Chapter 2: Killer Queen: It- well, he - Came from Ghost Girl's Alley
Murasaki stood in complete and utter shock at the sight of the new Stand. She kept looking from it to her Stand, her mind having a really hard time processing what had just happened in front of her. Meanwhile, the new Stand was still staring at her with an unreadable expression. He began to turn his head to look at the surroundings, which were still thankfully devoid of any people. Then he looked down at his hands, flexing them slightly, almost as if he wasn't quite sure they were his.
Murasaki finally managed to organize her mind enough to analyze the situation. She had to be careful; she didn't know the abilities of this Stand, though it seemed to be very powerful strength-wise just from looks alone, and if she wasn't careful, he may try to harm her. Murasaki slowly took a small step forward, which instantly garnered the attention of the Stand, whose head snapped up to look at her. Mura stopped moving, lifting her hands up in the air in a peaceful gesture.
"Its alright. We're not going to hurt you," Mura said in a slow, soothing voice; she surprised herself with how steady her voice was, considering the fact that she felt she was on the verge of a shaking fit.
The Stand still had his emotionless gaze locked onto her. Then he opened his mouth.
"Who-" He stopped talking, and a brief look of surprise shot through his eyes before disappearing. "-… who are you?" His voice was deep and imposing, making Mura even more uneasy about the whole situation than before.
"My name is Murasaki Fujimoto." Mura did as the Stand asked, hoping it would help pacify him, "And this is my Stand, S. We're not going to hurt you," Mura repeated. "We're your friends."
The Stand blinked once at her with its slitted eyes; it was unsettling to say the least. He finally removed his gaze from her to once again look at the surrounding area. Then, he asked, "Where am I?"
"You're in Morioh, Japan" Mura explained, feeling more relaxed now that the Stand's gaze was off her, enough to put her hands back down at her sides. "This is a shopping district in Morioh, and behind you is an alley called Ghost Girl's Alley, where you came from."
A look of faint recognition passed across the Stand's face once again, along with an equally brief look of what Mura thought might have been fear, before vanishing as before. He looked around for a few more seconds, and then stared again at Mura, His face framed by the sky behind him. This made Mura look up, realizing she should probably go home. But she couldn't leave this situation unresolved, so she looked towards her Stand.
She wasn't quite sure what to say, but a glance at the new Stand and then back to her seemed to tell S everything she needed to know in order to respond to Mura's unvoiced question with a nod. Murasaki smiled at her Stand's understanding, before turning back to the other Stand.
"Hey," she said hesitantly, and the other Stand merely blinked.
"So, I kind of have to go home… and, well, since I think your now bound to my Stand, you kind of have to come with us. We can talk more there," she offered.
For a short while, the other Stand didn't move. Then, slowly, he nodded, to Mura's relief; she wouldn't have wanted to take him with them using force.
S's crystal ball glowed again, and in a few moments, the Stand disappeared in the way her Stand did, as if he were simply fading into the air. Once he was gone, the crystal ball glowed a light pink, before going dormant once more.
Murasaki let out a huge sigh of relief, and now that she was finally able to relax, she turned to S with a huge smile.
"I can't believe it, S!" She exclaimed happily, to which her Stand's circuit markings glowed softly. "You have abilities; that's amazing! I'm so happy for you!" Mura hugged her Stand, and S hugged back, glowing brighter at her user's happiness.
After a few more moments of joyful hugging, Mura pulled away. "Now we really have to go, otherwise Mom's going to worry."
The Stand nodded, and deftly disappeared back into Mura. Once that was done, Mura turned around and started speed walking back to the bus station.
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Mura had taken the bus back to her area, and was currently walking back home, feeling giddy all the while. When she saw her house just up ahead, she raced to the door, took out her house key, and promptly used it to unlock the door. As Mura pushed it open, savory smells taking over the air around her, she let out a greeting to let her parents know she was home.
"Mom, Dad! I'm ho-" Mura stopped short.
In the hallway that led to her house's kitchen and living room, she saw two people standing, talking to each other. The one facing in her direction was her dad, who was wearing a simple green shirt with dark jeans, his graying hair matching his grey eyes. The person whose back was to her turned around, revealing a light skinned man in his mid-thirties, wearing a designer black jacket with yellow accessories over a purple undershirt and black pants, along with designer black shoes. What was most defining about this man was his hairstyle; black hair with blue shades in a prominent pompadour.
