Young Caesar
Then when Caesar was ten, Mario his father disappears, Caesar already lost his mother and a distant relative had stolen the little money is father had left behind. Caesar became a delinquent and grew to hate his father.
I bet he left for some woman! He thought at that time enraged. I will find him and kill the bastard!
He threw away his youth and his future. From theft to arson to assault, his lengthy criminal resume was missing only murder. Even the local mafia feared him.
"Punk! You are Caesar right? What is your last name?" A man questioned him.
"I do not have one!" He replied as the other man chuckles.
"Then you cannot be Italian. Italians are proud of their families."
Holding nothing back he would pummel his opponents with a wrench then once his enemy was stunned Caesar finished him with a single punch. Though he did not know it, Caesar was already using his Hamon.
Later at age sixteen, in Rome he saw his father again.
I had to be. That is him! He realized gritting his teeth in anger. At that moment Caesar thought he would murder his own father. But he followed him instead standing in front of the wall where the Pillar Men were still slumbering in. What is that? He questioned noticing a sparkling gem n the wall. That is a diamond! There is a diamond in there! He noticed leaning close wanting to touch it.
As suddenly his father ran towards him full speed shouting in panic:"Young man! Do not touch that stone!"
"You"Caesar whispered but it was already too late as ropes emerged from the wall. "What is it doing?" Caesar breathed out paralyzed before his father pushed him out of the way, sacrificing himself getting pulled into the stone wall.
"Stay back! It is a trap!" Mario shouted.
Caesar knew nothing what transpired all those years ago. That Will his grandfather had lost his Hamon abilities and his father tragically because of the stone mask. That his own father Mario had inherited the cause from his grandfather and that his discovered these ruins before dedicating his life to Hamon training and searching the world for a way to defeat these beings. History had not yet revealed itself to Caesar, he only knew the stories his grandfather Will told him when he was still a small child, however until now he never took them too seriously, trembling he listened to his father's last words:
"Young man, I ask you a favor. There is a woman in Venice named Lisa Lisa, tell her of my death. She is the only one who can stop them!"
Caesar had grown up and Mario did not recognize his own son.
"Fa-"Caesar whispered terrified as his father merged completely with the wall, leaving only this damn silence.
But he finally realized, his father was trying to keep the family safe, away from this terror. Caesar broke down.
"FATHER!!"
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Caesar opened his eyes, clenching his fist in determination, snapping back into reality, his purple and orange headband flying in the breeze.
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"Caesar's hatred transformed." Lisa Lisa narrated..."Animosity became pride for his father and the rest o his family." They saw Caesar entering the great Iron Gate.
"So Caesar picked up where is father had left off." Joseph realized. "He wants to avenge his father. Forgive me Caesar." He muttered ashamed. "Accept my apology for having insulted you and your family. But you know a trap is waiting for you. You must have a plan to destroy Kars. I have changed my mind! If the battle must begin then so be it. I am right behind you, Caesar Zeppeli! Lisa Lisa can we go now?" Shouted the brunette enthusiastically as she shook her head chuckling.
"Very well, Messina, Joseph...We are following after Y/N and Caesar!" She exclaimed.
Meanwhile Caesar observed the yard. Only one set of footprints left in last night's snow. He noticed as the door slammed open, startling him as he saw something in the door frame but it instantly vanished.
"What? I swear I saw someone!" Caesar mumbled. "Am I seeing things? Not that is not an illusion! What the hell is that?" He questioned himself as it suddenly dashed towards him.
"Caesar?" You called out to him concerned as it disappeared from view.
"It has vanished again!" the blond exclaimed. "One moment I see it, the next I cannot.... But I know it is here! He is within a few steps. Does Kars have a new trick? No, the Sun is too strong! There is no way he could survive out here!" Sweat tickled down his pale skin.
"Caesar!" You shouted again, stomping though the snow. "Wait for me! Going alone is madness!"
"Do not come any closer Y/N!" He ordered. "I cannot move, let alone go inside. Something is lurking near the entrance!"
"Oh really?" You tilted your head to the side observing your surroundings. "A footprint!" you warned the Zeppeli. "I t is jumping! It is attacking from above." Your and his eyes widened.
"It is Wamuu!" Caesar screamed as the sun blinded you the pillar man used his chance kicking you swiftly knocking the air out of your lungs and puncturing a single point in your spine before he dragged you into their hideout, it all happened in a blink of an eye.
"Caesar!" You muttered before losing consciousness as the door slammed shut!
"Y/N!!" Caesar fell to the ground blood gushing out of his right arm, tainting the snow red, Wamuu managed to cut him. "What the hell? That was Wamuu, Could both Wamuu and Kars be n there? But how? How could Wamuu survive exposed to the sun? Is it his transparent appearance?"
Then the door opened again making Caesar jump back on his feet.
"Where is that audacious loudmouth? Jojo..." Wamuu questioned him. "I hear he has learned much. Where is the man who defeated Lord Eisidisi?"
