Mission 3: Team DVVN

Sup, im gonna pretend i wasn't gone for months and will just shamelessly upload this chapter. Jokes aside im back with the end of mission 2. Reason for why it took so long? I'm just lazy, but I wrote this whole chapter on my phone which made this so much easier to write, and then edited the whole thing on my computer. Like ive stated before my grammar sucks, blah blah blah, did my best to make it readable. Not that great with fight scenes so hope you can bear with me on that. See you at the end to talk about the stories direction.


With a resounding roar, Nero charged at the beowolves Red queen in hand. The grimm bipedal wolves evaded his strikes. A resounding screech came from the skeleton demon alerting Nero of its presence as it brought its scythe down on the young devil hunter. Nero jumped back avoiding the slash and upward striked red queen at the reaper's scythe. The reaper blocked his attack as the two weapons made a loud clang, the force of the strike pushed the demon and Nero back a bit. It was not expecting such strength from Nero. The son of sparda as well didn't expect the demon to actually withstand that one either. Nero has fought his kind before. Unlike the others though, this one was definitely bigger than usual, guess he should have expected that. Vergil's definitely would have berated him for undermining his enemy if he was here.

Nero moved to advance but was halted in place. Several of the beowolves made to bite and slash at him. Nero had to refocus his task to the grimm as they were moving with speed and agility that wasn't accustomed to their kind, he deduced it was the demon causing their increase in power. A beowulf had snuck behind Nero and attempted to strike at him, luckily Nero saw this and moved away from the strike. The wolves were pushing Nero back making him go on the defensive. Eventually they surrounded him giving Nero no room for escape. Nero grunted in annoyance using Red Queen to block each of their attacks. The grim reaper demon was also closing in on the young boy taking advantage of the distraction. Nero came to the realization that this was not gonna be as easy as he thought. Nero yelled as he swiped his sword making the Red Queen glow a slight red as he hit one of the beowolves back sending the grimm flying. He moved to another and kicked it before bringing out his blue Rose and firing off rounds at a couple of grimm in the pack too keep them off him. He stopped as he saw the reaper moving to take another strike at him. Nero brought out Red Queen to stop the hit, but that's when he heard another voice resound in the area.

"Ha Ha fuck yea!". Bolts of lighting rained upon the field as the bolts struck the Grimm around Nero. The reaper jumped far back from Nero not wanting to get hit, some of the beowolves got away from it but not all. The ones that were hit looked fried but not on deaths door yet. Nero struck one of the beowolves killing it effectively and moved to strike the other, but saw it was already taken care of from his black haired companion. The tattooed boy ran his white cane through the head of the grimm effectively killing it. Nero heard fluttering and watched as black bird landed on top of the tattooed boy's shoulder. Nero stared at the bird weirdly.

"Like what you see kid" the bird talked. Nero could not contain the surprised look on his face. He's seen a lot of things but a talking bird was definitely not common, then again, in his line of work this shouldn't be surprising.

"C'mon cripple, I know I'm beautiful but your starting to creep me out with all the staring" the bird mocked. Nero looked at the brunette boy looking for some explanation to the bird. He merely shrugged in response. Nero realized that the bird was probably the one that released all that lightning.

"I don't know what the hell….that is".Nero said pointing at the bird. The bird merely squawked back. "But I'm not gonna question it".

"As I will not question the demonic energy brimming from your arm". The tattooed boy replied back. Nero glared at him menacingly, there's not a lot of people that know about demons, and he doesn't like revealing his arm to just anyone, so that fact that this guy somehow knew about his arm meant something was up.

"No need to give me that gaze, as you can see I am well versed in demonic entities if you haven't noticed". He said while glancing to his bird. "We can talk about this later, but for now I'd think it best if we work together to beat this demon. These Hell Vanguard's are usually not a threat on their own, but they pose trouble when you can't focus on them."He moved his left arm out. The action had stunned Nero again as the tattoos literally flew off his arm and formed a panther. The feline animal growled as it stuck close to his master.

"What the hell are you?". Nero asked still question everything he's just seen.

"You can call me V, and you?".V asked looking at Nero.

"Nero". Nero turned his attention back to the Hell Vanguard and the beowolves.

" Well young Nero, I'll take care of the beowolves while you focus on the Hell Vanguard. These are not normal grimm, I'll look into this later but for now, let's focus on getting out of here alive and passing this test". He didn't have to tell Nero twice as the young Hunter rushed towards the Hell Vanguard. The beowolves around him moved to intervene but we're stopped by several black spikes popping out of the ground.

"Your fights with me". V stated smirking at the angry grimm. The bird on his shoulder flew off of V heading into the frey stopping between the grimm making a ball of energy that made the grimm fly back.

