It's that time of the year again... Time for a spooky, silly little snippet!
I do not own JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or the Persona series.
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"Remind me again why we're doing this Gyro?" Johnny muttered as he loosened his collar, completely black save for the metal tips at the ends and the white preacher collar tab. He wore a button up black shirt, a black jacket, white pants, and black shoes.
Gyro put on his dark red sunglasses while staring at himself in the mirror. "Well, Theodore had a bunch of materials for clothes, the Kanjis were bored and wanted to sew, and it's supposed to be around Halloween time for the couple of dimensions that are left. So they decided we should take a break at celebrate." Gyro wore a sleeveless jean jacket, a white t-shirt that was tucked into a pair of jeans with his belt tied around his waist, and brown shoes.
Johnny simply raised an eyebrow at Gyro. "And none of that sounds kinda... stupid to you?"
Gyro sighed as he looked at the American. "Johnny... we're group of teens who are joined by another group of teens from two different times, the past and the future. And are teaming up with people from another dimension from different periods, all in order to battle a god-like being who's seeking to shape the multiverse in his image. Using ghostly figures to fight." Gyro smirked as he then continued. "And I can say all that without it sounding stupid. So tell me Johnny, does this party really seem stupid by comparison?"
Johnny looked up for a second before giving his reply. "Kinda?"
"Okay Joestar, truth is we need a break. We just finished kicking that Diavolo guy's ass, Our Chie and Yukiko barely managed to survive against Wekapipo and Magenta Magenta, and the others are anxious and need a break." Gyro then pointed to the door of the bathroom they had finished changing in. "So come on, who cares if it's a bit stupid? It's a good way to blow of steam."
Johnny threw his hands up in surrender. "Okay, fine. I get it. Let's just... go trick or treating I guess."
"That's the spirit!" Gyro declared as he popped a pair of fake fangs into his mouth before he and Johnny went towards the door. "Why so hesitant about Trick or Treating? It's awesome?"
"I haven't done that crap since I was nine."
Gyro paused for a moment and looked at Johnny in shock. "What kind of childhood did you have Joestar?"
"Trust me, you don't want to know." Johnny opened the door and looked around the hallway.
The various members of the 'team' (They were still debating on what the hell they should be called), were spread around dressed in various costumes conversing amongst themselves. The Velvet residents (Save for Igor who stayed in the room in order to focus on maintaining their little fused Morioh/Inaba pocket dimension, and Marie who probably just sat around chewing gum and reading books), really outdid themselves with the 'Halloween' decorations. Pumpkins, ghosts, spider-webs, and candy were everywhere.
"Wow, you guys sure took a long time in there!"
The two foreign teens turned to their right to see Chie Satonaka, their Chie Satonaka, dressed in a yellow tracksuit with black stripes running down the sides. They could tell the difference because the 'doubles' had the decency to declare what costumes they intended to wear before they changed.
"Hey, you can't rush art!" Gyro chuckled out. Johnny was sort of amazed the fake vampire teeth didn't mess with Gyro's speech.
"It's just a good thing that we don't have to stay in these costumes for long." Johnny declared as he pulled his collar. "This thing is itchy."
Chie giggled a bit. "Have to say Johnny, it's kinda funny seeing you in that. You're, like, the last person I expected to see wearing preacher clothes."
Johnny simply clicked his tongue at that. "Yeah, and you picked the costume I expected you to wear the most."
Chie's shoulders slumped at that. "Yeah, but Kanji sorta messed up my costume."
Johnny and Gyro looked at each other in confusion before looking back at Chie. "How?"
Chie lifted her right foot and showed the bottom of her yellow shoe.
Needless to say, it wasn't exactly something Bruce Lee would wear.
"Ah..." Johnny and Gyro breathed out in realization.
"Yeah, but whatever. I'll manage." Chie then grinned and said, "Alright, I'm gonna head off to bob for apples with Yukiko! See you guys!" With that, Chie went down the hall, disappearing into the crowd of teens and grown men.
"Well, we might as well explore too!" Gyro declared with a smirk. Johnny simply shrugged his shoulders before following Gyro down the hall.
"Come on Fuuka!" Yukari Takeba shouted as she began pulling a fluffy arm out of a room. She was dressed in a Pink Featherman Ranger costume, which seemed to hug her figure a bit. "You look cute! Stop being embarrassed!"
