Hello everyone, it's me, author-san again. I hope you enjoy the last chapter and I hope you enjoy this chapter as well. So let's go to the reviews!

BlueCore: I am glad you like it. I will try to improve my writing as I keep going to keep it awesome

Raider301: Thank you for the suggestions, but I already have something in mind, just a little spoiler ahead I will do something common in fate. So it was you who posted those posts, I see. Well you are right that Azathoth would be a foreigner, Loki would be either a pretender class or an avenger class, I may write more about them, but not soon, this story needs time, but I will keep writing. Satanael would be a tricky one… I have plans, that's all I will say. Just remember this is an AU, some things will be the same but another will be different, as Dantes said "Wait and hope".

Mr. Haziq: Well you can say that the whole velvet room and Philemon is connected to Alaya. I am glad someone saw that connection.

: Nice, if you want you can write me a PM with your theory, I don't mind.

Ok now let's go for the story.

Persona, the true self

Chaldea

2020

Mash POV

"Ahh get away Fou! Why are you chasing me in the first place?!" Sreams a young voice at the other side of the door. Hecate-san just sighs at the voice outside while Wukong-san is barely containing a laugh. "You ate my last piece of sushi, you stray cat fou~!" Said another young voice but clearly more feminine than the first one.

The door opens and a tuxedo cat enters followed by the white rabbit-dog-squirrel privileged life form in Chaldea. "I am not a cat! I am Morgana!" replies Morgana starting with his catchphrase. Artoria is still uncomfortable hearing his name.

"I don't care who you are, YOU ATE MY SUSHI fou~!" Replies Fou or Cath as she calls herself. When day one happened, Morgana and Fou were rayshifting with us to singularity F. For some strange reason they got synchronized and all of us can hear them speak now where before we only heard miaus and fous.

I don't know when the melee started but I can only see a black and white blur fighting in a little cloud. "Morgana, Cath, that's enough. You mustn't fight for food like that." Says Olga in a scolding tone. Emiya nodded silently, being the main cook of Chaldea he didn't like fighting over the food. "Besides I am pretty sure that you had your meal already and I left some sushi from dinner yesterday to eat today, I hope it is fine." Olga said in an innocent but dark tone. Morgana and Cath both understand the dangerous situation and in a second, "Please forgive me Lady Olga" "I am sorry fou" and started to say sorry to the director.

"That's better" Says the director with a little smile on her face. "We were telling the stories of the phantom thieves of hearts." Morgana lifts his head with a happy smile. "The tale of the phantom thieves of hearts, nyaa. Then let 's do it. In what part are you?" He asked eagering.

Senpai bent a knee to allow Morgana to climb to his shoulder. Fou for her part came to me and lay on my lap with her head looking at the trio. "We were telling them about the first time we met and used our persona." Senpai tells Morgana who nods understanding.

"Will you stop the casual chat and continue telling the story? This information is pure gold!" Said Da Vinci while writing something in her papers with her eyes sparkling. Maybe she got inspiration in that power?

"All right so we just awakened this strange power called persona..." Senpai continues his story again. I feel excited by the prospect of learning more about him.

April,2020

Ritsuka POV

"Ravage them, Arsene!" "Shine, Black Madonna!" My voice and Olga's voice scream at the same time as a vortex of darkness and some light hit the closest enemies and made them disappear. I looked at Olga and saw her outfit change too and have a ghostly thing like Arsene behind her, a figure covered in a black veil and having a black staff in its left hand, polarizing, the figure also has a shining sword in the right hand. I turned to Ryuji and saw him fine but paralized with awe and surprise about what just happened.

"No way, they have awakened a Persona?!" Said the strange creature inside the cell to itself. After a pause it screams to us "Hey! Listen to me! I know about that power you just awakened, so let's do a deal. I will guide you in this battle and you free me, then I will guide you to an exit to this place. Understand?" It asks us as part of a deal and with some guards still standing at the side of the frightened king we need all the help we need.

"I accept the deal" I said with a clear voice. Olga also replies "I accept too, but betray us and I will throw you back into this cell personally." She said with a cold voice.

