Wallace slowly woke up seated in the chair of the Velvet Garden, standing by Igorâs side now was a young man in a blue suit. The young man looked much like Wallace except he wore an eye patch and the normally bedhead like hair was slicked back and straightened âgood eveningâ the young man said âI assume you are the one that master Igor has told me about. I am delighted to finally meet you, my name is Silverstrand. Yes its a odd name but it will have to do for nowâ he says Wallace wondering why he is back in the garden âw-why am I here?â he asks looking at Silverstrand curiously. âMaster has asked that I inform you about what has just happened, see part of the reason you are here is because you have a special gift, you are a wielder of a very special arcana, the fool to be exactâ he says âAnd as such you also wield another equally important power known as the wildcard, As such you can change your persona at will, as such it is my duty to take care of a compendium of all persona you will come to useâ he says pulling a book out of nowhere ânow, I believe it is time you woke up, wouldnât want to sleep too long now would ya?â he says Wallace then blacking out and jolting awake in his bed sitting up quickly âhey, heâs finally awakeâ Luke says sitting in the corner of the room on a chair Megan sleeping on the floor next to the bed curled up âhow long was I out?â he says rubbing his eyes still semi tired âat least a day, had to call you in sickâ Luke replies âits before school so if we hurry we can get you in for your first day hereâ he says Wallace then getting out of bed trying not to step on Megan âand look about Saturday night, we do not speak a word about anything that happened outside of the dorm and even then only if there arenât any guests around got it?â he adds staring down Wallace âI understandâ Wallace replied âOK EVERYONE, UP AND AT IT TIME TO GET READY FOR CLASSES!â Luke yells the sound off doors opening could be heard inside the dorm as everyone rushed to get their things ready âif iâm right you should be in the same class as Megan and Kaguyaâ he says to Wallace. Kaguya then looked up putting on her school shoes âoh this is gonna be great, showing the new kid aroundâ she says sighing âcould be worse, he could be in class with the twinsâ Megan responds yawning âor worse, with that weird art girlâ Selene says getting dressed âweird art girl?â Megan says blinking âwell I guess she really isnât in my class, sheâs just⊠thereâ Selene says heading for the door of the dorm. Soon the dorm members were in their respective classrooms Wallace was seated between Kaguya and Megan. An hour later the three were sitted in an outdoor dining area of the school "this place is bigger than I imagined" Wallace says as he looked around the area "well this place was meant originally for children of the state, so it was meant to be a top of the line facility for students to learn and relax when warrented" Megan says "though once parents found out they could potentially send their kids away for learning they begged the state to open the place to the public and then the surrounding city followed with it" she adds working on her asignments instead of eating. As they were talking a group of students wearing black uniforms and arm bands with a skull like pattern stepped into the dining area "oh great it's the death parade" Kaguya says noticing them "keep quiet, I don't need them coming over and bugging me while I'm doing my work" Megan whispers to her as one of them walked over "well if it isn't the Kitsune reject and moon girl, and who's your friend over here" the student says looking at Wallace "Don't answer her, just keep to yourself and she will go away without a problem" Megan says trying to focus harder on her work "don't you have someone else to herass?" Kaguya says sighing "I just wanted to say hello to the new student, can't I do that without either of you flinging insults? Its almost as if you two have something against me." the student says smirking "I'm afraid I must go, welcome to the school though, I hope you find better friends at some point" she says walking away. Wallace just sat there blinking and wondering what had just happened "uh..." he says trying to get a word out. "They're called Death Watch, they're a group that formed around the time that weird phenomenon started popping up, its filled with bullies and stuck up rich kids from around the school" Kaguya says sighing "look don't believe a word of what they say, especially her." A few hours later the dorm occupents were back together "So how was your first day in school here?" Mia asked Wallace "it was... uneventful to say the least" he replied looking down "yup thats school life for you, it's as if it's our jobs to go to school every day here until we graduate." Kaguya says staring at the ceiling "well it could be worse, any of us could be in the same class as a death watch idiot" she adds smirking "well there is that one girl from death watch in our class, she isn't as how to say.... repelling as the others" Mia says watching tv. A few hours later the dorm team sat outside the entrance to their dorm, the clock outside slowly ticking to midnight "ok is everyone ready? the nights should be much easier now that we have Wally with us" Luke says standing before everyone "assuming he can perform as good as he did last night without passing out again" Kaguya says watching the clock "he should be fine now, everyone passed out before when we first got our personas" Megan says holding a steel bat over her shoulder "get ready everyone, the phenomenon begins in 3... 2... 