Heya fellow readers! And yes you are seeing this right, I am writing another story. Before this starts, I shall explain some things.
In the past few months, I've been playing Persona for the first time, more specifically Persona 3 and 4... And I fell in love with this series! I love it! (I really want to play Persona 5 but I don't have a PS4, so YouTube videos will have to do for now) I have to thank a few friends for getting me into it (you know who you are and if you're reading this, hi!). And because of this I really wanted to write a Persona fic, but I had trouble deciding what type it should be. I thought of an Ed Edd n Eddy/Persona fic, but that one is being done better; a Dragon Age/Persona fic, sounded too complicated and kinda stupid; and then a Persona/OC fic. I chose the Persona/OC fic as in my head it seems less than 50% stupid.
And if you're confused as to why this is a Persona-Wrestling crossover when I just said OCs are in here, like in Angelgirl16290's and mine's fic Pokemon Academy, wrestlers are either parents to the OCs or minor characters; they won't be a huge focus in the story (and their real names are being used). This is a mostly OC story and most of the characters from Pokemon Academy are in this story as well. Also every scene I'm putting in a background music suggestion, but if you get annoyed by that I'll stop. I was going to try that out with Pokemon Academy, but decided to try it here first.
Anyway, I think that's it. OCs are owned by me and Angelgirl16290! Enjoy the first chapter!
[Background Music: Persona 3 OST: The Poem for Everyone's Souls]
"Where… Where am I…?" A voice was heard.
The owner of the voice, who could not be seen by the viewer, noticed that he was in a strange room. The room was blue all over with a table in the middle of the room with a blue velvet cloth. Behind that table was a man sitting on a blue velvet seat as well. This man was short and was bald at the top with the sides having long white hair down close to his shoulders, he had bulging out eyes, menacing eyebrows, and was wearing a black suit. But the most noticeable thing about this man was his nose, as it was as long as a foot.
Next to the man was a beautiful blonde woman with gold eyes, hair to her shoulder,s and a blue headband. She wore a blue velvet jacket, black stockings, and had a book on her lap.
"Welcome to the Velvet Room." The man said in a creepy sounding tone. "Ah, it seems we have a guest. My name is Igor… I am delighted to make your acquaintance."
"Igor…?" The guest asked, confused of where he was.
"And this is my assistant, Margaret." Igor motioned over to the woman. "She is a resident of this place, like myself."
"My name is Margaret, pleased to meet you." Margaret said.
"This place exists between dream and reality, mind and matter..." Igor said. "It is a room that only those bound by a "contract" may enter. And with you here, it must seem that such a fate awaits you in your future.
Igor put something on the table in front of the guest, it was a piece of paper. On the bottom was a blank line.
"Why don't you sign your name on that line?" Igor suggested.
The guest looked at the paper for the longest time, still not really comprehending on what was going on.. Finally he gave in after a while, grabbed the pen, and signed his name. After it was signed, Igor picked up the paper and looked at it.
"Hmm… I see." Igor looked at the guest with intrigue. "Alexander Gerdelman… You're moving to a new place with your family, am I correct? First time in a long time moving to a new place… having no clue what can happen. But once you enter into your new home, you will have a destiny to fulfill, and my duty is to assist you. The contract has been signed, but we shall explain more some other time."
"Until then… Farewell."
Before the guest could ask, the room was surrounded with white light before going to black.
Persona: The Brave And The Bold
Chapter 1: New Kid in Town
Date: Sunday, August 13th
[Background Music: Persona 4 OST: New Days]
"Alex, wake up, we're almost there."
"Ugh..." 17 year old Alexander Gerdelman groaned as he heard his mom Sarah waking him up. He fell asleep in the passenger seat of the car while Sarah was driving and his dad Frankie was driving the moving trunk behind them. Alex had long brown hair down to his shoulders, brown eyes, and he wore a black button-up shirt on top of a gray undershirt, blue jeans, and black boots. "How long have I been asleep?" He asked rubbing his eyes yawning.
"About two hours I think." Sarah said. "You really were out of it, until just before I woke you up you suddenly moved a bit."