"Fly little piggies!" the bird yelled triumphantly.

"Eyaa!". Nero cried pushing the Hell vanguard back. The demon moved his scythe trying to strike the boy but his swing was too slow as Nero just dodged out of it's way. He smirked, V was right about one thing, this guy wasn't a problem once there weren't any minor annoyances in his way.

"Gotta do better than that". He mocked the demon, the demon continued to strike Nero out of annoyance but Nero dodged each and everyone of it's attacks flawlessly. Nero stopped and thrust his Red Queen to the ground and revved the sword mocking his opponent. The Hell Vanguard gave a resounding screech before disappearing into thin air.

"Well, I guess I scared him off". Nero smirked in triumph before turning around to look at V. He saw that V was almost done with the beowolves as the tattooed boy walked by each one finishing them off with his cane. Nero couldn't help but notice he had a lazy way about fighting, getting those things to fight for him. He moved to help him out but stopped as he felt some kind of distortion in the air. Nero turned around just in time to stop the scythe from the Hell Vanguard as it motiend to try and cut off his head.

"Ha! Relying on sneak attacks won't do you any good". Nero struck the Hell Vanguard's scythe knocking it back. The vanguard didn't give in and brought his scythe back down with Nero doing the same, both weapons making loud clangs as they struck their weapons back and forth constantly. Finally Nero won the struggle as the last hit made the vanguards scythe fly out of its hand. Nero smirked and swiped at Vanguard, as he did it he heard the sound he wanted to hear as his sword glowed a striking bright red. The vanguard clutched it's face shrieking from pain. Nero brought his sword up vaulting him and the vanguard in the air, his blade spinning with fire as they moved upward thanks to his Red Queen's exhaust.

"Crazy!". Nero yelled in joy from the sheer adrenaline he got from the move. It glowed bright red again once they were at their peak. Nero clutched his cast arm around his hilt, the left arm of his grasped the handle of the blade. He brought down the Red Queen fire igniting once again as he brought the blade down on the Hell Vanguard. The vanguard gave another resounding shriek as it was pierced violently to the ground. It tried to get up but saw he didn't have the energy to do so. Nero removed the sword and fired off at his head killing the demon for good.

"And don't come back". Nero smiled a bit before turning his attention to V and seeing he had finished his battle as well. The young man was currently reading from a book he had in his hand, seemed like his bird and panther had returned to their owner as his tattoos were once again back on his arms.

"Okay V, now that's all said and done. Mind telling me what the hell just happened?". Nero asked. V closed his book and pocketed it into his vest.

"I'm still not quite sure myself, seems the barrier is gone now though" V stated. Nero looked around and saw he was right the barrier was gone. "We will have to worry about that later, we still have a test to pass".

"Those guys slowed us down though, will we even make it on time?" Nero questioned. That demon had seriously held them up. Suddenly the both of them saw an ursa walk into the vicinity. Nero sighed, they didn't have time for this. He brought out Blue Rose ready to fire but V had put his arm up stopping Nero from firing.

"Hey we don't!-".

"Injure it, but don't kill it" V said.

"And what the hell would that do?" Nero asked confused.

"Patience young Nero, you want to get there fast and in style. Do you not?" V asked smirking at the boy. Nero shook his head, this guy was one weird person to have as a partner.


"Where's Nero!?" Ruby yelled worried. After they had defeated the nevermore, the group had been waiting back near the starting area for Headmaster Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch to show up. The whole group including Dante and Vergil's where there, with the latter ignoring the rest sitting down on a boulder with his eyes closed, seeming to be in some sort of meditation. They all had been recalling on how they had taken down that Nevermore until Ruby blurted out about Nero.

"It has been a while since we started now that I think about it" Ren pointed out.

"I hope he hasn't run into trouble" Pyrah said.

"Ruby I'm sure he's fine" Jaune commented.

"Or dead". Everyone looked at Nora surprisingly, they hadn't expected that kind of response from her, especially when she said that with a smile on her face. Ruby looked the most shocked, the thought of her first friend at beacon dying was heartbreaking. Dante merely smirked at the whole thing from his position against a tree.

"Dead of boredom! Gotcha didn't I". Nora laughed at her small joke. The group groaned at her bad joke.

"Ruby don't worry, Nero's a strong dude" Yang said trying to comfort her sister. Blake wanted to say something to the girl as well but her ears picked up on some noise from distance, something was coming.

"Besides if he's anything like them". Weiss pointed towards Dante who winked at the girl. She rolled her eyes at his antics and then pointed at Vergil glaring daggers at the young man. "Then he'd be too stupid to die anyway". The group heard a "hey!" from Dante but ignored him.

