Chapter 001: Sticky Fingers
{[(Date: Monday 4/11/20XX) Location: A few blocks away from shujin academy] Type of day: Early Morning, rainy day}
"God… Fucking… Damn it" said Bruno as he tapped his foot against the concrete floor 'I hate the rain so much right now.
"Bruno please calm down, I know we are going to be a bit late but that is no reason to be so mad," said Makoto but sadly she could not understand the boy's plight in every sense of the word.
You see his uniform was made by a friend of his...one he has never met but one that he talked with every day for month. And seeing that it was getting wet because of something as simple as rain would be an insult to him. It might have been petty, yes, but it was reason enough for someone he considered a friend who helped him through so much over the course of this one month. And of course, his test was given to them too, to see if they would figure out his secret, and to see if they had a stand as well.
"Bruno?"
Bruno turned at the sound of the voice to see a female figure with her head being covered by a white hoodie which integrated into perfectly with her Shujin Uniform, she took off the hoodie to reveal her face to the man, she had long blond hair which was tied up into a pair of twin ponytails and her face was naturally pretty with shining blue eyes that matched Bruno's own. Bruno smiled and walked over to the girl and hugged her close for a few seconds before speaking, "It is so good to see you, Ann."
"It is a pleasure to finally meet you too!" said Ann, "If I had known you were going to use these uniforms I made for you, I would have made more of them!"
"It is not like I told you much about them." said Bruno before hugging her close again and saying, "I am so glad to have met you today."
Ann hugged him slightly more before saying, "I am too, I didn't think I was going to meet you today."
"HEY!"
Both of them were interrupted by their intimate moment was Ruined by a man in a white sedan with unruly curly hair and wearing gym clothes, "you three want a ride, this rain doesn't look like it is going to let up."
Bruno could see the look of regret and anguish on both Ann and Makoto's faces as this man asked this question so Bruno responded with the best answer he could think of at that moment, "Sorry we won't need the ride."
"Ok! You guys make it to school safe ok!."
Ann ticked at that statement and looked away from the man while Makoto looked upon Bruno with a shocked expression as the man drove off. Soon after though another blonde teen, this time a male, wearing the Shujin uniform with one thing different about it, a shirt that had the Letters Z.O.M.G on it in bold lettering. The boy shouted at the man driving off saying, "SUCK ON THAT YOU SONUVABITCH!" before turning to Bruno, Ann, and Makoto and almost instantly went defensive as an Aura erupted around his body as a Humanoid figure seemed from behind him, "What Miss Priss President? You think you're going to report me to the bastard for talking or something Childish as that?"
"Calm down Ryuji!" Shouted Ann which seemed to calm the boy instantly calmed around her. As the Aura dissipated around him as his stand did the same before she continued, "and besides she is cool now… mainly by association to Bruno here but still she is ok at least!"
"Who is this Kamoshida guy?" asked Bruno, "He seems to be a bad guy from your facial expressions around him, but considering what you are saying about him he seems worse than you are letting on."
"Wait, you don't know! He is a literal scum of the earth!" Said the Blond, "The dude thinks he is a king of the castle or some shit! And worst of all, the principal goes with all his bullshit, and ENCOURAGES IT!"
Ann physically tensed at that before cowering closer to Bruno's side which he noticed immediately but before he could ask her what was on her mind something strange came out of his mobile phone, "Shigeru Kamoshida, Location: Shujin Academy, Perception: Castle. Location found! Routing now!"
"OH SHIT! We're gonna be late!" Said the Blond before he walked over to an alleyway and said, "Quick over here I know a shortcut!"
"We might be late thanks to your shortcut alone," said Makoto as she followed after the blond with Bruno and Ann hot on their tail. There was a distortion-like feeling as they walked, which caused the three known stand users to bring a protective aura around them and Ann and when they got to the cause of the distortion they all gasped in shock at what they saw, A Giant Castle stands in the place of school.
"What the fuck is this?" Asked Bruno
"Dude I have no clue." Said Ryuji, "This should be where the school is supposed to be… but where the hell did this come from?"
