One month passed. Their days consisted of training with Lisa Lisa's servants, Loggins and Messina. Not to mention, she had a cute little assistant, Suzie Q who would converse with Joseph every now and then. JoJo and Caesar were always on their toes in case of an attack. Just the other night, when Caesar and Joseph were sleeping in their room, they thought that somebody broke in because they heard some ruckus in the kitchen.
Caesar hauled Joseph downstairs with him. They were both armed; Caesar with a gun and Joseph with the pole that holds up their curtains. They looked at each other, nodded their heads, and attacked. Joseph was screaming at the top of his lungs and Caesar was shooting furiously at…a small and…furry creature?
It was a raccoon. It got through the window because Caesar forgot to close it. Lisa Lisa got angry at them for putting like, 8 gunshot holes in their kitchen and for causing so much havoc over a raccoon.
Anyhow, Caesar and Joseph's situationship was…growing? They didn't have sex anymore because they were too tired all the time, but they started becoming more touchy and close. Like, on some days when they didn't feel like fighting over who gets to shower first, they just bathe together. And on most nights, Caesar and Joseph usually end up holding each other in their sleep.
But other than those things, nothing much had changed.
So this morning was like any other. Caesar woke up before Joseph, hearing him snore as loud as he could. He just looks at Joseph for a moment. Really taking it in. Caesar took a deep breath and shook Joseph awake. "Mhgmhgnkjd…" Joseph grumbles.
"Wake up," Caesar says, his voice groggy, "You're snoring too loud again."
"Nghnsjnjnh…"
"I know, but I'll make us waffles if you get up."
"..."
-
They ate their waffles and went straight to training. Today, Caesar was going to be training by himself.
Lisa Lisa enjoys pushing them to their limits. It was almost sadistic. The day after they had first arrived here, Lisa Lisa told them that they would have a "final exam" to see if their work had paid off.
That exam was in two days so JoJo really had to power through. He had gotten stronger, both physically and mentally. Joseph came here with a pretty decent build, muscular but nothing much. Now the majority of his body weight, including the amount that he has put on in the past month, is muscle.
He was pretty confident that he would be able to pass the exam. So, he began his training like he usually would. It was all going good, Joseph was moving swiftly and with strength. He felt great about himself.
Until he didn't. Joseph got hit in the face. "Fuck!" He yelped, holding his cheek. He got absolutely rocked in the face because he felt weird. "Hold on, pause, please." He told the trainers. They looked at Joseph, wondering what was up with him.
"Tell me that you guys feel like something…someones watching you…" Joseph looked around them. It wouldn't be completely out of the blue if somebody was watching them. They were training at the lake today and there were a lot of great hiding spots in the surrounding forest.
"Uh, no." One of them said, "How about we take a quick break. Maybe you're hungry and your head hurts! Go and have something to eat, but be back here in an hour."
Joseph nodded his head. They were probably right. He's just really hungry and that's messing with his nerves.
He walked back over to his house and searched the kitchen. Unfortunately, whenever Caesar made food, he ate it all so there were no leftovers. And all they had were ingredients but JoJo doesn't know how to cook. Joseph scoffed, he hates living with Caesar sometimes.
Suddenly, he heard a loud noise coming from somewhere in the house. He gasped and dropped the bag of chips he was demolishing. "Goodness…if somebody is in this damned house…" He mumbled to himself.
He grabbed one of Caesar's pans and walked slowly to the source of the noise. It was walking in the living room. Joseph stopped next to the doorway. He took a deep breath and ran into the living room, swinging the pan like a madman. Joseph was screaming like a little girl and lost grip of the pan. It went flying and hit the coffee table.
"Oh no!" Joseph yelled as he put his hands on his face. Then he saw it. A raccoon. The same fucking raccoon that broke in the other night. "I'm gonna kill myself…what the fuck!" He screamed at the raccoon.
It hissed at him and scurried out through the window. The same window that it came through last time.
-
The whole day was like that. Joseph felt that something was off, he made a huge deal out of it, and it was nothing.
Joseph faced Caesar's wrath when he got home. "Joseph." Caesar said in a low voice. "Come here."
JoJo began to sweat. This wasn't good. Usually when Caesar was angry, he would have been screaming by now. But he wasn't. He was pissed off.
"My pan."
"Hm?'
"My pan," Caesar repeated, "It's dented."
"...I'm sor-"
"No, come closer."
