Welcome to the official chapter 4 of the DMC-DXD crossover, this chapter covers mission 6 in the game and a short chapter as well. I'm finally updating one of my stories after so long, well, I am not actually earning money doing this and stressed out since I am still unemployed due to COVID-19 pandemic and just freeloading on my family, so sometimes I am losing motivation and ideas. I am also announcing that my progress in writing my stories would be on snail's pace because my younger brother introduced me to both mihoyo games; which are Honkai impact 3 and Genshin impact and got me hooked. I just started recently just last December and these games are highly recommended. So on to the chapter.
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"Character talking" "Character in transformed state talking"
"Character mentally talking"
Demon/ monsters talking
Devil arm talking
[Ddraig talking]
(Albion talking)
Mission 4 start
Somewhere in Temen-ni-gru
The woman is currently walking in a large room with cautious steps and hands on her weapons, she left her motorcycle somewhere in the tower due to places that cannot be accessed by her vehicle. She cautiously looks to her left and her right staying vigilant for an ambush and after some moments, she was right to decide to stay vigilant. Suddenly, a Hell pride attacks her out of nowhere and almost close to get reap by the scythe weapon thanks to her fast reflexes and she manages to back away at the last second. She draws her dual automatic pistols and fires at the demon in a rapid succession killing it in the process, another Hell pride charges at the woman and made a diagonal slash but the woman avoided the attack with just leaning to the side and immediately retaliate and gunned down the second demon.
(Cue Battle BGM: Insert any rock music that you know)
One by one, Hell prides and Hell lusts appear in every corner of the room surrounding the woman. The demons charge towards the woman and like an expert gunslinger, the woman fights them in close quarters by using the gun kata as she gracefully parries the attacks then firing her guns at point blank as retaliation. This continues until she takes down five demons, some of the Hell prides slash and stab the woman but she avoided all the attacks resulting to their weapons embedding on the wall then the woman proceeds on killing the trapped demons in a swift manner.
Seeing their brethren killed, the Hell lusts start attacking the woman attempting to slash, stab and reap on her but the woman's reflexes were fast and easily avoids the attacks. The woman uses the discarded scythes that are stabbed on the wall as footholds to help her outmaneuver the demons and swing around like an acrobat, she even ended up kicking some demons during her swing but most of her moves are firing her pistols while hanging on the scythe's shaft. One demon charges at her and the woman kicks the demon to the face and then she seats on the shaft of the scythe, she crosses her legs making her look like she is seating elegantly while staring down on the demons.
The demons got furious due to them being manhandled by a human of all beings and charge at the woman blindly. They swing their scythes to cut the woman to pieces but the woman jumps over them and performs a front flip landing gracefully to the ground, then she immediately draws her two automatic pistols and starts to indiscriminately firing her guns to the demons on a random direction. The demons that attempted to get close to her are being shot down and when one of the scythe-wielding demons gets too close, the woman will retaliate with a swift kick and makes the demon eat lead. The status quo did not last long as more demons get closer and closer and when the demons manage to reach the woman, she has already avoided them by performing a cartwheel while shooting the demons down.
Upon landing once again to the ground, she was quickly surrounded by the remaining demons. The woman grabs the bazooka on her back and swings it to the charging demons, the bazooka is also equipped with a large bayonet blade under its barrel so the moment the woman swung her weapon, the demons that got close to her were slice in two but some of the demons were thrown back by the force of the swing. She continues to swing around her weapon as she parries and counter all the incoming attacks, the woman might not be well-verse in swordsmanship but she has decent close combat skills as she kicks her opponents to cover the gap between her swings. The woman stabs her bazooka on the ground and then spins around it like a pole dancer, kicking all the demons around her. After spinning around, she stands beside her bazooka and activates the attached missile launchers on the butt end of the bazooka, the containers open and launch all the missiles like fireworks and then there are explosions around her that blasted all the demons in one go.
The aftermath was quite devastating as there are craters all around but surprisingly, the room is too sturdy to withstand those explosions. After wiping out the demons, the woman hefts her bazooka up and slings it on her shoulder and with a breath of relief, the woman proceeds on exploring the tower.
(Battle BGM end)
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Mute Goddess' Chamber (Dante's current location)
After his decisive battle with the twin demons of fire and wind, Dante finds himself in another large room. At the center of the room lies a stand which holds a metallic odd-looking weapon which faces to the right direction. The devil hunter moves closer to the stand to investigate the area, from what he can see, the path forward was split into two directions; one straight ahead while the other to his right which is blocked by a large pile of rubble. Dante held his chin and did a thinking pose, he looks around the room searching for any clues until he lays his sight to the odd-looking weapon which faces to the direction of the pile of rubble.
