Jeanne was still at the apartment waiting on Bayonetta to come home while putting butter cream icing on the red velvet cake. "What the hell is Bayonetta doing to take so long to get back here? I think she's in trouble and I'm going to find her." She leaves the cake to breathe and she goes outside of the apartment and locks the door.

        She walked outside calling out to her sister. "Cereza! Cereza, where are you?" Trish says "Hey, you might want to keep it down. People are asleep." Jeanne says "Um, I'm sorry, but I have a sister that's in trouble and I have to find her." Trish says "By yelling at the world? You lost your marbles. I'm looking for someone as well." Jeanne says "Really, now?"

       Trish stopped leaning against the pole. "Look, I don't have time for your attitude." Jeanne says "And I don't have time for your blather." She points her gun in front of Trish's forehead. Trish chuckled softly "So, we're going to fight, huh?" Jeanne says "Yes. Yes, we are." They were standing face to face then suddenly Trish started kicking and Jeanne dodged them. Then Jeanne did a roundhouse kick and knocked Trish off her feet.

      Jeanne walks up to Trish who's lying on the ground and points her gun at her. "Where's Cereza?" Trish says "I never heard of that name before. Where's Dante?" Jeanne says "I don't know who this Dante is, but you better tell me where she is." Trish says  "I just told you. I don't know." Jeanne says "Come on, think!"

     She charges at her and Trish sweep kicked her down. "If I knew, I would have told you, but I don't. If you want to keep fighting, then get the hell up and fight!" Jeanne gets up and does a handstand to shoot with her feet and Trish was dodging them.

      Meanwhile at the motel, the portal opened and Dante was talking to Bayonetta. "So, uh, Bayonetta. You're a witch?" Bayonetta nodded her head while she said "That's right. With no memory of it." Dante says "I see." Nero looked at the motel. "Can we get inside the motel so we could get some sleep?" Bayonetta says "Of course." They went to the second floor to room number 245 and went inside the room. It was filled with cobwebs, bugs and the wallpaper is peeling off.

      Dante was disgusted by the way it looked. "Okay, this is gross." Nero says "Okay, I'm sleeping outside for now." Bayonetta looked at Dante and Nero. "Gentlemen, that can be arranged." Bayonetta opened up a little gateway in front of her and shot it across the room. The wallpaper was fixed with red stripes and there were no longer any cobwebs. There was a nice bathroom with a shower that glistened like diamonds.

       The boys were so shocked and excited to do anything. Bayonetta says "Splendid. Have at it, boys." Nero saw a nice and comfortable bed. "Alright. A bed." Nero flopped on the bed. Dante saw a living room with a functional tv. "A TV." Dante was chilling on the couch and watching tv. Nero was already knocked out on the bed.

      Bayonetta went into the bathroom to take a shower. A few minutes later, she got out of the bathroom wearing a towel. A rumble sound was coming from outside and Bayonetta went out the door. There was a glow coming from the bathroom after Bayonetta left.

       Back to Jeanne and Trish, Jeanne was still shooting at her, but Trish blocks her shots then she grabs her legs and puts them where her waist was. Suddenly, she headbutted her in the face and they both cringed and rubbed their foreheads. Trish says "Okay, I'm done." Jeanne says "So am I." Trish says "Damn. You have a hard head." Jeanne says "I know. You too. Are you sure you don't know where she is?" Trish says "Positive." Jeanne says "Okay, we need to go to the Gates of Hell and speak to Rodin." Trish was confused at that name. "Rodin?" Jeanne says "He's a bartender. I have to find her and I think he knows where she is."

      Trish held her throat like it's dry like the desert. "Okay, I need a drink, too." Jeanne says "Then let's go." They both walked away from the apartment. Back to Dante watching tv and suddenly, he got hungry.  "Hey, Bayonetta, I don't suppose you have any food around here, do you?" Bayonetta says "Yeah, I'm coming out. Just hang on." Dante waits patiently and then Bayonetta comes out with hardly anything on and Dante was so surprised.

    Bayonetta says "What is it?" Dante was stuttering. "Uh, uh, uh..." Bayonetta looked at him. "It's okay, tell me." Dante gulped and said "We need some food in here and I'm starving." Bayonetta raised her eyebrows. "Is that all?" Dante says "Yes." Bayonetta says "No problem." She waves her finger around and food appears on the coffee table. Dante says "Thank god. He ran to the coffee table and grabbed a slice of pizza. He ate it and Bayonetta smiled.
"I'm glad you enjoy it." Dante says "Yep. I love pizza." Bayonetta says
"I can tell. Dante, there's something I want to show you."

