Note: I don't own Persona, Atlus and Index do. I just own the original characters, so once again, don't sue me. Feel free to leave a review! I forgot to say that on the Prologue, but whatever.


Chapter 1

5 years ago…..

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I wake up in a strange room, in what appears to look like some sort of limousine. It looks like the interior designer must've listened to too much Eiffel 65, because this room has blue, blue, and blue everywhere. I look outside and I see nothing but fog. It looks like the limousine is moving because of the bits of rumbling I feel beneath my seat.

Where am I? I thought, since this is not the same ride I was on while I was heading to a town my parents knew of because of one of my dad's friends. Am I dreaming? I must be, since I don't quite feel that this is real. I pinched my cheek to wake myself up from this weird reality that I call a dream. Ow! I screamed in my head, but alas to no avail, I couldn't wake up. Huh? Why didn't I wake up? Oh, well, might as well see what this dream has in store for me…I thought, since I can't wake up from pain alone, might as well wait till the end of the dream.

"Welcome…to the Velvet Room," a voice called out.

"Huh, who's there?" I said as I looked over to the front of the limo. I see two people sitting in front of me. One is a man who appears to look sophisticated, but quite old, given by the balding white hair. He looks extremely weird too, given by the fact that he has a long nose and his eyes look like to bulge out of his skull at any moment. The other person, however, is a woman who looks like in her late 30's, but dressed in all blue. She has golden hair and eyes, and seems to be putting on a calm expression as well.

"Calm down, you are asleep in the real world, for this is a place that exists between dreams and reality, mind and matter." the old man said, while putting on a big smile. It's creepy, yet calming at the same time.

"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Igor." said the old man. He then points over to the woman beside him. "and this is my assistant, Margaret." he added.

"Nice to meet you." she responded. "Now then, why don't you introduce yourself?" Igor asked. I was happy to oblige, since this was a dream.

"The name's Tyzell Brenwing. Nice to meet you as well." I answered. "Now then, what am I doing here?" I asked, given the fact that I can't leave the dream until it ends. "You have been chosen for a certain fate." Margaret answered. "And we are the ones that involuntarily help you in that fate. We can't directly help people, nor give them answers, as those who seek it must find it themselves." she added. Igor puts various cards on the table. Just as soon as he opens one, I can see that those are tarot cards, like the ones used in fortune telling, "You will be helping the one that carries this fortune." Igor said as he opens the Fool card. He then opens two cards, Tower and Moon. "There will be a mystery, and with a mystery comes danger. It's both yours and the chosen one's fate to discover the answer to that mystery."

Margaret then asks, "Will you accept this fate? Will you solve this mystery?" A tough question, I have to admit. I hate things like predestination, where things happen specifically because it's prophesized that it will happen, but this thing seems interesting. But it's a dream, it won't happen anyway, so I simply answered, "Sure, I'm game." And Margaret then says this to me. "I wish you good luck on your journey then."

Everything later faded to black for me.

I then later woke up and the train just stopped revealing a town that looks quite and empty but doesn't feel like it. Then the train intercom jams in. "We have stopped at Yasoinaba Station. Yasoinaba." As I grabbed my things and started to head out, I checked my phone. In there, there was a message that read, "Yasoinaba Station. 4 PM. Be there." I then checked my watch. It said 3:50. "Ah crud, I'm ten minutes early. I might as well." said me in English. I headed out of the station, and waited outside for 5 minutes.

Then, suddenly, a guy next to me asks, "So, what brings you to Inaba?" That question was asked by a guy in what seems to be a highschool outfit. He has silver hair, and looks almost emotionless. Guy can speak English pretty well, so I responded with, "Oh, just came from another country, in fact, I'm going to spend a year here. I hear that a friend of my parents knows a place for me to stay. You?" "Ah, so am I, my parents want me to move out of the big city to this town because they are going to be working abroad. I'll also be staying for a year as well, so I'm currently waiting for my uncle to pick me up. Yu Narukami, nice to meet you. And you are?" "Tyzell Brenwing, nice to meet you as well." I shook hands with the guy. This guy's cool. I thought, and we pretty much made a great conversation with each other.

