Chapter 5: The Drench Fort

The Forge lands Flashback

Death had fallen into the lava Bayonetta and Death had reached up with his right hand as he sank into the lava glowing purple as he went completely under, then the lava burst up as the Inspired Angel flew out of the lava with Death in it's mouth. The Angel attempted to crush Death with it's powerful jaws but Death struggled to keep himself from being eaten but suddenly black tentacles erupted from the mouth of the angel and pulled Death inside while the jaws clamped shut.

The Angel then flew towards the other side of the dungeon while Rodin and Karn watched with awe but Karn said "Bet ya twenty souls that Death will surprise her."

Rodin then said "No argument here I myself am surprised actually."

Then the side of the angel's chest was slashed open from the inside at black blood began to splatter and caused the angel to crash land into the balcony of the dungeon while Death then summoned a new weapon, the buckler Mortis, one of the two remaining Grand Abominations the other being Death's Harvester scythe while it laughed and shouted "BOOM TIME!"

Then Death used his scythe and began stab the blade at Mortis which made it shout "YES! OH YES! MORE! IS THAT ALL YOU'VE GOT?!"

Mortis started to glow and again laughed as Death then growled and punched the eye on Mortis which made it water and asked "What was that for boss?!"

Death ignored Mortis and said "Let's see if I can make a dramatic entrance..."

Death then used Mortis to punch the angel from the inside using from all the force from the stabbing and the punch making the head completely explode while Death landed feet first and saw Bayonetta and the two constructs that threatened her.

Presently

Bayonetta was with Death outside the Cauldron as Karn said "The mountain has a voice! How did ya two... No it's I not know you two have succeeded what we... I failed to do."

Rodin then said "Bullshit, you could have gone in there and helped but no you waited out here."

Karn then stated "Watch it Demon I might be young but I've got a thing for hammering thing into the dirt."

Rodin then crossed his arms and stated "I've got no time for your threats kid."

Death then saw Bright eyes and was amazed that she was carrying a very large sack of treasure, while Bayonetta said "Good girl."

Then Dust began to fly in but he was dragging the sack as Death was unamused while Bayonetta teased "Oh poor Dust he's too useless for the Reaper."

Death then crossed his arms and said "Dust hurry up or no eye balls for lunch!"

Dust then shot his eyes wide open and quickly carried the sack and dropped it at Death's feet and perched on his shoulder while Bayonetta wiggled her finger "Tsk tsk, Dust your pretty pathetic."

Death then opened the sack and saw a Maker's Dish and asked "What is this?"

Karn then said "Oi that's mine!"

Bayonetta then saw the dish and asked "You wanted us to search this dungeon for a dish?"

Karn then stated "Yes... well it has sentimental value..."

Death then complained "You wasted the time of my servant... FOR A DISH?!"

Bayonetta then laughed while palming his face and said "This is something I tell ya."

Karn then frowned and said "Oi bugger off!"

Bayonetta then took Bright eyes' sack and dumped everything out and saw a buckler that had a strange demonic face as Bayonetta put it on over her wrist and said "Not bad... but is it enough?"

Then Rodin took a look at the buckler and said "That's Dark Avenger the weapon of the vengeful human warrior Draven."

Death then asked "How would a Demon know?"

Rodin then stated "It's my business to know these things horseman."

Death only gave a cold glare while Rodin wasn't phased by the intimidating stare at all while Karn noticed the two were glowing Death purple and Rodin red, as Death the asked "I've heard that you have a incredible amount of souls care to explain this?"

Rodin then stated "Well I went to the past, collected of a shit ton of human souls which are ancient in this time and are worth fifty times more than a regular human soul."

Death then said "Good to know that at least some demons know their souls."

Then Bayonetta then saw that Death and Rodin were staring at each other neither showing signs of being amused and joked "Good grief if you two wanted to make out I won't get in the way."

Then Enzo's soul laughed "Hehehehehe!"

Rodin then took out the jar and shook it violently which made Enzo shouted "HEY HEY HEY! WOOOOOAAAAAAAH MOOOOOOOOOOTHER! FUUUUUUCKEEEEEER!"

The Tree of Life

The Herald had returned to the Tree and bowed as the giant door oozed showing a glimpse of the Avatar again as the Herald said "My lord..."

The Avatar noticed that Bayonetta wasn't with him and asked "Did you fail me Herald? Did you fail on capturing the Nephilim?"

The Herald then reported "I wasn't aware that her soul... is immune to Corruption..."

The Avatar then shouted "WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S IS IMMUNE TO CORRUPTION?!"

The Herald then explained "When I saw into her past, the Corruption I attempted to place within her soul... was rejected by it. It we were wrong my lord... she's not a Nephilim but a primordial human!"

Then the Avatar asked "THE HUMAN WITCH RESISTED YOUR CALL OF CORRUPTION?!"

The Herald then stated "Her soul has already been claimed by ancient Demons however they cannot truly take her seeing that they need her to exist, effectively making her immune to Corruption and..."

Then the Avatar asked "And what Herald?"

The Herald then stated "Immortal... she is now very much immortal seeing that the demons need her to exist..."

There was silence until the Avatar ordered "Come here Herald..."

The Herald then walked over to the door and was grabbed by his skeletal neck by the Avatar's hand from within the door and slammed him into it repeatedly and shouted "AND WHY DIDN'T YOU KILL HER?!"

Then the Avatar released the Herald and yelled in anger showing his glowing mouth, roaring causing the Tree of Life to tremble as the Herald stated "If we can capture her I am for certain we can use her to our advantage. She very strong and powerful and would prove to be a great resource."

The Avatar then growled in annoyance and shouted "NO! If what you say is true and that Bayonetta cannot be Corrupted by the Call... then she must be eliminated!"

The Herald then asked "But you had ordered her to be brought before you why destroy her?"

