Author's Notes: Alright this story takes place during season two of RWBY so expect it to be non-cannon the more episodes we go through.
Chapter 2: The Best Day Ever
Awkward, that would describe the meeting Dante, Vergil and Nero had with Ozpin and Glynda Goodwitch. Vergil explained how they came to be in Remnant, leaving some of the details such as their parents' deaths or their fight with the demon army; however, telling them about their heritage was unavoidable.
Ozpin was very observant, he saw Nero's arm the moment they met but only enquired about it when the four of them were alone. Even though Nero didn't want Glynda to know as well and this was well placed because as soon as he mentioned it being demonic she kept a close eye on him especially. She also held her crop duster, which might be a weapon, tightly. Needless to say Nero was becoming aggravated with her.
Vergil was patiently waiting for Ozpin to respond as he was in deep thought and Dante was, well he was trying to hold in his laugh.
"HAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" he finally busted out laughing out of nowhere much to the confusion of everyone present.
"What is so funny young man?" Glynda asked as her scowl deepened, he seemed to laugh even more while glancing at her.
"Hey Nero come here for second." Nero leaned in and Dante whispered something in his ears while pointing at Ozpin and Glynda.
Nero took one look at Ozpin who was knocked from his train of thought then at Glynda and then glance around the office.
"Ho-ly crap!" he exclaimed slowly in astonishment before laughing his face off.
"Alright, why are you two laughing?" Vergil asked partly curious mostly frustrated.
"Oh come on Verg you don't see this" he pointed at the two "Oz, Glynda the Goodwitch, ring any bells?"
Vergil's eyes widened in realization "Oooh" his brows furrowed with a small smile "you two are very childish."
"What is he talking about?" Glynda was running out of patience with the two boys who seemed to be mocking her.
"Well you see" Vergil began scratching his head not sure how to put it "in our dimension you two bear a striking resemblance to two characters in a popular children's fairytale."
"Excuse me?" Glynda wasn't sure how to react.
Ozpin raised an eyebrow "interesting" he said. "Well on to the matter at hand" he dismissed it making Dante and Nero's laughter faded. "Here at Beacon academy students are split into teams consisting of four individuals but I think you three might be the exception to that rule as judging by what I witnessed you may already be as strong as most fully trained hunters."
"Damn straight" Dante commented before high fiving Nero.
Unfazed by his outburst Ozpin motioned with his hands and Glynda walked to the boys and handed them small see through devices with a diamond center.
"These are your personal scrolls; they contain everything you will need to make it in Beacon academy, including your class schedules and a map of the school."
Vergil thanked him as did Dante casually and Nero reluctantly.
"You can follow the map on your scrolls to your assigned dorm rooms, classes start in two days." The boys glanced at their scrolls. "For now I suggest that you all get some rest."
They all got up and went for the door except Vergil turned back to say "thank you."
After they left Glynda turned to Ozpin who had his fingers bridged together.
"I don't trust them Ozpin" the man himself glanced at her "somehow I feel that there's more to their story than that."
Ozpin got out of the chair and went to peer out the window with his hands behind him.
"You're right Glynda."
"Then why didn't you question them about it?"
"Because everyone is entitled to their privacy Glynda, Vergil wasn't lying and if he doesn't want to reveal everything then he must have a reason."
That didn't sit right with Glynda but then again the fact that there are other worlds out there coupled with the existence of angels and demons made her even more suspicious. After seeing Nero's arm it made her believe them a little but what made her even more weary was when Ozpin told her how Vergil killed a Goliath with apparent ease.
In fact, telling her that they managed to kill a hoard of Grimm that number nearly a hundred without even the slightest form of injury or fatigue was outright ludicrous in her opinion. No, even though it would be a godsend blessing to have boys as powerful as them she would have to keep a close eye on them.
Meanwhile the boys were making their way towards their dorms with Vergil leading.
"Man this place doesn't look half bad" Dante complimented while glancing around.
Vergil looked around "quite extravagant, I guess when training the only hope for survival they spared no expenses."
Nero had his hands in his pocket but didn't comment on the school, the only thing he saw was just another Fortuna except instead of demons they were learning to kill Grimm. Nero hated being told what to do especially by authority figures. On Fortuna they would constantly heckle him about how he fought, learn, dress…!
"Guys" Nero stopped behind them as they looked back "I just remembered, we don't have any clothes."
They looked at Nero in awkward silence the only sound being that gust of wind.
"Well shit" Dante finally said.
Vergil was again in deep thought but then glanced at Yamato clutched in his left hand.
"It's alright" he finally said continuing his walk towards their dorm room.
"What'd you mean?" Nero asked catching up to him.
"Remember what father told us Dante?" He looked to his younger twin "As long as I have Yamato I will always carry our home with us."
