For the next few days Dante did not dear to leave Vergil alone with anyone but himself, not that he didn't trust Nero with this situation, he did but Vergil seemed less tensed and more in control whenever Dante was around so the demon slayer has been dragging his twin with him almost everywhere including on missions witch Vergil didn't mind, he really did enjoy slaughtering these lesser demons and fighting alongside Dante was much more rewarding then fighting against him
"Ha! Nicely done Verge! I should have dragged you along on these missions a long time ago!" Dante said as Vergil casually wiped his blade clean of all the demon blood and guts.
"It's only low-class demons, Dante it doesn't really take much effort to kill them." Vergil replied as smirk formed on his face "Though it does make sense you would need help killing such weak enemies, you have lost your touch, brother."
Dante scoffed as he shot his brother a glare "My touch is just fine thank you very much! I can take these guys out in my sleep! I just thought I would throw you a bone for once, maybe hand the spot light over to you for a little bit."
Vergil then took his attention away from the katana to look over at his smug looking brother "If that's your way of trying to get me to do all your dirty work it's not going to work."
Dante just chuckled as he pat Vergil on the back "Of course not! I just really enjoy demon hunting with you! It feels nice to have you watching my back rather than stabbing it."
Vergil flinched at his words as he averted his gaze away but before he could get a word out Dante cut him off
"Don't you dare say it!" he smirked to himself as the words left his mouth "All is forgiven remember? Besides I have my own reasons to feel guilty."
Vergil then looked at his brother with confusion "What on earth do you have to be guilty for?"
The younger twin released a small sigh "Well there's Mallet island when I killed you, well I thought I killed you, I was so blinded by my own personal vendetta that I missed the subtle hints that Nelo was really you."
"Don't be foolish Dante, I know that's asking a lot from you but you did the right thing. If you didn't destroy Nelo then I still would be corrupted or even dead and for the record you didn't kill me, you set me free so for that I thank you."
Dante smiled softly as he felt some of the guilt lift away "Well even though it nearly destroyed me at the time I'm glad I did something right."
"It's not often that happens." Vergil teased as he sat himself down on a flat rock and began to rub his temples, a headache seemed to come out of nowhere and it slightly irritated the elder twin, these human weaknesses seemed to be really catching up with him and of course once Dante saw his brother messaging the sides of his head, worry slowly took over.
"Hey, you alright there? And you say I've lost my touch? Don't tell me your down for the count. "
Vergil scoffed "Don't be absurd, it's just a small headache. Probably just a slight side affect from being around you so much."
"Ohhhhh alright! Well, I guess I'll just leave you alone then, maybe I'll take a vacation! Yeah I can go as far away from you as possible." Dante said in a playful tone but the reaction he got from his older twin was not something he expected and it kind of worried him
"No!" Vergil's eyes widened in alarm as he started at Dante "Don't leave me alone! Not again. " he whispered the last part and Dante wasn't sure if he heard him right.
"Whoa hey calm down!" he could almost see pure terror in his brothers eyes and that alone made him sick "I was only joking with you, I'm not going anywhere even if you wanted me to."
Vergil seemed to calm down the second those words left his brothers mouth but didn't get to respond as Dante's annoying smug female friends seemed to pop out of nowhere and made their way over to the red clad demon hunter
"Hey, good job with clean up duty maybe after you leave deadweight home you can come play with the big dogs." Lady said taking the first opportunity to insult the older male. Vergil of course didn't take her bait and just turned his head away with a scoff, she just lucky she's Dante's friend and that he doesn't want to upset his brother.
"Hey now, it was my decision to take these easier jobs, just feeling lazy is all, besides you two ladies do just fine without me don't ya?"
"Well of course we do but I take it you haven't told your brother what we discovered the other day, have you?" Trish asked as she glanced over at Vergil who still had his head turned away from the group
"Now is not the time Trish, besides we don't know for certain if that's the case and in till we find out more then he doesn't need to be bothered with it."
The young demon sensed Dante's distress about the situation so she didn't bother to push forward but Lady on the other hand who was still holding a grudge on Vergil didn't want to spear him of his feelings so she shook her head as she glanced back over at Dante
"Don't you think your brother has a right to know that his puppet master might be back? Or is the all-powerful dark slayer not strong enough for the truth? Why are you trying to spear his feelings Dante? He never spared yours! He's hurt you and he will continue to hurt you till you throw him back into the underworld where he belongs!"
Dante's care free smile soon fell into a deep frown as he waited for Lady to finish her rant before he spoke in a too much serious voice that was not Dante like at all "Lady, I get you have problems with Vergil, I get you find it hard to forgive and forget but you have to remember that Vergil is my Brother and you have no idea what he's been through. Yes, he's done some shitty fucked up things in his past but his true intentions were never bad, he just lost his way and had no one to guide him, no one to care about him, he was completely alone most of his life but at least he's trying to change, he's apologized to me more times than I can count since he's been back from hell and he wants to right all of his wrongs. He needs support and he needs me and I'm not going to turn my back on him like the rest of the world has, so please out of respect for me try to at least tolerate him." Dante then took a much needed deep breath after all that.
