I stared at Curly, who was laughing insanely while saying something about thieves, and at Minato, who'd shot him self in the head.

I wasn't sure who to tend to first. The crazy person or the suicidal one. I decided on Minato. Curly's fit would end eventually. I rushed to inspect Minato. 

To my surprise and relief, there was no bullet wound. Just Minato standing there. The look of pure glee had left his face, replaced by cool calm. I thought to myself,  "How does he not have any wound? Was that a Persona? How does Curly know about Personas? What was with those blue butterfli-"

My train of thought was interrupted by a sudden meow. Morgana, Curly's black cat, was standing by my legs and was constantly meowing. That shook Curly out of his fit.

"Morgana? How'd you get out of that coffin? No, I didn't pull a Ryuji. No, I didn't "accidentally" pull them into Mementos! Why, you little-" Akira answered.

He ran towards Morgana, who seemed to be teasing Curly. Minato gave the smallest hint of a smile at the scene before

CRUNCH!

A shadow with a blue detached mask climbed up the wall of the apartment. 

Instinctively, my brain looked for the nearest T.V. If we were in the Midnight Channel, we could exit it. I grabbed Yu and Curly's arms as well as Morgana, and ran down the hallway. I went into my room, where I'd hung a massive T.V. for situations like this. Without thinking, I ran towards it full throttle. I'd get out of here. Curly let out a loud,

"NO! What the fuck are you thinkin-"

But it was already too late. We fell into the large black screen. Cold, foggy air rushed past us as we fell. Minato had a look of accepted death on his face as Curly cussed in both Japanese and English. Morgana yowled. Why were we falling? We should've just stumbled out of the Midnight Channel or "Dark Hour" that Minato just was talking about. Unless....

We landed with a loud thud, and everyone groaned from the impact. I got up and rubbed my head. Why did we end up here? Did we enter the Midnight Channel instead of exit it? But how come there were shadows in the apartment? 

I looked at Minato for an explanation when instead I saw Curly in a black coat, black shoes, red gloves, and a white mask with black eye decorations on it. Morgana had a cartoonish build, like Teddie's, and what was even more surprising was that he was speaking English. Fluently. 

Morgana was yelling at Masked Curly for some thing while Masked Curly yelled back. Minato got up and bushed himself off. I was about tell them about them about the Do's and Don't's when a familiar bear-esque shadow appeared. 

"Teddie!"I yelled over Minato's moaning and Curly/Morgana's fighting. "What is going on?"

Teddie looked nervous at the sight of Minato and Curly. He was about to say something when he noticed Morgana.

"Yu-Sensei, what are you-! Mona?! Is that you?"

Teddie ran through the thick fog towards Morgana and hugged him. Curly yelped in surprise as he felt a plastic-textured object brush beside him. Minato looked around wildly, trying to find the source of Teddie's voice. I realized that Minato and Curly couldn't see through the air. I reached in my pockets and found Naoto and Yukiko's old glasses in my pocket. 

I handed Naoto's to Minato and Yukiko's to Curly. I realized with a start that Curly had his mask on, and it would be rude for me to take it off. He'd have to wear the glasses over the mask. I turned to Teddie to ask when I saw him and Morgana chatting.

"So Akira's a protagonist too?!" 

"Yep. Igor and the family filled me in. I met them in a pedophile's castle."

I didn't even bother asking about their conversation. I tapped Teddie on the shoulder and explained the situation. Teddie brought out the glasses. I smiled as I handed them to Curly. They fit perfectly. 

Curly laughed out loud as he brought out his mirror. Minato smirked. Morgana took one look at Curly and burst out laughing like Yukiko.

"Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha! Yo-ha-you look ha hi-haha- hiral-ha hilarious! Akira! I wi-hahhahaha wish that the others coul-ha could see you!"

Akira, hm? Was that Curly's name? Well, Akira and Minato looked around at the Midnight Channel. The sky was yellowish, and the air was filled with thick fog. I decided to let Teddie to tell them part of the truth.

"I'm bear-y glad you came to see me Sensei. I was getting beary lonely. The beardom I experienced was unbearable." He turned to Minato, Morgana, and Akira. "This is the Midnight Channel! Creatures by the name of shadows live here. The shadows are generally created by beary negative human emotions, and occasionally you'll find one of a human's unwanted self, but sometimes, beary rarely, cute and good shadows like myself and Morgana, are born. 

