Chapter 1: The Angel's Metropolis


Flashback

While driving to the airport, Luna leaned forward to him "So where are we going again, Enzo?" Luna asks.

"Well, I asked around, and some whale in Europe is trying to fence a huge rock on the black market. He calls it the "Right Eye", saying it's part of a set called "The Eyes of the World". Fits the bill of what you're after, don't it?" Enzo asks.

"It does. Sounds like it's the same jewel that Bayonetta has on her Umbra Watch." Seth said as Bayonetta looks at her Umbra Watch and then looks at the red gem on it.

"But here's the funny bit. The stone passes around the halls of power for hundreds of years, vanishes, and then the black market goes white hot for the thing. But the seller wanted an arm and a leg for it, to the point no one could stomach the price. So back goes the stone." Enzo explains as Luna cleans her Camera.

"Sounds like another greedy business transaction." Luna said.

"But… Not before everyone figures out where the guy is! You're gonna enjoy doing this one I bet. I love stickin' it to the rich. Of course, when you three do, don't forget you're old buddy Enzo stuck his neck out on this one. Slide me a few fazoles out of the rich guys pocket for my troubles, right!?" Enzo said as they all arrived at the airport "Anyways, you three better get going before the trail gets cold." Enzo said as the trio exited the car.

"Cool. But i still don't know where we're going." Luna said as she grabbed her luggage.

"We're off to the middle of nowhere, paradise of Europe. Vigrid." Seth said as he grabbed his luggage and the trio then went inside the airport.

End of flashback


On a train to Vigrid, Luna was sleeping on Seth's shoulder when she woke up from a nightmare "Are you okay, Luna?" Bayonetta asks, who had also woken up from a dream and Seth who was concerned for his girlfriend.

"I'm… I'm fine Bayo…" Luna said as she and the others heard the intercom in the train going off.

"Welcome to Vigrid, our final stop. Entry visas are required to all travelers. Please submit your Vigrid issued Entry visa for inspection upon disembarking. Please make sure to take all of your valuable belongings with you. Repeating this message…" Seth then looks at the girls and smiles.

"Good thing we're in Purgatorio." Seth said as the three got up from their seats and began to walk to the doors of the train but then they heard a man's voice.

"You and your friends have arrived at last, my dear. The time has come to awaken The Eyes of the World. Fear not, my dear child." Bayonetta and the two lovers look around to see where the man's voice was coming from but couldn't find anyone "Such a beautiful young lady you've become. I'll always see to it that no harm comes to you." Bayonetta turned around but saw no one speaking.


Once the train came to a stop at the station, Bayonetta and her friends got off and looked around "So…" Bayonetta began to speak when she looked at Luna.

"Yeah. This is supposed to be paradise?" Luna asks as Seth looks at his lover.

"Bayonetta, Luna! Show some respect." Seth said as the trio went over the bridge to go through the security gate, only for the alarm to go off when the trio went through it.

"Well, i'll add that to the list of questions i have about Purgatorio." Luna said with annoyance as Bayonetta went to a wall.

"What's wrong, Bayonetta?" Seth asks.

"This wall…" Bayonetta pulled out her guns and infused them with her magic to punch the wall, which glowed.

"This wall seems to be reacting to our Umbran magic." Seth said as Bayonetta stepped aside and let Seth take a crack into breaking this wall down. Seth infuses his magic into his Katana and slashes the wall, making the wall glow more with each strike with the blade which then opens the wall into a secret passage to somewhere else "Ladies first." Seth said as Bayonetta went first and Luna went behind her.

"You are so chivalrous, you know that?" Luna asks as she gives Seth a quick kiss on the cheeks.


The trio found themselves in some sort of catacombs under the train station "Well this is something." Seth said.

"Seth, show some respect~!" Luna teased as she went down to an area to gain a giant key for a door that was on the other side but after she got it and climbed back up, Angels came but Luna uses the Key like a giant sword and easily cuts the angels in half.

Once out of that area, The trio stumbled upon a broken statue of an Umbra Witch that looked like it had been destroyed in a fit of rage and as soon as they noticed it, A barrier made of Paradiso magic shields the statues and Angels then appeared to kill them "I really don't want more angels today." Luna said as she pulled out her guns and shot one of the angels down and then punched them with her guns, using her wicked weave attack that summoned the limbs of her contract demon, Madama Khepri.

"Good job, my love!" Seth said as he used his katana to slice one of the angels in half and then used his own wicked weave attack with the limbs of his contract demon, Monsurio Claudius, which consists of his contract demon swinging his sword killing the lot of them.

"Could you tell your contract demon to stop overdoing it? He almost cut us girls in half." Bayonetta said as Seth looked apologetic but Luna pecked him on the cheek.

