"And now for something completely different."
PERSONA 3 THEATER
"The Battle Between Great Men"
Or
"Why the boys aren't allowed to watch anime anymore."
Ah~ It was a nice, peaceful night the SEES dorm.
Mitsuru was sitting in the living room, sipping a nice cup of tea with a good book in her hands. Yukari, Aigis and Fuuka were there as well, although their attention was more focused on the television. The boys had miraculously decided not to use it tonight, and so they figured they'd finally get to watch something decent that didn't involve a bunch of testosterone filled men beating the living snot out of each other.
Honestly, what kind of shows did those guys watch?
Ah yes, the night was quiet and peaceful. Absolutely nothing could possibly ruin this moment.
BOOM!
Welp, it was nice while it lasted!
Mitsuru jumped, accidently spilling her tea onto her book, much to her dismay. The other girls seemed to have reacted to the explosion a very similar manner, with Fuuka and Yuakri letting out a shriek in surprise. The only one who didn't react so violently was Aigis, tilted her head in confusion at the sound.
"W-What was that?!" Yukari nearly yelled, hugging onto to Fuuka tightly. Aigis simply tilted her head upwards.
"The explosion appears to have come from the roof." She said before turning her attention towards Mitsuru. "Should I go and see what happened?" Mitsuru sighed before shaking her head.
"Save it." She muttered, reaching for a napkin. "I'll just get Akihiko or KL to check it out. It couldn't have been anything that extreme, or else the alarms would've gone off…"
"…Um… Now that you mention it Senpai…" Fuuka muttered, raising her hand slightly to get her senior's attention. "…Where are the boys exactly?"
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"…Ugh… Don't tell me they're doing something stupid again..."
"Very well then. Although there is a 99.99% chance that they are."
"Aigis you're not helping."
So what exactly is the "stupid thing" the boys are doing? Well…
"MWAHAHAHAHAHA!" Junpei laughed as he stood at the edge of the dorm rooftop, his arms spread out and his back leaned back so far it look like he'd have trouble standing up for the next few days. He had a dangerous look in his eye as he stared down his opponent. "You poor fool! Your attacks are all in vain! I am invincible! You pathetic abilities are no match for me!"
On the other side of the roof, DJ scoffed. His sunglasses were down over his eyes, so you couldn't see him glare at his opponent. "Yare Yare Daze~… You sure talk a big game. But none of your attacks barely left a scratch on me either."
"HAHA- Wha?"
"So-" DJ cracked his knuckles before letting his hands fall to his sides limply. "I'm gonna give you five seconds to surrender before I beat the living snot out you. Your choice." Junpei growled before scoffing.
"I'd like to see you try!" Junpei stood up straight and grabbed his Evoker from his holster. DJ just grinned before reaching for his own.
"With pleasure…"
BANG!
"Orpheus!"
"Hermes!"
The two Persona stood high, glowing with a magical aura as they stood over there masters… Although they looked a bit… different. They looked shorter than usually and… since when was Orpheus's hair that long?
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!"
"MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!"
A few feet away from the two punch happy Persona users, a familiar white haired boxer, a man in a red coat, a child many years their junior and a dog sat behind a cardboard box.
What a cardboard box was doing on the roof, they had no idea, but it served as cover.
"The two of them are at it again…" Ken muttered as he watched the two Personas (and they're users) punch each other senselessly. "I thought we were supposed reenact Guren Lagaan today." Koromaru let out a bark of agreement as Akihiko simply sighed.
"I knew I shouldn't have given them that DVD of Jojo's Bizzare Adventure…" He muttered before shaking his head. "At least the having fun. Right Shinji?"
"…"
"Shinji?"
"…You are already dead."
"Eh?"
"Castor!"
In a burst of adrenaline, Akihiko shot up, grabbing Ken and Koromaru and jumping out of the way was Castor's lance came crashing down onto the poor cardboard box. The boxer growled as he dropped his younger teammates and glared at his brother.
"What the hell Shinji?!" He yelled as Ken panted in relief. "What are you doing?"
"What's it look like genius?" Shinjiro smirked at him, cracking his knuckles as Castor hovered over him. "Seeing those two beating each other senseless got me thinking about the good ol' days, ya know?" The look in Shinjiro's eye told Akihiko all he needed to know. "What do you say? One round for old time's sake?"
"..." Akihiko sighed before looking up to his brother with a smirk. "Do you even need to ask? You're already dead..."
BANG!
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"ATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA!"
"Huh. Fist of the North Star. I always thought Akihiko-san was more of a fan of Hajime no Ippo." Ken muttered as he took out a bag of popcorn to watch the fist fight between the two brothers.
"Bark!"
"Yeah, I guess you're right boy. Just thought it was a it weird for him." He took some of the popcorn and gave it to the SEES mascot, who ate it up contently.
"MUDAMUDA- OW! HEY WATCH WHERE YOU'RE FIGHTING! WE WERE HERE FIRST!"
"YEAH! THIS IS A BATTLE BETWEEN US TWO! LEAVE US ALONE!"
"YOU BOYS ASKING FOR A FIGHT?!"
"LET"S GO!"
Ken and Koromaru sweatdropped as the battle quickly escalated into a free-for-all, with personas and fist colliding against each other in a way Ken had though humanly impossible. Until now that is.
Yes, any other day he would've found this enjoyable...
But he felt a very large sense of dread boiling up in his stomach...
SLAM!
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!"
In a rather comical scenario, the four boys and there Persona's froze mid battle, each in the middle of some form of attack as the all turned to the doorway, where the person who interrupted them watched them with a glare that could freeze hell itself.
Simply put, Mitsuru Kirijo was not pleased.
"..." DJ immediately stopped biting Akihiko leg and raised his hands to the air. "It's not what it looks like!"