Makoto picked Bruno in the wrist lightly to gain his attention, he looked down to see that she was cowering beside him… it was like some maternal instinct took over at that moment as not only did he take up Makoto into a bone-crushing hug but Ann as well as she cowered deeper into his side. He did the same with Narancia whenever they did a gang movie night, he was always frightened by anything horror related and did not do any better with horror films. So he was always cowardly close to Bruno whenever they watched one, it was almost nostalgic… if Ann was trying to nudge his face away from her while chanting, "You are acting like a mom again Bruno!"
"Well we might as well go in." said the Blond, "it might be a good idea to see if we can figure out what happened to the school."
"If something was happening then we would know about it immediately." said Makoto, "the Student council would know about it thanks to the teachers."
"So are you saying that we should not go into school today… not like you Makoto," said Bruno as Ann chuckled at his statement
"I am just saying that we should keep our guard up, this is not something that can happen in only one day, and I am afraid something might happen to us if we are not careful."
Bruno nodded as he walked over to the blond with both Makoto and Ann in tow behind them.
As the blonde opened the door with his stand punching the door in with a long skeleton arm with a bit of rotting flesh where the hand was, with tentacles wrapping up until the elbow where bone took over. As they walked in one face was consistent all over the castle-like area, Shigeru Kamoshidsa, there were paintings of his face were put on the walls, and statues of his face were on the stairs leading up to the second floor with Kamoshida's face plastered on a bigger painting of him in a suit of armor with a broadsword. They walked slightly farther in before running into two "knight" like things that came up in front of them, both of them were looking at the four with what could be told as "HATE" for the males of the group while projecting "LUST" for the women of the group, almost as if there very bodies were irradiated with both feelings, but one was even more prevalent than the other two… obnoxious "PRIDE", as if they were looking down on them for MANY reasons. Was it because of the fact that most of them were stand users? Was it because two of them were women? Was it because they knew what Bruno was before he died and came here? Was it because of Ryuji? What is this pride that the Knights felt? And why was it directed at them and them alone? But sadly that was the last thought they had before all four of them were bashed in the head with something that all four of them could not see before fading into the blackness of the Unconscious.
{[(Date: 5/2/2001) Location: inside the stand Mr. Precedent] Type of day: Midnight}
(Pov Bruno)
Sitting inside of a turtle was too weird to even understand… but life as I know it was strange enough as it was, so it was not much of an issue. I could see Trish sitting on the fridge drinking her sparkling water that she essentially begged for them to get… despite not begging at all. She was still freaked out about her stand appearing after the battle with The Grateful Dead and Beach Boy and even Baby Face… it was something strange indeed seeing objects around her collapse and reform in only a matter of moments. But either way, seeing her like this was even stranger to him. The once strange and questionable woman was now pacing around the room like a stand with confusion where grace was before it and fear where confidence oozed off of her like an aura of calmness. It was something I was good at since birth trying to figure out human emotions. There was no abuse related to it, my parent's separation was not the cause of it and there was no trauma that I could tell was present at all throughout my life, I just knew how people felt whenever I saw them and I could tell what their emotions were before others could. And right now she needed me to help her in the only way I knew how to go "Mom mode" (the term was coined by Narancia).
"So… what is on your mind?" I asked, "are you worried about what he will think of you?"
"You mean my father… right?" asked Trish
"No, I mean Giorno." I said with a coy smile
She blushed at that before she turned into a stuttering mess as she walked over to me and grabbed my hands and sat down on the table before shouting at me, "WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU ASK ME THAT?! I AM NOT THINKING ABOUT HIM IN A ROMANTIC LIGHT! WE HAVE ONLY KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR 3 AND A HALF DAYS AT MOST, WHY THE HELL WOULD I FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM?"
"Please no need to yell." I said, "He has helped save your life numerous times and it is only natural for you to fall for him in some respect. I never wanted you to force yourself to love him however so if that is what you are worried about then you have no need to worry yourself."
