Authors Notes: Welcome to Chapter 2 of Kenta Yenmata's Adventure. If you were expecting some combat in this chapter, you are finally gonna get it. Next chapter will be posted some time this week. Enjoy Chapter 2: Summoning of Menes.

真女神転生

Shin Megami Tensei

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Persona: Shadow Game

Chapter 2: Summoning of Menes

May 13, 2029, Sunday

MAIN LOBBY, 10:55 PM

"Another New Moon", Dagurasu complains. "Sam will be coming back. Probably after for Nineagle..."

"Ka Ka!", Nineagle cries out, beak pointing to the Clock.

"Shit!", Dagurasu curses. "10:56! He's almost here!"

"Let's get ready", Xyn commands Dagurasu.

Both leave Nineagle behind.

LOCKER ROOM

"Got your thing, Xyn?, Dagurasu asks.

"Yes", Xyn answers. "You got Nineagle's things too?"

"Way ahead of ya", Dagurasu answers just as 11:00 strikes.

"Kaaaaaa!", a bird cries from downstairs followed with some clanging metal.

"Gotcha now, my pet", a distorted male voice says.

"Shit!", Dagurasu and Xyn curse in unison.

KENTA'S ROOM

I wake up due to the noise.

What the hell is going on down there?, I think as i rub my eyes, get out of bed, get some shoes on and walk out my room.

So I go down to see all of the commotion. Then I would regret going when I see the scene.

MAIN LOBBY?

"What the hell!", I curse when I see the scene.

A robot with wolf tattoos, wolf skin cloth and a chainsaw sword beat up, who looks like Xyn. Next to him is a Ranger with a blazing Katana and centipede tattoos, who looks like Dagurasu. The Lobby all beat up, bird cage destroyed. There is also a shadowy teenager holding Nineagle by the neck. Nineagle looks like he is in pain, so I intervened.

"Hey Demon", I call to the Shadowy Teenager. "Stop the Bullshit!"

"Well, well, well", the Shadowy Teenager chants. "I'm no Demon, I'm a Shadow. But they call me Shadow Sam. The two behind you are called Duo Hound and Centipede. And this bird is my pet-"

"That's Nineagle you are choking", I interrupt this "Shadow Sam" in rage. "And having a pet doesn't mean choking them to death!"

"Enough of your talking", Shadow Sam groans and looks toward the ceiling. "Arachnid, pounce him!"

A blob of darkness fell from the ceiling. It grew eight legs, the normal web maker near the end of its body and a spider's head. The only difference is it was bigger and spikier. It then jumped on me, and I was pinned down to the floor, unable to move an inch.

"No!", Dagurasu, Xyn, and Aiko yelled in unison.

"Since that is taken care of", Shadow Sam says with confidence. "It is time for the sacrifice I require to be done-"

Then a sudden feeling came to me. I glowed with with an intense mix of gold and blood red.

"What the hell?!", Shadow Sam exclaimed as he gets interrupted again.

"That's it", Xyn explains. "That is the Shade inside him becoming good. It is going to become a Persona!"

"You got to be shitting me?", Dagurasu asks. "That 'Demon' inside him was really a Shade? And it didn't even bother to become a Persona until now?"

I can feel the power!, I think as I noticed my body glowing.

What are you lying there for?, A regal male voice exclaims from inside my head.

Are you really gonna let this Demon Sacrifice that Eagle without my input?, The same voice continues.

What are you talking about?, I ask it in my own head.

You are against Demons, right?, He asks me back, using my own beliefs against me.

But aren't you a Demon?, I say as I realize it's the Demon from way back when talking to me.

I told you, I am a SHADE, it tells me. But we can become one to defeat this Demon and not let this sacrifice continue! So, are you with me or not?!

"No matter", Shadow Sam says with boredom. "Nineagle, you are mine!"

As long as you don't harm me, let's intrude this Demonic Sacrifice, I make an agreement to him.

Very well... Let's do this..., He exclaims in my own head.

Then I felt a burning feeling on my left hand! It feels like something is being branded on me!

Let us Become One..., he continues as he says something odd.

I am Thou... Thou Art I...

