Entering a jazz club, an usher immediately escorted them to available seats.
Trish: You better not be a no show.
Giorno: Relax, I'm here with her.
"Uhh, I thought we were going back to the hotel..?" Ruby asked unsurely, she did not expect him to drive her here. "I figured this is a nice place to take you." a waiter served them Tequila Sunrises.
"Oh! Umm I don't, I don't... Drink alcohol." Ruby said. "Ahh. Sorry, I'll order a mocktail next time." Giorno replied as he took a sip on his glass.
The music started as the performers played a smooth bass riff.
"I've been meaning to tell you all morning. I had a dream." Giorno said.
"Giogio... You already told me about your dream, okay? It was a noble dre-"
"No, no! I'm talking about the dream I had last night." A pink haired girl around the same age as them wearing a dress went up the small stage. She seemed to wave in their direction. Giorno nodded at her while Ruby awkwardly waved back. She then whispered at the blonde boy "I saw her on a billboard yesterday."
"She's quite a celebrity." Giorno smiled.
"Anyways. Does the name Neo ring any bell?" Giorno asked. "N-Neo?" Ruby looked at him with shock.
"Fly me to the moon...
Let me play among the stars,
Let me see what spring is like
On a-Jupiter and Mars."
"Yes, I had a dream where I was in Remnant. She told me you and her ran in to eachother in the past along with some mob boss called Roman Torchwick." Giorno said. "Yes! We fought before because they are the bad guys. What else happened?"
"I'm... I'm looking for a solution on how to get you back and-"
"In other words: hold my hand
In other words: baby, kiss me."
Giorno frowned and rolled his eyes 'I see what game you're trying to play, Trish. Setting the mood with Frank Sinatra, are you?'
"And?" Ruby asked with clear agitation on her voice. "And she mentioned about killing a woman named Salem."
Memories suddenly entered her mind and gave her a headache. It was something about fighting Salem with the team and an explosion happening.
"R-Ruby! Don't worry! I'm gonna-"
"Yang! NO!"
"Weiss! Weiss! Don't come any closer!"
"The warrior of the silver eyes was destined to stop me? Is that what you call 'fate' perhaps? Tell me, Ruby Rose. Do you believe in destiny? Because I don't." (maniacal laughter)
...
"What's wrong?" Jonathan asked as he sat besides the white haired beauty on the balcony of their suite. "Nothing, JoJo. It's just... I feel like I need to be somewhere. I just can't recall where." Weiss sighed.
...
"Oh, it's you." Jotaro said as he exited the restaurant's restroom and encountered the weird mugger earlier. "I-I... I need your help." the faunus said. "About what?" the delinquent asked.
"To figure out who I am." she replied.
"Hmm... What's your name?" Jotaro asked.
"... Blake."
"Then you're Blake. That's who you are. Now, get out of my way, my food is coming."
...
"Ahh! No! Don't! Oh my God!" Joseph screamed in terror as the blonde bombshell started to tear his clothes to shreds. She suddenly stopped as a hazy memory entered her mind.
Yang suddenly winced and flinched. Joseph sat up in concern "H-Hey, are you okay?" he touched her shoulder gently.
Yang groaned and shook her head. "Yeah. Let's continue!" she grinned causing him to be terrified again.
"Now now, if you want a piece of me, let's take it slo- are you even listening?!"
...
"Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore..."
"Ruby? Are you okay?" Giorno asked. "Yeah, yeah I think I'm fine. It's probably just the drink, haha..." she awkwardly laughed. They both stared at her untouched Sunrise.
"Oh."
"In other words: please, be true
In other words: I loooove you..."
The lights suddenly went out and Trish's microphone suddenly shrilled, disorienting everyone. Giorno and Ruby covered their ears as the lights returned. But a gunshot to the air caused a stampede as everyone panicked. Everyone stood up and ran towards the small exit. Giorno and Ruby got squashed by the screaming crowd. "C-Calm down, hey!" Giorno protested.
"Wo-Woah!" Ruby immediately guarded her pockets but her scroll fell. She tried to push back at the crowd but she was just too short.
"Giorno! G-Giorno!" she called out.
Suddenly, her face got smothered by boobs, but not just any boobs, the woman who owned them was wearing a dark blue suit.
