The Nephilim of Kuoh Academy

By: Castlecrasher009

Disclaimer: Highschool DxD is owned by Ichiei Ishibumi and Devil May Cry is owned by Capcom. I own nothing.

Mission 00: The Legend of Sparda & The Stylish Hunter

In the beginning, there were three realms.

The first realm was Heaven, where the biblical God and all of his angels resided. These beings represented Light, Order and Purity in the universe.

The second realm was called Earth, where the Humans and Yokai existed side-by-side.

The third realm was known as the Underworld, or as many would call it, Hell. Here the Devils, who were the opposite of Angels and represented Darkness, Chaos and Sin, reigned supreme over their realm. Amongst the devils were four who were the strongest of them all. Lucifer, Leviathan, Beelzebub, and Asmodeus. These four devils, known as the Four Satans, alongside the 72 pillars, powerful devil clans who made up the noble hierarchy, ruled over the Underworld and all who existed in it.

For a time, these three realms existed independently of one another and all was peaceful.

Until a single event started a chain reaction that changed everything.

Hundreds of millennia ago, God's most powerful angel, Mundus, became corrupted by his own power and challenged God for control over Heaven. A brutal battle ensued that shook the very foundation of existence until God finally subdued Mundus. Seeing his most powerful angel completely corrupted and fearing another uprising, God casted Mundus into the deepest part of the Underworld known as the Abyss, a subterranean world completely devoid of light and the resting place of beings so ancient and evil that even the devils feared them and their insatiable hunger for souls. Demons.

And so, God imprisoned Mundus in the Abyss and bound him in a seal that would keep him imprisoned as long as God existed. And for a time, everything was peaceful again.

But Mundus's evil influence was far greater than God could imagine.

Those angels who were exposed to Mundus's presence were affected by his evil and slowly became corrupted themselves, becoming what would later be known as the Fallen Angels. God saw his children's fall from grace and felt that he had no choice but to exile them from Heaven less all of his angels become corrupted. But because he cared about them and saw the potential for them to be redeemed, he did not imprison them in the Abyss and instead simply casted them out of Heaven.

With nowhere to turn, the Fallen traveled to the Underworld where they took up residence in one of the less populated regions of the realm. The Devils, however, did not take the intrusion well and soon conflicts began to spring up between the Devils and the Fallen. These conflicts became skirmishes, then skirmishes became battles, and then at last an all-out war broke out between the two sides. This war would eventually spill over onto the Earth, where humans started getting caught up in the war. God saw this and realized that he had made a mistake when he allowed the Fallen to move freely and now that the Devils and the Fallen were influencing humanity, he was forced to take action. With regret, he ordered his angels to destroy both the Fallen and the Devils to prevent humanity from being led astray from his teachings. It was here that the Great War began in earnest and would continue for thousands of years; until two millennia's ago, something happened that no one could have foreseen.

God and the Four Satans died.

With Heaven and the Underworld leaderless and the three faction's numbers depleted from the ongoing war, the Angels, Devils and Fallen all withdrew to their respective homes to try to salvage what they could of their societies.

The Great War had ended…..but the nightmare had just begun.

The whole time the war was being waged above, deep inside the Abyss, Mundus was gathering strength. Using his corrupted angelic powers, the Original Fallen Angel took control of the demon hordes that dwelled within the subterranean world and became the lord of all demons. When God died, the seal that bound Mundus to the Abyss weakened, giving the demon lord the chance he had been waiting for. With the demon hordes at his command, Mundus shattered the seal holding him and the demons at bay and invaded the Underworld. The Devils and Fallen Angels did not have the strength to repel the hordes and were forced to abandon the Underworld and take refuge on the Earth. With the whole of the underworld under his control, Mundus turned his attention to Earth. No longer was his ambition to control only Heaven, Mundus would rule all of existence with his power. And so, the war between the human world and the demons began. Though they fought bravely, the humans and yokai stood little chance against the might of the demons and with the three factions already exhausted of their strength, all hope seemed loss.

Until another unlikely thing happened.

A single devil rose up to challenge the demons.

His name…was Sparda.

Sparda single handedly battled against Mundus and his demons and was able to push the horde back into the Underworld. The Three Factions, having witness to this amazing feat, entered into a temporary truce and mustered their remaining forces to aid Sparda in pushing the demons and Mundus back into the Abyss, where Sparda used his own power to seal the breach.

The nightmare was finally over.

With the demons sealed once again, the beings of Heaven, Earth and the Underworld were finally able to begin rebuilding their civilizations. The angels returned to Heaven while the Devils and the Fallen reclaimed the Underworld. Within the Devil faction, new leaders were being appointed and Sparda was offered the chance to become the supreme leader of the devils. To everyone's shock, Sparda refused the position and instead he himself selected the new leaders to replace the old Satans who died during the Great War. With this done, Sparda traveled to the Earth and quietly vanished into history.

The Three Factions would sing tales of his deeds for hundreds of years to come and the devil who fought a legion of demons would become legend.

The Legendary Dark Knight; Sparda.

