56. THE WORLD Part II ~And the Memory of that Blood...

Somewhere...

Miguel stood in nothingness.

"You know who you are?" asked a voice.

Miguel nods.

"You know what you are?" asked a voice.

Miguel nods.

"You know why you are?" asked a voice.

Miguel nods.

"You are ready..."

In the dream world... Miguel's Gold Experience gets stabbed in the arm by the arrow...

Miguel gasps.

"What do you need?" asked the voice.

"What do I need?" asked Miguel.

Meanwhile... in the real world...

Salvi attacked the Crusaders.

Salvi brings out THE WORLD as the Crusaders attacked as well. Arthur brought out coke bottles and threw each of them at Salvi. Anne uses Sticky Fingers to try and zip Salvi up. Kariel brings out ACT 3 and teleported behind Salvi and attacked with ACT 2. Jessica wore her Stand Armor and slashed toward Salvi.

Salvi stopped and resumed time.

Everyone is injured and fell to the ground.

"Seriously?!" asked Salvi. "You dare think you could fight me? I, Bernardo Salvi, have a dream I believe is just. And that dream is to destroy every human in this world."

"And my dream?" asked Miguel, who stood behind him. "To bring peace and Goddamned harmony. How am I going to do that?"

Miguel points to Salvi with two fingers.

"I'm gonna beat the living shit outta you," said Miguel.

Salvi charged at him as THE WORLD punches him into the city.

Miguel crashes into a few buildings and snaps each of them in half. The buildings slowly fall.

Star Platinum managed to protect its User by encasing its User with itself.

"Don't worry... this city's evacuated by Helsing... I made a call..."

"Huh?" asked Miguel. "Who was-?"

THE WORLD grabs Miguel's head and smashes him into a car.

Star Platinum grabbed a truck and threw it at Salvi. THE WORLD blocks the car.

THE WORLD stops time.

From behind Miguel, a road roller was pushed by Salvi toward Miguel.

"ROAD ROLLER!!!" shouted Salvi, as Star Platinum kicked it away along with Salvi.

*ZOOM*

Jessica zoomed everyone into the scene.

Miguel floats upward as he prepared another punch.

Miguel glowed with silver and blue energies and had silver pupils.

"Dad," said Miguel. "Find some stuff around and use them to attack Salvi using Hamon and imbue them in your weapons. Kariel, fly around and attack Salvi using your gravity ability. Anne, Jessica... both of you attack his weak spots and try to zip his body parts off. I'll go fight him head-on."

Kariel hugs Miguel and whispers. "Yes, Kuya."

"Love you, kid," Miguel replied.

Anne sighs and decides to nod to Jessica. Jessica nods back as she grabs Anne, encases Anne in her Silver Chariot, and runs away.

Arthur pats Miguel's back. He eyes Miguel's face which is filled with blood and some scars and scrapes from Salvi's attacks. "I'm... I'm sorry..."

"Dad..." said Miguel, shaking his head. "Don't."

"I'm sorry for making my faith heavy on your shoulders... I shouldn't have..." Arthur sigh. "The words... they aren't coming to me..."

"I love you, too," said Miguel, hugging Arthur.

"Right..." sighed Arthur.

Arthur uses Open Arms to swing away.

Miguel charges at Salvi as the Crusaders disassemble.

"Wh-... What about me?"

Star Platinum and THE WORLD punched each other over and over again.

"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA-!!!"

"MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA-!!!"

"You know, JoJo," sneered Salvi. "Your Stand is a mere mirror of mine."

Miguel silently stared at Salvi.

"Stardust... A magical feeling," he grinned. "And here you are... believing in a fantasy!" Salvi cackled. "I've also taken care of Jedan. I've had my daughter take care of her. What did she say? She said he went, 'SPLAT'!!!"

Miguel doesn't flinch. Miguel completely ignores Salvi's insults.

Salvi frowns. He woges and hisses. "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!"

Miguel woges as well. Unlike Salvi, whose fur is all messy and ragged, Miguel's fur is much more smooth and soft. Unlike Salvi's wilder look, Miguel's look is much more stoic. Salvi crouches as his muscles rip while Miguel looks calm and timid.

"DON'T YOU LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT, YOUNG MAN!!!" shouted Salvi. "I'LL GROUND YOU!!! I'LL MAKE YOU GO TO YOUR ROOM!!!"

Miguel merely kept on punching.

"You're scared right now," said Miguel. "You know... I'm the kinda guy who stares at the stars at night. Do you know why?"

Salvi's nose wrinkled. His jaw tightened. He whispered. "Wrry...."

"Because I used to think when I was a kid... that they're our ancestors... And they're looking down to us," he whispered.

Salvi manages to kick Miguel away, but Miguel leaped toward Salvi, destroying the concrete below him as he punched him into a few more buildings.

Kariel appears and punches Salvi from behind, but THE WORLD blocks all of his attacks.

"ORA ORA ORA-!!!"

"MUDA!!!"

*BOOM*

Kariel is thrown up into the sky. With the flames around his clothes, he created an atmosphere around him to avoid burning. He ended up on the moon for a second. He leaped back to Earth, creating a large nuclear bomb-sized crater on the moon as he shot himself toward the Philippines back to Earth. Kariel flew back to Salvi as a large explosion occurred in the city, destroying many buildings. Miguel leaped from behind and used Star Platinum to punch a hole in Salvi's chest. Salvi grabs Miguel's food and smashes him around. Star Platinum, once again, shielded its User from injury.

*ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM*

Jessica and Anne, moment by moment, slice and zip Salvi's skin.

However, they couldn't zip Salvi's head off because of his enhanced regeneration. Salvi simply healed himself almost immediately each time as he grabbed Silver Chariot and threw her away.

Arthur randomly jumped on his head and bit his ear. Salvi roared as Arthur puts Open Arms into his head.

"COME ON!!!" shouted Arthur, as he managed to control Salvi's mind to immobilize him.

Suddenly, green tentacles appeared from the unknown and trapped Salvi.

The other four Crusaders attacked Salvi.

Miguel and Kariel used their Stands to jab and kick Salvi. Jessica stabbed Salvi over and over again while Anne slowly zipped Salvi's skin.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!" shouted Salvi. "You are meant to fail..." his voice went shaky. He gasped for breath as he loosened his jaw. His eyes rolled to the back of his head. "The Universe is supposed to be destroyed... This can't end this way... My son should be the one who destroys the Universe... It... is fate... In one form or another... your legion will fall! I'll take away your hope... burn it... and waft it in the wind. Heaven will come... THE WORLD... OVER HEAVEN!!!"

*ting ting ting ting ting*

A coin falls on the ground before them.

Jessica grabs the others and zooms away.

*click*

*BOOM*

Kira appeared and threw coins at Miguel, who dodged the coins shot at him.

Kira cackled as she charged toward the girls.

Jessica then stabs her leg with a rapier. Anne then jabbed Kira in the neck as her neck zips slightly off.

Kira's Killer Queen emerged and side kicked both of them away.

Arthur threw coke bottles at Kira as each of them exploded.

"WHERE DO YOU KEEP GETTING THESE COKE BOTTLES!?" she squalled. She began chortling as tears and make-up ran down her eyes.

Arthur shrugs. "Crazy bitch."

Miguel uses Star Platinum to keep on punching Salvi. So did Kariel and so did Ghost Jedan.

Salvi grabs Miguel's arms using THE WORLD and broke them, throwing him away as he crashes into a few more buildings. Salvi grabs Kariel's head and slams his head into the wall of the building as Kariel screams in pain. The building that was torn up by Kariel's face topples over as Jessica grabs them and zooms all of them away.

*CRASH*

"HORA HORA HORA HORA!!!" shouted Jessica, lunging her rapier into Kira's abdomen.

Kira holds the rapier.

Jessica snaps her rapier in half and runs away.

Yoshiko tears the rapier out of her and throws it toward Anne.

*click*

Jessica grabbed and zoomed her away at the last second.

*BOOM*

*ZIP*

Salvi loses his leg as he decides to fly up.

"Wrry..."

Jessica begins to run around Salvi and Yoshiko. They begin to choke, losing the air around them.

Miguel and Kariel charged at Salvi. Anne tries to zip Salvi into pieces along with Jessica.

Arthur shoots at Salvi and Yoshiko with a machine gun he somehow made.

*RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*

Jessica throws a stop sign at the two of them which lands on the ground that is connected to Open Arms' vines, but Salvi and Yoshiko shield their eyes.

Tentacles chained them to the ground.

Jessica and Anne prepare to charge.

The two are finally cornered by the remaining Crusaders. Arthur shot at them. Miguel and Kariel charged at them. Jessica and Anne charged at them, too. Ghost Jedan's tentacles chained them down.

"THE WORLD: BITES THE DUST!!!" shouted Salvi.

Suddenly, time rewound while Salvi approached the Crusaders. He stood before Arthur and emerged before Arthur. He prepared THE WORLD as the Stand prepared its fist.

"Poor Arthur JoJo... He lost his father... his Uncle... his brother... his wife... All alone... and now all he has are his children..." The corners of his mouth curved upward as he showed his fangs. "ADIOS, ARTUR JOJO!!!"

"MUDA!!!"

*SPLAT*

*splorge*

*drip drip drip*

Arthur's chest has a hole in it. His heart popped out of his back as his mouth drips blood.

Miguel, in rewound time, has his eyes twitch. Tears fall from his eye as his eyes flash to silver.

Time resumed.

Arthur drops to the ground, gasping for breath.

"DAD!!!" shouted Miguel, landing before Arthur.

Everyone stopped fighting.

Kariel clenched his jaw, crying.

"No..."

Anne covers her mouth and went to Arthur.

Jessica zoomed toward Arthur.

Time stopped.

Time resumed.

Everyone is on the ground 15 meters away from Arthur, as Salvi loomed over Arthur.

The Crusaders tried to approach.

"Stay... back..." he whispered.

Anne still tried to go to Arthur, but Jessica grabbed her shoulder, turned to Anne, and shook her head.

"Faith..." he whispered. "Not... rage..."

Miguel's eyes went black. "No..." More tears fell like a waterfall on his cheeks.

"Dad..." Miguel's voice squeaked.

Salvi puts his foot over Arthur's head.

Everyone, except Miguel, closes their eyes.

*SPLAT*