DVYL May Cry

Dante woke up the next morning to looking up at the ceiling of the ballroom. Last night was the first time in a long while he had a peaceful night's sleep. Usually his nights are filled with flashes and glimpses of his past, of the two worst days of his life. Leaving him rested but on edge. The worst nights are when the nightmares surface from all the fighting and trauma over the years. Those nights, he'd prefer to never sleep again. But last night, there was just sleep. Nothing else.

He had a small smile and was about to sit up when he remembered his sleeping arrangements. He looked down to see Yang still had her head on his chest and her arm was over him and around her sister. His right arm was draped over her back. He must've done that sometime during the night. He looked to his left to see Ruby was still holding onto his shirt and his arm was still around her protectively. She looked at peace though. That made him smile a bit more before he looked around and noticed that a few of the other initiates were starting to get up. He looked down at Yang and gently started to shake her. "Time to get up, Spitfire."

She just groaned and buried her face into his chest more before she mumbled into him. Dante gave her a deadpan look before he got a devious smirk. He leant down as much as his neck would allow and blew into her ear. She gave a muffled but surprised squeal into his chest. "Having someone as gorgeous as you, sleeping on me has made me a bit…frisky. Who knows what I'll do?" he whispered to her in teasing but huskily tone.

She lifted her head slightly and her lilac eyes met his smoky blue, "Are you always like this?" she asked flirtatiously.

Dante just smirked, "That's for you to find out, Spitfire."

The two just stared into the other's eyes, a quickly becoming normal event nowadays. That was until they heard an adorable yawn. The two turned to see Ruby slowly waking up. Her eyes slowly opened, and she just looked at Dante and Yang laying together, extremely close to her. She blinked slowly, "Morning Yang, Dante." She said tiredly before she appeared to nod off again. Five seconds later she looked up quickly and blinked a few times. She then squealed and jerked back. She was then on her knees and staring at the two in shock. "Yang, why are you cuddling Dante?! Why was I cuddling Dante?!"

The two looked at each other before Yang sat up, which let Dante sit up as well. "Well, sis, since you stole my pillow I decided to use Dante as a substitute. The reason why you were 'cuddling' him was because you were having another nightmare last night. And before I could help you, he jumped in and took care of you like a pro?"

Ruby looked at her sister before turning to Dante, she tilted her head slightly, "Really?"

Dante just scratched the back of his head and turned his head slightly away. That was until Yang hugged him from behind and rested her chin on his shoulder, he could feel her push her breasts against his back teasingly. "Totally. He held you close and spoke to you gently as he stroked your hair. He even hummed a song to you until you calmed down. It was pretty heartwarming to see." She said genuinely, and he had to stop himself from blushing.

He turned back to see Ruby looking at him confused. He just sighed, "Look, I'm not the best guy out there. Hell, I wouldn't even consider myself a good guy. But, I'm not made of stone. Seeing you like that reminded me of-" he quickly bit the inside of his cheek to stop the memories from resurfacing. "You reminded me of someone and seeing you like that, well, I couldn't just let you suffer." He told her honestly.

Ruby looked at him for a while before a cheerful smile spread across her face. "Thank you." She said genuinely.

He shrugged, trying to be apathetic, "Don't mention it." He then stood up, although Yang was still holding him from behind. "If you'll excuse me, I need to shower." He gently tapped Yang's hands and she begrudgingly let him go.

The two watched him leave to go get a shower. Ruby spoke up, "I think I owe him an apology. I had him all wrong, he's actually a nice guy deep down."

"Yeah. He certainly is." Yang said absentmindedly. He didn't know it, but he just scored some serious points in her book. She grinned and thought, 'I better keep my eye on him. Or more of an eye now.'

Dante eventually found his way to the locker rooms to shower. Afterwards, he dressed in his usual clothes, but before he left, his tattoo started to shine, and he pulled Ebony and Ivory from it. He then holstered them before leaving. His weapons were never out of reach, if they weren't on him then they were 'in' him. He made his way to the cafeteria to grab breakfast. He wasn't sure what he was expecting but it wasn't a buffet that served five-star food. He made himself a plate and sat down at one of the tables. He started eating while thinking, 'If it's gonna be like this, I won't mind sticking around.' He chuckled to himself. A few minutes later, Yang and Ruby sat down at his table and the three were having light conversation. But it was more like Ruby and Yang were talking, and Dante was just listening.

