Chapter 2: The Auction
(Dante POV)
Dante was having an interesting week. First, Lady and Trish decided to take a long vacation and not invite him. They wanted time away from the perverted half-devil. Then, Nero asked him for help. Kyrie was in danger... again. Jeez... this kid needed to learn to keep tabs on his girl! However, he was completely surprised to find that the demon who kidnapped Kyrie was also holding another person captive... Vergil.
Dante couldn't believe his eyes. He thought he'd never see his elder twin ever again. The demon was able to hurt Vergil to the point where he was almost killed. As usual, Dante was able to save both Kyrie and his twin. He was afraid that he would go all evil again but he was still his brother. He wanted to keep an eye on him so he stayed with Nero for a little while until Vergil was better.
In the meantime, he told Nero that Yamato belonged to him in the first place and seeing that the Force Edge was not in Vergil's possession, Nero decided to give Yamato back to his rightful owner. Despite her being human, and the fact that Vergil might want to kill her when he woke up, Kyrie helped take care of Vergil. She told them that he actually helped her escape the demon's grasp before Dante even interfered. Dante figured it was the only way for Vergil to get out so he decided to help even if it was unwillingly.
"What the Hell is going on?" was the first words that came out of Vergil's mouth.
Dante shook his head. "hey bro..." he said.
"Dante?" Vergil said surprised. "Where am I?"
"Back in the human world if that helps." Dante said with a slight smile. He didn't know what to expect from his brother.
"Hn..." he sulked. He looked to the side, and saw Yamato.
"I see you took care of Yamato..."
"Actually this kid did." Dante said motioning to Nero who was holding Kyrie who had fallen asleep.
However, Vergil stared at him as if he had seen a ghost.
"It... no... impossible... it was a lie..." Vergil said mumbling to himself.
"What's with him?" Nero asked a little freaked out.
"Yea... what's going on?" Dante said.
"He's..." Vergil looked away. "Never mind."
Dante looked at his twin inquiringly but said nothing more. He knew that he wouldn't get much out of Vergil. For the rest of that week Dante took Vergil back to Devil May Cry, and Vergil had to keep a low profile. He didn't exactly like staying with his younger twin but he had to stay alive and working together with his twin was the only way.
That was when they were hired for a special job. There was a demonic auction going on. They were selling young women as sex slaves. Dante obviously wanted to take the job and even though Vergil protested he had to go along as well just in case something happened.
When they entered they saw some familiar demons but none wanted to kill them. They were all preoccupied with two young women chained to a wall. As they got closer, they found that these women were blindfolded. The announcer said that these two were twins and that it was rare to find twins as beautiful as them. Vergil was not interested but then he saw that there were weapons being sold with them.
(Vergil POV)
The announcer also explained about that. Whomever buys these twins also gains the special custom made swords. Vergil couldn't believe how the o-katana hanging on the wall looked exactly like his Yamato.
"Yo!" Dante said waving his hand in Vergil's face. "Earth to Vergil!"
"Stop being immature." he said waving his hand away to have a closer look at the twin of Yamato.
"If you haven't noticed," Vergil said under his breath to his love-struck little brother, "the weapons they have hung up are almost the exact replicas of ours."
"Really?" Dante said getting out of the line of men going to check out the twin's bodies. (He wanted to sample the merchandise himself.) Dante walked over and examined Danielle's guns (as said from the previous chapter.) and then his own Ebony and Ivory.
"Yep, almost every detail is perfect..." Dante muttered.
Vergil shook his head and examined the Yamato replica. Every detail seemed perfect. The only difference would be that the metal was different. The metal in his was much stronger and better for fighting. However, the replica was weaker, but as he took it out of the saya a little (but not all the way) to examine the blade, he noticed that it was used for some kind of fighting or training. The blade wasn't even dulled like most decoration swords.
