Minato chuckled nervously. Something about the people at the door told him that this party wasn't going to end well at all. "Ah… hi?" he waved, finding that the hoods weren't responding.
"Hey! It's those fucking ass-ass-ins!" Kanashi pointed out. "They're dressed the exact same as those douches that attacked me!" he growled, smashing his fist against his open palm in frustration.
"So they are," Yashiro's eyes widened slightly, but he relaxed himself and started hopping lightly on his feet. He rolled his shoulders and cracked his neck and knuckles. He knew that whatever was going to happen next was going to be messy, and the dorm was probably going to be filled with a few unconscious bodies. "So, what're we gonna do?" he smiled a little.
"Um, well before we try to kick their asses to kingdom come, can we get the civilians out of here?" Minato said, although he was almost suggesting instead of demanding. However his tone took a 180 when he finally got into the mood of it all and he commanded, "We're going to have a lot of explaining to do later if we get out of this alive. Well, I think we will, so let's just get them to the top floors."
"That's the Minato we know and love!" Junpei grinned, slapping him on the back.
Minato merely scoffed at that. Sure he did. Sure he did.
"We'll move them. I trust that you will be able to take care of this, Minato?" Mitsuru said, taking charge of what was left of the situation. Minato nodded back and with that, the two seniors proceeded to try and calm the rest of Minato's friends down while taking them to the upper floors.
"Thanks senpai," Minato said absentmindedly as he eyed the enemies before him. They weren't Shadows, but he had his fair share of dealing with people as well from the past STREGA.
"Wait, Minato!" Minato turned around to the voice, finding Kenji.
"What's up?" he asked.
"This!" he cried, a black circular thing with a handle flying towards one of the cronies' heads and knocking him unconscious. Ah, the classic frying pan. Kenji smiled nervously before giving the bluenette double thumbs up and running for his life up the stairs.
"Well, I think he just sounded the war cry," Minato mused aloud. "Nyx, you aren't going to go up?" he asked, looking back at the goddess. She seemed to be all too nonchalant about the situation and was smirking.
"I will be fine. It is not as if I cannot defend myself," Nyx scoffed, sitting down on a folding chair.
Minato clicked his tongue in frustration before he shook his head. He should've known that she would be too stubborn to actually move. "Fine," he mumbled. "Guys, aren't we going to get them?"
"Oh," Minato said quietly to himself as Kanashi confronted a crony with a fist to the face. Apparently he was going in the direction of his motorcycle and he wasn't taking any chances with his motorcycle getting trashed.
"Yeah, we're going," Yashiro nodded, ignoring the sluggishness that was starting to fall on him. So, that was what he felt before when he went to knock the lights out of that henchman before. But somehow, he didn't feel all that much resistance this time.
However, Minato could sense what it was. Auto-Sukukaja.
He sighed before switching to Siegfried. Yashiro mightn't have known it, but his Persona powers were starting to work their magic on him, and he charged straight into the fray with punches at his side.
"Junpei, try not to burn the place down if you somehow summon your Persona," Minato sighed. "Ken we kinda don't have any weapons. Be careful if you're planning to stay around. Yukari, no bow, so you're on support. Koromaru… do what you can, you could probably chew a few of them to death. And Aigis…"
"Yes?" the android said as she looked up.
"Rip them apart," Minato said with a smirk before he slid into the skirmishes that were starting to break out. More hoods were starting to make their ways further into the lobby, but they were getting to be dealt with by the older members of SEES.
"Kanashi, Yashiro, how're you guys doing?" Minato said, knocking down one hood with a powered up haymaker. Siegfried's passive skill, Fist Master was giving his punches some extra power to dish out onto his enemies, and that was why it was pretty easy to knock everyone that he could punch unconscious.
"I'm okay," Yashiro said, easily dodging out of the way of an attack before he shoved a strong hook into the foe's temple, effectively putting him out of commission for a while.
"Hah, they aren't so tough!" Kanashi boasted as he felt some kind of power rushing through his veins. Auto-Tarukaja. "What the fuck are these punks? They're like pillows or something!" he chuckled, bashing his elbow into the back of one of the enemies.
Minato sighed. Well, it looked like some people were enjoying themselves at least. "Ain't nobody getting past the stairs! I'm a guardian goddammit!" Junpei yelled. Indeed, some people were enjoying themselves. Minato pondered whether Junpei felt like he was stuck in a video game or something. Somehow though, Minato felt something about that little thought to be… eerily true. Huh.
"Junpei-senpai, you aren't a guardian of Tartarus," Ken sighed as he stayed back with the baseball capped teen. He couldn't effectively fight without a spear of some kind, so he was kinda stuck. But he could make sure Junpei didn't get into trouble. "Junpei, there's someone coming," Ken pointed out.
"Raaaagh!" Junpei cried, before knocking the guy's lights out.
Yeah, not the most effective solution, but it worked.
Out of the corner of Minato's eye while he wasn't paying attention, he saw someone coming towards Nyx. Against his better judgement, he couldn't just leave her alone even if she was a goddess.
"Hmph," he heard Nyx scoff. Minato felt a sudden surge of SP, and his eyes widened at the amount. Oh shit. It felt like Night Queen. That was not going to end well.
