Bayonetta landed in some strange place. "Where the hell am I? I better have got frequent flyer miles for that flight." Bayonetta wondered, before looking around. "And where has that little demon gotten off to? If he doesn't show up soon, I'll leave him behind." She said, jumping as I suddenly appeared beside her.
"No need for that. I'm here and ready to go." I said.
"Even now, you're still full of surprises." Bayonetta said, before we continued on. However, as we headed down the path we were on, several large chunks of it broke away. "Well, that's certainly a way to take the skip out of one's step." She said.
"Thank the gods we can fly and or double jump." I said as we did so. Chunks of the bridge continued to break away or sink a bit, but this only slightly hindered our progress.
Suddenly, a large chunk of the bridge broke away as several of the floating head angels appeared before us. "Ahh, so you think you're safe in the air? You're wrong." Bayonetta said, pulling out her whip, lashing two of them and killing them instantly, before wrapping it around another one and flinging it into another, killing them both, as I threw one of my fans at the last remaining one, easily slicing through it and using a series of gusts from the other fan to bring its counterpart back to me.
We reached the end of the path we were on, reaching a large, open platform with a metal gate blocking a tunnel. We went to it and attempted to try and open it, but an angelic energy barrier prevented us from doing so. It was different than the usual ones, so Bayonetta couldn't blow a kiss and break it. "Okay, so we're not going this way." I said, hissing in pain and annoyance as I touched the barrier, only for it to zap my hand away, leaving a painful stinging feeling for a few moments.
"No, it looks like we'll have to take another crumbling walkway." Bayonetta said, heading towards the path on the side. However, before we could take said path, it was blocked by another angelic barrier and a light shined from above. Behind us, the two pillars, one on either side of the walkway we took to get her, lit up, the right one with fire and the left one with lightning as two clawed angels appeared and jumped down at us.
We jumped back as the angels landed in front of us. "Pause, tho!" I said, activating Bullet Time and rushing at Grace (the fire one). "Even the fiercest of infernos can be extinguished with a strong enough wind!" I announced, blasting it back with category 4 winds from my fans, putting out its flames and sending it flying back into the pillar it jumped down from, then rushing in and break dancing, extending Ryuk from my legs as I did so, slashing the angel 5 times, one for each letter of its name, killing it instantly.
Meanwhile, Bayonetta also rushed in at Glory (the lightning one), landing several slashes from Shuraba and then unleashing a barrage of bullet-filled kicks, followed by a powerful Wicked Kick. Time restarted after this and she immediately chased the poor angel bastard down, activating her torture attack and putting the angel in a massive vice that looked like a pair of demonic hands. The angel tried its best to resist the crushing power the vice was receiving from Bayonetta, but it was in vain as she spun the crank with all her might and crushed him into paste. With that out of the way, she blew a kiss and did manage to destroy the barrier blocking the path we were about to take, a small fraction of two different records appearing in the barrier's place. "Well, they're trying to make us work harder and harder for these records now, aren't they?" She asked.
"Yeah." I said, picking up one of the pieces and inspecting it. "Damn. At best, this record's in 3rds. Have you ever played a 3rd of a record on a record player? Let me tell you, it sounds 2/3rds shitty." I said as we put the pieces away and continued on.
We pushed onward, navigating the crumbling bridge and slaughtering any angel that got in our way. I switched back to my other set of weapons, using the blades on Ghostshade's guards to easily punch holes in the angel's chests, necks and faces while blasting off chunks of their bodies with Last Regrets. Bayonetta also switched back to her other set, blasting away angels with the shotguns on her feet while flailing around her whip and easily taking down angels with single strikes at a time. We made it to another decently-sized platform where we discovered Bayonetta's lipstick sitting right in the middle of it. "Huh? My lipstick." Bayonetta said curiously, reaching down to pick it up.
Not too far away, Luka was ready with a camera. "It's a trap!" I said like sci-fi Admiral.