But before she can react, a rag of chloroform covered her face. The commotion was going on and on and it took atleast 5 minutes to knock her unconcious.
Giorno calmly waited for everyone to get out and met with Trish.
"I think your singing drove them away." he quipped, only to get punched in the arm. "Where is she?" Trish asked with visible concern after noticing that Ruby was missing. Giorno realized it and they both immediately ran outside. The crowd murmuring outside was small as some already left in terror while security searched the interior.
"Shit." Giorno cussed after seeing that the girl wasn't in the crowd. "Let's split up. I know what she looks like, don't worry!" Trish told him. He nodded and went back inside.
He started to sweat when he saw her scroll on the ground. Giorno slowly picked it up.
He was angry, very angry. But he knows he needed a cool head to solve this.
'She was obviously kidnapped. But atleast if I'm going to start a search party for her, I have her picture.' he sighed calmly and made a call.
"Heeeeey, Gio-"
"Mista, meet me at the headquarters. This is urgent."
...
"Are you sure that was his lover? She could be just another escort for all we know!" a high pitched male voice said.
"Calm down. Nobody in their right mind would treat an escort with breakfast and offer to tour her around Rome." a female voice
The van stopped on a redlight. "She doesn't have any wallet... How do we identify her?" the aformentioned male said.
"Doesn't matter. All we know is that if she really means anything to Giorno Giovanna, then Passione would pay a hefty price for her..." a deeper male voice replied.
...
Giorno and Trish drove fast heading towards the HQ.
"Who could it be?! Damnit I really want to meet her..." Trish growled. "Save your anger for the abductors, Trish. We'll need every last ounce of it." Giorno said with an icy tone. The moment they reached the driveway they immediately got out.
Entering the premises brisk walking towards the office, the men and women immediately followed behind the two. Upon entering the door, Trish started the conversation.
"The boss' fiancee got kidnapped." everyone gasped as Giorno facepalmed really hard, but he guessed he had to roll with it for now.
"It could be anyone at this point." Fugo said.
"Agreed, how are we going to plan the search?"
"Dino, Tony, Catia. I'll be entrusting you to spread the word and possibly investigate if the captors were from inside Passione." Giorno ordered.
"Yes sir!"
"Fugo, can you perform an investigation on this?" Giorno asked. "I can do anything for you. I might not be the perfect man for the job but Abbachio taught me quite alot on how to trace someone down." he said with enthusiasm.
"Exactly what I wanted to hear. Bring Mista with you if you need some muscle." Giorno said and right on cue Mista bursted through the door and said he heard everything.
"Ciao."
"Ciao." the gunman and the singer greeted eachother.
"I don't know how I can help but I guess I can raise some awareness to the general public." Trish proposed. "That's perfect. I'm glad I have such reliable and capable people to work with. Make me proud." Giorno clasped his hands together.
"UNDERSTOOD."
...
Ruby slowly opened her eyes, and to her surprise, she was bound to a chair.
"She is a V.I.P. If any damage was done to her, it might affect the potential reward we'd be getting." the man, presumably their boss, said. "So are we not going to ask him for ransom?" the middle aged woman from earlier the hotel asked.
"No. We are going to frame the Camorre. Then we might get some favors from Passione. The two will go to war and it's quite obvious Passione would squash them. Less competition for us, and a new business partner too. Killing two birds with one stone."
...
As soon as everyone left, the original quartet from Team Bucciaratti had an extended meeting.
"Listen. Ruby... Wasn't my fiancee." Giorno said before glaring at Mista.
"I mean... No need to deny it since you two look adora-"
"Dios mios, Mista. Shut up." Trish whined.
"She's from another dimension." Giorno dropped the truth and they all immediately went silent. It was out of the blue and definitely unbelievable but Giorno said it with a straight face it's hard to doubt him.
Showing the proof (Scroll) he explained to them everything he knew excluding the dream he had. But they were all speechless and genuinely didn't know what to say.
"Okay, so how are we going to print her pictures? I'm sure not even you know how to operate that... Device." Fugo asked. "I guess let's do it in a primitive way like taking a picture of the photograph." Giorno swiped to find a suitable picture while they all leaned towards him to see how the scroll works.
"Ha! Not fiancee my ass..." Mista snickered. "That was really cute..! Maybe you two weren't something, but are you sure you're not feeling anything for her?" Trish asked with a teasing tone.
