Persona 4: Golden Music

Chapter 7

Hey, Guess What? It's Time For School!

(Downstairs, Living room)

Both Vinyl and Octavia made their way downstairs once they were finished getting dressed and cleaning themselves up. Once they got there, they soon picked up a rather delicious aroma of something being cooked. Looking over at the table, they saw that the table had three plate with what looks like to be Sunny-side up eggs, toast, bacon, and a cup of coffee for each plate on the table.

“Sweet! Food!” Vinyl yelled as she quickly took a seat at the table and began to eat. Octavia rolled her eyes to her friend’s action as she walked over to the table and took a seat.

“Good morning.” Both mares looked over to their left to see Nanako walking over towards them with a plate of her own.

“Good morning Nanako. Did you cook all this by yourself?” Octavia asked as the little girl nodded to her answer.

“Yeah. I can toast bread, cook sunny-side up eggs, and bacon in the morning.”

“Oh man! How I missed eating this back in Ponyville~.” The DJ said as she finished eating one of the eggs before starting to make a little breakfast sandwich with the other egg and bacon. “If you can cook like this, I wonder if the police dude can cook something good.”

“Dad can’t cook, so I buy dinner.”

“....How bad of a cook is he?”

“He….almost burnt the house down once.” Nanako chuckled weakly from the bad memory of Dojima cooking dinner. “Um, question if you don’t mind me asking?”

“Go ahead and ask I’m like a open book...to some degree.”

“Your both ponies right?” Nanako asked as the mares shook their heads yes to her question. “How can you two eat eggs and bacon? Wouldn’t that hurt your stomachs?”

“Well…..um….how do I put this in a way you’ll understand.” Octavia said as she tried to think of a way to answer the little girl’s question.

“We travel the world a lot back home. So we kinda had to try different types of food that the country that invited us had to offer. Even if it means eating meat. That’s mostly in Griffonstone and the Minotaur country. And Faust knows you don’t want to piss them off by saying no to what they have to give you to eat.”

“Vinyl, language.” Octavia said which got the DJ pony to roll her eyes.

“Oh, so the more you ate it the more your stomachs got used to the taste of meat?” Nanako asked which in turn caused Octavia to nod.

“In a way yes. Though we rarely eat it nowadays...Well I do at least. I don’t know about Vinyl though.”

“Oh I still eat meat. It’s just hard to find some that doesn’t require you to hunt down an animal or something along those lines.” The DJ said as she continues to eat her breakfast sandwich along with taking sips from her cup of coffee. “This place has meat that you can buy right.”

“Yeah, we have stores that sell different kinds of meat.” Nanako said which caused Vinyl to grin.

“Oh I’m so going to enjoy staying in Inaba.”

“Oh, before I forget. Dad said that he wants to meet you two at the High School that you’ll be attending.”

“So he’s not here in the house?” Octavia asked which Nanako shook her head no. “That would explain why there were only three plates on the table.”

“My school’s on the way to your school, so let’s go together.” The little girl said with a sweet innocent smile on her face.

“I don’t see why not. You are the second person that we know that knows this place better than we do.” Vinyl said before finishing her meal. “Plus, this would make us less suspicious if we had the daughter of the police chief look after us.”

“That….might be the smartest thing you actually said in your entire life.”

“Thanks…..Hey!” Vinyl yelled which caused Nanako to giggle at their banter.

“Once you two are done eating, we can head over to the school zone in Samegawa flood plains. Dad should be in front of the school gate waiting for you to meet with the principle of the high school.”

“Alright, sounds like a plan kid.” Vinyl said before drinking what was left in her coffee.

“I just hope things don’t end up like how it was at that fast food place the other night.” Octavia said before reaching for a knife and fork and began to eat her breakfast properly.

After finishing their meals, the trio began to make their to school through the Samegawa flood plains. Rain began to pour down on them as Nanako and Octavia both had umbrellas to protect themselves from getting wet from the rain. Vinyl on the other hand used her magic to create a dome like barrier above herself as she walked along with the human and earth pony as they continue to walk. As they walked, people were looking at them with mixed expression on their faces. Most of them were teens and were more so looking at Vinyl using her magic to protect herself from the rain them looking at Octavia.