'Kamoshida' morphs his face into an angry expression "GUARDS! Kill them!" He orders his lackey to kill us. Three of the guards come close to us and start twitching, then they ooze into a black pool and reappear as two punkin heads and one fairy. The not-cat thing starts to scream at us, "Use your weapon to make them some damage." Wait, weapon? I looked at my hand and saw a one hand sword, Olga did the same with the weird staff/ spear mix? This weapon come from the same place as Arsene?

I closed the distance between one of the jack o' lantern heads and swung my sword and with only a slash I managed to destroy it. I never moved so fast or free before, so I looked at myself amazed, that was a stupid thing to do at the moment.

I turned around and saw the fairy charging at me, I couldn't move to evade and got hit by her. It hurts, but only manage to make me take some steps back. Ok I need to be more careful now.

I took a stance and got ready to strike back, but it wasn't necessary. Olga charges at the fairy by the side at incredible speed and stabs her with the pointy part of her weapon, killing the enemy with it. Her arms and legs have some weird glow line like a circuit. My focus change to her face when she looks at me with the face that my mom use when dad do something stupid, I low my head by instine, "Don't be so stupid and let yourself killed Fujimaru." She said before turning to the last of the enemies.

I walk at her side and keep my guard towards our enemy. The last pumpkin head threw a fireball at us. We managed to dodge it and take my mask off, Arsene then cleaved him with his claw. He disappeared in a black ooze before our eyes.

"Don't protect me, just take their heads NOW!" Roar Kamoshida with rage and desperation in his voice. The last four guards change their form too. Two of the same fairies, one pumkin head and the last one a kind of demon with a big...pole.

He didn't last as Olga shot magic bullets the moment she saw him, making him disappear. "Disgusting" She said as she finished her barrage. I saw the opportunity and charged at the pumpkin head at the right, knocking him to the ground.

"Hey, you can knock them out with a spell too, some of them are weak to a certain element, so if you hit them with that, they will be defenseless!" Scream the not a cat thing from inside the cell.

Taking that advice I took my mask off summoning Arsene, eiha, then a dark energy surge at the feet of the fairy, my target. She got knocked out after the attack, leaving an opening to attack the confused pumpkin head that was slowly recovering his footing, err floating? Whatever. I stab him before he can recover and destroy it.

The last one tries to shoot a fireball at Olga and she blocks it with her weapon, still taking some damage because of the heat and the momentum. "You poor excuse of a ghost, I will banish you!" She said as she took her mask off and summoned a cursed wave that surged from below the enemy and made the pumpkin disappear.

With all the guards beat we were just us and 'Kamoshida'. He looked so scary that when we stared at him he decided to run at full speed passing the bridge.

With the danger now over I feel the energy leave my body, I feel tired and lightheaded and I don't feel my new attire. I look at Olga and see she doesn't have her costume while looking a little tired too.

"Good job you two, for a couple of novices you learn fast" Said the cartoonish thing inside the cell. "The king dropped his keys, take them to free me from this cell" It said more hopeful and desperate.

Ryuji appears to recover from the shock of seeing us with something like those spirits in that bizarre manga. "Dude, what the hell did you do back then? Is it more magic BS?" Olga makes a disgusted face while hearing the last question. Then she starts to look more at herself for some reason.

"The things that appear when they take off their mask are called persona, born from their rebellious souls. You really are an amateur if you don't know that" It said while I was recovering the keys and going to the cell door and released it.

"What did you say, cat?!" Ryuji replies, getting angry at the thing. "I am not a Cat, I am Morgana! I just have this form for...some reason. Anyways you blonde monkey you better remember" The human/cat named Morgana yelled comically inside his cell.

I managed to find the key to open the cell door and free Morgana, he walks happily outside the cell "Ahh freedom at last. Thank you" Morgana said with a happy smile at me, then he recovered the seriousness. "We need to hurry, the king will recover from his fear and call more shadows to execute us." I nod at that.

We crossed the bridge as fast as we could. When we reached the other side we saw more prisoners of the castle, but they were wearing gym clothes. "Hey, why are you here?! Ask Ryuji trying to open the cell door. "Don't bother blondie, let's get out of here." Says Morgana with a bit of indifference.

