"Talk"
'Thought'
"Did you try the red button?"
"What do you think I tried first?!"
"How about entering the passcode?"
"Does it look like I know what the password is?!"
"Well, maybe you could-"
"I swear to god if you say to press the 2nd red button!"
"Ok, fine, I won't say anything then!..."
"Grrr…"
"... You should try pressing the blue button."
"YOU KNOW WHAT!?!"
Nero Sparda quickly pulls out his 'Blue Rose' and shoots a random old control panel without hesitation, which startled Bianca Eva Xiao Long and her flinch from such a violent outburst, however, it seems that his shooting the device was enough to make it turn green and lowered a random bridge down blow, which the two noticed.
"Hmph…"
Nero refused to say anything about this and started to walk away, Eva Xiao Long also said nothing and just follows her partner, soon the two had crossed the bridge and were currently walking through a tunnel in silence, the two didn't need flashlights to see in such a dark area, thank their biology and training, as for Sammy, the Hellhound pet, he unfortunately, did not have the same benefits and required her owner to ride and guide him, but besides that, nothing specifically happened while walking through the area, it was just a moment of peace and calmness between the three, having no reason to worried about anything while taking a simple stroll.
"... So what do you plan to do?"
And with no reason to be on guard, Nero decided to take this opportunity to just casually strike up a conversation with his cousin, which definitely caught her attention, especially with the type of question he just asked her.
"Please expound."
Bianca tilted her head in slight confusion.
"I mean, once we meet the person and learn more about what's going on, what will you do next, have you actually thought this through?"
Nero was genuinely curious about what his partner had in mind about the mission they were in.
"Of course, I have! Once we get the perpetrator and uncover all of their secrets, we will kill them and destroy everything that they created!"
Bianca let out a cute huff as she crossed her arms and looked away.
"That's it?"
Nero simply said with a raised eyebrow.
"What do you designate 'that's it'?!"
Bianca asks in an offended tone, glaring at him behind her mask.
"I mean, is that all you're going to do? No further planning, no asking for more info on what's going on, not even gonna give a chance to arrest the person?"
Nero shrugged as he continues to ask and talk to her more.
"I-I mean, well, I, um…"
Bianca tried to think of something to say, becoming a muttering mess.
"Were you just going to literally go in, gun chainsaw blazing, and just wreck some shit, shoot cut up first, questions never?"
"..."
Nero sighs when Bianca refused to say anything else, shaking his head and just continuing to walk forward, getting closer to the exit of the tunnel they were in.
'I forget, she's still a kid, I honestly don't know what I was expecting from her.'
After that brief conversation, the two were able to finally exit the tunnel and end up at some kind of small abandoned village, which was located at the center of a small crater or Canyon area, and there were only four houses in total in said area, the Masked Imp looked around in bit confusion and on guard, having her 'Lollipop' ready if need be, though Nero just smiles lightly as he looked and walk around the area.
"Ah, this takes me back~..."
What Nero said and his supposed recognition caught his partner's attention, lowering her weapon and looked at him fully.
"You know this place?"
Bianca asked, all the while watching him kneel and pick up some abandoned chalk and a very faded drawing of the hopscotch squares.
"I played here a lot with my siblings and friends when I was young, doing stuff like wooden sword fighting, hope scotch, tag, and-OH! So this was where I left this?~"
Nero chuckles as he drops the old broken chalks and picks up a rusty busted toy gun, looking at it with a small smile.
"Heh, I cried for weeks when I lost this, hehe, how embarrassing to think about it now."
As Nero was starting to feel nostalgic, Eva Xiao Long could only watch him and was even about to him about his past connection to this place, being genuinely curious to learn more about her family member, but her devil's horns and her older cousin's demonic arm started to glow a bit, which made the two immediately stop in what they were doing and quickly turned around to see a very large black marble stone slab standing tall and glowing at the top edge of the canyon crater area.
"Was that thing always there when you played here?"
Bianca quickly revs up her chainsaw gatling sword gun, the spinning chains started moving very quickly and were ready to cut up something good.
"No, but I guess I now know why my family and I were told to stop visiting this place…"
Nero glares harshly as he puts away his old toy gun, the marble stone that they were looking at continues to glow brighter and brighter and brighter before a whirlwind of large hot fire came flying and heads down towards the two, they were able to jump out of the way before it hits the ground, and when it did, the entire place was quickly engulfed in flames, including the abandoned houses and everything around it, Sammy was unfortunately forced to leave due to the intense heat, though the two grandchildren of Sparda were able to walk through it without being burnt, and now they just stood a few feet away from the one responsible for this and simply glare at them.
"Ahhh, the human world, it's been a while…"
And said demonic person that was responsible for all this was some kind of very large flaming lion-like devil, with a humanoid top, which where he held his infernal burning blade, he honestly seems less violent compared to most demons, as he just simply walked around and inspect the area he was in, though the young demonic hybrids new better, and one of them even put out the fire by pulling out his Red Queen and swings it around with enough force to blow out all of the fire from the area, which did make the flaming lion pause his walking.
"How curious."
The large demon turns around and faces the two devilish younglings, who didn't show any kind of fear or hesitation to stand in defiance against him.
