Butterfly Effect
Hello and welcome to my new story! As the summary suggests one change in the past can influence a lot in the future. In this fanfic Will A. Zeppeli didn't die. After watching Jonathan defeat Dio in his castle he returned home, living closely with his son and grandchildren. Mario Zeppeli is alive, a Hamon master on par with Will and a good father to his children. Ceasar isn't bitter and the nicest guy in Italy.
The story starts with Joseph as Zeppeli couldn't possibly have saved Jonathan because he didn't board that ship. Enjoy the long trip you'll take!
I do not own JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Chapter 1: A happy family
Father, son and grandson were waiting for the arrivals. A private plane landed on a rollway in Rome, Italy. Two brits stepped out of it, one young, the other old. They too were family albeit not related by blood.
"It's been a long time Mr. Zeppeli." Speedwagon hugged his acquaintance. Will Anthonio Zeppeli was 100 years old. His constant Hamon training still allowed him to walk although he needed a cane. He took the hug much better than the younger Speedwagon. "Always nice to see you visit Speedwagon."
"You must be Joseph Joestar. Pleased to meet you." Mario extended his hand to the youth. He knew about the young brit but Lisa Lisa instructed him not to talk about certain things. "This right there is my son, Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli."
"Hi! I'm JoJo!" Joseph greeted Caesar the american way. The italian thought he was being brash but decided to keep it to himself. "Nice to meet you, JoJo. I hope we can work well together."
Caesar heard many stories about heroic Jonathan Joestar from his grandfather. His father Mario also told him about a certain woman. Needless to say, he admired that family.
"We have some free time before we have to get to business. I know a nice restaurant, my treat." Will spoke. Lunch was a good way to socialize and learn about people. The very old man certainly was curious about his old friend's grandson.
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Later that day in the evening a Nazi car came to pick up the Hamon users and Speedwagon. They were going to the famous tourist attraction "the mouth of truth". In the car Speedwagon, Will and Mario talked about how they opposed the war that was about to come. Joseph and Caesar talked about women.
The Zeppeli family learned a lot about Joseph that day. While he was brash and childish, at the same time he was the most intelligent and witty person they ever met. Will knew the most, he saw that same heroic spirit of Jonathan in his descendant, although said descendant was no gentleman.
After arriving at "the mouth of truth" the Nazi Mark, a friend of Caesar opened the secret entrance leading to the cave where the Pillar Men were held. As the group descended downwards they noticed the lack of sound and guards. Something was off.
"Ew, I stepped on something really gross, what's that?!" Joseph exclaimed in disgust.
He prompted the others to look at the floor. They were right, something was off. And not just off but really disgusting. The rather sensitive Mark screamed.
About a dozen guards were lying dead on the floor, hand in hand. The most disturbing and disgusting thing about that was the fact that their bodies were all flat. Their muscles, blood and bones were seemingly sucked out of them.
Mario Zeppeli crouched over. He was about to throw up.
"They have been wiped out. Could this mean…" Will was about to say but focused on Joseph as he made a warning gesture.
"Hey german guy! Don't go ever there, there's something hiding!" the Joestar called out, worried about Mark.
Joseph rightfully worried about Mark. Out of the blue 3 extremely tall muscular men wearing skimpy loincloth with accessories appeared, literally walking through the poor helpless Nazi.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Mark screamed in shock. Half of him was absorbed into one of the Pillar Men.
"Mark!" Caesar rushed to his friend's side, holding what was left of him in his arms.
That did it for Mario, remains of squid ink spaghetti shot out of his mouth. His father barely had more self control, sweating profusely. "Not even vampires can do this! What monsters…"
"Ahhh, Caesar! Caesaaaaaaaar!" Mark screamed in agony, shivering in shock. The pain was kicking in. "Caesar, hurry and kill me! I'm starting to feel so much pain… I'm scared! The numb parts are hurting more and more! Please kill me… Caesar!"
"Mark!"
