Here's the chapter again, hopefully it's legible this time.
Blake walked through downtown Vale looking for any signs of her red leader. She had turned her phone off, so she wouldn't get distracted and was stopping to smell the air every few minutes in hopes of catching the scent of rose petals. She was walking down one such empty street when she became aware that she was being followed. She turned her head, so she appeared to be looking across the street but saw in her peripheral her pursuer-
A cat
A small black cat was stalking her about 3 yards back, but stopped and pretended to mind its' own business, it knew it was being watched. Blake approached the alley cat because what normal person can resist trying to pet an alley cat? As she got closer however the cat waded into the shadows and disappeared. This was shocking to Blake for two reasons. The first was that almost nothing could escape her by hiding in shadows. The second was that when she looked around for it she saw it was somehow 3 yards behind her, about where she was standing when she first saw it. The cat was in the light now and she could see a few interesting things about it. The cat seemed to absorb all light around it, making it appear almost two-dimensional. A golden bell hung from its' neck but, no collar was evident, and two tails, moving independently, came from its backside.
Blake fell into a ready stance and dialed her locker. There were no bone plates, and its' eyes weren't red, but this could still be some new type of Grimm. Sensing her aggression, the cat started cautiously stalking towards her. Blake coiled and prepared to strike at the strange cat, but then she decided to watch a passing truck in case it veered off and hit her. It seemed like a good idea. The distraction cost her as when she looked back the cat was already mid-air, poised to hit her midsection. Blake jumped back and left a clone behind, ready to hit the cat as it sailed through the shadow.
And then her clone kicked her in the head.
Blake looked up from the ground at her own clone, looking back at her with impossible intelligence in its' eyes and a golden bell hanging from its neck. She didn't have time to be shocked as the possessed clone tried to tackle her. Blake scrambled to her feet and dodged the rush and put some distance between the two of them. If she could just deal enough damage the clone would fade and hopefully the cat with it. Why couldn't she have claws like her dad? Where was her weapon? It should be here by now, she just dialed- oh, her scroll was off.
Shit.
She dodged another shove from her clone and turned her scroll on. Why was there a powering on animation? Why couldn't it just turn on? Who asked for this? She took another step back to dodge a swipe from the clone when she felt her foot catch on something. Her world turned as she fell backward with the clone on top of her. They thrashed around, neither having expertise in grappling.
Eventually Blake found herself prone with her other self on top of her. If the situation wasn't so bizarre, she would have been reminded of a scene from one of her books. She readied herself for any blow when she felt an odd tugging, like Velcro being slowly peeled off, on her back. The tension was released, and the clone crawled off her.
Wait.
Blake made another shadow clone and watched the possessed clone fade away, leaving only the strange cat behind. Why hadn't she thought of that earlier? She turned to face her attacker, but the cat was ignoring her. Instead, it was staring with raised hackles at a creature on the side walk. It looked how a lobster would if it didn't have a shell, its' legs ended in sharp hooks, and a giant eye stared at the sky from its' back.
Blake then heard slow clapping from further up the road. Walking towards was a person wearing an open black overcoat, underneath of which was a double-breasted red suit jacket and a white shirt along with green and purple striped pants.
"Not bad, I was expecting my little seed to bear such fine stand users, but I am surprised one was delivered right to me," The stranger said.
"Who are you?" Blake's question was emphasized by her locker landing next to her.
"I am a herald for this world's new god. Come with me child, and I will show you the glory of our shining god!"
Blake's answer was to raise Gambol Shroud at the newcomer.
"A pity but I will see if I can change your mind," they said with a grin.
The creature behind her than leaped at her back, trying to latch on again. Blake pivoted and slashed at the thing, but her sword passed right through it. The monster was inches from here face before it froze.
The creature hung in the air, suspended by green ropes.
"I had worried this would happen, but I hadn't expected to run into one of you so soon," said a voice from above.
Noriaki Kakyoin clung to the side of a building like a lizard, green stands binding his hands and feet to the brick building. The strands released him, and he tucked into a somersault and landed on his feet in a low crouch.
"What-what is happening right now?" Blake asked.
