The man in the red coat sat in his chair, quietly eating his pizza, his white hair flew back as the fan blew his way.
He looked at the horrifying collection demon skulls hung on his wall, they were menacing, fear inducing, and above all, stylish.
“Man, one of the upsides to Patty leaving was getting my decorating back in order.”, he laughed.
After a few minutes of silence and pizza, the phone rang. He quickly kicked his desk, making the phone fly into the air, he easily caught it in one hand and stuck it to his ear.
“Devil May Cry. How may I help you?”
The voice he was speaking to sounded rather stern.
“Is this Dante Sparda?”, it was a female voice, the voice she spoke with was strange, a mix of anger and hope.
“That’s my name honey, don’t overuse it.”, Dante replied, not even wondering why she didn’t address him as “Tony Redgrave”, the name he went by in the human world.
“My name is Celestia, I’m sure you know of the companionship between me and your father.”
“Listen, I don’t wanna burst your bubble, but he’s dead. I’m sure you’re aware of this.”, Dante said.
“Yes, but you are still alive, and as much as I would hate to ask, I need the help of Sparda badly.” Celestia said, the stern voice returning.
“Okay, just don’t break into tears if I look like daddy.”, Dante taunted.
“I’ll try my best.”, She grumbled, “Just come to the nearest hellgate. Me and my students will be waiting.”
“Okay.”
Dante hung up, before walking to get his stuff, he grabbed his twin pistols, Ebony and Ivory, and then slung his faithful sword, Rebellion, over his shoulder.
“Where are you going?” His blonde demonic friend said.
“Well Trish, if you must know, a trap set by someone who used to know my father.”
“Oh, have fun with that.”, She smiled before going back to throwing a ball of lightning in between her hands.
“Princess, are you sure he is coming, it’s been a while?” A purple unicorn looked up to Celestia.
“Twilight, if there is one thing I remember about Dante from his childhood, it was that he never bothered to think something through.”
“I heard that.” Dante came up the mountain, drinking an alcoholic beverage . “Sorry I’m late, I stopped for a cold one.”
“Dante Sparda, it’s been a while, last time I saw you, you were mere 4 years old.” Celestia said.
Dante looked to see the talking horses that stand before him.
“Meh, I’ve seen weirder.” He shrugged.
“Anyway, I suppose you’re wondering why you’re here.” Celestia raised an eyebrow.
“Nah I figured it was a trap, bring on the demons.” Dante smiled.
“It’s not, but you are the only one who can defeat Vergil, I’d assume.” Celestia spoke.
“Oh, Verge is involved, being a power crazed idiot again, that makes alot more sense, I haven’t seen him since I saw that Nero kid take form into his Devil trigger, if that doesn’t count, since he was Nelo Angelo.”
“20 years ago, you closed the true hell gate, the Temen-ni-gru, today, at exactly 6:00, in Ponyville, It will rise again.”
“And you want me to destroy it?”
“I wish for you to tame it.”
“Tame it?”
“Years before you were born, the Temen-ni-gru was a thing of beauty, a portal to the heavens, where higher ranking angels and demons such as your father and I would go and socialize. Then as human greed and sins came along, the tower transformed.”, Celestia explained.
“And how do I “tame” it, and how exactly did you know my father?”, Dante asked.
“All will be revealed in due time, for now, I would like you to meet the ponies that will accompany you on this journey.”
“Woah, I feel like flying solo on this one.”, Dante replied, annoyed to think the son of Sparda would need help, and from ponies at that.
“These are the Elements of Harmony.”, Celestia ignored his request.
“Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie, hey you’re hair is white, that must mean you’re a grandpa. The Cakes always told me that grandpa’s have white hair.”, the pink one blurted out.
“My hair? It’s always been like this.”, Dante was swift to reply.
“Ah’m Applejack, Mr.White hair. Pleased to meet yer aquaintance.”, the orange one had a straw in her mouth and a cowboy hat on.
“Oh great, Pony the kid. Just what I needed to help me.”, Dante laughed.
The white unicorn just stood in silence.
“Well, don’t you have a problem with my hair too? Say it so we can get this over with.”
Then the unicorn got on all 4 legs.
“Darling, it is not just your hair color that is bad, your hair itself looks like a rats nest, your coat is dreadfully awful, I mean, trench coats went out of style years ago, and that shade of red is atrocious, and the fact that the shirt underneath has a pizza stain. If you must know my name, it is Rarity, and after this mission, I plan to fix you into a proper gentleman.”, The white unicorn spoke up in a British accent.
Dante facepalmed before letting out a chuckle.
“So we have the diva, the moron, and the redneck, any more critics, come up take a stand.”
A shy voice came from behind Dante
“What are those things?”, a yellow pegasus pointed towards 3 demons, the demons looked like the human interpretation of death, but smaller and less threatening, to Dante, they were mere weaklings.
Dante merely yawned and said “My appetizer.”
The first one ran at him, which he easily dodged before pulling Rebellion out and doing a Prop Shredder, to counter the move, as the demon was launched into the air, Dante pulled out Ebony and Ivory and fired 3 bullets into it . He then used Stinger to ram into one of them, sending Rebellion straight through it, he thrust the sword upward, sending the impaled demon off of the sword. The dead demons scythe then flew into the air before it landed on the 3rd demon.
“Wow, I wish the demon world would actually let out a powerful one, that felt like a walk in the park.” Dante spoke up, he looked towards the ponies to see all of them staring at him in awe.
