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The demons and devils of Hell sensed a terrible being had just entered their domain. The very being that denied them the conquest of a new world, a new universe. The traitorous Dark Knight has returned and no other creature other than the Prince of Darkness himself can hope to challenge him. The denizens of Hell made way as its subjugator would no doubt destroy them without a moment's notice.
The Devil form of Sparda ripped through the space of Hell in speeds exceeding light. Stars went and gone as the Dark Knight made his way to the domain of Mundus past the other domains of other demon lords.
Only darkness greeted Sparda as he finally reached his destination.
"Mundus! I know you are here! Show yourself!" Sparda commanded. His words were loud however it seems to have been enveloped by the darkness itself.
A moment passed by until three crimson orbs sparked into existence from the infinite darkness.
"What? No hellos for your sworn brother?" A voice boomed as the three crimson orbs sparked.
"I've no time for your games!" Sparda manifested a sword of red energy and swung for the set of crimson orbs. Only for the orbs to phase through the blade. "I know that you were the one who sent those demons near my family. I've clearly made a mistake in letting you live!"
The set of crimson orbs sparked out of existence and a boisterous laugh permeated the darkness.
"And I am so ever thankful for your mercy! It allowed me to do some reflections." The crimson orbs sparked once again but in a different space in the darkness. Sparda pursued the orbs and coated his energy blades with his magic and will. The orbs disappeared before the blades managed to touch them.
"It made me realize something very terrible." The voice continued on as the orbs and Sparda were locked into a never ending battle of tag. "Wanna know what it was?"
"I don't care." Sparda finally had enough and used his full might to cut through the darkness with his energy blade and let light shine on through the darkness. Reality around the slash was cut and light began to shine brighter.
"Ow, turn off the light, it's bad for my skin." The voice sounded genuinely hurt as the crimson orbs flickered a moment. "One more hit and I might cease to exist."
Sparda said nothing as he prepared to launch another strike. However, his body refused to give in to his commands.
"Anyways. The thing I learned is that I can not defeat you, Sparda." The voice calmly said without any form of malice. "So I thought, if I can't beat you, I'll just move you far away. Be someone else thorn on the ass"
Rune began to appear along Sparda's form and he connected the dots. "Reality magic that encompasses all creation. You fool, you are breaking the rules of all other realities!"
"Oh spare me the lecture. You yourself have dabbled on it seeing as you acquired the Aegis of Creation. Seeing as you haven't broken free from these binds means that you left it somewhere else." The crimson orbs have now begun shining brighter.
Sparda resigned on his fate and silently hoped that his family would be safe without him. 'Vergil and Dante. It is now up to the both of you to safeguard humanity. Please protect your mother.'
"What no other remarks? You bore me." The response only earned a sharp glare from the Dark Knight. "Rest well Sparda. Due to the machinations of these spells it will require several years for me to directly intervene once again so your family will be safe for a few more years."
"Mundus I swear on the name of the progenitor god, I will destroy you once I return!" Sparda leveled his glare at the three crimson orbs hanging in the darkness. Magic runes completely engulfing his whole body.
"Yes. Yes. Don't hit your head on the way out." With those words uttered, Sparda's whole body vanished in a flash of light.
When Sparda once again opened his eyes, he was greeted to an open field with a sky filled with numerous different doors.
The evening sky of Tokyo greeted the wary faces of devil hunters and fiends alike. Concrete as far as the eye can see and rows of high rise filled every view atop one of the apartments.
Aki looked around and found his partners Denji, Power, and Angel all safe and sound. And after seeing that they were all in one piece, he gathered the remaining devil hunters together.
Kobeni and Galgari helped one another get up from the ground.
Kosabe and Tamaoki kept patting themselves around their bodies to make sure that they were indeed alive and not missing anything.
Angel accompanied Aki and the others to the spot where Makima was nursing Denji with her own blood. Beam not far near them with his forehead sticking out on the ground like a sore thumb. Power was looking around the top for any signs of the twins.
As the devil hunters and fiends gathered around Makima. She lets out some words with a hint of warning. "Would you like to continue fighting, Quanxi?" She never left her eyes on Denji as she continued to give him more of her blood.
The Public Safety Hunters turned their attention to the sound of footsteps and saw Quanxi along with Pingsti and Long all hugging her.
"There's no use fighting you and we have no means of escape with Santa Claus flooding the streets with his dolls." Quanxi stated with little emotion. "Allow us to be of use to you and help you get rid of him."
