Early Warning!
No! I do NOT own anything in this chapter! Except the storyline! That's my doing! I warned you it would be crazy! And that hasn't changed! Don't worry though! This is the only chapter that will ever have this sort of stuff in! PROMISE! Please have mercy on my stupid ideas! Also , its a ridiculously long chapter compared to anything else I have ever done so yeah... Anyway! On with the Fic!
"Okay Teddie. Do you sense anything?" asked Naoto as the team arrived in the TV world.
"Hmm... Yeah! There's something... That way I think!" Teddie pointed in a seemingly random direction as he replied. "I'm not sure though... I smell's familiar..."
"Familiar? How exactly?"
"Well... I think it might be related to one of us. I'm not sure how though." Naoto and Minato glanced at each other calmly before turning to the group.
"Well that seems to be our best option at the moment so lead the way Teddie." Minato's amused expression caught her eye as he spoke.
"Whats that look for?"
"Hmm? Oh, well it just seems a little weird. You know how we just asked a bear to lead us to this place. It's like he's a sniffer dog!" She chuckled slightly as they followed the bear.
"Yes. I suppose your right." The others followed closely behind them as they followed the bear, with conversations floating between them. "So do you think I already have Social Links with my friends? I have known them all for while now and I must say I know some of them quite well." She asked curiously.
"Hmm... You might. Even if you do they will still need strengthening." His reply was accompanied by an equally curious expression as they noticed a shadow up ahead. "Hey, Teddie. Look out for that shadow." The second the shadow was mentioned Teddie leapt behind Naoto in a terrified way.
"Whats the matter Teddie?" She gazed down at him questioningly.
"I'm scared without my bear-sona!" His voice was filled with fear and nervousness as everyone behind them stood watching them.
"Hey whats the hold-up?" Chie called from somewhere near the back of the group.
"Nothing. Just Teddie's suddenly scared of a shadow."
"What? There's a shadow? Why don't you just hurry up and take it out then?"
"That's what we're doing." Naoto summoned her Persona as she called back to Chie. "Ziodyne!" In an instant the shadow was flung to side before it scrambled up again. A lion-like creature bounded towards them for an attack!
The young detective blocked it with her Shield of Justice spell and fired a counter shot at its face!
"Orpheus! Agidyne!" With that final spell the creature dissolved in a mix of black smoke and flames! "Well, now we know the shadows are stronger then they were a while back."
"Hmm. Well let's continue."
"Welcome! One and all, to the Battle of Voices competition! Here in the Land of TV!"
Everyone turned to Rise as her voice rang out through the room as they entered.
"Battle of Voices?" Yosuke stared at her in confusion.
"Don't look at me! I don't know what that is!" Rise's agitation was doubled with confusion as she yelled at him.
"Here, everyone gets the chance to show of their secret vocal talent as one of our very own contestants in this exciting competition!" What?! A singing competition? Seriously?! Damn it!
"Do we all have to participate?" Naoto called to the stupid imitation of her friend's voice.
"Of course, everyone must participate! All except for our two judges!" The voice was easily sending shivers down her spine at the thought of singing in front of anyone. "Rise Kujikawa! Who will be your second judge?" Rise seemed confused for a moment before she glanced at the young detective and her cousin smugly.
"Well not you two, obviously. Think of this as payback! My second judge will be Souji-senpai so he can enjoy this two!" Naoto glared at her in defeat as she turned to watch Souji approach her and everyone's gaze fell questioningly towards them. "When we went to get these two they jumped up out of nowhere and started shooting us with water pistols."
"Damn it..." She mumbled as her friend told everyone.
"Well, now that that's been decided, the only way to leave her will be to win the competition and defeat me! So everyone backstage! May the best voice win!" Damn it all...
With that the team passed through a doorway towards the room with 'backstage' written on star at the end of the corridor.
"Uh... Minato? Where are you?" Naoto glanced around at pure blackness before her gaze met a figure in the distance. "Minato!" She swiftly ran towards who she hoped was her cousin.
"Naoto?" The figure turned around to face her. To her relief it was him!
