43. Judas Priest Part II ~Friendship is Magic~

Maria puts a frog in a cage and a cat next to it.

Her Stand appears on her hand, resembling a remote control. She pointed to the frog and pointed to the cat. Their souls slowly emerged out of their bodies, but immediately, the two animals exploded.

Maria buried the two animals the next day.

Maria then put another frog and a cat next to it.

Her Stand appears once again. She does the same thing to both of them. The two animals explode once again.

She keeps doing this until she decided to do this to two frogs. This time, the frogs properly switched souls.

She did this to two cats, and they properly switched souls.

She smiles.

(theme ends... it is The Mountain King)

She stares at Jedan very calmly and gives off a sneer.

"So... if we kill you, the Crusaders"

"Goodbye, traitor," she whispered.

Suddenly, she disappeared.

She reemerged once again from behind and kicked Jedan in the back of his head. She then jabbed him in the face as Jedan uses his tentacles to slide away. He is carried by his tentacles as he crawled toward Leche. He shot Emerald Splashes toward her. She shrunk again. Jedan is still in his woged form as he followed her movements. "WHY!?"

"Alright, Wasp," he said. "You still planning to kill me? You do realize that you can't really kill me since shrinking me would just have me control my biomass to get bigger again, right?"

"K-K..." she whispered, as she regrew and kicked him in the face.

"Oh... and I'm guessing you need to control your biomass because of your-..." Jedan looks at her chest. "I'm sorry... I didn't mean-..."

"RAUGH!!!" She kicks him in the face.

He studied her.

"You have another ability, don't you?" asked Jedan. "You just aren't showing it... Or is your ability not really what it is? Is it not shrinking?"

She regrew, grabs his arm, and twists it using her Stand.

"Is it not just shrinking?"

Her eyes widen as she backed away.

"Wait..." she thought.

She realized how Jedan's ability works.

*doom*

She shrank.

Jedan leaped down and prepared his Hierophant for another shot. "You decided to shrink again, Sonia Leche? How'd I know your name? Had a hunch." Jedan looks around the floor. He can't find her.

He listened to the splashing of waves. He smelled the ocean's salt. The sound of gulls could be heard in the sky.

"We're close to land," thought Jedan. "That means we're close to the destination."

He listens to the waters' splashes. "No..." he whispered. "That can't be her ability, is it? That can't be possible! That's too much power!"

Jedan looked up and saw her looming over him. Fifty feet tall, she stood before the ship he is on.

"Oh... God..." he whispered.

She then grabs Jedan on the head and dips his head in the water.

*gurgle glug glug glug*

Jedan's muffled screams could be heard in the water. He's drowning.

She frowns and sees Jedan drown underneath the water. The salt is in his eyes and his nose worsened as Jedan begins to bleed from those pores as she began crushing him. Jedan screams underwater.

"I realized that you need your organs. Based on the accounts of our former leader, Damaso, a Stand-User similar to you needed his organs to live even though he can manipulate his biomass," she smiled. "That means you can still drown."

Muffled screaming and bubbles could be heard below.

"Our people need this," she said, calmly. "Our people are the ones who need justice.My father was a Lycan as well, while my mother was human. She knew about his Lycan form, and my parents loved each other.But tragedy struck when my father woged for the first time. He was carrying me at the time...You see... my mother was a paranoid person. She feared for me, and she ended up stabbing my father to death.I grew up with my mother shielding me from the truth. When I got old, she told me. I resented her. I killed her.I'm saying that human society had created me. Humans are the virus of the world and we are the vaccine. But your Grimm friends are supposed to be some sort of sick mutated virus that took us out."

She pulls him out of the water and starts crushing him.

"Join us," she smiled. "Your father was a human, right? A Stand-User, even... I heard he manipulated mold... He... experimented on you, right? Because you were a Chupacabra."

Jedan gasped for breath and bled from his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth.

Jedan vomits blood and shakes in pain. "Hey... I have to say... *gasp*... I would consider it... But they're my friends..."

"Friends? That's why you're turning us down? Because friends?" asked Jedan.

"Miguel was there for me when I was a kid..." he whispered. "It's time for me to be there for him."

Before...

Jedan Ligera was born on August 23, 2003. His mother died in childbirth. His father was a well-known surgeon in the Philippines and was a well-renowned surgeon. Despite his father being a Stand-User, his son did not inherit a Stand. Instead, he inherited his father's potential.

