Daichi: This skips ahead a bit to where things really pick up. Specifically, about a week later.
Verity: We don't own this stuff, just Satoko and any members of her school mentioned not named Souji Seta.
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Lily Gaunt, foreign transfer, had never, in any country she'd lived in, met anyone like the girl in the room across from her. Not only had she managed to defrost Seta, a task thought impossible by many, the one known as Satoko Taraki finished her homework quickly and without complaint. Gekkoukan was known to be a challenging school, but she took it without any fuss and got decent marks.
Lily decided to see if Satoko was slipping out at night, if only because the one way she knew to figure things out was get dirt on someone and ask them yourself. Admittedly, it was also how she got kicked out of every school in five states, along with several in different countries, this being the seventh she went to in Japan, but she never learned. Not that she found anything.
She waited until she could be sure. Her plan was to go the whole night.
The clock struck twelve.
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As the dorm's lights went out, Satoko sat up. Walking over to the window, she climbed out and transformed. Jumping down, she peered into the nearest coffin. Looked like Ms. Gori was kept out late by something. Not that it was any business of hers.
Changing back, she walked across the street and knocked on the door. Souji opened it, looking somewhat irritated.
"Taraki-san, what are you doing here at this time of night?"
"Let's have some fun!"
"It's after midnight. What if someone finds us?"
"Don't worry, Seta, they're all in coffins. We'll be back before they change back." Souji sighed, realizing that there was no going against her wishes. She might not be the best in the class, but she was inhumanly strong. When he asked, she said it was her natural aura and didn't go into it any farther. He probably wouldn't be able to process it, anyway.
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Yukari Takeba wasn't entirely comfortable with summoning her Persona, no matter how many Shadows she was up against. Still, with Akihiko out of commission and Arisato in the hospital, it was her or Mitsuru. And it was important to have support.
Either way, any chance of actually needing her Evoker that night was cut off by what she saw before her.
"Senpai, when Akihiko said he saw a creature take out a Shadow, what did he say it looked like?"
"A black and blue canid."
"Yeah, I thought so. Anyway, it just jumped from the rooftop of a dorm and turned into a human girl. Are you sure there's no such thing as werewolves?" She completely ignored the boy that followed her. After all, seeing such a transformation does have a tendency to blow minds.
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Satoko had seen and done many things over her lifetime. She had fought a being made up of negativity. She had punched several gods in the face, including knocking out a minor god. She could turn into a jackal at will.
This was a new one, however. A blob like the one from the first night, what appeared to be a couple of dancers, but looking closer had only one aura, and thus was only one entity, and a lion chained to an iron ball, with the majority of it's aura coming from the ball. Well, this would be fun.
"Hey, Seta, how quick do you think I can take these out?" Souji shrugged, backing away from the creatures as quickly as he could.
The blob went down easily, just a toss of an Aura Sphere. The lion and dancers, she suspected would take a little bit more effort.
'If you wish, I may make this fight easier on you by reducing the number of your opponents' A voice she'd only heard in dreams before spoke into her head.
"Alright, then." There was a foreign feeling at the edge of her senses. This wasn't aura manipulation, but something else altogether. "Persona!" A humanoid black jackal wearing white robes appeared. "Hama!" Glowing golden cards appeared, and the dancers was down, leaving just the lion, and a slight shortness of breath that told her not to do that again.
The lion pounced. She raised an arm, shoving it out of the way, and winced as it's claws tore three straight lines down her skin.
"Taraki, are you okay?"
"I'll be fine, Seta, just stay out of this!" Turning, she punched the mask on the iron ball, and then the face on the lion, just to be safe. The second she felt the teeth, she pulled her fist away, wondering how she would explain the bite marks and the blood to Ms. Erufi.
Well, it had been a fun fight, but she decided to end it before she got any more unexplainable injuries.
"Force Palm." It was nice to have close range attacks that wouldn't leave her with a sour taste in her mouth. Picking up the coins she saw in the pile of goo that remained of the creature, she turned to Souji. "Maybe we should head back."
"What did you- just... Yeah, let's head back."
With any luck, she'd be able to treat her wounds and get back to bed before the world changed back.
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She wasn't so lucky. She'd treated her wounds, alright, but had only opened her bedroom door when everything became normal again. And then Lily Gaunt came it.
"Taraki, I thought you were in bed. How are you in front of your door again? And you're injured. Have you been sneaking out?"
She turned. "No, just went for a walk around the dorm. You should know that, as you've been watching this door for the past six hours. And for the record, Gaunt, I think spying on others is against the rules here. I may be wrong, but I don't think so. If you want, I can open the window and shout for my homeroom teacher, I think she's passing by."
Lily paused. "This isn't over."
"I know. I'm just making sure you realize I don't lose easily. If you want to cause trouble for me, I will do something about it. Understood?"
Scaring Lily Gaunt was difficult to do. Just another thing to add to the list of impossible feats Satoko had managed to accomplish.
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Daichi: Every OC I introduce in this story has a name referencing a species of Pokemon. Feel free to make your guesses.
