"Excuse me, sir, may I have my glasses back?" Cereza asked, looking at Luka, who indeed still had her glasses, scanning for more angels.
"Huh? Oh... Yeah... Here you go." He said, returning the spectacles. "Cereza, how did you get such... Magical glasses?" He asked.
Cereza simply laughed at this. "The glasses aren't magic, silly. I can see the monsters without them!" She said.
"Monsters... Not quite. So, uh, has Bayonetta, I mean your mom, been fighting these big bad monsters for a long time?" He asked.
"Mummy is a witch, and witches protect people and are very strong. When I grow up, I'll be strong too and I'll protect my mummy!" Cereza explained, posing like a hero.
"Wait... You think witches do what!? Aww, forget it. No point in arguing with a little kid. I'll manage on my own." He said, taking a few steps away.
"I'm sure you will." Bayonetta said from behind him, startling him and making him fall back into a wall.
"Seriously, you're still falling for it? Come on, man, she's been doing this for like 5 years now." I said.
[If he hasn't learned by now, he never will.]
"Mummy!" Cereza cheered happily.
"You never cease to amuse me, Cheshire." Bayonetta said, referring to an airship. "I suppose that's your next target?" She asked, before handing Cereza her doll. "This is yours, little one. You didn't cry while I was gone, did you?" She asked.
Cereza inspected Cheshire, noticing his eye was stitched on at the wrong angle, but ignored it and smiled up at her mother. "Nope." She said.
"Good." Bayonetta said.
"Yeah, bet you didn't know I could sew, did you?" I said to the 4th wall, gesturing to the once severed eye of the doll.
[Great work putting down stereotypes.]
"Bayonetta... No matter how I ask, no matter how many times, you always say the same thing." Luka grumbled.
"Come now, kitty. You know it was all ju-" Bayonetta started.
"-a misunderstanding. You're so stubborn, you know that!? My father... He was a journalist, too. In fact, he was twice the man I could ever hope to be. He was obsessed with one case his entire career. A case so bizarre it took over his life." He said.
"Uh huh. You going somewhere with this?" I asked.
"They could have made a movie of the details: The followers of darkness, the Umbra Witches, and their light world counterparts, the Lumen Sages, controlling everything with a power known as 'The Eyes of the World.' Then, the light and dark clans suddenly disappeared from their medieval home in Europe. You may be familiar with the town. You're standing in it. Welcome to Vigrid, 500 years later." He welcomed her.
"500 years." Bayonetta said in disbelief.
"Well, they certainly spruced it up after all these years. Now if they could just get it a little further from Paradiso, that'd be great." I said, the holy-esque air still irritating me.
"Each clan, working at the behest of the powers that be, sought to lead their fractured world towards peace. They both possessed an 'Eye', said to have the power to create history, that they used to oversee the world. However, their spirit of cooperation did not last, for amongst them, a pair of young star-crossed lovers conceived a child that sent the clans on a path to ruin. The woman was thrown in jail, and the man exiled form his clan. However, the child remained with the Umbra, raised as a black sheep, even amongst the darkness." Luka started.
"People really need to learn to keep it in their pants." I said.
[Don't YOU have 2 girlfriends?]
"I said people, not me." I said.
"Since the balance between light and dark had been lost, both clans spiraled into decay. Legend had it that the two 'Eyes' could be united to control reality itself, and this legend fueled ambition and desire, leading to a myriad of battles between the clans. In fact, it led to their mutual destruction. My father was mocked for buying such a fairy tale; however, I believed his story. And I believe it more than ever now that I've found you. The memory of the clan lingers on, despite the passing on 500 years. What on earth was my father searching for? And why did he have to die for it?" He asked.
"He found something he shouldn't and made people mad. Angels probably weren't happy he found one of their last and greatest enemies." I said.
"I have to discover the truth with my own eyes. That's why I haven't given up my chase for it. Or you. The head of the Ithavoll Group, the multi-national that dominates Vigrid, recently tried to sell an enormous gem stone on the black market. If he isn't selling out in the open, it means we're going to have to acquire it by other means. And that starts by sneaking on to that jet." Luka explained, heading towards the aircraft.
