Chapter Thirty-six: a bastard appears
(Y/n) was jolted awake by a sudden jump. Her red eyes shot open and looked around, blue eyes were looking down at her. Polnareff was holding the little girl. She sat up from being cradled by the Frenchman. They were in a carriage and riding somewhere. Everyone had a grim energy on them. The old woman that owned the hotel was tied up between Polnareff and Kakyoin. The silver haired Frenchman gave the girl a grin, "You're finally up Sleepyhead.," Polnareff said and got Kakyoin and Jotaro to look back at him and he little girl. Joseph looked back quickly before turning back to the road, "Have a nice nap?" "Yes. Why is Enya here?," the little girl asked, "Did you beat up a sweet old lady?" "There's nothing sweet about her.," Polnareff said, "She was one of DIO's followers. The mother of the bastard who killed my sister."
"What happened to our jeep?," the girl asked and got a sigh from Kakyoin. "Hol Horse stole it.," the red haired teen answered. "(Y/n), we're going to be leaving India soon. So stay close.," Joseph spoke. "I don't have much choice.," (y/n) replied as she rubbed her horn, "A little of my senses are returning. But I need to heal some more." The old man continued to drive the horse. "Maybe we can stop to eat later. Wouldn't having something to eat help you to heal faster?," Kakyoin suggested. "It would.," the plum haired girl said as her adopted father looked back at the young people behind him, "Then how about we get something to eat in the next town?"
"That's fine. But I will need more than just human food to heal this. I need a corpse or a bloodbag.," the little girl said as Polnareff kept hugging the tiny child against his huge chest. The feeling of the large chest and warm skin reminded the little child of the times her family would hold her. Especially her father and uncle Wamuu. The little girl gave a yawn and stretched, her little horns bumped into Polnareff's chest. Both the girl and the man winced from the feeling of that. "Sorry Pol pol.," the little girl apologized. The silver haired Frenchman rubbed the area that got poked by her horns, "They are pretty sharp.," the Frenchman said, "It was an accident though, so it is fine."
"You missed a lot of action since you were asleep. But it was probably for the best.," Kakyoin spoke. "I'm glad everyone is okay though.," (y/n) spoke. Joseph snickered and got a glare from Polnareff. "You're pretty good at driving the horse, old man. I guess it was kind of burned into your memory fifty years ago.," the little girl said, "I'm kind of surprised those vampire horses did not eat you." "Hard to forget the three hardest battles of my life.," The Old man said, "But, well trained horses are easy to drive." " It is a pretty horse.," the girl said, "Very strong animal to be able to pull this carriage."
Polnareff set the little girl on his lap to let her look around the area, "Vampire horses?" The little girl smiled back at Polnareff, "I can make masks that turn horses into vampire horses. And regular masks to turn humans into vampires. Dio used one of the masks my father and I made to turn himself into a vampire one hundred years ago." "You are not allowed to make any more masks.," Joseph said back to the girl, "Vampires are extremely dangerous to the modern world. There are not many Hamon users left."
"I am aware. There are is the small group in tibet, whoever Caesar has decided to take in and the small group Messhina made.," (y/n) spoke. "Hamon?," Polnareff inquired as the other two young men listened. "Hamon is a fighting style that centers around breathing and the creation of an energy that is similar to the rays of the sun. Hamon is the only thing that can kill me.," the small child said. "Is that why you have to wear that cute little cloak?," Polnareff asked and raised the girl up like he used to do with his sister, "I thought it was for how cute you were."
The Frenchman kept playing with the child like this. He stopped after Jotaro gave him a glare. The silver haired man gave the girl hugs instead. The carriage continued on as the group continued to talk about different topics. Joseph's stomach growled after a while. This caused the little girl he adopted to laugh, "Hungry, old man?" "Yeah, we did not get to eat last night. I think that when we get to the next city, we can stop and get something to eat.," Joseph said. "As long as you don't repeat what you did in Italy with that black ink pasta.," the little girl commented and made the old man laugh. Joseph looked back at her, "I'm not as picky anymore. So don't worry."
"Good. You caused a scene.," (y/n) spoke and huddled into the strong arms of the French man who held her. Joseph returned to looking ahead. They finally made it to a town. Joseph must have been really hungry as he stopped to get some kabobs. The vendor was driving a hard bargain as the two haggled. Joseph walked back after purchasing the food and stopped. (Y/n) felt energy from Enya, she looked back and saw the old woman's eyes wide in terror. Her eyes were on the kabob vendor. Quickly, (y/n) sensed our the kabob vendor's energy and found that it was a stand user's energy.
