Devil Bring It On! (Multicross OC Insert, Devil May Cry Start)

Devil Bring It On!

Chapter 1

One hell of a tutorial

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Waking up with no clue where you were tended to suck. That was a no brainer.

You know what else tended to suck? Having the first thing you meet be a pack of murderous demons.

I really should rewind a bit.

The name’s Will Walters. Before this situation I was a fairly average dude.

The day before was normal as always. Wake up, drag myself through the workday, relax what little I could when I get home and go to sleep to get ready for the next day of more of the same.

When I came to, I was no longer in my bed. Instead I found myself sprawled on the ground.

The first thing I noticed as I struggled to my feet was my right arm. Or rather the new arm that took its place.

Instead of pink squishy flesh my arm was now covered in hardened reptilian scales of red and blue, with lines along my forearm that went to my palms and now clawed fingers glowing a radiant electric blue. The scales made a pattern that resembled fingerless gloves around the glowing flesh, a funny thing really.

Of course the next detail I noticed were the clothes I was wearing and changes to my body in general.

I was wearing a dark blue long coat, black pants and long brown combat boots. Under the long coats was a red hoodie and underneath that was a black t-shirt. My skin was paler, my body was longer and as I felt around it I could see strong wiry muscles all over.

Seems like the arm wasn't the only thing that was replaced, if my hunch was correct the rest of my body was a match for the original owner’s.

The thing about my new body was that I recognized it. It was a replica of the Nero’s from Devil May Cry 4. And that demonic right arm was known as the Devil Bringer.

The third thing that caught my attention was the surroundings.

I looked around to see myself in a wasteland, of red worn down stone with a crimson sky. The consistency of the colour was one thing but what really caught one’s eye was the sun, which looked to be in an endless eclipse.

I did what one normally does, when confronted with the impossible. Try to deny it. I went the usual route, asked myself if this was a dream, tested my pain response, tried to alter the surroundings with my imagination, a routine you’ve probably heard a thousand times. Deep down I already knew the answer.

This was as real as life itself.

When confronted with such a substantial revelation I did the next natural thing one does when in an overwhelming situation, plead to a higher power.

“Hello! Anyone up there? As much as I appreciate the blessings, a little direction would be nice,” I said to the sky. “Isn’t there supposed to be an info dump? Some sort of choice where to go?”

I waited and received no response

“Okay Will, on the upside you got some cool powers and an awesome bod,” I said to myself. “On the downside you seem stranded in who the hell knows where with no idea how to get out or survive.”

So I did the only thing I really could do at such a point, wander around and search for anything to improve my situation. At least with a body like this it seemed a stroll wouldn’t wear me down.

As I walked I took another look at my new body. While the clothes had the holsters for the sword and gun I knew he wielded, it seems whoever put me here wasn’t so kind as to provide me with them. What stood out though to me was the addition of a pendant to the ensemble, a locket to be precise.

“Everything else is Nero’s, and this sure as hell ain’t mine. Any hints before I spoil the surprise?” I said to the sky. “Hope you’re being entertained, whoever you are.”

Again silence was my only companion.

“Fine, guess I’ll have to see it for myself,” I said, opening the locket.

What I saw inside was two shards of metal, both the size of finger nails.

'I.. I feel a bit ripped off,' I thought.

Then my right arm started to glow brighter, emitting a low hum.

“Okay Will, you know what that means. Either demons are nearby or these pieces of metal are special.”

I looked around to see no one around.

I examined the shards again, holding the locket up to the light of the eclipse. Both were shining steel, the left one had some darker swirling lines running through it. I heard that’s a sign of Damascus steel. The right one instead was of two tones one brighter and the other darker, with a wavy line separating the two. That seemed to be a hamon, so this was likely a piece of a katana.

“Wait, you’re kidding me, these can’t be?,” I said. “But what if they are?”

While it was a bit of a stretch, I had a decent guess as to what those shards were taking into account my current accommodations.

I reached out to them with my right arm almost touching them, the glow intensified, and in turn the shards glowed too. The left red and the right blue.

That settled it. I knew what those shards were now. The one that glowed blue was a piece of The Yamato, the sword of Sparda that Vergil inherited. The other was a shard of The Rebellion, the sword of Sparda inherited by Dante. Both held great abilities within them and were manifestations of their owner’s demonic power. Both blades were broken at some point in time, the Yamato by the Demon Emperor Mundus some time after DMC 3 and the Rebellion by Urizen during DMC 5.

“Wait, this is Nero’s DMC 4 body, and the Rebellion was shattered years later. How can both coexist?”

I took another look inside the locket, this time more closely.

Engraved on its inner surface was the head of a lion with a symbol of an hour glass above it.

'Oh, real subtle there,' I thought 'So it seems the God of Time and Space is related to all this. Or do they prefer Goddess? Are they my sponsor? Or is someone else just using their powers or symbology? Still, no wonder I’m getting stuff from across time if they’re involved in this.'

I was about to continue my wandering when the reality of the situation truly set in. If I had a Yamato shard… wouldn’t that mean I could use it to get out of wherever I was?

