I pushed at the gate and frowned as it refused to budge.

"Okay let's think about this,"

I had expected the fog to clear and put me back in the normal world after dealing with the angel. But now here I was, stuck.

Maybe I had to head out and find an exit, maybe a TV?

Of course, that was assuming that there even was a world out there. There was a chance that there was nothing out there past the walls.

Still, just standing around here wasn't going to do anything, so it was time to strike out into the great unknown.

"Persona," I summoned Lamia who picked me up in her arms and carried me over the wall.

To my relief, there was indeed a floor out here. Lamia set me down on the road right outside the church.

The fog was thick, almost impossibly so. I could see around myself well enough, but everything past that was gone. Still from what I could remember, there should have been a building right in front of me.

I held my arm out and started waking forward carefully. As it turned out, I hadn't even needed to do so. The building crept out of the fog just as my hand was about to touch it.

I glanced to my sides. Even standing with my chest to the wall, the fog was too thick to see the ends of the building. I slowly made my way to the buildings, door, hoping that the door would be open, there was less fog inside, and that they had a big TV.

A quick check of the doorknob would prove the first hope false. And with that part of the plan gone, the other two didn't really matter.

I thought about using Lamia to break the door down, but hesitated. There was still too much I didn't know about his world. For all I knew, anything I did in here would reflect back on the normal world. I had burnt down the church because I needed to, but no reason to add random vandalism to a church arson.

The news in this town was already busy as it was, I didn't need to add stuff on top of it.

"Come Lamia," I had hoped that my Persona would be able to see better in the fog but that was also a no go. I kept her out as I started walking back in the direction of home. So far the TV in my living room was the only way back, so it was going to act my goal for now.

Only one small problem.

"Why is it so far?" I demanded of the fog as we passed by an iron fence decorated with a certain sign. It told the world that this was Oliver Roberts's memorial park.

It told me that I was still halfway to my apartment building.

Why did the church have to be so far away anyway?

Wait…

If the purpose of the church and the angel was to act as a trap for Persona users, why was it in the middle of nowhere? The more I thought about this trap, the less sense it made.

There was something that I was missing. And I was pretty sure I wasn't going to be able to investigate unless I managed to get back to the normal world.

"This is so frustrating," I grumbled as I walked into the park. Cutting through it was a pretty good short cut. Of course I would have to be careful to not accidentally walk into any trees.

So of course I strayed off the path almost right away and ran headfirst into a tree.

Hey it wasn't my fault that the fog was thick enough in the park to completely block the ground from my vision.

"Why?" I growled as I crouched down and rubbed the spot on my face that had hit the tree. "How could this get any worse?"

I blinked as I looked around for the giant dragon or zombie army that my tempting of fate had summoned.

To my surprise, I was still all alone in the fog-filled park.

"Looks like my life hasn't turned into as much of a fantasy as I though it has," I heard a strange buzz behind me. I turned around and saw a shady figure approaching me. It was smallish and flying through the air. As it got closer the buzzing got louder.

"Oh me and my big mouth," I grumbled as I ducked out of the way of the giant robot bee. I could just barely see it stab its stinger into the tree that I just had bonked my head on.

I could just make out the robot bee in the fog. It was about the size of my torso. It was made of yellow and white metal that was arranged in stripes. It had six skinny metal legs that ended with sharpened points. Its head had eyes made of green glass panels.

"Any chance that you're the type of bee that dies after stinging once?" I asked the bee as it dug its feet into the tree and pulled its stinger out. "Doesn't look like it,"

I summoned the card to my hand and got ready for a fight when I heard more buzzing behind me. I glanced back and saw three more shady figures approaching.

"Nope," I ran off into the fog following the path the best I could. Let's see, the park path made a left here… a right here… another right here.

"Okay maybe not quite," I said as I ran into a wall. This would be a lot easier if I could see anything. Well at least I was at the wall, and if I was at the wall then…

I took off running to the right as the sound of buzzing filled my ears again. No time to think when I had four murder bees after me. I was close to the entrance to the park anyway… at least I was pretty sure I was.

I smiled as I came up to an opening in the wall. I turned the corner and ran right into something. I was thrown back and landed on the ground.

"Oh come on again," I mumbled as I got to my feet and patted the dust off of me. "What did I even run… into,"

I paused as I looked at just what I had hit. It was a person… but not really. It was more like a wireframe outline of a person. I had hit them hard enough to send them to the ground too.

I watched as they got to their feet.