The two had turned to Mura as she had entered, with both giving her warm smiles.
"Welcome back, Mura! And just in time, too; look who decided to drop by!" Murasaki's father said to her, placing a hand on Josuke Higashikata's shoulder.
"It's good to see you again, Mura," Josuke said, whose face was the epitome of friendliness. "It's certainly been awhile."
Mura was becoming increasingly nervous internally. She was dealing with something pretty significant, and as much as she loved the uncle-like figure she found in Mr. Higashikata, or Uncle Josuke as she called him, who had become friends with her father in his later years, she had to deal with said significant situation before anything else. Though, she did plan on telling her parents once everything had been settled with the new Stand. She just had to get to her room…
Mura smiled happily at Uncle Josuke, lifting her hand up to give him a quick high five. "Hey, Uncle Josuke! Yeah, it has been awhile! I've missed you, buuuuuuut-" Mura began walking past both of them, also giving her dad a high five as she headed to the stairs, "-you see, I just remembered that I have a bit of homework to do, so I'm just going to do that and see you at dinner!" Then, before anyone could stop her, she raced the rest of the way upstairs, turned right, and dashed into her room, closing the door behind her.
Though the door, she could hear them start laughing for a few seconds, before they resumed talking. Their voices faded away, as they most likely headed into the living room of the house. Mura breathed a sigh of relief, and mentally patted herself on the back at her flawless escape. Then laughed at herself for thinking that.
Mura closed her eyes, summoning her Stand, then opened them.
Mura could see S next to her, along with the rest of her room. It was a medium-sized room, with a small window next to her bed, which was in the middle of that wall. Beside it was a white nightstand with a lamp, a few knickknacks and a couple of books. On the wall facing the door was her tall bookshelf, and next to it was a small white desk with other random stuff on it, as well as a glass container on it, but she'd get to that later. On the wall next to the door was her closet. The walls of her room were a lilac color, with different parts covered in wall scrolls and posters from the things she liked.
Mura moved away from her door and sat down on the white comforter atop her bed, with S hovering after her. Mura looked at her Stand, and asked, "So… can you make that other Stand appear again? Please and thank you."
S nodded, and let go of her crystal ball, which hovered and started glowing again, this time a light pink. In a surge of dark and purple energy, the pink Stand from before materialized once again.
His slit eyes roamed the inside of her room for a few moments, then came to rest on Mura. Mura smiled at him, both to reassure him and because she no longer felt he was a threat.
"So," Mura began, "… Hi. Do you have a name?"
The Stand seemed to think for a second (though she couldn't really tell) before answering with, "Killer Queen. I believe my name is Killer Queen."
"Your named after that one song by Queen? That's pretty cool," Mura said, happy that she now had something to call the Stand other than "the Stand". She was curious as to why Killer Queen had said it as if he didn't really know, but she'd ask him about it later.
"Thank you, Miss Fujimoto. I appreciate your apparent admiration of my name," Killer Queen said.
Mura waved her hand. "Oh, you don't have to call me Miss Fujimoto! My friends and family call me Mura, and since you're my new friend I'm fine with you calling me that."
Killer Queen's eyes glinted momentarily with confusion at the term "friend", but it vanished as soon as it came. "I thank you for allowing me to call you by a nickname," Killer Queen continued, "but I find I am more comfortable referring to you as Miss Fujimoto. I hope you are fine with that, and if not, forgive me." He bowed his head as he finished speaking.
"Of course I'm fine with that! You don't have to be sorry!" Mura said hurriedly, "Whatever makes you comfortable, I'm happy to accommodate."
Killer Queen looked up, making Mura relieved; she didn't want to see her new friend being like that towards her. It just didn't sit right with her. Moving past that, Mura continued with her inquiry.
"By any chance, do you know what your ability is?" Mura inquired.
Killer Queen shook his head. "I'm afraid I do not know."
"Ah, its fine. Before now, I didn't even know S had any abilities," Mura said, gesturing to the Stand next to her, who nodded.
"Speaking of which, S, we have got to give you a proper name!" Mura said cheerfully. S glowed slightly at the prospect.