As 4 PM struck, we saw a car and out came of the car two figures, a gruff man who hangs his coat by his shoulder via hangs, most likely in his 40's, while next to him is a young girl, and given by some resemblances to the old man, she is most likely his daughter, and looking by age, she looks like a 6 year old.

"Ah, I've seen that you two already met." the gruff man said. "Name's Ryotaro Dojima, and I'm your dad's friend and…" he introduced with his eyes pointing to Narukami, "your mother's younger brother."

"Ah, what a coincidence, we have the same person who's going to pick us up. What are the odds, huh?!" I said with happiness as I know that the person that who was going to pick us up was the same person that Narukami mentioned he was going to wait for. "Indeed, what a turn of events this must be." he answered. "Alright now, we can stop speaking in English now, Tyzell. We are in a Japanese town, after all. I assume you learned your Japanese back home?" Dojima-san asked me. "Hai, Dojima-san. Oh yeah, I can speak Japanese as well due to some reading back home. Sorry for not using it, Narukami." I said with utmost sincerity. "It's fine, at least we don't look weird anymore in front of the crowd." Narukami replied.

"And this my daughter, Nanako. Come on, introduce yourself to your cousin and my friend's son." Dojima-san said to his daughter. At first, she responded with silence, then after a while said,

"H-hello." and later ran over to behind her father. He simply chuckled at the response. "What are you so shy for?" he said, and she responded with a hit to the backside. He said "Ow!" to emphasize the hit and just replied with a laugh. I chuckled a bit. "Seems like she's quite the daughter, Dojima-san." I said. "Yes, she is." he replied, and all of us except Nanako chuckled a little bit.

"Now then, we can't be standing here all day talking now…Let's get going." Dojima-san said. "I concur as well. I gotta see where I live now, these things have been bothering me since the entire trip!" I answered and chuckled a bit, knowing the trouble I went through to get all these bags the entire journey here. "Let's go, Narukami." I said to him. He nodded and as we both put our bags in the trunk, we both sat in the back of the car as we're headed to the place I was going to live first, but in the entire trip, we had to stop by the local gas station for refueling.

Inaba, Central Shopping District, Moel Gas Station, Afternoon, 04/11

"Hi, welcome to Moel!" said the attendant as Dojima-san's car went and parked next to the fuel pumps. "Can you go to the bathroom by yourself?" Dojima-san asked Nanako. "Uh-huh." she answered. As both of them got out of the car, Nanako looked for the bathroom. The attendant said, "It's in the back. To the left. You know which way's left? It's the side in which you don't hold your chopsticks in." Nanako, slightly annoyed, replied "I know…Geez…" As me and Narukami went out, the attendant asked Dojima-san, "Are you taking a trip?" "No, we just went to pick both of them up. One of them came from the big city while the other came from another country and just arrived at the station after taking a train from the airport." he answered. "The city and another country, huh? Must have took you a long time to get here." the attendant said to both of us. "Oh, trust me, I have. The hassle I went through to these luggage is extremely unbearable." I replied to him, chuckling a bit. "I see." he said. "Fill up my car too. Regular's fine." Dojima-san told the attendant. "Right away, Sir!" replied the attendant, and went to the car to gas it up. "Good time as any for a smoke, I guess…" Dojima-san said as he went to a nearby place. "I'll go check around for a drink, I'm parched! Narukami, you going with me?" I asked him. "Nah, I'll just stay by the car a little bit." he answered. "Fine, suit yourself." I said as I went to the nearest vending machine to get a good juice.

