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[Right, we're approaching the old school building.]
Futaba's voice notified both Morgana and Issei of the destination they had in mind and how close it was. Still keeping a grip on Necronomicon's tentacles, the brunette was making sure that his hands were tight around the surface. It really wasn't that much of a fall. No, it was from him being so anxious of what was coming up.
Morgana, who was also holding on, looked over to the brunette and noticed the expression on his face. "You doing okay?" The cat frowned. "As Futaba said, we're near the old school building. You haven't even gotten yourself ready." With a nod of his head, he made sure his chin was gesturing to Issei's body.
"Huh?" Issei gave Morgana a confused look as he eyed the cat. But noticing the head movement, the boy immediately realized what the Phantom Thief was going on about. "Oh, right!" He exclaimed as there was a burst of red miasma off of his body and he was suddenly in his Persona-wielding outfit. "Sorry about that." The apology was followed by a scratch to the back of his head.
Cocking his head to the side, the smallest of the Phantom Thieves kept the frown on his face. "You haven't answered my question." Morgana pointed out. "Are you that nervous or something?"
To that, Issei looked away. "I mean… kind of." The brunette admitted hesitantly, looking to the ground as they passed by the masses that were too busy focusing on a devastating force that took on the colors of white and blue. "I guess it's because despite all of my practicing, I still don't have this entire Persona thing down. There's so much that I still got to learn about before fighting."
"Learn about outside of a fight?" Morgana raised an eyebrow while leaning his head back. "Issei-san, Personas are a manifestation of yourself." He explained. "That's not what some of us meant by learning. When we had our Personas unlocked, we pretty much didn't have time to train. So we did what we could in the Metaverse and got experience from that. Also, we took the time to make sure to understand and fully determine who or what we really wanted."
Before the second-year student could react, Futaba injected something into the conversation. [Sorry to break up the tutorial, but we've arrived. But there is kind of a problem.]
She was correct, in their sights was the old school building. Nothing looked very different about it. But there was one glaring issue about the sight though, and that was the windows. Normally, they would just be transparent if one were close enough or reflective at a distance. This time however, several magic circles lined the windows.
[But don't worry about that, because I have a solution!] Futaba announced.
"And what exactly would that be?" Morgana asked. The tentacles holding both of its passengers suddenly wrapped around the two of them. While Issei gave the tentacles an odd look, Morgana had an expression of realization on his face and snapped his head up. "Futaba, whatever you're going to do, I don't think it's a good idea!"
[Here's the wind up…] The giant spaceship-Persona soon began turning in a circle while moving around the building. After one rotation, a second circulating started but at a faster speed. Then came a third spin even faster. [And the pitch!]
"Aaahhh!"
Both Issei and Morgana screamed then Necronomicon used the momentum to throw them like a couple of sentient baseballs across the distance that was between them and the old school building. As they expected, those magical circles that were in their sights began to open fire as many magical bolts started firing towards them.
But instead of meeting their flesh, each spell instead hit a green bubble that surrounded the two of them. Eventually breaking through the window of the top floor where the main room was, both Issei and Morgana rolled on the floor and got onto their feet. Issei had one of his double-barreled revolvers ready while Morgana had his sword resting on his shoulder.
"Damn it, they got through our defences!"
"Incoming from outside!"
The scene before both males showed several people which were suspected to be sorcerers occupying the room. Across the room from where Issei and Morgana stood however was Gasper suspended in the air by magical runes was who was groaning in pain. "Gasper!" Issei shouted.
A crash followed by part of the wall was not really part of the attention as Necronomicon had broken through the structure of the building. Quickly leaping out, Futaba slid over right next to the two other people that were not human. "Gasper-chan, it's okay! We'll get you out soon enough!"
"Sakura-san, I'm so sorry. This whole all my fault!" Gasper shouted in pain, his eyes missing the natural pupils. Instead, they were replaced with a glowing-yellow diamond shape with red pieces to make up the rest of the eye.