Wind, Caesar realized. Wamuu can control the wind. That is why he is transparent. But those pipes in his chest. They are spitting out smoke. It is slightly visible because of water vapor. I have got it! Wamuu is cloaking himself in vapor from his lungs! It must be refracting the light. The vapor is acting like a suit, reflecting the light away from his body! That is why he looks transparent!
"It appears Jojo is missing." Wamuu stated. "However we have Y/N in our grasp. You the bubble user are Caesar, correct?"
"What have you done to Y/N?!" Interrupted the Italian.
"I just knocked her unconscious, Master Kars wants her unharmed." Wamuu chuckled. "So you have a weak spot for her. Very well your agility tells me you have trained and learned much. You are now worthy of death by Wamuu!" He exclaimed smugly.
"We will see who dies! I get Y/N back no matter what! Thank you for reminding me of my days on the streets! Back when you killed my father with that trap of yours! Savagely, without mercy! That is how I will destroy you!" Caesar declared getting ready for Wamuu's wind tack.
"Do not think your wind will be able to blow my bubble attack away. Some bubbles can cut though wind!" He rubbed his hands. "Think of this as a little something from my grandfather's Hamon Cutter! BUBBLE CUTTER! The high speed rotation flattens the bubbles into disks and Hamon ensures they won't pop! Wamuu....your wind protector is nothing but a ventilator!" Caesar commented as his bubbled cut Wamuu's skin. "Instead of protecting you it is drawing the bubbled in!"
"The power o his Hamon is stronger than I imagined!" Wamuu was shocked. "Now Hamon user!" He tried to rush back into the building.
"Hold it! You are not escaping back inside that hotel!" Caesar exclaimed launching another Hamon attack. "BUBBLE CUTTER GLIDING! I take out your legs and once you are off balance. I will swiftly deliver my Hamon kick!" Caesar leaped into the air as Wamuu fell backwards as his legs were cut by Caesar's bubbles.
But what happened next astonished Caesar. Instead of trying to regain his balance, instead of fleeing into the hotel to escape the sunlight Wamuu did something unexpected! He bent himself backwards! Licking himself off the blond and using the momentum to punch an opening into the wall of the building as the door closed itself while Caesar landed harshly on the ground panting.
He is not just immortal.....He is a fighting genius! He though. But my Bubble Cutter must have inflicted major damage. Now is my chance. I can do this! I must go in there to make sure Y/N is safe. I still have a plan for defeating Wamuu inside the hotel! Caesar steeped through the opening carefully looking around. My nerves are razor sharp. I can feel subtle changes in the aid! I have not felt like this since I was living in the slums. My breathing is steady and I am not sweaty a drop. I am poised for unleashing a perfect Hamon attack!
In that moment he saw you lying on a table near the wall, groaning in pain.
"Y/N" He shouted relieved rushing over to your side not caring that you guys were in enemy's territory. "Y/N, thank god." He took your face in his hands trying to wake you up as you finally opened your eyes groggily, a bit confused.
"Where are we?" You mumbled looking around as he smiled down on you warmly.
"We are in the hotel, can you stand up?" He inquired as you tried standing up however your legs gave out.
"I have never been so ungracefully in my entire life." You stated while Caesar caught you setting you down on the table. "Wamuu must have struck a nerve...do not worry give me a few moments." You smiled back.
Suddenly when you opened your eyes again you locked eyes with Wamuu standing on top of the stairs as Caesar turned around steeping in front of you.
"So you have removed your wind protector and revealed yourself, huh, Wamuu?" Caesar posed while you slung your arms around his neck smirking, posing with him.
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Joseph, Messina and Lisa Lisa reached the iron gate.
"Where are Y/N and Caesar? They are gone! Both! Are they inside the hotel?" The Joseph questioned confused, seeing the blood on the white snow.
"What happened?!" Lisa Lisa shouted. "We have to be on guard, we can only move carefully for now."
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"Take this Wamuu; BUBBL LAUNCHER!" Caesar fired his bubbles at Wamuu who blocked them with a wind barrier.
"I told you that would not work!" Wamuu yelled sending two wind attacks at the Italian who evaded each attack, irking the pillar man, who promptly send another four which Caesar blocked with an onslaught of bubbles, breaking though eventually to target Wamuu.
You meanwhile tried to slowly stand up breathing heavily, huffing. The nerve damage was more serious that I though."Heal!" You shouted...nothing happened.
"Running?" Caesar questioned as Wamuu jumped down the stairs as he destroyed a vase with his Hamon.
"I do not run or hide!" Wamuu returned, another wind attack was send at Caesar which he deflected with his bubbled sending it straight to the roof making the building rumble. Calmly he threw back his pink scarf, smirking tauntingly; furiously Wamuu continued sending his small wind storms at the Italian.
"BUBBLE CUTTER!" Caesar dodged to the side. "Eat this Wamuu! BUBBLE CUTTER GLIDING!" the bubbled cut the pillar man's legs making him fall down the stairs groaning in pain.
