Hello. My Name is Miia Higashikata. And this… is my story.
Chapter 1
Bizarre childhood
1985: Egypt, White Desert.
I was 4-years old at the time. living in a hidden village, far from human civilization. Why is the village hidden you may ask? Well… lets just say that everyone in the village, including me, is not 100% human. We're a all female race of half human, half snake known as Lamia. I lived a normal life, peaceful life. I have a loving mother, lots of sisters, and friends with everyone in the village. That is until one night when everyone is asleep, is when "She" arrived.
*Clunk* *Clunk* *Clunk*
I woke up in the middle of the night to a sound that I never heard of before. Still tired I pulled the sheets over my head, trying to go back to sleep but to no avail.
*Clunk* *Clunk* *Clunk*
I woke back up, pissed off as that noise is making it hard for me to sleep. I looked out of my bedroom window to give whoever is making that racket a piece of my mind. Only to see that my home is engulfed in a thick fog. It took me a while to process what was going on, but I managed to find the source of that Clunking sound. It was coming from an Old Woman, who was walking down the streets through the fog with a giant wooden cane. She has white puffy hair with two pigtails, and wears a large baggy robe. What caught my eye the most is that she has two right hands. She walks past my window, not noticing me thanks to the fog. I have never seen a human up close before, the only time I saw a human besides in books, or magazines telling us about the outside world. Is when my mother and her friends bring in a single human male into the village, to do some… "Cuddling". I don't know how she even found my home, but I had a feeling that this outsider is up to no good.
I had been following her around the village for about half an hour. It's really easy to sneak behind someone when your bottom half is a snake body. Every time she walks to one of the buildings, she would pull out a photo out of her pocket and try to line it up with the building. I don't know how she got a photo, since no human has ever gotten a picture of the village. But it seems she found the building she was looking for. I didn't know at the time, but the building was an old temple no one used anymore. I followed her into the temple, wondering why she was even here in the first place. In all honesty, if I had known what was about to unfold when I followed her in, I would have turned back.
The temple was bigger than I thought. I had been following her down the halls, slithering in between the pillars for what seemed like hours. What I found more suspicious at the time is that there's still fog deep within the temple, as if the fog was following the outsider as well. Finally, at the end of the hall was a huge room full of hieroglyphics. At the end of the room was a bow and arrow with a bizarre head.
"I found it!" the old woman said ecstatically. "The ancient Stand arrow, exactly like what Lord DIO, said."
I didn't know what she was talking about, Lord DIO, Stand arrow, I was more focused with the paintings on the walls above the hieroglyphics. The painting starts with an old man holding a bundle of these strange arrows, and is offering one to a Lamia covered in jewels, indicating that she is a queen. The next painting shows a ritual with a priest firing the arrow into the queen. The next one showed the queen in pain with the arrow in her heart and a humanoid spirit emerged from her body. The final painting shows what looks like a lineage of queens, each with a different humanoid spirit behind them, with the final Lamia looking alot like me. The last one gave me a lot of questions like, what are these humanoid spirits, why no one told me about this room, and why does the last Lamia on the painting look like me? As I stayed hidden behind a pillar asking myself questions, Lamias from the village came charging in with spears and scimitars. I don't know how they know we're here, but I believe that either me or the outsider has activated an alarm system when we entered the temple.
"STOP RIGHT THERE TRESPASSER!"
I jumped for a second, thinking I've been caught. But it quickly realized that the Lamias were calling out to the old woman.
"What do you think you're doing taking our artifact?" one of the Lamias asked.
"Come now." the outsider replied. " I'm just an old woman, I'm just taking a closer look at your arrow, no harm in that."
"But you're still under arrest for trespassing, come quietly and we'll go easy on you."
They weren't prepared for what's about to happen.
[Menacing]
"KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE!"
As the old woman started laughing maniacally she slowly put her "left" hand into her robe. All the Lamias slither back as they, including me sense a deadly aura radiating off the Old Woman.
"You know what's funny?" The Old Woman asked. "Your ancestors used to worship this arrow. Whenever they look for a new queen, they shoot this arrow into a Lamia with potential. If chosen survives, she'll be granted tremendous power, power that no man or monster can achieve naturally less chosen. But now your generation decided to abandon your ancestor traditions, and now all about how many human males can you F*CK. Now as by fate, you will lose your precious arrow by one with such power. OBSERVE!"
As she shouted at the end, she threw a handful of pins and needles out of her pocket at the Lamias, only giving them minor scratches on their arms and bodies. The Lamias stood there all confused as they expected something bad was supposed to happen.
"Is that all you got!" one of the Lamias shouted over confidently.
Almost instantly, I witnessed the most traumatizing thing my 4-year old eyes had ever seen. The fog flew towards Lamias turning their minor scratches into massive holes, soon the ones with holes on their arms began to move against their will.
"Hey what are you doing!?"
"I don't know!? I can't control myself!?"
I watch as my friends and family begin to fight to the death among themselves as the Old Woman laughs maniacally. She took her chance and grabbed the bow and arrow, using the fog and chaos to escape. I didn't want that dangerous lady to escape with the arrow, I jumped out of my hiding spot and landed on her back hoping that my weight would crush her frail body.
"What! Get off me! Where did you even come from!?"
"I'm not letting someone like you hurt my family!"
{STAB}
While I was giving her a deadly piggyback ride, the arrow slipped out of her hands and embedded into my chest. Soon I find myself lying on the ground, bleeding, unable to move, and an arrow sticking out of me. The Old Woman stared at my paralyzed body with shock.
"Oh shit.. Oh shit oh shit! You weren't supposed to be stabbed by the arrow. The last thing I want is to inform Lord DIO about a snake-girl Stand user running amok. Lord DIO is already dealing with the Joestar bloodline and-"
I couldn't make out what she was yelling about as my ears were ringing and my vision was starting to go blurry. My sight soon came back but I noticed something different with the Fog. It started to take form and manifest into a skull with a crown and two right skeletal hands. The Woman stopped yelling and looked at what I was staring at, and smiled.
"So it appears that you can now see my Stand Justice, proving that you survived and are now a Stand user. *Sigh* No matter! Worst case scenario, Lord DIO would just use the flesh buds to brainwash your snake brain if you decide to go after him for revenge. So until then."
She the rips arrow out of my chest, leaving me a sharp pain and a big hole.
"I'll be taking your precious arrow and leaving you to your fate. Until next time FREAK!"
"KEKEKEKEKEKE!"
And just like that, she's gone. The fog disappeared soon after, freeing everyone from her control. Thankfully there were no casualties, but the wounds of her mysterious power will stick with them for years to come. They soon found me lying motionless, I lost consciousness but was able to recover days later. It was when I woke up that I noticed that there's something different about me.
I would discover this new found power year later, until then I couldn't stop thinking about what happened that night. But sadly the strange events that happened to me would only get crazier years later when a certain woman with sunglasses decided to come and visit my village.
⇐==To Be Continued===