"Y-Yukari-san! Please don't!" Fuuka shouted out before, with a mighty tug, she was pulled out of the room. She was wearing a fluffy Totoro costume which covered her from head to toe, save for her face which was featured in the 'mouth' area. "Ooh..." Fuuka moaned before covering her eyes. "Why me...?"
"Wow!" Junpei Iori declared, grinning from ear to ear as he wore a simple zombie costume with a tattered version of his uniform stained with fake blood in certain areas. His skin was powdered grey and some fake blood was shown around his mouth. He gave a thumbs up as he declared. "Gotta say Fuuka-chan! That look suits you!"
"I do say, Lady Fuuka." Jonathan Joestar scratched his cheek and gave a kind smile. He wore his regular 'battle' clothes, but was also covered in tattered rags on most of his body. "The Japanese certainly make some adorable creatures. And you compliment this 'Totoro' character immensly."
"See?" Yukari gave a smile to Fuuka as she said, "Even a gentleman like Jonathan-san thinks you look cute!" Fuuka's cheeks seemed to get even more red at that.
"Hey! What about me!" Junpei shouted out in annoyance.
"Oh, and Stupei too I guess." Yukari added dismissively.
Jonathan then turned around and spotted Johnny. He waved and laughed nervously while Johnny looked to the side and pushed himself away.
Gyro shrugged his shoulders at Jonathan and followed the American. "Still not used to the British guy huh?"
"At least Narukami lived a completely different life than me." Johnny replied softly.
"Man, you're gonna have to get over than hang up sooner or later." Gyro sighed before looking to the side.
The two Kanjis were staring each other down. Both wearing the exact same Universal Frankenstein costumes complete with two fake bolts on the sides of their necks. "One of us is going to have to change man." The Kanji with hair informed the bald one, their Kanji, who simply shook his head.
"Well I ain't doing it!"
Hermes Costello sat to the side, chuckling to herself as she watched the two argue. She was wearing some sort of sci-fi military armor with the words 'El riesgo siempre vive' written on the front and a red bandanna tied around her forehead. "Man, gotta say startin' a fight over wearing the same clothes is a new one!"
Jolyne Cujo leaned against the wall to Hermes' left, wearing a dirty white shirt with baggy grey pants tucked into a pair of red shoes. A big retro-future gun on the floor in front of her. "Yeah, but you better not stop them."
Hermes smirked and looked at Jolyne. "Wow, you're so starved for material you wanna watch two teens wrestle? I know he's built but I gotta say Jolyne, you're one dirty girl!"
"S-shut up!" Jolyne shouted before covering Hermes' mouth. Johnny noticed that Narciso Anasui was hiding behind Weather Report who was carving a pumpkin. They were wearing a 'Thing 1 and Thing 2' costume respectively. Narciso was glaring at the two Kanjis with murder in his eyes while Weather Report didn't seem to give a shit.
"We should probably tell them to watch their backs for a bit." Gyro muttered out while Johnny gave a nod. They then glanced over to see
"Come on Lisa-sensei!" The Chie from Narukami's world whined, wearing a sailor uniform with a short shirt that showed off her midriff that also had a yellow ribbon tied under the cropped up collar, a blue skirt which thankfully had a pair of red boomers underneath, and a white bandanna around her forehead. She also wore a pair of red Converse-esque shoes and a red pair of sparring gloves. "I've managed to run a mile while breathing in! Can't I move up to the next step?"
Lisa Lisa simply left out a breath of smoke. She was covered from head to toe in bandages, evoking the image of a mummy. "And did you manage to let out a breath while running a mile?"
Chie slumped as she replied, "No..."
Koromaru walked up beside her and whined out, snuggling her leg. The dog was wearing a tiny bumblebee costume, complete with a black cap and antenna on his forehead. "Aw Koro-chan..." Chie kneeled down and began petting the dog. "You know how to cheer me up..."
"Don't coddle my student." Lisa Lisa informed the dog coldly, causing the dog to shrink back a bit more.
"Still hard to believe these alternates can be so alike." Johnny muttered out. "Kinda scary, don't you think?"
"What's a matter Johnny? Afraid you'll be body snatched?" Gyro then rubbed the American's hair and grinned. "Don't worry. You ain't around seven feet tall and nowhere near stoic. We can tell you apart from Jonathan and Yu."
