Announcement! School has started back up so I decided a new chapter will be posted every two months instead of every month just to make it easier on myself, hence, why this is so late. With that said, I hope you enjoy!

"To get from Hong Kong to Singapore, we'll be on the water for three full days," Joseph announced. "Well, let's relax and keep our spirits up. But seriously guys…" Joseph began as he shielded his eyes from the sun. "Can't you do something about those school uniforms? You're going to continue our journey wearing those? Isn't it ridiculously hot?" Joseph pointed at both Kakyoin and Jotaro who were resting on lawn chairs. Haru was behind them, standing up straight, both hands on the rail of the boat as she closed her eyes and enjoyed the ocean breeze, happily humming. She was never one to get easily seasick. Haru even vaguely remembered a boat ride with her mom when she was about 10 years old. They went whale watching and while her mom was emptying her stomach off the side of the boat, Haru wandered around looking for a snack.

"Well we are students…" Kakyoin began to explain to Joseph, not looking up from the book he held in his hands. "And students should behave as students. But I suppose that sounds like a stretch..."

"Hmph," was the only thing Haru heard from Jotaro.

"Hmph! Japanese students are such stiffs," Joseph commented.

"You're totally right," Haru sang as she turned to face them and sat up on the rail.

"Aren't you a student just like us, though?" Kakyoin asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Not anymore." Haru shook her head and smirked. "I'm retired."

"A girl your age should still be in school," Joseph scolded and Haru was a little surprised. It's been awhile since she'd been scolded like that.

"Alright, alright, alright," she said with a toothy grin. "I promise I'll go back to school when I get back home… On one condition!" Joseph raised his eyebrow and waited for the teen to continue. "I gotta get something out of this. A present of sorts." Before Joseph could possibly decline, everyone's attention was averted to an unfamiliar voice.

"Let go! Let go of me! You big lug!" The six of them looked to the side and noticed one of the sailors held a young boy by the shoulders who was struggling to get free. "Damn it, let me go! Let me go!"

"Shut up!" yelled the sailor. "What a little brat."

"Hey, what's going on?" Joseph demanded. "I thought we agreed there'd be no passengers on our boat."

"Let go!" the boy yelled again, still squirming.

"I'm sorry. It's a stowaway," the sailor apologized to Joseph."This brat was hiding in storage down below."

"A stowaway?" Joseph repeated, with a confused look on his face.

"My, my, my, how did you guys manage that?" Haru said with a giggle.

"Come at me if you're gonna!" the young stowaway taunted, his legs still flailing around. "I'll kick your balls in!"

"I'll turn you in to the naval police," the sailor spoke as he lifted the boy by the back of his collar. After hearing that, the boy immediately stopped struggling and seemed to look a bit afraid.

"What? The police?!" the young boy exclaimed as he escaped the man's grip and faced him. "P-please. Let me go! I just want to go see my dad in Singapore. I'll do anything! You can work me as hard as you want!" After the boy's begging, the sailor pinched his cheek and placed a hand under his own chin.

"Let's see. What should I do?" he thought aloud. "Should I let you go?" he continued now simultaneously pinching the boy's cheek and ear. "What should I do?"

"P-please!" the kid begged some more.

"I'm not gonna let you go after all. Hell no!"

"Ow!" the boy exclaimed due to getting flicked in the nose and soon began crying after being rejected. Seeing this upset Haru and she really wasn't a fan of this sailor, even if he was helping them get to Egypt in a way.

"Joseph, he's just a kid. Why don't we just let hi-"

SPLASH

Haru shut her mouth and ran to the side of the boat, looking into the water for the boy.

"Whoa! He jumped in! Talk about energetic," Polnareff commented.

"W-we gotta do something," Haru said in a panic.

"Is he planning to swim from here?" Kakyoin asked as he got up from his spot and joined Haru.

"What should we do?" Joseph wondered.

"Just leave 'im," Jotaro added, not even moving from his seat. "I"m sure he dove in because he's a confident swimmer." Haru then spotted the boy pop out from the water and sighed in relief as she saw that he was in fact a pretty talented swimmer.

"Th-this isn't good!" the sailor exclaimed. "Sharks gather around these parts." Haru shrieked and began to panic again.

