AN: Here we are, our first Stand battle!
I hope I did a decent job of it, but we'll see soon enough.
Right, enough talk.
Let's begin!
Disclaimer: I, Beowulf, do not own PJO or JJBA. I only own this plot, my OC, and the disappointing truth that I do not possess D4C. If I did, I'd definitely jump to the Percy Jackson universe at least once.
~Chapter 8~
Apollo sneezed, grumbling to himself. "Hmmm, I feel like someone is trying to take my place for having the sweetest ride...Nah, no one beats mine."
He chuckled as he drove the Sun through the sky. His face became more pensive and worried as he thought about his missing sister. He scowled.
The God of Prophecy was getting agitated. He'd been searching for days, checking through her favorite hunting spots along his route across the sky, even peering into the future with his powers.
Nothing.
Nothing!
His Oracle had given a quest for it, but he was still worried. He was always a bit overprotective of his sister after...Orion...
The Sun God scowled to himself. He never forgave himself for failing her. Never again.
Maybe a change in thought subject would help his mood...
"Who were the people on this quest again...oh right, Cyrus is on this one."
The young man was a mystery. Apollo prided himself on knowing a lot of things. After all, he was the God of Knowledge and Prophecy. And for once in a very long time, he couldn't see into this teen's future, or his past. Hell, half the time he didn't even know his present!
Cyrus Khan was an enigma. Even the videos that Dionysus had sent him as per their agreement had done nothing to alleviate that that mystery. All he knew was that Hades and Thanatos seemed to harbor a minor grudge/interest in the boy, Hecate apparently adored him, Athena was getting close to obsession regarding finding the truth of him, Hermes loved the trickster of a boy, and Aphrodite...well lets just say the squees were starting to grate on everyone on Olympus's ears.
Zeus in particular was not entirely pleased, but respected the boy...and by that he meant he didn't smite him with a lightning blast the size of Belgium.
Apollo's face grew more pensive as he became lost in thought. The boy was not of their world...he had divinity. That much was certain, but it wasn't any of theirs...and it wasn't of the...other kinds either.
His strange power...his D4C was the key to solving the mystery of Cyrus Khan. He was sure of it.
The Sun God shook his head as he cleared his mind. "Whatever, as long as they find my little sis, it'll be fine. Besides, I'm sure they're doing just fine and making good progress in the quest my Oracle gave them."
"My Stand, Hellrider will crush every last one of you into mincemeat!"
Cyrus growled as Hellrider began to gain on them. "Fuck me sideways, I thought I'd have at least a few days before the guys Illuso and Formaggio mentioned would be on my tail!"
"Drive Cyrus, drive!" Grover bleated with his eyes wide with panic.
"I'm on it already!" He floored the accelerator once again, keeping just ahead of the monstrous vehicle as the grill-turned-maw chomped hungrily behind them.
Thalia, for once, looked nervous as she looked through the back window. She gritted her teeth as she tried to strike the enemy Stand with another lightning bolt.
The car tanked it head on, swerving a little, but as they watched, the warped metal on the hood from the strike quickly healed, leaving it as good as new.
"How is this vehicle doing all of this?!" Zoe asked as she kept her eyes glued on the massive threat that was lumbering towards them with increasingly worrying rapidity.
Cyrus gritted his teeth as he kept glancing back at the rearview. "His Stand is the reason. It's enhancing his vehicle to the point that it can pull all this shit off."
"Well what do we do? You're the resident Stand expert!" Phoebe shouted out, clearly too stressed to be all 'anti-man' against Cyrus.
"I can't reach him! D4C's strength is in close range, I can't beat him from here!" The Stand User retorted. "There's a chance I could use D4C to reappear inside his car, but it's too risky trying to reappear inside something that's moving that fast!" (1)
"Just think of something!"
"I'm thinking!" Cyrus yelled back as he tried to steer the van properly.
"Okay, think Cyrus, think! His Stand is manifested in the car. It merged with the car, so it's visible to mortals too. It healed the damage that D4C hit it with, and it can tank Thalia's lightning strikes. What a fearsome ability...but there has to be more. He's taking his sweet time to try and chase us down. He's cocky and arrogant, so we have to play into that. Maybe if I..."
