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// Blood on the Ice Part 2 
// Story: Equestria Girls' Bizarre Adventure:Stars of the Phoenix 
// by Zillafire101 
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Sunset glared up at the approaching icicles without moving, merely activating her Stand, having it slam it's hands together. A moment later, a concentrated beam of light shot out and hit the middle icicle projectile dead on, burning and smoking into it's smooth surface for a moment, before the entire thing melted away. She then waited a moment, before sending Ice Phoenix forward, and swinging it's left fist into one of the icicles, sending it into the other, and both of them crashing to the ground away from her.

"Alright, you can control ice." She said, rolling her eyes and sarcastically clapping. "Very cool, very impressive."

"Like you, little miss laser beams?" Mist snarled, as he stepped down from the rafters, rapidly creating icy stairs under his feet seconds before they touched. "I got more then just a bit of icicles and stuff to throw at you."

As he took his next step, Blue Ruby brought up it's hands, firing another gem bullet, and hitting him in the check, sending him falling to the floor from several feet up. Before he touched the floor, his body disintegrated into numerous ice particles, before rapidly reforming back into his original shape, as he held his wounded check. He glared up at Rarity, as he stepped towards her.

"Rude, aren't you?" He grumbled, as he prepared his next attack for them.

Rarity didn't respond at all, firing off three more gem bullets at her target, the crystals speeding at Mist at high velocity, as his eyes widened in shock. He stepped back, as a hazy fog rolled off of his body, seemingly trying to disappear or hide within the veil of fog, as he smiled arrogantly at her. A moment later, the three bullets impacted, a sickening crunch of bone cracking and blood gushing out, followed by him following backwards, before he regained his footing, and straightened out again, to reveal the crystal imbedded directly into his forehead and chest, but not going any further.

He gingerly reached up, tapping the crystal on his forehead, before gently pulling it, some blood dripping out like leaky faucet, and revealing sheets of ice beneath the skin, now revealed thanks to Rarity's attack. He smiled, his eyes full of pain, as he laughed slightly.

"It was difficult, and painful, but I predicted where you would send your bullets by your angle of attack and direction." He laughed harder, holding his forehead in agony. "Creating ice beneath the skin to take the blow was easy, but hurts so much."

He held his forehead, groaning slightly, as he carefully removed the other two bullets, before snapping his fingers, as the ice around Sunset's boots began to extend further and further up her legs, and ice extended out from beyond his person, creating a massive circle around him. Rarity looked over at Sunset, before her gaze snapped back to Mist, then back to her friend.

"Well, what's it gonna be. Make your move, Rarity, and make it fast." Mist taunted, gesturing towards Sunset. "Attack me or save your friend? Whichever you choose, can you even succeed?"

His face bent into a cruel smile as he pointed at her laughed. "Look at you, so confused! Like a dumb animal in the forest!"

Rarity however, did not waste time, and Blue Ruby slammed it's hands together, blasting off four gem stones at Mist's legs. The Stand user's eyes widened in slight surprise, before a wall of ice rose up in front of his legs, two of the bullets imbedding, and the other two deflecting off towards Sunset. Mist didn't seem to notice, instead advancing towards Rarity as determined as ever.

"Pathetic." He snarled, s he quickly erected another ice wall to deflect her next wave of crystal bullets away. "Either step up or step away, coward."

He reached out and grabbed her by the wrist as she struggled to get away, frost beginning to form, quickly giving way to ice. "Let's see how well you Stand works when I shatter one of your arms. Can you even do your fashion work with only one arm?"

As Rarity yelled in pain and terror, a figure suddenly grabbed him by his right leg from behind, and gave him a strong yank. Mist roared in surprise, as he was flung overhead, and slammed into the ground, with enough forced to crater both the ice and floor beneath it. Mist tried to stand up from the attack, before the figure slammed it's foot into his chest once, then repeated the attack over and over, it's foot and leg disappearing into a blur, before stopping.

Mist looked up in a mixture of anger and agony at Sunset, groaning as blood leaked from his mouth. "How did you escape my ice locks?"

