"C'mon slowpoke!" A brown-haired girl called to her twin brother. She was running on the side of a mountain, crushing leaves under her black school shoes as she made her way over to a river in the forest.
"You're just going to fast, Minako." The blue-haired boy replied. He was walking slowly along the mountain with his hands shoved into his pockets, like usual.
"Maybe if you tried running and if you didn't have your hands in your pockets, maybe you could keep up." Minako stopped running and quickly sat down on a rock near the river. She watched her brother approach her, ever so slowly, with his hands still in his pockets. "Honestly Minato. Why the hell do you always have your hands in your goddamned pockets?"
"To keep them cozy." Minato smirked. He sat down next to her on the rock. The rock was nice and cool from the water that splashed out of the river during a storm a couple of months ago. Sitting back to back, she stared at the river, and he stared into the forest where they had come from. "I wish we could stay here together like this forever." Minato heard Minako say from behind him. "Yeah, well…we can't. We already told Mitsuru that we would be back at the dorm by sundown. If not she will probably execute us." Minato shuddered at the thought of being executed again as he reminded his sister.
"I just can't believe this place is going to be torn down and turned into a new shopping district, in which you will probably buy from…you traitor…" Minako glared at her brother.
"What if they have good things? You can't just expect me to pass up a chance on getting good music or weapons." Minato protested.
"…But this is the only place I…I mean we, remember being with mom and dad, other than that bridge, where they had died." She said trying to fight off the tears trying to form in her eyes. "Do you really think they will tear this forest down?" Minako turned to ask Minato, only to find that he had walked off, following a crimson butterfly. "Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing, walking away from me when I'm talking?" she yelled and ran after her idiot of a brother.
Minako ran after him but she ended up losing sight of him. "Ugh! That idiot! I don't want to spend our last day here looking for you!" She yelled at him, hoping he would hear her and come back. She stopped running and started to walk when he had not responded to her. She started in the direction she thought he had gone. After she walked past a twin deity statue, the sky suddenly went dark. Minako was shocked to see the sun go away so suddenly for no apparent reason, leaving her in darkness, alone. "Great…" she groaned and took out her cell phone. Minako dialed in a number and waited for an answer. "Please pick up Mitsuru." A voice finally sounded from the phone. Minako was joyous until she found out who had answered. "Please try calling again later, thank you."
"Great…" Minako angrily flipped her phone closed "…no signal huh…" She turned her phone off to save power, and shoved it into her pocket. "I guess we will just have to be late getting back. I hope they don't worry too much." Minako continued to walk up a path in the darkness. "What I really want to know is, why it became so dark all of a sudden. It was bright out a couple of minutes ago, and now it's so dark, I can hardly even see my own hand in front of my face…" Minako complained as she continued up the path. After some hiking, she came up to a gate. There was a woman in a white kimono crying in front of the gate. 'I wonder what's wrong.' Minako thought. She decided to go see for herself and walked up behind the woman. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry…" Minako could hear the woman repeat over and over. "Are you okay?" Minako asked and placed her hand on the woman's shoulder to try and comfort her. The woman disappeared with a scream "I'M SORRY!"
Minako backed away and covered her ears to protect them from the shrill scream. "Okay…" she was confused and startled by the woman's sudden scream, but mostly by her disappearance into thin air. "I really need to get out of here, I think I'm going crazy." Minako walked through the gate and began up another hill, but this time it was a relatively short hike. "Minato!" she yelled when she finally made it to the top to see her brother on the other side of the hill looking down at something at the bottom of the hill. A huge bonfire, by the looks of it, stood in between the two twins. "Hey! Minato!" Minako yelled again when there was no response nor any reaction what-so-ever. Once again her brother had no response to give her. "I hate you so much…" Minako grumbled and walked towards her brother. She began to get even more annoyed when Minato started to run down the hill as she was about to smack him in the back of the head. Trailing behind Minato were crimson butterflies that looked like they were coming from him. "I'm definitely going to kill you when I catch you!" angrily shouting, she ran after him. "What the hell is wrong with y-" she was interrupted by something she had tripped over. "Ugh…who in god's name left something in the middle of a path on a fucking downwards hill?"