Dante's and Nero's eyes lit up in realization.
"You sure it'll work though? I mean we didn't leave that place in the best condition plus we're not on earth anymore."
They rounded the corner "didn't you pay attention to anything mother and father taught us besides fighting?" Vergil asked in minor annoyance "it can be accessed anywhere using Yamato."
"We're here" Nero interrupted while glancing at his scroll then the door.
They entered the room which was appropriately large enough to hold four persons and as expected there were four beds. Immediately Dante and Nero lay claim to a bed and dragged them to opposite ends of the room. Vergil did the same with his albeit less hurriedly and moved the vacant bed as well, no reason to just leave it in the middle of the room.
Now it was time to get their stuff back.
"Alright you two, stand back" Vergil stated before drawing Yamato.
They did just that and Vergil swung his blade and a swirling blue portal opened making sounds of distant thunder.
"You two go in first" he sheathed his sword "after I go inside the portal will automatically close."
They both nodded before Dante pulled out Ivory and aimed in front before going in; Nero held Red Queen on his back and cautiously went in afterwards. Vergil took a look back in the room and went through, as soon he did the portal closed with a loud thunder clap.
Vergil stepped through the portal and immediately dropped down to what used to be one of the many hallways of the extravagant mansion. The place had an orange hue to it which means they were in limbo. The next thing he noticed was Nero waiting but
"Where's Dante?" he asked
Nero shrugged "don't know, as soon as he was out, he started freaking out about something and ran down the hall."
Vergil raised an eyebrow but didn't ask him why, he'd learn not to question some of the things his brother does since his impulsiveness knows no bound. So they began walking to their respective rooms to pack clothes if there were any left.
They passed by broken doors, cracked tiles and everything that reminded of the carnage they experienced just a few days ago.
"Dammit! Where the hell is it!" they heard Dante scream from his room.
Nero didn't even bother seeing what the problem was; he simply went the other way into his room and locked the door. Vergil decided to humor him and see what was wrong since his room was next to his anyway. Vergil went to the doorway and was greeted by clothes being tossed across the room
"What are you looking for Dante?" He asked
"Kablooey!" he said not sparing him a glance
"ka-what?" Vergil asked
"My shotgun" Dante finally looked at him "you know, the one mom was helping me with?"
"You mean the one that you left in the workshop?" Vergil noted and Dante immediately stopped what he was doing to look at Vergil and without a word sped out the room.
Vergil sighed and shook his head then proceeded towards his room.
An hour later the boys met where they began, Vergil wasn't really sure what would happen if they did it somewhere else so the best bet would be where they started. They exited the way they came and each boy began unloading their respective luggage.
"What the hell are those?" Nero asked pointing to the new weapons Dante has lying next to his twin desert eagle pistols. One of them looked like an ornate sawed off shotgun while the other one looked like a demonic tazer.
"These, my friend, are the newest addition to the Dante badass-enal."
"Lame"
"Screw you"
"Still didn't answer my question though."
He picked up the shotgun "this is Revenant my sawed off double barrel shotgun, use magic powered shotgun shells that duplicate with every fire." He picked up his other weapon "I call this bad boy 'Kablooey' it fires compact needles filled with my demonic energy that stick and they can be manually detonated by me, of course."
Nero would never admit it but that is badass, although he loved his two weapons he couldn't help but envy the diversity both twins have. While he loved his two weapons and wouldn't trade them for anything, another weapon would be a nice change if only to add some diversity.
His gaze fell onto his demonic arm with his sleeves still rolled down, his brows unintentionally furrowed and Vergil seemed to pick this up and walked over to the troubled youth. Nero felt a hand on his shoulder his head whipped around to see Vergil with a concerned look
"Nero" he began solemnly "I know that your arm wasn't something you planned for but in my opinion it's better to make the best of a bad situation." He gave him a reassuring smile "besides, having multiple weapons doesn't guarantee them being effective in a fight." He finished while glancing at Dante with irritation.
Dante was completely ignoring their conversation opting to instead clean his weapons with a grin. Vergil sighed and grabbed various bath instruments before heading into the bathroom leaving Nero to ponder his words.
"He's right you know" a voice snapped him out of his thoughts. He looked up to see Dante with a smirk. Seeing his attention at full he continued "like it or not that arm is a part of you, best you don't think of it as some 'demonic arm' after all it's yours."
Profound words but coming from Dante made it sound like he was working an angle to make him sound superior. And so Nero's response was an annoyed scoff followed by turning away from the older Nephilm. Another thought came into mind and out of curiosity Nero took off his shirt.
Yep it was his entire arm going up to and stopping at his shoulder so now the question was
"How am I supposed to deal with this?" Nero asked out loud.
The question was more to himself but Dante gave his two cents worth nonetheless "easy just use your sleeves and wear gloves, duh."
