Location: Keyblade GraveyardDante Sparda had a job. The white-haired devil hunter looked over a picture of his target: a massive, black beast. He was getting paid a handsome fee for it...
Smirking, he continued his search, when he heard a loud, primal roar from nearby. Turning, he smirked when he saw his target...
Then blinked when it abruptly burst into a cloud of black smoke.
"Well, that kinda ruins my work." He mumbled, shaking his head. "Now who went and did that, I wonder?"
Dante walked towards the monsters former location to try and see who was responsible for slaying it. The Demon Hunter saw an interesting group consisting of a young kid with a large key, a talking dog, and a magical duck. Dante didn't bother questioning this since he seen weirder things.
"That's interesting," Dante spoke out loudly catching the trio's attention.
"Uh...Hey there. Who are you?" Sora asked with a raised brow.
"Ah. Name's Dante. And uh...Ya kinda cost me a paycheck here, kiddo."
"Paycheck? What do ya mean?" Goofy scratching his head in confusion.
"You see a nice client paid me to kill that demon you just killed, but now since you already killed it...that's going to be a problem for me since I won't be getting paid now," Dante explained casually.
"Paid?! These Heartless are monsters, and you worried you're not going to get paid!?" Donald exclaimed.
Dante shrugged. "Eh, a guy's gotta make a living somehow. Still, though I gotta say...It's gotta take some skill to bring down those things like that. I wouldn't mind testing out just how good you are-THINK FAST!" And then the Devil Hunter fired ten quick shots from his signature guns.
"Watch it!" Sora, Donald, and Goofy easily avoiding the shots.
"Hey! What're the big ideas?!" Sora demanded unhappy that the Demon Hunter did that.
Dante just chuckled. "Not bad, squirt. I might not be able to take down that demon, but I can still have a little fun with you." Sora narrowed his eyes.
"Donald, Goofy...Get ready!"
"Right!" Goofy charged at Dante, shield at the ready, only for the Devil Hunter to dodge to the side and smack the dog away with the blunt end of his signature blade, causing him to crash into the ground, unconscious.
"Why you-!" Donald quacked before casting a lightning spell, which Dante quickly dodged before kicking the duck in the back of the head, causing him to join Goofy in unconsciousness.
"Well, just me and you now, kid."
Sora said nothing, but glaring at Dante for hurting his friends. The young took up a fighting stance with his Keyblade in his hands.
FIGHT!
Sora and Dante dashed towards each other moving faster then anyone could blink. Rebellion and Sora's Keyblade clashed with their respective owners trying to overpower each other. To Dante's surprise, he was actually being pushed back by the child. The dirt tracks he was leaving in the ground were proof of that.
Quickly, the Devil Hunter did an agile flip back and whipped out Ebony and Ivory. With multiple squeezes of his index fingers, a storm of bullets was rained down on Sora, who readied his keyblade...
Dante raised a brow in surprise as the keyblade wielder struck the bullets out of the air as they came down on him...And redirect them right back to their sender!
Dante sidestepped his own bullets before pulling out out of nowhere a demonic gun known as Artemis. The Demon Hunter shot in the air, causing numerous red laser beams falling down at Sora like meteors! While Sora was busy dodging the lasers, Dante used his Trickster Style to try and get a drop on Sora.
The son of Sparda teleported in around the young boy surprising him. Dante equipping Gilgamesh bombarded Sora with numerous punches and kicks. Sora held out his Keyblade blocking any hits Dante tried to get in, which in turn caused spider-like cracks appear on the Devil Weapon.
Growing weary of the pattern, Sora swung the keyblade, and managed to catch the Devil Hunter in a combo. First three downward slashes, then a spinning slash, then a powerful thrust forward that skewered the son of Sparda right through the chest.
Sora looked up to Dante's face instead of his eyes losing their light, he was actually smirking! Dante uppercut Sora sending the young boy fifty feet in the air ripping out the Keyblade in his chest in the process.
Dante used a new weapon, Alastor to meet Sora in the air for an aerial battle. The two began clashing blades once again. Despite Sora's lack of experience in Swordsmanship and Dante's random unpredictable style. The two wielded their blades with skill's surpassing any known figure in the history books.
"Fire!" Sora shouted launching a point-blank fireball at Dante's chest from the tip of his weapon. The sheer power of the Fire Spell launched Dante's towards the ground creating a large crater in the process.
Sora, not wanting to give his opponent any breathing room, pointed his keyblade upward.
"THUNDER!"
Dante rose to his feet, just in time to feel electricity coursing through his veins. And Sora followed by repeating the spell three more times, each one hitting its mark perfectly.
Sora stopped time around his opponent making it look like Dante was a statue. The Keyblade wielder slashed at Dante several times. When time finally resumed, Dante dropped to one knee his blood spilling like a dam.
Lethal FrameThe Devil Hunter scowled up at Sora, deciding to try using a different sword. Switching out, he looked up to see his opponent flying down, ready to strike him with the Keyblade.
Dante held up his new blade, Rebellion, and effortlessly blocked Sora's attack, the two clashing once again.