"Dante you know your brother best, he's fine right" Ruby asked the older brother hopeful. Dante put a hand to his chin as he contemplated her question. He knew Nero was fine, but it was odd he was taking this long. Dante thought about messing with Ruby, it was clear this girl cared for his younger brother but she already suffered enough from his teasing for today. He ruffled the girl's hair causing her to pout at Dante and fix her hair.

"I know my brother, he's fine. In fact he could be coming any minute now" Dante said.

"Somethings coming" Blake stated to the group. "And it's coming fast". The group immediately got ready, their weapons at hand and prepared to combat the oncoming threat. Dante made no motion to move as he lay back comfortably by the tree. Just like with the Nevermore he trusted they could handle this. Vergil opened his eyes as he looked upon the group preparing themselves for whatever was coming. He didn't think much of it and went back to closing his eyes, he needn't waste his efforts on something so trivial.

"Get ready guys, we don't know what type of enemy this will be" Jaune stated to the group. Dante had honestly been surprised by Jaune the most, the guy couldn't really put up much of a fight but he certainly knew how to be a leader when shit hit the fan. He shows a lot of promise. The group waited as the figure got closer, they saw it was an Ursa.

"Its an Ursa! This should-, wait is that people riding on it?" Yang asked confused.

"See, it's a decent mode of transportation!" Nora yelled to the group. The Ursa came to a stop, the two people on it jumped down revealing it was Nero and another boy with tattoos.

"Nero?" Yang said surprised.

"Nero!" Ruby yelled. She rushed to Nero who did not see her coming and tackled him to the ground hugging the young boy happy that her friend hadn't died.

"Hmmm, guess I was right on the money" Dante said. He walked over to Nero to go greet his brother who was being strangled by the young girl.

"Alright Ruby give him some breathing room". Dante chuckled as he picked the girl up who was trying to keep attached to Nero. Nero got up and dusted himself off as he looked towards his brother, who still held Ruby who was trying to get out of his grasp.

"Glad you didn't die out there, wouldn't have let you lived that down" Dante said in a joking manner.

"Shut up, I wasn't gonna lose to chumps like that. Also after this is all over, I gotta talk to you about something. It involves him" Nero stated looking back at V who was killing the Ursa with his cane. Dante couldn't help but think something was off with that guy, aside from the tats all over him, there was something else about him, but he'd think about that later.

"Gotcha, well glad your alive Nero, welp Ruby, you can go back to hugging him to death" Dante stated. Nero eyes widened at that.

"Wait-" Nero never got a chance to finish as Ruby had once again glomped onto the young man. Nero sighed at his predicament. He looked down at the girl who had the happiest relieved look on her face. He hadn't thought she had cared that much, considering they just met like 2 days ago. He'd be lying if he said she had not grown on him.

"I'm so happy your fine" Ruby stated looking up at him. Nero couldn't help but smile a bit, her joy was contagious. He used his left arm to hug her back.

"Of course I'd be fine, who else would be your first friend here" he joked. Yang and the rest had walked up to them with the exception of Blake who had been staring at V. The Ursa he rode in on looked off, it was gone now but before it looked like it had lost its color, like it was almost pale. The others had not noticed it but she had, she wasn't the only one though. Vergil from the distance had took in that detail as well, he would have to watch that boy carefully.

" Hi the names Nora! Riding on Grimm is fun right!? Is that exhaust on your sword!? Why's your hair white!?". Nora spoke at a mile a minute to only be stopped by Ren who covered her mouth.

"Sorry about her, she's Nora. I'm Ren, and this is Pyrah and Jaune". Ren introduced Jaune and Pyrah to Nero, though Nero was already familiar with Jaune due to his vomiting incident.

"Hello Nero, glad to see your alright" she said sweetly to the boy. He nodded to the girl and then looked at Jaune.

"Glad your okay as well, what happened that kept you there so long?" Jaune asked.

"It's complicated" Nero stated glancing back at V who was walking to the group.

"You gonna introduce us to your partner" Dante asked.

"Guys this is V, V this is everyone" Nero stated.

"It's a pleasure to meet you all" he said to the group.

"Thanks for helping Nero!" Ruby said who still had Nero in her grasp.

"No problem, it was rather Nero who helped me though. He's talented, I see great things to come from him" V stated.

"Your tattoos are cool!" Nora said excitedly. V chuckled at her energetic nature and gave his thanks to her.

"Don't look like much to me. You look like the wind could blow you over" Dante commented. He received a sharp elbow from Yang who frowned at him for being rude. "Ow" Dante said rubbing his side. V chuckled, not the first time he heard that.

"It's fine, I have other means of fighting". He summoned his bird from his right arm surprising everyone around him. The bird squawked looking around at the kids.

