Name: Yorke (Last name Unknown)
Stand: Climbing Up the Wall
Appearance: Yorke at present is a ragged old homeless man with long grey tangled hair and a thick grey beard. His clothes are torn, but they seem to have been fairly decent clothes before suffering the effects of time.
Ability: Climbing Up the Wall released a swarm of Mosquito like creatures from the mouth on its stomach. If these insects sting anyone, they will have the urge to attack someone or something close to them. During this time, the target won't even know why they're attacking.
Has an affinity for Art and Cooking.
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It was just me and Caroline standing in the alley. The rest of the prostitutes and drug dealers have fallen dead, murdered by each other and themselves. I looked around, but before knew it, a Rose was flying through the air and landed on my chest. The second that Rose hit my chest, my whole body tensed up, and I couldn't move. I lied tensed up on the ground, and Caroline came up to me and grabbed me by the neck and dragged me towards the other end of the alley.
"You Shit Stain." She said to me with a hateful and livid tone in her voice. Her face was almost red, the sheer look of anger on her face was enough to scare any man or woman.
"Do you realize what you've just done to me?" Caroline said.
"N-No. What is going on?" I choked, "What is this drug that those Larks wanted?"
Caroline kept on dragging me through the alley, and once in a while dropping me to give me a kick in the stomach or face. By the time we were at the end of the alley, I had several broken bones and missing teeth. She didn't hold back, she wailed on me over and over, until I was barely alive. Of course, being Karma Police Lane, she was taking the same injuries as I, but I don't think she cared one bit.
"Do you know how much I put into this, how much I spent for the source of the drug?" She said through her clenched teeth, kicking me in the stomach once again. Eventually, we were outside of the alley, on the sidewalk right next to the empty streets.
"I got my ability the same way you did, and I used it to take control of this gang." She said
"W-what did you do with our former leader?" I said, coughing up blood and chipped teeth.
"I made that bitch walk off the top of a building." She laughed hysterically. I had never seen her like this. It's clear that she had finally snapped, and she was more than happy to kill me.
"W-what's your ability? Is that what you used to control those girls?" I said. I didn't know if she would even answer, but I had nothing to lose from asking.
"I was going to make an empire of slaves, all as obedient as puppies." Caroline said through her hysteria and anger.
She walked back to the alley, and found an axe that one of the dead gang members was holding, and she began to walk back to me.
"It's a shame my ability doesn't work as well with men." She said, "I'd be happy for you to be a slave, helping me build everything you just destroyed back up."
Without a word, she began to raise the axe above her head, and she was aiming towards my head. Caroline was about to swing, but we both noticed a small stray puppy walking towards us. Oddly enough, we were both fascinated by it, but we didn't know why. The puppy behaved normally, but something was off about it, but we couldn't tell. Eventually, the puppy made its way to my head and curled up into a ball on the side of my head. Caroline had enough, and she swung her axe at the puppy out of rage. However, this would prove to lead to her death.
As the axe was about to make contact with the puppy, a hand emerged out of the puppy, and caught the axe in its hand. After that, more of a creature emerged out of the puppy. It was the tall headed creature from earlier, the one that was next to the yellow eyed man. It's head still vibrated and twitched intensely, and it loomed closer to Caroline. Caroline was about to try and swing at the creature, but the creature was too fast. It grabbed at Caroline's face and neck, its long thin fingers digging deep into her skin like 10 long metal nails. She coughed up a bit of blood before the creature suddenly dragged her towards it, and they both submerged back into the puppy. A second after that, my body untensed, and I was able to move again.
I quickly backed away from the puppy. I had no clue what the hell just happened, and I still don't to this day, but I was filled with fear. That tall headed thing emerged and submerged that small animal as easily as water. Eventually, the puppy got back up and it ran away. I'm not sure, but I swear that the puppy vanished into thin air when it got far away from me, but I couldn't tell from the dark of the night. I was still filled with questions, but I snapped back when I heard a loud bang coming from a trashcan next to me. Filled with dread, I approached the trashcan and opened it. Amazingly, a flurry of Hummingbirds and Butterflies came flying out, the air around me filled with beautiful colors. However, this beauty would soon turn sinister when I looked in and saw what was inside the trashcan.
It was Caroline, cut perfectly into 10 pieces.
I closed the trashcan and jumped back. I then noticed the yellow eyed man, standing at the other end of the alley. He was underneath a Street Light, so I was able to finally get a good look at him.
He was reasonably tall and muscular, wearing a white shirt underneath an old wool jacket. His black sweat pants had seemingly meaningless designs going down to his plain black shoes. He had black facial hair, a mustache with his beard being cut into 5 strips around his jaw. His black hair was tied back into a bun behind his head. The sleeves on his wool jacket were pulled up, revealing his tattoos of humming birds and mice on his arms. He slowly walked to me, grabbed the watch from my pocket, and he nodded at me. After that, he simply walked away, disappearing into the night.
That man kept his promise, I was still alive by the end of the night.
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Yorke cracked his knuckles, and popped his neck
"And that's the story of what happened here." Yorke said, "I never saw that man again, nor did I ever seen those people who seemed to help him."
Koichi and Josuke stood before Yorke, not knowing what to do with all this information
"Wait a second." Josuke said, "What does that mean for the Ladies of the Road?"
"The Ladies of the Road are no more." Yorke said, "Hell, some of the members don't even know it, they still think Caroline is alive."
"If Caroline is dead, who is producing the drug?" Koichi said
After Koichi asked this, Yorke's face lit up, and he looked at Koichi and Josuke
"I see, it's the drug you're after?" He said, "Why are you looking for the drug?"