"Minato! Where are we?" He quickly hugged her worriedly as he replied;
"I have know idea. We just went through that last door and ended up here right? So where's everyone else?" He questioned as they parted.
"I'm not sure. I can only see you and me here."
"This isn't good. Come on lets go find them." With that the two of them wondered in a random direction calling the names of their team as they went...
"Senpai!" Rise clung to Souji as they wandered into the corridor to find themselves utterly alone. "Where did everyone go?" He shook his head as he gazed down at her.
"Was it a goo idea to choose me?"
"Yeah. Now we can watch those two idiots get all embarrassed! Perfect revenge! Right?"
"Er... yeah, I suppose so but you've just sent the only two Persona users away from us."
"Oh... Yeah. Well let's just hope they're with the others, I guess."
"Welcome! One and all to the Battle of Voices Competition! Please stick to the given pathways to each of the stages! Don't worry! No difficult shadows await!" Souji readied his sword as the two of them exchanged a nod before following an orange pathway.
"Who do thinks going to be first?" The idols uneasy tone caused the other teen to gaze curiously at the door double door ahead. The door had a guitar logo imprinted in its centre with small black music notes. Its orange design gave little hints to who it might be.
"Hmm. I don't know." Upon closer inspection he noticed a familiar logo on the side of the guitar logo. "Junes? It must be Yosuke!"
"Welcome to our first performance! Please take a seat as we welcome our first contestant to the stage!" The two of them glanced at each other as they entered to hear the voice. The obeyed quietly sitting at the front row of a Junes themed room.
Suddenly, music flooded their senses as the double's voice rang out through the room.
"Please welcome to the stage, our hero from Junes, Yosuke Hanamura!" The spotlight on the stage landed on Yosuke as his name was spoken. He wore a white jacket and trousers, with a red scarf and black, leather, fingerless gloves as well us old fashioned airplane goggles resting other his eyes. "He will be singing Superhero by Len Kagamine! Best of luck!"
"It started at a very tender young age
I had dreams of only men in red capes
Cities filled with wild an crazy bad guys
Begs for help from oh so needed hero"
His singing wasn't great... At all... He moved in perfect time with the music as he imitated classic superheros whilst singing.
"Leave it to me because
I'm a SUPER HERO!
Every lawbreaker is answering to me"
How long is this song? Rise liked the song a few years ago but now she couldn't stand hearing it! She got bored of it years ago!
"I can only come up with one theory
That the real evil isn't starting up from the streets
... It's from the government!"
After those words completely shadowed out people appeared around the 'superhero' before launching forwards to arrest him. His performance went on to show them arresting him before the scene changed to a prison.
"I know I'm not the one that's going crazy
Justice never sleeps, it's never lazy
And again a hero will be rising
To reclaim this rotten world from its sin"
After those words the music faded away, marking the end of the song.
"And that's it for our Superhero! Marks out of ten please judges!" The two of them glanced at each others before deciding on giving a five at a minimum for everyone so that no one ultimately failed.
"Five." Rise called before Yosuke nodded and swiftly left the stage in poof of silver smoke. After a few moments the stage collapsed revealing a red doorway behind it.
"Well that was weird..." Rise commented as they strolled down the corridor, with Souji skilfully defeating any shadows that appeared with his katana.
"Yeah. I agree. Maybe if they get eliminated they join us. If they do then we should consider doing that later."
"Yeah but what if they don't?"
"Well we can always try. Right? Anyway, there's the next door." The red door had an elegant golden pattern etched into it with a pink bird logo at its centre. They knew who this would be the moment they entered the room. Yukiko.
"Our next performance will our black haired witch, Yukiko Amagi!"
"Witch?" The idol's gaze met the wooden cross on the stage as she noticed who was bound to it. "Yukiko-senpai!"
"She will be singing Witch Hunter by Megurine Luka! Good luck!" A that stupid voice spoke the music began and Yukiko began her song.
"Eight." Rise called as she finished her performance – which was only her singing as she couldn't move from the cross with fire igniting around her at the choruses – before Yukiko left the stage once she was freed by an unknown force.
"Well at least Yukiko was a better singer..."
The next performer was Teddie who was ridiculously terrible that they gave him nothing for his score.