The Avatar then stated "She will prove to be more trouble alive! She and her Reaper can resist the Call of Corruption! They cannot be tamed by it!"

The Herald then asked "I understand why Bayonetta can't be corruption but why Death?"

The Avatar then stated "His soul is blackened by his sin of Betrayal... making him and Bayonetta the only two beings to be seen in the universe that can resist the call. Which makes Corruption vulnerable!"

The Herald nodded and understanding and pulled out a strand of Bayonetta's hair and stated "I was however managed to steal a strand of her hair, as you ordered, while she was reliving her past."

The Avatar then grinned and said "Good then this was not in vein prepare to meet your new sister soon. Now go to the burial of the one you requested to be... Corrupted."

The Herald then asked "But what of the Drench fort? Bayonetta and Death are sure to head there next."

Then Corruption began to ooze out of the door and began to form a humanoid figure made from the Corruption and formed a single glowing yellow eye and opened it's yellow glowing mouth with yellow steam erupting out. Then the Avatar stated "A Spawn of Corruption shall await for the two."

Then the Herald nodded and reached it's hand out as Avatar's oozy right hand reached out of the door to take the strand of hair while the ooze fell off his arm it had revealed a tattoo on his shoulder, it appeared to be an upside down Omega symbol.

With Death and Bayonetta in Tristone

The same exact symbol was tattooed on Death's shoulder as he and Bayonetta were talking to the Forge keeper siblings, Alya and Valus, Alya then laughed seeing the lava flowing from the Stone father mountain and said "HAHAHA! The Fires of the mountain flow again! Death, Bayonetta we're in yer debt."

Bayonetta then joked "It was nothing, glad we didn't have to solve any ridiculous puzzles to help out baby."

Death then agreed and said "It would have made our quest even longer than it should have been."

Alya then stated "Now that we've got the fires you two know what comes next, the Tears of the mountain."

Death then claimed "I'm not your errand boy Maker!"

Bayonetta then placed her hands on her hips and teased "Oh don't be such a baby Death!"

Death then sighed as Alya stated "Seeing that we can trust ya two our shop is now open to ya, and here take this as a reward for granting us hope again."

Alya then turned around and walked over to a stone cabinet and picked up a hand gun, a giant revolver and spun the cylinder, tossing it in the air and finally catching it by the barrel and handing it to Death who glared at the gun and said "I know this pistol..."

Bayonetta then took interest and asked "Really?"

Death then stated "It belongs to my brother Strife, how came it here?"

Alya then gave a sweat and said "Oi Valus could ya cool off the fires a bit? Anyway Death Icannot say but there are items you can barter with now."

Then Rodin appeared in front of Bayonetta and said "Bayonetta I've got some of weapons for ya if there's any souls to spare."

Bayonetta then said "I just got this bracelet Rodin what you expected souls so soon? Shame on you!"

Death then sighed and said "I'll pay for it this one time just choose what you want."

Bayonetta then teased "Oh how it seems Death is fond of the witch who made you her bitch."

Death then gave a unamused glare and joked "I could just not pay for it and you wouldn't have anything."

Bayonetta then smirked and said "Don't act all butthurt about it, fine I'm going."

Rodin then took Bayonetta to a familiar sight Rodin's bar however it was dusty and a mess as Bayonetta said "Well I must say Rodin... I wasn't expecting this to be here..."

Rodin then stated "I've managed to build some bars in many worlds Bayoentta, however this one brings back the most memories. I don't know if you figured it out yet but you know his is the Earth we both knew right?"

Bayonetta then asked with a bit of shock "What?"

Rodin then snapped his fingers as the entire bar was instantly cleaned and now in better shape and stated "That mountain, the Stonefather's peak, that's Fimbulventr... where the gates of Paradiso and Inferno's remaining power are used to create Constructs, worlds... and even great weapons."

Bayonetta was surprised by this new information and asked "So... you mean the world we know is this world's past?"

Rodin then nodded and showed what he had to offer, most of which were weapons of the current era but still there were four things he had from the previous one, a purple Umbran Gekka, A Link outfit along with a master sword replica, the hammer Takemikazuchi, and finally the bow Kafka."

Then Bayonetta looked at Rodin who shrugs and said "I couldn't carry everything you owned, I did manage to track a good portion of your old stuff back to some monsters."

Bayonetta then licked her lips and asked "Now... what do I want."

Rodin then readied a drink as Bayonetta then asked "So you owe me "Demon lord" Rodin."

Rodin then asked "Really? And how the Hell do I owe you?"

Bayonetta then sat on a stool and noticed the bar's architect was changing to resemble the Makers' own style, and stated while being amazed by the new style "You gave me to the Crowfather without my permission and that's very rude to treat yo customers."

Rodin then sighed and said "Fine... what ever you want I'll get it for you for free."

Bayonetta then pulled a lollipop from a jar on the counter and unwrapped it then placed it in her mouth and said "Mmmmm, how about a gift for Death."

Rodin then asked "Sure have you found out what he likes?"

Bayonetta then stated while putting her hand on her chin "Well he likes a challenge... haven't really noticed anything other than that besides he worries for his younger brother."

Rodin then palmed his face and said "Look I can't help you if you can't figure out what your man's likes are."

Bayonetta then teased "And who said he was MY man?"

Rodin then crossed his arms and said "You two acted like it... plus I've heard some rumors."

Bayonetta gave an interested look and asked "And what pray tell would these rumors be?"

Rodin then stated "From what Vulgrim has spread across the realms is that Death is protecting a human witch, and that the human witch has ahem actually made Death her personal toy."

Bayonetta the smiled and said "Word gets around fast, guess I'll have to punish Vulgrim for spying on us."

Rodin then stated "It was one of your Crow servants."

Bayonetta then stated "Oh it must of been Dust then."

