We stood in front of a pair of large golden doors that began to open, a brilliant gold light shining in front of us. Cereza began to stir and Bayonetta smiled at the child. "Welcome back, little one." She said.
"Mummy... Where are we?" Cereza asked as Luka set her down.
"It looks like someone's expecting us. Awfully nice of them to roll out the red carpet." Luka said.
"A little too nice, since they just tried to blast us with missiles." I said suspiciously.
[It can't be this easy. They must be up to something...]
It's a trap!
"Luka, you need to get one thing straight-" Bayonetta started.
"Yeah. I know. 'I won't look after you, so don't screw up.' I got things under control." Luka recited for her.
"You better hope you do." I said.
He totally doesn't.
[Nope.]
"Let's go. Stay next to me, little one." Bayonetta instructed.
"Rise my child! Rise to realize your true potential! Unleash your power and awaken the Eyes of the World!" The familiar voice rang out in Bayonetta's head once again.
But apparently, she wasn't the only one to hear it. "Daddy...!?" Cereza asked eagerly.
"What?" Bayonetta asked.
"Daddy! It's Daddy!" Cereza said happily.
"Daddy?" Bayonetta questioned.
"Of course, Mummy! Can't you hear him?" Cereza asked. There was a pause, as if she was listening to someone, before she spoke again. "OK, Daddy. I'm coming... And I'll bring Mummy with me." She complied with this unheard order, running forward.
"Little one, wait!" Bayonetta cried out, reaching for her.
"This way, Mummy!" Cereza said, hurrying ahead.
"Little one!" Bayonetta yelled, running through the doors.
"Cereza, wait!" I called, hurrying after Bayonetta.
We passed into the next room, but found no one there. "Little one!" Bayonetta called, rushing after Cereza.
However, the doors quickly closed behind us before Luka could make it through. "Cerezita!? Bayonetta!? Sai!? Damn it." Luka snapped as he pounded on the doors.
"Well, I guess we're on our own from here." I said as we continued, but almost immediately, two statues broke open and released a Fairness and a Fearless.
See! A trap! Totally called it!
[We heard you the first time, Admiral Ackbar...]
Bayonetta wasted no time drawing and cleaving the Fairness in twain with Shuraba as I drew Voiceless, turned around and took a knee while holding the handles against my shoulders, the blades sticking straight up and easily slicing the monster's outstretched legs out as they made contact, before I jumped and stabbed down into the de-limbed monster's head, finishing it off.
"The statues are far more lively than I'd like." Bayonetta said.
"Then lets make like these statues and break out of here." I said as we proceeded forward.
Lame!
[But admittedly fitting.]
We then hurried ahead, dealing with the angels that seemed to block our path every 10 steps along the way. Eventually, we reached the end of the hallway and were attacked by a pair of Braves, but we dispatched with them easily enough and proceeded to the next room, encountering and defeating a couple of Joys. Finally, we made our way up to the next floor, but as soon as we were up the stairs, we were attacked by a pair of Enchants, a Grace and a Glory. "You've got to admire their persistence " She said, lashing out at the clawed angels with her own deadly claws.
"I'd admire them more if they left me alone. Half the reason I kill them is because they screw with me first. Fine. I'll deal with these two pairs with Two Pair!" I said, drawing Asmodeus.
I did indeed draw 2 Pair: The Jacks and 9's of clubs and hearts plus the Ace of Spades, waving my hand through the air in a figure 8 motion, the cards flying through the air in front of me in the exact same motion, repeatedly going past and cutting the Enchants as they did, before returning to me, the two pairs becoming giant as I grabbed the still small Ace of Spades, charged with demon energy and flung it between the Enchants, blasting them into the air, before grabbing the Jacks and cross-slicing through them, repeating the motion with the 9's, destroying the wheel-like angels.
