Third Person POV
It's been a few hours since she told Ur that she was pregnant and now it was time for her to tell the rest of her family harem... she just hoped it will end well
"You're what!?!" Everyone was surprised to hear the sudden news.
Erza just showed them the pregnancy test, confirming what they just heard.
"But when? I mean how? I mean-" Levy was freaking out.
"Well first things first congrats girl, time to party!!" Cana yelled, grabbing another bottle of liquor.
"Not now Cana, we can do that later." Mira gently slapped her shoulder
"How long have you been pregnant?" Lucy asked
"That's the thing, I don't know. The whole 7-year gap is throwing me off."
"Why not ask Porlyusica, I bet she can help?" Ur suggested
The girls nodded and they went to the forest where Porlyusica resided. They knocked at the door only to be met with the screaming lady with a broom trying to scare them off her property.
"I thought I told you kids to never bother me!! I can't stand the stench of humans!!" Porlyusica yelled through the closed door
"Hold on Porlyusica, this is serious." Ur tried explaining to her but she wasn't having it
"I don't care!! Get out!!" she continued to yell.
"I'm pregnant!!" Erza yelled and this made Porlyusica stop her yelling.
Silence settled in the forest and Porkyusica just stared Erza down.
"How long?" She asked, setting the broom down.
"That's the thing, she doesn't know. We figured you could help us figure that out." Levy stepped forward.
"I just took a test and it came out positive and I would like your professional opinion, please." After hearing Erza plead, she let out a frustrating sigh before walking back into her home.
"Follow me." She said
Everyone began to follow her but Porlyusica quickly turned around.
"Only the pregnant one, the rest of you can leave, I don't want my home stinking of humans. Come back in a few hours," she said as she slammed the door after Erza walked in.
Back at the Royal Capital
Dante remained poised as he was pointing his sword to his throat as stared at him with a serious look in his eyes.
"I'm waiting," Dante said as he still had his sword near his throat
"Just what the hell is he!? First, he was able to overpower my haki, then this strange woman by the name of Locua shows up and overpowers the audience and now I'm threatened by him with his katana sword near my throat!" Ari thought as he was getting his focus back
"Now!" Dante pressed the blade a bit more onto his throat and a trail of blood could be felt.
"You know it's rude to be the only one asking questions you know?" Arashi chuckled a bit before he felt a punch to his stomach by the woman Lucoa.
"Yeah, that's true" Dante responded to his snarky comment.
"But it's also rude to keep the one who asked the question waiting... Now talk. '' Lucoa said in a calm yet terrifying tone as she once again released more of her power she was getting tired of waiting for his answer as she was interested in what Dante would do with the answer.
"Kazu..." Arashi simply answered
"What?" Dante was a bit surprised by the sudden name drop.
"My teacher's name was Kazu, he was the one who taught me how to use Haki as well as the 3 sword style."
"That's impossible!... Not since that day. They never found the body, Kazu's been proclaimed dead." Dante said as he let off the presser of the sword to his neck.
"Bullshit!!" Arashi yelled
"I trained with him 7 years ago near Phoenix Mountain and was given his katana as a memento moments before he died. " He continued
"You expect me to believe that?"
Arashi broke free from the hold and quickly teleported home, grabbing his Katanas and teleporting back to the training ground.
"Here." Arashi tossed him his teacher's sword.
Dante caught his sword and examined it as he unsheathed the sword and examined it further as he closed his eyes and quickly opened them as he looked at the sword with sadness and anger.
"You son of bitch, you were alive this whole time? Dante said with tears slowly coming down his eyes but smiled as he placed the sword back in its holder.
Then something finally clicked inside of Arashi's mind after hearing Dante's name.
"Here kid" Dante said as he tossed the sword back to him Ari quickly caught it.
"You and Kazu used to be a team right?"
"Used to be!? Come on, kid... You make it sound like we ended on a bad note... Yes, we were on a team... But we were like a family... He saved me a while back and nursed me to health after a... certain events happened but yeah." Dante responded.