Rodin then sighed and said "I'm not gonna say it's not knowing you, you'd bust a cap in my ass just arguing with you."

Later that night

Death was sitting looking up towards the skies with Dust perched on his hand, Death began to pet his crow servant and said "You know, your the only one to sneak up on me that close without me noticing."

Bayonetta then jumped off the roof and in front of Death in her new purple Umbran Gekka and took a moment to gloat "That's a new record huh?"

Death then chuckled as he still looked up towards the skies and said "I have to ask... what was humanity like in your era?"

Bayonetta then gave a playful pout and said "Oh just ignore the pretty dress that I'm wearing and ask about the past."

Death then looked at Bayonetta and said almost carelessly "It's looks good."

Bayonetta then squinted her eyes and teased "You don't even care about the dress do you?!"

Death then stated "I'm wearing demonic armor that's glowing green in certain places fashion isn't much my thing."

Bayonetta the sighed and sat next to Death and asked "What's wrong?"

Death then asked "What do you mean what's wrong?"

Bayonetta then joked "Your seem more gloomier than usual so what's the matter I didn't hurt your poor little feelings did I?"

Death then groaned and said "It's none of your business."

Bayonetta then called Death "Stubborn Reaper."

Death then turned towards Bayonetta and countered coldly "Slutty witch."

Bayonetta then leaned over and pointed at Death's mask and countered "Oh shut up before I bust a cap in yo ass!"

Death then pulled to Redemption and dared "Try me."

Bayonetta then took a look at Redemption and was reminded of her mother's gun set, Unforgiven and asked "Your brother has good taste in design."

Death then sighed and said "Yeah... but he's kind of an asshole. He threatened to shoot me once."

Bayonetta then joked "Obviously he didn't seeing your still here."

Death then stated "Even if he were to shoot me, I wouldn't die from it. War's Chaoseater which could cut humans in half from being stabbed by it I took that in the chest and used it to cut his own hand off."

Bayonetta then widened her eyes in surprise and joked "Talk about tough love..."

Death then stated "Plus a weapon of my own design and creation... was used on me. This weapon destroys souls, and i survived that."

Bayonetta then went silent and said "Aren't you a little overpowered?"

Death then looked at Bayonetta and asked "When is the concept of Death ever not overpowered?"

Bayonetta then placed her hand on Death's chest used her fingers to crawl up and tapped his mask and teased "Not in bed that's for sure."

Death then asked "Your keep bringing that up aren't you?"

Bayonetta then closed in closer to Death's mask and said seductively "Can't blame me for making Death my bitch."

Death then squinted his eyes and said "Now that's getting mildly annoying, alright if you would I have an offer."

Bayonetta then then teased "Oh my an offer that I can't refuse hmm?"

Death then stated "Now that you have that bracelet I offer a challenge that whoever gains the most souls within the next temple the other will do as the the winner says."

Bayonetta then licked her lips and said "Oh how daring very well I accept your challenge."

The next day

Death awoke in the fur bedding and groaned as if he was simply annoyed and turned over to his left and saw a womanly figure far above the town that stood on cliff looking below as Death thought "Bayonetta?"

But then Bayonetta who laid in the fur with Death sat up in her hair covering her nipples and her thong and said "Good morning Reaper."

Death then leaned to the side and saw that the figure was gone and Bayonetta teased "What you looking at? Has Death become a pervert already? You naughty boy."

Death then sighed and stood up showing that he was wearing a black Hakama as Bayonetta noticed and asked "Where did you get that outfit from?"

Death then stated "An old Japanese nobleman, I acquired it on the few other quests to uphold the balance upon the Earth."

Bayonetta then asked "So you killed a Japanese nobleman just for his trousers... HA! Figured Death wouldn't go that low."

Death then stated "He was possessed by a vengeful spirit and figured it was the spoils of war."

Bayonetta then sighed and joked "Well that sucked all the fun right out of it."

Beyond the cliff the womanly figure stood with the Spawn of Corruption and laughed and said "So father wants it to be his newest creation to take down Death and the witch while the Herald prepares for this world's final fight."

The Spawn then gave gurgling and hissing sounds as an answer while the womanly figure turned toward it and revealed be made completely out of Corruption her hair glowed yellow and was made completely of Corrupt souls. The woman then revealed her face having a glowing yellow mouth, eyes and was just as tall as Bayonetta and asked "So has father given me a title yet?"

The Spawn of Corruption then hissed with yellow steam and said with the voice of the Avatar of Chaos "I have found a name for you, I dub the Mistress of Destruction. Every all that face you in your wake shall know the madness that is destruction!"

Then the Mistress gave a abnormally large yellow going grin and laughed insanely while behind her and the Spawn on the other side of the cliff a Corrupt angel that appeared to be a cobra but with six legs with the very front legs being the largest and were used as hands. The Glamor Angel's coloring was different from before, it grew yellow crystals, it's flesh underneath the stone skin was blackened and it's mouth glowed yellow every time it opened it.

Back with Death and Bayonetta who both had changed their clothes, Death glowed purple as his Shadow of Death armor was formed over his body, while Bayonetta's hair formed a Black Umbra witch outfit. Death then noticed Bayonetta was wearing the Grim talisman that Muria gave her and squinted his eyes at it then the two walked towards Eidear as Death asked "Where can we find the Drench fort?"

Bayonetta then clapped and teased "Good you remembered I here too."

Eidear then laughed and said "The Lass is full of laughs and fun, and pure of heart."

Then Death scoffed and joked "I wouldn't say 'pure of heart' though."

Bayonetta then joked "Watch your mouth! Or I may have to spank yo ass!"

Eidear then then sighed and said "You two make an old Maker's heart beat faster from all this excitement."

Bayonetta then joked "Sorry young man."

While Death said at the same time "I don't care Old one."

