Devil May Cry, The Traitor's Bloodline, Nero Arc

Chapter three: The Dark Hero and Dante's odd jobs.

At a castle located in the heart of Veldime, an imposing blonde man dressed in a regal black suit with a cape adorned with bone was hearing a report from a Masked Man in blue.

"Overlord Zenon, my master." The Masked Man bowed respectfully to his lord. "I have just received urgent news from the princess' mansion…" He reported with a sense of urgency in his voice. "The princess has…disappeared, and it has happened in front of many servants."

"What…? It this true?" Overlord Zenon was shocked and enraged at the incompetence of his servants and the fact that Rozalin was missing.

"…It appears someone has summoned her, someone with decent summoning skill." A Masked Woman in purple appeared before Overlord Zenon and the masked man, she reported the situation in a calm tone, despite seeing his rage.

"But, who…?" Overlord Zenon was shocked that someone had managed to summon Rozalin from her mansion. "How did they even know about the princess…?"

"…We do not know yet." The Masked Woman kept her calm demeanor, despite seeing how worked up Overlord Zenon was getting. "But one of the servants, Echidna, said that she had sensed Sparda's power."

"Find the princess…immediately!" Overlord Zenon was enraged; the thought of Rozalin being summoned was an outrage. "You must not allow her to be contaminated by the outside world!" He said in an angered tone, the name Sparda sent chills down his spine. "We must act quickly if Echidna is to be believed!"

"Yes, sir." The Masked Woman bowed in respect to Overlord Zenon, ready to carry out his orders. "We will be sure to keep the princess a secret from everyone else."

"…What shall you have us do to the guards at her mansion…?" The Masked Man asked; he sensed that Overlord Zenon was infuriated at their incompetence.

"Wipe them out." Overlord Zenon wanted to punish the guards for their incompetence, holding them responsible. "All of them!"

"…As you wish, my master…" The Masked Man bowed before leaving to carry out Overlord Zenon's brutal orders, The Masked Woman followed him, but she was unsure of the massacre.

A sore eyed Nero had just woken up; his dream about Rozalin and the blue-coated man was still fresh in his mind, the nature of his dream had kept him up very late; having had only two hours of sleep, he was exhausted, After taking a shower and getting dressed, he met Adell and Rozalin outside the house.

"Dammit…" Nero sighed, the lack of sleep had him feeling really drained. "I have the worst headache." He rubbed his head, still feeling very tired.

"Woah!" Adell saw how drained and tired Nero looked, he was shocked to see a Holy Knight in such a state. "What's eating you?"

"You look ghastly!" Rozalin was shocked at the state Nero was in; he looked like he could pass out at any moment. "Are you alright?!" She asked, concerned about his health.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Nero scratched his head, trying to get a grasp the on the events of the previous night. "Some weird dream just kept me up." He sighed; the thought of his dream still confused him.

"Weird dream?" Rozalin looked at Nero, she was curious about the nature the dream that had kept him up so late. "What do you mean?" She wondered if his dream had meant anything.

"I-It's nothing!" Nero was flustered, he remembered kissing Rozalin in his dream and seeing her made him blush. "Let's hit the road!" He tried walked over to Friday, hoping that they would just drop the subject.

"Nero!" Rozalin gave him a very suspicious look; she noticed how flustered he was at the subject of his dream. "Were you dreaming about that other princess?!" She glared at him with a jealous expression. "I will not allow my knight to have such vulgar fantasies!"

"Well, you're right about the princess part." Nero sighed; he was still wondering why Rozalin was in his dream, and why they had kissed. "What the hell were you doing? Asking me to kiss you in my dream?"

"N-Nero!" Rozalin blushed; she was very surprised that he had dreamt about her. "A-are you finally remembering our first kiss?!" Her face lit up with joy, she was very hopeful that he was recovering his memories of her.

"I think the stress of this mission is really messing up my head." Nero let out a bored sigh; he was unnerved by Rozalin's reaction to his dream. "I don't think that's a memory."

"I don't know." Adell said, thinking that Nero's dream and Rozalin's reaction to it was too precise to be a coincidence. "Dreams sometimes play our memories back to us." He nodded, confident in his theory. "Maybe your dream was a memory."

"You're not helping…" Nero was annoyed by Adell's theory, he saw the logic behind it, but he refused to admit that he kissed Rozalin when they were kids. "No way I kissed her!"

"You did!" Rozalin was still blushing angrily; she couldn't believe that Nero was denying an important memory for her. "Your dream is undeniable proof!"

"Proof that I have night terrors?" Nero joked, trying to lighten up the mood, unknowingly worsening it. "Why do I always say the wrong things?" He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose as he realized what he had just said to the already angry Rozalin.

