Sorry I messed up the date in the last chapter or more…
May 19, 2011
Forecast… Sunny
Lunch
"Hey, everyone!" I quickly brought me head off my desk so fast, that I fell out of my chair when I heard the girl's voice yell at us.
"Damnit!" I quickly scrabbled to my feet and put my chair up, that was one of the most embarrassing moments that I have ever had, but still. "That scared the crap out of me!"
"They posted the test results!" The girl then ran out of the door way, I quickly stood up and stretched, we had another English lesson before this, so… I simply fell asleep again, I mean, I didn't need to pay attention to even pass that class… seriously, they were now learning the word duck… Anyway, Yu and Yosuke walked over to me, Yosuke looked like he was gonna die.
"Argh… The awful moment of truth…" Yu smiled as Yosuke's complains reached his ears, I just shrugged, I didn't even really try to pass the damn thing… "Oh well. Wanna check it out, Kreed?"
"If I must, and Yosuke." I smiled, I knew why Yosuke was freaking out and I was gonna use that to my advantage! "Study more and this won't kill you."
"HEY! I studied!" Me and Yu started to laugh loudly. "I did!"
"Right, we believe you." Yu was able to just get the words in before laughing again. Me and Yu started to ran as Yosuke began a short chase after as to the board where the grades were posted. When we stopped in front of the board I just yawned, but I noticed the Kou, Daiskue, Chie were at the board. "Let's see, Yosuke Hanamura… 69… Yu Narukami… 95"
"Go figure…" I walked next to Chie as she was still searching for her name… in the lowest scores… "Hey, how'd you do?"
"I haven't found it yet…" Chie was looking in the scores down in the 30's! I just shook my head and looked in the through all the scores, and smiled when I finally found her scores. I poked Chie on her shoulder and pointed her to her score of 77. I laughed as Chie's jaw dropped when she saw the number behind her name. Chie started to pump her arm with how happy she was, she actually passed with an okay score!
"Told ya that you could do it!" I put a hand on her shoulder, that's when I started to hear everyone whispering.
"Holy crap that kinda score… He even beat out Yukiko-chan's scores!"
"Did he even study!? I never saw him in the library."
"How did he get a perfect score!?"
"Yo, Kreed!" Daisuke slapped my shoulder at that moment which made me bend my knees for a moment… "Great job man!"
"What happened that's so great?" I was so freaking confused… but as I saw the glances at me, I started to put two and two together. "Don't tell me…"
Sure enough, there at the very top of the list was my name, and the number behind it… was 100! How was this even possible! I didn't want to do that well! Great! Yet, I would be lying if I didn't say that it was a pleasant surprise to have passed the test like that. "Well… I'll be damned… I did it…"
Time Change: Lunchtime to After School
Sauna Floor 5
"Wow, this place does really suck!" Will pulled his collar away from his neck as the sweat started to a cumulate around his neck… I laughed lightly as we kept walking, though he was right the heat sucked more than anything in this place. "So, remind me why we came back here?"
"To rescue Kanji Tatsumi from the same thing that happened to you." Will stopped from a moment, he made it seem like it was weird, we were just six people jumping into a TV to save someone from their hidden emotions. Nope, nothing weird about that! Anyway, Teddie had given Will his glasses the moment he hopped into the TV World this time, his glasses looked like aviator glasses and had an orange tint to them. We weren't really finding any shadows this time around, which was a scary thought, considering what happened last time. "Anyway! I still can't believe that I got a perfect score!"
"Did you even study?" Yu called back to me, yeah everyone in the group heard that I passed with a perfect, and Yukiko was the only one who seemed displeased by this, of course it could be because she had a 95.
"Only what I helped Chie with." I left my beanie back at the entrance of the TV World this time, so some, not much, but still some of my hair fell to start and cover the top part of my eyes, I could still see, but I hadn't gotten a hair cut in a few months so I was due to have it snipped soon. "And even that wasn't much."
"My score…" I heard Yukiko half moan next to Will, I was next to Chie the whole time. Chie looked half happy and half sad, happy for her and me, but a little sad for Yukiko. I smiled I was about to say something when a new type of Shadow came barreling down another hall and bashed its knee into my face! It hurt like a bitch, especially when I hit the hall, I couldn't really move and I was disoriented after the hit. Will pulled his weapon off of his back at this time. Will's weapon was a very heavy double sided Axe; don't ask me how he snuck that thing in here… There were three of these new Shadows, for them… think Hulk Hogan only three times as big… yep, that fucked up… I saw Chie looked back at me multiple times. It was obvious that she was scared now.
