JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 11: Gremlin

ELEVEN: Gremlin (グレムリン Guremurin) is the eleventh chapter of the light novel JORGE JOESTAR. It brings back the perspective of George Joestar II after the events of Chapter 9.

Summary
Jorge hears rumors that pilots had been spotting strange things during their flights. The strange things were described to be tiny, skinny people with no eyes, similar to what Faraday had described the 'evil thing' he'd seen the evening Kenton was murdered. One day his friend, Jim Graham, runs in claiming that a creature had been clinging onto his plane. He described it to be about 50 centimeters tall, and had sharpened teeth. Jim then began to carry a pistol with him. Jorge begins to bring a camera with him during his flights, to prove that this creature was the same thing Faraday had described. He spots Steven's plane one day, and goes to visit Darlington to show her. She suddenly asks him if the dead could resurrect, she reveals that her father and Steven were trying to bring Kenton back using. What she said reminds Jorge of what Straizo had told him. She asks him if he knows about the Stone Mask, telling him that his father had been studying the mask.

She reveals that his grandfather, also named George Joestar, had gathered policemen to arrest his adopted son, Dio. Revealing that the policemen were all murdered, with one of them having two holes in their skull. She explains to him the story of how that town had been wiped out overnight, all turned into zombies because of Dio. She states to have known about Erina's time in Dio's coffin, and compares Dio with the Alejandro Torres incident because he had fangs and was walking on the ceiling. She asks Jorge what she should do, not wanting history to repeat itself. Jorge states he will contact Lisa Lisa and her group, causing Darlington to cry in fear. A car pulls up outside, with William Cardinal coming out of it. Darlington introduces him to Jorge, he shakes hands with William and congratulate them on their engagement. Darlington sees Jorge to the door, asking him if he will attend their wedding. Jorge states that he would not be welcome, considering the history he's had with the Motorize family. William agrees, calling him a bad influence, and asks him not to visit them ever again. Darlington bids Jorge farewell, and he leaves.

He returns home and calls Lisa Lisa, relaying the information that Darlington had given him to her. She states that they are already watching the Motorize men. Because of the RAC working with the Navy during the war, she asks Jorge not to die. Some time after, the had been founded, and Jorge had joined the. He begins training with hydroplanes, being one of the only pilots, along with Jim Graham, to land from the deck of an aircraft carrier sailing around the ocean. He joins the war between the and Serbia after an heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was killed by a Serbian. Jorge is tasked to spot enemy ships and submarines, along with his navigator, Frank Demarast. After firing him for being too scared, Jorge begins to fly alone. He flies his Star Shooter, when a fires at the plane next to him. He asks Jim to throw a bomb at them, and shoots it. He tries to flee from it in order to send this information to their forces, but ends up getting his tail wing shot. The Albatross suddenly crashes into another, Jorge and Jim end up laughing because of how lucky they were. Jorge tries to land on the water because of their plane losing its fuel, when he suddenly spots something between the propeller. He spots the same creature all the other pilots had seen, it cackles and states that Jorge will die here, and that it will kill his family right after. Jorge grabs his camera and takes a photo of it right before it disappears. He turns to see Jim's eyes rolled back, clawing at his throat and then shoving his entire hand into his mouth, yanking his tongue out along with his own flesh. He manages to pull out even his own ribs, causing his stomach to be ripped in half and his hands snapping forward, splattering blood and bits of organs all over Jorge's face.

Jorge vomits and cries, with his plane about to crash, he decides to focus on landing it instead of dying like this. Jim whispers for help, Jorge manages to land Star Shooter onto the water. He turns to check Jim's pulse, he was dead. He decides to wait for Lisa Lisa, knowing she'd come for him. He looks up and sees Steven's Motorizing plane, Lisa Lisa jumps out of it and slides through the water using her Ripple. Steven had been in the cockpit, Lisa Lisa asks if Jorge was okay. He asks how she knew where he was, she explains that a Hamon Master, Tompetty, had used his Hamon to predict the future. Steven finally speaks up, apologizing to Jorge. He states that after Jorge was arrested, he went to chase the real killer. He clears up that he didn't kill Kenton, but instead, the Spaniard with no eyes. He explains that it would come onto Kenton's plane all the time and speak in Spanish, one day, she mentions Jorge's name in front of it. She could tell that it had cursed his name and yelled at it, only for it to look at her and say "You're going to die" in English. Steven then explains how he saw Kenton die, and watched as the creature vanish. They all hop on Steven's plane and head back to France, trying to file a report about Jim. Because of the dates when they first spotted it and when Jorge moved to England were the same, Lisa Lisa determines that the creature is going after him. They fly to the Hamon masters' secret underground lair. Where he meets Tompetty, and calls up the Naval Air Service. On the other end, William Cardinal yells and asks where he is, claiming that he is now the officer in charge of his unit. He asks why he had left his companion and ran off, shocking Jorge because Jim was alive. Cardinal claims that Jim had told them about encountering three German fighters, surrendering, and leaving Jim in the sea after shooting down two of them. Jorge states that Graham may have been confused, Cardinal hands Jim the phone. Jim gets upset, asking him why he left him and states that he will kill him the next time he sees him; deeming Jorge as a traitor.

He hangs up on him, Lisa Lisa walks up to Jorge showing him a photo of his old bully, Antonio Torres. She reveals his real name to be Anthony Hightower. She then claims that he is making copies of himself, with 16,384 clones of him. Lisa Lisa explains that the Antonio he had seen that day wasn't the real Antonio, and because of the pilots he had terrorized, it caused rumors to spread. As if their fears manifest into a real thing. She asks Jorge if he had remembered the Gorilla Spider from back in Rome, stating that something like that wasn't natural. Like Mothman back in 1905 when the church of La Palma had burned down, because the villagers' fear had fueled it. Lisa Lisa states that anyone who flies a plane with be attacked by him. Jorge faints after remembering the terrifying drawings from the church and the bodies.