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9/1, ?, ?

My eyes were twitching open. Did we survive the fall? I stood my back up, it felt sore as hell...

"Huh, Fuuka?" I saw her laid out on the floor, on my left. "Hey, Fuuka, are you okay?" "Mmm..." "Hey, wake up!" She began to wake up, rubbing her eyes while doing so. "Kazuki-kun, are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine."

I turned my head to see the sides of the hallways. They're ice all over the place. "Where are we?" "I don't know, I'll scan ahead." "Okay. Wait, what? How are you going to do that, you don't have an Evoker, do you?" "Well..."

She drew an Evoker from her skirt pocket. "Why the heck did you bring an Evoker!?" "It wasn't my idea to bring it, it was Shizuka-chan's idea." "Really now..." I think I need to talk to M.G. about this later on...

"Lucia." Fuuka summoned her Persona and went to work. "Hmm... I don't sense anything out of the ordinary, but I do see a giant door on the left side of the hallway." "Must be an exit." "Possibly..." She dismisses her Persona. "We should move carefully." "Yeah, so stay close to me." "Okay." We began to walk to the door Fuuka found.

"Stop!" "Huh?" We looked behind us to see where the voice came from. We saw a kid with some glasses on. He also had on the Gekkoukan uniform. "You two are Kei Kazuki, Fuuka Yamagishi, right?" "No." Lying seems like a good idea. " You're a bad liar. You are Kei Kazuki and Fuuka Yamagishi!" I didn't expect him to fall for it though. "Okay then, who are you?" "I am the guardian of this place -Juro Manabu- a guardian of some of the shards." "What?" "I guess that wouldn't mean anything to you, would it." "I guess..."

He looked up at us with a blank expression on his face. "Are dreams good to you guys?" "Huh?" "Answer the question." "Yeah, I guess." "Y-Yes." "Oh, really," Juro asked with a sort of condescending tone in his voice. "Do you both really mean it...?" This guy is starting to creep me out. "Because it seems to me that you guy aren't too sure about your answers." "Does this even matter?" "Quite, since I enjoy dreams myself. They're like a place you can escape to when you are all tired out from the world." This guy... He isn't ordinary, that much is clear.

"Kazuki-kun, I sense something wrong with him." "What?" "A certain power is rising." "Really." "You are quite perceptive. Yes, I do have powers. ...In fact, you can say I too have a Persona." "...!" "*Gasp*" Juro didn't care about hiding that fact.

"I guess it's kind of rude for me not to show you what my Persona does. So, I'll show you. Hypnos!" A persona appeared behind him. A Persona with only a cloth covering his body. "Oh, my." "I know it looks inappropriate Yamagishi, and I apologize, but you shouldn't really let your guard down." "What?" "What are you gonna do!?" "You shouldn't use past tense for something I already did." "What?" "...Every one of your second-year friends is asleep." "What!" "How did you do that? Your Persona shouldn't have that type of reach with its spells." "Hmph, shows what you know. Personas are capable of so much more than what any of you know."

He stopped looking at the floor and looked over at us. "Time for you two to enter a blissful dream, Hypnos!" A wave of fatigue was heading our way. "Well, looks like I'll have to use this...!" I threw a sort of worm towards the sleep spell, and when I did, it created a hurricane blowing against the sleep spell. "Western blast!" "Huh" A blast of unknown energy exploded in front of me. "AGGHHH!" I was sent flying back. *Thud*

"I'm sorry Yamagishi, but you're next." "..." "Western blast." The same wave of energy. "Wait!" "It's okay Kazuki-kun, I got this..." Fuuka put her Evoker to her head. "Lucia now's your now time!" *Bang* The attack hit. "Fuuka!"

The dust was clearing, and I saw a figure's shadow standing. "Fuuka, are you okay!?" "Yes, and the reason for that is..." I saw the dust clear in the area in front of Fuuka. And I saw something odd. "What...is that?"

The plate circled Circled around Lucia... "This is called 'Counter shield'! It works like a, but with one minor detail." A red circle formed in front of the shield; a magic circle? The circle produces an Agi fireball.

Boom* "AHHH!" The attack connected, and it seems like he's weak to fire.

"G-Get-GET IT OFF ME!" "Huh!?" Something is definitely wrong here. There is no fire on him. "Hey, calm down, you're not on fire!" His screaming was starting to calm down.

"*Pant* *pant* *pant*" "Are you okay?" "Why are you asking me that, I tried to kill you!?" "Still..." Fuuka had her shield go back to Lucia, and she dismissed her. "Are you..." "Flurry stab!" "*Gasp*" "Skeith!"

I had Skeith lung at Hypnos, he grabbed it's head and slammed it into the ice-covered walls.

"She just wanted to see if you were okay!" "I am an enemy, you shouldn't care about me!" Hypnos pushed Skeith away. "Just Personas! "Fine by me, I don't even have a weapon."

