Fiery Talk before World Festival
Jotaro is seen in Team JK's room looking out the window seeing the sky is mostly cleared with a few clouds out up there, but Jotaro can't help but feel a little unease knowing a certain woman is still out there plotting something right now.
"(Cinder, where are you?)" Jotaro thought wondered.
"Pennies for your thoughts?" Kim asked up to him.
"Hey Kimi, had a good walk?" Jotaro asked as he turns around to face his first girlfriend.
"It was fabulous, I even stumble upon Professor Goodwitch just when I was coming back Emerald Forest and she was asking me quite some interesting questions." Kimi mentioned Glynda.
"Really now, did she wanted to talk to you about something?" Jotaro asked.
"It was just a report about Cinder and her team not being found yet, even Ironwood's silly robot security team can't find them." Kimi informed.
"I see, Cinder is really trying her best not to be found when the Vytal Festival is literally one day away while still planning something big." Jotaro stated.
"Are you still gonna try to talk some sense into her, Jojo? Because I could offer a helping hand if you want." Kimi held up one hand as she wants to slip that fire bitch silly.
"I'll be sure to let you know." Jotaro chuckled.
"Still, we can't underestimate what Cinder has in store for Vale." Jotaro stated, if she's anything like DIO then this festival is gonna be worse for everyone.
"I think you're thinking about Cinder way too much that you'll end up having sex dream of her for weeks." Kimi teased making Jotaro blush a bit.
"Not as long as you're the one suggesting that into my head." Jotaro rolled his eyes.
"But I do feel you, Cinder is definitely a woman with grand ambitions who would always take any step to get what she wants." Kimi stated.
"Still wish I knew what's going on in that head of hers." Jotaro said.
Even back in Jotaro's old world, there were always people who can outsmart him in many ways to turn his own strength against him like how there was this one Stand enemy who's literally a rat caught him off guard even when using his Time Stop ability to avoid the attack as much as he could.
"We need to be ready for anything." Jotaro advised.
"In the meanwhile, it's time for you to go out and get us some tasty treats for dinner tonight!" Kimi pushed Jotaro out to the door.
"Wait, what?" Jotaro confused.
"Don't you remember, silly? You promise to cook up your own homemade ramen that you made back in your old world and serving our friends some of that too." Kimi reminded him.
Jotaro thought about this for a moment and quickly came to realize that he did make that promise.
"Okay, okay, I'll go shopping." Jotaro said.
"Great, and could you go pick up a sexy fashion magazine as well? It is the fall season and I want to look at the latest styles with Coco!" Kimi requested.
"I'll see what I can do." Jotaro said as he walks away.
"Yare yare daze, the things I do for that woman." Jotaro sighed with a smile.
(City Vale)
Jotaro has gone through a few streets of the Vale city then making his way into the grocery store to get the ingredients to make his homemade ramen, even getting some of the extra good meat for the bowl and noodles here are good too.
"Okay, just need to get the magazine for Kimi and I'll be back to Beacon." Jotaro said to himself.
But while he was about to finish his shopping, there is a feminine figure wearing a light purple cloak with a hood watching Jotaro from a distance with a beautiful amber eye.
Once Jotaro finishes his shopping and left the grocery store, he decided to make a quick detour in another street and walk right into an alleyway where the mysterious feminine follows him in.
But truth be told, Jotaro already knew that he was being watched the moment he was getting the magazine for Kimi with his instincts telling him there is danger close to him.
"Alright, are you done hiding because I'm getting sick and tired of all those walking around and pretending there's no one sneaking up on me." Jotaro called out.
"I was just waiting to see how much you were aware, glad to see you still have sharp instincts." A familiar woman walked up to Jotaro within the alleyway with small flaming ball from her hand.
Jotaro turns around to see what he's been expecting for the past days since the sudden big Grimm invasion in the city, the woman who made that possible with an old train from an abandoned underground city with the White Fang and Roman working for her.
"You certainly got a lot of nerves to show yourself here after what you did the last time you were here, Cinder Fall." Jotaro said with a fierce glare.
"Nice to see you still have that strong fire in those eyes." Cinder smirked, walking up to the tall Joestar boy.
But Cinder immediately stop when a fist-size crater appeared right in front of her feet and she looks up seeing Jotaro has brought out her spirit Semblance, but that didn't surprise Cinder as she knows how powerful he is.
"Not letting me get close to you." Cinder smirked.
"Can't take any chances, not with how dangerous you are." Jotaro glared.
