Our story so far...

Long ago, there lived two loving brothers named Dante and Vergil... Well, okay, they actually pretty much hated each other, but anyway! After the loss of their mother, they went their separate ways and pursued different goals, Dante to become a Demon Hunter and punish those responsible for his mother, while Vergil blamed himself for being weak and unable to protect those he cared about, sought greater power. And when he heard of his father's legendary sword sealed in the demon realm, he went about resurrecting the tower and undoing the seal. Dante knew the seal couldn't be broken, lest the human world fall into chaos and when he confronted his brother, Vergil attacked! A great battle ensued and Vergil defeated his brother and stole his half of their keepsake necklace, their final gift from their mother, for he's kind of a dick. Dante was able to survive the battle with help from the brave warrior, Sai. But Vergil defeated Sai and impaled Dante with his own sword! For his dickishness, knows no bounds... But our story is far from over. And the fates of both Dante and Sai are not. Yet. Sealed.

After what seemed like a few hours, Dante finally woke up, gathering his sword and looking over the edge of the tower. He punched the pillar next to him, which happened to be the pillar I was impaled on, causing it to beak from its base. He then ran down the side of the tower at high speeds, stylishly dealing with all of the blood birds that attacked him on the way down, running so fast he caught fire from all the friction, before eventually launching himself off the tower like a badass, only to be eaten by the massive laviathan circling the tower.

Unfortunately, my descent was much less badass, as I was still tacked to the still mostly intact statue, which began to roll over the edge. "Oh, no. Oh, this ain't gonna be good." I said, grunting as it rolled over the edge and bounced off a piece of the tower jutting out from the rest. "Oh, no, no, no, no..." I said as I continued to tumble perilously down the tower. "Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa, gods, I'm gonna be sick!" I said, before bouncing off another jutting out, broken part of the tower into a hole somewhere in the middle of the tower, crashing into a platform in the middle of the room, shattering the statue and freeing me. I managed to get the blades of Blazeguard out of my shoulders, popping them back into place, before recovering from my dizziness and looking around. "Ohhh, man... Okay... I'mma kick his ass." I said. I then looked around to see this room was that of some form of water chamber, several small platforms of rock similar to the ones I was standing on all around the room, in between them, water that appeared bottomless, going from a beautiful, ocean blue to the black of the abyss. "I'm gettnig a very bad feeling about this-" I said, before a couple tentacles erupted from the water in front of me. "-Shit!" I sad, jumping back, the "teeth" on the tentacles just grazing my cheek as I landed on another platform.

"You were correct to have this feeling, son of Ryu Blade!" A voice called out, somehow speaking clearly despite coming from below the water, before the massive form of a blue giant squid erupted in front of me, tentacles lashing about. We now pause for a brief biology lesson on the anatomy of the giant squid, the more or less official form of the kraken, a slightly more popular depiction of the mythical beast than the octopus. The giant squid normally has 8 tentacles and two extra arms known as feeding tentacles, twice as long as the others. These end in large pads known as tentacle tentacles, as well as the other 8, are lines with two rows of suckers to help grip and hold onto food with a few extra on the tentacle clubs and each of these suckers possesses a single, inch long "tooth" that helps tear the prey to shreds. Recap: 5 short tentacles, two long ones, all lined with suction pads that possess an inch long spike to stab and rip apart prey. This particular squid, however, was slightly different, besides being blue as opposed to their pinkish red. It had 16 tentacles, all of which were the longer feeding tentacles.

"I'm guessing you don't like my dad, either." I said.

"Of course not! He's a traitor! And even before he turned his back on us, he always treated me as inferior! Somehow below him, despite I have way more arms than he does!" He said, lashing his tentacles.

"You think the arms make you better? Okay, just making sure I follow." I said.

"He always said I never played a meaningful role in any battle I've been in! That they'd all be better without me! Well, guess what?! I'm better than any of them! And I'll prove it when I present Ryu with his son's corpse!" He said, trying to smash two more tentacles down on me.

Background music: "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele (I couldn't think of any water songs. And I like Adele)

"Oh, please gods, no!" I said, jumping to the next platform as it smashed the one I stood on. I flung Blazeguard at it, slashing him and managing to cut off two tentacles unfortunate enough to be in the way. "Looks like someone..." I started.

Back to now...

"Noooo..." Everyone all said together, except Yang and I.

"Oh, I know where this is going!" She said, already struggling to hold back laughter.

"Yep. I did it. It's gonna happen." I said.

