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Best Short Devil May Cry Fanfics

Devil May Cry novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.

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Top 25 Short Devil May Cry Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Devil May Cry fics — 10,000–50,000 words.

1

blood of the father

by garbagecan_not_garbagecannot

Dante and Vergil become closer while in the underworld. However, a few months down the road, Dante starts to act weird, enough so that it has Vergil concerned.He may detest asking for help, but he's not willing to risk his brother's life. Not again.

1,633 kudos 21,341 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
2

Heat of the Moment

by fanwriter02

"You keep everyone at arm’s length, like they’re grenades about to blow. But every time shit goes down, you come running to me with that annoying look in your eyes…” His voice trailed off, blue eyes instinctively darting down to her lips. “Like you’re one push away from either shooting me or kissing

1,028 kudos 27,064 words 11/11 chapters Explicit Complete
3

Truth or Dare

by nightgoose

Devil May Cry事务所美好的春季假期迎来了一言难尽的转折。

786 kudos 34,165 words 4/4 chapters Explicit Complete
4

Loved and Protected

by Slident

Vergil went back. As stupid as it was, he went back for her, as soon as he could. What he found, however, was not her. It was far more challenging…OrVergil raises Nero

778 kudos 34,092 words 26/26 chapters General Audiences Complete
5

Seven Days, Then the Sun

by anax imperator (anax)

Nero claimed, over and over, that he was okay. He was lying.

620 kudos 37,252 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
6

Damnation, Transcendent

by anax imperator (anax)

When he'd invited Nero to come back to Devil May Cry with him, Dante had known there would be difficulties. He just hadn't known how terrible they would truly be. The last one was fairly worksafe. This one is not.

572 kudos 23,903 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
7

How To (Re)Domesticate Your Half Feral Half Demon

by letliv3

The days, weeks and months after Dante’s harrowing return from Hell (the first time). Immediately follows Time Keeps On Slipping Into The Future and Pack The Dirt Over My Grave.

561 kudos 27,219 words 8/10 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
8

Surrendering to the Longing of Demons

by AnimeLoveLover123

Demons have an innate urge to bond, to mark, to claim, to protect, to breed. But with their lover being human, how are each of these boys going to deal with their very inhuman desires for you?

531 kudos 31,086 words 6/6 chapters Mature Complete
9

The Effect of Lady

by NiuHope

Lady being used as a living battery for Artemis for a month left some side-effects on her. Said side effects include some minor slower aging, improved reflexes, and making her much, much more enticing to male demons - all to Dante's dismal.

522 kudos 43,138 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
10

Dance with me

by MiaaMaay

There it was again – filling his lungs with every breath he took, almost palpable as the thick aroma washed over his tongue. Filling his senses and clouding his mind to the point where it became difficult to focus on his task, to keep his reflexes sharp.

494 kudos 20,692 words 5/5 chapters Explicit Complete
11

Leon S. Kennedy is Dead

by GoblinCatKC

It's Leon's first day on the job. Dante's just waiting on the zombified pizza boy. An outbreak of mutations and zombies bring Dante and Leon together. Again. Seems they have a rather intimate history.

494 kudos 17,627 words 4/4 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
12

A Bird In Flight, Against the Sky

by anax imperator (anax)

It was hard for Dante to handle Nero even at the best of times. These were not the best of times.

493 kudos 18,857 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
13

Living in the Past

by Totally_1nnocent

When Dante and Vergil hunt down a demon lord with an obsession for magical arts, they find themselves battling a demon army in a Redgrave different to their own. They must fight their way through the horde, protect innocent people and find a way home, easy. Right? But things only become more complic

458 kudos 39,204 words 5/9 chapters Not Rated
14

The Demon's Kiss

by Chiraken

Lady gets injured with a demonic mark which requires a healing hand - and some other body parts - from Dante.

