A man dressed in a white and gold robe, very similar to Rodin's robe when he regained his power, sat behind a desk, with Cereza sitting on his lap. "What follows those living in the light is nothing but the profound, empty darkness born from the shadow that grows longer as they approach the brilliant radiance. To truly see, your eyes must be open to both light and dark. Don't you agree, my dear child?" Balder said to Cereza, looking to the girl in his arms.
"Mummy's here! Mummy's here! Mummy!" Cereza said happily as we emerged through the portal.
"Little one..." Bayonetta said.
"You've arrived... My dear, sweet Cereza. And Zeidan's beastly nephew." He said, looking back to Bayonetta. "My my... Why the grim face, my dear. As a child, your smile was warmer than the sun." He asked.
"So, you are the last of the Lumen Sages." Bayonetta said.
"I am indeed. My name is Balder. But if you so choose, you may address me as Father." He said, turning to face us. "There is much you have forgotten- It has been 500 years since we last met. If your memories were still intact, this would have been a much more emotional reconciliation." Balder explained.
"You know this creepy priest? I mean, there's no Little Timmy glued to his crotch, so that's something, but I don't like that he has his hands on a small girl." I said.
"Nor do I." Bayonetta said, quickly looking at me, before glaring back at the sage. "How did you get the girl?" She asked.
He stood up and walked forward at this. "Where shall I begin? We, the Lumen Sages, and your Umbra Witches, have long been the overseers of history, each bearing witness with their own 'eye.' This is how our universe's..." He started, stopping next to a metal globe of the solar system and forcing it to move with some kind of magic before her continued. "...Existence was preserved. However, for 500 years, you have been exiled from the world's affairs. You are the Left Eye of the Eyes of the World." Balder illustrated, stopping the globe.
"Could you dispense with the riddles and just tell me what these sodding Eyes actually are!" Bayonetta demanded.
"I'm sick about hearing about them altogether. How about you tell us why you're filling a huge statue with angel blood, then we can kick your ass and call it a day." I said.
He sighed at this"You demons. Truly, you are without a grander vision." He said, shaking his head, before looking to Bayonetta.
"Your years of slumber have caused you to forget many things, even as we stand on the verge of the resurrection of the Creator... The resurrection of Jubileus. There is but one way to return your epoch of forgotten memories and open your eye of the overseer. Your uncorrupted eye had to be exposed to the history it could not see. Ah... Your battles... Your struggles... Everything you've experienced in this town has been a stepping stone to your enlightenment. It has all been done for the Left Eye." Balder explained.
"I've had enough of your philosophical pretensions. I won't ask again. Where did you get the girl?" Bayonetta asked forcefully.
"Your question has been answered. All this has been done to awaken the Left Eye. For that, you had to see yourself once more." He said.
"You are truly beyond salvation, Sage." Bayonetta said angrily.
"Ahh... Salvation. Such a curious word. I marked the path to salvation with light. However, no matter how brilliant that light grows, the darkness within the human heart grows even darker. Light, Dark, and Chaos between... Three realities once split shall be brought together to create a new universe in the image of the old. To these ends, leading to the Festival of Resurrection 500 years ago, I fanned the flames of terror... spurring on the witch hunts. However, despite the people's belief in the return of Jubileus, the Creator, the Left Eye was out of reach. Since then, I have devoted myself to this town's prosperity, and now it is time for my preparations to bear fruit. Jubileus will be resurrected, we will become the Eyes of the World, and a new universe will take hold!" Balder told his grand vision.
"I could never call the man behind this nightmare "Father"!" Bayonetta snapped.
"The universe is fine the way it is. But if there was anything I had to change, I'd take you and Zeidan out of it." I said.
Oh! Got eem!
[Sick burn, bruh.]
"Great speech, big guy." Luka said, stepping out from nowhere.
"Luka." Bayonetta said.
"Hey, you survived! Good for you!" I told him.
"Getting a bit ahead of ourselves, aren't we Mr. Big Shot Ithavoll Executive? Salvation, light... You take this entrepreneurial philosophy a bit seriously, don't ya? But it's all diarrhea of the mouth, if you ask me. History is littered with famous genocidal figures just like you... Or should I say infamous genocidal figures." Luka explained.
"Oh, shit. I thought my burn was good, but yours was like a fucking 5th degree burn. I don't even know if they go up that high." I said.
[They don't. 4th degree is the highest.]
The more you know!
"You must be Luka, journalist extraordinaire. I must say, I'm truly impressed you've made it this far, child. Like father, like son, I suppose." Balder said.