When they were done, they went to get their weapons from their lockers as they dragged him along. "Why are you dragging me there? I already have my weapons on me." He said slightly annoyed. Yang may be a fifteen in his book but this dragging thing was getting old.

"Oh please, what would you do without us?" she asked rhetorically.

"Maybe get some peace and quiet." He replied.

"Why would you want that? That's boring." Ruby added. He just sighed and let it go.

The two eventually got their weapons but the two then got into an argument. Yang wanted Ruby to open up to make friends, to grow up and have her own team. Meanwhile, Ruby was adamantly against all of that. The two looked over to him, as he was leaning against a random locker. "Don't look at me. I could count the number of friends I have on one hand and still have extras. Besides, I work better by myself." He got off the lockers and started to walk away. He sent a wave behind him, "Have fun with your argument. I'll be checking out our peers."

Dante walked through the locker room, just checking out the future Huntsmen and Huntresses. He eventually saw Weiss talking to a redhead in bronze armor and she didn't look happy at all. He smirked, 'This'll be fun.' He walked over and saw Weiss with a manic expression on her face, "Be careful, your face may freeze like that."

She whipped around and gave him an angry expression, "Ugh, you again. What do you want?"

He just looked at her, "Nothing much. Maybe save this fair maiden from the tyrannical rule of the Ice Queen." Weiss grew angrier and he noticed the redhead blush slightly.

Weiss huffed, "If that is your idea of flirting, then you have a long way to go to even try to court people of our stature." She said smugly.

Dante just smirked more, "Again, you are not my type, remotely. Besides, if I did have an interest in either of you, I would just ask you out." He told her plainly.

"Well, we would turn you down regardless." Weiss tried to fire back.

He just shrugged, "That's fine. You do you. But you probably do that enough as is." Weiss was blushing like mad and was one step away from foaming at the mouth. He turned his attention from her to the redhead. He gave her a grin, "Sorry about that." He held out his hand. "I'm Dante. Who would you be?"

She looked shocked but shook his hand, "Nice to meet you. I'm Pyrrha Nikos. Have you really not heard of me?" she asked.

He let go of her hand and thought for a bit. "I don't think so, should I?"

"How have you not heard of her? Do you live under a rock?" Weiss asked, annoyed and not believing him for a second.

Dante just looked at her, "I have a busy schedule. I don't keep track of a lot of things that don't affect me directly."

Weiss huffed yet again, "Well, let me educate you. Pyrrha graduated top of her class at Sanctum." Jaune just gave her a neutral expression. She growled and continued, "She's won the Mistral Region Tournament four years in a row." He just kept giving her the same look. She lost it, "She's on the front of every Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes box!"

Jaune just held her gaze for a while, "Okay. Why does any of that matter?" The two girls looked confused and Weiss was about to shout, that was until he held his hand up. "You two have been training to fight and kill Grimm, they don't care about titles, achievements or endorsements. The see you as prey, that's it." He looked at them seriously, "You're better off leaving all of that here. The only thing that matters out there is skill."

The champion and heiress just looked at him for a while processing what he just said. That was until he was grabbed by his hood and was being dragged away. He didn't need to look to know who it was. "Enough flirting, Lady Killer, we have initiation to go to." Her voice had a slight edge to it.

He just sighed, "I wasn't flirting, and will you quit dragging me around." He didn't get a response and was still being dragged. Ruby was behind him and was giving him a small grin while trying to not giggle. He just sighed again with that. He could get out of this with little issue, but he didn't want to use any of his abilities, unless he absolutely had to. He was better off keeping a low profile.

They eventually made their way to a cliff that overlooked the Emerald Forest. They were each instructed to stand on one of the metal plates there. As they were waiting for the other initiates to gather here, Dante focused his senses. He could feel nothing demonic around them. He could sense a good amount of Grimm, but he wasn't concerned about them. When all the initiates got there, Ozpin and Goodwitch started explaining what they had to do. Dante only paid half attention but got the gist, 'Make my way to the temple, get a relic and make my way back here. And kill any Grimm in my way, easy. Although this partner thing is not gonna work out.' He thought to himself.

"Are there any questions?" Ozpin asked.

Dante raised his hand and pointed to fingers into the air, "Are partners mandatory? Cause I work better alone."

Ozpin turned to him, "Yes they are, Mr. Arc."

