Chapter II
Headmaster's office, 10 minutes earlier...
It was a dark, peaceful night at Beacon Academy. Every student in the prestigious Academy was asleep in their dorm. All the staff members all left to their homes in preparation for the upcoming days... Well almost all the staff. Professor Ozpin was sitting behind his desk with his usual cup of cocoa sitting on it. He was doing some last minute surveillance and was just about finished until he saw something peculiar. A boy, no older than 17, was laying unconscious on the grass.
"Who is this?" Ozpin questioned.
It looked like he was wearing a sort of costume. He wore an open chested black trench coat with a tail that was cut into three parts with a gray collared shirt above it, black pants, brown cuban heeled boots, and a pair of red gloves. He had black frizzy hair, but due to the teen being face down he couldn't see his face. His clothing was something completely foreign to him. He also saw a bag next to him and it was moving around. Apparently there was something in that bag that wanted to get out, probably for some fresh air.
The teen began to stir awake and opened his eyes. He looked around and began to stand up. He looked at his clothing and, though it was brief, he had a look of surprise on his face. Why would he be surprised about his own clothing? He would have to ask when he goes to confront the man in the Emerald Forest. The young man seems to notice the moving bag, so he bent down and opened the bag to release... A cat? The cat began to meow, and it looked like it was communicating with the teen and he was actually understanding. Just as the cat was meowing, a Grimm, a Beowulf at that, growled and alerted the two of the presence. The two began to run from the Beowulf, only to be trapped by more Beowulfs, some Ursa and a few Boarbusks. Ozpin immediately got out his chair and dashed out the door, leaving his scroll on the desk. He wasn't going to let that boy die, not if he could do anything about it.
Emerald Forest
By the time he made it to Emerald Forest, he saw a huge pillar of black and red mass form from within the forest. Without a second thought, he went to the location of the huge mass of energy, only to be surprised to see the boy was standing, unharmed, and the Grimm to be nowhere in sight. Did this boy defeat the Grimm? He doesn't look like he had a weapon. Deciding to make himself known, Ozpin said something.
"So this is the source of that strange black and red energy." He said.
The boy got into a stance and it looked like his hand was slowly reaching for his mask. Now the boy decided to speak this time.
"Who are you?" He asks him cautiously and it sounded like he had an accent to his voice. It also sounded like he wasn't used to speaking. Was this not his native language?
Saving those questions for later, Ozpin decided it was best to tell the boy that he was not an enemy or anything of the sort.
"No need to be alarmed, young man. I just want us to have a talk." Ozpin told him and after he said that it looked like it worked to a degree.
"What do you want to ask?" The young man told the Headmaster.
"A lot, but for now lets go to a more safe place. Follow me."
Before they took off, the old Huntsman decided to answer the boy's first question.
"Let me introduce myself, I am Professor Ozpin, Headmaster of Beacon Academy."
"I am Akira. Akira Kurusu." The young man, now Akira, said.
What a strange name. It didn't follow the color rule at all. Then thus, the two made their way to Beacon Academy.
Headmaster's Office
Akira sat across from Ozpin, as said person was sitting behind his desk with a cup of coffee in his hand. He was looking through a strange device and after a bit, he sat the device down on the desk and looked at him right in his eyes. Those eyes looked like they could see through his soul.
"So..." The Headmaster started. "How did you manage to end up in Emerald Forest?"
Straight to the point, huh? And Emerald Forest? He guessed that's what the place he was in called. But it made him wonder, why was this school so close to a dangerous forest? And what was those creatures? He would ask that later, but for now he had to answer questions of his own.
"That's a bit complicated." Akira replied. It wasn't technically a lie. Even he doesn't know how Igor managed to send him to this place.
Accepting that answer for now, the Headmaster asked another question.
"What was that black and red mass? Where did it come from? You don't appear to have a weapon on you."
Maeigaon. He caught a glimpse of one of his stronger Curse skills. No matter what Akira said, there was no lying out of this one.
"Persona." Akira responded.
