May 17, 2011
Forecast… Sunny
"Em!" was standing by the front door of the house waiting for my sister, who was taking for freaking ever! "Hurry up or you'll be late!"
"I'm coming calm the he- I mean, calm down Brother!" I sighed, for her to cuss like that was rare, but she did do it, usually cussing someone out though, and then storming off. But again… it was rare, I've only seen it twice in the last four years. She came around the corner of the hallway and stopped when she saw me, Will left early for a job interview somewhere… I think it was the hospital… I can't really remember "Um, about what we saw last night…?"
"We never speak of it to anyone!" I pointed in Em's face, she just nodded quickly, yet I was going to break my promise very quickly! I was part of the investigation team. "Unless you in to that kinda stuff."
I spoke those last words randomly, quickly, and without hestitation. Why did I do that you ask? Because it made Em get so fucking flustered that it was funny. "Wh- huh? Broth- Why wou- I don't… who wou- n-never mind…"
I smiled evilly as I walked out of that house, but that day was not going to be fun, I just didn't know it yet… Nor, did I know who would be the cause of that or that he was following me closely… hidden perfectly in plain sight… I never saw it coming…
Time Change: Early Morning to After School
Yosuke sighed loudly, and it was pretty damned obvious why Kanji's shadow… I, um, don't think that Yosuke, Yu, and me where really up to just letting this one, ya know, solve itself… Okay, I was fucking scared about what I would see in that damned bath house! Ya don't need to rub salt on the wound… GOD! Anyway, so Yosuke was actually doing a good job leading these conversations nowadays… "Given the pattern so far, Kanji's already inside the TV…"
"And a copy of it in Yu's room," I lightly punched me in the shoulder for that one. "Okay, okay… he's watched it like five times."
For that, Yu slapped me on the back of my head. "Not cool!"
"But it's funny!" I smiled a moment before looking back to Yosuke. "Okay, continue with your ranting."
"I wonder what the Midnight Channel really is…" Yukiko actually spoke up, this was a rarity, well, not really… ya know what; forget I said that… it's been a long night. Chie responded to Yukiko's question first, with an explanation that brought back the memory of the first I saw it.
"At first, I thought it was one of those 'paranormal' things, but when I gave it a try… It was real." Chie started to say, and we started to recap what we knew at that moment, but we needed to. I personally believe that it strengthen our bond and will to save Kanji… Even if we see… un speakable… unforgettable things. "Turns out it's actually connected to another world…"
"If there's a rumor going around, that means a bunch of people are watching it." Yosuke continued where Chie left off. We all nodded, we believed that we were on to something with this!
"How did the rumor go…? If you stare into a turned-off TV on a rainy night…" Yukiko started to think outloud, but I decided to finish the thougt.
"And you'll see your soulmate on the screen," I sighed loudly and leaned my head back in my chair, yes, again… they were surrounding MY chair! God. "But it's not your soulmate, it's the next person to be thrown into the TV…"
"Yeah, but, no one in their right mind would try something that ridiculous, don'tcha think? Unless someone urged them to." Yosuke glared at Chie as he said this, after all, that's who got us to watch the Midnight Channel the first time… "But if you actually try, it does work. And not just once. If this rumor spreads and everyone starts watching the Midnight Channel…"
"It could cause a hug panic…" Chie was able to catch on to what we were getting at… this was a big deal that we fixed it and fixed it fast!
"If Teddie is right, the missing people themselves create the stuff we see. So it's not random." I nodded at Yosuke… He was right about that, it seemed like every place that appeared had something to do with the person's hidden feelings. "It's specifically related to whoever goes missing."
Chie sighed loudly as the thoughts started to fly, not that she didn't understand what was going on there, just it was something that was easy to catch on to, which is why I was surprised that no one went to the cops about this in our class, after all… we always had these talks in the FUCKING CLASS ROOM, but I digress. "Yukiko had a show too, but she doesn't remember doing anything like that."