He grinned widely, "Alright, I'll admit, your Hellrider's pretty cool. But come on, don't you think you're compensating for a little something with making your car that big?"
"What's that you brat?" The voice of the enemy Stand User snarled out from the radio.
"You heard me bastard! You're compensating for something aren't you. Oh I'm so embarrassed for you. Dumbass!" Cyrus laughed mockingly as he jeered at their foe. "I mean what else can you do? You can just barely keep up with this bucket of bolts van while you've used your Stand to morph your car into that abomination! Talk about pathetic!"
Zoe grabbed his arm, glaring at him as she hissed. "What art thou doing?!"
He gave her a 'trust me' look before glancing up to see a fork in the road. One side led back onto the main road, and the other was closed off for construction with the sign saying "dead end."
Cyrus grinned as a plan took shape. The voice growled in irritation. "I'm gonna lay you out brat! I'll squash you flat under my wheels!"
The demigod Stand User grinned as he turned onto the second path, smashing through the sign as he taunted back. "Come and get us then asshole!" And with that, he smashed the radio, turning it into a mangled mess.
"I hope you know what you're doing Cy!" Thalia yelled out as she leaned away from the windows, not willing to take a look at the sheer drop-off there was on the other side of the guardrail. Her hands gripped onto whatever purchase she could find as her knuckles whitened.
He drove like a madman as he zipped across the lanes, trying to shake their pursuer. No such luck, the transformed Cadillac kept right on their tail. The window on it rolled down, showing off a heavily muscled arm.
"You think you can shake me? You stupid brats, you can't escape!" Hellrider's user jeered out from the open driver's window. Cyrus cursed.
"Take the wheel. Keep it steady." He ordered Zoe. Shaking off her shock quickly, she nodded and did as commanded. He quickly clambered out of the drivers seat as Zoe took his place, materializing the Last Word in hand.
Thalia stared at him for a moment. "Cy, what are you doing?"
Cyrus gave her a mad wink which turned her face red. "Something he won't predict." He replied as he crammed himself under the leg-space in the shotgun seat. Calling on D4C's power, he made the space into a sort of portal, opening up on the top of the car. (2)
Popping out halfway out of the roof of the car, he blasted six bullets into their enemy's windshield. The bullets hit their mark, putting a few solid holes in the windshield. He smirked as the the bullets seemed to make the driver panic for a moment, as the Cadillac slipped and slid.
As he ejected the chamber and reloaded, he watched as the bullet holes seemed to heal one after another, while the car itself seemed to slip and slide a little. His eyes narrowed as he took notice.
Cyrus suddenly paled as the front of the Cadillac's monstrous form seemed to rear up like a cobra. "Shit!" The grill-turned-mouth of the enemy Stand User's vehicle breathed fire.
He slipped back into the van as fast as he could, reappearing out of the leg-space. He grimaced as he felt the eyebrows and stubble singe, along with minor burns on his face. The rest of the group flinched a little as he emerged, while Thalia's eyes narrowed, no doubt wondering how he did that. "Okay, so plus side, he has to heal the damage that we do to the car bit by bit."
"Well that's great. How does that benefit us?" Phoebe snapped sarcastically.
"He keeps skidding every time a bit of the damage is healed..." Cyrus mused, before he turned to Thalia. "Thals, can you hit him with another lightning bolt?"
Thalia nodded, still a bit white in the face from the close proximity to the guardrail on her side. "Alright good, Zoe, gimme the wheel again." He ordered.
This time Zoe was not too keen on following the order. Her eyes narrowed as did Cyrus's. "Do you want to live, or not?!" The teen Stand User snarled out. Reluctantly, she relinquished control to Cyrus again.
A mad grin crept across his face as he kept up his speed.
Grover's face, if it were possible, seemed to be getting paler and paler by the second. Paying the poor satyr no mind, Cyrus shouted out to Thalia. "Hit him with another bolt!"
She obliged, and another lightning strike came down from the sky, blasting their enemy with electricity. "Got him!"
Looking back to see the result, their stomachs sank.
The enemy Stand User was still on their tail. As the smoke cleared, the Cadillac skidded a little as the damage healed once again.
