New Fren and Aura

When I got back to the Batcave Alfre-

*ahem*

When I got back to the cave I see Mom just floating around as usual. As she senses me she turns around to see the pidgey I was carrying. Her face turns serious and she asks.

Beatrice - "What happened."

Less of a question and more of a demand, but whatever.

Vergil - "I saw them being beaten by some other pidgey, and even a pidgeotto. Luckily I managed to come in and sneak away with them back here."

She shakes her head and sighs.

Beatrice - "Did you at least make sure to cover your tracks?"

Vergil - "But of course."

Anytime I leave the cave without being teleported I have to be sure to cover my tracks. We don't need the entire forest knocking on our door after all. Which, I don't even know how they haven't found us yet. It's weird.

Beatrice - "Very well, wait here, I shall procure some sitrus berries for them to eat."

Afterwards she just teleports away. When she disappears I just sit and wait patiently. While she's gone I just lay the pidgey down on my lap and begin stroking from it's head to the back, just after the shoulders. It's feathers are incredibly small and shiny. After about 30 seconds Mom returns with 2 sitrus berries. Man teleportation is convenient.

Beatrice - "Let us wait for them to wake up, then we'll give them the berries."

Afterwards, Mom and I just talk to each other to pass the time. After about half an hour, the pidgey finally wakes up. When they see us their eyes widen open again and their breathing becomes erratic.

Vergil - "We do not wish to harm you. Had we wished to, we would have done so already. Given that you are still alive, there is no need to panic."

I say this all while still stroking their back. They're breathing calms but their muscles are still tensed, ready to either run or fight.

Beatrice - "I would have not worded it that way, but he is correct. We do not wish harm upon you."

She says in as soft and sweet a voice as possible. I must admit, I'm a little jealous. She didn't even do this to me when I was born. She senses that small pang and looks at me with a slightly raised brow before looking back to the pidgey with a smile. Either way, the little pidgey seemed to have calmed significantly.

Beatrice - "What is your name little one?"

??? - "I'm not little! My name is Diana."

All of this happened while I kept petting Diana.

Diana - "And you! Can you p-please umm… stop doing that?"

She started angrily before becoming nervous at having offended me. I can also tell that she was secretly enjoying this. I look to Beatrice and it seemed she realized this too, as she had a big ol' smirk on her face. I simply chuckle at the shenanigans and stop the petting.

Vergil - "Very well. So, Diana, what was happening before I showed up."

Diana's face seemed to twist in fury, or at least as much as bird's face could.

Diana - "My 'family', that's what happened. I was born different from the rest of my family, and because of that I was tormented every day. After a while they just stopped feeding me, after that I had to feed myself. I never did anything to them, I never did anything to make them hate me so much! Today I was flying through the trees to look for some caterpie to eat. Then they-they…"

After this she bursted into tears. I don't know how to help in this situation. I can't sympathize with her, my parents in this life and the previous had always loved me. So the best I can manage is to just give her a light hug. One arm holding her up and another pressing her against me. She buries her head into my arm as she experiences what is likely the first show of affection she has ever experienced.

Vergil - 'What did they do to this poor girl. To trust us, strangers, so easily. They would have to do some fucked up stuff.'

I was a little sad and angry for her. I don't really know her, so I wasn't infuriated or anything. It's just that this is one of those times where you are so disgusted at the actions of another. Mom and I look at each other and had come to a silent agreement. I allowed her to take the initiative this time.

Beatrice - "Would you perhaps prefer to stay with us instead?"

Diana looks towards her with wide eyes.

Diana - "You-you mean it?!"

Wow she seems desperate.

Beatrice - "Of course, we would love to have you with us."

Diana seems absolutely ecstatic. I then remember the berries we were supposed to feed her.

Vergil - "Mother, do you have the berries?"

Beatrice - "Ah yes, I forgot to hand them to her."

She takes the 2 sitrus berries from the ground and hands them to me. I take the berries and allow Diana to eat them from my hand. After finishing her meal she regained her energy and started to move around the cave. Once she turns back towards me, she finally gets a good look at me. Her eyes widen further than I have ever seen them do today. What she sees before her is a big, blue, corn-fed, lovecraftian looking motherfucker over twice her height. Her steps slightly falters at my appearance. Beatrice comes to the rescue though.

Beatrice - "Oh don't worry about him. He may look scary, but he's just a sweetheart."

I slightly blush in embarrassment at her words.

Vergil - "I'm not a 'sweetheart' Mother."

She seems to take enjoyment in my embarrassment, and so does Diana as they both chuckle.

Beatrice - "Come Diana, let us go for a walk. We have some things to discuss."

As I am left to my own devices, I decide to try to unlock my aura. If I can learn aura sphere, then I must be able to use aura, right? I sit on a lotus position as feel my energy. The energy given to me since I was in my egg, my demonic energy. I still don't quite know what it is, other than that it is the energy that demons use to empower themselves in Devil May Cry. Demonic energy has a large array of abilities, it can heal wounds, but it mostly depends on the species. Hell, one species can even slow down time! But from what I can get from Vergil's abilities, it matches to what aura can do. Somewhat anyway. I looked into myself and I could "see", in a way, my energy. It appeared as a big glob of red energy. Kind of like the… red… orbs. Wait a god damn minute. Well whatever. I look deeper into it. I can learn aura sphere but I don't see any other energies in my body. I look deeper into my demonic energy and see something. It was a tiny ball of immense brilliance. It was bright, extremely so. I "reach" for the brilliance and pull it out of my energy. The second the ball escaped my demonic energy, it suddenly expanded and immediately dimmed. I opened my eyes to see a huge blue orb about the size of me. In comparison it was so much larger than the basketball sized orb of demonic energy. Yet I could tell that my demonic energy was… purer? It was so much brighter than the pool of aura. I exit the 'soul scape', as I like to call it, and try to use my newfound aura. I feel it within my body and manipulate it. I attempt to coat my hand in it and… it worked! I feel just a little bit stronger too. Well that was easy. Though I'm sure if I was human it would be so much more difficult. I try forming a sphere in my hand to try to make an aura sphere. I made one but… it's so small and unstable. Just as I was looking at the aura sphere, Mom and Diana had teleported back to the cave from their little expedition.

Vergil - 'Oh come one! This is the second time I was trying out my power and she walked in!'

Beatrice, confused after sensing my panic, looked at my hand. She looked immensely surprised.

Beatrice - "Diana dearie, go play outside for a little while. Vergil and I have some things to talk about."

Diana - "Okay!"

Diana chirped while flying out to go do whatever she does. After she left Beatrice looked towards me with a serious face.

Beatrice - "There was only one thing we were supposed to talk about, though now it seems we have something else to discuss."

Vergil - 'Oh lord, what is it now.'