Thou Art one who Hate Demons...

Thy am one who Hates Unholy Sacrifices...

So let us meet in between...

Now let's deal with this Demon and His Unholy Ritual!, the Shade finishes as a power bursts form me and the Arachnid disappears. All there is left on me is a tattoo of a Pharaoh's head. And it Burns!

"Menes!", I cursed as I rubbed the tattoo to my left. Even though "Menes" wasn't a curse word, but I said it as if it was.

As I did so, the tattoo glowed, and a pharaoh's head appeared from it, traveled along my arm and crunched on my head. It hurt, yet I felt a power flow through me.

After the transformation, I was in a Martial Arts and Pharaoh Mix attire. The tattoo was different also: it was a spiral of gold and black from my left hand to all the way up my arm just like Xyn and Dagurasu's Tattoos. But floating behind me was a Pharaoh with a long staff with a curve at both ends.

"I am Menes", it proclaimed to all. "I am the being born from Pharos and Kenta's Spiritual Bond, with one goal in mind: Eradicate Demons, or Shadows, at all costs!"

"You and Pharos have now become one, meaning your name is now Pharos", he explains further as he looks down at me. "Now Pharos, shall we deal with this Shadow's Ritual?"

"I'm ready when you are!", I answer back.

"You can have Nineagle... if you defeat my two Shadows", Shadow Sam proclaims. "Alright you Goblins, Attack!"

From the front door come two pitch-black Goblins with Red Eyes and Blood-red Pick-Axes.

"Now", Menes says in authority. "Let's sacrifice THEM for the gods!"

"Kenta!", Xyn and Dagurasu yell in unison.

But it was too late, battle begun.

"I have granted you power to fight Shadows", Menes said to me. "Now use it to drive these Demons back to Hell!"

"Alright", I returned back. "Menes, Use your forces of Light!"

"You know me already, do you?", Menes said in amusement. "With the God's power let light pierce the enemy to my right!"

As Menes said, a light pulse came from his staff down to one of the Goblins, but it survives just of little health.

"Rawer!", the goblins yell as they swing their pickaxes at me, one of them missing luckily.

"Ack", I grunt as I got hurt.

"Kenta!", Dagurasu worries.

"Will he be OK?", Aiko questions.

"He is hanging in there", Xyn confirms. "He still has energy left to fight."

"I hope your right", Dagurasu says.

"Everyone is counting on you, how interesting", Menes said with an intrigued tone. "Now, there are other ways to sacrifice your opponents than using me. You can use your weapon on the left side of your belt to shed their blood all over the floor. The Gods do love blood as an offering."

"Alright, let's do this", I say as I draw the weapon from my belt. And it turned out to be a Machete! The classic weapon for killing things once and for all.

So, this is the weapon Menes wants me to use to finish off the enemies, interesting, I think as look from the weapon and to one of the Goblins.

"Let's draw some blood!", I call as I finish off the weak Goblin with my Sacrifice Machete.

"Ghaaah!", the Goblin calls as I cut its head off.

"Why you little", the other Goblin said in anger. "You killed my little brother, you're gonna pay for this!"

"This Demon looks as though he did not like the sacrifice to the Gods", Menes says with disgust. "We should finish him off with a move that will send him to Hell, don't you agree?"

"Do what you want Menes", I answer to him. "You know your move better than I do."

"Alright", He says with a pleasing smile. "A Pharaoh of Sacrifice always has a dark side to them. So come Forces of Hell and return this fiend to your domain!"

As he said that it happened. A shadow force from the floor came above, attacked the Goblin and making it defeated.

"That battle must have pleased the Gods", Menes proclaims. "Don't you agree Pharos?"

"I like the sound of that Menes", I answer with a pleased smile. Then the battle was over.

"How was that possible?", Shadow Sam questions on what happened in the battle and drops Nineagle and continues talking before he walks out. "Deal's a deal, you can now have Nineagle back. But I am afraid he is really hurt after all this time in the Shadow Period without being infused with his Persona Powers."

"Get back here you son of a bitch!", Dagurasu yells.

"Nineag-", Xyn says with a sudden jerk of his head going down.

