Persona 4: Golden Music

Chapter 10

School Life in Inaba

Part Three

“You and Nanako really hit it off last night.” Vinyl said as Octavia let out a loud yawn as she and Vinyl made their way down the street towards their new school. From the time they were awake until midnight, Octavia told Nanako about her time she spent at Celestia School for the Gifted. Mainly how she was a gifted singer, musician, and how she and Vinyl became best friends during their fillyhood.

“Normally I would’ve continued on, but it was getting late and we needed to get some rest before school started.”

“Wish we could’ve used that as an excuse to skip out on class. But knowing how our home room teacher is towards us.”

“Mainly you for throwing that chair at him.” Octavia interrupted as Vinyl flipped her the bird in retaliation.

“He called me a horse! You know I don’t like being called that word.”

“As do all mares and stallions. But was the chair really necessary?”

“No, but it was the closest thing next to me at the time. I don't have any regrets on doing that.”

“And this is why you don’t make that many friends save from me of course.” Octavia said before noticing a human riding past them on a bike and soon crashes into a pile of trash. The two mares turned their attention to the boy as they quickly rushed over to see if he was okay.

“S-Someone...help?” The human asked while flailing his legs about in the air as he was stuck in a trashcan. Vinyl couldn’t help but laugh at what she was seeing for a moment before feeling Octavia elbow her in the side. Vinyl rolled her eyes to her friend’s disapproving look as she used her magic to levitate the boy out of the trash can and onto his feet. “Whew, you saved me. Thanks! Umm…” He looked at the mares up and down for a moment before realising who they were. “Oh yeah, that’s right. You two are the new transfer students, Vinyl Scratch and Octavia Melody.”

“Neat. less than a day and we just became popular.” Vinyl said jokingly as Octavia rolled her eyes.

“Kinda hard not to know who you two are given what happened yesterday. Mostly from almost hitting King Moron with a chair.” He said before going over to pull his bike up from the ground. “I’m Yosuke Hanamura. Nice to meet ya.”

“It’s a pleasure to meet you Yosuke.” Octavia said as she bowed to the human. “Are you okay? That looked like it really hurt when you crashed.”

“Oh yeah, yeah, I’m fine. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve crashed like that before.” He said with a grin on his face for a moment. “Say, did you hear about the incident from yesterday? They found that announcer lady hanging from an antenna! You think it was some kinda warning? There’s no way something that weird could’ve been an accident.”

“You might be right. I mean somepony had to have put her body up there like that.” Octavia said as she placed a hand to her chin. “I mean, what would be their reason to kill that poor human?”

“It could be that she was killed by a crazy stalker or worse. And up and coming serial killer~!” VInyl said with dramatics on the last part, only for her to receive a smack to her shoulder. “What? I’m joking.”

“I mean. Dangling a dead body over a roof like that...That’s just messed up. Then again, it’s pretty messed up to kill someone in the first place.” He said before looking at his watch and let out a gasp. “Oh crap, we’re late! Hey, um, you girls need a ride? It’s a little squeaky, but it should be fine.”

“As much as I would like to. I think I can help out with the whole transport department.” Vinyl said as she placed a hand on Yosuke’s shoulder and motions for Octavia to get close to her.

“Wait, are you planning on teleporting us to school?” Octavia asked which caused Yosuke to blink in confusion.

“Wait, you can do that?”

“Yes to Octavia’s question, and yes to your question Yosuke. I’m a unicorn after all.” Vinyl answered as she pointed a finger to her horn as it glowed. “I did help you out of that trash can after all.”

“Right...sorry...I’m just finding it hard to believe in the whole magical talking h-”

“Ponies!” Octavia quickly interrupts before blushing and clearing her throat. “We’re ponies. Not horses.”

“Okay...Again, just finding it hard to believe you’re walking. Talking, two legged ponies.” He said as VInly grinned upon hearing that.

“Now then. Place your hand on my shoulder...also turn your head to the side a bit.”

“Wait what-” Before he could finish his sentence, Vinyl’s horn began to glow for a moment as the group was instantly teleported from the middle of the street to the front of the school in a flash. Once they appeared, Yosuke stumbled over to the side before kneeling down and throwing up to the side.

