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Post by mugenginga on Sept 6, 2009 15:12:18 GMT -5
Yuugi tried to sit up, leaving the sword on the floor so he could support himself with his good hand. His upper body literally spun in an off balance circle to accompany his head spin. He looked like he was going to be sick for about a moment before his eyes cleared.
"Are you alright, the other me?"
His mind received silence, and he realized Atem couldn't respond. The world outside saw Yuugi's eyes fill with panic...
(OOC: Atem's just passed out for those OOC who are concerned. XD)
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Sept 6, 2009 15:17:36 GMT -5
K1 saw what was going on, and rushed over to Yuugi. "Hey! Are you alright? Did something happen to Atem or something?"
"Ah! Yuugi-kun!"
Midori rushed over to Yuugi's side, now awake since the Dark Hour was over. "Are you alright? You're not hurt, are you?" She pulled out her COMP in case Yuugi needed healing.
Souji looked at the throng of girls who were now no longer transmogrified since the Dark Hour was over, and turned to Minato. "I suppose you know what happened just now? Minato Arisato." He paused. "That is your name, correct?"
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Post by Felix Falora on Sept 7, 2009 12:25:10 GMT -5
Minato heard Souji, but didn't respond just yet. Instead he turned to Midori and smiled softly. "He'll be fine. He just needs some rest. He'll get better afterwards." Then he turned to face Souji and gave him the same smile pretty much. "I'm guessing you've heard of me then. So you must've gone to Gekkoukan and met one of my friends, huh?"
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Post by mugenginga on Sept 7, 2009 14:26:11 GMT -5
Yuugi jerked a bit as he practically had Midori fall on top of him in her exuberance. Chibiusa stood looking around. Had all these people appeared out of thin air. She looked over at Yuugi, Minato, K1, and the new boy and her eyes widened. The silver haired teen and Minato didn't look to bad, but Yuugi was a little hurt and K1 looked like he'd been put through a sausage grinder.
She walked forward, "How did you guys get hurt so quickly!?" she asked. After all, to her it had only been a few minutes and the group looked like they'd been fighting for some time.
Yuugi's eyes relaxed and he nodded, "I'll be fine," he looked at Souji for a moment and figured now wasn't the time to be keeping secrets, "And now that I think about it, I think my other self is just passed out. I hope he recovers soon..."
If Souji wasn't too wrapped up in his conversation with Minato, he would have heard the "mou hitori no boku" comment. Even if he knew nothing of Yuugiou and Yuugiou: Duel Monsters canon and tried to pass it off as a reference to persona, something still didn't click. For one, the injured Domino High school uniform wearing boy on the ground didn't quite seem the same as the one who had requested the sword. Far more dazed and an extremely soft voice, especially in comparison.
"My arm got cut kind of badly," he told Midori as he pointed to his injured arm. As if it was blatant enough that he needed to get some casual clothes from the slight smell the days had wearing them had caused them to accumulate. The sleeve of both his blue jacket and inside white t-shirt were ripped pretty badly from the cut. It had bled so much from not being a clean cut, after all.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Sept 7, 2009 14:32:19 GMT -5
Strangely, Souji shook his head at Minato's comment.
"No, Margaret told me. Apparently she was the sister of the previous Velvet Room attendant, who had left to search for a way to free you from something," Souji explained. "No one at Gekkoukan knew about you or would talk about you if they did know anything. Not even the student council president, Chihiro Fushimi, would tell me anything."
Midori gulped and started using Diarama on Yuugi. "This should heal your arm, Yuugi-kun!"
K1 winced and looked away. He didn't like looking at healing spells at work.
Souji looked back at the four, and then back at Minato. "Oh, I didn't introduce myself. My name is Souji Seta. I was a student at Yasogami High until recently."
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Post by Felix Falora on Sept 7, 2009 16:03:48 GMT -5
Minato nodded. "I see... I didn't expect anyone to want to talk about me. I was especially beloved there, so... it must've been hard to have my name dredged up." Then he looked up at Souji. "If we end up going back to the Velvet Room... Now that the Dark Hour is back... I'll have to appologize..." He looked down. "Elizabeth's never coming back to her... or to Igor for that matter."
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Post by mugenginga on Sept 7, 2009 16:12:57 GMT -5
Yuugi paled a bit as the wound healed up. The real time healing wasn't the most stomach stabling thing in the world. He looked over to Souji and Minato as he shakily stood to his feet. He was pretty tired, but his general inactivity during the Dark Hour meant he hadn't gotten as warn. As it were he felt he was missing a few minutes here are there in his memory. As much as he wondered if that was normal, he was more curious about Minato and Souji's conversation.