"Jotaro! Do something!" Haru pleaded, as she tried to shake Jotaro's chair from behind. At this point, she was well aware that she had him annoyed but that didn't matter. They had to save that boy. Haru soon become relieved when she saw Jotaro actually getting up from his seat followed by the usual "good grief."

"We gotta stop that sha-"

"I know," he cut her off and headed to the rails while everyone else was still yelling over the edge of the boat. Haru watched as Jotaro sat on the rails then brought his legs over onto the other side. Once Haru realized what he was doing, she ran straight to him and wrapped her arms around him from behind while she rested her knees on the rails.

"I'm going with you," Haru stated.

This is my chance!

"Fine," Jotaro sighed in annoyance. "Just don't drown."

"Don't worry, I'm a good swi-" Before Haru could finish, Jotaro had pushed himself off the rails and into the water, bringing Haru down with him. Thankfully, she was able to react in time and close her mouth to avoid choking on water. While under water, she saw the shark heading towards the boy and swam straight to the surface. Once up, she noticed Jotaro already swimming towards them and began to follow. She swam as fast as she could, especially once she heard the boy scream. As if on cue, Haru saw Star Platinum punch the shark that had almost caught the kid straight in the air with a loud "ora". Haru watched Star Platinum strike the shark multiple times in the air while she summoned Dark Glycon to use his strings to bring the boy to her, kind of like fishing. Haru almost forgot that non-Stand users couldn't see Stands until she saw the boy's reaction, which was actually quite amusing.

"Here, grab my hand," Haru said as she reached for the boy but before he could comply, Jotaro grabbed him by the front of his overalls and that's when Haru noticed the shark had fallen back into the water, most likely unconscious. Haru looked up at Jotaro next to her and noticed him glaring at the boy before he turned around to swim back to the boat.

"Good grief, you little brat." Jotaro spoke as he began to pull the boy with him but then suddenly stopped and looked a bit shocked. Haru was a bit surprised as well but more at Jotaro's reaction. She saw him release the boy's overall and suddenly rest his hand on the boy's chest.

"Jotaro… what are you doing?"

"You're…" Jotaro said to the boy, ignoring Haru's question and then flicked off the boy's hat, revealing the kid's long dark hair. "A girl. And a little runt of one, at that." After he finished speaking. Jotaro felt a stinging sensation on his right cheek. Haru's hand had made contact with it and she was pretty sure this hurt her more than him. Was this boy made of stone?

"You can't just go around feeling girls up like that!" she scolded. Not really caring much at all, Jotaro simply took Haru's hand from his cheek and held it in his.

"Good grief. Just grab the kid and let's go." Even though Haru was still a bit riled up, she obliged and reached her other hand for the girl who seemed a bit shocked from what just happened but grabbed Haru's hand anyway and they all swam back together. The three didn't even notice something lurking behind them until Joseph spoke up from the boat.

"J-Jotaro! Haru! Below you!" he warned. "Something's attacking from underwater!"

"A-another shark?!" Haru squeaked as she felt her arm being pulled more violently due to Jotaro picking up speed and she held the girl closer to her so Haru wouldn't end up almost pulling her arm off as well.

"It's not a shark! It's really fast!" Joseph replied. "Guys! Hurry! Hurry and swim to the boat!" Haru was focusing more on making sure her arm didn't detach from the rest of her body since Jotaro was really the only one doing most of the swimming while still dragging her with him.

"Jotaro, the lifesaver straight ahead!" Haru shouted but she didn't know if they'd make it. That thing, whatever it was, was catching up fast.

"Hierophant Green!" Haru heard before she felt herself being pulled in closer to Jotaro then lifted from the water. Haru now held the girl in her arms and maybe a little too tight since she was afraid of dropping her back in the water with the creature that had just smashed the lifesaver they were about to use.

"I-it disappeared! It's a Stand!" Polnareff exclaimed before Haru made contact with the hard, but safe, wooden deck. She had already let go of the girl to give her room to catch her breath as Haru did the same and then got up to stretch her arms a bit. Haru then sense some tension and noticed that almost everyone was glaring at the girl and that's when it hit her.

I-is she the Stand user?

The girl noticed.

