If his reflections surpass that of 'To the Top's' time stop, I'm not sure if we're actually going to be able to beat him now that he's reached such a high level of power. I kept these thoughts to myself, of course, no point lowering our morale now I guess. Angelo was just standing still, absorbing our attacks and sending them somewhere else using The Last Post.
"I'm invincible with this new Garden of Eden! I'm not afraid of anything anymore, there's nothing I can't learn!" Angelo yelled.
"What do you mean there's nothing you can't learn?" Namari asked.
"The Garden of Eden was the garden that held the 'Fruit of Knowledge of Good and Evil', and thus, if I ask a simple question to myself, my stand will bless me with an answer, just as it has done just now."
"What did you learn then?" Namari asked.
"The whereabouts of a long-time target of mine, Mina Higashikata, responsible for the death of one my groups top members."
"If you know where they are, then go after them, why waste time with us?" I asked.
"I'm bored, and I'm still learning how to use my Garden of Eden, and besides, Why leave when my target is right in front of me, right, Mika Sachi. No wonder you've avoided me for so long, you made a new identity for yourself."
During his whole speech Mika had already made a ball of blood, and as soon as he was finished, she threw it at him, it was about to hit his face, when he moved his left index finger into it's course, I assumed he was just trying to block the attack, but then he would've tried to grab it. As soon as the ball touched his finger, as it moved further towards him, it melted, turned into blood immediately, as it was never solid to begin with.
"Useless, throwing blood is utterly useless against my stand, but I guess the same can be said about every other attack," Angelo laughed.
Even though he had said that, we still carried on the attack nonetheless.
"Stop holding back Mina! I know you have a stand, so why not use it!" Angelo mocked.
Then, she used it. Her stand, covered in blue armour, with pink skin. A close-ranged stand. She got in close, joining in with the rest of our assault, filling the veins on the flower petals with a red glow. Except for one, which was being filled with a green light. All at once, Angelo pulled each and every petal off of his stand, making them all grow back.
"Now, this is what happens to those who harm me!" He announced.
Just like that, we all started experiencing misfortune, except for Mika, who seemed to be having exceptionally good luck.
"Looks like using my Crazy Diamond's heal ability gave me positive karma instead of the negative karma you thought you had given me," Mika smirked.
Angelo look astonished, and then, the flower petals had finished growing, and the bad luck had suddenly disappeared, and I decided to try something. Looking around, I saw several steel guard rails lining the street we were on, so, using my stand, I dragged the rail out of the ground, and pulled it towards me. I slowly moved towards him, Angelo did nothing in retaliation, knowing that this wouldn't hurt him at all. Rushing towards him now, Magnet grabbed the rail with both hands, one on each end, and we jumped around The Garden of Eden. It seems like he hasn't decided to learn what's about to happen, so I wrapped the rail around the bouquet, and pulled it out of his hand. His face became worried, he didn't know what was about to happen, now that his flowers were quite the way away from him. I decide to finish the plan, and punch him directly in the face, and then, once the hit landed, he flew a little bit, before landing on the ground.
"What... Did you do!?" He asked, getting up, "What is... This feeling?"
He was bleeding, he was outside of his own stand's range, but a few seconds after, it reappeared in his hand without the steel around it. He seemed amazed, but also quite surprised, this was probably the first time he's felt pain in a long time.
"Looks like even he's not invincible, we've got a chance!" Namari shouted.
He shook his head, looked around a little bit, before finally pressing a button, and placing the device on the ground. We all stayed cautious, it could be some kind of bomb for all we know.
"My friend will be here soon, so don't disappoint me, I'd expect you to be able to defeat him, be careful, he's in peak performance today, it's his favourite day," Angelo said.
Then, with a flash of light, he disappeared. I looked at my watch, it was Monday now, the beginning of the week, and the true beginning to our mission.
