Discaimer:
I do not own Persona 3's manga…It belongs to Atlus and its mangaka, Shuji Sogabe…I merely made it to a novel
This is my first work so sorry for the mistakes…
Anyway, enjoy reading! ^_^
The Italic sentences means that it was the character's thought and the initial beside it means whose thought it is…
ex.
M.T. I'm a transfer student. -Minato Arisato's thought
While the Italic and Bold ones is like their narration
^ means a flashback on the past event
At the * part, I really don't know what happened…especially that black lightning…So…oh well…
Persona 3 Novel (from Manga)
Volume 1
Story:
November 2009,
A girl and a boy were in the midst of a fierce fight. Little did they know just how important the meaning of this fight was going to be.
The story moves on.
April 2009, Arisato Minato returns to the city he used to live in, this time as a transfer student. The somewhat odd people he encounters at his dormitory will turn out to change his life forever.
The "Dark Hour", which comes at twelve midnight…the gap of time between one day and the next. Humans and Shadows. Those who have power and those who do not. The borders between them are fluid yet definite and are everlasting. Atop these lines, this story continues.
Arisato Minato is confronted with monsters. Faced with a life-or-death situation, his instinct leads him to pull the trigger, signaling an ever-definite change in his life.
Prologue:#01: The Beginning of the End
(S.E.E.S. Battle Report)
20091103-Tue V.S. Hanged Man
Time does not wait. Thee, who strives to protect the glow
of the future that bring everything to an equal end…
Persona 3
11/3-Tues
2009
The surroundings are enveloped in a shade of green, bloodstains are everywhere and the full moon casts a yellow light.
Smoke was present on the bridge. It was caused by an explosion because of the battle that was happening there. A bunch of teenagers are fighting a huge, strange and muscular creature with an upturned head and a cross with a ring-which was connected to several small wings-attached on its back. It is a Shadow… a creature at appears during the Dark Hour and consumes the human mind. It is the twelfth Arcana, the Hanged Man.
It's the last Shadow. Defeat it well.
Amidst the smoke stood a silver-haired boy in red and white clothing.
"What the hell's going on! Is everyone alright!"
Beside the silver haired boy was a girl with a red long curly hair dressed in white clothing and a red ribbon.
"I can't see well to decipher anything…" she then called, "Yamagishi!"
Somewhere in the bridge was a girl in black uniform and has a short light blue hair. She was a inside a strange creature that looks like a woman with long hair. On her waist was a belt with a silver gun on its side.
"Got it! Headcount reporting…" She concentrated, scanned the whole bridge and started saying names.
"Koro-chan." referring to the white dog with a wings on its collar.
"Kirijou-senpai." to the red haired girl.
"Amada-kun," he was a brown haired middle school boy holding a spear.
"Sanada-senpai." addressing the silver haired boy.
"Junpei-kun." he was holding a sword in one hand and wears a blue cap.
Except the dog, all of them are wearing a uniform and a red armband.
"Aegis…" she referred to the short blond haired girl who looks like a robot and wears a red armband too.
Yamagishi then noticed that Aegis was running so she asked,
"What's with the hurry…?" then she noticed why. "Huh?"
"Yukari-chan!" she called caughting the attention of a brown haired girl in pink clothing with a red armband.
"Heal the leader!" Yamagishi ordered to Yukari.
A blue haired boy was lying on the floor. He was heavily injured and was surrounded by blood. The only thing that he remembered before passing out was Yukari and Aegis running to his aid. They were wearing a worried expression and the said something to him but he can't hear it.
(M.A.)
There was no pain. For a moment, I feel in infinite distance. I feel like everything in front of me is already in the past.
…Am I going to die like this?
Then a childhood memory flashed back on his mind.
In this place…Where I lost my parents, that day…
…To shadows, enemies of humanity…
An image flashed on his mind. It was the shadow they were fighting with a roman numeral XII on its forehead
…All too easily…
He remembered when he first came in the dorm a few months ago.
He was listening to his MP3 player while walking.
I don't think I'd be coming here again…
I don't remember any school being here…
There is no such thing as 'forever'
Both the landscape and I gradually shifted shape…
Into something I could no longer recognize.
"Your late."
A boy's voice said to him as he entered the dorm. After closing the door, He removed his earphones and stared at the black-haired boy in front of him.
"I've been waiting a long time for you," I approached the boy and he gestured to a red book and a quill together with an ink on the desk.
"Now if you want to proceed…" The book suddenly flung open revealing a set of words and a blank on its lower right. On top of it says, 'Contract'
"Please sign your name there."
After I signed the book, the boy held it in front of his face-covering his right eye-to show it to me.
"It's a contract. Don't worry…All it says is that you'll accept full responsibility for your actions. You know…the usual stuff."