"Well we did get up very early this morning and I couldn't sleep last night." Alex pushed his hair back. As he did though he looked out the car window. That dream he just had… with that man Igor, Margaret, Velvet Room, something about a destiny…
"That was a really weird dream..." He thought. But right when he thought that, what looked like Igor appeared as a reflection on the car window. Alex rubbed his eyes again and looked at the window, and of course Igor was gone. "...I must be seeing things… Must've been that burrito I ate for lunch..."
"So… You ready to live in a new town and start your final year in high school?" Sarah asked with a smile.
"Still not sure on going to a new town, but I am glad this is my last year of school." Alex chuckled. "Although I do wonder how this high school is compared to Palm Springs'."
"You're schedule should be in the mail when we get there, be sure to check. Oh look, we're heading in." Sarah said happily as they drove past the welcome sign to the town.
"Welcome to Silvercrest! Population: 15,000" The sign read. Alex had to admit, the town name Silvercrest was kind of cool, cooler than Palm Springs.
The family was able to find their house and they got into the driveway. Sarah and Alex got out of the car as Frankie jumped out of the driver's seat of the moving truck.
"Ahhh damn…!" Frankie said out loud, stretching out his arms. "That was a long ass drive, but I'm glad we're at our new house!"
"Shall we start taking things out and unpack?" Sarah asked, walking to the back of the truck and lifting up the back.
"I'll start taking things in." Alex ran over and grabbed a heavy box, which caused him to comically almost fall to the ground.
"Aww! So glad you're helping out, Alex." Sarah said laughing slightly.
"I'm only doing it so I can get pizza tonight!" Alex said struggling to hold the box up. He grabbed the house keys from Sarah and went to the door to unlock it.
"Hello there!" A heavy Irish accent was heard next door. "About time we see our new neighbors!"
At the house next door, a buff pale man with his ginger hair put in a mohawk and a slight beard was waving at them. Next to him was a smaller woman with long brown hair.
"You knew there was someone moving in?" Frankie asked walking over to the neighbors.
"Ever since that For Sale sign went away we've been wanting to see who was moving in." The man said before holding out a hand to Frankie. Despite looking quite intimidating, this man seemed very polite. "I'm Stephen Farrelly and this is my wife Chelsea."
"I'm Frankie Gerdelman and this is my wife Sarah." Frankie said shaking their hands. "We moved here with our son."
"That your son right there?" Chelsea asked, pointing at Alex who was carrying another box into the house behind them.
"That he is." Sarah smiled. "He's going to be starting his senior year in high school tomorrow."
"Hey! Our daughter is going to be starting her senior year tomorrow too. Maybe they can be in the same classes." Chelsea said.
Just then another person walked out of the Farrelly house. She had nearly the same facial features as Chelsea, but had long ginger hair. She also wore a light blue shirt under a purple jacket, blue jeans, and purple sneakers.
"Mom, you better get in here and take the chicken out, the oven is starting to smoke." She said, speaking in a slight Irish accent, not as heavy as Stephen's.
"Oh no!" Chelsea groaned and ran into the house.
"These the new neighbors, Dad?" The girl asked asked walking over.
"Yep, these are the Gerdelmans. Sarah, Frankie, this is my daughter Ember." Stephen said. "They have a son that's going to be a senior tomorrow too."
"Really? Hmm… if he's looking for a friend, maybe I can show him around town." Ember suggested.
"I'm sure Alex would like that, he wasn't too interested in us moving here anyway." Frankie said. As he said this, Alex was carrying another box to the door. "Hey Alex! Come over here!"
"Hang on, Dad! I just gotta-" That's when Alex dropped the box, with a glass shattering sound being heard from inside. "...Crap!"
"Don't worry I'll get it, come over here." Sarah said and Alex walked over. "Alex, this is Ember, one of our neighbors."
"Nice to meet you, Alex." Ember said with a sweet smile.
"Hi Ember." Alex greeted. "Surprised to already be saying hi to someone and we just got into town."
