Devil May Cry Olympus Lightning Thief
ESKK: This is an AU to my Percy Jackson fic with Devil May Cry. So let's begin this story.
(Start Temen-Ni-Gru)
Artemis was on her hands and knees crying… she the Goddess of the Hunt, Childbirth, and the wild was weeping as she looked down upon the weapon she had just earned from herself. To think she came here to free her hunters from the Demons who abducted them for food and other unsavory things and she felt weaker than any time before.
Here she was forced to face the weight of her own sins… she may be a Goddess but she did a shit job at it. She failed to protect her hunters from the demons and from the actions of her own father Zeus if Callisto was anything to go by. How many times was she forced to look the other way when her own father harmed her huntresses and was force to take his side on things? How many woman were harmed by her Father and she simply acted like nothing happened.
She saw what she was… she may be an Olympian God… but she was more of a Devil then she'd like to admit. She screamed in emotional agony as she saw the weapon the Devils Arm that acknowledged her strength and resolve… but Artemis herself could not accept the hypocrite she was.
Just then she felt a hand on her shoulder as she looked over to the blue eyed silver haired male whom she had found alliance with for a common goal. He looked to her with sympathy as the tears stained her face hiding her surprised look. "I've been there." Dante said as he looked to Artemis. "I wasn't strong enough to save my mother and she ended up paying for it with her life." Dante confessed as he looked to Artemis. "But remember… Devils Never Cry." Dante began but Artemis smiled a bit and began to get back up.
"But Angels Never Scream." Artemis added as she began to walk over to the weapon and equipped the arrow gun to her arm. Her Devil Arm named the Artemis was filled with the demonic power of the demon inside it… and with her own diving power.
(Scene Break a year later Devil May Cry Office)
In a newly furnished room in Dante's new Devil May Cry Office Artemis was seen inside it as it seemed to be a nursery of sorts. "Fly me to the moon…" Artemis sang as she held two bundles in her arm in a room Dante gave to her whenever she and her hunters came over. "And let me play among the stars." Artemis continued as the two bundles in her arms were sleeping peacefully as their blissful dreams carried on. The boy had silver hair to go with his unseen silver eyes while the other one a girl had black hair that was also accompanied by silver eyes.
"Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and mars." She continued as she carefully began to set them down on their cots as the twins reminded her so much of her own brother and herself. She knew the cruel fate of Dante and Virgil twin brothers but difference in opinions after trauma tore them apart. "In other words hold my hands." Artemis said as she made sure the twin children were safe as nearby was a large sword about the size of Dante's Rebellion and with it a bow with blades at either ends. "In other words darling kiss me." Artemis continued as she kissed the twins on the foreheads one each.
"Fill my heart with song and let me sing forever more." She continued as she carefully and silently left the room. She had tried to spend as much time as she could with them. She was lucky to have figured out Athena's method of siring half-bloods when she did and in turn was thankful she would not have to worry of her children being alone as she thought she would.
"You are all I long for all I worship and adore." She said as her hand grazed their heads and the cribs before she made her way to the door passing the weapons but stopping to look at both weapons and children for a moment. "You are all I long for all I worship and adore." She continued as her eyes lingered to the twins as she did not wish to leave them but she had no choice in the matter. It was heartbreaking as it made her wonder how the rest of her family who sired half-bloods handled such a thing time and time again.
"In other words please be true…" She continued as it lulled them to sleep but began to bring tears to the goddess of the hunts eyes. "In other words… I love you." She finished by dimming the lights and closing the door silently. Lady had proven to be a good friend to Artemis… It was a shame she declined her offer to join the hunt but she did not fault her for it. Seeing as her blood could be used to unlock the Temen-Ni-Gru or objects like it no doubt Lady intended to be the last of her bloodline.
Artemis knew she would not see her twins again for a long time… but she trusted Dante and she trusted Lady to keep Dante in line and in his budget. So she will put their upbringing in their hands… but never let it be said that Artemis won't due her best to make their lives full of joy and love. She owed her first and quite frankly her only half-Bloods that much. After all she killed Demons with Dante… her children have the biggest targets on their back yet. She knew not what abilities they will develop… but she just knew that they will be ok. They were strong she knew it the moment she first held them in her arms.
Yes she knew they would be hunted but she made sure they had the best protector out there. Furthermore she knew that when they are made known many would fear them or want them dead. Though she cannot combat that fear… she will do everything and anything she must to ensure they live a long and healthy life. "Goodbye my darlings… I promise we'll see each other again." Artemis said as she then quietly closed the door behind her. She swore it was time to change and be a better God for she was the God she chose to be and up until she met Dante and he opened her eyes… she was no god but a Hypocrite. She promised it was time to change and she knew her children would be the ones to help usher in that change for the betterment of others.
"Goodbye my darlings Evan and Callisto I promise you, mummy will always watch over you." Artemis said leaving as she refused to weep… after all there were few things in the world more futile then tears. Devils Never Cry and Angels Never Scream.
In the children's room the two had amulets made by Artemis herself. They were made from bone as they were modeled after Wolf and a Stag. One to be the hunter and one to be the huntress as the two children slept soundly. The amulets also had a single wing design to them to show the Stag and Wolf would come together as it also had a moon design to it. As they slept they had no idea the danger their lives would be in nor the friends and family they would come to know and love.
These twin children would not know that one day they shall make the Angels scream and the Devils cry.
(Scene Break 11 years later Yancy Academy New York)
Evan and Callisto were now age 11 as they were in their school uniforms for the Yancy Academy in New York. A boarding school Dante had them enrolled in when they were old enough. Now one would come to wonder why Dante would enroll any kids of his into school. Well Patty Lowell was the main reason seeing as the three grew up together for the past 3 years.
