Chapter 11
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Helltrainn: I don't care if it is, I like it and I'm using it, I am curious though why do you think it's outdated?
As for your other review, the answer is now, it will be updated now haha; I had a test in the university and I had to put everything but study on hold.
Toa Solaric: I'm glad you're liking it, as for the P5 cast, they won't appear or at the very least not as anyone important to the story, the reason is that I haven't played it and I sadly won't be able to for a long time, I'm not sure I will be able to play it this year at all, that been said I might make cameo appearances of them.
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NOTE: This chapter will be told in third person POV, I've been enjoying doing the first person but I realized that there are some things that I rather write in third, such as battle scenes.
This doesn't mean I will only write in third person from now on but I will reserve first person POV for chapters that will be mainly about a particular character.
You know I realized something funny, P4 Golden's Time to make history at one point says 'cause this ain't no game, it's time to make history yeah…' and P5's Life will change starts with 'It's not a game, I'm not a robot AI challenging you…' just something I wanted to share.
But enough with that, on with the chapter and I'm sick and tired of the disclaimer so from now on remember that I don't own anything but the plot of this fic.
A few days passed with nothing much happening, the next day Yu talked with Yosuke again and stablished the Magician social link, it was a bit weird since they were talking about 'how to increase their chances of getting a girlfriend' when time stopped and the voice of the SL appeared, it's not that the link been stablished at that moment was weird; not Yu, Minato or Minako even know what's the criteria for stablishing one, the weird part was the conversation, Yosuke was saying something about a documentary to pick up girls and some sort of plant that if you rub it in your body makes you irresistible, Yu told him that was probably a scam but he seemed to ignore that.
He also met Kuroda Hisano, his former Death social link, she was in the riverbank watching the river, they introduced each other and Yu told her he just moved to Inaba, she had just lost her husband and Yu kept her company for a while.
With Minato, he also stablished the Magician but this time it wasn't with Kenji but with Junpei his sister also stablished it with Junpei, the three were going back from school making small talk when the link appeared, Minato also went to eat with Kenji when he invited him but no social link was stablished.
Nothing much happened otherwise, and right now.
"Zio!" "Agi!" "Bufu!" They're fighting more shadows coming out of those portals; this one appeared in the shore of the Riverbank.
"Get clear, Megidola!" Ryoji yelled in warning before Thanatos unleashed his almighty skill killing a good number of shadows.
"Ryoji look out". Minato warned him but he didn't have time to react before the boss for the night, one of the bull shadows Yu encountered when going to save the Arisatos, hit him with its arm and send him flying.
"Letum, Bufu!" Minako put two fingers against her temple as if they were a gun and summoned her Persona to cover Ryoji and hit the shadow with an ice spell that it seems to be weak against.
"You okay?" Minato asked next to Ryoji.
"Yeah, just got the wind knocked out of me". Ryoji answered using his scythe to help him stand up.
"Guys move!" Yu yelled to them and they jumped out of the way of a fireball the shadow had thrown at them. "Surround it" The four moved around the bull shadow that started to throw fireballs at them, they managed to move and dodge them but it then used a maragion knocking them back, in the time they were trying to take it down more shadows came out from the portal.
"That thing is strong". Ryoji said summoning Thanatos to slash at it, the shadow met the sword with its fist and they started to struggle. "I'm open to suggestions to bring this thing down".
"Minato, Orpheus is strong against fire right?" Yu asked sidestepping a charging hand shadow and cutting it in half.
"Yeah, why?" Minato did the same as her sister and put two fingers on his temple to summon his Persona and cast Agi on one of the balls.
"I need you to distract it, think you can do that?"
"I can take a hit or two but I don't think I can last too much against it".
"I'll take care of that". Yu cut another shadow before raising his left hand and close it. "Izanagi, rakukaja". His Persona pointed his left hand to Minato and raised his defense.
"Ok, I'll grab its attention, Ryoji change with me!" Minato summoned Orpheus and hit the bull in the chin in an upward motion with his lyre at the same time Thanatos disappeared back into Ryoji. "Come on!"
The shadow wasn't happy about that and threw three fireballs towards Minato, he managed to dodge the first one but the other two hit him, there wasn't too much damage thanks to Orpheus' resistance and the rakukaja but he still felt pain from it.
"Orpheus!" He once again summoned him and made it clash his lyre with the bull while he charged and started to slash against the 'legs', enraged at the attacks the bull made another maragion and forced Orpheus back into Minato's mind and him a few steps back, it was about to charge at him when.
"Izanagi, cleave!" Yu summoned his Persona from behind the shadow and cut one of its arms off with his skill; it roared in pain and looked at Yu.
"Letum, skewer". But the moment it looked away Minako summoned her Persona, it fused both its scythes making one large scythe and stabbed it in the chest. "Finish it Ryoji" Minako said jumping away.
"Brave blade!" The death god appeared and jumped in the air drawing its sword before coming down and cut the shadow. "You can rest now"
At the same time Thanatos disappeared the shadow fell to the ground with a 'thud' and seconds later it vanished, the four finished the few shadows that remained after the portal closed and rested for a few minutes before going back to their beds and sleep.
