A/N: Sorry for the long wait. I had already finished this once before and was working on the proofreading, but a power outage corrupted my entire hard drive. Needless to say, my enthusiasm for working towards the story was crushed. So it's taken me awhile to want to rewrite everything again, but it's done now. I won't do author's notes a lot. I find that it inflates the word count way too much, however I will do them when something needs explaining. The same thing goes for responding to reviews as well; if there is something that I feel needs to be answered, I will respond to it with a PM. I'm also going to follow the storyline of RWBY for a chapter or two without much change before Dante's appearance will affect it. With that aside, I hope you enjoy.

Mission 1: Introduction

Waking up in a comfortable yet unfamiliar bed, Dante rose up, stretched for a couple of seconds and walked over towards the bathroom. It had been three days since he arrived in this world known as Remnant. Dante had taken to library, after accepting the proposal to join the school, to understand this world more the very next day. From grimm to dust, to faunus to aura, to the lack of the history of the Remnant and semblance. At first it was really confusing to Dante, but over the days he understood it more and more as the different subjects started coming together. He spent most of the time studying these topics with the help of the headmaster and the professors around the school campus. When he wasn't studying, he spent time rearranging the room to how he preferred. He had placed a weapon rack on the wall, where Rebellion rested. Under the weapon rack, was a couch that he had put in the corner of the room. The couch made him feel more at home that way. Walking back out of the bathroom, Dante put on his trademark trench coat then grabbed Rebellion and placed it onto his back. All the students where coming back today and he was "required" to be outside, out of the dorms for the introduction for the new students. Professor Goodwitch told him that the students should arrive in the afternoon and that he should be out of the dorms by then. He opened the door and walked out of the room, closing it and locking it behind him. The Man in Red walked down the stairwell and stretched again, letting out a yawn. He strolled towards the door to the front entrance yard and opened it. To his surprise, Ozpin was standing there looking at the statue with the two girls on it.

"Hate to disturb your serenity here, but where are the students? I thought today was the day they were coming in." Dante said approaching Ozpin.

Ozpin turned around, "Good afternoon, Dante. The students should be arriving in about twenty minutes or so. They will be coming through the entrance gate from the docking station."

"So, what do I do after?"

"We will meet in Central Arena, from there I will discuss with the students about the events to come."

Stepping towards the arches that surrounded the school, Dante said to himself, "Alright then. I guess I should get a better view of when they arrive."

Dante walked up to the arches and jumped up in the air meeting them halfway. He placed his right foot on the surface of the arch pillar and wall hiked off of it into the air even further. He flipped as he landed onto the top of the arch. From here, he could see the forest and the docking zone in front of the school. He sat down with his left leg hanging over edge and his right leg pushed up against his chest with his right arm resting on his right leg as well.

"I wonder what type of crazy people this place will be getting. I guess I just have to wait and find out." Dante thought as he looked up in the sky.

He waited as time flew by until a large ship came into view. It slowly hovered down to the docking station. A panel came out of the ship and connected with the platform. A door opened up and students came flooding out of it. Audible gasps and amazement could be heard coming from the newcomers as they looked upon the giant tower and the entrance courtyard. A blonde boy could be seen lagging behind the expanded group as he stumbled out of the docking area. He seemed to be holding his stomach as he walked off of the platform. Right below Dante stood a two girls who looked shell-shocked from the view of the tower. The one on the left was a violet eyed blonde girl who had long hair and sizable breasts with a coat on and a yellow tank top that had a fire-like logo on it. The coat was a light brown the was lined with a more exuberant brown. The tank top and the coat both exposed her mid-drift. She had a utility belt on that went around her waist with spandex shorts on. She had black fingerless gloves with yellow bangles on each wrist The girl wore yellow knee socks with brown boots. She looked up and noticed the handsome white haired man looking at her. The one standing next to her had silver colored eyes, black hair with red highlights, and has a red cloak with a hood. She wore a short black dress that was laced with red. The high boots she wore were black with a red lace and had a red base. The blonde one noticing that the man in red was looking at them, she waved and beckoned him to come down. Wondering what was going on, he jumped off the arch and front-flipped down onto the ground. He walked up to them with his hands on the back of his head.