"Wha- I only met her yesterday! Get off my case!"
...
It's already midnight, but the idea of sleeping hasn't entered Giorno's mind. He's worried, but he already gave the order and there's not much he can do.
"Fugo, trust me, I'm pretty good with computers, place me on the keyboard."
"Signor Polnareff don't be an idiot! You're a turtle! It'll take you ages to get it done, I told you, if you want to help just dictate whatever it is you want me to add."
Also he can hear Fugo and Polnareff banter downstairs. He sighed and burrowed his head on the desk. Maybe good news will arrive, in the morning.
...
Giorno was suddenly transported to the scene of him facing a Grimm. To which he immediately ducked before the large animalistic abomination hit him with it's large paws.
Giorno took a few steps back. He doesn't have time for this, but if this will help him pass the time and solve the mystery of Ruby's problem in this world, it'll help alot. Who says men can't multi task?
...
'He better not stole my money...'
Neo sighed in relief as she saw that she still had her lien on her drawer. A knock on her door was heard. Neo rolled her eyes and expected it to be Giorno but surprisingly, it was Hazel.
"Hey." the gruff voice of the stoic man broke the silence. Neo puts her hands on her hips as if to ask what is he doing here.
"You see, Salem was kind enough to spare you. Yet, an associate of ours overheard that you were trying to devise a plan to kill her? Is it true?" he asked.
Neo nonchalantly shrugged and rolled her eyes 'So what if it is?'
"Salem herself was already aware, but she didn't think much of it, since your attempt to fight her along with Cinder didn't end quite well. So, you're no threat." Hazel boasted, much to her annoyance.
"What I want to know is, is the boy here with you?"
Neo shook her head. "That's a lie."
Neo rolled over towards her nightstand and grabbed her umbrella, before mouthing the word "Leave."
Hazel sighed "It doesn't have to come to this. We just want to talk to him."
'And corrupt him with your shitty offers?! It'd be a goddamn waste of time! He is better off being my pawn for a change!'
...
"MUDA!" Giorno managed to donut the Grimm through it's soft underbelly.
"It's hide is incredibly tough. No wonder they use those ridiculous weapons to fight them." he inspected it's remains but it slowly faded away in to dust, much to his fascination. "Cryptozoologists would love this place..."
*BOOM!*
He heard an explosion and turned around to see that it came from a building near Neo's apartment.
Giorno was about to run towards the place to assist her but he heard someone land behind him. A manly giggle.
Giorno turned around to see one of those faunus people Ruby talked about, half man, half animal.
This one in particular, a scorpion faunus. He was wearing some sort of bladed gauntlets and was smiling like a maniac.
The Joestar blinked "May I help you?"
"Yes!"
"... How?"
"You dieeeee!" Tyrian lunged towards Giorno. But he was caught off guard as something invisible grabbed his wrists and threw him away.
"No. You." Giorno said and glared at him. Tyrian blinked and saw a humanoid outline in the air with golden aura.
"Well, my goddess has always wanted to know what you can do. Might as well show me before I butcher you!"
...
Hazel punched a small rock pillar and hurled it towards Neo as a javelin. The girl simply jumped and ran along the projectile before leaping towards him with her unsheathed blade.
Hazel barely winced as incisions cut through his thick forearms he used to block the attacks. A kick to his chin was the one that made him decide that he needs to subdue this woman. Hoping Tyrian hadn't got to Giorno first.
"RAAAGH!" he roared and landed a backfist on Neo.
Neo was thrown away and landed non gracefully, something that doesn't happen quite often. She coughed and realized that Hazel packs a punch.
Her eyes widened when Hazel started to bring out Lightning Dusts and stabbed himself in the forearms...
...
Giorno decided to use his family's secret technique, he was sure that Neo needed his assistance, considering he heard thunderous blows from a distance and a loud growling man. Trying to evade Tyrian through alleyways.
Giorno suddenly heard submachinegun fire as bullets passed through him. "No... No..!" he halted after realizing how crowded the place is.
Tyrian grinned while still aiming his armguns at the blonde boy "Tired of running, boy?"
"I'll fight you. But not here, there are innocent civillians around." Giorno yelled out at him. He was not in the mood for this.