Eidear then stated "The Fort lies the opposite direction of the Cauldron, be warned the path was blocked off for the Tears of the mountain were the first to be taken by Corruption."

Death and Bayonetta left Tristone once again to find the Drench fort and unleash the Tears of the Mountain, the Tears are what remains of the past, the Tears are what remains of the powers of Paradiso. However that power faces a great danger, for Corruption spreads faster with the most pure of things, Souls, blood, so forth, when Death and Bayonetta left Bright eyes and Dust were still in Tristone with Muria who along with Rodin had projected a mirage of the Crowfather who greeted "It has been a long time my friends."

Rodin then puffed his cigar and said "Yeah you too Old one, but where are you?"

Crowfather then smiled and said "I roam the City of the dead, for it was Time who sentenced me to Death."

Then Enzo's soul shouted "HEY YOU WASTED YOUR LIFE JUST TO GET THESE TWO TOGETHER AND YOU DIE NOT EVEN SEEING IT?! WHAT THE FUCK?!"

Crowfather then said "Oh Enzo oh much I still find you annoying even if your reduced to just a soul. My death was planned by me alone, for if I lived Death would not get the souls of his people and I would live on in my own madness."

Muria then asked "So what can we do to restore you?"

Crowfather then stated "I do not wish to be restored, I had lived long enough and now I must await for the two to come to the King of the dead."

Then Rodin asked "You get yourself killed because you've gone insane, get sent to the Dead kingdom with your sanity restored and now await to guide them."

The blockage to the Shadow Gorge

Death and Bayonetta had walked out into the Vale and walked towards the left and saw Karn already at the blockage and Bayonetta asked "It's odd how we find you just... standing around."

Karn then stated "Without the Tree Ma'am I'm stuck here with the two of ya."

Bayonetta then said "At least you know how to address me Pup."

Karn then said "I raised to respect everyone miss, and if I had a chance I would leave, like Ulthane."

And Death asked with a sigh "And who is Ulthane?"

Karn then stated "Ahhh he's just another Maker... just got a big hammer is all."

Bayonetta then asked "Are you jealous of this Ulthane?"

Karn then stated "No..."

Death then teased "Even I smell the envy that your tongue spits out."

Bayonetta then went along and clamped her nose nostrils and joked "And my oh my does it smell!"

Karn then frowned unamused and said "Ya two ain't funny."

Death then joked some more "Death is a serious matter Pup."

And Bayonetta finished "Careful he has a gun now and I'm curious to see how much of a trigger happy he really is."

Death then pulled out Redemption and shot a shadow bomb that blew up the entire blockage and asked "Satisfied?"

Bayonetta though was impressed but stated "I expected more from Death."

Death then reminded "Remember two thousand souls."

Karn noticed the path was long and acted as if he was out of breath and said "Ride along ya two I'll rest a bit."

Death then summoned Despair and he and Bayonetta mounted as Bayonetta said "Lazy boy!"

Death rode forth further as Bayonetta noticed a giant Construct arm that the two past as Bayonetta then looked forward and saw the Forge Land's natural predators, the small feline Prowlers along with hornet like Stingers had blocked their way as a Stinger hive was seen. Bayonetta then jumped up and saw Death charging Despair into the hive using Redemption while on horseback to take out a few stingers before jumping off of Despair who blew up the hive and disappeared.

Death had landed feet first and pointed the barrel in the face of a Prowler and said "I've come for the Tears!"

Bayonetta then licked her lips and teased "Cheeky..."

Death then squeezed the trigger and blew off the Prowler's head as Bayonetta then ran at the pack of Prowlers and as one tried to lung at her she dodged right at the last second and taunted "No touching."

Bayonetta then summoned Chernobog and with a single swipe, had cut four Prowlers and raised her left hand showing the bracelet and stole their souls including the ones that weren't their own. Bayonetta's bracelet glowed blue as it robbed the souls and showed the number of souls and showed one hundred and ten, and with that Bayonetta then taunted "I'm already ahead of the Reaper of souls I'd thought you were..."

But Bayonetta stopped her self as she saw Death already done who also sat patiently and taunted "Three hundred and fifty souls."

Bayonetta then asked "Oh my and how do you know that?"

Death then teased "You said said so yourself, I'm the Reaper of souls."

Bayonetta then asked "So how did you get that many souls?"

Death then pointed at the hive and stated "Taking out the biggest or the most powerful thing in the fights will always give you a extra boost of souls."

Bayonetta then crossed her arms and asked "And why would you tell me this?"

Death then stated "Making the challenge more... challenging."

Bayonetta then smiled and teased "Oh Death your such a gentlemen."

But while the two mounted once again the Mistress of Destruction had watched them and asked herself "How exciting! But I wonder if they'll scream while I destroy them?"

The Mistress then mounted on her Corrupt Glamor angel and rode it towards the Drench fort, while Death and Bayonetta rode into the Fjord as the land scame seemed to swap much darker while the air became colder and seemingly the ground began to freeze. Bayonetta was shocked by the suddenly darkness and asked "What happened here?"

But a voice stated from a hill "When the Tears flowed Corruption had spread from it's pure waters and flooded the Fjord, the air grew cold, the trees grew the Corruption from their own souls, the creatures that walk here obey a single mind."

Death turned his gaze towards the hill and rode Despair up it and he and Bayonetta dismounted and saw a strange Construct much like Gorewood this Construct had stone and vegetation to make it function. Bayonetta then said "Your not going to try to kill us are you?"

The Construct then growled and stated "Sorry about that, I haven't been fed in so long."

Bayonetta and Death both asked in unison "You need to eat?"

The Construct then stated "In my form life has taken root, it must be fed or it will consume me."

Bayonetta then asked "Do you have a name?"

The Construct then introduced "I am Blackroot and I'm afraid i must ask for your help."