Nero gave him a sardonic glare and held up his arm for Dante to see "you think people wouldn't notice this!?" he pointed to the now glowing, admittedly larger clawed demonic arm.
Dante's hands were raised in mock surrender "geez, it was just a suggestion."
Nero rolled his eyes, at the same time Vergil walked out in a plain blue T-shirt and blue pajama bottoms. Now that he thought about it he really has a thing for blue heck his aura radiates blue, he shook his head and prepared to enter the bathroom but was shoved aside by a moving force.
"Too slow!" Dante yelled followed by the click of the door
Nero had a deep scowl and was about ready to kick the door down when he was interrupted..again.
"Maybe you should wear a medical cast." Nero turned around to see Vergil sitting on his bed.
"What?"
"Your arm" he pointed "if you wear a medical cast big enough you can hide it in plain sight."
Again Nero could count on Vergil to be the closest thing to an older brother figure; he had the answers to all his problems.
"Thanks Vergil" said boy nodded with a smile and began setting his clothes neatly in the closet.
Nero himself started to clean his weapons and to do a quick check to make sure their functionalities were at maximum. Unlike Dante's weapons his were not made using demonic and or angelic power but they were nothing to scoff at either.
Speaking of weapons he had to admit for a visible pain in the ass tha-no his demonic arm wasn't so bad. The thoughts of his fight with the Grimm especially how he judo flipped that giant scorpion played out in his head which bought a satisfied smirk to his face.
He averted his attention to the task at hand, that being his sword Red Queen, he had to admit he was in a bit of a bind. The special liquid propellant he used in order to 'Exceed' was a costly one, since the Sparda family was very privileged he had ample funding to buy the ingredients. From what he learned most of the things in this dimension was powered by something called Dust.
That brought another wave of questions like how is going to get the ingredients to make the stuff, he already brought the ones from the mansion with him but they would last a couple of months at bet. He would need to eventually go out and buy them later on, speaking of, where are they going to get the money to buy food.
Just then Dante walked out drying his hair with a towel, wearing only a red pajama bottom he looked around the room, Vergil was sorting out his wardrobe while Nero was cleaning his disassembled gun absentmindedly.
"Hmm" he said in thought "by the way, what are we gonna do for food?" Vergil and Nero glanced at him. Nero was especially surprised since he literally pulled the question from his thoughts.
They glanced at each other before all gazes fell on Vergil who held his chin thoughtfully
"Don't worry about that, Ozpin informed me that all our expenses" he glanced at Dante who had a grin "living expenses will be covered by the school" Dante's face deflated. "Just as long as we attend classes and not cause trouble." Vergil concluded
Dante and Nero groaned before the latter entered the bathroom for his shower, once inside he went to the sink. Nero looked at his arm in the mirror and thankfully it was his arm and only his arm that was transformed. There weren't any weird red veins stretched to his shoulder like it's some kind of infection slowly giving him a permanent Devil Trigger or something.
After a quick shower and feeling refreshed, he reassembled Blue Rose before holstering it and hung it on his night stand. Vergil was still reading and Dante was passed out on his bed and seeing nothing else to keep him up he also lay down.
Soon after he joined Dante in the land of dreams, seeing this Vergil shot his gaze to both their sleeping forms. After hearing snores he marked the page on his book and a quick glance on his watch told him it was 11:00pm.
Vergil didn't feel like sleeping so he went to the window which had a good view of the shattered moon and with a deep breath he exited the dorm room to explore. Almost immediately he began reminiscing about the events that transpired this month. It felt surreal being here; he walked out into the open area where the moon shone the most.
Another concern came to mind, when Mundus used that portal they ended up here but why? Somehow Vergil is missing something very important and for the love of him no matter how much he thought about it he just can't remember. After a while he just decided to let it go, for now it's a nice quiet night out and there is a convenient bench a few feet away next to a tree.
With his book in hand he decided to just spend a good chunk of the hour reading up on this world. He was fortunate enough to have received a book on Grimm and after a few minutes into the book he came to suspect something about his current surroundings and after a sigh he spoke
"Isn't it difficult reading up there?" Vergil enquired lifting his gaze from the book.
A few feet from him stood a tall tree and on one of thick branches there sat a girl with flowing black hair and a bow on her head. She had her knee arched up and a book in hand, her eyes looked down at the new face and he met her gaze. She looked at him curiously while he looked at her or more specifically her bow with contemplation.
"Although, I suppose a Faunus such as yourself doesn't really need light to see, right?" He asked rhetorically without a hint of contempt.
The girl stared at him wide eyed and he figured that he may have spoken out of turn and quickly tried to salvage the situation
"I'm sorry if you were trying to hide that fact, it's just that I was raised to be very observant."
