Part 13: Conveniences the Chapter
"Hey... Wake up... Did he hit him too hard... That shouldn't have been possible..."
My eyes flicker open, to see someone's face looking down at me.
"Who are you?" I ask.
"I don't know?" She responded looking confused.
"Doesn't everybody remember their name, though?" I ask.
"I didn't know that..." She laughed. "I do feel light headed, I do know that."
Then she fainted, and out came a stand. It looked like a pink ghost, it had several symbols on it's head. It reached out towards me, but I decided to not let that happen, just in case it took control of me or something weird like that. It started pulsing, getting faster every time, until it disappeared. Then she got up.
"Who are you?" She asked. "Did I know you?"
"Yes?" I replied.
"Then it must've come out again," She sighed.
"You mean that stand?" I asked.
"Whatever you call it, sure."
Right now, she seemed like a different person to who I met earlier, but that wasn't too bothering. I needed to focus on what her ability was. Then I needed to figure out where that guy went. During my deep thinking, that girl had wandered off into the crowd of people outside of the alley, so I decided to search for her. I needed to know what her ability was, she's aware that she has it, so she should know what it does and she doesn't seem like an enemy, so maybe she'd tell me. I began to walk into the crowd, but it was a few steps into it that I realised something. I was going through the people in the crowd, as if I was a ghost, or they didn't exist. Despite this, I kept going, but even after a few minutes of searching, I couldn't find her. As if by coincidence, I heard that same gunshot sound, happening over, and over again. Almost like it was recorded and being played again and again. I followed the sound to the source, which to my surprise, was the same ghost stand from earlier, and that girl had fainted again, her head submerged in a nearby fountain. I had to save her lest she drown in the fountain. However, this would require me to get close to her, which I don't know the ability of yet. Nonetheless, I took the risk, rushing towards her, and pulling her out of the fountain. Laying her on the stone structure that made up the fountain. At that moment, I felt a cold hand grab my head, and spin me around. It was, of course, the stand, which held my head in it's hands. As the symbols on it's head got brighter, a sense of dizzyness and pain came over me, until I too, fell unconscious. During my blackout, all sorts of scenes played in my mind. It took me a while to figure out that these scenes made up the life of that girl. I couldn't hear anything, so I couldn't learn her name, but, the fact that the stand forced these memories into me, made me wonder if this stand was the thing making her forget everything. It was over before it began,and those scenes had vanished, and I awoke as she also did. I had no time to ponder what those meant, I still had to find the cause, I still had to find out why I was able to move through people, but even that was cut short when hands appeared out of the ground. Pulling me and the girl down into the depths. They dropped us off in some weird...place, if I could even call it a place. The sky was changing between red and blue and green, whereas the floor was a horrid pale colour. Then, on the opposite side of us, hands reached out of the floor, clawing their way out of the ground until it turned into a pale, mask wearing thing.
"Welcome, to a new world," It said in a monotone voice.
"New world?" I asked.
"This world is a flat plate, existing in a fictitious existence."
"Oh, so this is Flat Earth?"
"Sorry?"
It seemed to ignore my apology, as it decided to continue speaking, "It is unfortunate, but I have been ordered to remove you both from all planes of existence."
"Yay. A fight," I said in a monotone voice, trying mimic it.
Next to me, I heard the girl pleading to something, and at that moment, her stand appeared playing the gunshot sound again, but, unlike both times, I saw actual bullets fly out of it's ghostly body. Not that it seemed to be able to land a shot. I though about helping, but that's when I heard the gunshots pick up speed, until it was more of a laser of bullets. It was at that point that the thing, presumably a stand, started moving in an attempt to avoid the concentrated beam. So I decided to magnetise the bullets towards it, in an attempt to improve the accuracy of the bullets. Whether I did a lot or not doesn't really matter, but little by little, we put holes into the thing, then it evaporated, leaving it's mask and coordinates. This could be the breakthrough I needed to finally find this bastard. I also picked up the mask. If it was anything like the masks from one of those certain games with special masks, I could sell it for money. I beckoned the girl over towards me, where a door had sprouted from the ground, and on the other side was what looked like the real world. I allowed her to go through first, I followed her after. I then got myself off of the floor, where I could see the rest of my group looking at me.
