A/N Okay so WARNING! There is a small decapitation scene (I don't go into much detail of it though) and A limb loss scene as well but it's not so bad but I figured I would at least warn ya.
The second Dante landed on his feet he was swarmed by lesser demons that he easily tore through in his triggered form, he needed to find Vergil and fast, being in the state he was in would make him an easy target for anyone and Dante would be damned if he was going to let his brother die after everything they had been through.
He then caught a good whiff of his brothers' scent and ran as fast as his demon would let him and when he finally reached him the first thing he noticed was that Vergil was sitting on the ground leaning his back up against the damn demon that dragged him down here and the demons severed head was a few feet away from its body
"Glad to see you didn't become dog chow." Dante lightly joked as he dropped his trigger and kneeled down in front of Vergil who had his eyes open but didn't respond to Dante's comment
"Now knowing our luck this place is probably crawling with these damn things so let's get you out of here before more show up."
Dante then reached a hand out to help his brother stand up but Vergil just swatted his hand away "No, just leave me and get out, no use in dragging 'deadweight' around with you."
"You are not Deadweight; you never were deadweight and you'll never be deadweight get that through your head right now because I'm not going to repeat myself."
"There isn't much of a choice, this poison is blocking my healing abilities and the scent of my blood will just attract more demons, I can still fight so just save yourself."
Dante just stared at his brother for a moment in confusion "What poison are you talking about?" He then drew his attention to the wound on his brothers' neck where the demon had torn it open with its fangs "That's disgusting." Dante moved in closer, invading his twins' personal space to get a closer look. And disgusting it was, he had a decent size hole in the side of his neck that was oozing both blood and what looked like yellow puss
"It's a type of venom, poisonous." Vergil interrupted his thought, speaking all to calmly for someone who was suppose to be poisoned
"Just great! How do we get the that stuff out of you?" Dante huffed in annoyance, things can't ever go smoothly for them can it?
"There really isn't a way but it will eventually leave my body in due time, I'm just out of self healing for the time being and my body will be in a more weakened state."
"Are you speaking from experience or something ? You seem to know a lot about this."
Vergil took a deep breath, wheezing as he did so "Dante, I've literally spent most of my adult life down here, I've experienced a lot."
Dante had to mentally kick himself for that, of course Vergil would know a thing or two about the everyday chaos that happened here and it made him sick just thinking about how Vergil had to go through all this alone for so long
"Well I'm still not leaving you down here so you can forget about that." Then without another word being uttered he scooped his brother up and made a dash towards the opened hellgate, dodging any and all incoming demon that came their way
Even at the incredibly fast pace he was moving, Dante felt like it took ages to finally reach the gate but at last, they finally made it out and were greeted by the faces of Trish, Lady and Nero
"Took you long enough." Trish commented "And no worries we killed whatever decided to crawl it's ugly ass out of that gate."
"Thank you." Dante smiled softly letting out a much-needed breath as Nero walked over and grabbed Yamato from Vergil who had his eyes closed and face buried in Dante's coat
"So how did it go? Nero sai-" Lady began to ask but was cut off as Vergil snapped his eye's opened and free himself from Dante's hold stumbling to ground as he began to franticly look around
"Nero!? Where is he!?"
Dante opened his mouth to reply but Nero cut him off as he walked back over to Vergil and handed the sword back "Calm down, old man I'm right here, just had to close the gate before any more demons made it through but I'm fine I made it out in one piece."
That seemed to calm the older male down as he reached to take his sword back "I killed that demon, not Dante, for the record." He mumbled causing Dante to laugh
"Yeah, yeah we get it you're more "Powerful" than me."
"First step is admitting to it, I'm proud of you." Vergil replied of course in a mocking tone
Nero just shook his head at the two as Trish wrinkled her nose when she looked in Vergil's direction "You were bitted by something poisonous weren't you? You reek of it."
Vergil then brought his hand to his still bleeding neck as he let out a small growl "It's nothing, nothing permanent at least and nothing anyone needs to concerns themselves over."
"Speaking of which though we should probably head back so we can wrap that up and you don't bleed out." Dante said as he patted his brothers' shoulder
"Yeah, I need to head home myself so I'll see you assholes later and try not causing any more trouble." Nero waved them off before walking off in his own direction
"Heh punk." Dante shook his head with a chuckle as the four began to walk back towards the city, Vergil staying a few good steps behind them all, not really in the mood to socialize but that didn't stop the human women from joining his pace to pester him
"Oh, and for the record no one is concerning themselves about you, well maybe Dante but he can be a bit naïve sometimes but as for Nero? Who knows, but considering you ripped off the poor kids arm for more power I would guess he isn't concerning himself about you, maybe if someone cuts your arm off then you two could be even and you'll know what it feels like to go through what he went through." Lady gave him a sly smirk before running to catch up to the other two leaving Vergil to overthink that
"Pffft like I'll let an ignorant human get to me." But he still couldn't stop the thought popping into his head as he glanced slowly at his right arm
"Hey Vergil!" Dante's voice brought him out of his dark thoughts as he looked up to see his brother waving at him "You still with us? The ladies are going their separate ways so make haste will ya?"
Vergil stopped as he watched the two girls walk off before walking faster to match paces with his brother "I don't feel so good." He mumbled and Dante frowned
"Yeah, let's get you home." Dante decided as he let Vergil teleport them right to the DMC office where Dante then led his brother straight to the bathroom so he could quickly patch up Vergils neck
"I think I'm going to go lie down, it's getting hard to think straight." Vergil then got up from where was seated on the edge of the tub and walked past his brother to retreat to his own bedroom
Dante was perfectly fine with that as the events of the last few weeks finally started to settle down on him, his body now playing catch up to all the chaos that has happened and boy did he feel drained, so drained he could probably sleep for a week straight witch he almost did, once he retreated to his own room he instantly passed out the second his head hit the pillow and he was out for a good forty-eight hours and could have probably gone longer if a familiar scent didn't hit his nose.
His eye's snapped opened as he sat up and sniffed the air making sure he wasn't dreaming it but nope the whole place reeked of Vergil's blood once again and Dante mentally prepared himself to find his brother with that damn sword through his chest again but shockingly, he found Vergil standing with his back towards Dante and at first Dante thought maybe his nose was playing a trick on him till he noticed the pool of blood on the floor which brought his attention to the source
"VERGIL!? What the actual fuck!" Dante screamed as he stared at Vergil's arm that stopped just after his elbow, the rest of it however was not attached, no it was lost somewhere in the bloody mess under his feet
Vergil then turned slowly so he was facing Dante, Eyes clouded over as he spoke softly "Now Nero and I are even."
a/n Short I know but I been bad with updates and I'm sorry! Just wanted to post a little something, Aslo Dante is going to need a mega vacation after this!