"Kazu used to tell me how much of a destructive creature you were, always putting the team in debt. Guess that hasn't changed."
"That freaking idiot always had to be a goodie tushu. I swear he was a stick in the mud. But that sounds like him alright... Glad he didn't change either" Dante said with a smile on his face
"He also said he tried looking for you that day too when everything went wrong."
Dante had a sad smile on his face as he remembered what happened, what was supposed to be a good day, turned into a bad day
"What happened that day? He never really talked about it much whenever I asked him about it. Who are you exactly? Cause if what you say is true, you don't look a day over 40. "
"Well kid I would love to tell you but... I'm afraid we can't do it here as this is private information, but kid... If you come with me to a private location I'll tell you." Dante said with a smile as he looked around to see everyone was starting to wake up
"Oh my, looks like everyone is starting to wake up," Lucoa said with a smile on her face as she knew she kinda messed up
"Well, kid? What will it be?" Dante asked giving him a small window to make his decision.
"Fine, tell me where I'll meet you. Gotta make sure they're okay."
"Don't worry kid, they'll be fine. That princess over there is just waking up from a fantasy and the rest well I don't know. Lucoa here placed them in a dream state as soon as they were unconscious... but once your done meet me at the forest a mile east of the capital and I'll answer your questions." he responded as both Dante and Lcoua vanished from sight
"Bye Bye Fairy Man!!!" Anya said as she too was gone from sight
As the family vanished out of sight, the entire training ground came to.
"What happened?" Hisui groggily asked
"Princess are you okay?" Riana asked her to see if anything was done to her.
"Where is that mysterious man Dante?" Arcadious asked, looking around failing to see him.
"I'm meeting him soon and trying to figure out the reason he did this and what his motive could be." Arashi simply explained
"Then we're coming with you," Arcadious said
"No, I will go alone."
"Are you insane? He merely knocked out everyone here just by looking at us. There's no telling how strong and dangerous this man is."
"I'm well aware of his ability which is why I'm going alone. If you and your men accompany me, you'll only get in my way." Arashi now spoke in a serious tone.
Arcadious gritted his teeth and fist knowing he was right.
"Let him go, Arcadious." The king spoke
"Your majesty."
"If he does know what abilities this man posses then he'll have a way to counter it. We simply must have faith in the boy."
"Of course your majesty."
"Ari?" Hisui walked up to Arashi with worry.
"Don't worry pumpkin, we're only going to talk. If a fight breaks out, I'll immediately come back. I promise."
Hisui quickly went in for a tight hug and Arashi gently placed a kiss on her head. After their embrace, Arashi gave everyone a goodbye nod and was gone in a blink of an eye.
Meanwhile in the forest a mile to the east Dante
He was listening to some music on his lacrima and began to sing out loud to the music.
"Papa, I want peanuts."
I told you, Sweetie, until you finish mommy's homework then no peanuts, okay."
Locua smiled as Dante was encouraging Anya to study
"Okay Anya, now answer this if a wizard has a total of 200 jells and a fruity stand costs 29 jewels how much would he have to pay to have a fruity?" Locua said in a sweet and caring tone
"Um excuse me?" Arashi voice interrupted them
"Fairy Man!!" Anya yelled running up to him as she leaps up to him in a hug
"Ahhh Arashi, you finally made it." Dante stopped his music and greeted him.
"Alright Dante, I want answers," he said as Anya was crawling all over him till he pulled up his hair
Dante lights up a cigarette, he takes a deep inhale, and releases a huge cloud of smoke.
"A straightforward man, I like you already kid," Dante said as he stomped on his cigar as he walked towards him and held Anya
"Alright sweetie you stay here with mama and focus on your studies, while Papa is going to talk to fairy man for a bit okay," Dante said in a sweet and soft tone
Finally leaving the two of them alone, they continued where they left off.
"Alright, what do you want to know?" Dante asked while lighting up another cigar
"How old are you?"
