DVYL May Cry

Dante just looked over to his friends, silently enjoying their utterly shocked expressions. Honestly, it was pretty predictable. He just told them about the existence of demons and angels, along with a third nearly unknown entity. Then claimed to be one of those exceptionally powerful beings. It was pretty funny to see Nora and Weiss speechless, for once. Now the question was, who would be the one to break this silence. The answer was Weiss, "Wait. You're saying that you're some sort of demon/angel hybrid?"

Dante just rolled his eyes, "That's exactly what I said." The others looked at him like he was insane, and he just raised an eyebrow, "You're honestly surprised? Look at what you know about me." He started to count them off on his left hand. "I'm as strong as Yang and Nora with their Semblances, nearly as fast as Ruby with her's, my senses are greater than any Faunus and my healing blows even those with high aura reserves out of the water. Do you really think any normal person can accomplish all that, at once?"

They all looked at each other. He had a point. People with high aura control could amplify their physical abilities to an extent, but not to the level of someone's Semblance. But still, hearing Dante claim something like this, it was just crazy. They heard him give a sigh, "Looks like you'll need more proof." He leant forward off the wall, just enough for Rebellion to manifest on his back, but over his left shoulder instead of his right. He drew his weapon and tossed it towards them. It impaled into the roof a few feet in front of Ruby. "Go ahead, Ruby. I know you've wanted to hold it since you first saw it."

Ruby looked at him and he just nodded reassuringly. She then drew the sword and was shocked by the weight of it. It felt twice as heavy as she would've thought. She held the handle in her left hand and the blade was across her open right hand. She looked it over and still couldn't believe the craftmanship of the blade. But more so, she felt some kind of energy seeping from the metal. It felt both cold and hot but every once in a while, both at the same time. It was a strange contradiction. "Dante, what's this strange energy?" she asked.

"It's a mix of demonic, angelic and my own energy. And when I focus on any one of them…" Ruby felt more of that colder energy come to the surface and with a flash of light blue, she saw she was holding Osiris now. She and the others were stunned as Dante finished what he was saying, "I can change its form. Rebellion is a demonic weapon that has the ability to shapeshift."

"But, you told me your other weapons were stored inside of you because of your Semblance?" Ruby asked, still in shock.

Dante shrugged, "I lied. Saying I could store things because of a Semblance was an easy way to hide the true abilities of Rebellion. Arbiter, Osiris and Ophion are all just a part of Rebellion. And Rebellion is practically a part of me now." As he said that, the weapon disappeared, and everyone just stared at him. He shrugged again, "That's all the proof I have. If you don't believe me, that's your call. I said I'd tell you the truth, didn't say you had to believe me." He looked out over the horizon again. "Besides, why would I make up what happened to my mother of all things?"

There was another silence until he heard Pyrrha speak up, "So, what happened after…that?" she asked hesitantly.

He looked back over to them and saw that they more or less believed him. He took a deep breath, "My father got us away from our home as it burned to the ground. He locked away mine and my brother's memories to protect us and gifted us each a weapon. My Rebellion and Vergil's Yamato. He left each of us with a family he trusted and then declared war on Mundus." He sighed, "Sparda was powerful but not nearly as strong as the Demon King. He was defeated, and Mundus banished him. For all of eternity he will be tortured, a fate worse than death."

"I lived many years thinking that I was human named Jaune Arc. I saw Noah Arc as my father and Alexandra Arc as my mother. Along with all seven of their daughters as my sisters. And for a few years, I was happy and at peace." He had a small smile before it fell, and he looked down. "But it didn't last…"

"When I was thirteen, the demons came for me again. I'm not sure how they found me, but they did. Noah tried to protect us all. But, they killed him easily. They restrained me and attacked my mother and sisters. They made me watch and if I looked away for a second, they would beat and torture me before making them suffer more." He looked down more and his hands came up to grip his head. "The things they did to them…the torture they put them through…their screams…" Dante started to shake and so did his voice. "And the demons saying it was because of me…because of what I was…that they were dying because of me."

