Villainy Thrives

Chapter 1

"YOU POWER-HUNGRY EGOTISTICAL MANIAC! How could you do that to her?!"
"If you would kindly stop screaming-"
"NO! After what you just did... Jesus, Vergil are you fucking MENTAL!?"
"Dante will you stop and let him explain?" Nero cut in. "For once there's a method to the madness."
"Don't tell me you knew about this kid, am i gonna have to kick your ass too?"
"As if you could catch me ya old geezer."
"ENOUGH!" Vergil bellowed. "There is something important that is still yet to be discussed."
"Yeah!" Dante snapped angrily. "Like the fact you just threw your pregnant fiancée out into the cold ass streets."
"Once i explain, perhaps you will understand why it had to be done." Vergil spoke patiently.
"C'mon Dante, at least hear him out. It is an interesting scenario."
"It had damn well better be, or so help I'll go out there and find her and drag her back here."
"Do you remember that band of rogues that escaped-" Nero started but froze when Vergil shot him an icy glare. "I'll let him tell you."
"Andorra's safety was in jeopardy because of me, and i knew the only way she would stay away would be to cause irreparable damage to our relationship. at least in her perspective."
"So...you really didn't mean those things you said to her?" The red hunter asked.
"Of course not! But I had to make her believe i was being truthful, otherwise she would have seen right through the guise and insisted on staying, or worse, fighting. Pregnant or not she have insisted on doing so."
"You're lucky she didn't kick your ass right here after what you said to her. So, now what?"
"We find the rogues that are after me, and then once they are dealt with, i will have to make my peace with Andorra."
"You better hope she'll even talk to you after this." Dante grumbled. "Damn! So much for a quiet evening off eh kid?"
"C'mon old man, this is important."
Dante glanced over at Vergil. "Yep, he's yours alright, gets the stick up his ass just the same as you do."
"I'm gonna ignore that, you old fart." Nero growled under his breath.
"If you two are quite done?" Vergil asked. "We have an entire city to scour for this group, and the sooner we start, the sooner this all be over and forgotten."
"Ugh, working with you is gonna be such a pain!" Dante griped. "You're ALWAYS in a bad mood when she isn't here."
Before Vergil could issue an icy retort, the front door of Dante's shop flew open with such force it shattered the glass inside the frame.
"Good, you didn't kill him yet." Lady growled as she leveled her semi-automatic pistols at Vergil's head. "Any last words?"
Vergil sighed. "I've had enough; one of them will explain the situation to you."
"Hey! You can't just-"
"Cut it out Lady, it's not what you think." Dante assured her. "Just put the guns down before you cost me any more damages."

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"Ok, so this is all just an elaborate ruse just to keep her out of harm's way? he couldn't think of any other way to do this, i mean seeing as how she's supposed to be avoiding stress with the pregnancy and all."
"It was either break her heart or risk her life in a battle." Dante informed. "At least i think that's what he was going for."
Lady sighed. "This just got a whole lot harder. Alright, I'll keep a lookout for anything suspicious around town. Meanwhile, are we gonna be keeping tabs on her? Making sure nothing happens to her despite this whole...set-up?"
"That will be left to me." Vergil responded to her question as he came down the stairs.
"Whoa, dude are you dressed different." Dante commented. "What the hell did you do to your hair?! And your eyes!?"
"If i am going to hide in plain sight, she cannot recognize me."
"That's actually a pretty good idea." Lady admitted. "She knows you'd never color your hair or change your eye color voluntarily, so she'd never look twice at you looking like that."
Indeed, the small group barely even recognized him. His usual attire of black pants, shirt, blue overcoat, and brown boots had been replace by tattered jeans, a dark grey shirt and black boots with chains hanging from the lace eyelets. His usually bright blue eyes had been replaced with amber colored contact lenses and his silver-white hair had been dyed black with red and blue streaks. Instead of it being spiked, he had swept it sideways to look like one of the neighborhood emo teenagers. Even his trademark Katana, Yamato was missing.
"I see you've been preparing for this a good while." Dante snarked. "So, you're gonna keep an eye on her are ya? Isn't that a bad idea? Seeing as how these people are after you and if they see you following her around..."
"I managed to hide a tracking device in her purse and in her shoes, and the signal relays to my cell phone. I'll stay a few blocks away to shift their attention away from her, meanwhile keeping a close eye out for anything suspicious,"
"Wow, you really have been planning this for a while." Nero mused. "So what do we do?"
"What else, look for them." The Dark Slayer barked as he slipped out the front door.
"And it's only been an hour?" Dante asked, sarcastically incredulous. "O boy this is gonna be a long assignment.