"Yeah." Adell laughed at Nero's remark about his dream about Rozalin. "Kissing someone like this princess must be scary as hell!" He realized that he too was dragged into Nero's dire situation.

"So it was a nightmare to you?!" Rozalin glared at Nero, a killer aura emanated from her as she approached him. "Kissing me is scary to you…" Her killer aura got stronger, so strong that both Adell and Nero were frightened. "Me, your princess…" She took out a small red pistol with a white handle and gold markings. "Maybe a shot from my Noble Rose will change your mind!"

"Nero, it's been an honor fighting by your side." Adell, still terrified of Rozalin's killer aura. "May we continue testing our strength on the other side!" He backed away slowly.

"Even though we've only fought those dumb looking penguin things." Nero backed away in fear of Rozalin's killer aura and her clear rage towards him. "You were one hell of a friend!" He prepared to run away. "Heaven or Hell, we'll get out of this alive!" He ran away from Rozalin.

"We're gonna live!" After hearing Nero's speech, a determined yet terrified Adell ran with Nero. "We'll live to see tomorrow!" He ran faster, trying to get as far as possible.

"Get back here!" Rozalin shot at both Nero and Adell , Nero calling the most intimate moment of their childhood a nightmare enraged her to no end, her killer aura was so intense that it was felt even far away.

Dante was eating a strawberry sundae at his hotel room at the edge of Holt Vilage, when he felt Rozalin's killer aura.

"Man, someone's in the dog house." He recognized that aura as a woman's fury, something that even he feared. "I feel sorry for the poor bastard." He took a bite out of his sundae, thinking about his own problems with women. "Thank God I'm outta that crazy school." He remembered his school days.

At the Order of the Sword base located in Mitis Forest, Credo and Sapphire were discussing Nero's mission.

"Is Nero ok?" Sapphire pouted, she hated having to wait so long for him to return. "I really want to tell him that he's my knight." She looked very anxious, she's been holding in her excitement since he had left. "What's taking him so long?"

"A mission that important would take a week to a month to complete." Credo stated, he was confident that Nero would complete his mission, but at the same time, concerned about the damage he might cause. "I've ordered our new recruit, Gloria, to keep an eye on him and to make sure he doesn't accidentally destroy Holt Village."

"Can't you let me go there and help him?" Sapphire stood up, hearing how long Nero's mission would take added to her growing impatience. "I'm strong enough to defeat even an overlord!" She objected, remembering her training and her strong abilities.

"The people of Fortuna City need to know that you're safe." Credo tried to calm the impatient Sapphire down, thinking about the consequences of letting her go. "If you were in any danger, the people would panic, and mass riots could break out."

"Fine!" Sapphire was angry that she couldn't go to Nero, but she knew her place as the princess. "You better tell him to hurry back!"

"As you wish." Credo sighed as he gave in to Sapphires demands, he didn't know why she was so fixated on him.

Nero and Adell were running away from the enraged Rozalin, both of them, terrified of her, they eventually hid behind a large tree.

"Nero, you have to do something!" Adell panicked, hoping that he could find a solution to their terrifying predicament.

"Fine." Nero sighed as he left his hiding place, determined to end Rozalin's rampage. "You owe me for this."

"Nero!" Rozalin spotted him and glared daggers at him. "How dare you run away from me like that?" She was very angry at him for his actions.

"Sorry about that." Nero walked up to Rozalin and gave her a hug. "I was just messing with you." He sighed, he didn't think his joke would cause this big of a mess.

"That wasn't funny." Rozalin blushed as she hugged Nero back, she was on the verge of tears, and the fact that he would joke about such an important memory was very hurtful to her.

"To tell you the truth…" Nero blushed a small bit as he hugged Rozalin and recalled the events of his dream. "It kind of felt right…" He smiled at her, remembering the same kind face he saw in his dream.

"Oh, Nero." Rozalin blushed a deep red and she smiled with tears in her eyes. "You don't know how happy that makes me." She hugged him tighter. "My knight remembers our first kiss."

"I never said anything about remembering." Nero sighed, still doubting that his dream was a childhood memory. "I just said I didn't really hate my dream." He wiped Rozalin's tears away.

"I know you'll remember soon…" Rozalin thought to herself as she rested her head against Nero's chest. "I'll make you remember me!" She blushed at the thought of him being completely hers. "And you'll never leave me again."

"Why do I feel like I've just screwed myself over?" Nero thought to himself, he had a bad feeling in his gut; he felt that because of his current actions, his mission would be far more complicated.

"Hey, lovebirds!" Adell called out to Nero and Rozalin, he was glad that the situation was resolved, but he was eager to defeat Overlord Zenon. "Don't we have a curse to break?"