"Stealing a jet? That's pretty ballsy. Well, have fun in prison." I said.
Bayonetta sighed and leaned up against a wall crossing her arms and leg. Cereza hurried beside her mother and quickly imitated her pose. They stood like that for some time before... "Mummy, are you looking for something?" Cereza finally asked.
"I am." Bayonetta confirmed.
"How did you lose it?" The girl asked.
"Little one, do you have anything you really like? Something really important to you?" The Umbran witch asked.
Cereza initially presented Cheshire, but then thought for a moment and revealed an Umbran Watch. "Yes! This! I love it." She said.
"Oh, hey, that looks like your thing." I said, pointing to Bayonetta's own watch.
[Yeah. Like, EXACTLY that same.]
"I'm sure it's just a coincidence." I said.
Bayonetta took and examined it for a moment, before apparently having another flashback. "Where did you get this?" She asked.
"You gave it to me, mummy. For my birthday!" Cereza explained.
Bayonetta looked at it once more for a moment, before taking a portion of one of her red... hair things and fashioning the watch into a necklace with it. "When you love something, never lose it. Understand, little one? You must keep it safe, close to your heart." She said, slipping it over Cereza's head.
"Aww. Even your icy heart can be warm." I said with a smile, before she shot me in the head again.
"And it can freeze back up in an instant." She said.
The awestruck Cereza soon became ecstatic, happily wandering around while proudly holding her new necklace aloft, before hiding it under her gown, turning to us and waving, when an explosion suddenly occurred "Little one!" Bayonetta called.
"What the hell!?" I demanded.
Cereza turned and screamed when a flaming piece of debris came dropping down towards her, but Luka managed to save her, landing on the wing of the cargo plane as Bayonetta and I jumped to safety, just in time to avoid a shipping container crashing on us. But suddenly, the plane rocked from the force of so many heavy objects crashing nearby, causing Luka to lose his hold on Cereza, who slid and dropped into the aircraft. "Cereza! Damn." Luka cursed. The plane began to pick up speed and adjust its flaps, causing Luka to roll and fall off.
Bayonetta and I managed to jump on, though, watching as the plane flew into the sky. "You mentioned frequent flyer miles. Looks like we're cashing them in." I said.
"Finding Cereza's our top priority. And heaven help any angels that get in our way!" She said.
We burst into the plane through a vent and quickly made our way forward, but before we even got very far, a silver Wicked Fist slammed through the bottom of the plane. "Jeanne!" Bayonetta snapped.
"Is she insane! She has to be on the plane, too, so if she takes it down, she'll go down with it! Besides that, there's innocent people on here!" I said angrily.
[It's a low security cargo plane. Most likely, the only people on the plane are the pilots, who more than likely have parachutes in case an emergency evacuation is necessary.]
"Finally SOME good news today!" I said.
"Keep moving!" Bayonetta said, the two of us hurrying through the plane, avoiding more Wicked Fists and Wicked Kicks. We quickly dispatched a pair of Applauds with our pistols and hurried ahead, when suddenly, a silver Gomorrah burst through the ground as I was jumping to the next section, roaring and, slamming its head into me, sending me flying back to Bayonetta's feet, snapping at us. "She's annoyingly determined today." Bayonetta grumbled.
I growled as I got back to my feet. "I'll deal with this! I have learned that the only way to defeat a dragon made of hair... is to BURN it!" I said, hitting the beast with a fireball, causing it to retreat.
[Didn't you say something like that last chapter?]
"It's called a running gag." I explained.
"Good work. Now let's go!" She said as we continued to move, dodging a few more Wicked Fists until we managed to reach and enter a portal to the Gates of Hell.
"Well, well, you two are looking a little worse for wear." He said was we entered the bar.
"That crazy Jeanne chick is trying to bring down a plane with all of us on it." I said.
"And the little one is missing. I need to get to her." Bayonetta said.