Luka took several pictures as she picked up the lipstick, but she didn't appear in any pictures, just the lipstick in different places, floating in the air. "Nothing! Damn..." He cursed. Bayonetta then smirked, walking up to him and drawing a bunch of goofy designs on his face, humming a happy tune the whole time while he couldn't see or figure out what was happening until she walked around behind him and exited Purgatorio. "What the-!?" He demanded.
"I've often seen a girl without lipstick, but lipstick without a girl!? Most curious, isn't it Cheshire? What's also most curious is how a child like you has kept afloat in this town." Bayonetta teased.
"The... name... is... Luka!" He snapped.
"We... Do... Not... Care!" I said as I exited Purgatorio as well.
"And don't you think it's a little strange to be worried about my well-being? Sure, the festival of resurrection has peaked security. The thing only happens once every 500 years, can you blame them?" He explained.
"Which is stupid, when you think about it, why bother celebrating something that only happens every 5 lifetimes, you'd think it'd be totally forgotten by now. But, hey, religious nuts, what can you do?" I said, shrugging.
"Besides, when you look as good as I do, security isn't a problem. But a killer like you on the other hand... I'm sure you've found a way." Luka said.
"One of these days you'll learn the truth... and you'll learn you've been a total jackass all this time." I told him.
Bayonetta, however, appeared to be lost in thought. "That little girl... I've seen her somewhere..." She said.
(My dear, sweet child... She is the key to your future. To save yourself, you must also save the girl.) The voice in her head rang out.
Luka was unsure of what to make of all this. "Hey, don't go freaking out on me. We both know you came here for something. But what you don't know is the closer you get, the harder it's gonna be for you to get away from me and what you've done. You'll have to fess up to it all! Ahh... I can't wait for you to get your hands on whatever it is you're after." He said eagerly.
"Said no one to their arch-nemesis EVER." I said.
"Let me guess, you want a cut? Well, if you're still alive by then, perhaps you can appeal to my generosity?" Bayonetta teased.
"Still alive? You may be standing right in front of me, but you're definitely not living in reality. Which is a shame, because the truth is always going to be the truth. All I see when I look at you, the real you, is the truth." He said.
"You can't handle the truth!" I said.
"The truth is you killed my father. I don't care who believes me, they can't reject the truth. The truth will set me free from your black stain on my life. The truth will allow me to expose you to the world. Then I'll have won. And I'll do it without stooping to your level, because I'm not a heartless witch like you." He said.
"If she was heartless, she would've killed you, too, before you had the chance to think of revenge." I told him.
Bayonetta even took a threatening step towards him at this. "Whoa, what are you going to do!? Kill me in plain sight? Go ahead. It would only prove everything I've said about you. Well, that, and sadden the hearts of a number of young ladies. Claire, and Trish, and Silvia, and Ammy..." He listed.
"Why do all of those sound familiar?" I wondered.
"Oh you don't want to piss her off let me tell you. Hell hath no fury!" He laughed at this, before she rushed forward and tackled him, holding her close as he tried to grope her ass. They landed on the ground with Bayonetta on top, pinning him down as I walked past them with a bored expression. He was shocked at this as she traced a hand up the front of her body as he looked on in amazement. "What the...?" He demanded, before she put a hand to his lips, just then there was a massive gust of wind and a huge rock pillar fell, collapsing on and destroying the pathway we had been standing on. Luka was shocked at this, before realizing Bayonetta and I were gone, at least to his eyes, but we were just standing to the side in Purgatorio. He took a few moments to think about this and consider how he thought about Bayonetta, before grappling away.
As he did, an electric version of Fairness, known as Fearless, which shot its axe-like tail out at Bayonetta. She dodged it and shot at it from a distance. I went in and tried to attack, but another one appeared, lunging at me and forcing me to jump back to safety. I rushed in and did a 720 spin (two 360's), leaving the angel from dozens of slashes and cuts from Ghostshade's sword and guard blades, before catching him under the chin with a kick and blasting it with the gun on the foot, spinning and planting my other foot into its chest and firing a round from that gun as well, easily killing it. Meanwhile, after Bayonetta felt like she shot it enough from a distance, she rushed in and mercilessly slashed it with her sword, before activating another torture attack, stabbing it with a massive bladed wheel, charging up her most powerful kick and sending the wheel rolling on the angel's back at high speeds, ripping it to shreds.
