Persona 6
Gerard Mclean walked down Belfast main street, staring at his phone as he did so, gasping as he almost tripped over a homeless man sleeping. "Oh… sorry." He murmured, walking on, not noticing that underneath the blanket laid a shrivelled up corpse.
He had just moved there and as such was transferring schools, until his parents could find a more permanent home he was staying in nearby accommodation.
After getting to his small room and unpacking he yawned as he sat at the desk as it began to rain outside. "I didn't see any rain today…" He murmured, staring down at his phone to see an app had appeared on his phone, he shrugged and deleted it, opening grindr to at least 30 new notifications, half of which said 'How's you'
"The next day Gerard walked towards the inside of his new school, stopping as in the distance he saw a tall thin old woman(probably a teacher) lecturing a student.
"How many times do I have to tell you not to fucking writing about me and Boris johnson having sex!" She hissed, pushing Sean away and confiscating a notebook. "Better watch your tone Mr harris or you won't be around much longer." She treated, before walking away.
"That is not my last name but ok." Sean shrugged as Daniel ran up to him, giving him a replacement book.
"That's Miss Hare, she is the year head here." A tall man said, approaching Gerard as the two saw the tall woman walk away. "She acts like she is the head nurse of some hospital, like Nurse ratchet." He shook his head.
"I am Aaron by the way, a second-year art stu-wait a minute is that a shiny Suicune in pokemon go!" He yelled, Gerard took a few steps back. "U-uh no!" He gulped.
"Let me see it!" He yelled, trying to grab Gerard's phone, the two wrestling over it before it fell.
"Travelling to destination" The phone beeped and the area around them broke away and flew off as they entered a void and suddenly fell.
Both of them landed with a thud in a large hallway of a hospital.
"What in the hell, where the hell is we?!" Aaron yelled, gulping as he heard something come around the corner.
"My phone has a crack in the screen…" Gerard sighed, rubbing his phone clean with his sleeve before looking at the corner as a strange black blob wearing a white mask and a doctor's outfit emerged.
"Hey! What are you doing here! The head nurse hasn't discharged you!" The shadow mumbled, menacing symbols surrounding it.
"The what?!" Aaron gasped.
The shadow exploded into a pile goo, soon forming into a large fairy who waved her wand, beginning to charge up a killing attack.
Suddenly a girl wearing a cloak jumped over them, brandishing a machete she landed in front of them, wearing a purple cat mask and some robes.
"Come, Mystery!" She yelled, pulling her mask off and a small loch ness monster which body was a galaxy appeared behind her, floating still.
"What is that thing?!" Gerard exclaimed.
"Mapsi!" She exclaimed as the loch ness plesiosaur squealed, firing a purple beam and going straight through the pixie which exploded into black tar and melted.
The girl looked back at the two of them. "My name is Tess… come with me if you want to live." She exclaimed as the plesi vanished and her mask reappeared.
*After they all got to a safe room, Tess explained the general basics of the metaverse, basically the same rules as Persona 5*
"So you go around palaces to change hearts and we are in another dimension?" Gerard asked as Aaron looked through a medicine cabinet looking for literally anything that could make this situation more bearable.
"Sort of, I have had this power a year now…. It is strange, I remember going to school and being normal… and then nothing… and then running around these palaces at night and working by day… Apparently sometime during my week-long gap in memory, I got expelled from my college but gained this power." Tess said, peaking out the door. "But I know my memory is gone and this power is connected… I heard this woman was causing all sorts of problems, rumours of her sucking the youth out of people to gain everlasting beauty has been a popular rumour in the streets."
"How do we escape?" Asked Aaron, trying to tear off a pipe.
"Oh um… yeah I am getting the exit to the hospital should do it, I saw you fell here somehow… I'll take you there now, just stay close." She nodded.
*The three of them stealthily made their through the hospital, Tess dispatched any and all enemies that stood in their way.*
"Can I ask why your clothes are like that?" Asked Gerard.
"This is the form I take here, it reflects my rebellious spirit." She whispered.
"Your spirit is a strange robe gir-" Aaron started, stopping mid-sentence as they arrived at the exit of the hospital seeing a tall woman in a kimono standing their with two shadows either side.
Gerard gasped. 'Miss Hare, you're the woman I saw an hour ago… what is with your eyes?" He asked, noticing her eyes were bright orange.
"Trying to escape here are you? Without being discharged?" Hare tutted, tapping her chin with a boney finger. "You are under my care, and I don't allow my patients to leave in such conditions." She said as a shadow wheeled in a wheelchair with the body of the homeless man from yesterday on it. "this is what a successful patient looks like you see, his youth was given to me and now he is free of all illness in death… of course I prefer younger patients…" She murmured, pointing suddenly at Gerard. "You shall do nicely."
Suddenly three more shadows appeared, closing on them.
"Don't worry Gerard, I got this!" Aaron exclaimed.
"How?" Asked Gerard as Aaron pushed to the front of them.
Aaron grinned, cracking his knuckles.
"See ya!" Aaron called, running past Miss Hare and out the front doors of the hospital before it was blocked off by two guards.
"Mystery!" Tess exclaimed, summoning her persona and firing a burst of psi damage at them.
Gerard took a step back, gasping as he was cut off from Tess.
Hare smiled widely. "My first high schooler… the energy I will get from you…" she chuckled. "I read your file and all, pathetic drop out for 2 months then went crawling back when the real world was too tough, I see you never even attended your maths classes, pathetic." She chuckled.
Gerard suddenly fell to the ground, clutching his head. "So you have found your way into the metaverse at last." A deep voice spoke to him.
"W-What…" Gerard grunted, trying to stand up as a mask appeared on his face.
Tess gasped. "could that be…" She murmured.
"Happily die if you are going to let others tell you what you are but summon me forth if you wish to proof them wrong." The voice said louder.
Gerard grabbed onto his mask, tearing off slowly before yanking it off and a blue fury of flames came forth. "Atlas!" He exclaimed.
A large Snow Leopard appeared behind him, it's eyes suddenly opening and glowing a bright blue as nuclear orbs emitted from it's back and exploded the two shadows.
"He has a persona!" Tess exclaimed in amazement, taking advantage of the created space and jumping on a shadow, stabbing it in the neck with a short knife.
"Come on!" She called, as the head nurse Ohare vanished into a nearby room.
Gerard ran after her out the hospital door, the two them soon started to fall and crash-landed back at the hall where him and Aaron had originally been.
