"Great, now we're bums!" Polnareff shouted, a bag of all the things they managed to save slung over his shoulder. The three were walking down an empty street of the main city, the moon still looming over them.

"We neither can afford apartments or hotels, and Polnareff is out of a job since he can't easily and safely reach Beacon." Kakyoin lamented, "First thing tomorrow, get a part-time job, all of us, and hopefully one that does not gather a lot of attention."

"And what do you suggest?" Jotaro asked, Kakyoin crossed his arms and looked downwards, continuing to walk. "To be perfectly honest, I don't know, but first we must find somewhere safe to sleep, then we'll think about it."

"I imagine sleeping under a bridge wouldn't be that safe." Polnareff sighed, "Oh, I know! Ruby and Yang's dad is in Vale, how about we ask him for help?"

"Yeah, he's surely going to let three complete strangers with them because we know his daughters, it's more likely he's going to deck us in the face" Kakyoin brought a hand to his face and stopped, resting his back on a building, "Anyone else has an idea?"
The others stopped and looked at him, the three remained in silence for a little while, until Jotaro looked up, "The roofs."

"The roofs?" Kakyoin repeated, the other two stand users looked at Jotaro, a bit at a loss for words. "What's difficult to understand? We're gonna sleep on the roofs." he said, looking to the top of the tall apartment Kakyoin was resting his back on.
"I have several questions, but first of all, how do we even get up there?" Polnareff asked, "Second, I don't know the laws of this kingdom, but I'm pretty sure we" would get arrested if we did that in our world."

Jotaro brushed past Polnareff, and slowly circled around the building, until he found a set of emergency stairs. He signed the two to follow him as he tried to go up the stairs as silently as possible, but due to his sheer weight and how noisy the steps were, it was completely impossible.

"Let's not wake the entire apartment up, please." Kakyoin whispered as he stepped up the stairs with Jotaro

"This is such a horrible idea." Polnareff said as he took hesitant baby steps on the stairs, "I'm going to get gray hair from all the stress you all bring for the simplest crap..."

"Polnareff, you already have gray hair." Kakyoin pointed out

"It's a figure of speech. And it's silver, damn it!"

After a while, they miraculously managed to get on the roof and not wake anyone up in the process. The roof was wide and mostly empty, beside a few antennas on the borders, and a cube-shaped room placed in the middle, with a door attached with the sign "Emergency Stairs" laid on top of it.

"This is...incredibly dangerous, we could be easily spotted from here." Kakyoin pointed out, but Polnareff was already in the middle of taking out the improvised bedrolls.
"For one night, this will do." Jotaro stated,


Dio tapped his fingers on the armrest of his chair, smiling slightly as purple thorns entangled with the modern television in front of him, the television turned on and changed various channels, mixing various words together in order to recreate a phrase:

REFUGELESS THEY ARE. THE SPY WILL ACT.

The thorns dissapeared, and the television shut off. "Hahaha." Dio softly laughed, "Soon, I'll have my revenge...The blood may have healed my wound slightly, but it pains me to admit I can't win yet. I still need 'that', and the promised day has yet to happen. For now I'll need to slow down The Door's minions so they won't be a problem."

This was one of the reasons why he, or The Door, couldn't send out assassins more often, more often than not the two had some 'inconveniences' caused by the assassins of the other..

It wasn't an all out conflict, in fact the two of them were sure these 'accidents' never reached Salem or her acting hands.

"But that woman...Cinder, she could become dangerous. If she manages to get the power of the 'Maiden', she might thwart my plans." he mused.

He placed one leg on top of the other, and touched the wound passing through his chest, "Now is not the time."


"Heey, Ruby! Wake up!" Weiss shouted up at Ruby, who was still tuckered up in the upper bunk bed. Yang sighed as she grabbed a pillow from her own bed, and threw it towards her little sister at high speed, and it impacted against her back.

"Ow, ow! I'm awake, jeez." Ruby grabbed the pillow and threw it back at Yang, who didn't even have to dodge it as it fell on the ground.

