Nero stared at the ceiling of his new room. So much was happening to him, he was in a new world, one that Sparda himself had been to and left something behind. If it was devil arms then Nero would be amassing quite the arsenal with the two he had taken from Dante before leaving. Nero didn't think he would even notice as he was too busy boning Lady. The image of walking in on the two in Lady's apartment was forever burned into his mind, and he was still on the verge of throwing up every time the picture came to him.
After Kyrie was killed by Sanctus, Nero was broken. Dante had taken the sixteen year old under his wing, and met Lady through him. She became his rock. When he wasn't slaying demons, he was with Lady. She even let him move in with her to get out of the hell hole that was Dante's shop, he cooked for her, helped her clean, listened to her problems. It took a year before Nero brought up Kyrie, and Lady was supportive. She had this kick ass adittude and took shit from no one, in a lot of ways she was the opposite of Kyrie. But she was always kind to Nero, to a great degree. Nero fell in love with her, he didn't give a shit about the age difference, he was more mature and more supportive then any guy her age she had met and she had explicitly told him that. So when he confessed to her, he knew it would probably ruin everything, but she returned his feelings.
The six months he was with Lady were perfect. They hunted demons together, they lived together, and Nero had many of his firsts taken by her. Lady had turned out to be sexually insatiable, and Nero was more than happy to indulge her. But their relationship was more than sex, at least he had thought it was. She told him all of her worries, hang-ups, and skeletons in her closet, and he did the same. He told her how he was so torn up about not knowing what he was and what he had to do with Sparda. She told him how her father had screwed her up so terribly. They were in love. At least Nero thought they were.
On his eighteenth birthday, the day that their relationship became something they no longer had to hide from others, he had taken a solo job, one that would have taken him two days. He finished it in one, wanting nothing more than to return to his beloved Mary, Lady had told him to call him that as it was her real name, and what he found in their apartment drove him back into a state of unstability and brokenness.
He sat in a chair as they went at it, completely oblivious to his presence. Dante finished first, and promptly climbed off of Nero's only source of stability. Then Lady noticed Nero who had Blue Rose narrowed down at Dante, his devil trigger active. His voice was layered, both with anger and a demonic voice.
"I hope you got what you wanted."
Nero shot Dante in the head after that, then looked at Lady, shook his head, and left. He made a stop at Devil May Cry and took two of Dante's devil arms, then took the first flight to Fortuna he could find. There he went directly to the remnants of Argus' lab, looking for a way out of the world he was in.
He found Argus' notes on hellgates, and his research on using them for more than a portal to and from hell. Nero spent a month studying alchemy in the castle high in the mountains, discovering he possesed a knack for the skill. He kept his hunting skills sharp by fighting the remnants of Argus' experiments, learning the in's and outs of his stolen weapons, melding them into his fighting style. Nero finally completed the hellgate, just in time too. Dante, Lady, and Trish had tracked him down.
He was putting the final touches on the alchemical construction when Dante burst in the large center room of the castle, the two women right behind him. Nero had been expecting them. He fought, fought hard.
Nero thought about what happened that day, and realized that day marked a change in him, he almost became a killer.
"Nero! What the hell are you doing!"
Nero didn't answer him, instead he revved up Red Queen and charged at the older hunter. As his sword met Dante's, Lady took a pot shot at Nero with her signature Rocket launcher. Nero lept away and activated his devil bringer, snatching the missile out of the air, and hurling it back at Lady. She was dead to him, they all were. Trish had never been on his good side and the way she had her nose in Dante's affairs meant that she knew what was happening between Dante and Lady. Dante knew about their relationship and how much Nero was in love. Lady had simply broken him.
Trish had snuck around and charged at him from behind brandishing the sword of Sparda. Nero met her with a swift boot to the face and an exceed charged strike with the flat of his blade. She was sent smashing in to the wall. Lady had holstered Kalina Anne and dropped into a close quarters stance. Nero popped her in the knee with Blue Rose, a fountain of blood erupting and her screaming.
Dante charged at Nero again, he was pissed as Nero had just crossed the line. They were going easy on him thinking he was just upset. They didn't realize the kid was this good or that he was capable of actually hurting them.
"The hell is wrong with you?" Dante received a blue wave of energy as a reply, he was now using Yamato, which meant he had activated Devil trigger, except for some reason there was no trademark blue aura emanating off of him. Nero had figured out how to use Yamato outside of devil trigger, which meamt he had access to his most powerful attacks. They would hurt a little less as there wasn't a spectre mimicking his every move but he was still incredibly dangerous. Dante had been expecting an easy fight, not a curb stomp on his end.
