Jonathan had been training for a whole week, (y/n) decided to follow him and Zeppeli around after Jonathan had made Zeppeli promise to not hurt the child. The little girl watched her brother train and helped him by being another weight on him or finding objects to train with. Otherwise, she would be napping in the tree above the waterfall where they were training at. Baron Zeppeli decided to tell Jonathan and (y/n) why he was hunting the mask. It was when he was young and had a thirst for adventure into the vast unknown. He was part of his father's archeological team. He pointed to the child, "I found her deep inside a temple. She stood out among the other statues from how strikingly alive she looked and that she was the only one to be laid out in a place of honor with jewels on her. My misfortune started there when I found you and decided to take you from that temple." "Still not my fault, like I said before, human curiosity.," the girl said and rested her chin in her palm, "I did not ask you to take me from my resting place."
Will Zeppeli made a sound that was a mix of a groan and a sigh as the girl hugged her brother's muscular arm. He went back to his story. One of the men on the boat found that the mask she was holding fell out of her hands. The man put it on and became a vampire. The former human began to attack and kill everyone aboard, Will survived after jumping ship and the sun vaporized the vampire. The vampire was Will's father! The little girl looked down to her hands. "The ship drifted along, with her and the mask still on board. I was filled with dread on the thought that the mask's power would be unleashed again.," the mustached man said and looked at the little girl from the corner of his eye, "I knew I had to find a way to stop it, that is what led me to hamon. It is the energy from one's own blood. The mask drains energy from the blood of others. They are the two sides of the same coin, the same energy!" (Y/n) let go of her brother's arm, Jonathan was learning hamon and she was afraid that it would hurt her sooner or later. She returned to her spot in the trees to watch as she pulled the doll that Jonathan bought for her from her bag. She heard a clatter and saw two rings fall onto the rocks below. The girl jumped down from the tree and picked the rings up. They had tribal like patterns on them. The child picked them up and smelled them. She gagged, they smelled of strong toxic poisons. Why did she have these? What use did she have of poison?
She girl placed the rings back into her belt purses. She pulled out the picture she kept with her. It was a picture that she took with George and her brothers. She and George were on a chair with Jonathan and Dio behind them. (Y/n) longed for those peaceful times again. She longed for the times she saw glimpses of, a warrior carrying her, nighttime exploration, snuggling in the arms of a man that held her protectively. Just who were these warriors that she saw in those glimpses? Why could she not recognize them or their faces? She heard the annoying laugh of Will A. Zeppeli, the little girl groaned. She would have to deal with him as Jonathan trained. But, she should train too. She wanted to be strong for her brother. The girl looked to the men that were in the water and walked over to them. Looked like they were training again. She sat on a rock and watched them. Her warrior guardians would be so upset at seeing hamon warriors so close to her. The little girl chuckled while Jonathan looked back at her, "(y/n), I wanted to ask you something," the blueish haired young man said to his sister, "You know about hamon?" "Yes. I was reminded after Baron Zeppeli announced he wanted to kill me.," The girl replied, "A long time ago, Tribes of Hamon warriors existed. I do not remember why, but they wanted to kill me. I was hidden by the Warriors tasked to protect me, I was laid to rest in that temple to be kept safe. The mask was left with me for some reason I do not remember. It has been almost two thousand years, after all."
(Y/n) sighed, "I sometimes get glimpses into the past, my past. From what I can see and remember, I am indeed some sort of high born person." The plum haired girl watched as her brother walked closer to her and knelt down to talk to her, "You may have had trouble with people trying to kill you in the past, But I promise that nothing will happen to you now." The girl looked back to Will Zeppeli, Jonathan did the same and the man begrudgingly nodded in agreement. (Y/n) set her hand into her palm, "I will not eat him then. But, you should get back to training, we need you at full strength if you are to fight Dio." "You will not eat people.," Jonathan said, "I can forgive animals, just as long as they are old and dying already." "I was joking. I will keep eating the sick and weak animals of the countryside.," the girl replied. Jonathan stood and returned to the river to continue training. The plum haired girl played with her doll as Jonathan was trained by Zeppeli. She felt a familiar energy and looked over to see Robert E.O. Speedwagon running up. Speedwagon seemed a little out of breath as he ran up, "Jonathan! (Y/n)!" "Speedwagon!," Jonathan said as he got up from the river. The blond man stopped and panted, "Please, come with me to Wind Knight's Lot." The girl got up and walked to the blond man while holding her doll, she took the hand of the kind blond man.