"So, what pleasure do I owe for talking with you lovely ladies." Dante smirked.

"Well handsome, since you were already checking us out, you might as well meet us and say hi. My name is Yang, and this is my younger sister Ruby." The blonde points to the girl right beside her.

"Yeah? I guess you're right." He smiled. "The name's Dante."

"Dante? That's a cool name..." The red-hooded girls voice trailed off. "Wow! What a cool sword!" Her eyes went from shyness to stars in an instant. "What does it do? What's it made out of? Does it have a name? Can I hold it?"

Dante, baffled by the barrage of questions, released his grip from the back of his head and held them up in the air. "Easy there." He brought down one hand and held up his index finger. "One question at a time. Alright... Ruby was it?" He said. She nodded as the stars in her eyes were still bright as the sun.

"It's just a regular sword that was given to me from my father. It's made out of very strong metal. My baby here is called Rebellion. And yeah sure, you can hold it, however it's pretty heavy." He answered while pulling the demonic sword from his back. He held it in one hand as she extended both arms to hold it.

"Oh, it's so aweso-AH!" She tried to exclaim, but was brought to the floor from the weight of the sword as it dropped in her hands.

"I told ya." Dante laughed as he grabbed Rebellion and put it onto his back once more. He turned to the blonde. "She always like this?"

"She's a weapon nut. Anytime she sees a new weapon she just has to look at it or touch it." Yang smiled as she looked down on her sister who was just barely getting up. "So, where you from, Dante?"

"I'm from... out of country. Yeah, let's go with that." Dante replied.

"Alright...?" Yang looked at him inquisitively. "Well, my sister and I are..." She glanced around the area. Noticing that her sister was trailing off admiring people's weapon, she turned back to Dante. "Sorry, I got to go get my sister before she does anything. I'll see you later!" She winked at him before running off in Ruby's direction.

"Interesting people." Dante commented before heading off.

He went to go wondered the campus as a sudden stampede of students whooshed passed him with Yang in the middle of it with the wind from their speed making his coat and hair dance. As Dante was met with stares from girls around school campus, he heard an explosion come from the entrance gate where he left from a few moments ago. He turned to see a bottle of dust go sailing through the air as a girl dressed in white was yelling at Ruby whom was prodding her fingers together.

"I guess I better go see what the commotion is about." He thought as he turned around and headed back. Not being able to hear what was being said due to the amount of conversations that were going on around him, he could only see their actions until he got closer. The fancily dressed girl in white was looking up at an approaching girl who had a monochromatic style. A few sentences were exchanged and the girl in white turned around and stamped off into the direction, carrying luggage with her. Ruby turned around to say something it looked like, but that girl had walked off as well. As he arriving, she slumped to the ground and fell backwards as she mumbled something. The blonde boy he saw stumbling out of the ship earlier walked towards her and extended his hand offering to help her up.

"Hey, I'm Jaune." The boy said pulling her up.

"Ruby." She said, then giggled. "Aren't you the guy who threw up on the ship?"

"Throwing up on the first day of school? Dude, talk about a bad rep your givin' yourself." Dante said as he walked up to the two of them.

Dante looked at the boy with a grin. He had blonde hair swept to the right side of his head with it barely covering his darkened sapphire eyes. He wore a white chest piece and pauldrons; underneath he had a black hoodie and an orange shirt that has the sleeves detached. His pants were worn light blue jeans with a white patch on his left knee. He has a dark leather belt and a light leather belt hanging free. He sported leather fingerless gloves with a black band running across the back of it. A short sword hangs off of the left side of his hip.

"Who are you?" Jaune asked.