"Persona? A manifestation of your thought?" Ozpin looked puzzled at that. Persona? What did that have to do anything. Could he be referring to his Semblance?
Akira nodded at that. "Yes. Rather than explaining, let me show."
He then reached for his mask and ripped it off. Blue flames danced around him once again and Arsene appears, in all his glorying, before Akira dismissed him. Ozpin looked at this with a hint of curiosity on his face.
"Was that a Persona in a physical form?" Ozpin asked.
Again, Akira nodded. "Explaining it is rather difficult, but to simplify it, by ripping off my mask..." He pointed to his bird mask for emphasis. "I can release my Persona. All Persona's are based on historical people and they take form in which I see them. What you just said was Arsène Lupin, a gentleman thief. That form was not how he actually looked like, but my cognition of him." Akira explained the best he could. Hopefully that would suffice.
Ozpin took all this in and nodded his head. "I see..." He said with that same face he had when he first saw the man. Neutral.
He was taking this surprisingly well, but he didn't dwell much on that.
"So where are you from, Mr. Kurusu?" Ozpin asked the Trickster.
Akira took a second to think about that. What could he say? What if Tokyo didn't exist here? Then he will be bombarded with more questions. He decided to settle on a half truth.
"Far away." Is what he said.
That raised some more questions in Ozpin's head.
"Far away? He didn't say Vale, Atlas or any of the other kingdoms. This is very strange..." Ozpin thought to himself, but he didn't press any further.
"Well do you have a way to get back to get back?"
"... No. Well not yet." Akira thought the last part to himself. He wasn't completely lying. He had no way of getting back. The only way he could get back is if he completed his duty, assigned by Igor.
"Well until you find a way to get back, how about you become a student at my Academy?" Ozpin offered him.
Akira narrowed his eyes at Ozpin, as soon as he asked that.
"Why?" The frizzy haired teen asked.
"Pardon me?"
"Why would you want me, someone you just recently met and have no knowledge about, attend your school?"
Ozpin thought about this and took a sip of his coffee before speaking.
"Mr. Kurusu, I assure you I have no alternative motives. When I see you, all I see is wasted potential. Potential that could be used to help us with the never ending war against the Grimm."
"Grimm? Are those the creatures I fought? Most likely." Akira thought in his head.
"It would be a waste to see potential like that go down the drain. So what do you say, Mr. Kurusu? Do you accept?"
Akira thought about this offer. He had no home in this world and no knowledge about it. If he attended this school, he would be provided with a room, food and knowledge.
Morgana popped his head out of his bag and spoke up.
"Accept the offer, Joker. With no home to go to, this is our only choice." The blue eyes cat told his friend.
"Alright. I accept." Akira told the Headmaster.
Ozpin allowed a small smile to grace his face at that.
"Wonderful. Now from what it seems like, you don't have a scroll." Ozpin tapped the strange device next to him for emphasis. "And since you don't have a scroll, you can't be provided with a map of the school so, until I can provide you with a scroll, I will have a few students show you around the campus tomorrow. Luckily it is Sunday tomorrow, so they won't miss any classes. Now for you living arrangements, I will tell you the directions to the dorm you will be staying in."
After a brief discussion of where his dorm is, Akira stood up and grabbed his bag and walked in the elevator to take down.
Once Akira was gone, Ozpin lift up his scroll, only to see that he was trying to search up any records of Akira Kurusu, just to get none.
"Akira Kurusu... What are you?"
Akira's Dorm
Following Ozpin's directions, Akira made it to his dorm and set his bag down, Morgana jumping out the bag and hoping on the bed.
"Ahh!! A soft, fluffy bed!" The feline said in glee.
Akira began to look at his clothing.
"How do I sleep in this? I don't want to sleep with my mask on." He thought in his head. Not a moment later, Akira was engulfed in a bright light and his Metaverse clothing was replaced with his normal clothing. A normal pair of blue jeans, a white t-shirt and a blue jacket over it.
"Woah! How did you do that Joker?!" Morgana asked, amazed.