"I specially targeted you so you would deflect the bullets into the ice locks." Rarity explained, testing her right arm. "All I had to do was weaken the ice."

"And I kicked it enough to shatter it." Sunset said, planting Ice Phoenix's booted foot onto his chest. "Can do your ice work a broken ribcage?"

Mist made an animalistic growl deep in his throat, as he tried to rise to his feet. Ice Phoenix knelt down a little further, blasted him in the side of the face with a hook, hitting with the force and sound of a fiery shotgun blast. Mist fell on his back again, as Ice Phoenix withdrew to it's master side. Mist shattered into thousands of particles, and blew away on the wind, as Rarity and Sunset got back-to-back, preparing for an attack from any direction.

"Boreas forged the Vikings. Boreas forged the Vikings." Mist muttered to himself, as he reformed in the rafters again, standing above them, his body still wracked with injuries, as he carefully prepared his next move. "Yet I don't think I've encountered any Vikings here. Just resistant little nuisances in my way."

He spread his arms wide, as Ice began to encircle his body, around his legs, chest, everywhere across his frame, and, after a few minutes of letting it build up around him into a solid mass of blue frost and rime, kicked off from his post, falling down towards the two, the ice building up more and more as he fell. A smile cracked across his face from his frozen coffin, as he picked up speed towards the two. They didn't even know what was happening, not now at least. Not until it was too late, hopefully.

He came within 20 meters of them, 10 meters, 7, before Sunset suddenly looked up and sent her stand forward, Ice Phoenix slamming a fist into the massive hunk of ice, before launching another barrage into the hunk, giving a short battle cry.

"SUZASUZASUZASUZASUZASUZASUZA! SUZAKU!" It yelled, trying to either blast away the cinderblock of ice away, or shatter it. Sunset looked to Rarity, who had tucked and rolled away, before jumping back herself, bringing Ice Phoenix into her body, crossing it's arms in front of it's master as the cinderblock slammed into the ground with stunning force, sending chunks of ice and granite flying everywhere.

Mist stood up from his coffin/projectile, as he looked around in confusion. How had they known he was coming for them? He had made not a sound. He hadn't given any indication he was gonna attack. He gathered frost and ice around his hands, creating solid blocks of ice around his limbs, as he looked around the ground, before seeing the broken chunks and pieces of ice on the ground. Perfectly reflecting his reflection. He growled in frustration and rage, slamming his foot down repeatedly down on the ice.

The Frost-controlling Stand User looked up in rage at Sunset, before getting control of himself, taking a deep, long breath into his nostrils, before slowly breathing out, and approaching her. Rarity fired a blast of crystal bullets at his back, as he quickly erected a layer of ice across his back, reflecting them off, as they harmlessly cluttered against the ground like discarded stones, and he kept his slow march towards Sunset. He got within arms reach of Sunset, before pulling back and swinging. Ice Phoenix appeared, blocking with it's arm, before lashing out with the other arm at his face. Mist brought his other arm up to his face, barely bringing it up in time, before the fist collided with it and cracked from the hit.

The two struggled against each other for a moment, before Mist threw Ice Phoenix punch away, and swung at it's ribs. A resounding crack sounded as the sluggish hit collided, the Stand's armored body cracking from the hit, as Sunset gasped in shock, holding herself, and immediately jumping out of his range.

"I can only grab a Stand, but when it comes to injuring them, the ice on my body has the same energies as my Stand." He gloated. "You're defenses are useless against me. It ain't a Stand suit like Atomic Punk, but it'll do just as well."

Sunset grimaced at her injury, breathing hard, as she straightened herself, and readied for another attack. "Come on then, Mist."

"Ha! You're putting on a good poker face, Sunset, but it's pointless!" He declared, moving towards her, as he raised both blocky fists up in a clumsy combat stance. "One more hit will either put you out, or destroy your stand."

