Joseph sighed as he stood by a fountain, the ever-present umbrella hanging above him. It had been about 4 hours of wandering around Morioh, and somehow he still hasn't run into anyone he knows.
"I'm just having the worst luck today," He sighed, putting a palm to his face.
He'd have to be getting back to his hotel room soon since it was going to be getting too late for Shizuka to be out.
He stepped around a corner and what he saw brought a huge grin on his face. There standing beside his car all the way at the end of the other street was Rohan Kishibe, he seemed to be sketching people as they walked by.
Joseph picked up his pace, running out in front of a car. The front edge of the car clipped his ankle, but instead of leaving an injury on him, he left a huge dent in it instead.
Rohan stared in awe and slight horror at this.
"...Are you alright?" He asked, putting his sketchbook in the front seat of his car.
"Yes, I'm fine, but I need your help!" Joseph said frantically, "DIO is-"
Joseph was cut off as Hermit Purple shot out and grabbed Rohan by the throat, slamming the back of his head into the door of the car. It then proceeded to shoot through his chest and one of his arms and into the car's radio.
"Oh my god!" He shouted, covering Shizuka's eyes.
"You idiot. Look what you've gone and done." DIO's voice came through the radio of the car, "Your friend is going to die now because you just couldn't keep your mouth shut. Are you happy?"
Joseph listened as Rohan's heartbeat slowed due to the loss of blood. Shizuka panicked in his arms yet again, turning him and a good portion of the car invisible. This cleared his line of sight to see Josuke stepping out of a building down the street.
"Josuke!" He shouted, causing the teen to look up.
Josuke froze. "What the hell happened over there?!" Josuke shouted as he began to run over.
"It's-" Joseph began to shout. Just then, a car drove past behind Joseph. Hermit Purple latched onto it from behind Joseph's head, pulling them away from the scene at high speed. It ripped the door open and forced the two into the passenger seat, slamming the door shut all while keeping Joseph covered by the umbrella.
The driver was a young woman, who screamed and swerved the car.
Hermit Purple slammed into the car's radio and Joseph was horrified at what he heard. In Joseph's own voice, DIO spoke through the radio.
"You will continue driving and take us to your home."
He went to intervene, but the vines wrapped around his mouth and nose before he could say anything. He rocked Shizuka, trying to keep her calm in the hopes that things wouldn't get any worse.
After an hour or two of driving in silence other than the woman's sobs and the beating hearts of the occupants, the car pulled into the woman's driveway and Joseph looked at the house. It was on the outskirts of Morioh, a small yellow home with a very long driveway.
He looked over at the woman.
There was one good thing about this...She was pretty cute.