Phantom May Cry

Unknown Family

Daniel P.O.V

"You are going, and that is final!" I said to Danielle, who was pouting at me. We were currently in our apartment above DMC, along with Jazz, talking about a very impotent topic.

"But daddy, school is boring!" She whined. "Besides, you dropped out of school, and I wasn't going to school when I was traveling, so why do I have to go now."

"Danielle," Jazz said, getting her attention. "You need to go to school to learn about the world and learn to talk to people. It is very important, so please, for us, go to school."

"... Fine," Danielle sighed. "I'll go to school."

I smiled at my little girl and rubbed her head. "Don't worry, you might like school. It was the place I met Sam and Tucker."

That got a smile got of her. Jazz then cleared her throat getting our attention. "Now we just need to know one impotent thing. How old is she?" She said as she looked at Danielle

I let out a small chuckle which made Jazz raise an eyebrow. "Don't worry Jazz, when I made a new ID for me I made one for Danielle, she is 10 by law. So she is going to the 6th grade."

Jazz's eyes widen a bit at this. "Wow, hard to believe my brother is actually able to plan ahead."

I actually laughed at her comment. "Thank Pandora and Nelson for that, they made sure I plan ahead for now on and not go in with just luck."

Jazz laughed at that. "I like to meet those two since they were able to pull off a miracle like that." Jazz said, then looked to Danielle. "So now that you will be going to school now, lets get you everything you need."

I took out my credit card and handed it to my sister. "Here, get everything you need, but don't go overboard ok."

"What, don't you trust your sister?" Jazz teased.

"Oh I trust you completely, but I know you are also a women so... yeah." I said with a grin. Jazz glared at me and gave me a quick kick in the shin making me hiss in pain a bit. "Worth it." I said with a cocky grin.

Jazz just stuck her tong at me and grabbed Danielle's hand. "Will be back in a half an hour, you call the school and get everything ready."

"Bye daddy." Danielle said as she waved to me.

"Bye cup cake." I said as I waved back.

I then walked downstairs to the shop and called the locale school. "Yes?" A women said on the line.

"Hi, this is Daniel Phantom, I was hoping to get my daughter enrolled in your school?"

"That is not a problem at all, I just need some information and then she can go." After about 20 minutes of everything settled and exchanging information, everything was set.

"That is everything right, is there anything else?" I said as I put the documents away.

"No that is all Mr. Phantom, your daughter can start school on next Monday."

"Thank you." I said before putting the phone down. I soon as I do so, Greed walks in from the training room. "Hey Greed, how goes the training montage?" I asked with a grin.

"Eh, gotten better at controlling my demonic energy, but not much else." Greed said with a shrug.

I kicked my feet up on my desk and leaned back, looking at the ceiling. "You got to be more creative with your energy, maybe make a demonic energy blade, or put that energy into your legs to make you faster and the same with your arms to make them stronger." I suggested.

Greed sat on the couch and looked up in thought. "Huh, that might actually work, why didn't I think of that?"

"Because I'm the master and your the rookie." I said smugly. Greed flipped me off and we both laughed.

Suddenly the front door opened and 5 people walked at ones.

The first one was a man with white hair like mine, was in his late 20's, his left arm was wrapped up in bandages, and on his back was a guitar case. The second one a women about the same age as the man, she had amber hair and was warring religious clothing. Next to that women was a boy about the same age as Dani, he was warring a blue hoody and jeans, his hair was a very light blond that it almost looked white. The forth one was a older women about in her late 30's, with long dark blond hair, she was warring a corset and leather pants. The last one was a women in her early 20's, she had curly blond hair that was in a bun and was warring a pink dress.

The group all looked around the room with the tiniest bit of awe and sadness in there eyes. When the adults eyes landed on me, you could clearly see the shock on there faces.

"Umm, can we help you, if you need a bathroom it's right over there." I said and pointed to a door with a sign on the door.

The two blonds snorted a laughter before they all maid there way to me. The older man sat in a chair right in front of my desk, and for some reason I was both on guard and relaxed.

"So I hear your the guy to ask to take on demons, and apparently ghost as well?" The white hair man said in a amused voice.

I brought my feet down and looked him coolly in the eyes. "That's right, how can we help you?"

Out of the corner of my eye saw Greed put his hands behind the couch and activated his ultimate shield. Looks like I wasn't the only one on guard.