"Fire's bad for the complexion, I burn easily, never tan."
Nero, despite disliking having his childhood burned away, decided to approach this situation with a cool and calm head, as he smirks and teases the flaming lion.
"Authentically? These flames feel more gelid in comparison to my Mothers?"
Bianca also did the same, leaning on her weapon and looking down at her enemy, despite being very short in comparison.
"When I came to this world 2000 years ago, there was no such human as the likes of you."
The large demon growls softly as he then started to walk toward the two, even though he found them annoying, he could not deny his interest in them.
"Wanna make it another 2000?"
Nero didn't stop the mocking, as if caring less about what he had to say to him and his cousin.
"Silence!"
Clearly feeling the disrespect, the large demon raises his sword and aims at the offender and strikes, only for his opponent to use his own to block the hit, tip-to-tip, which allowed the Masked Imp to jump on the flaming blade and ran up it, revving up her Lollipop, with the chains of the chainsaw having water and ice Dust mixed in, and performed a hard upward slash to the flaming lion face, which made him roar in pain and stumble backward.
"It looks akin to you require more than 2000~"
Bianca managed to both jump away as the large demon stumbled and landed back next to her partner, her chainsaw sword resting on her shoulders as she smugly smiles under her mask, which made her opponent growl and remove his hand away from his glaring face.
"Futile pest, you will suffer the wrath of Berial! I, the Conqueror of the Fire Hell!"
The flaming lion, now known as Berial, lets out a very loud roar and bursts into brighter and larger flames, which made the entire area catch on fire again, and unfortunately, the grandson of Sparda couldn't put it out again this time, since the large demon did not hesitate to charge towards both him and his young cousin, to which he once again block and defect the flaming sword attack with his own, all the while Eva Xiao Long dodge said swing and took the chance to dash under her enemy, raising her Lollipop high and cutting in deeply into the underbelly of the fire devil, this once again made Berial roar in pain and rage, quickly, he uses his free hand to shoot fire into the ground, which then appears under the Masked Imp, who ended up at the opposite side of the flaming lion, she only had enough time to look under herself before being shot up high in the by the fountain of fire, however thanks to her immunity to fire, she was only left slightly dizzy and breathless, but was quickly able to recover and used her chainsaw blades to throw and lasso onto the large demon head, she pulled herself towards him and then used her Lolipop as some kind of sled to ride on as she slides on and down Berial back, all the while having it stabbed and cut up by her chainsaw sword, this caused her enemy great pain and her older cousin used this opportunity to jump up and towards the flaming lion face, using his ghostly arm to grab his head and then slammed it down hard into the ground, causing it to creak and break the dirt, though it didn't end there, as once he landed back on the ground he then perform a strong uppercut, launching the large demon back in the air before sending him flying back with a strong hook punch in the chest, after crashing into the side of a wall of rocks and dirt with enough force to make it crack and crumble, all the fire that covered turned off and his body went completely limp, Nero could only narrow his eyes at this, as if suspicious about something.
"Conqueror of the Fire Hell? More homogeneous to Surmounter of the Cold Loser!~"
Bianca meanwhile was currently celebrating and couldn't help but feel extremely good about herself, bouncing and skipping and twirling around in joy, no doubt the reason would be her supposed victory against the demon.
"What are you doing Bianca?"
Nero looked away from his fallen enemy and back at her cheerful young cousin, wearing a slightly amused expression, and crossed his arms at this.
"Celebrating my first acquire victory, well I mean you availed, but this was the first authentic enemy that I fought without Mommy or Daddy roughing them up first!~"
Bianca then stopped her celebration and looked up at him, even though she was wearing her mask, he could tell that she was giving him a face of pure excitement.
"Really? This is your first demon?"
Nero tilted his head when he heard her say that to him, for some reason finding it both hard to believe, but also something that he can believe.
"I mean technically no, I fought many grunts and minions before by myself."
Bianca then sighs sadly and slumps her shoulders down a bit, all of her happiness now replaced with frustration.
"But this is my one and only Boss that I managed to beat that wasn't either out of pity, cheapened by only distributing the final blow after someone else did all the strenuous exertion, or having my opponent be threatened to fight me inequitably and fundamentally letting me acquire victory, it's so abasing in all veracity."
Bianca lets out an angry and annoyed huff as she then turns around and walks toward the fallen fire lion, leaving behind her older cousin, who couldn't help but suddenly rub her chin and think about something that just came into his mind that made him frown.
"Hm…"
As was Nero left thinking, Eva Xiao Long was fully in front of the body of the limp demon, having her Lollipop out again and currently switching the chains with what seemed to be a bit 'Soul Sucking', she revved it up and held it up in the air.
"Now then, let's visually perceive what kind of Devil Arm you'll become Mister Demo-"
Before Bianca could officially claim her prize, a flaming sword was suddenly a few inches away from piercing her face, only stopping because her older cousin used his demonic hand to grab the blade and stop Berial attack, though the flaming lion took this chance to suddenly go nuclear and exploded, not only does this destroy the entire area, including all of abandoned home, but also it forces the older cousin to once again save his younger one, by using his body to take the full force of said explosion while being sent flying and crashing back while she was in his arms, though despite the pain and having his Aura be broken, he was mostly fine and was able to stand back up a bit.