"Hmm… it seems that I must use this thing to clear the obstacle to this path, the only thing left is to how to activate this thing." Dante pondered for the solution as he searches around the stand for any buttons to use the weapon but he did not find any. The devil hunter observes every little detail of the stand until he notices the three circular slots on the front panel.
"Found it! But I need to insert something on these slots huh. If that was the case, then the items that I need lies on the path ahead." Dante examined the panel as he touches the slots then look towards the path that was not blocked.
Not wasting any time, the devil hunter proceeds to the next room finding four pedestals within. He approaches the nearest pedestal that has white glowing runes on it and starts reading the inscription. The inscription is read as follows; 'Passing one trial still shows lacking. Passing two trials expand horizons. Passing all trial unlocks one's potential.'
"Well, that was an interesting riddle there." Dante commented upon reading the inscription.
From what I can understand young master, we need to pass all the trials which held by all the three doors there in order to move further into this tower. Cerberus said his input.
I agree to what the ice guardian said lord Dante, the key items are apparently beyond these doors. Agni seconded.
What he said. Rudra followed.
"Then let's pick our first trial shall we?" Dante replied to his devil arms as he observes the remaining three pedestals.
Dante makes his way towards his left where the pedestal that glows purple runes at, upon looking at the inscription, the devil hunter let out a groan when he read that this door will test his wisdom. Again, not his cup of tea and one of his twin's field of expertise.
"Oh man, this is going to be rough. Now let's see here; 'Your wisdom will be put to the test in the chamber ahead. Use your lifetime experience: from the crawling infant to the man standing tall and finally to the old man leaning on his cane'… hmm, what was that supposed to mean?" Dante said in confusion.
After a minute of pondering, Dante just shrugs his shoulders and enters the first chamber to see the trial area with his own eyes. Upon entering the chamber, he found himself in a dark room which is illuminated by crimson lights that are coming from the orbs on top of each doors up ahead and to his left, right and behind him from where he came from. He looked at each door and realizes that he needs to choose one door to proceed.
"Well, I just have to choose one right?" Dante nonchalantly said as he approaches the door with two orbs at the top.
Young master, are you sure about entering a door randomly? Don't you need to analyze the meaning of the riddle? Cerberus asked his master.
"Nah… overthinking things is just not my style; I prefer charging in until I get to the exit." The devil hunter replied in a carefree manner.
Upon entering the chosen door, he found himself to a similar room but suddenly all doors are blocked by demonic barriers. Dante realizes that he voluntarily walked himself into a trap, clicking his tongue he draws his twin guns, Ebony and Ivory, as he awaits the demons that will spawn any moment. A distortion in space appears and a group of Hell prides that almost filled the room descended in front of the devil hunter, the demons did not waste any time and charge towards Dante. The devil hunter just stood in his place with a cocky smirk on his face as if welcoming them to try and have a piece of him, the first Hell pride swung at him but using his guns, Dante parried the attack and redirected it along with the demon then he aims his free gun to the face of an incoming demon and fires killing it as a result.
Dante kicks the first demon to the butt then performs an acrobatic move by jumping over the Hell pride and attacks the demon with a sweep kick which disorients not just one but three demons that happens to be in range of his swift kick. The scene was seeming to be in slow motion as the three demons are slowly falling to the ground but before that happens, Dante fires three consecutive shots on the three demons to the face. Another demon charges in trying its luck to the devil hunter only to receive a backward cartwheel-kick to the chin that sent the demon to the air then Dante follows up his attack by firing his guns to the airborne demon riddling it with holes.
The demons change their tactics and surround Dante, they charge towards him altogether but the hunter switches his weapons from dual pistols to shotgun, the Coyote- A. He twirls the shotgun like a nunchaku as he sprays buckshot around him killing all the demons near him while sending the other demons at the back flying, this move will be called fireworks by Dante later on. One of the Hell pride tries to stand up but Dante immediately dealt with the demon using his gunstinger move killing it quickly, the demon hunter relaxes his stance knowing that the fight is over but unbeknownst to him, one demon manages to recover and sneaks on his back. The demon was about to swing its scythe but Dante suddenly aims his shotgun to is back without looking then fires a buckshot on the enemy, his backslide move killed the demon and breaks the seal on all passages.
"Okay, done. I guess I should try another door, if two is not the right way then we go to three." Dante said casually as he decided to do the trial and error approach.
Wait, lord Dante!
Yes, just wait. Agni and Rudra stops their master for making a wrong decision.
We all thought that you should analyze the riddle first before choosing a door.
It appears that if you chose the wrong door, we might be get stuck in a trap like what happened earlier. The twin demons said consecutively.
The twins are right young master; the moment we enter this chamber, there is no going back. The only solution here is the clue that is written back at the pedestal. Cerberus added.