He clenched his teeth when he was referred to as such, "I prefer Dante." He said with a noticeable edge. That caused a lot of the students that were still on the ground to stare in shock. Even Goodwitch was stunned by his attitude.

Ozpin gave him a smirk, "I have to be professional with my students, Mr. Arc."

Dante growled, "I'm so tempted to hit you right now." That was the last thing he said before he was thrown into the air. He allowed himself to be throw as high as possible. At the maximum height he could reach, he channeled his energy into his hands and feet before swinging his arm backwards. He released his energy to allow him to glide straight. He flew a good distance before he used, as he referred to, Angel Boost to glide even farther. He heard a familiar gunshot behind him and looked over his shoulder to see Yang using her gauntlets in a similar way that he was. She gave him a competitive smirk before she flew past him with another blast. Dante grinned, "Oh, it's on!" He used his Angel Boost again and was now keeping even with her. They stayed like that for a while until he saw a taller tree. He angled himself towards it and landed on it, feet first. He channeled even more energy into his arms and legs before kicking off it and flying far faster than Yang could.

After he left her in his dust, he started to descend and quickly pulled back. He drew both his guns and started unleashing a torrent of bullets into the ground at an angle. They slowed him down enough that when he finally met the ground, he was able to run until slowing into a jog then a walk. As he continued walking, he holstered the twins. He put his hands in his pockets and grinned, "That worked like a charm. Now I'm far enough from the other's to not get partnered up. Just gotta grab a relic and make my way back." He stopped when he heard something and turned to see Yang kicking off the trees as she neared the ground. When she did, she rolled to slow down enough and continued to run. Or she would've, if she didn't collide with Dante before either could react.

Dante groaned slightly as he looked around. He was laying on his back on the ground and saw that Yang was now on top of him, completely. She groaned as well and lifted her head, meeting his eyes. They stared for a bit before he sighed, "Great. Now I have you as a partner."

"What? Am I not good enough for you?" she asked in a clearly fake hurt voice.

He just rolled his eyes, "I didn't want a partner, Spitfire. And I'm starting to think you really are trying to seduce me. This is the second time you're laying on me in the last hour."

She smirked at him, "You never know."

He just shrugged, "Hey, I told you, name a time and place. If you want it to be here and now, I'm cool with that. A Grimm infested forest would be new."

Yang had an uncertain look in her eyes before she hid it with her usual swagger. She sighed and got off him, "Tempting but I'm not gonna put on a show for anyone that could be around. Or Grimm."

He grinned and stood up, "Your loss." As he was standing, he felt like he was missing something. His hand went to his chest and he didn't feel his necklace. His eyes widened, and he looked around frantically. "Where is it? Where is it?!"

Yang was confused by his behavior. She was about to ask him what he was looking for before something caught her eye. She looked down to see his necklace, the crystal reflecting the light that shined on it. She reached down and picked it up. She examined it for a bit before she held it out to him, "This what you're looking for?"

He turned on the spot and quickly snagged it from her. He quickly put it around his neck and placed his hand over it against his chest. He sighed and tried to control his breathing. After a few seconds he looked over to Yang, who was giving you a confused look, "Thanks."

"No problem." She said but was still confused. "What's the big deal about that necklace?"

He looked from her to the necklace still in his hand, "It's my most precious possession." He squeezed it in his hand. "I'd rather die than lose this." He sighed before he loosened his grip. He then turned and started walking away. "Come on, let's find this temple." Yang stared after him for a bit before she followed after him.

It had been ten minutes since they started walking. The two were silent, which made Yang a bit stir crazy but Dante was fine with it. Eventually, they heard a rustling coming from the bushes. They both turned, and Rebellion manifested on Dante's back, ready for use. Yang was curious but decided to ask later. She walked closer to said bushes, "Is someone there?" The rustling continued, "Ruby, is that you?" she asked. A low inhuman growl came from the bushes and Yang quickly rolled backwards as two Ursa came from the bushes. "Nope!" she answered her own question.

Yang activated her Ember Celica and started to brawl with the Ursa. She was able to match their strength and was more maneuverable then the beasts, so Dante elected to watching unless she needed help. Yang eventually managed to get under one of them and delivered several punches and kicked it back. The other Ursa stood on its hind legs and swiped at her twice, which Yang barely dodged. That's when she saw a single strand of her hair fall and land on the ground. Her eyes shifted to red and she shouted, "You monsters!" She was surrounded by an inferno before she rocketed forward. She unleashed a devastating combo of flaming hits, making it fly through several burning trees. The other ran towards her and she turned, "What?! You want some, too?!"