"KL..." She started as she walked towards the group, the other girls appearing behind her. "Might I ask why the four of you are beating each other senselessly with your personas out in the open?!"
"...Okay, so this is what it looks like."
"We were just, uh..." Akihiko scratched the back of his head, although he still didn't release Junpei from his headlock. "Trying some new moves! Yeah! Just some late night training for when we head to Tartarus tomorrow!"
"You know you couldn't lie to me even if you tried Sanada."
Yikes. Last name alert. This was a code red.
"They were just trying to do some things from a couple of shows we watch Mitsuru-san." Ken said as he walked up to the redhead, his bag of popcorn still in hand. "Nothing to serious..." Mitsuru's eyes twitched before glaring at the four boys again.
"Shows?"
"Just a few animes we watch. No big deal." DJ said before being bonked on the head by both Akihiko and Shinjiro. "Ow! What was that for?!"
"...Are you saying that you guys almost killed yourselves just because you guys wanted to try some stuff from a bunch of dumb animes?!" Yukari nearly shrieked at them, only to get a stink eye from the boys.
"Hey! There not dumb! They can show us a bunch of new tricks!" Junpei argued back, DJ nodding in agreement.
"Yeah! Why just yesterday, I taught Orpheus how to do a Kamehameha!"
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Noticing the blank stares he was getting, the DJ blushed and looked away. "Okay, so it's a work in progress..."
"Do you have any idea how dangerous this is?" Mitsuru sighed before pointing at the still present personas. "Not only are you putting yourselves at risk, but you also risk revealing personas to an unsuspecting public!"
"Oh relax!" DJ waved it off. "We've been doing this for weeks! No one's ever seen us up here before!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" A scream for the street caught there attention. The looked down from the roof, only to see a slightly aged man run away from the building. "It's the apocalypse! Giant aliens are abducting people! And they're starting with those kids! I knew this day would come! I knew I wasn't crazy! MWAHAHAHAHA!"
"...That is merely a coincidence." DJ said, as they all called back they're personas. "I doubt anyone's gonna believe him..."
"So you've been doing this for weeks without my knowledge?" She asked, concentrating on what DJ has said before... "...Ugh... Very well then, no more anime for any of you." She looked to the side to see Ken standing there, looking at her expectantly. "Except for Amada, because he's still a child and I couldn't deprive him of that."
"What?!" The four yelled as she turned around to leave.
"You can't be serious!"
"Come one, the finale of my favorite show is gonna be on tomorrow!"
"Tsk... You got to be kidding me..."
"Oh come on Mitsu-cha-!"
FREEZE!
Mitsuru, now with her rapier out, walked up to the now large block of ice present on the roof, the boys frozen from their necks all the way down to their feet.
"Any more questions?" She asked.
"No ma'am." Was the monotonous reply.
Mitsuru smirked before turning around to face the girls, Ken and Koromaru. "That handles that."
"Finally." Yukari muttered. "Now we can finally get some rest with the worrying about the building collapsing on top of us."
"Bark bark!"
"Don't worry Koromaru! It would've been all those dumb boy's fault. We wouldn't blame you or Ken."
"We're definitely going to have to reconsider who keep's watch over Amada here, now that I think about it."
"Oh! I'm working on a new recipe! Maybe Ken would like to help me!"
"N-No thanks Fuuka-san. I'm good."
As the group walked away, the half frozen boys watched them with sour looks on their faces.
"Well that didn't go as I'd hope." DJ Muttered as he tried to break free from his icy prison.
"Give it up kid." Shinji muttered. "This thing is probably gonna hold till morning. We're gonna be stuck here all night."
"Great. Just great..."
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"Wanna try again at the park next week?"
"Ditto!"
"Of course!"
"I'll bring Ken and the dog."
FIN
Author's Note:
Hello everyone! Welcome to the Mattoon Corner!
Wait, wrong file...
Anyway, it's been a while since I published something, and before you ask, yes, this story is still on hiatus. I just wanted to post a little something special for you guys until I make new chapter.
But that's actually something I wanted to talk about with you guys.
In case you haven't noticed, this story is pretty much a step by step retelling of the game, almost down to a T. Which is why there are so many instances where I try to make it look like a videogame. The thing is, if I were to take every cutscene for every day and every social link in the game, this story would take forever to finish.
The last two chapters were my favorites to write because the were a lot more... "episodic" then the others. Which is the directing I'm gonna start writing this story now. It will still have an apparent videogame aspect to it, but by doing this, I can push the story forward without having to rewrite... well, what's essential a 60+ hour experience. :P
I have one more thing to announce to you guys today though.
It's something that has, admittedly, taken time away from writing, yes, but is also a very big project of mine. I've been working on this for a while and I only just recently got it started.
Okay... Here goes...
I have a YouTube channel!
*Splat!
...Where do you people get so many tomatoes?
Look, I know you people don't owe me anything. Heck, if you've even made it this far into my story, you have my deepest gratitude. I'm just a poor guy living in Brazil with nothing but a computer, a crappy headset microphone and not a dollar to his name. I wanted to try to do something different with my life and, well, I just wanna try something new.
The channel is called "The Mattoon Corner". A place for reviews of games, cartoons and anime. All voiced, drawn and edited by yours truly. I'm a complete noob to this kind of stuff, so I know what you guys see is gonna be.. well, crap, but I'm really hoping to make this work. I'm going through a tough time right now, my mom's not exactly healthy, physically or mentally, and my whole family's trying to move out of the country, because of how hard things are around here so having some kind support on this project would help me out...
Like I said, you don't owe me anything, but if you're willing to check it out, please do and spread the word around about it. Tell you're friends, and let's see if we can make this channel grow big!
See you all next time. And remember to be cool and be creative.