Sunset's journey
S1E2 Paradise
Previous ChapterNext ChapterIt was now night time, Kat’s car turned into an alleyway and went through a gate before coming to a stop outside several garages. The three occupants got out, one a human male, the other a human female and the last a female that could be mistaken for a person in armour.
Kat lead the group towards a door that was half open and had graffiti on it. “Welcome to the order.”
“Not what I was expecting.” Replied Dante.
“Me too, I thought it would be more impressive.” Stated Sunset Shimmer aka Kamen Rider Symbol.
“That's the idea.” Deadpanned Kat.
“Ah! The old hiding in plain sight routine.” Realized Sunset.
“The demons are among us Sunset, Dante, they are enslaving mankind.” Explained Kat as she ducked under the door with the Kamen Rider and male following. “The world is asleep brainwashed and helpless.” Kat pressed her thumb to some brickwork that had a skull painted on it, causing it to move aside revealing a number pad that Kat quickly typed a code into. Before some more brickwork moved and revealed an eye scanner. Which scanned her right eye, the whole wall then moved revealing a door. “We’re fighting back.”
“Woh!” Muttered Sunset as they went through the wall turned door.
Dante glanced up at a camera as Kat continued explaining. “We are a small handful of freedom fighters.” The door slid shut behind them. “We are the last and only line of defence.”
Dante scoffed at that. “Defence? You got now chance Ow!” As he drew some dust from the wall with his finger, flicked in on the floor and was promptly kicked in the gut by Sunset.
Kat, seemly unaware of the comedy act behind her continued. “We don’t leave things to chance, we’ve accumulated vast intelligence on the demon’s and their collaborators:” They went through another door into a room full computers and people. “World leaders, bankers, pop stars… we can hit them where it hurts.”
“Ah! In the no no spot.” Realised Sunset getting odd looks from Dante and Kat. Who folded her arms behind her back and went through another door. In the room was a white haired man in a black coat.
“Amazing.” He muttered. “Dante, Sunset it really is you two.” Getting a shrug from Dante and an odd look from Sunset. “You don’t remember me?” He questioned.
“No.” Came the blunt response from the man.
“Should we?” Asked the female.
After a short pause which made Sunset fidget the man asked. “How much of your childhood's do you remember?”
Dante replied first. “Not much, I had meningitis when I was seven, wiped my memory. Why?”
The man then looked to the other occupant of the room. “And you? Sunset Shimmer?”
“Nothing expect my name, how to fight, how my powers worked and the name of my weapon. I repeat Dante’s question; why?”
The man scoffed. “Hah! They told me I had a car accident that resulted in total amnesia! Age: Seven.”
“Starting to see a pattern here.” Muttered Sunset.
Dante did not. “Your point?”
The man walked forwards. “Meningitis is a human affliction. You are not human, Dante.”
“Explains how he survived a knife almost cutting him in half.” Muttered Sunset.
“All war is fought with deception and you have been deceived. Your past has been hidden from you both for a reason."
“Rewind a bit, who are you again?” Asked Dante.
The man pulled back a bit. “My name is Vergil. I established the order to find a way to fight the demons.
“Besides sword and bullets you mean?” Questioned Dante.
“Don’t forget superpowers.” Chirped Symbol.
Vergil turned back to the two non humans. “Such weapon and abilities can win battles, but not the war. We use force, yes, but we also use intelligence, politics and propaganda."
“You really believe you can make a dent?” Asked Dante.
Vergil looked at Dante. “Make a dent? With the three of us working together I believe we can defeat them!”
“So that's what this is about.” Realized Dante. “You need us to find the demons, to help you save the world.”
“What else were you planning on doing with your life?” Asked Vergil.
Dante sighed. “Well you guys do seem nice, but I’m more of a loner type. Trust issues, work alone that kind of thing.”
“I’m in.” Stated Symbol causing Dante to look at her in shock. “Well they’re not going to stop trying to kill us, unless we kill them.” She explained. Dante couldn’t fault that.
Kat walked forwards. “Dante, I don’t think understand what is at stake.”
Vergil held up a hand to silence her. “If you want to leave, turn your back on. I’m powerless to stop you.” He stated grimly. “But you’ll be making a grave mistake. Not just for yourself, but for mankind.”
“For mankind?”
“Yes!”
“What makes you think I give a shit. OW! Will you stop hitting me?!”
“Not until you stop being a jerk!” Snapped back Sunset.
“At least give me a chance to show you both.” Pleaded Vergil.
“Show us what?” Demanded Dante.
“Who you the two of you really are.”
Hook line and sinker.
Time Skip to next morning:
The car drove into a ground of a ruined mansion called Paradise. The four of them walked into the mansion, with Sunset looking around in awe.
“This was your home.” Stated Vergil.
Dante walked up beside him. “I don’t remember.”
“Me neither.” Added Sunset.
“You will.” Promised Vergil. “Both of you. Kat, open the gateway.”
Said girl nodded, she pulled a scroll off her back and unrolled it, placing it on the ground revealing a magic circle. She then pulled out a spray can and start to spray some kind of white substance over the circle.
Dante had to ask. “What are you doing?”
Kat explained. “Our world and Limbo are very closely super-positioned. They collide in places causing what we call rifts. Dante and Sunset crochet down next to her. “It's here, in the rifts, where we can create gateways to and from Limbo.
Dante reached down and scraped some of the white stuff up, rubbed it between his fingers and smelt it. Grimacing he asked. “Doesn’t smell good. What’s in the can?”
