Persona:Brink of Delusion
Chapter 3: Jehovah...
Hayate Ayasaki P.O.V
"Gyaah!" This is the worst situation we find ourselves into! "Gya! Gya! Gyaa!" We follow the girl here, only to find her changing under the bridge!
"Wha-wha-!" This is too much for Springfield in his age!
"Don't look Springfield!" I cover his eyes for his underage health!
"Gyaa! Wh-Wh-What are you doing here!" The girl asked.
"We-We-A-Anyway, get change first!" I drag Springfield, along with Chamomile-san, to the side.
Later...
After changing, we explained why we followed her and she introduced herself to be Luca Suirenji. "Ano... Suirenji-san, why were you changing in here?" I asked. Me and Springfield are sitting on the sides with her sitting beside me.
"W-Well... That's... I... I'm afraid I can't tell you." She said. "Anyway, don't you two have to go home? It's getting late."
"Ah, well... We..." The Velvet room can be accessed just about anywhere since Judas-san can open a dimensional door that leads there... "That's well... "
"Ask her why was she changing here." Chamomile-san said to me whisperly.
"Well that aside, why were you changing here? Couldn't you have changed... you know... somewhere private?"
"That's-"
"There you are!" ...! Who the! Some guys in black suit appeared out of nowhere!
"They're after me!" Suirenji-san stands up.
"Eh?" Me and Springfield asked.
"Get her! And take care of those friends of hers!" ...! E-Eh! Does he mean us!
"Yes sir!" The other guys in suits said. They're going to harm us!
"S-Sorry about this!" Tap,tap! Suirenji-san runs away. Those bastards... I'll show them what happens when you mess with an cute, innocent girl like her!
"Hey, get back here!"
"Hey! Get your hands off her!" Strike, strike!
"Guh!" I performed a swinging kick on their chins, sending them flying away from Suirenji-san!
"Kisama...! You'll pay for-" STRIKE! "Before the boss could draw out his pistol gun, I punched his ugly face, sending flying towards the water. "Guuaah!" Splash!
"Meanies like you guys shouldn't harass women!" Strike! strike! strike!
"Ugh!" "Guh!" Splash, splash, splash! Springfield performed a continuous aerial kick on their chins, sending them flying towards the water as well.
"Way to go, Aniki-! Guh!" Chamomile-san cheered but forgot that Suirenji-san is here, and he immediately went back inside Springfield's shirt.
Normal P.O.V
"..." Luca is impressed by the two persona-users of how they single-handedly took care of the agents. Especially Hayate. "...You're..."
"Daijobou. I'll make sure they don't touch you." He assured her.
"..." Then something came to Luca's mind... "A 'guardian angel'... Could it be... He's... ..." She walks closer to him... "Ano..."
"Hm? Yes?"
"...Are you...? ...Are you my guardian angel!" She asked excitedly.
"Eh?"
"Play along. Trust me, she's very important." Judas's voice said.
"Eh?" Hayate stares at Luca. ...Her face is expecting a 'yes' answer from him. "...Uh... I... guess so... since..." Since he's frankly protecting her which makes it look like he's her guardian angel or at least that's what's in his mind...
"Ontou? I knew it!" She is very delighted. "Ja, you'll be protecting me right!"
"Eh! Uh... I guess so..." Negi is left unnoticed by Luca since she's mostly impressed by Hayate, being the first to act when she was in danger.
"Uh..." He tries to find the right words to join the conversation.
"Ne, will you come with me? At my place?" Luca asked Hayate rather boldly. It would give the impression of a girl inviting her boyfriend to her house to do something... private. Hayate blushes from her bold request. So does Negi.
"Uh... Where is this... place of yours...?" Hayate asked embarrassed.
"At my home, of course! But... I suppose it wouldn't be calling home since... well... Ah, you'll just have to see. Let's go." She grabs hold of Hayate's hand. "Oh, you too. Are you his little brother?"She asked Negi.
"Eh? Uh... N-No. I'm his best friend..." Negi answered.
"Ah, I see. Ja, let's go."
"Ah w-wait a sec, Suirenji-san! I'm not-" Hayate tries to struggle but-
"Just go with her." Judas said.
"Eh?"
"Just trust me. She's someone you need to protect very much. You'll know why soon enough."
"..." Hayate lets himself be dragged by Luca. Negi followed behind with a grinning Chamo.
Meanwhile, at the outskirts of the city...
"..." Sera is looking at the city from the cliff, overlooking the entire city.
"I am in need of your rescue my son... I am being kept by these inferior creatures." Jehovah said as her shadow replaced that of Sera. "But beware... There is another interlopers who are scheming to capture me. They must not be allow to collect the part of me where my core lies. Come my son... Come to me."
"...As you wish... Mother." Whoosh! Sera spreads his black angel wing. Whoosh! He flies towards the city. "Sanzenin Mikado... You will pay for keeping Mother from me..." He said with a very angry and determined expression.
Back to Hayate and Negi...
In a church...
Negi Springfield P.O.V
We are led by Suirenji-san to some sort of church that is filled with various flowers with different colors. "Welcome! To my home!" She welcome us happily.
"You live here?" I asked.
"Ah... I begun living here when... well... ..."
"Suirenji-san?" Ayasaki-san asked her with concerned.
"...My father... Well... My parents are lost to me..." She said, looking up the ceiling where the moon's light is shining down on her.
"Oh... I... I'm sorry to hear that..."
"Iye, I've come to terms with it. I never knew my father... He died when my mother gave birth to me... And my mother died after giving birth to me..." ...What a sad story... She's sort of similar to me... And Ayasaki-san. Ayasaki-san was abandoned by his own parents... To him, I guess, he has no parents at all since those parents of his have been consumed by the fog of delusions and it created a false self of themselves that have kept their true selves from emerging... ...Many have suffered this horrible fate now... ...
"Suirenji-san... Ja, you're..."
"But you know... There are still some nice people in the world. My foster parent and manager adapted me and gave me a job as an idol singer."
"Eh? You're... You're an idol!" Me and Ayasaki-san asked.
"Ah! And my mom is my manager. I have talent for singing and she have told me to become a singer as my career. She has encourage me from time to time whenever I feel depressed. I gained some new friends as well when I became a singer. She and her crew are very nice to me."
"I see. Good for you." Ayasaki-san said.
"But... ...I am not like them..."
"Eh?" Why would she say that?
"You see... D-Don't think I'm strange okay? You see I... I am... ...I have a... I am not like the others... I can... I have this supernatural ability to hear a voice..."
"A voice?" We asked.
"Hn." ...?Judas-san? "She can see through the fog of deceit. She's someone who is from an ancient and forgotten race that has inhabited this planet a long time ago..." ...?
"Hm. I'm not sure whose voice it is but... It keeps saying that my guardian angel will come for me."
"Eh? Guardian... Angel?" Ayasaki-san asked.
"Hm. She seem to have developed a small ego that is under her permanent control. Her kind have developed their own egos when negativity has plagued the world. They were able to control it fortunately, but..." ...I do not really understand what Judas-san is saying but he seems to know something about Suirenji-san... "A lot of their kind had held a grudge against humans for their ignorance. That is when some of their kind have become malevolent and had sworn to rid the world of humans for all the tragedies that have befallen them. ...And the fact that humans have forgotten their race." ...Me and Chamo-kun are left bewildered by what Judas-san told us. Ayasaki-san have heard too but since Suirenji-san is around, we decided not to ask him about it for now.
"Hm. Guardian angel... The voice is telling me... That an evil entity is planning to destroy this world and that only I can guide my guardian angel to the place where they can stop it from happening."
"...Jehovah." Jehovah...? The one we...?
"What is this... Evil entity?" Ayasaki-san asked.
"I... I don't know. I don't even know where this place that the voice is talking about. I only know that something is threatening this world... And that.. well... You may be the only who can stop it." Suirenji-san said to Ayasaki-san in a serious expression.
"..." This is all so sudden... ...
"Your journey towards the Truth that you two have been longing for is about to reach the 'conflict' or at least that's what people refer to when things are becoming dangerous or not safe anymore. From this moment on, you two must master the wild card." ...Judas-san's warning has made the atmosphere a little tense. An evil entity huh...? What exactly is this being called 'Jehovah'? ...Too many questions that need answers. I have a feeling that me and Ayasaki-san will find the answers to these questions soon enough...
"D-Don't think I'm strange okay? You still think of me as a person yes?" Suirenji-san asked us with pitiful eyes.
"Of course we do. There's no way someone like you could be doubted Suirenji-san." Ayasaki-san said with a serious expression like a gentleman assuring his lady that he trust her for eternity. Ha ha... I guess that's just like him. ...Me too, actually. We're kinda similar.