Dante gritted his teeth trying his best to block Sora's attacks. He didn't want to admit it, but the kid was way faster then he was. Every time, Dante tried to get a score a block or a hit, Sora, in turn, left a new gash on his body.
Good thing, Dante knew exactly what to do.
Snapping his fingers, in Dante's point of view, everything turned black and white. While Sora was moving at a slug's pace. Dante swung Rebellion upwards knocking Sora in the air for another air combo. The Demon Hunter used Beowulf, gauntlets, and greaves brimming with demonic light to strike at Sora. Quicksilver finally ended with Sora being Dante's punching bag.
Unfortunately for Dante, Quicksilver didn't last quite as long as he would have liked, and after eight seconds, it ended.
Sora was sent rocketing backward with a scream, smashing back-first into a wall hard enough to make a large crack against it, before falling facefirst to the ground.
"Come on kid. Don't tell me you're done already?" Dante taunted landing stylishly on the ground like a feather.
"Oh, I'm not!" Sora retorted getting back into his feet. Dante smirked using Lucifer, a metal backpack with spider-like appendages shooting numerous energy blades at the boy.
Sora cast Reflega, a barrier formed around the Keyblade wielder making the swords bounce off the shield as if they blunt objects. Dante decided it was time for big guns, literally. Ditching Lucifer in exchange for a briefcase. This confused Sora until the briefcase sprang to life revealing it had a massive bazooka hidden inside of it.
Sora's eyes widened as the bazooka let loose with a powerful blast. Rushing forward, he made an agile leap over the blast, then, upon landing, rolled underneath a second shot.
Dante decided to change Pandora into a new weapon considering how agile his opponent was. The bazooka began to take a different shape until it now resembled a Gatling Gun. The Demon Hunter's trigger fingers couldn't have been more itchier as he began to open fire at Sora.
Sora used every acrobatic trick in the book to avoid the laser fire. Spotting some of the energy blades Dante previously fired from Lucifer. Sora grabbed one of them now dual wielding a Keyblade and an artificial demonic weapon. The young boy began swatting away the lasers with his blades making a beeline towards Dante.
"Freeze!" Sora swinging his Keyblade unleashing a spear of ice forcing Dante to abandon Pandora. The ice spear impaled the Gatling Gun making it now useless.
"Agh, damn it!" The half-demon scowled in annoyance and reached for another weapon. This was Yamato. With a leap forward, he swung down, only for Sora to lean away from the strike.
Sora swung his swords like a madman forcing Dante on the defensive. Despite Yamato's sheer cutting power, the Keyblade proved to be nigh-unbreakable. The young boy tried to impale Dante with the energy blade only to be swatted away using Yamato's sheath, not even chipping it.
Dante then lunged forward, and much to his delight managed to nail Sora with a series of slashes from Yamato. The boy's screams were a good sign, he was doing some clear damage.
However, Sora eventually managed to leap back, and then he threw his keyblade at Dante.
Dante casually sidestepped it only for the Keyblade to come right back at him as if it was a boomerang. The Son of Sparda caught it turning towards Sora twirling it around taunting the young boy seeing as he now had his only good weapon in his hands.
"Thanks, you were so kind." Dante joked.
"Sorry, but I'm gonna need that back now." Before Dante could retort, the keyblade vanished from his grasp and reappeared back in its owner's hand.
"...Huh. I need a weapon that can do that..."
"Get your own." Sora retorted firing another Firaga Spell. Dante put Yamato back into its scabbard for a moment before unsheathing it. This, in turn, created a crescent wave of energy splitting the fireball into two. Sora wide-eyed barely had time to move out of the way to see that it cut the nearby mountain in two!
The bearer of light charged forward, keyblade at the ready. Dante fired three more blasts of energy, only for Sora to cut clean through all three of them, causing them to dissipate. Then, he pointed the blade forward.
"GRAVITY!"
An orb of dark matter consumed Dante knocking him into the ground ripping the half demon's flesh. Dante roared in pain feeling like the weight of the world was crushing on top of him. His bones started to crack from he increase in gravity.
As the spell gradually wore off, Dante felt himself beginning to recover from his injuries...And then, he let out a primal roar, darkness beginning to surround him.
The Devil Trigger mode had activated.
Sora's eyes widened seeing Dante's transformation. No longer he resembled a normal human being instead Dante looked like a true demon. His skin now resembling molten lava, with a glowing yellow core on the center of his chest.
Sora tensed up knowing his battle just got a lot harder.
With a grunt, Sora held up his keyblade to block an attack from his demonic opponent. Sora now found himself struggling to hold his ground against Dante, whose power had increased greatly.
Sora used his free hand to impale Dante's foot with the Summoned Sword. Now immobile, Sora shot a point blank fireball at Dante's face. Roaring in pain and anger, Dante backhanded Sora away. Ripping the sword out of his foot, he equipped Ifrit a fiery version of his gauntlets.
The two rushed to meet each other, and Dante quickly got the upper hand. He barraged Sora with a series of strong punches, each one staggering him further and further. Finally, Sora rolled to the side and slashed at Dante with his keyblade, managing to catch him in a combo. Downward swipe, upward slash, and then he went in for a thrust...
