Since I have tons of fanfiction ideas, but never get anywhere past chapter 1, I thought about making a thread where I toss them into public view and the public can pick something they like and be creative with it.
Here goes...
Here goes...
Idea 1
Matier: You must not worry, my dear; I am sure that he will return. Everything is just as it was with Sparda.
Lucia: ...But... Sparda DID come back...
(quotes taken from DMC2 script)
The twins were already born or on the way when Sparda fought alongside the clan. Matier said everything was happening just like with Sparda and so he went to Hell. But he came back and upon realizing the demons struck while he was gone and his family, sans a very shocked Dante, was gone, he sworn revenge.
Dante was placed in care of one of the clan's woman, this was the "mother" of Tony from the anime, strong and knowledgeable enough to seal away the demon that came to kill the boy.
In the meantime, Sparda had decided to go back into Hell, under a different name and with a good disguise. With the majority of his power sealed away and waiting for his sons, he was not so easy to be recognized by other demons.
Since then he had been fighting alongside one of the throne pretendants (or is even one himself, depending how good he is at disguising thing), with the intent on taking the throne himself one day and putting the demons under what they hate the most - his rule.
He was also the one to send broken Yamato, along with Vergil's soul in it, to the shores of Fortuna island, reuniting Vergil and his son.
Idea 2
Coastal town of Origo is home to many fishermen, including Giorgio Carnesseca, his wife Rufina and their three children - Roma, Paolo and Rea.
Rufina is a beautiful red-head and not a native, Giorgio met her on his travels, in a faraway country with harsh winters (I was thinking Russia, but with DMC taking inspiration, but not exact geography from our world, I wanted to stick to the formula). Despite her trying to fit in, and even adopting their religious practice to the point of being a fanatic, she never earned full trust from the community. Don't feel sorry for her though, it's all an act, as she is secretly a witch promised by a demon a life of riches and power if she did her part of sacrificing people to fuel opening of the hidden hellgate.
The children, 16 year old Roma, a year younger Paolo and 5 year old Rea were typical kids, taking looks from their mother.
Roma as the eldest is the most responsible, dreaming sometimes of having her own family and sometimes being a respected scholar away from the town. This other dream came from her secret, a seemingly endless abandoned library (Sparda's old storage) she discovered while running from demons through the forest of the neighboring island of Fortuna one day.
Paolo is a typical boy, always running off with other boys and causing trouble. Rea is a very energetic kid, but more interested in picking flowers and making mud cakes than anything else.
One night a white haired young man overhears someone talking about the new leader in Fortuna, and the name of the place rings a bell so he decides to go there. The night after he shows up on the doorstep of the Carnesseca house asking to be taken by boat on the island. But with both parents away on town's festival, only Roma and Rea were in the house. Being curious and promised a monetary reward, Roma takes the man calling himself Vergil to the island with her small boat (the kid was there too, much to Vergil's chagrin). He leaves the girls waiting on the shore, while he himself goes to visit his father's old home (old devil's penthouse, lol) and is seen by Sanctus there. On the way back to Origo, Roma blurts out her secret and it gets Vergil intrigued (Vergil is libersexual, liber as in book, true fact). He makes the girl promise she will sneak out the next night and take him to the island again. They do so every night for some time, Vergil unable to just stay on the island since demons are more active when he is around, which would raise suspicion in the Order.
Unknown to them, Rufina found out about their trips, but her demon did as well. He gives her an order to raise a storm and let her daughter and Vergil be taken by the sea. Half way to Fortuna, the storm hits the boat, but thanks to Vergil they both make it to the shore alive. Drenched to the bone they take refugee in the library, where hormones and nakedness does it's thing and... well... Nero is conceived. Though none of them knows about the kid to be of course, until Vergil is long gone. Roma is forced to hide her pregnancy, becoming more and more suspicious of her mother as months go by. She finds out it was her mother that tried to kill them and now she wants to sacrifice the baby. While trying to escape they found themselves on the cliff and in struggle Rufina falls down to her death. Roma, now having contractions from the shock, goes to Fortuna and gives birth to Nero, wrapping him in a black blanket she found in the library. With the last of her strength she leaves the baby where town's patrol will find it and returns to the library. As Vergil is falling down to Hell, Roma bids farewell to the world of living, Vergil's name coming over her lips with her dying breath.
17 years later, town Origo is being plagued by strange murder cases, where people end up impaled on a rose bush that withers with rays of sunshine.
Rea Carnesseca, the quirky school teacher (Origo only has elementary school, for anything higher kids have to travel to nearest big town), is suspected cause of the rumors surrounding her family. To clear the mystery she calls the young demon hunter from Fortuna, not realizing he is her deceased sister's son Nero until she lays her eyes on him, though she pretends she doesn't know anything and forces her older brother to do the same.
