"How are you feeling?"

I don't know, I don't care. My head hurts - why? My palm reaches to cover it, but an eyebrow raised once my fingertips are met with the uncomfortable touch of bandage material. 

I move - no, I struggle to move. My toes barely move, but my arms feel fine. Paralyzed? I don't think any thing that extreme could have happened.

What happened?

I think, but my mind draws blank after leaving my hotel room. My hand falls down to my side, to see if I feel the flannel material of my outfit, but I'm met with cheap fabric instead. Hospital Fabric, I knew it all to well.

I hear the faint beep, beep, beep, of the machine next to me. My heart beat. I'm in the hospital - why? I'm almost ninety-eight point eight percent positive I did not fall down the long, marble stairs of the Hotel I was staying at. I was clumsy, but not so clumsy as to fall and crack my head open and not be able to even move my toes.

I blink my eyes though they're still closed.  I don't want them to be opened, I don't like hospitals for reasons upon reasons.

"I'm sorry to inform you, Miss. Giovanni, but we weren't able to save them."

My body tensed, and the machine next to me showed a more rapid heart beat. I heard the squeaking of plastic, then a small cough. "Are you awake, finally?"

I wanted to shake my head, but all I did was move my hand. "Yes." I think that's what came out, but with my own voice being so raspy I couldn't even tell, nothing was in the clear.

The voice - a male's, which was like velvet in my ears - laughed. "Don't talk, that was my own fault. I'm just going to ask you yes or no questions, so do you have enough energy to nod?"

I showed him I did by nodding, and he began the questions. "Do you remember anything?" He didn't specify, but I shook my head. "Are you a student at Gekkoukan High School?" I nodded. That was the reason why I came to this town, for my full scholarship to the school. "Are any relatives currently living with you?" My body tensed, and the beeping sound became so much more quicker; I shook my head.

"I don't have any relatives." I might as well use what energy I have left to somewhat explain what I remember.

"Are you staying at the girls dorm?" I nodded, and he continued. "I'm going to ask one more time, and then I'll get the nurse. Do you remember anything?"

Silence. I racked my brain as hard as I could, but nothing popped up. I left the Hotel - pissed, and walked down the street. I turned sharply, trying to avoid the drunks, and my iPod died. It was midnight, I think. I walked down an alley way, not having any sense of direction, and...

"Blood..." I whispered out. "There was a lot of it."

"What else do you remember?"

"A coffin - no, multiple coffins. A-and the moon..."

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"Personas." The man - Ikutsuki - explained. "They are our suppressed powers, which help us fight shadows."

"Shadows." I said out loud, shifting uncomfortably in my seat. "That's what gave me the cut on my head?"

All of them - Mitsuru, Shinjiro, Akihiko and Ikutsuki nodded, but the older man was the only one to speak. "Yes. You were lucky Akihiko was here, or else you would've been gone."

"But if I'm understanding you correctly, wouldn't my persona just pop out and protect me?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"You need an evoker, which comes to our next topic. Akihiko, the brief case, please."

Akihiko - who I learned was the voice at the hospital, placed a silver, metal brief case on the large wooden table. My eyes always lingered on his face for longer than they should have. "Just don't freak out." Akihiko said with a small sigh, "I can't have you passing out again." 

My cheeks got hot. Right, after getting some of my memory back in the hospital I fell unconscious. Akihiko opened the brief case, and my eyes got big.

Guns. I don't like guns. "W-why are those guns?"

"They aren't actually guns. They're evokers in the shape of guns." The brilliant red head - Mitsuru - explained. "And to evoke them, well, I'm sure you'll find out soon."

So no bullets came out, if I'm at least right about that. "Okay. So, I need to evoke my persona for the rest of my life so I won't be hurt?"

Ikutsuki smiled - I couldn't tell if it was fake or not. "Which comes to another topic. We'd like you to join us - S.E.E.S."