"Yay!" Teddie cried as he leapt forwards of the stage in his stupid bear costume. He had sang Radio Candy by Rin and Len Kagamine and had completely butchered it!
"I agree with you our judges here! That was terrible! Anyway! Teddie will be joining you as a result of his terrible screeching! I think our next contestant will be joining you to by the way! He'll be the last by the way!"
The next performance was Kanji's... He sang Chilledren by Len Kagamine. His singing was almost as bad as Teddies! Almost...
"Hells yeah, senpai! I found ya!" He cried as he leapt of the stage to stand by them.
"What do you mean you found us?" Rise questioned curiously.
"What do ya' mean, 'what do ya' mean?' The second we walked through that door we were separated! Then I couldn't see anythin' 'til now!" Why does he always shout?
"You couldn't see?" Souji stared at him questioningly.
"Er yeah. I couldn't see shit."
"Right. That's probably what happened to the others too. Come on lets go!"
Who was left? So they'd seen Yosuke, Yukiko, Teddie and Kanji, which must mean the next performance must be Chie, Minato or Naoto.
"Who do thinks next? Chie-senpai, Minato-kun or Naoto-kun?" The others turned to Rise as she spoke.
"I hope its sensei's! I don't know how many more shadows I can take!" Teddie was hiding behind Kanji, hardly helping at all...
"Come on! The doors just there!"
The next performance was Chie's. She was dancing around the stage in time with the music singing Aria on the Game Centre by Hatsune Miku. The steak loving girl was nowhere near how bad Teddie and Kanji had been! But she disappeared with a score of six.
"Minato? Do you think were going to go on stage now? We've heard everyone else, so why are we still here?" Naoto asked her cousin thoughtfully.
"I'm not sure... Maybe we are on stage. Maybe this is just a dream and we're going to wake up on stage soon..." Minato put on a creepy voice as he spoke in an attempt to scare her.
"W-well, either way we can only wait to find out. Let's try going that way."
"Your adventure log has vanished!"
"Please welcome to the stage, The Prince and Princess of Inaba! Naoto Shirogane and Minato Arisato!" A duet? As there names were called the two cousins rushed forwards onto the stage. Naoto wore her usual clothes along with a red cape with thick white fur lining it, a golden crown replaced her usual cap and she held a golden sceptre with a lilac gemstone at its peak. Minato wore metal plates strapped other his clothes and held a broadsword in one hand.
"Trudging ahead, fighting monsters up to no good,
I'm pretty strong, so everyone says I'm" Minato twirled his sword in his hand.
"So good!" Someone backstage piped up.
"I'm the most hero-ish person in the world!"
"Yeah! Yeah!" He slashed at a jelly monster thing in front of them
"Not exactly hard, right?"
"Stop fidgeting about,
You darn gels!" Naoto twirled her sceptre idly with one hand as she skipped around on the spot.
"Myself, I can at least
Use magic on you!
Come now,
I'll punish you by flames!" She moved to beat as the 'gel' she 'fought' burst into flames as her sceptre tapped the floor.
Skipping around they danced to the music with Naoto being the stupid idiot and Minato being the smart guy of the act. Eventually all went black as the two of them froze. The song continues and the scene changes to a prison.
"Far from being easy, our adventure
Looks to need some special effort...
Wake up one morning,
And we're in prison..."
"Pri! Son!"
"What happened?!" Minato turned to Naoto who now had her back pressed against the wall, grinning excitedly.
"Got caught by the enemy, it seems,
Fell for some kind of trap, it seems.
Getting out of here will be
Tough to the extreme!"
"Yah! Yah!"
"So whats the plan?" As she poke she stood and turned so her back faced him as she clung to her sceptre excitedly.
"Tell me, your majesty
Could it be...
Are you enjoying all this tremendously?
I'm seriously jealous if you can get excited at a time like this..." Minato stared in annoyance at her as she started singing again.
"Hell yeah, of course!
It gets me pumped!
Lights a fuse in me awright!
KING OF ROCK!" She yelled those last words as she spun round to punch her empty hand into the air in excitement. The song continued with Naoto summoning, lightning, water, ice and fire around the stage whilst Minato swiped at 'gels'. Finally the song came to an end with the two of them bowing in the centre of the stage.
