Devil hunter among Ponies

by Dusk Stalker


Mission 7: Old Troubles(Updated)

Authors Notice: Got DMC HD collection(yay), so back to the story:) half way their!

The wind intensified as Dreadwing uttered the word out loud, Discord could only look in confusion at Dreadwing who was now serious, his eyes flashing as he came forward.

Discord decided to break the ice, “The Elements of Purity?" The only elements he had seen and touched were the Elements of Harmony, but this purely out of the blue at the fact there were a new set of elements.

Dreadwing nodded, “Yes, they were the first elements, the elements that represented pony kind, these Elements of Harmony." He gazed upon the necklaces and tiara as the twinkled like stars in the night sky, “Are stolen ideas."

"What?" Discord asked.

“These aren't the true elements, from what you told me, useful? Yes, but not truly powerful." Dreadwing answered.

“What are the Elements of Purity?" Discord asked.

Dreadwing stretched his wings and his hooves, "Another story for another time, eh?" Dreadwing laughed as the cave gave out one loud moan of anguish and loneliness.

“So, what are the elements?" Discord asked again, Dreadwing looked out at the snowy wasteland, looking upon the ruins of what was standing a hundred thousand years ago.

He suddenly turned to Discord, “The elements are Courage, Charity, Humility, Innocence, Zeal, and Light, the greatest things pony kind represents." Dreadwing stopped at the center of the cave, "These elements were also part of my banishment, turned against me... betrayed."

"What?" Discord asked, Dreadwing flew to Discord as he patted him on the head, “It seems that you earned a partial plot of the story, only a marginal piece." Discord summoned a chair and sat in it while enjoying a bucket of popcorn and a large cup of soda. Dreadwing looked out at the cave again, "I created those... They were used in my banishment by Queen Sunbeam and King Nightrend, during that time, in my exile... I stumbled upon the world I was banished to."

Dreadwing stopped there as Discord threw the soda and bucket aside. "Where?!" Discord asked, Dreadwing ignore his question and approached the center of the cave, "A loss of sanity can do so many wonderful things to the mind, so little in judgement, but never needing order... Don't you think?" He asked, but the question was directed not towards Discord, but to himself, Dreadwing raised a hoof in the air.

"No More."

He slammed his hoof down on the ground as the sound bounced off the walls, a black circle appeared in the center of the cave as it took form, dark liquid poured out from the circle, specks of purple were in the mix, a hand popped out which made Discord jump back, suddenly, another hand popped out, then in the blink of an eye, a fast blur of black jumped out revealing a dark robed figure with a skeleton face, his eyes cold and blue towards the world he was in, his scythe was the most recognizable thing, the blade was purple and moving on its own, the black robe fluttering in the wind as it stared down at the one who summoned him, his wheezes covered the moans in the cave:

Dreadwing's voice suddenly changed as a demonic grin appeared, "Kill!" Images were pouring into the black robed figures mind, it gave out a howl as it disappeared in a black smoke a bell ringing in the distance.

Discord popped out from behind a large rock as he cautiously came out of his hiding spot. "W-W-W-What was that?!?" Discord was shaking that his arms fell off along with his horns as they clattered around the cave floor.

"That, my faithful servant," Dreadwing never took his eyes off the mouth of the cave his voice returning to normal, " Was a demon." He turned around, a demonic grin on his face, sending shivers down Discord's spine as he literally lost his arms and horn, they clattered down to the cave floor.

Dreadwing levitated his body parts and set them back in place, "One of the many things I learned during my exile in the demon world."

"The... Demon world?" Discord asked, Dreadwing's grin was now wider, "The demon world can do wonderful things to sanity."

"What is the demon world?" Discord asked, Dreadwing levitated the elements and placed them in a circle, he turned to Discord grin vanished and instead, a solemn Dreadwing now took in place in the center of the circle, "Another story for another time." He closed his eyes has he concentrated on the elements, black energy started to circle around each of the elements, as the energy rose into pillars surrounding the elements of harmony.

Discord was worried now for Dreadwing, he looked at Dreadwing surveying him, the new energy, the new sudden change of attitude, his sanity was gone.

"What has that world done to you?"


"Thank you anyways." Twilight said kindly to another pony, so far, the whole center of the town was cleared of Trixie and her caravan, and it seemed this performance was worse than her last, but beside the point, she couldn't get one bit of information to where Dante was, she drooped a bit as she told the news to her friends, they did the same except for Rarity who was looking quizzically towards Twilight, "Darling your mane is an absolute mess, you should calm down and let me fix it." Twilight suddenly turned on Rarity, "Of all the important issues that are happening right now, the only thing you care about is how my mane looks?!" Twilight's voice rose as her mane was now messier than usual, Rarity and the others flinched at Twilight's outburst.

