New Game Plus - Chapter 1 [Volume I]

{March 21, 2012} {Sunny}

It had been an eventful year in the life of the current Wild Card. In the last couple months, Yu Narukami had discovered his Persona and met several new people and friends whose genuine bonds he will cherish for the rest of his life and especially meeting the "girl" whom he had connected with...Leaving Chie...It was strange, they had become so close to one another in the span of a year that the fact that they fell in love was inevitable. Yu would be lying to himself if he did not wish to stay.

"It's sad to see it all go... but I guess like all good stories, it must have an end." Yu thought sitting in the train leaving Inaba... He gazed out his train seat window to the sunny countryside passing by...

"I will miss them as well..." A voice rang inside Yu's Head suddenly... it was his initial Persona, Izanagi, a masked figure wearing a black long coat with a white headband appeared next to him and together they watched as the train left the station, both taking in a last glance of the friends they have made over the months in Inaba.

"...Even Jiraiya?" Yu sarcastically thought out to Izanagi.

"Yeah...even Jiraiya." The Japanese God said with a tired sigh. he began to recall a memory much earlier in the year.

{Many months earlier…}

{June 6, 2011}

"Psst! Izanagi! Hey, Izanagi!" Jiraiya whispered loudly from behind Yosuke's desk in Classroom 2-2. The Japanese God quickly shushed him as their user's class was currently taking place.

"Izanagi, we are Personas. Only others and their users can see and hear us." Tomoe stated to Izanagi from near Chie's seat, he faced toward her and spoke.

"I know that...I just do not wish to disrupt Yu's increasing knowledge." Izanagi explained to yellow-cladded warrior. He then turned again over to Jiraiya, appearing with a slightly annoyed expression his mask was seemingly capable of making.

"What is it?" Izanagi was visibly irritated by the Ninja Frog not being quiet for class.

"I-I just didn't want the new guy to hear us!" Jiraiya then pointed in a direction outside the classroom, where Take-Mikazuchi and Kanji stood waiting near the end of the second floor.

"Why?" Izanagi questioned him about it.

"You saw what kind of shadow he was!" A mortified Jiraiya explained to his "Partner."

"Tell me...what can I do if he starts hitting on me or something?!" Jiraiya asked The Old Japanese God in a loud whisper, Izanagi proceeded to face palm at the childish paranoia of Yosuke's froggy Persona.

"Will you all be quiet?! Yukiko-sama is trying to concentrate!" An angry Konohana Sakuya scolded the others, she was near Yukiko's desk.

"Yeah? Well, Yosuke's trying to concentrate on Yukiko!" A moody Jiraiya with his arms folded while looking the other way from her.

"WHAT!?" Shouted Konohana angrily as Yosuke cringed in embarrassment at his Persona giving away his innermost thoughts. To all who were observing that day in class, watched poor Yosuke (and Jiraiya too) spontaneously burst into flames. Only The Seekers of the Truth and their Personas will truly know what exactly occurred on that day.

{Present Day}

{March 21, 2012} {Sunny}

Izanagi fondly recalled that memory, he had a humorous look on his mask...

"I will really miss them all... but we shall see them again..." The God told his user.

"I can't wait." Yu thought hopefully as they were leaving the general area of Inaba, suddenly a heavy feeling came over The Fool, he quickly fell into a deep sleep. Izanagi watched over him, already anticipating that the Investigation team had missed something in their search for the truth. Yu awoke inside the luxurious Velvet Room in his unconscious state.

"...Welcome to the Velvet Room." Igor greeted The Wild Card from his seat in the now parked limousine...

"We have much to discuss...though it has been many months since your victory over the great Fog spirit, I give you my congratulations for reaching this end." Igor explained why he summoned the Fool here...

"Thank You... I did have a feeling you were going to summon me again..."Yu said as he was taking in the familiar sights of the Velvet Room from his seat.

"Well, You're right as rain about that!" Margaret said smiling at their guest, she was sitting in her usual spot next to Igor.

"But it seems that even with your keen attributes you have been fooled by the bewildering fog…" Igor stated as he was pouring himself a drink.

"What do you mean?" Yu questioned the long-nosed man.

"Your work in the Inaba region was left unfinished..." Igor drank and sat the glass on the table in front of him with Yu seeing he was rather displeased with his guest's results.

"Well then, just tell me what I missed..." Yu pressed him for answers as to why he felt that way, Igor began to smirk at his guest and spoke with a more mischievous-sounding tone.

"I'll ask you this...even if you yourself have any ideas about the criminal's Identity, please keep them to yourself...as your clues or theories may deprive others the fun of finding the truth themselves...besides the truth you find...may not be the real truth." Igor vaguely explained to The Wild Card, leaving Yu somewhat scared and confused as to what he really means by that.

"Wh-What?" Yu felt nervous and shaken by Igor's words. Yu looked toward Margaret for an answer to what her master truly meant as he said that.

"You will face great hardships, however this is another chance... Keep your eyes open and see through the fog that shrouds the truth you may want to find, please keep this in mind on the second round of your journey. Please think of the reason why you didn't have a shadow… but achieved a persona nonetheless. Think about your ability to enter the TV World whenever you call for it. If you manage this, the real truth shall reveal itself." Margaret explained to the grey-haired boy with a gentle look of concern as he was really confused by all this.

"But what about Adachi, Kunino-Sagiri, and Ameno-Sagiri? Weren't they the ones behind all this mess?" Yu argued from his position with the information he got on his journey.

"They were only instruments for a much grander conductor." With serious eyes, Igor then gazed down at his small but fancy blue table without his familiar grin...

"The Fog will return even with them out of the picture..." An also serious Margaret followed up on Igor's words.

"I-I have to go back and warn them!" Yu was now in a panic for his friends and loved ones...

"Unfortunately it's too late, that time has passed now... the general flow of time is like a calm river that will never stop… but it's flow of certain events can be changed…" Igor looked up from the table and gave Yu his familiar grin which came across as 'Good Luck' to him.

"Because your actions can change all of it...until we meet again." Margaret then cheerfully waved her goodbyes to Yu.

{April 11, 2011} {Cloudy/Rainy}

"Wait!" Yu shouted...waking himself up from his sleep, he was still seating in his seat on the train...

"Now arriving at Yaso-Inaba...Yaso-Inaba." Said the conductor over the intercom nearby.

"Arriving...?" Yu pondered deeply about that in his seat.

"But didn't we just leave...Izanagi...?" Yu asked his initial Persona in the mind, he received no answer.

"What happened while I slept...Izanagi...!" Yu quickly searched his mind for his Persona but was nowhere to be found.

"Wait...second round...my actions...they were only Instruments?" Yu thought hard about the words that Igor and Margaret had left for him as he got off at the train station at Inaba. Yu was slowly coming to a realization due to his high Understanding.

"IT COULDN'T BE!" Yu then turned a direction where a man was already approaching him as if he knew this beforehand.

"Hey! Over here!" The man shouted with Yu breaking out in cold sweat as he was getting nearer.

"I'm your mother's younger brother, Ryotaro Dojima..." Dojima said to his nephew, Yu then proceeded to shake his uncle's hand while laughing hysterically like a mad man in his head.

Author's Notes: These first couple chapters were in the early days of this Remake, trust me it gets more detailed as goes on.

Key Word: Persona is other the "self" of someone controlled by the ego, personae protect their users from the "hardships" in life.