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Of Facades and High Fantasy

Chapter One: The Surprise Visit

The train has come to a complete stop, welcome to Inaba.

The announcement wakes me from my sleep. As my vision focuses from the groggy blur of sleep, hard lines and definite borders that make up individual objects break up the grey tones that made up the inside of the train form. I rise up from my seat, and open up the compartment above me and take out my luggage. It was only a medium sized box-like carrying bag with wheels. I pull the handle up, the metal poles extending and letting me roll it behind me.

I eventually reach the exit of the train, after waiting in the line of passengers in front of me. I look around briefly, before squinting my eyes and covering my eyes with my arm. The sun's pretty bright out today, and I wasn't prepared. As soon as I regain my composure, I hear my name being called out. "Big bro! Over here!" It sounds like a little girl, Nanako. I fix the bangs of my gray, bowl cut hair and head towards her, and the person accompanying her. Ryotaro Dojima, my uncle. He nods, and beckons me over while they both walk out of the station.

"So, Yu. You've come back for Golden Week, yeah?" Ryotaro asks, stroking his stubbly chin. "You're here a bit early. A day, to be exact."

I nod. "Yeah. Speaking of which, I should probably find out where my friends are. I want to surprise them. I'll call them once I unpack."

Nanako gives me a hug, and smiles. "Welcome back. It's good to see you!" She says.

I return the hug and nod. "It's good to see you too, Nanako."

I open the door to the car, sitting in the back seat. I buckle up and sit back, as the car starts and drives from the once again empty station. I wonder about how my friends are doing. Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko, Kanji, Naoto… I wonder how they all were since we solved all those murders in this town a year ago.

We formed the Investigation Team as a result of a string of killings that involved throwing people inside the television. Their Shadows in the TV world got to them, when they were thrown in. We got hints as to who they were and when it was happening through the Midnight Channel. On a rainy night, on the dead of Midnight when your TV was turned off… images of the next victim were played.

The car ride home being quiet, I just look out the window out towards the town. We pull up to the residence, as Ryotaro shuts the car off. We get out and enter the house. I walk up to my old room, and set my bag down. I pull my cell phone from my pocket and open it up, sifting through my contacts list. I reach the end and find Yosuke's name. I click the button to call him and hold the phone to my ear.

I hear him pick up and ask. "'Sup, Yu?" In the background, I can hear Teddie whining about something. Yosuke yells at him to shut up, and comes back. "Back."

I stifle a laugh. "How is everyone?" I ask.

"What? Why're you asking that? 'Dunno. I think everyone's fine." He replies.

"Heh. I'm here early. I'm in Inaba, you think we could round up the gang?" Before I hear an answer, I listen to Yosuke and Teddie fighting amongst themselves once more.

"Sure. I don't think anything is going on. I'll ask Chie, if you got Yukiko. But we're meeting at my house! I have something to show you guys! Let's not bother rendezvousing at our headquarters." Our headquarters, the Junes food court, is where we always went to meet up to investigate the murders here one year ago.

"Yeah. I'll see you there." Yosuke hangs up. I close my phone, and walk back downstairs. I head to Ryotaro in the living room. "I'm going to Yosuke's house. I'll be back, later."

The middle-aged man nods. "Alright. Be careful." He says, as he waves me off.

I walk out the door, and open up my phone again, I scroll down my contacts just one more name, Yukiko. I click the button and put it up to my ear. It rings, for a bit before she answers. "Hello, Yu." She says.

"Hey, Yukiko. Meet us at Yosuke's house. I'm at Inaba, and he has something to show us." I say.

"Alright. I'll meet you guys there. Good to talk to you!" She hangs up, and I close my phone. I walk through the town, and stuff my hands down my pockets.

I look around, and look at all the small shops that seem to be empty. Soon, I reach Yosuke's house. I knock on the door, and wait a bit as Yosuke opens it up to answer. "Heya'! C'mon in, Chie's already here, and Teddie went to Junes to work. Now we gotta' wait for Yukiko."

