Reviews:
Alpha1Son: To have the cast witness the menacing vampire himself. That'd be good for a break or an 'omake'. But for the most part, I think I'm going to focus more on the main anime for this fic.
Peigukiin: Thank you. In fact, your comment was the reason I decided to finish off the rest of Episode one with this chapter!
awesomenessomar5: Here it is! Or at least, the beginning part of it. The rest of the fight will happen next chapter.
Colt Cobra: Ah yes, about that. I debating whether or not I should or shouldn't have the OP in this fic. My reasoning for both sides are at the bottom A/N.
Chibi-Juubi: Oooh, yikes. I have my own plan for Mr. Arc and he plays his part relating to Jaune. But indeed, he's not as clean as the students think he is.
guillermocejas767: I don't plan to, at least for the most part. I actually enjoy these kind of fics where the RWBY cast just get their minds blown at the introduction of Stands. Sadly, the other ones haven't been touched in a long while. So hopefully I'm able to at least go farther than they have.
"H-H-He-" Ruby was still in shock seeing what happened, Yang still holding on to her. "He just d-died." Yang held her even tighter.
"Shh, it's okay, Rubes." Yang didn't want the innocence of her sister to be lost.
The students were terrified by the injury that Luca had been dealt. Mercury and Emerald looked down at them. They were suppose to be huntsman and huntresses, and yet they get scared of something like that. As gnarly as it was to witness, there are more disgusting and terrifying things out in the real world.
Usually, Cardin's demeanor is laid-back with a cocky attitude. Not caring for anyone or anything. But this time however, he just sat there, terror written on his face as clear as day. The fear of Jaune coming back for revenge creeping its way up to his shoulders. The room was silent as there was a pause in the viewing, but the silence was broken.
"Is Jaune still innocent?" Nora asked quietly. Ren, as collected as he is, gave her his insight.
"Luca was the one to try and attack Jaune. On the other hand, Jaune tried his best to deescalate the situation." He reasoned. "As bad as it is that Luca died from Jaune's semblance, it was in self-defence."
"While you're not wrong, I would say that this is more of a semblance-related accident, with Jaune still being charged." The General of Atlas' army gave his opinion on that.
"Jaune knew what his semblance could do judging by his words after Luca hit the frog. If he knew, then he should've warned him."
After Ironwood had informed the students of what would've most likely be the consequences, they went back to talking among themselves.
"Professor Ozpin." Port looked to him. "Do you think we should've kept Jaune at our academy? Maybe it would've been best to keep him, to help him control his semblance better."
"Though we could've kept him." Ozpin continued. "If word about how he cheated his way into Beacon got out, it would've been disastrous for both Jaune and Beacon. Expelling him before everyone knew was the best option to choose at the time."
Ozpin knew that Jaune had potential. Living several lifetimes had helped him hone his skill in discerning who does and who doesn't, however he is still bound to rules and laws of Vale. Jaune had to be expelled whether Ozpin wanted to or not.
Back to the group of students, it was quiet. Each just going through the events of what happened, replaying it in their heads. Until Pyrrha remembered that there was that star-shaped symbol around his neck.
"Excuse me, Mr. Arc? Did Jaune have a star on the side or back of his neck?" If he were to confirm, then that would be more proof to show the connection between the Jaune and his alternate identity.
"...I've seen Jaune grow up from a little boy, to where he is when he left home, telling me that he would get into Beacon." The elder Huntsman told her. "But not once, do I remember seeing a mark like that on him."
"Maybe it's a tattoo he got after he left?" Blake theorized.
"That could be a possibility. Though I hope the one who brought us here will clarify our questions through this, showing."
"I guarantee you, Nicolas Arc." The Speakers rang out. "All questions will be answered. Any questions that the viewing doesn't answer, I'll try to clarify to the best of my abilities. I will now resume the viewing."
The same photo of Jaune Arc with black hair is shown to be held by the hand of the student who was robbed, though, it appears that his clothing color has changed. From that of a cool dark blue, to a muted but deep, dark green.
"A piece of this guy's skin?" He asked.
"Yeah. I want you to get a sample of it and send it to me, Koichi," A deep and matured voice told him. Sitting across from the now-named, Koichi, is a tall, muscular man who is shown from behind off to the side. "so the Speedwagon Foundation can check its composition."
"Hurray. Now we know who that student-guy is." Yang said aloud, and in a dull tone to set up herself up. "So who's the new guy, now?"
"Actually, I think I recognize him." Weiss told her blonde teammate. "That's Jotaro Kujo."
"Um, who?" Nora was the one to ask that, to which Weiss continued to inform them.
"He a marine biologist, and grand-son of Joseph Joestar. Owner of Joestar Real Estate."
"One of the other companies, along with the Speedwagon Foundation, rich enough to infuriate father." Winter said, catching the attention of her sister and the students.
