May 23, 2011

Forecast… Rain in the Morning, Cloudy at night

Monday

Stadium

Nosebleed section

I slowly came to sitting upright, I couldn't remember much of what had happened to begin with. For what I did remember… my name to begin with… Em and Chie… well how in the hell could I forget them!? That's when remembered that the Shadows had overtaken us! I shot up in my seat that I almost fell off the balcony that I was set in… and from the balcony… it was at least six stories to the floor! "Holy shiiiit!"

"Mmmh…" I nearly jumped off the balcony when I heard a voice next to me… only to see Chie sleeping in the seat. I smiled, she looked cute like that, sleeping, and no I am not a creeper! Trust me! I took a careful look at all of my surroundings; I noticed that all of my friends were sitting in the balcony with me. I was the only one who awake at the moment… it was weird, why weren't we dead, and unharmed!? Why didn't the Shadow's kill us! Chie finally sat forward in her seat and rubbed her eyes. "Wha happoned?"

I tried not to laugh at her, god she was yawning and try to talk at the same time. When she fully woke up… she noticed the surroundings and sighed. "Oh, still her- HOLY CRAP!" That woke up everyone else! Who all had just about the same reaction as Chie. Yosuke fell right back into his chair, Yukiko and Narukami looked right over the edge. Will just shrugged… yeah, he was perfectly fine with heights…

"H-how did we get up here?" Yosuke half whined… Yu shrugged at him. I guess I was the first one to remember getting the crap kicked outta us… which was such a pleasant memory… NOT! We all just looked around the stadium, which had a plaza screen that would put Time Square and the Scrambled Crossing1 to shame! I guess Em really wanted attention… "Wha-what is with that screen!?"

"I don't know Yosuke…" I shook my head at just how stupid he sounded. "To show people in the nosebleed section what is happening on stage maybe…"

"Well, at least we know where Em's Shadow will be." Will sighed; this could be a problem… we were around six stories up… we'd be lucky if we even got close to the stage by the time that Em denied her Shadow. There was no way in hell that was gonna end without someone getting hurt… This really didn't look good… That's when the screen suddenly snapped on… and right there in the center of the screen was Em's Shadow.

"About time you morons woke up!" The Shadow was addressing all us, not Em, which was a surprise in its own! Usually they ignore us and only focus on their… well otherself… So this was a first… still, in the end, we had to fight it. "You guys don't last long in fight do you? Well, having a dead family makes you a little pissed off most of the time. So you guys can understand if I almost killed ya right?"

"The fuck!?" My jaw dropped, did she really just say dead family… me and mom were still alive. I was so freaking lost! The world was just messing with me, or at least that's what I hoped…

"Well, now that you're up…" The Shadow titled her head to the right and pointed out Em who was just waking up too.

"EM!" I almost jumped the balcony, but Will grabbed my shoulder before I could. I clenched my my fist with anger. I was about to kick the ever-living shit out of that Shadow, I was going to rip the Shadow's heart out and show it to its face. Ever Shadow in the world would scream in pain with how much I would harm this one Shadow! It was getting close to me being the scariest thing that everyone here had ever thought about.

"Well, the brother who tried to die actually cares about the pathetic sister no one gives a crap about it!" I stopped and froze the things that the Shadow were not pointed to Em, but they were pointed at me. I suddenly felt like I was gonna throw up at that moment. I understood part of what this Shadow was at that moment. I fell back into my seat… it wasn't just Em's Shadow… it was the Shadow of my family… "Good fucking morning you little bitch!"

I stopped hearing everything that my friends were saying at that moment… all I could hear was the Shadow and my little sister. "What… what are you!?"

"Gah! It's so freaking boring to say it that way…" I put both of my hands on the side of my face, trying to block out everything! "But, I'm you, stupid! You're one hundred percent me! Now, I gonna say a few insulting things, and then I have a deal to make with you!"

Nothing I was doing was blocking out the conversation! It was like, because I was related… I could hear everything that was being said, no matter how far away I was… "So, if, you don't say the magic words of 'you're not me!' Me and you will have a nice little guitar battle… if you win, I go away, if I win… I replace you!"

"Wha-" Em didn't even get to question the existence of her Shadow. The Shadow put its finger on Em's lips to get her to shut up.

