Hello my readers, this is the chapter where we get some more Jojo themes in it, I thought this was seemingly cool and help balance the Persona Q stuff, but with that out of the way let's get started.
Chapter 6: GEB
After an hour or 2 of looking at the festival and eating a lot of food, they all settled down and talked with one another, and at this moment outside, Yosuke, Yu, Kanji, Kakyoin and Akihiko were all relaxing in the car that the crusaders arrived in with a few 6 packs of cola, however Yosuke was doing everything but relaxing, cause at the moment he was looking at the car over it and under it to trying and get it to work with a toolbox by his side that he found in a closet somewhere, trying to get the car started.
"Yosuke, just give up," Yu sighed.
"No way! if going over the fence won't get us out of here, maybe we could use this thing to crash into it," Yosuke said.
"Do you even know how a car works?" Kakyoin asked.
"Well…I have seen people fixing cars on TV and in manga so I understand them," Yosuke said.
This made the others sweat drop and groan in their throats. After what felt like hours of watching Yosuke fondle with tools, shock himself, and burn himself trying to start the car Kanji got out of the car to stretch his legs, while walking he found a water cantina, wondering where it came from he brought it back to the others who were still watching Yosuke who right now was covered in oil down to his stomach while Kakyoin was asleep in the front.
"Hey guy's, look what I found," Kanji yelled.
When he got to them he handed it to Akihiko who looked at it and asked.
"Who's is this?" he asked.
They all shrugged making them more curious of the owner of the cantina, they shrugged it off and threw it in the back of the truck and continued to watch Yosuke embarrass himself.
/You in wonderland, unknown aria\
Sitting on the ground in the small room was a man with a blanket draped over his shoulders and holding a cane up to his ear, he wore a light orange headband and a red and white striped sleeveless shirt and jeans, this man's name was N'doul.
"They found it, good, since they can't use their persona's outside of the labyrinths I have the upper hand, and the only person that could use their stand outside the labyrinth that's with them is fast asleep, all I have to do is kill that one first and the rest is a walk in the park." said.
/Outside the school\
In the back of the truck the cantina's cap unscrewed itself and water spilled out of it, the water morphed into a hand and lifted itself slightly setting its sight on the back of Kakyoins neck, however just as this happened Yosuke was under the car and he shook the car slightly, causing kanji to yell at him to be careful and for Kakyoin to open his eyes slightly and look in the rear view mirror to see the water hand looking at him, his eyes widened then narrowed he waited for the right time, the two seemed to have a standoff, staring at each other even though one seemed to un-aware of the others stare, but just then Yosuke put a wrench on the hood of the causing a big clatter this caused the stand to move at lightning speed but before it could even strike, Kakyoin used emerald splash causing the stand to do a quick dodge and hit the ground a few feet away.
"What the hell was that!?" Kanji asked.
"There's no doubt, that's a stand," Kakyoin said.
They all seemed confused, but they were brought out of it when Yosuke tripped on the car causing him to fall on his side, this alerted the stand causing Yosuke to scramble to his feet and try to climb in the car, the others helped by pulling him by his hand and school jacket, the stand hit the car falling back in the ground.
"What the hell was that!?" Yosuke asked in a panic.
"That was a stand," Kakyoin said.
"What's a stand?" Akihiko asked.
"We'll explain later, all we need to worry about right now is getting inside."
They seemed to agree and started to brainstorm on how to get in the school.
"Maybe one of us could distract it long enough to get in the school and get the rest out to help," Yosuke suggested.
"No, we aren't risking anyone, it's faster than all of us," Yu said.
"Yeah, we need to watch everything we do right now," Akihiko said.
/You in wonderland, unknown aria\
"Hm, it seems they're taking cover in their car, but that won't work, I've got them trapped like cattle," said.
/Outside the school\
As they were trying to come up with ideas, the stand suddenly put itself under the tire and turned the ground into a strong mud pulling the car into the ground.
"SHIT!" Yosuke yelled holding onto the car for dear life," what do we do!?"
"The only thing we can do," Yu said," JUMP."
With that they all jumped off the car and onto the ground in different directions and watched as the car sunk into the ground.
"Aw man," Yosuke moaned as the car sunk into the dirt never to be seen again.
/In the school on the 2nd floor\
While this was happening everyone else was sitting around listening to how they all got to the school in the first place.
"It's peculiar, our team and the investigation team got here through the velvet room, but your arrival had nothing to do with it," Mitsuru said.
"Elizabeth, Margarete, do you know anything about how that could've happened?" Minato asked.
"Sadly no," Margarete said.
"As you know, we had no idea they were even here till they came out of the labyrinth with you," Elizabeth said.
"How could that be possible, all our arrivals had to do with the velvet room, so then how could you not only have your arrival have nothing to do with it, but also not even know what the velvet room is, but for not one of you not know what it even was, you all have shown that you are persona users," Naoto said.
