Persona Duel Hearts
Chapter 1: Persona Revisited
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Persona Duel Hearts
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In a place beyond dimensions a long nosed man sits with an eager expression upon his face. In front of him two women with light blond hair. One younger looking with short hair and the other slightly more mature looking with long locks. Both starred Intently at there master as he seemed to be focusing on something in the distance. Finally the man spoke with a strange tone.
"Inaba appears to be getting more active, and people's hearts will soon stir."
The two women looked at him with smiles on there faces. For years now the things called shadows had been quiet, regaining strength after there defeat in Inaba and Iwatodai yet all the while as human's hearts where full of fear and hate more and more shadows would always be produced.
Meanwhile in the quiet town of Inaba. Vincent Bufford was running. Running as though his life depended on it, and in a way, it did. Because whenever Vincent ran, he made sure to have suitable motivation. If he didn't run fast enough to equal his old record, he would have to run the course again. This was his nighttime tradition, every night, for the past several years. Vincent was the epitome of fitness. He had huge muscles all over his body. His hair was brown, with green eyes and a chiseled jawline. He could usually be seen wearing a white t-shirt and workout shorts, complete with a pair of jogging shoes, everywhere he went.
" I will be fit... I WILL be fit... I WILL BE FIT..."
He proclaimed, as to motivate himself in his mind, running that same phrase over and over again, he kept going, always faster than before. It hadn't been many years since Vincent had moved to the rural town and yet he had already managed to map out a running course. Up the main street, down two side alleys, through and across a few neighbor's yards, and all the while carrying pocket fulls of promotional cards for his gym downtown. In all sense he was one of the most active men a person could meet. As an old man with short gray hair and highly wrinkled skin came out to yell at him for plowing through his yard like, to quote the man
"some kind of water bison" Vincent simply shot him a smile and waved.
After three hours of nothing but running Vincent finally stopped to catch his breath. hits clothes covered in sweat. Something pulled at the back of his mind as a vision of a large rock golem entered his head. A smile crossed the man's face and with a very happy tone he proclaimed
"Wadsworth! HEY BUDDY!" and from the back of his mind a large sigh emanated.
The rock golem had always been serious from the moment the two had been paired up and now was not different. The creature responded with a gravel like voice
"Perhaps, you should consider finding a partner to exercise with. You cannot always run by yourself."At the mention of this Vincent's eyes shot open and he smiled.
"GREAT IDEA!"
Inspired by the golem's words Vincent began to look around the small neighborhood he was in and like a hawk managed to locate a high school boy just laying around on his back porch. The boy had white hair and light yellow eyes and look horribly bored, yet almost contemplative.
Like a charging bull Vincent ran towards the innocent looking boy. Saikano could barely turn towards the sounds before a large dark shadow appeared in front of the full moon, coming down hard and crashing into his porch with godly force. As the wood buckled and snapped wood dust flew into the air as in the middle of this thin cloud was the must muscular man Saikano Kushiel had ever seen in his life. Saikano starred wide eyed at the man as he struck a valiant pose and declared "MY NAME IS VINCENT!!!" then got a huge grin and starred pulling out gym cards from everywhere and chucking them at the poor lad until he was nearly half buried. Starring at him Saikano simply said
"Um, hi?"The large man smiled and boasted
"YOU, BORED URBAN YOUTH! YOU SEEM TO HAVE NOTHING TO DO THIS DAY SO COME WITH ME! COME JOG! COME WORK OUT! COME, GET, STIMULATED!!" Saikano simply blinked a bit and got up
"Do forgive me, but I'm rather pre-occupied at the moment. Also could you please keep it down? "I fully understand you own this gym and clearly like working out but....why do you appear in the middle of the night? It makes you seem like some kind of pervert you realize, or even a thief"
Vincent looked intently. The boy took a while to respond, but Vincent was, as usual, not phased by awkward pauses or socially unacceptable situations. Once Saikano identified himself as such, and asked that Vincent keep it down, he sat back for a moment. It seemed he was being pensive, but that was just because he was arguing.
"This is NOT my fault! Wadsworth, why didn't you say something earlier?" Vincent proclaimed
"I did." said the golem
"You did not!"
"You just weren't listening..."