"Hm..." Vergil put the sword back, and then turned around to find Dante missing... idiot he thought. He went on in line to find his twin looking over the "merchandise." One of the women was very calm and didn't look afraid at all. The other seemed very frightened and scared every time someone touched her to check her out.
They were both dressed in a long brown robe and looked like they had been whipped.
"Eep!" One of them screeched when Dante touched her. The guard whipped her in return.
"Quiet you!" he demanded. Vergil could tell that Dante wanted to tell him off but he knew better than to blow their cover.
"Quit freaking out and you won't get whip..." the other one said to her the other but received a lashing too.
"Quiet or I'll cut out your tongue next time." the guard said.
Vergil was intrigued by this other woman. She seemed to take pain pretty well and had a will to survive. He wondered which weapons she owned. He also kept wondering why they had weapons that looked exactly like theirs in the first place.
Soon the announcer called everyone to go into the auction area. As Vergil and Dante waited, they saw so many demons who seemed as if they were going to torture them horribly.
"It's a shame what they're doing to those girls..." Dante said quietly to Vergil. "Remember though... we're here to investigate not buy..." he added more to himself than Vergil.
"I'm betting..." Vergil said seriously.
Dante stared at his twin. "Vergil? Since when were you interested in sex slaves? Better yet when have you ever wanted a human? You hated humans since I've seen you again?"
Vergil looked grim. "I haven't always. After they killed mom, a human family took me in and helped me get stronger."
"Why... why don't I know about this?" Dante asked him. "And what about that whole 'I despise weak humans' speeches you gave me?"
"I never said that exactly. I said they were weak and that to gain more power I had to lose the weak human side of me. I never said I hated them." Vergil said looking extremely serious. Dante didn't know what was going on with his brother but he shook that thought aside since he liked the idea of betting on these beautiful girls.
"Alright, now before we start the bidding, let me announce that these women are not strangers. They are in fact identical twins. However, these are very special twins. They are the best fighters I have ever seen for a human let alone the female kind. These weapons they have owned will go to the buyer of whichever twin. The set of the sword and two guns will go to whomever buys this woman." he said showing the audience the very scared girl. "And this beautiful o-katana will go to this brave, strong young woman. Her skills are above any human I have ever seen." he said motioning to the braver of the twins.
"Well, looks like we have more in common with them than we thought..." Vergil said aside to Dante.
"Are you still going on about the Yamato look-a-like?" Dante asked.
"Think about it. There has to be more to these two. I'm betting on them both, using my small fortune I acquired on my own."
"Thank god since I have no money..." Dante said annoyed at his lack of money.
The bidding began, and Vergil beat every bidder, and that was just for the younger twin whom he'd receive the Rebellion replica, and replicas of Ebony & Ivory.
"1 Million dollars for them both." Vergil said when he was getting fed up. He knew that none of these losers could afford that.
"Do you seriously have that much?" Dante asked amazed.
"Yes."
"Wow... I need to know your secret..."
Low and behold, no one else bid. Vergil had won both of these unique twins and their weapons. The sad crowd dispersed, and they were called up to the stage.
"Congratulations sirs." the man said. "come with me to claim your prize."
Vergil and Dante followed the man, and when they entered, the guards showed them both special bracelet. They couldn't read the writing, but Vergil recognized it as a special demon language he read about before.
"These bracelets are what keeps your new slaves bound to you. The rules are that they are allowed to be ten feet away from you, but if they exceed that distance they will explode. Since you are of demon blood, it will not cause you to explode. You both must spend the night and consummate this pact in order to take them with you tomorrow."
At this, Dante grinned.
"Now, which twin does each of you want?" the man asked them.
Dante spoke first. "I'll take the younger one." he said seriously acting like a dork. The man took the bracelet that must have corresponded with the younger twins, and showed him to the bedroom she was waiting in.
"I guess that leaves you with the elder. You're lucky. She's the submissive one."
"Just give me the damn bracelet." Vergil said. He was hoping that whatever this was would free them and that was it. He never expected that he'd have to have sex with a human.