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WHO: April and you!
WHEN: August 9th, Dark Hour
WHERE: Streets of Prospero.
SUMMARY: In which April awakens her Persona.
RATING: PG/PG-13?
WARNINGS: Possible derpness/ squee-ing over Personas.

The Shadows freaked April out, there was no question about it, but her curiosity over them, the changing building and this thing called a 'Persona' once again led her to go out during the Dark Hour. But despite all her years of fighting, despite all the enemies she had faced and defeated over the years, she couldn't stand up to the Shadows, not on her own.

It was easy enough at first, to use her handgun to take them down, but soon their numbers started to grow to the point that it started to overwhelm the redhead. And April has never been suited for close-combat, a result of being born with a weak leg which required her to wear a leg brace constantly; and any sort of attack to it could easily knock her down. So now she had collapsed to one knee with a group of the creatures surrounding her, handgun gripped tightly in her hand as she aimed at them. She should've planned this out better, she shouldn't have rushed in like this.

But April couldn't give up now, she could never give up and this time wouldn't be different; she needed to get home, she had people waiting for her and a goal to accomplish, and she refused to let these creatures get the better of her. Even with the cuts and bruises and bleeding, April just gritted her teeth and narrowed her eyes at them while keeping her gun aimed at them. The now steadily increasing pounding ache in her head wasn't helping now, but she couldn't give up, she can never give up, she had to fight back-

And at that moment, a flash of light completely covers her vision as the voice of a woman spoke in her head, while the sound of electricity crackling fills her ears;

"Thou art I and I am thou...
I am Iris...
The messenger of the gods and goddess of the colors of the sky"

When April's vision clears, the creatures are gone and instead a woman dressed in the colors of the rainbow floats in front of her and April can only stare in shock and amazement at her. This is probably the most amazing thing she had ever seen.

And then she was gone, leaving April sitting on the ground as she just blinks in shock, before a smile appears on her face. So... that was a Persona... and her Persona is basically a rainbow...

Awesome!

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April blinks at him, and there's a moment where she gives him an almost wary look before realizing that she's seen him before and relaxes. So she shakily pushes herself to her feet and gives him a nod and a small grin.

"Ah, yep, I'm fine. Just a few scratches." She quickly takes a look at her injuries, though they're nothing serious. And she seems energetic at least, since she's still mentally fangirling over her persona.

"...You seem rather excited." Lancer remarked with some interest. That didn't seem like the normal reaction to the Dark Hour, at any rate.

April grins and laughs sheepishly. "Hehe, I guess I am. It's just... I've managed to summon my Persona and she is so amazing! She's like a rainbow!"

She miiiight be like this for a while. It may seem like a strange thing to be excited over, but April can't help but be excited about it.

"You have one as well?" he glanced around to be sure there weren't any Shadows trying to sneak up on them while they were distracted.

"I haven't yet been able to figure out how many of us have something similar--I'd ask on the network if 'has anyone hallucinated people fighting for them' didn't sound strange."

"Yep, her name is Iris." She continues to smile happily, though what he says next makes her snicker for a moment, before her expression turns thoughtful.

"Yeah, that would sound strange. Though it may be possible that all of use who've been brought here have one, since it seems like we're the only ones who can see the shadows and such. But then it could be that not everyone actually knows about them yet, since I only found out about Persona's because someone mentioned it..."

The sound of something moving nearby stops April from saying anything else, since she immediately shuts up and goes to reload her gun. While she may not have been on guard before, she certainly is now.

Lancer turned at the sound as well, twirling both metal pipes in his hands like they were the weapons he was so used to.

"Looks like we're not alone. Not that I'm surprised."

"Yeah. Seems like for every one of these things you kill, another one just appears in it's place."

A group of around 7 shadows begin to appear from the darkness and make their way towards the pair, though April is quick to take aim and fire at them, managing to take down at least one of them and drive back another.

"There really does seem to be no end to them."

Not that Lancer seemed to mind, immediately on the offensive. His attacks were careful and precise, not a single movement wasted as he took down two Shadows while staying out of April's line of fire.

April keeps firing at the Shadows, making sure to avoid hitting Lancer, and takes down another two Shadows. There's a moment where April mentally gives a whoop in victory since the Shadows numbers are quickly falling... until she again hears the sound of something moving, this time behind her.

"I think I can hear more of them!" Just gonna keep looking around to see if she can actually spot them.

"I heard them as well. Don't worry, I'm sure it's nothing we can't handle." Lancer was on his guard, ready to strike at the smallest trace of movement. He wouldn't try to summon his own persona, at least not until the situation got incredibly dire. That wasn't someone he intended to ask for help with any small matter.

April nods and grins as she readies her gun. "Right!" When the group of Shadows begin to appear, this time a bit larger than the previous group, April manages to take down two of them when she fires. While she seems to be doing well so far, April can't help but feel on-edge since she was not used to fighting like this, having relied on her powers so much before.

Lancer, on the other hand, seemed perfectly natural. His movements were calculated and yet still seemed almost natural--he fought like he'd done so his entire life, and took down two more in the process.

April was a bit envious at how he fought so naturally, but she was more glad than anything that he was helping her. April manages to take down another one, before her gun requires re-loading, something that makes her huff slightly as she quickly does so.

And it's at this moment that she summons Iris again and the rainbow Persona takes down another Shadow with Zio, which makes April smile and mentally fangirl again, before she returns her attention to the Shadows, though luckily it seems that most of them had been disposed.

"You aren't half bad at this." Lancer remarked with a smirk. "And you seeme to be used to your Persona already, I'm surprised."

April blinks, before grinning proudly. "Ehe, thanks!" And then April blinks, checking their surrondings again before speaking.

"To be honest, I'm still not completely used to it. But in a way, it kinda reminds me of the powers I had before, so my Persona feels... easy to use, I guess." Plus, it's a rainbow, and rainbows are awesome.

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