"But that raises the question." Nicolas presented. "What do they want with my son's skin?"
Everyone there resumed their attention on the screen.
"Its composition? Who is this guy?" Koichi asked concerned.
"His father, who died, was a bit special. That's what we want to investigate."
"Wait, died? But Mr. Arc's right here with us!" Ruby finally snapped out of her bad memories from moments prior.
Everyone turned their attention to the man in question. His daughter looked at him worryingly, prompting him to reveal the truth.
"Jaune isn't truly my son, at least biologically." Informing them, everyone listening intently. "...After my late-wife died giving birth, I found someone else to remarry. She already had a son, so Jaune became my step-son."
The students and teachers understood. Jaune became Mr. Arc's son after being born, and Jotaro was referring to Jaune's biological father.
Saphron was the last one to keep her gaze on her father, but continued her attention on the screen like everyone else.
There was a slight pause in the conversation, as Koichi thought about the task laid before him.
"It can be thin. I just need you to get me a piece. That's it." Koichi stared at him surprised.
"I see..."
"I'll cover all your expenses for this trip."
"What?! All of them?" Now that the issue of money was cleared, Koichi started to consider going to Naples. "Hmm… I'm sorry if this sounds rude, but this guy sort of looks like you, Jotaro."
As Koichi held up the photo to compare the two, the angle changes. Revealing Jotaro, as he looked down in contemplation. As the scene fades out from that flashback, it is shown to be Koichi walking down the sidewalk of Naples toward an outdoor cafe.
"The address on this picture is somewhere around here..." Koichi told himself as he glanced around his environment. Noticing two men standing beside a lightpost. One of their suitcases just on the ground without any supervision.
"How careless." However, a waiter for the outdoor cafe caught wind of what the young student was talking about.
"You don't need to worry about them." Catching the attention of Koichi. "No one around here is dumb enough to try and steal their briefcase."
"I think I might know what he's talking about." Qrow said, his mind finally starting to sober up.
'They're gang members.' His thoughts were the same as the other adults.
"Oh… I guess this is a nice neighborhood." Looking around once more, he looks to the food of one of the patrons there. Seeing a small plate of pizza. This caused his stomach to reveal its true desire. The waiter chuckles a moment.
"Would you like to come in for a meal, sir?"
"N-No, it's okay!"
While that was happening, three girls could be heard nearby discussing who would be spending time with someone.
"Hey, Giorno! Have some tea with me!" One of the female students said. The view showing three young students surrounding Giorno.
"Looks like Koichi managed to run into Jaune." Sun said, noticing one very important detail. "And he's working his charm~"
Pyrrha didn't know how to feel about this. Should she feel good for Jaune? Or should she feel bad because three girls are trying to date her friend? Not to mention, it finally set in that her leader was fifteen years old, the same age as Ruby. Should she even be thinking of Jaune like that?
"What? Wait, I'll pay for you!" Another student argues. "No, me! Me!" However, Giorno's voice could be heard cutting through the noise, silencing the surrounding ambience.
"You guys are too loud. I like being alone. Go away." He informed them.
"Fine..." The three students agreed unanimously before taking their leave.
"See you tomorrow, Giorno." Koichi gasped at hearing the name of the man who robbed him.
"Ciao!" The three sang out once more, before turning away.
Sun and Neptune looked to each other with satisfaction on their faces. Not a word was said as they both nod to each other and did a fist bump.
"Th-That's-" Koichi mumbled out. Giorno, on the other hand, hadn't noticed the surprised onlooker, and proceeded to count out the lien he has on him.
Stepping forward, Koichi caught the attention of Giorno. Though it took him a moment to recognize him, Giorno was surprised to see that he found him so quickly.
"Hey! Whose money is that?! Are you using my money?!" Koichi gave him the accusing finger as he shouted.
"You?! How'd you know I was here?"
Koichi didn't answer his question as he gave him his own question.
"Give me back my passport! Where's my luggage?!" Giorno quickly composed himself and revealed the truth.
"It hurts me to say this," He said. "but they're gone. I sold them off, unfortunately." Koichi was taken back a bit.
'I wouldn't blame him.' Emerald thought to herself. 'I'd do that too, to make some lien.'
"So stop following me." A closeup of Giorno is shown. Not an ounce of worry or regret for what he did to Koichi's items. Quickly he tried to run away. But his hand holding the stack of lien were held down, creating a small crater in the table he was at.
The same glowing aura surrounding Koichi were present once more. However, there was another person present with the two. A man, with the same stature as Koichi, wearing white clothing with multiple green striped protrusions, with yellow bulbs for eyes. His hands were clasped together as he shared the same aura around Koichi as well.
"Who is that?" Ruby asked no one in particular, yet the heiress beside her still answered.