"W-W-W-What do you mean?" asked Trish
"Love is a fickle thing… from what I know, which is not much." I said but I could tell she was confused by the last part of my statement, so I decided to elaborate, "you see I never knew what emotions were like for most of my life. I have only known a few emotions in my entire lifetime. Happiness was the one I felt since birth with it being my most consistent emotion next to one other. The second one I felt was sadness, it was one I felt only twice thus far, one of which was resentment. And the third was rage, it is one that I have felt very consistently after one certain incident, and let me say this now, love is one that I have forced myself to feel the most because it is one of the few emotions I never truly understood myself. I have felt love from my parents, and my friends within the gang… but I am one that has never felt love for another person in the way that other people do, I have never been in love. So when I see people that are forcing themselves to be in love with a person that should not deserve it. Giorno deserves the love you wish to give him but is forcing yourself to not feel that way, it will only lead to the same pain one would feel when they are forced to love."
They were wise words in the end… but I have and still never will find out what love I could have had to give… I don't know how to feel love. Was this dream giving me memories of what actually happened or what would have happened at that moment? But the question was… should he have really done this? Could he have?
These were the thoughts I was having as I slowly yet surely came out of a long dream. And he woke up to the loud cry of a stand
"MORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORi! MORIRE!" shouted Ryuji's Stand with a mighty stand cry, the beast of a Stand that was mostly skeletal and corpse-like with 90 percent of its body being skeletal with his arms and legs up to the joints being either wrapped in tentacles or rotting (if it even was) flesh that of which looked zombified, but the problem was most of the stand was covered in a black two-piece suit with a purple tie wrapped around its neck and a hat on its head, the head was the strangest part about it, however, with it being the most "human" looking part about the body with it looking almost like that of a young woman's face with long black hair and purple lips but the eyes were a bland white color that looked blind to the world around it.
"God Damn It!" shouted Ryuji, "what the eff is wrong with this place?"
"I am not as well versed on stands as you and Bruno but you normally can't break steel bars with just your bare hands."
"That is just not how my stand rolls though, and with it still considering you as an enemy it should still be at full power."
"What do you mean," I asked as I looked over to Makoto and Ryuji from my place over Ann
"You see my sand "Abrakadaver" is a close-range stand that is able to break apart buildings within a single blow, but it has the drawback of not being good around other people that it considers "SAFE", which it grows weaker with the more people around." said Ryuji, "but even then that number is usually eight or nine people before my power is at its weakest, so why are these bars not breaking or at least denting?"
"Let me try it," I said as I walked over to both Makoto and Ryuji with my stand out and ready to battle like it knew that there was going to be an enemy for it to fight… even though there were none around. And with a shout, I propel my stand forward in a blitz of pure and utter destruction.
"ARI!" shouted Sticky Fingers with a powerful cry as it went past where I wanted it to hit, and it landed straight into the face of one of the very knights that brought them to this cell in the past. But the punch while powerful, powerful enough to bash in this "things" skull and dent the metal of the helmet it wears, did nothing to the face of this "knight" as it "Laughed", but Sticky Fingers kept punching it despite it doing nothing to the knight until it landed a hit on something else, the very man with his face plastered on every wall of this place, Kamoshida.
The man was almost bear naked other than a cape around his neck and a speedo around his waist with a crown on his head, and his eyes, pure bastardized gold that shined with hatred and lust and mania instead of resolve and kindness that he was used to gold shining with… and it was utterly disgusting to me to see my stand, my own soul, touch this "thing" before me with my own hands, it was like everything that Ryuji told me about him was true with just looking at this form of him, a disgusting form.
"Well, Well, Well, look what we have here," said Kamoshida
Ann who seemingly woke up as he arrived screamed at the very sight of him. She had a good reason too. I was about to vomit at his words, it was like his own words were a sickness that infected everything other than itself.
"It seems like your sentence alone has gotten worse, you sonofabitch!" said Kamoshida before he grabbed Sticky fingers' wrist and broke it with a resounding CRACK!
"GRAHHHH!" I shouted as I held my own wrist in pain, I cursed under my breath as I fell onto the ground.
"Bruno!" shouted both Ann and Makoto
Ryuji lunged over to Kamoshida for a brutal punch before being punched in the gut himself which flung the boy into the wall to the far right of the cell, I could not let this stand, so I jumped up to my feet and launched myself and my stand over to the bastard king to bring down a flurry of punches that placed Zippers on Kamoshida and as they were about to unzip Kamoshida flicked off the Zippers place on him and decked me straight across the face.
