(31st of January, 2010)

A stage surrounded by a void of darkness, darker then the human mind can comfortably imagine. A teenager was staring into the sea of never ending darkness. The full name of this boy is Katou Reiho, but names and appearance are irrelevant in this world.

You may be thinking right now that this is just his dream, but I can assure you that this place is not just a figment of his imagination, as he has not been the first person to come across such a place. However, I will not reveal the identity of such people, to ensure that they do not get attention of the wrong kind.

Although you now know that this place is not a dream, Katou does not. Like any other person would do, when he woke in the middle of the night, he assumed that such a place only exists in his dreams. Unlike every other night that he had experienced in this life, the sky was green. Not just a tingle, but bright electric green. The kind of green that people associate with poison, he thought grimly. He looked through the window, and gasped. What look like a makeshift tower had decided to appear in the direction of the high school he was due to attend to in the following months, Gekkoukan. By makeshift, I mean that it looked like a giant had stuck parts of various buildings together to make this abomination of a tower. He fortunately lived just across the channel from the high school, making the high school an obvious first choice. He could hear strange chants in the background, he could make out various words, like "nyx" and "awakening". He then recalled the various recruitment posters for the cult that had been escalating recently, all with the word "NYX".

Although Katou had ignored these, his friend Okumura had become more and more infatuated with the beliefs, until the point where he would care about the cult more than his education. He was the type of person hardly talks but is interested in conspiracies and the occult. He had jet black hair with unusually thick glasses, kind of the type you would see in manga.

Today, January the 31st, was the "day of salvation" according to the various attempts where Okumura had tried to persuade Katou to join NYX, which repeatedly failed until he finally gave up. They had even fallen out with each other regarding the topic, as he was adamant in saying that "it isn't a cult, but a religion. Only those who join shall be saved on the day of salvation". He however chose to say this speech in a classroom, and was promptly laughed at by the whole class. Although he hoped that his friend was wise enough to not take part, Katou knew in his heart that Okumura would not even hesitate to agree to such a thing.

A thought struck him. Was it still the 31st? He glanced at the clock in his room. According to the clock, it was exactly midnight, on the second. It took him a while to realise that the second hand did not was not moving. What a coincidence, he mused, to stop working at exactly midnight! While he was wondering what the chances were for such a phenomenon to happen, screams rose from the streets. Darting to the window, he saw the followers that were only minutes ago chanting. Now they seemed to be fleeing from some unknown terror that currently occupied the alleyway a few doors down. However, it seemed that whoever made them run away was not following. At that moment, he noticed how big the moon was that night. He was surprised that he hadn't noticed it sooner, it was enormous; it almost looked like it was getting closer to the earth. Closer? He then realised, it was, at an alarming rate, as if something was pushing the moon into earth.

That was when he heard the eardrum-bursting scream that would forever haunt his memories. What seemed to be a feminine figure burst out of the alleyway, and to his horror, he could see why it hadn't chased after the members of NYX. It had already caught one of them. There was blood dribbling from its mouth, which had shined in the light of the ever-approaching moon. It was still holding what must have been an organ of its prey, but it was covered in so much blood it was indistinguishable, not that Katou wanted to know what the monster liked to savour. He threw himself into his bed, willing himself to wake up, trying to muffle the screams of fear with his pillow, reassuring himself that it was nightmare. Anything to purge his memory of the recent events.

AUTHORS NOTE:

Greetings! This is my first fanfic so even the smallest amount of nitpicking is encouraged!

I wrote this to improve my English for my upcoming exams, and I have always wanted to write a story about the persona games. chapter two is already finished, but I'm just making sure its immaculate grammar/spelling wise.

On a side note, be warned that in this story anything regarding exposure OC's will take priority over actual characters, so I can create scenes MUCH more easily.

Please leave constructive criticism and/or suggestions in reviews, I will read 'em all :D

also about suggestions, I desperately need to think up new character names, the current two took AGES to find using various methods ಠ_ಠ.