Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion Chapter 170

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…Jotaro is the younger nephew to two Jojos. Canonically. (Though one of them is adopted.) That’s not even including whatever Giorno is relationship wise. The Jojo family tree is…bizarre.
Also you think the Speedwagon Narration was not for the benefit of getting young Joseph to actually go to bed?

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Buffy fills her ally in on the plan.
Word Count: 1169
Rating: Teen
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS

          “So, when Jotaro said that line about not having a Stand User to back me up, he was lying?” Buffy asks, a little out of breath.  Normally she wouldn’t be breaking a sweat over something like this, but as it is her breathing’s been a little broken with the smoke.  She’ll heal, but then, so will the Siphon.  Hopefully, his healing will be a little slower now that he can’t breathe to the same extent, but she can’t rely on that.
          As for the identity of her mysterious benefactor, it’s really kind of obvious.
          “Pretty much.”  Shizuka’s also a little out of breath, but she keeps up easily.  She probably does a lot of running and fighting, if the rest of her family are any indication.
          It’s weird not being able to see where her feet are, but it’s not like she needs to see exactly where she is when she’s fighting.  That’s all practice, lots and lots of it.  It’s just a weird feeling when she doesn’t catch a glimpse of her nose when she looks or a glimpse of her arm as she runs.
          She’s trying to keep her voice low.  To stop them from being followed?  Buffy would address that, suggest that it’s better he follow them rather than kill some poor first responder just trying to help, if not for the fact that he’s pissed off and probably doesn’t need to actually see them specifically to know where they are.  Not if he is what she thinks he is.  “Jotaro was the one that insisted somebody stay nearby, make sure you stayed in one piece.  Josie’s the one who just happened to have Speedwagon-issue monitoring equipment on her.  I don’t ask questions as to where she found that, given…well, I didn’t hear the whole story but apparently it’s been a while.  I listened in but I wasn’t around all the time, just in case it would’ve tipped this guy off.  And we’re actually cooperating with Giorno for once, which is a nice change of pace.  So, he claims he’s a witch.  What should I know about fighting this guy?”
          “He’s probably not a witch.”  She’s going to elaborate, only she’s interrupted.
          “Ooh, are we playing hide and seek?” he yells behind them, and there’s something very slasher movie about it all.  He’d managed to get free and he’s left the warehouse, which is good because the sirens are definitely getting louder.  (It was fun back when she and Willow and Xander were all making fun of how utterly unrealistic they were.  It’s slightly less fun in real life.)  She also notes with satisfaction that he’s out of breath, too, but he’s pushing himself just from the sheer volume of anger in his voice.
          Buffy continues, taking a path toward the pier, because drowning him is always an option she could try.  Well…he’s probably too strong for it to work, but she could at least weaken him with that.  Maybe.  “He’s probably a Sendo-user.  I’ve known actual witches casting sunlight spells, and apparently even for the most powerful witch I know it’s a really sensitive spell and does require a ritual incantation.  Just light is easy enough, but actually simulating sunlight to the level of vamp dusting?  That’s hard and generally combat-impractical.”
          “So he didn’t do his homework.”  Shizuka sounds a little excited, just like Willow had, but there’s an unimpressed tone that says she’s probably underestimating Severin right now, which is most definitely a mistake.  Sure, he hadn’t played his plan perfectly, but he’d done a good job, and the things that broke his plan were things he couldn’t foresee and couldn’t have planned for.  Even then, his power’s strong enough he might win anyway.  “Willow passed along your theory through Josuke, but I wasn’t sure it was possible.  Papa said the only ones he knew of were killed in Mexico in 1938, and even Josie hasn’t actually been trained.  If he’s figured out how to steal life force, he’s had to have had training or at least trained himself for years.”
          Time to set her straight, if only to prolong their time breathing.  Because breathing is of the good, and she still can’t quite catch it.  “Actually, sunlight spells are pretty rare, so he probably was relying on the fact that it’s so obscure to make him look more like a genius than an imposter.  She basically had to reconstruct the spell from a single attempt that made it into one of those dusty old books.  I think the one woman tried it, went ‘this isn’t useful’, and told all her friends, so from word of mouth nobody tried it.  Trapping sunlight somewhere to release it later, sure, but that was definitely not what he was doing, because there’s a limit how much you can do with that.  And breath is only important for witches so they can actually say all the ritual words.”
          “Wait a minute.  If he’s got hamon—he can feel our life force…”  Her ally sounds like she’s panicking, but then, why wouldn’t she, if she suddenly came into contact with an enemy with a power that could counteract her Stand?  A chunk disappears from the shipping container to their right, like Godzilla had taken a big bite out of it, but of course, this isn’t a monster movie and there wasn’t a sound.  The invisibility Stand thing must be a radius thing, and Shizuka’s emotions must influence how big it is.  Sure, the presence of other senses might make it look like all of this was pretty much a waste of time, but that doesn’t mean she’s completely useless.  They just have to get a little creative about it.
          “I’ve got a sword in my duffel.  I want you to grab it and use it when I give the signal.  Because you’ll need to interrupt him, and he probably can’t actually sense something inanimate.”  All he’d be able to feel, probably, if it works anything like her Slayer-senses, is someone running at him.  If he can feel the air move or something, sure, that’s something else, but if it’s just life-based, the sword, awesome as it is, isn’t living.
          Buffy feels invisible hands unzip and reach into her invisible bag and rummage around.  It gets lighter, but the Joestar must be able to actually see, because she exclaims, “Buffy, this sword…!”
          Whatever Shizuka was going to say gets interrupted.  Severin picks her up by the scruff of the neck, shaking her like a misbehaving little kitten.  He’s definitely using his life-senses here, and expending more energy than he can afford, but then, he’s probably relying on getting a net positive from siphoning her dry.  “You’re the one who empowered all the Slayers.  Through you, I can take it all away.”
          “You’re getting a little greedy there, Severin,” she wheezes, warning him even as the now-familiar pain of having her power siphoned tears through her.  Shizuka isn’t kidding about reckless plans.  Either this will work perfectly, or they’re all dead.