Hello! I'm back and I know it toke me a while. I'm sorry for the few who followed and put this story as a favorite, but the story got through huge change. In short, I was in the middle of everything, but I decided to make a big change in the argument. It's practically the same, but better! It can be said that this now has a few elements of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but it will be only for two characters from the series that will be present and another Oc that we will Introduce in this chapter, after that everything will continue as planned. (It was all Reed Idea, blame him…)

A great detail, now we are two who wrote this! My best friend and I, so we are now Reed&Tale (fanfiction don't let us change the name :C). Being honest we have everything done up to the Fantasia Arc. We never forgot the story, but we wrote it by hand and then we wrote it down on computer, both in Spanish and English and we didn't have the time for that ... but now everything is fine!

We will not bother you anymore! Enjoy the chapter

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Chords of Fate

Those who stand proud

?POV

Well, I'm dead ...

For this girl, everything had been very sudden. It was just leaving her apartment on a Friday morning and that was it, dead, bullet to the head.

Of all the ways I could have died... was it really a damn stray bullet to the head? What kind of sick joke is this?!...

This young woman was named Joanna. A 21-year-old biology student known in her college for being the one everybody knows you just don't fuck around with… she was as wild as damn tiger. You see, Joanna was not just a bad and very intimidating girl, reason even men tried to avoid her. She was also currently the female national MMA champion, for real.

What else can be said. She was the kind of girl that didn't hesitate to say what she disliked of someone to their faces, straight and without censorship. The kind of girl that enjoyed giving a well-deserved beating to any boor who was on her bad side. And we don't need to talk about the ones who insulted her loved ones… if you want that part of the history you can go to the hospital and ask her victims.

Maybe, just maybe, those were some of the reasons why she was lonely and feared.

Thanks to that she always thought that she was going to die alone and probably a virgin... but she could care less.

She was always getting into trouble that didn't concern her. People may think she was a busybody, but truth was nothing like that. Joanna had just always felt something inside her that made her want to fight and defend the innocent... oppose the evil. Perhaps she was an anti-heroin for today's society, who knows?

Great was her surprise dying over something so random...

Hell, I always thought my end would be more serious and epic, not this shit!

Now Joanna was floating on this endless void, probably the place she gotta know as her after life. She didn't care about anything anymore. If her time had come, so be it. However, Joanna wasn't going to lie to herself. Only one thing made her feel sorry for her death and it was her family... What kind of pain would her parents be passing by now?... her death would hit hard on then for real.

I'm sure that my old ones are going through something hard. Goddammit... I never wanted to leave before them. They do not deserve the suffering.

Then everything lit up. Anyone might have been surprised at what was happening, but Joanna couldn't give a damn fuck about it. She was dead, this was so cliché. That's why neither did she feel the need to take importance to the figure ingulfed on light that had appeared before her.

"So, what's your business with me? Can't see I'm busy being dead or whatever." The black-haired said without showing any interest.

"You're not afraid of me?" The woman asked with a deep, melodic and sentient voice.

"Why would I, eh? Ok, if you are some kind of god and you had come to judge me, you are losing your time. I have nothing to fear. I didn't do anything wrong in my life. I always respected my principles and although I was rude and usually got into trouble it was because whoever piss me off deserve it... Now, if you'll excuse me, I'd like you to finish whatever it is that brings you here." Those were Joanna's words. Bold and without fear, worthy of the task that entity came to give her. Only she did not know that yet.

"Then you're perfect for the job..."

What the hell is this woman talking about!

"I have lots of names, but you should know me as Ilianna. I'm a goddess, but the truth is not as simple as that. For the moment, the only thing you must know is that I'm the one that is responsible for bringing valance to the "Creation". A set of innumerable universe that live apart in harmony with one another."

"And what do I have to do with all of that? Sorry but I'm not on the mood for your riddles." Joana interrupted a little annoyed.

"There are beings whose souls transcend their reality. This poor and brave beings belong to other worlds. Usually when they die we the gods gave then big task in their original worlds and send then there, to the place they should be…"

"Ok I understand, then I'm one of those souls uhm?" Joanna responded more calmly and with a slight smile. She had realized that she was facing something important, being a bitch was out of the panorama now. She decided to at least pay some attention to the matter and try to ignore her bad mood.

