Now this is the start of the A.U. and crossover story of Devil May Cry and Highschool DXD, I will notify you all dear readers that there would be deviations from the canon lore. Some events will happen earlier than what we all know in the original and some known event will never happen due to the changes that I made. There are also some tweaks in the character appearances and also the origins of some known characters will be different too. Also there will be OC's or some character from another anime will appear in some arcs. Now that I notify you all the changes, I hope you would not complain too much. So let's start the story.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Devil May Cry and Highschool DXD, it belongs to their creative authors. This is a work of fiction and it does not relate to any existing individuals, organizations and literatures.


You've heard of it, haven't you? The legend of Sparda? Long ago, in ancient times, a demon rebelled against his own kind for the sake of the human race. With his sword, he shut the portal to the demonic realm and sealed the evil entity off from the human world. But since he was a demon himself, his power was also trapped on the other side. No one in this generation believed it and they thought it was just a child's fairy tale. But little did they know that the so-called legend wasn't a myth at all. Sparda existed. How do I know? Well... I was there, I already existed at that time and met the Legendary Dark Knight himself. If that is not enough, I met the sons of Sparda - Both of them. Though the same blood of their father flow through their veins, the two battled each other fiercely like arch enemies. I did not know what drives them to fight and oppose each other but one thing I know is that the other son of Sparda has a compassionate heart. You wonder why I know? Because I know the other son of Sparda in a personal and intimate level, since I am the one who raised him like my own child.

-Gabriel, One of the Four Great Seraphs of Heaven


MISSION 1 START

In the beginning of time in the age of Genesis, God created the world and the humans being the last. Lucifer the first and the most perfect angel, a being next to God, did not see humans as their equal and refused to kneel before them. As the result, he rebels against God and was punished and fell to the underworld together with the angels who agreed with Lucifer and they became Fallen angels. Lucifer swore that he will rise again and attempted to build a kingdom in the underworld, but his reign was not gone unchallenged. Lucifer and his fallen angels was challenged by the angels' antithesis, the Devils lead by the demon god, Argosax, who appears as an androgynous, horned, angelic being composed of fire. Lucifer and his fallen angels emerge victorious exiled the demons to the bottom pits of hell while Argosax recuperates and one-day return. In the end, Lucifer and his legion cast away their powers as Angels and replaced it with the power of darkness and they later called themselves as, Devils, and claimed the underworld at the top of the nine circles of hell. But to the perspective of the Devils originally born in the underworld, they are called 'False Devils' and will never be acknowledged as one. It was not long that Azazel and his Grigori also fell from heaven and claimed the half portion of the territory.

Thousands of years ago before the modern era, there was a great war between three races; God and his Holy Angels, The Fallen Angels lead by Azazel, and the Devils lead by Lucifer. The war was so fierce to the point that other pantheons have joined the war and allied themselves to each of the three factions. But the war was suddenly interrupted by two battling dragons that turn everything asunder with just their breaths; one was the red dragon named Ddraig, and the white one was named Albion. The dragons held the title of heavenly dragons due to their strength that matches the Gods themselves, the three factions held a truce to deal with the two powerful dragons and for the first time, the opposing sides were united in one goal. Another battle has begun, and this time it was the united forces and the heavenly dragons resulting too many casualties from the united forces but they manage to kill the two dragons and God sealed their souls to the sacred gears. With the threat gone, the war between the three factions resumed which ended with not only by the deaths of the four Satans but also God that which the Holy Angels will keep a secret to all creation.

