DVYL May Cry

Dante watched in shock as the stream of literal hellfire came flying towards himself and Qrow. He quickly snapped out of his daze and stepped in front of Qrow, transforming Rebellion into Osiris. He began to spin his scythe like a turbine, forming an impromptu shield. The flames slammed into the angelic weapon, the force pushing Dante back a few feet.

Dante grit his teeth, trying to stop himself from being pushed back but also from the pain. The heat from the flames were already burning his fingers but he knew if he stopped spinning his weapon for a single second, he'd be engulfed. He wasn't even sure if he could survive that and didn't want to test it. Before he was pushed too far back, he felt a hand on his back and a weight settled behind him. He looked over his shoulder to see that Qrow was helping him hold off, "Don't stop yet, Kid. Otherwise we're cooked."

Dante turned back to the fight, "No shit." He gritted out. He then sensed a demonic presence behind them. "Your six." He said evenly to Qrow. The Huntsman spun and easily disarmed the White Fang puppet of his rifle before he grabbed him. Qrow then threw him at Cinder, who sidestepped the flying body before diving out of the way of the buckshot coming at her from Qrow's weapon, stopping her attack.

Dante used this opportunity to slash Osiris to the side, dissipating the rest of the flames. He held his scythe in both hands and lunged towards her. Cinder saw the Demon Hunter coming towards her with his scythe with a glowing red aura around the blue blade. It had been absorbing demonic energy from her attack, making the scythe just as physically powerful as Dante's demonic weapons. The Dust in her dress started to glow before she raised her hands, creating two identical glass swords. She crossed them in front of her chest to lock with the scythe that would've bitten into her. The force of the attack did send her sliding across the dance floor, her hand melting the ground beneath her as she went but she was unharmed.

Dante spun his scythe, imitating his surrogate little sister, before he stabbed the blade through the back of the puppet that Qrow threw, who was laying on the ground beside him. It was already rising on to its hands and knees before the blades went through his chest. He just glared at Cinder as the pain of his burned fingers was still very fresh.

Qrow ran past him and started to fire a few shots at her. She easily raised her hand and blocked all three shots lazily. But that gave him the opportunity to close the distance and to try to deliver a horizontal slash aimed for her stomach. Or he would've, if something didn't grab his upper arm and pull him backwards. That saved him because a tower of hellfire erupted right where he was a second prior. He landed besides Dante as Ophion- Demon Pull released him and whipped back to the handle. "Thanks." Qrow grunted out.

Dante just nodded, "Be careful. Hellfire can burn through aura like tissue paper."

Qrow looked at him wide eyed, "Noted. How the hell is she using that anyways?"

"Not sure. Some demons can wield it but she hasn't taken on the characteristics of any of them. In fact, she hasn't taken on any demonic appearance like Emerald or Mercury." Dante was just stumped. "I really have no idea on how she's doing this."

Before Qrow could offer any rebuttal, she spoke up, "My, my. Don't you know it's rude to keep a lady waiting?" she said with a smirk before she sent a volley of hellfire fireballs at them. With a flash of blue, Dante was now wielding Aquila. He threw his right one then his left and the blade started to slash through the fireballs, protecting the two. He used his hands to control the flying blades and as they stayed in the air, they multiplied to four with a bit more energy sent into them. As he was dealing with the flames, two more White Fang tried to ambush him from behind. Their blades were stopped by Qrow's and he pushed them back before engaging one, while the twins started to fight the second.

Seeing as she couldn't take him down with her volley, Cinder's eyes lit ablaze again and her dressed started to glow ominously. She raised one hand to lift the melted ground she created to form arm length shards of glass. She channeled hellfire into her other hand before throwing it forwards, coating the glass in the same flames and sending them at Dante. "Take this, you son of a whore!"

Seeing them flying at him, Dante threw his hands behind him and Aquila responded to the command. The four blades melded back into two and flew behind Dante. Each one stabbed into the White Fang being dealt with by his allies. He clenched his fist before swinging his arms forward and stopped in front of him. Aquila flew with his hand movements and pulled the demon puppets with them. The White Fang slammed together five feet in front of Dante and were impaled by the glass shards. Killing them and protecting Dante.

As they died, Dante used them as a springboard to launch himself towards Cinder. She started to raise her flame covered hand but before she had the chance to attack him, he drew Revenant and fired at her. The shotgun bit into her aura and took a good chunk from her reserves. Dante, on the other hand, wasn't expecting the recoil from his new gun and his arm was thrown off. 'Damn, Vergil was right about the power this thing has. The hell is with this recoil?' he thought to himself. By the time he was able to point his gun at her again, she had already sent a scream of hellfire at his airborne form.