"It doesn't bother me though, sweetie." Bayonetta rolled her eyes and was naturally done with their romantic actions as the barrier dissipates and some sort of time magic fixes the umbran statue and gives a message.

Lumen Sage and Umbra Witch
When their powers meet in a test of strength
The lighting will be your test.

If you wish to walk upon water,
Prove your mettle by dodging the lighting
In a single hair's breadth.

Seth and the others were confused but Bayonetta then summoned the limbs of her contract demon, Madama Butterfly, to lift the statues up and a bolt of lighting was about to strike her but Bayonetta was able to dodge it in the nick of time and activated Witch Time "Good job, Bayo!" Luna shouted as the trio were able to walk on the water with no effort and saw the same glowing wall thing from before and hit it hard enough to become a platform, which took them upward.


Once in what looked to be a station of a public garden, the trio walked down the hall and saw Rodin coming out of a red magic circle on the ground "I knew it. This town's teeming with heaven's little helpers. It's making my buddies downstairs awfully nervous." Rodin said as Luna rolls her eyes and looks back at Rodin.

"And your point is?" Luna asks.

"Some places in this world are closer to Paradiso or Inferno." Rodin explained "The rathole of a town we live in is close to both, but the Vigridians, they got this special air about 'em. They're closer to Paradiso than anyone should ever be. And that shit just plain creeps me out." Rodin then had a ring around his finger turn into a gold ring.

"Heh, I guess I'm gonna have to set up shop here and score some Halos. These stupid rings are worth a fortune back home." Rodin explained as he put the Halo in his coat "Since it seems you three are spoiling for a fight, if you three come across any of these, bring 'em to me and I'll hook you up." Bayonetta then sighs.

"Another one looking to line his pockets." Bayonetta said.

"Yeah, it looks that way. I think i'm starting to understand why Enzo is so fond of you." Seth said as Rodin puts his hands on his hips.

"Real cute. But let's get one thing straight, your fights are yours alone. I'm only here to watch my handiworks in action. So don't get any bright ideas about coming to me for help." as if in answer Seth, Luna and Bayonetta pull out their guns and point them at Rodin.

"No. You get one thing straight, We're not the slightest bit interested in the fact that you made these guns and katana. If you get in our way, we'll, how do the Americans put it?" Bayonetta questioned.

"We'll bust a cap in your ass!" Luna finished Bayonetta's statement.

"Right on, baby! Right on!" Rodin laughed as he returned to the gates of hell via the portal on the ground.

"I don't think I'll ever get used to that." Seth said as the trio made their wait into the plaza.


Once in the actual garden, the three witches saw a church-like building but then saw the ground glowing below them.

"What the-" The group then saw flowers springing up and blooming beautifully and the light of Paradiso shines, with three Affinity Angels landing in front of the three witches with a new Angel in a blue robe. This angel is Applaud, Archangel of the third sphere.

The angels screech pierced the air around them as the three witches pulled out their respective weapons and began to fight the angels "Hey Seth! Let's show these angels that there's love among us Umbra Witches!" Luna yelled as Seth smiles and sheaths his sword and pulls out his guns and began to shoot the angels down and punches them with his bullet arts.

"Can we just focus on killing these chaps?" Bayonetta stares at the couple as a angel tries to attack her from behind but she shoots it down with no effort.

"Don't be such a tight ass, Bayo!" Luna said as she uses her bullet arts to shoot multiple angels around her and Seth pulls out his Katana and slashes the Applaud angel in half.

"And that should be the last of them." As Seth says this, a giant golem-like monster rises form the ground. This was the angel of the second sphere, Beloved.

"Mi Amor! Please stop chocking on your fucking foot!" Luna said as she jumps on the fountain and jumps on top of the Beloved angel and shoots it in the back.

"Time for me to rectify my mistake!" Seth then runs to the Beloved's legs and feet and begins to slice them to shreds as Bayonetta uses her bullet arts to punch the Beloved in the face, shattering its majestic armor.

"I think it's time we end this. AVAVAGO!" Bayonetta shouts as her clothes return to being just her hair and the hair goes into a magic circle to summon a demon from behind the Beloved.

This demon was a dragon head that has four glowing dots on either side that appear like eyes, and its mouth is lined with dozens of fangs that frame a twisted forked tongue. It also had a strange crown-like ornament on it's head. This was Gomorrah, Devourer of the divine.

"It's dinner time, Gomorrah~!" Bayonetta said as Gomorrah quickly grabs the angel with its mouth and viciously chomps down on it until its last chomp splits the angel in half and returns to Inferno and Bayonetta's hair returns to being her clothes once Gomorrah left.

"Alright, let's keep going." Seth said as a golden record disk appears before him.

"Um… What the hell is that?" Seth examines it, trying to quelch his girlfriend's curiosity.

