Chapter 32: The soul punches the mind

"What the freakin' hell you annoying ass lions. Katara gets all these powers, but not us?" Jotaro grumbled. He was upset because he, too, craved power, like humans do. He was also jealous of Katara because now he knew in his heart of hearts that Katara was better than him. What was Star Platinum against the power of the thunder god?

"Yeah, this is majorly uncool. Not that I need more power and influence, but still." Kakyoin crossed his muscular arms and agreed with Jotaro.

"You guys can ask for new powers cause I know you guys are all really weak. But I'll stick with my ultra powerful firebending." Zuko said. Then he weakly bent some fire to try to convince everyone he had power but he didn't so they just looked at him with pity. Except they did not pity him because everyone hated him.

"JOTARO. THE COUNCIL SHALL NOW GRANT YOU POWER. HOLD ONTO YOUR HATS." Simba said to Jotaro Kujo.

"Good freaking grief, I hope I can use this brand spanking new power to beat the shit out of some dumbasses that piss me off." Jotaro said in a really cool way but you could tell he was excited. Aslan snapped his lion paw fingers and a little door the Gaang had never noticed before opened in the side of the room and a guy walked out.

"GET READY KUJO. IF YOU ARE NOT WORTHY YOU SHALL DIE JUST LIKE YOUR FATHER."

Mufasa showed no guilt about that comment about Jotaro's father that was really insensitive. The whole room went silent and everyone looked at the man who came out of the door.

He had really spiky messy black hair and really pale skin like a ghost and his eyes were really scary. They had really big eye bags underneath them. And with his eyes he just stared at Jotaro in a really unsettling way. The guy just slouched his way towards Jotaro, in a way that made him look like a detective.

Jotaro swallowed. But the guy just kept staring at him, and walking even faster now. Step. Step. Step. He was wearing no shoes. Jotaro noticed he was holding something. It was… an arrow!

Jotaro started to become very nervous. He looked up from the arrow, back at the guy's face and Jotaro got very scared. The guy's tired, unblinking eyes were still looking right at his face as if to say, I am going to rip your head off and shove it down a toilet.

Jotaro pinched himself. He usually didn't get this scared, but this guy gave him the creeps. Step. Step. Step. The guy got closer. Jotaro's heart began beating really fast and he could feel his fight or flight kicking in. Now the guy was halfway across the room. Step. Step. Step. Getting closer. Even while he walked he was hunched over in a way that Jotaro found disturbing. Jotaro wanted to run. But he was frozen. Step. Step. Step.

Suddenly, the guy fell on the ground and dropped the arrow! He had tripped on his really baggy pants, which were not baggy in a fashionable way, more baggy in a British way.

As he fell, his really big toe hooked on the end of the pants so when the guy fell the momentum of the fall pulled off the pants and they flew off! But… there was another pair of pants underneath that were now revealed! And these were… horrifying.

These discreet, evil pants were covered in ink. The ink formed words. Pictures. Images of carnage and power and mankind suffering and being eaten alive by… Robert of Sponge! The Gaangs muscles tensed. They knew a fight was coming.

They were wrong. Because the pants aren't done. The pants had plans of their own! They were also covered in scratches, which when they looked closer, were barely legible runes and words. The words read:

The stars shall align

And in that moment

Time will be lost

All shall know the pain of emptiness

And pits of fire and blood

All shall see the cold stars, alone

All shall despair

All shall sit alone and feel pain

As the sands of time run short

And the coming of the devil

Will be Robert

lol

A rush of evil and adrenaline. Jotaro felt Baggy Pants Man's eyes bore into his soul as he read the words.

Then, a scream.

With reflexes quicker than the flash, Mufasa grabbed the guy with his lionly paw and tossed the guy, along with the pants, into his gaping maw, and crunched him up fast. There was another scream, and some blood on Mufasa's lively chin, and the baggy pants man was gone.

Simba cleared his throat politely, while the Gang looked on in horror.

"DAMN. THAT WAS THE WRONG MAN. HE WAS A SPY FOR ROBERT." Mufasa said angrily. This was very embarrassing for The Council of Lions, letting a spy slip in. Katara fumed inside. How could the council be so careless?

Good freakin' grief. So that's why I was so scared! That fake ass spy was going to kill me! Jotaro thought.

"IT WOULD SEEM THE SITUATION IS WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT. THE COUNCIL'S POWER DWINDLES, EVEN NOW. WE MUST HURRY." Aslan said. Then he waved his paw and the little door opened again.