"Y-You ok?"
Nero asked his small partner, who was currently shaking from shock and wasn't expecting this sudden attack from an enemy she thought they defeated.
"A brief scuffle it was, but I know when my opponent will be troublesome."
However, before the two could say more, Berial, who was now back to his usual flame self, stood back to his feet and grip his sword tightly.
"Especially with you both being the descendants of the mighty Sparda…"
Berial glared at them and let out a roar, though instead of continuing the fight they were having, he instead turns his body into pure hellfire and started to fly around the area.
"We shall meet again after I have restored my power, THIS I SWEAR!!!"
Berial then flies over the two grandchildren of Sparda and went back to where he came from, leaving them at what remains of the old childhood playground, which was now only reduced to a flaming crater.
"So much for protecting this place…"
Nero sighs and shakes his head, he then turns his attention back to his young cousin, who was currently her pet tightly.
"I-It's fine my number 1 partner Sammy, not everyone is fireproof like me and my 2nd best partner, besides, you visually perceived how that irate fire feline was, we kicked butt and he absquatulate in fear, why you might ask? Because we're awe-inspiring!~"
Despite the very confident sound Bianca was trying to once again celebrate her victory while comforting her Hellhound, her older cousin was able to notice her slightly tense voice and body language as she spoke to Sammy, which made him frown.
'It really is my responsibility to look after her, huh?'
Nero was now starting to see who he was looking after and the many risk and challenges that came with it, which honestly make him doubt what he was doing and was now debating whether or not he should stop it now while they were still ahead.
"A-Ah! HEY!"
But before he could contemplate the entire situation he found himself in, he was instantly interrupted by the sound of the startled voice of Bianca and the angry bark of the Desolate One, not only that, but he also suddenly found himself being lifted in the air, just like the others, and despite their struggling, they could not escape, Nero quickly looked at the one responsible for all this, and he couldn't help but let his face fall and wear a very worried expression when he met a very familiar shadow, that just glared at them all with a disapproving face.
"U-Ummm… Hi Boon, nice weather we're having?..."
"..."
Sorry for the short fight, Berial doesn't really do much, not to mention he instantly retreated after seeing he was getting his ass handed by Nero, but don't worry, each boss fight will get longer and more exciting, that I promised, twank u wuv u all
(OH, I don't think I ever explained Nero's ability, right? Well here you go, this is what he can do, at least in DMC 4~)
{ALSO ALSO, I'm making a sudo cannon co story of this story, called 'Bianca Eva Xiao Long', which mostly focus on the daily life of Bianca and the rest of the Legendary Devil Huntress cast, stepping away from the main DMC storyline and just adding more world building and development to the characters, it's not entirely necessary to read, but if you like having some extra lore and seeing what's going on behind the scene, then there you go, I hope you enjoy it, hehe~}
/Nero Ability And Weapons\
Demonic Faunus Superhuman: Very strong, fast, skilled, talented, etc, etc, etc.
Super Healing: Self-explanatory.
Faunus Sense: Can see in darkness, can hear from very far away, has better agility, and would automatically be naturally physically stronger than the average human regardless, even without his demon side.
Aura: He trained his aura to only focus on durability and physical strength, he didn't see the point of having a semblance or extra healing.
Red Queen: A large heavy sword, that focuses on power and strength, and has a throttle to make it grow hotter and on fire, of course, thanks to Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Nico, not only is it more advanced compared to the original, but it also uses dust for elemental effect.
Blue Rose: A big revolver gun that can hold 6 bullets and shoot two at once, he does not have unlimited bullets like Dante, but he can switch out what kind of ammo he wants to use, thanks again to Weiss supplying him with Dust.
Devil Arm: His demon arm is naturally more durable compared to the rest of his body, and can not be broken easily unless you use Yamato, he can also summon a ghost-like arm to reach further distance, or hold something without using his real two arms.
Shadow Arm: Being the son of Blake Belladonna, he does have some shadow-like ability but isn't much, all he can do is use his devil arm to punch the shadow of his enemies and control the shadow of his devil arm to reach a distance more stealthy.
Aura Arm: Even though he didn't train himself to get a semblance, he does have an ability relating to his Aura, which is being able to steal other people's Aura, not only does this leave the person who has Aura defenseless for a whole day once stolen, but it also increases all of his ability and heals him nearly instantly, however, he only uses this ability in emergency and usually give back the Aura to the original owner after using it, not only because he dislikes stealing others power, but also because of the drawbacks that came with stealing too much Aura, that being insanity, self-harming, and then exploding.
Mother's Gift: Blake has given all of her children a special gift made by her personally, so her gift for Nero is a coat, which can help with him blend in the background, it's not invisibility, it just no one will notice him.
Extra Info: Don't know if this means a lot to you all, but Nero is around 60% Demonic, 35% Faunus, and 5% Human, and as for Bianca, she is 60% Human and 40% Demonic, also also Bianca has 6 items around her hips, most that could only be used once, I'll tell you next chapter.
