Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 9: One Year of Love

Chapter Twenty Two: Aurum Pt. 1

User: Zombie Rob

Age: 35

Stand: Smashed Pumpkins (This Stand has the power to create false hallucinogenic images to distract opponents and can only be stopped by realizing the image is false, or have the user be stricken with the blood of the user. If the image is failed to be destroyed within 30 minutes, the opponent will be trapped in an endless hallucination. This power is called Feel So Numb.)

Potential: B

Precision: C

Durability: C

Range: B

Speed: D

Power: A

Josui ran down the street as he remembered the memories that Avicii gave him as feeling of the Florida sun began to beat down on him. Wiping away the sweat beads on his forehead, Josui ran down the street and took a right turn as he waited at the intersection. After he crossed the intersection, he felt his phone vibrate inside of his jacket and pulled it out to see that a random number was calling him from the diner. Opening the phone, he held it up to his ear and said, "Hello?" Thankfully, Celine was on the other end and replied, "Jojo? Is that you? Oh thank God. Where the hell are you going?! What the hell are doing?!" While sprinting down the street and passing random pedestrians, Josui said, "I'm currently running into town and looking for the two men Avicii sent me to find. How is everyone at the diner?" Celine said, "Zeppeli's pissed off. Like, really pissed off. There is no amount of words that could even describe how pissed off he is and David looks like he's gonna shit the bed at a diarrhea convention. Me? I'm... kind of both. This guy is freaking me out! But you read his mind, right? So can we trust him?" Josui ran down the street then jumped over a man tying a shoe and said, "Yes! We can fully trust Avicii, Celine. I'm sorry, but I cannot tell you what I saw in those memories. There is something that is only for me to know right now, but I'll tell you later." He hung up his phone and then made a left turn, seeing his destination was no where in sight, frustrating him. Stopping on a street corner, Josui leaned against the streetlight, took a deep breath and thought about the information he was given. He saw the two men Avicii sent him after both standing a jewelry store, but he could not see a name of this particular jewelry store as apparently, Avicii didn't care what the particular name of this place was. The building did have a piece of graffiti on the memory that seemed to be focused on that read, "Shine on you Crazy Diamond." Crazy Diamond? That's Dad's Stand! Josui thought to himself, Maybe if I look for that piece of graffiti, that's probably the jewelry store I'm looking for! Running down the street, he looked around random buildings and was shocked as all hell to find out that some of the graffiti was being painted over.

With a quick look over, he saw that all of the buildings were being repainted to get rid of the graffiti. Standing in shock, Josui's heart sank as he lost the only thing he could use to find the jewelry store. After a second glace, he saw that the coat wasn't dry and was wet enough for his Stand to remove the paint for a quick second. Running around multiple buildings, he used Mercury Vision to lift up the white paint off the wall for a few seconds then put it back. After about thirty seconds, Josui found a similar piece of graffiti that read, "Shine this way you Crazy Diamond" with an arrow pointed up the block. He ran in the direction of the arrow and then found another piece of graffiti that pointed him several blocks up and continued to follow the directions until he came across a large building made of white marble and had very large columns along with dark windows that looked more like sunglasses. Josui looked up and saw a sign that read Gods of Gold and watched as people were barely walking in or out. Walking up into the building, Josui took a deep breath and went in through the door, seeing dozens of people, rich and older people gawking around at all the jewelry. Looking at the jewelry, the only thing he could look at was the price tags on everything, making his throat grow a lump larger than a basketball. He turned away so that he wouldn't be memorized by such amazing jewelry, but at the same time it seemed all too amazing to not look at... Wait! Snap out of it! Josui slapped himself in the face out of some form of reaction as he rubbed his eyes then looked up from the counter and saw a man in a black dress suit. He was about 6'6" tall, seemed to be very athletically fit and was most likely born of two different races. The man seemed to wear dark sunglasses with long dark hair that looked like it was very greasy but was combed back amazingly smooth. "Hello young man," he said with a sound of disgust in his voice, "Is there anything you're looking for in particular? Perhaps a set of golden earrings for your mother? A girlfriend? Perhaps something for yourself?" Josui rubbed the back of his head, thinking of what to say when the man said, "Sir, are you interested in anything?" After tilting his eyes down, he looked up into the eyes of the mysterious man and said, "So... Have anything in piercings?" Rubbing his chin with a black glove, he turned his head to the right then snapped it back to look at Josui. Feeling uncomfortable, Josui began to cower until he thought to himself, Damn yourself Josui! Grow some balls for once in your life, you piece of shit! Josui looked at the man and said, "Sir, what do you have in ear piercings?" 

