AN: Continuation of snippet one. Go Pheo! XD
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~Noelle Strife
Verbum Caro
By Noelle Strife
Verbum Caro;
Latin for 'Merry Christmas'
Orpheus;
was a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth.
December 21, 2013. 12:01 AM
I couldn't sleep, so all the while I was going through my stuff when I was still in high school. But knowing high school, it was one hell of a time I spent through there. I mean, who would call it normal, when me and my siblings once fought dark creatures called the Shadows, climbed the hellish tower called Tartarus, experienced the time of the Dark Hour, and summoned mythical facets of our psyche such as Persona. I wouldn't, and neither will Makoto and Minako would admit it as well.
The Arisato residence is a small building like home, featuring three floors and a rooftop. It has a beige color and butter cream trimmings around the place. It looks almost exactly like the dorm, except that it's a smaller and lighter version of it. The suburban streets of Shinjuku made it stand out a bit, but at least nobody in our neighborhood bothered it too much. Besides the casual stray cats sleeping our window panes and the common thugs lurking around, not too many of a trouble has started yet. Me and Makoto sleep at the second floor while Minako has the whole third floor to herself. It gets kinda lonely sometimes too, without the others.
My room's big compared to my last one at Iwatodai; big enough to move around and do strength workout and hardcore music remixing. So, you could see me hunched up over my closet, scavenging through the relics of my past teen life. The box that contained most of my stuff, and things related to Tartarus and the School. There's my Evoker, which I haven't touched since 2009, my SEES arm band, weathering in age, pictures and photographs I and Keisuke-senpai took during the year, test papers with passing remarks, a pack of tarot cards, unused skill cards, my old mp3 and earphones, and then there's the many mementos I had with my friends. I honestly couldn't remember why they even gave me useless junk…
While picking out through my old textbooks, something fell out of one page. I couldn't see very well, so I thought it might be those embarrassing but cute bookmarks Chihiro once made for me, so I didn't mind it very well. However, ignoring it doesn't seem to be an option here, considering that I'm already looking through my old things, and this must be important at the very least. My fingers felt around the edges and it's a little hard, must be stiff paper (Or it really must be Chihiro's bookmark… I sighed.) But it was small, kinda like a card. I picked it up and with the moonlight to shine some light on it, I find myself in shock to see that it is a Persona card. Or what it used to be a Persona card. Staring down to see its name, I could vaguely see the old lettering of 'Orpheus'.
Master.
"Orpheus…" I stood up, took my Evoker and pointed it at my temple. If what I believe is true, then it must mean that I still have my potential. Here and now, I will see if I still have the contract. I mustered up the will to gather Spirit Energy, focusing on my psyche.
"Per…"
Master Minato.
"So…"
I come to thee.
"Na…"
Without warning, the odd, familiar and nostalgic feeling came back, as well as that ear splitting cracking of glass that I heard it emerge from behind me. I was shocked and almost glad to know that I could still do it… "Thou art I…" It said in a whisper as I continued.
"And I am thou. Orpheus…"
"You have grown, Master." I turned around to look at the glowing blue light swirling around my Persona, Orpheus the Master of Strings. He still looked the same I last saw him. He bowed his head to me formally as I did so too, like how we used to do our contract last time. "And you're still the same, my friend."
Orpheus has red eyes, and it glowed like rubies. "Is there something wrong, Orpheus?" I asked, my emotionless eyes gazing into his fiery ones as the other shook his head.
"None, I only wanted to greet you with your world's season greetings." I swore, if he only had a mouth, then he could have smirked at me. But I didn't mind anyway as I grinned at him and nodded as well.
"Yeah, Merry Christmas to your world too, Pheo."
AN: Another short one, featuring Minato and his trusty ol' pal Orpheus and their friendship. Yeah, it'll get good, I promise. Next is Shinjiro and Minato fighting over cheeseburgers and shotguns.
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~Noelle Strife