Minako picked the thing up, she was delighted to see it was a flashlight. Joyfully, she turned it on and shined it on the other objects on the ground. "A wallet?" She opened it up to find a photo and a village report. In the photo, there was a young couple. "Aww, they're pretty cute together. I wonder if they live in this village." She then looked at the village report. It was talking about twin deity statues "boring…" she tossed the report away. She also noticed a red journal that laid next to the wallet, on the ground. She picked it up and began to read "Some rumors about a village." She began to skim the journal "Let's see… there was a massacre on a ceremony…village wiped off map… twin deity statues lead lost people to entrance of village… can't go back…village relives massacre over and over…insane woman laughing…and one survivor. Yeah…Sure… " she threw the journal to the side. She began to walk away, leaving the journal and report behind.
"Ha! Well, I guess you will just have to walk around blindly, Minato." She waved the flashlight around merrily at the thought of her brother running into things, like the idiot he is. When she made it down the hill, there were some houses. "I finally reached the village." To her left there was a house, and to her right was a run-down house…er whatever it was. "Maybe Minato went in here." She stepped up the two small steps and opened the door to the house on her left. "Alright! It's open!" There were no lights on when she entered the narrow entryway. There was a door in front of her and then a window that looked into a kimono room on her left. Continuing on to the door ahead, she found herself in a room with a hallway ahead of her, a staircase to the left, along with a door in front of the staircase. "That door probably leads to the kimono room, I saw through the window." Minako said to herself. There was also a hearth in the middle of the room, on a platform. In front of the hearth was a sliding door. Ignoring it, Minako decided to check out the door in front of the staircase first. When she opened the door, she found a white kimono with a faded design in the way. "Now who thought putting a kimono in front of the door was a good idea?" Minako yelled and pushed past the kimono and found herself in the kimono room.
Turning to the left, she saw the dark and empty entryway. She sighed at the lack of light in this village and turned to the right to see a smaller room, that looked to be a storage room. There was a box in the corner that was meant to hold kimonos and other random boxes piled against the other storeroom walls. A faint scratching noise started to sound from inside the box. "What the hell?" she began to walk over to the box. She froze in her tracks as the box's lid began to slide off of the box. The lid slowly slid off of the box and onto the floor with a soft "thud". A frail white hand came up from inside the box and grabbed the outside edges of it. Another hand slowly came up, and did the same. Minako watched in horror as a head, covered in black hair rose from the box. The hair covered all but the nose and down, leaving part of it's face and chin uncovered. The hands reached out of the box and onto the floor, followed by arms and a body. Soon, an entire woman in a white-ish kimono had emerged from the box. Minako's heart began to skip beats when the woman started to hover above the ground, towards her. Still frozen in place, Minako watched as the woman slowly made her way over to her. The woman let out some groaning sounds as she approached the horrified girl. She lunged at the girl, who had let out a scream or terror, only to be pushed back in pain by a flash of light and a clicking sound, that had come from behind Minako. Minako stood there, staring at the woman as she tried to lunge at her again, but knocked back several more times by the flashes of light and clicking sounds. The woman screamed in pain and fell over and disappeared after a final flash of light had gone off. Minako turned to look behind her, to see a dark figure staring at her through the window, separating the kimono room and the entryway. Not able to see who or what the figure was, Minako shone her flashlight on it. "So you were here." She said happily and smiled in gratitude.
Author's notes
Here's chapter 2, or technically 1 since the first was just a prologue. This chapter was fun to write, and I'm sure later ones will be even more fun. I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as I did when I wrote it. Remember to R&R please. Btw, should this be in the crossover category or no?
CA: Disclaimers please, Minato!
Minato: Why me?
CA: Because Minako did it last time, and you are a traitor…in two ways, might I add… Plus Minako had an accident, so…
Minato: Oh I see…Fine. CA184 does not own anything or anyone from P3 or FF2. Happy?
CA: SI!
Minato: Why are you speaking Spanish?
CA: Cause it's fun :3
Minato: Okay…
CA: Ciao everyone! Until next chapter, which I have already started to write btw.