395 kudos 11,078 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
15

Disjunction

by moolktea

“So what you’re trying to tell me is that my girlfriend and my business partner and maybe best friend are in love with each other,” Nero says slowly, not quite able to make the sentence sound any less absurd in his mind.In which Nero receives some very startling revelations about his love life, and

380 kudos 26,425 words 4/4 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
16

noodling about the past

by LostChanceTo

Patty decided based on what little she’d seen of them that she trusted them. There were worse ways to treat your business partners, and Patty had the misfortune of being witness to those types. Nero seemed to be patient and kind enough. And Nico was drop dead gorgeous and smart as hell to boot.She c

365 kudos 12,947 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
17

Super Psycho Love

by NaughtyJacks (JackalJamboree)

Collection of multifandom art (mostly) and writings inspired by Kinktober prompts.[I ran out of tags, check individual chapters for relevant CW's]

356 kudos 16,183 words 31/31 chapters Explicit Complete
18

Heartache

by Ohdoubleuoh

Vergil wouldn’t necessarily describe Nero as… Sweet.Maybe it was more accurate to say that the boy was forgiving.More so than Vergil could have ever been. But sometimes Nero really was… kind, in an unexpected way.

352 kudos 16,601 words 4/4 chapters Explicit Complete
19

The Devil is Due

by Shadowstartigs

A series of random family moments for the Devil May Cry cast set mostly after DMC5. Mainly a great excuse to dump a lot of my Dadgil content that will never be more than a one-shot or a place to stick early drafts of larger ideas Chapter 9: Nero learns some facts about his father from Lady

334 kudos 17,615 words 9/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
20

Your sacrifice

by lleeyyy

After the events of Devil May Cry 5, Virgil tries to adapt to his new llife ...while Dante returns to his work as a demon hunter. But Dante's sudden disappearance turns everything upside down. While investigating a mysterious witch, Dante vanishes without a trace.

110 kudos 20,939 words 9/? chapters Not Rated
21

【DV】暗网影片教学实践

by ParadiseEclipse

【2026DV615复婚七周年412h】3dv:但丁 维吉尔5d: Dante summary:但丁无意中发现哥哥的xp似乎有些过于前卫(偏激?),然而小年轻空有硬件没有实战技巧导致初夜体验极其糟糕的这道错题一届一届考了多少遍了?改过不啦? 没关系,在dv黄片宇宙中这种情况总会有传奇操笔大师5D先生冥冥之中伸出援手打破僵局的,本次也不例外 Warning:3dv,5d3v,cuntboy维吉尔,ntr?,夫目前犯,调教,真魔人性爱,失禁,雌堕

57 kudos 14,405 words 2/2 chapters Explicit
22

To accept

by Bubunn

Confronted with the fact that maybe Nero does want some of the things that have been on his mind, and that maybe the twins could help, him and Kyrie try to figure out how to make it all work out, while Vergil and Dante seem to foil Nero’s more human ambitions at every turn.

35 kudos 15,438 words 5/? chapters Explicit
23

【VD】Unending Night(生化危机pa)

by Schiller

在与维吉尔重逢后,但丁以为自己终于度过了八岁时因为那场事故而为他的灵魂蒙上阴影的夜晚。那个时候但丁还不知道,在浣熊市经历的那个足以改写他命运的夜晚,才是真正的无尽长夜。 Warning:本文为生化危机pa的vd故事,持续更新中,整体背景大致为生化危机2浣熊市爆发病毒的时间线。作者的考据并不十分严谨,所以会出现和原作有差异的部分设定,请不要过分在意,已经努力帮卡普空补天了orz,本文不会出现任何生化危机原作主要人物。

26 kudos 32,138 words 5/? chapters Explicit
24

Blue Nexus

by HalcyonUnending

Surrounded by wreckage and the lifeless bodies of his students, a teacher laments his final moments, believing he has failed the students he was supposed to guide.When he awoke next, he finds himself back on the first day he was summoned to Kivotos as Schale’s Sensei.This realization should have led

24 kudos 16,152 words 4/? chapters Not Rated
25

The Night We Met

by DorothyGale123

A prequel to my other work, Somewhere In Between, this is the story of how Kat and Vergil met, fell in love, and parted ways. Taking place in the Netflix DMC continuity. It can be read as a stand alone, but it will change your experience with Somewhere In Between if you read it first, as this contai

16 kudos 10,397 words 3/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences

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This list of 25short Devil May Cry fanfics spans 585,958 total words. Kudos range from 16 on the newest entries to 1,633 on the most established. 64% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (13 of 25 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Incest · Protective Vergil (Devil May Cry) · Fluff and Angst · Hurt/Comfort · Angst.

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