Devil May Cry: The Brothers’ Mission
By Darkstone57
Mission 1: Ruination – Part 1
From the moment Vergil’s feet touched the earth outside the cave, the air became thicker and heavier all around him.
The demonic presence was just like it was in the underworld; everywhere. If he came here without the prior knowledge of this world, Vergil would have surmised that this was another aspect of hell.
He gazed up and saw that even the sky was similar to the underworld’s. Dark clouds blanketed the sky, preventing any shred of light from seeping through.
Turning his gaze toward the cliff edges surrounding him, he took note that there was a suspended bridge above him and connected to one of the ends was long staircase.
Vergil marched toward the stairway and began climbing it. As he rose the steps, he spoke outward to the world but was addressing the amulet, “If I may, I have a question for you, Faust.”
“What is it?” Faust’s voice spoke through the amulet.
“How did you find me and my brother? We were deep in the underworld for so long, we were certain with the idea we couldn’t leave.” Vergil said as he continued to climb.
“That’s only fair you should know.” Faust replied calmly as he began to explain, “When the demons first began to swarm Equestria, Astaroth boasted on how when they were successful that not even the Sons of Sparda could stop them.”
“He’s a fool for believing that.” Vergil sharply replied.
Faust kept quiet for a moment, surprised by Vergil’s sudden retort, then continued, “With the knowledge that the demons had an enemy, I gathered what power I had to spare and used the tree to scour all of creation to find you and your brother. The rest, you know.”
Vergil merely hummed silently at the answer as he reached the top of the stairs, stopping before the bridge.
From where he was he could see in the distance a red beam of energy streaming into the clouds above. Turning his gaze clockwise he saw more of the same red beams further away from where he was.
When he turned to look in the direction of the bridge across the way from him, shooting into the sky, from what he could tell were ruins of an old castle, was the same red beam.
Even from that distance, he could feel the demonic energy funnelling into this world. There was no mistaking it; the red beams were the locations of the gates to hell.
“Faust, are you able to sense which one of your ken is being used to power the portal in the ruins?” Vergil asked aloud, as he observed the beam again.
Faust took the time to focus her power to Vergil’s question, however, “No, not from here.” Faust answered, slightly frustrated. “I should be able to get a clearer picture when you come closer to their position.”
Vergil nodded silently as he took a mental note of what Faust had said.
Looking upon the bridge before him, seeing how dilapidated it was, he decided against walking across it and chose a swifter method. Vergil focused upon the ground on the other side and without even taking a single step he vanished from where he was and instantly appeared on the other side, touching the ground with ease.
But, Vergil barely took more than five steps toward the ruins when he saw that several holes appeared in the middle air before him. Each hole expanded in size, blood pouring out of them and after a couple of seconds all of them spat out the same demonic creature.
The demon in question was a bipedal skeletal like monstrosity that wore what remains of a torn black cloak and a thorny crown of their long ragged black hair. In its boney hands it held a massive scythe that looked like, given their hunched posture, was too heavy to carry. They were known as a Hell Caina.
One of which was charging right at him, with a ghastly howl, it’s scythe dragging through the soil. The Caina attempted to strike Vergil with an upward slash, aiming to cleave him in two. Only for the Caina to find itself stumbling back after Vergil effortlessly parried the attack with a backhanded swipe of his scabbard.
And before the Caina could realise that it’s target was gone, it’s body was frozen as Vergil was already behind him, rising to his feet and deftly sheathing the Yamato but not before venomously calling the Caina; “Scum.”
At the sound of the blade being fully redacted; the Caina split into three pieces instantly and was reduced to ash.
Vergil turned to the remaining six to see that they were beginning to circle him. He chose to take the initiative and appeared behind the farthest one on the left.
The Caina didn’t even realise it until the back was struck twice by the scabbard. After the second strike the Caina, as well as the closet one next to it, attempted to strike back with a wide swipe of their scythes.