There was peace for another century but that peace did not last. Within hell's nine circles, a being called Mundus, a gigantic living statue of an ageing, muscular, bearded man with enormous feathered wings, rises into power as he had eaten a fruit from the Qliphoth tree. He attempted to rule hell but was met with the resistance of a fully recovered Argosax and war occurred between the two and hell was split into two. It has reached to Mundus about the events of the great war and its results, he ordered his minions to mobilize towards the underworld where there is currently a civil war between two Devil factions. Mundus planned to subjugate the Devil race and crush the weakened Holy Angels in order to conquer the human world and rule all of creation. Unfortunately, it was halted by a single demon; Sparda, The Legendary Dark Knight and the greatest swordsman in Hell, who was also a general in Mundus' army awoke to justice. Sparda is depicted as an insectoid demon with clawed hands, a scaly hide, a pair of downward facing ram horns, chiropteran wings with beetle-like wings underneath, hooves for feet, and reptilian spines protruding from his back. Parts of his body appeared to be made of grey scales with accents of red and purple. He also had gold veins on his hands and arms, chest, shoulders and back, a red diamond eye shaped gem in the center of his forehead, and skull-shaped gold knees and elbow guards with small horns. He single-handedly defeated Mundus' demon army and Mundus himself with his full power that is actually stronger than even Argosax. Sparda only did it for one reason, because of his fascination and fondness to humans, he watched the humans from the underworld and he saw that humans are not only capable of evil deeds but also some of them have a great potential and capable of feeling compassion to others, and that is enough reason for Sparda to rebel against his brethren.

After sealing Mundus, Sparda left the nine circles of Hell together with his apprentices; Baul, Modeus, and Lilyn. Together, they made feats that would become legends that would be told to the generations to come; they helped the Anti-Satan Faction to oust the Maou descendants on their conquest for war and world domination, they helped the Holy Angels and churches on fending off the demons that invade the human world claiming victims, even though some angels and exorcists were wary and hesitant on them but the Four Great Seraphs were thankful of their help, and finally, they helped the three factions upon the impending threat which is Argosax, who upon knowing on Mundus being sealed took the chance to subjugate all the demons and attempted to invade the human world, this time, the Legendary Dark Knight had a hard time fighting Argosax due to him being weakened from his sealing of Mundus but with the help of the faction leaders, they managed to seal the Demon god for eternity. After the long battles, Sparda entrusted his teachings to his apprentices and advised them for the final time that they should do what they desire and live free and then the Demon Sparda disappeared and never to be seen again.


Present Day – 4:50 P.M.

In a town in Japan in a city called Kuoh, in the commercial district there stand a two-story building built in a modern design of architecture with a double door entrance made of hard wood. Inside the building, a sound of a telephone ringing can be heard. The interior setting is a large office with some recreational amenities such as billiards and a jukebox there is also a mini-bar at one side, at the center are sofas or couches for any visitors to sit and beyond that is a table for the owner which serve as a workstation. A door opens and a young man in his late teens enters the office, he is currently fresh from the bath and drying his hair with a towel. The young man has an unkempt short white hair with icy blue eyes, his skin is pale brown and a fair complexion, he is wearing black fingerless gloves and bandages on both hands, black pants with belt, and dark brown rider boots with belt-buckles, with his well-sculptured torso with six packs exposed. He sits at his office chair and lazily raised both of his feet and lay it on his office table, he picks up the phone and replied to the caller.

"Sorry, not open for business yet." And then he hangs up and put the phone back.

"I haven't even named this joint yet and I'm getting calls already." The young man said as he picks up a magazine for male readers.

"Dante, who is that on the phone?" A feminine voice said to the young man named Dante.

"It's nothing, Gab. Just a wrong number." Dante replied.

"Okay, if you say so. Here, I brought you some afternoon snacks." A woman named Gab said as she enters the room. The woman is very beautiful that her beauty can be describe as divine or heavenly, a goddess in other words. Gab has a long blonde hair with curly ends, has long fringes that framed her beautiful face and bangs that reach under her eyebrow flowing to the right side. She has blue eyes the same shade as the sky and a smooth, pale skin complexion in a rosy white tone. She is wearing a pink apron over her light green sleeveless blouse and white long skirt that reaches pass the knees and indoor slippers.

"Just put it on the table. I'll eat it later."

"No, it's better to eat it while its hot." The blonde carries the tray of food towards the table where Dante is but she froze upon seeing the item that the young man is looking at, it is a reading material that displays images of women posing wearing risqué underwear and in some pages, nude photos of women in a provocative pose, a porn magazine in other words. Gab made an angry pout and walk towards Dante in a quick pace, she brought down the tray of food at the table and snatch the magazine out of Dante's hand.