"Wait, we're- "however joseph was cut off by korumaru who was looking out the window and barking with extreme urgency.
"What is it boy?" Ken asked.
He looked out the window and his eye's widened too, he turned to the others and asked.
"Uh, guy's, wasn't there a car outside?"
"Yeah, why?" Polneraff asked.
"Then, where is it?"
Everyone was confused and looked outside only to see that the car was gone and Kakyoin, Kanji, Yu and Yosuke sitting on the ground, this shocked them and they all ran to the front door saved for Elizabeth and Margarete, when they got outside Mitsuru was the first to speak.
"What on earth happened out here!?"
"Guys! Be careful! Get inside quick!" Akihiko said.
"What happened to the car!? Where is it and what did you do!?" Mitsuru asked ignoring Akihiko.
While Mitsuru yelled at them, Avdol looked around trying to find it but as he looked, he noticed something coming towards them, Mitsuru, his eye's widened and just as it was about to jump at her, he pulled her out of the way as it only cut a piece of her hair off, everyone's eye's widened, and with the opportunity the others got off the ground and ran for the door while everyone else was going back inside while shinjiro and Zen held the door open, they looked to the side to see a dust cloud speeding to them at a fast rate.
"Guy's hurry!" Polneraff yelled.
Just as they were about to get inside it cut Yosuke on the back of his knee, causing him to fall on the rim of the door, he saw the stand coming for him so he crawled inside and shinjiro and Zen hastily closed the door, in which they heard a loud "BONG" sound knocked on the door they all sighed with relief, when things cooled down they were sitting in the nursery while Yosuke was getting his knee checked out by Elizabeth.
"What the hell was that thing!?" Junpei asked.
"It's odd, in a way it did feel like a shadow, but it also felt like something else entirely," Aigis said.
"Wait, Kakyoin, didn't you call that thing a 'Stand?'" Yu asked.
"What's a stand?" Minato asked.
Joseph went on to explain what a stand was, and when he was done they all seemed to be surprised and freaked out at what they just learned, saved for Zen and Rei.
"So, You guys are stand users, not persona users?" Yukari said surprised.
"That explains why you don't know what the velvet room is and why your abilities are different from personas," Naoto said.
"But if these stands can be used outside of the labyrinth then how are we supposed to fight back?" Yosuke asked.
"Not only that, but if there's a stand, then there must be a stand user somewhere in the school," Mitsuru said.
"That's true, maybe we should split up and look around the school," Minato suggested.
"But none of us could use our persona's outside the school, if we do see this guy we're screwed," Kanji said.
"Then you'll split into groups of 4, each group will be assigned a different floor and they will look for this stand user, if you find them, then knock them out and bring them back," Margarete said.
"That still doesn't answer my question!"
"The reason why you should go in groups is because it would make searching for it go faster and You'll at the very least be able to have someone who could fight it."
"I guess that makes sense, but we can't go too far from each other because this stand thing is clearly too fast" Yu said.
They nodded and chose the people they feel safe with went to the floors each team was assigned floors while Theodore Elizabeth, Margarete, Rise and Fuuka went to the velvet room to navigate them.
/You in wonderland, unknown aria\
"Damn it, looks like I'll have to find a way insider," said.
/Outside the school\
Geb formed itself into a water type Snake, it slithered around the school until it found a tankless water heater on the side of the school, smiled and had Geb back up slightly and jump into it through the grates.
/Velvet room\
After an hour of looking, they re-grouped in the velvet room.
"So, you didn't find anything?" Margarette asked.
"Sadly no," Minato said.
"Then they must be in the Labyrinth," Elizabeth said.
"Why didn't we check there first?" Asked Polneraff.
"But Joseph told me that they already explored everything in the first Labyrinth," Akihiko said.
"Actually, while you guys were messing around in the festival, we did a quick scan of the floors in the first Labyrinth, just to make sure that you didn't forget anything, and when we did it we found a small room, almost hidden, we were going to tell you guys, but after everything that happened we almost forgot," Rise said.
"Well if that's the case, let's go now," Shinjiro said.
They nodded, and left the Velvet room to go to the Labyrinth, along the way there they were being very cautious and watching every direction to make sure they weren't sneak attacked.
"Man, this place is kind of creepy knowing it's just us," Junpei said.
"What do you mean, what about all these students," Polneraff asked.
"These aren't students, their shadows," Naoto said.
"Wait what!?" Polneraff was quickly shushed by the others.
"well that explains when Minato said, "we were the only people here that were actual people," But I thought that they were hypnotized or put in a state so they won't realize what's happening," Avdol said.
"Well they sadly aren't, but that doesn't matter right now."
"Okay, but how come you didn't tell us sooner?" Jotaro asked.