A few years ago Dante had a job to escort Patty to receive her inheritance… which turned out that he was protecting a decoy while the real Patty Lowell was able to travel unimpeded. Of course Parry made jabs about Dante's a father which he simply told her that maybe in a few years Evan and Patty may hook up.
Of course Callisto and Evan got along swimmingly with Patty who he learned had ADHD and Dyslexia like the twins. Mind you Dante knew those were sure fire signs of a half-blood thanks to Artemis but he left it be for the time being. After all his kids had the whole ADHD and Dyslexia thing worse since due to their demonic blood not only are their minds hardwired for Greek but also Ancient Enochian. Dante knew how much hell that was growing up luckily he managed to teach the kids a few tricks to get past it.
After that shit Job Patty became a regular visitor to Devil May Cry. Kept the kids entertained having a friend their own age and brought more jobs for him. Apparently the whole single father to twin children role not only brought in babes all but throwing themselves at him but also made many want to pay for his services as to put food on the table for himself and the twins. Dante could not count the number of times he had free food delivered from the neighbors in the area.
Plus he had two of the world's most badass babysitters on the planet… Lady and Trish. Mind you the two knew what to expect with the twins seeing as Evan managed to grab Elysium and fight off Trish for a bit when they first met. Lady was his go to with Trish being his back-up, and Morrison was his last resort type guy. But since Patty was living with Nina Lowell now Dante can easily drop off the twins with Patty and Nina when his job requires him to be away.
His debts get paid off and in the end Dante was living the good life. But then he had a visit from this cripple guy who told him and Nina Artemis sent him. Dante was wondering if this guy had a grudge against Artemis but he explained his reasons for being here. They agreed to keep it a secret from the children for the time being. Apparently the centaur was actually keeping an eye on another Demi-God nearby so he suggested they all be enrolled in Yancy Academy for the time being.
Evan of course put up a fight as Dante swore School and Evan was like pulling a tooth out from him. Luckily he agreed when it was clear Patty and Callisto were also going to Yancy and thus Evan agreed while pouting bit.
So it was at Yancy that the trio met Percy and Grover and Evan went on to being the toughest kid in school. Evan was normally seen in his uniform but with fingerless gloves with some odd design to it and a chain at his belt that had a sword looking design to it. Callisto or Cali as some would call her at times was seen wearing bracelets on her hands and an anklet with a charm on it. To accompany the bracelets she also wore one ring on her left middle finger and an earring on her right ear.
The group of five formed a tight nit friendship in Yancy despite Evan's less than stellar record with discipline. Life father like son in many aspects for the boy. At the moment the group was seen eating lunch as Evan took a bite out of a chicken wing and then cracked his knuckles after. "Evan do you always have to crack your knuckles after eating meat based food?" Patty asked as Evan shrugged in response.
"Hey I don't bash your quarks don't bash mine." Evan said as he went for another bite.
"Oh don't be such a spoil sport." Callisto said as she took a bite of her own food on the tray. "Not like it's a major problem compared to your fan club." Callisto said pointing her thumb over to the group of bullies itching for a shot at Evan.
With them was a dark haired young man named Percy Jackson as he smiled to his friends here. "Still?" Percy asked as the blue eyed young man snickered a bit at the fact the meatheads still haven't learned.
"Hey blame Mr. Macho here for never turning down a fight." Callisto said as Rover sighed a bit.
"Come on Evan give those guys some slack…" Rover said as Evan then cracked his knuckles again signaling him finishing another bite of meat.
"Sure and maybe I'll let them trash my street cred just for kicks." Evan said as he relaxed a bit finishing his food.
"Oh good you finished the meat." Rover said as Patty sighed a bit.
"I agree Evan eats way to much meaty stuff since he can't have pizza." Patty said though Evan's sister shared his sentiments.
"Screw Pizza give me a Strawberry Sundae." Callisto said as she bit into a strawberry with a cute pouting face.
"Normal day for us." Grover said as he was a major vegetarian but Evan and Callisto could detect he wasn't exactly normal since they met.
"So you guys excited for the trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art?" Patty asked as Evan laughed to that.
"No I'm just excited not to be in class that day." Evan said as Callisto then scoffed to her brother.
"Not like you'll be able to learn as your last report card says." Callisto said as Evan rolled his eyes to his twin sister.
"Shut up." Evan said as Callisto laughed to her brother's misfortune.
"Well I for one want to see what they have there." Patty said as Evan then sighed a bit.
"Ok I'll be leaving you guys to it I got homework to do." Evan said as he got up and took his leave. "See you later." Evan said as he began to take his leave of his crazy group of friends.
"Well despite his poor excuse." Callisto said as she got up as well. I also need to go, but I'll see you all soon ok." Callisto said as she then took her leave as well. Patty then saw Callisto move her hand to her earring to which she knew what it meant for the huntress. A demon was in Yancy again which meant either Evan or Callisto would deal with it tonight before it managed to get a snack off a student in the school.
"Hey what do they do during their free time anyway?" Percy asked looking over to where the twins had taken their leave.
"Meh just their own thing." Patty said knowing full well Dante would be proud to see his kids kicking demonic ass with style.
(Scene Break Hallway)
Evan was seen leaning on the lockers as Callisto walked in stretching her neck a bit. "So you wanna deal with it or should I?" Evan asked as he looked to his twin sister.
"No I'll deal with it after all I do get bored easily here." Callisto said as Evan shrugged to this.
"Well you got this Cali." Evan said walking away as he left Callisto to this devil hunt herself. Callisto smiled and began to walk away as she hummed Fly me to the Moon to herself while she left Evan alone.
(Scene Break that Evening)
It was night time as the field trip was in the morning thus no one knew nor noted Callisto walking out into the schools outdoor sports field. As she walked movement from the shadows were noted as she adjusted her glasses a bit showing she was aware of her pray. In fact she tinkered with her earing and bracelet a bit while walking about the empty sports field.