"Um, this might be a little off subject, but… The culprit is probably watching the shows that come on… right?" I snapped my neck at Yukiko, I never really thought of it that way! It actually really surprised me that the thought never crossed my mind.
"No doubt. He's probably sitting back and enjoying- Wait a sec…" Chie's face, slowly grew redder and redder with rage as the thought sunk into her head.
"Well this can't be good…" I sighed, I got a long greatly with Chie, but she could have anger issues sometimes…
"I bet he IS enjoying it! He's probably laughing his head off watching the 'show' that comes on after he throws people into the TV!"
"Ahhh, I get it. Yeah, it's definitely possible. Ugh… Now when I think of the killer, I get this image of a total sicko!" Yosuke suddenly started to talk with a fake accent that was really shitty. "'I wanna see everything about you, Yuki-chan!'"
"Urgh, ugh, ugh! Wait, so if people saw Yukiko's show, do you think were watching what happened to me too!?" When Chie got to that part, I knew the killer was a dead man. "Oh, that is IT! That killer is dead meat! I'm gonna leave footprints all over his face! Guys! First, we save Kanji! Then, we crush the killer! Finally, we crush the killer and send him to hell! Got it!?"
Yukiko started to giggle at Chie's "mess up…" "Ch-Chie, those last two were the same thing…"
"Uh… I know…" Chie groaned at her best friend as she started up one of her laughing fits, I started to giggle a bit as well.
"The worst part…" Everyone turned to me as I smiled up at everyone. I clapped my hands together and quickly spread them out. "That's an actual threat from Chie!"
Inside the TV world
We entered a few minutes again and Yosuke was talking to Ted about something, but I was too unfocused, I had the strange feeling ever since the morning, but I didn't pursue it. Though it seemed like Chie had noticed how I was acting, how do I know? She walked up to me and grabbed my hand. "You okay?"
"I'm fine, just a little worried…" I sighed and squeezed on her hand a bit, she in turn did the same. I know it sounds like it would hurt, but in reality… it was comforting, the tighter you hold, the harder it was to let go or lose your grip. "Every time I come back in here, I feel weird, like I should know something about it, but every time I pursue the thought, all I find is some memory holes, its nothing major, just a few seconds lost, but still… Plus, now add on the fact that I gotta worry about Kanji, and please for the love of god tell me for the love God tell me you saw the image change!"
"Actually this time, I did…" Chie sighed and leaned a little closer to me, I wasn't much tall than her, but still she moved closer until her shoulder was against my arm. I knew she was trying to comfort me, but I was also trying to comfort her. Before we could pursue our conversation any more, I finally heard Yosuke and Teddie talking in the background.
"What!?" I could hear Teddie whining a bit as Yosuke tried to question the bear. "Are you saying that you really have no idea where Kanji Tatsumi is?"
"No, I can smell that somebody new is here…" The poor guy… animal… bear… mascot thing, he sounded really distressed over the whole ordeal. Yosuke, of course, just wanted the results, that it seemed like we weren't going to get anytime soon.
"Well why can't you?"
"I can only imagine its bear-cause I got so much on my mind." Okay, was he depressed or trying to make jokes! "Like: where do I come from? Who am I? These questions are tearing me up inside!"
"Weird since your insides are made of nothing but air." I sighed and finally turned back towards everyone.
"So what are we gonna do now? Not like we can just walk in a random direction and know where we're going." Everyone nodded, we needed this bear to help us find our way around the TV world, or else more bodies would start to appear… and we were not gonna let that happen!
"Well we could just call it quits for this one!" Yosuke half assed laughed, he was trying to get out of this, but I could understand how he felt… this was going to be disturbing…
"Quitting is not an option!" Chie was kinda pissed at Yosuke for saying that, but Yu, raised his hand and grabbed his chin.
"Oh, okay." I face palmed, this was kinda ridiculous that we were fighting over this…
"Hey! We gotta stick together!"