"We didn't think it mattered, since they don't hurt us or bother us, we saw no point in telling you."
They left it at that and went on their way, along the way Junpei saw a water fountain, thinking that he could get a drink before they fought the stand user he went to get a couple of sips, but when he pushed the button, nothing happened, he pressed it a couple more times but it ended with the same results, he suddenly heard an odd creaking sound come from the pipes, the sound got louder and louder, almost as if something is trying to get out, his eyes widened when he realized what it was and jumped back, and just as he did a giant gush of water came out and tried to take his head off, but before that could happen Kakyoin used an emerald causing it to go directly over Junpei's head, they immediately broke out into a run, seeing that "You in wonderland" was only a few steps away, when they got in Mitsuru and Chie made an ice wall to keep it at bay, but not for very long cause the stand began to bang on the wall causing massive vibrations, they ran as fast as they could and as far as they could before the ice wall failed, After a while of running they stopped to breathe.
"How long do you think it'll be before it catches up to us?" Chie asked.
"We, probably have at least a few minutes before it catches up," Joseph said.
"Guys you need to be fast, cause your close to the stand users location," Rise said.
"Huh, that's convenient," Akihiko said.
"Well if that's the case then we should get going before- "
Before Yu could finish the stand went straight through the lower left of his stomach, this action made some scream and some grunt and wince, Yu went fell to the ground with a pained look on his face seemingly holding back a scream, he fell to his knees, the stand was just about to finish him off but Yukiko used konohana sakuya to blow the stand back with fire, this allowed Chie to use Tomoe to freeze the stand causing it to fall to the ground in a sloppy frozen ball, when it was over Yukiko healed Yu's wound.
"Senpai! Are you okay!?" Rise asked panicked and worried.
"I'll be fine, did you guys beat it?" Yu asked.
"I think so, seems like it won't be coming back from that," Fuuka said.
"Well if that's then we should go get the stand user," Avdol said.
They went on their way to just knock the stand user out since the stand was frozen they knew that the rest was just a cake walk, but meanwhile with Geb a heat balance just so happened to be walking by when N,doul felt the ground thumping, he shook the his frozen stand as much as he can, catching the shadow's attention, it hopped right over to it shook his stand a bit more, but with more rapid movements and faster, on instinct the shadow used a maragi on it, but the moment the stand was unfrozen it shot right through the shadows body destroying it, he immediately followed a large amount of vibrations on the ground, knowing that it was his targets he shot right to it, meanwhile with the others they were heading right for their target unknown to them of the danger they were in once again.
"So how should we do this? Should someone sneak up behind them while another distracts em?" Junpei asked.
"Eh, just leave it to me, if anyone could take a stand user down its me," Polneraff said smugly.
"What you mean by that?" Kanji asked interrupting, starting to feel his blood begin to boil.
"I'm saying that from what I've seen, stand users are much stronger than persona users."
"What!? That's not true, if anything persona users are stronger!"
"As if I could beat anyone here with 1 blow including you."
"As if, I could take you down anytime anywhere."
"Is that a challenge?"
"what you think!?"
"Will you 2 stop it!? It doesn't matter who's stronger, because we're all after the same thing," Mitsuru said butting in.
But they seem to not hear her cause they were both too busy glaring at each other, when Mitsuru noticed this she was about to do something about this but just as she was about to the stand jumped from around the corner, it shot strait for them, but Polneraff used Silver chariots sword and armor to block the incoming attack, it gave him a bruise on his arm from the pressure, the others activated their stands and personas and began to fire everything they had at him, but the stand seemed to be faster than they thought cause even with the mess of attacks they still missed and still got hit.
"How the hell is it so fast?" Akihiko asked, but the stand jumped at him making him block with his persona.
However, while everyone was trying to attack it Naoto had a realization, in all their encounters the stand moved when a sound was made, she remembered when she first saw the stand that it jumped at Mitsuru when she was yelling at them about the car, she also recalled Yosuke telling her that when he first saw the stand he had just put a wrench on the car's hood, and how it tried to attack him after he fell to the ground, she put 2 and 2 together and realized how to beat the stand, she took one of the fake bullets out of her gun, and as hard as she could she threw it down causing the stand to jump right at it destroying it, with the advantage she ran around the stand while she shot it 5 times.
"I understand now, since it doesn't have eyes or ears it only attacks when it feels all our movement," when Naoto said this the other's eyes widened realizing the same thing.
They began to hit the walls and floor causing the stand start going in different directions only to receive an attack, after 30 seconds of this the stand slithered away at a fast pace, the others as fast as they could dashed in the direction it went in, they fallowed it until they saw a door it was heading to, knowing that that was the door the stand user was behind they ran right for it, the stand slid right under the door, but Jotaro and Akihiko activated their stand and persona Polydeuces star platinum to punched the double doors as hard as they could causing them to burst open but they started to close as fast as they opened only getting 4 people in before they closed even though they tried to keep them open they wouldn't stop closing, the 4 people that manages to get in were Kakyoin, Akihiko, Jotaro and Yu, when they turned around they saw sitting on the ground with his stand sitting on his shoulder.