"I think 'What' is a better question. It looks humanoid, but not exactly."
"Wait, maybe it's similar to my semblance." Sun said. "My semblance allows me to create clones of myself."
"Be that as it may," Glynda heard the conversation. "I doubt your clones can have an extra ability." She looked to it on screen.
"It seems as though his 'clone' has the ability to hold down objects and people, like my semblance." Glynda thought, seeing it reminded her of her semblance, Telekinesis.
"What's with this weight?" Giorno thought for a moment before gasping. "Wait… So that wasn't a malfunction earlier? Don't tell me… he has the same kind of powers as me..." He mused in shock, as he looked at Koichi. Showing him and the strange figure beside him.
"What did you just say?" Asked Koichi.
"Same kind of powers?" Ozpin mused. "The way he said it would indicate that he isn't talking about semblances, otherwise he'd say 'semblance' instead of 'powers'."
"It's heavy!" The weight of Giorno's hand cracked the table even more, causing it to flip out from under. As Giorno fell hand-first toward the sidewalk, he quickly acted. A shining yellow aura enveloping him.
"Gold Experience!" He called out. A being of shining gold, with purple eyes and a chin, with small wing decorations adorning its shoulders, quickly filled the screen.
Everyone present in the room were shocked to varying degrees. Some had their mouths agape, while the more controlled ones simply widened their eyes.
"Th-That's our leader's semblance?!" Nora shouted.
"It's so weird looking though." Neptune said, trying to wrap his head around why those figures look so strange.
"I thought he could only turn things into organi-" Pyrrha's question was about to be answered.
The being reared its fist back, and launched an attack at the ground where Giorno's hand would've landed. 'Life, spring forth!' He thought to himself. Going underneath the hand, a small plant had sprouted and grew.
"Oh. Well that explains that." Pyrrha reclined back into her seat.
The camera changes positions, as Koichi's perspective of what happened was blocked by the table.
"I think I just caught a glimpse of something." Koichi quickly went into action. "Act 3!" Running around the table, the other being alongside him simply flew over the table. The two met up at the spot where Giorno should've been, only to be met with nothing.
Surprised, Koichi and the being swiftly looked around.
"That bastard disappeared." The being spoked, his voice having a small echo to it.
"That's impossible!" Koichi retorted. "There's no way he'd be able to escape 3 Freeze's range that easily!"
After noticing that the tree beside him was moving, he took a look at its roots. Only to realize that it was growing. Looking up, he finally found the culprit he was apprehending from earlier.
"I'll say this one more time. Don't even think about coming after me." Giorno said, as he was entangled with the tree's branches. "I hate saying things twice when I shouldn't have to. Because it's useless to say it twice."
Giorno continued to monologue to the student down below, as the tree he resided in kept growing upward.
"I'll say this for your own good. You shouldn't do things that are useless." Koichi didn't falter. Instead, he continued his chase after the blonde-haired man.
"Knock him down, Act 3!" The being beside him quickly flew into action, as he punched the tree from both sides. But as soon as its fist made contact, Koichi was sent straight into the ground. Creating a crater and cracking up the sidewalk.
"Th-The attack on the tree came back to me..." Koichi struggled to say the words.
"I took something of yours," Giorno said as he looked down on the student. He stepped off the tree and onto the roof of the building. "but I can tell you held back when you were trying to hit me, when I see what that damage has done to you." Giorno's face softened a bit as he looked at him.
"You're a good person." Giorno said, as Koichi was surprised to hear that coming from the man who took his stuff. But realizing the opportunity, Giorno quickly made his way out of there.
Koichi still laid in the crater as he tried to get his bearings.
"There's no doubt about it. Giorno Giovanna..." He started to get up. "He's a Stand user!"
"General." Winter grabbed the attention of the General, along with the other adults that know Ozpin. "If I may?" The General nodded and hummed to signal her to continue.
"Judging by the ability of Koichi and his reaction to seeing the other's ability, I think it's safe to assume that those strange beings are what they refer to as Stands." She concluded after gaining the info presented to them.
"That has to be." Qrow finished his swig of alcohol. "Though I want to know why no other civvie hasn't screamed in horror after seeing a scuffle involving their semblances, or Stands." It was Ozpin's turn to finally say something.
"I'd have to agree with Mr. Branwen. To add to that, why hasn't there been any documentation on abilities such as this?" Ozpin adjusted his glasses. "It doesn't seem as though anyone's heard of these Stands before as well."
Though the conversation was short and quiet, enough for the students and Jaune's family not to hear, Cinder kept her ear open for most of it.
Giorno hopped down from the building, he looked back to check and see if he had followed him. After ensuring that he's safe from Koichi, he walks away from where he looked, toward a stairway leading out into the open view of the city.
