High Priestess - It Came From Outside The Submarine!
The inside of the submarine was just as impressive as the outside, it was like being in a first-class lounge underwater. Avdol was at the wheel steering the submarine.
"Hey, can you drive this thing, Avdol?" Polnareff asked
"Tsk, tsk. No problem," Avdol said
"I can drive it, too!" Joseph called out.
Hearing those words Hanabi instantly paled in her seat next to Jotaro.
"You're not driving, this thing. I'm not letting you crash us again," Jotaro said
"Thank you Jotaro," Hanabi thought.
"My grandson is so harsh," Joseph grumbled
"This is my first time in a submarine. It's not as cramped as I expected," Kakyoin said
"Yeah. This is a vessel that the rich use to explore the seafloor for pleasure. As you see, it even has windows," Joseph said
"Oooh! Nice!" Polnareff yelled running right over to the window. "I've always kind of liked this sort of thing. I wish I could've ridden it with a cute girl-" Polnareff stops mid-sentence when he realizes he does have a cute girl in the room. A smirk comes to his face as turns to look at Hanabi, a blush appearing on his cheeks. He goes to call out to the short female but flinches snapping his mouth shut as he locks eyes with a pair of glaring green orbs from a certain Kujo.
Polnareff turns away walking over to some control panels. "What's that?" He asked pointing at the sonar.
"It's a sonar. It uses reflected sound waves to detect things underwater, a bit like radar," Joseph explained
"Wow…." Polnareff said
Avdol checked the sonar seeing it clear. "All clear. Nothing is coming towards us."
"With this, we can detect anyone trying to attack us, from any direction," Joseph said
"But if we are attacked in here, we'd have nowhere to run. We are 60 meters below sea level, after all," Jotaro pointed out.
Hanabi got a little uneasy hearing that. She knows her flower pod would protect her underwater, but she didn't know if she could make one big enough to protect everyone. Hopefully, this ride goes smoothly.
A few hours ticked by. Hanabi and Jotaro were staring out at a window as Jotaro pointed out various marine life. Hanabi was impressed as Jotaro identified numerous amounts of sea creatures. She knew he liked marine biology and it made her smile seeing how much he enjoyed it.
"Hey Kakyoin, make me a drink. I'm parched," Polnareff said
"I'd like one too," Avdol said
"Us too, please," Hanabi said
"All right," Kakyoin said
"Everyone, be quiet for a moment. I'm going to make a phone call," Joseph announced picking up the satellite phone.
"A phone call? To where?" Polnareff asked
"It must be very important, if you're calling from here," Kakyoin said
"Yes, its an important and delicate matter," Joseph said
Everyone was quite as Joseph talked. Through the conversation, Hanabi and Jotaro were able to pick up that he was talking to his wife, Suzie Q. It was pretty obvious that he hadn't told her what was going on and was doing his best to reassure his wife without spilling the beans.
When the call was over everyone gave their best words of encouragement to Joseph, making promises that they'll defeat Dio.
After a while, Avdol had given up the piloting position to Polnareff.
"This is actually pretty easy, I guess it's no wonder you can drive it Avdol," Polnareff smirked
Suddenly the side of the submarine hit something making a noise rattle throughout the vessel.
"For crying out loud! Hey, don't get overconfident! There are many obstacles in the sea," Avdol scolded
"Yeah, I know. All right! Let's speed up just a little bit-"
The submarine started to shake making a terrible grinding noise.
"Polnareff!" Avdol shouted
"That wasn't me!" Polnareff said
Hanabi snickered behind her hand as Polnareff was taken off the wheel.
Kakyoin pulled open a drawer to start making drinks, "Oh, there are exactly six cups."
"Hey! Hurry up and make some coffee. I want some now!" Polnareff exclaimed
"Make it yourself then," Kakyoin said
Avdol used the periscope to look above the water, "Hey. I can see the coast of Africa. Were about to arrive!"
Hanabi smiled happy they were almost at Egypt.
Kakyoin walked over with a tray of coffee setting down the cups.