"It's okay, Gasper-chan. I'm just glad we managed to make it unharmed." Futaba reassured the boy. "Are you okay?"
But what followed next was a surprise to the three attempting to rescue the half-vampire. "You guys… please… please kill me…"
Almost all three of them took a step back at his request. After all, it wasn't natural for someone to just say that. Even more, such a sentence just didn't sound right. "Wh-what?!" Morgana asked.
"It's always the same." Gasper stated while dipping his head sadly. "I'm always causing nothing but trouble for everyone around me… family… especially friends! That's why it's better if I never existed!"
"Don't be silly!" Futaba exclaimed. "It doesn't matter if things like this happen because of you! I'll never consider you a nuisance! None of your friends will ever say that about you! Not only that, but you've just gotten started on your progress! There's no way you can give up just now!"
Interrupting their moment was a single sigh. Looking to the side, they saw that one of the sorcerers was the one who created such a sound. Shaking their head, a few long locks of hair fell out from under the hood. "How foolish." Came a female voice as they grabbed Gasper by the hair and pulling it up to show the despair on his face. "You try those tactics instead of brainwashing him. What kind of idiots don't take advantage of the tools in front of them."
"You…" Morgana hissed, Zorro suddenly rising up from behind him and pointing its rapier in their direction.
"…" Gasper sniffled, closing his eyes. Trembling, he hiccupped. Tears soon began rolling down his eyes as he was just going through so much grief. "…I just don't want to cause anyone anymore trouble…" He wept.
Issei, who was silent through the entire exchange, just kept on boiling in anger at the scenario. First of all were all of these sorcerers putting the guy through a lot of pain. Sure, he hardly knew the smaller blonde. But Gasper was doing his best to attempt to improve his abilities yesterday. Yes, the boy struggled a lot. That just meant that he was putting in a lot of effort. It reminded Issei so much of what he had to go through when training for the Rating Game.
Second, once more despite not really knowing Gasper, but that boy was still a fellow member of the Peerage that he was a part of!
"Stop being so selfish!" Issei exclaimed, startling everyone in the room at his sudden outburst. "Yeah, things are tough! But take it from a guy who also struggled, you still have all of your friends to help you along the way! Things will get better; I can promise that" He stomped forward. "You think you're trouble!? Then fine! That won't change anything or how we feel about and treat you! In fact, I'll save you all by myself in order to show that you are worth the trouble!" The brunette announced while pointing at himself with his thumb.
That bold statement surprised everyone in the room, even getting a physical reaction from all of the occupants. "Issei…" Morgana said slowly, leaning forward. "Are you really sure that's what you want to do?"
"Positive." Issei nodded his head with narrow eyes. "As you said, you get the experience when in the heat of the moment. I think this is the perfect time to see what I am capable of in a real fight." He then turned to eye the cat. "Besides," The brunette smirked. "I remember a few tips and tricks Akira-senpai taught me."
Morgana and Futaba stared at the confident look that the boy was producing. It reminded them of the time when Issei first unlocked his Persona. The two Phantom Thieves then eyed each other. After a silent exchange, the two of them nodded their heads. Stepping back, the cat and human gave the Devil some room.
"Alright then." Morgana. "If that's the case, I'll step in if I think things get too hairy for you."
"And you'll have my support!" Futaba added. "Now make sure you kick their asses and save Gasper-chan!"
"…Issei-san…" Gasper whispered.
Taking breaths in and out while all of the sorcerers in the room began to raise their hands in preparation for battle, Issei did his best to calm himself. "Remember what Akira-senpai said. It's not just physical. It's also a mental thing. Physical and mental… physical and mental…"
Seeing one of the sorcerers pointed their hand at him with a magic circle, Issei reacted quickly. "Say hello to my little friend!" He exclaimed while reaching for his right hip with his left hand. Grabbing a handle that looked like it belonged to a whip, the boy swiftly spun it around counter clockwise.