"To make a long story short these creatures are called Stands and this distasteful one," he gave the lobster Stand a squeeze, causing a cry to come from the stranger, "belongs to our friend over there. While I have him restrained, would you mind taking care of him? He may not have aura so be careful," he said, never taking his eyes off the stranger.
Blake didn't consider herself an impulsive individual, but in this case, she decided to favor the man who didn't try to attack her with a baby xenomorph. She shifted Gambol Shroud into a ballistic chain scythe and hit the stranger with the blunt edge. The stranger evidently didn't have aura because they went down with barely a grunt.
The enemy was defeated and Blake and Kakyoin stood victorious.
There was a bit of an awkward silence.
"My apologies, my name is Noriaki Kakyoin. Nice to meet you," he said with a bow.
"Blake," She gave a bow of her own. "Yang and Ruby mentioned you. Are you going to explain what's going on now?"
"I will. You have become a Stand-user. The cat behind you, this green fellow next to me and the strange creature we just fought are all called Stands. They're sort of like guardian spirits summoned by your mind and strengthened by your will."
"How did I create a stand? And why aren't these things common knowledge?"
"Starting with the first question, did you find a bloodstain on you that you didn't remember getting?"
"Maybe? What, did I get bit by a stand vampire?" she asked sarcastically.
"I'd hope not." he said seriously. "You were cut with a Stand arrow, an object which for an unknown reason causes people to develop stands."
"There's an object which gives people mystical powers and you have no idea how it works?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"We only found out about recently." he demurred. "As for the second question, there are two reasons. The first is that Stands are invisible to non-users. The reason I started following you was because no one else saw the creature on your back or the cat stalking you.
"You saw that thing on me and didn't do anything!?"
"I didn't have a clue which Stand was yours. I wanted to wait until the enemy stand-user revealed themselves."
"And what's the second reason?" she said with a huff.
"The second reason is that until recently Stands didn't exist in this world. They entered Remnant when we did,"
"...What?" she asked.
"It's a long story, I think it would go faster if I showed you the same thing we showed Ruby."
"You showed Ruby?"
"We showed all of your classmates when we learned they were Stand users."
"What?!"
"Well, unfortunately the jury is still out with Pyrrha."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that your friend is in a stand coma, and we don't know if she's going to wake up"
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Blake burst into the infirmary with Kakyoin trailing behind. Her team and JNPR leaning over a sick bed. In the bed Pyrrha, obviously feverish, was sleeping.
"What happened to her?"
"She's in a Stand coma. It's what happens when someone who lacks mental fortitude awakens a Stand. The body falls into a coma to protect the mind from the stress." Joseph explained
"Pyrrha's not weak!" Nora shouted.
"Yeah. she's, like, the best in our year. Probably the school," Yang added.
"He didn't say physical strength, he said mental. We've met children and animals who were powerful stand users. If she's like this, then she's not mentally ready for it." replied Joseph
"That's. . ." Ruby wanted to argue but didn't know how.
"what do you know anyway! Pyrrha's the strongest, kindest person I know!" Jaune shouted.
"So's my mom!" JoJo shouted back.
The audience turned to Jotaro.
"My mother is kind and strong and she fell into the same coma when she was cursed with a Stand." Jojo turned away from the group.
"What happened to her?" asked Ruby.
Jotaro made no move to answer. Joseph stepped up.
"We don't know. We should have cured her, but we were taken here before we could learn if she recovered."
"What do you mean 'taken here'?" asked Blake. She turned to Kakyoin. "Explain what you said earlier."
Nora moved between the men and the door.
"Mind filling us in?"
"I suppose we have to," Joseph sighed.
"Is this all of the Stand users in Beacon?" He asked Avdol.
"All that we know of save the boy Ruby hospitalized."
"Well, we can fill him in if we need him later."
Several people doubted that.
"In short, we are from another world. We don't know how we were brought here but we suspect it was the work of a Stand. We've been here ever since."
"That's-" Ren began.
"That doesn't explain anything! Who are you? Why did Stands start showing up now? Why-"
"Shut up! Good grief old man, you suck at explaining shit."
Joseph pouted.