Grover moaned in despair as he put his head in his hands. "Oh Gods, this thing's like a tank! What kind of car can take hits like that so easily? We're so dead!" He lamented loudly as he started making prayers to Pan.
"HAHAHAHA! With the power of my Hellrider, you don't stand a chance on this road!"
Cyrus on the other hand, grinned as his suspicions were confirmed. "I see...I know how to beat this guy now!" He exclaimed as he kept up the acceleration.
"Oh? Is that so now?" The enemy inquired, his tone as arrogant and cocky as ever.
"Care to share with the class?" Thalia yelled out sarcastically over the cacophony. He ignored both of the questions, grinning wildly.
Up ahead, the 'dead end' that the sign had mentioned was coming up fast. It was a straight drop off, probably down into the ocean if one had to guess. The teen wielder of D4C smirked as his plan began to take shape.
"Cy, what are you doing?!" The daughter of Zeus's eyes widened in fear as her acrophobia began to act up.
"Trust me on this!"
"What the hell are you planning?" The voice of their enemy taunted once again, the laughter mocking their efforts. "I just told you, you can't beat me on this road! I'll paint the asphalt red with your blood!"
Cyrus looked back at Thalia as she started to panic a little. "Thalia! When I say, I need you to hit him with one last lightning bolt. Can you do that?"
Thalia nodded quickly, not trusting her voice at the prospect of speeding towards a cliff.
They were now at least thirty meters from the edge!
"Ready..."
Twenty meters...
Ten meters!
"NOW!"
The lightning bolt arced down from the sky, striking the car right on its roof. The car swerved for a moment, but before the car had a chance to heal, Cyrus gave the wheel a hard yank to the left, swerving as he narrowly escaped the edge of the dead end.
With a few yelps, his passengers slammed against the side of the van, which made Cyrus wince, but never mind that. His main focus was on Hellrider which made him grin.
The Cadillac, just as he'd predicted, skidded a bit out of control as it tried to heal the damage from Thalia's strike. It had only managed to stop just a few inches from the edge. Not much, but enough!
"I knew it! His vehicle only heals after an attack if he concentrates on it! That's why he was skidding and swerving whenever we got him with a hit, not because the hits startled him, but because he had to divert his attention onto healing the damage!"
With a roar, Cyrus, smashed out the door of the van, jumping out even as the van kept spinning and making a mad dash towards the Cadillac. "You're FINISHED! D4C!"
The Stand appeared from its User, rushing forward. It's normally placid stare now looked enraged, the pink eyes glowing with fury. Cocking back a fist, the Stand unleashed a brutal haymaker punch to the back end of the car.
The back bumper of the Cadillac crumpled, sending the car flying off the edge into the chasm below. A few minutes later a splash was heard.
"Phew...that should be the end of that bastard..." Cyrus panted a little as he recalled his Stand, looking back at his group. He gave a grin to them as they approached.
Grover looked green in the face from the sheer carsickness that had developed from the chase, while the other three girls were still a bit shaky. Oh, and all three were glaring at him.
He gave a sheepish grin as they walked over from where Zoe had put the van in parking. "Phew, what a rush..."
Thalia whacked him on the head. "Ow! What was-" "You idiot! What were you thinking?!"
"Uh...that I beat the enemy Stand User...?"
"By rushing out there like that? How can you be so reckless?!"
Cyrus frowned. Didn't she trust him? They'd beaten the enemy, so what was the problem? He froze suddenly and grimaced.
"Uh...does anyone hear something...?" He asked, hearing this strange drilling noise in the background.
"Don't change the subject Bamf-boy! I-" Grover's eyes widened. "He's not lying, I can hear it!"
Cyrus looked over the edge of the cliff, only to find his suspicions confirmed. He gritted his teeth.
The Cadillac had healed once again, and transformed itself. Now it had sprouted cables from its front, tipped with hooks that had buried themselves deep into the cliffside. Its wheels had spikes on the tires that dug into the cliffside, climbing up it. The flames that had been all around the vehicle had been doused by the ocean below, but that didn't stop the headlights from shining menacingly.
"HAHAHAHA! Did you really think it would be that easy?!" The User's voice cackled loudly from his open car window.
"What can this car not do?!" Grover bleated out in fear as he watched the Stand-enhanced car climb the cliff.
