Diva barely seemed to notice him, but saw the orbs coming at her.

He saw them hit her, but she had suddenly become blue.

For a second Vergil was confused but when he saw her land on the ground a few yards away he knew she'd avoided the attack.

However, the orbs flew at her again and though she kept dodging them by after-imaging Vergil knew they would eventually catch her.

And because of this damn chevalier thing the only thing he could think about was saving her.

But Vergil didn't know what to do; there wasn't enough time to perform his "Great Judgement Cut" and simply hitting the orbs didn't seem to damage them at all.

Either way he had to do something.

Vergil ran towards where Diva would be in a few seconds and grabbed her, twisting around to "hide" her in front of him while using his back as a shield.

It worked a bit too well.

The front orb collided with his back, bringing back the mind-numbing pain and then some; Vergil grunted in pain, but that was all he gave that damn red sphere.

Vergil felt his body's reaction time slowing down by the millisecond and swung Yamato in a lazy arc back at the offending orb.

The orbs retreated and Mundus' voice could be heard laughing sadistically.

He looked down at Diva, who seemed genuinely surprised at what he'd done.

Vergil felt his expression soften unintentionally as he looked at her, and then harden again as he looked at the avatar.

His body recovered and he told Diva to get ready.

After a moment he pushed her away and lunged towards the orbs.

The orbs would all block his attack and then counter-attack. Then Vergil would dodge the attack and perform a regular Judgement Cut. It probably wouldn't do any damage but it should be able to stun the things long enough for him to use the powered up version and finish off these "torture spheres".

It was a good plan, but he failed to overlook one thing; the orbs didn't shatter when hit by his sword.

So when only one sphere blocked his attack, getting cut in the process, while the other two slammed into him, Vergil was caught completely by surprise.

But he didn't feel that pain again; instead being thrown across the room to collide with a wall, damaging his nervous system that much more.

He looked up just in time to see the orbs begin chasing Diva again.

However, they had split and now chased her individually, making it three times as hard for her to dodge them.

Vergil pushed himself up to his feet but stumbled a bit as his still relatively weak nervous system found it difficult to stand up, let alone walk

The orbs came at her from three directions, forcing her to jump up into the air to dodge them; the same mistake he'd made earlier.

The orbs stopped in mid-air and then jolted up at her.

Diva used her after-image technique to get out of their path, but they launched those fireballs at her, making her move to a predictable location.

The orbs moved towards her and Vergil heard her give a sound of surprise before they split into twelve orbs and trapped her...

A second later the whole chamber was filled with a shriek of pain which just continued on and on; making Vergil's heart actually skip a beat as he forced his legs still.

"Piece of shit body! Move!" He yelled at it mentally. But the damage the single orb had done to his nervous system made his limbs twitch, causing him to be unstable.

"Twelve goddamn orbs?! Enough!" He yelled at Mundus; though he couldn't be heard since Diva's shrieks were so loud.

"Move! Move! MOVE!" He yelled at his body over and over again as the seconds formed together and became a minute.

"Please, move!" He begged his body, Vergil's hatred lost to desperation.

Satisfied with his humility, his body finally seemed to work properly and Vergil air-tricked to the orbs; performing a Judgement Cut in mid air without realizing it.

The orbs dispersed and dropped Diva's limp body through the air.

Vergil caught her before she could hit the ground and landed himself, softly.

Vergil looked down at her with a sadness he no longer cared that he possessed.

Her eyes stared up at him and the look of them… it made him want to die.

"He's mean." She said before her eyes closed and Diva began breathing more slowly; unconscious.

Vergil gave a shaky laugh before lowering her to the ground and turning back towards the orbs, which had merged together again.

"Just like your father; unable to protect your little prize." Mundus spoke down to him.

Vergil didn't really care what he had to say.

"Diva is no prize." He spat at Mundus.

"And you…" He started while gripping Yamato and air-tricking over to the orbs.

"…are about to die." Vergil finished as he slashed out with Yamato, vaporizing the orbs with the shear speed and ferocity of his attack.

Mundus yelled out in a comforting amount of agony and Vergil smirked, his eyes going wide with momentary sadistic satisfaction.

"What's the matter, Mundus? Your prized little orbs missing?" Vergil said to the "demon king" with a tone similar to a bully laughing at someone they'd just beat up.

A portal appeared out of nowhere and one of Mundus' "true" forms appeared, still shaken from the quick defeat of his avatar.

"Foolish half-breed! You've sealed your fate!" The angelic-looking demon yelled at him.

Though it could have looke like the Easter bunny for all he cared.

Then however, the thing's white-stone hands came together and an orb, similar in size but much purer in hue, appeared in front of its palms.

The room began shining with a black light and Mundus lifted up in to the air, his wings spreading out and making Mundus appear as a silhouette with the sun/moon shining from behind him.

"This will make you experience an agony millions of times more painful than before for what feels like an eternity! Then you'll disintegrate together!" Mundus yelled hysterically.

The light ceased and the orb shrunk; preparing to fire.

Vergil couldn't stop this. It would kill both of them, most likely after what Mundus had just described.

"Damn you Mundus!" Vergil said in his head.

"Die! Son of Spar-"

Thunk

Mundus was cut off and the orb dispersed completely, his stone figure turning around in the air and revealing a huge gouge in his back.

"Y- you!" He stumbled out as he began to fall.

As he did Vergil saw a white overcoat and crimson-red gloves, accenting a long mane of silky black hair; all belonging to a man bent over slightly with a white-bladed sword in his hands.

"The dark knight!" Mundus said in utter shock.

The demon warrior who Vergil had thought dead stood up completely, though he was standing in the air, and his expression changed.

His serious eyes and neutral frown morphing into a satisfied smirk and a gaze that looked down at Mundus as if he were a bug.

"Wrong." The demon-warrior said as his free hand lifted up to face Mundus, emanating a blue flame that launched from his hand and engulfed Mundus, making him cry in a dying volume as his stone body disintegrated.

"The demon-king."

I know it was shorter than the previous two, but I thought that that was the best place to stop the chapter considering the (hopefully) surprise. I'll update sometime today or tonight, though I'm not going to make any gaurantees on how soon it will be. I'd really appreciate a review(which I am already getting! multiple ones! (laughs strangely)) Sorry, I really like reviews.

H-bomber, what I meant by "original" Vergil fans was those who didn't want him to change at all; wanting him to be exactly the same way he was in DMC3 without alot of angst, etc. Thanks for answering my question. I look forward to hearing what people thought of my little twist.