Sunset said nothing, glaring at Mist, as he slowly approached, before seeing an object fling itself about the room. She raised an eyebrow at first, but locked her face, not giving anything away, until a large crystal object lodged into the side of Mist's neck. He staggered, coughing and gagging, ice disappearing from his hands as he clawed at the object in his neck like a desperate animal in a bear trap, before yanking it out. His neck had a nasty indentation, as his eyes flickered and went dark for a moment, before both his expression and his neck returned to normal.

"Not...fair." He growled, immediately shattering like a glass pane, and disappearing without another word.

"Where did that scoundrel run off to now?!" Rarity demanded, stamping her foot.

"It's alright Rarity, we almost had him." Sunset commented, leaning back on a nearby wall with a heavy breath. "We need to find the others."

"Can you walk?" Rarity asked, as she ran over to her side, and helped Sunset to her feet.

"I'll be fine. Just concentrate on getting us to the others." Sunset remarked, taking a shaky breath in.



"Shit! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!" Mist roared to himself, he held his neck. He had healed of course, but it still hurt like a burning match in his skin. "Of all of them, it was Rarity that almost got me?! If I wasn't...me, that would've killed me!"

He stamped his foot down, ice gathering under his foot, as he repeated the motion, ice extending outwards further and further as he did so. "SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT!"

He ran a shaky hand through his matted hair, before taking a deep breath in, and refocusing his thoughts. "Alright, a small injury. But Sunset's worse off then me. If I can just get to Twilight and Fluttershy, I'll keep the second best Stand fighter out, and take down the healer."

He knelt down, pressing both hands down to the frozen floor before him, concentrating. "Where are Twilight and her idiots? Come on Ice, tell me!"

He waited patiently, as an image formed in the ice, showing Twilight and her group searching for him, nothing much to see, before noticed something. He couldn't move the image, but he did see one of the safety bars in the window bent slightly, a small part broken off, as his face bent into a wicked smile.

"YES! I know where that window is! There's only one window like that!" He hissed triumphantly. "That's near the miniatures wing."

He ran forward a bit, broke apart his body, and scattered to the winds, leaving nothing but ice and a cold, dead wind in his wake.



Twilight looked over at the miniature displays before, smiling from ear to ear like a child that had discovered a shop that sold games, candy and toys all in one. She was so disappointed that she couldn't be here any other time, but she was going to enjoy this for a moment at least. Pinkie Pie looked at the Cowboys and Indians display, curious, and, although slightly bored, at least wanted to support her friend.

"It's great but..." Pinkie Pie began, pursing her lips.

"What? If you don't like it, it's fine Pinkie." Twilight said. "I know history isn't your thing."

"Isn't this historically inaccurate?" Pinkie asked, sticking a thumb towards the Indians and their chieftain. "I don't recall the Great Plains Indians dressing like that, or looking like that at all, and all."

"Well, it is slightly dramatized, but that is true." Twilight said, slightly uncertain and surprised by her friend's statement. "Is this a Stand ability or something making you do this?"

"Do what?" Pinkie inquired, confused.

"Nothing, let's keep moving." Twilight shrugged it off, shaking her head and making her way towards the exits.

The two turned away, about to head to the exits, before Fluttershy held up her hand. "Wait! don't turn away from there!"

"Wha…?" Twilight began to ask, before she looked over her shoulder, and saw Mist standing over them, hand extended towards them, as frost and ice began to spread and grow from the area around him

Deep Purple and Fun manifested in front of their users, punching and shooting at the figure, before he shattered to pieces and flew off, the particles landing between Twilight and Pinkie, and Fluttershy, as he reformed between the two. He looked over his shoulder in rage at them, before turning to Fluttershy.

"How are you able to detect me with your stand?" He questioned, stepping towards, each step deliberate and taken with care, as though he was moving through a mind field. "Answer me Fluttershy!"

"Why, are you scared?" Fluttershy asked, glaring at him, as a soft yellow energy glowed from her body, as thousands of pixie-like figures appeared around her.

"Is this the timid Fluttershy taunting others?" He asked, laughing.

"No, I'm just worried you might be alone, after all, who would want to be friends with such a grumpy, meanie." Fluttershy said, her Stands flying around her.

