Disclaimer: Fate and Persona are owned by different companies and I hold no ownership and all that jazz.
6/28
"When do you plan to send the calling card?"
Akira shrugged, "Probably on the First, give everyone a few days of rest."
Morgana poked his head out of the bag, "Akirrraaaa let's go home."
Hakuno smiled as she reached into her bag, "Morgana… do you eat cat treats?"
Morgana looked offended, "I am NOT! A! CAT!"
Hakuno shrugged as she handed him a small cat treat, "I know… but you are in the body of one right now… Just try it…"
Morgana grumbled but couldn't resist, "This… is delicious!" A look of pure awe was on his face.
6/29
Hakuno bit into a sandwich as she looked ahead of her.
A hallway of Pressure Plates.
Picking up and tossing a rock onto the plate, spikes pierced where she would have been.
Hakuno was just lucky she had a lot of rocks…
Hakuno was able to solve the strange puzzle involving multiple colored sarcophaguses; she felt glad until the Palace began to shake once more.
"MONSTER! YOU ARE EVIL WHY DID I EVEN LET YOU IN!?"
Shadows sprung from each open lid. Hakuno gulped as she stared down a dozen angry Shadows.
Black and Blue flames covered the area before they even transformed, most of them had fused into a large Skull with a snake slithering around it.
"Avenger!" Terror Claw met Negative Pile as Avenger was thrown back.
Cursed flames covered the now shrieking Snake and Skull; hearing a skull shriek was absolutely terrifying to her.
Pulling out her Pulse Gun she fired a few rounds that it just ignored. A voodoo doll appeared in front of Hakuno as stakes impaled it. Hakuno felt something break inside of her Regalia.
"Hack!" Digital Energy removed a chunk of the skull as it got mad…. And it taunted her.
TAUNT HER!? Pulling out her staff Hakuno dashed forward the staff making a satisfying crunch sound as it shattered, the oil that was inside her fire-staff now coating the skull.
Black and Blue flames covered her hands as she grabbed the sku-
Hakuno froze as she tried to jump back, the snake smirked as its fangs dug deep into her arm.
"A-AVENGER!" Black and Blue flames covered the skull as it clacked maniacally, the damage she had done to it repaired in the blink of an eye.
Blue lines twisted down her arms, "FLAMES OF LOVE AND HATE!" Spheres of pure mana slammed into the Skull, shattering it; the snake fell to the ground as she threw random bombs that Akira had made as it began to turn to dust.
Hakuno sighed… she could hear the muttering of a Will Seed door… At least inside it I can take a break…
"Mom… What do you mean I can't head to Kana's house?"
"Just… trust me dear, it's for your own good."
"Is it about what she wrote in her diary?" Futaba quickly covered her mouth.
"...What did she write?" Wakaba loomed over Futaba.
Futaba rapidly shook her head as she darted out of the room. Wakaba's expression was one of horror and deep sadness…
Hakuno begrudgingly picked up the second Will Seed. "Two down, one to go…" Futaba's Shadow whispered into her ear.
Hakuno stood in front of a second mural.
Taking only a bit of time she managed to fix the picture… It was of Wakaba jumping into the road with a black car hitting her. Futaba was sitting prone in shock.
Wakaba wouldn't do that to Futaba..
Was it Futaba's desire to forget about what happened that birthed her Palace? To forget her mother's death?
Hakuno heard from Futaba that she 'committed suicide' in front of Futaba but she knew Wakaba. She wasn't like that right?
Hakuno believed she didn't… Hakuno memorized the picture before it faded… She could faintly see something black appear around Wakaba's eyes… Hakuno just knew that …
…
Wait…
Two years ago…
Did Wakaba have a Mental Shutdown?
6/30
Hakuno sighed Two Will Seeds, Two Strange Memories… Futaba's Shadow constantly implying that Futaba needs to face the truth.
Makoto and Ryuji had both apparently gone off to get the Calling Card ready… The combination of the two was confusing but Hakuno believed between the two of them they could do it.
Hakuno felt like she needed to clear her head so after she purchased a new Fire-Staff … and a few smoke bombs for future use from Iwai, her bank account was a lot lighter then she would have liked… Maybe she should get a part time job? Pushing that aside for the time being… she decided to head to Inokashira park… away from all the typical noise of Tokyo…
She did see Yusuke and Akira on a canoe from a distance.
Morgana had found her and curled next to her as she sat down on a bench and took a small break.
Sir Junya Kaneshiro, the money-devouring sinner of gluttony. You indulge in scamming others with horrendous methods that target minors exclusively. We have decided to make you confess all your crimes with your own mouth. We will take your distorted desires without fail.
