We actually have a complete fic here (dies of shock) it is a REALLY long fic though, but we think it's good, we definitely think this is the best one so far, we hope you all like it too
Disclaimer: Morwen owns Vergil, Arow owns Dante, Capcom owns us all, but we are just borrowing the characters from Angel from Joss, only for a short while, they are still his…if he wants them back once we are done with them mwahahahaha
Full Summary: A short while after the events of BIA3, the brothers are still getting over the time travellers disappearance, but when a ghost comes to visit, it spells more trouble for Sparda's sons as the eyes of Wolfram and Hart have caught sight of them and can disable the brothers permanently. With the help of an old friend, will they be able to overcome everything?
Set at the end of Angel season 5, however it is not fully compulsory to know the plot of Angel, although if you've missed any of the BIA series, you could get stuck (grin)
This started off as an RP but when we decided to turn it into a BIA fic, the description does get more detailed, and I have checked for typos several times over, I think I got them all.
Brothers in Arms 4: Blood and Brotherhood
CHAPTER 1: Ghostly goings on
"Not again," Vergil groaned hearing his twin's voice carrying from downstairs, he growled and stalked down, Dante was singing the Time Warp...again...and watching the same damn movie. He made a mental note to destroy it when he had a chance. "Dante," he yelled but the music and singing got louder. Vergil pulled out the plug again. They had played this scene before.
"Hey! I was watching that!" Dante exclaimed glowering at his twin sulkily.
"You watched it BEFORE we went out; you were moaning that you were tired hours ago." Vergil returned.
"Yeah that was hours ago and if I remember rightly I never got to watch it all because of that very reason!" the younger argued.
"Its three am. Cant you watch it during the day when it is normal for people to be awake and watching stupid movies like this?" Vergil sighed, getting irritated with his younger counterpart.
"I can't sleep..." He trailed off looking at the now blank screen.
"Neither can I thanks to your racket," Vergil sighed and sat down next to his brother and a brief silence hung in the air, "Why can't you sleep?"
Dante only shrugged as an answer.
Vergil sighed shaking his head, "Want to spar? Perhaps I can tire you out." There was silence, "Dante?" he pressed, getting no response, "what is it? You haven't seemed yourself since..." he trailed off a moment, thinking back and seeing the time traveller fade away.
"You can say it you know, since I disappeared," Dante gave a long sigh, "I can't explain it...I mean he's gone really gone not like before he would just go off but still be here, I could feel it... but now he's gone really gone and its strange..."
"Yeah," Vergil agreed, "I was getting used to having him around...I still keep expecting him to burst through the door...or call..." he sighed staring at the blank screen in front of them.
As if on cue the phone rang and the brothers looked at each other.
Vergil stared at the phone for a moment then moved to answer it his hand hovered over the phone, who would call at this time of night? He wondered, "Brothers in Arms?" he eventually picked up the receiver.
Dante sat looking at his brother as he answered the phone waiting to see who it was.
Vergil hung up with a frown and saw his twins expression, "Just some kids messing around I think...there was nothing on the other end..." he sighed and sat back down.
Dante shook himself, yeah right like it was him...stupid thought.
Vergil gave a sympathetic smile, he had thought it was the time traveller too...they had both been wrong.
Or had they?
"Yeah well I guess I'll try get some sleep next thing you know we'll have people from the past on our doorstep."
"Hmm 10 year old version of us...I would prefer to go to hell." Vergil frowned remembering what hellions they were at that age.
"Oh, I'd love that! Just to see your face!" Dante grinned.
Vergil glared, "I'd just leave you to baby-sit."
"Yeah right leave me with kids!" the younger twin laughed.
They both stopped as there was a thud they looked to see that somehow Ebony had fallen off the table onto the floor.
"How many times have I told you to put those things up properly I nearly trod on it. They are practically automatic. You could have killed me..." Vergil joked.
"It wasn't me; it was in the middle of the desk next to Ivory!" Dante objected.
Vergil stared at the younger sceptically; "But Ivory is..." he trailed off seeing the white gun was on the floor at the other side of the room. The two jumped as the phone rang again.
