Every. Freaking. Time.

[Mad Mike]

Dodge, parry, quick-step behind and spinning forearm strike.

It had been some time since Maiku had been forced to start think ahead about his moves in a fight. Not for a long time. Not since his days back on Port Island... not since his days with-

"Woah doggy!"

A hasty dodge underneath a wildly flailing tongue of the floating creature behind him snapped him out of his little trip down memory lane, and he skipped back a few feet before rocketing forward to deliver a vicious swing of his guitar to send the thing shooting back like a missile, where it collided with another of the strange creatures that had just been picking itself up off the floor. Yet another was rapidly closing in from just at the edge of the ridiculously thick fog that blanketed the area...

"Haaa... " A sigh slipped out from the midnight haired fighter as he rotated his shoulder, stretching it out a bit, as it had become a little stiff swinging the deceptively heavy guitar around for quite some time now (minutes, hours? He'd lost track of time ages ago.)

"You guys are really annoying you know! He pointed the guitar at the group of 3 floating, tongue waving orbs. "I haven't even been in town for a friggin month and already I'm waist deep in fucking shadows! At least, " the hand holding the guitar dipped down slightly, I'm pretty sure that's what you bastards are... AGHH! And I can't even summon my persona any more! Not since we beat the ever loving shit out of Nyx anyways."

It was at this point in time one of the orbs shot forward to hopefully land a strike while he was busy ranting away, but was instead just grabbed by its tongue and flung back into the other two. "No! I'm ranting here, you guys sit there, shut up, and just roll over dead already!"

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Earlier...

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"Man, every freaking time!" A certain midnight haired man was standing around the electronics section of Junes, scratching his head and sighing in exasperation. "Every time I come and try to find the food court I always end up getting lost... It's like god wants me to always end up by these TV's..."

Another sigh, and Maiku turned his back and leaned against the wall right next to the largest TV the store had for sale, left uncovered by glass, probably as the display model. His black coat fluttered around his legs slightly as he rummaged around in its truly ludicrous number of pockets, eventually pulling out a cellphone and checking the time.

"Yep, afternoon. Which means the place is gonna be flooded with highschoolers just getting out of class and looking for a place to hang out, which means, there's not gonna be a damn seat in the food court when I finally get there, again!" he cried out as stood up suddenly and kicked at the ground with the toe of his boots (these badboys images.leatherup.com/imagesproc/41670_H_SH315_MW355.jpg)

After a few moments he sighed again, tossing his hands up in a sign of defeat before flopping backwards against the wall once more. At least, that was the plan.

Fate, on the other hand, had other plans for him, as he entirely missed the section of wall he had planted against before, and was headed straight for the overly large TV.

But the sisters of Fate weren't through with him yet, no sir.

"Wha-?!" For when he collided with the screen, instead of just possibly causing damage to the unit (easily paid for and replaced), he instead seemingly fell right through the damn thing, commencing an apparently monstrous fall through some truly mind boggling space.

"WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUOH GOD THATS THE FLOO-"

After what seemed like an eternity, Maiku finally collided with the floor, albeit not quite as viciously as he should have for the distance he seemingly fell. A few short moments later, he groaned and crawled his way to his feet, blinking away the blurriness that had drifted over his eyes like some thick haze.

Except it wasn't blur, it really was some stupidly thick fog. "Uhh... Buh? I... guess I'm not in Cansas anymore...Or even earth for that matter, I mean, everything is either fog or yellow..." He glanced around skeptically, and very futilely as the fog was unrelenting in all directions, not letting him see more than 10 feet around him.

"Wait... did... Did I fall through that TV back there? Oh come on. Every. Freaking. Time. I go to some new country, I find Tartarus and the Dark Hour. I go to a new town, and I get... THIS. God, you hate me don't you, you really, really d-".

A tongue. A large, slimy, truly vile tongue. That is what horribly collided with Maiku's back, sending him stumbling forwards onto the floor. And it had hurt.

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Presently

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"Well then? Round 36 bitches! LETS GO!"






[[GOD THAT WAS FUCKING LONG AND HORRIBLE TO WRITE. *dies in a corner now]]

[Yosuke/Kou]

"I swear to god if that bear is sending me on some wild goose chase his goose is gonna be fried..."

The sound of complaining echoed around the fog covered area as Yosuke was wandering around in search of someone. Teddie had run up to him not long ago and started screaming to Yosuke about how somebody had fallen into the TV and was in more danger than normal. Apparently enough danger that they didn't have time to wait for everyone. Teddie had pointed Yosuke in the direction that the person was in and told him to hurry to find him while he went to get the others.