Meanwhile, Bayonetta had rushed in at the Grace and Glory, dodging their attacks and activating Witch Time, clawing them to shreds and finishing them off with a final blast from a lightning ball. This destroyed the barrier and allowed us to continue. However, as soon as we went up the stairs, we sensed a disturbance and dodged just in time to dodge a massive fist just like Temperantia's. "Well now. These angels are truly getting desperate to destroy the building their leader is hiding in." She said.
"But there's innocent people in here! And Damion's sister! We have to stop it!" I shouted. We hurried ahead, dispatching even more angels that blocked our path until we reached the next floor and found a balcony with an anti-aircraft turret on either side of it. "Okay, what the hell kind of building is this that it needs this kind of heavy artillery?" I asked.
"Just think of it as a sign of our good luck." Bayonetta said, hurrying to the closest turret, before a figure dropped down in front of it. "What?!" She asked in disbelief.
"It can't be..." I said in disbelief as I looked at the half black and red, half white and gold figure in front of me. "Shuya!" I shouted.
[But that can't be! My body was destroyed! My SOUL is inside your body. This means...]
That asshole cloned us! He must've mixed a part of our body with an angel's to try and make Nephilims or something.
"Zeidan... This just got all kinds of wrong. Go for the turret! I'll cover you." I told Bayonetta, before rushing in and slamming into this clone of my defeated cousin, equipping Doomspore to my arms, the mouths of the left gauntlet chomping down on his shoulder as I jammed it into his shoulder, then slammed the other one into his stomach, the minigun part spinning and firing, unleashing a massive onslaught of bullet's into the copy's gut as Bayonetta made it to the turret and began firing at Temperentia's clone.
"I'll have to get Rodin to make me one of these." Bayonetta said as she unloaded her ammo into the angel's head, before noticing the missiles it was firing and shot all but one of them down, which hit the turret and shook her a bit. "Of course, it'll have to move. Sitting in one place would just be begging for an angel to take my head off." She said, continuing to fire.
The angel fired more missiles at her while Shuya's clone headbutted me, causing me to let him go and stagger back, allowing him to run in towards her. Acting quickly, I drew Permafrost and froze one of the clone's feet to the floor, holding him in place long enough for me the rush in, beat him down with a strong combo and hit him with a spinning round kick that sent him into one of the missiles about to hit Bayonetta, blowing it up. The angel then flew in and was about to crush me under its fist, but Bayonetta finally put enough bullets in it to kill it. "Whew. Thanks." I said.
"Well, it's only fair. You stopped that awful clone from reaching me, so I stopped the angel from reaching you." She said.
"That's fuckin' TEAMWORK~!" I sang.
Oh yeah! Tenacious D!
[Funniest band of all time.]
Bayonetta rolled her eyes and sighed. "Let's get moving. Cereza could be in trouble." She said.
We continued into the next room and I kicked down a flimsy metal door leading into an elevator shaft. Fortunately, the full moon was out in force, so Bayonetta could walk up walls. But before we could do that, we had do dodge an elevator that was dropping down on us. We quickly dove out of the way, avoiding being crushed an exploded, before running up the wall, dodging even more elevators as they careened down towards us. "I thought there was only one elevator per shaft." I said.
"Clearly, these people do things differently." Bayonetta said as we avoided them. Suddenly, all the windows shattered and we were faced with a clone of Iustita and a half-angel, half-demon clone of Raijin.
No! My beautiful image! He ruined it!
[It was ruined to begin with...]
Hey!
"Guys, less bitching, more killing the abomination and disgrace to Raijin's pride right in front of us." I told them, rushing in, dodging the jets of water the clone shot at me and slashing through its chest at devastating speeds with Masamune and Murasama. I slashed it several more times, before kicking it back. Unfortunately, this gave the clone the opening it needed to blast me with a powerful jet of water from both hands, launching me back a few good feet and making huge amounts of steam rise off of me. "AAH! DAMN! Raijin, I thought you said I was resistant to water now!" I snapped.
I said RESISTANT, not PROOF.
[A blast of water that strong would've put a hole in a bank vault. Be thankful you aren't smoldering right now.]
