Chapter 2: Vigrid, City of Déjà Vu
The three witches heard motorcycles coming towards them as the moonlight revealed itself to them when they saw Angels being dragged by the bikes and the witches found out the ones who were fighting them were Jeanne and her students, Zack and Serena.
Serena grinded an Angel with a tire of her motorbike and the Zack simply slash an angel in half and shoot one in the head, whilst Jeanne did the same thing as Serena and zoom right passed Bayonetta and the three began a small angel massacre by zooming passed the angels and shooted them all down, whilst Bayonetta and her friends deals with the stragglers "Fancy bumping into you here. Out to find some answers about your past, are we?" Jeanne asks as Bayonetta, Seth and Luna are in shock. They didn't know that Umbra witches could stick to walls.
Bayonetta, however, kept her composure despite being shocked "You've quite the familiar face. And using the same powers. But you'll have to forgive me," Bayonetta then crosses her arms "Do we know each other?"
Jeanne then rolled her eyes "Same powers!? Don't make me laugh." Jeanne said as she props up her feat on the front of the motorcycle "Your little dip in that lake has left you a bit rusty."
"Really? 'Cause in my mind, Bayonetta has been fighting pretty well, all things considered." Seth said, smirking.
"Yeah, besides, you guys are the ones who are a little green to me." Luna said, looking at Serena and Zack.
"Also, I've been high and dry for 20 years now. The only rust on me is from the lack of any real challenge. Perhaps you and your students are up for the task?" Bayonetta said.
"I don't think that'll be happening…" Serena said, holding Luna's Umbran Watch.
"She's right. You've already disappointed us." Jeanne said, holding Bayonetta's Umbran watch and Zack also holding Seth's Umbran watch.
"What the-!?" Luna jumps up to get her urban watch back and the others do the same as Jeanne and the others rev up their motorcycles and ride off on the wall of the ruins and the six of them begin to fight.
Bayonetta stands on Jeanne's bike and shoots at her, only for Jeanne to stand up on her bike and use her heel to make her motorcycle go faster, causing Bayonetta and her Umbran watch to fall. Bayonetta was close to grabbing her Umbran Watch back but Jeanne was able to zoom in close and grab it before Bayonetta, who was able to land back on solid ground.
Luna and Serena were also beginning their fight with Luna using the guns on her heels to shoot at her sister, however Serena was able to speed up, causing Luna to fall but was able to use her own kinetic energy to push herself back to the ground.
Seth used his katana to try and slice Zack but the young man was able to dodge the swing of the blade and began to shoot at the older male Umbran Witch, which in the struggle, Seth was able to steal back his and Luna's Umbran Watches without Zack realizing during the fight.
When the three Umbran Witches faced their adversaries, Jeanne looks at Bayonetta directly "This is a moment I have long desired. But you've forgotten your destiny and wasted the past 20 years." Jeanne then throws the gold Umbran Watch back at the amnesiac witch.
"You're right, I do seem to be having trouble remembering things as of late. Would you and your students be so kind as to take it from the top?" Bayonetta asks as Jeanne and Serena do their lipsticks.
"Two overseers… The Eyes of the World. They are the power behind everything." Jeanne said as Bayonetta looked down to the ground and began to remember something.
"Bayo…?" Luna calls for her as Bayonetta begins to recount a lost memory.
"This is a waste of our time." Serena said with disdain "Can we leave now, Jeanne?"
"Yes. Like you said…" Jeanne glares at the other witches "This is a waste of our time." Jeanne and her students drive off to parts unknown.
Flashback…
In the Umbran Church, Umbra Witches were looking on to the elder and the rightful successor to the Umbra Witches "Jeanne, as heir to the clan, the time has come for you to prove your right to fight under the Umbran name. You may select opponents of your choosing." The Elder said as Jeanne threw a knife at the Umbra witch who was slumping in the corner.
"Then allow me to face the outcast." Jeanne said as the outcast looked a little shocked.
"No! It is forbidden! The child is of impure blood. Challenging her would be a violation of our tenets of faith!" The Elder yells but Jeanne simply smirks.
"It would not be the first time we have faced each other." Jeanne said.
"What!?" The Elder exclaimed as Jeanne looked back at the Outcast.