"I don't see why Teddie was in such a frenzy. People have been in here for weeks before now, why would this guy be in so much danger after just a couple of hours?" His train of thought was suddenly cut off as he heard somebody nearby screaming about how it was time for round 36. "Wait, what?! Someone is fighting in here right now?!"

Yosuke pulled his Kunai from the inside of his jacket before he broke out into a sprint in the direction the voice was coming from. "Hey! Is somebody in here?!" He called out into the fog, hoping to attract the attention of whoever was in here. The last thing he wanted to do was run around a corner to see somebody getting swallowed by one of those floating mouths or something.

(OOC: Little awkward of a post, but without many people around it was almost certainly going to be.)

[Mad Mike]

"Eh?... Am I hearing voices now or did someone just call ouOHSWEETJESUSWHY-MMM! MMPHH! MMPHMPMHHH!" Oh fan-freaking-tastic.

The shouting of the new voice had sufficiently distracted Maiku enough that one of the floating blobs managed to pounce at him and was now halfway through an attempt at eating him whole. Although it seemed to be struggling a bit, as Maiku had half wedged his guitar into its jaw just as it was coming down on him.

Still, it had him firmly in his mouth, and now he looked rather silly with the creature over his top half, leaving him to run around rather wildly attempting to flail it off.

GET THE FUCKING HELL OFF ME YOU ASSHAT!

Although Yosuke probably just heard a bunch of muffled screaming.

[Yosuke/Kou]

Yosuke rounded a corner to see exactly what he didn't want to see. "Oh goddammit, this is exactly what I didn't want to see..." He grumbled to himself as he watched the man run around with the Shadow latched onto him. He couldn't deny it was a funny sight if nothing else.

"Hey, stand still! I can't get the thing off you if you keep running around like that." Yosuke called over to the man before summoning Jiraiya.

Jiraiya stood for a moment watching the man as well with his head cocked to the side.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. Just get the thing off of him before he get's killed or something."

Jiraiya ran over to the scene before delivering a punch to the Shadow and yanking on it with all his might.

[Mad Mike]

SHHHHLLLLLLRPOP![/size][/b]

With a truly horrendous squelching sound, like a plunger in a severely blocked toilet, the creature finally relinquished it's hold on Maiku, leaving him to pop free and promptly kick the damn thing right off into the fog at near sonic speeds.

"SWEET JESUS I'M FINALLY FREEoh hey someone who isn't trying to eat me. Hello~" He turned rapidly on the spot and offered some silly half salute before continuing. "Finally glad to see someone else in here for crying out loud. I thought I'd never be... done with... those things... bwuh?"

The man's train of thought slowly ground to a halt, as he finally took in the sight of Jariya floating there next to him, having just pulled the thing of his head. He stood there blankly staring at between it, and the newcomer Yosuke for a few good moments before fixing his gaze upon the kunai wielding brunette, hand pointing at the persona.

"Is... Is that a persona? I mean, seriously? They can still be summoned? Even with Ny- oh god that means... that means.... heh... heheh..."

A slow, truly diabolical chuckle poured forth from the midnight haired guitarist, as he slowly turned on the spot and proceeded to make his way, in a very menacing gait, over to the four or so shadows that had gathered up again and were waiting just at the edge of his vision.

"Ehehehe... You guys, have NO idea, of just how screwed you all are, now that I know persona's work here. So!" He spun the guitar deftly in his hands, before bringing to a playing position.

"LETS!"

His hand came down across the strings, loosing a chord that echoed and roared about the area, like the ghostly howl of a wolf 4 sizes too large, and with it, came an actual howl, now from the very large, two headed wolf that was materializing behind him, seemingly comprised entirely out of blue, crackling electricity. It snarled viciously before barking with both heads in unison, a sound that shook the air and visibly rattled the shadows ahead.

"ROCK!"

A wild grin worked its way onto Maiku's face, one that hadn't been seen in almost 3 years. One that signaled he was ready to go all out in a fight.



Those shadows were so fucked.

[Yosuke/Kou]

Yosuke stood staring at Maiku, his mouth practically on the floor. The one thing he had not expected to find here was a Persona user. And on top of that one that already looked like he knew a fair bit about them.

"What the hell?! You've got a Persona already?! How the hell did you get one?! You haven't been in the TV yet! Teddie would have noticed!" The knife wielding brunette shouted in complete shock before realizing now wasn't really the time to be having a conversation about that since Shadows were right over there and all.

