Please Enjoy. I only own the Plot, Wiccan and every other OC. I apologise in advance if any of the characters seem OOC and this chapter is switching Point of View. Please review to let me know your thoughts. This is the last chapter of Dark Huntress but I will be making a sequel, however due to circumstances which can be found on my profile, I am taking a hiatus from writing for a while.

Chapter 12: - The Apocalypse

"Wiccan, how do we stop that?" Dante asked. All of us had retreated a distance from the crumbling building as the newly reborn Apocalypse towered above all of us practically penetrating the cloudbank, his skin was pure black with eerie red eyes shining from his face and pulsating violet lines coursing along his skin.

"I… I don't know. I don't think it's possible to defeat him," I responded, my voice shaking from panic and fear. Dante looked at me and approached me with a worried and desperate look in his eyes, he clamped his hands onto my arms and looked at me directly.

"Are you sure?" Dante asked, his voice desperately begging me to have something up my sleeve to stop the destruction of the world. I shook my head and Dante's hands dropped from my arms, everyone looked at the monster in shock and fear as they realised that they would indeed die by the end of this.

"She doesn't but I do," A familiar voice called out. I whipped around in time to see a woman with singed short silver hair and warm midnight blue eyes, she wore an amber coloured top with short sleeves and a black belt around the middle, dark blue jeans and black combat boots although her clothing was ripped and burnt in several places with a rowan wood staff in her hands.

"Mirage? But how I saw you…," I began to speak but trailed off as my clan sister stopped in front of me a smile on her face which caused me to feel marginally better despite the looming threat of total annihilation, Mirage opened her hand to reveal a Moon Pearl resting inside of it.

"I dropped into Purgatory at the last second, my magic was drained but thanks to you picking up my Moon Pearl I managed to get my magic back just in time," Mirage explained. I nodded realising that now was not the time for an emotional reunion as we had to stop the demonic king towering behind us.

"Your plan? And why should we trust you?" Lady asked. Everyone else looked at her with intense suspicious however I noticed that Nero was gazing at Mirage with a strange look in his eyes, one that I couldn't exactly decipher due to its' strangeness.

"Do what you wish but I will do my job," Mirage snapped. Everyone froze as Mirage's sharp tone but it was no surprise as the woman could be frightening when she desired to be, Mirage walked forward and pointed to a spot above Apocalypse's eyes. "Third Eye," Mirage stated and moved her finger to Apocalypse's neck. "Throat," Mirage continued and then pointed to a spot on Apocalypse's chest. "Heart and Solar Plexus," Mirage finished with her finger ending at a point lower on the chest.

"In ascending order they're the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Chakra. The exact same places that Apocalypse was impaled during his battle with Mundus and Sparda," I commented. Everyone looked confused about what we were saying but I would explain once Mirage had finished with her plan.

"And the same places where the Four Horsemen are located. If we rip them out and seal them away that would give us the chance to then imprison Apocalypse with that Contract inside, stopping him. But to do that we need her," Mirage stated. I took a deep breath as I realised exactly what Mirage was getting at so I nodded showing my agreement with the plan and Mirage then turned back to the others who were confused.

"Alright we need you guys to attack those previously mentioned points and tear out the Horsemen. Me and Mirage will be busy performing the sealing ritual to stop them," I commented. Dante looked at me and nodded so the others agreed, obviously trusting Dante's judgement and they all turned to face the towering demon.

Apocalypse looked around and raise his hand towards some of the buildings however Mirage extended her hand and fired a bolt of mana at Apocalypse which slammed into his hand causing him to stop and focus his attention on us, I pulled the Sacred Relic off of my back and held it out to Lady who looked immensely confused.

"You have priestess blood, witches and priestess are distant cousins. Focus on Joy, Love or anything that makes you happy to make the Relic work," I stated. Lady nodded and took the Relic so me and Mirage jogged a few steps back as Mirage used her magic to raise platforms for the others to reach Apocalypse which they jumped up on to.

"Will this work?" I asked. Mirage shrugged which was her typical answer for maybe so we took a few steps away from each other and brought our hands together as we began to chant the spell that we needed to complete, as we chanted glowing white lines began to form around us.