Will swung the axe with one hand and it stuck into the Shadow's leg, which it then grabbed Will and pulled him up without the Axe. Will smiled as the thing brought him to its face. "Hi, have you met my friend… the Golem?"
The Shadow actually stopped and looked like it was thinking if it met Will's Persona! Which gave him the chance to summon his tarot card at which he grabbed it and smashed it against the Shadow's face, making it realize what had just happened, it was about the throw Will to the ground when the Golem appeared with both hands around the things head. To put it simply, the strength of the Persona versus the Shadow… the Shadow was Hulk Hogan, while the Persona was the Hulk, as big and as pissed off as the Hulk could get! The Golem lifted the Shadow off of the ground, making it drop Will, who, when he hit the ground called out the attack command. "GOLEM! BASH!"
Will's Persona removed one hand off the Shadow's head and punched it square in the stomach so hard that the head of the Shadow forgot to leave with the body! Before the body disappeared it slammed into one more of the Shadows, destroying them both! As they busted throw the door we were heading for… The last Shadow looked at the Golem and actually tried to run away, only to be met with the sight of the Puppeteer's Coffin in its face. I smiled as I used the wall for support, blood slowly running down the side of my face. "Meet my friend, the Puppeteer… Puppeteer… Mudo!"
The coffin slowly opened as two red eyes peered at the Shadow, the spell's magic circle appeared before the Shadow and vanished, you think that it failed… nope, the Puppeteer did something different with that spell. Black wiggly hands came out of the coffin (think the hands for the Door to the Truth in Fullmetal Alchemist) and started to rap around the Shadow, the hands tugged once and the Shadow was sent flying into the coffin which shut on the poor creature. There was a sound of something being beaten and stabbed, then the black liquid that we had recognized that appeared when I Shadow was destroyed slowly leaked out of the coffin. After a few moments, I dismissed my Persona and fell to my knees again. Chie was the first one to my side. "Kreed! A-are you okay!"
I looked up to meet her eyes, she was so close to tears that I could see the tears start to build up in her eyes, but… Yukiko got one look at my wounds as I nodded to try and console Chie, Yukiko smiled.
"He'll be fine after one quick healing spell." Yukiko stood back away from us and held out her fan as her tarot card appeared before her again. "Come! Konohah-Sakuya!"
Yukiko's Persona appeared as she shattered the card, there was a bright light as the throbbing in my head stopped and I was able to stand on my feet again. "Let's hope that doesn't happen again, that hurt like a freaking bitch!"
"Hey look!" Yu pointed at the destroyed door. "The Shadows found the stairs!"
Outside of boss door
"He's in here isn't he…" Yu kinda complained, we were defiantly in the right place… how do we know? The fucking door said it… okay, well it said Welcome to Tropical Paradise, but that is beside the point! Me, Yu, Chie, and Yosuke knew that this was gonna get creepy…
"Yeah, there's no doubt about… he's here…" I wanted to back away from the door as fast as possible, but I didn't wanna leave someone to die in here… Will just tilted his head.
"Why does it say Tropical Paradise… we're in a sauna!?"
"It's the guy from the last Midnight Channel…"
"OH GOD NO!" I nodded, now Will understood why we were so hesitant…
"Okay, let's go in there and take him!" Chie was just trying to get us to go first and we knew it! Yukiko… didn't, but she would have agreed with her on this! But ya know, I was gonna make Yosuke open the door. "Okay listen, no matter what happens in there, we gotta stay focused on the mission. Which means we gotta rescue Kanji, and after we've rescued him, we gotta save him!"
Yukiko started to giggle and laughed a bit too, but I knew that she was being serious and joking. "Chie… th-thoughs last two things were the same!"
"Um, it was intentional." Chie looked back at Yukiko, who seemed surprised by this…
"Yeah Yukiko." I smiled for the moment. Until I looked at the door again…
"Let's do this!" I pointed straight into the air… then… We all just stood there for a while, just letting the steam rise into the air around us. Then Teddie caught on to what we were doing.
"Um…? Why aren't you opening the door?" All of us gave Teddie our best scared shitless faces. Then Yosuke replied with the same excuse he had given Chie yesterday.
"Well you see…" Chie started.
"Do we really have too…?" Yosuke bent over at his shoulders, probably to get his point across. "Sometimes you see things and they get seared into your brain forever and ever and ever…"
"He does have a point…" Yukiko was actually thinking about skipping out on this? I thought that Kanji was one of her friends! "What do you think Narukami, Kreed-kun?"
"Maybe some dinner first?" Yu was also using the same excuse as yesterday. I gulped hard when it was my turn.