Tears started to fall from Dante's eyes as he started breaking down. He had opened the floodgates of his mind and the memories that he tried to suppress for so long were coming back to him without stop. The images of his sisters, step-mother and step-father being broken. The feel of the flames consuming both his homes. Pain erupting across his body from the torture and beatings they gave him. The smell of burning flesh and smoke. The sound of screams and laughter filling his head. He was practically pulling his hair out from the mental onslaught he had subjugated himself to. With a scream he slammed his fist into the roof and sent spider web-like cracks across the entire segment of the roof.

Dante was breathing raggedly as he tried to reign himself in as tears still poured from his eyes. But his eyes never left his hand being stuck in the roof. The others just stared on in further shock. They never expected to hear all of that. Who knew someone like Dante had gone through something like that. He looked so broken right now. It broke their hearts, no one more than Yang. She wanted to hold him there and then but knew she couldn't.

He pulled his hand free before standing on the edge of the roof with is back to them. He used his right sleeve to wipe his tears away. He took another breath before continuing his story, but slightly hoarser now. "During that time, I kept hearing this voice in my head. I had no idea what is was back then but now I know what it was. It was the voice of my father, Sparda. Telling me to draw the power that was a part of me now. To fight back. It eventually resonated with me and I was able to draw Rebellion for the first time. But it was too late by then. The Arcs were all dead. So, I used my new power to kill all of the demons in revenge. I was merciless. I made them suffer as much as my sisters and step-mother. None escaped me."

He was quiet for a bit as he closed his eyes to get the rest of his emotions back under control. He opened his eyes once again, "That night, I lost my second family. Although, I didn't remember my first at the time. It was like I had to suffer the pain of it all over again. The Arcs were the most loving and pure people on this planet and didn't deserve the fate they were dealt. And they were dead because of me. So, I left behind the name Jaune Arc and started to go by the name the voice had called me, my true name, Dante. I had no right to be called by an Arc after that. I swore on that day, I'd hunt down every demon and kill them. Erase their evil from this world."

"That was until about a year ago. My brother, Vergil, found me after all our years apart. He helped me remember everything and helped me harness more of my abilities." He gently massaged his forehead, "Remembering what happened to my birth parents, just made that pain come back to the surface. And that just made the pain I was already feeling grow many times over. But, that just reaffirmed my vendetta, with a new purpose. That's when we started to work together. To kill Mundus for the families we lost. And save this world from his rule."

He turned back to them and a few of the girls had tears in their eyes, "That's why I came here. Ozpin offered to help with my mission. I was only supposed to be here long enough to gain the information I needed. That was it. But what I wasn't expecting was to find a third family." He looked at them seriously and sincerely. "Took a while but now I know the truth, I see you all as brothers and sisters. Most of you." His eyes darted to Yang, who was quiet for everything, before they flicked away again. "I can't lose another family. So, that's why I'm leaving." He took a step backwards and half his foot was hanging off the edge. He smirked a bit, "You take care of yourselves." He took another step backwards and closed his eyes. He started to fall backwards and away from them, to keep them safe. The fall would be nothing and he could get away before even Ruby could catch him.

He only made it a few inches backwards before he was stopped. He opened his eyes to see that Yang was standing in front of him and was holding the front of his shirt. She was staring into his eyes with a neutral look in her eyes. She pulled him from the edge and only when both his feet were securely on the roof, was when her eyes turned red and she punched him as hard as she could in his stomach. Dante doubled over and felt the air leave his lungs. He started coughing, trying to reclaim his breath. Once he did, he looked to see her eyes still red, "Damn, Yang, you didn't hold back."

She shrugged angrily, "Well your supposed to be some legendary warrior so you should've been able to take it. Besides, that's what you get for leaving."

Dante just regarded her before nodding slightly, "A punch isn't too bad. If that's all, I'll be leaving now." He turned back around but a hand gripped his shoulder and spun him around to face the angry blonde, yet again.

"You're not going anywhere." She said with a tone full of finality.

Dante just raised an eyebrow, "I beg to differ."

"All of us here have been worried sick about you. And now that we finally got you back, you think we're going to just let you leave?"

"You make it sound like you can stop me." His eyes and voice grew cold. "You can't stop me. Any of you." His eyes went past Yang to stare at the others for a few seconds before turning back to her. "So, I suggest you let go."

Yang's grip tightened, "Make me."