Dante's eyes widened and left him with no other choice. He channeled his angelic energies and used his Angel Evade to slip into Limbo. With a flash of light blue, he was no longer in the air as the hellfire engulfed the spot he was just at. With another flash, Dante was on the ground a few feet away from the dead puppets he used as a 'human' shield in a crouch. He opened his hands and Aquila pulled themselves from the corpses and flew back them. Qrow ran up to him a few seconds later, "Damn, Kid, you had me worried there."

Dante slowly got back to his feet. "Luckily, I'm tenacious and hard as hell to kill." He was still glaring over to Cinder. "I still don't know how she's using hellfire. She has a good deal of demonic energy but she still isn't transforming and she is using a lot less than she should be using to summon the damned flames in human form."

Before Qrow could said anything, a stream of fire was erupting towards them again. Luckily, they were the usual flames since she was still reeling from Dante's attack. Dante stepped forward again and threw his blades again. His right one started to spin counterclockwise in a circle while the left spun clockwise in a smaller circle within the first, protecting them from the flames. Qrow was still staring at Cinder through the flames, "I may not know about that. But I do know how she's creating these flames. She's a Maiden."

Cinder just chuckled at them, "Took you long enough to figure that out. Maybe Old Man Oz isn't as all-knowing as you thought." That earned her another buckshot that she easily blocked.

Dante looked at Qrow on his left with a raised eyebrow, "They actually exist?"

Qrow looked at him in disbelief, "You know of demons and angels but don't know about the Maidens?"

Dante shrugged, "I know about them because the gods created them. I don't know that every legend humans have is real or not. But that's one mystery solved." He turned back to Cinder as her flames stopped and his weapons flew to his hands, "She's using her powers as a Maiden and combining it with her demonic energy to create artificial hellfire."

Qrow dropped back into his fighting stance, "That help us any?"

"No but at least now I don't feel like I'm going insane." Dante replied evenly. That's when he shifted Aquila back into Rebellion. "Let's go with the classic: dodge her attacks no matter what then kick her ass."

That earned him a chuckled from the Huntsman, "Simple. I like it. On three?"

Dante nodded, "Three." With that, both took off in separate directions, Dante to the right and Qrow to the left. Cinder pointed one hand each at them before her eye caught fire and several fireballs were sent flying towards them. The first few hit behind them or just over them but that's when she started to get her aim right and they had to defend themselves. Both started to slice the fireballs out of the air while still closing the distance. When they were on either side of her, they shot forwards with their blades carving through the air.

She stopped with her fire and quickly created her swords just in time to block the blades. Dante got there first with a horizontal slash she blocked with her left sword. Qrow came down a second later with a vertical slash, which she raised her arm up to stop before it would split her head. Dante dug in and put more strength behind the swing to send her back a few feet from them. He let go of his blade and it flew to his back before he pulled out his shotgun and fired at her. She managed to cross her swords but she still got hit by the spread, taking away more of her aura.

Qrow quickly closed the distance to deliver several more slashes that she shakily parried. Dante was about to back him up but noticed he was right next to the unconscious Junior. He reached down and pulled one of his arms over his shoulder before he jumped over to the twins. They just got done taking down the seventh White Fang and were getting exhausted. Their remaining men weren't any better. They turned to him and he motioned to Junior, "Take him and get yourselves and your men out of here."

Miltia quickly took her boss' other arm before Dante handed his side over to Melanie. When they had him, Melanie asked, "Are you going to be okay?"

Dante nodded, "Yeah. But I don't need any of you getting caught up in this fight."

Miltia nodded, "Fine, we'll trust you. But you owe us some drinks later."

He just chuckled. "Fine. Now get going." The two turned and started to leave the area, ordering the remaining men to do the same. He saw some of the men holding the White Fang off so the others to get away but one of got killed by the one they were holding off and the puppet made his way towards the twins. It didn't go far before Dante unloaded another shot from his shotgun into its upper back, killing it instantly. Dante looked appraisingly at his new gun. "I'm starting to get used to thi-Ahh!"

He screamed in pain and looked down to see that he was impaled on the lower left side of his stomach. He turned around to see that another puppet had got behind him and stabbed him with its sword. The pain fuel his anger at making a stupid mistake and he backhanded it with his fist. It was sent flying and bounced off the floor with a sickening snap before smashing through the far wall. It was quickly buried by the debris and Dante pulled the sword out so he could begin healing.