Her eyes narrowed slightly at him as if she was thinking of what to make of him.
"My name is Vergil, I'm a new student." He introduced himself with a smile, hopeful that he could at least start a conversation.
Nothing was said after a while although she kept staring. Feeling uncomfortable in the silence he let out a tired sigh closed his book and began to make his way back from whence he came. He didn't make it five feet before he heard what sounded like a silent landing behind him.
"Wait" he heard a feminine voice behind him say.
He turned around to see that she was wearing a Yukata that reached just above her knees.
"I'm sorry" she apologized
"It's alright, I can sympathize with why you would want to hide your heritage." He answered with honesty. "Personally I think it is disgusting how people treat Faunus just because they're different,"
The girl was caught off guard by his statement; there are not many people who would openly support Faunus like that. She recovered from her shock
"My name is Blake" she gave him a small smile.
Vergil returned the gesture "Vergil, it's very nice to meet you Blake." He then let out a small yawn and glanced at his watch "it's almost midnight" he glanced back at her "I'm sorry but I should be going, wouldn't want to sleep in."
With that they said their goodbyes and opted to walk back to their respective dorms or it would be if they weren't walking in the same direction. All throughout the walk he could feel that there was something wrong
"Is there something on your mind?"
Blake seemed to come to her senses and looked up at him and shook her head "don't worry it's not important." He didn't buy it but didn't want to pry and now there was an uncomfortable silence.
Somehow she sensed this and opted to break the silence "what dorm number are you in" she asked
"308. Why?"
She looked at him with slight shock "310" she said finally, the ends of her lips slightly curving upwards.
He gave a surprised expression then started chuckling softly "what a coincidence."
They both arrived at their respective dorms and with a nod to the other silently entered and slept in relative peace.
Dante awoke to the sound of someone knocking on the door
"Ugh, who the hell?" He was cut off by the sound of more knocking
"Alright, alright I'm coming, yeesh." He rolled off the bed with a yawn and stretched.
He opened the door to find no one there "the hell?" His still droopy eyes peered down the hallway until they settled at his feet where three boxes were present.
"Huh" he commented as the first box had his name written on a note attached to it.
Dante picked up the heavy looking boxes with one hand and closed the door behind him. He walked to the middle of the room and dropped them on the ground resulting in a loud *Thud.* The noise instantly woke up Nero who aimed Blue Rose dead center between the obnoxious nephilm's eyes. But Dante ignored the implied threat
Vergil opened his eyes slowly and sat up yawning "what's going on?"
"Looks like Ozzy sent us presents." Dante smirk lessened when he opened the box and saw its contents.
"Well what's in the box." Nero asked putting away his pistol and walking towards the box with his name on it.
Dante stood up while holding out the Beacon uniform shirt for them to see.
"Uniforms?" Nero said incredulously but then shrugged and said "whatever" then threw himself on the bed and reached for his scroll.
Nero started texting a message which Dante didn't ignore "what're you doing there?"
"I'm texting Ozpin about getting a cast for my arm." The half demon replied
Dante simply shrugged and went for the bathroom only to be shoved aside by Nero who had a smirk
"Too slow!" he said before locking the door behind.
Dante looked at the door wide eyed before he got up "at least the kid's learning."
He then set his attention to Vergil who was unloading the contents of the box. He decided to do the same
"So anything happen on your midnight stroll last night?"
Vergil stopped and looked at his smirking face with a neutral one "yes actually" he finally said before returning to what he was doing.
"Weeell who is she?" Dante asked slyly
Vergil sighed knowing full well what his younger twin would be implying and he knows denying it would just give him a reason to pester him more.
"Her name is Blake, I met her by coincidence while outside reading" he turned around to find Dante grinning slyly but continued in a more serious tone "she's a Faunus in hiding" Dante's grin slowly disappeared.
Just then Nero came out and Dante went inside and while Nero did hear the conversation he didn't bother to comment on it since he too was concealing something he didn't want anyone seeing. After 30 minutes the three boys were ready making sure to hide their weapons securely before leaving.
"Alright so I'm heading for the cafeteria, you guys coming?" Dante asked.
Nero held up his right arm which bulged slightly under his long sleeve, he was wearing a black leather glove. Dante seemed to get the idea and turned to Vergil
Vergil shook his head "sorry Dante but I'm going to the library."
"What for?"
"Something I've noticed about the Grimm but I need more information before proceeding." Vergil then looked at his scroll to follow a map to the library.
Nero left somewhere in their brief conversation leaving Dante standing by himself. Dante's uniform was unbuttoned so that his amulet was shown; he didn't bother wearing the red tie. He used his scroll to map the way to the cafeteria.
After a few minutes of walking a crowd of people rushed past him yelling, the words "food" and "fight" were repeated. From the window he could see some people inside probably students tossing melons at each other
"What the fu-"his words stopped when a girl with blonde hair used two whole turkeys as boxing gloves to punch said melon.