Twilight realized what she did and took a few deep breaths and took a few steps towards her friends, "Girls... I’m sorry for that, especially you Rarity, I am deeply sorry for yelling at you like that, it’s just." Twilight was itching the back of her mane as Rarity gave her a forgiving grin, "It's quite alright Twilight, I understand the predicament." Rarity soon gave Twilight a hug as she was patting her back, Twilight was smiling as Applejack soon started patting her back, "Don’t ya worry Twi, we'll find him."

"Thanks Applejack." Twilight said softly, she was happy enough to know that her friends weren't mad and were forgiving her, but her train of thought was interrupted by an eruption of screams.

They all turned down the road to see a whole stampede of ponies running, their hooves thundering as they passed the mane six, Pinkie could only look in curiosity as she popped out a question, "Must be one huge party for them to scream and run." She gave one of her usual grins, but it suddenly disappeared as they heard a church bell go off from behind them, in front of them, was the Hell Vanguard, leering down, all had looks of horror on their faces.

Twilight stepped forward and was ready to defend her friends as she charged a spell at the tip of her horn, but the Vanguard butted her with the bottom of his scythe, knocking her down to the ground as she slid to the tree that was nearby. The gang gasped, excluding Applejack, who leapt up into the air and kicked the lower jaw of the Hell Vanguard, she could only look in victory as she gave herself a small grin, but her grin changed to horror as she saw the Vanguard's scythe rise above it's head, the gang could only scream as the scythe fell down, Applejack closed her eyes waiting for that strike, but it didn't come as she felt herself hovering... Hovering?

Applejack took a peek down to see Rainbow Dash carrying her on her back, her wings beating furiously against the wind, "I gotcha!" The others turned to see the Vanguard not heading towards Applejack or the others, but to the knocked out Twilight as they could see the purple blade take away the light that was shining down from the sun, Rainbow Dash noticed this and veered in a tight turn slinging Applejack in a cart of hay, she then went full speed towards Twilight, but noticed that the scythe was about a few feet away from her flesh, "Shoot! I will not make it!!" The whole gang screamed for Twilight, but to no avail as she was still laying their unconscious, the scythe was about a two feet away from her, the only thing the mane five could do was watch as one of their friends was about to go away right in front of their very eyes.

BANG BANG!!

Rainbow Dash stopped as skidded to a halt right into a pile of barrels as she was looking for the source of the noise, the Hell Vanguard took notice as the tip of the blade was about an inch from Twilight, he turned to see Dante, perching on the nearest roof, Ebony drawn and the barrel smoking, "Well, I've been gone for about three hours and something exciting comes." The gang gave a huge sigh of relief at the sight of Dante, the Hell Vanguard gave a howl towards him, ash spitting from it's face, the demon hunter scratched the back of his head, " And besides, you and your little shit gang owe me for what you did to my shop," Ebony was never leaving its target, "So, you got the money?" The Hell Vanguard took the scythe away from Twilight and spun it around and howled, Dante shrugged, "I’m taking that as a no?" But before he could retort, the scythe pierced through Dante's chest, blood erupting from the wound and raining down from the sky as his body was at the tip of the Vanguards scythe blade, it bellowed in victory as it rose it's scythe into the air, the girls were shocked, tears started to leak down rapidly from each and every one of them, knowing that Ponyville was doomed.


"Well, jeez, you could have said no." Everypony snapped out of their sadness and the Vanguard snapped out of it's victorious mood, Dante was awake and stretching his arms, still impaled by the scythe. The Vanguard flung Dante off its scythe as he landed a roof across the Vanguard, at that time, Fluttershy rushed out towards Twilight and carried her away from the battle ground, he looked behind him only to see a huge hole in the back of his trench coat, he gave out a huge sigh, "First Lady, now this, you know how much this is going to cost?" The Vanguard could only bellow as it leapt off the roof, scythe above its head, Dante could only give a grin as he pulled out Ebony and Ivory and got them ready, "Fine, lets dance!"

