Mattina Luminosa's fight against the world

A strange story between a waiter and his customer

It was just like any other day. I was sitting alone at my favourite coffee shop, wating for my personal favourite drink, the Espresso Romano. But today was slightly different to every other day. I would usually be served by a man of the name Giorgio Valentino, but he hasn't showed up at all. To anyone else this wouldn't be strange, but I knew something must have been wrong. Giorgio showed up to work, every. Single. Day. Rain or shine. Night or day. The man would never take a day off work. Just how I would never miss a coffee, at 9:15am every day. At one point I was 5 minutes late, Giorgio already had my coffee ready for me arriving. "Hello Mr Mattina Luminosa. Here is your Espresso Romano. Extra lemon." the new guy had said with a smile on his face. I already had suspicions about this man. Our town was quite small, few faces I hadn't already seen, talked to or worked with, but this man was different. Not that his looks had anything to do with it, but everything else about him just screamed city boy to me. The way he walked, the clothes he was wearing. His accent was perfect down to the pronunciation. So, I tested him. I replied in English. "Thank you. How is it you knew about the extra lemon? I don't get coffee from anyone but Giorgio." "Giorgio had left a note. He isn't feeling up to the weather today. He called in and asked if I could cover his shift" even the man's English sounded Italian, still I couldn't trust him. Giorgio always showed up, no matter what. 

"Where is Giorgio now? Do you know what it is he has contracted?" I had replied. If he answers correctly, all will be said and done. If not, then I know something must be wrong. "Giorgio is in home resting. Hopefully he is back soon" this imposter. Giorgio never rests. He may be ill, but Giorgio would still be doing housework something must be wrong. I can't trust this new guy he might end up being like me. It had happened before. Other people with the same ability, what was it that girl called it? A stand? I think she explained it that it was a physical manifestation of my fighting spirit. She had also given me this Lense which could scan the summarised statistics of a stands power. My stands name was Stairway to Heaven, and its ability to cause any item, no matter the size or weight, to levitate to almost any height I wish. Only problem is, my stand must first touch the object for it to levitate. Which wouldn't be difficult, if the stand could move more than a metre away from my location. Not only that but its bright white and pink colour scheme makes it very noticeable. Luckily enough, I found out regular humans aren't able to see stands and the best way to find out if this man is an enemy, is for stairway to heaven to attack. I'll throw a punch straight to the side of his head let's see how he likes this! No flinch, no movement at all. Clearly, he can't be an enemy.

"Is there anything you would like Mr Luminosa? Maybe you would finally like to start drinking this damn coffee you love so much!" he grabbed me by the head and slammed my face into the coffee mug. Coffee, glass and lemon all over my face and in the air. I took this opportunity to use my stand and flick the handle of the mug towards face and give him a free lip piercing! But something grabbed it and pulled it away from his face. "You won't live through this Mattina Luminosa! I'll kill you and take your power for my own!" something deep blue in colour, snake like in length and movement jumped out of the waiter's mouth, causing blood to fly everywhere. Even over this new jacket. So, the waiter wasn't lying at all. But something else took control of him while we were talking. But how? Where is he now? I can't pursue him, it's too risky. I'll wait on the table. Using my stand's ability to float will give me the time I need to think, patch up my face and figure things out. I guess this tablecloth will need to do for my face wounds. Damn coffee. I knew it have bad consequences drinking something with lemons.

Somethings latched onto the table. My stand might only be able to use levitation, but the ability can be reversed. Time to crush this god forbidden stand. the table crashed against the floor, yet somehow the enemy stand dodged it. This time ill finish him off with a punch to the chest. The enemy stands chest burst open, turning into what looked like a bear trap, crushing my stands arm which led to the exact same injury on my end. I followed up with another punch but to no avail, its head had just split open and reformed as stairway to heaven withdrew his hand. "You can't hit something that knows when you're going to move, I can feel every part of your body from here, so warm and toasty, why don't you take one last look at the sun before you die!" the enemy stand threw his hand at my chest, as I had stairway to heavens ability to lift myself upwards dodging the attack, then reversing the ability to crash down onto the stand, only for it to split in two and reform again. The stand could extend, remove and even split its slimy blue body anyway it wants. It's warm, wet touch sickened me to my stomach. Yet how does it know my every move? He mentioned the sun earlier...The heat coming off my body is appearing in the air, allowing this stand to see the exact way ill move and when. He can see my body heat. I bolted it, running away from the scene in into a neighbouring street, the enemy stand following as I do so. I hid in a nearby building, waiting for the perfect time and angle, lunging forward with my stand, passing right through the enemy "haven't you realised I know exactly how you're going to attack, your moves are useless!" the enemy said, his smug attitude quickly wiping from his face as he realised what I was aiming for "you should really pay attention to your surroundings" I said, while crashing into a fire hydrant, soaking myself in the water. It felt like I had just jumped into the ocean "I can still see the temperature difference, you can't escape me" the enemy said, as the water droplets stopped falling, covering the air in the cool water, thanks to stairway to heavens ability, the water stayed in place, which allowed the air, and myself to stay the same temperature, not allowing my enemy a chance to escape I grab the enemy stand with stairway to heaven, shaking it violently, "now take me to your user, or I'll kill you both right here, right now!" I wasn't going to hospitalise him. Yet. I need answers. Why was he after me? How he knew I had a stand? Is he working for someone? It doesn't matter regardless, it's something that's in my way, and dear god I'll stop It, no matter what.