With them out of the way, Bayonetta broke the next barrier and we continued on the rest of the short, but still deadly and crumbling path, dealing with a few more angels along the way, Bayonetta killing the two Applauds while I killed one of the Affinities and used its magical tuba to shoot and energy beam and kill the other two. With all threats gone we reached the end of the path, finding a strange iron statue that curved upward into a decent-sized ring, big enough for a person to dive through. "Whoa, what is this?" I asked.
"I don't remember what it is, but for some reason, I know how it works." Bayonetta explained, walking over to a strange device nearby and turning the wheel, moving its gears and changing its picture from day to night. Suddenly, just like how the picture had changed, the world around us changed from day to night.
"Whoa, what the?!" I asked, then noticed that the statue's markings began to glow and inside of the ring had a bit of a glow as well. "That's cool. So now what?" I asked.
"Now we go through." She said, running up the statue, reaching the ring and jumping into it.
"Whoa, wait!" I said, hurrying to the ring and jumping through as well, somehow defying gravity as, instead of falling downward, we fell forward as if the ring were some giant tube or slide we were traveling down, except we could bring ourselves to a stop in order to shoot at the angels flying in our path. We eventually hit a cliff wall and dropped down, encountering another pair of Grace and Glory. This time, Bayonetta and I switched it up, I went after Glory while she took on Grace. She dodged its attacks and used Witch Time as it launched itself into the air to counterattack, landing several powerful attacks, before unleashing a barrage of stabs at the clawed angel, before one more extra powerful slice split the monster vertically in half.
Meanwhile, it was the opposite for me: Glory shot its claws out and tried to bring them down on me. "It's time to stop!" I said, activating Bullet Time after sliding back to avoid the claws. I then rushed in, switching back to and landing several hits to its face with my fans, swinging both of them upwards in a powerful uppercut to knock him back, before I jumped up, extending Ryuk and doing a quadruple front flip, tearing him apart and killing him with the kamas. We thought it was done, but suddenly, a trio of angels that looked like a cross between a stingray, human and dragonfly known as Harmony and flew at us. We managed to dodge them, two of them continuing to fly forward even after they passed us, pulling up before they hit the cliff wall while one of them stopped and fired a number of energy balls at us. "Oh, you wanna do that!? Two can play at this game!" I said, obliterating the angel with Finish Breaker.
The other two came back and flew in at Bayonetta, who dispatched the fist one with ease, slashing it several times, hitting it with an axe kick and finishing it with a Wicked Kick stomping down on it, jumping on the next ones back as it flew at her. "ALCRETE (Fiery)!" She chanted, summoning a huge chainsaw from nowhere.
"AWESOME!" I shouted with stars in my eyes as, despite the angel's best efforts to hold it back, Bayonetta used the chainsaw to cleave through the angel, keeping the chainsaw afterwards.
"If Rodin won't give me a chainsaw, I'll just have to get one myself, now won't I?" She asked.
"Yeah." I agreed as she destroyed the next barrier and we picked up another third of our respective records. We then headed up to some strange castle or tower of sorts, but stopped when the door wouldn't open. "Huh... Well now what?" I asked as Bayonetta walked up.
She gasped in slight surprise when she stepped onto a panel and it sank just a bit. "Hm... It seems this pad activates when pressure is put on it. But it seems like it requires more pressure than simply being stood on." She said, looking up to see a platform above the door. Quickly maneuvering up to it, she walked to the edge and casually jumped off, landing on the platform with incredible force, opening the door. "Let's be on our way, then, shall we?" She said, heading in.
"right behind you." I said, following her. We started to make our way up the stairs, before a bright light shined in and a pair of angels that looked like Applauds in full armor appeared, wielding large scimitars and carrying a pair of shields. "Looks like we have company." I said.