"Hey! I was getting to the good part." The young man complained.

"What GOOD part? Are you just going to indulge yourself to the sin of Lust? I did not raise you to become a pervert, young mister?" Gab retorted to Dante.

"It's puberty, it is only natural to a healthy male my age to be interested to the opposite sex."

"And I thought you to treat and look at women with love and respect, not see them with lustful gaze and treat them like a piece of meat. By the way, you already passed that stage." Said the blonde woman as she leaned in front of Dante with their faces too close for comfort.

"….." There is a little tinge of pink in Dante's face as he stared at the beautiful face of his self-proclaimed mother. He tried to avert his gaze but he ended up looking at the cleavage of Gab's large breast.

"Damn! She is so beautiful and has a nice body to boot. This is your fault you know. I would not have resorted to looking at porn magazines just to distract myself." Dante thought annoyed at his growing hormones.

"Hey! Are you listening, Dante! I'm talking to you as your mother." He woke up at his reverie as he heard Gab talking and look up to her still in an angry pout crossing her arms which she unintentionally lifted her large breast up and made it jiggle.

"Oh come on! Gabriel, you just adopted me, I'm not your child. We can be family but I can only treat you as an older sister than a mother, besides, you cannot replace my true mother so I won't call you as one." Dante said in annoyance to the point of calling Gab to her full name and stood up facing her. Gab's full name is Gabriel, one of the four great Seraphs and the most beautiful woman in heaven. Gabriel noticed that he is not wearing any top clothes which let her see the view of his exposed torso.

"Why aren't you wearing anything at your top? Put on some clothes." Gabriel scolded, her face is flushed red in embarrassment. She averted her eyes so that she can avoid looking at Dante's Adonis-like body, she felt her hidden wings flickering from pure white to midnight black.

"Stop thinking that way, Gabriel! Dante is your son even if he is adopted." Gabriel chanted to herself as she shook her head to clear away her building desire.

"Fine." Dante relented as he grabs a black Henley T-shirt with three buttons and sleeves that reach to the elbows on the hanging stand and wear it, then he proceeds to grab his red washed-out trench coat with gold zipper and dark red shoulder pads attached to the coat by brown belt buckles that goes around the armpit and a skull emblem at the back of the jacket.

"Done. Satisfied?" Dante said after he wore his trench coat in style. Gabriel nodded satisfied that her adopted son is dressed decently.

The sound of the front door opening is heard making the occupants look at the visitor. They see a young teen two years younger than Dante, he has a spiky unkempt hair colored with a mixture of black and chocolate brown and blonde highlight on the fringe at the right side, his eyes are gold and reptilian slit pupils, his skin has a dark tone but still a fair complexion, and his toned body wears a black hooded coat with red forearm sleeves, black fingerless gloves, white undershirt, and black denim pants and boots. He also wears a string necklace with a red gem on it.

"Hey guys! I got us some pizza and drinks, sorry, some demons got in my way back." The newcomer said with a sheepish grin on his face.

"Hey Issei my bro! you're just in time, Gabriel made some too. Come on, let's eat." Dante said happily to the newcomer named Issei.

"Well, Aniki and Aunt Gabriel were kind enough to take me in when my adoptive mother suddenly left to who knows where. She said in the note that she will go to an adventure and I should go to my own too. Adventure my ass! She is just going around sleeping with various men!" Issei ranted to his brother figure which earned a sweatdrop from Dante.

"Issei! Language!" Gabriel shouted.

"…Sorry…"

"Well, it can't be helped. Aunt Lilyn is a succubus demon, she is a creature of sex and using it as her sustenance, if she does not do it, she will get weaker." Dante reasoned to Issei.

"BUT I WON'T ACCEPT IT! I WILL NOT LET ANY BASTARD TOUCH MY BEAUTIFUL AND SEXY ADOPTED MOTHER!" Issei ranted again with fire lit in his eyes.