"Xyn?", Aiko asks in shock of him doing that. "Xyn?! Are you OK? Xyn? Xyyyyn!"

"The poor bird", Menes morns as we both see Aiko crying on Xyn's shoulder. "Reminds me when Osiris was being chopped up by Seth. We all thought no he was gone for good until two special people to Osiris help him back together."

"Menes", I called to him. "I need you to return for now."

"If you so command me", he becomes a blur of black and gold and returned to my body.

I picked up Nineagle and brought him to Xyn.

"Xyn is your true Owner", I said as I put him on Xyn's lap. "I can tell because it seems Xyn cares about you more than that 'Shadow Sam'."

"Kenta", Aiko said in awe.

Right then I felt something in me shut down. I began to fall out of my own will.

"Kenta Yenmato!", both Dagurasu and Aiko called to me.

Then I fell into a deep darkness...

?, 2029, ?

?

Where am I?, I think as I start to regain my consciousness.

"What an interesting guest", says a male voice.

"That is the person who you told me to sign it", says a familiar voice. "I'm sorry for being mysterious to him though."

Then I open my eyes and in awe with the room the three of us are in. It is a blue crystalline room. I am floating in a magical aura, which is odd. In front of me is a hunched man with bulging eyes, long nose, very large grin and wearing a black suite with white gloves on his hand. Next to him is surprisingly the person who I met back in town with a scroll for me to sign, but he is wearing a blue cloak with a "V" Pin holding the cloak together at his chest. A large tome now replaced the scroll he had since the last time I saw him. I look back at the man at the table.

"Are you the 'Igor' that the man next to you was talking about?", I asked him.

"My, my", Igor says with intrigue. "Where are my manners? Welcome to the Velvet Room, I am Igor, as my assistant was referring to when he was tapping into your mind."

"I am sorry for my assistant trying to mind control you into bringing you to him. But it seems that you were able to not fall for it, and yet you also toyed with him too", he said while looking at his assistant, who now thinks he wished he told Igor before I slipped that blunder he made. "It seems you have great potential inside of you. You have that unknown tattoo, first off. Second, you were able to not fall for my assistant's mind control. And third, the most important thing of all, that 'Demon' you so called it turned out to be a Shade and transformed into a Persona, one that only you can create."

"But what is your assistant's name over there", I say referring to the man next to him. "The same one who made me sign the scroll."

"Go ahead and introduce yourself", he commands his assistant to his left.

"Yes master", he responds to Igor. "My name is Seto, Igor's assistant in the Velvet Room. Igor, do you mind if I tell him how I came here?"

"That can wait for another time", Igor answers. "If our guest asks for why you are here, he can say so, but not now." Igor turns to me. "I think you have great potential, but this is when our meeting ends, until we meet again."

Everything becomes just a blur...

May 20, 2029, Sunday

YAMISHIDA TOWN HOSPITAL

As I woke up, there were screams of joy from a couple of nurses in the room.

I recognized one of them as Aiko Miyazaki. But Sensei and Nineagle were there too. Sensei looked happy to see me awake. Nineagle even gave a "Ka", in multiples of 7, in response of me waking up.

"You had me worry to death", Aiko scolded at me. "I thought you were gonna die and it would be my entire fault and-"

"Don't worry Miyazaki-chan", Sensei interrupts to reassured her. "As long as Yenmato-kun is all fine in the end, you will be safe."

"Thank you Sensei", Aiko thanks him with a bow. "Even though there was Nineagle, Xyn and Dagurasu to worry about, Yenmato-kun was my top priority at the time. Xyn and Nineagle tied for second. But Shurenkae-kun can take care of himself, even though I had to take care of him too, as he insisted-"

"I heard that!", yelled a ticked-off sounding male voice from the corner of the room, who actually turned out to be Dagurasu Shurenkae. "You insisted on it me relieving you of your stress-"

"Not in front of Kenta!", Aiko interrupts him in embarrassment.

Me, Aiko and Dagurasu felt a bit awkward for a moment. The rest of the room caught up to the awkwardness a second later and left the room to give us some privacy. With the other nurse, Nineagle and Sensei out of the room, it was just me, Dagurasu and Aiko talking about what happened that one night.

