Chapter 1: A Witch's Child

The story takes place a few years after Bayonetta 2.

Cereza is feeling rather lonely and bored of killing Angels, the thrill that sparked her euphoric excitement was depleting by the day. Cereza's other hobby was shopping for clothes with her life long childhood friend Jeanne. During their usual spree, Cereza couldn't help but stare at all the couples with their children running around outside store doors. Seeing children so happy and free made her think back during her time as a child herself, when she was considered a "black sheep" among the other Umbra Witches and imprisoned almost all her life, for being conceived by her parents from two different rival clans. Cereza sighs with a depressing facial expression

Jeanne notices and asks her friend

"You look troubled, Cereza. What's on your mind?" - Jeanne?

Cereza looks at her and responds

"Jeanne, be honest with me, do you ever feel like you want more in life other than just fighting off Angels and buying expensive new clothes?" - She asks

Jeanne looks confused and asks for clarification

"Define "what more in life."?" - She asks

Bayonetta points over to the laughing children running circles around their parents. Jeanne however, looks in disgust.

"Please tell me your thinking of something else and not what I'm thinking." - She pleaded

"Jeanne, I've always said children are obnoxious, especially crying babies. But just seeing them running happily wild and free, it makes me think back on how much I've missed as a child." -Cereza explains

"My parents and I never got the chance to live like a real family, but here I am still alive and still yearning for that chance to have that life that I once wanted. If I don't then, I'll feel like I'll be nothing more than just an old gun toting witch with no family of her own." - She explains further

"So...you are thinking...about that aren't you...?" - Jeanne asks

"Yes. Jeanne..." - Cereza lets out a big exhale

"...I want to have a baby." - She reveals

Jeanne's eyes widen with utter surprise and disbelief. She knew Bayonetta's stance on children and how she felt about them, the two of her most hated things in the world after all are cockroaches and crying babies, even worse if the two were somehow mixed together, but this was new to her. It seemed that her best friend had a sudden change of heart, at first she's a nonchalant, raunchy angel/demon hunting witch, but now, she wants to be a "maternal" nonchalant raunchy angel/demon hunting witch. Though Jeanne wasn't to keen on the thought of Cereza wanting to become a mother, she knew that the right thing to do was to support her best friend's decision. This was a big step, even for Cereza and she was going to need all the support she can get.

"Cereza, I can't ever imagine myself dedicating over half of my life to raising a child, but if you really feel like you are ready for the motherly lifestyle, then I'm with you all the way." - Jenne said giving a slight smirk

"Thank you, Jeanne." - Cereza thanked her friend

Both witches finish their usual shopping spree and end their day with a drinking night at The Gates of Hell, Rodin's bar. Bayonetta tells him about her wanting to become pregnant.

"Hmph, well I'll be damned. All these years I've watch you put your boots all up in angels' asses and now you here you come talkin' bout you wanna have a kid?! Bayonetta, ya ain't goin soft on me...are you?"

Bayonetta draws her gun at Rodin's forehead with her finger pressed slightly on the trigger

"Does this answer your question, darling?" - She asks with a smug smirk on her face

"Hmph, I guess not." - He replies

Bayonetta points the barrel a few inches away from his forehead and releases a flurry of bullets across the bar side, breaking at least 10 bottles of beer and hard liquor.

"'Now now, that stuff ain't come cheap you know." - Rodin says calmly

"I thought so. Now then, you both know I don't have the time in the world to waste on finding a man to make the baby with me. So I need to know how to conceive a child with my DNA alone." - She explains her plans

"Fine, you wanna be a bad bitch of a witch while being momma to a little ankle biter at the same time? Then go for it. I can tell ya how it works without all the love chemistry and what not, but it ain't gonna be pretty, it'll be dangerous...think you got what it takes, Bayonetta?" - Rodin's warns her

"Come now, Rodin, this is me you're talking to. I practically live for this!" - She reassures him with utmost confidence

"Aight, I gotchu. Listen carefully...ever heard of the creator god...Yaldabaoth? - Rodin asks