"What? Aw man… do I have to think hard on this? Fine then, that's way better than being stuck with other demons here, if I attempt to go back from where I came from, I bet that it will be another trap on its own. Okay let's see here, the pedestal says: 'from the crawling infant to the man standing tall and finally to the old man leaning on his cane'. Hmmm…" Dante ponders deeply as he observes the chamber especially the number of orbs on each passages.
"Wait… aha! So that's how it is…" The demon hunter realizes the connection as he hammers his right fist on his left palm.
"Now, to test if I'm right on the money."
Dante walks towards one of the passages and enters the one with four orbs, when he arrives to the next chamber, nothing happened, neither traps nor demons. Realizing that he is on the right track, he walks straight to the passage with two orbs then to the next chamber, he chose the passage with three orbs. After entering the last passage, he finds himself in a chamber with a small column in the middle of the room. On the small column, there is a shining orb on top of the structure. The devil hunter knew that this is the one of the three items he needs in order to progress deeper into the demon tower so he approach the small column and picks the orb.
"Well, one down and two to go."
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Kyoto, City proper
Issei managed to arrive in the warzone, the legion of demons gets thicker whenever he is nearer to his designated location. By the time he arrives at an intersection, demons suddenly spawn all over the place blocking his path. Different varieties of demons appear in front of him, aside from Hell prides and Hell Cainas, another species of demons stand in his way; these demons resemble a cracked porcelain dolls with black liquid oozing from their bodies, the most prominent feature from these demons are the weapons grafted on their arm. The Sekiryuutei could count at least ten of them wielding spiked clubs and five wielding large razors, the ones that have spiked clubs are called lesser Stygian while the ones with large razor are called Stygian. Issei also noticed that these dolls are being led by a blue demon that is the same type of the dolls but with the difference is that this demon has a demonic horn and a toothy mouth which is creepy on Issei's book and the large sawblade that is grafted on its arm, this demon is called the elite Stygian.
(Cue Battle OST: Garo Vanishing Line OST- M.T.W.)
The young dragon warrior could tell that the elite Stygian is the strongest of the bunch and he cannot help but make a toothy grin, he welcomes any challenges and doesn't run away from it. He stood straight and relaxes his stance and slowly walking to the crowd of demons as if mocking them, daring them to come at him. A pair of draconic gauntlets appear on both of his arms again as he picks up his pace, his walk turns into jog then it becomes a full sprint charging to the demonic horde. The demons did the same charging towards the youth with vicious ferocity; Hell Prides, Hell Cainas, and lesser Stygians move to intercept Issei with the elite Stygian remains standing back escorted by other Stygians observing and gauging their enemy.
[BOOST!]
Issei immediately closes the distance by dashing towards the nearest demon and launch the Hell Caina with a strong uppercut, then he leaps to another demon spinning mid-air and delivers a kick to the Hell pride's head. A lesser Stygian made its move as it swings its spiked club at him only to be intercepted by Issei redirecting the attack then counters with an elbow strike to the face then executes a reverse roundhouse kick sending it flying to its comrade, he pounces to the next demon like a vicious predator closing in to the other lesser Stygian and gives it a head-butt then grapple the staggered demon's legs and breaks them followed by stepping the demon's head.
[BOOST!]
Two Hell Cainas manage to close in to the Sekiryuutei's flanks and awing their scythes at the same time, but Issei got out by jumping over the Hell pride near him and uses the demon as a leverage which made the poor grunt got hit by its brethren instead. Issei quickly draws his sword, Avenger and transforms the weapon into its grappling hook form which still retains the appearance of the sword's hilt bit the blade part changes into a black chain-like whip with red claws at the end designed for grabbing any objects (A/N: Ophion demon pull), he swings the weapon and grabs one Hell Pride and pulls it towards him, the dragon emperor leaps and grab the demon in-between his legs then slam it hard to the ground with a thunderous thud and a sickening crack.
[BOOST!]
With incredible speed, the red dragon emperor closes in to a Hell Caina and backhanded the demon making it stagger and disoriented then he grabs the demon into submission hold wrapping an arm around its neck. Then with great force, Issei breaks the demon's neck and searches for his next target only to see a scythe and a spiked club both in mid-swing. The Sekryuutei evades the attacks consecutively by sidestepping then he grabs both the heads of the lesser Stygian and Hell Caina and smacks them to each other by colliding their heads. Not yet satisfied on the given punishment, Issei proceeds to slam both demons to the asphalted road making them kiss the ground.
[BOOST!]