The same man stepped out of the door!

W-what the hell? Am I stuck in a freakin' time loop? Jotaro thought. But Jotaro turned out to be wrong, because the new man, who looked identical to the last one, walked across the room, holding the same arrow, and did not trip on his pants. Then, after a few moments of walking, he stopped in front of Jotaro, the guy's scary eyes looked straight into his eyes.

Off to the side, Katara, Kakyoin and Zuko looked at him.

Katara looked stiffly at the man, then looked away. Zuko looked at him with disgust, horrified. The fire nation would never ever work with someone like him. But the one who thought the worst of the man was Kakyoin. Because Kakyoin recognized him! Oh man… Kakyoin thought to himself, quickly checking for escape routes. Finding none.

"So… you gonna freakin' shoot me with that arrow, huh? Is that how I'll get powers? Because if so, just get it over with already." Jotaro grumbled. The man put his finger up to his mouth.

"Hmm… why yes…" The man said in a very quiet and chill way that made it obvious he thought a lot about a lot of things. Then the man turned to the Council Of Lions.

"I've analyzed the data on this arrow… and my findings were correct… if I pierce a person with this they will gain the entity known as… A STAND. Very interesting…"

"W-what?! I've already got a stand, dumbass!" Jotaro shouted. The man turned back to Jotaro, with a lot of disappointment on his face.

"Please… allow me to finish speaking… As I was saying, if I stab you with this, you'll probably die, but there's a very small chance that you will gain a second STAND, or maybe your STAND will simply become more powerful….. That's what the data has told me…"

Jotaro took a step back.

"Good grief, I've already got a great stand, this is freaki-'' But before Jotaro could finish, the man stepped forward and thrust the arrow right into Jotaro's chest!

"AAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Jotaro screamed and blood began shooting everywhere and it got on the guy's white shirt but he didn't seem to notice. Katara ran at the man and she brandished her hammer.

"How dareth thee striketh that gent liketh yond thee eye-bagg'd daw! I shall smiteth thee!"

Katara's hammer connected with the man's head and he went flying across the room. He hit a wall and slid down it. But then… he got up!

"Jotaro! Speaketh to me! I can healeth thee with mine own god-powers!" Katara cried. She didn't know what she'd do if she lost another team member.

"D-don't worry about it… I can feel… THE POWER!" Jotaro yelled as his body began to glow with power and the arrow sparked. Katara glared angrily at the guy with the eye bags. She wanted to hurt him. Badly.

Jotaro began convulsing on the ground and bleeding from the mouth. Kakyoin looked at him with concern, but also scientific interest.

"Hey, you. Is Jotaro okay?" Kakyoin snapped at the man, who had now slithered back over to them.

"Hmm… well… according to my data I've analyzed… he will die if his soul doesn't have the strength to evolve... " He looked at Katara and Kakyoin. He didn't look at Zuko. He wasn't worthy. "This one… Jotaro… do you think his soul has the strength to evolve?"

"Probably not," Zuko said somewhere in the background.

"I think he does. He won't die here," Kakyoin said.

"And how exactly would you know that?" The man said. Then he pulled a notebook out of his pocket.

"Are you seriously trying to question me right now? You'll never get anything on me. I know my rights." Kakyoin crossed his muscular arms.

"Hmm… just wait… I will catch you… then I'll send you straight to prison…" The man said, looking threateningly at Kakyoin.

"Holdeth up! Kakyoin, thee knoweth this freak?" Katara pointed her finger at the man.

"Yes… of course he knows me. Your friend here is one of the worst criminals there are. And I shall catch him…" The man replied.

"Ha! Katara, don't listen to him, he's crazy. I thought I'd finally managed to shake him, but he's persistent." Kakyoin looked at the man. "But you should really give it up, now. I'd hate for something terrible to happen to you while you suspect me."

"See… you hint at being a criminal everytime we have the pleasure of speaking… I just need proof."

"Well, what didst kakyoin doth?" Katara asked the man.

"He instigated the Vietnam war… It was all his plan. The war benefited him spiritually… mentally… and financially. I also found lot's of his DNA in Vietnam." The man replied matter of factly.

"You found my DNA all over the entire country? Now that's just ridiculous. If you were a good detective, you would know that I don't even HAVE DNA. Haven't had it for a long time! Excellent decision on my part, you oaf," Kakyoin said with amusement.

