How to Steal Diego Brando's Heart [Diego Brando x Reader]

Chapter 4: Reminiscing

Two Time wrapped her arms around your neck, a habit that she had done since you first got her. Truthfully, you had no idea how you got this being, or if anyone else had this strange ability. She had just appeared a couple of years ago, when you were 15.

You remember when she first appeared. You had been crying in the barn after your parents had screamed at you, called you worthless, for the millionth time. You could never get used to it. What's worse, your parents rarely let you out of the house so you had no friends to talk to about your problems, besides Land Slide. Even though you loved your mare, it was still awkward talking to something that wouldn't respond with words.

Feeling miserable, that's when you heard a voice. An unrecognizable one, a voice that you've never heard before.

"Don't cry. You're above them."

Scurrying to your feet, you shook your head side to side, up and down. Where was that voice coming from? That's when you felt two hands press down on your shoulder and you screamed, turning around. There she was, a ghostly, almost transparent figure staring at you with emotionless eyes.

"W-who are you?!" you backed away from whatever it was, because you definitely knew it wasn't human.

"I am you, (Y/N)," the ghost spoke, rising into the air.

You just stared, flabbergasted at what you were seeing. You must be hallucinating, right? Rubbing your eyes, you hoped to see the figure gone, but there she was, still there, with no intent of going anytime soon.

"Don't be scared. You are very strong, (Y/N.) And I am your power, your ability."

"W-what? My power? I don't have one... I'm weak..."

Two Time shook your shoulders, scolding you for getting lost in your thoughts again. Even though you have more control over her, your stand still likes to voice her thoughts.

"Two Time, make the door harder!" Your stand punched the door, and instead of it breaking, nothing happened. At least visually. You knew what your stand could do. Anything your stand or your hand touches, it can increase the hardness of it. For example, a blade of grass is normally pretty flexible and can be easily snapped in half, right? But if you wanted to, you could make that grass harder and deadlier than a knife.

You haven't had any situations that you had to use your stand on people, and you hoped to keep it that way. Your stand had made the door hard enough so that no beast would be strong enough to break it down. Even though it would only last for maybe 10 minutes, you hoped it would dissuade anything from coming into your cabin.

You sighed, you were beyond tired to eat. You had gathered some pieces of wood lying hoping to make dinner, but you realized that wasn't going to happen. You decided to use it to barricade the door more quickly nailing it on the door with the help of Two Time.

Throwing off your riding boots, you flopped onto the stone cold bed. It was rock hard and uncomfortable, but better than being outside on the ground. You clutched the pillow close to you and pulled up the paper thin sheets. You quickly fell asleep, completely oblivious to all of the chaos and dinosaurs going on outside.

When you woke up, the first thing you heard was banging on the door. Sleepily rubbing your eyes, at first you thought it was just some villagers making some noise outside, until you realized the banging was getting louder and louder. Gasping, your mind went to the worst possible scenario. Someone was definitely trying to break in and kill you!

Frantically, you scrambled to get out of bed. The reinforcement you put on the door had fallen off, and the door was about to be broken down in a matter of seconds. Calling out your stand, you positioned it to punch the person who was trying to get in.

Boom!

The down was busted down and you launched your stand's hand at the person, only to stop just in time to recognize the two men.

"J-Johnny? Gyro?"

The two men had a similar look of shock on their faces.

"(Y/N), you're a stand user?!"

"Stand user? You mean my Two Time?" you asked, puzzled that they could see your Two Time. No one else could see it except you. Maybe they had this strange ability as well?

The two men glanced at each other and Johnny lifted up his fingers. His nails began to spin and he shot one of them outside. You watched in amazement as it quickly regenerated.

"W-wow! I didn't realize there were more, er, 'Stand users' out there!" you clasped your hands together in excitement. Your stand hovered near you, eying the men suspiciously.

"(Y/N), who are these people?" your stand whispered in your ear, scowling at Johnny and Gyro.

"T.T, don't be rude! They're good people," you scolded your stand, reassuring her that they were your friends.

Johnny raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"Your Stand... talks?"

"Doesn't your Stand talk, too?" you asked.

"No, I've never seen a talking Stand yet..."

You giggled. "Well, I guess Two Time is special. Anyway, um, why did you barge in and kick down the door? Is everything ok?"

"Oh, that." Johnny rubbed the back of his head awkwardly, apologizing for his rudeness. "We wanted to make sure you were safe."

"Safe? Safe from what?"

"You don't know what happened last night?"

"L-last night? No... I was sleeping the entire night."

"We were surprised when we saw you weren't turned into a dinosaur."

"D-d-dinosaur? Those huge beasts went extinct years ago!"

"Let us tell you the story..." Johnny went off into a long explanation of the events that transpired last night. About how all of the villagers, and specifically Diego, were turned into dinosaurs by someone's ability, and how they were assaulted and nearly were killed by them. And now, Diego had the ability to turn into a dinosaur.

"I really advise you stay away from him, (Y/N.) He'd do anything to win, even to a woman like you," Johnny finished.

To say you were shocked was an understatement. But you believed them. Having these supernatural powers was already a reminder that unbelievable things could happen in this world.

"What's more, we'd like to know how you managed to stay safe from the dinosaurs," Gyro said.

"My Two Time can increase the hardness of anything it touches. Have you ever heard of the Moh's Hardness Scale? To put it simply, it can increase the hardness to that of those minerals on the scale. So, I made the door hard enough so no one could knock it down for a bit. But... it wears off quickly if I'm not touching it."

"What an interesting ability... Anyway, it's time we leave the village."

"Y-yea, it's already morning."

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Leaving yall on a cliffhanger I guess? <3

Some more spoilers for Scary Monsters arc, but nothing too big, just Diego's dino ability :3