“A compound I created based on an old wiccan recipe. Sea salt, shark oil, iron shavings, desiccated squirrel seaman, wolf hair-”
Dante patted her on the back. “Good stuff.” He commented.
Kat felt someone pulling on her sock, she looked down and sweat dropped. Symbol was on the ground looking ready to throw up, pulling at her stock weakly. “I think I’ll just shut up now.”
Vergil pointed to the magic circle. “Go ahead. The house holds secrets. I’ve found mine, now it's your turn.”
“How will we get back?” Asked Symbol.
“We’ll take care of that. Just be careful, it can get rough in there.”
Dante turned to Kat. “I like it rough.”
When they had vanished Kat asked Vergil. “Is this really going to work? Dante doesn’t seem care and Symbol is just a teenager.”
“They're both raw, just like you were when I first found you.” Replied Vergil, making Kat look down.
Limbo
Dante and Symbol materialized in the demonic realm, with red skies and the house looked to be filled with black rocks.
“Lets go.” Muttered Symbol, they ran down the corridor and into what looked like an entrance hall.
“So this was our home.” Muttered Dante as he gazed around.
“Well, show us your secrets!” Shouted Sunset getting a strange look from Dante since she was talking to a building.
They ran up the left stairs and through a door, before following the hallway around to the left and into a room, it had a painting at the other end of a male, with a symbol that looked like Dante’s tattoo at the bottom glowing demonic red. Suddenly, a light swept over the room and it looked brand new with a table in the centre, book cases against the walls and chairs on either side of said table.
They walked up to the painting, noticing that the face had been clawed off. “Who the hell are you?” Asked Dante, then he looked at the paintings name tag. “Sparda.” He remember that the Hunter Demon called him the ‘Son of Sparda’ “My dad?” He asked not sure how to feel.
Sunset hugged him from behind and Dante leaned into her shoulder. The tender moment was broken when the demon’s arrived. First came four Lesser Stygians.
“I’ll take care of this!” Dante ran at them, he sent one flying into the air with an upwards slash then jumped after it and slashed it repeatedly, killing the demon. He landed back on the ground and was forced to block an attack from one of them, before stabbing it, then repeating the motion so fast that it looked like he had multiple arms! Once that one was dealt with the non human quickly fired a charged shot from his guns, to delay the third lesser stygian and cut the fourth one up with several spinning slashes, each one more deadly than the last as they gained momentum. The final lesser stygian was sent flying into the air by an upwards slash then split in half by a heavy downwards swing!
Three more identical demons popped out of the ground. “Switch!” Shouted Sunset as she ran past, firing sunshine dawn rifle style as she did so. When she reached the demons, the Kamen Rider switched her weapon in its sword mode slashing at them, each of which gave off a burst of red lightning. One of the demons then tried to attack her from behind and got a roundhouse kick to the face for its trouble. Sunset then jumped back and opened her sword’s hand author by pulling its thumb and scanned the active ring.
[COME ON AND SLASH SHAKE HANDS: ACTIVE SLASH STRIKE!]
The active glyph flashed on the sword’s hand author as the blade was covered in red lightning that made it several times its original length. “Lightning slash!” Symbol spun around cutting all three of the lesser stygians in half, making them exploding in balls of fire!
Several seconds later a new demon and neither of them had seen before pulled itself from the ground.
It looked like a lesser stygian with black hair, a half skull mask on its face, with a much bigger blade arm instead of a club and a shield, this is the death knight.
“Your up next!” Shouted Dante as he ran past Symbol. He brought his sword around the but the demon blocked the blow with its shield. “Ah! Tough guy!” Dante brought his sword around it an upwards slash only for it to once again bounce off the shield, getting a bit frustrated Dante made the first error, he went for a spinning slash, but it was caught on the monster’s shield jarring his arm, he was unable to recover before the demon gave him a strong slash to the chest, sending him into a wall. “Shit!” Muttered Dante as it looked up and saw the demon getting ready to attack again.
[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: VERY NICE: ACTIVE S LEVEL SPELL: THE BEST!]
Symbol came down with a flying kick. “Active thunder kick!” Her foot covered in red lightning, it slammed into the demon’s shield and sent it skidding back. Wizard’s lenses went wide in shock when she saw that the shielded didn’t have a scratch! “Dante lets try a pincer attack!”
“Ok!” Dante came at it from behind jumping into the air and bringing his sword down in the overhead swing it was blocked but that was expected.
[TOUCH TO CHANGE YOUR CLASS: SLASHER PLEASE!]
[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: VERY NICE: SLASHER B LEVEL SPELL: THE BEST!]
Symbol put her claws together and spun like a drill with green energy shrouding her form ripping right through the monster. “Glad that's over.” She said as she landed back on the ground.
“We’ve gotta find a better way to take care of those things.” Hissed out Dante, that had taken a lot more energy than he'd like to us to take down a single demon. He looked at the picture. “What are you trying to show us?” He walked over to the photo and looked at the bottom of the frame that looked like his tattoo. Reaching out he placed his hand on it and it lit up with red energy that stopped Dante from moving said hand! “Argh!” He shouted as red demonic power lanced up his arm.
“DANTE!” Sunset ran towards, him but a red beam shot out of the picture and into the wizard driver.