"If I were a woman, I would have slapped you across the face asking a personal question." Dante chuckled
Arashi remained silent.
"A couple of centuries would say, honestly I lost count." Dante casually answered while releasing another cloud of smoke
"...Huh?"
"You heard me, kid," Dante smirked as he used his sword to cut a tree and make it into a chair for himself
"Next you'll say, "There's no way you're that old, that would mean you're" " Dante said with a smirk
"There's no way you're that-"
Arashi suddenly felt a sense of Deja vu
"Freaky huh.." he said as he puffed another smoke as made another chair for Ari
"Take a seat kid... We have a lot to talk about and we have all the time... Well, I do... my friend have been very busy and we wouldn't want to keep the women in your life waiting.." he said as he grabbed a pizza box from another dimension
"Thank you Lucoa for teaching me this trick," Dante thought to himself
"Pizza huh? Haven't had this in a while." Arashi casually grabbed a slice.
"Can't go wrong with classical pepperoni pizza." Dante says as he takes a bite out of the pizza
"Just don't tell Lucoa... I'm supposed to cut back in support of Anya learning without peanuts " Dante said as he offered him a slice
"Okay... so how did you and Kazu meet then if you "were a couple of centuries" years old." Arashi air quoted as he was still skeptical about his answer.
"Well first before we begin let me ask you something ... What do you know about the kingdom of dragonoff?"
"Dragonoff? Never heard of it."
"Dragging off these nuts across yo face!!!" Dante began to laugh like a mad man at the joke he just made.
"...Seriously?"
"Sorry, sorry okay I'll get serious now..." Dante said as he looked at him with a serious look
"Long ago there was a kingdom full of dragons coexisting with humans in a peaceful balance, there was a woman named Irene... She was the queen of the dragons as she was the first among the dragon slayers to understand and be the bridge to co-existence, some wanted to use them for power, and some wanted to use humans as food... And me.. *smiles* peace and co-existing sounded more fun... Irene thought so too and together help found a kingdom where coexistence was possible. But those idiotic arrogant bastards!!" he said as he slashed a forest making them disappear with one slash in the air
Arashi was caught off guard at the sheer strength the man before he possessed as an image of a woman with red hair came close to Dante as she touched his face.
"We were betrayed!! Lied to!! He used us... He used my IRENE AS A PAWN!!" Dante shouted as he grew angry upping his power making the ground shake
Arashi took another bite of his pepperoni pizza, listening to the old man ramble on his story.
"My Irene... She was my light and my first love and the mother of-.." he stopped mid-sentence purposefully leaving something out before he continued with his story
"In an attempt towards peace, I was sent to meet with a fellow support trope to help establish a new outpost to help spread our cause. Irene begged me not to go, it took a bit of convincing but she finally agreed in letting me go. It was all to help achieve her goal."
"But I was a fool. *chuckles* Until later I learned that a man named Rung, a member of what I call the castle of A-Holes wanted me out of the picture so that he could be with Irene for his reasons. I was ambushed and left for dead. But it was thanks to a friend, a person I called a brother who saved me from the brink of despair and death, that man's name was Kazu.." Dante said with a smile on his face
Arashi stopped mid-bite when the name of his teacher was mentioned.
"How old was Kazu when you finally met each other?"
"I was about 25 years old when we met and he... Well, I would say old but he was like hmmm maybe 20?" Dante said he was calming down his anger and power as he used his green energy to heal the forest.
"Interesting magic you got there..." Arashi complimented as he saw the forest go back to the way it was a minute ago.
"It's a combination of Lucoa's teachings and Haki that I'm able to do this feat. Anyways, back to my story. Could you toss me a slice?" He asked Arashi.
"Can Haki heal?" he asked while giving him a slice
"No, I just used Lucoa's healing, and then used conquers to order the trees to obey and grow faster," Dante explained while he took a bite.