"Sorry about that but I'm being chased by some bees and you can't hear me can you?" Instead of answering, the wireframe calmly got to its feet and looked around before shrugging its shoulders. It walked forward at me, like it was going to attempt to just go through me. I stepped to the side and let it pass, not wanting to mess with it.

This world was getting weirder and weirder…

And also more dangerous if that growing buzzing sound was any indication. I ran past the wireframe and out of the park as I heard another buzzing sound come from in front of me. I looked up and saw one of the vague figures approaching from the sky. I glanced back and saw the rest still chasing after me from behind.

This time I summoned Lamia, my other self appearing in the air next to me, flying by my side as I kept running. I took aim at the blurry figure before letting loose an Agi that ripped through the fog and hit the revealed bee.

The flames consumed the bee in a giant blast that cleared the fog around the bee. It came back in to cover the area again, but I still got a good look at the metal bee as it dropped from the sky.

I heard it hit the ground next to me as I kept running towards home. I had Lamia snap her tail at where the metal bee landed as we ran past it. Was it a bit unfair to attack someone when they were down, especially with an attack that wasn't all that strong?

Yes and I didn't care. If the metal bees had a problem with it, they could stop attacking me.

I kept running as I reached my building, rushing into the stairwell and climbing up. Around the third floor, I could start to hear the buzzing coming from below.

Stupid bees and their flying. It really ought to be cheating.

Cheating bees or no I made it to my floor before they could catch up to me. I swung the door open and slammed it shut before the bees could even spot me.

I cringed for a bit, expecting my mom to yell at me for slamming the door, before remembering my situation.

"I guess today has had some upsides," I walked back from the door slowly, the sounds of buzzing nowhere to be heard.

To my surprise, the inside of my apartment was free of fog. There was still a weird yellow filter over everything though. But you know what, I was just happy to see the area around me again.

"Hello feet," I said as I bent down and looked at the floor. "I missed you two," I came back up and went into the kitchen. To my surprise, there were two wireframes in there. One of them was standing next to the fridge while the other was sitting at the table.

I painted my parents over the wireframes in my mind. They fit perfectly.

"So what?" I questioned as I walked around the standing wireframe that I was pretty sure was my dad. "People in the normal world get represented by wireframes in this one? But then why didn't I see more of them while walking thought that super thick fog that blocked all my vision and now it makes sense,"

I walked out of the kitchen wondering just how many wireframes I had walked or run past on my way here.

"Now where should we go?" My eyes looked over at my room. I shrugged my shoulders and walked in.

I grimaced as I saw my walls. This yellow filter was not doing my room any favors. Other than that, everything was the same. The same giant bookshelf, the same desk with Fangs over Hearts on top of it, and the same box on top of my bed.

I stopped as I walked past my bed. I looked back at the box that had not been there when I had left home this morning.

I picked up the box and looked it over. It was a plain brown box with a piece of tape holding it closed. Most of the box was bare, expect for one image that looked like it had been stamped on with black ink.

A girl wearing a crop top and with a snake tail. Lamia.

"I guess this is mine then," I told myself as I looked around the room for a pair of scissors or something else to cut it open…

I set the box down on the bed and summoned Lamia.

"Don't let anyone tell you that magic powers don't have practical applications," I said as Lamia held her long, claw-like nail over the tape and started cutting it through.

The box opened up to two objects. The first was a pair of goggles and the other was a note.

I grabbed the note and hopped that the goggles weren't a gift from my parents.

"If you're reading this, then this means that you've found yourself in the world underneath," I read aloud from the note. "If you wish to leave to return to the world above, simply find the entrance or exit that you used on your first visit. However be warned, the exit only functions if no shadows are in the area. If there are any around, they must be eliminated first. P.S. The goggles are a gift" I glanced down at the goggles.

"They'll prove to be useful. We're expecting great things from you. Signed, question mark, question mark, question mark,"

I blinked twice as I read over that last part again.

"What's the point of singing a letter with three question mars? Just don't sign it," I said as I tossed the note back into the box.

Well, at least know I knew how to get out of here. I had to go through the TV again… but first I had some pest control to do. I looked down at the box and picked up the goggles again.

They were big aviators with red lenses and black frame. The strap on the back was made from leather painted in red and black stripes. I put them on and blinked at the world around. I had been expecting a red filter to replace the yellow one, but the yellow one was still in place.

I glanced at my mirror and looked at myself. I had to admit, despite my dangerous situation, I liked the goggles. The colors matched my red hoodie and my black pants. I smiled as I called Lamia to me. I stood next to her as I noticed a small window in front of her. I looked at it as it expanded into what I could only call a stat sheet.

"Oh, so that's what they do,"