"Don't you do it!" Everyone said again.

"I'mma do it!" I said.

"Don't you do it!" They said.

Back to then...

"Needs a hand." I finished, pixilated shades appearing over my eyes (Everyone except Yang: DAMMIT!).

"Clever." He said, un-amused, before the tentacles immediately grew back. Oh, yeah. Forgot a part of the anatomy lesson, the tentacles can grow back.

"Oh..." I said in fear, jumping as he swung down and destroyed the platform again. "This is bad. He's already destroyed two platforms. Any more and I'll be in the water with him... in HIS territory." I said worriedly.

"And then, you're mine!" He said, swinging his tentacles down at me, but this time, I sliced the tentacles as they were coming down, causing them to fall into the water.

I then pulled out and flung Minotaur at the beast, slicing through two more tentacles before hitting it in the head and apparently stunning it. I used this to my advantage, running over and jumping onto the blade of the axe, slicing and stabbing wildly and violently. He recovered and attempted to swing at me again, but I dodged and caused him to smack himself in the head with his own tentacle as I jumped back to the safety of my platform.

"I will NOT fall to Ryu's spawn!" He snapped. swinging his tentacles down on me, but I blocked them with Minotaur, holding them back, but then he shot out two more tentacle, wrapping them around my legs and yanking them out from under me, swinging me around in mid-air, before throwing me down onto the platform, destroying it.

"Oh, crap!" I said, popping up and holding onto the rock as it sunk back under the water. "NO! No! No! Not going down like this!" I said, pulling myself up onto the remainder of the rock and jumping to the next as the tentacles lashed out at me again.

"It is time we end this!" He said as he rose up out of the water and lashing all of his tentacles out at me one more time.

"I couldn't agree more!" I said, jumping forward. I grabbed the lowest and closest tentacle, swinging around and onto the top of it, jumping to the next one and jumping off it, pushing the club of the next one down into the other one, then landing on it and jumping forward, spinning in the air and numbly dodging the several more tentacles, throwing a sai at the last two and the monster's eyes, blinding it and leaving it open as I pulled out Minotaur once more and slammed it into the monster's head, knocking it back between two more of the platforms, beaten and exuasted as I landed on the platform I previously stood on, my back to the monster as I sheathed Minotaur across my back.

End Music

"I'm sorry my father insulted and humiliated you as he did. But I have a final offer for you." I said.

"And what would that be? And why should I listen to the son of my greatest enemy?!" He demanded.

"Give me your soul. Come with me and be my weapon. Show me how useful you can be and prove my father wrong." I said.

His eyes widened for a moment, before turning into a smirk. "You're certainly more of a smooth talker than your father." He said, his body shattering and a white light flying towards me. When it cleared, I was now wearing blue gauntlets that ended in clawed fingertips, 8 tentacles lined around the wrists of the gauntlets, with a razor-sharp squid beak in the palm of each hand. Throwing my open hand forward, the beak opened and shot out a powerful stream of water.

An image of the weapons appearing on the screen.

Kraken

Tentacled gauntlets. This set boosts Sai's range and striking power.

"Well, Dad, you might've been wrong about this one." I said with a smirk.

Back to now...

I stopped the story and deadpanned as all of the girls sitting around, listening to my story all quickly crossed their legs. "Really? Real mature." I said, rolling my eyes, before looking to the 4th wall. "And no. Just because I made the joke, that doesn't mean I read tentacle hentai. I do not like, read or really even approve of it. Not because it's gross, but because it's so overused." I explained.

Back to then...

Suddenly, the water changed from ocean blue to a Mountain Dew Yellowish-Green. "Uh... That doesn't look good." I said, extending a tentacle from the right gauntlet. I dipped it into the acid, pulling it out quickly as the tentacle club and a few inches beyond it were eaten away and dissolved. I then looked around to see a few angel-like demons in the air above me, floating and patrolling around the room. "Seems simple enough. Use the flying demons to escape. And NOT fall into the pool of acid. Right." I said, lashing out at one of them, pulling myself up to it and having the tentacles crush it before I latched onto the next one, repeating the process several times before I found a hole in the wall, leading to an exit. "I'd call that a successful test run. I'd better get going." I said, jumping out the hole and running along the path I landed on. "I should try coming up with a plan now. Dante's been eaten by that giant monster, but he could still be alive. I could help him, but that would waste a lot of time I could be using to find Vergil and that Arkham guy." I said, thinking long and hard about the issue I was faced.

