Title: Frozen Flame
Pairing: Akihiko/Minato
Genre: Adventure/Angst/Drama/Friendship/Romance
Summary: The Persona Training Program is a program that was held by the SEES Company to gather the entire persona user and trained them into soldier to fight the Shadows, the enemy of mankind. Minato Arisato is 16 and have no memories and was told to join the Persona Training Program and he hates it… But then he started to likes it when he learns about himself, friendship and love.
Disclaimer: Sadly, I don't own P3 nor P4, I own only the story.
Chapter 1: Collide
Under the dark and stormy sky, there's a city, a dead city that build on the dry land. No voice of living things sounded, not even the sound of footsteps nor the sound of breaths. Above the city, a black helicopter flew on the sky as the whirling sound echoed through it.
"Let's land." A man with a white hair and with a white bandage near his left eye spoke, he was wearing both red cloth and pants as a uniform. A gun that was covered on it's shed was placed on the belt around his waist.
The pilot obeyed the order and moves the helicopter closer to the city before it's finally landed on a ground. The door of the heli then slide opened before the white hair guy get off from it, soon followed by a taller guy with a grey hair who wear the same uniform and gun.
"Shinji, where is it?" the white hair man shouted, being cautious so that his voice could be heard clearly by the grey hair man in this stormy sky.
The man called Shinji or Shinjiro took out a radar frm his pocket, staring at it where two small lights colored by green showed on it along with one small light colored by red that was shown a feet away from the other small lights.
"Just go straight ahead and we'll find 'it'." Shinjiro answered before put the radar back on his pocket before he reached for his axe from his back.
"Well, this is gonna be fun." The white hair guy smirked as he took out his black gloves and wore it
Shinjiro gave a warning look to his companion, "This isn't a game Aki. Overconfidence will destroy you."
"Lighten up will ya? I know that already, you don't have to tell me." Akihiko or Aki for short rolled his eyes.
Shinjiro shoved his free hand on his pocket and spoke, "Anyway, less talking and more action. Let's just get this over with."
Akihiko nodded, "Roger."
The two of them walk straight ahead, looking at their surroundings since they fear that something would jump on them. There is really no a single living thing left here, only a destroyed and dirty and dusty buildings and houses.
"There's really nothing here…" Akihiko broke the silence between them.
"This town already dead since the 'war' happened. Nothing worth was left here." Shinjiro said.
Both guys stop on their track when suddenly a loud screech sounded in the city, they stay silent as they continue to hear the screech, only when the voice had stopped that both of them turn to look at each other.
"Get ready, Aki." Shinjiro tighten his grip on the handle of his axe as he spoke.
Akihiko smirked again, "It's show time."
Without wasting any time, they dash forward to where the voice came earlier. Ahead of them, they could see a big monster that almost similar in the shape of a lion, only that this is colored in blue and has a red hair around it's head, something that looks like a balloon with a blue mask on it was attached on the chain that was tied around the monster's leg.
"Quite big, but we could handle it just fine." Shinjiro spoke as both he and Akihiko stopped running, staring at the monster only.
Akihiko knew that they both could win this battle without difficulties, he trust that they're much stronger than that bizarre thing, that's why a smirk crossed on his lips. But the smirk washed away when his eyes landed on a form of guy with blue hair with nothing but a cloth around his waist was walking almost lifelessly in the direction of the monster, judging from the weak condition, Akihiko assumed that guy is not aware with the monster.
"Damn! Shinji! Look!" Akihiko shouted, pointing at the guy he saw earlier. It's really surprised him how in the world there's actually someone in this city.
"Shit." Shinjiro cursed when he look at the direction Akihiko pointed at, "How in the hell that he get in this place?"
"Like I care. We have to save them! Or he'll die!" Akihiko shouted at his companion, there's no way that he would let someone died when there's a chance that they could save him.
Both Akihiko and Shinjiro ran toward the monster, hoping that they could get there first before the monster noticed the guy's presence. Things didn't go as they planned though when suddenly the monster turned around and growl at the blue hair guy who seems startled.
"Fuck! We're too late!" Shinjiro cursed again when he saw the monster was about to attack the guy.
"Damn!" Akihiko shouted, pulling out the gun and was about to aim it on his head when suddenly a blue light appeared around the guy's form.
"W-What?" both he and Akihiko stop dead upon seeing the man suddenly grab his head with both of his hands followed by a scream that sounded like he was in pain. A form of a white figure with a white hair and red eyes appeared behind him with a big harp attached on its back.