Caesar picked up the pan and Joseph approached him. "What-" Joseph began to speak. He couldn't finish his sentence because Caesar put all of his force into striking him on the head with the pan.
"Don't you ever put a fucking dent in one of my pans ever again."
-
Caesar sent Joseph to go and get another pan from Lisa Lisa. So Joseph strode off to her mansion, grumbling about how much he hates pans and chefs.
Then he heard a rustling noise coming from the trees. He stopped. "Not again…" He winced. He thought that the trainers were going to sneak attack him like the last time he was walking past the woods. "Really funny, but you're not gonna get me this time."
The rustling continued. Joseph furrowed his brow. Why won't they just give it up… So he walked over to the source of the sound. He planned to scare whichever trainer was hiding. Joseph tiptoed over to the tree, "Got you!" He jumped and yelled at the person.
Only, it wasn't the trainer. It was a man. Holding a gun. Aimed right at Joseph's face.
Joseph screamed and ducked quickly just as the man fired. His train of thought was going at full speed, thinking about how he could get away. Joseph tackled the guy and tried to disarm him. He messed up the man's aim so he was shooting everywhere like a madman, hoping to get a bullet through Joseph.
JoJo was grunting and yelling as he fought the guy like an angry cat, smacking his face. He looked behind the guy and saw two corpses. His trainers. But Joseph didn't have time to be sad over them. Instead he noticed the gun that was tucked into the back of one of their jeans.
So, Joseph managed to punch the guy in the face. Of course, the man wasn't going to just sit there and take it. He grabbed Joseph and threw him off of him, making him land closer to the bodies. He began to mess up and bloody up Joseph's face by punching him rapidly, over and over.
Joseph couldn't think. It was punch after punch after punch. So he went limp.
The man stopped and chuckled to himself, "What a wimp…" He got off of Joseph and began to walk away, his next stop being Caesar.
Joseph quietly sat up. He turned around and grabbed the gun from the pants, apologizing to both of the trainers. JoJo slowly crept up on the man. He stood behind him. He felt like such a badass right now, he couldn't help but giggle.
The man turned around, grabbing his gun a little too slow. "Wimp." Joseph said as he shot him in the chest. The man hunched over as Joseph fired another shot in his knee. He collapsed this time. He mustered up his last words, "Fuck you." Joseph fired one last shot in his head.
-
Joseph entered Lisa Lisa's mansion. Suzie Q was in the foyer. "Mr. Joseph? What brings you here?" She asked as she was putting away some objects, "And do you know what those loud noises were, Ms. Lisa Lisa was asking about them. Oh my…and your face…"
"Oh those were gunshots."
"Pardon?"
"I need to see Lisa Lisa," He said as he walked past her, "Oh and if you have any spare pans, that would be great. Caesar needs one."
"Huh- alright then…" Suzie Q said, just letting go of the matter as nothing was ever normal on this property.
Joseph realized that his face was messed up and he had a bloody nose when he glanced into the mirror. His handsome face was bloody and bruised and even swollen on his cheek. He sighed, knowing that he had no time to mourn all of the losses that took place this evening.
He knocked on her door. "Suzie? Is that you, dear," Lisa Lisa answered.
"Uhm, no. It's Joseph. Joestar."
"Oh…come in."
Joseph walked in, not knowing what to expect. And the sight he saw was certainly not expected.
Lisa Lisa was naked. Well, she was naked but her torso was covered with a towel. She had just gotten out of the bath. Joseph turned red with embarrassment.
"Oh my goodness."
Lisa Lisa chuckled, "Oh, relax. What do you need?"
Joseph sat down on Lisa Lisa's vanity chair and told her all of the events. How he had been sent here to get a new pan, how he fought and saw the instructors dead, how he had…oh my. Oh my. He had killed somebody. Joseph Joestar had killed somebody. He had lifted up his gun without a second thought and shot that man.
He killed somebody.
"I…I killed him," Joseph began to feel sick saying that outloud. He knows that the man had probably killed a more heinous amount of people, but he felt a certain guilt.
"Joseph, that man has done horrible things. He would have killed you too. You only did that for your survival."
Lisa Lisa's voice began to sound muffled. Joseph was definitely going to throw up. He was breathing- or was he? He was trying to breathe. He clenched his chest, terrified that his heart was going to explode due to how fast it was beating. His vision was blurring.
Lisa Lisa grabbed his hand and looked at him, saying something that he could not make out.
"I killed him." Joseph blurted out, just as he blacked out.