I slammed the door shut and locked it behind me so no one can bother me. I began to look underneath my bed for my duffle bag. Once it was found and was now on my bed. With a deep breath, I took of my shoes, vest, shirt with my tie, and my hat so I was almost naked at that point. I unzipped my bag and began to dig for THEM.

My combat gear.

See, unlike my everyday cloths that I wear, my combat gear was made of materials that can absorbed the Hamon far more effective. Thus, making the user to have much more power when using it. I was planning on using them in the fights coming up, but plans had change and I need it. I took a deep breath to steady myself so I may understand what I was about to do, and started to get redressed.

I began by donning a white tee shirt that was covered by small black outlines of stars all over and one big one on my belly button. It was weird, but I get some sort of pride from it.(This is my family's symbol after all)I then began to put on my gray combat boots, these boots went up to my knees with steel shin guards and tips, there also light enough to move around with ease. Then it on to the shoulder pads, there dark white with a black outline of a star on them and are curved to fit my shoulders and are long enough to cover mostly my upper arms. And last but not least, my gantlets. There where smooth and white with the same star pattern on my shoulders pads, they also covered my knuckles. If I had these on when I punched Cardin well, it will be a whole different story. With all of this one, I grabbed Luck and Pluck and fixed the leather strap so the sword was on my back.

I was ready.

I was out the door and made a B line for the dorm exit. "JoJo!" I heard Owl yelled behind me. He must have ran the whole way here, he was always the fastest of are team. He ran right past me was now standing in my way with his arms outstretched to block me further. "Now... JoJo..." he said patting from the long run. "Get out of my way, Owl." I told him in a low voice. I had no time or mood to be nice. Owl maybe a good fighter, but he snowball in hell of a chance to stop me. "Just let... talk OK..?" He panted less and less until he got his second wind. I crossed my arms in waiting for him to speak. "OK now," Owl started "I know you JoJo, and I understand why." "Then move aside." I told him impatiently as I pushed him out of my way. "You like Velvet don't you?" He asked me calmly. I stopped as he said that. I turned to see what he was going on about. "You like her, but not as a friend." "And what make you-" I was asking but he cut me off "Because the way you look and talk to her. Its no secret that me and the others know you have a 'thing' for Velvet." I made a small noise under my breath has he said that. I made a small laugh as I looked at the floor. "Can you blame me?" I said to Owl. He made a confused sound as I continue when I lifted my head "Before we got here she had nothing. No team, no friends, no one she can run to comfort her or even..." I can't even finished the last part. I was planning to enter the tournament, head home and be on my way. But that was before I met her. now the thought of leaving her alone was almost like a nightmare for me and Velvet.

"OK I get lover boy," Owl clapped his hands and walked pass me "So what are we doing?" He said. "Wait a sec, 'WE?'" I asked him. All he did was gave me a sly grin.

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"Alright!" Owl said as we rode on his bike "We'll meet you there Mr. Speedwagon sir. bye!" He said and pushed a button on ear phone. We was on are way to the docks to meet Robert Speedwagon about a plan to get the girls back which got me nervous, we rarely let him make plans for good reasons. But he pointed out that hurting every man with a black suit was not a good idea so his was better then nothing. And now here I am on the back of a sports motorcycle that was being driven by a kid. This is a bad sitcom waiting to happen. "WHY AM I-" "Because its MY bike JoJo that's why!" He hollered at me without looking away from the road. Figures, he never let anyone drive Valéry. We both kept silent for the rest of the trip.

five minuets later we are at the docks where Mr. Speedwagon was making the arrangements on getting the dust ready for Roman. "You realize that your brother will kill BOTH us?" I warn him. I've seen his wrath before and have no intention of being apart of THAT. "Why did you think I didn't tell him?" Owl said with no problem. Dear god, this boy lost his mind. "Maybe he choked you out too many times." I stated to him. We walked a small distends before we met up with guards. Owl told them that Robert was expecting us and began to lead us to him. Now being the CEO means that you get to have protection, and Mr. Speedwagon got himself a small army that are armed to the teeth as we walked. I'm beginning to see why Owl needed his help to pull this off.

