Chapter 2: Persona or Puppet?

"NAOTO!"

"SHIROGANE!"

"NAOTO-KUN!"

Several voices echoed through the forest as a group of teens traversed the area of which they entered similarly to another event few months ago. Picked from their original location and dropped here.

"Where is she?" Chie sighed as they looked through the forest. All of them were there, except for the detective prince.

"Do you really think she's here? If this was like the field a while ago, why was she stuck here longer than us?" Yukiko wondered as they ran through the forest.

"Regardless of her being sent here, we need to find her if she's injured. This place is crazy!" Yosuke said as he nearly tripped over a tree root.

"We haven't met anyone out here. I'm not surprised, but I feel like someone is here." Yu said, eyes scanning the forest. It wasn't dense, but the trees were thick and wide.

"Naoto! " Kanji yelled , only for his voice to die out through the forest.

"We'll find her, don't worry big guy." Yosuke said, patting his shoulder.

"If this was the phantom field, we should've met someone by now." Yukiko said, Yosuke was behind her and Chie, with Kanji infront and behind Yu.

"Did you guys hear something?" Yosuke asked, they all stopped to listen but heard nothing.

"No, please stop messing around." Chie said, a rustling was heard in the bushes.

"DUCK!" Yukiko and Chie were shoved to the ground as something flew past them. Their topple was strong enough to knock down Kanji as well and Yu turned around in alarm.

"Yosuke! What in the world was that-" Chie's complaint died in her throat as she saw what has happened.

A giant magenta colored, female looking, puppet towered over them. It looked like a persona, it's arms were massive. Yosuke was where they stood, but he was dangling a few feet above the ground as giant metal claws gripped tightly around his chest. Yosuke grunting as he pulled on them.

"A persona?" Yukiko and Chie scramble further away to get a better view and plan.

" Hey! Let go of Hanamura!" Kanji yelled as he tossed the chair he was always carrying st the giant puppet. It didnt even flinch.

"Urg... Persona: Jiraiya!" Yosuke yelled, much to the surprise of all of them, the massive ninja-eqsue persona materialized before them, and hit the marionette. The grip loosened enough for Yosuke to wriggle out and fall to the ground. However, a bolt of energy shot out of the trees and hit the persona. Jiraiya froze before dematerializing. The puppet looked for a few seconds, before focusing on Yosuke again. It shot out and instead aimed itself at Chie, who, Yosuke shoved out of the way and once again ended up being choked by a giant puppet like robot thing.

"You don't always have to cover me y'know!" Chie yelled as she fell to the ground again.

"Would you rather be choked by a giant robot?" Yosuke strained out as the claws tightened.

"Hang in there partner." Yu ran up with his katana in hand, and summoning his persons. As he made a swing at the puppet, a flash of purple appeared and his katana was repelled by a flash of gold. a bolt of electricity and his persona flickered away as well.

"Interesting, so that was the 'Personas' that he mentioned. Interesting, I take each of you have these so-called Personas. Just like the other girl. " the figure that spoke wore a magenta colored get up with a mask, he seemed about middle age and wore white gloves. He shoved Yu back and made him stumble. His last line caught Kanji's attention.

"'Other girl'... What have you done with Naoto?!" Kanji demanded, getting his fists ready to attack.

"Oh? You know her? Do not worry about her, but I am afraid I have to cut this visit short. I have some tests to run, and my associate has an interest in his 'former tag partner ' as he called it." The figure said, Yosuke froze momentarily.

"The green haired man..." Yosuke mumbled, the line barely audible to Yu.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" the figure dodged as a massive blast of red and black energy shot across them in a wave. The puppet jumped away and still held onto Yosuke.

"Huh?! RANGA-SAN?!" Chie yelled as the red clad man ran up to the masked stranger .

"What the hell are you doing Relius?!" Ragna yelled as he swung at him. The puppeteer just smiled.

"Nothing that would concern you Grim Reaper, just an errand run." Relius said, with that circles appeared under him, the puppet and Yosuke. As Ragna shot his energy, the three of them vanished in a flash of light.

"Fuckin' hell. That damn bastard." Ragna cursed.

"RAGNA-SAN!?" Yukiko yelled in surprise.

"What the fuck are you guys doing here?" Ragna asked.

"We don't know. It's just like the Phantom Field. What about you?" Yu asked, considering last time, this had to be a phantom field as well.