He looked over to Qrow and Cinder still trading sword slashes until the half-Maiden bathed her swords in fire. She swung and released a wave of fire at the Huntsman, sending him back several feet. Qrow used the broadside of Harbinger to protect his head and chest but the flames did hit his lower half, taking away some of his own aura.

Dante quickly holstered his shotgun before drawing Rebellion from his back. With another flash of blue, he had Ophion- Angel Lift and wiped it towards Qrow, shocking the man. It grabbed onto his sword and pulled the Nephilim towards him. When he was right on top of him, he unhooked his weapon before he flipped over him and directly at Cinder. With Rebellion back in hand, he brought down a two handed vertical swing which Cinder blocked by crossing her blades above her head. The impact caused the ground below her to crack.

Dante jumped to the right and Qrow ran to the left before they both charged simultaneously to attack her from both sides. She barely managed to bring her swords up to stop their blades with one of her own. The two kept up the pressure and her arms were straining to hold them both back. She was slowly forced to her knees, that's when a furious look came to her eyes and her body started to radiate demonic energy once again. Dante picked up on that instantly, "Qrow!"

"Enough!" she shouted and hellfire erupted from her entire body. With Dante's warning, both were able to jump away in time. Qrow managed to land on the bar before falling behind it for some protection as the flames flew over the top and shattering the bottles on the shelves. Dante landed beside a table, which he flipped it into the air before kicking off of to it go further back. The table was turned to ash but Dante got far enough back to duck behind one of the pillars as the flames surged past either side of it. Even the three remaining White Fang were caught up in the hellfire eruption. One was incinerated on the spot while the other two took some serious damage before they managed to get into some cover. Dante was relieved that the twins and Junior were able to get out before that. Otherwise, there was no doubt in his mind that they would be dead.

Dante took a few seconds to breath as he waited for the flames to die down. Since he was right next to her, he could sense her demonic energy more effectively. But preciously, where the demonic energy was coming from. Usually demonic energy came from the chest of the person before spreading outwards because that was where the soul rested within the person. But Cinder's energy didn't come from there, it came from lower. But why?

The flames finally died down and he peaked out around the column to see Cinder standing in the center of a crater. The edges of it and the ground around her was red hot or even molten now. The walls and column were in similar conditions. Any chairs, tables or bodies that were within the blast zone were completely gone, turned to ash in an instant. Even the bar Qrow hid behind was gone. That made his heart sink slightly, 'Did he actually get killed. What am I supposed to say to Ruby?'

His eyes focused back on Cinder as she stood tall and surveyed the area as she was breathing unevenly. Dante could sense her demonic energy receding and focused on that completely to see where it originated from. He was right and the energy didn't go back to her chest but lower. When he finally figured out where it was coming from, his mind stopped and his jaw dropped, 'She didn't. There is no way.' He thought to himself.

When his denial quickly went away, he grit his teeth in anger and stood up. He walked around the column and across the red hot floor, ignoring the heat. When he was directly across from her, he sent her a glare that was just filled with nothing but unrestrained fury. "Why did you do it?" he practically hissed.

Cinder just raised an eyebrow, "Do what?"

"Don't fuck with me!" he shouted at her in anger. "Your two cohorts gave up on their humanity for power and I saw that as irredeemable. But you, you have gone way beyond that." His grip on Rebellion tightened until his knuckles turned white. "How could you do it?! How could you give that monster an heir!?"

Cinder's eyes widened in shock before her face shifted into a smirk, "So you figured that out too. Yes, I carry the Demon King's child." She placed her left hand on her lower stomach. "Doing this gave me more power than you could ever imagine."

"Power?!" Dante asked in shock.

"That's all I ever sought." She replied calmly. "I joined Salem to become her Fall Maiden and acquire this power." She raised her right hand and manifested a fireball. "The Grimm Queen sent me to Vale to destroy Beacon. But when I met Mundus, I saw what real power was. And I wanted it. I swore to serve him and he gave me this offer: If I were to carry his heir, he would give me more power than I could ever imagine and I would serve as his queen when he ruled Remnant." She chuckled evilly. "It was an offer I couldn't refuse."

"Well…" Dante said calmly before he flipped his sword into a reverse grip and channeled energy into it. He then shot towards her and she barely had time to cross her sword to protect herself from the upwards swing. His smoky blue glared into her conceited gold, "I hope it was worth your life." He said coldly before he released his energy attack from point blank.

Cinder's eyes widened as the energy attack shattered her blades instantly. She had to quickly summon demonic energy from her demon spawn to cover her form, offering some protection from the attack. She channeled hellfire into her hand before grabbing onto the attack, protecting herself but pushing her backwards. While that was happening, Dante pulled his arm back and delivered two more quick upward swings, sending out two more shockwaves, although weaker, to meet the original.