"W-we're not like that!" Nero blushed a little and let go of Rozalin, hoping they could get back to the mission at hand. "Yeah, let's beat Overlord Zenon and the red-coated man!" He remembered his fight with Dante, eager to settle the score.

"Th-that's right!" Rozalin blushed and pushed Nero away; she was embarrassed by the position they were in, despite enjoying it. "H-he's just my knight!" She crossed her arms and looked away.

"Yeah, right… you two can't be any more obvious!" Adell thought to himself, seeing the blushes on both Nero and Rozalin's faces. "Right! Let's kick some Overlord ass!" He exclaimed in an excited tone as he entered a fighting stance.

"Where can I take you now?" Friday asked, she was still a little frightened by Rozalin's outburst, but seeing how Nero fixed the situation was quite touching to her. "Somewhere romantic?"

"We're not like that!" Nero and Rozalin said in unison, both of them blushing, embarrassed by both Adell and Friday's comments.

Nero, Rozalin and Adell stepped into the portal and ended up back at the town fields, there, they saw a blonde man in a white coat making all sorts of ridiculous movements.

"…We've ventured into the frontiers of Veldime, in search for a vicious hero that was spotted in the area…" The blonde man was making all sorts of hand gestures and speaking in a very dramatic tone. "Wait! What's this? I can't believe it!" He back flipped, avoiding a non-existent attack. "Look out! It's an invisible laser!" He jumped again, this time punching at the air. "Did you see that?!"

"Cut!" A heavyset bearded man with brown hair wearing a director's outfit, followed by his camera crew, called out to the blonde man, unsatisfied with his performance. "Axel, darling! How many times do we have to go over this?! This is for the Travelling Channel!" He said in an annoyed tone, he didn't like the fact that he was deviating from the script. "We don't need action scenes for this travel show! So, stop making up traps and enemies!" The camara crew behind him, comprised of a zombie, a ghost and an orc all agreed.

"But, I'm the host!" Axel smiled, thinking that his ridiculous antics would improve the travel show they were shooting, unaware of how pointless his efforts were.

"Axel, Axel, Axel… No one expects anything from you anymore!" The director chuckled, thinking that his antics have gotten more amusing than annoying. "There was a time when you were lighting up the stage as the Dark Hero, but that time is long gone!"

"Who are they?" Adell asked, he was curious about the identities of the strange group in front of them.

"Looks like some bad daytime action flick." Nero noticed Axel's body language and sighed at how ridiculous he looked.

"Whoever they are, they have a very poor taste in fashion." Rozalin looked at Axel's attire and noted on how tacky it was. "I suppose washed up celebrities have to get attention somehow…"

"Do my eyes deceive me?!" Axel noticed Nero's white hair and blue eyes, he was shocked and amazed at who he resembled. "It's Dante the Devil Hunter!"

"What?" Nero gave Axel an annoyed look; he didn't know why he was calling him by a different name. "First the Prinnies and now you?" He sighed. "My name's not Vergil or Dante! It's Nero dammit!" He revved and took out Red Queen.

"Well, the camera is rolling!" Axel smiled, seeing Nero's appearance as his ticket back to stardom. "And you look just like Dante!" He entered a fighting stance, excited for his big break. "When I beat you, everyone will think I defeated the great Devil Hunter himself!"

"He's crafty, I'll give him that." Adell sighed, he pitied Axel for his has-been personality and knowing Nero, all of the injuries he'll get.

"Just don't hit my face!" Axel prepared to fight Nero, not knowing that he was a Holy Knight. "I have to look good when I kick your ass!"

"Looks like I'll have to beat some style into you." Nero smirked as he summoned a phantom hand extension out of the Devil Bringer, grabbing Axel by the waist. "You celebrity types are all the same." He pounded Axel onto the ground several times. "At least this way, you'll be more down to Earth."

"Is it over already?" Adell sighed, disappointed that he couldn't show off his skills and fight. "That sucks, I wanted to beat the crap outta him!"

"He talked big, but he was no match for my knight." Rozalin smiled proudly, she was glad that Nero had defeated Axel so easily. "I don't pick just anyone for that position."

"That really hurt!" Axel cried out, he was writhing in pain on the ground. "Dammit! Nero, was it?" He pointed his finger at him, still trying to maintain a confident appearance. "Looks like The Dark Hero's met his rival!"

"Hit the road." Nero deadpanned as he took out Blue Rose and shot the ground beside Axel. "I don't want to make you look bad in front of all ten of your fans." He joked, thinking that with his attitude, his fan base must be pretty small.

"We'll settle this later! The Dark Hero will prevail!" A laughing Axel ran off with the camera crew, confident that his little brawl with Nero would get him back on the road to stardom.