In the end, although this was taxing on my soul, I knew I had bigger priorities than rescuing Dante. "I have to go after Vergil. He can't be allowed to undo the seal." I said, before looking at the Leviathan, which I caught a glimpse of through another hole in the wall. "Good luck, Dante. You'll need it." I said, hurrying along. I kept running along and fighting several more demons, before stopping when I realized something. "Wait, where the hell am I even going?" I asked.

"I could help you with that." A female voice rang out behind me. I turned around, already in a fighting stance and the tentacles of my gauntlets outs and ready. It was a girl around my age, wearing a black dress that stopped at her thighs, about as far as the girl with the bazooka's skirt reached, a black choker, black see-through gloves that reached all the way up to where a T-shirt would end, with black leather gloves over those, strangely and finally a black strap around her right thigh. Her most eye-catching feature, however, was her red hair and eyes and the electric aura she appeared to give off (remember those last 2 details because they're HUGE CLUES).

"Well, that's nice of you. But from the look of you, I'd say you live here. You probably heard what I want to do, so why would you want to help me?" I asked.

"Oh, it just seemed like fun. Besides. If all the other demons come back, I'll have to join the war and help take over the humans. No thank you." She said, before walking past me. "Now, come on, this way. I bet you're just DYING to get back on the right track." She said, walking down her path.

"Hm..." I said, before returning Minotaur to his spirit form. "Well, that raises some red flags." I said.

"Indeed. I feel I know her, but I never left my chamber much. We demons never really socialize." He said.

"Still, it's not like we have many other options, here, do we?" I asked.

"That, we do not. Very well, though proceed with caution." He said, before returning to his axe form on my back.

"That's the plan." I said, walking after her.

"Come on, hurry! My big sister's expecting me back soon." She said, walking down the path.

"Huh. Let's hope she feels the same about all this as you do." I said quietly to myself. The less boss-level demons I ran into, the better.

"So... just to be clear, we're heading for the chamber where one would undo the seal, right? I just wanna make sure we're going in the right direction. I don't think time is on our side." I said.

"Oh, don't worry, I'm taking you exactly where you should be going." She said.

Before I know it, we were walking down some strange tunnel with a lot of sharp spikes lining the walls and roof. "Wait, something's wrong here..." I said suspiciously.

"Why, whatever do you mean?" She asked, backing out of the tunnel from the way we came.

"Doesn't this thing kind of look like a uvula?" I asked, pointing to something hanging from the roof of the cave.

She smirked as she was now at the mouth of the cave, or what I had thought to be a cave. "That's because it is." She said, jumping out.

Suddenly, the massive jaws of the crocodile demon snapped closed with me inside. However, they didn't manage to completely close themselves, as I, with slightly difficulty, managed to hold them open. "Whoever you are... You bit off more than you could chew this time!" I said, pushing down with my legs and up with my arms with all the strength I could muster, before flying out of the jaws already closing again as fast as I could.

Back to now...

"Two boss fights back to back? Really?" Damion asked.

"I could not think of a complete level to get from one to another, it's not like we got a full layout of the Temen Ni Gru. The most I could've said was I fought a bunch more demons along the way." I explained.

Back to then...

I looked to the ground, another water arena, but this time, there was only one large platform in the middle of the room, leaving me up to my ankles in water, while the rest, much like in Kraken's chamber, was a submerged, watery abyss. "Fantastic. More water. This is one of the worst times I can think of to be a fire demon." I said, looking down at my feet as ash filled the water around them, a sign that my feet were starting to deteriorate.

"You... Are the spawn of Ryu Blade! That traitor! I was making a feast of the humans before that bastard trapped me in this tower!" The crocodile roared, pulling his upper body onto the platform with me. Based on how much of his body I could see now, he was at least 100 feet along, with his massive jaws I'd confused for a cave at least 10 feet long, his skin a menacing black color, his 8 inch long teeth were two different colors, the half closer to his gums were shining white, while near the pointed business ends, they were stained blood red, much like his piercing eyes (Thanks again to Insieme for helping me with this character and letting me use it). "I am Gharial! Devourer of all! I would still picking human flesh from my teeth with their bones if not for your father!" He snapped, lunging forward, a large square icon appearing to the side of the screen, but Dante didn't push the button fast enough, causing me to be eaten.

YOU ARE DEAD

Back to now...

"Aww, dammit! Really, Sai!? Quick time prompts?!" He demanded.