"I suggested to your parents if you would like, I can show you around town." Ember said.
"Well gee, I'd like to, but I have to help Mom and Dad unpack." Alex said.
"You can go ahead and go with her, Alex. You go get acquainted." Frankie said.
"But… what about my pizza for tonight?! You said we could get pizza if I helped out!" Alex slightly whined.
"We'll still get pizza, you did good right now. Go on, go." Sarah encouraged.
"The pizza better be stuffed crust and have lots of pepperoni!" Alex shook a fist. "My stomach has been craving pizza!"
"Heh, I like this guy already." Ember chuckled to herself, she knew she just made friends with the new kid in town.
[Background Music: Persona 3 OST: Joy]
Alex and Ember were walking down a street in Silvercrest. They've been walking around town for over 45 minutes with Ember showing him places to go to as well as getting to know each other more. They surprisingly had a lot of things in common and now they were telling each other about their families.
"So your dad is Irish, but your mom is Canadian?" Alex asked.
"Yep, and ever since I was born they argued whether I was more Irish or Canadian." Ember said with a laugh. "But I think I'm 50/50."
"Well your accent isn't as heavy as your dad's and you do say certain words like your mom, so I agree with ya." Alex chuckled.
"You seem like a cool guy so far, Alex." Ember commented. "Despite the stuff I've shown you here in town though, it can get kind of boring around here. We moved here two years ago and there's not really been a lot of interesting stuff."
"Figured as much, Mom and Dad wanted to move to a quieter town." Alex sighed. "But hey, do you have any other friends to hang out with?"
"Well-"
"INCOMING!"
"JAX YOU IDIOT! I TOLD YOU NOT TO GO DOWN THAT HILL!"
"WHOA!" Ember shouted as she barely avoided a fast moving bicycle rider. Behind the rider a black haired girl wearing a green short sleeve shirt, black vest, black skirt, and black boots was following him.
"SLOW DOWN!" The black haired girl shouted.
"I CAN'T! THE BRAKE'S NOT-" A loud sound of metal crashing into metal was heard. "OW! MY NADS!"
Ember and Alex ran towards what just happened. The girl caught up to the rider, who had short brown hair, blue eyes, and wore a black hoodie, blue jeans, and white shoes. He was also off his bike and holding his private area in pain. Apparently the bike ran into a stop sign.
"How your bike didn't swerve as you were riding down was a miracle." The girl shook her head.
"...Mommy..." The boy said in a pained high pitched tone.
"That's the third time Jax nearly ran someone over this week, Rayna!" Ember said.
"I keep telling him but he never listens!" The girl supposedly named Rayna said.
"He could really injure someone if this keeps happening. He's not even wearing a helmet." Alex said.
Rayna looked and saw Alex, "Hey Em, who's this guy?"
"Rayna, this is Alex Gerdelman. He just moved into town today and is my next door neighbor. Alex, this is Rayna Sullivan-Good, a friend of mine." Ember introduced the two.
"Ember was your first friend here huh? Lucky you." Rayna grinned.
"Well she did give me a bit of a tour around town." Alex said before looking down at the boy. "And what about him?"
"Oh that's just Jax, we've been friends for years." Rayna said, shrugging her shoulders.
"Name's Jaxson Devitt… but just call me Jax..." Jax once again said in pain.
"Come on… let's get a cold pop can to use as ice for his balls." Rayna rolled her eyes as the three helped Jax up and went to the nearest gas station.
After they got an ice cold pop can and stuffed it in Jax's pants, the four new friends decided to stop at the local ice cream palor for ice cream cones. They grabbed their cones and continued walking around town together.
"Mmm… this ice cream tastes great!" Alex commented, slurping on his chocolate cone. "I actually think I taste some pieces of brownie in here!"
"Silvercrest is known for it's delicious ice cream cones." Ember giggled, licking her strawberry cone.
"Well it is incredible!" Alex gobbled down the rest of his cone, but after swallowing it he held his head. "Brain freeze!"
"Did your parents tell you not to eat your food so fast?" Rayna laughed finishing the last of her chocolate chip cone.