The scene abruptly cuts to a nice looking office decorated with sea life, among them include starfish, a large swordfish, and a fishtank, with many types of fish swimming within it. Out of view, a scroll could be heard ringing, waiting for someone to answer it.
That scroll is answered as the scene changes to a wider view, revealing the office to be belonging to Jotaro.
"Hello?" Jotaro asked as he held the scroll close.
"Jotaro, it's me, Koichi!" The younger sounding student said on the line.
"Oh, Koichi. Did you get to Naples?"
"I found him!" Koichi said, pretty much answering Mr. Kujo's question, causing him to look at the scroll. "The guy you asked me to find! Jaune Arc!"
"That was fast." Jotaro said, his expression unchanging.
The scene changes to Koichi, as the scuffle from earlier is shown in the background. The broken table is accompanied by the waiter there, and two patrons most likely asking about it.
"Where do I even begin?" Koichi said to the payscroll.
"I immediately ran into him at the airport..." He looked back to the mess he made behind him. "And, yes, it's safe to say… He's a Stand user!"
'Stand user' Cinder thought, trying to come up with her own theory. 'It sounds as though this kind of semblance could be learned and used.' She started to smile to herself.
'Are Stands a kind of power to be gained?'
The scene changes back to Jotaro. Listening intently as Koichi went on.
"He goes by the name Giorno Giovanna in Naples. You mentioned before that Stand users are drawn to other Stand users, right?" Jotaro proceeded to take a seat by his desk. Knowing that this was going to be a conversation that would take a while. The scene goes back to Koichi in Naples.
"We seriously met by coincidence! He's a student, but he acts like a delinquent." Koichi told him, as we see from the alley where Giorno escaped from. "He stole my money and my luggage!"
The scene, once again, changes back to Jotaro. If it wasn't for the fact that he always seem to have a stoic face, one could tell that there was something on his mind.
"And it appears his Stand's ability is returning his opponent's attack right back at them." Koichi finished with his debriefing.
"Sorry about all of this. I'll get you a hotel and wire you some money." Jotaro told him.
Though it sounds like Koichi's still on the scroll talking to Jotaro. The scene cuts to Giorno walking down a wide area toward a stair way.
"Thank you. Also, his hair was blond, unlike in the picture. After asking some people who knew him about it, they said that he didn't dye it. It just suddenly turned that color." This got Jotaro's attention. "Something about his dead father's genes. Who's his father?"
The students and teachers were even more confused. Did Jaune have black hair? Did he dye it blonde to get into Beacon like how he lied about his age?
"I have to say." Nicolas interrupted the thoughts of those around him. "I'm not sure about that. Jaune always had blonde hair, even as a young child."
The students tried remembering the details. Until Weiss started to say something.
"What about that photo of him with black hair? Why was his hair black hair?" That was when Pyrrha answered her.
"I heard the rumors that he dyed his hair black to avoid being noticed while he was in Vale." She said sadly.
So the general consensus between the students and the Arcs were that Jaune disguised his hair color, but why did people think that his hair naturally became blond?
Koichi asked the million lien question. Jotaro, however, reached out onto his desk and brought back a photo frame.
"Are you and his father somehow related?"
The photo frame is revealed to be photo of five men. A younger looking Jotaro who's smiling. To those who are acquainted with him, they'd say it's a rare sight.
Beside him appears to be a Mistralian student wearing a green school uniform, with red hair.
Next to him, is an older man, appearing to be native to Vacuo. Wearing a long reddish-orange coat, and a white headband.
Sitting down and holding a dog, looked to be Joseph Joestar, owner of Joestar Realty. He wore a beige fedora with a matching polo, and brownish pants.
Finally, we see a man who has facial features of being an Atlesian. Wearing whitish-grey pants with a black top that revealed his buff shoulders and arms, he was playfully holding up Mr. Joestar's chin.
Jotaro continued to look at the photo. His eyes relaxed, but his brows furrowed.
"Wow, look at those buff men~" Yang playfully said. Much to the discomfort of what she's implying to the rest of her team.
"Who are they, though?" Ruby asked. "I mean, I think the one in the back is Jotaro. He looks younger."
"This has to be an older photo." Blake mentioned. "That one in the fedora is Joseph Joestar, and he seems to be physically active in this photo."
Blake knew about Joestar Real Estate. Most of the White Fang operations involved going after Schnee Dust Corporation, but some operations were related to the Joestar Real Estate company as some members saw them as another corporation who turns a blind eye to Faunus'.
After a moment of silence, Jotaro spoke once more.
"I'm the one who killed his father."
This statement caught everyone off guard. Jotaro Kujo, a Marine Biologist and grandson to the owner of one of the most influential companies in Remnant, murdered the biological father of Jaune.
"But, what does this have to do with the people in the photo?" Contemplated Oobleck. "Perhaps the people in the photo were killed by Jaune's biological father? A murder to avenge his friends sounds like the most reasonable one. But why not report it to the authorities?"