Wave after wave of maximum bet strikes were thrown at Dante, who was barely able to keep up with the speed of them. He was feeling the anger of Nero's blows, the sheer rage that the young man was feeling. He was met with a buster to the face when he slipped up, but before he was sent flying Nero snatched Dante back and unloaded a clip from his gun in his heart.
Nero wasn't done there, he drove Red Queen over and over into Dante's sternum, before throwing him up into the air and stabbing Yamato into his throat. Dante was left a bloody mess, Lady was crippled, and Trish was out cold. Nero was still angry. He pried Rebellion from Dante's cold hands and stabbed it into the center of his hellgate construct, the devil arm starting the alchemical reactions and causing a red pulsing portal to form.
Nero was drawn from his recollections by a knock at the door to his small room. He took a second to wipe the tears that had formed in his eyes thinking about his past and opened the door to reveal a folded set of clothes and a strange device, as well as a letter.
Nero set the device down on his bed with the letter, lookinv over the outfit. He assumed it was the school uniform, and it wasn't terrible to him. The letter turned out to be from Ozpin, and detailed that the device was called a scroll, which seemed similar to the smart phones from his world, and also went over his schedule. He dressed quickly setting his clothes on his bed, deciding to wear his boots instead of the dress shoes that Ozpin had provided. The lettef0r stated that no one would bother him about his arm as there existed many strange things in this world, but if anyone did he could simply tell them it was his semblance.
He pocketed the scroll and went back to the letter. He was suppossed to keep his weapons in the locker that the school provieded but there was no way he was letting his sword or his gun out of his sight. He holstered Blue Rose at his side, and was going to place Red Queen on his back. Then he had an idea. Gripping Red Queen with his Devil Bringer he focused on trying to absorb the sword into his arm. It took a few tries, he assumed due the blade's non-demonic nature, but eventually a blue glow wrapped around Red Queen and the sword was gone.
Nero smiled, he had learned a new trick. He checked the scroll for a map of the school and located his first class. He was feeling incredibly hungry so he decided to make at a stop at the cafeteria.
Nero ignored the looks he got for his arm from the other students, which was on full display as he had his sleeves rolled up on account of his devil bringer's elbow spike. He kept his head high and his stride long, he wasn't going to make concessions for anyone anymore. He entered the cafeteria and instantly felt like every eye was on him, he had no experience with a school setting, having been raised by a militant organization, but this was a school for fighting, and he knew how to fight.
He slipped his hands in his pockets, and waited in line for breakfast. He didn't really pay attention to what he was being served, but he knew it was edible at least. He took a seat at an empty table and ate his food, which was pancakes drenched in syrup and bacon. He ate at a decent pace, wanting to get out of public scrutiny. He had finished and was about to leave the massive room when soemthirng caught his eyes. A group of guys were gathered around a girl with brown hair and... rabbit ears. Nero shrugged off the surprise and instead watched the group with a speculative eye. One guy who had a suit of armor on that had a bird like crest on it, was pulling and jostling the girl's ears, despite her pleas, and the other guys were encouraging him. Nero walked over
Velvety Scarlatina was not having a good morning, as team CDNL was currently harassing her because of her ears. She was trying to get away but every time she pushed Cardin's hands away he just grabbed right back. She was on the verge of tears when suddenly Cardin stopped pulling on her rabbit ears. She looked up and saw a red clawed hand gripping around Cardin's wrist.
Nero glared at the ringleader of the boys, who were now all staring at him along with the rabbit girl. "Let go of her ears, or I will break your wrist."
Cardin was a tough guy, but even he knew when someone was out of his league. The way this kid's eyes seemed to glow and the appearance of his hand made clear he was not joking about breaking his wrist, Cardin promptly let go of Velvet's ears.
"I ever see you pull this kind of shit again, I will break you and your flunkies every bone. Do I make myself clear?" Rather then responding the team followed their leader out of the building. Nero smirked at their response, even in other world's he could scare the bejeezus out of people, he had a lot of practice scaring off guys that were only interested in Lady's tits
Nero looked down at the girl and extended his hand, "I'm Nero, today's my first day, are you okay?"
Velvet blushed and returned the gesture, avoiding his eyes, "Hello, I'm Velvet Scarlatina, you didn't have to do that for me."
"Yes I did. My arm has gotten me a lot of flak, so I know what it's like to be judged for looking different."
"Is it your semblance?" Nero nodded in response, before taking a seat next to her.
"What year are you?"
Velvet blushed more, "I'm a third year. You?"
"First"
"Really? You look older."
"I am. My circumstances are a little messed up."
"How so?"
"Let's just say that I'm from really far away." Velvet took the hint and dropped the subject.
"Have you figured out where your classes are?"
Nero shrugged and pulled out his scroll, which also had his schedule on the device.
"I have history with Professor Oobleck. I looked on the map of the school but I'm not entirely sure where I'm headed."
