Chapter Five:

During the total of four years the two Umbra Witches known as Shirou Emiya and Sakura Matou had spent training with their teacher, Cereza. Who, because of reasons that she didn't want to elaborate on, had had her legal name changed to Cereza Bayonetta, taking her old amnesiatic name/nickname as a last name. Her apprentices suspected that it was mostly as a convenience for traveling and that their teacher had gotten in trouble with airport security on rare occasions. Apparently she had been stopped by security at an airport some time ago while she transporting a rather unique ceremonial dagger to someone who had hired her to collect the dagger. Why she even accepted the job wasn't something she remembered, but she did leave her rather rude client with a pair of parting gifts, namely a strong kick where the sun doesn't shine and a very strong right hook in his face.

One of the first things that Bayonetta did for her students was to visit Rodin at The Gates of Hell, a bar that existed on its own plane of existence with various access points scattered all throughout the Trinity of Realities. Which was also the same place where Bayonetta and her friends got their weapons and met up occasionally. Their reason for visiting The Gates of Hell? Acquiring the two younger witches' first sets of weapons, something that was pretty much standard for Umbra Witches, pistols.

The two girls probably wouldn't admit it, except to each other, but they couldn't help but feel a little intimidated by the bartender and weaponsmith that was Rodin when they met the guy for the first time. It probably didn't really help when he revealed that Shirou was of Umbran Royalty. A revelation that surprised both Sakura and Bayonetta. After overcoming the surprise of the revelation, the two acquaintances moved on to business, acquiring the younger witches' guns.

"Wait here. I have just the right sets for these two." Exclaimed Rodin as he disappeared behind the bar. After a few minutes, he reappeared again behind the counter, this time carrying two heart-shaped boxes in each hand. One of the two boxes were dark blue with a white ribbon keeping it closed and the other box had the same colors but reversed. He handed the dark blue box to Shirou and the white box to Sakura.

Inside each box was a quartet of beautifully crafted pistols. Shirou's pistols were primarily dark blue with some parts, the decorations and the engraved names being made in white. Attached to each handle were a total of four rather cute dolls one would usually have as cute decorations on a keychain, all four of which wore sailor uniforms and various accessories like the more offensive members of the Sailor Scouts from the old Sailor Moon-anime that aired during the 90's. Shirou couldn't help but smile as she made a few experimental twirls with two of the pistols, specifically the two with the dolls resembling Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter.

"I like these." Exclaimed the Umbran Princess without even realizing it.

"That pleases me to hear, your highness." Exclaimed Rodin with a smirk in response to hearing Shirou's exclamation. "Their individual names are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury, but together, they're known as the Quattro Magicka."

Much like the box, Sakura's pistols had the same colors as Shirou's, but reversed, being primarily white with some parts, the decorations and the individual engravings in dark blue. Like Shirou's pistols, each of Sakura's had a small doll attached like a keychain to the handle, and while the dolls did resemble magical girls, these four were from a more recent franchise, specifically Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. While the part-Kitsune didn't have the same enthusiasm as Shirou, she couldn't help but to smile as she picked up one of the guns. They just felt right, almost as if they were made for her specifically.

"Ah. The Lyrical Hexia. I have a feeling that these four will serve you well." Exclaimed Rodin with a smile on his face.

"What are their names?" Asked Sakura curiously.

"Individually, their names are Nanoha, Fate, Hayate and Vivio." Answered Rodin while indicating which one of the guns was named what, each one of them having a doll resembling the character it shared its name with.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. Now, if anyone of you three manage to get your hands on a Golden LP, bring it here and we'll see what I'll manage to make for you."

"Pleasure doing business with you Rodin. We'll be seeing you." Exclaimed Bayonetta as she and her students left the bar. Rodin didn't respond, but did smile as the younger Umbra Witches waved goodbye as they followed their teacher.

Back in the present however, the two Umbra Witches had just managed to kill the massive Infernal known as Kukulkan, and the two of them were exhausted, but they couldn't help it but admit that it was a satisfying fight. A fight that lasted for a total of two hours. The fact that they managed to do it on empty stomachs, as they hadn't gotten the opportunity to eat breakfast, made it even more impressive. They decided to reward themselves by exiting Purgatorio near a cafe that opened quite early and fix the problem that was their empty stomachs. On the way to the cafe, the two witches saw via a mirror in a nearby window Shinji Matou admiring himself in said mirror. Deciding to have a little fun, the two witches snuck up behind Shinji and flipped him the bird, which caused him to turn around and try and find the ones making fun of him, only to find that no one was standing there.

What Shinji didn't nor could know was that the two witches were indeed standing behind him and pointing their middle fingers at him. The thing was that Shirou and Sakura were in Purgatorio, meaning that they were pretty much invisible and could only be seen in reflections, like the reflection in a mirror, or if someone was wearing special glasses. Why those in Purgatorio could be seen in reflections wasn't something anyone who could enter Purgatorio knew, but Shirou and Sakura theorized that it probably had something to do with the fact that Purgatorio was one of the two realms of Chaos, the human world being the other one. The irony that Twilight Mages neither knew of nor could enter Purgatorio despite drawing power from the realm was not lost to the two Umbra Witches.

Shirou and Sakura decided to try and find the nearest access point to The Gates of Hell within Purgatorio in Fuyuki after having breakfast at the cafe, having acquired a Golden LP before they arrived in Fuyuki, which meant a new weapon from Rodin.