"Poor guy…" Being british Speedwagon naturally wasn't a Nazi sympathiser, though he believed no one deserved to die such a gruesome death. The worst part to him was that his killers didn't acknowledge what just happened.
Joseph felt the same. 'There's nothing we can do! There's nothing we can do to this boy. This helplessness, this inability to go anywhere…" He gritted his teeth.
"Mark!" Feeling pain himself Caesar transferred some Hamon into his dying friend's heart, stopping it. Before the Nazi died a painless death he thanked his friend one last time.
The young Zeppeli picked up a necklace containing a photo of Mark's fiancee the late german was supposed to marry the following week. "Mark was so young… Like normal people he loved his family, he loved his girl, he loved his country. He was just a kid who worked hard!" He took the photo out of the necklace and put it between his teeth. "He was just a young kid!"
Having said his speech Caesar posed, him and Joseph. A man just died but they posed, fabulously.
Despite his fabulous pose Caesar Zeppeli was furious. He'd never felt this much burning anger before. "Everyone, stay back! I'll take care of this!"
"Caesar!" Will and Mario yelled, worrying about their family. "Don't!"
"I have to take care of this… or I won't be able to live!" He made a wide leap towards the Pillar Men who ignored the humans. "You guys, look over here!"
One of them, Wamuu paid attention to the human going after them. Not because he acknowledged the italian as strong but because the italian stepped on his shadow, an action that always flustered the warrior.
"Take this! Special attack… Bubble Launcher!" A flurry of soap bubbles were launched at the ancient creature. Without a sense of danger he touched and popped a bubble. It was imbued with Hamon, as a result his finger was injured.
"This is… It can't be, Hamon?!" Wamuu was genuinely surprised. He'd been under the assumption the Hamon clan had been wiped out.
"You are surrounded by bubbles. Prepare to be blasted!"
A dozen or two whips with hooked ends came out of Wamuu's headpiece. They popped all but one bubble.
"What?!" Caesar was not so confident anymore.
"The Bubble Launcher was defeated! Realizing it was the dangerous Hamon after touching one, he destroyed them all with his superhuman reflexes!" the young Joestar observed, surprised the Pillar Man dealt with the attack so easily. Caesar's Hamon was stronger than his, that fact amplified the surprise.
"He knows about Hamon?!" Speedwagon was frightened. The possible surprise effect they could've used was no longer available.
"So they have survived. The Hamon clan." Wamuu noted, devoid of expression. He destroyed the final bubble with a tiny tornado created by the spinning whips of his headpiece.
"He just…" Caesar realized the danger of this man, sweatdrops forming on his face. "He just didn't touch the bubbles with the wires on his head! The air pressure created by the wires all blasted the bubbles away!"
"Meaning those wires are an anti-Hamon tool." Speedwagon deduced, clenching his teeth. "Those guys understand the ripple completely!"
The Pillar Men turned towards the humans and the air around them distorted. Will and Mario were the first ones to see the dangerous aspect. "Caesar, get back!"
A cut appeared on Caesar's lip. The young man touched his injury, looking at the blood on his fingers. "What's this?"
New cuts appeared all over his face.
"Caesar, close your eyes! That wasn't just normal air pressure, They were small air ripping tornado blasts!" Speedwagon warned, explaining the phenomenon.
If Caesar hadn't listened to the old man's warning he would've been blind. A huge cut appeared on his eyelid. "Aaaaagh!" he shouted, holding his face in pain, falling down.
"Caesar, fall back now!" his father ordered, no longer accepting his son engaging the powerful creatures.
"It's nothing…" The young Zeppeli didn't listen, his pride didn't let him. He got back up rather quickly, opposing the Pillar Men. "My friend was killed! I'm not gonna get down by losing a mere eye!"
For some reason the Pillar Men folded their arms and started snickering.
"You… WHAT'S SO FUNNY?!" Their reaction felt like a humiliation to Caesar who had a noble cause. They were paying him zero respect.
