Jojo's : A Bizarre Journey

[Jack's POV]

He's weakened, but so am I.

I have to finish this quick.

There are multiple slashes in his body, while a horizontal slash goes through his whole torso.

I have a small hole in my torso too.

It's a time battle now, the one who bleeds out first dies.

He knows that too, unfortunately.

We're standing in front of each other.

He dashes.

Faster than he did before.

'Shit, he's in the offensive'.

He punches the air as i back off.

But he doesn't stop, and i have to keep backing until i hit one of the walls of the various houses around me.

He breakes the wall sith an scarlet overdrive and burns a bit of the plywood around it.

'Seems like a chance'

I charge a scarlet overdrive, and punch towards his neck.

But predicting it, he backs off inmediately.

'I think i now what to do'

I check my torso, feeling a smooth silk.

'Yeah, this might work'

I dodge whatever obstacle he throws at me.

Rushing to him, i jump to the level of his head, arm back as if I'm going to do a slash at his forehead.

He buys it and tries to punch me in the torso, huge amounts of hamon in his hand.

It lands straight.

But.

"What!?"

The Hamon is dispersed by the scarf, wrapped around my torso.

Before i get flung back I stuck my knife through his arm.

"ARGH!".

I use my knife embedded in his arm as a lever and get close to him trying to cut his head with my other hand.

But he pushes me out, tearing his right arm from the middle to his hand.

Unfortunately, Its not all wins, as my knife stays stuck in his hand.

Still, as far as oppotunity cost goes, it's a good trade.

"You... YOU INSIGNIFICANT SCUM!"

What's with him?

"HOW DARE YOU!? A LITTLE FUCK AS YOURSELF TO DO SUCH DAMAGE TO ME!".

Why is he screaming?

How unsightly.

I could never.

Specially in a fight of this importance.

Man, i sound like Aroa.

"ARGH!!!"

What is he doing?

The hamon in his arm is doing something weird.

Flares loudly and a scarlet color.

He keeps screaming, and his arm stops bleeding slowly.

Oh wait!

He's searing his arm with Hamon.

Seems really painful.

But i could do that with-

He jumps straight to me, his only arm going directly to my head.

I dodge it with weird easiness.

And i keep doing so for all his combo.

My instincts are saying something is wrong.

I back off.

But as if he knew that I was going to do that.

He rushes once more, spininning while keeping the offensive.

His attacks are mixed with spins and he starts using the rotational force to get faster.

Wait i know this, Aroa does the same, something about the force is energy and energy can be gathered with quick movements?

So what do i do when Aroa does this?

Well i run, but he can cover the same distance as me in one step, while i have to do 3.

I attack then?, One wrong movement and i die, the force in his blows is too big for me to counter or defend.

I can't keep dodging infinitly, my stamina will run out first and he's getting too fast once more.

My best chances seem to attack, or to scare him off but-

*BOOM*

One of the car-like structures in the street gets smashed completely by his combo

And he just keeps going.

Not stopping to see the damage or anything, he jumps over the car and with the same impulse does an axe kick to my place.

I dodge and before his kick hits the ground, he uses that same impulse to put his hands to the floor and does a somersault to the direction i jumped, spinning in the air and changing directions to try and catch me with a flying horizontal kick.

He keeps following up with all of his kicks, sometimes using his good arm.

'Alright here's a plan, he fights like Aroa, so i just have to imagine him as a bigger version of him, so how would i win if he did that?'

Think, Think, Think.

He breaths loudly as he does his kicks, his legs burning with scarlet, destroying and burning whatever plywood house he goes through.

'First i would find out the weakness in his moves, but there's no conflict point.'

'Then i would run away, but he can shorten the distance'

I'm back at the same point, I have to attack.

I grip my knife in reverse, ignoring the pain in my stomach and tensing every muscle in my legs, I rush directly to him.

He saw that, so he'll counter my knife with the one i left in his palm.

I jump, and his knife blocks mine, but shift my body, leaning my weight in both of my hands gripping the knife, using both of the knives as a leverage, I lift my body by my hands.

