Persona 6: Part 2
Gerard sat at his laptop, working on a fanfic commission he had gotten from someone online, wanting Widowmaker x Tracer in the plot of Citrus when he heard a knock at the door and immediately slammed his laptop shut.
"Gerard Mclean, we have found someone to take you in." The man said and made way for a tall man with a beard wearing a trenchcoat. "This is John Graves, he will be your caretaker for the remainder of the year."
Gerard stared up at him. "What do you work as?" He asked.
Graves blinked. "Lawyer." He said simply before turning to the worker of the accommodation. "So uh… I get that tax money for taking care of him yeah?" He asked.
The director crossed his arms. "Frankly sir if you are not here to take him in through kindness I suggest you leave." He said bluntly.
Graves narrowed his eyes. "Gerard get your things…." He called. "Before this crummy cocaine house burns to the ground." He added under his breath.
Later Graves brought him back to a mansion on the Malone road. "As long as you attend school I don't really care what you do, just don't go in the basement or my room… or the shed or attic."
"Uh right… where is my room?" He asked.
Graves snapped his fingers. "Fuck.. uh, I'll get the attic sorted for you…."
After moving into the attic Gerard met up with Tess once again at Nandos.
"So she has been using students and sucking out their life force?" Asked Gerard.
"That's right, their was a similar occurance in japan a few years ago with mental shut down incidents but as far as I know their victims never had a direct awareness of Metaverse, impossible to contact them too as no one knew the identities of these Phantom Thieves in the end." Explained Tess, sipping on a glass of 7up.
"And you have been trying to trigger a… change of heart in her?" Asked Gerard, eating the Greg's he brought in from outside.
"Pretty much, you are in this too, now that she knows face and file, you are best taking a few days off school, if she grabs you then you will definitely be her next victim." She explained.
Gerard looked down at his iced coffee with caramel contemplating for a minute, it seemed like he had no choice but to do this and it would suck pretty hard if his gayness got drained by some teacher who gave a blowjob behind the school last summer just to get on the Hawaii trip.
"Where do we start?" He asked, standing up. "I can only take four days off of school before my Guardian grows suspicious, I take it we need to do this by Monday… so five days counting the weekend."
Tess leaned forward. "We need to go back to her palace and steal her treasure." She nodded.
*Later*
Tess and Gerard quietly sneaked into the school through the backway, approaching where the place where him and Aaron had first entered.
"Get your phone ready, we should be able to enter through the navi when we get there." Tess Whispered.
"Oi Gerard!" Aaron exclaimed loudly, walking to them. "So I see you survived that Saw movie scenario."
"Oh it's you…" Tess sighed.
"After some consideration, I decided that calling in a bomb threat to skip my English test would be risky so I am gonna help you ice this bitch instead." He mused, pulling a gun.
"JESUS THAT IS NOT WHAT WE ARE DOING!" Tess exclaimed, pushing the gun inside his backpack.
"How did you get that anyway, this isn't America.." Gerard asked.
"I bought it off some lawyer guy, pretty neat huh?" Aaron smirked, trying to pull it away from Tess.
"Just don't bail on us this time." Gerard shook his head, tapping the app on his phone, the three of them yelling as the area around them broke away and they fell downwards into an endless void.
Tess landed on her feet while Aaron and Gerard barely caught themselves from falling flat on their face. "We need to findspan style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanthe source of her power, once we know where that is, taking her down should be easy."
Aaron took a pamphlet a nearby drawer. "Looks like a map of the place…"
Gerard crossed his arms, the outside was completely black, it was like the hospital existed by itself in a dark void, the only light source was from the depressive energy saving bulbs in the halls.
"The head nurse's office should be where the source of her power is…" Tess murmured, taking the map and leaning in to take a closer look.
Aaron stared at Gerard. "Why… are you wearing an overcoat all of a sudden ?" He asked.
"They are cool… and Castiel wore one in supernatural and he is really cool so um…"
Aaron looked at him. "Agreed."
The three of them sneaked their way to the upper floors. "The head nurse's office should just be around the corner-WAIT!." She exclaimed, putting a hand in front of them.
The three of them peaked around the corner, to see an orderly shadow standing guard.
"Ugh, we have to fight him don't we…" Aaron sighed.
Tess shook her head. "Me and Gerard will, honestly I don't know why we even brought you along, right now your kind of useless…" She sighed, standing up and getting her machete out. "Come on." She hushed as her and Gerard started to approach the shadow.
"Useless…" Aaron murmured to himself, shaking his head as he took a step forward only to suddenly be tackled by two shadows and thrown through a nearby wall.
Tess ran across the wall, jumping and cutting the Shadow's throat with her machete.
The Shadow staggered, Gerard soon followed, jumping onto the shoulder of the shadow. "Reveal yourself!" He exclaimed, tearing off the face and jumping off.
The shadow turned into a black liquid, soon taking the form of a Suzaku, a white and red bird that looked like a phoenix.
"Mystery…" Tess said, tearing her mask off and summoning the Plesi which flew towards the shadow and shot a beam of psychic energy at it.
Gerard glanced behind them, two unicorns were walking down the hallway towards them.
"Atlas…" He whispered, a glowing blue flaming Snow Leopard formed behind him, growling and shooting a blast of nuclear energy at the two of them, disintegrating them immediately.
Tess jumped onto the Galaxy Plesi as it shot another beam of energy, she brandished her machete and jumped forward immediately after the beam had ceased, cutting the persona in half.
Tess jumped forward and turned the door knob, trying to pull the door to the office open. "I-It's locked…" She gasped, banging against the door.
Gerard jumped backwards as yet more shadows started to show up. "There are too many incoming!" He murmured, Atlas walking in front of him getting ready to defend.
The shadows all turned into 6 Bicorns, surrounding them from both sides.
Tess and Gerard went back to back.
"I will create a distraction and then you run, no doubt more of them will be here any second…" Tess sighed.
"What about you?" Gerard asked but didn't receive a reply.
Just then two of the Bicorns were eliminated as the hallway light up with a blue glow.
Aaron walked forward wearing a futuristic power armour with a visor for a mask, a crusader knight holding dual lances standing behind him.
"Did you really think that killing me would be enough to make me die?" Aaron asked, raising his hand and snapping his fingers. "Go Rumpelstiltskin!" Aaron screamed, the knight shot it's lance at one of the Bicorn's behind Gerard before zooming forward and stabbing another.
"We need to leave…" Tess exclaimed. "We be able to advance further and she probably knows we are here." She said, stabbing the remaining Bicorn and leading the rest of the team out of the palace for the day.