The sword started to transform, turning into a long heavy axe that would be called arbiter, while Ruby felt her body started it transform her driving shouting:
[TOUCH TO ENTER THE MAGIC: GIGA PLEASE: BREAK THROUGH!]
A green glyph appeared below her, it was a green G in an orange circle inside a green eight pointed star inside an orange circle. It rose up through her. First the armour on her boots turned dark green and became much heavier, the save happened to her skin armour. Then the armour on the back of her hands turned dark green and became thicker, morphing so that it covered her fingers and knuckles as well. Her suit’s lower arms turned dark green, as did her forearm armour, which also turned thicker and her chestplate turned from a bronze coin to a bronze square. Her shoulder armour turned dark green and became a pair of dark green 3d cubes. Her overcoat turned dark green, her helmet became bright green and her faceplate turned amber, also it morphed into a square. On her left middle finger was a silver ring with a green gem in the centre that had an orange border. Her left ring chain now had two slots and the active ring was in the first.
Now she was Sunset shimmer aka Kamen Rider Symbol Giga Style. Sunshine dawn shifted, its handle extending, while the blade flipped around to that it was now pointed downwards, this is sunshine dawn axe style.
Another death knight burst from the ground.
Dante charged swing arbiter around, with a loud clang it smashed the death knights shield sending cracks spiralling through it, two more heavy swings smashed the shield to pieces!
Symbol then dash past him and swung her axe around the first hit caved in the monster’s ribs, the second tore off a leg and the third sent it flying. She then pressed down on the left shift lever and scanned the giga ring.
[TOUCH TO USE THE MAGIC: GIGA C RANK SPELL!]
The giga glyph winked into being bellow the girl as green aura gather around her fist. “Giga punch!” Drawing back her fist she nailed the demon with a punch that was strong enough to turn its body into ash.
The two were given no break as four lesser stygians burst from the ground.
The Kamen Rider and non human nodded at each other, Dante attacked two of the lesser stygians, he shot one with a charged shot from his twin guns, before sending the other into the air with an upwards slash from his sword, jumped after it turning the sword into arbiter as he did so. Then sending the lesser stygian crashing to the ground with an over head swing the demon being cut in half as he did so. Landing back of the ground Dante parried an attack from the other lesser stygian, forcing its club up he slashed it several times with his sword, then sent it flying into the air with an upwards swing and bombarded it with bullets, eventually killing said monster.
Symbol blocked an attack with her axe’s shaft, before kicking the lesser stygian in the torso sending it flying. Then she felt something it her shoulder, glancing behind her Symbol saw that the other lesser stygian had hit her from behind, yet she hardly felt it! “So I’m slower in this form but stronger and have better defence!” Pressing on the right shift lever twice she scanned the giga ring.
[TOUCH TO USE THE MAGIC: GIGA B RANK SPELL!]
The giga seal appeared below her and metal covered Symbol's left hand and forearm, before she punched the demon in the chest, her fist went right through it and out the other side, before she threw the already dead demon into its identical twin. It got back up just in time to see Ruby’s foot take its head off.
Then a pair of death knights burst from the ground. Sunset looked at Dante and nodded to the one on the left he responded by charging at the one on the right. Turning his sword into his axe he swung the weapon, sending the axe head flying off, it slammed into the monsters shield staggering it. Dante then slammed the axe on the ground sending a wave of demonic energy towards the demon which was fired into the air! The man then leapt after it and smashed it into the ground with arbiter, the impact being enough to kill the demon.
Sunset used three slow blows from her axe to smash her death knight’s shield to fragments, before she pulled sunshine dawn's blade, turning it from an axe into a spear. Taking a stance she jabbed it into the death knight several times before pulling open the hand author and scanned the giga ring.
[COME ON AND STAB SHAKE HANDS: GIGA STAB STRIKE!]
The glyph flashed on the hand author before green energy covered the spear. “Thrust of giga!” She drove the weapon forwards, it pierce the death knight and exploded! Seconds later motes of light gather in the Kamen Riders hand and reformed into the sunshine dawn spear style.
Suddenly the two of them heard the sound of a child giggling. “Who's there?” Came from Dante. They ran through a door and down a corridor which suddenly extended away, revealing a hole in the floor which they dropped into. “Woah!” Shouted Dante as he landed on his feet, only for Sunset to land on top of him.
She got up seconds later. “I’m sorry!” The whole sealed itself and they had to go through a hole in the wall, through a door and down another hole. Before climbing some stairs of rubble and back into the entrance hall which they had first come in to!
“What the-?!” Sunset didn’t get a chance to say anything else as a death knight and three lesser stygians burst from the ground. Dante turned his sword into his axe and charged at the death knight. He slammed it into the ground and sent a wave of energy at the demonic knight which was sent flying into the air and Dante followed it. He sent to back to the ground with an overhead swing before slashing his axe in the air causing the head to fly off and cave in the monster’s head!
Symbol was having a bit of trouble, she slashed at one lesser stygian, breaking its arm, but was hit by the other two. Another got several broken ribs from sunshine dawn axe style, but once again Symbol received several hits. “I can barely feel those, but my aura’s going down slowly. Time to change things up a bit!” Symbol opened her weapon’s hand author by pulling its thumb and scanned the giga ring.
[COME ON AND SMASH SHAKE HANDS: GIGA SMASH STRIKE!]
