Chapter 2: Let's Rock!

"Hey Dante," Virgil said in a low dangerous voice, "I'll take the two in the air, you take that other guy and the Ken doll over there." I nodded and almost immediately he vanished jumping into the air. I looked as the blonde guy was saying something at the two in the air, however Virgil appearing in front of them and slashing at the Red head soon cut of the conversation. I ran forward and aimed a drop kick towards Blonde, the fact he wasn't looking at me didn't bother me because he would just be another dead Demon at that point.

"Where you looking pretty boy." I asked mockingly as my feet landed squarely into his back, he went flying into the air and off into the distance, "Going, going gone." I muttered under my breath, I then turned my attention towards the kid on ground a few steps away, he was breathing heavy and I could hear his heartbeat from where I was standing.

"Kiba!" He screamed as he got up and looked at me, I shrugged and looked over at Virgil, I could tell that he wasn't having a difficult time so I was willing to bet that he wouldn't need my help, I looked at the other guy and instead of running he looked at me and growled, "I don't know who you are but I won't forgive you for attacking my friends!" His green gem seemed to glow and the next thing that I knew his energy signature got stronger.

-Boost!-

"What? Is that all you've got? Even for a demon that's sad." I smiled and charged forward, in almost no time flat I was standing in front of the guy and leapt into the air grabbing his head, I heard something break as my knee connected into this guys face, saw him stumble and was about to charge forward again when the ground in front of me exploded and was forced to leap back to avoid getting hurt. I figured it he did it and this was like a smoke screen, so instead of charging in like a dumbass I waited

However instead of the brown haired guy standing where the ground had exploded, there was a giant skeletal guy with uneven eye sockets, the strange part was the fact that where the ribs and such should have been there was a glowing light that was illuminating its whole body, if course I don't know why that surprised me, "Dude I like the new look, you got a bone to pick with me?" I said waiting for it to move, when it didn't for a second I looked around, Virgil was still fighting the two bombshell beauties in and the prettyboy and company were nowhere to be seen.

I sighed and took a step forward, I was about four paces away when I saw a flash of white out of the corner of my eye when I turned to look, I saw a beautiful pure white wolf sitting a few feet away from me, and before I had time to think or say anything I heard a deep guttural howl from behind me that shook the ground. I quickly whipped behind me and saw another white wolf and felt my hair stand on edge, "Who let the dogs out?" I chuckled under my breath as the wolf sitting down charged at me and lunged.

I barely had any time to react as I rolled out of the way and stood up, "What did no one take you for a walk?" I said doing my best to put a smile on my face, trying to appear confident, truthfully that wasn't on the list of things that I expected and I was not in any sense of the word ready at all, the hair on the left arm stood up and I quickly slashed Rebellion in that direction, it barely missed the other wolf that charged at me and I lunged at the wolf as it stepped back using my speed and strength, "Stinger!" I mentally screamed as the blade connected and sent the wolf flying into the air, after all cool guys don't scream out the name of attacks!

Not wanting to lose any of the momentum that I had gain I ran after the wolf, I was about to lung at it again when I felt something rip into my back causing me to skid to a halt, I turned around and saw that the other wolf was beginning circling around me its paw bloody and hunger in its eyes, "The Son of Sparta! Who would have thought that I would have be fighting the spawn after the father?" I stopped and stared at the wolf, "Geri my brother, are you hurt?" The wolf stopped in front of me, its eyes never left mine.

"He has the power but I feel as if he's holding back on us, after all his father was stronger than this." I heard a voice growl from behind me, "It's almost disappointing, there's no fun in hunting game that hasn't matured yet Freki." I felt my eye twitch with the last statement and I popped my neck,

"How do you know my father?" I asked pointing my blade at the one called Freki, "What did he kick you out cause you peed on the carpet?" I taunted, in response the wolf charged forward and I spun out of the way, I was expecting the other one to come at me after the other one had missed after all that's normally how wolves operate, if one attack doesn't work then (if there's more than one) the others will attack. True to my prediction the other wolf ran at me and I turned around and spun on my heel aiming an uppercut to its muzzle.

The blow connected with a satisfying crunch and the dog fell back and laid on the floor for a second, the other one seeing this stepped in front of its friend and growled defensively, strange it was almost like a pup will do for it's mother when it knows its injured. I didn't think about it too much as I leapt forward there was a flash and the big Skeletal figure appeared in front of my holding a huge broadsword and a black flame on its right arm.

"What is that thing?" Virgil appeared next to me and began surveying the freak show, "Looks like something out of a really crappy horror game." The two wolves seemed to both have recovered and leapt forward, I noticed they both had chains around their necks as they howled in unison and charged forward at both of us.

