Convenience Store, Midnight Channel
"ugh, where am I?" I asked myself as I regained consciousness
I looked around and saw lots of silhouettes and a bunch of stores.
I then saw my spear lying beside me, the odd thing is that, it now has a blade at the tip, when in fact it was just a pole earlier, I picked it up, in case something happens
As I continued to look around, still confused on where I was, I found my Neon Orange sneakers, and decided to put them on, walking around barefoot is not my kind of thing.
"h-huh? That can't be right! Last I remembered, as absurd as it may be, I went right through a Television" I said out loud, faintly hoping that someone would come to me and say that I'm crazy or something, but alas no one came.
"As I recall, I passed by this same scenery when I went to the Amagi Inn with Dojima-san" I once again voiced out my thoughts as I recalled the different places I passed by as I went to the inn
I then pieced the little information I got.
"So maybe this is a world inside the TV" I deduced since this feeling I get is something I already felt before.
"So then maybe my shoes were thrown in with me. How thoughtful" I said out loud sarcastically
"TARTARUS!" I realized why the feeling was familiar, it was because the feeling I am experiencing now are similar when I am inside Tartarus, and by the looks of things, if this is indeed a place similar to Tartarus then those silhouettes can only be one thing.
"Shadows" I said to myself in realization, once again.
A TV nearby suddenly flickered to life and static was shown on the screen.
"Rivals, they are friends" the announcer on the TV said as static was still shown
"yet powerful foes" and the Kanji of friends and powerful foes were shown, just like a cheap TV reality show.
"the desperate fighting program amongst high school students" the TV continued as it showed various faces of the high school students as participants.
As the TV finished with the advertisement of the fighting program, it turned itself off.
"Sister-complex? Captain Resentiment? Carnivore? Beefcake? Killjoy?" I muttered every demeaning title that was given to each of those students shown on the video.
I might have been dragged into a fighting tournament as of the moment, but I need to report this to Mitsuru-san after this is all over. Last I heard she was forming a government-supported organization against Shadows.
I looked around and found a school, I ran towards it.
School Entrance, Midnight Channel
I arrived in front of the school gates
"Yasogami High School" I do remember this school in the map I was given.
Then as I was about to enter the school premises, though I can't see it, but there is something that is blocking me, an invisible wall perhaps.
"Hello! Hello! This is your a-bear-able dictator, General Teddie" The voice behind me said as I turned towards the source of the voice, only to see a colorful bear in a Vega-esque outfit shown on TV
Then the TV shifts from 'General Teddie' towards a girl with hair in the color of copper tied into two pigtails
"And I, Risette, will be your commentator" the girl on screen said
"Its time to start the P-1 Grand Prix!" she declared "Are you ready to fight?" she asks rhetorically
"This must be the fighting program that advertisement was about" I concluded as I continued to watch the screen
Then suddenly four beams of light are shining towards me, as if I am a target to be shot at.
I shielded my eyes from the sudden burst of light
"And who do we have here?" General Teddie appeared on screen
"oooh! Its a young hot stud" the general sort of compliments me.
Stud? I am just a regular middle school student, the only thing is that I have a persona and the others do not. I then looked at my outfit, I still wore my blue sleeveless button-up shirt, still unbuttoned, my gray long pants, and the neon orange sneakers that I wore earlier. Well my well toned body may have been the source of the compliment, fighting shadows at ten as well as an active member of the Soujutsu club.
"H-how How U-Unexpec-Unexpected-ted-ted" the bear on tv stuttered as if he was a robot
"What is wrong with that strange bear?"
The static on the screen was getting worse then the scene on tv shifts to General Teddie, this time with a menacing look and menacing yellow eyes
"Case 04: Unintended Intruder. Entering Elimination Process" the bear on screen declares in a monotone.
"Intruder? I was pushed here!" I shouted at the screen
Suddenly smokes starts to hinder my vision, then from the smoke came out a short haired woman wearing a green jacket. A customized version of the common school uniform from the video.
"hmm, you are the right type! Hey can I eat you?" the woman asked for permission
If I remember correctly she's Chie Satonaka dubbed in the video as, the spunky dragon with deadly legs, the carnivore who discarded womanhood, wow! She's not a carnivore, she's a cannibal!
"N-no o-of course not!" Dang it! The predator will surely eat someone who shows weakness
"Well let's fight then, if I win, I get to grill you, if you win, I'll eat you raw, how does that sounds?"
"Hell No!" I cursed at her
"Here goes! Come Tomoe!" she declared as she summoned her Persona
Wait, Persona? Crap, where is my evoker! I then proceeded to feel my pockets if I may have put it there beforehand. Seems Lady luck is smiling upon me as I found my Evoker in my right pocket. The familiar shape of the gun courses through my fingers as I picked it out.
"Come Kala-Nemi!" My evoker is still right by my side, as power courses through me, then I looked up. And there was Kala-Nemi in all its glory.
"A Persona User? But in the name of food I will not lose!" Satonaka-san charged at me.
"I am no one's food!" I yelled at her incoming figure
Her speed accelerated with the help of her Persona, thinking fast I summoned Kala-Nemi and casted a barrage of Zionga in her direction, which worked as she had a difficult time dodging those electric bolts I sent at her.