"Wh-what's with you jerks," she began to question as she got up. "All glaring at me like that?! I don't know what's going on," She pulled out a pocket knife. "but do you want a fight?!" She began swinging it around. "Don't underestimate me! I'll take you on! One-on-one. Face me, one-on-one! You little shits!" Even though Haru knew this girl could possibly be one of Dio's minions and was swinging a very sharp object around, she couldn't help but find it cute. The kid was so little it was almost hard to find her threatening.

"Hey, how's Dio doing?" Avdol just flat out asked which caused Haru to raise an eyebrow.

"Dio? What the hell is that?" The girl's response reminded Haru of herself which made her smirk a bit. It also made her realize that the girl in front of them was not working for Dio. The other's, on the other hand, were not too sure.

"Don't act like you don't know, you little brat!" Polnareff retorted.

"You damn punks!" the girl continued. "Do you want to talk to me, or do you want to get stabbed? Which is it?! The demon's blade is telling me that it wants the blood of the 340th victim already." Kakyoin let out a small chuckle right as a snort was heard from Haru. The girl didn't look to happy with those reactions.

"What's so funny, you stupid grunts?!"

"Grunts?" Kakyoin questioned while Haru tilted her head with a smile. "You know I really don't think it's her." Kakyoin continued.

"I second that," Haru added while a smile was still present on her face.

"Yes, but…" Joseph trailed off.

"So this girl is our stowaway?" The girl let out a gasp as the captain suddenly appeared behind her, a hand on each of her shoulders. Haru didn't blame the kid for reacting that way, the captain looked so intimidating she got nervous even though she knew she did nothing wrong.

"Captain," Joseph said as the man grabbed the girl and lifted her off the ground, trying to get the knife out of her hand.

"I'm pretty harsh when it comes to stowaways," the captain stated as the girl let out some ow's. Haru's stomach turned. As much as she wanted to say something, her words were stuck in her throat. "You may be a girl, but if I go easy on you, we'll just get more and more stowaways." The knife fell out of her hands so the captain finally let the girls feel touch the ground again while he still kept a firm grip on one of her wrists.

"We're gonna hold you in one of the rooms below deck until we get to the port." The girl continued to yell and struggled to get away.

"Captain, I'd like to ask you something," Joseph announced. "You've verified the identities of all ten of the men on board, right?" The captain looked over his shoulder and at Joseph as he answered. "Of course. All of them are veterans who have been on this boat for over ten years." He then straightened up and turned completely to face Joseph. "I'm not sure why you're so worried about that." The captain then came closer to the crusaders and Haru felt as if she began shaking. "By the way…," the captain started. Haru could kind of tell that he was glaring at Jotaro right before he swiped the cigarette out of Jotaro's mouth at the speed of light. Jotaro pissed off than surprised.

"I request that you refrain from smoking aboard this ship," the captain told Jotaro, pointing his own cigarette at him. "What did you plan to do with the ashes and butt after you're done? Were you planning on throwing it into the beautiful ocean? You're a guest on the ship, but you'll have to follow her rules, Mr. Outlaw." As the captain spoke that last bit, he put out the cigarette but rubbing it against the pin on Jotaro's hat.

Man this captain is a dick.

Jotaro looked a mixed of surprised and pissed the heck off as the ashes began to fall on his cap. Everyone, including Haru, just watched this happen in complete awe. When the captain was done with that, he opened Jotaro's jacket pocket and dropped the remains of the cigarette in there. He then pointed in Jotaro's face and began to speak again.

"Got it?" With that, he immediately turned around and walked away, not waiting for an answer from Jotaro. But of course, knowing Jotaro, he gave his two cents before the captain could leave.

"Hold it." The captain paused and looked pretty surprised that Jotaro was talking back. "If you're going to put it out, just put it out." Haru was totally on Jotaro's side but she still wasn't sure this was a good idea. She grabbed his arm and shook it a bit in an attempt to tell him this wasn't a good idea but he just effortlessly escaped her grip and continued. "Don't be a condescending prick about it, you jackass." Haru let out a small shriek as the captain turned to face him again.

"Hey Jotaro! Don't be rude to the captain!" His granddad scolded. "You're the one at fault." With a hand now on his hip, Jotaro turned to his granddad before replying.

"I'm well aware that I'm being rude. He isn't the captain… I just figured it out. He's the Stand user!"