This time Dante answered it, "Brothers in Arms," There was no answer, it just sounded like there was a gale blowing on the other end of the phone, it went dead and he hung up.
"Who was it?" Vergil asked seeing his brother's expression.
"No one again..." He moved to pick up Ivory as he reached down to grab it; it moved away from him by its self, he jumped back confused.
"Dante," Vergil gave the younger a stern look, "It's too late to be messing around so just pick it up already."
He went to get it again and it moved away again, "I can't something's moving it."
Vergil rolled his eyes and moved to pick it up but it moved, "What have you done to it?" he asked in annoyance.
"What? I haven't done anything! They shouldn't do that!" Dante defended himself, his brother could be really snappy when he didn't get proper sleep.
"How you modified those things, it wouldn't surprise me if they fired at will," just then a bullet was set loose making the twins jump back, "what the?" Vergil frowned and looked to his equally surprised brother.
Dante blinked "Wha…?"
"That's it I'm calling an exorcist in the morning." Vergil announced.
The gun shot again in quick succession.
"Do you think someone will come out now?" Vergil moved to the phone but the phone moved out of reach, "This is getting ridiculous," he growled and launched over the desk for the moving object.
Dante winced as the phone moved aside and Vergil went over the desk and crashed in to the wall.
Vergil stood and glowered at the phone which was now completely still.
"I'm going to sue the landlord for giving us a haunted building! He promised me it was fine! Yeah right the spook's just a quirk, right!" He yelled out to the room.
Vergil growled Yamato in his hand ready to slash anything that moved at this point, his temper almost completely frayed
Dante edged toward the phone stealthily, "Maybe we should leave," He made a grab for the phone but just as his hand wrapped around the receiver it began to ring and Rebellion fell off the wall with a clatter.
"Get out of here now," Vergil ordered to the younger.
The blade rose into the air and hung suspended by nothing aiming right at the twins.
Vergil growled shoving his brother out of the way; Yamato deflected the blade, "Out. Now." he growled.
"Why is it using my weapons?" Dante hissed, he really hated anything touching his sword, or guns for that matter.
Vergil stared at him a moment, "you think this is the right time for this? We can think on that once we are out of here."
Rebellion embedded itself in the desk and the phone rang again.
Vergil glowered at the ringing phone refusing to go near it again.
Dante wasn't so restrained he stormed up to the phone wary of his sword and picked up the receiver, still nothing but that wind. "Who the hell are you? Fuck off. Some people want to sleep! Go haunt a cemetery or something!" He hung up and the phone was quiet once more.
Vergil glanced around warily Yamato still held at guard he grabbed the phone and it stayed still so he ripped it from one wall smashed it against the opposite one.
"How are we going to phone anyone now?"
The TV switched on to static. They both looked at it...it wasn't plugged in.
"I say we just get out of here and come back at some other point," Vergil said his eyes never leaving the screen.
The screen flickered and switched off then the phone rang, "This is wrong, let's leave and come back when we can fight this thing." Dante said eventually.
"I've been trying to say that for how long!" Vergil exclaimed in annoyance.
"Yeah let's go and come back in the morning with a PRIEST." He moved to the door...It wouldn't budge.
Vergil glared and tried to shoulder the door but nothing would move it even the windows wouldn't break.
Dante sighed shaking his head, "we haven't made enemies this strong!" He sat on the sofa and the TV came on again, static, flickering as if it was trying to show an image.
"We haven't but you probably have," Vergil glowered sinking down by his twin, "this is just getting ridiculous," he sighed glaring at the TV.
"Get another hobby!" Dante yelled at the flickering screen.
Ebony fired again making the two jump at the unexpected noise, "Just pack the fuck in and piss off," Vergil yelled fuming at the weapon on the floor.
Dante smiled to himself, it was rare Vergil swore and situations like this brought out the best in his brother including a colourful range of vocabulary.
Vergil's glower turned to his smirking brother and his eyes narrowed darkly in warning.
Dante stood not wanting his brother on his case as well as this spook, "Ok leave the guns. They. Are. Mine."
Bang.
"I mean it."
Bang, bang.