She summoned her Persona again, this time she held her hands on her ears. What is she doing?
I noticed her Persona was punching the ground. I looked up, there I saw a giant hand about to strike my head
"Aww Crap" I said as I braced myself for the incoming pain
BAM
"Man that hurt, if you wanna play it that way" I whispered to myself
"Two can play at this game" I said it a little more loudly this time
I summoned my Persona then he spun his mechanical arms creating a lot of arrow and then at my command he released them at my opponent, those arrows were electrically charged.
"Looks like everyone is getting serious" I heard the girl in pigtail's voice from the school speakers
She took all the hits then she charged at me once again and before I could even think, I think she buffed herself and she was right at me in a second, she proceeded to kick me at my exposed stomach and chest by using a lot of butchered Kung-fu.
"Man that hurt, it's time to finish this!" I declared loudly as I summoned Kala-Nemi to cast a Diarama on me
"Wow they are on equal grounds!" Risette once again said
She summoned Tomoe again trying to cast God's Hand again. But the same trick won't work twice!
I quickly dashed at her, grabbed the collar of her jacket then summoned Kala-Nemi who threw her on the other side.
"K.O!" Risette's voice commented, "What a huge victory!" she said
The TV flickered to life and General Teddie's oh so scary appearance appeared.
"An irregularity has occurred, Multiple Intruders detected, Emergency."
"Multiple intruders?" I ask out loud
"Intruders are Persona-Users… Due to difficulties in elimination, they will be acknowledged as valid targets"
"Valid Targets?" I once again voiced out my thoughts
As I thought I was dragged into this tournament
The TV screen the fuzzes as if someone had changed the channel
General Teddie is on the screen, he looked like when I first saw him in that advertisement
"Geez, you need to let me know if you wanna join in on the fun!" What he said, "But this is a unique situation and you're one hot stud, ain't that right Risette-chan?" He asks his companion
"Right you are General Teddie, you big hot stud of a bear" the girl said
"Just keep putting on a good show in your next bout too!" continued
What is this? The Hunger Games?
"Who are you, why don't you take off that ridiculous costume and show your face!"
"Hey now, I think a hot stud like you walking around almost topless can talk to me about my bear-tiful bearsuit" he replied
The TV then turns off
"I now feel what the gladiators felt when they were forms of entertainment years ago" I muttered out loud
"Ugh" I heard my former opponent grunt
I summoned my Persona and casted a Mediarahan on the both of us.
"Kya!" She immediately shouted
The moment she came to her senses, she immediately jumped back and assumed a fighting stance
"C'mon! Is that how you treat the one who healed you Satonaka-san?" I asked her
"h-huh? B-but how'd you know about that! Even my parents don't know that!" she fired me a barrage of questions
"know what?" okay I'm confused
Come think of it, she acts like a different person that she was earlier.
"By any chance, did I say anything offensive?" I asked her
"hell yeah you did! You were going on and o-"She starts to rant
"Stop!" I immediately cut her off, "whatever I said, I didn't know, earlier you were going on and on how tasty I am" I continued
"N-no way! It does not make sense! It was like our perception was doctored!" She said in denial
"I think you may be on to something Satonaka-san"
"I am? I was just spouting what was on my mind"
"because since arriving to this strange world, an odd thing happened, you see my spear?" I said as I pointed the spear I was carrying
"this one does not have a blade attached to it, but then I realized, after coming here, there was a blade already. Noticed when I attacked you? If there was a blade, wouldn't you be bleeding already? But no wounds appeared, instead you got bruises" I explained
"I see" she accepted my explanation
"by the way, who are you anyway, by the looks of things, you already know my name" she asked me
"Ken Amada, thirteen years old" I answered, "I saw your name on that promotional video" I continued
"thir-THIRTEEN YEARS OLD!" she shouted
"y-yeah, does that seem weird to you?" I asked as my face reddened in embarrassment
How old were you when you had your Persona?" she asks
"t-ten years old" I honestly replied
"TEN YEARS OLD!" she shouted, I had to cover my ears just to prevent myself from going deaf
"s-so youn-"
"C'mon move on already, don't keep your opponents waiting!" General Teddie once again was on the screen, urging me to move inside the school
"Only the winner can only move on!" He said cheerfully as the TV flickered off
"Well I guess, that's my cue" I said to myself
"Say Amada-kun, will you do me a favor?" she asked me
"sure!" I replied
She then proceeded to tell me all about the case last year, and about why she and her friends came to investigate this fighting program
"Got to admit, If I were an ordinary person, I'd call you crazy, but sure, I'll try my best to save everyone involved" I reassured the girl in green jacket as I moved inside the school premises.
A/N: Hey guys! Just to let everyone know, that Realization is not discontinued, still studying Nozomi's and Ken's character
In any case, Ken's story is based off from Mitsuru's and Akihiko's story mode of Arena, and little bit of Yosuke's, if you complain how Ken is Out of Character, well lets just say he had behind the scenes character development
Find out who is Ken's next opponent in the later chapters :D
By the way M. Bison is known as Vega in Japan, so the Vega-esque clothes I meant M. Bison-esque clothes, just to clear up the confusion
Well he be able to meet with the rest of S.E.E.S?
Will he be able to be the Manliest of all men?
Find out next time on Ken in Arena.
Review guys!