Dante had never moved so fast in his entire life as he did when he rushed to Vergil's side, the first thing he did was yanked the sword from Vergil's only hand and tossed it onto his desk before assessing the damage
"God fucking damn it, Vergil!" Dante growled as he quickly yanked his shirt off to make a homemade tourniquet hoping to stop some of the blood gushing out. There was no way in the seven hells he was going to take Vergil to a hospital, that was definitely out of the question but Vergil was losing blood fast and by the looks of it he had already lost a good amount plus with his self healing being temporarily out of commission this was not looking good.
"Sorry to say this Verge but it looks like I'm going to have to cauterize this and I don't have any painkillers so this is probably going to hurt like a bitch."
The younger son of Sparada quickly guided his brother to the couch and forced him to sit down before disappearing to find the necessary tools to perform this little procedure. He honestly had no idea if this was going to work but it was really his only option at the moment plus he didn't really have time to think this over, he had to act quick.
Once he had all the tools he needed he hurriedly made his way back to his brother and smiled sadly at him as he kneeled in front of him.
"I'm sorry but this has to be done and it's going to hurt so bite down on this." Dante then placed a block of wood between his twins teeth and made him bite down on it before picking up a clean knife and lighter
"I've never done this before so I can't promise it's going to end well but maybe this will teach you not to amputate any more of your limbs!"
Vergil was still in a daze but he kept his gaze on Dante as he spoke, not exactly grasping what the younger was telling him, but Dante wasn't really expecting a response anyways, Vergil's eyes were still clouded over which meant he was in what Dante called la la land or more like la la personal hell but that's besides the point.
"Alright here we go." Dante said more to himself as he began the process by taking the lighter and heating up the metal enough so it was burning hot but not enough to turn the metal of the knife red and gently began to cauterize the wound in small burst, only holding the burning metal to blood dyed skin for no longer than two seconds at a time.
Vergil was definitely not okay with all of this, he bit down on the block of wood hard enough to snap it in half and then let out a loud growl as he tried to free himself from this tortured but Dante was not having it! He let out his own growl as he flashed his fangs at his brother, since Vergil tended to act more like a feral demon when he was lost in these attacks Dante decided the best way to reason with him was to reach out to his own inner demon and it seemed to work because Vergil's growls then turned into low whimpers and Dante was able to finish closing the wound up
He still wasn't one hundred percent certain he did the right thing but the bleeding had stopped and the older twin was no longer gushing blood all over the place and that was good enough for Dante so he then carefully banged up what was left of Vegil's arm and collapsed on his desk chair as he watched his brother curl into a ball and shake while still letting out small whimpers
He was still in the middle of his episode and Dante knew he had to snap him back to reality but he needed to catch his breath first so he gave Vergil another ten minutes to snap out of it on his own but it didn't seem to be the case so Dante rouse from his seat and walked over to his shivering twin, placing a hand on his clammy forehead
"Vergil, you need to snap out of this, you're not with Mundus anymore you're with me, Dante you know, your brother. You're at the devil may cry office not in the underworld." he then lightly grabbed Vergil by the chin to force him to look up at him
"Remember me? Your twin?" Dante asked as Vergil opened his eyes "Jackpot."
Vergil's eyes slowly began to become more focused as reality began to settle back in "Ugh, Dante?"
"The one and only! Welcome back to the real world! Get some rest, your body went through a lot and I'll explain everything to you once you rest up, in the meantime I'm going to clean your mess."
Sleep sounded grand to Vergil and he wasn't too sure what Dante was talking about but he'll worry about that later, for now he took Dante's advice and closed his eyes and drifted off into a dreamless sleep.
Once Date was certain Vergil was asleep he began to clean up the place, and it took close to two hours to clean all of the blood and disgared the dead limb but he finally got his place looking normal for the millionth time since he brought Vergil home.
He just hopped that Vergil would grow the damn arm back, Nero did so that should mean he and Vergil could do the same, right? Guess they'll find out.
Dante then glanced at the sword he had totally forgotten about during this mess and sighed deeply, he knew how much Yamato meant to his brother but right now he just wasn't stable enough to have any kind of weapons on him so he made the decision and Vergil was not going to be happy.
Deciding though that his brother's safety was more important than him being not being mad at Dante he quickly dialed his nephews number and sighed in relief when he heard the younger male answer with a cocky remark
"Well look who's actually alive! Thought you would never wake up, sleeping beauty."
"Hey, I Could have gone forty eight more hours but listen I need you to stop by the office as soon as you can, I need you to do something for me, and can you also bring some of those devil breakers of yours? The ones designed for you before your arm grew back?"
Nero was a bit confused by that but he knew Dante would explain his reason when he got there so he just agreed "Uhhh yeah sure, not a problem old man, I'll be there in twenty."