"Now that… that is just a lie. I know you have DNA… I found it all over the country. The entire country. Improbable… but not impossible." The man said. Kakyoin was about to respond, when Jotaro stopped writhing on the ground. And then there was a huge bellow that sounded a lot like Star Platinum but it sounded stronger. Jotaro's muscles seemed to ripple and grow as he bellowed with unimaginable strength.

"It has worked. Your friend has… changed." The man said.

"He's not really my friend. Man, if only he had died, then I could have harvested his organs," Kakyoin said sadly.

Just then, Star Platinum seemed to erupt from Jotaro's body!

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Star Platinum screamed. The Gang's minds knew they were hearing a scream. A below. But… their hearts told them something different. Their hearts shrunk with pain because it seemed as if the scream was insulting them. Their self-esteem shrank that day.

Kakyoin heard: "NO ONE LOVES YOU! YOU ARE A SAD PATHETIC CON ARTIST TRYING TO GET THROUGH LIFE! WHEN YOU DIE NO ONE WILL REMEMBER YOU!"

Katara heard: "YOU ARE A SAD EXCUSE FOR A HERO! YOU COULD NOT EVEN PROTECT YOUR OWN FAMILY! YOU FAIL THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE OVER AND OVER AGAIN!"

The mysterious man with the eye bags whose name we don't know yet (or do we?) heard: "YOUR LAST NAME IS LAWLIET! MUST I SAY ANYMORE?"

Zuko heard: "YOU SUCK AND IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT NO ONE LIKES YOU! YOU WILL NEVER BE FIRELORD!"

Without taking a second to think, Katara flew at Star Platinum, with the intent to kill. Star Platinum's words had shaken her down to her godly core. The second before her hammer connected with Star Platinum's face, Jotaro stumbled to his feet.

"Stop!" He yelled. Katara looked at him with shock because… his wounds were healed! Only seconds ago, Jotaro had been stabbed with an arrow multiple times, but now, he was healed!

"W-what? What just happened? Jotaro, did you steal my limb regeneration serum again? I told you last time, if you did that again I would have to kill you," Kakyoin said irritatedly.

"Hold the hell up guys… I feel pretty freakin' strong right now."

"Sweet wounded jesus! He survived the process!" The man with the eye bags cried. Katara couldn't take it any longer. Star Platinum's insults had really hurt her feelings.

"What the Flibbertigibbet is this ability?! how didst star platinum achieveth this incredible pow'r? how didst star platinum yelleth at us through our minds?!"

"I've evolved… Star Platinum has, I mean. I think it can now freakin' punch and yell at not only the body… but the mind as well!" Jotaro exclaimed!

A.N: Okay wow it is absolutely earth shattering that this is the ability of star platinum requiem. WOW!

"This is… extremely interesting. Fascinating. I must investigate this transformation further. I need a blood sample for DNA." The man with the eyebags said. Then he shuffled up to Jotaro and stabbed him with a needle.

"Get the hell away from me, you tired looking freak." Jotaro grunted from pain. But the man already had the blood.

"My work here is finished. The arrow has granted new powers. Now, until we meet again! I will be in… my lab." The man began to slowly walk away. Jotaro looked at him and smirked softly. It was really uncomfortable. Just be glad you weren't there.

"Hold up man. You just freakin' stabbed me… the least you could do is tell me your name." Jotaro's ocean blue orbs glittered with flirty mischievousness. The man looked back, blushing profusely. He brushed his shaggy, black bangs out of his eyes, which were darker than the blackest night. He blushed tenderly as he looked at Jotaro.

"My… My name? No… no one has ever asked me that before…" The man said as he quirkily bit his nails. Jotaro bit his lip seductively.

"You silly little baka… tell me your freakin' name." Jotaro stepped one step towards the man, the distance between them electrified. The man blushed even more profusely.

"My name's L." The man gave Jotaro his adorable puppy dog eyes.

"Oh, just piss off already!" Kakyoin yelled. The man whose name was L scampered off.

"Don't go getting involved with him, Jotaro. His favourite hobbies include torturing people for fifty days. And sometimes he'll tie people up in a really blatantly sexual way for %0 days or more, which is very creepy. I speak from experience. I spent the summer 1971 tied up while he questioned me about the ridiculous theory he has." Kakyoin shivered. Those memories would never leave him.

Jotaro bit his lip again. "Well, he can tie me up ANY time," he grinned.

"Oh my god, shut up." Kakyoin grumbled.