"Shit. Quick, grab your weapons and your things out of the van, this is gonna get ugly!" Cyrus barked out, bringing out his horned Stand. The Hunters did as he asked, quickly grabbing their gear while Thalia summoned Aegis and her spear. Grover readied his pipes, still bearing the worried expression on his face.
As the car finally made it up, it loomed over them before crashing down onto its wheels. The 'face' of the car roared, a horrible metallic grating sound that made everyone's ears hurt.
"Scatter!" Phoebe shouted out as they all spread out, making their enemy choose one target.
"Ho ho! Trying to make me pick a target are you? That means nothing!" The transformed Cadillac made a charge towards the van first. The steel jaws opened wide, chomping the van in half as it exploded.
Grover gulped. "Well...how are we going to explain that one to Chiron?"
"By saying thank the Gods, it was an eyesore!" Cyrus said lightheartedly, while inwardly he was scowling. "Shit! He just got rid of our only transport!"
The engine revved, before the vehicle began barreling towards Cyrus.
"My employer says you die first Khan! I'll grind you into paste and paint this road red with your brains! HAHAHAHAHA!" The enemy laughed maniacally like a kid on a joyride as he raced towards the teen.
Cyrus grinned as the thrill of the battle began to creep up in him. "Oh so you want to see who's stronger? Well bring it, lets see who wins!" He roared out in challenge as D4C stood behind him.
Suddenly, sparkles of light seemed to spew from Hellrider's beastly metal maw. The raven-maned teen's eyes widened. "Shit!"
Pain blossomed across his body as bullet-hole wounds punched into him. "Gargh!" He felt to a knee as the blood began to leak from the multiple holes in him.
"Cy!" Thalia cried out, her electric blue eyes filled with worry.
"W-what the hell did he hit me with? I didn't see anything, and I can't feel anything in my wounds, so they aren't bullets...shit this stings!" Cyrus rationalized before he saw sparkles of light flying again.
In a flash, Thalia was there in front of him, her trusty Aegis shielding him as he managed to stand up again. "What are you doing Thals? He wants me!"
"I don't care!" She growled back as whatever projectiles Hellrider was firing at them pinged harmlessly off of her shield, a bit of liquid however splattered over the shield, splashing over her clothes.
Cyrus's eyes narrowed as the liquid splashed over both of them. "What..? Liquid...?"
Meanwhile, Zoe and Phoebe were firing arrows at the Cadillac, trying to stop its charge but to no avail. The arrows seemed to penetrate, which was good, but did nothing to stop the car from speeding towards the two demigods. Zoe growled to herself. "Of course this man gets us into his brand of trouble..."
Thalia peeked over her shield, her eyes widening as she realized that the vehicular Stand was right on top of them, rearing up to crush them both.
"Move!" Cyrus shoved her out of the way towards Grover, leaving himself underneath the falling car.
In a flash, the Last Word was in his hand, quickly firing out a series of shots at the two front tires and rolling out of the way. He grinned as he got to his feet, facing their foe once again. His grin turned savage: Hellrider was in his range.
The voice sounded out. "You're quick on your feet Khan! I'll give you that much! But you still haven't realized! I've won!" He crowed as more sparkles of light fired from his Stand's mouth.
Cyrus snarled as he brought out his own Stand, ready to deliver a beatdown that this bastard would never forget. "The hell you have asshole! That was a neat trick, taking the water from your little dip and finding a way to fire it out like bullets. But nothing's going to stop me from beating the shit out of you!"
"HAHAHA! Think again dumbass! You thought that was water? Fool!"
Grover's eyes widened as he heard that, looking over at Thalia, who was also covered in the liquid that the Stand had fired at them. As he sniffed the air, his breath caught in his chest. "G-gas! He didn't fire water at you guys, he fired gasoline!"
Cyrus snarled in pain as more of the gasoline bullets punched through him again, making him dismiss D4C unwillingly as he fell to one knee. He spat out a glob of blood as he looked back up at his enemy. "Damn it, he took gasoline from his own car and used it as a weapon! He fired them like little pellets at high speed. They weren't just to harm, they were to set me up by dousing me in gasoline!"