"But even so, you're not going to hurt me too badly because you may never know I just came here to… talk to you." Cinder smiled as she continues walking toward with swaying her hips.
"What about your goons like Mercury and Emerald, are they around as well?" Jotaro asked.
"No, they are staying out one of our hideouts because as I said, I just wanted to talk." Cinder answered.
"Quite the timing with how the Vytal Festival is only tomorrow away." Jotaro stated.
"Just wanted to have a last-minute talk before you make yourself known t the entire world of Remnant." Cinder said.
"Just so you know, whatever it is you're planning, me and my friends are going to stop you." Jotaro stated.
"Yes, you all did quite well with taking care of the Grimms coming into the city, but I'm afraid that was only the icing of the cake. The main show is coming soon, and I'm afraid even you and your friends won't be able to stop it." Cinder believed.
"We won't know unless we try." Jotaro said.
"Then go ahead and try, as much as you like." Cinder smirked with their faces being so close to each other.
"I've gone through a lot of trouble to make this plan a big success and I hate to see it go to waste from one strong man." Cinder walked around him a little.
"All for this dangerous woman who you seem to work for." Jotaro guessed.
"Oh, so you know about Salem then?" Cinder asked, surprise with a small smirk.
"Well, Ozpin did tell us about a dangerous immortal woman, but he never gave us the name. Probably would bring up some bad memories for the old man." Jotaro mentioned.
"Oh, but I bet you don't know that he is keeping some secrets to himself, even from his own soldiers that he's supposed to trust. Don't you find that suspicious?" Cinder asked with a grin.
"Maybe, but Kimi and I thought it would be best to let him keep those secrets until he's ready to tell us himself." Jotaro stated.
Cinder chuckles from hearing that Jotaro is willing to trust Ozpin with a secret that he may never let out until it's too late, though she can also tell that he is serious about trusting the old fool which she is going to prove to him how wrong Ozpin is and hopefully Jotaro would see her right.
"You know, it's not too late to back down. This Vytal Festival maybe the last thing the world will experience." Cinder warned.
"You must really hate the Vytal Festival trying to get it shut down and such." Jotaro said.
"Oh, it's much more than you think." Cinder said as she walked away a few feet and look up at the sky.
"I was one of the unfortunate souls of Remnant, abandoned by her own parents, the orphanage was worse for me because of how the kids would always treat me, and the "family" I was adopted only brought me to become their slave for a fancy hotel in Atlas." Cinder explained with an angry tone.
"But ironically, it was in that same hotel that I was able to discover my Semblance, yet I was denied my right to even learn how to use it properly." Cinder mentioned as she touched a wall with one hand and that spot started to heat up and melt a little.
"Thanks for the heads up when I want to get a handshake from you." Jotaro commented.
"That life gets worse when the so-called "Mother" would torment me with a shock collar for being "unlady-like" every time I messed up. All the shocks made me angrier and angrier that I wanted to kill her." Cinder angered as her eyes glowed of the flaming aura.
Jotaro can understand the anger towards a parent, his dad would always go on his jazz band tour and barely got to see him in which he ended up barely seeing his own daughter with not just because of his marine work but also the secret life of fighting other Stand Users.
But it looks like Cinder has been going through something a little worse than what he thought.
"Then later, there was this Huntsman who always came to the hotel for some rest and I… borrowed his weapon and he soon found me quicker than I expected." Cinder mentioned.
"Was this guy a soldier for Salem?" Jotaro asked.
"No, he had nothing to do with Salem nor anything about what's truly going on in our world. He was just a Huntsman doing his job, and… he was the only person who ever saw something great in me." Cinder held her right arm.
"Instead of being mad at me for taking his weapon, he offered to train me to become a Huntress for Atlas Academy. Me, a worthless girl who had no bright future." Cinder said, a little harsh to herself.
"Sounds like the guy was really putting you on the right path." Jotaro commented.
"Yes, he was trying his best to make me understand what is means to be a Huntress, but he was just a damn naïve man like the other fools." Cinder clutched her fists.
"What about this family you were forced to live with? How did they take it you were going out to become a Huntress?" Jotaro asked, and getting a bad feeling that he is not going to like the answer.
"They didn't know, we kept it a secret because they would never allow me to do anything outside of their damn reach. But when they did find out, that woman and her two daughters tried to punish me again…" Cinder paused for a moment.
She could remember every detail and moment of that night when it happened, how the mother tried to torture her with the shock collar again and then there was Rhodes with a shocked and frightened face when he was looking at her.