We looked at each other and nodded, Virgil took a deep breath and it felt as if time slowed to a crawl, he surged forward so fast it was as if he disappeared leaving behind a trail of slashes, that seemed to stop the wolves as they slowly fell to the ground, what I almost missed was that he left a clear white blade in both of them so as he slowly spun his blade around before sheathing it, I knew what was coming next, the air shimmers around the blades and I started running towards them, so as they exploded they launched into the air and I jumped right behind them and cleaved one of the wolves in two.

Before the other wolf could fall back onto the ground I landed and used my enhanced speed to run and jump into the air, I was about to kill the second one a broadsword came out of nowhere and I barely had enough time to dodge it, I looked to the left and saw the Skeletal figure slashing at me again, I held up my blade to parrie him and felt a size 13 boot kick land on my shoulder and then kick off at me as Virgil went soaring through the sky and effortlessly cut what seemed like a million slashes and kill the second wolf.

It was almost as if they were phantoms, because when they died the disappeared into thin air as if there was nothing there to begin with. Virgil landed on his feet and spun his blade in his hand before he slid in back into its scabbard, "Show off." I thought, although more than anything I was glad that he killed them, less demons that would come after us anymore. I looked behind me to see if he killed the other two as well but I didn't them, "Hey where did those two go?" I asked looking at my brother, instead of answering me he kept his eyes locked on the Demon in front of us.

"Pay attention, Dante." He said, before I could ask about the other two demon ladies again, the Skeleton roared and charged at me with an inhuman amount of speed, in no time he was towering over me and slammed his sword into mine as I rose Rebellion to defend myself. I almost buckled under the blow , luckily I braced my body, but holy crap this guys swings had some power in them. Letting my instinct take over I swung my blade as he swung his, the sharp sound of metal meeting metal rang through the air, I felt my arms start to turn to vibrate when we did the same thing for 8 more times.

"Hurry up Virgil I can't keep this up." I said urgently, I started to think that Virgil was just watching because he could have easily gone behind him and killed this one or something!

"Just hold on a little longer." a voice behind me said, I didn't know what he was up to but I could tell that he was definitely up to something the way just by the amount of collected energy I sensed. Meanwhile the Skeleton man must have also sensed the energy because his uneven eye sockets shifted towards him and I rushed into action. As quickly as I could I slashed and cut furiously and tried to stagger him, at first nothing worked and he slammed his blade into mine again, I gritted my teeth and pushed it off of me, "Come on Virgil!" I screamed towards him

Virgil had been crouched over his sword for some reason and before I could even think that was stupid he slashed his sword, that's when I wanted to punch him in the face, "Why would you slash at someone when you are clearly 8 paces away from them!/ Are you stupid?" I screamed at him, I turned back and what I saw next kind was really hard to explain, right when I looked at him, the air around him seemed to shift and change and little slashes of light seemed to appear, what's more these little slashes that were there seemed to hurt the guy. Then the air around him turned sharp and cut him in every direction and angle that know of.

Time stood still to a halt as the Skeletal man stopped and then just fell apart leaving only the light that was inside of his body, "What the hell?" I muttered under my breath, "What exactly just happened there?" I looked over at Virgil, the look in his eye was smug as he smiled and shrugged sheathing his Yamato, "Well what can I say?" he said almost mockingly, then we heard two simultaneous howls ring through the air.

"Shit." I turned in the direction where I heard them coming from, the two wolves sat on either side where the light of the skeleton man remained, I know that we killed them both so why did they come back? I was prepared for another fight but instead of them attacking us they seemed to look at each other, their eyes fixated on each other

"They have potential." Freki said, "However you must go the House of Sparda in the Underworld to complete your awakening." I got the feeling that he wasn't speaking to me as he said that so I looked over at Virgil, his face was as blank as ever.

"Indeed. However you must find the photo of the Sacrifice given for you, and the Demon who protected you to get your power you hold. Raw strength is not going to last for the rest." Geri said, "Beware of the Devil who seeks to rule all." With that they both howled and the light started to fade, I stood watching as the world of Limbo around us began to shape into the normal surface reality of Kuoh Academy. I sheath my sword and looked over at Virgil as he stood looking at the same spot that the wolves were.

"House of Sparda?" I asked, unless they were talking about the house that we came from then I don't know what they meant, even if they were then why would they want us to go and looking for a demon too? "What does that mean?" Virgil looked at me and turned on his heels, he was walking away and I watched him as the last bits of Limbo melted away

"Lets go Dante, we should leave before some more find us." He sounded a bit annoyed but I couldn't say that I blamed him, after all he probably had a bad day, I shook my head and followed him, the bright glow of the sunset trailing behind us and leaving in the distance.

