, causing confusion among the group. They stared at the Fal'Cie in front of them, as it was the only one that could produce such a voice. "You are a Son of Sparda... ," it acknowledge. This piece of information had shocked the rest of the group, as Sparda was a war hero that fought Ragnarok, the mystical beast that managed to destroy Caccon's outer shell, leaving it inhabitable for humans.

"So what if I am... ?" Dante asked. "I could the kid of Ragnarok and I'll still be here, fighting you one way or the other," he declared as he charged at the Fal'Cie's remaining arm, with his demonic right arm creating a larger, spectral version of it that completely smashed the Fal'Cie's drill-like arm. It groaned in pain as it looked like it shut down, despite the fact it's crystal core shone brightly. Lightning was first to snap out of the shock.

"What are we all waiting for!-? Attack!" she ordered to Sazh and Snow, causing them to snap out of their shock and continue fighting. Snow began to punch the crystal core while Dante and Lightning began slashing the metal surface beside it, leaving Sazh to shoot the remaining expose part of the crystal that wasn't blocked by Snow. Then it's drill-like arms reappeared in yellow particles, combining into the menacing drills.

"Tch. I take it out about a minute and now it's back... ," Dante muttered used his demonic arm, the Devil Bringer, to pull in one of the arms and threw it at the back of the room, causing the red hair girl and silver hair boy to ran for cover.

"Watch it!" said the red haired girl.

"Sorry!" was Dante's reply, running to the remaining arm with the Red Queen's Exceed Gauge at Level 1. He finished the arm of with his launching technique, the High Roller, which had 'evolved' into the EX High Roller due to the Exceed System. "Let's finish this!" Dante exclaimed as he swung his sword at the crystal core, which was glowing brightly due to the fact it was regenerating it's arms again. At the point of contact, he revved up the Red Queen, instantly filling it's Exceed Gauge to one. He swung his sword two more times, filling the Exceed Gauge again before backing away, letting Lightning and the others take a shot.

They attacked it, but it had regenerated it's arms again and prepared to strike them with those drills again. "Again? Seriously? Doesn't this thing have more attacks!-?" asked Dante, getting annoyed by the same attacks. The Fal'Cie took offense to that, and began firing Magical Projectiles at them.

"You just had to say it... ," muttered Lightning as she dodged a ball of light.

"Oh quit whining... ," muttered Dante as he used Streak on the Fal'Cie, while Lightning jumped in front of the Fal'Cie just as Dante got out of range of her Blitz attack. Snow launched one of his Hand Grenades as soon as Lightning backed away from the Fal'Cie while Sazh just keep on shooting at it's crystal core. The Fal'Cie used one of it's arm knock away Lightning's Blazfire out her hands and used the other one to knock the Red Queen out of Dante's. Though, the two caught the others weapons as soon as they saw them being knocked out their owners hands.

Dante switched Blazfire into it's Gun Mode as Lightning began to rev up the Exceed System. Channelling his Demonic Energy into Lightning's weapon, Dante fired a powerful Charge Shot at the Fal'Cie, managing to make it flinch, allowing Lightning to finish it off with a powerful swing of the Exceed-enhance Red Queen. Seeing the Fal'Cie had fallen, the two tossed their respective weapons back to each other, catching them in mid-air. The Fal'Cie malfunctioned, judging by the fact the crystal core was glowing brightly but the claw like arm near it just suddenly slumped. Then suddenly, bright light instantly covered the whole room.

When everyone was sure they could see again, they realized they were in darkness, with the only source of light coming from the crystal above them. "Where... are we?" asked Lightning, looking around but could see nothing.

"What I want to know is what's with the holy music... ?" questioned Dante as they hear people in a choir singing unrecognizable notes singing with bells in the background. Then suddenly below them, a bright whitish-blue beam shot from the ground at hit the giant crystal above them. When the light subsided, the group saw in the place of the crystal was a giant robotic being with a mask over half of it's face, staring at them as if judging them.

(SJ: Okay... just wanted to point out now is that how this guy appeared is like the Limit Over Accel Synchro Summon of Shooting Quasar Dragon from Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds. Not exactly the same, but similar)

Then suddenly, whitish blue beam-like tendrils wrapped themselves around the group, preventing them from moving. They struggled against their bonds, but it was helpless as Dante was the only one making progress but even then he couldn't break their hold on him. The being than raised it's hand, which shot out similar colored beams at them, hitting different parts of their body. Snow was hit on his left arm while Sazh and Lightning were hit on their chests. Hope was hit at the back of his left wrist while Dante was marked at his left shoulder.

Then they all saw a blurry vision of a towering monster's silhouette shining over a bright light. And everything went blank.

And that's a wrap. Wasn't satisfied with Dante's personality yet but hey, I have plenty of time to fix it when I decide to make other chapters of the story.