A Devil with an Angel's Heart

Chapter 26, Part 2

||Polnareff

The axe swung down, heading straight for him. Polnareff quickly summoned Chariot to defend himself. The little silver Stand tried to stop the axe but was too weak and was cut into his left wrist as Alessi pinned him to the wall. Polnareff screamed in pain as the wound opened on his own wrist. "I'm not strong enough to beat him like this." he groaned, then noticed that the nice lady was gone. "Wh-where did she go? She couldn't have just vanished. She was sitting right behind me. I didn't even hear her scream. What did he do to her?" he thought. Alessi turned to him and smiled creepily. He slowly approached his hands outstretched. Polnareff backed away but Alessi got him anyway, lifting him up by the neck. There was no way Polnareff could defend himself with this small body. He was only about, maybe seven years old. "Polnareff~ As I recall you said the shampoo stings your eyes and since it looks like you got some in there..." Alessi lifted the boy over the bathtub, filled with water and pushed him underwater, "Allow me to help you wash it out!" Polnareff struggled, the impact with the bottom of the bathtub pushed all air out of his lungs and the boy flailed around. "Now, this won't take long." Alessi chirped. "Shit, having pint-sized arms is on the verge of getting me killed!" Polnareff thought in a panic, "If only my arms were a little bit longer I could poke his eyes out and run for it!" Instead he felt for the plug, he had to drain the water. He found it and pulled it out. "So, even in the face of death you pulled the plug. However,..." Alessi moved the boy's head towards the drain and Polnareff's hair was sucked inside, clogging the drain, "With your hair clogging the water's only exit, it's gonna take even longer for the tub to completely drain. I'd say you have five, maybe ten minutes left." Alessi taunted, "You may as well throw in the towel now. You're going down for a coveted nap. Good night. Horrid dreams, damn brat." Alessi laughed, "How does it feel to be utterly helpless, Polnareff? You should have stayed with that damn girl, she would have posed a much greater challenge. Now, she'll be met with a enemy of her own!" Polnareff didn't know what to do, when suddenly he had a great idea. It was utterly gross and disgusting but right now, it was the solution for his problem right now. He couldn't help but grin Alessi in the face as he pooped into the bathing water. It floated to the surface and towards Alessi's arm. "Huh? What is that thing?" he wondered then realised what exactly it was, " It-it can't be! But from the shape and colour it looks like ...Th-there's no way! No one in their right mind would think of doing something so down-right disgusting! Polnareff used his chance and kicked his poop right into Alessi's face and landed right on his nose. Alessi grimaced in utter disgust and he cried out, "It's undeniable! The smell proves it!" Alessi jumped back, releasing his tight grip on Polnareff's neck in the process, to flick the disgusting object of his face. "How foul!" he exclaimed, "You took a shit in the bathtub!" Polnareff sat up, quickly taking a few lungs full of air. "Guess I'm not so helpless after all, you creepy foreign asshole!" Polnareff retorted. "How dare you do something like that? Dear god, isn't there a shred of human decency in your body? What kind of hero would ever stoop to do something so disgusting? You are a bad boy! Very bad!" Alessi chastised. "Shut up and tell me what you did to that nice lady!" Polnareff demanded, "I wanna know right now!"