Dante stared at him with deadpan expression and then he sighed and picks up a slice of pizza and eat, Issei is too dense to realize the meaning of what he said and dismissed it as a son who loves his mother very much and he is just being overprotective. In reality, they share the same problem of being attracted to their respective second mothers not as a parent but as a woman and thus, both resorted to reading porn magazines to distract them from their growing desires.

[ Partner, do you really realized what you just said? You sound like her lover more than her son to me.] A deep voice cuts in their conversation which came from the blinking amulet that Issei is wearing.

"Well Ddraig, as I said before its-"

[ Just a son who loves his mother very much. Yeah you said that many times, but to the outsiders' perspective, you have an unhealthy preference on being attracted to your second mother. You want proof, every time you see some attractive females in that damn magazine you ended up comparing them to Lilyn whether on their faces and their bodies too.] The voice named Ddraig said cutting off Issei's excuse. Upon hearing the harsh truth, Issei was struck with an imaginary arrow to his chest that was written guilty over it while Dante choke on his food and started beating his chest.

"Well I can't help it; Gabriel's beauty is miles away compared to any model females." Dante thought to himself. He looked at Issei hugging his knees in the corner with a gloomy aura over him.

"Dante, Issei, I brought the drinks… Eh? What happened to you Issei!?" Gabriel said in shock as upon her entering the room, she saw Issei at the corner surrounded with a gloomy aura.

"Don't worry about him, Gab. He was just got slapped by reality." Dante replied.

Gabriel could only tilt her head in confusion on what Dante was talking about, to Dante's perspective the action that Gabriel did appears to be too cute for him. Issei recovered in his gloomy state and they started eating together.

"Wait, eating snacks is more enjoyable if we watch some movies." Gabriel grabbed the remote control and opened their wall-mounted television. Upon opening, they see the news channel featuring a tower appearing out of nowhere and variety of demons appearing and attacking anything and anyone at sight.

The three occupants narrowed their eyes, it seems that this incident is something major and an impending disaster coming at the horizon. Dante stood up the couch walking towards his table, he picks up his two custom-made .45 caliber pistols; one colored black and one colored white. He named both the guns as Ebony and Ivory, his trusted partners in shooting down demons. Then he approached a massive sword with a heavy double-edge blade hanging on the wall, it is a silver claymore with a long hilt and a crown pommel, the most prominent feature of the sword is the guard motif which are two merged skulls; one with horns and the mouth opened wide and at another side with a typical looking skull but the mouth is close. It's fuller were crafted into a ribcage and a spine and the quillons are slightly curved towards the blade. It is a sword given to Dante as a keepsake, the magical demon sword Rebellion.

"It seems we have to cut this bonding short, we have work to do." Dante said as he sheathed Rebellion at his back.

"Yeah, so it seems." Issei nodded and stood up preparing himself.

"I just got a call from my brother, Michael. I'll teleport you two to Kyoto, it seems the youkai faction and the Shinto faction will have their hands tied in the spreading invasion of demons due to someone unsealing the Temen-ni-gru." Gabriel said to the two.

"Temen-ni-gru? Is that the name of the tower?" Issei asked the seraph.

"Yes. It was constructed many years ago and this is where Sparda, Dante's father, sealed his demonic power, this also means that it is also a portal to the demon world." Gabriel answered. Upon hearing it, Dante narrows his eyes and contemplated about something, then his eyes slightly widen in realization.

"Let's go, it seems this party is going to get crazy." Dante said with a grin of confidence. Issei and Gabriel nodded as the seraph made a teleportation circle, the light shines brighter until they disappeared in a cross of light.


Kyoto, Japan – 6:30 P.M.

In a railway station at Kyoto, a cross of light appeared and when the light subsided; Dante, Gabriel and Issei appeared. The railway station is currently devoid of people due to the demon attacks in different parts of Kyoto, Dante and Issei checked their equipment and did some stretching before they go hunt demons.

"Alright, this is where we part ways. I need to go to heaven and meet my brother to arrange a meeting with the Shinto and Youkai faction so we angels can officially help. The two of you can go ahead and help since you two are not affiliated to any factions despite me being your guardian. And before I forgot, school opens in a few days and I enrolled you to one." Gabriel said to the two but their eyes widen in shock on what the seraph said in the end.

