The Return Of The Wild Card

Chapter 2 Persona Problems

“Naoto-kun!” Naoto could hear Rise’s cry from beyond the smoke from the explosion as she quickly leapt to her feet. The blast had sent both she and Minato flying as it happened to be aimed directly at their feet!

“Come! Sikuna-Hikona!” Summoning her Persona she sprinted forwards to protect the still stunned Minato lying on the ground not to far away from her. Her eyes narrowed in concentration as two golden tanks emerged from the smoke, training their guns on the two of them. “Ziodyne!”

In an instant the hit shadow turret disintegrated into thin air with a poof of black smoke. The others rushed towards them in an instant as Naoto’s Shield of Justice deflected another powerful gunshot from the remaining turret!

“Tomoe!” The Chariot Tarot card appeared in front of Chie but... “Wha-Huh?!?” What? Why didn’t her Persona Tomoe materialize behind her? Why hadn’t her Persona been summoned? This didn’t make sense!

“Go! Jiraiya!” Yosuke’s as well? What is going on? “What the?! It worked fine a minute ago!” Suddenly Minato stood next to Naoto and lifted a gun to the side of his head.

“What are you doing?”She cried I disbelief at her cousin as he pulled the trigger. Suddenly a blue light seem to smash from the opposite side of his head as he spoke the word ‘Persona’. It flickered for a moment before disappearing again.

“Orpheus! Agidyne!” The second turret mimicked the first as a powerful fire spell easily destroyed it.

“I didn’t know you were a Persona-user... Do you...?” A thought suddenly crossed her mind as she remembered what had happened not too long ago.

“Hmm? Do I what?” He returned her curious expression with one of his own.

“Do the names Mitsuru Kirijo, Akihiko Sanada and Aigis sound familiar to you?” His eyes widened as she spoke before replying in anticipation.

“Yes! Of course they do. They were my friends at Gekkoukan High. Do you know them?” Naoto smiled at him.

“Yes. We know them and some others too. Junpei Iori, Yukari Takeba, Ken Amada, Koromaru and Fuuka Yamagishi. We have all worked together with Persona’s before. They... Said that someone special to them had... Well...” She hesitated, unsure about how to tell him that they think he’s dead.

“Ah... Yes I know all about that. But tell me. How are they?” His worried look brought the young detectives smile back as she replied;

“Oh. Yes. They are all doing well from what we saw of them! You have some strong friends! Also Aigis now has an older sister, Labrys.”

“That’s good to hear.”

“Hey, did you forget about us again?” The two of them turned to Yosuke with slightly guilty expressions. “Come on guys! There’re more important things right now then what happened with Labrys and Sho!” His agitated voice seemed to grab the rest of the team’s attention, who had been trying to summon their Personas again.