I nod, and walk inside, Chie gets up from the couch to come hug me. "Yu! How've you been? The big city treating you well?"

I nod. "Yeah. Everything good, in Inaba?" I ask.

She walks back and sits on the couch. "Yeah. Though, there's something on the news that happened a few days ago."

I sit next to Chie and look to the TV. On it, is a news report on what they say is a freak lightning strike on a house. But on the TV, the house has just a large hole on the roof. It doesn't even look like it's burned.

Yosuke blinks. "…It wasn't even raining, last night. I think maybe there was a cloud, but a lightning strike sounds waaaaaaay too unlikely." He says.

"I agree." I say, "It doesn't even look like anything was burnt. It's just… a giant hole in this person's roof." I cross my arms and shake my head.

Chie shrugs. "Nature's weird. But this town's weirder. At this point, we'll just have to find out when that bridge comes."

We hear a knock on the door. Yosuke heads to the door and answers. "Hey, Yukiko!" He says, as he lets her in.

She smiles to me, and nods. "Good to see you, Yu. Welcome back." I nod back, as we all look to Yosuke.

"Alright. We're aaallllll here now. We can see the thing I got!" Yosuke says excitedly.

Chie blinks. "What about Kanji, or Naoto?" She asks.

Yosuke shrugs. "Tried calling them after you, Chie. Kanji's busy at the textile shop, and Naoto's working on a case."

I shrug. "Maybe we can ask Naoto about that house, later." We all head up the stairs, and through the hallway.

Yosuke opens up the door to his room, running and exclaiming. "Ta da!" He points to his new TV, in his room with both hands in an exaggerated pose. "It's my new TV! It's the big screen we used to enter the TV world. I even got an Xbox 360 and a game for it!"

Chie blinks, and scratches her head. "Nice. Wish I had something like that in my room."

I quirk a brow. "And… how long did it take to save up for all of that?" I ask, a knowing smile bordering on a smirk present on my face.

Yosuke blushes and spazzes out. "Shut up! It didn't take me that long! Why do you have to ask questions!?" He slumps forward briefly, before regaining his composure and turning on his game system. I look to the system in question, and notice a plethora of stickers.

"Yosuke, what's with the uh… decorations?" I ask.

He shook his head. "I bought it used. It was from the people with the house that has the hole in it. They said they needed the money to repair it."

Yukiko blinks. "What game do you have in there?" She asks.

Yosuke grabs his controller and giggles in glee. "The Elder Scrolls Five, Skyrim!" He exclaims.

Chie rolls her eyes. "Skyrim? In Twenty-Twelve? Really?"

I shrug. "Isn't that game still full price? You'd think after almost two years they'd lower it just a little."

Yosuke grumbled a bit, before responding. "Hey! There's a reason it's still full price. It's freakin' good! Besides, on my hi-def TV, it looks amazing. C'mon. I just started it, yesterday. I made my own person!"

Look to the game itself. It looks pretty realistic, yeah. Yosuke's character is running around in the game world, fighting some dragon in some fantasy land.

Chie rolls her eyes. "We were brought here for a video game? C'mon! I was in the mood for some beefsteak down at Junes!"

I shrug. "It's not even a multiplayer game."

And then it happens. The floor starts to shake, and it feels like something is drawing us in. We all start panicking, scrambling to hold on to something.

"What's going on!?" Yosuke yells, as he protects…. His… game system…

Okay, Yosuke. You do that.

Yukiko and I grab onto Yosuke's bed. "Is it an earthquake?" She asks loudly.

Chie grabs onto a chair. "Yosuke! I swear this TV is cursed!"

But soon, the current pulling us overpowers our grips, and sucks us inside Yosuke's TV.

The fall seems different, it feels like a Technicolor display of some kind of hole we're warping through. This doesn't feel like the TV world we usually enter.