"Enough games! Death technique! DIVINE SAND-" Wamuu screamed getting up.
"Hold on just a second! Take a goof look around." Caesar raised his finger interrupting him. The whole entrance hall was filled with spinning bubbles
"My Bubble Cutter are now Bubble Lenses floating n the air!" He explained.
"Lenses?" Wamuu asked.
"And that hole you punched in the wall is like the open shutter of a camera! The lenses focus sunlight into the hotel!"
They concentrated the sun rays as the concentrated light pierces through Wamuu's body as the pillar man let out a cry of agony.
"You cannot move! You are the film! You are the camera film! I think you are a bit overexposed Wamuu!" Caesar exclaimed seeing that he showed his pipes again.
"Trying the wind protector? I won't let you!" Caesar screamed leaping in the air. "Get ready for a direct Hamon strike!"
Your eyes widened in fear.
"CAESAR WATCH OUT!!!" You yelled seeing a flaw, one single flaw! His body created a shadow blocking the light from the lenses and Wamuu will use the opportunity. Your eyes widened as you pushed yourself of the table only to fall to the ground.
"What the hell did you do Wamuu!!?" You screamed panicking. Why cannot HEALL manifest to heal my body? What is this technique? "Damn it!"
"Wind power! DIVE SANDSTORM!!" Wamuu raised both of his hands as Caesar left the opening, the Zeppeli was hit full force.
"CAESAR!!" No this cannot happen, why can't my legs just move. Your mind was racing as you got various flashbacks, George, Will, Dire, Tonpetty, my family.....You bit your lip drawing blood as you started to crawl. Please lend me your strength!!
The door flew open as the gust of wind startled Lisa Lisa, Messina and Joseph.
"It could not be! Such destructive power! Wamuu's Divine Sandstorm!" Joseph noticed, recognizing the power.
"Could it be that....Caesar and Y/N re...." Lisa Lisa's voice broke....
You crawled your way to Caesar's badly injured body. "Caesar." You whispered.
"You have demonstrated impressive improvement. I am satisfied. I have not engaged in such a battle for eons....Hamon warrior." Wamuu fell to the ground. "That was close. If my wind attack had not been strong enough to blast away your lenses...I do not know I would have dodged that sunlight attack." His skin broke. "If Kars....without a wind attack had beaten me here and faced you first." Je gritted his teeth bleeding badly. "Although he surely would not have lost....he would have struggled and sustained more damage than me."
"Wamuu! What did you do to me?" You asked panicking; you were not able to heal Caesar.
"Nothing much, the effect of my attack will lessen as time passes, you probably won't feel your legs for a minute or two...I did it so you cannot interfere or pose a threat to us." You answered.
Suddenly Caesar stood up shocking you.
"Caesar, stop it please!" You called out to him as he took the first step up the stairs as Wamuu got back on his feet too.
"My Divine Sandstorm has ravaged your muscle fibers and blood vessels. Stop and listen to Y/N, this battle is over." Wamuu stated as Caesar want to punch him weakly. "You have no more Hamon. Look your blood had poured from your body....there is no saving you now. "However Caesar did not stop.
"Caesar, please stop it already!" You begged trying to get him to stop but he did not listen until he slipped on his own blood falling backwards.
"Farewell." Wamuu turned around. "You life ends now."
But Caesar leaped at Wamuu instead and ripped out his golden lip ring before he fell down the stairs landing on the ground.
"The ring for the antidote, why?" Wamuu inquired.
"I have no fear of death. But I am proud to be a Zeppeli. It is in my blood. You are not human, so you would not understand....My father did not recognize me but he sacrificed his life to save mine. My grandfather gave up his Hamon energy to Jojo's grandfather. I too must act. I cannot leave this world any other way. I am sorry Y/N but it is now or never...I...as someone who looks up to you as someone who admires your strength and as a friend I should say something along the lines of; You should live on and forget me, do not grief because I want you to be happy...but I cannot...as me as Caesar Zeppeli, as a man....I wanted to tell you since we first met in Rome at the hotel where we----" He paused. "....I always wanted to tell you that...I....have...fallen for you....I love you Y/N!"
Your eyes widened as slowly you felt your stand manifesting.
"THIS IS THE ZEPPELI SPIRIT AS IT WAS AND IT WILL BE!" Caesar exclaimed holding the lip ring with his headband in his hands. "THE HUMAN SPIRIT!!"
"NO CAESAR DON'T DO IT!!" Tears streamed down your face as you tried to get him to stop.
"Jojo this is my final Hamon! I give it to you!!"
"STOP!!"
"That are Y/N's and Caesar's voices! Did you hear that?" Joseph questioned in horror.
"Yes." Messina replied grimly.
"Caesar...cannot be...." Lisa Lisa could not bring herself to finish her sentence.
"Caesar!"
A part of the heavy roof started falling down right above Caesar.
"NO!" You moved in front of him finally able to use your legs.
"HAMON NOVA!!" You screamed. "HEAL!!!"
The whole entrance was covered in dust....
-> To be continued ->