From The Phantom Thieves of Hearts.
7/1
Morgana, Ryuji and Avenger had spread the Calling Card far and wide. The entirety of Shibuya had for sure heard about the Phantom Thieves planned theft… and many will be finding the calling cards on their roofs for weeks to come… Though apparently Ryuji had lost their old reliable wig.
It will be missed.
The Palace was in full swing, if they weren't able to teleport from places of relative safety then for absolute certainty the party would never have made it back to the final vault.
A huge safe stood where the Treasure originally was… with Shadow Kaneshiro and several bodyguards...
"This… can be a problem."
"Is that… Kaneshiro?"
"So he was waitin' for us!"
"He changed this place so quickly… I guess this Palace isn't a bank for nothing."
"Greetings. Welcome to my private city bank," His yellow eyes swept over the group, "You've brought me some fine valuables. I am surprised you made it here alive, your group is so lucky."
"Lucky? Don't be ridiculous. You're just sloppy."
"We're going to take your treasure and change your heart. That'll save all those people who are suffering 'cause of your shitty actions. Even the Police will have to respect us for one-upping them!"
"Oh? Is that true? Those in power work the ones below them to the bone. Such is the natural order of the world. Just accept your fate as a tiny piece of my wealth."
"We would never accept a life like that!"
"Natural Order? You have got to be out of your mind!"
"I had to dig-"
Black and Blue flames was the signal that Avenger had come forward, "I think we let him start his trap long enough?" Hakuno said as Kaneshiro had something in his hands that he was messing with as the group was talking.
A wicked smile crossed his face, "So at least one of you is observant."
"BUT YOU ARE TO LATE!" Black sludge began to leak out of him as Kaneshiro began twitching as insect-like wings sprouted from his back, his yellow eyes became red and compound. He rubbed his hands together as the Bank Door began to open. His lackeys began to scream as they fled.
"You filthy fly on dirty money.. GET THE HELL OUT OF MY FACE!"
The bank door fully opened as Queen rode in nuclear energy sparking off of Johanna that Kane- Bael.
Pure rage sprung forth as the fly slipped past Avenger's claws.
"Ah ah ah! No touching~!" The now fly quickly flew into the now completely open vault, a large silver metallic pigman stood. The Pigman had two stubby legs and a large ocean of cash feeding into it from the back. It had two arms; one held a large silver ax while the other ended in a large Tommy Gun.
"Now it's time to show you my Ultimate Guardian Robot! My Piggietron Mk.2!"
The eyes of the thing held what might have be-
"Oink!" Beams of light shot out of the eyes, cursed magic flowed through her as Avenger countered with "Eiga!" Cursed tendrils and spears of light clashed as rockets rained down from the Gun.
"Magus! Defensive item!"
Finding the appropriate item in the Regalia Hakuno threw the Kongou Ofuda. The mystic talisman floated and flew towards each member, purple light springing forth onto them.
Avenger's cursed flames covered the head of the 'Piggytron' as the ax came down onto the front lines, Skull and Fox using their weapons to heave the blade back.
Rockets were fired "Seiten Taisei!" The Monkey King appeared, his staff slamming into the rockets as lightning danced with a Swift Strike.
"Carmen!" Red flames splashed onto the eyes of the Piggytron stopping another volley of lasers.
"Avenger!" Hakuno's Servant sprung forth as cursed magic slammed into the Tommy Gun's Mag. The pigman swung down the gun slamming Avenger to the ground.
"Feel my rage!" Nuclear fire rained down onto the machine as Queen revved her Persona as she dashed around the legs.
"Oink!" The left leg quickly retreated into the main body then slammed down onto the ground sending a shockwave forcing Queen to jump off of Johanna and slam her fist into its side.
"Fox speed us up!"
"Let's go!" Green light bounced from one Thief to the next.
The ax came down shockingly fast sending out a shockwave knocking Hakuno back several feet. "Queen to me!"
"Shou Shen!" An old man appeared behind Joker as mist covered both himself and Queen, the two of them then dashed towards Piggytron.
"Goemon Strike!" The Japanese outlaw brought forth a wave of blue frost that covered the area, spikes of ice slammed into the bottom of Piggytron.
The eye lasers focused onto the misty clones and pierced them with no resistance, "HA! You pesky thieves are no Match for PiggyTron!"
"Gotcha now!" Hakuno looked up as she saw Joker and Queen above them, Joker's grappling hook was embedded into the ceiling. Queen jumped from Joker as Johanna appeared as she rode it into Piggytron forcing it to take a step back.
"Grrrrr! Yeh goddamn punks...!" The flow of yen increased as the damage was slowly repaired.