"This is Dante, I just met him a few minutes ago. He's a pretty cool guy." Ruby said as turned towards the man, introducing him to Jaune.

"So, what was that commotion about?" Dante asked.

"Oh, that. I'll tell you about it later." She replied looking down at the ground.

"Alright, I'm not going to force ya if you're not ready to talk about it yet."

"Thanks." Ruby smiled as she began walking, with the two of them trailing behind her.

As they walked, people greeted each other as they came and went. Laughter and screams of surprise could be heard in different directions. A man with magenta highlights could be seen being assaulted by comments from an orange haired girl. Ruby and Jaune talked among each other. He examined most of the students while they had their conversation. The weapons they had looked high-tech. Most were dust infused, some transformed, and others were just regular weapons. Most of them being human, with the exception of two or three faunus mixed in the crowd. He was brought out of his observation from a loud impact on the ground in front of him.

"Is that a scythe?" Jaune asked.

"It's also a customizable, high impact sniper rifle." She said holding the release of the weapon.

"A wha?" Jaune confusingly asked.

Ruby cocked backed the sniper rifle and said, "It's also a gun."

"Does it have a name?" Jaune asked.

"Yeah! I call her Crescent Rose." She said hugging her scythe.

"Oh... What do you have, Dante? Besides that giant sword of yours, of course." Jaune looked at Dante with curiosity.

"My other weapons I like to keep on a down low. It sort of ruins the exciting reveal of my darlings." Dante said in a boastful tone. "However." He continued. "I do have these guys." He reached behind his back and revealed Ebony & Ivory spinning on each of his index fingers bringing them to a stop by gripping the handles as he extended and crossed his arms in front of him holding the pose. The blonde haired boy took a step back out of surprise, tripped and fell to the ground.

Dante said, breaking the pose and holding the guns out on the palms of his hands. "Two handguns specially made for me. The white one, named Ivory, is modified to be rapid-fired and quickly drawn. The black one, named Ebony, is modified for comfort and accuracy."

"Oooo..." Ruby slurred out subconsciously with her eyes glimmering with awe.

"How about a little warning next time?" Jaune said, getting back up off of the ground.

"Stay on your toes, guy. You'll find it's better that way." Dante said spinning Ebony & Ivory, putting them back in their respective holsters. "What about you, blondie? What do you have?"

"Oh, uh. I got this sword." He responded, pulling it out of the sheathe.

"Nice. Anything else?" Ruby asked.

"Yeah, I got a shield too." Jaune said pulling out a thin item that expanded into said shield.

"So, what do they do?" Asked Dante, while Ruby poked the shield. The shield shrunk to it's original form and expanded back rapidly, causing Jaune to let loose of the shield and was scrambling to catch it. After landing on the ground in the original form, he picked it back up and expanded it again.

"The shield gets smaller... so when I get tired of carrying it... I can just... put it away." He nervously laughed as he put the shield away.

There was a pregnant pause until Ruby said, "Wouldn't just weigh the same though?"

"Yeah... it does." Jaune replied in a disappointing tone.

"Well, I'm kinda a dork when it comes to weapons. I guess I did go a little overboard in designing it." Ruby said holding Crescent Rose in her hands.

Dante looked at her then her scythe. "Impressive, you made that?" He asked.

She looked at him and replied, "Of course! All students at Signal forge their own weapons. What about you, Jaune?"

"Actually..." His voice trailed off before speaking up again. "Mine is a hand-me-down. My great, great grandfather used it to fight in the war."

Dante laughed and patted his hand on Jaune's shoulder and said, "It looks like I'm not the only one with a family heirloom." He changed his tone to a more endearing one. "Even if it isn't fancy and isn't full of dust, it's still usable. I've cut down tons of..." He coughed "...grimm with just this sword. It can be more useful than you think; you just gotta train yourself around it."

"...Thanks. That makes me feel a little better at least." Jaune commented.