"What?!" Luka demanded.
"But both you and this demon have gotten tried my patience for the last time." He said, using some strange telekinesis to grab Luka and throw him out the window before Bayonetta and I could even react.
"Luka!" We both shouted, before I turned and glared at the sage.
"It seems my plans went right out the window." Balder joked.
[Dude. Too soon.]
Yeah! It's like a rule! You can't joke about someone important until at least a minute after they're dead!
"You claim to be a virtuous holy man, yet you just killed an innocent man, like I assume you had his father killed. I'd say you're more of a demon than I am. And any demon in the human world with evil intent... Dies at my blade!" I snapped, rushing in with Masamune and Murasama, but just as I was in striking range, he stopped me with the same telekinesis that killed Luka.
"I have no business with you, demon. Your fight is with that deplorable uncle of yours. He awaits you in the lower levels of this building. Now be gone from my sight." He said, creating a portal of light behind me, just to Bayonetta's right, throwing me towards it.
"No! Bayonetta!" I shouted, reaching out to her and trying to stop myself.
"Sai!" She called, trying to reach out and stop me as well, but in a flash I realized was Witch Time, Balder rushed forward and grabbed her by the throat, lifting her into the air. That was the last thing I saw before I was thrown into the portal, which immediately sealed shut behind me.
I reappeared in a dungeon-looking sub-level of the tower, where Zeidan sat in the middle, meditating on his knees, sitting on his feet, before opening his eyes with a smirk, glaring at me. "Hello, nephew." He said with a smirk.
"How could you stoop so low? Besides blackmailing an assassin to kill me, you also sent your own children out to fight and die trying to kill me. You worked with our sworn enemies and are endangering the Trinity of Reality JUST for more power?" I demanded.
"And when it's all over, I'll have a power that rivals any god. I'll be able to destroy their precious Jubileus with a wave of my hand when its guard is down and no one will ever oppose me." He said.
"No, you won't. Because you're going to die. But before that, you're going to tell me where Selene is." I said.
"Sparing thoughts for the family of your enemy. My, how soft you've gotten. Pathetic." He said.
Says the guy making his kids do all the fighting!
[Yeah. And didn't you only hit him 3 times before he ran away when you first fought him?]
(Thereabouts.) I confirmed mentally.
"I beat Damion to the point he was too weak to save himself from a missile, but he still used the last of his strength to save me. The VERY least I can do is save his sister. Now where is she?!" I demanded.
"Here." He said, looking to his right, where Selene was chained to a wall, unconscious. I growled and started to advance towards Zeidan, but he raised his hand. "Ah, ah, ah. One more step and she's dead." He warned, revealing the switch in his hand. I then noticed the chains were attached to powerful electric generators that could even generate enough wattage to fry a vampire.
"You're a monster. I can't believe you came from the same place as my mother. That you're the child of amazing beings like Arokai and Ignis." I growled.
"All the more reason I should rule this world as they rule Hell in the next." He said.
Oh, my gods, he's so self-absorbed! Why did we ever listen to this guy again?
[For one, he's our father. For another, he'd beat us to near-death if we didn't.]
"You'll return to Hell as another damned soul when I finish with you. But first I'll save Selene." I said.
"And how will you do that. Did you already forget 'one step and she's dead'?" He asked.
"I have learned that the-" I started.
"Oh, let me guess, the only way to save a hostage is to burn it, right?" He taunted.
"No. That's just retarded." I said bluntly.
He was actually surprised by this. "Oh, you kept it up so long, I just thought-" He started, lowering his guard.
"PSYCHE!" I shouted, throwing a roundhouse kick, launching a wave of fire from it that staggered Zeidan.
[Distracting him and taking advantage of a weakness. Good tactics.]
He learned from the best... Me!
[Keep dreaming, buddy...]
I then jumped and threw another round kick and fire wave, burning the chains about 6 inches above Selene's wrist, instantly melting them enough to the point they broke, allowing Selene to fall, but I caught her before she hit the ground. "Selene... Wake up..." I said, shaking her gently.
Selene stirred and awakened. "What kept you...?" She asked, expecting Damion, but was shocked to see me instead.
"I'm sorry... You're in all this danger because of me... Your brother was killed because of me... But I promised him I'd save you and make this bastard pay for all he's done." I said, glaring at Zeidan, who had recovered from my attack.
"My brother is dead...?" She asked, here eyes widening in shock and horror.
