Author: Hmm... Why did I start this co-write in the first place?
RionAgrias: Hmm... What gave you this idea? Why in the world would you want to do P4, just with Touhou characters instead? Was it your love of Touhou?
Author: Haha... Not really. The idea came to me a while ago after I read Memories Unforgotten by Kaiser dude. The only other crossover on this topic. And then quickly losing half of my brain cells due to how bad it is.
*Awkward pause*
RionAgrias: ... And you still have twice as many as mine. I wanted to make this crossover, because I believe I can create the perfect cohesion between Persona and Touhou. It came to me, blah blah (don't write how bad that one story was) because of the lack of Persona/Touhou crossovers and the need to fill the void of so and so... I don't know. There are a couple of ideas.
Author: Well, another reason behind it was because of Danooru. Form what gossip I got from there, people are begging for a Touhou fangame version of Persona 4. But they never got it for some reason. There is even an artist there who drew a couple of pictures on this topic(the pen name is mazeran). So yeah.
RionAgrias: Yeah... I see what you mean. You'll do better than I am on mixing Fate/Stay Night and Persona. Though anytime you mention Danbooru...
Author: Yes I know, it allows the posting of Hentai and there is a mountain of them. But if you ignored those, you can actually find really interesting stuff. That is what I do when I'm bored.
RionAgrias: I know that. So, are you interested, scared, or nervous for the next P4A episode? What they'll do with it?
Author: Nah, I have faith that they will do good with the Anime.
RionAgrias: I just wish they would go away from MC/Yukiko. I just don't really like that pairing. Even MC/Chie suits me better.
Author: They are heading that toward that shipping? I didn't notice. How careless of me.
RionAgrias: At least, that's my thought and the general thought of the publishers and most of the people I talk to.
Author: Well, you may still have a chance. Naoto isn't in the picture yet.
RionAgrias: I have this feeling that they'll make it Kanji/Naoto. At least, they will put in the awkwardness.
Author: We will see when we get to the romance episode. *Look at the clock* Oh look at the time, let's not get in the way of our readers now, right RionAgrias? Do you have anything left to add?
RionAgrias: I guess not. I should probably get to work on my Ethnographic Arts paper. Stupid Jacques Chirac...
Author: *Look at readers once more* Oh, my apology for the extremely long Author's note. If you had somehow forgotten why you are here. Let me remind you all at this is a fusion story between Touhou and Persona, with Touhou characters in a high school setting. Enjoy.
"The never repeating again Disclaimer: Persona is the property of ALTUS and Touhou is the property of the drunken god, ZUN."
東方人格夢
Alternate Tale of Eastern Fantasy: Persona
Chapter 1: Contracted
"Where... Where am I?"
I slowly opened my eyes as a wave of noise entered my ears. It soundd like the jet engine of an airplane, although I could not tell as I had never ridden in one before. My guess was soon verified as I examined in and around my surroundings. The room I am in looked like the inside of a rich person's private jet; it was the kind that I only seen in documentaries. The place was coloured with a heavy blue theme with a dim lighting. I sat in a very comfortable chair, while was styled like those you would found in a five-star hotel. I fixed my gaze forward to locate a small table...
... And sitting behind that table was possibly the strangest person I had ever seen; a bald, skinny old gentleman with an impossibly large nose and elf-like ears. His large and almost emotionless eyes looked towards me as if they were staring into my soul.
"Welcome to the Velvet Room." The strange old man greeted.
"T-the Velvet Room?" I muttered in response, utterly in awe at the whole situation.
"Yes. This place exists between dream and reality, mind and mutter. It is a room that only those who are bound by a "contract" may enter..." The stranger answered. "My name is Igor. I'm delighted to make your acquaintance."
"A contract?"
"Correct." He snapped his fingers and a floating clipboard appeared, surprising me as a pen appeared into my writing-hand. On the clipboard wass a single sheet of paper that appeared to be a contract, but for whatever reason had only one sentence written on the page.
