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The sound of swords clashing sounded all around.
The only thing that can be heard for miles, two half devils doing their routine sparring in destroyed land east of Redgrave. No houses or humans in sight, perfect for not holding back their powers. There's laughter and taunting coming from the red half devil echoing throughout.
“C'mon Vergil you haven't landed a hit, you aren't holding back on me are ya!”
“Try wearing a blindfold and see how you like it little brother” Vergil lands to the side dodging a hit from devil sword Dante. “Besides, not having my sight still renders me dangerous, I can hear the smallest of sounds and miles farther than you”
Vergil parries Dante's sword.
“Really? How far exactly”
For a moment vergil stands still and listens for his movements. “About three and a half miles away”
The sound of birds stretching their wings and taking flight to the right, a stream of water flowing a mile to the left, wind flowing to the east, footsteps trying to step quietly on dirt behind him.
He breaths in and locks onto the quiet sound of footsteps.
One
Breath out, another footstep.
Two
The sound of the devil sword dante vibrating against his core behind him ready to strike.
Three
Vergil warps behind Dante before his devil sword has a chance to come down and lands a hit on his twin's shoulder with Yamato. “Score for Vergil,” the blue twin smirks and dante chuckles, giving his big brother a gentle shove. “So you can hear up to three miles away, does it give you headaches and migranes?”
“yes, i've gotten used to it” Vergil seethes Yamato and makes no move to take off the blindfold. He stands still, listening to the sounds around them. A frog croaking and leaping out of the river to the left, ants walking inside their anthill to the right.
“Must be annoying when you're trying to do anything” Dante's bones cracking and movement of his jacket as he stretches in front of him.
“Very”
Breath in, he listens for any signs of demons
One
Breath out, Expanding his hearing farther.
Two
Whirring of a helicopter in the sky and 5 cars driving a mile away towards their location catches his ears. “We have unwanted guests,” he takes his blindfold off and looks in the direction they're coming from.
"who is it?"
"humans"
“Vergil let me take care of this, don't do or say anything and put Yamato away” he puts the devil sword dante away and sets a hand on ivory.
Vergil stares at his brother confused “what!? But what if they attack us?”
“put it away and just follow my lead alright” he pulls out ivory “How far away are they?”
“15 minutes out” he puts yamato away and stares at dante with a knowing look.“Makeshift targets?”
Dante nods “how fast can you make em?” Before he could say anything else, Vergil warps around their sparing area gathering what he can and leaving behind after-images of himself. After five minutes Vergil has finally set up two targets made of branches and leaves.
Dante smirks and hands his twin ebony “Cute” he aims at his target with one hand gripping ivor and standing sideways. “my brother did a good job but sorry pedro, your life has come to it's short end”
“Pedro?” Vergil rolls his eyes in amusement and aims at his own target with both hands gripping ebony and steadying himself with one leg in front of the other.
“What's your guy's name?” He fires and hits the middle part.
“he has no name, for he is only 7 minutes old” vergil says in a mocking tone of what he once said and his ears fill with his twin's laughter.
“Are you mocking yourself?” The younger twin turns to his brother, his smile showing off his sharp canines.
“V thought joking would make you less suspicious of us” vergil fires toward his own target, his shots going in a line from the middle to upper part of the target. “Even Griffon made fun of my human self for that awful excuse of a joke”
“As hilarious as it is, you did pretty well trying not to act yourself” Dante aims back at his target “even then, I knew something was off” he fires and hits the middle until the hole is big enough to put a hand through it.
“Jackpot” he smirks and twirls his gun.
In the distance the sound of tires and whirring of a helicopter get louder the closer they get, putting both brothers on edge anxiously waiting.
“Of course it's the military” he curses under his breath
The blue twin itching for Yamato in case they get attacked and the red twin retrieving ebony and placing them back in their holster but keeping a hand over one of them.
“remember don't say or do anything and let me do the talking”
“Has this happened before”
“Yes, around two decades ago but that's a story for another time”
They stand next to each other in silence—watching as the vans park around them and the helicopter whirs above them, soldiers come out of every vehicle and point their guns at both of them.
“Put your hands up Vergil” Dante says only loud enough for Vergil to hear, he brushes his core against his brother's and feels both nervousness and unease radiating off him.
‘We'll be fine as long as we cooperate’ he tells him through telepathy
‘i trust you brother’
A soldier comes out of one of the vans, head held high, arms resting behind him, face as cold as stone and authorization and power radiating off of him. Then, a voice as loud as the helicopter can be heard.
“Anthony Redgrave, funny seeing you here!”