"Wait!" Minato shouted, knocking the guy out with a strong haymaker.
"Minato?" Nyx said incredulously, gazing at him with an icy glare.
"We'll talk about this later," he growled before turning back and trying to concentrate on the scuffles at the front.
Aigis was like Minato said, ripping apart through the droves of enemies. Yukari was staying back, but that was kind of expected. Junpei was of course, guarding the stairs. Yashiro was taking down pretty much every hood that he could with his punches.
And Kanashi…
"I'm going to wreck your shit up so hard you won't even realize you had any to begin with, bitch!" Kanashi growled as he charged straight at the assassin behind the gang of enemies.
"Kanashi, what the hell are you doing?" Minato yelled as Kanashi tried to land a hit on the assassin that tried to off him before.
"Trying to get this guy, that's what!" he growled as the assassin tried to get away from Kanashi's blows.
"Kanashi! You can't be serious!" Minato gritted his teeth as Kanashi kept attempting to give the assassin a beating. However, it seemed that the sluggish sensation that Kanashi had felt before was still affecting him a little bit despite all his ferocity in trying to land a hit on the bastard. Not to mention, the assassin wasn't only just dodging him. He was trying to attack back too with his sharp razors.
"Oh you bet to hell that I'm serious about bringing this razor using bitch down!" Kanashi snarled. Minato growled. This was not going well. While the others were doing well on beating up the hoods that the assassin brought in, Kanashi was still stuck against the assassin at the back.
He looked around for anyone that could try and help Kanashi, and he found one other than himself. "Yashiro! We gotta help Kanashi!" he yelled, charging through the piles of unconscious men and women on the ground to try to get to Kanashi.
Yashiro nodded back and he practically flew over the unconscious hoods with his increased speed. The Auto-Sukukaja he had on neutralized the slowing effects that the assassin had cast around him, and he was able to deliver a haymaker to the assassin's face. "Kanashi, you can get him now!" he said as the assassin was momentarily stunned.
Kanashi looked to the capped boxer with a glare, but he just clicked his tongue in frustration. "Stay down!" he roared, kneeing the assassin straight into his gut, making him spit out some blood.
The assassin clutched his stomach, trying to ignore the pain that the kneeing from Kanashi gave him. He was pretty strong, when he wasn't slow. The assassin shook his head. This wasn't working. From his pocket, he took out a purple gem and smashed it on the ground, the mist engulfing him until he disappeared in a bright light.
"Dammit! He disappeared!" Kanashi growled. "I swear, I'm going to get that bastard someday… without your help!" he said, throwing a scrutinizing glance to Yashiro.
"Are you guys okay?" Minato asked, finally able to catch up with the two of them.
"I'm fine," Kanashi crossed his arms.
"I'm okay," Yashiro nodded.
"Good," Minato sighed, looking around the lobby. He wasn't quite sure how to get these guys out of here, and he wasn't very sure about how this could be explained to the guys upstairs. What a mess… physically and metaphorically. "Well, I guess I could ask Mitsuru about it…" he mumbled as he thought about how to get the hoods out of the dorm.
"I guess it's safe to come down now," Junpei said with a relieved tone.
Ken nodded and ran up the stairs to the upper floors, letting Mitsuru and Akihiko know that everything was alright downstairs and that it was safe to come out.
"Kanashi, were you that focused on trying to get revenge on that guy?" Yashiro sighed, glancing at the spot where the assassin disappeared. Also, another question, how the hell did he disappear like that?
"I was going to try and beat him to a bloody pulp!" Kanashi growled. "Maybe I should defect to the dark side so I can find that guy and give him that due beating…" he mumbled.
Minato, Yashiro stared at him blankly.
"HELL NO!"
"G-geez! I was just joking!" Kanashi said, putting his hands up in a surrender gesture.
AN: Sorry for updating later than usual, but Christmas takes a lot out of you, including making some present fics for friends dear. But you don't need to hear me get all sappy about it.
Also, the party crashers weren't party crashers, they were people coming to KI—
*cough* Plz box me yo thoughts, I'd appreciate it. Imma see ya guys later.
Eivexst: Ahahaha, they are party crashers, but… NOT party crashers. They're bad cronies.
She's been smiling because she knows who they are… ah, I think she'll be smart enough for that at least.
Yoshikunitsu: If you're here, then I guess so!
Really? …fuzzy memory.
They are assassin cronies come to capture/ki-
I dunno either, because Minato's not gonna get beaten that easily, considering what he's been through.
Ah, I see, thanks! Sure will.
Raidou: Indeed. And hai. I do.
Nights: It was going to happen.
Hahaha, don't you too. Don't you too…
For once.
Yeah, hope you like this chapter. I will.
Q/A SECTION
(Kanashi) Question 1: With which girl would you go out with? I mean date?
Kanashi: Nyx… Nah, rejected her already. But Mitsuru is a hottie!
(Nyx) Question 2: Would you help someone getting beaten up?
Nyx: It depends, does it not? But against my better judgement, if it was someone that I actually cared about, I suppose I would help. Or do you mean helping the person doing the beating up? In that case, I wouldn't do anything.