“Yeah, that tends to happen to those who experience teleporting for the first time.” The unicorn said before patting the human on the back for comfort. “You okay?”

“Y-Yeah...just..ugh. Never do that again.” He said before pulling himself up while staggering. “Dear god, that was so sudden. How are you able to do that?”

“Magic my dear human friend!” Vinyl answered with a smug grin on her face. “Earth ponies may have brawns, but we unicorns have magic on our side~”

“Yet even with magic, that doesn’t help you in getting out of trouble~” Octavia said as the unicorn deadpans at her as she begins to head towards the school entrance.

“Let’s just go before we’re late and I end up teleporting you to a lake.” She said as Octavia and Yosuke quickly followed after the unicorn as the bell to the school rang.

(Yasogami High School, morning)

“Be quiet, you idiots!” Mr. Morooka yelled as the class turned their attention to him. “You guys Are in high school, aren’t you!? Can’t you shut up during class? Don’t you have any common sense?”

“We would if you actually showed the students here some respect and not treat them like punks with no future!” Vinyl yelled as the teacher glared at her. “I mean jeez, with the way you’ve been acting to them, it’s no wonder they don’t listen to you.”

“Shut it horse girl. First of all, my job is to waste my precious time teaching you assholes philosophy! And Since I’m so nice, I’ll straighten up your rotten attitudes while I’m at it! Aren’t you honored!? And I’ll be going especially hard on any of you morons that’re curious about the murder! Got it!? Now, get your books out!”

“Yeah because you’re such an awesome teacher that we would so love to learn from you dickhead.” Vinyl said as Mr. Morooka's left eye twitched.

“One more word out of you, and I’ll send you to the principal’s office horse.” The man said which caused the whole classroom to go silent. Thinking that he won the fight, Mr. Morooka turned around and began to write on the board. “That’s what I thought, now get to reading shithead.”

“Must you always provoke ponies like that Vinyl?” Octavia asked as she noticed Vinyl’s horn glowing. “What are you doing!?”

“Remember the prank I pulled when we were little fillies at school?” Vinyl asked causing Octavia’s eyes to widen seeing Vinyl placing some odd colored gems inside the teacher’s desk.

“Are you trying to get yourself kicked out of school!? We’re trying to live a normal life here until we can get back home. Not cause trouble and get our flanks kicked out of school.”

“Relax, they’re remote activated. When school is over, I’ll activate them so he doesn’t think I did it.”

“Vinyl, as much as I dislike the man. You can’t get revenge on the guy just because-” Before Octavia could finish, she felt something small hit her head. Looking over she saw a piece of chalk fall from her hair as she looked up to see Mr. Morooka glaring at her and Vinyl.

“What did I say about shutting up and getting to cracking those books!? Now shut up and read horse!” He said before going back to writing on the blackboard. Octavia looked over at Vinyl with a deadpan expression.

“I want nothing to do with your prank, but I’m not going to stop you from doing this.”

“Sweet! Thanks Octavia~!”

“Just so you know. I don’t fully agree with what you’re doing. But seeing how it’s with him, I’ll make an exception.” She said before noticing the magic in Vinyl’s horn disappear as she went back to pretending to read while trying not to bust out laughing. Octavia simply rolled her eyes before feeling her shoulder getting tapped on a few times by Chie.

“Hey, what did Vinyl do just now?” She asked which caused the earth pony to groan.

“She’s going to prank Mr. Morooka with exploding gems that she made during our time in school back in Equestria.”

“Wait, she’s planning on killing him!?”

“What? No! The gems aren’t going to kill him...but he will be splattered with a lot of paint once he opens his desk.”

“As much as I dislike the guy, I think it’s a bad idea to do that.”

“Tell that to Vinyl’s rebellious personality.” She said before noticing Mr. Morooka heading towards his desk. “Oh this is going to end badly.” Once the teacher sat down, he reached down to open his desk, only to be met with a blast of pink, blue, and green paint as he screamed due to the sudden blast. The students look up to see what happens, only for them to make a snickering sound as they try their best to not bust out laughing from seeing their home room teacher covered in pain.