"You are all Idiots. Do you seriously think that your "Stands" are going to save you from me? A shadow? HA! You are all fools!" said Kamoshida before grabbing my face and kneeing me straight in the gut. Over, and over, and over again as I finally vomited out blood onto Kamoshida's speedo before he tossed me over to the bed area where Ann was. "You dare to Spit on MY clothes! HOW FUCKEN DARE YOU!" He walked over to me and grabbed my face as well as Ann's Shoulder which I soon punched away for her to escape only for another hand to come out from behind her and blitz the man himself away from her anyway even if it was for
long enough for her to run into the arms of another one of those guards who also captured Makoto and Ryuji in the exchange.
Kamoshida laughed at the sight before pushing me closer to his crotch region. In my disgust, I punched him straight in the balls, which seemed to make him recoil in pain and grab his crotch as he buckled downward for me to knee him straight in the face before giving an Axe kick straight into the back of his head. The knights let go of the others for the moment but stopped when Kamoshida held out his hand for them to stop before he stood himself, he spoke, "So this is your plan? To piss me the fuck off before I execute you for trespassing on these grounds. I was about to give you a lesser punishment as a slave but I see that is nothing compared to what you truly want… death." he continued, "You know Lady Ann and Lady Makoto would have had a wonderful time being my sex slaves, just like her friend Shiho has."
Ann gasped at that, whatever this place is they must have had someone close to her close… that must mean that they have another "Ann" somewhere around here too.
"And you and Ryuji! While he would be put into one of the many cells to rot like the useless trash he is. But you… you would have been an excellent part of my army, even my own personal slave that will be at my side for the rest of your days. So what do you say? Would you like to join me!"
I didn't even consider it… I stood tall or at least I stood as tall as I could in my current state. Every part of my body was bruised and my joints were torn in multiple places… and my right wrist was broken while my left arm was broken in two places, and even though I could feel my joints and arms healing… it was slight and I needed more time, more time to heal. But I knew my answer, I knew how I was going to break it to the man in front of me.
"You know… I am a simple person with less than simple motives and not simple at all abilities. But there is one thing I have never figured out. And that is EMOTIONS. Not because they are something I am not able to understand when it comes to other people… but when it comes to me understanding MY emotions I am limited with what I can do with mine. I cannot understand more of the complex emotions that other humans can feel, like Love and Desperation. I know why people feel these things, but I don't know how to feel them… and I have only felt a few emotions in my life, one of which being the one I feel now." I said before staring into the eyes of the bastard, "THAT FEELING IS RAGE YOU BASTARD!" I roared before pointing straight at him with a reinvigorated grace, "I SHALL NEVER JOIN YOU! I WILL NEVER BETRAY MY TEAM! AND I WILL NEVER BETRAY MYSELF AND I WILL DIE BEFORE I DO!"
"AWRRYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Cried Sticky Fingers but it was not a cry of glorious fury it was a cry of intense pain… and I could feel the same.
My head was throbbing in pain where I stood and could feel pain in the front of my face like there was a weight that I need to get off, my eyes were burning and I could feel the blood rushing through my body halt for only a few seconds but that was not my concern, it was getting whatever was on my face off, ease the pain that it causes.
"It has been a while old friend"
I kept clawing and clawing at my face and I could feel the blood pool on my fingers as I did so.
"You have done well with Sticky Finger's power and your resolve to change your fate even if you knew it could not be changed."
I could feel my eyes beating with fury… but it was then I stopped.
"But the game has changed, and so has your fate upon this land."
I listened to the voice that was pumping my head with this "Pain", what could he mean by any of this?
"And I will tell you this is NOT what fate has in store for you today! You have done too much for you to die now at the hands of this bastard, not after what you did to that sicko Secco! So cry out my name! You both know it! Cry out my name and I will give you the power to be one step closer to changing this world for the better with your own burning passion!"
"Of course… Arsen."
"Good… then the contract is sealed with your own soul, I am thou and thou art I! As the bridge of your soul has been limited in this and other worlds I will give you the power to fight the toxic oppression of the crooked and corrupt! But be warned… this is not your true power, and expect you full power to bring fate to its knees"
"Of course, servant of my master's true soul!"
"What's wrong? You hate the idea so much that you wish to die on your own accord?" said Kamoshida with a chuckle before he looked closer at my face.