"They're a great way to test and hone your reflexes." I said defensively. "And I'm the one who should be complaining, you just got me killed." I said as he grumbled and restarted at his last checkpoint.

Back to then...

He lunged forward at me, but this time the quick time prompt was activated and I caught the jaws before they could close on me, holding them open long enough to spit a fireball down the monster's throat, causing him to rear back and retreat into the water. "Impressive. That bite took the top off one of your mountains and turned it into a volcano. I believe the humans called it 'Kilimanjaro.'" He said.

I was shocked at this. "That's... Impossible. You'd have to be ten times your size for that." I said in disbelief.

"Like this?" He demanded, suddenly growing to massive proportions. His jaws opening to strike once again.

"Shouldn't have said anything." I said, rolling out of the way.

"Come here, I'm gonna eat you! I'm bigger than you, I'm higher on the food chain! GET IN MY BELLY!" He roared, lunging again.

Background Music: "Monster" by Skillet

"Looks like I'll have to kick it up a notch!" I said, jumping forward this time, rolling to avoid the massive jaws and swinging with the tentacles on my gauntlets to get onto his back, striking as hard as I could.

"Perhaps I should TENDERIZE my food first!" He said, leaping from the water and rolling in an attempt to slam me into the platform.

"I don't think so!" I said after activating my Devil Trigger and rolling with enough force to turn him on his stomach, causing him to stun himself by slamming on his unprotected side, before I jumped of an landed a volley of punches, assisted by the tentacles lashing at him at high speeds.

"I will crush you! I'm fine with flat foods!" He said, swinging his tail around violently.

"At least talk about something BESIDES eating me!" I said, blasting him back into the water with an aqua jet from each gauntlet.

Suddenly, the platform I was on began to shake violently, before rapidly rotating in a circle, forcing me into a crouched position to keep myself balanced. Eventually, he jumped out at me again, but by cleverly using the tentacles, wrapping them and layering them over the gauntlet to make it three times the size it was before, delivering a powerful uppercut, knocking him back and making him crashing into the water again. "Insolent child! Cursed Spawn of Ryu! I shall crush you and grind you into pieces, before I devour you!" He said, slamming his tail down on the platform, launching me into the air and causing the platform to flip upside down, revealing a number of spikes on the bottom. However, thanks to extensive ninja training, maneuvering from one bamboo stalk to another, I was able to delicately land on the top spike. I waited as he jumped at me again, lashing out several times with the tentacles, before wrapping around him, pulling him in and punching him back with the other gauntlet.

"Your hunger and greed will be the death of you." I told him, wrapping the tentacles around the top of the platform and dropping down, pulling it down along with me and causing it to slash the monster's face.

"Do not DARE lecture me! I am Gharial! You are nothing but food to me! And I am done playing with my food!" He snapped, lunging at me once again, but I jumped to avoid it. However, when he jumped and slammed down on the platform again, this once more flipped it up with the spiked side up. He jumped again, attempting one final time to attack me, but I smacked him down with all of the tentacles at once, causing him to crash down and impale himself on the spikes of the platform. It was as I said, his blind hunger and impatient greed to consume me led to his end.

End Music

"H-how was I... defeated?" He asked as I returned to my human form.

"You became unfocused and careless towards the end of the battle. You were only focused on trying to devour me, you ignored the dangers of our surroundings." I explained.

"You are wise beyond your years, son of Ryu. Then may my soul aid your journey." He said, his body shattering and the white light flying towards me. When the light faded, I now wore badass black gator boots with several teeth sticking outwards to stab and rip apart whatever I'm kicking at. Giving a mighty stomp, I completely destroyed the platform in the middle of the room. "Nice." I said, before feeling the ground shake.

"Dante must've killed the Leviathan. I gotta get out there and meet back up with him." I said, before looking down at the stylish, but deadly boots I know wore. "And I know just how to do it." I said, launching myself with the tentacles towards the wall of the chamber and kicking a hole in it, sending several large boulders out as well, looking down, I saw the girl with the bazooka shooting several demons as Dante ran inside the building. Thinking quick, I wrapped the tentacles around the boulders and threw them down, slamming them down on the rest of the demons, landing gracefully in front of the girl. "You were handling yourself pretty well, there." I complimented.

Just like before, we get a close-up of the weapon.

Gharial

Fanged greaves that increase Sai's speed. Packed with the Earth-crushing power of Gharial's jaws.

"And I could've handled the rest on my own." She said with a glare.

"A little gratitude goes a long way, you know." I said.

