Persona! The truth behind a smile

A new power

The morning was new but Brock couldn't sleep...and not just because of the lightning, there was a presence, it felt strange and dangerous and had the feeling of a shadow...a persona is merely a shadow that has been tamed
The sentence that Cloranta had explained to her and her sister flowed in her mind
Brock looked outside and watched the busy people moving, it was a pupil free day...no school, people ran around but she spotted one person in the crowd of people
Wait crowd of people? There's no one working on this street
She tried to focus in all her energy an, bingo! Her mask formed on her face and she saw him, a boy with brightly coloured orange hair, he had brown eyes.
She dropped to her knees and tears fell from her eyes
It looked like him, he looks like him
He's one of them, BUT IT MIGHT NOT BE HIM! oh god oh god oh god I don't know what to do, oh no oh no oh no oh please

It continued like that for atleast 10 minutes before Paige saw her

Paige looked outside and saw no one there
"What're you doing at the window?" She asked
"O-oh there was someone out there" Brock answered
"There's no one outside, your mask is on and your roots are showing" Paige replied noticing Brock's orange-brown roots
"O-oh do we have any dye or?" Brock's mask disappeared
"Not at the moment, I was gonna go buy some later" Paige answered
"Wait his hair isn't naturally blue?" Tamika asked walking into the room
"No, no it's not Tamika" Paige held her hand to her face and looked at Tamika displeased
"You know for a fact it's a common hair colour Paige, you can't really blame her" Brock still had tear marks on her face, but that didn't stop her from standing up and giving a smile
"Anyway! I gotta go....uh....get some stuff...you were going to the shops right? Can you get me some new...you know?" Paige nodded

Brock smiled and ran upstairs grabbing the box under her bed and pulling it out, shuffling through it and grabbing her newest bought knife, silver with a black handle with a flame like pattern from the bottom of it, she quickly put it down and grabbed a deck of cards, Sharmin was coming over and Brock was prepared to win this duel, she smiled and forgot all about the person she saw in the window before, a knock at the door signalled Sharmin's entering and the chorus of hellos and goodbyes signalled Paige's leave, Brock changed clothes quickly, setting her deck on the table, she threw on a black shirt with gray pants and wore a black hoodie with a strange symbol over her heart, a white circle with a line dashed through it horizontally, she walked downstairs to see Sharmin laying out a game mat and talking to Tamika
"Yeah, he kinda broke down earlier, started crying by the window- DID YOU KNOW HIS HAIR ISN'T ACTUALLY BLUE!?" Tamika was telling some sort of embarrassing stories about her
"Alright i'm down now, that's enough for story time." She was blushing and set down her deck on the mat and sat down, a couple minutes into the game and Brock was losing...badly, a knock sounded at the door and Tamika yelled
"I'll get it!" She opened it up and asked the person a question
"Do I...know you?" Suddenly a dart shot into the door frame of the room, and a gas started pouring out
"Crap!" Brock stood up, her mask being summoned onto her face, she looked at Sharmin, her mask had also appeared, the glass covering her eyes was a yellowy colour, a thud sounded from the hallway towards the door.

Tamika saw a boy with bright orange hair, he wore a mask that resembled a bear with golden patterns flowing over it, he slowly raised a gun and pointed it behind her, firing he smiled, a white gas filled the room, Tamika breathed it in, and collapsed.
Everything was black.
It was strange and new and she heard a voice talking to her
"Hello?" It said
"Hellloo?" It repeated
"Is there someone that can hear me?"
"Please say my name....please free me....its dark in here....its cold..."

Brock and Sharmin chased after the person carrying Tamika, radio static sounded in their ears
"Damn it....Bear...Get out...there's no....hurry!" The voice went silent
"Let's hurry up!" Brock yelled back to Sharmin.
They sped up and nearly caught up before the boy, called Bear, had jumped into the alleyway and dissappeared into the other world
"Damn, i'm going in!" Earlier Brock had sent a signal to Paige telling her to come to the portal anyway, she wasn't here yet but he knew she'd know where they'd gone...all she had to do was focus on it...Brock jumped into the portal
"I must say you're pretty fast" the boy panted "but it's too late now" he layed Tamika down and as soon as he did a massive light started to take shape, and around them formed a building, put simply a house, a small blue house with a triangular roof....then it collapsed, crumbled to the ground, and in its place, with a burst of light, came a large monestary with a massive white cross on the top of it.
"This is...something..." Paige said jumping into the world With Sharmin, Sharmin wore an alluring and tight, white suit with golden right-angled patterns running down it in a block formation, Brock's face turned red  but once Sharmin hit the floor, cards appeared infront of them all, Glowing blue with symbols on each, in front of Brock was a card with the symbol of the moon, the one infront of paige was a sword with one side being a happy face and the other side having an evil-looking smile, and the final card, the one infront of Sharmin, was a heart with a bullet like wound on the top of one side and cracks going to the end of the top of that side, each of the cards had strange symbols on it, unlike any language Brock knew, not english, Japanese or french but something strange called her to them like they were the answers to the earth's mysteries
"That's weird...what does it mean 'can read all cognitive writing?'" Sharmin thought outloud
"Wait you can read this?" Brock asked her
"Well yeah, you can't?" She replied
"No it's just a bunch of...weird symbols" Brock replied back
"Here let me read yours" she gestured to Paige, who pushed it over to her
"Two-Faces?" She looked at Paige "No idea what it means, Brock your turn" Brock pushed hers over
"D.T...that's it....it's an abbreviation but I don't know what for..." Sharmin spoke aloud
"Come on we gotta save Tamika" Brock started walking into the monestary.

