Hello everyone, welcome to chapter 2 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Holy Hill. Now I know last time I didn't give the chapter a name, so it's name from now on will be: "Jojo and Diana". Now last chapter was from the POV of Diana, so that is why I didn't explain where Jojo or the zombie came from. Now let's get into the chapter.
Chapter 2: Fighting in a Zombie Attack
Jojo's POV
The young englishman was forced to walk behind the tall woman ho grabbed his hand, leading him into a room where the door looked in such a bad state that it made him feel a bit uneasy. As the blonde lady opened the door, he saw the clean and neat bed inside a filthy room with broken items and mold on the walls, making it look like an old house that needed to be rebuilt.
After entering the room, the prostitute let go of the hand of the giant man and stood in front of him with a pouty expression on her face while she crossed her arms. The look on her face made him feel unwelcomed and ashamed of being in this low-level brothel.
"You said you wanted to talk, so go ahead, talk." Diana said with contained and barely restrained anger in her voice, which Joel didn't know if it was pointed at him or at the old man she was arguing with. He just thought this was going to be a boring night of William dragging him into pubs and brothels, but when he heard the old man's voice earlier he noticed Diana, which elevated his spirit.
The most shocking thing for him was when a hand clad in gold appeared out of nowhere and smacked the gun that the owner of the brothel was holding away before slamming into his gut. The fact that no one noticed that aside from the well-dressed young Joestar made him realise that Diana was like him: someone with a spectre that no one else could see. Someone that could understand him.
With a sigh he moved past the pouty blond and sat on the bed, putting his hand next to him. "Please sit Miss Brando. I want to feel comfortable in here and not rejected. Please play nice for one hour and I'll leave you alone." he said sheepishly with and apologetic and calm tone to his voice, as he looked into the anger filled eyes of the woman in front of him.
The prideful blonde sighed with annoyance as she rolled her eyes before sitting next to Jojo, making enough distance between them in case he tried to touch her. "What do you want to talk about?" she asked in a cold and uncaring voice, with the young man seeing in her eyes that she still tried her best to repress her anger.
After looking at her for a bit, Jojo could only shake his head. "Look, I want to know who you are before we talk about your spectre. I'm Joel Joestar, I'm 19 years old. I'm the second son of George Joestar and I have a ghostly spectre similar in a way to yours." he said while extending his hand towards the woman for her to shake it.
The young woman snikered and snorted in annoyance before she agreed to fllow the man's example. "Diana Brando, I'm 23 years old and I'm a prostitute. My guardian angel always keeps me safe." she said as she shook the hand of the young Joestar, causing a smile of kindness to rise to his face.
He was surprised a moment later when the woman slapped his hand away. "Now tell me why you wanted to talk. I did as you wanted, now answer my question!" she said with a nasty tone as she gritted her teeth in anger, showing the man he wasn't helping her or even wanted.
Jojo sighed before allowing his spectre to come out. He focused his mind on his ghostly assistant, making the flaming being armored in a metal shell to appear next to him, shoking the woman sitting next to him. "You can see it, right?" he asked with a calm yet serious voice, only to see the woman nod, making sure that she did see his spectre. "I like to call it "Spectre", since only I knew of it and only I could see it, until now." he explained,seeing that anger started to leave the frame of the young woman.
The young woman gulped as she looked at the flaming being next to the giant of a man sitting next to her. "How can you bring it out in it's complete form?" she asked, showing interest after the sudden feeling of shock left her, replacing all of the anger with intrigue, which made Jojo smile with happiness.
Suddenly tears started to flow from the eyes of the kind young man, as he felt happiness filling his body. He couldn't believe he actually met someone who could see his spectre. He finally realised there was someone out there who realised how he was feeling, who could understand those feelings. As of the moment, meeting Diana Brando was one lucky and swift movement of fate.
"I'm so sorry for crying." he apologied while taking a hankerchief from the pocket of his evening jacket, using it to wipe the tears away. "It's just that I feel so happy to know that someone else could see my spectre." he explained as he kept wiping the tears from his eyes before calming himself. "Now to answer your question, I just focus on it, feeling it in my mind before allowing it o go free." he answered the question that the blonde prostitute asked him, a smile still placed kindly on his face.