"Sleeping on the job, eh?" Mina sighed.
I sighed and threw the coordinates at them, which Namari caught.
"What are these?"
"Use what little bits of brain you have to figure it out..."
"They're coordinates, Namari. Where do they lead?" Mina sighed.
"Where do the lead?" Namari looked at me.
"Dunno. Stole it off of some thing that came from the ground."
We left after that. I decided to take a short detour to the alleyway, and found that the girl was still their.
"Oh, it's you? I think?" She asked staring at me.
"Hi?"
"Why'd you come here?"
"Just making sure you were fine..."
"Eh, okay. I'll probably forget again anyways..."
"Write it down then, that way you don't forget."
Then I left, to wherever the coordinates led to, with the rest of the group.
Part 14: FinaleWe followed the coordinates down to the location they had marked. I hadn't even looked for the second stand user last chapter because he wasn't important. Aside from that, we had arrived. Surprisingly enough, we had actually come back to Japan, we were in an abandoned plaza from, the one in Chapter 6 (I think). And there we saw it. A man holding a large bouquet of flowers, talking to himself.
"They shall grow not old, as we that are leftgrow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the year's condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them."
"Talking to yourself?" I ask Angelo, who we had gotten closer to, not that it bothered him, with a stand like his.
"No, I'm merely reciting The Ode, I assume my final attack failed, and you've come to end me."
"You know us so well."
He then pulls out a gun, and throws it. "No use against Magnet."
"I found it!" Mina exclaims from somewhere.
I only had to look behind me to see Mina holding an arrow, coated in dry blood.
"This his heirloom,left here after all this time. It's my turn to use it, so we can win!"
"Put that lady, don't want to hurt yourself, now do we?" Angelo gets up and walks towards the arrow.
"Go! Use the arrow! Quickly!" Namari demands.
Mina nods, and calls out her stand, and stabs it with the arrow, beginning the transformation.
"This is why I carry a second gun in these situations," Angelo sighs.
He points the gun towards Mina, but first hits me over the head before firing.
"Ow! Damn it!" Mina yells in pain.
Angelo rushes for the arrow, but Namari had already retrieved the arrow thanks to his time stop ability. He to begins running from Angelo, so he doesn't lose the arrow as well. I finally get a hold on myself, and try distracting him. I throw a punch at him, knowing it won't do anything. He looks at it and chuckles,before tapping it with his left index finger, which causes roots to swell out of the ground and and slide into my skin, I try pulling away but it's no use, they don't stop coming. With strong pull, I do actually manage to free myself, but it hurt a lot, at least I'm not dead... I ran as fast I could towards Mina and pleaded for help, so she helped me. By this point we had made enough distance and were all together for another attempt. So she stabbed her stand one more time. A gunshot was fired at us, but I caught thanks to Magnet. Suddenly, behind me, a flash of light, looing behind me, I see that Mina's holding a new ball.
"This is what I have to use?" Mina sighed. "It's hollow, it won't do a thing!"
"Try filling it with your blood like you would normally."
"Yeah, yeah. Hand me a knife already."
Namari quickly pulls out a knife, and hands it to Mina, who cuts a wound onto her shoulder, and let's it trickle down towards the ball.
"Right now, Akira, focus on protecting Mina while she fills the ball," Namari ordered.
I nodded in response.
Angelo was moving towards in an alarming rate. I asked how much had filled, and she said only half. It was quite close, really. But before Angelo reached us, the ball filled.
"Alright, give me some space, I'm going to throw it!"
And she threw it, and moved very slowly.
"How anti-climactic," Angelo laughed, moving towards the ball, and tapping it with his left index finger.
"Why is it not being destroyed?!" He exclaimed.
Suddenly the ball gained speed, and started chomping through him.
"Why isn't my ability working!?"
"It is how I willed it. An ability that counters your ability. Have fun in Hell."
And just like that, he was gone. How very Anti-climactic.
Meanwhile in the Never Ending Tunnel
"Sooo... Read any good books lately?" Jin asked looking at Norio.
"Haven't read a thing since we got here," Norio sighed.
It was at that moment, that a hole opened in the hole, and out came another man
"Oh, it's Angelo. How'd you get here?"
"Am I missing something?" Jin asked.
"I'll tell ya later."
The End...