Disclamer: I don't own anything ecepter for OC's.

A/N: I've revamp the first chapter of this Story and the plot direction will be a little different (starting with the next chapter) but the core story will be the same. I wanted to try and start over with new content. Don't worry about young 12 year-old Tsubasa and new already announce Fire Emblem Characters! ;)

Update 1/4/2018: Someone was nice enough to do a beta on this chapter, and I'm pleased with the results so far. ^^



Futaba's bedroom, Tokyo

6:23 pm

It was pouring in Tokyo with heavy rain and thunderstorms. The pitter patter of the rain hitting the window of the dark bedroom that would serve as her private domain.

Futaba sat on her chair with her knees pulled up to her chest while she was playing her frequent MMO Starlight Fantasy online. She eventually got bored playing the MMO and switched to the laptop. She checked the chat room on the internet. All of her followers mention this new popular Idol song video.

Futaba shrugged. Since she had nothing better to do, she searched up the idol. She got to the main page of Vidstreams and saw the music video called Shadow Whisper, trending #1 on the site. The thumbnail showed an elegant young woman in her teens.

Sakura Futaba's heart skipped a beat at how pretty that new Idol looked, her brown eyes, long turquoise hair tied to the pony tail and a black and white dress that looked Gothic but looked beautiful on the singer. Without even hesitating Futaba clicked on the video to watch and listened to the song. She had never been a huge Idol fan, but it is worth a look.

After the song had ended, Futaba was taken aback at how the song and Lyric's had touched her. It was like Kiria was speaking to her directly in the video and touched her soul in a positive way that hadn't been in a long time. She kept listening to the song, over and over.

"That was so amazing..." Futaba smiled. She then felt tears rolled down her cheek. She rubbed her tears with her right sleeve and frantically shared the video on her other social media and told her followers & friends how awesome Kiria's new song was.

"Kiria is the best. I'm differently buying her soundtrack," Futaba said to herself as she typed on her laptop.

Meanwhile in the Idolaspeare

The golden ghostly phantom known as a Mirage flew frantically in all directions but was stopped by none other than the Mirage Master, Kiria.

Kiria Kurono started to walk up to the Mirage in question. Her mission was to gather information about the missing people at the opera house, and this Mirage knew something about it and a pending Apocalypse. Her long turquoises hair was still tied in a ponytail, she wore a slouchy off-the-shoulder green sweatshirt, a bright orange mini skirt, torn black stockings and brown boots.

"No point in running or hiding..." She had been chasing after this Mirage for longer than needed, and now she has the phantom cornered.

"Oh come on! I told you I don't know anything!"

"Then why are you running away from me?" she questioned.

"Running away? I thought you're one of her minions set out to kill me."

"What are you talking about?"

The Mirage flailing its arms. "Crud! I shouldn't have said that! Look, if you let me go I'll give you a rare jewel and we'll forget this whole thing."

Kiria crossed her arms. "A jewel? I'm not interested in shiny rocks."

"But you're going to like this one! Mankind never laid eyes on these bad beauties!"

Sixteen-year-old Kiria took the time to consider the proposal set by the golden mirage. "Tharja, any ideas?"

The dark mage Mirage known as Tharja magically appeared beside her human partner. "You mean you don't know? I thought Tiki had already told you about Meloc gems."

"Meloc what?" Kiria looked back at Tharja

"Meloc gems: the gems have been crafted by other Mirages as currency, using some of the human's creative energy called perfomra. The gems are priceless."

"Hmm, interesting..." Kiria looked back at the golden Mirage. "But sadly I don't see it changing you-" the mirage master's eyes widened as a hostile Mirage showed up.

"Great, Tharja, get ready." Tharja nodded at the Idol.

In a bright light, Kiria's casual attires changeed into her Mirage Master outfit. As a Mirage Master, her hair turned bright teal tied in pigtails and her eyes turned red. Her face was obscured by a mask covering her right eye. Her outfit became more armored, though still revealing with her midriff. Her weapon was a combination of a staff and microphone stand.

"All right you idiots we're ready for you!" the Mirage Master taunted.