They were much better then the other performances! Their voices matched each others even though they didn't really work with the song. They stood hand in hand awaiting their score in anticipation.
"Er... um... nine? Maybe... ten? I don't know... One of the two." They grinned at Rise's words before they turned and left.
"Okay everyone! Lets bring our lucky contestants back on stage for a round of applause!" With that everyone entered the stage in their costumes that related with their song before they each took a bow. "And the winner is..." A drum role echoed in the background.
"The Prince and Princess of Inaba! Naoto Shirogane and Minato Arisato! Take a bow you two!" The obeyed silently as they stepped forwards to the front of the stage. "Now... Prepare for battle!" In an instant the stage exploded throughout the room sending almost all who stood there flying across the room!
"What the hell?!" Kanji cried out as the smoke cleared to reveal the others scrambling to their feet! Almost all of that is...
"Sensei's!"
"Hold on Naoto!" Naoto clung to her cousin as a blast threatened to separate them for good! "What the...?!" Her eyes squeezed shut as a blinding white light enveloped the two of them as they clung defensively to each other.
"Congratulations! You won! Now you get to fight me! Isn't that great?!" Rise's voice echoed through the area as the scene before them morphed into something like club escapade combined with the Marukyu Strip Tease dungeon!
Naoto's eyes widened as a shadow stood before them. It was much like what Souji had described with the colours and the satellite dish head thing, along with Rise's pigtails but it held a huge microphone in its hands. The Shadow wore a strange pink dress that would probably have looked better on a four year old child and wore a katana charm round its neck. This was weird...
"Is that...? Is this what it was like before?" Minato glanced down at Naoto who had moved slightly away from him in confusion.
"No. Its similar but no. Come, Sikuna-Hikona!" Her focused expression seemed to bring her cousin back to his senses as he summoned his own persona.
"Orpheus! Agidyne!"
"Agidyne!" The double Agidyne attack knocked the shadow backwards a few steps but it instantly started dancing around them again.
"Mabufudyne!" It called as it knocked Minato over. She helped him back to his feet as she had successfully avoided the attack.
"Apsarus!" He yelled as he changed Persona's. "Bufudyne!"
"Ziodyne!" The dual attack along with gunshots struck the shadow as it flung its microphone around in a low sweep to take them down! "Shield of Justice!" She cried as she leapt in front of her cousin to block the attack! It slammed into her, sending her hurtling backwards and past Minato!
"Pixie! Media!"
"Thank you." She mumbled as she scrambled to her feet again and rushed back to his side.
"Now's the time..." Grinning she moved her hand on instinct as a new card fell before her. Her eyes flashed silver as she broke the card.
"I am Phoenix. In my power, I have come to serve."
"Phoenix! Garudyne!" A majestic orange bird materialized behind her as it launched a powerful wind attack, knocking the shadow into a wall! "Unicorn! Ziodyne!" As the bird disappeared a silver unicorn took its place before launching another powerful attack on the already stunned opponent!
"Jack Frost! Bufudyne!" Minato called forth a cute little Persona that used another powerful ice spell!
"Impossible..." The Shadow struggled to its feet before launching Maragidyne towards the two of them!
"Sukukaja!" The two of them evaded the attack just in time before attempting another attack!
"Orpheus!"
"Ziodyne!"
"Agidyne!" Their attacks impacted the shadow at the exact same time finally destroying it!
"DAMN IT!" It screeched as they repeated the spells! "RISE KUJIKAWA!" The shadows original appeared before them before the shadow snatched her with a shaky hand!
"Rise-san!" Naoto ceased her attack along with Minato as the idol screeched in surprise!
"Naoto-kun! What is this thing?!"
"Its your shadow!" Minato called to her before the two of them were struck by another ice attack!
"Phoenix! Garudyne!" The shadow evaded the attack before throwing its microphone at the young detective.
"Damn!" She had barely dodged it before yelling "Shiisaa! Ziodyne!" A small Lion-like Persona fire another strong spell at the opponent as it once again dodged the attack...