"Maybe we can just eat here at the door?" I shrugged my shoulders. Chie suddenly got mad at us.
"Not until we find him!" Chie stomped her foot, Will was just standing next to Yukiko, trying not to laugh. I was gonna have to punch for this later! "It's about time the two of you grow a pair!"
"Not me?" I pointed at myself and Chie shook her head.
"You at least didn't need to be forced to come and save him!" I shrugged as she moved behind Yosuke and Yu. Then… she pushed them at the door! "Now go on!" Yu and Yosuke opened the door slowly, just in time for us to see Kanji pin his Shadow to the ground.
"I have heard enough out of you!" We just stood there watching for a moment as Kanji apparently didn't see us enter through the damned door! All of us in unison said the same thing.
"This is really awkward…" That was when Kanji turned around to see us… and it was much to his surprise…
"What are you guys doing here!?" Apparently he understood why we said that… Yu, Yosuke, Will, and me all answered his question…
"Well…" Yosuke.
"You see…" Yu.
"Came to…" Will.
"Rescue you…" Me… we really didn't sound like that's what we wanted to do… mainly because this was really awkward…
"Well ya sure as hell don't sound all that motivated!" He looked like he was gonna kill us… again… but then Kanji's Shadow pushed him off and jumped to his feet.
"I won't let you inter fear!" The Shadow was making this way worse than it should have been… good this was awkward… The moment he finished flexing, a clear liquid started to poor onto the floor all the way to where we were standing. It was I weird thing to try and stop us with… but even weirder when we figured out what it was…
"What the heck is this?" Chie started to walk forward until she lost her balance while getting ready to take another step. "Is this supposed to slow us dow- Ugh, egh he!"
"Yukiko grabbed Chie's wrist to keep her from falling, but it only served to bring Yukiko with her.
"Chie, are you okay?" I took a step to walk towards her, but I started to lose my balance too. I put my hand on the ground to keep myself from falling, that's… when I felt… the, um… the lubricant on the floor. "Oh, god no! This is freaking GROSS! Why the hell… No, no, WHO THE HELL CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA!"
"Why are you guys crawling on the floor?" I was hoping that Yosuke directed that question at the girls. That's when Yosuke figured out what was going on…
"Ew, its slime! This stuff is gross!" Chie started to complain about the lube that she was in… Then Yosuke and Yu stated their death wish!
"Narukami, you wouldn't happen to have a video camera would you!?" Yosuke looked like he had such high hopes, Yukiko looked like Yosuke was gonna be the next person to burn!
"Heh, no…"
"That isn't funny, ih!" Chie attempted to stand up again, but fell straight to her stomach. I looked at Will he was trying not to laugh to the point that I could hear the huffs of breath coming out of the sides of his mouth.
"I'm gonna kick the shit out of you…"
"I'd love to see you try!" That exact moment is when we heard Kanji and his Shadow start talking. Kanji was just getting off of the floor as he Shadow turned to him.
"You bastard!" Those were the first words out of Kanji's mouth, go figure!
"Honey why don't you just drop the spheroid." The Shadow was really getting cocky at this point, four of us could still summon our Persona's without falling flat on our faces, and we would sure as hell use that to our advantage! "Isn't time for you to tell people how you truly feel!? I'm everything that you wish you could be!"
"You liar!" Kanji was so close to saying it already… god the last two people have been a lot faster for denying their Shadows… it's like someone's reading from a different script! Yosuke knew what he had to do, so he got out his kunai and got ready to summon Jiaraya.
"No don't listen to him!" Yosuke got in his stance, that's when I knew he was gonna fail… "Jiarayaaaaaaa!"
Yosuke slipped as he tried to do his flip and cut his tarot card, only to fall and Yu grabbed his hand… like an idiot! They both fell in the lube and slip a good ten feet. Teddie was the next idiot to fall, as he ran to help Yu back up and slipped too, only he slip across the entire room! Sawing, "I'll help you Sensei! Leave it to BEAAAAAAAAAAAR!"
"Will now it's your turn!" I glared at him, he shrugged and turned to summon his Persona by bringing back his Axe over his head, needless to say, he fell too… "Yep, we're fucked…"
"I really hate girls…" Kanji Shadow continued talking and it was starting to tick me off! "They look at me and say, you like to sow! Or if I paint a pretty picture they laugh at it and say wow that's weird for a guy!"