"We should take it to Rodin as soon as we can." Seth said as he and the girls continued on into the building, only to be met by the angels.

"Seriously!? We just took out a good chunk of you guys outside!" Luna then draws out her guns and makes short work of the Affinity angels.

"Now they met angry Luna." Bayonetta chuckled as they saw the same wall and punched it to get it to open for them so they could pass.


Once on the other side of the wall, Bayonetta looks around at their surroundings "Something wrong?" Seth asks.

"I… I've been here before…" Bayonetta then looks up to the sky suddenly remembering one of her lost memories.


Flashback

A young Umbra Witch looks at her guns curiously until she sees two other Umbra witches running towards the bridge-like structure "What are you doing!? Let's go!" The young Umbra witch then saw the dragon-like creature from before and began to fight it.

The two other Umbra Witches were shooting the beast but to no avail as the two end up getting devoured by the creature. The young witch knew she had to survive and she began to shoot the beast as best as she could and she was successful in driving it off.

"Alright. Time to go and help the others."

Flashback ends


"Bayonetta!" Bayonetta then hears her name from Seth, who had a concerned look on his and Luna's faces.

"Are you okay? You just spaced out on us." Luna pointed out as Bayonetta then shakes her head.

"No, i'm fine. I think I was remembering something." Bayonetta said as she and her friends continued to the bridge section of the ruins until they saw the portal to Rodin's place.

"Well, I did say that I needed him to examine this." Seth said as he walks onto the portal and teleports back into the Gates of Hell.


In the Bar, Rodin was polishing some wine glasses when he saw Seth walking in with the gold record disk "Well, well… An Angelic Hymns Gold LP… Got your hands on something awfully rare, haven't ya?" Rodin asks with a smile.

"What's so special about this?" Seth asks.

"That thing is the perfect bait to coax out some of hell's uglies. One note hits their ears, and a damn who's who of Inferno comes pouring out of the inner circles. Then I can use them to breathe life into what I make best… Weapons of mass destruction." Rodin laughs.

"Do you think you can make a weapon perfect for Bayonetta? Something tells me she's gonna need them." Seth said.

"Tell ya what. You give me that record, and I'll order up something so fiendish, angels will cry at the sight of it." Rodin said as Seth gave him the record.

"We have a deal." Seth said.

"Good." Rodin then places the LP record onto his record player and angelic music could be heard around the entire bar "I'll just have to pop down to the tropics for a bit. So take a load off." Rodin then opens a portal behind him and flies into it.

After a few seconds, Rodin came back with blood on his hands and on his head "All done. He's a little rude, but he makes up for it with charm." Seth took a look at the guns that were made for the blood and soul of a demon.

They were a pair of sawn-off shotguns painted black and accented by thin gold lines. On the side of each gun is a jewel, each of which matches the Scarborough Fair's jewels in color. These guns were called Onyx Roses.

"Pleasure doing business with you, Rodin." Seth said with a smile and walked back to the portal and returned to the girls.


When Seth returns, he shows off Onyx Roses to Bayonetta and Explains what the Golden LPs were "I see… So if we get more of them…"

"...Rodin will hook us up with even cooler weapons!" Luna said, finishing Bayonetta's sentence.

Seth nodded and the three of them continued on to the bridge when they saw a colossus angel grabbing the bridge and shaking it so it could kill the three witches "Hey! Stop that!" Seth shouted as he pulled out his sword and began to slice its hand

"I suppose it's time to use these." Bayonetta said as she used Onyx Roses to shoot at the angel and it soon became overwhelmed and threw the bridge away.

"Jump!" Bayonetta yelled as the three of them were able to jump off of the bridge and land on the other side of the ruin that was blocked by boulders, while striking a pose "That was fun." Luna said as she and the others went down the steps only to find the same angel from earlier pops up from below them, destroying the steps as it climbs to destroy the Umbran Witches.

"Doesn't this thing ever give up!?" Luna yells as the three witches quickly go back up the steps and see it desperately trying to kill them as the witches chip away its armored flesh to see it's gross insides.

"I think i can finish this. ARZULGE!" Luna shouted as she twirls around and her clothes return to being her hair and opens a magic circle to summon her Infernal Demon.

It was a giant silver snake with a red skull painted on her face and has multiple red eyes. It also had golden fangs and a purple tongue that was laced with poison. This is Gorgon, the Poisoner of Vanity.

The Angel was desperately trying to grab Luna but was smacked by her guns "No touching allowed!" Luna giggled as Gorgon wrapped itself around the angel, biting on its neck and squeezing it until the angel was crushed to death and it's chunks fell down the mountain. Gorgon gave out a satisfying hiss as it returned to Inferno.

"Now we can keep going." Bayonetta said as the two lovers nod and noticed the rain around them was letting up.