POV switch is '- and switching to third person is -3
11:57 p.m...
Full moon...
August 20th...
I strayed out into the night, later than I normally would have, I'd fallen asleep and, even when I woken up, still had a task to finish, I still couldn't find what I was looking for, though,
11:58 p.m...
It's almost midnight, I still have time after that but, this is annoying, where is it?
11:59 p.m...
I think it's over that way, that seems to be where it is,
12:00 a.m...!
Before I could get there, the sky went from red to green, and the world around me changed, I looked around, surprised,
"Huh- What is this?" I asked out loud,
There were... Coffins everywhere, where people were earlier wandering, and there was blood, everywhere,
"Hello...?" I called, to which there was no response,
I just started running, kinda aimlessly, I just wanted to get somewhere safe to sit this out, but, that wouldn't be a gift I'd be lucky enough to have,
A giant creature stood over me, I was breathing heavily, completely out of fear, there was blood at my feet, I was standing in a blood puddle... What's going on?
The creature swung at me, and I was too out of it to dodge, the hit threw me to the ground, but it came at me again, I rolled and started to run away, it started chasing me, and caught up faster than I expected, I dropped to the ground, hoping to catch it off guard, but it hit me again, throwing me a little, I skid for about a minute, when I got up, I was quickly knocked back down, I crawled a bit to get some distance and kicked at, whatever this thing was, but that wasn't backing it off, I got up and jumped up into a tree, being really good at climbing trees, I started climbing, my hope was it would leave me alone, but instead it knocked the tree down, I was high up in the tree, and hit concrete, I heard a loud crack when I hit the ground, and my leg started hurting, a lot, enough to bring tears to my eyes, the creature came at me again and I tried to get out from under the tree, but my leg... It hurt too much, it's broken, but if I can make it through this, I have to return to my task, but, that's a big if...
I'm pretty sure I'm going to die here...
"Huh? Guys, there's someone over there! The Shadow is chasing him!" A voice said,
I looked around, hoping to find the source of the voice, the Shadow went to attack me again, but this time, with a much more painful attack, I cried out in pain, when I noticed some people come up, some drew the Shadow away, and two came to check on me,
"Are you alright?" That same voice from a moment ago came from a teenage girl with short hair,
I believe she attends the same school I'm attending now, yeah, she does, we're in the same class, she's a first year, like me, Fuuka Yamagishi,
"Yeah... I'm okay..." I said,
They helped get me out from underneath the tree, when I saw my leg, even I couldn't look at it, it hurts...
"Todoroki-kun, what are you doing here?" Fuuka asked,
Right, I forgot people at this school know my last name,
"I... Don't know, I came out because of the sky being red and it being the full moon, I'm always out wandering on the full red moon," I said,
I decided not to mention why, but just left it at that,
"I'm sorry about your leg," Fuuka said,
"Don't worry about it, Yamagishi-san," I said,
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"God, where are those two? They normally aren't late, can you sense either of their locations?" I asked,
"Odd, I can't sense Seth anywhere, Orie is near by but... Where is Seth?" Carmine asked,
He's finally calm, after his wildness got him beaten by Seth he started trying to think more about his moves, instead of acting randomly, his surprise when he found that Seth wasn't in the Hollow Night made sense, Seth never missed it, and he knew we were going to talk about the new school, and how we were gonna balance out the Night and the new school, because of it being farther away from where we all live,
"Seth made a comment that he might sleep a little, him not sleeping combined with the much longer walk, he was getting really tired, he might have overslept," I suggested,
"Isn't Seth the kind of guy who would have like... The entire apartment filled with alarm clocks, and set them to all go off at the same time?" Carmine asked,
"We wouldn't know that for sure," I said,
We looked around, ever since the school we used to attend got burnt down, we've been worried about how life would continue, but, for once, Seth is being more social, Carmine is calm and Seth is social, I am starting to think I'm dreaming all of this, Seth joined the track team shortly after all of us transfering to this school, and he seemed to look forward to the practice and the meets and everything,
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The fight was still going on, one of the two who was trying to help me had to go, the fight was starting to look like they were gonna lose, I still was hopelessly laying on the ground, Fuuka was trying to help as much as she can, whenever someone got knocked out, she'd protect them with her Persona, like she was protecting me,
"I'm useless..." I whispered,
"No, you're not," Fuuka said,
"Really? I get attacked and now all of you are protecting me, putting your lives on the line so I don't get hurt," I said,
"We had to come after this Shadow anyways," Fuuka said,
"Still, I made it more difficult..." I said,
Fuuka hugged me, which was something I wasn't used to, causing me to tense up, she only did so for about a second, she returned her attention to the fight, I wished I could help...