"Wh.."

"What?!"

"Eh?!"

"Sta...nd?" The captain now looked more confused and less intimidating. Jotaro had to be mistaken. "What might that be...?" Advol began telling Jotaro how that was most likely impossible while the captain was just looking comically confused as to what the group was talking about.

"Hold on, A Stand?," the captain let out in an attempt to understand what was going on. "I have no idea what you're talking about…"

"Jojo, random guesses will only make things more confusing!" Polnareff scolded.

"Do you have any proof, Jojo?" Kakyoin asked.

"I've found a way to differentiate Stand users from other people," Jotaro announced.

"What?!" Joseph exclaimed and this statement began to interest Haru.

"Seriously?" she added. Jotaro nodded before explaining and lifting one of his index fingers to his nose. "If a Stand user inhales even a little bit of cigarette smoke, a vein pops up on the tip of their nose." Haru gasped with everyone else and felt her nose with all ten of her fingers in attempt to find the vein.

"Where? Where? Where?" she muttered almost in a panic. She wasn't the only one having trouble, but also Joseph, Kakyoin, Avdol, the captain and Pol-

The captain? What's he-

"You can't be serious, Jotaro!" Polnareff shouted, finger still on his nose.

"Yeah, I'm lying," Jotaro flat out admitted. "But it looks like we've found the idiot." Everyone turned to the captain who still had his fingers on his nose.

Ah, I see. Nice one, Jotaro.

They were all pretty shocked that the captain really did end up being the Stand user except for the little girl who was really confused as to what the heck was going on. The captain then removed his hat and Haru couldn't even find the words to describe how menacing he looked now. She thought he was intimidating before, but now? Oh, boy. Haru swore she saw his eyes slowly rolling into the back of his head, which sent shivers down her spine.

"Guys, he's kinda-"

"Jotaro," Joseph interrupted Haru. "How did you know he was suspicious?"

"Actually, I didn't think he was at all" Jotaro admitted.

"Huh?"

"But I planned to do this with all the men on board."

"I would say that sounds ridiculous but it actually worked," Haru added.

"You're cold. Damn, but you're cold," the captain began to tell Jotaro. "You're right. I'm not the captain," he finally admitted. "The real captain is already sleeping with the fishes at the ocean's bottom back in Hong Kong."

"Then you can sleep at the bottom of Hell!" Jotaro shot back, pointing at the stranger. The man didn't seem the least bit threatened due to his wide smirk, again making Haru uneasy. Her uneasiness quickly formed into shock when she saw a blue, scaly arm come up from the side of the boat and grab the young girl's ankle, causing her to let out yell.

"Damn it!" everyone yelled aside from Jotaro. The fish-like Stand now stood on the railing of the boat with the young girl in her arms. The poor girl can't even see what's happening to her but she struggles to break free nonetheless.

"I-I can't move," she muttered.

Let her go! Haru wanted to shout these words, but they didn't come out, she was too afraid.

"If I tried to take six of you at once, even I'd break a bone or two," the man began. "So I was going to hide my identity and take care of you one by one… But if you've figured me out, I guess i have no choice. I'll have to take on all six of you! Getting my hands on this girl is a sign that my luck is changing for the better! I'm going to jump into these shark-infested waters with her. Of course, you guys will end up following us in. If we fight in the water, where i have the advantage, I can beat all six of you."

"Don't underestimate me by taking a hostage!" Jotaro shouted back. "Don't think that I, Jotaro Kujo, will be shaken by this!" It was true. Jotaro didn't look the least bit worried. At this moment, Haru started to feel a bit envious of Jotaro while she just stood there silently, almost shaking.

"Underestimate?" the man questioned. "No, this is a prediction! I hear that your Stand, Star Platinum, is pretty damn fast. I'm not trying to brag, but my Dark Blue Moon is pretty fast in the water. It can swim more elegantly than any fish in the sea!" The imposter began to chuckle. Meanwhile, Haru finally managed to calm herself down by taking a few deep breaths and straighten herself up.

I won't let anything scare me, Haru told herself. She looked over at Jotaro who hadn't been losing his cool at all, glaring at the man.

