Devil May Cry: A Snow Woman's Kiss
Chapter 9: Showdown And A Snow Woman.
"Mizore!? Were you tailing me?" He asked.
"No I was stalking you." She replied with a small smile.
"...Stalking me?"
"C'mon Verg you should know me by now~" She teased then directed her focus on the enemy.
"Right. Aside from that Mizore I know you're strong but don't underestimate Arzaxia. She's different from normal Succuby like Kurumu."Warned Vergil readying for battle.
The Snow Woman gave a nod. "Don't worry I'll be fine."
Right away Arzaxia emerged from the tall grass.
"Well well, if it isn't a little Snow Woman. You shouldn't of interfered, now you'll share the same fate as the devil boy." After that Arzaxia sent multiple waves of black lightning towards the two.
Vergil evaded to the right and Mizore evaded to the left, both successfully dodged the attacks. Mizore countered with her own attack, she sent a series of ice projectile's directly at the Succubus who blocked the ice projectiles with a wall of electricity which was sent at both of them but oddly it purposely missed them. Immediately after that Vergil and Mizore realized Arzaxia was out of sight.
"Be on guard Mizore..she's quite tricky."
"Yeah I seen."
"Don't think you've seen anything yet. My power is much more resonant than my sisters. In her name I will kill the both of you." Her voice echoed throughout the area as if she was not there at all. Vergil and Mizore looked around as she spoke making sure to check every part of their surroundings visible.
"Where the hell is she?" Asked Mizore keeping a close eye on things.
"Just remain on guard...she tries to be unpredictable.." The demon reminded her while keeping his hands on his blade.
Soon the silence was broken by the sound of thunder and dark clouds began to form in the sky so far this build up was not a good sign. It was obvious that this was the cause of Arzaxia's power rising if things got worse Vergil would have no choice but to use more of his power but his trump card would his last resort and he would only use it if dire matters were at hand.
In a crash of thunder Arzaxia appeared before them and kicked Mizore in the face which sent her falling back a few meters, right away Vergil went for a high angle slash aimed for her head or upper body unfortunately the succubus seen that coming and evaded it and immediately she followed up by striking him in the chest with her palm, on impact she emitted a large electric spark. The charged palm strike combined with the electricity sent him back into another tree which ended up falling on top of him in a loud thud.
Mizore rose back to her feet and looked over at the enemy. With her ice claws out the Snow Woman prepared for battle again and got back into stance.
"Tell me Snow Woman, why do you choose to fight for the devil boy? Is he really worth risking your life?" the succubus asked crossing her arms.
"Someone like you wouldn't understand my reasons, so instead of wasting my breath I'll just freeze you solid." She replied.
Arzaxia's eyebrow twitched. "How dare you ignore my inquiry." She glared.
"It doesn't matter anyway, enough talk I'll tear you apart you snow bitch!"Right after that she charged at Mizore.
"Oh yeah? Go ahead and try then."
Mizore as well directly charged at Arzaxia preparing for an immediate strike. The two female's exchanged attacks back and forth in a synchronized pattern of combat, both girls blocked each others strikes but would occasionally land a hit or two on the other. As the fierce battle of shot for shot continued Vergil emerged from the pile of tree's that fell on him. Surprisingly he came out with only minor injuries since his other wounds already healed. He took note of the two girls fast paced battle he couldn't help but be a little surprised that Mizore was handling herself well especially against Arzaxia.
"Is that all you have girl?!" Arzaxia hissed.
"Underestimating me will only leave you in a block of ice." She replied as the fists continued to fly. After several more minutes of this it ended in a stalemate Arzaxia struck Mizore with an electrically charged palm thrust and at the same time Mizore hit Arzaxia square in the face with one of her ice claws leaving a scratch on her face and sent her back but this time the succubus caught herself with her the extent of her wings.
Mizore hit a large tree branch hard and fell down, realizing it was a long fall Vergil teleported to where she would be landing and caught her in his arms then he teleported back to his original location.
"You did fairly well Mizore, but be careful her power is rising."
"Just fairly? I'm pretty sure I was close to whooping her ass." The Snow Woman replied with slightly pink cheeks.
Since there was an enemy in front of them he had no time for anything else so he set her down and readied his sheathed blade and watched their enemy closely.
"Yeah I know so let's both make sure we watch ourselves." She added. Then in the blink of an eye Arzaxia appeared above them.
"You're finished snow woman!" But just before the attack could go forward Mizore answered with a direct kick to the face.
"Shut up already.." The force of Mizore's kick sent her flying towards Vergil, In a quick move the Beowulf light gauntlets appeared on his fist and feet, the bright aura of the physical devil arms glowed brighter as they resonated with Vergil's power. Once she was close enough he jumped up and delivered a fierce and powerful uppercut the force of the strike on her jaw pushed her head, and next in a perfectly timed addition he followed up with a kick to the face which caused her to fly back about five meters. Upon impacting the ground she rolled about five more meters before stopping. Unfortunately that wasn't enough to defeat her but it did deal a lot of damage.
Just as things seemed to be going in their favor the enemy succubus stood up and disappeared in a flash of lightning then to add to this developing intensity the clouds turned darker than black and it suddenly began to rain followed by loud crashes of thunder. Arzaxia was getting stronger. Almost out of no where Arzaxia's voice echoed throughout the area as if she wasn't there at all.