Then we must entertain our guests." She said, the two of us dropping down. I switched to Ghostshade and rushed at one, dodging as it swung its scimitar down on me, then planting my foot on it to trap it. It swung the shield at me, but I used my right blade to block it and pull the shield aside, leaving the angel open for me to slash its stomach with my left blade, then stabbing its torso a few times, finishing up with a powerful kick, sending it flying back into a wall. I then quickly chased it down and spun 4 times, slashing it every time my swords passed by it during the spin, easily killing it. Meanwhile, Bayonetta was dominating the one she fought against with her chainsaw, pushing aside the angel's sword and knocking away its shield, before bringing the chainsaw down on its head and slicing it in half. "What a shame. It appears our guests got tired of our entertainment before we did." She said. Two more record pieces appeared and we both finally had our full records assembled. "Lovely. Now all we need is to pay Rodin a visit." She said. (I know the record piece is a bit later in the level and there isn't a portal there, but by the time you get the weapon, there aren't many more chances to use it)
"Looks like he's expecting us." I said as a portal to the Gates of Hell appeared.
We stepped through and handed the records to Rodin. "I don't know if you two are lucky, or if I'm just unlucky. But either way, I'll whip you up something nice." He said. A few moments later, he returned, bloodied and battered, but triumphant. "Took a little to pound 'em into shape, but the craftsmanship's solid. Now go put these things to good use." He said, handing Bayonetta a set of claws with the power of fire and lightning. Then he handed me a set of weapons that had looked familiar in a way. Long, black skulls that fit over my entire forearms, forming into terrifying mouths full of razor-sharp teeth and 3 tongues that looked like miniature versions of the head. Rodin had turned a pair of Xenomorph's heads into miniguns that fit on my arms. "What do you think? Just right for the season." He said.
Doomspore: In his many travels to distant worlds, Rodin found a race of creatures that were nothing less than the ultimate killing machines. A pair of them discovered him and attacked, but this ultimately led to their downfall, becoming Rodin's latest masterpieces. These guns release an endless onslaught of bullets much like the Xenomorph's sword-like tails, filled with their devastating acid blood, capable of melting through even the strongest angels.
"The perfect treat for me to give the angels some nasty tricks." I said with an evil smirk as I slid them onto my arms.
"A pleasure doing business as always, Rodin." Bayonetta said, equipping the claws and setting them to lightning as we left. We returned to the tower and started to make our way up the sides after the stairs came to an end, only for a small squad of Hamony to emerge and attack us.
"Trick-or-Treat... MOTHERFUCKEEEEEEEEERRRRS!" I screamed as I unloaded from my new arm miniguns to load the angels full of holes which grew bigger as the acid ate through them, even ripping one completely in half. I began to break out in evil laughter at this. (Alucard's laugh at the end of TFS Hellsing Ultimate 4)
"Come on, boys." Bayonetta taunted the angels, laying on her back and spreading her legs. Two of them were furious at this and charged her, but this was their undoing, she jumped and slashed upwards with her claws, slicing one of the angels in half, before punching out with the other claw, catching and stunning the angel, before charging up a huge ball of electricity that exploded and obliterated the angels. "Well, that was fun. Almost had a tickling sensation." Bayonetta said as we continued up the tower. We reached the very top before the moon was hidden behind the clouds, Bayonetta landing on a small platform before the tower somehow sealed itself, preventing us from going back the way we came.
On the wall near Bayonetta was another one of the magic walls. I attacked it and made it break outwards, but it quickly formed back in place. "Great, another fast one. We'll have to find some more statues." I said, looking around.
Bayonetta looked as well and found a few platforms with a lever on the top platform. "Well, what have we here?" She asked, jumping up to it and pulling on it, causing the roof above us to turn, revealing an opening in it for us to jump up to the next level. We did so and found another set of statues with the witch broken, the entrance we came through getting sealed with a barrier and another pair of Grace and Glory appearing. "Let's see how you like a taste of your own medicine!" Bayonetta said, attacking the Glory and easily killing it with a barrage of lighting fast and lightning powered punches, finishing with another charged up ball of electricity.
"I always wondered what happens when fire meets acid. Now I can test it out without hurting myself!" I said, loading up the Grace with bullets, rushing in and landing several powerful punches with the xenomorph mouths biting the angels as I punched, before kicking it onto its back as the acid began to eat through and kill it. "Awesome." I said in admiration of the weapon's abilities.