"Exactly. Your time have finally come. You now have to forge your true path by the side of my knight. Where you are going you have an important role to play, however in order to succeed with all you have to surpass you will need powers… and I'm here to give then to you."

Joanna was still not surprised by what was happening. She somehow knew this was a chance to start all over again in a new place. You gotta be damn idiot to just say no to that. And also there was that power thing extra! It was a win/win situation!

"Let's get this straight. Can I choose the powers I want or not?" The girl asked.

"Yes, you can choose whatever you please."

That answer brought a nice big smirk to the young woman. She knew exactly what she wanted.

No one actually knew about it, but Joanna was a big anime fan. She always kept it a secret because for her it was something private. Her dad loved seen anime with her and she pressured those times between the two. It was her dad that made her a huge fan.

"I will be damned! If that's the case, I want to be a Hamon and stand master! Give me the powers of Hermit purple and Star platinum! To hell with whatever I have to face from now on. I'm damn right in going to beat it all with this powers!" Joanna shouted full of determination while she pointed herself with her thumb. A big proud grin on her face.

"So be it. however, remember my duty is to maintain balance between creation. By asking me for such powers as stopping time and an art as powerful as Hamon I must bring balance to it... since now on, you will become a force of good and you will need your counter part by your side to live on."

"I have no idea of what you're talking about, but I can care less. I'll be able to surpass whatever now!" Apparently the euphoria that now flowed in Joanna's veins clouded her reason. If only she would know what laid ahead of her…

"So, are you ready?"

"As always! Just one last question. What's that mission you were talking about?" Joanna however couldn't get her answer since a great beam of light enclose her making her disappear from that great emptiness, leaving Ilianna alone again.

"That is quite simple. Just live what you couldn't and help my knight... And please keep him on line. I am really worried I made a mistake bringing him back from the dead… Well, I'm gonna trust you two. Now the real problem is that man…"

?POV

Honey…

How strange, a voice.

Honey, wake up...

I haven't heard anything for so long.

Honey... It's me...

Wait… that voice!

The last thing I remembered was my fight in Egypt and my tragic end in the hands of that damn Joestar bastard. It pissed me off a lot… for a long time the only thing I remembered was being in the dark. It was not an unknown sensation for me. I had already spent one hundred years in the dark depths of the ocean. However, this darkness sensation was different. It was as if I was conscious but at the same time I wasn't there, as if time was paralyzed forever... an ironic end for someone like me if you ask.

So when I heard that voice. More than anything when I heard something after god knows how much time. I recovered my senses again and slowly I opened my eyes to appreciate what was in front of me. I couldn't believe my eyes.

"Mom?" There was I, all I could see around me was white and just in front of me was the woman I thought was dead centuries ago. This actually made sense. I had died after all, though I never expected was going to see her. Someone like her would never go to hell… the place I belonged.

"I've been watching you, Dio." She told me softly, a small motherly smile on her face. What could she want from me? I was more than sure that the actions and road I took were definitely not the ones she wanted. I ended up being a scumbag even bigger than my father.

"Then what do you want from me?" I replied, making me the disinterested one. "If you have been watching me, you know very well what I am, what I have done and what I am capable of."

"All this time, you have only blamed yourself right?" that was the only thing she said…

Shock, that surely was what take over me in that moment. For some reason I felt a great sensation of anxiety in my chest like never before. Then, little by little, that sensation became anger, and then it ended with me writhing in rage.

"You… have not the slightest idea what you're talking about! I AM DIO, the last thing I can feel is guilt!" I was at mere centimeters of her face when I broke up on hysteria. I felt outraged, strange and terrifyingly indignant. I didn't know why those words dug so deep inside my being.

"Honey, I'm your mother... You cannot hide anything from me." Apparently my anger and closeness didn't matter to her, because she hasn't even flinched. "All this time I've been watching you from here... I know that your obsession on seeking power is because of the impotence you felt when you couldn't do anything for me when your father exploited me and made me die. You blame yourself for not being powerful enough to stop it ... "

Silence. I was paralyzed, scared, confused and... Sad. Did someone like me could feel sad? Was it possible that this feeling existed in me?

