305. The Reaper II ~Dawn~

It is revealed to Gabrielle what she must do to defeat the Dark Quartz Organization, but she struggles with accepting who she is.

Gabrielle looks at the Television in horror. She sees Kenneth running from the orphanage's rubbles.

What once was...

"RAUGH!!!" yelled Miguel as half his face melted.

Earlier...

Zod blasts her heat vision into her face.

*gurgle! gurgle!*

Now...

Gabrielle's eyes quiver.

Meanwhile...

"This is what I've gathered from the page by translating it and putting it under UV light..."

"I think Miguel prophesied that one of his kids will become The Reaper," said Bruce. "And that this child will gain Go Beyond." 

Nick squints his eyes. "Rat King... That's the guy that Gabrielle and Narcos met some time ago that they've told me about."

"So... Someone has to be The Reaper..." said Bruce.

Gabrielle listened soundly on the steps of the stairs, silently while her daughter slept.

"We both know who Dad wanted to be The Reaper..." said Raphael in sign language, smiling.

"I don't think I can..." said Gabrielle in sign language.

"Gabby... I'm a Police Precinct Captain."

"I don't want to be The Reaper..."

Gabrielle, Mercuria, Narcos, Raphael, Iggy, Foo Fighters, and Victoria all drink in the southern garden, laughing and cracking jokes (except for Victoria).

"What else can you do with that?" laughed Mercuria.

"Alright! Alright! Wait!" she giggled.

"You shouldn't play with that," sighed Victoria.

Gabrielle whispers something into her locket.

Suddenly, a Vibranium battle ax appears in her hand.

She swings it left and right as the others back off and laugh.

"That's a Tool Synthesizer. You're not supposed to mess with it," sighed Victoria.

"Do another one!" smiled Narcos.

Gabrielle smiles and whispers something into her locket.

Suddenly, a butterfly knife appears in her hand.

She does little tricks with it, spinning and swinging it over and over.

"Stop-..." sighed Victoria.

Gabrielle whispers something once more.

A katana appears in her hand.

The others cheer.

She spins the blade up and down as it makes a strange whistling sound.

She drops it.

She whispers something else.

She gains Iron Man's gauntlet and shoots laser blasts with the repulsor cannon at a tree nearby, which explodes.

The group cheers for Gabrielle, except for Victoria.

"You know that you are by far the laziest and most irresponsible person I've ever met," sighed Victoria.

"Oh, please!" laughed Gabrielle. She yawns. "We're just having fun!"

"You're tipsy and you're being idiotic," sighed Victoria.

"Kono Gabrielle JoJo da..." she drunkenly said.

"We probably won't get hurt," whispered Victoria.

Gabrielle summons a Batarang and tosses it into the stone wall, and it digs into the rocks. It continues to dig into the rocks. Gabrielle pulls it back with string from the tip of her index finger.

The Batarang continues to vibrate and gives an exotic whir.

"Gabrielle, stop..." sighed Victoria. "For God's sake..."

Raphael hoots and beats his chest, happily.

Iggy barks happily.

Foo Fighters laughs so hard that bubbles come out of her nose and ears. "Oops..." she shyly covers her head (except her sparkling and quivering eyes and her hair) and she blushes.

Gabrielle takes out a macuahuitl. "This one's used to behead enemies of the Nahuatl... Spaniards... Cryptids..."

Narcos' eyes widen. Flashes of his past shine in his eyes. He remembers several people he beheaded, several people he enslaved, and several times he won and lost. The weapon, the macuahuitl, flashes in his eyes in the form of a black version of the weapon. 

Narcos covers his face.

"You okay, there, Narcos?" asked Mercuria.

"I'm fine," he sighed, as he Wahrewoges slightly. 

Gabrielle swings it and everyone laughs and backs off, as the obsidian blades make a whistling sound.

"What the hell are you doing!?" asked Anne, seeing what Gabrielle is doing.

Gabrielle, Victoria, Narcos, and Mercuria all woge at once.

Anne's eyes go black. She sighs. "Gabrielle, that is not a toy."

"You're not the boss of me!" she said, drunkenly, pointing her obsidian sword.

"Gabrielle, please!" yelled Anne. "You're drunk. Come on, let's go."

Gabrielle hisses. 

She charges but Anne zips her head off. "BUENA!!!"

Gabrielle's head groans as she woges back into her human form.

Anne sighs and puts her head back on her body.

Gabrielle sniffs and wipes her nose.

Later... the pair went to the Reapercave...

"What's wrong?" sighed Anne, sipping tea.

Gabrielle drinks tea as well. "Thanks for the tea," she said, bowing her head and slamming it on the table.

"What's with you today?" asked Anne. "You invited everyone to get drunk and you're acting like your old self again."

"I don't deserve to be The Reaper!" she said, slamming her fists on the table.

Gabrielle sees her father's armor.

She turns away out of trauma.

"You knew that there was a chance that you'd be dawning the suit, right?" asked Anne.

"This isn't fair," sighed Gabrielle. "I caused his death. I feel disgusting if I take his mantle after that."

"For the last time, Gabrielle! You didn't kill your father!"

"Oh yeah? Then tell me! If I didn't call Uncle Lord, would Dad have been able to call him!? Would Lord have defeated Stefan!?"

"Well... Yes."

"So it's my fault."

"But, Gabrielle, that was never your intention. You didn't mean to kill your own father! You didn't kill your father! You just did what you thought was best!"

"What would Dad say!?"

Anne sighs. "He would say... that you're being a complete idiot."

"No, he wouldn't."