Death then said "No."

Bayonetta then teased "Oh so cold."

Blackroot then offered "If you feed me I will reward you greatly."

Death then sighed knowing it would waste his time and asked "What would you have us do?"

Blackout then gave a stone tp Bayonetta and said "Here take this, it will draw the stone I hunger for to you, bring it back to me and I shall eat it with pleasure and then I will award you."

Bayonetta then joked "You take pleasure in eating eh?"

Then Blackroot didn't realized what Bayonetta said was a joke and asked "Doesn't everyone when they are in need to feed?"

Death then asked "Why do we need to gather it for you why not gather the stones yourself?"

Blackroot then lifted the bushed covering his legs and revealed large roots digging deep into the land and stated "My roots run deep, deeper than any regular plant in the Forge lands. My roots are so deep that they intercept with the Tree of Life and so i can see all worlds through their Tree of Life or Death."

Death then asked "You can see in all worlds that has a Tree of Life or Death? That's very impressive."

Bayonetta then asked "If you can see all worlds through their Tree of Life or Death or whatever can you see a world with my Umbran sister Jeanne? She would be wearing red and have long white hair."

Blackroot's eyes glowed green and after a long silence he had stated "I am sorry Fleshling but if your friend does exist she would not be on any world and would already have been consumed by the Abyss."

Bayonetta's heart skipped a beat for a moment until Death said "Not quite true, there is a word where the Tree of Life was burned to the ground, world where no Angel nor Demon were allowed until the End war."

Bayonetta then asked "What world?!"

Death then stated "Earth the human realm however due to the premature apocalypse I would doubt she's having a good time."

Blackroot then informed "If it makes a difference a world I lost sight within world that had a Tree of Death its as if it had simply vanished from thin air."

Death then asked "And what is the world?"

Blackroot then stated "The Raviim home world, where only death and decay linger with no life to fill the world."

Bayonetta then asked "The Raviim home world?"

Death then stated "The first world where... I suggested the Nephilim to use the life on the world as weapons of mass destruction."

Jubileus' ancient burial

The Herald of Disorder had Corrupted all the ancient angels and had them gather all the scattered body parts of the Goddess of Light and when they found all the pieces and gathered them to the head the Herald of Disorder floated up glowing yellow crossing all four arms and said "This body though no long has a soul carried live within itself, and for that I see it's use for the Avatar!"

The Herald then uncrossed the lower arms and raised his right hand's index finger as it glowed a strange seal and said "You have no will over yourself, no soul, no freedom, no mind, you will obey to the Will of Corruption for It's power over the destruction of all Creation cannot be denied! OBEY! OBEY TO THE VOICES OF YOU CAN HEAR IN YOUR THOUGHTS! FOCUS YOUR HATRED OF LIFE UNLEASH IT'S DEVASTATING POWER!"

While the Herald had chanted his speech the body of Jubileus had slowly reformed however when it was put back together the cracks oozed Corruption and hardened into the yellow Corruption crystals which then darkened. The eyes of Jubileus had glowed yellow her hands oozed Corruption which then hardened into the Yellow Corruption Crystals and made her hands seem like they wore giant gauntlets made of Corruption.

The Herald floated up to Jubileus' face and said "For a Goddess of light your power is strong but not my equal. For Corruption is the End of all things, even Death cannot escape the coming darkness."

Jubileus then opened her giant mouth and gave a ear drum bursting scream as the clouds in the sky had swirled while thunderbolts struck her, then more of the ancient angels began to rise, and install were Corrupted. Jubileus then floated up and raised both hands creating a giant shadow bomb until the Herald snapped his fingers and ordered "I DID NOT SAY TO DESTROY THIS WORLD YET! OEBY OR BE REDUCED TO THE BURIED STATED YOU WERE BEFORE I CORRUPTED YOU!"

Jubileus went silent and smashed her hands together crushing the Shadow bomb and absorbed it's power and floated back down and stood waiting as the Herald then chuckled and said "You belong to me now! All that remains is to wait for the Guardian's awakening then they will see the power of the Will of Corruption!"

The Drench Fort entrance

Death and Bayonetta had rode through a pass after killing some Prowlers and a Stalker, while Bayonetta noticed Death hadn't spoken since stating he had long ago suggested the extinction of the Raviim and mold their very bodies into the horriffying weapons, the Grand Abominations. Bayonetta then finally asked "So are you alright?"

Death then stated coldly "I'll be fine."

Bayonetta then teased "Rawr no need to be so cold Death, but don't even try to lie to me it won't work."

Death then stated "And am i right now?"

Bayonetta then saw Death turned his eyes towards her and saw he looked very serious and wasn't able to tell if he was lying or not and said "Guess not."

Then the two had finally reached the Drench fort as an insane laughter was heard as a voice said "THE WITCH KNOWS YOUR LYING REAPER JUST TELL HER ALREADY!"

Bayonetta then asked "Who was that?"

Death's arm then formed one of the two remaining Grand Abominations, Mortis whose toothy grin and single disturbing eye had scales and looked at Bayonetta and flirted "Oooooooooohhhhh Death you didn't tell me you had such a hot bitchy witch!"

Bayonetta squinted her eyes and asked "What did you call me?"

Death then stated "Don't try it Bayonetta, it won't work."

Mortis then grinned and dared "COME ON I WANT YOU TO DO IT! AND YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO AS WELL... BITCH!"

Bayonetta then lowered her head as her glasses glared for a moment and summoned the hammer Takemikazuchi as Mortis asked "A hammer? Is that really what your gonna use on me? THAT'S A WEAPON FOR THE STRONG NOT FOR A PUNY LITTLE..."

But Bayonetta slammed her hammer Mortis' eye causing him and Death into a crater while the ground shook from the hammer's raw power while Bayonetta place sit over her right shoulder and teased "Puny huh?"

