Chapter ten: The new Jojo.

The girl left the next morning after plotting a course to get to New York. She would have to use her sense of smell to find Erina once she made it to New York. (Y/n) told the researchers where she was going and why, the foundation staff understood after learning her connection to the Joestars. She was wished well by the staff and offered a ride to New York which she declined. She wanted to use her muscles after she had been asleep for so long. She was given a little purse to attach to her belt, it had some human money in it. The researcher explained what money was and what it could be used for, they were giving it to her just in case she needed to use it for something. She said goodbye to the researchers that had been taking care of her before leaving.

Her powerful yet tiny legs pushed her off into the air, allowing her to move quickly through Washington DC. The feeling of the wind in her face made her feel free. Her old instincts of movement kicked in as she propelled herself towards her destination, using whatever to lift off of or change direction to a safer route. Sometimes she scared the odd human during her travel. Her adorning jewelry jingled with every impact and liftoff in a melody of her movements. Her destination was closer with every bound she made. The sun was overhead as she landed in New York finally. She landed on top of a building and took a deep breath to take in all the scents and filter out the ones she was looking for. Her dress and cloak fluttered in the wind that was blowing from the Atlantic Ocean as she looked over the grand human city. Much had changed from what she had seen two thousand years ago. She smiled as she felt the amount of human life in this area. She felt something. The unmistakable energy of hamon.

(Y/n) jumped from roof to roof and looked down, she saw a young man that looked very similar to her brother, Jonathan. He had used hamon against two in police uniforms to protect a dark skinned young man. The two ran off together. The small ancient child followed while staying out of their visual range. She was glad humans did not have the tendency to look above 45° angles very often, otherwise she would have been spotted by half of the city. She watched these young men introduce themselves. She heard the dark skinned one introduce himself as 'Smokey brown'. The taller one said his name was Joseph Joestar, but that he liked to be called Jojo. So this was indeed the man she was looking for. He looked a lot like his grandfather. The ancient child followed them to find Erina. Erina had aged quite a lot in 49 years. The girl watched them get introduced to each other. She waited and jumped down.
The plum haired girl handed on the shoulders of Joseph and looked around, "I'm looking for the Joestar family, have you seen them? It's been about Forty-nine years since I last saw them." The girl heard a gasp from the old woman and looked at her, "Oh Erina! Hello, you have changed very much!" The little girl jumped off of the young brunet man and spun around.

Erina looked surprised at the child who suddenly appeared before them, "You are the reason Speedwagon called us here." (Y/n) gave the old woman a smile, "Perhaps~" Joseph grumbled and turned to his grandmother, "Who is this brat? How do you know her?" Erina shot her grandson a look, "Joseph. This is my sister in law, your grandfather's stepsister. The one I had told you about." The brunet looked down at the girl and knelt to her height as Smokey also bent down to look, "This little girl is over fifty years old?" "I'm actually over four thousand.," the little girl grinned to the young man, "Jojo."
She heard the brunet shudder as she turned to Smokey, "Hello! I saw Jojo help you. I actually have been following you two for a bit." Joseph picked her up, he looked into her red eyes. He grinned, "You're pretty cute. But it is hard to see your face with this hood over your head." "Please don't take it off. It is to protect me from the sun.," the little girl spoke with a soft voice, "Could you put me down as well, unless you want me to ride on your shoulder." Joseph placed the girl down and walked out onto the road. He almost got run over by a taxi driver. He started to get into an argument with the driver. Erina made him stop. Joseph made the taxi driver take them to where they needed to go. (Y/n) on Smokey's lap and stared at Joseph as the brunet made an absolute fool of himself. The little girl ignored the idiot next to her.

She felt Smokey looked down at her, the girl looked up at the dark skinned boy holding her and grinned, her teeth showed. Smokey smiled back hesitantly. The group went to a restaurant to eat together. The little girl sat next to Erina and Joseph. She was smiling before frowning at a rude man that was not very accepting of Smokey. Calling him an animal and odorous. The girl listened as the waiter tried to calmly tell the mean man that they will serve anyone as long as the bill is paid. (Y/n) did not like how this man disrespected a fellow human, he smelled worse than Smokey. The young dark skinned male began to excuse himself from the table when Joseph stopped him. Joseph was going to defend his new friend. The little plum haired girl closed her eyes and listened to Erina give Joseph permission to pummel this man as long as he minded the other customers. The child scoffed at the rude man, "Your actions are what make you more of a disgusting animal than he is. I've never seen a human disregard the gift of a fellow man's life more than you have just now, and I have seen much." The air around the child grew heavy, "Jojo. If you can't handle him, I shall." "I was hoping you'd say that, granny Erina. Don't worry, I can handle him.," the brunet spoke. (Y/n) motioned Smokey to sit back down. The young man did so and they watched Jojo fight the disgusting man. The little girl clapped once the brunet defeated the man.

A new man approached the table. This one was the superior to the one who had been beaten by Joseph. The girl sensed something wrong. This man told the group that Speedwagon was killed. The little girl jumped up, "Impossible! I saw him go off to an excavation site!" The man looked down at the child before returning his gaze to Erina and Joseph, "The rumor was that it was a Tibetan monk." (Y/n) only knew of one monk that would have lived in the group she met. Her horn sensed something nearby. Familiar but wicked and blackened. The man detailed that the team was found washed up on the bank of a river. Erina believed that it had something to do with Dio and the mask. The red eyed child flinched when she heard Erina speak that. (Y/n) walked out of the restaurant silently after listening for a little more. The child disappeared for a bit before she came back to the Joestars, her fists had glowing wounds on them. The wounds closed up before Joseph and Smokey's eyes. "I'm sorry I disappeared. I had to go vent my anger in a way that would not cause the death of any humans.," the girl explained, "Speedwagon and Erina are the only things I have left now of the past and human family who took me in."