"You... gah."
with a disheartened sigh, Vincent lay back and looked at the boy. He was debating whether or not he wanted to continue after three embarrassing moments. But, Vincent was never one to give up so easily, so in the loudest whisper he could muster...
"SO! I was running. And Wadsworth suggested that I get a running partner. AND you were sitting here NOT DOING ANYTHING!!! So I was going to ask you to come work out with me! Well? What do you think, boy? Come on!"
"VINCENT!He doesn't know about me! Idiot!"
Vincent then let out a troubled gasp, then slapped himself in the face repeatedly, without explanation, providing poor Saikano with a very peculiar, unusual thing to observe...
Saikano listened to the man's long ranting, and was at least glad he had turned his voice down dramatically. Though even with a lowered voice all the enthusiasm was still there. The man talked about a friend of his then stopped himself, repeatedly slapping himself in the face. That's when it happened...as though in perfect unison all the animals stopped making noises and no cars passed by.
As the night grew dead quiet the moon went back behind the clouds and everything went dark. Saikano looked the man straight in the eyes. Inside the house the small t.v. was still turned on to the local news so all that shone in the night was Saikano's strange, yellow eyes, illuminated. Then a cold, very forward tone he said.
"Wadsworth...is he your lover?"
As the serious words let his lips a cold air blew through the night as the sound of glass shattering far off in the distance could be heard, as though to match the impact of his voice....
Vincent stopped dead in his tracks, his eyes growing wide as he looked up at the boy. And for a long moment, there was dead silence. No bird would dare chirp, no dog bark, not when Vincent was processing what was said... and restraining Wadsworth.
"Me... and you...?"
"Let me at him! I'll skewer the little bastard! He'll regret ever even THINKING something so callous and despicable!"
"Wadsworth, relax, he doesn't know about you-"
"Like that would make any difference, I'm your GUARDIAN, not some TAVERN WENCH HERMAPHRODITE!!!"
"Enough, Wadsworth, let it g-"
"LET ME AT HIM!"
Vincent stood up quickly and yelled out in a rage...
"WADSWORTH, THAT'S ENOUGH!"
But calling his name was just the sort of thing that should never have happened. With the calling of his name, Wadsworth had a modicum by which he could escape Vincent's mental prison and directly affect the real world. In a flash, a huge golem stood just beyond the porch's edge, eyes red with rage. Birds took to the skies in fear of their very existence, and the dogs cowered in the back of their houses. Nature itself cried out, begging for mercy, as the full fury of Wadsworth was focused on the life of this one innocent boy...
"How DARE you insult my honor in such a despicable manner. I will exact final retribution upon you! Prepare to meet your fate, foolish child!"
Vincent, however, was not about to let this happen. Already he was on his feet, standing in the lawn between Wadsworth and Saikano, in his battle stance, fully prepared to do what he had to do to stop his persona from attacking the boy.
"Don't make me do this, Wadsworth... let it go!"
With a shout the Golem appeared in Saikano's lawn. The thing shouted and glared at the young man. It would have seemed so awkward if anyone had passed by. A quiet night with the full moon out and in this perfectly normal suburban town was a giant rock golem and a smashed porch.
Suddenly the man jumped in between Saikano and his golem. As though protecting him. Saikano simply looked at Vincent with wide eyes.
"I see, so you must be a person user, and this thing is your persona..."
That was all that needed to be said. With those words he knew both Vincent and the golem would understand how much he knew, and what Saikano was as well. With that the air around the two mean began to get colder as Saikano's eyes began to glow. As though he where in a trance the boy simply whispered
"Ri...vi...er...a..."
And blue energy took shape and formed into a beautiful young woman. She didn't look that much older than Saikano and her long her and light features where that of a princess. The young woman simply moved her hand a bit and two water spirit appeared, one on each side of her. Though they where small little things they both looked rather fierce and both where clearly locked on to the large golem. Wadsworth stopped, and looked up, calm for a moment. Then Vincent, seeing the change in Wadsworth's attitude, followed suit, turning to face what was behind him. He hadn't noticed until that moment that Saikano had summoned a persona, just as Vincent had done... except this persona came out when the master wanted, not whenever it decided.
"Wadsworth..."
"Yeah...?"
"He has one too, huh?"
"Yeah."
"So that means..."
"Yeah."
