Title : Say it Again
Chapter Title : Welcome back and death.
Writer : Lysabelle
Genre : Fantasy, Mystery
Rate : K (+ ?)
Disclaimer :
The story and plots belonged to TACHIBANA HIGUCHI but the ideas are totally mine and only mine.
Summary : Sakura Mikan has been sent to USA for some matters. But it has been now 5 years and there was no news from her since her latest birthday and departure. When it has been decided for her come back, there was some complications. Read to know what's going on.
Chapter 02. Welcome back and death.
"Hello, everyone. This is Tokyo TV broadcast. Especially today we have one spectacular guest. So, please welcome Snow Fox." Said the presenter as someone came from the back stage.
It was a beautiful girl with black long haired put on a low pony tail. She was wearing a so-like fox sharp white mask, which was only covering half of the face. She was slender and not so small nor tall. She had the perfect figure a woman would love to have. She walked on the stage as the audience was doing the biggest ruckus the world would have known. With only her smile she blew away everyone in another world.
"So today's special guest is Snow Fox herself, who accepted to join us tonight for answering some fan's questions." Continued the presenter as the two of them sat down and the audience did no more noise.
"This is nothing. I'm glad to be here. And I was happy when I heard that I could have a show in Japan before I start my world concerts" Answered Snow Fox which surprised more than one.
"Huh?! Can I ask you? Is this your first time being in Japan?" He was surprised by her speech.
"No, this isn't. I once did live here in Japan." She answered calmly with her smile on.
"Is that so? I didn't expect you could speak Japanese. You are such a mystery. And how long did you live here?"
"Oh, well." She put her finger on her lips and: "This is a se-cret!" as she added a little yet powerful wink. I provoked a big fall down in the audience, even the staff and the presenter were taken aback by it.
There was a long silence on the stage. Nobody could say one word.
"Did I say something wrong?" asked anxiously Snow Fox as she tilted her head a little on the side.
"Ah no, it's nothing. It's just that even with the mask on, you are still beautiful as cute." He said with no shame. We could see her blushing. She was embarrassed. And she laughed slightly. "Well, should we go on the show?" she nodded to his question.
The questions were found into eggs which were brought to the presenter. All of these were chosen carefully from people who wanted to ask her about life and work, even some personal matter.
As the show was going on, there was a lot of laugh and surprising moment. Snow Fox was smiling which light the stage and everyone's heart. She was like the sun. She answered all the questions without any doubt, after all it was an online broadcast. Until they arrived to a question that put her in a uncertain situation.
"So here is the last question. Are you ready?"
"Yes."
"Then here we go." He opened the last egg that was in a bin. He unfolded the paper and read: Snow Fox, why do you hide you face? And is there a meaning behind that mask? He put back the paper in the egg and put it away.
"Unfortunately, this is two questions in one egg." He sighed and looked at her. However she had turned into a lifeless girl. It worried everyone as they saw perfectly the dark aura she was emitting.
She breathed in and out and finally said with a light smile: "I have my reasons for this and all of matter. I want to keep it until I'm able to solve and bring light to my reasons." She faced the audience and the camera. She smiled with confidence and assurance.
"The time when I'll reveal myself, it will be for sure the moment when we'll be in another time."
With this answer, everyone was astonished and mesmerized by it. They stayed silent but then the presenter had to bring the end of the special interview. He thanked her and so on. Beforehand, he had to recall the dates of her world concert. And this was the end of the show.
The next day, everyone in the Academy was discussing about it. School had already started 2 weeks ago. They were all happy, except a couple of person: the Dangerous Class Ability students. They were having big problems and none of them could attend to their lessons.
"So she has a boyfriend? I wonder who it could be." Said one here.
"I can't wait to see her play in this movie. I'm sure it'll be wonderful." Said all excited another one there.
And this went on. The Academy had turned into a field of ruckus over Snow Fox. She was a mystery to everyone. There was no much information about her. And her debut was really unpredictable. It began through the network with one of her video. It went all around the world in an instant which caught a lot of sponsors' attention.
Snow Fox was indeed a singer, who at the beginning was said to be either a man or a woman. Nobody was taking much attention because either gender was accepting her with no problem. She had confirmed her gender not long after her interview in her first press conference in Los Angeles.
She and some friends of her had formed this group: one bassist, two guitarists, one pianist and her as a singer. They began their career with Say it Again. But this one did not have a bassist. In fact, time to time and depending on the song, there would not have one or two of those instruments. This was what made all her song so popular. They mixed up all kind of music from the world, from slow to violent, if it was possible, from classic to rock.
"Alright, go back to your seat." Said a glasses man holding a wand, the infamous math teacher, Jinno-sensei.
He entered in the room as everyone went to their seat making no noises. For some reasons, Jinno was really troubled and silent. He sighed for the first time in their life. But he was still unemotional.
"I have some good news." He said looking at them. And he turned his head towards the door. "You can enter."
The door opened and someone came in. It was a brunette with chocolate eyes. Her hairs were tied up into pig tails. She was smiling as she came in. Everyone was mesmerizing by how beauty she was but they were all surprised to her, because she was not only beautiful but also someone they knew so far.
"Then welcome Sakura Mikan from the American Branch." Said finally Jinno in a displeasing tone.
There was no sound in the room. They all were thinking the same thing: Is it really her? This thought was common to all of them. Only one person was really septic about it. She had narrowed her eyes and her neighbor was sweat dropping. He knew what she wanted to do. And the worst came. She showed out of the blue a big canon with logo and sign: Baka Double Attack. And without an alert, she shot towards the board. And Boom sound was heard as well as smoke showed up.