      Dante held his hands up. "Whoa, slow down, babe. I haven't been on a date with you yet." Bayonetta says "We don't have to be on a date, we could just have fun here instead. What do you say, hm?" She kneels on the floor in front of him and touches his cheek. Dante wasn't sure about what she was planning to do. "Come on, Bayonetta. Let's just talk about this." Bayonetta says
"Please, no more talking. Just touch me." Dante says "Are you sure about this?" Bayonetta says "Don't you trust me?" Dante says "I don't know." Nero wakes up and sees Bayonetta flirting with Dante. "Bayonetta?" She turns around and looks at him then smiles. "Hello, Nero. How did you sleep?" Nero gets up. "What's going on?" Bayonetta says "Everything is fine now. Go back to sleep." Nero was looking like 'this doesn't look right face' expression.

    Back to Bayonetta outside of the motel, looking around for what was making that rumbling noise. Bayonetta says "Now, who the hell is messing up with us at this time at night? It's very irritating." Suddenly, Fortitudo came from out of nowhere, but the sky. "Hello, Bayonetta, the Umbra witch who loves to hurt angels." Bayonetta says "Of course. Why did you disturb me after I was taking a shower? Don't you think that was rude? You really want to push my buttons today?" Fortitudo says "Yes, I've returned to disturb your peace and show what chaos is really like in demonstrati..." Bayonetta interrupted Fortitudo by a shot from a regular pistol. "Blah, blah, blah. Can't you just shut the hell up for once and get this over with already?" Fortitudo says "Quite impatient, are we?"

     Bayonetta shoots him again and says "Oh, f*** you, lard face." With that, she removed her towel and threw it in the air. Her hair covered her body and turned it into her Bayonetta's primary original outfit. And she used a gateway to get her Scarborough Fair and Onyx Rose guns. She catches two in her hands and Onyx Rose on her feet as her hair grows longer.

      Fortitudo says "You seem very confident in yourself, Umbra witch. It's no wonder..." Bayonetta once again shot him in the face. "You might as well save it while I give you an elegant beatdown, dragon face. Time to go to work." She ran towards Fortitudo and Fortitudo used his dragon heads to attack Bayonetta, but she used Witch time to slow time. "You're too weak. Come on, you have to be better than this." Fortitudo spoke slowly and deep because of Witch Time. "You're.....despi..." Bayonetta interrupted. "Sorry, but I didn't catch that very well."

     She lifted the red dragon's head and swung it around a few times. She cracked its jaw and its head fell off. Then time came back. Bayonetta says "Repeat that one more time." Fortitudo spoke to her in annoyance. "You're despicable." Bayonetta playfully gasped as she clutched her chest. "Am I? Well, that's not very pleasing."

      Fortitudo got upset and tried to do the blue dragon to attack her and Bayonetta did Witch Time once more and grabbed the other dragon. Fortitudo was shocked in terror. "What....are.....you...." Bayonetta smirked at him in a playable manner. "Sorry, but you have got to speak up." She swung the dragon around and snapped its neck clean off. Time came back again.

     Bayonetta had her hands on her hips while she raised her eyebrows. "Say that again." Fortitudo repeated what he tried to say before. "What are you doing?" Bayonetta was satisfied in hearing the question. "There we go. I can hear you much clearly now. I'm finishing you off, you sod bucket!" She kicked Fortitudo in the face and sent him to the sky. Then she activated her Climax. "Teloc Vovim!"

     Her hair turned into a vile centipede and it went to Fortitudo and wrapped around it and squeezed its face. Fortitudo's face is scrunched up like a paper ball being crumbled up and thrown away. Bayonetta landed on her two feet and straightened herself up before speaking to the deformed looking Fortitudo. "Wow, I think you look way better this way than the way before. I would love to put this on my wall to make me a real badass. Just think about that for a minute or two. Matter of fact, I leave it up to my sister."

     Fortitudo bellowed as his voice was distorted and in pain because of the powerful Climax finisher. "That's real cute, Umbra witch." Bayonetta snapped at him while she had charisma in her voice. "Now, begone, foul creature before I change my ever magical mind!" Fortitudo spoke his final words towards her. "This isn't over, witch. You'll see." Fortitudo has been sent to the abyss and Bayonetta heard something coming from the motel and she put a lollipop in her mouth and went upstairs slowly to not make too much noise.

      The other 'Bayonetta' touched up on Dante's chest as she looked into his eyes with lust. "Look all I want to do is make love to you, Dante. Please?" Dante was in denial of this situation towards her. "You must be crazy, but then so am I." 'Bayonetta' placed her index finger on his lips as she shushed him seductively. "Don't talk." She made his hands go on her waist.

      Nero was being very skeptical of Bayonetta's off behavior. "Bayonetta, you're acting strange lately." 'Bayonetta' was quite confused about what he meant by that. "Strange? Whatever do you mean? It's me." Nero noticed the lumen sage symbol above her head. Nero then realized what it meant and stood up in shock. "What a second. She's not her. She's an angel!"