"Ha? This is my world, the one I was born and grew up in. And as you saw, i have to deal with crazy bastards all the time." Ragna growled.

"Who was that? Why would they take Yosuke? He wasn't in the field with us." Yukiko said.

"Who fuckin' knows what's going on in his head. Who the hell did he tag with back there? Cause that would help us track them down." Ragna said, Yu perked up.

"Yosuke said...'the green haired man?'" Yu said, Ragna tensed up and actually growled. It was inhuman.

"That fucking bastard." Ragna seethed, the anger was flowing off of him in waves.

"Who is it?" Yukiko asked warily.

"It's Hazama, that fucker! We need to find him quick." Ragna said, he grabbed Yu and began to drag him.

"Hey! Where're you taking him?!" Chie called as the others chased after him.

"Follow the leader. I'm taking you guys to someone I know. If we don't, assume your friend is dead." Ragna said, the others didn't like that thought and ran after them.

"What about Naoto? She was taken here too, he said he has her!" Kanji yelled.

"As in Naoto the detective? The girl who dressed like a boy?" Ragna asked.

" Um, yes, how did you? " Ragna glanced at them, silencing Yukiko's question.

"I'll explain later. A friend of mine has been trying to gather info on that puppet bastard's activities. when did she go missing?" Ragna asked, still not letting go of Yu.

"About a month ago. We looked in everything." Chie said.

"Damn that bastard." Ragna seethed.

"What is it?" Yu looked at Ragna and felt a similar anger radiating off of him as they did when they found their first tv ' killer'.

"According to my friend, honestly, acquaintance would be more accurate. They recently picked up files and the bastard started some kind of project. He called it Project: Grim Heart. I have no idea why the strange names. They'll explain more, so lets get moving. For all we know, she's his test subject in that experiment." Ragna said.

Elsewhere...

Linne groaned as she woke up. She found herself under the soft covers of a royal bed. Despite it felt like she slept for hours, the moon was still bright in the sky.

"I see you're awake Ms. Linne." Linne jumped a bit and nearly fell out of the bed, she looked to see an older man. He wore a dark green formal suit with his long silver hair tied in a low tail.

"My name is Valkenhayn R. Hellsing. I am the bulter for the Alucard castle, Rachel Alucard is waiting for you in the garden. I'll be waiting for you outside the door for when you are ready, I have prepared clothing for you." The butler said as he briskly closed the elegant doors. Linne got out of the bed and found herself wearing a simple black nightgown. Her wounds have also been healed. She walked over to see a chair with a fluffy black lolita dress with red rose patterns and white flowers.

Linne sighed, momentarily frowning at the dress. However, her worry for Hyde was greater. If she had answers, then she's going to get all of them out of her.

Later...

Linne opened the door gently as her loose black sleeves glided in the faint wind. Valkenhayn was there waiting for her.

"Madam Rachel is in the garden, I will escort you." Valkenhayn said as he began to walk. They walked in silence as Linne took note of the large mansion like castle. the large windows let in so much moonlight it was like a sunny day. They soon approached a large pair of double doors. Once Valkenhayn opened them, Linne saw a large garden, practically made of a rose flower bed. The walls were high but low enough to get a full view of the night sky. In the center was a pretty white tea table, the familiar vampire sat on a chair at the table. Linne carefully made her way to the vampire. As she sat down, Valkenhayn walked up and poured each of them a cup of tea.

"Now then, I'm certain you have just as many, or even more questions than I do. Is that a fair assumption?" Rachel asked, Linne just looked at her. She didn't seem threatening right now, but she definitely has this powerful feeling around her. She didn't have your weapons and she was stuck in a very impractical dress, how does the vampire fight in these. She really didn't have a choice here.

"Yes." Linne finally said, Rachel looked at her with an interested look.

"Good, it's been awhile since I spoke with another immortal."

Chapter 3: A Discussion Among Immortals

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Yeah, short and probably a bit choppy. The next chapter will be more interesting and more consistently written. Just as a heads up, this will be more of a Under Night x Blazblue story. Persona plays a role that I don't want to toss and so I'm sticking with it. The summary said two, but thats in the case that Naoto was already missing prior to the events of the story. Everything will be explained in the next chapter and chapter 4 and 5. I have been studying the Under Night Wikipedia to see if my plot could fit logically with the elements. I'm getting pretty excited for this so the next one might be up in a few days. I'll see you guys in the next chapter and any feedback will be highly appreciated.