Dante

Dante is a character from CYPRESS: the anime and one of Cypress' closest friends. Dante is seen as an older brother to Cypress, always looking out for him and doing his best to keep him out of trouble. Dante is a calm, quiet and rational student.

First Season
Dante's first appearance is when he first meets Cypress, as hes given a tour by his roommate Vicki and Dante's girlfriend. To test his strength, Dante challenged Cypress but was defeated. Seen as equals, the principle signed Dante and Cypress for the tag-team tournament. Together, they made it too the Semi-Finals. But the match was interrupted, when a group called the Reapers interfered. Dante assisted Cypress, in pushing the Reapers back from the school and back to there base. Dante was quite skilled in combat, making it all the way inside the Reaper base. During his efforts to assist Cypress, he managed to make it to him, just after he collapsed on the floor and being pulled out of the base. When Cypress awakened, Dante was one if his allies he saw, standing beside him. During Cypress' recovery, Dante was mostly seen at the boot camp, preparing his team and learning how to become a captain. Eventually, he heard from Helena that Cypress caught a mysterious illness that caused him much pain. Strangely, a few days later, Cypress recovered. Believing something was off, Dante left school to search for the answers. However, when his search brought him back to the school, he managed to arrive, in time to save Te'a and Tanner from being attacked by Cypress. With his efforts, Dante managed to free Cypress of the illness, revealed as the Touch Of Death. In his dorm room, Dante offered to assist in the search for a cure for Cypress. This search eventually led to Te'a and Akemi's homeworld, Astra City.