Your Only Truth

"Fear is a choice you embrace"

The Order of the Sword members weren't as strong as Vergil would have expected, they fell quickly but he did not kill them. Rather he let them live knowing that there are those who cannot be matched, a bit disappointing but a little satisfying.

A demon Vergil killed earlier mentioned his master, a demon who devours humans who wander too far into the forests that surrounds Fortuna City. It was massively powerful that none of the Order of the Sword swordsmen were a match, the thought of finally having something stronger, than the cannon fodder he had grown bored of eliminating, excited the Son of Sparda; a smile crept across his usual stoic face.

Traveling through the forests, demons attack and get struck down in a flash, Vergil continues on without a second thought. The sun gets higher and reaches the setting sun when he hears an over confident demon talking down to someone; none of his business Vergil ignores them and continues to seek out this so called powerful foe. That is until he hears the other one's voice.

"Look you can save your breath, I won't submit to your threats." It was Mira Levesque, she was calmly staring down a demon twice her height without a weapon or anyway to protect herself. The demon was describing what it would do to her in great detail while going between low growling to excessive shouting. Mira just stood there looking her would be killer in the eyes and yawned out of boredom. In a burst of anger the demon grabbed Mira by the neck and slammed her into a tree.

"Listen here you little bitch, I can snap your neck and end your life right here and now, but I might reconsider if you give me a nice loud scream."

Mira refuses to break eye contact with the demon to matter how close it inched its ugly face close to hers.

"If you're gonna kill me then get it over with, I don't like waiting and I have orders to finish. So either kill me or put me down." This was not the same Mira that Vergil encountered days ago; this one was serious but unlike Vergil she didn't glare at them. Mira just stared at them with a deadpan expression and her soft voice was stern to the point where it sounded as if she was talking down to the demon.

The demon began slowly tightening its grip around Mira's neck. "If you won't scream then I guess I'll just have to enjoy look of terror on your face as I slowly choke you to death." The demon widened his already large smile, happily anticipating the fear and her begging for mercy.

"I won't give you the pleasure." Mira managed to get out one last retort before the demon's grip was to tight to even breathe, then gave it a smile.

The demon had enough; this woman wasn't going to give what it wanted. So the demon squeezed tighter and tighter and watched as the color from Mira's face turned red and began to turn a darker shade.

*Slash* Off came the demon's hand at the wrist; Mira dropped to the ground, choking and gasping for air. The demon bellowed in pain and set its livid eyes towards the one who dared. Vergil stood in the distance, his sword already sheathed.

"Who the fuck are you!?" The demon shouted its eyes now bloodshot from rage; already it has forgotten about the pain in its arm. "Are you here to save this woman?" The demon gestured to Mira.

"That woman's life is no concern of mine." Vergil answered. "I just dislike you, more than her."

The demon laughed at Vergil's answer and readied itself to attack. "It doesn't matter anyway. Because you're both gonna die!"

Like all the overconfident demons before, it leapt in a straight forward assault with brute force. One quick swing of his sword, too fast for either the demon or Mira could see, and the demon was dead before it landed in a dozen pieces and Vergil's feat.

Mira stood after watching Vergil slice up a demon without even drawing his sword walked over to inspect the carnage. Vergil walked away from Mira as she tried to walk up to him. "Thanks for the help." She said sincerely.

"Make no mistake; I did not save you any other purpose than to answer my question." Once more Vergil glared down at Mira and she answered with her deadpan gaze without breaking eye contact.

"Okay, what is it?"

"Why were you going to let him kill you?" Vergil was nowhere near concerned for her safety in the least, the Mira is the first human he had seen behave like that and curiosity got the better of him.

"Simple, because I do not fear death." Short, honest and straight to the point. Vergil was skeptical for a moment, if she said that to a random person the street, they'd laugh it off as a joke. But after seeing what he saw, Vergil believed her because she said it with her deadpan face and more serious voice.

"You don't believe me do you? No one ever thinks that I'm serious about that, but it's true. Everyone has fears, even you."

Feeling insulted Vergil gave a quick response. "I don't have fears, they are a weakness."

"Really? Good for you then. But what I'm getting at is that I have fears, but dying isn't one of them." Mira was trying not to sound like she was lecturing him, but it wasn't working out so well.

"I mean death is a natural part of life, we are all going to die of something so why fear the inevitable."

This Mira was definitely different than the one he met before; not just because she didn't have her hair up. Her face was more serious than before, didn't have that look of ignorance or that irritatingly positive attitude and her bottle green eyes were clearer more focused than last. If Vergil were to guess then this is the real Mira and the one he met the first time was a fake persona. Her eyes were not unlike Vergil's; she has experienced something tragic in her life.

"People fear others because they are afraid to die, but if you do not fear death then they have no power over you. Sure they can still kill you, but you deny them the satisfaction of watching you fear and beg. The same goes for demons."

Mira seemed a little bit cheerful explaining her reasons to Vergil and even though he was no longer interested in the topic; he understood her logic. She was interesting to him, there was much more to Mira than what she showed and never before had he met someone with such clear eyes.