I could fell the eyes of the enemy watching my every move. The thought of someone watching me sent chills down my spine. Maybe walking into their hands like this wasn't the best idea.
"Your more reckless than I thought, Lightning," a female voice said
It sounded like the voice was all around me. But there was no way of pinpointing her location. Even when I looked for the source, I couldn't find a body.
"Word on the street says you defeated Defenders with that Stand of yours." she stated, "Although, I'm having trouble figuring out how you did it. Given your Stand is a shield"
"Maybe DIO should have sent someone more capable," I stated, still looking around
"Perhaps," she said, " or maybe you just got lucky."
As she finished talking, curtains suddenly opened. What once was a darkened library, now had sunlight flooding everything in sight. Leaving patches of darkness where the light was blocked to cover. And light filled the room, a girl stood in front of me.
This girl dressed to look like a modern ninja. Black tabi boots with dark grey tight pants that seemed a bit too tight, even for her. Compleating the outfit with a gray hooded shirt and some sort of scarf to cover her mouth. She seemed calm in the face of her target.
"Shall we test your luck more? Or are you going to surrender now?" she questioned, her voice not even muffled by the scarf.
"You think I just surrender and let you got information on me?" I countered, "you must be playing me as a fool."
I attempted to step forward, but I couldn't. My body wouldn't even move a muscle. How could this be? Is this her stand? But I didn't even see her call it out. Just what the hell was going on?
"Because I got a good reason to." she stated, "From the very moment you entered this place, you were caught in my Stands trap."
"Trap?" I asked as I still attempted to move, "What trap?"
"Now that would be telling, Lightning" she mocked, "A true master never reveals their secrets untell someone worthy appears. And you're not worthy of mine."
All of a sudden, my shield arm moved towards my neck. The pointed bottom of my Stand resting on the skin, slightly digging its way into my throat. I started to sweat. She was planning on killing me with my own stand.
"That point is rather dangerous, you know." she commented, " Have you ever thought about dulling it?"
The irony is unbearable. Who gets killed by their own Stand? I have to- needed to do something. Anything to change my fate. I needed to move.
Calling upon all of my strength, I attempted to move my shield away. Even trying to move my free hand to push it away. The effort only made me sweat more as I screamed at my arms to move. A twitch. A small twitch on my free pinky.
(You need to do more flash! Move! Move your arms!) I shouted mentally. Pushing harder and harder, I can manage to move the shield back an inch while getting my free hand halfway to my stand. But her Stand was fighting back, pushing my arms harder to their original places. The struggle for power was only getting harder.
"It's pointless to fight back." the ninja claimed, "Once someone is caught in my shadow cage, there's no escape. You might as well accept your fate now and die!"
Shadow cage? Did she just hint her Stand's ability? If she did, it was a bit cryptic. But defiantly something to figure out.
Her Stand has to do something with shadows. That much is for sure. But how? There must be someway this stand is using the shadows.
Looking around, I could see that her shadow was strangely misshaped. For some reason, her shadow was completely straight, heading towards me. The end of that shadow was directly under me. A shadow link? Could that be the nature of her stand?
"Y-you know," I said with a smirk, "A wise man once said that warriors shouldn't boast about their victory until its already happened. Even before the opponent is about to lose is too soon!"
With a sudden burst of strength, I pulled my shield away from my neck and pointed it at the joined shadows. Then, before she could do anything to stop me, my Stand dissolved into some state of liquid and fell onto the shadow. Retaining its dark blue colored edge, the liquid covered my shadow while pushing hers away. Only pushing it halfway between us.
Finally, control over my body is once again mine. It felt good to control myself again. I stretched my arms and legs as I looked at the ninja.
"H-how did you-?" She began
"Now that would be telling." I interrupted, mocking her, "My mirror always shows the way."
"That's enough you two!" a somehow familiar voice said
The second voice came from behind this ninja as someone else walked into view. To my surprise, it was my mother. But her outfit was completely different.
From her usual outfit of Jeans and t-shirts, she now wore ripped jean shorts with a cut shirt with some sort of text on the front reading, "Demise of Sanity". It sounded like some type of band. She even looked younger and had a brighter shade of pink than she normally did.
"Mom?!" I said, shocked, "Is that you?"
The ninja took a look at mom and called her stand away. She even bowed to her.
"Its alright Secret, we can trust him." the girl said, "He doesn't have a bud of flesh on him."
"But Ruby," Secret argued
(Ruby?) I thought (My mom's name isnt Ruby. Who is she?)
"No buts!" Ruby said, "If you killed my Dad, then you would have completely altered the time stream and killed me in the process."
"D-dad?!" I exclaimed
TO BE CONTINUED