The giga glyph flash on the hand another as green energy flowed into the axe. “Circle of the giga!” Symbol spin around in a circle the axe’s blade left an semi solid after image that formed a circle around her, forcing the lesser stygians to back off. Symbol then took the giga ring from her left middle finger and put it on the second slot on the left ring chain and took the active ring from the fire slot. Putting it on her left middle finger she pressed down on the left shift lever and scanned the ring.
[TOUCH TO ENTER THE MAGIC: ACTIVE PLEASE: LETS GO!]
The active seal appeared to the Kamen Riders left and passed through her, returning her to her active style. “That's better.” Muttered Symbol as she felt her armour become much lighter once again! One of the lesser stygians attacked, only to get a sword of lightning to the face. Symbol twisted out of the way of the other one and round housed it into its identical brother. Symbol quickly pressed down on the left shift leave four times and scanned the active ring across the hand author.
[TOUCH TO USE THE MAGIC: VERY NICE: ACTIVE S RANK SPELL: THE BEST!]
The active glyph winked in being bellow Symbol, she crouched forwards on her left legs as it was surrounded by bright red lightning. She flipped forwards. “Active thunder kick!” Her foot came down on the head of one lesser stygian, smashing right through it and into the next one frying it.
“Hahahahahha Wooah!” Came the laughter.
Dante and Sunset looked up the left stairway and saw two ghostly children, play sword fighting. “This way, Dante.”
“Ok! Raaaa! Hahahah, can’t catch me!” They ran through a door that was instantly covered by red energy.
“Dante? Did I hear that right?” Dante asked Sunset.
“Well if you didn’t then we both have hearing problems.” Came the response. The two of them ran up the stairs and two the door. “Let's break it down!” Shouted Sunset.
“Wait!” Dante grabbed her shoulder. “I've seen this type of energy, it can’t be broken down with swords or guns!”
“Oh, what about axe’s then?”
“That's actually a good idea.” Dante turned the sword into the axe and smash right through the door. “It worked!” They followed the ghostly children down the hall and to the right.
Before taking another left and into a bedroom, out of the ground popped three death knights. “GET OUT OF THE WAY!” Dante charged with arbiter swinging. He smashed it down sending one into the air, before ramming the demonic weapon into the second death knight, only to get hit from behind by the third. The second then attacked him from the front while the other gave him a shield bash to the back.
Sunset placed the active ring back in the left ring chain’s first slot and took the giga ring from the second slot, placing it on her left middle finger. She pressed down on the left shift lever and scanned the ring.
[TOUCH TO ENTER THE MAGIC: GIGA PLEASE: BREAK THROUGH!]
Transforming into her giga style she ran to help Dante but was blocked by the first death knight he had attacked!
“Move it! Giga slam!” She pressed down on the left shift lever thrice and scanned the giga ring.
[TOUCH TO USE THE MAGIC: GIGA A RANK SPELL!]
The giga glyph appeared under her and she gathered the energy into her axe, before slamming it down! The death knight tried to block but her axe ripped through it like wet paper! She ran over to Dante, who was being used as a pinball by the death knights. “DANTE Calm down!” She shouted as she brought her axe around into the side of the death knight that was behind him.
“Why should I?!” Demanded Dante, as he just managed to block an attack with arbiter.
“Because I know that would could beaten these two easily if you were fighting with a clear head!” Symbol punched the death knight in the face, before she opened her weapon’s hand author by pulling the thumb and scanned the giga ring
[COME ON AND SMASH SHAKE HANDS: GIGA SMASH STRIKE!]
The giga glyph flash on sunshine dawn's axe styles's hand author as green aura gathered in the weapon’s blade. “Now get down! Circle of the giga!” Symbol spun around and the axe left behind a trail of semi solid green aura that formed into a circle which expanded outwards at a rapid pace, Dante was only just able to duck in time as the attack ripped the two death knight to bits. When he looked up he saw Symbol offering a hand to him which he happily took.
“Sorry about that it's just-”
“Your so close to answers that you feel like you’ll do anything to find them.” Dante looked at his first friend in curiosity. “Total amnesia remember? I’d do anything within reason to get my memories back.” Dante nodded. Suddenly the two ghostly children appeared and crawled under the bed.
“That was me! I remember this!” Dante walked towards the bed crouching down as he did so. Reaching under the bed he found a red wooden shield with a mark that looked like his tattoo on the front of it. As they stared at it, the both of them were suddenly in a red glowing tunnel with a white light at the end.
“You don’t remember me?” Came an echo of Vergil’s voice.
The Kamen Rider and non human were in a place that was messed up even by Limbo standards. It looked like an ocean with a blue sky, in the centre of which was a chained down statue of a man with snake like hair. They were standing on a floating building that had been broken up into pieces!
“Where are we?” Muttered Dante.
“No clue.” replied Sunset. “But I think that we should head towards that statue.” They hopped across two island, when something happened. Dante’s sword turned into a demonic whip that would be named the demon pull.
Meanwhile Sunset's active ring started to glow. “Well, want do you want old friend?” Muttered the Kamen Rider as she changed forms.
[TOUCH TO ENTER THE MAGIC: ACTIVE PLEASE: LETS GO!]
After the active glyph had finished its job Ruby noticed that a new slot had appeared on the right ring chain in which was a red ring, with an orange stone in the centre of it that looked like a chain, it was also glowing. “New spell achieve? Alright!” Cheered Sunset as she took the ring and placed it on her right middle finger, before pressing down on the right shift lever and scanning the new ring.