1..." Aegis says as the clock slowly ticked onto midnight the lights around them slowly turning off the phenomenon coming into effect "with that everyone went into a battle stance looking around "wait... where are the shadows?" Megan says blinking surprised "there will be no shadows tonight" a familiar voice says from nearbye "I told them to stay away while I take things into my own hands" the voice adds "wait... no way" Kaguya says surprised "I knew she was evil but..." she adds as the female student from before stepped into view along with another smaller blonde student "Death Watch has been watching you for every night since you have awakened to this, we decided that we can't have any interuptions in our plans" she says looking at them "so I decided that finally we would do something to.... persuade anyone else who may have the idea of standing up against us, so I decided, you all are going to die tonight, by the hands of my most trusted general" she adds smirking evilly "I object to this statement, murdering members of the State is a capital offence!" Aegis says glaring at her angrily "who's going to even know how it happened? It's not like anyone can prove that we did it, its just us and the shadows right now, and once my general is done slaughtering you all the shadows will come and clean up our mess, it will be like you never existed in the first place" she says laughing "Now! Celia! I order you to destroy them, show them no mercy!" she says looking at the blonde student next to her "b-but, you never said anything about murdering people..." Celia says looking up at her "you are my most trusted General, I wouldn't be telling you if I didn't think you could do this, now like I said I order you to murder them!" she says semi angrily. "B-but..." Celia says semi scared of the idea. The female student then dragged Celia away a little and stood her up infront of her "Listen to me Celia, they're not like us, they're from here, they are from a world that has experienced night and day for every day since its origin, they think we are freaks that crawled out of the lowest depths of the abyss, they think we are monsters that shouldn't exist" she says looking down at her "R-really?" Celia says looking over to the dorm group "they plan against us Celia, they wish to see us go back to that godless planet, back to a planet that doesn't know what light is anymore. Do you want them to send you back there like a caged animal? or do you want to stay here and be free from everything that held you back when you were there?" with that Celia's eyes slowly transitioned from her normal deep blue to a bright orange her expression changing from confused and startled to angry and unforgiving "thats the Celia I know and want..." the female student says backing away "now destroy them like the pests they are!" With that the female student stepped away dissapearing into the shadows as Celia looked at the dorm team with seering hatred a tarot card appearing in her hand depicting a skull and bearing the letters XIII "THANATOS! CRUSH THEM!" she yells crushing the card a flurry of black shadowy smoke arising behind her ".... this cannot be good..." Megan says her ears drooping as they watched Celia's persona form infront of them the final product being a large warrior in old colonial looking uniform, its head incased in a bleached white looking steel mask in the form of a beak like skull. on its shoulders and back were a mantle of metal coffin lids depicting people bearing cross like swords, at its waist was a sword like machete which it then slowly unsheathed and pointed at the dorm team. "YOU WILL ALL PAY FOR YOUR IGNORANCE!" Celia yelled as she looked at them "w-wait hold on, we can talk this out can't we?" Megan says shrinking back behind Luke "I think that girl got her beyond talking" Mia says stepping forward with Miya "its our time to shine now" Miya adds as a card appeared between them, they then crushed it together two large conjoined figures rising up infront of them their skin covered in star like specks "go on Gemini!" "crush them!" Miya and Mia said together they said as the conjoined creature moved forward towards Celia and Thanatos only to have Thanatos swiftly cut it down with repeated strikes "....uh...." Mia and Miya said together as they backed away slowly "I will not allow you to hurt them!" Aegis yelled as blue shards flew from the sides of her head a large rocket like persona appearing infront of her and then unfolding to reveal a drill like spear "go! palladion!" she then said as the persona then launched forward at Thanatos only to have it hold it back by one hand "error...." Aegis said trying to find a solution "Palladion full power!" she said the rockets on her persona then bursting into a bright blue streak of fire Thanatos then struggling a bit to keep Palladion back. Thanatos then changed its grip on its sword thrusting it down into Palladion's back causing it to explode and then dissapear "error.... error.... error...." Aegis said as she slowly looked down in semi shock. "W-what are we going to do?" Megan said sounding like she was about to burst into tears out of fright "we pray something happens...' Luke said when suddely a voice rang through the darkness "INCOMIN'" it said as a powder blue streak came down on Thanatos sending it reeling "wait is that..." Miya said blinking confused as the dust settled revealing a robot in a student uniform weilding a large axe with the Legion symbol on it "yay Labrys has came to save us!" Mia said smiling happily "is your entire family composed of robots?" Kaguya said surprised "yes actually, we were raised by robots" Miya said in response. "Um it would help if you people would shuddup and help me with this!" Labrys says holding her axe against Thanatos's blade trying to keep it back "COME ON FENRIR!" Megumi yelled in response a card with a star and the number XVII on it appearing in her hand and then crushing it a large wolf with red stripes running down the sides of it appearing infront of her "go on Fenrir take it down!" she then said Fenrir's mouth then lighting up with electricity and then lunging at Thanatos latching onto it and then electrocuting it only to have it shaken off. "If we keep going at this rate, we could tire her out until the phenomenon ends" Kaguya says then summoning Oni it then charging at Thanatos and knocking it over Celia beginning to clutch her head in pain  "I-I I will end you all!" Celia says sounding tired "D-death will reign supreme!" she adds her eyes slowly changing back to the deep blue they once were "I-I..." she says then falling over Thanatos dissapearing as she hit the ground "did we win?" Megan said blinking. The few of the dorm members not tired from the battle then picked Celia up and brought her into the dorm. 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