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Chapter Eleven: Fight under the Full Moon
Dark Hour, Paulownia mall
"…Hey… are you alright, kupo?"
A mysterious voice wakes me up; I open my eye to see a creature that I never imagined seeing here.
"A moogle…?" I say as I stand up and reach for his pom-pom with my left hand to confirm my suspicions but suddenly realize that my whole left arm have gone numb… that´s… inconvenient
"Yep, I'm the best moogle you'll find in this world… so, are you alright, kupo?"
"Yeah, thanks for waking me up, but… um… what are you doing here; you are the first moogle I've seen in this world"
"Well, I just came to this world a while ago; kupo. It was really hard to enter though and there are not much customers, so I came to this city to try luck, kupo"
"I-I see" Moogle, they always think of business, makes me feel like I'm going to lose my money soon, better leave "Well, thanks for the help, now…"
"You are Sora, the Keyblade wielder, right?" oh, gotta lie, gotta lie "And don't try to lie I recognize the crown chain, kupo"
"Geh" I got discovered
"So maybe I can interest you in some old keyblade wielder weapons, kupo"
"Huh?"
"Yes, look here…" suddenly the Moogle makes numerous cards appear in the air and start circling around his body "These are the fragments that the keyblade wielders of old used, they learned their skills from these cards to battle the darkness in the worlds… take a look at them yourself, kupo" he hands me four of the cards
*Zantetsuken*, *Hover Bike*, *Dual Raid*
Those are the names of the skills in these cards… somehow I know their names and the power they hold and I know they could come in handy in this journey and if this Moogle have more of this cards they could be really useful… the problem now is how to buy them
"I see, I have interested you, kupo"
"Kind of… yeah. So how much do they cost?"
"I'll be nice to you this one time, kid, since you seem like a good inversion. Those three cards are yours and next time we meet if you have find them useful I made you a discount in some new cards but if you don't like them you can give them back, is that alright, kupo?"
"Really?!"
"Sure, kid. So make sure to visit my shop will be around here.´Til later, kupo" he says as he waves goodbye
I wave back with my right hand and despite having half of my body numb, it seems today could be a good day…
5/9 Saturday
Dark Hour, Command Room
"I'm still surprised on how good you are at this" Mitsuru-senpai says
"Hee-hee, thanks…" She's been praising me like this for the last week since it seems my DiZ persona is quite adequate for providing support, it kinda makes me happy. I help her look for stray shadows that could harm the public and it also quite handy since I can also look for Raidou, Hibiki, Kazuya and Naoki since I haven't seen them since the fight with the Fiend. After all they are from other worlds and as a former keyblade wielder I must helped them, also…
"Argh!" a great pain comes from my Persona to my mind and I fall to the ground
"Sakuraba!" I hear the voice of Akihiko-senpai at my side, seems he had enter the command room while I was thinking about those guys
He helps me to the my feet
"Are you okay, Sakuraba?" I hear the worried voice of Mitsuru-senpai
"It's a shadow… a big one…" I say letting go of Akihiko-senpai "It's… in the Anezaharu passanger train…" I locate the shadow earning another big headache
They both think of it for a moment and suddenly look completely surprised
"You mean it's one of those?!" the voice of Akihiko-senpai seems suddenly surprised
"…It must be" Mitsuru-senpai voice tries to keeps it's calm but it's clear she's worried
Akihiko-senpai suddenly flashes a grin "This is going to be fun. I'll wake the others up"
After some minutes…
"We're here" I hear the hurried voice of Yukari
"Where is it?! I'll rip it a new one" I hear the voice of Junpei
"We came as soon as we could" And finally the voice of Minako
I am sitting in the couch without looking at them trying to recover from the mental pain of finding the shadow.
I hear Mitsuru-senpai talking to them about the operation of this night and I must admit this is bad, I was able to keep secret the numbness of my left side but maybe I shouldn't go, I could be a drag and put them in danger maybe I should just…
"Sora-kun, let's go" I hear Minako says
HUH?! What happened? I wasn't paying attention
"C'mon, step it up leader" Junpei says with an annoyed voice
Guess there is not going back now…
"Let go…" I say with as much energy as I can muster while I follow them out to the dorm
After some time at the last cart of the monorail…
"I didn't know you had a Persona with that kind of power…" Minako and I chat a bit while we wait for Mitsuru-senpai orders
"Yeah, DiZ is pretty handy but I can't use it in battle because I would need to concentrate so…" suddenly the doors close…
"?!"