After the announcement of his fourth boost, the gauntlets of the Sekiryuutei starts to coat itself with a flame-like aura indicating that his attacks will be heavier with the elemental damage of fire to the enemies. Issei suddenly sense an incoming attack from a lesser Stygian but he counters the attack with a whirlwind of kicks leaving a trail of fire in his attack, his first kick parries the spiked club then the rest of his kicks hit both the head and body of the demon with his last solid kick sending it flying. A Hell pride sneaks behind Issei and swings its scythe but the weapon only hits air as the red dragon emperor evades the attack by leaping to the side then he immediately counters by backhanding the demon to the face followed by a barrage of punches which made his arms blurred due to the intense attack speed. While Issei is busy raining punches, a Hell Caina charges to the young man and swings its weapon but Issei ducks down canceling his beat down to the hell pride temporarily and sends a back kick to the Hell Caina's leg followed with a reverse roundhouse kick that sends the demon flying. With the threat dealt with, the Sekiryuutei resumes his beat down on the stunned Hell pride raining it with a barrage of punches then he finishes the demon off with a high impact hit with both of his fists.
[BOOST!]
[EXPOLOSION!]
Getting desperate, the group composed of the remaining Hell Prides, Hell Cainas, and lesser Stygians charge to the youth all at the same time getting surrounded by attacks on all angles. Issei clenches his right fist and raise his arm up preparing for a strong punch, then he slams his fist to the ground unleashing shockwaves and explosion of blazing inferno on everything in its path which rattles and burns all the demons to ash, the aftermath of the attack resulted to a scorched crater. After unleashing all the boosts that he accumulated, he heard his sacred gear reset and then he dismissed his gauntlets.
"Now, it's only you and your cronies left. Come at me with all you've got, I'll take you on!" Issei declared his challenge as he draws Avenger and points the sword to the group of Stygians led by an elite Stygian.
(Battle OST end)
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Temen-ni-gru, Chamber of three trials
After passing the first trial, Dante goes back to the chamber where his next trial awaits. The devil hunter approaches the pedestal at the middle which is glowing in orange, he looks at the inscription and investigate the message written on it. The pedestal says that the trial ahead will test his technique which Dante favors more than the first trial.
"Your technique will be put to the test in the chamber ahead. Overcome the onslaught of obstacles to guarantee your future. Hoho! I guess this is some kind of obstacle course this time, I love to do some parkour back in the day. This is much better than the first one." Dante commented and immediately enters the chamber.
After entering the chamber, the devil hunter saw a long straight hallway and at the end lies his second key. The moment he fully steps inside the chamber, Dante heard some mechanisms activate and the long straight and empty hallway suddenly springs spikes that will surely impales the intruders. Before he proceeds, Dante observes how this trial works and how far the spikes reach.
"Hmm… so this hallway springs up spikes in all directions; whether to the left side or right side, even the floor and ceiling too. The silver lining here is that the spikes only springs up halfway through so I can go through the space that the spikes doesn't reach, then there is the interval too. After a set of spikes activated, the first set of spikes will spring up towards this location at least five phases before another set springs up but there is no pattern on which side will the spikes spring up next, it can be on the same side or a different side. I guess I have to stay focus here or else this deathtrap will shishkabob me." The Devil hunter said analyzing the situation.
Dante did some warm up exercises and done some stretches to prepare, he crouches down into position like a runner in an obstacle race and started running. The devil hunter runs straight ahead as he passes three consecutive sets of spikes jutting out of the ceiling then suddenly follows by a two sets of spikes from the floor which he jumps over then uses sky star move which he makes a quick dash in mid-air propelling him forward. As he lands on the ground, another set of spikes is on his way but this time he avoided three consecutive sets of spikes coming from the right side of the wall by dashing to the left and continues to run at the left side of the hallway. After passing these sets, the spikes came out once again from the floor and Dante responds by using wall hike and runs on the wall passing through five sets of spikes on the floor until he jumps over, then the spikes suddenly jut out from the ceiling this time which the devil hunter uses ground trick for emergency landing.
"Damn, this obstacle is too random that it becomes too confusing. I almost slip up on that one." Dante said as he realizes that he had already made halfway through the hallway.
Dante continues to run further towards his goal but the obstacles suddenly got confusing as the spikes alternately appear on both left and right sides of the hallway. The devil hunter runs at full speed and moves at zigzag motion in response to the spikes, whenever he thinks that he is going to get impaled by the traps he always use dash through the spikes. This pattern continues on ten more sets until the obstacle changes pattern into activating the spikes on both floor and ceiling alternately. Dante has no choice but to change his movements, he sprints towards the incoming spikes on the floor and jumps over it and as he landed to the ground, the devil hunter continues to run since the spikes on the ceiling does not pose a threat to him. He repeats doing this until he is near the end of the hallway that contains the second key which is the essence of technique, the moment he reaches three meters away from the target, Dante jumps and uses sky star propelling him forward to the end and landed safely.
