Author Notes: This chapter alone sets up a much darker tone than previous JoJo parts which usually reserved major ally deaths for the finale, with three characters alone dying in the third chapter. It also sets in priority what John needs to focus on right now.
Chapter 3: Fragile Peace
Prospect University
As John and his dark-skinned lover, a man with a well-toned build walked into their classroom, they got nasty glares from the nearby Japanese students.
"Let them stare. It's not right to make the world blind by taking an eye for an eye by giving in to hate.," said the dark-skinned man as a large man rushed to greet them, the rotund body of his, knocking the wind out of them, and knocking them off their feet.
"Ricardo Martin. Jo-Jo-Jo. You got here just in time!" said the man with brown hair with whitish spots in his hair and a topknot shaped like a pretzel- which made his hair look like it was made of a pretzel. He wore a brown tank-top with a pretzel necklace around the top center of his chest, denim jeans, and dark shoes. He had tiny, innocent beady black eyes that reflected his gentle, kind soul.
"Mr. Wally, our culinary teacher. Have the talks about cultivating the fruit so it can be edible to everyone without any allergic responses progressed?" asked John.
"Yes. Norisuke the V was very helpful during the big talk. It's a shame your father never saw the benefits of it.," said the large, round man.
"Anyway, the others are inside.," said Wally as the door opened.
The three entered the classroom as they saw their other peers and teachers that were personally close to them-
A bald man of Japanese descent with a long brown ponytail, wearing a dull yellow shirt, denim jeans, and brown shoes sat in a proper seating position while looking stern.
A mature woman wearing a blue crop-top, a short leather jacket, red fingerless gloves, denim jeans, motorcycle tube head ornaments, and dark high heels. She had short black hair styled in a bowl cut that covered her right eye with her left eye with the gray iris sticking out. And she had a muscular, toned figure. She smirked confidently as she looked at the trio. She stood at 6'3.
A back-length black-haired, modestly-endowed, light-tone-skinned tone girl with a purple bandana with a mirror in the center, with a pink bow on top, a buttoned-down, blue hoodie, a gray skirt, gray long socks, and dark shoes. Her orange eyes looked at the trio discerningly before turning longingly at the boy sitting next to her. She stood at 6'0, being the second short.
A short boy in a button-down, blue school uniform of a light blue jacket with dark blue pants, and brown shoes. He had a blue flat-top styled in cross shapes. He looked with his brown iris eyes as he gave a nervous laugh.
A muscular yet lanky, stubble-chinned man in a brown trench coat over his shirtless upper body, denim jeans, and brown shoes. His waist-length brown hair had bangs that obscured his eyes and he had a snaggle-tooth underbite. He snickered sinisterly.
A fair-skinned, blonde with narrow purple iris eyes, wearing a modified mid-blue hoodie with a yellow smiley face on the top of the hood, with the hood ending in the center of the chest, leaving her dull-blue bra and midriff exposed. She wore dark pants and brown shoes. Her hair had a back-length ponytail, she had chest-length bangs and straight bangs. She went up to John for a handshake, but he quickly withdrew it as if anticipating the prank she was about to pull. She stood the second tallest at 6'4.
A blond girl with long-ankle-length hair, with the hair, parted to cover her right eye with her blue iris eye exposed, she had a strand of hair between her exposed eye- giving her a meek appearance. She wore a blue, long-sleeved, crop-top with gray furred trimmings with a long skirt with sections of gray trimmings. She looked nervously at John before shyly turning away. She stood the shortest of the women at 5'11.
A tall man with a messy, black pompadour, a high-collar dress shirt with a red ascot, a brown belt, grayish-blue pants with elongated, triangular pantlegs towards the bottom, and dark shoes. His green iris eyes saw John and gave him a confident thumbs up with a grin that glimmered. John ignored him.
A dark-skinned man of Afro-American descent, with large eyes with tiny black pupils, wearing a brown hoodie, brown pants, and dark brown shoes. His hoodie and pants had prominent pockets each colored a specific color as if a rainbow pattern with the red in the center of the top of the hood, yellow/green on the chest area, indigo/purple on the respective elbow sleeves, blue on the central pouch in the lower half of the hoodie, and orange/pink/black/white on the upper/lower pant legs. He looked with blase yet passionate admiration towards the black-pompadour-haired man.
