In response to the review from Ac: Um...according to my information, Hathor should be the Empress Arcana.
"Well... i think you are right in that one but i want to change it a little because i didn´t actually find any gods or deities that i could use as a persona of the Fool Arcana. Maybe i didn´t look up properly, so i´m sorry for any troble. Meanwhile... let´s pretend that is from the Fool Arcana ;) Thanks for the review, write again if you want to give me an advice about the story or anything else"
In response to the review from Guest: Not a bad story so far, but it needs some editing, a lot of editing. I also want to know who ended up with who.
"I know, it´s because i´m not for U.S.A I´m from Argentina. I know how to speak english but my problems are the grammars. You´ll see some of them so it´s natural. Sorry about that XD
And Who ended up with who... i have to introduce to the other characters so until then it won´t be paring for the moment. I have some ideas but i still have to see how it goes. Thanks for reviewing :D "
Chapter 4: Velvet Room
Minako couldn´t believe it, her daughter just summon a persona. It was like that day years ago, when she saw her brother summoning Orpheus in the roof of the dorm to protect her and Yukari from the shadows. For some reason she feel uneasy, when she remember that... she remember Thanatos ripping Orpheos apart. She don´t know if that´s gonna repeat again. She wish that history won´t repeat itself again.
Akane´s eyes were glowing red while looking at the shadow, her persona was behind her waiting for Akane´s command. It didn´t have to wait to long, Akane didn´t waste time and order her persona to attack.
"Hathor... destroy it" Hathor fly to the shadow and attack it with her strings, the shadow evade the strings easily but some manage to grab one of his legs and lift it into the air and smash it to the ground as hard as she could, Hathor keep smashing it to the ground until the shadow attack it with an ice attack. Hathor retreat, looks like ice is her weakness. The shadow fall to the ground and attack again with ice, this time use Bufudyne. Hathor fall and disappear, Akane grab her head from the pain. She fall to her kneels and breath heavily. She couldn´t endure that pain, it was like a part of her soul was being ripping to pieces.
"Akane, leave us! Just run away!" Minako scream at her
"... NO! I WON´T LEAVE ANY OF YOU!" Akane get up even if her head is about to explode from the excesive pain "I... I WILL... PROTECT YOU!" She grab the evoker and try to summon Hathor again
"Don´t do it!"
"Persona!" Akane pull out the trigger again but this time the blue aura that always appear when a persona is summon, didn´t appear. Instead a red aura appear and Hathor didn´t appear at all. Everyone were expecting something to come up but it didn´t until Akane grab her head again and fall to ground screaming in pain. Out of nowhere, wing appear behind her and a figure start to form. The wings belong to a woman in black robe, a hood was covering her face but her eyes were glowing red, the wings were like a raven´s wings completely black, she was wielding a scythe with a human skull stuck in the middle of the blade, and like Hathor, her whole body was full of tatoo... only this ones were the same word in different languages... Death.
"I AM THOU... " Her voice was more threatening and echoed all over the place "THOU ART ME" the dark persona get between the shadow and Akane, her eyes glow brighter "FROM THE DEEP OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS I EMERGE! I AM MORRIGAN, THE SHADOW OF DEATH!" Morrigan jump at the shadow and with her scythe, she cut the shadows head. The shadow didn´t fall, instead it keep attacking with ice but Morrigan absorb the ice and attack with Darkness. Morrigan use Mamudoon in the Shadow and before it could hit it, she make sure that Minako and everyone else weren´t in the attack range. The attack hit and the shadow start to disintegrate in the air. The fight end pretty quickly and everyone was looking at Akane, she was about to collapse in the floor but Morrigan grab her before she could hit the ground. Akane saw her persona and smile at her, Morrigan didn´t return the smile she only nod and let her rest in the ground. Morrigan disintegrate into the air too and the Dark Hour finish. Minako run to Akane´s side.
"Akane! sweety, are you okay?!"
"M-mom... it was..."
"Shhh it´s okay, Akane. Everything´s going to be fine"
"I..." Akane close her eyes and everything went black
Akane was starting to wake up, she feel like her head just explode and her brain run away to never come back where it belong. She was about to open her eyes to see where she was. As far as she knows, she summon two monsters to kill a giant shadow monster, like some kind of anime series or a videogame. Akane try to open her eyes despite the pain that still present in her head. What she saw before her wasn´t what she was expecting.