"Well, it's two down and one to go." Dante said as he picks up the essence of technique.
The devil hunter was about to make his way back when he suddenly sees a horde of demons spawning at the hallway, the demons are composed of Hell prides and Hell gluttony and their numbers filled up almost half of the whole place. Seeing this, Dante could only sigh in defeat having no choice but to fight through the horde. Drawing his sword, Rebellion on his right hand and Ebony on his left hand, the devil hunter charges towards the horde firing his gun to thin the large number of demons. With his dance of blade and gun, Dante plow through the horde with sheer skill and technique hacking and slashing demons left and right while shooting down enemies that his sword can't reach. In every swing of his sword, two to three demons are beheaded or bisected while on the other hand every time he points his gun in one direction, heads are being blown up like balloons. By the time he reached the other end of the hallway, corpses of demons started to disintegrate and turn to sand. With the nuisances out of the way, Dante makes his way back to the chamber without any problem.
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In the city of Kyoto
Gabriel flies through the city with great speed making her way to the tower, all six pairs of her pure white wings are spread widely as she glides on low altitude. She smites demons down with her very potent and dense light spear while maintaining her speed. She is already approaching the tower in a steady pace until projectiles made of demonic energy shoot at her with deadly accuracy attempting to take her down but the seraph dodges them skillfully in the last second, but the attacks did slow her down. She looks down only to see a large group of Enigmas sniping at her with their known high percentage of accuracy to shoot their targets.
The Enigmas continue to fire their hellish barrage towards the seraph which is currently focused on both evasive and defensive maneuvers, Gabriel uses her natural agility to evade and weave through every shot while parrying the attacks that comes close to hitting her using her fast reflexes. After slipping through the enemies' fire, Gabriel retaliates with her own by hurling a newly created light spear at one of the Enigma. The throw was so fast that one of the demons was unable to dodge and got hit straight to the eyeball, upon making contact to the target, the spear produces a large explosion that killed multiple Enigmas but some of them survive the blast and quickly scurried away with surprising speed.
The Enigmas fire more accurate shots while making some distance which impedes her on getting close, Gabriel conjures multiple light spears and hurls them on the general directions of the demons. Some hit their mark but some manage to evade, the demons fire back but the seraph wraps herself with her wings which blocks the attacks. The Enigmas were about to fire another volley of energy arrows but suddenly, rain of light spears tore through the demons then Azazel appears and went in front of Gabriel to cover her.
"Whew… I finally catch up. Geeezz… you should not charge on your own and waited for us." Azazel said as lightning strikes the others that escapes the onslaught.
"I am still worried about Dante after all, I must hurry and go to his aid." Gabriel replied in a worried tone.
"That would be pointless if you got overwhelmed by their numbers especially not having your brave saints escorting you, they can't even keep up on you in this chaotic battlefield." Penemue cuts in as she approaches the two together with Barakiel.
"Besides, it seems they are not eager to let us pass." As if on cue on what Barakiel said, hordes of seven hells and Hell Cainas start appearing one after another and they are led by a Hell Vanguard and a Hell Judecca. The demons continue to appear until they are surrounded, Gabriel, Azazel, Penemue and Barakiel fell in their battle stance their backs facing each other. All of them keeping an eye on the demons at each side.
"Well what do you know, if anything, they are quite persistent." Azazel said as the demons surrounding them charge at them in full force.
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Back to Dante's location
"Well, here we are at the one and final trial." Dante approach the last pedestal with green runic light.
"Your warrior's heart will be put to the test in the chamber ahead. Light all of the crest to suppress the evil spirit's rage. This sounds like what I have been doing all this time which is kicking demon asses. Simple enough if you ask me." Dante reads the inscription and then shrugs his shoulders.
The demon hunter enters the room of the final trial with ease on his steps, he looks around his surroundings as he proceeds finding himself in a large room with four spikes or poles symmetrically placed on each side of the room and further away is some strange device with a crest. When Dante reaches the center of the room, he hears something moving behind him only to find his exit blocked with the same device attached on it. Shortly after being trapped in the room, demons start spawning around him and as far as he can see, they are composed of Hell prides, Hell lusts and Hell sloths but the difference is that they are all coated by a purple mist aura. Which means the demons are in devil trigger state that makes them much stronger and tougher than normal.
(Cue Battle OST: Devil May Cry 3 Dante theme- taste the blood)
"Whoa! Look at these guys, they are all in steroids. Well I guess it's your lucky day you two, I'm in the mood of testing this new weapon of mine." Dante said as two serrated swords appeared on both of his hands, he is now going to use Agni and Rudra in battle.
Finally, we are going to see some action!
Yes, at long last, we are being of use. Agni and Rudra joyfully said.
