"How do you think the others are doing, Joel?" Brianna had asked that question fifteen times within the last ten minutes.
"They're probably doing just fine, just like I said the last time you asked." Joel was building something using random parts he pulled out from Builderman's toolbelt, although he wasn't quite sure what he was making.
"Hey Aros, do you think we'll run into any enemies? I mean we have already fought some stand users and I have even encountered DIO."
"Brianna, I guarantee we'll run into someone sooner or later, although when I do not know." Aros and Brianna talked with each other. A LOT. Sometimes it got on Joel's nerves, but other times he found it kind of cool.
By now it was late at night, the sun had set, and the temperature was dropping
After a while of walking Aros completely stopped moving.
"Hey," Aros was whispering now," someone is following us, a few meters behind. Do not panic, they do not know we are aware they are following us."
They group continued walking a little bit longer while Aros gathered energy to shoot out poison shards.
"Freeze!" the person behind them shouted.
The group spinned around and saw a police officer, not the person who was tailing them, holding a gun.
"Get on the floor!"
The group dropped on their knees, extremely confused and slightly nervous.
"Hmm…. You seemed suspicious! I need you to….uh…. What was I doing again?" the officer grabbed his head… right before falling onto the floor dead. His back swelled and rippled as something started to rip itself out of his body.
Joel grabbed Brianna and ran back a few meters, just in time to watch a full man rip out of the officer's back, a chunk of flesh in his mouth, staring at Brianna, who had fallen on the floor.
He swallowed the flesh before speaking"So you are the people I was sent to kill? Such puny ants…. To think Lord DIO would fret over you!"
"My name is Zargo. I was sent by my Lord to dispose of you vermin. You should make quite the snack, though."
"S-Snack? So you plan on eating us? Isn't that cannibalism? Don't humans taste gross?" Brianna pelted Zargo with questions.
"Master Brianna, that would in fact be cannibalism, if he were human! What is standing before us is not a human, but a vampire, made from the blood of DIO!"
"So what your saying is that Ha-"
"Master Brianna! Do not reveal any of your abilities to the enemy. Yes, that will be the only thing that works in this fight, but do not say its name."
"If movies served me correctly, you guys can't handle the sun can you? Maybe…." Joel pulled the gadget he had made earlier out of Builderman's pocket. He held down a small button and a concentrated UV ray shot out of the gadget.
"Aha! No idea how I made this or how I knew I would need it, but I guess I got some plot armor!" Joel laughed, thinking about how he made a joke about being in a story, when he clearly wasn't.
"Builderman isn't made for close combat, but I'll give still give 'em hell! Brianna, we're gonna do the thing we talked about!"
Brianna looked with wide eyes as she realized what he was talking about. A tear fell down her cheek as she stood up, knowing what had to be done.
Builderman pulled out his nail gun and attached the UV ray to it and pulled out his hammer and prepared to fight!
"Hmph, I won't even need my stand for this!"Zargo said. Joel shot nails from the nail gun, which Zargo didn't bother blocking. All the nails hit, but Zargo just pulled them out before starting to walk towards Joel.
"I got you right where I wanted you!" Joel turned on the UV ray and spinned a dial on the side, increasing the size of the ray to the exact size of Zargo's wrist, which was promptly severed.
"GRAAAHMPH! Damn that hurts! I didn't think a puny imitation of the sun would hurt so much!" Zargo picked his hand up off the ground and threw it at Joel, who dodged it and yelled "NOW!"
It was Brianna's turn to shine. Hoooaaaaaaah!! Brianna had been hamon breathing while Joel distracted Zargo! Aros imbued the venom shards with hamon and shot a barrage of shards straight at Zargo and Joel, but a few shards were different. There was a pinkish colored shot that hit Joel, a few purple shards that hit Zargo, and a red shard that hit the both of them.
"Aros, did it work? Did the shards do what they were supposed to?" Aros nodded.
Where the pink shard hit, Joel felt a cooling sensation, as if his body had been healed, but where the red shard hit, a steady stream of blood shot from his body.
Zargo, on the other hand, was holding his head. His head felt like it had been smashed by a freight train, and his organs had been ruptured. The red shard that had hit Joel in the arm had hit Zargo straight on his chest, causing blood to spew out like a water gun.
"I-I am invincible! Lord DIO gave me- he gave me his blood!" Zargo put one hand over his chest, and the bleeding stopped. After removing his hand from his head, Joel could easily see why he had been holding his head. There was a swirl of purple inside his head, most likely poison designed to destroy the head of the victim who was hit, but Zargo's body was healing faster than the poison could damage.
"You thought.. You thought you could hurt me!' Zargo stuck out his handless arm and a hand shot straight out, stopping the blood he was losing from his arm, too. "I am one of DIO's strongest servants! Nothing will stand in my way!"
Zargo charged at Joel and punched him in the face, twisted his body, and then quickly threw another punch. Joel summoned Builderman, who tried to block his punch.
"Your stand suffers just as much as you do!" Zargo grabbed Builderman's left arm and froze it solid! Joel's arm froze right along with it, although it did stop the bloodflow caused by Brianna's shards.
"B-Brianna! Do it! You can do it!" Zargo punched him across the face one more time, knocking him unconscious.
"Aros, make the special shards!" Aros created golden yellow shards filled with hamon and poison.
"Grandfather Caesar! Guide me through this fight! Let my shards have a straight shot!"
Aros handed Brianna the floating shards. She thrusted her hand out, and the shards flew.
"Puny shards! You have already seen your shards cannot kill me!" Zargo let the shards hit as he walked towards Brianna. They hit him in the chest, leaving smoking hamon holes. He continued walking, although his pace slowed because of the pain.
"Now Aros, we'll try that technique next!" Brianna ran at Zargo, jumped over him using Aros, and landed behind him.
INTENSE FINAL BATTLE MUSIC PLAYS!
Zargo twisted around and slashed across Brianna's face, leaving deep cuts and blood dripping down her face, and yet she still stood there, without flinching.
"You hurt my brother. You truly are the lowest scum in history!" She spinned around and started a hamon punch barrage.
"ARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARIARIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARIARIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARIARARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARIARIIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARIARIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARIARIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARIARIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARIARIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARIARIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARIARIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARIARIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARIARIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARRIARIARI!" Brianna landed one final hamon punch, melting Zargo.
"Don't touch my family…. Ever… AGAIN!" She proceeded to viciously punch Zargo's dead body, over and over until he disintegrated.
Huff… hufff… Huff… "Okay… Aros let's drag Joel to a hotel. The nearest one is a few miles away."
She dragged him for about a mile, where she saw a woman walking away from two people, covered it gashes and bleeding. It was Matthew and Jojo!
"W-What happened to you guys!?" Brianna dropped Joel into the snow and ran to the two boys.
"H-Hey Brianna… Got any bandaids?" Jojo laughed. "I don't think we're coming back from this. I hope Jotaro and you succeed in fighting DIO."
Brianna remembered how Aros had shot a healing shard earlier in her fight, and asked Aros if she could do it again.
"Yes, I can try. Healing Shards!" Aros shot two pink shards, one hit Jojo in the chest, and the other hit Matthew's chest, who was literally seconds away from death.
Their wounds stopped bleeding, and their cuts started to close.
"I-It worked! Thank God! Okay, we'll go to the nearby hotel, let's see if Aros can carry three people now." She did, and they got to a hotel to rest, for now anyway.
NEXT CHAPTER____________TO BE CONTINUED