"Well, I hear your quite strong, so I was hopping to find out how strong." The man said opening his bag revealing a sword's hilt.

I raised my eyebrow at him. "Well this is a first. I usually just have someone or something barge in and try to kill me, not set up a duel." I said, remembering about the demons who thought they could get the drop on me. I now have there heads mounted on my wall, man know wonder Skulker wanted to do that to me.

"So do you accept?" He said with a knowing look.

"Yeah, lets go to the training room, less likely to blow shit up." I said as I walked to the training room and grabbed Rebellion.

We all walked down, Greed was standing off to the side with the other people while me and the older man were facing each other in the ring. The man's sword was a long one sided blade, the handle looked like it had a motorcycle handle on it.

"So how do you want to do this?" I said as I casually swung Rebellion around.

"No powers, no guns, just skill and demonic energy, anything goes." He said as he rested the sword on his shoulders. He took the bandages off his arm to reveal a demonic looking one.

"So I was right, you are a demon, or half of one," I then looked at the older blond. "And your not the only one."

The man gave a confident smirk. "So you want to back out or what?"

"HA, let me just kick your ass already old man!" I said as I readied myself.

"HEY, it's not 'old man', it's Nero!" The now named Nero said with annoyed look.

"Don't care. Fight!"

X(Dance With The Devil: by Breaking Benjamin-START)X

I sprinted forward and brought my sword down. Nero block it then kicked me in the chest, sending me back a couple of feet. That didn't stop me from sprinting right at him again. I raised my sword looking like I was doing the same thing again and Nero gave me a disappointment look as he prepared to block again. But at the last second Danny stabbed the ground, I used the sword to pick myself up and slam both of my feet right into Nero's face, completely catching him off guard.

Nero slid back but he did not fall down. He grabbed his nose and had a annoyed look on his face, but you could clearly see the smirk on his face.

"Alright, you got some skill, glad to see your not a novice." Nero said with a slight glare.

"And it's good that your going to give me a workout. Things have been a little slow lately." I said with a big grin.

Nero sighed and brought his guard up. "You really are Dante's kid."

THAT caught me off guard. "Wait, what!?"

Nero never answered me as he jumped forward at high speed and brought his sword down, hard. I dodged to the side and the sword made a crater in the ground. He then held his sword while the blade was still in the ground and stated to turn the handle, making the blade glow red and a engine sound. The blade then started to move in the ground, dragging Nero around. When the blade came at me, I blocked the blade, making it stop in place.

Sparks were flying off the two swords as they clashed, nether one moving. I then jumped over Nero and tried to slash him in the back. He reacted quickly and brought his sword up and blocked me. I then spun in the air and tried a back kick. Nero brought up his demonic arm and blocked my attack like it was nothing.

Thinking fast, I decided to go on the offensive. As soon as I touched the ground I started to swing Rebellion at high speeds. Unfortunately, Nero had the same plan and did the same. We both swung our blades at high speeds, trying to catch a opening in ether defensive's.

I then bolted forwarded and nailed Nero right in the chest with Rebellion's hilt, making him doable over for a second. I used that to swing Rebellion up and slash him across the chest, making him skid across the floor.

"DAD!" The kid shouted in worry, and I couldn't help but feel a little bad.

While sliding across the floor, Nero used the momentum to flip and bring himself to his feet. The wound on his chest completely healed.

"Don't worry David, I'm OK." Nero said, reassuring his son.

"So do you want to give up or what?" I asked as I rested Rebellion on my shoulder.

Nero gave a small laugh. "Kid, I still have one more trick up my sleeve."

I then started to see a dark blue demonic aura form around Nero. I recognized the what he was doing in a instant. There was a bright blue flash and I saw my suspicions where right, Nero just activated his Devil Trigger.

"Well shit just got real." I said as I looked at Nero's Devil Trigger.

Unlike mind, Nero's Devil Trigger did not change his body. Instead it was more like a giant blue ghost with Nero in the center of it.

Nero then dash forward with speeds even I had trouble keeping up with, catching me off guard. Before I could react he swung his blade up and lunched me in the air. He then jumped and started to slash at my body making me cry out in pain. Then after he was done he slammed the sword on to me, making me hit the ground hard and form a small creator.

"Ow." I said simply as Nero touched the ground.