"He was blasted with a missile after our battle. I can only assume he didn't make it. I'm sorry." I apologized again.
Selene's eyes began to tear up. "No... No..." She said.
"I'm sorry. I failed him. But now I promise, I'll avenge him, by killing the man who kidnapped you and forced Damion to fight me." I said, glaring at Zeidan.
"Are you two done yet? I'd like to have you both dead before the sage gets done whatever he has planned for the witch." Zeidan said.
"Give him hell, Sai..." Selene said.
"I will. Now hurry and get out of here." I said, setting her down. "All Hell's gonna break loose." I said, readying to fight Zeidan as she ran to the exit.
"Got it...Don't die..." Selene said as she ran off to safety.
Well, Zeidan, looks like you get to help pay dad back for the beating he gave you!
[Oh, this has been a LONG time coming...]
"You just gotta keep getting in my way, Sai. It's time I put a stop to that." He said.
"It's time I put a stop to your life!" I said, rushing in.
Background Music: "Whatever it Takes" by Hollywood Undead
I flew in, surrounded by fire and slammed my fist into Zeidan's chest, but at the last second, he used his Devil Trigger, transforming into a flying whirl wind in a vaguely humanoid shape, my fist slamming into his chest and not even fazing him. "What?!" I asked, before being knocked back with a devastating backhand. I skidded across the ground a few feet, before rolling into a 3-point landing position, clawing the ground to bring myself to a stop. "How. Even in your Devil form, that should've at least shook you." I asked, shocked.
Zeidan smirked at this. "This room is the complete opposite of the Sage's office, which dwells at the very edge of the human world and Paradiso. This room almost reaches Inferno, so the well of demonic energy is limitless. I've been soaking it in ever since our battle back in Vigrid. My power now rivals the gods. And once I get what I need from Jubileus, I'll surpass the gods!" He explained.
"Jubileus won't happen! Bayonetta will stop Balder and I'll stop you here and now!" I snapped.
"Such confidence. Let's see how long it lasts." He said, holding his arms out to the sides.
[Careful. He's readying one of his strongest attacks..]
We'll be fine! Everyone knows wind is the bitch element!
[I beg your fucking pardon?!]
He then swung his arms back and forth in front of him, launching two small wind blades with each inward swing and one huge one with each outward swing. I tried my best to dodge, but the sheer number of attacks overwhelmed me, even with Bullet Time, and one large blade hit me, causing me to bounce off several others, getting shredded by the wind pressure in the process. "Oh, gods! The bitch element's really strong!" I shouted in pain, before recovering and glaring at him. "But so am I!" I snapped, rushing in and landing several lightning fast punches and kicks on him, although they barely seemed to faze him.
[Boom-Chika-Ah! Boom-Chika-Ah! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!]
(What are you doing?!) I demanded in my mind.
[We're trying to amp you up.]
(Well, it's distracting-) I started to explain in my mind, before Zeidan sent me flying back with a powerful blast of wind. ([Oh, shit, mothafucka!]) We all screamed as crashed into a wall, which collapsed on us. (Okay... Not working...) I thought.
[Maybe you should use all the super powerful demonic weapons you used to cut down hordes of angels...]
And, you know, US.
(Right.) I confirmed in my mind, drawing Permafrost and rushing in. I struck at Zeidan repeatedly, but he blocked or dodged every attack. However, I was also using Permafrost to freeze the room around us, even beginning to freeze the air currents around us and slowing Zeidan, allowing me to land several hits on him. However, while he was taking damage, it seemed to be barely anything significant.
"It's gonna take more than that, boy!" He said, punching me. I blocked it, but it still sent me skidding back, dropping to one knee from exhaustion. "The itsy-bitsy demon came to try and fight. Down came his uncle and knocked out the demon's lights." He sang to taunt me as he slowly walked forward.
"Okay then... How about this?!" I demanded, summoning Zuul.
The massive dog charged at his target, who lashed out with powerful blades of wind. "Zuu- Ah! Mothafu- ah! Zuu- AH! You A-HOLE!" Zuul roared, before retreating back into the portal I summoned him from.
I stood there in shocked silence for a moment. "... Shit!" I said.
I used all of my weapons and hit him with their strongest combos and, while he did seem to be slightly wearing down, he still seemed capable of going on for ages. "What's wrong, Sai?! Is this the limits of your power!?" He demanded, laughing arrogantly, before blasting me back against a wall with a huge gust once more.
"Nothing's working... I used everything..." I said heavily.
[What about the motorcycle?]