"Oh, I've been meaning to ask." Ruby blurted out. "Why did you help me out back there, in the courtyard?"

"Eh, why not?" He answered. "My mom always said, 'Strangers are friends you just haven't met yet."

"Hey, where are we going?" Ruby asked, looking around at the scenery.

Jaune stopped and said, "Oh, I don't know. I was following you."

"We're going to the Central Arena. We were heading in the right direction, so I didn't say anything." Dante said, still walking with his hands behind his head. "You guys coming in?" He headed towards the to giant double doors that were in front of them. They headed in and it was full of students talking and rambling.

"Ruby! Over here! I saved you a spot! You're welcome to join us, handsome!" They looked in the direction of the voice and it was Yang. She was waving towards Ruby and Dante.

"Is she talking to me?" Jaune asked, confused.

"I think she's talking about me. I'll see ya around, blondie." Dante said as he started walking towards Yang.

"Oh, hey. I gotta go. I'll talk to you after the ceremony." Ruby said hastily to Jaune as she ran towards Yang as well.

Ruby and Dante walked up towards Yang and stood in a row-like fashion. Dante looked around the area, noticing that a lot more students were showing up now. It must be close to the ceremony starting time.

"How's your first day going, little sister?" Yang asked Ruby.

Ruby looked at her with a stern face and replied, "You mean after you ditched me and I exploded?!"

"Yikes. Meltdown already?"

"No, I literally exploded a hole in front of the school. There was some fire and I-I think some ice." Ruby retorted.

"Are you being sarcastic?" Yang asked in a disbelieving tone.

Ruby scoffed, "I wish. I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage, then she yelled at me, and then I sneezed, and then I exploded, then she yelled at me again, and I felt really, really bad!"

"You!" A voice came from behind Ruby.

"Oh God, it's happening again!" She yelled, jumping into her sister's arms.

Dante looked towards the source of the voice. It was the girl he saw from before. She wore a dress and a jacket both were white and the dress turned to a baby blue when they reached the end of the dress; the inside of her jacket appeared to be red. She had white hair that was put into a ponytail off to the side of her head. Her eyes were an ice blue with a scar running over her left eye. She also wore a thin necklace with a pair of earrings. She wears white, heeled wedge boots that go to mid-calf; the insides are also lined with red. By her side was a rapier with a revolver cylinder.

"You're lucky we weren't blown off the side of the cliff!" The girl in white yelled.

"Oh my God, you really exploded." Yang said to herself, still trying to believe it.

"It was an accident." Ruby got down from Yang's arms. "It was an accident!" She repeated, only to be met with a pamphlet in her face. "What's this?"

"The Schnee dust company is not responsible for any injuries or damages..." The girl in white's voice went on and on until Dante couldn't stand it anymore.

"Hey, princess! You mind getting to the point? I'd rather not want a headache from listening to you recite your life story." Dante said with an aggravated tone.

She looked at Dante for a second. "Fine." She turned towards Ruby once again. "You really want to start making things up to me?"

"Absolutely."

"Read this and don't ever speak to me again." The girl said handing her the pamphlet.

"Look, uh. It sounds like you two just got off on the wrong foot. Why don't you start over and just try to be friends okay?" Yang said, hoping to try to start the school year off right.

"Yeah! Great idea, sis!" She cleared her throat and turned towards the girl in white. "Hello Weiss! I'm Ruby! Wanna hang out? We could go shopping for school supplies." She said nervously.

"Yeah, and we could paint our nails and try on clothes and talk about cute boys like..." The now named Weiss looked up towards Dante and didn't relay his name, but instead looked behind her and continued. "...tall, blonde and scraggly over there." She pointed behind her, and it was clear she was talking about Jaune.

"Oh wow, really?" Ruby said excitedly.

"...No." Weiss coldly stated as she turned her back towards Ruby.