"Will you face me in this hallowed arena?" Jeanne asks.
"Well if I must, but I pray you've got a little something for me in return. You know, I'm very fond of stuffed animals." The outcast said as she let out of her cell, she and Jeanne charged at each other in the air, both of them matching each other's speed and movements.
"I grow tired of this." Jeanne said as she used magic to stick to the wall "Come and face me." The outcast simply smirks as she runs up the wall and begins to kick her but Jeanne was able to block it.
The outcast then uses her wicked weave attacks by summoning the limbs of her contract demon to try and hit Jeanne and it did. The outcast then finished the fight by knocking Jeanne off of the wall and her collapsing on the floor.
Flashback ends
"Bayonetta!" Luna called out to the witch.
"What happened?" Seth asks.
"I think I'm starting to remember something…" As Bayonetta says this, her body begins to be covered in a glowing blue aura with Seth smiling a little as he also is covered in this blue aura as well.
"It looks like you remembered how to use this ability." Seth said as he walked on the wall, causing Luna to be shocked.
"We can do that?! Since when?!" Luna asks frantically.
"Um… Since always…" Seth then reaches a conclusion in his mind "Oh crap… I haven't taught you that…" Luna looked a little irritated at her boyfriend's forgetfulness "Right. Well, we Umbra Witches channel the power of the moonlight to stick on any surface." Seth explained as Luna stuck her foot on the wall and began to walk towards him.
"Whoa! It's kinda like Spider-Man's power to walk on walls and stuff!" Luna exclaimed excitedly.
"Yeah, if you look at it that way." Seth said as Bayonetta looked at the sky.
"Jeanne…" Bayonetta muttered.
"Hey, Bayo! Are you coming!?" Luna yelled out, pulling Bayonetta out of her thoughts.
"Yes! Calm yourself!" Bayonetta said as she jumps on to the wall and the three begin to walk to the other side of the crevice when they encounter more Angels in their way.
The little ones who circled around the big angel were the heads of children with glowing halos on top of their heads and golden wings on the back of their heads. While the big one had the face of a long bearded man with a big ring with a star on it behind him and multicolor wings. These Angels were known as Dear & Decorations.
"These guys again?" Seth said as the Dear Angel sends a fire ball towards them.
"I thought you Angels would've gotten a bit more creative after last time back in New York!" Luna said as she pulled out her guns and shot the Decorations down one at a time with Seth using his sword to slice the Dear's angel wings off from its head.
"Off with your head." Bayonetta said as she shot the Angel in the head, killing it.
"Alright, let's go." Seth said as he and the girls kept going crevice.
Once over the door, the clouds begin to block the moon once again, causing the three to fall onto the floor towards the door "Whoa!" Luna, Seth and Bayonetta then quickly landed on their feets.
"That was too close." Seth said as he uses his Wicked Weaves to kick the door down and the three enter it.
Once on a path to another side of town, the trio noticed the daylight hitting them "It's morning? No wonder it's so bright…" Luna said as she and the others saw another one of those metal doors.
"Another one? Well, I guess we have to tear it down." Seth then uses his wicked Weaves again and gets the door to glow and breaks up into pieces again but then sees that it reformed too quickly.
"It looks like it won't let us pass so easily." Bayonetta said as she spotted two other statues, the same ones they encountered in the caverns under the station.
"Another lightning bolt test? Your ancestors really loved those, didn't they?" Luna complained as Bayonetta used the hands of Madama Butterfly to lift them up and a lightning bolt was about to strike the three but they then dogged it at the last minute, activating Witch Time for them.
"Alright. Let's try this again." Seth said as he attacked the wall, causing it to glow and break apart, allowing the trio to walk through it.
"Nice one!" Luna said as she pecked Seth on the cheek.
On the other side of town, a man was being chased by a security guard "Stop!" The guard shouted as the man kept running and jumped into the sky and landed next to an ally and ran into the direction of the ally and ran past a girl and backed up to greet her, removing his hood.
The man has shoulder length wavy brown hair, with its upper layer tied with two side bangs. He wears a white T-shirt and a formal sleeveless grey jacket on top, with a pair of glasses hanging on the front. He also wears an unbuttoned black jacket and dons a long blue scarf, with diagonal white and orange stripes going down and fringe on both ends. The man wears arm length gloves that appear to be made of leather and jackboots that reach just below his knees.