I laughed at his face, from my place only a few feet away from him I could see that his face went from pure confidence to pure confusion to pure fear in only a matter of seconds, but I could not see what he did afterward as I put both of my hands on what I expected to be my bloody eyes only too feel a mask. I gripped onto it with all my might and pulled, it was painful as hell, but I continued anyway until I ripped more of my skin to finally do it I pulled off my mask and shouted the one word that was on my mind as blood and viscera spewed everywhere, "PERSONA!"
My blood erupted into a blaze as well as every other part of my body as it was literally engulfed in the blue fire, it was like being embraced in a warm hug. It was Euphoric to him. And when the flames we finally put out his stand changed and there was this Giant angelic man hovering over both of them.
Sticky Finger's face was no longer hidden by its helmet all the way to the mouth, now its face is covered up to the Eyes where they are not manic or blind, but wise to the sight of all before it and they are always in a stern glare. The Hemet instead of having spikes along the top of the head now has two horns on the side of the helmet that curled around to the neck. Its body is covered in a red bodysuit, with the chest and stomach exposed, and has pieces of padded armor over the shoulders, arms, wrists, knees, and feet all of which are pure black. Around the waist is a slight skirt that is being held by the padded armor around the waist with two zippers on the left and right sides of the skirt as well as an open area near the front of the skirt. Zippers varying in size hang from the base of its neck and abdomen, the back of its hands, and the top of its feet.
The figure who I know is Arsène has, from top to bottom: a very tall top hat, a long-horned mask for its face (as Arsène appears to not have a head), a cropped red eighteenth-century-esque suit worn open with the collar popped, stitched heart designs on the shoulders, a white ruffle tie, a black, tailed corset running down its torso; large, black, feathery wings starting at around the small of its back; claws; red coverings on its legs resembling pants and boots with blade-like heels.
I could also feel that my clothes have changed from my normal uniform, while I could not see what they looked like in full, it felt normal… like it was something that I would wear anywhere anyway. I looked over at the others to see that they were out of the cell staring at me in shock and I could see an army of these knights rip off their armor and turn into these floating Jack O Lantern-type things. I smirked as I looked at Kamoshida, he was cowering behind the Jack O Lantern Like they were going to stop what was going to happen to him… "What a fucken coward! I will take them ALL on!"
(Meanwhile with Makoto, Ryuji, and Ann |Pov None)
"Guys! We have to get out of here!" shouted Ann as she grabbed Ryuji and Makoto before running out of the cell, but Makoto stopped them before they could go any further, "What the fuck are you doing!? They are trying to kill us and Bruno is trying to distract them! We have to get out of here!"
"I am not just going to leave him!" said Makoto
"Look Makoto, I hate to say this in this case but Ann is right! Bruno is distracting them somehow so we have to get out of here before more of those knight things show up!" said Ryuji, "I know that you and Bruno-Kun are close but we have to get out of here and call the cops! They are the only people that can save him now!"
"The cops! Do you think the fucking cops are going to help us Ryuji? We don't even know if this is the real school or let alone a location the cops can even get to!" said Ann, "We need to get away from here to find someone to get us out of here! It is obvious those little spirit things you and Bruno have been doing nothing to these guys, so we need to find someone that can help against them!"
Before either of them could interject they heard laughter from inside the cell, it was Bruno's laughter. As they looked into the cell they see Bruno staring Kamoshida in the face with what could be seen as pure rage coming out of his eyes from behind a new oriental mask that appeared on his face, it was a small mask that only covered the top half of his face letting his hair come up and cover it slightly, it was pure white with only a bit of black around the eyes, it was kinda like eyeliner in a way. But that was only how it looked at a glance because in all actuality the black eyeliner bit was actual eyeliner that was put on under his hask and the lines they saw were gold lining the eyes.