"Oh man, was that even necessary? You have been homeschooled us until now, what gives?" Dante said.

"Well, I just thought the two of you can act on your age sometimes. At least make some friends and experience youth." Gabriel said with a serene smile and the two young warriors could only sigh in resignation, they cannot refuse her with a beautiful smile on her face.

"Alright Issei, go kick some demon ass around the city while I make a beeline towards the tower. It's family business after all." Dante said to Issei while the latter nodded in approval. After assigning their tasks, Issei left the two and went towards the city proper.

"Okay Gab, I better get going." He was about to leave but Gabriel stopped him by grabbing his hand. Dante stared at her in confusion only to see her worried expression.

"Be careful out there and come back to me in one piece."

"Yeah, I promised." Dante reassured the worried seraph by putting a confident smirk and then Gabriel let go of him, prompting for him to leave. Gabriel stared at Dante's back until she cannot see him anymore and then she disappeared in a cross of light.

Somewhere in the city

Dante is currently walking the road that leads to the tower, the place is already devoid of people, destroyed property and vehicles crashed on a post or to another vehicle. After looking around, he was just about to walk further but beyond the road lies the problem; a group of demons are slowly walking towards him. The group wields enormous scythes; they are grey humanoid demons wearing dark cloak and black bandages on their limbs and most of all their bodies were impaled with several large blades, this demon is called Hell Prides. There are also another group, though they resemble the Hell Prides; their prominent features were them being skeletal figures with dark long hair resembling a hood and a thorny crown, they wear ragged black robes, and have reptilian clawed feet and a digitigrade posture. Just like the Hell Prides they wield massive scythes as weapons, these demons are the Cleaving Vanguard, Hell Caina.

"Whoa! You're eager to get started, aren't we? Then let's get this party started, Let's rock!" Dante said cockily as he draws out Ebony and Ivory and did some freestyle spinning on his guns before aiming both guns to the demon horde.

(Cue Battle OST: Rungran – Devil May Cry the animated series Theme)

One of the Hell Prides charges at Dante and made a diagonal slash to bisect the white haired youth, but Dante in response deflected the attack with Ebony then aim Ivory at the Hell Pride's face shooting the demon point blank. Another Hell Pride attempts to attack Dante with a downward slash, Dante dodges the attack by a hairs breath by leaning to the side and then started shooting at another Hell Pride that is getting closer. Dante kicks the demon away which made it tumble towards its fellow demon, out of nowhere another Hell Pride did a reaping attack but Dante flips over the attack and before the demon could pull back its weapon, Dante kicked it away making the said weapon stab another demon and then he shot the nearest demon killing it in the process.

Within the horde, a splash of sand manifested that brought out a demon different from the Hell Prides, the demon is tall, dark-skinned humanoid demons with abnormally long arms. They're naked except for some black bandages and a black, leather-like mask that shows one eye and the mouth both sewn. They carry a giant organic sack over their shoulders at all times. This demon is called the Hell Wrath. It might be slow due to its baggage but Dante is sure that the demon is walking little by little towards him, and he knows for sure that the huge sack that it carries is bad news. But Dante never minds it, in fact he suddenly thought of a crazy stunt as he runs towards the direction of the Hell Wrath. Every Hell Prides that gets in his way are being shot down with his pistols; first he shoots at every demon that will come in front of him left and right and sometimes evading attacks with twists and turns before shooting and he even uses one of his guns to parry an attack in a deadlock then using the free gun to shoot at the demon's blind side. This continued until he is near the target, he dashes towards the enemy and kick off to launch himself upwards. He twisted his body to downright position and then revolves himself in mid-air showering the enemies in a storm of bullets. Some bullets hit the organic sack on the Hell Wrath, which is actually a bomb resulting to a big explosion damaging all the surroundings including the Hell Prides and Hell Cainas nearby.

"Woohoo! Yeah! That's what I'm talking about." Dante said as he landed in one knee. He inspects the surroundings and most of the horde were eliminated by the explosion but few Hell Prides and Hell Cainas managed to survive as they struggled to get up.