"Do you believe in fate?" The man asks her as the security guard tries to attack him but he dodges at the last moment.
"Fate brought us together, and it will never tear us apart." The man said to the girl before crashing into a flower stand but quickly stood up and threw a rose to the girl before the guard got up and began to pursue him again.
"Dammit! I said stop! I'm authorized to use deadly force!" The guard yelled as he began to chase the man down the street.
Once in a plaza, the man used a wrist-mounted grappling hook to hang on the side of a building when the guard looks around for him "Fuck! Where'd that bugger go!?" The guard said as he ran in a different direction, with the man jumping off the side of the building and scoffing at the man.
"Sayonara!" The man said as he began to walk in a separate direction before smelling something in the air "Fleur de Cirey, Fau du Parfum. Such a wonderful floral bouquet, with its subtle hints of Rosemary." The man said, not knowing that Bayonetta, Seth and Luna were around him.
"You know, in the language of flowers, Rosemary equates to remembrance." The man then backs up a bit, not knowing that he was in front of Bayonetta "Which doesn't quite equate to you, now does it, Bayonetta." The man then takes off the robe over his clothes and pulls out his camera and quickly turns around to a mirror like surface to see Bayonetta and the other two and Bayonetta shoots a bullet to the sky, scarring the man.
"Will you stop that!?" The man demanded as Luna chuckles.
"Long time no see, Buddy." Seth greeted the man.
"You know, if you're gonna try to place a bug on a close associate of ours, you'll have to get mighty early to do that." Luna said.
"Still, I'll have to admit, that little bug on Enzo was a nice touch. Seeing you here, I suppose it wasn't the only one." Bayonetta then taps on the man's shoulders, making him shiver "You've certainly bloomed, haven't you, my little Cheshire puss?"
"I'm not your pet or your friend. The name is Luka." Luka said as he backed up a bit "A name you and your friends better remember." But then, without knowing it, Luka trips backwards, thanks to Luna, making the magenta haired girl giggle mischievously.
"I don't think we need to worry about that. Heads up." Luka was confused by the warning until he saw the sign from a shop about to fall on him.
"Shit!" Luka cursed as he was able to dodge out of the way in the nick of time "Damn it! Wait! You can't run away from me like that! I know what I saw that day!"
Flashback…
A ten year old Luka was behind a huge tree log, waiting for his father to resurface from the lake but then saw something… interesting. His father rises from the water, almost as if some invisible force was lifting him up into the air, that's when he saw Bayonetta seemingly kill his father by violently ripping him in half "Father!"
Flashback ends…
"I know all about your kind. Sure, my colleagues laugh at me for chasing fairy tales, among other things, but I know you're real! I know the truth!" Luka said as he pointed to Seth, thinking it's Bayonetta. Just then, Angels appear around Luka, the man sniffing the air.
"Shit…" Luna mutters as Luka walks around the Angels.
"This smell… It's the same smell that clung to the air when my father was murdered. Which means I'm on you and your friends' doorsteps, Bayonetta!" Luka points at the Angels as Bayonetta shoots at the Angels when he does point at them.
"I'll let you in on a little secret, Cheshire…"
"The name is Luka." Luka watches his steps when the three witches were shooting down the Angels left and right and when Luka looked into the mirror, he saw Bayonetta shooting the glass and the shards flew at Luka, but not hurting him.
"You need to hone your sense of smell, my dear. There's no rosemary in mine or Luna's perfume. And definitely not in Seth's cologne. After all, Rosemary's a demon repellent." Bayonetta explains as the three begin their fight with the Angels.
Seth used his Katana to block an attack from the spears of the Affinity Angels and quickly chopped their heads off "Off with your heads." Seth said as he then pulls out Fair Rosemond and shoots the flying Angels that were about to impale him with their spears but wounded up on the floor.
Luna gracefully twirls in the air, dodging the spears that were meant to impale her but she managed to squeeze by and shoot the Angels down "Haven't you naughty Angels learned? We witches are not people you should play with." Luna said as she shoots down more Angels that were about to impale Bayonetta.