Death then sat up and looked at Mortis who had a even bigger grin and said "By the creator..."

Bayonetta then asked "What you gonna miss your buddy?"

Mortis then shouted "AGAIN! HIT ME AGAIN!"

Bayonetta was shocked as she turned to see Mortis' eye glowing as Death advised "Mortis' power is to absorb the force or power given to it and and be redirected back to my enemies..."

Mortis then dared "COME ON HIT ME AGAIN DON'T MAKE ME BEG FOR IT!"

Bayonetta then pointed at Mortis and asked "He's a shield he's a masochist?"

Death then sighed and said "Unfortunately yes."

Mortis then begged "OHHH COME ON PLEASE! YOU SEE I'M SAYING PLEASE NOW HIT ME AGAIN!"

Bayonetta then frowned and said "Its no fun if I can't hurt you."

Death then growled in annoyance knowing he would have to spend the amount of the force given to Mortis by Bayonetta on something and said "I'll find a poor soul inside the fort."

Bayonetta then took a long look at the huge temple that had a insignia of a drop of water and said with amazement "Got to admit... the Makers know how to make a scenery."

Death then stated "The Tears keep the temple green, but look."

Death pointed at the giant pipes on each side of the temple as Bayonetta noticed they weren't flowing and said "There's no water flow."

Death then stated "Granted if we unleash the Tears it will aid our quest, however it will be for a cost are you willing to condemn the Makers to extinction for your Umbra sister?"

Bayonetta then looked at Death and joked "Oh what are you talking about now Death? It's all gloom and things with you."

Death then stated as he crossed his arms "As black as sin or pure as rain, the Tears will end the stalemate between the Corruption and the Makers, Corruption chose this temple as their first claim over the Makers."

Bayonetta then leaned over and asked "And what the hell does that mean?"

Death then stated "The Tears though are pure and holy are also easily Corruptible, and with that Corruption will use the Tears to Corrupt all life within the realm of the Makers and the first world will fall."

Then Stingers flew from out of the pipes as Bayonetta said "Oh my more bugs... and not a crying baby cockroach in sight. That's perfect!"

Death then sealed mortis back as he shouted "OH THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT!"

Death then punched a single Stinger but from the force that Mortis absorbed it was redirected into a shockwave that caused all the stingers in the general direction of Death's punch to explode. Bayonetta only stood by as Death stated "I hate Cockroaches."

Mortis then sighed and joked "And yet they can still be squashed so easily."

Bayonetta then asked "Really why's that?"

Mortis then shouted "OH COME ON JUST STOMP ON THEM!"

Death then stated "They can survive a human bomb that leave mostly everything dead except Cockroaches which disturbs me more than the bomb itself."

Mortis then shouted "YOU TWO DON'T EVEN REALIZE THAT YOU CAN JUST SQUASH THE DAMN THINGS!"

Inside the Drench fort shortly after entering the main hall

Bayonetta and Death had walked into a large chamber with a sealed off door while Death saw a room with wooden bars and said "Wait here."

Death then ran at then wall and climbed up to grabbed the wooden bar as Bayoentta had impatiently walked back and forth in one spot until she saw Death finally on the balcony and asked "Anything up there?"

Death then stated "Not on this side."

Death then picked up a shadow bomb and threw it at a blue glowing stone ball across the chamber and shot it which blew the ball off in it fell back and into a different room and rolled out in front of Bayonetta who smirked and played her right heel on the ball and kicked it into the carved area that glowed blue. When the ball was in place Bayonetta joked "I like kicking your balls Death."

Death then jumped from the balcony and had an unamused look as he followed Bayonetta through the doors and saw the giant open roofed chamber with a state of a construct Warden. Death then saw a man door in front of the statue as the two walked on the other side and Bayoentta kicked the doors open and saw that the way was blocked by a barrier and saw the Spawn of Corruption holding it's hands up with a toothy grin.

Bayonetta then asked "And what in the name of inferno are you?"

Death then sighed and said "Here's what I ask WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?!"

The Spawn then stated "I am pure Corruption, spawn of the Avatar of Chaos, you may not pass... not yet anyway. For the Mistress of Destruction will end you."

Death and Bayonetta pulled out their guns and shot at the barrier which only reduced the bullets to dust as the Spawn grinned evilly and said "You already know what you need to have to break my hold of this barrier."

Death and Bayonetta only squinted at the Spawn of Corruption and walked back out the door as it slammed shut while Deat noticed that there was two ways to go and said "Lets split up."

Bayonetta then teased "Can't wait to get rid of me Death?"

Death then laughed and said "A fair way to find creatures that will provide souls without getting in each other's ways."

Bayonetta then licked her lips and pulled out a lollipop from her cleavage and said "Alright then I take the left and you take the right."

Death then said "That's fine with me."

Bayonetta went to the door on right side of the chamber but it was sealed off as Death went to his door went through without any problem while Bayonetta then heard whispers and looked in the drainage tunnel that was in the lower level. Bayonetta then thought she saw her mother Rosa walking into the tunnel and widened her eyes and asked "Mummy?"

Bayonetta jumped from the stone rail and landed feet first on the ground and ran after her mother and saw her walked further ahead through the tunnel, the closer she got the further Rosa seemed to get. Bayonetta finally found a chamber that had wooden bars and looked up to see a hall high above her and used Madama butterfly's wings to fly up to the edge then a womanly voice was heard "I am very unimpressed for all your power, for all you have now you still are just a mommy's girl."

Bayonetta stopped for a moment and asked "Whose there?"

But the was no answer as Bayonetta ignored it and went through the hall and into a large chamber with Prowlers and along with lighting Stingers and a Stalker, Bayonetta then summoned her whip Kulshedra which the demonic cobra head hissed as she petted it's head. Then the Stalker roared as it charged straight at Bayonetta but she dodged right the last second slowing time and climbed on top of the Stalker and wrapped Kulshedra around it's neck quickly yanked breaking it's neck.

