The Last Pillar.

Chapter thirty-four: broken horns

A Vehicle was purchased for them to travel to Pakistan in. (Y/n) sat in the back on Jotaro's lap as Polnareff and Kakyoin was up front. Joseph sat beside Jotaro and (y/n). The old man was trying to get the little girl to sit with him, but she was refusing and clinging to Jotaro. The Frenchman was driving and passed a car on a narrow road, Joseph scolded him to be more careful. They drove a little further before Polnareff slammed on the brakes. The old man scolded Polnareff as his adopted daughter kicked the Frenchman's seat, "I told you to be more careful, Polnareff!"
The Frenchman pointed to a person on the road, "Look who it is!" All of them looked and saw it was Anne. She made it all the way out to the Indo-Pakastani border. (Y/n) sighed as Jotaro grabbed his hat in irritation and spoke his favorite line. Against common sense, they let Anne get a ride. It was safer for her to travel with them instead of being picked up by some person who was not as nice as they were.

(Y/n) held onto her doll as Joseph finally got to have her sit in his lap as Anne sat between him and Jotaro. Anne was chatting a lot before the pillar girl stuck her hand right into Anne's head. That got the brunette to stop talking and freak out for a bit as the little girl removed her hand from the taller girl's head. "We've been through a lot Anne. It would be appreciated if you had a little more discretion.," the pillar girl said and hugged her doll. Anne looked at all of them, "Oh... I'm sorry." "No, it's okay, you did not know.," Joseph spoke as he patted the hair of his adopted daughter.
The tiny child played with her porcelain doll as the car from before came up behind them. The child froze immediately. Joseph noted her reaction, "There is a stand user nearby. Be careful." "Got it.," Polnareff said and looked in the rear view mirror, "This guy is in a hurry." The Frenchman let the car pass by. (Y/n) felt the hair on her neck raise, there was something really wrong with that car. The car sped by before slowing down and kicking up a lot of dust into the vehicle it passed. Rude.

"He might be mad at you for driving recklessly earlier.," Kakyoin said. "Did you get a look at his face?", Jotaro asked. "Not at all.," Polnareff answered, "There's too much dust on the windows." Jotaro leaned back, "(y/n). Keep up with searching for the stand user you sensed." "Be careful Polnareff.," Joseph said as he hugged his adopted daughter a little tighter. Polnareff laughed after a bit, "He's telling me to pass now, he must have remembered how shitty his car is. Should have stayed behind me, Dumbass."
(Y/n) could have sworn she heard someone say, 'Language'. It sounded female. She was about to say something when there was an impact and the vehicle went flying. She felt a sharp pain to her head and heard a snap sound. Everyone was okay. Thankfully. Jotaro had protected Anne from the impact, Joseph shielded most of the impact from (y/n)... But he did not do enough. As she was stunned and limp. Three glowing wounds on her head and a cracked porcelain doll in her hands. Joseph was too busy wondering where the car that did that was. Jotaro told him that it was gone. Polnareff and Kakyoin said it may have been an assassin sent by DIO to take them out.

"Hey, (y/n), did you sense stand energy from-," Polnareff asked then stopped when he saw the girl was wounded, "Merde. She's injured." Joseph tapped her cheeks and got no response from the stunned child, "The horns of a pillar are filled with nerves. They are able to sense things we cannot thanks to their horns, she is stunned from shock." Joseph pointed to the horns on the floor, "Anne, gather the horns we need to reattach them. Polnareff, keep driving, just be careful."
Kakyoin looked back, "Is she going to be okay?" "She will be fine. One hundred years ago, she survived a wound that would have killed a human. That wound was inflicted on her by DIO, albeit accidentally. DIO was trying to kill my grandfather, Jonathan, when she got between them and protected Jonathan.," Joseph explained. The red haired Japanese teen nodded and turned around in his seat as the vehicle drove off, "What shall we do about the truck there?" "Act like we never saw it.," Jotaro answered. Joseph and Anne carefully reattached the horns, a small glowing line was still on the horns when they were done. Joseph pulled the fabric of the head wrap from the child's bag and looked at it, "So you kept this. I don't blame you."