"Is that so? Well, since you've been such great customers, I think I might have something for ya." He said, handing Bayonetta 2 pairs of futuristic pistol that almost looks like Star Fox fighters, before handing me a staff made of ice, with two sapphire blue softball sized orbs on either end, protected by a dome of 4 spikes that looked like Maleficent's horns, so it could be used to both smack/smash and stab.
Permafrost: A demon who lurked in the deepest, darkest reaches of hell, freezing the air up to 5 miles around itself and waiting for anyone unfortunate enough to be lost in the horrific darkness to weaken and freeze from his torturous ability, before feasting on them. Now sealed within this staff, his icy terror lives on, freezing enemies upon touch and able to send out waves or beams of ice from a distance. No foe is safe from its icy grip.
"Excellent work as always, Rodin. I think we'll have a nice surprise for anyone in our way now." Bayonetta said, taking the guns.
I grabbed the staff and steam instantly rose from my hand as I felt my whole body quickly dropping to 300 degrees from my natural 500. "Oh, this baby will DEFINITELY do the trick." I said with a smirk.
[Fire and Ice. A devastating combo it's a crime Pokemon doesn't have yet.]
"Do me proud and put on a good show with my babies." He said as we turned to leave.
"That sounds like a COOL idea." I said with a smirk as we left.
We reappeared in the plane and rushed ahead, breaking through the door to the next area and jumping down to move forward, when suddenly, the cargo hold opened, pouring out numerous shipping containers that slammed into us and knocked us out of the plane. "Hurry!" Bayonetta said.
"Don't have to tell me twice!" I said as we used Witch/Bullet time to slow the fall of the containers and jump from one to the other until we got back onto the plane, where we were immediately greeted by a Grace and Glory. I rushed at the Grace, dodging its fiery claws and slamming one end of my new staff down on its head, leaving a nice, big frozen circle around the area of impact, stunning it and allowing me to hit it in its left side, again freezing the area around where the staff hit, then its right shoulder, before I stabbed the angel in the chest, completely freezing its body and ripping the staff out with enough force to shatter the angel completely.
Meanwhile, Bayonetta wasted no time and rushed in on the Glory and smashing it to the ground with a Wicked Fist, then slamming it into the wall with a Wicked Kick, before firing a devastating beam that put a massive hole in the beast's chest, killing it instantly. The barrier was destroyed and we moved ever so slightly forward, before another one appeared, along with 3 Applauds, Bayonetta unleashing a laser fueled hell on the two on the center and left, hitting them with a barrage of small lasers from the guns on her feet, as well as a trio of Wicked Fists, before finishing them with a powerful beam from the two guns in her hand while I aimed my staff at the rightmost angel and shot a beam of ice from it, completely freezing its body, jumping forward, spinning the staff above my head like a helicopter blade and slamming it down on the angel, shattering it.
"Nice. Katana's always saying how useful her ice powers are. I'm starting to think she has a point." I said, flourishing the staff.
"Indeed. I'm looking forward to putting some more holes in angels with these babies." Bayonetta said, kissing one of the guns, before we ran ahead. After apparently coming to a dead end, Bayonetta looked around and smashed out open an exit hatch, some strange wheel or circle structure on the plane leading to another hatch on the other side of the plane. We jumped onto the circle and hurried ahead, but before we could reach the hatch and enter the plane, a familiar voice called out and stopped us.
"Back to your old self, are we?" Jeanne called out from her and Damion's position above us, the two of them standing on some weird, giant antennae or pole, leaning against the part that continued to extend above them
"I'll give you credit. Jumping onto a plane and staying on after everything we've done to throw you off. You're both impressively and annoyingly persistent." Damion said.
"Yeah, well, you know... It gets your heart pumping. Especially when we get the chance to make the hearts of the assholes throwing us off the plane stop pumping." I snapped.
"Surely you two have some place better to be than to impede us!" Bayonetta said, glaring deeply at them.
"Why so glum? Something troubling you?" Jeanne asked teasingly
"Only your constant fretting over my state of affairs. I've no time to play games with you." Bayonetta countered.
"No need to take out your stress on me, Bayonetta. It's clear you're worried for the girl." Jeanne said with a smirk.