Dante's jaw dropped but then a grin came on and that's when things went FUBAR as a girl with long black hair and a bow flipped over the blonde and picked up two ridiculously long banquettes to use as swords and cut whole melons apart in pieces.
At that point Dante was already running to the entrance to see this, the most epic food fight to date. He rushed through the doors and bumped into two other guys, one had blue hair while the other was a tanned skin blonde with a..monkey tail?
He didn't question it as right now as some chick was riding a tray on the table like a surf board.
"This is so awesome" Dante said clearly impressed.
"I know right!" exclaimed monkey boy beside him.
An orange haired chick ripped a poll from the wall and smashed it into a melon to make a makeshift hammer. That's when Dante started recording it on his scroll because neither Vergil nor Nero would ever believe him.
The orange hair hammer girl was now fighting a girl with snow white hair using a…swordfish as a Rapier aaand she got slammed into a pillar. The two boys beside Dante winced; monkey boy mouthed 'ow' while the blue hair said.
"That's gotta hurt" with one eye closed.
Dante one the other hand couldn't stop himself from snickering as the girl in the red hood held her 'comrade' in her arms while yelling "nnooooooooo!" as the pillar fell behind her to make a dramatic scene.
Dante moved his scroll as the 'hot blonde' girl with turkey boxing gloves was fighting some guy with using two celery sticks like dual short swords. When the blonde tried for a kick he blocked with both celery sticks
'What the hell do they make their food with?' Dante thought as the now airborne kid threw the celery at the girl and they actually dug halfway into the ground.
After turkey girl smashed celery guy so hard into the ground that it created a shockwave, hammer girl decides to step in and….holy shit used the melon hammer to send turkey girl through the ceiling!
Dante was outright laughing at this point but the fight was still going on, bow girl smacked hammer girl into vending machine by using a ridiculously long rope of sausages like a whip. Now hammer girl was tossing canned soda like grenades, waitaminute, those things actually explode on impact!
A grinning Dante went in front of the bluenette who complained but was tuned out as the red head was levitating soda cans and sending them to the bow girl like a semi-automatic. Bow girl was pinned to the wall by the barrage of soda cans and was down for the count.
Now the girl with the red hood stood and ran so fast that the force of everything she passed followed creating a tornado of food headed straight for.
"Hey could you move out the way, I can't see anything!" Dante looked back to the complaining bluenette who looked irritate.
Dante shrugged "If you insist" just then he side stepped away just in time to record a barrage of food and drinks pinning four people to the wall including the bluenette.
The result was a multi-colored artiste rendition of four schmucks stuck to a wall and that's when Dante stopped filming and started laughing his head off. Monkey boy joined in and they draped each other's arm over their shoulders
"I love these guys" he said right before Glynda Goodwitch came through the doors looking pretty pissed.
Using her crop duster she went about using magic to clean and rearrange everything to how it was before the fight broke out.
"Children, please, do not play with your food." She said between her teeth.
*Burp* Hammer girl giggled and turkey girl fell through the ceiling and crashed into a table.
Glynda growled and Ozpin put a hand on her shoulder "let it go "
She sighed "there suppose to be the defenders of the world."
"And they will be" he looked at them and the fallen blonde got up like it was nothing and gave a thumbs up "but right now they are still children." He glanced back at her "so why not let them play the part?"
Dante saw she was about say something and spoke up "the great and powerful Oz has spoken" the two professors turned around to see Dante approaching with a smirk "besides he's right, we're all young and we still have a few years before we start becoming old, crabby and boring you know, like you." He pointed to Glynda and the two boys behind him couldn't help but stifle their snickers.
One glare from Glynda and both of them stopped, looked away and the blonde coughed in fist. Glynda then turned her glare to Dante who still wore his smirk unfazed by her attempts at intimidation.
"Ah Dante" Ozpin spoke up "how are you enjoying your time at beacon so far?"
Dante took a glance at the eight behind them "I gotta say I'm impressed professor, they ain't half bad, they're good, some more than others." Dante's smirk went away "although their still green." Dante's tone was serious and he looked at Ozpin sharply.
Ozpin let out a light chuckle "well that is to be expected, after all, they are only first years just starting out." Dante dipped his head to the side in comprehension. "Well I will leave you to your business then Dante." Ozpin's final words before he went out the door followed by Glynda who glanced back at Dante with a scowl.
Dante soon found himself with monkey boy's arm draped around his shoulders; the Nephilm gave the Faunus a quizzical look.
"I don't know who you are but anyone who can stand up to Goodwitch must be at the epitome of coolness in my book." Dante smirked at this and the boy grinned and extended his hand "Sun Wukong."