"Hey, I know!" Teddie spoke up again, I was hoping for good news with this, like save Kanji that day good news! "If I understood him a bit more, then I have no doubt that I would be able to sniff him out!"
"Really…?" I raised an eyebrow at our beary weird friend. "We can't just give you something of his and you turn into a blood hound?"
"Nope!"
"Fan-fucking-tastic!"
Tatsumi Textiles
"I'm sorry but, he hasn't been here since yesterday." Yes we were again in front of Mrs. Tatsumi in Tatsumi Textiles, asking about her son… Kanji Tatsumi… but we weren't getting very far; I was about ready to call it quits for the day to be honest… "I told the police about it. I'm concerned, because it's been so dangerous lately."
"I understand Ma'am." Yukiko slightly bowed to the older woman… we had literally gotten nowhere, only that had gotten was stuff that we already knew, and that only served to have Ted tell us the he lost the sent for a moment… which was weird because he had a nose like a fucking blood hound!
"Thank you." It really didn't surprise me… what his mother was saying, I still thought that Kanji was a nice guy… even after running from him for my life! "It's normal for him to leave without saying a word, but he's always come home before."
"Huh, who knew?" I slowly raised my hand as the words left Chie's mouth. "I would have thought he would be out fighting till dawn almost every night."
"Not your best choice of words there Chie…" I put a hand on her shoulder and rubbed it a bit. "Especially in front of the guys mom…"
Yet, Mrs. Tatsumi just kinda giggled at us with a smile on her face. "It's okay, I admit he can be a little rough around the edges at times. Not too long ago he got into a fight with some biker kids."
"Hey, I heard about it!" Yosuke's interest had been peaked at that moment; I guess this was something he liked to talk about. It wasn't really, just that it was the rumor we over heard in class the other day. "He took on that inter gang and destroyed them, all of them!"
That's when Mrs. Tatsumi suddenly looked sad, so I did what I always do, I slapped Yosuke upside his head! "Yes that's right. Truth is it was particularly my fault… You see I hadn't for days because of the noise their bikes were making. When he found that out, it made him angry."
"So he beat up an entire biker gang to help out his mother?" Yu was starting to talk a bit more now, which was finally hitting me after yesterday, so I was a little worried about what was going on…
"Wow, now that is one aggressively devoted son!" Yosuke again sounded surprised by all of this.
"Told ya he wasn't so bad!" I pointed in Yosuke's face with a grand old smile on mine! Yet, that's when I also realized we weren't gonna get much out of Mrs. Tatsumi… so I turned back to her and bowed. "Thank you, I'm sorry if you took up your time…"
"Oh, it's not a problem at all." She smiled as we all left the building… god she was way too nice… but it wasn't a bad thing, she seemed like a good mother if you asked me…
"So now what…?" I sighed as we started to walk down the street, we got all the information that we already knew out of the person closest to Kanji… so we had almost ran out of options…
"I say we split up and look for people who could give us some clue about Kanji…" Yu made a good point with that one, it was something that important for us to cover more ground, and the sooner we got the info… the better!
"Okay!" Everyone nodded in agreement and we all headed in different directions.
Junes
I literally had run out of options of places to look for clues, so I decided to go back to the food court and wait for everybody to show up… I walked through the front doors of the mall and stopped cold in my tracks when I say the blue hair, blue over coat, and blue hat… the cross dressing girl that was with Kanji was hanging by the elevators, I had no idea if she was waiting for someone or not, but… I had no other options left! "Yo!" I waved to her as I walked up to the elevator and pressed the button.
"So our paths cross again… you and your friends were following me and Kanji, yes?" The girl got straight to the point when she wanted… but that damned fake voice! But, I was in trouble if I lied to her, she obviously knew I was there, so no since hiding it…
"Yeah, sorry about that…" The girl shook her head.
"It doesn't really matter…" Man she was shorter than Chie! But then again, so was Em, so it didn't come as a surprise to me what so ever… "Did you hear? It seems as though Kanji is hiding out somewhere."