"He's a stand user!," (y/n) shouted as she felt an evil energy rise from Enya. The red eyes of the child looked back as tentacles came from the old woman's head and face. It looked like the foreign appendages were invading her body. The carriage broke from the force of the tentacles' power, Dio's scent came from the tentacles. The girl reached into Enya's head to remove the tentacles. It was too late though, there was too much damage done. Joseph knew she did not have long to live and asked her what DIO's stand was. Enya did not divulge the information. She was too loyal to the vampire, even with the betrayal.
(Y/n) held the old woman's hand as she bled out. The girl placed her hand inside the old woman's body to allow her to pass painlessly.
The girl turned to looked back to see the vendor had taken off his disguise. He was a man with maroon eyes and black hair. Pretty handsome for a human but he had a vile energy to him. "Lord DIO does not trust anyone fully. I was sent to make sure she died and did not divulge any secrets. Along with killing you and the retrieval of that little girl.," The assassin said, "My name is Dan. Steely Dan. My card is the lovers card. I shall be making sure you all have the same fate as Enyaba." "(Y/n), those tentacles, where they his stand?," Joseph asked the girl. She shook her head, "It was a flesh bud made of Dio's cells."
"Very perceptive, little (y/n). I grew the flesh bud inside of her to kill her for Lord DIO. She was the one who told DIO about stands, but there was no way that DIO would trust her.," Dan said as he walked to a table and sat down to have a drink from the cup he had sitting there. The sizzling meat of the kabobs at the shop he was running was what kept the air from being deafeningly silent. Polnareff broke the silence, "She was one of you! Was she not?!" He was enraged at the disrespect that Dan had for the ones he faced. Dan made a face to tell him that he did not care.
"Such a sad old woman. She trusted him so deeply, that shows you how powerful Lord DIO's charm is.," the assassin said as the angered group surrounded him. (Y/n) was behind them, with Enya's body before her. The old woman was an enemy, yet the little girl gave her respect in her death. The child rose from her kneeling position and looked at the scene before her. All of her companions were going to fight Dan, four on one. The girl felt something was wrong. Dan had his stand out. He did not look worried even when he was being threatened by four angered stand users. Jotaro told him that they were going to fight him. Dan was unruffled by this and gave a Villainous smirk, "Go ahead and try, but you shall not lay a finger upon me. Go ahead and ask-"
Jotaro did not let him finish and punched him with star platinum. Dan flew back, a motion that was mirrored by Joseph. (Y/n) gasped and went to see if Joseph was okay. The old man was in quite a bit of pain as the little girl was helping him get up. "You idiot, I was in the middle of speaking, you almost killed your own grandfather.," the assassin hissed out on pain, "Ask your little stand radar where my stand is." The plum haired girl was prompted to look for his stand after he spoke those words. She found it. It was inside of Joseph's head! The little girl pointed to Joseph, "It's in his head, I smell that it carried a flesh bud inside as well." The maroon eyed man pointed to Joseph, "The battle has already begun mister Joestar. Now, can one of you guess what my power is from what just happened?"
Nobody answered, they were on edge. "Nobody? You are very bad students if I have to call on someone.," Dan said, "Little girl, can you tell me what you think it is?" "It has something to do with pain.," The girl responded. "I'll give you a hint then.," he said as he paid a child to hit him in the leg with a broom. The boy gave him a good whack and Joseph dropped to his knees in pain. Dan had a smug smile, "Want to wager a guess now?" "Does it have to do with pain sharing?," (y/n) asked and chuckle out of the assassin. "Correct. My stand enters my opponents' bodies and tears them apart from the inside out. If I get hurt, my stand makes my opponent feel my pain several times greater than what I felt.," the man explained, "A small scratch, stubbing my toe, a small fall, anything like that and my opponent feels it. I've had some people who off'ed themselves after the pain came too much to bare."
"Bastard.," Jotaro growled. The child that Dan paid to hit him gave him another hit to the leg and held his hand out for more money. The black haired assassin punched the kid aside and the boy ran while Dan wiped his hand on his grey vest. His outfit was very monochrome in color save for the brown of his pants and boots. His undershirt and chaps were a dark grey and the vest he wore over top was a lighter grey. "My stand is not physically powerful. In fact, it is probably the world's weakest stand.," Dan spoke, "However, I don't need power to kill humans. Do you understand now?"
(Y/n) knew that she would not be able to help without hurting Joseph. Even if she did use her ability to reach into Joseph's head and pull out the fleshbud, there still was the stand to deal with. Dan cracked his knuckles to emphasize his point, Joseph felt pain in his artificial hand. The black haired assassin made a wicked grin, "In ten minutes, you will succumb to the effects of the fleshbud eating through your brain." Jotaro grabbed Dan's shirt and was going to punch him, Kakyoin and Polnareff had to step in to stop him from hurting Joseph indirectly.
