Author's Notes: Have a Surpise Halloween Special Chapter
"Hall. O. Ween?" Ophis read the decorations that suddenly popped up around the town, a sea of orange and black with items resembling numerous creatures made with varying quality. Her gaze was drawn to several pastries covered either in blobs of white with two pieces of chocolate meant to represent eyes or covered in insects.
Ophis turned to Minato who meet her gaze, without any prompting Minato nodded "Halloween, or All Hallow's Eve due to it taking place before All Hallow's day, is an Autumn Festival that some believe ward off evil spirits due to the barriers separating the Spirit and Material Worlds grow thinnest around this time" Minato looked over the pastries for a moment before turning back to Ophis "Though, the modern version of Halloween is pretty much an amalgamation of several other similar holidays"
Ophis nodded "And what do people do during this celebration?"
Minato scratched his head "Really depends on the individuals" Minato and Ophis began walking down the street "Some people observe old traditions which may include festivals, watching or read scary stories, begin preparing for Christmas" Minato said that last one under his breath "Though it's common for people to dress up as monsters or other figures for parties or going out trick or treating for candy"
"Candy" Ophis repeated, she quickly grabbed Minato's hand "Let's go Trick or Treating"
Minato stopped as he considered Ophis's request, he didn't really have any other plans for Halloween nor did he take any special note of it other than being another day in the year. Still, it couldn't hurt.
"Alright" Minato looked around searching for a place that sold costumes for the upcoming night. Sadly, there was nothing Ophis liked so with a short list of what she wanted Minato collected the needed materials and began working on a costume for her. And something a little special for himself, as they were Trick or Treating Minato got a call from Aika needing him and Ophis for something urgent.
===]Image of Dragon Witch Ophis with a trick or treating bag with a Nyx Avatar Minato with one of his own standing in the doorway of house with the light from inside shining on Ophis with Minato in the Shadows with only his mask and bag visible[===
For his first Halloween in this world Minato would admit he's enjoying himself.
"Minato, what are you wearing?" Aika asked as she looked Minato up and down, she herself was wearing a tasteful sexy devil outfit. They were meeting in a closed Gentle Etiquette due to the Nakajima's feeling it was a bad omen to remain open on Halloween.
Minato raised a black gloved hand to give it a look over "Dressing up as something scary, like you suggested"
Aika put her hands on her hips as she gave Minato a disbelieving look "Huh, how is that scary? Honestly, you'd probably be better off dressing as your character in-" Aika paused as Minato turned her head to her. Under the eyeless stare she took a step back "Okay, I take it back that is creepy. What is it even from?"
"A Memory from long ago" Minato said, catching his reflection in a mirror and wincing at the sight of Nyx Avatar staring back. Turning to Ophis to distract himself Minato saw the Dragon God had stuffed her cheeks with her trick or treat candy already "Save some for later, otherwise you'll make yourself sick Phis"
"I am Ophis" Ophis stood up on her chair, her Dragon Witch outfit bellowing from the sudden movement "The Infinite Dragon God, I can not get sick"
"Ah~" Aika cooed as she hugged Ophis without warning "Your just so cute Phis!" Aika looked down at Ophis costume, a black and purple witch's outfit with dragon scales and clawed gloves added on with a Dragon tail hidden by the witch's cape "Not to sound rude, but I'm still shocked at how well you made her outfit"
Aika turned to Minato with a frown "Seriously, with your skills your making yourself out to be a better future wife then me"
"While I plan on being a doctor, house husband is a backup of mine" Minato said, feeling someone approaching behind him from the shadows. He equipped a Persona to lessen any potential damage, like a snake a pair of arms wrap around him as someone hugged Minato from behind.
"Surprise~" Satou's aunt said seductively, covered head to toe in wrappings with Egyptian clothes "Trick or Treat?"
"Aunty, respect senpai's personal space" Satou herself was right behind her aunt, pulling her back off Minato with her offering playful resistance before letting go. The cold look in her eyes fading slightly but remained as she kept an eye on her overly friendly aunt.
"Evening Satou, Kosho" Minato said as he took off his Nyx mask "How has your night been?"