"Mom... I..." I wanted to talk, say something, not stand there like an idiot without being able to say something! It was not worthy of someone like me!

"Don't blame yourself... Just promise me you'll find another path for your life." My mother looked at me with a big smile. I was about to answer her, to tell her all the things I wanted, but in the blink of an eye everything went black again. Then the last thing I remembered was the feeling of being pulled by an invisible force...

Joanna's POV

Where the fuck am I

I could already have a damn whole hour walking in this forsaken woods in god knows where. It turned out that this woman had the wonderful idea of making me appear in the middle of nowhere, at night and in the middle of a damn storm! Oh, and let's not forget naked, I was naked. This couldn't get worse!

The fact that I also did not know exactly what kind of world I was at was an extra for everything that was happening. The only good thing was that at least I had my cell phone with me. It made no sense! Why my phone and no goddamn clothes!?

At least my physique was still as sharp and defined as it has always been, it's good to know that all those hours training and working out would still bear it fruit. My long hair was as always, long to the point it reached my knees. What I still did not know was if my eyes were the same blue color as always.

My powers, I really didn't know what with them, but for sure could feel something different in me. A few hours ago I had taken the time to see if I had really gotten what I wanted ... And Fuck yeah I got it! I was feeling as if all my life I had had them! What actually made me feel strange was that I felt something else flowing inside of me apart from my the Hamon energy, and it disconcerted me a lot.

I decided not giving Importance to that mater was the best, what I really needed now was looking for some sign of life or somewhere to take refuge from this damn rain! I hated to get wet, my hair would swell after always after that and made me look ridiculous.

So I was there, following my own path through the forest when eventually I reached a river. On its banks for my great pleasure there was a little old cottage. It seemed to be abandoned but well, at least it meant I had a place to take refuge.

However, something, rather someone, picked my attention. Just outside the cottage, face down on the dirt, there was a man. He was like really tall, like at least 6' 3" feet's, and hella ripped. His wild blond hair was soaked and following by the sides of his face. It struck me that he was really pale, like really really pale, was he even alive?

Cautiously I approached the body of the man to verify if it was indeed dead and then, when I turned him over... I felt a not on my guts and my soul almost leave. The terror that I felt couldn't be described. I knew very well who this... this thing was.

"Dio…"

Dio's POV

"My head…"

My head was spinning. If you did ask me I was as disoriented as that time Jotaro had cracked my skull in our fight. The last thing I remembered was that feeling of being pulled by an invisible force and then a void and cold sensation.

The conversation I had had with my mother was still on my head... As if something like that were possible, there was nothing that would change me, in this I had had become, this was now my life and there was no going back. As much as my late mother want it... It was impossible.

"Don't. You. Move."

Those words made me became aware of my situation. I was on some kind of cottage, reclining on a wall near a fireplace with its living flames. In front of me was a woman with black hair and blue eyes. She was moderately tall and only had on a brown man's shirt a little too big for her.

She looked at me cautiously, a sharp look that communicated distrust in whatever way you see it. The aura that that woman emanated was no doubt familiar to me, although I still couldn't connect it to anything and get to know why she had that aura in particular.

The second thing I noticed was that in fact I was immobilized by a certain thorny vine with which I was very fond of. Thanks to that, I could realize why everything was so familiar to me.

Hermit Purple... This type of stand is only developed by people who trained their body in the art of Hamon...

With irony I smiled and turned my gaze towards the woman. This made his look sharper, generating that that feeling of contrition I felt around my body increase with the mocking smile I had.

"Who are you, woman?" I Asked without taking my eyes from hers.

"The one making questions here is me, you disgusting vampire." Well that's one way to answer, you could even tell by her tone that this woman hated me without even knowing of me. And let's not forgot that accompanying her hateful words, just as I had imagined, waves of Hamon began to flow threateningly by her hands.

So I was right in assuming that this woman was a user of Hamon... That useless...

"I know what you are thinking." I said between mocking sarcasm. "You think that because of you having Hamon, and me being what I am, you have me at your mercy, right? It's ironic, once I had a lot of problems because of that shitty breathing thing, don't think you are the first one that tries to face this way... "After finishing my words, I started to release the energy of my stand, this stupid woman was going to realize who she was messing with. "THE WORLD, STOP TIME! "

"STAR PLATINUM: THE WORLD!"