"Thank you, Midori-chan," he remembered to say before turning to the two teens, "Are you two from the same world, then? And... why would it be depressing to talk about you?" He looked like he regretted asking the question, but he stayed fast. He actually had loads of others, like this "Velvet Room" thing, but one at a time was good.
"Um... seriously, what happened? You were gone for about ten minutes and you come back looking like you got hit by a car," Chibiusa said. She didn't know who Souji was, but she assumed he was someone who lived in the apartment. She walked over to Midori as she spoke, wanting to make sure the teenager was alright.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Sept 7, 2009 16:25:54 GMT -5
"I have no idea myself, um..." K1 stared at Chibiusa before turning to Midori. "Midori, who is this?" Midori looked offended.
"You don't know who Sailor Chibi Moon is?!" Midori said, shocked.
"Midori, I am a heterosexual male. I have no reason to watch magical girl anime, unlike you," K1 said in a flat tone. Midori sighed.
"This is Sailor Chibi Moon! But you can just call her Chibiusa or Usagi," Midori said, going ahead and introducting Chibiusa. "But yeah, what happened to you guys?! You look like someone tossed you in a meat grinder!"
"Like I said, I have no idea. The Laplace Mail said something about a Dark Hour, but I--"
"You never told me you were still getting Laplace Mails!" Midori said loudly.
"Ow my ear."
Souji sighed and turned to Yuugi. "Yes, we're from the same world. As for why it would be depressing to talk about Arisato-san..." He turned to the blue haired teen. "I'll let you explain, Arisato-san."
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Post by Felix Falora on Sept 7, 2009 19:45:33 GMT -5
Minato nodded. "The Dark Hour shouldn't exist anymore because my actions had helped to destroy the reason for its existance in the first place. The Dark Hour serves as the calling of Nyx to bring about The Fall, but I managed to defeat Nyx and then used myself as the lock between the human world and a greater monster, Erebus. My soul became a statue that would effectively hold the monster at bay for all of eternity. Yet my body and will allowed me to continue on until graduation... because I had promised my friends we would graduate together. After that, however, I finally allowed myself to let go... And to my friends back in the other world..." Minato smiled softly. "I'm dead..." He sat down and sighed softly. "To defeat Nyx cost me my life and I had to become he who protected the world from evil. Elizabeth, however, had been searching for a way to free me. She had been doing this even during Souji's adventure, it seems. And she found it. In order to free my soul and give me a new life in this world... she bound herself in my stead."
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Post by mugenginga on Sept 7, 2009 19:56:27 GMT -5
Chibiusa waved her arms frantically, "You can't tell everyone that! Its supposed to be a secret!" she sighed, "I guess with what you've gone through its not that big an issue... wait, Dark Hour...?"
Yuugi looked over at Chibiusa as she asked her question, but knew that Souji and Minato's story was far more important to the situation. He listened carefully, but felt his heart getting tight as the story went on. Even his other self... he'd merely been temporarily sealed. But Minato had thought he was doing it for all time. And now this Elizabeth girl had taken his place? He didn't know who she was but he saw the sadness in Minato's face and quickly looked down. He was sorry he had asked now. And for how bad he was feeling, he knew Minato felt worse. He had to.
Chibiusa's mind dropped the issue of what the Dark Hour was as Minato told his story, and she held up her hands to cover her mouth. Her eyes had welled up with tears and she squeezed her eyes shirt and shook her head rapidly. It was so terrible! She knew about self sacrifice, and the story reminded her of something her mother would have done had she needed to. She was also facing down, but her shoulders were shaking in a way that showed she was indeed crying.
Both Yuugi and Chibiusa were now quiet. Yuugi felt terrible for prying into the situation, and all his other questions had been lost for the moment. Chibiusa had forgotten her questions as well, and was trying to put up a strong front. It wasn't going well.
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Sept 7, 2009 20:13:05 GMT -5
K1 looked at Midori, whose eyes were welling up at this story.
"Midori-chan?" K1 asked.
"I'm not crying! Demon Summoning Magical Dolly doesn't cry! Unless her tears are needed to save the day..." Midori said, wiping away some tears.
Souji looked back at Minato. "That was... depressing. In any case, the Dark Hour definitely was gone for good when I was dealing with the Midnight Channel Murderer, so why it's back now is a mystery to me. By the way, I noticed you don't use tarot cards to summon your persona. Why is that?" Souji had never seen anyone who used an evoker. Everyone except the true murderer had used tarot cards to summon personae, and the true murderor was batshit crazy anyways, so he didn't need an evoker or tarot cards.
