Disclaimer: I don't own Devil May Cry.
It all began with a simple statement.
"I know," Lady exclaimed one day when they were all in Dante's office. "Let's go out for a meal to celebrate." Lucia and Trish looked at her. Dante stopped what he was doing, which was drooling over a bikini advert on the TV, and looked at her too. Vergil ignored them all and continued to read his book in the corner.
"To celebrate what?" Lucia asked puzzled, not unlike her.
"To celebrate the fact that Mundus hasn't appeared with a plan to take over the world! Well, not this month anyway." She grinned at them all.
"Okay!" Dante replied enthusiastically. "Let's go to a restaurant."
"Great. But which one?" Trish looked at Dante who didn't answer; he had already turned his attention back to the TV.
"I want to go to that French restaurant in town. They have the best food there." Lucia announced.
"I thought of the idea first." Lady said scowling. "I want to go to a Chinese restaurant."
"But French food is far better than Chinese." Lucia started to protest.
"Grow up you two." Trish snapped. "Indian food is so obviously better."
"No it's not." Dante said coming back to earth as the advert finished. Lucia and Lady beamed at him and Trish frowned. "We should go to an Italian restaurant because they have pizza. Pizza is one of my reasons for living." He announced proudly. The girls just stared at him. Vergil continued to read his book.
"Indian!"
"Chinese!"
"French!"
"ITALIAN!"
The shouting match continued for some time until someone snapped.
"Shut the hell up!" Vergil yelled. "I am trying to read my book." Everyone quietened down, but only for a second.
"I know a way to settle this." Dante grinned and sidled up to his brother. "Vergil…. Will you cast the deciding vote?" Vergil looked up at him suspiciously.
"Okay….What are the choices?"
"French, Chinese, Indian or Italian." Dante replied laying heavy emphasis on the last word. Vergil looked at the girls batting their eyelashes at him and then at Dante grinning insanely next to him.
"Thai." Vergil said and went back to his book.
The others fought each other for a while until Lady told them all to stop.
"We'll decide with a competition." She said, disentangling Lucia's hand from her hair. "Whoever wins gets to choose where we go."
"This is going to be easy." Dante grinned again. "I can beat you three with my eyes closed."
"I never said it was a fighting competition Dante." Lady smiled evilly. She started to whisper and the others leant nearer to hear. When Lady finished explaining the challenge and the rules Dante slumped on the couch, eyes wide with shock. Lucia and Trish looked at each other and then at Lady incredulously.
"Are you crazy?" Dante hissed. "We'll all be killed!"
"No." Lady grinned. "I'm perfectly serious. Any of you want to back out?" The others shook their heads and in perfect unison all four of them turned to look at Vergil. Sensing their gaze on him and disturbed by the sudden quiet Vergil looked up from his book and they all looked away. He scowled and resumed reading, extremely suspicious.
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