The statues reformed and Bayonetta worked her magic, dodging the lightning and going down below, breaking the wall and the two of us rushing through before Witch Time ended, continuing on to a strange spiraling pathway. We headed up the long path, doing our best to avoid massive gusts of wind that almost looked like giant snakes made out of compressed swirling winds. We made our way to what I guessed was about halfway up, but in a flash, a massive serpent-like angel smashed through the walkway behind us, causing the whole thing to start to crumble. "Move!" Bayonetta ordered as we both sprinted ahead, trying desperately to stay ahead of the crumbling path behind us. The angel attempted to hinder our progress, but we still managed to reach the end of the path, which turned out to be a giant snake statue, jumping onto the safe platform as the snake statue fell and was shattered by the angel, which, once it stopped in mid-air, we could identify as an Inspired.
"You like breaking stuff, huh?! Well, I like breaking you angels!" I said, shooting at it.
"Bring it down!" Bayonetta shouted.
"On it!" I said, sprouting my wings and flying up after it, engaging in an aerial duel, shooting it in the head several times while dodging its lunges, before flipping hitting him in the head with a double axe kick, unloading on him with Last Regrets, sending him falling to the ground, crashing near Bayonetta, who began to attack him with several vicious slashing and clawing attacks, finishing with a Wicked Weave before it managed to recover.
It spit a fireball at her, but she managed to dodge, activating Witch Time and landing several more powerful hits. Sensing it was taking damage and in danger, the angel flew a good distance away, before attempting to charge in and attack her, so even if she dodged, it could get away before she could retaliate... or so it though, before she simply jumped and landed on its back, casually laying down and summoning a number of Wicked Weaves to beat the living shit out of it, before she personally pile-drove it into the ground, where she prepared to finish it. "A GRAA ORS!" She chanted and did her dance, sending her hair down the portal as the Inspired recovered. But before it could attack her, Malphas dropped down on its back, before grabbing its neck and pulling with incredible force until it ripped the angel's head off, promptly eating it afterwards, before flying off with a triumphant screech.
With the angel gone, I landed beside Bayonetta as she destroyed the barrier and we continued onward. We entered another tower and found the stair case was destroyed in many places, but the moon was still hidden, so Bayonetta couldn't walk on the walls. Fortunately, while the stair case was mostly destroyed, the gaps between the broken parts could be jumped to without much difficulty, allowing us to continue. We then reached a long pathway, guarded by an Inspired, but we brought this one down much easier than the last one, barely slowing us down until we continued down the path. But then, a giant angel even larger than Fortitudo appeared from nowhere and destroyed the path in front of us, forcing us to run along and carefully use Bullet/Witch Time to freeze different pieces of the former path that lined themselves up long enough for us to jump to them, until we saw a large platform we managed to jump to, where we saw Jeanne speaking with the angel that attacked us while Damion stood nearby.
"What is the meaning of this? This is now not once, but twice. Explain this meddling in our affairs!" The angel demanded.
"The only ones meddling are your hapless minions. This will be taken care of in the manner I see fit. Your assistance is not required." Jeanne snapped at it, aiming her guns at it in a threat.
"Those guys must love hearing themselves talk." Damion said.
"Then you have something in common." I called out.
He raised an eyebrow at this. "Bold words. Can you back them up?" He asked, taking a fighting stance and revealing his new weapons, Predator-like wrist gauntlets with blades coming out and laser cannons above them. "Say hello to Heartseeker." He introduced the weapons as Jaune jumped down and landed beside him.
"I suppose coming here has given you a second wind. Feeling better, Bayonetta?" Jeanne asked from her perch.
"Who are you? And don't you dare say my long lost sister." Bayonetta demanded.
"Sister!?" Jeanne scoffed. "You've quite the active imagination. You and I once fought for the jewel upon the crown of the Umbra throne. And now that you've returned, my sleeping beauty, it is time to finish that fight.
