"...il!"
"V..gil"
"Vergil! Wake up!" He heard someone yelling at him as his mind came back from blackness.
A few seconds later his eyes slowly flickered open.
Diva was the one who'd been trying to wake him up and she smiled that happy childish smile down on him.
"'something I want more' huh?" He thought to himself out loud, causing Diva to frown.
"What?" She asked him, confused.
He shook his head a bit as if to clear his thoughts and silently say "nothing", noticing that his hair had fallen down from its usual place.
Then he remembered exactly what happened and jolted forward, sitting up and giving himself a sudden fever-spike as he realized his body didn't have the energy to keep him up.
Vergil started to fall back but Diva kept him from hitting the pavement by putting an arm under him, something that would have surprised him if he had the sense to know why he didn't feel hard ground underneath his back.
"Where is Enzeru?" He asked her.
Her frown deepened and no longer looked confused, but upset.
"He… went back towards that tower thing. It looked like he was searching for something."
Vergil sighed, knowing where to head next.
Then he looked up into Diva's eyes and decided what he had to do, closing them as if the decision was too hard for him to make.
She wouldn't let him leave, and he wasn't going to be able to get past her either, especially in the again-worn out shape he was in.
In fact, he didn't even want to leave her. It seemed so much more important to make her happy than to simply get some stupid title and Vergil thought about how simple the decision actually was.
"Let's go back to that house." He said to her quietly, talking about the home of the dead leader.
She gave a sad smile, then helped him up and pulled his arm around her neck so she could help him walk.
Vergil reached a shaky hand down to pick up Yamato and its sheathe, then they continued down the street.
He noticed that her "children" were on the sides of the street; watching them with as close to a worried expression as unintelligent bat-looking monsters could have.
"Hmph. Just because I have blood like theirs they worry about me, huh?" He asked out loud.
Diva had a suppressed smile on her face, though it was content.
"You're their family, and they can't think for themselves. It only makes sense." She said back quietly as they spotted the house, strangely one of the few that hadn't been damaged very badly.
He looked up at the sky as they made their way closer and closer to the house.
"It's too bad that doesn't work for us." He remarked on Diva's and his situations.
She looked as sad as he felt, but still held that smile.
"I think my sister loves me… she just cares about the humans more." Diva spoke as if accepting something even though she didn't like it.
Thinking about it, that seemed to be Dante's and his relationship, though there was less overt-love and more fighting-to-the-death. Though he was sure Diva had her fill of that back in the human world as well.
Diva spotted something and leaned down to pick it up with her free hand, putting it in Vergil's hand.
It felt soft but he wasn't sure what it was as he closed his hand around it, making sure not to damage it.
Finally they made it to the house and they moved inside through the door-less entrance.
Diva and he made their way up the staircase and into a bedroom, where they sat down on the bed as Vergil leaned Yamato against the headboard, letting the end rest on the floor.
Vergil closed his eyes but then reopened them in surprise as Diva slid his legs up onto the bed as well.
She gave him the childish smile again, her "get-out-jail-free-card" whenever he got angry at her.
He always just found it impossible to stay angry at her when she gave that smile.
"Sleep here. They'll make sure no one comes here so you don't have to worry about anything. Just rest." Diva said, her smile becoming sadder again.
Vergil felt the ends of his mouth move up a bit in as close to a smile as he usually got.
"Would you like to lie down as well?" He asked her softly, seeming to surprise her.
Soon after though her surprise melted away and she got the smile again.
"Sure." She spoke quietly as she moved past Vergil on the bed and lay down next to him.
"What kind of dress did you say you wanted?" He offered once she was settled in.
She looked up at him again, surprised once more.
But as before her surprise disappeared and she lay down again, this time resting her head on his chest.
"I want a sleeveless white one. It'll have ruffles near the bottom and a blue scarf too." Diva said while closing her eyes; imagining the dress in her head.
"Where would we find that?"
She nuzzled against his chest and made a sound like a human purr.
"Somewhere."
Vergil felt the attempt-at-a-smile grow bigger at her…cute response.
They lay there for a few seconds in silence, Diva's arm lying on his chest as well.
"Vergil?" She asked sleepily.
"What is it?" He responded softly.
"When we… go home, will you stay with me?"
"What do you mean?"
"When we go back to the human world, you won't leave me will you?"
Vergil felt himself give a sad smile, even though she couldn't see it.
"No. I won't leave you."
"Promise?"
It suddenly became a bit harder to breathe.
"Yes, I promise. When we go back to the human world, I won't leave you."
"Mm. Thank you." Diva sounded almost completely asleep now.
They lay there for at least an hour, Vergil enjoying having Diva so close.
Then, when he was sure she was asleep, he started to gently move her over.
When Diva hugged him in her sleep as a response Vergil felt his heart quicken, then softly hugged her back.
After her hug loosened he again gently moved her over and laid her head on the pillow.
Vergil pulled himself slowly off the bed, then brought the blankets up over Diva, staring down at her for a few seconds before picking up Yamato and walking first out of the room, then down the stairs, and finally out of the house.
He walked through the town and looked at what Diva had put in his hand; a blue rose.
It caused him to smile sadly again, it being a remembrance of Diva.
The rose which didn't grow naturally in the human world, picked up by her as they happened to be going down the street.
It was truly the greatest gift he'd ever received.
Continuing through the town until he got to the walls, he examined them first from the ground, and then jumped quietly up onto them, making sure there was enough of that unique stone to keep the sand creatures from getting in.
He stared out into the night sky, up at the moon.
"The human world; when we go there, I'll never leave you." He spoke before bringing the blue rose up in his hand, like he'd done with Dante's amulet on Temen-ni-gru.
Then he brought it against his forehead and reaffirmed his promise before swiping it through his hair, pulling it back into its normal style and letting the petals fall behind him, carried off into the wind.
"When this is over and we can go back to the human world together, I'll finally be able to be happy, with you." He spoke, the sad smile dissapearing.
"Until then…" His humanity-filled eyes closed and he felt just how emotion was going through his system.
"Goodbye…Diva."
Then his eyes opened and the emotion vanished; his happiness, sadness, worry and everything else disappearing into the night like the blue rose.
Replaced by determination and strength.
Vergil jumped off the wall, heading towards the ruins of the tower and Enzeru.