Times restored as the Stalker fell lifeless with drool running out of it's mouth and Bayonetta stepped off and held out her bracelet and taunted "Your souls are mine now!"

Bayonetta with quick speeds had whipped the Stingers and Prolwers that began to surround her each whiplash on a Stinger caused it to explode while the Prowlers would need more lashing. Bayonetta then lashed out Kulshedra on a nearby pillar and with great strength pulled it down onto of the pack of Prowlers, as Bayonetta lifted her arm stealing their souls and taunted "Now that wasn't so tough."

Then the womanly voice was heard again "The Reaper knows his sins, and acknowledges them. Why don't you?"

Bayonetta then then remembered Crowfather say voice "I have a job for you..."

Then Bayonetta shook her head and kicked the door opened as she walked down a hall and saw a lever on the other side of a large drain, Bayonetta jumped across the drain and pulled the lever seeing that it was for the blockage for the Tears of the mountain. Bayonetta then turned back to a hall and walked down over an edge but when she looked down she saw more Prowlers and this time a chest.

Bright eyes then flew by with a piece of paper and gave it to Bayonetta and perched on a nearby stone as Bayonetta petted the bird while reading the paper which she recognized was a piece of the Book of the dead. But none of the names were recognizable to her however the name Draven was seen as bayonetta thought "Didn't I hear about Draven before?"

Bayonetta then stored the paper away in her cleavage and jumped off the edge and landed on a Prolwer and shot the second's head off and quickly dropped back kicking an incoming Prowler's head breaking it's jaw. Bayonetta quickly stood back up and shot the prowler's head and raised her hand again stealing more souls. Bayonetta then saw the count of souls and saw she was 957 souls and was impressed that even the smallest of creatures can harbor such among of souls.

Then Bayoentta kicked opened the chest and pulled out the skeleton key which Madama butterfly took and the voice was heard again "You know what the reaper's true intentions are. To restore humanity not to absolve his sins but to save his brother War you will only get in his way!"

Bayonetta then ignored the voice as the area was sealed off by a magical barrier and Corrupt ancient Angels dropped down with golden staffs with circular heads while Bayonetta smirked and licked her lips as the voice asked "Why aren't you scared of the Corrupt Angels?"

Bayonetta then pulled out her guns and shot two Affinity Angels' heads off and with blinding speeds had kicked an angel using the guns on her heels for incredible amounts of damage. Then she used Kulshreda to whip an angel's ass over and over again until it exploded in a gory mess, the voice then shouted "ENOUGH!"

Then Angels screeched in pain as Bayonetta seeing them in such pain complete had her aroused, however the barrier fell as the angels all exploded into Corruption and reformed into the Mistress of Destruction who demanded and explanation "HOW ARE YOU GETTING OFF BY THIS?!"

Bayonetta then taunted "I'm just a naughty girl with a fetish of killing Angels."

The Mistress' hair errupted into a spectral demonic face and shouted in anger "HOPW COULD I HAVE BEEN MADE FROM THE HAIRS OF YOURS?!"

Bayonetta then asked "Your were created from my hair? Damn guess I really need shampoo."

The Mistress' eyes glowed yellow and shot Corrupt souls from her eyes which attempted to affect Bayonetta but to no avail as the Mistress grunted in confusion and asked "How did... what are you?"

Bayonetta then stated "I'm a witch and on of the last of my clan of dark overseers now FLOCK OFF!"

Then Bayonetta used Madama butterfly's fist to punch the Mistress through the roof and out of the temple and taunted "Don't fuck with a witch!"

Death's side

Death had entered his side of the temple and walked down a hall to another door however he saw another hall leading somewhere else and decided to go that route. As he walked down and turned to the right his to see he had to turn left at the end of that hall he saw a door and summoned his reaper fists to push it open and walked in to be attacked by Constructs, and Stingers.

Death raised both hands as three wooden coffins were summoned and they exploded revealing Ghouls set ablaze that attacked their master's enemies, but when a Construct had jabbed it's hand through a Ghoul it had exploded taking it's attacker with it. Death then unsheathed his scythes and with great speeds had appeared to be a whirlwind of him just swinging his scythes all around him shredding any Stingers that got close.

Then the last Construct had attacked Death with it's stone mace, but death had crossed his blades catching the mace that almost hit his head, Death then gave a cold glare at the Construct which began to literally sweat rocks. Death then crossed his blades with a metallic cutting sound and stood still for a moment as the Construct shivered more until it's mace was cut clean in half.

Death then sheathed his scythes and pulled out Redemption and shot the Construct's stone head off, then Death raised his hand stealing the souls, he didn't even need to see how much he had and said "1,303 souls reaped. Wonder if Bayonetta is actually..."

Then the ground shook as an Earth Crag had burst from the ground and charged at Death who then summoned Mortis and blocked the charge with him while he shouted "THAT WAS WEAK COME ON THE HAMMER HAD MORE OOMF THAN THAT!"

Death then punched the Earth Crag with the same amount of force given to Mortis which had broke the earthly shell of the insectoid beast while death then saw the vulnerable meat underneath the shell and quickly had jumped on top of the Crag and shot it with Redemption until it screeched in pain and finally fell lifeless.

Death then jumped off the body and raised his hand stealing the souls the Crag had and taunted "I win the challenge."

After releasing the Tears which had weakened the barrier

Bayonetta walked out of the door as did Death while Death asked "So how much souls do you have?"

Bayonetta then looked at her bracelet and saw the amount and stated "Oh bugger looks like I've got 2,597 souls stolen you?"

Death then stated "3,008 souls."

Bayonetta then asked "What..."

Death then asked "did you destroy any urns or wooden crates?"