During that motion however, something that had the color of red-hot metal began shooting out from a hole that was at the end of the handle pointing outwards. The material was a rope as it extended until it had extended far enough as Issei swung down to strike the sorcerer's hand.
Not only did the sorcerer shriek in agony but was also severely burned due to the end of whatever hitting her being the source of extremely high temperatures. But her cry of pain was almost drowned out by the sound of a crack in the air, almost as if a whip had suddenly snapped.
Grabbing the middle of the rope, Issei soon began to spin the further tip around with his right hand as it showed that he was holding onto a lasso while spinning a red-hot loop that was nearly his size.
"And that's not the only thing the Ascalon Blade has done for me!" Issei grinned savagely while the room began to grow a shadow due to a red dragon suddenly occupying the area.
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Akira's declaration seemed to surprise all of the occupants in the room that were unaffected by Gasper's Sacred Gear.
But what he implied was rather humorous to one of them. Funny enough to cause them to chuckle. "I'm yours?" Katerea asked with a smirk, putting a hand on herself. "You actually believe that you have a chance against a descendant of Leviathan? You're just human!"
"Big talk coming from some shamed Devil who not only lost their position from the Great War, but also was wounded from a gunshot thanks to said human." Akira remarked, pointing his knife in her direction. His statement caused her to growl, much to his satisfaction.
All but Azazel of the four leaders looked like they wanted to talk, but it didn't look like that scenario would ever come. "…I don't suppose you'll surrender, Katerea?" Sirzechs asked with a frown on his face. "You could just do that and we won't be to harsh with punishing you."
Rolling her fingers, the dark-skinned Devil had her hand wide open as a dark energy began to form around the flesh. "No." She answered. "You're a decent Devil King, but far from the strongest. Which is why we will bring things back to the old ways."
While the tension between the supernatural happened, The Phantom Thieves all look towards their leader. "…Joker," Yusuke asked, already holding onto the handle of his blade. "Is there anything that we could do to help you?"
Cracking his knuckles, Akira eyed the blue-haired boy from the corner of his eye. "All of you can prevent the others from interfering."
All the humans looked at one another, feeling rather hesitant to just leave their leader alone to fight one of the big shots. "Dude, you okay?" Ryuji asked. "You seriously look like you're going to beat the shit out of her."
If Akira was going to answer, nobody would have known. A lot of magic had gathered around Katerea's hand a lot faster than any of the Three Factions would have anticipated. With a quick swipe of her hand, a massive explosion of dark magic erupted through the entire room. With the power behind the attack, the area was a complete mess as a lot of debris and dust was kicked up.
Akira had just managed to defend himself with Arsene's wings covering him. As soon as the feathers parts ways, he aimed with him gun in Katerea's general direction. But with the dust, he couldn't get a clear sight. That easily led to the descendant of Leviathan charging the boy and knocking him out of the giant space in the wall behind him and outside with a staff.
Coughing ensued through the room as some of the occupants had inhaled the dust. Waving their hands around, they looked around to see the damage that had been done to the room. Their attention was eventually changed when they saw some action from outside of the room. Watching Akira fall, the boy had managed to catch himself in mid-air thanks to Arsene and be thrown in Katerea's direction.
But Akira didn't make it as something from below shot up and struck the boy. Looking down, they all saw that Vali did not manage to take care of all of the sorcerers or he was too occupied with another area. More robed figures had began rising up from the ground, all of them looking either in their direction or watching Akira try to fight Katerea.
"Well, I guess this is what Joker meant by try to prevent the others from interfering." Makoto suggested.
"Pretty sure he was mainly referring to them." Ryuji gestured with his thumb behind them.
"Either way, it's best that we take care of them right now." Ann added.
They all nodded in agreement. With multiple flashes of flames, they all drew their weapons. Not noticing the curious looks they were getting, all of them stepped forward to the edge of the building. "Noir, if you may." Makoto turned her head towards her friend.
"With pleasure." Haru smiled as she brought up her firearm. Firing a few grenades down into the crowd, that was then they all took immediate action.