Despite taking care of some smaller demons, Nero is unable to catch the killer, the victim count getting really close to hundred, and with reluctance follows Kyrie's suggestion to call Dante. Rea is strangely intrigued by Dante, he chalks it up to his good looks. He was somewhat right, as it will be revealed later.
The investigation (and some demon fighting) leads Dante and Nero to follow a dark hooded figure to ruins of a castle in the forest. Just as they were at the entrance all Hell... okay, not all, but a decent chunk, breaks loose. Bloodgoyles fly over to the town and Nero is forced to retreat to help them, while Dante makes his way through ruins, fighting whatever he finds on the way. In the tallest tower he finds something like a chapel, with a strange looking altar in the middle and Rea standing above dead Paolo, crying how he tried to kill her. Dante feels something is not right, but still comes close to the upset woman... and gets stabbed in the chest. Rea's face twists into a vicious smile, as she twists the knife only an inch away from Dante's heart. She steps away and he pulls the knife out, his blood flowing onto the altar that activates. As the altar and the columns around it start to glow, Rea tells of her family's history with Vergil and how she plans to revive him using this old contraption ancient demons left before worlds got separated, so he can rule the world. She needed 100 victims, with her brother being the final one, DNA of the one she is trying to revive, and twin's DNA is perfect substitute, and the machine will call upon the soul and create a new body for it, in age of the DNA donor.
Light fills the room, while back in town Nero doubles over in pain and upon coming to his senses realizes that while the arm is still looking the same, the blue apparition is gone, leaving the arm devoid of it's special properties sans hard shell. Back in the castle, Dante looks in shock as his brother comes to life before him, body being built from bones, inner organs, muscles and finally skin and hair.
Vergil is back and naked as on the day he was born... well, it is a day he was born again, so it's understandable. Still confused from the process, he can only act upon instinct and after pushing Dante away, jumps out the window and runs into the forest like a wild cat. Rea tries to make an escape, Vergil's state of mind was something she didn't quite expected, but Dante stops her and knocks her out.
As he runs through nature, Vergil is having an inner struggle with his thoughts and memories, till he remembers everything. Stealing some clothes from a monastery nearby (my evil side says make it a nunnery XD ), he returns to the old library and finds Roma's bones there, still in the exact spot where she died. Cue an emotional moment where he bows to what's left of the woman he began to love back then and who gave him a strong son he got to know only through spiritual connection, and laments how he was too much of a failure to protect them. Once he is done, he searches through the library for records of another weapon he could use, since he doesn't plan to take away Yamato from Nero.
He finds a story of such a thing, though it requires him to travel abroad (I'm thinking northeastern Asia, maybe even Japan to continue with Vergil's theme). And he does so, climbing mountains and using his brains to fight off any small demons he comes across with whatever he can find or his own claws in devil trigger state. On the top, he finds a cave and is there met with a challenge from which he emerges victorious and with a sword named Raijin in hand. In design it is similar to Yamato, though it's cutting power is lesser. From special properties it has an attack that sends a gust of wind that can send the enemy flying, and an attack that imprisons them in a black cloud and sends electricity through their body that can either stun or kill depending on the strength of the person that got hit. Also, when Vergil makes a hit with the blade, it sends a small amount of electricity through their body.
Back home, Rea was placed in a special prison made for magic users. Dante is trying to find his brother, but without luck. Nero is feeling really down cause he lost the blue dude and can't trigger anymore. One night, Rea gets picked up by suspicious looking men in a black car, seems like they were military or something, but had the right papers. Through his informants Dante finds out and thinking it might somehow be connected to Vergil, goes to investigate, dragging Nero with him on Kyrie's suggestion.
Together they locate a military base on the coast, and rumors say it's being run by a man in late thirties or early forties with white hair and carrying a sword. That of course interests Dante and he sneaks into the base. Yes, sneaks in, he wants to check out the dude, but guards are humans and it would be a pain in the butt to deal with them.
Meanwhile, Vergil is also back and through a very awkward conversation with Kyrie finds out with whom to find Nero and in which part of the country, though it's pure luck that he sees the base while traveling and feels a strange pull towards it. It just happens that he sneaked in on the same night as Dante. They run into each other, Dante thinks it's really Vergil that runs the base, they fight while Vergil tries to explain to his brother that he is an idiot... and then they get stopped by a sword flying between them. The real head honcho is here and it's Sparda! After separating from Eva thinking it'll keep the demons away from her, he traveled under the name Jack Conner and joined the army as a demon hunter. Upon return, with Eva gone and Dante in ownership of the sword, he founded a private army for hunting demons to help cause Dante can't be on multiple places at once and those demons were starting to get really pesky.
(this is all I got, there was going to be Rea breaking free and trying something again, and Nero gaining his own full devil trigger, but my brain went no no at this point)