"Guh, you prick, if you don't shut your mouth…!" Kanji was in some serious pain at the moment. I could hear it in his voice. "Oh, god da…"
His Shadow put its hands on both sides of Kanji's shoulders and continued to piss me off! "You should be strong! You should be tuff! You should be manly! But what's that even mean!? Girls can be so scary…"
"Girls aren't scary!" Kanji was almost at his breaking point and I was having difficulty focusing my energy as pissed as I had gotten!
"Guys are much better!" I was now so pissed to the point that I was thinking of how to kill this Shadow in the slowest of ways possible! "They would never say those awful things! That's why I like men!"
"That's not true!"
"Oh, but it is… because you are me and I am so you." I knew what the next line was.
"Like hell you are!" I didn't care; I wanted to beat this Shadow to a pulp! I didn't care if it scared my friends into never wanting to talk to me again!
"No Kanji don't!" Yu was finally out of the pile of my friends, but he was too late…
"There is no FREAKING WAY YOU ARE A PART OF ME!" I smiled, somehow I had managed to stand up, and I was now focusing my energy the card appeared as Kanji's Shadow started to laugh.
"I'm sorry, but… I AM YOU!" That's when we saw the form, it was hard to explain… but buff and holding to of the gender symbols, both of them the guys one… he also was covered in roses and the upper torso of Kanji was in the middle of those roses. There were also two more Shadows with it, both body builders! "I am a Shadow of your true innerself!"
"I have had enough of your bullshit!" Was Kanji really not scared by his Shadow… holy shit that was a scary thought… Kanji's Shadow just started to laugh and gripped both symbols by the ends and slammed them down.
"DON'T INTURFER!" This knocked Kanji out cold and away from the battle field. Everyone else had just managed to get up, and that's when I crushed my card.
"Reap… PUPPETEER!" My Persona appeared and with a vengeance swung the scythe downwards at Kanji's Shadow, only for it to be stopped by one of the other two Shadows blocking it. This was gonna piss me off. Everyone summoned their Persona's as well. The Golem got in a fist fight with the other smaller shadow as well as Izangi and Konaha-Sakuya. Tomoe and Jiyria were helping out my Persona, but nothing seemed to hurt these guys.
"You think guys are better…" I started growling at Kanji's Shadow now, and Chie looked over at me as she had Tomoe continue to fight for her. She looked sad, she knew about my past better than everyone here, she knew that the Shadow had pissed me off to no return. She wanted to help me, but there was nothing she could do at the moment. "I suffered so much at the hands of people both guys and girls, I almost killed myself because people didn't care! I was accepted by anyone until I came to Inaba… I won't let you kill someone, just because they didn't ACCEPT you! So again! Reap Puppeteer!"
My Persona smacked the smaller Shadow away from us and into the back of the other one. "Yukiko, Chie! Switch Shadows!"
They seemed confused for the moment, but I noticed that the Shadows seemed to be unaffected by certain attacks, so switching them up might be the only way to beat them. They quickly did as I told them too and attacked the others respected Shadow that they were fighting with their magic spells and I was right, it worked the Shadows disappeared, but in our short victory, we got blindsided by Kanji's Shadow. Attacking all of us with a lightning attack, the Shadow laughed at us, it thought that it had won, to the point it started to gloat at us.
I couldn't really hear what it was trying to say, my ears were ringing, but that's when I saw Yu stand back up, even though our Personas were about down for the count Yu looked like he was gonna fight even longer, that's when we witnessed it… A magic circle appeared in front of him as well and there were two tarot cards in front of him. The two cards slammed together and from the two cards came one Persona, an eight headed snake! The snake summoned an ice storm that completely froze Kanji's Shadow. I finally heard in wimper. "So cold!"
"Change!" Yu held his hand out and the snake was replaced with Izangi! He had three Persona's! He sent Izangi at Kanji's Shadow and it kicked the Shadow and the ice broke sending the Shadow to the ground. Izangi then slammed it's spear into the Shadow and thus it was defeated… that was actually the one fight I really wanted to kill the Shadow, but I'm not gonna complain, Yu beat it and saved Kanji.
Kanji woke up about a few minutes later, giving us a chance to lick and heal all our wounds. The Shadow also took that time to stay knocked out. Which was good for it, so that it didn't die. The world seemed to slow down a bit, which sucked, mainly because we were in fucking sauna! God that sucked the most. Finally though… Kanji woke up, and he seemed to have a bit of a head ache, better than being dead. Yukiko was the first one express concern. "Kanji-kun!"
"Wait, Yukiko!" Yosuke almost yelled at her, yet what he said next was true something was up. "Something's wrong." Kanji's Shadow got to its feet and took a few steps forward, I thought that everything would be fine at that moment, until Ted started to freak out!
