In the streets of New York, my family, now with the addition of Clayton and Cassandra, fighting the massive horde of demons, before all of them briefly stopped as they saw a massive spire rising up from the tower, knowing it could only mean one thing. "No... The seal has been broken!" Dad said in disbelief.

"Then Sai must've failed..." Mom said in horror.

"But, is he okay?" Katana asked worriedly.

Lance attempted to sense my energy, but growled in anger. "There are too many other demons! Both here and in the tower! I can pick his energy out of the rest!" He said.

"No... There's no way... We couldn't have lost our baby brother again." Spirai said, shedding tears.

"Master Sai..." Clayton said worriedly.

"May the gods be with him." Cassandra said solemnly.

"We don't have time to worry about that now! The seal's broken, but the gate hasn't been opened yet! We have to get to the tower now! There's still a chance to stop all of this!" Nightshade said, before closing his eyes and putting a fist over his chest. "For you, little brother." He said quietly, the group starting to hack through the demons at a much quicker pace, slaughtering them by the dozen and turning the streets into rivers of demon blood. They were progressing, but at this rate, it'd still be FAR too late by the time they reached the tower.

Meanwhile, from his perch at the top of the spire, Arkham looked down at them and scoffed. "The Blades. Descendants of the goddess of hell and god of death. And you, Ryu, nearly possess the power of a god... But once I collect Sparda's power, I'll be greater than all of you. And I! Shall be the ONE TRUE GOD!" He boasted, laughing.

Meanwhile, back in the remains of the offering chamber, Dante, Lady and I looked up at the massive spire. "Dammit! We have to hurry! It's only a matter of time now before he opens the gate to the Demon Realm! And once that happens, we basically better hand the world over to the demons on a silver platter!" I said.

Dante nodded at this, before looking over at Lady. "Are you gonna go?" He asked.

"Yes. I'm going to finish him off." She said.

He scoffed at this. "Well, you might as well forget it. Because you're no match for him." He told her.

"Regardless, I must go. I had a chance to stop him before, but I couldn't. I'm responsible for all this mess." She said.

"Responsible? Does it really bother you that much?" He asked.

I nodded at this. "I understand. I've had times, too, where I couldn't finish off my opponent and everything went to hell." I said.

She was a little shocked by this, but nodded, even giving a VERY small smile that someone understood how she felt, before glaring at Dante. "He's my father! Besides, who else can undo what he's done?" She asked.

"The two of us are still here." I said, gesturing to Dante and myself. "Aaand maybe him." I said, looking to a still unconscious Vergil.

She just sighed at this, pulling out her rocket launcher and firing the bayonet to be used as a grappling hook to hook onto rubble of a hallway several levels above us. "Demons like you wouldn't understand." She said, reeling it in and sending herself up much higher up the tower.

"She's now mixing in guilt with all her anger and hate. If she keeps this up, she'll lose her soul in darkness. She'll be more of a demon than her father. Maybe even more than you." I said, looking at Dante.

He seemed to ignore this, taking her words to heart. "Father and family, huh?" He said, looking over to his unconscious brother. "Well, I'll go, too. But you better hurry if you don't want me hogging all the credit!" He called after her.

I shook my head at this, heading towards the door. "Alright, let's go- what are you doing?" I asked as he walked over to Vergil and took the Beowulf gauntlets and greaves off him.

"I don't think he'll need these anymore. I think I can put them to good use." He said, slipping them on himself.

"Stealing from your unconscious brother. Truly, you are the sibling of the year." I said, shaking my head in disapproval.

"No time to dwell on that. Let's go." He said, heading to the door. I deadpanned a bit, but followed him. We went through a door and came upon an underwater elevator, which we rode up to the area near where we got the first Neo Generator, but this was a new path, which we followed to the room where I had solved the puzzle to retrieve the Orihalcon. But this time, there was another path available that led us to the room with the creepy heads that cried blood, where we were ambushed by the shield demons. They were easy enough to dispatch, however: Dante jumped behind the first one and blasted its gem with his shotgun, putting it away and readying his hands to catch my foot as I ran and jumped towards him, placing a foot in his open hands and letting him launch me behind the next one, impaling its gem with Ouroboros and turning it into a bow and shoot the third one's gem as it closed in on Dante. This drew the attention of the fourth and final one to me, allowing Dante to do a sweet trick shot with Spiral, ricocheting the bullet several times before hitting the demon in the back and shattering its gem. "Nice. Now that's teamwork." He said.