Dante jumped at the downed Hell Pride and them kick off to propel the demon he is riding. As he rides along the battlefield, he begins firing in every direction hitting the surrounding demons until he slams the demon he's riding to the wall. He jumps off and then while in mid-air he fires Ebony and Ivory to the demon which once again added to his kill count. After dealing with a group of lesser demons, he is once again surrounded with Hell Prides and Hell Cainas with the addition of another group of demons, they are similar to Hell Prides but much faster in movement, they wear a distinctive jester-like outfit rather than bandages or a cloak. These demons are the Hell Lust.

"Ready for round two, huh? Okay, come here! Come at me, boy!" Dante taunted the demons while clapping and beckoning them like they are dogs.

A Hell Caina charges at Dante and swings its massive scythe attempting to bisect him but Dante grabs the haft of the scythe then kick the demon across the sheen, with a quick movement Dante uses the scythe and hacks the demon bisecting it into two. More demons charged to the young devil hunter but no one managed to land an attack due to Dante twirling the scythe around effectively slicing the surrounding enemies. Dante noticed a Hell Lust charging at him in a dash attack, in response to the threat, Dante throws the scythe to the direction of the dashing Hell Lust. The Hell Lust could only be shock as the massive sickle stab through to its head.

Now devoid of weapon in hand, Dante raises his right hand grabbing the hilt of Rebellion on his back and then throw it to the crowd of demons. Some demons were unfortunate as they were stabbed by the sword and then got pinned to the wall, another Hell Lust attempted a dash attack again but Dante leaned back evading the sickle in a hair's breathe and then he extends his hand towards the Rebellion. Responding to the call of its owner, the sword unpins itself from the wall and flew back to its master and the young devil hunter skillfully catches his weapon and starts deflecting the incoming attacks on him. One demon attempts to swing only to be swatted by his sword and then bisecting them, the cycle only repeats and one by one the demons fall to his blade. By now, the enemies are now cautious at him as they circle him around and some Hell Lust are leaping from side to side attempting to find a blind spot, but Dante will not wait for them to attack as he executes a high-speed lunge attack towards the unfortunate Hell Pride and got skewered through its torso. Dante's attack did not end there, he raises his sword with the skewered demon and swings his weapon like a club, he keeps bashing the demon to its fellow demons until he spins around and swings like a baseball bat making the skewered demon threw off the sword and got thrown to another demon. And that is how Dante wiped out the demon horde.

(Battle OST end)

When he was about to relax, he heard a sound that is a mixture of a sinister howl and laughter. He looks around and saw a black and blue mist warping from building to building until it appears in front of him. When the mist subsided a new demon emerges, it is much taller than the Hell Prides and Hell Caina and wears a black robe and has a pale white skin. Just like the enemies earlier, it wields a massive scythe but the sickle is glowing in sick purple. This demon has the closest appearance to the grim reapers of Hades, the Hell Vanguard.

"Looks like the big boss of the reapers is here. Too bad, you won't pass in singing on choirs." Dante said to the demon in a cocky tone. The Hell Vanguard took it as an insult then warps towards Dante and started to swing its scythe.

(Cue Battle OST: Devil May Cry OST – Ultraviolet)

Dante hopped to the right evading the slash and then executes another high-speed lunge attack but the demon defended with the haft of the scythe then deflected Dante's sword away as it attempts for another swing. Dante in response parried the swings of the Hell Vanguard, both combatants are in a stalemate and kept repeating the same routine. Dante got bored of their game and sheaths Rebellion to his back, the Hell Vanguard look at him in confusion and felt insulted when Dante made a stance that can be seen on a martial artist.

"This is enough to defeat you. Come at me and show me what you got!" Angered by Dante's taunt, the Hell Vanguard swings its scythe into a strong reaping attack.

BANG!

"Too easy." Instead of the sound of a blade reaping flesh, it is a sound of something collided to a solid object. Dante is once again moving his arms in circular motions and then the demon swings again.

BANG!