"Right that's it!" Dante picked up Ebony and looked at it, and then, quite unexpectedly, he was hanging six foot in the air. He glared at the gun, "I'm not letting go. this is my gun."
It was Vergil's turn to smirk as his brother hung uselessly in midair.
"Chuck me the damn gun." Dante growled to Vergil.
Vergil sighed and moved for Ivory but the gun lifted by Ebony and aimed at Dante's head.
Dante made a grab for Ivory not wanting to be shot in the head but he gun evaded his attempts.
Vergil yanked Dante down just before the younger could get a painful headache forcing him to let go of Ebony. The guns fell to the floor at their feet.
Dante growled, "they're my weapons damn it! Give them back!" The last thing he expected was to be hit in the back of the head with Nevan.
Vergil could only stare as the guitar hit his brother, shaking off the initial shock he grabbed the weapon and flung it away only to be attacked with Alastor.
Dante moved out of the way of Rebellion and it embedded itself into the floor. He stood there, mouth agape looking at his own sword that had attacked him; the sword twitched and dragged itself across the floor in an oval loop, next it slashed the floor once more, and then it fell still.
The carved image was well it resembled a crude fish...
Dantes mouth snapped shut and he looked around frantically.
Vergil managed to dodge his more possessed-than-usual-demonic sword long enough to embed it in a wall, and then he saw his twin gaping at the floor, "What?" he asked as the room fell still.
Dante simply pointed at the floor lost for words for once.
"Great," Vergil muttered, "Now we've got a floor to replace." he frowned seeing Dante was still gaping.
Dante blinked several times, trying to form words, "He... fish..." He looked at his brother willing him to see the connection.
"What?" Vergil stared at his brother oddly, swearing he had finally gone mad, he obviously didn't see what Dante did.
Dante pulled himself together after a moment and looked to the room, "If it is you shoot."
Bang.
He looked at Vergil, "I think it's him."
"Him?" Vergil frowned, "Dante…" he started softly.
BANG, the gun shot again.
Vergil stared at it then back at his brother shaking his head slightly, "He's gone...he doesn't exist anymore," he tried to reason with the younger.
"You said time travel was impossible but he did it, why not...this?" The younger twin waved his hand around for emphasis.
The gun fired again.
"Thank you," Dante nodded to it, "someone agrees with me."
"The timeline sorted itself out," Vergil reasoned, "he ceased to exist," he sighed, "Look I know you're having a hard time trying to come to terms with him going, he was part of you, its natural for you to try and rationalise ways he could still be here but he's not. It's probably some bored spectre. We'll get rid of it tomorrow," he sighed at Dante's expression, "Dante it is just some ghost trying to make you believe it's him."
Dante shook his head, it was him how could he prove it, could Vergil not see the fish on the floor. "It has to be," he insisted, "the fish on the floor him using only my weapons it makes sense."
Vergil gave a half smile at the youngers attempts to back up his arguments, "that is nothing more than a bit of flooring that has been hacked at, it probably has bad taste in weapons."
Dante glared at his twin, "He used Alastor as well, and he had Alastor."
"That sword is possessed anyway," he pointed out, "Alastor probably wanted to have some fun," he glared at the crackling sword in the wall.
Dante couldn't argue with that, "It had to be him he's trying to show us its him by..."
"By what? Nearly killing us? He wouldn't attack us like that...whatever it was meant us harm," he emphasised his point with the small cut on his shoulder.
Both brothers stumbled forward as the amulets around there necks were pulled simultaneously.
"See?" Vergil growled grasping his amulet, "it's even trying to choke us." He said, now just irritated.
Rebellion floated between the two of them and they were pulled forward by their amulets again, Dante rubbed his sore neck. "Spare us the possessed weaponry; possess a pen or something and find some paper!" He looked warily at the hovering Rebellion.
Vergil was rubbing his neck as well, and glared between his brother and the sword, "If it can find a pen in this place it will be a miracle," the sword edged toward Vergil who still held Yamato tightly, he grabbed his brother's sword with his free hand and forced it into the wall.
The sword dragged itself down the wall and across; the brothers watched in fascination as the sword wrote on the wall.