"Yeah. It's nice to work in teams every once in a while." I agreed.

We continued on andretraced our steps, train included, heading back to what was once the torture chamber where we fought Beowulf, but it was now a completely different room. For some reason, it felt as if it was a Highway to Hell.

Back to now...

"Really?" Everyone except Draco said, the latter laughing at the reference.

"No, I'm serious, that room was called Hell's Highway. Dante, tell 'em." I said.

"He's right. The exact opposite of the stairway to heaven." The older Demon Hunter confirmed.

Back to now...

We went through a set of doors, leading to a small room with two other pathways. "Oh, great. Another maze." I said, annoyed.

"This place comes from Hell, of course it's gonna have some bad design choices." Dante confirmed. He looked back and forth at the two pathways, before looking to me and pulling out a coin. "Heads, I take that path, tails you take it." He said, flicking the coin into the air and catching it in his hand, opening it to reveal the image of a "cool girl" with long hair in a sexy pose, holding two guns behind her head. "Well, that's that. To the right you go." Dante said, pointing down the path to the right while he took the forward path.

"I already have the feeling this is the wrong way." I said as I went down the losing pathway, walking into the center of the room, where 3 pawn statues appeared in a triangle formation around the circle I stood in. "Not far off." I said, pulling out Minotaur and swinging the mighty axe, easily shattering one of the statues before slamming the axe down on another statue, before dodging an attack from the final one and releasing Minotaur's soul to easily smash the final statue... Or what I thought was the last one, until 4 more pawn statues appeared. "I go that way, you go this way!" I told him, pointing to the ones behind him when I said this and pointing to the ones behind me when I told him who to attack.

"Understood." He confirmed, going around behind me and charging the two pawns, destroying the one to the left, then turning to smash the ones on the right.

Meanwhile, I faced the ones that had been behind him, pulling out Ardat. "I HAVE THE POWER!" I said, holding the sword above my head and charging its electricity until it glowed purple, before swinging it at the one on the left, making the sound of thunder as it connected with the statue, electricity sparking around it as several explosions went off and broke the statue apart. I then tossed the sword and caught it backhand before blocking a strike from the pawn's swords, before kicking it back and holding the microphone hilt up to my mouth. "YEEEAAAHHH!" I screamed into the hilt, causing powerful sound waves to shoot from the microphone almost like a beam, easily shattering the statue. "And that takes care of that." I said, pocketing both weapons. "Now, let's get out of... here?" I asked, walking up to the door in front of me to move to a new section of the room, but it wouldn't open. "Okay, no big deal, I'll just go this... way?" I asked again when the door I came through wouldn't open. "Yep. Wrong way. Now I'm stuck..." I said, annoyed. "DANTE!" I shouted in anger.

Meanwhile, Dante had entered the path he won in the coin toss, entering the middle of the room, only to encounter a horse statues with a rhino-like horn, making it a knight. He dodged as it swung its horn, then rushed in with Stinger and smashed it to pieces with his million stab combo. He thought the battle was done and started moving to the red door, but found it wouldn't open and turned to face two more Knights. "Okay, then. I've got something special for this." He said, equipping Beowulf and blasting them with a powerful ball of light, shattering both of them. "Piece of cake." He said, then his stomach growled. "Aw, man, now I'm hungry. I wonder if Sai will be up for pizza after this. If I'm lucky, I can get him to pay for it. I hope he's not an olive guy." He said, walking into the next room. (Side note: Olives SUCK! Literally NO ONE in my family likes them.)