"Yeah," I was keeping calm and going for the bare minimum of words that I could have used to not raise suspicions that I kinda knew where he was. "Hey… mind if I ask what you and Kanji were talking about yesterday?"
"Not at all," The girl smiled half-heartedly at me. "When we meet up all I did was say hi and ask him what he had been up to lately."
"So nothing big?"
"Yep, though thinking back, he was acting strange and not really like himself the whole time." Bingo! This is what I wanted to hear! This was what was gonna help Teddie find Kanji!
"Really?" I made it sound like I knew Kanji, which wasn't entirely a lie…
"Yeah, and it kept getting worse so I decided to call him out on it." Remember when I said straight forward… this is what I was talking about! "I said 'why are you acting so weird?' Then he got awkward and the color drained from his face."
"He seemed to care what other people thought of him…" I was rubbing the back of my neck now, that was something that you really couldn't tell from just talking with the guy, but when he yells at you… yeah, you run, you don't care what it seems like, you RUN!
"Can't judge a book by its cover I guess." The girl looked to the floor now, I was wondering what was up with Kanji and the elevator was taking so damned long! "Maybe he's struggling with something; it's quite possible that Kanji has some issues that we don't know about…"
That's when the doors finally opened up… "Well, thanks, sorry for wasting your time…"
"No, it was no trouble, in fact it was quiet helpful." I raised an eyebrow at the girl as the elevator doors closed, but I quickly grabbed my phone and punched in the numbers for my friends and texted them…
I got it! Heading to Ted's now! See ya there!
Shadow World… Again
I was sitting on the railing next to the entrance, I already told Ted what I had found so he was trying to concentrate on finding Kanji when everyone else came through the entrance TV's. "Sup?"
"Did you really find what we need?" That was the first words out of Yukiko's mouth. I smiled evilly at her and nodded and pointed to Teddie who was sniffing around the air. Yosuke sighed when he saw this.
"That bear acts like some sort of freaky dog." I jumped off of my seat and walked over to everyone. "So how did you find the info we needed?"
"I found Kanji's 'friend.'" As the words left my mouth, Yosuke gave me a weird look. "The person who was with him yesterday, moron!"
Before we could continue to argue or anything, Teddie pointed in a single direction. And put on his usual smile as he did so. I knew that meant good things for us, there was no way that weren't gonna find Kanji now. I had no doubt that we would save him! I just didn't know about our extra little guest who followed us into the TV… "I believe I have bearfectly captured Kanji's sent and I am ready to hit the trail!" Teddie gained a very… um weird ass face which seemed partly determined… part constipated… "Okay noise! Don't fail me now! He's over that way! Okay people… follow the bear!"
"Hey!" Teddie went off running in the direction he had pointed and he wasn't stopping for anything. Which was good he was determined, but bad that he was leaving us in the dust… we all and to start running after the damned bear! But, we had Kanji's trail of breadcrumbs and we were gonna follow no matter where it went!
Bathhouse
"Good work everyone! Let's go home!" I started to walk back to the entrance of the TV world when Chie grabbed my collar to keep me from walking away. I was desperately trying to get out of her grip… I only just say the place and I wanted out! "But I wanna go home, Chie!"
"Not until we save Kanji!" Chie stomped her foot and pulled me towards the bathhouse. That's when everyone realized that this place sucked, and started to complain. "This fog doesn't feel like it normally does…"
"My glasses are foggy…" Yukiko pulled her glasses off of her face to try and wide the fog off.
"I wouldn't do that, if you do that it will just make it worse next time they fog up…" I sighed as mine started to fog up as well.