"THEN CARRY IT IF YOU HAVE TO!" We heard someone yelled at one worker inside a tent to which we was headed. He had his back turned to us but we can see that the guy that yelled was around 6'0" with long blond hair with a dark green suit. "Mr. Speedwagon sir!" Owl yelled to him. He turned to see who called him and spotted us. The man now named Speedwagon had a face that was a mix of shock and worry. He also had this massive scar going across his face. "Hey there Mr. Speedwagon." I said nervously. The man just heard that his daughter was being held captive so I have no idea how to greet him. "JOJO!? OWL!?" Robert Yelled in shock of seeing us. "I'll ask how was your day, but I think that's a bad move on my part." Owl said casually. "Oh, how can one say that with such ease!?" Mr. Speedwagon said over dramatically. Mr. Speedwagon can be over dramatic during bad times, Jenny said he claims to have a sixth sense to danger. But to be fair, knowing that your daughter is being held for ransom by a violent crime lord can set any man into a hysteria.

"My little girl is about to be killed by a killer! Oh I sense I that she and the others with her will finally meet there maker and I don't have enough dust! WHAT KIND OF A FATHER AM I?!" The CEO yelled to himself for being a failure as a dad. Owl slapped Mr. Speedwagon and yelled "Calm down!" He then pushed him to a nearby box, forcing him to sit down. "Now why do you think me and JoJo are here?" he asked him. I began to lean against a box to see what was Owl's plan was. "You want to see her don't you?" Owl questioned him. "What fool do you take me for." He asked Owl. He placed his hands on Mr. Speedwagon's shoulders and looked him in the eye. "Then listen to this." Owl said with a sly smile and began to tell him his plan

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I pulled out my pocked watch to check the time as the convoy flew. 11:50pm, We're right on time. "I'm truly sorry about all this, More so to you Mrs. Speedwagon." I told her. With the tape on her mouth, all she can do was glare daggers at me. The other girls had mix expressions as they looked at me. The red head kept looking out the plane window, the orange head must have seen me as a target on my back, and the Faunus had a fear in her eyes. Not surprising, mostly everyone may do that.

"We're here, sir." the pilot yelled over to me. Lets hope this will go smoothly. The following days of finding the mask haven't been kind to me, while the book told me how to find the bloody thing, but trying to awaken its power is becoming a new challenging task. I can only hope that the dust we get here can make that mask work, otherwise we just killed hundreds monks for a fifty thousand year old paper weight.

And that will be the day I'll lose my cool.

We landed in the docks like we said we would in are message to the father. I can see from here that Mr. Speedwagon was standing with two men with full auto weapons. I was not worried. I have far more guns then he does and I got my trump cards at arms reach. "Get out." I commanded the girls as I got out before them. Reluctant at first, but all of them got out with a good number of my men coming from both side of the girls. With them in place, we went on and meet The head of the Speedwagon foundation.

"Ah, Mr. Speedwagon! Nice weather we're having" I greeted him, but he kept a cool head and a sturdy face. "Let them go!" He said angrily after see his girl all tied up and such. "First things first," I pointed my cane at her which made him flinched "The dust if you please." I told him. With his heated gaze, he jester us to follow him.

He lead us to the back of one of the warehouses here. We then came to a large gate that was locked up that one of the bodyguards unlocked for us. Once we walked pass the gate I was almost drooling. Nothing but a sea of boxes that I can tell was dust. And it was all for me. with the other girls and my men to the center of the yard, it almost felt like swimming in the stuff if we all broke them all. "There, you happy now?" Mr. Speedwagon yelled at me. "Just wait one moment." I told him. I raised my cane overhead and took a good smack at the wooded box, making it break on impact... And I nearly screamed.

"Is this your idea of a JOKE?!" I yelled at him. It was empty! I smashed another box to see the same thing. When I looked at him for answers my blood ran cold.

He was smiling.

"Of course not, NYO HO HO~" I heard someone behind me. I whipped around to see that the box lid lifted slightly to see someone's eyes. "To quote a good line from a good movie..." he didn't finished.

"ITS A TRAP!"

Someone else yelled from behind me as one of the boxes exploded. As soon as I turned around once more I felt what I can describe was a mini train ran right into my right cheek. The force was so great that it sent me flying a good two feet or more across the yard in the air. I skidded to a stop and see who or WHAT that hit me. The slugger was a large young man with a long sword on his back. The box that had the eyes popped open and a small boy jumped out behind him and threw something at the two guards that send them flying back like I had.

"Roman Torchwick," the big man said to me with eyes full of evil grin on his face "You and I need to 'talk'"