The two looked at each other for a bit before Diana lowered her head. "I don't usually focuse too much when it comes to my guardian angel, because it makes it use it's ability." she said with a voice that tried to cover something. Realizing it was probably not something for him to ask about, he thought of just asking her more about her life.
"Most of the time it makes you feel special right?" Jojo asked with a sad tone to his voice, mostly because he felt saddened by the feeling of being special, since no one could understand how it felt like. He felt lonely even amoung his family, which made him angry at his spectre a lot. Now he thought that Diana also felt lonely and hoped to connect to her somehow.
"Oh yes, definitely! When I first discovered it, it convinced me that I was on top of the world!" she said with glee and pride in her eyes as arrogance started to pour into her voice. Hearing the woman talk about her superiority showed the man that the both of them were very different but it didn't push him away from listening to what the blonde had to say.
"Now I feel so divine, since something as special as my guardian angel is constantly protecting me and only me, I feel divine." she said in a smug and arrogant way, as she was now completely lost in her ownself-indulgant thinking.
For a while he just stayed quiet and allowed her to talk. Whatever he could learn from her babbeling on and on didn't bore him, but it didn't keep him interested that much either. After a while Diana stopped talking and both stayed in an akward silence. Both started to feel a bit uncomfortable in the situation and blood started to pour into Jojo's cheeks as he started blushing.
Before he could mutter another word, screams started to pour into the ears of the tall young man from outside the room. With a serious expression he jumped off the bed and ran as quick as possible outside of the room, with Diana quickly following him.
As he exited the room, he saw many young women running and screaming, only for pale and sickly men with gray and green skin colors to catch them with a lot of force, one even caught the woman with enough force that her arm twisted and broke like a twig.
Realizing that the men were zombies, the view of women getting injured by the undead demons made him sick and furious, to the point that he quickly entered his regular stance. Letting air into his lungs as he took a deep breath, the golden glow of Hamon flowed through him like a peaceful river.
"[Shoota Thrill]!" he shouted, focusing his mind on his spectre, which made the slim flaming being wrapped in gray metal appeare beside him, the glow of Hamon surrounding it as well. He quickly counted the number of foes standing in his way. He saw at least eight zombies running and grabbing women as they saw fit, while three others were guarding the exit, making it impossible for anyone to escape.
With a quick snap of Jojo's fingers, the five fingers of the left hand of the flaming being started to unravel into long strings, each reaching the length of 20 meters. With a thought alone the five long strings rose from the ground and moved around him like calm waves in the sea, as the young englishman locked his gaze on several zombies close to him.
"Jojo, let me help!" Diana shouted in a demanding tone, clearly angry from the act that was occuring in front of the young prostitute, but the noble Joestar didn't have time to explain things properly.
"Please Diana, stay behind me for now!" he yelled, panicking as he now thought about he well-being as well as focusing on getting rid of the zombies. He looked at the area where most of the action took place, only to see a zombie running towards him and the blonde beauty.
"Hey mates, I found another one!" he squealed in a high pitched voice as he ran with enhanced speed towards the noble hamon user, which proved to be a fatal mistake for the evil-doer.
Jojo squinted at his incoming foe, then raised his arm. "Zoom Punch!" he screamed in pain as his shoulder got dislocated, making the arm extend further in reach, making a hit land right on the zombie's jaw, sending him away into the air before he fell to the ground. A second after Joel pointed his index finger right at his fallen foe, making the slim spectre to raise its arm, causing the wire that represented the index finger of its left hand to fly at the zombie as fast as a bullet, piercing the undead's skull and burning it from the inside, causing an ear deafening scream of agony to come from the throat of the downed monster.
"Shoota Thrill Overdrive!" Jojo roared as Hamon passed through the wire of flame right into the skull of the undead, making it explode in a golden light. This made the other zombies to notice the even, making them charge at the well dressed man as quick as possible.
"Kill the Hamon user!" they roared as they exposed their fangs and saliva that poured from their mouths, which disgusted Diana quite a bit. No dread passed through Jojo's mind as he looked at the horde coming his way.
With a swift extension of his arm his spectre, or [Shoota Thrill] as he called it, extended its hand as well, allowing several wires to fly at the sickly pale group of undead. While the wires of flame flew fowards, their pattern of movement was completely over the place, moving like waves in a raging storm. Jojo smiled with thrill in it, filling the long strings of flame with Hamon.
