The Curse of the Anubis Blade
It had been a few days since the team of heroes had arrived in Egypt and where ready to continue on their journey. They were all healed up and ready to go, but the villains had another idea.
"All we're saying is that the enemies aren't going to waiting for us. They'll most likely come to us, so we should wait for them. Here at least we have the field advantage." said Boxman
"That wouldn't necessarily be the case." said Mr. Gar
"The goal of the new Stand Users is to keep us from their masters so they can enact their plan without any problems." said Ken
"If that's the case, we should press on and face them. We've defeated only one of them as far as we know. Which means there are at least eight more enemies from here to Egypt." said Mr. Gar
"That means we can't waste any more time here, let's just pay the bill and get on with it." said Carol
This left Boxman and his robots to come up with their own strategy as the heroes went to the front desk to pay the bill.
As they arrived at the front desk Rad grabbed hold of the large paper recite and began to look it over.
"Man, I'll never understand this country's language. I mean this thing looks like a standing 'm', this one looks like a backwards 'e', there's a zero here and then there's a squiggly line. What is this?" asked Rad looking the paper over.
"Well the could argue that they'll never understand the meaning of our own alphabet, but you don't see them moaning about it." said Enid snatching the bill from Rad.
After paying the bill the heroes stepped outside where they were faced with Fink who looked at them with distaste.
"What are you doing, you can't just lay around here giving us mean looks and insults every time." said Mr. Gar
Fink only narrowed her eyes at the heroes even more.
"Don't think much of her boss, I bet she's just trying to break the ice in her own way." said Rad
Just then Fink jumped at Rad's face and began to claw and bite at him. Rad screamed in pain and began to pull and pry off Fink from his face. Just then K.O. and Enid managed to get her off of their co-worker.
Fink landed back on her feet and looked at the heroes with a glare.
"I'm not leaving the mission that my boss asked me to do to a bunch of dumb heroes. I'll see just what you're made off." said Fink as a greenish aura surrounded her.
Above her a Stand began to manifest. The manifestation of Fink's fighting spirit looked to be a cybernetic female humanoid with silver skin, a blank face, and a red line visor for eyes. On the chest there was a green 'X' that connected to the black pants it wore. On the shoulders it had green spade symbols and had black gauntlets with green fingers.
The Stand stood above Fink around five feet five inches and it looked ready to throw down.
"This is my Stand, Wicked Prayer. If you can beat me and my Stand, I'll help you out." said Fink as Wicked Prayer tightened her fists.
"If you're not going to let us pass, we'll just have to force you to move." said Elodie summoning P!nk and aiming it at Fink.
Just then as Elodie fired her arrow, the attack was dragged down to the ground. Fink smirked at this and she then jumped at the heroes with Wicker Prayer by her side. The heroes split up attempting to make the rat fight them away from the hospital and people.
"If all you can do is run you'll never get me." said Fink jumping towards them.
Just then Fink's Stand pulled back its arm and threw a punch towards K.O., who blocked it with the aid of Foo Fighter. The attack was not as powerful as K.O. expected but for some reason he began to feel heavy.
Fink continued her assault upon K.O. and he felt the same feeling. K.O. then decided to return the favor and began to attack back at Fink but somehow she was much faster than before. K.O. and Foo Fighter's attacks weren't even close to their usual speed. Fink just smiled.
Back with the other heroes they saw what was going on.
"What's wrong with K.O.? Isn't he usually much faster than that?" asked Rad
"K.O.'s speed is still the same, but it appears that he now weights ten times his own weight. His gravity now is heavier than before." explained Dendy with her holographic tablet.
"So that's your Stand's power, control over gravity?" asked K.O. looking at Fink
"That's right kiddy, Wicked Prayer can control gravity within a small radius. You just got handed one of her deadly techniques, Weighted Soul Punch. This attack changes your gravity however I see fit to. I can make you heavier or lighter based on how many times Wicked Prayer punches you. Bet you're pretty hopeless now, huh." said Fink feeling her victory was at hand.
"You forgot one thing. Foo Fighter is more than just punches and kicks." said K.O. as Foo Fighter thrusted out its fist and from it came a fist shaped blast of blue energy.
The energy fist struck Fink right in the gut sending her backwards to hit a wall. The then fell down knocking herself out.
Once the green rat girl was out of commission K.O. felt as if his weight came back to normal. He got up and the heroes decided to go on their way.
"Time to go guys." said Ken as the heroes left.
The heroes took off on the car to the next town hoping to get some information about Dio and Shadowy Figure. It was clear that their assassins weren't giving up so they had to take them down wether they liked it or not. They each went in pairs leaving no spot un-looked or stone unturned.
The team of K.O. and Enid walked through the streets and spotted some ruins near to where they were looking.
"Maybe someone is here and can tell us about the assassins." suggested K.O.
"Yeah, if not we can always take some pictures." said Enid being optimist.
They began looking around the ruins of some of the Greek structures that still remained partially intact. As they walked through the broken columns and crushed walls, a menacing shadow stared at them from behind the scenes holding a strange blade.
"This place looks amazing. I wonder what this place was supposed to be." said K.O.
"According to the entrance sign, these were the ruins of an old temple dedicated to the god Anubis. Apparently it was a place to mummify the dead." explained Enid
"That's kinda cool." said K.O. making Enid smile
In her mind this was almost like a date between them. Maybe they could speak about their feelings or about what they should do. Those thoughts bounced all over her head, and she had to admit that she wouldn't be surprised if she had a blush across her face or something else.
Enid looked at K.O.'s hand and was about to reach for it, but then she noticed a strange shadow coming towards them. She placed her hand on K.O.'s shoulder signaling that there was something wrong. They both turned and saw a tall Egyptian man holding a regal looking curved purple blade.