"I still can't believe it was a week ago", Dagurasu says, with me shocked at that. "I forgot you were out cold for a week, sorry. But a lot has happened since you were asleep."

"As you noticed before you were asleep, Xyn is actually a robot", Aiko explains. "And there is more to this town than you think there is."

"Xyn is an Anti-Shadow Weapon", Dagurasu follows up. "He is the son of Aigis, he is the same model as his mother as well, except his shape is more masculine and more advanced than her mother, with help from an unknown person to us."

"There is also another exception", Aiko adds. "He uses a great sword as a main weapon instead of gun hands."

"So those Demons I saw are actually Shadows", I say to them. "And the Demon inside me was actually a weaker Shadow, a Shade as he called hi-"

"What?!", Dagurasu questions me through an interruption. "How did you know about the Shade side of Shadows?"

"Yah", Aiko says in shock.

"I had a dream once", I explain to them. "It happened right after the shadowy Pharaoh Headed figure, which I see now, is called Pharos, jumped at me. In that dream, I saw Pharos. I was so terrified that I called it a Demon, but it said it was a Shade. But how did Shades and Shadows come to this world in the first place?"

Both Dagurasu and Aiko look at each other anxiously for a moment. Before they could respond, the door burst open with a familiar figure running in: it was surprisingly Atara Yamashita, but in his casual clothes.

"How is he?!", He asks with nervous expression. "How did this happen, I was so worried, I thought he died two weeks ago and-"

"He's fine!", Dagurasu and Aiko interrupt him in unison.

"Man, Kenta, you almost gave me a heart-attack for a week without knowing if you're OK", Atara says as he looks at me and with a relieved expression.

"But I'm fine now", I say with a calm expression.

"As long as you are OK that's all that matters", Atara says in relief. "When you get all better, you should try this game out."

He walks over to give me a case with a disk and instruction manuals in it.

"It's called Soul Mage", Atara explains. "You are basically an Aeonmystic in this game, but you won't be using your Ka in this game, you take a survey to determine your Ka's Stats and Physical form. But you get to name it though. You don't need to rely on the Great Plains to make a name for it."

I want to find out about my Ka's true form first before finding out my Ka determined by this Game, I think to myself as I look down at the game. I explain this to Atara and the others. They all seem shocked in response to what I said.

"Fine by me", Atara agrees. "Don't do the same thing I did."

We all stare at him.

"Before I became an Aeonmystic", he explains. "I was just a pro gamer. Never had morals never cared about anyone but me. That's until something happened to me... While playing Soul Mage, I battled a person with a strange outfit on him I didn't know what it was at first, but I now realize it was the Aeonmystic Emblem."

"When I challenged him to a battle, he said this, 'You are the one they call Maximus, correct?' he questions me with a frown on his face", he explains further as all are shocked at this point. "He continued with a 'I know who you really are: you are Atara Devishita, one who doesn't care about anyone but himself.' as he said that, I was in shock to hear that from someone I don't even know. So I asked him, 'Who the hell are ya?' He responded with a cold laugh, 'My name is Gamer Optimism Destroyer, but you can call me G.O.D.' He called himself God? I thought to myself. Then I respond back with, 'OK, G.O.D., Let's battle to see who is the real G.O.D. of this realm!' He agreed with a summoning of his Ka or Guardian Spirit as they called it in the game, it was a giant gold Paladin, which was call Ghodd. But I didn't coward in fear, then I summoned my own Guardian Spirit: Savage Man, a Gorilla Tiger Hybrid with a spear with a long blade at the top end. The battle is fierce; I kept dodging that giant paladin with great speed. But like you cannot beat God, I couldn't defeat G.O.D. and his Ghodd. Ghodd apparently had a moral bar for charging up for an ultimate attack. The attack was as he called it 'Ghodd's Day of Judgement'. I was lucky I saved my progress before the battle began, because the attack was a Giant Golden Fireball crashing down on the battle field. Then my game crashed! 'You got to be Fucking Kidding me!' I cursed to my computer."

"Then it happened: the crashed game screen showed the following text", he showed us a screenshot of what it said with his phone.

