Prologue: Jo......Jo!
"One second, two seconds, three seconds.....four seconds."
Jotaro lied there, trapped like a fly! He lied there on that bridge in Egypt as the menacing voice of DIO counted down. DIO, who took the lives of his friends, DIO who killed his great grandfather in the 1800s! DIO, master of the Stand, [THE WORLD], who could stop time itself! DIO who sacrificed his own humanity for the curse of the vampire! DIO, who was on the cusp of his victory as Jotaro Kujo, AKA JoJo lied on that bridge in his frozen time, unable to do anything except think and listen to the chocolaty voice of DIO Brando as he mocked him.
"Five seconds," DIO continued.
I've had just about enough of this neon vampire! Jotaro thought to himself in anger. Anger at DIO, who mercilessly punched a hole through Noriaki Kakyoin, fellow Japanese student. Who's servent, Cool Vanilla Ice and his Stand, Cream, killed both Mohomad Avdol, master of [MAGICIAN'S RED], and who taught him about Stands in the first place and Iggy, the loyal dog Stand User and master of the sand controlling [FOOL]. DIO, who had drained the blood of his grandfather, Joeseph Joestar, and the master of [HERMIT PURPLE]. The next time I see that goddamn face of his, I'm going to lose it, and beat him into the ground!
"Six seconds....." DIO continued from wherever he was.
That's right, DIO! Jotaro said in fury. Come and get it!
"Seven seconds!" DIO said from above, spelling Jotaro's doom as he began his attack.
"I'M GOING TO ROLL ALL OVER YOU WITH THIS ROAD ROLLER!!!!!!!!!!!" DIO cried, flying in from above and holding an Egyptian road roller in his hands, slamming into Jotaro.
"ORAORAORAORAORAORA!!!!!!!!!" Jotaro shouted, punching with his Stand, [STAR PLATINUM], his fists banging against the drum of the roller.
"IT'S TOO LATE! TIME TO DIE!" DIO yelled, slamming into the roller with his and [THE WORLD]'s elbows. "USELESSUSELESSUSELESSUSELESS!!!!!!"
They would trade Ora's and Useless's, with DIO never losing his mad grin.
"EIGHT SECONDS!!!! WRRYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!" He screamed in joy, rearing back a final double punch. "I'LL OBLITERATE YOU!!!!!!"
He then let out a mighty blow, turning the tables! Jotaro let out a final "ORA!", but it was too late, the road roller crushed him neath it's drum.
"Nine seconds...." DIO said, standing atop the roller, looking at the splatter of blood that was Jotaro Kujo. "I did it. It's over. [THE WORLD] has defeated [STAR PLATINUM], my Stand is more powerful than his!"
He then clenched his fists, feeling the power in them, the pure vampiric power he holds, even without [THE WORLD]!
"I am immortal! I am everlasting!" He said, cackling. "And Stand power! Now there is incontrovertible proof that no one on this miserable planet is stronger than me!"
He continued to cackel.
"You loathsome humans! I shall rule over your pathetic species until the end of time!" DIO said in euphoria. "NOW BOW BEFORE MY WISDOM AND POWER!"
He continued to bask in his victory. "Ten seconds! Mwahahahahahahahaha! Would you look at that? I can stop time for ten seconds!"
He came back down from the high and began to consider his next move. "All right then. Now that I defeated Jotaro, I should inspect his lifeless body and drink his blood, that is, if there's any blood left to savor!"
Yet, his body would not move. He tried to move his leg forward, and pace himself with his arm, but he was frozen in place!
"This...can't be! My body....is slowing..down!" He struggled out. "What's...happening?!"
"No, it's not that I'm slowing down...." He said, coming to a dark realization. "For some reason, I can't move at all!"
"I don't get it! This is impossible!" He said.
"Hey DIO," a mocking teenage voice said from behind. "It's been eleven seconds. I guess that's your Stands limit, huh?"
WHAT!? DIO screamed internally.
"I stopped time at nine seconds, and it's a good thing I did," Jotaro said from behind. "It gave me a chance to escape."
He shook his head. "Yare yare daze, you idiot."
He then steeled himself and pointed a finger at DIO. "Here's the thing! Since your frozen like that, destroying you will only take a second."
JOTARO!!!!!
"This is madness..." DIO said at last. "You can stop time too?! You bastard!"
"How does it feel, DIO?" Jotaro asked. "Tell me. How does it feel to have your arch-enemy towering behind you?"
DIO made an angered grunt.
"I assume it's like holding your breath underwater, only someone is coming to get you as your air is running out and your desperately swimming for your life," Jotaro said. First, he invades DIO's World, but now he uses one of his analogies?!