"Here's what happened."
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Jotaro was on a plane leaving Cairo. He looked out the window while his grandfather slept next him. Jotaro reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a photograph. All the crusaders were sitting together in a dessert. It made him sad to look at it, it made him wish the cost of victory wasn't so high. He moved to put the photo back in his jacket. Not a second after he did so he found himself falling through the air.
"What the hell!" he thought to himself. "Was this an enemy stand?"
He looked around and didn't see anybody else.
"I don't remember being sucked out of the plane and I wouldn't be here if the plane exploded so I must have been teleported out of the plane. Good grief that's an annoying stand ability!"
As he fell, he saw a forest come into view. He also saw two other figures below him, one green and one red. Using Star Platinum's eyes, he could tell who they were.
And it chilled him to the bone
The man closest to the ground wore a red coat and had black hair tied into columns around his head. When he looked harder, he saw a black and white dog clinging to his back.
The second man was of slimmer build and wearing a green uniform jacket. He had tomato-red hair and needle like earrings.
The realization of who they were caused Jotaro to freeze for precisely three seconds before he was consumed by an overwhelming desire to make sure they landed safely. He used his stand to grab his own shirt and fling himself forward, making up the distance between him and the green man
"KAKYOIN!" Jotaro shouted.
"Jotaro!?" Noriaki Kakyoin shouted "How did we get here? Is it one of Dio's henchmen?"
"Later! Can you slow down?"
"Yes, but I need to get Avdol first!"
He saw that a green and white tendril was making its way to Avdol. Without a word Jotaro grabbed the tendril and threw himself downwards again, reaching the red man.
"Jotaro? Did that stand get you as well?" asked Mohammed Avdol.
"Later! Hold onto this!" he flashed Kakyoin a thumbs up. Above Kakyoin green and white tendrils formed a curved rectangle connected to his torso by many strands. Lurching from the sudden deceleration Jotaro looked downward. Determining that they weren't slowing down fast enough he turned to Avdol
"Use your Magician Red to make an updraft!"
Avdol summoned his stand and created large fireball beneath them, hot air filling Kakyoin's parachute. Jotaro couldn't appreciate this though when he saw Magician Red. To his shock he saw that it no longer had arms! Extending from the stand's torso were stumps that cut off mid-bicep.
His thoughts were interrupted by the fast-approaching ground. For the second time in his life Jotaro used his stand to stop time. Like he thought they would, Avdol and the dog Iggy stopped completely. However, since he was unaffected by it, he kept moving. He had Star Platinum hit the ground at an angle. Like an expert billiards player, he angled the hit so he bounced off the ground towards a nearby tree. Tearing through the tree and the three behind it he finally came to a stop. With only two seconds left he leapt towards Avdol and Iggy and caught them. When time resumed, he reinforced his body with Star Platinum and caught them.
"How did you-?" began Avdol.
"Later Dammit!" shouted Jojo.
Looking up he saw Kakyoin continue to descend but above him he saw two specks above him. With his stand he saw who they were.
"Good grief."
Lacking parachutes, the two men quickly overtook Kakyoin, the older man extended thorny, purple vines from his hands and latched onto Kakyoin, surprising the young man. They both tried to grab onto the second man, but he was already beyond their reach before they could react. Seeing this Jojo threw Iggy where he thought he was going to land. Grasping the situation Iggy summoned his Stand out of the nearby dirt and turned it into a column of soft sand 30 feet in the air. The falling man summoned his Stand Silver Chariot and stabbed its sword into the tower, gradually slowing his fall.
"mon dieu it was lucky that this pile of sand was here or els- Iggy?!" the man said in shock.
Iggy licked his face.
"Polnareff get over here," shouted Jojo.
When Polnareff and Iggy made it over Kakyoin and Jojo's grandfather Joseph had already landed. There were many questions and after some time they had sorted out that they were not in the afterlife and that they had all been transported here in the order that they died.
"There's one more thing I want to check," said Jojo, "Kakyoin, Avdol, bring out your stands."
Confused, both men brought out their stands. Immediately apparent was that Magician Red lacked arms but they also saw that Hierophant Green had a hole in its chest. The stands' users were both disturbed by this, having perfect recollection of how they died.