"I, the undersigned, do acknowledge that I am hereby accepting full responsibility for the consequences of my actions."
I looked back toward Igor, who was waiting patiently for me to signed it.
I stared at the paper and hesitated for a short while, wondering whether or not to signed it. I returned my gaze to Igor once more and I soon realized that neither of us will go anywhere if I do not act. The tip of the pen touches the paper:
博麗霊夢 (Hakurei Reimu)
"Splendid." Igor said delightfully as he snapped his fingers; the contract disappeared from my possession. "Now then, do you believe in fortune telling?"
"A little, I guess." I replies, a little dubious.
Igor lifted his left hand as a deck of tarot cards appeared. With a simple wave, 7 cards magically moved into the position of a hexagon on the small table. "Each reading was done with the same cards, yet the result was always different." He chuckled. "Life itself follows the same principles, doesn't it?" He flipped the very first card. "Hm... The Tower in the upright position represents the immediate future. It seems a terrible catastrophic is imminent."
"C-Catastrophic?" I whispered with a tinge of worry.
"On the contrary, miss. Now, the card indicating the future beyond that is..." The strange man flipped another card. "The Moon. In the upright position. This card represents "hesitation" and "Mystery"...Very interesting indeed."
"Catastrophic... Mystery... What in the world...?"
Igor grinned. "It seems that you will encounter a misfortune at your destination, and a great mystery will be imposed upon you. But do not worry; my duty is to provide assistance to our guests to ensure that does not happen."
I wondered how this strange man would provide the assistance, and what type of assistance it was. But before I could thought deeper, my consciousness began to fade...
"Ah... Time... It sure pasts on rather quick does it not?" Igor chuckled. "We shall attend to the details another time. But before then, farewell." He waved toward me with a good-bye as I fell into unconsciousness..."
TINNN! TINNNN! TINNNN! ! *Bleep*
A young teen with long black hair silenced her alarm clock with an overzealous strike of her hand.
Reimu Hakurei, 16 years old. The 13th Miko of the Hakurei Shrine. She lived with her father who was currently out for over sea business.
The Miko's mouth gave out a light yawn as she stretched her harden limb underneath her pajamas. The shine maiden wished that she would not have to wake up at six in the morning, but someone had to do the early work around the shine... Someone had to clean, rang the small golden bells; someone had to do the dirty work.
"Oh, what a strange dream that was..." Reimu thought.
The Miko leaped off her futon and entered the bathroom to changed into her school uniform. It was the usual style for girls during autumn.
She stared into the bathroom mirror and started adjusting her messed up hair. She tied her hair in a large red hair bow and mada them shaped like a set of butterfly wings. Followed up with two hair tube fitted on the each side of her face. She quickly brushed her teeth and washed her face, Reimu then went off to the kitchen to cook breakfast.
It was just in time, too, as another teen was attracted by the promise of breakfast and crawled from upstair. She had wavy blond hair, with a pig tail on the left side of her head that came down past her shoulder; which was tied loosely by a pink ribbon. Her body was still wearing her very loose pajamas; aka, a black nightgown over yesterday's underwear. A necklace with a oversize ornament around her neck; an wooden octagonal block with an eight trigram printed in a circle on its front. The smell of the food was wafting and she was slowly drifting towards the table with a hungry look on her face.
"Yo... Reimu? What is for breakfast today, ze?"
This was Marisa Kirisame, Reimu's freeloader of a best friend.
"Be patient! It's not like you are helping." Reimu complained, an annoyed look forming on her face. "Go change into your uniform or something, did you even take a shower yesterday?"
The blonde gave off an impatient air as she shrugged her shoulders. "Nah, it's too much of an annoyance." An instant sigh from the shine Maiden when she said that.
"Seriously, Marisa. What am I suppose to do with you?" Reimu frowned, as she came over the plates of food and slices of toast. "Just promise me that you will at least take a shower tonight."