"Hmm seems my plan hasn't gone as I'd hoped," said.
"And what was your plan?" Kakyoin asked.
"It originally was that none of you were going to get in and to kill you all by shooting my stand right through each of your heads, but both of your strengths were too much for the door."
They suddenly heard a lot of loud and hard banging from the other side of the door.
"What the hell!? Won't this stupid thing open anymore!?" Kanji yelled.
"What he asked," Yu said.
"Well before I underestimated your strength, so I made Shure that the doors were sealed 100 times more tighter than before," answered.
"That's weird, he said that like he has control over this room," Rise said.
"Who care's let's just finish this guy," Jotaro said.
They nodded and began to fight, it started with Yu using Izanagi by hitting the wall with its sword, but the stand didn't fall for it, instead it hit Izanagi.
"Did you really think that I would fall for your tricks twice?" said.
"Well if that's the case I guess we'll have to be a lot more careful with our move's," Kakyoin said.
Kakyoin attacked from behind but the Geb shot by its side scraping it slightly causing Kakyoin to wince in pain seeing his green school jacket to get a medium sized blood stain, but he still kept trying to attack with an emerald splash but the stand dodged that, when the stand jumped out of the emerald splashes way Yu used a zionga, the attack struck the stand causing to be stunned and barely move, causing the stand to fall on the ground ending up like a puddle Akihiko tried to give the finishing blow, But made Geb shoot straight for Akihiko's head trapping his head in a thing of water.
"There is no way you could win now, if you do anything then I could either drown your friend or rip his head off, it's over, but it doesn't matter you 4 along with all your other friends are going to die, you're finished," said.
They started to feel their composure slip away as their likelihood of winning was running low, but Jotaro was as cool as he always is, he looked at cane and he activated his stand, heard this and slightly chuckled, they both readied themselves to attack, and they both were about to hit each other but Star platinum moved to the right and hit N,douls cane, quickly grabbed the bottom part and stabbed in his lower abdomen, but instead of blood black ooze came out, this confused them, took their confusion into advantage and tried to kill Jotaro, but Kakyoin used an emerald splash and knocked him down as stand evaporated into nothing, just laid on the ground not moving and just breathing intensely.
"You've… defeated me… well done," said.
"Who's doing this? Who brought you here?" Kakyoin asked.
"You'll find the truth in both of those in time… right now all you need to know now is that this will not be the end… while you have finished me, there are still plenty to go through… Good… Luck."
When finished he closed his eyes and let out 1 last breath before going totally limp, Akihiko and to his side and picked his slightly trying to stop the bleeding.
"Hey you can't die! Guys help me pick him up," Akihiko said.
When they went to pick him up his body started to change color from a dark tan color to a black tar color, it felt like his skin was beginning to melt off, before his face melted off Akihiko opened his eyes to see yellow Gold eyes Akihiko quickly stood up while melted for a minute before disappearing completely, when he was gone along with the puddle, they looked to see the door open as everyone quickly stepped in getting into battle positions with their personas and stands out, when they noticed that the stand nor the stand user was in here they understood what this could mean.
"Did the stand user get away?" Minato asked.
"No, we beat him alright," Jotaro said.
"Aw man! why did you guys get to do the fun part?" Junpei complained.
"Well if you beat them, then where are they?" Yukiko asked.
"We'll explain when we get back," Akihiko said.
And like they said when they got back to the school, they told them what happened after the fight, they all listened intently, except for Kanji and Polneraff who continued to try and stare each other down without blinking, once they finished the others were shocked to say the least.
"He melted!?" Yukari asked trying to see if she miss heard them.
"So, he was actually a shadow," Minato said.
"From what it sounds like, pretty much," Kakyoin said remembering when Yu told him what the creatures they fought in the labyrinth were.
"And he said" There are still plenty to go through" does that mean we're going to fight more stand users later?" Chie asked.
"I wouldn't doubt it, it's gonna be while before we leave, isn't it?" Yosuke asked feeling a little depressed with the road block.
"As much as we don't want to deal with this, we must cause if we don't then we might not be able to get home," Joseph said.
"Well if we are going to fight more those things then we should all prepare ourselves, because they could be anywhere in any of the labyrinths," Yu said.
They nodded and started to gather some supplies for the next labyrinth.
To be continued
Well that's it, I will be doing all the stand users they fought in part 2 of stardust crusaders in order, so if you wanna see what happens if your new here follow fav and review your thoughts on this, and hey since Halloweens coming up tell me what you're going as, me personally I'm going as Ticci toby J, so with all that out of the way, Happy Halloween!