No! We gotta save that for the FINAL final fight. Only the climax is acceptable for such a weapon!
(Then what?) I asked mentally.
[You'll have to use BOTH of our powers.]
Yeah! Both our powers combined with you, he'll never see it coming!
(I guess it's our last bet.) I said, getting back up.
"It's time to die!" He snapped, throwing one more punch at me...
... only for me to easily catch it, surrounded by an aura of wind and water. I stomped on the ground, shooting up several pieces of rocks below Zeidan to hit and stagger him, only to blast him back with a rush of water, sending him to the ground. "Only you shall die today..." I told him, Shuya and Raijin's voices echoing along with mine.
Zeidan looked up at me in shock from where he sat on the ground. "Rocks!? Wind?! Water!? Impossible! You don't possess those powers!" He snapped, before suddenly seeing the souls of Shuya and Raijin beside me. "I see. You used our clan's forbidden technique. I didn't think you had the guts. But this is treason, my sons. I hope you know your souls can still suffer inside of Sai. I'll see to that personally." He said.
"You will not cause any more suffering in this world." I told him, raising up and hitting him with a barrage of rocks, hitting him into a wall, using a blade of wind of my own to destabilize his form and flood the room with water, protecting myself with a bubble of air, which Zeidan had to become to survive in the room, which I destroyed with more rocks, forcing Zeidan back into his human form as I drained the room.
End Music
"No... This can't be... I was going to have ultimate power..." He said, struggling back to his feet, shocked as I was right in front of him.
"Ultimate power should never belong to someone who would abuse it. You have abused the power you already have... And now its time to pay for it." I said, surrounding my fist with rocks, water and wind, hitting him with a massive uppercut as flew through the aira and even through the ceiling, drilling through the ground above us on our way back to the surface.
Meanwhile, Bayonetta fought furiously and valiantly, easily dealing enough damage to put a stop to Balder many times over, but each time she attempted to finish the sage with her demonic beasts, he managed to defend against and survive the attacks, using an orb of holy energy to stop Gomorrah's bite, exiting the sphere and shattering it, allowing him to grab Gomorrah's closed jaw and break the dragon's neck.
The second attempt came from Scolopendra, who managed to constrict and even shatter Balder's energy ball, but the sage still survived and blasted apart the massive centipede, even arrogant enough to take a peacock feather from his robe and comb his hair with it.
Thinking of one last option, Bayonetta drew her lipstick, looking at the writing on the side that said "Balder X Rosa" with a brief, sad look, before she inserted it into the gun and glared at her father. "Don't fuck with a witch!" Bayonetta snapped, firing the gun.
The lipstick did its job perfectly, flying towards the murderous sage, past the shards of glass caused by the building's destruction and finding its way into the mad holy man's head.
an inch wide hole appeared in the sage's forehead, seeping a mixture of blood and dark magic to seal the Lumen's demise. "May Jubileus, the Creator, grace you!" Balder cried as he plummeted to the ground...
After the massive fall, Balder's body finally crashed to the ground, Bayonetta landing shortly after and Luka zoomed overhead, snagged to a missile. Before he could pass overhead and get lost beyond the horizon, though, I emerged from the ground, delivering a mighty uppercut to Zeidan.
"SHORYUKEN!" I announced, the uppercut sending Zeidan high enough into the air to smack into Luka, freeing him from the missile and both of them falling to the ground, Zeidan being a convenient pillow to soften Luka's fall of at least two stories.
"I've got to give you two credit; Bayonetta, Sai. You never cease to impress." Luka said as he got back up.
"You know it, man." I said.
"You haven't seen the half of it." Bayonetta said.
"Oh, I've seen enough... Well, that about wraps it up, huh?" Luka asked.
"Not yet." Bayonetta said. She then walked up to a window and put her hand up to it, turning it into a brilliant white portal and walking through with Cereza...
... Several minutes seemed to pass, so I broke out Asmodeus and Luka and I began playing Poker.
"So, what do you think she's doing in there?" I asked.
"Honestly, at this point, I couldn't even begin to guess." Luka said, before we turned as Bayonetta emerged and walked towards us, before stopping and holding her chest in pain as she was surrounded by a strange red energy.
"Bayonetta!" I said worriedly, hurrying to her side.
"Bayonetta! What's happening to you!?" Luka asked fearfully, hurrying to her side as well. But as we placed hands on her to attempt to help, we were shocked and forced back by this strange energy.