As the wires reached their targets, it went through them like they were nothing, cutting them down with ease, while the Hamon on the flaming wires roasted and destroyed the bodies of the undead.
After taking a sigh of relief, he looked at the woman behind him who stood there with obvious awe and shock on her face, before she tried to hide it behind a pouty expression, which made Jojo smile with kindness and understanding, as he thought the prideful beauty would admit that she was awed by something.
"My spectre can turn itself into wires made of flames. The wires themselves can move fast enough to cut human limbs, something I deeply regret for learning." he said as a bit of sadness started to fill his tone, allowing himself to reveal something he saw as a mistake in his past. He believed he could trust Diana that much.
When his guard was done, a zombie suddenly crashed through the window of the building, surprising Jojo long enough for it to get close to him. Expecting the worse, the brown haired giant didn't close his eyes, but tensed his body. Suddenly a fist of gold clashed into the head of the zombie, breaking its entire head apart while sending it away right through the wall of the building, making a human shaped hole in it.
Surprised, Jojo looked at the young beauty, who just glared at him with a smug and arrogant smile on her face. "Now will you accept my help?" she asked sarcastically while letting her grin grow wider across her face. With a sigh of defeat, the well dressed Joestar nodded his head, before the young prostitute moved right to his side.
Suddenly they saw zombies jumping into the brothel through the windows and even the roof, making debris fall to the ground. The first debris fell on the old man that ran the establishment, who was injured by the zombies that Jojo had slain. The debris landed on the old man, killing him in an instant.
Now at least more than a dozen zombies were inside the hall of the brothel, starting to surround Diana and Jojo. Concern finally reached Jojo's mind, as he couldn't think of a way to take down all these zombies without William, who was still probably ignoring the screams and enjoying himself. The thought of his brother's selfishness made the young man to growl in anger as he felt like he was in a disadvantage.
Suddenly the front entrance opened as if a ghost pushed it open gently. A tall figure with gray skin, a muscular body and fangs sported from his upper jaw, making the Joestar to realize the man was a vampire.
The vampiric leader allowed his long hair of bright brown to flow in the wind as he entered. He didn't wear any shirt but he wore a pair of fansy pants and polished black shoes on his feet. In his hand he held a shirt and a dinner jacket, which confused the Hamon user, since he didn't think of a reason for the undead leader to remove his clothes.
The cold and chilling gaze met Jojo's, which caused fear to flow freely into the body of the young giant of a man, causing his body to shake as if he was in a snowstorm. The sight seemed to please the vampire, as a smirk of arrogance filled his face.
"You're smart, boy." he said with an accent to his English, an accent which was clearly Hungarian. Jojo got lost in thought because of the fear that gripped tightly to his mind, but after several moments he managed to release the fear as he steeled himself for a fight.
The vampire then shifted his gaze to the tall woman next to the young Joestar, with his grin growing wider. "Kill the boy and bring me the girl." he said to his zombies, who all started to run towards the two, making Jojo to steady his breathing to allow Hamon to flow from him and his spectre right next to him on the left.
Diana suddenly took a step foward, which surprised Jojo but most of all scared him. "Diana stop!" he shouted, making the young blonde to turn around and scoff.
"Please Jojo, I got this." she said as she looked at the horde approaching the two, only to snort in annoyance. "Listen well you bloody bastards, you won't touch this divine body." she said as she pushed he chest foward and crossed her arms in a way that the left arm was facing down while the right moved next to her face. Looking from behind her, it looked to Jojo like she was hugging herself.
After a second or two of which she closed her eyes, Diana opened them in a flash as they almost reached her. "[The World]!" she roared at the top of her lungs, making her spectre appear right next to her. It looked like a slime yet slightly muscular woman standing at Diana's height, with gray skin clad in golden equiptment, which Jojo didn't even realize what it was. On its shoulder it had golden watches, while on its knees it had the letter "D" on each kneecap. On its back it had the letter "W" in one big letter.
An instant after the spectre appeared, all of the zombies flew backwards, flying out of the brothel through the walls and windows. Each of them had several dents that were in the size of the specre's fists, as well as a hole in the size of an arm in the middle of their chest. The whole thing shocked Jojo, leaving him confused at what that just occured in front of his eyes.