"Watchu bring me out here for boss, these kids are looking at me weird" the bird said.

"It can talk!" Nora exclaimed. "The little chicken can talk!"

"I ain't no chicken! The names Griffon, remember it" the bird said flying above them. Dante glared hard at the flying bird, that wasn't no ordinary avian, that much was obvious, but he could see clearly that it's a demon. He looked to Vergil who was also giving the same glare towards the animal. Now he understood what Nero meant. He looked back on the animal and saw that it was currently perched on Jaune's shoulder which was currently freaking the guy out.

"You kids look uglier each year" Griffon said looking at around at the gawking children.

"Does he do nothing but throw insults out?"Blake asked standing next to V. He shook his head disapprovingly as he watched Griffon argue with Weiss about the ugly comment.

"That's an unfortunate circumstance I cannot control" V replied back.

"So how does this thing work, is it magic?" Jaune asked, Griffon still stood on his shoulder looking around.

"Ha magic, I like you kid. This shoulder is comfy" he said looking at Jaune laughing at the clear fear on his face. He really wanted to get away from this bird.

"Of course not, it's obviously a summon! Magic doesn't exist" Weiss stated glaring at Griffon who only laughed back at her.

"Then how do you explain it's personality" Yang commented. Summons just don't talk, that's way too odd.

"That is the unfortunate circumstance of my semblance. I was born this way with this summon, known him ever since I was a kid" V said. The group nodded in understanding, the only exception to that being the white haired hunters who thought differently.

"Yep, known him since he was a frail little kid. He still looks like a stick. Actually ate his veggies as a kid" Griffon mocked laughing. Dante couldn't help but chuckle along with him. Vergil and Nero looked at him weirdly, could have sworn a second ago they silently agreed to be wary of him.

"So is that all you fight with, a cane and a talking bird?" Yang asked.

"Hey this talking bird can do a lot more than talk Blondie" The bird said above Yang. Yang jumped back startled, she hadn't realized it sneaked up on her, how the heck did it do that. Griffon then moved on to Dante staring at him before perching on his shoulder. Dante didn't seem to have a problem with it as he let the bird rest.

"Wanna know something kid" Griffon whispered to Dante. V stared at Griffon wondering what he was up too, he knew how the avian loved to start trouble, but V definitely did not need trouble from a man like him.

"You look just like your pops, you know that". The bird started to laugh until a hand grasped his neck with surprising speed causing him to choke a bit. The group looked in shock as Dante had the bird in his hand. A look on his face that didn't match his personality at all, he stared coldly at the bird, a menacing gaze that definitely made him look like Vergil's twin. Yang stared in wonder, she didn't know the goofball could make a face like that.

"V, I suggest you call feather face back before he says something he regrets". Dante then threw the bird at V who recalled him back onto his arm. Vergil could only stare on at the exchange, that demon knows their father, he will definitely have to speak with this V later.

"I apologise if he said anything that offended you. I have trouble keeping him from causing trouble sometimes" V said. Dante merely shrugged before his usual goofy smile returned to his face, he knew frowning didn't suit him, but any mention of his father kind of sets him off.

"Perhaps Shadow would have been a better demonstration for you all". V lifted his left arm as the tattoos flew off and a panther jumped out causing the kids to once again jump in surprise.

"Woah it's a panther!" Jaune screamed hiding behind Pyrah.

"This is Shadow my other summon, he doesn't talk, thankfully". He chuckled looking to the group who was a bit frightful looking at the creature as it stalked around them. Though he noticed that the girl with the bow hadn't shown too much resentment towards Shadow. "He's been around as long as Griffon, can't have survived this long off of Griffons quips alone, could I?" He joked.

"Like this one better already, I swear I was gonna shoot that bird" Nero cursed.

"That's one big kitty" Ruby said still at Nero's side watching the panther walk by them. Shadow turned his head at Blake and walked closer to her. Blake stepped back a bit from the approaching Shadow. She wasn't sure what the Panthers intentions were. Sure they shared….somewhat similar features, but that doesn't mean it's not dangerous. She stopped backing as she felt a hand on her shoulder and saw it was V.

"Do not worry, he only wants to meet you" he said. She nodded and looked down as the panther looked her up and down before nuzzling her leg. Despite it's big size, Blake couldn't help but find it cute. She knelt down and put her arms around his body scratching his ear, it gave a low purr and licked her face causing the girl to chuckle a bit from the affection.

"Awww, that's sweet" Pyrah said watching the two bond.

"I still think it's gonna eat me" Jaune said still hiding behind Pyrah.

"He's quite fond of you, I've never seen him warm up to someone so quickly" V commented. Blake looked up at him and blushed looking down. She knew it was probably because of her….secret features that she was able to connect with the animal a bit easier than most. She hoped nobody had picked up on that.

