Ch. 6 - The Stardust Man Appears, Pt. 2
Jotaro's POV
"[Star Platinum: The World!]"
*VRMMMMMMMM TICK-TOCK-TICK-TOCK-TICK*
'Time has stopped.'
Huh. I haven't used this since after that whole thing with Kira back in Morioh. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if I couldn't maintain the full 5 seconds of stopped time.
But on to more pressing matters. While The World is still the same Stand I fought with in terms of strength, speed, and precision, I'm not sure about how long its Time Stop ability can last.
'One second has passed.'
Of course, the only reason why DIO could stop time for as long as he did was because of the fact that the man was a vampire.
'Two seconds have passed.'
….Huh. Does he not know how to activate his ability?
'Three seconds have passed. Time has begun to move again.'
Three seconds? Yare yare daze. More than I thought, but less than I hoped.
*VRMMMMMMMMMMMMMM*
Danny's POV
"-FOR?... Huh?"
The man whose ghost….spirit...thing had completely disappeared from my field of vision and-
"Interesting."
"AHH!" I shrieked. Turned out the man was directly behind me.
It was at this moment that I got a good look at his ghost man. It was mostly purple and very muscular, similar to my ghost. It also had long flowing hair and was wearing what looked to be a red scarf, knee-high boots, and a loincloth.
"You're probably wondering what just happened, aren't you?" he said.
"Among other things, yes!" I replied.
"What you see before you is a visual manifestation of your life energy. It hovers over you, protects you, and more importantly: stands by you. It's because of this we refer to these spirits as [Stands]!"
"Stands?" I replied.
Worrying about the possible reference to a certain Ben E. King song for a later time, I took another look at my now-called Stand again. To think that I, a 17-year-old kid who has life energy strong enough to produce a big, buff, golden punchy ghost man is preposterous at best… though given everything that has happened so far, it really isn't high on the list of weird and/or bizarre things that have happened to me so far.
"Danny, please!" I heard the spartan girl from earlier shout from the now amassing crowd. "We don't mean you any harm!"
"Oh, for brother's sake, just knock him out and be done with it!" a tall boy in silver-gray plate armor shouted. He was carrying a large black mace and he was charging at me…
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….and he's ABOUT TO HIT ME IN THE HEAD WITH THE MACE!
"Mr. Winchester, stand down!" said the blonde woman with glasses.
"Stand still, kid. I won't hurt you...much!" the now-named Mr. Winchester said.
"To hell with that noise!" I shouted. I then turned the other way around hoping to get away from that large mace...when my Stand grabbed Winchester's mace as it was about to strike my head.
It looked at the mace-wielder with such ferocity before it decided it wanted to punch something stupid. Like Winchester's face.
"MUDA!MUDA!MUDA!MUDA!MUDA!MUDA!MUDA!MUDAAAA!'
Winchester then took the barrage of punches and was sent flying. He somehow got up again, despite the painful ass-whooping he took and charged at me again.
As he charged at me again, that same voice appeared in my head again.
'T_E W _R_L_! _T_P _I_E!'
My head really hurt this time around, like a sharp blade prodding the top of my skull.
"DANNY, LOOK OUT!" shouted the spartan girl.
I snapped out of my brief moment of pain to see the black mace falling on top of my head again. I managed to dodge out of the way before it ever made contact.
*CLANG!*
'THE WOR_D! ST_P T_ME!'
Great. Not only am I trying to avoid massive head trauma, but now I'm also fighting the mother of all migraines. Though, I can't help that voice in my head was trying to tell me something...
As I kept dodging his strikes, Winchester started getting more and more frustrated. It was at this moment he decided to call in backup.
"The hell are you standing there for, you three? Help me!" he says to three other people that were standing in the crowd of people.
Looks like I apparently hit their leader because they were pissed. One of them with two daggers immediately charged at me and swiped at me, I barely reacted in time and got slightly grazed in the chest for my trouble.
'THE WORLD! STOP TI_E!'
Ugghhh...why can't that voice just SHUT UP ALREADY! I-
'THE WORLD! STOP TIME!'
….what?
Stop time? Is that what my Stand could do?
….you know, in the absence of better ideas, maybe….
"[THE WORLD!] STOP TIME!"
*VRRRRMMMMMMMM TICK-TOCK-TICK-TOCK-TICK*
'Time has stopped.'
...Holy shit.
"So you finally figured it out, huh?" I heard a voice say.
I then turned around to find out it was the now-named Jotaro moving around while time was supposedly frozen.
'One second has passed.'
"Not only does your Stand boast very precise movements along with superhuman speed and strength, but your Stand also has the ability to stop time." said Jotaro.
"No way… hold on, how the hell do you know this?" I replied.
Jotaro then summoned his Stand into view and pointed at it.
'Two seconds have passed.'
My Stand, Star Platinum, is the same type of Stand as yours. Although, in regards to its ability to Time Stop, it probably has a shorter duration than-
'Three seconds have passed. Time has begun to move again.'
"Huh. so we have the same amount of time to stop. Interesting..."
*VRRRRRMMMMMMMMMMM*
Time had resumed its normal course and the four that jumped me was visibly confused as to why I suddenly disappeared from their view.
Imagine their surprise when they saw Jotaro and I standing a few feet behind all of them all of a sudden.
"You seem like a good kid. I won't even begin to understand how scared and confused about everything that's happened to you so far, but implore you, come with us. We'll explain everything, and you can fill us in as to what happened to you."
I stood there thinking there for a few seconds before Winchester decided he wanted to knock me out again. He charged at me with his mace, but my Stand managed to grab it.
Seeing how I did not want my head smashed, I decided to use my Stand to completely break his mace in half.
Needless to say, he was pissed.
"WHAT THE HELL?! THAT'S IT. YOU'RE DEAD, ASSHO-" he roared before he was suddenly interrupted by getting held in the air by an invisible force.
"THAT'S QUITE ENOUGH, MR. WINCHESTER." I heard the blonde woman with glasses sternly shouted.
"Headmistress, Dr. Kujo, Mr. Joestar, and Mr. Branco, I shall meet you at Headmistress Zalem's office later. I have some discipline to dole out." she says while giving Winchester the death glare. "The rest of you, back to your dorms!" The crowd started to dissipate.
"Come with me, you three. Let's talk in my office." said Zalem.
The elder Joestar and his grandson then followed the Headmistress, and I was trailing behind them.
Meanwhile, Somewhere in Mistral, 3rd Person POV
"...Master?" his Stand asked.
"I felt it too." He replied. Something had awakened in Vale.
In the midst of juggling affairs within his organization and the new criminal element that has entered Vale, He felt something that was so different, yet so...familiar.
"Santo Cielo." He then looked at the tortoise that was currently watching outside the window.
"Polnareff! How long has it been since you've last seen your friends?
To Be Continued…...