Velvet smiled. "I have that class as well. Come on, I'll show you the way."
Nero nodded and followed the rabbit girl.
They were walking in silence, till Velvet spoke up. "Um, if you don't mind me asking, how long have you had..." Velvet trailed off in embarrassment, she was worried at the chance of losing a new friend.
"My arm? It's fine, I know it's strange and semblances don't usually manifest physically in this manner, but it's part of me and I'm not embarrassed by it anymore, I've had it for about two years, it awakened when I was sixteen."
Velvet felt part of her grow to admire this Nero even more, he was like a faunus, and he didn't care what anyone thought of his unusual features. "What can it do exactly? I'm sorry if that's prying."
"You're not prying, your just asking questions that anyone would ask. It's called Devil Bringer, it allows me summon a spectral arm that mimics my movements, and a bunch of other things, it allows me to store certain items, and it can absorb certain objects to make it stronger. It's really picky though."
Velvet giggled at that, he almost made it sound like it was alive seperate from him. "Thats quite the interesting arm then."
Nero looked down at his devil bringer and smiled, he was actually happy to have the thing now that he didn't have to worry about being burned at the stake for it.
The two kept chatting as they walked when Nero realized that the boys from earlier had been following them for a while. Nero had Velvet stop when they reached an open area around a statue. "Looks like your friends want to play Velvet." Nero drew Red Queen from his arm and rested the blade across his back, smirking as the four boys surrounded him and Velvet.
Velvet was worried, team CDNL, despite being huge jerks, were capable combatants, and Nero couldn't be that good, could he? The way he was acting though, this was a joke to him almost.
"You should've known better then to stick your nose in team CDNL's business freak!"
"How would I know that when this is my first day?"
"Whatever!" With that the four of them charged Nero, who simply wrapped his arm around Velvet's waist and jumped, sailing over them. As he landed he set a blushing Velvet down and revved up his sword, before twirling himself into the fray. He blocked a set of daggers first, throwing back the wielder with a swift kick to the chest. Then came a halberd, which he simply sidestepped, and headbutted the kid holding it, knocking him out. Cardin came at him with his mace, and managed to get a good swing in, or so he thought. Nero had caught the weapon just beneath its head with his bare hand, before snapping the mace in two.
"You might want a new mace."
Cardin growled and threw his mace handle down, then charged at Nero who simply shook his head, the average person was way too easy to rile up compared to demons. Nero slipped past the enraged boy, tripping him with an outstretched foot. Cardin was sent sprawled to the ground, knocked out by his own inertia.
Velvet was stunned, Nero had made a complete fool of all of one of the the strongest first year teams, and he didn't even move more than a few feet from his original location.
Nero turned to Velvet after once more putting away Red Queen. "Well that takes care of that. Let's get to class."
Elsewhere, Ruby Rose was sitting at her seat waiting for class to start, thinking about the boy who had dropped into her life. For some reason he made her feel... wierd. She had never put much thought into boys, but Nero was the only thing that had been on her mind for the past forty eight hours. She felt a connection to him, and she had to know why.
She was drawn from her contemplation when her sister poked her in her side, getting her attention. "Whatcha thinking about sis?"
Ruby blushed, "N-n-nothing." Yang leered at her with a knowing grin.
"You were thinking about Nero weren't you?"
Ruby's blush simply intensified.
"It's alright Ruby, you're not the only one. I mean, I cant get him out of my head either."
"Ozpin said he was a student now, so who do you think he'll be teamed up with?"
Blake spoke up from the opposite side of Ruby, "I hope it's us, he would be quite the asset to have in combat and I'm sure we all would love to get to know him better."
Weiss scoffed from her place next to Blake, "Speak for yourselves, if he's placed with us I'll, I'll, I'll... I don't know what I'll do, but it won't be pleasant for anyone."
Yang rolled her eyes, while Ruby and Blake frowned, "Weiss, you need to relax. He seems like a great guy and he really saved our buts."
"He came from a portal in the sky and was spouting nonsense about demons Yang, he's a buffoon."
"Who's a buffoon?" The four were shaken from their conversation by the sudden appearence of Nero.
"Hey Nero! Do you have this class?" Ruby instantly perked up at seeing him.
"Yep, and I have news for you all."
Blake's bow twitched as she looked up from her book. "And what would that be."
Yang jumped on as well, "Do tell."
"I'm officially the newest member of team RWBY."
"What!?" Weiss had slammed her hands on the table in front of her and stood up, her face a mix of shock and disgust. The other girls had smiles and Ruby and Yang had let out a small cheer.
Nero looked at her, let out a sigh, and seemed like he was about to say something before he instead decided to walk further up the risers that served as the classroom's seats and sat behind Ruby.
Ruby turned to Nero with an apologetic expression just as the professor started class.