Dante clenched his fist and for a few seconds hesitated. 'It's for her own good.' He thought before he drove his fist into her stomach, holding back enough to not shatter her aura. She wound up in the same position as him a minute or so earlier. She reclaimed her breathe and glared up at him. "Last warning."

Yang grit her teeth before going for an uppercut. Dante caught it and went for and overhead swing but was unsurprised when she caught it. The two struggled for a few seconds before they pulled away and started to swing at one anther in rapid succession. Most of the punches were deflected but one or two got through, but neither cared and kept fighting.

RNBW and the VL of DVYL just watched on. They were shocked but not as much as they should've been. This was pretty much the equivalent of a lover's spat for those two. They watched for a few seconds before Pyrrha spoke up, "Do you think we should stop them?"

Ruby shook her head, "No. Yang needs this. It'll help her work through her frustrations with Big Bro."

Ren nodded, "It may be the only way to drive her point into his stubborn head at this point."

"Let's just hope not literally." Blake added with her usual brand of reserved sassiness.

"He'll be fine." Nora announced. Amused by the fight between her teammate and team leader. "He's tough. Especially, since he's one of those Nephilim thingies."

Weiss just stayed quiet. Even after what he said, she still blamed herself somewhat for him leaving originally. If she got involved, she could make it worse and no one wanted that. Especially her.

The two blondes got into another power struggle, they had their hands interlocked and were trying to overpower the other. Both were gritting their teeth and growling slightly. Until Dante pulled his head back and headbutted the brawler. As her head recoiled, he pulled her arm over his shoulder to toss her over his back. Yang somehow managed to land on her feet while still dazed. She spun and swept his legs from under him, sending him onto his back.

He looked up to see her coming down with an axe kick. He managed to roll to her side and into a crouching position. He clenched both his fists together and swung up while standing, catching Yang on her chin. The force of his hit sent her to the floor. Yang shook her head and rolled onto her hands and knees to get up. Dante jumped on her back, driving her back down to the rooftop. He grabbed her right arm by the wrist and pulled it behind her back. Yang gave a silent groan of pain as Dante spoke up, "Give it up, Yang. I don't wanna break your arm."

Yang didn't take that laying down. She activated her Semblance enough so that flames shot off from her. Dante managed to jump away with only just getting singed. Yang shot back to her feet with her fist pulled back for a devastating right cross. Dante planted his feet and put more strength into his own right cross. Yang caught Dante in the face while he caught her on the shoulder. Most would've thought that Yang won right there. But that was before she went flying backwards by the force behind the hit. She hit the roof with enough force to send shingles flying and her indented into it. They all saw Yang's aura shimmer before shattering as she started to breath raggedly.

Dante slowly stood up straight as he popped his neck back into place after her hit. He looked at her as she was looking back at him with heavy, lilac eyes. He felt his heart grow heavy before he turned to look at the rest of his friends, they were honestly stunned by the outcome. He sighed in resignation as he turned around and started to walk to the edge of the roof again.

He was so absorbed in his own thoughts, that he missed the sound of wood and shingles falling. He snapped out of it when he heard a shout and the sound of footfalls. He turned just in time for Yang to tackle into him and for both of them to fall from the roof. Dante heard his friends shouting their names as they fell. Dante quickly pulled Yang close to him, knowing how dangerous this would be for her without aura. A few seconds later, his back broke the ground below him and he gave out a nearly muted cry of pain. He slowly pulled himself together and looked down at Yang still held tightly in his arms. "Yang? Are you alright?"

She slowly pulled her face from his chest and looked up at him. Her eyes were wide, probably from the realization of what happened. "You saved me."

He just gave her a confused look with that. "Of course, I did. I only want to protect you."

Her eyes widened more before they narrowed and turned red again. She pulled herself from his arms as she straddled him and started to punch him in the face. His head whipping side to side. As she did, she was speaking angrily, "You want to protect me!? I don't need you to protect me! I can handle myself just fine because everyone that was supposed to protect me, never did!" She started to punch him in the chest. "My mom was never around, she left me! Summer left both me and Ruby! Dad just shut down and left us to defend for ourselves. And Qrow was too busy to ever be around! I had to get strong to protect me and Ruby because no one else would!"