"The Hamon clan always said the same thing. When we crossed the ocean from Mexico 2000 years ago and even now. "I won't get down just for losing an arm or my sight." "You'll pay for killing my friend." That's why we're laughing."
Caesar's eye twitched. "You bastards…"
Once again they paid him no respect, turning around and walking away. Another wall of rage built upwithin the young Zeppeli. "Wait! You're gonna run?!"
Caesar ran after the Pillar Men, intending to strike them with his own hands. Wamuu easily noticed him and figured out his attack pattern. The youngest Pillar Man of the three caught the italian by his throat with two fingers, lifting him two meters off the ground.
"Caesar!" Mario ran after the ancient trio. The father could no longer bear to see his stubborn son's life being endangered by a far superior being.
"Your weakness is your throat or lungs. We already know you can't use Hamon if you can't breathe." Wamuu told the young Zeppeli who couldn't speak as of that moment. "And like the old days, I'll say something… "Kid, next time we meet get stronger before facing Wamuu!" So the second time we meet I can respect your strength as I kill you."
Wamuu let go of him, flinging him at his father who came running to rescue his son. Father and son crashed together. Mario was the more unlucky one, a couple of bones broke upon their impact. "Father!"
Without acknowledging Joseph Joestar the Pillar Men turned away again. "Looks like they're the only ones here. I thought there'd be more but I guess this is it for the Hamon guys…"
"Yeah, let's go."
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"Over here! Look, right here! I'd appreciate if you guys would notice that I'm here." Joseph got the Pillar Men to notice his presence. "I guess it's time to show it. My special attack I've been thinking about for a while now."
"What?!" Caesar didn't expect him to have a special attack.
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Joseph Joestar. I'm the one who took care of your friend Santana." He took out a pair of clackers and began spinning them around. "I call it 'Hamon Clacker Volley', first I flow Hamon into these american clackers, and then…"
Joseph accidently hit himself with his own weapon. "Augh! Nooo!"
"JoJo, what are you doing?! This is no time for toys!" Speedwagon reprimanded his adoptive grandson.
"Don't play around, my friend was just killed!" For the first time Caesar raised his voice at the Joestar, who merely reached downwards and picked his clackers back up.
"I am totally serious! Seeing Caesar's friend getting killed made me sad and mad. That's part of it… But I've always hated arrogant bastards like you!" Joseph proclaimed, glaring at Wamuu. "I still need practise but watch this! The greatness of my Hamon Clacker Volley!"
Suddenly Joseph appeared to have two pairs of clackers. Then three, four, five, ten, twenty. Wamuu saw through it, the afterimages.
"Take this! Hamon Clacker Volley!"
Wamuu barely even dodged, the clackers missed and hit a stone pillar behind him.
Joseph took out new clackers, spinning them again. "Heh, you see the power of my clackers? It hurts to admit but my Hamon is still weak… It didn't work on that bastard Santana, but…" The Joestar stopped spinning them, displaying them to the Pillar Man. "If I rip through your skin with these steel clackers and then flow the Hamon into you, it covers up my weakness. Cool, don't you think?"
Sheepishly rubbing the back of his head, Wamuu belittled him.
"JoJo, stop messing around! All you did was throw some metal balls!" The youngest Zeppeli was far from amused.
'Jonathan, I think your grandson has lost it.' Will thought, sweatdropping.
"Hehehehe! Let's go already…" Esidisi spoke up, getting bored of belittling the human.
"Geez, have humans de-evolved from the past?" Kars was about to leave.
"De-evolved? Hehe, maybe." Wamuu grinned. Not one human he met in the past behaved this clumsily.
Such ridicule was hard for the proud Joestar to take. "Hey, wait up, you! You guys insulting me like that… Turn around or I'll whack you from behind!"
Out of pity the warrior Pillar Men stopped walking. "Stop. A human's life is short. No need to rush to death."
Joseph spun around his clackers with full force again. "Spaghetti Nero also looks bad but tastes great. Why don't you experience the true ability of this attack before you boast?"