"Yaldabaoth?" - Cereza replies

"He's what's known as the creator god, the maker of man if you will. It holds power to create a life as well as illusionary matrixes. He can give you the baby no problem, but the price ain't cheap, baby. Matter of fact, simply saying "the price is expensive" would be a big ass understatement, if you know what I mean? I can't give you specific details on what he'd want, but if you try to make a deal with him or be willing to forge some sort of covenant with him, he might just do you the favor." - Rodin explains

"Cereza, are you sure about this? This sounds too good to be true. We've never heard of this "Yaldabaoth" whatsoever, so how do we know we can trust it'll give you a baby and won't try something shady?!" - Jeanne warns her friend

"You'll have to trust in me on this, Jeanne. I won't let anything bad happen, even if it does, I'm sure the both of us can handle whatever this "Creator God" intends to throw at us." - Bayonetta overwhelmed with confidence and determination to get pregnant

"Rodin, tell me where I can find Yaldabaoth." - She demands

"Purgatorio, you're already familiar with that reality. Crazy cat likes to think of it as hit big ass play pen. Likes to alter realities and bend time and space to his will without altering the human world." - He explains

"Alright, Jeanne,I'll do this alone for now. I'll contact you if need be." - Cereza tells her friend

"Don't do anything stupid, Cereza." - Jeanne tells her

"Have I ever, darling?" - She responds

Bayonetta leaves Rodin's bar and sets off to Paradiso alone.

Many hours after reaching Paradiso*

Bayonetta's quest to find Yaldabaoth proves to be rather time consuming, but the witch was all the more determined to find the so called "Yaldabaoth" and have it grant her the baby she wanted. After fighting waves upon waves of Angels and Demons to reach the top of the mountain, Bayonetta finds herself at the gate between the human world and Purgatorio. She jumps through the portal leading to the alternate reality. The sky was dark and the stars were on full display, they were moving around as if they've been shot across a pool table. Cereza notices a mighty huge bright figure towering over the skyscrapers and the entire terrain. Cereza makes her way over towards the giant deity in order to gain it's attention. It notices the witch standing before him.

"So you're Yaldabaoth I take it, the Creator God?" - Cereza asks

"Yes...I am the maker of man. Controller of time and reality itself. You don the clothing of an Umbra Witch, a once powerful, but now extinct clan of dark art wielders. I see you are not the only Witch still alive, for I sense another." - The creator god said

"Speak of your presence. What has enticed you to seek an audience with the god of creation" - the god demanded

"Now look, I don't want to waste any of your playtime, so it'll make this quick, love. I want to have a child of my own. One that carries only my DNA and inherits my genes. I know you have the power to do so." - Bayonetta wishes

"My power has allowed me to create many life, forging an infant is no different, but you request one of your own blood? Such a wish is a high risk even for someone of your caliber." - He tells her

"Define the phrase "high risk"." - She asks him to explain further

"Though you are a powerful witch and master of the dark arts, your strength and super natural abilities are destructive, if the child you conceive were to carry on your powers, they may prove to be too much for the it's body to handle, and the child's body may collapse." - Yaldabaoth explained

"That's a risk I'm willing to take. My child won't know what to do with his or her powers when until it's older. Now then, if we're done with the explanations, give me my child." - the witch demanded

"Very well, don't forget that once I grant you your wish, I expect something in return for my labor. Once I call upon to collect your payment I expect full cooperation and my compensation." - the god demanded

"Fine fine, we can sort out the rest of the contract later, now chop chop and make with my baby already. I'm not thinking of names for nothing you know." - She grew impatient

"Alright then, stand still." - Yaldabaoth instructed

Yaldabaoth lifts his arm towards her, which had brighter super bright that had even Cereza tightly shut her eyes trying not to become blind. Cereza would then wake up a few moments later feeling slightly heavier than her normal weight. As she slightly struggled to stand up, she looked at her stomach and saw that her wish was granted. She was officially pregnant.