      Dante stood up in utter surprise while he couldn't believe his eyes. "Wait, what?" 'Bayonetta' was upset and shouted. "Impossible. I am Bayonetta!" Nero didn't believe her whatsoever as he directly stated to her. "No, you're not. You're an imposter." Dante wasn't falling for it as he pointed at her while talking to Nero. "Nero, *she's* Bayonetta."

       Nero was getting frustrated while he exhaled sharply, trying to get Dante to see that she wasn't the real Bayonetta. "Open your eyes, Uncle! It's not h..." Suddenly, a blast was heard and a bullet went through fake Bayonetta's head. The fake Bayonetta saw that the real Bayonetta shot her with her Onyx Rose shotgun on her foot.

     Nero was surprised to see the real Bayonetta arrive and noticed the gunshot through fake Bayonetta's head. "Nice shot." Dante was stunned seeing two Bayonetta's in one room. "Whoa, there's two of you!" Nero pointed at the real Bayonetta. "Look." Dante looks at the other Bayonetta and she winks at him.

     He now realizes that she was the real one, so Dante and Nero ran to the real Bayonetta and she let them go outside. The fake one tries to go after Dante's heart, but real Bayonetta blocks the door and locks it. Bayonetta grinned at the fake Bayonetta. "If you think it's that easy, think again, imposter. You want them, you get through me."The fake Bayonetta was upset at the real Bayonetta.

      Bayonetta smirked at her. "Let's play a game. It's a Pole Dance off. Whoever is better wins the game and takes the fame. If not, then you rot. Fair enough?" The fake Bayonetta nods and Dante and Nero were watching them through the window. Bayonetta was confident about this event. "Let's begin." She snaps her finger and out came two poles on both sides.

      Bayonetta gestured to the fake Bayonetta to go first. "Go on. You first, other me." The fake Bayonetta did a split move on the pole and then stood up straight for it is now the real her to go. Bayonetta smirked being ready for anything. "Alright. My turn." She started dancing and did the butterfly move on the pole. The fake her was really pissed off.

     Bayonetta crossed her arms and she laughed a bit."Oh, come on. It's just a game. There's no need to get your panties in a twist. You get two more turns." The fake Bayonetta did the Iron X move and Bayonetta kind of clapped. "Classy, but needs more work. Watch this." She did the music box move and the fake Bayonetta just had it with her.

     Bayonetta nodded her head towards the fake Bayonetta."Okay, one more move. Your go." The fake Bayonetta cracked her neck and did a jade move. Bayonetta grinned a bit as it was her time to shine. "My turn." She spits on her hands and rubbed them together and did the Marion Amber with fast twirls all the way down and lifts her leg vertical at the end. Dante and Nero gave a ten out of ten score.

     Bayonetta grinned at her. "Well, game over. I win." The fake Bayonetta slapped the real her and she tumbled back. Bayonetta rubbed her cheek as she raised her right eyebrow. "Didn't want to play fair, huh? Alright. Now you pissed me off." She opened a gateway and grabbed the Kulshedra, the purple whip. She whips her with so much force that the fake transformed to an angel that's called a Joy.

      Bayonetta smirked while she held the whip in her right hand. "I knew it. You thought you could hide easily. Wrong. I got something special for you." Joy was backing up slowly away from Bayonetta shaking with fear. Bayonetta shouted a spell with determination. "Micma!" She summoned a wooden horse and she sat on it while swinging a chain and captured Joy with it. Then she pulled her on the horse and pulled to squeeze the chain tighter and tighter.

     Joy was yelling and screaming, but she exploded into a gush of blood. The blood disappeared and her body disappeared also. Bayonetta got off the horse and snapped her fingers to make it go away. Afterwards, Bayonetta went to Dante and Nero. "It's okay to come in now. That vile angel is never coming back any soon to bother you."

      Nero was relieved as he grinned.   "Good. I got the bed again. Which means you guys got the floor or the couch." Dante rolled his eyes while he expressed his gratitude with sarcasm. "Gee, thanks." Dante looks at Bayonetta and she stares back at him with stern eyes.

      Dante exhaled as he raised his hands up, admitting his stupidity."I know. I know. I'm an idiot." Bayonetta nodded her head while she had her hands on her hips. "Yes, you are. You really thought that I was in the room all this time. You could've heard me close the door."

      Dante nodded his head while trying to explain. "Yeah, but tv. Look, I'm sorry." Bayonetta forgave him as she grinned. "It's fine. Too bad I didn't get any time for pillow talk." Dante shrugged his shoulders. "There's time right now. We got nothing to do. So..." Dante went close to Bayonetta and pecked her lips while Bayonetta backed away in disgust.

      She then slapped him across the face and Dante felt a little bit ashamed. Bayonetta was a little upset, but decided not to leave. Bayonetta exhaled sharply as she knew that she would love to have fun with him. "Oh, what the hell." She dove her lips onto  Dante's lips and they fell on the couch making love while Nero was snoring a bit loudly.

(End of Chapter 9: The Power of Lust)