Eivexst: Well I'm going to be starting up a new story today, now I hope you all enjoy this, since it will be a first attempt at a story like this.
I do not own anything from the Persona series.
Soji's POV: We had just managed to save Kanji from his own shadow (more like he saved us) and he had just awakened his own persona, yet, something still felt off about all of this. "Teddy, is there any other people here?" I asked our favorite little mascot. (or so Yosuke kept saying.)
"Sensei, it seems like the shadows are still acting up a little, I think you might be right!" He shouted before sniffing around as he walked going behind the large symbol that was in the hot spring room we currently stood in and we noticed there was a new road, it looked like a large bridge of some kind.
"So wait, why the hell is this thing here? You mean we're not done with all of this shit?!" Kanji shouted as we all just looked at him a little and I nodded starting to walk forward, for some reason, I felt like this bridge was important for who ever it was made from, once we were at the top of the bridge, we noticed that there was a large building that looked like some kind of temple, it had a tori gate and everything, yet, it also had a darker shade than what most temples would have.
The colors were a mix of purple black and grey, and the sky around it seemed like it was going to rain, yet there were lights hung around as if a festival was going to happen.
"Wow, talk about a clash of ambiance." Yukiko had remarked, but, I was still moving, who ever was here might be talking to their shadow right now, and we can't let that happen!
"Come on, let's hurry!" I shouted as the others ran not too far behind me.
After what felt like forever, we had managed to get into what looked like a large stair case and standing near the top was a human figure. "My my, it seems I have guests." Candles floating about in the room all lit with a purple flame while others had a pure white flame and we looked closely at the person.
The man seemed to be around our age, he had on a mask that covered the upper half of his face, the eyes, covered in a white film on the mask, a small dark smile was there, his brown hair was tied back into a pony tail that hung down to his shoulders, he had slightly pale skin, he was wearing black boots that had the ends of his brown pants tucked into them, a grey belt probably just for a add on to the outfit, a blood red shirt and a midnight blue cloak put the rest of his outfit together.
"What's with this guy, was he even on the midnight channel?" Chie asked staring wide eyed at the man as he gave a laugh and bowed slightly as shadows began to appear around us.
"I do hope you all have fun, after all, this dance is simply to DIE for." He commented before he opened his cloak to show another person, he looked identical to the shadow in hair, skin and eye color "Hey that must be the person who this shadow came from!" It was a guy dressed in a grey hoodie jacket with a white button up shirt under it, along with a pair of black slacks and black dress shoes, the guy also had a pair of rectangular black glasses, a coin tied to a red string and a odd talisman of some kind on a piece of leather binding both hung around his neck and gave a small klink like sound when they touched as he looked around holding his head.
"What the, where am I?" He questioned and moved back seeing the other him who removed its mask to show those cold, cruel, yellow eyes as he grinned revealing a row of teeth with slightly sharp canines.
"Well now, the fake is awake now, how lovely." I looked over to the others, they looked like they couldn't understand what they were saying at all before we recalled where we were and called out our persona trying to stop what little shadows were around.
"W-what did you call me?" The man asked as he stood up shaking slightly. "What do you mean by, fake?"
I cursed under my breath at this, it was like what happened to Yosuke and the others. "You heard me, oh but then again, it must be so nice having all of them flock towards you, even your Schatz would." I thought I saw the man flinch slighlty. "Oh, that's right isn't it, you said you'd never lie."
I saw the man clench his hands tight at his sides. "Shut up." He commanded near silent as I looked to Yosuke who was running towards the stairs only to be blown back by a blast of gun fire.
"Wait, please, don't listen to it!" I heard Yukiko shout up towards the man, but it seemed like he couldn't hear us all that well really.
"Those people all around just wanting only what they want and not caring about others, of course it would be easy to get them to under your little strings like a group of puppets if you gave them what they wanted." It stated as it held a puppet of a group of people I couldn't recognize yet it seemed this was starting to make the guy mad.
"I said shut up!" He stated starting to glare at the shadow as the air around the shadow was starting to shift, it was about to happen.
