idolpro | Vergil's heart game r2

You feel weak, your body won't move no matter how you try, and you are falling, away from everything you know and love. Away from everything you need to accomplish. If you could just reach out, maybe you could hold on to it, claw your way back. But it's a useless endeavour, you fall unconscious, and your mind goes blank except for poetry and a familiar voice.

O mother Enitharmon, wilt thou bring forth other sons?
To cause my name to vanish, that my place may not be found,
For I am faint with travail,
Like the dark cloud disburden'd in the day of dismal thunder.

My roots are brandish'd in the heavens, my fruits in earth beneath
Surge, foam and labour into life, first born and first consum'd!
Consumed and consuming!
Then why shouldst thou, accursed mother, bring me into life?

You wake on the ground in a cave, cold, wet, and sticky. It smells of rotting flesh. Your objective is clear, but you can't recall a name or face. Nothing else about your memory of him is changed, but for some reason the name "Vergil" just won't come to you, and you couldn't describe how he looks if your life depended on it. But at least your body starts to respond to your will, slowly regaining enough strength to carry on.

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The answer was friendship all along..... Really Five's thoughts are about exactly the way the air itself feels now. This heart feels pretty good now.

"I'm pretty sure Mundus didn't keep any brooms in his throne room. But good luck, I guess?" Have fun being weird, Lahabrea, Vergil's taking Emet's hand to go back to the library.

[He watches them all go fondly and since demons are bad at cleaning I guess he's just going to imbue the armor and weapons and shields with aether, directing them to move and clean themselves up so there aren't discarded broken Angelos everywhere. They can at least be discarded empty husks neatly in the corners.

And maybe having a few of them poke the gross puddle to see if they can clean that too.]

[Before he leaves he will strike a DMC pose and toss Lahabrea the second gun he got.]

I trust you will be fine if you happen to run into Mundus. If not, do come for backup.

[Then he will take Vergil's hand and go nap in the library with him.]

[He catches it! Now he has gun and sword! What is he, Dante? But he will stow both on his person somehow.]

If I feel overmatched I will fetch you of course. Do have a nice nap together.

[He simply nods.]

I have trust in your skill. Go enjoy and accomplish what you do best.

And you. Watch over him well.

[Because of course he doesn't have to worry about small Vergil while Hades is with him and that is important.]

[He should not be surprised this is the response he gets]

[Of course it is.]

Why are you like this. Vergil makes a face because guns are lame and your posing is lame, why are all his friends actually just Dante, gross.

But nap time sounds great actually, that's also what he'll do rather than read. He's...very tired.

[His theater energy has to go somewhere.

And he will curl up with him in the library and let him sleep. He said he was going to nap, but he's actually just going to stay up and watch over him.]

Oh......... Friendship points will now replace Perseverance points and you have 100000 of them, congrats. Even as you watch him things just feel a little lighter, and that feeling only builds the longer it goes on.

[How many robes of Ligrev's can he get for those friendship points? He runs fingers through his hair softly to not wake him.]

Rest well, my dear friend.

And do know in your heart you are dearly loved.

Do you feel drawn to the old man robes, Emet? Makes sense.

He sleeps very peacefully, and holds a little tighter with those words. This image of him doesn't need to be awake for his heart to hear it.

Well.... When they get close, not even quite yet touching it, they're immediately sucked in. A thick sludge reaching out to grab them and pull them in.

And after a moment they're spit back out.

[Hm! Are they more damaged than when they went in?]

They're exactly the same, you wouldn't even know they were submerged in whatever awful substance the puddle is.

[Google how do I clean a ravenous demon goo stain out of my throne room it keeps eating my tools.

He drums his fingers on his arm. Is there any faint sense of Vergil from the puddle or is it just gross and there?]

It doesn't feel like Vergil, but it feels like magic. Not any more part of him than anything else around.

[Probably he should not go incinerating parts of Vergil's heart just because they're demons. He will finish cleaning the rest of the room and give it a wide berth, checking out the throne.]

It's plain compared to the engravings and ornamentation on the pillars and doors, but the size is imposing. You wouldn't have a hope of just climbing onto it without a sizable ladder.

If you really crane your neck, or look from a way back, you'll see the trio of red, glowing orbs floating right up at the top. An electric sort of effects crackles between and around them. It feels terrible, makes your chest tighten to look at.

[Hm time to float up for a better look at those.]

When you get higher, the impression of a face starts to become clear, if faint. The orbs align with eyes, one in the centre of the apparition's forehead. The rest of its body is there too, not unlike a statue of Zeus, sat upon its throne.

But it is only an image, nothing solid.

[Hm. How does one put such an echo to rest?

He ponders again, then reaches out to inspect the energies around the orbs? Perhaps he can simply... Drain the energy a bit? Leave them inert without inherently destroying anything.]

It does seem to fade a little, the colour growing weaker until the demon's image is gone. The orbs still remain, but it's not so intense.

[Good enough. He does not wish to alter Vergil but perhaps things in this room don't need to be quite so intense. He'll look around one more time for anything else of interest before heading back to the library.]

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