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Chapter 24 - The storm before the calm

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Claire was, naturally confused as to what had happened. All of a sudden Enrico wasn't acting like himself. The moon was closer then suddenly not. The door was opened slightly. The room was pitch black for a second and now here she was holding Enrico not knowing what to think.

She wasn't too sure what to think. She was new to this kind of thing after all.

As she was panicking, her Stand, understanding her predicament showed itself. Four yet-to-be-made satellites appeared near her, just out of her sight. Each with a number from 1 to 4 on them. Number 1 resembled the CALIPSO satellite, number 2 the SORCE satellite and numbers 3 and 4 the Jason satellite.

Each satellite had an eye somewhere on its body. Number 1 had a red eye as its lens, number 2 had a light blue eye on each solar panel and 3 & 4 had bright yellow eyes filling the two dishes on their bodies.

As the satellites observed her she felt a strange feeling welling inside of her. Parts of her skin turned into flaming crimson bandages. Taken aback by the strange feeling she looked down, seeing the same bandages that appeared when Enrico helped her bring out her Stand.

Following her instinct, although hesitantly, she wrapped them around him. Each bandage is wrapped around a different part of the body; Not enough to fully cover it though.

A few minutes later, Enrico finally started to wake up just as a knock was heard at the door, causing her to retract the bandages.

"Um sir, I'm from the front desk and I want to know if everything's okay?"

As the young-sounding man continued on Enrico rubbed his head in pain and mumbled for the man to shut up, drawing Claire's attention. Yet the man, unable to hear him, continued talking about how the lights were flickering and the sudden bloom of their foliage.

"I told you to shut up." Enrico said angrily though slightly quietly causing the young man to not be able to hear him.

The moment the young man started talking again Enrico exploded in rage. "What's wrong with you, I told you to shut up and fuck off. If you can't follow a simple order you shouldn't have your fucking job!"

As Enrico continued to yell his eyes turned yellow as his nails sharpened and lengthened. His Stand on the other went through a much more drastic change. It began to get bigger and started to take on a more crocodilian appearance as the six tendrils that hung from its torso began twisting to form a tail.

Seeing this happen her instincts told her to interfere otherwise she would be in danger.

Thinking on her feet, she instinctively turned more of her body into bandages and wrapped him up from head to toe.

And surprisingly it seemed to work as he Stand changed back and receded back into his body. Although she did worry that the flames would harm him, even if her instincts told her otherwise.

Walking up to the door she peeked behind it to talk to the man. "We're fine, he's not in the best mood right now, so it might be better if you come back later." The man was a little hesitant to respond but nodded his head left.

Closing the door, she turned around, looking upon the now wrapped-up floating Enrico. She was surprised that she was able to so casually lift him up. Moving him to the bed she laid him down gently as he sat by him, patiently waiting for him to recover.

Minutes later, she felt the bandages move. Immediately undoing them she watched as he slowly got up. `What happened?` He mumbled. looking around in confusion.

"You were getting pretty angry at one of the staff not too long ago." Claire as she hugged him from behind. She wasn't completely sure why but it was so reassuring to have him back to normal. "So angry in fact that you and your Stand started to transform."

"I...see." Something was wrong, and Enrico knew it. He didn't know what was wrong with him exactly but he knew it wasn't good. He felt incredibly hungry when he was getting angry at the staff member. Not to mention the pure vitriol and disgust he felt just being near both the man and Claire.

"I need to see him." Enrico said to himself while pulling out the arrow. Claire was confused as she didn't know what or who he was talking about.

Enrico though was determined. After a few days' rest and making sure his school and parents knew he would journey to where DIO was. He want, no, needed to get answers and he felt that DIO might be able to help.