"Perhaps this man had a way to avoid punishment." Port responded to the mutterings of his friend. "Perhaps he was part of an organization, or his whereabouts were unknown?"
Ozpin listened, and decided to share what he thought.
"It seems that Jotaro knows much about Stands. Perhaps this man had a Stand as well?"
Koichi gasped in surprise when he heard Jotaro.
"His name is DIO Brando." Jotaro told the still wide-eyed, Koichi.
"That photo." Gasped Saphron as she remembered the photo in Jaune's wallet. "That's his biological father."
"DIO?" Koichi asked in wonder. "You mean the one involved with the bow and arrow?"
As Koichi said this, memories of the arrow were revealed. Showing an old bow and arrow sitting on velvet cushioning within a steel briefcase.
The next scene showed Koichi, with his head peaking out what looked to be a metal gate, his neck punctured by a long arrow, the wooden shaft being the only indication.
A man was shown, in a Mistralian school uniform, which was bloodied, being punched through his torso, by a bright and electrifying humanoid bird.
And finally, the scene shows an old, short lady with a bow around her torso, and holding an arrow. In the background, we see a blonde, muscular man. Who adorns a green heart headband, and a yellow coat over what looked to be a tight, black, body shirt.
"Whoa, what?" Nora mouthed. "Did anybody else caught that?" She turned her attention to the other students.
"It went by fast, but I saw a bow and arrow and Koichi with the arrow in his… throat." Pyrrha told her, remembering the gruesome detail in that memory.
Ruby groaned at hearing this.
"When will there be no more blood." She pulled her hood up to shield herself.
Jotaro responded to the question Koichi presented.
"I found out this year that DIO may have had a child. That's why I wanted to find out for sure if Giorno Giovanna was really DIO's child and if he's somehow inherited his body."
The scene changes to Giorno walking through a turnstile as the conversation kept going.
"But doesn't DIO's body belong to the Joestar bloodline?"
"The fact that his hair turned blond may be a sign that the DIO blood in him, his Stand power, recently awakened. There might have been a trigger."
The scene returns to Giorno, boarding an angled cable car, meant to move at an incline up or down a hill.
"Like a power Stand user being in that city."
"A powerful Stand user?" Koichi asked him.
"Don't go near him anymore." He warned him. "It's dangerous to take this further. Understand?"
As the conversation was wrapping up, Giorno pulled down a seat for himself, as the cable car began its ascent.
"Just one more question." Koichi wanted to be sure of one thing. "Is he our enemy? Or is he a friend?"
"What do you think? You're the one who actually met him." Jotaro informed him.
"What was your impression of him?" He said from the other side of the line.
Koichi furrowed his brows in consideration. He looked up to give his answer as the scene changes to the car Giorno is riding in.
"I'm not sure. But, um… He seemed like a very eloquent person." As Koichi said this, the view is shifted to Giorno gazing out the window, watching the environment around move by.
Giorno opened up a window to let in air as a group of civilians are in the highest-most area of the car.
After feeling the breeze from outside, his attention was caught by a coin spinning on the ground. Once it started to rest, a man in white, with yellow zippers on his cuffs and on his bicep reached out to pick up the coin.
The camera swooped in close to look at the coin, and began to look up to the person picking it up. Revealing the man's hardened face, with a jet black hairstyle that framed his face. He had yellow hair ornaments, and his jacket had more zippers, with an opening revealing his chest, much like Giorno's jacket.
"Is that lingerie?" Neptune was confused, revealing toned bodies was a Vacuo thing, but never has heard about this.
"I don't know, I think it suits him nicely." Yang told the aquaphobe student.
The man picked up the coin and looked at it, while Giorno simply stared at him, mouth slightly agape.
"Did you drop this?" This new man turned his attention to the nearby person.
"No."
"I see." The man takes a seat in the same booth as Giorno, pocketing the coin in his jacket's breast pocket. "Guess it's mine now." He started to chuckle to himself soon after, causing Giorno to eye the man carefully.
"Let's say you found a bag with one billion lire inside." The man proposed a question to him. "Would you take it to the authorities?" A question like that caused Giorno to lighten up a bit, and chuckle as well.
"No way. I'd totally take it." Giorno told him in a laid back attitude.
The teachers, and most definitely the Arcs, frowned at hearing this. Has their student and family member changed so much, that he would steal money whenever possible?
The man started to laugh after Giorno gave his answer.
"Well, aren't you honest?" He lowered his head, as his expression changed into something conniving. "But what if I was a plainclothes police officer and saw you take it?"
Giorno was shocked at hearing this. Potentially revealing himself to be of low moral in front of an officer. He brings his leg up to his torso as he held it, like trying to defend himself by curling into a ball as he gave his final answer.
