Stand Name: Carry On Wayward Son Requiem (Carry On Requiem)
Stand User: Persephone (alias) (human)
Stand Ability: Manipulate the soul of the world. Restless souls will automatically be resurrected from the dead with bodies made from dirt.
Design: A stain glass humanoid projecting light upon all its user desires.
Destructive power: None
Speed: None
Range: None
Durability: None
Precision: None
Development Potential: None
Horitsu followed him wordless and pale.
As they arrived at the pier it became obvious there was another enemy. Rows of small shells leaking long shadowy tentacles slowly swaying in rhythm with the nearby waves. Josuke leaned down and picked up a pebble.
He leaned his left arm on his knee and tossed the stone with his right arm.
The stone bounced one of the shells creating a light reverberation for a second before the sound disappeared suddenly.
"Can I ask you something?" mumbled Horitsu.
"What is it?" winced Josuke, placing his right arm back onto his left to keep it supported.
"Can't you just heal yourself with your stand like you did with me?"
"My stand doesn't work like that. I can only heal others with it."
Horitsu's eyebrows furrowed in frustration.
"I wish I could heal like you do. Instead, I'm stuck with this useless stand."
He glanced over to When Will You Die who was still standing there watching them.
"A stand is an extension of your will. I've even heard from some scientists at the Speedwagon foundation theorize that your stand ability is a wish. Either way, it's impossible to tell really. Maybe you hate yourself, or maybe you want to protect people.
Horitsu grimaced at his response and turned away.
"So a person's stand did this?" Horitsu gestured to the body parts sticking out of the beach and pavement.
"Yeah, she got a power boost from an arrow. But her stand's power before was to bring back the dead."
"If stand abilities are a wish like you said, what could you tell about her from her stand? It seems to me like she would be a kind person if she wants to bring the dead back."
Josuke thought about it for a second before pushing it out of his head. He needed to focus, for now, he would have plenty of time to mull it over later.
"Let's go," said Josuke. He slowly stepped through the shadow tentacles, careful not to touch them. Horitsu stumbled through barely managing not to get touched by the waving shadows.
"BEEP!"
"HURRY UP!"
"SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN, I'M DRIVING AS FAST AS I CAN!"
An especially loud car came barreling around the corner filled with Jolyne, Yukako, and Koichi.
Josuke winced and prepared to be swallowed by the tendrils.
Nothing happened.
He let out a deep sigh. It seemed they weren't triggered by sound alone.
"SCREECH!"
"Josuke what are you doing out there, we need to go! This town is crawling with stands!"
As if on cue a monster dashed around the corner they had come from. It was a dinosaur.
The creature was 7 meters long and 2 meters tall. Its mouth was full of razor-sharp teeth, bigger than the fish from before. Small bony protrusions stretched from its head to its tail. Along its body, it boasted large flashy stripes. It was covered in scars and gashes head to toe, but none deep enough to fell the beast.
"Stone Free!" Jolyne called.
Her stand was made to punch the beast leaving a dent in its skull which became quickly filled with slimy ooze. In seconds the wounds were no longer visible from where Josuke was standing.
Josuke finished making his way through the patch of seaweeds and ran to the concrete slabs comprising the pier.
If he could just get a little further into the water he was sure he'd be waiting for him there.
"They're our ride aren't they?" Asked Horitsu confused.
"Why are we going in the opposite direction?"
"I need to find someone!" Growled Josuke.
"In the ocean?"
"He fell from the plane! He should be somewhere around here!"
"If he fell from the plane he'd be dead."
Josuke pointed to the corpses desperate to claw their way out of the sand.
"She brought everyone back to life, even if he did die, he'd still be alive because of her.
"If he's alive he'll be fine, but you have almost no chance of finding him here."
Horitsu motioned to the waves stretching to the horizon.
"Crazy Diamond!" Josuke let out a low growl.
The stand grabbed an arm sticking out of the sand and ripped them out of the earth.
The sand person's face was a picture of agony. Their eyes were bloodshot. They had several wounds on their body trying to bleed, but finding it difficult to make it past the layers of sand they were covered in.
"DORA!" Crazy Diamond smashed their head in turning them back into the sand they had come from.
"Grazie" They wheezed out as they once more became dust.
Josuke watched them crumble slowly and become invisible amongst the rocky sands.
