Session 36 (Season 1)

This is the thirty-sixth episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Binding of Chains.

## A Little Story From the Past, Part 3

The recently woken Jeremy and Melissa were getting themselves ready for the day, getting a start on at 8:00AM. Jeremy found that Cristo had left for work, leaving Jeremy to cook himself something to eat. He prepared some french toast. Meanwhile, a sleepy Zach was awakened by the knocking of a shirtless Aceto. He asked if he smelled what was cooking, and Zach suggested the two of them check out the kitchen together. Back over at Jeremy and Melissa, the two were discussing Aceto’s connection to the good feeder and how King Crimson had been following them around recently. John came into the kitchen and the other two soon followed, asking what the sweet aroma was. After Jeremy served everyone some French Toast, Aceto suggested the idea of heading to a beach. Liking the idea, they all planned on heading out after finishing their breakfast. As Jeremy was looking for syrup, he found it all too quickly as it suddenly was in his hand after he opened the cabinet. Aceto explained to the group the wonders of the beach while everyone finished eating. Once Melissa was finished showering, the group was ready to leave and- oh? The group already found themselves worn out at the docks and ready to leave by ship to leave for Costa Smeralda.

Following some cruising on the sea, before approaching Cala di Volpe and docking by a lighthouse. On the beautiful beach was not too many people, allowing the group to do as they please without worry. Aceto, Jeremy, Melissa, and Zach were planning to walk along the warm sands. As they were approaching a rocky area and a group of children playing soccer, Aceto suddenly began to have an anxious reaction as he saw a girl he was supposed to meet at the beach, sitting on the rocks. The three were understanding of Aceto’s predicament, and not wanting to third wheel, let him be. The group talked about Aceto’s body for a moment, before bringing up the issue of their problems in 1985. The main issues were: the Stand that keeps trailing them, how to get back to the present, and killing Niente. During their conversation, something caught the attention of the group in the form of a red and golden egg in the sand. They recognized it as the same color of the turtle’s key, and when Zach tapped the egg he experienced a vision of Aceto’s house burning in a raging fire at night. Zach wanted to get back to the house as fast as possible, but they realized they had to warn Aceto first and bring him back too. They also thought about who would burn down Aceto’s house, bringing up the possibility of another Stand user or Aceto being possessed. To test their theory, Jeremy decided to punch Aceto with his Stand, but first they went back to John.

John had just finished a conversation with a nice religious older lady / Stand user from the village church: Acqua Sacerdos. Soon, he got caught up on the group’s egg vision and brought John along to Aceto and his supposed girlfriend. Aceto was taking a photo of his girlfriend on the beach, and he said his goodbyes as he saw the four approaching him. The group suggested going back to his house immediately, and Aceto noted his father would be coming home very soon as the group had already spent much of the day at the beach. As they were heading back, Jeremy threw a swift punch at Aceto’s shoulder with DDR. This triggered something with Aceto’s body, causing his muscles to bulge up, and his eyes to become discolored between brown and green. Melissa offered him a Hamon imbued hand up, and at the same time Aceto’s muscles shrank. While Jeremy and Melissa went to talk in private, Zach and John went to the boat alongside Aceto. Zach kept pressuring Aceto to go back to the house, saying as nothing beats drinking water from home and to skip out on going to the church. They waited for the couple to return, with Aceto thanking Zach for his dating advice. At the same time, Jeremy and Melissa spoke about what she felt in Aceto. She felt lots of life energy inside of him, twice the amount any normal person would have. This proved the possibility of Aceto having a split soul, and that King Crimson was Aceto’s Stand. Theories aside, they went back to the boat house and regrouped with the others.

