CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
The day after the battle jostein went into town to pick up some more medical supplies. Gabe's injuries weren't too bad, but they still needed some more bandages. As he was walking towards the market he happened to see someone in a coffee shop across the street. It was his father Jonathan. It came to him that it was his father was the one who gave him the advice to defeat Nick. With that in his mind he decided to stop in for a second and see his father. As he was walking across the street he could see that his father had exited the coffee shop and was waiting for him. As soon as he reached his father Jonathan said "Follow me. Let's find somewhere a bit more quiet to talk." Jostein nodded and followed him.
The two ended up in a empty alley. "Why is it now that you're showing up in my life again?" asked Jostein. "It's because I planned it to be this way." said Jonathan. Hearing that made Jostein angry. He threw a punch at Jonathan, but he caught the punch and kicked Jostein in the gut. "I understand that you're mad at me, so let's brawl a bit with our stands and if you use Nirvana's reroute, I'll kick your ass even harder." said Jonathan. Jostein summoned Nirvana. "Boss. Kill da hoe." said Nirvana and Jonathan at the same time. Jostein was shocked. "How did my father who has never seen my stand know what it was gonna say." thought Jostein. "What's wrong. Ya scared. Come on. Face me and my Du Hast." said Jonathan. Jostein threw all caution to the wind and started attacking. Every punch and kick he threw was blocked and everytime he reroute he was punched in the face. After about a minute of this jostein was getting destroyed. He has yet to land a single hit and had taken a beating. He realized that he was gonna have to fight smarter and not randomly flail at his father. He knew that his dad would hit him in the face every time he rerouted and he could use that to his advantage.
He rerouted and his father noticed. He knew the attack was coming and tried to dodge. It did not work, but he held his head steady and threw a powerful blow that hit Jonathan in the gut. Jostein realized that in a long drawn out fight, your opponent will repeat a pattern. Even if the pattern is small it will give him an opportunity to throw a counter attack. Jostein let his anger fuel his body, but not cloud his mind and became a better fighter because of it. With this knowledge he turned the brawl in his favor. He landed counter attack after counter attack and eventually Jonathan threw in the towel.
"Now that you've blown off your steam let's talk for real." said Jonathan. "Ok, but first how do you know about my stand and how I fight." said Jostein. "One hundred and twenty six. I fought against you like this one hundred and twenty six times." said Jonathan. "What! Explain?" said Jostein. "You're well aware of the fact that a lot of stands are granted by the totem poles right?" asked Jonathan. "Yes." said Jostein. "The totem poles choose people who have great potential, but that's not all they do. If they see someone as worthy of their strength they will fuse with their stand and grant them power unlike any other stand. They did that with my stand Du Hast. it turned into Du Hast Requiem." said Jonathan. "That doesn't really explain how you know all of this." said Jostein. "I'm not done explaining. My stand gained the ability to trap things in infinity. A endless loop of events that you can only escape if you meet a certain condition. I gained this ability shortly before I died to Rockefeller's stand. I trapped myself in a infinite loop and everytime I die, I wake up at the exact moment I gain my stand. Everything stays the same and the only thing that changes is my actions and what they cause. After a thousand tries I realized that I could never beat him, but there was several others who had the potential I lacked. " said Jonathan. "Where are you going with this?" asked Jostein. "You are the one with the best chance of beating Rockefeller. I have groomed you to be the best you could be, so you can succeed where I have failed." said Jonathan.
Jostein got mad. He punched Jonathan in the face. "Is that the reason you walked out on mom and I! Is that why you did nothing to help us as we struggled to get by and mom sold herself off to put food on the table!" shouted Jostein. Jonathan just stood there quiet. Jostein threw another punch. Jonathan caught this one and threw Jostein to the side. "This is the only way. I hope you'll understand." said Jonathan as he walked away. Jostein got up and was full of anger. His father was out of sight and he knew that he shouldn't face him again. Instead he punched the brick wall repeatedly with his own hands till they started to bleed. After he calmed down he went back to getting the supplies and went back to the base. When Jostein got back he handed them the bandages. "What happened to your hands?" asked Gabriel. "I don't want to talk about it." said Jostein as he walked to a empty room and sat there quietly.