Albert Chamomile P.O.V
"Eh? Uh... A-Ari..gatou..." Ooh! Older Aniki is letting out his charm again! Now that's more like it! More girls means more ermine dollars for me! I hope Aniki gets his chance too. "W-Well... Would you two...?"
"Hm? Nani?" Older Aniki asked.
"Would you two... Would you two like to watch my performance on the theater?"
"Eh?" We all asked.
"I'll be performing tonight. Would you two like to watch my performance?"
"Eh? Uh...S-Sure. We got nothing better else to do right, Springfield?"
"A-Ah. I suppose so." Aniki said.
"Ja, I'll ask mom to offer you two, two V.I.P seats on the front row so that you can watch me!" Ojou-chan said.
"Eh? Uh no, that's not really necessary. We're fine sitting at the back." Oh come on, Older Aniki!
"That's right. We can watch from there. Besides, we do not wish to cause trouble for anyone." Not you too, Aniki!
"Ehh~? You don't want to watch me...?" Alright ojou-chan! The moe expression! Any guys will fall for this!
"Uh..." Aniki and Older Aniki have been charmed as expected! "We... ...We like to watch you in front..."
"Ontou? Yatta!" Good going Ojou-chan! "Ja, I'll ask my mom right away! Let's go!"
"Ah, Suirenji-san!" She drags Older Aniki with me and Aniki following behind.
"This is for the best I suppose. We can watch her very closely." Aniki-Judas said. And I can't agree more to watch a cute girl like her in front.
Later, at the backstage of a theater...
"Eh? Two free V.I.P seats for these two boys? Who are they Luca?" Ojou-chan's mom, who is her manager, asked.
"They're my new friends mom. They helped me out a while ago."
"Help...? ...! You mean... Are you okay! You weren't hurt, were you!"
"No. Ayasaki-kun and Springfield-chan came to help me."
"Uh... Our pleasure to... help out your daughter umm... Ma'am." Older Aniki said, being a gentleman as he is.
"...Arigatou-gosaimazu, for helping Luca. But I'm afraid I cannot ask you two to be here."
"Eh?" We asked.
"Mom?" Ojou-chan asked.
"If you two are no friend of those people, they will likely track you down and that will cause trouble for the people around you. Oh um... I meant no offense. Gomen." ...That's kinda rude of her... Yeah, sure, those guys may have a problem of them being beat up by Aniki and Older Aniki but even then, they'll just get beat up again.
"Eh! But mom..."
"No buts Luca. We're in trouble enough already with the Sanzenin Company after you. And we don't want you to get in trouble." ...! Did... Did she say... Did she say Sanzenin...? The ojou-chan we... That Older Aniki rescued that time? ...Aniki-judas did say that her family is rich...
"But mom... " Poor ojou-chan...
"Um... That's okay... We'll just... sit outside where we can see you. That is good enough for us, right Springfield?" Older Aniki said.
"A-Ah. Yeah huh?" Come on Aniki...
"No. You'll have to leave."
"Ah..." How cold. Ojou-chan's mom seem to only want for us to leave. I understand that she doesn't wish to get involved with us since we frankly made ourselves an enemy of a mafia syndicate.
Outside...
Without any objections. we exit the theater, which is quite bothersome. "Well that was a waste of time..." I said with a sigh.
"It can't be help. Not all people are true to themselves yet." Aniki said.
"Hai, hai..."
"Wait, Ayasaki-kun! Springfield-chan!" ...? Oh, it's ojou-chan. "Wait up. Huff, huff."
"Suirenji-san? What is it? We're just about to leave-" She suddenly covers Older Aniki's mouth, preventing him from finishing his sentence.
"Shh." She observes our surrounding. "Come with me." She drags Older Aniki.
"O-Oi, Suirenji-san...!"Me and Aniki follow them behind.
Ojou-chan took us to an abandoned building that has a spot where we can see the whole stage, where apparently her singing performance will be performed. "You can watch from here. I used to watch the other singers performed here from time to time."
"This is where you will sing?"
"Ah. Ja, I better get ready. Wish me luck! Chu."
Cling! "...!" She kissed Older Aniki's cheek! Alright! Another 50,000 ermine dollar!
"Uh..." Older Aniki is left speechless.
"Wow... She really has taken a liking of you Ayasaki-san..." Aniki said.
"Ha ha... ...Yeah..."
"Hee hee..." Yosh. Another girl for Older Aniki! And that means, more money for me!
"Hm? Why are snickering Chamo-kun?" Eep!
"Eh? Uh n-nothing! You're imagining thinks Aniki!"
Hayate Ayasaki P.O.V
...Though Chamomile-san told Springfield that he has nothing to hide, I can see through him that he is delightened that Suirenji-san has taken a liking to me... "..." I touch my cheek that was kissed by her... "Ah..." I can't help but blush...
"Ah! There she is! Looks like she's about to do her performance!" ...? Oh, there she is as Springfield said. She's dressed in a black dress with a flower on her forehead. She's... pretty...
"..."
"...? What's the matter Ayasaki-san?"
"Eh? Uh nothing. I'm just... surprised to see her in that outfit..."
"Hm? Oh right. She's kinda cute in that outfit doesn't she?" ...You're pretty bold to say that Springfield. But, since you're still just a 10 year old boy, I guess you're still not what most teenagers would think.
"Yeah... Huh?"
"..." Judas-san is staring at me with an all-knowing-look. I guess he can tell that I'm kinda attracted to her in that outfit... Ah... But I don't think I'm the type of guy who is suitable for someone like her... ...Right?
"Yosh, here I go everyone!"
"YEEAAHH!" All of her fans become excited as she exclaimed that through the microphone. She begins singing... ...What a lovely voice she has... She's like an angel of God... I don't really know what she's singing but from what I can hear and see at the signs of the fans, it's entitled as 'Heaven is a Place on Earth'.
"Wow! She really is a good singer!" Springfield commented.
"Yeah! Way to go ojou-chan!" Chamomile-san cheered.
"..." I just remain silent and watch her performance.
Normal P.O.V
Tap,tap... Two guys in suitswatch Luca from afar. Both nod at each other and proceed through the cheering fans. "Yeah! Luca!" "That's the Luca we know!" "Alright!" All of the fans are cheering excitedly for their idol. The two guys find it difficult to pass through as a result so they decided to go around the back.
"Hm?" Hayate noticed them. "Those guys are...?"
"...?" Judas turns to his direction. "...! ..." It seems trouble...
"Hm? What's the matter Judas-san?"
"Those guys... ...Prepare yourselves. Both of you."
"Huh?" The two persona-users asked.
"Those guys are after that girl. You'll have to protect her!"
"...!What? But... But why...!"
"There's no time! Hurry up and get moving!"
"...Hm!" Both of them jump down from their spot and run towards the crowded stage.
"Grr..." The two guys in suit are getting irritated of the cheering fans as it become more and more difficult for them to passed through. "Why the hell are these people-Ugh!" One of them got pulled by somebody... Strike! "Ugh!" He is knocked unconcious.
"Huh? O-Oi, daijobou! What happened-" Strike! "Ugh!"
"Hn." Hayate snucked up behind the other guy and knocked him out with a karate chop on the neck. Both he and Negi then drag the two guys somewhere where no one can see nor hear them.
At an alley...
"Hey." The two of them lay down the two guys on the ground with their backs facing the wall. "What do you think you're doing in there? Who are you guys?"
"Ugh. We've been sent... To kidnapped that girl." The concious guy said.
"What?"
"Who sent you?" Negi asked.
"Ugh... Not of your business ki-" Strike! "Ugh!" Hayate kicks his abdomen.
"Start talking." He demanded.
"*Cough* Ugh. It was... It was... It was Sanzenin Mikado. He hired us to kidnap that girl. He didn't told us why. We didn't ask him any questions. It was not our place to do so."
"..." Hayate and Negi look at each other then turn back to the guy.
"And...? Where..." Hayate grabs him by his shirt. "...is he!"
"Guh! H-He's at the Sanzenin building! It's at the northern part of the city! It's the heart of their operations all over the world!"
"..." He lets him go. "I see... Thanks for the information. But..." He grabs him again.
"Guh!"
"It's way fast your bed time. Once you wake up, you'll find yourself in your bedroom(prison that is). So, sweet dreams." Strike,strike,strike! He beat him up to bloody pulp until he's no longer concious. "Springfield, call the police."
"H-Hai." Negi goes to call the police by a payphone booth.