*Devil May Cry*

I stared up at probably the most powerful demon that I would ever face and looked at the others, Nero had Yamato out already but he looked frightened, Trish had her guns ready and lightning was crackling across her body whilst looking determined and Lady was tenderly holding the Relic whilst looking worried.

I pulled Rebellion off my back and prepared myself as I focused on the lowest area that Mirage had pointed at which contained a pulsating spot with sickly green veins spreading out from it, I jumped forward and attempted to plunge my sword into the spot but my sword bounced off harmlessly so I used one of the platforms to jump back up to the others.

Apocalypse laughed at my failed attempt and had this been any other demon I would have been mouthing off to it but I needed to take this seriously so I kept my mouth shut however Apocalypse shut himself up by screaming in pain and I looked down to the spot to see that it was being blasted by a pure white light.

I looked Lady to was shrinking down to her knees before dropping the Relic, Trish rushed over to her and we saw that her hands were smoking but when I looked back at Apocalypse I saw that the area that had been attacked was faded and a silhouette could be seen so me and Nero jumped at it and slashed at the skin again.

This time we easily managed to cut through the damaged skin and hauled out the demon inside of it and jumped back to the platforms, Apocalypse roared and crumpled in on himself as sickly black blood that was tinted green rained out of the wound, I looked at the demon and saw that it was clad in mouldy green armour with a huge bow and most likely had the same red eyes as the other three.

I didn't wait for any chance of him attacking us so I threw him down towards the glowing white lights in the shape of a pentacle, the demon landed within it and was swiftly surrounded by white light before begin crystallised and thrown out of the pentacle. The others had seen what happened so we decided to continue with that method of pulling them out and as I look up to the next target I saw yellow veins spreading out from it.

Despite the pain that had happened to her hands, Lady took the Relic and pointed it at the spot and another beam of light burst forth from it as smoke began to rise from her hands. Trish swiftly attacked and launched lightning at the spot which caused the skin to rupture and Famine began to fall out however he awoke as he fell and used his scales to pull himself up to us and attempted to crush Trish however she swiftly dodge the attack and fired bullets at him but he blocked them with his scales.

The demon didn't waste any time and immediately launched himself at Nero who barely dodge the attack which ended up causing the platform to begin crumbling so Nero jumped over to another platform and fired bullets at him but Famine blocked them with ease. Suddenly more platforms formed which would allow us to more easily fight off Famine.

"Close quarters, bullets don't affect him," I called out. I then rushed forward and brought my sword down toward the demon which he blocked however this allowed Nero to dive in and strike Yamato into the demon's leg which made him buckle and allow me to punch the demon in the face which sent him back.

Famine quickly leapt back to his feet but Trish launched lightning at him before he could make any sort of retaliation which effectively paralysed him and so I took the opportunity and threw him down to the pentacle where he was crystallised just like the other demon however Lady was crouched down with her hands cradled to her chest.

We all rushed over to her and Trish pulled her hands out so that we could see them, they were severely burned with the skin peeling off of her hands leaving red patches underneath, I cursed realising that there was no chance that we could keep asking Lady to use the Relic if the damage to her hands continued.

"I can keep doing this" Lady croaked out. None of us believed her but without that Relic we had no other of getting through the skin and the only other people who could wield it were currently preoccupied with… whatever they were doing, suddenly a quiet rumbling occurred and Kyrie appeared, none of us could say anything as she rushed over, uncorked a bottle holding a purple liquid and pouring it over Lady's hands before she left again.

We watched as the liquid rapidly healed Lady's hands and a shimmering purple coat appeared over the hands, all of us were confused but we didn't have time to focus on this as Lady immediately snapped up the Relic and pointed it at Apocalypse, she unleashed the light again but her hands didn't smoke this time.

The light hit the heart area which was surrounded by red lines, however before we could rip out the Horsemen behind it, War burst out and had his sword poised and ready to kill us however I jumped up and blocked the attack before it could land on us. This did have the effect of sending us tumbling down and smashing into one of the platforms and we jumped apart.

