[center][h3][b]Chapter Eight[/b][/h3][/center]

	"Holly, hey Holly, do you hear me? I need your help sorting out the laundry! I can't wear my grandson's pants! I'm glad he's my size, but the style is all wrong... Oh, that's right! Holly wanted me to start calling her Seiko while we're in Japan, because her friends think her name is Holy and Seiko means 'holy child'..."

	As Joseph hollered for his daughter, Jotaro was also calling out for her as he left for school.

	"I'm off for class today, don't try and stop me!"

	Jotaro's quiet annoyance quickly turned to concern as he also realized Holly was nowhere nearby. Usually she would be around to pester him as he left, but she was nowhere to be seen.

	As Mohammad Abdul walked through the Kujo residence, he stumbled upon an odd sight, a single spoon on the floor. The spoon led Abdul to a ruined kitchen, upon the floor lay Holly, caught up in a pile of kitchenware. Abdul rushed to pick her up, immediately noticing she was burning to the touch with fever. Suspicion mounting, Abdul asked openly for an apology before tearing open the back of Holly's shirt, revealing his worst fears.

	Vampiric tendrils weaved themselves through the flesh of her back, writhing and twisting as they fed off her very life force. Abdul quickly realized that while Joseph, Jotaro, and Abdul had been so preoccupied with their own safety, they had never acted to keep Holly safe from attacks by Dio. The form of flesh writhing across her was different than that of the Flesh Bud that had been embedded in Kakyoin's forehead. Rather than focusing on mind control and direct impact on the brain, these tendrils were focused on solely draining Holly of her life force while forcing themselves to become so intertwined in her body that they would be impossible to remove.

	As Abdul carefully cradled her comatose body in his arms, Jotaro and Joseph arrived on the scene, looking grimly at Holly from over his shoulder. At the sight of his daughter infected with such an evil disease, Joseph fell to his knees in anguish.

	"No...I've always known that this might come to pass, but Holly's spirit is so pure that I had hoped that Dio's curse on this world would pass her by...But there's no way such a pure spirit could resist what comes next!"

	"Gramps, what can we do?"

	"...We must find Dio. The only option left for us to break the curse is to kill Dio! But my pictures don't ever show us where he is! The backgrounds are all pitch black!"

	"Yes, we can never figure out where he is with Dio always hiding in the darkness. We've used every form of tool and computer, but to no avail..."

	"Wait, gramps, let me try something..."

	Taking hold of the picture, Jotaro's fingers flickered with his bright Ripple energy, coursing across the surface of the picture and crackling at specific points. The Ripple energy began to burn the outline of an image into the surface of the photograph. A single fly, barely visible in black of the photo. Abdul quickly recognized it as a fly native to the Nile river, in Egypt.

	"So, he's in Egypt still...When do we leave? I want to join you."

	Entering the doorway stood Kakyoin, a bandage around his forehead being the only sign of the past damage suffered at the hands of Jotaro and the flesh bud.

	"Three months ago I was on a trip to Egypt with my family. That's when Dio put the flesh bud in my brain. It would seem that he doesn't want to leave Egypt."

	"Why would you want to come with us?"

	"who can say...? I don't really want to face Dio again, but lets just say you opened my eyes."

	"Fine, you can join us."