Shin Megami Tensei: The Reborn World

Authors notes: While this is technically my second fan fiction, this is a rewrite of my very first story that I made as a video game in RPGmaker. I'm doing this because I'm giving up on game making (unless I can make a Splatoon game, which probably won't happen) but I don't want to completely give up on the Characters and story line I created, and I would like to do a squeal at some point. You can find the game in the RPGmaker forums, if you want to give it a try (Same name, just make sure to get the MV version).

I'm also writing a splatoon fan fiction called The Legacy of Humanity. That story is my primary focus, so this one won't be updated as often. While I don't normally care for it, I will be trying out a first person perspective for this story.

This is based off of the original Shin Megami Tensei, and it's squeal SMT2, as it takes place between them. While playing those two games isn't required, it helps to be familiar with the lore of the original series.

Shin Megami Tensei and any actual characters or plot elements from the games, are owned by Atlus. I take no credit or profit from their usage. The Kuzunoha members are a Parody of Hidan no Aria (Aria the scarlet ammo). Note that I said PARODY. This is not a crossover of any kind, and they are not the actual characters.

Prologue:

*Ex-script from the diary of Haruka Rotama, The month of August 2042, Okinawa*

Not very many people are familiar with the hell that took place on Okinawa, or how close Tokyo became to becoming consumed by the actions of a single man. It's been a week, and I still can't believe we survived. It's my hope that this diary will shed some light into the events that transpired, so that people will be ready if something like this ever happens again.

But before I get into that, I should probably introduce myself, and our world. I don't now how far into the future it will be before this journal is discovered. My name is Haruka Rotama, and I'm a 17 year old field medic. I'm part of a trade called the hunters. I have brown hair, and my eyes are a sort of reddish color. I wear a black school girl like uniform, a black headband, and black glasses. Yeah, I like black.

I had been taught by my mother from a very young age to use angelic magic, so I was able to start working years before most magic users are able to have a firm grasp on the craft. I used to be in a hunter clan called the Black Cats, but an.. event caused my to leave along with my two partners, Joshiro Niwa, and Yin Yano. Oh, and our world has magic, angels, and demons.

You see, fifty years ago, our world was destroyed by a nuclear war. This event was called the great destruction, which left billions dead, governments collapsed, and much of our technology and culture lost. The worst part was when the demons came. God decided he could no longer trust is with his world, and Lucifer decided to take advantage of this to launch an invasion of his own. Many unaligned mythical creatures also started showing up all around Japan. Despite this, mankind still fought to keep from going extinct.

It would be another 30 years before something miraculous would happen. Three men and one woman, who appeared to come right of the past, would bring the much needed change our world needed. One of the men, who would just be referred to as 'the hero', ended the fighting between the Messians and Gaians, as well as worked to bring the demon problem under control. He was a master of the Demon summoning program, called the COMP. While his two male companions lost their lives in a dispute, the hero would bring a world of balance to Japan.

Unfortunately, this time of balance and reconstruction would not last very long. It was a mere 17 years before the hero was finally killed by a demon horde, and the last surviving COMP was destroyed. We tried to find a replacement leader to keep us unified, but nobody could agree on who would take his place. Japan fell into a state of chaos, and the hero's former subordinates became power hungry warlords, and began to fight among themselves.

If yet another war starting wasn't enough, the people of Japan had neglected to consider one thing. What was the state of the rest of the world in? Well, Europe hadn't been hit nearly as hard as Japan and the American continent had been. They had reunified into an organization known as the European Federation. The eastern territories of Russia and China, became the New Soviet Union. Taking advantage of our weakness, the Federation launched an invasion of Japan, while the Soviets attacked the island territories, including Okinawa.

Seeing an opportunity, the Federation offered the warlords power and some autonomy, in exchange for helping them kick the NSU out of Japan. In just one month, the European Federation had total control of our homeland. It has now been 3 years since their conquest.

With the majority of their troops fighting the NSU in Europe, the Federation tasked the warlords with keeping the demons and general population under control. The lords in turn, created armed mercenary groups to do the work for them. These were called hunter clans. They were also tasked with recovering pre-destruction artifacts, and technology. As I said before, I my self was a clan hunter until I went freelance a few months ago.

But here is where it really gets strange. Recently, the Federation began hearing these crazy rumors of a demonic artifact that could grant it's user powers that could rival even Lucifer. They tasked the lord of Okinawa, A Lord Takuya Yamato, to find this artifact.

Unconcerned with their demands, he hired a free lance group to gather information, and locate the artifact. This of course, was my group, since we had recently left Tokyo, and relocated to Okinawa. Our search lead us to a small island cave, off the shore of Okinawa. I looked at my two partners, and we entered the cave...

*Diary continues on the first dated entry...*