He then progressed to the red room in front of him, encountering a bishop and two more knights. "Well, now they're starting to give me a challenge. Sai, where are you at, man! You're missing all the fun!" Dante called.

"I'm trapped in here!" I said in annoyance from my room, glaring at him, since the rooms we were in were now adjacent.

"Wow... Sounds like that path sucks." He said.

"I'mma kick your ass when I get out of here!" I snapped, tick marks appearing all over my head and puffs of steam coming from it.

"Jeez, learn to take a joke, kid!" He said, quickly dispatching the statues with a series of light-speed kicks.

The doors then opened and I reunited with my red-clad counterpart. "Oh, good, I was about ready to blast the walls down." I said.

"Maybe later. It'd be a bad idea to bring this place down while we're still in it." He said as we moved to the next room. Luckily, we were able to proceed right on through to the next section, but it was there where we were stopped by more Chess statues, 3 bishops. "Hey, feel like trying one of those team combos we were talking about earlier?" He asked.

I smirked at this. "Thought you'd never ask." I said as we jumped as far back from the bishops as we could while they clustered together. Dante powered up a ball of light, which I mixed with a fireball, launching the beach ball-sized projectile into the middle of the room, obliterating the statues previously in there.

"Nice. We'll call that one Burning Light." He said.

"Sounds good to me." I said. Our victory was too early to celebrate, however, since more statues then appeared in the room with us: another bishop and two knights. "Let's see what the sister's can do." I said, pulling out Ardat, holding it backhand and putting the microphone up to my mouth. "I'm an indestructible.." I sang.

He had to think for a second, but soon understood. "Got it." He said, pulling out Nevan and strumming a powerful chord.

"Master of WAAAAAAAR!" I sang, screaming when I got to "war" at the same time when Dante strung the chords and making extra powerful sound waves, filling the statues with cracks, as well as creating and sending out a massive swarm of bats that completely smashed through the weakened statues. "I think for that one, we'll call it Sound of Silence." I said.

"Wasn't very silent." He said.

"No, but it will be afterwards because nothing will survive that, so there will be nothing but silence afterwards." I explained.

He tilted his head in consideration, before nodding. "Guess it makes sense." He said as we continued ahead. We went through a door and arrived in the room where I solved the first mirror puzzle, going through the door where we entered the familiar Sub-ground Water Vein which we took to reach the room with the Neo Generator and the waterfall that led to Nevan and Ardat's chamber. However, before we reached the door to that chamber, we found some form of portal.

"It doesn't look like one of Jester- or, Arkham's, I suppose, one of his arena portals. But I'd rather not fight him with that crazy clown magic again." I said.

"Don't worry. I've seen these kinds of portals before. They just take you places, they don't lead to any arenas." He explained.

"If you're sure." I said as we both went through it, arriving in an abandoned and completely trashed strip club.

Back to now...

"No! Your innocence!" Team RWBY said worriedly.

"Did I fail to mention it was EMPTY and COMPLETELY TRASHED, as in no nearly-naked women dancing there?" I added.

"Unfortunately." Dante said.

"Oh..." They realized.

Back to then...

We exited the strip club and headed back towards Temen Ni Gru, but the original entrance was gone. There was no visible way to re-enter the tower. Until of course, Dante spotted Lady's abandoned motorcycle hanging in the air and suddenly falling, but he ran up to it and used Cerberus to latch onto the bike and reel it in towards him, somehow driving it up the side of the tower. Meanwhile, I latched onto the side of the tower with Kraken's tentacles and pulled myself up to it, running up the side and keeping pace with Dante on the motorcycle. Dante smirked at this, before looking up to see two boulders falling towards us. "Damn!" He said.

"I got this!" I said, shooting jets of water from each gauntlet at one of the boulders, the awesome pressure from the water jets easily breaking the rocks into pieces, which we easily avoided. A section of the tower above us then broke off, which I managed to narrowly glide under while Dante jumped off the wall on the bike, landing on the now falling piece of tower and with some extra kick, even driving up it and launching off of it, even doing a back flip while cheering for himself while demons launched themselves at him and a few dropped down at me. However, I simply let Kraken's tentacles do all the work, lashing at them, smacking and tearing them apart almost faster than anyone could see. "Ora! Ora! Ora! Ora! Ora!" I shouted as the tentacles lashed out and beat the demons half to death, before reeling back and coming together, adding more surface area and power for one more hit to smash the demons into the wall. "ORA!" I shouted as the tentacles hit, the demons shattering as they hit the wall.