"I'd give you half and have you look the other way… probably."
Roman blew another puff of his cigarette. "Considering how corrupt this city is, It probably would work."
The man, who has been asking specific question just out of nowhere to Giorno, abruptly laughs, slapping his knee after hearing his answer.
"Wow, that's great!" He quickly composed himself, looking toward Giorno. "And I'm sure that's actually what you'd do. You're not kidding or bluffing. I can tell! You're telling the truth."
Nicolas Arc couldn't bare hearing it. His only son, even if in name, would do such a thing. Rather than voicing out his disappointments with him, he just looked away with eyes clenched shut. The only person to notice was his daughter.
"You see… I can tell if people are telling the truth or not. I'm almost certain." A vicious look in his eyes were present. "You know how your skin gets shiny when you sweat? That's how I can tell."
Giorno looked at him with with a hint of surprise. Realizing that if he were to ask him anything, he'd be able to tell if he was lying.
"I think I'll have an even better idea if I taste your sweat." He proceeded to lick his lips, readying for the taste test.
"That's disgusting." Weiss said plainly. Much to the agreeance of her team. "I'm pretty sure there are better ways at telling who's lying."
"Maybe that's his semblance?" Nora added.
"If it is, then how did he find out about it?" Ruby innocently said to the group, but quickly recoiled just like everyone there at the implications. The possibility that this man went around licking sweat as a kid was a thought they wanted to forget.
Among the teachers, they had their own discussion at that.
"While it's true that there are professionals who can easily tell if someone's lying, semblance or no." He said, remembering a certain Mantle's Hometown Hero. "I doubt the validity that anyone can taste sweat and tell if they're lying."
Giorno gained his posture and grew serious.
"Who are you?" With all pleasantries and friendliness out the open window, the man quickly stood up. Serious as well.
"Leaky Eye Luca was found on the ground near the airport after having his own spade buried in the back of his head." He got in closer. "It's a rather serious injury. He won't be regaining consciousness."
"He was still alive?!" Yang couldn't believe someone could take an injury to deform a third of their skull.
"Maybe he had a large amount of aura to take most of the blow?" Pyrrha rationalized. If he was a gang member, it would make sense that his aura was unlocked.
"I'm trying to find out who's responsible." His face was inches away from Giorno's. He was sure that he found the culprit. "Giorno Giovanna, no one knows why Leaky Eye Luca was at the airport."
He took his seat back to continue.
"But the airport security guards let me know that you were at the airport. That's why I figured I'd come see you and ask you some questions."
"Are you actually a police officer?"
"Of course not." He quickly answered, getting up as well as the car was nearing a stop. "Luca's no ordinary crook. He's a gang member. There are plenty of reasons he might've been taken out. He knew how to get people to hate him. But that's not what his boss is thinking about."
"Jaune." Saphron was worried what might happen to her baby brother. She's no fighter by any means, but she knew that somethings about to happen.
"The boss feels like his name was personally tarnished since one of his own was taken out." He grabbed Giorno's left arm and brought it close. "That's why he told me to find out who took him out and settle the score."
The crime duo, Roman and Neo, along with Cinder and her lackey's knew what was about to happen as well. Seemed like it was Giorno's turn to get whacked as well.
Roman continued on his cigar as Neo finished up on her last ice cream for a long while.
"Rest in peace, kid." Roman was the only one to say anything. While Cinder had a smile on her face.
She could get another chance to see how these Stands work.
"I'm asking you..." Giorno's poker face didn't falter. "Did you happen to run into Leaky Eye Luca at the airport?"
Giorno gave his answer.
"No. I don't know who you're talking about."
The camera flashed to the eyes of the gang member staring intently at Giorno. Trying to determine if he's telling the truth or not. The camera changes to both of them as it closed in on both of their eyes, both held their stoic faces. The area around them didn't matter, as the environment outside of the car had turned red, setting an ominous atmosphere.
The entire cast held their breath.
While the teachers would in most cases look down on Jaune lying, considering that his life depended on it, they were hoping that he would be believed.
The students and his family were hoping as well that Jaune could get out from dangerous situation.
The villains weren't exactly that invested whether or not Giorno gets caught or not. If he gets away, then congrats for him. If not, then there'd be another fight waiting to happen for them to witness.
The car came to a stop, as its doors opened to let the passengers in or out.
"You're not sweating." He concluded. "All right, I'll believe you." Getting up, he began to leave the car.
"That does it for my question." Giorno kept his eyes on him as he left. "Sorry to have bothered you, Giorno Giovanna."
A breath of relief swept through the student and family area. Jaune's safe for now. All he needs to do now is avoid any suspicion.
"It didn't seem like he was a professional." Ironwood said.
"Well this isn't a professional situation, Jimmy." Qrow told the half-robotic man. "If he's a gang member, he's most likely doing it for intimidation."