"Well, if he saw you doing this to yourself over and over, he would. He'd say... 'Gabrielle, you're being a complete fucking stupid idiot who thinks she... has... control over fate. Well, guess what? No one has control over fate. You can't change what already happened. You can't completely control what's about to happen, but there will always be a chance to change it. You have a chance to change your destiny...'"

"How?"

"'If... you... If you realize that fate is not some weird happy or sad ending to our stories... Fate is something we can't control but we write for ourselves... It's the very moment when we leave our mark in history and in the memory of others' blood. It's not our end, it's the beginning of another story. You're my daughter, and therefore, you carry the future of the JoJo Family and everything we've ever worked for. You're special, Gabrielle.' That's... what... he would've said, Gabrielle."

Gabrielle's eyes quiver.

Later...

She walked toward the armored suit of The Reaper.

She sees that half of the armor's face is bloody and rusted.

"Only you, Gabrielle JoJo, can carry its honor..."

Gabrielle stares at the suit. She grabs the helmet, and its top left half topples on the ground.

"You're the only one who can be what once was... and lead a new generation of heroes."

Gabrielle takes out some spray cans and paint.

Gabrielle sighs. "Hay Naku..." she bowed her head.

Gabrielle stood on top of a building.

"Gabrielle!? Where 'the hell,' are you!?" asked Anne in Gabrielle's Bluetooth ear.

"I'm going to hunt down and interrogate someone I found connected to the Dark Quartz Organization," she said in a deep and growling voice.

"What the shit!?" asked Anne. "You sound like an idiot! Get back here! Now!"

"You told me to be The Reaper!" yelled Gabrielle.

"Not now!" yelled Anne. "I meant someday when you're older! You're nineteen for God's sake! You can't just randomly be a Stardust Crusader! It takes a ritual to be one! It's like a sacred title or whatever!"

"You're really confusing. You just told me to be The Reaper."

"I told you to accept yourself! Not interrogate people at night out of random!"

"Found my target." 

"WAIT!!! YOU HAVEN'T BEEN AUTHORIZED YET TO-!!!"

Gabrielle turns off the earphone and uses her string to swing down an alleyway.

Five men are seen at the bottom.

"Oh, shit!" yelled a man. He Erstewoges out of fear. They all do. They're all Skalengecks. "It's the fucking Reaper!"

"Isn't he dead!?" yelled another.

"KILL HIM!!!"

*BANG!!! BANG!!! BANG!!!*

Gabrielle is shot, but she shrugs it off and charges at them.

"ORA!!!"

One down.

"ORA ORA ORA!!!"

Three down.

One man is left.

"What the shit?" he asked and whispered to himself, seeing that she's riddled with bullets.

The bullets slowly pop out of her skin.

"What the fuck are you?" asked the man.

"I'm the Goddamned Reaper," she squinted her eyes. "Tell me... What's the League's next hit?"

"I don't know what you're talking about-..."

*BANG!!!*

Gabrielle blasts Stone Free's fists into the dumpster and punched a hole in it.

"WHAT IS THEIR NEXT HIT!?" she growled.

"You sound like a fucking child who's stacked on other children in a fuck  trench coat! WHY DO YOU SOUND SO TERRIFYING!?" cried the man.

"WHAT IS THE NEXT HIT!!!" she howled.

"I DON'T KNOW!!!" he sobbed.

She grabs his head and bashes his face in the wall.

"Oh my God... I am so sorry!" said Gabrielle.

"Ugh! My nose!" the man trembled. "My nose!"

"I'll fix it..." said Gabrielle

*CRACK!!!* 

She bops her nose another time.

"FUCK!!!" he cries.

"Uh... Yeah! That's... That's right! If you don't tell me I'll keep breaking your nose until it breaks... a lot more!"

"Okay! They're going to bomb five children's hospitals in this city! St. Michael! St. Gabriel! St. Uriel! St. Judiel! St. Raphael!  Just stop bopping my fucking nose!"

"HEY!!!" several Blutbaden woge and face her off.

"It's the fucking REAPER!!!" yelled one. "KILL HIM!!!"

"FUCK!!! SHIT!!!"

Gabrielle ORA's the man in the nose, knocking him out.

She charges at them and ORA Rushes all of them.

For one man, she jumps at his face and wraps her legs around his neck, spins, and knocks his face on the ground.

She then uses Stone Free to blast its fists into their faces.

She woges her hands and beats their faces as well.

"ORA!!! ORA!!! ORA!!! WRYYYYYYYY!!! ORA!!! ORA!!! ORA ORA ORA!!! ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!! ORAAAA!!!"

"STONE FREE!!!" cried Gabrielle, as she launched her fist to the roof and swings around the city.

The next day...

"Five bombs were found in five different children's hospitals St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Uriel, St. Judiel, and St. Raphael have all been saved from the Dark Quartz League of Anarchy. They were saved by the mysterious New Reaper. Police have confirmed that this Reaper is not the deceased Miguel JoJo, as his body was still in the coffin. What does The Dark Quartz Organization want? Who is this new Reaper? Will this new Reaper return? Stay tuned in the Daily Bugle!" said Lois Lane in the Daily Planet. "Clark, shut up," she giggles. "We're on the news."

"Yeah, I'm not doing that again," said Gabrielle, sighing out of exhaustion.

"Good," sighed Anne.

"I actually like that you're doing Dad's old work," said Raphael in sign language.

"Save it," sighed Gabrielle. "I got shot 67 times."

"I think your Dad would be proud that you at least tried," said Narcos.

"You really think he'd be proud?" Gabrielle turns red.

"Yeah," smiled Narcos.

"Huh..." Gabrielle thinks about becoming The Reaper once more.