Persona 3 : Two Souls

Part 37 - Chidori

November 21st, after a few more days the students would return to Tatsumi Port Island and return home. It was the afternoon when they returned and it'd probably be dipping into evening when they got back to the dorm building. Once back home, everyone was beyond tired and made their ways back to their own rooms for that night.

Meanwhile, at the hospital Chidori was staying at, she was drawing away in her sketchbook as the sunset and day turned to night, she gripped her pencil in confusion and frustration as she looked upon her own work.

"What am I drawing?" the red-haired girl asked herself as she looked upon the paper in front of her, she stared at it for several moments before she heard a shattering sound from outside which disrupted her concentration, the fire alarm started to sound off and the door to her room opened with a hurried thud.

"It's been awhile, hasn't it?" Sakaki said as he and Jin entered her hospital room.

"That voice?" Chidori said "Is it?"

"Yes, it's us." the pale man said with a wicked grin "It's great to see you once again." he turned to look at his dark-haired associate "Jin, the instruments."

Jin followed these orders, he set his briefcase on her bed and emptied it's contents to reveal the girl's usual attire folded neatly as well as her evoker and her chains.

"I trust we don't need to restrain you." Sakaki said in a calm but menacing tone.

"Takaya..." Chidori said weakly.

"Surely you understand, you have no where else to go." Sakaki said as he stepped closer to her bed "You must come with us." he paused for a moment to examine her face, it was just as he remembered it but something in her eyes had changed. "You need not fear death, only thing you need to fear is..." he stopped to let her finish.

"I know..." Chidori replied.

"Excellent, then let us be off." Sakaki said as he left the room, expecting Jin and Chidori to follow, as she was getting dressed into her old clothes she thought about Junpei. Junpei was the source of her problems, ever since she met him she had felt nothing but pain, he gave her this fear of death that she did not have before and she hated it. Once she was ready, she left her sketchbook on the bed and followed the other members of Strega.

November 22nd, that night when the Dark Hour came Takuya was rudely awoken, he was starting to think he'd never be able to consistently get a good night's rest as she sat up and heard Fuuka's voice in his head apologize for waking him up.

"I don't know how to say this, but you need to go to the fourth floor." Fuuka informed him as he got out of bed. "Now?" Takuya asked knowing the answer. "Yes." she answered as he changed back into his uniform before leaving his room and heading to the meeting room on the fourth floor. Upon arriving in the room, he noticed he was the last person to get there as everyone else had beaten him there, he also noticed that Fuuka already had Juno out which meant this was probably just as important as Fuuka made it seem.

"Princess, what's going on?" Takuya asked as he walked over and joined the others.

"Yamagishi sensed something." Mitsuru explained in response. "Other Persona users, to be exact, and they're outside of Tartarus."

"But we killed Strega, didn't we?!" Miyuki exclaimed.

"Seems they're still alive." Akihiko answered "We can't just leave them be."

"Jeez!" Yukari complained "First the Dark Hour refuses to go away and now Strega's back, our luck just gets worse and worse."

"How many are there, Fuuka?" Takuya questioned.