Bayonetta turned and growled at this, lunging towards Jeanne. Damion attempted to intercept her with a pair of menacing 9 ring broadswords, the back of the blade covered in ridges and razor sharp hooks, one for each ring. However, I slammed into him, knocking him back as I locked blades with him, his broadswords against Masamune and Murasama. This allowed Bayonetta to try to land a kick on Jeanne, who dodged, the kick instead hitting and taking off the rest of the... antennae or whatever it was they were on. Jeanne slid down the pole, firing at Bayonetta all the while. Bayonetta dodged the bullets, but Jeanne's eyes suddenly glowed, the last bullet, about to harmlessly whiz by Bayonetta's head, suddenly turned and flew at her again, forcing her to dodge.
During this, Damion and I were in a stand-off, wildly slashing and slicing at each other while intercepting the others attack, before we both eventually threw caution and blocking to the wind and stabbed each other in the chest with both blades, each of coughing out a huge gush of blood. "Why are you doing this?! What do you gain from stopping us! There's a little girl's life on the line here!" I snapped.
"Hers isn't the only one." Damion said before we kicked off of each other, separating and pulling our blades out of the others chest at the same time.
[Hey, weren't there rings on those swords before?]
I looked closer and found what Shuya meant: the rings on his swords were gone. He suddenly smirked at this as a bunch of tiny, but devastating explosions rang out through my body, the rings somehow having came off the sword, moving through my body and detonating, sending me collapsing to the floor.
Jeanne continued to shoot as Bayonetta rushed towards her, activating panther within and rushing towards her Umbran counterpart, becoming a swarm of bats to dodge the bullet and reform behind Jeanne, the two of them dueling in mid-air until the antennae flew towards them, forcing them to separate and dodge, landing on it and briefly fighting, before jumping off and landing on the wing, both witches landing beside their respective demon partner. "Sai!" Bayonetta said worriedly.
"I'm... Fine... The bastard got lucky, that's all. He's got some dirty tricks up his sleeve." I said, slowly getting back to my feet.
[You should thank every god you know of you're a demon with an incredible healing factor.]
(I do that every day.) I confirmed in thought.
She sighed in relief as I recovered, before glaring back at Jeanne. "Tell me where she is. Now." Bayonetta demanded.
"My, aren't we attached to our precious little one? Do you like it when she calls you 'Mummy'?" Jeanne taunted.
"You're absolutely delusional. If I leave her, he'll never shut up about it. And his whining is twice as irritating as anything the child could muster." Bayonetta lied.
Jeanne laughed at this. "You've quite the tongue when it comes to curling round the truth." She taunted.
"And what about you? What are you hiding?" Bayonetta countered, throwing Jeanne the small statue. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think these might mean something to you." She questioned.
Jeanne gasped as she looked at the statue, then paused. "I've no need for worthless junk." She said, tossing the statue aside.
"You broke your poker face, Jeanne. You know something. Now spill whatever it is, along with where Cereza is, before I break your regular face!" I snapped.
"You'll have to get passed me for that." Damion said.
"Why must you needlessly stumble and stall? Have you forgotten the task with which you have been charged? Make haste, for the era of the Creator approaches!" Sapientia ordered.
"I am well aware of my task! But you have forgotten that I do not need your help!" She snapped, jumping onto and stomping on the angel's head, jumping back onto the plane. Unfortunately, the angry angel retaliated with a fireball that damaged the plane, sending it into a nose-dive.
"No! Damn you!" I snapped, charging the Umbran in red, but Damion again intercepted, slicing at my face with his broadswords, forcing me to lean back, then jumped back as he sliced at my legs, before lunging after me.
"It seems your little friend is gone forever." She said as fog began to engulf her, at which point she fired at Bayonetta, who easily dodged the bullets and lunged at the younger Umbran, creating a spear of ice from the moisture in the clouds, flinging it at Jeanne, who nimbly dodged, but was unable to avoid Bayonetta slamming into her.
"Fill them! Fill your eyes with hatred. Accept your violent fate! Accept it and earn the Left Eye! Prove you deserve it!" She challenged.