The ground had suddenly erupted with small geysers of dirt spraying up thanks to the explosions of the grenades. Specks flew all over the place, temporarily blinding the opposition while throwing the unfortunate ones in the blast radius around. While that happened, all of the Phantom Thieves jumped out of the building and used their Personas to help cushion their fall.
As soon as they hit the ground and ran in separate directions, Ryuji sidestepped a spell being blasted his way. Drawing his shotgun, he fired in the general direction of where the blast came from. Holding his arm up, Captain Kidd came flying from behind and grabbed the boy by the limb. Flying upwards, the Persona punched an incoming sorcerer from the sky with its cannon-arm before throwing the blonde towards the ground. With his staff out, Ryuji smashed the end of the weapon against an unsuspecting opponent before knocking them away like a baseball.
A crack of a whip filled the air and a single sorcerer was knocked down onto the ground. There were those that tried to charge at her while others fired spells. Ann made sure that nothing got even close to her. Cracking her whip around with random precision, those attempting to rush her were getting punished for that idea. They couldn't do anything by be knocked to the ground or have whatever part they were hit on be frozen stiff to stop moving. Those that tried to fire spells meanwhile were having an incredibly hard time trying to pinpoint the female's position thanks to the smoke and fire Carmen was producing.
Yusuke came sliding through his opposition. With Goemon creating a path of ice, the blue-haired male slid along the element smoothly while firing his holy assault rifle with practiced aim. After a few seconds however he holstered his firearm and drew his blade. Slashing about as if he were focusing on a painting on a massive canvas, he moved swiftly around without the ice. Yusuke was swift with his arms, but Goemon was there to help his body and mind be even faster. Many that even suffered the slightest cut from the man ran in fear. Those that stood felt the wrath of the cold winds of Persona produced.
With the roar of an engine, Makoto swerved on Johanna and caused the back tire of the Persona to slam against a sorcerer's face. Constantly riding around, Makoto viciously ran each bit of opposition that stood in her way. Whoever was picked though was almost unpredictable due to her random movements. Activating the brakes when the back landed in the middle of a small pile of rubble, Makoto was flung forward but kept her grip on the handles. Accelerating, the back wheel caught in the pile still rotated, causing the entire Persona to spin around while Makoto used her batons to smash everyone around her.
Swinging her axe around, Haru hit one sorcerer with the end of the handle upwards. Swinging around, she hit another with the back of the axe-blade horizontally before using the momentum to hit the same one with a vertical smash. Leaping backwards, a burst of psychic energy from Milady also helped Haru flip backwards and right on top of another sorcerer while crushing them. Rolling off to the side, she pulled out her grenade launcher and fired in front of her three times, once upward in an arc, and then two more times forward and caused a lot of devastation.
Akira looked down to see the absolute chaos that his friends were providing. If he wasn't in the middle of doing something important, he would have stopped to admire the scene for a bit. That didn't stop him from smirking with satisfaction. Looking up, he saw that Katerea too was watching what was going on below and she look angry.
That distraction gave Akira the perfect opportunity though to take out her wings. While flying wasn't that much of a problem for him thanks to Arsene, that unfortunately meant that his Persona use was almost limited. If his opponent were on the ground or close to it, Akira would be able to be a lot more creative with how he could fight.
As he and the Persona ascended, Katerea saw them approaching. Pointing her staff, a burst of magic came flying towards them. Arsene however tossed Akira up just before disappearing. That gave Akira just enough distance to reach into his coat and throwing something right towards Katerea just before falling. But the missed her and flew up next to her back. The Devil only snickered not only when she saw where it was, but also because of the amusing happy face it made.
But Akira pulled up his pistol and shot the bomb and it suddenly exploded. But instead of an explosion, there was a massive burst of light which caused the Devil to scream in agony. He expected this. Holy items were supposed to be excruciating to Devils after all, and a Happy Bomb was more than enough for the job.