"Not as cocky as you were, give up." Nero asked with a echo in his voice, but I bet we both know the answer that would come out of my mouth.

"Like hell I will!" I said as I got up with little effort. "If your going all out then so am I!"

I then started to force my demonic energy into my body, activating my Devil Trigger. There was a bright white flash and I was in my devil form. It was the same as before, when I fought Pariah Dark, the only difference was I had my leather jacket over the armor.

Nero side as he readied himself. "Can't make things easy for me, can you."

"Never do." I said with a deep and demonic voice.

I sprinted forward with speeds that even Nero was shocked and brought my sword down, but he still was able to block me. I then side stepped and rapidly thrust my sword and managed to stab Nero but he jumped back before I could do any real damage.

He then started to use the large reach of his Devil Trigger and kept me at bay. But I didn't let him do it long as I sprinted forward and locked our blades. Slowly, but surly, I was pushing Nero back, getting a shocked look form him and the people who were watching.

Suddenly there was a green aura over my white aura and I started to push Nero back even farther. With a loud demonic roar and my new found power, I sent Nero flying right into the stone wall of the room making a huge creature in it, making Nero change back.

Before anyone could go to him, I sprinted forward and had Rebellion at Nero's neck. Making everyone stop.

X(Dance With The Devil: By Breaking Benjamin-END)X

I smirked before changing myself back and put my hand in front of Nero. He smirked back and took my hand.

"Ok, your defiantly Dante's kid." Nero said as he dusted himself off.

"Yeah, I've been meaning to ask, how did you know my old man?" I asked as I looked at everyone.

"Let's go upstairs and talk, this place looks like a war zone." The older blond said as she looked over destroyed room.

I just smirked at her. "Now, but in about an hour it will look good as new," They all look at me surprise. "It pays to know a sorcerer supreme."

The younger blond laughed this time. "And he is definitely Lady's child as well. Dante could never think ahead."

We all went upstairs, Greed stood in the back, I was behind my desk, and everyone else was on the couches.

"So I think I deserve some answers." I said looking at everyone. "Who the hell are you people?"

The red head covered the kids ears and gave me a slight glare. "Language."

Nero rolled his eyes slightly at the red head and then looked at me. "Lets start with introductions. I am Nero." He pointed to himself, then pointed to the red head and the kid. "That is my wife and son, Kyrie and David." Both persons waved to me, Kyrie still giving me a slight glare. "The older blond is Trish and the younger one is Patty." The older one gave me a cut nod and the older one gave me a small wave.

"Ok, I'm Daniel Phantom, and the guy in the corner in my partner Greed." I said, getting a nod from him, but he gave a playful smirk and wink at Trish. She just gave one back before looking at me. "So why did you come here?"

"We heard someone opened a service shop called 'Devil May Cry' and decided to check it out. We didn't know that we all came here at the same time, but here we are." Nero explained. "The last thing we expected was you of all people to own this place." Nero then put on a solemn expression "We all knew your parents. Hell, your dad changed all of our lives for the better."

"So you were all my dad's clients or worked with him at one point." I asked, looking at all of them.

Nero then rubbed the back of his head. "This is where things get complicated. You see, I'm your-"

"Danny, we're back!" Jazz said, cutting Nero off. She and Dani walked in with a couple of bags with school supplies. "Oh, you have clients?"

"No, apparently these people knew my parents." I then looked to Nero and his group. "Everyone, this is Jazz and Danielle. Girls this is Nero, Kyrie, Trish, Patty, and David." I said pointing to everyone.

"Nice to meet yo- wait..." Jazz started, but when her eyes landed on Patty she squealed, ran right up to her, and grabbed her hands. "Oh my god, your Patty Redgrave!" Jazz squealed in joy.

Patty look surprise but put on a smile. "Always good to meet one of my fans."

Me, Greed, and Dani all raised an eyebrow at that. "Fans?"

Jazz looked shocked at us. "Don't you know who this is, this is Patty Redgrave, the star and co-writer of 'A Devil's Kiss' and 'The Order of The Sword'!" She said, practically waving her arms frantically.

"Jazz, are you seriously asking two demon hunters and a 10 year old if they've ever a romaine show?" I said with a playful role of my eyes. "Shame on you." Jazz just stuck her tong out at me.

Nero chuckled at us. "Your girlfriend is very interesting."

That made us both gag. "Eww, she's/he's my sister/brother!" We both said, glaring at Nero.