- Present Day -

The city was abuzz with activity even as it rolled on into the dead of night as people meandered around in search of either alcohol to drink or members of the opposite sex to spend some time in the throes of passion. Nightclubs and bars advertised their contents with flashing neon signs and doormen who would both welcome patrons in but remove the undesirables from the establishments. In one of the less populated back alleys, we find a young man calmly walking down the narrow path. The young man appears to be around the age of 16 with platinum white shoulder length hair, blue eyes and pale skin. He was wearing a black long sleeved shirt under a red vest, red pants with knee high black boots, black gloves and a large red trench coat with its sleeves rolled up to expose his shirt covered forearms. He had his hands tucked into his coat pockets as eh casually walked down the alley until he came to an entryway that lead down between a couple of buildings. The young man descended the stairs until he arrived at a single glass framed door with a small bell hanging just above the door. Once he reached the door, he pulled it open and listened to the soft ringing of the bell that announced the arrival or departure of a patron. Walking inside, the young man took stock of the room he had entered. The place looked like your typical western bar with the long wooden bar separating the room from where the bartender worked while several fixed barstools sat waiting for people to use them. In the middle of the room sat a poker table, which was currently in use by a group of men. It wasn't very much but it definitely fit the bill of your everyday American bar, which wouldn't have been so out of place for the simple fact that this was Japan.

Guess the owner wanted to give it a western appeal.

Fine by him…he was a Yankee after all.

The young man went straight up to the bar and took a seat directly behind the bartender, who spoke up when he heard the customer take a seat.

"What'll you have?"

"Strawberry Sundae." The young man replied.

The bartender visibly flinched in surprise at both the request and the apparent young age in the voice. He turned around to find a 16-year-old boy with white hair, blue eyes and a red coat sitting at the bar. Quickly getting over his shock, the bartender decided to set this boy straight on where exactly he was.

"This is a bar, son. This is no place for a boy."

The men at the table chuckled at the scene while the boy in question continued to sit there at the bar.

"Well, that's a shame. I was just trying to sweeten up the air in here. Kind of smells like shit, or more like…blood."

The bartender paused as he wiped down one of his glasses as he listened to the young man talk.

"Well, that's alright, I'm more interested in this rumor I heard. They say that somewhere around here there's this bar, more like a dive, really, where instead of money they take your life as payment. Kind of scary."

The men at the table kept playing while one of them, who was sitting behind the boy with his back turned to him, pulled his cigarette from his mouth as he spoke up over his shoulder.

"Well sorry for scaring you there, kid."

"Royal straight flush, is it?" The boy said, as he looked at the hand the guy was holding from over his shoulder. "Playing a hand like that can get a guy killed, you know."

The man sighed as he laid the cards down and spread them apart to reveal he had a royal straight flush with the diamond suite. "Look, how about I buy you a soda or something, kid." The man said as he stood up and turned around…only to find himself staring down the barrel of a black handgun the kid was pointing over his shoulder.

*BANG!*

A bullet ripped through the air and tore into the man's head, causing him to fly backwards just as the shell casing for the round bounced off the bar with a 'pink'. As the man continued his backwards arc, something weird happened.

The man's flesh suddenly exploded and a large, black, furry monster lunged at the boy.

Insert Music – Devil May Cry Anime Opening Theme

The boy threw himself away from the bar just as the beast smashed into it, turning the once nice, smooth wooden fixture into a shower of splinters. The boy slide to a stop in time to see the other two men explode like the first guy to reveal two more beasts with their glowing red eyes glaring murderously at him. As the two charged, the kid suddenly produced a silver handgun, which he threw up in the air before catching it, and pointed them at the opposing beasts.

*BANG!-BANG!*

*BANG!-BANG!*

Both beasts were thrown back as their heads were shredded by the bullets fired from the dual handguns. As the boy watched them fall to the ground lifeless, he failed to notice the one that wreaked the bar charge him until the beast grabbed ahold of one of his arms while it bit down with its razor sharp teeth on the other one. As it began to shred the flesh of the boy's arm, he didn't notice the boy drop the handgun from his right hand while he just stared at the beast like he wasn't getting his arm chewed to ribbons.

"Not bad…mister royal straight flush."

The boy opened his palm up towards the skylight above just as a large object smashed through the glass and land in his hand. The object turned out to be a large claymore that was easily as long as the boy was tall with a human skull with horns, ribcage and two humerus that act as a guard. Despite the fact that his arm was being held, the boy effortlessly swung his sword at the beast that was holding him.

*SHING!*

"GROOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHH!'

The beast let out a death cry as its body split in two and fell to the floor dead. The boy then placed the sword on his back and holstered both handguns as he surveyed the damage he had inflicted on the beasts he was fighting. Satisfied that they were all dead, he casually walked over to the front door before stopping and pulling his sword off of his back again.

*SHING!*

There was a startled cry on the other side of the door as the boy shoved the blade through the door up to the guard. The glass on the top half of the door shattered to reveal the bartender impaled on the blade with a shocked look on his face before he slumped forward.

"The next time you guys set up shop, make sure you include strawberry sundaes on the menu." The young man said as he withdrew his sword, opened the door to let the bartenders body fall to the floor and casually walked out and up the stairs as he placed the sword on his back once more.

End Music

However, just as he was about to reach the final step, the bartender's flesh exploded open to reveal another beast that roared and charged at the boy. He simply responded by quickly spinning around, pulled out his handguns, and leveled his silver one right at the head of the beast before he spoke out one last word.

"Bingo."

*BANG!*

- End Mission 00 -

[Author's Notes]

You ever have one of those times where you get an idea in your head and no matter what you do, you can't get rid of it until you put it on paper? Well, this is one of those times.

This is my third fanfiction creation and it is a Devil May Cry/Highschool DxD Crossover. Starting things off is a retelling of the factions, great war and the legend of Sparda blended together in a way that would work for the story, and since Mundus looked like an angel in the first game, I used it as a means to explain not only how the fallen angels become corrupt, (I know that originally they fall because they are tempted by humans, but in this story this is how it got started) but it also creates a place that separates the devils from the demons in the underworld.

Yes, I used the beginning of the anime for my intro for Dante but it kind of fit. You will also notice that he is younger here than in cannon. The reason should be obvious.

Anyways, read, review, and tell me what you think.

Peace.