From sparing the young Joestar one eye Wamuu fully fixed his gaze on him as all of a sudden the metal balls disappeared from his sight. Speedwagon and the Zeppelis gasped in disbelief, Joseph was trying something interesting.
"The steel ball clackers vanished! Now you see them, now you don't!"
Wamuu curiously stared at the Joestar, wondering what the hell he was doing in general.
"You still don't get it? If you don't get it…" The four pairs of metal balls appeared from behind Joseph's back, approaching the Pillar Man at high speed. "I'll show you!"
"What an excellent attack." the Zeppeli grandfather commented. Like his ancestor that young man was a battle genius.
"He hid the clackers behind his back. And now he's attacking from all directions. Up, down, left, right, there's nowhere to escape!" Speedwagon observed, just like in his younger days.
That attack only made Wamuu decorate his face with a cocky grin. "What the hell are you smiling at? Take this, bastard!" Joseph exclaimed full of irritation, determined to wipe that grin off his face.
The Pillar Man rearranged his body structure, dodging every steel ball coming at him. The creature made movements not even a vampire could. He even dodged the thrown clackers.
"What an impossible body position! Plus the speed he did it at… He's above Santana!" Speedwagon confirmed, afraid of him. Even the much inferior Santana made him afraid.
"Hahaha, I'll give respect to your weapon, guts and idea. This is getting fun, so…" Wamuu pointed his index finger upwards. "One minute! I'll give you one minute to fight against me, Wamuu!"
Suddenly Joseph's right wrist opened up without a warning, blood spraying out of it like a fountain. His acquaintances were worried. "Oi JoJo! What happened?!"
"As you can see, I cut your wrist. The wound even goes down to the vein." the Pillar Man stated. "Basically, if you don't wrap that up and stop the bleeding within a minute, you'll lose consciousness and die. You better come at me with everything you have."
"JoJo!" Speedwagon exclaimed in distress. He couldn't take seeing Joseph in a state close to death like that.
"One minute. Now and then I say the same thing to the Hamon clan. It's not a sand clock battle but a blood clock battle." The way Wamuu expressed things was really morbid.
Meanwhile, his masters were heading the other way. "Wamuu, we'll be waiting outside." Esidisi and Kars truly couldn't be bothered.
"Kid, go pick up your weapon." Wamuu pointed backwards with his thumb.
"Huh, what? What did you just say? Go pick it up? Go pick it up you say?" Joseph held his hand behind his ear, pretending he couldn't hear well. "There's no need! There's no need for me to pick it up!"
The Pillar Man slightly tilted his head. Yet again he had no idea what the human implied.
"The clacker I just threw is spinning while caught on the other one and it comes back!" the Joestar explained, causing Wamuu to understand. He turned his head, saw the returning metal balls, but it was too late. The steel balls imbued with Hamon drew a deep gash into the side of his head, shocking Wamuu.
"Oooooh!" Joseph's friends truly were impressed. The young man was only 18 yet the best strategist they'd seen in their life.
"I call that Clacker Boomerang! The one minute is what's left of your life!" the Joestar proclaimed, seemingly turning the tides of this battle. "The first clacker I threw was to set up the plan. I missed on purpose and stuck it into the pillar. This is modern fighting!"
"Got that?!" having no answer to all of it the Pillar Man was continuously pounded by the human's weapon.
'Impressive! His Hamon isn't strong, but can he still defeat him?' the Zeppelis simultaneously thought, acknowledging Joseph Joestar as a fighter.
"I've destroyed that disrespectful attitude as I wanted! Now I'll blast the Hamon into your wounds!" Joseph declared, preparing to finish off Wamuu.
Wamuu regained his composure, albeit differently. "Fine… Hit me a few more times!" The Pillar Man trembled as he stood. Tears even formed in his eyes. The warrior's pride was hurt. "Nobody has ever wounded my face before… This is the last honor I'll give you before you die!"