-The next day on the way to school-
"Hey". Minato said to Yu; him, Minako and Ryoji catching up.
"Hey, you guys okay?"
"Better than last time that's for sure". Minako answered stretching her arms over her head. "But I still feel kind of sore".
"Yeah me too". Yu agreed.
"Maybe you can sleep during class?" Ryoji offered.
"That's not good Ryoji; no one should sleep in class". Minako reprimanded him poking his cheek with a finger.
"But Minato does it all the time". Ryoji said back with a confused look.
"You do?" Yu asked.
"I do, but it's because even if I sleep in class no teacher ever finds out". Minato answered. "Before you ask I have no idea why they don't notice and Minako only says about not sleeping in class because she is immediately found out".
"I-I don't!"
"You do". Minato and Ryoji said at the same time.
"You admitted that to me once remember?" Ryoji added making the younger Arisato pout.
"Kou wait up!" The four heard a voice and saw two people running to a third, both were wearing the P.E. uniform, both with short hair one of them spiky black and the other brown, the third person was wearing the normal uniform and had hair similar to Minato's but more towards black than outright blue.
"Hey that's Kaz". Minato mentioned seeing him.
"Oh yeah, he was your Chariot SL wasn't he?" Ryoji asked, Minato nodding in response.
"The other two are Kou and Daisuke". Yu added. "They were my Strength SL".
"Both of them?" Minako asked curious.
"Well, I think it was more Kou than Daisuke but yes they were both involved in my Strength SL".
"So, are you going to practice today?" They heard Kou ask.
"Yeah, we may get new members right?" Daisuke answered.
"I will teach the newbies the ropes then"
"Don't go breaking their spirits so soon Kazushi".
"What?! I've never done that". Kou and Daisuke laughed a bit with Kaz joining before picking up the pace towards the school.
"Practice… they're probably talking about a sports club" Minato said.
"Are you going to see the clubs later Minato-nii?"
"Yeah"
"I should do that too, I wonder if Rio is around here".
"What about you two?"
"I'll check it out too". Yu answered to Minato, the three then looked at Ryoji.
"I'll pass; I don't know anything about sports". Ryoji answered with a nervous smile.
"So? We can teach you". Minato said back.
"W-Well… I'll think about it".
"By the way, have you talked with your parents since we got sent here?" Yu asked the Arisatos, that caused Ryoji to flinch and both of them to smile sadly.
"They're dead". Minato answered, this time making Yu flinch. "I looked them up after we got sent to this other world; they died in a car accident like before".
"Sorry".
"It's okay, what about yours?" Minako asked.
"I sent them a text that I got here okay, they answered they received it".
"…That's it?"
"I'm not very close to my parents, they're always working". Yu said with a shrug. "I guess some things don't change even in a parallel world".
The four kept silent for a second.
CRASH
All of a sudden time stopped and the tarot card for the World appeared with a number 2 at the side.
"Huh, seems we ranked up the World SL" Yu mentioned.
"Oh thank god I didn't hear the voices". Minato sighed in relief.
"Voices?" Yu asks tilting his head a bit.
"Apparently every time he ranked up a social link he heard the 'thou art I and I am thou' thing". Minako answered Yu. "It's weird because for me it was what just happened, just the card and a number with the rank".
"Yeah for me too".
"Well lucky you guys, the voices were driving me crazy". Minato said before looking at the sky. "Whoever is in charge of the voices; thank you for not putting me through that again and screw you for making me go through it in the first place".
"It was that bad?" Ryoji asked.
"Not at first, but I think I started to get sick of it around August". Minato answered massaging his temple. "I think the only other time I got sick of something like that was in our fight with you".
"What do you mean?" Ryoji asked again with a confused frown.
"The arcana is the means by which al-"
"Do not finish that sentence Minato!" Minako interrupted him before another word was spoken. "Those words still haunt me to this day". She said clutching her head and looking like she was remembering something traumatic.
Yu blinked at her behavior before looking at Ryoji.
"Dude, what did you do to them?"
"To be honest, I would have expected that to be the last thing they would hold against me".
"…That just makes me want to ask again".
"Well… I-"
"Forget it". Yu interrupted. "It's clear as day you don't want to talk about it".
"…Thanks". Ryoji said smiling in appreciation.
CRASH
Thou art I and I am thou
Thou hast found a kindred soul
They will aid you to protect those you hold dear
Thou shalt have our blessing when thou chooseth to create a Persona of the Death arcana.
"Huh, who would have thought?" Yu thought out loud.
"Something wrong?" Ryoji asked.
"New social link, this time with you".
"Let me guess, Death?"
"Yep".
"Of course it is".
"Trust me sis, I had it worse than you, I had to suck up the whole year with voices in my head". Both Yu and Ryoji looked at the Arisatos that apparently started a discussion.
"Maybe, but that just means you were used to something annoying been repeated over and over, so Ryoji saying… 'that' wouldn't bother you as much!"
"Of course not, I was so sick of the social link voices that it just made it worse".
"What exactly did you say during your final fight?" Yu asked Ryoji, after hearing all that he was curious.
