Part 7: It's a Long way to the Top
He lifts the pistol, aiming it at Mika, who just waits there, watching the enemy.
At the moment he's about to pull the trigger, someone yells, "Stop! You two! Leave, now!"
Someone comes out from an entrance on the left side of the area. They're hurt quite badly and it takes me a while to realize who it is, it's Namari Brando. The leader of our squad, and Joho's with him, not as hurt as he is.
The enemy looks back at them, before looking at me and Mika again.
"We're leaving here you two! He's dangerous, I tried hitting him, but it did nothing! We need to find out how his stand works before we fight him!" Namari yells.
I start walking towards them, when I hear gunfire, and a sharp pain in my leg. I fall to the ground.
"I'm not letting you four get away, for that is the way a more just future," He proclaims, before readying another shot towards me.
"Freeze!" Namari yells. Then he appears slightly closer to us, but still a fair way away. Joho is also making his way too us, with Panic! so he can gain more speed.
The enemy walks to a space in between the four of us and announces, "Accept defeat, for I, Angelo Zacharius, will bring about your end, as a means to a just future, with my Stand! The Last Post!"
"Freeze!" Namari yells at Angelo once again, and gets in front of him.
Namari grabs Angelo, and replies to his previous statement, "Your death will lead to a more just future."
Namari's stand appears, so much for escaping. His stand resembles a human, with bright yellow armour, it also has an arrow on it's head, pointing upwards. It releases a barrage of punches while screaming 'MUDA' over and over again. After about 5 seconds of punching, he stops, to see if we at least knocked him unconscious. He didn't have a single bruise on his face.
"Tell me, sir, do you believe in the concept of karma?" Angelo asks.
Namari rolls his eyes in response.
"I've heard of your bloodline, you're a Brando, no? A despicable bloodline of Japanese descent. I would hate to end the bloodline, but, for a desirable future, you must die!" He pulls the flower from his pocket, and tears a petal off of it.
Namari rolls his eyes in response.
He finally let's go of Angelo, and starts walking backwards, returning to where he was, but he slips, and smashes into the concrete, head first. He slowly gets up, with Joho's help. Mika throws another white blood ball, at the ground near Angelo's feet. The floor around him begins to pulsate, but he's unaffected, and pulls out his pistol again. He fires a shot at Namari. Namari yelled out freeze again, and dodged the bullet, which was zapped away by Panic!, but there was a second bullet, fired after he teleported, and he wasstruck in the leg, which made him fall down once more, smashing his head in the concrete once more. Me and Panic! rush him. Panic! lands on his shoulders, and stabs his fingers into his neck, and then Namari freezes instead of Angelo, I come in and throw several punches at him, which destroys the nearby area instead of him. He throws Joho off of him, and into me. At around that time, I hear a helicopters blades above us, and a strong gust wind begins to hit us.
"That's our ride! Let's go!" Namari calls out.
Mika gets off of her horse and I use my stand, one last time, to throw one of the poles at Angelo, which pins him against a wall, but doesn't seem to hurt him, but at least we're safe. As if I had jinxed our own luck, items withing the helicopter began getting cuts put into them. We weren't sure if this was a stand attack, but it was some kind of supernatural phenomenon.
"What's going on?" I ask Namari.
"If I knew the answer to that, I would already be acting," He sighed.
The four of us were on edge. We weren't sure what was attacking us yet, but there was something. I looked through the window, nothing out of the ordinary, except for the two shoes that occasionally flew across.
"Someone's outside the helicopter!" I yell to the others.
They all sigh, and look at Joho, who does an even louder sigh, before equipping his stand, and climbing up to the top of the helicopter.
"It's him! That guy we escaped from earlier, he's stuck his holding onto one of the blades and is cutting himself occasionally across the neck," Joho reports. "I'm throwing this guy off of the helicopter."
I walk to the open door, and look up at Joho, who just managed to get a grip on Angelo. Suddenly, Joho screams, in pain, and crawls back in as fast as he could. When he sits down, we all see what had happened. Every finger on his right hand, has lost their top half, their fingertips. At that moment, Angelo flings himself into the helicopter.
"Allow me to tell you one thing about my stand, The Last Post. It reflects any damage done to me, and destroys things that pierce into me, or to be more precise, melts sharp objects when they pierce my skin," He explains. "So, that's why your friends fingertips have been melted, but someone else in the world felt his stand's hand pierce into their leg, and they're probably being treated now."
"Freeze!" Namari yells.
Then Angelo falls off of the helicopter, down to wherever it is down their. The rest of the trip was peaceful, but the helicopter had to be repaired, and Joho's fingers had to be treated, so he could have fingers on his right hand. While that was happening, the rest of us were talking about how to deal with The Last Post, a seemingly unstoppable stand, but not in terms of power, just it's ability to reflect all damage to anything. But every stand has a weakness, so there has to be someway to damage him, or else he might actually be able to fulfill his twisted sense of justice.