“That.....was.....AWESOME!!!!”, yelled the blue pegasus with the rainbow mane
Note: My "Crackship Applejack" rule will not apply to this story, instead I'm gonna avoid shipping jokes as a whole
Authors notes: This takes place right where the last chapter left off.
“You know, Mr.Dante, at first I was skeptical about working with you, but after that performance, I’d say you are worthy of working with someone as awesome as me, name’s Rainbow Dash.”, the blue pegasus said, walking up to Dante.
“Oh, great, I’m worthy of working with a rainbow haired pony, I feel manlier than ever currently.” Dante replied.
“I-I’m Fluttershy.”, a barely audible voice came from the yellow pegasus behind him. Making him turn around.
“What was that?” He asked.
“OKAY, now that the girls have introduced themselves, I’m Twilight Sparkle.”, The purple unicorn said, clearly trying to keep him from intimidating Fluttershy.
“Now that introductions are out of the way, we may proceed to Equestria.”
Celestia fired a beam from her horn, causing the hellgate to take form into a heart shaped portal.
“Wow, if Lady were to catch me doing this. I’d be the laughing stock of the group.” Dante said as he walked in.
As the Temen-ni-gru prepared to rise, the man in blue stood before his minion.
“Sanctus, is the hellgate ready?”, he breathed slowly.
The demon behind him spoke in a raspy voice, almost as if it’s vocal cords had been crushed sometime before. It looked like that of a mortal priest, but with black eyes that had red pupils.
“Yes, Master Vergil, but why do we not just use your power of Sparda.”
Vergil only scoffed.
“You know from experience, that the power of Sparda doesn’t stop Dante, and it wasn’t even him who did you in, it was Nero.”
Sanctus hissed at the mention of the name, before angelic(?) wings grew from his back and he flew away.
“If I know Celestia, she fell right into my trap, she went to get Dante thinking she would need the help of Sparda. A mere pawn, no way she can stop the future.”, Vergil quickly excused the idea. He knew she could foresee it, which is why he came up with an elaborate plan, one that could not be beaten.
Vergil merely sat down.
“So let me get this straight,” Dante said, “You want me to go in to the Temen-ni-gru a second time to face my brother.”
“Face him. Don’t kill him.” Celestia said. “You just have to weaken him, the Elements of Harmony will take it from there.”
“And I’m guessing these Elements are what is going to ‘tame’ the tower.”, Dante replied, trying to get as much information as possible.
“No, they will play their part in taming it, but you are a required function.”, Celestia explained, “As for the time being, allow me to show you where Ponyville is.”
Dante held back a chuckle at the name before bursting out in laughter.
“PONYVILLE! Oh man! I finally found something more cliche than Nero!”, he laughed, remembering Nero as the “Lovestruck underdog” in the action movie that was his life.
Celestia did a facehoof before looking directly at Dante.
“The name of the town may be funny, but the grounds it was built on are no laughing matter. When Ponyville was originally built, I had it so that the Temen-ni-gru would rise there, but that was before its corruption, years past and I knew that since the ponies refused to move, someone would have to tame it.”’
“Just let me fly solo.”, Dante said, still angered with the fact that he had to work with ponies.
“Then who is going to tame it?”, Celestia asked.
“Give me a mirror and I’ll show ya who will destroy it.” Dante said, making Celestia raise an eyebrow.
He quickly held out his gun, slowly bringing it up and pointing it at the window and pulling the trigger, a huge demon fell and collapsed to the ground before getting back up, much to everypony’s surprise.
The demon shook its head and looked directly at Dante. It had three horns on its head, bright green eyes, its skin was burnt black, it looked like a stereotypical satanic centaur, but the part that intrigued Dante, was the weapon it carried was a triple mace that appeared to be made out of flaming bones.
“How did you know?”
“Simple, I’ve said it back it in Fortuna, and I will say it here. You can hide your body, but there is no hiding that smell. Now do you want to fight or go back to being the mascot for a heavy metal band.”
Dante holstered Ebony before quickly pulling out Rebellion and thrusting forward with Stinger. The Stinger backfired as the demon slung his mace across the side, knocking Dante to the side with a fierce blow.
Dante recovered from the blow quickly and pulled out Ebony and Ivory before opening fire, to which the demon replied to by merely spinning the mace in front of itself, causing the fire to create a demonic shield.
“Oh, someone’s been doing their homework. Now it’s time for the test”, Dante said, seeing the demon had learned his tricks.
But the demon had not counted on one thing, the ponies.
Twilight shot a beam from her horn, causing nearby trees to collapse on the demon. Celestia smiled at her students quick thinking.
Dante again pulled out Rebellion and ran up before unleashing a flurry of slashes upon the demon’s face causing the demon to rear back in pain.
Pulling out his pistols, he leaped up, going a good 20 feet skyward before sending bullets into both of its eyes.
“F minus.”, Dante chuckled.
As the demon struggled for breath, it realized it was no use, it had been bested.
“Fine, Son of Sparda, take my soul, you have my blessing.”, it said, before collapsing into a blinding light.
As the light went towards Dante, it revealed a new devil arm. A smaller variation of the mace the demon wielded.
Weapon: Satan.
Description: It is believed the three deadliest sinners souls are forever trapped in this triple mace, as their skulls are used as flaming indestructible weapons, they appear to be fully aware of what is going on.