"A Persona?" Akihiko voiced, widen shocked eyes still glued on the guy's form.
Both Akihiko and Shinjiro eyes widen even more that it looks almost wanted to popped out of their eyes when suddenly the guy's Persona had changes it form into something that much bigger. It's body no longer colored in white, but black. It's wearing a silver mask with something that looks like coffins, only smaller flew around it. A long sword was held on it's right hand.
The Persona dash to the monster and thrust it's sword right at the monster, slicing the monster into the two and fell to the ground before its disappear into the air.
"W-What on earth was that?" Shinjiro stuttered as he was amazed, never once in his life he had seen a Persona transformed.
When they saw the blue hair guy fell into the ground, Akihiko immediately rushed to the guy followed by Shinjiro behind him.
"Hey, are you alright?" Akihiko asked, lifting the guy's into a sitting position, and that's when he noticed that the guy was actually has fell unconscious.
"It's seems he's alive." Shinjiro spoke, taking out his cell phone from his pocket. "I'll call the director."
Akihiko only nodded as answer before he turn to back at the guy in his arms. Akihiko scanned the guy from head to toe, noticing that this guy probably much younger than him looking judging from his quite slender body. This guy's body's dirty, probably because he have no clothes on but a cloth around his waist.
The sound of the steady breath made Akihiko sure that this guy's alright, probably only tired. Knowing that this boy was alive makes him relieve.
"Come Aki, we'll bring him back to Dawn." Shinjiro's voice makes Akihiko turned to the taller guy. Akihiko nodded, taking off his upper uniform before wrapping it around the guy's body. Carefully, he lift the guy in his arms and followed Shinjiro to go back to the helicopter.
"So, you say that you found him in the Lost City?" a man with silver hair and eyes spoke from where he sit on his chair, he was wearing black pants and a black coat with white buttoned up shirt under it, his elbow leaned against the armchair and his chin was rested on his hand, eyes locking at Shinjiro and Akihiko who stood in front of his desk.
"Yes Sir. Apparently, he's a persona-user, and unusual one that is." Shinjiro said.
"Unusual?" the silver hair man lifted one of his eyebrow hearing Shinjiro's words.
Shinjiro and Akihiko glanced at each other before they turn their attention to the man in front of them, this time it's Akihiko's turn to speak. "We saw that the first persona he summoned had transformed into another persona that was stronger than before. And what's more, he summoned his persona without using an Evoker."
"Hmmm…" the man hummed, a smirk formed on his lips. "That's very interesting."
Akihiko twitched a bit seeing that smile on the man's face. He knew this man too well, so it's not hard to tell what the man was thinking about.
"Are you going to ask him to join us?" Akihiko dare to ask.
The man with silver hair laugh hearing that, "Oh wow, you know me to well Akihiko-san."
"What if he didn't want to join?" this time it's Shinjiro's turn to ask.
"You two exactly aware why is this company was build in the first place?" the man retort with a comeback, the smile on his face has disappear and was replaced by a warning look that tells 'I am the leader and all of you have to obey me'.
Shinjiro look away, "…To gather all the persona-user."
"Precisely." The man nodded, "Gathering all of the persona-user to protect mankind is our first priority."
Akihiko only stare down at the floor and say no more. He wanted to replied with something, but he couldn't, not when he understand this whole system work. But still, what if the guy doesn't want to join? Forcing him to join is somehow a bit… unfair.
The sound of the phone ringing in the room made the three of them to look at the phone in the desk. The man with silver hair picked it up and placed it near his ear before answer. "Yes, this is the Leader speaking."
Akihiko and Shinjiro only stare at the man who listening very well to whoever it speaking in the other line. A minutes passed before a smile that looks more like a smirk formed on the man's lips once again. "Alright, tell anyone not to come near the kid before me and the generals come, understood?"
With that, he placed the phone back on it's place before looking at his subordinates, the smirk never leave his face. "The kid you guys save will regain conscious, the doctor who took care of him told me that he had lost his memories."
"What?" Akihiko and Shinjiro asked in unison.
"Yeah." The silver hair man lean back on the chair, "This is great chance to ask him to join."
"But sir!" Akihiko shouted, "He lost his memories, he's currently on a weak state and you still want him to join no matter what?"
"Akihiko, watch your mouth." Shinjiro hissed.
"Yes I do." The man answer with no shame, "And I'll do anything to make him join us, even if I have to blackmail him."
Hearing this, Akihiko glare at the Leader. "Have you no shame at all?"