Jonathan had fought thousands of times and failed. Each time he did things differently. The first time he stayed with his family and only took action when he saw the destruction Rockefeller brought. He took over America and soon other countries followed. At the time the Anarchists and Bull Moose were already defeated and Jonathan was alone. He didn't want to involve Jostein. It was only when he was on the edge of death that he was chosen by one of the totems. When he died he reawoke at the moment he obtained his stand. He then realized that he could do things differently. Sometimes he was a member of the Anarchists and others he joined the Bull Moose, but it always ended in failure.
Several times Nick had defeated all his allies. Because of that he knew that he had to win him over to his side. He worked hard to find out his reasons for joining Rockefellers side, which was Rockefeller paying for his family medical care after they were hit by the Jamestown flood. He had to make sure that he saved his family and win him over before Rockefeller could get his hands on him, but even with Nick's help they couldn't win. It got to the point where Jonathan had gotten desperate enough to involve Jostein. They still couldn't win, but everytime Jostein was so close to victory. Yet could never pull it off.
After about twenty more cycles Jonathan realized that he could never win, but Jostein could given the right conditions. He began experimenting to see how each of his actions would effect Jostein. He left his family to make Jostein more independent. He never made much money to leave behind, so that Jostein would have to eventually work at the steel mill to build up strength. He made sure to make enemies with Carnegie and had someone leak his home address. Causing his wife, Jostein's mother to get killer and awaken Jostein to awaken Nirvana. He asked Schrodinger to check up on Jostein and Drathus. Which lead to Schrodinger bringing Jostein into the Anarchists. He let things go on naturally from there till the Johnstown flood. He used it to recrute Nick to his side. He had Nick infiltrate Carnegie's militia and stir up a lot of trouble for Jostein. Helping him grow in combat. He told Nick to infiltrate the Anarchists masquerading as him. He then gave the hint to defeating Nick. Which set things up so that they would be on guard when Carnegie launched his surprise attack. Finally he gave the advice to Drathus to have Alex help Jostein. That act there would help bring the Bull Moose and Anarchists together. He put them through trial after trial and made them suffer loss to make them the strongest they could be to finally defeat Carnegie.
Meanwhile Drathus and Fitz visited a Hospital in New York. "How are you two?" asked Drathus. "Not too bad. There isn't even any trace of my injuries. That Gabe guy is a great healer." said Alex. "If that's the case then we should have him heal Adam." said Drathus. "I hope we can." said Fuego. In her heart she felt a bit of guilt for how injured Adam is. A nurse walked in and asked "Are you guys Mr. Savage's friends?" "Yes we are." said Fuego. "I regret to inform you that he just passed away from his injuries." said the nurse. It struck like a wave of grief. "May we go in and pay our respects?" asked Drathus. "Certainly." said the nurse. One by one they each entered the room and paid their respects. After Fuego left the room Drathus put his hand on her shoulder and said "It's ok. It's not your fault." Hearing those words seemed to have lifted a bit of stress from her.
They dealt with there and grief and prepared for tomorrow. "Tomorrow we are gonna discuss joining forces with the Anarchists. With all of us together, we should have no problems dealing with Rockefeller. " said Drathus. "We should be ready to fight. Just in case." said Fuego. "They don't seem that bad." said Alex. "Either way just try to start off not looking like an idiot." said Drathus.
It's the next day and the Anarchists have arrived and are standing outside the building. "Do you really have to wear that?" asked Gabriel. "I forgot to do my laundry and this is the only clean pair of clothes I have." said Schrodinger. "Why do you even own clothes like that?" asked Jostein. "You never know if a girls into this kind of thing." said Schrodinger. He was wearing a tight latex vest that can't be buttoned and a pink shirt underneath. To top it all off he was wearing assless chaps. "Well that aside let's go in." said Gabriel.
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE END
SCHRODINGER DEATH COUNT 70
Du Hast Requiem
Range 3 Meters Power A Speed A Durability D Precision B Development Potential E
Ability: The user can make people redo the actions they did up to ten seconds ago. A good example is if someone rushed you you can make them repeat the initial run to make them run past you.
Requiem Ability: Du Hast Requiem can trap someone in an infinite loop of events that cannot be escaped from unless a certain condition is met. The stand can only have one loop going at a time.