Part 11: The Last PostI grew up in a fairly populated area of Australia, and was a normal student until sometime when I was 9. I went to a private Christian school.Throughout my childhood, I aspired to be a police officer, just like a lot of other students around my age, of course, I have ditched this idea by now. I was weak for my age, and wouldn't do anything to try and lower my reputation, in fear of being hated by everyone. Due to this nature, I was bullied by the older students at my school. I always tried to remain calm, and wait it out, wait for them to finally leave me, when I wasn't being attacked, I would act as if nothing was happening, but people grew suspicious, started thinking I was hiding something serious. They were right of course, but I shrugged off their assumptions. So it was maybe around the time things were getting worse, that things got truly worse. Originally, it was mere verbal abuse, but, by the point I was at, nearing a year of torture, they were starting to get more harsh, and began physically abusing, even though I had said nothing, people would definitely find out eventually.So, I decided to pray to God of all people to save my hurt soul, and he answered the next day. During that time, when I was being abused, one of the three bullies that would attack me each day, punched me, right on the nose, but I felt none of it, and his friend recoiled in pain. Despite this, they carried on, all three of them began attacking me now, but I felt nothing, and soon, they were all pretty beat up, somehow they had become hurt by attacking me. Then it started raining, and thunder could be heard from nearby, right on the school grounds. I was pushed to the ground, and they started kicking me all over, but they had all toppled over after a few seconds. I began crawling away, now was my chance to escape from them all! As I crawled, I felt something in my pocket, reaching in, I found a flower with red petals, a poppy. I stared at it in confusion, it's petals had been removed, but they were all in my pocket, shaken off the flower from their kicks. Then, disaster struck. The leader of the pack was struck by lightning, and the other two had gotten back up, and looked at their leader in horror, we ran to get a teacher, but, on our way, one the other bullies tripped and landed face first on the hard, rough concrete floor, and was bleeding, despite this, the one bully and I kept the search going, then, he too fell victim to the same bad luck the others had. He too tripped, but he fell on bark, and it had stabbed into him. I had managed to get to the teacher, and the three of them were hospitalized, apparently each of them had suffered worse than what it had seemed. They all died in hospital a week after. Since then, I've never tasted anything, felt anything, or suffered any sort of fatigue. I learned of stands, soon after that, but I wished that I didn't have this flower, until I realized how I could use it a few years after, in a history lesson. It was then that I named it The Last Post, and years after, I began an organization in secret, to purge injustice from the world. So I decided on something, even though I had two close friends as members, I needed a second-in-command, someone strong, but I didn't want to look for long, so I raided a prison and tried a special stone on each of them, said to gift stands to those who are worthy. This prison was in the US, called Green Dolphin Street Prison, or The Aquarium. I ended up killing nearly everyone in the prison, except for 1 person, who was worthy for a stand, a powerful stand. After that, my organization grew, and injustice was being purged from around the world. Then there is now, I had been hurt for the first time in years, pain. My first challenge was finally showing itself, I'm sure they'll beat the guy I sent, but it will serve as a time where I get to know my new stand.
Part 12: Gravity Vs. MagnetismWhen our sight finally recovered from the flash of light, we could see a singular man in place of Angelo. He was tall person with skin as white as snow. "Have you ever heard of the old saying, 'Do you believe in Gravity?'" He said, of course none of us know what this guy was even talking about. "I guess I'll take that as no." Namari started to charge at him.
"Wait! we don't know what his stand is." Mika or should I say Mina cried.
"Gee, you didn't let me introduce myself. Oh well, I guess I should do it right now." He said in a melancholy tone. "The name's Ishihara Kyuso and I'm the left hand man of Angelo.".
He moved like a flash of flight, presumably boosting himself using his stand. With a gust of wind, he was now back where he stood, as if he hadn't moved at all.
"What kind of tap was that?" Namari scoffed, looking down at Ishihara.
"You shouldn't judge a stand by how hard you're hit by it."
Namari prepared a strike, ready to freeze time.