She attempted to strike Jeanne, before time seemed to freeze for her. (Fear not my child, for no harm will come to you. I'm always watching over you... My dear, sweet child.) Bayonetta heard the voice in her head again. Time restarted and Jeanne recovered, smashing our titular witch into the floor, sending her completely through it, only for her to burst back out a few moments later. She adjusted her glasses with her gun as Jeanne casually advanced, Damion landing beside her as I rejoined Bayonetta.
Background Music: "The Animal I Have Become" by Three Days Grace
Bayonetta dodged as Jeanne did a strange jumping cartwheel attack, then dodged again as Jeanne came down with a diving kick, managing to blast her with a few beams from Bazillions, before she recovered and launched Bayonetta into the air with a Wicked Kick from below. She then rushed in as Bayonetta landed, cutting her a few times with her own katana, Angel Slayer. She charged up to deal a fatal blow to Bayonetta, but she recovered at the last minute and met the katana with her own, the two blades locked together, before Bayonetta managed to push her back, landing several slashes and a couple of kicks with Lt. Kilgore to knock the younger witch back.
Meanwhile, Damion and I locked blades once again, separating and unleashing a barrages of hacks and slashes from the two blades, countering each other each time, before I switched to Asmodeus and blasted him away with an energy-filled King of Hearts. "Impressive. You've been building your arsenal. But so have I." He said, a pair of gloves with needle-like talons on the end appearing on his hands.
"Nice accessories, but they can only hurt if they can reach me!" I said, flinging the rest of the cards in my hand. But then, he simply stretched his hand out and the cards stopped in mid-air, surrounded by green energy, before shrinking into marble-sized balls of energy. "Oh." I said, before he suddenly shot the balls of energy at me. "Oh, shit!" I said, diving out of the way, the energy balls just missing, exploding in a small trail behind me. I checked the bottom of my deck and thankfully, the cards he turned into energy balls still came back to the bottom of the deck. "Nice. I was worried I'd be a few cards short." I said.
"When I'm done with you, you'll be a few organs short!" Damion snapped, rushing in with a terrifying scythe, made from a black spine and ribcage with a dragon's skull at the end, with its mouth opened for two menacing black scythe blades to come from, which he now swung at me. I drew Diesectomy and swung it, slicing the blades off and swinging it at Damion, who jumped back just in time to only receive a decently large cut from the massive scalpel instead of being sliced in half. But before I could smirk, black flames came from the dragon skull's mouth and the blades reformed.
Bayonetta and Jeanne had re-engaged each other, matching each other move for move, before Bayonetta managed to unleash a barrage of kick on Jeanne, backing it up each time with a rocket from Lt. Kilgore, eventually knocking her back with a Wicked Kick. Jeanne recovered and skidded back a few feet, before summoning her motorcycle. "That's cheating!" Bayonetta said, dodging as Jeanne zoomed by her, activating Witch Time and hitting the bike several times before Jeanne drove out of range.
She repeated this process two or three more times while dodging Jeanne's bullets, finally destroying the bike and sending Jeanne tumbling. "Fine. We'll do it your way!" She said, rushing back in.
Back with us, Damion lunged at me, the two of us almost doing a dance as we dodged each other's weapons and struck at each other, neither one managing to reach the other. Eventually, I switched to Frostbite, freezing his feet to the ground, landing several hits on him and knocking him back, before firing a number of ice spears at him. But then, he pulled out a bow and arrow with nightmarish blades running down it, spinning it and destroying the icicles, before readying an arrow that looked a screaming woman, her hair splitting into 4 points. He shot the arrow at me, which I created an ice wall to stop, but it stuck in the wall, before a scream rang out and shattered the wall, sending me flying back. "Give up. I have a counter for every weapon you can break out." He said.
We traded several blows with several different weapons and indeed found ourselves at a stalemate, before I remembered something. "Let's see you counter this!" I said, drawing Kamaitachi and spraying on the cologne that goes with it, adding the same peacock-like feathers that make up the fan to my coat, spinning as I approached, disorienting Damion and allowing me to land several powerful hits, before blasting him back with one final, powerful hit, backed up by a typhoon-like gust of wind that sent him flying back into the wall of the plane.