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Post by Felix Falora on Sept 8, 2009 5:32:45 GMT -5
"Hmmm, I probably shouldn't have told that part of the story," Minato said, noticing three people crying at the very least. Souji's next question did serve as a nice distraction to that, however. "Well I don't know... it's probably the same reason I find it weird, and lucky, you use Tarot Cards to summon Persona... but I do have a theory and it's this... The Tarot Cards are the source of your summoning. They would be the equivalent to Duel Monsters cards in Yuugi's realm, but only in the Dark Hour and that they summon Persona. Meanwhile, the Persona my friends and I use are summoned by tapping into our psyche. The evokers allow us to do that; otherwise we're pretty helpless. There was only one Persona user I remember (yeah, that oughta help with my misknowledge on whether Jin and Chidori need the following) that could summon a Persona without an evoker..." Minato snicked. "But Takaya was insane as hell anyway. He was probably also moving things with his mind and have spiritual conversations with Satan."
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Post by mugenginga on Sept 8, 2009 13:15:16 GMT -5
Yuugi wasn't actually crying just yet, but he was close enough the misconception was pretty valid. Still, as Minato spoke some more he forced himself into enough control to speak somehow, however shakily. He shook his head before beginning.
"T-The cards don't really work like that in my home world. I mean... other than the God Cards, and only my other self can use them anywhere near safely... They're holograms. This place seems to access them like these stone tablet things in Ancient Egypt. I wouldn't have though to try them, actually..." he paused, a thought occuring to him, "Um... you said those with Persona could function during the Dark Hour, right? Does that mean K1-kun and I...?"
Chibiusa's shoulders were shuddering. She tried to wipe the tears away and managed to speak shakily, "W-w-what is this D-Dark Hour... you say Hour... but you weren't gone that long," she shook her head and sniffled, wiping her face, "And what do you mean, Persona...?"
(OOC: Since you haven't been in on me and FF's convos, I think I need to point out that not all that are active during the Dark Hour seem to be able to summon Persona. Felix, you remember Ikutsuki from your research. I realize he was pretty much a nut job, but he couldn't summon Persona. So its not a guaranteed thing, and while Yuugi can but doesn't know, FF says she has no plans to let K1.
And sayings its not guaranteed will help me develop a plot I've come up with for Yuugi in relation to the COMPs I plan on having Naoya come in on not next Monday but the one after that.
Oh, FF, how closely is Souji listening to Yuugi? He could pass of the "mou hitori no boku" as a split personality. I know Anzu did in the anime. But he might notice that and say something. Or not. :3 Chibiusa hasn't, but she's also trying not to look like the world's biggest crybaby.)
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Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Sept 9, 2009 5:00:04 GMT -5
((OOC: Yeah, K1's just one of those special cases of people who aren't able to use a persona but can still be active in the Dark Hour.
And plus he still thinks it's rather insane to put a gun up to your head and expect it to NOT blow your brains out. So you couldn't get him to use an Evoker even if he could use a Persona.
As for Souji, he's listening in, and collecting every detail he can on what Yuugi's saying. Since he used to be an ametuer detective of sorts, albeit of the supernatural and asskicking type, he tends to listen to this kind of stuff, just not comment on it. Silent protagonist and all that. XD))
Souji looked over at Yuugi. "I honestly have no idea, since Personas worked differently by the time the Midnight Channel came around. My persona was given to me by someone, but my friends' personas are all representations of their true selves."
The fact that his persona was given to him by someone was special; he was the only person who had the same persona as someone else because of this, though their versions of the personaes were radically different. He turned to Minato.
"The Tarot Cards only appeared after we could summon our own personas, though, so I don't think they're the source of the summoning. They're more of a way to actually summon it, like your evoker. Though I guess the crazy and delusional don't need them either, since Adachi didn't need a tarot card either. Adachi wasn't much of the walking on water type, though. He was more of the 'possessed by insane gods' type."
K1 shuddered at that. That hit way too close to home for his liking. He had to deal with at least two cases of possession during the lockdown, one of which was a two in one deal.
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Post by Felix Falora on Sept 9, 2009 19:33:59 GMT -5
"Hmmm, I see... Still, that doesn't solve anything. And if the Dark Hour is back, that must mean there's some dark, driving force behind it. Perhaps, since the Shadow Insects haven't been destroyed yet, they've created a sort of Dark Hour from the overflow of their dark powers," Minato said. "Other then that, I don't know why there could be another Dark Hour."
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