Everyone looked surprised at that. "That not right, Dante and Lady only had one kid, not two." Trish said to me.

"Well I'm not his blood sister, but he was adopted by my birth parents." Jazz explained, a bit venom on the last part. Everyone notice it but just kept quiet. "We grow up together, so even if we aren't blood related he's still my little brother."

Everyone smiled at Jazz's little speech, even Greed was creaking a smirk. "So is the little one also your sister?" Kyrie asked while looking at Danielle.

"No, that my daughter." I said casually.

That got a ration. Nero fell out of his chair, Kyrie looked gobbled smacked, David just looked confused looking at me and Danielle, and Trish and Patty where doing the fish thing. I just laughed at there reactions.

Nero got back on his chair and glared at me. "Funny joke." He said sarcastically.

I stopped laughing and glared back. "Who said I was joking." I said, getting the same look as before.

"B-b-but how!?" Patty asked, looking completely shocked. "Your only 17, she has to be at lest 10!"

"Dose it really matter." I asked and then raised an eyebrow. "And why would it matter to you."

Nero then suddenly throw his chair down and slammed his hands on my desk. "Because I'm your cousin!" Said right to my face.

The entire room was dead silent. I looked at Nero with wide eyes, I saw Jazz's mouth was wide open, Dani looked had wide eyes just like mine, and Greed just looked surprised.

"...What?" Was all I could ask. The last thing I expected today was to find out I had a blood relative. If I had a cousin then that would mean... "Your Virgil's son?"

Nero side and lost the tension in his body. "Yeah... I guess I have some explaining to do." Nero then proceeded to tell about the events with a group called 'The order of the sword', which Patty admitted was the inspiration for her show. How the group raised both Nero and Kyrie to worship Sparda like a god, but it was all a plot to gain followers so they could one day rule the world by posing as angles, but where just using demon powers.

"Your father saved a lot of people when he brought down the Order." Kyrie said to me. "Including us."

There was a tension in the air as I put a hand over my face. I decided to see if they know something that even Clockwork didn't give me details on. "Do you know how they died, my parents?"

Nero had a grim look on his face as he ran has hands through his hair. "About 16 years ago, some scientists of the order tried to open a gate to the underworld to gain more devil arms. Something went wrong with the portal, it became unstable and demons started to flow out in the hundreds." Nero explained, then let out a breath. "We all took them down but with the portal open more just kept coming, and if left alone more portals would open up around the world. It was a all or nothing mission, we didn't even expect to come back." He finished.

"Dante had a plan, it was a bit risky but it would stop the demons and close the portal." Trish picked off where Nero left off. "Dante put all of his demonic energy into Yamato and closed the portal." Trish then looked down with sad eyes. "But there were still so many demons left, we fought and ended all of them, but with Lady being human and Dante without his powers, they... they..." Trish looked away but I saw she had some tears in her eyes.

She wasn't the only one as I had my own. Dani saw this and ran over to give me a hug, Jazz too. I couldn't help but smile a bit at that and put my arms around them both.

"I'm sorry." Nero said as he wiped his own eyes. "I'm sorry we couldn't save them."

I shook my head at Nero and gave them a sad smile. "You did everything you could, so you have nothing to apologies for."

They all gave me a warm smile. Kyrie cleared her throat, getting everyone's attention. "Um, I'm still wondering on how exactly you have a daughter."

Everyone looked at me expecting an answer, even Greed looked interested. I put a hand on Dani's shoulder and looked her in the eyes. "This is your secret, if you want to share it, it's up to you."

Dani was quiet as she looked at everyone in the room, she had a thoughtful look before smiling. "I... I trust them, they seem like good people," She then looked at me with a fire in her eyes. "I am not ashamed of where I came from."

I smiled at her and started to tell everyone about her origin's. How Vlad made several clones of me but were all mindless and she was the only sane one. How I had always felt she was my daughter but she left to travel before I could tell her. When I told her how I feel about her being my daughter and that I excepted her from the beginning.

Nero and his group looked completely shocked when I finished speaking, even Greed looked surprised.

"Well looks like you get into trouble just as much as anyone in the family." Trish said playfully. "17 and already causing more trouble then Dante did at that age."

I laughed a bit at that, then looked at Nero. "So cuz, do you guys still hunt demons or what."