"I don't need friends!" He growled, beginning to approach her. "I just need my targets!"

Before he could take a second step towards her, Deep Purple grabbed him by the arm and neck, stopping him, before it stepped around, and tossed him at one of the archs overhanging the door, Mist flying away, and smashing into the arch with a loud, stone-shattering crunch, as he sank to the ground. He got to his knees, as he glared up at Twilight and Pinkie, who were slowly approaching him. He smiled sadistically, as he sat up.

'Fools! Never corner a wolf, or a bear, or a lion!' He thought, as he slowly stood up, a dark blue aura of energy surrounding himself, as he stepped back into a combat stance. 'They're all the more dangerous when cornered idiots! And I'm the greatest predator of all!'

He slammed his hands together, a sharp crack resounding, as a wall of ice erected itself between him and his enemies. He hissed, as mist escaped from his jaws, and he broke apart again. The two stopped in front of the wall, backing away, before his arm lashed out from the wall, grabbing Twilight by the throat, as the rest of his body began to materialize from the ice wall.

"I can break apart my body, and travel through, and emerge from, any frozen object!" He declared. "You really think I'd let you two corner me so easily?"

He looked out the corner of his eye at Pinkie, smiling wickedly. "Go on, take your shot!"

"Which will take longer, your shots, or me squeezing her delicate little neck, or spreading ice up into her brain?" He challenged. "Go on, shoot me, I want you to shoot me!"

Pinkie Pie backed away, a look of absolute terror on her face, as Mist laughed sadistically. "Pinkie...please...take the shot."

Pinkie ran her hand through her hair as she shook her head in silence, aboslutely a wreck now, as she reached nervously into her jacket, before removing her hand, and pacing about.

"HA! That's the best you can do, get a friend to have a nervous break down at the first sign of trouble?" Mist taunted, getting inches from Twilight's face. "I'm gonna enjoy freezing your body over, and making you my statue and trophy."

Before he could continue with his threat, an object sailed out from Fluttershy's position, and hit him in the face. He recoiled slightly, expecting some sort of effect to follow from the hit, or for the pain to begin, but instead, he merely looked down in surprise and confusion, materializing his other hand to pick up the object.

"A cookie?" He hissed in confusion, looking it over, before it began to glow a soft pink color. His eyes widened in shock, as Deep Purple materialized from it's master, prying his arm off, as Twilight rolled away.

Before he could even think to question what was happening, the Cookie exploded in his head, consuming the area in a large fire ball. The trio looked over the area, as the smoke began to clear, and his arm lashed out from the shadows and smoke, pulling himself up, the arm that grabbed the cookie hung limply at his side, badly burnt and a horrific, raw red color.

"Pinkie threw the cookie to me, and my Stands kicked it around before sending it to you." Fluttershy explained. "You should give up."

"I can still fight! I won't give up! This is my Boreas!" He shouted.

"I've sent one of my Stands away to find Sunset and Rarity, and bring them here." Fluttershy explained. "You have lost."

"No! No, no, no! You will die!" Mist declared, as Ice walls erupted from the ground around him, and shifted, before charging at the three, like a tidal wave of frost and cold death.

Deep Purple slammed a barrage of punches forward, crushing and smashing their way through the walls of ice, as Fun fired blast after blast at the walls, vaporizing and melting them on contact. Fluttershy jumped over one ice wall, rolled to the right on one, and ran towards Twilight, jumping over another wall, coming within inches of it, and yelping at the cold.

'If it's that cold just from being close to it...' She thought, as she got behind Twilight. 'Then actually touching it could be horrible for us.'

The two continued fighting their way through the ice walls, getting closer and closer to Mist with every hard-fought inch and every bloody step. It was difficult, but they were getting close. Frozen Mist's eyes widened in terror, as he saw them approaching him. This was impossible! His ice was unstoppable! He couldn't be losing!

"You may all come together, but I'll still escape!" He yelled, as Twilight got a few feet away. "You're not in range anyway!"