"Dammit! I manage not to get snuffed out in the ocean, only for a walking fire hydrant to drench me. I'll have to be more careful about this." I said, glaring at the clone.
Meanwhile, Bayonetta had slight difficulty dodging the angel's tentacles, but after every successful dodge, she managed to land a couple of powerful slashes with Durga. And thankfully, since the angel was a mere copy of Iustita, it was far weaker and soon enough it's baby-faced tentacle dropped to the ground, dazed, allowing her to jump on it and run down it until she reached the orb-like body of the angel and hit it in the face with a flying kick, causing the root of its tentacle tongue to be exposed and immediately sliced away, Bayonetta jumping back to the safety of the building just before the angel was destroyed.
I launched a stream of fire at Raijin's clone as it launched a jet of water at me, the flames and waves clashing and creating a huge wall of steam. There was a short pause, before a fireball flew through the steam and hit the clone in the face. I then rushed out of the steam cloud and rushed in with Permafrost, freezing the clone's feet and hitting him with a massive combo with the staff, before impaling and completely freezing the clone, then harshly ripping out the staff and shattering the clone. "You know, the first time was annoying enough, we didn't need any encores." I said angrily.
"They're doing whatever they can to stop us. Bringing back some of our stronger enemies only makes sense, even if they are weaker in these forms." Bayonetta explained. We continued up the elevator shaft until we finally reached the door to the next floor and dropped in. We entered the hallway and saw a massive statue of a woman. "So, this must be their Almighty Jubileus." Bayonetta explained.
I glared at the statue apprehensively. "I don't know why, but I'm getting some REAL bad vibes from this thing." I said.
"Well, then. I suggest we keep moving." She said, walking ahead.
We entered the next room and were slightly surprised to find jet-powered platforms leading up to the next level of the building. We leaped up and looked in disbelief to see the room looked like it was connected to Paradiso itself, with golden paths of light and clouds of gold everywhere you looked. "It's like they actually connected the Human World to Paradiso. That should be impossible." I said, before the familiar draining feeling of the holy air around me kicked in. "But nope. This is definitely Paradiso. It feels like the air itself is trying to kill me." I said.
"Whoever this place belongs to, he's throwing the balance of the worlds completely out of control. And he's gotten on my last nerve." Bayonetta said, heading over to a strange device and spinning on it, causing it to drop into the light of Paradiso and create strange mechanical platforms that appeared in random places all throughout the room, leading up to yet another elevator much higher up.
I looked up at the platforms and the convoluted path we'd have to take in order to reach the elevator, completely bewildered. "Who the fuck designed this place?!" I asked in disbelief.
The labyrinth from that Bowie movie was less complex than this!
[If I still had a mouth, I would've puked 5 times by now.]
Regardless, we still got on the strange platforms and gradually made our way through the demented puzzle of the room, soon reaching the platform with the elevator that would allow us to continue our trek up the tower. Unfortunately, we were met with yet another familiar boss: a Golem, which took the form of hekatonchier. "Well, well. It looks like another of our angelic friends wants an encore." Bayonetta said.
"Well, I think it's time for this act to retire." I said as we rushed in. I got the angel's attention, dodging its punches and counterattacking with Permafrost, hitting and building up ice on the arms and weighing them down, allowing Bayonetta to land dozens of brutal, lightning-fast hits on its core with Sai-Fung, dealing massive damage before it finally managed to reform and protect its core. It made one more attempt to attack us by snapping at us as Gomorrah, but we dodged the attack and used Witch/Bullet Time and attacked the vulnerable core with blindingly fast attacks, weakening it enough for Bayonetta to summon Hekatonchier and play volley ball with the orb-like angel, before finally crushing it. "Let's hope we're almost there. We go up much higher and we'll be in space." I said.
"Indeed. I've had more than my fill of high places for one day." Bayonetta agreed as we dropped onto the platform and entered the elevator shaft. We got about halfway up when one final clone, one of Sapentia, dropped down in front of us. "Of course. We saw all the others. Why not this one?" Bayonetta said as we prepared to fight.