We all hit the ground, landing somewhere completely different. I look up to see a dragon in the night sky staring me down from in the air. And he doesn't look happy, either. We all get up quickly as we hear it roar at us.

"Oh what the HELL, Yosuke?!" Chie yells, as she grabs Yosuke by the collar, seemingly forgetting about the dragon.

Chie shook him about as he yells. "Chie I swear to crap I will apologize later! But first there IS A THING THAT WANTS TO KILL US!"

Chie tosses him away from her grip, and gulps. "Uhhh… crap." She utters.

The dragon takes a deep breath, as we're all pushed aside by another person. "Get out of the way!" A gruff, deep voiced helmed man yells. The dragon exhales, a large stream of fire burning the ground we were standing on.

The large man grunts, and holds his dual swords in a fighting stance. The same man Yosuke was controlling in his game. He charges and yells something.

"FUS!" He booms, a wave of force being sent out by his voice. The dragon loses its balance and lands, the charging man swinging his swords to slash at the dragon's face.

The dragon bull rushes him and knocks him on his back. It jumps up and tries to simply devour the man. "FUS!" He yells again, the beast tumbling on its back, in a sweeping reversal. He leaps up and starts slashing and stabbing its underbelly. It screams and takes in another deep breath. The man widens his eyes, as he's caught without time to move.

I act with instinct, focusing my thoughts, conjuring and crushing the tarot card floating above my hand. "Izanagi!" I exclaim, my Persona appearing in front of me. And then I shout once more. "Ziodyne!" The black clad Persona raises his hand, holding his blade behind him, and letting a bolt of lightning strike the dragon.

The large beast falls limp, now lifeless with the final blow given to him. The man hops off of the dragon, as it starts to glow and disintegrate. A glowing rush of power washes over the chain clad man, as the beast only leaves bones behind.

We all stare blankly at the large, briefly glowing man. He walks up to us, and takes his helmet off. His face looks weathered, a bushy brown beard covering his jaw while a mustache that connects to it obscures his upper lip. "What… who are you people?" He quirks a bushy brow, while sweeping his dark brown hair back.

I step forward and nod. "We're from… a different world. We dropped in here after something sucked us in."

The bearded man shrugs. "Well. Welcome to Tamriel, then. But by the Nine, what was that thing you summoned?" He asks.

I cross my arms. "That's something we have, to fight. That was my Persona. You can call it… the façade, or mask you use to get through the day. We've only ever used them on Shadows… physical manifestations of unwanted feelings."

The man stares blankly at me, and shook his head. "I'm going to assume that it's a your world thing, and not something I can throw you into a looney house for. At any rate, it's an interesting magic you, and apparently your friends are able to conjure. My name is Dunjar."

I nod. "My name is Yu Narukami."

"Chie Satonaka."

"Yosuke Hanamura."

"Yukiko Amagi."

The burly man nods. "It's a pleasure to meet you. Though, you four look like no nords I've seen. Breton?"

We all stare at each other. Yukiko speaks up. "Nord? Breton?"

Dunjar shook his head. "I'll just pin you people down as… just humans. Divines only know just what you are."

I shrug. "Do you know where any towns are? We'll need a place to stay. We have no idea where we are."

The nord laughs. "Of course. I can take you to Whiterun. I'll even pay for a room. Though, if you want money for food, I suggest you people take those… Persona things and do some jobs. The folk in town will pay good coin." He starts walking along the road to the left of us, the four of us joining him. I take in the landscape.

The grass below us looks dead, but carries a dark due painted by the night only given illumination by the moon above us. Trees were scarce, but the stone mountains were prominent in the far reaches of the land. I just now notice the cold that clung to the air. It's not freezing cold, but it's enough to send the four of us shivering, even in our long sleeved outfits. Well, I guess they're thin compared to what the nord is wearing, thick furs under light chain mail.

By the way, the creepy similarity to norse culture is noted. Though, I guess it's justified by the fact this is fiction, regardless of the sobering realization that this is all very, very real.

