Resonance:The Arcana In Bloom
A/N: Had another strange idea of plopping Persona characters in RWBY and vice versa. Second attempt at a vague crossover. Had to write this as the idea was too good to pass up; this'll be a story in two parts, one set in Persona and the other in RWBY.
Be warned, the story has spoilers for both The Answer and Episode 8 of RWBY. If you have not played or seen either, DO NOT READ THIS STORY.
DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, Persona belongs to Atlus. Otherwise MinatoxYukari would be canon(-er than it already is. Damn implied love interests) and White Rose would be canon (-er. Seriously Monty why you make me have these feels)
This chapter is set to Red Like Roses, Part 2.
Players and Pieces: Resonance
The teams were running away from a large Grimm, the Nevermore, as they clutched their prizes, chess pieces in their hands. They had managed to lure the Grimm into a large, abandoned ruined citadel and bridge floating over a foggy void, and they were running out of options.
"It's tougher than it looks." Aigis sighed as her twin arm-mounted cannons, Orthos and Cerberus ejected yet more spent cartridges. Junpei sighed, morphing his Laeveteinn claymore into cannon form.
"Let's hit it with everything we got!"
"Right!" Yukari prepared her bow, Phoenix Argus and Minato drew his own weapon, Moonlight Eclipse, a curved scimitar with the ability to turn into a rifle.
The four stood at the tower, waiting for Minato to give the order as the beast flew at them. The blue-haired boy, pointing his rifle at the Nevermore, nodded.
"Fire!"
Yukari let loose arrows of green energy, Aigis tore into the Nevermore with a torrent of bullets, and Junpei blasted it with heavy shots from his cannon, while Minato took carefully aimed shots at the Grimm's eyes and head.
Yet, despite the barrage from all four of them, the beast refused to fall. It then swept into the tower they were standing upon, toppling it.
But the Grimm had underestimated them, and the four of them, still standing on the piece of rubble that was once their firing post, ran up and into the hailing debris, Yukari using her Semblance of wind manipulation to propel herself up, while the other three using their weapons' recoil and rocks to get themselves to a safe position.
"None of this is working!" Yukari cried as the Nevermore flew over the four of them. Minato studied the situation with his typical emotionless stare.
Nearby, Aigis struggled to keep herself on the tower as the raven Grimm swiped at her. Her own weapons, a pair of arm-mounted guns capable of firing any ammo loaded into them, were running out of her own ammo. She grunted as the creature knocked another part of the tower down and she fired a harpoon out of her right cannon into a column, swinging her around into a safe position.
Meanwhile, Junpei fired at the beast with Laeveteinn. He kept missing, as the raven Grimm was circling him. He roared. "Dammit, hold still!"
Suddenly, an idea appeared in the blue-haired boy's mind. "Yukari, I have a plan. Cover me!" He ran off to the left, and Yukari understood.
"Right!" She swept forward, shifting Phoenix Argus into boomerang mode.
Whatever her partner had in store, it was sure to work.
Junpei jumped from column to column to get a good firing position, hurling blast after blast at the Grimm.
"Come on...come on..." He continued until one blast nailed the creature in the eye. With a horrifying screech, the Nevermore turned to fly at him.
"Bring it!" He leaped at the Grimm as its mouth opened and landed into its beak, before keeping its beak open with his bare hand. Slinging Laeveteinn into his free hand, he fired it into the Nevermore's mouth.
"I! Hope! You're! Hungry!" He punctuated every word with a blast, before leaping out of its mouth as the raven spun in the air and slammed into a nearby cliff. He landed on his knees, Laeveteinn in claymore form. The Grimm, meanwhile, righted itself, before screeching. Junpei saw a pink blur approaching him and he smiled.
Yukari burst past her comrade, readying Phoenix Argus as she ran at the Grimm. The Grimm was preparing to redouble its efforts and fly off to assail the team.