"Man are glasses always this much of a pain?" Chie half whined next to me, I could see that her glasses were starting to fog up as well, I that it wasn't that big of a deal so I just shrugged. Now it was Yosuke's turn to complain…
"Man it's hot, I'm soaked." He pulled at the collar of his t-shirt as he complained about the fog, which was actually steam to let yeah know! "This place feels just like a-"
Yosuke was cut off by a PA system, which I didn't know that this place would have one… god this place was fucking weird, I still try and avoid it… Anyway, what came over the PA system was the sound of saxophone playing smooth Jazz and… and… the voices… "Well hello there pussycat!"
"You have an amazing set of abs!"
"There's nothing to be afraid of, just relax!" The moment that the voices stopped talking, Yu, Yosuke, and me all suddenly got a little creeped out, Yosuke more than anyone… Chie seemed to get what this place was implying, but Yukiko and Teddie, they just seemed lost…
Yosuke was the first one to flip out a little… "Wait hold on a second, let's think about this!"
Yu was next. "There definitely some risk involved…"
I sighed, this was not a place I wanted to spend my day in, but it was also the only way that we were gonna save Kanji! So we had to do it! For him! I just wish he came up with a field of flowers… not a sauna… "I guess we got no real choice, hey Ted? Is Kanji really here?"
"Never underestimate the sensor that lives in my noise!" The bear seemed certain, so we really didn't have a choice in the matter, we had to buckle down and save the poor sap… Chie was the next to seem to hate the idea… smiled as an idea came to mind, but I wasn't really gonna pursue it… What!? I'm a teenage boy and I have a girlfriend, how I kinda… nevermind… you'll have to wait to hear that part, but… it'd be weird if I didn't have those thoughts every now and then, but I wasn't gonna push her to do something she didn't want to do.
"Well, looks like we gotta in there then." The moment the words left Chie's mouth, Yosuke started to flip out again. Why this was such a big deal for him? I think Yosuke was homophobic, after all you can't fix stupid!
"Yeah, I don't know if I'm totally on board with this!" Yosuke was almost screaming out his protest to saving Kanji… baby. As he continued to rant me and Chie both just crossed our arms at him. "I might see things, things I don't wanna see! Or I might lose something I don't wanna lose!"
Chie finally walked over to Yosuke and grabbed him by the ear and started to pull him towards the bathhouse. "Shut up, we're going in!"
I started to follow them when I heard Yu whisper something… "I could use a bite to eat…" I face palmed at him… I would have dragged him as well, I didn't want to be here, but I wouldn't keep complaining about it… but it seemed like Yukiko had him handled…
"Come on we have to go!"
"Yeah, you're right." With that I nodded and we started walking…
Floor 2
The first floor didn't have many shadows on it, but the moment we got to the second floor, we encountered a weird ass cop shadow… It was fat, had a whistle in its mouth and a hole in its stomach with a key floating in it… there were only four of them, but me and Yukiko both looked at Chie, Yu, and Yosuke, they just nodded to us. I grinned evilly as I pulled out my baseball bat, Yukiko got out a fan, ya know… one of those ceremonial ones…
Anyway… I turned to Yukiko and smiled even brighter, she just nodded as we both waited for the Shadows to notice us… when they did, they started to charge us. I got into a batting stance and felt the energy build up as I got ready to summon my Persona for the first time ever. That's when I heard the voice in my head. I am thou, and thou art I! I saw the blue tarot card appear before me and I swung my bat so hard that I busted through the card and I spun on one foot in a three sixty. That's when it appeared in front of me, my Persona… the Puppeteer! It still looked the same as it brandished a scythe in its gaint hand and waited for the moment I wanted it to do something. "Cleave!" I swung my bat in a downward motion, the Persona followed in suit, only stabbing one of the shadows in the head! It the proceed to pull the scythe out of the Shadow's head and stab another with the pointed back end of the scythe and slam it into a wall! The thing was freaking brutal!
"Agi!" Yukiko summoned her card and slashed it with her fan producing her Persona, Konohana-Sakuya! It looked the same as the last time as well, only instead of attacking physically, it summoned some fire and started to burn the shadows to death and it worked… the Shadows were weak, but we definitely were amazed by our Personas!