"Don't joke about that." Then Johnny blinked as he noticed that there was a room titled "Horror Arts' written on it. "What's going on there?"
"Dunno. I saw Rohan go in there with a couple of people." Gyro opened the door, and the two foreigners peeked inside.
Just in time to see a man lift his hands up with a defibrillator, bringing them down on another man's chest which then opened revealing a giant mouth with sharp teeth. It clamped down, causing the man to scream as he brought his arms back, separating them from the trapped limbs with an almost cartoony 'glorp' as blood sprayed everywhere and the teeth chomped on its snack.
The movie then paused and Rohan, dressed ina. Back suit and cloak with a portion of his hair dyed white and a 'scar' drawn on the left side of his face, pointed to the screen and asked, "Alright, does anyone know when he was replaced?"
The Yukiko from Johnny and Gyro's world brought up her right hand. She was dressed in a white robe with her skin powdered grey and her hair messy. "Back when the Thing was still a dog, when it was roaming around and went into the room with that shadow?"
"Correct!" Rohan gave a triumphant smirk as he crossed his arms and nodded his head. "It seems one of you has an eye for detail!"
"Oi!" The younger Joseph Joestar, dressed in his red and blue Superman outfit, stood up and pointed at Rohan. "I'm still gettin' used to the fact that movies get color in the future! Give me a break!"
"Hmph." Caesar Zeppeli gave a dismissive shrug as he sipped a glass of wine, dressed from head to toe in green 'scales' similar to that of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. "Too bad the modern movies didn't get more class."
"Fool!" Rohan's face contorted in anger as he pointed at the projector. "This movie timed its suspense better than any of the schlock that the modern film industry calls a 'horror movie'! It knew the fear of claustrophobic and not trusting the man beside you! Its reveals are far better than that of..."
"Dude, chill out. It's just a movie." Their Yosuke muttered, dressed from head to toe in black leather save for his white boots and shoulder pads, bedazzled sleeves, and painted white face.
"That's not exactly the kind of thing to say to him..." Koichi Hirose muttered out, wearing a tattered brown jacket with rolled up sleeves, dirty green pants, and brown shoes along with a pair of goggles on his forehead.
"It is not just a movie!" Rohan screamed out as he stamped on his foot. "This is what true horror should be like! Not cheap jump-scares in order to get a momentary reaction, it must me...!"
"Give me a break..." Jotaro Kujo muttered, dressed in a full body dolophin costume that seemed extremely fluffy and cute. Noriaki Kakyoin, dressed in a Freddy Krueger costume complete in a mask, chuckled into his right hand alongside Muhammad Avdol who was dressed as Michael Myers with the face on his lap. Ken Amada, dressed in a small Featherman Red costume, shivered in his seat while hiding his eyes from the screen. Marie on the other hand was dressed in a female version of Roland Deschain, complete with rawhide pistols, sat in her seat munching popcorn while rolling her eyes. Muttering something along the lines of 'the book was better'. Foo Fighters was sitting beside her, dressed as... well... Plankton. With her head where the character's mouth should be happily sipping on her water.
Probably wanted to seem grown up by watching a scary movie.
"Yeah, lets not set foot in there." With that, Johnny and Gyro closed the door and looked over to see Yu's version of Rise, dressed ed and double-breasted, has four large gold buttons on the front, and a long yellow scarf. She was playing a game with Yu's version of Yukiko who was dressed in an orange t-shirt that had the words 'BR' printed on the front, a military cap and shorts, and boots playing a game of apple-bobbing.
"Hey Gyro-kun!" Rise's voice called out, and the two looked past the girls to see their Rise Kujikawa dressed in black leather with a voice box on her chest, a back and silver cape, and an silver owl-like mask on her head. "Come on! The dance party is going to start and we should totally go together!"
"In a minute!" Gyro called out. "Just want to hang out with Johnny for a bit!"
Rise giggled as she said, "Alright, but if you take too long you might miss out on something!"
Gyro chuckled with a small blush on his face.
Johnny simply rolled his eyes. "God, you two were just made for each other."
"Oh stop that."