Chie breaks my train of thought with her own. "Guys… how are we going to get home without an escape TV? This isn't exactly the typical spot we land in."

I shook my head. "I… have no clue. We need to find ways within this world to get back."

Yosuke chimes in. "Or, we can hope Teddie notices when he gets home from Junes. The system wasn't turned off, neither was the TV. Maybe the camera is still following Dunjar."

And that's when it hit me. Yosuke knows this world more than anyone. He even created the guy we're following. "Yosuke. I'm pretty sure we'll be relying on you, until then. You've played this game, if even for a little bit. If what you're saying is right, we just need to last here until Teddie can break us out."

Yosuke nods. "Yeah. I know a bit. The guy we're following is the Dragonborn, or Dovahkiin. He's able to suck the souls out of dragons and use their power."

The nord stops. "…How do you know that?" He asks.

Yosuke stammers. I don't think he wanted to drop the bombshell that he wasn't real. Smart choice. "Uh-uhh… you're very famous! Who wouldn't be?"

The nord smirks, and continues his journey. "Damn straight. We're almost there, by the way. Just a little farther." He points. We can see the city in the far landscape. "Heh. I do have a house, but even with my title as Thane, my house isn't big enough to for four more people without driving me insane."

I nod. "Do you think we could find a few weapons, as well?"

The bearded man lets out a chuckle. "If you kids can lift them, I'm sure I could spare a few weapons I've found, so far."

Yosuke smirks, and whispers to me. "I got a lot of different types of weapons stored in his house. I wanted him to be a jack-of-all-trades kinda' guy. We got this."

I smile, as we both bump fists. We finally reach the gates, and walk inside the town of Whiterun. The town seems to have calmed down, since it's night. Dunjar nods to the woman at the blacksmith forge. "I got some stuff to sell to ya'!"

The woman shakes her head. "Sell, sell, sell! It's always selling. Buy something for a change!"

The nord man laughs, and continues down the path. We head inside the inn, greeted by the woman innkeeper. Dunjar places a few gold coins on the table. "Get me a room for these kids. "

The woman laughs. "Of course. I'll show you people the room." She guides us upstairs, and shows us the room. "Have a nice night."

Dunjar nods. "Meet me at the well, in the morning. If you're not there, I'll wake your asses up. Until then, good night."

He leaves, as we scan the room. The every first thing I hear is. "I get the bed!" Exclaimed by Chie.

Yosuke whines. "Awwwwww! Can you at least spare the pillow?"

Chie throws the pillow at Yosuke. I search the chest in front of the bed, and take out two blankets and a pillow. I throw a blanket and pillow to Yukiko. "Catch."

"Thanks, Yu." She says. She's been quiet thus far, since we've landed here. But I guess that's expected.

Yosuke flails. "Are you sure there isn't another blanket?"

I shrug. "You have a pillow. Just be thankful. If you need to be warm, I'm sure Yukiko has an Agi spell."

Chie shrugs. "I'm sure Teddie'll be here, tomorrow, anyway. If not even tonight."

Yosuke blinks. "Uhhhhhhhhhhhh…. Guys. I forgot to mention something. In the game… time is a lot faster. An few hours in this game can be like…. Thirty seconds in our world."

Chie drops her jaw and gapes. "Crap! And Teddie just went to work when I arrived at your place?"

I shook my head. "It seems we'll be here a while."

Yukiko shrugs. "If that's so… we'll need to get prepared for a long journey, tomorrow."

I sigh. "Until then, good night."

Yosuke relaxes on the floor. "G'night."

Chie covers herself up on the bed and throws her shoes on the floor. "Night, guys."

Yukiko closes her eyes after covering herself up, as well. "Good night."

I drape the blanket on myself and close my eyes. Hopefully tomorrow will be the start of figuring out why we're here. Who's responsible, and what this serves.

Until then, I'll take this time to rest. I'll need it.