"Like I'd be grateful to a demon." She said.

"You know, not all demons are bad. My whole family is made of demons and we fight to protect humans from other demons." I told her, to which she scoffed. "So, what's your name, anyway?" I asked.

"I don't have one." She said.

"Then what-" I started.

"Your buddy in red already asked me. Call me whatever you want. He keeps calling me 'Lady', why don't you go with that." She said.

"If you say so. I'd better catch up with him." I said, taking a few steps, but then looking at her. "You know, you're holding a lot of dark emotions in your soul. Let those get too out of control and you'll be no better than a demon yourself. It might even get you killed." I said, before hurrying ahead and through the doors, luckily catching up with Dante at the end of a long bridge.

"Hey, I was wondering where you got off to." He said.

"Well, after you destroyed the statue I was still nailed to, I tumbled down the tower until I fell into a hole in the wall, then I fought THE KRAKEN, then some weird chick led me into the mouth of a giant crocodile demon. But, now I've got a bit more fashion on my side." I said, gesturing to the boots.

"And I bet girls are just gonna LOVE those gauntlets." He said.

"What? I don't get it. Why would girls like the gauntlets over anyone else?" I asked. He leaned in and whispered something in my ear, causing me to go wide-eyed in horror. "Oh, my gods! My innocence!" I said, deeply disturbed.

"Eh. You're old enough, it's about time you left that innocence behind." Dante said as we continued through the next doors.

Suddenly, after we passed through the doors, they were sealed along with the doors at the other end of the room, large spider demons dropping down from the ceiling. "Spiders. they picked the wrong targets this time." I said, pulling out Blazeguard and lighting them and my arms on fire. Dante and I rushed in and attacked, slicing the spider's cleanly in half, his vertically and mine horizontally, but as they fell to the ground in pieces and began to dissolve, dozens of much smaller spiders scrambled across the ground, a few of them jumping on each of us, appearing harmless, until they exploded, sending us flying back. "Dammit!" Dante snapped, pulling out his pistols and firing at them.

"They'll get a KICK out of this!" I said, stomping on the ground,, creating a huge crack in the floor from my foot to the fledgling spiders, causing them to fall into the abyss, breaking the seals.

"If that was a joke, keep trying." He said, walking to the door. We past through, only for the next door to be sealed by a blue barrier, indicating we needed to solve a puzzle. "Damn! I hate these puzzles. I'm here to hit stuff, not solve puzzles." Dante said.

"My brother says its important to work both mind and body." I said, stepping up to the puzzle. I looked at it for a moment, noticing floating mirrors directing a ray of light from a statue, which needed to be bounced to the other statue, closer to the door. "I think I got it." I said, switching back to my gauntlets and launching 6 0f the tentacles at the three mirrors the light was currently bouncing off, two tentacles per mirror, before crushing them, allowing the remaining mirrors to bounce the light in the right directions to hit the statue, breaking the seal. "Peace of cake." I said with a proud smile, walking back to him.

"I believe I already mentioned how I feel about show-offs." He said, continuing ahead, to which I glared at him a little before following.

We entered the next room, outpacing the arrows fired at us by the archer statues and returning fire, quickly destroying them while traversing the U-shaped room. We entered the next hall, which was dangerously lined with large, spinning, bladed pillars on the side, a good number of demons awaiting us in the center, including two of the summoner. "Well, this can't be good." I said.

"Giant, spinning blades that will rip us to shreds if we get too close? Yeah, from that view, I could see how you'd think that? But try a different view." He said, rushing to one of the summoners and grabbing its coffin weapon, wrestling with it and turning the demon towards one of the blades, before letting go as it gave a much fiercer pull backwards, causing it to lose its balance and fall back into the blade, which instantly destroyed it. "It hurts them, too!" He said, kicking the other summoner back into the other one.

"When you put it like that." I said, lashing out with the tentacles and wrapping them around the remaining demons, before flinging them into the pillars and destroying them with the same ease Dante had. "Huh. Taking advantage of your surroundings. My sister's taught me that." I said.

"So, maybe they do know what they're talking about. They just missed the lesson on style." He said with a chuckle, passing through the next doors.

"Still not sure that was such a bad thing." I said, slightly deadpanned as I followed him. We now entered a much larger room with a statue in the middle, as well as a waterfall up to the left, which upon a closer inspection, held a mysterious cave. "Something tells me we'll have to go through there." I said.

"Well, at least it'll wash all this blood off me." He said.

