Bayonetta and I hurried into the coliseum where the angel appeared to be speaking to someone in the sky. "You are most understood. Our fate is tied to the demon world and we share your earnest interests in this matter." It spoke, before Bayonetta shot it.
"You again? And here I thought I'd seen the last of you." She said, before the dragon head with the red gem turned and growled at her.
"It is most kind of you to alleviate my need to search you out, Bayonetta. Please forgive my prior trespass and lack of hospitality." It said, floating higher.
"I'm sure you'll be more than hospitable to me this time around." She said.
"Hospitable? Is that what you call flooding an entire town with lava?" I asked, even though I knew I wouldn't understand the answer.
"Oh, please! Those sheep believe dropping like flies will bring forth the resurrection of their god. They're HAPPY to die for us." A voice rang out. Suddenly, a girl dropped down on the angel's back in a 3-point landing, before jump-flipping off of it to land a few feet in front of me. She wore a sleeveless black leather leotard with two spikes on each shoulders, long leather gloves that came halfway up her upper arms with Wolverine-like claws on the backs of the hand and thigh-high leather Shinobi tabi boots that also had blades on them, two per foot. She had jet black hair in a long ponytail that went past her waist and a ponytail that covered her one of her icy blue, pupil-less eyes, which had black tattoos that streaked down past them from the top of her head to the bottom of it, as well as a dark circle in the center of her head.
"Tsukasa!" I snapped.
"A friend of yours?" Bayonetta asked.
"Unfortunately, we're family. That asshole who attacked me while you were having your little flashback was my uncle. This is one of his daughters. She's also on board with the enslave humans thing." I explained.
"Yep. And it's way easier with the angels on our side." She agreed.
"What? How?! The angels are supposed to hate all demons!" I said, looking up at Fortitudo.
He ignored me, however, focusing on Bayonetta. "I have been informed that a survivor of the witch hunts is resisting our dominion. However, her inevitable reunion with Hell makes her a sad soul." He said as he flew down. "If you are this pitiful being, then shall I release you from your torment?" He asked, before Bayonetta shot him again.
"I'm sorry. I forgot to mention one of the other reasons I hunt your kind. Your far too ugly NOT to put out of your misery." She said.
The angel simply laughed at this. "Challenging us with a demon and the Dark Arts?! No matter the age, witches never learn." He laughed as he flew up higher, readying himself for a fight, before Bayonetta shot him a few more times.
"Flock off, feather-face!" She snapped.
"Sounds like something Dante would say..." I said.
"Sai, dear, why don't you handle your little bad blood with your cousin. I have my own with this angel." She said.
"Good. If I can't get the answers from the angel, I'll just beat them out of her!" I said, rushing at her as she pulled out a long katana with a deep curve in the blade, the two of us locking blades and jumping off to the sidelines as Bayonetta attacked the angel.
Background Music: "Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift (it works perfect for both sides)
Tsukasa and I landed on the farthest ring of the Colosseum while Bayonetta fought the angel standing on a lower ring... It's hard to explain, I don't know what every part of a Colosseum is called, let's just stick with the fact two different fights are happening in two different places. I trapped her blade between the blades of my fan and attempted to slice her stomach, but she jumped back. "Why would the angels ally with any demons, let alone you?!" I demanded.
"Simple: we both have something the other wants and for now, we're putting up with each other until we have what we want: First, that witch..." She started.
"What do you want with-?" I started, before she rushed in and forced me to guard, struggling to hold her back.
"Second: The Blades dead and the humans kneeling before us!" She snapped, kicking me back.
I drew Ryuk and stabbed the blades into the ground, skidding myself to a stop. "That's not gonna happen." I said, before launching myself forward, spinning and holding the kamas outward as I spun, hitting hard against her defenses and opening them up, allowing me to land a couple of slices on her chest, before knocking her back with a headbutt.
"Argh! Damn you!" She snapped, rushing in, at such a speed it created after images that moved beside her, making it look like there were 3 of them coming at me, all preparing to strike at once, but I knew how to avoid this.