Everyone was caught up in this mess. They could not see anything. Once the smoke was clearing the way to the board, they saw Jinno covered half of his body in a black taint. But there was no sign of Mikan. They all thought she was dead or something. When they heard a little huh! under the desk. She got up with her head spinning all around. She seemed to have lost her sign of orientation.
"So you're back as stupid as slow." Said coldly the infamous Ice Queen.
"Imai, I don't think you should do this kind of thing. One of those she'll really be dead." Said the boy who got his hair up from the explosion.
"Well, this is for not contacting us for least than five years."
Everyone waited for the answer but there was nothing. Suddenly they saw some shadow coming from nowhere. This shadow was jumping towards Imai Hotaru. But the latter got another thing, a house glove and hit her with this. She was then found back towards the board.
"Ouch. Is that a way to treat her best friend, Hotaru-chan?"
"Best friend? I don't remember being friend with an idiot." She answered back as she blew away the smoke from her glove.
"Mou. Meanie!"
Mikan was famous for being cute and innocent. But also she was the known best friend of Imai Hotaru the elite inventor Alice. And only her could affect this girl to turn from ice queen to water queen, which meant she turned to a soft girl. But since her disappearance, no one was able to put her at ease, not even her boyfriend, Nogi Ruka, aka Ruka-pyon.
"So what happened to you?" Hotaru asked not paying attention to Jinno who glared them with a murderous aura.
"Well, I don't know much." Mikan was all clingy to her friend. "All I remember was that woke up I a warehouse not long ago."
"In a warehouse?" repeated Hotaru.
"Yes." She put her finger on her lips and looked up. "And then when I walked out of there, I met out someone who took care of me for the three month until some men in black came to me. Since then, I was in a school in America. And here I am now."
Everyone listened to her. She seemed to be the same though she did not remember what she did for these five years. Mikan and Hotaru were talking without paying much attention to Jinno but then he burst. However Hotaru used one of her invention to protect them. She looked at him who was breathless.
"Can I put a word in this?" he asked as she nodded and everyone looked at him with curious.
"Alright, she might be the same but she'll be not attending to the Dangerous Ability anymore." They listened to hum. Mikan just was not listening and was instead clingy to Hotaru as ever. "And she won't go back to the Special Ability too."
Now they were surprised, because Mikan was well known to have a powerful Alice, the Stealing Alice and Nullification Alice. If she did not have the Stealing Alice then she would go to the Special Ability but here, it was not the case, it seemed she had none of them anymore.
"She'll go instead to the Somatic Ability." They were all stunned. "She has the Pheromone Alice." And it killed them… literally.
With this, Class B was turned into a ghost class. Everyone heard about the news. News really flew by really fast in the Academy. But then nobody could say anything. Only her group of friend went to ask more detail to the teachers especially to Narumi.
Unfortunately, they got nothing much than: "Sorry, but we too want to know about it. All we know so far is the fact that she seemed to have some memory deficits. And we are trying our best to collect all information we could but it's really hard because it seems she was put into a deep slumber. So we can't have anything than this. Sorry." He said to them
So all they had to do now was to hope she will tell them about it by herself and by her own pace.
"Hum, should we tell about it to Hyuuga-san?" Tobita Yuu, the still representative class, said.
"I sent a message not long ago, but it's strange, he came back to me." Ruka said anxious.
"Who is Hyuuga?" asked the unexpected girl. It surprised them.
"What are you saying, Mikan? He's your boyfriend, Hyuuga Natsume!" answered three girls at the same time: Nonoko, Anna and Sumire.
Now they understood what Narumi tried to tell them by memory deficits. She got some amnesia.
"He could have said it with normal word." They thought as they sweat dropped and laughed nervously.
"You really did lose your memory?" asked Hotaru as she was doing something far from the group. Everyone was wondering what she was doing. But none of them approached her.
"Don't tell me you are…" Ruka began saying but them what he felt came true. Hotaru turned around showing them a-seem-to-be headphones. It was pink for some reason with bears' head on each side of it. They had a red nose which did not give a good feeling.
"Invention n°####. Memories headphones. Its functions are simple: bring back memories of a determined period." Hotaru said to nobody in particular, and showing her invention with a stick to a picture in the background. Everyone sweat dropped. "Alright. Let's put this on your head, Mikan."
Hotaru was really scary. She was moving forward Mikan who got some Goosebumps. She moved away but then Ruka was holding his girlfriend. Something bad will happen if he let her put this on Mikan. But then they heard some noises coming from the closest bush. And someone popped out.
"Na-tsume?" said Ruka all surprised still holding Hotaru.
Everyone looked at him. He was in a bad state. His clothes were a little torned. But what was the most surprising was his expression. He seemed to be shocked and perturbed. It was their first time to see him like this except the moment when he was accused of putting fire, in his young age, and only Ruka knew about it.
"Natsume! Natsume, what's wrong?" Ruka asked to his best friend. The latter was standing there not moving an inch. He looked up once but then he was once against in his own thought. They all gathered around him. Only Mikan was a little far away. They heard some murmured but could not get what he said so far.
"-is dead." Was the only thing they could hear.
"What?" exclaimed in one voice.
"Persona is dead." He finally said in a clear voice yet shaking.
They were all taken aback. No sound was heard and no word could come out. They were out at first then shocked to end this terrible silence. Up in the sky, it was a clear yet cloudy. Birds were shipping but they were all cows, as if they were saying their good bye to Persona.
Thank you for reading. I think some part of the chapter was not so clear and quite confused. I'm sorry if it does. Either way, I'd be glad if you review the chapter so I can have your thought.
Next chapter: Shocking News.
