Chapter 1: Last Day of Sunshine
In a small town in rural Alabama, a man comes out of his house on a muggy morning. His name was Leo McLean. Leo had graying, curly hair and a bushy mustache, and he had on flannel pajamas. He stretched and yawned as he walked outside of his small, yet cozy abode. He goes into his backyard, checking on his medium sized plot of farmland. Carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, and corn tended to be his main stock. He kept some for himself, and sold the rest at the local farmer's market.
Leo had inspected his crops, making sure no pests got in and ruined his crop. "All good…" he says to himself outloud. "In about a month, I'd reckon the Carrots and Corn will be ready to harvest…" He looks around himself, no one to listen to his words. He chuckles, "Aw hell, you don't want to hear my stories, do ya?" A humanoid figure manifests behind Leo. "Go get Pomfret up, before she is late to school." The humanoid nods. "Of course, master…"
Pomfret rests comfortably in her bed, dreaming of the time ahead of her. This was the last day of her senior year in highschool, and she had been looking forward to college. She was so comfortable in her bed, with these dreams, that she had overslept her alarm by 5 minutes. Lucky for her, a certain someone remembered to get her up.
Pomfret is lightly shaken by someone, which causes her eyes to slowly open. She sees something humanoid, but not quite human. It has a head like a smooth, blue porcelain mask, with 4 pure white eyes looking out. It had a similarly porcelain-looking, smooth, thin, white, humanoid body, with its surface being striped red. Pomfret sighs and says, "I get the memo Leo, you don't need to wake me with your stand." The stand talks back to Pomfret. "You are late." It says, in a soft voice.
Pomfret looks back at her clock. "Shit, you're right! Thanks! A.P.!" Since Leo's stand could talk independently, Pomfret had made that its nickname. She starts to grab clothes out of her closet before she looks to A.P. "...You mind?"
"Be safe." The stand says, before dissipating. Pomfret smiles and quickly gets on a nice aquamarine dress she had been saving for this day. She knew she would have to switch into her cap and gown by the end of the day, but she still wanted to look her best.
She runs outside, deciding to skip breakfast since she was running late, and she shouts her Leo. "Leo! Your coming to see me walk, right?!"
Leo, who was now harvesting some cucumbers he planted earlier in the year, look back to her. "Wouldn't miss it for the world! Get to school now, you'll be late if you sit here talkin' to me!"
She nods and waves, a big smile on her face. She then starts running towards her car, a vintage aquamarine 1957 Chevy. Leo chuckles as she goes. "It was all worth it, wasnt it, American Pie?"
His stand manifests once again to speak. "She has grown significantly, since you first took her in."
"That she did, that she did. I hope she can handle herself out there. The world is a big place."
American Pie looks to its user. "Judging from her stand, I think she will do fine."
Pomfret parks in her school parking lot, smoothly going into her parking space with only 1 hand on the wheel. She loved her car, despite it being extremely old. Leo had it lying around from his father before, and decided to help her renovate the thing. It costed them quite a bit, but Leo never seemed to have a problem with helping Pomfret financially. He was always happy to help.
Pomfret walked into school, smiling. But when she looked around her, she spotted multiple classmates throwing glances and stares at her. Her smile slowly started to fade. 'What stupid rumour are they spreading around now?', she thought to herself. She starts to walk to her locker before she thinks she spots the problem. A girl in a brown sweater and a pink skirt with blue floral designs on it is talking with her friends by her locker. "Alright Athena, what the hell did you say about me this time?"
The girl looks back in mild confusion. "What? Ugh, how stupid are you, Pomfret? I didn't do a single thing." She looks to her friends, while Pomfret sits there fuming. "Any idea what the hell she is talking about?"
One friend speaks up, "Apparently, someone's got some lewd pictures of you, Pommy~"
Pomfret blushes hard and recoils, "I don't have pictures like that."
Athena chuckles. "I guess you do, Pom. How else would people apparently know about them?" Pomfret sighs angrily, grumbling as she walk away. As soon as Athena was sure she was gone, she thinks to herself 'This can't be right, she isn't one to send nudes… Someone is faking them.' She starts to head away from her friends.
One asks "Hey, Athena, where you goin'?" But she receives no answer.
