Dante cursed as yet another group of demons attacked. For a person who despises everyone, Virgil sure used a lot of demon henchmen.

'Is there no end to them?' he thought to himself. It seemed that for every demon he killed, ten more took its place.

This wasn't the first time Virgil has tried to open hell. There was that time about a hundred years ago when he tried to open the gates of hell using the medallions that had their names on them. Dante remembered THAT fiasco. It resulted in his not getting any pay and his shop was destroyed. Not to mention Mary kept hounding him for money that he supposedly "owed" her for stealing her motorcycle and for using up all of her rocket launcher ammo.

"Will you demons stop attacking me for at least 10 minutes!" Dante shouted as yet another large group of demons attacked.

After disposing of the new group of demons, Dante finally made it to some stairs leading up to where Virgil was performing the gate opening ritual.

'Next time Virgil will rue the day he tried opening up the gates, because I am just going to forget the stairs, go Devil Trigger, and FLY to the top….. IF I don't KILL him this time….' Dante thought as he finally got to the top.

Standing just mere feet away was Virgil. At first it looked as if he was just standing there. Upon further inspection, he was standing in the middle of a pentagram, muttering something strange to himself in what appeared to be Latin. After what seemed like a few minutes, Virgil turned to look at his brother.

"If you think for a minute that you can stop me, you are surely misunderstood. I WILL have the power of our father, Sparda, even if I have to sacrifice every last pathetic, disgusting human in this world!" Virgil said.

As soon as he said this he pulled out his sword, Yamato, and attacked. At first his blows were sloppy as he swung his sword left and right, then they started getting more and more accurate. Yet Dante was giving as good as he got. After a while, fatigue started to set in. Just as it appeared the two were going to pass out, they initiated their Devil Trigger states and started going at it again. After about 5 minutes, Virgil found his opening and stabbed Dante right through the stomach. As soon as Dante was unconscious, Virgil started chanting again. After a certain amount of blood had flooded through the lines of the pentagram, the pentagram started to glow white and there was an explosion. When Virgil woke from unconsciousness, he noticed he was in a graveyard in some urban setting. Just a few feet from him was a tombstone that read "Masaki Kurosaki"….