Any later discourse was interrupted by the sound of growling. Looking to their left they the strangest looking bears they had ever seen.
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Ozpin looked at the monitor on his desk. The cameras scattered throughout the emerald forest were showing him a scene unique in the history of remnant. Five men and a dog stood in a clearing while Grimm died around them. The did not appear to be fighting the Grimm, they just stood around, occasionally striking poses while an assortment of beowolves, ursas and knave taijitu where thrown, cut up and crushed without any visible source of the damage. The one exception was a beast made of sand that, based on proximity, seemed to be controlled by the dog.
"Glynda, I want in the emerald forest."
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The bullhead ride back to Beacon was somber. Glynda looked towards the quiet men in the back who were the cause of the mood. The strange men had all expressed confusion at basic concepts such as Grimm and the Kingdoms. They didn't appear to have weapons and when asked about their semblances they only gave strange looks.
The crusaders sat in an unused student dorm that was assigned to them by the headmaster. The had concluded that this was not the work of an enemy stand. They had somehow been transferred to another world and some of them had been returned to life. They now lived in a world of aura and semblances, of scrolls and bullheads, and Grimm and huntsmen.
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"Ozpin helped us settle in after that. We thought we were the only Stand users here and had resigned ourselves to live here until whatever brought us here showed itself. Now we know it was a stand user."
"Wait, what's Cairo?"
"A place you will probably never see. We went there to kill a monster that caused members of my family to develop Stands and nearly killed my mother. He's dead now."
"So, Ozpin just let you into the school as students?" asked Weiss.
Kakyoin spoke up
"He said we already had landing strategies so we were qualified for entry. At least, those of us of age."
Polnareff shuddered, reminded he hadn't cleaned the third-floor bathroom yet.
"So how do we find out the source of the Stand arrows?" asked Ruby.
"Heh. I'm glad you asked, little girl!" Joseph produced the Stand Arrowhead from his pocket before it was covered by purple vines.
"This is my Stand, Hermit Purple! With it I can see visions of faraway places. All I need is access to something with a screen."
Joseph shot his vines to a nearby heart monitor. Despite not having the diodes to display images, the screen shifted to a scene of rocky islands, as if the imaginary camera were looking from a circling plane.
"That's the Vytal Islands!" exclaimed Weiss, "they're in the sea between Vale and Atlas and are the site of the historic treaty that ended the Great War."
"So, we have a destination, but can you focus any harder Mr. Joestar?" asked Avdol.
"I'm. Trying." Joseph grunted.
The scene shifted. Now it showed a stone temple. Then the inside of the temple. Then a throne. On the throne sat a man. A man so beautiful and muscular he made Jojo look like an amateur CrossFit enthusiast. He wore almost nothing, had luxurious hair, and three horns jutting from his head.
. . .
"Oh No!"
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"My Lord. We've lost contact with one of our agents in Vale. I fear the arrow may be lost." The man speaking wore a denim trench coat, JNKO jeans, and cowboy boots
"It is no matter. Send another of the Indebted to Vale and begin again."
"And the Arrow, My lord?"
The man on the throne extended his hand. With a sickening crunch his ulna shot out of his body. The jagged tip broadened until it took the shape of an arrowhead and fell onto the ground. The rest of the bone returned to the man's body.
"Take it."
The servant took the arrowhead reverently and bowed.
"Yes, Lord Kars."
AN
So, it's been a while. I do most of my writing on planes apparently. I'm flying back home in five days so we'll see if I can get any more done.
Bet you weren't expecting Kars. Battle Tendency is such an odd thumb since practically nothing in it gets used in later parts that I felt it was only right to use it for my stories.
So, some notes about the story going forward. I want this to have more of a part 3 or 5 vide, with location changes and one-off stand encounters. I'm not going to be using the whole cast for this. Some people are going to be staying behind in Beacon, students and Crusaders both, and some will get more focus than others.
I'm excited to be working on this again. Every few weeks I get a new person favoriting this story and it's really encouraging.
Also if a chapter is garbled again feel free to PM me,