As Katerea careened down towards the ground, Akira and Arsene had already made it safely down. Spinning his knife around, Akira waited for the right moment. Just when the falling Devil came into his grasp front-first, the boy repeatedly stabbed her stomach a few times before leaving the knife in her body. Pushing her up and forward, Akira jumped as well. Using the knife and a step, he used his other foot to help slam her head right against the ground while breaking her nose with his heel.
Before Katerea could even get the chance to get back up, Akira had swiftly stepped off and began kicking the body that was on the ground viciously. After a few solid blows, he lifted his foot and stomped on the knife. Arsene immediately after used the stiletto part of its boot to stab through her shoulder. Quickly dragging its foot to the side, Katerea slid away from them as Arsene brought its boot out of her body while kicking Akira's knife up – which he caught in once smooth movement.
"This is… unbelievable! Unacceptable!" Katerea roared loudly, her skin suddenly knitting back to cover up the holes, but she looked like she was in agony. Using her staff as a pole for support, she managed to drag herself up. "How can a mere human do this to me?!"
"You know, lines like that are underwhelming in fiction. And in reality… it's a lot worse than I thought." Akira shook his head while shrugging his shoulders. "But let me tell you right now, there's more where that came from." He warned while pointing his knife at her once more. "Now, call off your minions to turn everyone back to normal before turning yourself in, otherwise we continue our little tiff." His warning a lot more intimidating thanks to the other Phantom Thieves gathering right behind him.
But rather than continue to be angry, Katerea eventually grew a small smile.
One that was not very pleasant. "Oh, I'll surrender once I'm dead." She viciously stated. "But I highly doubt that not even the leaders over there would try to do anything once I show them something very precious."
With a single snap of her fingers, a magic circle appeared right beside her. As expected, a single sorcerer did appear next to her. But there was something else that made everyone watching (since they had cleared the area) freeze. Well, rather than something… it was someone.
It was Sona in her time-frozen state.
A loud gasp emitted from Serafall as she quickly snapped her head over towards where all of the still Devils stood. Much to her dismay, Sona's body was not among them. It was at that point that everyone realized that the younger Devil must have been taken when Katerea created that massive explosion that also brought up all of that dust when they were too focused on her.
Akira meanwhile inhaled sharply, narrowing his eyes. Knowing that now they had a hostage, Sona among all people, made things incredibly difficult now. "Oracle," He said quietly. "How's rescuing Gasper-san?"
[Oh, things are good.] Futaba answered him. [No problems whatsoever.]
"If that's the case, would you mind hurrying up?" Akira asked. "We've got a hostage situation going on here, and-"
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Blinking, Akira couldn't help but turn his head over to where the school building was in confusion with the other Phantom Thieves. "…Was that Issei?" He asked with a raised eyebrow, ignoring the look of disbelief that Katerea was giving him since he was not paying attention to her.
[Hm? Oh yeah, it totally was!] Futaba confirmed. [I have no idea what you put him through or what you told him, but all of that worked like a charm! Check this out!]
Suddenly, a green holographic image was brought up to view from Akira's perspective and it expanded into a large screen while showing what was going on in the school building. Even the leaders gained a screen of their own to watch.
"…Guys, are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Ann asked, looking at the others who were watching.
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Pointing one of his revolvers, Issei shot one of the sorcerers. Quickly pointing his second gun in the opposite direction, he fired another shot right on point. Leaning out of the way of a punch, which he thought was dumb since they were spellcasters, the brunette smashed the butt of the weapon on their face.
Spinning around, he kicked a hand that was aiming for him. Stomping on the ground to stop himself from spinning around, he pointed his revolver once again and shot once more which ended up sending a sorcerer flying out of the windows. Spreading his arms out, he nailed two more with his guns. Shooting another that was charging for him, Issei saw another magician aim for him out of the corner of his eye.