Speaking of Bayonetta, the Umbra Witch was shooting down the Angels with little to no effort as she uses her martial arts like skills to take down most of the Angels "Bad boys…" Bayonetta said as an angelic magic circle appears from the ground, spawning another Beloved Angel.
"Great… another one." Seth said as he hops onto the Belief's back and begins to clip the Angels wings and then attacking a red spherical object on its back with Luna shooting at it.
"Allow me, Honey." Luna said as she uses her Wicked Weaves attack to summon the heels of Madama Khepri to kick the Angel, knocking it down.
Bayonetta then dive kicks the Angel's face, cracking it and making it drop its weapon "Now then, my friend, consider yourself disarmed." Bayonetta said as she uses her own Wicked Weave attack to punch the Angel down.
"Now, it's my turn. RACLIR DRILPA ZODINU!" Seth shouted in Enochian as he poses, which makes his clothes return to being his hair, covering his private part and summons a magic circle. A creature then crawls out of the magic circle.
The creature had four arms and had a violet blue skin, black plate-like armor with red tints, feathers with gold tints behind a skull-like face with horns coming out from the ending of the forehead and on the other edges of its face. It also has long red spikes coming from its back. This is Rangda, Crawler of the Evil Mist.
"Have fun, Rangda." Seth said as Rangda uses its four arms to grab the Beloved by both the arms and legs and begins to split the Angel in half, and eventually did, Rangda giving out a satisfied roar.
Luka comes out of hiding once everything calms down and looks around at his surroundings, hoping to see the three Umbra Witches but doesn't, which frustrates him "You only run away so fast because you've got something to run from… Me! But you can't escape me forever!"
Bayonetta looks down and feels like Luka was right about something as the reporter uses his grappling hook to fly off "Bayo? Are you okay?" Luna asks as Bayonetta nods.
"Yes… yes, i'm fine." Bayonetta said as she and the two lovers went into a tunnel.
Once through the tunnel, the three walk down the street when all of a sudden a cable car was out of control and was about to crash into them but they were able to dodge at the last minute "What the fuck!?" Luna exclaimed as strange Angels came out of the fire.
These Angels appear to be like burning wheels, with legs acting as the support for the female face on the side, with the wheel itself being gold. This Angel is known as Enchant.
"You gotta be kidding me." Seth then pulls his Katana out of the sheath and begins to dodge the Angels fast movements before plunging his sword into the face of the Angel.
"I love that man." Luna swooned.
"He's definitely has you pegged, doesn't he?" Bayonetta smirks as she and Luna jump up and shoot their magic bullets at the Angels and then finally get a headshot and kill the remaining two.
However, three more appear at the plaza and the three Umbra Witches chase after them "Dammit, there's gonna be no end to them." Seth curses as the three Enchants begin to circle the three Umbra Angels.
"Then how about we make this quick?" Luna says as she uses her Wicked Weaves attack and Madama Khepri sends out punches at the Enchants but then another Beloved appears and tries to kill them.
"Oh, come on!" Luna exclaimed.
"That is it! Monsurio Claudius!" The arms of Monsurio Claudius came out of a Umbran Circle and used his sword to quickly slice the Beloved in half.
"That was quick. Was he upsetting you, Seth?" Bayonetta asks.
"Yeah… these Angels are getting more and more annoying by the second." Just as Seth says this, another Beloved jumps down behind them.
"Don't worry, sweetie. Leave this to me." Luna said as she began to run around the Beloved, shooting at it all the while.
Bayonetta picks up the other Beloved's axe, shrinking to fit in her hands, and uses it to break the Angel's armor much quicker "Alright, how about we finish this. AVAVAGO!" Bayonetta shouted in Enochian again, summoning Gomorrah again, who chomps down on the Beloved, it's final chomp is what finally killed it.
Gomorrah let out a satisfying roar before returning to Inferno. Once it leaves, another Gold LP appears and a barrier that the Angels set before had broken down with the energy of Inferno "Another LP? Maybe Rodin can use this to make something nice." Seth said as he and the others continued on.
Making their way to a gate, they saw the same statues they saw back in the catacombs but one of them was shattered "What happened here?" Luna asks.
"The Umbra Witch Statue was destroyed…" Seth begins to examine the shattered statue and picks up a shard "...Almost as if it was destroyed by pure rage and regret." Seth said as he and the others saw another circle to the Gates of Hell.