"But I am." Pinkie declared, firing a blast at Mist's face. The Ice-Stand using man staggered and struggled to stay in place, before she pelted him with several more rounds.

He groaned on the ground, as Twilight stood over him, ready for him to react. "You're not getting away. Don't even try."

He growled, as he rose to his knees, and summoned a large icicle into his hand, and pulled back to throw it. "No, I will...!"

"Shut your dirty, disgusting mouth!" Deep Purple shouted, swinging around and striking him in his injured arm, the limb bending and cracking at an unnatural angle.

Mist roared in agony, dropping it and grabbing his injured arm, before he shouted weakly. "Sympathy for the Devil!"

Deep Purple swung it's fist, crushing his nose and most of his face into it's fist, blood flying out. He fell on his back, holding his horrifically damaged face, gasping and breathing hard. "I...I can't win with Sympathy for the Devil..."

"Then give up." Twilight offered.

"So...I'll have to use my other ability." He whispered softly. "Beggar's...Banquet..."

A sharp scream broke through the air as all three stood board stiff and erect, as though they had been frozen in a second, locking them in place, as he slowly rose to his feet, breathing hard. He looked them over slightly, as what looked like red gem stones appeared on the back of his hands, the middle of his chest, and his forehead.

"My Sub-Stand, Beggar's Banquet, sucks the heat and energy from your body. I rarely use it, since it effects me too." He remarked, placing a hand on the side of his face. "Not as much...Never as much. But I can still feel it..."

He looked them over, as they struggled to move towards him, as he allowed a soft smile to come to his lips. "I've won. You can't move any closer."

A sharp click sounded, as an object hit the ground and rolled away from Twilight's arm. Mist looked at it in confusion, leaning forward slightly, as he raised an eyebrow. "How were you texting our location, dear little Twili?"

"Rainbow Dash and Applejack. Outside, ready to join anyone in need." Twilight said simply, every word, a miniature war needed to get them out. She slowly cracked a smile, as she fell to one knee.

"This changes...nothing." He snarled, as he heard a roar of an engine nearby. "They can't get to us, we're on the second floor."

A crash sounded from behind him, as he turned to see Rainbow and Applejack, riding on Radar Love, flying right at him. His eyes widened, but he said nothing, raising his working arm up, like a pharaoh commanding his armies to rise, as a massive wall of ice erected itself before the two could impact. A loud boom resounding from the hit, as Rainbow struggled to break through. After a moment, he couldn't hear anything more from them, before a loud smacking sound began to resound, like a cannonball hitting a wall repeatedly. 

He raised an eyebrow in confusion, before peeking out of the corner of his wall, and recoiled in shock. As Rainbow was driving harder and harder into the ice wall, Applejack was repeatedly hitting it over and over again. He shook his head in denial, not able to accept it.

"I'm not gonna lose, I'm not gonna lose." He repeated to himself, even as the ice began to crack and break from their combined attack. "Because I'm pushing the Beggar's Banquet further!"

The jewels on his body turned a deeper shade of red, from rose colored, to that of blood, as Applejack yelled in pain, falling from the bike, and to the ground, hugging herself as the cold from Beggar's Banquet effected her, but Rainbow continued on, Radar Love smashing through the wall, and barreling into him. He tried to brace his arm and leg, trying to stop her, as he looked on in confusion.

"How, how are you resisting Beggar's Banquet?!" He demanded, before she slammed into him with greater force, and forced him to the ground, grinding her wheels into him, as she drove over , smoke rising from his body as she drove over him.

She turned, as he struggled to his feet, a long tire mark across his chest, shoulder and stomach, as he glared at her, seemingly oblivious to his wounds. "How did you resist Beggar's Banquet?"

"What's that?" Rainbow asked, simply glaring at him in rage.

"My Sub-Stand, it should've immobilized you!" He roared in anger, pointing at her, before noticing something. Across her body, under her leather jacket and tank top, was a jump suit, similar in appearance to Radar Love. It glowed and flickered slightly, as if reacting to the cold wings.

