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LINEAGE

By PCSP

Chapter 3

Vergil woke up with a feeling he was being watched. He quickly jumped to his feet, his right hand automatically closing around Yamato's handle; he observed the dark environment with trained eyes, looking for any kind of threat.

Nothing abnormal seemed to happen: Dante slept in front of the cave exit, apparently unconcerned with any movement that might be happening outside. Vergil rolled his eyes, feeling like an imbecile for thinking Dante would be mature enough to watch his back for a few hours.

"I'm feeling all your judgment gaze piercing into my skull, Verg." Dante muttered, yawning, "Cut it out. I'm not sleeping."

"Sure." He sarcastically replied. Like hell Dante hasn't just woke up, he knew very well his brother lack of responsibility.

"It's true! I just closed my eyes for a few minutes..." The younger mumbled, yawning once again.

Vergil hid a little smile behind his hand. His brother was a stupid irresponsible devil hunter, but the way Dante woke up usually made resurface such good memories from their childhood... He misses waking his brother up when he slept while he was reading a good book for him.

When they were seven-year-old, Dante used to regularly spend time with him, and wanted to do it even when Vergil wanted to catch up with his reading. It didn't matter to Dante that Vergil didn't want to play with him, he earns to be near his twin at all costs. When that was the case, his little brother usually asked Vergil to read his books out loud, and since Vergil loved to brag about his books and he dreamed of sharing this passion with Dante one day, he happily did it. Of course, he read out loud just for fifteen minutes or so, because Dante always slept in the middle of the reading. Later, when Vergil woke the younger up because their mother was calling them or something like that, Dante woke up just at the same way he did just now: mumbling, yawning and denying he was asleep.

Good times, good memories.

"Of course you did." Vergil relaxed his posture, and Dante finally opened his eyes.

The younger sprouted sharp fangs, and now his eyes had narrow pupils with a red tint in its irises. It seems like Dante's demon was ready to go out and play, because each passing hour he was gradual letting his demonic side free, inciting his partial devil trigger .

However, Dante didn't seem to notice his own change in appearance, because he wasn't paying attention to himself: all his demonic features were contracted in a confusion frown while he stared at Vergil. After understanding what he was seeing, Dante's confused frown changed to a devilish grin.

"Are you excited to see me, sleeping beauty?" Dante chuckled.

Vergil frowned, because he didn't understand what Dante was talking about. He looked down instinctively at his crotch, to see if he had to deal with any kind morning erection (he was nearing his heat, after all), but his brother only laughed at his confused search.

Dante stretched his arms upwards, seemingly full of energy as he stood up and came closer to him.

"Look behind you, Verg."

Since he didn't have the luxury of having a mirror in twenty years to check is appearance, Vergil turned his upper body and looked at his back, pushing his overcoat out of the way.

Oh. Well, it looks like it wasn't just Dante who was showing some partial devil trigger traits.

"You are literally wagging your tail for me, you're such a good boy! " Dante teased, smiling as if he saw the funniest thing in the world "Hella cute, if you ask me."

Vergil felt slightly ashamed, because yes, his damn tail was showing and yes, it was wiggling. This inconvenience was not something he had to deal with before, since his old devil trigger never had a tail. After he unlocked his sin devil trigger with the power of the Qliphoth's fruit, the stupid new trait showed up. This means he would have to learn how to deal with it.

Annoying.

He tried to control it, without success. The tail was moving by itself, as if it had a mind of its own; he gave up and simply let the overcoat cover it again, sighing irritated.

"Don't be all cranky." Dante cooed, "I thought it suits you a lot!"

"Shut up!" Vergil scolded him, pinching the bridge of his nose when Dante laughed again, apparently in a great mood that morning (Was it morning? Afternoon? Night? He didn't know, in hell the concept of time did not seems to apply very well) "Did you feel or hear anything strange?"