"That was AWESOME!" I fist pumped as my Persona slowly vanished, it was basically dismissed, but still… it worked! I thought that was amazing, but still, it felt weird but amazing all at the same time! "Oh my God! I flipping out here!"
Chie smiled as she walked over to me, I couldn't really help my next motion but I didn't get kicked in the balls for it, so it works! I quickly hugged Chie and spun around in a three-sixty, I was so excited that I really didn't have that much control, but Chie laughed it off. Yosuke sighed as him, Yu, and Ted walked past us. "Dude, calm down… Besides, it's hot, this sucks! I can't believe that we're really doing this! Hey, I know we should split up! Chie, Yukiko, and Kreed can go in full force! Then we can go back outside and guard the entrance!"
Yu actually agreed with him! "Good plan!"
Chie suddenly got in their faces and started to yell, not a surprise! "Man up! If you think I'm gonna let you guys ditch us, you got another thing coming! We're here to save Kanji because we're the only ones who can help him! Now try and keep that in mind okay!"
"You're right." Wait… did Yosuke just agree with Chie!? Oh god, logic left the building again… that's two days in a row! "He's not the complete thug that I thought he was. So I guess we should just nut a bit and see if we can help."
"Told ya!" I waved as I ran up next to Chie, the next door we opened led to the stairs and the third floor, it was just one big freaking room behind a curtain, but… Kanji's shadow was definitely there… in the towel… We all kinda just stopped as we peered around the curtain… god this was weird!
"My, my. Thank you for noticing me!" The shadow was flexing, as if trying to gain someone's attention."I am Kanji!"
That's when three of us snapped… Yosuke, Yu, and me all summoned our Personas, and Chie, Yukiko, and Ted stopped up from attacking the Shadow. Chie kinda yelled at us. "Alright, alright! Wait a sec!"
"Screw that! I say we just get this done!" Yosuke was flipping out and I just backed away from for a moment. "I don't know if I can take another second in this freaky place!"
"Well, well, well!" Now the Shadow was reaching new highs on the What the Fuck meter… "You're in line for the Tropical Paradise Suspicion! All this steam is making my blood start to pump!"
Then Chie summoned Tomoe… "Come on Chie not you too!" Teddie was now trying to get Chie to calm down.
"Sorry but this guy really bugs…"
"Yeah, just a bit." Me and Yu agreed with Chie…
"Alright sweeties since everyone here is all hot and bothered." NO, NO, NO! NONE OF US WERE, WE WERE PISSED DAMNIT! "Let's go to our next segment!" That's when the next sign appeared, and we dismissed our Personas… it was weird, and I just looked away not wanting to read it… Yu was the first one to talk.
"This could get a little awkward…" I sighed and turned to him. "And in more ways than one…"
"And it isn't alreay?"
"Good point…"
"Oh man, when we were trying to save Yukiko it was just like this too." Chie made a valid point, but Yukiko started to flip out now.
"No it wasn't! It wasn't anything like this!" Then she turned away from everyone and got a little depressed.
"Man who's creating these weird ass images anyway?" Yosuke was really questioning the title screens, I thought that we were avoid that… but whatever… "The guy who's throwing people in here?"
"I really do love grove on with ya, but I must continue my search for the BUMP AND GRIND!" Now that was just fucked up… he could have used any single words, but he used those ones! WHY!? "Follow if you dare!"
We started to run after the Shadow when we heard someone fall behind us and crash into the ground. We all turned around to see that the curtain had fallen down and someone was rolled up in it… "H-help! I can't see anything!"
"Is that Will-kun!?" Yukiko was the first one to speak that thought, but I was gonna kill Will the moment we got him out of that curtain… which wasn't long… I was standing there tapping my foot at him. "Will-kun, why, or rather, how did you end up here?"
"That's actually a good question…" Yu pushed his glasses up on his noise further, which actually made him look threating… I even backed away a little. "How did you end up here Will-san?"