Ddraig slammed its tail down to prevent the attack from happening. Opening its mouth, a torrent of fire came spewing out and torching all those that were unfortunate to be in its way. When several spells were shot towards it to shut its mouth, it only settled for smashing its snout against the opposition.
Slamming the butt of the gun on his right hand down on their hand of one who was aiming for him, the brunette then pointed his left-handed gun towards them and fired. Slightly turning forward, he shoved a knife upwards and blasted a small hole through the attacker's arm. Ducking under a spell, Issei shot in the direction the magical bolt came from before swiftly turning around a landing a couple more gunshots.
Spinning both revolvers on his index fingers, those bits were still on the triggers. As the guns rotated, they still shot bullets whenever Issei would move his fingers in order to move the trigger. Each shot looked as if they were unpredictable but landed on every single target that he could see.
But just like the Phantom Thieves, it just was not about gun fights.
Looking over, he saw that there weren't many sorcerers left while holstering his guns. Which explained why Gasper was suddenly on the floor and panting. Yet the boy didn't move, probably because out of fear. "Just sit tight, Gasper!" He exclaimed as the boy stared at him with wide eyes.
Hearing someone yell out a battle cry, Issei grabbed his whip handle and swung downwards. Already, a lasso had formed when the rope was spat out. Right at the loop had tightened itself around the magician, Issei turned his body while pulling and threw them out of the window. When bringing the lasso back, the brunette stepped out of the way of a magic bolt. Watching the energy go by, it had suddenly stopped in mid-air.
Surprised, he turned his head around to see that Gasper was staring in his general direction with his eyes wide open and looking odd. "Issei-senpai!" the half-vampire cried out.
"Ah, right!" Issei was reminded of the fight. Having a feeling that it just may work. Throwing his lasso over towards the bolt, he managed to snag the magic right out of mid-air. Spinning the magic around, most of the sorcerers were now extremely cautious of the boy, all stepping back as if it were going to help them. With a flick of his wrist, he slammed the bolt down to the ground and sent a group of magicians flying.
With the swinging momentum still in his arms, he brought the handle up to his neck. The item then began to spin around his neck, causing the long rope to whip around and knock down anyone in its way. Grabbing it soon after, Issei snapped it around someone's neck. Pulling them forward, Issei then shoved them into the air with his body and they landed right onto Rias' desk face first.
A final group of sorcerers then tried to fire a mass of spells towards the boy, but then suddenly froze in place. But Issei knew that was going on. "Nice job, Gasper! You're really getting the hang of this!" The brunette complimented. His arm was then a quick blur, his whip hitting one after the other but there was no sound of visible reaction.
After swinging his arm multiple time, he attached the whip to his hip. Spinning on his toes, he smirked while tipping in hat. As soon as that action was made, multiple cracks popped in the air while all of the sorcerers were knocked all around before collapsing to the ground.
"And that's how it's done." Issei said to himself with a small grin.
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"…I didn't teach him that." Akira stated when everyone was looking at him just as Issei had struck his pose. "But hey, either way at least the effects of Gasper-san's Sacred Gear should be wearing off."
As the other looked over to Sona, the green screen flickered out of existence. The effect that followed was almost instantaneous. The purple around them began to disappear in a wave. Those that were affected, turning back to normal. All of them blinked and looked at their own bodies, almost as if they did not believe what had just happened. Or as if they had just woken up from a peculiar dream.
As Sona regained her consciousness, she gasped a blinked rapidly. Breathing in and out, the first sight she saw was the Phantom Thieves standing across from her a fair distance away. "Wh-what happened?" She asked herself.
Her words however caught the attention of those that were already conscious of the situation. "Sitri-san!" Makoto called out. "Apparently the Khaos Brigade attacked Gasper-san and used his Sacred Gear to try and freeze everyone here and kill all of the faction heads!"