To make matters worse, the tower below us began to crack and break. "Well, nowhere to go but up now. And we better do that quickly." I said, rushing in and slashing away at him with my Kamaitachi, then doing a backflip and uppercutting with with my Ryuk, which was attached to my legs, staggering him back. Bayonetta then rushed past and landed several slashes on him with Shuraba, before going for a jump kick and hitting the beast with a Wicked Weave, staggering him even more, leaving him open as I rushed in and did a breakdance headspin with Ryuk extended, hitting him several more times with the oversized kamas and blasting him back once more with a Demonic Finisher kick. "Been a little bit since I did one of those." I said.
"Excellent work, Sai, but I think it's time I finished this." Bayonetta said, sliding in on Odette, doing a backflip into the air and raising an ice spike to stab the clone in the chin, before hitting it several more times with the skates as she did about a half dozen backflips in mid-air. She then landed and slashed away with Durga, before slashing upwards with the claws and shooting a Wicked Fist out of the ground to finish the angel and knock him off the wall, falling and impaling himself on the strange crown-like piece of the building below.
This, however, caused a massive explosion that rose up towards us. Of course, I'd be completely unaffected, but Bayonetta would be fried. "It's about to get real hot in here in a second! Hurry ahead! I'll try to stop it!" I told her.
"Such a good boy." Bayonetta said, before turning into her panther form and rushing ahead as I began to absorb the flames.
I was indeed slowing the inferno down, but it still wasn't stopping. I put more power behind the absorption and finally managed to cease the spread of the flames and pull them all into me, wiping my brow and panting slightly from the process. "Whew. Man, I can't eat like that anymore. Big bursts of flames like that don't sit as well as they used to." I said, patting my stomach and hurrying after Bayonetta, who waited near the top of a tower on a window.
"How was your meal?" She asked.
"Filling and tiring. I'm as stuffed as a turkey at Thanksgiving and it feels like I ate the whole turkey and the tryptophan's kicking in." I said.
"Hm... Well, maybe this will wake you up." Bayonetta said, stomping on the window we stood on, causing us to drop down on to some strange, orb-like chandelier with a blazing flame in the middle. We then made our way to the top of the chandelier, which hung from 4 strings attached to orbs, attached to our platform. "This red liquid is flowing through those orbs. They must be pumping into and powering this sphere. I wonder what will happen without that power?" Bayonetta pondered.
"Let's find out." I said as we attacked and destroyed the orbs, which dropped the sphere. However, what we didn't know was we were actually on the bottom of the sphere, the strings and orbs anchoring it down. And when we destroyed them, the sphere did drop down, but raised up instead...
When the sphere came to a stop, we found that we were now high up in the air, almost a mile above any other buildings. "We went even higher?! Okay, this is just getting ridiculous." I said.
"And it looks like we still have a ways to go." Bayonetta said, noticing another path of light in front of us, jumping on and running up it. I followed her and we rushed along the needlessly long path, curving around the building and finally reaching the top, a strange orange portal leading into the golden dome that was likely the lair of the Ithavol CEO and mastermind behind this plot. Zeidan was likely also there. "Finally. No more running and hiding. It's time I meet the man behind all this." Bayonetta said.
"And I'll finish things with Zeidan. Let's end this." I said. But suddenly, as we were about to go through the doors, a portal to the Gates of Hell appeared, Rodin stepping out. "Rodin! What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Before you go and finish things like you just said, I've got one last deal for you two." He said, the three of us descending to the Gates.
We reappeared in the Gates of Hell, Rodin going back behind the bar. "We don't have time for this, Rodin. We need to get Cereza back from that Ithavol guy and I need to save Selene from Zeidan, before I rip the top of his skull of and roast his brain." I told him as we approached the bar.
"My, my. That's quite the bold claim. But are you positive your are capable of doing so?" A voice said and I noticed a patron sitting at the far right side of the bar. He then stood up and walked towards us. He was easily 8 feet tall with waist-length black hair with red streaks, paper-white skin and eyes with black sclera and red irises, wearing a black robe and blood red greaves and claw-fingered gauntlets that looked like the feet and hands of a humanoid dragon. This was my grandfather and the god of death itself, Lord Arokai (air-oh-kai), voiced by Jeremy Irons.