almost straight away there was a creature infront of them, a shadow with angelic wings and a sword in one hand
"You shall not pass mortal children, there are dangers here not known to you, leave now...or it could get messy." The creature spoke
"Is that a threat? I'm here for my cousin, move." Brock stood firm and drew her rapier and held it to the creature
"Heh...puny mortal, you don't understand...this battle starts now" the creature looked at them and slashed at her cutting into her
"Heheh fight with me mighty storm tiger, TRIORNA!" The tiger appeared next to Brock with a crackle of lightning and a roar like thunder
"Thunderclash!" Brock yelled as loud as she could, Triorna looked up, it eyes glowing yellow, and leaped at the creature as lightning surrounded it and barrelled into the creature, the creature clearly took damage but seemed more aggrivated and swung its blade towards Brock, it clearly missed her but she felt it cut into her soul and dropped down a little bit then stood, she growled and jumped back, Sharmin stepped forward
"Estuan lend me your burning heart!" She screamed, the large, robotic maiden with 4 arms appeared
"Give them hell! Agilao!" Fire erupted from Estuan' hands as she put all 4 of them together and released, the creature tried to pat out the flames quickly and stood once more poised for a devastating strike
Paige looked up...almost like something spoke to her almost like somethi mg changed, her eyes grew dark and she called a name Brock did not know
"Come forth rider of death, show them your power with a stride in your step, I call thee forth from the depths far below, Come to me, Mira, Warrior from the snow!" Her sword pendant moved around to reveal the other side of it, a completely Black blade with a golden handle, it glew as a creature appeared, it rode a horse and had a spiky lizard-like tail and held a sword in one hand and a shield in the other
"Giant Slice!" Paige called, the creature rode quickly to the angel, leaped into the air, and cut directly through 'Michael' and landed on the horse and turned back towards Paige
"Guh, you mortals are so very, very stupid, you may pass, but I warn you it will be incredibly dangerous." And with those words the angel vanished
"Aw man." Paige said making Mira dissappear
"The attack I used literally took away my health...and I didn't get to use Mira for that long" Paige complained
"Still it was cool, let's find Tamika, quickly!" They ran up and down halls finding very little disturbance until eventually they found her, in the center of a large, circular, open room, with chains holding her to the ground, the walls were covered in paintings, which depicted an angel falling from grace and being cast out of its home in heaven and being tainted by sin and emotion.
At the back of the room stood an exact replica of Tamika, but instead she had golden eyes and a long, blue and white robe, standing next to her was the person that kidnapped her, he had bright, fiery orange hair and wore a bear-like mask
Brock stepped forward drawing her rapier
"You don't take my family...or you will be cute down to size quickly" but paige was ahead of her with a battle-cry she pointed her finger and said two words in a spit of fury
"MIRA! ATTACK!!" The beast charged at the shadow
"I can't tap into it unless she says the keywords, protect me." And with that the kidnapper held out a hand and whispered something under his breath, and from his power came a great angel that held a green staff and crown
"Mekouga" a ray of light shot from its staff hitting all 3 of them, Brock, Sharmin and Paige, who dropped to her knees
"Come back principality, that has stopped her" he closed his hand and the creature disappeared
"Dammit!" Brock leaped up and summoned triorna, for the second time today, the beast screeched and roared
"Terror claw!" Triorna ran and jumped a purple energy around its claw and then
"Rockshasa" a red armoured creature formed in front of him and when it was hit by Triorna's claw bear said
"Counter-attack" and it swung its swords onto Triorna's back with a screech
"Now Giant Slice" it slashed Triorna right back at Brock and sent him tumbling to the ground, he then closed his fist and it dissappeared again
"Aaaah! Estuan! Agilao!" Sharmin yelled and the mechanical creature shot a ball of flames at him
"Ame-no-uzume" a woman with a fan on her head wearing robes formed and absorbed the fire, and looked at Brock
"Bufula" and with an icy feel Brock was frozen, the ice shattered and Brock collapsed to the ground losing consciousness

Sharmin looked at Brock as she fell and saw a single shard of ice stab through her stomach, and with a burst of Orange-blue energy like cold fire (yes cold fire) hit around, Brock's eyes changed colour and small plastic shards sat on the ground, and her hair was a fiery auburn red colour.