Just so you know the chapters don't actually match the days, so it could be day 2 (chapter 2) when there could be a timeskip of a month, just wanted you to know if there was going to be any confusion. Anyways on to the chapter.
A lot of things happened yesterday that I didn't have time process any of it in. Was Monokuma a dream or is he real?
Briiing! Briiiing!
I reach my hand for my phone and turn the alarm off, I shouldn't be thinking about yesterday, today's my first day, come on let's make most of it. I get myself dressed into my school uniform and head out.
"Wait boss don't forget about me!" I turn my head and I see monokuma's keychain.
"Huh you weren't a dream." I say picking him up.
"Of course I ain't a dream, now let's go." guess I have no choice, I put monokuma in my pocket and go to the cafeteria for breakfast.
I arrive at the cafeteria, I thought there's going to be a lot of student, but instead it was nearly empty.
"Whaaa~?" I get some toast for breakfast and juice. I begin eating when someone walked up.
"Hey you're that transfer student right?" I look up to see a orange haired dude with piercings.
"Uhh yeah." I respond
"Cool I'm Leon Kuwata. You?" he says putting a hand out.
"Makoto Naegi." I shake his hand.
"Cool, nice to meet you, well I have to go." what a weird encounter, but his the first guy I know here.
The bell rings and I head to class, the teacher sees me and ask my name.
"Makoto Naegi." she looks through her portfolio and finds me, she tells me to stay outside.
"Stay here ok." she heads inside.
I hear her talking to the students inside before she calls me to come in. I enter the classroom, I'm now faced to faced with 15 students and each one has a talent they're really good at.
"I-I'm Makoto Naegi, nice to meet you." I bow slightly, the teacher tells me to take a seat at the back right corner of the classroom. I follow her instructions and go over to my desk.
At the back I sit next to this girl with lavender hair, I try to say hello, but looking at her, she doesn't look interested, so I just sit down and get on with the lesson.
~ Lunchtime ~
"Yo I see you're in my class." I look up and see the guy I met earlier, Leon Kuwata was it?
"Leon, you're in this class?" he nods at me and invites me to have lunch with him and his friends.
"Sure thing."I stand up only to feel movement in my pocket, I check what it is and see Monokuma scrambling. I tell Leon that I'll just pack my things, he fine with it and leaves me for a moment, now.
"Mono! What are you doing?" he stops moving and I pick him up.
"Sorry boss, I just sensed something wrong, its gone now though." I was about to ask him what it was, but Leon called for me.
Leon tells me that his friends will like me and we both head over to the cafeteria, there he introduces me to his friends.
The Lavender haired girl - Kyoko Kirigiri
A blond twin tailed lady who I've seen in magazines - Junko Enoshima
A blue haired girl who I've seen in TV and Komaru is a big fan of her - Sayaka Maizono
And a short guy who looks like a girl - Chihiro Fujisaki
"Nice to meet you all!" we all greet each other, and spend lunch.
"So what's it like to transfer?" Junko asks.
"Weird, really I don't actually know any one here so.." they all nod.
"Yeah we know how you feel, you can hang with us though." Leon pats me in the back
I smile at them and we all hang out for the rest of lunch.
~ After School ~
I'm in my room reading a book, I haven't heard from Mono all day.
"Mono, you ok? You're awfully quiet." I go over to the key chain. Mono transforms, and tells me his concerns.
"Well I felt something weird earlier and I can't just shake it off I wanna investigate but I have to protect you while your abilities are asleep." not that I don't care about Mono, I'm still in the dark about what he is.
"How about I go with you then? That way you can still investigate and protect me." I'm particularly not interested and what he wants, but I do wanna help him so why not.
"Are you sure boss?" I nod at him, he opens his chest literally and pulls out a watch.
"Here put this on and press the red button." huh?
"Why?" he sighs.
"You'll need this to go where we're going." I press the button like Monokuma says.
The room then begins to change, the walls, the floor, even Monokuma.