"..." Hayate looks at Luca at the stage. "Suirenji-san... ...I have to protect her."
"Ah. Make sure no delusional fool can get to her." Judas voice said.
"Hm." He nods. He then left the alley.
"Arigatou everyone!" Luca said as she finished her song. Her fans are throwing flowers all over the stage as a sign of their fondness for her.
Meanwhile, at the Sanzenin building...
"..." Sera flies to the higher part of the building. Below him, men in suits are lying on the ground with their blood spilled on it. All of them have evidently been killed by a sword. On Sera's right hand, a probably seven feet katana is on his grasp. The blood of the men are on it. "Inferior creatures... Soon, the 'Promised Land' awaits us all. All negativity... shall be lifted like fog that has lifted on the day the Sun has arisen..." He said with a deadly angry expression as he quicken his ascension to the higher part of the building. Below him...
A dark fog engulfs the dead men... "Grr..." ...transforming them into Shadows with black, thin humanoid bodies with red eyes. "Grooaarr."
"Now, go forth. Unleash our wrath to these creatures. ...And lead them to the 'Promised Land'. Ha ha ha." A dark wicked voice, who is presumably Jehovah, commanded the them.
"Grooaarr." Heeding her command, they march inside the building...
Back to Hayate and Negi...
Negi called the police as Hayate told him to. "The police are on the way. I told them about those two men." He said to him.
"Ah. Thanks. But..." Hayate looks at Luca, who is being praised by her friends, who are the crew for her show, at the stage. Most of the fans have already left since the show is about to be end. "I hope nothing bad happens to her..."
"Yeah..."
"More 'hired guns' will probably come and try capture her. Mataka... People nowadays are so blind to these man-made papers you call money." Judas said in an annoyed tone.
"It can't be help. Not all people can easily through the fog of deceit."
"Hmph. And this is why I consider the ego of people to be the source of all evil and suffering in this world. Tch... The fog has blinded them to their true selves..."
"There's nothing we can do about that right now. For now, we should focus on protecting Suirenji-san." Hayate said.
"Hn. I suppose you're right. But, you two might be able to do something about the foolishness of these delusional people."
"Eh?" Both persona-users asked.
"What do you mean by that aniki-judas?" Chamo asked.
"I meant exactly what I just said. This journey of yours will be able to change this world. That is the destiny that has been entrusted on you two. That is what you two have been longing for."
"How do we...?"
"...Forget it. You'll realize this soon enough. For now, you guys... we should attend to that Luca girl."
"Oh, right. Let's go, Springfield." Hayate said.
"A-Ah. Let's." They head around the back where there is a door that leads backstage.
At the back...
"Why did we sneak here?" Chamo asked.
"We don't want them to see us, do we?" Hayate said.
"Oh. Right."
"Wait, didn't Suirenji-san mentioned that she'll be meeting us back there at the spot where we were watching?"
"...!Oh right... Then...!" Hayate then realizes that Luca maybe in danger that she is alone. "Suirenji-san... Suirenji-san!" He rushes to the spot where they were watching her performance!
"Ayasaki-san!"
"Tch. Go follow him!" Judas said to Negi.
"R-Right!" He does so.
Tap,tap,tap! "Suirenji-san... I'm coming!" Hayate thought as he quicken his pace.
Meanwhile, at the spot where Hayate and Negi watched Luca...
"Ayasaki-kun! Springfield-chan! Eh?" Luca came to check on them but finds that they're not there. "Where did they-?"
"Suirenji Luca."
"...?" She turns around... Men in suits are line up as if making sure there's no way for her to escape them. "You are..."
"You are coming with us. You've been quite a trouble for us to capture. Now the gig is up." One of them is about to reprimand Luca but...
"Hiyaa!" Strike!
"Ugh!" Hayate came flying out of the back alley and kicked the guy on his left cheek, pushing him away from his princess, sort to speak.
"Ayasaki-kun!" The princess is rescued by her prince.
"Wh-Who are you! Where did you-!"
"I'm someone who show delusional fools like you reality, so be more respectful to women as you should be!" STRIKE! Strike, strike, strike! He fights them.
"Ayasaki-san!" Negi came out of the back alley.
"Springfield-chan!"
"Ah, Suirenji-san! Daijobou!"
Hm. Ayasaki-kun-"
"Hiya!" Strike!
"Guh!" Hayate kicked one of them on their right cheek, knocking them unconscious.
"Teme-!" Strike! "Ugh!" One of them is about to pull out a gun but then Hayate kicked him on the cheek as well, knocking him unconscious.
"Hn." He then turn to the other guys...
"Gr..." They realize that they cannot beat him so...
"Tch. If it has come to this... Oi! Get over here!" One of them yelled out loud. More of them have come to join the party... Sort to speak.
"You brats. You're going to pay for the trouble you caused us! Get them!" They all point their guns at Hayate and the other two! (Three if including Chamo.)
"Ah! A-Ayasaki-kun...!" "Gr...!"
"..." Hayate turns to his left. A trash can is there. "...Hn!" He jumps to it then...! Splat! He kicked it then he grabbed hold of the top of it and decided to use it as a shield.
"Ayasaki-kun!"
"Fire!" Bang, bang, bang!
Block, block, block! He managed to block all of their shots! "Guh!" Much to the shock the men in suits.
"Hua!" Whoosh! He throws the shield towards them like a boomerang. Strike! Strike!
"Ugh!" "Guh!" "Ah! My head!"
"Hiyaa!" Strike!Strike!Strike! He then jumped at them and begun beating them up while making sure that they don't fire their guns so that he won't have to look strange to the princess, again, sort to speak, that gunshots cannot wound him due to his persona.
"Ayasaki-san!" Whoosh!
"Ah, Springfield-chan!" Negi joins the battle!
"Go get 'em Aniki!" Chamo cheered which of course...
"Eh?" Luca was able to hear his voice, much to her confusion, since there is no one else around. (She does not see him due to him under Negi's shirt.)
"Ah! C-Chamo-kun...!" Negi quickly grabbed him from the back of his neck and hid him under his shirt again through his torso. "Keep it down will you!" He said in a whispering tone.
"Wari, wari!" Chamo said in the same tone. Then...
"Yosh... Hiyaa!" Strike! Strike! Strike! Negi joins the party!
"Ah." Luca is impressed by him, being able to fight at the only age of 10.
Strike! Strike! Strike! Both Hayate and Negi beat up the men in suit. Most of them are lying on the ground unconcious with some of them, having some of their teeths punched or kicked out of their mouths. While the commotion is going on, the boss sneaks up behind Luca. "Got you." He said.
"Huh? Ah!" He grabbed Luca. "Ahh!" He covered her mouth.
"Suirenji-san!" Hayate, having his full attention on the other men, took notice of Luca's predicament.
"We got you. Hold them at bay!" The boss said as he drags Luca to their black limousine.
"Hey!" Hayate intends to stop him but...
Bang, Bang, Bang! Two guys block his path and fire at him non-stop. "Where do you think you're going!" One of them said.
"Grr...!" Whoosh! Hayate jumps above to avoid the shots which is sort of pointless since they won't have any effect on him whatsoever due to his persona but since Luca is at the scene, he decided not to get hit by the gunshots and let Luca think that he's not normal. "Hua!" Strike! Bang, bang, bang! He then kicked one of the guys' gun, making him pull the trigger while the gun is pointed upward. He then grabs him from behind, and pull his hand, that is holding the gun, to his neck. Bang, bang, bang! Making him fire at the nearby building. He then holds his other hand to his back, making it twitch.
"Guh!" Strike! "Ugh!" The guy came face to face with his foot, and he is knocked unconcious. Hayate did the same to the other guy.
Strike! Strike! Negi took care of the remaining men then turns to the spot where Luca was. "...! Suirenji-san...!" He spots the limousine and sees Luca in it. He realizes that they have failed in protecting her. "Suirenji-san!"
Hayate pushes away the guy he's holding and turns his attention to the limousine. "Suirenji-san!"
"Ayasaki-kun!" Vroom! But it was too late... The limousine drives off with Luca as a hostage.
"Suirenji-san!" Hayate is about to despair... "Suirenji-san... Huh?" ...but then hope came to him. A yellow motor cycle is parked nearby. He thought of using it. "..." He does so.
"Ayasaki-san?" Negi asked his intention.
Hayate rides on the bike. There's a key attached to the handler, thankfully, and he starts the engine. Vroom. "I hope I know how to drive this thing..." Truth to be told, he once had ridden a motorcyle back at Wales as part his training but it didn't go well so the only thing he learned is how to drive it.
"A-Ayasaki-san...?"