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to." Jotaro said, he can tell this feel very sensitive for Cinder.
"…I snapped." Cinder said, and Jotaro's eyes widen upon hearing this and knew that she meant by that.
"I just couldn't take it anymore; I didn't want to be control by that woman anymore and I finally decided to take action with my own hands and killed her. Her and those damn bitches who called her daughters." Cinder revealed.
"And when the Huntsman came in and saw me killed them, he tried to arrest me." Cinder mentioned.
"Huntsmen and Huntresses are sworn to be protectors of the world and he was training you to be that Huntress, to show you that you could've been a better person than this." Jotaro stated.
"How would you know that? He betrayed me after everything we have done together, his faith in me to be something great!" Cinder screamed with her eyes glowing a little brighter and fiercer.
"He trained me to be the best, to get out of the Hell of a life, and I looked up to him like he was the father I never had! And then he decided to throw it all away just because I killed those bitches who deserved it!" Cinder stated as fire was dancing around her body.
"Maybe so, but I doubt I hated you at his final moment. When you killed him, didn't he?" Jotaro asked as he walked over to her.
The dancing flames stop, and Cinder looked a little surprised from what Jotaro just said, this made her remember the final night she had with her former mentor, Rhodes. Despite the two having to fight each other and her having to kill the only man who ever treated her with kindness, he didn't stop caring for her even to the very end when he placed his hand on her head and smile.
"He… He smiled when he died." Cinder looked down and Jotaro pulls her in for a hug.
"Because you gave that guy the more happiness he felt in years, a family he never thought of having. And I'm sure he was proud of you for having to bested him in a fight." Jotaro believed strongly.
"Yeah, that certainly sounds like him." Cinder chuckled with a single tear coming down.
"(Can't believe I got that right.)" Jotaro thought surprised.
"It was sometime after that, I been through years of hardships until I met her, my beloved Dark Queen." Cinder smiled a little scary.
"Ozpin told me about her being immortal and the more I think about it, I'm guessing this woman is somewhat of a ruler for the Grimm." Jotaro commented.
"Oh yes, Salem is fair more than you could ever imagine and seen things that would make you believe they were all nonsense!" Cinder smirked as she looks up at his face.
"I've been through a lot of bizarre things." Jotaro stated.
"Her powers are greater than you can think, and Ozpin has failed to stop her so many times that the battle has become pointless that it's cute for him to even try." Cinder mocked.
"But he kept fighting because he can at least hold her off and never gave up on hope even if he doesn't even have a plan to destroy her completely." Jotaro summoned his Star Platinum with both showing serious expressions.
"And you'd be very surprised of how strong hope can be even in our darkest and weakest moments." Jotaro stated.
Cinder was already having a hard time containing her feelings for Jotaro, but now her heart is racing like crazy, and she could not look away from him either.
So, she decided to have one last thing before going by surprising Jotaro with pulling him down by the collar of his shirt and pressed her lips right onto his, Jotaro is feeling like exploding crazy like fireworks times 20 and he couldn't stop himself from enjoying the kiss and his arms wrapping around her.
"If you survive what's gonna happen next, then you best I'll still like you!" Cinder smirked.
Cinder backs away from Jotaro about ten feet and form a giant pillar of fire for five seconds before it dissipated no longer showing no sign of the flaming woman.
Jotaro is left stun of the sudden kiss from the evil woman and has no idea on how to respond to that. Except for one word.
"Holy Fiery Shit of Hotness!" Jotaro gasped.
(The Next Day, Vytal Festival)
Kimi is looking at herself in a hand mirror to make sure her hair is looking very long and sexy as usual and turn the mirror to look at Jotaro who is looking serious and cracking his knuckles, he even has Star Platinum doing the same.
"The day has finally come for the world to see our greatness!" Kimi smirked.
"Are you girls and gentlemen ready to go kick some asses in Hell?" Kimi asked her friends and fellow lovers.
"Team RWBY is ready for action!" Ruby excitedly as her team gets into their battle stance.
"You better believe Team JNPR is going to give this battle everything we got!" Jaune smirked as his team gets ready.
"Just be on the watch for Cinder, she and her dark team could be anywhere." Jotaro advised.
And so, Jotaro and the others are about to face the biggest challenge of their life in both excitement and fear.
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The Vytal Festival has finally come for Jotaro and Kimi to make themselves known to the world as one of their newest protectors of Remnant, and Cinder made her damn move on the third Joestar Hero with her lips and her past that she may start to come around for him.
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