"I huh…" Will looked away from us… I got up in his face at this point… He backed away from us a bit. "I was following Kreed around because I-I knew he wasn't telling me everything about the Midnight Channel that he knew! And I saw you guys jump through the TV… so I freaked out and kinda fell in… so I followed you guys some more…"
"Ted, how did you not smell him?" Chie looked, at our little mascot friend and asked the best question of the day. How the fuck did Teddie not smell Will enter the TV!?
"I was too focused on Kanji's sent!" We all just shrugged except Will, who just gave Ted a 'what the fuck' face.
"Look, Will…" I sighed as I turned back to him… "This world is dangerous… we need to get you back to… the… entrance…." I slowed my words down as I noticed something behind Will standing in the corner. It was a carbon copy of Will, only with a dark aura surrounding it… and the yellow eyes.
"Please continue, this was getting interesting." Will froze has he heard his own voice and turned around to see his Shadow smiling evilly down at him. "It's about time you noticed me!"
"Wh-what!?" Will jumped to his feet and slowly backed away from the Shadow. It started to move closer to Will. "How is that possible!?"
"Shit!" I grabbed my bat and ran at the Shadow, I was ready to swing the bat as its fist collided with my stomach, sending me straight to the ground, Chie watched in horror as the Shadow kicked me all the way back to the group. "Fuck! That's a strong fucker!"
"What is that!?" I pointed at the Shadow, we had to explain what was going on, but I really couldn't move at that moment. Chie ran to my side and made sure I was okay.
"Don't you know… I'm you, and you're me!" The Shadow laughed evilly as it began the process of slowly provoking its victim. "Why do you hang out with these things? Humans are such selfish and stupid creatures… Not a single one of them wants to look at the truth! All humans should just die!"
"Wh-what are you talking about!?" It was working a little too fast for Will, and I still could really move. "I don't have any idea what you're saying!"
"Will-kun!" Yukiko ran over to Will and tried to console him. Which really wasn't working very well, it was most likely going to end the same way… "Don't listen to him, he's just trying to provoke you!"
"Did I say you could talk!?" The Shadow was getting pissed at other people besides Will!? It didn't make much sense, but I slowly started to see what this Shadow represented… "You are nothing but worthless trash! All of you are, you invite others in and say you'll be friends, but when it comes down to it… you'll just use the others as a step latter to reach your own selfish goals! No one cares anymore! They never will… that is why humans should just die and leave me alone! Hell, for all I care it could be the other way around and I still wouldn't give a shit! All of you can just die! Yet, if I mention these thoughts to anyone, suddenly I'm the monster! I'm just saying what you experienced… right, me?" Will shook his head, I finally was able to stand up again and I wanted to stop the Shadow, but I guess this is what made everyone a better person for it… facing yourself is hard, but you feel better for it in the end.
"You… can't…" Will shook his head faster now, Yosuke tried to stop him.
"No, Will-san! Don't say it!"
"You can't be me! There is no way in hell that you are me!" The moment Will said those words… the Shadow started to laugh as its dark aura grew larger.
"That's right, I'm not you anymore, and now I'm gonna make this world peaceful!" The shockwave didn't knock me over this time, but it knocked Will flat on his ass. We looked at the Shadow in shock… it was so big that it had to bend over in the bathhouse just so it could stand. It looked like it was made from metal and bricks placed randomly all over the Shadow's form. Not only that, but you could see what looked like Will morphed into the chest of the Shadow, it had long arms with spikes coming out of the fist. "I am a Shadow, the true self! I'll end the rule of human stupidity! Starting with you!"
"You're already annoying!" I quickly summoned the Puppeteer back to my side as it spun its scythe at the Shadow. "So… just LIE DOWN AND DIE ALREADY!" The Puppeteer went flying at the Shadow, only to be batted away by one of the gain hands, which knocked me to the ground again. "Damnit!"