[TOUCH TO CHANGE YOUR CLASS: BIND PLEASE]
The sound of a chain came from the belt as a glyph appeared to the Kamen Riders right. It had an orange chain in the centre, inside an orange circle inside an orange eight pointed star which was inside an orange circle. It moved over her, first her overcoat snapped shut, it bore an orange diamond with circle outlines and a black chain in the centre of it. Her left shoulder guard turned orange and grey outwards a bit, the bodysuits lower left arm turned orange as did her forearm guard, her palm now had an orange circle with silver outlines on it.
Dante shot the demon pull and it grabbed onto a piece of the next island, while Symbol held up her forearm and fired a chain from it. The two of them pulled another platform from the island and jumped across. “Oh yeah!” Shouted Dante. They jumped across, the ran up a flight of stairs, Dante used the demon pull to get the next platform, they then jumped off a floating door and ran up another flight of stairs, onto what looked like a floor, with four red circles on it. Both expected to have to fight, only to be shocked when nothing appeared.
“That was somewhat anticlimactic.” Symbol used another chain to get the next platform for them to use. Before Dante used the demon pull to move the platform. They ran along a makeshift pathway.
“Out you come!” Dante used the demon pull to get another platform from the side of a building. Two more platforms later and they had their first demon fight as a bathos appeared. “Get over here!” Dante used the demon pull to tank the demon down and slashed it to bits with his sword.
A lesser stygian tried to attack him from behind but was grabbed by Symbol's chain and pulled over to her, she started to slash it several times before pressing down on the left shift lever and scanned the bind ring.
[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: BIND C LEVEL SPELL!]
The chain emerged from her hand a wrapped around the demon rapidly crushing it to dust. Two more lesser stygians and a bathos appeared. Wizard’s used the chain to yank the bathos down and slashed it several times with her sword cutting the demon’s wings off. She then quickly opened sunshine dawn blade styles's hand author by pulling the thumb and scanned the bind ring.
[COME ON AND SLASH SHAKE HANDS: BIND SLASH STRIKE!]
The sword segmented becoming a dagger whip blade that wrapped around the Bathos before spinning it while it was torn to shreds. Dante yanked the first lesser stygian to him with the demon pull and smashed its head in with arbiter, before he sent the other into the air with an upwards swing from his sword and slashed it to bits in the air.
Two more jumped and they were at the point where one of the chains was attached to the ground it was glowing with the same red energy that kept the door shut earlier. “What now?” Asked Dante.
“Arbiter broke through the barrier around the door so it should be able to break this rock.” Replied Sunset.
Dante did so and the rock instantly broke under the mighty battle axe, the statue slowly turned its head towards them, its eyes glowing before they were suddenly back in the red tunnel.
“How do you know our names?” Came the echo of Dante’s voice.
“At least give me a chance to show you.” Said Vergil’s echo several seconds later. Then they were back in the bedroom.
“Was that a dream?” Asked Sunset in confusion.
Dante pulled out his sword and changed it into the demon pull. “If it was then we can still use the power we got in it.” Dante pointed out the Sunset was still in her active bind style. “Ok, so what else have you got?” Sunset then glared at Dante.
“Why you hipkreyol!” She mentally growled. They jumped down a hole and through a door, before Limbo destroyed the windows and floor just in front of them! Sunset used her chain to get a piece of the wall out as a platform. She then had to used it to get another platform, move the platform and get a third platform.
Dante then smashed through a door with arbiter, before a ghostly woman came around the door in front of them. “SPARDA! They’re here! THEY’RE HERE! They’ve found us! We’ve got to get out, NOW! Come on, quickly!”
“What the hell?” Muttered Dante as they followed her to the right.
“Who in the heck was that?!” Demanded Symbol as she followed him. Right back into the entrance hall. “OH COME ON!” Suddenly it broke apart into several floating island and a pair of shielded bathos appeared.
Dante used the demon pull to yank its shield out of the grip of the first one, before yanking it down to his level and killing it with his sword. Symbol did the same with her chain and sunshine dawn sword style. Two lesser stygians jumped over to their platform. Symbol pressed down on the right shift lever twice and scanned the bind ring on the driver’s hand author.
[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: BIND B LEVEL SPELL!]
Power gathered in the chain as it was pulled back and swung around in a wide arc. “Chain whippier!” It slammed into the lesser stygians torso’s and sent them flying off the platform.
“Nice!” Commented Dante.
Looking further ahead they could see the ghostly woman. “No no no! Come on. How did they find us?”
“I know that voice.” Murmured Dante as they jumped from on platform to the next to get back to the main building.
“Me too.” Added Symbol.
Dante used arbiter to break down a door and the took a right turn before cutting left and into a room with another photo in it, this one was of a red haired woman wearing a black dress and holding a blue rose, the mark at the bottom glowed blue. “Is that, Mom?” Questioned Dante his eyes watering. He squinted at the picture and saw that she had the same necklace that he wore around her neck.
They could almost hear her voice saying. “I love you Dante, Sunset.”
“Wait a minute! Why do I remember her?” Questioned Wizard.
“Fucking demons!” Growled Dante as several lesser stygians burst from the ground. He ran forwards sending one into the air with an upwards swing from his sword before jumping after it, two quick slashes and a spinning upwards slash were delivered. At that moment a death knight burst from the ground! Dante went after it and started to hammer away with arbiter.
