🪰Tower of Gray🪰
🌠Jotaro🌠
Once we were all set and ready to go, we headed straight to the airport to catch a plane to Egypt. Of course, the old man had some connections and got on the best airline that was directed to our destination.
When we got on the plane, the five of us sat close in two rows. Jiji and Avdol sat in the seats in front of us while Kakyoin, (name), and I sat behind them. For the first two hours of our flight, things were fine, until we heard a faint buzzing flying around.
"You all hear that, right?" (Name) stood up from her seat. We all hummed in response.
I then stood up too, as I thought I found the source of the buzzing. "A rhino beetle? Wait, no. It's a stag beetle" I corrected myself.
"Hey, Avdol, is that a stand?" Jiji asked the Egyptian man, "are we already encountering another stand user?"
To which Avdol nodded, "it's possible. This could be a stand that takes the shape of an insect."
"Uh, guys? It disappeared.." (name) informed worriedly.
"Wh- It hid in the shadow of the seats."
"Damn. It could be anywhere."
We then shut our mouths and opened our ears to listen closely for any signs of that pest. If it really was a stand it could attack any of us at any moment. Our guards should be on high alert.
The next thing we knew was when Kakyoin gasped and pointed between me and (name).
"JoJo, (Name), it's by your heads! Looks beside you!"
Both she and I turned to each other and found the stand hovering between us and it was bigger than we expected for a bug. Definitely, a stand.
(Nam) yelped upon looking at the thing and cursed, "gyah! Jesus Christ, it's huge!"
"Yeah, no doubt. It's here for us."
As we got a better look at the stand, we could see it frothing at the mouth with a tongue coming out with its own set of sharp teeth.
I glared at it with a distaste, "that's disgusting. Just sit tight. I'll take care of it."
"Be extremely careful," Avdol advised. "I've heard that there is a user of an insect stand that likes to rip out the tongues of his victims before they die."
(Name) gagged, "dear God, that's horrible!"
I summoned Star Platinum quickly to grab the pest, but it managed to dodge my advances. It took us all by surprise. We thought that nothing could get past my stand with its precise speed.
"Then, there's no doubt about it. That bug can only be a stand. Where is he? Where is he hiding? Where is the one who's controlling it? We need to find him." Kakyoin looked around the plane of sleeping passengers. It could literally be anybody in here, but this stand was not gonna give us the time to figure it out. "It's getting ready to attack!"
The bug then shot out its extending tongue to me. Star Platinum put his hand in front to stop it but with that tongue's extra set of teeth, it went right through, also piercing a hole through my flesh hand.
"No, damn it!"
"Jotaro/JoJo!"
It was going for the face, but thankfully Star Platinum caught it with his teeth before it could reach inside. As close of a wave that was, I was shuddering from the adrenaline the situation gave me.
"It's just as I feared, it's going after Jotaro's stand's tongue. It's him, represented by the Tower card of the Tarot. Symbolizing calamity and the interruption of a journey. Tower of Grey!
Tower of Grey is responsible for countless mass murders, which he made to look like unfortunate accidents. Like that plane crash in England last year, with over 300 deaths, was likely his work. And I fear to imagine how many more before that. I'd heard rumors, but to think he's teamed up with Dio.."
While I had Tower of Grey in a hold, I took the opportunity to attack it back with numerous punches. But it managed to dodge them too, despite having it caught.
"Damn it, it's too fast! Even for Star Platinum!"
Then, we heard words coming from the bug. It laughed at us, "even if you had ten guns to shoot bullets from a centimeter away, they would not be able to touch my stand. Not that you could kill a stand with a gun anyways. You're all going to die with the rest of these weaklings!" After that bullshit monologue, the stand disappeared again. Kakyoin was right, if we get rid of the user, the stand will be quickly dealt with. But who is it?
"Heads up, it's over there now." Kakyoin pointed to the far back of the plane.
What's it planning to do? The stand laughed again as it slowy descended behind on of the passengers and suddenly shot through the seats and heads in a straight line, holding to up their freshly ripped out tongues.
"Ahahaheheh! Bingo! Got their tongues."
"Oh, God, I'm gonna be sick.." (name) groaned with a hand over her mouth.
"Now for the best part!" By using the tongues covered in their mixed blood, Tower of Grey flew back to a wall and began writing on it. It wrote massacre.
"Fine. I'll burn that damn bug alive! Go Magician's Red!" Avdol volunteered but Kakyoin stopped him.
"Avdol, hold on a second!"