"Get on! We're going to chase that limousine!"
"E-Eh!"
"Just ride the vehicle! You will just fine." Judas assured Negi.
"...Hm." With a nod, he rides on the back while holding on to Hayate.
"Here, wear this." He gives him a yellow helmet.
"But, what about you?"
"Daijobou! I've tried riding a motorcycle back at the academy countless times now without wearing an helmet. But no matter how many times I try I cannot seem to handle it properly ha ha... I only know how to drive it."
"Eh?" Negi and Chamo suddenly felt reluctant on riding the vehicle.
"Daijobou. Your driving skills is enough for you to be keep safe. Just make sure you don't get into an accident or it might cause you your lives." Judas advised.
"Ah! Yosh, here goes!" Vrooom! And they took off... with Negi holding for dear life.
As for Luca...
"Ayasaki-kun. Springfield-chan..." She is seating on the back seat, looking behind, hoping that the two persona-users would show up.
"Ha ha! Those two brats had taken us by surprise back there. Maybe they are students of that infamous academy called Hakou Academy." The boss said.
"Ah. It's where brats like them can study or train to become rangers. I heard a lot of female students there have chosen to train to become rangers. There are only a few guys who took the same course." The driver said.
"Ah. That's what I heard too. You think those two were rangers?"
"Who knows? Either way, they won't catch up to us now and we're on our way to become rich people after we hand over that girl to that old president of the Sanzenin Company."
"Ah. Ha ha ha!" Both laugh.
"..." Luca is disgusted by their conversation and turns around with her eyes closed with tears falling from it. Then she prays to the stars above for a savior to come and rescue her. And then...
"What the!" The driver exclaimed.
"What is it?" The boss asked.
"I-It's those brats!"
"Ah..." Luca opens her eyes and turns around to see...
Vrooom! "Suirenji-san!" Hayate and Negi manage to catch up with the limousine.
"Aya...saki-kun!" The princess, again for the third time, sort to speak, is delightened at the sight of her prince.
"H-How did they-! Those brats! Keep driving! I'll shoot down those two." The boss grabs an A.K. and opens his side of the window.
"Ayasaki-kun! Springfield-chan!"
Vrooom! Hayate drives closer to the limousine. "Hm?" At then, the boss is aiming at them with the A.K. "Hn!" Realizing the danger, he drives the motorcycle to the right side of the roadway to avoid being aim properly by the boss's shot.
"Steady... Fire!" Bang! Whoosh! "Gu...!" To the boss surprise, Hayate dodge his precise shot by slowing down the motorcyle a bit. Judas actually casted a masukuja spell on him and Negi to make things easier for them. At the moment, everything is moving slowly from their perspectives due to the masukuja spell. Hayate can see the bullets that are being shot slowly approaching and he can dodge it without fearing any accidents happening. The boss reloads his A.K. "Damn brats...!"
"Ayasaki-kun!"
"Hua!" Bang, Bang, Bang!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! "Too slow..." Hayate said as he maneuvers the motorcycle to dodge the slowly approaching bullets with ease.
"Thanks a lot, Judas-san." Negi thought. "Hm?" He then spots someone moving in a slow pace... "That is..." It's a girl with short purple hair with her bangs covering her face. Looking back at the events last night, he recognizes her as one of the Baka rangers, Miyazaki Nodoka. She's carrying a load of books and she's about to climb down a stone stairs...
Tumble! "Gwah!" ...! She trips down!
"O-Oi!" Whoosh! Negi, without thinking twice, jumped down from the motorcycle!
"Oi! Springfield!" Hayate exclaimed.
"Leave him be! He has something he has to do." Judas said.
"Huh?"
"Just focus on rescuing the girl."
"...Gr." He reluctantly takes his advice.
Negi held on to a street light to stop himself from being pulled away by the gravity when he jumped down from the motorcycle. With Masukuja still in effect, his fall is slow so he was able to land safely. "That girl... Oi!"
"Aniki! Where are we going! Ojou-chan's limo is heading that way!" Chamo said.
"I got to save her!"
"Yeah, but you're heading for the wrong way! She's- Eh?" At that moment, Chamo realizes Negi's intent.
"Ahh!" Nodoka is about to hit the ground...!
"Ah!" Negi jumps to catch her...! And the Masukuja spell is about to wear off...! BONK! He succeeded in catching her but he himself got hurt in the process...
"...?" Nodoka opens her eyes with tears on it. She thought she was going to fall on her head and have a concoction afterwards but she finds herself sitting on something... or someone. Regaining her composure, she sees Negi lying below her. "You're..."
"Ah... My back..."
"Ah...!" She recognizes him as the 'cool boy who beat up the yakuzas yesterday'. A blush appears on her cheeks.
"Ah..." Negi turns to her. "Daijobou? That was dangerous. Thank goodness you're alright."
"H-Hai..." Both of them stand up from their positions."This boy... It's him..." She thought.
Negi dusts off the dirt on his shirt. "Daijobou, Chamo-kun?" He asked Chamo, who is under his shirt, in a whispering tone.
"Hai... That was dangerous you know... I thought I was gonna be flatten to the ground..." The ermine said with a bruise on his head.
"Eh! D-Daijobou!"
"Ah... And don't raise your voice Aniki. She'll suspect you."
"Ah." Negi realizes his mistake and takes his advice.
"...?" Nodoka is staring at him curiously.
"Ah sorry. In any case, I'm glad you're alright." He said to the girl with the same flashy smile as Hayate.
"..." And like Hayate, he can make a girl blush with that smile of his.
"Hm? What's the matter?"
"Oh, n-nothing." She said looking down. Her eyes are shown a little. "He's so cute..." She thought.
Meanwhile, Back to Hayate...
Bang, Bang, Bang! Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh! The boss is firing non-stop and Hayate is dodging his every shots with ease thanks to Judas providing a Masukuja spell. "Hn!" Whoosh, whoosh! Vroom! Hayate drives closer to the limousine.
"Ah...!" Luca is able to have a eye contact with him from there.
"Hm." He gives her a thumps up, assuring her that he'll rescue her for sure.
"Huaa!" Bang, Bang! The boss ruined their moment however and this angered Hayate.
"Gr..." He slows down a bit then speeds up again to stay closer to the limousine. He is then intending to draw out his rapier from his right waist but... Sharp! "...! What the...?"
"...!" Judas felt something as well. Looking up ahead..."...!"
Up ahead are... "..grrr...grrr...! Grooaarr!" Shadows! They have the appearance of a four leg beast with a dragon-like mouth. They are running towards them!
"Ayasaki, watch out!"
"Grooaarr!" The Shadows jump towards them!
"What the-! Guah!"
"Grooarr!" Stab! One of Shadows leaped towards the boss and impaled him with its sharp dragon-like mouth, causing him to fall from the limousine's window, resulting into his death.
"Grooarr!" The other Shadows leap towards Hayate.
"...Guh!" He draws out his rapier then...! Slice! Slice! Slice! He killed the attacking Shadows and they dissolve into black mists.
"Grooarr!" The other Shadows give chase to Hayate and the limousine.
"Huh!" Luca is taken by surprise at the sudden appearance of the extraordinary monsters and is frightened by their appearances.
Vrooom! Hayate speeds up a little since the Shadows are obviously fast despite them being little and that they look overweight. "...!"
"Grooaarr!" Both parties took a right turn at the intersection. The Shadows follow. Luckily there is no one around or else there might have been a panicked that strange monsters are on the loose in the city.
"Gr... This is bad."
"Gee! Wh-What are those creatures!" The driver of the limousine asked, frightened.
"Grooaarr!" Flask! One of the Shadows spitted a melting slime on Hayate's motorcycle, causing him to have a difficulty in maneuvering it.
"Guh...!" He tries to maintain its balance to no avail. It seems the back tire is melting...
"This is not good... At this rate- Huh?" A pillar light shines from above. Looking up, an helicopter is flying above the roadway. An old man is waving... "Boss?" The driver sees the head of the Sanzenin Company, Sanzenin Mikado, on the helicopter. The helicopter brings down a rope. The driver thinks that he's telling him to grab Luca and get on the helicopter. At then...
"Gyaah!" Hayate loses balance and it forced him to abandoned the motorcycle. Boom! Resulting into it being torn apart into a lot of pieces. "Tch..." He turns to the cause of its destruction.
"Grooaarr." The Shadows gather around him.
"Hn."
"Gyaah!" He heard Luca screamed.
"Ah, Suirenji-san!" He sees Luca being brought aboard the chopper above. He also sees an old man with a beard. "That's..."
"Ayasaki-kun!"