"You cannot stop me Spawn of Sparda!" War yelled as he charged at me. I immediately shifted into my demon form and our sword clashed against each other which sent out a shockwave from the force of the impact, we pushed against each other in an attempt to overpower the other however it seemed that we had an even strength this time.

War reared back his fist and attempted to punch me however I managed to cock my head to the side causing it to miss and I then slammed my foot into his abdomen however War used his free hand to slam out heads together disorientating both of us as we stumbled apart however War didn't get any rest.

Nero immediately darted over and slashed at War with Yamato although the Horseman managed to block the strikes before punching Nero back and growling low as his red eyes bore into Nero with such malice that the kid would be dead if that was possible.

"How many filthy sons did you have Sparda?!" War yelled. He the charged towards Nero but I managed to intercept the strike as Trisha appeared and blasted him with lightning however he caught the lighting on his blade and deflected it downwards towards the two witches, luckily it seemed there was a barrier as the lightning separated in mid-air and struck the ground before it hit them.

"I've had enough of you," I spat. I then lunged forward, wrapping my arm around his throat and used it to force us off of the platforms, the both of us impacted onto the ground and then jumped apart to continue our fight without War being capable of endangering the others.

War brought his sword crashing toward my head but I caught a hold of it and used my demonic strength to throw War closer to where the witches were and I charged after him and swung with my sword although he dodged the blow and launched another attack at me which I managed to block.

As I was now closer to the girls, I heard a strange chanting that was melodic and soothing almost as if it was inviting someone to sleep, I couldn't help but think of when my mother use to sing me and Vergil to sleep with a lullaby however when I managed to refocus my attention it seemed to have a much different effect on War.

War stumbled back as he clutched at his forehead so tightly that his clawed fingers were beginning to dig into the helmet and possibly his scalp, I didn't wait to give him a chance as I threw my arm into his side and then fired bullets at him which forced him to step into the pentacle and thus he was promptly crystallised.

Knowing that War had been dealt with, I used my strength to jump back up only to find that the other three had released Death whilst I had been fighting War and were desperately avoiding him whilst attacking from a distance but none of their attacks did anything so I immediately landed and fired my guns at him.

The increased strength caused Death to stumble but he soon regained it and focused his attention on me, Death swung his scythe at me but I managed to dodge the attack as I tried to figure out a way to defeat him without getting hit by that damn poison.

"Give up Son of Sparda. You cannot hope to defeat me as weak as you are and that relic will be on no use unless in the hands of a witch," Death spoke. I gritted my teeth at this statement, however Death soon roared in pain and I saw Yamato sticking through his side and then Nero was next to me.

I nodded and the two of us charged at Death who swung his scythe but I jumped over it and landed behind him whilst Nero ducked underneath it and then slashed his legs with Yamato causing the Horseman to stumble and so I used this opportunity to punch him down to the ground with the two of us quickly following after him.

Death had already leapt to his feet and threw some of his shadows at us however Nero swiftly activated his Devil Trigger and used it to block the shadows allowing us to land safely on the ground and charge at our opponent all the quicker.

I slashed Rebellion downwards but Death dodged although we only intend to push him back to the pentacle however Death was suddenly surrounded by shadows and disappeared only to reappear further from us and the pentacle making our job even harder.

"Do you truly think me so foolish. I know your plan and will not fall for it," Death taunted. My grip on Rebellion tightened as I was getting sick and tired of this guy

"Why don't you shut up," Nero snapped as he threw an astral punch at Death which he dodged by jumping up and then charging at Nero however all of a sudden the ground underneath Death broke causing him to stumble which allowed Nero the time to dodge the attack.

I took this opportunity to kick the evil scythe away and then I seized a hold of the Horseman and promptly threw him into the pentacle however just before he hit, Death awoke and tried to use his shadows to escape but the light seized a hold of him thus preventing his escape and it began to surround him, seeing that he would lose, Death looked at me.

"Vergil lives," Death choked out before he was crystallised. However that one statement caused my body to freeze and my demonic form to drop, Vergil was alive but I had killed him when he was Nelo Angelo… hadn't I. I shook my head to stop that though, the demon was just trying to trip me up and stop me from stopping Apocalypse.