Dante shook his hand fiercely "Dante Sparda."
Sun came off and pointed to the bluenette who was freaking out a little trying to wipe the purple soda off.
"This is my teammate Neptune."
Dante looked at him for a while before saying "is he cool?"
Sun let out an awkward chuckle as Neptune bolted through the doors "I guess not" both boys glanced at each other "I should go see if he's okay, see you around Dante!" He yelled as he went to catch his teammate.
Dante shook his head slowly "these people are nuts and speaking of which" he turned around and proceeded to walk towards the six girls and two boys.
The eight students heard slow claps coming from behind them and turned around to see a smiling Dante slowly approaching them.
"Gotta say" he placed both hands in his pockets "you guys definitely give me a better opinion of this school."
They all looked amongst themselves before looking at the strange boy. Blake even more so
Weiss was the first to speak up "and who might you be?" She brushed off herself and stood tall as if to retain some of her dignity.
Blake's eyes widened "Vergil?" Now everyone was looking at her.
"You two know each other?" Weiss asked not concealing her shock.
"Well I-
"How come you never introduce us to your friends Blake" Ruby said in a pout.
While Blake was trying and failing to explain, Yang was looking Dante up and down, he saw this and smiled.
"Like what you see Blondie?" he commented and everyone immediately stopped what they were doing to stare at the stranger and Yang.
Yang was completely caught off guard by this and could only gawk at him and he responded with a wink and you could see the outlines of her cheek turning pink. Yang regained her composure and a large predatory grin spread across her face, Dante returned the gesture with his own grin.
Team JNPR who was in the middle of their staring contest eyes shifting from Yang to Dante all with mixed reactions. Nora was of course grinning, Ren maintained his neutral expression, and Jaune and Pyrrha were both flabbergasted.
Meanwhile the rest of team RWBY didn't know what to make of this situation it was literally the first time they have met another boy not at all uncomfortable or intimidated by Yang's flirting. In fact Dante seems to make her go on guard as some boys would be around her.
Weiss once again regained her composure "Excuse me!" she said to which Dante and Yang turned to her "if you two are done undressing each other with your eyes the rest of us would like to get on with our lives!" Both of them shot her an irritated look turned to her and folded their arms at the same time.
"She always like that?"
"You have no idea."
Weiss began tapping her foot impatiently "well!? Explain yourself!?"
Dante scoffed sagged his shoulders "alright then mom"
Yang, Jaune, Ruby and Nora started snickering at this while the rest of them were smiling Weiss looked offended and was about to deliver a rebuttal but was cut off.
"First of all I'm not the one who knows her that would be my brother, Vergil." He finished
"You two are twins?" Blake asked curiously.
"That's right" he glanced at Yang who glanced at him "but I'm better looking" he finished waggling his eyebrows.
Weiss scoffed but he ignored her and continued "the name's Dante, Dante Sparda." He extended a hand to Yang.
Yang grinned deviously and took his hand gripping it tightly "Yang Xiao Long." To her surprise he was unfazed by her strength taking a look at his expression it showed amusement.
"Strong and beautiful" he started applying pressure on his part "I like that in a woman but" Yang started wincing ever so slightly "I ain't no pushover either" Yang's gritted her teeth and Dante's expression showed concentration. This went on for a few more seconds until he saw she was about ready to shout at which he promptly let go.
Dante shook his hand "Geez Yang, think you could go easy on the hand?"
Yang held her hand, it hurt but she did a good job of not showing it, in truth she was testing him. She would admit that he looked good and while his counter flirting caught her off guard she had learned guys like that were just weak play boys but now she learned that he can walk the walk.
She gestured to her teammates "these are my teammates"
"Hello Dante I'm Ruby leader of team RWBY!" Ruby stated triumphantly and Dante was quite frankly taken aback by how young she seemed.
Ruby was promptly put into a headlock by Yang "yeah I'm so proud my little sis became a leader"
"Kn-knock it off Yang!" Ruby struggled as Yang tussled her hair. She was eventually set free.
"You two are related?" Dante asked with a raised eyebrow.
"You better believe it" Yang chirped
Dante turned his attention to the brunette "My name is Blake Belladonna."
Dante turned to Weiss who was glaring daggers at him
Dante pointed at her and turned to Yang "Let me guess, Ice Queen, right?"
"Surprisingly accurate" the blonde commented.
"Excuse me but my name is Weiss, Weiss Schnee." He said with a smug smile as she emphasized her surname.
Dante was unfazed rather he had a bored expression "and?"
Her smile dropped "what do you and? I said I'm Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Corporation.
"So?"
"I'm heiress to the largest dust manufacturer this side of Remnant!" she practically yelled as her frustration reaching a boiling point.