The triple shockwave was slowly overcoming Cinder, so in desperation, she absorbed as much energy from the demon she was carrying and mixed it with all the power of her half of the Fall Maiden's power. When she did that, a tornado of hellfire enveloped her as she screamed, destroying the shockwaves.

Dante just stared at the tornado, waiting to see what would emerge on the other side. As he was doing that, his senses picked up on another human presence in the club. In his confusion, his eyes went up to the second floor and saw a crow sitting on the railing, watching him and the tornado. He raised his eyebrow in confusion, 'Animals never gave off a human signature, so what was going on? And doesn't that presence seem familiar?' he questioned himself mentally.

It was at that moment that the tornado died down and when he turned to Cinder, he noticed her subtle physical changes. The Dust sown into the arms and chest of her dress were gone now, replaced with pure hellfire. Her glass heels were also gone and now had hellfire circling her ankles, helping her float in the air. Her left eye was now constantly surrounded by the fire and her hair, from neck length to the tips was now on fire. The fire being more accumulative the farther from her head it went, making the last third or so of her hair purely fire. Finally, some of the remaining hellfire still in the air flew to the tattoo on her back, forming two wings of hellfire. "Now, bow your head and accept your fate at the hands of the future Demon Queen." With those words, she flapped her wings forward and sent spears of hellfire towards Dante.

Dante quickly placed his trusted sword on his back before he drew Ebony and Ivory. He started to fire his guns and releasing a hailstorm of bullets to stop the spears. When the two volleys of projectiles were over, Cinder flew towards the Demon Hunter with her right hand bathed in hellfire. Dante quickly drew his blade and shifted it into Ophion- Demon Pull once again. He flooded his system with demonic energy and used Demon Evade to just dodge her attack by weaving just to his left, that didn't stop the left side of his face from blistering from the heat.

With him just out of danger, Dante jumped behind her and whipped his grappler forward to grab onto the column he had just hid behind, which was now in front of Cinder. He pulled with all his strength and ripped off a chunk out of it just as tall as she was. The large chunk of concrete slammed into her before she could do anything besides cross her arms. It shattered on impact but she flew up and out of the dust. She quickly dive bombed the Demon Hunter to claim her revenge.

Meanwhile, Dante had landed in a crouch and had his right hand on Revenant, charging as much demonic energy he could into his next shot. When Cinder was too close to dodge, he drew his shotgun and fired the demonic shot. The orb of demonic energy slammed into the chest of the wide eyed future Demon Queen and stuck to her, right before it exploded and sent her flying backwards.

She managed to spread her wings just before she hit the wall and hovered in the air. "This is the end for you." She hissed and put her left arm out, the fire from her dress started to gather in it and it formed into a bow of flames. She used her right hand to pull the string back and an arrow of flame started to form and grow longer the farther she pulled it back.

As she aimed her arrow at him, Dante was about to jump to the side but four swords quickly impaled him. Dante screamed in pain and saw that the two remaining White Fang had managed to drive four swords into his stomach and back, holding him in place. Dante struggled but even with how severely burned the two were, they somehow managed to hold him in place. Cinder smirked, "Time for you to finally reunite with your mother, Dante."

She released her arrow and as it flew through the air, it started to grow exponentially bigger until it was the size of a small car flying at him. Time slowed to a crawl and Dante pulled upon the power deep in his soul, his Devil Trigger. A flash of light erupted from him, bleeding the world of its color and pushing the demon puppets off him. Before anyone could do anything, Dante vanished and the two were consumed by the explosion of hellfire, killing them.

Cinder felt Dante's obsessing force all around her and looked down to see him standing in front of where her explosion just occurred. He was pulling out the four swords stuck in him and the wounds closed instantly. He just looked up at her: coat glowing red, red crack-like veins across his skin, white hair and his eyes glowing red and white.

Desperate to finish this before she reached her limit, Cinder tried to create another arrow. But just a she was reaching for her string, Dante appeared in front of her, to her utter shock. He swung Rebellion with all his might, sending her to the ground and creating a crater before she bounced out of it. She rolled across the ground before she quickly pulled herself to her feet, her flames appearing to be just a bit dimmer than before.

Dante landed back on the ground across the dance floor from her. He just stared at her as he sensed the other presence in the room finally move. In her frustration and anger, Cinder raised her hand to try to engulf the Nephilim but she was so consumed, she missed the flying crow in the room. It flew as fast as it could around the room before flying behind a column close to Cinder. That is when Qrow appeared in the air on the other side of it, his weapon in its scythe form. He fired repeatedly from his weapon, giving him more force behind his swing as he brought his scythe into her spine. The force sent the shocked half-Maiden across the room and shattered her remaining aura.