Wait, I might be able to,
Yukari, the other one who ran to check on me, dropped her gun thing, the thing they use to summon their Personas,
"Fuuka... What would happen... If I used one of these?" I asked,
"Unless you have a Persona, nothing," Fuuka said,
"Then I might be able to fight," I said,
"You are in no condition to-" Fuuka started,
"If this fight is lost we're all as good as dead, you and you Persona don't have so much strength that you can protect us throughout this, I have to fight!" I stated,
Fuuka didn't say anything at first, she merely sighed,
"Please, Yamagishi-San, I need to fight," I said,
"You don't even know if you have a Persona," Fuuka said,
"I'll find out, but I can't just sit back and watch, I have to try," I said,
"O-okay," Fuuka said,
She allowed me to leave, as I couldn't summon a Persona in there unless they were really tiny, but of course, knowing my luck my Persona will be a mini, I gripped a tree branch and pulled myself up, leaning against the tree so as to not put weight on my broken leg, I brought the gun-like thing to my head, and pulled the trigger, calling out "Persona" as I did, a blue light circled around me, and I heard a voice,
"Thou art I... And I am thou... I am Hades, I have emerged from the depths of the sea of your soul, and from your heart, I gain my strength..." the voice spoke,
I turned my head, my Persona was larger than I expected, he had large black wings, and wore a dark purple mask, with a silver trim, he sat on a skull,
The enemy was weak to Dark Type attacks, Fuuka said that earlier, so, with my Persona being a Dark Type,
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"Still no sign of him..." I mumbled,
I looked over at Carmine, who shook his head,
"What if something happened? What if he came here and got into a fight before he got to us? What if he's dead?" Orie asked,
"Or, it may be a simple case of, how little he sleeps finally caught up to him and he's sleeping through this," Carmine said,
"Or he's having a hard time finding his coat, the police went through each student's home when the school burned down, and Seth said they rearranged a lot of stuff and he was having a hard time finding everything," I said,
"Or, maybe he had an emergency at his job, they know he stays up late, they have him work all night, and on Sundays have him work all day and night, he doesn't even look tired when he does that," Carmine said,
"Or one of the people from the track team caught him before he got here, and he hasn't been able to shake them," I said,
"Eh... Or maybe he forgot tonight is the Hollow Nighg because the sky isn't red anymore," Carmine said,
"Yeah- wait what?" I looked up and Carmine was right, the sky was green, with only a crescent shaped part of the moon being red,
"Huh...? That's... Not normal," Orie said,
"I've seen the sky as green multiple times since we switched schools, it always lasts for one hour, at least, it feels like an hour, it starts at midnight, and no technology works, I know, I pulled out every photo taking device I had to try and take a picture," Carmine said,
I pulled out my phone and tried to turn it on,
"You're right, my phone isn't coming on, and it came on earlier, before we started getting worried about Seth, when we first arrived in the Night, Chaos called me, and last I checked, it was at ninety percent," I said,
Orie tried her phone, same went for her, and Carmine tried his again,
"Something's going on," we all three said,
'-
The fight was over, finally, but I was tired, I collapsed, hoping that Carmine, Orie and Hyde wouldn't mind that I didn't show up,
The next day-
I woke up, laying on a couch, I sat up,
"Was all of that... A dream? What time is it?" I mumbled,
I looked around and looked at the clock, it was morning, I quickly got up off the couch, and my leg gave out under me, I hit the floor,
"Guess that answers my question... Not a dream..." I said,
I pushed myself back up, I was still in my Hollw Night outfit, which was good, otherwise someone would have seen me naked and I do not want that, but my leg was wrapped up, I got back on the couch, my leg hurt was to messed up for me to walk,
"Todoroki, are you okay?" A deep, female voice asked,
I turned towards the voice,
"No need to be so impersonal, Queen of Executions," I said,
"I apologize, is your leg doing alright? You've always been a runner, it must really annoy to you have a hurt leg," Mitsuru said,
"It hurts, but I'll manage," I said,
I tried once again to stand, being more careful this time and not putting so much weight on my broken leg, I limped over to Mitsuru,
"We have to be on our way to school soon, I had Akihiko pick up your uniform," Mitsuru said,
"Thanks..." I said,
There was a knock on the door,
"Come in," Mitsuru said,
Hyde opened the door and walked in, then looked at me, shocked,
"Seth, what the hell are you doing down here? And what happened to your leg? It looks really bad," Hyde said,
"I broke it last night, and got into a pretty bad fight, I got knocked out," I said, "I'll be ready for school shortly, Mitsuru had Akihiko pick up my uniform,"
"That was nice," Hyde said,
I nodded, Mitsuru helped me upstairs,
"Until your leg recovers, we have a room here for you, we chose the one that's quickest to access, so that you don't have to stay on your feet for too long," Mitsuru said,
"Thanks," I said,
Seth joins the S.E.E.S. with his Persona, Hades, so, over the next chapters we'll see some more action, and it looks like Hyde, Orie and Carmine may also have the potential, cool, right? Until next time! Bye bye!