Justice - The Town of Fog!
Having got a new car the group was now driving through Pakistan. Hanabi was once again sandwiched between Jotaro and Joseph but this time Hanabi had even less room since they had to squeeze into a small jeep.
"Jotaro, I'm surprised you were able to get someone to make you a Japanese school uniform here in Pakistan," Joseph said
"He has me to thank for that. Being the daughter of a world-renowned fashion designer has its perks," Hanabi said
"Polnareff is it safe to drive right now? It appears the fog in this area is getting quite thick," Kakyoin said
"Yeah. It might be a bit dangerous. Since there's a sheer drop to one side and no guardrail," Polnareff said
"Indeed. The fog gets thick up ahead," Joseph pulled out a pocket watch, "It's not even 3:00 yet, but I guess we have no choice." He looked down the cliff and spotted a town, "Let's find a place to stay in that town for the night."
"I wonder if there's a nice hotel," Polnareff said
Jotaro looked to the side of the car and his eyes widened when he saw a dead dog on a pike. For a second he thought his eyes were playing tricks on him, but then he looked down to see a wide-eyed Hanabi, knowing she had seen the same thing.
The jeep drove into the town but it was rather hard to see anything with such a thick fog.
"This is a nice little town. I'd say it has a population of a few thousand," Joseph said
"Let's ask about a hotel at that restaurant there," Kakyoin said as the car parked.
As they all got out the car Jotaro put an arm around Hanabi's shoulder drawing the girl close to him.
"Stay close," He whispered studying his surroundings.
Hanabi nodded her head knowing that this place was rather suspicious.
They walked to the restaurant where Joseph decided he was going to do all the talking.
Joseph approached a man standing outside a restaurant. "Listen up everyone. In Pakistan and further west in the Islamic world, this is how you greet people. First, you smile and say….Assalamu Alaikum!"
Hanabi almost facepalmed, "Were in Pakistan. They speak Urdu not Arabic." She thought
The man stared at Joseph with a hard look then slammed the open sign flipping it to close.
"E-er…..You didn't have to close up so suddenly." Joseph stuttered. "We just wanted to ask a question. Is there a hotel nearby?"
All the older man received in response was silence.
Hanabi was starting to really get creeped out by the man's dead stare.
"Hello?" Jotaro said
"I don't know?" The man said before turning around and walking away.
"W-What was with that guy?" Joseph said
"I'm sure he couldn't understand you because your pronunciations so bad," Polnareff said
"Actually Mr. Joestar was fine he just spoke the wrong language. They speak Urdu in Pakistan, not Arabic," Hanabi pointed out.
Polnareff started to laugh at Joseph's shocked face, "Haha, Let's go ask the guy sitting over there."
Everyone looked over to see a man sitting on the ground hunched over.
"Hey, guy! Sorry, but we're looking for a hotel. Preferably a hotel with nice clean toilets. Do you know any….!" Polnareff stopped talking when he saw the man's face.
The man had a look of pure terror frozen on his face.
Polnareff grabbed the man asking what was wrong but he fell over as two lizards crawled out of his mouth.
"WHAT!?"
Hanabi grabbed Jotaro's arm shaken by the man's horror-stricken look.
"He's dead! He died with that look of fear on his face! What the hell is this?! Why is he lying dead in the road? What was the cause of death?! A heart attack a stroke?" Polnareff shouted
"That could be…..But it doesn't seem to be ordinary heart failure," Jotaro said examining the man.
"A g-gun! This guy is holding a gun…." Polnareff pointed out.
"But there are no bullet wounds on him and there's smoke coming from it so that means he recently fired it," Hanabi said
"Then how'd this guy die? Look at him! His face is distorted like he was screaming in utter terror!" Polnareff yelled
"I don't know. What did the man shoot at? What in the world is going on in this town?" Joseph questioned
Kakyoin tried to get a woman's attention and ask for her help by calling the police. When Hanabi saw the woman's face she almost gagged.
The woman's face had puss spread across it with various leaking boils.
"That dog…" Jotaro mumbled
Hanabi looked over and squealed squeezing Jotaro's arm tighter seeing the dead dog from earlier up walking around with no injuries at all.