"If Okuyasu was brought back too life, her power wouldn't help a second. I need to find him before he drowns in the waves."
"But…"
Their conversation was cut short by the dinosaur's needly jaws. It took a bite tearing into Horitsu's stomach.
"Shit!" Josuke cursed.
"DORADORA!"
He just punched the monster sending it flying backward. But that wasn't all he managed, his stand had landed a few blows on Horitsu pulling him back together. Just as his wounds were healing his wounds were reopened by the beast's teeth digging into Horitsu as it flew back tearing through his skin like play-doh. Blood spurted out as he collapsed in pain.
"I forgot all about When Will You Die!" Josuke cursed to himself.
"ORA!" Jolyne jumped down to the beach throwing a punch towards the dinosaur.
"Hold on!" Josuke called out, but it was too late.
"Crack!"
"Stone Free's fist flew past the dinosaur landing a gut spilling blow on Horitsu causing him to fall over in pain.
An oozing creature roughly the size of the enemy, with a lost looser shape materialized drooling into the beast's wounds.
"Snap, Slurp!" The skin stretched out to pull itself together. Bones pulled themselves out of its skull to create stitches for the wounds. Finally, blood drained back into leaving only a small pool to harden on it.
Josuke turned to look in the waves for a minute.
"Come on, come on, where are you?" He whispered desperately.
It ran at Horitsu again bearing its teeth with savage glee.
Josuke gritted his teeth and repositioned himself to be on the far end of a line connecting him, the dinosaur, and Horitsu in that order.
"DORADORA!" His blows flew straight towards Horitsu but failed to touch him due to the range. Instead, they connected to the deathless reptile.
His punches sent it flying overhead.
Josuke slowly walked towards the slowly crumpled beast and the man. Its jaws snapped at Josuke only being directed to Horitsu. Horitsu took a step back tripping over something and falling backward with a small shout.
Josuke walked around the back of the feral creature positioning himself again.
He could swear he saw a sweat roll down the creature's head as Crazy Diamond pulled back.
"DORADORADORA!" It went flying again.
"Uh, Jo-Josuke! Help me please!" Josuke turned to see Horitsu lying on the sand surrounded by dozens of shells with shadowy tendrils sticking out.
"I'm surrounded by those things we went past earlier."
Josuke cursed to himself again.
How had they gotten there? Had they moved while everyone was caught up in the battle? How had he missed it?
"Stay still, I'll help you in a minute." Said Josuke through gritted teeth. He didn't have time for this.
Josuke circled the once more recovered dinosaur to get in position to attack again.
"RA!" The creature snapped at Horitsu.
"DORADORADORA!" It was sent flying into the pit of ammonites.
"Aaaaaa!" It screeched with terror as black tentacles ripped and pulled at its flesh tearing it apart and sucking it into the shells. In a second the sound was gone, but the creature remained being torn apart.
But the victory was short-lived as a gelatinous stand manifested around the creature. The tendrils went limp releasing the chunks of flesh.
The ooze slapped, squeezed, and churled pulling itself together.
"No you don't!" roared Josuke punching the stand.
As Crazy Diamond made contact with the stand it slowly began to get pulled in. It managed to pull back its right arm, but the left arm wasn't strong enough and ripped off of Josuke flying towards the ooze.
The suction drew in all of its surroundings creating a horrifying chimera amalgamate.
As the sand settled the creature became visible once more. It had sought to repair its body with whatever it could use, and it had done exactly that.
Josuke's jacket and skin had become flesh for it. Shadowy tentacles grew out of shells substituting bone in its back. He could see and he could see a five-pointed bulge in its stomach where his appendage had likely ended up. Its flesh had become a patchwork mess. Bones ran like stitches throughout every patch of skin. It had even lost some teeth to the repairs.
Stand Name: Rock Lobster
Stand User: B-52 (ammonite)
Stand Ability: The stand will create long tendrils of shadowy seaweeds that move with the nearest body of water. Whenever anything makes contact with it the stand will steal its 'voice' from it making it impossible for it to make any sound. After this is done the tendrils will attempt to feed the being to its user. The stand will multiply based on the amount of sound it has ever stolen creating potentially forests of seaweeds. Only the user needs to be in the water.
Design: An ammonite with long shadowy tentacles.
Destructive power: B
Speed: E
Range: B
Durability: C
Precision: B
Development Potential: B