"I guess I just have a way with some animals, even if they are summons...but I don't do dogs" she said the last part adamantly.

"I never got your name by the way" V asked. Blake stopped her petting of Shadow and got up moving her hand to shake his. V returned Shadow to his hand as he motioned his hand out for a shake as well.

"It's Blake". V nodded and shook her back.

"The names V, nice to meet you Blake. Hope we see more of each other in the incoming year". V smiled at the girl and Blake smiled back. Despite her suspicions about him, he didn't seem that bad of a person.

"Look who's putting the moves on my partner" Yang whispered to Weiss. Weiss couldn't help but roll her eyes at that before looking towards Ruby who still held on to Nero. She smiled at that and decided to get some payback for the Nevermore incident earlier.

"Seems Ruby and Nero have got acquainted faster than the rest of us, don't you think Yang" Weiss said loud and proud. Everyone looked towards the two and saw they were still holding each other. Nero and Ruby looked at one another before both going a deep red, Ruby immediately let go giving a string of sorry to Nero who was trying to look anywhere but at Ruby and the gang.

"Ohhh, no need to stop on our Accord" Yang smirked adding more fuel to the fire. "Nero is a strapping young man Ruby, I understand why you didn't want to let go".

"Yang shut up!" Ruby yelled. She knew her sister was trying to embarrass her like she usually did, but she was surprised Weiss was in on it too! It must be her revenge for the Nevermore incident. Ruby did not realize how long she had actually been holding on till Nero, first Vergil now this! Dante smiled at the group before moving in to join in the fun, teasing Nero was his favorite pastime. He walked up to Nero and out his arm over his shoulder causing the young boy to glare at Dante.

"Don't worry Ruby, Nero didn't mind, he can't resist a cute girl like you. He only has eyes for you". Dante let go as he saw Nero tried to punch him but missed. He chuckled at his younger brothers attempts to hit his face causing the group to laugh at their antics.

"I'm gonna beat your ass you shitty ass fuck!" Nero yelled trying to get a hit on Dante. If only he didn't have this cast on!

"Woah Ren, did you hear that!Wow he's got a mouth on him" Nora commented laughing.

"Yes and I wish I hadn't" Ren said back watching the ensuing fight.

"Should we stop them?" Pyrah asked worried looking around at her classmates.

"I'm pretty sure I don't want to get in between their brotherly love" Jaune knew he'd end up with a broken bone or two if he tried to stop that.

"Damn Ruby, we might have to make a swear jar just for Nero" Yang chuckled watching the brothers wrestle. Nero had finally gotten his hands on Dante but that only led to Dante holding him in a headlock.

"Well if you and Weiss hadn't teased him so much. He wouldn't be this angry!" Ruby yelled at her sister. "How could you embarrass me like that!" She pouted.

"Cause your puppy love is so cute!" Yang squealed causing the younger sister to turn away blushing a deep red once again

"So uncivilized" Weiss said watching the two fight.

"Something we can agree on" Vergil's stated watching his brothers fight. Weiss turned to her left looking at the older twin watching his brothers. She hadn't even realized he had moved off of that boulder he was sitting on. She glared at the boy, she still didn't like him.

"I still don't like you" Weiss said looking back at the brotherly fight.

"I don't expect you too spoiled princess" Vergil said back.

"Its heiress you Buffon" Weiss insulted back

"Narcissist"

"Philistine"

"Wench"

"Troglodyte". The two glared back at each other and then went on a rant of insults causing a few heads to turn. Soon Dante and Nero had stopped fighting as they turned to see Weiss and Vergil going at it, and then eventually everyone focused on them. They couldn't believe what they were seeing, it seemed like they were arguing on such a higher level than them, they barely understood the words coming out of their mouths.

"So like, I know there arguing but like, what are they even saying right now?" Yang asked confused. She was scratching her head in confusion. Is this how book smart people argued or something.

"It's better if you don't know, I'm surprised there still going" V said watching on with interest.

"Wow I've never seen Vergil's argue like this. His big words never worked on me so he usually just stabbed me with his sword or something". That caused everyone to turn to him wide eyed in shock. Nero facepalmed as his brother didn't know how to keep his mouth shut. Dante smirked nervously realizing his mistake.

"Metaphorically speaking of course, I meant he just hits me with his hilt and stuff". Dante chuckled hoping that explanation would suffice. The group merely looked back to the older twin and heiress arguing.

"Woman you are impossible! How has anyone put up with you, it's beyond me!"

"Like your one to talk! Your the most self conceited person I ever met, the world doesn't revolve around you ingrate!".

