290. Mambabarang ~A Bad Day for Victoria~

"A Manananggal chased after us because she smelled the fetus in my belly, actually," said Gabrielle.

"That still doesn't explain why you have a baby bump all of the sudden the size of a cantaloupe," said Mercuria.

The group stared at Gabrielle's baby bump.

"Oh! Aswang pregnancies are pretty quick so that other Aswangs won't eat the baby," smiled Gabrielle. "It's been four months after all!"

"Wait... You're about to go into labor!?" asked Nick.

"What's happening?" asked Foo Fighters.

"I think she's a bomb," whispered Narcos. "And we have to save her."

"No, sweetie. I'm not a bomb," said Gabrielle. "Just almost in labor."

"Like... a baby is gonna come out of your no-no place?" asked Narcos.

"Ew. Humans are weird," said Foo Fighters.

"Actually, a lot of mammals and some reptiles do this," said Monroe.

"Ew," said Foo Fighters.

Foo Fighters then drinks from a glass of water.

"Can you survive by only drinking water?" asked Nick.

Foo Fighters happily nods.

"And you eat honey mostly?" asked Nick to Narcos.

Narcos happily nods.

"Okay, good," said Nick.

"What's wrong?" asked Monroe. "I know that look. Something's wrong."

"We are out of supplies," said Nick.

The others in the group look at each other, astonished.

*tik tik tik tik tik tik tik tik tik tik tik tik tik...*

Ticking outside could be heard. The Aswangs of different kinds slowly wall-crawl on trees.

Gabrielle yells as she begins to have contractions. She lies down on the bus floor.

"FUCK!!!" cried Gabrielle.

Narcos grabs her hand.

"It's okay! Breathe!" yelled Narcos.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK HAVE I BEEN DOING!?" asked Gabrielle.

"Can't you just unravel yourself!?" asked Mercuria.

"THAT WOULD KILL MY BABY!!! THE BABY ISN'T CONNECTED TO ME ANYMORE!!!" cried Gabrielle.

Nick creates water and puts it in a large basin.

"Is that such a good idea?" asked Monroe, grabbing a towel.

"What is?" asked Mercuria, checking the baby's head.

"We don't know if that's water!" yelled Monroe.

"On it," said Foo Fighters, as she crawls over the basin, sticks her head in it, and drinks the water up. "It's water."

Narcos blushes and checks her out.

Gabrielle's Stone Free then kicks him in the head.

"Ow!" yelled Narcos. "Why'd you-!?"

"Stop talking," said Gabrielle, pouting. "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!"

She Erstewoges and shrieks.

Suddenly, a baby's crying could then be heard as Nick wraps the baby with a towel.

"It's a girl," said Nick and Mercuria.

Gabrielle is given her baby. She turns slightly red as she sees her baby.

The baby woges into an Aswang.

"Huh... Aswangs woge pretty young, huh?" asked Monroe.

Gabrielle woges and cries even more but Gabrielle hums for her child.

The baby's eyes are as black as the eye could see.

"What's her name?" asked Narcos.

The group turns to Narcos.

"Well... Everyone has a name, right?" asked Narcos.

"Yeah," said Foo Fighters.

"Narcissa Mikaela JoJo," said Gabrielle.

Narcos turns red upon hearing this.

Gabrielle smiles at Narcos.

The baby woges back and coos at her mother.

The next day...

The baby cries and Gabrielle tries to row the baby in her arms.

"Why won't it stop crying!?" asked Foo Fighters.

"She won't stop crying because she has colic," said Gabrielle.

"How do we kill this... Colic?" asked Narcos dramatically.

"I don't know! We don't have anything left in the kitchen!" yelled Gabrielle.

Nick then turns on his phone and offers it to the baby. The baby coos and giggles. "Alright... There."

"Huh..." said Gabrielle. "Thanks."

"If I have a nickel every time you got a kid hypnotized with your phone-..." said Monroe.

"You'd have two nickels?" asked Nick.

"Three. You forgot Felix," said Monroe.

Gabrielle picks up a scent. She sniffs the air as her eyes woge black.