“WHICH ONE OF YOU LITTLE SHITHEADS DID THIS TO ME!?” He yelled as the students burst out into a fit of laughter. “I’M NOT PLAYING AROUND! WHO DID THIS!? WHOEVER DID THIS IS GOING TO BE IN A LOT OF TROUBLE!”

“Whoa, nice make up teacher.” Vinyl said with a cocky grin on her face. “Is that how humans do their make-up?”

“You, you did this didn’t you!?” Mr. Morooka said which Vinyl dawned on an annoyed expression.

“Yeah, cause I totally was able to sneak towards your desk and make it so it could unleash a blast of paint when you open it. Get real dude, it’s kinda hard to do that when you’ve been sitting at your desk since I got here.” She said as the man glared daggers at him before storming off out of the classroom.

“I’ll be keeping my eye on you shithead!” he said before slamming the door behind him. Once he left, the students soon burst out in a fit of laughter as Vinyl leaned back in her seat with a smirk on her face.

“Oh this is going to be a very fun school year in Inaba~”

(Yasogami High School, After School)

“So, you two getting used to this place?” Yosuke asked as the two mares nodded. “Wow, that was fast.”

“Well the school may be different, but the stuff we’re learning is somewhat similar to our education. For the most part.” Vinyl said while stretching. “Thank Celestia for the instant learning spell, otherwise this would be a pain to read and study.”

“Wait, you can do that?” Yosuke asked as the unicorn nodded. “Dude! You gotta do that spell on me! That would totally help me with King Moron’s homework.”

“Vinyl, you can’t do that. What if that spell blew his head off, or worse!?” Octavia said as she shudders at the grim image of that. “We don’t know if magic can hurt humans.”

“It didn’t hurt Adachi when I was levitating him. And I’m pretty sure it won’t blow his head off or anything like that. But we can test something out on king moron if you like?” Octavia paused at the thought of having Vinyl turn Mr. Morooka into a donkey would be fitting...no, it was still wrong and she was the one that needed to keep the DJ pony in check.

“We’re trying to keep a low profile Vinyl. Not draw a lot of unneeded attention to ourselves.”

“Well that might be hard to do seeing how you’re magical talking ponies.Which might draw in a lot of people from out of town.” Yosuke said as he noticed a deadpan expression on Octavia’s face. “What? You don’t see something like this down here in the boonies. Then again, there isn’t much to see or do here compared to the big city, but there is that certain...something you can’t get anywhere else.”

“What’s that?” Octavia asked.

“The air’s clean, the food’s great...Oh, you know about the local delicacy?” he asked as both mares shook their heads. “It’s grilled steak, man! Like that’s anything special, huh?”

“Did you say, grilled steak?” Vinyl asked as a bit of droll ran down the side of her lip as she whipped it off.

“Yep, I know a place where you can get it cheap. Wanna come? You two did help me out this morning, so it’s on me.” He said before realizing something. “Oh crap! Totally forgot that you girls don’t eat meat.”

“Technically we can eat meat. But it’s usually out of means of respect when we have to perform out of Equestria.” Octavia said before looking at Vinyl. “Vinyl on the other hand, eats it daily when she gets the chance.”

“Hey, it’s not like I’m eating ponies or anything with sentient life. It’s mainly just Manticore meat or Cocatrice meat I eat.” Vinyl said as Yosuke sighed in relief.

“Okay good. Then I’ll treat you two to grilled steaks.” he said before his happy expression changed to an annoyed one when he noticed Chie walking over to them.

“What about me, huh? No apologies? My “Trail of the Dragon” ring a bell or two?”

“Urgh...You always come around when I’m talking about food.” he said as Chie turned her attention to Yukiko.

“How about it, Yukiko? Don’t you think he should treat us, too?”

“I’ll pass...I don’t want to gain any more weight. I need to help out at the inn today, anyway.” Yukiko answered.

“Wow, Yukiko-san! You started training to take over the business?” Yosuke asked as Yukiko shook her head.

“It’s not like that! I’m just helping out when it gets busy.” She said before quickly gathering her belongings and headed out of the classroom. “Well, I should be on my way. See you all around town or next time we have class.”

“Oh well. We should get going too.” Chie suggested.

“Huh? Do I seriously have to treat three people?” He asked as the three girls nodded, causing Yosuke to groan in annoyance. “Alright fine. Let's go to Junes.”