"Talk about a friendly banter; and as much as I would love to see a catfight. The ceremony is about to start from the looks of it." Dante said, pointing towards the stage.

In the distance, they could see Ozpin walking up the decorated stage. He proceeded towards the podium. He tapped on the mic and then cleared his throat to gather the attention of the students.

"I'll... keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills; and when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look among you and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step." Ozpin finished and stepped aside.

Professor Goodwitch now took the stand and said, "You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."

"He seemed kind of... off." Yang commented.

Ruby went to add on to the comment, saying, "It's almost like he wasn't even there."

"Well, it is the beginning of the school year and Ozpin is the headmaster of the school. He's got a lot on his plate." Dante respectively said

"Like who wasn't even there? Also, thank you for the understanding, Dante." A voice came from behind them.

"Professor Ozpin! A pleasure to meet you." Weiss greeted with a little bit of shock in her voice.

"Hello, Ozpin!" Ruby said with a big smile while waving to him.

"Hello Ruby. It's nice to see you again." Ozpin replied.

Dante turned to face him. "What's up, Ozzy? Why are you here?"

"I came to inform you, Dante, that you will be joining them in the ballroom as well. Unfortunately, the dorms are off-limits to students at the moment. That does include you, I'm afraid." Ozpin said while drinking from his coffee mug.

"Shit." Dante said under his breath. He continued, "Well, thanks for that anyway. Have you heard anything about him yet?"

"No, not at the moment. It seems like he's laying low for a while. So, nothing to worry about at the moment." He took a sip from his mug before continuing. "Now, if you'll excuse me. I have work that needs to been done." Ozpin said as he turned and started walking away.

He walked away as the group at hand watched as he turned the corner. Immediately, Weiss went to Dante who was rubbing the back of his head due to the fact that there weren't any leads to Roland yet.

"Exactly who are you? Why does Ozpin treat you as an acquaintance rather than a student?" Weiss questioned as she prodded his chest with her index finger. Dante quickly grabbed her hand that was prodding him with and held it in place as she struggled to get free.

"My name is Dante and it's nice to meet you too, princess." He let go and she fell back from the force of her attempted escapes. "As for why he treats me as an acquaintance, it's personal. So that's all classified." He answered.

The girl in white stood back to her feet. She looked at him once more and said, "It's heiress, not princess. My full name is Weiss Schnee. I will inherit-"

"Your father's business when the time comes. Blah blah blah." Dante interrupted.

There was a moment of silence before she made an audible noise of disgust and walked off into the distance, leaving Ruby and Yang with Dante. He turned towards the sisters with a confused look appearing on his face. He simply shrugged at them.

"With that aside, let's get to the ballroom. Might be better to do it now to get better spots." He said.

Yang nodded. "Yeah, that might be for the best."

"I agree!" Ruby said with excitement in her voice.

"Alright then. Shall we go together, Miladies?" Dante said jokingly, bowing with proper etiquette.

"My, what a gentleman." Yang commented following along with the joke and went on ahead with Ruby.

Dante stood up, back to his regular posture. "I try my best." He said with a smirk.

Dante started walking towards the ballroom with Yang and Ruby at a steady pace in front of him. He looked over his shoulder towards the sky. Dusk was finally arriving as birds sat on the arches in his field of view. It didn't take long as to get to the ballroom as he was standing in the doorway to it.

He eyed the ballroom, looking for a spot to take. He found one over by the window and drew Rebellion, then leaned it against the window. Dante then took off his coat and rested it on the pommel of Rebellion as if it were a coat rack.

"I found my spot." He said to himself as he sat down next to Rebellion with his back against the wall. "What about you, ladies?"

"Hmm... I think I'll take the one right in front of the window." Yang replied with a smirk.

"I'll take the one right next to you, Yang!" Ruby commented.