"When he saved me... I succumbed to my rage towards the humans and their selfish nature, their lust for greed and women. At that point, I became a monster, with the sole purpose of killing but Kazu was able to calm me down. It was a long battle between us but he helped me come to my senses." Dante said as he enjoyed his pizza
"Want some of this good stuff or are you sticking to juice?" Dante asked the kid
"Ehh I could go for a drink."
Dante tosses him a cold drink as he continues his story.
"After Kazu was able to calm my inner beast, I was focused on warning my people, my Irene. But your teacher wouldn't let me go. He said I would only be wasting my time. Come to find out he was right because when I came back as all I would find is ruins." Dante said with a solemn face and Arashi could guess what had happened next.
"The dragons destroyed what Irene and I built!!! There was no sign of Irene but regardless I kept looking for her '' he said she looked at the flowers and picked one that had a mix of different kinds of flowers.
A long silence fell between them, letting what Dante had laid in Arashi mellow.
Did you ever find her?"
"I did, and it took me till the age of 30 to find her but... *snaps his fingers" A new image of Irene appeared before them.
"I was so happy seeing her still alive, finally I found her. Soon afterward we had Anya." Dante smiled at the memory of them
"We all traveled the world as if what had happened to us was just a nightmare. However, she would disappear for a time, and this was before she was pregnant mind you, and I always wondered what was going on. But I chose to let it go as I was happy and excited. After 10 years on our daughter 1 birthday, I've had enough and so I followed her only to learn the truth" Dante said as he remember her look
"The look she had in her eyes, I will never forget. She had killer eyes, rid of emotions. Standing on top of a pile of corpses. Then he appeared..."
With a snap of his fingers, another image appeared before Ari as it was him, the man he saw back on the island.
RWBY Volume 6 Score Only - Our Creation - listen at 4:04
"Irene called him Zeref ...his aura smelled of death...I couldn't handle what was happening, so I ran out of the house to try and make sense of what just happened. There was one certain I knew that day. The Irene that I knew was gone. "
Arashi could see this was upsetting him, he offered to stop but Dante assured him that he was alright just needed a minute. During that time, Arashi looked back at the image of Irene and couldn't help but feel a sort of familiarity with her.
"I soon confronted her about what I saw. The lives she's taken, the children, adults. Lives she easily took without a second thought. All she could say it was out of the good of us."
"I begged her not to go through with it, but she refused and pointed her staff at me. That's when I knew that the woman I love was gone... she had been driven to madness." Dante said as he made a fist
"She went on and on about how humans feed off greed and such disgusting creatures weren't needed in the new world she wanted to create. Her vision was for us to rule over a new world as king and queen. "
Arashi begins to see the fight between them.
"With a heavy heart, I picked up the sword. She always was the stronger one in terms of power but since then I have been training with Kazu, with the help of my haki I was victorious, ending her life."
"After the fight, I left and took our child back to Kazu and in the back of my mind, I knew he wasn't safe. So I went off again in search of a dragon that was said to be the strongest...Luck must have been on his side because it only took a day since she was in the nearby market disguised as a human. She was rumored to have died, but after seeing her, that wasn't the case. It turned out, she was looking for me as well. She agreed to my request in using the eclipse gate to send both my daughter and friend. We told Kazu the plan as well."
"I explained to him that I was going to send him and my daughter to a different point in time, a better place than this. With the help of a Heartfilia, it was a success. He was stubborn but after some words... he agreed and took Anya and together they went into the eclipse gate. Nice work on destroying it by the way,"
"Hold on... how do you know about that?"
Dante smiled at his confusion
"Did you think a low-level mage from the magic knights could erase my memories!?
Arashi remained silent as he couldn't answer this man.
"Good.. *coughs* so after sending my only child into the future as well as my best friend through the gate. I remain here in hopes of saving whatever is left and so I wondered with Locua by my side as she blessed me with eternal youth aka immortality and so I wandered around the world, with her by my side, mastering my swordsmanship and any other weapons I came across, during those millennials only a select few I fell in love with'' Dante said with a smile as he puffed another smoke as he looked at the sky
"I lost count of how long it's been since I dreamt of reuniting with Kaze. I learned that my life was going to be a little bit interesting." Dante said as he fished his tale
"But ever since then I've been looking for Anya and making sure that I never lose her again as she is the one thing that Irene gave me before her madness took over her... And then I met you, Ari...