The odd pair looked at each other intently for a few moments, an unspoken conversation being carried through their expressions. Then, without warning, the two were holding their stomachs, laughing at an obnoxiously high decibel.
"GAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA"
"GOOOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO
HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOOO"
The pair then turned to the newly summoned persona, and jumped on either side of it, inspecting her and looking her over, both of them very interested to see what type of persona she was. After all, Vincent hadn't ever found someone else with a persona, though Wadsworth had told him they existed. So of course both of them were excited to finally find someone, and without even looking! Saikano was glaring at the golem as Riviera appeared and aimed her twin water spirits at the large beast. Then after a sudden pause and chat they where inspecting both Saikano and Riviera up and down like a bad anime. Riviera however was very modest. She had simple yet beautiful looks as a water princess and a very modest bust line.
Riviera stood there, not saying a word as both the large man and golem looked her over. Though the two water spirits at her side looked deeply annoyed. A better representation of Riviera's true feelings. Seeing this Saikano looked to the two of them and said
"What are you doing? She is my persona, not something for you to gawk at like fools." As though hovering Riviera elegantly moved to stand behind Saikano and simply starred at the man and the "thing" on Saikano's porch. Just then Saikano noticed a small boy on the other side of the sliding door. This short white hair and bright yellow eyes even more vivid than Saikano's own features, though much shorter and dressed in pajama's for the night. The little boy was wide eyed and Saikano became the same way.
"IDIOT! DO SOMETHING WITH THE GOLEM! TELL IT TO CURL UP AND LOOK LIKE A ROCK OR SOMETHING!"
Vincent and Wadsworth were in the midst of inspecting the female persona, when suddenly Saikano screamed and pointed at the boy over in the shadows. Both Vincent and Wadsworth turned in unison to survey the darkness, and in the same instant both spotted the boy...
"HE'S OVER THERE!!!"
"HE SEES ME!!!"
"WE'RE GONNA GET CAUGHT!!!"
"OH NOOOOOOO!!!!!"
"NOOOOOOO!!!!!"
In a panic, the duo both threw their hands up in the air and began running around screaming, trying to think of a way to hide the fact that the boy obviously knew what was going on. It was, as expected, very unproductive, as the two simply ran in circles, occasionally stopping, staring back at each other, and exchanging a panicked yell. Saikano watched as the duo of idiots ran around in circles. Then looked back to see the screen door sliding open as the young boy emerged. The small child gave a large yawn and looked at Saikano, wiping his eyes sleepily.
"Big brother....I didn't know you had friends over...."
Saikano gave a weary smile as the boy said this and looked at the large man and golem running around his yard. The he turned back and said
"Yeah, friends, that's one way to put it. Look Harumi, get back to sleep alright? Mom will kill you if she finds you up this late."
The small boy just starred at Saikano a while before going back inside. With this both Saikano and Riviera turned back to the two strangers. Waiting for them to calm down before talking
"look, I have plenty of your cards. If you want I will stop by your gym sometime. I'm assuming its in the shopping district with everything else right? Now if there isn't anything else I would like to get back to enjoying my night...."
When a young boy came out of the entrance to the house, the adorable cuteness stopped both Vincent and Wadsworth, as they looked at the kid in silence. They looked at each other for a brief moment, then back at the child, then at Saikano, then at the child again.
"We woke someone up."
"Yeah."
"What should we do?"
"Let's just leave..."
"Yeah."
Vincent pulled the mighty Wadsworth back into his mind as the young child found his way back to his room, once again creating silence out in the yard, leaving no evidence of them being there... except for the massive footprints in the yard.
"Ahem... Well, it seems we've caused you no end of trouble... So... yeah, if you ever need to work out, or you need an ally, come on by the gym. I'll be there until it closes, unless something has come up. Good to meet you, Saikano. Now, if you'll excuse me..."
Saikano simply watched as the man hurried down the street towards a hooded figure. When Saikano looked at the clock he flinched a bit, he had school very early that morning but even so he knew letting that man run about wouldn't end well for anyone. Not wanting to directly get in the man's way he casually followed him, staying a few feet behind.
(End of chapter 1. I know, short chapter, 2 may also be short but I just want to start off a bit small for now don't worry, it will get far better and more persona like shortly)