"... Hello, my dear" The woman she saw earlier was in front of her... practically face to face, and she was invading her personal space. Something that she hate the most, like when Haruka jump at her earlier that day.
"Personal space"
"Oh Sorry! I just couldn´t resist, i like to make people uncomfortable"
"Ok... could you get out of my face now?"
"aw but you look so adorable when you sleep"
"Okay, it got weird. Get out!" Akane push her away and got up from where she was sitting. She look around and saw that everything was blue, the walls, the floor and even the furniture, All blue. The room wasn´t a room actually, it was a place full of gears working at a slowly pace. In front of her was a giant clock moving at the opposite direction, the gears were the one that are making it work. That wasn´t all, in front of her was a round table and a creepy old man sitting next to it. What was disturbing was his nose, it was long... really long, how was that possible? He smile at Akane and talk to her.
"Well... well... well, it seems we have a guest... not only an intriguing one but also the daughter of a former guest he he he" Akane didn´t understand a word he was saying
"Former guest?... where am i? Who are you?"
"Calm yourself my dear, the answer will come soon. My name is Igor, i am delighted to make your acquaintance. The girl you just push away is my asistance, Annabelle. This is the Velvet Room, a place that only those who have signed the contract may enter"
"Contract..." Akane thought for a second then turn to Annabelle "You witch! you make me sign that thing!"
"In my defense... It was destiny"
"Destiny my ass! Where is it? i´m going to tear it apart right now!" Akane get up of the chair ready to punch Annabelle in the face
"Calm my dear"
"Shut up, old man! I´m perfectly calm... i´m getting out of here"
"Sadly, you can´t get out of here now. That´s not for you to decided"
"What?!" Akane look around for a door... there wasn´t one. Igor was telling the truth.
"Now, please take a seat. We need to discuss important matters"
"Fine..." Akane calm down a little and sit down again "This is the Velvet Room... What´s exactly the Velvet Room?"
"It exist between dreams and reality, mind and matter..."
"Okay... i don´t really understand that"
"Now you are in dream, my dear. You can only enter the Velvet Room through dreams... and ocasionally through special doors" Annabelle say
"I see... and what i´m doing here?"
"You awaken to your power, my dear. And is our job to help you to control it properly" Annabelle said to her while getting closer to her
"Another step on this direction and i swear to God that i will kill you"
"Oh, i like your attitude. Very agressive. You are tempting me" Annabelle said with a weird tone...
"To do what?" Akane was nervious now, Annabelle was seeing her strangly
"Do you really want to know? hehehe"
"Annabelle, stop. You are scaring our guest"
"Sorry, Master. I feel a little excited"
"Anyway... Like she say, our role is to help you to control your unique ability. The Wild Card"
"Wait, You said the there was a former guest"
"Yes... your mother was our former guest"
"What?!" Akane couldn´t believe it, her mother was here before. Why?
"Yes and she wasn´t the only one. Your uncle, Makoto. Was a guest too"
"Woah... and what happen?"
"They Fulfilled their respective contracts"
"... You are not going to tell me?"
"I think is better that you discuss this with your mother, i can´t tell you everything. It´s better this way" Igor knows that this need to be discuss with members of the family and not with some stranger. Akane need to listen this from her.
"I think so too... so my power... those monsters... personas"
"Yes, you can summon more than just those two personas. You have the Wild Card"
"Those personas... Hathor and Morrigan... i think they are like the same thing. Like... those two need each other"
"They are personas, yes. Hathor is a persona that represents happiness, love and music. It´s the mask you wear when you are happy and spend time with your friends and family. Morrigan represents death, desire, selfishness and lust. She is your mask when you are upset, egoist, selfish and any other negative emotion or desire. Unlike our previous guests, you can summon those two at the same time in battle. They are opposite but together, they create harmony. Something that the others Wild Cards could never do. Neither your mother or your uncle, and he could do the fusion spells"
"I see... so my uncle was badass then"
"He was actually... no wonder why Elizabeth was all over him"
"Excuse me, who´s Elizabeth?"
"No one..." Igor interrupted "Of course, we only ask one thing in return for our services... that you abide by the contract and assume responsibility for choices you make"
"Only that? Well... that won´t be a problem"
"Hold on to this..." A key appear before Akane´s eyes and take it "The next time we meet again, you´ll come on your own accord. Until then... Farewell" Everything went black for Akane