"Your last name is Pucci?" Shizuka said, mortified. Her mind was racing, "No wonder Hermit Purple made a photo of just you, it must've been like Uncle Giorno." She didn't know how to feel, he seemed nice, "but what Hailey said could've been true." The next thing Jody knew Achtung Baby was swinging its yellow fists at his face. "That's why I was sent here, to see if you were any trouble", said Shizuka in realization. More bugs sprung out of Jody's hands, some with wings that were carrying others.

"What are you doing, I don't even know my father! Didn't think you people would attack based on such personal reasons", Jody said as Achtung Baby slammed its fist into his gut, knocking the wind out of him and sending him flying across the hallway. Shizuka swatted some of the bugs away as they again turned into pink smoke, she realized what was coming and fanned them away. The pink smoke seemingly disappeared, as if becoming spread out within the air surrounding Shizuka. Jody stumbled backward and leaned against the wall.

"I don't know what beef you have with my dad, but I don't know squat about him. Why do you even care?"

"You're obviously a stand user, I won't let someone spout lies like their truth."

He stood himself up against the wall and got into a sparring position. he coughed into his arm and Shizuka saw blood dripping down his lip. His fists leaving no opening. His posture suggested he had trained for a few years in martial arts. It wouldn't do much if a stand attacked him, but he held it tight nevertheless. Even from this small gesture, Shizuka could see he hadn't fought many stands.

"You can't punch a stand idiot!"

Shizuka was still furious, sure Giorno, the son of DIO, wasn't bad. But that didn't mean she shouldn't be fighting Jody. When Koichi had met Giorno he hadn't been affected by Dio, but she had surely been affected by Enrico Pucci. Also, Koichi knew about Giorno's heritage beforehand.

"I knew you were one of them, I thought I could get to you before they did. Guess I was wrong!" His last sentence seemingly self-deprecating, "I didn't even know they could get to the new kids that fast. I don't even know when they would've gotten to you or why you were fighting Hailey. "

Shizuka questioned her actions slightly, "What does he mean they? Hailey was the first person to actually talk to me." Achtung Baby readied another punch and plunged it through Jody, going directly through his stomach. Shizuka recoiled, that punch should've just been enough to make him cough more, not to deal a finishing blow. Jody seemed shocked at what Shizuka had doneThe now realized illusion smiled, until it was completely gone, swirling into pink smoke and spreading itself thin against the air in the hallway. Shizuka swiftly looked around and tried to spot Jody, who had completely vanished.

"You know I offered you a tour, I started with the science lab because I've studied this entire hallway and have it as a vivid image in my mind. I can manipulate everything around you. You wouldn't even know where I was, even if I was directly behind you."

Jody's voice echoed inside of Shizuka's head. She was still analyzing the entire hallway, trying to find anything that didn't make sense, which could've been an illusion. She breathed, gathering herself from the previous battle, and had Achtung Baby turn retreat within her, burying deep in her soul. She released a long breath and turned invisible, hoping this would stop Jody from keeping up this facade. She snuck down the hallway as Jody blinked back into view. He looked around, seemingly confused. He smirked and then looked directly at Shizuka, locking eyes with her.

"My stand is literally in your head tricking your brain into thinking I'm actually looking at you."

Shizuka felt someone tapping at her shoulder, "Boo." She leaped back, dropping her invisibility and Achtung Baby covering her back, its fists ready to attack a moment's notice. Jody had revealed himself, looking Shizuka in the eyes. His colony of bugs scurrying against the ground and hovering around Jody.

"Tell me who's running all of this crap and maybe I'll let you scurry back to your boss, tell him I'm going to find him and make him pay for all of this."

Shizuka was still seeing red, but she had calmed down enough, "I don't know who is running this school. I was fighting Hailey when you came in. I wasn't surprised when you had a stand, but I was surprised by your last name, Pucci. Is your father by any chance Enrico Pucci?"

Jody barely flinched, but Shizuka could've sworn she saw his face droop slightly. "How do you know my old man's name?"

"He killed a member of my family and made another one of them's life hell. I attacked you out of blind rage, guess I never got the rage out of my system from his death." Jody squinted, that was the moment Shizuka smiled, "I haven't moved an inch since we started have I?" Jody didn't say anything, but his form was fading. Shizuka was the one smirking this time. The landscape around her faded as she stared at Jody, whose neck was being gripped by Achtung Baby.

"How?"

"I realized that you were seeing through my eyes and manipulating what I saw and heard based on that. I positioned my Achtung Baby behind me so that only I would know its location. I turned it invisible and used my mind and Achtung Baby's hands to sense my way around the hallway. I figured that since you thought you had won you were entirely focusing on the illusion. It was really easy to overpower you when I had my stand's hand around your neck. Now, why are you here, and what is up with this bizarre school?" She said, with a calm poker face, she needed this, or else her eyes would be bursting with tears and her face would be scrunched like a sponge. Jody sighed,

"This is where my mom wanted me to go, apparently she thought it was some kind of prestigious school that would allow me to escape our dingy neighborhood. She even saved up for the entrance fee and everything. I immediately noticed that so many kids and teachers had stands, they were using them without being careful, like someone was regulating something, pulling strings like a deranged puppet master. I've been here since the semester started and have just about realized that there is some sort of power system, like a pyramid scheme. Someone reports to someone else, eventually stopping somewhere. I don't think that some student is the head of the command but I don't know anything about that. Is that enough for you?"