But as I was walking to the vending machine, I passed by a girl in short, black hair, and as I was getting a drink, the same girl said "Hey. You dropped this?" passing me by a note that Dojima-san gave me while in the car, containing my own address for when we officially stop by at their house as my house is near theirs. "Why, yes, thanks." She gave it to me, and as I turned my back while she left to get my drink, I swear I heard her muttering "Idiot." Huh, some people…

I went back to the gas station, seeing Narukami shake hands with the attendant, and as I see the attendant going back to his work, Nanako came back from the bathroom. "Hey, how's it hanging?" I said to him. As I said that however, he put his fingers to the bridge of his nose, as if experiencing a headache. "…Are you okay?" asked Nanako. "Yeah, you look like you got heatstroke. Told ya you should've gotten a drink." I said. Dojima-san came back as well, asking the same thing. "I'm fine. Must be from the long trip." Narukami replied. "It's understandable. Go on a walk, get some fresh air, we'll go when you're ready." Dojima-san said to Narukami. "Get to know the stores a little bit. You'll need it when you want to get something." "Sure, I'll go for a little bit." Narukami answered back. "Me too, I'd want to check out which one sells some games for as well." I said as well, heading to check which stores do sell it.

A while later…

"Back. Ready to hit the road now." I said as I was heading back to the car. "Yeah, let's go home now." Narukami said, with a sigh of relief. "Okay then, let's go." Dojima-san said as we head back to the car.

Dojima Residence, Afternoon, 04/11

We arrived at the house where Narukami's going to stay for the entire year. It's a pretty decent house, all things considered. "So this is going to be my new home, huh?" Narukami said as he looked at the house. "Yeah, so enjoy it while you can. Your room's upstairs, by the way. Now, as for you, you know where to go, right Tyzell?" Dojima-san asked me after introducing Narukami to his house, and what part of it's his living quarters. "Yeah, just follow where to go on your note from here, right? Should be easy enough, sir." I replied.

"Alright then, I guess we'll be seeing you." Dojima-san said to me as he and Nanako enter the house. Narukami was about too, until he stopped to ask me something. "You're going to attend school here, right?" "Yeah, Yasogami High. Same grade as you, in fact. 2nd year, class…" "2-2." "Huh, same class. I guess coincidences happen often in this town." I said, chuckling. "Yeah, no kidding. Ja, mata ne." Narukami said as, with a faint smile on his face, bid me farewell.

Brenwing Residence (aka My House), Evening, 04/11

"Ah, finally!" said me as I finally unpacked everything in my bags. Air-conditioned, a good view and furnished. Great house idea.

I need a break. I thought as I ate the last of my glazed donuts I ordered at a nearby donut shop and took a drink of my ice tea after leaving it in the fridge for a bit. So this is my new home for a year, huh? Might as well get used to it. In fact, I might want to finish that final boss in Metal Gear Rising. I thought as I sat and played my PS3 till 10:00, due which I went to bed.

This is a new start, huh? New friends, new memories. Welcome to Inaba, Tyzell. It sure ain't no London, but you'll get used to it eventually. I thought finally as I closed my eyes and went to sleep.


Author's Note: A prologue and Chapter 1 in one day! This has been going great so far! Hopefully my "author's block" thing (it's a common occurence but I get ideas for things rarely, so yeah) won't happen again! Now, this Chapter 1 is LONG. For cripes sake, I didn't know where to stop till Evening hit! Oh, well, this is basically the introduction of the Velvet Room, its residents, the leader of the Investigation Team himself, Yu Narukami and Ryotaro and Nanako Dojima, the family you will mostly sympathize with through the ENTIRE GAME. Spoilers! So, yeah, prepare for Chapter 2! Cause it'll be the start of both Yu and Tyzell's misadventures! Stay strong! -TrickyFanWriter

EDIT: I made a mistake, and thanks to some reviewers (Appreciate your opinions, doods!), I decided to rectify it by editing out Prologue and Chapter 1! Note that I will make more probable mistakes so...yeah. Thanks for the fix! -TrickyFanWriter