With that impulse, I drop kick him in the eye.

"Scarlet Overdrive!"

"Mmf!"

Completely unexpected to him, as he punches me back and stifles a sound.

I'm thrown away but the damage is neglible.

His left eye should be burning, and that's a part that can't just be healed.

No left eye, no right arm, low stamina and a lot of slashing injuries.

This is definitly my win right?

Still, I don't let myself lower my guard, this is the guy that killed me after all, unless it was the other one, it doesn't matter at this point.

My knife seems to be somewhere around the place where i dropkicked him, but i can't see it right now.

He huffs and huffs, everytime more slowly and becomes more cooled, the look in his face becoming more serious than ever before.

The Final Stand is in.

We both start walking.

We start to walk more faster and faster...

We're running at this point.

""HRAGHHHHH!""

This last stand is nothing like before.

It's not a one-sided attack, a one-sided dodge, or wait for a moment where the other one lowers his guard.

This situation is almost poetical.

He punches, I dodge.

I punch, He dodges.

He punches, I get hit.

I punch, He gets hit

We're going to kill.

We're going to kill each other as fast and horribly as we can.

Every punch he lands is one i land.

Every punch I land is one he lands.

When I dodge, He counters.

When He dodges, I counter.

This situation is almost poetical, as it leans more towards a two-sided massacre.

My eye is bleeding, and his eye is burning.

My hands are almost broken, while his only good hand is burning.

My legs are screaming, and his are going to give up.

But i still need to keep on.

I need to go forward.

...

Unfortunatelly...

Destiny favors justice...

And between a possible murderer and a monk who has been erradicating vampires for years...

Who has more favor of destiny?

Sure, You might say that Jack's destiny changed the moment he was saved by Aroa.

But that doesn't erase it, at some moment in the future, he would've become ``Jack The Ripper´´.

Even if it did, Destiny is always changing around Aroa, Who's to say Jack won't become a bigger menace under Aroa's words?

The question remains, Who has more favor of destiny?

Jack keeps on dodging and countering, hitting and getting hit.

But at one moment...

He slips.

His stance doesn't change too much, his body isn't dramatically changed and his slip just moves him forward by a few centimeters.

But that's enough to confuse him.

And that's enough for Straizo to condense all of his power in his only good hand.

And...

"Scarlet Hamon Overdrive!"

Delivering a devastating punch to Jack's neck.

Sending him crashing through two walls of plywood.

Leaving him half-dead.

...

"Haah...Haah...Haah"

What...?

I can barely breath.

My neck hurts.

My whole body is burning and i can't move it.

I hear His horrible voice from outside whatever-the-fuck I'm in

"You were strong, unknown adversary..."

What?

Strong?

How come?

If i lost.

Then How Am I Strong?

I'M noT

NO WaY I'm STRoNG.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS STRENGTH?

STRENGTH IS STANDING ONCE MORE.

WITH MY BROKEN BODY.

I stand up, my legs protesting.

"STRENGTH?!"

I manage to speak, through all of the pain and blood in my neck.

"STRENGHT IS *cough* WINNING!"

"YOU'RE RIGHT I'M STRONG"

"THAT'S WHY *cough* I'M GOING TO WIN!"

"WITH THIS BATTERED BODY I HAVE RIGHT NOW!"

"I WILL GO BEYOND MY LIMIT!"

"RIGHT

HERE

AND 

NOW!"

I drag my legs forward.

A sudden burst of strenght going through me.

And i see it

'Alucinations should come after the fight right?'

A humanoid being is in front of me.

Looking at my adversary as it was his.

I don't know what he's doing right here.

But if he can stand now then he's standing against him.

"Kill him"

I command.

And he does.

As the man falls to the ground in angish, holding his neck with his only hand.

"Wha...?"

I don't understand.

The humanoid looks at me.

And slowly disappears inside my body.

The hamon master is flinging his arms, but his face is purple.

He's slowly dying.

I win right?

I don't get it.

But now let me sleep for a little.

'I'll definitly gloat about this to Aroa'