"Insult me again woman and I will cut you down where you stand" Vergil's said coldly. Weiss still didn't back down though as she still sent a fierce gaze back at Vergil.

"You know what, I don't think I wanna date her anymore" Dante said paling a bit. Weiss was high maintenance, and she did not cower under Vergil at all, not once. Yang shook her head at him laughing a bit before returning her attention to the argument.

"You know what your right, there's no further point in arguing with you" she said smiling at him. Vergil's couldn't help but look at her weirdly, she was up to something. This girl was too proud to concede like that, but I guess she's saving her bark for another time.

"Finally you understand then" Vergil said back.

"I'd love to insult you further, but I'm afraid I won't do it as well as nature did". The whole place was silent, everyone wide eyes at what Weiss just said until Nora finally broke the silence.

"That was a burn! Your gonna need some ice for that one!" She laughed. The rest of the group had started laughing along with her. Nero and Dante were laughing it up, they had never heard someone bite back at Vergil that hard, serves him right! Ren and Pyarh were struggling to hold themselves back out of respect but it was hard. V and Blake couldn't help but chuckle at the joke as well. Weiss was smiling smugly at Vergil who was staring at her menacingly, he could not believe he was insulted as so. Enough words, she will learn to not forget this devil's power!

"Oh Verge, she got you good" Dante said patting his brothers shoulder.

"You know I'm basically insulting you as well since you are twins" Weiss deadpanned. Dante stopped his laughing as he realized she was right. He looked ready to retort but waved off the insult.

"Eh don't matter, you still fried him. Up top" he said, raising his hand to Weiss. She looked at him blankly before reluctantly giving him a high five.

"Enough talk, I'm ending you" Vergil's said drawing his sword.

"Bring it!" Weiss said herself drawing her weapon out as well. Dante in between the middle of them looked back and forth nervously. There was no way he was being caught in this.

"Wait let me move before y-". Before any of them could take off a whistle was blown drawing their attention to Ms. Goodwitch, who did not seem happy, but when did she ever seem happy. Along with Headmaster Ozpin who was staring at the kids smiling at their antics.

"I suggest you guys stop this senseless fighting before you get kicked out and " Goodwitch said. Both kids reluctantly sheathed their weapons and glared at one another before going moving away from each other's presence. Dante wiped imaginary sweat off his head thankful he wasn't about to get pummeled.

"Also, Dante Redgrave is it?" Goodwitch said looking at Dante. He nervously gulped as he looked at . He hoped she still didn't have a grudge about that incident.

"Don't think I forgot what happened. Your first week of after school activities will be spent with special homework assigned from me" she said. Dante fell to his knees defeated. He had planned on getting to know the girls during the first week, he can't do that now. He's gonna be stuck doing boring homework on top of the boring homework he's probably already gonna get. Yang stared back and forth between Dante and before realizing what he had done. She walked up to Dante placing a hand on the boys shoulder.

"Wow casanova, nothing stops you huh". Yang chuckled at his misfortune.

"I can't help myself, I see a beautiful woman. I gotta talk to her" Dante said still looking down. "Though I guess, some are just out of my reach".

"She's definitely out of your reach you dolt". She smacked his head causing him to rub his head in bit of annoyance. He then regained his charming smirk as he looked at Yang, and she knew what was gonna come out of his mouth next.

"So what you're saying is that I should go for someone with in my reach" he said placing his arm over her shoulder. "Say a pretty blonde who's totally single and would love to have a strapping white hair young man around her arm" he joked. Yang rolled her eyes and smirked at his playfulness before removing his arm.

"Nice try but Nero is already taken" she said.

"Why do you hurt me so" Dante mocked hurt. Yang punched him in the arm playfully causing Dante to fake a mocked hurt.

"Be quiet casanova, Ozpin has something to say". Yang and Dante directed their attention to their professor.

"Congrats on you all passing the test, especially you ". Ozpin chuckled.

"Wait why me especially?" Jaune asked confused.

"Cause your still alive" Ozpin stated.

"Touche". Jaune couldn't help but agree with that statement.

"Now that you have found your partners, you will all get your groups for the year, so follow me to amphitheater". Ozpin stated before moving, the rest of the group following him.

"Gosh I hope me and Weiss get paired up with someone nice" Ruby said as they followed Ozpin.

"I hope I don't get stuck with either Dante or Vergil" Nero said back.

"Geez, is it so hard to say you love your brothers?" Ruby joked smiling at the young man.

"Shut up" Nero said back looking away. Ruby couldn't help the laugh that came out as they walked onward to see who'd they be stuck with for the next 4 years.


"Are you kidding me, there is not a single bonafied woman on this team. What's worse is, I'm stuck with you guys, no offense V" Dante said.

