Stand Name: Echoes Act 3
Stand Ability: Echoes has the ability to twist the spelling of Japanese words to create a new meaning and bring it to life. This is used to change the spelling of three to freeze a target it punches. It can only apply the effect after twisting its hands to represent the twisting of the spelling of a word.
Design: Wears a white jacket over its body and head. Parts of the white jacket hanging from its waist. The exposed parts are glittering green shells.
Destructive power: A
Speed: C
Range: D
Durability: C
Precision: C
Development Potential: B
"Come one." Josuke grabbed Horitsu.
"We need to find Okuyasu quickly."
"We do not have time to find him. We have got to get going before that thing rips me in half like a lawnmower!"
"Do what you want, I'm not leaving!" Josuke pushed him and began wading into the waters.
The monster growled and lunged at Horitsu to take a bite.
Jolyne managed to tackle him from behind pushing him past the beast.
Jolyne let wiped away the sweat she was accumulating from the close call.
"You need to get out of here!"
"ACT Three Freeze!" Called out Koichi from next to the creature.
To his surprise, the chimera's eye met him for the briefest second as if to gloat. You can't stop me it whispered to him wordlessly.
"Koichi no!" Yukako attempted to slap him out of the way. She only managed to hit the frozen Horitsu behind them.
The beast to Yukako's delight and Jolyne's horror turned its attention to Horitsu.
"Crack…"
In a second Horitsu's head was devoured whole. His neck rang out with a loud crack echoing throughout the beach.
Jolyne watched the life slowly leave his body as a headless corpse fell to the ground.
Jolyne's attention turned to the red and white striped stand which had collapsed on the concrete slabs comprising the pier. Its red stripes had lost all color and bled onto the ground below it. It faded out and began to turn into dust releasing its ability.
He was dead, not even Josuke could bring him back now.
He splashed around in the water kicking and digging trying to find any sign of him.
He must be deeper in Josuke thought to himself running even deeper in.
The waves crashed against Josuke mixing saltwater into his sweat.
"DAMNIT!" He kicked the waves with a visceral scream.
"JOSUKE!" Jolyne practically roared at him.
"You just killed someone because you wouldn't leave!" Jolyne was done with this shit. She would drag him out of here kicking and screaming if she had too.
"Jolyne we don't have time for this we need to get out of..." Koichi tried to reason in the background. He was interrupted by a bite from the beast.
"Koichi!" Yukako called out, managing to push him just enough out of the way with Love Deluxe.
The two began to distract the dinosaur in the background.
"I just need a little more time!" Josuke cried out in rage.
"He's here! I know he's here!"
"Stone Free!" Jolyne stand made to grab Josuke.
Josuke fell flat into the water sending Stone Free flying overhead.
"Crazy Diamond!" Josuke uppercut the stand as it was flying overhead causing Jolyne to double over.
"Seriously guys stop this! We need to leave. I'm not leaving here without him."
She growled and looked up with a look that would have run him cold if he weren't so burning with rage himself.
She got up and trudged through the water practically causing it to steam with her rage.
"You won't find Okuyasu Josuke! He's dead! Even if he was alive he wouldn't last long bleeding out on the ocean. Even if he was brought back to life he would die instantly if he was still in the ocean."
"What are you talking about!" Josuke barked.
"Jolyne seriously, my stand can't hold this thing anymore! We need to go!" Grunted Koichi.
They both ignored him.
"Haven't you been paying attention or are you as dumb as that hair makes you look! These zombies are made of fucking dirt and sand!"
Josuke's face cracked as it contorted in rage.
"DORA!" Josuke made to punch Jolyne who ducked and uppercut him.
"ORA!" Stone Free made to punch him as he recoiled from her punch.
"DORADORA!" Crazy Diamond flew past Stone Free Punching Jolyne Directly.
The pain caused her to take a step back and stopped her stand's attack.
Jolyne stabilized herself and rushed forward.
"ORA!" She slammed her foot down on his.
He tried to step back and was trapped by her foot. Jolyne grasped his tie with her left hand trapping him.
"ORAORAORAORA!" Stone Free beat into him while Josuke stood stuck.
Eventually, she let go causing him to fall back into the water. Jolyne turned and walked away.
"Get your shit together and let's go. If I have to spend another minute in this goddamn town…"
"DORA!" Josuke sent her flying towards the beach.
He began to stomp towards her.
"Crazy Diamond!"
"Stone Free!"
"KOICHI!" Yukako
Her voice rang out in a powerful mix of emotions hard to put words to. Guilt, anger, fear, rage, and sorrow.
The two's stand's disappeared as they turned their attention to the scene before them.
Blood ran down the beasts jaw, down its neck, and onto the lonely torso below. The legs, without and an upper body fell quickly down spraying blood onto the rough sands. The blood began to be washed away by the waves, mourning the loss of another that night.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAA!
Yukako cracked.
Love Deluxe spread over the beach closing in on the monster. Hair strangled it from all directions snapping bones and piercing organs.
As she rampaged against the beast slime poured out from its wounds drawing in the hair from Yukako to stitch its wounds closed.
Yukako screeched and struggled as the slime plucked out her hairs one by one adding to its mass.
"NNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!" She eventually managed to cut her hairs where they were connected leaving her hair half its previous length.
Josuke and Jolyne jumped in beating the beast down.
"DORAORADORAORADORAORADORAORA!" Their blows weaved between each other sending the deadly fiend sliding backward. Despite their best efforts, it seemed as if their attacks were barely having any effect.