Tears started to gather in her crimson eyes, "Then you come along, and I thought you'd be different! I thought I finally found someone me and Ruby could depend on! I actually bought that! And I let myself fall for you! And just like everyone else, you left!"

She stopped hitting him and rested her fists on his chest as tears just kept falling from her eyes. In a broken tone, she asked him one thing. "Why, Dante? Why'd you leave me like everyone else did?"

Dante just stared up at her as he felt his body already healing from her assault. He never seen her so broken and fragile before. It made him disgusted for making her like this. "I left because I'm not strong enough." He said weakly.

Yang froze before looking down and started trembling, "That's what it was?" she was trying to speak through her sobs. "You left because you didn't think you were strong? I could've helped you. We could've helped you."

"I know. That's why I had to leave." He spoke brokenly, and she looked back up to see that he was silently crying now. "I've lost two families to Mundus already. And I loved them so much. But you, Yang, are something much more. I've come to love you more than I ever thought I was still capable of. If you got involved in this, Mundus would come after you. And if he took you from me…." He looked away to stare up at the broken moon above them. "How would I keep going?"

He kept looking up at the moon as his tears started to slowly stop. He then felt her hands gently cup his cheeks. He looked back just in time to see her kiss him lovingly. His eyes widened as he felt the pure emotion flowing from her lips. Fresh tears started to fall from his eyes as they closed. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close to return her kiss.

They pulled apart and Yang just stared into his eyes, her's back to their usual lilac. "How do you think I could go on without you?"

His eyes slowly slid away from her's, "You could find someone else. Someone worthier than me."

She slowly moved his head to look at her again. "I get to decide who's 'worthy' of my love. And no one is more so than you."

He just looked up at her and spoke just above a whisper, "I can't lose you."

She gently brought her forehead to his, "If we work together, you never will."

"I don't know what will happen next." He told her honestly.

She pulled back to look at him with only an inch or two separating them. She had a small smirk, "Hey, we're badasses. What could happen?"

He started to chuckle at that with her giggles eventually joining in. They looked at each other for a few silent moments. "Guess I'm not having my way, am I?"

She shook her head, "Not unless that is with me sticking by your side. Than that is a yes."

He sighed one last time in resignation. "I'm sorry for hurting you, Spitfire."

"I know how you can make it up to me." She closed the space between them and kissed him again, which he returned with as much love and passion.

Around that time, the others came running from around the side of the dorms. They stopped when they saw the two blondes kissing. They were shocked for a few seconds until they smiled at the moment. Nora then jumped up and shouted, "Yeah! Team DVYL is back together!"

Roman made his way into a warehouse and slowly walked across it to a desk on the other side. He placed Melodic Cudgel against said desk as he sighed. "Well, that was something."

"So, how did everything go?" he heard a sultry voice speak from the shadows.

He turned with a smirk as a beautiful woman with long, raven hair and ember eyes in a red dress, saunter over to him. Two others were behind her: A young woman with red eyes and green hair, Emerald. Along with a young man with silver hair and grey eyes, Mercury. He shrugged, "Pretty well, more or less. Couldn't steal the Dust but the whole docks going up in flames will have a similar, if not greater, effect." He slowly started to walk over to her, "Either way, now they have less Dust for them to fight back with and this'll draw more Grimm for the army to use."

The two stopped in front of them and she slowly ran her hand over his cheek, "Too bad we lost the White Fang." She said in faux concern.

Roman just scoffed, "They were merely pawns. And they served their purpose." He grinned evilly, "And more." Cinder just raised an eyebrow, "They drew out Dante."

Her eyes widened for a few seconds before she grinned, "That is fortunate. But will he cause us more problems?"

"Please. He may be a Nephilim, but he has no idea on our plans. Or who I am." With that said, his green eyes shifted to glowing grey, his right eye missing its pupil. "Be ready, Cinder. Our plans will soon come to fruition."

She just purred as she leant into him more. "Always, my King." He wrapped an arm around her as Mercury and Emerald bowed to the Demon King.

A/N- Well it has been a while since I updated. Last few weeks were hectic and that's putting it mildly. I'm actually shocked that I got this uploaded so quickly after the first one. Shoutout to Jaunforever for being awesome and beta reading both this and the previous chapter. With that, I'll see you in the next update!