"There's no such thing as ghost, there's no such thing as ghost…" Hanabi chanted under her breath.
"What do you think, old man? You don't think it's the work of another Stand user, do you?" Jotaro questioned
"It seems impossible. There's no motive. Would someone who's after us kill a man who has nothing to do with us, before we even got here? If they did, why did they kill him?" Joseph said
"But there is a possibility. His death seems pretty extraordinary. Let's investigate the body as much as we can without touching it before the police come," Jotaro said
"Right," Joseph nodded his head.
As they studied the body they were able to determine that the man was an Indian traveler not from this town.
"Oh? A wound!" Joseph used a pen to pull down the man's shirt to show a perfectly circular hole in his chest. "Is that the cause of death?!"
"But why isn't there any blood coming from it?" Jotaro pondered
"I've never seen a wound like this before. It looks like someone took a circle cookie cutter and punched a perfect circle right through his chest," Hanabi said
"Looks like this is no ordinary murder. We need to know. Let's not hold back. Take off his clothes." Jotaro ripped the man's shirt off.
Everyone gasped when they saw what was underneath.
"W-What's with this corpse?! There's holes all over it! He looks like cartoon cheese you'd see in Tom and Jerry!" Polnareff shouted
"And there's no blood coming from any of these holes. How on earth was this man killed? What does this all mean?!" Joseph yelled
"Be careful. The odds that there's a new Stand user nearby just grew," Jotaro said
"Everyone get in the car," Joseph yelled running to the car, "Were leaving now-What?!"
Kakyoin, Jotaro, Hanabi, and Polnareff look over seeing Joseph leaping onto a spiked fence.
He used Hermit Purple to prevent himself from becoming impaled on the fence.
"What the hell are you doing? Are you stupid?" Jotaro said
"Oh, no! What do you mean, what am I doing?! The car was right here a minute ago!" Joseph yelled
"What? Car? We just parked the car over there," Polnareff pointed over his shoulder.
"What?! B-But just now…." Joseph gaped
Joseph thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a walking stick hitting the ground. Out of the fog came an elderly woman hunched over carrying a large walking stick.
She nodded at the five in a greeting and they all nodded back.
"You seem to be travelers. With this fog, it's dangerous to leave the town now. There are many cliffs, you know. I run a little bed and breakfast. If you like, why not stay there for the night? I'll make it cheap," The elder woman said
"We finally met a normal person!" Polnareff said
Hanabi and Jotaro looked at the woman suspiciously.
The man's body was finally carried off by officials but everyone was still on edge since there was a high possibility that a Stand user was nearby.
"Come now, Mr. Joestar. That is my hotel. I shall lead the way. Please come with me," The old woman gave them a toothless smile, "This hotel is small….but about twenty years ago, one of the 007 films was filmed here, and John Lennon from the Beatles even stayed here once."
"What? Really?!" Polnareff ogled at the news.
"No, not at all. But it is still quite a nice hotel. There are currently no other guests. Would meat for dinner be alright? Or would you prefer fish?-"
"Hold it, old lady. You just said Joestar, didn't you? How'd you know that name?" Jotaro asked
The woman stopped walking and stood there. Hanabi looked at the woman and then back to Jotaro.
"Come now, sir. That person there just said Mr. Joestar a moment ago," The woman said pointing at Polnareff.
"What me? Well, I guess I might have," Polnareff said
The hand the woman used to point with was all wrapped up and Polnareff pointed it out. She explained that she had burned her hand while cooking.
Hanabi found this all rather suspicious and she was 100% sure that Jotaro did too.
Once in the hotel, the woman asked them to sign the guestbook. As Hanabi went to do so Jotaro came up behind her leaning over her trapping her body between his own and the check-in desk. He whispered something in her ear as she wrote. Without moving from his spot behind Hanabi he took the pen from her and wrote in the guestbook too. When he was done he pulled away from Hanabi and she let out a breath she didn't know she was holding in.
"My heart rate sped up a little," Hanabi thought
The woman showed them all their rooms and Hanabi got a nice one all to herself. She sat on the bed inspecting the room.
"Man, this place gives me the chills," Hanabi said
She walked over to the window but couldn't see anything but fog. The fog gave her even more chills and she closed the blinds.