Sunset meanwhile blocked a lesser stygian’s club bash then booted it in the nuts. She twisted around and beheaded the second lesser stygian, reaching down to her left ring chain, placing the active ring in the first slot she took the giga ring from the second slot and placed it on her left middle finger. Sunset then pressed down on the left shift lever and scanned the giga ring on the hand author.
[TOUCH TO ENTER THE MAGIC: GIGA PLEASE: BREAK THROUGH!]
Now in her strength from she punched the other lesser stygian as it came up behind her. Her fist broke right through its chest causing the demon to turn to dust.
Dante ran over to the painting, remembering what happened with the painting of his father he pressed his hand against the emblem at the bottom. “Wonder what this is going to give us.” Blue energy arched up his arm and transformed his sword into a light blue scythe, which then sent a beam of yellow energy into Sunset's driver.
[TOUCH TO ENTER THE MAGIC: SWIFT PLEASE: DASH AWAY!]
A yellow glyph appeared above her, it was a yellow S inside a purple circle inside a yellow eight pointed star that was inside a second yellow circle. It zipped down through her much faster than the other glyphs.
Sunset's helmet turned yellow and the faceplate morphed into a purple upside down triangle. Her bodysuit turned yellow and her chestplate into a bronze diamond. Her shoulder guards thinned and turned pointy and yellow. While Sunset's suit’s forearms turned yellow and the forearm armour thinned. The armour on the back of her hands turned yellow and became thinner retracting from her hands. Her shin armour turned yellow as did her boots armour both of which became lighter. Her overcoat also turned yellow and the left ring chain grew a third slot. On Sunset's left middle finger turned yellow and had a purple triangle shape gem in the centre. Sunshine dawn turned into a yellow pistol with a purple grip and a black hand author for the hammer.
This is Sunset Shimmer also known as Kamen Rider Symbol swift style.
Both glanced over their shoulders when three lesser stygians pulled themselves from the ground. Dante charged forwards spinning his scythe continually, ripping the lesser stygians to bits with it.
Four more then appeared, Symbol ran forwards and jumped over them shooting with sunshine dawn gun style as she did so. “So this form increases my speed and jumping height. I bet that I’ve got less strength and armour as a result!” Thought the Kamen Rider she landed on the ground and pressed down on the left shift lever before scanning the swift ring.
[TOUCH TO USE THE MAGIC: SWIFT C RANK SPELL!]
The swift glyph flashed under her feet and Symbol punched so hard and fast that it looked like she had multiple arms, needless to say the four lesser stygians didn’t last very long under the barrage.
Four more lesser stygians popped out the ground, the two looked at each other and nodded. Dante turned the scythe back into the sword and crouched channelling power into it, while Symbol opened sunshine dawn gun styles's hand author by pulling the thumb and scanned the swift ring.
[COME ON AND BLAST SHAKE HANDS: SWIFT BLASTER STRIKE!]
A swift glyph flashed on the hand author as several yellow bolts shot out the gun and slammed into the lesser stygians as Dante slashed his sword sending three waves of energy at them, ripping them to bits! “Drivestorm!”Shouted both Kamen Rider and non human.
“So what are you gonna call the scythe?” Asked Symbol.
“I dunno.” Replied Dante. “Your better at naming things so what do you think?”
“How about Osiris?” Suggested Sunset.
“Nice!”
They ran out of the room and took a left turn. “You! Get after her! Down here, cover the doors! MOVE!” Came a ghostly voice of what sounded like a riot squad captain.
“Uh! Get away from me! Get away from me!” They arrived in an open space and started jumping to several platforms that looked like they were once a staircase. At the last one Dante used the demon pull to break up part of the main building into a platform, which they jumped to and he used the grapple like weapon again to move the platform to the pain buildings, before he could pull out arbiter, Sunset took of the swift ring and put it in the third slot on the left ring chain. She then took out the giga ring from the second slot and put it on her left middle finger, pressed down the on the left shift lever and scanned it.
[TOUCH TO ENTER THE MAGIC: GIGA PLEASE: BREAK THROUGH!]
The giga glyph winked into being and rose up through her, transforming Sunset into her giga style. She then pulled open sunshine dawn's axe styles's hand author and scanned the giga ring.
[COME ON AND SMASH SHAKE HANDS: GIGA SMASH STRIKE!]
“Circle of the giga!” The giga seal flashed on the axe’s hand author as power gather within it, she spun around, smashing the door to pieces with her weapon. But the way forwards was blocked by blue vines.
“Great! What now?!” Demanded Dante.
“If arbiter and my giga style can break red energy, then osiris and swift style should be able to destroy these blue vines.” Stated Sunset.
Dante turned his sword into his scythe and spun it destroying the vines! “Good idea!”
They took a left and Dante used arbiter to break through some rubble, following the hall around to the right they entered another room with something glowing on the left side of the floor. Dante ran over to it and picked it up. “A blue rose?” He questioned.
“Wasn’t your mom holding one in the painting?” Asked Symbol.
“Yeah.” Replied the non human.
“Not again!” Shouted Symbol as they were suddenly in the red tunnel again.
“At least give me a chance to show you both.” Was what Vergil’s echo said.
Then they were back in the weird broken up building place with the statue and standing on a building wall. Suddenly Dante’s sword turned into what looked like a snake head. Symbol felt herself transforming.
[TOUCH TO ENTER THE MAGIC: ACTIVE PLEASE: LETS GO!]
The active glyph appeared to her left and passed through her body. Then the driver spoke up again.
[TOUCH TO CHANGE YOUR CLASS: BOOST PLEASE!]