"If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get!" I snapped, before looking at Bayonetta, who seemed to be spacing out. "Bayonetta?" I said worriedly, before jumping back as Damion fired a few lasers at me, stepping between me and Bayonetta as Jeanne moved around behind her.
"Why don't we let them catch up. Whatever this is about is between them and this is between me and you." Damion said, gesturing back and forth.
"No time for daydreaming." Jeanne said, preparing herself as Bayonetta snapped back to reality.
Background Music: "One For The Money" by Escape The Fate
She turned around in shock to see Jeanne behind her, but then dodged her bullet and engaged in a lightning fast exchange of punches and kicks that Jeanne matched move for move, both of them unleashing a flurry of bullets with every strike. Eventually, Bayonetta managed to find and opening and kicked Jeanne back, chasing after her and the two of them continuing their fierce battle until they wound up with the barrels of their guns right up to each other, firing and disarming themselves of that gun. Jeanne attempted to shoot her with the gun in her other hand, but Bayonetta kicked it aside, attempting to kick at Jaune, who twisted to the side, both of them ending up in a handstand and continuing to fire at each other. Jeanne managed to jump into the air to avoid a few of Bayonetta's bullets, landing back in front of her and the two kicking each other back, retrieving their missing guns and aiming at each other.
Meanwhile, Damion rushed in at me, crossing his blades to block my bullets until he got in close enough, slashing at me while I got on the defensive, blocking his attacks before looking for an opening. I swung my right arm at him, but he blocked it and held it back, doing the same as I swung my left arm at him, his arms now on the inside while mine were on the outside, leaving me completely open for him to stab me in the chest with both sets of blades, lifting me into the air and aiming the barrels of the laser guns in my face, releasing the laser blasts and sending me flying back into the railing. I ran to the side, firing at him as he tried to balance deflecting my bullets and firing his plasma blasts at me. "Okay... Time fore a new plan." I said.
Switching up tactics, I fired at the ground between Damion and I, as well as near his feet, the acid from the bullets hitting flying around, managing to hit his feet and legs, distracting him as the debris from the torn up floor went into the air, at which point I activated Bullet Time, freezing them in the air and rushing in. Damion could resist the bullet time, but with so much debris in the air, it became hard to spot me. "Damn! Where'd he go?!" He demanded, before I came in from his left and through a devastating right uppercut to his jaw, the Xenomorph mouth also taking a vicious bite, before I slammed the other one into his stomach, loading it up with bullets, before tossing him into the air and knocking him back with a powerful fireball from my mouth. He skidded to a stop on his hands and knees, struggling to deal with the burning from the fire and acid, which took their toll on him despite the powerful winds and rain weakening them. "It's over, Damion. You're burnt like a college kid after finals. Just give up. There's still a chance for us to work this out." I said.
He growled at this, before getting back up. "You know, at first, I was just doing what your uncle and the old sage wanted, but now, I just want to shut you the hell up!" He snapped, rushing in.
"Sage?" I asked curiously, before snapping back to reality and blocking his attacks, deflecting his arm as he swung his claw at me, firing a powerful charged plasma shot as he did so, which flew towards Bayonetta and Jeanne.
It hit the mountain they were standing on as they were in a standoff, breaking it perfectly in between the, forcing them to jump back to the safety of the platform Bayonetta and I were still fighting on. "Those cretins fouled it all up again! But perhaps this can be to my advantage." Jeanne snapped at first, but then considered her options, chasing after Bayonetta and jumping back on the platform with her.
All of us now back on the platform, standing side by side with our respective partner, across from our respective opponent, we re-engaged. I shot at Damion and Jeanne, forcing them to evade my attacks. Rushing in while keeping an eye for where my bullets were going, Bayonetta used the opening from when they dodged to attack, jumping towards Damion and kicking him aside, launching herself off him and towards Jeanne, she landed several devastating slashes from Shuraba on her fellow witch, before switching to Durga, punching her and blasting her back with a lightning ball.
