"Camellia!" Kan shouts as she runs for her friend. Salvatore bashes her with his shield.
He pulls his blade from Camellia's back and she crumples to her knees, clutching her heart. The sword unfurls back into a bird. It flaps its wings, shedding off drops of crimson blood.
A key flies from Kan's shoulder, hitting Camellia in the back. A flaming hole appears on her torso, covering the wound. "There, that'll keep you from bleeding out," Kan says.
Salvatore glances over his shoulder at her. "Oh, right. You're still alive," he says.
"Yeah, I am," Kan says. "And I'm not going to let you-"
Salvatore rockets forward and slashes Kan across the throat. "Shut up and die," he says.
Kan punches him in the face. He notices the flaming hole on her neck, which his sword passed through without hurting Kan. He slashes her three more times, each slice passing through a hole created in an instant.
The flaming holes disappear as Kan elbows him in the jaw. "My Stand isn't very strong, I'll admit that. But she's fast, and at this range she can't be beat," Kan says.
Salvatore brings his sword down on Kan. Right before he hits her, The Doors circles the sword, throwing dozens of keys at it. The sword disappears right before it can hit Kan. "Desperado!" Salvatore shouts. "What did you do to my bird?
"I covered it in enough holes to cover every inch of your blade," Kan says, smiling.
Kan swings her fist at Salvatore and he blocks it with his shield. She pulls her hand back and clutches her knuckles. "Ow ow ow," she says, wincing.
Salvatore bashes her with his shield. The bird holding onto his shoulder flaps his wings, shooting him up. He drops into a falling kick, aimed straight at Kan.
A large hole covers Kan's face and torso. Salvatore falls right through it. His foot lands in a small hole behind Kan, which immediately disappears, leaving his foot locked in the asphalt.
Kan jumps on his back and wraps her arms around his neck. Salvatore easily throws her off and grabs onto his leg, trying to break it free. Kan charges at him again and he smacks her in the face with his shield.
Salvatore breaks free of the ground, taking to the air. Kan grabs onto his leg as he rises up. Salvatore kicks her in the face and she falls, landing on her back. He drops down, his foot landing on Kan's stomach.
"You know what your problem is? Your bird is tiny," Salvatore says.
"Not really sure what that has to do with anything," Kan says.
"Stands are living manifestations of our souls. The reason your Stand is so weak is because your soul is weak. The only reason you're still here giving me trouble is because your idiot friends keep dying for you," Salvatore says.
He steps off Kan's stomach and she crawls away. Suddenly, she turns and shoots a key at Salvatore, striking him between the eyes. She runs forward and lunges at the blinded Salvatore.
He slashes her across the chest with his sword. She falls to her knees and he smacks her away with his shield. "But, I blinded you," Kan whimpers.
"I have four sets of eyes, dipshit," Salvatore says. "Plus, you stopped focussing on the holes surrounding Desperado, meaning that my sword is back."
The Doors flies at Salvatore, trying to ensnare his sword with more holes. He slashes the weak Stand, almost splitting it in two. Kan screams as a massive cut appears across her torso.
"Now, if you wanted to blind someone, you'd want to do this," Salvatore says, right before Disco Strangler blinds Kan with a blast of light.
Kan feels Salvatore grab her, and feels her feet leave the ground. By the time she can see again, she's floating thirty stories from the ground. "Bye-bye," Salvatore says as he drops her.
Three punches of swirling wind strike Santiago, knocking him off his feet and throwing him into a table. Johana runs, jumps, and lands in front of him. Twisted Sister punches Santiago in the stomach, sending him flying into the bar.
Johana approaches the bar, carefully avoiding sections of the floor she stepped on previously. Santiago pops up and throws a bottle of wine at her. Johana easily catches it and tosses it over her shoulder.
"It wasn't supposed to be like this," Santiago whines. "Me and Sal are a team. We could beat you, if we worked together."
Right then, a nail pierces his shoulder. Santiago curses and clutches his wound. "Sorry I'm late," Kelly says as he walks into the restaurant.
"Took you long enough," Johana says.
"Oh my god shut up. I came to save you, got blown out a window, got thrown through a second window, and had to climb like a hundred flights of stairs," Kelly says, panting.
"Fine. Thank you for your help," Johana says.