Meanwhile, Bayonetta and Jeane were again trading several blows, Jeanne managing to get a few more cuts against Bayonetta, before she dodged and countered, knocking Jeanne down with a Wicked Stomp, charging up to finish her with a final Wicked Kick, but the red-clad Umbra dodged, rushing in and hitting Bayonetta with a jumping backflip kick, followed by several more backflips while hitting Bayonetta with a number of bullets, before a Wicked Kick slammed her back to the ground. Both equally tired, they rushed in, each throwing one more kick, their legs colliding, causing them to unleash a massive flurry of back-up kicks, but Bayonetta finally pulled through and countered with a devastating final kick.
End Music
With that final kick, Bayonetta sent Jeanne flying back and hitting the ground alongside Damion as I blasted him back with Kamaitachi. "Now's our chance, let's go!" I said to Bayonetta, hurrying ahead.
"Cereza!" Bayonetta said worriedly, rushing off after me.
Jeanne and Damion tried to give chase, but were stopped by her angelic overseer. "Not yet. She isn't ready." Jeanne to Sapientia.
"Dammit... I failed again... But I won't next time!" Damion promised.
We dropped back down into the plane, which had now crashed down. It must have crashed into some large body of water, as water was now flooding in, some of the damaged wiring touching and electrifying the water.
"Oh, great! Water that's electrified. So it can hurt me even more! I'm just so lucky today!" I said, annoyed.
"All the more reason to find Cereza!" Bayonetta said as we rushed ahead. We moved forward, Bayonetta using Raven Within to carefully traverse the electrified room as I precariously flew through the room, doing my absolute best not to get with with rogue bolts of electricity. We soon reached a safe area and re-entered the human world from Purgatorio, looking around for the child. "Little one! Where are you!? Little one! Can you hear me!?" Bayonetta called.
"Cereza, can you hear us? Speak up, kid!" I called.
A nearby door opened and a terrified Cereza peeked out. "Mummy! Mummy! Mummy!" Cereza cried.
"Cereza!" Bayonetta said, relieved.
"Mummy! I was so scared." Cereza said fearfully, running up and hugging the Umbran Witch.
"No crying now, little one. You know the rules - No cockroaches or crying babies." Bayonetta reminded her. The ship began to tear apart even more, shaking apart and filling with more water. Bayonetta picked up Cereza and held her close."Time to go, little one. Hold on tight, OK?" Bayonetta instructed.
"Okay." Cereza confirmed.
"Sai. I'm counting on you. I trust you know what to do?" She asked.
"I'm on it. You just worry about getting out of here. I'll deal with the angelic assholes." I said, spinning Frostbite around, before holding it in a ready position as we moved ahead.
A trio of Affinities was the first to block our way. I spun my staff around and held it like I was making a shot in pool, repeatedly jabbing outwards at the closest angel, repeatedly hitting it in the torso and eventually freezing its whole body after the ice spread, spinning my staff and smacking it into the frozen angel, shattering it. I then fired a couple of quick, small beams of ice from one of the staff's orbs, freezing the other two angel's feet to the ground, spinning it again and creating a blade of frozen air from the orb on the other side of the staff, shattering the angel's feet, sending them to the ground, allowing me to stab one end of the staff into each of their head, spinning it fast and hard enough to rip their heads off.
Next was a pair of Affinities and an Applaud. I froze one Affinity with another ice beam, stabbing and freezing the other and smashing him into the other, shattering them both, before smacking the Applaud into the air, hitting him with a few aerial attacks, before smacking him back into the water, frying him. We proceeded just a bit further, almost reaching the room we first re-entered the ship in, but then a trio of Affinities and an Applaud appeared to stop off. "Alright, I've lost my patience." I said, stabbing the staff into the ground, ice rapidly spreading and freezing the 4 angels. "Let's see if he likes frozen treats." I said, summoning.
"ZUUL, MOTHAFUCKA!" Zuul roared as he leapt from my summoning portal, snatching the frozen angels up in his maw, instantly shattering them as he crunched on them and consumed them, howling in victory before diving back into his portal.