"Yes." Dante replied, ceasing his laughter, but keeping a radiant smile on his lips while he approached Vergil with carefreeness "The demons gave me a break and stopped trying to get closer to you some time ago. They all went north when some reddish light appeared in the sky, just a few kilometers from here. That's why I took a little break and rested my eyes."

Eye rest… Suuuure.

"A reddish light, you say?"

"Yeah!"

"A portal, perhaps." The older thoughtfully murmured.

"Portal?" Dante asked, as his smile grew even more while his body stiffened at the prospect of getting out of Hell.

"I'll have my heat in one week, more or less." Vergil continued to speak, still maintaining a thoughtful posture "So I think you should rise to the surface as soon as possible."

Dante's smile instantly vanished.

"What!?" Dante opened his arms as if trying to blocking the cave's exit with his body, fearing that Vergil could simply run away from him again "You can't be fucking serious! I won't let you stay here in Hell by yourself!".

"Foolishness. There is no reason for you to prolong your suffering. Since you clearly have no interest in spending my heat with me, and since I will be unable to continue our spares, you should just go. We can get closer to the scum, find the portal, and while I can maintain it open with the power of Yamato, you can cross it without problem."

"Vergil, I am not going anywhere without you." Dante said in a definitive posture.

"Why?"

Why, indeed. Didn't Dante want to return to his shop, his women, his… Nero? Sure, his brother misses Nero. They should reunite as fast as possible, and Vergil was just trying to help that.

"Because I won't lose you again." Dante felt a lump in his throat, a mixture of anger and dread suddenly invading his body just by thinking of being apart from Vergil one more time "Never again, brother. I won't let that happen!"

Vergil's answer was a little scoff, as the two Spardas proceeds to exchange extremely frustrated looks. Dante, realizing that his arguments wouldn't be enough to convince Vergil, decided to play dirty:

"Don't you want to meet Nero properly?"

"I already met him as V. There's nothing else to know".

Dante rolled his eyes.

"You accompanied him on a mission, just one!" he exasperated "I've been meeting the boy for years and every week I learn something new about him. Please, Vergil, do not waste the new opportunity that life is giving you! You can't possibly want to stay in hell while you could be by your kid's side! "

"I am the new ruler of the underworld." Vergil simply said, as if this answered everything.

"Fuck that underworld bullshit!" Dante was starting to sound pissed off "Our father sealed the underworld and choose to stay in the human world for a reason, can't you see? Why are you so stubborn!? I just fucking want this fucked up family to be fucking happy !"

"Brother..." Vergil sighed, feeling too exhausted to argue. He needed Dante to get away as soon as possible, because when their instincts became too difficult to control, there would be no going back; and he knew his brother wouldn't like that "My place has never been among humans, and you know it."

"Your place is by your family's side, and you know it, asshole! That's why you wanted to defeat Mundus: because he killed mom, because he was trying to kill us, because of Nero's security. This is your human side speaking, and you have to listen to it once in a lifetime. I know you don't care about what I want, but Nero is waiting for your return. Think of it, think of what your kid wants."

That isn't true. – Vergil thought with melancholy – I care about what you want, little brother. More than I should...

This thought made Vergil snap out of it. He really shouldn't worry about Dante's desires, no! Just because he remembered something about their past that was pleasant, it doesn't mean that he has any kind of responsibility towards Dante's need. Dante didn't want to mate him, sure, but Vergil shouldn't take that into consideration. He would go to the surface ground and his brother would have to deal with the consequences.

"Ok. I'll go, to close this cycle. Nero will soon realize that I have nothing more to contribute to his life and, as soon as that happens, I will return to my original place." Vergil stared at Dante with a serious look "I hope you know what you're getting into, because I won't back of for your sake."

Dante felt a shiver in his spine, not quite understanding what Vergil was referring to. But that didn't really matter, because his brother was going with him willingly! That's a fucking miracle!

He sighed in relief when Vergil pushed his arm out of the way and left the cave, walking gracefully towards the strange red light on the horizon. He appreciated the way his brother's tail wagged with each new step, thinking of how his tail would react when he fuc-…

DEVIL-ME! NO!