A glyph appeared to her right. It was a purple boot with a golden spike on the heel, inside a purple circle inside a golden eight pointed star inside a second purple circle. It then moved through her. When it finished Symbol's overcoat now bore a purple square with silver outlines and a downwards point in the bottom line. In the centre of it was a black silhouette of a person jumping and connected to the bottom corners were two halves of a golden V. Her shin armour was now bright purple, her boots were golden with purple armour on the top of them and coming out of her ankles was a pair of golden spikes that curved upwards and reached her knees. On her right middle finger was a red ring with a purple boot shaped gem in the centre of it and her right ring chain grew a third slot.
“New form? Cool!” They came to a gap that had a rock over it and was too long for them to cross.
“Lets see what this thing does.” Dante hooked his angelic lift onto a rock on the other side and it pulled him across while Symbol hopped over with ease. Only land on her head rather than her feet.
“Owie!!” Exclaimed Sunset.
“You ok?” Asked Dante as he helped her back up.
“Yeah, just gotta get used to the new jumping power.” They got across the next gap in the same way, this time Sunset just stumbled a little. They ran around what looked like a cobblestone street and Dante used the angel lift to get up the next platform while Ruby tried to jump up.
Key word: Tried. Her jump was a bit short!
“SUNSET!” Shouted Dante as he watch the girl fall to her doom.
Sunset quickly pressed down on the right shift lever twice and scanned the boost ring.
[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: BOOST B LEVEL SPELL!]
The boost glyph appeared below her and Sunset jump of it! “Air step!” This time she was able to reach where Dante was.
“Nice trick.” He commented.
“Thanks.” Dante had to use the angel lift four times to get to the next platform. “How are you going to get across?!” He shouted back
“Lets try this. Atmosphere kick!” Sunset pressed down on the right shift lever four times and scanned the boost ring.
[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: VERY NICE: BOOST S LEVEL SPELL: THE BEST!]
The boost glyph flashed in below the Kamen Rider, she crouched down and jumped! It was so high that Dante lost track of her.
“...That's got to be a world record” Suddenly he noticed that Sunset was coming down so fast that he feet were glowing red hot! “Shit!” He dived out of the way just in time to see Wizard come crashing down!
“Nailed it!”
*BAM!*
Dante punched her in the faceplate. “Warn me next time!”
“Sorry!” Chuckled Symbol , she would have done the same, that or sqeed and ranted about how cool the move was. They ran up another flight of stairs and Dante used the angel lift to jump a gap and into a lesser stygian knocking it over the edge in the process. Dante had to use the angel lift four times to reach the next section while Symbol used the Atmosphere kick.
[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: VERY NICE: BOOST S LEVEL SPELL: THE BEST!]
When they arrived a lesser stygian burst from the ground and a pair of bathos appeared in the air. Dante used the angel lift to get level with the bathos he swing osiris around chopping one of them in half, before he spun the blade in a vertical circle killing the other.
Symbol kicked the lesser stygian in the face, before round housing it in the ribs sending it flying. She jumped after it overtaking the demon, before spinning around, flipping over and slamming her heel into its face as she did so pulping its head.
Three more came from the ground, Dante was about to run at them when Symbol stopped him. “I want to see if this is good in combat.” Dante nodded. Wizard pressed down on the right shift lever four times and scanned the boost ring.
[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: VERY NICE: BOOST S LEVEL SPELL: THE BEST!]
“Atmosphere kick!” The boost glyph flashed below her and she leapt into the air.
Suddenly Dante realised something, when Symbol came back down he’d only be a few feet from the impact point. “Oh no!” He got off the platform using the angel lift before he used the demon pull to get a platform beneath him. Just as Sunset came back down with a loud earth shattering *BOOM!* One of the lesser stygians was crushed and the other two were blown off the edge of the platform. “Why are you over there?” Asked Sunset when she saw Dante.
“I don’t want to get blown off!” He shouted back. Running up a flight of stairs he smashed the rock that was holding the chain with arbiter. “What am I unleashing?” He muttered as the statue turned to look at him and Sunset who had just ran up the stairs.
Seconds later they were in the red tunnel.
“Dante, I don’t think you understand what is at stake.” Came Kat’s echo.
Then they were back in the room, with a shielded bathos appearing. “I feel insulted.” Muttered Sunset at the rather pathetic attempt on their life. The demon seamed to get offended and threw a grenade at them, which Dante knocked back by spinning his scythe in a vertical forwards circle. After recovering from said explosion the shielded bathos had just enough time for its eyes to widen as Sunset's kick sent it flying to the ground, before she jumped off the ceiling and stomped on its head, pulping said appendage!
Then three lesser stygians and four shielded bathos appeared. “Happy?” Asked Dante while glaring at Sunset. “Yeah.” If she had a face then Sunset would be drooling making Dante sweat drop at the kill happy girl. She leapt into the air, kicking one of the bathos into a wall, then bouncing over to the next and giving it and downwards kick into the ground. Sunset then pressed down on the right shift lever once and scanned the boost ring.
[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: BOOST C LEVEL SPELL!]
The boost glyph flashed under the Kamen Rider as she started to bounce back and forth between the airborne demons killing all of them!
On the ground Dante sent a lesser stygian into the air with an upwards slash from his sword, before slamming arbiter into another with several heavy strikes, right before her caved up the one that he’d sent into the air with his scythe. The last tried to attack but was sent into the air by osiris being spun like a propeller.
