Phosphora

Prologue:

With the eyes of the world lost to oblivion our worlds started to turn unstable; the Umbran witches: Bayonetta and Jeanne with assistance from Rodin barely manage to contain the evils of hell from seeping into the world of the living.

"There's just no end to them," Jeanne said as she and her Umbran sister continued to beat back the demons of Inferno whilst Rodin concentrated.

"Just...a...little more!" Rodin said as he strained; his eyes and fists started to glow red as he slammed his hands together in a thunderous clap forcing the earth to close the ravine that had opened hours ago.

Jeanne and Bayonetta finished off the last of the demons sending them back to Inferno. "Talk about a work out," Bayonetta said putting her weapons away.

Jeanne didn't reply she was watching the broken sky; the sky had several cracks in it as many low ranking angels flooded into their world. Looking closely there was a young man floating in mid air glowing a powerful blue strength; Loki, or Aesir as was his official name.

He had been working tirelessly to repair the breaks in the rifts, in one loud guttural scream all the cracks repaired itself as the angels ran rampant. They closed in on Bayonetta, Jeanne, and Rodin. The witches sprung into action...again.

The destruction of the eyes of the world had proven more catastrophic than Aesir had originally predicted; something had to be done before Armagedon rose to the world of the living engulfing the world and its denizens in fire. Aesir had predictions of the angels trying to bring the living with them to Paradiso. The Rapture...

"I don't want the world to end!" Enzo said panicked, the entire crew was catching a breath at the Gates of Hell bar. "There's so much left to see! There ain't no booze in heaven I can tell you that much!"

Rodin was drinking while the two witches reclined on the couches near by catching a few winks of sleep whilst they could. Enzo was panicking as he flipped through the channels quickly as news reeled with natural disasters happening all over the world.

"The short fat man has a point," Loki said. The young boy he once was had long since passed, he looked like a young man who should've been in college. Not the god protecting the world from angels and demons, "Something needs to be done. Had I know destroying the eyes would've resulted in this I would've just found another way."

"You did what was necessary kid," Luka said walking into the bar carrying a stack of newspapers. "All the mortals in the world are going crazy, all the earthquakes and storms are scaring everybody." He dropped them on the bar and walked over to the sleeping Bayonetta draping his coat over her.

"Naturally," Aesir said. "I am such a fool! Why did I destroy the eyes?"

"So just make new ones! You're god!" Enzo said looking through the newspapers.

"It's not...that...simple," Aesir trailed off. "That's a good idea, it'll take a few years, but I think I can do it! That's it!"

"It can't be that easy," Luka said. "Who would carry the eyes? Bayonetta or Jeanne could carry the Left Eye. But we're short one Lumen Sage."

"We'll that's easily solved, my dears." Jeanne said arm still draped over her eyes.

"We make another sage, we've got the genes here." Bayonetta said, "I am Balder's child after all."

"A sage who's only a quarter sage won't do us any good," Rodin said turning around on his stool.

Aesir sighed, "I have a stupid idea. But if I can isolate the Lumen Sage power within Bayonetta and bring it to a child in development they'll stay half sage. We'll just need a surrogate mother strong enough to handle it."

"Me," Jeanne said removing her arm. "The Umbra wiped out the Lumen, as the Umbra Matriarch its my responsibility to restart their line and restore balance."

"If you do indeed pull this off I can train the child the Lumen Arts," Rodin said. "I'd hate to do it, but if it means saving the mortal world I'll do it."

"That's my line," Jeanne said with a smile.

"Alright we have a plan," Aesir said. "We need another Sage."

After several months of pain, panic, and power the plan had finally succeeded...

"Rrrrgh! I am never having children after this!" Jeanne screamed loudly, "There is no hell more painful than this!" This was coming from a woman who'd experienced hell first hand.

The bar had been re-purposed for this, everyone was here once more. Bayonetta looked exhausted, she had to fight alone for several months. Aesir had her sit opposite of Jeanne who was kicking tables making them fly and smash into the walls.

The only one strong enough to keep her still was Rodin, "Hurry Aesir the baby is crowning!"

Aesir nodded as he concentrated, he started to float higheer and higher as Bayonetta glowed bright blue. Jeanne let loose a glass shattering scream destroying all the glass alcohole glasses and bottles, the entire world flashed white and gold.

"wahhh! wahhh! wahhh!" The scream was replaced with exhausted pant and very high pitched crying.

"It's a girl," Aesir said making sure the baby was healthy.

Aesir was holding little baby, Luka and Enzo peeked out from behind the bar glass and booze all over them. "So who's the Dad?" Enzo asked Luka loudly thinking he was whispering. The scream had temporarily badly damaged their ears, "I wasn't paying attention."

"Nobody," Luka said rubbing his almost deaf ears. "Ever hear who the Virgin Marry had a child without sex?"

"Oh, so this girl's like Jesus?" Enzo asked loudly again.

"No, this baby was made with a sage's power. Not mine," Aesir said as the baby glowed with power. "I think I did it. I think this is a female sage, not a witch."

"It's a Sage," Rodin said. "I can feel it, Jeanna drink this. It's a special draught I made for this." He handed Jeanne a metal mug who drank it all, quickly.

"Here, it's your child. You get to name her," Aesir said handing the baby to Jeanne. But not before swaddling the still crying baby, it was so adorably squishy and small.

Bayonetta looked exhausted also, she stood up uneasily before Luka helped her up. "Good job," he said as she simply nodded.

"I'll name her Victoria, she'll bring us the victory we need in these hardened times." Jeanne said, eyes sunken and breath short. The baby had calmed down a little and had fallen asleep.

Aesir sat back laughing a little, he was also drained. But his eyes suddenly widened as the entire ceiling of the bar was shattered! Three monstrous angels were staring down at them, "GIVE US THE LUMEN SAGE, UMBRAN WITCHES! YOU HAVEN'T THE POWER TO OPPOSE US!"

The first angel landed inside the bar, it was the smallest giant of the three. It looked like a human with a five hundred arms on either sides. Its arms moved like spears attacking Luka and Bayonetta who quickly ran for cover. It's other arms attacked Rodin and Aesir, who dodged and fought it back together.

Victoria was bawling now as Jeanne had trouble getting up, Enzo quickly picked her up to her feet. "We gotta get outta here! They want the baby!"

"DO NOT LET THEM GET AWAY!" The second angel looked like a massive bear landed on top of the bar and used its gargantuan paws to block the exits.

The third looked like a massive archer, it drew back its boy with six different huge golden arrows. One aimed at all of them; "Relinquish the child before I hit you all!"

"Over my dead body!" Luka yelled as he drew one Bayonetta's pistols. He shot at the archer, but the recoil was too much and he ended up smashing himself in the forehead knocking himself out.

"So be it." The archer shot all six arrows, all of them headed for a different target. Rodin, Aesir, Jeanne, Bayonetta, Enzo, and Luka. The arrows looked like they would hit their marks, but Victoria cry gave off a shock wave to displace the arrows. They all missed.

The bear smashed Rodin and Aesir to distract them and the thousand armed angel flipped to Enzo and Jeanne holding Jeanne down as he took Victoria. "No, you will not take my child!" Jeanne yelled as she started to draw a portal to summon an Infernal Demon.

"Stop, Jeanne! You don't have to power to control it, you'll just loose a demon!" Bayonetta yelled.

Jeanne grit her teeth and screamed as the three angels vanished in pillars of light stealing away the still crying child. "VICTORIA!"