The two continued to look around. They saw the members of Passione dressed in black suits with white shirts, as if they were straight from Resevoir Dogs or the Godfather. "Alright Giorno, hit it." Bruno ordered in a commanding voice, and the 'leader' of the group pressed the button on the boom box. Thriller began to play, and the members of the Passione began dancing to it, almost in perfect synchronization.
"Weirdos..." Johnny muttered out as he continued to look around. The older Joseph Joestar who was dressed as Captain America was talking with Speedwagon who was dressed as Watson and William Zeppeli who was dressed in a back suit and tie with a monocle and cane (Johnny guessed that he was supposed to be Lupin) as they drank alcohol.
Akihiko was dressed as Ryu from Street Fighter and was hitting a punching bag which Shinjiro was standing behind dressed as Ken, who was rolling his eyes at his friend's antics. Mitsuru sat by them dressed as if she was Zelda was smirking as she was sipping tea.
Aigis was sitting beside Yu's Yosuke, dressed in orange gi like Goku, and two Teddies who decided to both dress as Alice (Johnny groaned internally at that.). Aigis wasn't exactly dresse in anything. In fact she wasn't wearing any clothes (Though Johnny supposed that there wasn't exactly much to show). Her body was simply spray painted silver in the white areas save for her face which had a strange 'crown' on it.
Aigis explained that her costume was that of the false Maria from the silent film Metropolis.
Iggy was underneath their table, chewing on a piece of coffee gum and whose 'costume' simply comprised of a collar that had the tag 'Cujo' on it. She stared at them intently as they ate candy before looking at the candy. She turned back to them and said plainly, "If you continue to eat that substance, you will get Type 2 diabetes within a week."
"What's a diabetes?" One Teddie asked curiously to the other.
"Dunno. My Sensei never told me about it." The other Teddie replied.
"Uh, Aigis-san..." Yosuke groaned out as he set down the candy. "That's not exactly something you say on Halloween."
"Just trying to make sure my teammates eat healthily." Aigis replied simply as she picked up one piece. "There are so many harmful substances in this that I don't even know where to begin.
"GAAAH!"
The two foreigners (And really everybody) turned to see Josuke, Okuyasu, and Polnareff scream as they ran out of a room. They were dressed as Prince (Complete with a pink suit and puffy white shirt), a boxer with 'Rocky' written on his shorts, and a baseball player with "Bears #11' written on it. They backed away to the windows, holding each other with eyes widened in fear.
"O-Oh god what did we see!?" Polnareff cried out in fear.
"T-Tentacles... so many tentacles...!" Josuke muttered out, shivering as he hugged Okuyasu.
"S-Sound isn't supposed to have a shape! And I don't know that color! That color isn't from this world!" Okuyasu cried out, tears coming out of his eyes.
Theodore, Margaret, and Elizabeth walked out of the room. They were dressed as a Wereworlf, a vampire, and a witch respectively.
"Hm... Perhaps Master was right when he said we shouldn't show our true forms to mortals." Theodore muttered out in concern.
"I warned you both..." Margaret muttered out while crossing her arms.
"Yes, but they did challenge us saying we couldn't frighten them after all the things they saw. And I do believe our true forms are supposed to be utterly terrifying!" Elizabeth giggled out mischievously.
"W-We gotta find Rohan and make us forget everything..." Josuke said before he began to cry out as well.
"Imbeciles."
Johnny and Gyro turned their heads to see their Noto dressed in a strange costume. A matching shirt and pants with verticals green and red striped, the pants tucked into red boots and yellow, green, and red shoulder pads. Her collar was popped up and some of the buttons leading to her chest were unbuttoned (But not enough to actually show anything.
"They should have known better than to challenge those siblings." Naoto sighed while pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Huh, woulda thought that this party would get the stick out of your ass 'Ziggy'." Gyro quipped out. "Guess I was wrong."
Naoto glared at Gyro while Johnny sighed. "Ignore him. Please don't start this bullshit."
"Have to say Zeppeli, I do like your costume." Naoto looked Gyro up and down before saying, "It truly matches your personality."
The two teens glared at each other as Johnny placed his hand on his cheek. Even after all this time working together, the two still didn't get along all that much.