Dante made a few test swings until he falls to a battle stance daring his enemies to come at him, the demons roar in response and charge to the devil hunter with their weapons in their hands. Dante skillfully parries the attack of the first demon with one sword then quickly follows up with a slash with the other, a Hell sloth suddenly teleports at his flank and swings its scythe only for the devil hunter to parry again redirecting the attack then Dante gives the demon a reverse roundhouse kick. His danger instinct kicks in and he suddenly jumps up seeing a Hell lust pass him by with its lunging attack, upon landing back to the ground, he did a Jetstream move as he sprints after the demon with both swords by his side ready to strike then upon closing in, he unleashes a barrage of slashes and finish it with an element-infused cross slash sending the demon flying to the wall.
Two Hell prides suddenly attacks on both of his sides forcing the devil hunter to duel both demons at the same time, parrying one while dodging the other, he alternates his attention on both Hell prides that relentlessly swinging their scythes to keep on the pressure. Wanting to end the deadlock he was in, Dante connects Agni and Rudra's respective pommels forming a twinblade/ glaive and skillfully twirls the devil arm around parrying the attacks of his enemies. Dante parries the attack of the Hell pride then quickly slash the demon with the other end of the glaive, the other Hell pride swings another attack only to be redirected by Dante's own weapon followed by a roundhouse kick then another slash on the demon's body then he performs a whirlwind move, launching the enemy with an element-infused upward slash. The devil hunter chases after the airborne enemy by trick up and performs his sky dance, hitting the demon with a four-hit mid-air combo then finishes with a rolling slash grinding the enemy until they touch the ground.
A Hell sloth suddenly warps beside Dante and attacks him with its scythe only four Dante to duck under the attack and retaliated with an element-infused cross slash or the crossed sword, knocking the demon back. The rest of the demons' surround Dante and charge at him altogether covering all angles of attack, the devil hunter grins at the situation and then combines his swords once again and made another move. He spins his weapon overhead producing an updraft of flames around him while Agni saying 'Ashes to Ashes' followed by Rudra saying 'Dust to Dust' as Dante jumps up turning upside down and spins the weapon downwards producing a swirl of violent winds around him (AN: Tempest move). The flaming vortex burns the demons surrounding Dante keeping them at bay while dealing heavy damage to them, as the vortex subsides, the devil hunter lands on the ground on style.
"Come on! You can do better than that!" Dante taunted the demons with a manic grin on his face but immediately loose his grin when he sees the demons he already dealt with standing up once more.
"Oh man, the damages were too shallow… this will take long." The devil hunter sighed as fall into his battle stance.
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Kyoto city, Issei's battle
Loud clanging sounds of steel can be heard somewhere in the city as Issei crosses swords with the Stygians, he found the fight a little challenging since the group that lead by an Elite Stygian made their moves more coordinated. The Stygians kept Issei occupied while the Elite Stygian went around watching the fight finding an opening for it to exploit by launching a shockwave on him. Issei ducks, weaves, parries and slashes on his enemies while he's on guard with the Elite Stygian but the Stygians would not make it easy for him as they block some of his attacks and then respond with their own counter. The Elite Stygian found another opening and launches another shockwave which the Sekiryuutei evades with the side roll but unknown to him, a Stygian is already on his flank and he realizes too late then the demon swings its blade landing an attack across his torso.
"Aghh!" Issei was knocked back by the attack but he quickly recovers his stance in a crouching position.
Normally, anyone who would take such fatal strike would have their blood gushing everywhere but Issei did not have it. For a Nephilim or even a Cambion like Dante, when they took damage they will easily recover their wounds to stop their bleeding a perk that is most notable to them, a high-speed regeneration but in Issei's case, being a half-dragon grants him a skin as hard as steel though much inferior to a true dragon scales. And right now, the Sekiryuutei did not shed any blood but the strike would definitely leave some bruises. Issei stands up once more and transform his sword on its Ophion mode and grabs the Stygian that lands a cheap shot on him and pulls the demon towards him. As the Stygian gets closer, he spins his body and did a reverse roundhouse kick to the demon square to the jaw sending it flying. His weapon reverts back to its sword form and now being held in a reverse grip, Issei fell in a crouching position with his arm holding the sword reared back, he pumps power to the blade making it glow in white energy and then release three shockwave slashes as he swings three times killing all the Stygians all at once leaving the elite Stygian (AN: Overdrive from DmC reboot).