It dawned on him almost instantly. 'Of course, to withstand the high speeds of both her Stand and that...geode thing, she needs a suit to resist the air velocity around her. And Beggar's Banquet travels through the air to affect others."

"All I have to do is get off your bike, and I will win!" He declared, staggering to his feet.

She charged at him again, the tires screeching, as he erected another wall in front of himself, the Stand Motorcycle hitting the wall, flying through the air over his head, and landing behind him, as she turned to face me and charged again at him. He growled, as he spread ice around himself again, across the floor as the tires hit the ice, and slid out. He smiled in triumph, as she slide across and struck outwards with her tires, spinning across the ground slightly to hit him in the side and send him flying away.

He rose up again, groaning in agony, as he prepared for another attack. Rainbow narrowed her eyes, before righting herself and flying at him again. He readied an icicle, and threw it, hitting her in the shoulder as blood gushed out. Rainbow held her shoulder in pain, but continued towards him without stopping, snarling in determination, before he threw two more, one hitting her in check, and slashing into part of her ear, the other hitting her in the side, and sending her off her Stand, hitting the ground with a thud, as her Stand slide across the ground, and returned to a normal bike. Her suit vanished, as she gripped her body, moaning in agony from the cold spreading across her body.

He breathed hard, looking over all of them in shock for a moment, before laughing. "I've won! I can escape from Sunset and Rarity now! It'll take hours for you to recover! Just enough time for me to come back and finish you off after I heal! I've won!"

He stood straight laughing like a mad man, as he watched them all, shaking his head. "My resolve is true! Boreas has tested me and I have come out stronger! This is my resolve!"

"What will it take to break that resolve?" A voice asked behind him. He froze, terror spreading across his face, as he turned.

And was immediately punched in the face. "SUUUUZAAA!"

He flew back, before straightening himself, and seeing Rarity and Sunset, and the staff only door wide open. They must've gotten through while he was busy with Rainbow. He growled, as he pointed a shaking finger at them. "I...I can push the limits of Beggar's Banquet! I can hold all seven of you down with it! I just need more resolve!"

Sunset charged at him, Ice Phoenix ready, as he yelled in determination, his Red gems going almost darkening to a black shade, as a strange, ethereal frost seem to spread across Ice Phoenix's body as it struggled to keep moving. Rarity fell to one knee, struggling to keep standing, as Ice Phoenix and it's user kept moving at him. 

"Come on, come on, come one, come on!" He shouted at the top of his lungs. "I'm pushing the limits, but please, keep working!"

He pushed it further, as Sunset stopped holding herself as an intense, horrific pain spread throughout her body. He breathed hard, as he stood over the seven, a slow laugh escaping his jaws. As he prepared to celebrate further, Deep Purple appeared beside it's master, also covered in the strange frost, but quite active, and slammed a punch into his face, hitting him and sending him away.

"Stop moving! STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP!" He shouted. "STOP NOW! BEGGAR'S BANQUET!"

His jewels darkened again, as Deep Purple vanished. Without another word, Mist shattered into ice particles and disappeared again. Fluttershy scrambled to her feet, and stepped to where he was, but he was already gone. She fell to her knees, and looked to Sunset in misery.

"No matter what I did, we still lost." She said, shaking her head. "I'm sorry Sunset. I've lost this for all of us."

"Not entirely. We still got this." Sunset struggled through clenched teeth. "You're not as effected by his attack."

Fluttershy nodded in realization, as she breathed in surprise. Her body still ached from the strange cold he had unleashed, but it was not as horrific as when he had first started. Rarity got to her feet, looking herself over.

"I'm fine too!" She yelled in surprise. "But how do we find him?"

Twilight gestured over to herself, her right hand bleeding slightly, as Deep Purple retrieved her phone. The two went to her, kneeling down beside her, as Deep Purple brought her the phone.

"When I punched him, I broke off a part of my Stand into his check." She explained slowly, as though every word was taking every ounce and piece of energy she had to utter. "I can still track him. Deep Purple can."

