on the hunt

[miseris_socios]

Characters: Ken Amada and open.
Setting: The Meadow and The Forest. Or catch him on the stairs! Just tell me where. Night.
Format: Action
Summary: It's training time. Ken's spear still isn't fixed, but he's got his Evoker. Time to hunt Shadows.
Warnings: Possibly dark subjects. Also shooting yourself in the head. :|b


[He's been still for too long. Going out at night, hunting Shadows… he's missed it. So quietly, as to not wake anyone, he heads out of his room and down the stairs, looking for something to fight.]

[And he finds it. Blobs of Shadow, there in a corner and over there, too - and the quick movement of a Shadow with too much speed. Lifting his Evoker to his forehead, he fires, summoning Nemesis, dispatching a few with Hama and frying a few more with Zionga.]

Comments

[evokingfool]

Really, thank you.

[Minato smiles. So this is the truth they try to hide from him. His friends back in the Underworld.

And he was so blissfully ignorant of their pain, every time they see him.]

[pitiedthefool]

[...He grows silent, giving a faint nod. Really, it could be read any way, though it's mainly confusion as to why someone would thank him for saying something like what he mentioned unless... Unless the truth had been hidden from him. Somehow that both seemed right and wrong all at once.

Truth can be a painful thing, and hadn't he chosen to face it anyway? ...He only hoped their guesses were wrong.]

...What year was it, back home?

[evokingfool]

[If Yu ask, Minato would tell him his guesses. That the truth was hidden from him.]

It's 2009 for me.

[pitiedthefool]

It's spring of 2012 for me.

[So if Minato ever wondered if it had been something his friends had or hadn't done, it wasn't and more than likely after both their times if it were the case. Though, there was that one time- no, he was not going to think back on that possibility. But still, he pulls out a pair of grey glasses from his pocket and holds them out to the one who came before him.]

...Here. Because of my Persona, I no longer need these to see.

[He offers a smile, however faint. It was one of the last things he had of a close friend, but he doesn't mind. The memories and the picture they took together is enough.]

[evokingfool]

[He looks down at the glasses. Slowly, he reach out and gently take them. The glasses seem very important to Yu.

But Yu's giving them to him. Minato feels...honoured by the gestured.]

If you don't mind me holding onto them.

[He smiles back, holding the folded glasses in his right hand.]

[pitiedthefool]

I don't mind. Besides...
[He shakes his head, letting go of the glasses he'd once discarded while summoning the power of the truths he knew by heart, and his ultimate Persona who he could almost hear encouraging him. If their guesses were right, and what Minato and his friends were doing for the other (and had done by his time), then...]

...I should be the one thanking you.

[-Because their actions made his reality possible. Being able to grow up, to meet the ones who became so precious to him... his World Arcana-]

Maybe if our friend, Teddie, is brought here... he can make you your own.

[evokingfool]

Your friend make glasses?

[Interesting hobby, or job if it's Teddie's occupation. Minato examine the glasses in his hand, taking note of the small details.]

[pitiedthefool]

Yeah. Never did figure out how they worked in the TV...

[Definitely the former, just... don't ask about the joke glasses unless you really want a laugh. He smirks just a tiny bit, before changing to Izanagi-no-Okami and watching him kick a monster in the face with its bladed foot.]

[evokingfool]

The TV?

[He sound bemused, as he switch to a different Persona. A fired Evoker later, Cu Chulainn appears in his white armoured glory and start stabbing a monster with his spear.]

[pitiedthefool]

[...He is going to have to get used to the Evoker thing, even after Naoto used her gun to shoot her Fortune card all the time.]

It's a long story. [A pause, then a nod.] Basically, there was another world inside the TV in my time- one only others who had been able to survive it could enter. That's where my team trained.

[Yu would go into more detail, but he's running a little low on stamina here with having to resort to his Personas for all of his defending... Whoops.]

[evokingfool]

[Except unlike Naoto, Minato's using his Evoker to shoot himself.]

We can talk and exchange notes later.

[Like when they're not under attack.]

[pitiedthefool]

[Exactly. Yu nods faintly, eyeing the monsters around them. ...Might be a good idea to flee at some point.]

Right. Let's see about finishing them off first.

[Izanagi-no-Okami stops striking, instead rotating his blade around before a Megidolaon spell falls on the surrounding monsters in an explosion of almighty magic.]

[evokingfool]

[Cu Chulainn stops, staying out of the almighty explosion's range. Once the dust clears, many of the monsters died.]

Not bad.

[pitiedthefool]

[Sorry Cu Chulainn, and Izanagi really wasn't meaning to try and hit you. /all the shared EXP?]

You're not bad yourself.

[evokingfool]

[All the shared EXP, man.]

I have a lot of practice.

[Shadows infested towers are good training grounds, apparently.]

[pitiedthefool]

I don't doubt that any.

[As are different many different realities inside the "hollow forest" of "the sea of the unconscious thought", apparently.]

[evokingfool]

Let's finish clearing them out.

[Aw yeah, protag badassery.]

okay I'm done.

[pitiedthefool]

Yeah.