A young highschool boy hides behind a staircase on the east wing of the school, taking pictures of girls going up. He had flash on, however, no one seems to be able to see the flash, as they don't notice it. The camera looked to be some kind of plastic kids toy, in a rainbow colored. "This stand thing is amazing!" The camera prints a picture out of a small opening at the bottom of it. He takes the picture and starts to trace over it with his finger. The girls with their panties exposed seem to each form a separate version of the boy under them sniffing their asses. He couldn't help but swoon over this. "Oh my god! This is going right into the spank bank!"
"What is, Kacey?" The boy barely has time to look up before Athena's fist goes directly into Kacey's face. She has dealt with this pervert before, she will deal with him again. "Still taking pictures of people huh? I bet you still sell it to horny kids, don't you?" She picks up the camera. "The hell is this? Your newest camera? It looks like a kids toy." She tosses it on the ground. Surprisingly, it doesn't even crack or fracture.
Kacey growls, now he was angry. "You bitch, stealin my sweet ass pics, I can finally deal with you!" He jumps for his camera and takes a picture, quickly grabbing the picture. Athena sends a kick for his scrotum and picks him up off the ground by his collar.
She slaps him "Oh I'm a bitch now? Says the one who takes photos of girls and edits them to make them nudes. Tell me, what program do you use?"
He only can chuckle, even through his pain "It's called,That's The Way." He gives a trace on the picture he took, and suddenly, Athena's leg gets a slice to her leg.
She drops him to hold onto her injured leg. "What?! How the hell did that happen?!" He continues to trace his finger on the picture, suddenly, ropes hold onto her hands from the top of the stairwell tightly.
"Now then, Athena Comodo, I think it's time to pay you back for all those times you screwed with me. My, what's it, stand will help me do that."
Pomfret sits in class, giving a heavy sigh. This was obviously not how she planned on spending her day. 'I guess it isn't that bad, it's my last day. But I don't want to just to go out as that girl…' she thought to herself. At that moment, a young, dark skinned boy comes up to her, arms crossed. She looks up at the boy with a jaded expression. "Steve B., oh boy, come here to tell me how stupid I am for somehow getting nudes leaked?"
The boy chuckles, he had on a black hoodie, and terribly ripped jeans. He had shaded, circular framed glasses and kept his hair in long dreads. "I can't believe someone gone through the effort of photoshopping nudes of you, of all the people in the school."
Pomfret perks up. "So you agree with me that these are fakes, right?!"
Steve nods, with a knowing smile, "You aren't the type of girl to send nudes."
She smiles back. "I knew you would see past all that." She gets up. "Considering this is my last math class of the year, I think I am gonna go look around for the motherfucker that did it. You wanna come."
Steve shrugs, "Guess I don't got anything else better to do." With that, they head out of the classroom, walking together through the halls.
As they walk, Pomfret gives a long sigh."You know, I miss when this shit didn't have to happen. When we were just kids. Life was so much simpler back then, so much more magical…"
Steve chuckles. "For you, wasn't it always magical, with your bizarre ability you have, what was it, a stand?"
She rolls her eyes. Steve is the only one to know about her stand, other than Leo. If Leo knew she had told a non-stand user about her stand, he would absolutely freak. "I told you, it's not magic! It's like, your soul energy, and shit."
He shrugs, "Same diff. I wish I had experiences like your back then. I remember you once broke the whole slide down cuz people kept cutting in front of you, or when you somehow got that pervert, Kacey, to dunk his head in the toilet in 5th grade. I swear that kid has been a freak since he came out the womb."
Pomfrett laughs when these memories come up, remembering both of them. "Oh come on, I'm sure you had some great memories yourself. Remember when you first met me by helping me on the swings?"
Steve blushes, remembering that one quite well. "Well uh, um…" he looks past her and spots something in the stairwell. "Hey, has that rope always been there?" He points at it.
"Hehe, what, you changing the subject now that I have made you blu-" she turns around and sees two bits of rope. "Oh. That IS weird." She goes to inspect the rope, Steve following behind. Pomfret looks down the stairwell, to its source, and sees Athena hovering an inch above the ground by the ropes. She sees Kacey down there, monologuing.
She hears "-times you screwed with me. My, whats it, stand will help me do that"
Pomfret shouts out "Stand?!", which causes Kacey to look up. "Aw shit…"
Stand Name: That's The Way
User: Kacey Sunshine
Power: B
Speed: C
Durability: B
Precision: D
Range: C
Learning: E
Ability: The stand may take and print photos of people and edit them with a trace of the user's finger to edit them as he wishes. If the entirety of a person is in the photo, the user can damage them with his edits, like drawing their limbs to be cut, or drawing ropes to hang them up by.