Joseph felt the pain of how Dan was being gripped. "Jotaro! Let him go!," (y/n) shouted to the dark haired Japanese teen. Jotaro let Dan go begrudgingly. The assassin was on a power high and began to taunt Jotaro on how the teen might kill him if his grandfather's life was not at stake, "Where would you hit me? The face? Want to try? Would you punch a hole through my chest and feed me to the little girl?" The assassin picked a rock up, "Or are you going to not use your stand and Crack my head open with a rock? Would this one suffice?"
Jotaro grabbed Dan again, "You don't want to underestimate me, bastard. When I say I am going to do something, I'll do it." The teen was about to use his stand again when Kakyoin stopped him. (Y/n) pulled on his jacket, "Jotaro, let him go. Joseph can't breathe." The maroon eyed assassin was making a smirk, "You are not taking me very seriously, are you?" The ocean green eyed Japanese teen let the assassin go, only to get a rock to the gut. "Don't underestimate me! The one to die after the geezer will be you!," Dan announced as he attempted to hit Jotaro's head with the rock. The teen blocked it with his arms. Jotaro fell to the dirt from the impact.
Dan let out a maniacal laugh. (Y/n) wanted to help but she could not without hurting Joseph. 'Papa went through this before. When uncles Esidisi and Wamuu placed poison rings inside his body.,' the little girl thought to herself, 'But this time limit is much shorter than a month. Our only hope is that Kakyoin can figure something out. I don't know much about stands, so he has to think of something.' She felt her body be picked up by the evil man they were facing. His heart was rotten. Joseph and Kakyoin ran away with Polnareff following. Kakyoin told Jotaro to keep Dan away from Joseph. They were trying to get out of 'Lovers' range.
The assassin chuckled as he figured out what they were doing. He pat the hair of the child he was holding, "They think that they can get far enough away. They don't know that my range is many kilometers. Now how will I transport you to DIO? Carry you there? Have lovers infect you so you will behave?" Jotaro stood as Dan spoke, the assassin looked back at the teen standing as still as a statue. "Hm? What are you still here for? Why are you acting so calm?," the assassin asked, "Look at me!" "Sounds like you are starting to lose your cool.," Jotaro responded with a calm tone. "Are you planning on following me until Joseph dies?," the black haired man asked and set the girl he was carrying on his back.
(Y/n) was careful how she gripped onto him so that Joseph was not hindered. "Dan was it?," Jotaro asked, "I plan on making you pay when this is all over." The more tanned man walked in front of Jotaro and laughed, "If that is so, You won't mind if I borrow some things from you. Like this nice watch and your wallet." Dan took the wallet and watch and pocketed them. The man walked away as Jotaro followed, angered by this bastard. (Y/n) looked back at her nephew, his eyes had a lot of emotions in them. He wanted to protect his grandfather and friends from this assassin.
Dan walked while humming, the man stopped at a drainage ditch. (Y/n) could practically hear the wheels in his twisted mind turning. "Ah, a drainage ditch. I could jump across, but that would probably injure your grandfather. I don't feel like walking all the way to the bridge there.," the man spoke and turned to Jotaro, "Hey, Jotaro. Lie across the ditch and be a bridge for me." The Japanese teen did not respond. "What? You're not going to be my bridge?," Dan asked. "What the hell are you talking about?," Jotaro asked. "I said be my bridge, you bastard!," Dan shouted and kicked the stone decoration in front of him. The plum haired child on Dan's back flinched, she knew that Joseph felt that.
Jotaro had no choice but to lay over the water now. He stretched his body across and Steely Dan walked across, making sure to dig his heel into some pressure points on Jotaro to hurt the teen. After stepping across, Dan crushed Jotaro's fingers under his boot. The sound was horrible. Especially since it was from someone (y/n) cared for. Jotaro was kicked into the water in the ditch. He climbed out dampened and quite angered. But he could not risk injuring Dan or the little girl he was using as a meat shield. The man continued on with his humming being the only noise before he spoke to the little girl on his back, "You're being rather obedient. That's good. Stay quiet unless I tell you to talk." The child had to agree to his terms and nodded when he looked back at her.
(Y/n)'s red eyes looked back to Jotaro. She did not like seeing her adopted papa and her nephew in pain like this. Dan reached back to her. He grabbed her by her cloak and took her off of his back, "Jotaro, the girl made my back itchy. Scratch it for me." The man held her against his chest as Jotaro scratched his back. 'Dan is not comfortable. I like Polnareff better.,' (y/n) thought to herself as her head was pressed right up against his pectoral muscles.
