Hello beloved readers! Thank you for choosing to read my second fan fiction! Yes I know I'm still working on my other one but after years of working on writing, drawing, and other projects I've found that I work better if I have more than one thing to work on at a time( If I get stuck on one story I can just work on the other one). And I will still not have a scheduel because I hate scheduel's! So I will post at random(makes shy sorry face as I type this), right! This is my verson of Persona Q where the main character from Persona 3 is the girl version and will follow the Persona 3 side of the story(with a...few modifications), her name shall be Sakura Hitomi(I don't like the names that the other fanfic writers use so I shall use my own name for her), this came to me like all my storys(aka I don't have a clue why I come up with these things all I can tell you is I was reading Persona Fan Fictions at the time). Now let this new story begin.
Labyrinth 1: "The beginning"
I never thought that I would ever have an experiance like that one, then again I fight monsters called shadows in a hidden hour(the "dark hour" to be exact). Time to tell you our story, I guess! And by our story I mean the story of myself and another wild card as well as our friends.
September 20th, 2009
The entrance to Tatarus...
It was the dark hour and everyone was getting ready to go in..
"It's too bad it got canceled in the end. It would've really been something to look back on" this is Junpei Iori... My classmate, and a very cheerful companion. He's also become a close friend ever sense I transfered.
"C'mon, it's not that bad. There's always next year" Yukari Takeba... another calssmate and friend. She's a member of the archery team so I don't suggest you mess with her or you may get an arrow to the head haha! Just kidding she's really nice as long as your name isn't Junpei.
"It was too bad, but the typhoon left no other choice. It would've been awful if someone got hurt" Fuuka Yamagishi... A second-year but she's in a different class. She's our backup, her Persona's not really the battle type so she does it from the entrance to Tartarus.
"Since we can't assure the students' safety, we had to cancel. I feel bad as student council president..." Mitsuru Kirijo... A third-year, one of my Senpai, and the student council president.
"No one's blaming you, Mitsuru. It just shows that even we can't fight Mother Nature" Akihiko Sanada... Another of my Senpai and captain of the boxing team. He's popular with the girls(not me though, he's my Senpai and friend), but...
"Huh...? Where's that girl? I don't see her around..." Shinjiro Aragaki my last Senpai, he's currently taken leave though. Akihiko-Senpai's childhood friend.
"If you mean our leader, then she is over there. She mentioned going to acquire a new Persona" Aigis... A humanoid robot given the power to use a Persona. She transferred onto my class.
"At that Persona-summoning place only she can see, right?" Ken Amada... A fifth-grader with the power to summon a Persona. He lost his mom in an accident a few years ago.
"Man, that lucky skunk.Getting to change her Persona is cheating" Junpei can be kind of stupid sometimes(which is why Yukari calls him Stupei all the time), but he means well.
"I wonder what his new Persona will be like this time..." Ken can be cute when he's excited, though he'll be upset if I say so.
"Arf!" And our last member Koromaru... A shiba Inu who also has the power to summon Persona. His owner was killed in an accident. I just call him Koro-Chan.
"Koromaru says, "I want it to have big bazongas!"" Junpei the Idiot strikes again. Author beats Junpei with one of those large paper slapsticks(a large version of a paper fan)sending him flying, "Excuse my violence and interrupting but he deserved it" bows in apology.
"Like he'd say that. Are you stupid or something?" Yukari replied with a shake of her head.
"Yikes, she sounds even more pissed than usual..." Junpei looked at the ground one hand holding the rim of his baseball hat.
"It would seem Koromaru-San is worried about our leader. She was confined to her bed for two days, after all" Aigis translated, right...stupid typhoon giving me a stupid fever...
"Oh, I see. But she's probably fine. It seemed like her fever was going down" Junpei said reassuringly, "not that we can go anywhere in this typhoon anyway, so she coulda just stayed in bed 'til it passed."
"She said something was bothering her, so we came to Tartarus...but there's nothing really here either..." Yukari was right but I just wasn't able to get over the feeling that something was about to happen...
A bell starts to tole from some where
"Wh-what's that!?" Yukari exclaimed worriedly.
"Is that...a bell...?" Mitsuru-Senpai questioned.
"...It stopped" Akihiko-Senpai said after the bell stopped ringing.
"What was that...? Whatever it was, stay alert, just in case!" Mitsuru-Senpai warned.
"I'll have a look around with my Persona...Aah!" Fuuka yelled out as a spider... Yes a spider, ran past her foot.
"What's wrong, Fuuka!?" Akihiko-Senpai asked her.
"There was a spider by my feet..." Fuuka explained, "Huh...? Where'd it go?"
"A spider...?" Akihiko-Senpai questioned confused.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I guess it was my imagination. I'll use my Persona to check--" but as she was about to finish it went dark, "Huh?"
Meanwhile, in the Velvet Room...
Igor, master of the room, is nowhere to be seen. Elizabeth is sitting there, alone... Strange since I've never seen him not here.
"Welcome to the Velvet Room... This place exists between dream and reality, mind and matter... How unexpected for you to visit while my master is away..." This is Elizabeth one of the residents of the Velvet Room where I fuse my Persona.