"Well, that was a waste of time…" Nero sighed, the memory of Axel's speeches was enough to give him a headache. "At least we can relax for the rest of the day."

"You can tell Taro and Hanako all about this." Adell smiled, he was glad that at least the story of Axel's failure would entertain his siblings. "I'm sure they'll find this funny!"

"Yeah." Nero smiled, he was glad that he had befriended Adell's family, the feeling of family was something he liked. "I bet they will."

"I want to save them, Nero." Adell looked down, he lamented at the demonized state of his family. "Before this curse gets stronger."

"Well, that's why The Order sent me here." Nero reassured Adell, he too wanted to save the citizens of Veldime, as well as the ones that were cursed in Fortuna. "Let's beat Overlord Zenon and break this curse!"

"That determination…" Rozalin thought to herself and she looked down sadly. "Why couldn't Nero be like that when it comes to our promise?" She was saddened by the fact that he had forgotten her. "Why? Why did he have to forget about me!?" She wore a very sad and angered expression.

Dante was getting ready to leave his hotel room to meet with Etna; he was told that he had a new job waiting for him.

"Two jobs at the same time?" Dante smirked, confident in his abilities. "Looks like I hit the jackpot!" He was excited about all the money he was going to make.

"Took you long enough." Etna stood there with an annoyed look on her face; she got bored waiting for him. "Anyway, there's a really nice job for you, and it pays 10,000000 HL."

"Sounds good." Dante smirked; hearing how high paying his new job was really made his day. "So, what's the deal, a rogue Overlord? Or maybe just an infestation problem?"

"You're going to be a teacher." Etna giggled, she knew that Dante wouldn't react well to the nature of his job. "At the Evil Academy!"

"You're kidding?!" Dante stood up; the very mention of the Evil Academy brought back many stressful memories. "Looks like this job's gonna kill me." He sighed, he dreaded having to return to that school. "Well, I can't pass up that kind of money, now can I?"

"I knew you'd say that." Etna smirked, she knew all about Dante's past at the Evil Academy. "Just leave this whole Fortuna thing to me." She thought about Yamato and the news Dante had brought her about Nero.

"No can do." Dante deadpanned, he knew that something was afoot in Fortuna City and he couldn't ignore it. "I'll take both jobs, this is kind of a family matter." He remembered Nero's resemblance to Vergil. "Same with you, right?"

Just as Dante and Etna spoke, a group of Prinnies approached Etna; they looked both frightened and excited.

"Master Etna!" one of the Prinnies said, he was very anxious to get his message through to Etna. "We found someone you might be interested in, dood!"

"Well, spit it out already!" Etna was annoyed, she didn't like having her time wasted by the Prinnies. "I don't have all day!"

"We found a boy that looks just like Master Vergil, dood!" The Prinny told Etna, waiting to see what kind of reaction she would have to the news.

"What!?" Etna's eyes widened, the mention of Vergil's name caught her attention. "Are you sure?! You better not be lying!" She took a knife out.

"I-I'm sure, dood!" The Prinny was frightened upon seeing Etna holding a knife, but he pressed on. "And that's not all, dood! That boy had the same smile as yours, dood!"

"C-Could that be?!" Etna was shocked, hearing Nero's description really caught her off guard. "Me and Vergil's…" She stepped back as tears started to well in her eyes.

"Yeah, it's that kid alright." Dante deadpanned. He remembered his fight with Nero the previous day. "He's got that same look on his face as Vergil's."

"Our baby…" Etna smiled as she cried, hearing the news about Nero filled her with an overwhelming sense of joy.

"Well, I'm off to my old school." Dante smiled and left Etna alone with her thought about Nero and Vergil. "I hope they don't remember all the crazy things I did there!"

Author's note: Chapter three is done! Nero tells Rozalin about his dream, but angers her when he describes it as a nightmare and both he and Adell suffer the consequences, Axel gets taken down quite easily and Nero and Rozalin have a moment and Sapphire is getting impatient, much to Credo's concern. Etna is glad to heart that her son is alive and Dante heads off to the Evil Academy! Next chapter might be a Dante chapter! And the chapter after that, Nero faces off against Berial and the group heads to Rozalin's mansion! Suggest your bills for the Dark Assembly story in your reviews and don't forget to vote in the poll!

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Reishin Amara

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Demons Parade

Thanks! And Nero will receive Yamato the same way, but with some added twists with Etna and Rozalin!

Exalted Demi-Soul

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Zero-Nightmare

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Indeed, she is, expect her to try extra hard to get Nero's memories back!

Hanako will not like meeting Sapphire and neither will Rozalin.

Just like bros!

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His father's ghost!

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