"You will shut your mouth and address the General properly, drunkard." Winter coldly told off the man. To which Qrow responded by shrugging.
Giorno kept his eyes on him well after he left the car. He took notice of his left hand, which was still clenched on something. Opening his palm slowly, he found that he was clenching an eyeball.
Surprised by this, he quickly recoiled, dropping the wet thing on the ground, indicating it to be real.
"Oh my!" Port was the first to say something.
"Eugh!" Weiss voiced her disgust with that.
"How did that get there? And whose eye is that?" Blake tried to keep her head level, trying to get an understanding.
Emerald, despite having lived out on the streets, couldn't take it that far. She cupped her mouth in disgust, much to the amusement of Mercury.
"What is that?" He looked to his hand, still wet from the eyeball. "My hand was clenched the whole time."
Before he could even reason why it was there, the same man from before peaked his head through the open window. Surprising Giorno.
"That's Luca's right eye. He's unconscious anyway, so I just brought it." Fully peaking his head through the window, he licked the sweat off Giorno's cheek. Savoring the taste.
The students couldn't take it anymore. Sure they've been prepared to fight hordes of soulless shadow beasts called Grimm, but they don't know if they should feel disgusted with the fact that either Luca's eye was taken while he was alive, or that this man really did lick the sweat of Jaune's face.
The camera zooms in on his face as he declared.
"This taste… is the taste of someone who's lying, Giorno Giovanna!" With that, Giorno was shocked that he's been found out. The eye rolled away, showing the hole in the eye being cut from the optic nerve.
"I said I was done with my questions, but the situation seems to have changed, Giorno Giovanna." The car's door finally closed, resuming it's scheduled path.
"Maybe he really does have a lie-testing semblance." Neptune stated.
"I don't know kid." Qrow had trouble trying to find the blue-haired student. "It still could've been intimidation tactics to get the kid to spill the truth quicker"
"You told me a lie. And now, I'm going to have to find out why you lied to me, aren't I?!"
His finger traced the top bar of the booth, meant to be held in case the ride was rough. Before the finger came down and struck Giorno by the cheek. A subtle zipper sound being heard.
Team RWBY and NPR along with Jaune's family is worried about Jaune. The teachers are concerned, but realize that there would be nothing for them to do to help in this situation.
Roman got his cigar out and Neo thought of another ice cream scoop to enjoy, both knowing that there's going to be another interrogation beat down.
As Giorno could be heard gagging, the interrogator turned his attention to the group of people at the top of the car.
"What are you looking at? Are you jealous? Did you want to hit him, too?" The group of civilians quickly returned to their business.
"What the hell?! Why aren't they doing anything to stop him?!" Yang's eyes turned red with fury.
"Miss Xiao Long! Please." Glynda calmed down a little knowing the context of her anger. "Refrain from swearing."
"How can I if no one's stepping up to save him?" It was Qrow's turn to settle it down.
"Easy, easy, Firecracker. Not everyone has their aura unlocked, nor are they capable of fighting someone who's experienced." Hearing this, Yang's eyes returned to a normal lilac tone.
"My name is Bruno Bucciarati. Answer me." The camera looks down to Giorno. "Your questioning has already turned into torture."
Giorno was about to answer, until he felt something wriggling out of his mouth. Gagging it out onto the floor with some spit. It reveals to be four chopped-off fingers.
Saphron held on to her father's arm to find comfort as she watched Jaune get beaten. Meanwhile, the students are trying to understand Bruno's ability.
"I think I'm going to be sick." Weiss faltered a bit. First it was his eyeball, then Jaune's sweat getting licked, and now severed fingers.
Meanwhile Ruby had hid herself in her cloak to prevent herself from seeing anymore. Otherwise she might throw up.
"Just what is his abilities?" Cinder asked aloud, much to their surprise of her two subordinates.
"And why are they so weird?" Blake added.
"Right? It's almost like it's bizarre." Yang made a joke, trying to lighten up the mood. Instead, annoying everyone within 10 meters. More than enough to fill the entire room.
"Well? This is a pretty creepy ability, isn't it?" A sly smile creeped it's way onto Bruno's face.
"Th-That's..." Fear began to set into Giorno, before Bruno confirms his thoughts.
"Those are Luca's fingers." He stepped forward, a loud thud reverbing through the car. "To tell you the truth… Leaky Eye Luca was disposed of by our boss." His foot quickly sent the fingers down the car, left for some horrified bystander to find later.
"He said that there's no point in him living anymore. I took his fingers for torturing." Giorno didn't pay attention as he was still in shock, Luca's fingers appearing in his mouth.
'It's happening again! What the hell?' He thought to himself. The camera suddenly zoomed in. "Is he also like that Mistralian tourist?"