(Hell Vanguard-Boss Battle 2)

The Vanguards scythe came towards Dante, who air dashed out of the way towards another roof, as soon as he landed he taunted the demon by shrugging his shoulders. The Demon suddenly appeared behind him as it slashed sideways with it's its scythe, Dante leapt towards the next roof, he sent a few rounds towards his enemy as it fell down and tumbled in the air, before it hit the ground, it disappeared in a black smoke, Dante got both his guns ready and was holding his ground in the middle of the battlefield, he could hear the rustle of the wind and the ground still solid, but he suddenly rolled out of the way as he saw a black robed figure spinning a purple scythe as it disappeared at the peak.

Suddenly, as fast as it disappeared, it reappeared behind Dante brought in its scythe down, he rolled out of the way and took a few more shots at the Vanguard, who gave out another howl of pain, Dante then pulled out Rebellion and charged at the demon, he brought down Rebellion on the Vanguard who dodged it at the nick of time as a loud clang of steel on steel rang through the village. Dante then took another strike and the Vanguard blocked the blow again, he then jumped up in the air and brought down Rebellion as it slammed against the handle of the Vanguard's scythe. As Dante flipped back from a flurry of the slashes from the Vanguard as he pulled out Ebony and Ivory and rushed towards the Vanguard.

It slashed sideways as Dante slid on his knees and held up Ebony and Ivory towards the scythe, the rounds were hitting the shaft where the tip of the blade met the handle, the clanging of energy meeting metal sent out a gong like sound spreading out throughout the town, as soon as Dante was behind the Vanguard, the scythe broke as the blade fell off, the Vanguard suddenly dropped the shaft of the scythe and grabbed the blade as he gave a diagonal slash behind him in a flash of black, but the only thing the Vanguard could see was his trench coat hovering in the air as it fell down slowly, The mane six were surprised to not even see blood erupt where Dante was, the Hell Vanguard started looking wildly around to see where he went, the only thing the Vanguard question, was where he went, that is, until it turned to its left to see a trench coatless Dante standing, pointing Ebony about two inches from the Vanguards face.

He gave his trademark smirk as he charged a shot in Ebony, energy was gathering at the bottom of the barrel, the energy was becoming more and more intense and his smirk was getting wider and wider, the Vanguard as fast as he could, gave an attempt to deliver one last attack, the blade of the scythe was about an inch from Dante as he said the last word the Vanguard would ever here.

"Bang!"

(End Battle)

The Vanguard writhed back literally every bit of his body parts was turning into ash as the Vanguard was struggling to stay alive, the Vanguard could only reach out with his hand as it dissolved into ash. The others could looked upon the Vanguard, not in fear, but in curiosity as it dissolved helplessly, somehow, it felt like it was crying out to something, but what? Dante holstered both of his guns as he walked over to Twilight, he looked down on her as Fluttershy was tending to her, he lifted her up and set her on his shoulders.

"YOU SEE!" Everyone turned to the direction of a another voice, Trixie was standing triumphantly ahead of them, "I, The Great and Powerful Trixie have defeated the creature!"

"But he did it!" One stallion yelled as he came out of his house, Trixie scoffed this, "That maybe so, But I-."

Bang!! BONK!

Trixie's head was hit by a roof tile and before she passed out, she could see stars circling around her head as she fainted, Dante held out a smoking Ivory and shook his head as he chuckled, "Yeah, right."

The mane six were about to protest, but considering Dante saved them and Ponyville from the Hell Vanguard, they soon followed Dante in suit to Twilight's house, except for Rarity who went over to where Dante's trench coat landed, leaving nothing but a red bundle in the middle of the street, Rarity soon levitated it up to her as she examined the hole the Vanguard left.

"What a pity, this was an exquisite piece of fashion." Rarity soon was heading towards her boutique, Dante's trench coat in pursuit.

Back to Dante, as soon as Twilight was safely in her house with the others, Rainbow Dash and Applejack soon picked up their unicorn friend from both sides, carrying her gently up the stairs, Fluttershy was following them both to continue to tend to Twilight, Dante took a seat on the floor with Pinkie, he could only look up at the ceiling as he relaxed a little after the event that just happened a little while ago.

Dante could only shake his head, "I can't get a break... But hey, who's complaining?" He needed some action, and this place seemed to lack it. But since a demon came into the picture, two things were on his mind, one side was happy because he would never get tired of it, and the other side could only get angry on who would do this. He could crack his knuckles in anger and excitement.

"Whoever is doing this... Is going home in a body bag, one or another ."

Proofreaded by LyonAzakura.

Authors Notice: Sorry for long wait and short Chapter, one thing came into the picture, DMC HD Collection. lol. But again don't be afraid to comment, and sorry for the wait.