"I like food! I sometimes eat it too fast!" Alex shouted as the other three laughed.
Their laughing however stopped when two cop cars followed by an ambulance drove past them with sirens blaring.
[Background Music: Persona 3 OST: Troubled]
"What the hell?" Jax asked as they saw the cop cars and ambulance stop in front of a house five houses down.
"That can't be good..." Alex said. "Come on! Let's look!"
The four teens ran down the sidewalk and to the house. They saw the doctors take out a stretcher as a woman walked out of the house crying.
"What happened?" Ember asked. They watched and waited until the doctors came out again, but an adult body was on the stretcher and the woman was crying even more. "...Someone died?"
Rayna looked towards one of the police officers, "I think I can ask someone." She then walked over to the officer and tapped his shoulder. "Hey Dad? What happened here?"
The slicked back dirty blonde haired officer looked surprised at seeing her there, "Rayna! What are you doing here?"
"My friends were just passing by when we saw the ambulance and the cars drive by." Rayna said.
"Wait… that officer is Rayna's dad? I heard her call him Dad." Alex asked.
"That's Detective Jon Good and yes he is Rayna's dad, but he is also one of the town's best police detectives." Ember said. "We haven't had a whole lot of crimes in this town, but he's closed almost every one of them. And I think it's because he's a cop that Rayna doesn't get into trouble."
"Are you just saying that because she hangs out with me?" Jax asked. "I don't cause trouble!"
"We're not sure what happened here yet." Jon said talking to Rayna. "We just got a call from Mrs. Hastings, he sounded hysterical, and it seems her husband died. Other than that though we don't know yet. Now I suggest you and your friends leave. Besides it's getting late, you're going back to school tomorrow."
"Yeah yeah…" Rayna rolled her eyes. "Love you too, Dad." She turned around and headed back to her friends. "They don't know anything yet, just that the woman's husband is dead."
"That's sad..." Ember softly said.
"Hope it wasn't anything too serious." Alex said.
"Man, first day in this town and Alex got to see the police at someone's house." Jax said.
The four continued talking as they walked away from the block. They hung out a little longer until it was time for the four of them to go their separate ways and head home.
[Background Music: None]
The Gerdelmans were sitting in their living room watching TV and eating their pizza. Alex was chomping down on his slices loudly, not paying attention to what was on TV.
"I'm going to switch it to the news, see what's happening." Frankie said grabbing the remote and switching it to the local news channel.
And the news that appeared made Alex stop eating his slice and listen.
"In other local Silvercrest news, Mr. Henry Hastings, owner of the Hastings Café in town, died suddenly today. His wife Lucy Hastings called 911 in hysterics and would not explain to the police what happened. When she finally calmed down and was able to speak, she had this to say."
The camera moved to show Mrs. Hastings talking to an officer.
"A few nights ago… my husband went to sleep, and he wouldn't wake up the next day, or the day after, or the day after that. But he was still alive as I could see and hear him breathing so I thought he was okay and just very exhausted… until I looked today… and saw he was no longer breathing..."
The camera then went back to the anchorwoman, "Police speculate that it could've been a coma, but an autopsy will be done to see what was the sudden cause of it."
Sarah sighed hearing this, "Dying in your sleep… what a scary thought..."
"And the fact it could've been a coma..." Frankie said.
Alex put his plate on the coffee table, which still had a slice of pizza to be eaten, and stood up. "I suddenly feel like I should go to bed. I feel tired."
"Then go to bed, you had an eventful day today." Sarah said.
"Especially since you already met some new friends." Frankie chuckled.
"Thanks Dad." Alex chuckled himself. "Night."
"Night Alex." Both Sarah and Frankie said as Alex went upstairs to his new bedroom. Once he got into his room he changed into his night clothes which was a Metallica t-shirt and black boxers and went into bed to fall asleep.
That's about it for the first chapter. Yeah not too much, but things will start happening next chapter. What do you think so far? Think it'll work? I do hope it does, I think I got something.
And I can't think of anything else to say so... See you next chapter!