"Hmm, rather dull" Satou's aunt, Kosho said as she turned to her niece wearing a Ghost Face costume "We went to visit Halloween festival at Satou's school but it was rather drab" Kosho put her arms under her chest to, lifting it up in the process, as she held her elbow of her arm holding her chin "Even your school wasn't much better, while more expensive looking it felt the same as Satou's school. They didn't even have a haunted house"
"Yeah, Minato here is to blame for the lack of haunted house" Aika turned to Minato again with an annoyed look "What exactly did you do anyway, there's whispers but nothing else"
"Severe Health and Safety risk" Minato answered, still shocked OCR even considered using REAL GHOSTS for their haunted house. He quickly got Sona involved to talk sense into Rias before he could turn to helping the ghosts attain peace on their terms "There was a genuine risk someone could get seriously hurt so I brought it to the attention of the Student Council who shut the whole thing down once they found what I discovered"
"Yeah, that's one of the rumours going around" Aika leaned forward "WHAT did you find anyway, there's talk of Rias and her club using real human remains"
Satou and Kosho blinked in surprise as they turned to Minato for answers, Minato was silent as he thought what to say without saying too much.
"Curse Items" Minato answered "From what I overheard they found some cursed or haunted items to help make the whole thing seem more authentic" Minato looked to the side "It worked too well. Keep this to yourselves for now"
Aika stood back straight, shocked at the seriousness in Minatp's voice. Feeling uncomfortable with the current subject she searched for another, she found one when her phone's alarm went off "Hey, when did you say the replacements for our missing two would come?"
"Greetings this All Hallows Eve!" From the doorway charged in a girl with a two toned black and white hair dragging her brother behind her.
"I'm ready to die again" Freed said as he wrestled his hand out of his sister Lint's grip "Okay, we're here now so what do ya need us for?"
Aika looked to the two confused before turning to Minato for answers "We needed two extra members, so I invited some friends from a hobby I'm involved in"
Kosho looked Freed and Lint over before asking nervously "What hobby is it?"
Lint and Freed shared a look before Lint happily said "Extreme Sports!"
"Very, very, extreme sports" Freed looked to Aika as he held back an eye twitch "So, what are we doing?"
Taking the prompt Aika took out a paper doll charm "I came across this thing, called the Sachiko Ever After Ritual"
One Ritual later…
Aika was screaming as she clung to the person nearest her, Lint did her best to comfort the frightened teenager as she looked over to Satou and her aunt who were checking their surroundings and collecting what they could for impromptu weapons.
"So, is this a class B or is it leaning towards an A?" Freed asked as he took out his gun before throwing a Light Sword to his sister before pulling out one for himself.
Minato's eyes glowed "Old and powerful Dark Magic, not Devil but pure negativity, Mid-tier A" he frowned before reaching out his hand as two swords took shape. The Blades floated over to Freed and Lint who took the blades without question, Lint slowly helped Aika to her feet before leading her over to Satou and Kosho.
Ophis lifted her arm as three black serpents grew from it and flew onto the three civilians, they cried out in surprise "These will keep you safe even if we get separated"
A loud groan could be heard echoing throughout the abandoned school they had found themselves in, Minato shared a look with Freed and Lint before a land overcame their bodies as suits of armour manifested around them.
A large bloodied corpse of a man entered the room and looked to the three shining armoured warriors with confusion. Freed walked up to the man who raised a sledgehammer to kill Freed, the hammer shattered on impact before Freed kicked the man back through the door before raising his gun to repeatedly shoot the man.
"Oh come on, surely you have something better than that you coc-" Freed looked to the side and saw the ghost of a child missing an eye and their tongue "kamamie jerk"
Lint popped her head out of the room to look at the child, she suspected there was one as her brother had made progress on lessening his swearing when children were around.
Minato got Aika, Kosho and Satou up to speed on what was happening, them being in another dimension ruled over by an evil spirit, that he and the Sellen have experience in what was going on. Minato bent down to let Ophis jump onto his back as the group moved to journey to the core of this new hellish dimension and to regain their freedom.
One subverted? Horror Game later…
"So, this was the cause of it all" Minato looked down to the Book of Shadows, he was shocked at how powerful the thing was and even with all the seals and wards placed on it he could still sense it's power leaking out.
"Yes" Minato raised his head to see the female spirit sitting across from him, the spirits of her daughter Sachiko and unborn daughter Sachi sleeping on her lap as she stroked their hair. Yoshie Shinozaki sighed "I can't even remember why I did it. I wanted to get something back, but in the end I created a nightmare that dragged my children into it"
Minato turned back to the book, he purified the spirit of Queen and set the trapped spirits free but the Book of Shadows still held an immense amount of power within it "You and your daughters can think over my offer of returning to life or passing on, help yourselves to the snacks. I need to make a phone call" Minato got up with the Book of Shadows, feeling the thing shaking in his hand. Minato smacked it to make it behave itself.
