About a fifteen minute drive around a section of steep cliffs, Nite and Vergil came across a gateway built into the side of the rockface.
"So Nite, where are we?" Vergil asked.
"A tomb? Burial site? No.. those aren't the words I'm looking for... Go with tomb... but not as morbid..." Nite said
"What are you jibbering about?"
"Nite walked up to the black double gate and grabbed hold of the padlock, then turned to Vergil, "It's a... MEMORIAL... YES that's it!"
"To what?"
"Help me with the padlock, and I'll show you."
They both grabbed hold of the padlock and effortlessly pulled it apart. "Can't beat the strength of two demons," Nite said with a wink.
As they entered the black tunnel that was carved out of the rockface, something started to overwhelm Vergil, "I've been here before..."
"Yes, you have" Nite replied in a matter-of-fact tone, "Both as a human and as Nelo Angelo"
Vergil pulled on Nite's arm to make her face him, "What do you mean?"
Nite sighed, "Look... I'll explain it to you when we get there"
After a bit of a walk, the pair came to a chamber.
It was dimly lit by the dying candles.
"Now, where was that device to?" Nite said to herself. She started to feel around the walls of the chamber.
"What are you doing?" Vergil frowned
"Finding a light switch... ah ha!" Nite's body began to glow. It seemed to be taking her life to power the lighting in the chamber.
After it had taken most of her strength, Nite fell to her knees... "Damn those Haywire Neo Generators!"
Vergil looked in awe at the chamber.
The floor, walls and ceiling was made out of Pure white marble.
There were three alcoves carved out of the wall. The alcoves had some sort of sarcophagus in each of them. There were letters carved into each of the coffins. Vergil then looked to the floor. Before the step that lead up to the coffins, there were three gold circles on the floor. Vine plants ran across areas of some of the walls.
Vergil walked up to the main sarcophagus and crouched down beside it. He ran his slender fingers along the lettering... "SPARDA". Then he walked over to the coffin to the left side of Sparda's coffin. This one read "DANTE". He didn't need to know who the third one was for...
"Is this some kind of joke? Why have you brought me here?"
"I was hoping that It would jog your memory." Nite said still recovering on the floor.
"How?" Vergil said mocking Nite.
Nite got up, "Because you, as Nelo, accompanied me with ...your body to come here and lay you to rest!" She took in a deep... "We had just come out of a portal from the Underworld, and we were standing outside those gates."
Its a cold and starry night, the moon is shining onto the tomb of Sparda.
"It's a pretty night, don't you think?" Nite asked her companion.
He didn't answer.
"Nelo, you can speak now that you are away from the influence of Mundus..."
Still he didn't answer.
Nite walked over to the padlock of the gate, she grabbed hold of it and pulled. "Urrgh! ahhh... it won't budge!"
Nelo put his hand over Nite's and they both pulled the padlock together, it effortlessly breaks.
Walking through the darkness, Nite turns to Nelo and says, "I'll take your body from here on in, you wait here."
Nelo handed over his human body. At the same time wondering why Nite was helping him....
After she had been a while, Nelo headed down to the chamber. Nite was then turning Yamato in a gold lock on the floor. She knew that Nelo was behind her, "I would've said rest in peace... but I'd only be taking the p***"
She then handed over Yamato and Vergil's gold amulet. These are yours, keep them close... no matter what.
It was after Nelo had glimpsed the Amluet, the Armor fell away, revealing a body that looked just like the one Nite had sealed away.
"What trickery is this?" he said in a deep demonic tone.
"The armor must be your Devil Trigger...Mundus is calling for us, we have to go back..."
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Fragments of lost memories were starting to form in Vergil's head... it hurt.
"Vergil, are you okay?" Nite asked, panicked to see pain rushing through his face.
"Vergil put his hand up... "I'm fine...I'm starting to remember"
He got up and walked over to Nite, who was still on the floor.
"You okay?" She asked
"I'm fine" He replied, holding out his hand... Nite took it and got up from the floor.
Vergil looked towards Sparda's coffin,"Is he in there?"
Nite walked over to the central lock on the floor, and lifted up the gold ring... "Who knows?" There was no locking mechanism underneath...
She picked up the rings on the floor for Dante and Vergil's coffins, both had locks in them.
Vergil's lock was the shape of Yamato's blade, Dante's was the shape of Rebellion's Blade and Sparda's was the shape of Force Edge.
"Does anyone know if Sparda is in there?" Vergil asked
"I don't know, but I can't feel his presence" Nite sighed
"You wouldn't, not if he is dead"
"Not necessarily, even a strong demon's presence remains centuries after his or her death."
There was a silence as the demons both looked around the tomb...
"Why did you bring me back?" Vergil asked bluntly.
"I needed your help... I kind of needed you..."
Vergil didn't understand the emotion that Nite was showing.
"I wasn't there when Dante defeated Mundus. He sent me to Dumary Island... to keep an eye on some bloke called Arius... what a waste of time."
"I remember that." Vergil replied
"So imagine my fury when i found out that you were dead AGAIN, and blondie had p***ed off with your brother."
"I see, so you came here..."
"Yes, Mundus let your soul wander around the Human world. I summoned you to me... here, then reunited your soul with your body... which was somehow presevered by the locking system in the chamber."
"But, that Brat Nero had Yamato had it... how did you get it back?" Vergil asked intrigued by Nite's story.
"I helped him defeat a few demons... cleaned up a bit of Fortuna, made friends with his lady friend. I told her about you. She nagged Nero... and hey presto... here you are"
Vergil eyed Nite...
She sighed, "Plus I told them that I was the daughter of Mundus, and that i wanted to end his reign... and then Nero said that he would do anything that he could to help."
"That's more like it" Vergil scoffed
"Can we go now, I'm starting to feel morbid" Nite pleaded with Vergil.
Vergil walked in front whilst Nite walked behind him, leaving the Tomb of Sparda in silence and any demons to rest in peace.
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