"Not even frozen time can stop my stand's ability!" Ishihara proclaimed, and perhaps he was right, because Namari hadn't hit him during stopped time, but instead, he was orbiting around Ishihara. "I don't feel like getting pummeled on a sunny Monday like this, so you sit tight."
Then we saw his stand, a humanoid stand, coloured a dark blue with a moon design on it, mostly seen on it's head, where it's mouth was a crescent moon, tilted into a smiling face, and two full moons made it's unblinking eyes. Finally, Namari was thrown out of orbit with a single punch, never to return, at that same moment, a moon shaped mark appeared on Namari's back.
"I will now make a tree the center of your universe!" Ishihara proclaimed, making his stand punch a tree.
As he did that, Namari was forced towards the tree, which had the same mark, and he smashed into it, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't escape.
"Are you all going to stand and watch!? I came here to have some fun, so why aren't any of you joining in?" He yelled, attempting to drag us into a fight.
"I say we don't engage," Mina whispered to me. "We don't know the full extent of his ability."
"But what about Namari? We can't just leave him here!" I retaliate.
"I know! But we can't just stay here and end up like him!"
Once more, Ishihara had moved too fast for us too see, and had dragged Mina away.
"Let me go!" Mina yelled.
"Alright," Ishihara sighed, throwing her into the air.
And while his stand screamed 'Jūryoku', it threw a flurry of punches. Once it was done, Mina's back was covered in the same moon symbol.
"That was fun, but I'm still warming up!" Ishihara exclaimed, pulling a load of bullets. "This'll only hurt for a bit."
Once again using his stand, he flicked several bullets in the direction of Mina, each of them bearing the moon mark, meaning each of them would find their mark. I had to find a way to save Mina! I had to think. Using my stand to pull the bullets towards me might delay them, but they'd still go towards her, but, if I slowed their movement as they approached her, they wouldn't fly at a high speed, which could hopefully save her! It was my only idea, and if it failed, we would lose a team member. So, moving as fast as I could I got towards the bullets and waited, right up until they were getting close to contact.
"MAGNET!" I yelled, calling out my stand, and using it's magnetic ability to pull the bullets away, although I felt a strong force moving them away from my pull. Still trying to keep them in place, I moved around to her back, and then let go, and the bullets flopped onto her.
"Hmm? A magnetic ability? And you called it Magnet? How lazily named," Ishihara sighed.
"Like you're one to talk..." I sighed back.
We exchanged glances of disgust, before I decided to close distance. I had a small plan, which was to get Namari, who washopefullyout of his range, so he could lay the smack down and I could forget about this "creative" bastard. Mina walked up to me and asked, "What are you doing!?"
"Go check on Namari," I respond.
She rolls her eyes and follows the command, thankfully.
"Alright Ishihara, let's go, one on one," I challenge him.
Just a few seconds later, and we're exchanging punches. I peer back to see if Mina's done, and luckily for me, I see her bring her taking Namari up, who has been healed back to perfect health. In an instant, Namari is next to Ishihara, and that's followed up by a punch. Instead of letting him fly off, I decide to catch him using my stand.
"Want to punch him some more?" I ask, holding him place.
"I don't feel like it," Namari sighs.
I just shrug, and throw Ishihara into some of the trees, and we walk away, ready to search the rest of the state, or just the cities.
After a massive time skip from then to now, we arrived in a nearby city, ready to search for our runaway enemy. I started to feel dizzy, but ignored it for the sake of the investigation. Then I heard a gunshot.
"Did anyone else hear that?" I ask, looking around to find out where it was coming from.
"Hear what?" Mina asked.
"That gunshot!" I exclaim.
They both shake their heads, and so, we come to an agreement. I search around for the gunshot, and they look around some more, then we meet up here. Of course, my first choice of places to check is the alleyway. Of course, knowing my luck, I come face to face to a masked man with a gun.
"Good, they did their job..." He whispered.
"Huh?" I ask.
"Don't worry about it, you're about to be put to rest.. "
At that moment, he swings something at me, and before I can react, it hits me in the head.