A young with light-brown spiky hair, bushy eyebrows, a denim shirt, dark pants, and gray shoes. He gave John an assured smile.
A stocky, square-nosed, short-brown-haired, large eyes with tiny black pupils, and square-faced man. He wore a long-sleeved dull-brown shirt, brown pants, and brown shoes. He looked initially smug until he saw John and immediately shirked eye contact.
And lastly, a 6'11 tall, fair-skinned, blue-iris eyed, back-length-black-haired, a well-endowed woman around John's height. She wore a blue crop-top with blue, puffy shoulder with red lines, yellow trim around the bottom of the sleeves, lower-arm length brown fingerless gloves, a zipped in the middle of the crop top, with a dark belt with a golden buckle, a golden skirt with brown boots. She looked at John earnestly before turning away as she somehow knew that he had eyes only for Ricardo.
"Ricardo Martin, Toyanse Yuki, Ms. Alana Jack, Poly Sics, Mr. Mister, Mr. Donald Fagin, Dyl Bo, Judy Collins, Wally Beck, Elvian Press, Jean Dan, Vic Mensa, Cos-Ello, and Adria Caselo. I'm glad you all made it to my proposal to stop these escalating conflicts. We will hold a nonviolent protest outside of the main government buildings until they submit to our demands.," John said as he slowly walked to the central desk and stared directly at the gathered group.
"Oi, oi. Doesn't that mean we might be martyrs?" Cos-Ello asked nervously.
"Gandhi, MLK Jr, Lincoln, and the Messiah all died for the sake of peace. I view it as a potential prospect, but I welcome it.," John said.
Suddenly, there was audible clapping coming from the door, as it swung open. A man in a red hoodie, removing his hood to his slicked-back blond hair as he clapped sarcastically. Behind him were fourteen cloaked individuals standing ominously behind him.
"That sounds like a nice story, but I gots a better one.," said the man as he spat on his right hand.
"Hey, man. It's not polite to butt into private meetings. In fact, I've never seen you at the university in all my time here.," said Ricardo as he summoned a brown guitar with the head of a sombrero-wearing, mustached man with orange eyes and a rose pattern in the center.
"Cielito Lindo.," Ricardo declared as he played the guitar, which emitted a sound. This made the blonde and his group fall to their knees, their eyes beginning to doze off, but one of the members slowly turned transparent and vanished.
No one can resist this, time to go beddy-bye. thought the Afro-Latino before noticing.
Didn't he have 14 followers?... Maybe I was seeing things...I must've had 13 after-, he pondered before noticing the left half of his chest was gone and his guitar had a large portion of its shape missing. The fourteenth figure reappeared as it turned visible again. Ricardo collapsed in a pool of blood.
It removed its cloak to reveal a towering, monstrous humanoid made of a shadowy material covered in blue flames with a red singular eye in the center of its head, and a purple gem in the center of its chest. The spiked tendril-like points were either spikes, horns, or tendrils due to the eldritch nature of the form.
This made Cos-Ello go unconscious from the sight of the creature as the others stared intently.
"What the hell is that?!," Mr. Mister asked as he quivered.
"The Unknown. He's a sapient Stand.," said the blonde as he got up.
John leaped across the group as he proceeded to cradle Ricardo in his arms.
"Oi, oi. We'll get help. Stay with me.," he said before Ricardo's eyes glazed milky white as his body went limp.
John gave a harrowing scream as he cried profusely.
The blonde took the opportunity to bend down slowly before his spat arm punched John faster than the eye could see. The dark-haired man was punched across the classroom.
"Consider this a hello. I'm gonna convince those bloody gov'nors to hold a tournament to see who's the top Stand users! We'll definitely meet again.," he said as he materialized a small blue creature with a pointed proboscis, gangly arms, insectoid wings, arrow point protrusions from the waist, and stinger tail.
"You don't just come in, insult us, kill one of us, and walk away. It's not repeating violence. You're a danger to all, so you need to be taken down.," said the bald man as he summoned a brass, round-headed humanoid wearing a dull yellow baseball cap, a green vest, and holding a whistle perpetually in its mouth.
