[center][color=6ecff6][h3]Noctis Alegretto[/h3][/color]
[b]Chapter:[/b] 1
[b]Day:[/b]1
[b]Location:[/b] Starveil Academy: Courtyard[/center]
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[b][i]BGM:[/i][/b] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pS5soRsrKQ]Who's There? (Persona 4)[/url]

[color=6ecff6](This is not real, this is not real, this is not real, this is not real, this is not real, this is not real, this is not real, this is not real, this is not real...)[/color]

[i]That's how much his head was spiraling at the time. After all, how come all of this could be true? It had to be a dream. He didn't want to even think about the possibility of this actually happening. No, it must be some dream. There was just no way that he was somehow standing there, in the middle of an event, from a game he had played before, experiencing it as if it was his life from now on. It had to be a joke... a bad one, at the top of that.[/i]

[color=6ecff6](It's all a dream, it's all a dream, it's all a dream, it's all a dream, it's all a dream, it's all a dream, it's all a dream, it's all a dream, it's all a dream...)[/color]

[i]He was sweating bullets. No, that would be an understatement. It was like a waterfall, dropping itself through his head as he kept repeating himself through his mind over and over again. He wasn't even paying attention to the speech. He didn't even need to. He already knew the script and the words given by the principal. And that didn't matter. Nothing mattered. He just wanted all of it to end.[/i]

[color=6ecff6](I'm not in Starveil Academy, I'm not in Starveil Academy, I'm not in Starveil Academy,I'm not in Starveil Academy, I'm not in Starveil Academy, I'm not in Starveil Academy, I'm not in Starveil Academy...)[/color]

[i]The speech ended. The students started to disperse around. But he stood there, frozen. He didn't follow them. Like a statue, he just stared at the ground, trying to ignore everything. He closed his eyes and shut himself from the outer world.[/i]

[color=6ecff6](Please... let this end. Let this end, let this end, let this end, let this end, let this end, let this end, let this end, let this end, let this end...!!)[/color]

[i]He only saw the darkness. He only heard the silence. He tried to fall back to slumber. Right there, right now. He thought about a chance. A chance that he was in a hospital bed. But where was the closest hospital to his home? Right, it was that famous one. Sírio-Libanês? Was that the one? It didn't matter. All he wanted was to wake up. To see his mother and his brother... not his father. He didn't want to see his father ever again.[/i]

"... is... ct... oct...?" [i]A voice rang out, muffled.[/i]

[i]He didn't respond. He ignored it as much as he could. It was just the voice of a dream trying to call him so he should let it fade away. But it kept ringing, ringing, and ringing... like a cellphone. But he had to be strong.[/i]

"Noctis Alegretto!!" [i]A scream rang out.[/i]

[b][i]*BGM fades*[/i][/b]

[i]He opened his eyes as a hand was on his shoulder. It wasn't the name. It was the touch. And when he looked there was someone looking at him. It was a teacher... an NPC unnamed teacher.[/i]

"The speech is over. You can head out now." [i]He said.[/i]

[color=6ecff6]"Ah... ah..."[/color] [i]"Noctis" responded.[/i]

[i]His mind went blank. His body gave up. He just fell. Did the drop hurt? Was he bleeding? What did it matter? His hopes were broken. What he didn't want to be, actually was. He was there. He heard everything. He was no longer himself. He was now in Starveil Academy, as a student. And he ended up being [b]THAT[/b] certain student. It was like an overload of information for him to process. All that he could mutter, before falling unconscious was...[/i]

[center][color=6ecff6]"This... is real..."[/color][/center]