"Woohoo!" Dante cheered as he spun the motorcycle around like nunchaku somehow, knocking the demons away with ease, the two of us landing on the open section of the tower at the same time, me in a badass 3-point landing and Dante with the bike still held behind his held, still holding it like nunchaku, ignoring the bike as it sparked and caught fire behind his head, until it exploded, behind his head, engulfing both of us in the small explosion, but we weren't too bothered by it.

"You know she's gonna be pissed at you." I told him.

"Not if we don't tell her." Dante said, tossing the handlebars over his shoulder.

Back to now...

Lady growled and grabbed Dante by the neck, trying to strangle him despite the fact she knew she couldn't. "So that's what happened to it, you bastard! You told me you never saw it and it probably got destroyed when the seal was broken, or some demons probably wrecked it! You never mentioned YOU were that demon, you bastard!" She snapped.

"Ahh, this is fun... Good times." I said.

"Should we stop them?" Ruby asked.

"If she's still choking him by the end of this chapter, I'll stop it, sound fair? Sounds fair." I confirmed.

Back to then...

Meanwhile, while Dante and I quickly made our way up the tower with ease, Lady was making slow and steady progress scaling the tower with Kalina Ann.

Back with us, we began to approach the door in front of us, but before we could go through, the door was sealed and a bright light shined down from the heavens above us. Turning around, we saw what looked like angels that covered themselves with beautiful white wings that looked almost like a dress. "Whoa... Beautiful." I said in awe.

"Can't argue with you there." Dante said.

However, as they came closer, no heads could be seen atop their shoulders. Suddenly, they pulled out energy lances and open their wings to reveal horrifying demonic faces on their torso that roared at us. "KILL IT WITH FIRE!" We shouted at the same time, using Burning Light again to try and explode them both. However, they survived this attack, but their wings were gone, revealing their demonic faces. "The wings must've been shields." I said.

"Which means they're open now!" Dante said, jumping at the one on the right, slashing away at it and easily killing it with a few slashes from Rebellion and a blast from his shotgun.

"That's the right way to look at it." I said, pulling out Ouroboros in its bow form, lighting both fang arrows on fire and shooting them into the demon's chest as it threw its light lance at me, the two projectiles exploding, the arrows killing their target while I managed to roll out of the way of the exploding light weapon. Then the seal on the door in front of us broke and we were able to progress.

"No sweat." He said.

"Yeah. Looking at their faces was probably the hardest part." I agreed as we went through the doors.

We moved through the Provisions Storeroom, dealing with a few spider demons along the way, before entering a new area that looked like a giant elevator: The Devilsprout Lift. We looked closely at the door that blocked the elevator. "Looks like an elevator control switch. But something's missing." He said.

"Looks like we need more Orihalcon." I said, looking at the three different slots on the door switch.

"Well, let's get looking then." He said. We headed outside the tower to where Dante and Lady had fought some demons after he had brought down the Leviathan and noticed another one of the activation wheels from before right in front of the beast. Dante did some quick swordplay and activated the switch at which point we felt a giant rumbling as if the whole tower was moving somehow and a snapping sound could be heard like two pieces of something snapping into place. "That sounded like it did something." He said.

"Yeah, but what?" I asked as we went back in. We heading back to the storeroom and found a strange wheel, similar to the activation wheel, yet different at the same time, with three different color options of purple, light blue and red on them. The wheel had been behind a large gate we couldn't access before, but the gate was now gone, allowing us to access said wheel. "I wonder what this one does." I said.