"Give it up." The same sound was heard again. The Hell Vanguard swings multiple times this time and it could only see Dante defending and shrugs its attack like its nothing. Every swing it did, it can only notice an invisible barrier protecting Dante from its attack. Dante once again moves his arm but this time he taunted the demon to attack him again.

"Come and get me!"

Infuraiated, the Hell Vanguard bites on Dante's bait and attack. After the sickle made contact to his barrier, Dante moves his arms into a palm strike and sends a shockwave that impacted the demons body. The demon howls in pain being hit by an unseen force and it becomes cautious.

The Hell Vanguard thought that it cannot fight Dante head on so it shows its trump card. The demon vanishes into mist and a sound of a bell could be heard, the young devil hunter wondered on where is the demon and at the same time sharpens his senses. An unseen ripple in space appeared behind Dante and the Hell Vanguard emerges from the ripple twirling its scythe while flying towards Dante, it was now close to make the devil hunter off guard.

BANG!

Unfortunately for the demon, Dante manages to block its sneak attack. The demon once again disappeared and a sound of a bell is once again heard. This time the ripple appeared under Dante and the Hell Vanguard emerges upward attempting to cleave Dante to half but the devil hunter dashes out of the way evading the attack successfully. The demon appeared in front of Dante looking confused on how the white haired young man could predict its movements.

"If that was Issei, he will be surely caught off guard by that. But how sad, your tricks won't work against me." Dante taunted the demon again and as usual the demon was infuriated.

The Hell Vanguard once again attempted to use its tricks but it all resulted to failure; five times it ambushes Dante from below which the devil hunter evaded by dashing and ten times it attempted to ambush Dante in any angle which Dante blocked. The Hell Vanguard became frustrated and angry that a mere human is treating it like a joke. It manifested the ripple close to Dante's front believing to slap its surprise to his face, when the demon emerges, it was surprised instead that it was collided with a strong force taking it out of the air. Dante's right arm was extended like he delivers a straight punch while propelling forward, the young devil hunter countered the demon's attack reflecting all the force he accumulated back to the demon. The downed Hell Vanguard struggled to get up while looking at Dante's smug face both hands at his hips. Even if the demon was so angry, it only decided to retreat back to the tower.

(Battle OST end)

"Oh! Running away? Well, that's fine with me." Dante commented.

"Impressive." A voice made itself known to Dante. The young devil hunter draws his guns out aiming to the direction of the voice.

The owner of the voice appears as a tall, pale-skinned bald male adult. He dresses in a rather simple minister-esque fashion consistently of a purely black-colored ensemble devoid of color or any lightly-colored shades. His most distinguishing feature aside from his heterochromia is a large burnt scar covering the entire left side of his head and barely creeping over his face. He also carries a tome in red cover.

"Dude, who the hell are you?" Dante asked in a stern tone.

"Are you Dante? Son of the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda? The mysterious man began.

"Where did you hear that?" Dante narrowed his eyes in suspicion.

"From your brother. He sent this invitation for you. Please... accept it." The mysterious man walks slowly to a nearby motorcycle and taps the handle then he suddenly throws it towards Dante. The young devil hunter leans back and do a back flip, dodging the motorcycle by a hair's breath. When he recovers his footing he aims his guns again only to see nothing, the mysterious man disappeared.

"Invitation, huh? Just as I thought… This is your doing after all."

"It's been a year since we last met… Where has the time go? I have gotten stronger ever since that day, don't think you can score another one on me again."

Dark clouds have covered the whole city, a sign of the coming rain, thunder resounded on the whole city of Kyoto. As lightning flashes, it also illuminated Dante and casts his shadow. Instead of a human silhouette like the young man, the shadow although humanoid in form, it has a pair of wings furled to the waist which is supposed to be casted by his two tailcoat and the head has a form of downward facing horns.

"I bet you got something fun prepared for me, right VERGIL!?" Dante said, his tone is ascending louder as he spread his arms wide in mock excitement as he started walking towards the tower.


