Vergil had been marching through the rain for almost an hour. Dante had told him something that bothered him a great deal.
"Yeah it was weird I had this feeling like something powerful was watching me but it wasn't dangerous." Dante had told him an hour before. So Vergil had grabbed his beloved Yamato and went off into the night to search their old house. He had no idea why Dante would want to go near the house again after what had happened, but Dante being Dante couldn't resist digging up things that really should be left dead. Vergil stood in front of the large town house they once called home. Vergil always thought that Sparda was trying to make a statement by living in a house this large. It was if he was saying I don't mind living amongst humans but I always want you to remember that I am in fact better than you. Of course he never said this and Vergil was only assuming. It didn't take him long to feel the over bearing presence that Dante had been speaking of. He wondered what kind of powerful being was living in their old home and why. He stood looking over the old house wondering whether or not to enter.
"Fear, such a dirty human emotion it causes all sorts of problems and makes things that would normally be easy to sort into an entirely new problem." Someone said behind him. Vergil turned to see no one behind him. His hand firmly grasped Yamato as he scanned the surrounding area.
"You think your little knife there will stop me ha anther stupid human emotion, hope, it makes humans jump into situations they really can't deal with in the vain attempt to solve the problem." The person spoke again.
"You don't seem to speak to highly of the human race and it would also appear that you assume I am one of them." Vergil said. He heard a laugh from somewhere then a woman dropped down in front of him. She had long hair that was pulled back into a pony tail; Vergil noted that it was the same colour as his own. Her eyes were also a piercing blue that was also the same as his own. In fact a lot about this woman reminded him of himself and Dante. The young woman seemed to scan him before she walked around him a few times.
"Is there something in particular you are looking for?" Vergil asked as the young woman finished her little walk. She stopped in front of Vergil and grabbed his face. She tilted his head down so she could look right into his eyes and for some reason Vergil found himself letting her do this. She was so close to him he could see his reflection in her eyes.
"I honestly can't see it I really can't." She said. She let go of his face ands walked into the house. Vergil followed her; there was something about being that close to someone so powerful that had him captivated. She stopped dead in the hall and seemed to give the place a once over just like she had done to Vergil out side.
"Do you mind telling me who you are?" Vergil asked. The young woman turned to look at him and smiled.
"You are the son of Sparda and you don't know wow he did hide a lot of things from you didn't he, come on little man think about it; he has been alive for a long time do you really think that your mother is the only person who he has ever been with, granted she was the first human but come on." The young woman answered. Vergil smiled when the answer hit him, he wondered how he could have been so stupid to have not realised it before. This young woman had all the same physical attributes as he and his brother.
"You are a relation of Sparda." Vergil said. The young woman turned and smiled at him.
"You could say that." She said.
"What are you a cousin or something?" Vergil asked.
"I am his daughter." The young woman answered. She seemed to revel in the face Vergil made when he realised he had an older sister.
"Sparda has more than two children." Vergil said. The young woman winked at him.
"Don't worry my little brother there is only me, Sparda was a strange demon he wasn't as prolific as some of the demons who he lived with; once he settled with someone that is who he stayed with." The young woman said. There didn't seem to be any anger or malice in her voice which Vergil found strange as the woman was as much as saying that his mother had stolen her father. The young woman could see by the look on his face that he was thinking just that.
"I wouldn't worry to much about it I don't really care as a father he was pretty crap in fact I would have been better getting brought up by the hounds of the underworld oh wait." She seemed to stop and gaze into space and smile at a memory. She seemed to stand like this for quite a while.
"He was a good father to me and my brother although I have to say he never mentioned that fact he had another child when he started seeing our mum." Vergil said.
"Why would he you don't win a woman by telling her you have abandoned a child in the literal depths of hell to be brought by hell hounds so you can get your jollies off with someone else, I really honestly don't see that flying on earth to be honest." The young woman said.
"What about your mother what did she have to say about this?" Vergil asked.
"Nothing; dead demons don't speak not the last time I checked. My mother was a real irritation man I am talking scraping finger nails down black board irritating if my father hadn't killed her I would have although without a mother and a father I was left to be brought up by the, like I said, the hounds of hell who were by far better than the parents I had before, at least they paid attention to me." The young woman answered. Vergil began to wonder how this young woman managed to survive after everything that happened to her. He had seen the hounds of hell and had of course killed some in his time and to hear her say that they were good parents astounded Vergil some what.
"Oh that reminds me I haven't introduced myself yet I'm Maria Anna." She said holding out her hand. Vergil took it and introduced himself.
"I am Vergil and the young man you saw earlier on is Dante." He said. He then raised an eyebrow at his sister when the name she had given him brought up some facts he knew.
"Maria Anna?" he asked.
"Father was a great fan of Mozart, went to see him once in concert if that is what you call it but what ever the case he met his sister and liked the name so when yours truly was brought kicking and screaming into the world that is the name I was given." She answered.
"It is a nice name." Vergil commented.
"Thank you I think it suits me very well." Maria Anna said.
"So what brings you to the old Sparda residence?" Vergil asked after remembering why he was there in the first place.
"I just wanted to see the shabby conditions my father was living in before he died." She answered.
"I would hardly say they are shabby." Vergil said in defence.
"Well I suppose by stupid human terms this is quite adequate living conditions of course I wouldn't lower myself to living in a hovel." Maria Anna said.
"You really don't like humans do you?" Vergil asked.
"You have cheek asking me that considering you are trying to totally lose your human half." She answered. Vergil was quite taken aback, how did she know that.
"I can read you like a book and I have just met you, your humanness shines through no matter how well you try to hide it." Maria Anna said.
"I suppose so and what you said about living in a hovel you lived with the hell hounds how would you know what nice was?" Vergil asked. Maria Anna was right in his face, eyes glowing red.
"I would watch your tongue hybrid you are two second away from becoming just another stain on my coat." Maria Anna said. Vergil edged away from the evil that was, by this point, almost knocking him off his feet.
"I am sorry I didn't mean to offend you." Vergil said weakly. Maria Anna took a step back and smiled.
"I am sorry I do tend to get nasty when my parents are mentioned they did do the best they could for me I hate when people just assume because they where hell hounds that they didn't do a good job." Maria Anna said.
"You are extraordinarily frightening when you do that." Vergil said.
"You don't survive in the underworld being a wimp its kill or be killed." Maria Anna said.
"I suppose it would be now would you like to meet Dante?" he asked.
"Yeah sure why not I am getting bored with you already." Maria Anna answered. She then smiled and put an arm around him.
"Just kidding little man." She said. Vergil smiled and headed off towards Devil may cry with Maria Anna following close behind.