March of the Black Queen
"Come forth!" Lyra called out but no stand appeared besides her. Instead an object dived towards Jotaro and the rest from behind.
"From behind!" the tall man called out and everyone dodged to the side as the flying object the size of a softball passed them by.
The flying attack continued its trajectory towards the cyan haired girl until she lifted her right hand commanding it to stop.
"That's! That's Kira's heat seeking bomber!" Koichi pointed out at the thing that nearly hit them. He still remembered how Jotaro and he were almost defeated by that tank-looking stand.
"It may be similar, but look closely!" Jotaro said focusing on their opponent.
It was true. Now that Koichi took a better look at it, it wasn't exactly the same as Kira's. While the man's bomber looked like a tank, this one looked like a sphere shaped remote-controlled model plane, except that instead of a propeller in the front, it had the same eerie skull as the tank bomber.
"So, you know about my brother's Secondary Bomb 「Sheer Heart Attack」, huh? If you survived it that means you must know how it works." Lyra said looking not very surprised or concerned about the fact. "Then allow me to introduce you to its sibling, my 「Dragon Attack」Dive Bomber!"
"We already defeated Kira's bomber, yours doesn't stand a chance!" Koichi shot back, ready to use his 「3FREEZE」attack to immobilize the bomber the same way he did with Kira's.
"I promise you, you've never seen nothing like it no never in your life." Lyra sent a wicked smile towards the short boy. "Like going up to heaven and then coming back alive, so let me tell you all about it." And with a flick of her hand, the dive bomber went straight to the boy.
"「Act 3」!" Koichi summoned his own stand. He was ready; he had encountered this type of bomber before, and knew how it operated. It tracked by heat and only moved in straight lines. And knowing this, made it easy to counteract.
"3FREEZE!" The small humanoid stand shouted ready to pummel the bomber and turn it extremely heavy just like with Kira, but the moment the bomber was inside Act 3's reach, something unexpected happened.
It swerved!
That shouldn't have been possible! The bomber only moved in straight lines! Yet there it was right in front of his eyes, changing directions mid-flight, circumventing Act 3 and going straight for him.
"I told you! You've never seen nothing like my bomber!" Lyra laughed as she flicked her right hand again. "Give him the business, Dragon Attack!" Then the spherical plane burst into flames ready to seriously hurt the boy.
That is until Jotaro intervened.
"「The World」!"
Time stopped for 2 seconds. And when it resumed, Koichi was no longer in the bomber's line of sight, so it ended up crashing against the wall. Unlucky for them, this caused a fiery explosion that sent everyone flying outside the house and into the yard. Thankfully they managed to get away unscathed with the help of their stands.
"Is everyone alright?" Josuke asked looking at his friends, who didn't looked like they suffered any damage.
"Just what was that?" Okuyasu asked confused by all of this. "Didn't you say that thing move on straight lines?" He remembered the talk they compared notes about Kira's abilities before coming to search the house.
"I don't know! Kira's bomber couldn't do that." Koichi said distraught. Once again he committed a mistake that almost cost him his life.
"She did say it was different." Jotaro pointed out, though at the time he didn't know if it was a bluff or not. Guess this solved that mystery.
"Though they look similar, they are completely different, the bombers of my brother and I." Lyra said as she stood at the smoldering hole that once was a wall with the small bomber floating next to her head. "While both are indestructible and cause explosions, Yoshi-chan's SHA has an unlimited range and it's autonomous but a little clumsy and straight-forward. Mine on the other hand only has a range of fifty meters but it has way better mobility and tracking." Then she turned her gaze towards Jotaro. "That Time Stop ability of yours is certainly impressive. I don't know if I'll be able to defeat it."
"You won't." Not with the current abilities she was showing. But if she was like with her big brother, this girl could be holding back her real stand, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. "You said it before; four against one are almost impossible odds."
"If only that kid hadn't being so stupid, I wouldn't be in this situation." Lyra sneered with cold anger in her eyes. "What was that retard's name? Shigeki…? Shigenchi…?"
"Shigechi!"Okuyasu responded furious that she was insulting their late friend."His name is Shigechi you bitch!"