"Time was frozen today!" I shouted, activating Bullet Time, freezing her and her clones as their blades almost reached me, jumping over them and restarting time, causing her and her clones to miss and slash each other, destroying the clones and leaving a deep cross slash on her face. In this time, I had equipped Ryuk to my legs and readied Kamaitachi in my hands, jumping and doing 3 backflips, deploying the kamas on the last one, hitting her chest and slashing upwards from there, staggering her back, before I swung the fans with enough force to create category 5 winds, sending her flying back into a pillar that crashed down on her. "You think you can take down the Blades like this? Not with how weak you are now." I told her.
Meanwhile, Bayonetta fought against the dragon, dodging its attacks and hitting it hard with Wicked Weaves at a distance and landing devastating slashes with Shuraba when it got close enough. She managed to stun him, making him fall to the ground. She jumped down and hit him with a powerful axe kick, hitting him multiple times as she descended and finishing with a powerful Wicked Kick when she hit the ground, before grabbing the dragon head with the red gem in it and flipping him over her shoulder. He recovered after this, rolling onto his side and to his feet, attempting to bite her with both dragon heads, but she dodged, activating Witch Time as he got the mouths of each head stuck in the ground, allowing her to land several powerful hits. Eventually, though, he released a powerful blast of angelic energy, tearing up the ground and forcing Bayonetta to jump to a small island as a small sea of lava rose up, the angel taking to the air and landing on the ledge Bayonetta previously fought on. "What's the matter, darling? Too scared to fight one little witch?" She taunted.
"Enough. This fight is over. Now you die!" He roared, breathing a stream of lava from the dragon mouths, causing an explosion that tore up much of the ground, shooting up several large boulders, the arena below now a full sea of lava. However, Bayonetta used Witch Time at just the right moment, freezing the boulders in place and using them to make a path to Fortitudo while he was vulnerable. She launched herself at him with a Flying Kick to the upside down human face, then ran up its stomach, jumped up and grabbed the dragon head with the blue crystal, pulling him down and throwing him to the ground.
"Sai!" She called.
I kicked Tsukasa back as I heard my name and turned to see Bayonetta and Fortitudo plummeting to the lava-covered arena below. "Bayonetta!" I called, swinging my fans with as much force as I could, managing to clear most of the lava from the center of the arena just before Bayonetta landed and smashed him to the ground, before flinging him over her shoulder two more times and managing to rip off the head, creating a portal to Inferno an army of demonic hands to pull it down.
Tsukasa laughed a bit as I turned back to her. "It's funny you mentioned how weak we are now. Why do you think we teamed up with the angels in the first place. I'll spare you the boring details, but what we wanted from the angels wasn't any weapon or material item." She said, raising her right hand, the claws of which where dripping with blood. But she hadn't used them on me. Looking back to Fortitudo with my enhanced demon vision, I noticed small, almost unnoticeable gashes in his back and pieced it together: she spiked him with those when she did her 3-point landing on his back. "It's their blood. You know this stuff: the union of demon and angel blood will create beings with power neither race could hope to match." She said.
"Also makes for a shitty video game." I said, referencing the DmC reboot. "But more than likely, it'll kill you before it makes you some all-powerful being!" I warned her, since usually when demon blood touches me or gets inside me through cuts or my mouth, it either burns or makes me feel sick.
"Well, let's just see then." She said, licking the blood from her claws. She gasped as she struggled to breathe, starting to choke, before falling onto her back and screaming, briefly entering her Devil Trigger, which basically looks like a black werewolf with spikes, bat wings and red veins, before she began to change, growing to 3 times her original size (5'5"), patches of white and gold appearing in the red and black, a set of powerful mandibles erupting from the sides of her head behind her mouth, two sets of arms exploding from her body, one below her arms and one from her shoulders, looking like that of a white praying mantis with scythe-like blades. Her tail also turned into a spiky version of the creatures abdomen, as well as two pinchers at the end. She turned in a way to aim the abdomen at me, attempting to snap me in the pincers, but I jumped back. But then, a light appeared at the end of the pincers and each one fired a beam at me, which I barely managed to deflect with my fans. She then laughed at this. "You fool! Did you really think I'd do something like that without knowing what it'd do to me?!" She demanded.