"Why don't we test them out?" the man suggested. "Follow me… if you're prepared to choke to death on all the seawater you're about to swallow," he continued before jumping back into the ocean along with Dark Blue Moon who was still holding the girl in its scaly arms. The young girl yelled and Haru ran to the side of the ship, almost instantly losing her cool again. Her eyes widened but she almost didn't have time to be scared again before Star Platinum rushed right by her, so close she felt the wind, and watched it punch Dark Blue Moon right in the face. It didn't stop at one. Star Platinum continued to throw punches left and right, so fast that Haru felt like she'd get a headache for trying to keep up, while it yelled out "Ora". One last punch made contact to Dark Blue Moon's face before it was shot back into the water and Star Platinum grabbed a hold of the little girl's arm before she could fall in as well. She now seemed to be unconscious. Haru looked up from the girl and stared further into the ocean, seeing the fake see captain floating with blood on his face. Haru, now gaining some of her courage back, stuck her tongue out at the man in the distance, not caring whether he can even see it or not.

"You're the only one who's going to choke on seawater," Haru heard Jotaro say. "Avdol, say something."

"You tried to out-predict me, a fortune-teller... " Avdol began to comply.

"...But it's ten years too early for you," Polnareff finished with a huge grin.

Haru turned to them with a wide smile on her own face and a slight snicker.

"Jotaro, what's wrong? Hurry and lift up the girl!" Joseph said as Jotaro seemed to be struggling completing this task, leaned over the railing, arms shaking as if he's about to fall into the ocean. Haru walked closer to him curiously.

"Yeah, c'mon. What's up?" Haru then squeaked at the sight of all the barnacles she spotted around Star Platinum's arm and on the side of the boat. She never quite liked the site of barnacle and she wasn't sure why.

"What's wrong, Haru?!" his granddad demanded, also approaching him now.

"D-Damn it… I'm being pulled in…" Jotaro stated, still struggling as the barnacles spread throughout the side of the boat as well. Blood then started flooding out of cuts that had spontaneously appeared out of nowhere on both of Jotaro's hands. Haru was lucky she didn't faint at the sight of blood because there was a lot.

"Oh no, no, no you don't!" Haru ran to Jotaro's waist and held on to keep him from falling overboard. She instantly realized she wasn't making all that much of a difference and the other crusaders also noticed this as they soon followed Haru's lead to keep Jotaro aboard. If this were any other time, Haru would voice her complaint about being practically sandwiched between Jotaro and his granddad, but she decided to focus all her energy on trying to get them out of this pickle.

"He's still planning on fighting," Jotaro announced, still not giving in. "He attached them to me early when I hit him." He started leaning further in. "They keep multiplying! My Stand's strength is being drained..."

"H-he suddenly disappeared… The captain, he's nowhere to be found." Haru looked up and noticed Joseph was right. She no longer saw the false captain's body floating. She started to worry and try harder to pull Jotaro back up but she wasn't succeeding.

"Jotaro! Bring in your Stand!" his granddad commanded.

"I can't," he began. "which is why I'm sweating way more than I want to right now!" As much as she hated to admit, Haru could confirm that. She was sure she wouldn't want to be this close to Jotaro in a while. Or ever. Not too long after, Haru felt herself being distanced from Joseph. He had lost his grip on Jotaro, causing him to finally fall off the boat, and stupid Haru not letting go, was being dragged down with him.

"Jotaro!"

"Haru!" Haru looked up and saw Kakyoin call out Hierophant Green. She thought fast, calling out Dark Glycon and got his strings to wrap around one of the kid's arms. Jotaro seemed to catch on as well and had Star Platinum let go so Haru was able to have Glycon safely toss the girl at Hierophant for it to catch as Haru and Jotaro were now the only one's to fall into the ocean.

Haru opened her eyes carefully, afraid of how much the salt would burn them, and noticed Jotaro and Star Platinum not too far from her, face-to-face with the captain's Stand. She kept her distance and watched as Star Platinum tried to land a hit on Dark Blue Moon but Jotaro was just violently blown against a rock by the enemy Stand's force.

"Jotaro!" Haru was surprised to hear her own voice come out of, not her mouth, but her Stand's. She blinked a few times in Glycon's direction, now wearing a worried looking mask, but just decided to go with it. She's seen things more bizarre on her journey with these guys already and just decided to get on with her life and swim to Jotaro's location and stopped next to him before looking up at the smirking captain.