"Suirenji-san!" He could only watch as the old man bids him farewell, which is more like a mock, and the helicopter flies away.
"Ayasaki-ku-! Hmmnnmgh...!" The former driver of the limousine covers Luca's mouth to prevent her from imploring for Hayate's rescue.
"Gr..." Hayate turns to the Shadows.
"Grooaarr." They prepare to attack him.
He draws out his rapier and he opens his right palm... "Perso..."
"Grooaarr!" The Shadows attack!
"NA!" Blast!
"Grooaarr!" The Shadows are blown away by the blue mist that bursted out of him! Then...!
Slice, slice, slice! Some of them are sliced in half by Hayate, with Helel mirroring him, when he came out of the blinding blue mist! "Hiyaa!" He turns to the other Shadows.
"Grooaarr!"
"Vorpal Blade!" Slice, slice, slice! Multiple slash energies appear as Hayate swings his rapier, dispatching half of the Shadows. "Hiyaa!" He continues dispatching them one by one.
Meanwhile... At Negi's part...
Negi offered to escort Nodoka back to her school, which is Hakou Academy. "Ano... Arigatou." The shy girl said.
"Iye, iye. Think nothing of it." Negi assured her.
"Ah- Hm."
"Ora, is that your school?" The wonderous school institute, or at least that's what most people think of it, Hakou Academy stands before them.
"Hai."
"Wow. It sure is big."
"So this is the infamous academy in Tokyo." Chamo, who is hiding under Negi's shirt, thought.
"Ja, I better go now." Negi is about to bid farewell but...
"Ah, wait-"
"Grooaarr!" Shadows come out of nowhere!
"Wha-!" The three of them, if including Chamo, are taken by surprise.
"Grooaarr!" All of the Shadows charges towards Negi!(And Chamo since he's under his shirt.)
"Ah!" He becomes aware of that then...!
"Grooaarr!" They all leap towards him!
"Negi-kun!" Nodoka exclaimed.
"Grooaarr!" Tuckle! The Shadows tuckle him to ground then...!
Blast! "Izanagi!" Realizing the danger, Negi summoned his persona, Izanagi, and pushed the Shadows away!
"Grooaarr!" They all attack again.
Swing! "Hiyaa!" Slice, slice, slice! He battles them.
"Ah..." Nodoka watches him dispatch the Shadows one by one. "Negi-kun... You're..." She muttered followed by the thought 'so cool'.
Slice! Negi killed another Shadow. "Hiya!" Slice! "Gr...!"
"Grooaarr!" A Shadow comes attacking from above!
"Hiya!" *Ziodyne* Negi, along with Izanagi, lifts up his right hand, calling forth a lightning bolt. Zap! The Shadow is dispatched by it.
"..." Nodoka is even more impressed now.
"Ah..." Negi dismisses Izanagi. "..." He turns to Nodoka. He then turns pale as he realizes that he was seen by a normal person summoning his persona. "Uh..."
"Uh Aniki... You were witnessed..." Chamo said, forgotting that he's outside Negi's shirt.
"Ah!" Nodoka spots him and heard him talk. "A ferret!"
"Guh! She heard you Chamo!" Negi told him.
"..." An awkward silence befalls the two parties. Then...
"Ah, Honya! What took you so long? We were- Eh?" Asuna Kagurazaki and the other girls yesterday came and broke the silence.
"Ah, minna. I..."
"Hey, aren't you that...?" Asuna asked.
"Hey, it's that boy!" The girl with pink hair with two pony tails, Fuka Narutaki, said recognizing Negi.
"Hey yeah, it's him!" They all gather around Negi and hug any of his body parts that they can.
"Hey, did you came to visit us!" Another girl with pink hair, Makie Sasaki, asked.
"Uh well..." Negi tries to find the right words.
"Or did you got lost in your way home and came upon here?" The one with long green hair, Haruna Saotome, asked.
"Uh well... K-Kinda..."
"Oh really?" Fuka's twin sister, fumika, asked. "Where's your... you know, your big brother?" She refers to Hayate.
"Oh Older Aniki is not Aniki's ol-"
"Ahh! Chamo-kun! You-!" Busted... Everyone heard Chamo talk loud and clear.
"Eh..."
"..." All of them stares at the ermine.
"Uh..."
Negi is sweating due to a extreme nervousness of being exposed as a not normal person. "Uh... This is..."
"..." They all turn to Negi then to Chamo.
Back to Hayate...
The Shadows are lying on the ground, on the verge of dissolving into black blinding mists. Hayate is stepping on a Shadow with his rapier pointed at the back of his head. "Hmph." Stab! He stabbed it through the back of its head, killing it instantly. The Shadows all dissolve simultaneously. He then turns to the tall building on the right. It sure stamped out among the rest of the buildings surrounding it. "Suirenji-san... I'm coming!" He thought as he started running towards the building.
Meanwhile, At the Sanzenin building...
"Gyaa!" Stab! An employee is stabbed on the neck by Sera...
"Hmph." He tosses the employee's lifeless body at the sides. Other employees are also lying on the ground with their blood spilled. He then head towards the stairs. "Inferior creatures... Your time is at an end. Mother and I... we will bring you to the Promised Land. ...I'm coming. Mother..." He thought as black mists come out of him and engulfs the dead employees...
"Grooaarr." ...Turning them into Shadows.
"Ha ha... Ha ha ha!"
Back to Hayate...
Tap, tap! "Huff... huff...Ah." He run all the way to the Sanzenin building, exorting a lot of his breath in the process. "Is this it?" He asked Judas.
"Ah. That girl is in there."
Hayate spots the helicopter a while earlier at a landing pad at an higher floor of the building. That confirms that Luca has been indeed taken here. "I wonder what happened to Springfield... Where did he-"
"Oi!" A voice calls out...
"Huh?" Turning to his left, "Gya!"
The girls the other day are there with Negi and Chamo who seem to be tearing up. There are also three additional girls, who he and Negi had not met that day. "A-Ayasaki-san..." Negi begins.
"S-Springfield... Why-"
"You're this little guy guardian right?" Asuna asked with a finger pointed at him.
"H-Hai."
"Ja you must be... You're a superguy right!"
"Eh?"
"They saw me Ayasaki-san..." Negi said with a teary expression. Chamo confirms it with a nod.
"Eh... Eh!" He realizes that they have been exposed as not normal people.
"So it is true!" The girl, fuka, exclaimed.
"Ja, are you some kind of superhero!" "Where did you guys get your powers from!" "Hey, what was that thing that came out of you earlier!" They ask Negi with a lot of different questions.
"Uh..." Hayate is speechless at the current of events.
"SIgh... I suppose it was only a matter of time before they found out." Judas said.
"Judas-san... What should we do?"
"Well... Since they already know about your personas, I suppose you could ask them to not tell it to anyone."
"Um..."Hayate begins. The girls are still bombarding Negi with a lot of questions however. A sweat drop appears at the back of his head. "Will you please..."
"So..." The girl with long pink hair, Hinagiku Katsura, approaches Hayate. The other three unfamiliar girls are behind her. "Can you explain it to us? About that... unusual feat that you two possessed?" The other three girls agreed to her question.
"..." Seeing that there is no escaping it, Hayate and Negi decided to tell them about them being persona-users but did not tell them about the secret school institute in Whales.
Later...
"I see... So that's how you two were able to beat that monster the other day with ease." Hinagiku refers to that Shadow, 'Jehovah'.
"But you guys sure are awesome! I didn't know people could do that persona thing!" The girl with a short purple hair, who Hinagiku introduces as Segawa Izumi, said cheerfully.
"Yeah. Can we do that too?" The one with short brown hair, Risa Asakaze, asked.
"Sigh... Anyway, your friend, Springfield-kun, told us of your predicament. You're here to save Suirenji Luca right?" Hinagiku asked.
"Huh? A-Ah." Hayate said follow by the thought 'She has a deadly aura about her. ...But, I can tell that she's currently living in a delusional world. ...Poor girl... She must have had a hard life in her childhood..."
"Ja, we offer you our assistance."
"Huh?"
"We are rangers from Hakou Academy. It is our one of our duties to rescue those who have been kidnapped. That girl, Suirenji, is in there yes? Your friend told us earlier that Sanzenin Mikado was the one who orchestrated her kidnapping."
"Uh yeah."
"Hm. Ja, let us work together okay?" She asked in a rather seductive way.
"Eh... Y-Yeah. Okay..."
"Alright! Let's work together Hayata-kun!" Izumi exclaimed cheerfully.
"Oh s-sure."
"What a group of companions that we have here." Judas commented.