She kept walking before she arrived at the center of it all. Just then the flood lights shined down on her as she closed her eyes with a smirk seeing the moon high above in the sky. "I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into Eternal Sorrow. Abandon all hope ye who enter here." Callisto began as she heard the demons moving in on her when her chant began. "I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Abandon all hope o ye who dare to enter here." Callisto finished her chant as the Demons began to make themselves known.
*Insert Bayonetta OST: Pipe Organ Resounding
The field's intercoms were heard as the sound of a pipe organ being played was heard. From this one could see that something supernatural was occurring here. But just then the area around her shattered as if reality itself was shattered like glass. From it demonic creatures were seen charging at Callisto as she smirked at the oncoming onslaught.
Callisto then raised her arm to the moon as the bracelet shined off the moonlight. She then gripped it with her free hand and held the bracelet hand in a gun like form. Just then in her hand she found an intricate bow and arrow like weapon in her hand as she then proceeded to notch up an arrow of demonic power. The blades on the bow began to flap as she held it for a moment as she had a plan on how to use it right now.
She then fired it off into the sky as the Demons were almost upon her. Now some would wonder why she would do such a thing until the moon had a twinkle in it. From it the same arrow came back down but this time with many more raining down upon the demons attacking this huntress. The battle soon started as the Devils began to come at her again with weapons drawn to fight.
She used the bow to toss one of the demons to the side before she used the edges as bladed weapons. She didn't end it there as her anklets shined for when she kicked a handgun appeared at her heel. The weapon went off on the demons face before she jumped over it and fired multiple arrows at once while the young huntress was airborne.
She then jumped over the Demons coming after her and for every devil her heels met she fired more bullets at them causing their faces to explode from the shots. The way she moved the way she fought it was almost like she was dancing and the only audience she had were her pray and the moon itself. The way she moved the fluent movement mixing close, mid, and long range combat into an orchestra of beauty and destruction. It was as if her performance was to the moon goddess herself as she even managed to keep the battle going.
She knocked a group of demons onto each other as they ended up making a line together. Callisto smirked as she saw where this would go for her. "Do you naughty little Demons need a good spanking?" She taunted before flipping them all over at once. In doing so each demons head hit the ground but the first demon managed to hit the field goal.
She then jumped up and managed to punch and kick many of them away before landing on the bleachers. She saw the Demons glaring at her and smirked at them all clearly seeing the odds were in her favor. "You look tired. Let me tuck you in!" Callisto called out before charging back into battle.
She had her bow slung across her chest for at some point she had grabbed a demon by the legs and was swinging it around as its head was splattering its blood while hitting its brethren. She managed to knock down the football goal falling and smashing a demons head all over the lawn.
But just then Callisto found her body skewered by many demonic spears thrown at her as she was pinned to the ground from it. She was bleeding as for many it appeared Callisto was dead as her blood began to pool. The Demons were savoring their victory finally killing a Sparda spawn. But let it be said that one thing was certain about a Sparda… they are never killed that easily.
(In the Announcer Box)
A man was sitting on the announcer seat as he had the system activated while he relaxed a bit. He was a dark skinned man with a heavy overcoat and tattoos that reached his head. It was also noted he was wearing sunglasses even as it was dark out. But as the song began to come to an end a Demon began to come in from behind to kill him.
*End OST
But just as it was about to attack the man's eyes flashed a violet color from under his shades before he roared out and grabbed the Demon by the neck chocking it. The Demon never saw it coming as it was now struggling to get free no doubt the man grabbing nerves to keep it from making a mess. "Don't interrupt a man and his music besides I aint the partner you came here to dance with." The man said before he tossed the demon out the window and called out to the field.
"HEY!" He roared out as his voice seemed to resonate. "Callisto enough with playing dead you going to deal with these fuckers or not?!" The man asked as then something incredible happened.
(Callisto)
Callisto then smirked as she began to flex her muscles a bit showing she was still very much alive despite being a pin cushion at the moment. "Oh why do you have to spoil the surprise Rodin?" Callisto said before she then unleashed some of her demonic power and with brute strength shattered the spears with ease. She then stood back up before smirking to herself a bit. "But I must confess that track you made a true work of art." Callisto said to which Rodin was heard from afar.
"Anytime Callisto, any friend of Bayonetta is a friend of mine." Rodin said seeing as both Dante and Bayonetta kept Rodin in business with their own jobs.
"By the way is the new knight, daddy promised me ready?" Callisto said as she reached her hand out expecting the new knight to be brought to her.
"Yeah like it or not it's ready when you are." Rodin said as this in turn caused Callisto to lick her lips in anticipation. Rodin then roared out creating a demonic crest that released four guns from it as Callisto knew them well. "After Bayonetta destroyed the old set I got the pieces and added a bit of a celestial flare to it. Its name is the Elven Knights Legacy not a bad name if I say so myself." Rodin said as Callisto was waiting for these new toys.
Callisto then jumped torts the guns and allowed the old pair to fall off her heels breaking upon release. She then grabbed the guns in each hand holding them elegantly before allowing the last two to slide onto her heels. She then was positioned before the moon as she smirked at her foes taking a sort of battle pose.
"Then fun is just starting." Callisto said as she was ready for some mayhem.
*Insert Bayonetta OST: Fly Me to the Moon (Climax Mix)
The Demons roared out and began attacking Callisto who quickly sprang into action. She fired off all four of her guns hitting the demons head on killing them with headshots. The Demons tried to attack her up close but Callisto took out her bow and began using it as a staff weapon before firing off arrows at the demonic fuckers.
Just then she kicked up behind her and kicked a demon in face before firing off the gun at her heel. She then grabbed one by the head and used the momentum to snap its neck off leaving a mess that quickly vanished into ash. Callisto was soon seen upside down spinning as she saw her foes surrounding her like demonic lambs to the slaughter. She then used her bow and arrow and began firing arrows off in a Gatling sort of fire with it. It wasn't long until more demons showed up as Callisto knew this party wasn't over.