“So much for keeping a low profile…” Octavia grumbled. “You couldn’t just use the umbrella that Nanako offered?”

“She only had two, and us sharing an umbrella would make the folks here think we’re a couple. Plus I’m pretty sure keeping a low profile wouldn’t work. Seeing how we’re walking, talking ponies heading for school and I’m sure the kids at the high school will be even more curious as to who or what we are.”

“F-Fair point...I almost forgot about that aspect.” The earth pony said before sighing. “Still a bit nervous about going back to school...especially in a different country.”

“Hey if anypony tries anything funny, just let me take care of it with a fist in their faces.” Vinyl said as she cracks her knuckles.

“I think running away is better than fighting. I prefer not to be arrested again.” Octavia soon looked over at Nanako as she tapped her on the shoulder. “Excuse Nanako. But how long before we reach the school we’re supposed to be heading towards to meet with your dad?”

“You just keep going straight from here.” Nanako said pointing to the direction of the high school. “My school’s back down the way we came from. Bye!” She said, waving to the two mares before running off to the elementary school they walked passed. Both Vinyl and Octavia waved goodbye to Nanako before heading off into the direction that they were given. As they continued to walk down the street to where the intersection was, they took notice to some of the humans wearing what they could guess were school uniforms as they walked passed them.

“Huh, you don’t think that these humans are going to the same school we’re going?” Vinyl asked as she noticed a group of girls looking at them while taking pictures with their phones. “And what’s with those weird things that those humans keeps flashing at us with?”

“To answer your first question, they might be. Back home in Canterlot we had to wear uniforms so it wouldn’t surprise me that this school has a dress code. As for your second question.” Before Octavia could answer, she noticed a boy wearing the same colored uniform on a bike wobbling towards them with an umbrella in his hand. “You might want to move out of the way.”
Vinyl looked over to where Octavia was looking as she took a step back to see the boy wobbling passed them.

“Whoaaaa!” The boy yelled as he road pass the two mares and crashed into a pole. Both Octavia and Vinyl winced at how the boy crashed as they went over to see how he was doing. “Ngh….Urrrrghhhh…”

“That looks painful….should we help him?” Octavia asked which Vinyl shook her head to answer.

“Best leave him be. We don’t want to make Dojima wait any longer do we?” Octavia nodded before walking passed the injured boy and headed off to school. After awhile of walking through groups of students taking pictures of them, the two mares arrived at the main gates of Yasogami High School.

“Whoa, talk about fancy. This place beats Canterlot High School out of the water!” Vinyl said as she lifted her shades up from her eyes.

“I must say it does look nice. Would look even nicer when the rain stops.” Octavia said as she and Vinyl walked passed the gate. Upon doing that, they soon saw Dojima standing at the front doors of the school waiting. “Hey, there Mr. Dojima.”

“Yo! Pops! Over here!” Vinyl yelled which got her a jab to her side by Octavia.

“Not so loud Vinyl.” She whispered before waving a hand at Dojima as he took notice to the mares heading towards him.

“About time you got here. I was beginning to worry that you two got lost.” Dojima said with a small chuckle in his voice.

“Yeah, Nanako made breakfast for us before she took us to where we needed to go. So blame her for making us a well balanced meal before we go to school.” Vinyl said which caused Dojima roll his eyes to the unicorn’s joke.

“Well now that you’re here. I was able to talk to the principle of this school to let you two in as students. Though he does want to see you two before classes start.”

“I take it he wants to know if what you told him is real and can be proven?” Octavia asked which Dojima nodded to her question. “Alright, that shouldn’t be a problem right?”

“It was kind for him to hear me out. Then again Adachi didn’t help much when he tried to reenact what Vinyl did to him down by the police station.”

“Oh Celestia. That must’ve been awkward and cringy at the same time.” Vinyl said, laughing as she started to imagine the scene that took place with them and the principle.