Dan let jotaro stop scratching his back when he was satisfied with the feeling. They kept walking until Dan noticed his shoes were kind of dirty. He sat down and ordered Jotaro to shine his shoes. The man laughed as Jotaro polished his boots. The girl was made to stand by Dan and watch as Jotaro was kicked by the assassin. "Shine them correctly, Jotaro! I want them to shine as bright as I am feeling, I want the sun to make them sparkle!," Dan said with a vicious laugh, "(y/n), Be a dear and rub my shoulders, carrying you made them so stiff." The girl knew she had no choice and began to rub the man's shoulders, getting the stiff muscles. He seemed to enjoy the feeling. Dan began to taunt Jotaro more as the teen polished his shoes.
The Japanese teen got up and pulled his notebook out to write something down. Dan made the little girl stop rubbing his back so he could see what was in the notebook. It was everything that Dan had done to Jotaro. "I'm making sure that I remember everything you have done to me so that you pay what you owe me.," Jotaro said. Steely Dan backhand slapped Jotaro hard enough that the teen's lip was bleeding, "Jotaro, you're a bastard. But this won't matter in the end." (Y/n) was gripping the tail of Jotaro's coat. She hoped that Kakyoin and Polnareff were doing their best to stop the stand that was infecting Joseph.
(Y/n) was again picked up by the back of her dress before being sat on Dan's shoulder, he chuckled as he looked around and saw a shop in the distance. "A jewelry shop, huh?," the black haired man asked, "Seems like fun, Jotaro." Dan walked to the shop and went in, he held the little girl to let her look at the jewelry as well. He was humming his demented song as he looked at the jewels. "Look at all of the beautiful jewelry, (y/n). Now, which of these do you think is the most beautiful?," Dan asked and let the girl take a look. She pointed to a few pieces, "Those remind me of my father." "Hmm~ Good choice, those are quite splendid.," He turned to Jotaro, "I'm sure if you had a girlfriend, she would like to get a gift like this. Hey, Jotaro. Use star platinum to steal it."
Jotaro refused. "Just do it. Or I will have to, but I will be caught and beaten for it. And we both know what will happen to your grandfather then.," Dan said with a little bit of a growl in his voice. Jotaro reached his hand out and summoned Star Platinum when the shopkeeper was turned away. The jewelry was lifted from the case. Dan yelled to the shopkeeper, "This guy is shoplifting! I just saw it!" The shopkeeper told Dan to keep the 'shoplifter' there as he went to get some help.
Three large men came back and beat Jotaro up. Steely Dan stole some more jewelry while the guards were distracted. Jotaro could not use his stand against them, they would not understand what was going on. He walked outside as the three big men left Jotaro alone after beating him. Dan chuckled, "Thanks to you, I was able to nab some good ones." The Japanese teen on the ground started to chuckle. This caught Dan off-guard, "What are you laughing at?!" "I'm laughing in anticipation of the fun that is to come.," Jotaro answered, "I have so much more to make you pay for, I'm so excited about making you pay for this!"
This made Dan fly into a rage, he slammed his foot down onto Jotaro. "Enough! You seem to misunderstand. Old man Joestar will die in seconds. That is the reality you face.," Dan spoke as he dug his heel into Jotaro's back. Jotaro had a smile on his face, "You don't know us very well. You don't know Kakyoin." (Y/n) felt a surge of energy and jumped off of Dan as his head exploded. "That injury means that Kakyoin started his attack. I wonder if I will have my chance when he is done.," Jotaro said with a smile on his face. He was overjoyed. (Y/n) felt the power of the stand coming closer, "Jotaro, papa is safe! Dan's stand is returning! Keep sharp!" Jotaro made a wider smile, "Perfect."
Dan tried to run. Jotaro grabbed him by his hair, "Where do you think you are going?" The Japanese teen threw the man down on the ground. The maroon eyed assassin was on his knees begging for mercy. (Y/n) could tell it was an act, "Jotaro. His stand is near." The man's eyes widened, "I forgot she was the stand radar." His body was crushed as Jotaro looked on in anger. "He's a liar, Jotaro. Don't believe anything he says.," the girl said and gave the man a kick to the head, "How about letting me eat him? I'm hungry."
The man's maroon eyes had fear in them as Jotaro's was glaring down. "After I tenderize him for you.," the Japanese teen said, "He did not do his research on us. He should have know that good eyesight and reflexes were part of my stand." Dan was panicking as the red eyed girl's eyes lit up, she felt Kakyoin's stand. It was attacked to Dan's stand, "Do it. Kakyoin has his stand tied up."
Jotaro smiled a little and stepped forward, Star platinum unleashed a flurry of punches based on how Dan's body was rippling. The girl waited for him to be finished before she reached her hand into the man's chest and drained him of his blood. His muscles dissolved, leaving a bag of bones. "Go to hell. Bastard.," Jotaro said as he picked up the little girl as she removed her hands from Dan's skin, "Let's go."
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Yes. Go ahead!
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