SHE SAID WHAT!

Five

"You're completely stuck, Dio! I know who you are, stopping time will not do anything against me, now give me answers, how are you alive and how the hell you got here!" By saying that she let her Hamon flow through the Hermit Purple vines. The surprise and pain, generated by the burns, on my face was evident. Also, I could see in this dammed bitch's face that she was enjoying it!

To begin with I didn't even know how I had ended up in this situation!

Four

"I don't have the slightest fucking idea; I don't even know what you're talking about!" By now my anger was so bad I could hear my teeth clenching. "I promise that if you let me go this moment I will not make you see how hell looks! " I screamed in rage.

I didn't feel like wrapping myself up in a fight right after I was resurrected, I also needed answers after all and this woman was my best option...

Three

"Do you think I'm a fool? I know what scum like you would really do!" That woman told me making her Hamon flow even more around my body, burning my skin and making me writhe in pain. "You being here can only mean that you know something!"

Two

"What do you want me to tell you, I really don't know anything about what you're telling me! The last thing I remember is being dead! DEAD! I SHOULDN'T EVEN BE HERE ALIVE!" I responded exasperated, I didn't know about what this crazy woman wanted!

One

"And time flows once more"

I felt the bindings of Hermit purple come loose around me. I could already feel how my regenerative powers were slowly returning my scorched flesh to normal. I didn't understand why this crazy bitch had freed me. But at least that mean I did not have to keep resisting that damn torture.

"The fact that you are released doesn't mean I don't have my eyes on you." The woman said grabbing a pair of pants close to her and throwing then towards me.

What I saw next couldn't be described in any other way than hilarious.

Now I could see clearly that this woman was blushing. The reason? I was naked. It was not like I cared or it bothered me in the least. On contrary, if being this way made this woman uncomfortable after all she just make me go through, with pleasure I would stay like this, besides it was funny.

Between those thoughts, and the odd glances here and there of the woman, I began to analyze my situation with great care. I was in a place that I obviously didn't know, somehow I was alive again and right in front of me this woman could well be my natural enemy.

My best option was to calm down and see what I could gain her. Later, when she means no help to me, I would manage to find a way to get rid of her.

However, that did not mean I couldn't have fun with her meanwhile.

Slowly I began to smile mischievously. "What, do you like what you see?" I said in a mocking tone as I opened my legs so she could see me completely.

To this she simply turned towards me, blushing even more, and what she said... what she said was really, really unexpected.

"And what if I like what I'm seing?! I'm free of looking at whatever I please! Besides, it's not like you're so gifted down there as you think..."

This Goddamn bitch! Did she just say what I think she said?!

"Now." Ignoring everything that had just happened, the woman went and sat on the small table near the fireplace. Once there, with her hand she gestured for me to join her. "I think we both need answers."

Well, I'll be doggoned... I just ignored what happened, put on the damn pants, and I sat right next to that witch.

Joanna's POV

"hold up, let me see if I understand well. You mean we were both revived by the same deity?" I finished surprised and annoyed at the same time.

"It seems like that. Are you stupid or you actually just don't get it? "

The last hour had been for less normal... For the love of God... I had faced Dio on equals! Well almost, but still!

I would be a hypocrite if I said I wasn't afraid; I was really freighted out, but I felt the need to impose myself before him. As if something out of my understanding was drawing me towards him in some twisted way.

And in the end the result was... Bizarre, no matter how ironic it sounds.

"So we were given a new opportunity in this world... Interesting." Dio said lose on his thoughts. "It also turns out that the strange woman that you speak with let you choose whatever powers you wanted... I will be dammed; I still cannot believe that everything I know is actually the creation of someone from the "universe" which you come from... " he finished with disgust.

"Shit happens." I said gesturing with my hand to just let it go. "Annoying as it, that does not take away the fact that now this is our reality. I have the idea that all this about fate and universes works in such a way that, although in the most surrealist manners, all these realities are intertwined, like a spider's web... but it's just a theory. "I answered him in the same way, losing myself among my own thoughts.

"It could be..." A slight smile slowly formed on his face. And of course, we were talking about this bastard, it was not that he was just happy, he was making fun of me.

