Dio Achilles Summon

Instead, Dio retrieved his book—The Iliad.

"Are you familiar with this 'epic', Obi-Wan Kenobi? It was 'written' by 'Homer', an ancient Greek. It tells the story of the Trojan War, with a particular emphasis on the hero 'Achilles'..."

An odd feeling struck Kenobi. He reconsidered his earlier hypothesis, that Dio had been possessed. No... This was too much like him. Too much like Dio. Would a possessed person babble on about obscure trivia?

"Dio, you must know this fight is futile. You cannot hope to defeat me. My skill with the Force far exceeds yours."

"Is that so, 'Master'?" Dio's book cracked open and the dry, listless pages fluttered from cover to cover in the stale Moon air. "But it seems, Obi-Wan Kenobi, that I have grown more powerful than you could even imagine..."

His hand plunged into the book, into the seam between its two halves. Kenobi didn't see it wrong—his hand went into it, disappearing as though the book were a gatway, and yet his hand did not appear on the other side of the spine. He was reaching through the book, into somewhere—somewhere that did not exist.

"My 「Stand」—「Mad World」."

His hand returned from inside the book, clutching by the nape of the neck the Greek warrior Achilles.

"Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληιάδεω 'Ἀχιλῆος'," said Dio, "οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί' 'Ἀχαιοῖς' ἄλγε' ἔθηκε..."

The warrior towered nearly seven feet tall, full of lean and toughened muscle, his bronze skin oiled and smooth and without a single scar. Golden, form-fitting armor adorned his chest while a skirt—or what some might call a kilt—hung from his hips. In one hand he held a long spear, while a sword hung from his belt.

Despite the lack of a space suit or any form of oxygen, Achilles stood composed and ready for combat. Was that some side effect of Dio's strange new ability, or was it simply a byproduct of Achilles' mythical immunity to all harm save for one particular spot of his body? Kenobi could hardly believe what he saw, but he had no choice to accept it. Dio had summoned the Greek warrior from a book. And now Achilles, with his characteristic rage (and much less of his characteristic sulkiness) stared him down.

"I made certain to pull him from after the death of 'Patroclus'," said Dio. "I believe he will be much more 'agreeable' this way."

- Voeltz Round 3