Hypnos moved over to me. "Go Skeith!" Skeith did a flurry of attacks, so did Hypnos. *Thud* Skeith fist hit the wall. "Chance! Flurry stab!" Hypnos hit Skeith's shoulder, damaging his shoulder, and me as well. "ARGGGHH!" "Kazuki-kun!" "Now, Eastern bla-" Skeith came flying back at Hypnos, hitting it in the face with his kneecap." *Thump* "AGGHH!" "Take it!"

He felt that blow full on. "How you like that!" "Damn, I guess this calls for a better skill to be used..."

The Persona user gets up from the floor and was just standing there. "I'm sorry, but this will end..." The air around us felt heavier. "I have a bad feeling about this!" "...!" "Dark slum-" "Stop!" "Huh?" "What is it Yamagishi?"

Fuuka walked in front of me, and she shot herself with her Evoker.

"Right now, I am using my shield and note, I can do this five times in a single day, and I'm short one. Also, once it identifies your weakness, it'll use it again against you. So please, retreat...

The Persona-users hands were trembling... "Why are your hands trembling then!?" "Because, I don't want to hurt you, but if you continue to fight...then I'll fight, too!"

Fuuka was standing her ground against him...

"Damn, fine. I'll leave for now, but sooner or later we'll need to end this. ... even if you don't..."

He dismissed his Persona. "The door up ahead will lead you back to your friends... Once you get there, you'll have to wake them up. But it won't be through normal " "What about you, man?" "What about me?" He began to walk past us. "I'm already dead." "What!" "That doesn't make any sense! But I sensed-" "It doesn't matter what you sensed, I'm dead and that's a fact."

He went past us, and then all together, he disappeared into thin air.

"Kazuki-kun, we should get going." "Yeah, let's go..."

While we were walking to the door, I wanted to ask Fuuka about her new powers.

"Hey, Fuuka, how did you get that ability?" "I trained with Shizuka-chan." "You know how to fight then?" "No, I just learned how to deploy the shield." "Oh, that's still useful, and pretty cool!" "Really?" "Yeah, you were pretty badass back there." "I was?" "Hell yeah." "T-thank you." "Nah, you deserve it."

"But about my ability, Kazuki-kun." "What about it?" "I can't do it five times in a single day, nor does it do the same attack again even if it's been identified." "Wait are saying..." "I lied."

She said one hell of a lie to save our lives back there. I should feel surprised, and I am. Albeit... I put my hand on top of her head, and I began to rub it. "You still did an amazing job." "Thank you..."

We reached the door... We both put our hands on other doors. "Let's go." "Right." We opened the door to where our friends could be at...

Gekkoukan high, class: 2-F,?

When we came out from the other end of the doorway, we saw a bunch of students looked over to us.

"Hey, when did you guys go in there!?" "Huh?" "How did you get in there!?" "Whoa, calm yourself." "Answer me!" "We fell through the floor in the main hallway." "Bullshit!" "*Sigh* What do you want from me, man." "Tell me your names!" "That's Kei Kazuki and Fuuka Yamagishi." "Huh?" "You know these guys, Minako?" "If I didn't I wouldn't have known their names." "Right, sorry."

Minako gets up from a desk. "Minako, where is everyone else?" "Over there..." Minako pointed to everyone else. Aigis was looking after them with the utmost care.

"He wasn't lying..." "Who!?" "Um, n-nobody," I stuttered.

I went over to them. They were sound asleep. "Alright, time to do this!" "I will not let you get near them," Aigis stood in front of us with her hands stretched out. "Aigis, move. We don't have time for this!" "I will protect them from any threat; including you!" "Me too, huh..."

Aigis looks dead set on not letting me through. I wasn't gonna argue with her, but instead...

"You want to stop, then you should do something about it." "...!" "Kazuki-kun, she's still faster than you! Don't fight her!" "I not gonna fight her." Instead, I was gonna do something else.

Boom* "Whoa, there was an explosion!" "Let's go check it out!" All the other students left the classroom to check where the explosion came from. I put my hand on my face.

"Closing the gap!" After Aigis stated that, she was aiming for my head with a swift kick. I don't have a lot of time to be able to use this, but Aigis isn't giving me a choice.

Thud* Aigis' foot hit the floor. "Huh, where did Kazuki-kun go?" "He has disappeared. This is a weird event." "Far from it, look right there." "Huh?" "How is this possible!?" "Trust me, it's possible!"

I was behind Aigis, who was still trying to figure out how I was fast enough to move past her, and I was next to Yukari. I put my finger on her forehead.

Yukari's dream world,?

The moment after I put my finger on her forehead, I was brought to an unknown location. I walked around for a bit, and from I have seen so far, this appears to be a normal house.

