The man in purple got up slowly from the rubbles of the broken wall. Staggering, in pain, maybe?

Don't know that. But one thing is for sure, this Cucumber is definitely not the type to stay down on a losing match. Maybe it's blood would actually be worth all this hassle.

The purple man used this time to disappear, it seems, as Dio cannot find it at all. He looked around for the scythe carrying lunatic. The people around the hotel stared at him with wide eyes and shocked disbelief. Dio turned back and saw that the Purple Devil had cut the air behind him and appeared with half it's body in this world and the lower half still in the cut up air. It was about to cut Dio into half with his scythe.

"THE WORLD!"

Time stopped, the people of the hotel who was about to run into panic as the scythe was about to cut Dio in half is frozen in very weird poses. Faces full of fear. One of them was about to trample a fat lady too. Even Marcus and Ginger was frozen in their position. Marcus, behind the concierge counter and Ginger, at the side of the entrance. But weirdly enough, the scythe actually came down anyway and cut a bit of Dio's chest.

Dio jumped back and put his hand on his cut chest. He looked at it and saw blood coming out. He looked up and saw the one called Jedah climbing out of his air cut and looking around the hotel in amazement.

"Ahhhhh, now I see" said the Devil.

Dio stood up and licked his own blood from his hand. His face, intense and also unbelieving. This cucumber manages to actually move around when I stopped time. Even Jotarou cannot move around this much or this long when I stopped time, thought Dio.

"What are you?" Dio asked.

But Jedah ignored him. Still looking around. Jedah actually went up to a frozen man and knocked slowly with the back of it's index finger on the man's forehead, "Hmmm... still soft and warm. I guess they're just frozen in time, but I can still move them around"

So Jedah actually did that. It took the man and made the man pose. It made him pose tip toe on his left leg and it positioned it's right leg up and bent behind him. Then it took the man's hands and positioned it above the man's head, with the middle finger meeting each other on an open palm. It looked at him intensely, with it's hand on it's chin, like a thinker. Then it moved the man's chin up, to make the man look at the ceiling, and it exclaimed, "VOILA! My greatest masterpiece, the Swan Lake!"

What mockery. This thing ignored him and played around with the frozen humans? Does it even consider the fact that it is STILL in a battle? Dio cannot stand this insult and jumped towards the devil.

The devil turned around and looked at Dio with intense eyes that can cut a hole deep into Dio's brains. This made Dio stop for a few second, which is a big mistake, as the purple clad one used this to his advantage and sent some kind of black razord that appeared out of nowhere towards Dio. The razors cut Dio's hand off and turned around to cut Dio's other arm. But Dio dodged it in time.

The razor returned to Jedah and disappeared.

Dio looked at the thing and realised that Dio had fell right into the thing's trap. It had wanted to anger Dio to make Dio go off guard and attack. Worked surprisingly well.

Both of them froze in their place, looking at each other. Dio, with his right hand still on the floor and Jedah, standing tall and arms crossed on his chest. This was the moment when the time stop finished and everyone started moving again. The 'Swan Lake' fell to the floor because of his imbalance on the tip toe and got trampled by the panicking mortals. Marcus and Ginger saw Dio's cut hand and shouted "Master" while rushing towards Dio. Dio just lift his hand up and they stopped.

Dio took his cut off hand from the ground and stood up. Eyes still attached towards Jedah. He put his hand over the part where it was cut off, and the hand formed back into the whole without a line of cut. It was as if the hand never moved away from it's original place.

Jedah cracked a smile at this and started talking in a serious tone, "This is why I want you. Your immortality!"

"I am not one who can be ordered around, foolish devil."

"I knew you'd say that, which is why I'm offering this once in a lifetime deal, give me your soul, be my underling and do whatever you like. When we take over this earth, we'll create our own hell. Oh, and bevies of female companions included."

Dio shook his head, "That's not even a tempting offer. I can have all of those by myself! Which is even better for me, because I don't have to share."