The overload of information made Shizuka realize that Jody probably wasn't the enemy she had made him out to be in her head and that this simple mission would be much more intense than she had anticipated. Contemplating her options she decided to report back to the Speedwagon Foundation and tell them what happened with Hailey and Jody.

"I need to learn more about this, recall your stand and let's go. If you do anything suspicious there won't be enough air in your body to hold all of your stand" Jody nodded and she watched all of the burst into smoke and returned to Jody. He stood up and followed Shizuka, staying as far behind her as he could.

While walking back to the hotel Jody started talking, "I'm gonna guess you lied to me about your name? Shizuka sounds real but Jones, that sounds unnatural as hell. If you're gonna lie about something as important as your name make it sound believable. Also, I'm sorry about earlier, I really can't trust other stand users that I don't know."

She looked at him, her eyebrow slightly twitching. "It's fine, I assumed that you were an enemy as well. Other than that you seem like an excellent liar, any reason for that Jody?"

"I'm very glad you asked. When you're entire thing is making believable illusions you have got to be a good actor. So basically I can summon this colony of bugs and if they are destroyed or bite someone they turn into this pink mist. If inhaled I can make illusions in someone's mind, the more mist the better the illusions. That's why I named it Sweet Dreams. I actually have this hypothesis that there is an alternate dimension that holds people's thoughts and drea-"

Shizuka stopped, holding up a hand. "I didn't bring you along to listen to your Dream Dimension theory, sounds like you played too much Persona 5." Shizuka gasped, her mind racing and thinking of her dream the night before. "Did you dream about anything in particular? Like the day before I came to this school?"

"Just the same old same old, endless stretch of pink clouds. Surrounded by Sweet Dreams. Every once in a while, I'll see someone in the distance, they never move or do anything though. When I try and run at them it feels like I'm not moving anywhere."

"I had a dream very similar! I was in the landscape you described. Your disgusting bugs were slithering up my arms. It was terrifying, having claustrophobia sucks."

Jody looked confused, then excited, "You linked into the Dream Dimension! See I knew my hypothesis was true, maybe something triggered it or some sort of reaction to - "

Shizuka held up her hand again, "it really sounds interesting, but again you're just describing Mementos. It's probably just something related to your stand. Like a product of your ability is letting you control your dreams even easier than your illusions."

Jody frowned a little, making Shizuka feel a little bad for her teasing. "Can I ask you something?"

Jody perked up, "Sure."

"Do you have a birthmark? Like a star on your back, like closer to the right of your back, by your neck?"

"Yeah? How did you guess that?" Jody turned around and pulled his collar down enough to show off the signature star birthmark.

Shizuka sighed, "Yeah, my family always has a star birthmark in that spot. Just wanted to make sure you had one."

Shizuka looked down, feeling inferior, "Again I'm the only Joestar that doesn't have the birthmark, even Jody has one." They kept walking and she looked into the sky

When they arrived at the hotel Jody asked a singular question, "What was my father's Stand? I was born with mine, so he must've had one right?"

Shizuka stopped for a second and then stated, "He had 3 stands, his original stand was White Snake, which allowed him to steal memories and stands in the form of disks. It could also make illusions. Your father was a wolf in sheep's clothing, a priest with incredible sins. I don't know much about C-Moon or Made in Heaven though, I didn't want to know about those monsters."

"I have some disks in a closet back at my student dorm! They have these weird holographic things in them, I think those might be stands!"

Shizuka gasped, "What do you see in them? I think I might be able to identify some of them if any of my family has seen them!"

"I don't remember what they look like because I haven't checked on them in a while. Should we keep going to your hotel or back to my student dorms?"

Shizuka stated, "We should go back to your dorm, we haven't walked that far." Jody nodded and they jogged back to the school. "Why am I putting my trust in him, I still don't know if he's friend or foe. I guess I'll have to keep my eye on him". They arrived outside of the 2 story dorms and Jody walked up the staircase, pulled out some keys, and unlocked a room on the right side of the building. Shizuka followed.

"I do have to warn you, my roommate is a little shy and stand-offish", Jody cracked open the door. Shizuka could've sworn that she could see a foul green stench erupt from the door, "Yo, Vincent we have company, I better not see any calculator parts on the table again!"

Jody walked into the dorm and was hit with an overwhelming stench, somehow even worse than what she had smelled previously, discount candles and unwashed laundry entered her nostrils and made her lightheaded. She recoiled back and gagged, leaning against the railing of the building.

"Give me a few minutes, I have some Febreeze in the bathroom."