"Welcome! Welcome!" he greeted them both with a maniacal laugh. "So you two have finally come to where my Dark Blue Moon reigns supreme, the undersea realm." Almost at the exact same time, both Haru and Jotaro began to glare at the man before he continued. "It's a bad idea to underestimate me, kids. Even in the ocean, the Stands can still communicate, so go ahead."

Oh, that explains it. Kind of.

"So what do you want to be?" Star Platinum began, sounding exactly like Jotaro. This small comment seemed to surprise the captain, making Haru smirk. "Tell me what kind of fish dish you want to be," he continued. "Fish cakes? Or maybe sashimi? I'll make a meal out of your Stand." Haru smirked while also trying not to let too much water get into her mouth. Her Stand also seemed to imitate her expression.

"You fool…" the captain replied. "You're trying to seem tough, boy, but inside this is what you're thinking: 'How long can I stay underwater?'"

Shit.

Haru tried not to think about it, but she seemed to be getting more nervous by the second now. How could she possibly forget she wasn't born half fish? While this man was bragging about how long her could last underwater, Haru was just trying to focus on calming down so she wouldn't drown.

"And!" the man's voice shouted out as his Stand punched the bottom of the boat. "Dark Blue Moon's fins are underwater cutters that move sharper than a ship's propeller!" Suddenly, trying not to worry was becoming harder and harder for Haru. "Before you get overconfident again, take a good, hard look at your Stand!" Haru's panic level was through the roof at this point, despite being in the ocean and not under any type of roof. She could only watch wide eyed as the barnacle that previously only covered a section of Star Platinum's arm began to spread throughout its body.

"Jotaro!" Haru cried out as she, without thinking, got Dark Glycon to begin swiping its strings at Star Platinum in attempt to cut through the barnacles, which is not what happened at all.

"Haru, stop!" But Jotaro's comment was a little too late. Barnacles already began to run up the strings and Glycon's arms. Haru almost felt paralyzed as her already small amount of power was being drained. She cringed at the sound of the captain laughing at her stupid action.

"You could've just told me you were feeling left out, girlie. But now that you've done that, you can finally feel your power draining away firsthand, just like your friend." Haru looked away, feeling ashamed and embarrassed. That was cut short after she felt her arm being grabbed by Jotaro as he began taking them both to the surface. Haru started kicking a bit on her own so she wouldn't be too much of a burden on him, but also since she wasn't sure how much longer she would last without precious oxygen.

"Trying to run away by swimming back up? Take a good look around you!" the captain yelled to the two teens. Suddenly, Haru felt herself being dragged away from Jotaro's grip by strong forces in the water.

Shit, shit, shit! Are we in some kind of whirlpool, now?

The captain soon answered Haru's mental question by explaining his Stand had been working up a whirlpool without them realizing and Haru was trying her best to fight the thought of accepting death at this very moment.

"Swim! Swim!" the captain mocked and Haru really wished she could punch the living daylights out of him, right now. "It's gonna get harder to breathe, and your powers are still draining! But it's too early to kill self-absorbed little brats like you two just yet!" Haru desperately tried to reach out for a rock or seaweed or something, but she remained unsuccessful as she her body spun round and round in the whirlpool. She couldn't even see where Jotaro was anymore and, just like the captain said, she began finding it much harder to breathe like this. Haru winced at the sudden pain she felt in her arm, causing her to bring her arm to her chest in an attempt to avoid whatever had attacked her. She then realized there were some kind of scales spinning in the whirlpool now with her and Jotaro. Haru flinched again when another scale made contact with her cheek. That was definitely leaving a scar. Suddenly, Haru felt pressure around her body. She managed to look up while still being spun around in the crazy whirlpool and was face-to-face with Dark Glycon who wore an expression that looked as if it had been the one cut by the scales. Still confused, Haru brought her eyes down to her body and saw herself wrapped in a cocoon of strings. Again, Haru saw a scale coming her way, this time making contact with the string and surprisingly, the string remained intact.

Glycon? Are you… protecting me?

