Chapter 1: Family

1 month ago…

Telephone ringing…

Dante: Devil May Cry!

Female voice: Dante… it's me, Kyrie. I need your help.

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"Are you sure this is a good idea, brother?" Asked Vergil. "I'm not sure how Nero will react having us both interfering on this."

"Both? Or just you?…are you seriously asking me this? I know we both have different meaning of what family is, but remember that it's your son we're talking about here. No matter how much he "might" hate you, he still need our help. Both of us." -Answered Dante. "Now please, brother…keep your irritating comments to yourself when we get inside…Kyrie doesn't need that right now."

"I'll behave Dante" - Said Vergil through his teeth. The truth is…he was feeling a bit nervous to be here. After what happened between them, Vergil wasn't sure he will be welcomed so easily. But Dante was right, not matter how annoying that is, Nero is family…his son…and if he was on trouble, there's no doubt he'll help.

Dante proceed to knock the door, and a beautiful but sad young woman opens.

"Oh Dante, you're here! Please come inside, thank you for coming!"

Dante: "Hi Kyrie, nice to see you again."

Kyrie looking at Dante's companion and seeing the familiar resemble: "You must be Vergil, nice to finally meet you. I can see now that Nero does look like you…or at least your face expression. He makes that one quite often when he's focusing on something."

Vergil gave her a brief smile and thought she looked quite beautiful and she seemed affectionately warm. She immediately brought him thoughts of somebody else, which he tried quickly to brush out of his mind.

Dante: "I thought Vergil can help us in here, hope it's okay."

Kyrie: "I appreciate it, right now we need all the help we can get."

Dante: "So tell us, what's going on. Where's Nero? You seemed on the phone quite shaken." Said Dante, while he sat on the big sofa.

Vergil was looking the surrounding. The house seemed a bit small but somehow you could feel the warmness in it.

Kyrie: "It's a long story, but first I need to show you something."

Kyrie went to her bedroom and brought with her a picture, while Dante and Vergil looked at each other with curious face.

Kyrie gave to Dante the picture. On it, it was a little girl with a bright smile and white hair. That familiar white hair….

Kyrie: "This is Eva, our daughter. She's only 3 and she was kidnapped by a demon."

Dante: "Daughter? Yours? And Nero? When that happened?…I mean…how come we didn't know? Brother did you know something?"

Daughter? Were she is granddaughter then? Vergil was shocked, he just found out a few years back that he had a son and now suddenly he has a granddaughter too? But for some reason, he had this strange feeling of proud and something else he couldn't quite describe. Could that be that thing humans talk about? Love?

He took the picture out of Dante's hands. He needed to see better. She looked completely like Nero, and he couldn't shake away the feeling of happiness of her looking a bit like him too. The white hair, the blue eyes, she was his descendant and he couldn't wait to meet her. To hold her. To have her in her life. He felt somehow that this will be his opportunity to make amends with his past but mostly with Nero.

Vergil: "Tell us what happened."

Kyrie: "When I found out I was pregnant, Nero and I decided to hide it. We needed to protect her, the word of Nero being the descendant of Sparda was out already after finding out he's your son. Both of you have made quite the enemies already, if we added Sparda himself and even Nero….we decided to keep her in secret, not ideal but at least until she was old enough to learn how to defend herself. We weren't sure if she'll carry the demon DNA that all of you share, until a few months ago when she started to develop it."

Dante: "Demon blood? Already? That's strange…you said she's 3?"

Kyrie: "Yes, why is that?"

Dante: "Well…Vergil and I didn't develop our powers until quite late, probably about 8/9…if I remember correctly.. you see that brother? Our little granddaughter is a prodigy! She definitely has our blood!"

Dante couldn't resist the proud feeling. Although, secretly Vergil was enjoying it too.

Vergil: "What kind of powers she started to show?"

Kyrie: "At first, she was having high fevers…she was burning up so much. Nero and I didn't know what to do or what was happening. We tried to put her on ice, cold showers, everything but it didn't help. We weren't sure humans hospitals will understand. Then suddenly it stopped and she was fine. Then she started to run faster than a normal kid of her age, and strength…she could pick up the dinner table by herself and things like that. Seeing all of that, just made Nero and I realised how in danger she was, if anybody would know her existence…until now."

Kyrie started crying…"please Dante you have to save her, if anything happens to her….she's just a kid, a baby. And she's probably scared somewhere without knowing was going on, asking were mummy and daddy are…"

Dante: "Kyrie, we will get her back. I promise. Tell us where Nero is, we need to find him so he can tell us if he knows something else."

Kyrie: "After it happened, Nero and Nico went out to find her. He calls me time to time to check on me and give me any update. So far they're right now near Capulet City."

Vergil: "Do you know anything about the demons that took her?"

Kyrie: "They came home looking like me and Nero. They called her name, they knew her. They talked like us, they moved like us. She was in the garden playing when they came for her. I was in the kitchen when I saw a figure looking like myself approaching her. I called Nero and when we went for her, they were already gone. And she didn't know. She doesn't know that those demons are not her parents. And I don't know what they're pretending to do with Eva. We're not sure if is vengeance they're planning or they just want to use her because of her demonic blood."

Vergil: "Eva? Nice name? Whose idea what it?"

Kyrie: "Mine, when I looked at her for the first time, she reminded me to your mother. I have seen her picture on Nico's records. Eva Virgilia. The second name was Nero's idea. Don't ask me why."

Virgilia? Thought Vergil. Because of him? After everything that has happened, Nero still named his daughter after him?

Dante: "Really? Virgilia? What was that kid thinking about? Virgilia? Couldn't find any other name?" He rolled his eyes.

Vergil: "Dante!" Said Vergil through his teeth. "We will find her Kyrie, I promise! I will make sure she returns to you safe, no matter what it takes me."

Dante: "Alright brother, time to find out granddaughter."

Vergil: "Our granddaughter? Don't you mean my granddaughter?"

Dante: "I said what I said. Now deal with it."

Vergil: "Whatever." Before leaving,Vergil realised he was still holding onto Eva's picture. He turned to Kyrie and asked her: "Can I keep it?"

Kyrie looked at him suprised. "Yes, of course. you're her grandfather after all".She smiled at him.

When they left Kyrie's house,Vergil vowed to himself to find her. He will return his family safe back home.