"Actually no," Nero said surprising me. "After the mission, your parents passing, and the lack of demons, we decided to get real jobs." He explained. "Kyrie works as a teacher, Patty dose her acting and writing, and Trish is a model. As for me, I work as a journalist."

I raised an eye at that. "Journalist?"

Nero shrugged. "It pays not being afraid of politics and bullets."

We talked for hours, about our jobs, our families, what happened to us the last 16 years. Dani and David got along well, she showed off her powers, which made jealous because he could only use a bit of his demonic energy. Greed tried to flirt with Trish and Patty, but both women just brushed him off, making Greed huff and go to the training room.

What was most shocking was how Trish had 'The sword of Sparta' at home. The very same sword Sparta used to close the all the portals that lead to the underworld.

When night hit both Dani and David were sound asleep, so it was decided for everyone to leave. Jazz took Dani upstairs and Kyrie took David to there car.

"If you ever need a hand or in my area, give me a call." Trish said before she hoped on her motorcycle and drove off.

Patty called for a taxi and gave me a big hug before going in. "I may not be a demon hunter like the others or your parents were, but if you need anything don't be afraid to ask." She said before leaving.

Then it was just me and Nero, we were standing outside his car. I gave him a quick bro hug.

"Don't be a stranger cuz." I said a we parted.

"And don't keep all the fun to yourselves." Nero said with a cocky grin. "Journalism gets boring after you dodge so many bullets and politics."

"Which one's more dangerous?"

"Neither, but both are very annoying." We laughed at that.

Then Nero suddenly put on a serious face and looked me directly in the eyes. "Listen Daniel, there's something I need to tell you. When your parents past and the portals to the underworld closed, I took Yamato and hid it, or more acridly I gave it to a to someone."

"Who?"

Nero smirked and let out a small laugh. "I gave it to a 14 year old girl."

I literally hit the ground, hard. I glared up at Nero. "WHAT!?" I shouted. "Why the hell would you give a sword that can cut through dimensions, TO A 14 YEAR OLD GIRL!?"

Nero looked away a bit in embarrassment. "She nearly beat me in a sword fight." He nearly whispered.

I stared at Nero with wide eyes, I couldn't help but chuckle a bit, but then I was in a full blown laughter. "Really showing... the might power... of Sparta." I said in between my laughter.

Nero glared at me. "Hey, I only used my skills and body, I didn't use an ounce of demonic energy or power." He tried to defend himself.

I picked myself off the ground and was breathing heavily. "Ok... you nearly lost to a little girl-" I snorted and Nero gave me the finger. "16 years ago and gave her Yamato. Why are you telling me?"

Nero side. "I want you to have Yamato."

That completely surprised me. "You want me to have Yamato, why?"

Nero looked back into his car and smiled at Kyrie and David. "I'm out of the demon hunting game, that won't stop me from helping you when you need it, but I don't want David following in my footsteps, at least not yet. So I think you should have Yamato. But that is completely up to you."

I had a thoughtful look on my face. "So where is this girl?"

Nero rubbed his chin in thought. "Last I heard, she was living in Japan, here's the last place she lives." Nero took out a piece of paper and wrote something on it. "She should live here and her name is on there too, do what ever you think is right."

Reading the name I raised an eye brow at him. "I'll look into this."

Nero nodded to me, hoped into his car and drove off as I walked back into the shop. As I walked in Jazz came down the stares and Greed walked out of the training room.

"Everyone's gone?" Greed asked as he looked around.

"Yup," I said as I sat behind my desk and looked at the paper. "Hey Jazz, Greed, how would you like to take a trip to Japan?" I asked as I looked up from the paper.

Jazz looked surprise at me and Greed raised an eyebrow, probably not knowing what Japan was. "Why would we go to Japan?" Jazz asked.

"Nero told me Yamato is being held by a women there, and apparently she almost beat him when she was 14." Greed snorted at that. "I want to see what she is made of, and I thought it would be a fun trip before Danielle goes to school."

Jazz smiled at that. "I could get behind that, but where exactly in Japan are we going and who exactly are we meeting."

Looking back at the piece of paper I read it out loud. "The women's name is Shigure, and she lives' at some place called Ryozanpaku."

21N: I may not update as often as before, I was given an idea for a story and I want to try it out. Don't worry, the last thing I am doing is giving up on this story, I just want to try a different idea and see where it goes.

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