Dante looked around as they claimed their spots in the room. ore students came in one by one through the large double doors. Students were able to go change in the restrooms into nightgowns to be more comfortable to sleep if they so wanted. Dante then turned to peer through the window while leaning against the window sill. The sun was finally setting as twilight once again reappeared. His thoughts wondered from finding Roland to how his shop was holding up. Lady was probably searching everywhere him to get the loan he owed him, but it didn't matter at the moment anyways. He was in a new world with new people to try to understand. He was then snapped back to reality as he heard Ruby calling to him.

"Remnant to Dante. Hello?" Ruby voiced, dragging out the hello.

Dante turned around to see Ruby in her pajamas. "Hmm? What's up?" Dante asked halfheartedly.

"It seemed like you were in some sort of trance. Are you okay?" She questioned.

"Yeah, my mind drifted back to home. That's all." He responded.

"Oh, really? What was it like?" Ruby asked.

"Maybe some other time. Alright? I'm gonna go freshen up a bit." Dante directed at Ruby while messing her hair.

Ruby weakly smiled and nodded. She went to go lay down on her sleeping bag and pulled out a blank yet simple red writing journal. The ambient noise of the other students chatting faded in as Dante headed towards to where the restrooms were located at and Ruby started to write in the journal. It was short-lived though as the missing-in-action Yang appeared out of nowhere and flopped onto her sleeping bag as well.

"It's like a big slumber party!" Yang yelled.

"I don't think dad would approve of all the boys though." Ruby said with her eyes still focused on her writing journal.

Yang commented back with a smirk, "I know I do."

Her eyes then wandered the room looking at all of the topless boys, but then suddenly stopped when Jaune was passing by.

She then looked back to Ruby and saw the she was writing. "What's that?" She asked.

"A letter back to the gang at Signal." Ruby responded, finally looking up from the book. "I promised to tell them all about beacon and how things are going."

"Aww. That's so cute!" Yang commented happily, but a moment later was met with a pillow thrown into her face.

"Shut up!" Ruby shouted, her tone taking to one of anger. "I didn't get to take my friends to school. It's weird not knowing anyone here."

"Oh, and I guess I'm chopped liver? Does that mean Jaune is the swiss cheese? " said a voice coming from behind her. She turned around quickly to see Dante standing there with a towel on his head.

"Well, I mean. I. I. I." She frantically tried to conjure up words to say, but they fell short. She took a deep breath then tried again. "What I mean is, I don't know anyone here. I just met you and Jaune, but I don't have anyone that I share memories with."

Dante smiled and reassured her, "Yeah, I got what you meant. It's alright. I don't know anyone here either. Plus, it's a little worse for you for having made an enemy." He motioned towards the princess walking in through the entrance.

Yang added, "Look, it's only been one day. Trust me. You have friends all around you. You just haven't met them yet."

Ruby laid there in a moment of silence before hearing the lighting of a match. She sat up and looked around for the source of the sound. When she saw candles being lit, she looked at the person who was lighting them. It was a girl with a raven black hair and a black bow tie in her hair.

"That girl..." Ruby mumbled.

"You know her?" Dante asked looking at the person in question.

"Not really. She saw what happened this morning and left before I could say anything." She responded without looking away for the girl.

"Well, now's your chance!" Yang said grabbing Ruby by the arm.

"Wait! What are you doing!" Ruby said as she rejected the notion of going to greet her.

Yang, still holding Ruby by the arm, started walking up to the raven haired girl shouting "Hello! I believe you two may know each other."

"Aren't you the girl that exploded?" The girl said looking up from her book, but immediately after looking back down at it.

"Uhh, yeah!" She laughed nervously. "My name's Ruby, but you can just call me... Crater..." She paused to think about what she was going to say and decided to not continue that sentence. "Actually, you can just call me Ruby."

There was a pregnant pause of silence between them. "Okay..." The girl said, now not looking up from the book.

"What are you doing?!" Yang whispered loudly to her younger sister.

"I don't know! Help me!" She strongly whispered back.