Rodin saw the whole thing while smoking a cigar with a smirk on his face. "Beautiful." Rodin said as he saw Bayonetta's little protégé bull off moves the Witch was known for using in battle.
Callisto charged back into the fight with increased vigor as she shots, punched, smacked, and even stabbed and slashed her foes left and right. She even managed to slide under and attack before shooting the Demons in the back of their heads. More scythes came at her only for Callisto to jump over them and fired her arrows at the owners. A spear missed her and in turn she began to dance around the pole arm almost like a stripper. She then tore the spear out and kicked it to skewer even more devils.
Callisto wasn't done though as she then went for a few more foes and kicked one down firing at it repeatedly. A demon was restrained to which Callisto began smacking the demon with one gun. Another got pinned and Callisto proceeded to slap it with two guns at the same time. She then kicked a few more devils down with a broken bench and began shooting the hell out of it.
Two demons tried to sneak away only to have a large locker dropped in their arms causing them to look to each other in surprise. "If you're just gonna watch I'm putting you two to work." Rodin said holding a large bat in his hands.
He then did a stance of a baseball player before his eyes flashed red and he hit the demons. Cheers were heard from an unknown source with confetti shooting out. The demons were sent flying as Rodin dropped his stance and looked to fighting Callisto. "That was your last call! No more shots from me Callisto!" Rodin called out as those were amongst the last few demons to deal with.
Callisto weaved under the flying locker and used her bow to easily kill the demons and for added measure shot arrows at their necks from behind. She wasn't done as she began firing her guns at a repeated speed spinning around killing many demons easily. Soon she landed on a pile of broken lockers and benches and pointed her gun to the sky with one of the floodlights shining down upon her. "I suppose so long as theirs music then I'll keep on dancing!" Callisto boasted walking across the benchers and striking a pose.
*End OST
She was about to head into the fight again until she noticed she was alone here. Her eye twitched a bit showing she was not pleased that the party ended so, early as Roding even chuckled a bit. "Looks like someone is a bit too effective." Roding joked as Callisto glared at the supplier.
"Well then I suppose I best head to sleep… and fix my uniform." Callisto said noting how her school uniform was torn up right now. No doubt thanks to the demons attack from earlier.
"If that's the case." Rodin began as he took out a cigar and lit it with his thumb. "I'll be heading back to the Gates of Hell. Someone has to make sure it doesn't go down." Rodin said taking a drag of said cigar.
"I'll see you later then Rodin." Callisto said before the weapon smith left. Callisto then too her leave as well knowing she had a fieldtrip to art museum to get ready for.
(Scene Break the next day on the bus)
The group was now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art learning about Greek Mythology. Patty of course was excited about it. Then again she was always excited about learning mythology. From what Evan heard she had been trying to become an alchemist like her ancestor so she can support Evan and Callisto as a hunter. Evan was next to their cripple friend Rover as Callisto was fanning herself a bit signaling the summer heat coming.
Of course as peaceful as their group was Evan was getting annoyed as was Callisto due to the fact a classmate of theirs Nancy Bobofit was throwing wads of her peanut butter and jelly at Grover, who was acting like nothing was happening to him for their sake. Sure, if Percy or Evan did anything to stop her he would be expelled for something stupid. The kid was already on probation because of the odd shit that happened to him but he could not help it and Evan was in just as much trouble for fighting his fellow classmates.
Luckily Callisto wasn't seeing as she had a little more tact then her twin brother. Callisto was smirking in anticipation as Evan shared her smirk. Patty knew those smirks by heart seeing as when Evan can't do something Callisto takes the reigns on such a thing. "I am going to kill her." Percy mumble as Evan smirked a bit.
"Well I don't kill but I'm not afraid to hit a girl if she instigates it." Evan said as Callisto laughed a bit.
"I'm surprised you know such a big word like instigate." Callisto joked as Evan scowled at his twin sister here.
"It is okay. I like peanut butter." Grover commented as he had to dodge piece of Nancy's lunch.
"That's it!" Percy growled out as he started to get up but Grover kept him down. That is when Percy saw the look in Callisto's eyes and smirked.
"You're already on probation." Grover reminded Percy. "You know who'll get blamed if anything happens." Grover tried to stop Percy but it seems Percy was two moves ahead.
"Only if I am the one doing it." Percy said with a smirk on his face. That statement made Grover suddenly look at Callisto and he was about to warn his other friend in the seat next to them, but he never got the chance to because at that moment, Nancy threw another piece of her lunch at Grover. Callisto was fiddling with her own lunch while unwrapping something from a tin foil. She had already bundled up the tin foil and proceeded to throw it at the sandwich projectile.
The Tin foil caught the piece of sandwich and kept on traveling to the window where it struck through a bit. "Huh strange I didn't realize pests knew how to chuck things." Callisto taunted as she then looked over to Nancy. "It would appear someone may have misplaced their pet should I make a call to animal control on a missing bitch or is someone already on it?" Callisto taunted as this got some students laughing at Nancy for Callisto burn at the red head.
"Why the hell do you two care for them Redgrave! You're too cool for those two losers and that freak, so why bother helping them?" The red head questioned calling Patty a freak due to her obsession with the occult in the eyes of their many classmates.
"Because they are better company then you are." Evan said with a glare that sent chills down the girl's spine.
"Now please stop or next time, the tin foil will be in you and not the window." Callisto threatened as Nancy took another look at window to see part of the foil was outside and paled. She quickly nodded her head. "Good girl." Callisto said with a tone like she was talking to a puppy making a lot of the students around them laugh, included Evan, Patty, Percy and Grover.