Meanwhile...

A woman silently walks in the path of the bus.

It's Victoria JoJo. She wears her father's original attire: a white baseball cap with three gender symbols on it, a white trench coat, a black crop top underneath, white pants, and white pair of shoes. She has a blue belt around her waist.

"I need to get to Gabrielle," said Victoria.

*tik tik tik tik tik tik tik tik...*

Victoria sighs as she turns around to face her opponent.

She meets a beautiful woman wearing a white dress. She has white hair and light blue eyes.

Victoria sighs. "What do you want?"

Victoria woges into a Nekomata with black eyes.

The woman woges as well in response to instinct. She resembles a pale ghoul with needle-like teeth, white irises, black eyeballs, and white hair.

"Mambabarang," Victoria hissed.

"Nekomata Decapitare, (Nekomata Black-Eyes)," said the Mambabarang.

The two of them woge back to their human forms. They circle each other, pacing in hesitance.

"What do you wish to do, Decapitare?" asked the Mambabarang.

"What do you wish to do, Mambabarang?" asked Victoria. "Were you planning to ambush me?"

"I was sent to kill a group of Cryptids who have trespassed in the mountain. I was sent by a Rock Human."

"Tooru, you mean?"

"Yes."

Victoria smirked. "Lookie here, knave. You may tell me the truth, but by nature, you are a beast that I should be hast with.I am here to protect them and you're in my way."

"Your words aren't very wise," said the Mambabarang. "I've seen Decapitares before. I've killed them. All of them."

"Why aren't you Aswangs ever scared of Grimms, I wonder."

"Because Decapitares don't scare us... We can kill one with ease... Tell me. Have you ever dealt with one like me before?"

"No."

"You are quite reckless indeed, compared to your father."

Victoria's eyes widen as she begins to gag.

She pukes foot-long sticks with blood. She gasps for breath as her bloody lips trembled. She backs away and woges. She whispers something.

"Well?" asked the woman. "Still think that you can kill me off? I've heard of you. Victoria JoJo. From a dimension where your father was killed off by something stupid that you've done. What was that? Ah, yes. You accidentally blurted out your father's true name. You don't deserve the JoJo surname."

"Stop talking," her voice went raspy.

Suddenly, Victoria sees something crawling up her arm inside her skin.

"CALL ME MAYBE!!!"

Her Stand emerged from her body and chops her arm's skin open at high speeds as the insect popped out of her skin along with blood and plasma.

"You struck a vein," sighed the woman. "I should've introduced myself. I am Usoga. Assassin of the Dark Quartz Organization." She calmly approached Victoria, who trembled in pain.

Suddenly, a knife slowly emerges out her throat and she vomits even more blood.

"Probably you're not going to be alive in the next few minutes.And probably... someone's gonna help me out."

"Ah! You can't do positives! I've read your file..."

"There's a file for everything..." she sighed. "I'm probably not going to be alone, fighting you off."

Running steps could be heard in the distance.

The pair ignore this.

"Probably... you can't... use your powers on me."

"Sadly that simply isn't possible. With all the power I have, after all."

Suddenly, she vomits needles and pieces of glass.

"Your power is incredibly useless against me, Decapitare."

She vomits pieces of leaves, this time.

More insects crawl up her body as she shrieks in pain, woging, and shrieking.

"STONE FREE!!!"

Usoga's eyes widen.

*BANG!!!*

*SPLAT!!!*

Stone Free blasts its fist into Usoga's face. After a split second, she teleports instantly away.

Stone Free turns around, sees Usoga, and blasts another punch toward Usoga. However, Usoga creates a portal that leads to Stone Free's own face, but the punch is weakened upon impact.

"Stand-User," said the Mambabarang.

"You can see the Stand?" asked Victoria.

"I am using a spell that allows me to see Stands," sighed Usoga. "This is the Stand of my target, I believe."

Gabrielle, in her woged Aswang form, swoops into battle. She tries to bite the Mambabarang's neck but Usoga teleports away.

Gabrielle slides on the ground bowing her head while staring at Usoga in her woged form. 