Neither of them realised that their opponents that Vergil was primed to strike. The moment he saw scythes aiming for him, Vergil grabbed the Yamato by the hilt and swung the blade in an upward angular arc, severely injuring the Caina as well as sending the pair of hurtling back into the rest of the group.
All members of the group tumbled backward and fell onto to the ground clumsily. One, however rolled backward from the collision and charged toward Vergil with a vengeful roar as it attempted the same tactic as the first one that fell.
Vergil sneered at the pathetic attempt and wasn’t waiting around this time. In a blue flash, Vergil appeared before the charging Caina and began to slash at the demon. The first slash rose the Caina off the ground, with a forceful push of momentum but it wasn’t over. Vergil rose with the demon into the air as he spun around clockwise with the blade, slicing the demon across its chest, at the same time harshly yelling the word, “Fool!”
The airborne Caina was sent fumbling onto the top of the pile of toppled demons. Not long after it landed, it attempted to try and stand once more but stopped short at the sight above the group.
A plethora of royal blue swords appeared in a flash of blue light above the entire group, each and everyone of the blades tip was pointed directly down at them.
The Caina didn’t get a chance to lift a finger as every single sword shot down toward the group almost immediately in rapid succession. Every single sword impaled every single Caina that was in the pile of demons, shattering through their skeletal bones with greatest of ease.
With that step completed, Vergil readied himself in a striking stance. His sword hand resting on the hilt as took aim of his unfortunate target.
“You’re mine.” Vergil quietly but confidently claimed as he grabbed the blade, drew it and searched it within a fraction of a second. In that second, a purple orb appeared around the entirety of the Caina horde and before any living thing could even blink, several slashes ripped the space apart in the orb.
That one attack rendered the entire group lifeless and scattered into pieces before they faded into nothing.
Standing tall as the victor, Vergil scoffed as he began to march toward the destination of the first portal; the Ruins of the Castle of the Two Sisters.
To be continued...
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I see.
Wonder if Spike would be involved too?
Managed to read the new chapter btw.
Um.. wanted to say something about whats going on with Luna so far but I sort feel nervous at the moment.
Just wanted to say that since I am trying to get myself to say it and such.
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Don’t feel nervous to say what you think about the story. I’m glad you’re invested.
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Yeah..
My nervousness just disrupts me when I am talking in something important. Or talking important stuff with authors and such.
Its just due to what stuff happened years ago(when I was well.. different), past experience stuff.
Like wanting to be careful on what to say and anxious/afraid on what the author's reply be or someone's reply in some certain subject.
Before on what I say for the feedback, just wanted to be sure(and well.. add conversation so I can feel like I can put it in. You know, like working up enough to bypass the nervousness for this line)..
If I read this right, pretty much Luna and Celestia were defeated, captured and being used as basically batteries for the Hell Gates?
I can't wait for the next one.
I can't wait for the next one.
You sold me from the title alone. I'm so glad that you made a story for DMC, I have two stories currently in the works. I remember months back when the story I published was "Recent & top rated". The story has been pushed down from those ranks but that's okay! This story has risen and I can't wait to read this thing.
Okay, I just read all of the chapters so far and it seems pretty good actually! The pacing is alright, the dialog is great, the idea? Honestly it's unexpected, I'm not sure how to feel about it BUT it does seem pretty good so far.
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That’s the gist of it.
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Thank you. Hopefully I can keep you entertained in this endeavour. I’m aiming to bring them out in smaller parts because the last time I tried to do a story in massive parts I found it so exhausting.
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I understand that, writing is so taxing. You have to reread it over again, edit it, add details here and there to make it sound better. Delete some words that sound stupid ETC...
It's definitely hard work but the reward is very satisfying .
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I remember reading your story and loving the idea of it. The idea of Dante aiming to prove Celestia wrong was certainly something that grabbed my attention.
