Board Thread:Fanmade/@comment-26912075-20180817221555/@comment-26912075-20181023125211

Meanwhile, Jotaro sat motionless on a pile of bricks on mordar, unable to move his body, looking to the sky as the cries of his friends resonate around him. "So... Is this all I can do? Is this... the end?" His eyes peered towards the sky above him, with several flashes of light crossing about it. He squinted and noticed that they took human shape, waving behind at him as they circled above the battlefield like vultures, as if expecting more to join them. "I'm sorry Kamiki... I'm sorry Bo... I'm sorry Josuke, Koichi, Rohan, Old Man, Kakyoin, Avdol, all of you. I'm so sorry. This is my limit. I can't go on... He's too strong." Jotaro breathed heavily as he sat alone in his state. As he peered slightly to the hole where Joker flung him through, seeing that the battlefield had become littered with the remains of the decease. It was harrowing to him, to see that, for all his life, this scenario would repeat over and over again. "I'm sick of it..." He said, spitting on the ground, slowly using Star Platinum to bring himself to his feet. "I suppose the most I can do now is face death with solemnity." He slowly trudged forward towards the battlefield, clearly heavily injured, with gashes across his body and blood profusely leaking from every orifice. He felt a cold shudder overcome him suddenly, but was barely fazed. "I see... So I cannot even reach the battlefield. How dissapointing..."

"What is truly dissapointing is that you would resign here." Jotaro lifted his head with his remaining strength and turned around in shock. There, sitting atop a pile of brick and mordar, resided DIO Brando, dawned in a red cape and looking at him with a serious complexion. "You, the strongest of all stand users, shouldn't give up here. You say Joker is too strong? Nay, you are too weak in spirit." He said as he hopped down from the pile and began walking slowly towards Jotaro.

Jotaro quickly turned himself and tried to ready his stand, but spit up blood and was unable to move much further. "You...!" He exclaimed, anger burning in his eyes. "Why have you come?!"

Dio held his palm out to the man, who flinched slightly in reaction. "Calm yourself, old nemesis. I've come only to enlighten, not to destroy."

"Enlighten?! Pah! More of your prophetic talk? I've had enough of it. Can't I just face death in peace...?" His head lowered to the floor.

"No Jotaro! Only losers think that way! You must overcome this great threat with your power, as you always have!"

"That's not even possible! I am too weak! And what would you even care?! I'm sure you are rolling in your fiery grave with laughter!" Jotaro turned to the outside and took a step forward, before tumbling to the ground with one knee.

DIO looked at him with a blank stare, shaking his head. "Think of me what you will. I am well aware of what I've done. However, it is only I who can give you hope, Jotaro..."

He looked at DIO with a pained expression, shaking his head. "That time has passed."

"Only in your mind." He began to pace slowly around the kneeling man. "You are naive, young Jotaro. You say that he is too powerful, and yet..." He turned to face him. "Inside you is a power far greater. Star Platinum..." Jotaro looked at him in confusion as DIO continued his speech. "Haven't you thought it was strange that Star Platinum adapted to every threat and overcame every boundary, even incorporating two entirely different powers into its own: Hamon and The World."

Jotaro seemed confused. "It was coincidence and heritage that..."

"Nay Jotaro! It is something far greater than what those can give you. Jotaro, the truth is..." DIO mouthed something off to Jotaro, who widened his eyes in surprise. "I must go... But remember that." DIO then vanished into thin air, leaving Jotaro bewildered. He then quickly clenched his fist and rose to his feet, confidence brimming in his eyes. He then headed off to the battlefield.

"Thank you..."