It blew the whistle as it caused the group to become immobile.
"This is Warabe Uta- its whistles can enforce any command I want. I'll get the authorities to put you behind bars for the rest of your days. Considering you're likely natural murderers.," Toyanse boasted before suddenly one of the members grabbed him with both hands, hoisting him up.
The cloak tore apart as it revealed a huge, obese, bald, purple-skinned humanoid with muscled arms. It had no visible face but had empty black eye-sockets, a series of grinning mouths covering the base of the neck to the end of the stomach, and four blue eyes placed perpendicularly on the lower arms/legs. It wore a purple, sleeveless, overcoat with a golden, segmented collar, and brass armguards/leg guards.
He proceeded to devour Toyanse alive just as John was becoming conscious again.
"That'll make a good ability for Just Eat It to use.," the blonde remarked.
"I wanna eat the women next.," said the purple being in a bellowing, overlapped multitude of voices coming from its extra mouths as it turned to the girls of the group, which all looked disgusted.
"Jo-Jo-Jo. You're winded. I'll come help with Healing Water.," said the flat-top boy as he dashed towards his friend.
"Oi, a healer like that will be a problem later on. Mind if ya?" requested the blonde as another removed its cloak to reveal an imposing silver humanoid with a faucet head with a mouth of exposed white teeth with faucets on its shoulders, middle of its chest, protruding from the middle of its lower arms/back of the palm, shins/lower legs, and feet.
As Mr. Mister summoned a blue bedsheet ghost-like entity with a dopey face, it was filled with a blackened sludge, which was replicated onto the user. Mr. Mister gasped for air before falling down limp on the floor.
"Dirty Water. He had no right to live if he was so weak.," said the silver humanoid with a chuckle.
John shook with rage and tear-filled eyes as he saw Mr. Mister lifeless on the floor.
"This is my team, Primal Scream. I'm Motley Cruel. I'm here to settle a grudge that's gone back centuries at this point. Hope you can all muster up some backbone for some payback.," said the blonde as he left the students to their misery.
His group complied as they left with Motley.
As Poly cradled Mr. Mister in her arms, crying profusely, as the sounds of police cars were heard outside of the building.
Next Chapter: Search for Answers.
Stand of the Week
Stand: Cielito Lindo- named after the song by Mexican composer, Quirirno Mendoza y Cortes
Stand User: Ricardo Martin- named after the singer, Ricky Martin
Ability: Emotional Music Manipulation- by playing his guitar Stand, he can soothe the emotions of his targets.
Destructive Power: E- Has no true combat power.
Speed: A- the music speed is nigh-instantaneous
Range: B- 15 meters
Precision: A- very accurate
Persistence: D- easily broken if Ricardo's concentration is broken.
Development Potential: D- almost mastered.
Stand User Rank: D+- very good for music concerts and peace negotiations, but very ineffective in combat.
Stand: Warabe Uta- named after the traditional Japanese songs, Warabe Uta.
Stand User: Toyanse Yuki- named after the Warabe Uta songs, TÅryanse and Yuki.
Ability: Whistle Commands- when he whistles, the affected targets are subjected to his commands including stopping, retreating, surrendering, etc.
Destructive Power: C+- moderately stronger than a human, but not by much.
Speed: A- very instantaneous in effect.
Range: A- 200 meters.
Precision: A- highly accurate.
Persistence: D- Lasts as long as the whistle blows and can be easily disrupted.
Development Potential: N/A- fully developed upon creation.
Stand User Rank: B- while it does have limitations, the effectiveness of the power is used to reduce car violence, regular infighting, and settle disputes.
Stand: Healing Water
Stand User: Mr. Mister
Ability: The Stand is able to heal any internal diseases, external injuries, etc. However, it cannot heal poisons, unorthodox deaths, etc. Additionally, it cannot be used on the user itself.
Destructive Power: E- not very strong.
Speed: A- very agile.
Range: B- 12 meters.
Precision: A- very honed and accurate.
Persistence: A- lasts as long as needed to heal target.
Development Potential: N/A- fully developed upon its creation.
Stand User Rank: C- a skilled healer, which is a valuable asset for a team, but has no true capabilities outside of it.
