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Author's note: This is the re-written version of my old Persona: One World series. I really want to improve the story a little, so I re-wrote the whole thing. Thank you for tuning in again!
Persona: One World
Chapter 1: Awaken the Moon
Shirayuki High, 28 April 2015;
It was sundown, and the scenery from the rooftop is simply amazing. Shibuya Hiruma, a second year student, sat alone behind the gratings, watching the sun disappear over the horizon. Kinda romantic...He thought. With that he jumped to his feet, and picked up his bag. He ran a hand through his medium long dark hair, messing it up even further. His dark eyes reflected the crimson skies and he made his way out of the school.
He ran a bit on his way down, causing him to run into another student. The guy wore the same school uniform as him, though radically altered to his brutal taste. What's with the black cross on his red shirt? Shibuya thought. He also noticed the guy wore denim pants instead of normal slacks.
"Sorry." Shibuya muttered and walked in the opposite direction, not attending the glare from the white haired guy.
The guy watched as Shibuya walked off, his blue eyes glowing curiously.
Shibuya walked at his own pace to his part-time job. He had set his mind to get that new model phone when he gets his pay today, and he can hardly hold back his excitement. The phone model is a quite popular nowadays, as seen in the adverts, which featured the idol/singer Rise Kujikawa.
The streets of the the New Harajuku shopping district was as busy as ever, with people bustling around with their own businesses. The old district was long dead, completely forgotten due to the rise of the new district.
Shibuya arrived at his workplace and started work. Not realizing the pair of eyes watching him from afar.
New Harajuku Shopping District, 28 April 2015;
"This is awesome!" Shibuya cheered, holding his new phone proudly. "Hahaha, I can't wait to show this off!"
"Show what off, Hiruma-kun?" a guy walked towards Shibuya, beside him a girl.
"Souma... You skipped out on work again, you bastard!" Shibuya shouted at him, laughing.
"Sorry dude, 'duty' calls." the guy laughs.
"That doesn't excuse you for missing school today either."
"Haha!" the guy named Souma laughed. As irritating as he is, Souma is one of Shibuya's friends,, and Shibuya is one of the only people that could put up with him.
"Laugh all you want, I'm not helping you for our tests next week!" Shibuya threatened. It was followed with laughter.
"That's fine by me." Souma laughed back at him. " Hey, by the way. I had a few this to do with my girlfriend tonight, so could you run by my house and tell my mom that I won't be home?"
"Can't you just call her?"
"I don't want her to start interrogating me over the phone... Alrite?"
"Oh, okay..." Shibuya was sure that he won't be doing it.
"Great," Souma smiled, and put an arm around the girl that came with him. "See ya'round then!"
The pair left Shibuya at the sidewalk and began to walk away. Shibuya could not help but smirk at the thought of where the pair was going.
Shrugging, Shibuya started making his way home, his new phone still held proudly in his hands.
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"Is he the one?" A voice was heard in a dark, eerily adorned room. The floor, walls and even the ceiling were covered in velvet and there was but a single chair in the room as well as a small coffee table.
"He is." said another voice, this one sounding older and wiser than the last one. It seemed to belong to the shorter, though older, man sitting on the chair, while the other voice was from the blue haired young man standing behind him.
"He doesn't hold the Wild Card." The blue haired young man commented.
"But he hold a power much greater, I sense." The short man said, in the darkness his eerie grin could be made out.
Old Harajuku Shopping District, 28 April 2015;
"Damn it, why does this place have to look so dead!" Shibuya said as he stalked the dark roads alone. The road was a short-cut to his house, which used to be part of the bustling shopping district until the new buildings took over forcing the old shops to close.
The road is lit by only a few functional streetlamps, which do nothing but add to the fear factor of the road. Once in a while a stray cat or dog would make some noise.
Shibuya would sometimes look over his shoulder in a paranoid fashion, as though someone would be following him. This had long since become a habit though. He kept sighing every time it happened.
"Damn it, its almost midnight..." He groaned. Looking at his phone for the time.
The moment the clock struck midnight, Shibuya felt the atmosphere suddenly becoming heavy and oppressive. Shibuya suddenly had a case of cold sweat, and his stride began to slow.
Slowly, Shibuya managed to reach the row of shop lots he was supposed to cross via one of the shops. Tonight especially, the shop looked scariest.
"Well, here goes..." Shibuya pushed the door carefully. Even though had done this a few times before, he couldn't help but to feel nervous this time. Must be the sudden change in temperature.
The moment he stepped inside, the door slammed shut behind him with a loud THUD. The sound echoed in the empty building.
Shibuya silenced for a second, before panic begins to take effect.
"Hey!! What the hell!" He ran to the door and tugged on it a few times, but the door refused to budge. He did feel something kinda wet on the door handle...
"This is... blood?!!" Shibuya's brain froze. Even so he started picturing a hundred and one possible things that could explain what happened here. Not one of them is logic.
Suddenly there was a flurry of scuttling sounds, followed by a roar. Shibuya's panic heightened and he began to frantically search for a way out. The doors are locked and the windows are boarded shut, Shibuya could only think of one way out.
Scrambling towards the flight of stairs, he tripped and slipped on the blood on the floor. The mysterious blood seemed to be everywhere, and there were tons of them.
Shibuya ran. He went up more stairs than he though to have been possibly present in the shop, but the roar and impending sounds drives him to keep on running.