Part 8: Don't Break ItThe three of us sat around the table, silent, trying to think of a good way to take down The Last Post, a stand that reflects damage done to it's user and melts sharp objects that try to cut into him.
"It's obvious we can't beat him," Mika sighed. "His stand is unstoppable. We'll just be getting ourselves killed."
"We need to slow down and find a weakness by discussing things we know about him, we might find a weakness there," Namari suggests.
Mika sighs and rolls her eyes.
This, is when a thought comes to me, "He attacked my house looking for this crappy second hand journal..."
Then the though hit me, maybe the journal contains something important. Although I was hesitant at first, I pulled out the journal, in hopes that it would help in our search.
"What the hell is this?" Namari asks.
Mika sighs and rolls her eyes again.
"It's the reason I was taken here. Angelo attacked my home in search for this journal," I say.
"That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard. What the hell did you write in their? Classified information?" Mika asks, sighing and rolling her eyes. Someone doesn't seem to like this idea.
"I've written nothing in it, but I bought it second-hand, so maybe the previous owner wrote something in it?" I ponder.
Namari takes the journal, and skims through the pages, taking a little bit of time on each page before flipping to the next.
"Maybe, it's this?" Namari suggests, placing the journal back onto the table. "It's a ludicrous idea, but it's the only thing that resembles useful information"
I pick up the journal, and read what's inside aloud.
'To attain Heaven, there are several requirements.
What you need is my stand"The World".
What you can find beyond the power of my stand is where you need to go in order to find Heaven. What you need is a trustworthy friend. He must be someone capable of controlling his own desires. He must be someone who is not interested in political power, fame, wealth, or sexual desire, and who chooses the will of God before humans.
Will I, DIO, be able to meet someone like this one day-'
"Yeah... no. I'm ignoring this crap, a way to Heaven doesn't exist, and where is anyone going to meet these requirements. Unless that guy knows someone named 'DIO', I don't think he'll ever meet each and every requirement, it's plain impossible!" Mika yells, grabbing the journal from my hands, she swiftly reads the last parts before chucking it away.
"The World, does anyone know a stand with that name?" I ask.
"DIO, is part of the Brando bloodline, and is connected to another bloodline through some kind of twisted fate, the Joestar bloodline," Namari states.
"Does that mean he's like your father or something like that? Does that make him your ancestor!?" Mika asks, staring at Namari.
"When I was born, he was dead. But, I inherited his stand, The World, and it evolved into my current stand, 'To the Top'," Namari continues.
"So, if you inherited his stand, then don't you know it's ability?" I ask.
"It can stop time for up to nine seconds, possibly more. Although mine can only stop time for five seconds," Namari explains.
"Damn, we got kinda lucky for once! Who knew we would have the descendant of this DIO person, maybe we can try to verify that stupid journal!" Mika laughed. She obviously still has a slight belief in the journal.
"We'll need to look for more information about this journal before we can start trying to figure out the Angelo situation," Namari says.
"Oh boy, a detour!" Mika sighs.
Namari and I leave the room, and Mika's left looking after our room. I'm searching for information connected to Jin, the guy from Roundabout's time rewind. I don't know his importance, but Angelo seems to want him dead. It was around an hour after we left, and I was approached by some guy, "You looking for something? You seem to be looking around very keenly. I can give you the information you need, but we'd need to make a deal. Presuming I have the info you need," He says to me.
I'm dragged into an alley, where he asks what I'm searching for. He's an information broker who'll spill anything he knows for a price. I tell him what I'm looking for, not going into too much detail.
"I know about him, are you perchance a stand user like him?" He asks.
"yes..." I respond, still cautious of him.
"Alright, I'll tell you the what I know, but you can't go telling anyone! Do we have a deal?" He asks.
"Sure..." I shake his hand.
"Good! Alright, so I know Jin was a stand user, who had the ability to create holes in non-human objects, like stone. He was also the target of assassination, due to a personal grudge someone had with him, and he went this grand journey to go find them..." He began. He continued on for a long time, but he finished, and I left.
I continued searching for info about this guy, when I heard something behind me. I swung around, and saw a tall white and blue striped humanoid thing with a hole in the middle of it's head. It began moving towards me, and I began walking away from it. Nightfall had come, and I had to return to the base. I couldn't gather anymore info, and the thing kept following me. When I entered the room, Namari was there, with Mika.
"So, what did you find out?" Namari asked.
I opened my mouth to tell them what the broker told me, when I heard a whispering in my right ear, "You made a deal, don't break it...".
I could feel one of it's hands ready to grasp my neck if it needed to. So, I told them this, "No... I couldn't find anything... Sorry..."
