A/N The timeline for Dante, Trish, and Lucia to be together is a month after the events of Devil May Cry 2.

Chapter 22

Brothers of Destruction

'Vergil?' Dante thought to himself. 'Who the hell is this g...' then he looked at the boy harder and recognized him as the one from his dreams.

"No you're not Vergil." the boy realized as he stood to his feet, gripping a broken sword. And that's when Dante realized that two girls were with him. And one of them looked like his...

"Mom?" Dante asked as he stepped towards Trish, only for Xander to block his path with his sword.

"I don't know who you're calling mom." Xander said as he walked into Dante's line of vision. "But it ain't her. Now who the hell are you?"

"Me?" Dante asked with a raised eyebrow. "Firstly jackass this is my place. Now who the hell are you and...your friends?" he asked as he looked at Trish again.

"Alright." Xander said as he lowered his sword and let out a breath. "My name is Xander, this is my sister Kendra, and my girlfriend Trish."

"Trish?" the Trish duplicate asked as she stepped beside Dante. "That's my name."

"Hey you look like me." Trish said as she stood beside Xander. "How freaky is that?" she asked as the two moved off to the side and started chatting.

"Well, Xander this is my friend Lucia, my girl... my friend Trish, and my name is Dante."

"Alright, Dante." Xander started as he saw Lucia and Kendra move off to the side to talk. "Where the hell are we?"

"You're in LA." Dante told him. "But we'll talk about that later. I wanna know why you thought I was Vergil?"

"Well you look just like him." Xander replied. "Your hair is a little different and you weren't trying to kill me so that's how I knew you weren't him. But you seem to know him. How?"

"Unfortunately, he's my brother."

'Brother?' Xander thought to himself. 'But that means...' "Dante is your father's name Sparda?"

"Yeah, how the hell did you know that?" Dante asked, instantly suspicious. Usually when somebody asked him about his father, he somehow found himself in trouble.

"Because he's my father too." Xander said with a smile, that immediately became infectious as Dante cracked a grin. He was about to tell him that he was crazy, but with the look of sincerity in Xander's eyes he knew he was telling the truth.

"Damn, bro." Dante said as he took a better look at Xander and clapped a hand on his shoulder. "What the hell happened to you? You look like you've been in a war."

"I'll tell you about it later." Xander said with a wince. He was still hurting all over.

"So the girl..." Dante started as he looked at Kendra. "Is she my sister too? Hmmm...I didn't know dad had jungle fever."

"What did you say?" Xander asked angrily as he punched Dante in the jaw.

"Oh..." Dante said startled as he touched his sore jaw. "you little son of a bitch."

As the two started fighting, both Trish's rolled their eyes simultaniously.

"Boys." they both said in unison as they moved over and seperated the two of them.

"What the hell is going on?" the Trish wearing all the leather asked.

"He started it." Xander said with a pout as he pointed at Dante.

"Me?" Dante asked incredously. "All I asked was if she was my sis and he hit me."

15 minutes later

Both Dante and Xander had calmed down and were sitting around his desk talking. They still glared at each other, but they didn't fight anymore.

"Something is definately wrong." Trish said as she walked into the room and leaned up against Dante's desk.

"What's de what?" Kendra asked. Oh yeah she was definately hanging around Xander too much.

"Well, I tried to call my dad and even your mom in Sunnydale, but nobody answered the phone."

"That's not strange." Xander said as he looked at her. "Maybe they're just not home."

"I thought of that." Trish said giving him a disturbed look. "I forgot Giles' number, so I told the operater to patch me through to Sunnydale. But the strange thing is she said that Sunnydale didn't exist."

"That's impossible." Xander told her. He knew that Sunnydale was small and few people had ever heard of it, but no operater had ever told him that Sunnydale didn't exist.

"That's not impossible little brother." Dante spoke up for the first time since their fight. "I've been all over California and even traveled the world and I've never heard of any place called Sunnydale before."

As he said that Xander immediately started thinking. When he, Trish, and Kendra went into the vortex, they were supposed to go to hell, but something else had definately happened causing them to come here instead.

