บท 282: 282. Gabrielle JoJo and Narcos Anastasia ~First Dat...
"Did we just win? I don't know... I'm not God... I don't have all the answers...But if anyone asked me, 'Did we win?'I don't think we did... No one wins in a fight... because we fought... in every fight, you lose something... you gain something, but at what cost? People get hurt... People are stupid...Was this a good story? Hell, no. Not in a million years.Just a story about a bunch of losers who will never get what they want... What they dream for... I used to think according to my ego and rationality... I used to believe in uniting the world so much... But now I realize... the world is already united... The real problem is that... it needs to figure itself out for now.So... I know how this story ends... I leave this world... So... I'll let this world figure itself out...I'll... let you figure yourself out, sweetie... And you, too, Raph... I believe... I believe that whatever the world throws at you next... You'll stand right back up... proud as you can be... and knock them back down... You can do it, Gabe... You can do it, Raph... I know you can...Whatever this new world I made brings against you... bring something back against it... You're my kids... and... I'm sorry that I can't be here anymore... My babies..."
*vrung*
Gabrielle's eyes went teary, watching her father's last message.
"Hey," said Raphael, speaking in sign language.
"Hey, Kuya Raph," sighed Gabrielle.
Gabrielle JoJo. 18-years-old. She wears a blue spider web-like tank top. 174 cm tall. She wears black pants and a brown coat. She wears black high-heeled boots. She has a butterfly tattooed on her belly. She has the star birthmark on her upper left shoulder and the heart birthmark on her chest. She has long natural green hair going down to her upper back. She has dark brown eyes. She has light brown skin. Her fingernails and toenails are painted black. She has green lipstick on her lips.
"Hay Naku..." she sighed. "Welp... I drink to that, Daddy..."
She takes out a wine glass and drinks from it.
Gabrielle JoJo poses, lets her hips out, and sighs. "Hay Naku..."
"'Hay Naku' indeed. You really are like our father," said Victoria, squinting her eyes.
"I don't think you're another version of my sister. Because for one thing, you couldn't be less heroic," said Gabrielle.
"Oh, I am your sister. The only reason why I'm like this is because my mother, compared to yours, is absolutely evil... allowing the destruction of humanity in exchange for love. Don't you know how it feels like that you only exist because of genocide? It's like you were built on the bodies of an entire race!"
"Then why are you fighting with the Rock Humans, Victoria!?"
"Because the Rock Humans were the ones who raised me when Mummy sped away into the cosmos..." said Victoria. "I have nothing left, Gabrielle. Probably, you can't breathe."
Gabrielle sighs. "This chamber disables Stands."
"Ah... yes... Where the hell does I piss!?" asked Victoria.
"Just punch the wall and a toilet opens up. Knock the glass twice and a shading appears," said Gabrielle.
"Huh..." sighed Victoria. "Alright."
"You can still join us, Victoria," said Gabrielle. "We could use someone with your abilities on our team."
"Tch-..." Victoria looks away.
Gabrielle looks up to the stars and sighs. She stayed silently on the balcony. The crickets chirp. The owls hoot. Howling could be heard nearby. Growling could also be heard.
"Hey," said Narcos, walking toward her from up the stairs. "Mercuria's fallen asleep. Gave her some soup. She's still snarling."
"I can hear wolves nearby..." sighed Gabrielle.
"Why did your grandpa choose to live in the woods? He's lucky no one in your family got eaten by wolves."
"Mercuria is still in her Blutbad form after 3 days now..." sighed Gabrielle. "Mom's taking care of her, at least..."
Narcos sighed. "Um... would you at least like to... go out?" asked Narcos.
"Go out?" Gabrielle laughs. "We're already outside!"
"No! I mean... like a date?"
"Oh!" Gabrielle looks away. "Uh-huh..."
"Yes, you mean?"
"No!"
"No?"
"No, no, no!"
"So, yes?"
"Narcos... I am not looking for a relationship right now."
"Well, I am, Gabrielle! And I'm pretty sure that I could find one in you!"
"Narcos..."
"It's just that... you're the first and only family I have, Gabrielle... Please..."
"Narcos..."
"And if the date sucked, you could just leave me and never talk to me again while I hibernate in eternal sleep paralysis-...!"
"Okay, okay, okay! Narcos, honey, I don't want to have a date right now, okay!?"
"Oh..."
The pair awkwardly look down.
"Um..." said Narcos. "What if we at least just... hang out. Like in the Sky Farm?"