"Great, where will we find the money to replace that?" Vergil shook off his initial fascination as the sword stopped moving.
'I'm back' was written on the wall in large scruffy letters.
Vergil stared at the words on the wall unsure what to make of them, perhaps Dante was right...no...It was impossible he couldn't be...but then he had changed the past...he just gawped at the sword in the wall. It was too early, even for him to try and figure things out.
"SEE! I told you!" Dante exclaimed and pointed at the wall.
"It doesn't mean it's him," Vergil answered unsure who he was trying to convince at this point, "it could be something trying to get to us by leading us on."
"Fine! Ok if its you shoot once."
Ebony rang out.
"see." Dante grinned triumphantly.
"That is no proof," Vergil growled, "Anything could possess a gun."
"Ok then lets have a game of twenty questions," He looked around, "ok shoot once for yes twice for no," He looked back to his brother, "things only he would know things only I could know."
Vergil stared at his brother like he was mad, "I will not play twenty questions with a possessed gun," he rolled his eyes, "I am not going insane like you," he sighed ignoring his brother's look.
"Fine I'll start! Er..." Dante was silent for several minutes.
"This is ridiculous," he sighed seeing Dante was not giving up, "fine it's him, happy now?" he rolled his eyes.
Dante glared at his brother, "You still don't believe it," He looked at his guns, "Ok answer this; when we were on Mallet I got my devil trigger, yes or no?"
The gun rang out twice.
Dante grinned triumphantly, "See."
"What?" Vergil snapped not quite catching what Dante had said.
"It's him! Only me you and him went to Mallet and you got yours there..."
"What are you going on about?" he looked blankly at the younger, he had missed something while his mind was wandering.
"You weren't even listening were you? I asked a question the gun answered correct...and I thought you were observant." Dante scoffed, glaring sourly at his twin.
"I just think you are being ridiculous with this whole thing, fine repeat it if you want, I'll listen. Go on," he urged, even if it was just to humour his twin.
"Ok pay attention! Ok in the bar we fought and you ran off what did you take?" It was then that Dante realised it wasn't a yes or no question but he still got his answer as Yamato was pulled from Vergil and hung teasingly in the air just out of reach, "SEE!"
Vergil glared furiously as his katana floated in front of him, he pinched the bridge of his nose and ran a hand over his face, "fine," he sighed although not completely convinced.
The blade fell to the floor at his feet, "fine you ask him a question!"
"No its ok I believe you," he said sheathing his weapon, not wanting to get into an argument, knowing Dante would not see things any other way.
Dante stood for a moment, "Now what?"
"I say get a priest," Vergil muttered under his breath but Dante must have heard and he glared furiously at the older.
"Well it is him but why is he here? We saw him disappear!"
"Exactly he shouldn't be here." Vergil agreed.
"Wait a minute are you invisible…But..." Dante said looking confused.
"But what?" Vergil rolled his eyes, this was getting beyond ridiculous.
Ebony and ivory spun into the air and aimed at the doors which promptly burst open to admit a gang of Hell Prides the guns made short work of then and spun in mid air as if in an invisible person's hands. The brothers watched stumped.
"I guess that answers that one," Vergil commented unsure why he was going along with this, perhaps there was something in his subconscious that wanted the older version of his twin back too, someone with some amount of sense and maturity was a nice change of company, as well as his twin.
"Cool imagine having him in a fight that would be fun. The ultimate back up." Dante exclaimed excitedly.
Vergil stared at the younger and rolled his eyes.
"No think about it." the younger twin insisted.
The gun rang out once more clearly not liking being ignored.
Vergil thought about rolling his eyes again but then thought there would probably be some sort of permanent damage from so much eye rolling, but he couldn't help it, Dante evoked it so often, he just settled with a sigh.
"Well maybe we can continue this tomorrow I'm bushed." Dante yawned and made for the stairs.
"Now you're tired?" Vergil stared in disbelief; he was just starting to wake up.
"Well yeah. You already got some sleep. My turn."
Vergil sighed and watched his brother move upstairs, followed his twin upstairs.
The guns fell to the floor with a clatter.
Finally, this thing has been gathering dust on my computer for ages.
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