Balder then rose from behind us, surrounded by blue energy. "You!" I shouted, trying to attack, but was blasted back by this same energy.
He then made his way forward and picked up Bayonetta."And now it is done. The Right Eye oversees the light, the Left Eye oversees the darkness. Two eyes to oversee the world. It was never the woman known as 'Bayonetta' that I set my sights upon. It was you as a child, Cereza, that I sought. For she was the one who saw the world through innocent eyes, and she was the one who could give rise to a new history. It was her energy that could awaken the Left Eye. This has all worked out splendidly. Let us begin, Cereza. The time is at hand. Now the resurrection of Jubileus shall be completed. We are the eyes, overseeing the world. We are the eyes, overseeing a new era... A new reality... To which we will devote ourselves eternally. May Jubileus, the Creator, grace all of its creations!" Balder preached, rising into the air as the massive statue of Jubileus rose from the tower as part of a rocket. He then flew into the right eye as Bayonetta was somehow floated into the left.
The rocket then began to take off, rocketing Bayonetta and Jubileus into space with it, Bayonetta to be forever lost to us and Jubileus to be revived and cause mayhem for the world. "No! I cannot allow this to stand!" I shouted, my wings bursting from my back as I flew towards the statue, intent on destroying it and freeing Bayonetta.
I was shocked, however, when I saw Zeidan on Jubileus' forehead. "Don't think so, boy!" He said, launching off of Jubileus' head, slamming into me and the two of us tumbling through the air until we crashed down on the divider between the rocket's ignitions and the ship itself.
As Luka watched the events unfold before him, Jeanne suddenly appeared beside Luka on a motorcycle."Thank god. There's still time..." She said, recalling back to how she shielded herself and Damion with Bayonetta's ruby as Damion himself stepped up beside her.
"Sai... all I did was cause you pain and trouble throughout your journey and you saved my sister. I can never hope to repay you... But I'm damn sure gonna try." He said. He then grabbed and threw Jeanne's bike high into the air, allowing her to bounce off of several angels to reach the side of the rocket, which she stuck to with Witch powers.
"The Left Eye, our treasured Left Eye, will never fall into the hands of another! It is the pride of the Umbra Witches!" Jeanne said, driving up the rocket towards Jubileus.
Damion, meanwhile, leapt onto the divider alongside Zeidan and myself, knocking the corrupt demon away from me. "Damion..." I said in shock.
"You helped me more than I can say, Sai. Let me help you now." He said, helping me up.
"Alright, let's do this!" I said. The two of us rushed in at him, but as luck would have it, the part of the rocket we were on detached and exploded, sending the three of us flying onto a conveniently nearby asteroid that would work as a boss battle platform. But I looked back in shock at the rocket and Jubileus. "Bayonetta! No!" I shouted.
"She'll be fine. Jeanne's alive, too. She's on her way to save her now." Damion said, pointing, our enhanced Demon vision allowing us to see Jeanne rushing up the statue on the way to Jubileus.
I looked at this and smiled, before turning and smirking at Zeidan. "Well, Zeidan. It looks like your luck just ran out." I said.
He began chuckling, before outright bursting out with laughter. "Oh, no, Sai. This worked out better than I could've hoped. With Jubileus out of the way, truly nothing can stand against me now." He said, revealing two vials of blood. "Behold, blood from Jubileus and the Demon Lord himself, Mundus!" He declared.
"Mundus' blood... No way..." I said, shocked.
"The blood of the angel and demon gods together. I wonder what would happen?" He asked, downing both vials.
"No!" We shouted as we rushed forward, before were blasted back by the a burst of energy. When we opened our eyes again, we were shocked to see Zeidan, still in human form, but as tall and bulky as his demon form, his skin now looking like he had a galaxy swirling around inside him, his hair, now waist-length and floating around behind him like he was underwater, now changing all different colors.
"I have become THE ultimate life form. What are you going to do now, Nephew?" Zeidan asked, his voice now sounding auto-tuned.
"The power of the demon and angel gods rolled up in one..." Damion said.
"This is bad. I can TASTE the power radiating off of him." I said.
[That level of power... It feels unreal...]
His lines are in bold, italics AND UNDERLINED! He is the most powerful being in existence!
"We only have one chance of winning. And that's working together." I told Damion.
"I've got your back. This guy took my sister and caused both of us unimaginable pain. I'll make sure he takes both of our pain back a thousand fold!" Damion said, readying his bow as I readied my motorcycle and drove at Zeidan.