Shaking his head to dissipate the demonic thoughts, Dante jogged to Vergil's side, walking by his side.

Each step made them came closer to the red light, closer to human realm, closer to home , and Dante felt excited again by the small evolution in their relationship. Who would have thought that one day he would wander around with Vergil, as they used to do when they were kids? He felt giddy, full of energy, wholesome, and…

"By the way," Vergil said, casually breaking Dante's thoughts "I'm not the only one with partial devil trigger ".

"What do you mean?"

"Your teeth and eyes. They are devilish enticing right now."

Dante brushed his tongue against the upper row of teeth, realizing how sharp his canine teeth were. He obviously couldn't see his own eyes, but he doubted Vergil was going to lie about something like that, as Vergil only spoke the essentials and nothing more (unless he was almost asleep, as Dante learned a few hours ago). His eyes probably were red and all devil like.

Yuck.

"Weird." Dante scratched his stubbled chin "This has never happened before."

Vergil hummed, seemed entranced by his brother ignorance about his devil behavior.

It will be so much fun to teach him, just like when we were kids. – Vergil's thought, smirking – But I'll teach far less 'childish knowledge' for him, that's for sure.

"We're in Hell, and I'm close to a heat cycle. These gradual changes will appear naturally." He explained.

"Gradual? You mean if we stay here until the end of the week, we will turn completely? Without intending to trigger ?"

"That's right!" Vergil spoke happily, and had to refrain his laugh when his brother sudden stopped walking, clearly terrified with the new information "Our demonic side will take over. And since we are in our natural habitat, there is nothing more obvious that the devil inside us rule our brains during a heat spent in Hell."

Dante instinctively quickened his pace, wanting now more than ever to return to the surface. The last thing he wanted to do was to lose himself even more to his inner demon, and while he loved the prospect of having tailed Vergil by his side, this fetish was certainly not a very human thing. He should stop it, while it was still stoppable.

"W-we are going back, so that won't be a problem in the human realm… Right?" Dante stuttered.

"We'll see."

Well, that answer did not soothed Dante's fears.

Focus on Nero. You have to go back to find the kid. This demonic bullshit will stop when you return. You know it will.

And that thought made Dante almost run to the red light. Vergil smirked again behind his brother's back, not even bothering to quick his pace. It was so interesting how his brother vehemently refused to accept the demon side of his nature; Vergil would love to see how much Dante would resist.

Run all you can, while you can…

Because Dante would inevitably lose, and Vergil definitely was looking forward to his victory.

You're already mine, little brother.

(***)

When they were close enough to observe what was happening, Dante felt like laughing. The demons, a little bit over forty or so, were circling the strange light in a synchronized way. They seemed like lesser demons, the ones with limited intelligence, and they definitely acted like they had no knowledge at all of what was happening.

"Are they dancing?" Dante grinned, finding it all very funny.

"The horde of scum are trying to open the fissure on the time-space veil, to create a portal. Though they do not know how to do it, that's why it seems like a dance, but they are just acting on instincts. Stupid useless beasts…" Vergil concluded, while the two watched the great demonic manifestation around the light, which now reached the ground. He knew demons could not put themselves under the light, but it was obvious what they wanted, as they spun in circles around it, expecting at any moment that something would happen.

"And where does this 'fissure' come from?" Dante asked again, just because he loved to hear Vergil's voice. He wasn't stupid, he had been in Hell once and had used a portal to come back, but Vergil didn't know it, so he wanted to encourage him to keep talking.

Damn, it's so good to finally talk to his brother, instead of crossing swords with him every time they met.

"Humans." Vergil answered, unsheathing Yamato and feeling her vibrate in his fingers, ready to do her work "Invocation rituals, probably. Humans are foolish enough to do anything for more power."

"Looks like someone I know, don'tcha think?" Dante scoffed.

Vergil narrowed his eyes, but choose not to answer the provocation. He returned his attention to the light beam, watching it sprung in intensity and decrease its brightness constantly. It clearly was a weak ritual, because it wasn't stable enough to open the portal.