"Tiktik Bampira Decapitare," said Usoga.

Gabrielle snarls as she charges with her Stand, Stone Free, but the woman opens a portal behind her and hops backward.

Gabrielle swings Stone Free's fist, but she's already gone.

The Mambabarang kicks Stone Free's womb, as Gabrielle barks in pain.

The Mambabarang summons an ax and swings it toward Gabrielle, who grabs the ax with Stone Free as Stone Free punches toward the witch's abdomen.

However, the witch summons a portal as her fist teleports into her face once more, but its fists weaken its attack.

"ORA!!!"

*POW!!!*

Gabrielle sneers.

"ORA!!!"

Stone Free gives a fake punch and kicks the witch in the face.

Stone Free then grabs the witch by the neck.

String wraps around the witch's body, completely immobilizing her.

"You're... Gabrielle JoJo."

"And you're... I don't know who you are... but I just... felt like attacking you. I smelled you! But... Why am I attacking you?"

Gabrielle turns to a heavily bleeding Victoria.

"Victoria..."

"Hey hey!" Victoria smiled and did a peace sign.

"I should've known. Why are you here?" asked Gabrielle.

Suddenly, Gabrielle explodes as a boat emerges from her stomach.

Gabrielle is forced to woge back as she flops on the ground, bleeding heavily.

However, Gabrielle slowly regenerates as her string reforms her body.

"Tch-!" Usoga keeps on magically inserting objects inside Gabrielle's body. Bugs start ripping her apart from inside: including centipedes, ants, spiders, worms, and beetles along with objects like motorcycles, cars, wheels, electric posts, and different sharp objects like glass shards, needles, knives, and sticks.

Gabrielle's body keeps spitting the objects out as the witch drops to her knees, exhausted from failing to kill Gabrielle.

The witch woges. "How are you not dying!?"

"You were saying?" smiled Victoria.

Gabrielle scoffs as she reforms her body, slowly yet in pain. "Somebody... didn't read... their target's... file."

"I knew you could heal! But why is it so-?"

"Advanced? You tell me," said Victoria. "I had an even harder time killing this b-..."

Gabrielle turns to Victoria.

"-lovely... lady..."

Gabrielle tiredly stares at Victoria then turns to Usoga.

Gabrielle woges again and ticks her wings as she and her Stand approaches Usoga.

"ORA!!!"

As the hand enters the portal and nearly strikes Victoria, the arm points at the Mambabarang and shot a Stone Kusai, launching her fist into the witch's face while the string still connects the hand and the wrist.

*SPLAT!!!*

Gabrielle sighs.

(theme begins)

"Hay Naku... Do you really think that your stupid portal move could keep up? I wasn't using my full power. You do realize that, right?"

"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!!"

Usoga fails to portal all of the fists back to Stone Free and Gabrielle as the fists were moving at near-light speed. Thus, the fist meets Usoga's face. Her face bleeds heavily from the impact. Her bones are crushed as Gabrielle prepares another attack.

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"WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

After several light-fast punches, the witch is now filled with very large holes all over her body.

The witch howls in pain as Gabrielle woges back to her human form and poses.

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"Ora," said Gabrielle, pointing to the witch's face.

The witch topples to the ground. Her intestines hang from her belly. Her eyeball is popped out. Her bones exploded out of her body. Blood seeps into the ground as the grass around her body grows a few inches taller.

"Now... you..." Gabrielle turns to Victoria and approaches her.

"Hey... Look... I don't wanna do this as much as the other guy but... I want to help you."

"And why should I trust you!?"

Stone Ocean grabs her by the neck.

"Probably because I know what Tooru's first plan is."

Gabrielle stares at Victoria, unfazed.

"You... did hear what I said, right?" asked Victoria.

"Yeah... Yeah, I did." Gabrielle puts Victoria down as her strings begin entering Victoria's body.

"HEY!!! WHAT ARE YOU-!?"

"Healing you."

Victoria stares silently at Gabrielle. "So... So we're cool?"

"Sure," sighed Gabrielle.

"Great! Now, be a good little bitch and take me to your chambers!"

"Ugh!"