The Mirage Myrmidon attacked Kiria first but missed as Kiria jumped and backflipped in the air. She countered with lightning and took out the first Mirage attacker instantly.

Two Mirage Skellington charged and tried to bite her, but she zipped in a blue light to avoid it. She countered with a close quarters combo on the floating boneheads and finished them with an ice spell and a meteor shower.

The last one was a Mirage Paladin Knight. She had a bit of little trouble fending off the enemy's sword attacks, but she was able to take it out with a light speed homing attack.

The Golden Phantom Mirage took a chance to flee but failed to notice that he dropped a green jewel in the middle of his panic.

After the Golden Phantom Mirage was sure he was away from the action he felt relieved.

"Stop," a young woman's voice called out. The Mirage shivered as he slowly turned around to see a woman clad in a revealing red cloak.

The Mirage tried to scurry away but the Mystery woman cast a Lighting spell on him.

Kiria finishing fending off the Mirage hostiles.

"Gaaaahhhh!"

Kiria flinched as she heard the sound a thunderbolt followed by a loud cry. The sixteen-year-old singer then realized that the phantom had fled and was going to run after him until she saw a green jewel on the ground.

Sixteen-year-old Kiria picked up the stone. "Tharja, do you know the location of the Mirage?"

"Gold Cloakie is dead. Someone must have got rid his entire existence. Say, Kiria, are you going to show the jewel to Maiko and Barry? I'm sure they're going to be interested in seeing it."

Kiria sighed and nodded. "Might as well. It could serve as a clue to find the missing people, including my Mentor Ayaha."

Tharja chuckled.

"What's so funny?" Kiria put her hand on her hip.

"Oh, nothing..."

Kiria rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Let's get out of here and call it a night."

Four days later, Futaba Sakura took the courage to go outside to the music store alone to buy Kiria Kurono's song CD. She had already made her download purchase at the Fortuna Website, but for some reason, she wanted to go out to buy the physical copy. Normally, she would never go out just to buy a CD unless it's a Video Game, but for Kiria, there was something special about her song and it made her feel at ease.

Futaba's casual winter outfit consisted of multiple layers; she wore an off-shoulder white top with a red splatter-like pattern on her chest with five white asterisks (*****) which are reminiscent of a passport input system in the red splatter, a black tank top underneath that, a dark green jacket with a faux fur trimmed hood, black short shorts, black thigh highs and black knee-high boots. The green jacket had A.F.K. on the back (for "away from keyboard"), although it was difficult to see because of Futaba's long hair.

Futaba Sakura entered the Music Store and searched for the greatest hit section. She got to the section and reached out to grab the one in shelf CD until another hand touched the CDs and hers. The orange haired girl was stunned when she saw Kiria standing right next to her.

"Y-Y-You're K-K-Kiria...!"

Kiria blinked at the strange girl. "Um, hello."

"You are the real Kiria-sempai aren't you!? I'm not dreaming right!? I'm gonna pinch myself just to be-OWE! Okay, I'm totally not dreaming... Oh my god, Kiria-sempai. it's really you!"

Kiria Kurono sweatdropped, caught off guard by the fact that she ran into a fan. "Could you please keep it down a bit?"

"OH, right sorry I-" Futaba paused, then panicked. "Oh no, what have I done? The photographers are going to be here any moment. I'm so sorry Kiria-Sempai-"

Kiria placed her hands on the girl's bare shoulders. "No, it's not like that at all. Just keep the volume down. The people around the store know me, so it's all good."

"Really-I mean, of course... I haven't been out much, so hehehe." Futaba face was red as she laughed. Kiria let go of the girl's shoulders.

"My name's Futaba Sakura, by the way. It is a great honor to meet you." Futaba bowed.

Kiria smiled. "It's nice to meet you too. Itss the first time I meet someone who likes my song."

"Hahaha, you don't say," Futaba twiddled her fingers. This is diffidently worth getting out of that house.

"So you really haven't been out much?"