Ryuji, hearing this, turns to Morgana "HEY! We can't let these guys be here and suffer whatever effing shit Kamoshida would do to them!" He said with an angry scowl. Morgana sighs as annoyance "You really are a rookie about this. These are not real people, so let's go before the shadows arrive" Morgana said with a sense of urgency.

He looked around and spotted a door "Over here!" He said as he made a cartoonish dash toward the door. Ryuji tried to protest but Morgana and surprisingly Olga already crossed the door. I turned to Ryuji. " Let's go, better be alive than executed, and being dead won't help these guys if Morgana is lying. I don't like it either, but we can't do anything else now." I said to him. He grunted and started running toward the door.

As we were climbing the stairs at the other side of the door, Olga decided to ask a question "You know a lot about this place, so what are those monsters we fight? And what kind of spirits are those that help us?" She asks with genuine interest.

Morgana takes some seconds to think of a good answer "These creatures are called shadows, they are born from the repressed feelings of mankind in general. The king is the personal Shadow of a human. And the power you used is called persona, is the power born from your rebel soul." Morgana explains as Olga still thinks about the information we just got.

We reached the same main hall, that was the entrance where they captured us. Sadly there was a group of shadows that were waiting. "The prisoners, stop them!" Scream the one in charge at the same time his guards transformed into a couple of the pumpkins and those fairies. The captain transformed into a big demon with 'three' legs.

The danger makes me feel that energy again with all its power and the cool outfit. Olga also gets her dress back. I still don't know why but Morgana quickly cleared my doubts. "Your clothes change when the palace owner feels threatened by you, but you are only a couple of novices that just awaked their personas. Let me teach you how to fight these shadows" He steeps at the front of the group and a blue aura emerges from him "Come, Zorro!" As the power increases a figure appears behind Morgana, a muscular man with a big mustache, a black hat, with a belt with the letter 'Z' on it and armed with a rapier.

"What the… He also has those things too!" Ryuji exclaims in surprise as Morgana show us the same power we have now

One of the pumpkins charges at Morgana, which he dodge by jumping over it. "These Jack O Lanterns are weak to wind magic, so Zorro, garu!" Morgana explains as he commands Zorro to do a wind attack that knocks down the shadow.

"Come on, let's beat them" I nod and focus on the fairies. As the ones I fought before, I took out my mask and tried to use curse magic, earning the same result. I discovered that the same type of enemy has the same weakness. With that information I formed a plan. "Olga! Do the same to the disgusting shadow as the one you beat before!" I yelled the order to her.

She turns towards me and screams at me "Hey you don't Order me peasant!" Sadly that action made her vulnerable to an attack from the demon with his claws. This made Olga cry in pain as she fell onto the floor, three red marks are visible on her back.

"Head in the game rookie, if you get distracted in a battle you will be dead" Said Morgana as he sliced the demon with his scimitar, making the demon fall back.

"Cover me, black hair" Says Morgana. I nod and put myself in front and start to look at the opponents. Well Ritsuka, this is similar to kendo match...a very unfair kendo match.

As I kept watching the shadows, Morgana used his powers again, but this time wasn't a wind attack, but a healing spell. Olga's injury closes itself and even her clothes mend leaving no trace of an attack. Olga looks surprised at Morgana for a reason but composes herself and says a soft "Thanks".

She stood up again with an angry expression on her face. Yes, now I can confirm it, she is similar to mum. Olga takes her mask and with her persona summoned she uses a bless attack toward the demon, knocking him out. "This is for hurting me you disgusting fiend" She said as she started to obliterate the demon with magic bullets from her hand. Note to self, do not try to anger Olga.

I decided to go on the offensive too. I used the curse attacks towards the remaining fairies, it was hard because I can only target one of them each time, but I managed to defeat all the pixies in the end. Morgana with his experience and wind spells manage to beat all the jack o lanterns.

After cleaning the pass our battle clothes disappear again. I sigh as I really like the outfit. "Nice fight you two, especially you, glasses." Morgana praises us, but then he turns serious "We need to move, the guards soon will swarm us and we are close to the exit" He then starts his cartoonish run toward a hallway. Ryuji notices this and calls him out "HEY! The exit is right there" Pointing toward the door. Morgana continues running as he replies "I know a better exit and that one has no guards looking at it." I decided to trust Morgana and follow him, and soon I heard two sets of footsteps following me.

