Chapter 12: The Cardinal Virtue of Justice
"Mummy! Help!" Little Cerezita was shouting for her mom, but Luka didn't see her anywhere.
This was just fucking great.
He hated dealing with this nonsense and worse, he couldn't even see it.
"Don't panic! I'm here. There's no need to worry about a thing!" Luka panicked from all the gunshots and swishing noises he was hearing from all around them.
It looked like the only calm person there was Cerezito. The little boy just stood there looking off into space in wonder.
What was this kid doing?!
Luka heard something crack. A tree fell towards Cerezito and he was forced to yank the boy back before it crushed him. Cereza hugged her brother in relief.
"Get them, Mummy! Get them!" The kids yelled, sitting behind a fallen tree and using it as a shield.
What smart kids they were.
"Daddy's fighting too. He shouldn't be fighting the angels." Cerezo pouted.
Angels. Mummy. Daddy. What were these kids looking at? They must have a great imaginations because Luka couldn't see a thing.
"Mommy? Daddy? There's no one here." He gently insisted.
Cereza took his chin and pointed in the direction she supposedly saw her mom. "Can't you see? Mummy's fighting the bad monsters for us. Mister, if you don't open your eyes you'll miss everything!"
Luka tried to see to what she was seeing, but he saw nothing but dirt kicking everywhere.
"Sissy, let him see your glasses. Maybe that'll help him see" Cerezo shook him, hoping it'd help the man see, but alas, Luka remained blind.
These kids were just being crazy, there was nothing to see.
"Look with these!" Or at least that's what he thought until Cerezita put her big red glasses on his nose.
"Shit!" It was like his whole world opened up with those glasses.
Through the lenses, Luka saw Bayonetta and Silver fighting winged monsters that looked like angels. When he snatched the glasses off, the image was gone like it never existed. When putting them back on he saw the battle again.
This was giving him another panic attack.
"Dad!" Little Luka called out as his dad was lifted in the air and killed.
Bayonetta jumped into the air and fired bullets everywhere as he stood there in fear.
"Hey, Mister! Mister Luka!" The kids were shaking him harshly to get his attention. Their actions snapped him out the stupor.
His sudden cold sweat slowly melted to his normal level of panic.
What he saw made Luka question everything he knew as the truth from that day. This time when he opened his eyes the man saw one of the winged freaks coming towards them.
"Mega Shit!" Luka picked the kids up and high-tailed away from the bloodbath that was bringing up bad memories.
One of the winged creatures took a swing at him with its lance and the man barely avoided it after hearing Cerezito telling him to duck. Luka hoped that would be the last of it, but those creatures started coming from the sky and surrounded them. He gripped Cerezito and Cerezita as close to himself as he possibly could.
Was he going to die here?
Luka though it was over when one of the angels came at him with another lance.
This was it. This was how he died...but he could at least go out protecting the kids.
He ducked and shielded the kids with his larger frame.
"Cheshire!"
Luka heard that alluring voice and opened his eyes. The sky was raining blood. Bayonetta and Silver stood in front of him with no enemy in sight.
He had never been so happy to hear that ridiculous nickname and Bayonetta's face never looked so beautiful to him. All the other girls he laid eyes on paled in comparison, with the exception of Sigyn. She was a true angel. Even Silver looked wonderful to his deliriously happy mind.
"Holy Shit!" The admiration came to an end when Luka almost fell on his ass from the ground cracking.
Lately he was cursing a lot. The man dearly hoped the kids didn't pick up on his foul mouth. He could imagine the Silver having a fit while Bayonetta laughed at the spectacle.
The rocks were coming apart and Bayonetta was going to fall. Without thinking, his body moved on its own. Luka relinquished his hold on the kids and vaulted forward to the witch. Before she fell, he grasped her hips with one arm and swung the other forward to eject the wire.
That moment felt like an eternity.
Bayonetta felt so warm and tangible in his arms. Luka firmly held onto to her and she held on to his neck, burying her face in his wavy hair. He could feel her cool breaths tickling his neck and smell her enticing perfume.
His heart was racing.
Why did he feel this way?
Wasn't it wrong for him to be attracted to her? She killed his father...
Bayonetta moved her face closer to his. Her lips were so close. Just a little closer and he could feel them.
Luka imagined they tasted like strawberries.
Instead of going for his lips Bayonetta glided away, taking all her warmth and sweetness. She waved at him in farewell.
Why was she waving?
Luka looked in front of where the wire was taking him.
"OH, NO!" He yelled.
Luka was heading straight for a wall. He had too much momentum to stop and ended up colliding straight into the wall.
How uncool!
Every sexy moment he had with a woman wass ruined by shit like this.
Luka landed on the ground, losing the glasses and making it impossible to see Bayonetta. He searched frantically for the spectacles.
"What the hell is that thing?" He questioned after putting the red lens back on.
Tentacles were coming out of the ground.
"Mummy!" Cerezita screamed, running towards Bayonetta again.
That girl really had a death wish.
Why couldn't she be more like her brother and just stay in one place, away from danger?!
"Cerezita, this is way too dangerous!" He chased after her in panic.
One of the tentacles coming out of the ground almost hit her, but she was saved by Silver.
"Sweetheart, I'm going to need you stay out of the way with Luka and your brother, while Mummy and I handle this." Silver dodged the tentacles and threw Cerezita to him. He managed to catch her, but she dropped her toy.
"Cheshire!" Cerezita cried for her toy, but it got taken by one of the tentacles. Luka couldn't do anything but run back to Cerezo by the forest.
It was too dangerous for them.
"Well Kitty, what do you think we should do?" Bayonetta caught little Cereza's toy. She placed it on her ear and pretended to hear it. "He's hurt you, has he? Well, we can't be having that now can we?"
The rock she stood on was lifted into the air by one of those awful tentacles.
This was absolutely retched. Bayonetta hated tentacles!
"Bayonetta! This angel is Iustitia of the Auditio. He's tricky, be careful!" Silver warned, floating stone on a nearby stone.
It was so nice having her own personal knight. Even if he was a little too serious for her. But in this case she let that slide due to his usefulness.
"Let's rock, baby!" She tossed Cheshire where he'd be safer and pulled out the guns for battle.
The fight ended much too quick in the witch's opinion.
She picked Cheshire up again after and placed him at her ear. "How about now, kitty? Still not enough you say?" Her demon took care of Iustitia as the witch taunted the angel.
"You can go another round, can't you?" The witch was just fucking with the miserable lump of guts the angel had been reduced to.
She was a bit more violent with this particular angel since he was made of disgusting tentacles and the way he fought by puking out more tentacles. He was just abhorrent in every way and a true eye-sore to Bayonetta.
"It was as the Lumen Sage predicted, your power is indeed magnificent." The ball of flesh still had one functioning face that was talking.
"The Lumen Sage?"
Who was this thing talking about?
Bayonetta looked to Silver to see if he knew, but his face was completely blank. He had a good poker face.
"Long have two eyes, one light and one dark, watched over the world and its history. It is this power that will allow the creator to start a new cycle of creation. Bayonetta, Cerezo, may Jubileus, the Creator grace you!" The creature was pulled into Inferno like all the others.
All the nonsense these angels were going on about didn't make any sense to her. More concerning was that thing referring to the little one...she didn't have time for these stupid mysteries.
"Now where are my other new best friends? I suppose one of them is an adult, so they should be alright." Bayonetta pushed her blowing hair back, walking off with Cheshire.
Silver silently followed her.