He would have to help.

"The fissure has narrowed the dimensions considerably, but it's not enough to open the portal. I can cut the veil with Yamato, if we get there before the humans give up on the ritual. That way, we can go back to the human realm, but we'll have to close the portal to prevent the scum from trespassing."

"Yes!" Dante celebrated, unleashing Ebony and Ivory from his gun holster "Let's rock!"

"Wait." The elder ordered, smacking Yamato's scabbard at Dante's chest, preventing him from attacking immediately "I'll need your energy too".

"Uh?"

"The source of energy is drawn considerably while opening portals between realms. Usually demons don't interfere with the time-space veil between worlds because the ritual can potentially kill them. That's why this kind of rituals uses soul or blood offerings to unleash the seal and reopen the closed portals. Since they are trying to open a new portal, not a previously closed one, it will consume much more energy, and it sure can kill me if I'm not careful."

Dante's eyes widened, visibly unsure of the plan now that Vergil explained. He didn't want to put Vergil's life at risk... That's not a good idea.

"Vergil, no. Let's wait another way to-…"

"Therefore," he interrupted "You will have to close the portal yourself with Yamato's help, because I won't have enough energy."

"But… Vergil… I-" He tried to put some reason within Vergil's mind, he really did.

"Make haste, Dante. We don't have much time left."

"Vergil! Listen to me!"

Of course his brother didn't listen: Vergil simply attacked the horde of demons, judgment cutting his way through them while swinging his tail from behind. Without much choice, and still terrified by everything his brother had just revealed, Dante followed his brother in the attack.

The battle was easy, since their opponents were all lesser demons; the Sparda's twin killed all the demons quickly and, during the battle, Dante tried in every way to get Vergil to stop his nonsense and listen to him, without any success. Ignoring his pleas, Vergil just killed the demons that were in his way to reach the light beam. He let Dante took care of the rest, while he concentrated all of his energy within Yamato's blade to open the portal.

Dante saw Yamato shine in a blue light. His brother was starting the energy transfer, and Dante felt terrified.

"STOP! VERGIL!" he tried to get closer to his brother, but the last demon of the horde (a fury, one of the fastest he has ever faced) interrupted him. While he killed the damn fury, Vergil gathered all his energy and opened the portal with two effective slashes inthe air.

Dante just had time to shout his name, praying whatever god that was up there for his idiot brother to stop being an asshole and wait. He still didn't know what he should do after crossing the damn portal!

But Vergil kept ignoring him, watching the portal magically appear and expand its size. Dante could see a gravestone and some dark atmosphere through the other side, but it definitely leads to a place on the human world. They did it!

At the moment the portal opened fully, Dante managed to kill the fury and started to ran towards Vergil. He wasn't fast enough, for his brother was already taking the first step through the other dimension.

"VERGIL! WAIT! GODDAMN IT!"

It was in vain. Vergil crossed over to the human realm and Dante, cursing, followed behind him.

(***)

Undefined date – Sometime at night

Somewhere in human world

As he crossed the portal, Vergil felt instantly exhausted: his energy was almost over, and it was hard to breathe while he was trying to balance himself using Yamato for support. His attempt to remain stable was unsuccessful, and his legs wobbled until his feet slipped and Vergil fell on the floor, hitting his knees on the dump grass. He couldn't see an inch in front of his eyes, his head hurt too much to focus his vision into the darkness, but he heard humans' muffled screams around him.

While trying to concentrate, he felt Dante's demonic energy nearby, indicating that he was right behind him. Vergil turned to face him, but his tired eyes were useless and his brother was also out of focus; however, the aura around him was unmistakable.

"Vergil?" Dante bent down beside him, shaking slightly his shoulders as if trying to stabilize him. He sounded concerned, probably due not used to seeing Vergil so exhausted.

"D-dante," he coughed, trying to speak with a raspy voice "The portal. Close the portal!"