Joseph understood her pain, "Speedwagon was like an uncle to me. He took care of me and Erina for as long as I could remember." The little girl felt his hand on her head. "Granny told me once of you. You are from the distant past, not human, but kind to humans.," the young man said, "I wanted to meet you after hearing about you." "You look a little like your grandfather, but you have not his nature. You are more immature.," the girl said, "But I sense that you have a similar good heart as he did." The young man put the girl on his shoulder and walked around with Smokey following. The little girl listened to the two talk and followed them into a café. The girl stretched and got off of his shoulder to go look around the café. She felt a little more energetic as the sun set. Her nocturnal nature was taking over. She felt the familiar energy again and looked to the window. There was a face that should not be there. He was not looking at her. She exited the café and stared up at him, the man did not see her. She heard Joseph come out of the cafe and try to strike a conversation with the man. "Jojo, he's no longer human.," the girl said and the man finally looked down at her. His red eyes widened and he stepped back. This made Joseph notice, "Huh? You're afraid of a little girl? I guess you aren't that much of a threat." "You've sold your soul to a mask, Straizo. Is the power you gained worth it?," the child asked, "Was it really worth following the footsteps of my brother? But, if you found a mask, you found a temple. Then that means..." She stopped speaking as Joseph stepped up and pulled out a Tommy gun.

(Y/n)'s head was hurting. The only reason that Straizo would find a mask is that he found a temple where her family once stayed or a resting place for a warrior. Had they found one of her warriors? She heard the Tommy gun stop firing and looked in the café with Jojo. Straizo's heart was still beating, "He's a vampire, you idiot! You have to use hamon!" The girl jumped up and slapped the back of Joseph's head before landing lightly and glaring at the screaming patrons, "All of you, vacate! The man in the scarf is dangerous!"
The humans evacuated as straizo stood again, he twisted his body so that the bullets would fly out of him. "You're out of ammo, Jojo.," the girl said, "You need to use hamon to defeat vampires." "Vampire?!," Joseph asked and looked to Straizo, "Then I better change plans."
The vampire Straizo shot beams of concentrated energy shoot into the mirror in front of him, thinking it was Joseph. Joseph slammed the Tommy gun into Straizo's head and quickly attached some grenades to the scarf. Straizo only saw the one grenade and removed it, now realizing that there were more attached to the back of his scarf. The grenades blew, blowing the vampire and the cafe apart.

"Jojo! We have to pay for this!," the little girl said and kicked his shin. He picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. Smokey asked if Jojo had a plan to defeat such a monster, Joseph said that he did. When he was asked what it was, the man turned. "RUN AWAY, SMOKEY!," the brunet man said and took off carrying the ancient girl with him. Smokey followed his new friend. The ancient girl watched the vampire regenerate his body as she was carried away. Joseph and Smokey ran until they were far away from large groups of people to lure the vampire to a safer place to fight. Joseph stopped on a bridge and looked around. (Y/n) hit him several times to make him put her down. The trick did work, the vampire did follow them.
However, Straizo had a hostage. The woman looked terrified. He was using this hostage to keep Joseph from running. (Y/n) had a feeling that Straizo wanted more than he was letting on. The plum haired girl took her cloak off and placed it in one of her bags after folding it into a small square. She jumped up the side of the bridge to where the vampire was, gave him a kick to the head and landed behind him. "Straizo. I don't want Jojo to hear this, so this will be for your ears alone. But, I remember exactly why I had that mask.," the girl spoke for only the vampire and the woman to hear, "Two thousand years ago. I was laid to rest with that mask, so that if I woke and my warriors were not around, I would have food. You vampires are my food source since there are always humans with a greed for power and lust for violence."

Her red eyes watched the vampire, "You already know that I can swipe my arm across your neck and decapate you." (Y/n) looked down to Joseph who was insulting the woman with his words he was using. He was an idiot. She did not like him as much as she liked Jonathan. Straizo was threatening to kill the woman by pushing down on her jaw. He did knock a tooth out of the woman's mouth. The vampire felt a kick impact with his head and a burning on his shoulders. The horned child was using her hands to devour his shoulders, he could feel her small body absorbing him. The child felt his panic as he thrashed to knock her off of him. He dropped the woman too. The little girl dropped and caught the woman, "Do it, Jojo!"
Straizo shot beams of energy, only for Joseph to reflect it back to the vampire. The little girl checked the woman for any serious injuries. Thankfully she was not hurt, "You should probably go to a dentist or a doctor to get your tooth situated looked at. It might get infected if not treated properly." The child went to look at Straizo dangling over the edge with Joseph holding him.

The vampire's words struck the girl.
"Soon you will learn of the the pillar man! Soon you will meet the pillar man!"
"Don't feed me any of your nonsense!," Joseph scowled. "It is not nonsense! I threw the bodies in the river because of him. The carvings in the temple was allowing the pillar to sick up the blood from the bodies, feeding him. It was ghastly.," the vampire looked at the child beside Joseph, "He will soon awake from his 2000 year slumber, like she did. But I fear he will not be as benevolent as she. Joseph, you will meet him soon. You will learn the truth, both of you." Straizo used hamon to destroy his own body before he could tell Joseph any more. His body vaporized.

The little girl stepped back, they did find another like her.

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