"It's a hell of a lot more far than what that lovely father did to you!" I shook my head, if everyone asked Em, she said that she just didn't know who her dad was, but in reality… It was probably the most traumatizing experience for her to see the man she looked up to scream at her as he walked out of that door all those years ago. "You just wanted him to listen to you play your little violin of yours. You were so happy that you were able to play it. Yet, the moment you tried to get that bastard to listen… he told you to shut the fuck up!" I saw Em shake her head, I was there when that happened, I took a vase to the head, just so Em didn't. "Then he hurts your brother and slammed the door in your face! You never saw him after that. You cried yourself to sleep that night… and every night after that…"

"N-no! You're lying!" Em backed away from the creature that wore her face. She didn't know what was going on, but she had no idea where all of this was coming from, she was so scared at that moment… and I did the one thing that I said that I wouldn't have done… I gave up… "I didn't cry for that asshole!"

"But you did…" The Shadow walked over to a stand and grabbed a guitar that looked a bit like a scythe. "Not only that, but the dumbass brother of ours tried to kill himself, just when you were about to get over that asshole leaving! The fucking retard just had to go and shove a freaking razor in his wrist! God did I want to strangle that bastard!"

"N-no…" She was struggling not to say anything… I knew that she was thinking it… I had no idea what anyone was feeling when I- when I cut my wrist… I didn't care, I just wanted out… "Just shut up!"

"Em! Don't!" Yosuke yelled down at Em. She looked up to finally see all of in the balcony, and to see me finally looking down. The Shadow shook its head… and strummed a few chords.

"I'm done bitching, just pick up that guitar…" The Shadow turned back to us and looked all of us with an evil smile… I gulped hard. Chie put a hand on my shoulder, I looked up at her.

"Don't worry, you're a great brother…" I smiled halfheartedly at her and stood up. I looked the Shadow right in the eye. I didn't want to… but I was ready to kick its ass again!

"You, stupid brother… pick a song for us to start out with… and she will pick the rest!" I was confused for a moment, but then I knew that the Shadow was talking about. The battle, I had no choice but to pick a song… Damnit, here I was about to hurt my sister again. All of my friends were trying to get me not to do it. I couldn't hear them again… I watched Em grab the guitar… it was perfect for her, it had stickers of all of her favorite bands on it. Zebrahead, Greenday, My Chemical Romance, Hollywood Undead, Avenged Sevenfold… the list went on and on. Yet, unlike any guitar I had ever seen… it was turquoise, just like the highlight in her hair. She looked up at me and took a deep breath, I knew then that I need to let her do this, she wanted to beat the bitch at her own game for want she had said about our family. That's when the true Em came out for a second.

"Hey bitch, get back!" Em strummed the guitar for a moment and her Shadow just growled at her. "Come on bro, I-I don't wanna, but please… for our family…"

Every one of my friends stopped bothering me at that moment, they just looked at Em, I laughed for a moment before pointing straight at the Shadow. "You fucked up! Em won't lose! Not only will she win, but she will wipe the friggin' floor with you! The first song is-"

"What are you doing Kreed-kun!" Yukiko tried to get me to stop one last time, she was too late, Em made her choice, and if I didn't do this, Em would die. I pointed my finger up into the air and dropped my arm until I was pointing down at Em.

"Na Na Na by My Chemical Romance!" The Shadow got an evil smirk as she raised her fingers up to snap. The moment she did… the sound started to play out of speakers, but if I had to guess… there wouldn't be a guitar part in it. I clenched my jaw and prayed for my baby sis, she had to win, if not… we still had our Persona's…

Em looked up at her brother as the music started to slowly roll out of the speakers. She took a deep breath as the music slowly over took her. Her and her Shadow ended up playing the same parts… "Drugs, gimme drugs, gimme drugs I don't need it, but I'll sell what you got. Take the cash and I'll keep it Eight legs to the wall! Hit the gas, kill them all. And we crawl, and we crawl, and we crawl! You be my detonator!"

Em's Shadow took the stage first and really started to get into the music. She even started to dance with the guitar. "Love, gimme love, gimme love! I don't need it, but I'll take what I want from your heart! And I'll keep it in a bag, in a box. Put an X on the floor! Gimme more, gimme more, gimme more! Shut up and sing it with me!"

Then the Na Na Na started and Em ran up and slid on her knees past her Shadow, she had jeans on, not the school uniform. Also her jacket at that moment, and a black tanktop that read, "Get Bent!" Still with this extra normal clothes on, she really started to rock as well, jumping and everything.