"So you've figured it out," the voice acknowledged. "But! You've already lost!" The mouth of the monstrous car opened, a flicker of flame still inside.
"Burn!" A blast of flame burst from Hellrider's beastly maw, a flicker of it catching onto Cyrus's coat.
"What?!" Cyrus choked out as the spark caught onto the gasoline on his body.
"NO!" Thalia cried out, a hand reaching towards him.
The teen Stand User roared out in pain as fire engulfed him, burning him alive. "RAAARGH!
"Let me go Grover!" Thalia tried to pull away to run back to her best friend, only to be held back by the satyr.
Grover gritted his teeth a little as he struggled to keep Thalia away. "No Thalia! You have some gasoline on you too! We can't risk it!"
Zoe and Phoebe watched in horror as the young man on fire before them burned alive, still bellowing in pain as the flames consumed him.
The figure of Cyrus fell to the ground face down. The flames continued to burn as his cries suddenly ceased.
"CYRUS!" Thalia's anguished cry was almost deafening.
"HAHAHA! I WIN! YOUR JOURNEY'S OVER YOU DAMN BRATS!" The enemy crowed, laughing as the teen burned on the ground.
The cruel laughter of their foe echoed as the remaining four quest-goers despaired.
"Is that so?" Everyone's jaws dropped. Thalia instantly perked up, her eyes wide in shock.
"Wha-GRGH!" The cruel voice suddenly stopped, replaced by a choking noise from within the Cadillac.
The Cadillac suddenly began to shake. "You nearly had me there, I'm impressed. But you stupid idiot, you failed to account for my D4C...You were already within my range!"
The car door suddenly smashed open, a figure flying out from within the car with a shout of pain. "Wh-wait what?" Phoebe gaped in shock as she struggled to understand what she was seeing.
Stepping out of the Cadillac after the figure had gone flying was...Cyrus?!
The young Stand User looked completely unharmed! No holes in his body, no gasoline on him, no burns...he even had his coat which was fine!
"Wait...his coat..." Zoe spoke up, looking over to where they'd seen Cyrus's burning body. Her eyes widened. Only the burning coat was there. So how did he still have his coat on him?
"When I collapsed over there," Cyrus explained, jabbing his thumb over his shoulder to show his burning coat which was slowly becoming ashes. "I was between my coat and the ground. My D4C allowed me to vanish and reappear inside your Hellrider. You had a good move by trying to ignite me with that fire breath or whatever, but you were within my range and you were stationary, which means I could warp into your car with no issue!"
The enemy Stand User got to his feet quickly, showing himself to the group.
He was short and squat, with a balding head. He had bulbous black eyes and a fat nose, like some angler fish crossed with a dwarf. He wore a lot of metal around his fat neck, multiple chains of gold, silver and iron hanging low. He also wore a dark red vest with his arms exposed, the arms being massively large and muscular when compared to the rest of his fat body. He wore nothing under said vest and wore a pair of black shorts and sandals.
"S-shit!" Their voice shook as their foe scrambled back away from Cyrus. The teenager's eyes hardened as he drew his gun.
Bang! And popped him right in the back of the leg.
As their weakened foe wailed in pain, clutching at his leg, Cyrus just walked up nice and slow, his Last Word disappearing as he put his hands in his pockets. "You were talking a big game when you were in your car huh? How about now?!" He said with a snarl as he stomped on the wounded leg, pinning the enemy Stand User down.
"You mentioned something about not being able to beat you on this road, didn't you?" The dark-haired Stand User glared at his subdued foe, his eyes glinting with power as Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap materialized, grabbing Hellrider's user by the throat and holding him up.
"How about I make a new one?" D4C raised a clenched fist.
"With your body!" Cyrus roared out as he let the bastard have it.
D4C's beatdown was relentless and brutal. The Stand held the enemy in place while the other blue fist smashed into the enemy's face over and over in a blur of movement, drawing blood and making a sound like an cannon blast with every single strike.
Crunch!
With one last punch, the Stand let go, sending the fat idiot flying. He smashed into the side of the guardrail, knocked out cold with broken bones all over his body.
Cyrus cracked his neck as he dismissed D4C. Hellrider's user would be fine, considering he had pulled his punches. After all, he still needed to rip information out of him. That was just him venting frustration after he ticked him off earlier.