9 months later into Cereza's pregnancy*

Cereza and Jeanne are once again on their usual shopping spree, but this time it wasn't for themselves, it for the baby, which was due anytime now. Cereza got her old friend and lackey Enzo to tag along with them to carry most of the baby's clothes and toys. Enzo wasn't having any of it and was throwing his usual fit topped with his thick New Yorker accent.

Bayonetta places the new bag of baby clothes onto the stack of other baby stuff that Enzo's struggling to carrying.

"This is some bullshit, ya know! It's bad enough you made into a damn hoarder during the fuckin' holidays, and now you turn me in a hoarder for a fuckin' baby?! And speakin' of babies, since when the hell do you give a shit about em' anyway?!" - Enzo complained

"You know, Enzo, I could ask you the same. How exactly do you suddenly go from a slob mortician to someone who's all about the wife and kids?" - Bayonetta asks

"Fugetabouut iiiit! I've been doing that shit for 20 years and consider myself a professional, but we undertakers have lives too, you know! What about you? You're just some witch going around messin' up angels and shit 24/7 and when that shits not happening, you making me yer damn errand boy! Hey! You even listenin' to me?!" - Enzo asks annoyingly as Jeanne comes from behind and drops another bag of baby clothes on his already heavy pile

"And that makes 10. Cereza, you simply must see the onesies I picked out." - Jeanne suggested

"Ugh! This shit neva gets old! How long will it before I become a fuckin' butler?!" - the fat undertaker whines

"Enough complaining, Enzo. All we need now is the baby's walker, carriage and finally order it's-aggghh!" - Cereza kneels on one knee suddenly feeling a piecing pain in her stomach and water running down her legs

The pain grows as she drops the baby clothes and clenches onto her stomach while kneeling.

"Cereza?! Cereza! What's wrong?!" - Jeanne rushes to her friend's aid noticing a small puddle of liquid beneath Cereza

"Ahhh...agghhhhh! Jeanne...my water broke...the baby...I thi-think it's coming!" - She painfully exclaims

"Oh no, now of all times?! Okay look, Rodin said when the time comes, go to him! He's knows how to deliver babies! Enzo, call Rodin and get him to open the portal now!" - Jeanne demanded

Enzo pulls out his phone

"Alright alright! Shit, this is why I can never have nice things. And since when the hell does Rodin deliver babies anyway." - Enzo complains while dialing Rodin's bar number

"Enzo...if I don't hear...Rodin's voice...on that damn phone...in the next few seconds..., YOU'LL BE GIVING BIRTH TO MY FUCKING FOOT!" - Bayonetta threateningly yells

Rodin out of nowhere pops up from his portal leading to The Gates of Hell. Seemingly sensing Cereza's pregnancy reaching it's climatic point.

"Seems like I came just at the nick of time. Aight then, let's get this delivery started." - Rodin preps himself

When the gang arrives at The Gates of Hell, they notice that the bar has been redesigned to look like a semi-hospital room. Completed with hospital bed, IV, Heart Beat Monitor, everything one could expect in a hospital room.

"Doctor Rodin, at your service. Now...let's get that baby outta there." - He prepares sporting a doctor's lab coat

"Rodin since when the hell are you a doctor?! I thought you was just some demonic bartender?!" - Enzo surprisingly asks

"Don't ever doubt my intelligence, fool. I got my MD and my Medical License." - Rodin points to his MD and License

"Keep breathing, Cereza!" - Jeanne instructed

"You...think I'm not?! AGGGGRH AAAAGGGGHHH!" - Cereza exclaims in between deep breathes

Minutes had passed and Cereza with all of her effort pushes out her soon to be-born child. Sweat-shaped bullets and tears fall down her face as she writhes in agonizing pain, but the baby was well almost out of her and the hardest part would be over.

"That's the head! Rodin, get the towel ready!" - Jeanne demanded!

"This is it, Cereza! Just one more big strong push! You can do this!" - Jeanne instructed

"Alright, Bayonetta. On three, give it one big push! Ready?!" - Rodin also instructs

"One...two...THREE!" - Jeanne and Rodin both count down

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!" - Bayonetta with all her might pushes out her newborn baby

Rodin gazes Bayonetta's new child, the baby had short, but the same wild wavy hair as it's mother and it's eyes were grey like Bayonetta's but a bit darker. Rodin cuts the umbilical cord and carefully wraps the baby in the towel as it lightly flailed it's little arms and cried.