"Only one way to find out." He said, hitting the wheel just like all the others. Suddenly, the tower once again started moving and shaking. It felt like it was rotating somehow, actually. We looked to the side and noticed the door with the same colors as the wheel had changed, both now being on blue. "So this towers a giant maze full of other mazes, huh? This could get annoying." He said.

"No wonder this place is so evil." I said as we went through the door. We arrived back in the room with all the cogs and stuff, but now they were moving, which added a serious danger element to the room, since all the cogs doubled as giant buzz saws. However, with quick and nimble moves, we were able to safely navigate the room without injury. However, we weren't out of danger yet. We entered the next hallway and found massive blades coming from the wall and swinging down into the middle of the path to slash through anyone unfortunate enough to be in the way at the time. And they were moving at all different speeds. You'd have to be a master of timing in order to make it through completely unscathed.

Fortunately, I'm just that. "I got this." I said, rushing in, jumping above the first two blades as they were at the bottom of their arc, then jumped onto the wall on the right side of the room and jumping to the left as soon as the fast-moving blade on the right started its arc, passing the slow-moving left blade in the middle of its arc, leaving the upper half of the hallway safe, allowing me to launch myself to the next section. It was the opposite of the second section, slow right blade and fast left blade, so I used the opposite strategy: once the left blade cleared its arc with the right blade half-way through its arc, I carefully slid under the right blade, making it with only a second to spare. The final one was tricky, both blades were fast, but the one on the left was slightly slower, so that blades came one after the other.

Back to now...

"Heh!" Draco laughed perversely, earning him a couple arrows in the head from Ouroboros.

Back to then...

I waited carefully for the exact right moment until they reached the bottom of their arc at the same time. "Now!" I said, rushing forward and reaching the end, narrowly avoiding the deadly blades. I took a few more steps towards a glowing object in the wall and found a fragment of Orihalcon. "Alright, then. One down, two to go." I said, traversing the bladed hallway once more, but managing to get back to Dante unscathed.

"Not bad. Those flashy ninja moves come in handy." He said.

"Yeah, a lot of those really saved my life at one point or another." I confirmed.

We re-entered the hallway with the gears of madness and I covered Dante from the blood birds while he worked on hitting the wheel with different colors, now switching it to purple. "Let's go!" He said, the two of us getting back to the top level and going back through the door, unsure of whether to expect the storage room, or some new, mysterious and dangerous area we hadn't seen before. It turned out to be the latter, as we entered a new Rounded Pathway with the spinning blade pillars, but rather than to the sides of the room, they were now in the floor and roof of the room. However, despite being larger than most of the others before them and in areas where we had to actively avoid them, they were ease to traverse, simply jump over the ones on the ground and stay down when passing under the ones on the roof. We easily maneuvered around the room and entered the Provision Storeroom where I had found the Ambrosia, but this time, while Dante held back the spider demons, I collected another fragment of Orihalcon.

"Two down, one to go." I said as he finished off the spiders.

"Nice. I think our bad luck is starting to TURN around." He said as we exited, a pun on how we were turning the tower to reach these new areas.

"Boo!" I said, shooting down the pun.

"Just one more path to take now." He said, attacking the wheel again and switching it to the red path. We exited the door and found ourselves at the remains of what once was the large hall with the waterfall leading to Nevan and Ardat as well as the statue holding the Neo Generator. We went through the blue door, leading to one final Rounded Pathway, but this one was far more perilous. Like the last one, it had the spinning blades on the floor and roof. Unlike the last one, where those blades were fair distances from each other, these blades were directly above and below each other. And in the middle between us and the Orihalcon fragment at the other end of the short pathway, was the strange mist/energy demons who turned dispersed their form whenever you looked at them. "Well, I think last time worked pretty well, let's do that again: I'll hold back the demons, you go get the fragment." Dante said.

"How noble of you." I said sarcastically, since I still had the hard job of getting to the fragment. Just like all the other blade pillars before, these ones had a very wide end and a very thin end on the right, so I stayed their to give myself the most room as I carefully jumped in between the blades, trying my best not to be distracted by the energy demons or the shots Dante fired at them from Spiral, knowing those bullets were heading in my direction. Regardless, I managed to get the fragment and get back to Dante unscathed. "That's all of them. Let's get the HELL out of here." I said, quickly going through the doors to get out of that room as quick as possible.