"The theme park? Pfft! What are we? Ten!?"
"Well... I'm mentally an infant, you know?"
"That's creepy..."
"Come on! It'd be fun!"
Gabrielle sighs. "Fine. But it's just a hangout, alright?"
"Yeah," Narcos nodded.
Meanwhile... Raphael feeds Mercuria some soup. She is still in her Blutbad form...
"Mom isn't feeling too well either," said Raphael in sign language after putting down the bowl of soup. "Wait... where are you going?"
"We're gonna hang out in the woods," said Gabrielle.
"Alright. Be careful," said Anne.
"Huh? Where the heck's the religious talk? Where's the shaming!? 'You'll be damned if you're with him!'"
"Yeah... but I kinda like Narcos."
"Ah. Alright." Gabrielle turns red and walks out of the house.
*cough... cough!!!* Anne coughs out some pieces of stone for some reason.
"Mom?" asked Raphael.
"I'm fine... Haha..." Suddenly, Anne topples backward as her skin hardens like stone.
Raphael pants in fear as he grabs his mother...
Meanwhile...
Gabrielle sighs as the pair enters Sky Farm. "Welcome to Philippines' Disneyland."
The pair enter a large theme park at the center of Burnham near the mall. It had merry-go-rounds, Ferris Wheels, Game Booths, Roller Coasters, Haunted Mansions, Tunnels of Love, etc. They rode most of them.
There was a time when Gabrielle pranked Narcos by telling him that his pink hair is cotton candy, but he went too far by tearing off some of his hair so she had to stop him before freaking out the children nearby.
There was also a time when Narcos fainted in the Slingshot Ride which made Gabrielle laugh so hard that she sprayed milk out of her nose.
There was also a time when Gabrielle was scammed by Rat King once more who was disguised as an arcade game that was unbeatable when Narcos wasn't looking and Narcos had to beat the shit out of him.
There was also a time when Gabrielle got kidnapped by a shady street gang and Narcos had to kill all of them with his ice spikes.
There was also a time when Narcos didn't know how to use a straw when drinking milkshakes and choked on it, thinking it was food, and Gabrielle had to the Heimlich Maneuver...
...before realizing that she has no idea how to do that and had to call a guy...
Later... that night...
Gabrielle and Narcos looked out into the city with shining lights while alone in the Ferris Wheel, sitting beside each other.
"Nice view of the city," said Gabrielle, nervously.
"Yep," Narcos.
"You think we'd be able to stop whatever the heck's coming to the world?"
"Yep."
"What makes you say so?"
"Because even though fate is inevitable, there is always a chance given to us by some kind of indescribable force who gives us a choice whether or not we take it. We all have choices... We all have choices, and the choices we pick are the ones chosen because of a drive of hope."
"Right..." Gabrielle now can't think of anything to say.
"You know... in the anime or K-Drama I used to watch, the guy would usually say something romantic in a place like this which will sweep the girl off her feet." Gabrielle stops talking and Narcos stays silent.
Gabrielle turns red and is even more embarrassed. "Won't you say anything?"
"I could say something... but when I say stuff, I usually ruin the moment..."
"So?"
"I really don't want to ruin this moment with you... So I'd like to keep quiet... and keep it like this as long as I can."
"Ah..."
The two stay quiet.
Should Gabrielle say something romantic or try to break the silence?
It doesn't matter. Either way... she's a JoJo... so she dies at the end of her bizarre adventure.
Just kidding?
Gabrielle said something. This made Narcos laugh at her because she didn't quite say it right.
"STOP LAUGHING!!! IT ISN'T FUNNY!!!" yelled Gabrielle.
"Okay, okay!"
Another silence enters the room.
She sighs. She looks outside and leans her head as she stared at her reflection. "Guess I'll try to break this silence...I love you."
"Oh, really? I love you, too." Narco smiled
Another silence enters the room.
"Huh?" asked Gabrielle. "I feel weird... What did I just say...???WHAT DID HE JUST SAY!?"
Gabrielle snaps back to reality and turns to Narcos as she puts the collar of her polo over the lower half of her face.
"What!? WHAT!? W-W-W-W-WHAT!? You're not supposed to say it back! You're supposed to squirm and run away or crawl back into the hole you came from!"
"Say what back? 'I love you?'"
"STOP SAYING THAT WITH AN EXPRESSIONLESS FACE!!!" Gabrielle panted in embarrassment and looked far away. "KYA!!! STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT LIKE A HUNGRY DOG!!!"