Continuing his arrogance, he placed a hand on DIO's shoulder, not as comfort for a friend but as a mockery of an enemy!
"And then, as you reach the surface and take a breath, you get pulled right back in," Jotaro said angrily. "Sound familiar?"
DIO could only stare into the night sky in shock.
"But for you, I feel no pity. You're not gonna get any pity from me!" Jotaro said, before letting out an ORA as [STAR PLATINUM] kicked him in his right leg, shattering it, and almost sending him flying back, but the stopped time wouldn't let him.
"Time's 'bout to start moving again," Jotaro said, and just as he did, time flowed once more, DIO was sent flying with a spin and his body landing on the street meters away from the road roller, his legs spilling more blood and causing the great DIO to start panting in fear and breathing heavily.
Jotaro stepped off the roller as well, looking at the now pitiful DIO as one would view a bug in their soup, with disgust and irritation.
"I don't feel the slightest bit of compassion for you. That's something you're never gonna get from me," Jotaro said, pointing at him. "I haven't got any kindness for your sorry undead ass."
This was it. This was his end. DIO knew that even a being as great as he was about to meet his end! He hadn't felt this way since that night in the mansion on the Joestar Estate. He could feel those flames again, dancing around him!
"Though, I gotta admit. You look pretty pathetic writhing on the ground in agony," Jotaro said. "As much as I want to, killing like this would leave a bad taste in my mouth."
DIO's legs twitched and splurted, more blood pouring out by the second.
"I wonder how long it would take for you to heal," Jotaro mused as DIO continued his shallow breathing. "Three seconds? Four maybe? The very moment your legs are healed, [STAR PLATINUM]'s headed your way to demolish you!"
DIO's eyes widened in shock, as he grunted in pain.
"If this were the wild west, the hero gunslinger would say; 'Its high noon! Now get off the ground and draw your piece, DIO'!" Jotaro said, walking closer to the vampire. "You're getting one shot."
DIO grunted in pain, staring into the eyes of the Kujo, no, the Joestar.
This insignificant welp! How dare he mock me?! No, I shouldn't be surprised. Of course, he would use this opportunity to make such a Human declaration! DIO said before his scowl turned to a smirk, and he began laughing. You think like a true mortal, cursed for a fleeting life destined for obscurity! A bad taste in your mouth, you say? What? Are you afraid you'd regret killing me? That reasoning is pathetic as your species! Your foolish honor will be your demise!
He continued to laugh at the stupidity of the Joestar before him.
I, DIO, have no such thoughts! That is where you and I differ. My vision is clear, and my mind is focused on one simple goal! DIO said as he slowly got up. I want to DOMINATE! Nothing more, nothing less! Its the only thing that will bring me fulfillment!;
But how I go about doing that... DIO continued internally. "DOESN'T MATTER IN THE SLIGHTEST!"
He moved his leg a certain way, and his blood flew into Jotaro's eyes, blinding him with a grunt from the teenager.
"There! How about a little blood in your eyes?!" DIO asked cruelly before summoning [THE WORLD]. "I win! DIE!!!!!!"
His Stand reared back his left leg, before going in for a kick straight into Jotaro's head. Yet the teen clenched his fist, and reared it back.
"ORA!!!!!" He cried before summoning up [STAR PLATINUM], the Stand punching [THE WORLD]'s leg just before it hit him, the two struggling against each other and letting out a boom!
Cracks appeared on [STAR PLATINUM]'s hand, before opening up into wounds, the same wounds appearing on Jotaro's hand and causing him to grunt in pain!
DIO smirked, feeling his victory at hand.
Yet suddenly, even worse cracks appeared on the leg of [THE WORLD], causing DIO great pain, and Jotaro to give a steely glare!
More cracks appeared, before traveling up [THE WORLD]'s leg, before going up its torso and onto its head before perfectly exploding, the wounds mirrored on DIO's body, causing him to scream in pain.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" He screamed, his blood pouring from the wounds. "IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! I AM DIO!!!!!"
Yet, his pain stopped for a moment, as he saw, not [STAR PlATINUM] next to Jotaro, but a man. An English man of noble birth, and the man whose body he was currently using. He reached out to the man, before speaking his name.
"Joh.........Joe....!"
He then exploded, his body crumpling to the ground as his energy left him in the form of blue flames.
"When the sun comes up, you'll be nothing but dust!" Jotaro said. "You only made one mistake. There's only one reason why you lost, DIO. This whole thing might've ended differently if you didn't do this."
He pulled adjusted his cap.
"You pissed me the fuck off," Jotaro said, looking at the flaming remains.
For what felt like hours, DIO was trapped in darkness. Unable to truly die, yet unable to shamble on as he did before. Then, he felt it.
The rays of the sun!