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Wow, i'm surprised that you read it! Well not to worry, I have another idea in the works as well as a new chapter update. Sadly I don't have motivation for any of my stories so it's hard for me to be in the mood to write them.
Regardless, I'm glad to hear that you liked something that I did at least lol.
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I know how that feels. I’ve got several stories that have been left unfinished because when I want to go back to do them I feel completely drained just by thinking about it.
Still, it’s as they say: ‘Don’t force yourself to do something you don’t want to do.’
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Yes, I suppose that's true. But what if you just can't find anyway to continue writing it? For me, I get an idea. Then I write it down, publish it. But, before you know it, I don't know how to continue proceeding and every idea that I have that sounds good just doesn't agree with the story context. I just lose motivation and can't do anything noteworthy without that motivation. Motivation eludes me before I have a chance to bask in it.
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What I’ve learned over the years is when you have an idea for a story don’t launch with just the idea right out of the gate.
Instead, pull up a document on your device and get the idea down in that. Then from there, think of how the story starts, then how it ends. After that, what I do is, in bullet point form I go by how I want the story to progress from start to finish. What the stakes of the story are, etc.
I do the same for how I want each chapter to go. I bullet point how I want the chapter to go. For example:
- Description of the area.
From that bullet point I write one or two paragraphs on the area I am talking about in the chapter.
Does this help?
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So pretty much Luna and Celestia got taken out and reduced into damsels in distress again..
That's really disappointing...
Sorry.. It just really bums me in seeing interesting stories that ends up with Celestia and (especially) Luna getting taken out like that and needing other heroes to rescue them.
I am just.. so bitter on how the writers of the show handled the Royal Sisters. With either them getting sidelined or get worf-effect(don't know how else to describe with out they get taken out) if they do get involved. Pretty much the writers make it like Luna and Celestia are destined to fall flat on their faces to make other heroes(usually the Mane 6) look good.
It really hurts worse for Luna since her track-record looks worse than Celestia due to losing a 1000 years by the NMM fiasco and the fact she returns from the moon only to end up "failing" or get sidelined when some huge threat happens to Equestria.
Like.. Luna felt so wasted there..
Sorry if I am making a big deal about what happened with Luna in this fic. Its just that I am still hurting on how the series finale handled her and Celestia, practically wasted a huge opportunity for Luna's case too in there..
You are probably just annoyed by all of this, sorry...
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Don’t worry. I’m not annoyed by that. It’s the decision I chose whilst I thought of this story. Nothing wrong with disliking a narrative decision.
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So that's pretty much going to be it for Luna here?
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I’ll tell you this much. She’ll have more of a roll to play later down the line.
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I hope its not like she's rendered "useless" for almost the entire events in the fic here though..
Like its not like just one thing and that's it for her in this thing.
In fact, I feel like she would really not take it well that she was defeated and being used to power up a Hell Gate like that.
Like would she feel ashamed and humiliated about this? Basically ending up "failing" and forced to rely on other heroes to save her and the day yet again. Like would she feel like a "failure" there.
Its just that.. I've been having lots of angst thoughts there..
I just feel like she would have major issues here due to shortcomings such as the NMM fiasco, her guilt with it and basically letting down Equestria and forced to rely on other heroes to save the day.
Like out of all the other heroes, she would be hurt the worst by what happened here.
I just hope its not like she brushes this aside..
Like I felt like its a wound for her that should be acknowledged(with the actual "pain") before it can heal for her rather than her brushing it aside.
I um.. hope my feedback actually does something..
Not causing trouble I mean.
Edit: And now I feel like panicking since I feel like I worded something wrong, crap..
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Relax. It’s alright to have that kind of angst towards a type of story. You haven’t offended me. Don’t worry.
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I just hope that what happened to Luna would be directly addressed and someway to truly redeem her from that "failure" there..
Like big time.
I still hope its not like she just does one thing at the near end of the fic and that's it.
Yeah.. my nervousness makes me worried on if I upset the author or not um..
Don't know how to put it exactly..