Vergil tried to give him Yamato, but Dante didn't take her, pushing her back to his brother's chest and forcing Vergil's finger to continue closed around Yamato's handle.

"I tried to tell you, you idiot! I can't close spectral portals with Yamato, I can just destroy physical portals using her! She never accepted me as a sword master, she only accepts you! She is the only devil arm I never mastered fully, because she is as stubborn as you, you jackass!"

Vergil blinked, astonished.

He never thought that there existed a devil arm that his brother couldn't use on its full potential, because his brother was really good at that (not that Vergil would ever admit it, though). He knew Yamato was an extremely loyal devil arm, because it took him a few years for her to obey him the same way she obeyed Sparda. Nowadays, it feels like he and Yamato shared a soul, because their connection are so tight that Vergil heard her melodious voice in the back of his mind every time he touches her. She loves him, as he loves her... In fact, Yamato cried out for his presence when they were far away, and that's how he was able to find her in Nero's possession.

However, it never crossed his mind that Dante was unable to fully dominate her, even with all her loyalty. And while Vergil was proud of Yamato's loyalty to him, it made things a little bit difficult now.

"I need more power." Vergil concluded, blinking fast while trying to stable his senses. He had to do something; he didn't have time to be fatigated.

"Oh no... not again." Dante murmured, waiting for the worst scenario as he heard Vergil's declaration.

Vergil rolled his eyes and instantly regret it. He felt even dizzier now.

Shit.

"Fool. I mean need energy to close the portal." He closed his eyes, trying to regain his balance; he knew crossing the two realms could mess your energy a lot, but he wasn't used of feeling so... unstable "You have to kiss me."

And that seemly out of nowhere request was received by Dante like a punch in the stomach.

"… What the fuck!?" Dante's voice cracked, and Vergil would find it funny, if he wasn't in a hurry.

Vergil concluded that he still had some strength to enchant, and that's better than explain things. They didn't have time, after all: Vergil opened his heavy eyelids with difficulty, and stared at his brother's icy blue eyes the best way he could.

Well, at least they're blue once again. That's a good sign.

Dante was dumbfounded, but as he reciprocated the stare, he felt automatically mesmerized by the strength of Vergil's call, losing the focus on his vision and the hardness of his gaze.

"Brother..." Dante murmured, slowly bringing his face close to Vergil's, ready to kiss him and let his twin suck his energy as much as he wanted. He was enchanted, but that didn't stop Vergil from feeling slightly giddy and anxious. His omega self really wanted to kiss Dante, he ached to bit his lips, to feast on his blood, to become one with his mate...

However, before the desired kiss happened, another demon crossed the portal. Since they were the first thing in front of the damn creature, the demon emitted a loud roar while running to attack them. The humans screamed in fear around them (Vergil had almost forgot about their existence), and all this loud noises made Dante come out of his trance state; the younger twin understood that they were under an attack and summoned his sword as fast as he could, counter-attacking the demon with precise and ferocious slashes before it could touch him or Vergil.

The older twin sighed in irritation, but the proximity with Dante lent him a little bit of energy. Even if the kiss hasn't truly happened, he finally could see clearly.

After looking around, Vergil concluded that they were in a graveyard. Even if the full moon on the sky illuminated the place and gave it some kind of beauty, it certainly wasn't a peaceful nor a well-maintained graveyard: the grass was wild, the tombstones were cracked, and the whole place seemed abandoned for at least five years. There weren't many people around, at most five, but they should be the ones performing the ritual, as all of them wore dark robes with large hoods that concealed their faces.

The ritualists seemed scared, stepping behind confused as what to do now that they concluded their ritual (the stupid humans never think far enough, as always). Among of the ritualists, Vergil could see just one person with the hood down: a young naïve woman, with eighteen or nineteen-years-old, wearing black lipstick and heavy make up around her brown eyes.

Oh, I should've concluded that it was goth teens playing with things they can't understand. – Vergil thought, sighing and feeling too old to deal with this kind of inconvenience. He didn't appreciate humans very much, but teen humans were even harder to deal with.