"We must be in an..."

"Alternate universe." he and Kendra figured at the same time.

"Does this happen to you guys often?" the other Trish asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Well if you were raised on the hellmouth, you would know that anything is possible."

"The Hellmouth?" Lucia asked, speaking up for the first time.

"Yeah, the Boca del Inferno." Xander told the beautiful red head.

"Matier, my mother told me of the hellmouth when I was a child. Is it true that it's a gateway to other dimensions?"

"What?" Xander asked with a raised eyebrow. The way Giles talked about it, it was nothing more than something that held great energies of evil. Because if that were true then maybe they could get back home.

"That's what she told me." Lucia told him.

"Could you do me a really big favor?" Xander asked and as she nodded her head he continued. "Call your mom and ask her everything she knows about the Hellmouth. She might be our only key of making it home."

"But Sunnydale doesn't even exist." Trish reasoned. "So what makes you think the Hellmouth does?"

"Because she said that she's heard stories of it. So it has to be here." Xander said as he stared off into space. "It has to be."

Three Days Later

Xander dodged to the side as a fireball whizzed by his head. Lifting up Excalibur 2, he lunged at his attacker and chopped off his head. For the last three days he and Kendra had been going on missions with Dante. In a way he was showing them the family business. What was even more cool was that Dante knew a guy who had fixed his sword to be as good as new.

Seeing a Sin Scythe sneaking up behind Dante, Xander moved in a blur and raised his sword up high, before the demon could strike his brother. Plunging it hilt deep into it's face, Xander watched fascinated as the sin broke to pieces.

"Thanks for the assist, bro." Dante said as he glanced back at him. It reminded him of when he and Vergil used to hunt demons together.

"Not a problem." Xander said as the two started to fight back to back. They both fought like mirror images as they slashed and hacked the last of the demons. Lifting up their swords they chopped off the heads of the last sins and watched as they broke like glass and turned into dust.

"That was a hell of an exercise." Dante said as he put Rebellion on his back.

"Yeah tell me about it." Xander replied as he did the same with his sword. "Hey have you seen, Ken?" as soon as the words left his mouth a section of the cave wall beside them shattered and a demon came flying through only to dust as it hit the opposing wall.

Hearing footsteps coming through the newly made hole in the wall, Xander smiled as he saw Kendra stroll through, twirling her scythe.

"I think I like her." Dante said as he put a hand on Xander's shoulder. "Now come on. Let's go home."

Devil May Cry

Detective Agency

As soon as Xander walked through the door of his brothers shop, a short decriped old lady walked up to him and started touching on his face. Her old leathery hands caressed his jaw line, as she smiled and examined his face and eyes.

"You are the other son of Sparda." she stated, more than asked.

"Yes, ma'am." Xander said muffled as she squeezed his cheeks together.

"You have his eyes." she replied as she let go of his face.

"You knew him?" Xander asked as he looked at the old woman hard.

"Of course." Dante replied for her as he walked towards them. "She fought by his side."

"Greetings, Dante."

"Matier." Dante greeted back with a slight nod of his head.

"Hi." Kendra said as she saw the old woman, once she walked through the door.

"A Slayer." Matier whispered as her old eyes widened.

"How did you know..."

"I know many things child." Matier cut her off as she held out her hands. "May I ?" she asked as she eyed Kendra's Scythe. Giving her a curious glance Kendra handed her weapon over and watched in amazement as the ancient looking woman twirled it expertly.

"Ah... the Slayer's Scythe." Matier said as she stopped twirling the Scythe and handed it back to Kendra.

"How do you know about me weapon and about de Slayer?" Kendra asked in awe of the older woman.

"Even though the Slayer legacy doesn't exist on this world, her stories have still been passed down from generation from generation to dimension to dimension." Matier informed her. "And as far as your Scythe goes, it was prophesized many millinnea ago, that in the last days the chosen Slayer would pull the Scythe out of a great stone."

"De last days." Kendra whispered.