"Panther burn the money!"
"Carmen!" Dozens of flares came forward and flew towards the current of money.
"As if I would let you!" A large fly carrying twin shields emerged from inside the Money blocking the waves of flames.
Blades of Wind slashed into the shield wielding fly as it chuckled.
"As long as I got money! My Guards are immortal!"
"Magus! Focus down that fly!"
"Avenger!" Hakuno ran behind the Piggytron as Avenger sprung forward Cursed Claws stabbing into the Bodyguard attack doing next to nothing.
Hakuno grit her teeth as Avenger was thrown into Panther's next volley of flames.
"Sorry Magus!"
"Attacks aren't working! Switch to Ailments!" Mona had used the dual shields as a springboard to get beside Hakuno.
"Evil Smile!" Avenger's Smile terrified the Bodyguard who looked around frantically before diving deep into the current of money.
"Passing the Baton!" The Metaverse pulsed lightly as Hakuno high-fived Panther as she brought forth a singular large flame, the cash caught flame as Piggytron was disconnected.
"Gah! Dammit!" Piggytron stumbled due to the current of money no longer constantly 'funding it'.
"Piggytron! SUPER VIP MODE!" The legs had retreated into its body as the tommy gun was discarded. With now two hands gripping the ax the circular pig began to spin at ridiculous speeds with its ax out.
"Weaken it Panther!"
"Right!" Tarunda came forward from her Persona as the blade spun faster. Hakuno's entire body stiffened.
"Avenger Stop It!"
Blue lines spread across her body, a faint haze came out of the pores of her skin as Avenger's cursed claws stabbed into the spinning pig.
"Scatter!"
The pig moved then a boom was heard as the air rippled.
Avenger flew back, gouges in the bank's floor showed just how far back the Servant was pushed he was being ground down attempting to slow the Pig now moving faster than sound itself.
Gritting her teeth Hakuno debated on using a Command Seal… She only had three and didn't know what would happen without them.
Hakuno felt the world ripple as Queen shouted, "Skull to me! Let's go!" Skull got a wicked grin.
"Oh shit you're serious!?"
"Can't let the youngest of us take it head on by herself!"
The texture was overridden, the world stalled as a desert appeared, a large wanted board appeared showing Queen Skull as fugitives…. The two stood back to back "Let's rock Fist of the Phant-" Queen elbowed him as he stopped.
"That's not my name!" Skull lifted his mace as he launched Queen high in the sky. Skull smirked as he slammed his mace into Piggytron as Queen smashed down onto Piggytron with an earth shattering blow.
A large crack appeared on the Silver Pig.
"Wa- MY PIGGYTRON!" Shadow Kaneshiro flew out of the crack as he began to inspect the damage.
Hakuno removed a small stone from the Regalia as she bit into it, the cooling effect of a Life Stone giving her strength.
"Y-YOU BASTARDS! That's it! I'll just deal with you busters myself- through the power of cash!" As hordes of flies came from the inner bank, from where the money was feeding Piggytron…
Each fly was only the size of a baseball but there were thousands of them, all wielding different weapons.
Hakuno felt her reserves were low… Gritting her teeth she still needed to fight…
"Flames of Love and Hate!" Avenger sprung forward faster than the rest of the thieves could get ready, spheres of Almighty magic cut down the waves of insects but more kept coming!
"Destroy these Thieves! Gold, Money all belong to me!" Gold began raining down on the group of thieves as the flies swarmed them...
"The one time I get to see raining money it just has to be in the Metaverse!?" Joker was dodging each of the overly large coins as he quickly switched from Persona to Persona.
Fire, Ice, Nuclear, Lightning, Wind, and Curse magic flew into the coming horde as the Thieves fought off the waves of flies.… The combined elemental wave crashed into the flies… as most of them stopped?
The flies stopped?
Avenger was still mowing down the ones that kept coming but… around a third of them just left?
"Contract Null and Void due to lack of funds!" A particularly larger one stated as the rest began to flee.
"Wait! I can get you the money! Piggytron has to have some left!?" Kaneshiro flew back into Piggytron that was starting to make… distressing sounds…
"GET AWAY FROM THE PIG!" Explosions rocked from within the pig as the arms and legs broke off as dozens of gold bars of all shapes and sizes fell from the now open nose along with Kaneshiro…
Kaneshiro's wings and eyes were gone as he appeared to be the normal Purple Shadow.
"Kaneshiro…" Queen stepped forward, her fists clenched.
"I'm not gonna let anyone have it… this is my money…"
"You stole it all from innocent people!"
"Fine.. I'll call off the debt."
