An Unexpected Golden Encounter.

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An alarm clock sounded to wake up a certain Joestar boy, he moans in announces as he tries to sleep some more but couldn’t knowing that it’s morning. So, he reaches for the alarm clock and smashes it hard almost chapping it in half thus destroying the clock, though he’ll have to get a new one. Again.

Shadow got out of bed, did some stretches before making his way downstairs to get some breakfast for the Dazzlings. He still thought of last night, the talk he had with them, hopefully they can be on good terms to him even though they’ll still tend to their plan, thank goodness, it’s the weekend otherwise things way get awkward for them in school. As shadow got to the kitchen he only saw Sonata sitting by herself at the table with a plate of eggs and bacon and another next probably meant for Shadow, as well as a glass of milk.

“Morning.” Shadow said getting Sonata’s attention.

“Oh, morning Dojo.” Sonata responded but sounded nervous, Shadow sat next to her begin eating his breakfast.

“So, where are your sisters, still sleeping?” Shadow asked before drinking some milk.

“We woke up a bit early and… thought about what you said last night, we’re still debating what we should do, so Adagio and Aria decided to go out for a walk around town while stay here doing some thinking myself.” Sonata explained eating some eggs.

“I see, well hope you girls will decide before the final round of the Battle of the Band tonight, I’ll come watch.” Shadow reminded Sonata about the contest, she looks down at her last bacon with some concerns of her and her sister’s actions.

“Don’t worry, I’m sure everything will work out fine and what’s important that we all follow our own path we walk on.” Shadow said finishing his breakfast and putting the dishes away in the dishwasher.

“Okay!” Sonata said quickly being cheer right back up into a big smile.

“Well, I’m going out for a walk too I have somethings to think about as well, see ya.” Shadow said kissing Sonata on the lips as she kisses back for a few seconds then made went outside leaving Sonata all alone in the house.

Back at Shadow’s room, the same alarm clock that was destroyed by Shadow’s fist is now all fix up like nothing happen somwehow.

(Later)

Shadow continues walking trying to decide what to do before the showdown tonight, it isn’t easy trying to think of something to keep you occupied for the whole day but nothing comes to mind so far as he looks around seeing other stores and people having fun on their own time.

“Oh, Shadow is that you?” A woman called out to him.

He turns to his right seeing a familiar face walking up to him, it is the principal of Canterlot High Celestia. Guessing she’s also going out for a walk around town.

“Nice to see you, Principal Celestia.” Shadow greed.

“Oh, no need to be so formally when we’re not in school, just call me Celestia.” Celestia insisted preferring to be treated equally like everyone else when she’s not sitting at her office.

“Enjoyed you’re so far?” Shadow asked hoping Celestia could provide some ideas of what to do today.

“Good, I had a great breakfast with my sister Luna, we watched some TV, and I was just on my way to the mall to do a little shopping and all.” Celestia said telling Shadow about her day.

“Sounds great, I haven’t got any plans of to do today.” Shadow blurted it out.

“Hmm, maybe you can come with me, it may not seem much but it’s better than doing nothing.” Celestia suggested, for some reason Celestia’s heart beats a little faster whenever she’s around Shadow. Hopefully it won’t become too serious.

“Sure, I’ve been meaning to see what your town’s mall is like.” Shadow agreed wanting to see more of the town than just the school and maybe buy somethings for himself while he’s there.

“Great, then it’s a date!” Celestia joked as her cheeks blushed, Shadow eyes widen while red/pink circles form on his cheeks though realize she was joking.

“Well then, let’s go!” Celestia said grabbing Shadow’s hand as they made their way to the mall.

Shadow was embarrassed of holding an older woman hand; especially the woman is his principal of the school he goes to, though soon learn that Celestia isn’t letting go anytime soon he just rolls with it.

“Yare yare daze.” Shadow signed decided not to care about holding hands with Celestia nor what other people will think of this, he just felt strangely calm around her like when he’s with the Dazzlings.

Unknown to them, a young boy is following them from a far distance making sure not to get caught or being suspicions to anyone around him. He has been given an order from his boss to kill Shadow and anyone who get in his way, as he walks by an alley a golden glimpses of shinging light rays over the alley and stop only that everything in it is all sliced up in half including small animals like rats and bugs lying dead on the ground.

(City’s Mall)

Both inside and outside of the mall, it’s a pretty great place to hang out with friends and go for the many stores of your favorites: like video games, movies, the theater, food courts, clothing, and many more. Even getting a part-time job if they wanted to.

Shadow and Celestia are picking out some clothing, mostly Celestia because Shadow isn’t into fashion much even though he likes his own style. He’s waiting for Celestia to finish her shopping as she tries to pick out some new shirts.

“Which of these do you think looks good on me, this shoulder-less sweater or this sleeveless shirt?” Celestia asked hoping to get Shadow’s opinion.

“I think both would make you look great.” Shadow shrugged he didn’t cared about fashion much but he tries his best to make people feel good about themselves.