He wanted to stop for a while, to catch his breath when a sudden impulse saved him from being flattened by a fist that punched itself through wall, missing him by a hair's breadth.
"What the HECK!!!" Shibuya shouted at the top of his lungs, and continued running. He looked back and saw a giant masked face looking at him through the hole in the wall made by the punch. "DAMN IT!! THIS IS NOT HAPPENING!!!"
Harajuku Old Shopping District, 29 April 2015;
A gray haired young man looked at the building which Shibuya entered from the outside. It was now shrouded by a thick dark cloud, though it was invisible to other humans. The man was talking on the phone with the blue haired young man from the Velvet Room.
"Should I go and help him?"
"Igor told you to just observe."
"I understand. Tch.."
"If things get too out of control then.."
"I'll finish it off then." There was a flash of white, and the gray haired young man disappeared.
Twisted Shop, 29 April 2015??;
Shibuya managed to reach the rooftop of the building even without thinking what he was going to do when he gets there. He looked around and saw that the dark cloud had completely engulfed the building. He couldn't see even the adjacent buildings.
"Damn it... What to do now..."
A roar, louder than before rang throughout the darkness. Shibuya's head whipped in the direction of the roar and felt his blood freeze in his veins.
It was the gigantic masked face from before, and behind it the gigantic fist. They were two disjointed beings, both held up by a black mass of unknown nature.
The masked being opened its 'mouth' revealing rows and rows of sharp fangs. It gave another loud roar, echoing in the almost solid darkness.
"No..... FREAKING WAY!!!" Shibuya ran back towards the door into the shop, but the fist monster was faster. It floated on the black mass and overtook Shibuya, landing a devastating punch on his stomach. Shibuya was sent flying across the rooftop.
"Ugh..." Shibuya groaned in pain. His lips was bleeding and his nose was broken, and he even coughed out blood. But when he looked up, he saw the masked monster in his face, grinning evilly. "Ah!"
Before Shibuya could say a word, the masked being breathed out a ball of fire. The fireball exploded when in contact with Shibuya, causing an impressive wall of fire.
"WUAHHHH!!!!" Shibuya screamed as the flames burned him viciously. He fell forward again, his body can't take so much pain.
The fist monster picked up the limp Shibuya, putting it face to face to the masked monster again.
I am thou.....
The masked monster grinned, and the fist monster slammed Shibuya onto the concrete floor. Shibuya groaned in pain again, he could feel his shoulder blades breaking.
"Ah...." Shibuya was bare conscious. He could feel the pain though, as the fist monster smashed him with his fist.
And thou art I.....
"Per...."
The masked monster let loose a fire attack again, and once more Shibuya screamed in pain. He could feel his new phone slipping out of his school blazer pocket.
"Per...so..na...." Shibuya gasped. At that instant, his hand brushed against his phone, which screen suddenly erupted with a blast of blue light. The light was intense enough to drive back the two monsters, and engulfed Shibuya's body whole.
Shibuya felt his body rejuvenated, his body healed of the wounds he received earlier. He could also see that from the light a form was materializing. It was a samurai like being, wearing a hakama like the olden days warriors. It wore a helm of metal, adorned with a crescent moon crest. In its hand held a katana, which reflected in the light.
"Tsukuyomi."
Shibuya stood again, the samurai Persona floating above the floor behind him. He bent down to pick up his phone again, and noticed that the main display had changed to show the Moon Arcana from the Tarot Card set.
The monster roared again, and the fist monster launched itself towards Shibuya again. This time, the Persona Tsukuyomi parried the fist with its katana, protecting Shibuya from harm.
"Get 'im." Shibuya commanded. Tsukuyomi pushed his blade, overpowering the fist monster, and cutting it cleanly in half. The monster disappeared in a wisp of black smoke.
In what seemed to be anguish at the loss of its friend, the masked monster roared again. It began collecting energy for its flame attack. From the looks of it, it was prepared to give an all-out attack.
"Tsukuyomi." Shibuya's eyes glowed blue to match the light from which Tsukuyomi appeared, and the light itself gathered around him, forming a vortex of energy. The samurai Persona sheathed its sword and held it in and iai (sword-draw) position.
Bellowing again, the masked monster let loose a massive ball of fire.
"Gekkou-" Tsukuyomi drew his sword swiftly, whose arc was followed by a beam of pure light which cut through the ball of flames and through the masked monster itself. "-Iai."
The monster let out a weak cry as it too disappeared just as it's companion did, together with the dark cloud which engulfed the building. Shibuya looked up to see the moon shining brightly in the clear night sky.
"What the hell is going on here..." Shibuya said, before his words was cut by a soft musical tone. He instinctively went to a fighter's stance, before realizing stupidly that it was just his phone text message tone.
Slapping his own forehead for his idiocy, he picked up the phone and opened the new message:
"Shibuya Hiruma, thou had awakened the strength within thee. The Moon Deity, Tsukuyomi shalt guid thee in thy path through the Nighmare Zone. May thy strength help thee survive thou quest through the unseen future.... "
The message was from a person named Philemon, though from what Shibuya had experienced tonight, he wouldn't be surprised if this Philemon guy wasn't human at all...
"Ugh..." Shibuya felt his knees give way underneath him, before his consciousness fail him as well.... The last thing he saw before he blacked out was the a gray haired man walking slowly towards him....
To be continued......