"I've played around long enough, now both you and the snow woman will die and there is no escape. I swear I won't leave until you two become corpses!" The two could sense the rage in her voice.
"Mizore..this would be the best time for you to leave...she's going all out now." Vergil suggested to her as he looked around carefully.
"No, I'm not letting you fight her alone."
"I'll be fine.."
"This is our battle...we can do this together."
The snow woman's words were sincere, Mizore was in danger Arzaxia was a very powerful enemy so things were bound to get ugly if not cautious. It seemed that no matter what he said she still refused to leave, as much as he hated it Mizore was stuck with him in this battle. Even if she tried to escape there was no way Arzaxia would let her leave so there was no turning back now.
"Fine...but keep your eyes open."
She nodded. "Right."
As the thunderstorm continued Arzaxia appeared, she wasn't close to them but rather far. There was also something that seemed to be happening to her, in a flash of lightning The hair on the succubus changed from red to a very dark purple. Now it was obvious that she was pulling out her full potential so going on the defensive was best for now until he could figure out a way to counter whatever she was planning.
She stared directly at the two then in less than a blink she vanished only to appear behind them and before they could even comprehend the situation the succubus shot a powerfully charged electric shock at both Mizore and Vergil but just before the attacks hit he gave Mizore a push to avoid the attack which Vergil teleported at the last second barely evading it.
Mizore regained her balance quickly and realized that Arzaxia was going for another attack and readied her claws and shot seven ice projectiles at her but she blocked them and ran at Mizore for a punch which the snow woman blocked, both girls had another rapid exchange of strikes but this time it ended with Mizore getting a charged palm to the chest causing the snow woman to fall back a few meters and hitting her back on a tree, luckily since the previous attack focused more on the surge of electricity the force didn't break the tree on impact.
Quickly turning around to face Vergil the electric succubus charged at him in attempt to strike him with a more powerful version of her previous attack but Vergil knew too well what her move would be so he sidestepped to the left avoiding her strike, in a swift and well planned counter Vergil spawned four blue phantom blades which impaled Arzaxia's feet into the ground making her unable to move, due to Vergil's speed she didn't have enough time to use a lighting strike to teleport. Now that she was stuck Vergil back flipped away from her and gripped his blade's handle while it was still sheathed he began to channel up demonic energy on his Yamato blade, his purple energy forming its own version of electricity it began to spark getting stronger with each amount of energy built up.
In a flash he unleashed a series of several blue slashes of a sword all made from his energy around the succubus. This move was his infamous move called Judgment Cut. With each slash cutting her Arzaxia shrieked in pain since his Judgment cuts were charged with demonic energy they did a great amount of damage to her.
Landing on his feet he stood ready for battle. He was aware he did damage but knew that since she was a demon herself she would still be standing. Since the attack finished Vergil remained standing there keeping on eye on his enemy. Arzaxia was across from him with a glare, the attack had ended up shattering her healing ability, with a hand on her side covering a bleeding wound she spoke with anger in her voice.
"Curse you Darkslayer, It seems I may have underestimated you. But know this that when I recover you will die. We'll meet again Son of Sparda..." With that said Arzaxia was struck with lightning and disappeared teleporting with the lightning strike. Immediately after the dark clouds faded revealing the beautiful moonlit sky.
Vergil looked over at Mizore who was crouched on one knee. Compared to a Snow Woman a demon was a triple S class monster, but for her Monster class up against a powerful monster she fought really well that was for sure. But even so she needed a break and time to recover, so in the end Arzaxia's retreat was a good thing, but Vergil was determined to kill her the next time they meet.
Now that there was no need to stay on guard Vergil walked over to Mizore put her arm over his shoulder supporting her to stand.
"Can you walk..?" He asked.
Mizore nodded. "S-Sort of."
Arzaxia liked to work at using her electricity to tamper with people's nerves so Mizore having trouble walking was a given and since she fended for herself well he figured this would be best for her, but luckily she would only struggle to walk for only ten to fifteen minutes since the attack wasn't completely charged.
"Well, for now let me give you a hand, it's the least I can do. I admit you were impressive back there.." He said forming small smile. Mizore nodded. "Y-Yeah thanks.." Replied the snow woman with pink cheeks. The two walked back to the resort in the moonlight.
Upon their return they arrived at the front doors.
"Thanks Verg.." Said Mizore with a smile.
He gave a nod. "No problem.." Mizore slowly walked over to Vergil and gave him a hug, it caught him off guard but he put on arm over her in return before the hug broke.
"Goodnight Vergil."
"Goodnight Mizore, rest up and see you tomorrow." After that Vergil went to the second floor to the boys room which unfortunately he had to share with Tskune and Ginei but thankfully they were already sleeping. Silently he changed into his usual sleeping clothes then put the Yamato in the blankets with him, since he was sharing a room he had to keep his blade close. Even if he knew these two he couldn't risk it, allies or not he still didn't trust them. If the Yamato was to get into the wrong hands it could reopen the portal to the demon realm.
Now that he was in bed he decided to try and sleep, tomorrow was going to be a long one so he had to be prepared, after a few moments he drifted off to sleep.
-End Of Chapter-