“Yes….It was.” The man said before motioning them to follow him inside. “Come along, we got work to do in getting you two set up for school.” Both mares nodded as they soon followed Dojima inside the school.

(Yasogami High School, Classroom)

“Talk about bad luck.” said a student sitting at his desk with an annoyed look on his face. “The homeroom teacher here is Morooka, isn’t it?”

“Yeah, it’s King Moron alright.” said the student’s friend. “We get to enjoy his long-ass sermons every day for the whole year. As if I need more boring lectures from him. If I wanted to be lectured at, I would’ve gone with my mom over seas then live with my dad.”

“Hey you guys, I heard there’s going to be two transfer students from a different country coming to this class.“ said a female student as it caught both male students attention.

“Students coming from a different country? Where did you heard that from?”

“It was when I was making my way to class. I didn’t get a good look at them seeing how I was walking by the principal's office and his door was closed. But from what I can gather, it seems like a big deal seeing how I heard officer Dojima’s voice inside the room.”

“Seriously? Man, you rarely see that guy here in this place. Guess it must be important.”

“Are the new students boys or girls?”

“Hard to say. I had to run away due to the sounds of someone yelling and stuff being thrown around inside the Principal’s office.” As the group of students continued to talk among themselves, A short haired girl overheard their conversation as she looked over at the boy behind her.

“A transfer student from a different country. Sounds just like you Yosuke. Only you transferred from a different city…..Yosuke?” She said before noticing the boy was face down on his desk. “Huh? You look dead today. What happen?”

“Yeah, um...I don’t wanna talk about it…”

“What’s with him?” The short haired girl asked, looking in the direction of a black-haired girl wearing the same uniform as the other students, only hers was red.

“Who knows?” She said before the door to the classroom opened. Once the door was open, a teacher walked inside and began to clear his voice.

“Awright, shut your traps!” The man yelled as he was fixing the top part of his hair and straightening his tie. “I’m Kinshiro Morooka, your homeroom teacher from today forward! First things first! Just ‘cause it’s spring doesn’t mean you can swoon over each other like love-stuck baboons. Long as I’m around, you students are going to be pure as the driven snow!”

Both mares were watching Mr. Morooka from the hallway as they couldn’t help but laugh at the way he was addressing the class “Seriously? This guy can’t be serious!?” Vinyl whisper as Octavia tried not to laugh.

“He reminds me of Cranky Doodle. Only thing he’s missing is the fake hair and donkey features!” Octavia added as the class could hear fits of giggles coming from the hallway. Most of the students tried to look at the doorway to see who it was, but their attention was drawn back to Morooka.

“Now I hate wasting my time, but I’d better introduce the new….transfer students.” Morooka said, grimmicing as he looks over at the doorway. “These sad sacks somehow got here from overseas in a country called….Equestria….Who’s the idiot that called their country by that name anyway?” He asked before shaking his head in disgust. “Anyway, they’re just as much of a loser here as they were back in their country, so you boys better not get any ideas about hitting on them. Then again I doubt you’ll be interested in a bunch of horses anyway.” He said before quickly ducking out of the way of a chair heading towards him that was thrown by Vinyl.

“We’re ponies! Not horses you hairless ape!” Vinyl yelled as Octavia looked at her in disbelief

“Vinyl!”

“What!? He called us horses again! We are not cheap horses!”

“He’s from a different country then us. That doesn’t mean you can throw a chair at him...again.”

“Just get your asses in here before I get the Principal on your asses you little punks!” Morooka said as both Vinyl and Octavia entered into the classroom wearing the same uniforms as the students. Only Octavia’s dress was long. And Vinyl was wearing the male student’s uniform with her jacket covering her shoulders and a black long sleeve shirt under it with the word “wubs” on it. The students were taken by surprise, seeing the two equines enter into their classroom as some of them began to talk out loud.

“Hey, are they the two cosplayers that got arrested?”

“Those are the new students from overseas? Damn, where in the world did they get those outfits?”

“Are they even real? They look like something off of a kid’s TV show?”