When all the commotion was over, the young englishman looked at the vampire, who seemed as shocked as he was when the blonde woman allowed he spectre to use its ability, but while Jojo could see the female golden spectre, the vampire could not.
Suddenly a door from the other side of the room opened, revealing a hastily dressed William, much to the young Joestar's happiness. He finally felt a bit safer after Diana got rid of the zombies and his older brother was now coming to kill the vampire alongside him.
"Okay, what the bloody hell is going on here?!" he demanded with an angry voice, only to look and see the hungarian with the gray skin and fangs, making him frown as he took a deep breath, allowing his Hamon energy to flow through him.
The older Joestar then looked at his brother and extended his hand. "Jojo, as the more experienced Hamon user, I will kill this vampire. Protect your little lady and see how it is done." he said in a serious tone as he started running towards the leader of the zombie horde.
The vampire looked at the incoming man and only giggled as a smile of arrogance filled his lips. "You sure you don't want your brother's help?" he asked mockingly, as his messy haired oppenent allowed his right arm to extend in a Zoom Punch, which the vampire easily evaded with his super-human reflexes.
As he retracted his arm back, William Joestar concentrated his Hamon into his knee, which made Jojo excited as he believed in his brother's capabilities. 'Go William! Defeat him!' he cheered mentaly inside his thoughts, knowing that shouting would only destract his older brother.
"Sendo Knee Strike!" the bright brown haired human roared as the knee wrapped in golden energy flew in like a speeding horse towards the chest of the undead. Unfortunately it seemed the vampire managed to block the attack, much to the shock of both Joestar men.
Suddenly it seemed like the pant of the older Hamon user was ripped appart in the area of the knee, revealing the knee as it started to grow purple, making the fighting Joestar to shake slightly from what appeared to be low temperatures.
"Can you fight me alone while you're freezing?" the vampire mocked with a question, making his foe to grit his teeth as he used the foot of his other leg to push away from his undead foe. Joel then saw blood coming from the knee of his older brother, causing concern to fill Jojo's mind. Not allowing himself to let it go, he started running towards the fight that was occuring.
William quickly noticed Jojo's advancement and glared daggers at him. "Jojo, don't come near me! I can handle this!" he shouted, but this left him open for a sluggish yet powerful right hook that crashed into his cheek, sending him flying across the room into a wall.
Jojo could already see the damage that the fist caused his brother as a streak of blood started to trickle from his mouth and his jaw was swollen or maybe even broken. As the older Joestar tried to get up, the vampire had already jumped into the air, falling with great velocity intending to crush his human foe. William acted according to his training and rolled to the side, causing relief to fill Jojo's mind for the moment.
This was short lived, however, as the moment William Joestar got back up, so did his faster opponent, who used his raw strength to smash the Hamon user against the wall, causing the human to spew blood. This again made Jojo run towards the two, but suddenly a man in a red and black colored portal appeared, from which a cloaked figure came out with a buff humanoid with black skin and yellow eyes. Clearly this man had a spectre.
Allowing Shoota Thrill to act quickly, Jojo focused his mind at his spectre, which then sent all ten of its wires in the velocity of a bullet straight at the new clocked figure, but the black humanoid next to it acted quickly and grabbed the wires with ease, much to the shock of Jojo. At that moment the portal also disappeared.
The cloacked figure then turned around and looked at the vampire. "You must come, our targets are near the harbour." he said, his accent revealing him to be american, which surprised Jojo, but it couldn't reach the cloud of concern that he had towards his brother, who was still in danger.
An annoyed snort then came from the vampire, who was holding the older Joestar by the throat, using his super strength so that he couldn't use his Hamon. "Fine. Let's go." he said with annoyance in his voice, and it seemed like he didn't want to go, but it seemed the cloacked figure commanded him.
Suddenly the vampire raised his right hand and with a quick movement pierced Willam's chest, stabbing his heart and killing him instantly. A painful, panicked and furious "NOOOOOOO!" shout came from Jojo as he saw his older brother die. He tried running towards the pair, only for the large black humanoid filled with muscles and with yellow eyes to put pressure on the wires, causing Jojo to wince in pain and surprise.