We looked to the left as an old geezer was waking up from his seat. He rubbed his eyes, muttering how noisy the flight was and decided to go to the bathroom. (Name) tried to warn him about the stand hovering by him, but he didn't listen as he put his hand on the bloodied wall then stopped.
"Why is this wet? What's with all this slimy stuff?" He began to inspect and smell the red substance on his hand and read out the word on the wall. The old man then came to realize what it was and panicked.
"AAHHH! B-BLOOD! THIS IS BLOOD--"
"Atemi," but thanks to Kakyoin again, he knocked him out swiftly. "We have to defeat this stand before the other passengers start to panic. That's easier said than done, though."
"So what do we do?" (Name) asked. "Avdol and I could still use our fire to kill the bug, can't we?"
"Here's why you can't. Using active Stands like your Magician's Red and Wand Nova inside an airborne plane could make it explode, killing all of us. Jojo, if your power were to rip a hole in the fuselage, it'd be a catastrophe. This calls for a quiet and discreet Stand. My Hierophant Green is most suited to defeating it. Let me take care of the pest control." Kakyoin got into a fighting stance and Tower of Gray (ToG) began to laugh.
He said that he already knew enough about Kakyoin, thanks to his master and teased that while silence was a smart move, Hierophant Green could never match his speed in this battle. Kakyoin was cool about this, however, as he unleashed his Emerald Splash. But the damn fly managed to dodge the first wave. The redhead used Emerald Splash again, but no hit was landing. ToG laughed again in mockery.
"You seem to think you can hit me if you fire enough shots,but you haven't hit me at all!"
"Oh, no. This isn't good." (Name) worried, "it's dodging everything Kakyoin throws at it."
Just then, ToG went for it's turn to strike and caught Hierophant Green through its mouth guard, affecting Kakyoin as blood spat from his mouth too.
"Kakyoin!" (Name) and I called out as our group member fell to his knees.
"I'm just too fast for you!" ToG laughed again, "You're way too slow to get a bingo. And, Kakyoin.. with my next attack, I'll stab your Stand's tongue with this tower needle and rip it out! Won't that be fun~?"
Kakyoin didn't answer, but used Emerald Splash again. But again, the fly dodged every rock Hierophant Green had to throw at it.
Avdol grunted in frustration, "damn. Impossible. How can he win if his attacks find their mark?"
ToG went for the kill. "You'll go mad from the pain once this rips its tongue out! Hahaha! How exquisite!"
"Is that right? If its tongue is ripped out, I'll go mad from the pain?" Kakyoin smirked. "My Hierophant Green will go mad, all right." Suddenly, strands of Kakyoin's stand shot out of nowhere and pierced ToG from all angles.
The fly screamed, "w-what?"
"If it rips you apart, it'll go mad.. from pure joy." Kakyoin then proceeded to explain. "His appendages had already slipped beneath the seats. I just needed enough time to set up my little trap. You didn't realize I was using my Emerald Splash to keep you in one spot?"
Tower of Gray couldn't say a thing as Kakyoin's Stand already ripped the bug apart to nothing. What made the triumph more surprising, was that the old man Kakyoin knocked out earlier jerked from from his still body. His tongue revealed the Stand's mark, ripped in two and his head split open.
"So that geezer was the user all along, huh? Heh. Guess I should have expected as much. A repulsive Stand usually has a repulsive user."
"Aaahaha! Hell yeah!" (Name) cheered as she jumped on Kakyoin with a hug. "That was amazing, Kakyoin! You got 'em!"
A small blush spread across his face while he hugged her back with one arm. "It was nothing."
"What? No, it was something. You played that old man's game like a fiddle. Fucking. Rad."
"Heh. Thanks.."
Watching as the two interact so closely brought up a bubbling sensation in my chest. It made me glare at Kakyoin from how he was being so bashful with (name). Yare yare, 'the fucks going on with me? I tipped my hat forward to hide any weird looks I was giving. Thankfully, I don't think anyone noticed.
🪄You🪄
After I was done praising Kakyoin, we all drew our attention back to the main objective. First we had to cover what happened here. I offered to clean up most of the blood I could as the guys moved the old man to a seat and covered him and the other victims with blankets. Though, it was surprising to me how no one else on this plane woke up from the noise we were making. They were all pretty much sloths. Well, at least it worked in our favor. After I was done cleaning the wall, I went back to join the group as Kakyoin made a good perception check.
"Well, that's strange. It doesn't look like he had Dio's flesh bud in his forehead."