"Wh-what?!" Sona asked. She was suddenly yanked by a pair of hands. Snapping her head around, she saw a couple of unfamiliar faces. "Katerea Leviathan?!" Nobody else really reacted to her, but then Sona immediately began to understand the situation. At the moment, during some sort of time freeze, she had been taken hostage and that fighting had been put on a temporary hold…
And she couldn't do anything to escape. Sona knew that she wasn't strong enough to escape from a descendant of the Leviathan all by herself. All she could do was wait and watch…
Akira's mouth and eyes meanwhile twitched in displeasure at how Sona was being handled.
"It doesn't matter that you managed to free your little pet vampire." Katerea attempted to sound as if she still had the upper-hand. "Even with your general forces free, we are still the dominant side. And you…" While holding onto Sona, she pointed with her staff. "All of you will not intervene with our goals."
"Oh really?" Akira asked. "Why is that then?"
"We have the sister of the current Leviathan." The dark-skinned Devil reminded, yanking the girl of who she was addressing about. Akira's gaze leveled with her. "You would not want to put her in any danger, would you? Then you will obey what I say, or else she dies."
Staring at her, Akira turned his head in the direction of Serafall. The older sister however looked like she was torn between anger and anxiety. Bringing his head back to Katerea, he opened his mouth.
"No."
His response was neutral. But it was almost deafening to everyone. The mere statement shocked every person but Akira to their core. It was so surprising, even Katerea was taken aback. "…I beg your pardon?" Disbelief filled his voice as her eyes were wide.
"I said no." Akira said curtly.
"Explain yourself!"
"It means no."
"But I will kill her!"
"No!"
That was when Akira put his foot down. His raise in volume was enough to even force Katerea to step back and away from Sona. The black-haired girl meanwhile was just staring at the boy in a mixture of emotions. She thought that what he was doing was almost crazy. But then she remembered just how Akira was like… and she began to understand why he was acting like that.
"Because this is what I'm going to do…" Akira stepped forward. "I'm going to rescue her. I'm going to save Sona Sitri from the Khaos Brigade! After that, I'm going to help the leaders of the Three Factions. Then – just to finish off – I'm going to beat each and every one of you Khaos Brigade lackeys to the ground!"
At every single declaration Sona witnessed and heard from the boy, she couldn't help but stare in admiration at him. Her jaw was threatening to drop to the ground with the passing seconds she heard him speak about rescuing her, like a prince declaring how he would save a princess.
"Did you forget your position?!" Katerea questioned. "I am a Devil, a descendant of the great Leviathan! You are human! I am a god compared to you!"
"Oh yeah?" Akira asked, a small manic grin growing on his face. "Then tell me who's the coward hiding behind the hostage?!" Turning his head, he looked at the girl his age. "Sona."
Her breath hitched when she heard him say her first name. "Yes Akira?" She asked back.
"Sit tight. I'm coming for you." He assured her.
Sona stared at the boy with admiration… and something more…
If only she were just as powerful. Then she wouldn't be in this mess.
"Allow Me to Assist You with That."
A voice that boomed louder than a cannon burst in her head. Sona soon felt as though someone were trying to tear hear heart apart with a rusty knife.
"It's Always Intelligence, Having to Keep up the Image of Elegance."
She released a cry of agony as she doubled over and thrashed about, sweat cascading donw her body in buckets. The pain only intensified with time. It wasn't long until it felt like her heart was going to explode from the pressure building within it.
"But Now You Are Broadening Your Horizon Because of a Human."
Watching Sona in pain while screaming was a shock to everyone. Katerea was the first to recover. "Hah! I see that you've gone mad with fear." She smirked while merely shaking her head at the strange display. "How pathetic."
"Heh... How Interesting..."
The Phantom Thieves however had their jaws dropping at the display. "Incredible…" Yusuke said quietly. "Another Persona awakening… and this is coming from Sitri-san…"
"Let Us Form a Blood Pact."
"I Am Thou, Thou Art I...
Slamming her hands against the ground, Sona did her best to get back up. It was an incredible struggle with the pain that was residing within her chest. But with what she could do, she somehow managed to get back up to her feet. Panting, her entire body felt as if it were on fire.