The terrified townspeople shook and tremble but they silently watched the two's standoff. Tyrian had a smug smirk and drops his arms. "Hmmm, finally manning up. I like that. However..." he raised his arms sideways and open fired, spinning around like a kid and killing a shit ton of people, much to Giorno's horror.
"I simply don't care about who gets slaughtered! Ahahahahahaha!"
Giorno heard the terrified screams as they got mowed down by gunfire, using his stand to parry the ones coming for him.
"Ahaha..! Ahaha! Ha... That was a good laugh. Listen. I will kill as many people as I can, as long as you are one of them." Tyrian casually declared.
"You. Your life will expire today." Giorno menacingly said.
An explosion erupted next to him as Neo landed in front of him.
"Ciao-" Neo tackled him down as they barely dodged a lightning rod from Hazel's arm.
"Ooh!" Tyrian leaned to the left to avoid it as well.
Hazel walked towards the vicinity. "I told you, I got this covered."
"You call this 'covered?' You're having trouble dealing with a wittle girl! You know what, Neo has gone too far, kill her!" Tyrian said. "No. We are here to capture the boy and here you are acting out on your sadistic tendencies." Hazel pointed at the corpses around them.
Giorno informed Neo that Ruby got kidnapped while they were still on the ground. Neo frowned and mouthed "I don't care!"
"You're right... That's the least of our worries for now." Giorno said as he stood up.
Much to his surprise, Neo actually brought a notepad with her this time and started writing hastily.
-We split up. You go escape to the forest, I'll distract Hazel the big guy, these are the people we need to kill.-
She handed the paper to him and shoved him away. "... Your handwriting is good-" Giorno hissed as Neo kicked him in the shin.
Tyrian lunged towards the two and tried to decapitate Giorno, but the boy shattered revealing it was Neo's semblance.
Her foot landed on his face but he was prepared. Maybe it was instinct, but her tail was wrapped around her leg, causing them to be thrown away together.
"Neo!" Giorno ran towards them. Upon reaching the now seperated Neo and Tyrian, Giorno immediately healed the small gash on Neo's leg causing her to wince.
"Why aren't you following your own plan, idiota?!" Giorno asked in annoyance.
'Wha- You should be thanking me, you almost lost your head! Nevermind..!' she shrugged and shoved him aside.
"NGR!" Hazel grunted as a throwing knife pierced his chest. It did little damage, but it did piss him off.
Giorno glared at Tyrian as he ran away towards the outskirts.
Tyrian replied with a gleeful smile and followed him. "We need him alive!" the faunus heard his ally yell out from a distance.
...
"To the forest, huh?! You're digging your own grave!" Tyrian cackled but to his surprise, Giorno suddenly halted and lunged towards him.
But he was nimble enough to dodge. "MUDA! MUDA!" Giorno's arn was replaced by Gold Experience, because he figured having his stand seperate from him would leave him unguarded.
"What are you babbling about? Huh?! Hahahaha!" Tyrian did a back handspring and sweeped Giorno's feet with his tail.
"Haha! First blood goes to me!" Tyrian boasted with an overhand slice towards his torso.
"Life spring forth!" a tree sprouted underneath Giorno and lifted him up, Tyrian's blade clashed on the trunk.
"GYAAH!" he screamed in pain as a laceration appeared on his tricep.
"MUDA!" Giorno managed to punch him in the head knocking him away.
"Oof!" Tyrian stumbled upon the ground, but he immediately got up. "It'll take more than that to-" he blinked in confusion as he watched Giorno jump down the small tree very slowly.
"What the... My body." he looked at his hands. "I... I never felt so alive! Yahoo!" he jumped up and down. "What a stupid semblance you have, you grant power to anything you punch? Useless!" he cackled as he tried to double slice through Giorno's torso.
But he phased through.
"... What? What the hell..." he glanced back and saw himself staring at Giorno dumbfounded. "Is that... Is that me? How can that be me if I'm here!" the pain slowly creeped through his body.
"Aghh! It- it hurts! What the hell?!" he trembled and screamed in horror as the slow motion Giorno punched his cheek once more and knocked a tooth out.
...
"GUWAAAAH!" Tyrian screamed in pain as he was knocked over even further to the woods. Giorno calmly walked towards his reeling figure.