Already at the house much to everyone but Aceto’s surprise, they were waiting for him to unlock the front door. After the door was opened, a confused Melissa questioned what was happening to time as it had been skipped repeatedly. Melissa and Jeremy gathered the other two after learning that they only had six hours until nightfall, and went to (actually) strategize. There they spoke about what they knew about Aceto; how he was a Stand user in some form; how he had a split soul; and how this split half had King Crimson and had been messing with their perception of time. They planned to watch out in case something strange occurred, and also dismissed any possibility of a third party getting involved as the group had only been drawn towards Aceto. As they were talking, a car outside the house began honking and Aceto had gone outside. As the group was leaving the storage room, Zach had another vision of Aceto pricking himself with something. He recognized it as the arrow, or at least an arrow, and that he was in somewhere dark. The actual Aceto was busy unloading propane tanks with his father, tanks to be used for renovating the village church. Jeremy aided them in carrying the tanks, and Cristo asked him for his opinion about purchasing a car as a gift. Cristo wanted Jeremy to help him pick out a car for Aceto and suggested bringing the others. Zach was keen on watching the house and John was busy doing other things, leaving Melissa and Jeremy to accompany Cristo.

At the house, Zach was hiding in a bush when he suddenly heard a voice telling him that they would all perish. To Zach’s surprise, Aceto called out to him and took notice of Zach shaking in the bushes Accompanying Cristo, they rode on the back of a truck until Cristo realised he left some legal documents back at the church. A nervous Jeremy and Melissa found comfort in one another in the back of the truck while they were waiting for Cristo to return, and after looking back on Sardegna’s beauty, Cristo had returned to the two. After catching some loose papers, Jeremy read the paper and recognized it as a permit for renovating the house and turning the storage room into a garage. Jeremy and Melissa offered their help in expanding the storage room, to which Cristo was grateful for. They went on to exchange their full names, something not done before, and Cristo Singolo formally introduced himself to the two.

## I Am God

As Voz was viewing the blue mirror, he described to Giorno who he saw, the blue-haired woman. Giorno warned him about who she was, Fiume Sacerdos, and her Stand allowing her to control water. As Voz was looking in the mirror, he suddenly saw his house, and given no other choice he went inside the mirror with Giorno supposedly coming along with him.. He found himself back in Hoirom, back at his now unburnt home and alone with his mother much to his surprise. She called him down to eat dinner, but he noticed that Giorno was missing. While Voz was coming, his mother asked him to get some firewood from the outside. Doing so he encountered something in the dark, metallic clanking and a voice whispering in his head. The voice asked Voz for his help, trying to find someone named Cherry. Voz followed the clanking of the person, taking him into the sky as he began to float up until he saw another mirror, and went through it.

At the same time, Kira was face to face with Fiume, who learned not to take Kira alone and was about to prepare herself with a card in her hand. Kira distanced herself with a smoke grenade, and the blood red mirror in front of her glowed a dark blue color instead. As Kira further distanced herself by blowing up what was in front of her and leaping away, she saw something metallic glimmering in the smoke. Metallic plating was inside the smoke, and a voice whispered to her. Copper shackles stuck out and on the wrist of the figure were the letters: D, I, O. While running, Kira ducked into the grass as gears clanked in a bush. It whispered about Polnareff and asked for Kira’s help, and said it couldn’t let Niente do something. It revealed itself to Kira, a figure with the same head as Piero although with a visor over its eyes. It called itself Piero, asking for Kira’s help. Kira began to rise as she heard the voice whisper to her, to protect someone as a mirror appeared above her and she followed the voice’s instruction to go in.

Voz and Kira found each other in the same metal, foggy hallway. They spoke about what they saw, how Kira saw the “Ghost of Piero,” and that they had to find Cherry.  Up ahead in the hallway they both saw it, a humanoid figure making metallic clanking sounds as its shoulder blades were glowing with two green lights. It caused a wall in front of it to collapse within itself, before moving forward. However, Voz suddenly felt a gust of wind and laughter nearby, before the figure in front of the two got flung back. The figure, the same Kira saw, had it’s visor broken and showed the two the amber eyes and gentle face of Piero Altera. Another figure appeared as this “Piero” warned Kira to look right, seeing a golden glowing silhouette approaching her at high speeds. It missed Kira and disappeared, but the figure with the face of Piero said who it was: Niente. Behind them again it appeared, with this copy Piero preemptively warning the two, allowing Kira to blow up the silhouette’s sword it struck at her with. “Piero” moved forward once more, causing another wall to collapse and it once again warned the group of Niente being above them, allowing Voz to strike their sword away. They reached a blood red wall, and when the mechanical figure put it’s hand on this one, the whole hallway shook. Kira was able to prevent Niente from reaching them by breaking a nearby wall piece to hit behind her and explode. Up ahead was complete darkness, with “Piero” moving forward saying he had to protect “her.” They recognized the darkness back from the mansion, and “Piero” uttered “they’re here.”