"Let me go and see Rodin." Luna said as she takes the Golden LP and goes to the Gates of Hell.
Once at the bar, Luna places the LP on the counter as Rodin closes the book he was reading and smiles a bit "Another LP? Heh… workin' me to the bone… but no need to pity me, i was bored anyways." Rodin then places the LP onto the record player and the music begins to play "Let me go and whip some things up for ya." Rodin then flies through a magic circle to Inferno.
After a few seconds, Rodin once again returns, covered in blood but still places the weapon on the counter despite looking exhausted "This took a bit to pound into shape, but the workmanship's solid." Rodin said as Luna looked at the weapon in front of her.
The weapon was a simple Katana that had a red rope tied to the bottom of the handle. This sword's name is Shuraba.
"Thanks, Rodin." Luna smiles and takes the sword and returns to her boyfriend and Bayonetta.
Once back, Seth and Bayonetta were fighting some angels who had appeared while Luna was gone "Glad your back!" Seth shouted as he used his sword to cut an Angel in half.
"Hey, honey! I have a gift for you!" Luna then throws Shuraba to Seth, who catches it and uses it and his normal Katana to slice more than one angel, almost killing all of them.
"Well, that takes care of most of our problems." Bayonetta said as she shot an Angel in the back as it tried to sneak away.
Once the fight is over, the statue of the Umbran Elder fixes itself, just like what happened back in the catacombs "Just like last time…" Seth said as he had Monsurio Claudius's hands to lift up the statues and dodged the lightning to activate Witch time.
Once he does, Luna and Bayonetta punches the pillar and it glows and creates a bridge "Seth!"
"I know!" Seth runs towards the two women and the three run across to a church.
"A chapel?" Luna questions.
"Well, we might as well take a look." Seth said as Bayonetta enters first and the two follow.
Once inside, Bayonetta and the two lovers look around when they all feel a small presence "I'm not the only one who felt that, right?" Luna said as Seth pulled out his Katana and saw the figure and pointed it at them, but the figure of a small person walked through them.
"The hell…?" Seth mutters as the three witches went through the Umbra circle and Bayonetta lands on a broken pillar and points one of her heels with a gun at the small figure.
"You've played enough Hide and Seek, our scurrying little friend." When Bayonetta took a glance at the person, they saw it was just a little girl "Just a child?"
Seth and Luna peeked out from behind the pillars and saw that it was, indeed, just a little girl "A kid?" Seth asks.
"Aw~! She's so cute!" Luna squeals as Bayonetta gets up from where she was sitting and stands in front of the child.
"What are you doing running around Vigrid? You're certainly not dressed in your Sunday best." When the little girl looks at Bayonetta, the Umbra Witch has a flashback of someone singing to her as a child.
As Bayonetta has the flashback, the little girl runs out of the chapel and passes the two lovers "Whoa! Wait, kid! It's not safe!" Seth and Luna run after her but then feel the ground shake and turn around and see a silhouette of a serpent-like head bursting through the stained glass.
"Will you Angels just stop trying to attack us every five minutes?" Luna said as Bayonetta shakes her head and pulls out Onyx Roses and the three witches return to Purgatorio.
"I don't think they care about what we want, Luna." Bayonetta said as she began to remember something else.
"The eyes of the world… the two overseers… What was once held in the witch clan shall now be held in ours!"
Those words ring in Bayonetta's head but she then refocuses on the enemy before them "I guess Rodin was right…" Bayonetta then begins to shoot at the head with Seth using Shuraba to slash at the creature, dealing damage to it.
Before Luna can attack herself, she felt the ground shook once again and found out that the dragon-like Angel, with just one head, lifted the entire chapel up from its foundation "For fuck sake! This is overkill, you know that!" Luna shouted as a second dragon head tried to bite her but she was able to use a Wicked Weave attack to block it and retaliate.
Seth and Luna then used their weapons to hurt the Angel enough that it threw what remains of the chapel off its head and sent it flying and then spit out fireballs at it "Oh bloody hell…" The three witches said at the same time as they jumped out of the chapel, grabbed it, and threw it over to the angel, destroying it and creating a smokescreen that allowed the Umbra Witches to fall back down to Vigrid.