After a couple of seconds we enter a side room where there is a deadend. Olga got angry and called Morgana "I remember telling you that if you betray us then I will throw you in that cell myself." Morgana becomes a little pale and quickly tries to explain "Ummm well what kind of thief enters by the front door, we usually use windows, backdoors or event VENTS" He said with emphasis on the last word as pointing toward the vent...Ahhhh, I see.

"Well there is your way out here, from here we take separate roads." Morgana said finally. "I still need to do something here so I will stay" I nod understanding that Morgana keeps his part of the deal, but suddenly i remember something "Umm Morgana, what will we do next? we will still be outside the castle but not how to get out of this place" I said while pointing all around me. "Ahh that's easy, just go to the first point you enter the Metaverse and you will automatically go back to your world. In other words, just follow your steps before you enter the castle and that's it. You will be safe, the shadows never get away from the palace." Morgana reassures us with a small smile.

Saying our farewells we step outside the vent and start walking the same direction we came.

Aoyama-Itchome

Late Morning

Olga POV

I caught my breath after we heard the sound of cars and saw the clear and blue color of the sky. "You have returned to the real world. Welcome back" Said a robotic female voice coming from Ritsuka's direction, I turned toward him and saw he reached for his pocket and had the phone device, looking at it surprised.

Ryuji starts talking loudly about what happened, urgg the fool. Ritsuka and I try to tell him to lower his voice to not gain unnecessary attention. I would hypnotize him there if I could, but the fights and the strange power from my soul drain me from almost all my odd reserves. I need to research that strange power of persona later.

...I almost died… I almost lost everything there. I started to hyperventilate at the thought of my close encounter with death. All my hopes were almost crushed, but it didn't loud hooligan, no, Ryuji, tried to protect me from something that may be worse than death. And Ritsuka fought bravely by my side with the same power as I awoke. He is smart and kept a calm face during the dire situation, something I like from my workers to have.

After calming myself I noticed some police officers approach us and start talking to us about why we aren't in school. Then the idiot of Ryuji started talking about the castle! Urgg just when I need some form of magecraft to hide the moonlit world.

Then Ritsuka came and started talking about how much fun we had at the arcade playing video games... Okay i don't know what is the arcade what is he talking about but the policemen seem to understand and sight in disappointment. I don't like that look on me.

At the end the police officers sent us toward the school. When we were in the alley again I told them not telling a soul what they saw in the castle, is the best i can do for now to keep the secret. I can hypnotize them to make them forget about that place later. Maybe not Ritsuka, after all he manifests the same power as I...The power of the soul mmm sounds a lot like the third magic, i can't be sure if i don't research it first.

Ryuji seemed pissed off by keeping it a secret but Ritsuka seemed to understand and told Ryuji some arguments about why it is a bad idea told anyone else about it like being high on drugs or playing too much videogames. I mentally add being labeled as a sealing designations or hunted by the church executors.

When we reached the school there was a very annoyed teacher waiting for us. Nice job Olga, first day of school in this backwater country and you already look like a hooligan.

Author note

Well here I will leave the episode after escaping Kamoshida's Castle. So you noticed that I didn't upload this story for months. Well I have to say that I was very busy with my college projects and tests so I had less time to write, add to that that some FGO event happened and this chapter was my first battle scene, so I had some thoughts on how it must be done.

Speaking of thoughts, I am interested in expanding some of the crossover with elements in the Nasuverse. I think it would be nice.

So in this chapter got the revelation of Olga's persona, if you are a fan of Nasuverse then you know who is the persona. Some aspect i would point is that Black Madonna represent duality, two sides of the same coin, so because of that i was thinking in make her dual Curse and Bless, but i don't know if i make it at the same time or something like a switch that change the strength and weakness of the persona, also that Eiha changes for Kouha and vice versa. But to balance that I am thinking of adding weakness to fire or nuclear in the twist. In the next chapter I will decide for sure about this topic.

The updates would become more frequent because I am finishing my semester and having vacations here. Remember that I appreciate reviews that will make me better at writing and to make plots. So without much to say "hasta la vista, baby".