Arisato Minato was shocked.
Yes, being a teenager that lived an extra hour that makes everyone turn into coffins, changes the water into blood and transforms his high school into a tower where strange monsters exists, it would be a fair assumption that he should had grown used to strange matters happening around him. And in a way it was true, since Strega had created the cult of Nyx and the fact that the world would end at the end of the month it would only take the dead returning to life for him to be surprised.
Which, curiously enough, was what he currently witnessed.
"Shinjiro-sempai?"
Super Demon Wars.
Prologue.
Arisato Hamuko had her head in the clouds. Not even the fact that the next full moon was in a week affected her like the others. Of course, everyone else in the dorm had noticed this. When asked why she was so happy, the answer that everyone got was the same.
"I finally made the impossible, possible."
This left most of the males in the dorm perplexed and the females curious. Since both Yukari and Fuuka had an idea at to what she referred, their questions weren't what but who, and of course Hamuko didn't answer.
However not every male was perplexed at the change of their leader. Aragaki Shinjiro was aware of why the girl was so happy. In fact, if someone would ask him, he would probably give the answer. However because of how he was seen, everyone believed that he didn't care about her.
To put it simply, Arisato Hamuko the cheeriest girl that you could meet was going out with Aragaki Shinjiro the most aloof man you could meet.
"Patrol?" It was a Saturday night when Hamuko was called by the head of their little group, Kirijo Mitsuru. To clarify, while Hamuko took every battle related decision, Mitsuru made the rest. It was a system that worked so there were no complains.
"Yes, patrol." Mitsuru answered with a slight smirk. "We search for shadows that stray from Tartarus."
"I know that Mitsuru-sempai. But wasn't today your turn?"
"Indeed. However it seems that thanks to unexpected events, my schedule slipped quite a bit." Mitsuru's reply made Hamuko groan. It was of course Hamuko's fault. Apart from the two weekly visits to Tartarus that were habit, they had to make another as someone had wandered into Tartarus thanks to the shadows. And then Hamuko had been talked into going another time because Akihiko, Junpei and Ken felt that they were being left behind. "So as ashamed I am to ask for a this, I have no other option. After all I have to make use of every minute."
Sighing in her defeat Hamuko just nodded and left Mitsuru's room. She had to accept her responsibility in the others life after all. And besides unlike Mitsuru, she could use the Velvet Room to cheat a little bit. Theo had offered his help on that kind of hardships so it was (probably) fine.
Looking at her watch, she saw that she had a couple of minutes before the dark hour appeared. She walked to her room, took her naginata and left. When going down the second floor Shinjiro saw her coming down and she walked to him.
"Sempai, want to have walk with me?" Hamuko asked bluntly. Considering the time and the naginata on her hands, Shinjiro suspected what she really wanted.
"Patrol, huh?" Hamuko nodded while smiling. "Wasn't it Mitsuru's turn?" Hamuko just rolled her eyes and sighed, which he understood. "Sure, someone has to protect you." Without waiting for the inevitable reply, he opened the door to his room, took out the axe that she had given him and walked to the stairs. Hamuko followed him.
After explaining the situation to everyone on the lounge, a little bit of teasing from everyone to Shinjiro and Hamuko trying to convince Koromaru, they were out of the dorm.
"So where to?" Shinjiro asked. With no hesitation, Hamuko grabbed his hand and began to led him.
"The shrine." And with just that they started walking, with no worries as the dark hour...
Click, click, click, click, whoosh
...Started
00SDW00
"So shall we play another round?"
"Isn't that what we are doing?"
"Both of us know how it will end. The girl will sacrifice herself to save humanity, there is no other way."
"...What do you have in mind?"
"Now, now that would be telling. So you in?"
"Yes."
00SDW00
A girl and boy were running. The world had become green tinted, and there was no other human nearby who wasn't in a coffin. The blood that was falling from the sky had been water some minutes ago. That rain had proved the hunch of the boy that something was wrong. That's why he asked the girl if she could help him. She had agreed and both patrolled the city until they found a shadow alone. Like many shadows, this one ran as soon as it saw them. However, the boy was suspicious. It had been in a desolate place, something that was rare for them, and while the 'twelve' had been defeated, something could be controlling them. The girl had convinced that he was being mildly paranoiac and were in pursuit to destroy it.
As they cornered it in an alley, the bad feeling had grown and before he could even voice his suspicious, a hole opened in the ground and swallowed them without any sort of warning.
The shadow took a humanoid shape with wings. Even if it had no face, somehow one could tell that it was smirking.
00SDW00
The boy opened his eyes. He remembered falling from the street, which was strange but not so much those days. He was glad that none of the cultists had approached while they were passed out. He stood up, expecting to be in the street. What he saw confused him. He was in a room, resting on a bed. Alongside the girl. Nothing out of the ordinary, except for still wearing the school uniform, with their weapons and evokers and the room being unknown to him.
Deciding to investigate, he tried to get up before realizing that the girl had grabbed his hand in her sleep. Feeling guilty that he had to wake her up, the boy shook her shoulder with his free hand.
"Yukari." He whispered. "Yukari, wake up."
Yukari slowly opened her eyes. Unlike the boy, she didn't realize the predicament they were in. "Mi...Minato? What are you doing in my room?" She had asked sleepily. It was almost cute to him how out of it she was when she woke up.
"Yukari, we aren't in your room. Nor mine." He added the last part before she could.
"Then where..." A yawn interrupted her. Knowing where she was going, Minato decided to cut short their chatter.
"Don't know. We fell on something when we were pursuing the shadow. C'mon let's get up and investigate." With that said, he got up, Yukari had already let go of him, straightened his clothes and hair, and walked to the door. When Yukari had finished doing the same, he opened the door. And that's when he finally stopped trying to be calm.
"Shinjiro-sempai?" Yukari had asked for him. In front of them, coming out of one of the rooms was the black haired, coat wearing teen. At his side was a brown haired girl with the Gekkoukan high school uniform.
"Takeba? What the hell are you doing here? And who is this guy?" He had asked while pointing with his head to Minato. This if course didn't make happy Yukari.
"Stop joking around sempai. The better question would be who is she?" Yukari retorted while pointing Hamuko. It was an awkward moment. On one hand, someone who should be dead was alive and didn't recognize the leader of the group and a girl who was unknown to them. On the other hand, the best friend and companion to Hamuko and Shinjiro respectively, who didn't recognize the leader of the expeditions to Tartarus and an unknown guy had appeared in front of them.
"Guess we are not in the same page." Minato decided to defuse the situation before it even started. "Since Shinjiro-sempai," he decided to ignore the glare Shinjiro was giving him, "doesn't recognize me, it's better if I introduce myself right? My name is Arisato Minato, pleased to meet you." The look of shock in both Shinjiro and the girl faces surprised him.
Not as much as the next word that the girl said.
"Nii-san?"
Was yea wa yart yor mea
(I will accept the happiness of meeting you)
Welcome to Super Demon Wars, a fic that crossesover much of the Megami Tensei mythos while retaining characters and plot. If you don´t know where the name comes from, it´s a franchise that crosses various mecha shows. So I am aiming to do something similar. Since this is the prologue, only answers are raised, hope that you enjoy it.
If you have the time and if you want, please a review.