"Ja, how should we proceed Katsura?" The other girl with a sword, Setsuna, asked. They all turn to the front entrance of the building.
"That way seems the most logical and fastest way to get in." Risa said.
"Hm?" Judas seems to be troubled.
"What's wrong?" Hayate asked.
"Something is wrong... I can sense no living human inside."
"Eh?"
"The first floor to be precised."
Hayate looks at the front entrance. "..." He is the first one to approach it.
"H-Hey!" Izumi called him out but he didn't stop. Negi followed him.
"Ah, Negi-kun." The Baka rangers follow.
"Wait up." Asuna said. Hinagiku and the other three follow.
Hayate Ayasaki P.O.V
I head for the entrance of the Sanzenin Building. I wonder if I'll meet that girl(Nagi) again... I go in as the mechanical door opens as my footsteps is heard by the... whatever that device that is used to hear if anyone is coming in. "Huh?" To my surprise, and that of the others, who follow me in, there is no one here.
"It's empty." The girl, Sasaki I think, said. Yup, there is no one around here in the first floor. Did they all went to the other floors...? We look around. ...The silence is kinda giving the girls a creep.
"Uh... Hello?" One of the girls we rescued, Konoe, as I remember, said. ...No one responded.
"That's strange..." Kagurazaka-san said. "Where are all the employees?"
"Yeah. Isn't there a receiptionist that is suppose to greet us?" Asakaze asked as we enter this large hall. There are two grand looking stairs that lead upstairs.
"..." I look upstairs. Did something-
"Hm?" ...? Judas-san seems to be surprised. I turn to his direction... ...? I see someone's shadow...
"Hey, that's..." I point that someone's shadow.
"Ah, there's somebody!" Konoe said as she approaches that person... Why do I-
"Ah, Konoka-ojou-sama!" Sakurazaki-san yelled out to her.
"Execuse me, may-"
"Grooaarr!"
"Guh!" ...! Wh-What the! She falls down!
"Grooaarr!" ...! A Shadow! "Grooaarr!" It lunges forth its monstrous hand towards her!
"Gyaah!"
"Ojou-sama!" "Konoka-san!" Springfield rushes towards her!
"Persona!" Flash! Blast! Slice! He immediatelly summoned his persona, and dispatched the Shadow.
"Grooaarr!" ...! Uh oh, more of them are upstairs! Some of them are humanoid in appearance while the others are the same Shadows that I have faced earlier!
"Gyah!"" Guuaah!" The girls screamed in terror of them. I won't let you harm them!
"Tch!" I draw out my rapier. I then summon my persona card... Flash! ...crush it then...! "Persona!" Blast!
"Grooaarr!" They all jump over the balcony upstairs and towards us!
"Hua!" Slice! slice! slice! I battle them!
"Ah!" The girls are watching us dismantle them all one by one.
Springfield seems to be doing well. He and his persona are slicing off the ones on the right. "Hua!" Zap, zap, zap! He casted a chain of lightning bolt that dispatch four Shadows.
Slice! Slice! I take care of the ones in the left. Strike! I push the last one away with a kick on his ugly face then, "Hua!" *Maragidyne* Blaaze! I casted a fire spell on him, reducing him into a fried slime and then to nothing. "...?" I heard something... It's from outside...
"Grooaarr!" ...! There's a lot of Shadows outside! They have surrounded the building!
"Ah!" The girl with long blue hair is the first one to notice their presences.
"Yue?" The one with long green hair, Saotome, as I remember, asked what is concerning her then she turns around and see. "Ahh!"
The other girls turn around as well. "Ahh!"
"Wh-Where did they came from!" Segawa asked, frightened.
"Grooaarr!"
"Springfield!" I call him out. We both step in front of the entrance.
"There's a lot of them... Could they be...?" ...?Judas-san? "...Someone is here..."
"Huh?"
"...No, just focus in destroying these delusionary beings for now."
"Grooaarr!" The Shadows draw closer. Me and Springfield prepare ourselves.
"O-Oi! You guys aren't thinking of fighting those monsters aren't you! There's too many of them!" Asakaze warned us.
"We can handle it." I assured. Then I whisper to Judas-san. "Judas-san, we may need a little assistance here."
"Understood. Ja," *Infinity* Flash! A rainbow light engulfs me and Springfield.
"Huh!" The girls are surprised by the phenomenon of course.
"Wh-What did you two just did!" Segawa asked, thinking that we did that ourselves.
"It won't last for eternity so make short of these delusionary beings!" Judas-san told us.
We ready ourselves with his advice on our minds. "Understood. Well then... Let's go, Springfield!"
"Ah!" We head outside to fight the abominations!
Normal P.O.V
"Persona!" Both persona-users exclaimed as they run out of the building to face the large numbers of Shadows, surrounding the building. Blast! Slice! Slice! Slice!
"Grooaarr!" The Shadows charge all at once!
Slice! Slice! "Hiyaa!" Clash! Slice! Hayate sent out multiple slash energies that sliced off some of them.
"Ah..." Hinagiku is impressed by his dexterous movements that he has improved throughout his time in persona academy. She thinks of him as a rival.
Slice! Slice! The two continues battling the Shadows. "Hua!" *Maragidyne* Blaaaze! Hayate unleashes waves of flames that scorches some of Shadows, reducing them into black slime, then fades away to nothing.
Slice! Slice! Slice! Negi performs various aerial slashes that dispatch a lot of the Shadows as they come and attack. "Ayasaki-san, this is taking too much time! We need to get rid of all of them at once!"
"Ah, I realize that. I guess..." Hayate raises his right palm with Helel mirroring his right palm to his... Flash! A small energy ball forms on it. "Stand back, Springfield. This is going to get a little explosive."
"Hm. Hmhmm." Negi goes back to the entrance of the building as Hayate told him to, like a little brother following his older brother.
"Ahh..." Hayate prepares a spell...
"The Infinity spell is about to wear off. Hayaku!" Judas said.
"Hua!" *Megidolaon* Flaash! The energy ball on his palm levitates above, then it splits into three, ...Boom! It slowly landed on the grounded and exploded like a meteor that has fallen from the sky.
"Grooaarr!" All of the Shadows are engulfed by the explosion and dissolve into black mists.
"..." Hayate dismisses his persona and draws back his rapier. He returns to the others.
"Wow! That was amaizing, Hayata-kun!" Izumi praised him.
"Yeah. Was that your persona?" Risa asked.
"That was an impressive set of moves you did there Negi-kun." Haruna praises Negi while patting him on the head. The others(Negima girls) also praise him.
"That was great Hayata-kun!" Izumi praises the Hayate.
"Yeah. So that's your power huh? Persona was it?" Risa said.
"..." The girl with long blue hair, Miki Hanabishi, is keeping an eye on Hinagiku.
"..." She's looking relently at Hayate. "I need to become stronger... like him. No, I need to be more stronger than him. I have to!" She thought.
"Ja, I think we better head for the floors above. We need to find out what happened to this place." Hayate suggested.
"I agree. Plus, we also need to find out what happened to the people here. Employees and some other staff members." Risa said.
"That would mean going to the heart of this building... You think that is a wise course of action?" Ayaka Yukihiro, the suppose to be the leading representative, asked.
"That's the only place where we can get to the full details of what happened here. Since, of course, that is the office of the President himself. He's the one who's being informed by the things that happen here after all."
"Hm. Suppose so."
"Ja, are we going to take any survivors as well, with us?" Konoka asked.
"If there are any but, the chance of any survivors being left unnoticed by those monsters seem very unlikely." Setsuna said.
"Ah. If there are any, they may on the floors above." Haruna said.
"I think we should head for 60th floor of the building. That's where most of the important employees usually are." Yue Ayase, said.
"Hm. Yeah huh?"
"Ja, should we get moving? Let's go, Negi-kun!" Makie said as she hugs Negi follow by some of the girls with the exception of Asuna, Setsuna and Nodoka(she doesn't have the courage yet to do that.)
"Would you all give him some space?" Ayaka said to the girls(Negima girls that is).
They give him some space as she told them to. "Ah, arigatou umm..." Negi said asking for her name.
She kneels down before the 10 year old boy. "My name is Yukihiro Ayaka. Pleased to meet you... Negi-chan~!" She suddenly hugs him mercilessly.
"Guahh!" He felt uneasy of course.
"Ah, ichou! That's not fair!"
"Yeah, you can't have him by yourself just because you're the representative!" The other girls complained.
"Ha ha." Hayate could only give off a small laugh at his best friend's situation.
"..." Hinagiku has been staring at him for some time now, unknowns to him.
"Umm... If you guys are done, can we all please move on now...?" He said as a way to help Negi.