"Unfortunately, I... spent most of my time at home playing video games and internet. I first heard your song on a trending video site, and I've fallen in love with your song ever since. I even bought that song on that Fortuna site and now I'm gonna buy the CD! You have such an amazing voice, Kiria-Sempai!"

"Thank you, If you're not busy, my boss is sponsoring an event tomorrow at the Daitamba Observatory, and I'll be signing autographs there. So if you like to come to the Observatory, you're always welcome."

Futaba's face turned red as a tomato. "Of course, Sempai! I wouldn't miss it for the world!"

Kiria sighed. "Keep it down, will you?"

"Right sorry, how's this?" the orange haired girl teasingly whispered.

The young singer chuckled. "That's better. So it's a date?"

"Yup! It's a date!" she chirped.

Kiria and Futaba chatted as they headed to the redhead cashier and made their purchase. They talk about anime, music, and programming. Kiria mentioned her guitarist, Barry Goodman, being a big anime nerd and both girls proceeded to laugh.

They made their way out, and Kiria offered Futaba a job as an assistant programmer for an upcoming vocal software for Fortuna Entertainment as they were looking for people with a certain potential.

"A job? As a programmer? Hmmm, I'll look into it! I'll have to do a resume, though!" Futaba smiled.

Kiria nodded at her with a smile. "Alright. I hope to see you there. I'm sure Maiko is going to like you."

"Here's hoping..."

Kiria and Futaba didn't say anything else. It felt awkward to them for some reason.

"Well I got to go," Kiria said.

Futaba face brightened. "Yeah! See you there! I love your work!"

Kiria smiled and gave her a thumbs up.

The orange haired girl felt a twinge of disappointment in seeing her new friend & Idol leave. Part of her wanted Kiria to follow her home; however, she would savor the moment when she was touched by Kiria-Sempai. Plus she would've taking on that job offer since she is a technology wiz but... she'd have to inform the guys before she could do it, just to know their opinion on the subject.

"Dang it, I forgot to ask her for that picture. Now the guys will think I'm crazy! Nah. they probably don't care about her just because of the new and not the famous Rise. All well... back to my room."

Meanwhile, Kiria talked to Tharja through her mind, pretending she was using her phone as she walked through the busy streets of Tokyo.

"Anyway, that girl is a creepy nerd. Why would you even bother having her work with us? A random fangirl you just met, no less."

"She's not a fangirl. She just loves my song. Also, didn't you pay attention Tharja? She hasn't been out of her home for ages."

"I don't buy her little sob story. Any bozo can make up a Rapunzel style fairytale like that."

Kiria huffed, annoyed. "Well fake or not, I can safely say that I can trust her."

Tharja chuckled. "Since when did you become a great judge of character?"

"You know the answer to that question."

"Interesting. Well to go by your safe answer: the kind of hidden potential that girl has is different from yours."

"What do you mean by that?"

"The nerd's performa has been so overloaded by the darkness that she might even explode, but don't take my word for it. Try asking Tiki. She knows more about this than I do."

The sixteen-year-old Kiria's eyes widened. "Explode-" Kiria sighed. "Nice try Tharja, but I'm not falling for it."

"Oh drats. I thought I had you." Tharja was sarcastic. "But jokes aside, whatshername's performa is tainted by the demons and it makes her stench unbearable to be around."

"Could you please cool it with the insults, Tharja? I get it that you don't like her but-" Kiria stopped her mid-retort, and notice the onlookers. "Hold that thought."

"I'll be waiting."

Kiria made it to the cafe and headed inside. The cafe was empty today. The bartender greeted her and ask for her order. Kiria asked for a cup of Joe.

The Sixteen-year-old sat down. "Tharja, are you still here?"

"Why wouldn't I be? Not like I have any other choice."

"Good, because I wanna know what you meant about her potential being demonic."

"Aww, how cute. You're still defensive over that nerd girl."

"Shut up," Kiria retorted.

Tharja chucked. "Anyway, like I said, the girl has so much performa that it could evolve into something else. Or maybe it already has, and it's probably demonic."

"How's that even possible?"

"Beats me. Perfoma is born through a person's talent and is tied to the human heart. The fact that the same creative energy has too much darkness in it is interesting. Considering all the unrelated stuff that been happening in the news lately makes you wonder about this connection."