"To hell with that!" Tamaoki yelled. "You killed several hunters of ours including Nakamura!"
"Well it was their fault for being so weak!" Pingsti taunted with her tongue sticking out and her middle finger pointing at Tamaoki. "Idiot!"
"Why you stupid bi-" Tamaoki was about to spring into action until a command was spoken.
"Enough." Makima ordered and the rest of the hunters and fiends shivered upon her words. "We will employ Quanxi as a tool to destroy Santa Claus while we evacuate our wounded."
Quanxi and her girlfriends were content for now and moved away from the Public Safety Hunters.
Tamaoki held his tongue and begrudgingly complied. Aki then took this as a moment to impose a question on Makima.
"Makima, who were those two?" Aki voiced out the question that lingered on everyone's mind. Denji expressed his interest and gave his full attention to Makima. Even Quanxi and her girlfriends peaked at Makima.
"Those two… share something with a popular old story in hell." Makima said as she reigned in her thoughts. 'The Tale of Sparda… It even preceded that of Chainsaw Man.'
Makima was about to continue on speaking before the doors near her opened and revealed two figures: Kishibe and Yoshida.
"Makima, the situation is getting worse. The Dolls continue to expand and seem to become more resilient. Kishibe announced as he opened the door and saw Makima.
Their reunion however is soon cut short as a tall devil landed on the same roof as them. The familiar head of the woman named Santa Claus stood atop the monstrosity. Ten long slender doll-like arms protruded from a doll's torso while the bottom portion seemed even more disturbing. The legs were formed from the heads of dolls without the jaws,
"This power is magnificent. However, it seemed rather odd how my connection to the Darkness Devil was soon cut afterwards." Santa Claus said as she admired her new form in front of all the hunters and fiends to see. "But enough of that, it is finally nice to meet you Makima."
"Quanxi, prove yourself useful and deal with this nuisance." Makima commanded as she rose from her position. She then directed her attention to Denji and ordered "Chainsaw Man help this poor woman and make sure she doesn't break her promise."
Makima headed towards the door and announced "I have new matters to take into and therefore I must prepare. Farewell everyone." Kishibe and Yoshida along with Public Safety Hunters followed suit.
"How rude." Santa Claused sighed and turned her attention to Denji. "Well I might as well take Chainsaw Man's heart for myself if the Darkness Devil hasn't already done so."
Quanxi looked around the rooftop and saw another one of her girl friends, Tsugihagi. She approached Tsugihagi with her other girl friends in tow and ordered them: "Find Cosmo for me and find shelter afterwards." The girls obeyed and vanished with one another in tow. Quanxi then fixed her attention towards Santa Claus who had her back towards Quanxi as she hungrily eyed Denji. Quanxi then removed her eyepatch and dug deep within the eye socket to reach out a huge bolt. Her form changed to that of her hybrid crossbow devil. Her head was replaced with numerous spikes and horn shaped like that of a bow adorned the side of her head all the while sporting a menacing set of spikes that protrude from the top of her forehead. Her forearms were adorned with spikes and a crossbow on each forearm.
"Let's get this over with, I need to plan a date with my girls after all of this." Quanxi stated as she fired a barrage of bolts towards Santa Claus.
Santa Claus's whole body was riddle with basketball sized holes, she turned her head slowly at Quanxi. "This day keeps getting better and better. It is an honor to meet the so-called first devil hunter." Santa Claus slowly repaired the damage to her body and raised one of her arms and pointed it towards Quanxi. "Have a gift, courtesy of a 'hunter' to another."
Dolls with razor-like arms rushed and surrounded Quanxi.
"Honor's all mine." Quanxi leapt to various fences and walls around the roof top in order to avoid the mass of dolls.
Denji assumed his hybrid form of the chainsaw devil. A large chainsaw sprouted from his forehead as his whole head changed to fit a very grim rendition of a chainsaw. His forearms were also adorned with chainsaws and Denji was ready to pounce into action.
Aki along with Power stayed behind to help out Denji and covered his back.
"What are you guys still doing here?" Denji asked as he carved a doll's guts in the front and covered himself in the viscera of his dead opponent. The dead doll uttered terrified screams of guttural death which perturbed Denji and Aki.