"That's the last of them. We're home free!" I said as we hurried to the next room.
But apparently today wasn't done screwing with us, as the ship began to break and crumble more and more, even breaking in half, the back half of the ship, which we were in, starting to sink. This almost sent us back down into the electrified water. Fortunately the moon was out, allowing Bayonetta to cling to the wall and I'm a badass demon already capable of defying gravity in 3 different ways, the current particular way being using my demon energy to cling to the wall. Unfortunately, the back end was now sinking even faster. "Sai, I hope you're feeling fast tonight!" Bayonetta said.
I always did work best under pressure." I said as we ran ahead, only to be stopped just before we could reach the non-sinking half of the ship by a barrier and quartet of Harmonies. I spun the staff above my head like a helicopter blade once again, this time creating a dozen foot long ice arrows, which I then launched at one of the Harmonies, freezing it, which allowed me to jump up and shatter it, before turning to the next one, hitting it several times in the air, freezing it as well, knocking it to the ground, which it also shattered against. As I began to descend from the air, I swung the staff and created another blade of frozen air, hitting and freezing the third Harmony just as I landed on the ground, causing it to fall from the sky, impaling itself on my staff after I moved under it. I then backflipped, kicking and shattering the angel.
I then grabbed my staff and threw it into the final stingray angel, completely freezing it, about to fall to the ground, before I caught it and ripped the staff out, taking a large chunk of the angel's body with it, yet managing onto to break the living frozen statue. But still, that was more than enough to destroy the creature, which vanished in a flash of light and halos, the barrier going down with its defeat. "Alright, let's go!" I said, jumping to the upper half of the plane. Bayonetta ran in to make the jump, but just at that moment, the moon was blocked by some clouds, cutting off her ability to stick to the walls. "No!" I shouted, reaching back for her, grabbing her hand. "I gotcha." I said.
"And to think I ever doubted you." She said with a smile as I pulled her up, just as the back half of the plane completely snapped off and sank. She walked out to see our surroundings as I watched the back half sink. She was a bit surprised at first, but then smirked. "Sai, dear? I think you should come see this. I don't think you'll be very pleased." She said.
"What is it? It can't be too bad, right? We're just in a big lake or some-" I said as I looked out, seeing that we were in the middle of the ocean, the one place worse for me than Paradiso. "SON OF A BITCH!" I shouted angrily.
Damion's Weapons (so far):
(old/already seen)
Bloodshot: These cursed guns, the famous weapons of a legendary clan of both demon and vampire bloodlines, bestowed with the names Scar, Oblivion , Doom and Fate, these guns bring out a vampire's bloodlust and a demon's fury, sending Damion on a war path even the greatest armies couldn't hope to survive.
Fissure: Made from a giant who cracked the very Earth as we walked, this massive blade has the power to create devastating Earthquakes and could even shatter a mountain with a great enough strike.
Heartseeker: After being attacked by a foolish and proud alien hunter, Damion took note of its advanced technology and perfected it into these deadly weapons, blades on his arms to slice apart anything in his way and vaporizing any foe attempting to escape or strike him from a distance
(new, debuted this chapter)
Pain and Remorse: Also known as "The Jaws of Eternal Struggles", these deadly blades feast on their wielders suffering and regret, becoming stronger the more turmoil their owner is in. They also force a sense of loneliness and inability to forgive upon their owner to further fuel their own strength.
Plague: A cruel, sly demon who took pleasure in stealing an opponent's attack and making it his own, now rests within these frightening claws, turning projectiles or weak would-be attackers into bolts of energy to use at their wielder's pleasure.
Razorsong: A beautiful, but arrogant singer scorned by her true love cut him down. Now sealed within this bow, her deadly blades slice with vicious envy and her screaming arrows will pierce any in their way.
Dracotaclysm: Once a dragon that feasted on souls, this scythe has the power to tear the souls away from its victims bodies, empowering it to do more catastrophic damage. When it absorbs enough souls it is believed to possess the true rage of a dragon.