I was about to open the locket again when I heard some footsteps.

Well to call them footsteps was a bit generous. What shambled in the distance was a group of six creatures that looked like crosses between mannequins and corpses. They had mask like faces, flesh like tendons connecting smooth dull plates all over their bodies and with long misshapen cleaver like blades coming out of their wrists and folding back along their arms.

Given my situation it was pretty easy to figure out they were demons. The question then was what to do with them.

'Should I fight them? Should I lay low?,' I thought. 'Wait, if those are demons and I have all this DMC stuff then that must mean I’m in the demon realm. Why the hell am I in this hell? What am I-'

*SKREEE*

My thoughts were interrupted by the inhuman screech of one of the demons. During my ruminations over my situation it seemed they noticed me. Now the sluggishness of their shambling was gone and they came running at me.

As the leader of the pack approached me with a running slash I blocked with my right arm. It caught the attack mid swing and stopped it dead. I pushed back against it and wound up knocking the first into the second one that approached. Seems I wasn’t used to the new strength yet.

I tried to force something, some level of power through my right arm. This would normally be the point where a large spectral copy of said arm would manifest so I could use its massive strength, but it seemed that wasn’t in the cards for me yet.

I was granted power but no instructions. What a joke. Anyways back to the fight.

While two were on the ground there were still four coming at me. As the next two came to rush me in a pincer attack I simply dodged backwards. It was funny it seemed like their attacks were in slow motion to me as I continued to dodge their assault. While I didn’t have a clue how to use its more advanced powers it seems this body’s parameters were still top notch. Still, there was no point in dodging forever, I had to counter attack somehow.

So after dodging another blow I tried a punch with the Devil Bringer. While I wasn’t able to project a spectral arm, a very durable arm with greater super strength than the rest of my already powerful body was still a good option in a fight.

The area of impact was the centre mass on the right most assailant. The demon, while far more durable than a man's, had the porcelain like plate shattered and the flesh below was pulped. Regardless, like a puppet on strings the creature kept coming.

So I continued to dodge and give an occasional jab with the right arm. As time persisted I downed two of them into bloody messes, with blades shattered and armor broken, they were corpses on the ground.

This was taking too long. So it was time to switch it up. As the last four continued to attack me, I got into a stance. Not to dodge but to catch an attack once again.

This time it was a simple matter. I caught the blade with my right arm and then gave a tug. The demon was sent careening behind me while I still held their cleaver like blade in my arm.

With a weapon, however improvised it was, the last fell much easier.

Before I knew it I was alone again wandering the wasteland.

'Maybe next time I could try talking to them?,' I thought. 'Ah who am I kidding? it’ll only be blood and death in this realm'

“I really need to figure out how to use those shards,” I said to myself.

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Author’s Note:
So yeah. If you read the snippets I posted earlier that this is based on welcome back. If you’re a new reader thanks for giving it a look.

Changed some things up a bit from the original snippets and tried to give things an edit.

Still looking for a beta reader or an alpha reader and don’t be shy to comment.

 

Devil Bring It On!

Chapter 2

Wake Up Call

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You ever wonder how people activated their supernatural abilities?

Well that was the question I was grappling with at that moment.

It’s hard to describe really, gaining demonic power. It’s like gaining a new muscle that you’d never used before. There was a mix of intent and automatic processes at work. Trying to shift the scales to the former instead of the latter was turning out to be quite the ordeal.

“Come on, come on out…” I said pausing for a few seconds. “Damn it! Nero made it look so natural. I wind up touching this stupid shard with the Devil Bringer and my arm decides the best course of action is to eat it.”

Well it was kind of obvious that’s what it would do in retrospect, given the Devil Bringer absorbed the full Yamato but I still wasn’t used to having it. At the very least it didn’t absorb the Rebellion shard when it brushed against it.

I just didn’t get it. Did the shards have a will of their own? I knew the swords they were once part of probably possessed something resembling that but for the pieces themselves to carry it? That was something else.

Don’t get me wrong, absorbing the shard felt good, like really good. Made me feel energized in a way that was almost intoxicating and it felt like a piece of me I never knew was missing was found. But I needed to be able to call upon its powers consciously, and having it stuck in my arm wasn’t very conducive to that.


'Maybe I need to get into a fight to get used to it?' I thought. 'At the very least it’ll help me blow off some steam. Hopefully it’s just a bunch of small fry again.'

Perhaps it was overconfidence from the new body or just the frustration at making such a stupid mistake that was driving me to do so. Either way for the first time in my life I was wandering to look for a fight.

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Okay, this was ridiculous, for once I want to fight a bunch of demons and instead I get nothing.

I’d almost given up and decided to try to force the Yamato shard out when I heard it in the distance. A thunderclap, then I heard it again, and again and again in rapid succession.

I looked to the source and saw the clear red sky was muddied by clouds to my west? Or was it my east? I couldn’t tell really since the eclipsed sun stayed in place at high noon position the whole time I was here.

Well that was beside the point, a storm was approaching. Not just any storm, it seemed that the thundercloud was going crazy. Lightning jumped around inside it like it was alive.