Dante remained silent for a moment and this worried Arashi
"I know we just met but can I make a request?"
"Well I am a guild wizard and it is my job to accept requests from citizens," Arashi answered finishing his drink
This made Dante smile a bit before he got serious.
"I'm trying to find a way to save Irene... Even though she is lost in her madness. I still like to believe that the one I love is in there somewhere..."
Dante got up from his chair, got on his knees, and bowed.
"...would you please help me...
Silence fell between the swordsmen
"...If you help me... I-I'll teach you how to make a pizza a-and keep it fresh in the magic."
Arashi chuckled at the reward he was going to receive if took this old but not old man.
"It would be nice to have fresh pizza whenever I'm hungry but I think I have a better idea in mind."
"Anything!! If it's within my power I will gladly give it to you." Dante remained to bow.
"I want you to help me grow stronger," Arashi said in total seriousness.
Dante's ears twitch at this sudden request causing him to look up at him with a curious expression.
"You do realize that if I take you as my student... My orders are absolute no matter how unorthodox my training methods are... And let me tell you... Kazu's training would be a picnic compared to my training with you." He smiled at him as he was waiting for his answer
"Yeah don't need to remind me, Kazu's training was terrifying." Arashi shuddered, reminiscing about his three-month training with his master.
"But could I ask why? I can pretty much tell you're strong enough as is. You even defeated a descendant of Riku, and that woman was a tough cookie, both in battle and in bed."
"Acnologia..." That was all Arashi said which instantly caught Dante's attention
From that one word Dante looked at him and looked serious
"Him.. the one dragon that caused me, my 2nd wife, and my 3rd wife so much pain...so tell me what's your reason for this need to get stronger? Aiming to be king?"
Arashi shook his head.
"I'm already technically betrothed to the princess so there's that..."
"Haha... that's rich... But not surprising as that princess had the look in her eyes throughout the entire match... Let me tell you... But tell me what reason do you have?" Dante was curious for his reasons as this went deeper.
"Well since you told me you're past and secrets, it's only right that I do the same."
Dante tilted his head in curiosity.
So Arashi told his entire truth, from coming from an entirely different world where magic doesn't exist, how he got his powers and limit broken swords, as well as Amina, the goddess that brought him into this world, and their few interactions.
"There is one more thing I forgot to mention but if I do mention it I'm afraid it could change the course of history, but other than that, that's the story of my life."
"Wait, do you know what is going to happen because we're a show in your world?" Dante guessed
Arashi nodded.
"Though I'm not familiar with this world and how things end, there are other shows/mangas that go through this similar process. Summoned into another world by the ultimate menace truck-kun running you over. Meet a god, give power of your choice, be OP AF, and must defeat a powerful being, or else the world is destroyed and you can't forget to get yourself a harem too. Something like that." Arashi casually explained
"I'm gonna be real with you kid... I have no idea what you're talking about. But what I can tell you is that you and I are kinda the same except I was brought here by a god... I called him Simba, and I was sent here to help. So I guess you and I are kinda like brothers"
Dante laughs at this as this was funny as hell both of them are sent here by either gods or goddesses meaning that they were screwed and there will be trouble for both of them. Dante couldn't help himself but laugh at this situation they were in.
"That seems to be if you're looking at the big picture. In my previous life, I was a huge anime fan but I'm also a big DMC fan..." Arashi looked at Dante as he said that last part.
"You know, now that I think about it. You sort of remind me of him, especially in the name.
"Same here, why did you think I chose the name... He was my favorite hero growing up... The way he treats threats like a kid and how he does it with style and no fear... He was my inspiration back home."