"Hey, Kakyoin. Why did you bring out seven cups? There are six of us," Jotaro said
"That's odd. I guess I wasn't paying attention. I could have sworn it was six….." Kakyoin said
Joseph grabbed a cup and was about to take a sip from it when the cup morphed in his hand surprising everyone. A sharp blade was formed and it cut off his prosthetic hand.
"WH-!"
"Old Man!"
"Mr. Joestar!"
A creature landed on the table hissing at them.
"What is that?!" Hanabi yelled pointing at it.
"Impossible!" Polnareff said
"It's a Stand. At some point, a Stand got into the submarine!" Avdol said
The Stand jumped on the ceiling and clung there. Jotaro brought out Star Platinum but as it took a swing at it, the enemy Stand disappeared into the ceiling of the submarine.
Hanabi ran over to Joseph and started to immediately treat his wound.
"I-It disappeared!" Polnareff said
"No, that's not it!" Jotaro said
"It transformed! It turned into one of the gauges! Just as it turned into a coffee cup!" Avdol said
"Seriously! Were at the coral reef! We were only a few hundred meters from surfacing in Egypt!" Polnareff bellowed
Kakyoin went over to Hanabi and put Joseph on his back.
"Mr. Joestar is unconscious but his wounds aren't serious. Luckily the Stand cut off his prosthetic hand."
As if things could get anymore troublesome the phone started to ring.
"The phone! Who would call at this hour!" Polnareff said
"Ignore it Polnareff!" Kakyoin said
"It's the High Priestesses! The enemy is using the Stand that suggests The High Priestess," Avdol said
"You know of it?" Jotaro asked
"I've heard of it. The name of the Stand user is Rose. It's a Stand that can be controlled from far away, so the user is probably on the surface," Avdol informed to the group.
"What's its power?" Kakyoin asked
"It can turn into anything that's metal or glass, as long as it's a mineral. So that includes plastic and vinyl as well. Even if we touch it or hit it, unless it attacks, we have no idea of recognizing it," Avdol told them.
"B-But where did it sneak in here from?" Polnareff asked
Polnareff got the answer to his question when a gauge broke off and water started flowing in.
"I think that's our answer," Hanabi said
As the water started to pour in an alarm sounded off.
"How simple….So it cut a hole and came in?" Polnareff said
"It broke the surfacing system. Were sinking faster!" Avdol said
As things went from bad to worst the phone started to ring again.
"Damn it! Shut up! Who the hell is it at a time like this!?" Polnareff yelled
Hanabi, who was standing right next to the phone, went to pick it up but before she could Jotaro picked it up.
Since Hanabi was so close she could hear everything on the other end of the phone line.
"Sorry, but the Old man can't come to the phone right now," Jotaro simply said to his Grandmother.
"JoJo," Hanabi whispered yelled
"That voice….Is that you, Jotaro?! Where's Joseph? You should be in Japan. Why are you with your grandfather. Answer me, Jotaro." Suzie Q panicked over the phone, Jotaro's words doing nothing to calm down the older woman.
Knowing Jotaro was not handling the situation delicately Hanabi snatched the phone from him, "Mrs. Suzie."
"...H-Hanabi! You're there too! What's going on!?" Suzie Q asked
"Well, you see-"
Hanabi was cut off when the submarine shook violently, she fell over hitting her head hard against the console. Hanabi felt her head rattle as she fell back into Jotaro's arms. Jotaro caught both the phone and dizzy Hanabi. Jotaro put the phone up to his ear and continued to talk to Suzie Q.
"There's nothing to worry about Grandma Suzie. Later. Once things calm down, we'll call you back," Jotaro said before hanging up the phone.
Once the phone call ended the submarine started to shake even more.
"Hold on! Were about to hit the seafloor!" Avdol shouted
"Oh, my God!" Polnareff yelled
The submarine crashed as it hit the seafloor throwing everyone around.
"I'm never getting in a submarine again," Jotaro said
Water was quickly filling up the submarine already past everyone's ankles and to make matters worse the submarine was losing oxygen quickly.
"You okay?" Jotaro asked Hanabi.
Hanabi nodded yes rubbing her forehead as Jotaro set her down.
"Kakyoin. Did you see what gauge the Stand turned into?"
"It…..It looked like it turned into this one," Kakyoin said pointing to a gauge.