"Empty Your Mind, Be Formless, Be Shapeless... Become Water and Flow!"
Suddenly, even though it was completely crazy, it was as if she wasn't in the right state of mind. Raising her right hand, the arm trembled like a leaf in a storm. Her eyes looked at the hand as the fingers began to fold over one another.
With one swift moment, her fingers pierced her body and stabbed herself right through the heart.
As the blood sprayed out from the wound, the red drops split apart. The liquid kept on doing this until it was nothing but a misty miasma and began spiraling around Sona in a red tornado. With the tornado came stormy winds with dirt being thrown everywhere.
Katerea, who was giving the tornado and odd expression, was suddenly hit across the stomach by a tail. Knocked back at the sudden force, she managed to regain her footing. Growling, she was about to retaliate against whatever had hit her. But when she saw what did, it made her freeze.
With a deafening roar, the miasma tornado was blasted apart. From that roar was a massive open jaw that belonged to a something that looked like a dragon, but it belonged in the ocean at the same time. The legs were shorter than one would expect and even the tail had a large fin attached to it which helped it look sleeker. The monster's body was shelled in a lustrous black. Certain spikes along its body, head, and tail were vivid blue as mist was seen around it. Its eyes were a striking red and the inside of its mouth was a vivid ice blue. On top of its head and upper neck were a pair of long horns that shared the blue trait.
But right below it was Sona, who had pushed her glasses up on her face and brushed back her new outfit. What she had on was a skin-tight black suit, she also wore a pair of gloves with a dark blue color on the palms with a Renaissance-style flair added on each wrist. The backs on her legs featured a diamond pattern that ran from her upper thighs down to her heels, which exposed her skin from her butt to her lower legs. Her shoes meanwhile featured a design of black and silver linings with silver figurines somewhat resembling a sea-dragon along the back. She also wore a cloak that looked like it was made from multiple strands of long hair that draped over her shoulders and front with points on top of either shoulder.
Attached to the heels of her shoes however were large caliber handguns that were blue with large gems embedded in them. Matching each color was an ornament attached to the handle. One gun had a black diamond-shaped gem while the other had a green rectangle-shaped gem. What occupied her hands however were two more blue guns just like her feet, one having a red teardrop-shaped gem and the other with a grey oval-shaped gem.
Staring in awe, Akira let out a wolf whistle.
"What… what is this?" Sona asked, looking at herself. "This is amazing!" Slowly, realization dawned on her face. "Is… is this what it's like to have a Persona?" Taking one final look at herself slowly, she felt a smile grow on her face. "Now I know why Issei-san acted how he did when getting his own." She mused.
"You got that right." Akira jogged up to her with a smirk. "Well, it doesn't seem like you need any sort of rescuing. So…" He turned his sights over towards Katerea who was staring at the new Persona and looking like she was choking on air. "How about we test your new abilities then?"
"…Maybe." Sona nodded her head, looking at Akira. "Could you… perhaps give me some pointers?"
Blinking, Akira saw that she was staring at him and he stared back. "…How could I refuse." He chuckled.
Behind the two of them was Arsene. With its back facing towards them, it had its right hand holding onto the brim of its hat while the left rested against the hip. Sona's Persona however protectively surrounded Arsene but not touching it, the long body twisted around counter clockwise. Both Persona meanwhile stared at Katerea viciously.
Akira suddenly turned his back to her. Sona easily did the same thing in return tohim. As their backsides and butts pressed against each other, Akira extended his right hand forward and had the palm facing down. With his left hand, he covered his face but kept his eyes visible. Sona meanwhile brought her left hand out and under Akira's right hand and had her palm face up. The right hand meanwhile she rested against her heart.
"Ravage them, Arsene!"
"Lend me your strength, Leviathan!"
Yeah, I went there! Do you all have any idea how long I've been wanting to reveal that?! Now if you excuse me, VACATION! JAPAN, HERE I COME!
No flames please.