The teen simply shrugged his shoulders and kicked off his shoes and fell on the bed due to exhaustion. He felt beat after that whole ordeal, so he wanted to sleep.
"Don't forget that we have people that will show us around the school, so don't oversleep." Morgana told him as he began to lay comfortably next to Akira.
After nodding in understanding, he let sleep take over him.
Velvet Room
Akira opened his eyes to a familiar sight. It was a blue cell room.
"I'm guessing Igor called me here." Akira thought as he sat up in his cell bed and looked at his clothing, which was black and white prison clothing. He looked to the right to see that the cell door was open and was greeted with two people.
The first was a young girl with long platinum hair and golden eyes. She wears blue Victorian dress, and matching headband with white butterfly ornaments and yellow roses. This was Lavenza, or as he knew her as the twins, Caroline and Justine before they fused.
The other person was a bizarre old man with a long nose, pointed ears and bulging, bloodshot eyes. He wears a black suit with white gloves. This man was Igor, the true Igor.
"It's nice to see you once again, Trickster. My master wishes to speak to you." Lavenza said before she moved to the side to let the two talk.
"I know you have many questions, but fear not, I will answer them to the best of my ability." Igor told the silent teen.
Akira then began to ask him some questions that were on his mind.
"Why am I here in a new world? Hasn't my contract been fulfilled?"
"It is like I said before, Trickster, you are here to stop the "ruin" from coming to this world." Igor explained.
That's right. Right when Akira was telling Lavenza goodbye, she immediately told him to go talk to Igor. It was strange since he was pretty sure that the Velvet Room was no more, since he completed his contract. Once he saw Igor he was told that he had to stop "ruin" from coming to a new place and without anymore explanation, he was shoved here. Now was the time to ask more about that.
"What is this "ruin"?" Akira asked. "Is Mementos here too?"
"I'm sorry, but even I don't know what this "ruin" is." Igor said solemnly. "What I can tell you is that this worlds "ruin" is just as maybe, maybe even worst than that of Mementos."
Great. Something even worst than Mementos. And he doesn't even have his friends to help him out... His friends... He hadn't thought about then in a while. Ryuji, Ann, Yusuke, Futaba, Haru, and... Makoto, his lover.
"What about my friends?" Akira asked silently.
This time it was Lavenza who spoke up.
"Fear not, Trickster. While you live in this world, time is going by at a much slower rate than it is here. While one year could pass out there, only 2 minutes could pass back at your world."
Akira let out a sigh of relief at that. Thank God. His friends would be alright.
"And about your contract..." Igor spoke up, which resulted to Akira to pay back attention again. "I have decided to forge a new contract with you, Trickster." Just then a piece of paper appeared on Igor's desk with a pen on top of the paper.
"Should you sign this contract, you will be bound by fate, once again, and you will do everything in your power to stop "ruin"."
While Akira just wanted to go home and see his friends and family, he knew that he couldn't ignore this. He could hear his friends chewing him out for denying this. And thus, he got up and walked up to Igor's desk and signed the contract. Once he was finished, the paper disappeared in a blue light.
"The contract has been sealed, once again." Igor said. "Now go forth and stop the impending "ruin" again, Prisoner of Fate."
"Just before I go, I have one more question. It's about my Persona." Akira asked the main question that is on his mind.
"Ah. I decided to grant you an ability to use your Persona outside of the Metaverse, the clothes being a bonus to the Persona." Igor explain.
Akira nodded his head and made his way back to the cell bed and laid down on it. He closed his eyes and entered back into the real world.
"Just wait a little longer, guys. I'll be back soon."
To be continued...
Here it is! Another new chapter! Now my schedule is to try to update at least two, maybe three chapters per week. Also as you see this chapter is longer than the last chapter. As per requested, I will try and make each chapter longer than the last. Don't hold me against that though. Now also as per requested, I made Akira's lover be Makoto since she is best girl for me, and for a lot of people. She is only tied for Futaba, but that's just me. Now tell me what you guys think of this chapter. I will take all criticism. Now have an amazing day everyone!