Jotaro approached the gauge and Star Platinum held up a fist. As it was about to make contact something moved behind Kakyoin.
"No! Jotaro! It already moved! It's right behind Kakyoin!" Avdol yelled
The Stand took a deadly swipe at Kakyoin, but he dodged it.
"Hierophant Green!"
Hierophant Green attacked but High Priestess dodged it heading for Kakyoin. It sliced deep into his neck making him cry out.
"Kakyoin!" Hanabi cried
High Priestess jumps onto a wall transforming and vanishing.
"Everyone, head towards the door. It's become part of the hull's surface and started moving," Avdol said
Everyone one ran to the door but as Avdol grabbed the handle it transformed into High Priestess.
"I-Impossible! I-It already moved and transformed into the door wheel…."
High Priestess attacked but something grabbed its hand taking it off the door.
"Gotcha," Hanabi smirked as Queens Thorn held onto its Rose Whip. Her Stand pulled back on the whip causing it tighten around High Priestess.
"Nice Hanabi!" Polnareff cheered
"What should I do now?" Hanabi said
"Crush it!" Polnareff shouted
"With pleasure," Hanabi said
Queens Thorn started to tighten the whip crushing the Stand but then suddenly the whip snapped.
Hanabi felt pain in her hands. "What?!" Her hands were bleeding due to a long cut going across her palms.
High Priestess had turned into a razor blade cutting itself free. It jumped to the ceiling again before vanishing.
In the middle of the commotion, Joseph had been dropped in the water. He sat up quickly coughing out sea water.
High Priestess laughed at them from the ceiling, its cackles echoing in the metal vessel.
Avdol opened up the door and everyone ran inside. They locked the door behind them hopefully trapping High Priestess inside.
Hanabi glared as she wrapped up the cuts on her hands. She silently promised to herself that Jotaro wouldn't be the one to take down this Stand. This time it was gonna be her.
"What?! Jotaro, you answered a phone call from Suzie? Damn it... You shouldn't have done that," Joseph said
"I tried to help but that didn't go so well," Hanabi gave a sheepish smile rubbing the spot on her head where she had hit it against the console.
The group made their way to the back of the submarine where
the scuba gear was being stored.
Hanabi pulled out a pair of goggles, "Scuba gear. I've done this before…." She easily slipped on the gear having done so before when she had gone scuba diving with her mother on multiple occasions.
"Hurry up! Step on it!" Joseph shouted
"Yare yare daze," Jotaro groaned
Joseph looked down at his missing hand, "But I can't make the necessary preparations to dive with one hand. Help me out, Jotaro."
"Do it yourself," Jotaro responded
Hanabi rolled her eyes and helped Joseph with his gear.
"Thank you, Hanabi!" Joseph said
As quick as they could everyone put on their scuba gear, and was ready to go.
"Who here has scuba dived before?" Joseph asked
"Not me," Polnareff sounded
"No," Jotaro said
"I haven't," Kakyoin said
"I have," Hanabi interjected raising her hand.
"The High Priestess is attacking from the other room. Quickly teach us to dive," Avdol said
"It's quite simple. I learned when I was a child, but the number one rule is to not panic," Hanabi said
"Hanabi's right. Don't panic Avdol. When you're underwater for every ten meters you go below the surface, the pressure increases by one atmosphere. At the surface, there's one atmosphere of pressure." Joseph explained. "Were forty meters below the surface right now, so we'll endure five atmospheres of pressure. If we try to surface immediately, our lungs and blood vessels will burst. We have to go up slowly, so our bodies can adjust." Joseph turned to a valve. "Now, I'm going to let water in."
Water started to flow into the room as Hanabi explained how their equipment worked.
"This is a regulator. All you have to do is breath in and out like normal. There's a valve inside it that prevents water from going into your mouth and only allows air from your tanks to flow in. When you breathe out it goes out the left side," Hanabi explained
Joseph started to go over hand signs to use underwater, but he was interrupted by Avdol.
"Mr. Joestar, given who we are, shouldn't we use our Stands to talk?" Avdol said
"That's a good point," Joseph said
"Aww, but I know a hand signal message, too." Polnareff clapped his hands then gave a peace sign then an okay sign, next he put his hand over his head like he was looking for something.