Oh, God! I mean- Oh, him! It's grandpa!
[I never thought we'd see him in a dump like this!]
"Lord Arokai!" I said, instantly kneeling.
"Lord? Well, he must truly be someone special if Sai is kneeling to him." Bayonetta said.
"Oh, only the God of Death... And Sai's dear old Grandfather." Rodin explained.
"What?!" Bayonetta asked in disbelief, showing a rare moment of shock.
"Come now, Sai. No need for that. Rise, my grandchild." He said.
"Of course, Grandfather." I said, doing so. "So, what are you doing here?" I asked.
"Well, my old friend Rodin here informed me that you have been doing us quite the service, destroying those rogue angels and how you seek to destroy your uncle Zeidan." He explained.
"Yes, Grandfather. He's gone too far this time. His actions threaten the very trinity of reality." I told him.
"Indeed. I have no intention of stopping you from carrying out your goal, but I've come to test if you have the strength to do so. I saw your first fight with Zeidan. You seemed equal then, but surely he's waiting for you now and has had ample time to prepare." He explained.
"I'm aware of the risks, Grandfather, but still, I can't let him get away with what he's done." I explained.
"Very good, my boy." He said.
"Not to break up this loving reunion, but what exactly did you bring us here for, Rodin?" Bayonetta asked.
"It's like I said, I got a deal for you." Rodin told her. "If you think you got enough halos to afford it, how about showing me some love? With enough of those shiny little loops, I can get back to the real me. The old me... And if you can manage to get out of it alive, I'll give you something real special. If you get your hands on what I'm offering, anything in your way is gonna wish it was already dead." He explained.
"Well, I certainly like that idea." Bayonetta said.
"And I'm here for a similar reason, Sai. Surely, if you can hold your own against the God of Death, a mere demon like your uncle will be inconsequential. And not only that, but I'll give you the greatest weapon in my arsenal. You may even become stronger than Katana." Arokai explained.
"A chance to fight my grandfather... And get a weapon that could make me stronger than Katana? How could I refuse." I said.
By saying "No thanks! I don't want to die!"
[Exactly. Grandfather or not, he's the GOD OF DEATH. You don't mess with a person who has that title.]
"Very well, but don't expect me to go easy on you. I can't even guarantee you'll survive." Arokai warnedack.
"Sounds like fun." I said.
[We're gonna die AGAIN.]
"I agree. It's a deal, Rodin. Let's get to it." Bayonetta said.
"Alright, then. Let's get the party started. Shit's gonna get real." Rodin said, rising up and entering a portal behind him, pulling Bayonetta through, before black mist poured out of Arokai and enveloped the two of us.
We emerged in a place with black smoke everywhere in a similar manner to Paradiso's golden clouds, standing on a large platform made of purple demonic energy. "What is this place?" Bayonetta asked.
"Forget where we are. Focus on who we're here WITH." I said, pointing ahead of us.
Rodin floated a few feet above the ground in front of us wearing a white and gold robe, with red energy coursing throughout it, 8 giant golden peacock feathers on either side of him. He chuckled, raising his hand and doing the Matrix taunt, a sign for us to bring it on.
Next to him, stood my grandfather in his True God, his black robe turned blood red, with the kanji for "Death" adorning it all over. 6 bone wings with thin, yet clearly powerful black, cloth-like webbing came from his back and his head now looked like that of a dragon's (picture a black Rathalos with Rathian's chin spike) and a menacing tail tipped with 3 of what looked like a mix between a spear head and a pyramid. In his left hand, he held a black claymorer with about a foot of chain hanging from the pommel, black smoke coming from the blade and in his right hand, he held a scythe made of blood red bones with a pitch black blade.
"Well, this is a lot more ominous than we were led to believe." I said.