(Scene Break that day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Mr. Brunner led the museum tour. He rode up front in his wheelchair, leading the group through the big galley, past marble statues, and glass cases full of really old black and orange pottery. Callisto could not help but chuckle at the choice of colors seeing it could use some improvement despite its age. But the Evan looked at Percy and saw the boy was blown away by the fact that this old stuff was in good condition. "Dude, you mouth his hanging open." Evan said with a small chuckle as Percy's face went red as he closed his mouth.
"Sorry, it is just that this stuff is really old." Percy said as Patty smiled to this.
"Well of course archeologists try to find this stuff and repair it to what it once was when it was first made a long time ago." Patty said as she admired the restored old artifacts of ancient Greece.
"Who asked you know it all?" Evan teased a bit as this got a laugh from the group as they went on through the boring field trip to the museum.
"Touché." Patty joked back as even Percy and Rover found themselves laughing to this scene. "But still pay attention." Patty scolded as Evan wondered if Patty was like this with everyone or just the handsome men of the Redgrave family.
Turning their attention to Mr. Brunner, they went quiet, listen to the guy tell them about the ancient gods and other stuff like that. He had gathered them around a thirteen-foot-tall column with a big sphinx on the top, and the man started telling the group of how it was a grave marker, a Stele, for a girl about the age of the students here. He told the group about the carvings on the sides of it and its meaning.
Callisto noticed that Percy was actually paying attention but the idiots around them would not shut up and when Percy told them to be quiet, for some odd reason Ms. Dodds, the annoying substitute math teacher, would give the both of them the evil eye. It was like she expected them to do something bad. That annoyed Evan even further seeing as he was getting a bad vibe from her. Clearly she wasn't a demon but she wasn't human either.
Callisto saw how her brother's arm carefully went to his belt chain showing he was itching to bust out his sword on whatever Dodds was. Grover noticed this as well and the trio nodded to each other. This was someone they would keep an eye out for because when Percy and Patty told them that they thought she wasn't human, Grover gave the duo a very serious look like he already knew and agreed with him.
Anyway, Mr. Brunner just kept on talking about Greek funeral art. When Nancy blabbed about a naked man on the Stele, Evan saw Percy snapped and practically yelled at her to shut up.
"Mr. Jackson." came the voice of Mr. Brunner. "Did you have a comment?" He asked while looking over to his young student.
"No sir." Percy replied, embarrasses by his outburst, which made Evan shake his head while Callisto rolled her eyes. Sure, Evan was going to say the same to the red head but Percy beat him to the punch.
The wheelchair bound man then pointed to one of the pictures on the stele, asking Percy what the picture meant. "That's Kronos eating his kids, right?" Percy offered as Mr. Brunner heard this.
"Yes Mr. Jackson." Mr. Brunner said, looking not that satisfied. "And can you tell me why?" Brunner asked as he looked over to Percy.
Seeing Percy have a hard time answer that question, Evan decided to intervene. "The psycho ate his kid because there was some prophecy telling him that his kids were going to take over one day like he did." Evan explained, getting a sigh of relief from Percy and a few shocked looks from his friends and sister. "So the Titan Lord went and got his panties in a bunch and ate his kids because of that, but all he really did was set the prophecy in motion and screwed himself over because his wife hid her last born, Zeus and gave the guy a rock to eat. Talk about a real rock head." Evan joked, which made a lot of people laugh, including Mr. Brunner.
"Anyway, when Zeus was all grown up he tricked his dad into barfing up his brothers and sisters and well….the war between Titans and God came to be and the Gods won." Evan explained as save for Ms. Dodds and Mr. Brunner everyone once they calmed down looked to Evan like he grew a second head. "What?" Evan asked as Callisto decided to break the silence on this.
"I don't know what's more shocking the fact you answered that correctly or the fact you actually knew what you were talking about." Callisto said as Evan glared at his twin for that one.
"Hey I can pick up a text book to." Evan countered as Patty was trying to figure out how Evan knew this and what compelled him to read a text book anyway.
Behind the two everyone heard Nancy Bobofit mumble, "Like we're going to use this in real life. Like it's going to say on our job applications, 'Please explain why Kronos ate his kids'."
"And why, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Redgrave, to paraphrase Miss Bobofit's excellent question, does this matter in real life?" Mr. Brunner asked as Evan was now at a lost here.
"Busted." Grover muttered as Patty high fived the cripple agreeing with him.
"Shut up!" Nancy barked at Grover, her face going redder then her hair.
"I don't know." Percy shrugged, a little relieved that Nancy was picked as well.
"Ya got me. Maybe if we go to Greece we need to know this stuff." Evan offered but it was Patty who had the answer.
"I see." Mr. Brunner said, a bit disappointed. "Well half credit to you both." Mr. Brunner said before Patty raised her hand to this.
"Um sir I have the answer if I can give it." Patty offered as Mr. Brunner nodded to the young wealthy girl.
"Then please do Ms. Lowell." Mr. Brunner said as Patty nodded to him.
"Well I get most mythology is just that mythology. But stories of myth do stem from truth that time had distorted. In a way we're learning about the past and as the old saying go those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Patty said as Mr. Brunner smiled to the girl on her answer.
"Very good Ms. Lowell I'll give you a full point for that one and some extra credit for the philosophical aspect of it." Mr. Brunner said as he was happy that Patty knew the answer. "Now then Zeus did indeed feed Kronos a mixture of mustard and wine, which made him disgorge his other five children, who of course, being immortal Gods, had been living and growing up completely undigested in the Titan's stomach." He began as he then looked to the other students.
"The gods defeated their father, sliced him to pieces with his own scythe, and scattered his remains in Tartarus, the darkest part of the Underworld." He said ending a brief summarized version of the tale as he then took note of the time. "On that happy note, it's time for lunch. Mrs. Dodds, would you lead us back outside?" Mr. Brunner said as Evan was trailing behind them.