We started heading towards it, before noticing a door to the right. "There's a door there. Which path should we take?" I asked.

He thought for a moment, before shrugging. "We'll split up, then meet back here if we find something. You take the door, I'll take the waterfall." He said, heading towards it while I walked towards the door, looking back once and deadpanning again as he stood in the waterfall, using it like a shower for the blood. I entered the rounded pathway and was slightly unnerved to see more of the bladed pillars, but these ones stuck out far more than the ones before did, the ones to the right sticking out more on the floor while the left occupied most of the roof. Not to mention there was an archer statue towards the end of the hall, already aiming at me.

"Alright... I can do this." I said, running to the wall toward the right and jumping up to where the wall was thinner and jumping at an angle towards the left of the room, passing the first two and stopping before the last one on the left, pushing downwards to land just ahead of the one on the right and flinging a sai into the statue's eye, destroying it in one shot. "Almost like training in the Danger Room." I said with a smile, rounding the corner and encountering a similar set-up of pillars and another archer statue, but I managed to traverse those as well, reaching the room at the end and entering.

I entered a room with crates loaded up with foods and other provisions. "This must've been the storage room." I said to myself, before seeing an alter on the other end of the room. "And that must be premium storage for something really important." I said, walking over to it and picking up a strange fruit. "I think I've read something like this before. Or it was read to me once." I said, thinking back.

Flashback...

About 12 years ago, when I was still a baby, I was sitting on Nightshade's lap as he read to me about ancient and mystic items, an image of the very fruit I now held in my hand appearing in the book. "And this, little brother, is Ambrosia, a fruit that's a favorite food of the gods that mankind is forbidden to even touch. It is said to unlock the door to paradise." He said as I reached out and put my hand on the picture.

"'Brosia." I tried to say, touching the page again.

"Close enough-" He started, before Weiss burst into the flashback and picked up my infant form, holding me close and squealing. "What the hell!?" He demanded.

"Sai! You were so cute as a baby! why did you have to change?!" She said, hugging my baby self.

"Goddammit, how do you guys keep doing that?! Weiss, put down baby Sai and get the hell out of my flashback!" I snapped off-screen.

End Flashback...

"I don't remember that pale girl being there, but that's right. Nightshade told me about this. Ambrosia." I said, pocketing it. Suddenly, more of the spider demons appeared. "Hm... I wonder how this will work. Might as well try it." I said, shooting water jets from both gauntlets at them and breathing a stream of fire from my mouth, reducing the water to steam, but working just as well as fire or water would to kill the demons, who dropped dead, not even making their dozens of spawn. "Good. Now I have to get back to Dante." I said, quickly retracing my steps and meeting Dante back where we left off. "Find anything?" He asked.

"A bunch of demons, but other than that, it was a dead end. There was some doorway, but it was blocked by some statue of a chick holding her hand out for something." He explained.

"You mean, this?" I asked, revealing the ambrosia.

"That could work. You know, this would be a lot easier if we had a stoner, a talking dog and a lesbian on our team." He said as we started walking back towards the waterfall.

"What about the cheerleader and the dumb blonde guy?" I asked.

"Screw 'em." He said.

"Hey, wait." I said, stopping him and looking up at a platform above us. "I saw something shining up there. Be right back." I said, latching onto the edge of the platform with the tentacles, using the teeth like grappling hooks to catch the edge, then reeling myself up, walking over to an alter and grabbing what appeared to be a powerful sniper rifle. "Nice." I said, before walking to the edge. "Catch!" I called, tossing it down to Dante.

"Thanks. Don't you need a gun, though?" He asked.

"I've got a few in my coat. But I'll stick with my sais." I said.

"Don't know how to use guns?" He asked.

"I do, but my family likes to stick with traditional stuff like throwing weapons and bow and arrows." I explained.

"Tradition's fine, but last I checked, bullets moved faster than both of those. Your choice, just some friendly advice." He said, heading back towards the waterfall as I followed him while holding my chin, deep in thought. Before I knew it, we reached the statue Dante told me about and I placed the ambrosia in her hand, causing the statue to lift up out of the way, allowing us to enter through the door.

We took a few steps in, when suddenly bats started flying around us, all flying up to the stage where they took the form of a beautiful woman with long red hair that went down far enough to cover her otherwise naked breasts, her lower body covered by a dress made entirely of bats. Then, from the shadows behind the woman, appeared the girl who tricked me into walking into Gharial's mouth earlier. "You!" We both said at the same time, pointing and glaring at each other.

