destinystrings

Who: Open to anyone, but anyone from the first log will be doubly urged to come.
Where: Starting in Virgo, leading in to Gemini.
Summary: The next night, the song is back, and even stronger...but this time, it seems to have a purpose.
Warnings: Secondary, small plot event
The 27th seemed to have been a bust. Many stood around, discussing the strange music, before eventually retiring when exhaustion hit after the 13th hour...and boy did it. Strangely, the civilian population- even persona users -reported to not hearing anything at all.

The night of the 28th, it happened again. The same song, the same pleading call, to the same row of shops. But something did change, as midnight melted quickly towards the Thirteenth hour.

Another noise sought to be heard over the music- this one akin to television static. If one looked closely at the glass of the nearby shop windows, they could see something cloudy forming on them...but that was only a reflection. Nothing stood in that spot in the street. A figure took form amid the shimmered raindrops, only visible in the reflection of the rain and the glass. A ghost, glowing dimly, with eyes so pitch black that one could never see through them. And where were those unending eyes pointed? Up at Mount Utsugi, giving way to Mictlan...

It moved instinctively, heading for the structure without any glance at the Persona users it had called out to. The piper had it's children, and now it only had to lead them...

[ OOC: Feel free to try to interact with the ghostly figure, or just go along for the ride! And just to clarify, yeah the ghost has no physical form- it's only visible in reflective surfaces -so if you wanna follow it, you might need a mirror or something. If you want to know if something would work for that, just bug me on plurk (gaakishi)! ]

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Yamato snapped his phone shut and slipped it back into his pocket out of the rain. The Power Atsuro summoned held out its shield, and Yamato frowned out at it. The reflections were blurry, and the smattering of raindroplets on it weren't helping - but they could see something quite clearly, even if it was just a shapeless blob.

Better than the snatches of movements his phone could catch.

"It is satisfactory. It seems to be heading for the mountain."

"Alright." Atsuro pauses. He hasn't known Yamato long, but the mere idea of proposing that they do an about-face before they're murdered by whatever new monstrosity is haunting Hinoto-Ri is laughable. The guy probably thought it was his duty to hunt down every threat.

"...The mountain's a demon hotspot night, right?" And they were patently in the 13th Hour now. "We should be prepared."

The Power leads the way, impassively flying ahead and angling its shield in such a way that the two boys could easily catch sight of the reflected demon. Atsuro follows behind, his steps a bit more purposeful as he follows after the enigmatic creature.

"I'm drawing a blank on flute-playing invisible demons here. Do you have any thoughts?"

"Perhaps it's Azathoth," Yamato huffed, a low wry chuckle escaping him briefly. "There are many demons, most of them harmless, some of them not, that uses tricks like these to lure curious humans to certain places. It could be anything, really."

Although only a handful could cloak their presence so well from those who were spiritually sensitive. It wasn't a weak demon, then, if it could hide itself so well, but there were still quite a few powerful demons who could pull a stunt like this. The only question though, was why.

It was luring Persona users to the mountain - it could be a very obvious, poorly hidden trap, but...

"Maybe it's the Invisible Ice Cream Truck demon come to bring us to our reward for beating the boss the other day. It could exist, you know. In theory. I'm in the mood for a shaved ice." Atsuro grumbles slightly as he continues to traipse along. "There are plenty of nice creatures in mythology, too. Why don't we ever see the leprechaun and its pot of gold?"

It was always something with lots of claws or teeth or eyes or... breasts. He doesn't delve into the practical considerations as deeply as Yamato - it was hard to think with the song and the rain and the... static?

"...What's with the crackling?"

"You're only just aware of it now?" Yamato asked, glancing aside at Atsuro with a faint frown. "You're a bit unobservant, aren't you?"

He had been hearing that crackling for ages. It was beginning to drive him a bit insane at this point, actually - then again, lack of sleep and irritable mood was doing the majority of the heavy lifting on his sanity.

He shakes his head with a frown of his own. "...I thought it was the rain bouncing off an unstable surface. It wasn't there last night."

Exhaustion and the general sense of sensory deprivation caused by being in a downpour made adequate discernment difficult. Now that his attention had been drawn to it, he couldn't stop hearing it.

"...........Please don't tell me anything's crawling out of a television."

Yamato gave Atsuro a strange look, not quite grasping the reference. "A...television? There aren't any in the nearby shop windows."

Although it did beg the question of where the static was coming from, but some demons were able to cause auditory hallucinations - it was a disturbing thought, but so long as it wasn't causing loud shrieking noises, he could tolerate the static noise any day.

"Hah... The world where they've already worked with Personas before - Apparently, the monsters there lived inside of televisions." Atsuro shrugs before he can pressed further on the matter. "Yeah, I don't know how that works, either. It's a good argument for not wasting your life sitting in front of a soap opera, though."

Says the boy who wastes his life sitting in front of a computer.

Yamato's gaze just intensified slightly, like he was trying to pick apart Atsuro's brain with the power of his eyes alone, before turning away to check up on the ghost they were stalking. Again, it was merely shambling forth towards the mountain at a sluggish pace.

This was dull. Perhaps they could apprehend it?

"Do you have any binding or weakening abilities, Kihara?" Yamato asked, "Such as a demon with Bind?"

He shakes his head. "I've got a Divine, a Megami, an Avatar, an Avian, a Genma, and a Beast. We could catch up to it faster if that's what you're going for... But we'd still just be following."

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