It says the following: "Metatron has brought me to judge you for your extreme Egotism. MIND CRUSH!"

"When I read up to the 'MIND CRUSH!'", Atara explains. "I passed out on my chair. The next thing I new, I was on a cloud-like floor in front of me was 12 angels, with seven snakes pinning me down. Not knowing better I cursed at them, 'What the hell is going on here!' Once I said that, the snakes coiled tighter around me. 'Don't cursssse our misssstresss and relativessss' said the seven snakes in unison. 'They're right, how a mortal dare curse the Aeon Elites!' yelled an Angel with the same cloak as G.O.D. but holding a Spade instead of a shield. He was also holding the Spade to my neck while saying this. 'That is enough Nidhoggr! I brought him here for a reason, and this is not it!' said the silver angel. As Nidoggr walked back, the silver angel said to me, 'Do you believe that you spirit is as powerful as your video game Guardian Spirit?' I answer with a yes. The child angel got real mad at this with, 'That is a bunch of Alice blood covered Nantas crap! I sense his soul is weak and pitiful! Bealzabub will enjoy manipulating his weak soul.' I was petrified in fear. 'What should I do?' I ask as I am being tightened by the Golden Cobras. 'If you wish to be freed from your sins,' says a female angel pointing to the golden cobras. 'i would suggest believing in the Great Plains power and not indulge yourself to your righteousness against weaker people.' They all stare at me and say in unison: 'Will you indulge on your sins any longer?!'"

Atara seemed so tired up to that point that Aiko had to get a chair for him to sit down.

"As I was saying", Atara continues. "As soon as they said that, I woke up. I was apparently unconscious for a week. Almost like Yenmato-Kun here. It was the exact situation you are in right now. I told them my decision: I was gonna quit school and become an Aeonmystic and worship the Great Plains. My parents were shocked to hear such rubbish. So they said, 'If you are gonna worship this Bull Shit: you are no Devishida!' When they finished that they left the room, to shun me forever. That is how I became a Yamashita and an Aeonmystic."

Atara became sad for a moment, almost about to cry. The three of us asked him if he was gonna be OK. He responded with a continuation of his story.

"Anyways", he continued with a wipe of his tears. "When I became an Aeonmystic, they revealed the Physical form of my Ka: It looked like a boxer with skin of bronze. Then I heard a voice ring in my head while the bronze boxer turned to my spiritual body during the prayer, 'Thy name is Contender. Thou Knowledge hath the will of someone who never gives in to an oppressor, even though thou lose at times, thou's soul burns with passion to never give up. Thy will grant Thou my strength that Thou hath given me!' Even though my real Ka looked basic from the Guardian Spirit shown in Soul Mage, I was proud to know what my Soul truly looks like in physical form."

The story he just told us seems familiar to what I had to go through. I should follow his advice, I think as I look at the both Atara and the Soul Mage game.

"I didn't know what you had to go through", Dagurasu mourned. "I'm sorry."

"You poor thing", Aiko mourned.

"You don't need to worry about me", Atara reassured us and looks at me. "You only need to worry about people in your dorm, like Kenta over there."

"Goodbye", he says as he walks out the room.

The room felt quiet as time passed. Then the nurse came in with good news.

"Kenta Yenmato", the nurse says with a smile. "I am happy to inform you that you are discharged from the hospital, you can take your time to leave the hospital."

"Thank you for your help", Aiko walks up to her and thanks. "You don't know how long I'v waited for those words."

"Here that Kenta", Dagurasu says with a smile. "You are able to leave this place and be a real Aeonmystic, can't you believe it?"

"Praise the Great Plains!", I say with pride.

"That's the spirit!", Dagurasu says with excitement.

So we all leave the hospital and back to Heka dorm.

You are probably thinking three things right now: 1. you used Menes just like Arsene in Persona 5, 2: you made the Protagonist pass out after the battle, introduced him in the velvet room and made him end up in the hospital like in P3, and 3: why isn't there another battle scene? If you want more battles, they will be coming soon. If you have more thoughts on this chapter, please leave them in your review below. This is a revised version of this Chapter so it can match the same wordings as the later chapters of this Series.