"Your underwear is showing," Kakyoin said
"Yeah!" Polnareff cheered high-fiving Kakyoin.
The two did some kind of epic handshake which would have been fun to watch if they weren't in the middle of being attacked and at risk of drowning.
"Were under attack and could die anytime! Stop fooling around and let's go!" Joseph shouted
While the water was at everyone's waist the same couldn't be said for Hanabi. To her the water was just below her chest. She fixed her goggles over her eyes then put in her regulator knowing she was going to be the first one submerged.
The water quickly filled up the rest of the room and Joseph opened the door to the outside. He turned to everyone giving an okay sign. Kakyoin, Jotaro, Hanabi, and Avdol returned the sign. Joseph looked over at Polnareff but he was flailing around.
"P-Polnareff!"
Polnareff's regulator had turned out to be High Priestess and it was now biting down on his lip. High Priestess tore into Polnareff's lip drawing blood. Polnareff continued to thrash around as High Priestess tore off his goggles.
"I-It had already transformed into a regulator!" Kakyoin said
"That bastard," Jotaro cursed
High Priestess then dove into Polnareff's mouth forcing its way down his throat.
"It's going to go down his throat and tear him apart from the inside!" Kakyoin exclaimed
Star Platinum's arm came out trying to grab High Priestess but it went into Polnareff's mouth completely.
"C-crap!" Jotaro said
"Hierophant Green!"
"Hermit Purple!"
Hierophant Green and Hermit Purple both went up Polnareff's nose and hooked onto High Priestess forcing up and back out of Polnareff's mouth. Before they could do anything else High Priestess transformed into a spear gun.
Polnareff got out Silver Chariot and was able to deflect the spear.
"Now!" Polnareff called
"It's reloading!" Kakyoin said
"Hurry let's go!" Hanabi said
Everyone swam out of the submarine, Polnareff being helped by Jotaro since he no longer had diving gear.
"That was close," Kakyoin said as the group swam on.
"It's too soon to relax. The bastard knows exactly how to hit us where it hurts," Joseph said
"Polnareff, are you alright?" Avdol asked
"I-I'm fine…You guys saved me…Merci Beaucoup," Polnareff thanked.
Jotaro grabbed the second regulator from his tank and gave to Polnareff.
The six of them kept swimming along the sea floor making their way closer to the coast.
"The sea floor is so beautiful. I wish I could have come here on vacation," Polnareff said
"This is no time to take it easy. We must surface before our oxygen runs out," Joseph said
"That goes double for Polnareff and Jotaro, since their sharing the same tank," Hanabi said
"Look it a sea tunnel," Avdol pointed out.
"Our depth is seven meters. Were finally at the Egyptian shore!" Joseph said
Hanabi stopped swimming when she felt something was off. The sea floor was bare of any plant life. Hanabi swam back a little bit to get a better look and her eyes widened when she saw the sea floor had a face.
"That's not the seafloor!" Hanabi yelled
Eyes and a mouth opened to reveal the face of High Priestess.
"Swim away!" Hanabi yelled
Since Hanabi was so far back she was lucky to not get caught in the current as High Priestess sucked in water but the rest of the group wasn't so lucky.
"Oh no!" Hanabi thought. She started to swim to the surface as fast as she could, "If I can find the Stand user I can save everyone!"
High Priestess shot out a large jet of water shooting out all the water in its mouth.
"Flower pod!"
A flower bud wrapped around Hanabi and the large stream of water pushed her up to the surface. The flower pod shot out of the surface and landed on the soft sand. It bloomed letting Hanabi out.
"I'm getting good at that," Hanabi said
Hanabi took off her scuba gear then kicked off her wet shoes.
"W-Where's that Stand user?" Hanabi questioned
Hanabi looked over at some rocks hearing a feminine giggle. She crawled behind the rocks and looked over them. Below the rocks standing at the edge of the shore was a woman with her back to Hanabi.
She was laughing to herself while looking over the water.
"That's gotta be her. She's gotta be the Stand user. Time for a sneak attack" Hanabi whispered
Before she could move though the woman spoke up.