He was about to run out of the room when he noticed that Symbol wasn’t following. “Sunset? You ok?” She didn’t answer and was looking at a photo on the ground. Dante reached down a picked it up, it was of his dad, mom two boys, one with black hair and the other with white, Symbol was leaning on the wall in the background. “I remember.” Thought Dante. “I remember my mother, her name was Eva. She gave this to me.” Dante fingered his necklace. “I had a brother too.” Two kids sparring with wooden swords, the black haired boy helped the other off the ground. “We were a family.” Family was standing on cliff. “I had no idea of the danger we were in.” Clouds turned into demonic face. “Then the demons found us.” A bald man walked through a door. “When they broke in, I saw him.” He ripped out Eva’s heart with a demon holding young Dante back. “She gave her life so that we could escape.” Young Dante held Eva’s body. “I will never forget what he did to her.” Father and Dante were in front of a gate. “Our father, Sparda took my brother and I away. He separated us, hid us safely among the humans, wiped our memories to protect us. That's way it wall went black until now.”
“I remember now.” Thought Symbol. “I arrived out of a vortex from another dimension with no memories of my past.” A blue vortex opened and Symbol shot out slamming into the ground like a meteor. “Sparda found me.” The man walked up to the Kamen Rider just as she blacked out. “Eva nursed me back to health” The red haired woman was scene sitting by Symbol's bed as she wrapped the girl in bandages. “I became like an older sister to Dante and Vergil, to the point where they actually called me that!” Symbol was seen sparing with the two boys. “Then the demons came!” Enter the bald man. “They broke in and Eva was going to give up her life so that we could get away.” Symbol standing outside the mansion facing away. “I couldn’t do it! I couldn’t leave the one that had treated me with such kindness to die.” She turned back. “I was to late!” The bald man ripped out Eva’s heart as Symbol charged. “I attacked the leader in rage but he was to powerful.” Bald man punches Symbol in the gut. “My strongest attack clashed with one of his and ripped open a time vortex that I feel through.” A blue vortex appears sucking Symbol in. “The next thing I know is I’m in Limbo with an adult Dante showing up after a month.” Sunset and Dante reuniting. "The vortex must have mess with my memories, that's way it all went black until now.”
Suddenly, Dante dropped the photo, snapping both of them back to reality. The man staggered away robotically, while Sunset picks up the photo and follows after him.
“You ok?” She asked.
“Yeah, just, shocked.” They took a left and slid down a slope, before Dante had to use the angel lift thrice to get around a bend. While Sunset pressed down on the right shift lever once before scanning the boost ring.
[TOUCH TO CAST YOUR SPELL: BOOST C LEVEL SPELL!]
“Ricochet parade” She jumped from wall to wall, a boost glyph winking in under her feet each time she did so. They took a right and slid down a slope right onto a platform that looked like it was once part of some stairs. Suddenly the place started to shift, Dante used the angel lift to get to the next platform and Sunset jumped after him, he then used the demon pull to get another platform closer, before an island shifted between them and the main house. The man the demon pull to twist it around and pulled himself up with the angel lift, while Ruby followed him. “We’re getting outta here!” “You won’t get any argument from me!” Sunset put the boost ring back on the right ring chain’s third slot and took the bind ring from the second slot, putting it on her right middle finger. She then pressed down on the right shift lever and scanned the ring.
[TOUCH TO CHANGE YOUR CLASS: BIND PLEASE!]
The sound of a chain being unwound came from the driver as the bind glyph appeared to her ring and passed through the Kamen Rider, she then used the chain to pull a platform closer. After that it turned into a sprint, as Limbo below out the windows, the floors started to fall away and the house rocked back and forth.
Sunset replaced the active ring on her left ring chain’s first slot and took the swift ring from the third slot, putting it on her left middle finger and pressing down on the left shift lever and scanning the ring.
[TOUCH TO ENTER THE MAGIC: SWIFT PLEASE: DASH AWAY!]
The swift glyph appeared above her and zipped down through the girl, changing Symbol's into her swift style. She then pressed down on the left shift lever once more and scanned the ring again.
[TOUCH TO USE THE MAGIC: SWIFT B RANK SPELL!]
“Lets go! Swift dash!” She grabbed Dante by the back of his coat as the swift glyph flashed below her feet and she zipped forward at super speed!
“Woah! Keep goin’” Shouted Dante as they reached the gateway in record time, quickly vanishing from Limbo’s reach and into the real world.
Real world:
Dante and Symbol rematerialized both looking at Vergil in a different light.
“Your our brother.” Dante stated more than asked.
“Your twin brother. I’ve been looking for the both of you for a long time now.”
“And she’s our sister?” Asked Dante.
“By blood no, but Sunset might as well be our sister.” Vergil walked forwards, reaching into his jacket and pulling out a blue crystal necklace. “Our mother gave these to us. I think she knew this moment would come. That we’d find each other.”
“And your father, Sparda?” Asked Dante.
Vergil got a sad look on his face. “Banished forever. A fate worse than death, they say. He’s never coming back.”
*WHAM!*
Sunset dealt with her anger by knocking down a wall. “I want to know more. Where we come from, what happened to us. Above all, I want to know who is responsible for all this!” She growled out.
“Ditto!” Agreed Dante.
Vergil nodded, Dante and Sunset turned and walked off with Vergil following, but not before giving Kat the ‘I told you so look’
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