"Tch tch tch, kids these days. Don't you know share and share alike makes good financial returns?" replied the purple one. It seems that the serious tone have disappeared totally as he is back to his businessman self.

Dio was getting weary of this. He turned back on the man.

"You know Vanilla Ice(not the rapper dude --Eisu) did the same thing?" and Dio stopped. This thing have seriously been looking for him if he had met Vanilla Ice. Dio turned around and look at the thing.

"That's why now, he is part of my soul collection."

Dio is in disbelief. Did this thing take Vanilla Ice's soul? Is that true? But then, this thing is a devil, and they are prone to lying. By this time, the Hotel is empty. Nobody around at all. Just Jedah, Dio, Marcus and Ginger. Dio turned around to Marcus.

"Take Ginger, go to Cairo, now. Find a man named Vanilla Ice. Return before Sunrise."

"Ahhh, trying to confirm my words, I see, very smart, very smart. It doesn't matter, I can wait." said Jedah towards Dio's actions.

But waiting wasn't one of Dio's intentions. The Being that Dio controlled appeared right before Jedah and socked Jedah right on the nose. Jedah went flying into the stairs that led up to the upper floors where the guest elevators are. Of course, now the stairs are shattered and destroyed so they wouldn't be leading up to the elevators anymore.

The Purple one shook his head off the dust and rubbles and looked at Dio. The yellow one is fuming, rage is clearly visible in the man's eyes.

"The monkey have turned into the gorilla, I see." exclaimed Jedah and he dashed towards Dio.

Again, the being appeared before it, but this time, Jedah was ready, so as the being was about to land his blow on top of the Devil's head, Jedah had cut the air under him and disappeared, only to reappear behind the being and sliced it's back. Dio staggered on his standing position and clutched his back, as what is inflicted on his Stand is felt by him.

Jedah made a 180 spin and jumped from his dimensional portal towards Dio, scythe high above him.

As he was about to land his scythe on Dio's head, the World came into view and punched Jedah on the side of his stomach. Pain, gearing into from that side and registering into it's brain, Jedah was flying into the wall. But readiness is now part of Jedah's mental status. He cut the air of the wall and went into the dimensional portal. Just as he disappeared, a black liquid formed right under Dio. The Black liquid starts to engulf Dio's leg and cluthed on it tightly. Dio tried to punch his way out of this, but to no avail. As the punches deteriorates the liquid, more formed back and clutched more tightly. Part of the Liquid then moved away from Dio's leg and Jedah came out from it. A smile, etched mockingly on it's mug.

"Well, Aztec Vampire, you are now caught in the earthly embodiment of hellfire. Doesn't it just burn?"

Upon hearing that, Dio realised that his legs were getting hotter and hotter by the minute. Smoke was starting to emanate from under the black liquid.

"Oh, don't worry, I have no intention of killing you." as the thing finished it's sentence, the liquid lifted Dio high uo into the air and slammed Dio onto the ground. From one side to another, Dio was being introduced to the floor of the Astoria hotel. Blood is starting to spurt out of his mouth. As it was about to slam Dio one more time, Dio summoned his Stand and it punched the liquid repeatedly. Before the liquid formed back again, another punch landed on it, making it disappear and Dio was free again.

As Dio landed on the ground, he looked up and saw no sign of Jedah. He looked around and saw Jedah was already outside of the hotel. That sinister smile, still etched on it's face. But Dio realised something. The outside is unusually dark from the windows. That's when the thrashed Opening of the hotel was covered up by the black liquid, the so-called earthly embodiment of hellfire. This is also when Dio realised that the hotel is all covered up by the Black Liquid on the outside. And the black liquid is crushing the hotel.

"It's time to check out little monkey!" a shout was heard from the other side of the closed-up hotel. The hotel then fell on top of Dio, floor by floor, room by room. The Black Liquid formed itself into a 10 foot ball with a 7 foot radius. Inside the Black ball is the whole Astoria hotel, crushed in rubbles, with Dio in it.

Cracks were heard from inside the ball and Jedah craked a sinister laugh himself.