"Who are you, and what do you want?" asked K.O. as he and Enid prepared for a fight.
The man drew out the sword and looked at the two heroes with murder in his eyes.
"My name is Chaka, and this is my sword and Stand Anubis. I am the greatest swordsman in the world of villains and I'm here for your head. Prepare to die." said the now named Chaka
Chaka then took his combat stand by crouching down and holding up his blade in a horizontal form.
"Bring it." said Enid as both she and K.O. summoned their Stands.
Chaka charged at the heroes. K.O. and Enid charged back at him and clashed with his Stand creating a shockwave. The three Stand Users began clashing over and over with Chaka attempting to slice K.O. and Enid into pieces. Chaka's attacks were relentless and very swift at class range, this forced K.O. and Enid to jump back and get some distance between them and their opponent. Just then Chaka pulled back his Stand Anubis and then from the blade came out a purple slash coming towards the heroes.
Against the oncoming attack both K.O. and Enid fired their own long range attacks. K.O. blasted a blue energy fist and Enid kicked a fireball towards the attack. The clash created an explosion that covered the battlefield. Then from the smoke jumped out Chaka with Anubis ready to chop and slice his enemies.
K.O. jumped up and began to battle against Chaka with Foo Fighter. K.O. and Chaka began to fight with both of them running up one of the ruin's pillars. The fight was getting very close and deadly. Chaka had managed to scratch and cut K.O.'s cheek, right shoulder, and left arm. Just as the they were rising to the top of the pillar, K.O. managed to land a punch with Foo Fighter in Chaka's stomach making him plummet down to the ground and letting go of his sword Stand.
K.O. then went down to the ground believing that the fight was over.
"K.O., are you alright?" asked Enid
"Yeah, I'm good. I think he's down for the count." replied K.O.
The two heroes turned around just to see Chaka roll over and glare at them. At that moment Chaka began to whistle much to the confusion of the two heroes.
"What's he doing?" asked K.O.
Before Enid could give her two cents, she heard a blade cutting through the air. She turned around and spotted the sword Anubis flying directly at them. In that moment, Enid grabbed hold of K.O. and jumped out of the way with the blade only cutting a piece of her shirt. Right after that Anubis spun around in a circle and then shot back towards where the heroes had jumped away.
"What the hell?!" asked Enid as she used Greek Fire to dodge the bullet fast sword.
"My Stand may be a simple sword to you, but Anubis is so much more." said Chaka as he continued to whistle.
Enid and K.O. jumped in different directions as to give the runaway sword multiple targets. The sword went straight for K.O. forcing him to use Foo Fighter to swat it away with a powerful hit, but all that did was redirect the blade towards Enid. The sword spun around forcing Enid to bend backwards to avoid being sliced in two. Just as the sword went around the pillar and tried to shop Enid in two, Enid used Greek Fire to slam the sword down into the ground. But that attack was to no avail, Anubis made a U turn back to the sky.
After jumping and narrowly dodging the attacks of the crazy blade the two bodega employees noticed that the sword followed the commands that Chaka gave out with his whistling. They shared a look and then they began to execute their plan.
K.O. landed in front of Chaka and prepared to fight him. Chaka called back Anubis and it hovered between him and K.O.
In the blink of an eye Chaka launched his stand with a deadly whistle. K.O. and Foo Fighter used their arms and speed not to dodge the attack but to stop the sword Anubis in its tracks. Both K.O. and Foo Fighter kept pressing on the blade slowing it down, but it continued to inch closer and closer towards them.
Chaka smirked believing that he had won, and was about to unleash one final whistle to end it all. But out of the blue, Chaka felt a powerful strike crush his stomach and bust all the air out from his lungs.
This was all Enid's doing. As Chaka was solely focused on K.O., he'd never see a trained ninja with a fiery speedster Stand coming his way until it was too late.
"Blazing Stomp!" screamed Enid as her fire kick sent Chaka back breaking his control over Anubis.
The sword stand stopped moving leaving it open for K.O. and Foo Fighter to unleash their fury on it.
"Stardust Fury!" called out K.O. as he and Foo Fighter attacked the sword stand
The two of them began to punch and shatter the blade to pieces and in turn the same damage was felt by none other than Chaka as well. After the quick fury of punches only a small leftover remained of the blade as it disappeared.
"Looks like that's the end of this guy." said Enid as she walked up to K.O.
"Yep, let's go find everyone else. I bet they're worried about us." said K.O. as they began to leave
Unbeknownst to them Chaka tried to pull out a small dagger to throw at them, but he never had the chance.
"I FINALLY FOUND YOU, YOU BASTARDS!" screamed a very familiar face up to this point.
Both K.O. and Enid looked up to see Fink coming down at super speed from the sky. They followed her descend until she fell down on Chaka. The landing was so loud that it created a crater with Chaka in it.
Fink walked out of the hole and stomped over to where K.O. and Enid where standing with wide eyes.
"You think you can just knock me out and not expect me to get revenge? Well think again! Now let's get out of here, I'm starving." said Fink as she walked past K.O. and Enid
Both heroes looked at the green rat girl walk away from the ruins. They then looked at one another and they let out a tired sigh. They began to walk to catch up with Fink and most likely get something to eat.
"This day just keep getting better and better." said Enid with sarcasm
"Let's be honest at least she can hold her own in a fight, right?" asked K.O. trying to be optimistic
"You know I can hear you jerks." said Fink with anger
"We know." replied both K.O. and Enid with a shrug
The heroes had gotten a new addition to the team, they truly hoped.