The school building was intimidating. Modern, overbearing, clean, controlled. Daisy shuddered as she walked into the hallways, still tired after the strange happenings of the previous day, and learning about Stands. One sentence on the website she had found still resonated in her mind, and silently terrified her.
"Stand Users and Stand Users will always attract."
Did that mean she was accepted to the school not for her knowledge, but as a result of fate? Is that why her Stand made itself known now, of all times? Was she the one in control, or was that weird wasp really what held all the power? These questions were buzzing in the back of her mind, but the ruckus quelled after she saw a girl of a similar build to her own being pushed around in the hall by three tough-looking guys and one lean, overly pretty girl. One of the muscleheads spoke up first.
"Oi, nerd! Too busy with your nose stuck in a book to listen to what we have to say now, are ya?" The victim pushed up her glasses, sighing.
"I told you, I don't care if you push me around." Another one of the guys slammed a punch into her torso.
"Well, if pushing doesn't work, we can send you to the hospital then! Ya lame freak!" Daisy gulped. She could use her Stand to fight off the bullies; neither they nor the strange victim would know. She silently summoned Bullet with Butterfly Wings, but had no idea how this insect Stand could attack. She supposed that its stinger would work, but it was so huge and heavy it could cause a lot of damage and she didn't want that to happen. However, when she looked back at the situation the victim was looking at her, and smiling. Could she see her Stand? Did that mean… this poor girl was also a Stand user? If so, why didn't she defend herself with it? The lanky girl spat on the other, chuckling. "Pretentious bitch. You think you're so smart, and so well-controlled. We'll break you one of these days."
The girl once again pushed up her glasses, rolling a plastic ball-bearing out into the hall. "Okay, okay. You keep trying."
The first bully punched her once more. "Shut it!" A moment passed before the victim's ball-bearing suddenly leapt from the floor, slamming into the back of the bully's skull, knocking him out. She smirked, turning to Daisy and gesturing for her to do something to help. Daisy was stunned. That was no Stand power… the ball never stopped spinning even after it stopped covering ground. That was a technique of some sort. The other two bullies fled in fear. They had no idea this wimpy-looking bookworm had that kind of seemingly-psychic ability. The pretty girl - possibly the ringleader of the bullying - was also terrified, and she fled also. Daisy walked over to this girl, and asked her a simple question.
"What kind of Stand do you have? You obviously can see mine, so I want to know yours." The bookworm sighed.
"God, I thought you'd at least ask my name, or if I was okay after two punches to the gut, or something." She chuckled. "You must be the new kid, right? My name is Anna-Rose, and welcome to the New York School for Specialist Children, or as the clued-in like to call it, America Stand School."
Daisy was almost knocked back by that. "Stand School? What do you mean by that?" Anna-Rose smiled politely.
"We'll speak at lunch break about it. You go see the principal and make sure you get to class on time." Daisy nodded, and walked off towards the principal's office. She had plenty of questions for this person.
Stand Name: "Eulogy"
Stand User: Anna-Rose Greene
Power: A
Range: E
Speed: B
Durability: D
Precision: A
Potential: C
Daisy, after a lot of walking around the school grounds, managed to find Anna-Rose sitting in the Physics classroom, eating her lunch and studying. She sat down next to her. "Okay, I need some answers." Anna-Rose nodded.
"Keep your voice down. Since you've decided to side with me, other Stand users won't be too happy. I'm kind of infamous at this school because of my Stand's powers." Daisy sighed.
"What are they, though? Your ball bearing trick wasn't a Stand, I can tell that just by how it moved. Does your Stand work a similar way to that technique?" Anna-Rose nodded.
"Kind of. You see, I've found that Stands develop as a result of an intense passion. People who are accepted into this school are either on the verge of getting a Stand or already have one. Some of the people who come do not have latent Stands, so they never develop and become delinquents, like those muscle-heads who were bullying me. That smart-ass Tiffany though, she has a Stand, but I don't know its power exactly. My power, Eulogy, uses the Spin I just used as self-defence to increase the power of its movements. It has perfectly spherical shapes in joints on its palms and knuckles, and I can spin those with some precise manipulation of movement in order to use Rotation Energy."
"Whoa, whoa, slow down. I just got bombarded with a lot of information all at once, and I don't understand it." Daisy sighed. "I only got a Stand yesterday, I need a little bit of a buffer to understand this "Spin" thing you're talking about without sensory overload."
Anna-Rose nodded, pulling a large steel sphere from her backpack. It began to rotate in her palm, giving off a strange light. "Your face is very well-proportioned. Outside of Stands it's rare to see the Golden Ratio so accurate in a face." She chuckled. "The Spin is a technique rooted in physics, my passion. After I began being bullied at my old middle school for being a bookworm, I studied to see if my knowledge could be applied to fighting. I discovered this old Italian martial art. The Spin, as old as physics itself, a technique that can be used to heal, or to battle. I began to train in learning rotation, in finding the Golden Ratio as a guide for powerful Rotation attacks. As I learned, I developed a powerful Stand to utilise my immense passion for learning the Spin. The reason Tiffany wants me gone is because of Eulogy, and my Spin. The fact that I don't even need my Stand to beat her must infuriate her greatly."
Daisy waited a few moments to make sure Anna-Rose was done speaking. "Sheesh, that's a way better backstory than I have. All my Stand uses is my love of bugs. I mean, did you know that leaf-cutter ants actually have mandibles sharp enough to slice human skin, and if they were even the size of scissors they'd be strong enough to snip through bone? I think that's pretty cool."
Anna-Rose laughed out loud. "Yeah. That is pretty cool. What does your Stand do, then? It looks really scary."
"It lets me change my body to give me bug-like features. For example, I can grow bee wings." Daisy smiled. "Otherwise, I have no clue." The bell that signified the end of lunch rang then. Daisy stood up and curtseyed to Anna-Rose. "Thank you so much for telling me all about that stuff. I'll make sure to be careful from now on." She left the classroom, having completely forgotten to ask what the Golden Ratio was.