"Yeah, yeah..." Her friend waved off the comment to started chewing on her toast. "Are we still in the red, ze? *munch* *munch* because I started to miss rice and miso soup in the morning."
"Just eat your food. Or else we are going to be late."
This place was Koryu. An ancient town located within the inner region of Japan; its origin dated all the way back thousands of years to the starting eras of Japan. It was said this town was built by a mighty Dragon god with a body so long that it would covered the sky if it had reappeared. There ware three things that this town was famous for. The cherry blossoms during the spring, the purification rituals of its shines, and its breathtaking view of its surrounding environment brought Koryu its notoriety.
And so, we began our story.
"Yo! Alice!"
A young teen who was the same age as the group with short blonde hair; weared a red headband and dress as an interpretation of her school uniform. She responded to the call by turning her head...
"Oh Mari-!"
The young teen's eyes widen upon seeing Marisa riding on her bicycle, zooming passed her at very high speed. The sudden action of seeing the blond-haired girl with the ponytail surprised her and almost caused her to losed her footing as well.
"Marisa!"
"That is what you get for not paying attention, ze!" Marisa laughed at Alice as she continued to head forward; not realizing what was in front of her. "Ah-"
Too late to changed course, the long blonde crashed head first into some trashcans. Thankfully, the cans were empty of rubbish, so she was safe from being covered in non-combustibles.
"Ow..." The blonde groaned in pain.
"I told you so, Marisa." Reimu walked past her best friend, feeling no sympathy at all. "Why do you do this every morning?"
Marisa picked herself up. "Why not, this lets me show off my riding skill, ze."
"But why did you have to do it past Alice?"
"Well... She is the one criticize my biking skill to most." Marisa replied in annoyance
"I did not. I said you shouldn't do it in the middle of the street." the accused girl defended herself.
"Enough..." Reimu interrupted. "We are really going to be late if you two have your usual argument."
Both blondes quieted down almost automatically.
If there is anything Reimu's class hated more then anything in the world, it would had to be their history teacher.
"All three of you ARE late!"
Ms. Paris Hilles, a half Japanese, half British middle-aged woman with a nasty hatred for young teens. She was a horrible person, and a downright worthless teacher. She hardly teached anything useful and her tests were almost impossible if you did not plan ahead. She was also really mean to her students, calling some of the more 'rebellious' (If rebellious meant wearing your uniform a little differently.) students "the trash of society" and wrote lies on their report cards. It did not help that she was butt ugly too.
"But Ms. Hilles..." Reimu tried to defend on why she was tardy yet again.
"NO BUT! Being a shrine maiden does not give you the opportunity to be late!" The middle-aged yelled angrily. "Same goes for your friends!"
Reimu believed that she should argued more against the tyrant named Ms. Hilles; it was completely unfair to be harassed like this, especially from a teacher. However, Reimu also understood that arguing against the teacher would only resulted in undesirable consequences that she will probably regret later.
So Reimu kept her mouth shut for this very reason, but Alice opened her mouth to say. "It was not my fault that I was late. It was because…" Alice was focusing her blame towards Marisa; the girl who had made such a mess with her bicycle.
The cranky teacher's face screwed up in anger as she all but yelled in response. "I do not care! All that matters in this classroom is that you are late! All you have to do is show up on time!"
The only reason that the teacher only raised her voice slightly towards Alice is that she was a better student. It was a fact that the others found annoying from time to time.
"Here it comes, ze." Marisa muttered under her breath to Reimu.
"Is she expecting another tirade from the teacher?" Reimu thought, still wanting to end the suffering of the lecturing by returning to her seat.
"What did I tell you about wearing the proper school uniform?" the teacher questioned. "A blue dress and a red headband? Those items are not a part of our uniform…"
Alice standed in silence. She knew that the best thing to do was to nod and agreed like a dumb bobble head. The teacher would eventually ran out of steam and forgot about the single indiscretion after a few minutes as long as there do not have any other topics to drugged on her rants.