"I can honestly say yes to that." I confirmed a bit awkwardly.
"We've been researching this for months now! Testing our blood against theirs time and again! And we found out it mutates our blood and genetic code, making us even stronger! It could be harmful, but we worked to ensure that we'd survive the process! And now look at me! I was always bigger and stronger than you, but now I'm big AND strong enough to crush you like the bug you are!" She snapped, lunging at me, swinging her scythe arms at me.
"Says the one with insect mouth parts!" I said, kicking at one of the scythes, catching it with my own as she swung the other. I jump spun and caught it as well, defending myself from both of those arms, but now I was wide open, held in the air between her blades. "Oh, shit!" I said as she swung her other set of blades down on me and swung her claws, but I breathed a stream of fire in her face, forcing her back.
"How dare you!? I am above you! I'm above the angels! I'm above everything!" She screamed, breathing a swarm of both angelic and demonic locusts at me.
"Apparently, you're not above common sense or Pokemon logic: Fire beats Bugs." I said, lighting myself of fire and crossing my arms as all the locusts fried as soon as they got close to me.
"Then get ready for two of my favorite moves!" She said, suddenly disappearing and reappearing right in front of me. "Crunch!" She announced, lunging and grabbing my head in her teeth, chomping viciously and repeatedly. "And Bug Bite!" She added as the insect mouth parts chomped on the sides of my neck.
"Neither- of those- are as good- as..." I started, forced to stop occasionally when the mouth parts chomped on my neck. "Flamethrower!" I announced, breathing fire down her throat and forcing her to release me again to deal with the flames.
While this was happening, Bayonetta was still fighting with Fortitudo, evading his attacks and even using Witch Time to dodge one fireball, then knock the next one back immediately after, as well as of course landing some additional hits. She once again managed to bring him to the ground and grabbed the remaining dragon head, flinging him over her shoulder and slamming him to the ground, landing a few more hits afterwards, but this time she was too cocky and stuck around for too long after her recovered, allowing him to chomp down on her, attempting to crush her in his massive jaws. I heard her shout in pain when he first grabbed her and turned to see her struggling to keep his jaws from clamping down. "Bayonetta!" I said, grabbing Tsukasa as she was still recovering, spun and threw her at Fortitudo, hitting him in the neck just behind the head of the dragon, causing him to roar in pain and release Bayonetta, allowing her to land an extra backflip kick to his head, taking him to the ground again.
"And to think I once thought he'd only be a nuisance." She said, smiling at me, before turning her attention back to Fortitudo and landing several punishing hits with her whip, before she wrapped it around Tsukasa, using her for extra weight and slamming her into Fortitudo and flinging her back to me, where I hit her with a powerful upward slash from both kamas.
"Only a nuisance to the enemies!" I countered, using Instant Transmission to get above Tsukasa and kick her back down.
"Damn his demon hearing." Bayonetta cursed, before turning back to Fortitudo, laying several powerful hits on him, before bringing him down for the final time, throwing him over her shoulder a few more times and ripping off the other dragon's head, creating a portal to drag it down to Inferno as well. Fortitudo quickly got back to his feet in rage at this and let out a powerful shout, creating an explosion of lava below the Colosseum, launching it sky high. Bayonetta, Tsukasa and I staggered at this as the Colosseum began to break and crumble. The piece Tsukasa and I were on flew quite a ways from the rest of it while Bayonetta tried to figure a way out of this. The situation had grown perilous and if she wasn't careful, she might not get out of it alive. She used Witch Time and noticed her lollipop several stories below her.