As he fell to one knee, he saw Diana running as well, her golden spectre flying after her before it charged straight at the burly dark spectre. "MUDA!" the golden female roared with the voice of Diana as it sent a punch towards its foe, who could only block it before blood started to fly from cuts that formed across its hand, making the cloacked figure to react as blood sprayed from his hand, the same one that the spectre was injured.
Seeing this made Jojo realise something that he didn't know before: if the spectre is injured, then its owen will be injured too. The power of The World then sent the cloacked figure flying towards the vampire, who side stepped his ally, allowing him to fly through the wall into the street.
Picking the american up and putting him on his shoulder, the humgarian looked at Jojo with an evil smile before he jumped away on top of the rooftop of a building, leaving the brothel alone.
Running towards the dead body of his brother, Jojo started to cry as he held the dead body that was now soaked with the blood of the dead Joestar. Diana kneeled beside the giant of a man and put a comforting hand on his shoulder, not knowing if she cared or not.
That didn't matter now to Jojo. All he cared about was killing the vampire, and he knew where he was going. A expression that combined righteous fury, determination and the need for revenge filled his face and mind. "Diana, let's go to the harbour!" he yelled, pointing at the direction which the vampire escaped from. He stood up and started running, with the young blonde quickly running after him with a concerned look on her face.
{To Be Continued]
Musical Cue- Roundabout by Yes
Victims of the Joestar Curse:
William Joestar (25)
First of all, I'm surprised it took me less than a month to publish this second chapter, but looking at it I can say that the enthusiasm filled me. I mean, we see Jojo's and Diana's stands in action, which they don't know what stands are becaused they believed to be the only ones to have, so I used the term "Spectre", because that is how Jojo calls them and this chapter was for the most part from Jojo's point of view.
Now speaking of stands:
Jojo's stand: Shoota Thrill
Namesake: Shoot to Thrill be AC/DC
Destructive Power: C
Range: A (20 meters)
Speed: A
Precision: B
Durability: D
Potential Developement: D
Shoota Thrill is made of fire and it can turn its fingers into wires, using them as retractable projectiles or as a whip capable of cutting human limbs from the movement speed of the wires. I made it to fight in a similar way to Walter C. Dornaze from Hellsing.
Diana's Stand: The World (Za Warudo)
Namesake: DIO's The World and Diego's THE WORLD
States: Same as Dio's The World (look it up).
Ability is of course stopping time for 5 seconds. Now when ever she does this I will sometimes spell it as "The World" and other times I'll spell it as "Za Warudo".
R&A:
R: huh, interesting... I'll keep an eye on this.
also, King Crimson distorts probability to reality, in other words, it's a whiny b****.
A: Yes I know King Crimson erases time for a period of 10 seconds. I hate it for being so OP and for "killing" Polnareff. Thanks for geting interested, hopefully this chapter raised your excitement to read this story even more.
R: Interesting start that's for sure.
It definitely has a bit of promise to it if I'm being completely honest. I mean there were a few bumps in the road for it grammatically but story wise there was absolutely nothing wrong. It did everything a first chapter should introduce your main characters, a group of villains for them to fight, and a bit of atmosphere.
I can also say that Joel Joestar may already be my favorite character, though I feel that is kind of the point.
A: Thanks, I sure am glad to see you here, reviewing my Jojo story. Joel Joestar is supposed to be the most likeable of the named characters so far, since Diana is an arrogant bitch thanks to Za Warudo and William was supposed to be an asshole so it would be easier for me to kill him in this chapter. And of course my grammer will be off at points in the story. Your grammer isn't completely perfect all the time in your story, but its okay since it doesn't bother me at all.
R: Interesting start, but the grammar is a bit off in places.
Also, while (obviously) Jonathan Joestar and Dio Brando didn't have "onscreen" siblings or relatives in the original Phantom Blood, there's a good chance that they would have had cousins or something. Which would probably explain Joel and Diana. Unless... It's an AU similar to Steel Ball Run.
A: First of all, thank you for saying it was interesting. Second, yes it is the kind of AU like Steel Ball Run. It takes place in a different universe to that of the original universe and the SBR and Jojolion universe, as Joel Joestar is an alternate counterpart to Jonathan Joestar while Diana Brando is an alternate counterpart of Dio Brando.
Well, this is all for now. See you next chapter. Bye bye.