"Hmm, what to name you, though…" Mura thought for a bit, looking out her window. Which was when she realized that, in comparison, her room was quite dark. When she had rushed into her room, she had forgotten to turn on her light. She was about to get up to do so, then she stopped herself. An idea formed in her head, and she decided to go with it.
"Hey, Killer Queen," Murasaki began, "Do you think you could turn the light on, please? It may trigger something in you about what your ability is."
Killer Queen nodded slowly and turned to the light switch; Mura swore she heard him quietly repeat, "trigger" to himself.
Killer Queen floated up to the light switch and made to flip it up. As soon as he touched it, however, he jumped back slightly, as if startled. Mura tilted her head as the Stand turned back to her.
"Miss Fujimoto," Killer Queen began, "I think I know what my ability can do."
"Really?" Mura sat up, excited. "Well, show it!"
Killer Queen paused for a moment, then nodded slowly and turned back to the switch. Mura watched in anticipation as he… held up a thumbs up? Mura continued watching as he pressed his thumb down.
A boom resounded through the house, and reverberated through the walls, as half of the wall the switch had been on now lay in a heap of rubble.
Mura's jaw dropped open at the wreckage. S looked on worriedly, while Killer Queen turned back to Mura with an emotionless face.
"Wh-what did you just-" Mura stammered out. "What did you just do?!"
"I blew up half of your wall," Killer Queen explained the obvious, "That is what my ability is; anything I touch turns into a bomb that I can set off."
"B-but you don't just do that!" Mura exclaimed in a panicked voice.
Killer Queen now definitely seemed confused. "But you ordered me to."
"Well, if I had known you could do that, I wouldn't have!" Murasaki continued, still very much in a panicked state as she wondered what her parents would think. And the cost of the repairs. "And I didn't order you! I asked you to, and not even that really! And if you knew what it could do, then why would you do it?!"
"Because you told me to show you," Killer Queen said. He said it very politely and it seemed to Mura that he thought he hadn't done anything wrong. Mura was freaking out so much, she didn't notice someone standing in her doorway until they shouted, "Crazy Diamond!"
Mura looked up in surprise and watched in amazement as the rubble began to glow a flaming yellow color. Then, as if someone had pushed the rewind button, the pieces of wall began to move back to their original position. In a matter of seconds, the wall was completely back to normal, as if nothing had ever happened to it in the first place.
The figure standing in the doorway stepped in, and it was none other than Uncle Josuke. Hovering behind him was a bubblegum pink, muscular humanoid Stand with a light blue helmet and armor plates all over its body, along with heart shaped pieces of armor on its helmet, chin, shoulders, middle of its chest, belt, and knees. Spikes adorned the hearts on its shoulders, and black cables joined the back of the Stand's head and its upper back. Both the Stand, which Uncle Josuke had referred to as Crazy Diamond, and Uncle Josuke himself wore an unreadable expression, which was a first for Mura to see; she usually always saw him with a smile on his face. Mura looked to where Uncle Josuke was looking to see he was glaring into the eyes of Killer Queen, whose face flashed with recognition before disappearing to be replaced with a grim expression.
"It seems we meet again," Uncle Josuke said in a low voice, "… Killer Queen."
Murasaki's mind was in shambles as she tried to wrap her head around what had just happened and was happening. Uncle Josuke knew Killer Queen? His Stand had the apparent ability to fix things? But, most important and shocking of all, which was what Mura blurted out next…
"You have a Stand?!"
Killer Queen
Reference: Killer Queen, by Queen
Ability: Bomb Transmutation
Parameters:
Destructive Power: A Speed: B Range: D
Durability/Staying: B Precision: B Developmental Learning/Potential: A
Crazy Diamond
Reference: Shine on You Crazy Diamond, by Pink Floyd
Ability: Restoration
Parameters:
Destructive Power: A Speed: A Range: D
Durability/Staying: B Precision: B Developmental Learning/Potential: C
And that is all for today, folks! Killer Queen has finally been properly introduced and is going to be an ally of Mura's on her future endeavors. And, one of the JoJos appeared! Josuke will be helping Mura from time to time, but as stated before, he and the other JoJos aren't going to be main characters. Well, sometimes they will join Mura on her adventures, but that will be for later… ^_^
Thank you for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day! ^_^ Criticism is welcome, but flames will be blown up by Killer Queen. Peace! (:-)
-LunaRose2468