Dante used his pinkie to clean his ear and gave her a bored look and in a calm voice replied "listen, Weiss was it, I have no idea what the 'Schnee Corporation' or what the heck Dust is?"
*Gasp*
"What?" Dante asked looking around to find everyone staring at him like he was insane.
Yang began chuckling "Dante you're joking right?"
"About what?"
"That you don't know what Dust is?" Ruby chimed in
"Is it some special type of dirt?" he shrugged.
*SILENCE*
"You're not joking are you?" Weiss asked incredulously.
He looked around again "Am I missing something here?"
Weiss reached in her pocket and pulled out a vial filled with green dust.
"This is dust" Weiss began "it's a natural energy propellant found all over the world."
Dante looked at the vial before taking it; he held it up to the light and spoke "so it's a special type of dirt then? I thought I said that two minutes ago?" Dante responded with a smirk.
Weiss growled but stopped when the vial started glowing and Dante felt the tattoo on his back glowing as well. There was a faint shine coming off his arm and when it stopped the vial was empty. There was an awkward silence and everyone slowly looked at Dante who seemed to be staring at the empty vial with an unreadable expression.
"W-what just happened?" Jaune asked.
Dante turned and looked him in the eye he looked at the empty vial and shrugged "no idea" without taking his eyes off team JNPR he tossed the vial to his right.
Everyone followed the movement of the vial as it landed perfectly in the trash receptacle.
Jaune and Ruby's thoughts were 'That was so cool!'
Nora yelled "score!" with her arms in the air.
"So" he began getting their attention "who are you guys?"
Pyrrha was about to speak up but Nora zipped in front of her making Dante blink
"We are the team JNPR!" She began excitedly "I'm Nora Valkyrie," she stood beside Dante "she's Pyrrha Nikos, he's my best friend Lie Ren we're always together" she paused and they both looked at each other Dante "but not together-together and he is our fearless leader Jaune Arc" said boy gave an awkward slight wave.
Dante took a good look at him, no matter how he looked at him; Jaune didn't seem like a good fighter. Dante was snapped out of his thought by Nora.
"Sooooooo where are you from? Is it far away? How come you don't know about Dust? What's your team like? How did you throw that vial in the trash without looking? What was that weird light?" that was the last question as Ren pulled her away with an apologetic expression.
"Well I can't answer the first question but I live very far away. We don't really use Dust where I'm from, well we do but we don't call it that. Skill and the last part is a secret." Dante then gave a smirk and Nora pouted.
Avoiding another awkward silence he turned his attention to Ruby.
"So Ruby how old are you?" Dante asked curiously.
Ruby smiled bashfully "I'm fifteen."
"Huh, I thought you'd have to be older to get in."
"Yeah well, Rubes here was so impressive that the headmaster moved her up two years." Yang stated while giving he a bone crushing hug. "So she's the youngest person here in all of Beacon."
"Hmm well she's the youngest girl anyway" Dante stated and Ruby and Yang looked at him confused.
"What'd you mean?" Yang dropped Ruby.
"Well we have a guy on our team who's around her age."
Everyone blinked, Ruby being accepted into Beacon was a once in a lifetime thing and the only reason for that was by sheer luck. She was in the right place at the right time that allowed her to showcase her skills in an actual combat situation.
"Really!?" Ruby squealed. "There's really someone else my age here? On your team? Where is he? What's he like? What kind of weapon does he use?"
Truth be told, even though Ruby has made friends with everyone here and is very happy to be at Beacon, being younger than the rest of the student body she would sometimes feel a little lonely. Hearing that there is another person her age has her practically gushing.
"What's he like well uh, hmm. He's not friendliest person you'll ever meet." Dante said hoping not to get her hopes up. Somehow Ruby's innocence impacted him enough to not want her to be disappointed.
Ruby was still cheery though "that's alright, Weiss is on our team."
"Hey!"
"If I can be friends with her then your friend should be no problem." Ruby said this with a hand on her hip and her palm stretched out while moving slowly to the side.
Dante's brows furrowed "look Ruby, don't get your hopes up ok he has some major trust issues, it took my family weeks just to get him to talk to us in a complete sentence."
Dante thought that would at least faze her but she gave him a determined look.
"Yeah Dante" Yang got his attention "it's going to take a lot more than that to discourage her."
Dante smirked "well I hope you're right cause" he turned to the door and stepped aside so everyone can see it "speak of the devil."
They all glanced at Dante who was smirking and then at the door that opened for someone to come in. Inside the cafeteria walked a young man, just a few inches taller than Ruby herself, he wore the standardized Beacon uniform; his hair was white like Weiss' but was short and brushed down. His right arm was in a cast and sling and on his left arm he wore two rings one on his index and ring finger.
The moment he came through the door he saw everyone looking at him and seeing Dante's smirk he groaned tiredly and walked over with a scowl.