Hearing a puff of air, he turned to see that the Stand-enhanced car was changing again. It slowly began to shrink, losing its beastly maw and insectoid mandibles. The spikes on the tires disappeared as slowly but surely, it became a Cadillac Coupe DeVille again at peak condition.
He smirked. Now that the enemy Stand User was out of commission, the Stand had separated from the car.
Hearing something behind him, he gave a grin...which promptly faltered.
Grover was gaping at Cyrus like he'd told him the exact location of Pan and that it was in the Underworld, Zoe and Phoebe were closing and opening their mouths as they looked back and forth between Cyrus and the enemy Stand User, and Thalia...oh boy.
Thalia looked positively murderous. Her blue eyes were sparking, her teeth were bared, and her raven locks were standing on end. She was also...blushing? Her face was tinted red, and shaking in her hands was Aegis.
Cyrus gulped before he giggled a little nervously.
"Erm...Dojyaan~?"
Surprisingly to Cyrus, Thalia had not gone and tried to kill him with her spear. Instead she had just breezed past him, refusing to look at him. He winced a little at that, but sighed.
"I guess I kind of deserve that one."
He heard the sounds of stirring from where he sat near the guardrails. Their little 'prisoner' seemed to be waking up. He grinned evilly.
Hello punching bag.
"Wh-what? What the hell happened t'me..."
"I did." The enemy's eyes snapped open at the sound of Cyrus's voice. He looked around wildly, seeing Grover, Zoe, Phoebe and Thalia all glaring at him with murderous intent boiling in their eyes. Well, at least the last three. Grover was trying but he was still a bit shaken from the fight.
And worst of all (for the Stand User), was Cyrus leaning over him. The teen was currently rifling through a wallet. He pulled a card out of it before looking at it closely.
"Giuseppe Acciaio, huh? Interesting name. What's an Italian like you doing out here?" (3)
The newly named Giuseppe gulped. "I-I um...listen kid, I-" A blue fist shot out, denting the guardrail right next to his head.
"I'm asking the questions here! And I want some damn answers Giuseppe!" Cyrus bit out, letting D4C's arm disappear.
"P-please don't kill me! I was only in this for the money!" The fat Italian stuttered out, his eyes bulging with fear.
Cyrus's eyes narrowed. "Money? You mentioned something about an employer. Who is it?"
Giuseppe shivered. "I-I don't know. NO! No seriously I don't!" He scrambled for words as he saw the boy's green-fuchsia eyes glow again.
Thalia scowled, stepping forward. "You have to know something, so spill!"
"H-he paid me through a proxy! One payment upfront in cash, the rest after the job was done! I swear!"
"He's not lying." Cyrus mused as he held up a roll of cash that Giuseppe had kept on him. As he put the money in his coat, he looked back at the dwarf of a Stand User, "Who was the proxy?"
He gulped nervously. "I-I..."
Cyrus's eyes turned icy. "Now."
"Please, don't hurt me! I promise I won't cause anymore trouble with you guys! Please!" The man pleaded, begging for his life.
"...Alright fine, I'll give you my word that I won't hurt you if you tell me the name of your proxy." Cyrus agreed, earning himself a hard glare from the females of the group, which he ignored.
Giuseppe relaxed a little, before he got a glare from Cyrus. "U-uh Thorn! His name was Dr. Thorn! He contacted me and my bosses about a deal to kill you and the rest. I don't know anything else I swear!"
A grimace curled the dark-maned teen's lips as the others in his party scowled. Of course, that manticore had come back from Tartarus surprisingly fast...
Cyrus stared into the black eyes of Hellrider's user, before he nodded and stood up. "Thank you. Right then...girls, I'll leave him to your tender mercies." He said as he began to walk away.
"W-wait! You promised you wouldn't hurt me!" Giuseppe protested as he paled rapidly.
"I gave my word that I wouldn't hurt you. I never said anything about my compatriots...what was it you said when you started coming after us? Oh right. 'I heard some of the girls you got had some nice bods!'" Cyrus recalled out loud, making the Italian's complexion drain out even faster.
"Girls...have fun!~" The teen Stand User sang out as he walked away.