He listened to the screams and battle noises in the background as a kind of morbid symphony, but he didn't have time to wait for his brother inevitable win against the inconvenient demon ( The scum interrupted my kiss... I hope Dante kills it painfully and slowly, as it deserves to be killed! ). He had to regain energy and close the portal before more pests came to the human realm.

So, without even paying attention to any other details around him, Vergil stared at the fearful eyes of the young woman and enchanted her.

Since she was a weak human, she obeyed his command without any major problems: she took firm and heavy steps towards him, ignoring her friends' pleas as she kneeled in front of him and took his face in her hands. Without blinking she joined her lips against his, still mesmerized by his gaze. Neither closed their eyes as they kissed, and the whole action was far from passionate: the kiss was just a soft touch of lips, but it was enough to Vergil suck as much energy as he could without putting the human's life at risk (Not that Vergil cared for foolish teen humans' wellbeing, but Dante didn't like it very much when he killed humans, so it was better to avoid fighting).

I'm becoming too soft... That must be the heat's fault.

Seconds later, when the kiss finally ended, Vergil felt extremely stronger. He heard all the noises clearly around him and visualized the cemetery as bright as a full moon night could shine. He heard the cry of despair from the lesser demon when it was executed by Dante, but he also heard a fierce growl that could only indicate that there was one more demon escaping through the portal.

He turned, ready to help Dante battle the new pest that had centrally arrived, but was surprised to see his brother, in full sin devil trigger form, wielding his sword and looking at the woman who had just kissed him with the most murderous look he had seen on another.

The growl Vergil had heard wasn't from a new demon arriving; it was from his pissed off brother.

"Run." He ordered the teen ritualist that still hasn't escaped, his tone effective enough that all of them began racing for their lives. The woman, with little energy that she had left, was helped by one of the cloaked teens, and Vergil saw her look back as she sprinted, trying to understand what had just happened between them.

Dante followed her with his gaze, demonstrating his eagerness to attack her before the poor thing managed to reach the cemetery gates. He seemed to be waiting just for the right second, just to toy with his pray a little bit.

Vergil had to act. Fast!

"Dante!" Vergil snapped at him, standing up and swaying Yamato, ready to stop Dante from attacking the humans, even if it was necessary to fight him "Snap out of it! You're going to regret it later!"

His voice seemed to help Dante regain his conscience, because a second later he deactivated his sin devil trigger . Now in his human form, he still looked at the woman's back with the same murderous expression; but Vergil noticed that Dante's eyes returned to their conventional icy blue, and he relaxed considerably: Dante was pissed off, but wouldn't attack the humans.

Another demon passed through the portal, but it was some weakling scum that Vergil managed to execute with just one precise judgment cut. After his execution, Vergil stepped on the demon corpse and came close to the portal, expanding a good amount of his energy while wielding Yamato.

He closed the portal with a precise cut in the air, mending the time-space veil with some effort.

Vergil grunted in exhaustion once again. This time, however, he didn't use all of his energy and had a little bit left, even though he was breathing hard and undeniably needed a good night of sleep to recover his pristine usual form.

Now that the humans were no longer present, Dante turned his attention to him. Vergil could have sworn that his brother was still snarling in the back of his throat as he demanded:

"What the fuck was that?" Dante dangerously growled.

Vergil smugly arched his brow.

Jealous much, little brother?

"Energy transfusion." Vergil explained, trying to conceal the amusement in his voice "I tried to get from you, but-..."

"You kissed someone else!" Dante snarled.

Vergil let a grin appears in his lips, realizing that the situation could be manipulated to his advantage. Dante was acting with all his alpha possessiveness again, and Vergil really wanted to have a little fun with that.

"Hush, little brother." He closed their distance and raised his brother's chin with his index finger. He licked his own bottom lip as Dante's breath hitched, his brother was watching his tong movement closely "Weren't you the one who was afraid of doing things that were against your strong and stupid human morals? I simply refrained from giving you this unspeakable agony and choose to inflict this dark karma to another being. Oh, how could you live with yourself if you kissed your own flesh and blood? You clearly don't want that, do you? Do you want to kiss me, brother?"