-Later on-

I threw my book bag down as I entered my room, I walked over to my bed and sat on it and started to strip off my uniform, the bed springs creaking under the pressure. I sighed and around my room, it was barren mostly, besides the desk with a lamp and computer on top of it and a couple of wall art posters, there was a single window that led out to the balcony right next to my bed. I slept in a small room with crappy stucco walls and my clothes thrown all around my room with pizza boxes and my mattress was bare with a single pillow and thing blanket. Since I was always under attack by demons I never really thought about having a real room. Not like I was going to trust anyone to bring them over.

I reached under my bed and pulled out a bottle of "666", it was unopened but I liked to look at it, debating what it would taste like. The bottle was one of the few things that I had stolen from my dad before we parted ways, so I had a little bit of attachment to it as well. After looking at it for awhile I stuffed it away and laid down on the bed, groaned as I did because I felt something hard on my back. I rolled on my side and felt for the tough spot, my fingers ended up find it and I picked it up, when I looked at what I grabbed I saw the shield that I had this morning.

"What did they mean about, House of Sparda?" I muttered, a knock interrupted my thoughts and I sat up as the door opened, "What's going on?' I asked as I threw my legs over the side of the bed, Virgil came into the room holding his laptop with a strange look on his face, honestly I never like that look because that means that I am about to do a lot of work while he sits on his ass and watches from afar.

"Dante do you remember the house were we grew up in?" He asked, I nodded and then sucked a breath of air through my teeth,

"I sort of remember our house, why?" I stood up and scratched my stomach, he looked at me like I was insane and all I could do was shrug and look back him. For whatever reason he seemed a little annoyed by that answer and then shook his head.

"I was thinking about what those two wolves told us today, about how we need to go back to the house to unlock our power and-" I Held up my hand and stopped him, I looked him dead in the eyes and I could tell that he was absolutely serious about what he was saying and I had to ask him,

"Since when did we take into account what demons said about power?" I said, "I mean for all we know that couldn't even really be our house, it could be a demon death trap that they set up for us?" I said that last part but I was lying, I had been pretty curious about this power as well but I was still smart enough to know that whole deal about them telling us seemed like a trap, I started to walk towards Virgil.

"Yes that could be a possibility, but you and I are both strong enough to deal with whatever comes our way! Plus if we were to get this new power, then nothing could stop us." I looked in Vergils eyes and I saw something dark inside of there for once rather than nothing and it made me uneasy.

"Then what do we need this power for if we are so powerful anyways?" I could feel my anger rising, "Vergil almost always thinks things through, why cant he see that this is a trap?" I started to lose my patience and started to count numbers.

"Dante!" He said in desperation, "Are you willing to pass up a chance to be closer to our father for a little bit of skepticism?" He set his laptop down and leaned against my desk, "Think of the power that could be in that house! I mean you've always heard about our Father, don't you want to be like him?" Vergil smiled and motioned with his hands

I flashed my eyes back to him and pointed at him, "Why would I want to be like the person that got our mother killed!?" I looked at him sighed and put on my black pants, leather boots and a white wife beater, "Whatever though, you're right there might be something here." I walked out of the room with Vergil in close behind me.

-Later on-

Mentally I was screaming that I would pound Vergil into the ground if this was a trap, however as we began walking up to our old house, I couldn't help but notice that I felt some time of pull to the place, "Wow this place never really changes huh?" I asked stopping in front of the rusted and barely hanging on gates, "What are we here for again?" I asked turning to look at Vergil.

The prick walked right past me instead of answering me, almost like he was transfixed on the place, I watched him walk up the stead leading to main door and waited, after three minutes of silence I waited, I just wanted to be sure there were no demons, I took one last look around and soon found that almost everything was falling apart. I walked after Vergil, I could see that he why he was transfixed and on the place (given that it was a mansion.) after walking through the door I was greeted by the smell of mold and dust and my mother.

"Well there's no place like home I guess." I thought, walking from what I could only guess to be the main hallway, "Hey Vergil, what exactly are we looking for?" I shouted, off in a corridor to my right I heard something knock over and fall onto the floor. I looked over and saw nothing come into sight and figured that it was him, so i shrugged and made my way up this grand staircase leading into two separate rooms, I took the one on the right and stopped to look at the place one more time.

The place was absolutely for the rich and prestigious once,, I mean I guess that I never noticed as a kid, but the walls were covered with red and gold tapestry and the crystal chandelier laying on the ground once hung in the middle of the hallway. I shook my head and tried to remember if my family was truly rich, why does it make me so uncomfortable?