"Well, we'll have to keep looking around tomorrow then. It's getting dark now," Namari sighed.
Part 9: Rushing to the Second Half of the Story
It was a new day, and Joho was back, so he also began looking for information. Seeming as I had to look for information again today, I decided to return to the information broker, who was still in that same alley.
"I want to ask you something," I say in as stern a voice as I can muster.
"You want more information?" He croaks.
"Yes, this time, I want to learn about what I can assume is your stand," I say.
He grins before getting up, "So, you've finally seen it? I'm surprised you didn't come back yesterday."
"Hurry up and spill the beans," I sigh.
"Alright. We made a deal yesterday, which is what activates my stand. It'll watch you endlessly, and if you break our deal, it'll try to kill you, this'll last until you die, or call my stand off of you. Also, only those under it's effect and the user can see it and trying to tell someone about it will trigger the stand as if you broke our deal, and if you try to attack me, it'll stop the attack, and probably break a bone of yours," He explains, "I call it, The Promise."
Oh boy, this guy's just as good as I am at naming things. Either way, I left after that, mainly because there was no more things I needed to know about him or his stand. I returned to the squad room, where Mika was waiting for the rest to come back.
"Someone's back early, did you find something this time?" She asks.
"I've had information since yesterday," I sigh.
"Then spill the beans already!" She yelled.
I start running around the room, getting away from The Promise, "If I tell you, it's ability will activate. In fact, now that you know, it'll come after me now."
"Where's the stand?"
"Only I can see it, but you could try beating the user. It's an information broker, just look around the area that I was meant to be investigating, and you'll find him. He hides in a back-alley near stores."
Then we run out of the room, and split up, mainly because I don't want things to look suspicious. I look behind because I've been running for a good 2 minutes now. Nowhere to be seen, but, then it comes through one of the walls of a nearby building, phasing through. It seems it can only walk, but it can phase through buildings. I decide to save some energy and walk for a while, but then I realize it's slowly catching up to me, so decide to speed-walk away from it, I have no idea what Mika is doing or whether she's found him, but I need to keep on moving before this thing kills me. Suddenly, it begins to pick up speed, I'm not sure why, but it is. Then a thought hits me, what if it gets faster the closer I get to the user? So I move in the opposite direction, trying to make sure I stay away from it's hands. Just as I thought, it's getting slower and slower the further away from it's user I get. My glory was short lived, as it disappeared a few minutes later. My only thought: That was anti-climactic.
Mika contacts me, telling me to return to the base so we can wait for everyone else. So I return to the base and wait for everyone else. When I return, I find that I'm the first back, Mika must still be coming here. I look around the room, and notice the journal is no longer on the table or on the floor where Mika threw it. Then Mika comes in.
"Did you put the journal somewhere?" I ask.
"No, if I wanted to hide the journal I'd just burn it, that way no one could read it and think that''s a legitimate way to Heaven," She sighs.
"We'll wait for everyone else to get back, maybe Joho read it and put it away somewhere."
Then everyone else gets back, Namari says we should report our findings. So I tell them what could probably called Jin Morioshi's Life Story, and the rest have nothing they can add, mainly because I just told some random guys life story. Then I bring up the journal, and no one seems to know what had happened to it. Then a letter is delivered to our doorstep. Namari reads it aloud, and it says we should come to Cape Canaveral. The conveniences continue. We're given permission from the SPW to beat this Angelo dude, who obviously sent this letter. If he came during the time we were all away and took the book, then maybe he actually achieved Heaven, we don't know a lot about him, so maybe he has a friend that fits the criteria. Either way, we were there now, and we had went straight to Cape Canaveral. When we got there, Angelo was waiting there for us. We cautiously moved towards him, he was unarmed, probably, at least he had no holster.
"I'm glad you actually came at my request, you even brought the last piece of the puzzle, I believe Namari's stand is just an updated The World, so it should work," Angelo sighed.
Then he rushed us with a knife, even though we knew fighting him was pointless, we still attacked anyways, trying to get him away, but we were just destroying nearby objects. And then, he stops.
"I don't need that, for 'Heaven' has already arrived, and my stand reborn anew," He says.
He pulls out a wilting flower, and it slowly turns to dust in front of our eyes, "I've managed to do everything while I'm not mentioned in this (Insert fourth wall break here)."
Oh boy, this just keeps getting worse and more rushed, doesn't it?
The flower had completely vanished now, and had been replace by more flowers in a bouquet, "This is proof that there my justice is truly just, allow me to try it out on all of you, I'll leave when I tire of our fight."
We back up, slowly, when we're a safe distance, Namari freezes time with his stand, I'm not sure what happened, but he's in front of Angelo now, the Bouquet twitches a little bit, then the flowers became buds and then bloom into fists, which throws a volley of punches at Namari.
"This is a power of my Garden of Eden,a perfect reflection."