It lunged forward to take a bite.
"Crazy Diamond!" The stand moved quickly holding open the enormous maw with its feet and now singular arm to keep it from killing Josuke.
Tears rolled down Josuke's soaked face.
"Come on Okuyasu, where are you. Koichi you're still here too right. I'm sorry for being such a shitty friend. I'm sorry please just come back. Please I can't do this without you. I-I can't…" He trailed off into full-blown tears.
"Goddamnit please!"
"Stone Free!" Jolyne's stand made to attack the monster while it was held.
The creature kept its ravenous gaze fixed on Josuke, but the tendrils on its back moved to restrain Jolyne. The moments her stand touched it, she let out a scream of pain.
"AUGH…" Which was quickly cut off as she lost her voice to the shadowy tendrils.
Jolyne sat paralyzed trying her best to scream, Yukako ran her long nails across her body and shortened hair leaving marks of great pain punishing herself and breaking down. Josuke sat armless slowly bleeding out and let the tears flow freely from his face as he accepted the deaths of his best friend.
Thoughts began to flow through Josuke's head as the cacophony of the world played them through the climax of the fight.
Koichi and Horitsu's warnings flew through his head as he took stock of the mess. If Okuyasu were here he could have dealt with that thing effortlessly.
Not only that he would have done it with a smile. That man's ability to find joy in any situation was uncanny.
And Koichi. Koichi would have held that thing forever if he could have. He was a reliable friend. There was nothing Josuke couldn't trust him with.
After a few seconds, he finally wiped the tears from his face.
Just then an idea flowed through his head.
"We need to get going." He announced sternly.
"DORA!" Josuke slammed his hand inside the bloody maw as his stand drew its singular arm back to attack.
As soon as its arm was gone the jaw quickly began to close, bending his remaining arm in a way it shouldn't be able to bend.
Crazy Diamond slammed their heads into its gums in unison slowing its huge jaw down long enough for Crazy Diamond's Punch to go through.
The monster glowed with a pink aura as it was once again torn apart. The body became a whirlwind of blood, bone, hair flesh, jacket fibers, shadow tendrils, and shells.
Jolyne was released as the shape became a blur among the pink winds.
Josuke dragged himself up, gripped his bleeding arm tightly to try and stop the blood.
"Let's get going." He called out coughing up blood.
Jolyne ran over to him and gave him her shoulder.
"I'll bandage you up in the car." She wheezed out as her voice slowly returned.
As they went past Jolyne grabbed Yukako and threw her over her shoulder.
She worked her way up the stairs just as the bone-chilling roar from earlier came back again. She began to speed up once more. The sound disappeared again, they didn't have much more time.
She threw the other two back in the back of the stolen car and moved to the front. She opened up the front door as the ground began to shake.
"stomp, stomp."
She sat in the seat
"Stomp, Stomp!"
She turned the key. It didn't start.
"STOmp! STOmp!"
"Come on, come on!" She hit the car and turned the key once more, nothing.
"STOMp! STOMp!"
She turned the key again.
"STOMP! STOMP!"
"BRRR!"
It turned on. She put her foot to the gas in the blink of an eye.
The car shot away as the stomping became distant.
"Where are we headed?" Asked Jolyne as they flew through sideroads.
Josuke was about to answer before he choked on the air. It had become an inky black here.
"The roads weren't like this earlier, is it another stand?" Jolyne mumbled hollow from the past few hours.
"Slap" the windshield cracked as they hit an object hidden amongst the mists.
"I can't see through this. You two cover your faces." They complied as Jolyne gritted her teeth and covered her face as well.
Stone Free crouched behind her and drew back its fist to crack open the windshield sending glass shards flying through the car.
As if it was waiting for this a giant fish came flying into the car biting down on the arm covering Jolyne's face.
"Stone Free!" The stand lunged forward but missed the enemy as it let go of her arm.
The enemy moved to escape the vehicle only to bounce off a net where the windshield once was.
"Think you can get away that easily." Grumbled Jolyne.
"I'm a little pissed so I'm going to blow off a little steam on you. I hope that's all right."
Stone Free grabbed it by its tail and slammed its head into some loose glass on the dashboard. It slammed its head into the dashboard even further before dragging its entire body through the rest of the glass on the dashboard.
Jolyne watched with sadistic glee as Stone Free bounced the ancient fish around the car, finally cutting it into pieces with string.
"Let's just get out of town for now." Whispered Josuke finally breaking the silence.
Thoughts of the recurring nightmares had started getting after they fought Kira came back to him. If he got nightmares from almost losing a friend he was scared of what was in store for him when he next closed his eyes.
"I'll need years of therapy to get over today." Josuke collapsed on the back seat trying his best to get some sleep while bleeding out.
Stand Name: Staying Alive
Stand User: Boney M. (Saltriosaurus)
Stand Ability: The stand will repair its user by any means necessary using any materials it has on hand. If its user suffers severe enough damage it will swallow the surroundings to repair them. The stand only knows how to fix external and internal wounds should the user die of natural causes the stand can do nothing. The stand will often repair the user to keep it alive for the immediate moments of a fight using materials that could be vital to its survival in the long term.
Design: Staying Alive is a colony stand composed of millions of small archaebacteria-like microorganisms that form the rough outline of a dinosaur.
Destructive power: D
Speed: C
Range: D
Durability: A
Precision: B
Development Potential: C