“Quiet you little snot nose brats!” yelled Morooka as the class quickly quieted down. “Now I know you all think this is some kind of prank. Well I hate to break it to you all, but they are real. The Principal will be having an assembly in the gym to address the new students joining our school. So until then don’t even think about trying to have your way with them. Less you want to end up in hell for trying to have sex with an animal.” he said before noticing the glares coming from the two mares before flinching and looking away. “T-Tell ‘em your names and make it quick!”

“The name’s Vinyl Scratch. Or DJ Pon3. I’m the best DJ player in all of Equestria!” Vinyl said as Octavia sighed.

“And I’m Octavia Melody. Musician and singstree of the onsomble.” Octavia said as she bows to the class. “It’s a pleasure to meet you all and I’m sorry for my friend’s….rude impression upon coming to your country and school.”

“Hey, he was the one that was being rude. It’s one thing to touch my horn and try to pull it off because he thought it was fake. But calling me a horse is going way off the line of tolerance.”

“Heh, at least one of you can be polite.” Morooka grumbled as Vinyl looked over at the man.

“Buck you dude! At least my teeth don’t look like I've been eating nothing but bricks and glass.” The unicorn said which took everyone by surprise as some of them tried not to laugh from Vinyl’s comeback.

“That’s it, you’re on my shit list, effective immediately! Now listen up! This country is miles away from your big country full of talking mutant horse people that are just like us humans. Perverts and assholes, in more ways than one. You two better not even think of getting involved with the boys here, let alone abusing them! But what do I know. It’s not like the old days. Even here, Kids grow up so damn fast. Every time I turn my back, you’re fooling around on those damn phones, checking your life-journals and your my-places.” As Morooka continued on with his banter about kids and technology, Vinyl looked over at Octavia with a bored expression on her face.

“Do you have any idea what this asshole is talking about?”

“No….but I’m starting to get annoyed at how he’s disrespecting our kind.”

“Want me to teleport him to someplace around town?” Vinyl asked as Octavia paused to wonder if that was a good idea. Only to shake her head to the unicorn’s answer.

“No, then we’ll end up getting kicked out and Dojima will be angry with you for doing that.”

“Damn.” Just as Vinyl looked over at Morooka to see if he would stop talking, the short haired student wearing a green jacket raised her hand.

“Excuse me! Is it okay if the transfer students sit over here? There are two empty desk available.”

“Huh? Yeah, sure. Ya hear that? Your seats over there. Take your seats and shut it.” He said before Vinyl and Octavia walked over to where the girl with the green jacket was and took a seat at the empty desk.

“Sorry about Mr. Morooka. He’s the worst guy to have as a homeroom teacher.”

“Bucking hairless ape looking mother-bucker! He’s lucky I don’t know where to teleport him in this town.” Vinyl gumbled as she snorted in anger.

“Yeah, rotten luck for you two to get stuck in this class. Well, we’ll just have to hang in there for a year.” The girl said which caused both Vinyl and Octavia to stare at her in shock.

“Buck me sideway. We’re stuck with this racist bucker?”

“VInyl, language please!?” Octavia whispered. “I know you were angry at him for what happened in the principal office, but this is only until we can get back home okay?”

“.....Fine.” She said before leaning back in her seat. “But if he keeps acting like an ass, I get to pull pranks on him to at least help my anger.” Just as she was about to listen to more of Morooka’s rant about technology and kids, she overheard some of the students in the classroom talking about her and Octavia.

“Man, never thought I'd see talking animals come here to our school. You would think this was something that you would see on an anime show or something.” said a male student as Vinyl’s ear twitched upon hearing another student talking.

“Yeah, sucks that they ended up in King Moron’s class on the first morning here.”

“Man you must be pretty ballsy for calling out King Moron like that. But you better be careful. He won’t think twice about suspending you if you get on his bad side.”

“To be fair, we’re on the same boat as they are when it come to being suspended from school.” said a whinny looking student.

“Shut your traps! I’m taking roll call, and I damn well expect you to respond in an orderly manner!”