Aki sliced off the arms of a nearby doll and heard its screams of pain. "Auugghhh. You asshole! Murderer!" The doll screamed. Aki sliced its head off. "These dolls… why do they sound so human." Aki ignored Denji's question and for a moment nauseated at the sight of his kill. Only for it to be replaced with caution as the doll writhed and seemed to come back to life only for Power to squash the doll's body with her giant blood hammer. Blood sprayed beneath the hammer and as she raised it back up bits and pieces clung to the hammer.
"What the hell are you idiots standing around for!?" Power exclaimed as she stood proudly over the corpse of the doll. Her bright red hat shining brightly on the Tokyo evening sky. "These dolls are nothing but toys and toys are meant to be broken!"
"Where the hell did you get that hat?" Denji asked.
Power ignored him and tipped her hat down and tried her best of imitating the same pose Dante assumed as he equipped his faust hat.
"Denji. Denji. The question you should be asking is how many toys must we break so that Santa Claus can give us a bigger and better one!" Power then tipped her hat up and pointed her finger towards a doll. "Her name is Santa Claus so there is bound to be a reward for properly handling her toys!"
"That sounds ridiculous!" Denji protested.
Power then twirled around with her hammer and destroyed a nearby doll."Is that defeat I hear? Well that's no problem for me because I've already killed two so I am getting closer to being gifted by Santa Claus as the best Devil she has ever seen!"
"What? No fair, let me in on too!" Denji then sprinted towards a group of dolls with his chainsaws revved. Blood sprayed everywhere in his wake.
Aki can only look at his two partners in worry.
In another part of Tokyo. One brother stared at the evening sun on top of a high rise.
"Ahh the smell of fresh air!" Dante happily exclaimed as he threw his hands up behind his head. "Makes me almost forget how we even arrived here so suddenly."
"Hmph." Was only Vergil's response. Now that he was in his human form, he examined the black blade of the Darkness Devil that he stole from. The blade looked to be that of a black katana with a large hilt adorned with four bells.
"You managed to get a devil arm from that skeletal looking fella?" Dante asked as his brother seemed more engrossed in a blade than finally being out of hell again.
"Interestingly enough it isn't a devil arm. It seems to be a part of that devil I fought." Vergil stated as he practices some swings with the weapon. "It is an impressive piece."
"Seems hoarding demonic weapons runs in the family." Dante sighed and crossed his arms. "This is definitely the human world but I am smelling a lot of demonic shit around here along with some faint scent of that same devil that you stole that from."
"They won't pose a problem for us." Vergil calmly said as he had finally finished his last swing. "And here they come, right on time."
Countless dolls surrounded the brothers. "Murderers!" "Assholes!" "Dipshits!" Insults continued on as Dante laughed.
"What a wholesome welcome party." Dante clapped. A doll rushed toward him intending to run him through with his razor arms. "Straight to the point huh?" Dante dodged out of the way and cleaved the doll in half and as he summoned DSD.
"Oww that hurts you asshole!" The doll screamed as its life seemed to fade away. The dolls recoiled in fear of the weapon that manifested but nonetheless they chanted a chorus.
"Murderer!" "How can you do that to someone!" "Killer!"
"No wonder something seemed off with these devils." Dante glared at the dolls. "These poor bastards used to be humans."
"Yeah asshole! Don't kill us!" A doll took its chance to swing at Dante who again dodged it with grace.
"Vergil, I do not want to kill humans, so I'm going to try my luck and find the asshole who was responsible for this." Dante transformed into his true devil form. An explosion of red flames rocked the dolls to the ground. An infernal being replaced the figure of the jolly red garbed man. Four leathery wings expanded and brought forth the devil onto the sky. "Please try not to kill all of them." With those words, the devil soared through the sky in pursuit of its prey.
"What the fuck was that!?" "I shat my pants!" "That shit had a huge ass!"
"You are giving me quite a difficult task, dear brother." Vergil sighed and stowed away the black blade into his magic armory and brought forth Beowolf. The sounds of howling pain and broken bones scarred whatever poor creature was near the rooftop Vergil was in.
Quanxi along with Denji and Aki continued their long battle with Santa Claus. Power held off the mass of dolls coming their way with the help of the new dance moves she learned from the old man in red. The group were gaining the upper hand with their sheer destructive capabilities however the sun finally was gone and darkness encompassed the city of Tokyo. Santa Claus's skin assumed a darker color and sprouted long horns from the top of her head. The various doll heads along her legs turned bald. Her wounds were immediately restored.
