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Who: Yosuke Hanamura (innerdiscofrog), Akihiko Sanada (boxes_shadows), Naoto Shirogane (ideating)
What: Team Persona, upon meeting each other and discovering that they have 'summoning things from their head to kick enemy arse' in common decide to cement their new found friendship by going around, smashing mirrors, and tempting fate.
Where: That general food/water area. Started at ( Read more... )
What: Team Persona, upon meeting each other and discovering that they have 'summoning things from their head to kick enemy arse' in common decide to cement their new found friendship by going around, smashing mirrors, and tempting fate.
Where: That general food/water area. Started at ( Read more... )
The broken glass could prove to be a danger in itself, but the entity that lurked in the mirror was the main focus at the moment.
"In the event that it does, we shall defend ourselves to the best of our ability."
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This had started with a single mirror. An impulse, mostly; an unwillingness to sit still and not at least test what lay behind these things which seemed to cover the entire city. Once one had laid broken, the kouhai had just run with it, and soon enough--
The glass crunched beneath Akihiko's fist, webbing into jagged triangles around a circle impression. He drew back a glove and the shards fell, and that dark feeling pulsed again, much nearer.
Yamagishi would be valuable here, or Mitsuru at the least. Somewhere close by, Akihiko's familiar tossed its head, hooves tapping anxiously on broken pavement. It was wary of something; all their familiars were, and had been since the glass had first covered the city. But what it was lay completely at the edge of Akihiko's awareness, no nearer than the hallucinations that whispered at the cusp of perception, and he couldn't predictHe flexed his knuckles beneath the gloves ( ... )
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But how useful would he be? Even the familiars...Naoto had a raven, Akihiko a stag. His panda familiar, while cute and likely good for picking up girls, wasn't exactly the sort of thing which he'd imagine would be good for a fight. (Two nights ago, Yosuke had a dream that his familiar removed its costume and turned out to be Teddie disguised as a panda. He didn't mention it to Naoto.) Then again, how good would a raven be? The stag, sure, it could run if nothing else an--...hell, he needed to stop thinking about it. If they didn't do anything, someone else could get hurt in their stead and it wasn't something that he was going to let happen.
How did Chie put it? Oh, right. "Don't think. Feel," he muttered, louder than he intended as he twirled his wrench once and took out another mirror. (Up until recently, Yosuke never did realize just how many mirrors this place had, all things considered.) "So if nothing else happens, we just head back to the center and try another direction, right?"
A shadow moved.
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However short those turned out to be. Fighting Shadows had always come at a risk of life-- he knew that well. But Nuadoria hadn't been part of the game plan, and even now, half-voices whispered caution in the back of his mind. Some, he thought he recognized, and that alone was enough to sow doubts--
"There!"
It moved. Not just a shadow, but a figure, sliding like a stream of cool light behind the glass. The thing was barely a shape-- more a presence, ice-cold and running like fingernails down a chalk-board through Akihiko's consciousness as it leaped from one mirror to the next, avoiding the field of broken ones the three had left in their wake.
"Shirogane! Try to cut it off!"
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She didn't have much time to aim and fire, considering how fast the figure was moving. She made sure she was going to hit the mirror she was aiming at, and promptly fired. A loud BANG was heard as the gun went off, followed by the sound of a shattering mirror.
Hopefully that bullet had been enough to stop the figure, although Naoto doubted that it would be that easy. Nothing was ever that easy.
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It was a high-pitched howl, a scream. And then, something --someone-- appeared in the air, twisting like a wraith from the open maw of broken glass, the very thing they'd all witnessed in the video.
And it was heading straight for the nearest of them, Yosuke.
"HANAMURA!" Akihiko barely had time to shout. "WATCH OUT!"
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Akihiko shouted a warning: Yosuke found himself shouting something else. "Per-...!" he shouted reflexively, reaching for a card that wasn't going to come.
His familiar moved.
Pands shifted to something else: fur changed into cloth and the bear gave away to a frog. His frog...and up until the last year Yosuke Hanamura never thought he'd have 'his frog'...Jiraiya, with a gust of wind whipping against the thing, and the second he got back to Inaba he was going to buy the other stupid bear enough topsicles to last a lifetime and now really wasn't the time for thinking that because they had to get out of there, fast. His stupid bear would only hold it...her off for so long ( ... )
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Naoto could think of one good thing about this whole encounter, at least. She now knew that it was possible for both herself and Yosuke to use their Personae. Of course, her familiar hadn't reacted, but if it had happened to Yosuke, it was likely to happen to her. She wouldn't mind seeing her Persona again.
But yes, this whole thing could be talked about after they regrouped. Now was not the time to be thinking, especially with Yosuke's Persona providing a distraction.
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