"Damn it! What happened?" Yosuke was starring around in confusion as he stood up from the rubble of what was apparently a stage.
"Well, since this was a competition, I think its only fair that the audience gets to watch the big battle! So here! Sit back and watch your friends fight for their lives!" Everyone froze as a giant flat screen TV appeared in front of them showing both Naoto and Minato with their Persona's fighting a huge shadowy creature.
"Holey shit! That things huge!" Kanji's stunned voice wasn't enough to draw the attention away from the detective.
"No way..."Chie stared at the screen, utterly dumbstruck.
"Phoenix! Garudyne!"
"Wow! Sensei's as strong as Souji-kun!" Teddie's excited voice went unnoticed as they the battle raged on between the two Persona users and the giant shadow...
"Dekaja!" Minato nullified the enemy's stat bonuses in an attempt to actually hit it again. "Agidyne!" It hit!
"Ziodyne!" Another hit!
"Argh! Naoto-kun! Help!" Rise cried out to her as she struggled in the shadows grip!
"Ha ha ha! The more you attack me, the more you hurt your friend!" The shadow sneered at them as they ceased attacking. Naoto stared up at Rise in an agitated way.
"Forget it Naoto-kun! Just take this thing down already!" The two blue haired teens looked at each other with a knowing look before they moved to opposite sides of the shadow.
"Ziodyne!" The lion Persona's attack hit the shadow squarely on that weird satellite dish head!
"Pixie! Dia!" Minato healed Rise before launching another fire attack at the enemy! Finally the damn shadow collapsed to the ground releasing Rise as it dissolved into black ooze...
"Himiko!" The idol cried as her Persona rose out of the sludge before returning to her heart. Suddenly the she fell to the ground as all the strength she had left her in an instant.
"Rise-san!" Naoto rushed other to help her with Minato close behind. She was close to collapsing herself as the sudden flood of power threatened to knock her unconscious!
"Naoto!" Her cousin quickly knocked her over to prevent her from getting to close to her friend. "Stop! You'll only hurt yourself doing that!" He was probably right... Oh well... She struggled to her feet before falling forwards from the still raging power flowing through her body. Luckily for her, he was there to catch her before slowly lowering her to the ground. She smiled as Rise sat on the floor gazing worriedly at her.
"I'm fine."
"Know your not. I went through this to! It knocked me out cold! All I know is that if you didn't have the ability and suddenly gained it then you could potentially do the same!" He shifted so that Naoto was comfortably leaning on him. "So calm down okay?" She blinked at him blankly before turning to Rise.
"Are you okay, Rise-san?"
"Yeah. I'm fine. Don't worry about me! Minato-kun is quite a healer!"
"That's... good..." she cringed as another wave of power slammed into her mind. She gritted her teeth behind her lips as it raged through her. However much she tried she couldn't prevent herself from blacking out as the next wave hit... Damn it...
Authors Note!
I warned you! Anyway! That last part about knocking Naoto out... Well I'm stupid so if that wouldn't have happened don't blame me cause I remember what happened with Minato but my game glitched in P4 because of my dog stealing the console and I ended up missing what actually happened to him. So I made some of it up. Sorry. Okay so if you're wondering then the songs are real and are actually Japanese. I put the English lyrics in so I could test my translating skills but I f you want there names then here they are!
Yosuke's song –
Superhero by Len Kagamine
Yukiko's song –
Witch Hunt by Megurine Luka
Teddie's song –
Radio Candy by Rin and Len Kagamine
Kanji's song –
Chilledren by Len Kagamine
Chie's song (Don't ask why I chose this one) –
Aria on the Game Center by Hatsune Miku
Minato & Naoto's song –
Your Adventure Log Has Vanished by Rin and Len Kagamine
Please Read & Review! I still love hearing from you all but please expect less music stuff like this... lol I might do Kanji next cause I think that ideas better then this one! :D :D :D :D :D I PROMISE THAT YOU WILL LIKE AT LEAST ONE OF THESE THEMES! If you can even guess what they are though, you will blow my mind to Mars and back! Lol :D :D
PS.
NO! I better not get arrested for the government comment! It is LITERALLY the lyrics to the ORIGINAL song! :D