Masterfully parkouring, she manuevered her way down to it and retrieved it, before turning her focus back to Fortitudo. He repeatedly rushed the large portion of Colosseum wall she clung to, repeatedly running it through with his tail in an attempt to stab her, but she dodged every attack and landed several of her own for each of his failed attempts. She continued her onslaught against the angel, breaking huge chunks from his stone-like face until he made one final desperate attack, swinging his tail at her with all the force he could muster. This completely backfired, however, when she grabbed his tail and flung him far off into the distance. "A GRAA ORS (The moon of Darkness)" She chanted, summoning Malphas, a massive crow demon. The demon then pinned Fortitudo to a piece of debris and began to peck at its victim mercilessly with increasing speed, rearing its head back and letting out a mighty screech, before smashing completely through the angel's body and the wall behind it, disappearing back to Inferno. All the while, Bayonetta had jumped onto a piece of debris and steered it into several other pieces, directing them all at whatever remained of Fortitudo before jumping off and deactivating Witch Time, sending all of the pieces flying at him at full speed, doing even more devastating damage.
"You know, you're not nearly so ugly when you're screaming." She told him.
"It was as foretold... Your power... Incredible..." He said weakly.
"Foretold!? Explain yourself!" Bayonetta demanded.
"I, Fortitudo, am but a simple sacrifice for the resurrection of the Creator. May the Creator, Jubileus grace you on your journey." He said before a portal to Inferno opened up and the army of demonic hands dragged him in, kicking and screaming.
She stood there, unsure of what to make of what the angel had told her, before throwing away her finished lollipop stick and jumping off her piece of debris, diving to an unknown location below. (My dear, sweet child... Fear not, for I am watching over you... Continue on your path.) The voice from before rang through her head.
Back with me, Tsukasa struggled to stand, regaining her breath as I stood there waiting. "I cannot be defeated... I will kill you... and help my father reign down a new era over humanity where they bow down to us!" She shouted, rushing in at me.
I closed my eyes and sighed at this. "I had hoped I could reason with you, but you've lost all sense of righteousness... and self control... There is no longer any place left for you in... ZA WARUDO!" I announced, activating Bullet Time, freezing her mere inches away from me. "Let's spell it out." I said, readying Ryuk. "T-S-U-K-A-S-A! B-L-A-D-!" I started, slicing her repeatedly with the blades, each one stealing more and more of her life force. I raised the kama in my right hand once more, before stopping and smirking, jumping into the air and using my ki to fly as the debris we stood on slammed into the ground, breaking apart into hunrdeds of pieces, many of those slamming into her as she hit the ground with deadly force. I landed a decent ways away from her as she still struggled to get up.
"This isn't... The end..." She started, trying once more to get up.
"Yes it is." I said, doing several hand signals. "Kamereon!" I announced, creating a portal behind me. A giant pair of strange, reptillian legs slowly pulled themselves from the portal, before the upper half of a giant chameleon easily twice the size of Zuul with 5 glowing yellow eyes on either side of its head, bull horns sticking out past the head far enough to impale 10 people and razor sharp black and purple frills like a frill-necked lizard and spikes running down its back followed the legs, the demon narrowing its eyes on Tsukasa.
"No... Not that... You can't!" She pleaded, trying to escape.
"I can and I will... Not because I want to, but because I have to." I said with some guilt, before the demon behind me opened its mouth and shot out its harpoon-like tongue into her chest, reeling her in and repeatedly chomping down on her until she was in small enough pieces to consume. It let out a triumphant screech before disappearing into its portal. "It's a shame I couldn't help her. It's not her fault she lost her way. But damn if she wasn't committed to the way her father showed her." I said.
(Don't weep for the stupid, Sai, you'll be crying all day. Besides, I want you to save those tears for when you're laying at my feet, begging for mercy... and receive none.) Zeidan's voice rang out in my head.
"The only tears I'll shed for you are joy when I cry laughing after I rip your freakin' head off..." I growled, before using Instant Transmission to return to Bayonetta.
Damascus: A chameleon that dwells in the deepest, most poison-filled swamps of Hell. His eyes see all that enter his domain and his deadly tongue has never once let any prey unfortunate enough to come into its range escape.