Background Music: "Our Solemn Hour" by Within Temptation
Damion fired a rapid-fire barrage of arrows from his bow at Zeidan as I zoomed towards him with my motorcycle. Zeidan managed to catch or deflect most of the arrows and swiped at me, but I leaned to the side and spun did three donuts with the bike, cutting Zeidan with both the bladed wings of the bike and the saw blade tires, while the tail also lashed out at him and the dragon's head also bit him or breathed fire and burned him, causing him to stagger back, before a charged arrow from Damion knocked him down.
"Insignificant pests! I am all powerful! You're nothing to me!" Zeidan shouted, releasing a miniature galaxy from his body, holding it above his head like a Destructo-Disc, before flinging it at us. I slid under it while Damion jumped and rolled through the air, passing over it, but both of us where then clotheslined as Zeidan rushed forward with his arms out, slamming into both of us, flying high and flinging us back down onto the asteroid. "Now, taste the wrath of the one, true god!" He shouted, raising his hands.
"He threw... a FUCKING galaxy at us." I said.
"Nevermind that. Worry about what he's throwing at us now." Damion said as a number of asteroids rained down on us, some almost the size of Pluto.
"Dammit... We can't let those get past us. They could destroy the Earth." I said. The two of us rushed at the rain of meteors, blasting or smashing through each of them. "Get that shit out of here!" I said, backhanding one of the Pluto-sized meteors away.
"I've caused this world a lot of problems. I won't let you destroy it!" Damion said, kicking away another near-planetoid meteor away. With all the meteors dealt with Zeidan then rushed in once again, flipping forward and hitting me with an axe kick, sending me down to the platform, before hitting Damion with a blast of angelic and demonic energy, blasting him down as well.
"The two of you could never hope to beat me! I'll destroy you, then everyone you've cared about!" Zeidan said, rushing down.
"I won't let you!" I shouted, getting my bike again and spinning it around several times, slashing him again with the wheels and wings, the stabbing at him with the tail and the dragon head, which again took massive bites out of him, before slamming it down on him, sending him down to the ground, where Damion stood, waiting.
"You've already held my sister hostage. Now threatening her life? I will make you suffer!" Damion snapped, slicing away with his bow and shooting him with it several times, before switching to his Predator claws, slashing at him and stabbing him over and over, before impaling him on both claws and blasting him back with the plasma blasters.
We continued to beat down on him, but no matter how much damage we did to him, even with my godly motorcycle, he still stayed strong and we were starting to wear down. "You poor simple fools. I told you, I am a god! No matter how much you attack me, I'll keep on coming. But you... You're still mortals... And you will tire and die like any other mortal." Zeidan taunted.
"Dammit... We can't keep this up much longer. We need to finish him NOW." Damion said.
"I've got one more trick that should do it, but I'll need time to do it. I need you to hold him back." I said, gathering up my demonic energy.
"Good. It lets me have my chance to make him regret ever even thinking of touching my sister." He shouted, rushing in. He dodged a few blasts of energy and slashing, stabbing and smacking away at him with his Dracotaclysm scythe, before switching to his Plague talons and clawing at him several times, leaving a number of gashes at energy seeped out of and into the talons, blasting him back with his own godly energy.
Zeidan then fired an overwhelming amount of energy bolts and small meteors at him, but Damion managed to masterfully block and slice through all of them at unreal speeds, before rushing in at Zeidan and hitting him with a cross slash across his chest. "This is for my sister!" He snapped, stabbing into Zeidan's left arm at the shoulder and slicing all the way down, so his arm was split in two. "This is for forcing me to fight Sai!" He shouted, speeding around Zeidan and giving him a million shallow, but painful cuts all cross his body, finishing with a massive slice across his chest. "This is for all the pain you've caused Bayonetta and Jeanne." He said, putting his swords away, his fists glowing with black flames and he pulverized Zeidan. "And this one is for EVER crossing me." He said, delivering a powerful headbutt that brought Zeidan to one knee. Zeidan was finally showing some signs of fatigue, but Damion was completely exhausted... and all the damage he'd done was beginning to heal. "Sai, now!" Damion said, jumping away.
"I summon you, oh great and powerful ruler of hell... Come to my side, Lady Ignis!" I said, slamming my fist into the ground, not too far away, a massive demonic portal opened and the upper body of a woman, the size of a sky scraper with giant bat-like wings, ram-like horns, long-flowing hair made of pure red fire that matched her piercing red eyes, highlighted especially by her jet black, reptilian-like skin. This was the god form of my grandmother and ruler of hell, Ignis.