"Not on my watch!" With a Semblance-propelled jump, the brown-haired girl leaped into the air, throwing her boomerang up in the air and knocking the Grimm back down. Phoenix Argus curled back around into her hand before turning into a bow, which Yukari used to pin the creature down with a lime energy arrow that generated a cyclone at its tail sucking it in. She then somersaulted through the air backwards and landed on the ground near Junpei, before running back towards Minato.
Aigis loaded another harpoon into Orthos. Aiming carefully at the column facing the one she was standing on, the blonde marksman shot the harpoon into it, sinking it. Detaching the other end of the harpoon, she tossed it to Junpei, who slammed the other end into her column.
"Do you think his plan'll work, Aigis?"
"I do not know. Calculations say they shouldn't." Aigis leaped to the other side, and together with Junpei, held the rope tight as Minato leaped up into it.
"But I do not believe they apply this time." She whispered to herself with a small hint of a smirk.
Minato pushed the rope back with his weight so the setup resembled a giant sideward bow, with Minato as the arrow. Yukari stood behind him, her Semblance gathering behind her in the form of a large cyclone. She smiled.
"Of course you'd come up with this idea."
"It'll work. Think you can make the shot?" Minato shot back.
The archer made a self-assured harrumph. "Can I?" She answered with a smug smirk. "Can yo-" Minato began to respond.
"Of course I can!" Yukari shot back before he could finish his sentence.
The blue-haired boy narrowed his eyes, smiling. Yukari took a deep breath, before pointing her fingers at the Grimm and propelling Minato out of the rope into the air.
He yelled as he propelled himself through the air with Moonlight Eclipse's recoil and Yukari's Semblance, leaving a trail of pale, yellow orbs in the air that fizzled out, before swinging his scimitar to prepare to pin the beast into the cliff.
The beast struggled against the cyclone keeping it pinned down, until it disappeared suddenly. With the impediment keeping it down gone, the Nevermore began to fly, until it saw Minato flying at it, scimitar at the ready.
It had just a moment, even in its unintelligent brain, to think "Why me?" .
Who wouldn't, in that situation?
The force of Minato's impact pinned the Grimm to the cliff, scimitar poised at its neck. Yukari lifted two fingers upwards, and the blue-haired boy felt a burst of speed behind him.
"Let's do this." With determination in his eyes and a cry, he ran up the cliff face, dragging the Grimm with him, propelling himself with Moonlight Eclipse.
The rest of the team watched in awe as he left a trail of pale orbs behind him, before he managed to get up onto the cliff.
"It ends here!" With one last push, he took the Grimm's head off, spinning into the air, leaving a shimmering trail, before landing on one knee on the cliff top, the Nevermore's head landing on the verdant grass next to him. Grunting, Minato turned to his team, swiping his sword to the side and fixing the bangs that covered his other eye.
"Good job, team."
From afar, Akihiko, Mitsuru and Fuuka viewed the other four, having killed the scorpion Grimm that was troubling them. Shinjiro was lying nearby, unconscious with the effort.
Fuuka had only one thing to say.
"Whoa."
Aigis landed on the cobble, approaching Yukari.
"I cannot help but have a strange feeling."
"What, Aigis?"
"I believe that this has happened before."
"What, taking down a Nevermore? Of course it has!"
"Yes...but I feel as if...we were merely repeating what others did, as if our exact actions were similar."
"Oh, put a cap in it, Aigis. We just took down a Nevermore with less people than any Hunter group needed.
And besides, wouldn't it be nearly impossible to do exactly the same thing we just did?" Yukari laughed. "That would be weird, right?"
END
A/N: Yukari, you have no idea how right you are. Also, sorry for those of you who expected some action from Akihiko and Mitsuru, but I felt like focusing more on Minato, Yukari, Aigis and Junpei. Also I totally did not rip off Phoenix Argus from her weapon in P4A. *whistles innocently*
Also, Part 1 finished! Now to plop RWBY characters into Persona!