Weiss crossed her arms "Come on, we're going to be late for class, Blake already went on without us"

Despite those words, Ruby gave the two teammates her back as she kept laying on the bed, Weiss brought a hand to her forehead and sighed. "Go ahead, Weiss. Me and Ruby will have a little talk." Yang said, Weiss felt a little hesitant, but after a few seconds she turned heel and walked out of the dormitory.

Yang climbed onto the bed, sitting beside Ruby, "Feelin' a little under the weather?" she asked, Ruby looked at her for a second before turning around again, "I guess..."

"You're worried about those three, huh?" Yang asked. An awkward silence filled the room before Ruby sat up, and brought her knees close to her chest. "Not only that..." she started, a sad look on her face, "So much...stuff is happening so quickly, so many mysteries, so many enemies, I don't know if we are suited to take care of all of this."

Yang was a bit surprised to hear those words coming from her sister, "Oh, come on, we're supposed to be heroes, right? And heroes always win and make the world better, or did you forget that?" she promptly replied.

Ruby quirked a smile, but still looked down "I know, I know, it's just been...stressful. Considering that we are being targeted too, I don't know if we'll be able to have a regular school life. Dad knows nothing of this either."

She looked up at Yang, "How can you and the others not be stressed? You act like everything is normal while the most bizarre stuff in our lives happened one after the other."

Yang hesitated to reply, suddenly feeling a weight on her chest, "I...Guess some people are just better at hiding it, stress, I mean."

Ruby smiled, and suddenly sat up and jumped off the bed, landing on her feet, "Well, let's go, today we've got combat training, and we gotta be prepared for all the baddies that will come our way!" she stated, back to her usual, bubbly, almost childish self.
Yang smiled back, "Heh, and I was even a bit worried for you for a second."


"So, where do we start lookin'?" Polnareff asked, sitting on the ground of the spacious roof. Kakyoin slightly looked over the edge of the building, arms crossed, "I'd like to have a clear answer to that, but...I don't. I don't know how it works here, but we and Jotaro are still minors, we'd get part-time jobs at most, while you on the other hand…I just don't know what you'd be able to do."

Polnareff sighed, "Can you stop with that demoralizing stuff? We're already in a bad situation, a bit of positive thinking would be nice." then, he looked over at Jotaro, who was looking at the ground silent, "What's up? You look like you want to say something."

"I do?" Jotaro looked up, "Well, I guess. I just thought about how to gain some money and work to finding out the truth at the same time."

Kakyoin quirked an eyebrow, curious "Really? Well, spit it out."

"Monster hunting." Jotaro simply stated with a completely straight face. The others looked at him completely surprised.

"Are you kiddin' me? We are not trained for that kind of stuff! Especially not me!" Polnareff shouted, Kakyoin quickly shushed him, afraid that someone will hear them making a ruckus on the roof.

"Listen up, monster hunting would not only give us experience in fighting, it'd also give us an excuse to search around Vale. Maybe we'd even be able to find Dio, or that Door guy, or whatever the hell those Silver Records guys are."

Kakyoin closed his eyes in thought, "Wishful thinking. But... it could theoretically work, I say we give it a go."

Polnareff frowned, "We aren't even proper Huntsmen, but fine, I'll go along with it for now."


As big and busy the city of Vale was, it only took them a few hours to find their first job at the outskirts of the city, a family of farmers heard some weird noises coming from the nearby forest, and believed it would be due to Grimm.

After showing off their Stands to the farmers, they agreed to hire them, and so they entered through the woods.

"Man, I don't know about this. Using my Stand like this feels...weird." Polnareff complained, pushing away a branch from his face.

Kakyoin shushed him, "Be quiet, whatever is in here could hear us"

Jotaro suddenly stopped, Star Platinum appeared beside him, and before the others two could react, Star Platinum quickly punched a tree in front of Jotaro, making it fall!

Kakyoin was about to ask him what the hell he was doing, until he heard a dog-like whimpering coming from under the fallen trunk, and black smoke. "Huh, it was just one of those Beowolves, I thought I heard something strange. Oh well, let's keep going, there might be more."

"Wow." Kakyoin and Polnareff exclaimed in unison.

[To Be Continued]-

Authore Note: Sorry for the shorter, rather uneventful chapter, just been busy these days. On another note, I'm trying a more spaced out style, tell me if you prefer this over the previous style or not