"Whoa, cool your jets, kid. That's no way to talk to a lady." Dante lectured.

"It is when that lady tricks you into walking into the mouth of a giant crocodile demon." I retorted.

"Guilty." The girl giggled.

"Oh, so you're the one my little sister was playing tricks on. Clearly it wasn't a good enough trick." The older redhead said, sparing her sister a glance, which was returned with a pout, before walking up to Dante. "Welcome, gentlemen. Is this your first time here?" She asked.

"You aren't fooling me agai-!" I started, before Dante pushed me back a bit and walked up to the older woman.

"Yeah, it is. You'll be nice to me, won't you?" He asked.

"Of course I will." She said.

"I can't believe this." I said, rolling my eyes, lunging to attack, before the younger one appeared behind me, grabbing me and throwing me across the room.

"Now, now, no disturbing the adults, now." She said.

"Fine, I'll deal with you instead." I said, rushing at her.

Meanwhile, the older one was still circling Dante. "In fact, I'll treat you so nicely, you'll never want to leave." She said.

"Now that's what I'm... talking about." He said, adjusting his pants a little before grabbing his sword.

She chuckled at this, sauntering up to the stage and breathing out some electrical currents, waving her hands around it. "Then come on, sugar." She said.

Background Music: "Immortals" by Fall Out Boy (might not fit, but I like the song)

Dante fired several rounds off at the older sister from Ebony and Ivory, but her bats continuously got in the way, but as he did this, she appeared to be getting smaller. At the same time, I was fighting the younger one, who dodged most of my attacks while shooting her hands out, turning them to blades of darkness to try and stab me, forcing me to dodge as well, before I jumped back and threw Blazeguard at her legs, cutting her at the shins and taking her off balance, allowing me to rush in and land several hits on her.

Back with Dante, he finally got through the remainder of the bats and would finally land a hit on the woman, swinging at her neck as if to decapitate her just as I prepared to hit the younger one with a powerful haymaker. But suddenly, in a flash of bats, the two switched places, Rebellion going right over the younger ones head as she turned both arms into blades of darkness and stabbed Dante in the stomach with both of them, almost lifting him off the ground. Meanwhile, the older one managed to catch my fist, moving it out of the way. "My, my, someone's being quite sour. Maybe you just need some sugar, instead." She said, leaning in towards me, puckering up her lips.

"Uh... What's going on here?" I asked uncomfortably, trying to pull away, feeling a strange energy coming off her as she leaned in. It reminded me of Gharial and I knew exactly what the energy was. Hunger. "I don't want this, do not want-!" I continued, repeatedly trying to pull away before she kissed me on the lips. However, this wasn't a tender, loving kiss. This was a greedy, hungry, forceful kiss. And somehow, as our lips made contact, I somehow felt my life energy being drained away through my lips. (It's the kiss of death! I have to break free somehow!) I thought, struggling, before going Super Sai-yan and blasting her back.

Back with Dante, despite being impaled again, he smirked at the younger demon. "So, you think you're ready to play with the big dogs, huh? This might change your mind." He said, pulling out Cerberus and slamming the 3 rods down on her head, stunning her and forcing her to drop him, allowing him to unleash an impressive combo on the younger demon, eventually knocking her down.

He prepared to strike her while she was down, but the older one had different plans. "Stay away from my sister!" She said, darkness appearing in between the two, catching Dante off-guard.

"Dante, look out!" I said, wrapping the tentacles from my right gauntlet around his mid-section and pulling him back. "Partner switch!" I announced, flinging him at the older sister and catching her off-guard as I rushed back at the younger sister, who got up and prepared to fire strange black lightning with red aura around it (think InFamous after activating the Ray Sphere again) at him, but I ran in and caught her arm. "Don't think so." I said, chopping her neck and stunning her, unleashing several more punches, before spinning and swinging all the tentacles upwards, knocking her into the air, at which point I jumped after her and did an axe kick, knocking her back to the ground.

Meanwhile, Dante had broken through the older one's defenses again and knocked her down, landing several more attacks on her as she was on the ground, but kept an eye on the spreading darkness below him, jumping back as she activated it, appearing in front of me. "Get ready, sugar." She said, spinning around with a blade of darkness out, forcing me to back flip and do a handspring to clear a safe distance. She then stopped and picked up her sister.