"Daaaante." I heard something whisper my name and instinctively I reached my to my back where Rebellion should have been, when I grasped nothing I clenched my fists and looked down the hallway i heard it come from, in all reality I know that i could easily take out any demons that came at me, but if i wasn't in Limbo then why did i just hear that voice? After nothing looked out of the ordinary I made my way down the hallway.

"Hey Issei are you sure that it's here?" I heard a voice call, I frowned as I heard the voice it sounded really familiar, "Yeah, I know the strays here. I felt it"I stopped in the doorstep looking at the same two morons who i got finished handing there asses by me, the blonde Ken doll (his name was Kiba or something.) and the brown haired dude "Alright then, I'll trust your judgement." Kiba smilied and walked around the room looking around.

"Who do you think she is?" The brown haired kid asked looking at a photo that I knew at to well, it was a photograph of a woman of beautiful complexion and grey eyes shining even in the photo, she was holding a beautiful blue rose, the same one that father had given her once as a gift, "She's an absolute babe, I can tell that much." THe brown hair kid smiled an irritatingly lewd smile, Kiba chuckled under his breath and i felt a vien in my neck pop out.

"Her name was-" He started, I walked out from the shadows and they both turned around hearing my footsteps, I didn't care about that or even when they both jumped back to position themselves, I wanted them away from the photo, they didn't even deserve to look at it, I couldn't help but feel rage building up.

"Her name was Mom." I reached out and touched the photo, I felt a little sad looking at her now, even though the painting was beautiful I couldn't help but think of how she was robbed from me, "She was a great and kind women, and an angel." I touched the painting and felt an ever deeper sadness as i hear her voice in my head.

"Dante my child, you and your brother were my greatest treasures." I remembered her giving me the amulet and thinking about what I wanted to give her in return, "You're from earlier aren't you?" The boy with brown hair growled and pointing his finger at me, "Listen pal I still owe you for earlier and Kiba too-"

"Issei, stop." Kiba interrupted him, "Do you realise who this is?" I looked over at the blonde, "This lady is Eva of the Angel faction, its common knowledge that she married the Devil Lord Sparta. The Legendary Dark Knight." The blonde stepped forward and suddenly bowed, that right there threw me right the hell off.

"Wait so this is the guy that Rias said we were lucky about?" The brown haired kid slightly lowered his finger, "Who the hell are these people, how do they know my father and mother?" I felt my adrenaline start to spike and I glared between both of them,

"How the hell did you two find this place?" I asked turning my head, "More importantly, how do the two of you know about my family and my house?" My hand slid off of the photo and I turned to face the two of them, Issei swallowed and put his left arm in front of him.

"From the sounds of it, our master sent us to investigate some stray demons that were around the area." I nodded then lifted my head, "What the hell does he mean 'Stray demons?'" That doesn't make any sense at all, why would other demons be looking for other demons?

"Wait what do you need others for? Arent the two of you demons already?" I asked looking between the two of them, "Well we are actually Devils of the House of Rias Gremory." The brown haired kid puffed his chest out a little and then out of nowhere a pair of black wings came out of his back, i looked at Kiba and saw that he also had a matching pair of black wings.

"Lord Sparta." I cringed as i heard that, guaranteed Vergil would have loved that, "My apologies on intruding your house, we were unaware that this was your place." I frowned and felt my face slide into a disgusted look, he was bowing as he talked and it was waaay to formal, "Our leader sent us to dispatch the 'Stray Demons' like the one you dispatched earlier today"

I cocked my head to the side, "Wait do you mean that Stygian?" I recalled its ugly face and almost barfed, "That things a stray demon?" I shook my head and laughed, "Well if you stick around me guarantee that you can find more of them, Limbo scumbags like those love me." I finished the statement and waited for some type of reaction, it was to test out whether or not they wer beings from Limbo for themselves, "Wait a sec. How come I saw you two in Limbo in perfect form? Normally everything is twisted and decrypted in Limbo."

They both looked at me as if I was crazy, "What's Limbo." After sighing and giving them a brief explanation of what it was they both looked perplexed, "Dude are you on drugs or something? There's no way that any of that is real." Issei stated, "I've seen a lot of unreal things man. I mean I talk to a dragon that gives me power for one." He looked thoughtfully at his right arm as the Red Gauntlet from before appeared, I had to admit though looking at this thing from up close it was pretty impressive looking, it looked as if it was made out of scales and had several green gems in lining up and down the arm..