He looked to the museum and felt a demonic presence and heard a demonic voice from it as well. "Sparda." A voice hissed as Evan then took his leave knowing he may have to deal with this sooner rather than later.
The class drifted off, the girls holding their stomachs, the guy's rough housing like normal and acting like morons. Patty, Callisto, Grover, Percy, and Evan were about to follow when Mr. Brunner stopped them. "Mr. Jackson, Mr. Redgrave." HE said as Evan and Percy heard this.
They told Grover, Patty, and Callisto to keep one going while they handled whatever wheels was going to say to them. "Sir?" Percy greeted as Mr. Brunner had this look, like he knew a lot more then he let on and that had seen too much.
"You two must learn the answer to my question." HE said as Evan heard this.
"About the Titans?" Percy asked as he didn't see the reason about this.
"About real life. And how your studies apply to it." Mr. Brunner said as Evan honestly wasn't to interesting in such things despite the appeal to the tales of Olympus. His appeal had ended when he saw how big of hypocritical assholes the Olympians were through most of the mythology.
"Oh." Percy mumbled while Evan shrugged a bit, though Evan had the sinking feeling that the man was talking about both things.
"What you boys learn from me," he started as he looked to the both of them. "Is vitally important. I expect you to treat it as such. I will only accept the best from both of you, Percy Jackson, Evan Redgrave." Brunner said as this made both of the boys a bit angry at the man, sure he was cool in class when he set up those tournament days, but the man was pushing the two of them a bit hard.
Percy mumbled something about trying harder while Evan just nodded his head as they left to go eat. Evan noticed that Mr. Brunner gave a long sad look at the stele. It was odd to say the least. Heh, maybe the guy knew the girl…..not likely.
(Scene Break Later Outside)
The class gathered on the front steps of the museum, where they could watch the foot traffic along Fifth Avenue. The boys noticed that storm clouds were brewing. "Hey Evan, what do you think is going on…with the weather and all?" Percy asked as he looked to one of his closest friends in their small group of five.
Evan gave the boy an, 'are-you-serious' look. "You're asking me? I am not the freaking weather man." Evan said as he then sighed a bit and looked upward. "But odd crap like this has been going on for a bit. You see it all over the news nowadays. Strange thing is, no one else seems to notice the clouds other than us." Evan said as he then yawned a bit. "But ain't my problem so let's go find the others." Evan said as he took his leave with Percy following after him.
With that, the two boys joined Grover, Callisto, and Patty as the fountain and sat down to eat. It was away from the others so they would not be bothered and the fact that Percy didn't like being part of the school in the first place seeing as it made it seem that they were not part of the school for freaks.
"Detention?" Grover asked as he looked to the duo.
"Knowing Evan my foresight says yes." Callisto joked as Evan scowled at his twin sister.
"Nah," Percy answered as he sat with his friends. "Not from Brunner. I just wish he'd lay off me sometimes. I mean…I am not a genius." Percy said as Patty then intervened.
"He probably just wants you to reach your full potential as a student." Patty defended as she looked to her friend here.
"Heh, it is like he knows something about us. Hey, maybe we are related to some old Greek God." Evan said as this in turn caused the group to look to each other and then burst out laughing, though for Grover it was a nervous laugh.
After bit, they were quiet. Then Grover asked for Percy's apple and the boy gave it to him. Percy seemed a little lot in thought. "Thinking about your mom?" Callisto asked as she was worried that Percy was oddly silent right now.
"Yeah, we are kind of close to her place. I hope she is doing alright, I mean she has been living with Gabe after all." Percy said, a little angry about her still with Gabe.
"Dude, I am sure she is alright. She put up with that slob this far, I am sure can do it a little bit more. Still don't see what she sees in that guy though." Evan said as he would have shot the guy by now.
"If it were me I'd pack my bags and move out, guy can't hold down a job and is drunk most of the time anyway." Callisto said as she agreed with Evan on shooting the bastard.
Percy nodded and was about to unwrap his sandwich when Nancy Bobofit and her annoying friends came over and got brave by dumping her lunch on Grover, making Evan and Percy glare at her. Patty looked ready to go off on Nancy again as Callisto was ready to back her up.
"Oops." She drawled out while smirking at Percy, as if daring him to do something about. That and Evan did not have a paper football help some. Evan could tell that Percy was pissed and was trying to keep his temper down and was failing miserably. Then something weird happened. The water from the fountain rose up and pushed her onto her butt.
"Hah!" Evan laughed as he saw the water grab Nancy and pull her in.
That is not what she saw though. "Percy and Evan pushed me!" Then that old bitch, Miss Dodds came right up to them with a hard glare. Around them they heard whispers of what happened. Apparently, Evan and Callisto were not the only ones to see the water move.
"Hah you wish you probably just tripped." Evan said not even bothering to give her cry the benefit of the doubt. After the old crone had made sure Nancy was alright, she turned the two boys and started off with that "Now honey," crap, but Percy beat her to it. "I know." Percy grumbled as it was clear he and Evan weren't being given much of an option to argue. "A month of erasing workbooks." Percy said as Evan just sighed; this old hag was probably going to give him something worse.
"Let me guess I'll be sitting in a classroom either cleaning it, writing an essay, or doing a better choices workbook." Evan said but it would seem that was not the right thing for Percy to say.
"Both of you, come with me!" The Teacher ordered glaring at the two.
"Wait!" Grover called out as he ran on over. "It was me! I pushed her!" We both started at Grover for that. Percy was stunned that Grover was trying to cover for them. Evan was put off that Grover wanted the punishment for them.
The old crone didn't seem to buy it and glared at him so hard that his chin trembled. He was scared of the old crone after all. "I don't think so, Mr. Underwood." Ms. Dodds said as showing she did not believe him.
"But-" Grover tried to argue further but Ms. Dodds would not hear it.
"You-will-stay-here!" Ms. Dodds ordered forcefully said each word with anger, making Grover shrink a bit.