"Well, I was able to change my arcana from the Fool to the Death going through all of them, every time I did I first said 'the arcana is the means by which all is revealed'".
The second Ryoji finished that sentence him and Yu felt a shiver and looked at the Arisatos, both of them were looking at Ryoji with a red aura around Minako and a blue one around Minato.
"I think you should run". Yu suggested and at that second Ryoji started to flee with Minato and Minako behind him.
"Hmm, a red oni and a blue oni?" Yu said to no one while looking them go.
"Hey, morning". Yosuke said stopping his bike next to Yu. "What happened to them? We still have time". Yu thought for a second how to explain before answering.
"Ryoji said something that triggered them"
"He said something that triggered them?" Yosuke repeated, Yu nodding yes. "What does that mean?"
"Exactly as I said". Yu shrugged and they started to walk again. "Something about a game that got them mad, I don't know the name".
-After class on Minato and Minako's classroom-
Ryoji had left as soon as classes were over, he said something about wanting to do something and left before Minato or Minako could ask him what.
"Hey". Junpei said to Minato. "You going back to the dorm?"
"No, I'll go check out the clubs today" Minato answered. "Any recommendations?"
"Well, our baseball club has some guys I'm friends with, but I don't participate in any clubs so I wouldn't know".
"Why not join the baseball club? You already wear part of the uniform all the time" Minato says pointing to his hat.
"Haha, well… I'm just not really interested you know the cap is just because it looks cool". Junpei answered nervously.
"Come on, what's the worst that can happen? I'm going there now, let's check it out together".
"W-well"
"Just go!" Minako said surprising Junpei.
"Where did you come from?!"
"Well, you see when two people love each other very much-"
"That's not what I meant!"
"I know".
"…dude your sister is weird".
"Tell me something I don't know". Minato answered taking his things. "What are you gonna do?"
"I'll check out some sports clubs myself; we meet back at the dorm?"
"Sure, see you later". Minato said to his sister as she left. "So, you coming or what?"
"…meh, sure what's the worst that can happen?"
Minato and Junpei left the classroom and made their way to the practice field where Yu was standing.
"Hey Yu". Minato greeted him.
"Hi". Yu greeted back and managed to keep a poker face when he saw Junpei.
"Hi there, I'm Iori Junpei".
"Nice to meet you, I'm Narukami Yu". Once again Yu thought about how he could have gone to the drama club.
"Hey you three, are you here to join?" The coach asked approaching them.
"Yeah, we'd like to try". Yu answered, Minato and Junpei nodding.
"All right, I'll have someone bring you the applications later; do any of you have any experience playing?" The three answered no. "Do you know the rules at least?"
"I know the basics". Junpei answered.
"Me too"
"Me three"
"All right, make sure to remember them, just watch for today and we'll try you out for a position next time".
The three of them nodded and the coach went away, they waited till practice is over when the three people they heard about sports club from approached them.
"Hey Junpei". Kazushi said waving a hand. "Are you joining?"
"Y-yeah, this guy and his sister convinced me". Junpei answered pointing at Minato.
"Well, glad to have you on board, you two are joining too right?" Kou asked.
"Yes". Yu and Minato answered at the same time.
"Cool, by the way I'm Nagase Daisuke, these are Miyamoto Kazushi and Ichijo Kou".
"Nice to meet you". Again Yu and Minato answered at the same time.
"Here are the applications, just fill your name in them"
CRASH
'Called it'. Yu and Minato thought but were surprised when two cards appeared.
Thou art I and I am thou
Thou hast found a kindred soul
They will aid you to protect those you hold dear
Thou shalt have our blessing when thou chooseth to create a Persona of the Strength and Chariot arcana.
'Huh?' Both of them wondered what the double arcana meant but they just let it go till they could talk without sounding crazy.
They left and parted ways with Junpei with Minato saying they were gonna check out some books, knowing he will not want to come with them if that's the reason.
"You heard that double arcana right?" Minato asked once they were alone and walking around the shopping district.
"Yeah, Strength and Chariot, but that's weird".
"You said Nagase and Ichijo were your Strength social link before right?" Yu nodded yes. "Mine was a girl named Yuko and my Chariot was Kaz, who was your Chariot?"
"Chie". They both started to think what all this could mean. "Maybe we should ask Igor later"
"Yeah, I can think of a few theories but nothing that I can prove, I'll ask Minako later at the dorm and we'll meet with Igor during the Dark hour".
"Sounds good". Yu agreed. "Want to check out the bookstore anyway?"
"Sure".
They both went to a bookstore and spent some time there before going to their homes.
-The hill overlooking town-
"So at last, we shall prepare the stage for their demise". A man said looking over the town. "You are aware of your role aren't you?"
"I am". Someone in the shade of a tree answered.
"Good, let's begin". Another man said.
Here is another one.
I just want to say, shit's gonna hit the fan next chapter.
Funny thing, the whole 'new reality thing' wasn't my original idea when I started this fic they were gonna stay as how they were after the events of Persona 4 AU, but I'm liking this idea better.
Anyway; as always I hope you liked it.
Until next time.