"Excuse me." Another Naoto spoke up, and the three turned to see Yu's Naoto dressed in medieval-looking armor with a scarlet robe, an eyepatch over her left eye, and a glove on her left arm that made it look like it was made of silver. She was chasing the 'future' Persona users, all dressed in the costumes they seemed insistent to wear. Ryuuji Sakamoto in his black leather outfit with the silver skull mask, Ann Takamaki in her red catsuit, and Yasuho Hirose in her tight rblack costume with boots and red stripes as well as dots all over her and a mask that hid her entire head save for her eyes and hair. 'Josuke', their amnesiac leader, was wearing a white suit and cloak which had black anchor symbols on the sides of his hips. "I wish to discuss things with you. Because I swear I've seen you before..."
They never really did tell the group why they wore those costumes all the time.
"Huh?" The teenager with two skin tones, two different lengths on each side of his tongue, two different eye colors split down the middle, and four balls blinked in surprise. "Do you really know something about my past?"
"WOW! Would ya look at the time!" Ryuuji grinned as he grabbed Josuke on one hand. "We should really get goin' before we miss all the attractions!"
"Y-Yes! Come on Josuke-kun!" Yasuho took the other arm and then began pulling. "Lets go!"
"Yasuho...!" Josuke whined out as he was dragged away by his 'team', Ann giving an apologetic smile while rubbing the back of her neck before she followed.
"Honestly, I swear I've seen that boy before..." Yu's Naoto muttered to herself.
"Who are you supposed to be?" Gyro asked curiously.
"Corum Jhaelen Irsei." Yu's Naoto responded. "I was thinking of dressing as Cornelius earlier, but he is a bit dated and..."
"And not to mention creepy, what with his obsession over his sister?" Gyro asked with a smirk. "Yeah, I read the books too."
Johnny groaned even more.
Yu's Naoto blinked at him before looking at her double. "I can see why you do not care for him."
"Indeed" The two then walked off, passing Rei who was dressed as Robin happily munching on candy corn while Zen stood beside her protectively, dressed as Batman.
Something seriously was not right with the guy, considering he couldn't relax for even one minute.
"Alright you sea monkeys!" Everyone turned to see Yu standing on top of a 'stage' with numerous speakers on the side behind a small DJ table. He was wearing a simple blue jumpsuit with white stripes on the side. "This is Howlin' Mad Murphy here to bring you the best music this pocket dimension could bring! And by best, I mean whatever we had on us!" He then held up a small Next P.H.O.N.E. before pressing play.
As music filled the air, Gyro let out, "Huh, never took him as a fan." He then turned to Johnny and asked, "So, you ready to chill out now?"
Johnny looked up for a moment and then said, "Alright fine, I guess we did need this."
Relaxing like this, fooling around, having fun and smiling... it was nice every once in a while.
"See what I mean?" Gyro pat Johnny on the shoulder and said, "Come on, lets have some fun before..."
"Zombies!" Akihiko shouted, pointing out the window. Everyone stopped their festivities and looked outside to see a horde of undead creatures.
Courtesy of the vampiric Dio no doubt.
"Zombies again?" Rohan groaned out. "What a tired old cliche. Glad I made them only last a part."
"B-But Howlin' Mad Murphy didn't get to finish his playlist..." Yu muttered out before giving a sigh.
Johnny looked around so see everyone now getting ready to fight. He looked up at Gyro who gave him a confident smirk. With a nod, Johnny held up his right hand and said one thing.
"Okay then, I guess it's time to get back to work."
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Note: Wow, This went on longer than I thought. I just wanted to make this for fun. Slow progress on the chapters of ADKoT and JaUT because of college, but I intend to get them done, Anyway...
Happy Halloween everybody! Here's some suggestions by me for some spooky material you guys might want to check out before the end of the night!
Required reading for Halloween:
Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, From Hell, & Providence
Afterlife with Archie
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Anything by Junji Ito
Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot
Lovecraft's The Colour Out Of Space/Mountains of Madness
Required Watching For Halloween:
John Capenter's Halloween & The Thing
Halloween 2 (The original!)
Re-Animator
David Chronenberg's The Fly
Cabin in the Woods
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Shaun of the Dead
The Exorcist
Nightmare on Elm Street (The FIRST one!)
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Anyway, I have to go now to perform my yearly ritual of watching John Carpenter's Halloween while eating candy! See you guys (relatively) soon!
Be sure to leave reviews on both this and A Different Kind of Truth. Any and all feedback will be much appreciated.