"I-It's still coming at us! Kanji is still rejecting it…" Teddie was so nervous that I thought he would start to run away.
"Well, I can't blame him with this many witnesses…" Yosuke was really sounding like an asshole, but I took a page from Yu's book and decided to stay quiet at that moment.
"Such a passionate approach…" Shadow Kanji was not making much sense with that comment, so little in fact that I dropped my guard.
"Da fuck!?" I titled my head and rubbed the back of my neck. Everyone, including Yu seemed so confused at that moment.
"What?" Yosuke sounded a bit like a dumbass using that line… god Yosuke, just take a page from Yu once in a while.
"I think that you five… would make wonderful boyfriends." Every one of the guys jumped back so fast, I surprised that we didn't bust down the wall behind us, this was ridiculous! But I quickly recovered and smiled at the Shadow, which caused everyone to give me a weird fucking look.
"Sorry, two things." I held up one finger to the Shadow, my index for those who would otherwise misinterpret what I'm saying. "One, I'm taken, two… you're nowhere near my type dude!"
"Don't encourage it!" Will stopped his foot, but I noticed him look over at Yukiko when I mentioned that I was taken. Feeling lucky Will? Still, I notice Chie roll her eyes at me when I finished that statement, but she smiled as well. But we all quickly got serious again.
"S-stop it! Y-you got it all wrong!" Yosuke started to wave his hands in front of him so that he could get his point across…
"I-I have someone in mind!" Yu rubbed the back of his neck, I was so damned confused. But damn would the girls gossip about this shit later!
"Enough… Stop… What the hell are you blabbering about…?" Kanji seemed to finally gather enough energy to talk. Just not as much as he should have.
"I don't care who…" I stopped, I finally understood it… why Kanji's shadow was like this… it wasn't a part of his personality. It was a desire. "Won't someone, anyone, please accept me…?"
"Enough! God, I hate having something like this in me, you have no freaking idea how embarrassing it is!" Kanji got up in the Shadows face now. He was just about as pissed as I was a minute again, but now he could control his anger. "Look, it's not about liking girls or guys. I just scared shitless of being rejected! I'm nothing more than scared little pansy who spends his time pushing other people away! I already knew you were inside of me! I'm you and your me damnit!"
With that Kanji's Shadow nodded and was enveloped in a blue light. From the Shadow came a large robotic creature that was black with a white skeleton pattern drawn all over it, you could see some of the wires at some of the joints, it also held a large yellow lightning bolt.
"Man that is one buff dude!" Chie and Yukiko smiled as Kanji finally accepted his Shadow. I poked Chie on the shoulder and put on a mock hurt face.
"Should I be jealous?" Chie quickly slipped her hand into mine and she shook her head.
"Like you said," She smiled at me, and of course I smiled back. "He's not my type."
Just like with Chie and Yukiko, I heard Kanji whisper something, it was the name of his Persona. "Take-Mikazuchi…" and just like the other two before him, he feel to the ground.
"Kanji-kun!" We all ran to his side as he huffed a bit, he had been in her the same amount of time as Yukiko, but that was till enough to do it.
"Let's get him out of here!" Yosuke was the first one to grab him and try to put his arm over his shoulder. Kanji was smiling as we dragged him all the way home.
Home
"That was awesome!" Will yelled as we entered my house again, we just left Kanji at his house and went our separate ways for the night. It was late by the time we all got home. I smiled as Will excitement made me see just how much his Shadow blow his feelings out of proportion. "How come you never told me about that world!?"
"Because it was dangerous, still is…" I yawned a bit, I think that Yukiko, Will, and me all did pretty good for using our Persona's for the first time. "Yo! Em, we're home!"
I walked past her door and was about to knock on it, there was a note on her door. "Going to stay with Mother tonight, sorry I didn't tell you this morning… by the way, way to kick ass on the Midterms!"
I smiled as I read the last part of the note that was the Em I knew and loved. Still, I yawned again and heard Will still flipping out about his Persona. "Goodnight Will."
"See ya tomorrow!" I walked in my room and fell onto the bed with a smile on my face. Around Midnight I felt a someone watching me, and that woke me up… I found that there was no one in my room, but there was a torn up note on my desk. I quickly picked it up and I fell to the ground as I read it. I was scared, the note, I recognized the handwriting, and the threat! "I found you…"
I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry about the wait, school work and studying got in the way, but school comes first. Still, I have nothing else to distract me for the rest of the week, but there will not be an update on Friday or Saturday, I'm not sure about the rest of the week.
Anyway, Hope you enjoyed! Seed feedback!