"No one can escape time. It delivers us all to the same end. You can't plug your ears and cover your eyes."
My eyes flung wide open as I regained consciousness, pulling me back to the present.
The first thing or should I say person that I saw was Junpei.
"Oh!" he said when he saw that I was now awake.
"You're up!" he said while I sat up.
Junpei was carrying me or to put it properly, he was cradling me in his arms while he was standing there.
Then we heard Sanada-senpai shout, "You idiot! Don't just stand there!"
When I saw what Sanada-senpai talks about, I immediately understand the situation.
With a dreadful expression, I whispered, "Hey…"
Junpei is smiling mischievously.
I pushed his face to force him to put me down. "Let me down or run…Do it now."
Junpei was still smiling when he said, "Hey…hey…No need to be shy-"
I interrupted him by twisting his head to let him see what Sanada-senpai and I saw behind us.
"-Man…" Junpei continued while still smiling but when he saw the Shadow behind us, he froze.
A loud explosion erupted as the Shadow's hand smashed the ground after I dodged it. In a distance, I saw that Junpei was safe too though he stumbled on the ground. I managed to push back Junpei and evade the attack before the Shadow hit us.
I am now currently in the midair.
I have to land somehow…
But the Shadow was fast and it was able to hit my right arm.
My arm won't move…Too late…!
Then someone caught me in her arms as I fell down. After we landed, I glanced upward to see who it is.
"I…will protect you." It was Aegis and she was smiling.
"And…" she glared at Junpei whose face was still on the ground while she was helping me sat up.
"Junpei-san. I would like to ask for more delicate handling."
"Is that what this is about?" Junpei replied.
Mitsuru, together with Yukari, came running to us.
"Is everyone safe!"
*Aegis was surprised when I suddenly broke free from her grasp. I stood up and glared at our enemy who's now being illuminated by a yellow moonlight because of the view of the moon behind it.
Blood was now dripping on m right hand because of the injury that I took a while ago. Yukari was now behind me. I did not turn around to look at her so she just held my hand with hers which produced a faint light
.
As she heal me, she said, "Don't push yourself too hard. I can't heal you if you're dead."
I shook off her hand and replied, "I know."
Yukari wore a worried expression as I walked forward near Junpei.
"It's coming again."
"What's next?" Junpei asked.
"I'll think of something."
"Think of something? You…"
"I'll work something out." I said as I snatched Junpei's sword. "I'm borrowing this."
As I started walking away, Junpei shouted, "Hey!" What're you gonna do!"
"I'll start thinking…One I'm there!"
Then the Shadow lurched downward and I ran towards it while holding Junpei's sword.
I stopped midway to avoid it's attack. As I ducked, the Shadow's muscular arm was now above me.
"Aim for the elbows! Aegis!"
"Understood!" she fired a series of bullets that destroyed the Shadow's arm.
"The enemy is down, Kirijou-senpai!" Yamagishi announced.
"Alright we're going in for an all-out attack!"
Kirijou-senpai then attacked with her rapier, Sanada-senpai attacked it with a powerful punch, Ken with his spear, Yukari shot an arrow on it, I stabbed it with Junpei's sword while Junpei remained on standby. Despite their attacks, the Shadow is still alive. So I did the last option that I have.
I pointed my silver gun on my temple.
Go on. A boy's voice said to me.
I pulled the trigger and it made a sound that is like a glass shattering to pieces.
It's starting. The boy said as it spoke on his mind again.
While smoke was flowing out of the gun's muzzle, a black and white creature with coffins on its back appeared behind me. It slashed the Shadow several times until it exploded into a mass of black substance.
The others assembled near me.
"Is it over?" said Junpei.
"Shall we call it 'operation successful?' or rather 'mission complete?" Aegis asked with a calm face.
Kirijou-senpai nodded, "Yes…It's over…Arisato-kun."
Yukari turned towards me and cheerfully smiled. Junpei helped me lending me his shoulder.
Everybody was talking to each other cheerfully.
Back then, before we went back, when the black rain was still pouring, I stared at the black and white creature. It's back was turned and after a while, it vanished.
R.M
That fleeting instant, the birth of me…
…And the death of all living things, was decided.
The people, having no method of finding it out…
Would just quietly…
Have to accept it all.
THE CONCLUSION THAT YOU HAVE CHOSEN
P3: PROLOGUE#01:
THE BEGINNING OF THE END
-END-
Thank you for reading everyone! I am now currently working on chapter 2 so I will update as fast as I can…
Thank you for reading my first work… At first I planned to put the list of chapters and I also planned to have an interview to the characters everytime the chapter ends and let them say the preview but when I read the guidelines, I immediately deleted it from the story T.T
See you at the next chapter!