That's when Dante fell from the sky and severed its head from its shoulders. The body fell shortly after and he stood from his kneeling position. He placed Rebellion on his back and it stayed there. Yang quickly got control of herself with that. She scratched the back of her head, "I could've taken it."

Dante smirked and walked up to her, "I know. But we don't need the whole forest on fire."

She crossed her arms over her chest, "They shouldn't have touched my hair." She defended.

He just shook his head with the same smirk, "Note to self: Hands off her hair." The two laughed before they continued with the journey.

A few minutes later, the two blondes stepped out of the forest and into a clearing. Located there was a circular stone temple. It was broken and decrepit but inside, they could see several black and gold objects. "Think this is it?" Yang asked rhetorically. Dante just gave her a look and the two made their way to the temple. They notice that each pedestal inside held a relic. "Chess pieces?" she asked.

Dante just shrugged, "Ozpin launched us off a cliff, don't wanna know what goes through that head."

Yang nodded, "Point taken. Any preference?"

He shook his head and picked up the nearest relic, a gold rook, and tossed it to her, "Mission accomplished."

Yang caught it, "This was pretty easy."

Dante just sighed and rubbed his forehead, "I think you just jinxed us." The two then hear a familiar voice shouting, 'Heads up!' They looked up to see Ruby falling from the sky. Dante shook away his shock and held out his arm to his partner, "Yang!" She looked at him and grabbed his arm. He spun her around before he threw her towards her falling sister. She caught her and soon started to fall with her. Dante rushed under them and quickly got in position. He caught them but the force behind them cracked the ground around him. After a few seconds, he looked down at the sisters in his arms, "You two okay?" They nodded, and he put them down.

They then heard several crashing sounds and an Ursa burst out of the forest as pink explosions hit its back. It crashed to the ground to reveal an orange hair girl in pink riding it. Shortly after, a guy in green came out while out of breath. He tried to talk to her, but she was already at the relics and picked one up. They three just looked at each other, "What the hell?" Dante asked the sisters.

Before either sister could answer, they heard a screeching sound. They turned to see Pyrrha and the Faunus with the bow being chased by a Death Stalker. Before they could process that, they hear someone scream and they looked up to see Weiss falling from a giant Nevermore. Dante sighed, very irritated by this point. "Fuck my life!" he shouted.

"Language!" Ruby shouted.

"Sis, not now." Yang told her.

Dante focused his energy into his legs and jumped into the air. He managed to reach Weiss and tuck her under his left arm and he fired into the ground with Ivory. He slowed enough so he didn't break the ground completely. He holstered his gun and looked down at the heiress, "You good?" he asked her.

She looked up and once she realized it was Dante holding her, she started thrashing. "Put me down, you hooligan!" Dante promptly dropped her. She groaned as she stood up and she gave Dante a death glare as she dusted herself off. Pyrrha and the Faunus met them around the same time the guy in green did. Now they had two giant Grimm gunning for them.

"Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together." Yang said to try and lighten the mood.

Dante just ran a hand down his face. 'I may have to step in. Really didn't wanna reveal my abilities against Grimm.' He then felt a disturbance and he immediately opened his senses. The world seemed to have its color bleed away and time slowed. Dante looked to a spot ten feet in front of the Death Stalker. It looked like shadows were erupting from the ground. That's when two red ghostly images emerged from the shadows. Lesser demons, not much of a problem. One flew towards the Death Stalker while the other flew into the Nevermore in the air. The demons possessed the Grimm, making the markings on them start to glow a deeper red and more smoke was radiating off them. Demonic Possession, weaker demons were known to possess Grimm, amplifying their power. And with two Grimm of this caliber, that was dangerous. Dante smiled sadistically.

Time resumed, and the color returned. Just in time for Ruby to speak up, "Not if I can help it!" She was about to rush off, but she was stopped when someone grabbed her hood, causing her to land on her butt. She looked to see Dante looking down at her.

"Sorry, Ruby, but I can't let you do that." He told her.

Weiss sighed, "Finally, he's talking sense."