The gods who created this realm are currently known as Izanagi, the goddess of the Land of the Dead, Nyx, the goddess of Night, Nyarlathotep, the demon of twisted human desires, Yaldaboath, the son of the god of chaos, Pandora, the malevolent incarnation of all sins, and some others, as well as Philemon, the deity of benevolent human nature. This realm is only accessible from the outside world by a few. Igor, as well as Elizabeth, Margaret, Theodore, Nameless, Belladonna, The Demon Painter, and Lavenza, who are denizens of the Universal Order of Time and Regularity, determine who is deemed worthy of changing the world's twisted desires and defeating the shadows of those with twisted views.

 There have only been a few people lucky enough to be granted with Protagonist Syndrome, an ability given to those trying to change the world. 3 of them are here now. The other known 7 are known as Naoya Toudou, Maya Amano, Tatsuya Suou, Taro Namatame, Tohru Adachi, and Goro Akechi. 

As of now, I've been told that Naoya and Maya are currently out in your world fighting shadows with their personas, Suou and Namatame are serving jail time for their crimes of kidnapping and murder, and Akechi is dead. We don't know where Tatsuya is. He kinda just, disappeared."

Teddie let out a long sigh as he finished. Minato and Akira looked at each other, Morgana, Teddie, and me. Akira was the first to speak.

"So, you're telling me that they have personas too? Are they confidants representing Tarot cards as well? What are they?"

Morgana answered.

"All of you 3 are the human representation of the same Tarot card. You were all once the Fool Arcana, and now you all have risen to the World Arcana. Naoya Toudou is the Emperor Persona, and Tatsuya was the Sun. Maya is the Moon."

"What do you mean by, 'Tatsuya was the sun?' Isn't he still a persona user?"

We were about to talk more when a flurry of bright blue butterflies appeared. A man with long brown hair tied in a tight bun wore a mask with an blue butterfly wing on the right, a yellow wing on the left, and a red accent. He simply gave us all a smile before waving his hand. He disappeared in another flurry of butterflies just as 2 more people fell from the sky. 

The one face flat on the ground had unruly dark blue hair and when I looked at his face, he had light blue, almost violet, eyes. The second one was a girl with shoulder-length brown hair and fuschia eyes.  Their clothes were ripped in varying areas, and there were also small spots of blood. The girl's hair was missing in clumps. 

The boy who landed face first got up, using the already standing boy as a support. The girl got up easily, which seemed to be surprising to her. The boy with unruly hair, who Minato and I immediately dubbed as Curly 2, though his hair mas just unruly, not curly, started cussing angrily. That seemed to shock Morgana. I asked him why.

"Naoya almost never talks like this but, it seems he's gotten more vocal. I'm just not used to it. Then again, we were both crippled a moment ago, so I shouldn't be one to judge."

The girl tried to calm Naoya, or Curly 2, down using soothing words. She took out a small stuffed rabbit and seemed to use it to calm him down.

"Shhh....Naoya....I am here."

She turned to us for support, but we didn't know what to do. She sighed and looked back at Naoya. Naoya calmed down eventually and Maya put the stuffed bunny in a bag that had 2 patches roughly sewn on to the biker's leather. The square patch looked like someone had tried to destroy it at some point.

Teddie ran over to the three and handed them each a pair of the same glasses as Akira's. The boys looked at it uncertainly as the girl put it on. 

"Wow! I can see really well now! Naoya! Put them on!"

Naoya put them on and blinked in amazement. "They really do work! I thought you were joking Maya!" Naoya said in surprise. 

Minato coughed. 

"Ummm....I'm sorry to ruin your reunion/discovery, but we have friends to deal with."

Everyone turned to where Minato pointed to. Hordes of shadows were coming towards us. I got into fighting stance as Akira grabbed the edge of his mask, Minato brought out a gun, and Naoya and Maya brought their hands outwards like my own. Teddie and Morgana stood by us, ready to fight. Akira counted out loud, supported by Maya. They said,

"READY? 3...2...1...PERSONA!"

At "persona" we all performed different actions. I summoned the World Tarot card and smashed it, summoning Izanami-no-Okami. Minato shot himself in the head, summoning the same persona as before. Akira ripped of the glasses and the mask, blood splattering everywhere and dripping down his face, summoning a demon-like red persona. Naoya and Maya waved their hands and summoned a silver and blue robot woman persona, and an Egyptian pharaoh mummy persona.

 And with that, our battle began.

Wow! 1756 words! I can't believe it! I'm so happy I finished this chapter, because it was a bear. I enjoyed it, but it was hard because I felt I needed to give P1 and P2 some love. Naoya and Maya would've never met if it wasn't for some long nosed smoker we all know and love/hate. They will stay for the most bit, and yes, I only mentioned a few protags on purpose. I mean, Yu did tell Teddie to only tell part of the truth. They will show up eventually.

The visit to the Velvet room will be soon, so stay tuned!

Stay fluffy my perfect sheep!

Msperfectsheep