/What's wrong?! What happened?!/ we heard Mitsuru-senpai voice over the communicator
"It looks like we're trapped" Yukari voice sound worried but tries to remain calm
/It must be the shadow… it must know you are in there. Be ready for anything! Proceed with caution!/
"Roger!" The three of us say and start walking towards the front cart
Some minutes passes and we still don't see anything not even a little shadow, until suddenly one appears out of nowhere but flees towards the next carts just as fast and Junpei tries to pursuit it, I stop him but it useless as he leaves the three of us alone.
"Darn it, Junpei" I grunt… I should have seen this coming seeing how he was acting towards me being leader "Let's go after him!"
Both Minako and Yukari nod and we start to move towards him, but suddenly two unexpected things happen. First Shadows appear all around us and second the train starts to move.
"Great… just peachy…" I comply quietly
After a few minutes fighting the shadow, we finally defeat them all with some difficulty since we try not to use our Personas since the space is really reduced
"All right… now towards Junpei" I say as we start moving
/Sakuraba, Takeba, Arisato! You must hurry it seems the train is in control of the shadow, you must stop it or it will crash in the next one!/
"No way…" I hear Yukari voice at my back
/Also, Iori is fighting it and it's not going well/
"Got it! ...Let's move!" I say almost yelling
Junpei P.O.V.:
"Ouch, ouch ouch" I say as I'm being almost freeze to death by this damn shadow… who would have thought I would run out of strength… I deserve this… I... I…
The shadow is charging her last attack, I close my eyes and suddenly
"Garu" I hear a voice behind me
I turn around as the wind blocks the attack of the Shadow
"Yuka-tan!" I yell as I see my savior
"Agi!" I hear another voice
"Minako-chan" I say as the ice around me melts allowing me to stand up
Now since they are here that mean…
"Junpei…" I hear a male voice and I'm honestly scared this happened before I should have thought better but it just… "Ouch!" I yell
He hit me in the head…
"You idiot… you almost died" he says with a hash voice full of worry "We are a team, you can't beat it alone, but with the four of us it will be a piece of cake" He flashes me a smile
Huh?!
"You girls don't mind if we finish this one out, right?" he says with another smile towards Minako-chan and Yuka-tan… they seem confused but trust him and nod
"C'mon, let's end her" he puts his hand in my shoulder and his Persona appears behind him with the sound of crystal shattering I do the same and summon my Persona with my evoker and feel his energy coming into me…
"Ready…" I nod and we both look ahead towards the shadow "Now!"
With simple word a flaming inferno unleashes in the card concentrated in the shadow who tries to move but it's already too late for her, she is engulfed in a sea of flames that vanishes as fast as it came
Sora P.O.V.:
"Towering Inferno" That's the name of this fire with fire attack… Junpei truly fought this Shadow with everything he had but it would have been more easy if we had all fight together… oh, well the adventure is just beginning we'll get better…
"See, Junpei when we stand together we can overcome anything" I say giving him a smile. I know he wants to be leader but for now it's that attitude that's keeping him out of that position… but I'm sure he'll get better
"…" He is silent for a moment "Sora… I—"
"Guys, not trying to interrupt the moment but we have a train to stop" I hear Minako voice hurrying us from behind to stop the train
So we start moving towards the first cart when suddenly a great current of electricity runs through the train making it halt and damaging us
"W-what was that?" Yukari question as we try to recover ourselves
"Senpai, are you out there? What happened?" I ask through the communicator
/Get out of the train, you should see this for yourselves/ her voice sound empty, almost scare… and that scares me
We open the doors, get out of the cart, glance to the sky and we get completely surprised at what we see…
"I-impossible…" out there in the sky, there is a creature I've fought before, the Storm Rider heatless… just… how..?
And suddenly another surprise as numerous Neoshadows heatless surrounds us…
"Just great…" I complain in a low voice once again as the four of us stand back to back.
A/N:
So yeah not much about this chapter, it's simple and the beginning of the end of the first story arc, also the first fight against a full moon shadow.
So yeah, hope you enjoyed, leave a review if you want and please forgive my English.
Also Merry Xmas and a happy new year to everyone, see you in the next chapter