"Well then I guess I better get to work," Hanabi did a beveled pose hands on hips, "Better get moving before the enemy strikes first."
Queens Thorn came out with a smile playing on its lips posing too.
Hanabi stood like that for a moment but then saw herself in the mirror.
"Gah! What's with all these suggestive poses I'm making! I'm starting to act just like mother!" Hanabi cried
Her mother was a woman with an overdramatic flare for everything, and it seemed now Hanabi was picking up that habit too.
"Man, as if fainting isn't enough," Hanabi said
Hanabi left the room exploring the second floor first since it was the floor she was staying on. She explored every room but found nothing. She then made her way downstairs finding an empty room, well almost empty. Hanabi spotted a grand piano and sat down at it. She closed her eyes and messed around with a few of the keys. She didn't know how to play the piano, but Jotaro did. Whenever Jotaro's father wasn't on tour he would spend hours giving Jotaro music lessons on all kinds of instruments and Hanabi would spend the same amount of time listening and watching Jotaro play.
Hanabi opened her eyes when she felt someone sit next to her on the bench of the piano. She looked over to see Jotaro sitting next to her.
"Remember how when you first started learning piano you would never let me sit next to you because you said I took up too much space. After a while you finally let me sit next to you, and I have to say I was always mesmerized when you played. It's too bad that you don't do it anymore," Hanabi reminisced smiling down at the keys.
She went to get up from the piano but stopped when she heard a melody being played. She looked over shocked seeing Jotaro playing her favorite song. Hanabi sat back down and closed her eyes enjoying the song.
When the vocals came Hanabi started to sing with the song.
Kikasete natsukashii uta wo
Tooku de kuchizusande
Seinaru mitsu no you ni yume no you ni
Sono naka de nemurasete
Hanabi's voice was soothing and gentle as she sung.
Doushite sekai wa sakasa ni
Muryoku ni nagareteku no
Yuuyake itsuka mita akane kumo
Soba ni irenai sono kawari ni
Jotaro continued to play as Hanabi leaned her head on his shoulder.
Gin-iro no ame ga futte kitara
Watashi da to omotte namida wo fuite
Massugu ni hada ni ochiro ryuusei
Furisudzukete sono kata ni
Amrita
Daichi ga naite iru yoru wo
Kanjiru kokoro de ite
Anata no kizuguchi ga itamu nara
Sora ni negai no yumiya wo utsu
Gin-iro no ame ga futte kitara
Watashi da to omotte jikan wo tomete
Chiheisen hibiki wataru shizuku
Tashika na mono ano hibi ni
Amrita
Hanabi and Jotaro sat close together as they both created the melodious tune.
Gin-iro no ame ga futte kitara
Watashi da to omotte namida wo fuite
Massugu ni hada ni ochiru ryuusei
Anata ni furu ame ni naru
Amrita
As the last note was played the room grew quiet with a calm atmosphere. Hanabi stayed nestled in Jotaro's side the two teens unmoving. Hanabi felt her heart rate speed up again as her cheeks grew warm.
"Jotaro…..Is it possible that I-"
Suddenly a crash followed by yelling from another room broke the silence. The distinct sound of Polnareff screaming could be heard. Jotaro stood up abruptly and since Hanabi was leaning on him she fell over, luckily Jotaro grabbed the of her jacket before she face planted on the floor.
The two walked over to the room where the noises had come from and opened it. The old woman came out of another door, looking rather nervous.
"W-What is it? You just walked in without knocking….What do you two need?" The woman stammered appearing nervous.
"We're looking for Polnareff and we did knock maybe you didn't hear because you were too busy doing something else, old lady," Jotaro said
"Yes, of course. I know exactly where Mr. Polnareff is Mr. Jotaro, Miss Hanabi," The woman answered
"Oh?" Jotaro said
"Really now," Hanabi said
The woman pointed behind her, "He was just here. He's in the bathroom now, Mr. Jotaro, Miss Hanabi."
"Oh, he's in the bathroom? Is it inside this door here?" Jotaro asked walking over to the door with Hanabi.
"Yes, that right," The woman said
Jotaro and Hanabi stopped right in front of the door.
"Oh, that right Oldy lady I forgot to ask," Jotaro pulled his leg back tripping the old woman.