"Shigechi? What a stupid name…" Lyra said shrugging. "I bet his parents are glad he's gone. I bet they are relieved they don't have to deal with a stupid retard of a son."
"What the fuck did you just say!?" Okuyasu clenched his fist seething at the girl. And he wasn't the only one, Josuke was barely holding up, wanting nothing more than to rush and beat the smug expression out of her face.
"I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I had a son that was as stupid as he was." The girl continued not paying attention to the angry glares she was receiving in return. "If I were her mother I would've drowned him in boiling water a long time ago." She finished with a small laugh imagining how amusing it would've been.
"Shut the fuck up you bitch!"
"Oh, was he your friend?" Lyra asked, the amused tone never leaving her voice. "Makes sense, you look just as stupid as Shigechi was made out to be."
"I said shut the fuck up!" Okuyasu couldn't help it anymore and he rushed towards her. Insults towards him he could deal with, but no one insulted Shigechi in front of him, much less the bitch whose brother killed his friend.
"Okuyasu!" "Wait!" Josuke and Koichi tried to stop him but it was useless, their friend was just too angry to listen to reason.
"Take no prisoners, Dragon Attack!" Lyra commanded her bomber to attack once more.
"I'm not scared of your stupid bomb! I'll just make it disappear! 「The Hand」!" Okuyasu called upon his Stand, which swap its right hand towards the bomber.
"I heard your stand was also dangerous, but it's far too slow to catch my bomber! Max Speed Dragon Attack!" Indeed the spherical plane was too fast and too small to ever be caught by The Hand's eraser ability, especially since it could veer, twist and turn even at maximum speed.
"If I can catch the Stand, then I'll attack the user!" Okuyasu announced as he did a wide downwards motion which erased the space between him and her. In the blink of an eye she was no longer 10 meters away, but right in front of him. "You're now in my range!" He scream as he launched a powerful punch that could break bones. He would've never use against a woman, but she was an exception.
Lyra smiled without an ounce of fear as if she had expected this to happen. "So are you!" Then a spectral black hand appeared and caught the offending fist in its grip.
Then Okuyasu let out a painful scream as if he was being tortured in the most painful way possible. And since nobody knew what Lyra's stand abilities really were that could be most certainly the case.
"Okuyasu!" Both Josuke and Koichi yelled as they jumped to both save their friend and to attack Lyra.
Seeing them coming, the cyan-haired girl let go of the punk's hand and jumped backwards to step out of their range as Dragon Attack return to her and circled around her in a two meter radius.
"Okuyasu are you ok? What happened?" Koichi asked worriedly, that scream of his really sent chills down his spine.
"My hand… I can't feel my hand." He said and everyone turned to look at the appendage. And after they did they reeled back in shock.
"Okuyasu, your hand…!" Josuke didn't need to know about medicine to know that it didn't look good. "It turned completely black!"
"And that's just a taste of what she can do." Lyra said making everyone turned towards her. "She's vulgar 'buse and vile, She boils and she bakes, and she never dots her "I's." she said in a singsong. "She is no other than the「Black Queen」!"
At the mention of "her" name "she" made itself known.
It was a humanoid looking stand, with a dark female like body features and a grayish skull-like face with yellow bulging eyes and a strange crown adorn on top of the head, and on its back there skeletal protrusions in the form of wings and very few black feathers.
"That's one creepy looking Stand." Koichi couldn't help to point out. Yet it was fitting for a nutcase like her.
"That the hell did you do?" Josuke demanded, but was intercepted by Jotaro who inspected the wound.
"I think I know what she did." The man kept on sounding calm and collected. "Okuyasu's hand is showing signs of necrosis."
"「NECROSIS」?!" shouting at the same time was the teenagers' reactions.
"How can that be?!" Koichi who was a little more well-read than his peers was the first to ask. "Did she implant some sort of venom or bacteria?!"
"No, I don't believe so." Jotaro shook his head before he turned to look at Kira Lyra and her stand and repeated something about her strange lines from her stand introduction. "She boils and she bakes, she said; Thermal effects of extremely high or low temperature can result in necrosis due to the disruption of cells."
