Queen of Cups

Two of Swords

A.n. I used the dubbed version and scripted some information here. Also... It may be a sensible topic in there for some of us... I tried my best to use the description from there, but I preferred to add my touch to the ending. His words, though, I tried to keep as close to the footage as I could. I cried my ass writing this chapter... But there might be some good parts. And I'm sorry some of you will start the new year with this sad chapter, but I needed it for the plot. I hope you'll enjoy though... That's why it took me so long.

TWO OF SWORDS

Upright: Difficult Choices, Indecision, Stalemate

Reversed: Lesser of Two Evils, No Right Choice, Confusion

"I don't understand..." Thought the redheaded boy, as he recalled staying on the top of a building, but now found himself punched in the guts, flying all the way into a water tower. "What just happened? Did he really hit me?"

His whole body ached, blood and water mixing together in his abdomen. "I can't even move a single finger... I can't speak either. It must have been a fatal blow."

The cold water washed his insides. His spine was done with. All nerves were destroyed as his spine was broken by the impact. He felt the pain though, and looked around, with his vision so blurred from the pain and tears and fear.

"It's 5:15... Which means that it's midnight back in Japan... I wonder what mom and dad are doing right now... Knowing them, I'm sure they're sound asleep..."

Flashbacks of his parents, his childhood and all his past rolled in front of him. Guilt got the best of him, and regrets caught up with his rational brain part. "I'm sorry for worrying you..."

Despite his brief moment of reflection, Noriaki Kakyoin's last thoughts were not of his parents. He had to find the answer of his very last question, how Dio could've touch him.

"I should be able to instantly sense any movement within Hierophant Green's web... But somehow, DIO managed to destroy the entire web, in the blink of an eye... And it wasn't one strand at a time. It was instantaneous. Not even a split second difference."

Kakyoin looked again at his stand's green strands that were taken by the breeze, at Avdol and Joseph that kept looking back and forth towards Kakyoin and DIO, but in what seemed like slow motion for the Japanese. "How did he shatter a 20 meter area at once? How? There wasn't even a slight delay! What's his secret... Damn it!"

Avdol used his Magician's Red Bind as a rope to try and get himself to Kakyoin, but since he was now bearing prosthetics, his speed wasn't the best. Kakyoin didn't even notice as his own brain started recalling every single fraction of the seconds that passed between the moment he announced his stand's hit and the one when he was thrown into the water tower.

"How did he destroy them all without any delay in time?... Time?... Time?!... Time! THE TIME!"
Kakyoin looked at the clock, and then towards the scary figure of DIO, trying to find why, how and if it was indeed DIO's ability. He coughed some blood, as he wanted to scream his realization.

"THAT'S IT!" He thought only. "Something as outlandish as that doesn't seem possible, but there's no other explanation."

Under the same irony, he knew his time was running out, both in his vitality and in the time in which he could tell his friends about DIO.

"I have to find a way to tell the others. They need to know the truth behind such terrifying ability." He looked up on another building, and saw the grandfather he never had but wished for. Avdol disappeared from his view, and truth be told, Kakyoin didn't know if the Indian-Egyptian man was still alive.