"Aw, hell, never mind, you can explain later." He said slipping his headphones over his ears and stepping over next to Maiku. "Once we deal with these guys I wanna hear where you got that Persona from."

Jariya moved up behind Yosuke before the brunette turned his iPod on and Reach Out to the Truth could be heard faintly blaring out of his headphones. "Been a while since I've done this, hope I haven't lost my touch."

[Mad Mike]

"Heh, sure thing 'phones! I'll answer all of your questions and more, once we kick their asses! LETS GO!"

With an almighty roar, the teen fired of a Heat Riser onto himself, and charged straight into the trio of shadows.

... Which didn't last very long at all. I mean, Maiku didn't even break a sweat.


"... Man I was kinda hoping for more of a fight. I mean, I wanted to go all out and everything! Haaa, ah well." Scratching his head, Maiku dismissed his persona and turned to face Yosuke once more, offering a hand and a smile this time.

"Well, proper introductions I guess. Maiku Kamiyama, son of Daisuke Kamiyama A.K.A The Suke, rockstar extraordinaire."

[Yosuke/Kou]

"Well that was anti-climactic." Yosuke remarked with a shrug as he removed his headphones and hung them around his neck as he dismissed Jiraiya. "Never even got to fight."

A few seconds later Yosuke's mind registered Maiku's name. "Whoa, really?! I-t's you?! What are you doing in here?" The brunette sputtered out, surprised and not exactly expecting to see another famous person turn up inside the TV World.

"Oh, I guess I should introduce myself too, huh?" He said rubbing the back of his head. "I'm Yosuke Hanamura, the son of... The local Junes manager. Not quite as exciting, huh?" He said before laughing awkwardly.

[Mad Mike]

"Maybe not quite as exciting, but still better than nothing yeah?" With a chuckle, Maiku thumped the teen oh his back before stretching his hands above his head with a wide and prolonged yawn.


"Haaaangg, gah. Man I must've been in here fighting longer than I thought... Err, exactly where IS here anyways. And how the freaking hell do you see more than 10 feet in this crazy ass foooooggggwoah did the world just kinda start swaying or-ohgod thats the floor."

And floor it was, as the man's legs suddenly caved and rather unceremoniously dumped him on the floor. He laid there for a short while before shaking the cobwebs out of his head and forcing himself back to his feet.

"Wooaahhh,,, shit I must've been in here longer than I thought, ha.. haha... yeah an exit would be kinda nice right about now, dont you think?"

[Yosuke/Kou]

Yosuke blinked and stared at the man in front of him for a few seconds. That'd been the first time he'd seen someone react quite like that to the TV World. "It's the glasses." The brunette said tapping the frames of his glasses. "They were made by one of the guys that lives in here and they let me see through the fog. It's a long story. But let's get you out of here first and then I can explain this place to you and you can explain where exactly you got a Persona from. This place has a way of sapping the energy out of you if you aren't used to it."

And with that Yosuke span around on his heels and began walking off into the thick fog of the TV World. "Come on, the exit's over this way. At least I hope it is, Teddie usually leads us back..." The brunette said, mumbling the last part of the sentence to himself.

[Mad Mike]

Some time later, at the Junes food court...

"Pfaaa! Man alive! It feels good to have some food after a brawl like that!" Grinning and laughing, Maiku continued to lay all kinds of waste to the very rapidly diminishing mountain of food he had procured from a bunch of different places around the food court.

After a few more minutes of munching, he swallowed and finally turned his attention fully to the brunette at the table with him. "So, Yosuke right? What exactly was that place I was in? I mean..." he glanced around quickly to make sure no one else was too close by, "it wasn't exactly a tourist attraction now was it... I mean, freaking Shadows? I thought I saw the last of them years ago..." He mulled that thought over as he idly chewed on a burger.

[Yosuke/Kou]

Yosuke sat staring at Maiku, not quite able to believe the rate he was eating at. Where... Is it all going...? He thought to himself before Maiku suddenly asked him a question.

"Well, that's kind of a long story..." Yosuke said rubbing the back of his head as he sat back in his chair. "Basically, it's sort of everyone's minds. Most people can't get in there on there own and even if they do chances are they're gonna get killed by their own Shadows unless someone steps in. You would have probably ended up the same way if it weren't for the fact you had a Persona."

The brunette then sat forward and lent on the table looking at Maiku. "Which, speaking of, how exactly did you get a Persona anyway? I know you didn't get it from inside the TV, so, where?"