"Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars. Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars."

I sing to the sleepy child. She curled up as best as she could against my back on the other side of these bars. A while ago, she came down and told me how she was with a man named Luka and myself, apparently being called Bayonetta for some reason, and our adventures that had happen while searching for her father. Cute. Even down in these dark dungeons, she still manages to come up with fascinating stories she made up. Though she insists it really happened. I just listened, it's the only contact I had in here, in chains. Away from my lover. Poor child. Being alone out there, the black sheep of the clan. Forbidden to learn our ways, to become strong. But I suppose that if I were to reminisce on the event leading up to this, I shall start from the very beginning. It started 7 years ago.

*FLASHBACK*

The Umbra and the Lumen went about the daily routine of keeping the light and darkness in balance. Every so often we would partner up on missions. We Umbra preferred the darkness as the Lumen preferred the light. We summon demon and made a pact with them for more power, the Lumen did the same with angels. When we die, our souls get dragged down through the red portal to Inferno, the Lumen get pulled up through the yellow portal to Paridiso. That's the life we live with in the town of Vigrid. I was training with the other witches when I noticed the Umbra Elder walk towards the meeting hall with the Lumen Elder. The elder had his warrior with him. By the looks of him, he was fairly well built and had long silver hair that covered the hood on his robe. His white robe had gold lined patterns that extend over the sleeves, hood, possibly, and coat. Red diamond-shaped patterns run down along the chest to form a chain at the legs and also down his sides were also visible on the robe. The robe itself has gold rings of metal around the base of his arms and also splits apart just below the waist. Finally his shoes were white leather gold-toed boots with heels. By the way he walked, he was confident in our territory. The elders stopped in their tracks and so did the warrior, who was behind the Lumen elder.

"Are you done staring?" My leader asked. She didn't even turn around and I was fighting with the other witches.

I stopped and apologised. She motioned me to come towards her. I thanked my Umbran sisters for the training and walked towards the elders.

"As you can see, the Lumen has his warrior with him. I shall do the same by bringing you with me." The elder informed me and I followed them.

Ever since I was a child, I would dream of being the elder's most trusted warrior and helped my sisters whenever I could. I would train as much as I could and every free time I had would go towards studying the Umbran way. Then one day, the elder herself came to me in my home, in Crescent Valley, and chose me as one of the few selected to train under her supervision. The one who did the best will be her well trusted warrior. We were selected at the age of 10 and the training takes 6 years to fully complete. Learning the Enochian language in order to summon out demons helps too since every chant is different for each witch for summoning our demon sponsors/partners or our own inventions. We are pretty keen in the arts of alchemy, chemistry, martial arts, medicine, anatomical health. We pretty much we learn everything in order to survive, including armour that powers up by our powers. We also learnt Witch Time, dodging at the last possible second and slowing down time. Another way to trigger it is to actually get hit, but turn into our smallest flying animal/insect within and change back, mine is hornets within just for the record. We also had to learn our animal within to run faster, which is always felines/big cats for the Umbra and dogs/wolves for the Lumen. For both clans we change into birds for flight, it's better because we can only temporarily use our demon partners wings, usually a few seconds. Yeah, a lot of studying involved. But it was worth when I got the position of guarding the Elder and such. And here I am now, walking down the halls with both the Umbra and Lumen elder along with the Lumen warrior, who hasn't said a word since coming here and studying us. I looked at him and as soon as we made eye contact, we quickly looked away. Thankfully, my cloth hid most of my face because I could feel the heat from my cheeks but I'm not sure about the Lumen. A minute later we reached the meeting hall and the Elders turned to us. They had their usual leader like faces so we must have stopped blushing. We were instructed to stay out here as they entered the room. I decided to make small talk because to be honest, I hate the silence when I am with someone, you never know what the other is thinking.

"What do you suppose they are talking about?" The Lumen asks me, beating me to ask the first question.

"Most likely talking about our next mission or the balance of the light and dark." I answered, I don't know what they talk about in there.

"I agree. Still, that usually lasts 20 minutes. They've been in there for..." He looks at his golden, sun shaped watch that was on the left side of his chest. "50 minutes."

"I don't question it really. As long as everything is balanced, they could be in there forever for all I care." I remarked.

He chuckled and nodded, it caused me to smile too. As if on cue, they came out of the hall.

"Looks like you two got well aquatinted." The Lumen Elder comments upon see us smiling. "But I'm afraid that it's time for us to depart. Come."

The Lumen warrior nodded and walks up to me. We shook hands.

"It was a pleasure to meet you Umbra Warrior." He says with a smile, a genuine one.

"Like wise. And you may call me Rosa."

"As you know I am the Lumen Warrior, but you may call me Balder."