However, his father found that Jedan has a disease that causes him to bleed rampantly after cutting. The bleeding would be excessive since his blood cannot clot. This was called hemophilia.

The disease would worsen over time. After 27 different near-death experiences, his father began experimenting with his son with his Stand, Green Day. He used molds, the ability of his Stand, to clot his wounds every time he'd have one, causing Jedan's body to mutate disgustingly. His flesh molded with his bones. His limbs were disfigured. His face and body deformed into large basketball-sized pimples. Thus, his father decided to ask the New World Order, the Mafia of the Philippines, to stab his son with a Stand Arrow.

Jedan gained... Hierophant.

Years of mutation and experimentation gave him trauma that made him cold and calculating. However... the only persons that he showed his emotions to were Miguel JoJo and Anne Zeppeli.

Now...

"I would consider it... I really would..." he whispered. "But these people... no matter what you say... they're my friends..."

She then began crushing him.

"You have a limit, don't you?" he smiled.

"Huh?!"

"Yeah..." he whispered, chuckling. "That's why you didn't want to increase your size so quickly. And when you were shrinking, you had to return to your original size. I thought that maybe you were doing it to hit me... But it seems that your speed would be sufficient to attack me... So why were you growing?"

His eyes began to look like it was about to pop out of his skull.

"Because you can't breathe in this form as well..." he smiled.

She raged and dove him into the waters once again.

Muffled screams came from the water.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!!" he shouted. Water entered his lungs. The stinging of the salt could be felt.

"If you keep trying to breathe like that, you'd hemorrhage your lungs," she replied.

"If you keep talking like that... you'd lose what's left of oxygen in your lungs..." he said through Hierophant. "It's like a Congressman becoming a Mayor in his next consecutive terms and back to a Congressman... You're just jumbling sizes... Sooner or later... You'll shrink."

Jedan stopped struggling.

Hierophant is no longer there.

She immediately shrank back again, landing on the ship as she gasped for breath.

She coughed some blood and walked around.

(theme begins)

"You can't just drown me like that," smiled Jedan, grabbing her by the shoulder.

"H-How did you-?"

"I could manipulate my biomass," said Jedan. "I put my nose on my foot and shifted my organs to be able to breathe from there. From one terrorist to another-..."

"Why are you a terrorist? You're a vigilante who helps people," she said, coughing some more blood.

"Miguel told me this whole thing about Anti-Terror Law and how it's so vague that kicking your friend in the balls is already considered terrorism... like if you kick it... really, really hard," said Jedan. "So arsonists? Terrorist. Murderers? Terrorists. Rapists? Terrorists. Vigilantes? Terrorists. People who farted in the bus? Terrorist."

"Laws? What are they?" she asked, looking confused.

"I dunno," said Jedan. "Miguel's job is weird.Anyways...From one terrorist to another, I gotta say..." said Jedan. "I respect your cause. However, I cannot align myself with you."

"Because friendship?" asked Sonia.

"Because of friendship," he smiled, as he prepared Hierophant.

Sonia then prepared her Stand.

"So... A Stand-Off, then," she said.

He smiles. "I'll keep in your range."

The two stared at each other.

"JUDAS PRIEST!!!"

Judas Priest offers a powerful punch.

"EMERALD SPLASH!!!"

*shoo*

Judas Priest's hand then throws some water into Jedan's mouth as he breathed in.

Judas Priest snaps her finger.

A large drop of water becomes several pints in Jedan's lung.

*gag*

*boom*

The Emerald Splash missed and was shot into the ocean. With her blonde hair rippling in the ocean breeze, she watched Jedan slowly die.

"You have to understand," she said sharply. "You have to understand that we have no other choice..." She then approached Jedan.

*shoo*

*SPLAT*

She looks down, and it is revealed that she has a hole in her chest.

Jedan punctures his own lung and his back to release the water using his Stand's hand. He heals himself and breathes once again.

"May I reveal to you my special move: 20-Meter Emerald Splash. You approached, so the Emeralds came in to protect me... *gasp*" he said. It is revealed that there is a web of tentacles all around both of them.

"Y-You..." she whispered. "You-..."

She fell kneeling, staring coldly in Jedan's eyes, as she dropped to the ground, dead.

Jedan takes off his jacket and dries it using his tentacles by squeezing it. He then puts it over his shoulder as it flows like a cape behind him.

"Damn straight," he smiled.

(theme ends)