"What the fuck!? That's cheating!" Power yelled as she snuck a glance at the newly transformed Santa Claus.
Denji's only response to her form is to charge right at her. Santa Claus dodged the charge. Only for Denji to wrap her with his coil. Quanxi followed suit and rained down a barrage of bolts towards the immobile devil. Santa Claus's body was once again riddled with holes. Aki took this moment to catch up behind Santa Claus and chopped off her head. The head rolled around the ground until it stopped at a nearby road curb. The head turned around and showed Santa Claus wearing a smile. "Close but no cigar." Santa calmly said. Her body then started to heal from the head down. Denji spent no time and charged her when her body was healing. His chainsaws ripping through her doll flesh like a hot knife through butter. Santa Claus's smile did not waver one bit.
"Why won't you die!?" Denji roared as he smashed his chainsaws through Santa Claus's body again and again.
"The power of Darkness, my dear Chainsaw Man." Santa flicked Denji with one of her restored arms towards a nearby building, shattering the windows and walls as Denji crashed. "I can distribute my pain across all the dolls I possess." In response to this, the dolls near the vicinity stopped for a moment and experienced excruciating pain.
Quanxi again launched a barrage of bolts towards Santa Claus only for the devil to pick the bolts up one by one. "I'm afraid that won't work anymore." Santa said as she destroyed all the bolts within her grasp. She then proceeded to walk towards Quanxi only to be stopped short by Aki's blade. The blade cut through one of her arms. Santa Claus' only response to this was to flick Aki to the same building she left Denji in. Quanxi ran towards the building in order to group up and keep stalling until her girlfriends arrived. Power on the other hand saw what was happening and decided it was the time to high tail out of there until a red spark on the night sky landed on top of Santa Claus. Aki holding up Denji with one arm managed to get out of the building with Quanxi's back at them. Aki and Denji looked towards where she had her sights.
Santa Claus appeared to be pinned down by one of the same men they encountered in Hell.
Dante having deactivated his true devil form pressed his sword inches near the neck of Santa Claus as he stood atop her prone form.
"Lady, you better start telling how to change those devils back into humans." Dante said as red aura encompassed his figure until a demonic silhouette stood right behind him sending shivers down the spines who saw the ghastly figure. "Or we are going to start having problems."
Santa Claus was surprised and scared of this newcomer. She can sense that she had no ways to overcome this man as he radiated more power than that of the Darkness Devil. "Devils? No, the dolls of mine are not devils themselves but are a part of me." Devil Sword Dante inched closer to her neck. "If you kill me it will all doom them." Dante then commanded "Make them stand down and stop fighting." Santa raised one of her arms and snapped her fingers.
"Done." All the dolls within Tokyo stopped whatever they were doing and froze in place.
"I'm going to need Vergil for this." Dante summoned several of his sword formations and placed them directly ahead of Santa Claus. He then stuck his sword into the Earth inches near the neck of Santa Claus and then sat down flat on her ribcage. His weight stopping her from getting up.
"Can you please stand? This position is uncomfortable." Santa Claus pleaded with sweat drops forming in her forehead.
"Shut up." A red sword formation went straight to her face but instead of piercing her it bonked her with the flat side of the blade.
"Hey old man!" Power waved at Dante.
Dante looked towards her direction and said "I'm not that old." He then noticed Quanxi, Aki, and Denji all looked at him weird. "I swear this is my natural hair color." Dante then remembered their faces and asked "Wait, you guys were in hell with us!"
Santa Claus was flabbergasted and became intrigued with this new revelation. She tuned into the conversations.
"First things first, who are you?" Aki asked.
"The name's Dante, Devil Hunter extraordinaire!" Dante gave a thumbs up to the group.
" I'm Denji! Those moves of yours in Hell were sick!" Denji said as he waves his arms now that he wasn't in his hybrid form.
"Yeah! Those moves were pretty sick for an old man!" Power said. "Name's Power! The strongest Devil on Earth!"
"Aki Hayakawa Public Safety Devil Hunter of Japan, you must be be operating from America then right, Mr. Dante?" Aki said with a polite nod.
"Right you are. Hoeverever, I'm more of a freelancer type of Devil Hunter." Dante said and turned his attention to Quanxi. "And what's your name beautiful?"
"Quanxi." Quanxi replied with her arms crossed. "And I don't swing that way."
"Score one for Dante! Man, I'm killing it with women!" Dante said sarcastically.