"Other than being able to tell if people are lying or not, I can also do this… I can put whatever I want in your mouth. For example..." Bruno's eyes drifted to his surroundings. "I can even put that fire extinguisher in you mouth."
Giorno was shown, not having fully recovered from shock.
"Though I'm afraid you'd die if I did that..." Bruno kneeled down to get to Giorno's level, as Giorno took his hand off to look at him. A small zipper appeared on his cheek, with Bruno dryly chuckling at it.
Blake's improved eyesight compared to her friends were able to easily notice the small zipper on Jaune's cheek.
"Hey, guys? Do you see that on his cheek?"
"Did Jaune get injured?" Saphron urgently looked at Jaune's face, just noticing the zipper.
"Is that Bruno's ability?" Ren eyed the injury warily. Unsure if he was right or not.
Giorno took notice of it as it started to open itself. Audibly making a tearing-like noise. The camera gets closer to reveal the inside, showing an endless black and purple vortex within.
Giorno took too long trying to find out what it exactly was, as Bruno's patience wore thin.
"Talk!" Hand smashed into Giorno's neck, the same zipping sound could be heard when he struck Giorno's cheek. "You know who's responsible. Were you told not to tell anyone? Let's have you tell me who did Luca in."
As Giorno tried to look up at him, he felt the zipper get longer, as it stretched out to reach to the bottom of his collarbone.
'There's no doubt about it…' Giorno realized. 'He has a similar ability!' Bruno's face was unwavering as he looked down on the terror that Giorno felt.
"If you don't hurry up and tell me, your torture is just going to get worse," He went in for another strike. "Giorno Giovanna!"
His fist backhanded into Giorno's face, a faint image of a blue arm with what looked to be white armor strapped to the forearm surrounding Bruno's arm.
'So,' Cinder smirked. 'He has this Stand ability as well' Her interest in the view was piquing once again.
The strike was powerful enough to launch Giorno up a stair. Looking back to his attacker, a faint outline of another figure was present.
'This guy's bad news!' He finally hit the ground, sure of what he's going to do. 'In that case...'
His own ghostly figure revealing itself from Giorno's body as he himself got up to a kneeling position. 'I'll have to use Gold Experience and dodge his attacks!'
The screen turned to sephia as an arrow with the label 'To be continued' swooped in from the side.
"To be continued?!" Ruby said the same thoughts as almost everyone there.
"Please relax, everyone." The Entertainer told them. "I decided that I should break up the viewings into segments so that everyone may have a chance to collect their thoughts. I'll give you all a moment before continuing."
The faint static of the speaker cleared away, indicating that The Entertainer has gone silent.
"Looks like Vomit-Boy really changed a lot. Huh?" Yang looked to her friends.
"He went from being a goof to being a pickpocket." Pyrrha said sadly. She didn't exactly appreciate the new habits Jaune had picked up.
"Well it's kind of necessary to learn things like that in Vacuo." Sun informed her.
"That reminds me." Pyrrha looked to the Arcs. "Mr. Arc, what do you know about Dio Brando?"
The attention was all on Mr. Arc once more.
"I don't know much about him. But from what I could tell from my wife, was that she was infatuated by him. It's all I know about him."
"I see, thank you."
Cinder looks to Mercury and Emerald. The two were confused as to why she asked everyone a question.
"We need to not draw attention to ourselves." She stated. "So try to blend in with everyone." The two understood what she meant. She wanted them to get friendly with everyone as to not appear like outsiders.
(The teachers theorize about Stands)
Ozpin took a sip of his coffee as he thought about something.
"Something on your mind, Oz?" Ironwood looked to the wizard.
"Something Qrow said, about how no one seems to notice these Stands. On top of that, why hasn't anyone else said anything about the zipper on Jaune Arc's face?" Ozpin proposed a question that no one there had an answer to. All they could hope for was that when the show started up again, it would reveal the answer.
A/N:
Well that took a long while. But man, I'm certainly glad I completed the first episode!
Along this episode or this chapter in particular, there was suppose to be a Stand Stats of Gold Experience. I decided to omit that because other RWBY react fics to Jojo already did those, which followed a simple 'Cast asks what is on screen, the host informs them of the stats, and then it moves on.'
Speaking of other things I might omit, I'm going to have to ask you guys if I should or shouldn't include the OP for this react fic.
Points to have the OP in the reaction:
1. I keep the OP in, and I don't get accused of skipping the openings.
2. The Cast reacts to the OP and theorize on events to come.
Points to not have the OP in the reaction:
1. From a time efficiency point, I could just not include it and not much would be lost.
2. Other RWBY reacts to Jojo fics include them reacting to it, so this could be a chance to alternate from the formula.
If people want me to keep the OP in this reaction, then I'll do it. Otherwise, I feel more inclined to not have it in for the reasons listed above.
Drafted on March 19, 2021
Published on March 22, 2021