"Yes..." He said, still looking at Vergil's lips, but realized his mistake soon enough "I mean, fuck no! No way!"

Dante blinked a few times, retrieving his conscience and hiding all his alpha nature once again. He took a step back from his brother, deep breathing while running his hand through his hair. He started pacing, feeling confused and wondering what kind of madness was happening to him.

Vergil, on the other hand, seemed to love his confusion, keeping a crooked smile on his lips as he saw Dante walk around the graveyard.

"How the fuck you steal energy with kisses?" Dante asked, trying to change the topic to something he could deal right now "Are you going to reveal me that, besides being an omega, you are some kind of incubus?"

Vergil scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"Do not be ridiculous. Incubi are fictions created by humans to justify their libidinous actions." He said, amused by the situation as a whole. As he had predicted, it was very satisfying to teach his ignorant brother about the demonic nature; he was the superior one in that kind of knowledge, and that made him feel good about himself "The dynamic is simple: omegas need more energy while in heat, and the alpha generate more energy when his mate are nearing his heat. That's why the omega and alpha need to stay near by each other during the heat. The carnal act increases energy transfusion's velocity, preventing the alpha from losing control of his powers. Since I lost all my energy opening the portal, and you're incompetent at handling Yamato, I needed to regain my strength fast to close it."

"I'm not incompetent!"

"If you weren't, I wouldn't have to kiss that girl. It was awful for me too, believe me."

Dante grimaced, but refrained from snapping at his brother once again. Besides Vergil's provocation, his answered made sense: Dante was feeling hectic and energized since Vergil started showing symptoms of the heat, and being near his brother soothed these feelings a lot.

"Can you also steal energy from humans?" He asked, still feeling a little bit jealous, even if he now understood that Vergil's act wasn't driven by carnal desires.

"Precisely. Humans are the only option for omegas when they are in the human kingdom, given the difficulty of finding another demon here, let alone an alpha. Maybe that's why the humans created this legend about incubi and succubi, but the is no such class of demons. The omegas are only trying to survive their heat without major trauma, and humans always have a little energy to lend."

"And if you have a heat and don't get anyone's energy…?"

"I'll die."

Dante felt a shiver run down his spine at that revelation. Contrary to what many imagined, Dante was able to understand between the lines: If Vergil, as an omega, suffers from heats periodically, and he spent years under Mundus' power, that meant his brother had to accept Mundus' energy to stay alive. Maybe Vergil didn't even have any choice in that regard, because he knew his brother would have preferred to die than submitting himself to Mundus in any sexual way. If that happened, wasn't a consented choice... And since Vergil's alive, that means it must've happened. The whole thing was a terrible affront to Vergil's proud nature, more than any physical torture his brother had endured all those years ago.

Vergil, realizing that Dante had understood the weight of the revelation, didn't let any expression show on his face, hiding the shame he felt as he turned away from Dante and walked with firm steps towards the exit of the cemetery.

"We need to find out where we are. We don't have the luxury of losing time talking about nonsense." Vergil's voice sounded hard and decisive, but Dante knew that years of trauma were not so easily forgotten.

Dante stayed behind as Vergil walked, thinking about his desire to destroy Mundus once again. This fucking demon destroyed his family in so many ways, that his past victory wasn't enough to conclude his vendetta. He hated him, he hated Mundus so much, that he made himself a promise: if there is a way to revive a demon, he would do it to bring Mundus back; just to kill the bastard again. And again. And again…

"Dante!"

Not sure how to deal with the sudden hatred he felt in his heart, Dante followed his brother once again, hoping that now that they were back in the human world, Vergil would be able to overcome his terrible memories and live a deserved normal life. Vergil deserves his happy ending.

Dante, on the other hand, wouldn't forget what Mundus did.

Never.

… To be continued…