"We always do fight better together." She said, hugging her sister, before being thrown up into the air and landing on her feet on her sister's shoulders. She then began shooting incredibly fast lightning bolts, while the older one sent out slower, but more powerful bats loaded with electric energy. I dodged one and rushed into the way of another one closing in on Dante, tanking it with my coat.

"Maybe we should take a page from their book." I said.

Suddenly, they both raised their hands, lightning sparking around the entire floor. "Maybe we should." He said, grabbing me and throwing me high into the air, jumping up and air hiking after me, allowing the two of us to avoid the lightning strike that somehow went through the whole floor, before grabbing me and spinning in mid-air, throwing me at the sisters.

"I think you two need to spend some time apart!" I said as I shot my foot out.

"Better." Dante said as I kicked the older one in the face, causing her to fall back, before I delivered another kick that sent her flying towards Dante, her sisters flipping and falling in mid-air... right onto the waiting blades of Blazeguard.

End Music

"Damn you! you dirty bastards!" The younger one snapped.

"Says the one feeding people to crocodiles." I countered.

She let out a small chuckle at this. "You got me there." She said.

Meanwhile, Dante caught the older sister as she started to fall. "My, you're sweet..." She said, running her hand down his face, before trying one last time to bite him, but a shot to the stomach from Ivory quickly put an end to that.

"You'd think so, wouldn't you?" He asked.

She let out a pained sigh, before leaning back up and stroking his face once again. "Alright, I'll help you." She said, before looking back between me and him. "Your fathers were such handsome devils. But you two certainly aren't slouches." She said, her life finally leaving her as he soul turned into a light.

"Well, then. I guess I have no choice, do I?" The younger one said, signs of life leaving her as well as she, too turned into a ball of light.

When these lights faded, Dante was holding a strange guitar with electricity coursing through it and I now held a claymore similar to Rebellion, but quite different. It was thinner than the Devil Hunter's blade, but just as long and like his new guitar, electricity also coursed through my weapon, but the most unique feature about my new sword was the hilt and pommel (bottom) of the sword was a microphone. We looked at each other, realizing there was only one thing to do with these new weapons right now. "ROCK ON!" We screamed together as flames shot up from the stage behind us, Dante strumming fiercely on the guitar as I jammed to the music, holding the sword back hand to sing into the mic.

"The flinch in your eye calls your bluff~!" I sang, tossing the sword into the air, catching it and holding it normal, singing the next lines with the mic upside down. "Feel free to die when you've had enough~!" I sang, giving a few slashes before singing again. "Useless cause is breaking your back! Your life will end when you attack~!" I continued to sing as I swung the sword, Dante dancing behind me as I continued to play, turning the guitar into a scythe and swinging a few times, before turning it back into a guitar and sliding beside me on the stage as we finished the chorus, at which point I lifted the sword above my head while flashing the "rock on!" fingers.

"Whoo!" Dante cheered, before leaning back and collapsing. We paused for a moment to catch our breaths, before he jumped back up and we continued.

The first new item we see on the screen the iconic guitar from the game.

Nevan

Dante can control bats by jamming on this curious guitar. Its sickle attack is deadly.

This quickly spins off the screen to be replaced by my sword.

Ardat

A sister to Nevan, it similarly can control bats and lightning. A good shout into the microphone pommel can release sound waves strong enough to destroy most demons.

"Okay, we've had our fun, time to go." Dante said, heading to the door in the side of the room.

"I'm with you." I said, following him.

Meanwhile...

Lady was still outside, fighting more demons that spawned shortly after I left. She ran out of ammo in all her sidearms, jumping back to avoid a demon's scythe, pulling the bazooka off her back and aiming at the one that sliced at her, blasting him back into his allies and creating an explosion that launched the sidearms into the air. She then held a clip in her mouth and tossed two more into the air, catching her guns as they fell and swinging them in a way to load the falling clips perfectly into the guns and shooting more demons, spinning and shooting more of the demons, holstering the loaded guns and catching two more that weren't loaded and using another clip she pulled out as well as the clip in her mouth, shooting the last of them and holstering these guns as well, pulling out a final clip and jamming it into her 45. caliber and catching it with the other hand. "Welcome back." She greeted it, clicking its chamber back in place, before continuing back into the tower.

A quick lesson on demons: Ardat (Ardat Lili, Lilith, by some other names) is a demon similar to both a siren and a succubus with a desire to deceive and kill humans at any cost. She is known to seduce men and lead them to desolate areas to attack them. This is shown when she leads Sai into Gharial's mouth and serves to illustrate and further Sai's natural rivalry with Sirens.