Speedwagon smiled down at the girl quickly before leading the men to an awaiting carriage. The girl sat with Speedwagon while Zeppeli and Jonathan sat across from them. "We're going to Wind Knight's Lot?," Jonathan asked. Speedwagon nodded an affirmative, "That's right, I have confirmed a man like Dio is there. Many people have gone missing recently." "We have no time then. Jojo, your final test will be combat.," Will spoke to the blue eyed man next to him. "Yes sir! I am ready to do battle!," Jonathan replied eagerly. (Y/n) felt her hunger grow. The small animals she usually ate were beginning to not be filling. She needed something with more mass, like that deer she first ate. "I am ready to fight as well!," Speedwagon said. (Y/n) looked up and smiled with her teeth showing, "I will assist as well, my hunger is calling for vampires." She saw chills run down the two in front of her before she went back to acting like a little girl again and played with her doll. The men all shook off what they saw, yet another chilling reminder that she was not a human. Speedwagon silently counted his blessings that she was not with Dio.
The group finally made it to Wind Knight's lot. Jonathan made a vow to return to Erina. The carriage stopped and Speedwagon went to investigate. (Y/n) followed as she felt energy around them. The sight was gruesome and made Speedwagon yell in terror. The horses and coachman were dead. One horse's head was stuck on the coachman's body. She still felt the energy around as Jonathan and Zeppeli came out to see as well. "Where? Where is he? Is this Dio's doing?," Jonathan asked. "No. It is another. Stay away from the corpses, the man or shall I say vampire, is hiding in them.," the girl said and stepped back. She made herself ready to strike if the vampire came after her or Speedwagon. The vampire threw the carriage they were in to block the exit. He was howling in madness of his new power and freedom to practice his depravity. The plum haired girl sighed, "Foul excuse for a servant. Our dear brother has wretched taste."
The vampire did not seem to take kindly to what the little girl said and charged forward, only to be knocked back by a hamon filled kick from Zeppeli. The man disappeared as Zeppeli poured a glass of wine and handed it to Jonathan, "In Norway, there is a saying that vikings are born from the north wind. Spill a single drop of that and even if you destroy that zombie, I will abandon you." Speedwagon spoke exactly what (y/n) was thinking, "Have you gone insane? Listen to yourself!" "You stay out of this!," Zeppeli snapped back as the little girl looked between then and walked forward. She was not going to be caught up in this argument. She was hungry. She could feel what her brother was doing in the labyrinth under the tunnel thanks to her sensitive horn.
The girl walked out if the tunnel into the daylight and stretched under the warm sun. She took a deep breath and let it out. It was a beautiful day, but there was a bastard nearby. Wind Knight's Lot was very pretty. A mountain valley village. (Y/n) did enjoy mountains. She gazed around, the architecture told her the town was medieval in origin. It actually felt nice to be in an area such as this. She smiled slightly and turned back to the tunnel as she heard the men catching up to her. Her brother had some lacerations on his arm, but he seemed to be stronger than before. The girl walked forward and admired the beautiful farmlands and the farmers hard at work. They were unaware of the evil lurking nearby. She heard a yelp and turned back to see Zeppeli and a doubled over Speedwagon. The girl just shook her head, "Zeppeli. He does not have the same hamon talents you and Jonathan have." The girl looked over as she felt someone watching them while the men talked about why Zeppeli struck Speedwagon. A small body flew by and grabbed the bag Speedwagon had with him. The bag that has their supplies and money in it.
It was a boy. He seemed to be a farmboy. (Y/n) looked back at them and then back at the human boy climbing the rocks on the other side of the river. The girl took a small running start and jumped over the river entirely before jumping up to the cliff the boy was climbing to and sat down to watch the child climb. "Human, you're not going to get far.," She said as she watched the child climb. He did not seem to respond. Something was wrong. The plum haired girl leaned over the edge to look at the boy and saw his eyes were unfocused and dull. He was not in control of his own body.
(Y/n) looked down to Jonathan and Will below her, Jonathan was motioning for her to move. The girl did and he hit the rocks to make the boy fall. The girl looked around, "Hey. I think we're in a trap." The boy had been hypnotized and had led them into a graveyard. The sun was setting as well, allowing the zombies in the graveyard to rise en mass of need be. Two pairs of arms grabbed the legs of Jonathan and Will to immobilize them. The little girl jumped from the cliff she was standing on to a rock pillar to watch everything and judge when she was needed. She looked down at her companions and saw Speedwagon looked horrified.