"They're mine!" he shouted as he ran towards the Grimm before anyone could stop him. He drew Rebellion as he charged, he jumped for a downward slash. The Death Stalker swiped at him but when the two met, both were pushed back from the clash. The Nevermore then began to rain feathers down onto him. Dante impaled his blade into the ground before he spun around with his pistols and opened fire, taking out the feathers before they reached him. When the salvo of feathers was dealt with, the Death Stalker was already on him and about to impale him with its stinger. Dante spun and removed his blade and deflected the stinger before he kicked off the face of the beast. The other students were just shocked by his skills at this point.

Dante backflipped and landed on his feet. He lowered his stance and gripped Rebellion in both his hands. He waited as the Death Stalker charged him. At the last second, his tattoo shined red and with a flash of red light, Rebellion was gone. Replaced with an oversized battleaxe with a red and black color scheme. The red blade was large and curved over some of the shaft, similar to a bearded axe. The grip was identical to Rebellion's. Dante swung upwards with a thunderous strike that sent the Grimm into the air and several meters back.

There was another flash of red and Dante was now holding what looked like a grappling hook. It had a red claw-like head with a black chain-like cord which connected to a spool near, what again, looked like Rebellion's grip. He whipped it forward and it shot out to grab onto the arm of the Grimm. He pulled and the entire Grimm was pulled towards him as it screeched in pain. As it was flying, a flash of red was released, and he was holding his battleaxe once again. He swung diagonally and hit it into the ground before he swung downwards and into its head. It broke through its carapace, killing it.

He pulled his weapon free and looked up to the Nevermore. He jumped into the air as high as he could. A flash of blue came from his tattoo and he was holding another grappling hook-like weapon. It looked like a white snake head with a white chain coming from the grip. He swung forward, and the snake head shot towards the Grimm. It grabbed onto the Nevermore's neck and it screamed. But instead of pulling it towards Dante, it pulled him towards it. He flew just above the giant bird as another blue flash occurred. He was now holding a large scythe with a light blue hue. The blade was curved, coming from the tip of the snaith at its heel. The snaith looked wooden and it had two grips protruding from opposite ends of it, resembling whittled branches. The pommel at the end of the snaith was the same as Rebellion's.

He then started to slice into the Nevermore with lightning fast but powerful slashes. He almost appeared like he was disappearing around the Grimm and flying through the air. It screamed as feathers and flesh were torn from it. The whole time, the Grimm was falling rapidly to the ground as it tried to fight back against the Demon Hunter with no success. When they were close enough to the ground, Dante hooked the blade around the Grimm's throat and kicked off its back, severing the head from its body. The body crashed to the ground and he landed a few seconds later, between his two kills. He laid his scythe across his back as he walked towards the others. All shocked by his display and all thinking, 'Do not piss him off!'

Before they could regroup, the bodies of the Grimm turned into smoke, way quicker than what was considered normal. The smoke congregated in one area, the area the demons appeared from. The black smoke started to glow red and Dante could sense more lesser demons. Soon stepped out a Grimm abomination, for no other term would do. It stood twenty feet tall, standing on four blade-like legs about a foot wide and six-feet-tall. It had a long tail, about the size of its body, that ended in a three-foot-long spear-like stinger. It had a muscular upper body and arms that ended in two pincers. The right was about twice the size of the left, both wide and long. It had two pairs of feathered wings on its back, although the tips of the feathers were colored white. The whole body was covered in thick white carapace with red markings that glowed ominously. A modified, nightmarish Death Stalker head was mounted on the pelvis of the beast while the head was a modified Nevermore that had a maw of serrated teeth. They were all taking in the abomination's appearance before both heads screamed, the two different screams overlapping to form a cacophony that rattled the brain.

Dante shook his head, "Should've known this wouldn't be that easy." He charged into the fray with his scythe, but he quickly had to defend himself as the tail whipped around to stab him. He was able to deflect the attack but was wide open for the huge pincer to smack into him. The force behind it sending him into the forest and through several trees that fell onto him. Before anyone could move, the beast flapped all fours wings and the spot where he landed was barraged by a storm of feathers.

There was an ominous silence after that attack before Yang shouted in fear and anger, "Dante!" That roused the others and they all turned to the new Grimm. What were they going to do when the one that just killed two high level Grimm, singlehandedly, was taken out in seconds?

A/N- Here it is! Made a few changes here and the previous chapters, started referring to him as Dante for now. Just makes the flow of my writing better. Aside from that, shout out to Jauneforever again. Awesome Beta Reader. Hoped you all enjoyed, see you in the next update!