"Kanji try to stop him!" I shouted over my shoulder as Kanji was starting to charge forward before i could finish letting out a long shout as he went, then, a very large shadow showed up ontop of the stair's it was like a wall of some kind.
"Damn it, get out of my way!" He shouted and unconsciously summoned his persona which started to beat down on the wall.
"Better yet, once they trusted you, they were so easy to hurt that you could just break their hearts all you want, the satisfaction, it just felt too good!" It stated before laughing and I saw the man punch his shadow.
He was crying slightly as he shouted. "Shut up, I don't care what or who you are, but one thing is for sure, you're not me!" He shouted, and then, it started the shadow's transform.
My POV: [How did it come to this?] I wondered as I stared at the large figure that suddenly stood before me, it was like I was staring at a monster from a story I had read once, but... Looking back, I should have realized what would have happened... "Look out!" I was jolted by a strong impact as I looked up to see a odd humanoid figure that had a sword and a odd white mask with yellow eyes gazing through at me.
"What the hell?" I questioned as I looked over to see that guy, I think they all called him Soji, he and his friends were standing fast trying to save me, as this guy with ivory white hair and a girl with long black hair stood in front of me and were attacking the large dragon figure that the other me had turned into.
They were speaking to me, but I couldn't understand them, all I did know was that they were shouting at the thing, and, one of them asked if I was okay, so I just nodded unsure of how to answer the question. "Hey, can you speak Japanese?"
That was perfect English, although, there was a small accent. "No, I can't speak Japanese, but, what the hell is going on here?" I asked and Soji stood up helping me to do so as well, then I was snagged up by the monster that appeared as I let out a cowardly scream of fear.
Then, I stared wide eyed as my glasses fell and suddenly everything was getting foggy. "See, you deserve to hang up high, these fools aren't even worth it at all!" It shouted before a chilling feeling shot all over as a burst of energy jolted through me, I'm going to die, I'm going to die if this keeps up.
Then a fan and a pair of knives shot up into the things wings as it started to fall and then was struck by the large lightning bolt on the white haired guys persona, I think they called them, before a odd warrior looking one that was controlled by the blond haired girl caught me.
"Belzebubb!" I heard Soji shout before a large fly like being appeared and shot out a large shock of dark energy and I saw static appear around the monster before it slowly faded away to show the other me, he was on the ground kneeling and panting as the others seemed really hurt.
"I'm fine..." I stated as the blond girl looked at me with worry and I stood holding my stomach before walking forward, the shadow me was holding his shoulder as he coughed and panted... He looked just like me, so weak, and so lost. "I didn't want to control every one... I was always alone, so I'd try to get people to come closer to me... I was so terrified of who all was around me, so to keep from getting scared, I treated them all like puppets when really... I was just loosing my self."
I looked down at the shadow who looked up at me with a hurt look as he fell forward and I got on my knees, the other me had his head on my chest as I lightly held his shoulders and smiled. "Just look at you... You're just like I was, you wanted to hide your want to not be left behind by trying to push people away... But that isn't what you need... Those people, the ones you said were just puppets on the stage of my life, they are just as important as my family." I lightly put my arms around the shadow as he gave off a soft light. "I'm sorry, for abandoning you, I mean... We're the same, right?" I asked as I felt a couple tears on my shirt before the other me faded into the form of a card... It was a tarot card for death as I lightly gripped it, I saw the light form some kind of shape with wings before it faded and the card surrounded me with a blue light before doing the same.
"Hey, are you okay?" I heard Soji ask, and I turned around and gave a small smile and nod.
"Are they all okay?" I asked looking at him, the room seemed to spin a little before Soji nodded and I chuckled slightly as I felt my self fall back and get caught by some one. "Good." I stated before my lights went out and I was dead to the world.
Me: Well there you have it, I hope it wasn't too strange of a chapter.
Yosuke: Cool, what's this room for?
Me: EH!? How the hell did you get in?
Soji: You left the door open.
Me: *sweat drop* What ever, leave a review to let me know what you thought, Ciao.
PS: Sorry if the characters were a little OOC.