I rushed in at Damion after Bayonetta knocked him down, switching to Ghostshade and attacking, the two of us matching each other move for move until we locked blades. He tried to aim the plasmacasters at me again, but I pushed his hands upward, making him miss and allowing me to kick him back. I switched back to Doomspore and unloaded on him again, but he suddenly vanished with a yellow flash of his eyes. "Dammit!" I cursed, looking around for him, before noticing a splash in the water beside me. "There!" I said, spinning and throwing a low kick, hitting Damion in the shin and staggering him back, before I fired a few rounds into his chest, knocking him back again, but he managed to fire a blast from each plasmacaster into my chest before he smashed into the railing, knocking me back into the railing on the opposite side as well.
Some boulders in the wind flew and smashed into the cliff holding our platform, sending it flying in the wind. Damion and I stayed on and continued fighting on the arena while Bayonetta and Jeanne jumped to one of the boulders. Bayonetta dodged or blocked several of Jeanne's attacks before the silver-haired witch kicked her back and summoned a pair of Wicked Fists, so Bayonetta responded in kind, the dozens of silver and black summoned fists fighting for supremacy while if you listened close enough, you could hear the voices of two female demons screaming "ORA!" and "MUDA!", before Bayonetta eventually triumphed and knocked Jeanne back.
The boulder they were on crashed into a lower part of the mountain the arena was on, the two of them jumping off and making their way back to the arena where Damion and I were still fighting, Damion landing a few painful slashes on me before I blasted him back with dropkick combined with a barrage of fire from Last Regrets. I switched back to Ghostshade once again and locked blades with Damion once more as Bayonetta and Jeanne re-engaged each other, Jeanne deflecting a charging slash from Bayonetta and jumping back, but Bayonetta recovered faster than she did from her backflip rushing in and slicing away. Jeanne managed to backflip and dodge once, but once she landed, Bayonetta caught her and landed several painful blows, but managed to jump away again as Bayonetta tried to throw a couple of spinning sweep kicks, kicking her into the air and catching her with several more kicks as she did a series of high-speed backflips, finishing with an axe kick taking Bayonetta to the ground.
She got back up as Jeanne landed, dodging a few of her attacks before she attempted once more to hit Bayonetta with her Wicked Fists, but Bayonetta countered with her own, the two unleashing a flurry of punches that would only meet with the other's fist. This time, however, Jeanne broke through Bayonetta's defenses and prepared to decimate her with a final Wicked Fist. "Bayonetta!" I called, dodging a stab from Damion, kneeing him in the stomach and grabbing his arm, spinning and throwing him into Jeanne, taking her off-balance and forcing the punch to miss, at which point Bayonetta used the opportunity to knock both of them back at once with a Wicked Kick.
End Music
We knocked Damion and Jeanne back, each of them dropping to one knee while we landed on both feet, perfectly fine. "You haven't won... Not yet..." Damion said.
"Looks like it from where I'm standing." I said.
"What's the matter sweetie? Afraid of something, are you!?" Jeanne demanded.
"Afraid? Me?" Bayonetta asked.
"This is a waste of my time. You're still not ready." Jeanne said, before the platform we were on crashed into a cliff, shattering. This forced Damion to jump and fly away while Jeanne was forced to transform into a red lynx, running at incredible speeds to traverse the flying rubble. It seemed for a moment she'd get hit when a boulder flew right at her, but she dispersed into a swarm of moths to avoid this and reformed into an owl, flying away after Damion.
Bayonetta and I were in shock at this. "No way... Can you do that?" I asked.
"We're about to find out." She said, rushing forward as I sprouted my wings and took off. She did a couple of front flips as she tried to master the technique, before finally managing to become a sleek black panther, running at the same high speeds Jeanne had just displayed, traversing the large gaps between boulders and jumped to one more boulder out of the danger zone, but another boulder flew at her, threatening to hit her.
"Bayonetta!" I called out in warning, preparing to fire a ki blast, but it wouldn't get there in time.
She turned her head to look at the boulder flying at her, becoming a swarm of bats to dodge it, then reforming, only to find she was off course of her desired platform. Quickly, she turned herself into a raven and flew to the platform, landing safely on it, before returning to human form. "Oh my... That was bloody amazing." Bayonetta said in astonishment, looking at her hands, before transforming into a panther again and jumping into the distance.