"Die!" Santiago shouts as he dives for the distracted Johana's legs.
He grabs onto Johana and she begins tipping, about to fall over. Her Stand kicks the ground, sending her flying into the air. With one arm, Twisted Sister grabs a ceiling light. With the other, it punches Santiago, sending him crashing onto the floor of the restaurant.
"Kelly, watch out, the floor explodes if you step on the same spot twice," Johana says.
"Like this?" Kelly says, stomping down on Santiago's stomach.
"No, you need to step on him again to blow up," Johana says.
"Right, got it." Kelly steps on Santiago again and jumps back as the floor below Santiago explodes.
Kan is falling. In a few seconds, she will hit the ground and go splat. Her injured Stand clutches her stomach with its tiny feet, frantically flapping its wings to slow her fall. "Sorry little guy, I think this is it," Kan mutters. "He's right, I'm too weak. I'm not like Johana or Nero, I'm not strong. I'm not good at this." She looks up at Salvatore, hovering in the sky and watching her fall. "But I want to be. I want to be strong enough to stand beside them and help them fight."
Moments before Kan hits the ground, a massive hole surrounded by blue appears. Kan drops into the hole and disappears. The hole closes. Salvatore stares down, confused. The Kan punches him in the face.
Kan disappears again. Salvatore's four sets of eyes look around, trying to see where Kan disappeared to. Kan appears above Salvatore and slaps him in the face.
She disappears again, dropping into a portal surrounded by blue fire. Another portal appears right in front of Salvatore, floating midair. Kan bursts out of it and throws a punch at Salvatore. He rushes to block it with his shield. A small portal appears on the shield and Kan's fist slips through it. The fist reappears by Salvatore's face, crashing into his jaw.
Salvatore gets a good look at Kan Nijimura. She's injured, and covered in blood, but there's a fire in her eyes. A black and white owl sits on her head, a necklace covered in keys hanging from its neck.
Kan disappears into another portal. "You're Stand, it's bigger now!" Salvatore shouts.
"Really? Hadn't noticed," Kan says, kneeing Salvatore in the face.
Salvatore stabs at her with his sword. It slips into a portal and reappears behind him, stabbing him in the back. Salvatore yelps, pulls his sword from his back, and flies away.
Kan moves from portal to portal, never stopping, never hitting the ground. "You can't do this forever," Salvatore shouts. "Those cuts are draining your blood, you'll be dead in two minutes without medical attention."
"Doesn't matter," Kan shouts back. "I'm ending this, right here, right now, before you can hurt anyone else!"
Salvatore flies up and drops his shield and sword. They unfurl their wings, turning back into birds. "Kill the owl and she'll hit the ground like a stockbroker in 1929," he shouts as his birds dive bomb at Kan.
Outlaw Man is about to crash into Kan when a portal appears in front of it. The bird flies through the portal, a portal that sends it right back to Salvatore. Outlaw Man slams into Salvatore's stomach like a battering ram.
Desperado curves towards The Doors, intending to stab it with its pointed beak. It too slips through a portal. Desperado crashes into Disco Strangler, cutting through its wings.
Disco Strangler loses its grip and Salvatore drops, plummeting towards the ground. His Eagles fly after him. But, before they can grab him, Salvatore slips through a portal. A portal that slams him right into the front of a parked bus.
Salvatore is down, but Kan is still falling. The Doors flies down, creating two portals side by side, both pointing upward. Kan falls through one and pops out the other, now moving upward instead of downward. The force of gravity slows her down. At the moment she reaches an equilibrium, another portal appears directly below her. Kan falls through it, safely landing on the ground next to Camellia.
"I beat him," Kan says, panting, lying next to Camellia. "I'd get us to a hospital, but I don't think I have the strength for it. I'm sorry I wasn't able to protect you." Camellia doesn't respond.
As Kan's vision goes dark, she sees a silhouetted figure approach her. The figure kneels down and places his hand on Kan's stomach. She feels a warmth as energy flows over her body. A moment later, all of her wounds are healed.
Kan glances at Camellia. She's still unconscious, but her stab wound has disappeared. Kan turns back and gets a better look at her savior. He's a tall man, wearing a yellow t-shirt, firefighter's overalls, a red cape, and a domino mask.