Lady of course just sighed and nodded her head, maybe she will never be able to forgive Vergil but for Dante she will at least try "Okay, fair enough, for YOU I will try to keep my temper in check around him."
Dante smiled softly and went to say his thanks but Trish cut him off "That's real sweet and all but while you ladies were talking, Vergil took off."
Dante then quickly spun around to find out Trish was right; Vergil was nowhere to be seen and that caused a slight panic to rise up "Fuck! Where the hell did he go?"
"Maybe he went back to the shop?" Lady suggested but Dante shook his head
"No, knowing Vergil I might have an idea." He then turned back around to face Trish "Is there a hellgate open nearby?"
Trish who seemed unfazed by the whole situation just nodded "Actually yeah, just a few miles that way." she pointed in the direction in which her and Lady come from "Need help?"
"Nah I should be fine but thanks!" Dante waved them off as he took off running, as much as he respected those two, clearly them being around Vergil right now was not a good idea so he decided to call his favorite nephew for help instead.
To say Nero was fucking pissed would be an understatement. No, he was livid when Dante told him what happened "Are you fucking kidding me!? How could you let this happen?"
"Hey! It was Lady who probably chased him off, I was in the middle of defending him when he decided to quietly take off! Seriously we need to get a bell for him."
"Right, and are you sure he came here?" Nero asked much calmer now
"Well my instincts tell me he is."
"... Great! We're following your instincts? This is going to end badly."
"Hey! Have some faith in me, I know Vergil is down here... I can feel it."
"Yeah that's reassuring." Nero mumbled
"Again, have some faith kid! We'll find him." Dante reassured him "But first we got some company." He said as the pair turned around to see a few riots and pyrobats heading their way
"Well let's kick some ass then!" Nero smirked as he revved Red queen and charged forward slicing through the demons like butter, with his blade in one hand and frying them with overture using his other.
"Don't get too cocky kid!" Dante called out as he sliced through his own heard of demons, switching between devil arms as he did "Hell yeah!"
"Pfft look who's talking." Nero shook his head as he cut down his last enemy turning towards Dante as he finished up his own kills "Well that was easy enough."
Nero said as he went to continue onward but Dante held an arm out in front of him to stop him in his tracks "Wait, there's something else." Dante narrowed his eyes as a growling figured emerged from around the corner.
"What the fuck is that thing?" Nero asked as he turned his attention towards the demon, it kind of looked like a mutated giant wolf dog with one glowing red eye in the middle of its forehead and a long tongue hanging out of its muzzle dripping a yellow looking saliva to the ground
"Couldn't tell you, looks like a cross bread demon if you ask me but either way the pooch is going down!" Dante charged forward with his demon sword ready to slice this thing to pieces but before he could land a blow on the damn thing it seemed to vanished from sight only to reappear beside the demon hunter, snarling and snapping its jaw ready to sink its fangs into Dante's rib cage but luckily Dante managed to dodge it in time and landed a decent kick to the side of its head causing it to yelp as it hit the ground
"This thing has tricks up its sleeves, careful kid!" Dante warned as Nero made a charge at the beast while it was down
The demon however was already back up on its clawed feet and charging at Nero and once again disappearing as he went to land a hit but this time it reappeared behind the young demon hunter and jumped on his back, digging its claws into him
"Nero!" Dante shouted as Nero was knocked to the ground
"Fuck off!" Nero shouted as he rolled over onto his back and used his arm to block the jaw lunging at him and luckily the demons teeth sunk into the arm with the devil breaker on it, though that caused a slight gasp to escape from Nero as he watched the yellow saliva drip onto it, burning a hole straight threw but before the drool could reach his actual hand he broke the breaker causing the demon to yelp in surprise as it exploded in its face but that gave Nero the time to stand back up, unfortunately though he lost sight of the damn thing
"Nero look out!" Dante went to charge forward as the demon then lunged again from behind, this time aiming for Neros neck but before Dante could get over to him another figured appeared crashing into the demon dog, making some growling noises of his own
Dante stared in shock for a minute before calling out "Vergil!?"
Vergil didn't seem to hear his brother as he bared his own fangs at the growling demon dog using his own teleporting abilities to outsmart the mutt but something seemed off with him, he was sluggish and a bit uncoordinated and his breathing seemed a bit labored but he was determined to keep that beast away from Dante and Nero.
Dante of course went to run forward to help his brother but before he could the demon got the upper hand and managed to dig it fangs in Vergil's neck, dragging the eldest son of Sparda off the nearest ledge and causing the other two yell
"Vergil!"
"Dad!"
Both ran to the ledge, Dante instantly going into his sin devil trigger form "Get out of here, Nero! Now!" He yelled not giving the younger time to argue as he jumped off the ledged to follow his brother
Nero debated on if he should follow or not but decided against it, balling his hands into fist at his side and clenching his teeth together he growled out "You both better come out of this alive."
A/N I am so sorry for the long wait! I'm bad I know! But better late than never right? Also I apologize for the cliffhanger, I enjoy suspense when I'm doing it xD And Poor Vergil can't catch a break can he