After about 7 minutes or so, Jody opened the door and sheepishly welcomed Shizuka in. His dorm consisted of a living area, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, and a kitchen, which had a mountain of dishes in the sink. Vincent stood in the kitchen, hovering over the microwave as something was being prepared inside of it. Vincent had some glasses on his caucasian face. He had slight slouch and dirty blonde hair with spiky bangs. He wore small blue sandals and had some headphones in his ears, leading into a small lump in his pocket. Shizuka's cheeks beamed pink, "I've never been in a boys room, let alone his house". Jody sprinted towards his room and a few minutes later emerged with a CD rack, holding close to 5 CDs.

He splayed it out on a cheap plastic fold-out table in the living room. Sadly, Shizuka didn't recognize any stands within the CDs. "I can't see any stands I recognize, by description or by sight. These must've been stands he felt too important to leave Foo Fighters to guard, maybe they were meant for you?" Jody shrugged.

"Meant for me? Like what, someone had My mom thinks these are just old CDs of music and other junk that he liked, she doesn't know about stands as far as I know."

"Do you want to help me? Like, help me find what this chain of command you said the school has is. Hailey is supposed to be in the nurse's office and I don't know anyone here or how many stand users are here. I really need - "

"Sure, I'll do it. I don't have anything else better to do."

Jody shrugged, Shizuka was shocked, more than when she licked a battery a few years back. Vincent peered into the living room, with Hot Pockets on a small plastic plate. "What is she talking about Jody?" He muttered.

"Remember how the school is basically a monopoly controlled by some guy at the top?"

Vincent nodded slowly

"And then how a bunch of people have stands and are using them willy nilly?"

Vincent nodded slowly again

"She wants me to help with that."

"Okay. Are we still gonna watch anime on Fridays?" Vincent said, very mundanely.

Jody shrugged, "If we can squeeze it in between overthrowing the school then yeah."

"Ok", Vincent sighed, "I guess I'm in too."

"Do you have a stand?" Shizuka said, butting into the conversation. "What does it do?"

Vincent sighed again, "Just data and things like that. Digital Witness is pretty weak."

Vincent looked down, seeming embarrassed. The conversation seemed to come to its boring end Shizuka extended her small hand to shake on it with Jody. He smiled and she watched as a massive glob of spit was shot like a cannonball from Jody's mouth and coated his hand like fresh paint, dripping onto the floor and melting the carpet. Shizuka eyed the spit for a while, rethinking her decision incredibly fast. She opened her mouth to object when Jody started talking.

"I'm just messing with you," Jody said, as he laughed and pink smoke washed away the spit. "I got you while we were looking over the CDs. It takes a while but the smoke can go through your sweat glands if necessary." Shizuka winced as the smoke spewed out of her ears and Vincent let out a slight chuckle. "For real, let's shake on it", extending his hand. Shizuka begrudgingly shook his hand, relieved that she hadn't been covered in the illusion. Vincent stood up waved goodbye and turned around, walking away, seemingly to his room.

"I guess we're like a superhero team! All of us have stands and we all want to get rid of the hierarchy at the school!"

Shizuka smiled, "What have I gotten myself into?"

She stood up and moved her way towards the door, relieved that the disgusting mix of Febreeze and wretched stench. She opened the door and looked behind her, Jody had turned on the TV in the corner of the room, which opened up on a cheesy Hallmark special. She left the student dorms and made her way back to the hotel, pulling out her mobile phone. She opened up the phone app and called the Speedwagon Foundation, explaining the situation on the first day at the school.

"Ms. Shizuka we request that you come back to New York, we can send someone else down there to handle the situation."

"No, I'm going to see this through, I am invested in this now. You do not need to tell anyone else to come down here."

"Ok, I hope you suc-", the connection broke out as she dipped into an alleyway. After tapping at the screen she shoved her phone back into her purse and continued walking back to her room.

Unbeknownst to her, she made her first two friends on this bizarre adventure.

Stand Stat's Time Baby!

Stand Name: Sweet Dreams Stand User: Jody Pucci

Destructive Power: D Speed: C Range: A Durability: E Precision: C Potential: A

When Sweet Dreams is destroyed or bites a target they become smoke, which when inhaled allows the user to manipulate their senses. The more smoke inhaled the more senses can be manipulated. If the user is physically damaged the illusions fade. If the person experiencing the illusion realizes where Jody is during the illusion they can attack him, ending the illusion. It seems to have more room to grow past its form now.

Author's Note:

Oh my god, I finally finished another chapter for this Jojo story. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! We pretty recently hit 100 views on this story! By the time this has been posted we will have passed 100 views! A little sneak peek for the next chapter is Money. Take that as you will and if you wait long enough you'll be able to read the next chapter and see how it's tied in. I never thought this story would gain any traction but I'm glad it's at least a little popular. Again if you guys have any ideas for Stands, Character Ideas, or Other Ideas I could use just shoot me a PM and feel free to give me your thoughts in the comments.