𝓡𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷~ᴅɪɴᴏᴘᴀɴᴛꜱ

Chapter 1: Her Death

MAJOR STEEL BALL RUN SPOILERS!

"What is this...? Lucy... Steel... she has all '9 parts' collected inside her body, and now she's becoming the corpse? She's breathing..."  Hot pants looked at the young Mrs.Steel not daring herself to get any closer. She hears buzzing noises from behind her. "Hah? What was that? I heard something move" "Dio! Just now when he jumped out the window. What on earth happened? did he kill him or lose?" Hot pants thought to herself running around the train trying to get a better view outside the window. "Valentine, he's gone for now but letting my guard loose isn't the best option" Hot pants thought to herself. "Haah hot pants help me" Lucy cried for help.

"Don't worry Mrs.Steel, we'll get you out of here. He's gone don't worry" Hot pants caress the forehead of Lucy hoping she'll calm her down including Hot pants herself.  All she could think of was Diego back there. It's like walking on a tightrope situation. She won't know if Dio lives. All she can hope for, for now is that a big blue reptile would hop back on the train. To retrieve the corpse and rescue Mrs. Steel was their main mission.

"I have to think of a backup plan if he did died" She gulped. "Dio... there's a very low chance if he lost against someone, but knowing Valentine's ability... it scares me. Not in this situation Lisa, if he did lost against the president you have to stay calm and think of a strategy. He didn't die for you to waste it. If I'm able to defeat him then the victory will be ours" Hot pants thought to herself.

"It's terrible if I think about it but if I lost him..." she bites her knuckles. "As bad as it sounds, thinking about a proper funeral would be the right time. He's a hero after all. He's no villain or the good guy, but he has a sense of justice, he avenged his mother, lastly he was finally able to gain trust again. I'm lucky to be the last person after so long that he finally trusted before he... vanished. I just hope I won't be the last one. It would be nice to thank him and at least not in a situation like this. After this race ends" Her sweats starts trailing down her chin as she tries to catch her breath.

"The furnitures... the doors.... why are they moving towards me?" She looked around. "No no this is just my imagination it's not real" She panics.

Her heart sank until she saw someone walked through the door and knew that it was the end of her. She didn't have enough time to collect herself. Diego is no longer... Alive. She lost her only trusted ally.

"Valentine!? you... You sick bastard!" her eyes widen. "New Ability...Do you perhaps think that this is a stand ability of a new subordinate of mine? Perhaps you suspect the train engineer is the user" Valentine said as he approached closer swaying casually.

"What?" She said confused. "The finger on your right hand...Take a look at it" Valentine said. Hot pants take a look at her finger nails shifting out of place. She obviously got scared and distracted by it. That left valentine an open gap to attack her. "What? Even for me, this is the first time I've experience this ability, that phenomenon is..." Valentine's word was cut off by Hot pants. "What did you say?! What on earth is this?! Inside my hands. Wh...when?! There's a sp-spider crawling inside my hand. No it's not just a s..spider! There are flies too!  even in my fingernails?!" The more she panics the more she's distracted.

Her guard was down when D4C strike a hit at her. Luckily she was able to dodge the president's ability. "This phenomenon has just begin to occur. Whose ability is it? The engineer at the front of the train? No wrong. Right now what is just starting to happened ? I've just begun to understand" Valentine said.

After she dodged his attacks, her plan was to break and jump out the window. With her ability, cream starter she should be able to get a grip and land safely on the land without getting severely injured. Hoping that once she lands, she can find Diego's corpse and give it a proper burial.

And no it didn't go as planned. As she jumps back dodging D4C and breaking the window frame, It starts absorbing inside her skin and merging with her. "Ah the window frame is- the spiders and other bugs in my arm! WHAAT?! my cream starter isn't working! Th-the window frame has gone inside my body and it's moving! oh no! OH NO! I need to get them out fast-" That was the last word she said before feeling a solid crunch of the stab sound. The wooden window frame strikes puncturing through her heart  making her fall from the train and not being able to move.

Bloods start gushing out from her nostrils and no long after, her mouth coughs out the blood. "ugh Eh *cough* s-something, no way, Gack!" Her breath hitches and thus she took her last breath and lost after she fell. Not only that she lost her battle, but her life too.

"Good riddance" Valentine sighed looking over to Lucy Steel who's slowly turning into the holy corpse. "Lucy oh Lucy. Things are converging. The sofa, the cabinets, you are the center of it all. I understand. This is the ability that the corpse is manifesting! which means it is my ally!" Valentine said excitedly.

Hot pants lied on the ground and her vision was blurry before she lost her life. "You failed" She thought to herself "You failed Lisa, Dio, he trusted you, you hold his words and threw that chance, I-I'm sorry Diego Brando" That's the moment where she lost all consciousness.

She laid on the ground lifeless waiting for crows to eat her remains.

One week have passed. The steel ball run is now over. However, Her body hasn't either rot, nor been eaten by the crows. Although, no one has found her body yet, even though it's still laying on the same ground. That case, it goes the same for Diego as well, just the difference was, his head, it is no longer in it's place. What is happening?

To be continued....--->

Ayeee finally I had enough free time to start writing down this chapter. Hope you all will enjoy this and the next upcoming chapters! <3

~Alta