P5 X NSP ; The Persona In Me

The Castle In The Sky

They were ascending higher and higher into the air. Cosmo was looking down, clinging on to Knight for dear life.

"Cosmo, calm down. We'll be reaching soon." Knight told Cosmo as she looked down at him. He soon looked up at her.

"Calm down?! We're thousands of feet in the air and we might fall to our deaths if Xilvaron drops us by accident!" Cosmo said as he glanced down below before shuddering and looking away.

"Oh, you'll be fine! That's not very terrifying to us!" Greeneye told Cosmo loudly as he glared at him.

"That's easy for you to say! I'm only brand new here, and besides, you, alongside Saturn and Owl, are SITTING on Beowulf!" Cosmo yelled back before looking away, grumbling in anger. Doctor stared at him, chuckling awkwardly before Xilvaron shook him a little.

"Doctor, we're here." Xilvaron said. Doctor looks back up and sees that they've already arrived at the palace's heights.

"Oh, I see." Doctor said. Soon, Xilvaron touches down to the platform, letting go of Doctor, Knight, and Cosmo.

"Oh thank heavens!" Cosmo said as he landed before quickly moving away from the platform's edge as Beowulf leapt up from its airborne ice path, which soon shattered and disappeared.

"Thanks, Beowulf." Owl said as he got off of his back, same for Greeneye and Saturn. Beowulf simply barked as his three tails wagged before disappearing, returning to Owl's face. The SoulSaviours soon looked up at the castle. It was much bigger than what they had seen from below. It seemed to tower up slowly yet endlessly into the galaxy above.

"Huh...that's quite taller than what I had in mind-" Greeneye stated as he stared up at the building. Doctor and the rest nodded in agreement.

"Mhm. Well, team, shall we head in and get Sakura and your personas back?" Doctor asked as he turned to look at the group. The group all agreed in unison, which made him smile.

"Great, let's get going!" Doctor said before they all ran, bashing through the wooden doors of the palace and into...a white, spacious round room.

"Wh-what the?!" Saturn cried out as they stopped to look around. There was an abundance of orange specks scattered around the place, broken office furniture, remnants of glass, debris and a broken chandelier alongside a lot of torn files strewn across the floor, which seemingly was made out of tightly-packed clouds. In the middle of the room was a built-in display case around the size of a work file. It looked empty, although it seemed quite obvious as the glass door of the display case was broken. Most of the group was confused but Doctor and Owl knew all too well about this rather familiar room they all stood at.

"T-this is..."
"Tinker's palace...but how?.." Owl asked, finishing Doctor's sentence. The other SoulSaviours soon looked at the two.

"Tinker's palace looked like this?" Cosmo asked, surprised. Owl looked at Cosmo, nodding his head 'yes'.

"That's impossible, we already stole her treasure!" Doctor said as he exaggeratedly gestured his hands as if this wasn't supposed to happen. As he did, there was a wooden thock! behind them. They all turned to look and saw Rizeyar's mask. Before anyone could react, it burst out into an immense light show. Although, it was more of a flashbang.

"GAH- WHAT IN THE-" Cosmo yelled out as he clenched his eyes shut. Everyone also covered their eyes to prevent themselves from becoming blind. They couldn't see who had appeared but they heard a pair of wings take off from the ground. As it subsided, the group slowly uncovered their eyes to see...nothing there? It seemed as if nobody was there, only a few light yellow feathers were scattered around the area.