His veins swelled up, Wamuu was about to lose it. For a Pillar Man he was rather young, controlling his emotions was more difficult for him than his masters.
Joseph paid absolutely no mind to this. "Shut up, dumbass. No human has ever wounded your face until now? How can you say that…" The Joestar punched the Pillar Man straight in the face, drawing blood from his lips. "WHEN YOU'RE THIS PATHETIC!"
Zeppelis and Speedwagon watched the scene unfold in awe. Even with this little experience the young Joestar had the upper hand in the fight against a superior lifeform. They watched mouth agape as he hit the Pillar Man repeatedly.
"There, there, there, there, there! You killed Mark! You killed him horribly and didn't even notice? That arrogant attitude of yours…" Joseph prepared for a final, extra strong punch. "IS ABOUT TO BE SMASHED!"
Veins popped out again out of Wamuu's tensed arm. Being the most observant Speedwagon immediately realized the danger. "Oh no, something is about to happen! The way the muscles in his arm are tensing up, I don't think he's taking damage! He's hiding an unknown ability!" Speedwagon figured.
Having regained full composure this time Wamuu dodged Joseph's punch. The human managed to really piss him off, the warrior emitted a powerful aura of bloodlust. Joseph himself regretted that. "I'm getting a bad feeling!"
"You have good instincts to jump back. I was letting you punch me as a lesson to myself for getting caught off guard… But that's over!" Wamuu lowly snarled, clenching his teeth. Even his facial veins were as thick as fuck.
The Pillar Man lowered his stance, making weird movements with his arms. "Fighting Technique: Divine Sandstorm!"
"This is bad…" the Joestar uttered, backing away from the monster. Whatever fear he felt against Straits or Santana combined was amplified 100 times.
Wamuu's left arm began spinning clockwise, his right arm counterclockwise. A destructive vacuum formed in the space between his arms.
Joseph feared his life was going to end, so he jumped behind a thick stone pillar. Unfortunately for him the pillar couldn't absorb Wamuu's destructive power. Divine Standstorm ripped through rock, hitting Joseph's entire body. Bloody injuries were caused as the impact blew his body away. The Joestar landed painfully on top of it.
"JoJo!" His friends felt helpless as they cried out his name. They couldn't possibly help him. Not with Will's advanced age, not with Caesar's lack of skill and strategy, not with Mario's own heavy injuries.
"This is the 'Divine Sandstorm'" the Pillar Man explained, calm again. "I had blood in my eye and missed, but even from behind the pillar the damage should have been enough. Has he died…?"
Wamuu ignored the hunky bloodied Joestar and turned to his friends. "I don't care about normal humans, but since you have seen me get embarrassed, I have to finish you off too!"
'Oh crap!' Joseph's friends collectively thought. Their best option was unable to fight any further. It all seemed hopeless.
"Get ready to die." the Pillar Man said, then postponing the execution. He heard a sound and turned around. A certain half dead human was lying a little further away from the spot where he collapsed.
"Must be my imagination." Wamuu tried to reason, turning his head back to the group. He then heard the same sound from behind his back again. Looking behind his back, the human he defeated moved from his spot again. This repeated a couple of times.
'Is he escaping?! My, he's not a gentleman but I expected more from your grandson.' the elder Zeppeli thought, disappointed. He thought he misjudged his friend's descendant.
'He's trying to run away?! How can he leave Mr. Speedwagon alone, that bum! To go as low as playing dead…' Caesar felt that his expectations have been played.
Speedwagon handled Joseph's action a little more coolly. 'JoJo, is running away part of your plan?'
Joseph stood up from the cold ground, having crawled quite a distance. He let himself fall into a mining cart. As the Joestar didn't bother hiding the final part of his plan of course the Pillar Man became aware of it. "Ugh! So you're alive!"
Wamuu made a long jump onto the cart. Like the Zeppelis his expression told about his disappointment. "You thought you could escape from me, Wamuu? You scum, I shouldn't have given you the honor of using Divine Sandstorm!"