As if it had read her thoughts, Dark Glycon made eye contact with her and the strings around her tightened slightly, almost like it was trying to respond. Haru was in shock. She had no idea Stands could do this, protect their users at their own will, though it kind of made sense. If the user dies, their Stand is no more. They must have a will to live as well. Haru still heard the captain's mocking towards her and Jotaro and she wanted to do anything that would shut his stupid mouth.

"How dare you say you were going to turn me into sashima?!" the captain yelled out right before Haru finally spotted Jotaro again. It was hard to keep her eyes on him in this whirlpool of death, but she thought she noticed him going limb. Star Platinum was still out so he could've been dead.

"The one that's going to be sliced up into sashimi is-" Haru still had her eyes on Jotaro as the barnacles around Star Platinum's hands broke off and she swore she saw something shoot out of them.

Are those… fingers?

"Star Finger!"

They're fingers.

She continued watching, witnessing Star Platinum's fingers stabbing Dark Blue Moon, drawing some blood. This caused the whirlpool to die down and Haru took this chance to swim closer to Jotaro, Glycon now finding it safe to loosen its grip on her.

"The one who was turned into sashimi was you, after all." Now that the threat was gone, Haru found herself being able to relax and smirked as she snickered at Jotaro's comment. Both of them just watched as the captain struggled to breathe with a now bleeding nose. "What's that? I can't hear you very well since we're underwater. Speak up!" Jotaro said.

"But your power was being drained… You let your body go limp on purpose to concentrate your power on your fingers… Th-that's what you were thinking…" the man stuttered.

"Ah! Jotaro! That was genius!" Haru praised him with a wide smile. Jotaro looked away from her, lowering his hat as he opened his mouth to speak again.

"Nope. What I was thinking was... " Jotaro turned to face the captain and continued. "If this old man pissed himself when he lost, it'd be gross since we're in the water." Jotaro almost immediately regretted saying anything at all due to how hard his last comment made her laugh. At this point, she'd probably be the one to piss herself underwater. He decided to just swim up to the surface, not bothering to help her this time. Haru's laughter died down a little and she quickly followed him to the top. Both of them took a large breath of air once they reached the surface before the others called out to them.

"Jojo! Haru!"

"That's my grandson for you!"

Haru latched herself onto Jotaro's arm as he began swimming back to the ship but before they could get back on board, there was a loud sound that seemed to be coming from it that caused Jotaro to halt. Suddenly, parts of the ship began blowing up and Polnareff announced that it must have been the captain who planted bombs on the ship. Joseph commanded everyone to evacuate and led them to the emergency boats as the ship continued to fall apart. Haru just found herself staring in shock until she felt her body being pulled along to a nearby boat.

The sun began to rise and Haru, finding it hard to remain asleep while being crammed in a tiny emergency boat with six other people, let her arm fall out to the side of the boat, fingers swirling around in the water out of boredom. It was silent, at least until Joseph spoke up.

"Have some water," he offered a canteen to the young girl, now tagging along with them. "We've sent signals for help, so someone should be here soon." She accepted his offer, then letting her eyes wander to Jotaro, who seemed to still be trying to get some sleep, despite looking extremely uncomfortable.

"I don't know what in the world is going on, but who are you people?" the girl asked, now looking up at Joseph.

"Haru, keep your arm in the boat," Joseph scolded her, snapping Haru out of her small trance.

"Oh, right. Sorry," she apologized, lifting her arm back inside and turning to face Joseph who now brought his attention back to the kid.

"We're hurrying along a journey, just like you," Joseph began to explain. "Though, you're on a journey to see your father, while I'm on one for my daughter."

"She's your daughter?" the kid asked, looking at Haru. Shocked, Haru shook her head rapidly.

"N-no, not me," she stammered. "I'm just some kid." Joseph started to chuckle a bit and smiled down at the younger girl who began drinking from the canteen. Though, it was cut short due to her spitting out a bunch of it overboard.

"Hey! That's our precious water!" Joseph exclaimed. "How dare you spit it out?!"

"N-no… E-e…" the kid stuttered as she stared up ahead wide-eyed. "E-e-e-e-e… Everyone! Look!" Haru looked to where the girl was pointing, gasping and cursing at herself for not noticing this enormous ship sooner.

This chapter ended up being so long, damn. Please review and check out thejigisupthere on tumblr, that'd be super appreciated!