She turned to me, her eyes turning ocean blue as she ran a massive finger through my hair and stroked it under my chin like someone would for a cat a few times. I smiled a bit and enjoyed the affection, before pointing at Zeidan. Her eyes immediately turned back to the piercing red as she slammed her fist down on him, doing so a thousand more times, crushing him more and more each time, before she finally released a beam of demonic energy from her mouth and eyes that reduced Zeidan to a charred skeleton, before wiping that away as well. She then smiled at me and blew me a kiss, before retreating back into the portal she'd come from.
End Music
Damion's eyes were the size of dinner plates at this. "Holy shit. You've got some dangerous friends." He said.
"Yeah! Let's see Bayonetta do something like that!" I said triumphantly.
"Um..." Damion said, tapping my shoulder and pointing off into the distance.
My jaw dropped when I saw Bayonetta and Jeanne together, summoning a massive woman, even bigger than a planet, punch Jubileus hard enough to knock her soul out of her body and send it into the sun. "Oh, come on!" I snapped.
"Wait. Look!" Damion said, pointing. Jubileus' body was careening down towards the Earth at reentry speeds.
"No way! If that hits, it's gonna be like the dinosaurs all over again!" I said worriedly.
"We can't let that happen! Come on!" Damion said, the two of us rushing to the falling statue.
Bayonetta knelt solemnly on Jubileus as the now lifeless statue careened towards the planet, feeling completely defeated at this time, before a familiar foot stepped up beside her."Unbelievable. We managed to stop this abomination and it's still going to destroy the world!" Jeanne said, appearing beside Bayonetta.
"Jeanne!" Bayonetta said, shocked to see Jeanne survived once again.
"Don't forget about us." I said as Damion and I walked up.
"You thought we'd miss this?" Damion asked.
"Come now. You're one of a kind. If you die here, who is going to save the world? I'll send you home, even if it kills me... Now let's finish this." Jeanne said.
"You and I are going home together! Jeanne, we're both one of a kind!" Bayonetta told her.
"Now those are the eyes I've been waiting to see." Jeanne said with a smirk.
"Let's do this, ladies! And Damion..." I said as we all began smashing up the statue, breaking it piece by piece until there was finally nothing left and only the four of us were left careening towards the Earth.
The four of us recovered in mid-air and quickly worked towards finding each other. "Jeanne!" Bayonetta called, floating towards her.
"I'm OK!" Jeanne assured her, also floating to get to Bayonetta.
"We're here, too." I said as Damion and I floated up.
"Let's go! Just stay close to me!" Bayonetta instructed.
Damion then flew in and grabbed them both. "We're getting back to the planet, ladies. Just hang on tight." Damion said as the two descended back to the Earth.
Back on the planet, Luka looked up towards the sky in disbelief. "OK. This is getting ridiculous! How do you keep surviving all this!? I bet you're trying to sneak up on me right now... Aren't you, Bayonetta!?" Luka asked, looking around for any signs of Bayonetta, but finding none.
"My brother... And Sai..." Selene said worriedly.
We now approach the sad scene of a funeral, this time for Bayonetta and myself, with Rodin, Enzo, Damion and Selene in attendance. "Well, no rest for the wicked. But at least she's at peace- back in the box she came from. And Sai's gone to the hell he came from! I guess I'm gonna have to find a new racket to line my pockets. No bonus for Old Enzo this time. As fuckin' usual..." Enzo griped.
"Is money the only thin you think about?" Selene asked, clearly annoyed.
"You know how it works with witches, Enzo. They make a deal with the devil, and when they die, the devil gets his due. Ya get sucked down into hell, and wandering around scared shitless for eternity. As for demons, doesn't matter how good or bad you were. Your time runs out and hell takes back what belongs to it. Kinda comes with the territory." Rodin explained.
"Why you tellin' me this!? Is this not why we are standing here, praying for their souls to rest in peace!? I better not be out here catchin' a fucking cold if these prayers don't mean nothing!" Enzo snapped.
"They've both done so much. For all of us and the entire world. If there's one place they don't belong, it's Hell." Damion said.
"It's nice to think your prayers are worth a damn, isn't it? You made a killing exploiting them. Hell, you never know, they might get lonely and come back to haunt your ass!" Rodin teased.
"Haunt me!? Hell can keep 'em then!" Enzo said.
"Strange. It sounded like you'd miss them so much, I thought you'd leap at the chance to have them back." Damion teased.