A familiar, almost sickeningly sweet and musky scent hit her nose. She looked to the tall rock pillar behind her. There, standing on the tallest pillar, was Dio. He had completely healed from his previous encounter with Jonathan and seemed to have donned a new look and new identity as a vampire. His voice rang out through the clear night air, "The sun is gone. Time for your lives to go with it." The girl looked down to see the zombies and corpses of fallen warriors rising from their graves. If only she knew how to override the commands given to them by Dio. The girl watched as her beloved brother Jonathan fought off zombie knights that were made by her other brother, Dio. Jonathan had the formerly hypnotized boy clinging to him as he fought the monsters.
(Y/n) saw a pair of zombies pouncing towards him from behind, she jumped down from her perch to kick them. Her leg went right through them, cutting the monsters in half. She found she could swipe them with her hand and the placed on their heads she touched disappeared. She crushed the zombies with her own fists after that. Her skin and clothes were oddly clean. She looked down to see zombie flesh melding into her own. Her body was eating these things she was touching, not just sucking the blood and body fluids like before. Her red eyes looked back up to the perch Dio was on as Zeppeli picked a fight with him.
"Hmph. You are a cocky one for an insect. (Y/n) and I are the pinnacle of life. I will create the future.," the blond vampire spoke, "I am incapable of sinking down to a human level now." The aura that Dio made was terrible and immense. Pure malice and vileness. The little girl shuddered at it. But, she would not let that stop her as she had to fix this and help them defeat Dio. The little girl jumped back up to the rock pillar she was on before and let out a hiss to her brother. The vampire seemed quite amused at his sister. He pulled his top up to show a large scar, "This is the scar that is yet to heal after my fight with Jojo." Dio seemed really confident in his abilities. His grin was wicked as he beckoned Will to fight him, "Come, conjurer! Let your blood salve this wound!" Baron Zeppeli looked angered at the vampire before him, "How many lives have you taken in order to heal your wounds?" "How many loaves of bread have you eaten in your life?," Dio asked in a smooth tone. He had killed many in order to heal. This made the two Hamon warriors angered. Jonathan started to go to fight his brother, Baron Zeppeli raised his hand to stop him. Dio cut his eyes to the little girl on the adjacent rock pillar, her red ones were staring back at his. He could tell she was going through every option she knew of. He had been around her long enough to see through her.
Will Zeppeli jumped up to where the vampire was and attacked, Dio caught his fist and froze the blood in Will's arm. Both the vampire and the hamon warrior threw fists again. Jonathan jumped up and placed his hand between the two fists, giving extra hamon to fight Dio with. However, this made him wide open to be attacked. Baron Zeppeli put a kick out that was blocked by Dio, the man's leg was broken by the vampire.
A sudden movement behind them made Dio look back in time to see the silhouette of the ancient girl. In the moonlight, her eyes seemed to shine with an unearthly light. Frozen skin was torn away as the girl kicked Dio, making him fly back into another pillar of rock. The two warriors fell from the impact as well. The warriors landed safely, injured from the frozen limbs they had. The vampire pulled himself from the rocks and stood tall again, "I'd thought you would want to be around those more like you, dear sister." "Don't patronize me, vampire.," the girl shot back, "You may have expanded your lifespan and gained new power, but you have thrown away your soul to do so. We are not the same." Dio scoffed slightly, "You'll see soon. All of this huffing and puffing from those humans mean nothing. They should be blowing my fanfare. Tarukus! Black knight Blueford! Make them scream a fanfare for me!"
The earth below Jonathan rose, under him were two zombies much different than the others. (Y/n) could sense that they were actual threats compared to the ones before. These had intelligence and a spark of their former life. "Former knights that have served Mary Stuart, I leave the extermination of these pests to you.," Dio spoke as the zombies attacked Jonathan, "(y/n), I really must thank you for gifting me this power." The little girl disregarded the vampire as she looked down at the two zombies fighting with Jonathan. "That is Tarukus and Blueford. Their loyalty to their lady and their fighting prowess was unmatched when they were alive.," the little girl said, "Dio! Why did you disturb their rest?!" "I wanted warriors that would suit me, these two sent shivers down my spine when we read about them.," Dio chuckled, "So I dug them up and brought them back. These legendary warriors who had cursed the world." "They had suffered enough, Dio.," the child said to her brother. The vampire chuckled as he looked down at the girl before looking back to the undead warriors who pledged their fealty to him. Blueford had his hair around Jonathan's arm and was draining the blood.
"Dio. Please stop this.," the girl pleaded, "If you keep doing things like this, you and many more will suffer." Dio did not listen to her plea. He was too far gone. "I won't, but I will make a counter offer. You abandon Jojo and come with me.," the vampire said, "Humans don't suit you, you are better off with those like you. I'll allow you to think about it, dear sister." His tone was slightly patronizing.
The girl looked back down to Jonathan, he had much riding on his shoulders.
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