"We want to put an end to it." Josuke said, "It's too dangerous to just be floating through the streets."
Yorke closed his eyes after Josuke said this, and he stood up.
"I can't let you do that. The man who helped me that night deserves to get his hands on it."
"But it's dangerous, so many lives have already been lost because of it." Josuke yelled.
Yorke opened his eyes, which were filled with loyalty and determination
"I will make sure the man who saved me achieves his goal."
Behind Josuke and Koichi was a swarm of Mosquitoes, sent from the mouth of Climbing Up the Wall. There must have been thousands of them, and there was no way they were going to simply dodge them. However, even with all this, Josuke smiled.
"Good job Koichi." He said, "Sharp as ever."
All of the Mosquito's latched onto Koichi and Josuke at once, but the second any of them touched the duo, they would immediately burst into flames and fall to the ground. On Josuke and Koichi's backs were onomatopoeia
ZAP
"What, What did you do?" Yorke said, nervously. "You told me your ability, how is it able to do that?"
Yorke noticed something floating in the air behind Koichi. It was his stand, but it looked very different. It was a bit more humanoid, with armor pieces covering its knees, elbows, and a large piece of armor around its necks, which also served as shoulder pads.
"What you saw earlier was only Act 1 of my ability." Koichi said, walking towards Yorke. "I lied to you when you told us to reveal our abilities. Now that you revealed your ability, I know exactly how to counter it."
"You're done here." Koichi said, pointing at Yorke.
Yorke backed away from the short Koichi walking towards him. "You can't hurt me, we're still here in Karma Police Lane." Yorke said
Just as he said this, however, he noticed that in almost the blink of an eye, he was outside of the alley, and standing at the sidewalk near the street.
"HMM" A voice behind him said, popping his knuckles, "How about now? Now can we beat your ass?"
Yorke turned around to see Okuyasu and The Hand, and he began to run away.
"He's running away, Koichi, team combo, lets go." Okuyasu yelled.
Koichi grabbed onto Okuyasu and The hand Swiped at the air, and sending the two right next to Yorke instantly. Koichi and Okuyasu were mere inches away from Yorke, and Koichi spoke
"Act 3"
Once again, Koichi's stand's appearance changed, this time, the stand was far more humanoid. It had the number 3 on what seemed to be shorts the stand was wearing. It had green round protrusions all over its body, looking like its muscles, on its legs, on its chest, and a line of them going down its forehead and ending between it's yellow eyes. The stand almost appeared to be wearing clothes, a pair of pants, and a pair of white shoes. The stand was almost the same height as Koichi, and the same build and tone as him too.
"HOLY SHIT" Echoes Act 3 said, "FUCKIN' AY, LETS KILL THIS BITCH"
"FREEZE" Echoes Act 3 threw out a fury of punches at Yorke. These punches seemed to do little damage, and Yorke didn't seemed phased. However, after it threw the punches, Act 3 put its hands together, and turned them sideways. Instantly, Yorke fell to the ground, the pavement under him cracking and flying under his weight.
"W-What are you going to do, Kill me?" Yorke whispered, hushed by the feeling of his lungs loosing all its air.
"Oh no, we aren't going to kill you." Josuke said, "But we would like to know more about this drug you took."
"I told you all that I knew, I swear. That night was all that I can remember of that drug, and I don't know who's producing it now that Caroline is dead." Yorke said.
After this, Koichi, Okuyasu, and Josuke looked at eachother and nodded. Koichi undid Act 3 Freeze, and Yorke quickly stood up.
"I HATE THIS ALLEY." he yelled, his face turning red in frustration and rage. "I hate the ladies of the road, I hate all of this shit that's been going on. I hate living in this evil world, and I hate you."
After Yorke said this, his face lost all emotion. He looked right past Josuke, and without warning, his lifeless body fell to the ground. His face slamming on the pavement below and blood flowing out of his nose.
"W-What happened to him?" Okuyasu yelled, pointing at him. Josuke turned him over and listened for a heart beat. Unfortunately, Josuke couldn't hear a pulse
"He's dead." Josuke said, confusion running in his mind
All three of them noticed something, however, a woman peering from behind a corner, looking at the trio. The odd part though is that this woman seemed to be made of stone, and had her eyes closed. After a moment, another face seemed to peer from across the corner, an old man with a cigar in his mouth, wearing a pair of glasses and a green turtleneck.
"Ah, so now we know who killed Joseph." The man said
"Who are you? Did you do this?" Josuke yelled at the man
The old man introduced himself. It was Harold Land, and his stand, Nirvana.
"Eh, it was an accident." Harold said, "I was hoping that I could wipe his memory, hopefully get rid of another future headache. But he said how he hated living, and there was nothing I can do."
"How long were you here?" Koichi asked
"I've been here the whole time." Harold replied, "When they told me someone not in the gang was going to look into this drug, I had to keep an eye on you guys."
The four of them looked at Yorke, who was lying lifeless on the ground
"I really didn't mean to kill him, it's really hard to take things into account like this with my stand."
Josuke turned to Harold. "So you noticed that connection too? The man in Yorkes story killed the Ladies' leader the same way the dealer and Joseph died."
Harold nodded. "It's definitely a connection, but it could barely be called a clue. We don't have a name, a location, but we do have one thing, a kill order."
"What do you mean?" Koichi said
"The events of his story happened about a week ago. If my memory serves, Joseph died just over a week ago as well." Harold said, "And after he killed Joseph, he seemed to have killed the dealer for the Ladies."
"What are you getting at?" Okuyasu said
"It's just a guess, but it got me thinking." Harold said, "What if the killer actually wanted Joseph's help to get this drug? Why else would Joseph be involved?"
===To=Be=Continued===