Giuseppe felt his stomach drop as he saw his hopes literally walk away from him. He slowly turned his head, seeing the three females in front of him. All of them radiating murderous intent.
They cracked their knuckles, and just like that, all Hell broke loose.
Cyrus whistled as he returned from putting all of their backpacks and gear into what used to be Giuseppe's Cadillac. As he approached, he chuckled at the state of the Italian.
The three girls glared at him a little, which made him smile back. "I'm glad to see you got to vent out a lot of frustrations on him. And before you ask, I knew he was scared enough that he'd agree to any conditions I set for him so he could live. If he even managed to reject them, I'd still have let you girls beat the crap out of him. You guys got to use righteous feminine fury, Grover didn't have a heart attack, and now I've got a nice ride!" He said as he clicked the keys.
A quick beep-beep came from the Coupe DeVille as he grinned at everyone. "Everyone wins!" He said with a smile as he turned and walked back towards the car. Everyone gaped at him in awe as he simply opened the driver's door and looked back at them. "Ladies...and satyr...let's go save a Goddess shall we?" He winked, before he sat down and closed the door.
"...okay that was smooth," Thalia admitted, fighting down the blush on her face in favor of trying to stay angry with her fellow raven-haired demigod. Quickly rushing over to the car, she managed to snag herself the shotgun seat. "Haha, suck it Nightshade! Shotgun's mine! Enjoy the ride being cramped in the back seats!" She thought mentally as she grinned in glorious victory at the now scowling hunter.
That left Grover and the two hunters in the back seats. Cyrus winced a little. "Oh...I am so sorry Grover. Oh well, he'll thank me at some point." He thought to himself as the satyr and the two maidens piled into the back seats. Phoebe, once again, sat behind Cyrus, and Grover sat behind Thalia, leaving Zoe to sit in the middle.
The Stand User absently switched on the radio, to hear Kiss's Heaven's on Fire start playing through the speakers. Cyrus grinned wildly.
Flooring the accelerator, his passengers' eyes widened once again as Grover voiced their silent question.
"WE JUST GOT DONE WITH A CAR CHASE! ARE YOU INSANE?!" He screamed out as he clutched at the walls and seat.
Cyrus merely laughed as the chorus came on. "Oh, you know it!"
The engine roared as the speedometer ticked well past eighty and into the hundreds.
"Come on, guys! Next stop: D.C.! Feel my heat, takin' you higher! Burn with me, Heaven's on Fire! HAHAHA!"
The car roared away as Giuseppe was left to his poor state of being after the girls had gotten through with him.
Tied to the guardrail with wire in a way that bent him over almost backwards, the poor Italian Stand User was gagged with an apple that Grover had on him, beaten black and blue by the outraged girls.
He screamed around his gag. "Help! HELP!"
Giuseppe Acciaio, user of the Stand Hellrider. RETIRED!
AN: And that's that!
I really hope I did a decent job with the Stand battle. I drew a lot from the Wheel of Fortune battle while putting in interesting uses of D4C being used.
So, there is the 'mysterious employer' huh? How are they getting all these Stand users out of the blue? Let's hope we find out!
Notes:
(1) There's no doubt that D4C is an immensely powerful and versatile Stand, but Stands are ultimately dependent on their users. Hell, its even suggested that Valentine only scratched the surface of its uses and he only had it for like a few months. Right now, Cyrus wants to limit the use of his Stand because the power itself could probably cause him some problems if its true power is revealed...he hasn't done a good job of defusing suspicion, but that's what he's been trying to go for. Plus, he's still a teen and has yet to fully mature as a Stand User and grow stronger in using said Stand.
(2) D4C essentially functions by creating a portal of sorts when the User moves between two objects. Just like that, the User can also stay within the portal, more or less. This is seen during the fight Valentine has against Diego and Wekapipo where he stays inside the flag that he's using as a portal. He can also drag himself and others into an 'in between' state where they're half inside the portal, such as when he pulled Diego through the portal and only allowed half of Diego's body to the other world. This is essentially what Cyrus has managed to pull off here.
(3) Acciaio is Italian for Steel, which is of course is meant for the fact that his Stand is a hulking mass of metal.
Right, that's it for the notes! I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter!
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Beowulf