19. D4C Part III ~Don't Stop Believin'~

"Huh?!" asked Damaso.

Suddenly, the two are standing in the corridor as if nothing happened.

"What is the meaning of this?!" asked Damaso. "Time to utilize my ultimate ability then..." he immediately sneered. "D4C: LOVE TRAIN!!!"

Arthur, while in the temple with Ventura and Ricardo sleeping... read in the books...:

"There was once a story about a Vampire named Kars. Kars was once a normal Vampire, born as the chosen Prince by the previous Vampire King. He had a rather normal life, living in the shadows around the dark ages. They did not eat humans at the time and tended to ignore their kind. However, one day, Kars left the cave of the Vampires and met with a young Human. Kars became enthralled with the Human and became friends with her. Mysteriously, Kars would leave at night to spend time with the Human, and the Vampires went weary. They figured out what he was doing, and warned him not to interfere with their kind. Kars did not listen. One night, the Humans catch Kars in his Vampiric form when he was showing off to his Human friend. They feared him and attacked him. The Vampires, who were watching him, attacked to protect Kars. The Church of the Humans then called upon a clan of Grimms in secret to hunt down the Vampires. One by one, they were killed. When the Vampire King was killed, the boy known as Kars, stricken with grief, was forced to rule as the Vampire King that the Vampires hated. But, he promised to redeem the world of Vampires... How? By taking his revenge on the Humans."

"Huh... funny fairy tale," laughed Arthur.

Now...

Arthur used his Stand to attack Damaso, as he entangled Damaso with it.

"I've finally figured out what I should name my Stand." smiled Arthur. "I now call my Stand... Open Arms... and its evolution... Open Arms: Don't Stop Believin'..."

Damaso trembled in fear. But, his determination got the best of him.

"D4C: LOVE TRAIN!!!" shouted Damaso. Suddenly, Arthur slips on a banana peel that randomly fell on the ground and slips down to the ground.

"What's your ability exactly, Damaso?" asked Arthur, slowly standing up.

Several guards surround the building.

"Find and arrest the terrorists!" shouted the guards.

Suddenly, a satellite falls from the sky and kills the guards with a single explosion from the satellite.

"Huh?" asked Arthur. Arthur approached Damaso, who backed away. At the end of the corridor is the kitchen, and suddenly, the knife falls from the table because of the explosion and bounces towards Arthur.

*shing*

*slush*

Arthur is stabbed in the shoulder.

"What the hell is happening?" asked Arthur.

Damaso sneers.

"With Love Train, I am unstoppable..." he smiled.

Suddenly, an earthquake occurred that caused Arthur to fall a few floors.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" shouted Arthur, falling down.

On the last floor, he wakes up to see Damaso about to crush his head with D4C.

Arthur uses Open Arms to pick up rocks from the debris and turn it into a blade, as he stabs Damaso in the stomach.

"GAH!!!" shouted Damaso, as blood dripped from his belly. "Can't you see that I'm just trying to survive?!"

"At the cost of our race, Damaso," replied Arthur, standing up high. "You're trying to destroy humanity, Damaso... Therefore... I reject your ideology, Damaso. I will save... humanity..."

"It's my race or yours!!! I offered a way to save your race as well, but you denied it! Let the past be destroyed, and let the future open up to infinite possibilities!!!" shouted Arthur. "I will save humankind and destroy heathens like you, for the sake of my people! You killed my ancestors, my parents, my uncle, my best friend, and their best friends... BUT NO MORE!!! I'M DONE COWERING AWAY!!! YOU KEEP KILLING US OFF?! WE'LL KEEP ON COMING BACK TO KNOCK YOU BACK DOWN!!! Why?Because I have faith! I have faith in myself! And not even the likes of you can take that away from me! I have faith that we will win!"

"You had faith in that best friend of yours..." he laughed. "Where did that get him?"

"Where?" asked Arthur. "It got him killed."

"See?" asked Damaso. "He died for no reason."

"He did not die in vain," said Arthur. "He's the reason why the arrow chose me. If I stayed back there, your minion, Salvi, would've killed me back there."

"Yes... I'll punish him for not killing you back there later... Now..." said Damaso. "Now, I will defeat you, JOJO!!!"

Suddenly, from the hole they were from, a gun somehow falls from it, and Damaso grabs it.

*BANG*

Arthur then dodges and kicks it away.

D4C: Love Train, then emerges from Damaso.

"Funny Valentino proves that humanity and your country are easily corrupted by the likes of us," said Damaso. "And yet you still fight for them? Their morale is weak and their belief is incredibly pathetic, and yet, you still fight for them, JoJo?"

"I fight for one thing... Justice, not vengeance!" shouted Arthur.

"Really?" asked Damaso. "What's your plan now? You do realize that my Stand overpowers yours, right? I could kill you with a single command to my D4C..."

"I have one plan left..." smiled Arthur. "TAKBO NAAAAA!!! BYE, BYE, BIRDIE!!!"

Arthur immediately turns around and runs away.

"COWARD!!!" shouted Damaso.

Damaso flew in his woged form and followed Arthur.

"Don't fail me now, legs!" he said to himself.

But...

...while running...

...for a split second... JoJo...

...was in space.

"Huh?" asked Arthur. "Was I just hallucinating for a second there?"

"Was I just imagining things?" asked Damaso to himself. "Did he just disappear for a second? That's it! I'll change his dimension!"

Arthur ends up in an alternate universe where Aswangs ruled the world. Aswangs are seen everywhere cackling as Humans are found in chains, lifting blocks and wiping the fur of Aswangs.

