Both persona and shin megami tensei are owned by Atlus. I own only this order of words. The reaper own my ass.
A demon's power, a human's heart
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I look upon a blue library with a young man reading a book sitting in one of the many chairs about the place. Short black hair, grey eyes, pale skin, a grey hoodie with a light blue space invaders theme, black shorts and dark sneakers made him look out of place with posh library.
He glances up at me and put down the book "Ain't you a little young to be here?" I opened my mouth to say something, but no noise come out. He raises a eyebrow "Is this the first you been here?" I nod.
He look around the place "Where is Hooknose when you need him? Well Margaret says nothing happen here without reason so I guess I'm suppose to greet you."
He settle himself and interlocks his hands "Welcome to the Velvet Room, my dear young girl. This place exists between dream and reality, mind and matter, it been about half a year since we last had a guest." he thinks "Then it...introduction, I think. I am Naoki Kashima and you are?"
My mouth opens and this time I can speak "Nanako Dojima." Naoki smiles "Nice name. Let see-" he seem to zone out for a second "-soon you will enter a contract, don't know the when, where, why or how so don't ask. Tarot cards time." He pull out a deck from somewhere "Let see, reverse death and lovers and an upright star." He pauses.
"The death card means you will have a forced change, the lovers mean your relations to your close ones shall be strained or broken by the change and the star mean hope because of the change." he looks apologetic "Tarots reading are not my strong suit so take this with a pinch of salt."
Naoki looks up "Seem ours time is at a end. Take this key and see you again when you need me, Nanako."
000
The duvet shifted, revealing a seven year-old Nanako under the covers. Nanako look around the room, revealing that she was alone in a hotel. Her father was here in Tokyo for a police convention and he wasn't going to leave her on her own for a week not long after she was kidnapped.
Leaving the room to get some breakfast, Nanako missed the woman hanging to the side of the door. "I need you to swallow this." was all the warning she got before a slender hand shoved a worm like thing in her mouth and then kept it closed.
The worm seem to be made of barb wire, causing a world of pain to Nanako as it wriggle down her throat. Soon her struggles faded as she fell unconscious.
The white haired woman dragged Nanako back into her bed before leaving the hotel.
In the kitchen of the hotel, a oven exploded.
000
Nanako awoke a second time, this time to a loud ringing. "My head." she got out of the bed and stumble a little. After regaining her balance, she walk toward the bathroom and looked in the mirror.
First thing she noticed was that she could look at the mirror without needing to stand on anything, along with her now having yellow eyes, grown several years, lost most of her clothes and was now covered in glowing tattoo, but her mind could only take in so much at once.
Once her mind had a few seconds of thinking, Nanako said "What the?" Her eyes were a vile shade of yellow and she now stood at a older teenage's height. Her figure was slender, with barely a swell to indicate a developing chest. Said swell was covered in a white bandage wrap(think Izanami's neck and shoulders(?) wraps as a tube top) and white shorts. She was barefooted and covered head to toe in blue glowing tattoos of geometric lines. A protrusion of bone was coming out the back of her neck. A blue key on a necklace hung on her neck.
Nanako stared at the being she had become 'A change shall be forced upon you, he said. Is this it? So what is the contract?' Nanako shook her head 'No, the bigger question is who did this and why.' She took notice of the ringing 'The fire alarm? As through I don't have enough problems.'
000
Ryotaro Dojima watches the blaze with a heavy heart. Most of the people that were in the building when the fire started had got out now, but two. His daughter and the wife of the guy currently being held down from running into the building, not that he was doing much better at resisting that urge.
The fire brigade was on it's way, but the reporters had somehow got here before them. Bunch of vultures, the lot of them.
Ryotaro resigned him to another funeral.
000
Nanako walk through the heated hallways, said heat barely affecting her. Same with the smoke. Nanako was thankful for this and was mostly like a side effect of her tranformation.
Coughing drew her to a room. Opening it, Nanako saw a woman struggling to stand or breathe.
"Here, lean on me." Nanako said, pulling up the woman "T-thank." the woman said.
Nanako half dragged the woman with her.
000
"Somebody coming out!" a cry drew Ryotaro from his pre-grief. Two figures were approaching the glass that made the doors of the hotal. Neither were Nanako, one was a thirty-something woman in a blue dress with black hair, judging by the stopping motions of the held down man, his wife. The other was a teenage with glowing yellow eyes.
Ryotaro had to double check that, yes, she had glowing eyes and blue glowing lines tattoos. What place did she get that set up at? She also had brown short hair done up in pig tails like Nanako, not as strange, it was a common hair colour and style. Clothes wise, it seem the fire caught her unaware, judging by the only clothes her had were a handful of bandages, a key of a piece of string and white shorts.
The two females got outside and were swamped by reporters. Ryotaro and some other officers pull them off "Give them some room, vultures, the lot of them." one said.
The teenage walk back toward the building "Wait, don't back in!" one of the officers said.
"Someone is still inside." was all she said before she was in the burning building once more.
000
Nanako hung around the first floor 'Forgot about dad. What should I do? I can't say 'I'm Nanako.' not with all this. I want things to be normal!'
The heat of the air doubled. 'What?' Nanako noticed that the ground was closer and her hands were normal. Also her clothes were back 'I want to be strong?' her hands were covered in tattoos again and the ground moved away. 'I want to be normal?' The ground drew closer. Her power was on a toggle?
Raising her hand to her eyes, she saw no light being reflected. She coughed, seem her immunity to the smoke went with her other form.
Running for the exit half blind already from the smoke, she bust into the light and felt her worried dad's hug moments later.
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And another story, I got to stop putting more out. Hollow 2.0 is coming along slowly, I'm just at a bit were I'm not sure how I want it come out. I got the basic idea, but I'm stuck on the how to covary it.
This story was cause by a forum game I'm running and I thought 'Well I know I must write that.' and I found a lack of Nanako centred fics so I went 'double yeah.'.
Anyway review, flame or lurk.