She fell to the ground alomst impaling herself with a pair scissors.
"Oh, my are you okay. You just fell down, you must learn to be more careful. Who knows what could break at your age," Hanabi said with a smile.
"Th-That was close…." The Woman shakenly mumbled.
"Oh yeah that's really dangerous falling down while holding scissors," Jotaro said
"Thank goodness nothing terrible happened," Hanabi said
The woman looked up at the two teens and started to sweat profusely.
"Sorry to ask before you even get up, but I have more questions for you. Why did you call me Jotaro and her Hanabi?" Jotaro asked
"Yeah I don't remember us ever giving you our names or anyone saying them in front of you," Hanabi said
"W-Why do you suspect me? The hotel register! You two wrote your names in the hotel register earlier! You wrote Jotaro Kujo and you wrote Hanabi Moon," The woman said
"Oh? You mean this thing?" Jotaro brought out the hotel register book.
"Yes, that exact thing!" The woman shouted looking at the book. She suddenly froze when she saw the names written in it, "Qtaro Kujo? Jolyne Kujo?"
"Jotaro isn't written anywhere," Jotaro said
"Neither is Hanabi," Hanabi said
"I suspected you from the moment you called me Joestar when we first met," Jotaro said
"I had my suspicions too, but Jotaro confirmed it. He had the others not use our names," Hanabi said
"And yet you knew our names….which means….It's no use playing stupid. We already know you're one of the Stand users that's after us, old hag," Jotaro said
Enyaba got a dark look on her face as she looked up at Jotaro and Hanabi.
"What's the problem? Aren't you going to show us your Stand?" Jotaro said
Suddenly the door behind Hanabi and Jotaro burst open and dozens of people from the village came in looking like zombies.
Star Platinum came out fighting off each one as Jotaro protected Hanabi.
"Oh zombies not ghost….this I can handle," Hanabi thought in relief.
Queens Thorn vine whipped a few people knocking them out the window.
At first, Enyaba looked scared but then she started to laugh. Hanabi and Jotaro gasped when they felt something sharp pierce through their legs. A zombie-baby had struck them using its tongue like a dagger stabbing them both.
"My Stand, Justice, will win! I just need one spot! One little spot!" Blood started to leak out of Jotaro's and Hanabi's wounds.
"You've fallen into my trap!" Enyaba said
"GAHUHA!"
"Polnareff?" Jotaro said
Polnareff was dragging himself out of the door with a hole in his tongue, and for some reason, he was also with Hol Horse.
"Hol Horse?" Hanabi questioned
Hol Horse winked at Hanabi, "It makes my heartburn with passion when a face as pretty as yours remembers my name."
Hanabi just deadpans at the man then picks up the hotel's registration book and threw it at him.
Hol Horse let out a small "Ow!" as the book hit him in the forehead but he still sent a dazzling smile at Hanabi, "Enyaba's Stand is a fog Stand. Your wound will turn into a hole like mine, and she'll control you with the fog. She can even control corpses!"
"Shut your mouth Hol Horse!" Enyaba yelled
She made Hol Horse swing his fist punching himself in the face.
Star Platinum appeared and started punching Justice but it seemed futile against the Stand made of fog.
"Can you punch fog with your fist? Can you cut fog with your sword? Can you shoot fog with your gun? Futile! Absolutely futile! You guys can't do anything" Enyaba said
"Th-That's the ultimate Stand! Our little Stands don't Stand a chance. There's nothing that can defeat that Stand," Hol Horse said
"Yes, yes, keep them coming. Say more things like that. Now I'll control you too, Jotaro! Hanabi!" Enyaba cackled
"R-Run, Jotaro! Hanabi! You'll get a hole in your legs!" Polnareff said
Hanabi who was rather calm steps forward getting in a pose, "No reason to run. I'm gonna make you a promise, I'll defeat you before you can take another breath and I always keep my promises."
"What was that you little brat beat bef-ore-my-ah-!"
Enyaba suddenly grabbed her throat and started to turn blue.
Polnareff and Hol Horse gasped seeing this.
"Vee!"
Behind Hanabi was Queens Thorn, the Stand had produced dozens of white-purple flowers and they were absorbing Justice.