"I'm with ya." He said, following me. So, for the final time, Dante readjusted the wheel to the proper position and we walked through the doors, re-entering the storeroom, but the doors were sealed once more and the spider demons dropped down again. They were tougher than most other demons, but by now, we figured out a way to deal with them easily enough.

Dante landed in between the two smaller ones and swung his shotgun around like nunchaku while I lashed out at the big one, hitting it several times with Kraken's tentacles to stun it, before wrapping a couple tentacles around each leg and stretching it out, leaving it completely open for when I stomped the ground and created a pillar of ground to impale the demon, ripping its legs off and rushing in, dropping to my knees and sliding to a stop right below its head, putting both hands together and holding my open palms at the monster's face, unleashing a point blank blast of ultra powerful water to blast the bug demon's head off. "Too easy." I said.

"Don't worry. I'm sure the big, tough guys aren't much further ahead." He said with a smirk.

"We'll deal with them when we get there. For now, let's put these fragments where they belong." I said.

"Good idea." He agreed, the two of us heading to the Devilsprout Lift. We arrived in front of the gate and placed in the three separate gem pieces, removing the obstacle from our path and allowing us to get on the elevator, riding the lift to an unknown future, unsure of what lied ahead for us.

Meanwhile, Arkham was enacting the final steps to opening the Demon Realm. "He plucks the threads that make us dance, finger and toe. We surrender in joy to the lowest of the foul and rank. We submerge the darkness, rancid filth. hour by hour, we move downwards, closer to Hell, in a slow, steady gait." He said as the statues of the seven deadly sins around him began to raise up high and were dropped from the thing that held them to be caught by chains, revealing they were actually bells. "Now, let the world resonate! Sloth! Gluttony! Greed! Envy! Lust! Wrath! And Pride!" He called forth the name of the sins, the bells beginning to toll. "The bells of chaos that toll human desires! After two thousand long years, the once sealed gate to the Demonic world will open! Destruction! Carnage and Despair! Let your instincts drive you!" He shouted as his blue and red eyes began to glow, a portal to the Demon Realm opening in the sky and a beam swirling down to reach him. "Entrap this world in fear! As its very name Temen-Ni-Gru strikes terror into the hearts of mankind!" He continued to recite as a swarm of thousands of blood birds began to burst from the sky, some spiraling and flying around him while others began to pour out over the city. "Then I will become th ultimate ruler of this wasteland engulfed with pandemonium!" He said as an evil glow began to surround him and lift him up towards the portal. "The demonic power that Sparda once imprisoned... will be MIIIIIIIINE!" He shouted, before roaring out with evil laughter as he was lifted towards the gateway to hell.

From below, my family looked up and saw what they dreaded all this time: the portal to the Demon Realm was open! "No!" My father shouted, trying to fly up and do whatever he could to stop the portal, or the man inside it he knew was behind all of this, but hundreds upon hundreds of the blood birds began to circle around and attack him. Even with the unfathomable difference in numbers, he worked his way through them, taking down at least a thousand of them, but their numbers finally overwhelmed him and pushed him back down to the ground.

"Father/Ryu!" My siblings and mom shouted as they ran up to him. He picked himself up with no issue, before glaring angrily at the blood birds, as well as the dozens of other demons surrounding them once again.

"Dammit! I haven't faced numbers like this since I took on Mundus' army! We can't use any of our strongest attacks or forms without damaging the city or putting any lingering civilians in danger!" He said.

"Then what do we do?!" Mom asked.

He looked at the tower, then at the demons around them. "We keep fighting! They'll run out eventually! We WILL make our way to the tower. And in the meantime, we hope that Sai's still okay in there and that he can still fight and stop all this. The fate of the world... may very well be in his hands..."

Back to now...

"Oh, crap." Everyone except my family and Dante said.

"Hey!" I snapped.