Bruno grasped one side of the mask with both of his hands as it cracked slightly under the pressure of his grip and blood started to flow down his fingers, he pulled it off with all of his might and shouted one word, "PERSONA!" before being engulfed in Blue flames. It was a few moments before the flames settled as chains started to form around not only Bruno but the being behind him as well. But the thing that shocked them the most about Bruno was his clothing and his eyes. His clothes have changed from the modified Shujjin uniform to what looked like they came out of a Shonen Manga. He wore mostly pure black and red trench coats with Four tails with golden Zippers on all of the tails with zipper heads with letters on them going as follows: A, N, M, A, near the waist, under the coat was another coat but not one unlike his usual clothing with a large gap showing another shirt that left nothing to the two women that were just outside of the cell who saw his buff chest in full glory with whatever shirt that was covering his chest being the only thing covering its majesty, the coat was pure black with closed golden zippers around the waist and shoulders that all lead to the back of the coat where they could not be seen. The pants looked like normal dress pants but taking a close look would claim otherwise, the way that Bruno moved his legs it was plain to see that they were not black at all but obsidian with the golden zippers along the front of them seemingly holding the pair of pants together at the seams, but it was so small that it was hard to tell what was going on with it. The final piece of clothing that was on him before was an obsidian choker with multiple pins: A pair of Green wings, Six Bullets in a pile all labeled one to seven with the number four skipped, multiple math symbols from addition to dividing, and the requiem arrow with all of them surrounding a golden orb patched with zippers. This as they could tell WAS Bruno Bucalatti standing in front of the bastard "King'' without much of a falter in his resolve… if anything, IT GREW.
"What a fucken coward! I will take them ALL on!" Said Bruno as he grabbed what looked to be a knife from a zipper he created on a wall with zipper fingers and lunged forward with insane speed and precision toward the turned knights. He slashed one of them in half before using her Persona Arsen to set the other one a flame in black fire then scorched the room right as sticky fingers dismantled another one. All of this happened in a matter of seconds, while nothing was happening was happening before to these knights and Kamoshida everything was being enacted upon them instantly with minimal effort, even Kamoshida, who was tormenting them with the prospect of death was cowering in the corner of the cell as Bruno went on a killing spree until finally exiting the Cell in his full glory where they say his eyes have turned pure gold.
Bruno looked back for a second and smirked before closing the cell door and grabbing the keys from the there place hanging from the wall before locking the door and destroying the Key using Sticky Fingers' ability, "Told you I could take them all on." said Bruno before tapping the shoulders of his group telling them to follow him without any words as all four of them went deeper into the Dungeon.
"What the hell was that?" asked Ryuji
"Don't know and don't care." Said Ann with almost Euphoric glee, "THAT WAS THE MOST BADASS THING I HAVE SEEN ALL DAY!"
"Well your day just started with us almost dying so I guess that bar is fairly low currently." said Bruno with a chuckle, "But I will say that was the most exciting my days have been for a MONTH!"
"Seriously though Bruno what the hell was that thing that was over you there? I know that it was not your Stand because that was standing there with you, but the thing standing BEHIND you?" Asked Makoto, "And what is with your clothes? Why did you suddenly change after you got set on fire!"
"Honestly Mako-Chan I have no idea!" Said Bruno, "But in this case, I am not going to look a gift horse in the mouth!"
"How do you still not know what is going on? That thing gave you super powers for god sake!" Shouted Ryuji
"But what about that other thing? The Zipper man thing changed into whatever the hell that one monster was! Was that also caused by whatever happened to Bruno?"
"Let me stop you there Ann, I will explain everything to you all later but for now we need to get the hell out of here!" Said Bruno before busting into a cell with Sticky Fingers and opening up a way through the side wall through it with sticky fingers as well, "Go through here! We can cut them out before they even come over to us!"
"Wait? How are your powers working now? Shouldn't they NOT be working?" Asked Ryuji, "Your Stand did nothing to that effect asshole before, so why now?"
"I would not question the facts right now Ryuji! Let's just get the hell out of here!" said Ann
"Uh right, yha let's go!" Said Ryuji with a bit of hesitation as he looked back upon the dungeon seeing the hanging cages within the cage with a mirror of him looking back at him although this time beaten and bruised with his leg mangled and broken, Ryuji turned back toward the group to see that the only one standing in the next cell was Bruno looking upon him without a lick of worry on his face, in fact, it seemed to be understanding, the facade of it at the very least as Bruno set his hand upon Ryuji's shoulder.
"We will figure this out, whatever happens here we will figure it out." Said Bruno, "Now we gotta get out of here, common."