"But in my world, he was a character in a game, how do you know him?" Arashi asked but Dante began to ramble not hearing what Arashi asked him
"You were never a big fan of the long game, always skipping the details, a true DMC fan knows that it had its anime. Even though you were a popular kid, you're still such we-. "
Dante caught what he said out loud and turned to face a shocked Arashi.
"What? Do I have something on my face... Or is my fly down?" Dante asked as he checked his zipper to see it was zipped up
"Hold on how to do you-"
"Oh, will you look at the time, so many places to be, chicks to bang, and more importantly... It's Anya's training time... I'll see you later Ari.. oh and let the princess know that if she was going to hide... She better work on her hiding" as he shot at a random location, they heard a loud thud and a yell.
"OW!!"
"See ya real soon Bro, I'll be counting on you saving Irene! Let me know when you're ready to get this request started!" Dante said as he ran away into the forest
"Wait!!" Arashi called out but Dante was out of sight and his magic energy was untraceable.
"bYE bye Fairy Boy!" Anya shouted as her voice vanished as well.
Arashi let out a defeating sigh and walked towards where the thud was heard, finding himself a princess massaging her bottom from the hard fall.
"Owy...." She tried massaging more hoping it would go away faster, she soon met her boyfriend's eyes.
"Ari!... pleasure seeing you out here... in these very woods that we are currently. " she nervously laughed as she was trying to think of an excuse
"Pumpkin... how much did you hear?"
"Ummm not much..." Hisui tried looking away from his gaze
"No really! I admit trying to find you but that's just it.
Arashi still wasn't buying it
"Okay!! I heard most of the conversation but when that Dante guy shot me, I seem to only remember some parts of what you two talked about."
"How'd you even find me anyways? I literally teleported in front of everyone."
Something reflective hit his eyes catching his attention and soon walked to where it was coming from.
"A note?''
"You were never good at keeping an eye on your surroundings when your guard is down, consider this your first lesson... Be mindful of your surroundings and don't worry... I made sure to erase the mention of the very world she knows is entirely fictional, but she does know your truth...but be wary of this... If anything changes, say someone is pregnant then expect some more powerful oppositions to correct it.."
Signed your best teacher in the world Dante
P.s here's some music for you for your training
"We haven't even started and he's already proclaiming himself as the best teacher in the world? And that last thing he said bothers me." Arashi sweat dropped mumbling to himself
"Is something wrong Ari?" Hisui tried looking over his shoulder only for him to quickly hide the note.
"It's nothing, but back on topic. How much of our conversation did you hear?" Arashi asked only to receive a "tks" from the future queen of Fiore knowing she wasn't off the hook.
"Did... did you just "tsk" me? Can princesses even do that??"
"Doesn't matter what this princess just did... As your boss, I order you to take me shopping and treat me to a date... Darling." she began to take her to leave, swaying her butt in the process.
"Don't distract me with that nice ass of yours. I need answers woman!"
"Not my fault you're a butt perv... Now come on... we're burning light oh Mr popular."
"So you do know!!"
All Arashi received was humming from his princess.
"Ughhh wait up, at least let me use my teleportation magic to go back to the city!" Arashi ran after her.
Later with Dante
"Idiot! Idiot! Idiot!" Dante yelled at the top of his lungs as he banged his head on a tree as Locua and Anya were watching
"Why is papa hitting himself?" Anya asked
"This is why I told you to keep it short and simple. That mouth of yours almost revealed your secret." Lucoa commented, shaking her head in disappointment.
"I couldn't help it, okay! You know the chances are to run into someone you know in a whole different world? Pretty freaking low!! It's been hundreds of years since I last saw him. Cut me some slack okay. Next time he mentions this I'll just lie like I always do." Dante said with a smile as he looked at his sword and nodded as he loved it and it felt right next is to get the next legendary sword
"You'll have to confront him sooner or later dear."
"I know I know. But we can worry about that later. I need to make sure he's ready..."
Dante looked up to the sky with a serious look.
"...Those three are insanely strong. I'm not gonna lose him again."