Suddenly, two massive bushels of Rosemary made their way forward, making Damion and Selene back off slightly, before parting to reveal Luka carrying them."I said I'd never give up chasing you... I just never thought the chase would end like this." Luka said as he placed two large bushes of flowers on Bayonetta's coffin.
"Luka?! Why would you bring Rosemary of all fucking flowers?!" Selene demanded.
"She said it was a demon repellent. It might help you on the road ahead..." Luka said. before turning to my coffin. "Sorry, Sai. You gotta hate those Rosemary. Hope this makes up for it." He said, placing a single black rose on my coffin.
But suddenly, the angelic light appeared, signaling the angels coming for their prize. "Hey... Hey! Wait a second!? What the hell are they coming down here to get her for!?" Enzo asked.
"Of course they'd come for the prize they've been seeking all along." Jeanne said.
"Holy shit! You're..." Luka said.
Jeanne then leapt up and started beating the angels to a pulp, landing on a large gravestone and looking down at her attire. "This looks ridiculous on me! I swear, this is the last time I cosplay." Jeanne griped, referring to her nun costume.
"I think its a nice fit for you. Now save some of those oversized poultry for me." Damion said, jumping up and slicing them apart with his bow, before shooting down several more.
"You hear that!? That's your cue!" Rodin said to the caskets.
"Will you hurry up!? Don't tell me you fell asleep in that thing again!" Jeanne snapped.
"Hey! What the... You gotta fuckin' be kidding me... You tellin' me they're..." Enzo started, before Bayonetta burst out of the casket and assisted in the angelic ass-whooping, Enzo desperately dodging the bullets and crashes around him, even leaping into Rodin's arms, before diving out of them just as the casket lid fell down and crashed on Rodin's head, breaking in half while leaving the bartender unharmed. "Un-be-fucking-lievable!" Enzo said in disbelief.
"Morning!" Bayonetta said happily, before looking annoyed. "What's with shoving me into this filthy old casket!? And next time, some air holes would be nice. Fewer worms, ideally..." She complained.
"Save the chit-chat for later. We've got work to do." Jeanne snapped as the she, Bayonetta and Damion continued the slaughter of angels.
Luka watched as Bayonetta danced gracefully through the air, almost in slow motion as he took in her beauty, as well as the scent of her new perfume. "Extra Ingenue?" He asked.
"It has a bit of rosemary. In the language of flowers, rosemary equates to remembrance... Suits me now, doesn't it?" Bayonetta asked. She then looked down at my still covered, unmoving casket. "Sai, deary, you're trying my patience! Time for you to get out of that box and take care of your share of the angels!" She snapped.
Damion ceased fighting and approached my coffin, casually grabbing the lid and throwing it away behind him with a single hand, splattering an angel in the process. He then looked into the casket, discovering there was nothing inside it. "And where the hell do you think Sai is?" He asked.
Bayonetta looked down and was shocked to see I indeed was not in the casket. "What!? Where could that little bugger possibly be right now?!" She demanded.
"Maybe he skipped out because of all the Rosemary. Yuck!" Selene said, kicking away one of the flowers near her.
Bayonetta sighed at this. "Oh, well. I'll give the little demon a proper spanking the next time I see him. For now..." She said, turning back to the angels. "Let's dance, boys!" Bayonetta said.
Unbeknownst to Bayonetta and the others at the funeral, however, Balder had once again survived, even through the destruction of Jubileus, protected inside the god's eye, finally breaking out from the remains of the Creator's face from where it laid in a dead swamp, crawling a few feet away before finally standing back up. He then noticed the power surging through him. "Incredible... After all that happened, I still possess the power of the Creator! Now I will command this Earth and rule over all of creation!" He preached, laughing triumphantly.
It was because of this, however, that he didn't notice the open hand with a slightly tucked in thumb now aimed at him. "Hakai." The owner of the hand announced as a surge of destructive energy was released from it just in time for Balder to look over in shock and surprise, before screaming as his existence in this world was erased. The camera then turned to reveal me wearing a copy of Lord Beerus' outfit. "Before creation... Comes destruction." I said.
Who better to destroy the Creator than the Destroyer?!
[Well, a guy cosplaying as the Destroyer, anyway...]
"Hey, I'll have you know, both Whis and Lord Beerus think I'm a very good candidate for the next God of Destruction!" I countered.
[You couldn't handle being a god. You couldn't even make it to your own funeral.]
"Wait, that was today?! Oh, man! Bayonetta's gonna be SO pissed at me!" I said fearfully.