"Fine!? You're still soundin' pretty condescendin'." Skull lazily held his mace as he looked down on the fly.
"You're right… I'm a poor… ugly idiot. Regular people can't live a normal life! It's all because of our society! Weak people can't do anything no matter what they do! I'm a victim too, you know!?"
"The more you talk, the more pathetic you sound." Venom dripped from each word Fox spoke.
"Just because you got a bad hand didn't mean you had to resort to this." Joker opened his arms as he motioned towards the entire bank, "Anyone can turn a new leaf."
"All you did was surround yourself with people you could use! All for some easy money!"
"Don't worry, you will finally find your place to belong. In Prison, a place where you can make amends for the rest of your life."
"Easy… Money eh?" Kaneshiro turned to face them as he sat on one of the bars, "Seriously? You guys don't have any tact… Especially with that incredible power. Where do you find meaning in that naïve sense of justice?"
"The Phantom Thieves exist… to help people down on their luck, to right wrongs that others can not." Hakuno stated…
"You know, there's someone out there taking full advantage of these Palaces out there, they don't care about the consequences. Psychotic Breakdowns, Mental Shutdowns, anything goes for them. Anything goes for them."
"Spill it, who are you talking about!?"
Avenger's claws raked over the smallest gold bars as it melted.
"Whoa whoa easy there kitten. Just think of it as… a friendly warning, better be careful… a chance encounter with them could prove fatal." Kaneshiro turned to golden dust as he spoke the last words…
The world began to shake, "We can think about that later! Grab the Treasure There's no time!"
…
Why was Morgana kissing the gold bars?
"In that case we should take the large one!"
"Mrrrowwww~ Treasure~"
"What… is he doing?"
"This is soooooooooo coooooooooooool! Wowweeeee being a human is great!" Stars were in his eyes as he rubbed himself up against the pile of gold… "It's…. IT'S SHINY SHINY GOLD!"
Joker walked over to his roommate and tossed Mona behind him.
He landed on Panther's face.
"Why is a comedy skit happening?"
"You're seeing this as well?" Queen asked as Panther was trying to dislodge their navigator from her face.
"!? L-Leff ho off meee!" Hakuno grabbed Mona who was still enraptured by the aura of the treasure… At least Hakuno hoped that's why he was acting like this…
"Mona… We don't have time for this."
Hakuno dropped Mona onto the ground as he complained, "Hey! Be gentle with me Dammit!"
"Enough already grab as much as you can!"
"Mona transform already!" Skull, Fox and Joker were already picking up the larger bars, while Hakuno sighed and got in.
It was a tight fit… and they had to leave around half of the gold behind…
Hopefully it's enough?
"Hey wait… There isn't a road!?" Mona shouted as they jumped from the top of Big Bang Burger.
Hakuno's mind was fuzzy. She was incredibly exhausted…
Her body ached, the group was a mess of tangled limbs on the ground with a sad pitiful meowing cat next to them.
Unlucky for Hakuno, she was on the bottom of the pile…
"Oww…" Hakuno felt the limbs retract as the group began to get up. Hakuno pushed her body up with Akira lending her his arm.
"Guys…" They were in the alley near where they came in… Some people were staring at them from Central Street?
"Guys… I think I cracked my ass." Ryuji muttered.
"Ann, are you all right?! Is yours cracked as well?"
"Yusuke…"
"Of course not!"
"Isn't it supposed to be though?"
"Hey… are you alright?" Akira asked…
"Hmm? Yeah… Just really tired…" Hakuno might have pushed it a bit too hard…
"Ack! Everyone's staring at us!"
Ann picked up Morgana while Ryuji held a golden briefcase…
"Where are we going to open it?" Makoto asked as he looked over the briefcase, the Treasure…
"I got the perfect place!" Ryuji smiled wide.
"Leblanc?"
"I was just in the mood for some coffee too…
"I think… I'm going to go home." Hakuno said with a yawn, "Really tired… Tell me how it goes." Hakuno said as she began her journey home…
Author's Note: Sleepy Hakuno. Way over did herself this past week… Also side note, apparently Smoke Grenades are used in Airsoft… Kind of weird how they didn't make it an item you can just buy from him… and everything i've found shows that they are legal to buy… The reason Hakuno is kind of flying through Futaba's Palace is due to a few reasons.
She didn't have to go underground or to the town, Futaba's Shadow is giving her hints to the puzzles... And hiding and running around as one person is easier than as a whole group of people. Also… Cognitive stuff.
And smoke bombs, lots and lots of smoke bombs.
Bank of Gluttony defeated! The last part of the boss fight against bug eyes was always a bit funny to me that they would ditch him after he used the gold rain.