"Well, is the worse shit over yet or what?" - a hiding Enzo asked

"For now, yes. Now we gotta see if it's a boy or girl. Jeanne, you check and see." - Rodin

Jeanne gently uncovers part of the towel covering the baby's genitalia and reveals what's about to come.

"Cereza...it's...a boy!" - she reveals

"Let...me see, Jeanne." - a recovering Cereza says

"Take a look for yourself" - Jeanne suggests as she hands Cereza her crying child

"So beautiful...my handsome little one!" - Cereza says holding her new child

Her words began to calm down the boy and for a short moment, the room was silent. Jeanne breaks the silence and moves closer to her friend

"So...what about his name? I guess this means you can't name it after your mother I suppose." - her friend asks

"That's true...what shall your name be, little one? Your name must be something natural and unique, a name that shall never be forgotten for as long as I live...ah I know! - She finishes

"Ren...that's it. I like it. Ren." - She grants him smiling

Ren opens his eyes and looks at his mother

"Ren? Seriously?! You had like 9 months to come up with a name and YOU CAME UP WITH THAT SHI-" Enzo complains with Rodin following up with a powerful smack to his dome silencing him

"Seems like a fitting name to me. I'd go with it." - Rodin as he cracks his knuckles

"It's perfect for him, Cereza. Rodin, Enzo, lets leave these two for now, give her time to know her child more." - Jeanne adds as she grabs Enzo and walks out fo the room with him and Rodin

Cereza gazes into Ren's eyes and smiles, her eye begins to shed a tear symbolizing her happiness. She pulls him closer to her face and rubs her's nose with his.

"Look at you...my son, my baby boy, my first child. Seeing you for the first time, just sets my heart and soul in complete ease, my sweet Ren. You have the same eyes, hair, and charm as your dear old mummy." - Cereza praises Ren as she begins to fully cry

"I...I've never been the one...to be s...so fond of children. I always thought to myself that children were merely just a nuisance, but now that I have you, my sweet Ren...,I finally understand now what it feels like, I realize now how precious a child's life, a baby's life especially, truly is to a parent. Ren...I want to keep you in my life forever...I'll never let any harm come to you, mummy loves you so much." - She tearfully embraces him

Cereza kisses Ren on his cheek, and lays him right next to her. She places her palm on his cheek and clears her throat.

"Fly me to the moon

Let me play among the stars

Let me see what spring is like

On Jupiter and Mars

In other words, hold my hand

In other words, baby, kiss me

Fill my heart with song

and let me sing forever more

You are all I long for

All I worship and adore

In other words, please be true

In other words, I love youuuuuu."

Ren's eyes close and begins to sleep

"Sweet dreams, Ren. My dear sweet child." - She says reaching for another kiss on his cheek.

Cereza moves closer to her sleeping son, she rests his head on her bicep and wraps the rest of her arms around his body hugging him, securing him so he wouldn't accidentally roll off the bed. Cereza smiles with tears of joy and bliss still fall from the side of her eyes cuddling her son while he deeply slumbers. His stomach inflates and deflated as each breathe enter and exits his mouth. Cereza soon begins to drowse off herself and begins to fully fall asleep, still maintaining the grip on Ren. Jeanne standing in the door way that leads to the room she, Rodin, and Enzo walked away in earlier, smirks while carrying a long blanket and watches her life long companion and her newborn son nap together. She walks up to the two and covers them both with the blanket and walks away.

"Congratulations...,Cereza." - She says to herself.

Jeanne closes the door behind her.

End of Chapter 1

Thank you for reading my Bayonetta/Persona AU. I made this after seeing the Bayonetta/Joker fandom and wanted to put in my contribution to the fandom. I do plan on continuing the series for I do have more plot ideas. Next chapter will be more centered around Ren. Hope you enjoyed this chapter and hope you like and follow my new AU series. Bye! :)