Kiria flinched. "Are you saying something is going to happen to her?"

"Who knows. Maybe she'll join a certain group of heart-stealing outlaws."

"Hmm, doubtful."

Over the course of her road to becoming a famous Idol singer and secretly protecting Tokyo from Mirage attacks, she had heard rumors this group of teens just about her age playing dress up. The news media and the police basically think of them as terrible criminals, who apparently like to mess with people's hearts and control them.

As a Mirage Master, such a thing is rather concerning. What if what the media said about them are indeed true? Having said that, she'd have to keep her dissents from the Phantom Thieves of Hearts or keep an eye on them if she ever saw them at the Idoalapsher.

She twiddle her thumbs. "We'll have to inform Maiko-san and Tiki about this tidbit of information before-"

Kiria heard someone opening the door. She looked back to see a couple of teens chatting it up about homework and school: two boys and one blond girl. Kiria continued to sip her coffee, not paying any mind to their conversation.

The bartender came back and joined the conversation with the teens, reminding them to that they were supposed to meet up "with Mr. & Ms. Oribe and their little daughter today" and "help them carry their luggage to the airport." Kiria could have sworn she heard that name before-wait for Oribe?

The blond boy scratched his head, not even sure if he wanted to go out with his friends to "just to carry luggage and plus there's a cutie here." The pigtail blond girl slap the back of his head before he can finish and scowled at him. Kiria shooked her head in disapproval. They're probably talking about her now.

The boy with glasses nonchalantly complied with the bartender and said they'd go to the Oribe residents as soon as possible.

"Good to hear lad, because Tatsumi just called me earlier. He's going to let us take care of his daughter while he and his wife are away on a two-week business trip."

Well, this surprised the teens. As far as they know Tatsumi was a very stern man and his relationship with his nephew Akira has been sour since his probation. Tatsumi thought of his nephew as nothing more than a juvenile delinquent that was just serving his time. However, his wife Asha had been very kind and understanding.

Akira hadn't seen Tsubasa since she was a baby, which could potently add fuel to the fire with his uncle if something happened to her.

"Weird. I didn't think he trusts me enough."

"You're just sharing your room with her and take her to school. Anything else other than that and you'll need my approval, understood?"

Akira nodded.

"Good. They couldn't find a nanny for their kid after the incident in opera."

"Huh? What about the opera?" Ryuji asked.

Ann huffed. "Don't you remember that weird thing that happened over in that opera over a month ago? That girl was on the front page."

Ryuji blinked in shock. "S-Seriously that's the same girl? Holy crap! Whoa, wait a minute, she has an older sister, right? Does that means Akira is related to that Idol?"

Akira pinched the bridge of his nose in irritation.

"Yeah, but I heard she vanished along with the people. You gotta wonder how Tsubasa was the only one left," said Ann.

"Dang. So who else wanna bet they're going to pin the blame on... them?"

"They already have, from what the dozens of articles on the internet say," Akira adjusted his glasses.

"Oh come on, I was a joking around," Ryuji said tiredly.

"Now, now, Ryuji. They're just bloggers entitled to their own wild opinion," Ann found it a little amusing that some people think that her group kidnapped an entire stage audience including those two actors.

"Yes, 'all Opinions expressed by retard news media dot com Contributors are their own and we're not doing this for click bait'," Ryuji said.

"Oi, you kids can talk about the mass disappearance all you want, but right now you lot have luggage work."

The three friends stood in attention.

"Whoa, wait a minute, can I at least talk to this hot girl on the stool first?"

"No. The sooner we get this done the sooner we get back to other things." Ann dragged her friend out the door as Akira followed from behind.

The pig-tailed blond took a glance at the girl who was drinking her coffee and minding her own business. "Hey ma'am, don't mind our friend. He's just an idiot."

"Hey, I resent that!"

"Don't worry about it. I'll be sure to come back when I have the time. This coffee tastes great by the way." Kiria smiled.

"Thank you. I glad you like it!" she said while she pushed Ryuji out the door.