"Hey, Jotaro! Jotaro, you're my type so this will be hard for me."
An instant frown came upon Hanabi's face. First, that woman was trying to kill them now she's flirting and with Jotaro too.
"Vee…" Queens Thorn growled appearing and glaring.
"It's too bad I have to make my Stand, High Priestess digest you," The Woman said
The more she talked the angrier Hanabi got she clenched her teeth grabbing onto the rock she was hiding behind. Hanabi's chest started to beat rapidly and her face turned red. The way she talked to Jotaro just boiled Hanabi's blood.
"If only we had met under other circumstances. How sad," The woman said
"That's it!" Hanabi yelled in her head jumping over the rocks.
"HEY!"
The woman turned around only to be met with a punch to the face.
Underwater
Polnareff was whispering his plan to Jotaro but stopped when High Priestess started to shake.
"Wh-what's going on?!" Polnareff said
Surface
Hanabi stood over the woman glaring down as she cracked her knuckles. Queens Thorn stood behind her snapping her rose whip.
"First you attack my friends and now you're flirting with Jotaro….I'm gonna be sure to make you pay," Hanabi said
Queens Thorn grabbed the woman with Rose Whip and pulled her to Hanabi. Hanabi gave the woman an uppercut to the face, "That's for Mr. Joestar!" Then she grabbed the woman's shoulder and kneee her in the stomach, "That's for Kakyoin!" Next Hanabi brought her elbow up hitting the woman in the nose, "That one's for Polnareff!"
Hanabi thrusted her hand out and Queens Thorn followed.
"Petal Tornado!"
A whirlwind of petals was launched at the woman, and she was sent flying into the air.
"This is so you know…." Hanabi lifted her leg straight up, as the woman came back down Hanabi dropped her leg in an axe kick, "JOTARO'S MINE!" She yelled as she kicked the woman in the face shattering all the teeth in her mouth.
The woman laid on the ground passed out clearly defeated. Hanabi gave a satisfied smirk crossing her arms.
"Doki Doki," Queens Thorn said winking.
That's when it finally registered to Hanabi what she had said.
"D-D-Did I just say….."
Hanabi grabbed at her red cheeks, "Oh man….." All the thoughts that Hanabi kept locked up in her mind vault started to flood out as she fell to her knees.
"I don't just have a crush on Jotaro. I'm in love with him," Hanabi gasped
"Doki!" Queens Thorn cheered letting out a confetti of petals.
Hanabi blushed even more not knowing how to process this information. Luckily she didn't have time to dwell on her thoughts for long because someone started to surface out of the water.
"Jotaro! You're okay!" Hanabi cried out with an overjoyed smile sparkles around her. She then proceeded to bang her head against the sandy ground not believing she just acted like that.
"Hanabi was that you who took out High Priestess?" Polnareff asked
"Yup, she's right over there," Hanabi pointed over to where the woman's body lay.
"Good job Hanabi!" Joseph smiled giving her a thumbs up.
"Well done," Avdol said
"Very nice," Kakyoin complimented
Jotaro smiled at Hanabi, and she turned away trying to not show her blushing face.
"I'm gonna go see if she's hot or not!" Polnareff walked over to the woman taking a peek at her face.
"Well? Polnareff?" Joseph asked
"AHHHH! N-No comment….Don't look! Her teeth are all busted so there's no point looking!" Polnareff said
Hanabi smirked behind her hand then looked up at Jotaro who was smiling down at her. Hanabi didn't look away getting lost in the moment with Jotaro.
"I-I guess being in love with Jotaro isn't bad….now the real challenge will be how to tell him," Hanabi thought
The group all looked at the sun enjoying the warmth it brought.
"What a sight for sore eyes," Hanabi smiled
"We've finally made it to Egypt," Avdol said
"Indeed. In a jet, this trip would've taken twenty hours. But it took us thirty days," Joseph said
"We visited many places. Inside a brain, and even inside a dream," Kakyoin said
"A dream? What are you talking about Kakyoin?" Jotaro questioned
"Hey, now. It's morning. Wake up already," Polnareff said
"Oh, right. You guys didn't know about that," Kakyoin said
"Well, whatever. Let's go," Jotaro said
STAND PROUD!