Paying no mind to the warrior's lecture the Joestar pulled the cart's switch, forcing it to roll. "Basically I just had to trick you for about 10 meters and make it to the cart. Hehehe!"
"I see, so to let the others escape you acted like you were running to get me to come after you." the Pillar Man figured. He no longer thought of the human as a coward.
Neither did the Zeppelis. Will smirked, glad he didn't misjudge the Joestar after all. Caesar watched the cart roll away in disbelief. 'To risk his life for a bunch of people he's known for less than a whole day…'
"You fell for my plan again!" Joseph smirked while pointing out. That smirk was a facade, in his mind he was desperately trying to think of another plan to save his ass from the bulky warrior. That was no laughing matter.
Wamuu had seen enough. He smirked genuinely, impressed and amused by that creature he'd call food. "You're this beat up and still look at me and say those insulting things. You're a tough guy. You don't have much guts but you're tough." The Pillar Man drew closer, taunting the human. "Why do you act this tough? Is your brain full of shit or do you have another plan to continue fighting me, Wamuu?"
Their faces were inches away. "You wanna know?"
"This 'plan' isn't to hit the brakes on that cart and have it flip over, is it?" Wamuu grinned as he saw through the genius Joestar's plan. He kicked the switch himself, forcibly derailing the cart. He jumped out of it in time.
"Or it couldn't be… to use the thing you just found on the bottom of this cart. To use that lit thing and blow me up, is it?" He referred to the stick of dynamite Joseph hid behind his back.
'Shit! He knew again!' Joseph inwardly cursed, running out of options. That minute he had was about to be over. He couldn't get up again.
Wamuu was perfectly aware of the time. "A minute has passed on the blood clock on your wrist. You've lost too much blood to even stand. The chance of survival is 0%, there's no more plans... So what's with those fearless eyes?" the Pillar Man wanted to know. Psychologically the young Joestar gave him the best fight in his life already.
"You want to know? You really want to know?" Joseph tried to stall. Every second he could use to think was worth more than any amount of money.
"No, that's okay. I'll just kill you now."
'Crap, he's serious!' As his life flashed before his eyes Joseph came up with one last desperate idea.
"In a month, I'd be strong enough to beat you." he claimed, forcing Wamuu to put down the arm he was about to rotate to generate another sandstorm. "What?"
"I said if I had a month, I would become stronger than you." the Joestar repeated, huffing and puffing. "I'm the first man to ever wound your head. With a little work, I'd easily become really strong."
Wamuu wordlessly stared at the human he was about to kill. Said human suddenly changed his attitude. "No, forget what I just said. Hurry up and finish me, I get to be killed by such a strong and great warrior. I'm honored."
"Keep talking." Wamuu ordered.
"Talking is getting tough, just do it painlessly. Kill me painlessly, Wamuu."
"I said keep talking!" the warrior angrily demanded, raising his voice.
This put a smile on Joseph's face. His final mind game worked. "Well, I was just thinking about how you're gonna have to always live your long life thinking about that one human who injured your head. The only way to get over that would be to fight against a properly trained me and win, is what I was thinking."
"What?!" Joseph got under the Pillar Man's skin again, forcing his veins to become thicker. "STOP THE BULLSHIT, ONE CALLED JOJO!"
'I just need to anger him a little bit more. When I tried to run away he became very angry. That means he's the type that places heavy pride in battle. I'm using that to my advantage.'
"Right now, I'm a rookie fighter. If I do serious Hamon training I'll have the talents to surpass you within a month." He placed his index finger near the place where he wounded the ancient warrior. "Since the only one to put a 5 cm cut in your head was a piece of trash like me!"
Wamuu was truly conflicted. He didn't know what to do. That made him even angrier.
"Though, you know… It's probably better for you to kill me before I get stronger." Joseph provoked, giving his opponent a taunting smile.
"You bastard!" Wamuu scowled at him.
