42. Judas Priest Part I ~Little People~

A blonde woman stood on some sort of tunnel. The ground was wet and the smell of the ocean was there. She crept inside the tunnel and saw a light at the end of it. She was slender and had a small chest. She wore yellow clothes. She wore a black crop top with a yellow vest over, She wore a towel acting as a skirt that is tied around her hip. A yellow humanoid Stand with large needle-like teeth, a goblin-like nose, no ears, antennae-like eyes, a slender body with a striped pattern on its abdomen. It has a white chest and belly. It has white patches on its arms and legs.

This Stand is Judas Priest, and the User is Sonia Leche. Her motivation?

To assassinate the Stardust Crusaders.

Her ability?

We'll see.

Miguel, Kariel, and Arthur are shown to be playing Minecraft in Kariel's bedroom. It's a blue room with a white bed in the middle with a table set by the wall. There is a giant flat-screen television on the table with controllers connected to a Nintendo Switch which is connected to the television through an HDMI cable.

Miguel blows up Arthur with TNT from behind.

"DAMN IT!!!" shouted Arthur. "Boy, I'll kick your ass!"

Arthur respawned and chased Miguel on the server.

"Miguel!" shouted Jedan. "Dinner!"

"I'm having fun with my family, for once," said Miguel. "Beat it."

"Miguel... We're hungry," said Jedan.

"Later," said Miguel.

"Miguel!" shouted Jedan in a high-pitched noise as Miguel covered his ears. "I'm going to keep tawking in this vawys unless you cook us d-..."

"Shut the fuck up," said Miguel, slamming his controller on the ground.

"Don't break my Switch, Kuya!" shouted Kariel.

"I'll break Jedan's switch-..." he continued muttering.

In the kitchen...

Miguel boils some chicken and filleted fish meat in a large pot in the kitchen area of the ferry. When the water evaporated, he let the meat fry in some oil then added sliced tomatoes, garlic, onions, and shrimp paste to the mix. Later, he added some water to the soup. Afterward, he sliced some Indian Eggplants, ginger, bitter gords, sweet potatoes, green beans, yardlong beans, and okra. This is Pakbet, or Pinakbet, as called by the Tagalogs.

In another pot, he boiled some chicken and filleted fish. He fried them with garlic, onion, and ginger again when the water evaporated. Afterward, he put water again and this time, boiled some saba bananas and the heart of the banana tree into the stew. He then added peanut butter into the mix. This is Kare-Kare or peanut butter curry. It is usually served with pork, but Miguel cannot eat red meat.

This time, on a large pan, he boiled chicken and filleted fish once again. After boiling, Miguel fried the meat with garlic and onion again. He then added soy sauce, barbecue marinade, black pepper, pork cubes, oyster sauce, and vinegar, mixing it thoroughly. When the sauce dried up, the remaining meat became rather greasy. He used the same sauce for the fried rice he cooked, but this time, with a beaten egg added to the mix. He added enough eggs for the rice to be sticky, but dry. He added some of the meat from the stew and added it into the rice. He also added some cabbage, carrots, and broccoli to the rice. These are Tuyong Adobo or Dry Adobo, and Adobong Fried Rice.

After cooking, Jedan's tentacles entered the room and grabbed each of the large pots. They then put the meals each in a buffet tray. From left to right, the trays had servings of Adobo, Fried Rice, Kare-Kare, Pakbet, and Plain Rice. The Crusaders each took a meal from the trays. One rice and one meal.

"Why'd you have the trays arranged this way, Miguel?" asked Jedan.

"They're alphabetical," said Miguel.

Jedan's eyes widen. He woges into a Chupacabra and snarls.

"What's wrong?" asked Miguel.

"There's an enemy Stand-User nearby," said Jedan.

"I don't sense anything," explained Arthur.

"That's because she's tiny," said Jedan, standing up. "But she touched one of my tentacles. My tentacles had been guarding this ship entirely like a web around it. Looks like dinner has to wait."

Hierophant emerged from his body and shrank.

"You can do that?" asked Jessica.

"Yes I can," said Jedan.

Once again, she trips on one of Jedan's tentacles while running in some kind of tunnel.

"She's on the move," said Jedan, as the tentacles chase after her.

She moves extremely quickly as if she was moving at the speed of light. Hierophant ends up missing her.

She starts to speak to a radio. "Guys... I've infiltrated their ship," she whispered. "They've found me. Where are you? Nero? Straizo? Diablo? Menudo? Langit?"

Miguel senses more Stand-Users nearby.

"Guys... there's a ship in the distance," said Miguel. "No... three."

"I hear them, too," said Jessica. "Their engines are whirring toward us."

Arthur sighs. "We have to make sure that those ships aren't hostile. Jessica. Put each of us on the ship. Miguel and Anne. You take the ship on the right side. Jessica and Kariel, you take the ship in the middle of the other two ships. I take on the ship on the left since it has the least Stand energy.

Everyone else looks at Arthur with disappointment.

"You guys said that I was the weakest of the team!" shouted Arthur. "Jedan, keep this ship safe. We'll be back before you know it. Call each other with the phones embedded in your suits in case there is trouble.Shall we?"

Jessica nods and zooms everyone away.

"Wait!" shouted Jedan. "Damn it... HIEROPHANT-!!!Huh?!"

He senses a Stand-User behind him. Jedan brings out Hierophant immediately.

"SPLASH!!!" shouted Jedan, as the woman shrinks, dodging the Emeralds. "OH, COME... ON!!! NO ONE IS SUPPOSED TO DODGE THE EMERALD SPLASH!!!"

Jedan woges to enhance his sight. He sees her a millimeter tall while jumping around on the ground at extreme speeds.