'I can't let him hit me again! You... You blonde fucker..! I will dissect you..!' the mad faunus covered his mouth as he slowly stood up. Giorno halted after reaching a considerable distance.
"If you want to die, step forward." the Joestar threatened.
Tyrian lunged forward and tried his best to land a hit, Giorno used his stand to bob and weave, trying to return fire but finding it difficult to hit the scorpion because of Tyrian's outstanding reflex.
Giorno got used to looking at Tyrian's dangerous weaponry that he was caught off guard by Tyrian's tail.
"Ngg!" Giorno winced as it stabbed his foot.
...
Hazel hasn't landed a hit, yet Neo was surprised when she started to cough up blood.
'Why isn't this big piece of lard tired yet?' she thought in distress, she was using her mirrors to it's fullest capacity to wear Hazel down, but it seems like it'll take quite a while.
Hazel started running towards her "Enough games! You must die!"
Neo scoffed at the rather pathetic charge, she leapt up to avoid the obvious shoulder barge, but something is wrong... It wasn't high enough.
She whimpered in pain as he sent her flying through three walls of a destroyed house. She landed hard on the last wall with a loud thud.
'What is this..?! It... No. No, Giorno healed my leg, it can't be that..!' her eyes were slowly closing and the enemy was closing in.
...
Giorno noticed that Tyrian's tail had some sort of liquid dripping from it, and it was melting the ground. It must be very toxic.
"You were quite fast! You pushed me to use it just to slow you down. Bravo." Tyrian complimented, but Giorno was silent.
Tunnel vision was setting in and his body temperature was rising. The green scenery was starting to look grey.
'I have to know if this is Haemotoxin or Neurotoxin... To hell with it!'
Giorno sat down and much to Tyrian's shock, he chopped off his foot.
"ARE YOU INSANE?!" the faunus screamed, he had no idea that losing body parts was a normal thing for the italian Joestar.
He struggled to stand up as blood started flowing down his mouth. Tyrian's terrified expression turned in to a smile "Are you attempting to prevent it from reaching your brain? Tough luck but my venom travels fast!"
Giorno sighed 'It was worth the shot.'
"Tell me how it feels? I want to see your face contort to despair while my venom shuts down your nervous system!"
Yet Giorno remained tranquil, blood gushing out of his stump. This man, reminded him so much of the mad doctor. Cioccolatta.
Tyrian continued to circle around Giorno, observing him with glee.
"Mmm, a tough cookie are we? Who am I kidding? I'd rather see you mutilated anyway! YAAAAHH!" Tyrian was aiming for Giorno's shoulders to cut his arms off.
The blonde man simply glared at him.
Instead of feeling the burning feeling of being sliced by a sharp blade, all he felt were soft, scales brushing through.
*piano*
"What the-" Tyrian was alarmed when his weapons suddenly turned to a pair of vipers.
The snakes immediately sank their fangs to his biceps.
"AAAAAAAGHHH! HOW?!" Tyrian screamed in surprise.
"You were kind enough to let me touch your gauntlets in our skirmish. Allowing me to turn them into a living creature by Gold Experience. These vipers produce haemotoxin venom, which will make your arms rot leaving you no choice to cut it off. Basically gangrene." Giorno hopped closer to him.
"A-AAGGHH! AREN'T YOU FULL OF TRICKS?!" Tyrian kept screaming as he tried to shake them off.
"Tell me how it feels? I want to see your face contort in agony as you slowly die. No, who am I kidding? I'd rather see you pulverized." Giorno lets out a similar statement mentioned by Tyrian to show how ironic it is that a venomous man will die because of venom.
"Y-You can't simply turn the tables like that..! And- And you aren't gonna kill me, are you?! You're not supposed to kill people!" Tyrian begged as he slowly descend to insanity. The idea of not seeing Salem again is driving him nuts.
"Know your place, murderer! Getting spared is too good to be true, for a freak like you. Your life expires now." Giorno said in a cold tone. He wasn't having a good day on Earth, let alone here in Remnant.
Tyrian's eye twitched as the snakes slithered away "Y-YOU'RE FUCKING PSYCHO-"
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The heavily mangled corpse of Tyrian was launched away and got impaled through the forest's weird tree branches.
Giorno turned his back on him. "Arrividerci."
Worst chapter ever.