The Stand pressed a finger into the screen, as it flickered and flashed with dozens of images, then went to static, then flashed, finally showing a map of the museum, and a glowing purple dot.

"This is where he's at." Twilight said. "He exhausted himself with that last move. He won't be moving. You two are the only ones that can stop them."

"We'll finish this off." Fluttershy said.

"He won't get away." Rarity said defiantly.

"Good luck you two." Sunset said with a smile. "If any of us could do it, it's you."



Frozen Mist sat within the middle of the Greek history exhibit, holding his sides as he coughed and struggled to breath. Every inch of his body hurt, he couldn't feel his injured arm, but he had done it. He had horrifically damaged them with Beggar's Banquet. It would take them longer to recover, and then he could finish them off when he liked.

"Maybe, one at a time, picking one off, and letting the terror seep into them, slowly but surely." He said, cracking a smile. "After everything I've gone through, I deserve to sample their misery and terror a little bit."

He stood up. "After taking all seven out, Emperor will reward me greatly for this! I'll be his top man. Way more then those three arrogant bodyguards he has."

He slowly stood up, staggering towards the model of a Greek hoplite, and holding it's pike to balance himself, as he heard the nearby elevator slowly grinding upwards. He stood up, rod straight, as he slowly turned, looking at the elevators, as they slowly opened, struggling against the ice, before finally opening fully, to reveal Rarity and Fluttershy, striding towards him.

"After everything, you two are still approaching me?" He growled. "You have the courage to approach me!?"

"We can't teach a lesson in humility without getting a little closer." Rarity said, Blue Ruby preparing another volley of Crystal bullets.

"It won't hurt...long." Fluttershy remarked.

He recoiled in horror, shaking his head as the two moved towards him, before shaking off any shock, and standing straight up.

"You're Stands aren't close combat!" He said, cracking a broken smile. "I can still win this."

Rarity fired a gem bullet, as he manifested a round ice shield around his hand, raising it to block the attack, and sending it harmlessly away. Fluttershy jumped away as Rarity began to fire round after round, quickening her attack speed and sending more at him. Frozen Mist wasted no time, manifesting a suit of ice armor around his chest and shoulders, as he began deflecting blow after blow back at Rarity, every crystal bullet slamming into her, and knocking her back slightly, each and every one bounced back at their target.

Fluttershy watched carefully, as she sent two of her Beautiful Day stands at his face. It seemed obvious now how he was doing it. She just needed to put a stop to it. "Rarity, please, you need to stop, you'll hurt yourself before you can finish this!"

"No, there has to be a weakness in his defense!" Rarity said, blasting away with another barrage, as he blocked those, and sent them back at her legs, knocking her legs out from under her.

"You two can't win!" He declared, approaching Rarity slowly, before raising his shield over his head. "This is the end!"

Before he could bring down it's edge on her neck, things started to get dark. He recoiled in shock. It was as though his eyes were slowly closing in on themselves, without him wanting to. "What is this! My eyes! What are they doing!?"

He stepped away from Rarity, holding his face as he struggled to fix his face. Fluttershy appeared behind him, one hand behind her hair, the other pointing at him, a soft pink glow surrounding her. "I can heal the body with Beautiful Day. But there's nothing stopping me from putting that into overdrive, and causing the skin to overgrow and become like a cancer over your eyes."

"I saw how you were judging and able to decide where to reflect and when to reflect Rarity's attacks." Fluttershy said. "It was her determination that let me get the opening, and stop your counter-attack."

He staggered towards her, trying to find her by her voice, as she stepped away from him, and towards Rarity, sending her Stand onto her friend, and healing her, sealing up her wounds, as Rarity stood up once more. Mist turned to the sound of her boots, fear evident across his face.

"Where were we?" Rarity asked, cracking her neck slightly. "Oh yes. Teaching you a lesson in civility."

She summoned Blue Ruby, and slammed it's hands together, the energy building up around it's hands, before it fired off a crystal bullet. It sailed at him, before he swung his shield. It was a clumsy and in articulate move, but it connected, deflecting the crystal away form him. She fired another, as he swung back around, and launched it back at her, hitting her in the forehead. She staggered back, as he stood up triumphantly, pointing in her general direction, laughing.

