Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth (Female MC Edition)

You in Wonderland Finale

Author's note: writing random quotes related to the theme of the chapter is stupid

Watching the cherry blossoms gone by the wind and hearing the faint sounds of a nearby school bell just outside of her hospital window was blond girl wearing a green hospital gown. Lying on a hospital bed and staring the ceiling above her, she sighs dejectedly; it seems she will be stuck here for a while.

Today was supposed to be the blond girl's first day of attending school. She dreamed day and night of meeting her teachers, making friends and even eating cafeteria food. She wanted to see that lies beyond her room.

On her arms, the blond girl held her stuffed rabbit tightly across her chest. "Will I ever leave this place?" she silently wondered to herself without a hint of emotion.

Kotone never felt so relieved and grateful by the timely arrival of other Persona-users in the scene. This was the second time she felt such a feeling since her trip from Yasoinaba.

Except for the boy with headphones, she instantly recognized the faces of friends and senpais who are either wearing the Gekkoukan High uniforms or the red SEES armbands. The others, the ones donning the Yasogami High, however, she did not know. Nevertheless, Kotone wanted to greet, thank and get to know them as soon as possible but battling the boss of the labyrinth that resembles a major villain of a children's storybook would take a while.

Now that they recovered their strength, Zen and the auburn haired girl fought the Royal Flush alongside with the other Persona-users. Thanks to their combined might, they managed to corner the Queen of Hearts to a standstill while the others fend off the remaining Card Soldiers. However, despite their best efforts in cornering the Queen, the Royal Flush, with their remaining strength they got left, went on a counteroffensive and started attacking the Persona-users.

The uproar of the battle had caused Rei to regain consciousness. Like a child lost in a mall, the blond girl attempted to find Zen and Kotone in the midst of the battlefield until she found them fending off the mini Card Soldiers.

"Zen! Koto-chan!" she called to them. Blindly running towards them without knowing the obvious dangers awaits ahead, one of the mini Card Soldiers jump in front of her, taking her by surprise. It raised its sword to strike the blond girl when a timely arrow disarmed the mini Card Soldiers's weapon and blade sliced its body in half before dissipating into a black mist.

"Rei, are you alright?" Zen demanded as he quickly approached the bewildered blond girl and grips on her shoulders, a combination of anxiety and relief flooded his usual calm demeanor.

"I-I'm fine Zen, I'm fine!" Rei insisted as the collared boy shook her shoulders rather vigorously.

Kotone, noticing Zen shaking the poor girl like a rag doll, gently removed his hands away from her shoulders. Confused at first by her action, the collared boy understood what she meant and calmly took a deep breath. without looking, he shot a preemptive arrow at an attacking Card Soldier with such accuracy that the enemy disappeared before it even noticed it. "How do feel now?" the auburn haired girl asked.

Zen's eyes are now fixed on the enemies in front of him. "I am now calm"he replied. "What is our plan of attack? It seems that we have the advantages in terms of numbers, powers and strength."

"We simply take down the Queen" the composed boy popped in before Kotone responded to Zen's inquiry.

Rei jumped by his sudden surprise and scuttled behind the collared boy while the latter quickly draws out his crossbow and aims it at the face of the composed boy. Surprisingly, the composed boy did not flinched at the sight of Zen's weapon in front of him. "Who are you?" Zen demanded.

Kotone cuts in between them. "We will know their names later" she told the collared boy. "The guy's right; our top priority right now is to take down the Queen of Hearts with him."

Zen glared at the composed boy cautiously before withdrawing his crossbow away from him. "Agreed" he finally said as he turned to the auburn haired girl. "After we defeat it, I want to look what's inside the treasure chest. I don't know what it is but there's something important inside that chest." When the collared boy finished, Rei clung on his cape even tighter.

"If we are going to take the Queen down" a well dressed girl joined in while the boy with headphones followed. "We'll have to work together to stop it." She turned her eyes at Kotone. "You seemed to have experience in leading a team and fending off Shadows here, yes?"

The auburn haired girl nodded meekly at her. "Then it's settled" the well dressed girl concluded. "Yuki and myself will assist you in defeating the Queen alongside with Seta and your two companions for now." She indicated to the boy with headphones and the composed one.

"Such annoying pests!" the Queen of Hearts cried out with a glowered look after seeing the five Persona-users cornering it. "Very well... I will crush you all myself!"

Kotone turned her head to the Queen and smirked playfully at it. "If you're going to crush us, we'll take the treasure off of your hands!"

This infuriated the Queen of Hearts. "I won't let you have this! Not even if our king demands it!" Furiously, it swept the five Persona users like flies with its hand. "I will not hand over my treasure to some loathsome peasants! I refuse!"

Luckily, they have managed to avoid the sweep attack. "You dare compare us to something so low to a peasant?" the well dressed girl questioned harshly.

Taking out her Evoker, she pulled the trigger to summon the Amazonian Queen Penthesilea. With a flick of her rapier, the Amazonian Queen immobilized the Shadow by letting the ice form around its body. The boy with headphones, as he called forth Orpheus the Master of Strings, followed up the attack by stumbling it with a flaming lyre.

Though the Queen has taken a significant amount of damage from the two Persona-users, it only fueled its fury against them. With its immense strength, the Queen of Hearts mowed them down. "How dare you attack me, the Queen herself?!" it roared. "What insolence! Such impudence! It's all so vulgar of you! Unforgivable!"

"Are you alright Mitsuru?" the boy with headphones asked the well dressed girl as he recovered from the attack. Despite wearing an ambivalent expression on his face, he was rather concern for her.

"I'm alright" the later replied. "I did not expect the enemy to be this strong." Rei went to the well dressed girl's side and healed her injuries until she recovered.

"It doesn't matter" Zen said. "We have managed to weakened it."

The composed boy glanced at the auburn haired girl expectantly. "We're ready" he said. "Are going for an All Out Attack?" Kotone did not hesitate to give out the order. Together, the five of them rushed towards the Queen of Hearts.

In one last attempt to save itself, the Queen called forth the remaining Royal Flush to its side, obediently protecting the Shadow to the death. While they aggressively fend the five away from the Queen, the Queen itself assisted them by summoning flames from its fans. However, although they valiantly defended the Queen of Hearts against them, the Royal Flush soon succumbed to the might of the five as they went all out on them.

The Queen of Hearts fell from its knees, exhausted both body and spirit. "I... I will not hand it over...the treasure is mine...!" it spluttered pathetically as it moved its own body to the treasure box. "The treasure is... it's..."

"It's ours now!" Kotone yelled, taking out her evoker and summoning Orpheus in the battlefield.

Alongside with the boy with headphones' own Persona, they shot a ball of fire at it, followed by a bolt of electricity from the composed boy's own Persona, the Japanese Creation Deity Izanagi. The impact of the three's powers was so strong that it broke the the Queen of Hearts' body, shattering it until there was no more but its essence.

The Queen was no more.

*I apologized for the delay of the chapter. Thank you for supporting the story I've written. But, this is not the end though. I will continue on writing the story in the future.

P.S
Expect very interesting strolls and requests.