Ren: Hello all! I am Amamiya Ren. Leader of the Phantom Thieves and I am here to announce RaintheLingeringSentiment's new fanfiction about Persona 5. It'll be his first time writing a Persona Fanfic and he do hope you enjoy the show.

Morgana: Showtime!

Name: Persona V: Reversing the Wheel of Fate

Genre: Action/Adventure/Romance

Summary: Ren was killed by the traitor after the end of Sae's interrogation and the Phantom Thieves fell apart. However, Ren suddenly finds himself waking up on the train to Shibuya, at the very start of his journey.

Given a second chance at changing fate, Ren begins his adventure again but little did he know, new challenges and new characters will take the stage alongside him and his friends in this re-telling of Persona 5!

Pairings: Ren/Makoto/?/?, Ryuji/Ann , Futaba/Yusuke and many more!

Ren: RainthelingeringSentiment does not own Persona 5 or any persona!

Persona V: Reversing the Wheel of Fate
Prologue

"It was thanks to you that our plan succeeded," Akechi said with a cruel expression on his face. Ren glanced up at his crazed brown eyes and sneered, the cloudiness of his mind slowly clearing.

He remembered what he was supposed to…

He was supposed to get Sae to trust him. To stop Goro and whatever his insidious plot was…But in his drugged state, he had failed.

And now, he was face to face in front of his murderer…

"You were irreplaceable for our plan Ren," Goro said as he pointed the gun at him. "But our time is at an end Ren…On some level, I will miss our daily chats."

"The others…They will stop you," Ren hissed out, the barrel of Goro's gun pressing against his forehead.

"The others will be lost without you. We both know that," Akechi replied mockingly.

Ren's eyes widened.

That couldn't be true…They would be able to stop Goro without him…

Right?

The traitor's eyes widened briefly before smirked.

He then leaned close and whispered into Ren's ear "You just realized this? You were the glue that kept them together. Without you, all of them will fall…And because of you, they will die, wondering where their leader is to save them."

Ren took a sharp intake of air, the images of Ryuji, Haru, Makoto, Futaba, Ann, Yusuke and Morgana appearing in his mind, along with all of the friends he had met along the way, slowly fading away.

"…But that is what happens when you face off against true justice…" Goro whispered and with those words, the trigger was pulled and everything went black.

Ren was all alone in the dark.

His clothes looking nice and neat and his face, showing no damage from the gunshot wound he had taken.

The crushing realization that he had just died suddenly crashed onto his shoulders and he let out a scream.

A scream full of rage and sorrow at the turn of events that had just occurred. He punched the ground, he swore, he sobbed.

His friends…He would never see them again…

His daily jogs with Ryuji…Gone.

Planting with Haru…Gone.

Helping Makoto with running the Student Council…Gone.

Inspiring art with Yusuke…Gone.

Going on modeling shoots with Ann…Gone.

Sleeping and joking around with Morgana…Gone.

And it was all his fault!

But then, a bright light appeared at the end of the tunnel. Ren

Ren then found himself standing in a brick tunnel with a bright light in front of him. It was so warm…So welcoming to him. Drawn by the warmth of the light, Ren began to walk, the previous worries about his friends melting away from his mind the closer he came to the light.

But then, a voice spoke out.

"Please…d…don't g-give…"

Ren turned around and saw that familiar butterfly that at the other side of the tunnel. That butterfly…

He had seen it several times before but it always looked radiant to him.

But now, something had changed.

The normal glow of the butterfly was flickering on and off and instead of cobalt blue, it's a pale gray.

It was as if it was dying…

Without thinking twice, Ren towards the butterfly just as it began to fall to the ground, catching it before it could land and lifted it up to his face.

"D-Don't give up…The w-world…needs you, my trickster…" the faint, feminine voice told him.

"But there isn't anything I can do," Ren whispered. "I failed and was killed by that traitorous detective."

"Do not give up hope…Y-You can do it, my trickster…" the voice said. "All y-you must do is believe in the justice that burns in your h-heart…"

Ren stayed silent.

Justice…

That word seemed to follow him.

From his own shouts of "Where is the justice in this?!" during his court hearing to Akechi's final words to him, Justice was heavily engraved within his soul.

It was the thing that bound him and his friends together.

It was the thing he had always been fighting for.

A determined smirk appear on Ren's face. "As if I could forget it," Ren said, sounding more confident to himself than he was with the traitor.

The butterfly began to shine bright in his hands as a voice said "This is your final chance to change y-your fate…P-Please win this g-game with t-the justice you hold so c-close to your heart…d-dear…Trickster…"

Ren's eyes snapped open as he took a sharp breath.

'W-What was that?' Ren thought to himself as he looked up in confusion.

He was on a train.

"We will soon arrive at Shibuya, Shibuya. This is the last stop," a male voice said through the speakers in the train. 'Please transfer at this station if you would like to use the subway lines.'

'What a strange dream…' Ren thought.

"Oh, really? They went insane or something?" A female student said a few feet away from the confused male.

"Of course it's true!" The female friend's voice said with a scandalous tone.

'Why does all of this seem familiar?' Ren thought curiously.

"You mean someone goes crazy all of a sudden? You're kidding me, aren't you? You're really obsessed with those weird topics…" The first female said with a laugh.

The teen shook his head and said "I must be imagining things."

It didn't matter.

He should be focusing on other things. Like getting his life back after…Losing it all…All he had to do was meet this Sakura Sojiro character.

The sooner he could do that, the sooner he could get his life back.

Ren: And that is the end of the Prologue. Did you guys enjoy it? If so, I can't wait for you all to get to the meat of the story. So until the next chapter!

Morgana: See you next time!