"Hello, hello?" "You don't need to be so loud!" "Huh?" I saw Yuka-chan behind me. She was wearing a different school uniform than what she normally wears.

"Sorry if I was making you wait." "What are you talking about?" "Aren't we walking to school together?" "Oh, really?" "Are you messing with me right now? You said Stupei wasn't coming along with us, and Fuuka was heading there with Moriyama. So, I said we shouldn't wait for Minako, Makoto, and Aigis then since we would be late by the time they got here; you agreed." "Oh..."

She took my hand and was trying dragging me out of the house. "Hey, Yuka-chan, wait!" "What is it?" "Do you know that this is all a dream?" "A dream...?" "Yeah, none of this is real, none of it. So, we need to get going."

Yuka-chan stood quietly for a minute. Her face look changed expressions.

"It doesn't need to be fake." "Come again?" "...I know that this is fake, but...I feel too happy being here. I want this to be real and it can be. Don't you think..." Everything she said just now...made sense to me. I know how she's feeling, but still...

"This could be real for you too. You could have your mother alive, and-" "Yukari," I yelled to gain her attention "...!" "Listen, we need to back, and I'm not only saying that because I want to leave. But because your friends aren't here, but outside of this dream."

She let go of my hand after I was done talking. "*Sigh* I had a feeling you would convince me... But at the same time, I wish you didn't." "I'm sorry, but we need you and everybody else." "Me..." "Yeah, I need all you guys to help me with this." "Oh..." "And we also need our residential healer present." "Y-yeah, your right!"

Yuka-chan's outfit changed to her Gekkoukan uniform with the pink cardigan.

"The pink warrior has returned!" "Is that another nickname you gave me?" "Sorry, it was just too good to pass up." "You- *Sigh* I guess it'll be okay to let you call me that in here, although, if you tell anyone else about that nickname, I'll knock you out." "Okay."

"Hey, did you always have yellow eyes?" "Huh, oh." It must be due to the Shadow-mog."You must've imagined me with this." "(Quietly) Oh, well, you do look good with those eyes." "You say something?" "N-nothing, nothing at all!" Yuka-chan was blushing for some reason.

Yuka-chan took my hand again... "Let's get out of here, Kei-kun." "Yeah."

She dragged me to the exit of this place. I felt something was off about all of this, but I didn't want to break her great mood. So I just stayed quiet and I let her drag me out of here. Why did her dream world take place in a house?

Gekkoukan high, class 2-F, ?

I felt my mind return back to reality. "Kazuki-kun, are you okay?" "Yukari-san, are you okay!?" "Huh, yeah, just fine..." I saw Kei-kun's finger on the forehead. "Um, Kei-kun, your finger." "Oh, sorry." He took his finger off my forehead. (Why do I feel disappointed about that?)

"Alright, looks like we need to Jun and then we're good." Kei-kun starts to rub his hands together. "Time for more dream diving!" "Wait, let me take care of this, Kei-kun..."

I kneed down to the floor in front of Junpei. I raised my hand to the sky, and I drove it to his face. *Smack* "AHHH!" "Good, he's awake." "Aw, what the hell Yuka-tan!?" "I was just waking you up." "Yeah right... I almost close to hitting home base!"

Junpei got up from the floor as he was rubbing his cheek.

"Okay, so this is all of the second-years of SEES. How about the third years, Minako?" "They went to find out what the hell is going on." "Makes sense."

As we were talking about them, somebody barged into the class. "Hey!" It was Kio... "What's the matter, Kio?" "All of you come with me!" "What happen Senpai?" "Just come follow me, and you'll see!"

We all looked at each other, and we began to run to where Akihiko-senpai wanted us to go...

Gekkoukan high, gym,?

We arrived at the gym that was frozen shut. Fuuka had Lucia out.

"What going on Senpai," Minako asked with little care. "I was trying to find an exit until saw someone in there." Minako went to take a peek.

"Huh?" "Something the matter, Fu-chan?" "The reading I'm pickup from the person inside there." "No way!" "Mino-tan, what do ya see?" "What is it Fuuka," Yuka-chan put a hand on her shoulder. "I only felt this reading only a few times, but there is no mistaking it! This reading belongs to-" "Makoto!"

Finally, I was able to get a chap done! School has been nailing my free-time. But that isn't important right now. Sup everyone, Proxy's saga here, and I just like to say thank you for the number of people that tuned in for the first chap for this year. (So many views!) Okay, first things first, I just noticed a lot of things while I was in between chaps; story development, character development, etc. Hopefully that this snow queen arc turns out well. (It should if I thought about this right.) So, for now, please follow the story if you want to know when a new chap is uploaded, and leave a comment if you want to. You guys could also PM me for the hell of it, or if you want to discuss something with me, I would gladly love to respond to them. Yep, that wraps it all up in a pretty bow. And as always, until the next time; see ya...