"It is ok man." Percy said to his friend while Evan nodded in agreement.
With that, they left with Percy giving Nancy an evil glare while Evan slowly took out a paper football, making the girl pale which only made Evan smirk. He then smiled to Callisto and Patty as the two already had a revenge plan in store for her.
With that settled Evan returned his look with Percy over to Ms. Dodds, but when they looked back to Miss Dodds, she was already at the entrance of the museum. The boy's looked at each other, thinking how the hell did she get over there so fast? Eva got a gut feeling that this was not a good thing as he had enough demons after him to know… she was not your average substitute teacher.
"Hey Nancy!" Callisto called as she walked over holding Patty's hidden lunch. "Sorry about my brother please accept Patty's lunch as an apology." Callisto offered as Nancy smiled to this.
"Why thank you CalAAAHHH!" Nancy cried out when she ended up with Patty's lunch on her head as she glared at Callisto.
"Next time you mess with my brother…" Callisto began leaning in on Nancy. "Do your homework first." Callisto said before walking off with her best friend Patty following after her demonic childhood friend.
(Later Inside the Museum)
The boys walked to the end of the entrance, thinking that the old crone was going to make them buy a shirt to replace Nancy's wet one but that seem to not be the case because they walked right passed the gift shop. Something is not right. How far into the museum does she need to take us to bitch at us? Evan thought as they walked deeper into the museum. He looked to that Percy had the same thoughts as him.
The small group made it back to the Greek and Roman gallery of the museum to find the place completely empty. They heard her growl as she looked at the marble picture of the Greek Gods. "You boys have been making trouble for us." She said suddenly. This made the boy's look at her oddly. Percy was thinking about the candy he was selling while Evan knew exactly what he was dealing with.
"Ma'am, I don't…" Percy started but the old crone didn't let him finish.
"Your time is up!" She hissed ominously. Then the weirdness came. Her eyes began to glow like barbeque coals. Her fingers stretched, into talons. Her jacket melted into large, leathery wings. She was not human that was for sure. She was pretty much an old bitch with bat wings and craws and a mouth full of yellow fangs and it seemed that she was the boys as her next meal.
But before she could attack Evan had a gun pointed at her face making her go wide eyed. "Bang." Evan said before pulling the trigger the gun went off with a bank sending the monstrous old bitch flying back. The Sound of the bullets shell hitting the ground echoed with the gunshot as Evan smirked a bit.
*Insert Devil May Cry Anime OP
The woman flew back for a moment before she charged at Evan and Percy once more. Evan jumped out of the way after pushing Percy out of the way revealing his hips now had gun holsters one of which had a gun inside it. Evan then spun the second gun out while spinning the first one and aiming them showing the names 'Hunter and Slayer,' printed on them. From the shadows glowing red eyes were seen before two demons charged out torts Evan who then proceeded to shoot the Demons. Evan smirked to this only for his right hand to be bit down by a third demon as the Fury went at his legs restraining him.
The fury was only helping the Demon since clearly Evan was far more dangerous then he looked. But she made the mistake of detaching his chain to the ground as Evan glared down at the Demon and Fury. "Heh not bad you ugly sack of shit." Evan said before using his free leg to kick the chain upward where it flew torts the skylight. Just then in a flash it came back down as Evan was forced to drop the gun in the arm the demon was biting down on.
The chain was gone and in its place was a large sword that fell into Evan's hands with the name 'Elysium,' etched into its blade in an intricate design. The sword stabbed into the ground and Evan with his restrained hand grabbed it and managed to slash the demon off his person. The Fury was forced to let go as it flew away from Evan in response to the attack by his sword.
"How we were told you'd be defenseless!" The Fury roared out before more Demons charged out attacking Evan. Evan then smirked and proceeded to slash up the demons attacking him. Their blood flew out as Percy was forced to duck and cover as more continued to come forth. All of them had one thought in mind… to kill the children who carries Sparda's blood and the blood of the whore who slaughtered their fellows at the Temen-Ni-Gru over eleven years prior.
"Well then sorry to disappoint." Evan said as he hoisted Elysium to his back and got ready to fight on. At least that was until things got even weirder for Percy, because Mr. Brunner, who had been reading a book at the entrance, was at the entrance of the gallery with a pen in hand.
"En-Garde Mr. Jackson!" Brunner called out as he tossed the pen over to Percy. "The pen is mightier than the sword!" Brunner called out as the pen transformed into a sword. Percy rolled out of the way as Evan was clearly having fun fighting these demonic foes. Evan then managed to slam one to the ground and began shooting at the others while using the downed one as a surfboard of sorts. Evan of course made sure not to hit any of the priceless artifact or he'd find himself so deep in debt his grandkids would be suffering for it.
Evan then landed next to Percy as he smirked to his friend and his new sword. "Now this is a party!" Evan called out as he then proceeded to slash down another demon causing its blood to splatter across the artifacts cases as the result.
Percy meanwhile was dodging and avoiding the attacker's claws and even trying his best to block them. But the way he saw Evan moved gave him inspiration to keep fighting and in turn his body responded with fore. Evan easily dealt with his foes as one then snuck up behind him and skewered him with a bladed tail causing Percy to go wide eyed in response.
"EVAN!" Percy cried out in horror seeing Evan get hurt.
Evan then shot the demon in the tail so many times the tail ended up coming off in turn. Evan wasn't done as to Percy's shock he tore the bladed tail out of his chest and stabbed it into the Demon's face before decapitating it with trained ease. Evan was then knocked back by a large Demon as it was trying to ram him into the wall but Evan used his guns and began shooting at its neck while it was charging him.
The Demon reached it goal but it left a trail of its own blood as it fell to the ground leaving Evan sitting in a chair with his injuries healing instantaneously. Percy of course was scared as who could blame him for being scared right now. Ms. Dodds then charged at Percy as he then out of pure instinct swung his sword and managed to stab her in the gullet.