"Where's Igor at? Is he not here?" My sort voice asked as I looked for the familiar hook nosed man I didn't see Theo either but he probably wasn't far... I dought Igor would leave Elizabeth by herself... She can be eccentric some... No, most of the time...
"Unfortunately, he is absent at the moment. If it's fusion you require, the I have some knowledge of the process. Feel free to ask me to perform them" I had a bad feeling about this... "By the by, only Legion can be summoned today. That will be all right with you, won't it? A "Legion" means an army... Each face has a different expression. They all bear such rich anguish that I never tire of watching them. I highly recommend one to you. Well then, let's proceed with the fusion ritual without delay..." I knew this would happen thankfully Theodore(Aka Theo) walked in at just the right time to stop her ranting.
"Elizabeth... You mustn't lie. You are capable of fusing other Persona as well" Theo walked out one of the many strange doors in the room, thank what ever gods are out there for this perfect timing.
"Ah, Theo... How do you do?" Elizabeth asked as she noticed her younger brother.
"Hey there Theo!" I greeted him with relief, he stopped her ridiculous ranting...why did I have to deal with the silly residents of this way too blue room, I don't mind blue and all but this place was still ridiculous.
"Hello, and welcome! I apologize for not being here sooner!" He said with a short bow, "Since our master has stepped away for the moment, I'm remaining here alongside Elizabeth as a precaution" he explained why they were both here.
"A precaution,huh?" I couldn't blame Igor for not wanting Elizabeth by herself but why not just leave Theo instead?
"When the Velvet Room is without its master, the room's existence itself becomes a bit unstable. Moreover, there is a storm raging in the outside world right now..." He explained further.
"Oh! The typhoon, right?" Makes sense... Well as much sense as the Velvet Room ever did anyways.
"Storms shake things up. Not only the body, but the heart, too. One's resolve, one's internal strife, one's hidden thoughts... Everyone closes their eyes during a storm, for that is when the world within begins to encroach... One will have no choice but to face what has gone hidden while their eyes were averted...(Author here... Kind of reminds me of the shadows of the TV world doesn't it? Read on!) There are storms that can shake up fate, and even time itself" she really went on about this didn't she.
"In any case, if you would allow me to-- An alarm...!? Wh-What on earth...?" First an alarm, then the room goes dark what next...? My teammates appear in the Velvet Room?! "Hm...?" Theo and Elizabeth had suprized looks on their faces as the lights turned back on... I need to not think such stupid things again... Why? Because guess who was suddenly behind me as I tuned to look at what the blue clad siblings were looking at.
"Huh!?" Fuuka started first.
"Who're they? What's going on here? It's so blue! Is this an elevator!?" Leave it to Yukari to ask a million questions at once...
"Wh-what is this place...?" Misuru-Senpai looked utterly shocked...a first!
"What could this mean...?" Yes Theo what could it mean? Does that really matter right no how did this happen is a better question.
"Uninvited guest in a private chamber... That can only mean that the culprit is among us!" Elizabeth what the hell are you spouting?!
"Eh!? C-Culprit!?" And Junpei's the one who takes the bait...
"She's joking Junpei" I told him with an unamused face .
"That aside, this is a facet of fate as well...and perhaps a beginning. I am Elizabeth, and this is my younger brother Theodore. We are residents of this Velvet Room" little did she know how right she would be about the new beginning but that's for later.
""Velvet Room"... Oh, you mean where our leader goes for Personas?" Yukari asked.
"Yes. We provide aid to our guests by fusing Personas here" Elizabeth confirmed.
"So... So it was true...!" Thanks for the vote of confidence Fuuka it's really warming my heart to know that you didn't believe me...
"So why did you call us here?" ... They didn't Akihiko-senpai...
"As to that... Even we don't know" Theo answered before I could speak my mind oh well...
"Bluntly speaking, that was our question. Those who enter here enter a contract of some kind, or..." Before Elizabeth could continue the elevator... stopped... I didn't like this one bit...
"It... It stopped...?" Thank you captain obvious, "Hey, it reminds me of a roller coaster... The way it keeps climbing until it stops all of a sudden..." STUPID JUNPEI!!!
"Sh-Shut up! If that were true it would drop..." And now Yukari...
The elevator drops...
Fuuka screams and falls to the floor.
"We are currently descending in an uncontrolled freefall" yes Aigis we see that...
"... We're indeed falling" Elizabeth noted.
"Okay we're falling can we focus on stopping the falling maybe!" I thought to myself... Staying calm was my job but even I couldn't take this.
"Are we going to crash..!?" Damn Ken was right.
"Into what!?" Yukari asked panicked.
"Um, uh... I don't know, the bottom!?" Damn what was next.
Finally... It stopped...
Authors note:
Okay first off I know that most of this is me changing a few words around from referring to a guy to a girl but I promise the next chapter will have less of that and more of my own personal touch. Secondly I know that my character of the female protagonist is a little different from the norm and sorry if you don't like it but I can't stand the girly happy go lucky version okay I just don't so I'm not changing how I have her acting if you don't like my version then don't read. Lastly it is sooooooooo annoying having to tell you who's talking so from now on I'm going to make people talk like this...
Yukari:"Yukari Takeba"
And so on and so forth easy enough for you... If not... Then no need to continue to read feel free to just keep going on without reading my story I don't mind... Well then now that we have that sorted see you next chapter!