"No. I'm doing this as the leader of SEES, I'm only doing my job here."
"Tch." Akihiko look away, "Bastard." He muttered under his breath, not caring whether the man heard him or not.
"Now then, shall we pay a visit to that boy?"
He opened his eyes when he slowly regain conscious, for some reason, his body felt hurt, but he tried to ignore the pain and slowly sit up, hissing in pain when the pain twitched on his back. Looking around and himself, he notice that he was wearing white shirt and short pants, sitting on the soft white bed that was placed in the middle of a white room.
He wonder where he is right now, since the last thing he remember he was in a dead city, meeting a weird creatures and fighting them with… something that came out of him that he didn't know what it was.
The sound of the door slide opened made him turn, seeing three guy entering the room. One was wearing black and the other two was wearing red uniforms. Somehow, he felt uneasy being in the same room with someone he didn't recognize.
"I see that you have awake." The Leader spoke, giving the blue hair boy a small smile.
"W-who are you? Where am I?" he asked, giving the others a glare as he moving away a bit to lean further to the pillow.
Noticing the small defensive movement, the Leader took a notice that the boy must felt uneasy being in the same room with them, people who he didn't recognize. It's a normal reaction, since he had lost his memories.
"Sorry for my rudeness. Let me introduce ourselves, this guy with the white hair here is General Akihiko Sanada, a first-rank user. While the scary looking guy over here is General Shinjiro Aragaki, he's also a first-rank user." The Leader explained before he introduced himself, "My name is Souji Seta, the leader of this company."
"First-rank user? Company?" he questioned.
Souji nodded, "Yes. As you can see, right now you are in the medical room on the company called SEES, Socialization Extracurricular Execution Squad for long. A company that have been known very well through the world, and I am the Leader."
"…Oh." He nodded in understanding, noticing that the guy in front of him need to be respected since he the leader.
Souji continue to explained, "Our company holding a special program that called the Persona-user Training Program. A program where we gathered all people who can summon a Persona and trained them to make them a soldier to fight Shadows."
"Persona? Shadows?" he tilt his head in confusion, this whole conversation really made him confuse.
"You don't know what are they?" Akihiko asked in surprised, it was very rare that there's actually someone who didn't know about them.
He look down, staring at the white sheet covering the soft mattress. "…I don't remember much…"
Akihiko bit his lower lip, staring down as he look at the floor. "Sorry."
"What was the thing you remember then?" this time it's Shinjiro who asked.
He darted his eyes to Shinjiro for a second before looking at somewhere else as he tried to remember. "I… I remember I was in a dead city, fighting a weird creature with something… that came out of me."
'He really didn't remember much, huh?' Akihiko thought, pitying at the blue hair boy for a moment before he opened his mouth to speak. "The thing that you summoned, we called it Persona."
He look at Akihiko, "That's a Persona?"
"Yes." It was Souji who answer his question. "You have a special power just like us. And I believe your power is more special than any normal people does. That is why I would like to asked you to join us."
"W-what?" he startled.
"I believe that your power is somewhat different, and I know you can be a big asset of our power."
He look down at the sheet, thinking about all of this. This is really surprised him, a minutes ago he was awake in a place he didn't know, and the second he knew he was being asked to join a company that he didn't fully knows about.
Noticing the confuse look on the boy's face, Akihiko offered a small smile. "It's okay if you refused. We're not going to force you or anything."
"True, but please remember this. You have no place to come back or live to, you have no money to provide yourself foods or clothes. While here, we'll provide all of that to those who decide to join. We'll provide room, shower, and foods. Not just that, being a soldier meant that you have taking a step to help other people, you can be useful for others."
Akihiko send a glare at the Leader. Noticing that the boy had become silent.
He then look up, staring at Souji's eyes right in the eyes. "I'll join."
"…You sure about this?" Shinjiro voiced out.
He nodded, "Yes."
A satisfied smile on Souji's lips. "Well then, welcome aboard Private… hm, do you have name?"
He stare at Souji for a while before he opened his mouth. "Minato. Minato Arisato/"
Souji's smile widen, "Welcome to SEES, Private Minato."
This is only the first chapter, so… yeah, I think it's short. This idea was taken from Final Fantasy 7, those who a fan of them must feel that it quite similar. But the story is pure from my imagination, I followed only the program in Shinra works, not all of it though. And really sorry for the bad grammar and structure. Oh and thanks to Kuroka who already teach me how to put a line^^
Anyway… please review, ne?