"Yeah. We can't spend the entire night here." Chamo, who is on Hayate's right shoulder, said. He now has no problem of showing himself in the surface.
The girls agreed and they all head for the elevator that is upstairs. Hinagiku didn't averted her stare to Hayate as there is a mixture of jealousy and love-at-first-sight feeling. One of the three new girls, Miki, has noticed this. "Hmm. Maybe he'll be the one to strip Hina-chan of her delusion. Hmph. How intriguing. Let us see how you will do, Ayasaki-kun." She thought.
The group enter the elevator(They find themselves in a narrow space due to their numbers) and is headed for the 60th floor of the building. Hayate, Negi and Chamo were surprised that the building is up to 75 floors. They watch view of the city as the elevator ascends though they uncomfortable due to the narrow space. They soon arrive at the 60th floor. They step out of the elevator and find themselves in yet another large hall that consist of a balcony on the middle. The first floor can be seen from there. "This kind of height is kinda giving you an uneasy feeling don't you think?" Hayate asked Negi as they look below the balcony.
"Ha ha. Yeah." They were not afraid since they can use their personas to levitate them for a short time before falling onto the ground floor or that Judas might do something should that happen.
"..." Hinagiku is having a hard time looking below the balcony with the three new girls noticing it.
"Ha ha. Hina-chan is still not has gotten used to her fear of heights yet huh?" Izumi said in a whispering tone. Hinagiku heard her however.
"Yeah. Well, this building is quite hight so I guess-" Risa said unfinished.
"Urusai da ne!" Hinagiku exclaimed at the three.
"Is anyone there?" ...? Someone came...Everyone turn to the left where a beautiful mature looking maid comes out of the stair way room. "Ah."
"..." Hayate, as well as Chamo, is caught up by her beauty.
"Ano... Who... or what are you people-"
Crash! ...! A Shadow with a humanoid shaped body came crashing down from above the ceiling! "Grooaarr!"
"...! Ah...!" The maid is taken by surprise and is frightened by it.
"Gyaa!" The other girls as well.
"Grooaarr!" The Shadow lunges towards the maid!
"Tch!" Not standing for that, Hayate runs towards her with rapier in hand! "Don't you dare touch her you filthy being!" STRIKE! He pushed the Shadow away with a powerful kick. "Hiyaa!" He then jump towards it...! Stab!
"Grooaarr!" The Shadow is stabbed on the head, making it agonize in pain before fading into nothing.
"..." The maid felt like she has just enter a world of strange events as she has just witnessed an unnatural phenomenon.
"Oi, daijobou!" Hayate comes to her like a knight tending to his princess aid.
"H-Hm. I'm alright..." She said bewildered by his mannerism.
"Where did that monster came from?" Risa asked. They all look up.
"Don't tell me there's more of them upstairs!" Fumika, the twin sister of Fumika, said.
"Seems that way." Setsuna said.
"You better come with us. You'll be safe with us, I promise." Hayate assured the maid.
"Ah... O-Okay. Ja, I'm... under your care." She stuttered. All of them move on to the upper floors. The maid introduced herself to Maria. She doesn't have a last name. Hayate told her about the predicament they, as well as she is, in. "Eh? Shadows?"
"Hai. That's what we call those monsters just now. Apparently, there are more here in this building."
"But... Where did they came from?"
"Someone came here and murdered some of the people in this building and turn their dead bodies into Shadows." Judas said.
"...?" Hayate could only ponder on what he said. "Someone...?"
"Ah. Someone who is associated with the Shadows it seems."
"Hm?" Maria noticed him talking even though there's no one he's talking to, or at least she cannot see Judas.
"Oh uh nothing." They proceed to a what seems to be a laboratory.
"This place is...?" Negi asked as they walk in.
"...!" They are all shock at scene before them. The room is in a complete state of ruin where a lot of laboratory apparatuses are lying on the ground, destroyed. A lot of the chemical liquids are on the floor as well. The most probably disturbing sight are the dead scientists that are lying on the ground with their blood spilled.
"Wh-What happened here...!" Asuna asked.
Hayate and Negi steps in further, examining the surrounding. "Hm...?" Then Hayate notices a broken container on the right side of the room. The nameplate 'JEHOVAH' is on it... "This is..." He takes a closer look. There is a blood trail that leads to a stair room up ahead. "...Jehovah."
"What is it?" Izumi asked.
"..." Hayate goes to follow the trail of blood, followed by Negi then the girls.
In a testing room...
Hayate, Negi and the others find themselves into a testing room for specimens. On the middle is... "Suirenji-san!"
"Ayasaki-kun!" Luca is being kept inside a huge glass of cylender that is suppose to be a feeding stable for the specimens in the lab.
"Suirenji-san!" "Suirenji Luca!" Negi and Hinagiku exclaimed.
"Luca? Is that her name? Hm, quite a beautiful name. It suits her well." ...? Looking at the room that seems to be a control room, a scientist is there. He has a silver hair and blue eyes.
"Who are you?" Hayate asked.
"If you must know, I am the head scientist of the Research Department of both the Sanzenin and Aizawa companies. My father-in-law, Mikado Sanzenin, sent me to take care of the chaos that has been going on here. I assume it was you children who were causing it, hmm?"
"No! We just came here to... Uh..." Makie said.
"What do you intend to do with Suirenji-san?" Hayate asked.
"We intend to study her. Don't you know? She is of an ancient and forgotten race that has first inhabited this planet long ago."
"Ancient... and forgotten race?"
"Just as I thought..." Judas said.
"...?"
"We wish to know her capabilities regarding her inheritage." Snap. He snapped his finger.
A glass of cylender then emerges from inside Luca's glass cylender. "...!" She is taken by surprise that there is a white tiger with black markings inside it. The cylender opens, setting the tiger free on whatever it wishes to do. ...And whatever it wishes to do with her.
"Grr..." It enters into a stance in which it looks like he's going aggressive on Luca, making her frightened and stand at the side of the glass cylender.
"Oi, what do you think you're doing!" Hayate said to Mr. Aizawa.
"I'm going to test her. Since all of you are here, I don't have to waste my time looking for the source of all the chaos here and deal with you all with all of my latest toys here." He said, fixing his glasses.
"Kisama...!"
"How dare you!" Makie said angrily.
"How dare you treat an ordinary person an animal!"
"A person? Hmph, I don't have time to deal with simpletons. Now then, proceed with the testing." Mr. Aizawa told the operating scientist.
"Yes sir." The scientist pulls down a lever.
The floor inside Luca's cylender opens, making it harder for to have a free space, making her an easy prey for the tiger. "Gyaah!"
"Suirenji-san!" Hayate and the others come her aid but the glass of cylender is standing in their way like a wall.
"Ayasaki-kun, help!"
"Gr...!" Hayate draws out his rapier...!
"Oi, what are you doing!" Mr. Aizawa climbs down to the testing room to stop Hayate but is too late...
"Hiyaa!" Shatter! Hayate destroyed the glass of the cylender with his rapier, releasing green smoke inside.
"Noooo! My precious specimens!" Mr. Aizawa draws closer to the broken cylender. Then...
"Rooaarr!" Tuckle! The white tiger jumped out of the smoke and tuckled him down. The smoke clears out afterwards.
"Suirenji-san!" Hayate took the oportunity to rescue Luca.
"Ayasaki-kun..."
"Come on, let's get you out of here." He offers his hand.
"Hm." She takes it and they both exit the cylender.
"Alright! Mission accomplished!" Haruna cheered followed by the other girls(Negima girls).
"Not yet, we still have to deal with this lunatic scientist." Setsuna said grabbing the hilt of her sword.
Mr. Aizawa is trying to stop the white tiger from bitting his face while lying on the ground. "Grr... Grr...! Guh! Get off me!" He pushes him away. "I'll get you for this!" He runs out of the testing room along with the other scientist.
"Hey, get back here you coward!" Makie yelled.
"Yeah, come and meet your doom you bastard!" Asuna yelled.
"Oi," Hayate calls out the tiger.
"Grr...?"
"...Arigatou. You were trying to catch him off guard right?"
"Eh? You mean... He was just acting violently earlier?" Negi asked.
"Ah. That should be obvious for you Springfield. You need to master your intuition if you wish to master the wild card." Judas said.
"A-Ah. Okay..." He said followed by thought 'I need to be more intuitive... Just like Ayasaki-san."
"Grr... *whine*" The white tiger nods.
"I see. Ja, are you going to be okay on your way out?" Hayate asked.
"Eh? We're going to set it loose?" Izumi asked.