"Getting cold feet, are we?" Bayonetta asked with a smirk.
"Nope. Just getting more fired up." I said.
"That's what I like to hear." She said.
[Gentlemen, it's been an honor fighting and dying alongside you.]
I want my Mommy!
"Don't worry, guys. We got this." I said.
[You don't got this.]
"LET THE BLOODSHED COMMENCE." Arokai said, all 4 of us rushing in at our respective adversaries.
Background Music: "Let The Bodies Hit The Floor" by Drowning Pool
Bayonetta rushed in with her panther form, before becoming human and dodging Rodin's attack, equipping and charging up Pillow Talk, greatly extending the lightsaber blade and slashing The Infinite One, dealing considerable damage right off the bat, before he drifted back to a safe distance. He created 8 orange spheres of energy in an arc above himself, before firing them at Bayonetta, who once again had to use her panther form to avoid the attacks. She got in close on his left side after this and landed a few more hits, before he threw a backhand, the peacock feathers on his back folding in before swinging outward in a similar motion, forcing her to jump back He then created a horizontal ring of 8 more spheres she dodged once again, before creating a green energy circle and flying through it at blinding speeds, slamming into Bayonetta and knocking her back. She jumped to her feet and glared at Rodin, growling as blood from her forehead ran down her head and forced her to close her eye, or else let the blood drip into it.
I equipped all 4 of Last Regrets and fired at Arokai with both guns in my hand and one of my foot guns as he rushed in at me, jumping and spiraling sideways through the air as he slashed at me with his scythe, before turning sideways to narrowly dodge a stab from his claymore, equipping Ryuk to my hands and Kamaitachi to my feet, backflipping and staggering Arokai with a blast of wind from the fans, before doing a double front-flip in mid-air with Ryuk out in front of my, getting two pairs of slashes off against the God of Death with the kamas.
Bayonetta and Rodin continued to dodge or counter each other's attacks in almost a dance of attacks that seemed like it would never end, before finally Bayonetta started landing attacks on him once again, a few quick strikes, immediately followed by a charged attack for large damage. However, Rodin didn't seem to be bothered by the hits he was taking and snapped his fingers, suddenly calling down a large number of small meteors forcing Bayonetta to dodge. This, however, left her open, as Rodin was charging a blue sphere, before launching and engulfing Bayonetta in it. She tried to break out, but she wasn't quick enough, as Rodin rushed in and grabbed her, everything going white, before a series of black pulses exploded everywhere along with the sound of punches, similar to Akuma's Raging Demon Attack. When everything cleared, Rodin was laying on his side, holding his arm up to his head, looking rather pleased as Bayonetta also laid on her side, significantly weakened. Rodin got up and floated away just before Bayonetta got back to her feet, panting heavily and looking exhausted.
I held Arokai's giant scythe back with my two smaller ones, before noticing Bayonetta's condition. "Bayonetta!" I shouted, pushing back and shooting a fireball from my mouth to keep Arokai back, turning and trying to run and help Bayonetta, but before I got anywhere, Arokai's claymore pierced through my coat, into my back and coming out of my chest, causing me to cough up blood.
Arokai lifted his sword, lifting me into the air and pulling me in closer. "He is her fight. I am yours. Never take your eyes off your opponent." He said darkly, slitting my throat with his scythe, before harshly kicking me off his sword and to the ground, then creating and shooting a black dragon skull of death at me, knocking me back down the instant I got back up.
I took in a few deep breaths and panted heavily once my throat sealed back up, before I glared t my godly grandfather. "Okay, then. You've got my full attention." I said, readying Permafrost. I rushed in, deflecting his scythe into the ground and freezing it in place, then landing several hits on him with the ice scythe, doing a back handspring to avoid a slash from the claymore, landing on my hands and equipping Doomspore on my feet, unloading the miniguns into the god of death, pushing forward again to get over the claymore as he slashed again, hitting with with a powerful Demonic Finisher Kick, knocking him back.