"That's the sound of a crystal hitting your skull!" He declared. "I can't see, but I can hear. Your crystals make a distant whistling sound. I've won! You still can't hit me! Even without sight, my Resolve outshines all others!"

Rarity looked on in shock and desperation, her eyes wide in unbelieve. This couldn't be the end, there had to be a way. Suddenly, as he laughed and celebrated his win, creating an icicle in his hand to throw at her, blood burst from his left ear. He roared in agony, dropping his weapon, as the other ear followed suite.

"I used my Stand to remove your Ear drum, and your inner ear, taking away hearing and even your sense of balance." Fluttershy said coldly. "This is for hurting all of my friends."

Rarity stood up, and slammed Blue Ruby's hands together once more, three powerful gems firing off from her hands, and flying straight at him, hitting him in the chest, abdomen and face, and sending him to the ground. As he hit the ground, the ice around his body shattered and melted instantly, and the ice and frost all around him followed suite, melting away, as the two stood up in victory, looking over their handiwork.

"Fluttershy, that was magnificent darling." Rarity said, gripping her friend's shoulder. "We couldn't have done this without you."

"You're the one who hit him, I just did some healing." Fluttershy said with a shrug.

"Too Humble." Rarity said, shaking her head. "Let's get to the others, and heal up from this."



It took a few hours for them to get back to the group, heal a few of the teammates, and, after taking a few moments of rest, healing the rest. But, once everything was said and done, the seven Stand warriors were ready to continue. Sunset tested her limbs, the feelings of chill in the muscles and the supernatural frost still lingering in her body. She nodded slightly, before turning to the rest.

"We need to get to Mist's body. I can access his memories and past." She said. "We can not only find where this Boss is, but so much more."

"If you are certain." Twilight said, as the rest of the group nodded and murmured in agreement.

The group made their way through the abandoned museum. Although it was not a frozen wasteland inside anymore, the place still had a cold, dead atmosphere throughout, as though at any moment, it would freeze over again. Sunset ignored all of this, as she and the group continued on, she too determined and simply too tired to get distracted by anything in this place any longer.

After a long silent, and, admittedly awkwardly crowded elevator ride, the group made it back to where they had left Frozen Mist, still lying in a heap on the ground. Sunset indicated for the others to stop, as she carefully approached, tip-toeing towards the downed Stand user, moving as silently as possible, in case he might awaken. Fluttershy had said she had disabled both his sight and hearing, but she wasn't taking any chances with that.

She reached over and touched his forehead, immediately receiving a flood of images. It was almost overwhelming how many things she saw. Finally however, she concentrated on a series of images that caught her interest. There was Frozen Mist, bowed before a large, male figure, dressed in an elegant grey suite with a blood red tie, his face hidden in shadow, as the figure sat within a large reclining chair, an arrow held in one of his calloused hands.

"A Stand you say?" The man asked. "You know what these abilities are?"

"Yes, Emperor." Frozen Mist said, bowing even lower. "I have had one for many years. Far longer then any normal human in fact..."

"Interesting." The 'Emperor' remarked, scratching his chin, as his serpent-like eyes narrowed. "What else do you know of the arrows?"

"I've only heard rumors of their existence." Mist said. "Even I can't figure out everything they do."

Sunset skipped over this scene, stopping over another, this one showing Frozen Mist moving through the forest, like a wild animal, bounding forward. Sunset narrowed her glowing white eyes as she tried to pick out any landmarks, before he came a stop in front of a massive plateau. There, perched, on top of the plateau, was a large mansion.

Sunset knew that place. It was in a forest a few miles south of Camp Everfree. It had been abandoned for many years. She could've sworn most of the place was supposed to be torn down to make way for new housing or something. If he was hiding there, it was no wonder they were having trouble knowing where the Stand users where coming from and where their Boss was hiding.

She deactivated her powers, as she turned to the rest of the group. "Girls, we have our next location."

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