I didnt have alot of time to admire it though because the ground began to shake, "Shit. Did you lead them here?" The world shifted and out of the ground burst a Frost Knight its skeletal figure covered in an ethereal blue frost,, "Feeling kinda blue?" I asked as the familiar weight of Rebellion appeared on my back, without wasting any time I charged forward and slammed the point of Rebellion into the Frost knights shield it bounced off and threw me off balance.

"Damn." I swore under my breath, Vergil was one to fight these things, for some reason I couldn't hurt or do anything against these guys. Right next to me I saw Issei run at the demon and through a punch at the shield, "Take this!" I was expecting it to have the same effect that I did but instead of him bouncing off the green gem in the center turned blue.

-DIVIDE!-

I heard another deep booming voice call out from nowhere, and the frost around the knights shield seem to shrink, "What the hell?" I thought, then Kiba jumped from out of nowhere and slashed at the knight, the knight looked up and raised its cleaver and seemed to be laughing, Issei yelled and his gauntlet seemed to do the same thing as before, I thought it would work until I saw it shift its leg to lunge forward.

"Issei watch out!" Kiba called out, but it was to late. The knight leaned forward and pushed against Issei and knocked him flat on his ass, I almost saw what was about to happen before it did, after Issei fell back on his ass the knight pushed Kiba off of him and lunged forward, time slowed to a crawl, I stood rooted to the place.

"Dante my child." I heard a voice from behind me call out my name, I saw my mothers name glowing and a space beneath it doing the same. I don't know why but I lifted my hand and touched it, a searing white hot pain ran through my arm and onto my back, but rather than be red hot, I had a warm feeling. I closed my eyes and felt as if my mother was holding me.

"Protect them Dante." I heard the voice say, I opened my eyes and turned towards the knight charging at Issei, I took out Rebellion, or what was Rebellion, it was replaced with a long scythe with a blue hue to it, it felt weightless and light so i charged forward to meet the Frost knight and slammed into him knocking him off balance, before he could go flying off into the distance I swung the scythe, it flowed with such speed and ease I couldn't even tell I was causing any damage.

"You don't belong here demon scum." I screamed and jumped into the air and angled the blade down to pick it up. The knight came into the air and i unleashed a flurry of slashes that cut it down to size, i let the knight fall back down as fell back down, it landed on the ground with an audioable thump.

-Son Of Sparda, you cannot run now. The king of Limbo will find you.- It whistled through its teeth, I walked over to the knight quickly as it got up and sliced through it, "Not if I find him first." I said, I looked back and saw the other two looking at me with a strange look on there face. Like a look that a kid gives a fresh piece of pie that they want to eat but they cant because its too hot.

"Woah that was Badass!" Issei said jumping up, "Where'd you get that Scythe?" I looked at it agian and really looked at the weapon, the blade is long and curved, coming off the tip of the snaith at its heel. The snaith itself looks to be made out of wood, and it has two grips protruding from opposite ends that resemble whittled branches. I knew this weapon, it was a weapon that my mother had for years and kept in a glass case,

"Osiris." I whispered its name, "Listen you two right now where in Limbo and it wasn't caused by you two, so explain what's going on." I glared at the two of them, "What's more is the two of you seem to have no idea what those things really are, so that really makes me wonder who you are."

They looked at each other and said, "You just killed a stray demon, Stray demons are Devils that leave their masters and lose themselves in power, the power in turn morphs the body because it cant handle it." That was a pretty crazy exsplation that only brought up more questions in my mind but before i could ask them Kiba must have read the look on my face,

"Each devil after they are made gets sorted into whom ever made them house. Then they spent the rest of eternity serving that person until the master dies or they themselves die." I nodded impatiently, even though that didn't answer my question that helped to know, "However there are a few people who attempt to go away from the masters and when they do, they lose themselves in power ultimately transforming themselves forever."

"So you mean to tell me that thing that just attacked us was someone once?" I asked I really didn't like the thought but I guess it made sense for demons, Kiba nodded and then continued with his exploration,

"Thats where my master and friends come in, it's our job to get rid of any stray demons that are around the areas, after being given the order of course." When I looked into his eyes to try and find some type of hint that he was just screwing with me i couldn't, "We had one earlier today but when I arrived you had already taken care of it, of course I didn't know that you were a son of the Legendary Dark Knight Sparta Please forgive our rude actions." He got down on one knee and I quickly interrupted him.

"Hey don't do any of that, I'm not famous or anything." I made them both stand up, "Right now I'm a person who doesn't know much about the Devils and demons and Stray whatever. Plus i have to find my brother." I started to walk out of the room after silently telling m mother I loved her, I stopped and looked back at the other two, "You coming or what?"

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