Bayonetta then asked "Why would I?"

Death then stated "Some souls possess certain items within the environments and so destroying the items will free the soul."

Bayonetta then smirked and stated "Well we're not done yet I won't go down so easily now."

The two opened the door to the inner chamber and saw the Spawn had disappeared and it's barrier had been destroyed by the holy powers of the Tears of the Mountain. Then Death and Bayonetta jumped across seeing to another door as Bayonetta kicked it open and Death walked past as the two saw a giant stone with a tree on it but then the Spanw reappeared standing on the stone and a barrier had blocked the exits.

The Spawn then grinned evilly and said "I won't allow you to leave this temple alive! For we are..."

Then Bayonetta shot the Spawn of corruption's face which had no effect and taunted "Stop yourself before you start monologging!"

Death then saw a giant organic ball to his left and thought "Wait a minute... I know what that is."

The Spawn then growled and melted into the stone as Death then said "Bayonetta take a look at this."

Bayonetta then saw the giant organic ball and had an idea and suggested "You mind playing a game with me?"

Death then asked "A game?"

Bayonetta then stated "Oh don't worry it's quite fun."

Bayonetta then summoned Madama butterfly's arms and used one to grab the ball with the other held back while Bayonetta stated "Just punch it at the stone with your reaper fists."

Death then nodded as Madama dropped the ball near Death whose Reaper fists had punched it at the stone which exploded revealing a baby Earth Crag while Bayonetta widened her eyes and hid behind Death shouting "AHHH GIANT CRYING BABY COACHROACH!"

Death then squinted at Bayonetta and asked "Are you serious that's not a roach it's just a..."

Then the stone began to move as six legs appeared and revealed an old Earth Crag, named Karkinos Death then turned to see Bayonetta frowning and tried to say "It's not a ro..."

But before he could finish Karkinos had charged at the two as Bayonetta screamed dodging at the last second while Death was left in the open and said "Of course."

Quirkiness then rammed Death into a stone wall but also the impact caused the Erath Crag to fall on it's belly from the impact knocking it out for a moment as another Earth Crag Egg fell from the ceiling and Death whose was impaled by Karkino's log horn shouted "USE YOUR FISTS!"

Bayonetta who was gladly willing to end this fight as quickly as possible had Madama butterfly kick the egg at Karkinos which had knocked to it's side as the baby screeched and charged at Bayonetta used Takemikazuchi to crush the baby Earth Crag also causing a small tremor. Bayonetta then slammed her hammer on Karkinos breaking it's earthly shell and freed Death and backed off and shouted "YOU KILL IT!"

Death then laughed and stated "If I do you loose the challenge."

Bayonetta immediately shouted "I DON'T CARE JUST KILL THE DAMN ROACH!"

Death then smirked under his mask and said "As you wish."

Death then shot Karkinos multiple times as the Spawn of Corruption then formed from the body of Karkinos and spat Corruption at Death which only used his shadow of death scythes to cut them in mid air and quickly use this reaper fists to punch Karkinos to her side. Death then glowed purple and revealed his Reaper Form and use his giant scythe to cut the ass end of Karkinos vertically and horizontally.

Then Death magically made his scythe to spin itself and forced it through Karkinos' ass which made some disgusting grinding and splattering noises as Death's scythe returned to his hands. Bayonetta wwatching the entire thing then saw Karkinos' ass split open from the cuts and bleed blood along with the melted Spawn of Corruption and said with widened eyes "Ok we're never doing anal."

Death then asked "What would that mean exactly?"

Quirkiness who then crumbled into rocks had left a hammer as the Spawn reformed and attempted to flee as the Barrier had dissipated and Bayonetta saw a lever and shot a pillar outside which had ricochet from the pillar and from the ground and impacted the lever releasing the Tears of the mountain through a pass.

The Spawn then growled and said "You cannot win HE will end Creation as you had ended the Nephilim!"

Death then grabbed the Spawn by the arm and said "Your one to speak darkling."

Death then pulled out Redemption and shot the Spawn's head which had splattered all over the ground as Bayonetta now relaxed that the Earth Crags are gone had sighed in relief and saw what seems dot be a dangerous river and asked "Mind if I take a detour here?"

Death then crossed his arms and said "Of course but I'm coming with you remember you lost."

Bayonetta then sighed and said "Seems I can't escape you gaze can I?"

Death then stated "Not likely."

Meanwhile with the Herald of Disorder

The Herald had sat upon a throne which had been built on the head dog Jubileus and said "Hmmm... it would seem I need more souls from the Well to fully control you for the Avatar. Not a problem seeing that the Well of Souls has unlimited amount of souls we can keep at this until you are fully under my control."

Then the the Mistress of Destruction had appeared and cracked her neck demanded "WHY WASN'T I INFORMED THAT SHE WAS IMMUNED TO CORRUPTION?!"

Then the Herald asked "I wasn't the one to create you dear little sister, that would be the Avatar's place to tell you not I."

Then the Mistress' eyes glowed yellow and said "Father is busy you know that!"

Then the Herald grew annoyed and pulled down his hood as yellow corrupt souls that made his head look like it was on fire and roared "BE SLIENT I HAVE MY TASK YOU HAVE YOUR NOW BEGON!"

The Mistress then left while the eyes of Jubileus glowed yellow as black veins had appeared around her eyes, and the Avatar's voice was heard "Obey to my commands! Obey me!"

To be continued

Ok The Mistress of Destruction is another OC I felt I wasn't being fair with Death having a rival and not giving Bayonetta one as well.

and I know Bayonetta seemed OOC during Karkinos fight but I couldn't pass up on having a recurring gag of her hating Crying baby cockroaches, but seeing those Baby Earth Crags kinda reminded me of that so... GIANT CRYING BABY COCKROACHES! HAHAHAHA