At the top of Temen-ni-gru

The Temen-ni-gru is a structure that towers over the skyscrapers that the city have, its height almost reach the dark clouds. Atop of this tower stands a white-haired young man; he has the same facial features as Dante but the differences are that his bangs in the middle is swept back leaving only the long fringes that frames his face, he wears a black coat with neon blue serpentine patterns and three separated coattails, he is also wearing a black sleeveless zippered-turtleneck beneath his midnight blue formal vest, charcoal gray fingerless gloves, black pants and dark colored teal boots covered with black gaiter with several straps. Standing in front of him is a Japanese sword or odachi being held by both of his hands on the pommel; the sword has gold pommel while the hilt is designed in sageo handle wrapping sporting a vaguely infinity symbol-like pattern, giving it a traditional diamond shape in the negative space. The tsuba/hand guard is gold and a deep navy patina blue, shaped like two hexagons, each with gold dot pattern patches and in a grove like motif with gold rings, inside of which are various circles in clusters of three, arranged in triangular patterns, and the gold habaki/fuller is also with a similar embossed pattern. And finally the scabbard is black, made of traditional lacquered wood, and features several metallic ornaments on its far end. The person standing atop the Temen-ni-gru is Dante's older twin brother, Vergil and the sword he's holding, like Dante's Rebellion, is another keepsake from their father, the dark-forged demonic blade, Yamato.

"Was that even necessary? Arkham." Vergil asked to someone with the mentioned name.

"It is an assurance that this is not a waste of time for him. It will save the time for him to confirm that you are here." Behind Vergil is the same man that Dante met.

"Well? Doesn't it excite you? The Temen-ni-gru has revived. The Great One, who once ruled this earth as the medium between the human world... and the demon world. Isn't it a magnificent view? The greatest minds of their time, those who revered evil, constructed this glorious edifice. Now, after milleniums of confinement, it can finally fulfill the purpose for which it was intended—" Arkham continued with his poetic speech.

"That's none of my concern. Since you already invited him here, I shall wait for his arrival to assess if he has gotten stronger before I go down to the control unit." Visibly impatient, he interrupts Arkham. He is not in the mood on listening to the bald man's speech.

The Hell Vanguard that escaped Dante earlier reaches the top of the tower and approaches Vergil, begging for forgiveness for failing to kill Dante. Vergil offers it none; he turns away, then abruptly draws his katana and seemingly impales it in a single stroke. He resheathes his weapon, and the demon falls off the tower in several pieces as Vergil walks away. Arkham watches in morbid fascination.

"Almost all of the pieces are in place… Now, the only thing left is that last piece." Arkham said as he gazes down at somewhere in the city before walking off.

MISSION 1 END


AUTHOR'S NOTE:

That is a wrap for our official chapter 1, did you all read the deviation of this events to the start of Devil May Cry 3? Dante is not alone here in the start and he has Issei as his business partner, he is also adopted by Gabriel after the event when Eva died, so he will be a little less snarky and smartass but don't worry he still mocks his enemies, he's not Dante if he did not. Issei here is not the main character here but still has a major role, Sparda has three apprentices instead of two in the original which the third I named as Lilyn, she is also a major character and has her own origins. Vergil is also a main character; I wonder if you could tell the deviation it will bring… What else? There are also the tweaks I made in Dante and Vergil's hairstyle, I wanted an anime style hair so just deal with it. Hehehe… Dante's hairstyle is the same as in the image that I used for this story's avatar so you would know what Dante looks like. I also used the clothes in DMC 5 for Dante and Vergil… because its more casual and cool too, I know some of you preferred Vergil's old costume but in my opinion his dark clothes are cooler. Rebellion and the Yamato are also from DMC 5 design but Yamato's scabbard is from the older design. Issei's costume is from Dante of DmC reboot same with his sword but I still do not have a name for it since Rebellion is already taken. Oh and more importantly… you have probably noticed here that Vergil did not ask about Dante's amulet and instead he will just wait for Dante to see how much he have gotten stronger before he go down to the main control unit… that's because Vergil already have both of the amulets. Also my description on Dante's shadow, I bet you already know what it means. There is still more deviations coming up so look forward to it. Please leave a review.