"So! What's your name?" Yang asked the girl.

She made a sigh before responding. "Blake." She answered.

"Well Blake! I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister! I like your bow!"

"Thanks." Blake said, with a slight tone of annoyance.

"It goes great with your..." She paused, trying to think of something to continue the conversation. "...pajamas!"

"Right."

"Nice night, don't cha think?"

"Yes. It's lovely. Almost as lovely as this book." She said to them, trying to hint to leave her alone. "That I will continue to read." She continued, but they didn't get the message she was trying to send to them. "As soon as you leave."

"That's enough of embarrassing yourselves for one day, right girls?" Dante said walking up to them from behind.

"Yeah, this girl's a lost cause." Yang said turning towards Ruby.

Dante was about to turn away when he saw something that caught his attention. The name on the cover of the book was simply called Sparda. He walked up to the girl and crouched down in front of her.

"May I help you, or are you here to just interrupt my reading?" Blake asked, not looking up from the book.

"That's an interesting book you have there. What do you know about it?" Dante asked looking at the cover of the book, then switching his gaze to her. There was another moment of silence in the air. She looked confused as for the sudden interest in the book itself.

"It's about a demon named Sparda. He was the most powerful swordsman in all of Hell. A long time ago. A demon, The Emperor of Darkness, named Mundus opened up a portal to hell in the human world and started a war between demons and humans; but Sparda didn't agree with the war as he saw tyranny in Mundus. So, he took up arms towards his kin and kind and fought for humanity by himself. He alone defeated Mundus and sealed him away in crypt. The army of Mundus retreated back into hell as they saw and heard of his defeat. In order to seal the portal closed, he used an amulet, his blood, his sword, and the blood of a priestess. The humans praised this man for being a hero and some people even took to worshiping him as a god. He roamed and protected the world for two-thousand years before finding a woman named Eva. They fell in love with each and bore two male twins. Sparda eventually left, not telling his family where he was going or what he was doing. Unfortunately, whatever he had set out to accomplish left him deceased. Soon following the tragedy, Eva was killed in their own home. The boys hid, unable to protect their mother. No one knows what happened after that." Blake read from memory.

"Fascinating. What do you think happened to them?" Dante asked.

"They probably followed in their father's footsteps. Protecting people from demons." She answered.

"Do you think they saw eye to eye on things?" He asked another question.

"Of course. They're brothers, right? Why wouldn't they see things the same?" She questioned him now.

"Things come up from time to time. Who knows, right?" He said getting up from his crouching position.

"Did you use to read that story as a kid, Ruby?" Yang asked.

"Yeah, I read it once. I didn't like how it ended. It was too sad for me to deal with, so I've sort of forgotten about it all this time. I moved on to happier stories with happier endings." She responded.

Blake interrupted, "That's very ambitious for a child, but unfortunately the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale."

"Well, that's why were here. To make it better." Ruby retorted with a smile.

"Oh, I'm so proud of my baby sister!" Yang said, giving her a massive bear hug. Not wanting to be hugged, Ruby struggled to get free causing a loud commotion; loud enough that it caused a certain someone to say something.

"Well, Ruby. Yang. It's a pleasure to..." Blake tried to say goodnight, but was cut-off.

"What in the world is going on over here! Don't you realize some people are trying to sleep!" A stern female voice.

"Jeez, and here I thought we heard the last of you today." Dante said.

"Guys, she's right. People are trying to sleep." Ruby reasoned with them.

"Oh, now you're on my side." Weiss said, rolling her eyes.

Dante decided that it was time to go to sleep as well. In the midst of their bickering, he spoke up. "Anyways. It's time I met some pretty girls in Sandman Land. I'll see you ladies in the morning."

"Hey. What's your name?" Blake asked as he turned away.

He raised his right hand in the air and waved good-bye as he answered. "Dante. Later."

A/N: Yes. I did use the "Sparda is in a book" excuse.