On time update for once. It will continue to be this way. I'm gonna shoot for Tuesday or Wednesday every week. Just so everyone knows when to expect it. Read on and hopefully enjoy. :)
Vergil awoke with a start. Something wasn't right. He listened carefully. There were strange noises coming from the next room, Alex's bedroom. He reached out with his senses. There were several demons in her bedroom and the fool was still sleeping. He jumped up and grabbed Yamato. Then he quickly ran into her room. There were several grotesquely ugly demons looming above her sleeping form. These weren't just any demons though. They were the minions of high level Demon Lords. It appeared that little Alexandra had not just been slightly untruthful, but she had out and out lied to him.
"Sssson of Sssssparda, the protector of man is ourssss. Leave ussss and you will live." One of the demons hissed.
Vergil smiled evilly as he used his thumb to slide Yamato slightly out of the sheath. "This will be too easy."
With an inhuman roar the demons charged. Vergil spun as he fully unsheathed Yamato and brought the blade clean through the middle of one demon while dodging out of the way of another. He continued the momentum of his swing and took the second demon's head off. He turned to face the other demon.
"Sssshe will be ours, Sssson of Sssssparda." The demon hissed out as it disappeared.
Vergil looked over at Alex and saw that she was still asleep. How did she sleep through that? He wondered as he approached her. He pointed his bloodied blade at her as she slowly began to stir.
Alex slowly opened her eyes. She blinked a few times to focus and saw Vergil glaring down at her. "Vergil?" She yawned. "What are you doing in here?"
"Is removing your head a sufficient way to kill you, protector of man?" Vergil asked as he pressed the edge of his blade against her throat hard enough to draw a trickle of blood.
"Oh shit." Alex's eyes widened. "I think I should explain some things."
"I do believe I mentioned earlier that lying is a weakness and that I kill things that are weak." Vergil's voice was like a blanket of ice. "You are looking very weak right now Alexandra. Would you care to lie to me more?"
"Just listen for a fucking minute!" Alex pushed Yamato away and knew it was only because Vergil allowed it. She sat up and touched a finger to the already healed nick on her throat before running a hand through her hair. "I'm assuming there was something in here while I was sleeping?"
"Three somethings to be precise. Minions of Demon Lords."
Alex sighed heavily. "What do you want to know?"
"Start with exactly who you are."
"I didn't lie about that. I am Alexandra Lilitu, "protector of man, born of darkness". I am the daughter of Ayperos."
"The devil prince that commands thirty six legions in Hell." Vergil frowned. "He has no spawn."
"Not true. I was kept a secret. He had enemies. Enemies that would have used any means necessary to harm him. He loved me dearly. Someone would have taken me and used it to their advantage had anyone known about me."
"He was a devil. Devils aren't capable of love."
Alex shrugged. "Maybe not all of them. But he loved me." She smiled. "And he loved my mother. And is it not a truth that the legendary Dark Knight Sparda loved your mother?"
"My father is not up for discussion." Vergil said. He studied Alex closely. She didn't seem to be lying. Perhaps he wouldn't have to kill her after all. "If you were a secret, why are there suddenly demons chasing you?"
"Father was mysteriously killed a few months back. Secret got out about me. Now everyone is after me."
"Mysteriously?"
"I found him one morning in his bedroom without his head. No one knows what happened because no one heard anything."
"I met Ayperos a few times during an extended stay in Hell. He didn't seem like the type to let someone catch him off guard enough that they could remove his head." Vergil's brow creased.
"Well it happened." Alex frowned. "I wish it hadn't, but it did." She yawned. "If there's nothing else..."
"I was wondering how you slept through all the noise."
"Sleeping pills." She gestured to a small bottle on the nightstand. "I don't sleep well sometimes."
Vergil stared at the bottle. "Do they really work on you?"
"They were made in Hell. They're something the physician who attended my father made." She shrugged. "Someone like you or me has a stronger constitution than humans do."
Vergil nodded. "I don't think it would be wise to continue taking them."
"Neither do I." Alex agreed. She yawned again. "I'd like to go back to sleep."
"Of course." Vergil said as he turned to leave.
"Goodnight, Vergil." Alex said softly.
He paused at the door and looked back to see Alex already under the covers, her eyes closed and hair spread out on the pillow creating a frame for her face. "Goodnight." Vergil murmured. Then he quietly shut the door.