Reimu's eyes widen as she heard the ugly teacher's voice, "Hakurei! Get to your seat!"
Reimu hurried to her seat, completely unaware that the teacher was finished with her lecture. She placed her school bag on the metal hook on the side of the desk. Class was slowly beginning, but students were still gossiping quietly amongst each other.
"Did you heard? That is a lot of missing people lately." A girl whispered to her friend.
Reimu looked around the room. It was as the girl says; there were at least five empty desks in the classroom. It was a fact that Ms. Hilles made note of during her lecture. She said, "Students ditching class. That is downright despicable! When those worthless students decide to show their faces again, I will make sure that is the last day they attend this school!"
"She is going to expel people for being sick?" Reimu wondered.
The shrine maiden took notes obediently through the lesson and tried not to make any more disturbances to bring the wrath of her teacher down upon her. She waited for the end of school, or at least until Ms. Hilles's class was over. It started to bother Reimu that so many people were missing, though. It just felt… weird.
Finally, the group of friends was freed from the school when the final bell rang and they were able to escape.
"Have you heard of the "SiN"?" Marisa asked as they prepare to leave.
""SiN"? What is that?" Reimu questioned her friend.
Marisa laughed. "You have not heard of it? It's a little ritual you can start at home. It's supposed to grant you any wish if you "face you true self"... whatever that means, ze."
"Marisa, you are actually into these kinds of things?" Alice asked half-amused, half in- doubt.
"Maybe… I heard it from some gossip around the school." Marisa answered. "Hey! How about we try it out?"
"What?" Alice's face turned surprise toward Marisa's comment.
"It will be fun, ze! We can trash this little rumour if it does not work!" The long blonde said proudly. "You guys are not afraid are you?"
Both Reimu and Alice hesitated to answer the challenge. "N-No. Of course not…" They replied out of pure pressure of the other blonde.
"Okay! Then let's do it at the shine at midnight!"
"T-That is a little late, isn't it?" Reimu complained.
"Nah, tomorrow is the weekend, remember?" Marisa pointed out.
"... I guess I should tell my parents that I'm sleeping over..." Alice muttered.
11:59 P.M. in the Hakurei shine.
The faint sound of chalk grinding on the cold stone floor the shine's backyard can be heard, echoing in the night.
"Let's see... Water, Fire, Wood, Earth, Metal... The runes seem about right." Marisa grinned a bit too excitedly for the other two and putted away her chalk. She then pulled out a sheet of paper. "Are you guys ready?"
"It's probably not gonna work, anyway," thought Reimu before she answered the longer-haired blond. "Yes"
"I guess..." Alice gaved her response quietly and tiredly, rubbing her arms in over her thin pajama. It was obvious that she was not used to staying up this late into the night.
Three girls than began the 'ritual'.
"From the depth of thy soul, I pray... May thou answer thy wish..."
They placed their hand on the runes.
"Thou... art willing to face thou self as an offering... The true self..."
12:00 A.M.
The runes began to glowed in brilliant radiance.
"Look! It's really working, ze!" Marisa exclaimed excitedly to the other two.
The brilliance didn't last long however, as the runes soon dissipated into darkness... It did not last long before the ray of lights began to form into a twister of dark shadows...
"W-What is this- Ah!" Reimu cried in panic as the darkness begins to pull the group into its depth. The pull of the dark twister caught Alice off guard and she was the first one to vanish into it.
"ALICE!" The long blonde jumped in after her friend.
"MARISA!" The Miko followed straight after her.
All three teens vanished into the night...
End of Chapter One
RionAgrias: Wait… so this is the end of Chapter 1? But… there is so much shameless promoting I could have put in… *all light around him dims as he sits in a corner by himself*
Author: *Sweat drops and pets RionAgrias* You will get a chance... eventually.
RionAgrias: But... at least... did I do a good job? *looks expectant*
Author: *Looks annoyed* Never do this again... It creeps me out... See ya all next time... I guess.