16. Wham Part II

"Edgar!!!" shouted Ricardo, as Edgar looked back for a moment...

and ran away...

Ricardo trembled in pain, bleeding on the ground, as the bomb bullet approached him.

"EDGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!"

"Wham?" asked Funny through the radio. "Have you achieved the Stand Arrow from the Temple?"

"Achieved, sir," replied Wham.

"End it," said Funny, as Wham takes the deepest breath possible and shot a bomb bullet into the temple.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

"It is done, Mr. President," said Wham.

"Get out of there," said Funny.

Wham walked around in the forest but heard a voice in the distance. He then hid by a nearby pine tree.

"RICARDO!!!" shouted Arthur, crying. "RICARDO!!!"

Arthur finds Ricardo bleeding on the ground with blood splattered everywhere.

"NO!!!" shouted Arthur.

Ricardo bled on the ground in pain. There is a burnt but bloody skull carved on his torso, seemingly with a burning blade.

"No, no, no, no, no!" he muttered, crying and trembling as he held Ricardo in his arms.

Ventura began to cry as well.

"Proud..." whispered Ricardo. "I'm... proud... of... you..."

Ricardo began gargling blood.

"Proud..." he whispered, as his mouth foamed and his eyes rolled to the back of his head. "Faith... Not... Anger..."

"No..." cried Arthur, crying on the chest of Ricardo.

"Well, well, well... This is the son of Ricardo?" asked Wham, emerging from the pine tree close by.

"Arthur..." said Ventura, as Arthur began taking deep breaths and overcharging his Hamon. His Hamon went from a golden color to a faint red.

"Arthur, no..." said Ventura, as Arthur began to grunt hysterically. "You need to calm down, Arthur."

"I'll... kill... you..." he whispered with a screeching voice. Tears fell from his face. "HAMON OVER-!!!"

*shoooooo*

Ventura immediately encased Arthur with a bubble.

*BOOM*

The bubble popped and Arthur was thrown away into the forest, suffering only from minor injuries.

"Bubble Trouble!!!" shouted Ventura shooting bubbles towards Wham.

"Something about these bubbles..." said Wham, as a bubble approached him. "...IS DANGEROUS!!!"

*BOOM*

One of the bubbles exploded when near Wham, as Wham leaped backward.

"This is my Stand, Wham! Bubble Trouble! They're bubbles that get you in trouble!"

"No shit, Sherlock!" shouted Arthur.

"Wham doesn't like this foolishness of Edgar JoJo's wide daring to participate in battling WHAM!!!" shouted Wham. "Wham will defeat you, JoJo and Zeppeli!!!"

The bubbles go around and are shot towards Wham.

*shooooooooooo*

*BOOM*

Several bubbles were popped from the explosion, but Ventura kept on fighting.

"Vennie, let me-!"

"No, JoJo!" shouted Ventura. "Right now, you can't do anything!"

"But Vennie!" shouted Arthur.

"NO, JOJO!!!" shouted Ventura. "We lost Ricardo because you JoJos are reckless and incredibly obnoxious! You should stay back right now!!!"

Ventura kept on shooting bubbles towards Wham.

Arthur gritted his teeth.

Arthur turned to Edgar.

"Salamat, Ricardo," he whispered, as he kissed his forehead.

Arthur then used his Stand to pull Ventura.

"Hey! What gives?!" asked Ventura.

Arthur jumps down the cliff they are on as it was revealed that a bomb bullet was about to shoot him from above. The explosion was massive, and they only barely avoided the injured, as the two suffer from multiple scratches from some rocks lodged towards them. Some rocks were even lodged into their flesh, as they began to bleed out.

Ventura looks around and realizes that they are...

...falling...

"This is why you should trust me, Ventura!!!" shouted Arthur.

"I'M SOOOORRRYYYYYY!!!" shouted Ventura, as both of them fell.

When reaching the forest, Arthur grabbed on a branch using his Stand and rolls downhill along with Ventura.

The two drop into some mud and leaves.

The two pick themselves up from the muddy ground and prepare their Stands.

*shoooooo*

Arthur grabs Ventura as they barely dodge the bomb bullet once more.

"How is he seeing us?!" asked Arthur to himself. "Wait... Ventura... The Bomb Bullet is the Stand!"

"So the Stand itself sees us! It's like a homing device!" asked Ventura. "So what do we do?"

Arthur grabs some mud and puts it over his face.

"Ventura, grab some of the mud and paint yourself with it. I'll use my Stand to cover us up with leaves. I'll make a slingshot from the sap of the tree and some bark using my Stand."

Ventura nods. The two of them start painting themselves with mud and Arthur's Stand pulls some branches and throws leaves all over them. They lay down on the ground, as the gas bullet starts to shoot places at random.

Arthur and Ventura tremble in fear.

"This is what we trained for," he whispered to Ventura.

Ventura nods.

Arthur then takes the bark off and makes a slingshot.

"I'm gonna Macgyver this shit," he said, smiling with pride.

Arthur uses his precognition to see the future.

"Let's see..." he thought. He moves around his loaded slingshot, pointing it around, but slowly and subtly enough that he can't be seen. He sees one timeline each when he moves around his slingshot. Several timelines include them exploding because of Wham's Bomb Bullet. But, after a long time of testing each timeline, he sees that one timeline has the stone he is using as ammo bouncing off several trees and getting lodged into Wham's head. It includes him shooting just a few inches above a hole in a tree's trunk.

