Disclaimer: neither belong to me... yadda yadda

Also sorry for errors

Chapter 2: Meeting Other "Midnighters"

Jessica had not been in Japan for that long, and even for the time she was there all the people were frozen in time so she had very minimal knowledge of the language. A while back though, she had "borrowed" a book that translated "Do you know English" in about every language known to man. The red head had just memorized the translation into Japanese recently, in hope that she would meet others that could move freely in the blue hour.

"Uh….Um… A-anata wa eigo o shitte imasu", she sputtered out. It was then that one of the girls in the group stepped out in front.

"I believe this is my forte," the girl had reddish hair and looked very serious. She also seemed to be quite fluent in English. "Allow me to translate. Who are you?" Just then her gaze sharpened and the girl pulled out a fencing sword out from her own scabbard.

Jessica put her hands up in the air as if she was turning herself over to the police, "M-my n-name i-is Jessica." She was shaking now from fear. Never before had she sensed such power from other Midnighters, the girl also had the same power emitting from her being as the blue haired boy, thought to a lesser degree.

"Jessica you say... What are you doing here? You don't look like you wandered here by following the 'voices'. " The voices? What voices? Now the Flame Bringer was very confused, but still couldn't keep her eyes off the saber pointed at her throat.

Still trembling she sputtered out, "I'm a M-midnighter j-just like you. Please don't hurt me I was only looking for other people who could move in the Blue Hour." She was sweating bullets at this point.

The other red head looked confused at Jessica's last response, could it be that she was having a hard time understanding her English, very unlikely. The saber was then removed from in front of her face and she relaxed and sighed from relief. The fencer put her saber back into its scabbard then asked, "What is a Midnighter? Whatever they are we are no such people. Also I think you are mistaken this is not the 'Blue Hour' you speak of it is the 'Dark Hour'. I digress, I am sorry for the violent greeting, but it was a necessary measure. You see in this time we are not willing to trust others that appear in the dark hour besides our group, due to certain circumstances. By the way my name is Mitsuru Kirijo and we call ourselves SEES." Mitsuru then directed Jessica's attention to the rest of the group, " These are my comrades, though most of them are not fluent in English some of us understand as well as speak a little of your language." While eyeing the group of students she noticed they all had a different weapon, besides one girl that had short greenish blue hair, and a gun in a holster somewhere attached each to them. The Flame Bringer was curious as to why no one was using the guns, maybe due to the fact that fire could not burn in the "hidden hour" the guns were useless. But if they could not be used what was the point in having them?

Suddenly the greenish blue haired girl gasped and turned around to the face the giant staircase (that she didn't see before with being to concerned about the saber threatening to cut her head off) that lead up to a door resembling a clock. The girl yelled something to the others and they all drew their weapons the blue haired leader instinctively went to the front of the group. It took her a while but she finally noticed what they were all staring at. There was a black blob of goo-like substance flowing down the staircase. Whatever it was it looked creepy and it seemed to have a mind of its own.

The weird blob had almost reached them when she saw the blue haired leader finally draw his gun. Though what he did after that perplexed her even more than she already was. The boy lifted the gun and steadily pointed it at his own head! Was he going to commit suicide? Why? Jessica screamed at him to stop and started to run toward him begging him to not kill himself, not that he could understand her. On the contrary, he paid no mind to her what so ever. The others had heard her yelling and each one of them grabbed her, trying to keep her away from him. What were they doing? Were they just going to let him kill himself? At that moment, only then did she notice that the power she had sensed from him earlier was growing, she could feel the power reaching her as it grew, it made the hair on her arms raise and she could feel more sweat dropping from her brow. Jessica had stopped resisting the ones holder her back, watching what the boy was going to do next. The boy then started to pull the trigger, but before the gun went off she heard his voice, barely over a whisper say, "Persona"

The gun fired and Jessica was blinded by a light that engulfed the entire room.

A/N: Okay so it seems I am on a role here... at least for now. So it took me a while what shadow I wanted to use and ended up using the standard "Maya" shadow. I also want to know if you want to see a persona and if so what specific persona... If not i will just figure something out... I have some ideas but you know...

The next part may contain spoilers for those who have not completed the game

Okay also I just want to clarify that in the Persona timeline this story takes place a little after (Spoiler!) Shinjiro dies. I wanted all the SEES group to be there (excluding Shinji) also the "certain circumstances" Mitsuru is talking about is Strega's involvement (killing Shinji). I just realized that Jessica sees a group of high schoolers but that would mean Ken and Koromaru are not there so... lets just say they didn't/couldn't go to Tartarus that night. Anyway R/R and I hope I update soon.