I tried looking for shelter, but the barren wasteland I was in provided none. For all I knew that thundercloud could be raining acid or something worse with how weird this realm operated. Maybe that’s why it was so hard to find other demons? They were fleeing from this?

Well as it approached I braced myself for the worst. Even with this new body I doubt I could outrun it for long. Might as well confront it head on.

To my relief the thundercloud didn’t rain acid, in fact it delivered what I was asking for, more demons to fight.

Two bolts of lightning fell to the ground and where they impacted stood two blitzes. Large vaguely humanoid horned beetle like demons that could control and transform into lightning. They were a pain to fight in the games with their saving grace being they were blind. And there I was fighting two of them at once.

'I really should have ran when I had the chance, shouldn’t I?,' I thought.

I pulled the cleaver I procured from the last group of demons and prepared myself for what was coming next.

The blitzes both launched streams of electricity at me, well focused beams to be more precise, and swept them across the ground. I jumped in the air each time they passed but every time I landed they heard the impact of my boots on the ground and re aimed their shots at me. It was like a lethal game of jump rope. We all couldn’t keep this going forever, but it’d just take one slip up on my end for them to land a terrible hit. Didn’t help that I didn't have a ranged weapon to whittle down their lightning armor, that would have shocked me as I approached or flat out deflected my blows.

If I was kept on the back foot like this I was going to lose, going to die. And that was not an option.

'Come on, if there was a time for you to start working it’d be now,' I thought, trying to surge power into the Devil Bringer. 'No? Fine, let's do it this way.'

I jumped between the two of them and got lucky. They both launched their beams at me and wound up hitting each other after I jumped again. Their armor of lightning seemed to weaken from that a fair bit. Friendly fire was on the cards, that was good to know. It also seems they weren’t very smart, but still, that doesn’t mean I should underestimate them.

I wound up throwing the cleaver as hard as I could with the Devil Bringer at the one to my right. It seemed that was enough to break through the barrier at the cost of my melee weapon. I rushed to try to take advantage of the stunned blitz and pummeled it with jabs from my right arm. I aimed for the head and grabbed its horn, breaking it off, but that wasn’t enough to keep it down.
And even worse, in my excitement I forgot about the other opponent.

While I heard the slash coming from behind dodging it was another story. These things were fast and though I tried my best the claw left a gash on my left shoulder as I tried to get out of the way.

“Argh!,” I screamed, unused to the pain. As I felt my left arm go numb, I jumped away from the next blow more successfully.

The next thing I knew I heard an enraged shriek to snap me out of the haze of pain. The hornless Blitz’ enveloped itself in lightning once more, this time it was red lightning.

Uh oh.

I knew what that meant. The demon was in its death throes and would try to take me with it if need be. The enraged blitz turned to lightning and struck the ground, where I was standing a second ago while the more healthy switched back to shooting beams of lightning and sweeping the ground with them.

Again I was stuck dodging. Jumping around again and again. But this time I was bleeding, and slowing down. If another set of demons showed up I was done for.

'Damn it all! Where the hell’s the red one,' I thought. 'Can’t go on the attack as long as it’s still hanging around.'

My thought was soon answered as a surge of lightning appeared from under me just as I landed from my latest jump. I tried to jump again, but it was like dodging lightning, it swiftly caught me in a bear hug. Seems like they weren’t as dumb as I thought, it must have felt me jumping around from under ground and waited for me to land. The pain of the lightning surging off its skin was unbearable.

Time slowed down for me. Well not literally, as can happen in this universe with the right powers, but that moment felt like an eternity.

It was now or never, I had to break free. I had to live!

I struggled with the devil bringer, pouring all my will into it.

And it responded. There was a brief burst of energy almost like an explosion around my right arm. It was enough to loosen the demon’s death grip ever so minutely.

A spectral arm rose out of my right one grabbed onto the demon’s arm and tore it off. Freed from the grasp I dove to the side and ducked to the ground, I felt heat on my back and a pressure wave from the explosion of the lightning demon.

I got up surprised to see the other demon didn’t capitalize on my vulnerability.

It seemed the remaining demon was stunned by the effects of its partner’s suicide attack. Perhaps the creature’s hearing was overwhelmed? It was blind after all. It didn’t matter the reason I just thanked whatever god watched over me for the easy kill.

Now that demonic power was properly flowing through my veins, I was able to use the Devil Bringer. Now I had something with better range than my fists.

It took two punches with my spectral arm to break through the beast's lightning armor and one grasp to crush its head and bypass the chance of it going berserk and exploding entirely.

“Ha.. ha ha!” I half laughed, half panted as I collapsed to the ground, lying on my back. As I gazed at the sky I saw the storm cloud had vanished.

That didn’t matter to me then. The adrenaline had faded and I felt like shit. I could still smell the ozone and burning from my singed clothes and skin.

But at least I figured out the start of how to use my abilities.

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Author’s Note: Well here’s chapter 2. Hope it’s as good as or better than the first one.
Was the fight scene okay? Not used to writing those yet.
Anything in the chapter you particularly liked?
Anything in the chapter you find off?

Let me know in the comments.