Cinder managed to stop herself halfway with her wings before flying back at the Huntsman, creating two sword of hellfire in her hands. Before she could get close, a shadow appeared above her and when she looked up, she saw Dante had jumped above her. He channeled his energy for another shockwave attack, but this one being pushed to its limits from his Devil Trigger. He released his attack and Cinder wrapped her wings around herself to form a sphere of hellfire to try to protect herself.

The shockwave caused a giant explosion from the sphere on impact. Qrow would've been caught in it if Dante didn't get in front of him and shield them with his Devil Triggers energy keeping the flames at bay. When the flames finally extinguished, the two saw Cinder on her hands and knees, completely exhausted. He clothing was burnt from her flames and her hair only reached her neck now.

Dante took a deep breath and stopped his Devil Trigger, more locks of hair on the back of his head remaining white. The two slowly walked over to her, both cautious if she had any more tricks up her sleeve. She slowly looked up to see Rebellion's point only a foot from her face. She looked past it to Dante glaring down at her and a step or two behind him was Qrow with his own sword on his shoulder and the same glare. That's when Cinder felt an emotion she hadn't felt in a long time: fear.

"Get up!" Dante said as he motioned with his sword to do so. "I'm not going to kill you or Mundus' spawn." That shocked her and Qrow. "I'll let you both live if you do exactly as I say."

Cinders eyes darted from Dante to Qrow to back to the Demon Hunter. She nodded, "I will. If I lose this…" her hand went to hold her stomach, "I lose everything."

"Then pull yourself together." Dante commanded as he placed Rebellion on his back. "You're going to help me get Yang back."

Roman was still in Mountain Glenn, overseeing his soldiers put together his plan to bring down Vale. The bombs were being set up and loaded onto trains. When they blew up the tunnels and released the Grimm into the Kingdom, there would be a panic. And when everything looked hopeless, his demons would take over the Grimm and he would step forward. Using his power and the Dust he obtained to defeat them and seal the hole.

He would blame the catastrophe on the Council and the Huntsmen for their lack of awareness and not being able to prevent them. Saying he had used the Dust he acquired to save the people while they did nothing to help the people they were charged to protect. Some people would believe him while others would be so consumed by negativity to make them vessels for his soldiers. Over the following weeks, he would attack the Councils and the Huntsmen Academy with his Grimm soldiers, proving his point that they could not protect the people. And eventually all would submit to him, either through their own will or by becoming puppets for his legion of demons.

The only thing that stood in his way was Dante and he would come to him soon enough for his precious girlfriend. And he would kill him to make sure no one would stand in his way again.

He chuckled to himself as his scroll started to go off in his pocket. He pulled it from his pocket and saw that it was from Cinder. "She must've taken care of Junior and his batch of traitors." He answered the call but was confused to just seeing the club. That was when Dante stepped into frame, shocking him.

"Is it rolling?" he asked whoever was recording him. He must've got an affirmative because he kept talking. "Nice to finally see your face, Mundus. Who would've guessed that you were Roman Torchwick this entire time? I mean, think about what could've happened if we knew who the other was when we ran into each other in this very club all that time ago."

The smirk left Dante's face as he grew serious, "But let's move onto here and now. You have someone I care about deeply. And so do I." He reached off screen and pulled Cinder into frame, who stumbled when he pulled her over. "So, here's the trade: The life of Yang…" He then pointed Ivory at her stomach, causing her to gasp and go rigid. "For the life of your child. Have your 'men' bring her to the docks in a couple hours for the trade. Or you'll know what it feels like to lose everything you care about."

With that said, the call was ended. Roman, or Mundus, just stared at the black screen. He grit his teeth and his hand shook before he crushed his scroll. He threw it to the side before he shouted in fury that could be heard across all of the ruined settlement. His soldiers grew fearful of their master's anger and even the Grimm nearby started to distance themselves. Someone had earned the ire of the Demon King and they better be prepared for the hell that was coming their way.

A/N- And here is the next one. Now some of you are questioning, why Mundus would have a child with a human? Well, Cinder isn't a normal human, she's a Maiden. My theory is that her magic would strengthen the demon spawn exponentially and with it the child of Mundus, the most powerful demon at this time, that would make one powerful demon. With that explained, I hope you all enjoyed and I hope to see you all in the next update!

As per the norm, the Beta Reader for this chapter was Khor Evik Vlakhavlakh. Good friend and writer, go check him out