"Will happen regardless of what mankind will ever do." Matier said as she put her hand on Kendra's shoulder. "But with your scythe you can help push the darkness back. Provided if I can get you home of course." she said giving her a wink.

"So you know how to get us home?" Xander asked.

"It will take me a day or so to decipher some ancient text, but yes I believe I can get you home."

"But the only problem is finding where the hellmouth is on this world." Trish said as she and Lucia entered the room carrying a map. "Like we figured Sunnydale doesn't exist." she said as she put the paper down on Dante's desk and pointed to a spot on the map. Everything around the area had a name but the spot where Sunnydale should have been was just open area.

"I've never been there, but that wooded area is called Death Valley." Dante said as he looked down at the map.

"How convenient." Trish replied with a grin.

"If you do venture to find the hellmouth then know this." Matier said getting their attention. "It is a very dangerous place and it houses...alot of secrets."

Four days later

'Matier wasn't kidding when she said this place held secrets." Xander thought to himself as he and the others treked through the Death Valley forest. They had encountered alot of demons and Xander guessed that the power of the hellmouth must have drawn them there.

As that thought entered his mind, his foot hit something making him tumble to the dirty ground.

"Xander are you, okay?" Trish asked as she took off her backpack, with the spells and potions Matier made, and sat it on the ground.

"Yeah." Xander said as he stood to his feet and brushed his clothes off. "My foot got caught on something though." he said as he looked to the moss covered ground.

Reaching down, Dante brushed the moss off with his hand and saw a paneled portion in the ground. Curious, he brushed it all the way off and revealed a freakishly large pentagram with a goat on it, sticking out it's tongue.

"The Seal of Danthazar." Lucia said as she crouched down to examine it further. Matier told them that this was going to be the most dangerous part of the mission. They had to go inside of the hellmouth to perform the spell, because unlike Sunnydale in this dimension the hellmouth wasn't active.

"That should inspire a few rock bands." Xander said dryly.

"Come on let's perform the ritual, while the sun is still up." Trish said as she unsheathed the sword Merciless, that Dante had given her. Twirling the long, thin, green, and silver weapon in her hands she watched as Xander and Kendra took their weapons out and did the same.

"I am Xander the son of Sparda and I demand that you open." Xander said as he put his sword over the seal.

"I am Kendra, de chosen of de Slayer line and I demand that you open." Kendra said as she put her scythe over the seal.

"And I am Trish daughter of...oh just open up already." she said frustrated as she put her sword over the seal.

Suddenly the Seal began to glow from within and the pointed tips of the pentagram at its center folded up, forming a pyramid which sank into its center.

"Here goes nothing." Xander said as he stared down into the dark hole, finding his center, then with a glance at Trish, he stepped into the Hellmouth. Giving each other a look both Trish's, Kendra, Lucia, and Dante followed right behind him.

Walking down the stairs the group spread out as the cave tunnel opened up and they approached the edge of a dizzying drop. The flickering light of burning fires and the snarling and bellowing of a vast multitude came from far below. Hearing the noise Xander and the others approached the edge of the precipice and looked down at a legion of Turok-han vampires, screaming, growling and readying for war: the forgotten army of The First. Xander's eyes went wide at the sight, even the others stood rooted in place by fear and glancing at Dante, Xander saw that even he was awed by the sheer number and ferocity of the teaming throng below.

"Trish, start on the spell now." Xander whispered to his girlfriend. "We got to start on it before they notice us." seeing that she walked back towards the entrance to start on the spell, he looked over at his brother. "Are you as nervous about this as I am?"

"Please, i've been fighting demons my whole life." Dante said as he gave his brother a look. "I'm not worried about these chumps."

Suddenly far below, the Turok-han army went silent as they all turned as one and looked up, directly at Dante and the others. Before anybody could so much as say "Oh shit", thousands of Turok-han raced toward them with a bellowing cry of rage. They began to scale the walls, climbing them with frightening speed.

With a silent gesture to his sister, she got his meaning and stood over to try and protect Trish while she did the spell.

