In the midnight hour [Open]

[zero_to_herooo]

Who:Eiji and open
Where: Scorpio District
Summary: Battling some Shadows, getting some grinding in.
Warnings: None.

The 13th Hour, Scorpio District -- Today, Eiji was going to scope out these Shadow monsters that apparently came out at night and forced the city to go into lockdown. He rarely stayed out this late, of course, but it was still weird to see everyone just packing up and closing their doors at a time when movie theaters, clubs, and the like should still be open.

Actually, it was a little eerie, too. Seriously, no one was around. He looked at his watch. 11:58. 11:59.

12:00.

Was that a sound? The slithering, sneaking, suspicious sound of something heavy being dragged along paved stone?

Eiji snapped his medals into the OOO Driver, just in case; the belt's voice echoed loudly in the now-quiet night air.

"Taka! Tora! Batta!"

"♪ TaToBa TaToBa TaToBa ♪" it sang.

A moment or two later, Eiji stood in the gloomy light of a nearby streetlamp, fully transformed. But sheesh, it was still kinda creepy around here. He almost felt like he needed a fedora or whatever, just to match the mood.

Something moved out from the shadows pooled at the end of the street. Something clearly not human. But not Imagin or Yummy or Greeed, either. Was this one of the Shadows? It looked like some kind of black ooze with a human mask on it. And it was oozing toward him, so he figured it was now or never.

He activated his tiger claws, snapping the long weapons into place over his fists, then charged. Time to find out what these guys were made of! P.S. Medals would be nice.

Comments

[sky_child]

BIRDIE

Which is to say, he looks at Eiji's persona with piqued interest. "So you have a bird, too?"

In other words: BIRDIE

[zero_to_herooo]

"Uh, yeah. Is it that unusual? I mean, I thought it was actually kinda plain. Especially if you look at some of the other Personas people have..."

Eiji's life was being surrounded by birds.

[sky_child]

"I haven't noticed. It's just...I guess my persona's a bird because...it's my bird. The one I have back at home."

[zero_to_herooo]

"Oh. Well, it's a pretty cool bird!" Eiji missed his bird too :c

"Uh, and maybe it'll show up here someday, too! Right?"

[sky_child]

"Maybe. But I don't know where I'd keep it."

Which is why his bird is a persona and not in the game.

[zero_to_herooo]

"Oh." Eiji had to think about that one for a second. "Well, maybe he can stay in your apartment? Or you could move into an attic apartment some place. Or if there was like a rainforest-themed restaurant or something, maybe they'd let you keep him there..."

[sky_child]

"It's...kind of a big bird."

[zero_to_herooo]

Hmm. "There's a big open area over near Mt. Usugi, if you can call it over."

[sky_child]

"I don't think I can. But if I find a way to get home..."

[zero_to_herooo]

"Oh. Actually, someone told me you can go home. It's just that that Philemon guy pulls you back most of the time." So basically, Eiji was here trying to straighten things out so he could go home for good. Terrible, trying to do hold down a job when you kept disappearing.

"Maybe if you went back for just a little while, though, you could finish stuff off."

[sky_child]

"You can go home? How?" Funny how his whole demeanor changed from dopey to focused.

[zero_to_herooo]

"Well, you choose to go home. ...But then you wake up the next day, and you're back here again, basically. Not too useful, and apparently you forget all about here while you're away."

Eiji paused. "But... if it's something you were gonna do anyway, maybe you'd still have a chance to do it. I don't know how useful that's going to be in your case, but I guess if it was just locking up your apartment back home or something."

[sky_child]

He shakes his head. "No. It was more important than that. If that guy will let me stay long enough to get that done..."

[zero_to_herooo]

Eiji frowned a little, shifting on his feet. "I don't know. But I mean, the worst that could happen is that you could get sucked back here too soon. If it's that important, I think it's worth a try."

[sky_child]

"It is that important."

Just savin' the world.

No big.

[zero_to_herooo]

"Then you should try it tonight! Tell me how it goes, okay?" At any rate, it seemed about time for Eiji and pack up and head back to the old apartment.

"Anyway, I gotta go. See you around!"

[sky_child]

He nods. "Be careful. And, um. Sorry about hitting you. Again."