Issei lunges towards the elite Stygian and executes a series of thrusts and stabs only for the demon to block the attacks with its large blade, the demon parries one of the stabs interrupting Issei's trillion stab then makes an overhead slash. Issei evaded the attack by side rolling then lashes out with his own attack with a spinning slash staggering the demon then hit it with a straight kick to the guts sending it careening to the ground. Before the elite Stygian could recover, the Sekiryuutei morphs his sword to Ophion mode and grabs his opponent pulling it over to him, then the weapon quickly morphs back to its sword form and launches the demon with an upper slash. Issei chases after the airborne enemy then executes a roulette move, slashing it two times before doing a spinning slash mid-air and then he finishes off with a helmbreaker splitting the demon in half.
"Whew… I guess we're done here. Gotta help the others especially aunt Gabriel, I am smelling something nasty in the air and I got a hunch that 'HE' is here." Issei sighed after he finished his wave of enemies but his face contorted into a scowl when he felt the presence of a certain narcissistic douchebag.
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Temen-ni-gru Chamber of Trials, Trial of the Warrior
Things are slowly getting worse on Dante's side, the reason is that the demons in the chamber are all in devil trigger state which means tougher and stronger enemies than usual. Whenever he dealt a killing blow, the demons just stood up again and attacks with much fervor. Over time his enemies learn how to fight smarter and adapting to his tactics, he could barely evade, block and parry every attack whenever they attack. This persist until a Hell Gluttony blasted him with a sand shockwave that knocks him back from the force, he immediately righted himself to recover only to face a Hell Sloth in mid-swing which he defended with a well-timed block. The Hell Sloth tries again and swings its scythe but Dante anticipated the attack with his next move.
"Trick ya!" The devil hunter blinks out of existence before the attack could touch him and reappeared at a further distance.
"Whoa! Never would have thought I would be backed in a corner like this, they are getting stronger as time passes and worst they are adapting. I guess if I want to break through their tough defenses, then I should even the odds right?" Dante jovially said as demonic power crackled around his body and transform into his devil trigger state.
"Get ready for round 2, assholes!" He added with a distorted voice as he lunges to the crowd of enemies with blinding speed then drills himself to the demons like a raging vortex.
His latest move cleared the crowding enemies giving him some space and chance to take control of the battle, he uses ground trick to the nearest demon and aggressively lashes out using his skill in dual-wielding. The demon was able to block at first, but its guard eventually breaks to Dante's relentless assault, one Hell pride charges in to aid its brethren but he dodges the attack with his slippery movement dashing away from the scythe's reach then he sweeps his enemy with an upward slash or whirlwind move and slash the demon multiple times while in mid-air followed by a vortex move drilling himself to the airborne enemy. After the intense sword combo, he twisted himself while drawing his shotgun sending the demon flying with devil trigger-infused buckshot dealing massive damage to the enemy.
The devil hunter shifts his attention to the three Hell gluttonies at the rear lines and uses ground trick to quickly warp to the ground in front of the aforementioned demons and before they could react, Dante executes a crazy combo to the three demons slashing at them in a blurring speed and finishes the attack with an element-infused slash sending them flying. The other demons further away charge towards Dante only for him to attack from the distance by plunging his swords to the ground rolling out a line of flame in their direction clearing them away and in addition, the attack hits the device on one side of the room lighting it up which is noticed by Dante.
"Hoh? Now that's something, then how about this!" Dante said as he draws Rebellion and hurls the sword to the other side impaling a Hell sloth pinning it to the other device which also lit up.
After lighting up both devices, the effects immediately occur as the demons suddenly felt weak and the power that backing them is gone. The rest of the fight became a slaughter as Dante plow through the horde, with his devil trigger, he is unstoppable and his technique with a blade is so exceptional, no wasted movements and every swing reaches their intended target. After several seconds, the battle was over and Dante reverts back to his human form and dismissed Agni and Rudra, then he reaches out towards the Rebellion and the sword in response flies back to its wielder like Dante is pulling it with telekinesis. After catching the sword and sheathes it on his back, he approaches the device that suddenly open up showing a gem which is his final objective to pass through.
Dante grabs the essence of the warrior and immediately make his way back to the mute goddess' chamber, he inserted one of the essence to see what would happen but nothing occurs, but when he inserted the second essence, the unique weapon suddenly activates and fires a laser beam obliterating the obstacle on his path. Now that his job here is done, the devil hunter wondered on what is the purpose of the third essence if two is already enough but since he did not intend to bring this back home, he inserted the remaining essence and suddenly the statue moves and lowered the unique weapon to the level that Dante can reach.
"Oh! A free weapon. Guess I can add this to my arsenal, thanks for this pops!" Dante jovially said as he removes the unique weapon called Artemis from the statue.
"And now, it's time to move on." The devil hunter leaves the chamber to face the trials ahead.