"Don't worry, citizen, all of your wounds have been healed!" the man in the mask shouts, voice booming. "Now then, I'd love to stay and chat, but there are more people out there in need of saving."
The man raises his arm and flies away, his cape fluttering behind him. "What," Kan says, completely deadpan.
Johana swings off the light and safely lands on an untriggered spot. Santiago slowly crawls away from her and Kelly. "Hey, before you run away or die or whatever, can you tell us who the hell you are, and why you're trying to kill me," Johana says.
"My name is Santiago Spa-"
"Yeah, I know. You have a dumb name. Why do you want to kill me?"
"My boss, Luther Campbell, was given a bracelet. But he didn't want to fight, so he sent me and my brother to London to fight for him."
"Campbell sent you to London to kill me?"
"No. I mean, yes, but-"
"Johana, look out!" Kaiser shouts as he charges back into the restaurant. He leaps over to Santiago and strikes him with his Stand, throwing him out the open window.
Kaiser turns, wiping the dust off his jacket. "What the hell was that?" Kelly yells.
"Did you not see him reaching for the gun in his jacket?" Kaiser asks.
"What gun?" Johana asks.
"It seems you did not. It's a good thing I was here to protect you," Kaiser says.
Johana starts to speak but can't find the words. "You didn't buy that, did you?" Kaiser says.
"Yeah, no. We aren't idiots," Kelly says. "Why'd you throw him out a window before we could question him?"
"Because he was going to tell us something Kaiser didn't want us to hear," Johana says.
Kaiser sighs. "Today has been a mess," he says. "But, I suppose there is no point in lying. I convinced the Spaghetti brothers to try and kill you."
"You son of a bitch," Johana says, crossing her arms.
"Calm yourself, I never intended for you to experience any harm. I have sworn to leave you be, out of loyalty to your family," Kaiser says. "My intention was for them to attack you, you to get overwhelmed, and then step in and save you. Of course, that didn't happen, because your neanderthal cousin tried to start a fight he could not win-"
"What did you do to Nero?" Kelly asks.
"Relax, he is fine. I merely knocked him out," Kaiser says. "My plan was to convince you that I could be trusted, allowing me to acquire your bracelets peacefully."
"You're insane," Johana says.
"Perhaps. Regardless, I have no desire to fight you today, and will be leaving now," Kaiser says.
Johana steps in front of him, Twisted Sister hovering behind her. "You're not going anywhere," she says.
"Johana, let him go," Kelly says.
"Excuse me?"
"He's right. It's been a long day. And, if he beat Nero, the two of us don't stand a chance. Let's go home and deal with him another day."
Johana clenches her teeth. "Fine," she says.
"See you around, miss Joestar," Kaiser says, walking away. "Oh, and tell Joseph I said hello."
Nero opens his eyes and groans. He's lying in a pool of filthy water in a bathroom, with a black eye and a couple broken ribs. He rolls onto his side, gaining a view of a bathroom stall with an open door.
Sitting on the toilet, unconscious and tied up, is Julius Zeppeli.
Salvatore crawls away from the bus and stares up at the tower. He watches as his brother is thrown out the window by Kaiser. "No!" he shouts.
His Eagles grab onto him, lifting his broken body so he can catch his brother. Santiago crashes into him hard enough to break his shoulder. Still, Salvatore holds onto his brother as his birds carry him away.
"It's okay, we're going to be fine," Salvatore mumbles, even though he knows it's a lie.
A sudden burst of wind slams into Salvatore. The two brothers tumble through the air, pummeled by the wind. They land on a metal fence covered in spikes and die together.
Nico walks past the corpses as he and Kaiser head home.
STAND STATS
Name: The Doors (Act 2)
Dub Name: The Hatches (Second Verse)
User: Kan Nijimura
Namesake: "The Doors" (American Rock Band)
Appearance: Act 2 takes the form of a black and white owl with infinity signs in its eyes. A necklace containing a large amount of keys hangs around its neck. The edges of its wormholes are covered in what appears to be blue fire.
Abilities: Act 2 has the ability to create linked portals that teleport anything that travels through them, maintaining velocity.
Stats:Power-D, Speed-A, Range-B, Durability-C, Precision-A, Potential-A