"Wait, you know how to get women!? Please teach me!" Denji ran up to Dante with excitement in his face.
"Hoh? You wish to learn the intricate art of wooing women?"
"Yes! Yes!"
"Well then, listen well my young pupil-" Before Dante was able to finish his sentence a blue blur appeared near Dante and spoke to him.
"You shouldn't be corrupting the youth with your perverse teachings brother." Vergil said as he arrived in the blink of an eye, surprising the group. Aki and Quanxi put their guard up.
"Vergil, how can you interrupt such an important lesson?" Dante said. He then lifted his arms towards Vergil, presenting him for everyone to see. "Vergil, the best brother one can ever have."
Vergil seemed pleased with the comment and allowed himself a smug smirk to grace his features.
"Don't worry, I won't bite." Vergil said as he placed his eyes on the group.
Denji and Power looked at one another and then shrugged.
Aki and Quanxi dropped their guards but continued to be focused.
"Vergil, this is a group of Devil Hunters from Japan." Dante introduced the group.
"I'm Aki Hayakawa and these are my fellow hunters Denji and Power." Aki said.
"Hiya!" Denji waved.
"Where does your tail grow out from? Out of your ass?" Power asked with a smile. Denji jabbed her with his elbow. Aki placed his hand on his face and shaked his head. 'Where did I go wrong raising her?'
Dante slapped his knees and started laughing. Vergil ignored her comment and turned his stare to Quanxi.
"Quanxi. But I'm not affiliated with their agency." Quanxi stated.
"Are you forgetting little old me?" Santa Claus said and everyone turned her attention towards her.
"Ah yes, Vergil, I need your help." Dante said as he got off from the body of Santa Claus. "I believe with the help of Yamato we can seal her powers and hopefully save those dolls."
Devil Sword Dante vanished into light as Dante returned his sword. Santa Claus then took this as an opportunity to land an attack on the newcomers and sprang forth in lightning speed.
"Bad choice." Dante sighed.
It was only for a moment but Santa Claus caught a glimpse of Vergil flicking the sheath of his blade. The next moment, Santa Claus found her head in the ground staring at her body that had been cut precisely to small pieces. She stood still shocked beyond belief even after her body has finished restoring.
"What do you think, Vergil?" Dante smirked at Santa. "Can it be done?"
Vergil simply stared at her and approached her. Each step he took matched the ever growing beat of her heart.
Thump. Thump. Thump.
Vergil was then just a few feet away from her and in that moment brought out the Yamato and pointed it at Santa Claus.
"You know what to do." Vergil said his blue eyes judging her very being.
'He wants me to stab myself with this sword?' Santa thought in her mind as she scanned the faces of everyone.
Aki and Quanxi eyed the sword with utmost caution. Understanding the danger it poses with just one look from it.
Denji and Power looked dumbfounded.
Dante crossed his arm and continued staring at her.
Santa Claus knows that she has no chance in fighting these men at all and was at wits end. 'Maybe I can use this sword instead and use it against him!' Santa hoped until an aura of death overwhelmed her to her knees.
"Do it." Vergil said as a demonic figure clung behind him. It's cold stare daring Santa to do something foolish.
Santa Claus slowly reached towards the sword and grasped the hilt. Feeling the intricate handles and it's surprisingly small weight. Careful to not change its direction, Santa aimed it at her stomach. With one enduring effort she allowed the blade to pierce her stomach. Santa Claus felt pain as her power and contracts began to leave her body. The control she had over her dolls became smaller and smaller as time slowed down for a crawl for her.
Santa Claus's body began having cracks and those cracks eventually lead to her whole body crumbling leaving behind the body of a naked lady.
A/N: And that's a wrap. Welp, I guess I'll try to continue this story. Oh yeah make sure to check out the first chapter again. I 'improved' it somewhat. Anyways enjoy this little omake.
Low Tier Vergil
Vergil stared at Santa Claus. Dark clouds forming on the horizon. His eyes turned cold white. Lightning began to spark out of his eyes and hit around him.
"Your life is nothing." A distant boom echoed through the streets.
"You serve zero purpose." Another boom.
"You should kill youself NOW!" Vergil punctuated the last word with him fully transforming to his true devil form.
Santa Claus stared at Vergil with her mouth wide open and her eyes began to water. Her shaky hands guided Yamato to her stomach.
Denji, Power, Aki, Quanxi, and Dante all had their mouths wide open.
"What the fuck, Vergil!?"