The First's army then got even closer to Xander and his crew. Even Dante's calm façade started to crack at the awesome sight. The horde of raging Turok-han then surged up and over the edge of the chasm toward them.

Xander, the other Trish and Lucia braced themselves as the first wave leaped up over the edge and attacked. They started to fight like they never had before, slashing and dicing anything that dared cross their path.

More Turok-han charged up from the abyss and now Dante and Kendra joined in the fight. Roundhouse kicks, uppercuts, sidekicks, leaps- punching, slashing, blocks, and twirling in a stunning battle dance such as the world has never seen.

Kendra leaped into the air and slammed into one of the vampires with tremendous force, sending it reeling backward into the abyss. Dante cracked another in the head with the butt of his sword, snapping its neck. Lucia impaled a third with one of her twin swords, turning it instantly to dust. All around them the battle raged, five souls against an army of super-vampires.

Kendra spun around just in time to see her brother get hit and then piled upon by vamps. Enraged she took her scythe in one hand and became death incarnate. All around her, the Turok-han disintegrated to dust as she whipped the scythe around, dispensing one fatal blow after another.

Xander was suddenly rocked backward by a vicious blow to the head as a Turok-han broke free from the melee and attacked him. He kicked it in the chest and brought his elbow down on its neck, snapping it in two.

He seized another Turok-han and hurled it upward with tremendous force into the cavern's ceiling. It's head impacted a stalactite and its skull shattered like an eggshell. The lifeless body then dropped to the ground at his feet. About a dozen of the Turok-han broke off their attack and dashed past him and over to where Trish was performing the spell. They were replaced by dozens more from below before he or Dante could stop them.

Trish and Dante braced themselves as a rampaging horde of Turok-han raced towards them and attacked. Dante's sword flashed as it whipped around and decapitated one of the snarling beasts. Trish extended her arms and two 9mm glocks shot out of the sleeves of her coat and into her hands. She shot a couple of rounds into the chest of a Turok-han, blasting it open, then pirouetted and shot through the skull of a second turning it into dust.

Kendra and Lucia fought desperately against the charging vampires, trying to keep them away from Trish, who was still on the floor chanting. Lucia parried the blows from a Turok-han's saber with one of her own as another vampire charged Kendra and slammed her up against the wall. Lucia decapitated one of the beasts and as it turned to ash, she disemboweled the creature menacing Kendra.

"Tank you." Kendra said as she stood to her feet. With a nod of her head, Lucia turned and cut down some more of their attackers.

Trish slashed the neck of a Turok-han with Rebellion, then tosses it back to Dante, who whipped it around in a 180° arc, taking out half a dozen Turokhan and driving several others back over the edge of the precipice to slam into the cavern floor far below. Next to him, a pile of raging Turok-han suddenly exploded outward and Lucia leaped to her feet, her arms and legs a deadly ballet as she landed one killing blow after another. All around her, the gang found renewed strength and determination, beating back their attackers one at a time.

In one fluid motion, Xander raked his sword through the abdomen of one vampire, then pirouetted and brought it down through the neck of another. Beside him, Kendra sent one attacker reeling with a roundhouse kick and followed through with her scythe, decapitating another of the snarling beasts.

"I don't know how long I can keep dis up." Kendra said as she and Xander went back to back.

"I know what you mean." Xander replied as he whipped Excalibur around and killed more of the demons. Suddenly they both heard a chime noise. Looking to where his girl was, he saw that a blue portal had opened up. "Come on Ken, let's go!" he shouted out as he pressed his attack and pushed the line of demons back.

"Dante, what do we do?" Lucia asked as she managed to get beside him. Dante looked around and sighed as he saw how many ubervamps were blocking the path back up through the hellmouth.

"Go through the portal." he said as he jabbed his sword through a demons chest. "I'll hold these guys back."

"But..."

"JUST GO!" he shouted out. Giving him a sad look, she and the others ran for the safety of the portal. All except Xander.

"Dante, come on!" Xander shouted over his shoulder. They had to leave now or never because the portal was closing.