"Right, yha let's go!" said Ryuji before running into the other room just as suddenly tripped upon something that was ALSO exiting the cell
"OW!"
"Oh my god are you ok," said Ann
"Yha Imma be okay," said Ryuji, "What the hell did I trip on though?"
"GET OFF OF ME YOU BLONDE BRUTE!"
Ryuji burst up into the air in a flash without even moving all that much, "The Eff was that?!" asked Ryuji before looking down upon what he tripped on, "Wait? Is that A cat?"
"I AM NOT A CAT!"
The group looked down upon the "Cat", it looked like a cartoony Tuxedo cat with a rounded head and beady eyes with a bandana wrapped around his nonexistent neck. Frankly, it would look adorable if it happened to NOT have a cutlass strapped to his back.
"A talking cartoon cat, not the strangest thing I have seen all day, but it is definitely up there," said Bruno before grabbing the scruff of the cat-like creature and asking a simple question to it when it was at eye level, "do you pose a threat to us?"
"NO! I just want out of this damn place!" said the cat
"Good then you are with us, if you can help us fight you are an asset," said Bruno before letting the cat-like creature walk around on his shoulder.
"What are you doing Bruno? For all we know that thing could be on their side!" questioned Ann
Bruno could swear all he wanted after the fact, but the cat said "Hubba Hubba" before really saying, "I am not lying! I was locked up here just for wanting answers!"
"I could prove it, but if I did there would be fur on my tongue." said Bruno, "Look He might be able to help us get out of here, he is a cat so he should be able to get to places we can't"
"I AM NOT A CAT!"
"Then Let's use it." said Makoto, "I did some scouting and there is a bridge right outside this cell, I think it leads to a way out."
"Did you find a way across?" asked Ryuji
"No, Just Komoshida's face beside it, I think it might be a clue to something." said Makoto
"Then Let's prove our fluffy buddy is able to help us with that," said Bruno before he walked over to the statue, in his head he knew what the solution was, hell he knew that Makoto knew as well, but he might as well test it.
"You want me to lower the bridge?" asked the Cat
"Yes," said Bruno, "You can do that, or I can throw your fluffy butt in the river and then back into the cell, what's it gonna be?"
"ALRIGHT YOU GOT IT!" said the cat almost too happy to do the menial task of ripping the jaw of the statued bastard king right open.
"You knew how to open it didn't you?" whispered asked both Ryuji and Ann
"Yup, Use sticky fingers on the chains of the bridge." said Bruno Jokingly, "Good job cat, Welcome to the team."
"Happy to be here!" said the cat-like being with a slight tinge of fear in his tone, "Now common, I know a way out of here!"
"Good, then let's get to it," said Bruno before the group ran to their freedom.
To Be Continued
Stand Stats
Stand Name: Sticky Fingers
Music Reference: Album by The Rolling Stones
User: Bruno Buchilati
Type: Close Range Punching Ghost/Humanoid
Destructive Power: A
Defensive Capability: A
Speed: A
Range: C
Precision: A
Developmental Potential: A
Ability
Sticky Fingers' primary ability is to create zippers on any surface it touches with its fist, which it can remotely open or close at its leisure. For example, Sticky Fingers can hit a wall, unzip it to create an opening and go through it, then close the zipper.
Sub Stand Name: ?
Music Reference: ?
User: Bruno Buchilati
Type: ?
Destructive Power: ?
Defensive Capability: ?
Speed: ?
Range: ?
Precision: ?
Developmental Potential: ?
Ability
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Stand: Adverkadver
Music reference: song by Treyarch team, Elina Siegman and Ksherwoodops
User: Ryuji Sakamoto
Type: Punching Ghost
Destructive power: A-E (only if there are enough "safe" people around)
Defensive capability: B
Speed: D
Range: E (about 5 meters)
Precision: C
Development potential: E
Abilities
Strength is the name of the game but only alone rather than in a group of stand users. If it identifies a stand as an enemy it is able to gain terrifying power that could destroy a building in one kick, the problem is that it has trouble working with those deemed as allies because it grows weaker the more people around that are deemed as "safe" to it. And it is able to switch what it deems as "SAFE" for a short time.