"There!" whispered Arthur. "If I pull the slingshot in exactly 10.5 centimeters and shoot it at that tree in that very spot just over that hole over there... we can immediately kill him."

Ventura began to sweat as Arthur pulled 

"Hey..." said Ventura. "We should think first before we start doing anything risky!"

"I did!" whispered Arthur. "I thought about this very well!!!"

"You sure?" asked Ventura. "We're in this situation just because of your obnoxiousness, Arthur! Ricardo was right! You are quick to anger! You went to Ricardo just because you thought that he couldn't handle it!"

"He didn't!" replied Arthur.

"Yeah, but you could've at least thought first and waited for the enemy to go away and investigate later!!!" shouted Ventura.

Arthur trembles out of frustration.

"Just trust me on this one!!!" whispered Arthur.

"Arthur!!!" whispered Ventura. "No!"

Ventura pulls his arm an inch away, as the stone misses the exact spot, bounces around several trees, bounces upward towards Wham, and scratches Wham's cheek.

"Sniper..." said Wham. "An attack of absolute dishonor!!! YOU DESERVE TO BE CARVED INTO AS WELL, BY WHAM!!!"

Wham woges into a Dragon and uses his wings to drop down into the forest.

The Dragon has a crocodilian head and a dark green and scaly body. It has a humanoid body. It has black claws and wings like an Aswang's.

"Damn it, Ventura!" whispered Arthur.

"Wham heard that," said Wham, in a grunting voice. "Wham will kill you, JoJo and Zeppeli!!! I'll have your heads for your cowardice!!!"

Wham growled like the Dragon he is and searched for the duo.

"Where are you, JoJo and Zeppeli?!" asked Wham. "I'm growing tired of your foolish tricks! Because you tried something foolish, I WILL NOT HONOR YOU, JOJO AND ZEPPELI!!!"

Arthur and Ventura are shown hiding on the ground behind Wham.

Arthur gritted his teeth and stood up.

"Arthur, no!" whispered Ventura.

"I'm right here!" shouted Arthur, and Wham turns to Arthur, smiling.

"Arthur JoJo!" laughed Wham. "Son of Ricardo JoJo and Celene JoJo!"

"Actually..." said Arthur. "It's not pronounced 'HoHo'." he continued. "It's 'JoJo' with the Americanized J. Because my ancestor claimed to be American-Filipino at the time."

"I see... JoJo..." said Wham.

"Stand up, Ventura," said Arthur. Ventura stands up and sighs.

"So... How do you wish to do this?" asked Wham.

"Since you're so into this 'honorable battle' gig of yours or whatever, how about a duel?" asked Arthur. "Ventura vs. You?"

"Me?!" asked Ventura.

"Yeah... I trust that you can do this," said Arthur.

"My bubbles are too slow, JoJo!" shouted Ventura. "You're doing this out of rage, again!"

"Faith... Not anger..." smiled Arthur.

Ventura stood before Wham, as Wham woged and breathed in. Heat began emitting from his breath.

"Remember, Ventura..." said Arthur. "Be smart..."

A wall of bubbles appeared before Wham, as Wham takes a deep breath.

*shooooooooooooooooo*

*BOOM*

Ventura began to fear for his life. Arthur's hands trembled, but he clenched his fists, believing in him.

*shooooooooooooooooo*

*BOOM*

More bubbles popped, and the blast was much closer than the last one. However, Arthur sees something quite unexpected and smiles at this.

*shooooooooooooooooo*

*BOOM*

The bubble wall is at its thinnest, and Ventura concentrates hard on this.

*pop*

"Huh?" asked Wham, hearing something. It's as if he felt something faint pop behind him. "You used my move against me..." smiled Wham. "Good one..."

*BOOM*

Wham is greatly injured by the attack, and falls to the ground, bleeding from the powerful blast.

"I can only imbue one bubble with Explosive Hamon at a time," explained Ventura. "So to be honest... that was a close one."

*tick tick tick tick tick tick*

Suddenly, blue eyes began surrounding them in the darkness.

"Uh... Arthur?" asked Ventura, as these creatures ticked their wings.

The aswangs then attacked.

"WHAT KIND OF BETRAYAL IS THIS?!!!" asked Ventura, as he breathed in and shot away most of them. Several Aswangs exploded due to the blast. They immediately backed away.

"Why'd you help us?" asked Ventura.

Arthur clenched his fists.

"Yes..." he bowed his head and had an angry expression. "Why?"

"You have, for once, fought with honor... That I could respect..." said Wham. "Honor is incredibly important to my people... The Dragons... We respect chivalry and honor among our own kind and our opponents. We aren't just monsters, JoJo and Zeppeli. We are so much more..."

In his dying breath, Wham slowly died from his injuries.

Arthur sighed out of exhaustion. "That I can respect..."

"We got the Arrow!" shouted one Aswang. "Funny Valentino is gonna love this!!!"

But, the aswang decided not to say it at the last second.

"Huh? Funny Valentino?" asked Arthur. "What does he have anything to do with this?"

"How did you-?" asked the Aswang. "Bah! Your world will fall, JoJo!!!"

"Dude... our theory was that he is Damaso the entire time," said Ventura.

"Wait, really?" asked Arthur. "Sorry, I wasn't paying attention."

The aswangs immediately used their wings to fly away.

"HEY!!!" shouted Arthur, as the aswangs cackled.

The two sigh, not knowing what to do next.

"Wanna eat at Jollibee's?" asked Ventura.

 Arthur nods sadly.