"None taken" V chuckled. The guys had been waiting backstage for their time to be called, the school had a ceremony for announcing the teams and currently the newly formed Team RWBY were currently out there. It seemed the team had been connected to who got what chess pieces and unfortunately for 3 people in the group, they all had the same chess pieces.

"You and your lbido" Vergil commented from his spot reading his book. "Besides, fornicating within a team would not be beneficial anyway".

"Just say sex, what person our age says fratenzing. Damn this is why I came here, to hopefully have some fun without you bringing me down" Dante pointed at Vergil accusingly. Vergil scoffed and turned his attention back to his book.

"This is just great" Nero commented, it seemed he's never gonna escape his brothers.

"V" Vergil said catching the black haired man's attention.

"Yes" V replied back.

"Right after this, we need to talk. Your obvious well aware of who we are, and I want to find out who you are, and I won't take no for an answer" Vergil stated.

"Do not worry, I didn't plan on keeping anything from you all, I have my own mission to conduct as well. It might be beneficial if we both help each other in this endeavor" V stated.

"We shall see about that" Vergil wanted to say more but he saw Team RWBY coming back from their announcement.

"There's a time and place for everything Vergil". V smirked at the man who sighed and nodded reluctantly. The group looked towards RWBY who were walking up to the group.

"Congrats on making team leader" Dante said picking her up for a hug. Which she returned back.

"Thanks but…..I'm not sure why Headmaster Ozpin picked me" Ruby stated. She was only 14, Yang, Blake or heck, even Weiss would have been better suited for that role.

"I wonder the same thing" Weiss muttured. Yang couldn't help but frown a bit at her spiteful tone. Though she wasn't gonna let that ruin her little sisters big moment.

"I'm so proud of her!" Yang said hugging Ruby once again.

"I'm sure Headmaster Ozpin has his reasons Ruby, he doesn't seem like a man who would pick someone just because" Blake said trying to cheer up the girl.

"Blake is right young Ruby, Ozpin does not seem the type to make decisions without reason." V added.

"Look kid I know you got what it takes. You got something special and you probably don't even realize it" Dante said.

"And what's that?" Ruby asked. He pointed to her heart signifying what he meant.

"Heart, that's what separates us from the evil, and your nothing but that, so I trust his decision right". Ruby smiled brightly at Dante's kind words. The conversation stopped as he heard professor Ozpin getting ready to say the next people coming up.

"Alright gang, let's do this" Dante said triumphantly walking out with Vergil and V following in tow. Nero stopped at Ruby before stepping.

"Hey I'm not one for mushy speeches like Dante but….you got this" Nero said. It might have been simple but it meant alot to Ruby. She hugged him and let go smiling at the young devil Hunter.

"Thanks Nero" she said. He smirked and walked out onto the stage standing next to V as they saw a crowd cheering and clapping. He didn't know who all these people were but he definitely hated this attention. Ozpin needed to hurry up and get this over with. V seemed indifferent about this, he was hard to read. Vergil had the same blank look on his face looking into the crowd, though Nero knew he wanted off this stage and Dante…...well he was eating up all the attention, waving and smiling at everyone. It's hard to believe that there related sometimes. Ozpin smirked at the boys before him and motioned his hands towards them. From the back the girls were watching the boys as they got ready to receive their team name.

"Look at him, eating up all the attention" Yang laughed.

"Weren't you doing the same" Blake smirked. "Don't know wether V likes it or doesn't"

"Nero definitely doesn't want to be there" Ruby said giggling.

"And Vergil as usual is stone faced about everything" Weiss scoffed.

"Dante Redgrave, Vergil Redgradve, Vitale Idral, and Nero Redgrave. You all received the Red Queen pieces and are now officially Team DVVN(pronounced Deviant)" Ozpin announced.

"How fitting, suits their team. A ruffian, narcissist, Mr too many tattoos and the rebel" Weiss commented.

"Quiet there about to announce their team leader" Ruby said.

"It's obviously gonna be Vergil's" Weiss said. They looked at here surprised. She actually had something good to say about Vergil.

"What?" Weiss asked confused. The group was about to retort but Ozpin started speaking again.

"Led by Dante Redgrave". Dante cheered and moved to the front waving his hands as the crowd cheered. Nero shook his head and walked off the stage. V couldn't help but smirk a bit before following suit with Vergil's grabbing his brother before he could make a fool out of himself any longer.

"Dante!?" Weiss said stunned. " That loud mouth ruffian over his brother!"

"Wow Weiss, that's the second time you actually been on Vergil's side, what changed " Yang smirked.

"It doesn't make sense, Dante couldn't lead a kid to candy. He doesn't represent what a leader should look like" Weiss fumed. Blake rolled her eyes knowing the girls frustrations were really for their current team leader rather than Team DVVN's team leader.