A rumbling soon occurred and I heard Apocalypse's scream of pain as the others all returned to ground level however none of us had time to relax as a hand took a hold of my arm and we were dragged off to some other place which turned out to be in between two buildings and a glowing yet transparent blue wall suddenly appeared.

"Everything is complete. It is up to her now," I heard Mirage say. I looked up to see that she was looking out of the shield, I turned to see Wiccan slightly behind me obviously having been the one to drag me to safety however I was confused by what Mirage had said.

I soon got my answer when a piercing light split the cloudbank and struck the ground were the pentacle was however instead of destroying the ground flowers sprouted and from the light came a towering young woman, she was only young with long white hair and piercing violet eyes, she wore a white dress with a bow and quiver on her back.

The woman withdrew her bow and an arrow, she nocked the arrow and it became engulfed in purple flames as she fired it, the arrow pierced into Apocalypse who stumbled backward but was incapable of removing the arrow as the fire caused him pain when he attempted to touch it, suddenly the woman glowed brightly.

Once the glow faded, I saw that the woman had aged to be about middle-age and lacking the weapons, she then launched a stream of pure white light that slammed Apocalypse backwards, she then glowed once more and changed into an old woman with a dark blue almost black cloak around her and a wooden staff in hand which she tapped against the ground, shadows them lunged out and skewered Apocalypse causing another roar of pain.

"Now!" Mirage yelled. Next thing I knew pain seared across the back of my head and I saw a few strands of my hair in Wiccan's hand, Wiccan chanted something and the strands formed into a ball of purple light which she then threw and it hit Apocalypse which caused, what I think was a seal to appear across his chest. Apocalypse then suddenly began to burn white as the scenery behind him shattered and he was sucked in by a great wind before it reformed thus preventing him from escaping, the woman then looked at us and the witches bowed their heads which made the woman do the same and then she glowed once more before vanishing.

"What was that?" Lady breathed once the woman disappeared. I had to agree with my old friend and it seemed everyone else did as well as they were all staring at the witches who then raised their head from the bowed position and turned to face us.

"The Triple Goddess, Creator of the Witches. She used her eternal might to weaken Apocalypse and then we had to use the essence of one of those who sealed him to do it again although that essence has been restored," Wiccan stated.

*Devil May Cry*

"So what will you do now?" Kyrie asked. All of us were stood at the edge of Daemon Capitala, Mirage was looking out at the sea as the wind gently rustled everyone's hair and I pondered Kyrie's questioned, I would continue my work but I had to wonder what Mirage would do.

"I must face judgement for what I did. Controlled or not, I still used Black Magic and went against our sacred purpose thus I am heading to my homeland," Mirage answered. She turned to the others and leant against the railing as she fiddled with her rings that she had yet to take off which caused me to smile at this fact.

"I guess I'm going with you then," I commented. Mirage snapped her head up and gave me a pointed look as she placed her hand on her hip, however I simply sent one of my own glares right back at her and I'm pretty sure the temperature dropped to sub-zero.

"Why?" Mirage questioned. I honestly had to raise an eyebrow at this, she knew the ways of the clan as well as I did and because of that I had to be present for any such questioning, after all humans based their trials off of our own.

"You're my sister besides I'm a witness. You know what that old bat's like, sometimes I don't know why you don't just take over," I commented. Mirage heaved a sigh at my comment, it was one she'd heard too often from multiple sisters but she always refused for some strange reason that only she knew.

"Let's go," Mirage stated not answering the comment. I nodded and pushed off of the railing as I turned to all the others who looked grave as if they thought we were going to die or something, I reached into my pocket and pulled out my Witch Compass and held it out to Dante who blinked at it.

"Thank you for everything. If you ever need me, use this to contact me, just open it up and speak my name," I said. The half-demon then took the object and tucked it away and flashed me a flirtatious smile as he folded his arms.

"See you later babe," Dante said. I rolled my eyes before me and Mirage jumped off of the island, we free fell towards the churning sea beneath us but before we even touched the spray both of us shifted into our bird forms, with Mirage assuming an owl.

The two of us flapped our wings and shot back into the sky as we began soaring back towards our homeland, where I knew a whole new battle would be awaiting us but it hardly mattered as we had gained powerful and dear allies.