Deep within an underground coliseum

A group of teens were getting ready for a fight of a lifetime as they stared each other down. By now, the announcer had finally made itself known in the center of the stage…none other than Elizabeth herself.

"Welcome everyone…shadows and humans alike to the tournament of the century," she replied. "I am your host, Elizabeth along with my commentary and sister, Margaret." A woman with long wavy hair materialized along side Elizabeth and smiled.

"It is a pleasure to be here today," she stated. "We have two groups here with us today that showed promise of entertainment for the whole world to view…and that includes the readers out there who can't visually be here with us today. And now on to the contenders. In the blue corner hailing the rural town of Inaba is the Investigation Squad/Seekers of the Truth consisting of Soji Seta, Chie Satonaka, Yosuke Hanamura, Yukiko Amagi, Kanji Tatsumi, Rise Kujikawa, Teddie, and finally Naoto Shirogane." The said group looked at each other as confused as the other group of teens were but only Kanji was the one that spoke up first.

"Ummm…senpai," he began, gaining the attention of the silver-haired young adult. "Forgive me for using foul language but I wouldn't be me if I didn't but…how in the FUCK did we get in this situation!?"

"I was wondering that myself," Naoto murmured before her mind kicked into overdrive. "The last thing that we remembered was…"

"No time for going down memory lane, kids, cause it's time to introduce the other team," Elizabeth beamed with pride and excitement. "And now in the red corner hailing from the big city of Japan itself is S.E.E.S. or the Special Extracurricular Execution Squad consisting of Minato Arisato (who I've brought back from that fucking seal but let's not go there. Also present with him is Yukari Takeba, Junpei Iori, Mitsuru Kurijo, Akihiko Sanada, Ken Amada, Fuuka Yamagishi, Aigis, and finally their faithful pup Koro-chan!" After the introductions, the whole crowd was screaming with delight. And at the top from the stands with his hands clasped together was Igor himself.

"We're going to hell," Minato replied as he saw the look on Igor's face. The others turned to him and actually found Minato's once calm face now paled with fear.

"What the hell is going on, Minato!?" Junpei asked frantically.

"The last thing I remembered was all of us going to Club Escapade to have a good time and celebrate when that long nosed bastard handed us those drinks!" Mitsuru exclaimed.

I hope he didn't rape me, Yukari thought. The last thing I need is to be like my slut for a mother.

"That's what happened," Soji said finally after hearing Mitsuru's explaination. "We went there as well to celebrate our engagement, Naoto."

"Ahh…I see," she replied as her face took on a shade of pink. "And I take it that this Igor character is the reason we're here today?" Soji could only nod his head as he looked at his friends expressions. Which was ranging from total confusion to mildly pissed off.

"That's right folks these folks have seen it all," Margaret replied softly. "From school crushes and first pimples to PMS enraged girls on the battlefield." Scratching his head, Ken leaned over to Aigis and whispered something to her ear.

"It is a time of month when a woman goes through…pain," was all Aigis whispered to the young boy before drawing her attention back to the other group.

"Ladies and gentleman, may the tournament commence immediately," Igor said. "Who will win? Who will walk out of here with shame looming over their heads and be the laughing stock of the whole town? Only time can tell." He looked over as two wheels began to spin with each of the persona users face on each wheel and the teens tensed as the wheels begin to simultaneously began to slow down. "And the first fighters to the stage will be…"

To be continued…