"Looks can be deceiving, come on let's go meet them" Yang said with Ruby and Blake following suit.

"It doesn't make any sense" Weiss muttered before following her teammates. The group walked up to the newly formed Team DVVN. It looked like Dante was giving a "pep talk" if you could call it that to his team.

"Now that I'm team leader, I got some ground rules" Dante Said.

"Can one of them be "shut the hell up!" Nero yelled.

"Um no, first order of the rule. You must address me as Lord Dante" Dante stated. Ruby and Yang couldn't help but chuckle as Nero rolled his eyes and put his headphones back in. Vergil's shook his head before leaving and V seemed engrossed in his book. Dante scoffed before looking at Team RWBY.

"See how they treat me, me! Their Lord" Dante mocked hurt. Yang elbowed his stomach and laughed at his situation.

"Your team needs some work Dante". Yang joked.

"Eh they will come around, so I guess we're both team leaders, eh Ruby?" Dante said looking at Ruby.

"Yea, but I'm not gonna lie Dante. I honestly expected Vergil's to lead your team" Ruby said.

"Yep definitely thought the same but Ozpin knows what he's doing" Yang added.

"I'm sure you'll be a good leader" Blake added as well.

"Sheesh be gentle why don't ya" Dante joked.

"Should have been your brother". The group including Nero and V who had heard that stared at Weiss weirdly.

"What!?" She said confused at the looks. Dante shook his head and brought his attention to happier thoughts.

"This calls for a celebration! Pizza on me!" Dante said. The group cheered with the exception of Weiss who blankly stared at them wondering what they were excited about.

"First good order you actually gave for once" Nero chuckled. "But how are you gonna pay for that" Nero asked.

"Cause I got this". Dante pulled out a blue wallet out of his pocket. Nero stared wide eyed at that.

"Isn't that Vergil's? He's gonna kill you" Nero said

"Bah, he's gonna be too busy brooding to notice" Dante said waving his hand in dismal.

"Um what's pizza?" Weiss asked. Everyone stared at her surprised, but not as shocked as Dante. His face looked like she had told him his puppy died or something. He rushed to her startling Weiss as he put both hands on her shoulders.

"You've never had pizza before? Stop lying" he said the last part seriously. Weiss looked on worryingly. Was this food such a serious ordeal? She was about to decline his invitation but she yelled as Dante put her over his shoulder.

"Hey put me down you brute!" Weiss said pounding his back. Dante looked towards Ruby.

"Ruby, team leader to team leader. We must show Weiss the bliss that is pizza right!" Dante yelled. Ruby stood straight and gave Dante a mock salute, a dead serious gaze on her face.

"You have my permission to undergo this mission!" Ruby yelled.

"What Ruby no-" Weiss tried to talk but was cut off from Dante turning around too fast. Team JNPR came up the scene and saw Dante holding Weiss.

"Dante...what's going?" Jaune asked. It wasn't every day you see Weiss being carried like a potato sack.

"Weiss has never had pizza!" Dante said. All of team JNPR gave a horrendous shock. Weiss couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"Is pizza really that big of a deal!?" Weiss asked. Nora stepped up to her, anger written on a face.

"Pizza is love! Pizza is life! Let's go people, to pizza land!" Nora yelled charging forward. The rest cheered as they dragged Weiss along with them to the pizza place leaving only Nero, Blake, and V staring surprised at what just happened. V looked at the two of them and shrugged.

"I guess we should join them" V said chuckling before following suit. Blake smiled and followed after with Nero bring up the rear.

"Can't believe she's never had pizza, no wonder she has that stick up her butt" Nero laughed causing the others to laugh with him.


Hey guys hope you enjoyed the chapter, I enjoyed writing banter between the characters, it's just so much fun. Weiss and Vergil's talks might be my favorite to write honestly, i hope i wasn't laying it on too thick with Ruby and Nero but I just can't help it, there both adorable. And yes Dante did make a move on Goodwitch XD. anyway as far as where the story is going, im really just winging it, like I stated, im following the cannon until I decide to diverge completely and do my own thing, the plan is to definitely implement a bunch of DMC elements later when that happens, the only issue is trying to fit the RWBY story into it so i can make it interesting. I'm not a professional writer so it might end up being bad but it's something I want to do. I honestly lost interest in RWBY a while back after season 4, kinda just got stale for me, I still love the franchise but man did they take a while to get to the main stuff, but I don't really have that passion for RWBY like i do DMC. ill try my best with the story but I don't blame any of you if you stop reading, i'm just writing to write. Also i do plan a twist in future that might seem really weird to you all, you've been warned, until the next chapter guys!