"That will be setting a wild animal on the loose in the city." Risa said.
"That's true but..." Hayate looks at the tiger with pity. Even though he's a wild animal, for him, anything that is alive deserves to be free. ...Though doing so might cause a panic in the city as Risa suggested.
"Grr!" ...? The white tiger flees.
"O-Oi!" Izumi called it out but it just ignored her.
"Now that's just great... If he is set loose in the city, he might get shot by police if they saw him..." Risa said.
"Ah..." Hayate realizes that. Amidst the series of events...
"What the-! G-Gyaah!" ...! Screams are heard at the direction where Mr. Aizawa fled to.
"Wh-What was that!" Negi asked.
"..." Hayate goes to that direction.
"Ah, Ayasaki-kun!" Luca and the others follow.
The trail of blood continues from there. Hayate and the others follow it up to the top floor where likely President Mikado Sanzenin will be on. "Huff! huff! Ah!" They made it to the top floor to see... "*gasp* *gasp* *gasp*!"
"..." Sera is there. His seven feeth katana is stabbed on Mikado's back. He is holding Mr. Aizawa, who is bloody, by his blood stained shirt. He seems to have been killed by Sera when he may have perhaps encountered Sera downstairs... "Hmph." He removes his katana from the lifeless body of Mikado Sanzenin and tosses Mr. Aizawa's body to the sides and then he turns to Hayate and the others... "Hm?"
"You are..." Hayate begins.
"...? Who...? Ah." Sera realizes that they have same appearance, with the exception of thei hair and eye color. "...You are..." Sera can sense that Hayate and Negi are not normal people and he can their potentials to summon personas. "Persona-users...? Who- Ah!" Then a flashback came to his mind...
Flashback...
"Do you have a brother Sera?" Ikusa Ayasaki, Hayate's older brother, asked.
"...No. Why do you ask?"
"Well, you're kinda look like my younger brother Hayate. You and he look exactly alike. Except for your hair color. He has a light blue one."
"Is that so...?"
"Ah. I heard he's not doing well back at home... Sigh... Such a shame, mom and dad are still at their bad habits of gambling and not wanting to get employed. And Hayate has to pay the price for their recklessness. Sigh... I wish I could somehow get him enroll in the academy. I want to be reunited with him. I want to help him... He has suffered too much."
"...Then why don't you go back home and bring him here for enrollment?"
"It's not that easy! You know every-"
End of Flashback.
"...I see. Ha ha... So you are him." Sera said with an evil smile.
"Huh?" Hayate is, of course, confused by his words.
"So it seems his wish for you has been fulfilled. I thought of one day I might meet you."
"What are you talking about? Who are you! What did you...!"
"Hmph. Them?" He turns to the dead bodies of Mikado and Mr. Aizawa. "They were keeping Mother away from me so I punished them."
"Punish them? Punish them by killing them!" Asuna asked angrily.
"Yes. Those who dare stand against Mother shall die!" Shoock! He exclaimed with his arms spread as a lightning bolt struck. The girls are frightened by his mannerism.
"You... Who are you referring to as 'Mother'!" Hayate asked.
"Jehovah." Judas answers his question.
"What?"
"Mother and I will soon bring the Promised Land to this darkened world. All of you will receive your eternal salvation soon!" Whoosh! He said as his long black angel wing emerged at the back of his right shoulder, unleashing a strong gust of winds that push the group a little. Whoosh! He breaks through the ceiling and flies out of the Sazenin building. Pot!
"...?" A green orb then came falling down from above the ceiling with a hole.
"Grr..." It eminates dark energies then... "Grooaarr!" It transforms into a monster that has the same appearance and size of the 'Jehovah' monster that Hayate and Negi fought the other day.
"...!"
"Wh-What is that!" Izumi asked frightened.
"Tch!" Hayate and Negi draws out their weapons!
"Grooaarr!"
(Battle Commence)
This second 'Jehovah' has the same appearance of the first one, except that its colored grey and it has red markings all over 'her' body. "Grooaarr!"
"Focus Springfield!" Hayate said.
"I know!" Negi said.
"Grooaarr!"
"Hiyaa!" Slash, slash, slash! Both battle 'Jehovah'! They hit 'her' all over body which is kinda hitting a metal due to its skin's roughness that is making it look like hard as metal.
"Hiya! Slash! Hayate hit it on its right shoulder then he jumps away from it for safety.
"Grooaarr!" *Nihilistic Laser* Boom! It fired a blue laser through its red colored eyes, that causes an explosion on the ground.
"Guh!" The girls are blown away by the explosion a little.
Slash! Slash! "Hiya!" Slash! Negi hit it on the head which angered it and in retialiation, it send out tentacles from its shoulders. "Hiya!" Slice, slice! Negi tries to prevent them from touching him but eventually, due to their numbers,"Guh!" his right leg is caught by one of the tentacles causing him to drop his guard and the tentacles manage to get ahold of every of his body parts.
"Ah, Negi-chan!" Ayaka exclaimed.
"Aniki!" Chamo, who is under Negi's shirt, trying to remove the tentacles on him, exclaimed.
Tap, tap! "Huaa!" Whoosh! Slice! Hayate sliced off the tentacles holding Negi, setting him free. He then turns to 'Jehovah'. "Tch." Tap, tap, tap! He runs towards 'her'!
"Grooaar!" *Nihilistic Laser* Boom! It fired another blue laser on Hayate!
"Ayasaki-san!" Negi exclaimed.
Whoosh! "Hiyaa!" Hayate comes out of the smoke then...! SLICE!
"Grooaarr!" The lower body of 'Jehovah' is sliced open, causing some of its body organs to be spit out of it.
"Eww!" "Yuck!" "That's gross!" The girls are disgusted by the body organs that are lying on the ground.
"Hiyaa!" Whoosh! Hayate then jumps towards 'her' aiming his attack for 'her' head.
"Grooaarr!" Realizing that, 'Jehovah' send out tentacles to prevent him from reaching 'her'.
Slice, slice, slice! Hayate slices them off with ease. "Huaa!" Blast! He then summons Helel and together they both lunges for an attack on 'Jehovah's head!
"Grooaar!" *Nihilistic Laser* Boom! As a desperate maneuver, it fired another blue laser on Hayate.
"Ayasaki-kun!" "Ayasaki!" Luca, Maria and Hinagiku exclaimed.
Whoosh! "Hiyaa!" Hayate emerges from the smoke unarmed, (due to Judas's Infinity spell) then...! SLASH!
"Grooaarr!" He managed to inflict a severe wound on its head.
"Now, Springfield!"
"Right!" Negi, in response to that attack, rushes towards 'Jehova'! Whoosh! Blast! He jumps towards 'her' along with is persona, Izanagi, with his attack focusing on 'Jehovah's head! "HIYAA!" *Thunger Reign* SHOOCK! Rain of lightning bolts rain down on 'Jehovah'.
"Grooaarr!" Causing 'her' to agonize in pain as 'she' slowly dissolve into blinding black mists.
"They did it..." Setsuna said amazed by the two persona-users.
"Negi-kun!" "Wow!" The girls(Negima girls) are impressed by that final blow that Negi delivered to 'Jehovah'.
"...Negi-kun... So... Cool..." Nodoka stuttered. Again, her best friend, Yue Ayase, notices this.
"Huff. huff. huff. Ah." Hayate and Negi dismiss their personas and draw back their weapons. They then turn to the ceiling with a hole where Sera flew off.
"Where did he...?" Hayate asked unfinished.
"So... It seems our enemy has gotten away... They bested our timely arrival..." ...! Two elegant dressed, blonde hair girls are near the balcony of the building. A hole is made on one of the large windows, implying that they broke through. Who are these two!
End of Chapter 3
Note: Sorry it took me a long time to publish this chapter. I was tied up to other matters. Anyway, at the end of this chapter, Evangeline and Athena have entered the story. Some of you may also notice that in here, Mr. Aizawa is filling Dr. Hojo's role as an antagonist. There are some scenes that is mirroring some scenes from Hayate no gotoku, Negima and FF7. One of this is the scene where Hayate and Negi were watching Luca's performance which is like the scene in the manga where Hayate watches Luca sings on stage. The scene where Hayate chases the black limousine of yakuzas is like the scene where he went to rescue Nagi from two guys in episode 1 of Hayate no gotoku, except in here, he uses a motorcycle not a bike. Also, the scene where the Shadows attack Hayate and the yakuza limousine is like the scene where Cloud was attacked by Kadaj and his brothers at the outskirts in FF7. I hope you enjoy this story. I'll be working on the next chapter soon. Until then, enjoy! Ja ne!