The “they” in question was first Giorno Giovanna, although he was completely statue-like. He gave no response to any speaking, however he did blink. Multiple voices in unison confirmed that this was not an illusion, explaining that it was the state their allies are currently in. This was seen when Kira and Voz saw a slightly older Cherry Polnareff with tears in her eyes, and alongside her was her brother Michel Polnareff. The voice(s) told them they would all suffer and lose their sanity in this place, and their will to live. After an insult from Kira, the voice(s) revealed themselves from behind the two. Niente, although with a very different appearance. His hair was tall and golden yellow, his eyes were bloodshot, and he had this rainbow colored aura around him. Niente greeted Kira, asking her more about the “Way to Heaven,” with Fiume remembering it from the City of Hearts. Kira called Niente out for his actions, telling him how he acts like a spoiled child, how he doesn’t grow because he has no consequences for his actions, and was nothing more than a glorified delivery service. Niente responded by telling her what he had become now, a God, or rather Gods, and that Kira was nothing more than an imitation of a God.

Niente transformed into the blue-haired Fiume, beginning the fight as he sought the rest of the Heaven plan. Voz approached the fight by converting Niente’s blood into water, and Kira separated herself from Niente with some smoke. Voz punched away several icicle spears as they shot through the smoke towards him. Kira fired at Niente, while also setting a trap near the entrance. Niente proceeded to blow away the cloud of smoke, but Voz had other plans as he decided to go straight from blood to acid. Niente’s body burned from the acid, but this was all an act as Voz lost control of his body and stopped Kira’s bullet. Niente gloated by saying how he was a God of Water, bringing Voz to him dramatically in order to “purify his body.” This meant turning the blood in his body to water and watching Voz suffocate, but Voz would be able to counteract this predicament in secret. Kira and Niente fought as she kept on firing at him while he put up barriers of ice. As Niente fired a volley of icicles at Kira, he was met with a surprise in the form of Kira’s reactive armor, unleashing a counter explosion on him. Niente noticed Voz’s attempt in converting messing with his blood, taunting him about his mother. Kira fired around Niente a circle of white phosphorus bullets, but Niente changed once more, to show them all a true Goddess of Destruction. As Kira activated the white phosphorus and it burned the surrounding area, Niente had become a taller woman with red hair.

Voz continued turning Niente’s blood into acid, enjoying the pain he was about to cause Niente. A burning and melting Niente gloated saying how pain has only made him stronger, As Kira shot at him more, Niente leaped at her with explosive force, while simultaneously being injured without flinching. When he got up to Kira’s face, he raised a palm at her and began disintegrating her left arm. However, Kira used her explosive trap and she jumped away, losing her left arm as she blew up the surrounding area. Voz was going to prepare an attack, but noticed no blood/liquid was nearby. He heard from behind “Kira” warning him of an attacker from behind, but Voz punched in front of him, causing the smoke to clear and for him to see that no one was in front. Voz heard footsteps from behind as “Piero” called him a failure, feeling something swing at him, Voz rolled forward. As he only saw Kira in the room, he heard laughter from behind as dozens of shadowy arms tried to grab him once he turned around, breaking his foot off like glass as he jumped away. Kira heard a voice from behind her as well, seeing a short woman with green hair stabbing at her chest with her hand. Kira jumped away and activated a trap she had set up recently, blowing up the area and the woman. What was left was a weakened, black-haired Niente, struggling with all the injuries he had taken. He muttered how everything was Piero’s fault, and how Piero should be dead. With that Voz ended Niente with a crushing blow to his head. As the fight was over, the whole world began shaking as they both saw the ocean and a boat...