The man replied, "Well, let me see." He pulled out three trays that were filled with nothing but gold earrings that didn't have any jewels or other minerals. In fact, all the earrings were all made with nothing but gold, all of them in special designs ranging from simple to complex designs. Looking around, Josui seemed to be mesmerized simply by the hundreds of designs until he finally snapped out of it and said, "Well, these are good and all, but do you have any in the back? I'm getting some for myself you see and--" The man interrupted him and said, "You only want the best for yourself, yes? Well, in that case, come with me." They both walked behind the counter and walked up to a large oak door with a large gold doorknob. In the next room, Josui was shocked to find that there were dozens of shelves of earrings, unfortunately distracting him long enough for the store owner to summon his own stand in the form of a gauntlet. Sensing the power of the Stand, Josui spun around and used the arms of his Stand, Mercury Vision to catch the man's arm before he could attempt to claw him to death. "Are you a fan of mosses Mr. Higashikata?" In confusion, Josui watched as he threw the gauntlet into the wall, but then the man, whose name was Ares Sinead, pressed the gauntlet into the corner of the floor, revealing a small trace of gold in the corner of the wall. Josui watched as the gold turned to moss and saw that the gold lining on the floor was holding it together and while it changed into moss, the floor gave out from underneath him. Falling through the air, Josui used Mercury Vision to grab at the walls only to find that nothing was helping him slow his fall. There seemed to be nothing to slow down his fall until he had an idea, causing him to use his saliva to prick his finger with blood pouring out. Mercury Vision used the blood to create a pair of daggers to use on the opposite walls to keep either of them from needlessly falling. Taking in a deep breath, he continued to descend as he saw that there were some spider webs, giving the idea that this place hasn't been used for a while. But then he heard a voice above him say, "If you're still alive Mr. Higashikata, you should know that my Stand, 24 Karat Magic can change organic matter into gold, such as mosses, blood and even spider webs!" Josui gasped when he watched the spider webs were slowly turning into gold and knew that he would turn into gold as well. He let go, the blood daggers sinking back into Josui's body and Josui beginning to panic without knowing what to do. The duct suddenly bent in a slide type of some kind, seeing a glowing light at the end of the duct, Josui's eyes enlarged as possible.

Summoning Mercury Vision again, he attempted to stop but realized he would be turned into gold, but if he didn't, he would be burned alive. Throwing himself out, Josui saw what caused the light: A pool of melted gold that was large enough for Josui to not escape. As he fell towards the liquid, burning gold, Josui felt an arm grab the back of his jacket and hold him up. Josui was met face to face with a charcoal black figure with a creeping smile and bright yellow eyes. Throwing him over the liquid gold, Josui landed in a pile of gravel and sat straight up then looked to see the second man from Avicii's memories. "Found 'im. Who's the little shit anyway?" He said smiling with gold plates on his teeth into a walkie talkie, the man was identified by Josui as Beserker Killshot, the rapper that Avicii talked about and someone that Josui had heard about several months ago, hearing about how this man attacked then injured several people when they heard his last name. Josui then saw another man standing behind him, wearing... a red jacket and sunglasses, revealing that it was none other than Zombie Rob. "Hey there kid. Surprised to see me you tiny little piece of shit?" He said as his Stand, Smashed Pumpkins climbed out of his body and breathed a green gas over Josui. With his eyes darting around the forging room, both men disappeared, leaving Josui with Smashed Pumpkins clawing its way over to him. This was all fake as Zombie Rob and Beserker watched, "That's the power of my Stand, Smashed Pumpkins. The power of Feel So Numb will trick him into falling into that melted gold, Mr. Killshot. You should be happy I'm taking care of this shit, especially after what happened to me." He pulled back part of his jacket to reveal bite marks from Ramone, that turned him into a vampire. "Holy shit!" Beserker shouted. "That Metal Maiden bitch turned ya to a blood sucka, didn't she? I mean, damn." Josui looked around and couldn't see anything in the forge, still watching the Smashed Pumpkins chasing after him, but then he felt something near his hand, seeing part of a fire from the liquid gold. It quickly disappeared as he slipped on something and fell backwards, snapping him completely out of the hallucination and showing that he was about to fall into the forge full of liquid gold. Zombie Rob and Beserker walked away until they heard a slamming noise, causing them to turn around. What they saw was Josui's leg flying into the chest of Zombie Rob, piercing his chest with a giant hole. They looked at the forge and saw long gold tentacles that were the size of pencil lead, attached to his arms and legs, showing that he used the liquid gold to escape. "Holy shit! He used the gold to escape! Time to pull out the big guns." Said Beserker as his Stand began to float out of his body.

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