They danced on his body, before he crumbled and turned to dust. He then felt himself falling. He felt himself falling into an abyss, one from which there was no returning, and screams filled his senses, along with the pungent aroma of brimstone!
Yet, he was caught?
He landed on sandy ground. It was a mix of grey sand and gravel, with a ceaseless wind whipping around him. There was this sort of sand all around him. It was an odd void. There was no sun, but he could see somehow. There were others shambling around him, lost in their own misery.
Suddenly, appearing before him was a figure dressed in a black, expensive Italian suit. He had gray hair and black eyes and a clean-shaven face. He had a light complexion, almost pale, seeming as if he spent a lot of time underground.
"Dio Brando," the man said, his voice echoing in the expanse. "Age: 123. Date of Death: 1989. Sins include: Murder, rape, attempted global domination. The killing of your own allies. The killing of your adoptive father. And rejecting your humanity given to you in favor of the vampirism. Quite the rap sheet, if I do say so myself."
"W-who are you? And where am I?" DIO asked.
"I am Charon, the ferryman of the damned, as well as the supernatural. Where we are, is Limbo. the first Circle of Hell." The man said. "You were on your way to the Fifth. Or Seventh. I hadn't decided yet."
"Charon?" DIO repeated. "As in the....ferryman of the Underworld? But I thought this was Hell....and wait, you mean that this is the Hell? Then that means there is a God? That's...I...."
"Yes, there is a God. There are multiple Gods, for each universe." Charon said. "But. Before you go past the Gates, I want to make a deal with you."
"A deal?" DIO asked.
"Yes, a deal. There is a world in the multiverse. One much more innocent and kind than the one from which you hail. But it is being threatened by a rather unkind threat. So, I want you to go to this world. And help it. You will be given back your Stand, but you will be given a new form so that you can fit in to this world. However, should you help this threat, or should you threaten this world as you did Earth, I will not hesitate to send you into the lake of ice and fire! But, should you live peacefully in this world and die doing good, you can go to Heaven with your mother. If you live peacefully there, you can have a new chance at life. If you ask me, that sounds like a good deal. And if you die peacefully when your lifespan is up, you can reunite your mother. Do we have an accord?"
DIO considered, this before nodding. "I, DIO, will play the hero. What is the name of this world?"
"Gaias," Charon replied before snapping his fingers.
Bright light filled Limbo before consuming DIO, blinding the vampire before shifting his body from bipedal to that of a quadruped.
DIO awoke to the sounds of birds chirping, and the sun getting in his eyes.
Wait, what?
He shot up straight, and looked around. He was sitting under the shade of a tree, with a cottage in the distance. He looked up at the sky in shock and found the sun blared overhead, furthermore, it danced on his body, but he wasn't dying.
He stood up and found himself on all fours, his body's natural instincts forcing him like that.
He looked back at a pond behind him and slowly walked up to it, more shocked to see that he had a reflection than his new form.
He examined this new form, seeing that he was a sort of equine. He had his signature blond hair as his mane and tail, yet his body was equine. A light purple-ish color consisted of his fur, with a stone star placed in the hole of a cracked gear emblazoned on his flank.
"How interesting. I seem to be some sort of horse...or pony. Has [THE WORLD] changed at all?" DIO mused, before summoning his Stand.
Much to his surprise, it was the same!
It was still a humanoid Stand, with its tall and muscular build. It wore a headpiece covering its face to below the place of its nose, slanting at a steep angle from the base of its forehead to a peak situated above the rear of its head by about half its height, leaving the face of an inverted triangle visible to the front; somewhat similar to the Red Crown of Lower Egypt, adding to its regality.
It wore small, simple twin diving cylinders on its back, connecting via short, twin-ridged cables to the rear of its mask; perhaps secured by thick, ridged or puffed straps running from the rear of its waist over both its shoulders to its front, DIO never truly knew the purpose of the tanks. The back of both its hands bore the shape of a simple clock face. Its chin, the base of its abdomen, its crotch and its knees were topped by heart shapes. Plates on its shins, its footwear bears curved, sharply-pointed toes, similar to those of it's master's outfit.
Though, while in the human world, [THE WORLD] had grey skin, in this one, its skin was yellow. Aside from that, it was the same.
"Hmm. I wonder if it can still freeze time. [THE WORLD], grind time to a halt!" DIO ordered, and the Stand obeyed. There was the sound of a clock breaking, and the leaves suddenly froze mid-air, and a squirrel that had been jumping from tree to tree suddenly stopped in place.
DIO smirked, yet his smirk faded as he suddenly felt tired, and time resumed.
"I can only....freeze time.....for three seconds......damn it!" DIO groaned before sighing, returning his Stand to him. "Now, to explore this new world."
He then trotted towards the cabin.