“R-really, well if you think so then I’ll buy both!” Celestia blushed exciting. Later she picks out few more clothes before leaving the store.

“Okay, now it’s your turn to pick out a place to go too.” Celestia said wanted to go to where Shadow wants to go next.

Shadow did some thinking, figured since he still has the gold and jewels Mr. 0 gave him before sucking through that wormhole and sending him to another world of colorful people, he did have a plan in the future of becoming a detective didn’t care if he became famous or not. A thought came to him of getting some detective books and some mangas as well, if this world has them.

“Are there any book stores here?” Shadow asked.

“Yes, there’s a really interesting book store that has partially every book in the world.” Celestia mentioned showing Shadow the way.

Suddenly, something sharp and bright was heading straight for Celestia head but Shadow quickly grabbed and use Star Crimson to block whatever was coming at her with its arms taking in the attack thus causing a large cut wound which reflected onto Shadow’s arm as well.

“(Looks like my instinct kicked in just in time, 3.6 inches too late and we’ll be seeing a headless principal.)” Shadow thought while looking for where the attack came from and the one who did it, but couldn’t anything that would’ve give the attacker a clear shot.

“Shadow, is everything okay?” Celestia asked worry also blushing from being grabbed close to the tall dark Joestar. Shadow took a quick look around before looking at Celestia with his usually stern face.

“Sorry, just thought you be careful when it comes to a wet floor sign.” Shadow pointed at a wet floor sign, glad it was there for a cover up. Also trying to cover up his bleeding arm, stopping it with Hamon and it’s all healed up.

“Thank you, Shadow, but I can take care of myself, I’m a pretty tough girl if you haven’t notices.” Celestia stated Shadow nodded as they made their way to the book store.

“By the way, what made you change your mind about doing Battle of the Band instead of just a music festival?” Shadow asked though already know the Dazzlings have something to do with it.

“Oh, well, the Dazzling thought it would be better that everyone would go all out showing their talent for music and to see who’s the best musician of them all!” Celesita answered with excitement.

“Of coruse.” Shadow said softly, he really needs to talk to those girls about mind controlling others.

Up on the second floor, the boy who’s following Shadow is the Japanese Boy who serves his Boss giving off a deadly glare that his attack was blocked by Shadow’s Star Crimson.

“His Stand is definitely fast, being able to block my attack like that; it is like trying to dodge a flashlight before it’s fully on and he did it so easily.” The Japanese Boy commented then walk in the same direction where Celestia and Shadow are going.

“However, impressive as he is, he is still nothing to the Boss and even of what Joke said about him is true I must eliminate him now before he becomes a threat to my Master. And I know just how to do it.” The Japanese Boy smirked already having a plan to deal with Shadow once and for all.

Few minutes later, Celesita and Shadow arrive at the book store Celestia told him about.

“Well, here we are!” Celestia said.

The book store is called ‘Golden Oak Book Store’ and it was a large place, almost as big as restaurant and it has two floors like the mall. If there’s any books you may be looking for, this place has it all even some old books from decades ago.

“Seem like a nice place.” Shadow said.

“I know, Luna and I use to visit here all the time when we were kids and whenever we get some free time, looks like they add a small café section as well!” Celestia said surprises to see the store is still standing after so long.

“Ladies first.” Shadow smirked pretending to be a gentleman.

“Oh, why thank you, my good man.” Celestia chuckled playing along walking into the store as Shadow follow her.

Inside, there are so many books inside it could take one person 60-70 years to all of them and there’re many kinds of books too: books for little kids, novels, comics, some with adventures and danger, others with romance and heart-warming, even the books that are from the same series that goes like Volume 1 and 2. The place is decorated like you’re inside a giant tree and there are tons leaf everywhere. The place is great indeed, but there was one thing Shadow notices when he and Celestia stepped in. Where are the people?

Shadow thought this place would have some people in here including the employees working here, but there’s not of trace of anyone, like the store has become a ghost town. Either the store is having a slow day or something happened here.

“We must be lucky to be the first ones here, because you can look around and see as many books as you want!” Celestia said.

“Yeah, but isn’t it strange that there’s nobody here… it’s all too quiet.” Shadow pointed out.

“You’re right, but the store is open with the lights so someone must be here, I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about.” Celestia said thinking this is not a big deal.

Shadow think it is a big deal, with Star Crimson’s enhance senses he would’ve at least heard a soft breathing of someone around here and he can hear things far away about 60 miles radius. Then he heard footsteps coming from inside the book store, turning his head to where it was coming from, right at the café section.

“HELLOOO, Welcome to Golden Oak Book Store! How can I help you?” A friendly boy voice called out.

A young man comes up with a bright smiling look and wearing a uniform of the store.

“Oh, thank goodness, I thought there was no one here today while the store is still open for some reason.” Celestia said calmly.

“Yes, I’m very about that, you see most of our employees are not available and the manager is on his day off, so the store was opened late.” The Employee Boy explained.

“So, you’re the only one here, that seem stupid leaving you here all alone.” Shadow said.