Only for Dante to grab the keyblade and rip it out of Sora's hands, tossing it over his shoulder.
Before Sora even had time to think about it, Dante had pulled out his strongest sword...The Sword of Sparda.
Sora yelled in pain when the Soul Calibur-like blade left a nasty gash on his chest. The Keyblade Wielder flew through the air knocking down dozens of Keyblade tomb stones in the process. He winced from the pain and desecration of the dead.
He landed on the ground, limp and unmoving. He closed his eyes...
And then a surge of light energy shot through him.
Sora's Limit Form was kicking in.
Dante didn't give a damn about Sora's new outfit change. Discarding the Sword of Sparda for a moment to pull out Ifrit again. Raising his hands, a huge fiery orb of hellfire held over his head. Dante thr-
Sora stopped time once again. Limit Form Sora wasted no time using Sonic Blade executing a successful number of thrusting attacks. Following a flurry of slashes onto Dante. Finally finishing his combo with Thudaga.
Right where, Dante's fireball was.
When the time stop wore off, Dante quickly felt the pain kick in.
First, several massive stab wounds appeared all over his torso.
Then, both of his arms fell off, launched out of their sockets in an eruption of blood.
Finally, the sphere of flames, with no arms to support them, came down on him, causing him to suffer both burns from his own attack and a nasty electric shock.
Needless to say, Dante Sparda was in a LOT of pain right now.
Dante gritted his teeth in agony, the pain was absolutely unbearable. His skin had third-degree burns everywhere destroying his handsome features. The clothes he wore turned to ash. At this point, Dante was unrecognizable due to how hideously disfigured he was.
"D-Damn it..." He growled. "Not...like this..."
Sora wasn't letting up, however, and before Dante could even begin to heal, the keyblade wielder was barraging him with strikes from his keyblade, juggling him and tossing him around like a ragdoll.
And finally, before one final stab from the keyblade...
Dante was engulfed with a column of dark energy.
Sora was sent flying back once again caught off guard by this sudden turn of events. The young boy managed to land on his feet, but shivered when he began to feel something he hadn't felt in a long time.
Pure terror
Sora looked towards the pillar of energy before it began to disperse. Revealing Dante in all of his glory, but much more different from before. He now saw a bat demon with four wings, and red energy blades coming out of his arms. Majin Form Dante gave out a hellish shriek not in the mood for games now.
The young boy despite shaking from the Majin Form's fear aura, he remained firm and strong. Sora clenched his keyblade ready for this battle to reach its climax.
Dante formed compressed spheroids of hellfire before them tossing at Sora. The Keyblade Wielder weaved through the fireballs as they caused massive explosions scattering the keyblade tombstones. Sora cast Thudaga hitting Dante with numerous lightning bolts but much to his shock (no pun intended) the bat demon remained unphased by the lightning spell.
Majin Dante flew towards Sora with the young boy running away to try and get some distance away from the monster. Dante discharged an energy blast at Sora, who simply swatted it away sending it right back at the Demon Hunter. This only served to annoy Dante however, this gave Sora the opening he needed to toss his Keyblade right at the bat demon's forehead. Sora closed the gap between them catching his keyblade to perform an aerial combo. Dante refused to let that happen as he used his energy blades to clash with Sora.
A mighty shockwave erupted from the clash of the two powerhouses. As the two pushed away from each other, they raced back toward each other and crashed their blades against one another.
Upward Arc. Downward vertical. Spin Attack. Downward diagonal. Horizontal.
The attacks clashed epically with one another, a shockwave forming with each impact. However, as Sora went for a stab to the chest, Dante raised one arm and his strength sent Sora's arm upwards and left him open to strike. Dante raised both energy blades and brought them down to the young boy, but Sora reacted quickly and dropping his keyblade from his airborne right hand and recalled it to his left. The light saber like blades met the flat side of the keyblade. Dark demonic energy and pure holy light filled the air and a mighty explosion of the two elements burst forth from the point of contact.
Sora gritted his teeth as he tried to hold his own against the Majon Form, but to no avail. Dante released Hellfire from his hands and launched forwards. Sora's eyes widened before creating orb of golden light formed at the tip of the keyblade. The orb of light flew only to be dispersed into a dozen beams of light resembling shooting stars. Sora's Infinity Spell overpowered the Hellfire as they broke through them hitting Dante in the process.
Dante roared in anger and annoyance as he grabbed Sora by his shirt tossing him into a nearby stone wall. Seeing his opponent prone to his position, the Demon Hunter used whatever demonic energy he had left to fire a massive Kamehameha beam consuming Sora and the cliff that he was on.
Now that Dante was all of out Devil Trigger, he was reverted back to his normal form. He landed on his knees panting exhausted from his long hard battle.
"Not bad, kid. Not bad." Dante spoke through heavy breaths.
Squelch!Dante froze when he saw a large familiar key sticking out of his chest. Looking up he saw Sora very much alive. The Keyblade wielder managed to stop time just before Dante could hit him with his energy attack. Dante was engulfed with a column of light energy.
Sora watched Dante's body disappear into magical particles. He sighed in relief with the fight finally over. Sora began to walk away to pick Donald and Goofy.