He jumped out of the tub and stormed out of the bathroom calling for the lady. "Where are you? Lady, answer me!" Alessi, who had calmed down, crossed his arms and chuckled. "Man, are you that stupid? What do you think I did?" he asked. Polnareff stepped back into the bathroom, the woman's negligee lying on the floor where she had been before. "Whoa there, it'll be wise for both of us to watch were we step, Polnareff." warned Alessi, "One wrong move and your lady-friend will be squashed underfoot. Oh no. Polnareff eyes dell upon the negligee and when he listened closely he could hear the very quiet cries of a baby. Upon closer inspection, he could see teensy tiny feet looking out of the negligee's cleavage. "He-He wouldn't." stuttered Polnareff in utter disbelief, "This can't be happening!" Inside the negligee lay a fetus. "Anyone who touches my Stand experiences time in reverse. Luckily for you, you saw me coming and jumped away from my shadow at the last second, buying yourself a few more years than your friend down there. But she had the misfortune of touching my shadow for several seconds. That's why she became a fetus! She's alive for the time being, but if I'm honest with you she won't last long outside the safety of her mother's womb. That's what she gets! She should have never tried to help a pathetic piece of trash like you. What a moron!" Alessi explained. "You are the worst kinda person on this planet!" Polnareff yelled but the enemy only chuckled. Alessi's shadow stretched out again. Polnareff quickly grabbed the negligee, cradling the fetus inside, and jumped out of the way. However, he was a little too slow and touched the shadow for a moment. He staggered back when he landed before finding his balance again. "You touched it again." stated Alessi, "Which means, you're going to get even younger! This time you'll probably regress to a diminutive four-year old version of yourself." In that moment Polnareff could feel himself shrinking, now merely reaching up to Alessi's knees in size. "This is bad. I have to hurry and beat this guy or the nice lady will...At this rate she only has a matter of minutes before she dies! I have to find a way to defeat this Alessi freak! And I gotta do it fast." he thought and ran off hearing Alessi chuckle. "She took me in and fixed up all of my wounds, she was so caring....I have to hurry...There's absolutely no time to waste!" he thought while running before Alessi caught up to him, saying "Come here, little boy!" and tried to grab him, "You're not gonna go far with a dying fetus!" Polnareff dodged the enemy again. "Here's a fun idea! Let's turn you into a fetus, too." Alessi's shadow stretched out again. "Not this again! This damn shadow keeps touching me." he exclaimed as he felt himself getting even smaller. "Oh boy, there's no way in hell I'm gonna lose now! Judging from your appearance Polnareff, you're what? Three years, now? Before you know it, your intellect's is gonna be that of a three-year-old, too." Alessi laughed. Polnareff escaped into a room and shut and locked the door behind him. Alessi started throwing himself against the door, trying to break through. "Locking the door won't do you any good, little one!" Alessi declared as he looked through the keyhole. Polnareff used a bucked to climb up onto the window sill. Unfortunately the window was barred. "Damnit, the stupid bars are too close together. Even a kid can't fit through. But I have to find a way to get outta here!" Polnareff tried to squeeze through the bars but he just couldn't fit through, so he used Silver Chariot to try and cut the bars but the Stand wasn't strong enough. Outside, Alessi was laughing, "This is just too good to be true. Your Chariot's also become a toddler. The bars are too tough for his rapier and he's become slower too. Here I come!" Alessi warned, then started breaking through the door with his axe. Polnareff watched in terror and came to the conclusion he had to hide. He heard Alessi enter the room, wondering where he had gone. At first Alessi suspected he had slipped through the window. The metallic ring of the axe meeting the bars could e heard. Then it was silent for a moment in which Alessi probably realised Polnareff had gone into hiding. He chuckled, "Not bad, runt. Quiet cunning indeed, for a miserable little shit. Polnareff, come out, come out, wherever you are..." Alessi sing sang, then suspected him to be inside the drawer. Polnareff buried his face inside the negligee, trying to stifle his fearful breathing. Alessi declared that he had decided that Polnareff was hiding away in the teddy bear then changed his mind and destroyed the pendulum clock instead. The clock, the drawer, the teddy bear, the bucket and the aquarium, were the only places Polnareff could have hidden in. The room didn't have any more furniture. Next, Alessi destroyed the bucket but was wrong again and grew exceedingly frustrated and destroyed the bear and the drawer. When he didn't find Polnareff, he started swinging around his axe like a madman, destroying pretty much the entire room. The walls, floor and ceiling were all made of stone Polnareff couldn't have left the room not matter how much he wanted to. Alessi was thrown into confusion due to that. Polnareff chuckled, "So you were outsmarted by a toddler, huh? Old Man. Alessi." Alessi then noticed one of the goldfish swimming around in the little aquarium disappear. As he came to take a closer look, the ball swimming on the surface of the water turned, revealing two holes. Two eyes opened, revealing Polnareff's location as he summoned Chariot and stabbed though Alessi's nose, causing him to scream in pain. Polnareff stood up, pulling the ball off of his head. "I was hiding in the fish tank the whole time and used this mirror for camouflage. A kid came up with a plan and you totally fell for it." he taunted, holding up the mirror. "I was worried that something so simple wasn't gonna work, but luckily for me, you are just as stupid as you're creepy. Doesn't matter if Chariot is stuck in his two-year-old form, he can still skewer your face, dumbass!" and thus Chariot cut up Alessi's face. Alessi screamed in pain and ran out of the room. "Hey, wait, get back here!" Polnareff demanded and jumped to the ground, holding the ball with the fetus inside in his arms, "Until I'll break your Stand 's spell I'm gonna keep attacking." Alessi kept screaming, "Bad boy! Bad boy!" and leapt through the window. "That jerk jumped out the window!" Polnareff exclaimed, running after him, loosing one of his earrings in the process.