## The Holy Knight's Power

Piero charged at Niente with his sword in hand, with Niente teleporting back after being slashed at. Niente introduced himself, with his voice in unison with three others, and noticed that Piero was different. Piero already knew about his dead state, but what he didn’t know was how similar he and Niente were. Two individuals who were involved in the destruction of various Stand users, only to absorb their Stands into one host. Niente was the culmination of Fiume, Schietta, and Maledatta all in one, and now Piero was in his wonderful realm. He took great pleasure in beating the young Giorno, also known as Haruno Shiobana as said by Niente. Niente told Piero how he and little Haruno weren’t so different, being two Japanese folks brought into Italy by some fortunate circumstances. Piero disagreed with this logic, saying how Niente was nothing like Giorno, striking at the man. Piero’s sword got blown away, with Niente mocking Piero’s swordsmanship by saying that Polnareff should’ve given him some pointers. Niente thought he had already “destroyed” Cherry’s mind, but her hope for Piero kept her going, leading Niente to take her away through a portal, prompting Piero to give chase.

Piero saw his two companions: Kira and Voz. He called out to them for help in finding Cherry, urging that the girl was in danger of being killed by Niente. He tried to remind his friends of his promise to protect her, getting near his friends at the same time and telling them it was him....

Once again Piero found himself in a pitch black area, with only a monitor to watch as Kira and Voz were surrounded in darkness. He called out for someone, and was met with Niente who complimented Piero for being in his natural state. Niente’s voice was his only; his eyes were black and his pupils were a solid white color; his hair a black color. Niente wanted Piero to be dead, but clearly something was left in the world for Piero to accomplish. This didn’t matter to Niente as he watched Voz and Kira in the darkness, but he proposed a deal to Piero. To give Niente all the power in the world, specifically the step he was missing from the “Way to Heaven.” Niente revealed how he was brought to Italy by someone with the name Benjamin, saying Piero’s friends would soon join her after Piero said that Ben was dead. The deal Niente offered was for Piero to give up his mind, his memories, and in exchange his friends would be set free. Niente would go on to see if his friends were more compliant, but Piero reminded Niente he would never be corrupted, but Niente brought up the age old saying “like father, like son.” Piero defended his father, but Niente then brought up how Kira and Voz wouldn’t be alive for much longer, and that he had already confronted Giorno, Michel, and Cherry. After Niente mocked Cherry, Piero brought out his Stand and went on the offensive, but Niente teleported the two elsewhere.

Niente ran across a damp hallway, with Piero in pursuit of the man. Catching up to Niente, he got hit through a wall and down a conveyor belt, where Niente ran further. Piero crashed down, in hot pursuit of Niente, propelling himself forward until he stumbled upon a burning Sardinian village. Niente explained he brought Piero somewhere cozier, somewhere important to Fiume, specifically the woman’s mother. As the two fought, NIente had realised he was growing weaker, and he needed to tap into Fiume’s power. Piero followed the man as he sprinted towards a church, where inside was a long strand of vibrant blue string. Piero tried to block Niente off, but he teleported inside, causing Piero to break down his own wall and go inside to see Niente grasping the string with his hair becoming blue. Piero charged Niente, knocking the string from his hand, and taking it. Clearly, Piero could not use the string, but he managed to keep it away from Niente who demanded for it to be returned. The fight further ensued as the two brawled and fought hard, and the whole room began rumbling as the string in Piero’s pocket turned red. They continued their fight in free fall as the whole area was reduced to nothing.

The two landed on a platform, and Niente gave Piero what he wanted, teleporting Cherry to the area, completely unconscious, and her mouth tied shut. As he was about to stomp Cherry’s head, Piero rammed him off the platform as the string changed color once more, glowing green. Niente told Piero if he killed him now, there would be nothing left of him outside, and the same thing would be true with Niente. Piero, with all his strength, headbutted Niente into the ground and sent him crashing together, creating a massive crater. As Piero was leaving, Niente yelled one more time for Piero to return the string, and in response Piero ate the string. Destroying the string caused Niente to go in a complete rage, complete with golden hair and bloodshot eyes, and tried to kill Piero in a crazed manner. Piero overcame this, including a stab to the chest, and Niente’s power faded. Piero finished Niente off, delivering a final Stand barrage into Niente’s skull. As Niente lay defeated, he gave Piero some cryptic words about Oliva’s heritage, and said his goodbyes as Niente would soon see Piero’s father in hell.