"Wh-What's going on?!" the room began to swerve, I thought I was going insane. I close my eyes and wait for the place to go back to normal.
"Open your eyes boss." I open them and I see a kid wearing a bear hoodie that resembles Mono, and he's wearing a black pouch, the kid has hair that's split in black and white, his eyes are also like Mono's as well.
"Are-are you?" he nods at me, yup this is Mono.
I look around the room looks different there are scratches on the wall but the furniture is still looking brand new.
"Where are we?" I'm still looking around the room, still baffled at what just happened.
"This is place is the prison, while the world outside is known as the void." he explains, what is this bear?
"So we're in a prison." he nods and begins walking out the room.
"Its open." he looks around.
"Yeah they expected us, its safe for now." we head out, into the corridor, the corridor looked like a corridor of a castle not a prison.
"What kind of prison is this? It looks nice." Mono explains that the Warden of this prison takes pride in his prison so he tries to make it look nice as possible.
"So this is a prison, where are the prisoners?" I look around and every room is empty.
"We are the prisoners." I stop dead in my tracks.
"What?" Mono stops and turns around.
"When you enter the Prison you become the prisoner, but don't worry you can leave this place anyways." he explains, this school sure is... unique.
Mono and I continue to explore the area when we hear something approaching.
"Something's coming, boss get behind me." afterwards some flying monsters come at us.
"The hell are those?!" they're coming straight for us.
"They're called shadows, I'll explain the rest later, for now I have to get rid of those things." Mono begins to glow he puts his hand on his chest and chants.
"Persona!" blue flames begin to spiral around Mono and a three headed dog begins to form from the flames.
"Let's go Cerberus!" Cerberus roars and begins to chomp down on the shadows, man those things didn't have a chance.
"Whoa!" I stand there in awe as I see Cerberus fight off monsters in a prison.
After Cerberus finishes his meal, he disappears.
"What was that?" Mono turns and smiles.
"That was a persona, a shadow that symbolises the true personality of ones self." a persona huh?
"That was cool!" Mono chuckles and we both continue our exploration.
We arrive at the cafeteria where we see a long haired guy wearing a suit, he's just sitting on a table.
"Is that a shadow?" Monokuma shakes his head in disagreement
"Who are you?" the guy looks up and opens his mouth.
"Can you entertain me?" he stands up, and puts his hand in front of his face.
"Persona." red flames begin to spiral him and a persona appears, his persona is a human like persona, it wore a red coat with a royal like design, it had golden arrow like patterns on the rim, and it wielded a golden halberd with the axe head patterend with flames.
Mono calls out Cerberus and the two had a duel, but this guy is tough manages to beat Cerberus with ease.
"Cerberus!" the guy is unimpressed he walks up to us, Mono charges at him only to be swept to the side.
"Mono!" I try to run to him but the guy is in front of me.
"Wh-what do you want?" he grabs me by the neck and smashes me at a wall, man he's tough.
"You have nothing, you should just die." he's strangling me and I'm starting to black out.
"Are you going to give up?" Who's that?
"Stand, you are stronger than this." I begin to burn up and my head begins to ache.
"AHHH!" I clutch my head the pain is increasing.
"I am thou... thou art I" this voice its making the heat inside me burst, I'm sweating.
"You who is born from despair, stand, for you are a beacon of hope." the pain subsides, and look at the guy, I smile at him and he let's go.
"Stand and we shall vanquish all despair." I lift my hand up and place it in front of my face, I take a deep breath and chant in sync with the voice.
"Persona!" blue flames spiral, and my persona manifest.
My persona wears a black long which is closed, he's all black except for his eyes which are white, actually he looks like he's wearing a mask, since his eyes are shaped like ovals with jagged bits at the end, he has a chain wrapped around his waist with two ends dangling behind. He wielded a black scythe with the body of the scythe wrapped in chains.
"Let's get him Hades!"
Yeah Naegi's Persona is the king of the underworld, that's kind of a hint for what the others' awakenings will be like. Kinda don't actually take my word for it.
See you in the next chapter!
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