Chapter 2

After a long talk with their superior, as Maria suspected, Dante and Nero were to help she and Jason until they found a way back home. They were to live with Jason and Maria until then. The government was also interested in their blood, so they took tests for DNA to see if it matched at all with Jason and Maria. Dante and Nero were given an option to dye their hair but they didn't want to. Jason was thrilled.

"Hell yea! We get to work with The Dante and Nero!" Jason exclaimed as they walked to a pizza restaurant they always went to. It was a secret place that didn't ask questions to why they have weapons. The people who worked there actually worked for the government group in charge of keeping secrets. They made this place specifically since Maria and Jason loved pizza.

"Heh, glad I have a fan!" Dante said with his usual (as Maria thought) arrogant way.

"Now see what you did Jason? You inflated is ego more..." Maria said annoyed.

"Jeez your no fun at all are you?" Dante said.

Maria looked down. "I can be fun..."

"Yea right..." Jason said. "You are never fun! Not since James..."

Maria stopped and put her Yamato replica through her cousins stomach. "Don't you dare mention him!"

"Wow... you didn't have to stab him!"

"He heals like you, there's no problem..." she said taking her sword out and putting it back in her sheath. "humph..." she said walking ahead.

"Whats with her?" Nero asked.

"Her attitude... it seems so... familiar..." Dante admitted.

"I bet it does..." Jason said after his wound healed just as fast as one of Dante's would. "Ever since she lost her fiancé to this big demon we lost to, she's been just like Vergil..."

"But... he was evil..." Dante said.

"I know... she's been just like him with that exception... its like he looked up to him."

"Who's Vergil?" Nero asked.

"Oh right... you didn't meet him... he was dead by then right?" Jason asked Dante.

"Yea... He was my elder twin brother. He's the one who owned Yamato in the first place..." Dante explained.

"Oh..." Nero said with his hand around the hilt of the beautiful sword.

"About eighteen years ago I fought with him so he wouldn't destroy the human world... in the end he was trapped in the demon world. A few years after that I fought him, and defeated him not even knowing it was him. I didn't know until after the medallion our mother gave us fell to the ground."

"Oh... I'm sorry."

"Its alright... I've been over it for a while..." Dante said with a sad smile. "I just can't believe it... she's just like him... granted I haven't seen her fight yet but..."

"She's just like him trust me..." Jason said. "Since the game thats based on the place your from, and... since her late fiancé died... she was determined to use her Yamato replica just like Vergil..."

"She was pretty good..." Nero admitted.

"I gotta see this for myself... Now who's this 'James'?" Dante asked looking up to make sure the female clone of her brother wasn't close listening. He hated being stabbed randomly...

"God, she'd kill me for telling you this... he was her fiancé. About a year and a half ago, she was engaged to him because she was pregnant... he obviously knew that she was part demon, I mean her right leg is like Nero's right arm..."

"I've noticed..." Nero said remembering how astonished he was at seeing her leg when they fought.

"Anyway, Maria was forced to stay home since she was pregnant... James and I ran into this huge demon. We tried to fend him off as much as we could, but he turned out to be too much for us. Before I knew it, he pinned me to the wall while making me watch him kill James. He finally let me go, not knowing that I would heal right away. When I woke up from being knocked out, I told the group when hey found me. I knew that maria would be devastated and would try to kill me, but she had to know. When I told her, at first she was very quiet. Then she stood up and walked into her room....

"A few hours later, she came out dressed in her usual fighting clothes. I tried to stop her, but she used my replica of Force Edge and pinned me to the wall to stop me. When I finally got out, I ran to where she was, but it was too late. She was on the ground all bloody, crying, and knew that her baby was killed. After she was healed, whenever anyone asked her what happened, she won't say a word, or say that she forgets. I've heard of post traumatic stress, but its ridiculous..." Jason finished.

"Wow... she must feel horrible..." Nero said thinking of how he felt when he almost lost Kyrie.

"Yea... lets just catch up with her and eat... I'm starved." Jason said changing the subject.

"Yea... lets go." Dante said getting back to his usual self.

When they arrived at the restaurant, Maria was sitting at her usual spot since she turned twenty-one... the bar. She ordered had her usual, a bottle of Mike Hard Pomegranate.

"Hey Maria, I'm sorry about that..."

"Its alright, we both know you have a big mouth like him..." she said pointing to Dante.

"I'll... just take that as a compliment..." Dante said with a grin and sitting down at a table which Maria joined after ordering another bottle. "So I heard you fight like my brother..."

"What of it?" she asked. It was clear she didn't feel like talking much...

"I just want to see if your exactly like him... I want to see how you fight."

"What? Fight against you?" she said looking up from her drink. "I'll fight you as long as you don't use those pathetic guns..."

"Heh... said just like him too... alright, deal." he said as the waitress came over.

"The usual?" she asked.

"Yea sure... What do you two want?" Jason asked.

"What's your 'usual'?" Dante asked.

"Everything, no olives..." Jason answered.

"I'll take it... what about you kid?" Dante asked Nero.

"Yea me too."

"Alright, two usuals..." the waitress said starting to walk away.

"Thanks babe!" Dante said. The waitress blushed and ran to the back.

"I knew it..." Maria said. "He's not in the restaurant five minutes and flirting..."

"There's no problem with that!" Jason said.

"Yea... your just like him... you didn't flirt with her because you were already with her!" Maria said with a grin.

"You know me so well..." Dante said rolling his eyes.

"Well I'm pretty good at studying characters." Maria said. "After all I am a writer myself..."

"Your a writer? When did you pick up that hobby?" Jason asked.

"You know when..." she said annoyed.

"Oh..." Jason said feeling a bit guilty. The rest of the night they talked about things like Dante's relationship with Lady, and Nero with Kyrie. What they didn't expect was that the rest of that night was going to be very eventful...