Hierophant shoots at her and kept missing.

"Come on!" shouted Jedan. "EMERALD SPLASH!!!"

*shoo*

*boom*

The woman's speed is amazing, even rivaling Star Platinum's first form.

"Huh... Your Stand must represent your massive Napoleonic complex," said Jedan.

"Excuse you?" asked the woman, regrowing to normal human size. His tentacle then wrapped around her neck. She shrunk once again, but his tentacle had already entered her body. She regrew again. His tentacle regrew as well.

"Stop that!" she shouted, looking rather annoyed by his ability. His tentacle seeps through her veins as it entered through her thumb and dug into the vein of her arm all the way up to her neck. "What's your ability, anyway?"

"Tentacles," smiled Jedan. "My Stand Ability can simply be explained by tentacles."

"Tch-..." she whispered, as Jedan began to shrink. "What are you-?"

"Goodbye, Jedan Ligera," she smiled. Jedan then shrank into an inch tall. She then put a jar over him.

She laughed sadistically as she stared at him. "Now, all I need to do is regrow you from inside... and..."

Jedan regrew from inside the jar.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" shouted Jedan, as he began to blow up. "Don't do this! Come on! Have some decency!"

*SPLAT*

*shing shing shing*

Only blood was left in front of her.

"Well..." she laughed. "That's the end of that!"

She walked to the balcony and spoke to her allies. "Straizo. Jedan Ligera is eliminated."

"I wouldn't say that if I were you," smiled Jedan.

She turns around and sees that Jedan is completely fine and is now large.

"What?!" she asked.

"What pisses me off is that the very organization that turned me into its slave for three years is still doing stupid shit like trying to kill me. When will they realize that they can't kill me?" asked Jedan, softly.

"That arrogance will best you," she said.

"I don't think so..." he smiled.

Hierophant then emerged and shot Emeralds at her. She immediately shrunk and reappeared within his head.

*SPLAT*

Jedan is now headless as she leaped out of what was left of his head and regrew.

Immediately, his head regrew.

"Why won't you die?" she asked softly. Her eyebrow twitches.

"Your eyebrow twitched," he said. "You're quite annoyed of me. Just what I needed."

"Why are you even protecting Miguel JoJo from us? We won't hurt him. We'd just use him to-..."

"...-wipe out all of humanity?" smiled Jedan. Jedan scoffed. "You wish."

"You're a Chupacabra! You should understand what us Cryptids are going against!" she shouted.

She woges into a Lycan.

"Lycans are known to be rather creative people. They're also the Nerds of the Cryptid world like I am," he smiled.

"Wolf to wolf..." she said. "Please... join us. If you do, we won't have to kill you anymore."

"Look..." he sighed. "Even though Miguel is kinda... pretty much an absolutely bat-shit crazy... person... Miguel still believes that Cryptids, Grimms, and Humans can live peacefully together."

"That's what he wants or that's what his father wants?" asked the woman.

Miguel and Anne look around the ship. Anne kisses him on the cheek and he turns red and looks away.

Jedan observes this via his tentacle.

"His father?" asked Jedan. "Not at all. He's doing this because he believes in something now... Ever since he met his mother in an alternate timeline... Ever since he had closure... Miguel found something within himself...That something is faith."

"Then you're an idiot," said Sonia. "You fight for the enemy?"

"I fight for what's right," said Jedan.

"These people had us whimpering in their hands! These people feared us, resented us, hunted us! They had our heads just because they fear us! Guess who fears them now?! Guess who has the utmost right to destroy all of them for what they've done?!" asked Sonia.

"That is why you'll never understand," sighed Jedan. "You just don't get it, do you? He, Miguel JoJo, has a dream he believes is just."

"Then why do you believe him?" asked Sonia.

"It started when-..."

"Don't you dare have a flashback in the middle of a fight-..."

"-...we were in 7th Grade on the spot where all of his romantic relationships started."

"Oh, God..."

Jedan remembered...

"Hey, Jed!" smiled Miguel, as Jedan ignored him. He's sitting on a bench. Jedan looked up to Miguel and sighed.

It was green hills before him. The wind was loud and the ants had already hidden in their burrows. The sky was extremely cloudy.

"What do you want?" asked Jedan.

"You were watching them," said Miguel.

"Hold up."

Now...

"What?" asked Jedan.

"You said that this is the bench where all of his romantic relationships started?" she asked.

Jedan stared at Sonia.

Sonia stared back at Jedan.

Jedan remembered something...

"Hold up. Don't interrupt the-!"

"Jedan!" smiled Miguel. "Typhoon, huh?"

Jedan ignored Miguel.

"You were watching them," said Miguel.

"Excuse me?" asked Jedan, turning to Miguel.

"You were observing each of their movements like a cat," said Miguel. He looks up at the sky. "You're kinda scary, Jedan!"

"You're kinda scary, Jedan... I don't wanna be friends with you..."

Jedan looked blankly on the ground. He observed a spider burrowing into the ground.

"But you seem normal to me even though you're kinda scary," said Miguel, smiling.

Jedan turns to Miguel.

Jedan turns slightly red.

"Hold up, you turned red?"

"Shut up."

"I, Miguel JoJo, have a dream I believe is just," smiled Miguel. "That dream is that I find nothing to be useless anymore..."

"What do you mean by 'useless'?" asked Jedan.

"I want to find meaning," said Miguel.

"What do you mean by 'meaning?'" asked Jedan.

Miguel did not answer.

Now...

"That is the sole purpose why I fight for Miguel JoJo," said Jedan. "Miguel JoJo has a dream he believes is just... That's why... right here... right now... I have to beat you."