"Kreed!" Chie growled at the Shadow and summon Tomoe, she sent her warrior Persona at the shadow, only for it to be smashed against the ground. This knock Chie to the ground. Everyone summoned their Personas and got ready for the fight! Izangi swung its spear at the Shadow's stomach, for the spear to clang against metal and then the Persona to be open for the Shadow to swat it away. Jiyrara and Konaha-Sakuya used magic, but again, the Shadow didn't even budge, I wanted this fight to end quickly… So, again I sent out my Persona, only this time with a different tactic. It threw its scythe at the Shadow which grabbed the scythe and swung it as my Persona as it charged the Shadow with its coffin in hand and blocked the scythe.
It then punched the Shadow in the head, grabbed the Scythe and cut clean through the open neck… the two stayed like that for a moment or two until the Shadows head just slowly slid off its body. We all cheered for a moment, until… the Shadow started to laugh again. "You thought it would be that easy!? Just shows you human stupidity is so great!"
The Shadow started to run at Izangi and hugged it, the Shadow started to squeeze and slowly crush the Persona, and in turn, crushing Yu… I snapped, to tell you the truth… I sent the Puppeteer at the Shadow again, only this time, there was no nice card! It cut off the arm of the Shadow and swipped its legs out from under it, the Shadow landed on its back and my Persona stepped on its stomach and started to stab the thing in the chest at least fifty times and black liquid gushed out of the wound, the Shadow screamed in pain the whole time. Finally when it was done I dismissed my Persona and fell to my knees.
"Th-that was a short battle…" I smiled and started to fall backwards, only to be stopped by Chie holding me up. "Thanks…"
She wrapped her arms around me and smiled wryly. "I'm always here for you."
After a bit, Will and his Shadow stood up, the Shadow back to its original form. Will took a look around and saw his Shadow he shook his head and started to back away. "Don't you do Will!" I yelled at him, he was about to say it again. "Look, I get how you feel; people always have their own agenda that will never change! But you can trust your friends to take time off of that agenda to help you!"
"Will-kun," Yukiko put a hand on Will's shoulder.
"Everyone has a side like this hidden somewhere…" Yu half smiled at my friend, Will looked to the ground.
"You guys are right, I didn't want anyone to know that this thing was in me…" Will started to talk more than I have heard him say since he got to Inaba… "I liked being alone, it was comforting to me, but after a while, I wanted to try and get back out there. I learned that most of the world is full of hateful and evil people…"
The Shadow waited for Will to finish his speal as he did, we all watched him struggle with this… we all did when we first say our Shadow… "I wanted to try and make friends, but most of them pushed me aside when it was covenant for them, but, there are a few good people out there, they shouldn't be forgotten, no matter who they were… even if I met most of them here in Inaba… so I guess you were right… I'm you and you're me…"
The Shadow nodded at Will and what took its place didn't look very human. It had a wrapped up head that you could see one eye and the mouth. The back looked like it was made of cloth and metal with light bulbs jutting out of its back. The arms were long and had chains on them, the legs looked like they were made out of spare robot parts, and I heard Will whisper its name. "Golem…"
Will quickly collapsed to the ground. We all rushed to him. "Are you okay Will-kun!?"
"I'm good Yukiko, but I'm burning up…" We finally remembered that we were in a bathhouse with steam…
"Who votes we take a break today!" Yosuke quickly made a vote, and surprisingly, we all agreed to take a break. "Good, because… I CAN'T STAND THIS PLACE ANYMORE TODAY!"
I'm sorry it took so long, and yeah, I'm using the anime a bit more, sorry if you don't like it, but hell It's my story! If I wanted the sky to be orange, it will be orange, I don't want that. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed, and Yes there is another OC Persona user now with another original Persona, just to let you know, it is of the Hermit Arcana. So hope to see you guys back here on Monday, please send me your feedback on the story or my OC's or Persona's, hell send me Persona ideas if you want! Thank you for reading!