(Battle OST end)
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Temen-ni-gru, Upper floor
At the upper floors of the demon tower, the unknown woman arrived at the circular open hallway that is built to the very surface of the structure, she found a rubble at a corner to temporarily rest before she proceeds again to her hunt. She checks her gear while resting to see if she has enough ammunitions to last on his whole hunt before resorting to her trump card. After checking her equipment, she was about set off until she heard a familiar voice that she knows all too well.
"Well, well." She gasped as she heard Arkham's voice. The gunslinger girl immediately turns around and points her gun to Arkham who magically appeared behind her.
"You've grown stronger." The dark scholar said as a greeting.
"Go to hell." Was the woman's immediate reply, her voice laced with venom in it.
"You point your gun at me? Your own kin? Your dear Papa?" Arkham addressed in a mocking tone.
"The only family I ever had was my mother, and she's dead!" The woman said angrily as she started firing her gun to the point of emptying the whole clip only to hit air unfortunately. She looks around to check if the image of her father was an illusion.
"You break my heart." She gasped once more hearing the same mocking voice, she draws another gun to make sure she covers any angle.
"After all, it was I who gave you your name…" The gunslinger girl was unable to find her so-called father in the surroundings but she suddenly realized a presence very close to her. She immediately looks up and points both guns finding her father, Arkham, standing upside down on the ceiling. Seeing this gave her a creepy feeling but she shoved those feelings away and focus.
"…. Mary, my darling daughter." Arkham finally said in mock affection to the gunslinger girl that is now known as Mary.
Both pairs of heterochromia eyes stared intensely at each other until Mary got distracted as Arkham drops his red grimoire on her face and that split second distraction was enough time for the scholar to close the distance, he immediately grabs one of her arm and throws her literally out of the tower without any effort and he made it while catching his grimoire using his free hand. In her rage, Mary tries shoot Arkham down while free falling but alas, all of her shots miss except for one bullet that manage to graze Arkham's cheek. For the last time, the father and daughter stare at each other as Mary falls down the demon tower.
MISSION END
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AUTHOR'S NOTE:
That is a wrap for this chapter, quite short but better than nothing. So how is the chapter? Good? Bad? You decide. Well in this chapter, this only the good old chamber of trials but I think you are more interested on how I would go about on the next chapter, most of you really are but it would be awhile because of what I announced on the first part so I apologize in advance and please be patient, you should probably enjoy other stories in the fanfiction while you are all waiting. Please leave a review if you like.
Oh yeah, I kind of thought of a closing credit for the episodes of this story and here it is:
CLOSING THEME SONG: Nounai by Lenny Code Fiction
Nounai no souzou wo mireba jibun ni kaeru
Seikai no kyousei wa boku wo musabori kuu kurai no akuma
(The scene showing the demon swords; Rebellion and Yamato stabbed on the ground forming an x or cross with two silver amulets with ruby gems embedded on the center dangling on each swords' guard.)
I will, I'll be me
I will, I'll be me
I will, I'll be me
I will, I'll be me
(The scene showing the half images of Dante and Vergil with their eyes closed. Then both suddenly open their icy blue eyes.)
Tsume wo tatete kita yatsu ga
Sono tsume de dareka wo mamoru
Buki wa kizu to tate ni kawaru
Jinsei nante sonna mon nan janai no?
(The next scene showing Dante on the rooftop of the building, looking over the city and like a hunter stalking on his prey. He is holding Ebony and Ivory on both hands and his sword Rebellion magnetically hanging on his back.)
Zutto kiesou de kienai you na dare ni mo shirenai
Yakusoku wo motte hi ni iru yoru wo sugosu
(Then next scene transfers to Vergil who is on the dark room of a ruined building sitting on the floor with his back leaning on the wall, his eyes were closed and his sword Yamato leaning on his shoulder.)
Hikareru hodo muchi wa warau
Kinou made no banshou ga kaji
Ikizuiteru joudou no subete jibun sae shiranai mama de
Ubaitaku wa nai
(Next scene shows four images from the past; the first image showing the backs of a mother and her two children, Eva holding the hands of little Dante and Vergil while the said woman looking at someone behind her with a gentle smile on her face. Then the image immediately shows an image of a feminine hand touching a man's back which shows that Eva is hugging and making love with Sparda. The next image is the family portrait of the Sparda family then quickly shows the last image of a burning house.)
Nounai no souzou wo mireba jibun ni kaeru
Seikai no kyousei wa boku wo musabori kuu kurai no akuma
Mou kore ijou jama shinaide
Anata ga egaita risou ni korosarenai
(The scene shows Sparda's devil form on a majestic stance holding his sword, the Force edge, in front of him with both hands on the pommel. The view shows from the feet towards the head.)
Don't disturb me
You don't own me
(The last scene shows Dante and Vergil facing off on top of the tower, with the former aiming one gun to the latter while the latter was on a calm stance glaring at the former.)