After hanging up with Nero, Dante began to gather up all the devil arms he had hanging on the wall and put them in a pile on his desk next to Yamato. Apparently he is going to have to Vergil proof his place for the time being, no more taking any chances with him.
He even went as far as hiding all his kitchen knives and other sharp tools in his room where he knew they would be safe from Vergil.
Once all that was taking care of he went back downstairs to see his nephew standing in the doorway looking a bit confused as he stared at Dantes desk
"Is there a reason you have all your weapons on your desk?"
"It's not all of them, just the devil arms and Yamoto witch I'm going to need you to take to your place and put them somewhere for the time being."
"Umm okay but why? And why did you want these?" he asked holding up a devil breaker, overture
Dante stood silent for a few seconds trying to figure out the best way to explain all this in a way that wouldn't cause Nero to overreact
"Well you see, I woke to Vergil having another episode and I guess he's been feeling a bit guilty about ripping off your arm."
Nero just stared at Dante not filling in the blanks as he asked "Yeah? So? He apologized to me the other day about it but we really didn't go further into the subject, I thought he was over it."
Dante sighed "Yeah well apparently he wasn't and he thought the only way to get even with you was, well, uhhhh just look." Dante then walked over to Vergil's sleeping form and carefully, very carefully lifted his arm up to show Nero the banged up stump that was left of his right arm.
"Are you fucking kidding me?" Nero stared in shock, why on earth would he think that was okay!? "Did he honestly think that would make me feel better!?"
"Don't have to tell me, kid I already yelled at him but he was in the middle of his episode so I don't think he understood a word I said to him but that's the problem with these stupid attacks, it's like he doesn't have a mind of his own darning them." Dante said as he carefully put Vergil's arm down
"Yeah actually he said something like that, like he doesn't have any control whatsoever when he is in the middle of one...Did you guys ever find out if Mundus was actually back?"
Dante shook his head as he plopped down at his desk "Nope, we didn't find hard proof but we also haven't investigated any further."
Nero was quiet for a few minutes as a new theory then popped into his mind "Well what if he is back but not in the way you would think."
That grabbed Dante's attention "What do you mean?"
"Well and this is just a theory but what if he is back but through Vergil? You said he was enslaved and tortured by that creep for almost a decade right? Who knows what he could have done in that amount of time, so what if while Vergil was having these attacks it was really Mundus mind controlling him and putting images in his head that weren't actually there. When he had that attack with me he screamed something along the lines of ``get the hell out of my head' so maybe he really isn't imaging it."
Dante mauled that over "But why Vergil? He should have beef with me not Verge, I was the one who killed him."
"Yeah but what would hurt you more? You suffering or you watching your brother suffer knowing there wasn't a damn thing you could do about it?"
"... Good point… But if that is true then how do we beat Mundus this time?"
"The only way would probably be to kill the host he chose, to kill Vergil." The look Dante gave Nero actually made the young demon hunter flinch "Calm down I wasn't actually suggesting we do that, I don't want to have to bury either one of your dumb asses anytime soon, I'm just saying if this guy is really as messed up as you say he is then its kinda possible but then again I'm not sure how you demons really work."
Dante let out another long sigh, what the kid was saying did make a lot of sense but he was really hoping it wasn't true, he wouldn't be able to survive killing Vergil again but he also didn't want to see Vergil suffer like this either.. No matter how they looked at it, they were in a pretty shitty situation.
"Hey I'm sure we can think of something, no need to get all emotional about it, nothing has been proven yet." Nero tried to ease Dante's worry along with is own but doubted it worked
"Yeah I know, I just don't like seeing your old man suffer like this, he's been through a lot already, he should be enjoying what time he has left not being in misery all the time, you know?"
Nero nodded "Yeah I know what you mean but we just have to take it one day at a time, but don't worry I'll take all these weapons back to my place and I'll even help my father learn how to use the devil breakers and if you need me to sit in and keep an eye on him so you can have break or even if you just need to sleep for another two days let me know."
Dante smiled at that, Nero really was a good kid and he was extremely grateful for him "Thanks kid, I might actually take you up on that offer."
"No worries old man, now help me carry these damn weapons to the van so we can order a few pizza's while we wait for shithead to wake up."
The older male laughed as he jumped to his feet "Don't threaten me with a good time! Punk."
Nero smiled, ha success, getting Dante to smile was pretty easy even if it wasn't genuine at the moment he will still take it, they had a long night ahead of them and he was almost certain neither of them was going to get any sleep as they patiently waited for Vergil to wake.
A/N Kinda boring I know but I did feel a little bad I left it on a cliffhanger so I wanted to type something up really fast :)