"You see these flowers are known as Desert Thorn Apple, a seasonal plant that requires lots of water to live and they suck in any water near them even from the air. Your Stand is made of fog right, that means water droplets," Hanabi said
"P-Please s-stop…." Enyaba struggled to say as her face turned purple. She fell to her knees grabbing at her throat.
Hanabi just continued to absorb the fog Stand. Enyaba's face turned a new shade of purple as her eyes rolled in the back of her head, she passed out on the floor foaming at the mouth.
Queens Thorn disappears along with the flowers.
"Well that takes care of that," Hanabi said
Hanabi turned the rest of boys posing with her hands behind her head giving a wink.
Justice
Power - D Speed - E Range - A
Durability - A Precision - E Potential - E
Once Enyaba was tied up Jotaro got Kakyoin and Joseph.
"Why does it even matter what I've been licking? You ask such stupid things," Polnareff said with red cheeks.
"Ehh you were licking what I couldn't hear you well," Joseph said
"What does it matter. I just wanna disinfect my tongue!" Polnareff said
Joseph kept laughing at Polnareff to the point that he was on his hands and knees laughing.
"Everyone, come outside," Jotaro called
Everyone walked to the entrance of the hotel and gaped to see a graveyard.
"It's a graveyard. She was using her Stand's fog to make this graveyard look like a town and a hotel?" Kakyoin said
"So we were talking to the corpses that were buried in the grave," Polnareff said
Joseph went back inside the hotel or church as it seems and brought out the tied up Enyaba saying they were going to bring her too.
"We need to know how many more Stand users there are, what their powers are, where in Egypt Dio is hiding….And what Dio's Stand's power is," Jotaro said
"If we're able to get the old lady to tell us what it is, It'll give us a definite advantage," Joseph said
"I doubt that she'd be willing to tell us though," Kakyoin said
"We just need to use my Hermit Purple to project what she's thinking onto a TV," Joseph said
Hanabi wasn't listening to the conversation at all instead she was staring out at the graveyard.
Joseph noticed Hanabi's distance look.
"Something wrong Hanabi?" Joseph asked
"I can't believe she disturbed all these graves talk about not respecting the dead. I'm gonna fix this," Hanabi said
Everyone watched with questionable looks as Hanabi ran into the middle of the graveyard. Queens Thorn came out and Hanabi raised her arms.
Suddenly vines started to dig out of the ground and fix the graves putting everything back in place.
"Now for the final touch. Queen's Garden!" Hanabi shouted
"Vee!"
Queens Thorn let loose a flurry of seeds spreading them across the graveyard. Flowers started to sprout around every grave quickly turning the wasteland into a beautiful garden.
"B-Beautiful!" Polnareff exclaimed
"Very lovely," Kakyoin said
Joseph clapped impressed while Jotaro smiled.
"There we go, a viewtiful resting place for these people," Hanabi said
She smiled at the group but then stopped at the sound of an engine turning on. Everyone looked to see Hol Horse in their car.
"Hol Horse! That bastard!" Polnareff yelled
"Our car!" Kakyoin yelled
"Yeah, I'm gonna warn Dio after all," Hol Horse said
Before he could put the car in drive a hand reached over and grabbed the front of his shirt. Hol Horse was a little surprised to see an angry Hanabi.
"Oh, hello gorgeous," Hol Horse said tipping his hat.
Hanabi raised her fist to hit Hol Horse but the man grabbed the back of her head and pulled her close. Everyone froze as Hol Horse crashed his lips onto Hanabi's. Hanabi stood there frozen fist still raised as Hol Horse continued to kiss her. He finally pulled away with a satisfied smirk and started to drive off as Kakyoin and Polnareff started chasing.
"See ya later!" Hol Horse said
Polnareff and Kakyoin gave up the chase seeing as they weren't going to catch the car.
Joseph walked up to the stunned Hanabi who was still frozen in the same position. Her eyes were white void of any color displaying her shock. Joseph waved his hand in front of the girl and even snapped his fingers but she was still frozen.
Suddenly her face turned red and she fainted falling back into Joseph's arms.
"H-Hanabi!" Joseph said
"Yare yare daze," Jotaro said, he looked forward glaring at the car driving off in the distance.