"Does that sound funny to you?! At least I'm trying to reason out what's going on!" I said annoyed, very annoyed. I couldn't stand that stupid mocking smile of his!

"No, it makes a lot of sense..." He replied making me calm down a bit, just a bit. "I'm just thinking about what that "Ilianna" told you ... Don't you realize? You're good and I'm evil... The Ying and Yang, two sides of the same coin, an analogy as old as civilization itself... We are that balance you told me about. I, Dio, chosen to be your counterpart and maintain a balance beyond understanding. Only someone like me could be selected for such a thing!" The expression on that slob's face was so self-centered that it made me want to pug. Seriously, I could already feel how the little food in my stomach was returning up my throat.

But from one moment to another, his eyes changed, and that arrogance disappeared. "That conversation still does not make sense then…"

"What conversation?" I asked intrigued. Apparently Dio had wanted to say that for himself, but I managed to hear him. Someone was not telling the whole version of the story.

"It's none of your business woman." Dio answered without further ado, giving me a cold and sharp stare.

"Joanna. My name is Joanna." I just sighed with disgust and turned my gaze away from his. This guy was unbearable in person. More than I already assumed he really was...

Give me a damn break...

"Anyway, I'll go out for a snack." And just like that, Dio began walking towards the door of the cottage. "I'll be back before dawn."

Oh no! Of course not!

"Don't you dare to take another step!" I screamed, getting up quickly and suddenly from where I was sitting. "Do you expect me to stay still when you tell me "I'm going for a snack? " I know what you mean, I will not let you feed on innocents' blood while I'm alive!"

I noticed how Dio's broad muscular back contracted suddenly when I said that. Slowly he turned and went to where I was until we were one in front of the other. Although the difference in height was not much, his figure was still higher, generating that our stares clashed directly one above the other.

"Oh ho, and how do you plan to do that? I assure you that the what happened earlier would not be repeated so easily..." While we maintained our battle of gases, he showed me one of his hands and vines very similar to that one of Hermit Purple emerged from it. Next to that, from his hands was also what looked like icy vapor, and behind him, The World had already manifested itself.

I had forgotten that Dio was also a hybrid Stand User... so that's his Passione.

"You want me to make you? You piece of garbage..." In response to his act I did the same. I could feel my female version of Star Platinum staring at The World. Hermit Purple wrapping my arms while the Hamon roared wildly through my body.

That's how we stayed for a while, keeping our threat up. I would never admit it, but I loved this feeling of adrenaline. It made me feel alive. I could see in Dio's eyes that he was enjoying this too. Also, neither of us knew what the other was capable of. I had never seen Dio fighting with her vampirism and stands at the same time, and he also knew nothing about me. He did not know I was trained in martial arts to and was o regional champion.

Suddenly, the cabin door opened abruptly. Letting see two figures in a heavy coat, one of them even taller than Dio and one a little smaller than me. We both withdraw our powers and turned to see the new individuals in the cottage.

People? I thought that this place was abandoned, this clothes that I found were very old and careless as to belong someone's...

"Who are you two and what's your business here on our house." The biggest of the two spoke. His voice was light with a very strong tone behind it and I could swear it sounded even satirical.

"That's none- Ugh!" Suddenly that same figure raised one of his hands towards us. Dio was the first to fall, my instincts were at their best and I prepared to fight. I saw Dio struggling, almost incapable, of moving his body and that sincerely terrified and disconcerted me.

The fuck's going on now!

At first I didn't understand what was happening, however, when that hooded man moved his hand in my direction I could perfectly understand what was happening.

"W-what the hell..." I said with difficulty. My god, the sensation was exorbitantly horrible! It was as if a damn bulldozer was crushing me on slow motion! I could feel how... how something was stealing my strength.

"I-I cannot even make The World manifest..." I barely heard Dio's voice. Everything was turning black and my vision was clouding. The feeling of dizziness that I felt was stronger than my own will. At this point, I was surprised of how Dio was even capable to speak. "W-what ... E-are you..."

"I'll say this one more time ... Who are you... And what's your business here?"

That was the last thing I heard before succumbing completely to fatigue.

To be continued…

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Peace to all. Cya on the next Chapter.