"No." Dante said not even turning to look at him. Ending his Million Stab maneuver on one of the Turk's he whipped Rebellion around and took down even more. "This is my world and I never run out on a fight. Now just go!" Dante shouted as he met Xander's gaze for a second, before turning back to the battle.

'This is a suicide mission.' Xander thought to himself as he ducked a sword slash and kicked the vamp away. 'He's gonna die if I don't do something.' his decision made he raised his sword up and brought the butt of it down on the back of Dante's head, knocking him unconcious. Scooping his body up before it hit the ground Xander jumped through the portal before the last of the vampire army could get to them.

Sunnydale High

Library

A blue portal opened in the middle of the school library, with winds that knocked the tables over. Suddenly with a swoosh sound both Trish's, Lucia, and Kendra toppled out of it.

"That was a fun ride." the Trish from Dante's dimension said as she cracked a smile.

"Tell me about it, we could sell it to a theme park and make a fortune." the other Trish yelled over the roaring wind the vortex was causing.

"Where's Xander?" Kendra asked as she noticed that it was closing.

"He was right behind me." Trish said as she nervously glanced at the portal. Suddenly it flashed with a white light and Xander jumped out of it carrying Dante in his arms. Before the portal closed completely a vampires arm came through it and as it closed chopped off his hand. It dusted before it even hit the ground.

"What happened to him?" the leather wearing Trish asked as Xander put his brother on a table that wasn't overturned. Xander just gave her a look before replying.

"He wouldn't listen to reason."

As he said those words, Dante suddenly started to come around and opened his eyes. Sitting up his eyes hardened as he looked about the room and saw that he wasn't still in the cave. Realising what happened, he fixed his glare on Xander.

"What the hell did you do?" he asked as he got off of the table.

"What I thought I had to." Xander responded.

"Do you have any idea what you've done?"

"Yeah, saving my big brother from making a stupid mistake." Xander countered. He knew how good of a warrior Dante was but there was no way he was going to stop all of those hell demons.

"No you just doomed my world." Dante said as he sheathed the sword he was still holding onto from the battle. "That damn seal was still open and with no one to defend my world..."

"But de sun was still up in your world." Kendra interrupted him. "De vampires want be able to enter into your world. All we have to do is gather up some supplies and we can send you back home."

"That's strange." Lucia said as she looked out of the library window. "It's night time on your world."

"Alright this is what we can do." Xander said as he glanced at his watch. "It's seven thirty right now, so I'm guessing that when the sun comes up in our dimension that it'll be going down in yours. Plus it took us two days to navigate through the Death Valley forest. Even if there are an army of them theres no way they could get out of that forest any faster than that." he said as he glanced at Dante. "So we'll go and check on my mom first, go to the local magic shop to pick up some supplies, and then come back here and perform the ritual."

"Alright." Dante said as he crossed his arms over his chest. "That sounds like a plan."

"Come on then." Xander said as he walked towards the door. "I know a shortcut home through the graveyard." If he and the others had stayed to look at the shelves of the library they would have noticed that the books in the library were gone.

Twenty minutes later

As the group navigated through the darkness of the Restfeild cemetery, they heard the vague sounds of a fight further ahead of them. Breaking into a run they came at the tale end of a fight between a blonde girl and a vampire. Using his demonic eyesight Xander saw that the girl was Buffy.

Taking Excalibur off of his back, after Buffy went down from a punch by her attacker, he threw it and watched as the weapon decapitated the vamp. As the sword boomeranged back to him, he walked over to the still down Buffy and looked down at her.

"Hey Buff." he said with a smile as he noticed a scar on her lip.

"Xander?" Buffy asked as she heard the familiar voice.

A/N I saw the hellmouth as being an interdimensional doorway. So basically what I was saying in this chapter is no matter where the hellmouth was it would have still lead to the ubervamps cavern. Also Xander's a little further in time then he thought. Also I was going to give Kendra a devil trigger by having her meet the shadow men and for them to give them the power that they were going to give Buffy in season 7. But I decided against it.

TBC...

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