Avdol then shed some light on that detail, "Tower of Gray was always evil. He killed tourists by the hundreds and got paid for it. He'd make it look like an accident and got away with it every time."
"Dio was probably able to use him for his blood lust and bought him through greed." I concluded and Avdol nodded. "Disgusting." Just when you thought the world couldn't be any more fucked up, we had these assholes walking the earth like they're hot shit.
In that small moment of silence, a low creaking sound came through and suddenly the plane didn't feel right anymore. A passenger's cup fell from its table and Mr. Joestar was the first to speak up.
"It could be my imagination, but I get the feeling this plane isn't flying straight anymore." The cup we just saw moved around without us touching it and Mr. Joestar nodded. "It's crooked. No doubt about it...no. it can't be!"
The old man rushed to the front of the plane where the cockpit was and the rest of us followed him. One of the flight attendants stationed by the cockpit tried to stop Mr. Joestar from pursuing any further, but he didn't listen as he pushed past her. Another attendant came to back up her coworker but when Jotaro came up from behind them, I could see the two were immediately weak in the knees. But that didn't matter to old Kujo since he already resorted to forcefully shoving them out of the way, calling them bitches. As they were about to fall completely over, Kakyoin was there to catch them.
"Woah, there. Sorry, ladies. His disrespectful behavior towards you is incorrigible, but we have an emergency on our hands. Please forgive him, for me."
The flight attendants were also taken by his suave charm. They sighed, saying, "okay," dreamingly while Avdol and I were watching this all unfold.
Avdol gave me a look, but I just shrugged defeatedly. The two boys went ahead to the cockpit. But when I tried to follow, the flight attendant held me back.
"Hey, are those two by any chance single?"
"Do you think we can get their numbers from you?"
I began to cringe at what they were asking from me. Okay, I know they might not look it. But we're freakin' 17. Were our school uniforms not enough to prove that?
"I would. But... we're all minors?"
"Wait, you are?"
"We're 17 and wearing school uniforms."
Blushes of embarrassment came up to their faces and I think that just did enough to make them regret their attractions to my friends. Plus it's not like I had their numbers to give anyway.
"Damn it! This is horrible!" Mr. Joestar forced his way into the cockpit to find a traumatic sight. All three pilots that were supposed to be operating the place were already dead and their tongues were already ripped out, too. "We've been had!"
"That damn rhino bastard. He killed the pilots before we knew he was here."
Mr. Joestar checked the machines and found that we were losing altitude fast and the auto pilot was destroyed too. We're bound to crash if we don't do something something quick. Just then, the Stand user we fought came up from behind us, somehow still alive and laughed. His blood was streamed down his face but also spewing from his spilt skull and his ripped tongue wiggleed in different motions as he pointed at us. And God, did he smell.
"Eugh! Why couldn't you just stay dead, you freak!"
Next, the geezer went on with his final monologue. "My Stand is the Tower card, which signifies horrible accidents and the of journey. I'll keep you from Lord Dio if it's the last thing I do. Even if you manage to survive the crash, you're still 10,000 kilometers from Egypt. Those who swore loyalty to Lord Dio will pursue you relentlessly. You don't stand a chance in Hell. There are Stands in this world with powers that defy the very limits of imagination. Lord Dio's power is the one that rules over all of them. He is the master of Stands, reigning over the world like a God among mortals! There's no way you'll reach him alive. You bastards won't even see Egypt! Your deaths will be swift and painful-- HURGHK!"
"Rragh!" My group and the flight attendants stared at me in shock as I was standing over the old man's body with a bloodied fist. "What? He was freaking me out with his bull crap."
Jotaro only sighed while turning his attention to the women attendants, who were like deer in headlights.
"You're definitely professionals," He said to them. "Good thing you didn't scream. It annoys me all to freaking hell. Now, I've got a request." The attendant listened closely. "This heap's gonna hit water, and this old man's gonna land her there."
"Huh?"
"Go put life jackets on the other passengers, and make sure they're buckled up." The women didn't ask questions and hurried back to the main cabin to do what Jotaro instructed. He then turned to his grandfather. "You got this?"
"Mm. I have some experience with prop planes, but this..."
Kakyoin and I sweat dropped. "Prop planes?"
"But, Jotaro, this'll make three plan crashes for me." I'm sorry, what now? "Have you ever heard of someone being in a plane crash three times, let alone surviving each one?"
We all sighed collectively as Jotaro made up his mind. "That settles it. I'm never riding in a plane with you again."
If we survived this, this trip was definitely going to be a wild ride...
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