Dante approached the obviously angry teen "Hey Ner-oh!" he was promptly shoved out of the way.
Nero stood before team RWBY and JNPR and spoke "listen I don't know who you people are but if that guy has said or done anything stupid then on behalf of our team I would like to apologize. As you can see, he's retarded."
Not one person had anything to say to that except Dante of course.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa no need for name calling Nero" Dante gritted his teeth but smiled and tussled his hair violently. Nero took a swing and missed as Dante went to his other shoulder and draped his arm over it.
"Now these fine people here are teams JNPR and RWBY" Nero glanced at Dante with the expression 'why.' "I have no idea why they call their team that.
"They use the first letters of all our names to name the teams" Pyrrha spoke
"Oh well that's convenient" Dante muttered. "Well anyway I'd like you all to meet the youngest member of" he paused in thought before grinning "team DVN (Divine)" Nero shook his head slowly while looking at him "our brother from another mother-"
Nero slapped Dante's hands away "my name is Nero, no last name. Don't ask."
Everyone unwittingly didn't question his unknown last name. Dante frowned and draped his arm around the younger boy again.
Nero let out a low frustrated sigh "Dante.."
"Now it's my turn to introduce everyone else."
Nero shot him an irritated look "you have till the count of ten to remove your hand or else the cafeteria is going to have a new skylight." He threatened.
"He is Jaune Arc leader of team JNPR"
Jaune gave a nervous laugh
Nero simply nodded politely "10"
"The redhead is Pyrrha Nikos"
"It's nice to meet you Nero" she said with compassion
"Nice to meet you too" he responded. "9"
"Next is Nora Valkyrie"
"What's up?"
"Dante in a few seconds" he replied darkly. "8"
"Last but not least is Lie Ren. He doesn't talk much."
Nero and Ren nodded ever so slightly. "7"
"Next we have team RWBY"
"6"
"This beautiful blond hottie's name is Yang Xiao Long"
Yang didn't say anything, merely waiting to see what Nero would do with folded arms.
Nero looked her up and down "5" he said louder and clenched his fist, the sound of a *crack* was heard and the teams actually stepped back from this.
"Oh and this is ice queen" Weiss glared at him "fine, her name is Weiss Schnee"
"4"
"This is Blake Belladonna the girl Vergil met last night while he was on a midnight stroll."
Everyone looked at Blake for a moment
"…3" Nero readied himself and everyone was now at the edge of their nerves because it really looked like Nero was going to follow through with his threat.
"And saving the best for last is the leader Ruby Rose"
"2"
"She's 15 years old, her interested include making new friends, fighting, checking out weaponry and she's single!" He finished like the host of a dating game show.
"on- wait, what?" Nero took his gaze off Dante to look at the food covered redhead.
Dante moved away from Nero to stand next Yang, both of them sporting an amused grin at how their younger teammates are awkwardly staring at each other. Ruby was smiling shyly at him but Nero just stared at her with a blank expression like he's trying to solve a puzzle.
After a few seconds a small blush appeared on her face, her eyes darted around the room and she began fidgeting. Nero found his expression softening and the tiniest of red on his cheeks.
"…hi" He responded.
Ruby glanced at the boy "h-hi there."
Not one person dared interrupted this awkward yet special moment, not even Weiss who looked on curiously as did Ren and Blake, Jaune and Pyrrha smiled at the moment And Nora was gushing
"This is just like a scene from a fairytale!" The young Valkyrie proclaimed earning glances.
Nero and Ruby looked at her in confusion so she continued "this is the scene where Ruby the awkward shy princess meets the handsome Prince Nero and just like in the fairytale they are now bound by fate to be together and live happily ever after!" She shot her hand up in the air.
There was now an even more awkward silence, the only thing that was heard was the sound of Ren smacking himself on the forehead. Nero used that interruption to mentally collect himself before looking at Ruby.
"So" he began "why are you guys covered in food?" Nero finally spoke.
"Oh that's right!?" Weiss screamed.
Suddenly everyone remembered they were filthy and after Weiss bolted out the door so fast that it may have rivaled Ruby's semblance everyone exited.
"Umm, see you around Nero." Ruby said with a smile as she followed everyone outside.
"Yeah later" Nero said slowly while watching her leave.
"Never thought you'd fall for her that hard so fast"
Nero glared at Dante who was now on his scroll, "What are you doing?" Nero asked
"Sending you a video, trust me you'll thank me later." He replied.
A moment later Nero's scroll was alerted and he took it out to watch the food fight battle royal. His now wide eyes were glued to the small screen for about 2 minutes before he shut the scroll down.
"So what'd you think?" Dante asked with slight anticipation.
"I think those people are nuts." He responded. Dante seemed disappointed in his answer "but that was awesome." He finished and Dante grinned.