Yoshie looked down at the plate of snacks, she furrowed her brows as she gingerly picked up a biscuit and ate it. Swallowing it she looked at the dish with confusion and shock "How am I able to eat this?"
===}Spooky Cute Ghost Girls Eating snacks{===
Hearing his phone ringing Azazel fished it out of his pocket as the Halloween celebrations went on in the background, seeing the caller ID Azazel raised an eyebrow and moved to a more secluded area before answering "Lord Messiah, please tell me you didn't do it again"
"Pordon?" Minato asked over the phone.
"That last time you called me it was after you somehow seduced an AI, causing it to become self aware and in love with you, before it found a way to cross over into our reality with the powers of a god" Azazel still couldn't figure out how that was even possible, he was about ready to throw his hands up in defeat and labeling the cause being 'Eldritch Human' "The fact it has happened TWICE already doesn't help comfort me, so be honest have you somehow seduced another Artificial Intelligence into a goddesshood"
"...I'm not sure, I think the game I'm playing just has a lot of fourth wall breaking moments," Minato answered embarrassed.
"Oh Father give me strength" Azazel prayed to God for strength, he had a packed schedule already and having his supercomputer AI becoming self-aware didn't help things in the slightest.
"But I'm not calling about that, long story short a friend of mine had a bunch of us do a ritual with a charm and when it was all over I came across this thing called the Book of Shadows" Azazel's blood froze in his veins as he heard those words.
"Where are you?"
"My house-"
"Stay there, I'll be over quickly" Azazel ended the call and ran back into the room he just left "Code Shadow, I repeat Code Shadow!" Azazel shouted out, most of those in attendance gave him confused looks while those in the know stiffened "Follow me we're running low on time!"
===}One explanation of the Book of Shadows and the Martuba's Tomb Cult{===
Freed casually walks in at the meeting between Minato, Azazel, Michael and Yasaka was coming to an end "So, what are we doing then?"
"Evil Cult Hunting" Minato said, he turned to Freed with a noticeable frown "By all means, run wild"
Freed gave a toothy smile, his gun cocked and blade out "Oh, I'm going to enjoy this"
Lint turned to Michael with concern, The Archangel and Leader of Heave showed her a file containing what they knew about the Tomb Cult and it wasn't long before the sister joined the brother.
Author's Notes:
Here's a quick Halloween Chapter since we're a little over a week from the night in question, this here is pretty much MXD crossed with Corpse Party. NON-CANON to MessiahXDragon for those wondering.
For those unfamiliar with Corpse Party and it's spell book known as the Book of Shadows, think of it as a relic that approaches the level of Longinus Sacred Gears. At least for this snippets.
Now, since my lore knowledge on Corpse party is lacking I'll give a general idea of what happens. Minato goes to war with the Martuba's Tomb Cult, partly out of stopping them from committing more Evil and partly because a Cult was literally the cause of everything in Persona 3 including the death of Minato's parents so it would be something to help him work out some shit.
The three ghost girls Shinozaki would help out in any way they could, proving to be vital in taking down a dangerous member of the Cult Magari Mizuki.
Other than Minato meeting and bonding with Kuon Niwa during the war with the cult, he rescued her and her sister when the cult captured them and used David (the fiend from SMT who raises the dead for one night on Halloween to make them party for the night) with the two keeping in contact afterwards,
Minato would uncover connections across the globe to other Cults just as bad as the Tomb and would set out to bring them down, taking his own team with him and recruiting more along the way. Kuon would come along and act as a pragmatist who uses her company's vast wealth [PL(Perfect Life) Promotions Co.,Inc.] to grease wheels and help narrow Minato's search for evil cultists, Kuon and her family have practically been involved in a Shadow War with the Tomb Cult.
By using the Santa Claus Method, ie moving across the Earth fast enough to stay on the night side of the planet, Minato gets it all done in one night
Right then, for costumes.
Minato: Nyx Avatar
Ophis: Cute Dragon Witch
Aika: Sexy Devil
Satou's aunt: Seductive Mummy
Satou: Ghost Face
Happy Halloween! Have a safe and Spooky Nice~! Especially with the full moon this year