“It’s no problem for me, I’m what you call a multi-tasker and I do my very help out as much as I can.” The Employee declared.

“Well, that’s very nice of you…” Shadow lean close to read the guy’s name tage.

“Black DE Cafe?”

“That’s me, mostly I work at the café section but since I’m the only one here, I’ll be doing all of the work around here but it’s no big deal.” Black said with a cheerful mood, Shadow shrug thinking this is weird.

“Please, enjoy yourself!” Black said before walking back to the café section.

“Well, he seems like a nice young man.” Celestia said Shadow on the other hand find it odd that all employees are gone and there aren’t any people coming in either, most of all is this Black guy giving off a weird vibe. Something is going here and Shadow is gonna find out before it gets worse with Celestia here as well.

Shadow look around to see if there’s any books on detectives and mysteries as well, as he looks through each section he is surprises to find some mangas here and some of them seem to be very interesting including the ones with fighting and detectives. He grabs a few after looking through some of their pages and thought of buying them.

Celestia is walking around, seeing some new things that are placed in the store while also seeing some old things as well some old books she uses to read, and even finding a moive section where you can buy DVDs and some CDs for wanted to listen to your favorite music.

“Wow, things sure has change here since I last saw the place but it still has its charms no doubt.” Celestia said to herself, looking around some more until she saw something in a corner.

She goes to get a closer look seeing a shoe on the floor; either means someone is sleeping there or forgot about and left it here by accident. But as she got a better view than just the shoe, seeing legs and saw the whole body. Shock to her horror it was indeed someone on the floor, but he’s not sleeping clearly seeing blood that came from his throat as the expression on the man’s face knowing he died though seem like not too long ago.

“Oh dear, I thought I have taken out the trash today but it seems I’ve miss one by accident.” Black said suddenly appear behind Celesita making her jump a bit.

“B-B-B-Black, what happened here, who would such a thing, and why here?!” Celesita asked frightened of seeing the dead body yet Black is acting like it’s no big deal especially just looking to his eyes can scare the life out of her.

“Don’t worry, miss, soon you’ll be joining the poor man soon.” Black said as a golden figure appears behind him with a sword on both hands above ready to strike down.

“W-W-What is that…?” Celestia asked backing away but fall on her back from tripping over the dead body.

“The Last thing you’ll ever see.” Black said as the golden figure swings down its sword at Celestia.

Celestia shut her eyes waiting for the blade to strike her down, sending her to the afterlife, she had a great life being with her sister Luna and helping others at Canterlot High as the principal. She awaited more but the blade never came and wonder why, she slowly opens her eyes to see a young man wearing a black jacket with a big red star on the back that says ‘DOJO’ and knew right away who that is.

“Yare yare daze, you sure know how to piss off a guy, do you.” Shadow signed standing in front of Celestia with Star Crimson blocking the gold-blade with its arm.

“S-Shadow, a-and that thing, like Black?” Celestia confused seeing another ghost-like figure, Shadow turn his head to Celestia a little surprise.

“So, you can see our Stands very clearly, not sure if you’re a Stand User but normal people can’t see them.” Shadow stated knowing the nature of a Stand yet Celestia is able to see it.

“That is true, normal people can’t but those with the potential can as proof; Celestia is a Stand User slowing awaken as well as her sister Luna.” Black explained shocking Celestia that she and Luna have this power too.

“So, mind giving us your real name because I’m going to avenge Black De Café and all the other workers’ death with Star Crimson!” Shadow declared as Star Crimson push back the sword and ready itself.

The fake Black chuckled that he’s been figure out already but doesn’t matter because it’ll be too late for Shadow as he’ll be dead before he knows it. All is for the will of his Master.

“Very well, my name is Gōruden Meiyo and this is my Stand: Golden Samurai!” Goruden said now revealing himself and showing his Stand. It’s the appearance of a Samurai from ancient times back in feudal Japan with a mask of a demon with red glowing eyes.

“Shadow Joestar, I wish to fight you at a prepare battleground where we can fight at 100%! The final round of the Battle of the Band will start tonight, meet me at the forest near the stadium where the music will be at, and if you value the Dazzlings life be there five minutes beforehand.” Goruden said giving Shadow the place and time for the fight before Golden Samurai’s sword shines brightly nearly blinding the two. When the light dies down, Goruden disappeared.

Shadow sign, looks like he got another crazy guy to fight and just at the time of the final round of the Battle of the Band. He turns around offer his hand to Celestia to help her up which she accepts as she gets up and gave him a stern look.

“You mind explaining what’s going on here?!” Celestia asked still freaking from the ordeal, Shadow nodded as the two made their way out of the store to discuss the situation elsewhere.

Author's Note

KO everypony, new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!

Shadow has found a new enemy while trying to have a nice day on a Saturday and he’ll have to fight him at the time of the Battle of the Band. Oh, and Celestia is the new Stand User as well as Luna though they haven’t fully awakened them yet.

This new foe is deadly from the looks of it as well as his Stand, wonder what kind battle wait for Shadow. Found that out in the next chapter!

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