The next second Esidisi entered from above. "Wamuu, a minute is up. Why don't you finish him?" the other Pillar Man asked, then curiously eyeing an object.
He picked the object up and ate it. The dynamite stick exploded in his stomach. Esidisi received no damage.
"Master Esidisi, I'm very fond of this Hamon user." Wamuu answered, turning to the Joestar. "One they call JoJo, I'm going to go with your talk. If you say you can get stronger in a month then I'll give you one month of life."
"You're not going to kill me?"
"Correct."
"A rematch?"
"Correct."
"Don't do it, if you don't kill me now you'll regret it." Joseph bluffed. He got nervous when Esidisi came without a warning but managed to secure the situation again.
"Who knows? Well, I'll do something that ensures you don't run away." The Pillar Man pulled out a golden ring. His master knew what he was doing.
"Hehe, Wamuu. You're really gonna do that…"
"I call it the wedding ring of death. I will now place this ring on an artery to your heart." Wamuu casually explained, reaching directly into the Joestar's body.
"What are you doing?!" the human exclaimed in fear, having no control over this process.
"The outer part of the ring begins melting in 33 days. Within the ring is a poison. It cannot be removed by surgery. If you try to remove it, it will break and the poison will be released. The only way to prevent the poison from spreading in your body is to fight me within 33 days and win." Wamuu continued, pointing at his piercing. "And to drink the antidote found in my piercing."
"JoJo!" His friends arrived at the scene and listened to the Pillar Man. They were glad Joseph survived, but the situation he was in wasn't that much better.
"Truly a "till death do us part" wedding ring. I'll be waiting under the coliseum in 33 days at night, JoJo!" the warrior remarked, walking away. His job was done for the moment.
Esidisi too prepared to leave, but the senior Pillar Man also wanted to take part in this. "You probably planned to run away but you planned wrong. You likely won't be fighting me, but I'll give you a present too. I'll place it in your throat."
Just like that Esidisi placed his own ring inside the Joestar's body.
The Pillar Men did no exterior damage to the human's body, the rings still gave him an uneasy feeling. "Uwaah! My heart, my throat!"
"It's a different poison than Wamuu's. The antidote is in my nose piercing." Esidisi explained before looking upwards. "Kars, you want to do it too?"
"Foolish." the third Pillar Man declined bluntly. "I know we're immortal and life is only worthwile with an opponent, I undestand your feelings, but…"
Kars magestically jumped in the air. "But our first objective is to gain the power of the 'Red stone of Aja'… don't forget that, you two! Let's go!"
Wamuu and Esidisi jumped after their leader. "Get stronger JoJo! Defeat my Divine Sandstorm!"
Like that the ancient creatures left. Joseph was safe for now but he couldn't shake that uneasy feeling off his mind. "Oh man, two wedding rings…! What crazy black humor… isn't that overkill?! God damn it!"
As he finished his little rant he collapsed on the spot, glad he managed to save Speedwagon and the Zeppelis.
"JoJo!" Caesar picked him up, carrying the unconscious Joestar who had gained a lot of respect. 'You're amazing! I'll join you in Hamon training, you and I… we'll get stronger together!'
"What a relief." Speedwagon said, crying tears of joy. Joseph survived… for now, but that could change.
Mario and Will looked at each other. "33 days, huh? I guess only Lisa Lisa can whip them into shape."
"It pains me to imagine what my son will have to go through, but you're right." Mario admitted. She was a far stricter Hamon teacher than either of them. She definitely had the ability to improve the two men at the prime of their youth within a month by miles. The battle against the Pillar Men was a fight for the two youths, not old men like him and his father. All they could do was helping with instruction.
Though that would suffice. They trusted the next generation of Joestar and Zeppeli.
Chapter 1 is finished, hope you like it. I don't want to spoil too much but Caesar and Joseph's friendship will be deeper. At the downside Caesar will sadly be much more boring since his nice past made sure his character flaws such as distrust or increased pride don't exist. Regardless I'll try to make the best out of it.
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