Narcos just looks plain and in bliss.
"Why? What did I do?"
"YOU'RE HARASSING ME WITH THAT STUPID FACE OF YOURS!!! QUIT IT!!!"
"S-Sorry..." Narcos looks away.
"UGH!!!" Gabrielle looks away and can't stop smiling.
Another silence came...
...but Narcos breaks it.
"So... I am Narcos Anastasia... But I used to be the Boss... I am reborn as someone I didn't wish to be... But I am ashamed that I didn't wish to be reborn... because if that didn't happen, I would never have fallen for you. You. The first person I've ever met. You have no idea how much you mean to me. You bring me so much hope, and you have no idea how much you mean to me, Gabrielle Jessica JoJo."
Gabrielle sighs. "I..."
Gabrielle turns to Narcos. "I..."
She leans closer to his face.
He leans closer as well.
"I..."
*ring!!! ring!!!ring!!! ring!!!*
Gabrielle JoJo laughs nervously and picks up her phone. "What!?" she hissed. "Kuya Raph, if this is about your toe getting stuck in that electric fan again-... What!? Oh no..."
Gabrielle puts the phone down. "Narcos... We have to get home..."
Later...
"The Rock Disease!?" asked Narcos, seeing Anne on the bed with stony skin. "From what!?"
Gabrielle covers her face in sadness.
"I don't know..." said Raphael. "Mom got sick randomly... She became symptomatic recently because... I don't know..."
"The diaries said..." said Gabrielle, as the pair turned to her. "The diaries said that the Rock Disease is hereditary and appears in a recessive gene that first surfaced in Naples. I can't believe Mom has it..."
"What do we do?"
"We ask Grandpa about this..."
Later... they open Skype...
"What?" asked Levi. "Oh! Gabrielle! Raphael! My loving grandchildren! What do you wish to speak about?"
"Mom has the Rock Disease," said Gabrielle.
"Oh... Shit..." said Levi.
Levi turns of the Skype Call.
Suddenly, a portal opens behind them.
Levi hugs Gabrielle and Raphael.
"I'm sorry... Grandpa..." said Gabrielle.
"What happened?" asked Levi.
Raphael spoke in sign language.
"Ah... She tripped a few hours ago and her skin hardened?"
Raphael nods.
"I see..." said Levi. "You see, the Zeppelis always had the Rock Disease... I've never had it, but my father did... He was killed by the disease at the age of 54 when I was 24... His skin hardened and he turned into stone forever...My cousin, Gregorio, had it, but was cured."
"So... how was he cured?" asked Gabrielle.
"The New Locacaca... It's a variant of the Locacaca that was artificially genetically modified. Its fruit has aspects of equivalent exchange. We can absorb the Locacaca and exchange it with something of equal value..."
"So... we kill someone to save Mom!?"
"Pretty much..."
"Grandpa... we can't do that!"
"Yeah... As Gabrielle told me... that would be wrong," said Narcos.
"Who's this bozo?" asked Levi.
"That is my friend, Narcos..." said Gabrielle.
"I don't like him."
"Fuck off, Dad," said Anne.
"Don't worry, baby..." Levi patted Anne's head. "We'll fix you up."
"So... what do we do?" asked Gabrielle.
"We could take the New Locacaca and modify it," said Levi. "We have your idiot father's technology."
"Grandpa... stop calling Daddy an idiot. He saved the Omniverse."
"He still asked my daughter's hand in marriage without my blessing sweetie... In my book, he's still Hitler."
Suddenly, Miguel's book from the shelf drops on Levi's foot as he howls in pain. "GODDAMNIT, BOY!!!"
"Well..." said Gabrielle. "Narcos... We gotta cure my Mom.Where's the New Locacaca found, Grandpa?"
"Go into the mountains, sweetie..." said Levi. "There... the New Locacaca hides within..."
Deep in the forests of the mountains... Tooru stayed alone as he continues planting the New Locacaca trees. He sang the lyrics to Elvis Presley's Wonder of You... "When no one else can understand me... When everything I do is wrong... You give me hope and consolation... You give me the strength to carry on... And you're always there to lend a hand... In everything I do... That's the wonder... The wonder of you... And when you smile the world is brighter... You touch my hand and I'm a king... Your kiss to me is worth a fortune... Your love for me is everything... I guess I'll never know the reason why... You love me as you do... That's the wonder... The wonder of you..."
And so begins the New Bizarre Adventure...
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