*End OST
Then the old crone burst in a shower of yellow powder once Percy cut her through. It was like she vaporized on the spot with nothing but the smell of sulfur and a dying screech that sent chills up Percy's spine. There was an evil chill in the air, like those creepy eyes were watching the two boys every move. But if Evan was scared he hit it well as he sat on a chair spinning Elysium in his hand with the tip of the blade on the floor like a top of sorts.
The boys were now alone in the gallery once more. Evan then got back up as Elysium vanished back into his belt chain form and his guns vanished beneath his fingerless gloves again. Percy seeing this looked to his weapon and was shocked when he saw something different in their possession which was a gold ballpoint pen instead of the sword from the fight.
"Don't worry… you get used to it." Evan said getting up and walking away. "Just be glad you didn't off the other guys they'd hunt you down for life if you did." Evan said while walking away a bit to the exit nearby. "Come on the others are probably waiting for us." Evan said as he walked torts the nearby exit.
"Hey Evan what was that!?" Percy asked but Evan kept walking. "Hey wait up!" Percy called out running to his friend.
(Later outside the Museum)
Back outside, it had started raining. Grover was using his museum map as a tent to keep himself from getting too wet. Callisto and Patty were huddled under Patty's umbrella as like Grover was trying to keep dry all the while Nancy was still wet from earlier. She looked to them and smirked. "I hope Mrs. Kerr whipped your butts!" She scoffed as Evan glared at her for a moment.
"Who?" Percy let out as he never heard of this Mrs. Kerr lady.
"Our teacher, duh!" She said as Callisto and Patty were now confused.
"Um what happened to Ms. Dodds?" Patty asked as Nancy glared at Patty for this.
"Who's Ms. Dodds clueless Patty?" Nancy said as Evan kept his cool for this.
The boys blinked, asking who that was but all she did was walk away. "Um Grover what is going on here?" Callisto asked as she wanted answers.
"Yeah buddy what happened to Ms. Dodds?" Evan asked as he wanted some answers right now.
"Who?" Grover asked with a confused tone as he looked to the four. But he did pause first before saying it, like he knew something was going on.
"Not funny man." Percy said as something wasn't adding up. "This is serious." Percy said but neither he, Evan nor the girls got an answer as thunder boomed overhead.
Shaking his head, Evan lead Percy over to Mr. Brunner, who was under a red umbrella reading his book, like he never moved. He looked up distracted and asked, "Ah. My pen and good luck charms. Please bring your own writing utensil in the future, Mr. Jackson." Brunner said as Percy handed him back the pen.
"Sir where is Miss Dodds?" Percy asked as he needed answers wondering if this was his mind finally going into insanity or not.
"Who?" The wheelchair bound teacher asked with a blank face.
"You know, the other chaperone, the math teacher." Evan explained as he couldn't believe Ms. Dodds just vanished like that without someone being the wiser.
"Boys, there is now Miss Dodds on this trip, nor is there one in the school. Are you boys feeling alright?" He asked concerned for the two as Evan was tempted to use less clean methods but let it go for now.
The boys just sighed and left, making their way back to Grover and the girls. "I think we just entered the Twilight Zone." Evan muttered out when he got to Patty and Callisto.
"Agreed." They both said as they all agreed that they had to figure out what was going on with people forgetting the old hag who came with them for the field trip.
(Scene Break Artemis Temple Olympus)
Artemis smiled sadly as she looked down from above to her children keeping her word to always watch over them. She was proud to see how far they had come under Dante's watchful eye. Plus he had Lady and Trish helping him while it was clear he managed to cross paths with another half-blood. To think the father of her children's line of work put him in the path of another demi-god though not she could only wait to see whose child she was. If it was someone like Ares or Aphrodite then Artemis will have to give her the benefit of the doubt if not… she will have to wait and see.
Furthermore Artemis saw that Callisto was getting to that age where she could join the hunt and is considering offering her a chance to join. Though she didn't want to force her apart from her father and brother knowing what happened to their uncle Vergil and their father Dante. She also didn't want something like what happened between herself and Apollo to split them up as well. For now she had to wait and as she observed them she went to a radio and activated it.
*Insert Fly me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra sung by Clair Littley
From the speaker 'Fly me to the Moon,' played in the way that it was played by Clair Littley. She won't lie when Frank Sinatra had made, Fly me to the Moon and Moon River and she heard it she swore Frank was aware of her and made those songs for her. She grabbed a glass of wine and began to drink a bit to calm her nerves. She knew it was a matter of time before they went to Camp Half-Blood and when they did she knew the other Gods would learn of them both.
Evan and Callisto were her pride and joy her only half-bloods. She had assumed if she ever did have a half-blood… it would only be one in all of time. But it seems she was blessed with twins instead of the one child. For that she was grateful for the world for giving her the two most beautiful things in the world. She had given men the benefit of the doubt knowing Dante and the Devil Arm she now wields were right… she was a hypocrite and thus she had already made needed changes.
Yes her changes were not well met at first but Zoe was on her side for it for that she was grateful for. Especially when it's to Zoe she trusted the knowledge of her children's existence and after seeing the blood feud between Dante and Vergil had opted to let her brother Apollo know as well. For now though she must wait and hope her children will be able to handle the trials to come in their future.
"Evan… Callisto… be strong." Artemis begged as she observed knowing her children will begot change somehow. She simply had to wait and see for when this great change occurs.
(TBC)
ESKK: Well here we go chapter 1 of this new fic. Well then I hope you all enjoyed it and until next time I say Ja-Ne. Anyway this is both AU and partially a reboot to my other fic since I lost my copies of Percy Jackson and had no idea what I was talking about in the other one. Luckily I got replacements now and thus got this story out. Now then remember review before you leave and ja-ne.