"You mean…!"
"Good Grief, her Black Queen's touch cause burn damage to a cellular level." He said as he fidgeted with his hat. "What a dangerous and troublesome stand."
"Congratulations, Kujo Jotaro. You paid attention in biology and health class." Lyra clapped her hands in a slow and very sarcastic way. "Everything that my Black Queen touches burns and dies!" Then her stand retreated back enveloping her in a black aura. "And so can I." to emphasize her point the grass she was standing on turned black before it crumbled into ashes.
"Oi, Jotaro what should we do?" Josuke asked wondering how they could defeat an enemy they couldn't touch. Of them all he was worried a bit because his Crazy Diamond Ability didn't work on him and Necrosis wasn't something he could recover from without some intensive surgery.
"Leave it to me." Jotaro stepped forward looking at Kira Lyra with analytical eyes. "Try and heal Okuyasu's hand in the meantime."
"My! You are so confident, Kujo Jotaro." Lyra responded with a wicked smirk. "That Time Stop ability of yours puts you in a level far above others, but it makes me wonder…" she tapped her index finger to the side of her cheek posing thoughtfully. "Will you still burn in the Frozen Time?"
Not even Jotaro was sure of the answer, but he was willing to find out even if the skin of his fists burned off. "Let's find out together." He said without a hint of worry in his face or voice.
"I'm afraid it won't be as simple for you to catch me." Lyra then of all things she could do, started elevating up in the air until she was at least 10 meters overhead.
"SHE CAN FLY?!" The trio of high-shcoolers shouted in disbelief! Just how many abilities did this girl have up her sleeve?
The only one who didn't seem shocked or impressed was Jotaro, who just fidget with this hat for a bit. "Good grief." He hadn't seen someone used their stands to float like that since Cairo.
"That's not all I can do!" Then the same wings from her Stand appeared on her back. "Just because you got lucky with my big brother doesn't mean you can defeat us! I'll bring you down to size!" From her stand's skeletal wings, the black feathers shot down like a rain of arrows. "「Spread Your Wings」!"
"Move!" Jotaro didn't have to tell everyone twice to jump out of the way as the barely managed to dodge them.
"What is this? More Abilities?" Josuke questioned as he saw the places where the black feathers had stuck start to burn or darken. Then from the corner of his eye he saw something approaching at a fast rate "Duck!"
"Don't you forget about my Dragon Attack!" She laughed watching from above how her bomber attacked the group relentlessly.
"What do we do?!" Koichi asked desperately. Not only could they not attack her physically for fear of her Heat Burn, but she also could fly and stay away while she attacked from afar with her feathers and bomber.
"I don't know!" Okuyasu used his newly healed hand to use his stand to erase the feathers that rain from above, but he found it difficult to do so with that plane going around threatening with exploding in a ball of fire.
"Jotaro!" Josuke asked for some sort of plan from the eldest of the group, who despite of all odds remained very calm and collected.
"Good grief! I never thought I would use this again." Jotaro sighed as he too was enveloped by the aura from his own stand power Star Platinum and started to float in the air.
"Wait, you can fly too!?" Lyra asked perplexed, voicing the question that was on everyone's minds, she thought she was the only one that could accomplish such feat.
"It is not something I usually want to do." Not only because it required and incredible amount of power and concentration, it would also bring a lot of attention to him, something he really didn't appeal to him. Thankfully this place was far away from other houses and populated roads, so there wasn't anyone around to freak out when they see two people battle in mid-air.
"Well, it seems this battle comes come to just you and me." Lyra said, knowing this was always the case, if she could Kujo Jotaro then victory was assured. "It's time for you to dance with the devil."
"I'll give you one last chance, surrender now and tell us what we want to know, or…"
"To hell with all of you!" Lyra snapped, not caring to hear the consequences of her defiance. She knew that she would die either way! "I will burn you with my touch! You'll turn black from every finger nail down to your very toes." She lounged forward aura flaring all around here ready to put an end to Jotaro's life.
"You ask for this." Jotaro said as he too lauched forward to meet her midway. "Star Platinum!"
"Black Queen!"
く===ToBeContinued====
