Johanna Higashikata sat on her patio, swaying back and forth in her rickety rocking chair. As she looked out at the rest of the Canadian suburb, she noticed her cat, Snowball, rubbing against her leg. She reached down and began to pet it. Little did she know, a tall, muscular figure, seen only by a select few, began to use its power on the cat. The cat slowly became under the illusion that a soft blanket was surrounding it, and it rolled over onto its belly.
Across the street, a group of shady, skinny men stared intensely at the cat resting on the patio opposite them. Around it, a faint Orange glow could be seen. The leader of the group, Marquez, nodded to his thugs, and they began to walk across the street.
Johanna smiled at her cat, which seemed to be enjoying itself a lot. Strangely, she saw an orange glow around it. This had startled her the first few times, but after taking Snowball to the vet, and learning she was just fine, she had begun to not think much of it. She smiled and looked up, noticing a group of about four men walking to the sidewalk ner her. A little perplexed, she decided to ignore them. It's not my business to know what they are doing.
She took another swig of her coffee when suddenly one of the strange men came up and snatched her cat from the patio, and began to run off with it. "Hey! What the hell are you doing?" Johanna yelled, as she dropped her coffee mug, shattering it across the patio. She leapt off the patio, chasing after the thug. She began to gain on him when he jumped into a car, and began to drive off.
"Fuck!" She shouted, blood boiling with rage. Behind her, the tall, muscular figure appeared again, but this time it was setting up to attack. As she ran forward, the figure behind her did also, and an orange aura began to emit off of her. She sprinted forward, as a tunnel began to appear at the end of the pathway, surrounded in a faint aura before it slowly dissipated.
Huh, don't remember that tunnel being there, she thought to herself as she tried to keep up with the truck. In fact, I could have sworn there was a wall there… Before she could register it, the truck slammed into the tunnel and crumpled immediately. The tunnel began to disappear, replaced by the wall she knew was there all along.
"What the fuck..?" Johanna said to herself, pausing for a brief moment before heading after the car. She heard hissing, and grunting from the man holding her cat. He glanced up and saw her coming, and he bolted around the corner of the closest house. She cursed under her breath, then picked up the chase yet again, not the slightest bit tired. However, as she sped around the corner, she happened to run right into a man donned in a trench coat and fedora.
As they collapsed on top of each other, Johanna apologized. "I'm sorry about that. Some dick just ran off with my cat."
"Dammit, only one group would do this." The detective said, introducing himself. "My name is Saba Ton, and I am a detective trying to expose a criminal organization." He glanced behind himself, then swiveled back to Johanna. "And I believe they are the ones who took your cat."
"Why the hell…?" Johanna started, before being cut off by Saba.
"They have seemingly been taking out random people all over Canada, some normal people with normal families, some criminals behind bars, and others happen to be normal animals."
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get this guy!" Johanna said, cracking her knuckles.
"Right!"
They both got to their feet, sprinting after the guy. As they rounded the corner coming up onto an almost-empty street, they saw the man up ahead stumble to the ground, blood spilt all across the road, a small fragment of metal stuck in his leg. Looks like the car crash injured him a bit, Johanna thought, standing a few meters away. Saba began to approach, when the man swung around, a bowstring pulled back, a heart-shaped arrow nocked in place.
"Don't m-move, or I-I'll shoot you!" The man said to Saba, aiming the bow at him, arm shaking.
Marquez inwardly sighed. Dammit. This injury is so close to being taken care of… Adrenaline just has to finish up, then I'll be good as gold! "I'm gonna do it!" Marquez shouted as the detective drew closer, reaching for a bulge in his inner chest pocket. I just have to stall for a little longer… However, the detective still approached. Marquez gulped, then let the arrow fly.
Johanna let out a scream as the arrow flew through Saba, clanging on the ground behind him. Saba looked down at the gaping hole in his chest, before coughing up blood and falling forward, dead in seconds. Johanna felt the rage come back, and with it, the orange aura and the figure. This time, however, she noticed it.
Instinctively, she heard the name Kokomo rush through her head before noticing the large, muscular figure in front of her, arms up in the same position as hers. Did I cause this? She looked back at the man on the ground, whose eyes were wide open in fear. So he can see it too… As she glared at the man, she imagined herself beating the pulp out of the man, and before she knew it, the glowing figure, who she instinctively knew was named Kokomo, zipped towards the man and began beating the pulp out of him. Behind him, a glowing blue figure emerged, glowing brightly before touching the man.
Kokomo went flying back, and Johanna with it. She slammed into the hard concrete, dazed. What the hell happened? As she raised her head, she saw the man stand up, laughing, without a scratch to be seen.
"You probably don't know this, but my name is Marquez, and you just had a glimpse of my Stand, Adrenaline. It can heal all damage done to me in the span of a few minutes, making me invincible!" The man said, Adrenaline a few meters in front of him, ready to throw punches. As Marquez swung back, Johanna rolled out of the way, and stood up quickly. Kokomo launched forward, throwing fists faster than Johanna could see, and Adrenaline blocked all of them.
Johanna took a step back, then nodded in resolve. I can do this, I know I can… for the detective, for my cat, who is god knows where… she screamed, then unleashed another attack on Adrenaline. Kokomo pummeled the opposing Stand, causing Marquez to splurt blood any time Kokomo landed a hit. She threw in one final punch, sending Marquez flying back. She smirked, and relaxed her muscles.
To her surprise, Marquez stood back up. "You think I would make it that easy to take me out? Now way! I just had Adrenaline charge its healing powers up. YOU are the one who let down your guard, meaning;" He grinned, murderous intent flashing in his eyes. "You're the one who lost." Adrenaline leapt forward, catching Kokomo off guard. Adrenaline connected his fists all over Kokomo's body, causing tons of blood to spew from Johanna. As her vision went blurry, she knew she had met the end of the road, until-
Saba stood up, the gaping hole in his chest disappearing. A purple aura flowed off of him, as a massive army of miniature knights and horses charged forward. "Black Parade, attack!" Saba shouted, as hundreds of soldiers began to cut away at Adrenaline. Marquez screamed, gurgling blood as multiple stab and cut wounds all surfaced at once, the shock of all that pain landing at once killing him on the spot, his head splitting open. The purple aura faded from Saba as he sank to the ground, exhaustion coming to him. Johanna grunted, standing up. "You okay?" She said, holding her hand out to him.
"I…. I hope so. What was that?" Saba said, gladly taking it. "And why did I know what to call it?"
"I'm not sure… Marquez said something about it being called a 'stand', but I have no clue what that is," Johanna said, looking away from the bleeding body of Marquez on the ground. "But I think I know someone who might."
Johanna and Saba, tired from a 16 hour flight to Japan, rang the doorbell of the Higashikata residence. Johanna nodded at Saba as the door swung open, and they were met with Johanna's father, Josuke Higashikata.
"...And so we decided to come here," Johanna finished, explaining what transpired not too long ago.
Josuke looked up, smoothing back his hair. "You gotta be fucking kidding me."
AU: Thank you for taking the time to read this story! I am planning on Making this an SYOC (Submit your original character) story, so I will show you the way the review should be formatted if you would like to submit an OC. It would be handy for most of the OC's to be enemies, that way I can continually have enemies for Johanna and her squad to fight.
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(Last 6 are in reference to your stand, labelled A-E with A being the highest rank)
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