"Why won't you just go here, Damaso?" asked Arthur. 

"Tch-!" said Damaso, annoyed.

"I see... You can hop between dimensions, but not for long, huh, DAMASO?!!!"

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!" shouted Damaso, as several asteroids fell towards Arthur.

Arthur then blipped out of reality for a split second and survived the asteroid attack.

"HOW?!!!" asked Damaso. "HOW ARE YOU DOING THAT?!!!"

"I have no idea!!!" cackled Arthur, as Damaso kept on chasing him. 

"I'll get you, JoJo!" shouted Damaso. Suddenly, they appeared in the Dinosaur Dimension, and a pack of Velociraptors appeared before Arthur. Arthur then takes out the blade and throws it at a tree. The Hamon-charged rock blade cuts the tree in half and drops in front of the Velociraptors, as out of fear, they immediately ran away.

Damaso changed dimensions once more.

"Getting annoyed, Padre Damaso?" laughed Arthur. 

Damaso gritted his teeth.

Damaso switched dimensions once more and now, they are in a Gladiator fight on Mars. Arthur ends up riding a chariot for some reason. A group of Giant Ape-like lions attacks Arthur, who grabs the chariot with Open Arms and turns it into a chainsaw. He uses this chainsaw to make the lions back away from him.

Damaso then approaches Arthur, but Damaso's watch rings for some reason.

Damaso switched realities, making the environment even more dangerous: Underwater.

"2 or 3 seconds," said Arthur. "You can only stay in an alternate dimension for so long!"

Damaso switched dimensions once more.

"Yes," said Damaso. "I'll be forever stuck in that dimension if that ever happens... But then again... you'll get stuck there, too," he sneered.

Arthur smiled softly.

"Then so it be," said Arthur, bowing his head. Suddenly, the two teleport above a volcano. "I don't care if I die... as long as I end up saving my people from you... I know someone out there will replace me..." he smiled.

Arthur begins to fall down the volcano, but Damaso flies up.

"Not so fast," smiled Arthur, still carrying the alien chariot as he used Open Arms to grab Damaso by the tail. "I know what you're gonna say next!!!"

"LET GO OF ME, YOU IDIOT!!!" both of them shouted.

"Huh?!" asked Damaso. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-!!!"

Damaso growled and begins to fall as well.

"I guess we're stuck here now, huh? Your existence in this unknown dimension is already above 2 seconds..." smiled Arthur. "You could use your Love Train to save yourself, but you'd save me as well... And what's the point even, am I right? You're stuck in this dimension forever."

"You're right..." said Damaso. "If I keep fighting against fate, I'll end up killing myself one day. And that day may be today."

"So? Let's both die," laughed Arthur. "Right now... into this volcano..."

"Sure," said Damaso, closing his eyes.

"Hey..." said Arthur. "Your real name is Kars, right?"

"Yes," smiled Damaso.

"Well, Kars... Consider this as an apology from humanity," said Arthur. "I'm sorry about your Father."

"I wasn't doing this for my Father..." smiled Kars. "I was doing this because of hatred... I lost my ability to trust years ago... after what she did to me... I've lost faith in your race years ago..."

"Faith, Kars..." smiled Arthur. "Not anger..."

Kars sighed, giving a hard look at Arthur.

"Fuck you," he said.

Immediately, the two are teleported to the base of the volcano as Kars flapped his wings enough to break the fall. Arthur is knocked out by the fall.

Suddenly, Open Arms: Don't Stop Believin' activated.

Suddenly, Arthur wakes up outside of reality itself.

Suddenly, Arthur is back in the cabin.

"Huh..." he said, sitting on the chair by the table. "So that's how you work, Open Arms..."

Kars sighed, now stuck in an unknown alternate dimension.

"A part of me says that I shouldn't have saved ourselves," said Kars. He laughs softly. "Now, what?"

Meanwhile...

Arthur cooks some Spanish Sardines, adds some chili pepper, black pepper, some brown sugar, some ketchup, some tomatoes, some onions, and some mayonnaise. He cooked them together to make a filling for Spicy Spanish Sardines Sandwich. Eating the sandwich, he continued reading.

"This isn't over," said Salvi, teleporting into his room.

"I know," said Arthur.

"Thank you for killing him, JoJo," smiled Salvi. "Now, I am your problem, Arthur."

"Very well," said Arthur. "I'll find a way to have you killed."

"You wanna go right now?" asked Salvi.

"No..." said Arthur. "Because for one thing... I can't really control my Stand... and also I'm kinda... Ngggh... right now," Arthur said, widening his eyes terrifyingly. "And if we go right now... you'd kill me right away."

Salvi sneered.

"You humans truly are... useless," said Salvi.

"I still have faith that I'll knock you back down, Salvi. If it isn't me, it's someone else," said Arthur, smiling.

Salvi scoffed.

"So... what's your thing, even?" asked Arthur. "Do you want to save your species or whatever? Do you want to destroy humanity? What do you want, Salvi? What makes you so special? Why are you so much worse than Damaso was?"

Salvi sneered, and gave Arthur a good hard look, and disappeared.

His eyes said, "You're gonna die one day, JoJo... brutally..."

Arthur sighs, still bloody all over. He coughs and bows down, continuing to eat his sandwich. "I've been gone for 6 months... I wonder if I still have a job."

35 years... Later...

A man with a baseball cap and a black cloak stood in the darkness, as a Stand slowly emerges from his body.