After two minutes, Kiria Kurono placed a tab on the counter for the bartender and thanked him.

"If you don't mind me asking miss, you wouldn't happen to be Kiria Kurono would you?" the bartender asked.

Kiria raised a brow. "Um, yes. How long did you know?"

"I saw your face in the papers."

She placed her hand on her hip. "On the entertainment weekly section?"

"Yup, that's the one," the bartender laughed. "The name's Sojiro Sakura. I'm the cafe owner." Sojiro and Kiria shook hands.

"So what brings you here at Cafe Lablanc?"

"I was looking for a place to wind down then I discovered this cafe."

"I supposed it's work related."

Kiria sighed. "Yup, but at least I'm taking a day off. Anyway, you happen to know a Futaba Sakura, don't you?"

"Futaba my adopted daughter. She was talking about you earlier."

"So I've heard," Kiria laughed. "The reason I ask is that I bumped into her at the music store. She's very nice."

"Hun, this is quite a surprise. I suppose she asked you for that autograph?"

"Actually, I don't recall her asking me for an autograph, but if your daughter or some of her friends stops by, tell them I was here."

Sojiro nodded. "I'll be sure to tell them that."

"Thanks." The singer smiled. "Well, I gotta go. Oh, and before I forget, my boss is looking for an assistant programmer for this new vocal software. I offered her a job in that field and she said she'll consider it. My boss has been pretty picky with the people she wants to hire, but if you see her let her know that the job is still open."

"Will do. It's nice talking to you, Kiria." The bartender shook the girl's hand.

"It's nice talking to you too."

Kiria Kurono took her leave and headed to Fortuna HQ to consult with Maiko and Tiki.

"I don't want a nerd telling me how to do my job, Kiria."

"Well, you better hope Maiko-san doesn't hire her then," Kiria countered. "Depends on if she wants to take the job, too. And besides, we're always looking for people with the potential."

"Heh, heh. If she even has the talent of becoming a Mirage Master, let alone defending herself from one."

Kiria rolled her eyes. "Well, let's hope it doesn't come to it. Then again, we don't have any way of knowing unless she's on the news. Look, let's just go to Maiko and Tiki to see what they think of Futaba and her 'demonic' powers."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever."

A/N: The next chapter will be a lot different compared to the original second chapter if you have been following the old version.

Main Characters:

Kiria Kurono (age 16)

Futaba Sakura

Akria Kurusu (P5 Hero)

Ann Takamiki

Yusuke Kitagawa

Makoto Niijima

Haru Okumura

Ryuji Sakamoto

Morgana

Major Side Characters:

Tsubasa Oribe (age 12)

Sojiro Sakura

Barry Goodman

Maiko Shimazaki

Yashiro Tsurugi (age 14)

Caroline and Justine

Martha Yumizuru (age 17)

Eleonora Yumizuru (age 11)

Moza Yuzu

Sae Niijima (Mentioned)

Tiki

Cameo Characters:

Rise Kujikawa

Kanami Mashita

Support/Allies Mirage Characters based on Fire Emblem:

Tharja

Draug

Tiki

Fae

Ninian

Navarre

Camilla

Friendly Mirage Characters:

Directer (Dark Shaman)

India Jewels (Casper)

DJ Willie (Casper)

Catherine (Zhu Sister)

Internet Troll (Troll)

Rachel (Zhu Sister)

Mr. Pickles! (Nicklewise)

King aka M-DEUS (Top-Hat Casper)

Villain Mirage Characters base on Fire Emblem

Pheros

Aversa

Gharnef

Michalis

Grima

Empress Veronica (Mention)

Notable Not-So Friendly Mirage Characters/enemy's:

Catherine (Zhu Sister)

The Blob Army

Defile Golems

Mirage Risen

Red and Blue Phantoms

Defile Knights

Defile Ironclad Myrmidon

Defile Stray Sheep

Spiral-Drill-Beak (Drafted)

This Story Main Antagonist:

Ayaha Oribe (Possessed by Aversa & Grima. Her Persona: Beelzebub, he's appears as a thrown.)

Grima