Back with Bayonetta, she was on the defensive, narrowly dodging all of Rodin's attacks, looking for any opening she could find. Finally, she managed to counter one of his punches and activate Witch Time, slashing him with another powered up attack from Pillow Talk, before delivering several kicks backed up by rockets from Lt. Kilgore and blasting him back with a Wicked Kick. He backed off and powered up another blue sphere, but Bayonetta rushed in and caught him with an upward slice just before he could throw the orb, destroying it and sending Rodin back into his normal form.
Finally, I equipped Masamune and Murasama to my hands and Voiceless to my feet, dodging, blocking or deflecting each of Arokai's attacks, before countering and hitting him with a powerful cross slash to the chest, stunning him as I activated Bullet Time and started hacking away with the demonic and holy katanas. But suddenly, he moved and grabbed the swords, completely unaffected by Bullet Time. He smirked and began to create another black dragon skull. If it hit me, I'd be done for. Acting quickly, I swung my legs and hit him with Voiceless, spinning horizontally with my legs out and together, making a kind of plasma blade drill and stunning Arokai, before hitting him with one final Demonic Finisher Fist.
End Music
Arokai returned to his human form and smiled at me. He was still easily capable of continuing the fight, but he had a look of satisfaction on his face. "Well done. Both of you. I believe I've seen all I need to." He said, returning us to The Gates of Hell.
Bayonetta, Arokai and I all landed on our feet, albeit a bit wobbly for Bayonetta and I, will Rodin collapsed to the floor when he emerged, climbing his way back up to his feet, supporting himself against the bar. "I gotta hand it to ya, Bayonetta. You sure let me have my fun. I never thought a girl would beat my ass so hard. But I gotta admit... I kinda liked it." Rodin said.
"Beating on those who forget their place seems to be my specialty, darling. Don't feel too bad." She said teasingly.
"And I must admit, Sai, you preformed incredibly. Spirits and demons often try to escape from Hell, especially those of greater power and I must always stop them. But today, you've given me a greater challenge than I've had in centuries. You may indeed surpass Katana one day." Arokai told me.
"I don't need to beat Katana. As long as I can protect the innocent and exterminate the evils that threaten them, I'll be happy." I said.
[How touching.]
I think I'm gonna cry!
"Now, about this weapon you were offering?" Bayonetta asked.
"You win... This time, baby." Rodin said, offering her 4 large rings. Bayonetta slipped one on each ankle and watched in amazement as they turned into several different kinds of weapons.
"Whoa... It's like every weapon the angels have used against us so far... all in one." I said.
"Impressive indeed. But here's something from the gods themselves." Arokai said, snapping his fingers. Suddenly, a motorcycle appeared with wheels made of 4 circular saw blades, a dragon's head where the headlight should be, blade-like dragon wings on the sides to protect my legs and slice anything too close and a xenomorph-like tail where the tail light should be.
[Oh, fuck, the hell, YES.]
"Ohh-ho-ho... That's what I'm talking about." I said with a malicious smirk, hopping on.
Dragonsbane: Once known as Ebonfury, the personal steed of Arokai, the God of Death. Slain in battle, the soul of the steed transformed into its current state, becoming even more lethal than it was in life. It is said only a god or their descendants can tame this mighty weapon, lest they be ripped asunder by it.
"Well, I gave you the best things I can. Now get on out of here." Rodin said.
"Indeed. You've proven yourselves capable of dealing with whatever dangers you may face. Now go and finish the fight." Arokai said.
"Yes, Grandfather." I said, putting a fist to my heart and bowing my head.
"Oh, don't worry. We ARE finishing this. Now." Bayonetta said as we left the Gates of Hell.
We emerged right back where we started, standing in front of the orange portal, preparing to enter the sphere and face our final adversaries. "This is it..." I said, looking a Bayonetta as we gazed into the void of light ahead of us.
"Indeed it is. I'll finally have all the answers. And I'll get the little one back." She said.
"And I'll settle things with my dear old uncle." I said, cracking my neck and knuckles, the two of us entering the Golden Sphere.