After walking for a while, I end up in an alley, with a delinquent. Leaning against the wall, pure black leather jacket, his jet-black jeans and his tar black shoes really helped in hide in the darkness, the only thing that stood out was his blonde pompadour haircut. I held a tight grip around the stands neck, not allowing him to escape back to his user, while also not gripping tightly enough to choke him any. "Now tell me everything. Why you attacked me, and how you knew I was a stand user." the man looked scared, but not from me, he was looking over my shoulder. Behind me, at the very end of the ally, there stood a tall man, shrouded in darkness. A knife in his hand. The stand in my grasp started to twist and shake its way out of my hands. As the man with the knife walked closer, dragging his knife against the wall, whistling his eerie song the stand tried drastically to escape while its user was frozen in fear. The man's sinister presence sent a chill down my spine. The whistling grew louder, and louder is he approached closer and closer. He walked right by me, dragging the knife against my cheek, giving me a small cut, and I did nothing about it. I let him cut me. He showed no intent to hurt me, but the man with the blonde pompadour was in serious trouble. The stand stopped trying to escape, accepting the futility. The man in darkness, stood just in front of the man with the blonde pompadour, staring right into him, stopping the whistling. The silence was echoing throughout the ally. Until he spoke "those who betray me...shall have vengeance struck upon them...times sevenfold." from the shadow, came a whisper. A wind like whisper. Not a word. Just the sound of wind. It grew louder, and louder. A small pure black hurricane forming just behind the blonde man, and from it emerged a stand. Black, with gold detail on the arms and legs, its pure green eyes glowing in and out from the darkness. "You have committed a sin against me...those who do not comply with the holy one shall be stricken down with the power of sevenfold!" the stands eyes flashed red as it struck it's hand down onto the blonde man's shoulder, creating a gaping hole in half of the man's body. The stand quickly faded from my hand, leaving me with this monster. He turned and walked the other way, his stand following slowly after. 

As much as I was going to regret it, I used stairway to heaven to punch the back of the enemy stands head. Nothing happened. I punched again, then they stopped. "My stands name is avenged sevenfold, and if you attack it again, you will suffer the consequences" he then continued walking. After seeing what he did to that now dead man, I wasn't taking my chances, I used stairway to heaven to levitate to the building above, using rooftops to follow the man. He stopped and talked to his stand. "Pursue the man in the ally, do not let him escape. He knows of your presence; we cannot have anyone interrupting our plans." avenged sevenfold slowly turned its head towards me, it's green eyes turned blue, before slowly walking towards the building. Thank God I was safe up here, that is one scary stand. Avenged sevenfold then took the wind out of my lungs, as I looked back down, it was halfway up the wall, walking on it as if gravity didn't exist. I looked away and looked back, it was even closer. The stand moves faster when I'm not looking. How do I fight this stand? If I get to close, I'll be obliterated. if I look away it moves closer. There has to be a way to defeat it. Think Mattina think. Your stands powerful, your good looking, yet you can't think of a simple way to defeat this god forbidden stand!? I used stairway to heaven to punch the roof, causing the building the shake and crumble causing avenged sevenfold to fall, still attached to some debris. The stand kept on walking on the debris then jumped onto the wall, continuing its walking. The aura from this stand is terrifying. What have I been dragged into? As avenged sevenfold reached the roof, I pummelled it with stairway to heaven, the stand continuing its walk towards me. Stairway to heavens hands were flying through the air as fast as it could punch, not stopping or missing. Avenged sevenfold did not stop, it was like a freight train trying to reach its final destination – me. Avenged Sevenfold was moving ever closer when, almost pushing me off the building, but then, suddenly, its eyes went green then it started walking away from me. It vanished into the dark cold crime scene below. After waiting for an hour, with no sign of anyone, I decided to leave for the hospital before these wounds get infected.