"From mall security!" Kreed stood on the closest chair to him, as he directed his friends to stand in a specific way. "To every enemy… We're on your property… Standing in V formation!"

That's when the main melody started and Em's Shadow knocked her back a few feet, neither of them even coming close to messing up their notes! "Let's blow an artery! Eat plastic surgery! Keep your apology! Give us more detonation! More! Gimme more! Gimme more!"

Em smacked her Shadow with the neck of her guitar, which held after the attack. After which Em took the stage again! "Oh, let me tell you 'bout the sad man. Shut up and let me see your jazz hands! Remember when you were a madman! Thought you was Batman! And hit the party with a gas can! Kiss me you animal!"

The Shadow made a quick recovery and jumped over Em spinning in a 360 and landing on one foot. "You run the company… Fuck like a Kennedy… I think we'd rather be… Burning your information! Let's blow an artery! Eat plastic surgery! Keep your apology! Give us more detonation!"

Then the middle of the song hit and they both took center stage and played still in time. Em was running out of time, she wanted this over fast! Yet, she was strangely having fun… "And right here. Right now. All the way in Battery City. Little children. Raise their open filthy palms. Like tiny daggers up to heaven. And all the juvee halls. And Ritalin rats. Ask the angels made from neon, and fucking garbage! Scream out "What will save us?" And the sky opened up."

Em and her Shadow now stared at each other in the eye. She slowly understood why her Shadow was saying those things. She orginally wanted to play the violin, but her dad ruined that dream, only because when he slammed the door on her… she had her violin in the door frame. She cried because she thought her music was why her dad left… from that day on… she declared that the family was dieing. "Everybody wants to change the world… Everybody wants to change the world… But no one, no one wants to die! Wanna try, wanna try, wanna try, wanna try, wanna try, oh! I'll be your detonator! Make no apology! It's death or victory! On my authority! Crash and burn, young and loaded!"

Em started to spin on one foot like a ballerina and was still playing the violin. This was something that she had tried before, but… she wanted to, even if it hurt her with no one there. "Drop like a bulletshell! Dress like a sleeper cell! I'd rather go to hell! Than be in purgatory! Cut my hair, gag and bore me! Pull this pin… Let this world explode!"

With that Em jumped and was still spinning, she ended up going over the edge of the stage. Her Shadow stopped playing when Em started to spin, the Shadow was confused… but it made a major mistake… it stopped playing… it lost.

Just before Em slammed into the ground, someone grabbed her. Em had her eyes closed, yet she slowly opened her eyes to see her brother standing there with a grin and a giant puppet like monster behind him. "You lost… Em wins."

"Fuuuuuuuuuuuck… that was awesome…" Em couldn't help but laugh at her Shadow, which shrugged on the stage. "You're right bro… I lost, I was hoping to fit in another song, but I did lose. Fair is fair, but this will only work if she figured everything out…"

"If by that you mean why you said all those things…" Em pushed away from her brother and climbed back on the stage so she could look herself in the eye. "You said it, because you knew, I hated my dad for ruining my dream… I wanted to kill my brother for being the biggest fucking dumbasses in the world! Only cause I love him though… I wanted all four of us to be a working family… but it just wouldn't work… We're a dead family, but that doesn't mean I can't support my family when they need me in the right ways… not pushing my brother's friends away. She, what I'm saying is… you were right, I'm you and your me."

I smiled as Chie walked up next to me, I grabbed her hand and smiled at my little sister who just did the coolest fucking thing I had ever seen! Her Shadow nodded at her, and the blue light enveloped it. It changed, but not by much… most of the hair was blonde, but there was a black strip, it held a knife in its hand. The now Persona wore a blue dress with a white apron that had the Omega symbol on the pockets. I heard Em whisper the name of her Persona… "Alice…" With that, Em fell to her knees and I ran up to her.

"You did awesome!" I smiled down at her as I helped her to her feet.

"Yeah, only now I'm gonna face something scarier than that thing."

"What's that?"

"Mom."

BOOM! Here it is (dances around room)! I so wanted to finish this puppy up! Sorry if the song wasn't the one you wanted, but hey, why the fuck not!

Anyway, hope you enjoyed, please send feedback, and sorry to those who have been waiting for that Mass Effect Fanfiction. It will be up after the 12th.

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Song(s)

Na Na Na by My Chemical Romance